Incendiary fires have lately occurred in the counties of Essex,
Buck.
ingham, Gloucester, Warwick, and Yorkshire. •
An extraordinary abstraction of one thousand sovereigns has re- cently been made truni a box containing twenty thousand pounds in notes and gold, sent from the Navy Pay Office in London to their pay clerks at Plymouth by the mail-coach. The gentlemen at Plymouth having given a rece.pt for the full amount have been made to pay .the loss, though it is fully believed that the theft was made before the box left Somerset Hoti-e.—Hampshire Telegraph.
A young man who bad been in the Haslingden workhouse nearly two years, during which time he was seemingly completely devoid of rea- son, speechless, helpless, on some occasions took no sustenance during a period of fifteen days, and was once deprived of the ordinary powers of nature for tweitty-six days together, by proper attendance has been restored to convale-cence, and able to resume his employment.—Bolton Chronicle.
On Thursday wi-ek, three paupers in Chichester workhouse, were taken before the Magistrates, for refusing to work. The reason for the refusal was, th.tt they had only bread and butter diet. The Magis- trates, however, seotenced one to fourteen days in the city gaol, and the other two to foarteen days at the tread-mill. One of them, who was in
workhouse sonic months since, eleped with one of the female pau- pers there and got married ; and his wife is now expected to be con- *tied with her first child in the workhouse.
The members of the Trades' Union in Derby are still " out." There am now, in consequenpe, about eighteen hundred men, women, and children, out of employment. Most of the manufacturers are doing a *fie, partly with their old hands, but chiefly with new.—.Derby Reporter.
The following disgraceful occurrence took place at Thetford on Sunday evening, the 1st December. A person agreed before a company then assembled, to reward a journeyman carpenter with as many pints of beer as he should be allowed to strike blows upon him. A strong mick was the instrument of punishment agreed on ; and the buantity of beer thus earned, and stripes inflicted, may be inferred from the fact of the man, after lying some time in the street, having to be taken Herne, where he was for some time confined to his bed, and still remains under surgical care, his back exhibiting a most hideous spectacle.— Norwich Post.
The Lord Blaney steamer, trading from Newry to Liverpool, was wrecked in a dreadful gale, in the Irish Sea, on Thursday week. She left Newry on the afternoon of Wednesday; but, owing to the absence of the floating light vessel, which, having snapped one of her chain cables, was towed from her station by a steamer into Liverpool, took a wrong course, and was driven upon the Point of Ayr, on Thursday morning. About fifty passengers on board of her were lost, together with the cargo. Many persons think, that as long as the floating light utipliad one cable and anchor, she ought not to have left her post ; and the matter will undergo investigation. Several .other vessels perished FA the same gale; though a number, more fortunate or better provided, nhade the port of Liverpool in safety.
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