The High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire, Mr. Henry Machin, proposed at

his public dinners during the Assizes, the health of "the .Queen," in the most marked manner, and omitted the health of our most gracious Sovereign King William.— Times. [This story has been since denied.]

A very numerous meeting was held at Dewsbury, • Yorkshire, on Monday the 12th instant, upon Mr. Stanley's Bill for educating the Poor of Ireland. The audience were admitted principally by tickets from the clergy, -; but in spite of every effort to secure a resolution adverse to the bill, the clerical party was outvoted in the proportion of nearly 50 to 1.

The Tories of Lyme have taken offence at the independent spirit of the tradesmen, who are nearly all Reformers ; and, to be a match for them, or, as some of them say, "to take the tradesmen down a peg," are most days going to the neighbouring towns to buy their sundry rnarketings, many of whom are officers on half-pay.—Sherborne Journal. [What is the price of these half-pay gentry? Are the Tories buying -men also ?] During the Bristol riots the Wineanton troop of North Somerset Yeomanry Cavalry were ordered out. A private, named English, liv- ing at Mapperton, had 'engaged to marry on the mornirL'es on which his troop was suddenly ordered to march. He contrived to keep both ap- pointments. He married in the morning, conducted his wife home, . and then set off at a killing pace. He managed to get up with his troop 'before it entered Bristol, and he continued for eight days on active duty. On Saturday last, the troop had a field-day, arid a dinner was afterwards given. In the evening, a handsome silver tea-pot was presented to Mrs. English, bearing the following inscription :—" To the wife of a British yeoman : Presented by the officers and privates of the Wincanton troop of North Somerset Yeomanry Cavalry, to Mrs. English, of Mapperton, in testimony of high approbation of her conduct ; who, with a proper feeling of her husband's honour, allowed him, on their bridal morning, to march with the troop called to assist in quelling the unfortunate riots at Bristol, Monday, October 31, 1831."—Bath Herald. [So honest English durst not have marched without his wife's permission.]

A report of the Committee of the Newcastle coal-owners has just been published : it states that during the past year, 317,519 chaldrons or 841,425 tons less of coals have been wrought than would have been if no cessation or restriction of labour had taken place.

The 'Wednesday after Lord Derby's arrival at Melton, last week, -the hounds met at Melton, out of compliment to the venerable noble- man. The • entire of the gentlemen, composing the Belvoir Hunt attended on the occasion, and the scene was altogether most animated and brilliant. The Earl came upon the ground with his daughter, the Countess Wilton, in her pony phaeton. After refining to Goadby, a fox was started, which afforded a capital run; and owing to Lady Wil- ton's skilful driving, and local knowledge of the country, she was enabled to delight the Earl with a view of a considerable part of the chase.—Leicester Journal.

The ceremony of opening the harbour of Whitstable took place on Saturday; and the day proving fine, several thousand people assembled. Every precaution was taken to avoid accident, and nothing serious oc- curred.

A meeting of the owners and occupiers of land of several adjacent parishes was held on Tuesday, at Car Green, Cornwall, to petition the Legislature cin the subject of ihe present syStem of tithes.

For some time past, a disease of an inflammatory, and, apparently, also of a contagious nature, has shown itself amongst all descriptions of horses, and vast numbers have died. The training-stables of Mr. Scott, at Melton, Yorkshire, have been particularly unfortunate.

A serious mortality has manifested itself in Lastingham during the -week. Since Sunday, Mrs. Shepherd has fallen a victim. William Stamper, who dug her grave, was the next; and John Carter, his man, has been added to the dead.— York Herald.

A general smite took place on Wednesday at the collieries about Oldham ; and it is said they refuse going to work again till their coat... measures are cut down to the same size as those tied at Do:ton and other places.—Branchester

The sum expended in two years on the Birmingham water-works amounts to rather more than 100,0001. The works are ccmpleted, and the pipes laid, to the extent of nearly fifty-six miles; the whole having been accomplished within the estimate.

The Penelope, from Alexandria in Egypt, struck on the banks at Liverpool in the course of Monday night, and berme a wreck. At daylight, her signal of distress was observed from the lighthouse ; the life-boat immediately put off from Hoylake, and, after sonic difficulty, and considerable risk, rescued the crew from their. perilous situation. Several bales of cotton were svashed ashore during Tuesday. The vessel has gone to pieces.

At daybreak on Tuesday morning, a vessel was discovered on shore on the tiff part of the Goodwin Sand, in so perilous a situntion, that the crew determined to quit her. Fortunately, as the flood-tide made, the wind abated, and two of the Deal boats' crews succeeded in getting on board the vessel, and in extricating her; they proceeded to Dover harbour, with loss of rudder and colisiderable other damage. sslas proved to be the brig Liverpool, of Maryport, Ross master, from t:ette for Stettin, laden with wine. The crew are put under strict quarantine. The captain remained on board when the crew lit the vessel.

On Tuesday night, John Dickinson, a notorious offender, vho, \Vial a companion named George Cantell, was cast for death at the late Assizes, for breaking into the house of James Woodham, a watchmaker at Hungerford, effected his escape from Reading gaol, in a most daring manner. For better security, Diekinson was locked up evel.v night in one of the condemned cells, mild] his clothes regal, ly tsk.si cm him. The cell in which he WaS confined is between eleven and twelve feet high, lined throughout with solid oak plank two inches thick, and the joints cased with iron, and whitewashed on the ceiling and sides. At six o'clock in the evening, be was loeked up as usual, amid the turnkey art looking round found all safe ; but this experienced bawler lied been for some time working with a piece of iron hoop, ahout five ineheslongs and three quarters of an inch wide, Nvhichm. he had made into a saw, and taken an opportunity to harden in the fire. A short piece of stick not bigger than a mines little finger, which was used to prop up the shutter before the grating of his cell, formed the handle ; and by getting on a wooden stool belonging to the cell, lie reaehed the ceilings and with this rough instrument, by wonderful perseverance, cut through the solid plank of the ceiling, and after long-continued nocturnal la- bour, succeeded last night in cutting out an oblongpieee of wood, which, after wrenching offthe iron at the joints' left a hole big enough to enable him to force his body through. It appears, that oh leaving off work, he stopped the crevice he had cut by pasting cver a piece of white paper. He made his paste by wetting a hit of bread, a small portion of this composition being found in the corner of the cell. He then rubbed over the paper some of the chalk off the wall ; and un- less the turnkey bad been aware that something was wrong, it was next to impossible, on looking round, to make any discovery. ilavieg per- fected the aperture, he cut his blankets into strips, whielrbe twisted into a rope upwards of thirty feet long. Having got through the aperture, he found himself under the tiling ; and by removing a few tiles, he as- cended to the main roof of the gaol, which he traversed like a cat; and then passed over the top of a very high and dangerous eross-wall, having loose bricks on the top, four of which he took with him to the outer wall ; and having tied them to the end of his blanket rope, by means of an extra piece which be bad made, fixed them mider the coping, and then descended, by means of his rope, a distance of forty feet, into the gaol garden ; and to prevent the bricks at the end of the rope follies, back and making a noise, be tied the end he had in his hand to a tree ; and having scared the garden-wall, effected his escape into the public road. —Times.

Simon Frost, a young man about twenty years of age, and a young boy named Aston were charged at Bury St. Edmunds, on Tuesday, with robbing John Day on the highway, on the 13th December last. Day, who was " forward" in liquor, bah been displaying his money— eighteen sovereigns and a .5/. note—at a public-house in Bury, in the presence of the prisoners, and soon after set (nit for Melford. He was making tire best use of' his time in journeyieg homeward, when, about a mile and a quarter from Bury St. Edmunds, the prisoner Frost came suddenly upon him from over the hedge, and asked him " What's o'clock, old cock ?" Immediately after he had said this, Frost seized Day's stick, and, a lone struggle ensued for it; :Ind whilst this was going on, Day received 'a blow from behind which felled him. • As soon as Day was on the ground, Frost knelt on him, and having succeeded in getting his stick, struck him three dines on the head with it, with great violence. He then turned to the boy, and asked, " Shall I mur- der him ?" To which the boy answered, No, for God's sake don't." Day begged, as he said, "wonderful hard" for mercy, and Frost thrust his hand into the pocket in which he 111:d put his purse at the public- house, and drew it out, at the same time giving him another theadful blow on his naked head, and using a brutal oath. This last blow quite stupified the poor man and he continued insensible for a considerable time, when he found dud he had been dragged to the side of the foot- path nearest to the hedge. His head was cut open in three places, and his coat and shirt were very bloody—indeed, as he swore, be was " smeared with blood from head to foot, and was all soaked through with it." He crawled on to a public 'mouse, where his wounds were bathed in brandy, and a plaster applied to them; and after some time, he was strong enough to proceed on his journey. On reaching home, he was put to bed; which he did not quit for ten days. The boy was proved to have been of the party, from his own confession. Frost was distinctly identified by the prosecutor. He was convicted, and sentenced to be executed.

An inquest was held at Bilston, on Wednesday, on the body of Samuel Walker, a collier, between whom and another collier, George Higginbottom, an altercation took place on the previous Saturday night, at a publichouse, where they had been paid their wages. They fought two rounds, in the second having about one blow each, when they closed and fell upon a table, as they had done in the first round. They each sat down, but as Walker was rising from his seat, he fell upon the floor, and died without a struggle.

- On Saturday morning, two incendiaries, named. Bertiman and Hunt, convicted at the late Assizes, were executed on the drop behind the comity gaol, Winchester, for setting fire to the property of Mr. Smith, of Barton Stacey. .

At the late Lincoln .Assizes, notwithstanding the recommendation to mercy by the Jury, a young girl named Priscilla Woodford was condemned to death for incendiarism. Since the condemnation, several humane individuals resident at Lincoln have been getting up a petition to the Judge (Sir J. Park) before whom she was tried, to spare her life. It appears that from her first entrance into the condemned cell, she has been almost continually hi a state of stupor, except occasionally crying out terribly.

The soldiers belonging to the 18th Regiment (Royal Irish), stationed at Northampton, were permitted on St. Patrick's Day to leave their barracks at three o'clock in the morning, to enjoy themselves, and, with singular propriety, to carry their side-arms along with them ! In due time, two of them having got drunk, fell a quarrelling with some of the townspeople ; and being disappointed in their attempts to beet St a person who had remonstrated with them on their conduct, they turned on a poor man named Marriot, who was passing, and while one of the ruffians knocked Marriot down, the other plunged his bayonet into his temple. The poor man died almost immediately.

At a farm, called Godfreys, in the parish of Radwinter, near Saffron Walden, on the 8th instant, some evil-disposed person mixed a quantity of poison with some clover hay, which was cut for the cattle, by which means two fine bulloeks were poisoned.

John Jacobs, one of the Bristol rioters, has died in gaol, of con- sumption.