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have fallen down; that of Miolis threatens to go to ruin. Gessau, Rutti, Fleriscue, and Hagels chauer, in Toggenburg, felt the whole violence of the storms of the 4th and 5th. All the torrents have overflowed. The bridge of Oberglatt is in ruins.

At Basle the Rhine rose so much on the 6th as to inundate the city as far as the fish-market; the citizens were forced to cross the streets in boats. The Rhine continually brought down with it trees, parts of buildings, drowned animals, showing by these numerous wrecks the ravages it has exercised elsewhere.

At Constance the Lake was much higher on the 6th than in 1666, and even some inches higher than in 1560. In spite of unremitting exertions the bridge of Lindau is carried away. On the banks of the Lake many communes are under water, and it is feared will continue so for a long time, the vent by which the waters must run off, when the Lake falls, being too small. In the lower Rheinthal, the surface of the waters which cover the fields and the roads, and upon which one may easily navigate between halfruined houses, was three leagues in circumference. At Horn, and all along the Lake, a great many buildings are abandoned: the waters threaten the foundations of the most solid edifices. In the Oberland, many bridges have been carried away; the fields, the meadows, the plantations, were entirely submerged, and pieces of the soil were seen floating about, torn up by the fury of the waters, covered with potatoes, vegetables, and hay. On the 9th, during a

violent tempest, the lightning struck the village of Ditersweil, and burnt a house. Near Neutingen many cattle were killed by lightning. Other accounts equally distressing have been received from other quarters.

10. Early on Monday morning last, John Brown, Esq. of Greenockmains, was killed by his own bull. The animal first attempted to attack a boy, who fled out of his way, and next attacked the master with such a deadly aim near the heart, that though the family were in a few minutes alarmed, and carried him home, he was only heard to utter one word, and died in a few minutes. About six weeks before, Mr. Gilbert Anderson, a farmer in the same neighbourhood, was also attacked by his own bull, and besides having one of his legs broken, was otherwise very much abused. He is, however, happily recovering. Neither of the animals had before shown any vicious habits.Ayr Journal.

11. The Prince Regent held a Court for the purpose of receiving a deputation from the Ionian Islands, with a copy of their constitution. They were well received, and his Royal Highness ratified their charter.

12. On Saturday an examination took place before the magistrates at Bourn, of William Whitehead, carpenter, of Easton, near Stamford, charged with having wilfully occasioned the late fire at Uffington-house, the seat of the Earl of Lindsey. It seems that this person was a suitor of the kitchen-maid, and had frequently been admitted to see her. On the night of the fire he had taken leave of the young woman before

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ten o'clock, but was afterwards seen on the premises as late as eleven. After the fire, therefore, he was apprehended on suspicion, but for some days strongly denied knowing any thing of the cause of the conflagration. At length, however, he confessed that he himself caused it, in the following way:-At half-past 12 o'clock on the night of the 2d instant, after the family had retired to bed, he contrived to open one of the kitchen windows, and through it got into the house. Bent on mischief, and finding that some fire was left in the kitchen grate, he put a quantity of it into the drawers of the large table; and by breaking a pane in the window which looks from the kitchen into the housekeeper's room, he also contrived to throw several red hot coals into that apartment, and some of them went under a large linen press or closet, and soon set it on fire he then escaped from the house by the way in which he entered. Such is the account which the wretched man gives, and his representation is confirmed by all the particulars noted in connexion with the fire. It turns out that the man has been afflicted with temporary insanity; that he was lately under the care of Mr. Merveilleux, surgeon of this place, who decidedly considered him deranged in mind; and that it is an hereditary affliction. Under such circumstances Whitehead has not been deemed a proper object for a prosecution, but has been liberated, on bond given by his friends for his being taken care of in a way to prevent his doing farther mischief.

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14. The Scotch emigrants who

lately arrived at Pillau, sailed from Leith about five weeks ago in the Helen, Charters. They consist chiefly of small farmers and shepherds from the southern counties of Scotland, who have been induced, by the liberal arrangements of Count Poe, a Polish nobleman, to settle as a colony on his estate of Dovsponda, for the purpose of introducing the improved agriculture of Scotland into the fertile but ill-cultivated plains of Poland. The Count has allotted a tract of his best land for the station of the colony, to which he has given the name of Scotia. They enter upon regular leases of 20 years, at a rent almost nominal; and, besides other peculiar advantages, they are, by an ukase of the Emperor Alexander, freed from the operation of the military conscription. Liberal provision has also been made by the proprietor for a Presbyterian clergyman, who will speedily join them, and who will also act as a schoolmaster to the settlement.

16. Steam-Boats.-The regulations recommended by the Committee of the House of Commons appointed to consider of the means of preventing the mischief arising from explosion on board steamboats, are as follows:

That all steam-packets carrying passengers for hire should be registered at the port nearest the place from or to which they proceed.

That all boilers belonging to the engines by which such vessels shall be worked should be composed of wrought iron or copper.

That every boiler on board such steam-packet should, previous to the packet being used for the conveyance of passengers, be sub

mitted to the inspection of a skilful engineer, or other person conversant with the subject, who should ascertain by trial, the strength of such boiler, and should certify his opinion of its sufficient strength, and of the security with which it might be employed to the extent proposed.

That every such boiler should be provided with two sufficient safety valves, one of which should be inaccessible to the engineman, and the other accessible both to him and to the persons on board the packet.

That the inspector shall examine such safety valves, and shall certify what is the pressure at which such safety valves shall open, which pressure shall not exceed one third of that by which the boiler has been proved, nor one-sixth of that which, by calculation, it shall be reckoned able to sustain.

That a penalty should be inflicted on any person placing additional weight on either of the safety valves.

17. This day was launched from the King's dock-yard at Deptford, a new yacht, named the Royal George. The Board of Admiralty, Comptroller, and Commissioners of the Navy, were present, as also a large assemblage of persons, who filled the several booths erected for witnessing the ceremony. This vessel is one of the most elegant ever seen. The cabin-doors are of mahogany, with gilt mouldings, and the windows of plate glass. Ornamental devices, in abundance, are placed in various parts, all highly guilt, and producing a superb appearance. The following are the dimensions of this vessel,

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Burden, 350 tons. Guns-Eight brass swivels of 1lb. each.-Manned with 67 men.

Singular Character.-Died, in Glen-street, Kilmarnock, on Friday, 17th of July, 1817, William Stevenson, aged 87. He was originally from Dunlop, and bred a mason; but during many of the latter years of his life he wandered about as a common beggar. Thirty years ago, he and his wife separated upon these strange conditions, that the first that proposed an agreement should forfeit 100l. This singular pair never met again, and it is not now known whether the heroine yet lives. Stevenson was much afflicted during the last two years of his life with the stone. As his disease increased, he was fully aware of his approaching dissolution; and for this event he made the following extraordinary preparation:-he sent for a baker, and ordered twelve dozen of burial cakes, and a great profusion of sugar biscuit; together with a corresponding quantity of wine and spirituous liquors. He next sent for the joiner, and ordered a coffin decently mounted, with particular instructions that the wood should be quite dry, and the joints firm and impervious to the water. The grave-digger was next sent for, and asked if he thought he could get a place to put him in after he was dead. The spot fixed upon was in the church-yard of

Riccarton, a village about half a-mile distant. He enjoined the sexton to be sure, and make his grave roomy, and in a dry and comfortable corner; and he might rest assured that he would be well rewarded for his care and trouble. Having made these arrangements, he ordered the old woman that attended him to go to a certain nook, and bring out 91. to be appropriated to defray the funeral charges. He told her at the same time not to be grieved, for he had not forgotten her in his will. In a few hours afterwards, in the full exercise of his mental powers, but in the most excruciating agonies, he expired. A neighbour and a man of business were immediately sent for to examine and seal up his effects. The first thing they found was a bag, containing large silver pieces, such as crowns, half-crowns, and dollars, to a large amount: in a corner was secreted, amongst a vast quantity of musty rags, a great number of guineas and seven shilling pieces. In his trunk was found a bond for 300l. and other bonds and securities to a very consider able amount. In all, we heard the property amounted to 9001. His will was found among some old paper, leaving to his housekeeper 201. and the rest of his property to be divided among his distant relations. As it required some time to give his relatives intimation of his death, and to make preparations for his funeral, he lay in state four days, during which period the place where he was resembled more an Irish wake than a deserted room where the Scots lock up their dead. The invitations to his funeral were most singular.

Persons were not asked individually, but whole families; so that, except a few relatives dressed in black, his obsequies were attended by tradesmen in their working clothes, barefooted boys and girls, an immense crowd of tattered beggars: to the aged among whom he left sixpence, and to the younger threepence. After the interment, this motley group retired to a large barn fitted up for the purpose, where a scene of profusion and inebriety was exhibited almost without a parallel.—— Glasgow Courier.

21. The following decisive affair took place here between twelve and one this morning. One of the workmen of Mr. R. Glendow, shipbuilder, having occasion to look over the premises about severt o'clock yesterday evening, was greatly surprised to find the outer door of the counting-house open, and also the window of a sinall back office, with an inside wooden shatter, the latter of which was lifted up and battened to the top of the room as usual: they had all been left secure on Saturday evening. On his proceeding into the counting-house (the adjoining room), one of the closet doors was also found forced open, and several keys taken away. A large and small chisel, belonging to a chest that stood under the countinghouse steps, and which, it appeared, had been broken open, were also found on the counting-house floor, with which the front and closet doors had been poised. It being clearly apparent, from all these circunstances, that a robbery of the premises was in contemplation and actual progress, Mr. Gleadow,

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man is in custody at the infirmary. A quantity of tools taken from the chest was found in the pockets of the dead robber, and a large knife in the ship-yard, the latter of which is supposed to have been dropped by the wounded man in making his retreat. The town, and neighbourhood, we think, are under the

for his cool and judicious arrangements in this affair, and the prompt result it has had; as there is little doubt that these men have for some time been a pest to the place, having not long ago been discharged from the prisons here. Akid states, that Rogers was a native of the Isle of Wight, and that himself is from the neighbourhood of Knottingley or Ferrybridge.-Hull Paper.

on information, very properly took immediate steps for the prevention of the crime, and the detection of the robbers. Accordingly, at ten o'clock last night, Thomas Acum, a workman belonging to Mr. Gleadow, and another of his servants, were placed on guard in ambush, under cover of a shed, and near to the tool-chest and the steps lead-greatest obligation to Mr. Gléadow ing to the intended scene of depredation; the former armed with a well-loaded piece, and the other with a stout bludgeon. About a quarter before twelve, they observed two men come from the top of the outer-dock gate, and proceed across the ship-yard carefully to the tool-chest, where they whispered together, and one of them filled his pockets with such instruments as suited the purpose, and turned round, up the countinghouse steps; the other also did the same, and was following his com panion, when Acum shrouted out to them, "Halloo! what do you want there?" Upon receiving this alarm, the latter immediately ran, and was quickly followed by the fellow who had first gone up. Acum then fired as they made for the dock-gate, and was so sure in his aim, that he hit them both: one of them dropped down instantly dead, and his companion's arm is broken and shattered; but he was able to retreat as far as the crane upon South-end, where he was stopped, and delivered over to the military guard. They proved to be two fellows named Rogers (kitled) and Akid, desperate characters, only last week discharged from confinement in Hull gaol. The body of the former was lodged in the House of Correction here, for the coroner's inquest, and the wounded

23. Petersburgh.-The erection and active support of schools in the whole extent of the empire, of universities and other establishments or the sciences, for which the nation are indebted to the wisdom and liberality of the Emperor Alexander, who since his accèssion to the throne, has already produced the most beneficial results.

Even in the most remote districts, among the uncultivated regions of Siberia, there has been diffused and awakened, by means of these schools, a desire for learning and instruction, and a taste for rental improvement, as the following facts from the government of Irkutsk, which are published officially by the Board of National Education, will show :"A peasant named Rowoscloff, of the village Wolostomask, has expended there 5,000 rubles in erecting a building for a school, 565 for supporting it for 5 years, and

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