The National Register.
London, England, 1820-03-06 00:00:00

OHOSs OUTRAN.

Catnarine Hughes and Tivoinas Kentish were in.
dieted as principal and accessary for all as.atilt upou
Eliza liarris, ail infant, under me age of 10 years, with
intent to commit a erns ()Whop on her verNm.
It is inipnasiiile to enter silo a detail of tUe circum-
stances of this atrocious and diabolical transaction,
whims excited, its an immensely crowded Court, feelings
tn. horror Anil inthi/natimi.
Tim Jury, under the Learned judge's directions,
found the prisoners Guilty.
They were sentenced to three years imprisonment each
in lierilord gJol.
The female prisoner evinced in her countenance the
inosi audacious impudence and confirmed proaigsc.
The other prisoner, tv as equally tiaprepnssessiiig iu has
appearance.

DasTaucuosr CP • VILLAOB.—They write front
Lansanne,moler date of the 15 tit February.—A deplora-
ble evpbt neCtlrred 011 the 27th December, w the *alley
of Visp, in Vallais, by the sudden detachment of a part
of the Glacier of ‘Vciphorn, which has destroyed a
great part of the village of itanda. It was about six
o'clock in the morning that a frightful noise announced
to the inhabitants of the valley the danger in which
they were placed. Neither the glacier itself, however,
nor its fragments, touched any part of the village; but
the pressure of the air, caused by its tumbling down,
tore up the trees, destroyed cattle, and overthrew houses.
Root's of houses, blocks of stone and ice, were carried
away to a considerable distance. A great number of
(wile, the only resource of this Alpine people, perished.
Twelve individuals were buried 'slider ruins , ten were
extricated, living, by the Holum assistance given theist;
the remaining two were crushed under a heap of rub-
bish. Deplorable as is the situation of these mint 11111 l ate
persons, it is feared that they still suffer more severely.
As the precipitation of the glacier was confined to one
part of it, and as the other part threatens a similar visi-
tation to this unhappy CQUlltry, the destruction of the
remainder of the village is very probable, and the only
resource which the inhabitants have left is, to abandon
a territory, which, if they remain there, will become
their general grave.
Tuesday morning last, about one o'clock, a bur.
glary was committed in the house of widow Peake, on
St. Peter's Hill, Stamford. Toe offender took a pane
out of the window, which enabled hint to draw a bolt
that fastened the door, and the poor woman was not
alarmed until she found the titan standing by her bed
side. She asked hint what he wanted.-1 le saal " mo-
ney." She replied, you have come to a wrong
house." lie tfieu drew a handkerchief over her face,
and attempted to strangle her, but fortunately her cries
awoke a neighbour, who called to her, when the
lain made a precipitate retreat, taking with him an old
cite, ked apron, and leasing a stone blacknig-bottle, iu
which e us a rand le

The late trials and convictions for election bribery
and corruption have cast a damp on the hove* of
electors of rotten boroughs that are co r rupt. The
bc
candidates and their agents willw ;Pre how thel
infringe the law, for none can espuct 4I CSeape pu.
nislument if tinuid offending, after the examples that
have been lately made.

Mrs. Coutts on Friday sent 1001. to Mr. Birnie,
to be appropriated to the subscription for the Offi-
cers, and the worthy Magistrate received in th•
whole 1721. in the course of the day.

The metropolis was visited on Thursday morning
with a tremendous storm of wind and hail. Between
Ave and six o'clock the wind beg•tn to blow with
great violence from the north-west, and speedily
increased to a perfect hurricane, which continued
unabated till nearly eiuht o'clock. The streets
were strewed with bricks and tiles blown front the
roofs of• the houses ; on the south side of Lincoln's-
inn-square, a whole stack of chimnies was blown
down. In St James's Park, several trees were torn
up by the roots, a circumstance which reminds us
of the propriety of suggesting that the vacancies,
thus frequently occasioned in this shady retreat,
ought to be filled up by planting new trees from
time to time; otherwise there is a danger of its
being, at no very distant period,cotnpletely denuded.
On the river, the storm was felt severely. A num-
ber of ships broke from their moorings, drifted down
with the title, and, running against each other re-
ceived considerable damage. Below Blackwall,
there are several slips on shore much injured; but
they are expected to be got off on the return of the
tide. A number of coal and corn barges have been
also driven on shore, and a boy belonging to one of
the latter is reported to have been lost We have
not heard of any other accidents to individuals, with
the exception of one of the guardians of the night,
who received a chimney-pot on his head, in Petti-
coat-lane, but owing to the thickness of his hat, he
escaped without any serious injury.
During the high wind on Thursday, the driver of
a cart stopped opposite the Gardeners, near Vauxhall
Walk, to deliver a cask of vinegar. He had just
got out of it when a large chimney pot fell from one
of the houses into the cart, precisely on the spot
which the carman hud occupied one instant beli►re.
The Editor of the Edinburgh Correspondent was
on Monday last fined by the Court of Justiciary, in
the suns of• al., for a paragraph contained in that
paper, which was calculated, in the opinion of the
Court, to prejudice the case of Gilbert M‘Leod,
recently found guilty of libel, while under trial.
Alexander Murray, compositor on that paper. anti
who was the author of the paragraph complained of',
was at the same time sentenced to one month's im-
prisonment.
It was the late Earl of Bristol, and not the Duke
of Grafton, whose will contained the injunction um
to print the memoirs of his life during that of Isis
late Majesty. The following is an authentic copy
of the last codicil:—

" nay of codicil, I write Ihie wills illy Mini hand,
and Itriruy give to toy natural von, August* Hervey, ilie
box or diem, wills all soy tallies'. inannaciiisi
therein coot ; algid in e.sso. of lust deulle, I give 1111
same 10 Ilhy hisither, Win.-hervey, Intl with virtrt
bona hods to one and the idlers never to prod or publish
them, 111 111% f41111.1', 1111111101114, 41111111 X use 1•4.1g11 of let. p. e-
sent Nl4js 1.1, or list any lime, or ai alisy loom, t.• gise, nr
lend, on (rice 'hem 10 lily Mollie. Ese.lertekolse pi eselli
Bishup at Di rsy ; As witness soy hand tnis 2 th slay of
May, our Illousallil seven !smoked .001 .evenly- .
(Signed BRISTOL."

IMPORTANT TRIALS —The trial of Sir F. Mirdelt
for the letter sent to his ConstituNns on the Man.
Chester business, will take place in Leicestershire on
the l2oth ittstaut ;—that of Mr. Hunt ti,r the Conspi-
racy to overturn the Government, also arising oat
of the calamitous sixteenth of August, which will
take place at York, is fixed tier toe 16th instant.
The verdicts of the Julies may be considered as re-
cording the opinions entertained of the Manchester
affair; and they will therefore be looked fOr with
great anxiety.
Mr. Hunt has published a letter, addressed to all
the persons who were f resent ut Manchester on the
16th of August, in which he requests, that they will
call Meetings in their respective parishes; and out
of every hundred individuals attending the slim:, to
choose one who saw what passed at Manchester on
that day, and who shall proceed to Yolk, 14 the
purpose of bein4 a wituess on behalf of himself and
the other deLndants. if this is done, he calculates
that he shill! have admit 1,300 witnesses, every one of
whom he intends to examine in his defence, which
be mewls to conduct himself. Should sin h a course
of proceeding as this be adopted, or permitted by
the Court, the trial may last tier u fiirtinglit or more.
Henry 1 larris, E.g. and his brother, it is said, have
become ;tie Pacific es of the Dublin 'flit:airy, and
lively hopes are entertained, that by this count-xion
between the two Metropolitan Theatres, tut most li-
beral encouragement wi:l be given to pertm niers, by
an alternate employment ut their
The tolloWill litiVei Male of gaining prizes took
place on (2,,n,ilenias..thiy, ut the tout Let stand of
the hill td Kirrymoir, under the nirixtion of James
Cumiiiine, baker, there. Tae articles to be com-
peted for were tell new wheel-barrums. 7 !iv email
dates pani (ill. each, and were r,.p.tired to n,ll the
barna% liiiiiiitidtted from one faire, erected fur the
purls/se, to alto: tier, tit about the ttatt,ll.o of one
1111111divo titi! IltalCat to 1. carrait utf the
prize. In mis way four e ere uisp: set of The
circuitous rouws, st gnieuts, and 4,z.tg per.indiu-
lations of tl a lahtl, lit wino tains, wouid titiVe
puzzled ally disciple 01 Luella, and atLirued gnat
diversion to the company ussedildleo.