real estates to make settlements. A like power to the Countess to devise annuities not exceeding a sum limited; and also a devise to her of £1000 immediately, and £2000 per annum for life, charged on the Gloucester estates; together with the estates in Middlesex for life. Lugges Farm for life, and leasehold house in Spring Garden for life; and she is made residuary legatee to all the rest, residue, and remainder of his property for ever. It concludes with a solemn declaration of the legitimacy of Lord Dursley, and finally disinherits all and every of the children who presume to dispute his title and legitimacy.

SUICIDE. A Coroner's Inquest was lately held on the body of Elizabeth Luff, of Rippengale, who put a period to her existence bydrowning herself in a pond, six feet deep, not far from her dwellinghouse. Her sister, a young girl about fifteen years of age, was sent by her mother to the house of the deceased, to carry her something for her dinner, but she was not to be found. The imagination of this young girl immediately led her to the above-mentioned pond, where she found the deeeased sitting on the brink; her clothes were wet as high as her knees, as if she had been in the water. She asked the deceased what she was doing there; no answer was made, but she instantly screamed out aloud, and threw herselfinto the pond. The young girl, not aware of her own danger, rushed in after her, thinking to save her life; but she soon became 'unable to help herself.

Their cries attracted the attention of a man who sat in his own house, from whence he ran to their assistance. He likewise entered into the pond and got hold of them both, while they clung to him; but he was obliged to break their hold to save himself. He got out with great difficulty; in the mean time another man arrived, and by the use of a long rail they succeeded in getting the young girl out while life remained. Medical aid was instantly sent for; and we are happy to find she is doing well. Three quarters of an hour had nearly elapsed before Elizabeth Luff was got out, when she was dragged forth a lifeless corpse.She has left a husband and three young children to lament her untimely end; and the Jury returned a verdict of" Lunacy."

DREADFUL FIRE.-An Inquest was held on Monday evening, April 12, on the bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Goulee, Peter and William, two of their male children, a female infant only a month old, Martha Courtnay, a nurse, and Jame Shore, an apprentice to Mr. Goulee, who met their death by a dreadful fire, on the preceding Sa

turday. The Jury having been sworn, proceeded to Bishopgate Workhouse, to examine the bodies, which were disposed in shells for that purpose.— A more dreadful or more harrowing scene was scarcely ever exhibited to a Jury. The human form was scarcely discernible, and from the contortions to be observed in their mutilated frames, it was evident that some of them had expired in the most poignant agonies. This painful task over, the Jury returned to the White Hart, where several witnesses were examined touching the origin of the horrid catastrophe. The only one whose evidence threw any light upon the subject, was Susannah Creed, the wife of a waiter in the London Tavern, who lodged on the first floor. She stated, that she had supped with Mrs. Goulee the night before the fire, and that she and her husband went to bed at half past ten o'clock. She was awoke about two o'clock by a loud crackling, which she at first conceived to proceed from some persons endavouring to break into the house. She immediately got up, and opened the chamberdoor, when, to her consternation, she saw a volume of flames ascending the stairs. She wanted to run up stairs to alarm the family, but her husband prevented her, and throwing a featherbed out of the window, she jumped upon it, and was shortly afterwards followed by her husband. In addition to the persons already named as having fallen victims to this dreadful visitation, she said, there was a servant-maid, named Martha Byron, whose remains have not yet been found. On being questioned as to the probable cause of the fire, she said that the family were in the habit of leaving a large fire in the parlour to dry their clothes, which they generally washed once a week. They also occasionally left a fire under a copper in the wash-house, which was used to boil hams and other meat for sale in the shop. To these sources only could she attribute the origin of the flames. The Jury returned a verdict of "Died by accidental fire."

DIED. On Tuesday, May 7, after a short illness, Richard Cumberland, Esq. author of the comedy of" The West Indian," "The Carmelite,' "The Wheel of Fortune," "First Love," "The Jew," and other works.-He was a Gentleman of erudition, indefatigable as an author, and had a new work in haud when he died. He was in his 85th year. He was born in Ireland, and was the son of Dr. Cumberland, Bishop of Kilmore. On the same day, William Boscawen, Esq. of the Victualling-Office. He was a Gentleman of literature, and an excellent poet.

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE.

DIED. At Taplow, within a few minutes of each other, Mr. J. Finch, and Mary his wife; he in his 64th, she in her 63d year. It was a singuJar circumstance, that Mrs. Finch frequently expressed a wish not to survive her beloved husband one hour.

CAMBRIDGSHIRE.

EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE.-An occurrence has taken place at Newmarket, which is the subject of general conversation and surprise among the frequenters of the turf. Several horses were entered for the Claret Stakes, and, as usual, were taken out in the morning for exercise. They all drank, as we understand, at one water-trough. Some time after they had been watered, six of them were observed to stagger, and then to roll about in the greatest agony. One, we hear, is dead. On examining the watering-trough, it was found that the water had been poisoned. The horses were the property of Mr. Sitwell, Sir F. Standish, and Lord Kinnaird. large reward has been offered for the discovery of the perpetrator of this infamous deed.

DERBYSHIRE.

and twisted the tops from the trunks, conveying

them from fifty to a hundred yards distance. Cows were lifted up from one field to another and injured by the fall. This was attended with a most tremendous hail storm; stones and lumps of ice were measured from nine to twelve inches in circumference, breaking windows, injuring cattle, &c. In short, the damage sustained is not yet known; it is beyond all description.

HEREFORDSHIRE.

A MOST MIRACULOUS AND PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE occurred on Monday, May 6, at the paper mills, at Two-waters, in this county, which, it is to be hoped, will lead to an inquiry into the conduct of those who are intrusted with the management of the locks and bridges upon the Paddington canal.—A post-coach, in which were

a gentleman and three ladies, in going up the draw-bridge near that place, found it had been left open, the carriage had got so far that it was impossible to turn, the road being so narrow, and the declivity so great. The driver finding the perilous situation, got from the box to endeavour to keep the horses from backing, which he could not accomplish, so that all were instantly planged over a precipice near ten feet high, by which the carriage was dashed to pieces, the horses narrowly saved; one of the ladies much bruised, the other slightly. Surely such unpardonable neglect in the persons who are employed by the

sioned the cart to fall, with one of the shafts upon his breast, the pressure of which was so great, that every effort to extricate itself was unavailing, as it evidently, in its agony, had used much exertion, by the surface of the ground being much torn up by its hands and

feet.

DREADFUL STORM.-About five o'clock in the afternoon of Sunday, May 12, a most destructive phenomenon appeared at Bonsoll, near Matlock Bath; a singular motion was observed in a cloud of a serpentine form, which moved in a circular direction from S. by W. to N. extending itself to the ground. It began its operation near Hopton, and continued its course about five or six miles in length, and about four or five hundred yards in breadth, tearing up plantations, levelling barns, walls, and miners' cots. It tore up large ash trees, carrying them from twenty to thirty yards,

as an example to others.

KENT.

DARING AND EXTRAORDINARY ROBBERY. -In the interval between the evening of Saturday, April 27, and the Monday morning following, the Union Bank, belonging to Messrs. Baker and Co. in Canterbury, was entered by some unknown means, and notes and cash to a considerable amount (it is said £12,000) stolen thereout. The circumstance was discovered about nine o'clock on Monday morning, when the chief Clerk, being about to proceed to the business of the day, found some obstruction in unlocking the iron door of one of the closets, and on further search, it appeared that this, as well as another closet, had been opened and relocked, and that an iron chest which was fixed within-side of one of them had been forced open, apparently by prizing the lid of it. This chest,

besides the notes of the firm, contained also the receipts and transactions of the Bank on Saturday, which was customary to deposit there in the Bank till the Monday following: such, however, was the systematic method with which this robbery was effected, that the checks paid in the course of Saturday, and the bills not negociable, were sorted and separated from the other notes, and such only taken as could be passed, consisting of Bank of England and local and provincial notes; in addition to these, a gold watch, and (what seems extraordinary the thieves should have encumbered themselves with) the paper moulds of the firm were also taken. One hundred one pound notes of the firm luckily escaped attention, and a pearl necklace of very considerable value, which was contained in a small leathern trunk, although the lock of the same was forced off, was also left. How an entrance was obtained into the Bank was uncertain, as no violence appeared to have been used to the lock of the outer door, but it would seem that the locks of the iron doors had been picked and re-locked, one of the wards having been twisted off in the act, and a piece of the small steel saw which had been broken, was also left behind.

MIIDDLESEX.

FATAL DUEL-A duel was fought on Tuesday morning, May 7, at day-break, in a field, about a mile and a half from Tottridge, between two gentlemen who had alighted from post-chaises at the King's Arms public-house, near the spot. In an hour afterwards one of the gentlemen was brought in mortally wounded in the abdomen, and he died in four hours. A Coroner's Jury returned a verdict of" Wilful Murder. The parties were not known. The body was owned after the Inquest, and the deceased turned out to be a Mr. Harrison, a young man about twenty-two years of age.

SHROPSHIRE.

SINGULAR OCCURRENCE.-A person walking over his farm near the Haxles, in the parish of Stanton, observed a large crow strike violently at something on the ground, and soon rose with a fine leveret in her claws. The cries of the little captive, however, soon drew the attention of its parent, which actually pursued it over two fields, jumping at the crow, which could not rise more than six or eight feet from the ground, and was at length obliged to drop her prize; which poor old puss immediately took up in her mouth, and carried in triumph to her hiding-place.

PEMBROKESHIRE...

THE MURDER AT HAVERFORDWEST.-John Griffith was convicted of the murder of his wife by poison. On his return to gaol, after sentence was passed on him, he was visited, at his own request, by the Rev. Mr. Luke, to whom he confessed that he was not only guilty of the crime for which he was about to suffer, but that he had also murderd his first wife, and had destroyed both by administering arsenic to them. He said that he had employed a fellow-servant to purchase the arsenic for him, with which he poisoned his first wife, pretending that he wanted to kill the rats and mice that infested the house; instead of which he administered the poisonous drug to his wife. He acknowledged that he purchased a shilling's worth of arsenic himself, for the purpose of destroying his second wife, and that he gave her the first dose in some budram (oatmeal) gruel on Monday morning, the 25th of February last; this not taking immediate effect, and his conscience upbraiding him, he went the next morning to a medical gentleman for advice, but the same evening he gave his unfortunate wife a second dose in some treacle, which soon deprived her of life. On Saturday, the 13th ult. at eleven o'clock, he was conveyed from the prison to meet his fate; he appeared fully resigned, and joined in prayer with the clergyman; he then addressed the numerous spectators, both in Welsh and English, exhorting them to take warning by his miserable situation, and confessed he had poisoned both his wives, to which he had been tempted by the devil. This wretched criminal was twenty-six years of age, and was born in the parish of Mote, Pembroke. shire. About two years since he married his first wife, whom he deprived of life in eight or nine weeks; his neighbours strongly suspected him at the time, but no inquiry took place. He soon after married his second wife, by whom he had a fine boy; he went to reside near Haverfordwest last autumn, where he accomplished his diabolical purpose of again destroying the partner of his bed. He endeavoured to prepare the minds of his neighbours for hearing of his wife's decease, by saying that he had seen her laid out on a table, and a candle hopping upon her; and at other times, that he had seen a woman's hand and arm carrying a candle about the house, which he knew to be his wife's left arm by a mark thereon; that he was sure she would not live with him long. It was impossible to prove that the pri soner had administered the poison, the evidence