The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-12-27 00:00:00

TOWN-HALL

Joint Satires was charged before the presiding Alderman,
Joshua Jonathan Smith, Esq., by Mary Riley, with commit-
tint a mast aggravated assault upon bar person.
The prpseeutriv stated that she resides at No. 47, in the
Maze. Yesterday evening she was told that her husband was
being killed by the prisoner, whom she found fighting with
her husband in the street, with the most desperate ferocity.
In the attempt to separate them the prisoner turned upon
her in the most savage manner, struck her to the ground, re-
peatedly kicked and trampled upon her, and lacerated her
hands and face with his teeth (the presecutrix bore evident
marks of the unexampled brutality of the attack, one 01 bar
bands being in a sling.
Hugh Riley, the husband of the proseeutriz, and severs
other witnesses spoke to the atrocious conduct of the per
sonar, who was acknowledged by all to be a nuisance to the
neighbourhood he lived in; be had been fregueutly placed in
the same situation lie then stood, by nearly similar conduct.
The primmer, on being asked to account for such wanton
violence, exclaimed with much composure, "Faith, I never
did the like ; we were all comfortable, so we were—going to
and fro ; end myself knows I got the worst of it."
Ile was ordered to Slid bail, to answer for bis conduct at
the Sessions.
BURGLARY.

Yesterday evening, while the family of Mr. Cooper, oil-
man and as-chandlre, Great Suffolk-street, Rorough, were
absent from home, attending divine service at the Rev. Kow.
land Hill's chapel, Blaekfriars-road, some thieves entered the
house by means of picklock keys, and succeeded in carrying
off sev cral articles of wearing apparel, family plate, jewellery,
original paintings, &c. to the amount of about tot., together
with shout a. in cash. Tho drawers were all emptied of their
contents, and the bedding placed ready for packing up, and
every thing found in confusion on the family's taunt. In-
formation was this morning given at the Union and Town
Halls, and the Olken are in active pursuit of the depredators

A singular circumstance occurred in the vicinity of
Newcastle on Sunday last. Some young men, while
skaiting on J. G. CLARK, Esq.'s fish-pond, at Fen-
ham, observed a fish embodied in the ice. It was a
fine pike, and, on being cut out, recovered, and, when
put into water, dashed through its native element with
all its wonted life and energy.
The ice-houses here were provided with their winter
stock on Saturday and Monday last, when the frost
was so intense as to stop the navigation of part of
the Tyne above bridge ; and if it had continued muck
longer, would have given the keelosen an involuntary
extension of their holidays. Fortunately, a change
occurred on Tuesday, and the navigation has since
been free.—Newts:Lk Courant.
CAUTION TO SIIRVANTS.—On Wednesday last
Joseph Hartland, the waggoner of THOMAS HALES,
Esq., of Coddington, in this county, was committed
by the Rev. JOSEPH HIGGINS, clerk, to gaol, for one
month, for gross misconduct in beating his master's
horses with a pike, whereby he so seriously injured
one of them that it died in about seven days. 1t ap-
peared that Hartland concealed the business from his
master, and continued working the horse until it be-
came too ill to labour.
A Glasgow Paper says—" A Correspondent in the
/cremes/ Journat states that the plea of redaction of rents
I i:by the tioble family of Stationd us their isit ate in Sather-
very judicious, and well calculated to enable the tenant
to keep hiogruniiil. aiihstance of the plait is this—the family
have given an abatement of 13 per cent. on the rent from WA
going back to 1516 inclusive; that in addition to the above 1)
per cent., they had given :10percent. more on the rent of this
year, being equal to 43 per cent. in all; an that is More the
rest is to he regulated by the price of Cheviot wool, taking the
11141ZillINNI of five years back at 255., and the minfersou at 164„
and deducting from the current rent the difereuce between 235.
and 165., being 95., out of every f6s. rent, and the swearing
materials to be taken of besides, without any regard to the price
of the carcass; and as the current price of wool falls below the
mixiniuni, in the saute proportion will the current rent fall. '11)
the mull tenants they have adopted a still more liberal scale of
reduction, besides the numbers they support by labour at their
exteusite coal and salt works, aid by handsome bounties for
fishing, and various sources of profitable labour."
ACCIDENT.—On Thursday morning, the sth inst.
eleven sheep, the property of Mr. Watt, were found quite
dead, and closely huddled together on a small knoll or emi-
nence on the farm of Auchenlick. On the Wednesday night
preceding a few peals of thunder were distinctly heard ; and
it is supposed that the poor animals had been struck with
lightning, while poustably bivouacking on the said knoll.
There was a *mall black mark on each ut Went, sot bigger
than the lace of • penny piece while the turf around was
torn and rutted uif by tie teeth of harrows. Whet renders
rouainolietnatainuoneheladr.
this accident the more remarkable is, that the sumo spot of
slam ni,B7olli. lteaeeerylectictr
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ground has been struck by lightning three years in sucees-
natheregm
manner, and last year it split a very large rock.—Ediiitire'
Courant,