currences took place from eleven to twelve o'clock. 25. On the evening of a fair at Ballynahinch, in Ireland, the week before last, the spirit of party broke out between several of the lower orders, styling themselves Threshers on the one side, and Orangemen on the other, who proceeded to the utmost violence. They ran up and down the streets, pursuing and pursued, armed with sticks, huzzaing and shouting; after which, the attack became more serious, by vollies of stones thrown in every direction; an attack was made upon some of the houses, the windows of three of which were wrecked, when two shots were fired from one of these houses, by which a man was killed on the spot, and another dangerously wounded. Two other men lay dangerously ill from bruises from bludgeons and stones, and several others received like damage,-not dangerously. There were on both sides above 300 people. On Friday se'nnight last, a meeting took place at Castle Connor, near Ballina, in the county of Roscommon, between Mr. O. Joynt and Mr. P. M'Kim, attended by their respective seconds, and a vast number of spectators, when, on the first fire, the latter was struck in the forehead, and instantly expired. MARCH. 1. A caricature has been exhihited at Paris, in which the emperor and the king of Rome are the most prominent characters. The emperor is represented as sitting at a table in the nursery, with a cup of coffee before him, into which he is squeezing beet-root. Near to him is seated the young king of Rome, voraciously sucking the beet-root. The nurse, who is steadfastly observing him, is made to say, "Suck, dear, suck, your father says it is sugar." Delphins.-The journal of the department of Cotes du Nord contains a report from M. Le Maoux, professor of natural history, to the prefect of the department, stating that some fishermen of Plonbazlanec lately fell in with seventy enormous dolphins, which they chased. One of these animals, having been wounded, fled towards the shore, and all the rest proceeded in the same direction. Having got aground, and being deprived of their element, they struggled several days, uttering mournful sounds. The scene filled the spectators with pity and terror. Among the seventy, twelve were sucking, each seven feet and a half long; the largest of the adults was a female, nineteen feet long, and her greatest circumference was ten feet. 2. A most daring robbery was committed at Reading. The Judges entered the town for the purpose of holding the assize. Mr. Serjeant Marshall officiated as Judge for Mr. Justice Lawrence. Coming out of the church in grand procession, the Serjeant Judge in his robes was hustled and robbed of his gold watch and seals. When the Bath coach, which left town on Monday night, March 2, arrived at Chippenham on the succeeding morning, the people of the inn were surprised at seeing three outside passengers lying in a state of insensibility: on a nearer approach, they perceived that vitality bad had been actually extinct in two of them for some time, the bodies being perfectly cold. The third, a soldier, had some faint signs of animation left; but he expired the following morning. From some papers found in the pockets of one of them, he proved to be a journeyman pewterer, from London, who being afflicted with a contraction in his wrists, had obtained an order for admission into the Bath Infirmary, for the benefit of the waters. On the above fatal night it rained incessantly; and to the cold, added to the drenched state of their garments, the fatal catastrophe was doubtless owing. 3. The Nottingham paper of Saturday does not make any mention of disturbances during the last week: but a disposition to riot has manifested itself near Huddersfield, in Yorkshire. Last Saturday week a number of persons assembled near the premises of Mr. Joseph Hirst, of Marsh, with their faces blacked, and their persons in other respects disguised, and having forcibly obtained admittance into the dressing-shops, proceeded to destroy all the machinery used in the dressing of cloth, such as dressing frames, shears, and other implements, used in what is commonly called gig mills, the whole of which they completely demolished. The same, or a similar party, then proceeded to the workshops of Mr. James Balderson, of Crossland Moor, where machinery of a similar description is employed; upon which they committed similar depredations, completely destroying or rendering useless the whole of the machinery. The depredations appeared to the magistrates to be of so alarming a nature, that they were induced to apply to general Vyse, at Beverley, for military aid, who dispatched an express to Leeds, with an order for the troop of Scotch Greys stationed there, to proceed immediately to Huddersfield. It not being thought expedient to leave Leeds without military, a squadron of cavalry was marched from Sheffield, and arrived about nine o'clock on Tuesday morning; and, in the afternoon of the same day, a squadron of the 2d Dragoon Guards, stationed at the barracks near York, was dispatched to Huddersfield, to relieve the Scotch Greys, who returned to Leeds on Thursday. 5. Several dead bodies were found on the north shore, near Liverpool, which were, of course, supposed to have come from some vessel which must have been wrecked during the very severe gales of the preceding night. By the inscription on part of the stern of a vessel which has been found, she appears to have been the Fly packet, from Newry to Liverpool. There is reason to believe, from the best information that has yet been received, that the number of persons on board was not less than forty, every soul of whom appears to have perished. 9. Disturbances in the vicinity of Huddersfield continue. On Wednesday an armed party broke into a mill, situated between Slaithwaite and Huddersfield: after they had effected their purpose, the leader drew up his men, each man answering to a particular number instead of his name, then fired off their pistols, and marched away. 10. At the Isle of Ely assizes, on Thursday last, Michael Whiting, a shop a shopkeeper at Downham, near Ely, and a dissenting lay preacher, was indicted under Lord Ellenborough's Act, in a charge of administering poison to George Langman and to Joseph Langman, his brothers in-law. It appeared in evidence that the Langmans resided together at Downham, and were small farmers; and that their family consisted of themselves, a sister, named Sarah, about ten years of age, and a female domestic, of the name of Catharine Carter, who acted as their housekeeper and servant: they had another sister who was married to the prisoner. On the morning of Tueday the 12th of March last, they sent their sister to the prisoner's house to borrow a loaf; the prisoner returned with her, and brought a loaf with him, and told the Langmans, that as he understood their housekeeper was going on a visit to her friends, for a day or two, he would bring them some flour and pork to make a pudding for their dinner. He went away, and shortly afterwards returned with a bason of flour and pork; and, addrsssing himself to the housekeeper, said, "Catharine, be sure you make the boys a pudding before you go." He then took the young child home with him to dinner. The housekeeper made two puddings, but observed the flour would not properly adhere; she left them in a kneading trough; and the Langmans boiled one for dinner: they had hardly swallowed two or three mouthfuls before they were taken exceedingly ill, and seized with violent vomitings. Suspecting the pudding had been poisoned, one of the Langmans gave a small piece to a sow in the VOL. LIV. yard, which swallowed it, and was immediately taken sick, and after lingering a long time, died. The elder brother soon recovered, but the younger one continued in a precarious state for several days. The remnants of the puddings were analyzed by Mr. Woolaston, professor of chemistry at the University of Cambridge, and found to contain a considerable quantity of corrosive sublimate of mercury. The prisoner, who it appeared was a dealer in flour, attempted to account for the puddings being poisoned, by stating, that he had then lately laid some nux vomica to poison vermin, and that some of it must accidentally have been carried into his flour-bin. Mr. Woolaston, however, positively stated, that the pudding contained no other poisonous ingredient than corrosive sublimate; and it came out in evidence, that the prisoner, who sold drugs, had purchased of the person whom he succeeded in business, a considerable quantity of that poison. It also appeared, that the flour-bins belonging to the prisoner had been searched, and that immediately upon its being discovered that the Langmans had taken poison, the prisoner emptied his bins into the privy, and washed them out. Mr. Alley, from London, conducted the prisoner's defence; the trial lasted till six o'clock at night, and the jury, after deliberating about ten minutes, found the prisoner guilty, and the judge immediately passed sentence of death, and he is left for execution. By the deaths of the two Langmans, under age, the prisoner's wife, and the child he took home with him, would have become entitled to the father's estate, as the heiresses of their brothers. A letter from Serampore, dated March 12th, gives an account of a fire which broke out in the printing-office, at the Missionhouse, on the evening of the 11th of March, destroying 2,000 reams of English paper, worth 5,000l. and founts of type in fourteen languages, besides English. The loss could not be less than 12,000l. and all the literary labours of the Missionaries were interrupted at once. Hamburgh, March 12. The following notice has been published here:- "The undersigned, inspector of printing and bookselling, hastens to inform the public, that M. General Baron Pommereul, counsellor of state, director-general of printing and bookselling, has authorised the following journals to be dispatched and received, without any special permission on his part, throughout the whole of the 32d Military Division. [Here follows a list of these journals, which are all of them German periodical publications, on medicine, agriculture, natural history, &c.] In order to procure these journals, recourse may be had to the different booksellers and post-offices in the 32d Military Division, who will point out the forms to be observed. "It is to be hoped that the editors and authors of these journals will know how to appreciate this beneficent permission. It will be for their interest to abstain from every dissertation or reflection of a political nature. The right of publishing articles on subjects connected with politics belongs to governments alone. Every scientific journal, therefore, which shall per mit their insertion, will become liable to suppression, in addition to the prosecutions which the editor and author will thus draw upon themselves. On the other hand, by strictly confining themselves within the sphere of the sciences and arts, to which their journals are appropriated, they may rest assured of the favour and approbation of a wise government, which protects the sciences and arts that are truly useful, and every thing that contributes to improve them. (Signed) "JOHANNOT, Inspector of Printing, &c. "Hamburgh, March 6." 16. At the Lincoln assizes, John Fieldsend, late of Driby, who voluntarily surrendered himself into custody, on the 9th of March instant, was tried for feloniously killing Joseph Faulkingder, on the 7th of May, 1810. The deceased, it appeared, was a youth about 9 years of age, in the service of the prisoner's father. For some offence, the prisoner severely whipped the lad, who, however, went home, ate his supper heartily, and made no complaint; but in the night complained of one of his knees, grew drowsy, and died, without being suspected to be very ill, in two days. On examining the body, it was found much bruised and discoloured about the loins and thighs; and, on being opened by two surgeons, they gave it their opinion that he had died from the absorption into the system of extravasated and mortified blood. The jury, however, from the peculiar circumstances of the case, acquitted the prisoner, who, it is to be observed, had at first gone to America; but, as if unable to to rest there, had returned, and delivered himself up to take his trial. 17. On St. Patrick's-day, a riot took place at Portsmouth between the North Cork militia stationed at Gosport, and some watermen, who insulted the soldiers. The Irishmen attacked the watermen, who procured the aid of their countrymen, and in a short time the beach was thronged with combatants. All the shops were shut up, and a regiment was ordered out to quell the disturbance, which with difficulty they accomplished, but not till one boy was killed, and about twenty men and a boy wounded, some of them dangerously. The following night the streets were patrolled by parties of soldiers. A very sudden and fatal accident occurred on Sunday se'nnight, at the distillery of Messrs. Hewit, and Co. on the watercourse, Cork. The iron hoops of a large worm cooler, which contained nearly sixty thousand gallons of water, suddenly burst, and this vast body, which in a moment became unconfined, impetuously spread and overwhelmed every thing which presented any resistance to it. A wall which was immediately between this large vessel and the street, was forced from its position, and two females who were passing, killed, and one so dreadfully bruised as to render the amputation of both legs necessary to preserve life. 19. Corporal Lennie, of the Fifeshire militia, was found at seven o'clock on this morning, on the road between Stonehaven and Bervie, nearly covered with snow, and with life almost expended. He had been left in Aberdeen on Wednesday, in charge of the Barracks, to deliver them over to the 21st regiment; and set out, with some of his comrades, at four o'clock in the afternoon, for Stonehaven, which he reached about eight. He soon after left that place alone, and as he had only got to the distance of three miles from it, he must have remained among the snow for upwards of nine hours, during a very intense frost. Under an unremitting application of the means for restoring suspended animation, he continued in insensibility until five in the afternoon. When first discovered, he was taken to Uras, where he recovered. He had no recollection of any thing after leaving Aberdeen, when, he said, he was excessively fatigued. It is probable, that the covering of snow protected him considerably from the effects of the frost, other wise he must have fallen a victim to the cold. Maidstone, March 20. — The following instance of passsionate cruelty deserves record. Thomas Burton, a farmer at Kingsnorth, near Ashford, was indicted for the murder of John Manley, a drummer-boy of the 73d Regiment. It appeared, that the deceased, with four others, went from Ashford, to gather wild plums on the hedges, on the 5th of September last. They trespassed in the prisoner's orchard, at Kingsnorth; and while there, the prisoner and his man came up. The soldier lads, on seeing them, endeavoured to make their escape, but the prisoner overtook the deceased as he was getting over a fence, and gave him a violent blow on the head with a stake which he D 2 held |