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(JUN C (rfrWM 4 ;_ ~ ..., . • tr . . ,•• • LONDON, SAE JANUARY 18, 1823. NUIifIER 5583 " The GUM for tehie* RAMP mei BMIVEY died ow Me &gold!" FOURTEENTH ANNIVERSARY DIN NER forth. CELEBRATION of the BIrTH-DAY of THOMAS PAINE, will be held on WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 99th. 1623. at the Assembly Rooms, No, 41. Brewer-street, Golden-square. Dinner on the table at ire o'clock preelsely. 'Platte, price 4s. each, clearing ihe table, to be had of Mr. Alexander, near the Eagle Tavern. City-read; Mr. Cihuac, Bookseller, Blackeier-otreet, Borough I Mr. J. Orley, High Holborn. apposite Gray's Inn-lane , Mr. B. doom, IS, Union -street, BY•rough . t Mr. J. Trask ) 146. New piteastreett Mr. klbgerictsw, Ctialten-streets Somers' Town; Mt. Walker. Coffee-IMUse, Raton-attest. Spital held* Mr. WaHing, opposite the Adelpidalitrand. N.B. No Tlckets will be Sold after Silbrday next. OBLIQUE AND CABINET PIANO FORTES. JOHN WATI.EN. of Leicester-plate. maker to the Royal Families of France and the Netherlands. the Boohoos of Clarence, ske. ate. begs to Inform the Peblie, that some years ego he engaged the lemetor of the above Plano-Fortes, to be at the head of hhomeelbetories. Them instrumeets *miaow brought se the greatest possible pulse. doe. with respect to Mock sad Mee, iteeding a king thee Ia tees, &a. Re. The ere sold at a reasonable pries. end aems at IL ,plase. from tam to four e s elook. He employe experioneed tutteroter. tows or eoestry. , Ihreerel Pismo Fowles end Harps. good el Sew, cheep. PODSLEY'R A/71041AL REDISAB 1511. ' llii One largo Vol. five. of I,o44lPerte. m:lee 16e. - ra ANNUM. REOIS'I ER t orr__ ll the HISTORY. POLITICS, sad LITERATURIR oftho Year lcdl.• Leaden : Printed for Baldwie, Credeek. andloy; (Widow and Rackharn ; J. Cuthell ; Longman. Hurst, end Co. t B. harry sod Son; Harding. Mayor, sad Loperdg J. Bell ; skorwood, Nealey. and Jones; G. sod W. B. Whielaker; T. Hamilton; R. Saunders; W. Reynolds: sod Napkin aid Marshall. _ - prodnce evidence to shew that both Wallis god Main owl vs had been the dupes of falington's artifices. these artifice s had b een fi rs t di scovere d. Willi lb the hsdignation natnral to a titan who felt he Is doped, had arrested the person whom he Isentited to bile been imilty of an attempt to defraud him. 1 ' , inseam were called to impeach FAltogioes tug mann and Mr. Serjeant Lama was afterwards proceeding in reply when the Jury interrupted him. and declared they were perfectly satisfied. the the . Saw the handkerchief in the hat, and also . returned to the pro...calor. but did not see the f t iller taken , or any money lifted. abeth Fitch, the wire of the prosecutor, was near At li n see the circumstances, bet did DOI know what Ata e of the handkerchief. Francis Anderson, a publican, went to the watchbouse 4atilinlled the prisoner fur an assault. Mr, Justice BunnouGus summed up the evidence, and die Airy returned a verdict of—Not Guilty. 11, Jfale Kemp was indicted for steeling in the dwelling rusios of James Lovell, • coat and other articles, value Ws, big property. Verdict—Guilty of stealing under 4th. Tlbe Jury recommended the prisoner to mercy, but the commendation was rep:Grit by the della. Viuutss Ifurria was A ildielrd , fur having Wryly altered an order for die payment of 9.. with intent on +skied the Greteltinte of the poor of the parish of St. as. . Aialolosu sta:mtAbii case. The prisoner was a hie• sex bait"( iviii_ribetAtd two vagrants order Let or titoStef fbe king, arid having obtained 'an il re' its its %stated the word '' each" 'w leiprbfor the purpose stated in the Lard Chief Justice DALLAS agreed with the Jury, dial there was no doubt in the ease. The Jary itainediatri; - r - vt — a - road a verdict for the plaintiff—damages, 250%. SECONDARI RS' COURT, COLIDAN Smarr, Jaw.l7 /ARIA N. IPOWILL AND ANOTHILI. Tbis was an inquiry to assess damages in an seism of assault and false imprisonment. The plaiatiff was Cam saline Earle, Esq., of Mir Majesty's DM I At Mewl. , note wer e Wt.; late She Kerrey, and Thomas White, one of his *Gawk Mr. PLATT opened thecae. The pink' belogin October I*st on a visit at Ids mod near Shooter's Hill. was wrongfully at defendant] White, under the foHowiag ell About eight in the erasing, a knock bein Earle's kitchen window, the plaintiff, wii ` vent, went to see who wanted admit Rade's opening the window, he saw White, who said—" Yen are Air. Bevan, writ against Vol." The plaintiff repli Mr. Bevan. White again Y. 41 say prisoner." Mr. Earle then offered t the street door; but White insisted through the window, and did so, cot, assurances of the maid servant that the ;, *ad in custody was not Mr. Bevan. The then carried to the Ball public-holt =e, 'ageism! by the landlady, and liberated thbeeqnently, however, as he was ma home, he was overtaken by White and t the Bull stables, where he was detained• time before he was permitted to go it lat Sarah Holbott, the maid servant, ptove through the window. 'Mr. Earle desdari not Mr. Bevan; witness said the mac tog, and wonstrated ; but all was in vain. Cross-examined—Mr. Bevan was in the imam. George Farthing, a waiter at the 110. was prole* when Mr. Earls first opened the window. When wit. ness first saw Mr. Earle at the window, he said to White, " that is Mr. Bevan ;" afterwards, howeeer, before Mr. Earle was pulled out, he told White that he had been mistaken. Wha".— , Ahe defendant. contended, that— 'reed that S.. shoals' be peid, and that for 9e , was not legal, and therefore red; and second, that the order was for . been received. ordered thereat. to proceed. •• pointed to the words " nine" asked if they nee. correct? 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Cadell; Dongman and Co.; J. *lawmen; John Richardson; Bold win end Co.; Sherwood and Co. ;O. and W. H. Whittaker, Ogle and Co.; T. Hamilton ; Sinspkin and Marshall, Loa don ; and forlittirling and Slade, Edinburgh. ilenieJ the charge,• soil Mr. Holism! ird StfVend witnesses to hi. character ; among the It was Brooke, who had written the receipt on is hack of the order. Mr. Ju stice 110400 annealed up, io which he antra she possibility that the prisoner might hare filled ep the blank, upon the ides that.rise order was not complete ; {and that the word" ohm" might have been mistaken fur" five." • \4, - loondon Wand Jars lowed against Artd at the bar, that he bad, and ['wit, no sort of nese against bias. his return 'bring t discharged. perfect whinny ii fitamepenkrimiff rec s reslinge against offered by ilr. ewer Ones Efisao viiols u. told Maio ti gaid thoi'he Ls~iN fR. The defence was, that the ease was neither one of malice nor indignity. White could not reasonably take the word of the mad servant as to his (pasotter's) iden tity, and Farthing evid►ntly was uncertain. As soon as the landlady at the 801 l had seen Mr. Earle, he had been liberated; and there was no evidence whatever of any subsequent caption. Mr. Earle's own conduct, too, haul been such as to warrant suspicion that he acquiesced in the mistake to favour the escape of Sir. Bevan, for he at first put the question, " At whose suit 't" and Mr. Bevan was really in the house. At all e►ents the Sheriff's nth cer had only to choose between difficulties. and there was not even a shadow of evidence that he bad used inso lence or unnecessary violence. The Secondary (Sir. Gollingridge) summed op the case, and the jery found for the plaintiff—Damages M. ip __ there was no sufficient ssaarity fur Mr. Sterling's retorts by any .p eitic tints; and their Lordships, upon consulting toge ther, were of opinion that Mr. Ml:aliens wa. en. titled to be discharged. lie was discharged accord ingly. SOITLAWD. • fsveitscss, JAN. 9.—We fcrmerly mentioned that the the Board of Aslmiralfy,*ori the application of Sir Js. Dunbar of Roath, Kart. directed one of his Majesty's cruisers to receive Mr. Adam, Rector of our As effetely, on board, in order to ascertain the practicability of cer tain observations at sea;the details of which will soon be made public. For this purpose his Majesty's brig Clip* rokre, commanded by Capt. Keats, appeared in Kt-mock Roads a few days ago. The state of the weather and tides, have hitherto prevented Mr. Adam's discovery being pot to the test of experiment. A man of war has not been np so far in the Frith in the memory of the oldest inhabitant; and in the novelty of the sight at. tracted crowds of spectators to the shore. At first our countrymen approached the fertnidable stranger with due caution : but the officers having, with one Anitting attendee, received &boat 600 visitors whom enriolts had attracted on new year's day, a closer intercourse has since keen kept up. 4/n Saturday, Capt. Keats and his officers entertained a large party of ladies and gentle men of the town and neighbourhood on board, in a manner whirl' all .vlto were present continue to speak of with delight. The behaviour of the crew while on shore has been in all instanees most praiseworthy, the officers having set the example of propriety by attend ing divine service in the eatabliehed church on Sunday The Cherokee is now lying in the basin of the Caledo nian Canal in 12 feet water ; being the first of Isis Ma. jesty's ships, which has paned through the locks of that great national work. A►raae WITH POACHIRS.—On Wednesday the Ist cur rent, as Mr. Horrocks of Tillycheweo, and Mr. Smollet, jon. of Ilonhill, were returning from a shooting excur sion, accompanied by sous friends and their servants, they nnexpectedly fell in with a band of poachers upon the property of the last named gentleman. After some mantenvrlng, Charles Maxwell, the gamekeeper of air. Horrocks, and three other men, cause up with the gang, consisting of seven men, five of whom were armed, who, upon being asked fur their names, refuted to give them. and presented their guns at the gamekeeper and his party, who, as they were unarmed, immediately closed with them, and a ment Mr. Horrocks and Mr. Stuollet, together with sums friends, came up, and, after considerable resistance on the part of the poachers, succeeded in securing them ; and having taken their fire-arms. which they found 100 l ed, they were committed to Dninharton Jail, where they remain to take thei► trial for the amanit and offence ot which they were guilty. The names of the pit's-tiers are, John Altifilthon and his two sons, J.stin M•Allonn, • private in the 7th dragoon guards, and Archibald M'.U• his brother, and another men. Several of the poach ers were wounsiesi in the affray, and C. Mee well. Nlr. llorrock's keeper, was s ly w minded on the head, by the giddier striking him from behind with the butt end of his gent and hasi not Mr. Horrocks opportunely came tip at this moment, and knocked the fellow dows;, the keeper wont.' most prob.hly have lost his life, as Ise gas in the art of repealing his blow. SHVIMILINII.—TurinIay night, an Arran wherry ar rived ■t the gnat', Ayr, and commenced the disettarg. of her cargo, WHICH eons ' dof potatoes in seek•.— 'l'heCustoeshosse officers, who are always on the alert, began to examine the contents of the sacks more mi. nu:ely than the Highlendersaaticipated, and discovred VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Foos; JAN. i 7 utAsatzicrrom e. xuwarree. Mr. Beta. called the attention of his Honour to this ease. 'which had been decided in his absence. lie thought that be could show to the Court that the plaintiff was retitled to an order melt more extended than bad been granted. The VICE-CIIANCFLLGR requested the learned counsel to mention the ease on Monday. .....----.- . l ' ' • • .• ..' ; . 1•1 . 4 . 441 I • .. • .t,.. .• t ,. • 5 • - ,•%:_ , :i . • 4 , ;; v ..,.. . ink y it ..- ;A.: ) 1R . e t i ... ~ fi , I : • . .. • I _ 1 '' ". 1 .. • L , . . . . • ' ...i .. %. 4 : • , . ‘ . • t ••• 4 ' V / 1 i . i k i an. .. . •ft VIM' ',II ' , 1 ' . • 4 , ' 1( 4 Ti i sel 'intik Mr. Earle, or 4sr for. his gei mother cottage, aW the Word pc) tj by the iodictosaat ' eircotortasicn : jilr. &lAA "1 n, 1 in heard Alin. ink, the Act di rec rith the asai4,_ or- thissorder being I iltance. Oli Sir. COllll set he fore• r the defeadowt a nd d ns! Hi. bail h in, and I him, a ' t o Couar cu lied—" I a* not ae of the Ors it are, and you I. each," and t to co in. re er said, the ma den taking as t te. Witness sr twithstanding the tl o e i r area rot the 1 rs P peon whom he n floe, the 1 rite plaintiff was .. aces of the cams where he was re- self. est arcordiaglyps. ' polls , . liout.4 tusking his' way bow 'tweeted I eirried batik Ifs paid fur each, 1 ert. a ceasiderabilk Ors largo, Aft. Justice He teed the drauleg e grossed that sired that he was tared. le thiog, and re- The prisoner sl }tiled stversi wii ;eoemegainined.— , Wben White first said "I have a• The Jury refereed. wiroadloll eltmNot h t against you, ,Mr. (loran," Mr. Earle dill not xis In the coarse or Hai. dey sh.• ir at once, am not Me. Berea," but inquired, " re tliacharwed, 414r:ft hill -Wag nee suit." • • • .an he afterwaslis appear Tipton (leediady of the liall)+aw Mr. 10141‘ Waisted, through hia coottsel, the es be was brought to her hen," sad immediately itlit hare. as helm! swore in his adi.lag I Whit* tflit he hatitioirst 111 r. literati. Whip Ikea antral ewer Mr. Merlin[. the witness • tispi'ha had been misinformed, sad *eat *way.— Ir. Sterile, was still in France, anti bii . Earle was sot us liberty inttro•cliataly.. still iincerteitp. the prisoner prayed to be Vm. Bottiog.osilet al the OA. prosees Mr A not.rhus. boreloothoont p Tfairkit *WA s AU betaltry irfsb Irish* else liaits4swilia naipowoillisethic "anal sere to his being acted throaghost the o hole of their proc. ated at the boasa.—This was the case for the plain- the primmer. No opposition was offer. land, shosisi their Limlshipe think that COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JAN. 17. WALLIS V R ILLI AMS. )Ir. Sarjeant ',Ems stated that this was an action brought against the defendant for leaving maliciously arrested and held the plaintiff to bad. The defendant was a tanner and leather dealer, in Lime Street, and being rather pressed fir money in the course of the year ISM, be had precereel the acceptance of the plaintiff, an engraver and printer, to three Bills of Exchange, the due payment of which the defendant had guaranteed. The bills were paid by the defendant in the regular creurse.but though he knew these bills had been accepted for his benefit, he had, early in the year 182.1, arrested else plaintiff for the amount of the bills to which he hid given his acceptance, sod after having kept him in .custody for more than three weeks, be thought proper to discharge him Irani the actions without any further pro ceeding,. For this conduct he had been required to make some compensation. This he lead refused to do, and to recover such a compensation the present action was brought. The plaintiff had suffered most materially I.y this arrest ; formerly his business had been consider able, but now it was greatly reduced, and his credit and eircromstances were almost ruined by the conduct of Mr. Williams. The arrest and imprisonment were first proved. Edington was then called ; he had been clerk to Williams, who was in extensive business, but who had suffered some temporary embarrassments which rendered his bills discreditable in the market ; he wished fur souse fresh sal in as acceptors or ludo , ond he applied to witness toe •r some respectable personsto put their names to bills for his Accommodation. Witness, in consequence of this application, introduced Mr. Weill, to him, and Wallis. on the favourable representations made to him by witness of the defendant's circumstance., agreed to accept sow bill,. Williams at the same time undertak ing to provide for them. Wallis had never received any vale. for these hills. Some time after he required a guarantee for his security, which Mr. Williams then gave. This guarantee was pnt in and read. It was a letter of Williams. in which he promised to provide fur ill the bills drawn in March, upon Wallis and others. /fiber evidt•nre was adduced to a similar effect. Mr.Serjeent VA coNAN, fur the defendant, Eelirved he Should ►e able to prove that the transactions had been of • very different nature to that represented. lie sbottld OLD BAILEY. J. 17. John Robinson, accused of breaking and entering the house of William Moses, with an intent to steal, was fonn.l Minty. William Cummins was indicted fur assaulting Richard Fitch on the King's highway, and taking from his per son a handkerchief and some pence anti lialfpeace in copper, opposite the London Hospital, iA Whitechapel, on Christmas Day. The prosecutor was, at the time the robbery was cam witted, walking opposite the London Hospital, along with his wife and child. Two women came up to him, one of whom hit him a blow.He lifted up his arom to keep her off, and she said alie would bring some one who would do for him. He had not spoken to the woman previously to the blow. One of the women immediately went to the Lord Nelson public house; and immediately he received a blow on the back of the bead from souse body behind. Believes it was the prisoner, as he was standing by, that struck prosecutor as he attempted to rise. Prisoner got prosecutor's head between his knees, as lie was getting up. Mean time some person was beating him on the side. He felt a hand in his pocket; lost a handkerchief out of his hat, when it was knocked off by the blow. He then gave the prisoner in charge. He got his hat from one of the women who had struck him; it was not concealed by her. He could not find his handkerchief. He missed out of his pocket four penny pieces and tour halfpence. He was sure that it was the prisoner who struck him. He was quite sober, and the prisoner appeared to be so too. Cross-examined.—Prisoner said, when in the Lord Nelson, that lie would strike prosecutor again. When he stated the case to the watch, they said the folks bad been uncivil. The charge was first given as fur an as sault. They wished to make it up with him. Did not discover the loss of the copper till after he had left the watchhouse. lie had money in his other pocket, of which lie had spent part. By tile ioubur. —None of the persons were searched, anti neither the handkerchief tu.r the looney was found. The handkerchief was pat into the hat in such a way es not to be easily taken ant. Elizabeth Hankins was coming past at the time. Two girls came out of a public house; one of them struck the prosecutor, •ho said nothing to them. The woman went to the public house, returned, and the prisoner fol lowed her. She pointed out the prosecutor, cud said, " that man had struck her," upon which the prisoner struck Fitch. and when he attempted to rise, prisoner struck him down and kept him on the ground. At this Sitar she heard money fall. The two women went up and struck the prosecutor** wife, who was crying warder. The prisoner returned talthe public house, where he was taken in charge ; the 2 women went into the public house also. There was a considerable number of persons in I writ N Hf.' PRICE SEVEN PRNCE bow casks of Arran aqua concealed amid the potatoes. The boat, with her contents, was immediately seised. A few hones afterwards, two other casks were seized in transita from another boat to the town ; the boat lay in the middle of the river, and as soon mike casks were landed, the seizure was effected. when she vary whey i I made off tin the 211 net. Peter Henderson, supervisor of Em cis., Cnpar Angus, Messrs. Smith, Nelson, and M'Cul- . loch, officers, assisted by a party of the Scots Greys, i seized Wl:linkers, containing 270 gallon, of Oitalivet whisky, * found concealed in the hills about six miles to I tire northward of the Spittal of Ulersabee, all of whiola. were silly lodged in the Excise warehouse, Cupar An gus, next evening. . During the last two weeks, Mr. eerie% of Palkirk.' with the assistance of a party of die 7th dragoon I guards, has made astonishing havoc amongst the bands of amuggiers who West r that quarter, ferreting the& out of their most secret recesses, amongst mosses, . 1 ' moors plantations, mines, and even private houses. 7. , 4 Thep /ears matte eabeeselvel amasses, ant &Nampa - ...eip: r.---. 11 ral stills, with a great quantity of wash and other materials; and bid fair to prove a. effectual sappressios ' .. .1 to that nefarious traffic, so hurtful to Use revenue and lab . 1 fair dealer. 1 There was discovered upon Saturday the 11th Distant, 1 in a remote glen in Pentland Hills, nearliabbies Hew. ) by Messrs. Laurie, surveyor Demerol, Robert Teeple, su pervisor, .1 and A, M'Millan and D. Thotison, excite .• 11 officers, a hut containing an illegal :still, abOut 45 gel. , lone content*, abd I large fermenting utensils, con- taing shout 500 gallons wash, and two casks with 1U1) i gallons low wines. The still was itolgesl in the Excises . Office; and all the other utensils, with the materials, f %Me totally destroyed. As no person was found near . the plaice, the depredators must have carried on their dialsolieal work slowing the hours of midnight. thattorstlay, four men apprehended in the Highlands. • accused of bring parties in the smuggling affray at Cor riensuchlack, were brought to Perth, in carriages, and luJgrd in gaol. About sweaty years ago, a paeket tem Leith to Dun• 1 dec. With a cargo of nails, &c. was cast ashore on the west sands of St. Andrew's, and totally wrecked. At t different limes, after severe storms, when thesand partly elesred away, several bags of nails have been retro& Ou Tuesday last, after the late severe storm, six er seven . I hags fell of nails were obtained. There is also reported to have been at the same time in the vessel four boxes tilled with penny pieces, foe *Web mink:a fruitless search bat Bien made. THE 1004 jutEncits AND THE POLICE 0/ DUBLIN. --4,..-- • In the Freemen's Jostled of the 14th of S'istere her last. was given a report of the case of the Hotel Keeper% who were sanannaed litter the Police Magistrates of College Street, Police 0 ,ce, fur the recovery of the penalty of lOW. each , or not having taken oat ate ho-el license from the Police, for the year enitiog 25th of March. DM. On the parties appearing hefore the Magistrates, Mr. Finlay attended for the Meek limpets, nod with great ability cestrended, that as Arfer i umint filed in this arse oeetained an averment Said not mean to my was necessary. but obeald be proveil as laid—it was, that the house of the de- ferniest "is rated to Window Lights," iw.. He sail that every averment must have a time referential to it, sod the lime in this case was of course the time of filing the inf..rioation. %i hid) was on the 3d of September.— Long before that the Window Light Tax was repealed ; and it was nutriesise to suppose that an information could he sestained, one of the averments of which was that the house is rated fur Window Light, on the 31 of September. Mr. Finlay stated a number of other objec tions, and relied upon some fatal omissions in the word- int! , of the Act ; and that as the Statute under which the cooviction was sought to !reestablished, was a Very penal one, and exceeding) y oppressive end partial,• as b 'log applied only to the Hotel Keepers of Dahlia, he trusted the Magistrates would give his clients the benefit of any omission or clause in the Act. The Magistrates, after a patient hearing, decided for the conviction ; against which the Hotel Keepers appealed to the Quarter Ses.ions.—The case was argued on Friday last before the Recorder, and Aldermen Sir Robert Shaw and Jones, pith very considerable ability and ingenuity be M . Finlay and Green for the lintel Keepers ; and Messrs. Wallace, hl'iiane, and Cash, for the convic tion. Monday, the Recorder gave judgment, and at considerable length, and with much clearness and per spicuity stated the grounds for his opinion, which w s. '• That the Conviction should be set aside."—(Pi ce maa's Journal.) , MELANCHOLY CIRCE/1374NC% ANO SINGULAR COINCI DENLE.—On the night of New Year's • Day last, ree ~rouble farmer, named Cavan, residint; in the neigh bon:howl of Castledawson, _having been in the of that town selling cattle, became so much intoxicated as to be unable to conduct himself home ; o Lich , however, he was unfortunately permitted to attempt, at l'..' u'clnek at night. His way lay by the hank‘ of the river, ullielt hieing swelled at the time with heavy rains, and very ra. pid, it is apprehended the unfortunate man mast have fallen into the water sod perished. but his hody has not yet been found. It is said he had shoot 501. in his poc ket when lost. It is rather a singular coincidence that Cavan's father was lost in the same river on the night of New bar's Day 29 years before. His hotly was not foami till eight days after ; and the present unfortunate victim of intemperaner has been beard to say, that he doubted nut but that he would die the same death as his father hail done. A melancholy accident nrcurreJ on Mom") , to a young . suitor of the port of Boston, named Pepper, who bad gone out in she morning with a messtnate on a shooting excursion. As they were walking un the bank. efe gun of his companion, ; few psces behind, by coifs oite.tos or other, susidelly went oft, when his bark arld; shoulder, which re...tig ers! the contents, were wounded fa t so va.t fla I a manner that be now lies in a nangerous and' helpless state. The father of this unfortunate youtte was accidentally tirowtie) in Boston harbour by slips l Mug from a barge about 5 years ago. So that a poor and', destitute n 'slow thus prematurely tleprieed of her hus band, is now also likely to he totre.tved of her sun,—lire son whose affection she had fondly anticipated as her needful solace its declining years and her staff of sup port in the evening. of life.—(SPLoffiati News) A i inquest WAS 111 . 111 by Mr. noncan. on the 10th inst. at Lincoln, on the body of Biz antis Flatters, 3 years of age, who died that 'morning in the County Hospital,. is Isere stir had lingered fro.a the preceding Monday, in • consequence of having been burnt by her clothes catch ing lire. Another inquest web held by M. Bunyan, on Monday the 13th, at Hatton, near tre.;2by, MO John Ellis, nine years of age,who was on a skit at lii. grandfather's, Mr. Croft, of that place, alien K omi! on the ice, oil a pond adjoi nine Mr. C.'a sta.ltyarti, t itrok y and he was quint's to nately Ll:owned. . -~-.. e 11 1. E L I I i t 1 4 j