The National Register. — 1821-04-30 (London, England)

RYE, APRIL 23. —The Hebe. new fishing smack. of It ions, Head, toaster, was run down last night. about ten o'clock, sir. miles west of Dungeness, by a large ship going down Channel. The master and crew were saved with difficulty. The master shelved his light and hailed the ship several times, to which no attention was paid, nor did she heave-to to pick up the crew of the smack after she had sunk her, but kept on a steady course down the ChanneL The loss to the poor Unman is upwards of 3001.  Extract of a letter from the County Tipperary, dated April 18, 1821. " Nothing particular in the way of news—provisions are tolerably cheap, which is what enables the people to exist, in the present scarcity of money. Beef three-pence and mutton four-pence per lb. ; pork twopence-halfpenny, eggs five tbr one penny, potatoes one penny per stone of 141b5., oats Gd. per stone, hay 2G shillings per ton ; groceries nearly half as cheap as some time ago ; and to assist us in our misfortunes we have pollen whir. key in great plenty at six shillings per gallon. The farmers are all ruined, the gentlemen not able to, pay the interest of the• money they owe, which is• tke case with almost all our country gentlemen, and the shopkeepers without business ; the only thing to save or serve us in this country, is a reduction of rents, tithes, and taxes, all of which are as high as ever ; and none of those three concern Al inclined to come down one penny, The landlords, with few, very few exceptions, are extorting the last penny, and selling every beast the tenant (who has beenunder theta for several years), has—the clergyman has not abated one penny of his tithes, and I fear Government cannot afford to give up any of the taxes. The endeavour to keep up the price of land by corn-bills, is of no use in the world to the occupying farmer; it is a bill merely to increase the• rent-roll of great men at the expense, misery, and almost starvation of the lower orders, Was work scarce, and provisions doer, you caw from yourself form a good idea of what a miserable way we should be in."  A few days since the body of J. Gowen, Esq, Lieutenant in his Majesty's 80th regiment of foot, was discovered lying dead on the road from the town of Goree, Ireland, to the seat of his father J. H. Gowan, Esq in the county of Wexford, but without any external marks of violence, from which  circumstance great doubts were entertained as to the manner of his death ; but its having been since clearly ascertained that at the time he set out from  home he had about him a silver hunting watch, a morocco pocket-book containing notes to a large amount, and a purse containing. several gold sovereigns, which had been evidently taken from him, as his pockets were turned inside out, there can be  no doubt that he fell a victim to the sanguinary disposition of some wretch who knew of Mr. Gowan, carrying property about him to such an amount. A cause was lately tried by the Court of Assize of Ain, in France, in which an assassin of a man named Fleurot, was condemned on evidence not unlike that of the famous Dog of Montargis. The circumstances were these:—The wife cf Fleurot  was anxiously looking tim the return of her husband, whose unusual absence filled her with tear, when about ten o'clock his dog in rived, covered with wounds and stabs, especially in the belly, where his bowels protruded. He laid his fore-paws on his mistress, whined mournfully, licked her, and went to the door, us it' inviting her to follow him: the WOUlall instantly conceived that her husband had  been murdered, and gave herself up to the guidance of the dog, which conducted her to the place where the crime had been committed, and expired. The next morning the hat of Fleurot was found near the Kamm : the spot where he had had his last contest with the assassin was much trodden; the trace of men and a dog struggling were very evident ; the rags with which the ground was strewed bore testimony to the courage with which the dog had fought for his master; and his wounds and death shewed, that after having defended him at the expense of his life, this faithful animal employed his last tut). meats in avenging him. The Mansion•house hotel at Montreal wai destroyed by lire on the pith  ..