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ATTEMPT TO FIRE SHEERNESS

DOCKYARD.

(From a Second Edition of the Times.
SHEERNESS, FRIDAY EVENING, 8 P.M.

Her Majesty ship Camperdown, 120 guns, was
attempted to be fired in the Basin this evening by
some incendiary. The fire was first discovered in
the Midshipman's berth, but was extinguished
after burning a locker, but on further search a well
laid train was discovered in the warrint officer's
store rooms, consisting of rosin, oakum, and lucifer

matches.
The above is official.

GUILDHALL-7(1'111S DAY•)

MAGISTERIAL SAGACITY:LA wretched-looking man
named James Smith, was brought before Alderman Sir
Peter Laurie, charged with having stolen a pair of reins
cur. of a dray !..clanging to Messrs. Hoare and Co., on the
25th of August last.
A City policeman stated that he had been ever since on
the Lok-out for the prisoner, having been informed that he
was tae thief, but could not meet him until yesterday.
John Alien, a drayrnan in the service of Messrs. Hoare
and Co., stated that on the day in question, a pair of reins
(his own property) was stolen out of his dray in Halston-
street. The fiver of an omnibus told him the prisoner
took them, and he gave information to the police. He, did not
himself see the prisoner take them. He did not think the
omnibus driver saw him Other, or he would have had him
stopped.
Sir P. LAURIE—I see you want to screen the fellow.
Witness—They were my own reins. I bought them
that day for ss.
Sir P. LAURIE—III engage you knew him before. You
want to screen him.

Witness—l knew him, and gavo him beer.
Sr PETER (to the prisoner)—Well, do you confess you
stole the reins ? Prisoner—l do, your worship. I was
ready to drop with hunger.
Sir PETER—You see he is a common thief. He steals
the property, and then he acknowledges it.
The prisoner was sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment.

A COOL AND JUST REPROOF.
TO THE EDITOR OF TIME STANDARD.

SlR—With your habit of identifying me with Pontius
Pilate, I feel that it is not part of my business to find
fault ; but as it is stated in your paper of last night, that
the circumstance of my having attended High Mass has
a tendency to wound religion, you will be gratified to be
able to give, on my authority, a positive contradiction of
the all, ged fact.—l have the honour to be, Sir, your
very humble servant,
Oct. 2, 1840. MORPETH.

THE LIVERPOOL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.
_The Annual Meeting of the Liverpool Agricultural So-
ciety took place last Thursday. The show of live stock
was not so large as we have witnessed on preceding oc-
casions, but the quality of all kinds was much superior.
The attendance of agriculturists was very numerous,
and there were present els., a very considerable number
of the Liverpool inhabitants. Lord Stanley was on the
ground early in the morning, accompanied by many
gentlemen of the landed interest. The causes assigned
for the limited exhibition of cattle were, that they Royal
Society having determined, to hold their next meetirg
at Liverpool, many persons were induced to reserve
their stock for that occasion. Secondly, that the prevail-
ing epidemic in the South of England had operated in a
very material degree with prejudicial effact to the exhibi-
tion. Notwithstanding, the show was very good, and
the results have proved highly gratifying to all who were
present to take an interest in agricultural pursuits. In the
afternoon a most substantial repast was provided, which
was discussed with infinite gusto by about four hundred
individuals. Among those present we observed, the Right
Hon. Lord Stanley, M. P. ; Sir Joshua Walnasley, Knt.,
Mayor of Liverpool ; Blackburn, Esq., M. P., T.
B. Crosse, Esq., the late High Sheriff; Hon. Captain
Stanley, &c.
ALLEGED MANSLAUGHTER THROUGH NEG-
LIGENT DRIVING.-0a Friday an inquiry was commenced
before Mr. Baker, at the Cumberland Head, City-road,
touching the cause of the death of Elizabeth Wells, who
was run over on Tuesday evening last by an empty coal
waggon, driven by a man named Elliott, now in custody.
The body of the deceased not having been opened, the in-
quiry was adjourned until Tuesday next, so as to ascer-
tain the precise cause of death, and that Elliott might be
present, and other witnesses brought forward to solve the
contradictory evidence adduced on Friday.
INSURRECTION IN THE ISLE OF MAN.—
(From a Correspondent of the Advertiser.)—Douglas,
Isle of Man, Sept. 29, 1840.—A regular insurrection hss
taken place in this little island, in consequence of the al-
teration ill the currency, which has been, by an act of
Tynwald, assimilated with the English money. The
people have gathered in all parts of the island to oppose
this alteration. We are under reeular martial law ; all
houscs are c!osed at seven o'clock in the evening, and
bodies of special constables parade the streets. The mi-
litary, thirty men in number, are continually under arms.
The insurgents nearly killed the High Bailiff of Peel. and
another gentleman, a son of one of the members of the
house of Keys ; but in Douglas all seems pretty quiet. A
thing of this kind, in a little spot like this, I can assure you
may materially affect business.
SUICIDE OF AN AGED MAN.—On Friday af-
ternoon an inquest was held at the Wellington public-
house, Cannon-street. St. George's in the East, before
Mr. Baker, the Coroner, on view of the body of James
Cteverley, aged seventy years, who had terminated his
existence by hanging himself. From the evidence it ap-
peared, that some time ago the deceased, who was a jour-
neyman sailmaker, was seized with paralysis, which de-
prived him of the use of one side, and rendered him inca-
pable of doing any work for three months. On Wednes-.
day morning last he proceeded to the place he had pre-
viously worked and obtained employment. Such, however,
was the state of his debility and weakness, that he was un-
able to get on with the work placed before him. This seemed
to weigh most heavily upon his mind, and he went home
to his lodgings, where, in a short time after, he was
found suspended by a strong cord front the bedstead, quite
dead and cold. Overton, the beadle, produced a strong
cord, about two feet long, with an iron book about four
inches attached to the enl, and which is used by sail-
makers, and said it was the instrument with which the de-
ceased had effected strangulation. He also said the de-
ceased had not been suspended by it, as the bedstead was
too low to admit of it, but was found in a kneeling position;
and it would seem as if the deceased had endeavoured to
relieve himself from the pain occasioned by strangulation,
as, whee d =covered, one of the fingers of his left hand was
found fast on the point of the hcok before-mentioned, and
which formed part of the noose. The Jury, after hearing
the whole of the evidence, returned a verdict of " Tempo-
rary insanity.
Our citizens have been amused for some day's
past by the appearance of a white crow, sporting its figure
among the trees of Stanley Hill. It does not appear to be
much of a favourite with its sable brethren ; and, were it
not that it has placed itself under the special protection of
the Duchess of Athol!, its person would soon adorn the
walls of the Dunkeld Museum, a reward being offered for
its apprehension. Caledonian Mercury.
Died, September 26, al his apartments in
Regent-street, Sir James Lawrence, Knight of Malta,
the only Englishmen who enjoyed that honour. He was
the eldest son of the late Richard Lawrence, of Fairfield
estate, in St. James's Jamaica, a lineal descendant of
Henry Lawrence, Lord President of Oliver Cromwell's
Privy Council, Sir James had been long known in the
literary world; and although bit imagination, like a great
leviathan:, delighted to take its pastime in the ocean of
conjecture, yet he was at the same time a good discussing
philosopher. He was also a pretty minor poet, and many
of his verses were well-spiced satires upon falsehood and
cant, consequently admirable panegyrics upon truth. He
was an upright man, and most steady in his friendships.
On the 29th his remains were interred in the grave-yard
of St. John's Wood Chapel. The hand of a friend pens
this shot t tribute to departed worth and talent.
GALLICIA, SEPT. 9.—lf the conspirators, re•
spectiog whom something lately transpired, had reckoned
on the people, they would very speedily, if their mad pro-
jects his not be n at once baffl d, have found what a great
e2r,:r th bad committed. Those are very ill informed,
who think that the Sclavonien population, subject to the
cc :ptre o Aus via, are not much attached to the Imperial
H.e.se ; on the contrary, they are most zealous patrict4, as
everybody who apens his eyes plainly see.
THE LUDLOW CASE.—A subscription has
been commenced by the commercial men of the Uni.ed
Kinadom, to compensate Mr. Macreeth for the inconve-
nience
a,cl suffering sustained by him from the late bor-
rible attack on his life at Ludlow. The amount of sub-
scription is limited to one shilling each, and the subsorip•
tion list is to be kept open till the 20th of May, 1841, in
order to give commercial gentlemen who have circuits of
from three to six months an opportunity of showing this
mark of respect and sympathy to a highly esteemed
colleague.
STOCKHOLM, SEPT. 22.—T11e post of Minis •
ter of Justice has born offered by the Government to the
Counsellors of Justice Brcdberg and Isberg, and the latter
has had two audiences o' the King, which, however, ter-
minated in his declining the office. It is
had now been sent toßaron Ehrenhorgh. said that an offer
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ing is a literal copy of a paper posted last Sunday on a
church door not a hundred miles from East Bridgford :
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at Mrs. Macons at the Rane Deeat, to take In Condatinons
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