The National Register.
London, England, 1820-01-23 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

Pii.the afternoon of Wednesday stonight, as Mr. Walter
youngest son of the late Chief Magistrate
of Worcester, was 'missing himself with skating on Cie
Thetis Basin, near that city, he soddenly fell 1111)001
lute slightly frozen over ; tau rising, he caught at the car-
pool/ling ice, which bloke smiler his grasp, and lie a
second time sunk sots mote than nine feet of water ; but
more fortunate on his re' 400, lie caught, by one
1..i0d, a firmer hold, whilst Mr. Deighttin, stationer, who
waw the eleatiful accident at a considerable distance,
anittly approached. and regardless of danger, with a
prompt humanity highly ',pourable to hi 11l , rescned 1111.1
'ming man from %%Arty grave. Much prai,e is likewise
sloe to the peat presence of mind *hewn by a Mlle boy,
who, while skating close after him, and seeing the
plmnlfc
soddenly threw himself on Isis back near the aperture.
and by catching at 1114 coat, on rising the last lime. Inn-
icrilslty assisted in siopposting I till Mr. Ihighten's
saint providential arrival.
AN'edtiestlay last, before the bond of Excise, a respect
able Toliaccuitist was lined in the mitigated penalty of
4ns. for having some segara anti tole:eat on his premises
not entered., and the goods were also atkiiiilieti io be
forfeited. i'ne defence was, that the defendant had
lately removed, and the goods wore placed tip stairs
aniknewn to hien, in site hurry of busine.s —Two per-
sons wese.fiited for having insitat:ve pepper iv their pow.
session., who pleaded ignepance. It would be highly
bencheial to ,the public it the Board of Excise could
.elf-weer the niusiticacturcrit of this sporiiitti article, a,
toes deserts ihe severe I punishment the Board could
lallet, AS 11130 y ;IWO'S have 110 0011b1, prlrCll33elll isle
411111311Ve hopper conceiving it to tee.s .
ti A.r•iiisitinn to the 11layor.of Newcastle for a meets
Jog lit favour 01 Pirliantentry Reform to the extent o:
Mr. Lnitilmm's minims is its course of signattire, •itil wil.
be resealed in a (Ley or two. It already contains
-Dumber of most respectable pauses. From the g new
feelitsg, of the town, there cats he no down bus that
meeting for ,stash a reform will be very 111111 l erotisly
tended We hearthat district petitions (fir reform are
in contemplation in the counties of Northumbei land
and Durham.
A shocking circumstance occurred 011 Monday after-
noon in Angel-stree:, Manchester. An Is Winton. who
/resided in .We neighbourhood, wrist out of Itis house
with a loaded pistol, saying -be was determined to shoot
some tine before lie returned. In Angel-street, a woman
was looking through an up stair windup , he deliberately
inok aim ai her, and lodged the contents of Lis pistol in
the head of the unfortunate woman. She dill slot lice five
minutes. On the Police Officers arriving, its: Barrens
alered himself .without any .resistattee, and is now in the
'New Dailey. The Cowart will sit to-murrow. Nu 'uti-
lise lota beets stated tor ibis Whitman der,
DESTRUCTIVI Fins.—)it Monday a tire broke out
at Xlastor-Nonce. six suites front Epping, the residence
,ssf J. H. Tolbot, Esq. It appeals that the fire lutist
base broken out in the laundry, situate in one of the
wings of the mansion, as it was consumed before an
alarm was given. The family had a very narrow...escape,
and from the severity of the weather, there was a great
want of water, and also of hands, from the time it (stoke
Amt =The house had hien fitted up in the tnnst costly
manlier, with an elegant library. and not a stick or a
book was saved. The whole was a heap of ruins wi hin
two hours, and the insurance we understand to have
been very trifling. A groom lad, who slept over the
ilatindry, was dangerously burnt.
INQIJ ZlT.—Ttiedry au Inquest wa./ held at the Black
Swan, in Bider's-court, Cranbourn-street, Leicester-
kelds, en the body of Mr. W. Bowers, of No. 4, Earl's-
court. Cratilsourn-street. leatheraeller, a person of some
property. It appeared thet the rieceasecl had been for
years deranged in his intellects, end that his appetite was
voracious, as if he had beets starved. Souse of the
depositions accused the wife of the deceased with
personally hint. The Coroner rcalarked,
that he never received evidence more contradictory.
The Foreman of the Jury said, that the deceased was,
as the Jury had observed. a perfect skeleton; and he
was afflicted with 110 bodily disease, though his mental
capacity was thundered. The Coroner summed up the
evidence, and remarked Imola varintu pans of it, and the
Jury retired for near 311 hour, when they returned the
following special verdict .—" The deceased departed this
life on the 14th January instant, to anu I way, hut
his death was, in the opinion of the Jury, accelerated
by culpable neglect."
Sail? STEM., NO.—ln conrequence of the great itul
crease of the crime of sheep Society lids beets
formed in Surrey for the prosecution of sheep stealers.
On Thursday morning, six sheep skins (valuable South-
down), with the entrails. were found its the common
sewer. near the White I)or4e, Lambeth Nlarsh. They
bad been recently flayed, of course the animals had
been stolen, and the skins thrown array to present de-

tection.
A few days since, Env workmen were employed
on the roof of tt a house of Mr. Williams, in the Kent
ru.td, they accidentally let fall a roll of sheet lead
*between the rafters. 'the immense weight of the lead
forced a passage through tht. cieling of a room beneath,
and it fell on a desk, at which Mir. Williams was
seated writing, a 4 in the fall knocked MI his hat,
providentially, however, without doing him any injury.
I'he desk was windy stentnlished.
'Thursday evening, about dual', a gentleman was'
knocked down near the Mint, in Union Street,
lioutiswark, by three raffians, who robbed him of a
pocket book containing two 11. notes, a silver watch,
&c. His cries attracted the atteneion of &constable
named Hiram., who Imppenod to be passing, and
he pursued the thieves very promptly, but they'
all escaped. The watch was afterwards found
sear the spot.
A roller pump, en en improved principle, for
which a patent has been obtained, has for some
time past been erected at Worcester, for the put-
of raising
water front the river Severn into the
basin of the Worcester canal, where it throws
1,9,c10 gallons is a minute,