On Thursday night last, M...
The Times, 1824-12-07T00:00:00

On 'I'hursday night last, Mirs. Jane Allison, a most re- spectable and industrious widow, (noted as an excellent maker of clheese), who occupies a coisiderable farm, called Borrowdale, situated on Stainmoor, two or three rmiles from Brough, having retired to rest at ll o'clock, was, as well as her servant maid atnd boy, roused from bed, by a person at the window loudly calling on her " to get up immediatcly, as thc byer (about 100 yards from the dwelling, and in which there were four valves) was on fire." Airs. Allison at first supposed the alarn to be only some idle frolic, and did not instantly rise: she made s6me inquiriez of her nocturnal visiter respecting his calamitous announcement, and asked himit who it was that called w when he replied, in a voice she could not recog. nize, " James Alderson." The reflection of light, howsever, soon convinced her that there was cause for alarm * and putting on a small part of her dress, she hurried out, and was followed by her servants, leaving a lighted candle upon the table. With the greatest difflculty, and personal danger to herself, she liberated the poor scorched anirnals in the byer, while the blazing thatchl was falling upon her. On returning to her dwelling, instead of having had the assistance of her pretended friend, who gave the alarm, to put a stop to the devouring clement, she discovered that her drawver in the parlour, where she generally kept her rhoncy, had been forced open, and all that was valuable (consisting of a 61. Bunk of Bngland note, and several nemorandums of impartarnce) taken away. Fortunately, however, she had a few days before remitted to her landlord a considerable sum as rent, which, it is supposed, had been the villain's inducement to commit so diabolical a burglary, expectinig, no doubt, to find a larger sum. The byer was totally consumed; and had the wind blown in a con- trary direction, a valuable hay-stack wouldl have bect destroyel. It appears that hay had been pulled from the stack, and laid up in a corner of the building, and set fire to, whicl soon commnunieated to the thatch. A littie more delay in getting the catle out Would have proved fatal to them. No discovery has yet been maLdc of thle perpetrator of so horrid a crime: bitt exertions are-malting, and will be persevered in, by the respectable people of the neighbourhood for that purpose.-Casrlisle Pat riot. MOST EXTRAORDINARY PREsERVATION.-We are about to record one of the most uniparalleled and providential escapes that perhaps ever happened. It appears that the Cororsandcl, 110 tons, while a short distance to the S. E. of the Eddystoue, about thrce o'clock on Alonday morning, under close-teefed topsail andl stav foresail, was struck by a sea, and in five minutes more, another took her unmler her bilge whilst rolling, and upset her, precipitating the unfosttnate watch into tbe sea. The imaster, two of the crew, and a passenger, who were in the cabin, felt theinselves thrown *lown anti almost smothered with the varnous cabin furniture which was piled upoII them. XVIhile groping in this frightfuil darkness, the master accidentally seized the seattle-hatcbl, wvhich was now above their heads-lie with his companions crept into the coal-hole, and there remaired in dreadful anxiety for one hour before the water reached them. After a miserable lapse of six hours, and when the water had mounted to their chins, they felt the ship strike-the water receded-hope returned-she struck again-light issuied from below, and shortly after, the rejoicing prisoners crept from their retreat and landled on the Breakwater, a huge projecting mass of which had pierced the vessel and held her fast. Mtr. Eddy, of Cawsand, who was in his pilot boat, soon perceived the sufferers and at the risk of his own life, rescued them from their peril. Not}iing but the bottom of the vessel remains, and her cargo has disappeared.-T 'est Briton. DEVIL's BRIDGE.-The upper arch of the celebrated Devil's Bridge, near Hated, Cardigaiishire, is broken down, atitl impassable by heavy vehicles. Ab safe and temporary platform has been piate tor travellers; the coach from Llanidloes proceeds no farther than the end of thec baridge, where passengers alight, and pro- ceed in another coach, stationed upon the other side the chasm. The lewer arch, and indeed the toundation of this picturesque and extra- ordinary structure (which is supposed to have been built nearlyseven centuries a-o by the Monks of Strata Florida Abbey), is still secure. The seconr? arch, which overspans the other, was erected in 1753, at the expense of the county; and in the year 1814, the patriotic Mr. Johoes, of Hafod2 removed the low parapets of crumbling stone- work and placed iin their stead iron hand rails and ornarnents.- Herefurd Independent. Hoaaag'.x Mesanetse.-The Assizes at Abbeville have just ended with ,: trial, in whichl five persons were accused two of themfemales: and d@ witnesses were exam ined. Caroline Caudron, it appears, was a servant ii the houise of Fr. Ringard, a farmer at Fontaine'sur- Maye, in the arfaudisseenent of Abbeville. Ail inti- mate connexion ensued between hef ztod Ringard's son; they were suspeeted in the village; but the thing was not knowii with cer- tainty; and without avowing the whole truth, she. bad not been able to conceal the interest she took in the youth. She was, however, seven months gone with child, and the circumstance was not known beyond the walls of Ringard's house, when she was found murdered in the centre of the village, at the entrance of a meadowv, at some distance from Ringard's house. Her body was dreadfully mutilated, having 22 cuts about the head and bust, and one of her hands was almost severed from the arm. On November 6, she had been out in the evening at a house of the village, and expressing some vague fears, one of her friends accompanied her to the door of Ringard's house, and there is every reason to believe she wen, in. Caroline had few acquaintances, and no enemies. The meadow where she was found was bordered by a number of houses, frequented till midnight, but nobody heard any thing. Her distaff, with her bob- bins was found near her, in the same state as when she left tne house of her acquaintance, except that one of them bore the mark of a bloody singer. A little charcoal pan (etivet) was lying near her, broken; but it was not the one she had had with her the night betore. It was plain, therefore, she had not been murdered in the meadow, and a multitude of circumstances directed time sus- picions of the magistrates. The hatred of the family of Ringard, and the threats of the son, who had ,aid he would niurder her if she mentioned her pregnancy; the evidence of a pedler, who by chance had heard some offers made for murdering Caroline, fixed these suspicions into certainty. An examination was begun and a hedg- ing-bill found, which seerned to be the instrument witLl which the wouids had been inflicted, and spots of blood confirm the circum- stance, A man, of the name of Baquet, employed as a Labourer in the house, was suspected, as it was proved that the blows had beun given by the left hand, and he was left-handed. Ilis pantaloons were stained with blood, the origin of which he could not explain. It had been proposed to marry hini anl Carolibe. Indepen- dent of the suspicions attached to all, there-were some, therefore, which weighed on him individlually. A widow, also, the sister-in- law of Ringard, was present at the proposal for murdering Caroline, ivhich the pedler ha heard by chance. Ringard, bis wife, and son, and Baquet, were therefore amcused of the murder, and the widow was accused of being an accomplice. The Jury were unanimous in finding Ringard the son guilty, and acquitting tie widow. By a majority of seven to five, they found Ringard the father, his wife, and Baquetalso, guilty; and the Court deciding, pronounced sen- tence ot deaths on Rigard the father, and Ringard the son, and acquitted the moother and Baquet. The executioni is to take place at Abbenille.-.CotsetitutionncL.