We are happy to state, th...
The Times, 1824-06-09T00:00:00

*Ve arehappy tO ctate, thatthe paragraph that appeared in the newspapers a short time ago, relative to the death of lir. George Dawson, the brother of Lord ~Portarlington, is false, as wce have seen a letter dated 7th of Aprl, from a gentleman, who was ith bim at Puerto Rico, at which timne he was in perfect health.- Evenirig paper. It wvas calculated that there would be 5,000 che5ts of opium on hand at Canton April], 1824-about one year's supply. The price November 10, 1823, was trom 980 to 1,400 dollars. Mrs. Belzoni, at the request of some of her friends, is at present preparing a fine lithographic engraving of the late celebrated raveller, of very large dimensions5 representing also some of the principal antiquties with which he hrs enriched our national Lu- seum: the plates in a few days will be ready for delivery by her agents, at No. 5, Downing-street, WVestminster. IANCH}SSTSR AND SALFORD YEOMIANRY CAVALR.Y-- The Mlanchestcr and Salford Yeomanry Cavalry are extinct. Fri. day night heard the thundering applauses of assembled Pittites, when alr. Biulton, after a brief eulogy (brief it might well be, for in this case "- the least said is the soonest mended"), proposed their healths as a toast; Saturdaymorning brought the news thatthe corps had died of inanition. ' heir end is quite as favourable as their merits could at any time entitle them to expect, if they have not, as to the way in which ithas come upon them, bren fortunate beyond their deserts. At a tune like the present, we have no inclination to recur atlength to that melancholy transaction which placed them on a " bad eminence" of notoriety, such as no similar body ever had the misfortune to attain to. lt is enongh forus that we now bave it, under their own band, that they never were popular; for such an admission is undoubtedly conveyed in the assertion, that *' the corps has sever, at any period, been effective,.min regard to numbeis, with the extensive, immensely populous, and wealthy district, for the service of which it has been enrolled." Before the lOth ot August, i819, it had net time to make itself popular. After thal the " un_ debauched" and irrcpressible feelings of soiety campletc prevent- edits becoming-so. Consequently the corps has been on iL&' wane for between [our and five years, and bas at length gone out " like the snuft of a candle"-vith how much better odour we shall not stop to inquire. Ve are sorrv that we cannot find room for their letter of resignation, which is every way worthy of the corps._ AManclhester Guardian. Early on Tlhursday morning, a lamentable ecurrence took place in Leven-street, near to the Links. An old maiden lady, who was reduced to extreme destitution, she having -olt oft piece- meal the whole ot her effects to support her wretched, existence, formed the singular resolution of letting herself down froni the win- dow of her house on to the pavement. As an accompaniment to this rash aet, she twisted a hearth-rug round her person, and fastened one endof it to the window. -lWhether despair hadprompted her to self- destruction, while fear tad led to adopt this method of defeating her own purpose, seems very nncertain; but supposing her to have been insane at the time, such an inconsistency, the result of two opposite and conflicting peincples, is not improbable. Howvever, the unhappy woman fell upon the ground; and when she was found by lier neighbours, itras discovered that her skull was fractured. Surgi. cal aid was immediately procured; hbut her ease was hopeless, and she survived only an hour, during which time she neyer spoke,...- Scotsman. - BURGLARY.-Olt Monday night, or early yesterdayi moxning, the house f CapEain Brentgn, RN.N No. 4, Fark-lane~ was brokeni into by sonie daring villains, and a large quantity ot weating apparel and some .rticles ofi plate carried away- it appearJ ed on examinmg the prcmises, that the tbieves eirected an entrance by getting over the wall of a new buildinr thit is being erected at the hack of Captain Brenton's house; ant making tbeir vay dovwx into the back area, forced the kitchen.window with a crow-bar, anQ entered the house. They then forced -very press in the lower pnar of the house, and paclked up a vast quantity of proplerty ready to bs carried off; but which they left behind, owing its- is supposed, t their being disturbed by General Thornton, who lives in the adj"oin" ing house, and returned hoae nhiscnrimage, aboutthree o'c.ock tha- morning. -