THE SALTEES LIGHT SHIP.-E...
The Times, 1824-12-28T00:00:00

? flE SAL.TEES LIGHT kiri.-Extract of a letter from Ite agents to Lloyd's at IIItford, dated Dec. 24 :-I Last evening tlived heve the brig Peregrine, Captain Propert, from Dublin, who 2ates that the Saltees light-ship had parted from her hempen moor. lags and had arrived in Dublin. otherwise all well-that she had been :tprnlshed with otlher mooring-chains, and would proceed immediately to her ntation." :It appears from an official statement just publisled, that 2bere are 2511 Catholic Chapels bi England, 71 charity and other -@ools, and 348 officiating Priests: of these 12 chapels, one ec,nol, and eight priests, are in the county of Hanta; six chapels -lfive priests in Sussex; three chapels and two priests in Wilt- cSre six chapels, and six prie<ts in Devonshire; seven chaels, a sehool, and eight priests In Dorsetshire. In Lancashire there .esrs to be the largest number, therc being 81 chapels, six schools, * 2^tlrsISTMAs FAR s.-Some idea of the lovingkindness ;John Bull'a country-cousiur may be formed from the fact that r 2,009 parcels, cottaining turkeys, geese, game, &c. were de. rzt,red from one inn, the White Dfome, Fetter-lane, on Friday tst. eoe greater part of them were sent home. Supposing each parcel yweigh 121b., which ie less than the average weight, the total ,iount would be 21 ions 4dewt. 321b. The greater portion of thin prsnense quantity was supplied from the counties of Norfolk and zuflhlIc; and such was the loading of tho coaches, that one of them, the Falsenham, which should arrive early in the morning, did not arTive until after eight in the evening; and the Norwich did not reach home till mid-day. As usual at this season of festivity, our coaches to Lon- don for the last three or four days have been almost enclusively laden with thore solid and .cceptable remembr.nces to our metropo- Ltha friezds, a profusion of gane, the luscious chine, and the choicest cullings of the poultry-yard. Yesterday afternoon the heavy night coach was thus burdened to the weight of nearly four tons.- Worcester Herald. At a sale, wvhich recently took place at a gentleman's hiouse near Knaresborough,; Blr. Al. Ward, late of the White ;:orse-lnn, Otiey, bought: a handsome mahogany deak for eight '1;ainess. On examining the dealt aftcr hbgot' ome, he found in a p,rikte drawer caah and -notes to thepacaunt of 1001., which he im- mediatly retuned to theowner._York 11ered. On Wednesday evening, just at the conclusion of Guy Mannering, the rope that suspetided the iron balance (of three hun-. .1red weighit) to the drop curtain gave way, and the ponderous mars fell sixty feet, beating all before it through the fRoors to the bottom .of the targe. It grazed the aide of one person, and a large piece of timber feU on Miss Povey's head, and wounded her severely. A moment later, and lisis Stephens, with teveral others, who were running into the Green-room, might have 'met with most dreadful injury, if not death. Wears happy to hear that Miss Pavey is better, although stiU suffering considerably. Within the last six w&eeks, two fine children have died at LeAbury, in consequence of having inhaled the steam of boil- ing water from the spouts of tea]rettles which were left on the fire, in the absence of their parents. Thc little sufferers were immnedi_ ately conveyed to the Ledbury Dispensary, which hai been esta. ,bliased by the benevolence of the inhabitants for the benefit of the poor of that parish, but notwithstanding the moat prompt and skil- mui medical assltanee, each case terminated fatally within 2-S hours. _,.Uereferd Independent. .The Greeilantlers lay a dog's head by the grave of a -t1Jd, censtdering that as a dog can find its wiay every where, it will ydw ths ignorant babe the way to the land of Eouls. .,~, TheCount D'Albaret Preville,(the Comedian), and some , rs, frequently idiverted theniselves with the simplicity of Poin- * 'th e poet, who, in other respect' was not defidient In talents. as day Preville came to him in gttaVtriOe,l to uaint himn that ~ offce ofthe ingzs .ecreenr w-rnrjnst vaeant, and added, that he *would dod well to solicit for it. Poinsinettasked 'what it wum? The er told himng thater the King did not use P6hmoin screens7 lile ifri. sentaindjri to buth tat h alway o employed a man of wit to place hirnar e tKing and thefieS in- whatever- paottoflthe room b itlajemty might be, in ordr- to gave miaii thile tuble of' removing shescs-reen ; and tbat,.besides, *hbeAljth-&Kini tha Incwt irited, or fatigued by his applicatio4i to bti~i*jW9s bie dliverted hiimself by con- versipg w7ith his screen, who, by th'aVAi!ani4 ftequentty had an. op. portixmily of' speakring a good word -sr bir friends,-or in favoiur of any wt!er person wvhom hie Wishedlto serve which made thte office both irtorant and lucrative.' 'Pfoiltihet1 Alelighted, asked wh-at he Fad tc:fto? othing said t wcter2 bu s tty if you are able! tfrfulll the fuzririon-s of a screen. 'Adayhbeing fixed, ai dinner was ordered at a tca7eta; six of their commion friends mnet there;- a great fire wit: mandt, -and darling dinner they iiept'jioor Pornsinetv standing beibre the fire.place, encouragl7fi.him to) fuppoiot ttile extreme heat of.the' fire,whid th4 nme ifil ~rp tirring all the time, by ropre-. centng o hm te ivttiage oftbeoffce,each-beggiug ot' bin, to nrostrebni ome irsyW TeA' ontiuedthic tnuel sport till the- >lit! ma, -ilo an ~if.rtitedd~~re wthgreat regret, thatbhe esparedof verbsig~a prpery t fofilthefunctions of King's