The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-12-10 00:00:00

ANOTHER MATRIMONIAL FREAK.

A farmer is the worth cavalry bad two daughter'. A
reniit maw raid his addresses to the yossger. 1,,p0s wished
an gimps* of the elder first, but the youth riensioised 'feed-
bag is his partiality. Hit was worholty married to tie
younger; but deceitful Hymen placed i■ his arum the lady
Intended for him by his too prude's' failier.in-law, and it is
raid that be did not diseovrir the saiefwho until the following
rourningo—(teffabsirgh Star.)

TO THII EDITOR.

(From the Traveller.]
Sta—l will inform you what the Stafford;hire Advertiser
ought to have done in his observation on the ease with which
the last half year's taxes were collected, which you hare
grated from the above Paper, written evidently to prove t►at
the times are not so bad es represented. Know t►e., Sir,
that the above prompt payment was EXACTED by TaateTe
from the Collectors, that if they we►e not paid up To •
ISAIITRINO, EXCHEQUER PROCESS= WOULD INSTANTLY
DAVE ! And although t►ey were paid, as the Advertiser
ear, sever had t►e payers more digieully is Sadie( the
money; and the landlord mutt pay the piper.
A STAFFORDSHIRE TAXPAYER.

MURDER IN HYDE PARK.

Since Saturday night the greatest alarm bag bees excited
at the west end of the town, in coneequesee of the discovery
of • senile/man in the &repeat's*/ Leer, Hyde Park, with
bill throat cut in a most horrible manlier, supposed in rave
been done by robbers, as no properly wee (mead epon him
except oue bad sixpence, a pair of spectacles le a case, and
a pocket comb. There wee a pool of blood about thirty
yards from the spot where he was found in the river, and
drops of blood spun the ground all along that distance, as
if he had been dragged thither. This was the, cause of
the discovery, and the river was dragged, whets the body was
foetid about twenty yards from the shore. There was a deep
cut across the deceased's chin, sod his knuckles also cut,
which indicated that he made considerable resistauce. There
wari• dreadful gash on each side of the windpipe, but the
jugular vein was not touched. He appears to be about
sixty yeses of age, WY a very stout powerful man, fresh co-
lour, sad well dremel, in • dark frock coat, black silk waist-
coat, light coloured kerseymere sdlellclothee, worsted stock-
ings, high ankle boots, sod gaiters; bat there was nothing
about him that would heed to • discovery who he was.
Information has been given to the Coroner to hold an in-
quest this afternoon open the body.

Lord DORMER had nearly met with a fatal occi-
dent at Grove Park, since pheasant shooting com-
mruced. DYKE, the game-keeper, discharged his
piece at • bird, without observing his Lordship,
who was approaching in the direction in which the
gun went off, but was concealed from him by a
large tree ; part of the contents of the gun lodged
in his Lordship's chest, but we are happy to say, he
is mildly 'teaseling, and is deemed out of danger.
Wistlsor b.rpress.l

We have the pleasure to find that the decision to
request the High Sheriff of Yorkshire to call a
county meeting on the subject of Parliamentary
Reform, and the invitation to other counties to
follow the example, has had • powerful influence
upon the country. Already fifteen or sixteen of the
leading counties of England are ifs motion, sod we
anticipate that there will on the next meeting of
Parliament be an effort more general and aimult•-
neous to favour of reform than was ever before wit-
rimed. On former occasions it was too much the
practice to act iu castes. There were the Patrician
Reformers at one time, end the Plebiae► Reformers
at another, but now these distinctions are in • fair
way of being merged in the general name of Eng-
lish Reformers. Already the Yorkshire requisition
boasts the names of • great number of leading
men in the county ; and before it is presented it
will contain the signatures of several hundred free-
holde►s, which number might, if it was judged ne-
cessary, be easily swelled to as many thousands.—
( Leeds Mercury.
STORM IN YORM.--In the night of Thursday
last we experienced • severe storm of wind, snow,
and rain, which continued till four or five o'clock
on Friday morning. The following, however, was
the principal mischief occasioned thereby :—A part
of the fine spire of North-street church was blown
down, the stones of which were forced, by their
weight, through the roof; several of the large trees
on the New Walk were forced up by the roots, and
some few of the chimnie• in the city were a little
damaged.
A rattle-snake was killed lately by a negro man
belongsng to AMBROSE KNOX, E•q. measuring five
feet two and • half inches in length, nine rod a
quarter inches in circumference, and having sine-
teen settles. This enormous reptile had crawled
very near the dew of the negro (whose cabin was
sear the woods), where his children were playing in
the yard, when they accideutally discovered him.—
American Paper.)