luckily for himself, he had contrived, while the robber was examining his watch, to slip his pocket-book, containing nearly 3001. in notes, under the cushion of the seat.

25. This morning, at 2 o'clock, an alarming fire broke out at Mr. Holland's, tallow-chandler, South Audley-street, Grosvenor-square. It began in the back melting warehouse, in Reeves's Mews, and three of the adjoining stables were soon burnt to the ground. There were nearly 400 tons of tallow on the premises, all of which were consumed, and, of course, added greatly to the fury of the flames. Fifty chaldron of coals, belonging to a retail dealer in that article, were also consumed. The following are some of the houses which have been destroyed or damaged on this occasion:-That of Messrs. Stodart and Bolton, Coach-makers, -the carriages all saved; the house of madame Jaymond, milliner, has sustained much damage; that of Mr. Parsons, baker, Mountstreet, burnt, and a quantity of flour; Mr. Teby's stables, and Mr. Butcher's slaughter-houses, in Reeves's Mews, totally consumed; the house of Mr. Owen, tinman, much damaged. The 3d Guards, from Portman barracks, and the members of various volunteer associations, attended with great alacrity, and greatly assisted the fire men in their exertions. A fireman was considerably bruised by the fall ing in of the roof of Mr. Holland's house, but no lives were lost.

An interesting occurrence took place at Folkingham. A poor woman, who had obtained a pass billet to remain there all night, was sitting by the fire of the kit

chen of the Greyhound inn, with an infant child at her breast, when two chimney-sweeps came in, who had been engaged to sweep some of the chimneys belonging to the inn early next morning. They were, according to custom, treated with a supper, which they had begun to eat, when the younger, a boy about seven years of age, happening to cast his eyes upon the woman (who had been likewise viewing them with a fixed attention from their first entrance), started up, and exclaimed in a frantic tone-"That's my mother!" and immediately flew into her arms! It appears that her name is Mary Davis, and that she is the wife in a private of the 2d regiment of foot guards, now serving in the Peninsula; she resides in Westminster; her husband quitted her to embark for foreign service on the 20th of last January; and on the 28th of the same month she left her son in the care of a woman who occupied the front rooms of her house, while she went to wash for a family in the neighbourhood; on her return in the evening, the woman had decamped with her son, and, notwithstanding every effort was made to discover their retreat, they had not since been heard of; but having lately been informed that the woman was a native of Leeds, she had come to the resolution of going there in search of her child, and with this view had walked from London to Folkingham (106 miles) with an infant not more than six weeks old in her arms. The boy's master stated, that about the latter end of last January, he met a woman and boy in the vicinity of Sleaford, where he resides: she ap

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peared very ragged, and otherwise much distressed, and was at that time beating the boy most severely: she then accosted him (the master), saying, she was in great distress, and a long way from home; and after some further preliminary conversation, said, if he would give her two guineas to enable her to get home, she would bind her son apprentice to him; this proposal was agreed to, and the boy was regularly indentured, the woman having previously made affidavit as to being his own mother. This testimony was corroborated by the boy himself; but as no doubt remained in the mind of any one respecting the boy's real mother, his master, without further ceremony, resigned him to her. The inhabitants interested themselves very humanely in the poor woman's behalf, by not only paying her coach-fare back to London (her children having been freed by one of the proprietors), but also by collecting for her the sum of 21. 5s.

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being obtained it is always customary and necessary to have evidence of the real grounds upon which the pursuer seeks for the divorce, and also to hear the demurrer's reasons why it should not be given. He said there had been numerous instances of divorces being obtained in that manner, and recognized as legal; but on his being asked whether he ever knew of an English marriage being dissolved by the decree of the Scotch ecclesiastical court, he said he could not recollect an instance. The jury, by the direction of his lordship, brought in a verdict of guilty; but reserved the case for the consideration of the twelve judges.

27. Huddersfield.-Last Friday night, about fifty men, all armed with guns, went to the house of Mr. Edward Hepworth, a farmer at Sheepridge, about two miles from Huddersfield, and after breaking open his door with an iron mall, they demanded a gun; but on being told he had no fire-arms, they insisted that he should reduce the price of his corn and milk; and then proceeding to destroy his furniture, they broke to pieces his clock, tables, and every thing of value in his house. After this wanton outrage, they proceeded to several other houses in that neighbourhood, where they committed similar depredations, and then dispersed. We have now upwards of 1000 soldiers in this town: the publicans are very much distressed to accommodate them. There are only about thirty-three publichouses in the town, so that each house has, on an average, upwards of thirty soldiers. How long this is to continue we cannot tell.

Wick. The herring-fishery in this neighbourhood is going on successfully.

successfully. Nothing can be more pleasing than to see the bustle which this occasions, and the num⚫ber of vessels constantly going backwards and forwards. In the new harbour there were above 40 sail at one time; and it is supposed that there are from 5 to 600 boats employed in the herringfishing on the coast, above 100 of which are from the southern parts of Scotland, and some from Northumberland.

29. Leeds.-It must be satisfactory to every well-wisher to quiet and good order, to know from the most unquestionable authority, that not less than a thousand men, to whom illegal oaths had been administered, have, within the last four or five days, flocked to the magistracy at and near Stockport, to abjure those oaths, and to take the oath of allegiance.

Union-Hall. A man of de. cent appearance applied to the sitting magistrate, under symptoms of great distress of mind, for redress of various injuries inflicted upon him by a person, who, he said, had long held him in subjection by the power of witchcraft. The person complained of had, for some time, been his opposite neighbour; and although it had been his (the complainant's) constant study not to offend him, being well aware of the influence he possessed with the powers of darkness, yet he had, in some way or other, been so unfortunate as to incur his displeasure; and severely he had suffered for it both in person and property, as the wizard had at different times destroyed his clothes, tainted his provisions, prevented the smoke ascending the chimnies, soured the liquor in his cellar, and on various

occasions, when the complainant has been under the necessity of going out on business, had so fasci nated his powers of vision, that on his return home, all his efforts to discover his own door had proved ineffectual. These circumstances had obliged him to remove from the Kent-road to Westminster; but even by that he had not escaped the power of his enemy, who still retained his influence, and exerted it in a manner yet more painful to him, by inflicting upon him gouty and rheumatic pains, and torturing him in various ways. Under all these circumstances, he entreated the magistrate to cite the magician before his tribunal, and to inflict such pains and penalties upon him as should prevent his disturbing society for the future. The magistrate promised to comply with his request, and advised him in the mean time to go home, and rest satisfied that no effort in his power should be wanting to prevent the evil spirit troubling him in future. With this assurance, the complainant declared himself perfectly satisfied, and said, he felt that in consequence of his having thrown himself on the protection of the Bench, the pains with which he had for so long a time been afflicted were very much abated.

31. A court-martial was held in the Downs, on the Hon. Henry Blackwood, commander of his Majesty's ship Warspite, upon a charge of having caused the death of a master of a merchant schooner, in the Mediterranean, by ordering several guns to be fired into her. The merchant vessel, it appeared, was going up the Mediterranean, when Captain Blackwood was coming down with a convoy, and the

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Blore-heath, in the year 1459, between the united forces of the Duke of York and the Earl of Salisbury, and those of the king commanded by Lord Audley, who was beaten about four miles from this spot, the coat might possibly have been thrown away by one of the soldiers of the routed army.(Salop Journal)

In the neighbourhood of Villeneuve, Switzerland, a part of the eastern chain of the Fourches, which had been sapped by a stream that ran at its base, suddenly fell with a terrific noise. About thirty cottages were buried beneath the ruins, and twelve of their inmates killed. The noise of the fall was heard at the distance of six miles. Sunbury, (United States.) — On Sunday last, a man by the name of Walton, from Luzerne county, entered the Court-house of this town, took a seat at the council table, produced shaving apparatus, and was about commencing the operation of shaving his beard (which had not been taken off for upwards of three years, and was nearly a foot in length.) His strange conduct and appearance attracted the attention of the court, and every person present. The court, to prevent interruption, ordered the man to be taken away. He resisted, and was at length indulged by the court. He said he had been commanded by his Maker to do it on that very day, in presence of the court, and with the same razor which he produced. Warm water was provided, and he soon disencumbered himself of his beard-put up his shaving utensils, thanked the court for their indulgence, and walked off, seemingly pleased.

5. [From the Leeds Mercury.]A number of nocturnal depredations have been this week committed in the parish of Halifax. In the night between Saturday and Sunday last, a party of armsstealers entered the house of Mr. Haigh, of Skircoats, and took from him three stand of arms. On Monday night, three of the peaceable inhabitants of Thornhill, near Brighouse, were each plundered of a gun. The same night a blunderbuss was fired into the house of Mr. Waddington, of Brighouse, corn-miller, and seven bullets lodged in the cieling of his bedroom a musket was also fired into the parlour window, and a large discharge of duck-shot lodged in the room. And last Thursday night a mill at Southowram, where woollen cloth is dressed by machinery, was attacked by a number of men, amounting, it is supposed, to about 100, who, after securing the watchman, broke 17 pairs of shears. At half-past one o'clock in the morning the picquet passed the mill, when all was safe; but the depredation was committed with so much address and celerity, that on their return at two o'clock, the mischief was effected, and the offenders completely dispersed. One man was taken up and detained on suspicion.

Bartholomew Fair.-The scene of riot, confusion, and horror, exhibited at this motley festival, on this night, has seldom, if ever, been exceeded.

The influx of all

classes of labourers who had received their week's wages, and had come to the spot, was immense, At ten o'clock every avenue leading through the conspicuous parts of the fair was crammed