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turn ; provided no delay takes plate In doing do, for which they
could Justly be held answerable.
In addition to the arrears which may fall due, a donation of six
months' pay will be given to each mounted soldier discharged on
this occasion, in testimony of the consideration with which Go-
vernment view the military character and useful services of this
descriptkes of Irregular Forte.
Bills for this donation will be prpp, aftd by the oaken command-
ing the corps about tobe discharged, and forwarded to the Deputy
Paymasters of the divisions in which they are serving, who will
adopt the necessary measures fee eteir imintaus payment.
MI books and other public records apprnairnag to these corps
will be deposited in the dace of the Dep)-1 Assistant General of
Divisions respectively.
WM. CASEMENT,
Lient.-Col. Secretary to Government Military Department.
unememEsmormorgeoms
LITERARY STATISTICS.

The town of Annan, witlitn the last half century, has
produced a host of distinguished men in various departments of
literature and science, which may be put in competition with any
other district of Scotland. To illustrate this; remark, we need
only refer to the Rev. Edward Irving of London, one of the most
reatarhakie men of the present day. It would be altogether need-
less to advert more particularly to the character of a man who, for
the last ten years has occupied so prominent a place In public opt-
:doe. We are aware that public opinion h, in some measure.
divided respecting his merits. No man, however, we believe, will
question his extraordinary talents, or zealous and conscientious per-
formance of the duties of his sacred office. We may add, however,
what may not be en generally known to our readers, that he is not
less distinguished iwprtvare for the benevolence of his disposition.•
the ardour and sincerity of his friendship; and the independence
of his principles, than for the splendour of his public appearances;
and it gives us great pleasure to have an opportunity of stating
that he is regarded with the most devoted respect in his native
town. When his arrival Is 'expected, the streets are crowded, and
the coach literally beset by the admiring crowd. The celebrated
and unfortunate traveller Clappertoo, to also a native of Apnea.
His memory is still cherished by his friends; and many of his
early friends yet delight in recordin; those exploits which gave
Windom of that energy and courage for which his future cha-
racter was distinguished. Dr. Dickson also, one of his early
friends, who accompanied him on his last, unfortunate expedition,
and who. we regret to say, has too probably shared his fate, was
also a native of Aswan. He was a man of high talent, great accom-
plishments, and of a high and adventurous disposition. His attain.
mints in science eminently qualified him for such an enterprise,
though It is a matter of deep regret that eo much talent and so
much worth should be sacrificed in effecting a discovery which,
under existing circumstances, is hardly possible...-Annan can also
beast of having given birth to Nichol, the friend of Burns, a man
of genies, and a pest distinguished not more for his talents than
for his convivial propensities. He was educated under a Mr.
Irvine of Annan, a blind man, and one of the greatest scholars of
his time. He loft an epitaph, we understand, in which be records
his attainments as a scholar with more esergy, perhaps. than mo-
desty, and asserts that his acquaintance with Horace, was, at lesst,
equal to that of any man of his age. It reflects little honour
upon his pupae that no monument has yet been erected to receive
so remediable an inscription. Nichol is one of the trio men.
timed In Burn's celebrated song. " Willis brewed a peck o' mans,
and Rab and Allan cam to see,' which see, by the way. we con-
tend ought to have been pros g and we once lost a bottle of
wine by asserting that it was so. We cannot say so mush for
Mr. Nichol's character as his talents. He was terrible for his
severity as a schoolmaster : even is as age when flagellation
was reckoned indispensable, he held a meet disgusting pre-
dominance. Annan also gave birth, we believe—certainly ens-
ployment.—to the celebrated Dr. Henry, theitistorlan of Great Bri.
tans, who occupied for many years the placed parish schoolmaster
of Ammo, a situation equal in importance—lf utility be regarded as
the standard-4.0 any wbick be ever held. It is worth stating that
he paid his addicted to a relation of the celebrated Mr. Irving's,
but from the respectability of the young lady's connections,
prospects at demount were so hopeless, that they interfered to
prevent it. We bad almost forgot the celebrated poet. the ands.
Me Dr. Blacklock. After struggling with many a difficulty, be
was appointed to the pastoral charge of the parish of Kirdastibright,
a situation which he was obliged, from his blindned and the
clamours of the people, to relinquish. He retained an annuity,
however, and spent she latter period of his life in Edinburgh. He
was the first literary man who possessed saffeieet penetration to
discern the genius of Burns, and bad the merit of rescuing bins at
once from obscurity and the hazard if a self-,lnflicted banishment.
He eitherwrote some papers in the " !Odor," pointing out the
beauties of the poems, or suggested it to the " Alma of Familag."—
Irrom that moment Burns was admired Among all the classes of
oar countrymen. Ammo, we have thus seeny was celebrated during
'the last century ; and from the high character of its Academy
tM learning sod talent el its teachers, it will be still more so during
the present one.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE,
♦TTENDED WITH LOSS OF LIFE.

YeOlinda]. morning, about two Q'clock, a fire broke
out in the premises of bir. Sadd, the Commercial Co/be-House,
Poplar. The calamity origami In the daps:ions club-roam, and
*endowed its devastating pregreet until it reached tbe apartment
in which the pot-bey. Joke Smith, and a middle-aged man, named
George Prescott, a abe:tt the hotel, slept. The creek.
ling-of the timber mientin, pet-boy. who instantly rushed down
mire, and alarmed the ber-simils, who lay on the Brat floor and a
young Ladewho slept le an adjoining bed-room.' lie floor,
re.
turned to his own room. aad urged his bed-felled to leap from the
window, as the Ire had by this time cut of all ether mode et
escape. He threw up the seek, and attempted te mac Mined( by
the means that be had suggested to his bed.fellowi le reached the
whulow sill, and' was about to jump into the street, when, un-
fortunately, the casement and frame-work gave way. and the
poor fellow was precipitated ea the iron fallings in front, one of the
• Mikeelif which penetrated quite through the fleshy part of the
. eight dd., while amber severely lacerated the tower pan of his
leg. In this dangerous elevation the sufferer remained for several
Wanda until relieved by a parser-by, who removed him to a 'wish-
bone's,' surgeon's. One of the bar-maids, Miss Patrick. adopted
Smith's suggestion, and hung amide or the second Sour window
for several all ; and had it not bees for the intrepidity of
sailor, who actively oeceedsd the tailings sad 'striated her, she in
all probability would hare shared poor Smith's fate. Having suc-
ceeded so far. the brave tar prevailed upon the second bet-maid to
cease out, and he was equally fortunate in preserving ker. Mrs.
&roods, the lady previously alluded to, who slept in a beck-room,
and who arrived in town en Tuesday last from Rainsgate, in her ac-
covet says, that when she was aroused a ponies of the bed-ream was
in lames, sad the Sow was so warns that the mold hardly walk en it.
She rushed hastily to the window, and hid partly out, when re.
tillesting tharsbe bad left her purse, a ma otsteney, is
a reticule-bash.' baled her, she Mama for it, and just as she
had mai* reached the /window she beam powerless. and dropped
'the basket, which, together with bet logger sad wearing apparel,
except the aight-detbes she bad use, were eamenased I. the general
destruction. She Was herself bated by a waiter, who brought her
from the apartment in o state of imsensildlity. Al were sow get ,
out but Prescott, and all hope of saving him was given up, as the
room-Which Mum In was completely enveloped in lams I He
was hegemony called, but DO voice responded from the apartment,
and it was feared that he had already fallen a victim to the tim.
veering element. The Seat wing, which is a eamplete ruin, con-
sisted of the tap and two nmemiSeent apartmests, the one am
assenibly-roim and the othei a deb-reem, beside several bed.
rooms; ace of them were at the maw unman is a blame, which,
being Increased by the ignitions( the dry of Melte on the pee.
takes, burned with a vividness sad inasasity which illumiested the
and tbreatemed.to involve the surrenading mighbourlioed is
ruin. A variety of engines were quickly en the spec, bet. although
plendfully supplied with water, so vigarously did the fire rage. this
all the efforts of the firemen to save the property or beating were
perfectly sheeny*. By coostandy playlet, however, they mined
the lames, and prevented their ratemion, but not before ohm
pans of the tavern already vacationed were burned to the ground,
and the house of a Mrs. Fryer, the proprietress of a ladies' beer&
log-school, so severely injured, that it will be necessary It skald
be rebnilt. The west wing of the belles& in which Mr. Budd'
and !audit slept„ and which mishap the colfee-roona, is the only
pan of the mere that remains.
Yesterday; abouttwo o'clock, the body if Prescott was dug out
from the ruins. and promoted a most distressing spectacle, both the
legs sad arms being burned of, and only the trunk end heed re.
winning. The boy Smith is considered in a very premelems sense,
and doubts are entertained of his ultimate recovery.
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Jamaa.lanasabire, William Roden Ind William East-,
wood, were tried at the Salford Seism on Friday last. one charge
of vesting, ciliate. lea of Separrnber. 149 sovereigns. two guineas,
$OO shillings. and 40 haltcrowns. the property of William Lowe.
the landlord oldie Waggon and Hems public-house, at lifletsciwe-
ter- We gave the fell /unladen of the robbery at Cho due; and
to appeared from the evidence that the money bad been deposited
seal In a desk is Mr. Lows'a bed-room on the evening tat shp
lOtit of September. The r: dawns had a/1 been at Ns lacemastg .
ecEngeo
that evening, and they bed been debtblug in the room t 0.,,
thecae w!.ers she wog wee kept. Some of the was
fiend in Atte ..posetedpa pick primness, end arariette
were primed witieilift op doubt that nice robbery was coloomitted.
by therm. . Tie Jai. ibefefore, fused *ins on Oit/. Leassebles,
vibe bad been before convicted, Wm istatmeed '
to trealgiortitioit
fir lik. sod Manhtla acd Seaweed lot mom pars.
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