Two gentlemen were walkin...
The Times, 1824-12-08T00:00:00

Two gentlemen were walking togetber in Paris: " I will engage," &sid the one to the other, " to give the man before us a good kicking, and yet he shall not be angry." He did as he had undertaken to do ; the man turned round, and looked astonished. " I beg your pardon," said the kicker, " I took vou for the Dake de La Tremouille." The Dake was very hands6me; the kicked man very plain; he was gratified by the mistake under which he believed he had suffered, shook himself, smiled, bowed, and went on his way. At a meeting held in Edinburgh on Wednesday, 22,5001. were subscribed, in adtlitiou to 32,0001. subscribed before, towards carryig into effect the railway projected many years ago, to pass from elao to Berwick.-Sco/srnaUi. It is rumoureil, that certain circumstances counected witli a reeent battle at Warwick have become the subjectof inquiry from superior autbority. Warwick, asithas been stated, was Axed upon as the scene of action for the " (1rand Alill," on a specific under- standing that the sport would not be interrupted by magisterial in. terference. It has been further stated, that 25 constables, each hav- ing his staff of office, attended the exhibition. The object of inqairy iS, first as to the privity of the magistrates; and next whether these same preservers of the peace, the constables, attenderi gratuitously, by the order of any, and what, superior authority. It is posslbie that connivance may, in this instance, have extended eve,) to encou- ragementof a violation of the law. W'hat may eventually be the sentiments of the higher authorities, it -were idle to conjecture.- Chelteen'ant Journal. A man lately died, who lived within a mile of the cross of GlHaow, possessed of considerable property. A woman, who lived with him in the character of housekeeper, has, since his de. cease, attempted to prove herself his, widow, anti for want of better evidence to establish her chtim, the plea of having a dead-born child ten months ago. A nearconnexion to the defuinct clai,ming the pfo- perty, doubtful of the validity of the housekeeper'a plea, upon vari ous accounts, caused the infant's grave to be opened yesterday, in presence of an-eye-witness of the interment of the child, when, to their astonishment, the coffin rontained, instead of a human body, a quantity of dough, in a soft state, mixed with ashes.IQ,ery. have not some resurrectionists substituted the dough in place of the body ?-G&asgow Cotrier. About two o'clock this morning (Saturday), a fire broke outinastove attached to Aessrs. BeJlhouses'saw-.mill,near Oxford- road, and used for drying timber. It contained at the time, we mn- derstand, a large quantity of boards and scantlings. and therefore b urnt w.th great fury. As the stove adjoined the other buildings, and cominunicated, by mens of-.a door and window, with an ex. tensive range of workshops filled with dry tinmber:* the mest serious apprehensions wete entertahied that the whole of the premises would again be consumed, and the flames did, at one tinme, commu- nicate to the workshops. iy great and judicious-exertions, however, they were prevented from extending, snd, by half.past three o'clock were completely subdued. As the stove was hedted with steam, and no lights wvere allowed to be taken illtO it, there is but too much rea- son to fear that the fire ws the workof an incendiary.Mifanchestcr Gtuardian. MErHODISTS.-We understand that all the local preach- en in the Mlethodist Society, at Beverley, resigned their office, as preachers and members ot that. societv, a few davs ago, on the gronnd ofoneof their body having, as they conceived, been unjustly treated by the Conference - rachers, for publishing Observationst o,i tize Spst.m -of MUethodisi-m.a work in which he advocates the plan of establishing a house of representatives, whose consent must be obtained before any law of preachera can be binding on the people, fn imitation of our excellent Constitution; and he also favours a gradural return of Alethodism to its primitive simplicity, in becosn. ngauxtliary to the.Established Church, asi-Mr. Wesley always in- tended it should be. It is understood that they intend toinvite over some of the: travelling preachers in the Churcl lAlethodist Society of Irciand to-sSsist them. There arc al7ready about 13,Od0hurch MXe- Shodiss5 in Ite]and, whose plan of proceedings has obtained, we are -inforsil, the sacscoa of the Bishops -of.Waterford rsad CorLc We understandj fxoa good authorlty fb-that .evcrl -persons of consequence in this country are qiindly-sotireir yocecd ing.-.York