No change has takezaplace in the disposition of the fleet
stationed at Portsmouth, for the purpose, as has been reported, of joining the French in blockading Holland. Sir Pulteney Malcolm resumed his command on Tuesday sennight. His flag Was hoisted on board the Donegal, which vessel went out of dock on Wednesday.
. The Lord Wellington sailed from Portsmouth yesterday. sennight. She had ninety honks- on 'board, besides • several officers, military and medical, and some recruits, for the. Army at Oporto. .,
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, The Leeds Mercury describes the trade of that district as decidedly improved; and a great deal of business as doing in a sofa way. From Lancashire also, as well as in Yorkshire, the accounts are favourable. Prlie present Worthy Mayor of Liverpool is very low in stature : his I two Bailiffs are very tall men ; the one rather thin, the other realizing Dryden's description of one of his poetical rivals— "A tun of man in his large bulk is writ." The Lilliputian height ef the. Mayor and the lirobdignagian height of f the Bailiffs have, of Course, given occasion for the display of some loose I Wit, graphic as well as verbal. In a caricature, privately circulated, i the Mayor, supported by his two Bailiffs, is represented in the act of 1 presenting a loyal and dutiful address to the Princess Victoria, we be- : I lien. His Worship makes up by the aid of his wand of office for his I want of height, as contrasted with the stature of his colleagues ; and her Royal Highness is Made to express the pleasure which she feels in receiving an address from "such thick and thin supporters of the Con- stitution.'! . Passable as is this specimen of graphic wit, the verbal wit 1 to'which the election has given birth is better. " Who," asked a gen- k amen, "are chosen for Bailiffs?" " Why," replies another, " Mr. 1 Robertson Gladstone and Mr. James Aapinall." " Oh !'; exclaims the querist, "the length and the breadth
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Travellers 'between Hereford and Ross will see that the very mil-e stones have risen to testify against the Tories, who objected to the vote of a Whig gentleman, a i'reemaii of this city, on account of his house being a few yards beyond the seventh in'' 'etone. The road !nisi in consequence, been meieaired, and the gentleman alluded to will be. found-to live within how..—iiereibrd 'Times. [Tile Tories of emirs.: counted securely on the milestones as adherents to the ancient constitu. than bf the empire.] A few weeks ago, as some persons were conveying in a cart fourteen hives of bees, belonging to a.gentleman at Gallowsletil, from that place to the moors, the insects, from the motion of the vehicle, became agitated, made their escape in considerable numbers, and annoyed the horse, so that he became quite unmanageable. The cart upset ; the hives Were tossed about in every direction ; and the men took to their heels, leaving-the ill-starred horse to his fate. He fell, at length, literally covered with stings, and died in three hours afterwards..L.-Essex In- dependent.
A .solicitor practising in Wiltshire, was committed by- the Magis- trates at the Sessions, to Fisherton Gaol, for trial at the next Assizes, charged with forging the name of E. Compton (the prosecutor of two men at the Wilts ant Assizes 183:2) to a receipt for 2S/. 3s. 7d., the amount of the order made by the Court for the expenses, and obtaining the money from the Treasurer upon such receipt.—Devizes Gazette.
A young man of the sporting name of Tilbury, was committed on Saturday, for two months, to Ilford Correction-house, for committing an act Of vagrancy, by sleeping for ten days in Epping Forest. The committing Magistrates were -Messrs. Walker and Hardwick, of Lam- beth Stteet Office. The young man had, it seems, been bred a shoe- maker, but his master declared he was so stupid, that be would never make a decent cobler. His talents, it would appear, lay in another (Erection. A Mrs. Johnson stated, that about the beginning of March last, Master Tilbury came-to lodge at her house in Plaistow' Essex ; and had at the time about 601. in money, which she understood he had received from his friends. He was frequently in the habit of going to the theatres, particularly that of Covent Garden, having conceived a most violent passion for Miss. Fanny Kemble. He had frequently Confessed to witness his sincere attachment for that young lady, and be- trayed great uneasiness of mind and despondency of spirits when she was about to leave London for America. He had purchased a hand- somely-coloured print of her in the character of Juliet ; and was fre- quently in the habit of presenting himself before it, and repeating, in the most impassioned manner, • some of the passages in the play of .Romeo and Juliet; he seemed altogether a lost youth.
The stacks on the farming premises belonging to the Rev. S. C. Smith, rector of Denver, were discovered to • be on .fire on Monday evening ; and eight stacks were entirely consumed.—Norwich Mercury. ' A .few days since, the boiler of a small steam-engine, recently erected for the purpose ef turning a circular saw on the premises of Mr. George Jones, at Windsor Wharf, blew up with a tremendous explo- sion. A boy, named Richard Tucker, was:killed on the spot; and a young man, named John Reynolds, was so severely scalded, that
he died on Wednesday. Several other persons who were near i the spot were more or less injured by the explosion, but none of them seriously.
On Monday sennight, the steam-engine on the Manchester Railway. was accidentally thrown off the rails ; in consequence of which, a female in the first line of open carriages had one leg fractured, and the other severely bruised.
As Mr. John Currey and Mr. J. D. Salmon, of Stoke Ferry, were on their way home from Lynn, on Tuesday afternoon, in a gig, they got entangled between a waggon and a postchaise, driving rapidly in a contrary direction, when they were violently thrown to the ground, and Mr. Currey was instantly deprived of life. Mr. Salmon escaped with a dislocation of the shoulder.—Norwich Mercury.
Eleven stacks of corn and a barn full of corn were accidentally burnt on Saturday last, about four miles from Newmarket. Fortunately, from the fire happening during the day, several valuable horses that would otherwise have perished were saved.
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