Star.
London, England, 1827-03-12 00:00:00

EbINTIURGH, MARCH 10.

Sat•trAili last..lstr.. James -Sloe, maanfaetneeis
toss, who had been at Danfernslise on busiest/ flies. a
vlitien to the severity 0f..415i5 storm on his reellan, .ors
Cleish Hill, a few paces from the road side. Iflr.Ponte
was a stout active young man, and bad taken the bid
road from its shortness
Geuege Stewart, a vender of small wares, perished
in the storm of Saturday last, between Che terhill and
Newhattle. He was found by some farm servants 03
Sunday mo ning. buried under the snow, and lifeless.
Margaret Ha A their, better known as Camp Mar-
caret, the solitary inhabitant of a hut in the wood . f the
Roman camp, and well i•iown to the members of the
Mid Lothian Coursing Club, lost her life in the Ire
storm. On Sunday morning last, she was found luny
is a dying state at the door of her hut, and soon after
expired. Her eccentricities had rendered her a person.
age of some celebrity in her neighbourhood, not only
Soong the peasantry, but among the gentry, who were
always ready to administer err her necessities.
At Patie's NI ill, in the neighbourhood of Palictsik, a
umber of sheep were smothered among the snow;
fiourteen were found dead on Saturday last, and twenty
were missing. The same day, a country woman who
Lad been at Haddington, in going home had reached
within a few hundred yards of her own door, when she
sunk exhausted amongst the snow, where she remained
for the space of twenty-five hours before she was die- •
covered and rescued from her perishing sitnatiom•
A man and his wife perished near Airdrie, and
another man on the void front Glesgow to kilantyre.
There was no snow beyond Carlisle. The chief lib-
structi.in was between Lrzinerbie and Dinwoodie Green,
where the snow was from ten to fifteen feet deep.
Saturday David Drummond, servant to John Keir,
Esq. of Ketfield, who bad the charge ofthe plantatintis
at Rutherford, perished in the snow, within half a mile
of his own house, on his return from Pennicuik, where
he had been for medical advice for one of his sons, who
is in a bad state of hear& •
A DIAZOLIOAL Tildis:--Friday evening, a teacher
01 dancing,iirEatinbargb held a practising in his rooms,
ipt which there were *bopt 25 couples present. Among
'others there were two. students of medicine, who con-
'rived (during the dancing of the Scotch quadrilles) to
infuse into a jug of toddy a dose of tarter sweeties suffi-
cient to produce violent effects upon all the company.
'Suspicion fell upon the toddy, which was immediately
seat to an apothecary for the purpose of being sn-
Ivied ; and some idea may be formed of the consterna-
don produced upon all who had partaken of it, when
it,Was announced that it contained poise*. Its effects
were now ideal:liar—upwards of twenty vomiting at
ace, and some of the Ladies lying apparently dead.
The young men were taken to the Police Office; but,
we regret to Say. the evidence was not thought sufficient
to warrant their commitment.—Cakelorrian_Mercury.

Saturday aftetnoon, MG,Jarniesoa, farmer of Craig-
ton, near ;lair, left Greenock, in company ssi.h two
sons, Sae yoUng men, under 17 years of age, on their
retutn 'home. Toey had with them an empty cart
and two horses. Notwithstanding the severity of the
night, they proceeded onwards till they reached Kelly
Toll, where they stopped a little, and were urged
to remain: 'They,' bovievii; 'Only unyoked the cart,
and leaving it behind; went on with the hones ;
but, from the increasing rigour of the storm and
aiscoMstilisiion of the-meow, -when about a mile and
rik hifffisdo args, ti*ltleft the • amain load, for the
purpose, as we have understood, of seeking shelter
ap chef arm of Knock, which was not more than a gun-
Wale aisiant. _ But nature became exhausted, and, they
tiaisk under the dreadful inclemency of the storm, when
a vary-short way Irons' the house! On Sunday morn-
ing; about eight o'clock, they were found by a servant
belonging to Knock—Mr. Jamieson in a state of inseri,
Ability.sindhis tiro sons coat dead. They werefikktle-
diately removed, and by using proper means Mr:
'alfelDitSoCl revived, but by the latea accounts was still in
way weak state.—Gireaneek Advertiser.