The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-12-23 00:00:00

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THE LATE iioll,ll.

The fall of snow bus been very great in var!,,
parts of the kingdom. It fell with stub 16.01.!
out the evening of Friday and the forenoon u .
turday last, ea the North-east and East, eat.;
Yorkshire, as totally to suspend ►he pragrew
every kind of imblie earrie.,e. The mail rest
Market•We;ghton both ou the nights or Suits,
and Sunday, from whence the bags were I•urwsr,;.,
on horseback, and reached [lull safely, the tint ,
Sunday, at half past twelve, and the second ,
'Tuesday, at half past ten. The guard, fume.,
iw returning, was, from excessive fatigue, Nor\
initiated, as to be unable to proceed further tha
Bishop-Burton.
The stage coaches, says the (lull paper of Ts
day, have been since Sunday morning stispen,le,:
until the roads are opened between Weigton ••
fleverley ; but the whole of this day autik'ry
has been a continued fall, which aid of cos
render that event hes probable.
The greatest weight of tutor, adds that Pam
is on the East and North-east coast, as the Lou
mail reached York on Sunday evening list, at
twenty minutes past twelve, having experie,..A
very little obstruction in her progress from t:a:
South.

The storm of wind and snow was very
in the neighbourhood of Sheffii!!.l. 1%.e drivt•• •
the Manchester mail coach to Sheffield, was
forzen, in coining over the moors, as to be unable
move Irons the box, when he arrived at
bur; We was taken into the house, and aftcr sei
time recovered.

On Sunday eitiiititglit. a young woman (rota
Flmighton, was buried at Elect:born, whose ditan;t
was occasioned by having imollowed a quantity o:
fruit-stones, at least seven years ago.
Y.sed weal Bird, one of the guards of the
mail coach between Newcastle and Edinburgh. ar:d
Miss Bird, his daughter. were committed to Ber-
wick gaol. lie for taking too Italian absals, and
several article* of Tulin:, and six for exelmagilei
theta for other goods.
On Friday re'nnight, • duel took place sear
evainford. in the county of Durham, between
CVMILTS MITCHULL, Eaq. and Mt. JAMS, is
which the latter was wounded.

Yesterday, a cruel wretch, a butcher, threw a
terrier dog rarer the railing of St. Jaw s's pill: i at.)
the canal. The weight of the poor auiinal b.., -
the ice, which laud beew softened by the le
thaw, sud continued to gire way at rrery effort ta e
dog made to extricate itself; iis tries soon drys a
number of persons to the spot, who wear laaas,Vtl
unable to render it any assistance. .Iltersuwg-
gling and howling nearly half an hour, the pose
animal, worn out with its exertions. sat nL bciaesaii
the ice and ended its misery. The feelings of the
slxctators were strongly affected Its the sunset fur-
tunably for the ruffian, he made u precipitate re-
treat.

Last Saturday. being the birth-dav of Sir As-
DREW CORRLI, Bart. was eelehret, .1 ttith ita

wonted hilarity,' by his troop of \milt Shropshire
Cavalry, and the neistittiourhood around his lin.-
pitalile mansiou, Acton It eyaald flail. The Ba-
ronet's annual gift of two oxen was distributed to
the 'poor. At might, about eleven o'clock, the
buildings on the west side of the stably-card at
Acton lteynald were discovered to be on tire, :And
after burning furiously for some time, the who!?
were consumed. A horse, a lamb, two calves, sod
various other things, were destroyed. By the re-
tire exertious of Sir Aeoacw servsots
and labourers, aided by a few other persons, the
flames were happily checked. and the progress of
the fire sutdued ; se that the too other runr, eC
building (consisting of stables, couch-oin-es, said
barns), as well as the stockyard adjoining, rive
fortunately saved; and, providentially, tie lives
were loot.

A Pedestrian Match has been made, it is under-
stood, by Lord LOWTIIER. fa. Mr.
sox, Bookseller. of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, to ;;*
10n0 miles in se successive days, for 1010 guineas,
and Mr. SHAILLSPIIAR backs time. The peclestrnnt
will undertake the task on the 11th of April, and
will perform from Shoreditch Church to the 2.:th
.04e-stone on the Cambridge road, nod return esch
day. Mr. WILSON is the pedestrian who per Pron
a match of 1000 miles at :Newmarket, in Orto; ter
last. High odds are betted against the verforman,....
Mr. WILSON is to go the SO miles in 14 hours, a;:t1
to drink nothing but water during his journey.
On Friday morning the following shocking cr..
cumstance occurred in Sandgate. in Newcastle. A
young woman, sleeping with an infant child, awoke
early in the morning, and missed the child oat of
the bed. Oa searching the room, she found that it
had fallen from the bcd into a tub of water, whir lt
had been left near it, and was drowned. Thu
shrieks of the young woman, on discovering this
melancholy event, alarmed the neighbours, who.
instead of endeavouring to quiet her peauibed
mind, began to ',ha Fr her with carelessness., fttc.
This added to the anticip steel reflections or the
mother (who was then at Shirldpj operated ..c•
powerrtilly on the young woman's feelii.gs, thus
rushed out of the house.Antd. in a at of f r •ry. l"r-
-eipituted herself into the river, wlie.e stir was
frowned befure any afti.tance could be alindvd.
The young walnut wus the unut.