Star. — London, England, 1822-01-09 00:00:00

THE ARMY. The 10th Veteran natation is now assembling at Temp}emote, • !,!er the command of Colonel I lonrEn. They will consist of nu•n. Wednesday last, 250 picked Veterans marched from lark Barracks fur that place. N. 4 AL I T ENCE. The Captain of the Duke of Kent packet, which arrived at Lisbon on the 17th ult. reports having seen a schooner go down, d could not render her any assistance. Several dead 'sixties have bc..os washed ashore near Ogmore, on n:e Clantorganshire coast. On the little finger on the right hand . one of the bodies a mourning ring was found, with the follow iw,cription " Marv. Drovlrsloire, Ppe. 7, ism, trod Vt."— jug is in the possession of Mr. Nloanax, who resides in the rei;hhourhoosl, and will he kept until claimed. The Ann, Rau., from Shields, was wrecked on the neap on Friday. Crew Saved. The Beaver, of Ulverstone, was wrecked near Troon on the ‘2. - .th ult. Crew drowned. The Amin:, from the llavannah to Bourdeatia, was totally krd Maki Anton, on the 25th ult. NEENAT, from Trieste, was driven on shore esa the c.ust of Istria about the 20th ult. The Doty, litostsvenva tr., of Gottenburgh, hound to Gibral tr•; and the Redliglseden, .►raoexsoc, from Rotterdam to Mar s-:Iles. it is feared, have been totally lost on the Goodwin Sands. Th e . Rapporteur, from Marseilles to Rouen, was driven on s' ore nerr Treport on the :50:h tilt.—crew saved. The Lark, Ilua rows, from London to Newhaven, was driven shore on the Columbine Sand on Friday night, but expwcted be got off—crew drowned. The Louisa Charlotta, Ilmonrx, from Riga to Dunkirk, was lc•t on Friday night on the Long Sand—only the mate saved. Ulrica Frederica, *Dm Peterrburgh to Stettin, is lost re.:r .:ag,xt. The Carle, SALOMON. from Stockholm to Dull and Leghorn, into Copenhagen on the '27th ult. with damage, having beets e.: shore, and must discharge. VA1.1101^111• JAN. 7.—Wind N.E.—Arrired the Annisky, lft:nov, from London fir St. Michael's; JENKINS; and Aztive QvAtm, from London. tidied the Gen e r a l G ra h am , 7 Jamaica ; Young Proteus, fur St. Deoraingo ; 11 mioaze, I ;, , trity, for Cm k : and Olive Ilcutch, ANGEL for Dublin. l'immorrn, Jay. 7.—Wind N.P..— Arrive d the Endeavour, i!:-,irstairs, from London for Dublin, baring bit an anchor :d cable in the ikiwns; Louisa. Lase, from Se. Petersburgh ; •caut. ‘i‘Kitiatnc, from Belfast; Debit, Bacitio:,.e, from re. rhogeti, with loss of anchor and cable ; and his M 'kitty's ship from Port‘mrtuth. Soiled the True, fur St. Slichaers. l'Aor, in coming in gut uu the Breakwater, but It oil without damage. Pout Awl:: tt, JAN. 8.—.-11118/ N.N.li—.lrrivcd the Prim:: Vorntrri i., front Dantzie ; and (Mitten. fr l.ondon the I; ty of I lunduras. Saikd th'e %pullu Russian frigate, a voyage of discovery. At .,3 N. 8 —Wind N. W.—.lrrived and sailed for the River, a7d, 1 EA nn :a, front lielfa.st ; and a vessel from St..lolties . name not known. Came down from the River and sailed, E.:rnest. IlExesost, for lizhia ; Salmon River, WATEIRIS for :a...rat.; Esther, fitstierN;, for Cardiff and Oporto; Symmetry. —. for Genoa and Leghorn ; and Maria Crowth.tr, WA LSH, tut .I,les. The tollowing anchors have been landed litre—rote of 7,ewt. lqr. 17:bs. marked " I'. neyn and Co." on the crown ; serf ;cwt. 2qrs. 13Ibs. marked both sides on the shank ; owe t;-wt. Dutch made, fir stock ; one of 7cwt. I4lhs marked W" on the crown.; nue ittarktil .E P. llt IS." ou the stock; r: ore heluti ivg to the Eagle. of Plymouth. (hie belonging to r Braav, is expected to be landed here today. 11xsnorr., JAN. a—Sailed, the Apollo, TINICANT• for the ;err. The Anna Christiana, from Stockholm for St. :llaloes, burn got off the Long Sand, with loss of rudder, anchor, and and will he brought in here to-night. NORTH :la, JAS. 7 —As the Prince of oran g e, from St. ter sburgh to London, w;.3 putting to sea, she struck upon the Ar and knocked off her rudder. She was afterwards seen stand out to sea with her people apparently at work with the rud r, and as she was not in sight this morning, it is thought she 7nn e to the Southprard. The pilot and flbout that went to with her have not yet returned. Jsastr, JAN. I.—The Speedy packer, from Southampton, Ad on the night of the 2d instant, about six leagues of t• Gaskets, the hull of a vessel with the deck eat lied away. Ktxsatr.„ 4.--Arrived the Horsley ('axle, WE.% it, of underland, for Philadelphia. On the 7th ult. encountered a •nterttlesus gale at &W. which washed away her boats, bul arks, maw:aims, sails, companion, &c. She must discharge rep air. AMsTLADAM, Jex. —This morning a brig, apparently Bri 'l, was stranded on a bank close in shore, near Kyddion ; the ego has been partly wadied on shore, and consists of bales of con, marked " S. P." cocoa, and boxes of cinnamon, marked W." Crew drowned. The ship's deck is even with the water, :al an English jack Is flying at the fore-top boat has been iven on shore, on which is " Hernn, of on," and on the ride," William Hessen." A military guard is stationed on • goods, which are under strict quarantine. CvsTom-blow=, JAY:. B.—Ships Entered Inwards:—The I , :y, Mary, and Zealous, from liamburgh ; Cambridge, from John's; Loft, Margery, and Astrea, from Petersburgh ; 'aith, and Edvrard, from •iga; Matilda, float Antwerp; Swift, im Dublin ; Cordella, from Woccum ; Vigilant, from atomic; I:st from Rostock ; Quebec, and Ann, from Memel; .tivilnnia, from Calcutta ; Caroline, front handers ; Emilie, Stettin ; and Richard and Ann, from Statigate Creek.— :term! Out arils: The D*ux Steurs, for Marseilles; Sarah, Africa ; Venus, for New York ; Snowdown, for Dublin ; ' Glasgow, for Fayal.—Cleared Outwards : The Ardent, for ifa.st ;_ 'row Alida, for Rouen; and Charming Molly, and Ave, for Calais.. .1 a merit— At Lisbon, the INzaria, from Ma ranham • Duke of %t packet, from Falmouth; Princesse, from B ahia; and 'hales Advil, from Pernambuco. At Corfu, :Minstrel, I lodges, gat London and Malta. At Cuxhaven, Sirene, Ahrens, from Aim. At the Text', William Penn, Smith, front Batavia ; Joffrow Johanna, —, from Leghorn. At Memel, Elise, age, from London. At Gibraltar, Atalanta. Whitway, front :wfoundland • Java, Broughton, from M anilla; O ..pee, —, nn Aloute Vi deo ; Aspasia,—, frosts Buenos Ayres; Aurora, d.rren, from Boston; Lark, Miles, from Belfast; and Tra kr, from Liverpool. About five o'clock yesterday morning, as the Sonth liton mail was coming along the temporary bridge hich was erected after the blowing up of Crooked liet-bridge by the late flood, one of the wheel .orses choaked, and thrust against the other, which la the wheel of the coach against the side-rail ; the ',adman pulled up, and whilst the guard was in the ' of casing the horse's collar, the bridge gave way hder the wheel, in consequence of the ground having !a w.v!iel away beneath it, and precipitated the into the water, but as the fall did not esceed At feet, the horses were not dragged with it. Hap there were neither inside nor outside passengers, LA the only injury sustained was by the coachman, aho accompanied the coach into the water, and got rr.ruplete ducking. The guard procured a post and four horses, and proceeded to town with ' rl.ail-bay,, as soon as they mild be got out of • ..rater. The coachman arrived in town by eleven' • ••cek, with the coadi and horses. i,tuan No - r.--.lohn Clement and Joseph Clement ' • examined a few days ago, at the New Bailey, Lachester, on a charge of uttering a forged one- Bank of Englat.d Note. Their final commit ,, however, suspended, till the intentions of . could be ascertained with respect to them. k Directors have wrote to the clerk of the that they had been at a very heavy . n sending gold coin to supply that part of low, and that persons who would now take note's could not be protected iry the Batik ; would send down an Inspector to prove the o n tic tti:d."—ln consequence of the to prose UM, the men were discharged, , . 4 . .. 41.. I. ili • - lit ELA'N'D. DUBLIN, JANUARY 6. The LORD MAYOR, who, Within a few day., has renounced Orangeism, the Aldermen, Sheriffs, and Commons, attended by the City Regalia, will go up to-morrow with an Address to his:Exczt.Lescy, on his being appointed Chief Governor of 'rebind. On Tuesday the LORD LIEUTENANT will hold his first Public Levee; and on Wednesday he will honour the LORD M AYOR w i t h hi s company to dinner at the Mansion House. It has been reported yesterday, that the Earl of DONOUGDMORE succeeds the Earl O'NEIL, as Post master• General. ADDRESS OF THE FARMING SOCIETY TO THE shnr r re.:r = ~, llrx : .1 .17:d c 1.-va I ... : . urnl tl Vae 3 1 I %I Et \.:;. N t 74. w sect t;;.-wi 1).1 r.. 1. he llt MA dyer. k Noe ters out r, a t 4 7nl "ii JEN! he Ca Kts •Jndel :emu rer _rgo I von t 'V." an "riven le gel Cyr .an •a: +t . .11edc S :4:ttrt r dive .1a: • %t 'll.ctit an :on& • ..nge 'evifc can ram At nipt .hic: lififse t, '.4cl ct 0 .::de elna nat . 1,1". ' 1 •Y, a.,d :t %vas, Bank ••I ':!1•Itat, • I)) 4. • RQUIS WELLESLEY. His Grace the Duke of LEINSTER, the Lail of ME.arti, and Viscount Lismone, as a Deputation from the Farming Society of Ireland, attended by their Secretary, waited upon his Excellency the Mar quis WELLICSLEY on Friday, and presented the fol lowing Address : "TO HIS extsr.Lizece THE MOST NOBLIC RICHARD MARQRIS IMF". LESLLT, LO RD . LIECTENANT-G&NIDIAL, AND GINEMAL-GOTESDOS OF 'ARLAND. " May it please your Exeelleney,—We, as Directors of the Fanning Society of Ireland, most respectfully present to your Excellency a copy of our Charter, by which we are entitled to the valued privilege of calling your Excellency our Patron. " And we confidently trust, that under the gut:l:weep( such a Patron, the Farming Society may be made an efficient instru ment of muds advantage to this country. " Its objects and its labours have hitherto been arected (we hope successfully) to improve ploughing, draining, and irrigating ; to the importation and growth of seed-corn, the dispersion ofgood implements, and the improvement of neat cattle, sheep, and swine. 111nrever advancement in agriculture Ireland can boast, has been principally effected since its institution, and by its means. " Latterly, the efforts of the Society have been fettered by the limitation of its funds, under the necessary system of general retrenchment. It looks forward with hope to better times, and to the wisdom and liberality of your Excellency's patronage. " The Society comprises amongst its Members almost all the rank and respectability of the country—ready to esteperate in every exertion towards agricultural improvement which your Excellency, their respected Patron, Shall do them the honour to suggest. " Your Excellency's comprehensive mind, whitit it admits the importance of improved agriculture to every country, will intuitively appreciate its peculiar value to Ireland, ax the most Ilkaual Means of providing permanent employitwin (or a dis tressed population, and of furnishing to the Stat_ the full benefit of bar gnat natural resources." To which his Excellency was please) to retern the following gracious answer : " WELLESLZT, " Under the authority of your Charter, I accept the honour able charge which you have been pleased to intrust to me. with a high sense of its public importance. It will be my anxious endeavour to afford every a--istance within my power to the Farming Society, in the promotion of its useful and salutary objects; and I sincerely hove that you n:ay continue to advance the agriculture of Ireland, and to dif fuse the spirit of honest industry. " It Is painful to me to leal n, that the efforts of the Society have been fettered by the limitation of its funds, wider the sys tem of general retrenchment lately adopted; and I shall be harpy to avail myself of any proper means of augmenting your tiinds, con,istently with the attention which is due to the strict economy of the public finances. But I cannot omit this oppor tanity of declaring, that it is not less my inclination than my bounden duty to give every aid to the progress of that wise and necessary system of general retrenchment which has been adopted by his Majesty's Government and by Parliament ; and which is as essential to the true dignity of the Crown, as it is indispensa bly necessary for the security of the State, and for the int e r es t s and wel:ar.: of the people. " I am deeply impressed with the value and the importance of your Institution ; and sensible, as I must be, of the utility of such establishments, in whatever country they may have been introduced, I het that they are of more peculiar interest and advantage in Ireland, where the introduction of habits of indus trious labour is indispensably requisite for the safety of property, and fur the happiness of the great body of the people." MULLINGAR JANUARY 3. Thursday night last, a pensioner, named John Cas sidy, was so severely beaten by eleven ruffians on the Fair-green of this town, that he has since been con fined to his bed. This cowardly attack on an infirm man, almost within the precincts and call °four Bar racks, renders this outrage peculiarly audacious. The Saturday following, between the hours of seven and eight o'clock in the evening, 14 or 13 fellows went to the house of John Edge, a sober and indus trious boat-Suiljer, living near the loyal Canal Harbour, and having called him out, they attacked, knocked down, and beat hint most unmercifully. His wile and sister-in-law, on hearing the sudden outcry. ran out, and in their earnest but ineffectual endeavours to save the poor fellow, received material injury.— He at length effected his escape into a neighbour ing house, but not without sustaining very serious cuts and bruises on the head and various parts of the body. INFLAsIMATOQY NOT:CE.—The following is a copy of a notice found posted on the town pump, lieu:. the Shambles, on Monday morning : Goon Nrwg FOR W.:rums " Any person taking the contract for soldiers' meat, or any process-server s , shall be met with fire and destruction; and this is your seflicient notice. (Signed) " Capt. ROCK and his White Boys." KILKENNY, JANUARY 3. Sunday laq, a notice was posted at a Chapel in the vicinity of Owning Parish, Ba: nay of lverk, threaten ing " to extirpate any landlo: d who shall not reduce his rents," otfeLing L5OO " for the head" of an active ! Magistrate; which sum, the notice stated, bad been raised " among General Rock's men, at one shilling a head ;" and addi:ig, "that 50,000 men were ready to march into Kilkenny—that the Wexford Boys would join them, and that they would spare no maul" CLONMEI„ J \SCARY 2. Mr. J. BAKER, of Millyniule, in West Carbery, in Cork, had stores 8() feet in length tilled with corn, and on the night of the ‘27th tilt. the whole was set on fire, and burned to a,hes ; and a sloop belonging to him, lying at anchor, was burned to the water s edge; also nine stacks of barley, the property of the same Gentleman, standing on a farm about two miles distant front Irk home, were scattered over a space of eight or nine acres, and thereby rendered useless.— The incendiaries tired into the house of ►Mr. BAKER'S ,steward. We have been told that Mr. BAKER had arms—that he had received intimation of an intended visit from the insurgents, that he. uttered a defiance, laud U 4 mileastlt es of security. Tuesday sennight, as W. Thomas, 15 years of age, with his !mother, were returning from a club feast, in Caermat then, they called at a hublic•hou.e, from which they were quietly going borne. When the for mer was beat in s.triva manner by J.DAvies, a tailor, that be died On the spot. The Coroner's lnyne,t re turned a vet dict—" Al urJer against J. Davies, and also against T. Miler, a accessary to the tact." 1 a ... • -- • ~ - - SC,ENTIEIC • ANTIQUITIES OF NUBIAb 2 a -r 111. Jomard, of the French Institute, hit ist re ceived a letter from M. Cailliaud, dated the sth 'of May, from Assour, a village.about a day's journey from Chendy, in Nubia, in the kingdom' of Sennaar, in which that traveller communicates his latest disco veries. At a short distance to the south of the con fluence of the Atbara*, the ancient Astaboras, and four days' journey from Barbas, he found the ruins of a great town, with a temple and 40 pyramids still standing, and 40 others in ruins, The bases of the largest of these pyraMids are about 62 feet, and their height 77, and on one of the sides of each is a small temple ornamented inside and outside with hierogly phic characters; two of those temples are arched, and the arches are decorated with hieroglyphic em = blems, and with key-stones and ribs like ours. This traveller has ascertained that those temples are of the same age as the Pyramids. All the materials are of freestone, like the lock on which they are built. Is mail Pasha, who commands the military expedition into Abyssinia, pet mined M. Cailliaud to open one of these pyramids; some Greek letters wet e found in another of them. The scite of the temple and the ruined town is about a league and a half from the Nile, and most of the pyramids are a league farther, the same as at Memphis. Bruce must have passed two leagues only to the east, without suspecting their existence. An avenue of Sphinxes, in the shape of rams, 262 feet long, leads to the temple, and the wall which incloses it is 426 feet round. The island of Cur gos, mentioned by Bruce, is to the south of Assour, and contain.no monuments. M. Jomard is of opinion that the great ruins near Assour arc those of Mei oe ; their latitude, about 16 degrees 50 minutes, agrees with that of Merne, as given by Strabo and Eratos thenes. The positions laid down by Bruce, in his map, are tolerably accurate, but he has traced the li mits of the ruins too much to die south. M. Cailliaud proposed to remain during the rainy season at Sm naar, with the expedition, to take up his residence in die Fazuelo,. and to proceed afterwards up the Balrr el-.4biad, or the White River, which he will ascend to a certain distance, to procure information respecting the courseof theNiger.The thermometer was constantly during the month of April as high as 45 deg. and up wards, and even as high as 48 degrees (43 degrees of Beam:mar, exposed no doubt to the sun). M. Cailliaud could not discover any remains of the tradition of Queen Candace, whose dynasty, according to Bruce, were in his time still on the Threine of Chendy. For a long time our traveller has not taken the meridian altitudes of the son, which is too close to the zenith, and he can only determine the latitudes of places by means of the moon and stars. • The Antiquities of Mount Yarkal, near a place called Nle rawe, are about 70 leagues below, and very far from the con fluence of the Atbara, which formed the Isle of bleroe. FOSSILS. In the beginning of November, Mr. Mantel! disco vered in the chalk near Lewes, three vertebra of the celebrated fossil animal of Maesuicht. This is the first instance of the remains of that oviparous quadru ped being found in this country, or in any part of the Continent, except St. Peter's Mountain near 'Maestricht. SUPERB MUMMY. A Danish family, desirous of purchasing a beauti ful mummy for one of the Museums in Copenhagen, wrote to M. Dumrecher, Danish Consul at Alexan dria who, assisted by M. Tedeuat, the French Con sul, procured an intelligent man to set out for Upper Egypt, with a firman from the Pasha, to search the tombs of the ancient kings. For the greater dispatch, they employed two different parties of the natives,' from Longsor and from Karnack. The former were the most fortunate, discovering a tomb that had never been opened, and where they found, on the third day, l a mummy with five cases ; they asked for this 600() piastres of Egypt (C1:13), which was paid them. The fellahs of Karnack, thus disappointed, and having had three days' toil for nothing, had warm disputes with those of Longsor ; and mischievous consequences might have ensued, as their villagers took a part in the quarrel, if the possessor of the mummy had not given 1000 piastres (E 22) extra to the Arabs of Kar nack, to whom also some participation was made by those of Longsor. This mummy is the most superb and beautiful of all that have hitherto been discovered. To judge of it from the ornaments in relief, which decorate the cases, and especially one whereon gold has been lavished, from the rich style of the amulets, from the largeness of the papyrus, and all the hiero- 1 glyphical embellishments about the body, it must have been that of some Egyptian King or Prince.— This conjecture is corroborated by the number of cases, as the mummies of the greatest persons in ge- ' neral have only three. SPADE AND PLOUGH HUSBANDRY. In the neighbourhood of Hamilton an. experiment I.was made this year to try the difference between the spade and the plough. A field was taken, which was in beans last year, and oats the year before; two ridges were dug and two ploughed alternately, and the whole was sown on the same day ; a part both on the ploughed and dug being drilled with the garden hoe ; the whole was reaped the same day ; and being thrashed out, the result was, that the dug sown broad cast was to the ploughed sown broadcast as .55 to 42. The dug and drilled wo as 20 to In, upon the ploughed and drilled. The additional grain is not the only beneficial result gained by digging, as in this instance there was also a great deal more straw. The land is free of weeds, and will be more easily fallowed next year. MA G X ETISIG The Prussian Stale Gazelle mentions a highly im portant discovery, which Dr. Seebeck has communi cated to the Academy of Sciences in Berlin, in three different sittings. It was on the magnetic propertieS inherent in all metals and many earths (and not in iron only as was supposed), according to the difference of the degrees of heat. This discovery, it is added, opens an entirely new field in this department of na tural philo,ophy, which may lead to interesting re sults with respect to hot springs, connected with the observations made by the Inspector of Mines (M. Vim Tiebra) and others, relative to the ptogiessive in crease of warmth in mines in proportion to their, depths. According to M. Von Trebra's observations,•' the heat at the depth of 150 feet below.the sin face of the earth is one degree; at )(X) feet deep, two- de grees; at 600 feet tour degrees, &c.—Philosophical. Mogaine. ... ~ .... • ' . , 1 sioOlirtsC nviwaltiviva. SPARIttNO. , Old Scroggy tnok his Behr& at the Fives Nett yesterday, and • as it proof tbat•br is vot yet out of date wlttrette Peary, it wags a inimper. AU the " big ones" rallied roand this once great fa= votirite of the licize-tiitg, and thesport, in consequence of the rivalry exhibited, wks excellent. The blood-like Dick 6tetis *tato with one of his old nppo. items, the athletic little LensteDi it Was worth looking at, and; tin:withstanding Curtis 'hewed his superior qualities as a boxer, it was übserved by many " good judges," that Lenney is very far from being done will yet. This bout was suecerthil by Mate and Edes, *ho meuflted the stage amidst loud applause; it was light, elegant. and in. , terestitig ; and although there PAS no stuck/Attached to it, yet It was a line specimen of the art of self-detence ; the parrying ; quick hitting and return, of these accomplished sparrers, were the admiration of all the amateurs present. Belcher still retains all his fire, and teaks is not a jut behind him In activity. The Gibfef Pp was served up as a task for Spencer (the butcher), and it was adniitted there were lots of elating up b!• twerp them ; there were fie oieetito required, it Was all t,iev and take with a hearty Welcome. The mall of colour, Sutton, ethibited ffor the first time these two years) with Bitten ; It was a good bout, no gammon, arid decorated with tine science. The man of colour is fast recover , ing from his aeVere indisposition, and there is little doubt but he will he ready to take the field In the sprint ; he Will eertlinly be an *gist customer for anybody. The mild champion, Cribb, and his boy, Taus Spring, were re+ ceived with great marks of approbation. Cribb, although bulky; displayed more activity than might hare been expected, yet " bellows to mend" could not he hid from the spectators ; and, making some allowance for both of these " big ones" (poblieans) being a little " nut of repair," it was a tidy combat. Alen who are often tried at the Bur, may boatt more of being in spirits than condition, when put on their defence, as to Wanting wind. Sheliwt and the Gas-light Mutt made their appearance on the stage, and every meatus's Was paid to their effor►s. Hickman is still as terrific in his action and hitting as ever; he does not ap. pear to have lust a single grain of his confidence. It was a manly set-to--bang-up on both sides—excellent skill, and hard bitting. The sports of the day were closed by hat and &rvgirte. They did their best to amuse the audienee, and their efforts were well received. Scroggins returned thanks in a short speech. Young lielasco uoer.tl to fight Lenney for £so.—.3uch a fine day% spurt has not been witnessed for a long time ; all the " big ones" feeling anxious not only to support Netreggins, but to give satisfaction to their patrons ; who appeared to leave the Court unusually well pleased. - r ~~ CIIEAP A Gentleman of Birmingham has undertaken, for a heavy bet, to live upon dure-peace a day for twenty-eight successive days, inc:utling both liquors and solid , . Ile commenced the psi:form• auce of the t.,:sk on Tuesday, and prosecutes it with Friday last an occurrence took place at the house of a gentle , man named Jones, who resides at Wal wort It, which would pro bably have proved fatal to some of his family, had not the sera vans maid acted with great presence of mind, Mr. Jones's chila dren were playing in one of the upper rooms. The eldest son, a boy about ten years of age, ran into atealter room and brought from thence a gun, which had been loft there for some time, and was, without the knowledge of any one in the house, loaded. lie pointed the gip at his brothers and sisters, who were playin g in a group in the Turner of the room, and was in the act of poll ing the trigger, when the servant girl instantly threw a blanket she had in her hand against the muzzle of the gun. The piece went off, hut the aim of the hoy was fortunately turned away by the blanket, and no mischief took place, except what was caused in the house by the horror which the report occasioned. The bullet passed through the blanket, and lodged in the btdatick. William Stevenson, the old Ardrossan herd, wh o di e d l as t week, was minus one finger on one of his hands, which he lost under rather singular circumstances. lle was, through life, like must herds, a very early riser, and was in the way of his duty early one morning, several years ago, when he caught a Cellos* belonging to Saltcoats walking through the fields with a gon.---• Willie was always rigorous against trespassers, and was citt:ra mined to hive this fellow punished, for he knew the object which led him there was game ; a set ffl r between the two int, mediately ensued ; Willie was determined to hold fast his prey, and the poacher was equally so to get out of his clutches. The latter, however, finding all attempts of hysical strength in vain, had recourse to the barbarous alternative of biting. lie got hold I o f Willie's finger in his mouth, in expectation that front the pain he inflicted he might oblige him to `• let gang his grip." Willie was a much bett, r soldier. Rather than capitulate, he was determined to have kis prisoner, at the risk of losing his finger, and he accordingly succeeded in le leing the savage in this way to a place of safety, where he was identified, hut not before Willie's linger was literally dirtied in pieces! A married woman, named Sarah Coot, but who. has fur some time been separated from her husband, . and fi rmeily a resident in Exeter, proving enfamille, went from South Tawton with intent that her acconche. men: should take place at Exeter, but tieing discovered by the Parish Officers pi for to the event taking place, she was obliged to return to South Tawtom and war actually delivered of two children, one a black bco since dead, and the other a whitegid! CASE IN PoINT.—It has been said, that after din. ner we weigh less than we did before; and it is fully proved, if the accusation in the 4: lowing article be true: A Frenchman relates that he once heard the mistress of a house grumble very much at her ser vant for letting the cat eat a pound of butter. The servant, to excuse her neglil;ence, denied the fact, but in vain—they weighed the cat, and she only weighed three quartcra of a pound: Some years since Counsellor VANSITTART, now Chancellor of the Exchequer, went the Oxford Cir cuit with Mr. BEAncitorr. One day, BgAacaoFT, in his usual droll spirit, told VANSITTART he thought his name too long, and therefore tedious to pronouns. Suppose," said he, we agree to call you VAN, and leave out SITTART?" " With all my heart," said VANSITTART, " if you'll do the same—strike off the CROFT, and let us call you BEAR !" The Marquis del CARPI°, a Grandee of Spain, giving the holy water to a Lady, rho presented him, according to Lord ByttoN's Sardanapalus, ". her lank, bird like right hand," ornamented with a fine diamond, said, loud enough to be heard, " Quisiera mas la soitija cute la mano, i.e. 1 had rather have the ring than the hand. The Lady, taking him instantly by the golden colt of his Order, said, "Eyo el ea bestro que el a4no," i. e. And 1 the halter rather than the as! i\IR.WALLACK, THE ACTOR. — A private letter from New York says, " The unfertunate accident met wi:h by Mr.•WALLACK will neither itjure his appearance' nor busin6s—his leg has been set, .and is rill on well—his pecuniary loss, however, must be trea , as his engagements in the United States piornised a most successful career." On Chrihtmas Day, I ILO Cameron, suttler in Stir ling Castle, rrcsented the Mess 01 the Officers of the 41st Regiment with a dirk of new potatoes. -They were raised On a small sheltered spot within the gar rison, and received, no assistance in the way of forcing. They were what may be termed a second crop cf . last year. CONN EXCIINWON, KW.LANIt, JAN. had but little Wheat fresh in this morning, but a turtVr Lrgel.upply of bur ley, which article, of prime quAlity, obt:incd Alonday spices but the inferior sorts were unsaleable, ::rd a considerable tity remained on lia•sJ, which was offered at an abatement per tplartth-. Wheat support, :(ionday'a (rotations, but mathl was heavy, o,:ept for rime oil Data wore !it 1;4...a11...AEU /,'•.44 ro.itcratwu. I tN" :‘ {. • ; • „ ide guar. int of Is. it the dip" %lever. 4