The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-10-19 00:00:00

HORRID mukbrk.

Ii le with painful feeling we have to Mete headier dread-
ful act of atrocity which has been ceimautted in this enmity.
On Monday last, iu the parish of Crathie, antiwar, a young
woman residing with her aged soother, a widow who had
bees Snag bed-ridden, was found barbarously murdered
in the bunse, her throat being cut in the most Masking
Manner. From she reported intimacy between the parties,
and other circumstances which, in the present stage of the
►ossiness, it would he improper to eater upon, suspicion
fell upon a young men of the came of Robert Mackintosh,
who, after undergoing en examination before some of the
Justices in that neighbourhood, was brought to town and
lodged in gaol h.re on Wednesday. The Sberili-Siibstitute
of Aberdeen and Fiscal of the Comity have in the mean
time, we learn, gone to she scene of this sad catastrophe, to
pursue the legal investigation, so as to lead to the discovery
of the guilty pert petraor.—(A berthas,' Chronicle.)
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DREADFUL OUTRAGE.
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Between the hours of ten and eleven o'clock. on Sunday
evening lam, as Mr. —y, his brother, aid another
young man, were retnrning home front New own, they were
masked by a man of the name of Lynch, a carpenter, who
lives in Neaiatc.lsne, and was at that moment in search of
wine boys that hail made • noise at his door. One of she
gentlemen inquired if he had soy demand on them, to which
he answered in the negative, bat with that degree of imper.
tinenee, that he and the young man got entangled, and whom
he, his wife, his son, and two other young men, belaboured
very heavily. Mr. M—.—y, who was foremost, passed on as
far as the Castle Barrack., here he drat missed his comps-
whom and retnrned back to call away his brother, never
thinking that they were assaulted by I.ynrh, sod his party—
ball. Weald to relate, jail its he approached, he was struck
with a stick by Lynch, who was about to repeat it, when Mr.
M—y seized th• stick, bait Lynch recollecting that he hail
more arms than one, drew • pistol from his packet, and tired
at Mr. who received the ball in his groin. We are
happy to kern, that Mr. May is likely to recover; Sur-
geon Thwsites has every good opinion of the wueud.—
(Limerick Telegraph )
HERRING FISHERY.

Onetime —The herring fishery in Orkney is advancing
rapidly into importance. Foor years ago the whole quan-
tity cored in the county did not exceed • few hundred bar-
rels; it amounted last season to about 19,4)00 barrels. This
season, whirls has hero ao late and unprodoctive at Wick.
sod at most of the great fishing stations on the east roast of
Scotland, has proved highly favourable •t the statious in
Orkney. The curers filled their barren early in the season.
The "'entities take. were an consid«rable that • siagle corer
received upinorts of 1,200 crane of fish in one day. The
fishermen, al the moderate rate of rix shillings per eras,
earned more than their neighbours on the Scotch roast at
II 1 Ile shillings per eran. They can afford to CM at the
stations in Orkney at • cheaper rate, heroine, from the
proximity of the islands to each other, the Ihkerrnen renew
to their own booms for their week's provisions and fret
every Saturday, and reach the fishing stations easily again
on Monday; and whew on the stations, the expenses of the
ishermen, the wear and tear of their boats, the hire of
lodgings, and of ground for their nets, are considerably
leas than at those stations, at which, from the nature of the
coast, the whole of the boats and people must rennin
dodo, the season in one place. The harbours and safe
landing place* are so aumerous, that the fishermen are not
obliged, in stormy weather, to keep the sea from the dearer
of running to the coast, Nor of reaorting to one place fur
lodging and accommodation. Ten sail of fishing •-ssels
from Rothesay and Greenock, made their sprat:wee at the
beautiful harbour of Papa Sound, 81ronaay, this season, for
the first time, to purchase cargoes. They completed their
cargoes, and sailed for • market, before vessels from the
ante ports, which bed gone to other statiens, had gut
twenty barrels on board ; and the masters •nd curers who
bad made this experiment of a sew station, were highly
gratified at the early tithing, the moderate price of the Ash,
the safety of the biathlon, and convenience of the beach, on
which they laid their weasels aground, and cured their Ash
without thine charges of harbour dues, ground rents, or
pier dues, which in these times are objects of some import.
awes to corers so • small scale. The first week of July Is
considered the commeacemout of the fishing at Simony,
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nod a fortnight or three weeks after at Routh Rosa Willis, to
which island the 6sliertnen prugeed when the carers at
Stronsay exit rreeive so more 6sb.' It is expected lam a
eoesiderable number of vessels will resort next seam. to
the early fishing at Oikney —( Inverness Courier.)

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