The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1824-12-25 (London, England)

DEC. 9 3 —Arrived and passed by for London, the schooner Earl IVellington, which landed Mr. Samuel Mason, supercargo of the said schooner, who is charged with despatches from the Consul-General at Lima, to Mr. Canning. No arrivals yet from France. The sea is supposed to be too rough at the opposite side for any vessel to get out of Calais. Sailed his Majesty's packet the Fury, with several carriages and nearly 100 passengers. PLYMOUTH, l)sc. 23.—0 n Tuesday night and on the morning of yesterday we were visited by another tremendous gale, which blew with great fury from W.S.W. ; but we are happy to say that no damage was done to the shipping in the harbour. Ten vessels were riding at anchor in the Sound, and • number at the mouth of Catwater, during the gale.—ln consequence of the long prevailing westerly winds, and unprecedented tempestuous weather, the London traders bound to this port, and other canters, have been shut up in the various creeks and harbours, some of them many weeks; their voyages will therefore be unusually lung and tedious. The Corsair, of Liverpool, Captain Petrie, arrived at that pert on Tuesday, front Charleston, after an extraordinary quick passage of seventeen days and a half. The accounts brought to town yesterday from the North, represent the roads as being in a dreadful state, from the late incessant rains. The marshes and fens in Rutlandshire, at Crowlantl, near Peterborough, and in the Isle of Ely, are completely under water. On Thursday afternoon, Fore-street, Limehouse, and indeed the whole neighbourhood, was completely inundated by the sudden rising of the epring titles. The water at one time was four feet deep in the streets, and the cellars of the houses were completely deluged ; much damage was done, but we are happy to say that no lives were lost. On Wednesday the '.2il instant, an inquest was held at Belton, before. Sylvester Rogers, Gent., coroner for the borough and sake of Grantham, on view of' the body of • male infant which had been found floating in the river Witham in that parish on the preceding day. The body had apparently lain a considerable time in the water ; the naval-string was untied ; and from the circumstance of the infant's having a tight ligature of printed cotton round the neck, and a piece of dirty flannel forced into the mouth, no doubt remained of its having been burr. alive and afterwards inhumanly destroyed.—Venlict—" Wilful Murder against some person or persons unknown." Since the announcement in this Paper of Mr. Buckingham's intention to publish the Oriental Herahl twice a month, severe and contimuil indisposition has impeded the aceernplislintent of his wishes, by incapacitating him, for the present, from those active exertions which so material an increase of labour required. In consequence of this unexpected impediment, he is compelled to defer the issue of the additional Monthly Number, intended to have been introduced with the commencement of the ensuing year. The Work will therefore continue precisely on the same footing as heretofore, until formal notice be given of the period at which the meditated improvement may take place. Sr.stixa Rum IT THE Y•lll.—A man was lately fitted in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, for retail indspirituous liquors without a license. At this he was sorel y vexed, and set about devising means to evade the law. I t happened that a Yankee tin-pedlar stepped in to his assistance in this emergency. They put their heads together, and contrived a tin tube, exactly one yard in length, and of a sufficient thick. nen to hold one pint of rum. This they marked off' halfyard, quarter-yard, and one-eighth, just as drapers mark their sticks. Now when a traveller steps in to " whet his whistle," he civilly says—" Mister Landlord, I'd thank ye for yard" or a quarter of a yard of tape, according to I the half a length of his throat. No sooner said than done ; the landlonl, with solemn step, reaches down from behind his bottles the tin vanl. awl measures out the desired length of the 0-be7joyruk The traveller sends it down the red lane, pays the cash, and travels his way.