11 JANUARY 1840, Page 2

At the Marylebone Office, on Wednesday, Mr. Thomas Theed, a

tier to Mr. Theed's house. attended by a Policeman. They saw merchantmen off the Nore, and ordered to quit the English domi- By a tire which broke Out in Newport Street, St. Martin's Lane, on pions: would not an attempt by the fbreigners to break through Wednesday night, the extensive premises of Mr. Ryan, ornament-

he English order be prevented, by force of arms if necessary ? manufacturer, were destroyed and some of the adjoining houses injured.

As to the attack on the Black Joke, let it be ascertained that Four boys, who were skating in St. James's Park on Wednes- Mandarins, not pirates, were the assailants, before going to war clay, lost their lives by the ice broaking. Two of them perished in the with China on that score. attempt to rescue their companions, The Humane Society's men did As yet there is no proof that the Chinese have in any one in- their utmost to get them out of the water ; but before they succeeded, stance done that which international law forbids ; while on the life was quite extinct.