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The Times, 1824-01-03T00:00:00

[Advertisement.]-Yesterday his acelUencLy aaron Werther, Envoy Extraordinary and Mislide PlenI te- tiary of bis Majesty the King of P aiiiiril vtilMr. N. lM. Rothschild, and aceompanie'd by If. Green, N ry Public, cancelled anil-delosited in the Bank f Enn the amount.of 18,000L in special bonds, negotatad-byM, N. hf. Rothschild in 1822, being the secondl half: df the sum flxed for the redemption of bonds iTn the firstjear,, and also the saving of the interest on the 17,500L in spLia1 bonds redeemed on the Ist of July last. On New Year's Day, the Sheriffs of Lonion and ilMid. dleseys gave to the prisoners of all their prisons; in addition to tbe usual allowvnce, a pound of meat, a pint of porter, and an extra loaf of bread. A Correspondent informs us, that Meetings are abuat to be held in the different parishes of this dty, to petition the groat Council of the Nation for a total repeal of the honise-tax, which beart bard on the trading part of this and aUllarge townsw-Bath CNro,*11, PARIS, Dec. 29.-The Vews" frigate, which *as geut from Cadiz to the Canaries with the new Governor, tookpcsseasion of the,following Frcnch vessels that had been captured-hy Spanish prisateers and carried in there :-viz, Qsiatre Frrce, of St miaois, from lanilla and lMiauritius; Gxsrave. of and for Hivtreg from St. Domingo; Bonne Sop7ie, of snd fr&m Borde,to al ,-Mei T-reresc, of and for Bayonne, from Havre. '1 MGrt of. theacargoes of the Bonne Sophie and IlMarie Therese. hud been lianded% but *by the last advices reshipped, and both vessels. with tlte others, were ready for sea. Tte cargo of the GnSDeve had besn-sent to Englat&d and Holland. The Caroline, from Neivfbundland to Nantes, and Adele, from Bordeaux to Rouen, also taken and carried in, had re- ceived much damage at;d were dismantled. The Captain ofthe fii- gate requested the Governor to endeavour torecoversuch part of ihe cargoes us was supposed to be concealed, and vartienlarly the wine which was on board the Adele. WEXFORD, Dec. 24.-On Friday morning a vessel was discerned off St. Patrick's Bridge, Kilmoret and a short time after she went down with aU the crew. A boat. hs come ashore at Xi. more, with the words "s Palmer, of Whitehaven. AVolfmaster," on the stern, supposed to have belonged to her. A loNG XsToRY.-An Italian noblemnan5 'who was griev- ously afficted with old age and the gout, entertained a coneu;r, or fable.parrator, whose business it was to taLk him to sleep. 'The contctur was a man to have talked half the world to sleep in twonty minutes; but the excessive restlessness of his patron sometimes de. fied his utmost exertions. One night it fell out tha' tbte Maichese was particularly wakeful, and the contear's invention Snore than usually slow. le had exhausted his whole stock in hand of adven. tures, and contrived (such as tbey werey three new tales; h1pi still the patient slept not, and kept calling upon him to-continue. At length, wearied out, the conteur struck at a fresh fable:-" There was a poor pant," said he, " who dwelt in the Pomeraniant ,ountains, wo went forth one do to a neighbouring market, to purchase a fock of .sheep: he made his bargain, though prices wete high, and set oat on bis return.hoie, driving two hundred elves'._ ("I lwas a large flock,' tnit2etdC e-MAftehese,)-. two shdriMd ewes (besides lambs) before him; but a storm arose towards niglht, and the rivulets swelled with the rain; and, at length, the peasanit came to the banks of a wide river, which was no oner fordable, fromn the foods, though It 4ad been so when he passed m themorn_ iDg. There was no bridge nearer than three leagates$ stud the roads were getting heavy for the cattle. Could a boat be pirocured ? There. was one; but so small that it could only carryt one shsteps ahtime. In this dilemma the traveller had no choice: he put a sheep hsththe boat, rowed it over with some difficulty (for the stream ws.d strong and rapid, landcd it on the far shore, and renxrnedfrino. ther _." When the conts- had arrived at this point of bis story, he stopped, and composed himself tosleep; butthe noble. man, who was still awake, criedout, ssusual, "Goon, Beneditto: go on. Why do you.not proceed with the farmer on his jo6rney ?" ' Ah ! let me sleep my lord, I entreat you" retbrned 'te cortenr, in despair; " I sball be awak'e again, I am sure, before heahsst balf his sheep over." We on:ce heard of a traveller who told a stry of an im.* mensc pie-so large, indeed, that after the crustand met were eaten, a dozen couples danced in the dish, and ote of them lost abuckle in the gravy. Nowwe cannot boast that Sheffieldblas ever producedsuch a pie, but one vas exhibited and eaten at Mr. 'urner'a, on thrist. muas eve, of the following sie :_One yard and a haf lontg, two feet wide, one foot deep, and ten feet round. It wsa baked by lIb. Bar. low, quitc perrect;. the crust consisting of six 4toe 'of tye meal.. Sheil d Isndepeent. . On Tuaesday se'nnight, just before the hour of obmencr ing the play at thi Exeter Theatie, a slight exploeion of gtaitdok, l ace, but no maiterial daniage was occaio ed' OU exafination; it; was found that one ot' the leaden conducting pips: hneali the flooring,of the dlery, bad been caten through by rats-; and there beitng llu vent ior the escaping gas, it bad acetturulated So as to over. conie thc'iuantity oflhydrogeu: a lightbelng broufiht to it, an cx- plosion was tlni isatural coiseqience. The idpe bears numerous muarks of the rats' teelt ;a;ndlaa theser alilmals. have often been koown to.gnsav througb leadepi 8CIin search .oE wjter, it is con- cluded, that it-iss in tbis -idstarce. the object of search, as a water pipe adjoined it. 31;i. Brunlton3las discozitit.ucd the jas, And will in future light the tbeatrm.ewiihipantil* lampns aad wax cand&s.- TatZ7'ton0 Cor4cr. . Last-iuiglit, about halfpast tenl, thc neighbourhood of Poter-row vwas alarmed by tbe iyost piercing and dreadful screasss, rproeeding from a house inhabitedt by a man of the naine of Mitch.. eli It seeius'tltat this muan hadt quarrelled-with his wife,.but with whsat provocation has not transpired. The poor woman pas. foubd wi>th a deep and, it is supposed niortat nda inmcrsidW4 whichbad bcen inflicted with a. lnife anrlbeiore suceoufaxrived theinfriatred man had absconded. icdicalassistmace fiasnikmediatev called in Grom the lufirir nary: but it w.as not deemedsdvisable to. seniovc the.- patient, wvho: was still alive this m6iningr:gatSveuo'cloclc She was l sttuded by &iur professibnaI gen?le4sen. - Immteiae epk6ui?t;a I Mitchell w>as is~tntuddbi 'thepoliee,sand a siea vas-enploysd.toj eiamine the ioflkoCihe botak in eslheibouthsi; *but' weun-;