21 DECEMBER 1839, Page 5

The Western Vindicator has been discontinued.

James Wheeler, a printer and an active Chartist of Manchester, has given security to appear at Liverpool and take his trial for sedition. The William and Sally, a Brighton fishing-boat, was run down on Monday night off Brighton, by the John of London bound to St. Helena. Rayner Smith, his son, and another person were in the boat. The elder Smith was drowned, the others were saved by the ship's crew. The lad saw his father struggling in the water, aud heard his last words—" Good by, Charlie."