On Monday an extra Messen...
The Times, 1824-11-10T00:00:00

Oin Monday an extra Messenger arrived at the Colonial Office, with despatlhes for Earl Batlturst, from .Sir F. Adam, IHis Alajesty's'Lord High Commissioner of the loniani Isles, at Ctfi-u. Letters were received yesterday from Constantiniople by wvay of Odessa, lated the l2th ult. They m<ention the re- turn of tre-Cxpitan Pacha, with the remains of the fleet whichl was so roughly handiled by the Greeks; but as the 'l'urks never issue official documeents, nor, indeed, puiblish any thing r-elative to their aflf'irs, it cannot be ascertained wlhat sort of report that officer has presented to his Govern- menit on the engagement. We do not hear as yet that hle has been-called to account for his coinduct on that occasion. All the rumourn recently in circulation of serious insurrec- tions having occurredl in tlhe capital of the Turkislh empire, are disproved by this arrival. The tranquillity of Constan- tinople has not been edisturbed. The ktoile of Sunday last says-" We learn from Lyons that the Saone had beeni rising for somne days in an alarm- ing mannier. The weatlher continued rainlV, andl there was every reason to fear an iniundationi. The Flanders journals, Ont the other hat.i, state that the wvaters of the Meuse andl the Otirtlie continue to rise. Letters from Heidlelburg say, that that city and the enivir-ons are inunidated. Tihe water is five fe2t higher than) in the inundationi of 1817, and four feet higlher thian in that of 1784." The city was agitated vesterday by various rumours, not one of whlicl, we believe, is entitled to the smallest degree of credit. To persons possessing either knowledge-or in- formationi, they are sufficiently refiuted by naming them; but it is melancholy to observe how many persons allow ? hemselves to he infltienced by such iiere fabrications, and suffer in their fortunes throughl their credulity and want of understanding. The rumours alluded to were-the im- me(liate assembling of a congress at Petersbumhrg (in the mi(dst of winter) to settle the affairs of Greece; the sailing of an expeditioni from Cadiz against some part of Sonth America; and extensive preparations at Forrol, making for a similar purpose. For the first of these rumours there is nio foundation of any kind. At Cadiz, we. believe, there may have been colleefed, with infinite difficulty, twvo or three sliips of war of the smallcst class, wlhich are to be em- ployed in protecting the commnerce of the Mediterranean against the Algerines, who have recently declared wtar against Spain, and whlomn the clegratled state of that conti- try has permitted to attack aindl plunder her traders witlh im puniity. WAith respect to Ferrol, the latest letters from that place merely inention that a greater degree of activity pre- vails in the arsenal, andl that one or two ships on1 the stocks, wls.ioh hadl beefi abandoned, are ordlered to be completed. It wtould be anl unpardlonable affront to the good sense of onr readers generally, to take the trouble of refuting such self-evident fabrications; but it is our duty, if possible, to protect all those who have property at stake from the conse- quences of believilig them. It had3 been detertmined that the Recorder of London shouldi this week make hiis report to the Kiing of the prisoners capi- tally convicted in Septetmber sessions only. From some cause this is not to be the case ; but both the September andl October sessions will be included in onte report, which will be mande in the course of next week, or early in the week after the next. Colonel Gordon, of Cairness, to his immortal honoiir, has alreadv spent nearly 20,0001. in aid of the Greek cause. It' the Scots are a thriftv nation, thev yet have those among them who know howv to spend on great occasions.-Scotsmnan. Among the new projeets talked of at present in Edin- burgh, thereis a Joint Stock Loan or Paivnbroking Company, forad- vancing moneyon goods, and a Distillery for the Englishmarket.-Ibid. At a Meeting, on IWednesday last, of the Catholic As- sociation in Dublin, AlMr. O'Connell read the following dlocument in MtS., which had been posted up in the town of Ballymore, on thc 12th of last Maly, which he stated should be brought before Parlia- ment :-_ To be Hold by Pablic Cant, in the town of Ballymore, on Saturday, the 1I5th instant, one cowv, the property of James Scully; one new bed-sheet, and one kown, the proserty of John Quinn; se- ven hanks of yarn, the property ot' the Widow Scott; and one petti- under and by virtue of a levying warrant, for tithc due to thie Rev. John Usher.-Dated tins lth day of May, 1824."- The briskness of the leatd -iines in Englanid is makiNg speculators turn to Scotland, as a new field of enterprise. Several gentlemen have lately been surveying the old lead-mines in Gallo- way, belonging to Sir Heron Il,axwell alnd other proprietors. They also discovered some new vriluable veins of that ore. it is undler- stood they offered the proprietors wlhere the mines were situated every eighthi bar after the mines were fairly at work ; bitt it is not known whether the offer was accepted.-Glasgore Chronicle. EXESPTION OF MILITAItY FiO;tt TOLL-DUTY.-At a Court held on Tiesdnay, two toll-keepers were brought before the justices ot' the peace, for illegally exacting toll-duty-in the one case for the horses, and in the other for the gig, of twvo officers in the Dragoon Guirds, while on marchi. In tie first case, the officer vas moving his quarters, in terms of an order, his servant was riding one of his horses, with a regimnental bridle and saddle, and lecrdin, the other horse, fulily equipped wvith regimental bridle, and saddle with holsters. and regitnental cloakatrapped behind the saddle. 'Ihe toll.keeper stated, in defence, that the servant was dressed as a pri- vate servant, without uniform-that lhe did not nerceive thc equip- mcnt of the horses, and that he was not bound t. believe the asser- tionl of every one wrho muight say that his horses were in His Illajes- ty's service, an.i on march. Tlte justices fbund that sutch horses are exempt from toll-duty ; but as the servant admitted that he had tno uniform, and that lie did not call the attention of the toll-keeper to the equipment of the horses asevidence tosupport hisassertion, thev, in the whole circtunstances of the case, tmierely ortered the toll- keeper to repay the dluty, and itiflicted no farther punishment. in the seconil case, toll-duty harl been exacted for the gig of an officer, driven by lisi servant on the line, andl within sight of the party on march, although the servant produced a certificate to the toll-keeper that the gig belonged to a Captain on march with the party. T'hedle- fence was, that the toll-duty had been exacted under the idea that there is no exenmption for Lic private carriages of officers on march, orcarriages conveying their f'amily or private efrects. The iustices, in respect of the clear nature of tfiis case, and of the certificate pro- duced to the toll-keeper at the time, fined him one guinea. which they sent to the Infirmiary, and fbund him liable in 5s. ofexpenses.-ftin. MIONiaosmr.--On the afternoon of Sunday week, while two boys were herding in a field below Redfleld, near the nursery, they perceived two immense fish floundering in the basin, which, ebbing at the time, had left its fiuny visiters in shallow water. The lads, seeing a goodly prize, and anticipating some fun in the adven- ture, resolved to secure the fish whether they were of the porpoise, seal, or grampus kind. For thlis pisrpose they waded in between them and the deep waters of' Tvockburn, and belaboured the backs of their game with a small stick. A gentleman at thii time passing wishled to render the boys his assistance, and thought to wound one .f the fish with his umbrolla; but to his astonishment the animal broke it to pieces. At this time one of them escepetd, and the elder boy, not more than 14 years of age, ignorant or his danger, seized thle ather by the tail with both hands anl after having been tlirown (down repeatedly, succeeded in pllieg it ashore, and with the help Of his companion, dragged it to the house of Redfeld. It was after- wardsdisco,vered that the fitiwas nothing else buta shark, about two years old, which, with its mate, had enteredi thie basin with the rising tide. Ins lengtb, frvm the tip oafthe snout to the extremity of the tail, is upwards of siX feet and a half. The mouth is about ten inches below the snout, and is ncarly capable of receiving a child's liea-i; the teeth are small, but very sharp. Si N-UT.AR CICCU iREN CR.-Friday evening last, about five o'clock, two men, fronm their dialect foreign Jews, and one of thetii weartig a turbian, presented themselves at our post-office, and asked to be shown the Hereford u ourna of the previous Wednes- day. Their request was comnplied with, but the man with the tur. bani, after taking the paper into liis hatids, returned it to lir. Grar- *liner, tire assistant in the office, and begged lie would look into it for him, andI sce what hind been done with a young girl whio was in Hereford gaol for some offence. Mr. Gardiner accorditigly lookled over the paper, duting wviich the Israelite appeared verv anxious to inake him undlerstand that he had no other motive but curiosity for wishing to know the result of the woman's trial. After a quarter of an hour's search, Mr. (Gardiner could discover nothing at all rererring to that of which the man was inquiring, and was about to lay the paper down, when his eye met an advertisement offering a reward of five guineas for the apprehension of a man suspected of felony at(i biganmy, ancl giving a description *f his dress and person. Alr. Gardiner read it throtgh, atnid to iliS surprise found that in every particular the turban'd nian be- fore him answered to this descriptionu Alr. Gardiner very pru- dently said not a word of this discovery to either of the men. They askeed him when the Glocester inail would leave, and, having learnt the timne, they said they slioultl have two letters for it, w hich they would go andl write. Immediately Upon their de- parture MIr. (lardiner went to Orchard, the police-officer, anid ap. prised him of the circumstance. Upon this, the latter having ascer- tained the house at which they were at, stationed himself and an. other officer at the Cross, and, as the men passed on their way to the Post- offce, they apprehended them, and took them into the shop of r. 7'-ill, the linendraper. ere their persons wereexaminer. 'Ott both were fotind good watches and other property, anid on the one with the turban, a letter, which set at rest all doubt of his being the mlan meintioned in the advertisenment ; it was dated Gilocester, in- forming him of tire reward oftered for his apprehension in the liere- ford paper and recommending him to change his dress, to cluthe dr- tection. gatisfietl now, that he had got the right iman, Orcharnl took him to gaol, and wrote to the parties referred to in the adver- tisement, who live at Abergavenny, informing them of the capture. The exact nature of tire charge against tbie prisoner, or the circimnn stances involveti in it, we do not learn, but we understand that the fiather-ofthe female connected with the imputed oftence of biganiy, camne up immediately upon the receipt of-the letter, and the prisoner paying the reward, all expenmer, and sending a handlsonie domtcerer to the girl, he consented to proceed no fuirther against him, and he was therefore liberated. There being no charge against his comipanion, he was not taken into custody.-Worcester Herald.