The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-06-18 00:00:00

FROM THE NEW ENGLAND COFFEE-HOUSE.

PuttantLyNta, MAY 20.—Arrived the ship Robert Edwards,
Capt. Sherboume. from Landon.
New BEDFORD, MAT 18.—Arrived the Lyra, Joy, from the
Pacific Ocean.
OTAIREITE, JAR. 13.—Left the ship Charles, Buchard, of Lon-
don, with 1,830 barrels, on a cruise, wanting M barrels to fill up.
Ship Foxhound, Emmett, of London. six months out, no oil, to
le.tye next day. Brig. Minerva, of Aberdeen, from Valparaiso, for
Bombay, with a cargo•of copper, repairing a leak, to leave in ten
days. The brig Jupiter, Thomson, of Hobart-Town, New South
N 1 ales, was totally lust on the reefs of an island In lat. 16, 20. S.
long. 28, W. on the 2d Nov. crew saved. Spoke April 3, lat.
28. 40, 8. long. 81. 10, W.. the Company's ship Royal Oeorge,
S. Elerby, from London, for Coast and Bay, 60 days out, all well.

Coosiderable bets are pending Is the City on the ques-
tion whether Parliament will be prorogued or dissolved early next
month. These inter-sted in electioneering contests, or who may
wish to secure a County m a Borough, should a dissolution take
place, are informed, that by • very simple plan, sanctioned by
Govetnntent, either may be obtained for Nineteen Guineas, on St.
Switben's Day, 15th next month, when a flood of grand Prizes,
being Four of Twenty Thousand Guineas each, &c. &c. will be
distributed, with Sixty-four Pipes of Wine gratis, to the fortunate
holders or the tour Prizes of One Thousand Guineas in the present
Lottery, and which is one of the last opportunities to gain a funune
by risking a small sum of money,

A man named Gorman, charged with being concerned
in the horrible burning of the Shear, was arrested on Sunday, on
coming out of the Chapel at Newtown, county of Tipperary, two
or three miles from Carrick-on-Suir by a party of police, who went
to the place in coloured clothes. %Vhile conveying away the police
were attacked by the crowd, who succeeded in rescuing the prisoner,
after a severe scuffle, in which the police were roughly handled,
and one of their &Aaiun,' received a pistol shot in the knee.—
Limerick Payer.
On Wednesday forenoon a remarkable accident occured
at • new house erecting in Stirling's road by Mr. Muir, builder.
Two labourers had just placed a barrowful of stones on the mar-
filding of the fif.h floor, when the joists suddenly broke in the
middle, and the stones, lime, &e. and three men weac hurled down
along with it. One mason by a quick effort saved himself by
leaping on the staircase, and two others clung to the top of the
wall. Their feeling were of the moat painful despription on per-
ceiving their coniraales tumbling down such a tremendous distance
amidst the broken scaffUlding and the crushing of joists, which
surocuively gave way, and they expected nothing less than that
they would be found killed at the bottom. It is sisgular however
that on helot: extricated from under the accumulated weight which
had come along with them, they were found to have sustained no
material injury, and wir'he able to• resume work in a few days.
Their fall had been broken by being precipitated against the joists
of each floor. One man kept a firm hold of a lime bucket all
the time of the descent ; and on reaching the bottom called out for
assistaace. Another was unable to speak till some planks were
taken off his throat. such was the great strength and solidity of
the walls, that they stood the shock without a stone being dis-
placed..—Gkrgow Journal.