The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-11-21 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. —tteettr-- Dui, re. 20.—Wind W. Pasted by the Union Yacht with the Harbour Master of Ramsgate, from accompanying Sir \; illiam Curois down Channel. Arrived the Netherland, sloop of war. Courier, roro Flushing, for the Mediterranean; Dart, poet, from the westward; Underwood, Reuington, from Deme rara; mod Rour, Aiken, from Oporto. Pnrromotrtt, Noe. 20;—wind S.W. Arrived the Harriet; cords, from the Downs for Sierra Leone. Sailed for London. toe David Walter; Oliva Branch: Four Friends; Marianne ; end Olive; and the Pomona, and Hero, for Hull. Poviiourn. Dcc. 19.—Wind S.S.W.—Sailed the Skylark, asd Smyrna, for London, and Contest, Coulson, for Shields. — Off the Port the Mulgrave Castle, Ralph, from the Mauritius, soiled 2Slh July. - - Fsoietrre, Nev. 19.—WindS.W.Arrived the Dove. Ducker, fromßlibes,la ten days ; Kattern, Refasten, from Denis.— Ssilid Ist Oct.—Off the Port, the Ann, Whitmore, from An- 'The Louisa, Roscoe, from Leith to Stettin,: wu lost 29th Ott. ea Lessoa. Crew saved. SHIP MANUFACTORY IN TIIE UNITED STATES. The tonnage of America in 1910, was estimated at seventy one millions of dollars in cable, two thirds of which were em ployed in the foreign trade. With the exception of a consider able part of the sail cloth, and an inconsiderable sum for bunt ing fur colours, this vast amount of value is produced out of the gro wth of our own soil, sod of our forests. Os en su mo of all the years from 1911.1 to 1810, Dr. Seybert found that• the annual amount of mete toorifotie: in America was 102,81 I tons, exceeding that of the British'empire. This gives en an nual manufacture of tonnage of five millions of dollars. This annual bounty paid to the forester and woodman, to the iron founder and smith, to the carpenter and shipwright, does not bring the vessel to the quay. Seventy thousand seamen, with their wives and children, are next to be clothed and fed, or, is other words, more than nine millions of dollars are paid an nually by commerce in the single article of wages to seamen, at the rate of eleven dollars per month. As no account is here made of the superior wages of captains end officera, this esti ■tate is quite within bounds. The sultsistenceof the crews at the rate of twenty cents the man per day, amounts to over five millions of dollars per annum. And this, in the pay and suste sante of seamen alone 814,000,000 are annually expended by toe commerce of this country, in the wages and subsistence of the labourers it employs. Combining this with the five mil lions annuelly required to keep the American tonnage in re pair, we have nineteen million, annually disbursed by the skip manufactory to the labouring clas.es of the community. We sayneot a word of the industry required to prepare the outward cargo, Or vend the-return cargo, each of which is put in motion by commerce, the former to the enriching of the great agricul ture states, end the latter resulting in the growth of the great commercial cities. We say nothing of the service rendered to every individual, hoe ever remoteor distant he may be, who is enabled by commerce to take advantage of the crowded popu lation, themecumulated capital, and the intense competition which prevail in forei;n countries, and thus purchase the most useful and necessary articles at the cheapest rate. We say no thieg of ell these, but we rest on the simple preliminary fact, that the commerce of this country, in the outset of its opera dam, without reckoning profit or an ounce of produce ship ping or exportation, pays to the hard working industry of the toseuetcy. nineteen millions of dollars annually.--(111. American ' .INTSTALLATION OF DR. CHALMERS IN TEE UNIVERSITY 01 , ST. E4DRIZI(S. IA Scotland, the Professor of a University °cot*, a large space in the public eye, and the Introductory Lee. tare of a..netv incumbent, is. at all times, an object of general interest. The installation of Dr. Chalmers, as professor of Moral Philosophy. in the University of St. Andrew's, received additional interest from his previous ppularity as a pulpit orator, and his reputation as a ovine. The Ediaburgh. Star contains a very fall account of the proceedings on that occasion. The Lecture (dee livered on Saturday last) is said to have been peculiarly eloquent. " What we have given," says that Journal, "of the Lecture, can only be regarded as an outline." A Uentlenaan who heard it, remarks that—" Never since the days of. Knox. has any public oration excited so much interest, or created such a universal sensation within the walisof Sr. Anetrew'is, as the one on the present occasion.' Wire it poss'hle that we could have . given the Doctor's lecture verbatim, we are certain that it would have been one of the richest intellectual trees that we could possibly have laid before oar readers. The grasp of capacity—the originality of perception—the depth of thought—the con clusive force of his reasonings, enlivened as they occasion• ally were with the most vivid powers of fancy and brilliant imagery, and delivered with Auk an overwhelming strain of eloquence. as seemed tre thrill every heart, and to rivet conviction on every snind,.. -During its delivery, the most solemn stillness reigned in the Hell, except when it was occasionally inter/mite* by frahts 'tif acclamation, which were elicited from his adnafribt sUdience, by whom bewss lia4ened to throtighout. WitlyWeistbleas attention." • -• ,•,*te.ise•••rese. , filascow ANY, LONDON MECHANIC'/ INSTITUTIONS. *The Glasgow free Press, in noticing the contributions which have beeen made for the establishment of the " Lon. don Mechanic's Institution," observes, " now, much as we , may respect the feeling which prompted those g entlemen who haveisubscribed to the establishment of this Institution, we cermet but regret that they have dune so—we had rather that the whole should have been the work of the Meehan les themselves. Here, in Glasgow, nut one penny was sub scribed by any one, upwards of 900 AI er-han ics contributing all mad even more than what was necessary, themselves. People have a ptide in what they accomplish by their own energies. and do not feel lialf the interest they otherwise would do, when their institutions are the result if the eleemosynary contributions of others—Glasgow las set an axaniple to London; and the latter, in the pride if success, and the more enlarged sphere of its scientific triumphs, must not, nay, we are sure, will not, forget that it was to Glasgow she owed the existeuceof her institution, asd that Dr. Birkbeck, of the Glasgow' Society, was her test President. It is a proud feeliu,sl for the Mechanics of Carew that they have already stimulated the mechanics N eight other Wafts in Scotland to follow their bright ex ample; and that, had not despotism—cunning in its cruelty, and potent from its recent success—stretched forth its iron sceptre, to arrest the march of the human mind, the great City of Lyons in France would have added another temple to scientific knowledge. " We Understand a number of Gentlemen have presented the Glasgow Mechanics Institution with a variety of useful looks fur thad'Library. As this is different from contri htisg money to enable them to attend lectures, we trust Amoy more mil do the same." Rout, Emtcauson Nava h CLLR.—On Wsdnesday last the Royal Naval Club had their first dinner fur the season t!thman'e. About :whiny Admirals and Captains of his majesty's Fleet-were patient anti it is deserving of remark, / tithe Vim Admiral and Rear Admiral of Great Britain ir Jame Sestesasea, it.G.C.B., and the Right Honourable ha Earl of Northesic.) were pt esent, a circurnatince which s sot occurred sham the Union.—(Ediebstrilf , Courant Net 17 . ) • . „ A Heeling of tholllti of Advocates ) ow, held on 'd ay, for the iiit& Of eta'itipg a De l ", im the maw al the late ilitthe E w. tpt.,whon Howse Omostoun, . was choeen saiiffaibual4p4tiatiltwisathivh waront.) . . • . e-li-s 4 ift.l peek a au singular that, IClloMerttliet' °didea is perkidically eMinsateaketitlbmAdanalliiiilete 41118. stalda articled shenid kiibetto , hVtoi 1011411441 m w `ma n of sacertaising their local valaoj4Diofitios ate roet.) Pat'11M1=1•111111i THE STATESMAN ELPARTE PUBLICATIONS IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS. (111011 Till MILO? MORNING POST.) There Is a controversy at present carried on between the principal London Newspapers and the Court of King's Bench, respecting the publication of what Mr. Justice Bayley (erroneous)y in our opinion) calls exparte reports; meaning reports o f the examination of witnesses before Magistrates, in police investigations. A similar controversy occurred here some years ago. The late Recorder of Dublin, almost in the words of Mr. Justice Bayley, condemned the publication in the news papers of the Police Reports.--The dictum was re ceived, and its validity admitted by every news paper in Dublin but one, the Dublin (then Carrick's) Morning Post. We, at the time, singly took our stand against the authority of the Recorder, who was an excellent Criminal Lawyer, and an upright Judge. We gradually converted our opponents; indeed we believe the Re corder himself changed his opinion upon the subject, as lie never afterwards referred to the practice in terms of dis approbation. A case which occurred at that period was mainly relied on by the opponents of publication, to skew its ill conse- quences: Mr. Sharpley, an honest and very respectable man, who kept an Inn in Church street, nisi charged by a person who came to sleep at his house, with stealing from him a sum of money. The examination having been sworn to, Mr. Sharpley was committed to prison, but it being ascertained before the day of trial, that his accuser Ma a man of infamous character. Mr, Sharpley wee most .4sonorably acquitted, without calling a vitae's in his defence. The publication of the charge against Mr. Sharpley, it was alleged, was to him a grievous wrong, seeing that it was an ex-parte statement, tending to prejudice the public mind against him, without his having the means of refuting the charge. Whilst the case was thus handled, Mr. Sharp. ley wrote us a letter, which at once decided the point at issue. It was, be said, to the early publication of the charge in the Morning Poet, that he was indebted for the preservation of his character from a foul imputation, and himself from (perhaps) transportation. The affair having excited considerable sensation, persons of whom he had no previous knowledge, on whom reading the account, voluntarily C.ll/10 to him, and furnish ed such a histoly of his accuser as left him no longer ap prehensive of the result. The affair terminated, as we have already mentioned. Had the matter been bushed till the day of trial, the evidence of the prosecutor might have been unimpeactied—the Jury might have convicted the man on his trial—lie might have gone to Botany Bay, or been hanged —or if, after conviction, the character of the accuser became better known, it might not have been quite so easy them to rescue an innocent man from the disgrace and punishment to which, by that conviction, lie became liable. Mr. Sharpley's Letter was published at tha time in the Morning Post, and the opponents of publication were si lenced by it. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Dusting, Nov. 10. MATHEW LORD VISCOUNT KINGSLAND, PLAINTIFF ; HIS GRACE THE LORD ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN, AND RICH. NEVILLE, DEFENDANTS. At ten o'clock this highly important cause came on to be tried before the Right Hon. Lord Chief Justice Norbury, Mr. Justice Moore, Mr. Justice Johnson, and Mr. Justice Tor rens, and a Special Jury, selected (vein the moat respectable Gentlemen of the county—Sir Compton Domville, Bart., Foreman. The case occupied the Court six days, when after the pro duction of many ancient Records and other documents, and hearing some of the most profound legal arguments on both sides, the Jury, under the onanimous direction of the Court, at three o'clock on Satuiday last, found a verdict for the Noble Plaintiff, restoring him to a part of the intensive Church pa tronage enjoyed by his ancestors. The' princi pat points appeared to be the following :—On the restoration of King Charles 11., the Act of Settlement was passed in this kingdom, which vested all advowsons of Chnrchestben enjoyed by Irish Papists (as they are nom-d in the Act 'of gxplanation) in the King, until such Papists or their beirs'shonld conform to the Protestant religion.— It appeared by the Letters Patent, Inquisitions &c., produc ed in Court, that Sir Patrick Barnwell, of Tarvey, l in the County of Dublin, had many Church benefices in his gift, which. with otber patrimonial inheritance, at his death devolved on his son and heir, Nicholas Barnwell, who was is June 1641 created the first Viscount Barn wall, of Kingsland, by King Charles 1.; but who having surviving the civil was of this country, found himself unjustly dispossessed of a large part of this property, but was restored to such portion of his estates by a Decree of Innocence under the Act of Settlement in 1663. The dreendents of Viscount Nicholas professed the Roman Catholic religion until the 2d of Anne, when they were divested by Act of Parliament of his ativow sons, which were by said Act vested in the Crown until conformity. In the year 1813, the present Matthew Lord Viscount Ki tits land, the heir male of the first Viscount, conformed to the Pro testant religion, as by law required, and thereby his Ecclesi astical benefices were revested lu him. On the vacancy of the Church of Garretstown, in the Archdiocess of Dublin, he presented his Clerk, and en the Archbishop's refusing to insti tute him, brought his writ of Quart' Inipcdtt for the perpetual advowson of said Cbureh. After the most deep research on the part of the Noble Plaintiff, and patient investigation ofthe Hon. Court, this cause was decided in the manner above mentioned. WINDSOR, TRURSDAS, Nov. 20.—His Majesty, Kith his usual suite, touk an airing this morning to the Royal Co•tage. Sir Charles Long left the Castle to day for London. The Gibraltar Chronicle of the 30th of October states, that about six nights previous to that date between three and four thonsaud French troops embarked from Cadiz, on board of transports and men-of-war, bit that their destina tion was nut kdii►6ii. Iltims.--On Tuesday last, the 18th instant, at Ileden, Kent, the Lady of J. P. Plumptre, Esq. of a daughter. Lord and Lady Londonderry, on being informed of the lamentable accident that recently happened at ltaioton colliery, instantly transmitted to their principal agent the sum of 1001. with a discretionary power to make any addi tioh to it that might be reqnired, for the relief of the lm mediate necessities of the relatives •( the nnfortnnate suffer ers upon that melancholy occasion.—(Tyne Mercury.) The Royal Palace of Falkland, formerly the favourite residence of several ancient Scottish :sovereigns, has lately undergone important improvements, and is destined to receive further protection in the course of next season. Mr. Bruce, now proprietor of the extensive and valuable estate of Mr. Falkland, and, u such, Heritable Keeper of the Palace, has enclosed the grounds immediately attached to it, consisting of several acres, with a substantial wall of freestone, about eight feet in height. The enclosed apace forms a garden ground, which is kept in good order, and is open to the public. Strawberries were on Tuesday gathered in the garden othlr. Rush, near Kennington; they had grown out iu the •lipin air without any artificial aid. The weather continues humid and lowering; and for the last_ two or three days dense fogs have prevailed. We are sorry to hear from the country, and parucularlyfrom Banff shire, that the grain is found, in numerous instances, to have become heated in the stack, and to require being taken down. Apprehensions are entertained that wholesome seett23rn will be scarce in the Highland districts it be a ssist spring.—(Edinbirik Observer, N0v.10.) _`'- ~"::r.. _ :rya±.~t..:.i ~~~ ~'huiri~r NAT'I'ON OARIMIN. . (ale lIWIMPORTXD CAS'S OP YESTIIIDAT An important and novel We, With respect to the removal of a pauper to Ireland, was yesterday beard before Mr. Ser geant SELLON, and Meurs.Rooaas and Latrio. It was an application to remove a woman to Ireland,who was born in England of English parents, and had also gained k settle ment in ber own right. A few years ago, she' went over.to Ireland with a family, and while there, married an Irish man ; the ceremony being performed by a Rouzish Priest, she notwithstanding being a Protestant. By this mmlage she had a child. and shortly after its birth, being ill wed by her husband, she quitted him and came to England. ' Circumstances rendering life chargeable to St. Pancras Parish, they applied to remove her and child to Ireland. Mr. Rocca% gave his opinion that the marriage was not legal, and added that sending her to Ireland wculd be sending her to perish. Overseer—You are laying it down as if Ireland were a different country. Mr. ROGERS—So it is; they have no poor laws, and send ing her there, where she has no friends, would be as bad as sending her to Africa. I will not sign my name to such an order. _ 1 Mr. LAING—T. for one, will not consent to remove that woman to Ireland ; if she is to he removed, let it be by higher autbority. The Act did not contemplate the removal of every person having a settlement in Ireland. It was meant to apply to vagrant cases; and hence a discretion is lodged with the Magistrate. I remember a case of a.wtan aged 70, who had lived 50 years in England, being removed to Ireland. I did not know the case at the time, or I would not have signed the order. Mr. Sergeant Set.t.ox concurred with his colleagues both as to the illegality and cruelty of the removal sought for. He was of opinion that they ought, under the cir cumstances, to resort to the NI den settlement. WORSHIP sisittirt (Uri' EVENING.) (ANOTHER UNRAPoRTIR CASE.) EstnezzListeNT ay .► Bov.—A very decent looking lall, named Thomas Outrage, was brought before Mr. Twvroan on a charge of having stolen and converted to his own ase the sum of 181. 10s. Si. The young delinquent was not more than 14 rears of age. Mr. Gaines Serle Martin, deposed that a few days sgo he sent the prisoner to Mr. Thomas Ludgates, in Golden Sqnsre, with the above mentioned sum, with which he made off; in consequence of which he traced him and gave him into custody. Mr. Ludgates deposed he had never received the sum. The prisoner being called on for his defence, said, he was going through Castle Street, he met another boy, who kept en treating him to spend tha money, which he was at length in duced to do. under fear, as he said he would flog him, unless he let him have sem of the money. They .therefore both set off for St. Giles's, where he changed a Int note. end rigged him self out in a new suit of apparel, which he then wore. The Magistrate lamented the injudicious mode in which tradespeople dealt with boys of that tender age, and observed such s sum entrusted to them, was too great a temptation ; but as it was quite clear that the youth had stolen the money, it wu a duty imperative upon him to send him to prison. 'l'ue prisoner was therefore fully committed. mmtkETs.—(Tmas DAY.) Coax EXCHANGE, November 2l.—The arrivals of this week are again moderate, and most of our buyers being out of stock of Corn, they purchase the good parcels of most kinds of grain pretty freely.—Wheat maintains Moaday's prices, but there is a dull sale for a►l but the primest samples.—ilarley sells heavily, and there has bean little trade for Beans and Peas since the beginning of this week.—Oats find buyers on rather better terms than last quoted.—The arrivals this week are : Wheat, 6250—Barley, 6330-00 s, 79 , JU quarters.—Flour, WOO socks. SMITHFIELD, November 21.—The quantity of cattle sit market this morning was fully sufficient for the demand, and a higher price was asked for cattle of a superior qua ity, bat the inferior sorts remain the setae in price es per last market day. We understand that in the Wellington, Cap'. Lappint well, which arrived in Cove, on Sunday last (fhb instant), from Gibraltar, are several Gentlemen who took an active part in the Spanish Revolution. We have not been able to learn their names: but we are informed that one is the Priest Villa Nova, who was sent Ambassador to the Rape by the Constitutionalists, and refused to be admitted by his Holiness. They considered themselves very justly in danger if they ventured to remain at home. Tile vessel is at present under quarantine.—(Cork Advertiser.) About two weeks ago, three young men, whose names we decline mentioning, but who, no doubt, thought themselves choice spirits, entered the church yard of liirkatahoc, in the dead of the night, antl'began to toll the bell, which alarmed several people in the village and neighbourhood. They next went to the sexton's house, and desired him to get up with out delay, as the dead were arising, and stood in need of his assistance in getting from under the throglss. They then went and rapped at the windows of several of the houses in the village, calling out to the inmates that the day of judgment was come, and that the church yard was teeming with new r:sen•bodies. This done, they ran up and down among the tombstones, with shirts, or something white, about them, uttering dismal and sepulch ral sounds, to the dreadful consterna.ion of the poor beadle and others, who stood petrili d with fear at such an unex pected sight. Like other nightly visions of church-yards, however, they " Evanished at crowing of the cock," and the beadle and his neighbours retired to rest again right glad to think that it was a hoax. Such irreligious an I wicked conduct cannot be too severely censured ; and we sincerely hope, the young steatlemen employed in this disgraceful affair, will, on the 'day, coins to a just sense of 'heir profaneness in thus making light of a subject, which,- upon a deathbed, may yet coat them many a severe and hitter pang.—(Dan frier Journal). Ou Friday morning last, the grave of alwoman who had been buries abwert a fortnight ago in Cadder Caurch yard, is the nrighhourboood of this city, was observed to have beep; disturbed, on which it was again opened, the lid ibe cab° found broken and the body sway. The husband andacerne of , his friends came immediately to the Police Once, Glasgow, and gave information and a search wa&inade in all the Anatomical Schools in town, by the Glenda thetnselves, accompanied by the Siuperintendent of Mice; lint the body was not found. On Sunday night a considerable party from Cadder collected about several of the Class Rooms, and wine fears were entertained for the safety of the buildings. On a representation by the Super intend:int, of the searches that had been made by him neCotaitanied by her friends, and the latter declaring that they considered themselves satisfied, they dispersed. From the exertions of the Police, the body was on Monday fore noon discovered in the rear of a house in Castle Street, Stirling's Road.—(Glasgow Free Press.) SPRING GUNS.—The following cireumstance mey be relied on as a fact : —On Saturday evening last, shortly after the ser vants of Mr. Archer, of Barton-place, had charged and set the spring guns as usual, to protect the game in his plantation' adjoining his house, one of the guns went off with a very lout explosion, but bring about live o'clock only in the afternocr it was considered too early for poachers, and no partivrt notice was taken of it. About eleven o'clock at night a sec. n was fired, and about an hour afterwards a third, and ibi watchmen and servants were at first apprehensive that a gang of poachers had entered the plantations, but hearing no noise of any description following . the report of the guns, they were soon satisfied that their conjectures were without foundation. Oa going round next morning, they !band that the first gun had killed a cock pheasant, evidently et flying upon to perch and that each of the others had kiiird a hare, ad of wh;ca were found deed within a few yards of the muzzles of the guns.— Surely thy narration of the above facts must be suffici ent Its deter' eq. see 6Y men, however hardy, from hazard ing their lives in the nightly pursuit of game, where such never failing fatal engines are placed to preserve it.—;Bury and , Norwich Poet.) SPORTING INTELLICENCg. BETTVIG AT TATTERSALL'S—Vov. RIMMESMORIII.-3 to 1 sgst Reformer—b to l • agst Don Carlos-8 to 1 egst Prudence-7 to 1 asst Quadrille. - - DERR7.-43 to 1 agst Swiss-9 to 1 agst Reformer-1e to 1 agst Agnes-124 to 1 agst Ridicule-14 to 1 tut Cressida -14 to 1 agst Don Carlos-20 to 1 agst Cyduns-20 to 1 agst Bess-26 to 1 •gst Banshee. OMCS.-3 to I aggt Prudence—b to I agst Lyrnessa-21 to I agst Mr. Prendergast's filly. • fir. LlCElL—Nothingdone. PEDESTEI I AI44SNi. MATCH TO THE . THIRTY SITTII 511Lesrosce, ON THE WM( RoAD„—Mr. West,the old %I inilsor Pedestrian, started at tev o'clock, on Wednesday night, to go from Hyde Park roma-, to the 36th milestone, and back, in 16 hours, for2oo sovereigns. The Pedestrian reached Slough (20 miles) in ten minutes under three hours, and he halted at Maidenhead (20 miles) and wert to bed. lie reached the ittith milestone. and returned back to Twy ford (34 mil.-s) in 7 hours and 33 minutes. When at t':e lfith milestone, Le had four Lbws, within five minutes, to spare,. and he won the match cleverly in eleven minutes within the given time. Tae Pedestrian wore a flannel dress, and did most of his task at a walk: . HORSHAM, Nov. 18.— Verrall continues with unabated vi gour walking fifty miles a day. Seven hundred and fifty have been done by him during the last fifteen days, and there is little doubt hut the remainiag 230 will be done with ease. Every day his health improves. lle starts at four in the morning,ac.l walks ten miles before he takes any refreshment. After fol. r miles more he breakfasts : he than does twelve more before dinner; rests an how', and the remising twenty four he ac complishes regularly by ten in the evening, allowing himself sufficient time to take tea and other refreshments during the afternoon. As the twentieth day will fill on Sunday next. he intends to walk fifty miles more than 1000 on Monday, **just' as he himself says, "for Use Jim of it." Fifty sovereigns have been cffered to him to day by a gentleman of Guilforu', Ulm does the extra fifty. Many are of opinion that he would go on for fifty days longer if a good round sum were offered him. Betting, this evening, three to one on him. To those who bet at the onset great odds against him; he is very jocose, and very talkative to all. . . . Metcalfe, the tailor, started yesterday morning at Shepherd's Rush. to ran a mile in four minutes and fifty five seconds.— The race was over a half mile piece of ground, and although the man did the task well within the time on trial, yet time was backed at two to one before the start. In running the first he.lf mile the pedestrian broke down, he was six minutes the mile. There was a general riot over it, and people refit sed. to pay. ARSON. TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF DRAYTON FARM. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 19.—Last night, about half plea nine, a most destructive fire was discovered at t)-+ tan Farm, near COAlla:1), about five miles from hones, the property of V. Padwiek, jun. Esq. Expresses were imme diately dispatched to V.* neighbouring towns far engines and assistance, which was most promptly afferded by throe respective public departments of tais garrisoe and the in-: habitants. The first engine that reached the farm ves from Tipner ; then relit:turd the Portsmouth town erigi,e, • engines from the Royal Engineer department, Koval . Marines, &c. &e. ; hut are this assistance conld arrive ' the fire had assumed. so alskuting a feature, that all attention was directed to two or three stacks that had not yet taken bre: these were ultimately oblig ed to be taken to pieces, and the sheaves carried' by hand to the neighbouring fields. To accomplish this object, officers of both services, private satins, and citizens, were seen vying who should reeder most aid.' Ere now had assumed a most awful and terrific lisped; fuze • large ricks were raging in the yard; cow•henses. • brisk stabling, out houses, &c., had beta completely destroyed,' land thedevastation of the whole farm, saving the rick abase' mentioned and the farm house, was inevitable. Every eeertion was now made to savlthis little reinnart of a vOlaa hie property ; this was net accoinpiished till near set o'clock, after incredible ems ons during the whole night. The property destroyed falls little short of :46:m 20001. of which is insured. The greatest praise is Genii:4 - doe to those who conducted, and to those who bore the arduous fatigue of dragging the engines for *have fire miles, and we could not but feel gratified (though under the greatest alarm as to the extent of the fire) to bear the continued cheering of the different services, in alternately overtaking and passing each other's engines on the role, going at double quick time nearly the whole of the way. At the fire we particularly noticed the daring intrepidity of Captains Smith and Belson of the Engineers, and Captain Thomas of the Navy ; these gentlemen, with many other officers and citizens, were actively employed in direc , ing and using the engine, and fire hooks amidst the great anl tottering masses of solid fire, which at every step virrdan-!• ed them. We sincerely lament the loss the prepricor must have sustained, but we feel assured he must have feit some alleviation at the ltrebmpt a,sistance rendered bias from all parts of the country—distance seemed to be r.f little consequence, all were eager to arrive with their a;-i. We muot nut omit to mention the early arrival of a detach ment of armed troops from Tipner, who formed a guard to protect the secured property, nor the facility with which. the sheaves were removed from the stacker by the provident arrival of the Royal Engineer fire-waegon with book*, , ders, &c. &c. The engineers used these implemente with the must determined coolness ; indeed, great praise is doe to all. • One of the destroyed ricks contained 21)0 quarters. We have now the additional painful task of recording, that the above fire was caused by an incendiary. The par ticulars that we had learnt are, that the Bailiff of the facer had objected to a pauper, of the name of James Godaia, sleeping in one of the out houses; desiring him to go to . the pour house at ‘Vidley, a short distance, where he had apartments with others of his family. A pauper in an ad joining room heard him come to the house a fay hours before dark, and, in a conversation with his mother, say,. 1" that he would be damn'd if he would not set tire to the farm, either on that night or the next ;" he then heard Aim ask ter a tinder box, and distinctly heard the striking of the steel. as if for the purpose of trying ir. At dark he was seen near the farm with a light, partially concealed under his jacket; added to this, it was ascertained that he did not return to the poor boom till nearly six o'clock the next mortriug: nailer these oireunotnuces he was immedihtriy aperehended, and brought down to Mr. 0. A. CALLA* offise, the Clerk to the County Magi•trates, and underwent an examination before E. ft. A KNA Ull. Esq. one or the County Magistrates, when he admitted that he meet to the sow house and lighted a stick which he had in his hand, with a view of frightening the bailiff, but that some spat ke falling on the litter it caught fire, and. being mi t e!, al a rmed, be ran away, and hid himself in a neighbouring field. A number of depositions were taken, when he was remanded iI led to Gosport Lalewell, till Sstinday next, when he will un- , 1 er- dergo another examination. Since the above, we learn • ohe ms that a younger brother of Godwin has been apprelogodrsk ' ud Godwin is rather a silly looking fellow, about 30 tars of :n. are. He has su ff ered huprisonment io Winchester Gaol for . '"'' robbing the poor house in which he was maintained.) l I li a Mr PADWICICS personal dwelling house was nearly a • i t , ..• h , d mile from the farm. ig . . 1 , ....mmmelpierwmft Re One evening last week, while a journeyman cupently t i . ... iv ; : .. . , n. Perth, um dorog a piece of work at hours for liimiel; .... AM .:,x7 •• . / '• un boy, his own son, about tbrreyears of age, was pi . pyipg . lie- .--.ranitt •:-.. side him ; and shocking to relonwhen lrenrasibou,tb§r,to .., J.,•10. ' re down the uplifted axe, tiseoobild. in bending tl?sto io..takaa.., ::•N'' c — i . something from theist?, thrust its head between it and the . d . block, and the father being unable to avert the blow, cut ~,r away part of the side of its head. Even although pa r t o f . i d tie skull was struck off, yet, by the aid of skilful surgeons, tore are some hopes of recovery. s,. , 4 , ---- .....7 i I a. It- A '7. itt ,at rat !re Ut. ea. Lke ft. As Nth. ,ial 101 I N es' It