The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-08-13 00:00:00

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WAPPING 11%PratlaNC.E.
DEAL, Auct 12.—Wind S. —Remain in the Downs, the
Rebecca, fur Bahia; the Bordina, fur the Cape of Good
Hope; the Medusa, for Richebuctu; and the Btwephalus,
for Gibraltar.
PORTIDIOUTH, JULY 12.—Wind S.E.—Arrived the Alhina.
Shadford, front London, for Demerara, and sailed with the
Loots, Field, for Calcutta.
FALMOUTH, AUG. 11.—Wind S.W.—Arrived his Ma-
jesty ship itetrea, from Plymouth ; and the Henry, from
ditto, for Malaga ; and the Active, Banks, from London ;
His Majesty's ship Seringapatam, from the Eastward; and
the Blucher packet, from the Leeward Islands, sailed from
St. Thomas's 10th ult. Sailed the IValsingham packet,
for Cadiz, and Mediterranean.

LIVERPOOL, Ava. 11.-The Lady Comberanere, Fell,
from Africa, was driven on shot..., vesterday. at Southport,
but was got off this morning with loos of false keel.

The reported seizure of the Prince of Brasil packet and
a Swedish brig, at Guayaquil, is not true ; they were mere-
ly pot in requisition by the Uolotuoian Government, to car-
ry troops to Callon.
We are sorry to learn that the herring fishing in Loch-
fine, this season, is very unproductive. Five years ago the
value of the herrings taken in one season, amounted to
40,1001.: last year it was reduced :o 15,01101. ; and this sea-
son is not expected to yield more than 10,0001. On the
north-west coast of Scotland, however, there is every pros-
pect of a most abundant fishery. In one night upwards of
15 cranes were caught in Loch Hourn, on the west coast of
Koss-shire : and in all the Lochs along the coast there is
every appearance of immense quantities of fish. A trial
made in the Moray Frith, from Cromarty, proved also
very successful; and at all the stations along the east
coast, the fisheries and curers are in a state of active opts-
ration.

James Ford, mate of the brig :.lermaids, of Montrose,
a very promising young man, was unfortnnately drowned
in the Oulf of Finland, on the 3d of July last. The Mer-
maids on that day came in sight of a vessel water.logged,
and Captain Kinnear being anxious to render every assist-
ance in his power, passed under her stern, and found her
to be the Ocean, of North Shields, abandoned by her crew.
Captain Kinnear, with his mate and some others of his crew,
boarded the Ocean, and the mate having gone aloft, was in
the act °feinting some rigging from the cross trees, when
the mast giiing way, he was carried overboard along with
it and drowned. Toe Mermaids being bound for St. Po.
tersburg proceeded on her voyage without being able to do
ally thing for the safety of the Ocean.
Yesterday was the warmest day since the 7th or last
May, and one degree warmer than that day. On the 7th
of May, at I P. as., the mercury in mir thermometer, in the
Strand, stood at 75 degrees; hot, at II the tame night,
it jell ho 53. Yesterday, a. 1 o'clock, it was at 76 de-
grees ; and at II at night, it stood at 68. This day,
at 1 o'clock, it reached 7S degrees.
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The weather since our last has actually proceeded from
bad to worse, to the great disappnintment of many who ex-
pected an important alteration for the better at the change
of the moon, which happened on Wednesday at two o'clock.
So far, however, from any amendment having taken place.
that the rain, which in the early part of the week was con-
fined to the night time, has now extended to the day also,
and continue:vim fall almost withont intermission. The
amid has likewise considerably inereased, and the atmo-
sphere remains for the most part dark and lowering. more
resembling a gloomy November than the last week in the
dog days. Every Is bonne of such weather as we expe-
rienced on Wednesday and Thursday must retard the har-
vest at least a week. Accounts from all parts of the kiiL-
dont agree in rating that the growing crops have suffered
from the extreme wetness of the season ; but by no means
to that extent which the evil forebodings of some and the
wiallea of others could impress upon the public belief.
The best proof of this fart and of the abundance of oil
grain in the country is, that pricesare declining in London
and in all the principal corn naarkets,antl that the average
price of wheat in England and Wales has fallen every week
for the last mantle mowithstanding the neg.-ilia] season.
and the prospect of a late lia..vest.—(Carlisle Journel.)
Yesterday, the Royal Sovereign steam yacht, was en-
gaged to convey a party to Winatable Bay, near Margate;
and On its return, when near Gravesend, 'he passengers
were thrown into the utmost consternation by a young
man stabbing a person with a cheese-knife in the temple,
in two different places. It stem+ the occasido of this rash
act originated in a love affair. The young man in custody,
it appears, was a forsaken lover of a young lady on beard,
whom he accidentally met th.-r.. with bee present soitor.—
During the early part of the day words had arisen between
the parties, which terminated in the dreadful attenipt
which took place. When the vessel arrived opposite the
Thames Police Mire, tie prisoner was given in custody to
an officer of that establishment. We understand from a
medical person on beard, that the wounded tuaa Is in
a dangerous state.
Cueicies Cesa.—On Tend ay, i very ernione, diffiCult,
and amusing case was decided in the Court of Quarter Sea
aeons held at Malignly, arising oet of an appeal from the
decision of the Petty Sessions. The case was at the in-
stance of the road trustees on the Rtitherglen road, in-
sisting upon double toll from a rarer apnn the following
grounds :—The carter, in passing the toil in the morning-,
'coining to Glasgow, paid the usual does. At Gat time
there was in the cart, and its whole load., a country girl
coming to make markets thee, and who had along will her
at the time an empty jar and eottie other ankles of very
trilling hulk. In returning, it happened that the carte'
good naturedly gave his female friend and her baggage
(again his whole toad) a ride hitch but In the mean
time she lied got her jam filled, and had also with her a fete
purchases, which made her trifling Imager, rather more
bulky than what it had been in the Marning. The tall-
keeper demanded double toll, insisting that the load was
not the same which hail passed in a e morning—that In
fact it had been altered, increased, augmented, was larger,
heavier than before—in short, that the load, animate and
inanimate, had been materially changed from what it Was
in the morning, which brought it within the scope of the
Act of Parliament as 11;.ble rodonhle toll. The proprietor
of the cart contended that it teal the same female and her
baggage which he had in the morning, and wide!' he
again had in the evening as his whole load, and that in
the int. rim he hail made no alteration in, or addition to,
her person or her load, and consequently was not liable
either for double toll or penalty which the Act of Parlia.
ment might prescribe; nor could he in this case be made
accountable for what others might have done. The Judges
at the Petty Sessions sustained the defence of the owner 01
the cart. Yrons that decision the road trastres appealed
to the Quarter Sessions, the judges of which sustained the
decision of the inferior Court, upon the principle, we be-
lieve, that any trifling addition to, or alteration in, the bags
gage or the person of a female, in such Oases, could not,
and nevar was contemplated that it should. come within
the scope and meaning of the Act of Parliament, which
was not made to pry into or take strict cognizances of fe-
male secrets or country girls coming to markets.—(Caledo-
, aims Mercury.)
A few days ago a female weaver in Perth received a let-
ter from a professed admirer, a tailor in Aberdeen, inviting
her to meet him in Abroath•, whence he was to take her to
' his home, and there get married. " Hope told a flattering
' tale." tta:gardless of the entreaties of her friends, the maid-
en kept the appointments bet the tailor proved false, and
she was disconsolate. Now mark the kindness of Cupid:
sew was recognised and accosted by an itinerant book
tender, of Perth, who was nO piloted at her forlorn situ-
ation, that forgetting a prior engagement of his own, hr
took her along with him to Montrose, whets they got mar-
' tied on Monday. and the tailor wears the Willow.—(Dun-
eke Advertiser.)

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