The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-01-04 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

Detachments belonging to the following Regiments marched yes-
terday from Westminster to the destinations below stated :
The 2d Regiment of Dragoon Guards, for Dorchester; the 70't
Regiment of Infantry, for Winchester; the 9th, 35th. and ilt:th
Regiments, for Albany Bamicks: the 53d and 90th Regiment.,
fur Portsmouth ; the 13th, 14th, 30th, 54th, and 57th Regiment.,
for Chatham ; and the 2d. 3d, 20th, 44th, and 40th Regiments, ter
Canterbury.
The depot of the 25th (the King's Own Borderers) Regiment ar-
rived on Alonday at the Isle of 1% fight, front Cork.
A General Court-martial assembled at Canterbury on Monday,
for the trial of a soldier of the 38th Regiment, on a charge of mu-
tiny. Colonel Carey, C.B. 57th Regiment, President ; Captaim
Blair, of the Butts, Deputy Judge Advocate.

The Waterfiffil llfail announces that the Catholic Clergy
were going through that city for the purpose of making a
new census of the population. In Clonmel, the Catholic
Clergy are employed on the same business.
We understand that it is the intention of Sir T. Leth-
bridge, with a view to the interests of the country at large,
but of agriculture in particular, to bring forward, in the
next Session of Parliament, a question with regard to the
present state of country banking, should the subject not be
taken up by Ministers.
Considerable sensation has been excited in the town or
Bishopwearmouth by the discovery of the skeleton of a
human body in a small garden, or rather plot of waste
ground, behind the house at present occupied by Mr. Gee.
Parker, at the north end of William-street. Mr. Parker's
son, a boy about fourteen years of ;.ge, and his sister.
whilst employing themselves, merely for the sake of amuse-
ment, in digging a hale, met, at the depth of about two
feet, first with the skull, and afterwards with the teiti,e-
skeleton. It had evidently been fluent into the hole in are
erect posture, and probably when warm and flexible, as the
body was inclined forward, and the legs crossed. With.,
the exception of the fingers and toes the skeleton was per-
-1 feet, with two of is,' ribs and collar-bone fractured. Two
pieces of flannel, in tolerable preservation, were the only
babilimets found with it ; so that it seems to have been de-
posited there nearly in a state of nudity. How long it is
since it was deposited must of course be matter of conjec-
ture. Those connected with the property say that this anti
theadjoining houses were built twenty-seven yens ago, and
that the soil which covered the rock or mar/ on which they
are founded was then but a few inches deep. Indeed the
soil, as it now appears upon being thrown up, has evidently
been forced, anti strengthens the inference that the body
must have been placed there since the house was built.--.
Durham Chronicle.
REPORTED Mettera.—A little after six o'clock an Wed-
nesday morning last, as the Regulator London roach was
on its way to town from this city, the eoaelnnsu perceived
the body of a man lying on the road side, near the feertla
mile-stone on the Cheltenham road. He immediately went
to a neighbouring pottage to name the circumstance, and to
send assistance. This was promptly afh,rdeei, atm two
or three persons proceeding to the spot, they found the oh•
jest of their search to be an old man named Benjamin
Brint, a gardener, who resided in Barton-street, near this
city, and who was in the habit of attending at Cheltenham
for the sale of fruit, &c. The first person who came up
' found the body still warm, anti indtining that life was not
yet extinct, went with his companions fee a gate or hurdle
for the more easy conveyance of the old man to the reach or
r n
fire and other assistance, but on attem ' gto remove intr.,
they found he was quite dead. The then carried the
body to the Plough public-house, whic r was near at baud,
and from the circumstance of the bsek of one of hie bonds
being lacerated, with other appearances of violence upon
his person, and his clothes being M a dissrdered state, a ru
mow was instantly set afloat, and taost industriously cif
misted, that the poor old man had been most inhumanly-
murdered. Inquiries being made, and it being found that
the last person seen in company with the deceased wee his
own son, suspicion instantly pointed him out as the unite.
tural perpetator of the deed, and in tine course of a few
hours he was apprehended. For the honour of human na-
ture, however, we rejoice to say tints appears to be no real
ground for aeaching suspicion to' the Tomei, mau.---41Ins-
cert."- J:t:',::4l.