A new banking establishment has just been opened in Bristol.
The application for a pier or jetty at Gravesend will be repeated to the Reformed Parliament. It was cushioned last time by a Committee of the House of Lords.
A correspondent of the Brighton Herald gives the following account of an extraordinary phenomenon which was visible from Brighton on Monday night last. " Thousands of falling stars and meteors were seen from midnight until half-past two o'clock on Tuesday morning. I counted 173, and they then appeared so rapidly that I gave up my calculation. Of these 173, 37 were of considerable magnitude ; and many of them were accompanied by sounds like the rattling of a car- riage, and others like the rushing into the air of a skyrocket. One in particular, which passed from N. W. to S.W., was attended with a noise greater than that of the great meteor of the 18th August 1783, which must still be remembered by many persons. This meteor lasted upwards of six minutes, during which period it assumed various forms. It was first like a ball of fire, afterwards it became blue, then it de- scended like the nucleus of a comet, and disappeared in a cloud of fiery sparks. It is remarkable that the same appearances should have hap- pened on the 12th November in 1783. Whether they portend any great coming events, as some have supposed, I will not presume to say, but send you the particulars for'the information of your readers." The same appearances were visible at Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight.
A young fellow named Edwards, a native of Montgomeryshire, who enlisted in the 53d Regiment, in Shrevisbury, a short time ago, on being sent to head-quarters, deserted within two hours after his arrival. A love affair seduced him back again to that town, where he was appre- hended and committed to gaol. On Thursday morning, on being revs- sited by the turnkeys, they discovered that the fore-finger of his right band was missing ; and on questioning him, he pulled it from his pocket, saying he had snapped it off by inserting it' between the door- post and the door of a heavy iron gate, and so separating it from his band. On inquiry, this story appears false ; as it is apparent, from the cleanness of the cut, that he had deliberately laid it on a table, and hacked it off with a knife.— Wolverhampton Chronicle.
Mr. Thomas Bulpett, of Old Alresford, a partner of Knapp's Win- chester bank, was shot dead on Sunday, by his own son, a lunatic.
Five unfortunate men lost their lives on Wednesday last, at Brom- ley Hall Colliery. The pit contained a quantity of inflammable air; and a candle having been imprudently left burning, the flame came in contact with the gas, and an explosion took place. There were six-
teen men in the pit, all except the five deceased ran to the bottom of the shaft and escaped.— Wolverhampton Chronicle.
On Sunday night, Mrs. Standish, the mother of Colonel Standish, and who had been for many years confined to her bed, was reading in bed, when the clothes took fire, and she was so dreadfully burned before any assistance could be rendered to her, that she expired, after extreme suffering, between three and four on Monday morning.—Dub- liit
On Tuesday about noon, a barn containing a qnantity of barley, the property of Thomas Kemp, Esq., of Swafield, was destroyed by fire.— ..N*67;0e East Anglian.
An attempt was made one night last week to burn down Cook's gibbet post, but it did not succeed.—Leicester Chronicle.
On Monday week last, as one of the furnace-men at Felling Colliery was at the bottom of the pit filling ashes to send to bank, after shaking the chain to give the men at the top notice to draw the corf up, the chain caught his leg, and he was drawn without injury up the shaft to the bank, a depth of 120 fathoms. —Newcastle - Couran.4.
OnnThursday night, the landlady of the Plough Inn, Tewkesbury, upon going into her bed-room, discovered that a bureau therein had been broken open and robbed of two ten-pound and one five-pound notes, and a quantity of gold and silver, amounting in the whole to be- tween 601. and 701. Suspicion immediately fell upon two strangers, who were then in bed in the house, and who had arrived in the course of the same evening. Constables were procured ; and on searching their bed, 1161. in sovereigns and half-sovereigns was found in a pocket- book under the pillow. The men were kept in custody at the Plough until Friday morning, when they were taken before a magistrate, who committed them for further examination until Monday. Upon their arrival at the Borough Gaol, their persons were more minutely searched, and in a leather belt buckled close to the body of one of the prisoners, under his shirt, were found 238 sovereigns ; and in a similar belt, around the body of the other prisoner, were found 210 sovereigns, 21 half- sovereigns, and four half-guineas. The men stated their names to be Inman Meredith and Isaac Meredith ; said they came from Glasgow, where they had been in partnership as butchers ; and that the money found upon them belonged to their creditors, from whom they had clan- destinely fled.—Gloucester Journal.
On Tuesday last, Mrs- Mary Clay was committed to York Castle, charged with having three husbands.
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