The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware advertiser., 1826-06-29
Foreign and Domestic Gleanings.

In case tried not long since in Ireland,
before old Lord Norbury, one of the counsel,
that the judge was asleep, re-
quested the Jury to take notes of the evidence,
in order that they might be able to charge
the Bench
The London papers mention that the coach
established on the Stockton and Darlington
Railway, carried lately, in one day, no less
than one hundred and hfty-eight passengers,
the whole of whom were drawn by two hors-
es.
The London subscription for the relief Of
the starving manufacturers amounts tonearly
ESQ, 900 (about S380,000)
R6S00 were paid down in cash to the Great
Unknown, by an eminent Bookseller, in Pat
ernoster Row, for the copyright of the His
terical Novel Woodstock.
The Fancy Ball in London, for the benefit
Of the poor, was said to have produced up
wards of $1,000.
An attempt has been made by Frenchman
to assassinate Sir Hudson Lowe, at his resi-
dence in Smyrna.
Money is so scarce in Paris. that in the
month of April alone, property to the value of
4o,oo0,o0ofrs. was pledged in the Mont de
Piete
secret societies, and particularly against the
Freemasons 8
The lady Of Sir Walter Scott, died at Ab.
botsford, ON the 1Ath Of Nav Sir Walter
was married in 1893, and his Lady WAS the
daughterof John Carpenter,o the city of Ly-
ons.
Several benevolent individuals of n York
are proposing to send a cargo of -four to the
lat, in,
From actual examination of the subject,
it is said that, in the United States, there
are 102 Canals made, making, and project
ed.
In ballotng for Uuited States Senator, in
the legislature of Massachusetts,, on the 10th
inst, it was ascertained that there were but
POI members present, but the number of bal
lots amounted to 209, which destroyed the
vote.
a man named Bosworth, had his thigh
badly broken, and was otherwise injured by
an explosion OF powder, while he was cngag-
ed in blasting rock at Dedham, Massachu-
setts. He was thrown into the air twenty
FIVE feet.
! On Monday night, the 10Th inst, the foun-
dation of new two story brick house, in
! Cherry, above Market street, n. York. gave
| way, and the whole of the end wall fell to
the ground.-The house was nearly finish
ed
Major Handy, of Newport, R. |. sappont-
ed to read the Declaration Of American In
dependence on the ensuing Fourth OF July
1t so happened that this Major Handy read
the same declaration in that town so year:
ago.
/ A black servant girl, aged II, hung hersel
| with the clothes line, on the Sth, at German
Flats, IN. W BY way of experiment The
Coroners jury brought in verdict Of sui
eide.
DR. Mitchell, of N. York, it is said, has an
nounced his full Belief Capt Symmes' the
ory, and has started doubt whether we arr
inside or outside.
The "Whitehallers'' of New-York, hav'
challenged the Southerners' to rowin:
match.
A verdict of 5000 dollars, damages, wa
lately obtained at Erie, Penn.) against Dr
Johns, for malpractice, in a case of obstet
RIGS.
1t appears from Governor Morrill's mes
! sage, that profit of thirteen thousand dol
lars, has been derived from the New
Hampshire State Prison, within the las
year.
An editor of Kentucky paper states tina
all the gardens in the country look well bu
his own, and that he was so engaged in col
lecting money for his paper maker, that h
left his garden to be entirely oyerrun wit
weeds.
: Justice Abbott, lately, in the Court {
i Kings Bench, Eng. decided and laid it dow
e as law, that tenant has no right to remov
: the trees and shrubs he had planted on tn
: premises he occupied.
i, The Hon. w. Taylor, Speaker of tn
House of Representatives, is appointed tn
Orator at Ballaston Springs, on the ensuln
Fourth of July.
e The Mayor Of Boston Mr.. Quincy has bee
a solicited BY the Corporation Of the City,
: deliver the Grafton in that city on the Fourt
\ of July, Mr.. Ware, who had been appointe
: the orator, being prevented by severe indi
J. position.