The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-10-25 00:00:00

401. eachi on the evidence of T. Meybew. one .ow"
of the
conductors of B.ve Street patrol, with haring their
Louse open, end persons drinking apPre, at half past el.. yen o'clock on Monday eight lait. tlity were likewise informed, that the meet offence of a similar nature sob. jeeted them to the penalty of lOUI. each, with the for-
feiture of their licenses.

The herring fishery is now about over. There has
heen a considerable filling elfin :be tit& g of herrings
' this year. According to the statements of raperiericel
' fish-curers, there have not been quite two.thirds of the
avoid q•antity taken on the Ceithness coast this moon;
and owing, it is rappelled. to the prevalence of strong
easterly winds, elite the fish war !pawning. The fts'4,
trig mason has entirely failed at Dunbar and the oppe„
site coast. The fishers have also met with little success
in the West Islands. In eonselemice, herrings lime
lately rime from3os. to 325. and 31a. and gond well
emietry herrings are selling readily at Ms. and Wes• a
barrel, wholeseie.—(Ediabargh Otaereer.)
Ott Friday se'noight, the alike of the agent of t!ot
Cotntnercial Bank at Duniceld, was broken into, and a
considerable sum earn edoff. The) rohlscry took plate on
the evening oldie day whim' the drovers fens
passed tinsmith Deakeld, and wine in the habit of 10.1:.
trig their notes la the beak, and it was
mieeelleineone note that were earriml off, of a hick r o
pirtkehr marks could be taken, and the detection
which crald 601 easily he effected. Some pieces of
beached lime were also ranird off, and a liandkarebi. I
left, whisk leis hoped may lead to a detection of the
depredineve.—(ffdieburgh dear.)
On Setardaylak' a most alarming' and destrective fire
Mob raisin usideight in a factory situated in Brock-
meet, leendownsed,l4achrates, which in a dears tise
reduced the building to a-keep of ruin:. Hsi.' i,„.
rounded with dwelling-bombes, the I..haliitants were
roused _frogs ltheie peaceful ,mt forced
escape fere their lives in a state of 51.1.44 perfect
The adjoiwing houses were neatly ratted by the taei,:s,
het threegh the exertions of Ora liff...mn, Ind there being
*dead calm at the titre, :s whole rum of houses is Brook-
craft, inhabitel by poor people, saved from the de-
tourieg element, although nut Above sir yards from the
factory. No lives were lost, though wversl persona were
.injured whilst mating their escape, by the artw'm
throws oat pith* diffeeme whiskies, in the general col-
lusion, tallier upon rtime.
The imprudence of leerier alighted eindlein the be.h.
room, without its being euffitiently ?Incanted to prevent a
oommunicnion with the various articles of dress which
ore frequestly dietribsted in a circle.. winner is th..ar
apartments, venom he too oft.. noticed, or too severely
reprehended. Ao occurrence of this kind on Weilnmdar
sight lest, bed nearly been productive of the Most fAit
eos.ramesee to Mr. Wm. Stafford anti faaily, residiar it
the Commercial-road, Whitechspel. They bail retired
to rest, leaving as usual a I voile bat-mint in a mama,
candlestick, placed on a elm st of dean e-s. with no other
security than the probability of its coniamiergradeAy
to the racket. This, however, was not the nine, aef
tbe flame communicated with sooner wrating apparel
heedlessly laid in drawee situation. Ile. end Mrs. S.
fortunately awoke at the moment when the aeauhaeat
was filled with smoke, and the filmes were we din *wry
short space of, and rapidly appro vetoing to, the bed Is,
nitnre. Mr. Stafford seized the burning articles, and
pranging. them into a vessel filled with wafer, which was
io the coons at the time. preserved himself, wife, sad sits
child?... from as natanitely end.
Ramsey, 23.—1 t is with the Most palifol feel-
ings we anomie* the death of John Latham, Esq. of
this town, who, betters* 12 and one o'clack es MondAy,
21st instant, in sodden be of derangement, pet an end to
his eiristeece, by diockargine a pistol tooled wide hells
into his mouth, and literaly blowing his brains ~et.
Hisii Mese eeeph• wits aimsdiseovered in a few minute• he
his Wag ask•lott most aimed wore*. oboe areviae;l
(feting% so iron so those of his moth* aid brothers
can 'terrify he conceived. his impossible to deeeeihe the
vensation evinced by the inhabitants on the first no.!ce
if the event. An inquest was held on Tires lay, before
A. Todd, Esq. coroner fee- she county. awl the jar,.
which was very respectable, after hearing eiritle•Ce, sat
a patient consideration, returned a verdict.—Lanacy.—
(Spode/noon Chroniek)

On Wednesday last, died, at the London Hospital,
James Chignell,.firemes to the ',ottani' Assurance Cor-
poration. His death was caused by being buried in the
rotas at the late dreadful fire at Messes. Constable's
s'arch-manufactory, opposite to Sir It. Mgt-sites ship-
yard, at Blackwell. His leg (which has since bees am-
putated) was broke. in two places, anti his hotly very,
mach bruised. He has left a widow and fear little chil-
dren, the eldest not more than ten pars niece. He had
the character of being an affectionate hasbsaJ, an in-
dulgent father, and a good servant. He was univer•
sally respected by his brother firrnt.n. The widow and
children reside in Love-lane, lietherhitbe-wall It is a
singular fatality, that this is the third ma. belonginz
to the London Assurance office the' has been buried is
the ruins at fires, in the last twelve months.

DRILADIUL ACCIDII42.—.—On Welnevlay afternow-,
between three and (our o'clock, Mr. Thomas Fledgley,
a respectable shopkeeper at Le,sislistn. Kent, drove en
in a light chaise cart, to the door of Messrs. Martin k
Henry Caller, the cornfactrms, in Fleet-market. Ha-
ring ordered some core in the morning, he called
take it home with him. Mr. Fledgley was in the act of
Patting the horse-bag on the barge's head. when the an-
smal soddenly started off, and ran with alarming speed
op Fleet-market and along Bridge-street. Mr. Fledgley
still keeping fast bold of the shafts of the cart, and en-
deavouring to check the f the infuriated horse.
When opposite the house of Mr. the chy-
mist, In New Bridge-street, Mr. rleitgley was unfor-
tunately jammed between his own and a town cart that
was coming towards hint; and, shocking to add, won
killed on the spot. Mr. Fledgley has left a wife mid
family to bewail biseuatierwly death. An inquest sat
yesterday, sod brought in a verdict of "Accidental
Death," and ordered a &Wand of 3•. ti.f. on the eta
Yesterday evening, an Inquest nos held at t►e Whit -
Lion, 'awes-stem, Covent•rarden, before Mr. nice.
Coroner, on the body of Evan Llerd, achdA abort secs t
month old.
Mrs. Lloyd, the mother ot the deceased child, deposed
that she resides at No. 1.).3, James-street. Mont half
past eight o'clock on Wednesii•v night. she rate the de-
ceased to a little girl, her dim:liter. about ill years of
age, who took it into the kitchen, lint a trap-door at the
top of the stairs being lett open, it dropped two the
child's head and knocked him out of the girl's arms.
He was not killed upon the i,pot. and two medics' gen-
tlemen were sent for, who did all Ors...multi to recover
the child, which was speechleAs. He ref:mewed a little,
but continued in extreme azoitv aliont an boor after-
wards, when it died. Verdict —.Let ideate!