News in Brief
The Times, 1824-10-20T00:00:00

Tlhe Gazette of last night colntains a further prorogationt of Parliament from the 4tli of Novemnber to the 6thl of January. A Leeuiard Islands' mail arrived vestcrday wvitlh letters from St. Thomas's of the 12th of September. Intelligenec had becn received therc of the sailing from La Guayra of the expedlition to reinlforce Bulivar's army. It consisted of 14 transports and 3,000 men, who were tobe landed at Chagres and marched aeross the Isthmus of Darien. Af- fairs were proceeding tranquilly on the main, and the trade of the islandl of St. Thomas was in consequence hn- proving. A ship called thc E lisabeth arrived at Maranhlam on tbe 8th of Septeinber from Bahia. On the voyage she called off Pernambuco, and founcl that Lord Cochlranc was bom- barding the town. Ti.e following are the contents of tlih cargo of the great timber ship Columbus, from Quebec, the arrival of whichl in the river is daily expecte(d :--viz., 36,34:3 pieces of deals ; 54,853 staves and headinlgs; 2,824 pieeces of red pine; 685 pieces of wlhite pine; 41 pieces of oak. The whole to be deposited in the bon(ling yard of Mr. Richard- son, of Limehouse. 'rho Columbus came down thc St. Lawrence on the 6th of September. LIIVERPOOL, Oct. 18.-Arrived, the Franklin, Graham, from Baltimore and Cork. Baltic, Bunker, from NewYork, saileci the 20th of September ; the Courier, Wallace, sailed the 1 0th and the Nestor, on thic 17th, for this port.-(New Englanid Coffee-house, Ve perceive in a late Demerara paper, an advertisement containing proposals for the establishment, in George.town, of Schools for the education ofthe free children in that community, under the patronage of his Excellency Sir Bcnjamin D'Urbain and his Lady. Young Napoleon speaks the German, French, Spanish, and Italian languages, and the English, best of all.-A.rorningpaper. -Fudge, as Buercliell said on a similar occasion of bombastic nonsense. The Madrid Gazette contains the whole of the Viscount de Chateaubriand's pamphlet, entitled " Le Roi cst nowrt! Vive le Roi ? " A correpondent informs us, that " a (leputation of the freemen of IVclls, consisting of Francis Drake, Robert Velsh, Esqrs., Ilr. John Fuller, and Mr. Joseph Dix, left Wells on Sun- day for London, to confer with their brother freemen therc on the choice of nembers for that city at the next general election." The present members (C.V. Taylor and J. P. Tudway, Esqrs.) have represented N,Vells,the former during 28 years,and thi latter and his uncle thc last 64 years.-Bath Journal.. RUNAWAY WVIFE.-A large hand-bill was posted at Alarylebone office on Satirdlay evening, describing the person of a lrs. Gurnell, whlo baas loped from her husband's house atClel- sea, and took with her 1,0001. HIGHWAY-WOM sN.-About eleven o'clock on Tlhursdlay se'nniglht, as DIr. Wm. Ratcliffe, a traveller from Wolverhampton, was returning to Ihis inn, he was attacked itn back Piccadilly by a number of feinale, wilo, piruioniing him againist the wall, tore open, hiis waistcoat, and, after a rude searcin into the secret recesses of his wardrobe, succeeded in pillaging him of bills and cash to the amount of l00l.-.11anclester Gazette.