The Statesman.
London, England, 1824-02-14 00:00:00

WEEKLY REGISTER OF WEATHER.
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The weather this week has been very variable. The first
two days were very mild, but moist.—Tuesday was fair, and
Wednesday clear and bright, hut frosty. Thursday was dreaey.
chilly, and wet, and was followed by a gale of wind at if I!-
night. Yesterday was fair and clear, till the afternoon, when
a sudden darkness came on. attended by what the Scots call
"an even down pour of rain." the heavizst and the longest
we have experienced for many months. The rain cuntinual
for fully twelve hours. The quantity of rain fallen here sites
Saturday last, amounts to one inch, and 16 hundredtLs.
Strand, Feb. 14.

THERMOMETER.

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Feb. 8, 8
10, T
11, W
12, Th
13, F
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56 49
st 45
63 59
47 39
47 39
46 49
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Greatest degree of cold early is the morning, as ascent-hied
by the night thermometer :
Sund. I M. T. I W. I Th. F. I sit.
47. 1 47 I 31 I 31. 33. 33 I 33.

Rev. EDWARD IRvlr4o.—The Edinburgh Star, Off
Booting the story in the Fife Herald, of the offer of the
living of Leslie to this gentleman, says. " We have good
reasons for questioning the truth of the above report.'
On Tuesday last, the Commissioners of the A• eued
Taxes, met at the Dolphin Inn, Chichester, to heir appeals
on supplementary eita-gee, when upwards of forty respect-
able young men, appeared to summonses fur shooting, or
sporting. without a license. Folirteen only of the eases
were allowed —after the parties had taken the oath of not
having shot at game, including rabbit, snipe, w.mdcock, or
landrail, within the last six months.
A SCRAP FOR THE CREDULOUS. —A Western American
Paper mentions the following as an easy method of taking
owls:—When you discovet one on a tree, and find that it
is looking at yon, all you hare to do is to move qnicklg
round the tree aeveral times, when the owl's attention will
he so firmly fixed, that, forgett:ng the necessity of turning
its body with its heal, it will follow your motions until
it wrings its head off! —Well done, Jonathaa!
The rope-spinners in this town have lately received se-
veral foreign orders, and they are at present thronger and
in better spirits than they have been at any time since the
termination of the war. At a meeting of the journeymen,
held last night, it was resolved to intimate to the masters
their determination to have their wages advanced from 15s
to ISs a week.—(slat;oto Chronicle.)
FORWARDNESS or THE SEASON.—AC an illustration of the
mildness or the season, there is now in the garden of Mr.
Brown, of Gillingham, a sparrow sitting on four eggs; a cir-
cumstance unprecedented in the earl part of February.--(Kenf-
ish Ckrod.)
An egg was taken from a lark's nest a few days ago,.in the
meadow, near Colwick.—(Nollingham Review.)
It is a fact, strongly indicative of the extreme mildness of
the season, that butterflies, in fall vigour, have been seen fly-
ing about in the neighbourhood of Lewes.—(Brightora
Herald )
We are informed that the new French system of weaving all
kinds of figured goods without drawboys, by a single adjunc-
tion to a common I mm merits the attention of manufacturers.
The artist can change the figures from one flower to another
in fifteen minutes, and can produce twenty different patterns
in as many yards of cloth; the whole is worked by one single
treadle only, as well In large shawls as in nirrow goods ; he
possesses the art of printing all kinds of yarns in different
colours in set and regular distances, smaller and longer at
pleasure, which produces an astonishing effect when these
yarns are manufactured into goods.—(Glasgow Chron.)
On Friday, Mr. Hancock, of Tregondele, Menheniots Itist
two fine rains in the following marine^. The rams were cou-
pled together by a chain round their necks, end turned out to
grass in a field with a colt little more than twelve months old.
la the morning as Mr. Hancock went round to view his Hoek,
he found the rams suspended by the chain across the back of
the colt, quite dead. The colt it is supposed had laid down,
and the rams in grazing passed the chain across him, when
rising suddenly he must have taken them up with him. The
colt was little injured, except exhaustion by fatigue.
Strawberries, raspberries, and grapes, were yesterday
exposed for sale in Covent Carden market; cauliflowers,
vegetables, asparagus, celery, and radishes, were also its
the marker.
On Sunday morning the Women's Hospital, en out building
of Cuxhrath workhouse, took fire in consequence of some
sparks of fire communicating to the thatch, through a failure
in the brick work. The alarm being given, Mr. Tnompsoa the
master of the workhouse, assisted by the paupers exerted
themselves with great alacrity, and the flames were extinguish-
ed before the engties arrived 'tote Maidstone.
We und..rstand that a meeting of several of the most re-
spectable i,diabitants of this City, at which the Mayor pre-
sided, was held last evening in the Council Chamber, whey it
was unanimously rr ;Jived to petition Parliament for the adv•
Lion of such measures es may to them appear best calculated to
enure the gradual abolition of Slavery in the West Indies.—
(Canterbury Paper)
On Saturday night, a lad, about 12 year+ of age, went
into the wild beast show in our market place, when his
curiosity leri him to go within the iron range, which is
erected to keep spectators at a proper distance; and on
approaching one of the lionesses, the beast thrust out her
paw and tore the lad's face with her talons, and probably
had not the keeper iustantly interfered, the lad would have
paid still more dearly for his peeping. The boy was in-
stantly conveyed to a druggist's shop, where his wounds
were dressed. We mention this as a caution against going
too near the wonderful animals which are exhibited to
gratify the public curiosity.—(Nottingham Review.)
StioCKING ACCIDILNT.-011 Saturday night last, as the
wife of Mr. C. Wills, jun. of Chapel-street, Chichester, was
reaching for something near the fire place, her shawl
caught fire, which communicated to her dress, and although,
a nurse and her sister were with her at the time in the
room. she was so dreadfully burnt as to occasion death time
next morning. fire sister was so much alarmed that she
ran into the street, and went into fits—the persons who
hastened to the spot, and attended on her, sot knowing the
fatal accident in the house.--Tire husband, who beard the
cries of his wife, ran up stairs, and threw a blanket over
her, and extinguished the flames, but not till the whole of
her clothes, except a very small portion of her stays, was
reduced to ashes.
On Wednesday night a large vat, in the brewery of
Messrs. Wigney, burst, by which a large quantity of beer,
said to be worth many, hundreds of pounds was 10St.—
(Brightog Herald.)
Lewes Stock market, on Tuesday, exhibited a 0,,0d
supply of beef which met a dull sale; mutton was snort
in quantity. At llailsham, on Wednesday, dullness was
also the leading feature.
LIMES CORN MARKET, TUESDAY, FeBRUARY 10.—White
wheat, (new) 3/. Ss. Od.; red wheat, (new) 31 Os. I.IJ. to
31. 4s. 01. ; barley, (new) 11. 17s. Oil.; oats, (new)
11. 4s. Oil,
ARUNDEL CORN MARXIST.—Wheat 151. to 161. per lead ;
barley, 30s. to 331.; oats, 225. to 255. per quarter ; beaus,
6s. 3d.; pease, ss. ; tares, 10s. pet' bushel.
CRICHSSTIR CeRN MARKET.—lnspector's return. this
week—l,242 quarters of wheat, average, 655. BJ.; bar-
ley, 341. ; oats, 23e. 2d. ; peas, 395. 100.
The brig Mexiesalarrived here on Sunday, the Bth instant,
bringing Havannah newspapers to the fled ult. The chaage
from a Constitutional to a Royalist Government had taktla
place, and passed over with surprising indifference. The
Island remained perfectly tranquil. An American Velisel, which
left Vera Cruz on the Wish or Nov. had arriverCet Havanna ea
the lat ult. The hombardmeat of the tows from the tort sen-
, tintied.—(Livery ea! Pm. kr.)