Prince's letters. They all again stood over for the French coast, and were off Dieppe, close in with the land, early on Friday morning; where communication being had, the yacht and squadron cruised across the Channel again, and reached Brighton at one o'clock on Saturday, when the Prince landed, regretting that, his presence being required in town, he was obliged to disembark. His

Royal Highness slept on board three nights. He was gratified beyond description, and enjoyed the highest state of health and spirits during the whole of the

excursion.

We have the painful duty to announce the following lamentable intelligence:- Mr. Charles Joseph Hellicar, Demi of Magdalen College, Oxford, eldest son of Mr. Joseph Hellicar, of this city, and Mr. George Gresley S. Whitchurch, student of Baliol College, youngest son of the late Mr. S. Whitchurch, during the present vacation were at Guernsey, and wishing to visit France, sailed on the afternoon of the 12th of August for Cherburg. Some few hours afterwards the wind changed and became violent, and it is believed the fury of the gale met their vessel whilst passing the Race of Alderney, and that they there perished. No account of the vessel having reached any French port, and more than a month having elapsed without intelligence to any of the parties connected with the sufferers either in Guernsey or England, the melancholy inference is too obvious. Mr. Hellicar was in his 22d year; at a very early age he had received the highest classical honours of the University, and had lately

taken his degree of Master of Arts: his friend (a year younger) felt emulous of his example, and gave marks of the highest promise -but they are no more.-Bristol Journal, Sept. 13.

15. In the middle of last December, a respectable farmer named Howard, whose age on the day of his death was 90, was murdered in his own house, within three miles of Uxbridge. The situation of the house is peculiarly solitary, being surrounded with trees and fronted by a large lake, where now and then a fishing-boat was to be seen. The family, which were almost the only inhabitants within a very extensive circuit, consisted of the venerable farmer, his grandson, and an aged female servant. The fondness of Mr. Howard for his grandson, Bond, received no interruption from the moment of the birth of the latter, who was taught to look upon the property of his grandfather as his inheritance. The old man had stock in the Bank of England, and took much pleasure in the journey to London to receive his dividends, which amounted to 30l. quarterly. A few days before the murder, he had been upon one of those journeys, and on his return, being weary, he retired to rest. Hle never rose again. Upon the return of Bond from some occupation at six o'clock in the evening, he found his grandfather dead. Near him lay a large crab-stick, upon which was a quantity of blood. The body was dreadfully disfigured, and the front of the head was not distinguishable from the back. The old housekeeper was lying senseless on the ground. Bond immediately ran to the labourers employed in the adjacent

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meadows, and described the murder that had taken place, exhibiting all those symptoms so natural to a relative of the deceased. They all repaired to the house of Mr. Howard. They examined the apartments, but no violence had been done to any part. It seemed to have been the act of some miscreant, who either was influenced solely by revenge, or so horrorstruck at the deed which he found necessary to perform before his object of plunder could be accomplished, as to fly from his first intention. There was, however, one remarkable circumstance which excited suspicion against the grandson. The old man was in the habit of carrying the key of his bureau in the left pocket of his waistcoat. The housekeeper was acquainted with his ways, and that there were private drawers in the bureau which could be known to no stranger. The old gentleman had received his 301, and he must have deposited it in one of those secret drawers. If the object of the murderer was revenge, the money must be in the drawer, for it was locked. The suggestion was attended to, the bureau was broken open, but no money was to be found. Every eye was fixed on the grandson, who did not show the slightest sign of confusion. On the contrary, he agreed in the general opinion, that the robber must be the murderer, and that he could have been no stranger. He invited investigation, for the sake of his own character; and for the blood of his grandfather he called for a strict inquiry into the dreadful case. He was taken before a magistrate. The housekeeper was

called on to tell what she knew.She knew nothing, but that somebody came behind her in the kitchen, and struck her so violent a blow that she fell senseless on the ground, and that the fright had never left her since. Some time before this, she had been waiting upon her master, who was then in health; upon recovering she saw him a corpse. The person who struck her spoke, but was not seen by her. A report previously existed that the old man had a long time ago made a will, in which he bequeathed all he was worth in the world to his grandson, but that some circumstances had recently occurred which rendered it probable that an alteration was meditated in the disposal of the property. It is said that the grandson showed much impatience upon hearing this suspicion, and an inference unfavourable was then drawn from his conduct at the idea of suffering any disappointment. The magistrate discharged him; but those who were interested believed the case to be one of the vilest in the catalogue of murders. It was a singular fact that the old man's will was afterwards found open. Upon being read, the inheritance was found to devolve upon his grandson, who was put in possession immediately after his discharge. Bond returned to the house, buried his grandfather, and lived in the same solitary place. Months rolled on, and still no tidings of the murderer. The agitation of Uxbridge began to subside, when a few days ago it was revived with the greatest violence. A gentleman sent to the Bank two notes, one for 20l. and another for 10l. G 2

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The Bank were not idle upon hearing of the murder. The numbers of the notes which were paid to Mr. Howard when he went to receive his dividend had been taken, and the necessary order for stopping them issued. Those very notes for 201. and for 10l. were the notes which had been taken out of Mr. Howard's bureau. The Directors of the Bank, with all that alacrity so laudable upon the occasion, traced the notes through about thirty hands, and at last came within three miles of Uxbridge, and found them in the hands of Bond. The grandson was immediately conveyed to town. By the advice of an experienced barrister, the bill for the robbery was yesterday presented to the grand jury at Clerkenwell. After the examination of thirty-five witnesses, it was found a true bill. Liverpool. We are very sorry to find, that a severe epidemic fever, of the typhus kind, is now raging among the lower classes of the people in this town. We understand that the large and well-arranged Fever Hospital belonging to the town is actually overflowing, and that a number of patients are necessarily provided with accommodations elsewhere.--Liverpool Courier. Frankfort.-All the Protestant universities of Germany have been invited to send, by the end of October, deputations to the chateau of Warburg, near Eisenach, in the Grand Duchy of SaxeWeimar, where a grand fete is to be celebrated, in honour of the Reformation. It was in this chateau that Luther resided for several years, under the protection of the Dukes of Saxe, when ordered to be arrested by Charles V.

17. A most melancholy accident happened in the family of Sir John Thomas Stanley, Bart. Three of the maids had the charge of bathing Sir John's youngest daughter, and at the time of high water they repaired to the bathing-place, where it seems they all stripped to bathe, and, shocking to relate, the four were found drowned. Every means to restore life were tried ineffectually for four or five hours, by Dr. Parry, of Holyhead, and Dr. Roberts, of Carnarvon. Lady Maria was from home when the accident happened, and it is easier to conceive than to describe the distress that was visible at her first interview with Sir John (who had been a witness to all the experiments tried on the bodies). The sufferers were Alice Witcher, aged 33; Elizabeth Jackson, aged 21; Charlotte Andrews, aged 20; all from Northwich: and Miss Elfrida Susannah Stanley, aged three years and eight months.

18. This day a General Court of Proprietors was held at the Bank of England to consider of a dividend. The meeting was also one of the Quarterly General Courts appointed by the charter.

About 12 o'clock, Mr. Harman, the Governor, took the chair, and after stating the object of the meeting, moved to declare that a dividend should be made of 51. per cent. interest and profit for the half year ending on the 10th day of October next.

The Hon Mr. Bouverie moved an amendment, consisting of the resolutions to the following effect:

1. That by the 12th by-law of this corporation, this Court is called on to consider the state and condition

declaration of a dividend.

2. That this Court has no means afforded them to pay obedience to this enactment, although similar demands have been continually made, on similar occasions, without such necessary information.

3. That this Court is induced, solely by the reliance it has on the full responsibility of each and every of the Directors, for any erroneous application of the profits of the corporation, or any undue withholding of the same, to order, as it does thereby order, that[here followed the words of the original resolution, moved by the Governor, declaring the half-yearly dividend of 5 per cent.]

Sir Thomas Turton seconded the amendment, which was put and negatived.

The original motion was immediately put and carried.

A minute of the proceedings was then drawn up and read, and it was ordered, that the warrants for payments of the dividends should be made out for the 11th of October; after which the Court adjourned.

19. Cork. A meeting of the Committees of the House of Recovery and Dispensary was held on Monday and Wednesday, at the Commercial-buildings, to ascertain the health of the city, with respect to the contagious fever. The result of both which meetings was, that the number of cases was found to be not less than four hundred (including 300 in the two houses), and that its progress latterly was directed towards the upper classes, and marked with peculiar severity. Under these

to apply to government for aid, and that a general collection should again be made on Sunday se'nnight in the different places of worship in the city and neighbourhood, in aid of the almost exhausted funds of these institutions.-Cork Chron.

Extract of a letter from Downpatrick, dated Sept. 16.-" Typhus fever is very prevalent in this town; at present 100 persons labour under that malignant disease."-Freeman's Journal.

CO. Belfast.-We have just heard from Armagh, that the fever has become so alarming, that a town meeting is to be held for the purpose of devising the best means of preventing the disease from extending its baleful ravages.-Belfast News Letter.

On Saturday morning as two fishermen from the parish of Ruthwell were traversing the sands of the Solway Frith, opposite the Priestside, about four miles within highwater mark, they were alarmed by an extraordinary noise, and having directed their steps towards the spot from whence it proceeded, discovered a whale floundering in the shallow water, and endeavouring in vain to extricate itself from its perilous situation. It was groaning so loud as to be heard at the distance of nearly a mile. The fishermen, astonished and terrified, used no means of securing the monster, and the tide soon afterwards flowing, covered it, without, however, affording it sufficient depth to float. When the sea retired, it was found dead, having been probably suffocated, from its being unable, in that situation, to raise its head above the water so as to

inhale air, which is essential to its existence. Assistance being procured, it was quickly cut to pieces, and the blubber was carried to shore in carts. This whale seems to have been of the Narwhal or Monodon genus; differing, however, in some particulars from any that we have yet seen described. Its skin was about the eighth of an inch in thickness, of a glossy and dusky black, in appearance somewhat resembling Indian rubber, but of a darker hue. Its length from the tip of the snout to the extremity of the tail was 36 feet; its height at the shoulder about 8 feet; and its greatest horizontal thickness about four feet and a half. The head was not easily to be distinguished from the rest of the body, and ended in a snout, about two feet long, projecting rather abruptly, and tapering gradually towards the extremity. The back was ridged, and had a fin issuing from it, about five or six feet from the extremity of the tail. This fin was triangular, a little hollow ed in the back part, inclined towards the tail, and a foot in height. The swimming paws were nearly of the same size. There was only one blow-hole situated over the nape of the neck. The mouth was very small, not larger than would have easily admitted a man's arm, and entirely destitute of teeth or horny plates. lobes of the tail, which were horizontal, had a direction away from the body, and were blunt and rounded at the tip. The blubber was from one inch to four, and even six inches in thickness, and seemed to be full of very fine oil. The Narwhal species,

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usually, have one tooth or horn, sometimes even two, growing out of the forepart of the upper jaw, whence they derive the name of Monodon; but no such peculiarity was to be discovered in this animal.

23. A most extensive fraud on the revenue has been detected at Liverpool. The particulars detected are these:-A large lighter was fitted out as a foreign merchantman, with false deck and sides, with masts, sails, and rigging: she was entered out at the Custom-house for another country, and a very valuable cargo shipped on board; the goods selected were those on which the greatest drawbacks are given, or rather the whole duties paid on importation were to be returned. The vessel sailed round the rock or point of land into the Irish channel; her false sides were knocked in, her masts struck, and having every appearance of a lighter, she sailed again up the river Mersey to Runcorn (a short distance from Liverpool), where the cargo was landed and sent by different conveyances to London. The officers have got notice of the transaction, and have traced the goods to town, and several seizures were made in the city on Monday. It is not known to what extent this fraud has been carried, or what length of time it has continued; but it is believed that the parties concerned had practised it with ports in the Irish channel for such a length of time without meeting interruption, that they were emboldened, and brought the goods to a short distance from Liverpool, being more convenient for them. The detection is stated to have taken place in the most