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ABATENEVT

' the list of liberal
: r reduced the rent
• . 4 the depressed slats
cosd reduction by sir
Ached, Bart. We'
at, serous truants who ;
oagh be look his cell
0 reduced more thr
11 le to the tenants
the rxiitencies of
15.1, of 'Greedy House, at his last rent-day returand 10 per
,rt. to' Isis teasels, in addition to 15 per cent. before re.
ed; and in this imitance also many of the farmers have
1 leased within the last three yeas. The Rev. William
14,ter,'of Silvertuit, at his tithe.aadit on Thursday last,
-o.ited from 15 to 25 per rent.; sail in some cases, where
•t, landlords still exact the utmost rent from the unfortarsite
suffering farmers, he lowered his &mods even 30 and
per cent.(Alfred, ureter Paper.)

folloWing account from a French Paper. It
ihat in the sheet bpace of two months four
id have been struck and warty consumed id
ies by the fires of heaven :
of this month, at four o'clnek in the momi.
I g struek the veneer the belfry./ the nub*.
io Prance, sod net it on Are. The propene
were terrible ; they Consumed the whole
le of the united exertions of the garrison, of
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the firemen, and of more than 4,000 persons Who came to
their assistance. The weather was slummy, and great dis-
asters were dreaded, had not the wind changed to the north.
♦ll lbw belle are broken ; only the walls remain. The lon
in estimated at more than 40,000 francs, and it wodld have
been much greater if the firemen of the town, by their
courage sad skill, had not succeeded in confining the Bra
to the steeple to which the cathedral is attached. Never was
there a more terrific thing seen. No lives were lost, and only
a earn( wounded by a burning flake.

CAUTION TO POULTERERS.

POACH h RS.

'a consequence of information being given at the Police.
el7ice in Hattun garden, that there was some game concealed
• the house of Mr. Thomas Goodwin, of 22, Great Russell-
;ireet, Bloomsbury, poulterer, • search warrant was grouted,
ril William and Edward Read, officers, went to execute it,
out on searching his premises they fownd one hare and fuur
phr-asants, which together with the Defendant, t►ey brought
to the office.
Mr. Goodwin's eeferrice was, that neither the hails°, phes.
aims were his properly; that two of the pheasants belonged
t r Mr. Shirrow, 24, Gower-street, mad two to Me. Staples, of
Web-street, Bloomsbury, which were sent to his situp to be
I asset

A desperate affray took place in the coverts of Sir Ifeuri
Banbury, Bart. at Mildenhall, Suffolk, at Saturday night.
The gamekeepers, being alarmed by the discharge of goes,
went out 10 a party of seven, sod were attacked by a body of
15 or 20 poachers, who beat them very severely, and fired
upon them with the muzzles of the guns so close as to set
fire to the clothes of two of them ' • but fortunately none of
them were dangerons4 Injured, though one was shut in the
tom, smother in obeli/red, and a third was also wounded.
Two of the keepers fired is their defeure, and one of the de-
predators fell to the ground, where he lay groaning loudly,
till the weaker partj were forced to fly for assistance and,
on their return, the villains were gone, and had carried off
their wounded companion, who had evidently bled most pro-
fairly. The hijuries received by this man, whether fatal or
. no,, may lead perhaps to a ,discovery of the authors of so
daring an outrage; bat much more, we fear, is necessary to
prgwent the repetition of such dreadful occurrences. The
Legislature ought to interfere; but in the mean time it is in
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the power of the public to check these crimes in a greet
SHOCKING SUICIDE. degree. If persons of rank and reputattou would cease to
Yesterday evening an inquest was held before Thomas perchese game, there would no longer be a temptatiou to
bias, EN. Coroner for the City of Westmiaster, in Tatter- steal it; and, if the Legislature would recognize game as
iiidrs Mews, Grosvenor-place, Pimlico, at the Tut f tap, on property, few persons of consideration would be disposed
tt.e body of Mr. Joho Wright, who put a period to bis exist. to commit the crime, or to run the risk of receiving stolen
~ re by leaping through a third story window, and was near• goods; MON especially if they ec.old openly purchase them
t, dashed to pieces. asf the rightful minters. Not :hat the moral evil would be
Mrs. Hawks, • lady residing at No. R, Grosvenor-row, Increased by an Act of Parliament; foe who that reflects can
r intim stated, that the deceased was a resident in her hos- doubt the criminality of encouraging a practice which is the
I,od's how, and had hero cowlised to his bed about a fort. f very nursery of rice, which- fills our gaols throughout the 1
4 r.gbt with the yellow jaundice, of which disease most of winter, inflame. our villagers with animosity and the desire
the deceased's relatives had been carried off. The deceased of reveuge, and makes every gentleman's domain a place of
had bees is a very intlaseboty state ever since he was takeq warlike caution and defence end too afters, as on Saturday,
ill, and stated that he knew that he should not recover, but I the scene of violeoce ad of talood.bed ? But men derive their
1, off like the rest of bis family. Os Monday morning I ways of thinking °tient r from habit than from principle, and
list, between nine and tees o'clock, she (witness) was silting whet Adam Smith oleterves of smuggling will go little beyond
.t her bad: pat our window and saw something fall from the truth if applied to this subject. "To preload to have
ski" to the ground will e• great noise. She opened her , see scruple about buying smuggled goods, though a manifest
...dose and saw that the deceased, with his shirt owl encouragement to ills violation of the Revenue Laws would
,• ly, had fallen from his bedroom window to the earth, ; in most cousin.. be regarded as one of those Pedantic
had wee inmost dashed to pieces; the blood poured from his pieces of hypocrisy, which, instead of gaining credit with nay
'..g. and bead. • body, serve only to expose the person who affects to practise
Mrs. Bowing, a nurse, stated, that ebe bad attended the them to the suspicion of beings greater kuave than Most of
1. erased, night and day, for more than a week, with the but aniptours."—(Bre Paper.)
!vilest jaundice. She thought that the medicine he took
nAircuot his mind; he was very desponding and melancholy.
sr(' lost Idonday morning she left him is bed, more com-
paed then be had been fur some time, to fetch some water. I It is currently reported in the City, that an emi-
and as ate was returning up aisles she heard Mrs. Hawks. Dent house of agency have received, by the way
reclaim, 1, oh Gs-id, Mr. Wright has thrown himself out of of Bombay, letters from the interior of Bengal,
she window." She I:lsidore. the water and ran to him, and dated on the 4th July, stating that the Ganges had
found that he had pilot into a lob of water. His skull was overflowed its batiks, and that an immense number
trietured, and his legs were dreadfully injured. Tilt fall
of lives
had been consequently lost. They
sone night at nine o'clock. were
sv%s broken by his dropping into the water. He expired the .
. estimated at 100,000 souls. All the crops had been
Mr. J. Maurice Banner, surgeon, stated, that he attended swept away, and indigo, in particular, had risen
thi deceased, and found a fracture to the fkollt from jest .enormously, in value. Such was the rumour yester-
Ors the eyes to the lop of the hes.% and down to the base - day circulated amongst the East India merchants.
tittle skull. • quantity of extravasated blood was upon _.
the ho lso sioo•soffil Mies were stiondoolg injured. The bums, The perplexity of the Sovereigns at Verona brings
e: the cranium caused his death. Powerful actiplae, ass% h our recollection the predicament in which the
as opiates, would sometimes produce delirium. Emperor DOMITIAN found himself, 88 Meted in
The Coroner said that perhaps the act was dons in a no- the argument to one of Juvenal:B Satires. A ttsipt
meet of temporary delirium.
had been presented to him, which was of such an I
The Jury retursted a verdict—" Died from throwing him-
*elf toot a wisdom in a state of temporary insanity." i enormous size, that there was not in all hie scullery
SHOCKING INSTANCE OF SUDDEN DEATH. I a
was summoned io great haste, to consult dish large enough to hold it; upon which, the
,
Last night, at eight o'clock, another isquisition was held Senate
before the same Coroner, at the York Hotel, Charles-street, what was fittest to be done in so perplexing a di.
Coyest-garden, on the body of Matthew Hirschman, there lemma. Spain and Portugal were intended for the
lying dead. imperial banquet of the modern Domitians 'at
Alison Gough, a waiter at the York Hotel, stated, that oa Verona ; but such difficulties hate occurred in seer.
that morning, between eleven avid twelve o'clock, the de-
tog them up, for the purpose of carving, that the
musk who was coachman to Major Bryan, drove his s-
les to that Hotel in his carriage. Soou afterwards the do. turbot will not be yet devoured ; although the legi. •
,eassii, while standing at the bead of his horses, suddenly timate epicures will, no doubt, if possible, a.keep
amptained of indisposition, and asked him to bring him a them like an ape, in the corner of their jaw, first
classof nest broody, fur he sea as he
..roteght him the brandy and he dusk it. Instantly be grew
••orre—he I/teethed with the greaten difficulty, appeared in Letters from Paris observe that the prohibition
•eryeonsidcrable agony, and after reeling some distance, be at the English Ambassador's, with respect to letters
'ell gown. He was carried into I back room et the hotel, to and from England, is very rigidly enforced.—
. ad a surgeon was sent for, nod he soon afterwards expired.
The Duke of ORLIANS, who has been in the habit
Hr. Foote, surgeon, of Tavistork.street, Covent-garden,
ailed, that he was called to uncurl the deceased, end found of sending a great number to England by this
biro breathing with extreme difficulty: he was in the agonies channel, was politely itiforwed whets he sent several
.f death. He bled him, but it rendered no service, be ex. letters to the Ambassador's, that they could not be
,erest lo • few minutes afterwards, and, in his opinion, of a forwarded, as Sir CHARLES STUART had given a
widen affection of the lungs and heart.
positive pledge to the French Government that no •
Yerdict—" Died by the visitation of God."
more letter. should be sent by his courier except oat
' official business. It is generally understood here
that this is a mere Post-office interference, in con-
sequence of the considerable sum that the practice
took from the revenue. You may Celle this, how.;
ever, as a fact : it was found that several suspected
characters, whom letters might have been opened
at The General Post-office if they had gone regts.
larly, were -in the habit of sending and receiving
communications with impunity, by means of the
British Ambassador's bag. and, therefore, it was '
very properly stated to Sir CHARLES, who readily
complied with the wishes of the Government.
DUEL.—..II meeting took place on Tuesday at
the Five Elms, near Virginia Water, between a Mr,
A —n—N and Mr. M—g—e, gentlemen of fortune.
' The dispute originated at it ball given by the mem;
bees of the Farley harriers. A lady was the canoe.
t Mr..A. was wounded slightly in the breast by his
.
antsionist's ball grazing it, when klieseconds, Cap-
lain P—s and Mr. W—P—T, iaieffered, and here
the affair ended.
•
On Thursday, one of the Coventry weavers, who,
ring been brought up for judgment, mid sen-
tenced to nine months` imprisonment, was commit-
Ith
ted to the King's Bench Prison, previous to his re-
-
moss( to a county gaol, contused to disguise him-
self, so as to elude the vigilance of the turnkeys at
the lobby, and got clear•off.
On Thursday last an inquest was held at Swine*.
bead, before C. AUSTIN, gentleman, Coroner, on
view of the body of Mr. JOHN FOOTIT, of MORI..
ton, who, it appeared, was on his return home
(from a friend's house) in a light cart, in company
, with his wife and child, when the vehicle was upset,
and all three were precipitated lino a deep ditch.—
The
hone falling upon or across his breast. he was
crushed to death before he could be extricated,
notwithstanding assistance was promptly procured.
1 Verdict—Accidental Death. The horse and cart
I were found &Wand, sod a nominal fine set thereon.

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Oa referrinc to the Act, it appeared that any poulterer
li;riny lame on his premises should be deemed as exinwialy
two for sale. He was convicted iu the rustily ant.

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CORONER'S INQUESTS.

It is mated at Lloyd's that an expedition, con.
fisting of the Gloucester, bearing the broad pendant
(Commodore Owsu, snd three or four schooners,
rill proceed immediately to the %Vest Indies, to act
• gatast the pirates of Cuba and Porto Rico. Dear-
*sight experience hu thus effected what ought to
.are been done long since. Had the representations,
sod afterwards the well-grounded complaints of the
Underwriters, been earlier attended to, the lose of
'ouch British property, and the cruelties leaded
many British seamen, might have been avoided.
Yesterday wss settling-day at the Stoat Ex-
:huge. The differences were very heavy. The
'mount carried over to the next account was very
arge. The settlement of the account in Foreign
Funds 30th inst. is looked for with deep interest.
In Spanish Bonds of 1841, the fall"bn been from
13 to 37k, ■nd at one time so low aa f 4; Colour.'
Arm, from 96 to 76, and other Foreign Sectinties‘`.
is they are termed, in proportion. The number of'
ndividuals rained is very great.

Tuesday, at three o'clock, the LORD CHAN-
;ELLOR, sith Earl BATHURST and Lord blßL-
aux, took their 'main the House of Lords; and,
*Mg attended by the usual officer from the House
Commons, declared Parliament to stand further
Jrorogsed to the 2d of January next.

THE KING V. BRIDLE.—The Counsel for Mr.
Bawls (Messrs. C. F. %Vit.ussas, Easaitts,and
Vlstaatifo) hare a second time returne4l4o4ifm the
ees on their briefs. This most be ii4earded as a
striking indication of their opinion. The Defen-
lant, we understand, watiknown to them only in
official capacity as a gaoler.
The action of Mr. GIBSON against the Beacon
lewspaper, which was tined for trial io the Ediu-
3urgh Jury Court on Wednesday lust, has, on
he motion of the Defendant's Counsel, been post-
anted to Monday, the 91h. of December,

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' OP RATS AND TITHES. ANOtal
1 landlords is tea taitchbourbood,
uts of their tenants to enable them Is • We eaP7 the fi
ite of the markets, we are happy to mkt I. remarkable the
our respected county Member, Sir T.! cathedrals should
Ve have been Warmed by one elks', Recemerountrio
o have experienced his generosity, el O• the 17th
estate only three years ago, hie rest ing, the lightnini
than 2S per cent.; and the reductimas drat of Valence i
in g, ner•l are from 10 to 25 per cent. of the &aura a
' the case required. Sir John Davie, rapidly, in spite
. IL. Aroma.. Knel