Yesterday Mr. Secretary C...
The Times, 1824-08-21T00:00:00

Yesterdav Mr. Secretary Canning gave a grand ( diiniitr at GlIocester-lodge to a select party. The greatest anxiety has prevail(l armong thc dealers in grain and the fairmers, as to the result af thc examination of the rctUtrsS of the sale of oats up to Satur(lay last, on the averagc struek froin whicil will depen)dl the ad(nissioni of foreign oats, or their cxclusion from the market. Up to yesterday evening, however, after several tlays spent in in- vestigationl, the averages have not been struck. Somne re- turns are supposed by the proper aulhorities to wear a ,cry bsupiciotts appearammce. Sales to the aniottnt of '28 ,00 quarters are strongly suspected of being fictitious. it is said to be the inteiitionl of the Ministers, in case evidenec of any fraudl can be obtained, to put thc matter into thre bands of the Attorney-General. It is positively stated, we tuiderstand, that Government have resolved to recall l,ord Charles Soumierset fronm the cape of Good Hope, provided that the report of the four Conmnmissioniers who have been sent to that place, in ordier to investigate the proceed. irgs of his L,ordship, should confirm the allegations which have been urged against the official conluct of that nobleman.-T.Te .Y'nn. Tlhe Birniiigltam neGzelle relates a second case of hyjdro- plhobia which has occurred in that town. Benjamin Alillward, re- siding in wVharf-strect, was thC subject of this horrible comnplaint. HIe did not feel himself quite well on Saturday, and on Suniay lie experienced some difficulty in drinking, and felt a coldness in his right hand and arm, and a sensation as if it had been strained, in consequence of wlhich he applied to his surgeon on Alonday evening. On inquiry, it appeared thlat, as he was teasing and playing with his brother's dog, the animal bit his right hand, and inflicted a very slight wound, and in a few days after became ill and died in the street at night, but canine madness was not suspected. This han- pened early in Alay, now thlree months since. On presenting Ii- quids,or diecting a current of air upon] him, very violent spasms occurred, and the synmptoms were precisely the same as have been generaUy observed and frequently detailed. His eyes, face, chest, and throat swelled much during the day, The convulsions conti- nued to increase in violence, and the unfortunate man fell a victim to them at half-past six on Tuesday evetiing, retaining his faculties utn- impaired to the last. The tongue was examined, but niothing re- markable discovered. Wednesday last a MIargate steam-yacht met with a most serious accident on her passage to Lon(don, having broken her main shaft near the Old Haven, and was unable to proceed. Fortunately the London Engineer was near, and seeing her signals, imniediately ran alongside, and relieved the passengers from their rstate of anxie- ty, by taking them all out. She then tool the other in tow for some time; but the wind blowing hard, a brig ran foul of the steanm ves. sels, which obliged the distressed packet to let go the tow-rope to prever morigs oftn t ohe. o ThL nearlon Ei0g0lpeer arrived safe at preren moornage oef g Tower with n dar 400 passengers rivd an ima mense quantity of luggage. Yesterday oning the Britannia steam-packet, Captain l33she?1, left lamsgatc for Calais, andl when about four miles out, a very heavy sea struck the vessel's broadside with such force. that a gentleman who was sitting on mleck was thrown with great violence into the water, and before assistance could be given, sunk to rise no more. His sister, who was sitting beside him verv narrowly escaped the same fate, but was saved by Captain &ushell, who flew from the hehn and succeeded in catchling hold of her (tress, anid by that means saved lier. The botly of the gentleman has not yet been found. *he Captain deemed it prudent to return to Ramsgate. The name of the gentleman was l lr:Wharles Smith, of London, aged about 23 years.---Kent ilerald. Orn Thtmrsday.night an inquest was held at the Bull and George inn, Dartford, before Joseph Carttar, gsq., doroner for Kent, on view of the botly of illr. Samuel West, a most respectable and opulent butcher of that town. The deceased had latterly been subject to a nasal affection, which occasioned sleepless nights great irritability of mind, and a general depression of spirits. On Dlon- day night lie went to bed apparently in better spirits, but about six o'clock on the following morning, as his man-servant was going into the slaughter-house to liis usual work, he saw the deceased subpended from a beam to which their cattle wereiusually drawn; he was ctt down, anti a surgeon eent for, but the vital spark was ex- (inct. The deceased was mucl respected in his neighbourhood, and the jury, wko had all known him, were much afec&ted by this me- lancholy termination to his existenee. He had made a will, dispos- ing of all his property to dierent members of his family. The jury delivered a vet'dlc ' that the dpceased committed the act while labouring under a temporary mental derangeipe-t." At al early hour on Thursday morning, the counting- house of Bir. 3Norman, principal agent to the steam-fiack Ne-. 1, Water-lane, Tower-street, was burglariously entered, and robbed of trunks and other packages,.containing wearing-apparel, aquasatity of plate, and various property, to a considerable value.