The Sun.
London, England, 1825-09-14 00:00:00

HOP INTELLIGENCE.

CANTERBURY, SEPT. 12.—The major part of our City
grounds are not worth picking; some little spots will produce
a few hops, but we apprehend they will fall short of their esti-
mate. The Niringham grounds are in a similar state. On the
cold soils about Petham,' Stone Street, Waltham, Hasting-
leigh, &c. they are more promising; some of the plantations
about those villages are computal at three, four, and five hun-
dred per acre. Picking has not yet commenced.
MAIDSTONE, SEPT. 12.—The picking has partially com-
menced in this neighbourhood, and will be general by the 20th
inst. Duty doing at 30,0001.
BOROUGH, SEPT. 12.—Our market remains steady. The
picking commences generally this week ' • those who have begun,
report they come down very light ; and a third less than their
own estimate : the samples are expected to be of good quality.
Duty to-day 28,000/.

PORTER-Before the year 1730, the malt
liquors in general use in London were'ale, beer, and a drink
named two-penny. It was then customary to call for a pint or
tankard of half and half; i. e. half of ale or half of beer; or
half of ale, and half of two-pennytt In course of time it also
became the practice to call for a pint or tankard of threC threads,
meaning a third of each, ale, beer, and two-penny, and thus the
publican had the trouble to go to three casks and turn three
cocks for a pint of liquor. To avoid this inconvenience and
waste, a brewer of the name of Harwood conceived the idea of
making a liquid, which should partake of the united flavours
of ale, beer, and two-penny ; he did so, 'and succeeded, calling
it entire, or entire butt, meaning that it was drawn entirely
from one cask or butt, and as it was a very hearty and nourish-
ing liquor, and supposed to be very suitable for porters aul
other working people, it obtained the name of porter.
BARTHOLOMEW FAIR.—We understand that
early in the ensuing week the Committee of City
Lands is to meet upon the subject of Bartholomew
Fair, and it is expected that a strong effort will
be made to prevent its continuance. The friends
of the fair are determined to do all in their
power to counteract the attempts of its enemies,
and we believe a very warm contention will
arise. The Lord Mayor has received innumerable
communications from those who are adverse
to the exhibition, from the belief that appren-
tices and other young people are induced to seek
improper means of enjoying the entertainments.
Amongst those communications is one from a per-
son who subscribes himself " A Working Man."
—lie throws out a hint, which might be of some
utility : "Might not (he says) the ground. usually
taken up by those useless and injurious exhibi-
tions be appropriated to purposes more beneficial
to the public ? 'There areoro doubt, in this great
city, many tradesmen, chapmen, &c., who have in
their possession a vast quantity of superfluous
articles that lay year after year as a dead stock,
articles that are imperfect, unfashionable, or
somewhat injured, yet could be used by many, and,
no doubt, .could they be exposed to public sale,
would meet very many purchasers, especially
among humble tradesmen and the lower order of
4oelety."—(Morning Paper.)

111 E LONDON JOURNALS.

• DAILY
Extrach.fronz the Murntng Papers, Sept. 14, 1325

;•• • • [Tti E TIMES.]
Files of Madras. and Calcutta Papers were re-
ceived, in the course. of yesterday, dated in the
months of February and Mareh last, but bringing
no intelligence of military operations from any
of our Commanders.en,gaged against the Burmese,
except from Sir-Archibald Campbell, who was on
march towards Ummerapoora.. The officer broke
up about the middle of February with 2,000
men, and on the 2.3 a had made good about 50
miles, (less than a tenth part of his route), with-
out molestation from the enemy. He had directed
an auxiliary column of 1,000 men, under Briga-
dier-General Cotton, to move up the river in sup-
port of his own march, end had, at the date of
his dispatches, learned from prisoners, that Pa-
hang, a post of some strength, had yielded to
General Cotton, with little or no resistance.
A favourable circumstance noticed by Sir Ar,
chibald Campbell is, that the people of the
country through which he passed (the " Carian
inhabitants") beheld with joy the expulsion of
their Burmese oppressors, and were bringing
in provisions for the use of the army, besides
offering, their services in the formation of
roads. We observe, however, that Sir Archibald
Campbell "' does not expect to reach Prome
" without This is a place of import-
ance on the Irrawaddy,—one third of the way,
or somewhat more, perhaps, from Rangoon to
the capital of Ava. The British General remarks
as a fact which surprises him, that the enemy's
army of 50,000 men has remained at Danoobyoo,
a position on the river much nearer to Rangoon
than he will be as he advances upon Prome, and
therefore in a situation which, " according to all
4" the rules of modern war," must be considered
as turned by him, long before he reaches that
city.. The meaning of this is, that the Burmese
army, amounting to the above formidable number
of 50,000 men, is placed between him and Ran-
goon, from which he started, and is therefore cut
off from Prome and Ummerapoora. That is one
view of the subject ; another, with submission, is
that Sir Archibald himself has, by the same
means, been turned and cut off from his own
heaktiarters of Rangoon:. God send our gallant
countrymen well through it ; but to common,un-
derstandings- it does seem a tremendous enter-
prize to attempt the invasion of such an immense
and unknown country, defended by armies, so
numerous at least, if not disciplined, with a de-
tachment of two thousand men.• In case of a
check, too, whet resource or reliance can the
troops- from Rangoon' contemplate, beyond the
small body of 1,000 more, with which Brigadier
Cotton can no doubt at any time join him ? But
speaking of the plan of campaign generally,• it
demands an extraordinary dispersion of the Bri-
tish forces. The whole system of operations is
Concentric; which, if the enemy had the 'least
portion of activity, skill, or spirit, would expo'se
the several divisions of our army to be attacked
separately, and be cut off in detail,. without the
least possibility of any one corps deriving
the least protection from another. Guesses
have been hazarded hi various quarters, that
the Burmese would negociate as the British troops
advanced ; and a letter, as our readers may
recollect, was not lung since published, announc-
ing that Ummera poora itself had capitulated.--
All this is at an end. It will be seen that an
express arrived yesterday afternoon from Liver,
pool, bringing news from Calcutta of so late a
date as the 17th of April, and that on the autho-
rity of letters 'addressed to .M r. Adam, who was a
passenger on hoard the ship Albion, from that
Capital, although Arracan had been taken by.the
troops under General Morrison, " the war was
" raging with more violence than ever, and there
" appeared no prospect' of its speedy termina-
tion." The attack upon the. Burman empire
from the westward was intrusted to General
-Morrison, as was that from the south to Sir
Archibald Campbell. Arracan is a maritime
province. The town stated to have fallen is Am
an arm of the sea. It may secure that part-of .the;
coast, but gives no hold of the country through
,which an invader must advance upon the capital,
-which is distant from Arracan about half as far
as is Rangoon. Some rapid rivers are interposed
hOWever, and the route has not been explored, so
as to present any certain estimate to a British
officer of the difficulties which.he must encounter.
Mr. Adam's death is stated in the Liverpool ex-
press to have occurred on board the Albion two
Months after his leaving Calcutta. What effect
the absence of this gentleman may have on the
Measures of the Bengal Government, remains as
a matter of experiment. His contest with Mr.
Buckingham and the free press of India has at-
tached a species of celebrity or notoriety to his
name, on which, at the present moment, it might
seem invidious to expatiate. ..Lord Corni,ermere
will shortly have reached 'lndia, in quality of
Commander-in-Chief; but whatever, experience;
the. Noble Lord .may have had in the ordinary
field-service of Europe, or in the . routine' and
etiquette of.tns profession, we know not that any
thing like talent has yet been ascribed to him, or
that he has discovered those characteristics which
lead in arduous crises to great and signal results.

. .
[THE PUBLIC LEDGER.]
'"Yesterday Madras Government Gazelles to,the
• nth of March, and Calcutta .Papers,to the-16th
of'March, were received, extracts from w,hich
will be found in another column., They contain
dispatches from Sir Archibald Campbell“elative
in-the operations against the. Burrnese,to.,the '23d,
Of February ; he had then advanced, without any,
Material opposition from the enemy, to Laing, a
'distance of upwards of 50 miles from Rangoon.
The private letters frorri the army, received at.
*Calcutta, vary considerably in their accounts, ac-,
.'-coiding to the disposition or information of the
'Writers; The more sanguine speak of the troops
*A's in excellent Ewald-rand spirits, and advancing
so rapidly, that they .might, expect :to.. reach
Prome by the 15th of March ; and though little
expectation was entertained of any decided
measures from the enemy tbore, a negocia.

rtion for peace was confidently expected ;
but on the other hand, several of the private let-
ters speak of the enemy's force assembled at Prome
as amounting to 50,000 men and 800 war boats,
with whom some severe fighting might be ex-
pected. Indeed, Sir Archibald Campbell him-
self is not so sanguine as to expect to reach even
'-Prome without opposition : for he says, " there
(at Donabew) the whole Burmese force still re-
mains, with what intention I cannot understand ;
for by all the rules of modern warfare, the posi-
tion at Donabew is turned the instant I reach
the Irawuddy, either at Saraoo or Naugur :
the intervention of a broad and rapid stream,
with the want of pontoons, will necessarily pre-
vent me from deriving the full advantage my
situation would otherwise give me, but I shall at
least prevent the Burmese army from crossing to
the :left bank of the river in sufficient time to
cover Prome. I do not, of course, expect to reach
that point without some fighting, but to the best of
my information, there is nothing now in my
front that could materially impede my progress."
From all that has yet transpired, we should not
be justified in speaking lightly of the bravery of
the Burmese, or hazarding a prediction as to the
ultimate result of the:war ; for although in every
affair the superiority of European tactics has
been evident, yet the courage and enterprize dis-
played by the enemy are such as to render them
formidable, however skilful their opponents might
be ; more particularly when the great disparity
of nun.erical force is considered. Indeed these
very Calcutta Papers contain an account of an
attack on the Arracan River, by Commodore
Hayes (of the Company's Service, we presume),
on a stockade of the enemy, garrisoned by about
1000 men._ The Research, Vestal, and several
gun-boats, with a company of the 54th regiment
on board, was the force employed on the occa-
sion ; but after a spirited attack of two hours'
duration, the tide failing,. the 'enterprize was
obliged to be given up, and the vessels returned,
with the loss of Major Schalch killed, and up-
wards of 40 men killed and wounded.

[IRITI'SII Pit Ess.]
The French Papers which arrived last night
contain some further details respecting the defeat
of the Turks before Missolonghi., Their loss ap-
pears to have been very severe. Between 7 and
8000 corpses were left in the ditches after the
last assault. The fleet of the Captain Pacha had
retired to the Archipelago. The Journal de Pa-
ris questions the correctness of the report that the
Greek Government had offered to plr.ce itself
under the protection of England. It admits that
there had been frequent communications between
the Anglo-lonian Government and the Greek au-
thorities at Napoli; but it supposes that these relat-
ed to an application for the supply of arms and am-
munition. The,Editor of the Journal des Debats,
however, roundly asserts that he had seen docu-
ments,by which itappeared that theGreekGovern
ment has in effect put the whole of Greece, both the
Continent and .the islands, under the protection
of Great Britain. The negotiation, lie states.
-was conducted by Maurocorda to and Commodore
Hamilton. The journalist insinuates that a de-
spatch from General Roche to the Greek Com-
. mittee at Paris, announcing this important event,
1/;:s been intercepted. There is no intelligence
from Spain. The Blade, it will be seen, denies
that Don Carlos is about to leave the Peninsula..
His departure, however, would probably be the
best mode of quieting the fanatical party. He is'
the centre of their intrigues. Without him they
would be utterly poWerless, unless they fixed
their attention on some other, member of the
Royal Family. It is remarked by a correspon-
dent of the Memorial Bordelais, that though the
royal der reel, the dispatches of the Generals, and
the articles in the Madrid papers, all spoke of
I3essieres as a traitor, no act was charged against
him but that of departing from Getafe at the head
of a squadron of cavalry. This was certainly to
act of military insubordination, but it never be-
fore was considered treasonable. There is some
mystery connected with this adventure, which it
is not judged fitting at present to unfold.

[MORNING POST.]
French Papers to the 12th inst. and the Eloile
Hof Monday reached us last night by Express.—
Their whole attention continues to be absorbed
by the late intelligence from Greece, to which
they seem to attach implicit credit. The Journal
des Debatt, which, from its connection with the
founders of the Greek Committee in Paris,
Viscount Chateaubriand and the Duke of Fitz-
James, is likely to be well-informed on the suh-
ject, says—" Documents have just been commn-
ideated to us, which apprise us that the Greek
Pinvisional Government has placed the whole of
Greece, both •the continent and the islands,
under the protection of Great Britain. The ne-
gociations were carried on by Mavrocordato and
Commodore Hamilton. A packet from General
Roche, announcing this important news to
the Greek Committee in Paris, has not
reached its destination." This last statement is
•of course meant to intimate that the French Mi-
nisters being aware of the contents of that packet,
and desirous that they should mot be publicly
known, contrived to seize or to suppress it. The
same Paper attacks those Ministers with vehe-
nrence for having suffered Greece to escape out
of their hands through their indifference • to her
sufferings. " France,". it says, " already re-
duced and despoiled by Diplomatic Conventions,
whilst Russia, Austria, Prussia, even Sardinia,
and. England have aggrandized themselves—
France will then see united to the British Em-
pire
a country vi here she was called upon to act
a part so useful to her interests, so noble to
her honour, so distinguished, so dear to hu-
manity ! To prevent this, only a little Skill,
little enlightened policy, and a little courage
were required from her Ministers ! * * *
The union of the Mores with England is only
wanting to throW us down at the bottom of
the, political scale of nations !" The Quoti.
dienne contains a long and abusive 'article
against us, in which it asserts that we have been
the most bitter enemies of the Greeks, whilst
France displayed mothiug but kindness towards
them, and ought therefore to have been prefer-
red as a Protector., it has even the audacity to

state that the charges against French cruisers in
the Levant, of having favoured the expedi-
tion of Ibraham Pacha, and conveyed his mili-
tary chest to Modon, originated in the English
Papers, whilst they were made and proved
by the agent of the French Committee, General
Roche, from whose Reports, supported by
official documents, they were transferred to our
Journals. The Quolidienne has long displayed a
spirit of hostility towards this country which
would have won crosses of honour in the days of
Napoleon, but it has seldom accumulated more
falsehood and calumnies than in the present ar-
ticle. France, who sent officers to organize and
discipline the armies of the Paella of Egypt—
who keeps them still in her pay whilst they are
directing the war and devastations of the Morea
—France, whose vessels of war conveyed ammu-
nition and treasures to the Destroyers, and thus
enabled. the Egyptians to land and to maintain
themselves in the Peninsula—France forsooth has
been all kindness to the Greeks ! And we,whose
countrymen have crowded the ranks of their
armies and brought life and fortune to their
cause-,---whose Capitalists have furnished their
Government with loans—whose sympathy has
supplied them with arms and ammunition—
whose enlightened policy first recognized their
right as a nation to blockade the ports of their
enemies, and thus forced other powers, even
France herself, to recognize them also, and to
promise neutrality in the great contest carrying
on—we have been the " most active enemies of
Greece !" It appears, however, from what has
occasioned this sortie against us, that the Greeks
are of a different opinion, and that they know
how to appreciate real friends from disguised
enemies.

LNcW TIM ESil
We last night received the ]:toile, dated Mon-
day morning ; of course it does not bring any
price of Stocks, the preceding day being Sunday.
Accounts from Corfu- to the 7th of August assert,
that Redschid Pacha had lost a vast number of
men before Misso!origin', and that it-was expected
he would raise the siege. He Wad not raised it,
however, at that time. The Jeiurnal des DAats
is very angry with the French Government for
its conduct with respect to Greece. Taking for
granted that the Morea has been offered to Eng-
land, it proceeds to lament that France has
missed this great opportunity for doing what
would be usrful, honourable, fair, and touching !
We do not attach mach credit to the report which
has called forth theseobservations. We do not see
that the possession of the Alorea would be of any
great use to us. By holding the lonian Islands and
Malta our commercial interests are sufficiently
protected, and our maritime preponderance main-
tained in the Mediterranean. %Ire should find.
but indifferent subjects in the MoreWs, and the
country would hardly pay the expence of go-
verning it. The French politicians, however, have
always fancied that we were ambitious of the pos-
session. Buonaparte used to say, that he would
have suffered Austria and •Russia to have driven
the Turks out of Europe, but that he was sure the
English would seize -on the Morea and the
Islands ; and the same jealousy fills the heads
of the Statesmen who have succeeded him, or at
least the columns of their journalists. .

, [MORNING CIIIONICLE.I
The facetious dialogue between Mr. Laing, of
Hatton Garden, and a prisoner, which we quoted
in an article on Police Witticisms, on Tuesday,
the Gth, was copied from a Report in The New
Times. Yesterday a paragraph appeared in
The New Times, expre'Ssing a fear that it had
contributed to lead us into error, and stating that
the words ascribed to Mr. Laing were really not
uttered by that Magistrate. In justice to Mr.
Laing, we give the. same publicity to the correc-
tion that we gave to the error; and while we are
about the matter, we may as well set The New
Times right in another point. We cannot com-
pliment our -contemporary on the spirit of fair-
ness with which he has explained the misrepre-
sentation of his own columns. In fact, when
retracing one unintentional representation, he
has taken occasion to utter another. Any
one, from reading . the paragraph in the
columns of our contemporary, would con-
clude that we had- made some hitter attack
on Mr. Laing, on the score of the nonsense
imputed to him. The truth, however, is far other-
wise. We did not " reprehend" Mr. Laing, or
instance the sally in question as. " heinous of-
fence ;" we genera;ly censured the ill-timed and
misplaced. jests of some 'of our Magistrates ;
having observed that examples of this idle ban-
tering appear almost daily, we added that the
Journal's of the day on which we wrote Were
not without an instance of the kind, and then
proceeded to remark, that there was not much

harm in the pleasantry, nor much wit in it, and
that it might have been well dispensed with. So
anxious were we, indeed; not to -be misconceived

—not to be supposed to be urging the imputed
jocularity as a high crime and misdemeanour
against Mr. Laing—that we added a little fur-
ther on, that we instanced this sally merely as
it was that of the day ; and the strongest expres-
sion applied to the smart dialogue between the
Justice and the alleged thief was, that we could
not help thinking it cc somewhat unbecoming."
Our good friend of the Neza Times has magnified
this into treating the matter as a " heinous of-
fence !" He concludes by cautioning us against
founding censures on Magistrates on Newspaper
Police Reports; we ought perhaps after this ex-
perience to take care not to be again betrayed
into error by his.

[MORNING HERALD.]
The Irish papers still continue to advertise
theological challenges. The challengers are in
every instance of the " Bible without note or
cotnmeut" class; or it may be said, the Bible—
the whole Bible—and nothing. but the
Front the authority exercised by the Catholic
Bishops, there is no
.probability that the chal-
lenges will be accepted. It is therefore useless
to issue them—and perhaps even more than use-
less. Whatever party triumphs, the State is it
loser—for it is evident that the scale inclines to
Methodism or Catholicism, without the least

, probability of any accession to The Established
Church. Now,. Without going into doctrinal
minutenesses, or affecting extraordinary zeal
for thd Establishment as a matter of religious
conscience, it may be assumed as a pro-
position neither illiberal nor hypocritical, that this
alternative of controversy is to be regretted—to
be deplored, by every man of sense and toler-
ance, of whatever sect he may be. The enlightened
Dissenter—the enlightened Catholic even—if
friendly to .the progress of knowledge and rea-
son, and the liberty of philosophical inquiry,
must know and feel that he can pursue his spe-
culations and promulgate his opinions with much
less odium and molestation, \under the dominant
authority of hiS Grace of Canterbury, than under
that of Mr. Butterworth or Doctor Doyle.—
On this view, the Bible challenges may end in
smoke with little regret. But further; if the
question were the broad one between the
See of Rome and the Reformation, the time
is long past when personal Vicusgions and po-
pular excitement could create a revolution in doc-
trine. Truth may he aided by the passions, when
first launched on the ocean of mind ; but after
the first great impulse, the remnant unchanged
must be operated on slowly—insensibly even, by
the force of reason. The challenges themselves
are of two kinds—or in two styles. The one is a
sort of conceited confidence—an affectation of con-
troversional gladiatorship, which seems to look
rather to victory than truth. The other is a
style of perhaps honest, but bigotted, illiterate,
and narrow theology, utterly incompatible with
art!., sciences, and all that constitutes the grace and
ornament, and use, and support of the social sys-
tem. When ignorant and besotted drivellers set
up their own impulses or inspirations, as the true
comments of Scripture—when they say the Bible is
in itself all knowledge—that all else is useless or
mischievous—that learning is ignorance, and wis-
dom folly—the aspect of the question is deplora-
bly absurd, or dreadful in the extreme, accord-
ing as these conceited, weak-minded bigots have
the power of influencing society and the laws,
The Irish peasantry are at present in a state far
from desirable—but let any candid and reflect-
ing man imagine them reading the Bible, and
taking their own ignorant fantasies for diVine
grace and inspiration, what must be his hope—or
rather, what must be his despair?

THE ENSUING OLD. BAILEY SESSIONS.
A Sumr4ARY STATE MEN'T, descriptive of the various Of-
fences with which the Prisoners for Trial severally stand
charged. ' Loud. , Middx,
Murder - -
Burglary - - - - 6
Housebreaking - - -
Horsestealing - - - -
Highway Robbery - - ~
Cutting and Maiming - -
Stealing in Dwelling Houses / - 11 13
11 ape - - - . I
Forgery - - , - - - 2
Unnatural Crime - - -
Maliciously killing Horses !.. - 1
Assaulting, with intent to rob -.-
Embezzling-
--- . 3 5

1 5

1 .......

Bigamy - - - - 4
.111anslaughter • -
Stealing from the person - - R 3 55
Receiving Stolen Goods . - .Z 4
Fraud ' - - - - - 1
Stealing from Post Office Letters , 2
Uttering Counterfeit Coin ..
Larcenies . - . , 40 207

Total -

82 329
- -- 411

ALARMING FIRES.

1 A fire, attelided. with he loss of tife, brok e
out yesterday nrartirinh,r on the premises of Mr. BELL, an ol -
man, in ShoreditelL. About a ilaarter past twelve o'clock, the
watchman observe) smoke issuiNr from the lower part of the
premises, and he gav, the alarm. For some time his efforts
to awaken the inhabitants were ineffectual', and the house was
completely in flames before as:, tidings could be gained of the
fate of its inmates, when it was ascertained that Mr. Bell had
been burnt to death. It seams that the .female part of the
family, upon hearing the alarm, effected their escape through
the hack of the premises, and Mr. Bell, attended by his
man, endeavoured to work a passage through the, front,
and lower part of the house. On their proceeding 'down
the stairs' however, the smoke became so dense that they
were nearly suffocated. The man endeavoured to persuade
his master to abandGn his intention to reach the street by
the front door, and' he was returning when the lantling-plaee
of the staircase gave way, and precipitated him into the
flames. Mrs. Belt cut herself dreadfully by falling on a sky-
light, and the woman servant is severely bruised.. The house
of Mr. Jacobs, and that of Mrs. Reece, which adjoins that of
Mr. Bell, have sustained considerable damage, and property to
a large amount in the latter has been destroyed. Mrs. Jacobs
whose accouchement is expected every hour, lies in a very
dangerous state, .in consequence of the fright she has sus-
tained.

BRIGHTON, SEPT. 13.-A most alarming fire
broke out last night, at the large and elegant mansion erecting
by Major Russell at the end of the Marine Parade. It was first
discovered al: out half-past 8 o'clock, at which time it had gained
great head, the flames bursting forth With 'dreadful -fury from
the windows and every part of the building. The house being
unfinished, it is supposed the fire must have been burning
within the walls almost from the time the workmen left
it—a period of about two hours: An engine belonging to
the town arrived about nine o'clock, and that of the Sus-
sex Fire-office shortly after; but owing to the scanty and
insufficient supply of water, they were prevented from work-
ing until about half-past ten o'clock, when the fire, hav-
ing consumed all that was cumbustible, was gradually sub-
siding. The spectacle was a most terrifie one, an immense
mass of flame arising from the house, and rolling over the town.
It is estimated that the proprietor had expended upwards of ten
thousand pounds upon the house, not a shilling of which was
insured. The interior is completely gutted, nothing being left
but the outer walls,-and even in these the bond .timbers arc
completely burnt, so that in all probability they must be pulled
down. A considerable ',Onion of the party walls fell in,
last night, and one which was standing this, morning tot-
tered from the top to the bottom of .the building, in a fear.
ful manner. The house was surmounted with a large, and
elegant dome, which being formed of wood, covered with
lead, gave way at an early stage.of the fire, and fell in
with a tremendous crash ; this dome alone cost upwards
of 8001. In front of the house was a noble portico, the
pillars of which were 'truly magnificent; - and through these
the fire was seen raging along the building, forming a
most grand and imposing object. At the top of the font
wall was. a balustrade, through the interstices of which
the flames poured with dreadful fury. One man was
so much hurt by the fall of the burning scaffold .poles
as to expire almost immediately, and another was dangerously
injured and not expected to survive. The proprietor, Major
Russell, was present among the spectators, and seemed to bear
his loss with the utmost sang froid, as .he gave die necessary
directions to the workmen. he house has for a long time at,.
tracted the admiration of all visiters, and it is said that Mrs.
Coutts was in treaty for the purchase of it ; the portico had
r
been stuccoed only the day before.
Ti

ie metropolis was
yesterday visited by a
thunder-storm, in the course of which there was
one very loud and long-continued peal, which
must have been immediately over the city, from
the flash being almost instantly followed by the
rolling thunder.

REMARKABLE CIRCUMSTANCE.—There are now
living in this neighbourhood, a wedded couple,
who wore born the same day, reared by the same
nurse, and rocked in the same cradle. They have
been some years married.—(Kentish Gazette.)