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shifting his wet clothes, and taking some refreshment, he mounted his horse, and started for Dunotter, where he arrived at two o'clock; having rode the seventy miles in four hours and a half. He remained about an hour there, and got back to Felar four minutes before eight o'clock at night, performing the 140 miles in ten hours and twenty-six minutes, and winning the match by four hours and four minutes. The whole was done, shooting, riding, &c. in 15 hours and 56 minutes. He returned to Castletown that night, a distance of 14 miles, by ten o'clock; making the whole distance on horseback 154 miles. His Lordship did not appear fatigued. Every thing was against him; the grouse are uncommon strong and forward this season; the road is any thing but good-the first four miles a mere nountain sheep tract, and the remainder very hard and stony, with numerous short sharp hills.

SEPTEMBER.

Edinburgh Advocates' Library.-Mr Stothard has completed his task of decorating, with his pencil, the interior of the Advocates' Library, having been only two months engaged in an undertaking which might require four in the ordinary time, as few could have sustained the labour of fourteen hours out of the fourand-twenty. That part of the library which has been thus ornamented is a space about four feet below the dome, from which the interior receives its principal light, and the subject chosen is Apollo and the Muses, together with the first characters of literature and science. The order of the design represents Apollo in the centre, and opposite the entrance, on his left, Euterpe, Terpsichore, Clio, Thalia, and Urania: on the right of the god are Melpomene, Calliope, Erato, and Polyhymnia; right and left of the Muses, boys are seen flying with wreaths of laurel towards the compartments, which contain the orators, poets, historians, &c. placed as follows: Immediately opposite the figure of Apollo is that of Demosthenes, on whose right is Cicero, and on his left Herodotus and Livy. To the left of the orators are the philosophers and historians, as Newton, Hume, Robertson, and Gibbon ; on the other side of Newton, Bacon, Napier, and Adam Smith. In the group which contains the poets, Homer is the centre; on his right, Burns, and Virgil on his left; between Burns and Homer is Shakspeare, and between Virgil and Homer, Milton. These several groups, together with Apollo and the Muses, are in compartments formed by laurel trees, which separate without interrupting the chain of connexion. Between the

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four arches beneath the dome are introduced arabesque ornaments; while the whole, in point of colouring and effect, is calculated to relieve the interior of the building, without interfering with its architectural arrangement, presenting a coup d'oeil which does equal credit to the skill of the artist and judginent of those with whom the design originated.

12-Sporting.-Lord Garlies, the eld est son of the Earl of Galloway, has gained his bet, (we believe of 1000 guineas), that he would kill 50 brace of partridges in one day; which he accomplished three hours within the time-killing 53 brace, besides two hares and a rabbit.

16.-Edinburgh Muscum.-We un derstand that Mr Archibald Hume, Surgeon, R. N. has lately presented to the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of this city, a fine specimen of the head of a young New Zealand Chief, beautifully tattooed and einbalmed, in a manner unknown to the civilized nations of modern times, but which commands the admiration of all adequate judges. Mr Hume has promised to communicate to the College an account of the mode in which the process is conducted.

The Commissioners of Police of Edinburgh have purchased the premises lately occupied by the Royal Bank of Scotland, in the Old Fish-Market Close, at the price of £.3500, to fit it up as a Police Office.

21.-Fire. Thursday night, about eleven o'clock, a fire broke out in an old wooden tenement, the corner of Lady Wynd, at the foot of the West Port, which, from the combustible nature of its materials, in a few minutes presented a terrific appearance. The engines were promptly on the spot, but all their exer. tions were unavailing; the entire premises where the fire originated were burnt to the ground, to which providentially the flames were confined. The house had long been used as a common resort for lodgers of the lowest description, a great number of whom were, in consequence of the calamity, thrown out of their quarters for the night. A poor Irish labourer, with two children, eight and ten years old, who occupied one of the rooms, and were in bed, were unhappily burnt to death. Their mangled remains were dug out from the rubbish this day, and decently interred. The man was a wi dower, named Samuel Park. On the first alarm of the fire he was called to by a neighbour, who escaped in his shirt, and made answer; and his friend was anxiously searching for him among his acquaintances the whole of yesterday, in the hope that he had also escaped. The rapidity of the flames, however, was such, that

the poor man appears to have lost his own life in his paternal anxiety to save those of his children.

26.-Daring Burglary.—On Monday evening a very extensive robbery was committed in the shop of Mr Howden, pawn-broker, at the head of Dickson's Close, High Street. The thieves, watching the opportunity of the watchman on duty going to a different part of his rounds, climbed up, by the help of the lamp-iron, to a window fronting the street, and by breaking a pane, removed the sash screw, and the shutters not being fastened, entered the house without difficulty. One of the party remained without, and the rest, consisting of three, rummaged the premises for about an hour and a half, and in that time conveyed by a back window to their accomplice, a number of valuable articles, chiefly of jewellery, to the value of upwards of £.500, among which were seven gold and fifty silver watches. their retreat, however, they were observ. ed by a watchman, and three of them secured with the booty. A fourth was taken next day, and after examination in the Police Office, the whole were given over to the Sheriff.

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Desperate Affray at Chippingham.—On Saturday the 7th instant, between eleven and twelve o'clock, a party of young men, about thirty in number, from Langley Burrel and Kington Langley, near Chippingham, entered that town, and with bludgeons and stones assaulted and most dreadfully beat all the persons they met, without distinction of age or sex. Mr Joseph Hull, saddler, who was called out of his bed by cries of murder, was taken up and carried home dead. Mr Reynold, a brazier, was carried home bruised from head to foot. He was heard praying most piteously for his life. "Don't kill me! don't kill me, Mountjoy, and I'll give thee a guinea!" but no mercy was shewn him. He died on Tuesday evening. Mr Moore, the high constable, and landlord of the Duke of Cumberland, lies in a most deplorable state, and upwards of twenty other persons are suffering under severe contusions. Near twenty of the assailants, including the two ringleaders, who are respectable farmers, are in custody. This shameful outrage is stated to have arisen at the last Kington Langley revel, where some offence was taken at the conduct of some young man of Chippingham, and a determination was formed to have revenge.-A verdict of Wilful Murder and Riot has been brought in by the Coroner's Inquest, which sat on the bodies of the unfortunate men who lost their lives on this occasion, against Henry Knight and John Matthew (two farmers),

John Thomas, George Thomas, Thomas Pearce, Benjamin Salter, William Tanner, John Woodman, James Isaacs, and William Bryant, (all of whom, except Tanner, are in custody,) and against other persons unknown. Three other persons are also in custody, charged with being implicated in this riot.

CIRCUIT INTELLIGENCE.—Stirling, Sept. 12.-The only indictment at this Court was that of Peter Moffat, jun. charged with the murder of his father at Kilsyth. He was not in custody, and was declared an outlaw for not appearing.

Glasgow. The court sat here from the 16th to the 19th.--James Campbell was charged with entering the house of a gar dener at Lodge-my-loons, where he had formerly been a servant, by means of false keys, and stealing £.85 in bank notes. He was found Guilty, and sentenced to be executed on the 23d of October. After receiving sentence, Campbell, in a firm tone, addressed the Bench as follows"My Lord, as this is the last time that you and I will meet together on this earth, I have two requests to make, which 1 hope your Lordship will grant me. The first is, that my name shall not be cried through the public streets in those puny papers, as is usually done with persons in my situation; and that on the day of the execution I shall not be brought into the Court Hall, amidst the gaze of an ignorant rabble, by which my devotions may be disturbed, and my thoughts discomposed. I will ever be very glad to receive the instructions of any Protestant minister who may desire to visit me, as I was bred up in that persuasion; and I hope that your Lordship will indulge me in my wishes, and, that though we have been enemies here to-day, we will meet together as friends in heaven." Lord Pitmilly said, he would do every thing in his power for him; but it lay not with him to grant his requests. He had no doubt, however, if he would apply to the Magistrates of Glasgow, who, while they acted with firmness, were at the same time merciful, they would do every thing possible for a person in his unhappy situation. Campbell then said, "I have your good-will, my Lord," and left the bar, saying, "Death was sweeter than confinement; cowards die many times, but he would only die once." He has since been respited, and the sentence is expected to be changed to transportation.

Daniel Tucker, for a similar crime, was sentenced to be executed, but has also received a respite. Four others were con victed of housebreaking and theft; thirteen of theft; six of various acts of rebbery; and two of assault; who were sen

tenced to various terms of transportation or imprisonment, according to their degrees of guilt. One man, convicted of bigamy, was banished from Scotland for life.

Perth, Sept. 14-16.-John Millar and William Horner were found guilty of assaulting a girl of fourteen near Glammis, with intent to commit a rape, and were sentenced to be publicly whipped through the streets of Dundee, on the 4th October, and afterwards to be transported for life.

William Robertson, was accused of committing a rape on a woman residing near Cupar, and was found guilty by a majority of the jury; but from some circumstances of the case, which were not made public, they unanimously and strongly recommended him to mercy. This recommendation was strongly backed by the Magistrates, and many gentlemen of the neighbourhood, and has been successful in obtaining a respite from the sentence of death pronounced against Robertson.

John Purvis, younger of Lochend, Fifeshire, was convicted of assaulting, beating, and bruising John Harley, a farm-servant of his father's, but recommended to mercy by the jury; and the Advocate-depute having declined praying the judgment of the court, Mr Purvis was, after a few admonitory words from the Judge, dismissed from the bar. It appeared in evidence that he had previously made pecuniary compensation to Harley.

Three individuals for forgery, or uttering forged notes, were sentenced to transportation, and one to banishment from Scotland for life. One individual to be transported for theft, and three others, for the same crime, sentenced to various terms of imprisonment.

Aberdeen, Sept. 19, 20.-The Court was occupied the whole of the first day, with the trial of Elspet Balfour, residing near New Deer, accused of the murder of her natural child; but the charge could not be brought home to her, and the jury brought in a verdict of Not Proven.

Mackay, and Alexander Macdonald, were convicted of assault, the first three as principals, and the last as being art and part in the crime. The former were sentenced to seven years' transportation, and the latter to twelve months' imprisonment.

Ayr, Sept. 20, 21.-No convictions took place at this Court. The following cases came before it :-John Burtney, accused of rape, whose case was postponed at last Circuit, was placed at the bar. The charge was for attacking Janet Anderson, daughter of James Anderson, wright, near Prestwick toll, in September last, in a potato field near her father's house, throwing her down on the ground, and forcibly ravishing her. She is stated in the libel to be a child of only eight years of age. Burtney was summoned for trial at last Circuit, but the indisposition of the child, said to be deflowered, prevented the prosecutor from proceeding at the time with the case, and it stood over to this Circuit. At this Circuit, likewise, it so happened the public prosecutor could not proceed. A defect in the execution against the witnesses for the Crown, it seems, had been discovered, and lest it might be taken advantage of by the Counsel for the pannel, and the ends of justice defeated, the diet was deserted, and a new warrant of commitment prayed for. In making this motion, the Advocatedepute stated his regret at the delay thus occasioned, and expressed a resolution to bring the case promptly before the High Court of Justiciary.

The Lord Justice Clerk took this opportunity of correcting a very prevalent mistake with regard to this species of desertion. It seems to be believed, even in the highest quarters, and among those whose education should have taught them better, that the public prosecutor is entitled ad libitum to postpone the trial of a prisoner, and by this means to detain him in jail. No such power exists. The public prosecutor may move that the diet be deserted pro loco et tempore; but it rests with the Court either to grant or refuse this request. Such is the confidence reposed in the public prosecutor, that this motion is usually granted without inquiry into the grounds on which it is made. But if, from any peculiar circumstances in the case, the Court chooses to call upon the prosecutor to explain his grounds, and Inverness, Sept. 26.-The following these are found to be inadequate, they cases came before the court :-A charge would refuse the motion, desert the diet of assault against William Macdonald, simpliciter, and give the pannel the adand of theft against Roderick Chisolm, the vantage, whatever it might be, of that Jury found-Not Proven. Donald Be- deliverance. In this case, however, the thune was convicted of bigamy, and sen- mistake was one of great consequence, as tenced to 12 months' imprisonment. Wil- the execution against all the witnesses liam Murray, John Mackenzie, Donald bore that they had been cited "by virtue

Two boys, for housebreaking and theft, were sentenced to transportation for fourteen years; a woman for theft, to twelve months, and a man for assault, to four months' imprisonment.

of the Sheriff-substitute of Ayrshire, his precept of such a date, subjoined to the list of assizors and witnesses for the ensuing Circuit," instead of running thus"By virtue of the Lord Justice General, Lord Justice Clerk, and Lords Commissioners of Justiciary, their precept subjoined to the Porteous Roll for Ayrshire, of date so and so, as also by virtue of the Sheriff-substitute of Ayrshire, his warrant following thereon, cf date so and so." The diet was accordingly deserted pro loco et tempore, and warrant granted for the transmission of the pannel to the tolbooth of Edinburgh.

James Walker, accused of falsehood, fraud, and forgery. This case was likewise brought forward at the last Circuit, and delayed from the absence of a witness. The same mistake having occurred with the witnesses in this trial as in Burtney's case, the diet was deserted pro loco et tempore, and warrant granted for the recommitment of the prisoner, His Lordship, however, stated, that it was by no means the wish of the Court that any unnecessary confinement should be inflicted, and that the public prosecutor consented to the pannel's liberation on bail.

James Mackie, accused of assault, and James M'Donald of bigamy, were next placed at the bar. Mackie's case, being one of minor importance, was certified to a Sheriff Court. The objection which proved fatal to the two preceding case, likewise applied to that of M'Donald; but the public prosecutor did not deem it necessary to insist on a new trial, and he was dimissed simpliciter from the bar.

Dumfries, Sept. 25.-Henry Caven, for pocket - picking, was sentenced to seven years' transportation. John Car. penter, an Irish labourer at Gatehouse-ofFleet, was accused, along with three of his countrymen, with assembling in a riotous and tumultuous manner, at the Gatehouse Fair, held on the 3d July last, and there assaulting the lieges to their great terror and alarm, forcing them to leave the fair. This was neither morc nor less than an Irish row. It appeared that at about twelve o'clock noon, on the 3d July last, from forty to fifty Irishmen entered Kelton-hill fair, armed with stout walking-sticks. The party walked three deep, and were otherwise arranged in a sort of marching order. The pannel was placed betwixt two countrymen in the front rank, and was the only individual who did not carry a stick. They cried on the Scotsmen to turn out and fight them; and one of them said, "By the holy for the face of a Protestant!" They struck several persons with their sticks,

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and severely wounded them, and many people, from the aların, left the fair sooner than was intended. The Jury returned a verdict, finding that a riotous astem. blage had taken place, as stated in the libel, but in so far as regarded the pannel, found the libel Not Proven.

Jedburgh, Sept. 20.-William King and William Jordan, for theft, were sentenced to fourteen years' transportation; and William Crawford, a young lad, for breaking open a chest, and stealing seve ral articles of wearing apparal, to twelve months' imprisonment in Selkirk jail.

OCTOBER.

3.-The Longitude.-A very ingenicus instrument has been invented by Mr Harley, of the chain-pier at Trinity, for ascertaining the longitude. It has been submitted, we understand, to six naval officers, who concur in opinion that it will completely answer its intended purpose on land, or at sea in calm weather, but they are divided in opinion of the prac ticability of using it at sea in stormy weather, owing to the violent motion to which it will be subjected; this objection, however, if it cannot be obviated, must apply to all other instruments of a simi lar description. Mr Harley has taken his instrument to London, to be there inspected by competent judges of its merits, and we earnestly wish him all the success so important a discovery deserves. The reward offered for the discovery of a complete instrument for ascertaining the longitude is, we believe, £20,000.

Cloth-dressing. A machine for the dressing of cloth has recently been erected in Leeds, which does as much in fortyfive minutes as two men could do in two days.

7. Population. By the late returns, it appears that in England there are 294,088 females more than males-in Wales, 16,464-in Scotland, 126,352-making a total in Great Britain of 434,901-almost half a million ladies fair, doomed, by the unlucky course of nature, to single blessedness-which is rendered worse by the waste occasioned by at least 150,000 inflexible bachelors. How it is in Ireland we have no means of ascertaining; but we hope affairs are more prosperous.

Coach Fares. A new coach having appeared upon the road between Sunderland and South Shields, in opposition to a regular old stage (whose fare has been for many years 2s. each passenger), the rate was reduced to 1s. 6d. the first week, 1s. the second, 9d. the third, 6d. the fourth, and on the fifth, the charge for each passenger, inside, was 4d, each !— So much for opposition.

Th Appointments, &c. are unavoidably postponed till next month.

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METEOROLOGICAL TABLE

Kept at Edinburgh, in the Observatory, Caltonhill.

N.B.-The Observations are made twice every day, at nine o'clock forenoon and four o'clock after-
noon.The second Observation, in the afternoon, in the first column, is taken by the Register
Thermometer.

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Average of Rain, 2.637 inches.

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AGRICULTURAL REPORT.

THE temperature since our last has been gradually ascending, as the season advanced. The mean temperature, for the week preceding the 22d October, was 4202, for the remaining nine days of that month 480, and for the first twelve days of The fall of rain amounts to one inch and three-tenths. the present month 50o. The open weather has been favourable to the sowing of wheat, and the genial temperature has brought forward a fair and vigorous braird. Plowing is far advanced; Potatoes have been all most part of the winter furrow is turned over. Turnips have improved considerably since our last, and cattle are still out at pasture. We hear many complaints that oats got up, and the return is most abundant. turn out poorly at the thrashing-mill, and that they are about one-sixteenth deficient in farinaceous matter from what they were last year. Oats at present meet a ready sale, but prices are still low. Barley is also sought after, and prime samples (of which deWheat of excellent quality sells for #scription few are offered) bring 22s. to 23s. Cattle sell at 21s. In beans or pease of the current crop there has been little done in the way of sale. Potatoes are to be had at from 6s. to 8s. per boll, of 32 stones. from 3s. 6d. to 4s. per stone; and draught-horses are offered on exceedingly low terms. It is generally believed that agricultural produce has reached its acmé of depression; prices being at present with us nearly the same as on the continent, while the expence of production is in many instances treble the amount which it costs the continental farmer: under this state of things, a transfer of capital, from one class to another, is going rapidly forward.

Perthshire, 13th November.

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