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London, England, 1822-09-18 00:00:00

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aN aftirt, abort eight o'clock, a dreadffil tire brake
oat indite lower part of the Rermondsey New Road, in the
floor cloth mastatactory of blesera Rolls aid oouleosi, which
raged with dreadful force upwards of so hour before any
engines arrived, and after which considerable delay arose in
obtaining a supply of water, by which time, °where ti the
combustible material used in the maisufaCture, and the
lightness of the building, seared, a vestige of the premise,
was left, soil the destructive element ►ad seized upon eight
or slue small houses at the back, and a timberyard adjoin.
isg. After a supply of water was obtained, the 'tertians of
the firemen•secceeded is atoppiag further ravages in the
timber.yard of Mr. Dare, is which, though cousiderably
damaged, the valuable piles of mahogany, &e, were saved.
But in regard to the small houses at the back, and *lnch
were difficult of access for the esgiues, we are sorry to say
none escaped either total destruction or great damage. To
add to the scene of horror, the thieves despoiled the wretch.
ed ishabilaste of the chief part of their small property,
which the hamanity of their neighbours bad enabled t►em to
carry into the street.
It is said that the fire originated (brought the boffin over
of a put of varnish, to which one of the firm was remittal!,
attending, bat that t►e rapid amd overwhelming erect of the
explosion rendered Ain iacapable of using any immediate
mean of stopping the devouring element. We are sorry to
■dd, that the premises were insured to a very small amount,
If at all. Fortunately no lives were lost; and, in eons..
quence of there ',Mug little wind atirriag, the people of the
, neighbourhood may thank Providence for an escape which
would have been rendered next to impossible bad it blows
the gals-of wind it did us Sunday last; probably the &shif-
tless and grandeur of list eaelaucholy sight have not been
equalled since the coufisgralloo of tbetheatres.

DISTRESS OP THE FARMERS.

With an aching heart we again tern to this most painful
of subjects. A sun is sbiai•g above our heads, calculated,
one wuuld think, to make eves • misanthrope smile; the
birds are aimed( 'ironed is as merrily as if spring had re-
lu►ued again; Ilse waggons bend wish the ponderous weight
of the last sheaves in the field; and yet the poor farmer has
nothing before Ins eyes but email@ irretrievable ruin. As
iestance of iedivideal misery stares as in the face—indivi-
dual did we say? yes; as a■ unit is • corporate and indivi-
dual portion of a thousand; as a heedful of wheat is a
sample of the whole garner ; it is an instance of what has
been, is, and must be, to the immense majority of British
farmers.

A couple, amiable, iaclustrious, intellectual, having two
children, the very images of themselves in their virtues and
their cisiipositions, some three or four years ego took a farm
fur a certain term (about half of which is now unexpired),
and brought with him 4,000/. to stock aid Improve it.
Gifted, to • surprising degree, with taste, econewly, Rod is.
destry, they soon converted heir little place from a wild,
shapeless, sad nacomeortable •bode, to • mei paradise,
" the envy and admiration" of travellers and surrounding
tenants. There was something in its appearance so neat, so
vatqae, so expressive of happiness, that few could wonder
were a seemed Cineionatus to prefer it to a palace: and yet
there was so waste; its beauty was rasher the result of,
hours, that would otherwise have been unoccupied, Shalt of
•ny large expenditure of time and money in ins cultivation ;
its richness, Its producti • ere different things; Wee
did cost vouch of both but nobody could blame the m
l eet-
ee ; had the delusive isopes of 1811 (wheat at 4145. • bushel)
been realized, an honest livelihood, a gradually advaating
independence, mid • sweet anticipative glance at their
children comfortably provided for, would have rewarded the
worthy Fair's industry. Every thing, however, got worse,
priers lower, lower, lower, every month; ney, almost every
market; yet hope kept hmeading upwards on eagle's wins;
even depression served but as • stimulant to Jarrow /nor.
tion; retrenchment was screwed so tight, that it seemed am.
possible for ecoeomy to imagine further reduction than the
last: Further, however, than the last were discovered, and
made from time to time; habit enabled the " gurleman" to
almost do the work of two; and the good, honest,
gent wife, bocianie indefatigable, end one would think MIA.
present ; she was always wherever she was wanted. Com-
forts dwindled down to conveniences, conveniences to se.
civilities. Seven o'clock to six, six to lye, lye to four, and
foor to three, for risingi and yet all would not do•—every
succeeeloss summer tow matters worse; and now, a few
days Imo, the poor farmer, looking at his children sad his
affeetionate partner, sick with toil and anguish, burst out iu
I tbe.bittenten of his soul, " Why, ay, let them take all—
' stock, mop, garden—all! it will pay them their demand.;
and Imams, wife; we're not worth • farthing." Is this •
siagalar out! Router, look around you !—(Corlisls
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DREADFUL ACCIDENT.

A dreadful accident occurred on Monday morning
on Blackheath-hill. The Tally-ho, a Woolwich op-
position coach. actuated by that tlarit of rivalry
which has of late been fatal to so many live., bad
the temerity to pass down Blackheath-hill at full
gallop. The coach iu its progress was observed to
acquire an undulating motion. and when it arrived
about midway down the hill was thrown over with
such violence that the aide wos driven iu and broken
to pieces by the full. There were in all fifteen
passengers, eleven outside and four inside, all of
whom, without exception. received serious injury ;
an officer from Woolwich, Major M'Cleod, • very
tine young men, was one of the greatest sufferers;
his ryes are the only part of his face that have
escaped injury; little hopes are entertained of his
recovery: Not one of the passengers have escaped
without broken lege or arms, and several of them.
it is much feared, will lose their lives. After the
accident happened most of the passengers were
conveyed back again to Woolwich, seine on the
shoulders of men, and others in caravans. when
they
,were immediately attended by four surgeons
from the hospital.
Another account says, the coach was upset by
turning round the corner ut the toZottom of the hill
in full speed ; it was dashed in a thousand limes,
and it appears that the inside passengers received
snore hurt titan the outside ones.

Mr. Buxxonaus' benefit on Monday night
yielded 4001., ilbe greatest house ever known at the
Surrey Theatre. The box lobbies, and all the
various avenues, were crowded to excess. No slight
proof of the estimation of the actor and the worth of
the man.

ORPHEUS, we are told, by the sweetness of his
music, attracted and rivetted to the spot the whole
forest of sauna's, thus extorting the highest rated of admira-
tion fur t►atsablime science. A curious trial, sumetbing in
character with the above, was, on Tuesday, made among
that grand assemblage of animals, the Royal Mtuaactlet
Exeter 'Change. A highly-distioguisited character, serum-
panied by some Gentlemen of note, wished to ascertain the
power of music upon the huge Hkpbeet and the different
noble animals there collected, a Professor of eminence ■t-
leaded with his piano-forte, assisted by • Gentleman on the
French horn, and the effect predate:l was highly gratifying
to the Gentlemen present: the noble aspect of the isajestic
Dow, with his mane erect, and hit grandeur of form, exhi-
bited in the high:sat perfection, thositsent lon of some, and the
gambols of edam, etweltuard wit► the siegialarity of their
different voice., blended fehb the notes el the UMW, had ao
effect truly newel and grand,

ULh hAiLkir sinsioNg,
russomr, slirraislist 17.

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. ?Umiak NeigIVINIP indicted for feloniously utter&
into cerslimwiesu of silver plate, having upon it *a
meets inesitessiets. or stamps IstsrPbrling to be that
of the Goldatbitlisi. Hall, well knowing it to be
forged and counterfeit, with intent to defraud his
Majesty of the duty thereon.
The Prisoner, by the advice of his Counsel,
pleaded Guilty to the indictment.
Mr. kart, who was Counsel for tbe_proseett-
Con, said, that in consideration of valuable infor-
mation given to Government by the Prisoner, which
would enable the Government to put a stop to these
criminal prectices, he should not call evidence to
the capital part of the charge, but he •sislied it to
he known, for the information of those who still
carried on this trade, that this would be the last
instance in winch such an indulgence would be'
granted.
The Prisoner was then arraigned upon several
other indictments, in which the offence was charged
capitally, to all which he pleaded No/ Guilty, and
no evidence being called, he was acquitted uponT
each of them.
Jule Holland, bricklayer, aged 44, and William
King, aged 52, were capitally indicted for an offence
not 6t to be named.
The evidence against them fully substantiated
the charge, and the Jury, after hearing it summed
up by Mr. Justice Barr, immediately found both
the Prisoners Guilty.
Rosiaa Paris was indicted for stealing in the
dwellogwhosse of Mr. William Staff, in the perish
of St. Luke, Chelsea, two pair of bracelets, a neck-
.
lace, a piece of' poplin, and other articles.
The prisoner lived as servant with the Prosecu-
tor, and quitted her vituatiou on the 20th of July,
and went to live in Downing-street. After she had
left, the articles stated in the indictment were dis-
covered •to be missing, and in consequence Mrs.
Staff "mot with an officer.ancl searched the Prisoner's
box at. possnitipotreet, when the necklace and
other articles were discovered therein, which the
Prisoner said was her property, and was given to
her by a young man lately dead. The different ar-
ticles were identified by 'Mrs. Staff as the property
of her husband.
The Jury found her Guilty of stealing to the value
of 395.

- The Prosecutrix recommended her to mercy.
Robert Swadliug, a lad of fifteen years of age,
was indicted for stealing in the dwelling-house
of Thomas Cody 441. in silver coin, the property of
the said Thomas Cody.
It appeared from the evidence of the son of the
Prosecutor, a lad of twelve years of age, that he
was invited by the Prisoner to steal the money out
of the 1104 iu which it was kept, cud was furnished
by him with a key for the purpose of opening it.
The Prisoner was to wait near the street door for
the purpose of receiving the money, but when his
young accomplice returned after committing the
robbery, he found the Prisoner had gone home to
his own house.
Mr:Janice BUT, on this evidence, directed the
Jury to acquit the Prisoner. It was necessary, in
order to convict the Prisoner as a principal, that he
should be near enough to render some assistance.
The Prisoner was accordingly acquitted, hut was
ordered to be detained in custody, to give the Pro-
secutor so opportunity of going before the'Grend
Jury to prefer another indictment in a less penal
form.

Thomas Brighe, Thomas Gardener, and George
Vegiuton, were indicted for assaulting John Harper
on the Bth of August, and forcibly taking from his
person, in a field near Edgware, five sovereign., 18
shillings in silver, and a pair of shoes.
John Harper deposed, that he was a labourer in
husbandry, and was at Edgware fsir on the Bth of
August: Between four and five o'clock in the af-
ternoon a.thunder storm coming on, he took shel-
ter in shay-shed, in which he found the three Pri-
soners, bud another matt not taken; some conver-
sation tdnk place; they told him they were quite
broke down, end out of work, and one of them
offered to sell him a pair of shoes, which lie ulti-
mately bought for eighteen-peace. The Prosecu-
tor afterwards went to drink some beer at one of
the booths of the fair, where the Prisoners joined
him, and they continued drinking till near ten
o'clock, when he pulled out his purse to get change
for a sovereign to pay his reckoning; he then quit-
ted the booth, and having occasion to go into an
adjacent field, the three Prisoners sod the other
Mon followed, rushed upon him, pinioned his arms.
and thrust • Itaudkereltief into his mouth, and
haring taken his mosey oat of his pocket, and the
shoes which he had previously booght of them,
they all ran away ; after having in vain searched fur
them in the booths of the fair, he went beck and
secreted himself in the hay-shed in which he had
first met them; soon after midnight the three Pri.
soners came into the hay.shed with three girls of
the town ; he remained till daylight, when he went
sod procured en officer and look them into custody.
On his cross-examination he stated, that he had
received the money of Mr. Good, of Okitigion
Farm, for cutting twelve acres and a half of beans.
Witnesses were called who gave the Prisoner
Gardener • good character.
The Jury found them •ll guilty, but recom-
mended theirs to mercy.
Mary Gingell, a decent looking young woman,
with a child in her arm., wits next placed at the
bar, charged with stealing in the dwelling-house of
John Prouse, in the perish of St. Pancras, two
Bank of England notes of 51. each, sod two rove-
reigns, his property.

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The Prisoner, it appeared, was a lodger in the
house of the Prosecutor. The Prosecutor gave
the money and notes in question to his wife, who
placed them in • drawer in • bureau in her bed-
room, from whence she missed them on the 13th of
June, at thicb time the Prisoner lodged in her
house, but no suspicion at that time attached to her:
She quitted on the 2d July, telling the Prosecutor
that she was going down to Marlborough. It ap-
peared that she actually did go there, and paid her
fare with one of the five pound notes taken from
the Prosecutor. Sbe was subsequently taken into
custody in London.
The Jury found her Guilty.

The Caroline, lIURNET, from Liverpool for
for Bideford. was doyen
.00 some rucks seer the
Skerries on Friday, NMI iniged•
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