The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-04-18 00:00:00

AN INVALID.

A paper, containing a statement of Exchequer halation;
of payments in the year ending ith January 1826, boa
been printed by order of the House of Commons, the go-
neral result of which may be seen by the following ab.
stract:—

sth January, 1325.
Balance in tht _

sth January, 1826.
Balance in the Ex- _ _

chequer - X 9.552,522 chequer - cs,sokaml
Reeeip:s in the year 57,273,889 Payments in the year 51,6211091 C -
Debt created by sale Funded and unfunded
of Exchequer Bills 28,734,050 Debt redce.ned 38,634.77 i
.1:05,514,411
Ronitrat.—Some thieves, with their faces blackened,
entered the premises of Mrs. Griffith", Mumbles, near Swansea, ott
the morning of the 10th inst., anti stole 451. They tied Mrs.
Griffiths and another lady together in bed. The servant girl, sleep-
ing in en adjoining apartment, which they could not enter, hearing
the disturbance, got tip to the window. and gave the alarm. Tba
neighbours collected at the front, but the visitors made their escape
through the back door.

At-kfontgomery a dreadful accident occurred on Afonder
night week. Aa dire. Weaver, of the Post Office, was sealing up
the letter bags, a spark communicated to the gunpowder kept for
sale in the shop. The explosion was frightful. Parts of the frost
and back walls of the shop were driven out, and carried nearly
across the street: the house is balf-timbered, elite probab the
whole would have fallen by the chock. 3lrs. Weaver is deplo-
rably scorched and lacerated; but although there were fourewa
persons in bed in the house, not one of them hu sustained any
injury.
From the small-pox making its appearance in several
parts of the parish of Wimborne, Dorsetshire, the churchwardewe
gave notice for a meeting of the inhabitants on Tuesday last, se
take into consideration the most effectual means of staying this
dreadful malady, when it was agreed, by .very large meeting, with
only three diaseraing voices, to have a general vaccination throsilt..
out the pariah, and that notices should he posted through the pas.
rich cautioning all persons hissing the small-pox against appearing
Li the stieets or King's high-road, under pain of tine or impriewu-
ment, as the law directs.

Thursriay evening a barbarous murder was committed
near Falkirk. As a man named Boyd, with another man and tee
women, were going home from the fair, four young men came up
and insisted on the girls going with thorn, at the same time using
them very roughly. ' Boyd interfered, telling them it was s
shame to behave in such a manner, when they desisted. After pre—
(ceding a little farther they separated, Boyd's home being in a
Mifereut direction from the others, he was followed by the young
men, who knocked him down, and stabbed him, nay even ripped
him up in a manner too horrible for description. lie was carried,
to the nearest house, and medical assistance got from Falkirk, bat
in vain, as he lingered iu great agony till next morning, whim kat
expired. lie has left a wile and two children. Three of the was-
deters were next clay apprehended and sent to Stirling Castle.
Titer names are Armstrong, a butcher, 111'Nals and 31'Laree
labourers; the fourth, who has at present escaped, is a shoe:nab;
of the nanie of Inglis. They are all from IG to 18 years of age.
ERMAT A.—ln our introduction to the German Papers
yesterday, for b• whose Editor reports the same thing," reed • ow.
peatt the same thing ;" and again, in the reference to the Prod..
sident of the United States' ',lessee, Instead of " Queen Bees as
bar limn of Carts,," wad " to ha Rouse of Covatines."