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THE NATIONAL. REGISTER.

alty, a great many persons exclaimed. " that they would not he
diLuired to in this minuet." Not a word of the song hail yet been
heard, and from this time, Sill the performer!: let the .t:ige, it
Ka; Impossible to hear either them or the orchestra. Something
wits thrown from the galleries or. the Stage, and one chandelier
was broken, and fell into tile pit. No per.ornd violence. hoatver,
took place, as far as I avid observe, and I watched as close as
possibie. I did not expect that die tumult would have subsided
so quietly, fur there was ample provocation, in some parts. Mr a
breach of the peace. I wilco.' particularly two officers, in mgt.
mentals, who at in a box near use. \Viten it was seen that seve-
ral persons would not take oil their hats, those gentlemen gut
into the pit, and began to push the people about. This mime•
(Shady produced a cry of " Veber. la), which arcar,:4l to me to
conic from the upper-boxes and tee galleries. fhe farce then
b:•gin. but not a single word could be heard till about tire
mites bolore the curtain dropped teir the night. A calm then pre•
vailod, and the whole audience left the house in the most peace-
able manner. I understand that the two officers above mentioned,
belonged to die with regiment. There were other offices in the
house, belonging so the 314 regiment, but they were not in
regimentaLs, nor did they take any active putt whatever in this
disturbance, which, fortimately, was nut attended wish any
fatal anisequences."

" I havejust hemd that Mr. Farrinil, the coroner, at Roch-
dale, will give onion Mr the disinterment of the body of John
Lees, in order that it may be again inveritxl by the Jury that
will sit beftre hint. Tiw proaxding}, at his Coo, will he ex-
tromtly interesting; and l Jinn send you a full account of them,
without losing a moment, alter they are awed."
file I)uxis %1 ELLIN° roofs PALACE; Sir.—The
intended luau for an edifice at Straihfields4t, lately •the
seat of Lord Buyers, still occupies the attention of his
Grace. Various plans have been sob ' ed to his in-
spection. Ancient and modern Greece have been ran-
packet' for models, but 'milting has been determined ou ;
in filet, ►he Dike has observed, that as lie was not in a
hurry, a further delay might take plate, men till the
next spring, before the foundation-stone was LEP!. One
thing is ceilidh, namely, that Blenheim-house will nut
be the model. The illustrious hero himself feels dis-
ixised to adopt a style of architecture at once hid and
noble, hut blended with great simplicity. The front
will occupy a space or at leak 1,800 feet. In the interim
no time has been lost in other respects Abe grounds
hare been all broken up, and buildings removed; a great
uuo►her of men a►e employed, and the land has assumed
a new feature. airing the whole of the preceding
winter, hedges and Michell were remined, and new•
plantations formed the whole of which are now m a
thriving state.

Extransdinary Erpfail and Escape of a • Mgr —The
following relation is so very 11111V,Ildr, tnat persons who
are the least incredulous will not he inclined to give
credence in it, but there are plenty of witnesses to prove
its authenticity. On Thursday morning, - about five
o'clock, the house of Mr. Oldfieldi fanner and cow-
keeper, of Penton-place, near blithe Conduit House,
was broke open by a thief, and rotibed of cash and Bank
notes to the amount of 6n/. A bird catcher was pursu-
ing his occupation in the neighbourhood, and heard the
thief enter the premises, the former rail off for the con-
stables, who were on duty in the neighbourhood, and
Lock. Owen, and another of the [tarok being infoined
of the circitnistatiee, accompatncil the bird catcher to the
house. As they approached it, the thief ran out, and
made towards the funnel of The Regent's Canal; they
pursued him, but they were net abk to come up to hint
before he had entered the Tunnel a considerable dis-
tance; they con to follow hint. The Toonel is
near a mile in kngth, and the thief being beforerhis pur-
suers, could see them though they were unable to see
hint; he knew that he should not be able to penetrate.
the Tunnel, and he adopted a very ingenious method to
evade the constabhs ; he thsew himself into the water,
and kept under entirely except his head; be supported
himself by some timber which was floating in the river
close to the towing path ; as the constables were passing,
one of them hearil a motion in the water, and putting
his hand down felt the wet clothes of the deceased, and
infinmed his panioni that a Mao was drowned.
They attempted to get the man out, and the thief in a
moment became as a stiff corpse: it being dark the.con-
stables agreed to go to a public-house (the. Vernon's
Heads, iu the vicinity, for a lantern and a shutter to
carry the corpse to the tavern. During the constables'
absence, the thief thought proper to become aii i 11l ;
he got nut of the water and ran off, but lilt his coat and
waistcoat behind him, anti turned up his shirt sleeves:
he was met hysoute brickmakers,who had besn informed
that a man was drowned, and to them he pretended that
he had been in time water dragging for the body, but was
unable to get it out ; he inquired of them which way-
tne constables were gone, and, being infixoted, went in
an opposite direction and escaped. The constables, on
their return, discovered that they had been zompletely
outwitted.

On Sunday, the sth instant, a melaneho'y occurrence
took place at Carnmoney, seven utiles from Belfast. Mr.
Wiliam Bryson, farmer, was found-drowned in a draw-
well, near his house, and hie wife at the same
time, Intimd dead in the house with her thrust cot.
When the Coroner's inquest was held, it appe red by the
testimony of a servant mats, that about eleven o'clock in
the forenoon, when he event out, he left his master in
the house, reading the Bible, :mil his wife also engaged
in reading a religi•ms hook About three o'clock, when
he returned, he observed his master's bait lying on tne
ground before the door ; and on going mit) the mince
lie perceived the wife lying in front of time kitelseti hie,
with her throat cat, and a great deal of Llond gm the
floor. lie got the assistance of some neighbours, who,
after a search, found the body of i()11 111 the such
game dead. A servant girl gate sinular iestuntitiy. No
peram could be fueind who had wooer Ned the perpeira-
Mon of this direful catastrophe; but, Arum the et 'deuce
adduced, it appeared that for twei‘e months past AIN
Bryon had manifested mach perplexity of .d respect-
v his affairs, although they knew he had no nceas 44444
In In :4'l; that he hail often appeared in a iliseirbed state ;
and stink incoherently. Fruits all these are
the Jury returned a verdict, finding that Mr. Bosun
had destroyed his wife, and afterwards thrown itiourek
into the well, being in a mate of derangement of mind
at the time. They were a respectable couple, much es-
teemed by all who knew thew.