terly direction, but continued advancing eastward until about halfpast 9, by which time it had burnt the premises of Mr. James Clift, where great exertions were required, and were happily exerted, to save the premises of Messrs. Perkins and Winter, upon which depended the safety of the whole range of houses on the Churchhill, on the upper side, and the stores of Messrs. Trimminghams and Co. on the lower side, just where the late fire was stopped in its progress westward; all of which buildings narrowly escaped on the 7th inst. Thus a great part of the western half of the town, which we contemplated as a shelter for the then distressed, is laid in ashes, and many families have to lament and feel the painful distress of a second time being burnt out of their dwellings in the short space of fourteen days: by what means many of them will find shelter the approaching winter, we are at a loss to conjecture, should they even be fortunate enough to have the means of purchasing necessaries.

In this hasty account we cannot enter fully into particulars, nor can we at this short notice pretend to estimate the aggregate amount of the damage done to the very extensive stores and dwelling of Messrs. Cunninghame, Bell, and Co., and those of Messrs. Hale, Reed, and Co., Ryan and Sons, Mr. Robert Nevins, Mr. James Clift, Mr. John Burke, and several other mercantile establishments, have fallen a sacrifice to the devouring flames: the dwelling-house, shop, &c. of Mr. Nevins, were preserved. From the Mercantile Journal.

An ordinance has been passed in the city of Savannah, by which any one who teaches a person of colour, either a slave or free, to read or write, or causes such person to be so taught, is subjected to a fine of 30 dollars for each offence; and every person of colour who shall keep a school to teach reading or writing, is subject to a fine of 30 dollars, or be imprisoned ten days, and whipped 39 lashes.

20. It is with much concern we inform our readers of the sad catastrophe that has befallen the stone beacon, which, for some years past, has been erecting upon the Carr Rock, situate at the entrance of the Frith of Forth, and lying about two miles off Fifeness. The building was visited by the superintendant on the 10th inst., and reported to be all in good order. On the evening of the 14th a very heavy swell of sea came. ashore, and on the 15th the ground-swell still continued; but the weather was so thick and foggy that the rock could not be seen till the afternoon, when the sea was observed to break upon it with much violence, but a great part of the building was gone, The Carr Rock forms the terminating point to seaward of a most dangerous sunken reef, extending about two miles from the shore. The numerous shipwrecks which, notwithstanding all the improvements on the coast, still happen in this neighbourhood, had rendered the Carr Rock Beacon a work of very considerable interest, and its completion had been looked forward to with much anxiety. The Beacon Rock measures about 72 feet in length; its greatest

greatest breadth is 23 feet, and at high water of spring tides the site of the building was at least 16 feet under the surface or level of the sea. The building, of which we now lament the loss, is understood to have cost in the erection between 2 and 3,000l. and bade fair to possess all the advantages of an excellent landmark. It has been pursued for no less than five successive seasons. The loss of this important improvement on the coast will be severely felt by the shipping interest, particularly of the Friths of Forth and Tay; but as we learn from good authority that several courses of the masonry remain uninjured, and these the most difficult and expensive in their erection, having required more than three of the five seasons, we may yet hope that a solid and permanent beacon of stone may be placed on this fatal reef, which would doubtless prove highly useful, though not possessed of all the advantages of the proposed tide machine.-Edinburgh Paper.

24. This morning Her Majesty, accompanied by the Princess Elizabeth, left the Castle soon after seven o'clock, in the post-chaise formerly used by the King as a travelling carriage, to proceed to Bath.

25. St. John's, Newfoundland. The Grand Jury has been convened, and after a long and full investigation into the subject of the fire, came to the following resolution :

Court-house, St. John's, Nov. 24. The Grand Jury having duly considered the evidence laid before them respecting the late fire, which happened on the morning

of the 21st instant, have the satisfaction to state, that they are unanimously of opinion, that the fire originated solely through accident, and therefore they beg to recommend that publicity may be given to the result of this investigation, in order that every unfavourable impression on the subject may be removed from the public mind.

DAVID TASKER, Foreman. 25. Lucca.-Chevalier Bardoxi Azara, the Spanish ambassador at Turin, took possession yesterday, in the presence of the judiciary and administrative authorities at the palace, of the principality of Lucca, in the name of her Majesty, Maria Louisa, Infanta of Spain. The Spanish colours were hoisted amid the acclamations, a thousand times repeated, of Viva La Reine! by an immense population. The authorities are provisionally confirmed in their places.

Saxony. The States of Saxony have requested the express confirmation of the old constitution, the suppression of pensions to wealthy persons, a diminution of the expense of the military establishment, and a control over the public disbursements.

There is not the smallest idea of any improvement of the constitution, particularly of the system of representation.

28. Ramsgate. A distressing occurrence happened in this neighbourhood early yesterday morning:-A serjeant, corporal, and three private marines, stationed at this place for the prevention of smuggling, were out on duty during the night, and having proceeded upon the sands to a place called Dampton-stair-gateway, between this place and Broadstairs,

they,

they, for the purpose of shelter, and the more effectually to secrete themselves, took up a position under a projection of the cliff, where they remained until daybreak, when the serjeant ordered one of the privates to call in a party, who were stationed on the opposite side of the Gateway, nearer to Broadstairs. The man had gone but a few paces, when an immense portion of the cliff gave way, and buried in its fall his four hapless companions. The fall was so sudden, that it struck his musket from his shoulder, and he fortunately escaped, though in a very terrified state of mind, to give an alarm of the fate of his unhappy comrades. Immediately on its being known, Mr. D. B. Jarman, an inhabitant of this town, accompanied by Mr. N. Gott and a gang of men from the works at the harbour, proceeded to the spot, and commenced cutting a trench through the middle of the chalk, and after two or three hours laborious exertion, they found the serjeant and corporal extended on their faces, and presenting a most shocking spectacle. In the course of a few hours more, the two privates were found as having been in a sitting posture, but with their heads forced betwixt their legs, and crushed in a most dreadful manner. The bodies, as taken out, were placed in a boat, and conveyed to Broadstairs, preparatory to the Coroner's inquest, the accident having happened within the limits of the parish of St. Peter.

29. Edinburgh.— On Tuesday morning, a little after 9 o'clock, a fire was observed issuing from the roof of the College, on the north

west quarter, which suddenly assumed an alarming and threatening appearance. The fire engines were speedily brought to the spot, and the supply of water, though at first limited, was, by the unremitted exertions of many respectable gentlemen and others, procured in sufficient quantities, adequate to the demand of all the engines. By the strenuous exertions of the firemen, aided by the direction of several of the professors, the flames were rapidly got under, and the fire completely subdued in the space of two hours. The interior of the apartment, however, in which it was confined, is entirely destroyed. The inagistrates, professors, students, and gentlemen in the neighbourhood, rendered every assistance; and the attention of the High Constables and the Superintendent of the Police, together with a detachment of the 88th regiment from the garrison, which was directed in keeping the communication open from the College to the several fire-cocks, was of the first importance, and tended greatly to facilitate the extinction of the destructive element. The roof was under repair, but from what cause the fire originated, we believe, has not yet been ascertained. The engine belonging to the Royal Exchange Assurance, which now stands at Leith, was on the first alarm immediately dispatched from thence, with its firemen, by the agents, Messrs. Thomsons and Pollock. During the fire, Mr. Playfair, the engineer, was distinguished by his anxiety and intrepidity on the occasion. Hurrying from some distance, on the first alarm, he was soon on the

roof,

roof, directing the operations of the firemen; and, when part of it was broken in, he descended into the part on fire, with a rope fastened to his body, and the pipe of one of the engines in his hand; and this intrepid example being followed by several of the firemen and others, the water was soon made to play with more powerful effect upon the part of the building which was in flames.

DECEMBER.

3. It appears from the Dublin papers which arrived yesterday, that the typhus fever increases in certain parts of Ireland. In the space of 26 days, 246 patients were received into the fever hospital of Limerick, which considerably exceeds the number discharged in that interval.

Munich-The Concordat entered into between the Holy See and our Government has been published here. It was concluded on the 5th of June last, but was not announced in the allocution of the Pope till the 15th of November. The following are its principal articles :

1. The Catholic Religion shall remain untouched in Bavaria and its dependencies, with the rights and prerogatives which it ought to enjoy according to the Divine arrangements, and the canonical laws.

(Articles 2 and 3 regulate the number and position of the dioceses and chapters, with the jurisdiction of the latter.)

4. The Archiepiscopal and Episcopal revenues shall be established

on fixed funds, which shall be left to the free administration of the Prelates. Then follows the state of the church revenues. The sums of these revenues shall always be preserved entire, and the property and funds out of which they arise shall never be diverted from their end, nor changed into pensions. During the vacancy of the sees and benefices these revenues will be preserved for the uses of the respective churches. Bishops, Archbishops, Dignitaries, Canons, and Vicars, shall have, besides, convenient residences provided for them.

(Art. 5 and 6 relate to the establishment of seminaries and houses of retreat for superannuated ecclesiastics.)

7. His Majesty, considering what advantages the Church, and even the State itself, have derived from religious orders, and wishing to show his good will towards the Holy See, engages to establish, in concert with the Holy See, some monasteries of religious orders of both sexes, to form the youth in religion and learning, to assist the pastors, and to take care of the sick.

8. The property of seminaries, of parish churches, of benefices belonging to all kinds of ecclesiastical establishments, will always be preserved entire. The church will have in addition the right of acquiring new possessions, and all that it shall acquire will belong to it, and will enjoy the same kind of security as the old ecclesiastical foundations. No suppression or union can be made either of the old or new without the intervention of the authority of the

Holy

Holy See, except by the powers granted to the Bishops by the Council of Trent.

9. The Pope shall grant institution upon the presentment of proper persons to fill the sees by the King.

(The three following articles relate to the forms of nominating Bishops, and regulate their rights and functions in the administration of their dioceses.)

13. When the Bishops or Archbishops shall point out to the Government works printed in the kingdom, or introduced into it, containing doctrines contrary to the faith, the Government will undertake the care of suppressing them by proper means.

14. His Majesty will prevent the Catholic religion, its rites and its liturgy, from being held up to ridicule either by words, deeds, or writings, and will take care that the Bishops and Pastors shall not encounter any obstacles in the exercise of their functions.

15. The Archbishops and Bishops shall take before the King the oath of fidelity, couched in the following words." I swear and promise on the Holy Evangelists, fidelity and obedience to the King. I promise that I will have no communication, that I will attend no assembly, that I will maintain no relations, within or without the kingdom, that may injure the tranquillity of the kingdom; and if I learn that any plot is formed in my diocese, or otherwise, against the State, I shall make it known to his Majesty."

9. Before the Recorder and a London Jury. Child Stealing. Louisa Perkins was indicted for

having forcibly and fraudulently carried away a certain female child of the age of five years and seven months, with intent to deprive Susannah Porter, widow, of the possession of the said child.

The prosecutrix was a widow, and lived at No. 15, Vere-street, Clare-market The child in question was the only child she had. On Tuesday morning, the 4th of November, at half-past 8 o'clock, she sent the little girl with a basket and cloth to buy some rolls, to Mr. Kemble's, the corner of Vere-street. The child had been gone nearly half an hour, and witness being uneasy, sent a man to the baker's to inquire if the child was there; she heard no tidings, and witness then went out herself, and sent two other persons in different directions. Between 11 and 12 o'clock, on her return home, somebody called to her, and said that the child was at home. When she went home she found the child there.

The little child, whose name was Enima, was then examined on oath. She said, when she went out of her mother's door, to go to the baker's, she crossed over the way. She then saw the prisoner, who followed her; she went up a street, and the prisoner followed and laid hold of her hand; then she let loose of it, and she went into the baker's shop. When she came out, the prisoner, who was at the door, took her up into her arms, carried her up Duke-street, and set her down to walk in Lincoln's-innfields. Then she went down Portugal-street into the Temple, and went through a number of dark

passages.