Star. — London, England, 1822-04-13 00:00:00

BRianiON, APltit, 11. A cutting north wind has prevailed to-diy, and, What is rather uncommon in April, raised clouds of dust. The KING has no farther appeared in public than on the Palace Lawn. His MAJESTY continues in the enjoyment of perfect health. The Duke of DORSET, the Earl of CLANOARTT) and Sir SAIIVEL HutsE, took leave of the Kina, and departed for London this morning. Prince LoaKowtrz left the York Hotel for London to-day, and Lady SARAH BAILEY yesterday. Lady lILINTINor inn arrived at the above Hotel last night. Mr. and the Misses MITCHELL are in the general departure list. Lady CAROLINE STUART WORTLEY, Lord THOMAS CECIL, and General ST. JOHN, are arrived. His Lordship has joined his Regiment, the 10th Royal Hussars. THE AltailY. • 'Monday, Colonel Sir I:lvan Dr Emma, M.P. of the Greni -41E4. Guards, and Surveyor-General of the . Ordnance, arrived at Chatham, and inspected the Ordnance Barracks, at Brompton, it is said prior to their being occupied by troops of the line, or by troops belonging to the Fast India Company. Wednesday a detachment of troops was sent from Albany Barracks, Isle of Wight, to Southampton; and in the evening a vessel brought recruits fur different Regiments, who marched to Albany Barracks. Thursday a detachment of invalids was sent to Chatham. Two companies and the head-quarters of the 10th Regiment of root, disembarked on the 9th instant at Deptford from Ply mouth, and marched into the barracks at that place. The 44th Regiment, lately landed at Liverpool from Dublin, i 3 row on its passage to Paddington by the canal boats ; and is to be quartered at Chatham, previously to embarking fur Indic. PAY OF THE lAJOR-GENERAIS. • TO ALL lIAJOR-GANERALS TRZTIOCSLY TO 1819. Promoted from the Guards £5OO per annum. D:tto from the Line, .CI. ss. per day - 450 ditto. A(!. >I ASOR-CENERALS ertostoren summer:sr TO 1819. Porn the Guzrds - - full-pay, each £5OO per annum. rr ., m the Line, Lieut.-Cols. Do. Do. each 3'25 ditto. Vitt() Ditto - - l laif pay, each 180 ditto. aXtto Ditto, Majors,. - Do. Do. each 135 ditto. l; will be wen by the above, that since withholding the pay c: ;I. Ss. per day, there are iinw fir: dijetent rates, paid to t'.-'.;tl Officers, on whom his 7.lsazsly has couferrt.4 the same aLJ the same commission. la what manner the Half-pay Officer is to support this rank, 0,- .v:l to procure decent clothing, with the common necessaries life, it is very difficult to determine ; hut it is painful to con tinplate his distress, struggling with a family—his rank precludes einire obscurity, and his wretchedness canaot be concealed. '1 he Kisn's commission, the most honourable acknowledge. rne.lt of his services, becomes to him a source of painful re. fit , .:ions (from the distinetLn of remuneration) and of mortihed and degraded feelings. NAVAL I.VIELLIGEACE. Yesterday the dispatches far Bianco()len by the ship Layton, were dosed at the East India House, and delivered to the Master of that ship. Captain C. IL Moosson, Lieutenant C. Gontiti.v, and Mr. W. A. Bares, are appointee{ to the A nt.toiat, 26, fitting out at at Plymvuth for the Cape station. The Favourite, Gaeta:Ls. ; and the Edward, Wittiams, from Newport to Bridgewater, foundered on the Gore Sand, in Mridgewater Bay, the 51 inst.—crew saved. .The Constance, I)ouaaT, from Batavia and Cochin China, is lest on the Island of Rodrigues., near the Mauritius. The Heroine, Buenos Ayrean corvette, sailed from Gibraltar the 19th ult. supposed bound to the westward, followed by the Perola Portuguese frigate. The Ann Elizabeth, Seorr,arrived at Liverpool from Buenos Ayres, sailed 10th January, and reports that the Hope, of Liver pool, was sunk at Bueuos Ayres. listen. Waste, Aram I.—lt blew yesterday a gale film the northward, exceeding in violence any experienced here for the last ten years. It began about five o'clock in the morning, and increased to a perfect hurricane at sever.. Several large ships drove from their moorings, and running foul of each other, sustained very considerable damage. The Wilbelmina, TRLYI NA ACES, front St. Thomas, lost two anchors and cables and her jili-boom, and had her bulwarks torn away, and her stern-frame inuch injured. The British ships rode out the late in safety, except the Myrtle, Mac Lean:, which drove from her moorings, aiat was forced into a garden ; she will, however, probably get of the next spring tides. Several other vessels received more or less damage. Its the afternoon the weather became more anoderate. PLYMOUTH, APRIL 11.—The Bt.:lmam 74, Captain T. Der axs; and the Pitarrosi frigate, Captain alor.raeu, arrived es teriluy from Chatham. Fatstotrrn, Aran 11.—Wind N.E.—Arrived the Dutch gal lint Eliza Brown, from Amsterdam, to take on board the stores of the Dutch ship De Voyhetd, condemned at this port. PENZANCE, Aram 11.—Wind E.N.E.—Some passengers, who landed here from the Boyne, Captain Binwrs.z., from Calcutta, spoke, on the 23c1 of March, the brig Lady Popham, Jrataugs, 4t days f,om Jamaica. Drat, Ara:Ll:l.—Wind F.S.E.—Remain the Sevrav frigate, and three coasters.—Seven o'Clock.—Wind S. by E. nearly calm. Lvsasevox, Aram If. —The Maria, Re ESON. from Liverpool fir Stettin, loaded with Oh, copper, &c. ran ashore last evening, to the westward of Christchurch-head, having sprung a leak the evening before. The vessel is full of water, and expected to go to pieces. CusTast-Housz, APRIL 12.—Ships Entered Inwards : The Christiana, from Rotterdam ; Providentia, front Schien; Com merce, front Frederickstadt ; Saxony, and Sarah and Margaret, front Hamburgh ; Flying Fish, from Ostend ; and London, from Ilamburgh.—Entered Outwards: The Isis, fur 'Marseilles; Ro bert and Ann, for Bermuda; Staines, for Bremen ; Martin, for Flsineur ; Jean, for Venice; Integrity, fot Elsineur ; City of Edinburgh, for Ceylon; and Zealous, for Lima.—Cleared Out wards : The Belle Alliance,for Rotterdam ; Catherine, for Bom bay ; Vim Margreta, for Dantzic ; Five Friends, for Teneriffe ; bones, for Quebec • and William and Mat y, for Ilamburgh. Aaniven—At Monte Video, the British Tar, —, front Li verpool. At Leghorn, Leander, Raye , from Salem and Smyroa. At Savannah, Arielßitchie, from the Clyde. At Demerara, Paragon, Pollock, from the Clyde. In the Clyde, Eliza, Knightly, Smith, from Cadiz. At Buenos Apes, Sarah, Lowe, from Ilamburgh. CURRENTS OF Tilt OCCAN...4IHUTday last, Mr. HALL, farmer, of Saudton, on the south side of Milford Haven, picked up a bottle on the shore, containing the following paper : 0 No. 510a—The bottle which contains this was thrown into the sea in lat. 49. 54. N. long. 12. 211. W. at noon, on the lit of March, 1522, front the ship Ospray, of Glasgow, which sailed from Greenock on the 20th day of February, 1620, on a trading voyage round the world. Whoever finds this is requested to in gest a notice of the time and place in some literary or political publication, with the view of establishing facts relative to the cur rents of the ocean: 130 days from Calcutta,.. returning towards Crtestsck—' AU well.' ALSIANDZIt APCULL, Master." Yesterday died, at his house in Portland-place, aged 76, Sir NATIIANIkL CoNANT. Friday se'unight, as Sir WILLIAM ELFORD, Bart. tff llickham, alter attending Divine Service, was Mounting his horse, a stone on which he had stepped Slid away, which caused him to fall, mid pitching on is elbow, he broke his arm. Tuesday, the Marchioness of ELY was delivered of a son, at Bifi ons, near Canterbury. FA SIIIONABLR ARRIVALS. The Earl andCOUstieas of Derby, in Grosvenor-squat, from she Oaks, Kent. J. G. Lanibton, Esq. M.P. and Lady Louisa LansbtOn, is Cleveland-row, from Lanibton Hall, Durham. • Lord St. Helens, in Grafton-arm% from Brighton. Janes Massey, Esq. at the Pulteney Hotel, front Newmarket. DEPARTURES. The lion. Colonel L. Stanhope, for Sunning-Hill, Berks. Mr. Prendergrairt, from Ilculgson's Hotel, for Paris. Hen. Mr. Grenville, for Dropingte Lodge, oh a ilait to Loa ald Lady Grenville. . . "rir.17791,71"117 • . . ssrr.viAfirOF rim BEARINGS OF TRE LEA !SR TAX UPON THE PUBLIC. The Arkiiltnt;ita being about hail' the whole population, might be supposed to consume abode half the leather manufactured 4 but, as their shoes are made of the coarsest and heaviest leather,. on, which the tax is the same per lb. as upon leather 'of five times the value; and as they, are twice as heavy as those generally worn by the other classes, and other leather goods are more generally tired by them; they cannot. e supposed to use leis than two-thirds of the leather manufactured. The . whole tax is £600,000, therefore the y pay to Govern meat £400,000. To this is to he added the expense occasioned by the Excise _restrictions, which are necessary to secure the collection of the tax, and are stated by most re spectable persons before the Committees of the House ft Commons on the Leather Tax, to be at least equal to the whole amount of the tax, which is a real loss to the country of property to that amount, and must be paid for by the consumers of leather, making the Amount paid so far, on account of the tax and re strictions, by the agricultural classes alone, £BOO,OOO. (See Report of 1813, pages 26, 39, 47, and 49, and Report of 1816, page 138. . As the tax is paid on the rough article before it' goes from the tanner to the currier, or leather cutter, the tanner must be supposed to have a profit for his extra capital and risk upon 1:800,000, which, at ten per cent. would be £BO,OOO, making the whole amount which must be paid by the carriers to the tanners £880,000; upon which sum the carriers must be supposed also to lay on another profit of ten per cent. to the shoemakers, making £968,000 ; upon which the shoemakers or other artificers in leather cannot lay less than another ten per cent. making the whole which must be paid by the agricultural classes £1,064,800, being more than twice the amount of the late Agricultural Horse Tax, though the gross produce and other revenue of this part of the Leather Tax which is paid by the agriculturists to Govern ment, is considerably less than the tat last mentioned. The remaining one-third of the tax which is paid by the other classes of society to Government, is 1:200,000 gross, for which they of course pay in the same proportion as the before-mentioned classes, that is. C 512,400. Can any tax be compared with this? And is it extraordinary that the leather trade con. tinues to decline, as shewn by the last accounts of the produce of the Leather Tax, for tea years before the late additional tax was imposed, and the nine years' since that time, which were laid before Parliament,' March 15, 1822, and that the trade should repeatedly complain, though leather is deemed a necessary of life, that, owing to the leather taxes and the restric tions, leather goods arc so high in price as greatly to lessen their consumption, and to undermine one of the most important staple manufactures of this country ? SUMMARY OF TIIE ABOVE ESTIMATE OF THE BEARINGS OF THE LEATIIER TAX. - £400,000 Gross amount received by Government from the Aviculturists alone on account of the tax . Total amount paid by the Agriculturists alone on ae- count of the tax Gross amount rccelved by Government fur the whole tax 600,000 Positive loss of the property of the country by the restrictions - - : . - - - - . . goomso Profits of the different tradesmen upon the tax and . . ___ - n97,'200 Total amount paid by the Public on account of the tax £1,597.200 COMMERCE OF THE UNITED STATES. It appears from an official statement just published, that the sum total of foreign goods imported into the United States of America, during the twelve months ending September 30, 1821, was, IN s, - - - 6'2,583,724 The export' of domestic produce 43,671,891 Excess of imperts over exports 18,913,830 This excess, where it is on the side of the imports of a country over its exports, it has been the custom to call an adverse balance of trade : and if the whole of the articles of foreign merchandize imported be for home consumption, it is plain that they must be, in some shape or other, paid for by the fruits of do mestic industry. A country may have the balance of trade against her with one particular nation, but with the wnole world the thing is impossible; for the surplus of im orts in one country must be purchased by the profit obtained upon a surplus of exports to some other coun try. But the imports of the United States during the ! period referred to by the document under our notice, were not all destined for home consumption. One third of the amount appears to have been re-exported, and in American vessels: to that extent, therefore, she became an extreptit for foreign goods, and a car rier for foreign nations. The re-exports of foreign articles from the United States during the year rather exceeded the surplus of her general imports over her native commoditits expoited; she having re-exported of foreign goods— In American bottoms - In foreign bottoms - Total foreign exports - .----21,5112,488 —The total value of her exports, foreign and domes tic, thus appears to have been 61,974,1182, exceeding the total value of imports by the small surplus of 2,388,658 dollars. There is another fact highly deserving . of notice in this official document— we mean the disproportion which exists between the total amount of American and that of foreign tonnage employed in carrying on die trade of the Republic. The outward-bound Ame rican shipping throughout the year exceeded 800,000 tons. The outward-bound foreign, during the same period, amounted to a trifle inure than one•tenth of he native. .. - 20,710,700 dollars. 591,788 We conclude with a brief glance at the trade be tween the British Empire and the United States. The imports to the United States from •all parts of the British Empire, in Europe, Asia, Aftica, and Arne• rica, are nearly 80,000,000 of dollars—that is, nearly half the sum total of imports into the Republic : In exact figures . 29,277,93 The exports to this Empire are, of pro duce of the United States . 21,918,699 Or fortiss prodike . - 4,605,944 Total exports to the British Empire - 26,542,572 The surplus in favour of c:tt Britain thus amount: o nearly 8,000,000 of dollars. As for the shipping engaged in carrying on tit iirect trade between the United Kingdom and tht _lnked States, the proportion seems to be in favota if American tonnage, iica:ly as gage to one.. . - -- --" - - --"' " :- . , 5 ,, ..1•. --,7 P.•••,7•Pre - - • . - 1 . . . .. , .• . . . . . . . . • I • . • • • • . • • • ItlllO3llOlllP A.llO MIMS v. 1101 1 1. • . the Pliintiffs in this vise sea* die assigneesof . Mr. Thomas Hope, who sought to recoVer , the value of li' vessel called the Two Brother% of a bill of exChange for CM ) had of several quantities of barley, oxti, and beans, which they contended had &len delivete I to the defendant for the par Pose or 044 a fraud& lent preference over other Cretlitoeio .. It was proved that the ieeeral quatititiel of grain were purchased by Mr. Thomas Hope, and Amnia immediately delivered over to the d e f et . Want,. who set them off against the sums be was compelled to pro vide fbr the acceptances then unpaid. Oa the bill of exchange, however, - he actually advanced CTO, and placed the residue to th 4 account between them. Ile bought the Vessel nominally for £l2OO, of which he advanced t 100; and it appeared that the vessel, even as between owners, was not worth more than f.. 4 ,50; but the terms of the Registry Act had not been ob served so as to legalize the transfer. Whin asked in the Corn-market respecting his brother's failure, he lifted up his hands, and said— ,, It came upon him .4 like a thunderbolt ; he ad had no transactions with him for years, as he w a lwit)l a morose man i 4 The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE Charged the Jury th at, in this case, if the defendant had fraudently received ithe property, he would be liable to the assigue::t, al though the venders of the grain might, like Mr. Payn in the last action, have disaffirmed the cOntracts, and sought themselves to recover. lie diitingiiished the transfers of the ship and the bill from tho•C Of the grain, and said that the. sale of the former would have been valid, but for the omission to comply with the Act respecting registries in reasonable time. As to the rest of the case ) he left the question of fraud to the Jury. The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiffs, with C 833 damagesiwhich included the value of the vessel. Sereelsitakes of lbosS;a4 LW fat e% d en dog i re; 0 4, .• . ! • .. ' • • . en., lb. each. 11: 6. of Grafton', ;b Yorlsizsig ' • - ' I) of Itutland.'s b aby Ruben' . : . a 1). of Grpfron's Nook. , , . .. - $ Mr. V.sosittan's ch. by . Witte, • .... 1 4 . Two paid.—Five to 4 alit. Whilitg: • • . . . ... - - • . Subieription Ante of £5O, for ii,-yr- olds, carrying nat. 1114 $-* olds, Set. SIM 4-yr-olde,. Ilst. t 15th. 5-yr.olds; oat. 4i &yr. olds, and aged, 04. alb. D. If. ~ • Id. Clarendoh's elt.l. Miranda*, 4 yn: 1 1 Mr. Jones's br.. c. Dectiver,-4 yr*, . 0 Mr. liouverle's b. e. Treseillan, 3 yrs. . ~ . - $ H. R. IL the Duke of York's, by Whalebone . - dr; Mr. Craven's b.' e: Rioter, 3 yrs. • Mr. Wyndham's b. f. by Whalebine, it yrs.:. . Eleven started t the Judge placed but threel Seven to i apt. Mirandola:.-3.t0 1 apt. Tresaillani-3 to 1 apt. Rioter-;-5 to 1 apt. Mr. 'Wyndliant's b. f The Hampton Court Stud igtakes Of 20014 awl, li. fi; for the produce of makes covered In 1818; colts, km. 7110. 1111!ri list. 51b. Do if. Those out of untried buires, of got by vs. tried Stallions, to be alloilred Slb. lA. Stradbroke's b. c. the Stag . *allied over; Flee paid beret; Sweepitakes of 1130 p. each, h. ft. fo; edits, est. 711 i. and SIBS, - eat. 4113: D. 21. 1). of Graftchis ch. f. Whiegig .. - 1 1 Mr. Rush's c. by Stab - , 4 Gen. Grosvenor 's Mareillus • . . , 3 Ten paid.—Eight started t the Judge pkilidibut t hree. Tad to I apt. Whizgig-5 to 51 apt. 11116 11.4001 c. A Cold Cup, value •SOgs. by a *oho.' iptios of togs. each, tot horses of all ages. A. P. The aurebs, if alit, to the winner: Mr. Wyndham's Black-andoll4slack, s yrs. Sat. Sib. i Mr. Prendtrgast's Regent, 5 yrs. Nat. nib: - s Mr. Greville's Oracle, 4 yri. 7st. 131 b. , - 5 Id. &etc , " c. by Ardrossan, 4 yrs. bat. alb. . 4 Mr. Guddird's f. by Ilaimion, 2 yrs. Sst. 91b. - S Three paldr—Even on Mr. Wyndhain's Black.and.ali-blaft. The Port Stakes of 100gai each, h. ft. for colts, sat. 71b. and fillies, list. 41b. rising 4 yrs . . old, and not named in the Claret States. T..M. M. D. of Grafton'i b. f. Zeal walked over'. Three paid forfeit. Mr. Prendergast's Regent rec. ft. front Mr. Pot's Cardinal Wolsey, BeL 71b. each'. I). I. 3COgs. h. ft. Mr. Udny's Bannecide, fist. 91b. rec. ft. front Lord Enters Athenian, est. T. Y. C, loop. h. . . STEEPLE CHASE. . . The Sweepstakes &faith of 20 guineas each, bitween Comarao, Captain N. and Mr. Rnsaorrear. took place yesterday morning. The stay was from Primley Furies, near Blackwater, to Arborfield, Berke. The race, for the first five miles, was over heath, and the .horsemen kept the steady cuti until they came to Topham Cover, when they separated and pursued their.own course through a woody country. :They left the ridge of . Golden Farmer llill to the left, and were within sight of each other again on Shinfitld Common, when Mr. Cola nano made all play, and reached Arburfield Church in one honi and three minutes, a distance of if; miles in a straight direction. Captain Pima lost by sin minutes, and Me. itoilorroteshorsi fell, and he was throWn out altoget her. PEPESTRI A NI INSt. The Grand Satelay Match of 1000 Mil.', in 1000 sirceesdee hours. is abotit to be attempted on Monday next, from the Hari of Maids, on the Edgware.road, at half-mile distance. The Herculean task is to be undertaken by a man of the mane of Moses Jostphs, commonly called the Wandering Jew, for a wager of 100 guineas. Considerable sums arc depending on the events. . . - Mr. Coerameav, a farmer, undertook, on Tuesday, to start to Coventry fkom Mile-End Sew TOwn, near Bow, and return in three days. The distance is 188 mites from the place of start ing, and time was backed at two to one. He started at two o'clock in the morning, and was it Dunstable at twelve o'clock, Stoney Stratford at four, passed throligh Towcester at duskvand took two Sours rest, after accomplishing V) miles, at twelve o'clock ; he touched on Coventry at live b'clock on Wednesday morning, and did 30 miles on his return, at two o'clock; he then halted four hours, and was lame Upon starting again, which increased, and be reached Dimstable at three o'clock on Thurs day, and rested until six. Ile had eight hours left to do 36 miles, and be rtssgncd the task. Yesterday morning, while the servants were ,en gaged at their work, a thief entered the house of Lord 13zawicK, in Grosvenor-square, and succeeded in carrying away nine handsomely chased silver. wine ladles. Information was immediately given at Marlborough-street Police Office, with a desbriptioa of the property, in order that the officers may make proper inquiry. Extract of a Letter from a Farmer in Suffolk " About ten days since, a farmer at &nape, Who re sided within twelve miles of me, had a barn, bullock shed, pig -sties, stack of wheat, stover stack, corn in barn, buildings almost new, and all his straw, burned to a cinder. Scarcely a night passes, but we see at a distance, or near, a blaze in the air, occasioned by some incendiary. I am obliged to Watch my pre mises every night. This affair is going on very much on the borders of Norfblk, attended with threshing mach hie. breaking." Monday night a haulm stack was set fire to upon the premises of Mr. GEORGE MAYREIV, of Middle.. wood-Green, Stonhain t it did not however burn ra pidly, owing, it is supposed, to the moisture left upon it by the late rains, and by the prompt assistance of the neighbours it was soon got under. The fore goinq is the only fire we have heard of in this neigh bourhood during the past week, but the terror created by the recent fires we fear will not be speedily alle viated. Thursday last the most intense interest was excited by reports of a fire in the neighbourhood of Sproughton : the blaze which caused the alarm, was, however, occasioned by the setting fire to a quantity of weeds and rubbish about six o'clock in the even ing, upon a farm at Bur,t4ll.—fpnvith Journal. Monday, :is the Chester mail-coach was passing along Bird -street, Litchfield, one of the leading horses was attacked by a bull-dog, and literally pinned to the ground by.the savage brute. The horse plunged considerably, and it was with difficulty that the dog could be forced to leave his hold. The poor horse being at length extricated from his painful situation, the coach proceeded, but had not got many yards before the dog, having obtained his liberty, again pursued the object of his ferocity, but was very for tunately stopped in his career by some persons in the street. Had.the attack been made, on one of 'the wheel-horses, in all probability the coach would have been upset: no donne however occifired, excepting to the horse, which was slightly. .injured about the mouth. This is not a singular instance of the kind, and in a similar. occurrence, -in order to defackthe dOg from the animal he has fastened on, it has been re commended to throw a quantity of snuff in hirface, shish will cause him to sneeze, and he will thed in - oluntarily leave his hold.—l ikkfleld Mercury. . • _ . •'. . • s iiiiiiihii . _ tkiNai; ' :.:..t - 441 0 LELZIMENC/A ...., . g a x L .. ttitiiiiii. m.Anneal Enna Iski reo ‘e ingit.i k w bo,co a d 114 ;hillilliii140ifirilgv , - OP' T taw Ad** • ' s ' a. 0011.22, ItATt CLAIII: liiild fpii elk, of •:Wigii-strtet now, a: Z. ' . 'hi. C0i . 114 . 0; • ' • rim) atiii * : Am day in the Codtt.of Kitl'a • NEW MARKS? eaiisi aitilixii: . Death. at ia . r s • • The tiiil itaipieted kii octupt , , . . iiiiii.i, i..ii. iii. : p rt thewbolt t h t j ay; ma i • - • l3 '.4 6.r 4 ta tifi s ei,P fid9 .ini.aatt b i se e r trgi • ' b '' '''. .i3T - - :11.; ibi6; Viv. eil IpOuJIT ar kiliiii giNdill. iiliii ii; son liampain. CORONER'S INQUEST. We briefly mentioned yesterday the fatal accident which befel Mr. BRIGGS and Mr. KNOWLES, on Tues day evening, in falling over the Cliffs between Itot tendean and Brighton. Their bodies were that night conveyed to the White-horse Inn at Rottendean, where, oh Thursday, a Coroner's Inquest was held, at which the following evidence was adduced : Samuel Sutton, the landlord at the White-horse Inn, Rotten dean, deposed, that in the course of Tuesday afternoon, the de ceased passed his house in a spring chaise -cart, on the toad to wards Newhaven; that at nine in the evening of that day, they called oa their return, and staid at his house about ten minutes • they were both quite sober. Just before they got up into th e cart, Mr. Briggs expressed a wish to drive, saying that he knew the road better than his friend ; but Mr. Knowles objected, re marking that he ( Mr. Knowles) knew the horse better than Mr. Briggs. It was rather dark, the moon not being then up. At halt-past eleven he beard of the accident, .and sent a horse and cart for the bodies, which were brought to his house. when he discovered them to be those of Mr. Briggs and Mr. Knowles.— On cross-examination, be said that the darkness of the night was not so great as to make it rtobable that the accident resulted from that eiroimstance. Thomas Patching, an ostler, heard the expreNsions above-men tioned, of the deceased, to each other, previously to their starting front the Inn. Stephen Rich, labourer, of Rottendean, left the White horse at ten o'clock on Tuesday night, in company with John Pupplet and Edward Pierce. who were also labourers: they were going to Black Rock Bottom, where they lodged. At about a mile and three-quarters from Hottendran, witness saw a man's hat, about six feet from the edge of the Cliff; this induced them to look over, when they fancied they saw a man and a horse lying on the beach: upon which they proceeded to Greenway-Gap, and went down on the beach towards the spot. The first thing ;they found was the wheel of a cart lying near the sea ; about two rods horn the Cliff they discovered a man on the ground—witness put his hand to the mouth of the man, to feel whether he breathed ; but his face was quite cod. Nearer to the Cliff they found another man, who also was quite cold ; part of a cart was near him ; one of the shafts lying across his high. The horse was found near, greatly bruised, and dead. Witness and one of bis companions remained with the bodies, while the other proceeded to Mr. Sutton's for a horse and cart ; on the ar rival of which the deceased were conveyed to the White-horse, Rottendean. At this time it was clear starlight. Witness thought that the distance from the new or upper t oad to the Cliff was ten rods. _ _ Edward Pierce and John Pupplet, corroborated the evidence of the preceding witness, with this addition, that both of the de. ceased had watches, one of which had stopped at 25 minutes after nine, and the other at ten minutes before ten. The CO/lONIM here read a letter, signed 41 Iknry Sayers," an ostler at the King's Head, Brighton,in which the . wriier stated that he - well knew Mr. Knowlts's mare, which was always un quiet in harness; that she had run away with Mr. Knowles thrice, and was in the habit of gibbing. Here ended the evidence ; and the Jury, after a short consul talon, returned a verdict of Accidental Death. The morning after this dreadful catastrophe, hun dreds of persons repaired to the fatal spot, which is about two miles from Brighton, and at precisely the higheft point of the ClifF between that-place and Rot tendean. It was evident from the marks ofthe wheels, that the horse had gibbed or backed at the moment, probably, that the right hand rein had been pulled to turn him into an upper road that has been newly made. There seas a deep impression of the wheels on the margin of the Cliff, as if the animal had at tempted to draw the vehicle forward when it was too hue! Both the bodies were dreadfully mangled— that of Mr. KNowLes had the left thigh fractured, a large wound about two inches above the left eye, and contusions about the loins—Mr. Ileicce had his right leg broken, a large piece of flesh cut away above the left knee, and his head and face shockingly lacerated by the gravel on the beach.—Mr. Ramos was one of the local body of Commissioners of Brighton. Sunday, as the Hope coach was on its way from Mansfield to Chestetheld, one of the wheels came off, which caused the coach to upset, by which accident one Gentleman, a Mr. Har rison, horn lkightside, near Sheffield, was killed on the spot, and the guard and several passengers severely injured. Wednesday snornin;, the body of Mr. Eames ' an underwriter at Lloyd's was taken out of the River near Pickle Herring 4tairs. The deceased had been missing several days; the last time he was se e n was with a party of friends, near Somerset House, whom hb left in high spirits. Thursday, a young man. apprentice to Messrs. Everett and Tucker, rice -dressers, Bread-street-hill, Upper Thames-street, having by some means laid hold cola relic, which, by drawing in a certain direction, connects Writ So the steam-engine, was drawn up between two beluek MOW 00 the 10" At Pontypool Fair, po Pim* last, oxen were sold for cls, and it was alma* thi graaiers, that worse beast have, la 'Grater Mors, brought MW. _•••••••••••. i 4