The National Register. — London, England, 1822-09-09 00:00:00

Meech from litntertesrp to Lortdoa —Air. 13. West, the celebrated pedestrian, staving backed litioself last week to tr,wel oil Coot from C intert try to Weshimister , lnitltre, 601 wiles, in eleven Miura, ha is bun itol 140efele.111, lie 0,10 uenced ui • lanorious task at tinter 11%.10( k a,t Mun dav morn i n g as pirate as possible. Ile went oil at the fate of six miles an hour. aWI Mil eialsteen miles in three hours, when he halted a Isew minutes, took some lie ht reiroshment. lie did the next ten males in one hour and fitly minutes, and the half was completed in IWO minutes under fit e hours. The peclestrrin ate a ciiielten, and stretched himself ott a straw mattress, and halted hall an hour, he proceeded at the rate of fit e suit lea an hour. 11e hail done forty-two its11:1 in levels t and three quarters, and after restiog again a quarter of an hour, he started evidently fatigued, to do the remaining linoleum miles ill three haters; lie slid tell a istiince tater two hours, and he wtat the match, with One minutes to spire. It was a great pedestrian kat, and was wrist by game. A very dreadful accident happened on board the For. litude Excise cosier, Captain Car. 0 i Sunday at half past eleven o'clock, as the clatter. width was moored at uralresetttl alomnitie the Flamer gun-brie, st as firiate the saline, while the lineal Squadron was 'wising, limlwell, the carpenter of toe Fortitude, Whil Was assisting at nine of she gams, suffered it rrlbly In consequence of lits stal ely its do his duty in a creditable manner. The gnus having ha en fired snore 111311 011ee,and the salutes coining thick upon each other, the poor fellow 011111101 10 11Se the s t ooge, and on raitintinz clown a ear-ridge an ex• plosion tom< place, by which his right aria was so dread fully shattered as to retailer immediate amputation neces sary. The operation was performed lay Or. itagers, at Cl,4resolid, and ti is feared that the unlortunate carpent er will lose the sia.lll 0: lonit eves._ On Alonday miming El.aatteils Jones, who cams charged with the wilful iiiiirder of her bastard child, on the verdict of the Corinut's Jiory, was se vowed in a hackney coach Dino her r. side:ice 111111 l Liistun-tinar., in the custody of Lint Audlev, Beadle of the Paint' of St. Pancras, In Neweate I atrial. The en nit wax followed threngh the streets hi upwards of a Ulnas:in I pernins. :since her delivery Lie has been consols:ly Alta itd in her apartment up to the tinge of h er rein .% al fur Ilfkllll. - . . . ....._... . Domani:a t. Ft al: —Oit 111mitlay afternoon about five .an alamuu, lire was rtheotered dr have taken place ill the house of Alt Atelier, Venetian lilititl-teta milacturer, oi ail It ;;;;; Strand. %vetch threw the whole neigtioinhood considerablo alarm. Tile fire, it is said, ori4ntatvil to consequence a pot full of arms!, boding (nil, through wll tett the chimney cars,...ltt ire, and its the course of a Short little she flame.** made their way is ..Is the walls„ which were sins of the . most sitiatalital deseription. The immense hotly 01 smoke widen at first made t., 111;,,,,0111, e its the fill 113• mein forebode the gr...itet der statism, aorl the Names stry snail 1111:w their a,mearatice. Sot eral engine' Wilh firemen arrived out the spot sltort4 after Ille alarm was Made, 31111 user: waS •ides dui supply 01 wales. but the cotifilied thi - are of the iseiglibilurilistml where the fife broke out rendered it sere inconvenient for the firemen to adjust the pipes, kc. In about half au noun after the so t i 111 l eliCeilient of the fire site engines played with great activity on the house of Mr. Archer, wvnch was hurn iva and toe flames 11.111 COiii ttttt 'mated Chem arises to lour or tiVt• of toe sorrournhog houses, and much fear was entertained for the solely of 'nine its Castle and Humid coons. The itilt4lntants were bumly eilea,ted in re tttttt tog their furniture Iroin the premiss, soil the scene depicted that of the greatest distress, and it was found necessary at lenath to call 'mutt rite soldiers at the Boise Guards tin their attendance. The crowd was sir tery great that the Strain' was completely blocked With every asettm? insg so tile coon where the fire was. The engines contsimed playing on the whole id the houses for sotive time ooh areas alacrity, but in the course of all hour the house of NI r.• Archer, with the Whets, were completely gutted, at.d the if hole of the properly destroyed. It •was eellOriee• she souse hers weie In.!, Inn this. WE believe In be without Inundation. By Mite o'clock the ptisaress of the Billies was not rimy cupped. but neatly the whole were distinguished. There were eialit houses very considerably datuagt•d, and two ni a Irdinia degree. EZICUTION.—On Saturday last wig eX^Cti!cil, on the lodge in Gi..cesier county gaol. Samuel Barren, aged St, couricied at out last Awllle of stealing three horses, toe property of Itichant Hoopla, oiSt. George's. Since his c ))))) transition, his behaviour was very proper and bre ))))) ing his awitil situation. He received every :mei'. lima t he Rev. and by She penitence lie showed that he bath trade a doe OW of t haw CooSOLlionS trhich religion held out to him. Out Si tooth'', after receo ing the I poly Sacrament, sue iv as Con. ducted In the scaffold, shoot lodic o'cloCk, and having briefly exhorted the 'people to take wariiiii,r by his dis graceful fate. was launched into enmity, in the presence or au ina.atethe cutscotirse of spectators. At Credi ion fair, last week, a fatal accident occurred. A honr and curt lard been suffered to stand heliwe the shop o: a haruess•ot.skee, while moue alseratioh was was lIIJ k log iie its bridle.; the JllllllOl, which was pit• tsculary accustomed to start, also sly wore blinkers, and tiles.: being tenoned, ti took in. lit as so.he o'.jecs, set el' with great speed, and ran os er a po.sr named Towell, wl,u had ma children under her ..are at the time, and and the wheel passlng miser her chest, uccasiontsl her thrash in au l —the children s 11l titiatuly ez.s un hurt. The timer of the cast astenipied, at the risk ul his own WC, to stop sloe htK, , but could nut succeed. ATTEMPT TO EICAPS croT or YoRIL CA►rLE —On Filklay 21,0nt WeloCk ia the mursiiii,t, Carnal arm ICI' maor an alicsniti to etTrct au ravape fro,u their COilfilbeisielit. lint Mimi, ly Wirt 0% trlieJfit by the i vit gout, p• lito :::: idtety ea% r iliv al..ross, whelk Ihry iv , et• ino.fic..wlely suctsted. 1 tail ( 1 1.7 bliceeeiltli an I gof pnb tat Castle-y.lnd, ise all prubahility the resisLisice grauhl have de•pudar, for they had provided then,- hikes with into bars,. and other iapletnents of deknee. THE NATIONAL REGISTER DESTROCTIVS o'eltrek on Tuesday evening last, a fire broke out in the extensive premises of Mews. Luntlcy and Milner, wlioleule druggists, No. B:eatil-street•hill. Ihe ciecitinstances under which it ori e ptiateil were nu-set-00e of the warehouse. melt had td.scendeil tiw cellar with a portable lamp, a spark fr:..ii which lodging upon a Ina» of Campton . , of the finest rinallty, aui consequently of a bodily in ttttt 'table nature, it immediately burst into a tremen dous blaze, and cointuniticated to a quantity of oils that Were a 0:101l distance limn the cantonor. Toe 1114 n called loudly fur a supply of water, and remained in the cellar on a considerabk mow, esideavourina, to smother the Haines, and prevent their dsCeill In the wareltout2 auJ tauoratory. Tile fi.e, however spread in a few mi nutes to toe lactory and comitios,-honve. By this time onwards ul a dozen engines had arrived, and, by the exertions of 111.. firemen and ileiAilbours, many of the pI V C 11 111 the 0111111Ing-illniSe Were Sat rd; inn 4 Cnil3l - quantity of valuablz docuwems Were Con,Unied. Ot the txtensive snick trade bat a very small propor tion was saved. This part of the properly ryas insured to a large amount iu the Union Fire-Miler: bin we are sorry to learn MA lite insurance dues nut ever the loss. The laboratoly was fortunately raved. The Monte and premises are 'named in the Sim Fire-ollice. Great alarm was excited 11l the neigillsourhtiod in cointivetice of a Uplift 11141 a vitally ol gint.powder was tin Ike ',Me llows, and for a hill mein tile energies of the firemen were paraly•eil; but tile ready COOlfddlellOn of me parties themselves restored confi hence. DAati• Te 1110.041 ‘Vedisesday morning I ast, at nine o'clock, a leilow had the audacity to carry off from the tio.sr of bcokseller's u 1 state the N.•w Cowell in nie Strand, a itt.sr-case, coatroom; some valiirlbe por traits, belonging to an :inert. It is singtifir, ItL I alai& siodiLers of people were paNsing at the nine. no one of. lered to 4:op Min. Toe villain of cotirse escaped. Gkoodu SktUOTIN•.-4 . 111r WOWS 111 the err ern parts of Carls,ie, hate produced an abundance of game since the c enceineut of the onotiterig season. Though *mural •• uad shots" complasis of the scarcity and wild te,sit of the buds, yet acknowledged sportsmen hare returned, after one dais shooting, with from seven to titreu brace cacti. _ Tuesday morning, about 10 o'clock, a young woman, about nineteen years of age, who lives in the capacity of I ))))) within! with a respectable 44.1 lady residing near Kenniogion Cumlllolll, can being intorthed of tie mar riage of a g sisal,, which took One on Saturday last (who had imnierly lival as Inotnian in the lamily, and nail paid his addicbses to her). instantly ran nowit to the bottom sit ti.e garden, •55d juwprd min a large waver-bust, k •Itt were lot the purith,e of WaterniA the garden ; but oisf king her situation, sliLastou••hegait to acreaiti ou; for iIbs4SI4IICC, and her o n es hati n g Alarmed the adjositing neightsvurg, site, by the assistance of two o: ills servants, was eXifle•lled num her perilous situation, wiili 550 miler ioj-i.y 1:5.455 a gnu.' ducking. &thirdly lurtiligut, while some of the salmon fishers %%Tr. lathy at their occupation lad Lim Clyde, with one or their saris usey cau4lit a large seal, opposite lilr.Spierss house. 'rusts autuul being coniadcred a curiosity, and th.• litaSter 1id%11.115 a littlitte-huUSe w Glnall, lie deter mined VU take it 11111 l mid, if possi ale, keep it alive in a large tun in une of leis rooms. Tile seal was accord ingly taken twine with care, and coinviivd to its watety lodging. It neighed about do pound, weight when Laken, and q Was MI fat that it unwed wins ddliculty and rvliscialice ; but it has resolmely refused curry sort art fist' that cool I l,e gut, alai indeed every sort UI SilVenattee, it ha IIOW beCOllleCollbilleraUly leaner. and es about the room with spirit an I activity. It leaves tile cistern frequently during the nay, and returns to it at pleasure. It is already so far domesticated, that it se. ma to coiwder the apartment in wines) it is confined as its own; and when ally of the customers call to see it, it views casein With a steady rye, and evinces a deter mination to tl. mid its afrtatie abode against any invader. At sight sal a slog it shetva every demonstration of rage, • mud a; parentiy conscious of its tuabili.y to fly, promptly prep ires lor a comnai. Toe well-known BAH. Ilaikrts died last Wednesday, f a rupture 01 a blood vessel in the bead, and was boned on Saturday last; he had kept a public-house issue Mite t h e unigobourtiood of Reditch, to Win cestershire, where lie died. There were about 4001. in Mr house at his decease. Several workmen, on the Wit of last nannth, digging the foundation of a ilutie Oen 111: old walls of Lan. on. In the socially of limordeaux, found a vise filled with silver coin, JII struck in the reign uf Louis le Debusimarre. On one aide, lartween twu tograiled row, were Un se words—LVooWtevs *MP Cross. barred at the lour extremities. wculnrd tur middle of the InuCC. Un the rt %elle aiyeated tile f soi•ece of a chafer', will% two small emotes, one 111 tite vtooore ill Site endice, tile co• her at the %eruption :--".ZitlitilANA RELIGIO." DAMP Si WALL -11111 easy and efficacious wAy of preseuutrq the ell,ets o damp walls upon paper in rooms has lately (eim used (and we uutlerstainl) with complce success. 14 le/1161M 1.1 limn!, the wait to the damp part of it with sheet lead, purposely tolled very thin; this is lasteinid up will' sahal copper nails, which not being tttt ;ire' to rust ate very iliiraule, and the wtiole may be imuiethately cosi/red with pi:per. lead it nut th,cker than that %%Mtn is used in one chests iu which tea is nu ported, and is made in sheets of which the width es about paper PHEN MLN /4.011 lie iY i uf.liec about an *cid of gr.. 1, nit toe West side of the Ciaysrack creek, two miles num 111164111, WJS ciibeuverctl to have settled in souse plit is mein , live or. thirl lees, melt fell wish sues mice a• us raise the bed of the ertek, which was three or four 'vet Ulltlel Uric', arson ed'i't feet above its sortace, and c Ovid). tui !t on s Ls couise upthi the meadow 011 file ovrome ?doe The creel. lids mice cu. I CllBllllO thru'm's or:ginal one albitlL five feed Wel *. Tllele are a nuotocr u!Lrae apple and p...ir trees on the stroke.' land, which stand as is:net:di erect and as ever. Tacit tops arc about etas with the ban/ above. s 4 ItY - •- - A Al ogsrza.—Two young lathes, Misses Appleton, were impertinently accosted oil Monday eveninz, at dusk, at the end of Baker -street, New-road, by a ruffian. tires. sed like a gentleman, who followed thetas dont,. the New. road. in endeavouring to avoid his tumuli-tit importuni ties the ladies stopped, when the villain siabbed one of hem in ‘the lower part of the back and uses. off. 'l' nu lastly fainted, and the monster escaped. Motet' TO SA Lissuttr.—Mr. Jetikin.ntt, the pecks triam started tits Wednesday last, from tie:sit:l4ton, In go to Sal;shory anu back to ligitain, a distance of 1.13 miles. in 56 Mons. The ped.:striata did tweuty miles in • tile first four hours, and halted an hour. He pioccedett on. and performed a: the rate of lime miles in two hours, until he veil. .1 the first gleaner (.1 his instance, lit ten hoists. He touched on we skirts of Salisbury in his 29.1 i hour, fresh and well; lie halted two hours, and left Mere at ten o'clock on Tut uirtiliy itiornitu, basing tifc miles to do in 23 hours. Ile began iv get lame at Ba singstoke, but lie had 27 miles only to do in la hours. He continued to du about three iiiil4s•ts hourolOisicii • lett plenty of tittle to rest, and he won the match with half an hoof to s . , , ate. •. On Friday eveatnA, the 30th ult. abillstoeight o'cloek, • during a violeut tkpattiler-storm, which raged in the neighbourhood of Lincoln, the liglittaitt; set fire to a hovel iu the farm-yard of Mr. Cook, at Burton, abort two miles (rain that city. Being covered with furze, the hovel was an o n consumed, and coin:nutty ate.' Ihm flames through a hole in the wall to an adjoining barn, which Was destroyed to the bare wills, with about bit quarters of hew wheat, a waggoc, &c.; an extensive rainse of she ls were also burns. and emisiderable were at one time eutertailled for the numerous stacks of nay and eon, which closely adjoined, several of wine!, were liarily oti fire, but the flames were extingoished by the v toroth v310'11011% or the 'neighbours who hastened to assist. The conflagration, notwithstanding a thick plantation which intervetied, resented a striking spec tacle, and those parts of the city which cominatided a view of it were crowded with spectators. Ttie whole of the oropetty destroyed was insured. The banks of the Cycle in the vicinity of Ityndford. bridge. were on Friday afternoon, between three and four o'clock, visited by the most tremendous storm of th ler and hail evt witnessed by the oldest inhabdants of that place. Carmichael M iln seemed to be the centre of the hall shower, although the rain was unusually heavy all a ttttt lid. The damage dime to the croos is beyond-coinputation. Oats in some parts are literally thrashed. l'uritios and potatoes were severally washed. and the crops much damaged by the hail. For hours :liter the storm the level lands were white, and had the appearance of hiving beets newly and thoroughly lamed s. while on the lauds with a declivity the hail was run into heaps, and the &Ids seethed covered with hundreds of carts of lime if rather of two or three carts emptied tom one heap. During the storm a tree was struck at Car michael Alilu, and a large branch tom off; ansi at CO. vingtoo, three miles distant, the house of Itoltert her was also struck, a sow killed in the byre, the hearth-stone broken, and fire-place destroyed. Not a inhume before, his wile had Wien from the fire and gone to bed with a child who was afraid, and the stones is, the flair where site had sat were broke., to pieces. The hail was observed ou Satiertlac lying in heaps on several pats of toe road, and even at that time the hail s.osies appeared to be along • 34tlis of au inch iu dianlvter. - An' elderly gentleman. who• lowly died in Fayette Comity, Sate of Kentucky. p.eviothly to his death re quested that his daughter's remains *lmola be disinterred and placed by the side of his own. His draighter ball been buried auout eleven ye irs in the county of Bourbon. Kentucky. After his decease, the old gentleman's re (rest was complied with. Ti, the astonishment of those engaged in raising the daughter's remains, her body was lipoid to be entire. Oil a • ellninsation, it was (mind to be petrified—its specific gravity was about tile same as that of conunon limestone. Toe eotho woS decayed. Her countenance had talidergowe sit small an alter:slsosl, that her husband, oak behold ilig her, Ilium!. Great Cricket Hatch, essd dreadful ucecdevi, se Diveat. afar Shrikeld —The 'treat ceiciret maich net weria fineeie Surflield and eleven Noxuughalu players, or which great preparations have latterly been nicking no the new • ground at 1) Intel, comment ed nor time 110th tilt. in the • 'simians. The contest haVillit excites! a peculiar interest in and around the tom', the concostrse of spectators was proportionably great ; 'steer, perhaps, oil any oc casion, were witnessed an assemblage at mice SO 1/11. litmus and respectable. Sheffield' seemed almost in pour out the principal inn of its population, the roads being lite:ally covered all the morning with crowds hasteiting to the scene of the expected enjoyment. lattle was it then sis,preohl that before the expiration of the day the pleasure of it was to be dashed b: one of the most O. illicit's,/ accidents that we have had to record f o r some • time back. The pl . .ying commenced; the weather, with the exceptini, of one shower, mat highly favour. aide, modal. wen. sot well till about four when • • a large extent of scatrniding, which halt been fittest sop on the ground near toe rind side, for the arconisnosla. lion of serer.' thousands of passengers, having nine seer of seats, and being near forty yards long, suddenly gave way, and pr.-cipitatell its uuturtunate tenants one over the other me the ground. Shrieks, screams, and groans resit site air on all sides, and the beetle of wittfultion which ensued was Miles( ritsVsly aff.:cting. Every mail • was instandy enraged ire ex•ricatitig the Parrmrs; every possible accot iiiii olation offered, anti every vehicle. put , 10 requisition to convey them away , to their respective homes It was with patintri feeling. thai we lia,etis add, thin lien persons were killed upon the spat. and between (any' and li:ty more or less maimed. Twenty-thee cas-3 had been admitted to the infirmary, four or live of w Lich were prohotioced eery dangerous. RAN:Intl. Avis Matertv.—Titia match is stake of one thoussaid guineas, and will take place the brat wed.. /U N use-m -bar. /Sandell strip train on his former ground, the Hampstead. hills, and Martin goes with Spriag, bath being basked by wow • s,s.nikuum. flaudall is the liyaitrile, at 1 tio Ile. t