they determined to return, and ask the person at whose house they had been, if they might sit by the fire-side during the night, as he had no better accommodation for them. They accordingly did so, but were again driven from their shelter, and left to the pelting of the storm. They then made another effort, and ultimately succeeded in gaining the top of Sherburn-hill, which is at a very short distance from the town. There they both laid down under a haystack, and fell asleep. The brother awoke some time during the night, and, it being moonlight, he got up and wished his sister to rise and go with him into the town. She faintly replied she could not; and he, finding himself unable to stand, laid himself down by her side, and placed his face to hers, in order to keep each other as warm as they could. They remained in this situation till ten o'clock the next morning, when they were found and conveyed to a public house in Sherburn. The girl was quite dead, and the boy in a state of complete insensibility.

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best surgical aid was immediately procured, and nine men were employed five hours in fomenting different parts of his body, which had the desired effect of producing resuscitation.-Leeds Intelligencer. 13. TESTIMONY OF AN INFIDEL.-Old Bailey.-John Haywood was indicted for stealing a quantity of brass-mounting, the property of Richard Carlile, bookseller, Fleet-street.

Richard Carlile was called in. Recorder. Have you been sworn? I have. Were you sworn on the Gospels? I was sworn in the usual way. Do you believe in the Gospels ?-I believe in them as detached portions

of history. Do you believe in them, yes or no?-I consider myself bound to speak the truth after swearing on them. In a general way I do believe them. (Emphatically.) Do you believe in the Gospel on which you have been sworn? If you do not, your oath cannot be taken, and is not worth one farthing. As a whole I do not believe in it. I repeat, it is nothing more than a matter of history. Then you do not believe in the Bible?-I do not. Then I cannot believe you on your oath, if you disbelieve its contents.-İ have examined it very carefully. (With increased emphasis.)-Do you believe in a God? It is a simple question.-I do not think it is a simple question.-I must insist on an answer. Do you believe there is a God?—I do not understand the term. There is not a person in court but does, except yourself. I do not understand the meaning of the question, nor what is intended.-I will have an answer. I cannot understand what is meant by God: there may be such a Being.-I again call upon you to say if you believe there is a God? I have already answered that question. I have already said I believe in parts of the history in which that name is mentioned.— Then you do not believe in the Gospel on which you have been sworn? Stand down. I will not allow any one to be accused by one who dares stand here and revile his Maker; who dares publicly avow his disbelief of the Scrip

tures.

The charge was fully proved by other witnesses, and the prisoner was found Guilty.

HURRICANE IN IRELAND. Limerick.-On Tuesday morning it commenced blowing fresh from

the westward; on Wednesday morning the storm increased in fury, and continued, with little variation, from the same point, attended with several heavy squalls, and severe showers of hail and rain. The houses in the more exposed streets were partially stripped of their covering, but no serious injury was sustained. At Kilkenny upwards of twenty trees, of a large size, principally firs, were blown down; the greater part of them were broken across, at about six or eight feet from the ground, and carried to the distance of fifteen or twenty feet. In short, the country appeared as if it had been visited by a West-Indian tornado. In the neighbourhood of Carlow the hurricane was accompanied by heavy and continued rain, and by noises in the air, resembling the explosions of artillery.

15. INCORRIGIBLE ROBBER. — Correctional Police of Lyons.-On the 15th of January, the court of Correctional Police was occupied with the case of Hubert Compte, a man seventy years old. He had undergone a first sentence of fourteen years hard labour in chains, and then a second of two years imprisonment for simple robbery. Being afterwards placed under surveillance, he soon found himself deficient in the means of living. Returning to Lyons, his condition of a galley-slave prevented him from gaining any employment. The story which this unhappy man told to the tribunal of the circumstances under which he had been taken up, and the pitiful tone in which he expressed himself, banished all idea that he was deviating from the truth. Plunged into absolute destitution, and fearing that he should be drawn into some new act of criminality by the

necessity of providing for his most urgent wants, he presented himself, he said, to the mayoralty, to request that he might either be committed to one of the prisons, or sent to one of the hospitals in the town. This request was, at first, but little attended to; he persevered, and claimed the assistance of the chaplain to the prison of Roanne, who assisted him in the new steps which he thought it requisite to take. The subordinate

agents of police, touched by the misery of Compte, advised him, according to his story, to throw himself in the way of the nightly patrol, in one of the public squares, promising to take him up there. In point of fact they were as good as their word; he was then sent by the mayor to the public prosecutor, who sent him before the Correctional Police as a vagrant. On his examination, Compte requested condemnation as an invaluable favour, and the tribunal, in consequence, condemned him to three months' imprisonment.

17. PATENT. KING'S BENCH, GUILDHALL.-Brunton and others v. Blackmore and others.-This was an action by the plaintiffs, Frederick Brunton and William and Daniel Price, against the defendants Hugh Blackmore and Edward Swan, for an infringement of a patent which had been granted to the plaintiff Brunton for manufacturing bonnets of silk and cotton braid. Mr. Scarlett, Mr. Gurney, and Mr. Abraham, conducted the case for the plaintiffs. The Common Serjeant and Mr. F. Pollock for the defendants. The assignment of a share in the patent by Brunton to the other two plaintiffs having been proved, the patent and specification were produced and read. It appeared from the evidence

for the plaintiff, that this invention consisted of a mode of constructing bonnets of cotton or silk braid, knit or sewed together, after the manner of the Leghorn bonnets, and the plait, when thus formed and stiffened by size, was pressed on blocks into the desired shapes. The application of braid to that purpose, by that method, was stated to be new, and never to have been adopted before the date of the plaintiff's patent. On the part of the defendants, Mrs. Susannah Crouch proved, that she had been thirty-one years in business, and, upwards of twenty years ago, had made bonnets of the same description of materials stiff ened with isinglass. They were called "frivolity bonnets." The witness having identified several patterns taken from her own pattern-book, corresponding with the materials of which the bonnets manufactured by the plaintiffs were formed, the plaintiffs were Nonsuited.

ROBBER.-Amiens.-Intense interest was excited in this town by the trial of the notorious robber Francis Petit. It is unnecessary to enter into the particulars of the two or three hundred robberies of which he has been guilty, and which he has confessed. He has been at the bar of almost every tribunal in the kingdom, and has been condemned for minor thefts some twenty or thirty times; the period of imprisonment for which approached nearly a century. For each of five crimes of a more aggravated nature, his sentence had been ten or fifteen years' confinement and hard labour. Sending this man to prison was nothing more than incurring an unnecessary expense; he always found the means of breaking asunder his fetters, told his gaolers that such were his in

tentions, and cautioned them to be upon their guard; he had escaped five times from the bagnes of Brest, Toulon, and Rochefort. The lawyer, upon whom Petit fixed as his counsel received a letter from him, requesting him to appear at the bar in

favour of an old acquaintance who had robbed his house on two different occasions, and had once stolen his gown a few minutes before he entered the court. The strength of the prisoner's hands was such, that he used to break asunder with ease the iron manacles that are generally used in France He addressed the court in the following manner :- "I am an unfortunate man; from my infancy I have had a propensity to stealing; five times I have been sent to the galleys, and as often escaped from prison; I am like a poor hare, pursued in every direction. Fifteen brigades of gendarmes have been after me at a time. You will say, why not go to America, or beg instead of stealing? My answer is, I have no money, and am too proud to become a mendicant. You know it is useless to send me to prison; set me at liberty, and allow me to raise a subscription among the persons in court; I promise to leave the country, and become an honest man; however, should I, contrary to my expectations, be sentenced to imprisonment, of course I shall soon break asunder my fetters, and I will tell you what it then is my intention to do. I will rob the king of France of some article of value, such as a favourite fowling-piece; this I will send back to his majesty, who will take pity on a poor man, and extend his mercy to me." Petit was sentenced to hard labour for life, and to be branded.

19. SHIPWRECK-Haerlem

The Wassenaer, line-of-battle ship, which sailed from the Texel on Friday the 12th, in company with the Waterloo, with troops on board for the re-inforcement of the Dutch army in Batavia, was lost on the coast of Holland, during a hurricane which raged from Saturday the 13th to Monday the 15th. After having suffered great damage, especially the falling of the mainmast, and having in vain endeavoured to come to an anchor, all the cables being broken, the ship drifted at the mercy of the waves, and struck on the third bank north of Egmond. The first shocks were so violent, that the hold was in an instant filled with water, and a number of persons, supposed to be about sixty or seventy, were drowned. When the ship approached the coast, and was in sight of the lighthouses, the crew fired guns as signals of distress, and took measures to carry a rope on shore. It is believed that a hogshead, to which a rope was fastened, did get on shore, but fell into wrong hands. Lieutenant Muntz made a fruitless attempt to get on shore with a few men, and perished; some other persons got on shore in the barge and a couple of boats, but without being able to fix a rope from the ship to the land. The safety-boat could not get through the breakers, but saved some men who had fallen overboard from the barge. During the whole of Tuesday, the 16th, the people on board hoped, in vain, that one of the fishing-boats, of which there were numbers at Egmond, would come out; and it was not until Tuesday night that an attempt was made with a pink. It reached the wreck, and saved as many persons as it would contain. Several vessels were sent, as soon as pos

sible, from the Texel, which, in the course of Wednesday, brought off the remainder of the people. The weather being favourable, the wreck kept together longer than was expected, so that boats got to it, and succeeded in saving some goods. The number of those who lost their lives was supposed not to exceed a hundred. Lieutenant Muntz was the only naval officer who perished, and all the officers of the troops got on shore.

FUNERAL CEREMONY OF THE DUKE OF YORK.-The coffin for the remains of his royal highness was carried to Rutland House late on the evening of Wednesday the 10th, and, soon after twelve o'clock, they were conveyed in a hearse to the King's palace, St. James's, followed by a mourning coach, in which were sir Herbert Taylor, col. Stevenson, and the king's Sergeant-surgeon. The king's guard, under the command of col. Macdonald, were drawn out to receive the royal corpse, which was afterwards conveyed into the state room assigned for the lying in state. This took place on the two next days. On Thursday the privilege of entrance through the Stable-yard, by tickets, lasted till 11, when the public were admitted through the second front gate of the Palace. When the crowd had passed along a covered way across the yard, they mounted the new staircase, which leads to the state apartments. This was hung with black cloth, and the landing places were railed off, so as to break the force of the crowd and prevent any unseemly rush in the approach to the grand suite of rooms. At eight o'clock a captain's full-dress guard from the grenadier-guards, with colours, mounted as a guard

of honour. At the same hour, a captain's guard from the 17th lancers also mounted. A strong detachment of police had already been in attendance, and were distributed around the barriers, and in considerable force at the first entrance. The police were assisted by a large reinforcement of constables, under Mr. Lee, the highconstable. The Lancers did duty outside, and the Grenadier guards marched inside, and were distributed at various entrances, and along the internal passages about the Palace. The yeomen of the guard had also assembled within the palace, and about an hour before the time of public admission, took their stations in files, twentyfour in the new gallery, and twelve in the armoury room; with a yeoman usher to each party. They were dressed as usual, with the addition of black stockings, and black crape round their hats and partisans. The honourable corps of gentlemen at arms (who are, in fact, his majesty's body-guard,) also gave their attendance, though unusual, except at the funeral of the king or queen. A gentleman in deep mourning was stationed in each room, to keep the public moving.

The black drapery of the state room,in which the corpse was placed, was so fitted up at the top as to resemble a tent, in allusion to the military character of the departed duke. The sides of the room were covered with black cloth fluted horizontally, ornamented with hatchments and silver sconces.

The coffin stood on a platform under a state canopy; and over it was thrown a pall of black velvet, with three escutcheons on each side. At the head of the coffin, on a velvet cushion, was placed

the coronet below, on another cushion, the duke's baton as Fieldmarshal. Three large wax candles burned on each side. On the coffin plate was the following inscription, issued from the Herald's College:

Depositum
Illustrissimi Principis
FREDERICI,

de Brunswick Lunenburg,
DUCIS EBORACI ET ALBANIÆ,
Comitis Ultoniæ,

Nobilissimi Ordinis Periscelidis,

et

Honoratiss. Ordin.Militar.deBalneo Equitis,

Fratris augustissimi et potentissimi Monarchæ,

GEORGII QUARTI, Dei Gratiâ Britanniarum Regis, Fidei Defensoris.

Regis Hanoveræ, &c. Obiit quinto die Januarii, Anno Domini MDCCCXXVII., ætatis suæ LXIV.

A few minutes before ten o'clock, General Upton took his station at the head of the coffin, colonel sir Henry Cook on the right side, and colonel Armstrong on the left; these officers were attached to his late royal highness's staff, and appeared in court mourning. In the front were J. Hawker, esq. Richmond Herald, and C.J. Young, esq. York Herald. On each side were three gentlemen-at arms, holding banners, viz. of Albany, White Horse of Hanover, Falcon and Fetter-lock, White Rose, the crest of the late duke, and the arms of his royal highness. There were also two gentlemen-ushers, and two gentlemen of the Privychamber. On each side of the platform were six grenadiers, with their muskets reversed, leaning on the butt end.

The first person who entered