The ship Oscar, of Bombay, with a very valuable cargo
of European goods to have settled; and he has not left the country, as he promised to do. For these
board for Bushire, was totally wrecked un the coast of Arabia on the 31st of May sacrifices on his part, he had been guaranteed the payment of his debts, said to last. No lives were lost ; but whenever the vessel stranded and was deserted by amount to 8,000/. or 10,0001., and an annuity of '2,000/. or 3,0001. The Times
the crew, the natives went on board and commenced the work of plunder. has inquired who may be the person, whose reputation is liable to be affected by
On Wednesday night, an extraordinary and serious accident occurred at the publication of Garth's letters, to such a degree as to render these large sums Messrs. Hill's carpet-warehouse, No. 273, High Holborn. A groom was driving but an equivalent for the suppression of the documents ? The Standard, in his master's horse and gig along Red Lion Street, when the horse suddenly be- reply, points to Garth's Illustrious Mother. The Times rejoins, that if such be came unmanageable, and dashing across Holborn, leaped through the shop-window all, it is rather an odd proceeding to pay a profligate young man an enormous al- of Messrs. Hill, which was composed of plate glass of very large dimensions lowance for keeping safe a secret which has been in the custody of the public for dashing the frames, gas-lights, and every other article that impeded his progress, more than twenty years. Nor is it less odd, adds the same paper, that a person to atoms. The groom was seriously cut, the horse was terribly mangled, and about the age of her venerable Father should have been the object of the Illus.
the gig broken to pieces. The damage done to the shop-front exceeds SOL trious lady's choice. [General Garth has died this week, at the age of eighty-
from the Nieuw Diep, was blown by a gust of wind into the canal. He remained DRURY LANE TIIEATRE.—Drury Lane has at last produced a successful melo ten minutes in the water, but was taken out without having suffered injury. drame. It is called The Brigand, and is said to owe its.authorship to Planche The stage-coaches between Carlisle and Manchester are now running in oppo- The hero is Mazzaroni, a sort of Italian Robin Hood, who lives by plundering .it nu to each other at the rate of fifteen miles an hour. On Monday last, the the visitors to the Eternal City. We are furnished with a few specimens of his 'Hines and the Fair Trader coaches galloped from Shap to Penrith, a distance regular mode of doing business, and with some, too, of those humorous adven- oidrven miles in forty minutes. The Magistrates of Leath Ward have taken up tures by which he contrives to give a poetical interest to his way of life. In the the affair, and have summoned the two drivers to appear before them. We under- disguise of a peasant, for instance, he pretends to play at dice with St. Eustace, stand the proprietors residing in Penrith disavow the conduct of their servants, and to lose money to him, while the steward of a neighbouring convent is pass- ;dl the New Times coachman has been dismissed in consequence.—Carlisle ing. He forces two hundred ducats upon this person as steward to the saint, and Patriot. promises the balance of his loss in the evening. The bait takes ; the steward re- It will he recollected. that in consequence of the shipwreck which occurred last turns at the appointed time, with the convent's treasures upon his person, and iiinter on the coast of Anticosti. attended with circumstances of a horrid nature, finds to his dismay that luck has in the interval deserted St. Eustace,—whose a Government brig called the Kingfisher, had been despatched from Quebec to debts to the amount of ten thousand ducats he is called on to discharge. This survey the whole of that coast, as well as to make further inquiries into the case steward afterwards recognizes Mazzaroni at the palace of Prince. Bianchi, where which had attracted so much notice. This vessel has lately returned to Quebec ; he had ventured in disguise, in prosecution of a plan of robbery. Mazzaroni is and her captain has reported, that no further information relative to the ship. slain by the Prince's soldiers ; and recognized, before he expires, as the Prince's wreck could be obtained than what had already transpired. He gives it as his illegitimate son. The story altogether is well managed; the acting very credit- decided opinion, however, that sonic: of the survivors had been driven, in a fit of able ; and the scenery and music better than arc generally employed to lighten phremy, to make use of the flesh of their dead companions for the purpose of and illustrate pieces of this description. prolonging their own existence.—City arrespondent of the Times. A policy has been introduced into Lloyd's, for the insurance from Calais to Maria Reading, a child four years old, was burned to death at Pimlico, on Dover of the noted new performer at the Adelphi Theatre—the Paris elephant. Tuesday, by her clothes taking fire. And on the same day, at Westminster The two Siamese boys, who constitute a natural phenomenon of the most re- Hospital, Margaret Kellard, servant in Pimlico, died from the same cause. markable kind, their bodies having been united since the period of their birth A dense fog has covered the metropolis and its vicinity since Thursday morning; arrived in the City yesterday from the United States. They are about fourteen and many accidents have in consequence occurred. The Devonport mail got years of age, and perfectly healthy. A passenger who came with them states, into a ditch, a few miles from town, but was extricated without being upset. that they went to the mast-head with all the agility of a sailor.—Times. There was a delay of from two to three hours in the arrival of some of the mails Last week, a gentleman of Oxford, Mr. Hew Steuart Powell, of Trinity Col- on the Western and Eastern roads, but this caused no alteration in the deliveries. lege, turned informer upon a tradesman for giving him an unstamped receipt. 'The Exeter and Stroud mails found their way into a ditch near Hammersmith, The tradesman had dunned the gentleman ; and the gentleman denounced the Ent were extricated without injury to the passengers. In town a great many se- tradesman at Somerset House. The tradesman was fined in the mitigated penalty
runs accidents to horses and carriages occurred near the Horse Guards. . of five pounds; and the gentleman's conduct was commented on by Sir Joseph On Thursday night, a hackney-coach came in contact in Oxford Street, St. Locke, the Mayor, in a tone little fitted to give the gentleman pleasure. Giles's, with a waggon, and was upset. Tire coachman was severely hurt, and It is asserted that the first four concerts given at Frankfort by the celebrated
two gentlemen in the carriage were very much cut by the glass. violin-player Paganini, have produced a receipt of 93,000 florins (8,5000 ; two- Yesterday morning, the 'inmates of a lodging-house in Old Pr Street, West- thirds of which belong to the artist, and the other to the treasury of the theatre.— minster, were alarmed by groans, as if from one of the rooms. On proceeding Journal des Debats. to the door, they found the tenant of the room, a pugilist named Yandell, speech- It is said that the injured husband of a Lovely wife, whose flight from a pros less from loss of blood. On examination, his head was discovered to be fractured ; vincial town some time ago excited so much public notice, has instituted proceed. and he expired before a surgeon could be procured. Blood was traced from the ings in the Prerogative Court, preparatory to a divorce.—Morning Herald. door of the house as far as St. Ann Street, Westminster. It is inferred that he Madame Buonaparte Wyse arrived, on Wednesday, at the Custom-house, in had been attacked there, and had crawled home. A woman with whom he had the Earl of Liverpool steam-packet, from Ostend, after a passage of fourteen On Wednesday morning, Mr. Buer, butcher in Chandos Street, Covent Garden, We find in the Lancet the following question—" Is it true, that on the night vidle breakfasting with a'friend at Edmonton, fell back in his chair and expired. of Mrs. Phillips's decease, Mr. Phillips was at the Torrington Arms, and not at on Tuesday night, by a mass of earth falling on him. The upper regions of Fishmongers' Hall remain hermetically sealed; the gilded About a fortnight since, Joseph Ward, a lad about nine years of age, son of the shutters closed to every gazer: such, in short, if the scarcity of flat fish, that the trumpeter of a troop of cavalry quartered at Trowbridge, being in a stable at that whole concern flounders.—Morning Herald. town, in which were some of the horses belonging to the troop, touched one of Itinerant butchers are now attending most market towns, retailing excellent them on the haunch with a pitchfork, with a view to make him move aside ; when mutton and beef at 5d. and Gd. a pound, to the great annoyance of the high-priced a violent kick from the animal caused one of the prongs of the instrument to gentry. enter Ric boy's body, and actually to come out at his back ; the other prong FEMALE PEDESTRIANISM.—INS. M'Mullen has just finished ninety-six miles in passing close to his side. To the utter astonishment of the medical men who twenty-four hours. She is sixty-one years old, and appears a very hearty woman. immediately attended the boy, no hemorrhage followed ; nor was there discharged I have just had a conversation with her ; and considering the extreme fatigue of from the wound more than a table-spoonful of blood I In a very few days the walking the whole night she looks wonderfully well. She performed a similar boy left his bed, and on Wednesday last he proceeded to Dorchester with the feat at Brighton lately ; and gains her livelihood by her legs.—From a Corre- troop, which has been removed to that place, quite recovered!—Devizes Gazette. spondent at Worthing. An attorney of Barnstaple quarrelled last week with a player, and chat- James Hatfield, who has been confined in Bedlam for nearly thirty years, for his longed him to fight. The ground was measured and the pistols were loaded, attempt on the life of the late King, is reputed by his keepers to be now sane. with—powder. The player fell, and a red stream was visible on his face. The The posthumous son of Baron de Stael, the only heir to that title, died on Sa- attorney was visited by the horrors of conscience and the terrors of law ; from turday last, at the age of twenty-three months, after a long illness. His body will which he was at length relieved by a chorus of laughter by the seconds, in which be carried to Coppet, near Geneva, where it is to be placed in the tomb erected the fallen man joined. by the illustrious Baroness de Stael to her father, M. Necker, and in which her A short time ago, a farmer in the neighbourhood of Cupar Angus, perceiving own ashes repose. The Duchess de Broglio and her children, and a son by the cue of his horses to be in a drooping condition, and observing at the same time second marriage of Madame de Stael, and with M. Roca, are all that remain of that he required shoeing, sent him to the smithy, with instructions to the smith to this family.—Paris Correspondent of the Times. examine bins strictly, to see what was the matter. Upon looking into his mouth,the LITUOTRITY3 AN ENGLISII DISCOVERY.—It appears by a communication in- smith discovered that his tongue had been torn out almost fromthe root ; and upon sorted in the Medical Gazette, for November 14, that lithotrity (or the discovery search being made, the animal's tongue was found in his stall, nearly consumed of an apparatus to supersede the painful operation of cutting for the stone) origi- by rut:. The separation was too near the root to justify the supposition that it noted with an Englishman, Mr. J. Elderton, surgeon, of Northampton, and that could have been bit off by the animal itself. The horse, however, is again be- the introduction of the apparatus into France, in 1818, did not take place until ginning to eat his food, and to all appearance is not likely to be materially the some years after an instrument for accomplishing such an object had been exhi- bited to the profession in this:metropolis. In the Edinburgh Medical and Sur- Snow and Co., the bankers. Sir Herbert Taylor and Mr. Westmacott have now TRANSFUSION OF Btoon.—About three weeks ago, a labouring man named filed answers to Captain Garth's bill, and the whole affair will, by and by, come Tolkenning was received into St. Thomas's Hospital with a fractured leg, which before the Chancellor. When the bill was filed, the matters to which it referred, he had received at St. Katharine's Dock. He went on very well until a few and the reputations which it was said to involve, were highly stimulating to the days ago, when mortification having commenced, the leg was amputated. A vio- lovers of mysterious scandal, and not without their use to certain partisans in po- lent haemorrhage then took place, and it was feared that the man would have died in , Ural warfare ; the publication of the answers, and the lengthened comments a very short time ; when Mr. Green took eight ounces of blood from two students, , which accompany these, serve, at this dull season, to give interest of a certain and they were transfused into the veins of the dying man. He recovered in a very sort to some of the Sunday papers. Captain Garth, it is known, claimed restitu- short time, and was left for the night very comfortable. On Sunday night it was two of the box of letters, because the price for which he bartered them had not found necessary to transfuse eight ounces more blood into him. .14e died on been paid. Sir Herbert Taylor and Mr. Westmacott state in reply to this claim, Tuesday. The last successful case of transfusion was-that of a lady in December that Captain Garth hag violated the pledges that accompanied the surrender of 1828.—Morning Chronicle.
of the largest object-glasses that had ever been made. One of these was nearly twelve inches in diameter, and had already been mounted as a telescope at Paris: the other above thirteen inches. It is well known that the Royal Society has been, for a long time past, endeavouring to procure glass to he made in this country for such purposes, but without success ; and Mr. South has all along been of opinion, that it would be much better to procure the article ready made to our hands, than to waste so much time and money in useless efforts,—particularly when it is well known that glass of a much superior kind was made on the Con- tinent than has hitherto been manufactured in England. The object-glass in question was mounted as a telescope at the Royal Observatory at Paris, and the French Government had expended 5001. sterling in the purchase of a stand for it, so colossal are its dimensions ; but they were too parsimonious to purchase the object-glass itself, which belonged to the optician who made it. A private indi- vidual therefore has, in the mean time, stepped in and run away with the prize, which the French Government pretended they could not afford to pay for ; and it is now about to be set up in Mr. South's observatory at Kensington,—certainly one of the most splendid things of this kind, and one of the most powerful teles- copes in this or any other country. This telescope was so celebrated at Paris, that parties from the Tuileries used to be made to visit it soon after every new moon, when the weather was favourable. Those parties can now only look through an empty tube. Mr. South paid a just tribute of respect to our Govern- ment (and particularly to the Duke of Wellington), who afforded him every facility for twinging these object-glasses into the country, not only free from examination at the Custom-house, but also free from all duty.—Times.
CURIOSITIES OF SIIEFFIELD.—Mr. Abraham, a manufacturer at Sheffield, pos- sesses an artificial magnet, formed of 2110 straight bars, capable of lifting 140lbs. ; also a famous orrery made by Heath for the Empress of Russia, which aCcu- rately revolves, by turning a winch, all the primaries and secondaries to Saturn. It contains above 400 wheels, and yet may be turned with the force of an ounce. —Sir Richard Phillips' Tour.
The executioner of Charles the First is said to be (have been) a person of the name of William Walker, a native of Darnall. near Sheffield. Such was the tra- dition of his native place. He died at Darnall, in 1700, and was buried in Shef- field Church, where there was a brass plate to his memory. It is certain that a Walker was one of the masks, and that this Walker was an active partizan ; but he was a man of learning, and wrote some extracts on mathematics and politics.
NEWS FROM WATERLOO.—M. Saintine, who has recently been over the field of Waterloo, has given an account of his visit, in a letter to Messrs. Barthelemy and Mary, which has just appeared in the French papers. After describing his arrival on the field, he says--" An immense mound of earth 225 feet high, in the form of a pyramid, and surmounted by a colossal Belgic Lion looking towards, and ap- parently threatening, France, is the triumphal monument of the Belgians. It ts built upon that celebrated plain where the French cavalry charged and broke the English nuares." M. Saintine doubtless knows more of the battle than any of the persons who were in it, many of whom have from time to time pub- lished accounts of it. They all agree that " the English squares were never broken, and that the French cavalry were cut to pieces." Perhaps M. Saintine will oblige us by publishing the source of his more accurate information. Per- haps if he pursues his inquiries a little further, he may discover that the English were totally routed at Waterloo, and the French left in quiet possession of the field.— llanes.
AMERICAN Wrr.—A person named Jeremiah Thome, in Mobile county, having prohibited by advertisement any one from harbouring or giving credit to his wife, who had deserted him, the American newspapers have been at the trouble to frame a reply by the wife to the charges preferred against her by the husband. The following passage from it may suffice as a specimen. " He may say he will pay no debts of my contracting. He is a false loan for this insinuation, if he does. 1 have always enlarged and swelled every debt I owed as much as in my power. I was never known to diminish or contract one in my life, and with this nut one of my creditors will charge me, to judge of their late reluctance to charge me with other articles. In conclusion like a dutiful wife, I have left no stone un- turned to please my husband ; but I have, finally, borne with him till it is past endurance ; and as there is a hole even in the holy lock of wedlock, and the legislature have a key to it, I am determined to be divorced."
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