The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-10-11 00:00:00

THE ,flt.lf Y.

A Detachment Is:longing to the Roth Regiment of Infantry re.
eared ortkrs to Tomcat from Jersey to Plymouth, for the pur.
pose rf embarking for Gibraltar.
A Detachment of the 4'2d Royal Highland Regiment is or. to proceed from Leith to Plymouth, in order to embark for
Gibraltar.

A Detachment belonging to the 93d Regiment of Foot hmi re.
ceived orders to proceen from Lcith to Portsu.outh, for the putpcue
of embarking tor the West Indies.
Detachments belonging to the 94th and 95th Regiments of In-
fantry, have received orders to proceed front Sundtrland to Ports-
mouth in order to etnltark for the 31cditerrarean.

A lietachment of the 7,h Fuelleers has received ortlers to pm.
cectl from Liverpool to Portsmouth, for the pulp-se of embarking
fur the Ilediterrmocan._

A Detael.ment belonging to the 80th Regiment 0' Frot het re.
cciv.•d ordtrs to proceed from the Isle of Man to Portsmouth, in
order alto to embarl• for the Medi-t rrancnn.

TREATY WITH ItAYTl.—Accousitshave been received
from Port-au-Prince, Eating that the Commercial Treaty
hetween this country and Heyti had been concluded. it
may be expected to arrive i i London in a very few days.
Mr. Al'K-•tezie, the brother orthe Consul-General, was to
be the bearer of the treaty. Briiisli goods, it is understood,
will be admitted at .5 per cei:t. duty in lieu of 12. It is
understood that there are very w alterations in the articles
of this treaty from the original plan, which was submitted
to his Majesty's Ministers by Air. Hendricks some months
hack, arid who bad the authority for so doing from the
Hay dein Government.
To the writings and lectures of Mr. Abernethy we may
ascribe the great praise of exciting and exemplifying a
more scientific investigation and treatment of surgical dis-
eases. He was the first in this country to vindicate the
natural rank of surgery, as a branch of general pathology;
he taught us to extend our views beyond the narrow litnits
of local cans, s and remedies; hr pointed out the general
influence to which the diseases of parts owe their origin,
and hence he deduced the general means of treating such
affections. Ile has been accus.el of wishing to make
surgeons physicians; the accusation does him the greatest
credit. By excising surgeons to cultivate medicine gene-
rally, by thus re-uniting two artificially separated parts of
one science, which require each other's aid, he has, at the
same time, banetitted the public, and increased the respec-
tability of own protesaion.—La!-renee's Last Leciare.
Such is the fatality of the fever raging in Romney Marsh,
that we hear there are 13 persons now lying dead in the
small pariah of IVaretiorne.
AWFUL DEATE.—WhiIe the Rev. Mr. Brandon was
preaching on Sunday last, in Finnar Church, tear Bundo-
ran, and just as he bad uttered the worth, •• Let him that
s!andeth take heed lest he fall," he was observed to sink
down in the pulpit, and in an instant he was dead ! It is
said that he had been ill for same time previous to this
awful visitation.—Dublen Evening Pest. . .

As the grave-digger was ope ring a grave in Carluke
church-yard last week, the body of a black woman was
dug out of it, which had lain there for more than forty
years ; and, strange as it may appear, the skin possessed
the natural colour ; the body was plump, as the person hail
been in life ; under the akin it was perfectly white with
fat. She died in full habit of body, arid was interred in a
very wet grave. It is natural to cuppose that the great
quantity of fat which it contained Intl preserved it for such
a great length of time. Be this as it may, many opinions
have been given as to the cause of this strange
---Gheiree Journal.
'loaner, Occetaexce.—On Friday af:ernnon, a man
named William Timpson, residing in Park-street, in
this town, presented !Unwell at the prison, and stated that
he had murdered his wife. From his decisive manner,
and upon further inquiries, the officers were induced to
proCeeel to his residence, where, upon opening the door,
they found the report but too strictly verified, es the poor
woman lay in The kitchen with bar head nearly severed
from her body. A large clasp knife, with which 'rimpsen
stated lee had committed the act, lay in the room. Lpon
being quevioned on the suhject, he said that he bad no
ennmty towards'his wife, and could not account for he
hav;na. been ac:uatcd to commit so dreadful a crime.—
Birmingham Journal.
Two fellows arc travelling from town to town, under
pretence of getting signatures to pe itions to be presented
to Parliament. The first is for presenting the hawking of
books, pamphlets, &c.; the secmd, the hawking of linen
and linen-drapery ; and the third, for confining the sale cf
beer, soda water, ginger beer, &c. to licensed publicans.
Their plan is to leave a printed petition at the houses of
individuals who carry on the above trades ; and, on calling
for it, pretend to he agents from some society in London,
and, producing a skin of parchment, exert their eloquence to
obtain a signature, for which they charge eighteen-pence,
or as much more as they judge their dupe can be defraud-
ed of, under the pretence of paying the expenses of ob-
taining the Act of Revilement, by which all the benefits
mentioned in the petitions ate to be secured to the humble
petitioners. As the publ;cans' petition prays for a mono-
poly of the sale of ginger beer, pop, and soda water,
to be secured to licensed victuallers, articles of the manu-
facture of which the aforesaid victuallers can know ye:y
little, we should have thought the thing too gross to have
deceived any one; but as we find they were pretty success-
ful in picking up eighteen-pences, even in this town, we
think it necessary to caution the public in ocher places,
against being so impaed 0n...--licading /If ereury.