The National Register.
London, England, 1822-12-29 00:00:00

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Ner,..iia gratuitous instruction, according to the prinaiples
Le UAW)limbed Churoh, was alrorded, ware. two charity
sc.mols lur the education of 160 girls.
His Royal Highness the Dean of YORK said, no man felt
moire convinced than he did of blue vital importance of disseuti-
',ding education upon the principles of the !criticism! School.-
11 IS itO,Sli Highness added, that being convioccd of the iudis-
p, lisal;le union of Church and State, and that they must stand
t•r la I together, it gave him the..greatest pleasure to attend en
nay oceusion which hid foe its object the proandiou of Church
Of England education among all of f the poor.
"l'he children concluded by repeating prayers and singing •
Lyon in • diatinet and appropriate manner.
The. BtsitoP of Laisntra then hestotrred the highest corn-
mendr.tion on the o lject which they had assembled to promote.
The !wine:pal part of the company afterwards repaired to the
City of Loudon Tavern, and partook of a dinner provided for
the OCC311;0/1. llis Royal flightless the Duke of York presided
at the dinner, as well as at the ceremony of opeuirsg the schools.
A liberal subscription was made alter dinuer, its furtherance of
benevolent of of the day.

FIRE —Ftielay morning, at sin o'clock, an alarming it
broke out in the coach-house and stabling of Dlr. Hylard
rituateat the back of that Gentleman's house, in Ch• rue-row
Chtlsea, which at first threatened nmst serious destruction ; a
great supply of water being obtained, the horses were taken
out in safety, but the carriage sustained considerable injury.
The dames were considerable subdued at teu o'clock, and the
engines shortly after quitted the place.
On the 12th of November, a farmer's wife, at Wilkischkeo,
Pa ussia, poisoned with arsenic her daughter, a girl 15 years
or age, for feu she should make it known that her mutber
stole same geese. After the crime was discovered she con-
fessed that two years ago site dispatched her father-in-law in
fire same manner, to inherit his property sootier ; and fire
months ago the husband of her eldest daughter, iu order to
marry her to a richer man.
Nt:wsmala EvritaotteiNa inf.—One of the carriers of a
New York paper, called Tle Adrueate, liming become intiis-
p.,sed, his eon took his plain ; but not knowing the suhscrit ers
lie was to slimily, he took for his guide a dog which had
usually attended his father. The animal trotted on a head of
tee buy, and stopped at every dour where the paper was in
use to be left, without making a s:iigle omission or mistak.a
SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—Between eight and nine
o'clock last night, a fatal accident occurred at Somerset-
house :—John Onis, an asistent porter in the Nary Pay Mice,
in a state of inebriety, got on the iron railing, for the purpose
o! raising the sash to obtain admittance into the hall, and fell
icto the area, a depth of 40 feet. The unfortunate man was
picked up, and carried into no apartment in the
ofiice, and a surgeon was sent for. Ur. Kenny assistant to
Mr. Stanton, in tbeStrand, attended ; but from the nature of
the injury he received, his skull beiug fractured in several
places, he could render no assistance. He was üb,mt 30 years
old, and has Lft a widow and two children to deplore his
loss.

Yenterdtly morning, soon aficr 10, as a gentkman
was passing to kis gig, near Lackinglon's, Finnhory-sgo,tre,
the v chicle got into a bole, the sodden jerk of which threw the
gentleman out. The animal proceeded without his driver at a
rapid pace, came in contact with a cart, which u:.set the gig.
and separated the hinder part from the shafts. The horse ran
against a poor woman, axed barrow drawn by a dog ; killed the
dog ; hut fortunately the woman was not hurt, nor did the gen-
tieinan receive any injury, except a slight contuaioo in the left
slc.older. The horse was stopped without doing further mis-
ch:t f.

GAS FROM PYROLIGNEOUS ACID —lt has lat?ly
b?en ctiscoverril, that when wood acid is made pas,
through as iron ttn.e it ied to bright ignition, and the
the ac,cl allowed in enter the ttiae by drops, i (q•aick
si,c;.ssion, gas of very excellent tlnality is obtaietb—
Tnis fact seas first observe.' by Mr. ',vet, of Chester,
lii:nt pursniug some experimentsoo the purilicat,on of
of ;Indium:nos acid, and is a discutery admitting of
coin-Actable practical application.
11 eintoPnonta.—A n awful instance of hydrophobia
hat within the last few days occurred in the lamily of
.'fanning, a coal dealer, residing iu Portugal-street,
Lambeth. Some tame durinA the month of August last,
tale ramify kept a small dram, which either went mad from
the bite of another animal, or some other cause, and in
.• this dre.niful state was flying into the street. when Man-
ning, who bad then determined on destroying it, im-
peded its progress. The lotions animal• instantly sprang.,
at him, and bit bits on the nose, and then left hint anal
but the eldest child, a boy, also in the face, and also bit
Mrs. tlanning and a pia. The animal was sexed and
almost instantly destrovtil, being in a horrible state of
caustic madness. The family who had awes bitten ap-
preheß4ell no danger, and the wounds, which were
small, were directly healed. The pig was killed, hums
within the last few days we whole or the iniutrormen-
tiolled persons were taken bisiklenly ill, the boy being
aiaparettily first :affected, and before medical assistance
was call'd in, the poor child (to a horrible degace)
played the e feels of hydrophobia, and id a very shor►
time was a corpse; his father mitt sickened, and WHIM
sitrAic„J itetidvineet,comarcterl with the parish blcd.hisn„
:Ind Is nitwit so as to ptOCIIICIR a partial change•ui the
system, but very feint hopes are cmertaii.ett of hit teco-
sery. Mrs. Alantainat has beets attacked in the lassie way.
het not to pact' a violent degree ; site is, however, con- '
aide red lia:eiy to recover. Tne awful eircinnstatice has
produced a great shock to the neighbourhood.

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