The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-12-19 00:00:00

TRIUSPHINt 08 THB CAKLHAES I. TBR DAHL ;up; _ . . ()Nob having been stated within these few days by mural of the morning papers, respecting the cause of the h ars h treatment Mr. Catlike hes, lately experienced in for c hewer 111°1. we extract the fellowing detail from the Stem . 'brit Xeres of yesterday.) • souttorecent nembers of the Republican, contain ditails of the Mean, heartless tyranny, exercised by the authorities at. Dorchester OA towards this persecuted family, that cannot fail to excite disgust for the perpetrators, and symMtby with the sufferers, in refry decent and manly mind. , .' 'lle two principal ethastane privations of which Mr. ear. lire has to complein are—the almost invariable exclusion of ' fils friend* and relatives; had the restriction upon bls ex irri'se'ill the prison garden or eottrt-yards, except for an hour a day, (at times, only en alternate days.) and in the iompinty of n turnkey. The visiting magistrates affected 1 to deny the exelosion of friends; and on one occasion of a formal complaint from the prisoner. declared that if such esslosion had been made, the blame was with the gaoler. Mr. Usable, however, was too active and too enquiring to be put off by retch an evasion ; and he wrote a long engem to the magisterial minute, in which he detailed a multitede cf instances wherein relatives and friends had some to see him, often from long datenres, and had bees , e rn a ed.adn,ission, in many cases by the visiting Magiel train themselves, one - after the other—in others by the gaoler and turnkeys. auto frequently conveyed the rosiest falsehoods to the prisoner on the subject? The might- Mates made a reply, in which they took -co, notice of Mr. Carliles details. - Coder the irritation of Iris ill-treatment, and his rept:, tuivenffiers with n agimrstes and Mks, Mr.Carble pub. 044 in his Iteptittlis an of Nov. 14, a letter addressed to' William Morton Pitt, eel., magistrate and M. P. for the emuty. respecting the gaol allowance, the resrielions upon • himself, and generally all he could adds..: in proof of 00 1 1 • misgovernment of the prison. In this letter, he declares, that he considers the privations he endures as fast tending to Astray his life, and adds,' I consider myself to be in the • bands of a gang of assassins: and, as I told your gaoler to higher, if I ass to be destroyed, I will nut go alone, if 1 can other., iae manage it. My I est, at least, 'hail be an e f. f o rt solid the world of one villain, and such a villain as is a tyrant, and whom the law cannot at present reach. I will exhibit that in example which 1 hare often taught by p . n. s..pt • Who wallet imagine, that this twit of heated Im patient*, this vague threat, from a man who bad already sniffled four years' imprisonment, and a hundred agent - es-Sunssuflicient to exasperate the most patient temper ; who . nonld imagine. we say, that this threat printed ire a Tamphlet on the 14:h of November, would have heen •the pretest, eleven days afterwards, fur invading the prisoner's ?cum with a parade of force, keeping him handcuffed for three bun's, and tailing away all his clu.sostic utensils. for fear he rho ibi convert them into murderous weapons ! Bet the Beene is sea singular, and so exhibitive of the pranks of • brief antliorty,' in a manner at once ludicrous and hate.; .fol, that we mast give a more particular account of it. .- On Tuesday the 25th instant, as 1 was making op a parcel, the gaoler introdneed the high sheriff, Mr. Start, Whom I received wills all the hopes Mr. Colson (a magia- 1 wrate) had instilled into my mind. (i. e of better treatment.), The high sheriff politely asked,' Dow do you do, kir. Cue. lily, I hope you are in good health ?' My *neve. was, • Not in goo' health, sir, but as well as my confineinenn twill - allow• me to be.' He threw a chair, sat down ; BO 'gaoler himself sat down on the soft-bedstead; I sat glows , at the opposite end of the table. The sheriff tripe to am •monstrate about what I had been saying as to my treate• aunt. He g:e er warm us he proceeded, sipressed offense at every observation I made, and soon Made use sensible by '.his hauteur and balforentencea, that I bad misoaleulated she nature of his visit. I was thoroughly cool and collected : :he, premeediag gradually to hie object, drew a paper , , bee-pocket , in *high Was Contained extract flop my ' letterto Mr. Pitts and after asking me whether* ronsilered '' •my life In danger front toe treatment I was receiving, as there set forth, and whether I would act upon the threat •- ' there made; as a consequence of that treatment,-1 replied' ' •in the affirmative ; that such was My resolution. 'rke she .,-,. 'riff nodded to the gaoler, saving,' Call them fu.' I'he two 'turnkeys enteze.l. —Slits iff to' turnkeys : ' Secure Mr, Car 'Me ; put handcuffs on him.' The turnkey, Thomas Bunn, did, it, and 1 did not even remonstrate, beyond sayine,, • I .elf.al not resist, u I see your ohjiet, and know yeti cannot keep me long in irons—considering that the object was to irritate and mire me unguardedly to some act of tviqlence. I never 'nose.' from my chair, but sat quite unruffled. The , order was given to sear. It the ram°. Saucepan -, even mown id the put coffee-boiler, frying-pan, candle-snuffers, hearth-brush, lin oven, (ovular. fire -irons, pen-knives, ' table-knives and forks, and duntlebells, razors, every timing. • 'even the most frivolous, was taken away. •••• • • • • ••• The tea-kettle was overlooked, ur, I rather think, one of the turnkeys petit in a corner for um. There was also a coasultaton on the propriety of removing a set of shoe brushes ; but it was decided that they shoal be left ! Can dle'epuffers were seized, and I tent the sand after them. ' when the gaoler told ma to use my fingers *avian,: Fire ieoes were taken away. In addition, the whole of my Cie Mire weapons consisted of two table knives and forks, too pen knives, two pair of small seissars. three case of razors, a pair of dumb bells, and all the enemies were unions to remove the iron rods; large nails were drawn, aud the gaoler was going off with the last of his booty . after 'searching my person, when I told him that it re . Raked a large mouth to chew a quarter.. loaf all at once, and I wished to know how I was to divide it. ' Oh! says hr, t ou.s is a gatemen loaf; well ! the man must bring a knife and cut you off a piece when you want it. 1 tad Lim I would rather break it. - Aud then afterwards, the turnkeys used to bring him lasers to share, and knives to tueuel ~is pen, and wait while heperformed those operations, in order to take theist away. The rielirui Qua in all this would be excessive, if it were nut overpowered by the disgusting. What a pitiful thing .to take adrantige. of irritated language ?scatting from .a seen who had been immured four years to a lower), had been calnminated?nd abused by all the retainers of church and state, and vomited by all sorts of personal aggrava tions! . Ti show that Mr. Castile's irritation was not without ranee—that. he .could tacit Ae • a man, if he bail sot felt indignant at the. treatment of.himself and his-family : to skew too, that verYliliatue o u ght to have kept the justices from every thing but the strictly unavoidably enforcement oldie law,—we will guise' one instance of the candoct which Miss L'arlile experienced whew she was placed . within the wills that shot pp her brother. • She was treated worse than any convicted felon in the gaol, by being shut up at dusk in a cell, into which both - wind and rain were constamtlypoitring upon her, while she lay on her iron bed; and whilst the female prisoners in the ward hail access to each other throughout the night, she was ao closely bolted un the door side, that it was next to a miracle she escaped suffocation at the ainut of the chimney • taking fire; and which she did Escape to hear such bridal flee insolence from the gaoler, as to throw her into me • • • Four months she was loekol up in the same seem with myself and wife. where we had to attend to ' every call of nature in the presence of each other, if we could so longer resist the torture oceas oned by not attend , lag. This single circumstance was really dreadful, and Ced a torture which cannot be disc Vied; for she had e tuc accestotned to observe a delicacy that was wounded at &thought at any deviation from it. Wo.coald cite other passages describing cruelty in • Tar spirit, almost as disgusting, towards Mrs. Car- Val, daring her pregnancy;—but why should we say , Ilipe.? Is.not this sufficient ? Do not the roused feelings II grin min who tends it cry, ' field, enough!' 10 7 . 1 war Rut! e;.l ~ y -*T2VTESMA!4. ticTATE OP INMAN-D. (silo* VIO DV OLIN immix. eon.) , • We ere beginning to furl tI S good effects of even a talk of war. The Fairs and Markets are rising rapidly.-1 Pouts are two or three pounds a head dearer than they were sit weeks ago; Sheep are also advancing ; sithottipb ft is now tolerably certain that oar b . Is not below an average. and that the Mark is are well supplied; there is a manifest ten dency in the Cora to look up. Some contracts for provisions have been Made, and the Pro' vision trade Is really flourishing at this time 1n Ireland. ADDITIONAL PROVISION CONT --The Contract for a further supply of Provisions was taken in London, for a 'Dublin House. on Tuesday last, at the followia: prices, • Baer —3OO Threes Navy at za 9'lll 600 dO. do. • 613 10 ~; . . 00 do. Mem 66it • ; The 600 retraining tierces were afterwards taken, it is sup posed for a Cork House. . . No Pork Contract, is consequence of the high prices. The newe_st feature in the state of the coantry:, is the success with which the recruiting is going forward, end the avidity with which the unemployed & hungry peasan• try avail themselves of the mall hoenty new offered for -recruit.. The bounty for limited 'entice Is 21. 12s. 6d. ; for 'unlimited, 3/.45. Yet, with this small premium, tire ranks of the new Regiments, the 94th and 95th, are filling with rapidity. The Cork paper says, that if the recruiting parties for these Regiments were confined to tilt City 0 1, Cork alone, both would he raised in two months. Having, is a previous article. Osten our opinioa on this subject, generally, it-is 'unnecessary to say any more. A partial disposition to Insurrection has again appeared in the county of _Limerick, and Boum outrages are recounted in another column, which have occurred in that county, is' well as in Tipperary and Cork. IlecnOvrtiro.—Caittaaw, Dec. 15.--Nothing ran speak more hireibly the want of employment so much complained' of by the poorer elasiee, than the fact witnessed in this town since last Thursday. On the morning of that day a Recruiting Party commenced iti operations with 111 the " pomp and cireionstance of war," and before the close of Friday it had übtoined 40 fine able bodied young men.— (Carlow Post.) A Recruiting Officer has been received in this City, (Limerick) to raise men for two additional Regiments of the Line—the9lth and 95th. Men five feet five inches, ander 18 years of age, and men five feet aiX under 30, will be taken. From the superabundant petition of our Pea sawn, now upemployed, the woks of these two regiments may he easily filled up. This in-asnre may have wore effect in tranquillizing the Country than any y e t resorte d to . Orders have been issited to ascertain whether moms modation call be provided at the Custom-house in this city for the discharge of the Excise business of the district (CFI roaicte ) Come, Dec 15.—Since the orders arrived in this °arti san, to.raise men for the additional Regiments of the Line, (the 94th and WO the recruiting has been tartlet! on with melt spirit and energy ; and from the feeling that prevails, we have little doubt, that if it was alone confined to this City, both regiments would be completed in the short space of two months. On iaturdsy, Captains Craig anti De Berralier, Lieutenants Mayes, Fielding, Alexander, and Bickerton, paraded through our streets, attended by thedrums and fifes of the Royal Vetetatt Battalion, and in less than too hours between twenty and thirty fine hardy young fellows were enlisted for the intit Regiment, and immediately banded over to the rectuitin4 Staff of the district. The Ist division of the 231 Pusikers, on Irate! the William 11 trio, sailed from Cove to Gibraltar, on '1 uesday; and on Thursda, the second division, on board the Flllllll transport, fur the same destination. A memorial from the rt 11l spirit deniers of 11-If.st, has been presented to the Loral of the Treasury, praying for a reduction of license duty, ta whit la they ate at present liable. ' A memorial was subscribed by unwired' of 120 spirit . - . _ aim of Belfast. sad - have geeti fisteraiwit sites s. "rayer of the Memorialists will he conceded, to a ce r t a i n extent, from and after the 5:11 of January nest.—(DeLlia paper.) WATERPPRO NIARRF.T6, Drc.—The supply of Butter from the neighboming district. is now very court-tell ; tete I general rate fur tnis description yesterday was 88. to 88.. 61.—one good lot trout the Queen's County was said to have Wong ht las. for all qualities. Bacon Pigs, 36•. 61. to 375. 61. ; Scalded, 325. to 38s. per cwt. Other articles stationary. PRICE OF BUTTER AT CORK ON SATVIDAT.—To the Merchants. 6.t. 82e. 765. 72..645. 40•. ; to the Country, 745. 70.. 641. 58s. 52a. 281. Burreu.—The price is nominally 9is. for the last few slays, although 99•. and lOUs. have been obtained for a few fit kins. And it is believed by those in the trade, that lots prime quality, if now brought so market, would get m Ire titan 1004. as the orders are pressing, and the supply but scanty.—(Carlow Pert) TIPPERARY.—Chnsueb, Dec. 13.—Bacon pegs may he set down at 3.15. to 3k.. 6.1. and some very fine bronditt 365. per cwt. Butter. of %►rich the quantity is v. ry limited at Market, may he set down at his. to LW,. per cwt. On Wednesday, at the great Fair of Tipperary, the rpm 14 of black cattle was large, awl of prime quality, and beasts fit fur slaughtering were taken off principally by the Cork buyers at advanced prices. Pigs, of which about 1,300 were sold to huyers from Clonmel, WaterfordeiXe went off at some reduction in price to our last qiiotatiJo. COURT OF KING'S BENCII.—DcBuy, DEC. 13. Tilt MATOit, SIIERIVMS, AND COMMONALTY or VIC CITY or CORK, V. TISOMAS SHINIER IN. This was an action brought by the plaintiffs against the defendant, fur having erected certain meat stalls (37 in number) immediately in the vicinage of the Corporation market. The Corporation gave is evidence chug ter 'and restriction rights from Henry Ill.• to Citadel. 11., laying the rights and privileges in the Corporation—awl that, those markets were, is point of law, a nuisance which were set up by the defendant, and they Lid the damages at 1,0001. The det nJant asserted his right upon the broad principle of liberty and freedom to the King's sabjects to exercise and fellow any business; and it was urged ably by M►. O'Connell. that the right lay not in the Corporation, that it was a right granted to the ICing's subjects to bold a markets within a certain boundary, or within certain limits, and that the Corporation assuming to themselves the exclusive privilege of holding tnarkets, was a monopoly; and that a meat shambles, in which were erected stalls, could not, in the true construction of the authorities, be called a market. This trial occupied until Monday evening, and admitted of great legal disputation and obj , :ctionable points raised by Counsel un both sides. The Jury brought in a verdict for the defeniare, with casts, amidst accla►uation. It was tried three limes before iu the County Cork, where a ►erdict was had for the plaintiffs. FLTS4 V. I.AN6AN. We are requested to contradict a statement of the pro. ceeaings o ils this came, inserted in our paper of the 11• h instant, so far as relates to the judgment of the Court of Commem. Pleas oil that business, the Court not haring :tailed it as their opinion, that the *adjudication of an losot venteourt respecting sai I Langan, was final and conclusive; on the con►rary, an we are nnw informed, tie Coast, aft.-i. deliberation, declared the case to be an important one; hot as the defendant, Langan, had been discharged by an Insolvent Court, without opposition, and the plaintiff haling it still io his pswer, by the Insolvent Act, to hate a rehearing, the Court, were of opinion, an esonorator should be entered on the bail-piece, upon the bail paying all the costs of the proceedings against them, and the cots of said motion, which they accordingly ordered.—(DoVia itemise: Pest) piIIiPING CELLICIENC/1/4,0. Powhitourw, Dee. IS.—Wind S. W. We hiPrtiffieed* 1' most tremendous gale last night (roe S.S.E. which 6onimenced about file o'clock, and continued with, unabated fury until ten o'clock, when* soddenly veered- round to the Westward. 'and became more reoderatr ; during the gale the Helen, from how. don La 406aOrn, diotb from her anchors,' aast•was obliged to cut awry. her mein mast before she could bring dp. 'She is come into harbour toropair. ills Majesty's ship Queen Char lotte drove from her moorings in the harbour, and•got foul of the Brothers, Wilson, carried away her bowsprit, topmast., stove in her sides end drake . , en/ did other damage,. The who!, of the outward, bound, except the above, rode out the gale lathe Motberbatdc. all well. The Eliza, of Jersey, laden with Iron from Bristol to tMaport, drove from her anchor ana seek lu Hamilton Bank at the eutraace of the harbour. Crew saved. • I : . . DEAL. Dec. IS.—Wind W. moderato weather. Last night it h:ow &violent gala fromft.S.W. the vessels in tl)e Downs drove hut we do not hear any of them have mat with gay aecident.Put hack this ,inotiting. and remain the Geo.. nihilist. Drysdale; Fortitude. Butcher, Cambridge. Barber ; Patambano, Simp son. aid Cliftoii, Smith. FALMOUTH, Dee. l 7: Wind S.S.W. Arrived ROM memos, the John, Ward, for Trieste,ana Glory, Scott, for Genoa.— Arrived Majesty's brig Partridge, with a mail from Lis bon, in Igdays. 1.14 , 1am:wt., Der. 17.—Wind S.W. Arrived the Royalist, Ashnridge, from Miransichi; Concord, Ashford, from New* tlundiand ; and William. Noyes. from New York, the latter alter being on shore on the Hoyle Bank. The Harmony,' Hornsby; lost three anchors end fables, oil Wednesday uight in Yarmouth Roadr, mid afterwards nut de the • ROYAL ACADEMY. On Months , evening Sir Anthony Carlisle, the Professor of Anatomy/lit the Royal Academy of Arts, finished an interesting C , urse of Immures at Somerset House to the Members and Students of that establishment. There must be considerable difficulty in arranging Anatomical Lectures. to adapt them to the purposes of the Arts of Painting and Sculpture, to select that which is necessary to the painter and scolptor, from the great mass of materials nee e . ily connected with the human frame in all its various ramifications. It requires not merely the science of a skilful anatomist, hut the knowledge and mind of an expe:ienced artist. Sir Anthony appea ahappily to com bine these qualifications. dwelling,in the course of his Lectures, with great perspicuity on those parts, the particular knowledge of which is necessary to the advauceinent of the student in his professional pursuits. and. only 'cinching on these phenomena of nature which, though dot immediately connected with the subject of pictorial anatomy, every young gentleman of edu cation is rxiwcteci to be conversaut wit''. In the course of his lectures, he requested the students to consioer anatomy as r n auxiliary to their other studies, and as entirely subservient to the arts of drawing and painting; that, when it was made a first principle, it usurped a place to which it w, a not entitled, end let the student to an affected display of knowledge, to the destruction of beauty of form and expression, which were two of the chief objects of pictorial represenfation. This he aptly illustrated by a clinparison of the muscles strip ped of their natural clothing, the fat and skin, by which their appearance was harsh an I angular, with the living figure,witere the interstices being filled up and the whole compactly hound round, the orregularities disappear, and the lined flow undula ting and harmonious. The skeleton he recommended as the first and most essential part with which the student should be come acquainted, as bring the structure on which the other parts are fix •d, and as forming the prinepal points by which a represeotatam of a figure is given, delerreining the length, breadth, and depth. and consequently the proportions of its various parts. On the skeleton likewise depends lbs bounds ries of million, which Sir Anthony particularly called to the . notice of his audienee; for *Shoot such an atienticn no person eatt give strengt't to action, or gracesndsidOicity to quietude. Sir Anthony next pOilded oat the principal muscles, their ori gin, insertion, and action. reroatmending the and'. n v to study well the fine statues of antiquity to a. quire a knowledge of form It its afloat beautiful and perfect state, and then to confirm., their knowledge by a reference to the most perfect living 11111. oelau ditionsesoloar toe en stile be did not esedsider necessary, t hut an oecasfonal visit to the Schools of Anatomy to confirm the information previously in quit, d from hooks, as to the ori gin and insertion of the muscles, was mn-ful. The last lecture concluded by a display of the living figure io various actions, and Mr. neonates& the tine model of the Aca demy, w,nt througlt various styraaastic exercises, well calcu lated to improve the human form. Tile Council of the Royal Academy. it appears. ever alive ' to what will benefit and aiivence the Shiflett's, hive, et coma ! derslge expense, hail him taught these exercises purposely for the improvement of his form, and which has been folly accont• 'dished. FURTHER EFFEcTs OF THE STOASI OX WED, NESDAY Nltin When the storm was at its utmost violence, .l tiles were blown from the roof of the house occupied by a Ale. C o oke, in Itatton street, Pentonville; and so greatly &erased was Nlrs.•Co•tke, an elderly Lady, that she int. snetliately dropped, and altholigh assistance was given, ,h e r ep:red fro u excessive fright. What makes the ac cid.nt snore distressing is, 31re. C•soke enjoyed an income of 1001. per annum, which at her death reverts, it is said, to a man of very large fortune; and leaves her aged husband who has seen prosperous days, without any mans of sup. port. The danuree in the above neighlwarl 1 was par— titularly great : a number of walls and palisades wore bitten down as were some houses lately erected. A stack 'of chimneys from the coiner house, No. 14, Judd street, fell with a tremendons crash on two Lois- , s in Cromer street, and levelled them with the ground. One of the houses was occupied by a butcher. and the of er by a broker, hut none of the inmates of either received anti per sonal injury. In Gower street (we believe at No. 4S), a stacke chimneys fell do.' n & br•tke through the roof of an adjoining house, when a nurse and child very narrowly escaped destruction. In a small house adjoining IVest• urinate.. Road, the tipper part of the house was forced in I upon the inmates, aho were in bed, and severely injured by the"ruios. Stich ti as the outer's. riulence of the wind that many of tile strong poles need in the scaffolding of the new huildines now erecting at the British 3ltteessin were snapped in pipers. An iron cowl placed an the top of a chitnney,at Gosling's the hanker's, in Fleet Street, was lifted *eve's! feet Iron its position, sad fell in the road, hut slid no damage. A house at the corner of George Street. Tower Hill, had a stack of cisitnnie, blown down. On Tower Gill, a large tree which stood opposite to the I public house c died theltosind-about house, washlown doWn. l'he gable end of the roof , of an adjoining house fell on the house of Messrs. Wilson and Cu, 63, Tower Street. near the Hill, broke through, and hurt three young women in bed. two of them so dangerously, that they j were conveyed to St. Thomas', Hotspitat A stack of chi moles fell through the roof of the house of Mr. Hatton, an eminent glazier, in Abchurels lane, Lumbar-I Street; fortunately two children in lied escaped unhurt. In Draper's Buildings, London Wall, a stack of chi:nnics fell through the boos., add severely injured several of the inmates, who were tarried to the Hospital. Dec. I7.—Duting * heavy gale from the southward cad westward, a wherry lirlooginz to this place, returning from an In Hainan at the 3lotherbank, with two waterosen, was eapsiz .t 1 in a heavy squall off Hamilton's Batik, the sea running tremendously high ; the oirisinstaisee was noticed from the shore, and with laudable promptitude the IV itch•house haat was ismedi itchy manned, and rowed out in hopes of ramming the soot fellows from a nitrify gran ; they succeeded in picking up one teen, of tile name of Brown, after he had numb sted with the waves 27 minutes. tie r oaring the shore, fortunately Mr. tieurge Martell, surgeon, of this town, was on the spot, and by his skilful and unrewitting atteniion, succeeded in restoring animation to the poor fellow, wit* has a large fatuity dependent on him for *appal. SPORTINO ipaiiiuogNcg. otrrysti AT TATTICRSALL'S—Die. IR. • . liroitaturoaso.-6 to 2 asst RaNwaterr-S Art 9 1 mitr to- I agst Pro4enca-6 to 1 apt Don arlos-6 to I asst Lyrnessa—.4s to I asst Creuida.. - Thensy.-43 to I asst Reformer-6 to 1 apt Swiss-:10 to I abet •460 sr •.. • • ts.. • • OAICS.-4 to. I apt Prodence-6 Sr I agstLyroessa-7 to I', apt sr to Sajlor.. . • ST. Lsoca.—Teo to one Ofered.oll tbe field. . ASHTON PARK COlllRSlML—ffroxastsuo, Dsc,•U3. CAST DAT T - Matches for 10 soy. ',ch. •• • Ur. Hetherlncton's Nl , rtb-beat Mr. Hancock's red Mr. Wilson's Fly heat Capt. Jonees Partassus. ••• Mr. Roden's. Flirt brat Mr. Goodismes oh. d. r. Harrison's We. tt. best Mr. forth's Gerrard's esesoti. Major Flowers' Slim brat Mr. Owea's Prodigy. .. ' , , • Poe 6 soy. each. Mr. Harvey's Pilot beat Mr. Jeri hitt. b. • • Mr. Ucley's Clare best Nlr..Mee's Juno. Mr. Meredith's wh.d. beat Mr. Seholleld'a Mr. Watson's Os sings brat Pielder's_Merrynsan. Mr. Jacques' Bess beat Mr. Tadoesspotted b. • The weath.-r was unfavourable, and the hares 'bowel but indlffereut Pport, . . • • • ' ECLIPSES ogee hloxett.—The Sio will be eclipsed oa the tint day 9f the New tear; but the eclipse will ite iteeisiile in this conntey; as the conjunction takes pl.ce a; 'twit noinneys post 8 in the morning, when the Sun begins tp rise. 'The saute Luminary will be again et Tined on the night of the 26th of January; but the ecli,j,•; 011 of course be s invisible here) it takes place at 39 tramcar, past eleven. a the 16th there will be an eclipse of the Moo., beginning at 13 minutes end 15 seconds after seven, which will be partially visible here. Flax.—This morning aloud 6 o'clock; a Gee broke ont at the house of Mr. Legge t, No. 6, Adelphi T , which burnt with conaidtrahle rapidity, and in a 'lout tivio con sumed the whole of the interior, including the furn'tare and some valuable paintings. The loan is estim tied at between 6 and 79001. We are happy to learn that no lives were lost, and the premises we are informed were insured, though not to the amount of the loss sustained. The trial of the alleged murderers of Mr. Smith, et Greenwich, is expected to take place this day at Maid stone. The witneeses left Greenwich early yesterday morn ing, for the purpose of going la- fore the Gran 1 Jury, to find the Bill. Since the murder of Mr. Bird anti his house keeper at Greenwich, by Hussey, no circumstance has created such a feeling in the minds of the inhabitants of the County of Kent.—The iris' is expected to occupy the time of the Court the whole of the day. CUIttOUI OCCURRSMCS.—( From the Brighten ('hronicle.) A circumstance of a moo extraordinary nature hat letely oe carred at Brighten. to January last, • shoemaker residing here died, hieing a short time previous to his deaths p doted out a box in the room as containing the proprity of is hich he was possessed. This box a few hours afterwards was °paled by lila daughter-in-law, and a female servant who kept his linear. when they found lu it a pocket book containing 14 soverelina, and some stasegigi papers, whit!' they did Hat exalsine closely enough to ascertain their nature. Having closed the box, they soot set for the purpose of ordering • c,d6n, end on their re issmillemeered that the papers hod been abstrac.ed from the hoe, but that the sovereigns were left. Tue poor man was bu rled, and nothing further was heard u itil about three months after, when certain promisory notes. four in number, and amounting in the whole to the sum of 901. were pressehhe , l far Payment to a builder of this town by an attorney, also residing Is this pia a These notes, it should be observed, Vi.we pa)- able to the deeveased, and not having been' found since has death, it was infetred that they were toilsome with the stamped papers thee strangely missing from his box. Inquiries were of coarse-rinde of the attorney, at to the way in. which thews notes had come into his hands, and he stated that they had been given to him by a dauglitnr of the persons(Jewel)in whose house the deceased had lodge.,. The matter slept until *boat a week or ten days ago, when application was made to the 'ma gistrates, and the daughter being forthwith apprehended, on a warrant issued by Sir D. Scott, she underwent a private eta minati before the lion. Hart.. its the coarse of whihli she pre varicated end coctrsdicted bersetf most grossly. and in a ca. piety of ways. At the t.rrsination of this hearing she was re manded, and given in charge to • peace &leer, from whose castody site unfortunately in the course of the day contrives', with the assistance of her father, to escape. The letter person was neat taken up. and there being no evidence brought for ward to implicate him in the transaction of tee bills, he wag detained for aiding the prisoner's escape, and given in ehara• of the Sasle.Otiteer, from whoa, strange to tell, he scan Roo e vedel;by means cf some d Veroollnatlletivtea, to *get entity. The mother of the Penile prisoner has sicce disappeared, and it is much to he regretted, that, although a notice was sent by the Magistrate to the attorney. not to suffer the notes to go out of his possession, he had, shortly precious to receiving the note, delivered up three of then to the mother. One is still in his hands, but of course the administrators of the dec raced ere, in consequence of the other thr a being missing, heat out of tne money to which tea) are entitled. Every poeilblo ezertioh • is still being made by the police, and as they are, we Übder stand, possessed of a chess, there is little doubt tint the fugitives will, ere long, be again in custody. A Mpixstrea.—Art incamons attack was made On a fe male, by a rufli.tn in the garb of a gentleman, on Tis s e i tsg night last, in the neighbourhood of Grosvenor Sqnart.l,- Miss !testily, a young female of respectahle connexiam. was, shortly after ten o'clock, ;a-weeding through Minot Street, on her retutn to her residence, near Covent (:'settee, when she net viceosted by a ntv.in of fashionable appearance. who rather rudely made some 'pro aches to her, were repulsed ; be still continued to annoy her, end users language of the most 'Gages ing kind ; she became alarmed and was about to retreat, when he. caught her iound -the waist, and stabbed her with • sharp iostruinent in the thigh ; he was about t o rep, at the blow, but she screamed aloll. and the comardly nil.creatit tied. The poor girl with Tel 'great difficulty, walked into Grosvenor Street, wbete slit sunk senseless on the steps of a door. A gentleman who was passing observed her, and incrantly gave some tho• sey to two women to artist and restore her :the did ad a ich the aid of some volatile amend she related the horrid aye , * le the loy-standers. observing she should know the monster again ; he was of tniddle site. dark Complexion, bus vy whiskers. aud lia'l an extremely foppish appearance an-1 affected air. The gentlens in who at first vulUnteered -nos Hiervices, perceiving 31ies Nevily to be suffering aeote p bad her removed by the %ea:o'mm into a house, ant rke wound d dby a surgeon ; after which are aasa at home in a coach. This is the fourth attack of the kind, anti apparently by the same miscreant wlttlia a few days.—lea the Ilaribolottgli Street police report. Thursday a Coroner's inquest was held at rime pi! the bodies of Matitla mid Charlotte Tricker. the too children, alto fell victims to the fire in their father's hosie r Wednesday morning, 'lnc Jury returned Ufa - the children came by their death in conseqvienee of the file ; and that " some pets se or per:4ns unknown also maliciously set fire to the said dwelling house.' The iuhebitants of Trume Lave opened a subscription for Mr. Frit ker. An inquest was held at Lessingtham,v On Satonlay the 6th inn., before Mr. ilenyan, Coroner, on vies of tilde V body of Richard B vt.e, tanner's merest to Mr. Colbourn, of Cranwell, near Sie•ford. It &Nowt! in eviden , e tow, the deceased got' op about nee o'clock on' the Triday morning previous, with the other terretintt, and tt. en to tea stable, but inmost' of twin shoat his daily labour, he tout a plough line, west into the kitebes aud tied it to the towel toiler belsiod the doer, where bf • hanged himself, Ttie eases aseigeed for this: rails set S. that he was "stashed to a fellow servant sad ebb vemed , set les to hie estrisike to marry hits..4erdiat, • Ii issity.' • S • • .4 . - 1:1 ~' l b', 1 3 • . . • ~- ~i