The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-01-03 00:00:00

leaky, and her sails much injured : site was o'll t-ren't •
eight days, and.enconntered dreadful. weather in the
North Sea; her cargo consisting of oil, paints..iv. is
lauding previous to repair.
The Bons*, a smugglieg 'urger, arrived at Care on
Wednesday from Flushing, 163 tuns. 10 guns, 45 men.
ladeo with 1300 bales of tobacco, besides tea, gin,
(qoantity unkiown); she was captnred on Chris. use+
night about 12 o'clock, off Rohereadiead, by the boat•
of his Majesty's ships Semirautis ao l Cyrus ; nine of
the crew supposed to be English) escaped by takinz
away the Cyrns's gig; the remaloder (all foreigners)
are made prisoners.

RAIN.—By a register of the weather kept at St.
Thomas's. adjoining Exeter, we learn that the gian•
tity of rain which fell there daring the last six month.
was 25 inches, 79 hundredth parts. According t
the weekly accounts we ha►e periodically given, the
quantity of rain that fell within the same time in the
Strand is 20 inches 32 hundredth parts. The prin-
cipal difference, in any month, it appears, was in •
month of December; the quantity being then a:
Exeter 8 inches, 58 hundredth parts, and in London
4 inches, 45 hundredths. In November. however, the
quantity was greater in London than at Exeter, beinz
i■ the former 6 inches, 55 hundredths, and at the
latter 5 inches. 44 hundredths, The ge of th •
last six months of the year, as observed at &Ahern-,
in Hampshire, from the year 1782 to 1793, was 2:
lushes, 24 lasadredills; that of November 3 inches, 83
hundredth parts.

In the neighbourhood of Waterloo Bridge, the i r.•
habitants were much annoyed by the late inuniatiors.
especially such as have established themselves in the
homes built on what was called the Stone Fiel
while the bridge was in coarse of erection. The am:-
malatiag rains settling at a wall lately erecte I in
the row of these houses, levelled it with the gronsd ua
Friday night or Saturday forenoon. Near the Chapel
in the Bridge-road, a row of small houses extends
across a field to Whitehorse-lane. The flood poured
in at their doors, turning their parlours into ponds. To
Ay from it was impossible, for the tenements in ques-
tion, built close against another row, had no hack
doors, and the females and children unable to repel the
delege were compelled to retreat up stairs. The men,
whose business compel them to go out were seen to
walk through the pond, and leave others to wait till the
retiring tide should permit them to make their escape
also. The flood on the Staines road, which had ex-
tended Ave miles, is now very considerably reduced ;
similar, but still more favourable accounts will, we
trust, speedily arrive from other parts where the in-
habitants have suffered most severely from this ca-
lamity.

Among the other sofferen from the floods In the vi-
cinity of the metropolis were the inhabitants of soots
parts of Southwark. On Christmas-day their cellars
and kitcffilms overflowed, and the inundation was
ascribed to the tide sad freshes, in the Thames. It
was aftenresda, however, discovered to have proceeded
from a very difsrout cause. The Tarscuck of the
district, being engaged to parisike of a Christmas
treat, was sufficiently attentivs ilia duty in the fore-
noon I. turning the water on, alip•stu "Loathed in the

to turn the watt* of No moll damage, we bear,
was occasioned by this accident, is those cellars that
contained sugar and other perishable commodities.
POOR CATHOLIC CHlLsaaw.—A respectable Society,
composed of persons of various religions persuasions,
denominated The Sono of Erin, has been for some
time established for the most charitable of purposes,
at the house of Mr. C. Cummings, the sign of the Sugar-
loaf, King-street, Drury-lane. Each 31embir pays the
sum of 6d. per week, or any other sum he may think
lit. They meet at seven o'clock on Sunday evening, and
Like the chair in rotation, and all business is over by
10. The sot-hurls composed of mechanics and labouring
persons, whoseobject is to raise a fund for the support of
a school, kept by a master of their choosing, Mr. Smith,
14, Museum-street, Bloomsbury, for the educating
and partly clothing indigent Catholic children, whcs
otherwise would become pests of society, from basing
nothing to do but idliag in the streets, their parents
being mostly oat of employ this winter. The funds
for this benevolent institatios are so low, that it is not
sufficient to pay even the master. laying aside findiug any
article of clothing ; and without the assistance of the
more opulent. it is feared the whole object will fail.
The Rev. Mr. Sevier*, at the Catholic Chapel, Duke-
street, Lincoln's Ann-fields; Mr. Cumming, at the
Sugar Loaf ; and Mr. Smith, the schoolmaster, have
charitably condescended to receive any trifling dona-
tion that might be offered towards the support of this
truly praiseworthy institution.
We congratulate the English Antiquary on the re,
storation of one of the oldest ornaments of this county.
Cheeuers, the seat of the Revette and Russells, rich in
classic recollections, is undergoing a complete repair
by order of the present proprietor, R. G. Russell,
Esq. M. P. Whether Cromwell ever resided there is
perhaps a matter of doubt, but he was a frequent visi-
tor. and the long gallery. which is now the library, was
the council-chamber of the Hampdens and the other pa-
triots In the neighbourhood—the scene of many a mid-
night coosultatios. It came into the Russell family
by the marriage of Colonel Charles Russell with Mnry
Revett. Colonel Charles Russell was graadson of Sir
Joha Russell, Ban., by Frances, youngest daughter of
Oliver Cromwell. It is situated near that fairy spot,
Velret Loma.—(Beeke Chronicle.) "1s•
'1 be neighbourhood of Pimlico has for some weeks '
past been infested by a gang of thieves, who have
committed their depredations in the most daring man-
ner, as early as from 6►e to seven in the evening. A
few weeks since the house of Mr. Perugia, in Eaton-
street, was entered by the parlour window, while the
family were at tea, and several articles packed up
ready fur removal. Mr. P. fortunately beard them
in their operations, and fortunately compelled them to
make a hasty retreat. A few nights after a house in
Eliza-street. Brig. ave-place. was entered by the seine
means, and a looking•glass and other articles conveyed
away.. On Tuesday last, about seven in the evening.
the villains got in at the parlour window of Mrs. linen.
in Ebary-eqnare, and carried off a great number of
books. It is supposed they were alto disturbed In
their operations by the ring of the bell, as a large .
pier Ow, some valuable chimney ornaments, and
other property were placed our the window rosily for
ranoval. The It a eof Mr. Bailey. in the moss 'spare.
bas also e -1 piundered, so dela: by the same gin.

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