The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-11-12 00:00:00

LAS!IEL SESSIONS UNDER THE INSURRECTION ACT. (Fame THE DUALIN iIfIiMING POST, Nov. 8.) l i tn **Wig (aet,•purenant to notice, a special scssirms, r. tier the Insurrection Art,was hold in Ca.th el. Mr. Blacker, ♦ho hart arrire.l that morning from Perrnoy. was „glided by Mr. liarri•ter 31oore and a full Beach of Ma• ghirates. The following interesting Trial, and important from the manner in which it terminated, occupied the Attention of the Court : Nicholas Flynn, Thomas Burke, and Thomas the two latter respectable Fanners, were tried for ;ilaw ittl abshice from their homes on the night of the Ist of October. ' initty, Constable, swore that he, with a Po !ice party, were patroling on the above night, on the lands , of Oldie, in the coure of which they saw the prisoner Flynn, Su the ditch of a field near the road, apparently concealed, and of course apprehended him ; half an hour after Cullen misapprehended in the Caine Geld •, and the third man, Burke, was taken about three o'clock, convenient to where the other man were arrested ; be was leading a_ horse with a toad of corn, and made all manner of resistance; ripen said, he Lad been waiting for his master, not know ing whatbis business was of him ; and Cullen said be had been on his way to Inch, for hay, but failed to ex plain where the ground was on which the bay waste be found: Cross examined by Mr. Otesnox.—Burke made resist ance before be was stabbed with a bayonet, 'birth ens him; on witness's that coming up with Burke, had not his bayonet fixed, but was obliged afterwards to do it, in conseetwore of the. resistance offered by him; and, from the manner in which he (Burke) called on a man named Ryan to come on, crying nut that be and his party would, no doubt, be able for the Pollee, he (the witness) eon sidered it as a measure of precaution, and certainly, bat for the speedy arrival of the Police to the aid of witness,' be was placed in a dangerous predicament; the witness slid not meant the stabs be gave Burke; perhaps he gave kids more than three. Captain Wilson here interposed, and explained, that, tm the prisoners being bronght before him the morning after they were apprehened, Burke was examined, and only a slight scratch was found on him. Cross examination resuwed—After Burke was arrested witness fixed his bayonet ; it was after the Police camo to the assistance of witness that the prisoner had been stabbed. (Here the Witness corrected himself by explaining that no stab had been inflicted on Burke until he had attempted to wrest a bayonet from another of the Police.] Robert Since, also of the Police, corroborated the pre ceding witness's testimony in all its bearings. DEFENCE.. William Scanlon, a fanner, swore that he lives on the lands of tiaile: that on the night of the 30th September, be sent to Berke and Cullen, requiring their assistance to draw home corn, such being the usual practice among neighhoors in the coontry; be purposed having it dean n the latter end of the night. and placed in a haggard not on his atm ground, not wishing to leave it within the reach of the landlord. nntil an abatement in rent, and other allow ances which had been promised, were made him; b es id es witness b. 4 heard that a Revciver from the Law Courts was about to sweep the t orn sway, and he wished, by removing it. to fore, those concerned to a settlement ; he bad a load of corn filled himself, before Burke arrives! ; it was then an hour before slay; Cullen and Flynn he did not see at ail that night; having only sent to Burke and Cullen, he d'si not expect a third person, but had since heard that Flvon was servant to Callen. In answer to a Magistrate, Scanlan replied that Mr. Phillips, of Wile, was the head landlord of the ground; and Ito repeated again, in a very candid manner, that be Lad no other object is view than to bring the parties to a settlement, as he did not consider himself well treated by them In reply to Captain Wilson, Ise answered that since the arrest of the l ,prisomers, 'so corn under seizure bad bees taken away. As to character. Mr. John Max was called, who deposed fa the peaceable characters of Bake and Callen. Thomas Moore, Esq. of Revile, swore that Burke and Cel:en were most unexceptionable characters; he did not know more proper men in the Country ; of Flynn he bad th. knowledge. Richard Phillips, Esq. of Dail', swore that he did not Least Burke personally, bat heard he was a proper, correct wan ; hot of Cullers he could say that his character was sliest excellent. RichartlPri.e. Esq. landlord to Burke and Cullen, spoke of them ha the same favourable manner as the preceding witcesses. This interesting ease having closed here, the magistrates retired, and returned after a short deliberation, when (all court preserving the most profound silence) the Learned ta,a'srmaa addressed the prisoners in a luminous manner— o'-serving, that it was evident they had been absent from their residence, as had been eh treed io the information ; tad it bad been detailed with creditable candour, that they were engaged at the time in the terrible business of setting the law at defiance—of the facts of the case there was not the slightest doubt on the minds of the blagis n-ates. The simple question, then, came to this—whether that Court was to suffer it to go to the public, that because teen possessed good characters, they were to be allowed to go through the country, taking cord already the hands of the law; it was a question raised between ts.e Mob of the country and the Law; but his Lordship c hserved that the law should hare it* course, and that an end should be pot to the present dangerous system. It pill not follow . , that because the prisoners were the best characters in the world. their good name should stand , between them and the law. Again, he assured them. that the shawl; arcs of justice should be used to put a atop to an as proceediugs. The Magistrates he condoned, had no hesitptio I in convicting the two prisoners (Burke and 4 11114) their conduct could admit of no other interprets easeu--aisrl it was therefore the painful duty of his Lordship to peonoisnee tbe sentence of the Bench, which was, that they (Barite and Collett) should be transported to some of his Majesty's Colonies for seven years. Disvasssien Occunitericav—At• a late hour on Saturday evenleg, we received a letter by the Western Coach, dated II ow Stlbbereett at 12 o'clock on the receding night, stating that, ea Thursday evening. a boat, belonging. to Mr. James vOrlecoll. ' ha-' crew of.rour wen on board, dr, Crooithaven. svlng • ..ew sm es soma off that place in a most dangerous situation, when Daniel Cogbign. Esq. with whose intrepid .obaraeter we doubt gut wanyof our readers are aoquainted. observing them from the !whom, immediately put to sea in his yacht, taking with ,hits no WS Vitth I 4 11101. a smaller number being lusilequate to pedant who: rale•niated they would in all probability be !Mimi upoe to do. in a tremendous sea and violent storm. 51r. flogblan saccemied in rea rhino, the boat. and hawing got the crew On board the yacht. be took her In tow, and was t gakleir some way. when the lire hroke.nnd earricul away imilmast. to which it was wade fast. Time cacti flms became onmarregeablr; end wail in 'this •telf tr l l.B:t itigtmwme on, lemvihg these who were speetatorsfrom the shore in ,a , state of the utmost nom. 'tension for tt.eir fate. 0 t the followl g . mnrnismg she could be still. disrermred, ttrinlug berotoths %Lim! into the western reean. wltliont any other qrospect,pfrellef Doan that which was *afforded by thcetmence Af hr !Tying been fallen in with by sovnitvesset oftththrtine.t. oad ‘ what aqa to the horror of their altastion is the fact, (mit there were no proylsloos on , haird. awrpreeactioN of the tried-having been thought of when the eestatprise wVeti lied for iVehjert to r3TV the mites of four pear tea Wee entered on. sinee the reeelpt.nt the letter front • hich walleye glenced these particulars, we have salted any I•therseenetat from the scene orthla very unpleasant occurrence (Cork Skagtheen Eeitereer.) S .~..~..~r., t ,.~. ~:__ I&,_. THE STATESMAN COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Yemen, t. ROAN V. TNELFALL. The SOLICITOR Oemtitat moved in this case for a role to set aside the verdict for the plaintiff and to grant a new trial. The action bad been tried in• Lancaster at the last assizes, to recover the amount of 1,0001. But these cir cumstances a Bank of England note of J,OOOl. was lost by Mr. Egan's clerk, while paying a considerable sum of money into the Bank of England. It was advertised bat no trace of it appeared. The defendant was a banker is Liverpool. Mr. JUSTICE HOLROTD—'Not a banker, only in the balk of discounting bills. SOLICITOR GENERAL—He is a banker, a grocer, and a spirit dealer. He had correspondence with* house in Lon dos for five years previously to this transaction, and to the amount of 200,0001. alear. A Mr. Isaac Henry kept .a pnblic-house in Liverpool, and had a year before become acquainted with a Mr. Hughes. At the period of thistles" action Mr. Hughes lodged with Henry ; being about to take his passage for America, he applied to H. for change of a note of 10001. and stated that he was desirous of carry. inv. the value with him, in doubloons, watches and other articles of. that kind. Henry had been in the habit of getting bills discounted, both at the house of Aspinall and Co., and at the house of the defendant, and having failed to get change at the former house, he applied to the a.• feudist, who agreed to discount the note at k per cent., which was 11. Be. 6d. Hughes embarked for America, aid had not sloes been heard of. The defendant transmitted the note the Mums day to the house of Williams and Cie o I who paid it into the house of Jones, Loyd and Co. It was found to be the note lost by the plaintiff Mr. Egan who,l upon being apprised of it, proceeded to Liverpool, and re ceived the explanation new given. The evidence upon the trial bad been fairly submitted to the Jury, by the Learned Judge, Mr. Justice Holroyd, who bad stated that if they believed the story of the witnesses for the defen dant, they would so find their verdict. 'there bad been a little circumstance which had operated on the trial, but which was capable of ample explanation. One of the .bills given in exchange to Henry, had been entered twice, sad for this reason. In the first entry, the number was omitted sod it was therefore entered a second time. Oita, Jus•rtcs.—Was the book ruled into columns? If it wac, the number could be entered without emceed !wary. The SOLICITOR GENERAL said he understood that a Me morandum bad been added with the number, and the first entry had been struck out; and that in transcribing, both entries were transcribA. Mr. Justice BA YLIT.•-111 it not remarkable that Hughes Amid have preferred biJis of doubtful security with some time to run, to a bill of undoubted security and immedi ately payable? Why not give the Bank of England note directly in payment of doubloons or watches? The Souciron GENERAL said there was nothing more continon than such negociations as the one in ques tion. Mr. Jnctice BATLEY-1s not the question of its being common foe the consideration of the Jury ? The Souctroa GENERAL contended that this being a matter affecting character, both for integrity and correct ness, and the evidence for the defendant being liable to no imputation, the verdict ought to have been fur the defendant. Cuter JUSTICE-1 agree with Mr. Solicitor General that the testimony of witnesses ought not to be lightly disre garded, but this is a case regnant with great and strong suspicion.. Those suspicions were fitly left to the Jury. and they having found a verdict for tne plaintiff, I am of, opinion that the verdict ought not to be dis.urbed.—Hule refused. r n _.*.. _, _ ..1... PARISH OP ST. ANDREW. HCH.SicHIN. C. PRAI2R. Mr. SCARLETT applied for a rule to show cause. OD affi davit of important evidence discovered since the trial. and which had not been searched for before. . It was a question of the liability of premises in 'navies Inn to be rated for the poor. It had been contended that they were extra pima-, cbial. The document discovered proved thee they bad been rated. The authority of the Beaches of Lincoln's Inn had terrified the parish for some time, but that terror no longer , existed. Mr. Justice BATLEY thought the evidence ought to have been looked for before. Mr. SCARLETT admitted it, bat asked for the rule. on the 'payment of costs. Mr. GURNEY said the buildings in question bad origin ally belonged to poor studeats, and had therefore been ex empted. Mr. Justice BATLEY said parishes were generally suffici ently alive to their rights. and therefore the discontinuance was a presumption against the right. The Cuter . JONTICE was of opinion that since no rate had-been levied in the memory of living man, the verdict ought not to be disturbed. This was necessary. too, for the reeve and quiet of deeds of the nature of which , this was. Rule refused. DOE DENISE JOHN CHARLES PARKER, DARTLETT AND ANOTHER. This was an ejectment for certain freehold property, situate in the city of Exeter. At.tbe last assizes for the County of Devon, before Mr. Justice Burroughs, the lessor of the plaintiff recovered a verdiet.—Mr. Games now moved for a rule to shew cause why the verdict should not be set aside, and a new trial granted. He observed, that there never was perhaps a case presented to a Court of Justice so marked by perjury and fraud as the present. The Learned Counsel proceeded to state the circumstances of the case. The lessor of the plaintiff claimed the property In question, as son and heir of Mr. ltd. Parker, who was some years since executed as a participator in the mutiny at the Sore. The defendants were sisters and co-heiresses of that unfortunate person, one of whom is now in a state Of mental derangement, in consequence of the ignominious fate of her unhappy brother. To prove the plaintiff's title, the ptincipal witness called was a female, who represented herself to be his mother, and the wife of Richard Parker; she stated, that she was a native of Scotland, and had been married in the year 1793 to Parker, at Bremer, in Aber deenshire. She stated, that in that .y ear, whilst. she was living with her brother, a gentleman farmer in.Aberdeen shire. she went to Edinburgh ; that she landed at Leith, and in coming on shore. she was handed out of the boat by Capt. Rd. Parker, who was so much smitten with her appearance, that he immediately fell in love with her. A fter l a short acquaintance he paid his addresses to her, and they were married at Bremer. In the year 1795, she and her husband went to reside at Exeter, the place of her hushand's birth. Soon after their arrival they were married again, the husband not liking the mode of eelet-rating marriages in Scotland. Whilst they resided iq Exeter she had a son named John, who afterward died in Malty. Iler husband having been executed in the manner already mentioned, anti bring supposedio have died withont issue, the &Ifni ants. his sisters and co.-heiressei. enfered into raid now con tinned in possession of his lira:met.... rioil the present occasion, if MA never imagity..l ih .t Mr. Parker had any ether son than the one who had died in infancy. At the trial of the action, hottever, Mrs. Parker, whose marriage in Extrer was satisfactorily prove I, .wore that before lest. in. Scotland, the lessor of tar plaintiff; Joha Chas. Parker, was bruit to her and her husband, and slut he W e s left in the cite of her brother in law sill sister, Mr. an:l 31re. Donut Cummins. in the mnoth of June 179.1. She prodticeel certiliCate of her marriage with M. Pettier, .Iforpetting to hive- been celebiated by th- Itev ele:thirtfon. anti ohms': ell by two 'persons Earned Mad:sit:lr and' Small.'' These two titter .persciEs were examined to ebnfirin her 'testimony', aatt they tleele:to the celebration of till learrtige`itf itay'ntetitione4. Mrs Parker entrereent Arid erote•dra. min .tion. and ihe 'o'l4 inielrevidenre iiosp'ectie? the bidtlt tied baptism of the plaintiff es oycasioneJ to uslderable Joel) of the veracity of ber story. On the part of the defendants evidence was add aced which tent!cd still fartherito confirm the belief that the whole story was fabricated, and ironlldnd in fraud, and that the plaistilf was eerily not the son of Mr. Parker.—Mrs. Parker, in she manner of giving her teati stony, excited strong prepossessitins in her favour, which were s good deal increased by the ingenuity of the Learned Sergeant who conducted the plaintiff's 'case, and whose maaagement of the cause bad the effect of persuading the Judge, the Jory, and the auditory : that the plaintiffs claim was founded .in truth and Justice. The Learned Judge was himself so impressed with this conviction, that he hardly thought it necessary for the plaintiff's counsel to reply; and the Jury, after a very short suntan; og up, im. mediately found their verdict for the plaintiff. The Re p.trt of the trial in the Newspapers having found its way into Scotland excited great sensation in that pad of die country, where the ntarrisge of Mr. and Mrs. Parker and the birth of the plaintiff were supposed to have taken place. A representation was immediately made to the Mayor of Exeter, that the whole transaction was founded in fraud and perjury. This occasioned farther inquiry, and it now turned oat that what was originally suspected. was confirmed beyond the possibility of doubt. The. Learned Coosa produced nu merous affidavits, showing, first, that Mr. and Mrs. Parker bad not been in fact married in Scotland by the Rev. Mr. Dordon in the presence of the witnesses mentioned t second, that they never had any son born in Scotland; third, that the lessor of the plaintiff was in fact the son of Donald Cummins. hrother-in-law of Mrs. Parker, that his Dams was Alexander Cummins, and was always known by that nay, and reputed to be the son of Donald Cummins; fourth, that at the time when the lessor of the plaintiff was supposed to have heen left in the care of Mr. and Mrs Cummins, in 1795, those two ;proms were not, in fact, married; and fifth, that she lessor of plaintiff, himself, bad, since the verdict, written a latter to his own attorney, Mr. Tyrrell, confessing io the most explicit terms, that the whole was a fraud and foal conspiracy, concocted by his aunt and his father, to whose purposes he bad nufiiitu natelylent himself. In this he conjured the attorney to for give him for the fraud and deception which he had practised, and expressed his repentance and sorrow, as the only atone , ment for the base part he had been induced to act. The Learned Counsel was proce.siing to state the affidavits more in detail, when The COURT interposed, awl desired bin , to makeis Rule to show cause. POLICE. •••••1010.-- MANSION Mum—Yesterday a young woman, far ad vanced in pregnancy, of Hiskopsgate Parish, appeared before the Lord Mayor, to swear a child to a short stumpy voting fellow. whom she described as a sword sharpener by trade. When called upon to say if he denied ber state ment, be declared that he was the sixth person whom she bad successively declared to he the father; and he then gave the namesof those persons destined to this honour, but thither friends advised her, as he obtained but the fast place in her of fictions, she should wake atop meat by presenting bins with *OM fruits of her love. She, however, persevered in her story, and be was ordered to give securities to the parish officers for the maintenan e of the child. Bow STREET.—HIOIIWAT ROOLlllRT.—Yesterday Wm. Orereed and Francis tkianer. two soldiers belonging to the Ist regiment of P.m Guards, were iirought from Kensington weteliliou.e, charged .with assaulting Alexan der Lyall on the highway, and taking from his persou a handle, containing wearing apparel and other property. • It appeared that Mr. Lyall is a respectable market gar dener, residing at Kensington. and on Monday evening be was walking from London home with his wife, each darryinic a boodle. They were proceeding along under "the Park wall, near to the entrance into Kensington, when the two prisoners came up to them, and Overend made a snatch at his bundle, but did not get it. He made a second effort, got it front Mr. Lyall, and jumped oil the bank into the road, In doing winch he fell, and his cap came off. Mr. Lyall, though an elderly man, jumped afterihitn, and seized him as he was rising ; but almost at the same instant he received a heavy blow on the back of his head from Skinner, which brought him to the ground. He got up instantly and rushed at Skinner, with whom he struggled for a short time, during which Overend called out, " Kill him, kill him." Mr. Lyall at length received another knock down blow, and the villains got off:— Overend, however, leaving his cap on the ground , w h ic h Mr..Lyall secured. The prisoners went down Love-lane, leading towards Chelsea, Overend carrying the bundle which be bad stolen from Mr. LyalLacross his arm. They bed not proceeded far when they were met by two young men. coach painters, at Kensiugton, one of whom fancied that the bundle looked like an infant child, and observed to his friend, " One of these soldiers has got a child with him, and they must be about doing some thin g that is not ri ght. Suppose we watch them." The prisoners turned about. and.seeiag these young men stopping and looking after them, they took to their heels, Overend un tying the bundle, and strewing the conten*s along the path as Loran. He had just got rid of the whole. when by an unlucky slip of Ids foot, he went plump into a ditch, and was secured. by one of the pursuers. The other kept up the chase after Skinner, until the latter ran against a post. and go violent was the concussion that he fell fiat upon his back, and was for some seconds deprived of ani mation. They were both taken to Kensington watch house, where ■ few minutes before Mr. Lyall had given in formation of the outrage that had been committed upon him. The cap fitted Overend too exactly lo leave any doubt that he was the owner of it. The prisoners denied the charge altogether. °reread denied that the cap belonged to him. and when asked bow it was that hewas without his ca', lie said he was ' grog gy,' and lost it somewbere—he could not tell how. They were remanded to give an opportunity for the attentlince of Mrs. Lyall, who, in consequence of the alarm occasioned by the outrage, was too HP to leave her room yesterday. • Herron GARDEN.—Juvnitcr Home STZALERS.—liester day, W. Fairchild, W. Crockett, and Peter Drisdale, .the eldest twelve years, aid the yoengest turned eleven, were trettglit sip for final examination, charged with stealing a horse, the property of a poor costermonger, named Miltou, living at Walworth. No evidence being against the two last named prisoners, to warrant their committal, they were taken from the bar, and their evidence received, against the prisoner Fairchild, who was fully committed for trial. QUEEN SQUARE.-110SIMICS AT TIM ,LORD MAYON'S SHOW.—Yesterday, a little boy between eight. and nine sears of age, was brought to this o ffi ce, charged by Mr. Leonard. of Devonshirt-stree', Manchester-tquare. with having picked his pocket of a silk handkerchief, daring the Lord Mayor's Show on Monday last.—The prirriner I. his defence said he picked up the property. He was fully committed to take his trial. Seviral other fellows were examined on similar charges, and fully committed to take their trial. 'lunatic/ or rue ma Lions OPPlCS.—Yesteriay, .1,7" Roberts and Henry Bertlet, who stood charged on suspi cion of being concerned in the robbery of the counting house of the I;as Light Company, in the Herseferry - road , were hi ought 'up idea third exaddriation before Mr. itA YNS FORD and Mr. WHITE. the Magistrates. The evidence being defective, they were in proper terms admonished by *Vie Magistrates, and discharged. H. Wen* was charged with privately stealing a quantity of silver, in the dwelling Image of Mr. J. Kettun. tie was fully‘comoutitted to Newgate for trial.- atio.N.Hota..—F. Tavt.ort.—Mr. Walters, the Governor of Ilotseutonger-lane Saol, &Mended at •the . Justice room, and stated ta•the magistrates that the young woman Mimed France* Tiiiior.•who Wig remanded frwa -this offite on Saturday last on a charge of =lleums!) , shooting ••• • • . - Arnold on the !seeding night, was now a patient in the in firmery of the prison, and exhibited systoms of insanity.— She was declimng very fast in health •, the stomach reject ing every thing administered to her. She was so exhausted in consequence that she was tumble to rise from the Iked.— lir. Walters said the medical officer of the e.tablishment was attending her, and he (Mr. Walters) had Oval direc tions that every attention should he paid to her by the eurs,es and other attendants of the Infirmary. TI e Magistrates directed Mr. Walters, unless she was Say well enough to undergo as examination on . Th are. slay next, not on any account to remove her. lire understand that the young man Arnold is still confined to hi bed, as considerable inflammation has taken place io that part of his face which was perforated by the shot. Trams Orr:cr.—Yesterday, H. Lyon, of 'go. 76, Lower East Smithfield, was brought to this office, on a charge of baying in his possession sixteen parcelsof foreign tobacco, which had been run into this country without payment of duty. The defendant being . called upon by the Magistrate to account for the possession, pleaded guilty to the charges contained in the information: hut his circumstances, sod a family of six children, under ten years of age, would in• duce the Magistrate to be as lenient as the nature of the case would admit. The Magistrate said, lie thought much greater lenity had been sheen the defendant than he merited, as far as lie was concerned. He adjudged that the defendant should pay treble the amount of the stated value, and all costs. Another information was then read, charging the de fendant with the unlawful possession of ten pounds of ft - reign tobacco, to which be pleaded guil , y. file value of the tobacco was 21. and the defendant was convicted in treble the amount, with coats. • The Weather, which at the end of last week was so fa vorable for securing the remainder of the corn crop-, was succeeded on Sunday night by a series of heavy showers, which continued antil Wednesday. with occasional glimpses of sunshine : but uot of sufficient duration to dry the small quantity of grain remaining in stook. During the last tore* days, though some rain has fallen, yet it has nut been in such quantity as to prevent the raising of potatoes, which has proceeded with groat activity, and considerable progress has been made in the neighbourhood. Much, however, still remains to be dune, and perhaps it is not far from the truth to state, that nearly one-half of the potatue crop is yet in the ground. Should the present mild and open weather continue a few days longer, the trifling residue corn (mostly late barley) still in the fields, will be ,safely housed, and by far the greater part of the potatoes pitted or otherwise secured from injury. Indeed, it is much to be wished that farmers and others would avail themselves of this opportunity to place that important t rop out of danger before the frost commences with severity, %edicts never fails to render that tial article of sir bsistenee to the working community not only unpalatable but unaltole sorne.—(Curlisle Journal, Friday.) About noon on Thursday. a partridge, to escape t . e pursuit of a hawk. no doubt, flew into this town, and against the parlour window of Mr Ku sting's house, ad jOining the Crown Inn, and broke two squares of the la+6 from which it dropped on the pavemew, .nd ran into the shop of Mr. Merv, watchmaker. and was taken alivt behind the counter: it provkl to be a very tine bird. On the same day, a teal, that had been struck dos n by a bawl:, was taken up dead on the ltinguter rush.—(Levey Journal.) Oa Thursday last, a pond at Felbri.lie Waters, near Eastgrinste I, on the estate of the lion. C. L. C. Jetilcinson, w•as fished, and 231; pike taken, all of large size, and many of them weighing l&lhs. each ; the numbea of carp and tench, in consequence of the devastation these Leviathan. of the Lake bad made. was very Incousiderable, not more than 30 brace of the farmer. and (14) brace of the latter being caught. but these were also, all unusually fine fisb. Between three aid four hundred weight of large eels were at the same time taken In the above pond, which bad not been liaised for .10 years.—(lbitl.) Fins.—At about half-past 5 o'clock on Saturday evening list, soon after the men had left work, a fire was discovered in the extensive yard of Mr. Cole, timber merchant, at Sandy-lane, a few miles from Devises, which in a short time destroyed property to the amount of 2001. Mr. Cole was at Caine at the time; and as he was going to get on his horse to return, he accidentally fell, sprained his knee, and has been confined to his bed ever since.—(Beistol Mercury.) INCENDIARIES.—TWO ricks of corn, the property of Mr- James Tucker, of Yatton, were wilfully set on Are, and the greater part consumed, on Tuesday morning. A re. ward of 50Ir. has been offered for the discovery of the of. fender or offenders.—(lbid.) Base half-crowns, in imitation of the coinage of 1710, very well executed, are in circulation in tireenoek. We may notice, however, in the base money the sharp lines of the geouine medal are not to be found; the still ng is very imperfectly imitated, the ridges appearing as if snioothei down by the operation of a file ; and the raised rio is much binder in the false than in the true balf-crowo.— (Glasgow Chronicle.) Thursday night se'nnigh t, a violent storm of wind from the eastward, accompanied with rain, was experienced in this neighbourhood. It continued till the middle of Fritia). during the morning of which day the squalls of wind were exceedingly violent and frequent. This storm appears to have extended all over England, and to have been par ticularly severe in the more southern parts. We cannot find from the Edinburgh papers that this storm has been felt at all in Scotland : in an account of the weathhr in the Chronicle, Friday, is noted as being cloudy, bat fair, with wind at N.—Saturday, as fine and cleAr.—(Aercestle Chronicle) Eq MARRIED.—On Wednesday last, at Kensingtoe. ft. hlitelsell. jUll• eldest sou of It. Mitchell. Esq. of the Wood of Tolsago, to may. Moira &slighter of J. M *Aden , Esq of dirempton. On Saturday, at Mt. Leics.'s. Chelsea. Henry P. Helms. Ell. of elide. Kent, to Charlotte. eldest daughter of It. Sporran, Esq. oi Chelsea. O. G. Misname, Esq. surgeon. Great St Thomas Apostle. LondotbtoSim b eldest daaghter of W. If ughes, Esq. Walworth,Surrev. Oa Tuesday. the 2th Noe. Mr. 3. I.lernseleg. aged about M. of 1410 Mount. to Miss Ann Service, of Rochriew, aged 28. What makes it a,* more morel is, flint both are lame, he of his 'two feet, and she ta one, and 1 1. Is It. Saber of 22 children by two former wives. 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