short, but in her way it appeared she was met by two men, who persuaded her to go to a public-house with them, where they were in company together. They did not, however, continue long there, and where they afterwards went was not known. It appeared, however, from the statement of the miserable father of the poor lunatic, that the villains, after having gratified their passions and otherwise ill-treated her, left her, and she was discovered about five o'clock the following morning wandering in the street, in a most wretched and deplorable state, by a watchman, who knew her, and conveyed her to her father.

The worthy magistrate censured, in strong terms, the conduct of the master of the workhouse, in suffering a person, in the unhappy state in which this young woman was, and who had been placed under his care, to be in the streets alone, or indeed at all. He could not avoid at the same time expressing his surprise, that the father should not have felt the necessity of seeing her safe home. He however fixed a time for the master of the workhouse, the publican at whose house she was, and the watchman who found her in the street, to attend, that if possible some traces by which to discover the villains who acted thus atrociously might be found.

A singular circumstance occurred lately at the Bank. A man was brought there from a country town, under a charge of passing forged bank-notes. He had been searched, and a note supposed to be forged was found on him, in addition to one which he had paid to a tradesman. On the notes being shewn to the clerk whose business it was to examine them, he laid them on a table before him; upon which the accused person took them up, and saying, "Gentlemen, I am confident the notes are good," thrust them both in his mouth. In his endeavour to swallow

them he pretended to be nearly chok. ed; and such an effect had the danger to which his life appeared to be exposed on the feelings of the persons near him, that one of them hastened to bring him a glass of water. This he eagerly swallowed, and turning to the astonished clerks, said, " Gentlemen, I thank you; I am now very well." There was no longer any question about his detention, and as he walked into Threadneedle-street he met a Bowstreet officer, who recognized in him an old acquaintance.. "What are you doing here?" said the officer. "I was suddenly taken ill, and was in great danger; but being carried in here, the gentlemen of the bank have kindly relieved me!"

A man, named Webster, was last week committed to Norwich gaol, for attempting the life of Jemina Hardingham. The prisoner had paid his addresses to the above young woman, and being slighted by her, took an opportunity, when they were alone, to throw her down and cut her throat. Imagining her death to be certain, from the profuse bleeding which followed, he attempted his own life in like manner; but neither the wound which he inflicted on himself, nor that on the young woman, is likely to prove fatal.

4th. The ceremony of opening the Glasgow, Paisley, and Ardrossan Canal having been fixed for this day, the Right Honourable the Earl of Églinton, the first and great promoter of the work, Sir John Maxwell of Pollock, Mr Campbell of Blythswood, Mr Hamilton of Grange, Mr Smith of Swin ridgemuir, the sheriff, and sheriff substitute of the county of Renfrew, the magistrates of Paisley, the Committee of Management, and a great number of gentlemen, proprietors in the canal, accompanied by the band of the 1st regiment of Lanarkshire local militia, amidst the acclamations and congratulations of an immense crowd of spec

tators lining the banks, embarked at the basin at Paisley, in the company's three elegant barges, with flags displayed the poop of the leading barge ornamented with an appropriate cornucopia, and proceeded in the grandest style to the basin at Glasgow welcomed on their approach by a numerous band of the company's operatives, unyoking the horses, and towing in the leading barge in grateful triumph, cheered by the applauses of the assembled multitude; and here the procession was received under a grand salute from the artillery of the Forth and Clyde Canal volunteers, which Colonel Baird had politely stationed at the entrance of the harbour. On landing, the company were met by the lord provost and magistrates of Glasgow, the dean of guild, deacon convener of the Trades-house, the magistrates of Gorbals, and other gentlemen of the city of Glasgow, proprietors in the canal; and the whole, consisting of about 200 persons, adjourned to the canal company's warehouse, where a most impressive prayer was delivered by the Rev. Mr M'Lean minister of Gorbals, and the company partook of a handsome collation, provided by Lord Eglinton. After several loyal and appropriate toasts from the noble preses, the lord provost of Glasgow addressed the company, and stated, that the spot on which they then stood would, in all probability, be ere long a port of very considerable importance, and proposed, with all deference to the gentlemen of the Committee of Manage ment, that it should be named Port Eglinton. The name was accordingly announced by the lord provost ; and success to Port Eglinton was drank, under repeated huzzas, and discharges of artillery. The company then re-embarking in the barges, re turned in the same order to the basin at Paisley, where they were received

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by thousands of welcoming spectators. An elegant dinner was provided in the Tontine Inn, New Town, to which nearly 100 gentlemen sat down; and, under the auspices of the noble earl in the chair, the business and enjoyments of the day were crowned with the most elevated convivial harmony.

5th. On Wednesday evening, about seven o'clock, as Mr Wylde, a farmer, of Sundridge-place, was returning from Croydon fair, in a horse and chaise, accompanied by his son and grandson, they were stopped near the top of Westerham-hill by a single footpad, who demanded their money. Mr Wylde replied, "My friend, you are too late, as I have paid all my money away in the purchase of some oxen at the fair." The robber presented a pistol at the time he stopped them. Mr Wylde, however, gave him all the money he had at the time, which was only a few shillings; with which the villain expressed himself much dissatisfied. He insisted upon having more from them, and said he was sure it was not all they had got. The villain keeping his pistol presented at Mr Wylde's head, Mr W. turned it from his head with his whip; but while he was doing this, the robber, without any threat or notice, immediately discharged it, and the contents lodged in Mr W.'s breast and head, and caused instant death. He expired in his son's arms, without a groan. There were seven slugs in the pistol; two of them lodged in his head, and five in his side and breast. Mr W.'s son is about the age of 19, and his grandson 11 years. The inhuman murderer made off.

8th.-BOSTON.-The celebrated aeronaut, Sadler, ascended in his balloon yesterday, at Birmingham, at 20 minutes past two o'olock in the afternoon; and, to the high gratification and wonder of the neighbourhood of Heckington, in this county, the balloon 'descended in a field of Mr Godson's,

about a mile from the town, a few minutes before four o'clock. Mr Sadler was accompanied by a young gentleman named Burcham. The balloon first struck the ground in the parish of Burton, a mile and a half from the place where it was secured; and by the concussion Mr Sadler was thrown out of the car, and left on the ground. The balloon thus lightened, ascended with extreme velocity, to the great hazard of the gentleman who remained in it. At length he succeeded in pressing the bag of rarified air sufficiently to occasion the balloon to descend again; and, throwing out the anchor, it caught in the parish of Asgarby, and the silk of the balloon clung round an ash tree in a most extraordinary way, insinuating itself amongst the branches, and tearing into a thousand pieces. A number of persons ran to the assistance of Mr Burcham, and he was speedily conducted to Mr Godson's, where he met with the kindest reception. Mr Sadler, on finding himself left in the field where the balloon first grounded, made his way to the house of a miller, where he borrowed a shoe (having lost one of his own); the miller taking care to have his quid pro quo, by receiving a pledge of some money, which the aeronaut happily had about him. Mr Sadler then went to Heckington, and in the street there first saw again his lost companion; each, the moment before, fancying the other killed. The interview was scarcely less than ludicrous. They flew into one another's arms, with such expressions of joy, as cannot be conceived by those who have not been in circumstances nearly similar. The balloon was almost wholly destroyed, and pieces of it are now in the possession of persons at Heckington and the neighbourhood.

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principal Roman Catholic chapel of Kilkenny. One of the priests was delivering a sermon on the intercession of the Virgin, when a young priest, who was present, stood up and publicly contradicted the doctrine; exclaiming to the preacher, that he was misleading the people, for that Christ was the only intercessor; and warning the people not to believe the doctrine which they then heard. Much confusion, as might indeed have been expected, immediately arose, and the interruptor

was seized and hurried into the sacris

ty. At this strange scene upwards of twelve hundred persons were present.

There are several remarkable stories of swallows acting in concert, in order to perform offices, for which the unaided exertions of individuals were inadequate. The following instance of the wonderful intelligence of these birds, we are informed, is authentic. At a house in the neighbourhood of Bo'ness, part of a swallow's nest, which had last summer been insecurely constructed, in the corner of a window, gave way, and left the young birds, with which it happened to be filled, in a very perilous situation. The danger, however, was but of short duration. In a few hours after the catastrophe, about a dozen swallows came to the relief of the distressed parents; and falling vigorously to work, completely repaired the argillaceous habitation in the course of the afternoon.

A scene as disgraceful to the parties who were the authors of it, as it was hurtful to the feelings of the humanized spectators, occurred on Wednesday afternoon in the neighbourhood of Shoreditch. The funeral procession of a person of respectability was passing to the burial ground of Shoreditch, when the hearse was stopped by a number of Sheriffs officers, one of whom presented a writ for eighty pounds, at the suit of a person with

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whom the deceased had dealings. As the law, as it at present stands, authorizes a creditor to arrest the departed frame of his debtor, the officers proceeded to take the body out of the coffin; then placed it in a shell which they had brought with them in a cart, and in this vehicle conveyed it away. 12th-STRAND BRIDGE Yesterday the ceremony of laying the first stone of this undertaking took place on the Surry side of the Thames, close to the landing-stairs called Cuper's Bridge, nearly opposite Somersethouse. About four o'clock, every thing being prepared within the first coffer-dam, a fine large block of Cornish granite (a specimen of what the bridge is to be built with) was lowered down, and covered an excavation in the work beneath, which contained the gold and silver coins of the present reign, over which was fixed a plate, formed of block-tin, with the following inscription engraved thereon :

"This foundation stone of the Strand Bridge was laid on Friday the 11th day of October, A. D. 1811, by the directors for executing the same, Henry Swann, Esq. M. P. Chairman; in the 51st year of the reign of King George the Third, and during the Regency of H. R. H. George Prince of Wales.The money for building which was raised by subscription, under the authority of an act of Parliament.-J. Rennie, engineer."

The directors and engineer now placed their hands on the stone, which had just been lowered, and were addressed by the chairman in a neat and appropriate speech, and success to the undertaking was then drank, amidst the applauses of the surrounding spectators, and the shouts of the numerous workmen surrounding the spot. The sight was very interesting, though unaccompanied with any pomp or show. This bridge, when completed, will be the largest on the Thames, perhaps

in the world, and is to consist of nine arches, all of equal sizes, and 120 feet span each, and of a beautiful elliptical form, which will prove a great ornament to the metropolis.

Although the first stone is now but just laid, other parts of the work are in great forwardness, for the piles are driving for the third coffer-dam, the second being finished. The first dam is formed for the grand abutment, and the others for the first and second piers,

BREAKING OPEN THE PRIVY-COUNCIL OFFICE.-A few nights since, the Privy-Council Office was broken open. The office-keeper was alarmed by a noise in the upper part of the office, which awoke him; he got a light immediately, and went up stairs, and discovered that some person or persons had entered by a window which had been opened by the parties from the back premises leading from the ruins of an old house in Downing-street, which was pulled down some time since for the purpose of enlarging the East India Board Office. That plan has been abandoned, and the PrivyCouncil Office is now where the East India Board used to be held. The robbers decamped without stealing any thing, on hearing the office-keeper stirring.

14th.-Bow-STREET.--Friday evening, Richard, alias Dick Payne, and John Malony, underwent a final examination, charged with a street robbery, under extraordinary circumstances.

It appeared, that on Tuesday morning, between twelve and one o'clock, as Salmon and his party of the patrole were on duty in St Giles's, the publichouses being all shut up agreeably to the order of the magistrates, they went into a cook's shop, the corner of Church-lane, where thieves, common women, and disorderly persons resort, it being kept open nearly all night. After looking about to see who were there, they observed the prisoner,

Payne, whom they knew to be a reputed thief. Payne called to Salmon, and said he wanted to speak to him. They went together into the passage, when Payne asked Salmon if he knew a man who was sitting at supper in the eating-room: Salmon replied, he did not. Payne told him as a secret, he was a returned lag; meaning that he was a thief who had returned from transportation from on board the hulks before the expiration of his sentence. This information induced Salmon to go up to the man, and ask him who he was. The man replied, his name was William Duckett, that he resided in Wells-street, Oxford-street, and was a Venetian blind-maker. Salmon believing the account to be correct that had been told him, and Payne having said he had got a pocket-book about him with a number of bank notes in it, Salmon told him he must see what he had got about him; and on his seeing the contents of his pockets, he found his pocket-book contained a 101. a 51. and three 11. Bank of England notes. The papers and other things found upon him being satisfactory to Salmon that he was the man he represented himself to be, and that Payne's account of him was false, he advised Mr Duckett to go home, or he would lose his property. Mr Duckett took Salmon's advice, and left the house in a few minutes after; but he had only got about thirty yards from the house, when he was stopped, and violently assaulted by two men, who demanded his pocket-book, and forcibly took it from him. Mr Duckett was so much alarmed at the idea of having been searched on suspicion of being a robber, and having actually been robbed within a few minutes, that he ran away as fast as he could out of the neighbourhood. He however went and gave an account of the robbery before he went home.

The prisoners were afterwards taken into custody; and Mr Duckett identified them both, as being in the cook's shop at the time he was, and the men who stopped and robbed him; and that Payne was the man who demanded his pocket-book, and took it.

Thomas Roche, the keeper of the Maidenhead public-house, in Georgestreet, Bloomsbury, proved his having given the prisoner, Payne, change for a 101. Bank of England note, and which proved to be the same Mr Duckett had received in part of a 201. check from Messrs Marsh, Sibbald, and Co. bankers, and of which he had been robbed. The prisoners were committed for trial.

The foundation stone of Lord Macdonald's intended village of Kyle Haken, Isle of Skye, was laid on the 14th ult. in presence of a numerous meeting of the ladies and gentlemen in the neighbourhood. After the usual ceremony was performed, the party retired to the festive board, which was prepared on the green, the site of the village, when many loyal, patriotic, and appropriate toasts were drank, and the day passed much to the satisfaction of the company present, who all admired the beautiful situation of the proposed establishment, which, from its local advantages for trade, and its vicinity to the fishing lochs, promises at no distant period to become a place of the first importance in the united kingdom.

YARMOUTH.--LOSS OF THE POMONE FRIGATE.-The Pomone frigate, from the Mediterranean, struck on the Needle Rocks at seven o'clock this evening, and instantly filled with water, having all her masts cut away. The guardship boats and pilot vessels went immediately down to take the crew out, and to afford them every assistance.

All the crew were saved, by the exertions and activity of the pilot-vessels of this place, and boats of the guards