The National Register.
London, England, 1817-07-14 00:00:00

JNDIAN MIf">IOXJT'IES'.

CHINA.—IIy the last let.ers rtveived from Mr, Ver.
risson, the Miasionary in Chin.), wo are happy to hash :
tact he returned to Canton, tilt the IA of January last.
inter atten•ling the Briti:.h Ainlrassador to the Court 0'
the Emperor, and passing through six of the provinces
of Chino, after an abacuee in About 5 months. On his •
way from Pekin he composed an account of interesting
occurrences in his journey, which will throw much light
OR the otomli; and religion of the inhabitants of that
nhnoet unexplored country. He has sent paper and
printers to Mr; Milne at I!alacca, who Aril' print oil'
!):300 copies of the Chinese New Testament ; he has
printed a volume of dialogues, Chinese and English,
end the sceond part of his great work, the Chineso Dic-
tionary, and he is now revising; translation of
lienteronomy. Much maybe eipected, as the result of
these enlightening works in the Empire, most parts of
which arevery populous, and in many of them there ate
some inen of reading, and mental application.
-Amaoysa.—Mr. Kain, the laborious Missionary to ,
this country, and the Molueca Islands, has Lees very
sisidoot!s in his progress to the conversion of the people,.
The natives of Rulalion, north of Karuko, sent to him
while at Sermon to come and preach to them In former
trines they wore Christians, but sitirering the hardships
of Nlohatatnedun wart:tre mid conquest, there books
%%we destroyed, and they were reduced to a wretched
state of ignorant and enslaved Idolatry ; they rtteived
hint gladly, and burnt their houses of worship de.lioated
to the Devil, and all their Idols. He is erecting a new
church at Amboyna for the separate use of the slaves,
anti the same people who hare destroyed their Idols,
are cutting down timber for this building. The inces-
sar. t labours of this exemplary minister, in a country
where the thermometer is at 83, has determined the
directors to send two a.ssi.:tant:, one of whom is to be a
printer.

DI:ADM ACCIDENT.

life mentioned in onr last Paper a dreadful accident °era-
olo „.,1 by b...• explosif iof lire damp. The folio Mg is a more
particular accoont :-
66 .o.te duty imposes upon us the painful task t.' announce another
Shocking accident uccasimed by the ignition .4. Me damp. On Mon-
day the .30th ult. about eleven o'clock in the forenoon, an explosion
took place at tile liow Pit, in llarraton Colliery, near Chester-le-
Street, by which melancholy accident, we lament tJ say, thirty-eight
:own and boys have unfortunately perisheA. The force of the explo.
lien was so great, that twa of the icon Wit blown from the bottom to
the pit month, in 4 state too shociting •tot describe : several of the
urea als also ascended !he anika corf and two rallies, from the
top of the machine, ware thrown acousidwaable height into the air.
Only three men were taken ont alive, awl faint hopes are entertained
of their recovery. Of the sulferers, there are ten of the name of Hill,
viz. a father, two sons, and seven grandsons. What adds not a little
to the distress occasioned by this accident, is the reflection that it war
occasioned by the obstinacy of one of the pitm 31, who, notwithstand-
ing he was cautioned against it, persisted in emering the mine with
a candle instead of the safety lamp. The following is the verdict of
the Coroner's Jury. by whom the circumstances were: arcfully inves-
tigated :—The deceased came by their deaths in consequence of :it,
explosion of fire damp, occasioned by the using of candles instead of
the satiny lamps, contrary to orders given.
66 On the Werinesday afternoon following, some pitmen descend-
thl into the new pit, at Ilerratoo, in order to ascertain the injury it
bad sustained front the explosion of the old pit above described, when,
shocking to relate, eight men were sufftwated in consequence of the
impure state of the air in the mine."—Duchatu County Advertiser.

THE LATE RUBBERY ON LUDGATE HILL.—The novel and
very extensive rubbery committed a short time since open
the house of Messrs. Rimini. and Bridge, Is likely its a few
days to be cnntpletely developed. The following statement
Of facts which have already transpired, so far as it may be
prudent to diselose them, may be relied upon c
Soon after the robbery, Nlessre. Handle anti Bridge applied
to the Lord Mayor. His Lordship instantly adopted Illea•
tares, and a number of suspected parties were brungfet betime
Lim. Aiming them was the wife of one of the pasties who
effected the robbery, and who underwent several private
eelminations before kiln. She, however. invariably pro.
'ft sari( her ignorance of the transaction, and even for 4 time
denied all knew ledge of the accused pet tie t. From the eir.
cumstalice, however, which had crone to the knowledge of
the Lord May or, he kit it his ditty to detain her, null upon
seVCIAI 0«!ON1011S visited her in the Compter, where partici'.
lar care was token to render her situation ac comfortultle as
possible, and where she also underwent several private ex.
aminations. Vrom these and the exertions of Vickery, the
Dow Street Officer, resulted the confession of the woman,
land by extraordinary management, the subseenent recovery
of part of the stolen jewels, to the animist of 10,0001, and
upwards. A great number oh papers, Illustrative of the plea
of the plunderers, have been tound, and the infisrmation
they convey is of such a nature, as to leave little doubt of the
recuvt•ry of the whole of the property of e Welt 'Messrs. Hints
die and Bridge have been pluialered. Of the nature of the
information, anti the steps at this moment adopting for this
desit aole purpose, we are not at tibia ty to speak. It has been
sitegt stet to ns by a person who was very rear being a Allf•
facer, a few weeks since, by 4 similar freed, that the parties
are not Frenchmen or foreigners, but Eneli,limen. At It ast
iu our ittant's case, those who effect. d a similar fraud on
were Englishmen. He states, thut two persons came to
Lis Atop and looked our a guild uhrtmeno ter, sallied at eighty
guineas. They returned mast day, hat tlaally departed with.
out making the purchase. On looking at his chronometer a
few bouts afterwards, the maim, tinate shopkeeper di-covered
Oa! a 1'4.3111/011 metal watch, very notch resembling it iu ap.
;iiiince, Vial inserted in the chronometer box in its stead.
Ttis pet •on recovered his property afterwards by a kind of
mitnete. He saw one of the swindlers at a fashionable sale of
jewellt ry and curiosities. rind having sent the clerk privately
for it constable, the thief was taken into a room and searched;
witen the chronometer was toned in his fob. He tell on his
knees, and bawled out fur mercy in good English and the
person robbed, with mute humanity than justice, tus tied hint
loose again mem 601%e1y.
Mr. Leach, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Corn-
wall, has Levu sworn iu Chief Justice of Chester.

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