nearly seven hours, they could not find their boat again, the tide came up, and they all perished. The bodies of John Skelton and the two men have since been found upon the sands, and on Tuesday last an inquest was taken in view of them before Mr. R. Mullenden, Coroner-Verdict de cidentally drowned. The body of the young woman has not yet been discovered. Skelton was 68 years of age; he has left a widow to lament his loss. The other persons drowned are-Andrew Neavy, of Annan Water Foot, labourer; he has left a wife and five children. The name of the other man is unknown. The young woman is about 20 years age.

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8. A swarm of bees took up their lodging 8 years ago, be twixt the roof and ceiling of a summer-house, in the garden of Thomas Holme Maude, Esq. of Kendal. Here the colony has remained unmolested ever since, nor has it been known to send off a swarm. On Wednesday se'nnight, G. Bellasis, Esq. had the curiosity to remove part of the hive, when he found 60lb. of comb filled with honey, part of which was become granulated in the cells from age. It appears from this fact, that the casting of bees, and the mortality to which these provident animals are exposed in unfavourable seasons, are effects arising from the narrow apartments to which they are confined under the care of

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9. The annual solemnity of the Lord Mayor of London's assuming the insignia of his office was rendered remarkable by the cir

cumstance of the person chosen, (Alderman Matthew Wood) being the same who occupied that important station in the last year; which re-election was owing to the high opinion entertained by his fellow citizens of the vigour and attention with which he had discharged its duties, and the peculiar necessity of such exertions at the present critical period. Another novelty was the conducting of the procession from Westminster-hall by land, instead of the usual return to Black-friarsbridge by water.

A letter from Weymouth, of the 8th instant, says-" It is with extreme concern, that I have to communicate the loss of the ship Barbadoes, Captain Parry, belonging to Liverpool, on the 10th of last month, on the Rocks of Scilly she was from Smyrna, bound to London, with a valuable cargo. The captain and 15 men took to two of the ship's boats, but soon after leaving the ship the boats upset, and they all perished: The chief mate, Mr. C. Grumly, the only person saved, who is now with me, gives me the above account: he says he was the only man that remained on board; that, after the loss of the captain and crew, he constructed a small raft, on which he was driven to sea; that on the second day (say the 12th ult.) he was taken up by a small French vessel, and landed in France. He came over to this port yesterday by the Countess of Liverpool packet, from Guernsey."

11. On the evening of Saturday, about 8 or 9 o'clock, a body of poachers, 7 in number, assembled by mutual agreement on

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the estate of the Hon. John Dutton, at Sherborne, Gloucestershire, for the purpose of taking hares and other game. With the assistance of two dogs, and some nets and snares which they brought with them, they had succeeded in catching nine hares, and were carrying them away, when they were discovered by the gamekeeper, and seven others who were engaged with him in patroling the different covers, in order to protect the game from nightly depredators. Immediately on perceiving the poachers, the keeper summoned them in a civil and peaceable manner to give up their names, the dogs, implements, &c. they had with them, and the game they had taken; at the same time assuring them that his party had fire-arms (which were produced for the purpose of convincing and alarming them), and representing to them the folly of resistance, as, in the event of an affray, they must inevitably be overpowered by superior numbers, even without fire-arms, which they were determined not to resort to, unless compelled in self-defence. Notwithstanding this remonstrance of the keeper, the men unanimously refused to give up on any terms, declaring, that if they were followed, they would give them a "brush," and would repel force by force. The poachers then directly took off their great coats, threw them down with the game, &c. behind them, and approached the keepers in an attitude of attack. A smart contest instantly ensued, both parties using only the sticks or bludgeons they carried and such was the confusion during the battle, that

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some of the keepers were occasionally struck by their own comrades in mistake for their opponents. After they had fought in this manner about 8 or 10 minutes, one of the poachers, named Robert Simmons, received a violent blow upon his left temple, which felled him to the ground, where he lay, crying out murder, and asking for mercy. keepers immediately very humanely desired, that all violence might cease on both sides: upon which three of the poachers took to flight and escaped, and the remaining three, together with Simmons, were secured by the keepers. Simmons, by the assistance of the other men, walked to the keeper's house, where he was placed in a chair: but he soon after died. His death was no doubt caused by the pressure of blood upon the brain, occasioned by the rupture of a vessel from the blow he had received. The three poachers who had been taken were committed to Northleach prison. The inquest upon the body of Simmons was taken on Monday, before W. Trigge, gent. Coroner; and the above account is extracted from the evidence given upon that occasion. The poachers were all armed with bludgeons, except the deceased, who had provided himself with the thick part of a flail, made of firm knotted crab-tree, and pointed at the extremity, in order to thrust with, if occasion required. The deceased was an athletic muscular man, very active, and about 28 years of age. He resided at Bowle, in Oxfordshire, and has left a wife, but no child. The three prisoners were heard in evidence, and all con

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curred in stating, that the keepers were in no way blameable, and attributed their disaster to their own indiscretion and imprudence. Several of the keeper's party were so much beat as to be now confined to their beds. The two parties are said to be total strangers to each other, consequently no malice prepense could have existed between them; and as it appeared to the jury, after a most minute and deliberate investiga tion, that the confusion during the affray was so great, that the deceased was as likely to be struck by some one of his own party as by the keeper's, they returned a verdict of Manslaughter against some person or persons unknown.

15. The principal hell of the church of Notre Dame, at Versailles, was baptized according to ancient usage; it received the names of the Duke and Duchess of Angouleme, who were represented by the Prince de Foix, Governor of the Palace of Versailles, and the Duchess de Damas.

17. Inverness. The winter has commenced with a severity almost beyond example: frost, rain, and snow, have been incessant during the last week; and the greater proportion of corn still uncut, or in stooks, has suffered material injury. We regret to say, that several lives have been lost. Two days ago the bodies of two women and a child were. found buried in the snow, about two hundred yards from the great road near Dalmagarry; the bodies of two men have been found in the hills of Aberarder, and two more are missing. A post-boy of Bennet's, coming from the South, was obliged to leave his

chaise on the road, and would have been lost, but for the lights shown from the windows of Moyhall, which he reached nearly in a frozen state. The obvious advantage of keeping lights, in stormy nights, in the windows of houses in the country, has thus been illustrated in the salvation of a life, by the provident care of Sir Æneas and Lady Mackintosh; the circumstance sufficiently instructs the imitation. The severity of the present weather was the less expected, because, although our spring and the latter part of our winter are more stormy, the early part of it to Christmas is considered much milder in this country than in the south.-Inverness Journal.

18. A young man named Pocock, apprentice to Mr. Gundry, grocer, of Devizes, going in the evening into a wareroom above the shop, with a candle in his hand, without the necessary precaution of putting it into a lantern, a spark communicated to two tubs of gunpowder deposited. there, weighing about 15lbs. each, and the explosion was tremendous: it carried away the front of the upper part of the house, and nearly the whole of the roof. The poor youth was precipitated down two pair of stairs into the shop, his face and the upper part of his body scorched to a cinder. He died on the following Thursday.

Murder of Colonel Newman.On Tuesday and Wednesday, the 19th and 20th inst. D. Tuckey, Esq. coroner for this county, with the assistance of the Rev. J. Lomhard, the Rev. J. Chester and Richard Tooker, Esq. magistrates

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of the neighbourhood of Mallow, was engaged in the investigation of this horrid transaction. The result has been the complete discovery of the whole plan and accomplishment of the robbery and murder, with the apprehension of the entire party concerned. Three men and one woman have been fully committed for trial, all of whom (except one of the men) were in Colonel Newman's own employment. It appeared that the house had been entered from the lobby-window looking into the yard, by the help of a ladder, the sash and glass of which were found broken in pieces; but, as is supposed, were so broken by design on the party's entering, to give a colour to the story first eirculated by the servants, that the house had been broken into by strangers. On entering the house, the party went immediately to the Colonel's room, the door of which was not locked, and strangled him with their hands as he lay in his bed. He was found in the morning with evident marks of violence, his throat being blackened, and having marks of scratches, as if imprinted by the nails of their bands in the struggle, and his shirt was a little bloody from the effect of the scratches. The property taken consisted of a few bank notes in a small leather note case, the Colonel's gold watch and seals, his pistols, and the clothes he wore the day before. The manner in which Newberry-house was thronged during the investigation, fully marked the abhorrence of the crime felt by the whole neighbourhood, as well as the great interest taken in the melancholy fate of this

respected gentleman. The Colonel commanded the 8th dragoons in the campaign in Flanders, and was a man of a most intrepid character, and of amiable and inoffensive manners. He was in his 73d year.-Cork paper.

The Royal Gazette of the 19th of November, published at St. John's, Newfoundland, announces the melancholy loss on that coast of the transport ship Harpooner, Joseph Briant, Master, with more than half of the unfortunate people with whom she was freighted. The Harpooner left Quebec on the 27th of October, bound for London, with invalids, and detachments from the 4th Royal Veteran Battalion, and other corps stationed in Canada, and a numher of women and children, in all 380. The ship struck on a reef of rocks off Cape Pine, on the 10th ult. and shortly filled with water, when a number of people between decks were drowned. The vessel kept together until three o'clock of the morning of the 11th, when the wreck was hailed by the mate and four others who had ventured. on shore in a boat, at the hazard of their lives, and informed the sufferers of their situation. For the boat to return was impossible; a line was therefore fastened round a dog, which fortunately happened to be on board, and, being thrown over, he swam with it on shore, which was the means of saving the lives of the master, crew, and about 160 passengers. When the vessel some time afterwards went to pieces, upwards of 100 persons were precipitated into the ocean and perished.

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tain Prime, 4th Royal Veteran battalion, and Lady; Lieut. Milrea, ditto, eldest daughter and son; Paymaster Scott, ditto; Mrs. Wilson, and eldest daughter; Miss Armstrong, Captain Willock, 103d regiment: Ensign Gleeson, ditto.

Cabin passengers lost.-Surgeon Armstrong, 4th veteran battalion, his lady, son, and two youngest daughters; Lieutenant Wilson, ditto, son and two daughters; Mrs. Milrea, and two youngest daughters; Miss Pilmore, and three sons of Captain Prime.

The following affecting narrative of the melancholy disaster has been sent by one of the sur

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"On the 26th October, detachments of the 4th Royal Veteran Battalion and their families, with a few belonging to other corps in Canada, in all 380, embarked on board the ship Harpooner, Joseph Bryant, master, and sailed from Quebec on the afternoon of the 27th, bound to Deptford; in charge of Captain Prime. On the passage to the Gulph of St. Law rence, moderate weather and favourable winds prevailed; but on arriving in the Gulph, the weather proved boisterous, and the wind contrary; not a sight of land, nor an observation of the sun, could be depended upon for several days. On Sunday evening, November 10, a few minutes after nine o'clock, the second Mate, on watch, called out The ship's a-ground;' at which time she lightly struck on the outermost rock of St. Shotts, in the island of Newfoundland. She beat over, and proceeded a short distance, when she struck again and filled; encircled among rocks, and the

wind blowing strong, the night dark, and a very heavy sea, she soon fell over on her larboard beam ends; and, to heighten the terror and alarm, it was perceived a lighted candle had communicated fire to some spirits in the master's cabin, which, in the confusion, was with difficulty extinguished. The ship still driving over the rocks, her masts were cut away, by which some men were carried overboard. The vessel drifted over near the high rocks towards the main. In this situation every one became ter rified; the suddenness of the sea Fushing in, carried away the births and staunchions between decks, when men, women, and children were drowned, and many were killed by the force with which they were driven against the loose haggage, casks and staves, which floated below. All that possibly could, got upon deck, but, from the crowd and confusion that prevailed, the orders of the officers and master to the soldiers and seamen were unavailing-death staring every one in the facethe ship striking on the rocks as though she would instantly upset! The screeching and pressing of the people to the starboard side was so violent, that several were much hurt. About eleven o'clock the boats on the deck were washed overboard by a heavy sea: but even from the commencement of the disaster, the hopes of any individual being saved were but very slight, and, from this circumstance combined with it appearing, that the bottom of the ship was separating from the upper deck, while the surf beat over her most violently, it was considered as impossible. From