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lifeless. Whilst being carried out of the ring, he was met by Silverthorne, who had walked out of the inner roped ring in a state quite as bad as the vanquished. Neither had life to stand on their legs, and they were put to bed and bled. The desperate conflict lasted 22 minutes, 17 of which were really exchanging of hits.

REMARKS-This contest was even more sanguinary, taking the sizes of the men, than that of Cribb and Molineaux, and it was one of a similar nature, inasmuch as strength opposed science, and in the two instances the former had nearly prevailed. Dogherty received a hurt in the arm in a fall in the third round, which was much against him; but his game throughout excited at once admiration and commiseration. Silverthorne is a prototype of his tutor Caleb, and possesses that sort of courage and strength, with a portion of science, which renders him formidable to men of his weight. He is an awkward fighter nevertheless; but although he throws away many round blows, yet he is always busy, and possesses courage inferior to none. Dogherty failed in strength much sooner than usual, which might be attributed to recent illness.

The brig King of Sweden, Captain M'Donald, which lately put into Costio Bay, coast of Galway, in distress, was boarded by a set of savage barbarians, evidently for the purpose of plundering her: they commenced their villainy by cruelly beating the mate and crew, drinking porter, and carrying away what they could not use; they then proceeded to cut the rigging, after which they intended to cut her cables, for the purpose of letting her drift on the rocks; but fortunately before they could accomplish their diabolical intention, information was sent to James Blake, and Martin Morris, Esqrs., who, with a party of the Tully rifle corps, proceeded to check their career. The ruffians, on seeing them approach, fled from the vessel, and effected their

escape. Extract of a letter from Armagh:"I take the liberty of offering for your

consideration an account of a most singular phenomenon which appeared in this country, on the nights of Monday and Tuesday, 7th and 8th inst. On the night of Monday, between six and seven o'clock, it was first percei ved. The city of Armagh appeared to the beholders, about six miles in a southerly direction, to be most brilliantly illuminated. From the neighbourhood of Armagh, it appeared as if a number of bonfires were lighted in a N. E. direction. From the hills around, it appeared as if the gentlemen's seats were illuminated; and so impressive was the appearance in the town of Charlemont, that a number of persons applied for the fire-engine, in order to extinguish a fire, supposed to be in a neighbouring house; but upon approaching the same, they were agreeably surprised to find the house perfectly safe. From the hills on the borders of Lough Neagh, in the county of Armagh, it appeared as if the county of Antrim, on the opposite side, was entirely illuminated; and on Thursday night, there appeared seveveral lights in the same direction; but on approaching where the supposed fire was, it would seem as if it had fled further off."

Saturday morning, a large Dutch vessel, performing quarantine off Margate, drove from her anchors, and, after making several attempts to gain the harbour, came on shore in Westgate Bay, when, it not being possible to afford them any assistance, all the crew perished. In the course of Friday night, another vessel was also wrecked on the Margate Sand. The bodies of the unfortunate men above-mentioned have since been picked up on the shore.

A poor woman was found drowned yesterday morning at Billingsgate. It is supposed, that as she was going down stairs, to the river side, for oysters, she fell in. Her body was com

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pletely covered and cased with the ice, and her feet only were visible.

The body of a man has been seen floating about on a sheet of ice, in the vicinity of Woolwich, for the last three tides. The piece of ice is so large, it has been found impracticable to get at the corpse, or to ascertain what sort of person he was.

11th-OLD BAILEY.-John Bowles was capitally indicted for the wilful murder of his wife, at No. 17, Earlstreet, Seven Dials, on the 26th December.

It appeared from the evidence, that, on the night above mentioned, the prisoner came home to his lodgings, and missing the deceased from home, went out in search of her, found her drunk at a gin-shop in the neighbourhood, and brought her home to the house where he lodged. She sat down on the stair-foot, and obstinately refused to go up stairs. The prisoner struck her a blow with his fist, and carried her up stairs to his room, where he again struck and kicked her; several persons alarmed by the noise, came up stairs, and found the deceased lying on the floor, but she was dead. The husband immediately ran for a surgeon, but he arrived too late to afford her any assistance. A coroner's inquest, next day, found a verdict of wilful murder against the prisoner.

Two surgeons attended to give evidence, who opened the body and head of the deceased. One stated, that he opened the stomach, and found in it a quantity of gin; and also examined the head, and found no fracture, nor any apparent violence on the interior to warrant any opinion that the instantaneous death of the deceased could proceed from any of the blows she had received; but that, on raising the brain from its base, he found under it some coagulated blood, which, on further examination, appeared to have proceed ed from a transverse rent or fissure in

one of the four principle arteries. This he could not positively state to be the result of any blow the deceased had received, but might have been the result of a predisposition to rupture, occasioned by the quantity of spirituous liquors drunk by the deceased, excited by violent passion.

The other surgeon said, that he had also examined, and perceived the symp toms already stated. That if he had not heard the deceased had received the blows stated, he should have concluded she died from apoplexy; but having heard that she had received some violent blows, he could not take upon him to state positively, whether the apoplexy was or was not attributable to the blows, or whether it might not have occurred without them. The prisoner was acquitted.

Antonio Cardoza (a Portugueze,) Mary Rogers, and Sarah Browne, were indicted for the wilful murder of Thomas Davies, by giving him several stabs in the back with a knife. The deceased was a waterman, and, on the night of the 12th of December, had been with his brother dancing in a public house in Nightingale-lane, St Catherine's. In their way home they saw the two female prisoners, Browne and Rogers, in the street, when the deceased put his arm round the waist of Sarah Browne, which she took in anger. The brother desired her not to be angry, and he would give her something to drink. A squabble ensued, in which the deceased tore the clothes of Browne, by the hook of an umbrella getting entangled in them. She imme diately called out for Antonio, when Cardoza came up. Browne immedi ately exclaimed, "That is him who has so served me; murder him; don't leave a bit of life in him." Cardoza directly attacked the deceased with a long knife. A scuffle ensued; they both fell down, and Cardoza stabbed the deceased several times in the back,

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of which wounds he immediately expired. There was no evidence affecting the prisoner Mary Rogers, except ing that she was present.

The learned judge, in summing up, stated a distinction to exist between the cases of Cardoza and Sarah Browne. There was a quarrel and heat of blood between her and the deceased; but Cardoza came in, and, without any provocation given personally to him, attacked the deceased.-Cardoza was found guilty of murder, Sarah Browne of manslaughter, and Mary Rogers acquitted.

The Recorder immediately pronounced sentence of death against Cardoza, and directed him to be executed on Monday morning.

DEATH OF MR LEWIS.-It is with extreme concern we announce the death of that justly celebrated comedian, who died on Saturday evening at his house, Westbourne Place, in the 63d year of his age. His health had been gradually declining for the last two years; and the misery occasioned him by the death of a most amiable and beautiful daughter, about twelve months since, quite overcame him. It brought on a lowness of spirits, and a train of afflicting disorders, which baffled the exertions of his medical advisers, and finally terminated his existence, whilst in the arms of his unhappy family. As a man, he was most upright and good; as a husband, father, friend, he united all those endearing qualities which will make his loss irreparable to his afflicted widow, his affectionate children, and to an attached circle of acquaintances. The remains of this much respected man are to be interred in a family vault in Liverpool.

From the American Papers.-THEATRICALS.-Last night the inimitable Mr Cooke made his first appearance on our boards, in the character of Richard the Third. Such was the anxiety of our citizens to see this celebrated per

former, that the street in front of the theatre, at an unusually early hour, was crowded to a degree beyond any thing we ever witnessed upon such an occasion. As soon as the welcome moment arrived, when the doors were thrown open, the press for admission was so great, that it required the strength of a dozen Sampsons to keep the po pulace from carrying with them the doors, and the sturdy door-keepers. The pit, boxes, and gallery, in a few moments, were crowded almost to suffocation. We never saw so numerous, and at the same time so respectable an audience. At the usual hour the curtain rose, but nobody saw or heard any thing until Mr Cooke made his debut. The reception which this gentleman' deservedly received, was the warmest we ever witnessed.

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The Jamaica papers state the following curious occurrence having taken place in Port Royal Mountains: The dwelling-house, &c., and from 25 to 30 acres of full bearing coffee, on the plantation of Mr Robert G. Dalhouse, has sunk down and disappeared, and nothing but the ridge of the house is now discernible. Some days previous to this accident, the earth was observed to crack and sink in a trifling degree, and the house to be affected by it, when Mr Dalhouse was advised to remove with his furniture, which he fortunately did. The cause is not well ascertained; but it is supposed to have been occasioned by a hollow or subterranean passage in the earth, which swallowed up the buildings, &c., as there was not the smallest symptom of an earthquake at the time.

The fall of snow on Friday night was so very great, as to render the northern roads almost impassable. The mail-coach from Boston could not be dragged more than four miles on Saturday through the snow; but the guard proceeded on horseback with the mail. The mail from London was

conveyed in the same manner into Boston about six o'clock on Saturday evening.

↑ Saturday was one of the most piercing cold days ever felt at Stamford. The wind blew boisterously from the east, and occasioned such heavy drifts of snow as to make the great north road in many places impassable. The Leicester coach, on the way to Stamford, was upset in the snow at Burton-Lazarus, and several passengers were much hurt in consequence. The Carlisle mail was dug out of the snow near Tickencote, and with difficulty got to Stamford, with eight horses, three hours later than usual; but it could proceed no further than Thornhaugh, whence the guard was obliged to take the letter bags on horseback. Three coaches from the north lay all night in the snow, about a mile from Stamford, and as many near Wansford. With the assistance of 50 men, the road became passable for carriages at 12 o'clock on Sunday. In some places the snow had drifted six feet deep.

· VAGRANTS.—Peter Brown, Joseph Webb, and John Ellis, three sturdy vagrants, were put to the bar, charged with assaulting Henry Howard, James Edrington, and John Pearson, three of the parish constables of Mary-le-bone, in the discharge of their duty. On the day mentioned in the indictment, it appeared that the prosecutors were informed the defendants were assembled at the bottom of Welbeck-street, and insulting every female who passed and refused to comply with their importunate petitions for charity. The officers immediately repaired to the spot pointed out to them, where they found the three prisoners, and two others of the fraternity, who escaped, conducting themselves in the way which had been described. They were desired to quit the spot, but they refused; upon which the constables attempted to take them ́into custody, but were resisted by a

shower of blows dealt upon them by the defendants with large sticks which they had in their hands; and Pearson, attempting to seize one of them, was, with his opponent, brought to the ground, and rolled several times in the kennel, to the great discomposure of his gold-laced hat and coat, he being the beadle of the parish; and whilst on the ground, his antagonist, by a skilful application of his wooden leg to the more penetrable stuff of which his opponent was composed, fractured the small bone of the prosecutor's ancle: after a well-fought battle, however, the prosecutors succeeded in securing the three defendants, and taking them before a magistrate, by whom they were committed. The jury found them guilty, and they were sentenced to six months imprisonment in the House of Correction.

14th.-PLYMOUTH.-The brig Unanimity, of Dartmouth, captured by a French privateer on her voyage from Lisbon to Cork, with fruit, and recaptured by the Niemen frigate, Sir M. Seymour commander, arrived here yesterday, the prize master of which states, that in the last cruise they fell in with the wreck of the American ship Orion, Captain Sims, from America, laden with timber, and picked up the captain, who was the only survivor of her whole crew, which consisted of eleven persons; the remainder having either perished, or were washed off and drowned. For some hours after the captain was got on board the Niemen, he was so far spent as not to be able to speak, and with scarce any signs of life; but by the kind and humane care and attention he received, he afterwards recovered sufficiently to tell his name, together with the ship's. When the Unanimity left the frigate, there were still fears entertained of his recovery, owing to the great hardships he had undergone.

An inquest was held at the King's

head, in Cheltenham, last week, on the body of Jane Cook, of that place, who poisoned herself by swallowing arsenic, mixed in tea, on the evening of the 9th inst. So determined was this unfortunate female on self-destruction, that she first procured a quantity of laudanum, which failing in its operation, she made a second application, and effected her fatal purpose. The cause assigned for this act is supposed pregnancy, which on surgical examination proved otherwise. The jury returned à verdict of Lunacy.

A French officer on parole at Northampton, named Oraison, was apprehended on Monday, on suspicion of forging a 11. cash note of the town and county bank. He acknowledged his offence, and pleaded poverty in extenuation, saying that he had only made nine, which he performed entirely with a pencil, pen, and India ink. The notes were, on presentation at the bank, known to be forged, but paid in order to lead to detection.

On Wednesday, a poor chimneysweeper's boy lost his life in a most shocking manner, in a chimney, at a house in Orchard-street, Westminster. He went up a chimney to clean it, and got out at the top. On his return, he got into a chimney belonging to the same house, by mistake, which had a fire at the bottom, in which he stuck fast, and was suffocated before relief could be rendered him.

A dreadful accident happened a few days ago on board the Jason, a vessel of Boston, lying about four miles from the town, in a part of the Deeps, call. ed Clay-hole. Mr Massam, the master, was on business in Boston; but before he quitted the vessel, he had carefully locked up the cabin, in which were some swivel-cartridges and a quantity of gun-powder. The mate of the vessel, to relieve the tedium of waiting for a wind, imprudently broke open

the door during his master's absence, took out some powder, and went from the vessel to shoot sea-fowl, leaving on board only a boy of about fourteen years of age. The youth, thus left, amused himself by getting a handful of gunpowder, and throwing it in small quantities into a fire on board; but having, it is supposed, scattered some between the cabin and the fire-place, the flame ran along the train, and in an instant, by the tremendous explosion of all the powder kept for the guns which the Jason carried, the whole stern of the vessel was swept away, and she sunk with a full cargo of oats on board. Providentially the boy was not hurt by the explosion, and was taken from the sinking vessel by a boat which was put off from the Tre Madoc, lying near.

CHESTER. Tuesday se'nnight, the chief magistrate (General Grosvenor) gave a most sumptuous entertainment in the Exchange, to his cousin Earl Grosvenor, several gentlemen of the county, the corporation, and his friends in the city. The Town Hall was most tastefully decorated with variegated lamps. The tables were laid out in the following manner: Two long ones down each side of the room, joined at the top in a semi-circular form, and in the intermediate area, smaller tables were laid across; in the centre was placed a fine baron of beef, ornamented with appropriate devices, encircled by the motto "O! the Roast Beef of old England, O! the old English Roast Beef." On its right was a Christmas pie, weighing upwards of 200lb., containing four geese, four turkies, six hares, a leg of veal, a leg of pork, sausages, &c.; on its sides were the heraldic bearings of the house of Eaton, supported by those of the general, with the family motto; on the left of the baron of beef was a sallad, tastefully displayed, with the motto

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