The National Register.
London, England, 1808-02-07 00:00:00

Plto‘ CIALs.

In the garden of Mr. JcGry's, attorney, at Chatham, there
are at this time hanging on an E. palier tree several very kits
apples of the last year's growth ; they are firmly attached to
the branches, and ha e all the appearance and colour of the
healthiest and freshest fruit.
Not w ithstanding the severity of the weather, Mr. Stainbank,
of Seal.-hall, near Lancaster, has two ewes, each of which, on
the '26!li ult. produced a tic- ewe lamb, which are likely to do
well, though they remained some hours upob the snow.
There have been a greater number of partridges this season
than usual ; and as the shooting of them ceased on Monday last,
it is probable the ensuing- season will prove full as abundant.
The marriage of a respectable tradesman of Beverley., with a
lady of that place, was fixed, we understand, for one day last
week ; the ring was bought and every necessary preparation
made; but on his going in the morning to call upon the intend, it
brHe, he found to his great surprize, that she bad set off that
.morning on a matrimonial jaunt to Sr-Disco:as church, with a
Serjeant in, we believe, the East York
A few days since a melancholy accident happened to John
Marston, at Actonsupon-Tuitnell, near Statliird, who being at
work in a mill by hintself, the twarhiaery caught hold of WI
clothes, which wedged hint in between the horizontal and per-
pendicular wheels, by which he was crushed to atoms
A letter from Newton Stewart mention; a tremenotis timnder-
storm that happened aboat six o'clock in the moroing of tile h
ult. Between hearing the I builder. and seeing the lightniag, only
four %coin& elapsed. At earsdeigth, the homes in the mail
took fright, by which means the coach was overturned. The
poor animals were so stunned that they turned rotuid, the wheels
of the coach describing a circle of ten feet diameter. The guard is
much bruised ; but the driver, and a woman and child who were
paaengers, providentially escaped unhurt.
A young motto in Cumberland, of a supposed plethoric habit,
avent to bed in perfect health at night, but arose totally What,
and remained for a week in that situation. A surgeon. conceiv
ing it to proceed from a fulness of blood, opened an artery, and
her sight was retore.l.
Wednesday evening last, a ,hort time before the prisoner: lathe
city gaol, of Oxford, were locked up, John Grover, lately t tim-
mined upon a charge of burglary in the dwelling-house of
Alderman Parsons, contrived to escape from the part of the pri-
son in which he was confined into the yard, and having plated
same planks against the boundary wall to induce a belief that he
had suet ceded in getting os er, afterwards concealed hints(if in a
stack of YY oral. In consequence of this, and wider a pz.rsivision
that be had passed the wall, a reward of 70 guineas NI a, idered,
and the most active measures were taken for his apprehension.
The prisoner, how ever, w as retaken in the gaol y ard, at an early
hour on Friday morning, ;tiler having failed in a desperate at-
tempt to scale the wall, the top of which he had t e reach-
ed, hut fell backwards upon the pay emelt', and was discovered
by his cries. It seems he lay concealed in the wood stack dur-
ing the whole of the preceding night and day, anti by means of a
tile, procured front as apartment in the gaol, w here one of th.
prisoners was permitted to w ork, had contrived to disengage
himself from his fetters.
On Alonday night a poor w °man, named Devine, ho sell;
toys on Summer-hill, Dublin, was robbed by three rulliaus with
their faces blackened. They entered the poor creature's bilOr
where she was sitting, and bound a cord round her neck, c4Ol-
- it with her hands, which they placed under her legs, and
thus deprived her of communicating her distress, when, after
giving her several violent blows, mid nearly suffocating her) theY
carried an ay her clothei, and 51. iu money.