The Duke of Wellington cutter, of Jersey, sailed from St.

Michael's on Sunday the 10th tilt., and arrived at Cowes On Tuesday week, after a passage of twenty-three days, under a tempestuous gale during the whole of the voyage, with the exception of one night, when it was a dead calm. The Captain was ill when he sailed, and kept no reckon- ing, and owing to the sun's being obscured, no .latitude by observation could be taken. The first vessel spoken with was the Emma, of Lon- don, bound to Jamaica, from which she obtained the longitude 11 degrees 10 minutes. Soundings were here obtained, and she must have been off the Coast of Barbary. After a run of eight days, she fell in with a vessel from Drontheim, which gave her longitude 14 degrees 10 mi- nutes,—half across the Atlantic. In this awfursituation, a schooner was observed, deeply laden, as if with fruit, from the Mediterranean; and from this hint, in seven days, channel soundings were reached by guess. The provisions were exhausted ten days before they came into port. On the 24th ult., the crew refused to work, with the exception of the cabin-boy alone. Fortunately-, the mainsail had been lowered, and the tmisail was half-set, shivering in the wind ; the pump was jammed, with a breach in the piston, at a time when it was necessary to pump every five minutes. The mate said, " the vessel might capsize for what he cared ; that he had been twice cast away, and he'd be damned now if he wouldn't be drowned." The passengers were the Reverend Mr. Simp- son, Chaplain to the British Factory at the Azores, and his lady, whose sufferings were extreme. Their stock of provisions, &c. had been served out and consumed by the crew early in the voyage. By Mr. Simpson's persuasion, the mate was at last prevailed upon to assist in setting the Email ; when, in going forward to unhook the tack of the jib, he realized his own previously-expressed determination— he fell from time bow, and sank to rise no more. Had it not been for the fidelity of the cabin-boy, whom Mr. Simpson has since taken into his service, every soul ou board must inevitably have perished.— Portsmouth Herald.

David Davis, one of the fellows who fought on Wolverhampton Race- course lately, together with Deaf Burke and John Matthews, who aided and abetted the fight; have been held to bail to answer to an in. dictment at the Sessions, for a breach of the peace. Mr. Francis Mar- shall, Clerk of the Races, has also been held to bail to answer the charge at the next Sessions, of unlawfully assembling to witness the fight. Application was made to the Magistrates that Mr. Marshall might be bound to answer at the Assizes instead, to save him the trouble and expense of moving the case to the Court of King's Bench by certiorari, which it was his intention to do. The Magistrates refused, and he was accordingly bound to answer at the Sessions.— Worcester Herald. Robert Piercy, a Policeman, shot James Shepherd, a labouring man, who had attacked him with violence, last Saturday, at Wotton in Hertfordshire. A Coroner's Jury found a verdict of Justifiable Homicide.

Samuel Thorley, a gardener of Northwich in Cheshire, last week, cut the throat of a young woman with whom he had had a love quarrel. The next morning he deliberately walked to Chester Gaol, confessed his crime, and was imprisoned.

Last week, a young man named Thomas Hughes, whose father formerly kept the Black Horse, at Sawtry, Huntingdon, who had been brought up a tailor, enlisted in an idle mood with a recruiting party. Being next morning jeered by his brother, who said his fiimily would not be ut the expense of buying him off this silly frolic, lie re- plied that he would make them " support him for life," and straightway he went to the shop of a butcher, and with a hatchet chopped off the fingers of his right hand, thus rendering himself unfit for the army, and unable to follow any mechanical pursuit. The unfortunate family had to pay the recruiting sergeant a guinea as the smart-money, to prevent his further punishment by the Articles of War..—Huntingdon Gazette.

John Stellar, the noted incendiary, who was convicted at the last Cambridge Assizes of having been instrumental in firing several bams,was hanged at Cambridge on Thursday week. There were present about ten thousand persons (a great portion of them females), who came from the neighbouring villages, and more especially from Shelford—the scene of his crimes. By a recent confession which he made, it appears that he destroyed eleven extensive barns successively by the following simple plan : he rolled some combustible timber in a quantity of linen, which, at a favourable opportunity, he inserted in the stack. The property which be had been the means of destroying is calculated at the value of 60,0001. ; and his only motive was the paltry. consideration of Gs. M., which he was accustomed to receive for giving notice to the fire-office.

The Stamford News gives an account of several fires which have lately occurred at March, Stilton, Heckington, and Wisbeach ; all the work of incendiaries.

In the Western part of Norfolk, there have been eight fires within the last fortnight. At Barton, near Cambridge, property to the amount of 2,0001. has been destroyed. Three fires have also taken place at Chatteris; and one at a village a few miles from Peterborough. The quantity of corn consumed is to a very serious extent, and many head of cattle have perished. The distressed state of the tenantry, the dissolute habits of the labouring classes, and the pernicious effects

of the beer-houses,, are the saleecc at coaversa :on in every toe n a:A village.

Sunday week, a haystack, containing about a hundred tons, the pro- perty of Lord Carbety, at Laxton, Northamptonshire, was fired ; prompt assistance being at hand, the greater part of the stack was saved. Not the slightest doubt is entertained that the fire was kindled by the hand of an incendiary, as several incisions had been made in the pipes of the engines. His Lordship has offered 1001. reward for the discovery of the offender.

Monday morning, a bean stack, the produce of ten acres, standing about a quarter of a mile from Eye, the property of Mr. Little, of that place, was discovered to be on fire, and was totally consumed, as also a quantity of stubble that was lying near it. The destruction of, property is supposed to be about 100/.

A fire broke out on Saturday week in a fodder stack, of about thirty tans, at Wanstone Farm, the property of Mr. J. Witherden Elwin

The Dover engines were speedily conveyed to the spot, and the engine belonging to the Ordnance was conducted thither by ninety of the troops quartered in the town. Mr. Elwin is insured in the Guardian office. There is no doubt it was the act of an incendiary.—Kentish Gazette.

The wind was blowing a tremendous gale from the south-west, when, about five o'clock, on Saturday morning, the inhabitants of Werrington,.

Peterborough, and other places' were aroused from their slumbers by the cry of fire. A few minutes before five, a heap of straw at Werrington,

upon the premises of Mr. William Bate, a Magistrate for Peter- borough Soke, was observed in flames; which, from the wind blowing extremely strong, soon communicated to the buildings, pigsties, hovels, and barns on the premises ; and it also communicated to the farm-house, cottage, barns, stables, and other buildings and stacks, the property of Mr. Tippen. The country for miles around appeared in one blaze when the fire first broke out. The flames were got under about ten. Lord Fitzwilliam was present, and exerted himself, while many of the labourers stood unconcerned. The great glare of light was very per- ceptible at Stamford. It was also distinctly seen at Wansford and • Peeping.

An incendiary set fire to a corn-stack at Ramsbury Farm, Wilts, on Thursday week ; which quickly communicated to the adjoining ricks; and in a short time the whole, including all the farm-buildings, was in full blaze, and every thing except the dwellinglionse completely de- stroyed. The flames were seen for thirty miles round the conntry. A man is in custody on suspicion. The damage exceeds 2,000f. Another incendiary fire took place on Tuesday week, at New Farm, about five miles from Salisbury, on the Western road ; and a iasze quantity of wheat in rick was consumed.—Beading Mercury.