directed to some official person in the Ilavannah, together with
six others. Four, bearing the same direction, had gone by the mail to London. This being ascertained, an express was sent off to London, to the General Post-office, warning them there that the bags contained such letters. The letters were put in the Post-office without payment of postage, which is requisite, and in consequence of which they were stamped to send to the Dead Letter Office in London. There is every reason to suppose that on opening the four letters at the General Post- office, some clue may be obtained to the guilty parties. William Covies, of Tavil, near Maidstone, has been committed to prison, to be tried on a charge of murdering his wife by throwing her down stairs.'
The Bishop of Worcester was not present at the Worcester Festival on Tuesday, owing to an unhappy event in his palace ; one of his ser- vants having given birth to an illegitimate child, which she immediately murdered by cutting its throat.
On the afternoon of Tuesday (the 20th ultimo), the inhabitants re- siding in the vicinity of the Town Hall, Berwick, were thrown into a state of great alarm, in consequence of a violent explosion which took place under the piazza. The people were for some seconds at a loss to conjecture what had occurred; but were soon directed to the scene of the explosion by a dense cloud of smoke filling the area of the Market-place, which was discovered to proceed from the steam appae atus, lately erected under the Hall, for warming the Council Chamber.
Quantities of burning coals and embers n. e ejected front the mouth of the furnace to the houses on the opposite side of the Street; which must have endangered the lives of persons who might have been pass- ing at the moment, but very fortunately no one happened to he on the spot. It is believed the heating boiler has burst, and the pipes in the interior part of the stone framework are destroyed ; but we under- stand the precise extent of the damage cannot be well ascertained till portion of the building be taken down.—Berwick Warder.
On Wednesday last, the wife of Joseph Monks, Cropper Street, Liverpool, was delivered of three sons, two of whom were born dead. The father is a journeyman tailor, and is a complete cripple, nature baying forgotten to furnish him with legs.—Liverpool Mercury.
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