The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-12-15 00:00:00

..... - 4111111 1 F1NG INTBLLKIENCE. • —seasans— , n ut .. member. 11.—Wind N.W.—(prong breese.—Came • • anus from the River and sailed. the Atlantic, Pittman, for ,'site.,--Aerives l ,and music, the Diadem, Edmaw, csb r istopher, Knight, and &snips, Willis. from Qnebests Ueledoniz, Creighton, Mediterranean ;and Minerva, Frank. • Ha, far Miramieki. The outward hound asilrd in the Ms- se of last night, and early this morning. The Caw bridge for Bombay, and York for Madras and Bengal, posed through this day. P o rrsmoura, Dec. 14.—Wind Westerly. —No arrivals tir Faiwoorn, December 13.—Wind W.V.W.—Areved off the Fort the Asia, Ward, from Q , sehee, and the following out ward bonn•( vessels from London; v , z. Arm Dayborough ; Hose. Comely; Hobe, hist; Thetis, Bibb sets, and Canierois„ Fisher—also from Yarmouth, she Fame, Yates; Eliza, Blittain ; Lorine, Miley; and Rebecca, Scott.—Sailed the Enterprise, for London; Duke of Kent Packet, for Lisbon Marquess of Salisbory Packet, for Brazil, and the Lorine; • Plebe, Eliza, and Friends, outward hound vessels. Cowls, Des e.nber 13 —Arrived the Britosnart, Peache, tiobs the Mauritius in 90 da)s for orders. Alert, Abbott, from Seville.; and Alberto.. • Frahm, from Lisbon ; and • Prince Royal, Sherwood, from lia•avia. The Marquess Cornwallis, Herring, from Sunderland to London, is lost off the I),lgger Bank.—Crew saved. B. .I,Ii,EY —(Ctrs- • I • J % T II s a ins Nis her wit the the oef bid IM Nit Pik OLD 'ass DAT) • Them sessiolis having closed, the Recorder passed the Seal iseistellion of the law on .the following , priaohers" , - 4 0 atii.--UhoiroPenves -Messatford. f,r steeling iron ; 'William otherwise James Hay, for forgery; James chomp. • -1“, for burglary; Samisel Crouch, fur stealing ins, d well ••• lag hotise; Henry Harris, for highway robbery ; %Valiant Verger, for stealing in a dwelling house ; John Hennison, • fora similar crime ; Ana Dtvis, fur a like offence ; James Reynolds, ditto ; %Valiant Cumming, ditto, and William Ludlow, for returning from transporation. TitaissPonzartoN eon LlM—John Andrews, Daniel Newton, Thuross Mow, William Wills. FOR FOURTISRN YEARS.—William Warren. Foe SEVEN YEARS.—Elizabeth Brown, Elizabeth Reed, • Jsmrs Williams, Rob, rt Coulson, George Thomss, Mary Roach, John Fagan, %Villein' Yates, Cornelius Hyesman, Cu., les Dodd, Robert Sheen, John Brown. William Hyer ran, Ittbella Levy, John Piny. Ann Rymer, Joltane I • Mason, Mary Ann Johnson, Thomas Nathaniel Steers, r John Holes, tied John Duffy. The remainder were sentenced to various punishmen t . B ed the Sessions were adjournirl io the 1 4th of January. QUEEN SQUARE—(Tess Mt) :olio Thomas, a little urchin ender 12 years °rage, was hvonglit before the Magistrate, charged with picking' the pocket of Johnson Ltmbert, Esq. of • silk handkerchief, his property. The prosecutor lives at Brighton, and came to London upon business. He was crossing the Parade this morning, accompanied by 'nattier gentleman, when the prisoner tame behind him and contrived to pick his pocket, but unfortunately for himself, he was seen by the prosecutor's friend, who instantly secured hint with the handkerchief in sit I:ossession. . 11 hen the prisoner was is , lced where he came from, he replied,—that otsubi make no difference to any person.— 'lbe Magistrate said it was proper for him to give some account of himself. He then answered, that his father has a carpenter at Peotonville. but declined answering fer.her questions.—llle was fully committeal far trial. . Goan LISTOWILL:II Corvaoa lionaert.—James Doyle, Mho stood charged with breaking into the cottage of Lord Listowell at Knightsbridge, and stealing a variety of Me idles of dress and other property, was brought up for te-emsatinetion. Two pawnbrokers from llloomsbnry attented; one of them produced a suit of clothes helon4,..ing to John Stone, an under gardener in his Lordship's service, who had lately been confined to his bed by the small pox; and the other pawnbroker produced another suit of clothes belonging • to the same inmlividusl,which had been stolen from the cottage dorieg his illness, and pawned by the prisoner. Stone Was now present, and swore to all the clothes, and the pawn brokers recognized the prisoner as having pawned them. The prisoner himself then confessed his having stolen and having pawned them. lie made no defence, and was fa ly committed for trial. sirisrtnesree, Hat. 13.—Last week, Robert Maraltam and Henry Railhead', Emirs. Commissioners under time Ac of Parliament, for investigating the Charities of England with Air. Pittman Jones, their Secretary, arrived in thi • city., for the pm-pose of examining into the state of the Charities within it, and ten miles thereof. Iris perhaps not generally known that Miss Brown, to whole Captain Pnrry is so mum h attached, is the daugiver of Mr. Brown, the proprietor of the colliery of Jarrow, is the County of Durham, formerly belonging to the late Simon Temple, Esq., of Hylton Castle.--(Netccartle amide. AN UNWELCOME Reatertom.—An artist of oat acq•tain• tanee,wlso is just now engaged in painting a subject wherein be intended to introduce a certain old blind fiddler and his wife, well known in our streets; but on calling upon thent byesterday for that purpose, he was immediately accused y the surly old dame of belonging to the gang of resur rection men now 'in Carlisle, and she ordered him to quit their dwelling speedily, or (to -use her own words) site would lay the poker across his shoulders, "that she would:" (Carlisle Journal.) On • Wednesday the premises of Mr. Fricktr, pastry took, of Frome, were destroyed by lire, with two of his children. The Coroner's verdict held on the bodies of the unfortunate ahildreo (girls) was—" That some person or persons, unknown, wilfully and maliciously set tire to the said dwelling house." Ot Saturday night, John Robertson, pensioner, was newisitted to Renwick xaol, for a violent assault on 51r. 111.1ilann, hair dresser, of that town, sad biting off Mg his ears. Amu et!!thg himself Nathan Broadhurst, who is de' sullied as about 40 years of age, and of a dark complexion, is going shoat the country representing himself as a per muted Parliamentary Reformer, and obtaining money and goods ender various fraudulent pretences from those wbe believe hie representation. 'ibis fellow decamped from Leeds on Tuesday thrbecond inst. and has since been raising contributions in Huddersfield.—(Leeds Mercury). Oe Saturday, in information was beard before the Magistrates, at the Grand Jury Chamber, against the keeper of Bar-end gate, for demanding a sixpenny toll of a person who had previously paid, same day, a toll of 44d. at St. Cross gate. As the, won's of the Act of Parliament produced, admitted of a doubtful construction, the Magistrates convicted the keeper in two guineas risky, with costs. The clerk of the roads attended on Selloff of the gate keeper, and gave notice of an appeal to the Quarter Sessions, whose determination lei.' Mt at rest the questionable construction of the Act. The case is of great public importance, and has excited mach 'Wrest in this part of the country, particularly amongst the farmers. The inhabitants of this city were on Thursday, mach gratified with a eight of that enterprising naiigstor for the discovery of the North-West passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, Capt. W. E. Parry, it.N. ; who, after having Melded the service of our Cathedral, at which he !Meowed much gratified, partook of the hospitality of the wel Reverend the Dean.—The Freedom of the City has oho been voted to Paine—He has been on a visit to his aloe, Mrs. T. Gander, at Bishop's Stoke (of which the Rev. T. Oareier is Krctor). .___ • _ . THE - CONSTABULARY POLICE. Liazzatcz, Dzi. 10.—Yesterday, Mr. Blackburn* . • • Session in the City Court. On the Bench were the eyele t Captain Dratiglit, Sir C. !Jarrett, and Alderman Mabony. No person being for trial under the Insurrection Act, the sessions were adjourned to the 13th of January. Mr. Blackburne than proceeded to the County Court. At the sitting of the Court, Mr. Illackburne ordered the I Clerk of the Peace total! over the names of the Chief COQ. stables, and three of them having answered, he stated, that unless those who did not appear conld satisfactorilyarcennt for their absence, he would consider it as a contempt of, the Court. He then stated, that in consequence of com munications made to him, he was anxious to correct some misapprehension on subjects, with respect to which, it was most important that none shall prevail. The Cohstabulary Force, established in this and other coins ti-s of Ireland, was an iustitution calculated to pro duce the most important results. The utmost attention had been paid to its organization and discipline. and the law has armed it with authority sufficient to enable it to fulfil the great object of preserving the public peace, odd enforcing the administration of the law. In propor• tios to the extent ails powers must be the mischief arising from the abuse of them, and the Police should never forget that those powers are.intruated to them for the purpose of. protecting, not that of oparessing, and that while they are bound firmly tido their duty, they should take care ko, give no unnecessary offence, nor wound the f e elings of any man. These observations could net be &eased ill-timed ; they ought to be indelibly feed in the miog; of those sib* • hol.l the station of Consteb!es ; and they were made, not with any invidiains object, nor with the roost remote intentiop of tipeting the Pave to obloquy ; but they are peculiary called for by two topics to which his attention had been directed by die Magisiiates.— The first of those iaroleed that moat impurtatli sub— jet, " under what circumstances the homicide of ti malt who is killed in flight by a Peace Officer ran he justified ?" 'Fite instructions printed, and pot into the bands of the Police, ought to have prevented a doubt on the matter ; but he would read a still more explicit statement of the . law, " where an Officer or private person having legal authority to apprehend a in in, attempts to 'lo so, and the man, instead of resisting, dies, or resists, and then flies. and is killed by the Officer or private person in the pursuit ; if the offence with which the man was charged were a treason, a felony, or a dangerous wound given, •nd he could not otherwise be apprehended, the homicide is justifiable." This dearly defines the rases in which, and in which clone, force, eedaneerine the life of the man pursued, c in bedegally resorted to, and not even in these rase*, if death ensues, can the homicide be excused, unless by distinct, evidence that it was unavoidably necessary. The next topic originated in a most erroipans opining that it was the duty of the Police to kill dogs kept by the road side, and not confined or logged as the law requires they should be; the Police have no such ditty; their duty, when such cases occur, is to complain to the Magistrates, to whom exclusively belongs all authority on this subject ; when the Magistrat e s shall have decided the Police, have to execute their warrants or orders; and to act without them. is an unwarrantable, and invidious assumption of an thority. He again repeated his ass• rtion, that what he had now stated was not intended to expose the Police to any sort a l odium, or depreciate them in the public opinion ; on the contrary, they were themselves the most deeply interested in attending to suggestions which would, he trusted, lead them to adopt the utmost circumspection, anti furbearance in the exercise of the extensive ;passers confided to.them. This morning, Mr. Blackburn. proceeded to Roth keale to try nine men under the Insurrection Act.— (Chronicle.) On the above proceedings, the Debit" Morning Post of Fri day, has the following remarks:— We observe by the report of the proceedings, at a Religions under the Insurrection Act at Limerick, that Mr. Blackburn. has given some valuable end necessary advice to the Police.— I t ores quite time to check a career of licentiousness %thick would, if permitted to go on, render them more formidable to the peace of the country than to its disturbers. The effects of the conduct of the. Palice towards the country-people, are already perceptible. Oar extracts (rem the Provincial Journals contain two instances of at tacks on policemen—in one case, we regret to find that the man was murdered. 1 We have no doubt that Mr. Blackburn@ actsd on the suggestion of the humane and illustrious individual at the head of the Irish Government. Dtvottce —ln an action or snit, raised and insisted in before the Cunsistorial or Commissary Conrt of Scotland, at the instance of Henry Martin Blake, Esq. of Wind field, in (ielway i Ireland, presently resident in the City of Edinburgh. against Anastasia Ooasen, for dissolving his marriage with her, contracted in Scotland, on the , ground of the lady's tinchastity. The Judges of the slid Court, after a deliberate trial an 1 proof led in their pre• sense, on the 24th of October last, pronounced judgment, finding sufficient proof of the said Anastasia taossen's guilt of the crime of adultery, finding her guilty accord• ingly, and therefore divorciag and separating her from the said Henry Martin Blake, his satiety, fellowship, and company, in all time coming. And; finding that the I said Anastasia Gossen had forfeited all the rights of [ a wife, and that the said Henry Martin Blake is entitled , to all his rights ; and either to live single or to marry again, the same as if he never had been married to the said Anastia Omen, or as if she were naturally dead. ' Between the hours of five and six o'clock on Sunday evening, as John Orpin, policeman, was returning to • Marybrook, from Kenturk, at Midway he was attacked and most brutally murdered by . a number of raid ntry, who with di ff erent weapons and Ins own bayonet, mutilated him in a most shocking manner ; they took from Lim his watch and bayonet. There are a number of men from tile neigh bourhood where the murder was committal taken on suspicion; and no doubt remains but the perpetrators are of the number. As Michael Bast see..a sub-constable for this county, was returning home from Shanagolden Church to his quarters, on the evening of Sunday last, ke was attacked rear Tier. more, by two men who rushed from behind a hedge on the road side, and caught bold of, and deprived him of his carbine. before be was aware of their intentions. They then (having conceived that his carbine oas loaded, as is usually the case, but fortunately not in this instance), twice cocked, and of course missed ire, at him, as he %you'd not surrender his bayonet, which remained in his scabbard, and which he retained notwith standing their attempt to deprive him of it. There were more men who lay in acub3sh, but they did not make their appearance at first. probably beause it would pre pare Hosiery for their attack. There is a party of poli te 'quartered within a furlong of where this outrage oc• curred. . . Coroner's Invest was held of Wednesday, et the Meath Hospital, on the body of Thomas Gillen, who died there from bayonet wounds which he had received at Hollywood, County of Wicklow, on the night of Saturday, the Ist of November. After the examination of several witnesses, the Jury returned the following seedier:—" We find thst the said Thomas Dillon came by his death by a bayonet wound infleted on the thigh, at Molt wood, parish of Donard, Couivy of Wicklow, Saturday night, the lit of November, 1823 ; said wound supposed to be inflicted by a Policeman, named William Henning, of Crylielia, in the said County." Manning is in custody, and the several witnesses are bound over' a to appear at the Assizes forthe County of Wicklow. POLICE RIOT.-00 Wednesday last an inquiry iras held in, the Sessions House, at L , ighlin bridge, in this Coitn.y, before three Magistrates, the Rev. Mr. Roberts, Phil ' AT,gioNIA N Newton, and lira. R. Stssteet, &qrs. . The tebieet of the hiquiry wai to investigate @Maio cheeps preferred aOiast two policemen, by one William Murphy, a farmer from the Queen's County. Murphy stated, that, on the riday preceding, after the market had , closed, he went into a public Leese, with , three of his neighbours, to procure refreshment—tbst he remained therein until neer ten o'clock, about which time one Thomas Magennis and three other Policemen entered the house, with an Intention, as they said, of clearing it—that Mageonis, upon seeing Nturphy at • distance its an inner apartment, exclaimed. " Is not that Murphy of Sleaty, the Rebel ?" whereirpon he re. I toiled upon Nlagennis, - and an affray commenced, which fermi. nated by Murphy being dragged to the Police house, where he was tied hands and feet, and kept in that state u ail the next morning. A caniilerable part of hlnrphy's statement was corrobo. rated by Mrs. [leaden, whose bask au.l keeps the public house. In the course of her examination she displayed uncommon intelligence and acumen fur a person in her rank of life,and it is probable that her te,timony, at a fa lure period . , will determine the merits of the different par- Cis in this trans t oa. INFANTICIDE.AT IVAKEFIUD. On the niet of Friday week a woman of the WIMP of -Latenby (a native of Leeds). in the service of Mrs. Webster, of St. John's Place, lValtefistitl, sersetly delivered herself of en illegitimate child, which she cruelly, and as It apraretby her own c mfession, most deli.herately murdered. FIFO partirolses of this revolting affair are almost too horrid for publication. After sticking a dinner fork into ,the throat of her jean!, she severed its head from its body with a knife. As soon as she had effected its destruction, she attempted to conceal its mangled remains among a ;quantity of ashes. She was discUvered by a fellow servant endeavouring to oblit-rate the stains of the blood which she had spilt, from the hearth stone, awl this num , rally excited suspicion and led to her apprehension. On king qnestioned however, she readily related the particulars of the whole transaction, and with extiaortlinsry coolness and self-possession produced the mutilated victim of her barbarity. Monday a Coroner's inquest sat upon the body hut some doubts existing in the mauls of the jurors as to the legal proof of her galt, they atijourne.l until Wed nesday, when (at about four o'clock in the afternoon) they returned a verdict of tail Jul murder against the unnatural mother. She is det titiod at the Vagrant °lee until s h e is sufficiently recovered to be removed to York Castle. — (Leer,' Pater.) The Editor of the Wakefield Journal, says the Leeds Mercury, states thst the Coroner prevented his reporter from taicing notes of the prJeeethnus, alleging on the; authority of 311 r. Justice Park, tat the publication of the; evidence previous to trial *as illegal. The Editor of the Mercury Cleo proceeds thus:—" Without entering into an examination of the opinions at tributed to the Learned Judge (the soundness of which we are much inclined to question,) we must be allowed to say, that we think the conclusion to which the Coroner has arrived is not warranted by the premises. It may be true that no person so w have a right to publish the proceedings of a:Coroner's inqmst, and yet it may be equally true that the Curoi.:r has no right whatever to prohibit any individual from taking an acconnt of the %hole proceedings. The inquisition before a Coroner is an open Court, at Odell all the King's subjects have a right to be present, and we conceive that the presiding officer has just as much right to order that the persons present shall not remember what they hear, as that they shall not be allowed to assist their memory by committing lit to writing. _ _ We know not tlmt any better opportunity can be found for shoeing the advantages of authentic ne•sspaper publi cations, in cases that are likely to become the sobject„ of legal inquiry-, than the shove. Daring the whole of this week the most exaggerated rerrts have wren raised, re lating to the murder of this child, and the mutton of its wretched mother ; these rutneurs have found their say into print, acrotopatiied by very improper observations, and it required the corrertive of the press, proceeding upon just information, to disabuse the public mind, and to en.thle these who way be called upon to sit in judgment upon the case, to enter upon their duty without any undue bias. The lin-- of distinction in these matters serum to us to be this—When the press is used to disseminate authen tic information, such as the deposition of witnesses before a Coroner's Jury, it is usefully employed, but when it is used to props;tate the errors and exaggerations of coot mon fame, it is mischievous." Ailvices from Madrid subsequent to the formation of the new Ministry, give us to understand that no material alteratiln can be expieted from the late change, either as reiardi the private sentiments of the King, or the policy he intends to pursue. Mitenaxics' INSTITUTE, Lens.—lt appears from Ilse Leeds Mercury and I atelligeneer that there is every prospect of the establishment of a Slechaaies Institute in that town. The undertaking, however, it seen s, will be . att• tided with some difficulty, nut experienced in the other places where the attempt bas been made. The Mercury &Justice, " As the most prominent feature of the establish ment would be the regular delivery of lectures, we ap prehend it would not he easy to find persons in this town at once gnal,fie_d and disposed to lecture, and they could not he engaged from other places but at a heavy expence. In Edinburgh and Glas2ow, where some of the Profes=ots in the Universities have lectured gratuitously, and where scientific men are very abundant, this difficulty is not experienced. To procure a collection of models, too, and a scientific library —both of them indispensable appen dages of such an institution—would involve consi derable' cast. It is necessary, therefore, that both the optilent•and the working classes should combine their efforts, with extraordinary spirit, to render the proposed institution practicable." . Hostas. —Spring left Hereford at the end of last week in a north easterly direction, to near the place of fighting, Which will co: be known until the remainder of the stakes is made good on New Year's Clay He is in excellent health, and has corninencrd close training. Langan had been some time taking his exercise and training diet, and writes to his friends to sty he cannot spore time to appear in London until afire the bottle on the 7th of January, in which he has the greatest conti hence. Ccc TO Joan. HvusuN.—A silver cup, of the value of eighty gnineas, has been voted by the P ar ti a lity Club to Josh. Hudson, and the subscriptions are rapidly filling. On Tburiday night a very numerous meeting of the members took place as the Bite Anchor, in East Smith field, which was attended by the veteran Tuna Owen, President of the Clab, and a number of the Fancy. Pierce Egan produced a drawing of the. Cop, which is admirably designed, and is manufacturing under his superintendence by tirayliurst aad Harvey. It is to he heart-shaped, and rehly chesed from etnb!c.natical designs by Cruick •h ink. The tinning, which was not finished, gave high satisfac• tion.to the metnbdrs present, among whoa was Ward, Hudson's Late antagonist. Ashton has accepted Ilalton's challenge, to run any time (with one mouth's notice), two miles, or more, over linutiford race course, in Cheshire, fer one hundred pounds a-side. Provided this he not accepted. he mill meet him at Doncaster any lime after the Ist day of April, 1521, (five weeks notice theing given), and run him two laps, i. e. twice round the course, for the above sum. The acceptance or rejection oft n • of the above offers, he says, will perhaps declare to the sport ing world who Is a coward, or which is the best • - On Wednesday night last, betwe.n seven and right o'clock, the genie keeper of Nlrs. Nltloes, of Frystone, was alt Liked in Perrybridge Yield, by two poacher., who bred at him with slugs, and wounded him. A rew..rii of one hnodred guineas has been offered for the apprehension of the persons concern d i Ctis murderous Attll k. COUNTRt RS AND MARKETS. ragetatotrlt.—Cang; . Dic. 10 —There Is no change is and the lessen is drawing to a close. No Beef was livered on Mondayor yesterday. Oxen India, 265, • Nary. 245,: Planters, 21s. Cawi -5 cwt., 265.; 4i, 245. ; 43, 225.; 4f, ; 4,185. Pork—Several droves of Pigs have been brought in by Ate Butchers from the different Fa'rs in the adjoining Cninties-31s. 6J. was freely given yesterday, and as freely ' taken, though tee have b , •ess informed that a few purchat: *bre made at 325. 61. and 3.31.1. on speculation. • At the Fair of O'Briers's lit idge, (County Clare), holden in Monday last, Black Cat•le and Pigs were in great mend; the former sold tt the rate of 30s: the cwt. At the Fair of Six-mile Bridge, on Tuesday, fat cattle were in good demand, and nearly the entire of what were offered for sale were disposed of: pigs were equally sought after, and purchased at high prices. Cant.ow, Dac.ll. —Butter has sdvanded since the period of our Isst quotations. Private bargains have been eon chided, from sonic prime lots, at 91is. 995. lOUs .% 101 s. we understand was refuied for one parcel of 4U tirkina. The eupply is totally inadequate to the demand, and affords a convincing proof that the stock in the Farmer's hands is quite exhausted. Our dairy Farmers in this, and tit,. neighbouring Counties, will be enabled, by these advan- Oes ? to discharge their arrears. Warman') Masses, December ll.—TheprieAl of Butter yesterday was repel tide. to 675. generally, and. one good lot was said to havelsrowitivt eess.—scalded Pork maintained its peke, ggs. to 365. generally. 375. to 374.6 d. for heavy Pies, and Vs. was said to have been paid in one instance. No change of moment In other article.. There is but very little variation in the Chi Ester corn trade, this week, a s will be seen by the intpectot's return wheat, 53, 634 ; oats, 22a ; barley, 2ls 70 ; peas, 325. per quarter. LEWES Copy MARREIT, SIIIOIIIOF, D-cember 6, 1823. — White sheet (old) 3l; ditto (new) 21 101 6d; red %latest (new) 2/ 135; barley (new 118 s to it I Is; oats (new) 1/1a to ll2e.—Tursilay, December 9, 18.1—White wheat (old) (rens 2/ 16s to 31; ditto (new) 21121 to 2111.; suited wheat (new) 2/ tls to 21 14s; red wheat (new) 21 4s to 21 141; barley (new) I/. 7s to I/ 111; oats (new) It Is; beans (new) I/ I 21; peas (new) I/ 134. A second statutes for the hiring of servants was held ht East Itetford, Notts, on Saturday week, a great untuher were in attendanCe; men servants, for forenten, were much sought after; bat the chief business done was , amongst females, very many of whom obtained situations, and thus who could produce testimonials of good character, were hired at a great increase of wages. There was a larger show of fat beasts at Staindon Chriet• mss Fair on ,Nlonday last, than has been known for mane years. The best Beef made 61. pet ib. ; and the best ripe Sheep sold at about 4s. per •stone.—Nearly all the Cattle was disposed of. There was a good show of Cattle at Ex-ter Fair 03 Wednesday, which sold briskly at adv kneed prices.— Steers were mock in demand, and very few remained un sold at the close of the fair. Prime fat Bullocks fetched full 9s. per score. At Bonney Market, Pig. were very nanserona ; but the greater part remained unsold. Wheat 50s. to 545.; Bar!ey to3os. ; Oats 201. to 245. Bodtnin Fair,on Saturday last, was large and well sop plied with ca•Ce, which met sills a brisk sale at a small advance of price. At Liskeard fair on Monday, the supply of rattle and sheep %las abundant, Fat emite and fat sheep sold well, early in the day ; but the prices demanded for store sheep cont.a not be obtained. In the after part of the day, the sellers found it expedient to enme down in their demotes:l, and all that were penned were disposed of. Tbe supply of cattle, &c. at Tturo fair on Monday, was not abundant ; high prices were demanded, and but littie business was dune. Mr. Walter Breach, of Chippenhatn, having lately kited a row, found in the stomach a purer, containing some hal,- pence, which the cow must have picked up while grazing. ExrßAonoix.%nv must..—Mr. W. Banister, of Eirre monr, has in his possession a pig, abotit a year old, which has completely cast its skin. Several respectable persons in the town have seen it, all of whom declare it to be an unprecedented circumstance in this country. A person who has seen it feeding, represents it as a fit and healthy looking animal.—(CarlteleJournal) SINGULAR CIRCUMETANCR.—.Ibont eleven o'clock on Thursday morning last, as a man was driving a cow down Goode atngate, in this city, the bract smidenly ran tp the passage of the house of Mrs. March, the sign of the Slipper, and entered the hrewhouse, whence it fell into the cellar beneath. he from doors of the cellar being opened, it immediately ascended into the street, .wi:hont either injuring itself or any individual.—( York CORM EXCHANGE, DEC. 15.—The a - rivals of all kind, of grain Isst week were large. There was also a consider. able quantity of flour. This morning our supplies again came rather short, and as the top price of flour is fully es: tablished at 555. per sack, there bas been a bribit'cleman I for Wheat, and the prices have experienced a further ad. vance of 2s to 3s. per quarter on the quotations of this day se'nuiglit. There has been some denia .d tir ;Barley, to ship for the North, and this article is 21 per quarter higher. Beans are a Ivanced Is. per quarter. Bulling Peas remain much the same as last quoted. The sale of Gr.y Peas is lively, and they are is. per quarter dearer. More business has been done in the Oat trade this moroing wit' the prices of last Monday are fully maintained. In the Seed trails there is no alteration. SMITRPIEI.D MARKET, DEC 15.—Theshow and numbers of rattle at market this tnorning, far exceeded any thirig seen for sevrral years past. The number of oxen is snp• posed to have been from sto fi thousand. They extended down Snow Hill, as far as the Saracen's Heal. The in. tenor of the market was trammed with them. Amongst the cattle were many of the finest we ever saw. The salesmen were not hack in asking a good price, particularly fur prime Scots. Fine Southdown sheep Sold also at high prices. SIMING fires.—A man of Slingshy, we are informed, of the name of George Wildon, a shoemaker, havin,f oce.i• sion lately to pa's throoglo one of the Earl of Carlisle's woods to a farm house to deliver out some work, where he stayed until the night came. was induced by the farm •r's men to take a foot path on his re:urn, which is a little shorter than the public road on which he I ad e tine. Owing to the dark, he wandered into the thick of the wood, an d corning in contact with a spring gun, set heirs far the. pro• section of the game, was, from it, slightly ton t led, but is now nearly recovered. 11 'e are glad to I. arm, at the Lime time, that as won his Lordship was informed Of the disaster, he, with the most humane attention, caused it to he signified to the sufferer, that a remission of rent on time premises (consisting of a cottage, a lar:.te garden, and three acres of good ground), which he and his widowed mother hold arta der his Lordship, should be granted fur hod& tlie;r lives. (Ca eller Joie real ) A decoct) Hants.—.l short time ago, a young man, the son of s respecteile irh obitant of the parish of dlarew, Pembrokeshire, while go'ng about the brlds with. his father's dogs, started a hare, and after a considerable course, puss, in order to escape from her pursuers, fink refuge in a cottage, which she entered through a hole in the door; the retreat being discovered, every precaution was taken to secure the object of pursuit, when, after a long and apparently vain search, it was discovered th it puss, for her better security, had entered a, large jug', which the ;one woman of the cut had foe the purpose 4 „carryieg water, i .: 0 I] it :r ,~ I A