the Market-place. Some of them were heard to say,. "Here are shops, we can help ourselves to provisions; and here are shoes, let us each get a pair.” They came in military array, and halted in their ranks, at the word of command. By their speech, their leaders were known to be Irish. One man spoke aloud, and said, "If any honest man is prepared with arms, and disposed to join us, he I will be made welcome"--but nobody came out-not one inhabitant of Middleton joined them. Presently a noise was heard, and a cry that the soldiers were coming. Some then left their ranks, but the main body passed up Wood-street, and retreated across a place called Archer-park, and the Great-Park, into the old road to Manchester, by which rout they escaped. A party of the Queen's bays, now made their appearance, accompanied by two magistrates, the Boroughreeve of Manchester, and several constables. Nothing, however, was now left for them to do, but to look after odd stragglers, two of whom were taken and conveyed to Manchester, having confessed they came with the mob. Three others were taken by a watchman. After the retreat of the rioters, the soldiers paraded the streets and lanes, and were received at several places with hooting and shouting, and other expressions of disapprobation, but no stones were thrown, nor any violence offered.

18. DROUGHT." Warsaw. We have not experienced, in the memory of the oldest inhabitant, such excessive heat as we have had this year. In 1821, the heat was of longer continuance, but did not rise to 27 (95). The Sardinian ambassador to the Russian court, when he passed through this city,

declared that he had never felt such heat, even in Italy. The state of the atmosphere does not alarm us, as we have rain from time to time; but the rivers are so low, that all communication by water is suspended."

SUPERSTITION.Tralee, July 24.-Ann Roche, a woman of very advanced age, was indicted for the murder of Michael Leahy, a young child, by drowning him in the Flesk. The case turned out to be a homicide committed under a de

lusion of the grossest superstition. The child, though four years old, could neither stand, walk, nor speak (it was thought to be fairy struck), and the grandmother ordered the prisoner and one of the witnesses to bathe the child every morning in that pool of the river Flesk where the boundaries of three farms met; they had so bathed it for three mornings running; and, on the last morning the prisoner kept the child longer under water than usual, when her companion (the witness) said to the prisoner, "How can you hope

ever to see God after this?" to which the prisoner replied, "that the sin was on the grandmother, and not on her."

Upon cross-examination, the witness said it was not done with intent to kill the child, but to cure it-to put the fairy out of it. To the policeman who apprehended her, on charging her with drowning the child, she said it was no matter if it had died four years ago. Verdict-Not Guilty.

AEROSTATION BY NIGHT."About seventeen minutes past ten o'clock," says Mr. Green, "I ascended from the gardens in Vauxhall. On quitting the gardens we kept nearly in a line over the Thames for about two miles. We crossed

the river three times. Notwithstanding the clouded state of the atmosphere, and being deprived of the light of the moon, we could distinctly see the earth, but we determined not to hazard a descent, until we had cleared the windings of the river, because, if there had been a strong wind, we should have been dragged into the stream. We could easily discern the cultivated from the uncultivated land. In Battersea and Wandsworth, where the wheat was ready for cutting, it appeared like sheets spread on the ground. The ploughed land was darker. The trees appeared perfectly black, and the buildings were of the same colour. Of the bridges we could command a good view; those which were ornamented with gas or other lights, appeared like a row of lamps resting on the river. Battersea and Putneybridges, which are not lighted, appeared like dark planks stretching over the water. Before I quitted the earth, I had provided myself with one of sir Humphry Davy's safety lamps, to enable me to make any experiment in the air. Supposing gas to escape, it would mix with the atmosphere around the car, and form a compound air highly explosive. For this reason I took the safety lamp, because there is no danger of combustion when the lamp is in use. On quitting the earth, the barometer stood at 29 4-10ths, and when we had arrived at our greatest altitude, which was three quarters of a mile, it subsided to 25 2-10ths. We were not anxious to attain a great elevation, but were desirous to avail ourselves of the first favourable place for landing, and to return immediately to the gardens. In the evening, when the first pilot balloon was launched, it took a diVOL. LXVIII,

rection E. by S. but when at the elevation of half a mile, it came into another current of air, which carried it W. by N. At nine o'clock in the evening, three more pilot balloons were launched, two of these went in the direction W. by N., shewing that the current of air which the first pilot balloon fell into was operating on the earth's surface. Our direction was W. by N. We effected an easy landing in a ploughed field, on king George's Farm, Marsh-gate, Richmond. A horse-patrole was the only person on the spot, but on account of the dead calm which prevailed, we required no assistance."

26. EXTRAORDINARY CASE.An inquest was held at Maidstone on the body of Samuel Luttal, a soldier in the 6th Dragoon Guards, who had been committed to gaol for deserting from that regiment.

Mr. John Taunton-Is assistant to Mr. Whatman, the surgeon to the gaol. Saw the deceased in his ward on Saturday about noon; he was then in a state of locked jaw, arising from a wound in his finger inflicted by Peter Meily. Meily was a soldier who had marched on Tuesday, the 25th, to join the dépôt of his regiment in the Isle of Wight. He immediately ordered him to be removed to the hospital, and attended him there and bled him. During the latter operation, he perceived that one of the deceased's fingers was injured; and, on examining the right hand, found that the third finger had received a severe wound. Deceased, said he had received it from a block in Chatham Dock-yard. It was evident, that the finger had been cut, and the incision extended to the bone in a transverse direction, separating the tendons, and by some means the I

joint was displaced. Witness told the deceased, that this wound was the cause of the locked jaw. Saw him again in the evening, about eight o'clock, when he was evidently worse. Deceased asked witness, if he were out of danger, who told him he was not. Saw him again in the morning, when he was still worse, and he died in an hour and a half afterwards. Death was occasioned by the locked jaw, produced by the wound in the hand.

Thomas Walker is a prisoner in the gaol, and was appointed to take charge of the deceased when he came into the hospital. About one o'clock on Sunday morning he became much worse, and was evidently alarmed. He told the witness that he would tell him all about it. He then said that Meily, of the 69th regiment, had cut his finger with a razor on Monday, that he had cut another man of the 39th regiment before, and procured his discharge, and that he had let him cut his finger. About four hours after, he asked for the minister to come and pray with him. He died about ten o'clock, and was sensible till within a minute and a half of his death.

The jury returned the following verdict-" We are of opinion that the death of the deceased was occasioned by lock-jaw, in consequence of a cut in his finger, inflicted by Peter Meily, not with a malicious intent, but only with a view to procure the deceased's discharge from the 6th regiment of Dragoon Guards, and with his own

consent."

rar, a cloth miller of that place, had determined upon sinking a well at the rear of his premises, called New York, and employed some labourers for that purpose. The workmen, about nine yards below the surface, while pursuing their object, came to some ragstone, which required blasting. The ragstone forms a solid rock, and was blasted for about five yards in depth, when one day last week, a workman having lodged a charge of gunpowder, and set fire to the train, retired as usual to the surface.

While he was aloft the charge exploded, but, on looking downward, after the smoke had cleared away, he thought he perceived that the stony fragments, which he expected would have risen somewhat higher than before, had fallen lower. On observing this singular result, he descended in the scoop, and having found the stones actually fallen, as he supposed, he then called to another workman, his partner, and to Mr. Farrar himself, to come to him. They accordingly descended, and all three began to search about, and to endeavour to ascertain the nature of the hollow, which they had now unexpectedly come into, though they were afraid of entering too far, until they should be better assured of the safety of so doing. They at length discovered that they were in a part of a large cavern, but more attracted by solid utility than airy speculation, they pursued their labours, and paid little regard for the present, to the

novel and curious situation in which accident had placed them. They got the blasted fragments disposed of, and continued blasting for some two yards below the bottom of the cavern, till they found

themselves penetrating a hard compact body of iron stone, when they desisted in toto from this undertaking. But, in the mean time, the report of the discovery of the cavern having been spread, persons examined it with lamps and candles, who found it to be a sort of labyrinth within. The sides of it consist, in some cases, of a rough mason-work sort of wall, by which the rocky roof is upheld. Elsewhere, the roof is upheld by a great number of pillars. No clay or water has been found at the bottom of the cavern, but there is on the floor a quantity of bones. The cavern is supposed, by some of those on the spot, to have been only a sort of subterraneous delf or stone quarry, and the bones in it the bones of the horses that were employed in drawing out the stone. Mention is made in the neighbourhood,that, within seventy years, stone has been gotten at the place. The depth, from the surface above to the floor of the cavern is mostly about 17 yards.

29. DISTURBANCES IN THE COLLIERIES. Last week the colliers in the neighbourhood of Dudley struck, in consequence of the masters reducing their wages. They have since proceeded to acts of violence, and it has been found necessary to order out the yeomanry. The men whose wages were reduced had, for some days, committed many acts of violence, and held such menacing language towards their employers, that it was deemed an act of necessity to call out the Himley troop. On Thursday, a body of some hundreds, after scouring the country, and stopping a number of pitmen from working, were overtaken near Hill Top by the troop, and a number of special constables. Cap

tain Hawkes immediately proceeded to address them on the impropriety of their conduct, but was answered by a manifestation of defiance. Missiles were thrown, and it was found expedient to read the Riot-act. This was done amidst hooting and a shower of stones, &c. Scarcely five minutes had elapsed, when captain Hawkes received a severe cut in the chin from a bludgeon, and pebble-stones were unremittingly hurled by the mob. Eight of the yeomanry were either more or less hurt by them, and one constable was severely injured on the temples. Notwithstanding their violence, the cavalry behaved with the greatest forbearance; and it was not till the expiration of the hour that means were taken to clear the ground. Some few shots were fired, but merely to intimidate, as not one of the rioters was hurt. Twelve prisoners were taken, but the most violent escaped for the time. All is at this time quiet, though no colliers are at work.

30. ST. ETIENNE.-A shocking murder was committed in a village near this place; the circumstances of which were revealed by two children, who, having amused themselves in climbing up a tree, witnessed the whole of the transaction. Three young men, named Ploton, Torton, and Coste, who had been employed for some time in a neighbouring manufactory, were dismissed a few days since for bad conduct. They were strongly suspected of having committed a rape at Terrenoire, and although, at the time, their persons were disguised, the unhappy female, who was unacquainted with them, thought she could recognise their voices. Her father, named Grange, who keeps a small inn, resolved to pro

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secute these wretches, and it was generally thought that gendarmes would be sent to arrest them. On Friday afternoon they arrived separately at the house of Grange, and called for refreshment. wretched victim of their barbarous assault was confined to her bed, and only a female servant remained with Grange in the house. She was occupied in the bed-room of her mistress, and neither of the females knew of the arrival of these men. What passed between the murderers and the unfortunate man till the completion of the dreadful deed, cannot be learnt. To prevent his cries from being heard, they tied a towel over his mouth, and then dragged him out of the house into an orchard. Here they deliberately stripped off his coat and neckerchief. Ploton seized him by the arms, and Coste held him by his legs; Torton, observing a pail which had been used for the purpose of milking, exclaimed, "This will do to receive his blood;" he then grasped the wretched man by the hair; bending back the head with extreme violence, he placed it upon the edge of the pail, put his knees upon the face, and cut the carotid artery. After the blood had flowed for some minutes, Torton separated the head from the body, and, having wrapped it up in the towel, threw it over the orchard wall into the court-yard. They then fled, but were arrested on the following day. APPREHENSION OF A BAND OF THIEVES. A numerous gang of robbers, with the necessary appurtenance of romance, a cave, has existed at Wickwar, in Gloucestershire, for more than seven years; during which period, although they have been the terror of the neigh bourhood, and have extended their

depredations over an extensive tract of country, they have contrived to elude justice. Last week, in consequence of some suspicious circumstances, the police were induced to visit Yate Common, where they took into custody an old man, of the name of Mills, his wife, and their four sons. Immediately after their apprehension, these persons disclosed the history of the community with which they were connected. The whole gang is supposed to have amounted to forty or fifty, of which number thirty-one men and women have been apprehended. It appears that, connected with a kitchen in old Mills's house, on Yate Common, these bandits had constructed a subterraneous cave, or storehouse, the entrance to which was behind the fire-place, where the soot and a large pot effectually prevented the slightest suspicion; and, in this cave, the officers found twenty sides of bacon, quantities of cloth, wheat, barley, oats, malt, cheese, two bedsteads, and 50l., chiefly in half-crown pieces. has been no uncommon thing for a farmer to rise in the morning, and find the greater part of his furniture, fat pigs, poultry, cheese, &c. swept away; and the cave, or depository for the stolen goods, was so well contrived, that all search for the property was invariably made in vain.

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SHIPWRECK. The Jean, of Peterhead, captain Minto, which sailed from that port the 19th March, bound for Greenland, on the 12th April arrived at the West Ice, where, in the course of six days, 3,070 seals were killed. On the 18th of the same month it began to blow very hard, and, about ten o'clock at night, the tempest became tremendous. As