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NOT ExCLUSITI. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. T From the Courier .Fraiseais. PARIS, Jex. 15. MoNsutun Coins—lf you grant me a moment's interview, I hope my frank explanations will remove the unpleasant impressions made on you by the publicity given t hrough the Journals to my letters to the Provisional govern went. I have already stated to you how much I felt hurt at t he publication, as official, of documents which had no such character, and which were only intended for the information of the Diplomatic Committee of Belgium. I regret that the h ur ry in which I wrote my last letter did not allow me to take a copy of it, so that I cannot appreciate to what extent my e xpressions were altered by the newspapers. The Belge and Messagcr des Chantbres make me say, for instance, " that the King of the French would never consent to give his daughter to the son of a Beauharnois." I hope you will not su spect me of having applied an expression so injurious to the descendant of one of the moat illustrious Chiefs of the French army—of a Prince who has left such noble and glo rious recollections behind him. Nevertheless, although the introduction of words which were not perhaps pre.. cisely those you have made use of may be condemned, I have no hesitation in appealing to your memory for an admission that in fact, if not in terms, I was correct. 1 should regret exceedingly that the publication of my letter should have interrupted suddenly an intercourse com menced in a manner so agreeable and flattering to me. That interruption would not be one of the least desagremens AM likely to encounter in the career in which I ant now engaged. (Signed) " FIRMIN ROWER." The Dictator has published an ordinance for the organi zation of the moveable National Guards, but excluding the Jews. These latter justly complain of b e ing excluded from the service of the National Guards, which they say is con trary to the liberal sentiments professed by the new Go vernment. A young lady, Angelica N. objects to the pro posed formation of Amazon regiments. "We shall most willingly," said she, " very properly devote ourselves to the care of the sick and wounded in the hospitals, but it does nut become our sex to take arms and fight." From As Quotidienne. The Russian General Strogonoff (sent as a Cabinet mes senger from Petersburgb) arrived at Berlin on the Bth inst. Baron Bender, Minister of Austria, arrived at the Hague on the 11th, coming from Switzerland. J A N. 15.—The letter of M. Sebastiani to M. Rogier, gives rise to strange reflections. What opinion are we to form of our diplomatic relations with Belgium ? Who can give us a true statement on the subject ? M. Rogier transmitted the letter in question as an official and positive communication, and now the Minister for Foreign Affairs denies having used such language, or any thing to that effect. There is a very cul pable negligence in this affair, or a scandalous falsehood. CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES-' -SewunDAY, Jan. IL A petition having been presented from an inhabitant of Ma= ing for a union between France and Belgium, Gen. the Chamber at some length in support of the princ l i= i n s tervention, at the only means of preserving France from future attack by the absolute Sovereigns of the Continent. M. Lamarque asserted that the French could place no reliance whatever upon the friendly professions of those powers, notwithstanding the sacrifice which France made in abandoning the Belgians, and the Poles to their own resources, and in the course of his speech eshi-i•' " Would you know their secret thoughts, listen to what the Welch Ambassador said on the 26th of October, 1814, at the Congress of Vl mita The contest is between two principles. Whilst a single d of the Revolution remains, the Revolution will not have The principle of legitimacy must triumph without striation, °them* there will be no peace—it will merely be a truce." The Minister foe Foreign Affairs, M. Sebastioni, took a very lifer notice of the speech of General Lantarque, but he made an impsehme admission as to the character of the negociations on the subject of BeL gium and Poland. He said, " 1 will not take the opportunity of ape. tition being presented to discuss the question of peace or war, or to he ft before the Chamber cheetahs of Belgium and Poland, particularly r negociations are going on, and as the result of those negociations may, I perhaps, affect the fate of Europe." Casimir Perrier and M. Guisot replied at great length, and with considerable effect, to the observations of M. L4marque, and contended warmly for the rigid observance of the principle of non-intervention...- N. Gullet said, " It is the principle of non-intervention which repte. cents the liberty of nations. It was the principle invoked against the Unitary Monarchy of Louis XIV —against the Convention—against the Empire. It is the sense principle which we ourselves have m imed during fifteen years against the Holy Alliance." N. Mauguin replied at considerable length to the argnimmis et X Guizot and lid. Cassiinir Perrier. He said, .4 By this pdlndele ef eler intervention you will admit into Belgium the son of the ef Bavaria—of that Ring who has already considerable upon this side of the Rhine. To give Belgium to walla le to give it to England and Austria. Bavaria, long our friend, will be no longer so when her frontiers touch ours to so, great an extent; you think, = li ps, that, if necessary, Bavaria would unite with you. e polio • I No, no ! from the moment whir Bavaria accepts Be glum, she will be compromised—she will be in the number of your enemies ; for to give Belgium to Bavaria is to give it to the Holy Alliance." 81. Mauguin concluded by passing a stung censure upon the late and present Government, and was immediately repliei to on one point of importance by M. SebastianL To this reply we beg to direct particular attention, because it is utterly at varieties „ I with the statements made by 111. Rogier to the Belgian Al. Sebastian' said—" The argument of the speaker vt l i r :s s rust left the Tribune turns upon a statement which is ettirely false. It was not France which pointed out the Prince of Bavaria as Sovereign of Bel gium. We were asked if this choice would have our consent? and we replied, that, respecting the tight of Belgium to ch o ose their Sovereign, we would recognise him, whoever he might be." General Lafayette concluded the discussioe..." Gentlemen (said he) shenever any country in Europe, whatever it may be, attempts to re cover its rights, and foreign intervention prevents it, it is a direct hos tility against us, not only because it revives the principles of Tilnita :end the soi-dituult Holy Alliance, and justifies future aggression against our liberty and independence, but because common sense assures us, that it is the same as saying ' Wait, we are going to crush your natural suoiliaries--the friends of liberty in other countries and when they shall have ceased to exist, we will fall upon you with our whole weight." SPIRIT OF THE JOURNALS. Tiuss.—ln the late revolution, the people of England rejoiced nearly IA much as the French themselves,—not because they regretted the sat een of their arms in aiding the nations of Europe to shake of the mon strous oppression of Napoleon, the gallant armor's military chief, but because they saw the liberties of a great nation secured against the vio lence of a perfidious bigot, and the principles of nonintervention, which had been violated, again restored. If General Lamarque is satisfied that the cannon of Waterloo have been silenced by the firing in the streets of Paris, why think of over-running Belgium for additional satis faction ? No misapprehension was ever greater, than that which General Lamarque evinces of the feelings of Englishmen, or the policy of the English Government. We are not envious of the prosperity of France—we have not enriched ourselves with the *polls of Holland, which has rather been enriched at our expense—and we have no desire to keep the French people " within any circle of iron," traced by any co ali tion. The "circle of iron" is the old boun dary of France, which revolutionary inroads had only for a time ef faced, which solemn treaties had again drawn, and which nothing but the most criminal ambition would again desire to pass. The amen dation of her free institutions in peace, and her conquest over that rest less spirit of military enterprise which dictated the speech on which we ate remarking, would be more conducive to her happiness and honour than Belgium with all its nine departments. lititatm —The Congress of the Commishioners of the Great powers at London have at last turned their attention to the question of the Urand Duchy of Luxembourg, the most knotty point in dispute between Holland and Belgium. The Germanic Confederation recognise the r , gllt of the Kin g o f Holland to the province in question, and express their determination to enforce that right; but, before taking any harsh '"ensures, they desire to know of the provisional Government LI Belgium, whether they persist in their claim wit. The 4c.wer has not yet been made known, but from the po. , LNltory tone of the manifesto of the Confederation, and the ulwt artce given by the London Congress, not to lose any time in sending b elician Commissioners to London, there Is to alternative left the Pro ,tuonal Government of Belgium, but to en up their claims upon I . 6 xemburg, or repudiate altogether the medbMon of the Great Powers their cause. The latter course is net from the WIWI' of he Brussels Congress, sod there is no doubt bet that the fortune of war !" 14 be bailed on both sides as a more estisfarnery mode of arbitra .l42' th an ilwilalertulltion of them European Powers. It will, k all events, prove the most conclusive mode; for, with the present excite ment which prevails in the minds of the Belgians and Dutch, no formal accommodation can entirely trifle the feelings of hatted and national jealousy, which can only be extinguished in blood. Canostrcti—We wish we could see oar way dearly in the affairs of Ireland as some of our contemporaries think they see theirs. The aOlalien will either continue, or forcible measures will be resorted to. We will suppose coercion attempted. We will suppose further, that the Irish are beaten. What then ? Are we to keep and treat Ireland as a at4sered country ? Where will all this end I) We hear every day exclamations of "we must have a fight for it, and the sooner the better I" But have those who thus exclaim calculated all the conesquences of the shock which this would occasion in England ? The people of England do not, certainly, wish the repal or the Union; but what would be the effect of hostilities in Inking on England, with the present way of thinking of a very great parcel the ion ? We have gaerned Ireland by force and corruption mass the population of 1688; and what is the result ? We have a perdation without any common bond of sympathy with England—a numerea, a brave population, who may be coetad, hat who may alms suc• ceed in a contest between the two mama AB the inseam darted to by England for the crudes if an English laessset In Ireland have signally failed. The pod laws ass Impaled, because they failed in their object. The ftlmanis were set eireaph • coed, but weakened, by the ascendancy of *Or Church asi the ammo poly which the laws gore them. The people le these preelesea are chiefly Catholic'. In one province akar, the Presseleass sod Presby terians form a considerable part of the ripeletles. The radiation of Ireland being chiefly Catholic, it has always appeared so us questionable po to continue to a sinecure Protestant Church immense revenues, to which all sects must contribute. The ettly *wade estamsd Rer an esta blished church is, that the church a estabilised h that of the perdition. But, if a church be established, which least dtatafthe pspaahs, thee the Government can derive no benefit teem it, while the itlistbsel of the , religion of the population are placed by the unnameable partiality in a ' state of opposition to the Government. The Priests have with them the strength of the country; and it seems obvious that it must always be much easier to govern in accordance with the wishes of the natu ral leaders of the population than by placing their leaders in a state of opposition. The great body of the people of a country, and their natural leaders, can never safely be neglected. Hence one mature, on which we would mainly rely is the placing the Catholics on an . 1 equality in all respects with Protestants. Traza—The most recent device of the Dublin incendiaries appears to be an intended run upon the banks for geld. This is in character for a party who represent the disappearance of capital from Ireland. and the decay of consumption arising from the number of absentees, to be the grand cause of pauperism and wretchedness, an evil to be cured only by the repeal of the Union. that is, by a sanguinary war with England in the first place, and afterwards, by an overthrow of the entire fabric of Protestant property, ecclesiastical and civil. Does not the Agitator know full well that a political run upon the banks of Ireland I would so cramp and paralyse the whole frame of commercial I credit as to stop, within four.and-twenty hours, two-thirds of the labour now going on in Ireland ? Is Mr. O'Connell not satisfied with the amount of human suffering of necessity attendant on the famine of 1831, which he predicts with so much confidence, that he thus kills the moving power of human industry, while Providence blights that of ve getable nature ? But there is another beneficent project on foot, the Irish papas tell us,--namely, a non-consumption of excisable arti cles," the motive of which le avowed to be the ruin of the revenue and the consequent distress of the Government. Good ! And is there no revenue but that of the State to be depressed, and nobody but the British Minister to be embarrassed ? We suppose that eseemodities subject to excise must be I rarchased before they are and who are the sellers ? hy, the merchants and tradeemea, great and small, thresghast Ireland. The retail price of them models des set consist only of the Tax upon them, there is to be added the One oust, seed the vender's profit r then, oat of spite and hatred albs grawainest, every dealer in the kingdom, who has bought the anewhanilns. that he and bin family may live by ths mak of it, is st sae to be mind to bank ruptcy, a d deprived of bread, as one of them " ellisedeus emeedies" which the and-Union Staisenras beast that they alms are unable of adminktaing to the asthma diseases. We have tideland la many pad's Ws spine the fraud as wellasdss ferocity stems mesa's es adost that an is sigh& with the alias sedadens violsnas, marsh the aggression of any 1111111111.111. but *see which the Milked feel MI blend la egnaaing gram the psepk. The lOW is that of Ro. bergisrre...k is Ismer. LITERATURE. Disceorse on Natural Philosophy; by J. F. W. lizascust..—. Lssyssassesd Cs. The Discourse we now notice constitutes the 14th vol. of Dr. Lard ner's Cyclopedia. It is, to use a figurative expression, the vestibule to the temple of science, which Dr. Ladner, the bead architect, is about to rear—and If the building be completed in the same style, the present age may be proud of such an addition to British literature. Mr. Herschel, in part 1, gives a short view of the intellectual cha racter of man, and the beneficial influence of scientific par. salts. He then illustrates the uses of abstract science foe the study of physics ; but shows it not indispensable for the clear understanding of physical laws. He then shows the nature and object of physical science, and its various application. In Part 11. he proceeds to explain that the origin of all knowledge is in experience and the evidence of sense. He explains the analysis of phenomena—gives a short sketch of faience previous to the age of Galileo and Bacoo—treats of the observation and collection of facts—ciaadfication and nomenclature—and of the laws of induction, both as to the lowest and higher degrees of generalisation. In Part 111. which is on the subdivision of physin into branches, he treats of the constitution of natural bodies and of the phenomena of forte; of motion through bodies—as in sound and light ;of celestial mechanics, and geo logy ; of the natural constituents of the world, mineralogy and chemis try; of the subtle, imponderable fat m of matter, as beat, magnetism, and electricity; and the volume concludes by an explanation of the patent rapid progress of physical science compared with former ages. The work consists, as we havestated, of three parts, each subdivided into chapters, and these again into paregraphs, each of which is numbered, from 1 to WI. This puede* of numbering parspapha, which I. and in French works on science, is so benefkial to students, that we as. surprised that it should be so often neglected.—Oa the whole we can, after a careful perusal of the volume, recommend it as a treasure to those who want an Initiative to natural science, at once intelligible and profound. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Matta Aeon= Tins Das.—Dublin, 1 ; Waterford, 1; Hamburgb ,1. Dem., Jan. 15.—Wind LS W.—Arrived his Netherlands Ma jesty's brig of war Echo, and remains, bound cm a cruise in the LitanneL Poalsaxisn, Jan. li.—Wind S.E.—Arrived his Majesty's ship Sparrow, front a cruise. FMAIOUTII, Jaw. 17.—Wind S.S.E to E.S.E.—Arrived the Spey, Puna, from Bristol. Burrito, Jatr. li.—Arrived the Fly, Sampson, from St. Anders. Lsveatuoi, Jan. 17.—Arrived elf the port, the Chandler, Price, from New Orleans; Java. Jellerson, from ditto and New York; Commerce, Evans, from Seville ; St. Katharine, Nichols, from Bt. Andero ; Amethyst, from Charkstoo ; Eagle, Bar nes, from OaUlpolf ; and Tiphys. Burnell, from Palermo. HOLTHRAD, Jan. 111.--. Arrived of the pun, the Minerva, Metcalf, from Bombay and &. Helena. Coax, Jaw 13.--Wind E.S.E.—Arrived the Sylvia transport. Reed, front Rio Jumbo—sailed 51st October ; and Martha, Wilson, from Savannah. The Royal Edward, Heirloom front Prince Edward's Island to Liverpool. was abandoned between St. Paul's and Cape Breton. Arrived at Jamaica. the Rob Roy, —; Clarence, Morris ; Indus, Burnell; Governor Hodgson, and Mount Golub.. from Halifax ;1 Martha, Dewar, and Esther, Nicholas, from Quebec; West Indian, Simpson, and Margaret, from St. John's, N.B. Arrived at Bengal, the Loire, and Jupiter, Paton, front Names • Reporter, Auvel ; Johanna, hkeUer ; and )lacy , Dobson. from the Mauritius. Tun FAN CT.—The long-protracted battle, in which Neal fought Young Dutch Sam-2201. to 2001.—took place yes terday at Bumpetead, in the county of Essex. At thirty two minutes after three the men were brought the scratch, ripe for action, and certainly it was impossible to imagine men in better condition—they both looked ati 6110 as race-bosses ; but the symmetry of Sam's frame was decidedly superior to that of Neal ; though lighter, he was a shade taller, and there was an obvious superiority in the length of his arms. Both looked serial', and the most perfect good order prevailed. After a most scientific display, Sam was proclaimed the victor, amidst the loudest shouts, with few marks of punishment, while Neal's face exhibited prominent marks of the talent of his spirited op ponent. The fight lasted exactly 62 minutes. PLANS OP AMELIORATION AND REFORM. The duties imposed on Ministers by the ex pe ctations of the country, are so various and onerous, and a ffe ct so many theories and interests, that the ensuing sitting of Perlis men t may be expected to be a long and a busy one. The ameliorations and measures which the public expect, and which are sought by direct petitions, or expressed by the cheered sentiments of public speakers, may be comprised, according to an intelligent correspondent, in the following propositions: 1. The adoption of a plan of Parliamentary Worn, in which nearly equal proportions of householders shall return one member to Parliament, by ballot. Of course, all rotten boroughs, and places of inadequate population, are to be disfranchised. 2. A property tax, including funds and mortgages, sub stituted for the malt and hop duties, and the assessed taxes on houses rated below 301. a year, or lees than twelve windows. 3. Some modification of the duties on newspapers and advertisements, which would lave the effect of encreasing the produce on both, as 2d. on papers and Is. 6d. on ad vertisements ; and a withdrawing of the trifling vexations pamphlet duty. 4. An increased rate of assessments on large farms, a remission of taxes on new farm-houses for seven years, and a power of mortgaging them without stamps. 5. A repeal of the Select Vestry Bill. 6 A total alteration of the Game laws. 7. The management and appointment of the new police to be vested in the parishes. 8. Cottages, with garden ground, to be erected for road labourers, at every mile-stone on the 30,000 miles of our turnpike roads. 9. A distinct and more liberal provision for the poor above 65, averaging only about ten or twelve in every parish. 10. A power to be given to landlords to purchase the tithes, and the produce to be vested in the funds for the be nefit of the clergy. 11. A committee to revise the pension lists. 12. A committee to investigate salaries and perquisites in public boards, and modify remuneration according to service and labour. 13. A bill to relieve persons who hare been rendered in solvent by the changes in the monetary system, and by the panic. 14. A general debtor and creditor law, to enable a cer tain majority of bona fide creditors to accept the proposals of debtors, and release them from proceedings of the mino rity. Bankruptcy only to be resorted to when the majority do not assent. 15. An extension of the power of holding to bail, for less than 1001. and bail in no case to cover more than 101. costs. 16. A committee to enquire into the injury suffered in particular branches of trade, by the free trade system, with a view to remedies. 17. A bill to indemnify artisans and labourers, for a limited time, for injuries sustained by the introduction of machinery. 18. Country bankers to be allowed to issue one and two pound notes, on giving bonds, or other securities, for the amount of stamps taken from the Stamp-office, and the se curities to be assignable by printed form, without stamps. 19. County Courts to be established for the decision of all minor questions relative to debts or property. 20. The East and West India questions, the corn laws, sad the proposed dissolution of the Union with Ireland, will, course, lead to prolonged debates, in successive Sessions. 21. A power conceded of growing tobacco in the United Iriegions, subject to a duty per acre or rood. 22. The coal-tax to be abated, and coals sold in and meet London by weight. 23. Bills of exchange, and promissory notes, to express the nature of the value received, or be invalid ; and when falsely stated, to subject the parties to penalties in double the amount. 24. A commission to enquire into cases of crown debtors. ith a view to their relief. 25. A bill to abolish impressment by a register of 111141011 ft for the Royal navy to be adopted ; entitling the men regis tered to certain increased advantages every 7 years, with liability to serve when called epon. 26. A Bill to enable magistrates to nominate three moo ters and three workmen, to adjust for six montbs,any disputes about wages, or prices of any labour, within 19 miles of the place of adjustment. 27. A Bill to prevent transported convicts for limited terms being sent beyond the Equator. 28. A bill for relieving dissenters, and non-conformists, from the payment of Church rates and Easter dues. 29. A bill to regulate the discipline on board merchant's ships. 30. The abolition of flogging in army and nary. 31. An alteration of the laws to make real estates uni- venally liable for personal debts. 32. An appropriation of parts of the waste lands for do mestic colonization to the extent of half a million of acres; and the sale of another half million, to provide the colonists with capital. 33. A committee to inquire into the infliction and execu tion of the penal laws, with a view to limit the unlimited discretion of legal tribunals. 34. A bill to throw open corporations to the inhabitant householders at large, of cities and boroughs. 35. A bill for the gradual extinction of colonial slavery within a term to be fixed. 36. A Bill to prevent the punishment of death, except for murder or arson.—On some of these points, Ministers are, we are assured, prepared to submit measures to Parliament ; on others, some of them have written and spoken on sundry occasions, while public spirited members are prepared to submit others for consideration and adoption. We give no opinion, but submit them as they have reached us from an eminent public character. When the late Mr. Huskisson met with the dreadful acci dent which caused his deatb, he was in such an exhausted state, from first to last, as to be unable to undergo amputa tion of the shattered limb, without the imminent hazard of dying under the hands of the operator ; a truly painful re sult to the character of any surgeon, and which few men would willingly run the risk of. The experiment of ampu tation, supposing that the patient had survived the imme diate shock of the operation, would have added but little to the chances of ultimate recovery ; and, at best, could only have been considered as a forlorn hope, in the midst of dif ficulty and imminent peril. It is rather a remarkable coin cidence, that the brother of Mr. Huskisson, now a General Officer, when proceeding to join his regiment, (the 51st) then in India, in the year 1799, bad the misfortune to shat ter his band so severely, by the bursting of an overcharged gun, fired at an albatross , that the sea surgeon proposed immediate: amputation of the limb, as the only alternative to save his life. A military surgeon, who happened to be a passenger in the ship, opposed this measure. The matter was referred to the commander of the ship, who thought it his duty instanter, to call for farther advice from another In- diem= then in sight. A surgeon, in consequence, came on board, by signal, and on examination of the wound, being of opinion that amputation was not called for, the limb was therefore saved. The General is still alive. PROGRESS OF INCENDIARY FIRES. On Sunday morning' last, the quiet village of Aost (net the Old Passage) was thrown into a state of great ahrin and confusion by a cry of fire ; wbrn it was discovered that five ricks in Mrs. Alway's farm-yard bud been maliciously set on fire. Between the hours of six ind nine o'clock the burning was tremendous. One bean stack was soon burnt to the ground, and the adjoining oat and barley mows followed ; but though the two hay mows received much injury, and a great quantity of hay was necessarily lost, yet much of the hay is saved. It is a pleasure to record the very prompt as sistance which the yeomen and inhabitants rendered on this trying occasion. Regardless of foddering or milking their cattle, masters and servants lent a ready hand to extinguish the fire; even the women willingly offered their services ; and at an early hour, almost the whole village had assembled to gether, as indefatigable labourers. A reward of 5001. has been offered for the discovery of the person or persons concerned in this affair.—Felix Farley On Monday the Logwood Mills of Messrs. Olive and Mat thews (late Ames, Gadd, and Co.) situate at Stanton Drew, were discovered to be on fire about three o'clock in the morning, when the machinery, building, and almost all the stock were destroyed. No suspicion exists of design. Saturday night last three stacks, value 5001. were bet of fire and entirely consumed, on the farm of J. Farquharson, Esq. at Langton, Dorset. Monday morning a stable was burnt down at OwreZloigne, Dorset, and four fine horses, the property of Mr.Whetham, fell a prey to the times, as did also the fu rn iture of an ad . . joining cottage. On the same night a great qnantity of agricultural pro perty was set on fire and consumed, at Vimborne. A rick, contlining seventy quarters of oats, was de stroyed on the same evening, at Moretown, in the parish of Great Canford, Dorset, the property of Mr. J. P. Hart. A wheat stack, belonging to Mr. John Reaston, of Drif field, was consumed by fire on Monday night. RISLEY, DERAYSIIIRL, JAW. 16.—Last night, between 11 and 12 o'clock, the farm-yard in the pariah of Ockbrook, belonging to a respectable farmer and maltster of the name of Walker, was discovered to be on fire. The flames rapidly spread, and destroyed a wheat-stack containing aboul 10 quarters, and a bean-stack about 20, with a waggon and hovel ; but owing to the exertions of a labouring man re siding on the premises, twisted by the inhabitants of Ock brook, &c. the live stock and buildings were but little injured. There can be no doubt of this being wilfully done, as I understand both Welker and other farmers in the neigh bourhood had received threatening letters from " Swing." About half-past five o'clock, on the morning of the 13th instant, it was discovered that a barn, belonging to Mr. Ben jamin Smith, of Hill-farm, Polstead, Suffolk, was on tile. We regret to state that the barn, with 60 coombs of wheat, a bullock shed, and several rods of haulm, were destroyed. Mr. Smith had some stacks burned about six weeks ago, in consequence of which be employed a man to watch the pre mises, who did not quit till five o'clock.—Essex Herald. The Chester Chronicle of Friday says—" We have heard of another fire at Tilstock, near Whitcburch, early on Wednesday, by which a cottage and an adjoining shed were destroyed,but have not heard the name of the owner or occu pier. Yesterday morning the driver of the early Shrews bury coach to this city brought intelligence that he saw two fires, before day-light, between Newport and Whitchurch. The driver of the coach which arrived in the afternoon, con firms the intelligence, and states that one of them was on the premises of Mr. Whitfield, of Heath-lane, near Whit church. Friday evening, about six o'clock, a large stack of straw, from 30 to 40 loads of straw, was discovered to be on fire at Slaysdale, about two miles from Driffield, on the Scarborough road, belonging to Mr. Dixon, of Harpham. This is the second stack that has been burned this week in the perish of Driffield. The first, on Monday night, was completely de stroyed. Of the one on Friday evening, through greet ex ertion, half was saved. Both are, no doubt, the acts of an incendiary, as they stood in fields unconnected with any dwelling, and had lately been thrashed by machines.— Hell Rockingham. ONE OF TIIE FIRES IN KENT.—A very curious inves tigation has, during the last week, been going on at Chat ham, into the circumstances of the fire which broke out and consumed the Queen's Head public-house at North fleet, about six weeks since, during the period that the fires were raging in all directions of Kent. It appears that the landlord, who bad not long insured previous to the fire, in the Kent Fire-Office, went to the Continent immediately after. Suspicion, in his absence, was excited against him, and some circumstances of a dubious nature in his conduct, for a few days previous to the fire, being sworn to before the Magistrates, they issued a warrant against him, which, however, could not be executed until he returned to the neighbourhood some days since. He was apprehended and brought before the Magistrates, who adjourned the examination until Monday night, at twelve o'clock, when they determined on fully committing him to Maidstone gaol for trial. Ov LTON .- Monday, about seven o'clock in the evening, a fire broke out in the farm yard of Mr. Tipple, of Oulton. The premises are the property of the Rev. Pitman. A little after most of the men had retired from work a man in the stable said there was a strong smell of gunpowder ; search being made a fire was soon perceived in • building adjoining the stable. The horses were immediately removed, and all the cattle driven out of the yard ; but not withstanding the exertions made, the stable, barn, and se. veral of the sheds attached to the yard, were consumed. The dwelling house, though near, was saved, and the corn stacks were not injured. A threshing niathise bad b .en in we that day in the barn. About four combs of'suckliig seed which had been threshed by the machine, and two coombe of wheat were consumed. On Wednesday night, about eleven o'clock, some gentle men passing along Commercial-street, Leeds, observed smoke issuing from the cellar of the promises belonging to Messrs. Robert Bulman and Son, the upholsterers. Au alarm was instantly given ; but it became evident that it would be in vain to attempt saving the premises in which the fire originated. The roofs of the adjoining houses, occu pied by Messrs. Bowes and Haley, hatters, and Mr. Thomas Johnson, silk dyer, were both reached by the devouring flames, which raged with undi minished fury till about half-past twelve, when the roof fill in. It was shortly followed by the front of the building, which being supported only by wooden pillars, gave way and fell down all at once, followed by the side-walls, leaving only the back wall etandiag. Such was the scorching heat of the flames that the premises opposite occupied by Mr. Muff and Miss Robinson, were much injured externally. The da mage to Messrs. Bulman's property is estimated at between 5,0001. and 6,0001. but their principal law, we are told, will be that of their books and papers. The cause of the fire is mere matter of conjecture. The clerk left all safe when be locked op the building at half-put eight o'clock, and the only way to account for k is, by an escape of gas, or a spark from a candle in the he of a toy employed a shortiin►e in the cellar.