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London, England, 1837-01-26 00:00:00

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•
The Influenza, or the present prevalent disease, has
caused, and is causing, great mortality in that densely
populous district, St. Pancras, Somers-town ; in and about
that neighbourhood there are numerous factories and work-
shops, and upon an estimate which has been made, nearly
one half the workmen are unable to continue their regular
employment. This fact was impressively dwelt upon last
Sunday, by the Rev. Mr. Judkin, the minister of the
Somers-town Episcopal Chapel, in a sermon preached by
him on behalf of the Sick Visiting Society of the district.
It was detailed in his Christian appeal that whole families
of the labouring classes were ill and starving. The fune-
rals to the burial grounds in the St. Pancras-road alone,
amount to at, least '2O daily. Yesterday '23 were interred,
10 of the number being paupers.
The decease of Sir John Soane, the eminent archi-
tect, artist, and antiquarian, has excited a great sensation
in the literary and scientific circles of society. It is not
generally known that, in a philosophic spirit, which " knew
and did not fear death," he erected his own mausoleum in
the extensive burial-ground of the Episcopal Chapel of St.
Giles's, adjacent to that of St. Pancras Old Church.

The mortality which has happened in Banff during
the last three weeks has been more extensive, sudden, and
unexpected, than we remember to have taken place within
bo short a period ; where individuals laboured under other
diseases, particularly of a chronic nature, and were attacked
with influenza, it has in most cases proved fatal. The aged
and infirm, in particular have fallen victims to its ravages.
The mortality of Brechin and suburbs, during the last ten
days, has been greater than in the memory of the oldest
inhabitant. Influenza has cut off many in advanced years,
and it has also paved the way for the ravages of other dis-
orders.—lnverness Journal.

In the winter of 1798-Q, the falls of snow and_their
effects appear to have much the same as we have recently
experienced. On that occasion coaches were snowed up,
and unable to pursue their journeys in various parts of the
kingdom. Dr. Carlyon, in his recent work, "*Early Years
and late Reflectioilr," gives a graphic account of his adven-
tures, and those of his fellow-travellers in the Norwich mail
upon that occasion.

HULL MA RI: ET.—Jan. 2.1.
Wheat, Old 43.5 51s. f3s. New 504. Ms. Ms.
--- Foreign —s. s. c. ln bond... —s. —s —s.
Oats, Poland —s. 225. Mi. Old —s. 21s. 25g.
-- Small or Feed.... —I. —s. 203 —s —s. 235.
--*-- Ford:- -8

eign —.4......3. --3 ..r...
Barley, No & Suf ... —s. —s 325. Line. & Vold —6.315. 351
----- Foreign ..., , - 8.-- 6. —P.
Beans Ms. flPs. 423. :Foreign
Pease, White........ 36s. ails. 43s Grey 325. 265. 40s.
l'area 40s. F. 44s Foreign Its. 365. 38;.
Ra...eseed, In bond none Free. per last 321. 331. Os.

AFFRAY WITH SAIOGGLERS ON THE RIVER.—
On Sunday night last, about 10 o'clock, a custom-house
officer, named James Cockburn, Was keeping watch on the
deck of the Gira.le steamer, off the Tower, when he saw
one of the seamen go forward, and put a large bag, eon-
tainm tobacco, over the bows of the ship. Cockburn fol-
lowed the man, who, on seeing him, went below. Cock-
burn thee seized the bag, which was slang over the- ship's
side by a cord 12 feet in length, and there . was a water-
man well known to the river police; alongside in his 'wheiry,
in waiting to receive it, if the officer had not been keeping
a good look-out. Another custom-house officer, who was
asleep in his berth, was aroused by Cockburn, who suz-
pacted that the crew were about to run a great quantity of
contraband tobacco ashore. On going into the forecastle,
the officers found another bag filled with tobacco, which
they also seized. While Cockburn went ashore to com-
municate the circumstance to Mr. Swainson, a tide-sur-
veyor, his superior officer, the other officer, Tucker, whom
he had left in charge of the smuggled tobacco, was attacked
by several of the crew, who took away the tobacco. He
struggled to regain possession of it, and he' called Motion
and Turner, Customs tide-waiters, to his aid. A desperate
light took place on deck, during which the revenue officers
were severely beaten, but they at length succeeded in over-
powering the men of the Giraffe, three of whom, named
Thomas Archer, William Lambert, and David Winter,
were secured, and GOlbs. of tobacco; in illegal packages,
were captured. The waterman, Larmer, who attempted to
escape in the confusion, was taken into custody by the
Thames police. Yesterday the prisoners were brought
before the Magistrates, who ordered them to be detained
until the Board of Customs shall decide upon what pro-
ceedings shall be taken against them. The Custom-house
officers bore the marks of severe injuries they had received
in the fray.

On the night of Saturday last the servant of a re-
spectable shopkeeper in Buckie was alarmed by a loud
knocking at the door of the dwelling-house of her master,
a considerable time after the family had retired to rest. On
inquiring into the cause of the noise, she was answered in a
familiar way, as if the person 'outside had been a neighbour.
Without hesitation she opened the door, and a female
stepped in, and asked where her mistress was sleeping.
The girl unhesitatingly led the way to the bed-room, think-
ing only the person wanted to speak to her mistress. The
stranger, on entering the room, laid what seemed to be a
parcel of clothes on the bed, and said, " Keep that till I
call for it," and, without waiting for a reply, left the house.
She was accompanied from the door by a male attendant,
but both escaped without observation. The mistress of
the house immediately called for a light, in order to have
her curiosity gratified by examining the contents of the
parcel left by her mysterious visitant ; and to her surprise
she found it to contain a genteell):-dressed female infant,
which has since been cared for as it ought. It is almost
needless to add, that no one has yet " called" for the
foundling, and that a great many foolish conjectures are
afloat as to its parentage..,-.lnverness Journal.
'.1461t13 SrowELL.---The varied life of Lord Stowell
.enel4-,:be divided into three-epochs, each of them marked by
chariseters of peculiar excellence, and fraught with tokens
of distinction. The first eighteen years was spent in clas-
sical pUrsuits at Oxford, in training the intellect of the aris-
tocracy, in 'making philosophy teach by examples from the
historian's chair. -During the next . fifteen• years we trace
through all the literary circles of London the " Dr. Scott
of the Commons," the friend of Reynolds, of Burke, and
Malone, the favourite of the Turk's head Club, the oracle of
the Consistory Court, delivering discourses on the regula-
tion of the domestic forum, which Addison would have
loved for their elegance, and Johnson fin- their morality. In
the next thirty years we behold him in the Admiralty chair,
forming a system of national law from the ill-fashioned la-
bours of his predecessors, erecting a temple of jurisprudence,
and laying its foundations, not on fleeting policy, or on oc-
casional interests, but in universal and immutable justice.
His name has vanished ,from the Peerage : he has left no
son to transmit his honours. He had outlived his genera-
tion, and the candidates for noisy notoriety had concealed the
retiring veteran from the stage. He has sunk into the
grave, not unwept, indeed, nor unhonoured, nor unsung, but
with a less vivid expression of regret than if be had not ex-
ceeded the common span of human life. This is the natu-
ral penalty which, extreme old age must be content to pay,
and it would be idle to complain of it. But he has left a.
name which the proudest transmitter of hereditary rank
might envy. The name of Scott, the title of Lord Stowell,
can never be forgotten.—Annual Biography, 1836.
MONS MEG.—Monday being the anniversary of
the ratification of the Treaty of the Union with England by
the Scottish Parliament was very appropriately fixed upon
for the elevation of that ". Great Murderer of War" Mons
Meg upon her new carriage on the Duke of York's battery.
This was done by Captain Garstin and a party of the
Royal Artillery, under the direction of General Wright and
Colonel Cobbe, who were both present, along with the
officers of the Royal Engineers and Artillery ; Captain
M'Kerlie, the Ordnance Storekeeper ; Sir P. Walker, Sir
J. G. Dalyeil, and a number of others. Owing to the
severity of the weather, and the prevalence of influenza,
many other persons of civil and military rank were pre-
vented from attending. The weight of this cannon is six
and a half tons, and of the carriage three and a half tons.
Edinburgh Paper.