On Monday morning, at 10 ...
The Times, 1824-07-28T00:00:00

On Monday morning, at 10 o'clock, the Right Hon. the Lord Mayer held a Court of Conservancy at the Swan Tavern, near Vestminster-bridge, for the purpose of' receiving the report of the Conservatory Jury for the county of Middlesex, appointed to inspect the state of the river Thames witdn the boundaries of that county. Mlr. Barron, of the SLrand, the foreman, made bis report accord. ingly, in which various nuisances and obstructions were pointed out as necessary to be removed; and, after hicLordship had thanked the Jury for the attentions they had paid to their duty, the Court broke up. Signor Rossini quitted London on Monday night on his way to the continent. He, w ith a party of friends, sat down to a farewell dinner; but behold ! an unexpected guest rnade his appear-. ance, istigated by oue of those vulgar creatures called creditors,who it appeared, had no soul for music, and chose that unlucky hour to press as disputed debt. 11 Zsna.rro paused: on one side he felt inclined to resit, give bail, &c.; ott the other, the dinner faimes titilated his olfactory nerves, unable to resist, the disputed claim was discharged, harmony restored, and mirth and hilarity reigned tiU the hour of parting.-Mors,ing paper. AeS3IaUOUS EXPLANAT10N.-'lThe following laconic correRpondence has recently got abroad among the upper circles, to the great annoyance of afeteak of hiph fieshion, who Is knoswn to be the subject of it: tihe words we have put in italics are underscored in the originals :-. " Saturday, July 17. ' Lord U 4 * * is given to understand that Sir W I I I I has affirmed in a public company, that Lady * I o I was a person of doubtful character. Lord 0 ' I e requests to be infbrmed whe- ther Sir WV * * ? did make such assertion, and if he did, begs to ask for an explautionof it. The bearer will wait his answer." ANSWER. " Saturday, July 17. 6 Sir W X " $ * does not recollect to have used the expression referred to respecting the character of Lady I a a a nor does he think it likely he should, as he does not know any female in the cir- cle of fashion of wvhose claracter tlere cant be levs doutbt." The activity of the incendiaries continues unabated. Since our last publication two houses have been set on fire, one near Drumrary. which was, we understand, totaUy consumed; this house had been frequently uttacked. Another about five miles to the north of this town : here the fire was checked before the inha. bited part was consumed.-- Westmcath Jezzrnau. The Insurrection Act is to be withldrawn from the li- berties of Limerick, except the portion in the south where the late burnings occurred. Twenty-six regular stone steps, underneath a circalar tower, winding round a strong and perfect stone column, have late- l been discovered on the western side of the ancient Castle of Hast- igs. Several men are now employed in excavating the ruins: they have already descended to a door-framize, and have orders to perse- vere till the termination of the passale is ascertained. By the arrival of the packet from America, we are sorry to learn that a young and promising officer, a native of this city, E:nsign Cogan, ofthc 68th regiments while standing at a window of his house at dtuebec, on the 9thof June, was struck by lightning, and killed on the s pot.-Edinbubrg7k s;Er'ni COurout. The parish of Mary leboo is at length to be lighted with gas. A printed notice was yesterday issued by the Magistrates of the Illarylebone Police-office, cautioning aU persons within that district from permiting their dogs to go at large, unless muzzled, as orders bad been given to theofficers of this extensiveparish to destroy all dogs found ur.muzzled in the street6. A gentleman of Liverpool, returning from Bol:on a fortnight ago, took along with him in a bag, per coach, a tomn cat, which remained with him until the Monday following, when puss was missing, and, to the surprise of his friends in Bolton, he made his appearance at his old habitation on Tuesday, having travelled 34 miles. During the interval between the pieces at the Coburg Theatre ou Alonday night, a ruffian in the gallery thirew a iarge stone ginger-beer bottle with the greatest violence into the pit. TLe bottle struck the head of an elderly female, who, stunned by the blow, nearly fainted. Some friends near her took off her bonnet, and her cap was deluged in blood. The sufferer was carried out of tIe theatre, and an universal cry prevailed throuighout the house for the detection of the miscreant, but, unfbrtanately for the ends ofjustice, heescaned in the confuRion. 'I'he instruction of mechanics seems now to have become a subject of keen competition in Glasgow. Two courses of popielar anatomy and physiology are advertised to begin on the 2d of August, each to consist of forty lectures, and the fee iR each case is only six slillings.-S&otsma,t. The G{atetle of Minsen, in Prussia, mentions the death of an extraordinary man, who, without country or fortune, travel. ed over different parts of Europe for the last forty years, and had comrnunication with the learned, particularly with the antiquaries, on account of the researches in which he was engaged on theaecient languages of Scandinavia. On his return, a year ago, from a jour- ney which he made on foottthrouglh France, Spain, Italy, Hungarv, and Austria, he remained some time in NMecklenburgh, after which he went by the south of' Germany to Naples: there he was impri- soned, being suspected of (Carbonarism. On being released, he set out to re-urn to Germany, and died at a small village *wo leagues from Venice in a state of great destitution. It is not known wvhat has become of his manuscripts, and of some renmarkable antiquities which he always carried with him. He was endowed with a prodi. gious memory, and knew a multitude of things. He carried, as it wrere whole libraries in his head, and he transported with consider- able labour, during his long journies, whole alphabot and charac- ters of the Scandinavian and Runic tongues. His name was Mlartin- Fres'erick Arendt, and he was born in Holstein. Yesterday morniing at three o'clock, a watchman, named Johnston, on the Goswell-street trust, observing a hackney-coach draw up opposite his watch-box, ftom which descended a man of auspicious demeanour, accosted the coachman with-." What, going to the job so early ?" To which the coachman replied he was igno- rant of what he was wanted for, but if for any harm he should not do it. The watchnian, not so easily gulled, kept his eyes about him, and presently perceived arn an approach him from the centre ofBell- .alley with a bag upon his shoulder, who finding he was watched, doubled into Goswell-street, by the way of Arthur-lane, and was makinr fromn the coach with his sack still on his back, wtoen being ptrsuea, and finding he was gained upon, he dropped it and ran off. It proved to be the body of an old woman, which was takeu to the watchhouse, when Mr. Waits, the night corstable, commeniced an active search among the neighbouring burial-grounds and parish books but without obtaining any clue: he still persisting, at length gained intelligence it came from a house in Parson's.green, Well. alley, Goswell-street, where on proceeding a parish shell was found. The body was then conveyed to St. lIuke's workhouse for interment, to the disappoiuitment of the purcbasers ot' it, to whon it appears it was sold, by an abandoned daughter of the deceased, for dissection. Yesterday an inquest was held at the White Horse pub- lIc-house, }nightsbridge, on the body of Elizabeth Wise, a girl aged 14, servant to Mlr. Aldersey, a green-grocer, of No. l, Earoline..place.-Susannah Evans, of No. 148, Edgeware-road, the back of which adjoins the house of MIr. Aldersey, stated, that on the 2d instant-she saw the deceased in the yard of her master's house, and gave her a light tO make up a fire in the copper, as Shle was going to wash; in a few minutes the deceased appeared in the yard enve. loped in flarnes, and ran into witness's house? where the Blames were extinguisbied. 't~he deceased's master was ill in bed, and her mistress was from home.-Thornas Cranwe}L stated that he was passing DMrs. Evans's bouse, when he heard an alarm of fire* he ran in, and saw the deceased running front her master's-into Mrs. Evanss house, all on1 fire; witness wrapped her in a great coat, which bad the effect of putting out the flanmes; she told witness that she was lighting the copper-lire, when the flames eccidentally caught her clotlies.-The housesurgeon of St. George's l-o0spital stated, that the deceased was brought in on the 9th of July, badly burnt on the arms, body, and thighs, of which sbe lingered until Sunday, when she died in conse- quence of the injuries she received.-The Jury returned a verdict of Acecidentally, bamrted.