The Statesman. — London, England, 1824-01-28 00:00:00

F THE KING. Brighton. Tuesday, Jan. E. 3 o'clock, rm. The iniuities of Nobility. &c. at the Palace to-day. to learn the state of the King's health. have again been egceedingly ailerons. The answer to the present Is— .. His Majesty has bad a more favourable night, and is better yesterday at two o'clock a Cabinet Connell was held at the Forete p OMce, by iummons, which was again attended by all the. Cabinet Minieters, who continued in deliberation till about t ,apast five, with the exception of two of the Ministers, who l e ft at half past four. Monday evening Mr. Proudmsn, the King's messenger, left t on from the Sretary of State's office for the Home Depart with despa e t c ches, for Ilertfard, respecting the fate of Hunt. Yesterday afternoon the Duke of York. as Commander in Chief, he'd a levee at his office, In the Horse Guards. Yesterday the Lord Mayor gave an elegant dinner at the Mansion House to a party of about 80. consisting of most of l i e Aldermen, the Sher if., Common Sergeant. Chamber lain. We have reason to believe that the information which we eiemuricated a few days ago, un respectable authority. of Mr. Croker's appointment to be Goveriaor of Bombay, was errone -o%,—(Morwing Chronicle.) The Addre Rowland will bp moved in the loose of Common', next Toesday, by lllll, Esq. one of the Members for the County of Salop ; and seconded by Ju. Daly. Esq.. one of the Members for the county of Galway. It Is not yet settled, we uadersiand, by whom it Is to he moved and seconded in the Souse of Peet s.— (Courier.) Tes Aawy.—A detachment of the Royal Staff Corps has received orders to embark on board the Orpheus in the City Canal, on the 14th Feb. for the Mauritius. A detachment of the 7th (or the Prince Royal's) regiment of Dragoon Guards, has embarked at Liverpool for Ireland. A detachment of the 13th Light Dragoons has been ordered to march from the Cavalry Depot to Chatham, for the purpose or embarking on board the William Fairlie 'Altman, for Madras. The 2nd and 3rd divisions of the 75th nett of Foot arrived on the 23th inst. at Portsmontit, from Gibraltar, on board the Faimy and Indian Trader transports, which are now perform irg quarantine. The 7th ere ordered to do duty at Portsmouth. Powrsmourn, Jan. 20.—The three companies of the .50th, in this garrison, will remove to Hasler Derricks, where they wilt remain until his Majesty goes to Windsor, when the above three companies and the two flank companies will march to Windsor, leaving three battalion companies at Brigkton. Tal AL OF MR. nu ru. (PROM TB, COLONIST DRAIARARA JOURNAL.) Grosarr ow , Dec. 1,1823.—" In what we are ahont to observe, we are not unconscious of the tender and slippery ground upon which we stand ; lint it is due to the character of this Colony to give some distant idea of the impression produced in the public mind at the issue of the Missionary Smith's trial for a high State offence. We shall, bowever, hr as guarded *nil decorous in expression as the great d.- linty of the subject, in its present state of suspended existence, necesslrily seems to require. The grave crimes with which this man stood charged, sed for which he has been tried by a General Court Mar tial, were published in this paper, from a copy of the official document, on the Ilitl, Oct. last. His trial had been commenced three days previous, the Court having been com posed of the following Members:— PRIBIDINT. Lieut.-Colonel S. A. Goodman, H. P. 49th Regiment. Lieu..-Colonel Chas. Wray. Militia Staff. Captain W. Killekelly, Military Staff. Captain T. Stewart, Ist West India regiment. Captain C. Campbell, Royal North British Fusiliers. Captain Rd. Daniel, ditto. Captain L. C. Appelins, ditto. Captain Thos. Fairweather, ditto. Lieut. R. Grerg, 4th, King's Own. Lieut. TX. Hammill, Royal North British Fusiliers. Limit. W. H. Bennis, Royal Artillery. Lieut. J. C. Peddle. Royal North British Fusiliers. Yd Lit ut. A. Gordon, Royal Engineers. 2d I.ieut. C. o'll. Booth, Royal N. British Fusiliers. Yu Lieut. R. Anstruther. " The intense feeling of anxiety created in the politic mind, on occasion of the trial io question, was folly evinced throughout its progress, by the numbers that con tinually attended the Court, as spectators. Of course the rsidrnce addured both against and in favour of the pri mer was fully heard by all present, and doubtless, it .as canvassed day after day at private tables, in many parties. The mhstance and general tendency of that evidence we are restrained from publishing►, for obvious reasons—nri titer shall we take upon ourselves to state what were the rsPectations. after the ev:dence was closed, as to the result. It is only permitted us, at present, to observe, as a proof rf the extreme patience ■nl indulgence towar•ls the pri soner, which was manifested by ►he Court Martial, that erning the case on the 13th of Octoher, it continued, by a•lJonrnment, to Monday the :4th of November, before lowing to a close. On the I utter day its proceedings were transmitted to the Cornman , ler-in-Chief. On Thursday lamming Last the prisoner was escorted, by the Military from the Colony House, where he hail been previously kept to castody, to the New liar.), the guard there being coot wittel to the 214 PUsiliers, in place ..f the Militia, as for torrly. The rumours arising front this circumstance (the dulling of the Court not having transpired) were various and contradictory. " In venturing to make a few remarks upon the nature of 1 1, e Ide order, it cannot he expected that the Public Press i 4 at lib er ty to impugn the motives of Government, by animadverting on a measure, the cause of which it has no I ossihle means of ascertaining. We shall not be precithi rd.however, from adverting to the universal feeling of dis trust and dismay it has produced, with reference to its pot ,l)le tendency. It is scarcely to be conceived that the I: °".in4nder-in-Chirf himself is not aware of the evils aria. int from the delays of justice ; and we are inclined to con ("tide, therefore, that nothing but a sense of the must im perative duty, founded upon capital and weighty public reasons, yet unknown, could have determined his Excellen cy to remit the proceedings of the Court to his Majesty, for ultinia,e decision. This is no doubt a matter of deep re gret to !nail. Delayieg the ends of justice, where the seees%ity is not abvious to all, is liable to dangerous mis constniction ; vet, we treat and hope, that the public ap- Inthension %sill gradually subside —confiding in that I,torlrful Provid ence w hi c h ma k es even th e w i c k e d ness o f 1 I e worst of traitors, subservient to the ultimate purposes of its justice." An experiment is begun of a new mode of sowing whea t In the vicinity of Chirnside. Instead of waiting till the ' el( ' be cleared of turnips, before the seed of the ensuing ""P is put into the ground, two ebb furrows are drawn in ru•b interstice between the rows of turnips, which are sown p ith %heat froru a drill machine, and covered in ; the turnips to be afterwards eaten by sheep upon the ground. , A disagreeable misundei s t a ndi ng is said to have occurred b etween a principal Manager of one of the Theatres Royal d a Dramatic Writer on the subject of a long-expected Ir 'redy, which is likely to produce a very interesting and 'salsas s'atement both to the Theatrical and Literary maid. Coarr } lscwanos, January 26.—We have been well supplied 4 - ' lasi Monday, having had 4,700 quarters of Wheat ; of Barley ; 6.200 of English, with 1,60 J of Irish Oats. _I:. 6,4.50 sacks of Flour; but o w i ng to t h e r i se o f bs. per " in Flour, and orders from the North, str our prices keep 141 Y. end fine samples of Wheat sold as high as last Market ir.- bFine malting Barley sells full as w e ll h as last Mooday. 7 — - ohs and Oats are steady at our last quotation.—ln Peas and WU snide, there is Mile doing, yet no alteration _lo prices. THE STATESMAN CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION. (PROM ?RR DUBLIN RVININO POST. OP SATURDAY.) There was en extraordinary full meeting of the Catholic Association this day. At 3 o'clock, Mr. Fitzsimons was called to the Chair. Mr. O'GORMAN announced the names of some Gentlemen who bad joined the Association, and who, pursuant to Mr. Conway's Resolution, weie intinditced by two Members. Mr. Pt.ungarr proceeded on his motion adjourned from the last day of Meeting, touching the printing of an address voted in 1514. After supporting the motion in a speech of consider. able length, it was put from the Chair—but there being no seconder it fell to the ground. Mr. Kin WAN. pursuant to notice, moved that the Lords, Ba ronets, &c.. and the Members of the last Catholic Board should be applied to for the purpose of becoming Members. He sup ported his motion in a speech of considerable ingenuity. Mr. O'Cosmazi. suggested As art amendment, that a Commit tee should be appoiuted for the purpose of devising means to extend the Catholic Association. _ Mr. Ktnwss persisted In his motion. Mr. O'CoNmsci then put his suggestion in the shape of an amendment, and spoke with great eloquence for some time.— No period was more necessary than the present for the exten sion of the Catholic Association to every County in Ireland, through all ranks of the People.—He then sketched out his plan. Mr. Sam seconded the amendment in a abort bet very im• prassi we speech. The amendment was pat from the Chair, and carried with few dissentient voices. Mr. O'Conaishi. rose for the purpose of altering a Notice he had already given. concerning the period of calling the Ag gregate Meeting. It was orleinally tiled for the 9cl of Feb. He should, with the leave of the Meeting, postpone it to the 13th. There were various reasons for this ; but there was one which he would mention. It was intended to submit to the Aggregate Meeting the propriety of being heard at the har of the House of Commons by Counsel. The measure was not without precedent—and instanced the case kid by Sir Tohy Butler before the Irish Parliament, for a breach of the articles of Limerick. Ile said that the violation of the articles still continued. The object would be to solicit Par.iament to re peal certain oaths which the Catholics were compelled at pre sent to take, in contravention to the articles of that Treaty.— It having been suggested that an Irish Barrister wolid not he heard before the English Legislature, Mr. O'Connell derided the idea. It was, and he would state it, as almast from his own knowledge, the opinion of Lord Colchester—no friend, certainly, to Catholic Einancipation—that the Catholics could be heard as a matter of right. Ilehad consulted some friends, slid he would mention, particularly, Mr. Charles Butler, of Lincoln's Inn—and they fully concurred in the propriety of the cause. It was said, in the Dublin Eveaiap Post, that this was the opinion of Mr. Brougham. The statement was erroneous —ha did not mean to say that this was not Mr. Brougha.n'a opinion ; hut he had not, as a matter of delicacy, been con sulted as to the course which it would be prudent, io the pre sent unprecedent state of the Catholic Question, to pursue.— After several other observations, Mr. O'Connell moved that an Aggregate Meeting should be called on the 19th of Feb. The Motion was put and carried without a dissentient voice; and the proposition received very general approbation. A Committee was then appointed for the purpose of devising means to extend the Association, coosistiog of nine Gentle men—the Chairman and Secretary, Mr. O'Connell, Mr. Shell, Mr. C. !O'Loughlin, Mr. N. Mahon, Mr. Kirwan, M:. Clinch, Mr. Coppinger, and Mr. Conway. Mr. SHEIL asked sabot the Burial Committee were doing? Mr. CON WAY replied, that every thing which remained fur them to do. had been done. They waited on Archbishop Mur ray, had received front his Grace all the encouragement in the laudable design they could expect. Nothing now remained to be done but collect the Money. Mr. Sum. gave notice that he would the next day move for Coiensitte (or this purpose. Thanks being voted to the Chairman, the Association ad' jonrned at six o'clock. INFANT SCHOOLS. (PROM TUE DUBLIN MORNING POST.) In the !Monthly announcement of new oublications, we observe that a " Sketch of the System of liducatidn at New Lanark," written by Mr. R•tbert Dale Owen, the son of the celebrated Robert Oven, is just about to appear. It is well known that the children of the workers, in the new Lanark Factory are admitted into the schools as soon a s they are able to walk, and there brought forward by a course of instruction divested of all the usual apparatus of individual reward and punishment, in a manner almost in credible, were not the truth of it votielied by persons of the highest respectability, who have visited the pl,ce and es 'mined into the details of this in:eresting department. The work now about to be laid before the public developer the principles of this novel and stucessful experiment. Among others who have expressed their unqualified approbation of the Lanark System, is Mr. Brougham. lie had a l rea dy visited the celebrated schools in Switzerland; and during his labours on the Cominitteeot gducation, hail made him self acqnainted with the details of all the chief schools of Great Britain ; yet to much struck was he with the simpli city and excellence of the plan adopted at Neff Lanark, that he list instituted one of a similar kind in Westmin ster, which has succeeded so as to lead to the establishment of others in various pelts of the metropolis. Torre are now six inf int schools in Lon lon, besides one in Bristol, one or two in Liverpool, and some others of which we h ave nut yet received the p4rticul as. The King proposes to become Wiwi of on« about to be opened at Brighton. M►CNANICS' AND APPRENTICES' I.lllllAnY.—Friday week a tweeting was netd be the Town Hall, Liverpool, fur the pur pose of taking into consideration the subject of the Mee ,a nice' and Apprentices' f.shrery. His Worship the ►layor pre sided. Mr. Egerton Smith addressed the utertitag. As the person with wheat this matter had originated, and under whose care and responsibility the growing property as yet rested, it naturally became him to stand forward early in the business of the meeting. He hod brought it under the notice of the public, through the means of the press in his power. Books had been gradually contributed ; ■ room prepared ; readers admitted, and at length it had become an institution so formed, of such magnitude, and still more, of such promise towards the objects originally to slew, hot he felt he ought no longer to take upon himself the responsibility of Its management.—l , He stood titers to o!ter it to the meeting—to the public. The objects of such an institution were obvious. The utility of these objects was, indeed, questioned but by a ♦ery few,— the illiberal, the bigutted, or the timorous,—who hated that knowledge should he extended, to the lessening. perhaps, their own consequence. from the exaltation of knowledge. or who feared that intellectual power extended to the inferior cl would, In time, be found incompatible with the necessary sub serviency and gradation of society. Mr. Smith gave testimony to the great pleasure which he and those who had assisted hint, had had In their intercourse with those younr men who had ap plied for books. Tite►e were now (we believe he said) tour hundred names of young men readers—as many thousands he might have had to affirm, if the books had neen numerous enough to admit of it. About 1600 were now in the library. I gentlemen followed in proposing the several resolu tions, which were unanimously adopted. Our of the resole. lions gave the cordial thanks of the meeting to Mr. Smith.— Tue utmost unanimity prevailed throughout. HUNT.—An order was sent on Monday evening, from the Home Department, to Hertford liaol, for the remov4l of Hunt fottawith to the Justitia hulk, at Woolwich pre paratory to his transportation for life, to New South Wales, on board a convict ship, which will sail, about six weeks hence, from the river for that destination. We are anxious to correct a misconception which, we understand, prevails in regard to the augmentation of the army. This augmentation consists, as we announced ori ginally, in the formation of t►vo regim?nts, the 94th and 95th Infantry, and in the intruded raising of foor others, but which will not be embodied for some tune. If we look at the previous strength of the army of this extended em pire, the small increase in question will not only excite no alarm, but it will be coaridrred absolutely necessary for rdinary purposes. Our readers will probably be snipes .41 to bear that the total amber of regulars rated for the last year (reclusively of the Bast Indies) ti as only 71,000, is chiding ofEcor.—(Courjer,) SHIPAWNERS' sour Yesterday the annnal dinner of this society took place at the London Tavern. 'rho company which assembled on the occasion was highly respectable, and in number exceeded 300. At half-past six o'clock, the Earl of Liver pool, the President of the society, took the chair; near him sat the Right Hon. George Canning, the Right Hon. Wm. Huskisson, Messrs. Croker, M.P., E. Ellice, M. P., J. Wells, M. P., A. Robertson, Al. P., Aldermen Bridges and Thompson, M.P., Thomas Wilson, M. P., G. Lynn, Esq., J. Buckle, E•q. and many other gentlemen eminent in the commercial world. The dinner having been disposed of, and the cloth re moved, the Chairmen proposed the health of the King, which was drank with three times three. The " Doke of York, and the rest of the ,Royal Family ;" " Lord Mel ville and the Navy;" and " The Arn.y," were likewise drank with similar hononrs. The CHAIRMAN said, that he rose to propose a toast most intimately connected with the object of the meeting— namely, " Prosperity to the Shipping Interest of the United Kingdom." (Applause.)—ln looking at the company be-' fore him, and considering the great interests which were involved in and connected with the society which they were assembled to support, lie could not avoid repeating what he had stated on former occasions—that the country owed much to the shipping interest.—(Hear, bear.)—At the period of the change from war to peace, when every great interest laboured more or less ander difficulties, no ' interest had suffered more than the shipping interest of the United Kingdom. That was the unavoidable result of circuiricances ; but whilst he said that no interest suf fered more than the shipping interest by the transition from war to peace, he was alto bound to add, what he knew to be the fact—that no interest had borne their sufferings so well.—(Loud applause.)—lt was gratifying to know that the shipping interest, like all the other great interests of the conntry, was now emerging from the iliffieulties tine tl-r which they had for many years laboured. On former occasions be had said, and he would now repeat, to h. r maritime interest and her navy, this country owed its safety and its grea:ness among other nations of the world; and that that maritime interest and navy had been created and support. d by the attention which had been bestowed on the interests of navigation ; for it was not true, that be fore the interests of navigation received the support of Government and Parliament, the navy of this country, and consequently its safety, was what it had been since It had been often contended, that commercial wealth and a military spirit were incompatible ; but the nnion of the navigation and maritime interests in this country was a proof to the contrary. The seamen who carriel our com merce in time of peace, learned thereby to be oar protectors in time of war. It was no disparagement to the other in terms of the country, to say that they were all, in some degree, subordinate to those connected with the maritime interest Such bring his opitii nn., he felt no hesitation in declaring, that the first of British manufactures was that of British ship., and that the class of the population which was most worthy of support was that of British seamen. (Loud approbation.) The Noble Lord then proposed the toast which lie had mentioned at the commencement of his speech, and it was drank with great applause. Mr. LTALL said, that he felt much honoure I in having been selected to propose the health of the noble chairman. fhe sentiments which the Noble Earl had that day utter ed, as well us the hereditary predilection for naval affairs which he had heard the noble Lord avow on a former oc casion, fully justified him (Mr. Lyall) in the convic!ion which he felt, that their chairman would at all time: give that attention and support to the shipping interest which its great national importance in every respect entitled it to maintain. lie proposed the !meld' of the Earl of Li verpool. The toast having been drank with three times three. Th e CUAIRMAN!kaiIi. that after what he had before ad dressed to the meeting, little remained to say except to express his most sinrere thanks for the honour which the company had done him, and to assure them that he felt it at toe bottom of his beim He might add, too. in conse quence of what had fallen from the Hon. Gentleman who had proposed his health, that he should he ashamed that any person bearing his name should nut be a kited of the shipping interest.—(Applause.) Mr. BUCKLEY, in proposing toe health of Mr. Hnskisson, and the other members of time Board of Trade, compliment. ed time Right Honourable lien leman for the reellitirgl with which he at all times listened to any communication which the Shipowners' Society made on subjects connected with their interests. 'f he toast was then drunk with much applaose. Mr. flusatssust felt much gratified, in finding from the manner in which the I ist toast bad been received, that the procrelings of tile Board over which he at present un worthily presided, had not appeared altogether undeserving of the sititpurt of the Ship-owners' Society, and of the distinguished honour of theirenlightened approbation. It was the special duty of the person who filled the situation nide!' he hall the honour to to watch not only over the interests which were connected with navigation and com merce. hut also over those which were connected with agri culture an 1 manufactures. He might, perhaps, in the disch +rye of his dory pursue a line of policy which would be consi ler , tl detrimental to one particular interest, but it was only because he was obliged to look with an iwpattial rye to all the great interests of the country. The coin plaititsof any virticolar class, however,Llitiays induced him to revise his onittions, and to re-examine the group us on which they were founded.—(Appl :use.) Mr T. Wthilost propsed toe ;weigh of the" Right Hon. George Canning, and the rest of his Majesty's Minist-rs ; and may they ever be the guardians of the maritime and eomme:claliutercsts oft hit count,."—Tate toast was drank amidst arclarnatio-s. Mr. CANNING rose, and was received with a general burst of applause. It was, he slid, impossible for hint to express his thankfulness tar the kind manner in which the mention of his name had been received. When with his name was coupled a recommendation, that he and the rest of his 31ajesty's Mioisters should attend to the maritime interests of the country, it was only saying in other words that they should remember that they were alinisteis of Eng land. If any tuilig should add to the satisfaction ts hick be felt at being so kindly received by such a large body of bis countrymen, it was the consideration that they re presented an interest peculiarly English. The situation to which this country had raised itself in the world—a situ ation far beyond that to which it was entitled by the extent of its territory or the amount of its population—was mainly to he attributed to that interest which provided in time of peace the means of vigorous exertion in war. For many years past the commanding situation of Bleat Britain had entitled it to interfere in matters in which its uwo imme diate interests were not concerned. We had been called on to combat for the world, and it bad been shown, that whilst with one hand we held the trident which ruled the seas, with the other we were able to launch the thunder bolts of war. (Loud applause.) It would appear as a mat ter of aroeisbutent on the page of history that this small is'and should have been able to act soconsiderable a ; art on the theatre of war; but, after all, our reputation must de pend on our maritime enterprises. At' all times the field of our native glory bad been the sea. (Cheers.) I► was very gratifying to perceive, that notwithstanding the ex ertions of the late war, and the lassitude and exhaustion naturally produce.' by those exertions, the country was in a state of permanent and progressive improvement, which promised wore prosperity than had been experienced at any former period. He trusted that no untoward accident would disturb this s ate of repose; but if any such misfolunit should occur, let them remember the experience of the last twenty years, and defy the prophecies of evil, and look with confidence to the future. (Continued applause.) fullo•wg toasty were t)ie•o dtaah . . " The Vice Presidents of the Society;" " The Chair man and Committee;'l and " The Strwards." At half past ten o'clock the Chairman retired, and was followed by the majority of the company. SHERIFF'S JURY.-SURREY. ;WILLIAM KOLC3MIF, ESL Y. THE GRAND !CAREY CAY4L COMPANY. This ease has for some weeks past excited an extraordinary interest in the county of Surrey. Mr. Holcombe. the plaintiff. claimed damages from the Grand Surrey Canal Company. Os account of the injury his lands, through which the Surrey Ca nal ?mind received from inundations. A Jury was summoned by the Sheriff to decide on this claim, which met at the Ses sions House, Iforsemonger lane, Newington. on Tuesday. the 20th instant. A numb, rof proprietors of lands in the virinity of the Canal were anxiously waiting the issue, so that if the plaintiff had obtained a verdict in his favour; many other ciaiais would have been probably made. . As soon as the Jury were sworn, they proceeded to view the lands belonsing to the complainant, lying on the North and South side of the Canal, accompanied by the surveyors of the respective parties, and in this operation the whole of Tuesday was taken up. On the following day, Mr. ANDR ftws opened the case, and afterwards proceeded to call his witnesses. Mr. Ilattetsorr, subsequently, entered on the defence of the Canal Company, contending that the plaintiff was ant untitled to damages, inasmuch as any Injury he had received, was not attributable to their works. ♦Witnesses were then called on the part of the Company, and . . . - Mr. ANDREWS replied; and the ASSPSSOT , after reediug the whole of the eti,lenor, and commentiog on it i i a In ninon% manner, left the matter to the Jury. who retired, and after three hours deliberation, returned a verdiet for the defendant. The iiirestigatbn did not close till a late hour on Monday the 26th. On Saleslsv Thomas Putman, of Northowram, innkeep r$ was fined at Halifax, for having in his house three pounds of treacle, which he had purchased to make into treacle parkin, a common article of luxury among the middle an,' lower orders of society about the nth of Novemb-r: th• treacle in question was seized on the 7th of November last. as molasses, by the excise officer, and Putman was informed that no publican haul a right to have a single ounce of treacle in his house, on any account whatever. EDINNURCH PULlre Cover.—The following ca s e excited. considerable interest as well as amusement :—A man and his wife, apparently natives of the highlands, charged a respectable looking young ir.an with having, on the pre ' ceiling evening, attempted to carry off their chill, a girl of three or four years old, from the stair in which thcv li v ed, for the purposes (is they said he looked like to voting doctor) of dissection. The young man stated, that he was coming shown the stair, an stumbling upon a chit in the dark, he lifted it up from fear of hurting girl, however, into whom a salutary tear of the doctors seemed to have been carefully instilled, >creamed out i.s such a manner, as to bring a crowd instantly around them, and the father and mother insisted on fixing the present absurd charge upon him, the defender, who stated, more over, that he was a painter, and not a surgeon. Tile Ma. gistrate, of course, dismissed the case ; hit the po r peep'w retired in the firm persuasion that the ti-fender, if he was not a doctor himself, had rerainly intended to deliver the child into their hands.—(Coledoninn Mei•cstry) Some time since t' e par b f Cof Frome as. ro')I) d : shortly after, tl e p o -h mar f hat town was robbed ;an on Monday night, t me cousins it guard-Lolso of that place was robbeu! We wonder what the rogues will attempt next. _ Votemtervi. Fee.% ir.-t.—On New Year** eve, old style, n man of the name of Sinclair. left tie (leneral's-hut for Foyer's leonse4and in tracing his steps on that narrow awl perilous passage between the Up:e.r and bower Falls, leis foot slipped, and he fell into the b:al of the river, over Out steep and almost perpeedicular side of the mountain, .1 height of 150 feet! Ile remained there all night, and on being found in the mornings by a shepherd, who was drawts to the spot by his cries, all the itjary he seemed to have sustained, was the dislocation of one of his thigt.-4ones. Through the prompt attention of Mr. Fraser, of Foyers' he Iva. immediately conveyed to the Infirmary here, and he is now in a fair way of recovery. hirer:tree Courire. CHILDREN BURNT TO DEATH.—On Friday week a child was burnt to death, in Vicar ege-,rreet, Yeovil, whose suf ferings were of a natnee truly distressing.—Ois the 15tta inst. a boy named Baseley, ts hese parents reside near the (leorge Inn, Sherborne, was sa dreauffelly burnt by hi* clothes igniting when warming himself by the fire during his mother's absence, as to occasion his death in a few hours. It is a remarkable circumstance that a brother of. this boy met his death by a similar accident on the 15ila of January, ISIS. OGsscowdast 20. —List night a lire broks ont i t the second door a a cotton mail, situ steel near the New Dar racks. The flames having eancet a anantity of cotton. spread with great rapidity, and in a few en:.rintes, alarm and confusion prevalefl among the workers and throtteh tho neighbourhood. It was n d without coasiderahle difficulty that some of the people who were at work in the top tl it effected their escape by meant; of tel used in the work, an l ladders procure , ' front the b ttea. La. tine woman and a boy, in deseeseding. ot theo selves hnri by lo- ing their hold of the belts while on the latl,lers. M Itta-k pro ni gl, r proceeded to the vet tsith two en t riues, and althooo tie flumes had f o rre-1 their way through several windows, and bad an a.aren. ing eo;:rarance, tat his arrival, he sav e ereled in confining the fire to theft at in which it wig, steel. The ignited cotton was thrown out of the windows au i extinguished outside-, amd in a short time the lire was cool pletrly subdued. On Monday night a man of the name of Coll, a chimney sweeper in town, got himself *merely heraed• lie hati been in the habit of cleaning , a high chimney steak of a public work, and as this chimney is upwards of Ind f,et the cleaning of it is a work of difficulty, and is coo serently well paid.—About Nix o'clock Cull went op tn , finish his task as usual. lie had been enj'ving hints •If with some artiosintanc•s in the early part of the afternoon, and being in high spirits, he did not examine :lee tempera ture of Use chimney with his usual caution. Ile beg in and finished his work in about 17 minutes. When he emerged front the chimney, his clothes were scorched to cinder., and his fret, hack. arms, and different parts of the body, wer e severe ly h orne d. Ff., was put into a cart, and taken to t' , e Royal Infirmary in a state of insensibility.— (e.'iliaits Coarcs'.) Scions.—On Friday last an inquest was taken ! , ef )re W. Price, Curoner. 0:1 view of the body of Mr. James T odor, tractioneer. and f w many years one of the ai s po ' a Officers of Gloucester, who was, on the inor aaaaa g at* that day, discovered suspended by a cord to a beam in his own summer house. It was satisfactorily proved, on II e testi mony of several eery respectable witnesses, that the de ceased, who had been always remarkable for a high how of spirits and jocularity of disposition, hail recently exhi bited a very different turn of mind, and, with out any appa rent ranee, had at once become frightful, gloomy. and des ponding. He left his family directly after breakfa t. on Thursday, and was not seen by them till ten o'clock nett morning, when be was discovered by his nice.: in tl e me lancholy situation above described, in a garden which he rented at a distance from his own house. Tate Jury, with out a moment's hesitation, returned a vertli. t of Lunacy. As a faithful and confidential servant, he was mulch re spected by the Magistrates of that city; whilst as a Police officer, he was efficient, active, and intelligent ; awl on many occasions, during his engagement in the wore uupleesaiet dotter of his situation, evinced a kinduess of heart which did honour to human nature. He was generally beloeeti by his brother officers, by whom his loss it ill be loug tilt 4041 lainented. and !IC has left a widest to daplote his ul.- lancboly en A' t r 1 „ ~i