The loss of the British i...
The Times, 1824-10-02T00:00:00

The loss of the British in the engagement wfth the Ashanteesi on the Ilth of July amounted to 105 killed, 'and 400 wou.nded; Lieutenanit Jobn Swasnzv, of the Roval African Colonial Corps, is the onily officer killed. Mr. CANNIN4G.-It Will 'lot be considered unimportant to state, that the system of forty shilling freeholds has attracted the particular attention of MVr. Canning gurinr his visit, and he has, on more than one occasion, expressed hinelf npet trn eno disappro atinad regrct, at the rmisery which h;e conceives that system entails on the humbler classes or the community.-Drrbli-e paper. GE-,EReAt. LA PAYETTE.-.The Bridgeport Courier men- tions the following tfact respecting La Fayette:_- In the course of a familiar conversattion with one of our most respectable citizens oni Saturday, and irn reply to the question-, W1hat first intereste the AMarquis to embark in the cause of liberty and independence of this countryv?'-he states in the most pleasant and interesting mnanner, thatt ' while stationed in the citadel of Aletz, and only cizhteen years of age, the Duake of Gloceter, then, on accounit o'f his marriage, exiled from the Court of Great Britain, comnmunicated in a select companly ,tbe informationi he had received res-pecting the contest of the Americans for their liberties and indepentlence. This account so v'ery mutch interested biun, that lie left ltletz f.tr Paris., whiere he bacamte acquainted with Silas Dean, Etn., tlte first atgent to France fromt the Amnerican Congress; at this tinme Dr. Franklin arrived at Paris, 'and after obtaining the best information concerning the state of this country, hin ardectt love of liberty dletermined himn to embark isis life and fortunre in the cause of Ai-erican free-domn. The Frenchi gentlemen resident at New Y"ork, to the numnber of from thiise tas fi've hiundred, presented an address to the General in the frce spirit of the (lay. Tn his reply, he comp'imcnted thie Frenchi Revoluition of 1780; said it hiad (though no., consummated) meliorated the conidi- tion of an immense majority of the people; and that the cause of liberty was still dear to the ficart of Frenchmen, ancd, said he, ' We shall one day hiave the felicitv of seeing it establishicd in our belovedi country.' The answers of the General to hei tlifferent addiresses are wrten in a goodl style, antI show that hlis fille talents have not been imphired by age andI misfortunes. TI'he pr:ide of Boulogne is ani attendant at the bathis-a young creature who has spent somne 'ecars in the coarse employment of a bathing-woiman, but whose beuiuty is so dazzling, that shec not only surpasses all lher companions, but may vie withi the proudest of the Couzrt. I1cr face is a model of Grcciazn beauty, i'ot a coarse line about it ; it is all softness, refinement-and, one miay add, dig. nity. She is called by hier friends, the Venus tie la Mier, from hier occuipation-anid, what is nmost gratifyring to add it' the praises of Iher person, lier character is irreproachable, her manners gentle and un. assrming, though shec has been accustomed( to flattery enough to tur a wiser girl's becad, and assailed with offers to pervert her tps in. ciples. Glenieve, for that is hier proper namne, says site is now conm- pletely happy, as slie has been lately marrietd, after five years,' at- fac irment, to a jolly yoisng fishierman of the part. She is twenty, and her husband five-and-twentv ; they are admnittedI to be tire finest .oripic in Botillogne. Shbe still continues hier linimble duties at the I baths, hivle tcli takes his tuirn out to sea-one of tile hiappiest young fishermein in the worlri. GAMsNsG HOUSEs.-An enitirely, new gaininig conceern ia-s just licen opened by a monied company of ganmesters in Southi Slot. ton.street,Oxford-strect, upon the myost extensive scale; and bids faLir to rival, bothi in its emibellishments and sumptuous entertainments offeredi to those whio are to be picked of thecir propert',, and robbied of their reputation, the most eleganti and firmly establ[ished " hells" in St. Jansies'a-street and Pall-mnall. To keep up its respectabilitY. none but subscribers are admrittedl. Ten guineas is the amnount of tulb-cription. When will these vile and abominable sinks of iniquity be annihilatedI? fTl E JEiws.-One of the mlost strict andl iinportasit cere- Monies of thejewish persuaqion conirmenced at sunl-see. last. ev-ening, and continiues the whiole of this day till thie same period. It is called the 1 WVhite Fatst or the Day of Atonement." This morning at an early hiour, thecy assemble ini their different Synagogues or p,lp'ccs of worsliip, andl there remain in fasting, anti iii prayer, till the deelin. ing rays of the suin announice to themn the conclusion of the cere- mrony. It is a dlay with them most soleimnly observedA throuighiout tire worldl. S.AiNDERt-O1 tile 14th Sept. wve inisertedI a paragraph, copied fromi ttite Cavan hiernald, stating thle " barbarous murder oif a child or clrildlren. and attributing it to sitl illicit intercourse of a Ro- ilsan (- thnlhr l--rip.~ anti regretting that he shoutoi nav. Lcari concerned in so dreadfuil andI off-ence," thereby endteavouring to im- plicate hinm as tire zuthtor of thie murder. We feel pleasuire in being enabledl to state, that thiree miagistrates ef thec county of Monaghan anid tire immiediate vicinity of this place, having used their best en- deavours to asceertain the truth or f'alsehood -if said statemdent, are (lecidedIly of opinion, " that there are no grounds whiatever for hav- ing connectedl the aname of any Roman Cathiolic clergy man, in any way, with salId transaction. Anid thoutgh it appears that there was a childl born in the famnilof a neighbouring farmer, the mother of whiich has since abscondled, and against who6in a warrant was.issued, there was no groundl whatever f'or stating that the body of such child had been lately fririndl, or that atty of the othier statements alltuded to were fouisided on fact. And it furthier appears to thenn, that said publication is not only, malicions, ande proceeding from base mnotives, bitt, as flar as concerns tire chiaracter otf the Ronman Ctathiolic clergy-. man, that It is one of the melianchioly instances of harry feeling in thisi country ."_.Nrr-wry TeIrgraph. EGYPTI AN $~ARCOeH AGi!s.-Thse Journal tIe ht 211ediler- rntice mentionis the arrival at Marseilles in the early part of thec present. month (September) of a magnificent sarcophaLgus from Alex- andreir, fotund in the anicient sapulebres of'Melephis, near ttire Valley of thec Pyramids, in a well (t fret decep. Thie lower part of thisi mno nument is eight f'eet long, shousi two aidiL a hialf feet itigh, wid in its extretete breadith about three and a half f-eet. It is coveredI with an. imimense number of hieroglyphics, my-thological figures, antI sym- bols, allI executed its a very suiperior sty'le irs gra-nite. Tire weighit of' thssueb piece of an:iq~iity is upwards of 3.OOt0 kilogram5(w tons and a half Eiiglish. 'Phlc lid, whlichi is equially rentarkable for the rarity -and beauty of its woikmlanship, weighs neatey as muich. Thie colour of the sarcophagus is a dlee p greets, resemibling broeze, in- laid with spots ef a bright red, antI othiers again, of a mtore sontbre tiiige. Besides this spotted worke, whiih it ds(one withi admirable uni- fortisity. thec lower part is beautifully ornamnented in thirec or four places with broadl bandIs of a bright yellow colour, whiichi ascend to thie top. Tlsese fine enibellidslinents formn a moist pleasinz -relie-f to tire darke bronze ground of the mionum-ent. WVlen the lid sliall be replaced, the emmscsnble will present a eeup;-d',ril altogethier unique. as well by the richness of ttire miatter, as the colossal titmensions and miajestic form of tIre inonititnent. Nor,e of' those of an ianalogous kisdti iitherto seeni are adequate to coirvev, a correct notion of time gorgeousnecss of tile otre we are nosv describing. And, w!iat adds consideratbly to its value, it is no where injuiredl, except by, two slighit scratchies on tIretupper miargin, inache, no doubt, by those who first reinovd tIme lid to rot) tire tonmb of its contents. Thec two curios-ities, alter being placedl on twvo sirogcrigs veal sthncdat) sent off to Pirist. ncarae,wral stit:deh themliselves tiiret bv thecir comnbinedi attermiPt to raise tlhcir wages. Jut, one large wvorle, nw iw hndis were tak-en in and when the old oca1s offretl to reiutir, thec employer declinteudtlteir service but at me reduc- tioni of Is. a-week, and that tipon the wages of 71t ofthte best of thieta. hn another still larger work thie experimient suicceeded still worse for although the employer sIIowceulpurl of tire work-men to cotne iii, lite positivelv refuised to take back others on arty terms wlratever.- Glirx,-ow Chronicle. Tile following- (if truet) cxtraorlthitary eiric'oaclitnciit oti tile medical Irrofessiori is conrmtinicated sanouyvmousiv by a cortecs Itondent. it is saidi to hiave oeccurred the beginiinin-of la't 'veekc, in mihe village of Trarient. WVcsuppress tire namie of the patient, sitire tee are tntL favoured withi that of'otrr iniformnrot :-Arr old titian, of ihe nase of James R-, by tradec a flesher, having liact a diseased foot, whichl began) to shiots symptoms of msortification, hiis mnethical attenid- aiLslits u decided upon anputatirng thmelrg.Theyaccordinigly wenit next ciaav' with all the necessary ap'mparatuis to perforthoeainwe, to t[leir utter astonishmnenlt, 4iev fndteIre opreration whptaen, aisd dressed by his hreloved Itelpmnate, who vowed she wotlid allowv no one to p~ut a k-nife into licer dear Chcrr~y (the name her lrtrbaitthgoe~s by1)excepthterself: svehat is still niore extraordinary, the leg is noiting wonderifully well. Qiery -_The leg that is anttputated ?-Edimt- bicuuigh Star. A DUrTIFUL Sos,.-A jockeyviii lIis town. tv:sliirg to uinske ari advaintageotus display of' a horse thtat lire Ychesiiroustra f sellitig to abystander, ptlace4 iris boy upon thseb;ck oftlire be:~st. or- cicring Iiini to " ride hrim aroundi a shiort dlistance." The boy, thioughi well itnstrtucted in hiis trade, unfortunately, in thlis instance, knewv not whether the hlorse was alrearly lils fattier's, or yet to be bargained for; be)inig atixious, thierefore, to learn the Will of idas fa- ther, lie stoppedI after ridliig a share distance, and inquired with a loud voice, " Fathier, 8lhalh I ridle this h3orse to buly 01 to sell?" Nere/uaveum Register. '1'itE POWER OF iLfimcieRe.-Mi'imickry, as it now stands writir us, is like a so-rttse, larger than the life, marie for a cer- taiut heiglht anti distance; weltile upon the level withi you its coarse pr-oportiois scenti monstrousutidi loverdone. AMany excellent Come- diana hiave biadltihis natutral taleint. Mr. Rymer, that great critic. tells us that Mlr. Ailontfort was so exrcelleiitly gifteti that way, ',if ye may cAll it excellence,) that swilen be was train-becarer to the lakte Chancellor.7efferies, in the reign of Kitig Jamnes 11., at an enter- tainment of the mOst emninent lawyers, iris 111astcr ordered hiurr to cotire before him, and plead a feigned cause, winch lio performedI with great eloquience, and iii his pleadings, to ttime admniration' of all ptresent, tssuntsed the ainwenr authi voice of several of the best Plead- era then at time bar, even seine of those thiat weere present at time en- tertainnment.-Dutblie .Evelln l yPort. AN\,iEcTpCTVAL CumRF.-( From a Chiniese book, entitled "Sqcuo Li sc'co ; translatcdby A. Julieri.)-Thcerwas, in acertain lhouse, a chile swhro was corstantly sereanitiiig ar,d annoying every bode. Attlrtst a physician seassent for, whir gave hint a draught, arid', desirous of ascertaining the gahlmitrg eflects of hiis Potion, stayed in tile lhouse duritig tire nighlt. After some timec, liemmring no mnore .crying, lie 6xclaimned, " The child is cured." " Yes," wastic reply, "the chirl( cries rio more, butthie nsotlier issveceping." THE USa OF A TeIA-RETTIari.--(From the samne.)-A schiolar whio was readling at nlight, hieard a thiief breaking hlitrough the wal of Isis house. haoppeninig to have a tea-kettle withi boiling water before the fire, lie took it up, and p laing himself by the _ie f he wall, waited for tire thief Trhe h ole,being ma~de, a nman thrust his feet through ; when mire scholar immediately seized them, alsd began to bathe then with boiling water. The thief screamed and sued for mnercy; but the scholar replicd rery gravelyd " SOp tir I have emptied my tea-kettle."