Star.
London, England, 1829-09-14 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Kan., Aunt') Taus DAT—Dublin 2—Waterford 2—Guernsey
and Jersey 2—Flanders I—France I—La Guyra I—Brazil 1
—Leeward Islands 1.
The John, Wells, from Liverpool. was on shore In the Dela-
ware on the Ist ult.

The Waldo, James, from Liverpool to Bahia, was wrecked on
the 23d July, sear
The Ann and Betsey, Owen, from London to Glo'ster, was
stranded near St. Ives, but expected to be got off after discharging.
The Hector, Ormond. from Cardiff to Ipswich, was driven on
shore near Padstow on Thursday last, but expected to be got off.
The Hermes, of Yarmouth, upset in the Gulf of Venice 28th
July—crew saved.
DZIM, Sarr. 12.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived from London, the
Chatham. Bragg, for New South Wales, and Minstrel, Ackoll, for
Swan River. Arrived the Accession, rooks, from Tobago.
Sal. 13.—Wind S. W.—.Arrivesthe Lord William Bentinck,
—, from India.

Porramoexu, Sara. 12.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrived the Mainly,
Taylor, from Alexandria. Sailed his Majesty's ship Druid, for
Plymouth.
PLywouvu, San. 11.—Wind S. S. W.—Arrived the Acorn,
Heard, from Oporto.
Rumor:it, San. 11.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Hope packet,
Wright, from the Leeward Islands, last from St. Thomas's, and
is placed under quarantine, one of the crew hiving died on the
passage, and there being sickness still on board. Also, the
Ebenezet, Simpson, from Faro. Sailed the Stammer packet, for
Lisbon.

Cowes, Sin. O.—Arrives! the United States frigate Constel-
lation, 48 guns 18-pounders, and 400 men, 1,400 tons, Captain A.
Wadsworth, 27 days from New York—put in to land the Minister
Plenipotentiary to this country; after thatowill proceed to Havre-
de-Grace, to laud the Minister in that kingdom.
Lorsarow., Sm. 12.—Arrived the Britannia, Marshall, front
New York Teviotdalt, and British Tar, from
Quebec ; Scipio, Scotland, and Jane, Osborn, from Archangel;
Susannah, Carpenter; blorgiana, Pother; Hercules, Itingstead ;
Commerce, Burton; and Earl Dalhousie, Burton, from St. Pe-
tenburgh ; Hankinson, Curkindale; Ann, Inglis; and Mary,
Carr, from Riga ; and Helena. Anderson, from Lubeck.
HASTINGS, Sam 12.—Off the part, the Mary, Shuttleworth,
from Van Dieman's Land and St. Helena.
BRISTOL, Saps. 10.—Arrived the Britannia, y, from St.
Lucia • Robert Peel, Hall, from Palermo ; and Samuel,
from Oporto.

From the Hampshire Telegraph.
The Druid, 46, Captain %V. Sandom, arrived on Sunday from
Jamaica, after a tempestuous passage. She brings no new intel-
ligence from the Main Land, nor any information relative to the
Spanish Royalists' expedition. She has brought to England about
one million and a half of dollars, on private account, from the Spa-
nish Main, and SOO serous of cochineal. Vice Admiral Fleming,
with the Barham (which has been perfectly refitted for sea ser-
vice), and the Shannon, Slaney. and Grasshopper, were at Cu-
rzon; the Ranger was gone to Bermuda; the Mersey, Arachne,
and Napiegle, were at Barbadoes; the Magnifiers'', Victor, Fairy,
Harpy, and Icarus, were at Jamaica ; and the Nimble, Speedwell,
Skipjack, Pickle, Pincher, and Monkey, of five or three guns each,
were at the Bahamas, and among the Keys, engaged In suppressing
attacks of piracy. Two other vessels adds description, the Fire-
fly and Minx, were at Bermuda. The Druid wig proceed to
Plymouth, to be paid of
The Henry Percher, transport, Lieut. Crewmanl3instead.
Agent, arrived on Monday, in 41 days from Ascension, with re-
turned stores and a few invalids. The island was progressively im-
proving ; a large tank bad been completed, and others were
marked out, in order that all the water may be collected for the
use of ships which may touch there. It was intended to lay down
several thousand yards of pipe, for the purpose of conveying it
from the Green Mountain. Captain Suckling, late of the Medina,
and Lieutenant Brandreth, of the Royal Engineers, who had men-
=is survey of the Wand, came home passengers. The Hoary
has had no intercourse with any ships of the African
squadron. She kit the garrison at Ascension quite healthy.
The MehUM, 74, Captain Schemberg, win be paid wages on
Monday or Monday, and will they proceed to the Mediterranean.
She will carry to Malta a party (assisting of 90) of the Rae Eel.
Pde•
The Briton frigate, Hon. Captain Gordon, will proceed to Lk.
boo, wish Mr. WiLansle, the Consul-General, on board, as soon
as Certain Dicheneon'a Court Mardal b terminated.

THE DICTATOR'S DREAM,

A FICTION.

Night's darkest shroud hung o'er departed day,
When couched in all the panoply of state,
In fevered sleep the proud Dictator lay,
Tortured with dreams that scourge the guilty great :
Pale with ambition's gnawing tooth within,
Worn with mysterious hopes, and anxious fears.
The lines of haggard care told on his mien
More than the furrows of his hoary years.
Dispatches with the Austrian signet still
He firmly grasp'd, though sense in sleep was drown'd,
While trod in dust, spurn'd like a thing of ill,
The British Charter lay upon the ground.
A deadlier pale shot sudden o'er his face,
While starting up—and fled in glassy glare,
His eye-balls straired upon the vacant space,
As if they sbap'd some phantom of the air;
It was Britannia,—his wrapp'd vision drew,
Arm'd with a look more dreadful than the spear
Her right hand grasp'd—guilt chard him at the view,
As thus she spake like thunder to his ear :
" Wake! Tyrant, to remorse, profound and keen,
" Wake to thy curse ! Ambition's rankling thorn ;
" Thou, who if true and virtuous hadst been
" "Aly pride—my glory—now all Europe's scorn!
" Snatched front obscurity by partial chance,
" To head the legions of my free domains,—
" To check the grasping tyranny of France
" And save my shores from slav'ry and from chains.
" Fortune befriending British freedom smiled,
" Thy untaught skill was tried—and it was blest,
" The fate of Moscow—France at Leipsic foiled,
.1 Spain's aid,—and Portugal—achired the rest.
" The Belgic Lion—Prussia's Eagle too,
" Brunswick and Hanover joined—to assert
" The sacred cause sustain'd at Waterloo,
" And gain'd thee glory far beyond desert.
" But services o'erpaid could not content,
" Nor name of Hero—champion of the free,
" Lowest when highest—Europe saw thee bent
" Before crown'd despots on the servile knee.
" A thing of Stars and Ribbands—a proud Quack,
" Who. 'stead of dashing Eur,pe's chains away,
" Become their advocate—a weak state hack,
" The slave of Marrstaxicst and CARTLIRIAGH.
" Scourging the country thou wett pledged to save
.. With idiot policy, and crooked wile.
" Humbling my flag on the contested wave,—
" While Nations mock Elritannia—and revile.
" Go chain the Press, unsheath the sword of power,
" Bribe armed myrmidons—subvert the Laws.
" But here the fates await—thy fortunes lower,
" Thou yet shalt weep thy treason to my cause."

With this, close to his side a form did rise
With glory crowted—by victory upborne ;
'Twos Nelson's shrde—that stood before his eyes
Frowning with indignation and with scorn.
But here the sleeper shook with guilty dread,
liroke front his slumbers with distracted mien,
And seizing up his gown and breeches, fled
For refuge from himself, with A--s.

A BARGAIN.

TO BE LET OR SOLD,

Near the water's edge—right opposite to the Prote4tant Church,
Westminster—a most advantageous and desirable Old House;
rather in bad repair, and subject to the dry rot. It would be par-
ticularly eligible as a Police Office, a Jesuit's College, or a Soldiers'
Barrack, for which uses the present occupier strongly recommends
it ; or it might easily be made subservient to all these purposes by
arranging the upper part as an Iguatlen Seminary, the body of the
edifice as Offices of Police. and the lower premises as a Military
Depot and Guard-House. The cellars formerly rented by the
celebrated firm of Messrs. Faux and Company, foreign agents
and dealers in saltpetre, might be at the present conjuncture profit-
ably reopened by respectable persons in the same line. Derange.
menu of intellect, and embarrassed circumstances, brought on by
dissolute habits, and ignorance of business, alone obligee the
actual occupant to relinquish possession ; and not, as some
evil disposed persons have wickedly reported, from the
whole fabric having become dangerous and insecure, in conse-
quence of rash and inconsiderate attempts lately made by the
actual knee, in the course of his insanity, to dig round the foun-
dation, falsely said to be materially injured by the removal of
several necessary corner-stones. It will be. however, but justice

to persons inclined to treat, if it is admitted that the carelessness and
irregularities of many successive tenants preceding the present lunatic
in possession, have seriously damaged, or entirely demolished, many
details in the superstructure, necessary to the comfort and conven-
ience of the whole ;—while it has become so offensive, by a long accu-
mulation of filtb, that a most thorough scouring, and white-wash-
ing from top to bottom, is requisite to restore it to any tolerably
decent order. The edifice, moreover, having been erected in the
gothic fashion of our ancestors, is so unconnected in its parts, and
so Inconvenient in its distributions, that it will require the talents
of some clever architects to improve the mansion, consistent
with modern ideas of propriety and taste. The whole upper
rooms are encumbered with gorgeous ornaments of barbarous
conception, embedded in dirt, defaced by time, and so pon-
derous, that their weight endangers the tatty of the roof ;
while the lower range with scarce one embellishment left standing,
has long been exposed to partial gusts of wind let in through fis-
sures from above. It is likewise to be lamented, that the rude archi-
tecture of our progenitors of solid construction, but ignorantly ex-
clusive of light, renders the whole mansion so comfortless and dark,
that a general enlargement of the doors and windows is absolutely
indispensable. The rum of all is this, the property is so mortgaged
and hampered through the selfish prodigality of former proprietors,
that the debts are far beyond its value. If, however, notwith-
standing these appalling lets and hindrances, any one be found enter-
pitting enough to venture on a lease, such person must further be
warned that the present occupant having formed a questionable con-
nection with an infamous German cheat, has put the whole building
at his disposal, turned in consequence into a store for contra-
band goods, carefully concealed in bales, cunningly wrapped;
received only at night, and stowed away in secret—bat which,
from a certain smell and knowledge of the parties, is suspected to
be matter of a must dangerous and combustible nature. It, there-
fore, behoves the in-coming tenant to sweep, even to the least par-
ticle of this abominable foreign rubbish, carefully from the House
-s-if he does not choose to be suddenly blown up. He is also
advised forthwith to discharge every servant, dependent, and fre-
quenter banging about the premises, as they are known to be the
most profligate rogues, thieves, and liars, that ever disgraced a
House, living by the very ruin of the establishment ; and so noto-
riously incorrigible, that there has long been question of having
them formally indicted and burned out as a nuisance to society.
The family being at present out of town, persons inclined to
offer are referred to Mr. Gwent, of the Windsor Castle Tavern,
who holds the key, and is entrusted to let the premises.
N.B. The bad principles and dishonest conduct of persons
latterly renting the property, necembate the greatest caution, and
It is therefore indmated that none but the moat undeniable chit,-
ratters need apply.
Dispatches were sent off from the Foreign Office on
Saturday evening for Mr. GORDON, our Ambassador at
Constantinople. The messenger by whom they were
sent took dispatches front the Admiralty for Sir PVL-
TESET MALCOLM, in the Mediterranean; and also for
Sir FREDZAICE ADAM, the Lord High Commissioner of
the lonian Islands, from the Colonial Office.

BATTLE OF NAVARIN.

COURT MARTIAL irroa772l.l7—ritlN DICKINSON, *c.

PORTSMOUTH, SATURDAY, Sfrpr:

COlllialliOnef ROSS was first callel in this morning, and ramjet...l
by Captain Dickenson. He said, that as Commissioner of the
Dock-yard at Malta, orders had been given him to ha,c.•n the
Genoa's repairs, before the winter season bad set in. but at that
distance of time he could not speak to every particular. He how-
ever remembered that her cat head was shot away, that there was
a great breach in her heavy iron work, great alteration in h-r sails,
and all or most of her boats were repaired. He remembered
Captain Dickenson's offering to pay fur the repairs of the Genoa's
boats, when he mentioned te him that the men were too much
employed then to effect it. Ile described that the carpenters of
the Genoa afforded the greatest assistance in effecting re-
pairs, and remembered at the first public dinner sue,' by -
the Vice. Adtnital at the Admiralty, on the return of the squadron
from Navarin, to have seen Capt. Dickenson there. This was
after the affair of the letter from the ship's company, and he con-
ceived from that circumstance ;hat tie Admiral had fully forgiven
the Captain. The witness said he had known apt. Dickenson for
15 years, and his general character as an officer, so far as it leU
under his observation, was that of a man who had entirely risen
by his own merits. He first knew bins in active service under Sir
George Cockburn, who, upon his appointment to the Northum-
berland, which witness then commanded, brought Idm nut as his
Lieutenant. It was his services only which brought hint under the
notice of the Admiralty.
In answer to questions (tom the Court, lie said that the greatest
damage from the battle on the three ships, the Ail a, the Albion,
and the Genoa, was in the Asia; ot the cutup .ratter injury to the
two ethers he could not decide which was the greater, but the r, -
pairs of the mainmast of the Genoa, which weir done at Navar mu,
were remarkably well dune, and brought ;h. ship to England, and
there were other repairs of comfit'snee, caused by the ellett of the
action, which were done previously to the soip'. arrival at Malta ;
but he did nut particularly examine them. Before their arrival,
he thought most work must have been done on board the Genoa,
front what he saw ; his attention was, tuwever, mere immediately
drawn to her, as the Vice-Admiral wished to send her the first to
England. He then gave sonic technical descriptions of the nap, c-
tive repairs of the ship-.
Captain Robinson was examined—lle deposed that the en. my
had fired a marble shot, which struck the Genoa on the Mail -
deck. starbo rd side, came in contact with the arm of the alter gun,
killed several men, and splinters of this shot came on the low.r
deck [a piece of this marble was here produced in Court ; the
largest piece, it was said, had been sent to 11. It 11. the Duke of
Clarence]. He spoke in the highest termi of the eterti •of the
men to refit the Genoa after the battle, and she was 4 ready, if
necessary, to resume the action. Capt. Dickenson's conduct throLgli •
out the battle, and after, was that of a zealous Officer, and tiothaig
was left undone on his part in furthering the service. As tar as
his observation went, he considered the Genoa bad sustained
more damage than either the Asia or Albion. He then went
into a description of the injuries inflicted upon the ship in the ac-
tion, and of the unceasing efforts ot the officers and crew to rep air
them, sometimes working by lanthern light, at nights, as well as of
the degree of work performed at lalta. The stone shot was tired
about three hours after the battle began, as well as be recollected.
although the Genoa's opponent that fired it hail previously ceas‘d
firing for some time, and it was accompanied with other photo
which killed men at witness's quarters. It was then the Genoa
opened her fire again, and as he went fur orders irons Captain
Dickenson, the people themselves recommenced firing before the
orders came down, and they had discharged two or three rounds,
when they were hailed to stop, which they did finally.
Lieut. Stun, of the Genoa, deposed, that on the morning after
the battle, about seven o'clock, be had heard Capt. Dickenson
went on board the Asia, and on his return went through the Genoa.
to stein what condition she was; after which he ordered witness
to go on board the Asia, and report that the Genoa was in suck a
damaged state she could not leave the harbour that night ; h e
obeyed this order, and reported it personally to either Captain
Baynes or the officer of the watch, he was not sure which. The
message was, that the masts and rigging of the Genoa were in such
a disabled and tottering condition (describing the particulars). it
was impossible to refit for sea on that night. Three or tour
minutes after he gave this message on board the Asia, the
Vice Admiral inquired of him how Captain Bathurst was.—
When the Admiral came on board the Genoa, on that
evening, he perfectly well remembered Captain Dickenson
joining the Admiral, and apologising to Sir Edward for not
having been present to receive him when he came on board, and
did not hear any further conversation, excepting Captain Dicken-
son telling the Admiral that be had been looking after the quar-
ters, and getting them ready for further action, and to which the
Admiral replied, he could not be better employed. Witness took
the Admiral back to the Asia, and while descending luto the boat,
be heard Sir Edward Codrington express his approbation of the fine
style in which the Genoa was fought. He corroborated the de-
scription already given of the zealous efforts of the officers anti
men to refit the ship after the action. They were ready, if neces-
sary, to renew the action in half an hour, and he spoke in the
highest terms of Captain Dickenson's conduct during and after the

Captain Smith was again called.—He deposed that the ship's
company of the Genoa behaved during the action in strict accord-
ance with the unsullied character of &kith seamen, and to their
great ezenions in afterwards refitting the ship. He had been in
the Brisk, under the orders of Sir E. Codrington, from the 9th of
March, 1828, till the 25th of July, 1828, and during that time he
had never heard, directly or indirectly, the conduct of the Genua
impugned, or in any manner questioned by him, as to the battle of
Navarin. Witness repelled the imputation of slackness in the re-
final of the Genoa, or in sailing front Malta. With respect to the
Glasgow's watch having been sent to mist on board the Genoa, he
was not aware of any circumstance which rendered that necessary.
It was his opinion that the Genoa would have been ready as soon
without the additional men.

Mr. Silly, the Carpenter of the Genoa at the time of the action,
was examined as considerable length respecting the injuries dune to
the ship in the battle of Navarin, the repairs subsequently performed
while In the bay, and after her arrival in Malta.
The Court adjourned at four o'clock until Monday.

OLD BAILEY SESSIONS-THIS DAY.
I. John Bates, for stealing, !Mind Guilty.
2. Henry Bekber, ditto, ditto.
5. Sarah Nancy, ditto. ditto.
4. Chaska Philipps, ditto, ditto.
S. Henry Woodward, James Tafsel, and James Kriys, for
stealing, Acquitted.
6. Tbsaboste, another charge, all Guilty.
7. George Morris, for stealing, Guilty.
8. Carolioe Knight, ditto. ditto.
9. Helen Kelly, ditto, ditto.
30. William Earl, ditto, ditto.
11. Maria Warren, ditto, ditto.
12. Frauds Duff, ditto, ditto.
All these CAM were for petty thefts, the details of which are
nowise interesting.

COMICKCHANGE, MA RK-L 1 NE. Sur. 14.
We had a good supply of New Wheat this morning front Essex,
Kent, and Suffolk, but as it felt rather damp (although its quality
upon the whole was good), the Mealing Trade was very heavy.
and the few sales effected were at the prices of this day se'nuight.
In Foreign there was also little doing, and no alteration in prices.
We had some New Barley at market, which was rather stained ;
but the quality being otherwise fine, the factors demanded high
prices : 38s. per quarter was the beat price obtained. Beans.
Peas, and Oats were without any alteration in price, and little
business was done in either of them. In other articles no alteration.
Wheat. Kent & Knee . 60$ 74s Peas, Grey . 36; 384
Suffolk. . tlus 72s Beans. Small . 341 3us
Norfolk . 45s 501 Tick . 30s 344
Rye . . 28s 30s Oats, Potatoe 26; tfo.
Barley,OW,2os 34sNew 36. 38s Poland . 244 ''r's
Malt 50s 58; Feed . 16. '24.
Peas, White . 32s 34s Flour, per sack. 60s 65s
Boilers . 364 38. Rapeseed 231. 271. per last.
IMMSTATIONS LAST WINK.
Wheat, English quarters 2,367 1 Irish Oats
Do. Foreign 3,685 I Rye, English
Irish Ditto DoForeign
Barley, British 424 Beans, English
Do. Foreign -- Ditto. Foreign
Irish ---• Peas:English
Malt, English 1.972 Ditto Foreign
__ . ....
- ' Oats

Raglbh ..
Foreign Ditto

3,257
7,641

...
3SI
~•••••

SMITHFIELD
Beasts
Sheep
Beef 31 104 to 4s 2d
Mutton 4l Od 4s 4d
Lamb 4s 4d Ss 24

English Flour, sacks 3,174
Amurican ditto. brIQ.

lARKET, Sam 14•
sive. lB9

Pigs 2OO
Veal. ...... ..4s 41 to 54 pa
Pork 44 41 51 ud

Hay per toad. .Cllloo. to 44.50. Clover At Gt. to ,5 54,--
Straw AI ss. to AY 146.

COAL MARKET—Tun DAT.

Race-ram cog &change was very numerously at-
tended by_ ultra's's to-day, and coals continue to be in good de-
mand. The supply of Sunderland and Newcastle coal was plead-
NJ, 49 ships having arrived since Friday. Ships arrived during the
present month, SU.
Best %bead Coals .« s4s. od. $4.. ed.
Other sans ibis OIL ilis. Od.
Ups at Mullet 704.

6,348
6
530
653

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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

ROTIIERTIIA 11 METING, Sim. 9.
Sweepstakes cf 20 sous. each, p. p. for two-year-old colts, Sit.
.51b. and fillies, Sit. 21b. Three-quarters of a mile.
Lord Queensberry's h. 1. sister to Emma
Mr Shepherd's h. c. by Waxy Pope ...
Foljambe's br. 1. by Whi.ker
Mr. Attwood's ch. c. by Chesnut Arabian ...
Sir Sitwell's b. f. by Figaro

... it
.. 4
.. 5

The Southwest Yorkshire Yeomanry Cavahy Stakes of 5 guineas
each, p. p. with 20 guineas added by Lord Wharneliffe ; three
years, lOst. Vb, four, list. five, 11 st. 91b. six and aged, 124 t.—
One mile heats.

Mr. J. Hodgson's bl. h. King George the Fourth .. 1 2 1
Brown'4 br. h. He:grave, aged 2 1 it
%lr. W. Wation*s b. f. by Phantom 3 3 3
Mr. Niarsden's b. h. by Sir Richard, 3 years .. 4 sdr
ii. Wheatley's b. h. Recruit, 6 yrs. .. 5 4dr
One paid.

he Sheffield Plate of 50 arms. given by the town of Sheffield, !be
maiden horses of all ages; three years-old, 7st. 21b. four, Bst. 41b.
:ive, Bvt. 101 b. six and aged, iht. 131 b. mares, &c. allowed 31b.
Two mile heats.

'Jr.. Fletcher's br. E by Blacklock, 3 yrs. 1
Captain Davison's b. e. by Borodino, 3 yrs.
NI r. Bayley's br. c. Brielle, 3 yrs. .. 2 5
Ilr. .J. Clark's br. f. Dais, 4 yrs. .. 4
Nl7 Duncombe's br. c. Catesby, 3 yrs. ... .. 4dr

Five piid.
POOLE REGATTA.

POOLS, FILIDAY, CIPT. 11.
Our Regatta, which was this year confinA to vessels belonging
to the port, took place on Monday last, when several excellently
contested matches were witnessed. The weather being remark-
ably fine, the quay and surrounding shores were thronged with
spectators. The first prize was admirably contested by the Jane,
Blundell, and Britania, Brown, and was won by the former;
Greyhound. Palmer, and Hope, Brown, also started for this
prize, but the former carried away a rudder and shroud, and the
latter got on shore. The second prize was won after a well-con-
tested race by the George, Oats, beating the Arrow, New Eagle,
and Richard and Mary. The sailing for the other prizes also
afforded much amusement, and displayed a degree of emulation,
which cannot fail to have a beneficial effect on the conduct of the
pilots and others who contended for the prizes. In the evening a
Ball was held at the Town Hall, which was attended by nearly
seventy of the fashionable, of Poole and neighbourhood, ex-
hibiting a display of grace and elegance seldom equalled in this
town.

LOSS of the BIRMINGHAM and LIVERPOOL
MAIL.

It is our painful duty to record a most shocking acci-
dent, which happened on Friday morning, at a place called
Lawton-bridge, five miles on this side of Newcastle, to the
Birmingham and Liverpool Mail, by which the lives of two
Gentlemen were lost—one, we understand, a resident of Man.
cheater, and the other of Liverpool. It appears, that between
the hours of two and three o'clock in the morning, the mail
was proceeding from Birmingham to Liverpool, containing two
inside passengers the Gentlemen above alluded to and one
outside passenger; when, on reaching a small village, called
Lawton, which lies in a valley on the line of the mail-road,
it was found to be exceedingly flooded from the effects of the im-
mense quantity of rain which had fallen during the whole of the
night, so as to render it apparently dangerous to attempt a passage.
On reaching the bridge, erected much below the canal, and which
the mail generally passes along, it was found to be inundated
with water, scarcely a vestige of the bridge to be seen; the
coachman, however, whipped his horses, and proceeded onwards,
hut had not gone far, when, shocking to relate, the brick-work
of the bridge gave way, and the coach, horses, and passengers,
with the guard and coachman, were precipitated, en masse,
into the water! The coachman, guard, and outside passenger,
succeeded in swimming to the shallow water, and making their
escape, as did one tit the horses, which by some means or other
had become disentangled from the harness; but we regret to state
that the coach, with the two unfortunate inside passengers, and the
three other horses, were swept away by the immense body of water.
The guard and outside passenger fortunately reached the land with
very little difficulty ; but the poor coachman narrowly escaped with
his life, and remained in a state of insensibility for a considerable
time. Some of the newspaper bags, we understand, are picked
or, but the letters were washed away with the coach.-
1 his mail generally brings the London morning Papers
intended for Manchester, which are forwarded by a branch mail
front Knutsford ; but on the Friday morning none were received in
Manchester, to the great surprise of the inhabitants, till the news
of the dreadful accident reached their ears. Although the country
people during the whole of the afternoon of Friday, were busily
engaged in searching for the bodies of the unfortunate gentle-
men, neither they nor the coach had been found when the
mail left Knutstord for Manchester. The bridge on which
the accident happened, it appears, from the statement of an
individual residing at Congleton, has been recently repaired,
and the coach passing along the new part, combined with the
immense weight of the water. was the cause of the melancholy
catastrophe. The way-bill having been lost, it is at present im-
possible to give the names of the two sufferers; the guard Is ac-
cm;inted with them as passengers, but not with their names. One
o: the gentlemen, it is supposed, is a merchant at Liverpool, and
the other a resident at some ball in the neighbourhood of Man-
chester, but we cannot vouch for it as authentic. We hear that
incalculable damage has been sustained In the part of the country
where th eaccident happened from the floods, as the roads about
acre are surrounded by bill% and at the time of Incessant rain the
water pours into the yanks in torrents.

ANOTHER ACCOUIn.

From the Liverpool Albion.

The non-arrival .of the mail from Birmingham, at the usual
boor (half-past seven) on Friday morning, gave rise to appre-
hensions for its safety from the floods, which it was expected
would have been caused by the almest incessant heavy rain
which fell during the prededing twenty-four hours. The fears
thus awakened, increasing with each successive hour of delay,
bad spread throughout the town, and reached a pitch of in-
tense anxiety among those whose expected friends were sup-
posed likely to have been travelling by that conveyance, when
the Rocket post-coach, which leaves Birmingham some hours
after the mall, arrived about noon, bringing the account of the
melancholy disaster, of which the following particulars have been
communicated to us :—ln the parish of Smallwood, about three
miles on this side of Lawton-gate, in Cheshire, the road crosses a
hollow by a small bridge, called Smallwood-bridge, under which
passes a narrow but somewhat rapid stream. When the mail coach
arrived at this spot, it was found that the stteani, swollen by the
rains, Ithich were still falling heavily, bad overflowed its banks
and flooded the road, and, the waters continuing to rise very fast,
washed away the bridge at the moment when the coach was cross-
ing, which was thereby precipitated into the stream. The coach-
man (Ball), falling from his seati, after much difficulty, and bay-
ing sustained very considerable injury from the kicks of the af-
frighted horses, succeeded in leaching the opposite bank. The
gu urd (T. Moreton) was tarried down by the impetuosity of the
si ream a considerable distance. At length he caught hold of a
tree, on which be hung for shout an hour, when, it having been
discdvered where he..was, a rope was thrown to bins, and he was
rescued almost as. Much dead as alive. Of the horses, one was
drowned, and two dthers are stated to have been so much injured
asap render it improbable that they can ever br worked again. We
now come to thep.agical part of the event. There were but three
passengers, and those were inside, of whom one, i alight made active
yours man, forcing himself through the window of the coach, was
extricated froM his perilous situation by the persons whom the ac-
cident had drawn to the Spot ; the other two, being too lusty to pass
through the aperture by which the former attained safety, unfortu-
nately perished. ere the utmost efforts of the active and humane
people of the vicinity for their relief could avail them. The body
of one of them was found in the coach when the latter was got out
of the water, after having been immersed in it for seven or eight
hours; but that of the other had not been recovered at the time to
which our accounts extend. Their names, as entered in the way-
bill, are Trueman and Bennett : the latter was, we understand, a
resident of Liverpool. The coach, with all the mail-bags. parcels,
and luggage, remained under water, persons being s:ationed to
watch it until the subsiding of the waters admitted of its being
recovered. This was effected in the course of Friday forenoon,
anti the guard reached the Liverpool post office, with the letter hag,
at four oclock in the afternoon.. Great alarm prevailed, during a
considerable period of the forenoon of Friday, fur the safety of the
London mail, which left this town on Thursday night, its ordinary
route being by the sante bridge; but it was at length hiPpily dis-
sipated by the arrival of information, that, hearing of the waters
Ailing out in that direction, the guard bad taken the precaution of
going by another road, through Sintifiach, and thus avoided the'
danger.
The neighbourhood of Staniferd-street, Christ ~hitreh,
Surrey, has again become the scene of burglary... Qa Friday night
or Saturday mouth's, the dwelliug-house of Mr. Thornton, Ben-
ner-street, was.broketi into and topped itf i valuable table-clock
and some silver. articles. Little more than eight mouths have
elapsed stoic two men were corvi ted and transported for a bur-
glary on the same premises.

LANCASTER ASSIZES, Thursday.

TILE KING V. CRANE.

This was an indictment imputing to the defendant wilful and
corrupt perjury.
Mr. J. %Yuman', for the prosecution, stated the case to the Jury.
The facts, he said, lay in a very small compass. At the last
Summer Assizes in this place, an action was brought against the
then High Sheriff by a person of the name of Deeming, at Man-
chester, for an improper levy made upon his goods by a Sheriff's
Officer at Manchester, under an execution from the County
Court, sued out against a Mrs. Williams. A verdict was found
for the plaintiff. Upon that occasion the present defendant
was examined as a witneu, and he swore, amongst other things
in his evidence, that he saw young Chew, the attorney's clerk,
go to Mr. Deeming's door with the bailiffs on the day of the levy,
and heard him tell them to go in, and say take away these goods,
there is enough there to satisfy the execution." Now thisstate-
mean was altogether false, as it would be proved that Mr. Chew
was net at the haute of Deeming at all that day, nor anywhere in
the neighbourhood of it. This would be proved by Mr. Chew
himself and other witnesses, and the assignments of perjury thus
supported.
Mr. John Gardner, a Reporter, said that he was present at the
trial of the cause " Deeming v. Gibson." at Lancaster, at the
Lammas Anises, 1828, when the defendant was examined as a
witness, and swore that young Chew was at Deeming's house with
the bailiffs upon the day in question, and that he directed him to
take Deeming'sgoods In execution under the process of the County
Court, in a cause of" Cheetham v. Smith."

Mr. Chas. Cooper, clerk to Mr. Makinson. an attorney at Man-
chester, spoke to the same effect.
Mr. Edward Chew, the prosecutor, said he was now twenty-
five, and was the son of an attorney at Manchester. Was present
at the trial of the cause of" Deeming a. Gibson," in this place, be-
fore Mr. Baron Hulloek,-last summer. The present defendant was
examined as a witness. In his evidence he swore " that he (Chew)
bad accompanied Gerard, the bailiff, to the door of Deeming's
house, and told him and his men to take the goods ; that there was
enough there to satisfy the execution." This was untrue in all
respects. He (witness) had not gene to Deeming's house upon the
day in question, nor did he give any directions to the bailiffs as to
what they were to do. He took notes in pencil of the defendant's
examination by his father's request, who then said he would indict
him for perjury. These notes were made not during the defendant's
examination, but afterwards, at witness's lodgings.
Cross-examined by Mr. COUR TTTTT —At the time of this seizure
did not know of such a place as Prince's-street. Did not know
Miss Smith, and never said that Mrs. Smith, mentioned in the
execution, was either the mother or the daughter of the woman
who called herself Mrs. Deeming. He never said that he bad in-
vestigated the whole matter, and found it to be so. Mr. Law, the
attorney, came to witness's father's office, to say that the levy had
been made upon the goods of the wrung person. Did not recollect
saying, in answer to that communication, Pooh! we know all
about it, and for whatever we have done we are responsible."—
Never said to Fanny Smith that she was the mother of Mrs. Smith,
who lived with Deeming. The goods never were restored to Dee-
ming. Believed Gerard, the bailiff, bad been often employed by
his father before, but not the young Gerard& Did nut know the
names of these young men ; never lived in the sante house or slept
in the same bed with one of them.

Re-examined—He considered himself an ill-used man by the
defendant swearing against him. Was arrested, and discharged
under the Insolvent Debtors' Act; but the debt and costs were
never paid.
James Charnock, a bailiff's follower at Manchester, said that he
was employed by Gerard to levy under the execution in question.
He was directed to follow young Gerard and the defendant into
Brasenose-street, and to keep them in view. Went afterwards to
Deeming's house. Young Chew did not meet us in Brasenose-
street, nor was he at Deeming's at all, as far as witness saw.

James Pickup was also at Deeming's upon the day in question,
but did not see young Chew at all that morning.
This was all the evidence offered for the prosecution.
Mr. Justice BA thought that the case was too light against
the defendant to call upon a Jury to convict him of wilful and cor-
rupt perjury by stating that Chew was at this house upon the par-
ticular day in question. The evidence of the last witnesses was
only negative ; and, as there seemed to be a good deal of confusion
in the way the bailiffs went about watching and waiting for each
other, it was hardly a case to call for a conviction.—The Jury found
the prisoner—A-cot Guilty.