CUPAR, Jan. 7.-On the for...
The Times, 1824-01-20T00:00:00

CUI'AR, Jan. 7.-On the forenoon of Sut:day week, a serio-comic exhlibition took place in that little chapel in LadyWvind, which serves the three-fold purpose of a school, a place of worship, and a mason lodge. The brethren of the " mystic tie" had occupied it on the Saturday in celebrating the festival of St. John: but. un- able to finish at one sitting the quantity of good cheer which they had thought it proper to lay in, a nunmber of the more drouthy com- panions had returned to it betimes on Sunday morning, determined to keeppossession until the surplus was entirely consumed. Before. this consummation, hvowever, the church bells-began to ring; and the congregation, dreading no obstacle to their customary devotions, pre- ceeled to take possession of thvir chapel. But no sooner was the tread of their feet on the stair which leads to it heard by those within, than thev locked the door inside, and paid not the sliglutest attention to the fervent remonstrances which the presiding elder on being denied admi,sion,addrcsse4l to tlem on the impropriety of tieir conduct. A smith was at length procured, who picked the lock ; on which one of the votaries of Bacchus advanced to the elder, and pointing to a capacious bottle which stood on the table, expressed the unalterable resolution of him and his companionsnot to stir un- til its contentn were completely exhausted. Tne congregation, afraid [to rsic an engagemenlt vz-, armre wziJWlth adversaries in such a state of iexcitement, or deeming it indecorous to fight with carnal weapons the harilened sinners en whom persuasion had lost its influence, quietly withdrew.-Giasgoa' Heratld. .fun The fasct of the cartof' the murdered Weare havingboen left at Lord Egremont's, is thus explained in the Sussex Adveltiser. The infeience drawn from it is of course destroyed.:-" The fact is, (and we state it on authority not to be questioned) that a gentleman residhigin the neighbonrhood of Petworth has a servant living with him, wvhose fatherTkeeps a billiard table, and there he made an ac. quaintance with Air. MWeare, who somctimes visited the servant when he was in London with his master. This man had one of 51r. Weare's cards-' lir. William lVeare, Lyon's Inn' and his mas- ter hearing of this card, took it and left it upon the table in Lnrd ,gremon t house, where the cards of visiters are usuUaly placed. | This created gre.t surprise for a day or two, and until the. Fen- Itleman explamned the joke, at which the noble Earl laughed hleartily." TRhough every possible exertion has bcen made, and !arge rewards ofl'ered for the discovery of the person of 1Mr. Charles Pierce (dead or alive), no information respecting him or his nmysteri- ous disappearance hasbeen ascertained. On the evening when Mr. Pierce was last seen, cries and groans were heard (in the direction of that sink of iniquity. liewin's-mead) by a woman and her niece, who reside on Bridewell-bridge ; but the closest investigation of this circumstanUce has been hitherto in vain. Smith, aBow-street officer, has been at Bristol during the last week, assisting the local authori- ties. The event has plunged the unfortunate gentleman's immedi- ate relatives into the deepest affliction.-Batli Joa,rnaL The Sessions tbr this county conmmenced on Tuesday at Abin,Aon, before the Right Rlon. Lord Folkestone, chairman, and a very full bench of iMlagistrates. The following case excited consi- derable interest:-Messrs. Charles (Tearing, sen, and Edward Gear- ing, two farmers, of the warish of Pangbourn, were indicted by the Rev. Henry Breelon, the rector, for fclonioulry stealing, taking, and carrying away, several quantities of oats, barley, and beans from lands in their occupation, after the same had been tithed ant set out for the rector. Mir. Talfourd, the counsel for the prisoners, submitted that the offence charged was not a feloniforr act, and that the prosecutor should have proceeded by action at law, under the statute of 2d Edward VI. to recover the treble value of the tithes. subtracte-d. The Court were of the same opinion, and the priSOners were consequently acquitted.-Reading Mercury. At our sessions this week, the Grand Jury found a true bill against the Rev. James Roberts, clerk of WVitherley, a magis- trate of this county, for an assault in the justice.room at Market Bosworth, upon Mr. Ralph Thompson, of Witherley. If not re- moved into another Court, the case will be heard at our next ses. sions.-Leiccster Cl'ronicle. MIEETING OF S1Lr_-EAV9RS.--On Saturday night the JourneymenSilk-weavers again mcr,pnrsuant to adjournment,-at the Red Lion, Phcenix-atreet, Spitalfields5 for the purpose of receiving the Report from their Conur:tree, as to what progress they had made in effecting a reconciliation with their employers; wben Mr. Ba!er, their aecratary, read al-elter from ~1\r. Thorie lsifeh-dalof the Masters, proposhinganother meeting at the King s Head in the Poultry, on Mtonday evening, in order to discuss article by article, and to decide difierences; which proposition was unaiimously agreed, to. DstaAn'UL ExpLosio: AT POLGOOTH MINE.-On Thursday evening (l5thinst.) a most melancholy accident happened attheabovenitte,occaeioned by thebursting ofthe boiler of the en. gine. The explosion was so terrific, that one man, named Philip Rowe} was throw. n over the engne-house to the distance of 150 feet, and kiled; *and another, named Martia,dreadfully -hurt, since dead. Pieces of the'boiler of 600 weight were carried to the distance of six hundred feet, and tore down whole houses. Not a vestige of the house -which contained the boler remains;* an.d two adjoining houset were lterally dashed in pieces by the explosion. In the mids: of this dis. tressing relation one providential circu=stance merits attention. Captain Reed having occasion for men toassist atthe.capstan, in or. der to secure them, wentinto the boiler-house and took away the I clothes belonging to those awbo were expected to conie from under ground. To this circumstance they owe their preservation: for on coming up, several ran home in their under ground clothes; had they stayed to change, they mustinevitablv have shared the fate of their most unfortunate companions. Nothing could exceed the cQnster. nation ofthe inhabitants in the neighbourhood of theaccident; some fancied the end of all things was come, others tlat. an earthquake had happened, and the explosiou was heard at the distance of f* two nules.-RoyalCornuwall Gazette. A proprietor of~ the fiovereign Coach, Bulrslem, on Fri- day, the 9th instant, undertook to drive fourhorses belongig to the concern from the Leopard Inn, Burslem, to the George nn, Dray. cott, a distanee of ll mtiles, in one hour and fifteen minutes, taking the chance of the load which the coach mnight bring on tha: day from Liverpool: that the proprietor performn-d it with great ease to himsdf, and without distress to his horses, in onehour andfourmi. nutes. This tisk.was andertakenbyoneofthe proprietors tograti. fyapsrticular friend from london, s.coa^hmaster,whobeingdoubt. ful of the performance, took a seat with Jhinm ; and to his surprise, saw it performed with easc on the longtrot- (no slloping),notwith- standing the proprietor .wras under the aecessity of stopping seven times onithe line of read, on account of the dutiesof the coacb.-After this performance,.the same proprietor ofcredto run tbeMmnepouiid over any futur* day to Pe fixed, in fifty.five isnutes,vsinF pohent the privilege of selecting any foun horses out-oft1iustot When it is taken into consideration the grest numsber of loded-ar. riages to:be passed, the many stoppages end obstructions, togetherg with abeaivy line of road, the di couties attending theperforiiamer in soshort a time ray be reaslil conceived.-Pottery-Gizctte. The followiug is thit exat copy of.a 1tteug ftrm the farmingaersant of a Londoa Bsnetr"_i Sir. Theo thenumnber of ship 300~6 (366)U <irdi horssc~, pigs and cows all welt Si Thoi mnyp,or wi innoi.or.Tu ynte hfpaeven o clock."1