OXFORD, July 2.-Our Comme...
The Times, 1824-07-05T00:00:00

Omanie, July Q.-Our eomtieimoratlou. WVeek opened wtith two exccellent,coficert at thie Mfusic Room, on-MgndaY -andI- rfuesdaY. The'soom was miuch tlhinner than on forme'inimbs, and -&e c-annot but tliink that the late brifljtnit Concerts at ouir Tq~n hial, where wehad the pleasurTe Of' lailing the '.' dlivine Catalani,"' 2iST-atlY affected4 thsein. On Tuesdlav the annual commemoration of t'"tMCot 1useful fourdation the Raddelitl'e Infirmary was celebrat- ea at the Universiti. churchi, when the usual choir service wvas per. fortne in a muanser highly creditable to the oreartist vandgentiemnen 'comtPOinA it. On Wednesday morninx, ithe Vice-Chancelor, ac. (ompanried by thiebeads of houses, the youing nobility of the Uni. veraty, e.,procede in their dress..robes from. Penmbrolke College u~ tbc Theatre, whten, Rlier the buisiniess of convocation had been opend by- the Vice-Charicellor, the hionorary degree of~ D.C.L. wvas ronrerred on severml gentlemien. The compositions were recited by s'he gentlemen to wh tom thie prizes had been adjudged. On WVetl Sterday lat, the diay of the public comimemnoration of benefactors to the !Yniivers:ty thie IMaster andI Fellown of Pembroke College cole- theteCothegcommencemrent of the 3d cenitury fromn the endowmenit of' it ll ,Us'r a sunmptuous enitertainmrent in the Hall, to which cutch 0f the priesert and former members of the College were invited Is freem *.eir locazl si tuaition could be expectedl to attend. Thie ball in1 the Townjijall on Wednesday evening was not so numeirously 'tedd-as was expectetl. N'E\aoar (sle of NVighit), July I.-The diaughter o7 Mr Hilier,of Kiglton sann,on Fidaymornng, fter taking, lirebreafas, vey dli'nratly pt o herbonet ad sthrwieran of her "sttvn~~~~ the rashth act.o DEATH ny LG1ITNiNO.- Ou Tuesdlay afternooni this Cown wa viied by a thunder-stormi wvhich, thoughi of shiort dura. 5o,provea miore fital to hutman hfe than any storm which has oc- currEd' for the latst fiftY YeAr0. The afternoon hiad been very sultry, ;and r.bout five o'clock :I'he approaching storm producedi an extraortdi- 'anliatdege tf da'loommor awfuilly impress~ive. A boy about 13 N aes of i, a ,o tenae or Williatm Widley, welto was attending at r o terioo C-oal Staitlh to loadl a wa"geoni, was struckc instants- _~,Usiv dead hy the electric flui(l. Ilis hat was split, tlte ha-ir on "'e' b -~T- of heisq headl singzed, and itis neck andl breast were tunhel v:orchedL Two boy,; wito were stinding near hitn were knolcked tjawn, but dlid not receive any serious injury. A surgeon was im- n'et!iately sent for, whto ordieretd the body, to be placed in a wayin oIh. ansinisrd the ordinary means resorted to for restoring suspentded an"i-ation, but without efect' An inquest wasi lield on the bodly the following day, whiclt retiu-ned a verdlict of Accideaital Dealbh, The storm, appe~s to hiave extended several miles to the nor1th-eaist e-f the town, accompaniedi by hiail, and, a dleluge of rain. The hail. ar'nnEr sze-e enorniously larke, and dlid' mutcit damage to fields of whIezt, beanls, and turnips. a~nd destroyeti tile !rhiss in the green- ito11sesRa, Petternewvton, 61Sedow. Harchills, and Roundhay. In li- linAbeck-.park. an im-mense oak--tree Was torn up, anti a numiber of 'tre,es in the planzation tere spliti anld hand titeir branches torn off and Ciriedtoa cnsierliedisane. -hltomnard3Methlev experienced Porn of the effects of' tle storm. At Woodhoutse, thehoseoft1 r. Wrtig',t, stone-mwwrn, "was struck by thie electric fluid ; the bed- P-rst -ere split, ard thle bed-hangings were scorchedc, but none of &,ce famlilr treciveri any injury.-Leeds 1ferotr!/. T555. i.ATE INitN'DfATIOV IN' THiE VSCCNITY OF CstecLaSs- )7 I-n ~ Vn tite short apace of' about six~ weeks, this town has been t1 5*two extraordinary hitti floods : the first on lthe 16thi of M5 ain -he- w'aters increased 7 feet 6 inches above their accus- t(! ne level, and yestertday se'nniglitt, on wicih day thep river Cann I setlr rse, in abou.t eight hours, to the .atnishing height of *l4i fea-t ab,ovethe regutlated pend of thieintervening water-.mills. The first s-as czrnsidered equal to any flood eve:r before experienced in the E-imors' of the eldest irhabitant, buit, as regards that which took I lacle v-esterday waeek, it has no p) aallel on record. Abouit five 'cakin tlhe afternloon tlite waters wrere aL tite highest, and at the in owe streams equal to small TiVUILet POUred thlrough the Passages alnd door-ways of the houses on the west side of the town from the bridgeto Ailr. Knight's, the grocer'.s, andI in Moulsitamn so far as 3.r. Andrews, intshesame line of` business, first filling the cellars -oT both sides the way, and next the ground-floors to the heiglht otf s,et-oral feet. The townl was impassable on foot so the distance here rneationie,i thre water being thiree f'eet deep, and passing down Stsringaflehl-ane. Baddow-lane, and( every outlet towards the othier r~-rer with astonishing velocity. At Fryars, whichi hats so freqtitent. l,v been the acene of de'vastation fromn the fleods, ithe water stoodupon ti-te groun.d dloor upwards of 6 feet. The damnage (lone to the indi- i-idu als cannot, at present, lie estimated. Mr. Claphamn, Mr. Car. Uer, Mrs. Weeden, Mr. .llyers, annd many others, whose premises abut upoia the river, are among the sufferers. Mr. Aldridge of Bad- ~Iovw also received miuchi injury by the destruction of the liqluor in his vats. Twelve brick walls, small buildings, and wood- Iecs,wr lvelled with the. ground ; time garden crops totally do- soet.e gras,s which had bean severedN -was caryiedi away, anld that reanding, was left by the flood, to, appearance so filthy, ais to be scrarcely worth cuttinsg. So instantaneous was the rushing in of the waters, that smne who saw it cotmpared it in its imposing progress to hefot of, anrmy and although we hiave not heard of any lives hei-a lost. itie devastation it spread was very' great indeedl. At Lit- tlei adw e are infornied. General Strutt lost 14 acres of hay; r. Tav,ner, of this town, lost about ii acres, and( the same i1l.' ]t'rk hefel as-cry indttstrious rmilkmnan of' the name of Wiffien. At MWrittle Lodge-, which has been) recenitly engage(d by Vicesimus Rnox, Esq., the water entered the cellars, where'the beer had been l'atey brewed, but not huinged down ; the casks were thrown from t'sc stalls, anid the beer ejectedI to iunake room for a less wrholesome beveratec. The person in the care of these premi-tes had great diffi. arltv in saving the live stock, anid was actually obliged to carry sonme sheep into the bay.loft. An equally industriolus woman, in ?looishamn. carried her pigs into the garret for saf'etv. The circum- -nance of the water being at onie time thiree feet higher on one side I b- brinier titan tite othe~r, has given goodl ceRsot's for the Droprietors of evnrunds on each side to complain of the inefFiciency of the arch, .'ich by no nmeans gives that space for the current to pass which a m-ore elliptic forst woulti have afForded. The water, in consequence of the gr-eat pressitre above the b-inige, expanded, anti come throuigh the hanses, bs.nh in tte town and hamnlet; whilst as the arch became eont-acsed, die water was, propelled with so increased a violence, as ltoaait-me the wbele botly from ita surface so its vesy base, and pro- duced a vIhirlponl,which undet-mined the foundations of maniy wharfs. noTd evemsualily destroyed those of Mr. Carter in particular. A me- svnrial upon th e subject of the defect of the bridge, we are informi. c?, w'Al be pTesenitetl to the alglistrates at the ne-xt Quarter Sea. sin.-Chchn1a.ford C'hronicle. STVCt'LAR ATTEMPT To O-cosTrt SUICIDE.-Oni Fridlay, the -25th ult, a man, in appeatance a diecent labourer, put up at tine Three Tuns. in this towrn, hiaving in hisq possession a useful Suffolk. 1bredc TareM He inqitired of the landlord whether he ktnew any horse-dlealer, as- he iatld a m-ane to sell. Air. Jamecs told him dtat there wouldi hr severatl reslpectable personis in the market on the followiruc dat'. This4 did not su:i%`y, and mere accident introdlucedi hinen to a btore-dcatler in the town, who purchased the tnare for I161., 1(11. under the asking price; hot, at the recommaendation of the landl. lorsi. the dealer was not to pay till the next imorning, but in the mnean drine no infomnsatiott Was giveni to ithe psoper authority, antI the Lrarn might have escaped. Air. Hlarrington, of Briton's Hall, Chitg nell. arcidlent-ahhs bearing of tine m-are, introdulecd himself to the strartm. who was ready to accept him as pus-chaser, notwithstandl. inz he had before sold the animal. Air. Harringtoni, whlo has given rtuch asaia-tance- to his neighbours in. the like cases, anid having, huim-elf once lost a very valuable animal, soon became convinced, ft-nr the contradretory account titis person gave, that there were sttrong g-rounds to susPect that the mare wvas stolen, and as soon as she was led to the dealer's stables, he collared the man and sn-ok him* to the Slhire-hall. Shortly after the comsmencenment of rile examinarion there, tite miare w'as led so the window for the 'llsaistratcs to see. Att thie very momeint the Court Wast titus en. ga7rd, the prisoner thrust his hand into his breeches pocket and pnl=d ensta paer, the end of which) he bit off, and was in the act of swloing t..e contents, whien Air. Jamnes knocked it out of his hanrd, ttnd called out, "1 Yont rascal, yo are poisoning yourscht'" Thz prisoncr then fell hack ttp-on the seat, and fronti that time rc. fauwd to answer any questions. Mr. Cremer being senit for, thte prsnrwstaken to tbe nol, where he was closely watched, and the beet, meanls Used to couintersiet tise effects of the poison. Among t.i. rnrasures resorted to, Read's extracting pump was used with rt'e best? effect; there Was the clearest eviderce that poison teas drawn from tl!e!Etamach. In the course of the process, the prisoner l,:t the itistrunient antI much iniured it. Since miis confinement he b_a obsrv-red a nthtilen silence, affecting g-reat dirowsiness, but withiout Icomniaint of Pain: he is witlh much 'nlificstlty indluced to take nion. r-ishment. Yesterdlay, Mr. George uunton, of Weasenham A!ll S;aints ne.ar.3w.nlTbaiu, in Norfolk, arrived in this town and claimetd titc mare, which Was stolen from his prenmises on the 22d niit. Ttit P-isoner appears, to hiave recovered from the effects of tite poison, acdt'ougzh lie refuses so answer any qitestions p-ut to hilm, bttt puts his linger so his ear, as thougch that organ of sense seas injlured, wh4ch'these i.; no reason to believe. lie has followed the business of a rat destroyver, which accounts for his ltiaving the poisoni about him, tand forni's knowledge of its propertie-, Ife is fttlly commlitted so take his trial tont thie ofl:nce. His nante is Thonmas Simnnionids;- (7Chmelufor,d Chronic-le. A fi~w dlays sincee, in the vicinitv of (lhelnmsfoid, a yolilg scnatrire3 wo-nian. bclr.nging to the Ginnny tribe, put a1 period to her t- exis:enee b;e earing arsenic. It appears, 1 iota what we litave been able to colli~t, that at rat-cattcher, wietah his wife and another person, h-ad erccaxped in a lane just above Spri:)zfiekct village, anti that in rac-Nseuence of souse disagreement between the married couple, thie 'wife had eaten sanme of thne connposition prepared by hier husbansi for the dlesnincnian of vermnin. A y'eung man, one of the party, waited uipon .M.r. Giilsn, stirgeoin of tiltts towvn, and told thie iticiancholy tale -with so earnest a simplicity, and wilth feelings so agitated, thiat not. * ithistanding it interfered irith other engagements, Mr. Gilson ho. * r.anely went ton the spot, andI foundI the object of solicitutle under a ter,'; a vet-v bad state. She acknowledged the fact that she miad enilj~ hededlypoisn, ot iishsheintenstlo destroy, herself, but .....' Cr iL 1. r-a1 ullon ronearing mnore of the ease the following t, -fet anxious to inform himselif of the state of tile patient, and ahtred thespot wherehe first saw the woman; but the encampment ehad bea broken up, the wretehed party having been denied a res5l Aenee unon that spot by the mandate of ihe person occupying the aijn ng soil, who had done a great act of cliarity had b2e cause tbe party to be apprehended as vagrants, as no doubt the life o- the femiale would have been preservetl. After much inqmLr-, the strolling party were traced to a br.rts ivpon Alr. ,Ilea.e s frin, on the back road to Waltham, when the unfortu- na^tc womran again repeated the ob,ect of her rash act, and she again reeeved tile humnane assistance of lr. Gi3son. Wbether disturbed by the ovner of the barn, or whether from the restless habits wltieh the-, sesC, t- , rc, we are not inforsied, but when heard of again, .ueer Erd pitched their tent in a lane near the six-mnile stone on the r.reintree road. lr. Holditel,, surgeon, of Waltham beingF np. pyin-d tO, ey,his immediate attention, antl used every mneans which medi^K;i exould suggeest, to remove the fatal cause btt from the C-t7aird siruatios, and theprobable wantofneceasarics, the cotstitui to5 idlded to the baneful poison, which had Row gained so great an ahendatcv a_md the poor creature tlicst upon the cold ground. Thie .51Ject of this p:a.raapln is represented as beingafine young woman, abee the m.itdle sxatnre, and of excellent proportions. The man. r-erin which the body lav in the wrettche(d abode where she expired, :was alorne sufficicnt to excite the sympathy of every beholder. Des- titr-teof every means but those wivicil nature afforded, the mourners bnd ideed theY appeared to mourn with great sinceritvy collected leave.s ol wld fl.owers, with wlnich the corpse mway have been said to ;-.xe Iwen decorated and decently covered. Tiie parish-officers of Airtie Walthamn being apprised of the circumstance, caused an in- ueast 1D b- held, when the confession of the deceased to the medical en-seut as to the cause of her death, and the consistency of her tsbaaS and his companion, indaced the jury to pronounce a ver- :ict, in sab.5tmacc that the deceased died by voluntarily takting poi- - a n bitt not with a view to destroy herself.Coleassler Gazcttc.