Yesterday afternoon the L...
The Times, 1824-11-24T00:00:00

Yesterday afternoon thie Lord Mayor transacted busi- ness at tile Sscretary of State's Ofnice for the Home De- partment. Yesterday the Duke of York transacte(d military business with the King. The Princess Sophia visited the Duchess of Glotester yesterday. TI'he Itoyal Duchess's health continues in the same etate of progressive improvement as on the preced- ing day. Yesterd ay the Duke of York, as Cominander-in.Chief, lheld a Levee at his Office in the Horse-Guards. Yesterday the Duke of York honoured the Judge-Ad- vocate with hlis company to (dinner, whlere there was a party of distinguished personages to meet his Royal Highness. Yesterday afternoon Mr. Justic-e Park, after the breaking up ot the meeting of the twelve Judges uipon the case of Muor. Faustlleroy, waited upon Mr. Secretary Peel at the Home Office. Th'e Cliancellor of the Exchequer arrived in town yester- day attcrn@on from Yorkshire. We are authorized by some of the Directois of the Cana(la Conpaiv to state. that sevandyontu-, ,t1L' i y conceive or tne utmost importance to the success of that undertaking, are yet unsettled in their negotiation with the Colonial-office; atnd that it is probable, upless these points are satisfactorily arranged by Government, the taidertaking may be enitirely abandoned. We think this intimation may be useful to speculators in the shares of this company. The East India Company's ship Duke of York arrived at Mladrats on the 20th of June, and was to sail for China on the 10th of July. The Wiffiam Fairlie arrived at rMadras-July. The Gencral marris arrived at B?ncoolon earlv in June, and on the 26th of June was under weigh for Tappanooly, to complete her caTgo for China. Sir Walter Scott has been paying the penalty of popu- l1aity, by sitting for his picture to no less than five London artists- namely, lIeslie, Landscer, Newton, Berwick, and Wilkie-who have ali visited 8eotland, and-almost as matter of course-Abbot.e- ford, w'ithine thc last three atonthfs. Sit Walter, it is said, underwent the ordeal, not only with philosophic patience, but with so much good nature, and even kindness, as to make a most grteful and last. ing impression on the minds of the different artists.-Tite Scotsnlan. THS WEATH U.--The letters from the outports give imelancliol accounts of the shipping ott the western coast. The ef- fects of' the gale inand Itave been very severe. About 2 o'clock yes- terday morning, the river at high water was in a state of' agitatios more violent than within the memory of anv of the watennen. The winm3 was south south-west, and blew a perfect hurricane, and occa- sioned so great a swell, that the crafr watting for the tide were anable to pass the reacb,. Two boatS made the attempt: one from Hors. lydowo, with four men in it, was with difficulty prevented from be- ing stove and all hands drowned. Fortunately none of the vessels drifed, and no lives lost, or serious damage sustained. At nine o'clock in the morning, the gablc.end ol'a house in the Blaze, Too- ley-street, No. 6, gave way, and in its descenit broke in the window- casements of the first flor of the housc opposite, and fell with a dreadful crash into the street: haprilv at the instant no person was passing. About the same timec feli the stacits otrchimnies of three honses, i, 7, 8, in W.lliam'a.place, Walworth. At No. r,, the roof and hackrooms werewhollvdemolished, from oiie of which twvoinfant children had but the moment before beets taken froni bed. Between nine and ten o'clock the stack of chimneys belonging to BUr. War- ren's house, in Bedford-square, was blown down, and broke the roof of the house, and many of the tiles and mortar werc tbrced into the bed-roomi ; but no petson received any injury. About eleven o'clock an inmmense stack of chimneys belonging to Salvador-house, in Bishopsgate-street, fell witlh a tremuendous crash, they fbreed in the roof of thc house, but we are happy to say, the terrified inmates escaped without sustaininig any injurv. Miost of the bricks and rubbish fell into the fore court of Mr. be Tastett's premiiises. The ftont of one of the modlern-built housep also, near thie Albany-road, Camberwell, was completely blown Ln yesterday mnorning: although inhabited, no one was hurt. It is stateti in a Scotch paper, that the loss of property sustained in the latc fires in Edinburgh may be estimated at from 150%. to 170,0001.,and that nearly 300 families havc been biurned out of theIr houses. As cotiiiected with this app alling subject, (the fires), we may notice an instance of depravity, which in unparalleed in tbean- nals of crime, and which might have involved another district of the city hi the same dlevastationi which the High-slreet has been sub- jected to. On Thursdav evening a surgeon was brought by a wo- man, residing in Cowan's-close, 6owgatc, to see her scio, a deert pit lad about 18 years of age, who is afRicted with stranigury. The surgeon, by the light of a small fire, observed the lad stretched upon some straw, with his iead resting upon the heartl, and ini a state of complete inanition. The mother told him (for the lad could not sp&lk) that he bad not tastel food for two days-a story more titan probable; upon wihich the surgeon niot only prescribed mcdiciies, slit a copious supply of' warn imilk, but gave her sixpence to pur- chase the milk witlh. lie then took his departure. In the course of a short timne, the mother, who had gone out, returned homc in a state of beastly intoxicAtion, wanting ber under garments, whire she had pawnedl, and h aviig spent both the sixpenee and t he money she had got fromitbe pawnibroker in the purehase of spirits; -she proceeded to kidso the poor helpless famished lad.; and, its the heighlt of her'f'reazy, threvw the straw and other comnbustibles upon the tire. Very soon t'be apartenllet was filled with smoke and games, which the neighbours extingutislted; and- then conveyed the fury to the police-oflice, where she lnote reinains.-The S.3cotsomn. FtaE-zNeGINu ESYABLISHtMENT OF EUID ntBItosl.-It ought to be again made known, that up to this periorl therc has reslly.been no pablic esablishmlent of this kind in Edinburgh ! T'hc town, it is true,' had, as we believe, two engine, but they are untlervicelelc. Several insurance conipanies had engines also, but only one of; thqnslwhich belongs to the Sun Fire-office.-is tboti;jit to be worth repuring: and this is the miserable plight in wllich this large city WaS caught by the recent calamitous fires. .'LThe police establishmenit had tnohre-engines or fireieii-connrcctl Kwith 4 ; and it was everndoubted whetherthe comtnitsioners coulwd, ;under tlseexstitig poIitr statute, applv iny of tth. funds raisel >by 'iem for themYna'inteniaice of eiginem. AAtier tbe destiuctive fire ppositc thle H;git (ClUttrcI.Ithe colnmissiottersresolved that matters '.ho'nld not continuie on sucl a footing; and it is exceedingly. unfor- tunatc that tle 'plan trlensed by a niomrpittee of4-te Ill?lstraics, Cosxmissioners of Polic, ani Insuranee,of8iee wasttot fully tnan tured before this second calhdnity hild b,alUen the city. At a mcet- inggof tbh Polie Conminitteeheldon Erldsy, at wllich the LordTP3o- vqst was prsetit, it was resolved,to recommend the itemediate pur. chase of several fire-engines, of- the best constructioln with the best appurtenancrs, upon a uniform scale as to pipes, jolnings, &e., to employ firemen,.antld tocqmpldte such arraugements, in sllort, with thic Vater Company, and' ethervisc, as shall afford souiething like irotection to ttle livex atnd property of' the inhabitants.-_bi. Shechaa, one-of, the supposed murderersof the Franks' fia- iiuly, has been appreihendedand lodged, in Miallow Bridewell. Shiee- hsang it will be recollected was in costtodybefore, charged with this i'ldrtid crintlicbuteonirivetto e3apt from the Bridewellitn D6niitAile.,