The Sun.
London, England, 1834-10-28 00:00:00

MEXICAN BONDS.

The following official communication has been received
by the Chairman of the Committee of Mexican Bond-
holders : _ _

" Mexico, Aug. 25

", SIR,—We have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of
your letter of the 14th of June, enclosing one from M. Garay,
which we have translated and handed to his successor, M.
lichevarria ; the answer to which, if received in time, shall go
enclosed.

" Immediately on receipt of your letter, we, in company
with Mr. Pakenham. waited on the Minister of Finance, who
assured us that the Government had not lost sight of the claims
of the bondholders, that he had every hope of being able very
shortly to recommence making remittances for account of the
dividends, and that the interruptions which have.taken place
in the mission of specie have arisen entirely from the political
convulsions which have been agitating the country for some
time past.
Since writing the above, we have learned that M. Esche-
varria has resigned the office of Minister of Finance. His
successor has not been yet appointed, but as soon as the nomi-
nation shall have been made, we shall endeavour to obtain the
answer to your letter.
" We have the honour to remain your most obedient ser-
vants, " MANNING and MARSHALL.

" To Lieut.-General Sir Robert Wilson, &e."

THE CORTES BONDS.

The following correspondence has just taken place re-
tive to the claims of the Cortes' bondholders .

" TO THE RIGHT HON. VISCOUNT PALMERSTON.

"MY LORD-I am requested by the Committee of Spanish
bondholders to address your Lordship upon the subject of
recent intelligence from Madrid, which is of the deepest im-
portance to the British creditors of Spain, and appears to the
Committee to be the most deserving of your Lordship's con-
sideration.
" The Committee have been informed that in the Chamber
of Procuradores a decision has been come to which, after
recognising the foreign debt of Spain, assigns to two-thirds of
the principal of the debt an active form, and to one-third a
passive form, while the interest due and now payable upon it
is placed entirely in a passive state.
" This decision not only inflicts grievous wrong upon the
British creditors of Spain, but treats them unequally and un-
justly compared with its other creditors. The holders of
Spanish bonds issued under the former Constitutional Govern-
ment of Spain are large claimants on the score of interest :
55 per cent. on their original bond is due to them on the Ist
of November next. For eleven years have they suffered this
privation and injury, and now that the Constitutional Govern-
ment is re-established in Spain, not only is no attempt made
to redress it, but a resolution is come to which has the effect of
continuing it.
" The French creditors of Spain, on the other hand, the
holders of the Rentes Perpetuelles, have constantly received
the payment of interest due upon their bonds, while British
creditors have been entirely deprived of the interest due to
them.
" The Committee, therefore, consider that the interest of
the British debt now due should be treated as principal in any
operation pretending to the merit of equal justice which the
Spanish Government or Legislature may think fit to adopt.
Even then English creditors will largely suffer. Not only will
the value of compound interest, enjoyed by the other creditors
of Spain, have been lost to them, but the interest which is now
due, worked up into Spanish securities, instead of being paid,
as it ought to have been, in sterling money, will lose nearly
half its value. '
" The Committee entreat your Lordship to call upon the
British Ambassador at Madrid to represent these circum-
stances to the Spanish authorities, that if the necessities of
Spain compel her for the present to stop short of full recom-
pense to her creditors, she should at least treat them with
equal justice, and not place British claimants, who have been
her best friends, whose money she has more largely partaken
of, and on better terms, in a worse situation than her other
creditors.
6` Your Committee are sensible of the kindness with which
your Lordship has attended to the claims of the British credi-
tors of Spain, and entreat your Lordship to give effect to this
remonstrance on their part, through his Majesty's Minister at
the Court of Madrid, with all the promptitude which your Lord-
ship's convenience will permit.
" I have the honour to be, your Lordship's most obedient
Servant,
" THOMAS WEEDING, Chairman.
" London, Oct. 17."

" Mr. Backhouse presents his compliments to Mr. Weeding,
and requests that he will have the goodness to furnish him
with a copy of the memorial of the holders of Cortes' bonds, of
which the originals were enclosed in Mr. Weeding's letter of
the 21st August last.
" Foreign Office, Oct. 18."

" Mr. Weeding presents his compliments to Mr. Back-
house, and, in compliance with his request, enclozes copies of
the three memorials which accompanied Mr. Weeding's letter
of the 21st of August last, to the Queen Regent of Spain,
and to the two Houses of the Spanish Legislature.
" The purport of these memorials was to claim equal justice
for the British creditors,.with other foreign creditors of Spain,
in any disposition which the Spanish Government might adopt
in regard to its foreign debt.
" By the vote of the Procuradores, this principle is violated.
The holders of the Rentes Perpetuelles, negotiated since 1823,
after the former constitutional' Government of Spain was set
aside, have received regularly half-yearly an interest of 5 per
cent. per annum upon their bonds, while the British holders of
Cartes bonds have received no interest since the Cortes were
dissolved in 1823.
" The Cortes bondholders claim, therefore, that the arrears
of interest shall be treated as a debt in equal degree with the
principal ; and if two-thirds only of the foreign debt be to be
made active, they claim that two-thirds of the interest now
due and payable shall have an active form as well as two-thirds
of the principal.
" It would be a strange perversion indeed of reason and of
justice if Frenchmen, whose bayonets under the Duke of An-
gouleme enabled Ferdinand to violate his engagements and to
dismiss the Cortes, should by the Cortes now restored be
placed in effect in a more favourable situation than their Eng-
lish creditors.

" Mr. Weeding hopes that Mr. Villiers will not allow M.
Rayneval to outstrip him in defence of the respective interests
of British and French creditors.

Great Winchester-street, Oct. 20."

" Foreign-office, Oct. 23.

" Sta—l am directed by Viscount Kalmerston to acknow-
ledge the receipt of your letters of the 17th and 20th instant,
setting forth the peculiar hardship which is entailed upon the
British creditors of Spain by that part of the financial arrange-
ment of the Cortes, which places entirely in a passive state
the interest due and now payable upon Spanish bonds gene-
rally ; and I am to acquaint you that his Majesty's Minister
at Madrid will be instructed to call the immediate attention of
the Spanish Government to the subject.
" I am, sir, &c. " G. SHEE.
" To Thomas Weeding, Esq."

COURT CIRCULAR.

The King will hold a Privy Council to-morrow at St.
'arnes's. Summonses were issued yesterday to the Cabinet
linisters to attend the Council.

It is expected that the Recorder of London will also make
a report.
A deputation, headed by Mr. George Stephen, and includ-
ing several members of the Society of Friends, had an inter-
view.yesterday with Mr. Secretary Rice at the Colonial-office.
Count Seckendorff, the Prussian Charge d'Affaires, trans-
acted business yesterday at the Foreign-office.
Mr. Baillie, M. P., and a deputation, had an interview yes-
terday with Mr. Secretary Rice respecting the colony of De-
merara.

The Earl of Mulgrave and Mr. Secretary Rice visited Vis-
count Melbourne yesterday.
Workmen are employed in repairing the walls of the Painted
Chamber, which, it is expected, will he converted into a tem-
pory building for one onhe Houses of Parliament.
Mr. Browne, agent for Antigua and the Virgin Islands, had
an interview with Mr. Secretary Rice yesterday.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.

The Earl and Countess of Lichfield, at Newmarket, from
teir seat, Shugborough, Staffordshire ; the Earl and Coun-
•ss of Hardwick and family, at_Tittenhanger Hall, Harts,

from Wimpole, near Arrington, Cambridgeshire ; Mrs. Fitz-
herbert, in Tilney-street, from Brighton ; Sir Charles Saxton,
Bart., at Cheltenham, from his sest in Berks ; the Rev. J.

Tomlinson, at his seat, Dorfold, from Liverpool ; Sir John
Wells, Bart., at Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street, from his
scat in Sussex ; L. Rogers,,Esq., at ditto, from Paris ;
G walhmey, nsq., at ditto, from ditto; Mr. and Mrs. Archer
Hoblon, at Batt's Hotel, Dover-street, from Cambridgeshire ;
Lady Boynton, at Goold's (late Hitchcock's) London Hotel,
Albemarle-street, from Leicestershire ; General Sharpe and

family, at ditto, from Paris; the Rev. Edmund Dion, at
ditto, from Petworth Rectory, Sussex ; Captain Knight, at
Raggett's Hotel, Dover-street, from Worthing.

DEPARTURES. -
Lord Ernest Bruce, from Grosvenor-square, for the Con-
tinent ; the Countess of Gosford, for Worlingham Hall, Suf-
folk ; Simon Taylor, Esq., from Ellis's Hotel, St. James's-
street, for his seat in Yorkshire ; the Bishop of Rochester,
from Warren's Hotel, Regent-street, for the Palace, Bromley ;
Sir Henry Bunbury, Bart., from ditto, for his seat, Barton,
Suffolk ; Mr. and Mrs. Daniels, from the St. James's Hotel,
Jermyn-street, for Dublin ; William Coulson, Esq., from
ditto, for ditto; Mr. and Mrs. James Powell, from Brook-
strcet, for their seat in Devonshire ; the Earl of Sefton and
the Ladies Molyneux, for their seat, Stoke Farm, near Windsor.

Prince Talleyrand is expected about the 20th of

Nos ember.

Prince Poniatowski, and his half-sister, Madlle.
Bolislerski, have arrived at Balinahinch Castle, county Gal-
way, the seat of Thomas Martin, Esq., M. P. The Prince
is the grand-nephew of the late- King of Poland, and the son
of Prince Poniatowski, who was drowned after the last battle
of Leipzic.—Freeman's Journal.

The Marquis of Douro and his friend, the Hon.
Charles John Canning, are now visiting the Court of the
Autocrat, whence they proceed to Berlin, Dresden, and others
of the chief cities in Germany, and are not expected to return
to England until January, when the Noble Marquis will be
appointed to the lieutenant-colonelcy of a regiment on the
home establishment.

We understand that Dr. Bowring's reception in the
South of France has been flattering in the extreme, and that
he expresses the greatest gratification at the progress, which
the free-trade principle has made in that quarter. At Mar-
seilles he was invited by the Chamber of Commerce to a con-
ference which lasted for some hours. After which a deputa-
taticn waited on him from the Chamber, inviting him to a pub-
lic dinner, at which the Prefect presided, which went off with
much eel& The merchants not belonging to the Chamber
requested him also to meet them at a banquet they proposed
to offer him, but he was compelled to leave for Toulon, where
the accounts say he was equally well received.— Galignani's
Messenger.
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The high office of the Lord Lieutenancy of Lan-
cashire, held for sixty years by the late Earl of Derby, will, it
is rumoured, be given to the Earl of Sefton, instead of the
present Earl of Derby. Before the sacrifices made by the
Stanleys immediately preceding and during the Common-
weaith, the whole hundred of Amounderness belonged to them,
and at present it is said there are 60,000 acres in Lancashire
the property of that Noble House.

The Italian Journals state that steam navigation in
the Mediterranean is making gigantic strides. Communica-
tions by rapid means are being organised in every direction,
and particularly in the Adriatic.

Arrangements are making by the Lords of the Ad-
miralty to keep up a regular correspondence with Lisbon dur-
ing the ensuing winter by steam-boats.

On account of the death of the Ranee of Jeypore,
an order has been issued for every Hindoo who comes into the
city to be shaved at the gates, and to be deprived of his hair,
beard, and mustachios.—Asiatic Journal.
ERUPTION OF VE suvius .--The occurrence of
the late explosion from this mountain of old and classical ter-
rors, imparts a fresh interest to every picture and description
which human genius has left on record for the purpose of aiding
the imagination to conceive the sublimities connected with the
spot. Mr. Bulwer's recent production, which has so oppor-
tunely diffused its light over the most remarkable of the visi-
tations that has emanated from this terrible source, is not the
only recent instance of literary talent directed to that subject.
Mr. Horace Smith's late work, entitled, " Tales of the Early
Ages," contains a story of some length, which derives its de
nouement from the memorable fate of Pompeii, and conveys a
vivid impression of the splendours and horrors that marked the
progress and consummation of that appalling event.

The catalogue of the articles for sale at the fair of
Leipzic contains a list of 3,092 works, published by 456 book-
sellers ; 289 others were in the press.

We believe it is not generally known that every new
Speaker of the House of Commons, on his accession to office,
is presented with a magnificent Bible, which has generally
been considered by the family of each Speaker as a sacred relic.

The Count de Tilly lately made an excursion to the
summit of Mont Blanc. In his descent he had his feet frozen,
and it is apprehended that he will be obliged to suffer ampu-
tation.

Many improvements are in progress at Kensington
Palace, which are to be completed orevious to the return of
their Royal Highnesses from their tour, in February.

ROME, OCT. 11.—This morning early Don Miguel
suddenly left Rome ; it is said he has gone to Genoa, and
that a matrimonial alliance is on the tapis between him and
the daughter of the Duke of Modena.—Le Rfformateur.

At the late grand fete at Wentworth House there
was placed in the refreshment room a bouquet. de fruit, com-
posed of every variety of grapes, pines, peaches, nectarines,
&c., five yards in circumference, and valued at 600!.
The Rev. Mr. Douglass, who has been presented
to a stall in Durham Cathedral, is a nephew of Mrs. Van Mil_
dert, the wife of the Bishop of Durham.
Marshal Soult's mother died very lately •at St.
Arnaud, at a very advanced age.
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LORD GREY'S MONUMENT.—In the subscription
list, we find a noble subscription of one hundred pounds from
Lord Panmure ; the Recorder of Newcastle, 10 guineas •
Lord Althorp, 25/. ; and M. Cully, Esq., of Fowberry, 501.
—Tyne Mercury.

ADDRESS TO LORD DURHAM. On Tuesday
night, a meeting of tradesmen was held in Brighton. street
Chapel, to consider the propriety of voting an address to
Lord Durham, on the occasion of that Noble Lord's visit to
Glasgow. After some discussion, it was at length agreed
that an address should be prepared, and a deputation of two
of their number appointed to proceed to Glasgow to deliver
the address to his Lordship. The meeting was but thinly
attended.

We are requested to state that the recent very im-
portant decision of the Cour de Cassation at Paris, relative to
the recovery in France upon Bills of Exchange (indorsed after
they have become due,) is ulterior to the going to press of the
last edition of Mr. Okay's work upon the inter-national in-
tercoursc of Great Britain and that country.

GREENOCK.—A public meeting of the inhabitants
of Greenock was held in the Town Hall, on Monday last, at
two o'clock, to take into consideration the propriety of pre-
senting an address to Lord Durham, on the occasion of his
visiting Glasgow. The Provost having read the requisition,
which was signed by upwards of one hundred electors, was
unanimously voted to the chair. Mr. Clark moved the follow-
ing resolution :—That this public meeting of the inhabitants
of Greenock shall send an address, to be presented in their
name, to the Right Honourable the Earl of Durham, at the
ensuing festival in Glasgow, expressive of the high sense they,
in common with the country at large, and particularly with the
people of the west of Scotland, entertain of his liberal, patri-
otic, and straightforward character and conduct, which render
him so deserving of public approbation and confidence. Mr.
Donald Bean seconded the resolution, which was carried una-
nimously. Mr. Hunter moved the following resolution :
That Robert Wallace, Esq., M. P., be solicited to present the
address of the inhabitants of Greenock to Lord Durham, on
the occasion of his visiting Glasgow. Mr. Archibald Camp-
bell seconded the resolution, which was unanimously agreed
to. Robert Wallace, Esq., M.P., who was present, agreed
to present the address, and the thanks of the meeting having
Leen by acclamation given to the Provost, for his conduct in
the chair, the meeting dispersed.
It is said a great literary curiosity- has recently been
discovered. The identical copy of Ju;tius's Letters, in two
volumes, bound in vellum, by Mr. Woodfall, the publisher, at
the express wish of the author, which copy is particularly
alluded to in the variorum edition of these letters, published
by George Woodfall, Esq., a few years ago.
MELANCHOLY INSTANCE OF SUDDEN DEATH.
—On Sunday last, about three o'clock, the Baron and Baroness
de Noval, who have been residing for some months at their
villa, at Barnes-green, Surrey, were walking within two hun-
dred yards of their residence, when opposite the establishment
of John PalM, L. L. D., the Baron suddenly fell down, and
instantly expired. Medical aid was immediately resorted to,
but without avail. Thus has terminated the life of a noble-
man eminently distinguished for his benevolent disposition, and
sincerely lamented by every one who knew him.
On Monday last the Annual Festival of the Pro-
vincial Lodge of Freemasons took place in the Mechanics' In-
stitute, Chester-le-Street, which was Attended by a very large
proportion of the Masons of the county, and also the pro-
vincial lodge of Northumberland. Indeed, the assembly was
so numerous that standing room could not be obtained ; and
the Provincial Grand-Master, with that liberality and splen-
pour which characterizes his conduct, promised the Craft a
Freemasons' Hall sufficiently capatious to hold the whole
Craft against the next anniversary. After the Masonic busi-
ness was concluded the party adjourned to the Lambton Arms,
where three tables were laid out with great profusion and
taste by brother Lawson. The Earl of Durham presided,
Captain Yorke, M.P. ; Sir H. Williamson, M. P. ; Sir W.
Chaytor, M. P. ; Captain Boas, M.P. ; Rev. Mr. Townsend ;
Mr. Fawcett; Mr. Mills, &c. His lordship presided with his

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1834

z sual dignity and talent, and the brethren did not separate till
a late hour, and not a single brother left the table as long as
h s Lordship remained, who was repeatedly greeted with the
most enthusiastic cheers. The party consisted of one hun-
dred and twenty-six, the new room was comfortably filled and
the arrangements were all excellent and satisfactory._Sun_
derland Herald.

GA I NSBOROUGII.—The Mart commenced on Mon-
day, the 20th ; but owing to the cold weather, and being
badly attended by shows, very little business was done in the
pleasure fair. On Tuesday the beast fair was held, and an
unusual quantity of large fat beasts attended, which were
bought up at very fair prices. A considerable number of sheep
were also 'offered for sale, great part of which were soli.
The cheese fair was held in the Market-place, on Tuesday
and Wednesday, and a great quantity was brought in, which
fetched the following prices :—Good Derbyshire, 565. to 60s.
per cwt. ; Trent Side, good, 545. to 585., and dairy at 60s.
per cwt. seconds, 435. to 48s. Second day it was nearly all
old, but declined from Is. to 2s. per cwt.

THE SILK TRADE.-The East India Company's
sale of Bengal raw silks, which commenced at the India House
on the 20th instant, has concluded. It was well attended
throughout by the manufacturers, throwsters, and others inte-
rested in the trade. The quantity declared for sale was 2,100
bales of Company's Bengal, and 220 bales of private-trade
China silks. The silk generally was superior in quality; but
the prices realized were from 7.4- to 12} per cent. higher than
those obtained at the previous sales ; the coarser sizes being
in some cases refused at the taxed price. The following are
a few of the averages obtained for the Company's silks :-
The first qualities of Bauleah sold at 16s. 11d. to 17s. Id. ;
of Conmercolly, at 17s. Id. ; of white Gonatea, 21s. 2d. ; of
Harripaul, 20s. 9d. ; Junjypore, 225. 2d. ; white Radnagore,
19s. 7d., and white Surdahs at 225. ld. per lb. The coarser
size is averaged as follows : -Bauleahs, 15s. 4d.; Cassimbasar,
15s. 3d., ditto white, 17s. 4d. ; Gonatea, 16s. 7d. ; Harrepaul,
16s. 7d. ; Junjypore, 16s. 3d. ; Malda, 15s. ; Radnagore, 17s.
2d. ; Ringpore, 17s. Id., and Surdah's, 15s. 9d. per lb. The
private trade-Tsatlee averaged 20s. Id. for the first, and
19s. 7d. for the second qualities, and Taysaams, 17s. Bd. for
second qualities. There remain in the East India Company's
warehouses for future sales, 3975 bales of Company's Bengals,
1,014 bales of private trade China silks, and 29 bales of pri-
vate trade Bengal silks ; making a total of 5,018 bales.

At the Dalkeith fair, on Tuesday last, a fine horse
was carried off in the following manner :—The animal had
been intrusted by the proprietor to the care of his servant, a
simple countryman, in order to be sold, when the latter was
accosted by two fellows, who, after examiniug the horse, and
negotiating as to the price, at last offered 181., which was
agreed to by the servant. The fellows then endeavoured to
impose on the countryman, by the clumsy device of writing
out a receipt for the sum on a stamp, and presenting the same
to him with his name adhibited to it, adding, that if he took it
to the bank he would get the money. The countryman, in-
experienced as he was, however, could not comprehend this
mode of doing business, and resolved to keep sight of his horse,
but the fellows had taken advantage of the Interval he was
engaged in examining the document, and, on turning round
to secure his property, he discovered no trace either of the
horse or of the thieves. The proprietor of the horse lost no
time in applying to the Sheriff for a warrant to recover the
horse, and on Wednesday evening the same was found at
Broxburn, in the possession of two individuals. As the war-
rant, of course, only extended to the county of Edinburgh, it
was indorsed by one of the Justices of Linlithgow, and the
officers then seized the horse. The men in whose custody it
was found gave evasive answers as to how they obtained it, but
two characters, well known to the police of this city, are
suspected to have been the perpetrators of this theft and for-
gery.—Edinburgh Chronicle.

HERRING FISHING.—The Repute, Captain Hec-
tor M'Carmaig, of Greeg, at Crinan Canal basin, from Shet-
land, cleared with 600 barrels herrings, bound for Belfast.
The Captain stated that in the course of last month the fishing
had been excellent, and that some individuals had salted and
cured 1,000 barrels in a few days.

The other day a great fire having taken place in
Normandy, the people quenched it with cider, which was more
plentiful than water. Never was such a crop of apples, how-
ever, in France.—Gazette de Rouen.

Yesterday morning, a poor woman, named Mary
Tibbles, residing on the Beast Banks, near this town, was
found burned to death in her own house. How the melancholy
event originated can only be supposed, but it seems likely that
the clothes of the unfortunate sufferer had caught fire, and that
in attempting to extinguish the flames she had fallen on the
floor, and been suffocated. The boards were consumed to a
considerable extent, and the head and shoulders of the poor
woman literally scorched to a cinder.—Kendal Mercury.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT ST. MARY CRAY,
KENT.—About seven o'clock on Sunday evening the inhabi-
tants of St. Mary Cray, Kent, were thrown into a state of
great alarm by the discovery of an alarming fire on the exten-

iive premises of Mr. Mosyjr, a respectable farmer in that vil-
lage. The engines in the immediate neighbourhood, and one
belonging to the Kent Fire-office, from Deptford, arrived as
soon as possible at the scene of conflagration, as did one from
London belonging to the London Fire-engine Establishment ;
but their united exertions were unable to subdue the fire until
it had destroyed a large row of stalling, two barns, and a
cow-shed. It is not known how the fire was occasioned; but
it is generally believed to have been the act of an incendiary.
Mr. Mosyer is insured in the Sun Fire-office.

SINGULAR EIRE.—On Saturday afternoon, about
two o'clock, a fire broke out on the premises of Mr. Dodd,
sink maker, No. 21, Vere-street, Clare-market, which did
considerable damage before it was extinguished. The fire
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Dodd fortunately instantly discovered the fire, the principal
supports of the house would have been burned through, before
the inmates were aware of their danger.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE ON A FARM.—On Wednes-
day evening last, about half-past six o'clock, a very alarming
fire broke out on the farm of Mr. Holtham, at Cleeve Prior,
about two miles from Bidford, in Worcestershire, on the border
of this county. The fire appears to have commenced in the
barn (which was cf extraordinary size) and communicated to
some sheds, all of which were totally destroyed. The barn
contained bout 700 bags of wheat, and only 30 bags were
rescued from the flames. There were 400 bags of old wheat
ail thrashed, and the remainder of the present year's crop partly
thrashed and partly in the straw. Three wheat stacks, stand-
ing but a few feet from the barn, were fortunately saved by the
activity of a number of neighbours who came to assist, and
who contrived by pouring pails of water from the tops of the
stacks down the sides towards the barn, to prevent their being
kindled. Much credit is due to all who anxiously and readily
gave their aid on the occasion. Two engines were brought to
the spot, but not until three hours after the fire had broken
out. There is every reason to fear it was the work of diaboli-
cal incendiarism. We are happy to hear the property was in-
sured,—Warwick Advertiser.
FIRE AT WHITELY WOOD.—Yesterday morning
a conflagration, the origin of which is involved in mystery,
broke out in the buildings composing the farmstead of a person
of the name of Willis, at Whiteley Wood, near this town. At
half-past six o'clock, the inhabitant of the cottage which is
under the same roof with the barn which is consumed, casually
looked into a shed at the end of the building containing stubble
—at which time there appeared no indications of fire—nor
were there any when more than an hour afterwards another
person had occasion to enter the place. Before nine o'clock,
however, the stubble in the shed was discovered to be in a
blaze—the fire apparently having begun at the bottom of the
heap. The flames soon communicated with the barn, which,
containing .a quantity of corn and straw, easily fell a prey to
the devouring element—there being no time to obtain a fire
engine, and but indifferent means of using successfully the
water at hand, though the various workmen in the neighbour-
hood rendered prompt and efficient assistance. Happily, by
cutting away a portion of the roof the cottage adjoining the
barn was saved • and providentially, owing to the direction of
the wind, a stack of corn, which stood a few yards from the
burning buildings, escaped uninjured.—Sheffield Mercury.
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kept clear hold of by the ruffians. After proceeding a short
way, the post-boy met a farm servant driving a cart, and re-
turned with him to the spot where he was attacked, and where
he found his horse standing by the road-side ; but his assailants,
whose object seemed to have been robbery, were not to be
seen. In the hurry of the moment, the post-boy took no note
of their persons, and is therefore not able to give a description
of them ; but they seemed to have wreaked their disappoint-
ment on the poor horse, who when recovered appeared as if he
had been thrown over and rolled in the mud.—Edinburgh
Chronicle.

CORONER'S INQUEST.—An inquisition was last
night taken at the Bull, Little Chapel-street, Westminster,
before Mr. Higgs, on view of the body of Elizabeth Pearson,
aged 70, who was found dead under the following circum-
stances :__.lt appeared in evidence that the deceased occupied
one of two almshouses, which were " erected in the year 1705,
by Mrs. Judith Kifford, wife of Mr. Thomas Kifford, one of
the ushers of the Court of Exchequer," and which, as described
on the tablet, were to be dwelling places " for two decayed
virtuous gentlewomen, one of whom was to be chosen out of
St. Margaret's parish." The gift is in the possession of the
Dean of Westminster, and the deceased, who had been in the
service of the late Dean (Dr. Vincent), twenty-one years, had
the house bestowed on her, with the legacies attached. The
deceased had sunk her money, and lived on the annuity, though
she obtained some assistance from that which was given her by
charitable individuals. She was a woman of eccentric habits,
and held little intercourse with her neighbours; but, as she
was a very regular woman, some surprize was expressed on
Sunday morning, from not seeing her as usual at the door.
In consequence, about eleven o'clock that morning, her house
was entered by her nephew, when she was found lying on the
floor, the body being quite cold. On searching her pockets,
9/. 10s. ill gold and silver were found. Verdict—" That the
deceased died by the visitation of God." The houses arc now
both without a tenant, as since the death of the former occu-
pant, no one has been appointed to the gift.