in managing the vessel, which was ordered to take a retrograde direction for the French coast. On the following day the Diana fortunately descried the vessel a second time, which the mutineers no sooner discovered, than two of them took to the boat, and being perceived by the Diana, a boat was sent after them; and after a long row they were taken. In the mean time, there being but three mutineers left, the two whose lives were spared thought they could cope with them, and immediately threw the black overboard; but, in the scuffle,he caught the thumb of his opponent in his mouth, and for a while suspended himself, until the other seaman struck him a blow on the head, and he dropped into the sea. This infernal fellow had put on the uniform of the midshipman he had murdered, and another villain had put on the plain clothes of the passenger, Mr. W. The four miscreants are brought in heavy irons, to be tried by a Court-martial in a very few days. Another account states the delinquents to be Frenchmen. 9. Horrid Murders. - About twelve o'clock on Saturday night, the 7th, Mr. Marr, who kept a lace and pelisse-warehouse at No. 29, Ratcliff-highway, sent out his female servant to purchase some oysters for supper, whilst he was shutting up the shop-windows. On her return, in about a quarter of an hour, she rung the bell repeatedly without any person coming to the door. This alarmed her, and she communicated her fears to Mr. Parker, the adjoining neighbour, who obtained admission by the back way; and on entering the warehouse, he beheld a spec tacle, which so petrified him with horror, that it was with difficulty he could make known the sad catastrophe which had befallen the whole of this unfortunate family. Mr. Marr was found lying near the window, dead, with his skull broken. His wife, who, it would seem, had come to his relief from below stairs, on hearing a scuffle, had been met by the villains at the top of the stairs, where she was found deprived of life; her head was too shockingly mangled for description. The shop-boy, to all appearance, had made more resistance than the rest, or else they had not made so sure of their blow; for the counter, which extends the whole length of the warehouse, was found bespattered with his blood and brains from one end of it to the other; and the body of the unfortunate youth lay prostrate on the floor, weltering in his gore. Nor did the work of the bloodthirsty villains stop here. Even a child in the cradle, only four months old, found, in its infancy, innocence, and incapacity of impeaching them, no protection from their barbarous hands. It was discovered with its throat cut from ear to ear. Such refined cruelty is hardly surpassed in the annals of human depravity, With such silence were these murders committed, that not the least noise was heard by the neighbcurs during the absence of the servant girl for the oysters. The watchman on that beat, we understand, has on all occasions shewn himself both attentive and faithful to the neighbours; and it was every night his custom to examine Mr. Marr's window-shutters. On this occasion he reports, that a little little after twelve o'clock, he found some of the window-shutters not fastened, and called to those he heard within to acquaint them with it; and received for answer, "We know it." It was the murderers who answered, after the accomplishment of their work of death! The repeatedly ringing of the bell induced the murderers to suppose they had been discovered, as they made off without taking with them any of the property; and in their hurry they left behind them the instrument with which they had perpetrated their fatal deeds. It is described as an iron-headed mallet, such as is used by carpenters. It remains a matter of conjecture, whether the villains rushed in at the door while Mr. Marr was shut ting up the shop, or got in the back way. At any rate, it seems evident, that their object, in the first instance, was to destroy the whole of the family; and that the servant owed her life entirely to the accident of being out on an errand. Mr. and Mrs. Marr were a young couple, had been married about eighteen months, and were respected by the neighbourhood. The bodies of the deceased remain at the house, where a Coroner's inquest will be held on them this day. Several persons were taken into enstody yesterday on suspicion, and were examined at the Shadwell Police office: but nothing of a guilty nature transpiring against them, they were discharged. The Magistrates are making every exertion to find out the murderers, 10. The borough of Malden, which has returned two Members for many years by little more than fifty electors, has, by the recent ecovery of its elective franchise under a new charter, had 1500 burgesses admitted to their freedom within the last six months. 13. The Mausoleum at Windsor, which was begun by Cardinal Wolsey, has lately been finished, agreeably to the directions of his Majesty; and the remains of the late Princess Amelia have been removed into it, according to the original intention, in as private a manner as possible. The Dean of Windsor and two of the Canons attended on the occasion. 14. Loss of the Saldanha.-Rathmilton, Dec. 6," His Majesty's ship Saldanha, Captain the Hon. W. Pakenham, sailed from Cork on the 19th of November, to relieve his Majesty's ship Endymion, off Lough Swilley. Having reached that harbour, she, with the Endymion and Talbot, sailed on the 30th, with an intention, it is said, of proceeding to the westward. On the 3d of December it blew very hard from the north-westward; the wind continued to increase till the 4th; and in the evening and night of that day it blew the most dreadful hurricane that the inhabitants of this part of the country ever recollect. At about ten o'clock at night, through the darkness and the storm, a light was seen from the signal-towers passing rapidly up the harbour, the gale then blowing nearly right in. This light was, it is supposed, on board the Saldanha; but this is only conjecture, for when the day. light discovered the ship, (a complete wreck in Ballyna Stoker-bay, on the west side of the harbour), every soul on board had already perished, and all the circumstances of her calamitous loss thus perished with her. It is stated in some of the the accounts, that the ship first struck on some rocks near the entrance of the harbour, and that the wind drove and the tide floated her to the distant place where the wreck came ashore; but this also can only be conjecture; and whether well-founded or otherwise, is now of little consequence." The Saldanha was a new frigate, and one of the finest in our navy. She had probably near three hundred souls on board, and her commander was a young officer of the highest character. Captain Pakenham was brother to the Earl of Longford, Lady Wellington, and the Hon. Colonel Pakenham, Deputy Quarter-Master-General of the army in Portugal. The Lieu. tenants of the Saldanha were D. Thomas, G. H. Campbell, and John Gardner. The bodies of Captain Pakenham, and about 200 of the crew, are said to have been washed ashore, and were to have been interred in a neighbouring burial ground. Early on the 18th, the residence of Viscount St. Asaph, in Berkeley-Square, was broken open, and valuables to a considerable amount stolen. The villains entered from the garden, having climbed (as is imagined) Lord Essex's wall in Hill-Street. By forcing open the sash of a window on the ground floor, they were enabled to perforate with gimlets the window-shutter, which being thus weakened gave way to their force. It appears they were not aware of the return of the family to town, as they had the temerity to advance even to his Lordship's bed-room, who, being surprised by the appearance of a light, exclaimed, who is there? The light was after a short pause extinguished, when her Ladyship imagining it to be the maid coming to light the fire, they recom→ posed themselves to sleep. The consummate boldness these men possessed, impelled them to place chairs to impede the progress of their pursuers, in the outer-rooms; but being satisfied that the family were not conscious of their intrusion, they retired to the groundfloor, and ransacking every drawer, and investigating the contents of every pocket-book and paper, they selected the most valuable effects, but left every thing that they imagined might lead to detection, and then quitted the house by the same way they had entered. The loss sustained, it is thought, will amount. to some thousands. She 19. A girl named Martha Stowell, working at a mill at Greenholme, Yorkshire, crossing an adjoining field, slipped, and dislocated, or otherwise injured her hip. was rendered lame and unable to work, and continued in that state for a week, when her uncle came to fetch her home. On her way, riding a single horse between Bur ley and Ilkley, she met a gig upon the road, at which her horse took fright, threw her, and dragged her a short distance in the stirrup; when disengaged, she got up, and it is added, to the great surprise of herself and her uncle, found herself quite well, and being perfectly able to walk, returned to her work. A village in Upper Silesia, having been for several weeks during the present season without rain, as not a drop had fallen in any part of the country, the inhabitants took it into their heads that this long drought was a punish ment 1 ment from heaven, on account of A splendid specimen of Pari- man named John Turner, their lodger. On Thursday night, a little before eleven, Turner came home to his lodgings, and, after wishing his landlord and landlady a good night, went up stairs to bed. Mr. Williamson was then preparing to shut up his house. Turner, almost immediately after he got into bed, fell into a sound sleep, in which he continued for about half an hour, when he was awakened by a noise below stairs. He listened a few moments, and heard the servant-maid crying out"We are all murdered." Not knowing what was the matter, he stole down stairs, undressed, and cautiously looked through the taproom door, which had a glass window in it. The first object that he saw, was a man dressed in a drab, shaggy, bear's-skin coat, stooping over the body of Mrs. Williamson, which was lying at the fire-side. He could not see what the man was doing, but he heard the jingling of money, and supposed he was rifling her pockets. His ears were then assailed by the deep sighs of a person in the agonies of death. Terrified beyond description, he ran up stairs to the top of the house, with a view to make his escape. In his fright he could not find the trapdoor in the roof; he therefore returned to his own room, threw up the window, and tying the sheets of his bed together, and fastening Mr. Williamson and his wife them to the bed-posts, he dekept the King's Arms public-house, scended safely to the ground, with in Old Gravel-Lane; and the in- the assistance of the watchman, mates of their house consisted of who happening to pass at that inan old woman, who collected pots stant by the house, received him and waited in the tap-room; a in his arms. The neighbourhood little girl, about fourteen years was then immediately alarmed. old, their grand daughter; and a It was yet an early hour, not twelve, and On this night, between the hours of eleven and twelve, another scene of sanguinary atrocity was acted in New Gravel-Lane, Ratcliffe-Highway, equalling in barbarity the murders of Mr. Marr and family. Three persons, all considerably upwards of fifty years of age, were butchered by some ruffians yet unknown. The following particulars are the substance of what has transpired with respect to this fresh instance of ferocity. and several people soon assembled round the house. The door was knocked at, but no answer being made, the door was broke open with an iron crow. Upon entering the tap-room, the bodies of Mrs. Williamson and the maid Bridget Harrington, were found hesmeared with blood, with their heads towards the fire-place. The head of the latter was almost severed from her body, and the scull itself fractured in the most frightful manner, the brains protruding. Mrs. Williamson had also her throat cut, and her head very much shattered. Those who entered then went down stairs, and upon entering the cellar they found the body of Mr. Williamson lying lifeless, with a long iron bar under his body. His throat was dreadfully cut on the right side. The wound appeared to have been made in the front of the neck by some stabbing instrument, and afterwards enlarged whilst the instrument remained in the first incision. His hands appeared to be dreadfully hacked and cut; one of his thumbs being completely severed from his left hand. His right leg received a compound fracture, the bones of it being to be seen through the stocking. From his general appearance it was evident that he had made a vigorous resistance to the murderers. The iron bar, found under his body, was stained with blood, and it appeared to have been wrenched from a window in the cellar. The watchman, accompanied by the others, then went up stairs to ascertain whether any other person had fallen a victim of the assassins, but they found no one except the granddaughter of Mr. Williamson, who had been in a profound sleep all the time that the murders were committing. We have to add to this narrative, that the horror and alarm excited throughout the metropolis by this butchery, so soon following that of Marr's family, were beyond description, every house almost dreading the approach of night, lest it should bring a murderer with it. The discovery of the perpetrators engaged all the activity of the police; and at length one Williams was apprehended upon strong suspicion, which he confirmed by banging himself in prison. No other discovery was made before the close of the year; but reason was found to conclude that the savages were not more than two or three in number, and that Williams was undoubtedly one of them. A fresh eruption has taken place from mount Etna. - On the 27th of October, several mouths opened on the eastern side of the mountain; these openings, situate almost in the same line, and at equal distances, presented to the eyea spectacle the most imposing.torrents of burning matter, discharged with the greatest force from the interior of the volcano, illuminated the horizon to a great distance. One of these apertures was a considerable distance from all the others. The former was about 300 toises beneath the crater, and about one mile from the point called Gamel Laco: five others were situate in a line in the direction of the Valley of Oxen (del le Bove). The eruption of these last five lasted the whole night; an immense quantity of matter was discharged from them, which was driven |