adjoining country, about nine o'clock in the evening of the 21st of April. It was accompanied by thunder. The motion seemed to proceed from east to west. The weather was very fine and the sky serene.

OLD BAILEY.-John Robinson, alias Thomas Turner, was indicted for passing, on the 29th of February last, a 17. forged Bank of England note, with intent to defraud Arthur Morris.

The first witness examined was a boy named Richard Hill, about 16 years of age, who said he had

been to sea, and on his return to England could not get any employment. He was loitering about Charlotte-buildings, Gray'sinn-lane, on the 26th February last, when he fell into conversation with a man named Lloyd, who introduced him to the prisoner at the Black Dog in Gray'sinn-lane, saying, "Here is a boy who will pass pap for you, and he is all right." Prisoner said, Very well," and gave the boy a shilling, and appointed to meet him on the 28th, the Monday following. On the evening of that day (28th) he accompanied the prisoner and Lloyd to a garret in Broad-street, St. Giles's, where Lloyd wrote on the backs and fronts of five Bank of England notes, and put them into witness's pocket. The prisoner said the water-mark was so good that no person would know them to be forgeries. Lloyd promised him six shillings for every note which he might do for them.

The several persons with whom the boy changed the notes confirmed his testimony in that respect, and produced the notes which he gave them.

Mr. Glover, a Bank Inspector, proved the notes to be forged.

The Common Sergeant summed up, and the jury immediately found the prisoner Guilty.

In the Court of Common Pleas, this day, Mr. Sergeant Vaughan rose to show cause against a rule which had been obtained on a former day by Mr. Sergeant Blossett, the object of which was, to take off the file of the Court, for some irregularity in the endorsement, the proceedings commenced against the warden of the Fleet, for suffering the escape of Robert Christie Burton, esq. from his custody. This gentleman, our readers will recollect, was, a member of the House of Commons in the last parliament, and was discharged by the warden, under the authority of the Speaker's order. The Court, in consideration that the point was new, arising as it did out of the act of 59th Geo. 3rd, by which the practice of that court was altered, took time to consider before they gave a decision. [The affair was dropped here.]

Repetition of the diabolical attempt to fire Hereford College,About a quarter past ten last night [May 2], the inhabitants of this city were again alarmed by the cry of "fire," at our college, and, in consequence, a large number of persons hastened to render assistance. The flames were discovered on the north side of the ceiling of one of the upper rooms, which was on fire in two places, and there is but little doubt, but in a very short period, if the providential discovery had not taken place, the whole of that part of the building would have been in flames. The judicious exertions of those who first rushed to the spot effectually subdued the fire, which had made considerable progress, and nearly

burnt through a large beam and some rafters with great injury to the apartments like the former attempts.

Between twenty-six and twentyseven thousand pounds have been awarded as the sum to be given by the commissioners of the Menai bridge, to Miss Wil liams, the proprietor of Bangor Ferry, as the Menai bridge is to be situated within the limits of the ferry, and will of course render the ferry useless, which has upon an average of the last eleven years, produced the young lady, who is a minor, about 9001. per annum.

A living insect of considerable size was extracted, a few days ago, from the external part of the throat of a poor woman, which had generated into a tumour of nearly two years standing, by a medical gentleman at Aylesford, near Maidstone.

Most of the young men who have recently emigrated from Scotland to America, got married before they embarked and took their wives with them. Previously to the sailing of the Alexander, last week, last week, from Greenock for Quebec, many were asked in church three times in one day, and immediately after the ceremony went on board.

A German paper says, that the Austrian clergy oppose the intended marriage of the Imperial Prince of Austria and one of the daughters of the king of Bavaria, on the ground that it would confound the different degrees of kindred in a manner not conformable to the Canons of the church. In case of the marriage taking place, the Imperial Prince would be brother-in-law to his father; and the Empress would

at the same time be his motherin-law and sister-in-law.

It appears by the American papers that 16.355 of the men who served in the in war continue at this day to receive pensions for their services.

3. BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY.-The sixteenth anniversary of the British and Foreign Bible Society was held, in. Freemasons' Hall, Great Queen's-street, and since the commencement of the institution, it never has been more respectably attended.

The Report of the Committee was read. In France their exertions had answered their most sanguine expectations. The duke d'Angouleme had expressed himself most friendly towards the society and their objects, and the duke de Cazes had subscribed 1,000 livres in support of their funds. In the United States and their dependencies, Christians of every denomination, and even Jews, exhibit the most earnest desire to possess the Scriptures, and to support the societies by which they are distributed. From Switzerland, Hanover, Saxony, Wirtemberg, Prussia, Denmark, Russia, Sweden, and Norway, the intelligence was of the most gratifying kind. Similar accounts had been received from the Ionian Islands, and from Athens, where Bible Societies had been established. The eighth report of the Calcutta Bible Society, and that from Madras and its depen dencies, furnished abundant proof of its advantages. In China, though the jealous power of the government still operates to prevent the admission of the Holy Scriptures, yet well-founded. hopes are entertained, that the

exertions which are making will eventually succeed in shedding the light of the gospel over that vast empire. Under the direction of Dr. Morrison, the whole Bible has now been translated into the Chinese language, and the one thousand pounds voted by the Society for that object had been appropriated thereto. The New South Wales Bible Society had been zealously supported by all the civil, military, and ecclesiastical authorities in the colony, and its establishment promised the most beneficial results. The reports which had been made from the South-Sea Islands were most gratifying. The whole Gospel of St. Luke had been translated into the Otaheitan language, and 3,000 copies had been printed and nearly distributed. In Africa and America, the kingdom of Hayti, and the western Archipelago; there was unquestionable evidence of the great and growing success of that holy cause, in which the society is engaged.

Dr. Adam Clarke introduced two Ceylonese priests to the meeting. He said these young men had been brought up as priests in the Temple of Vishnu from the time they were five years of age. About three years ago, a translation of the Bible fell into their hands, and their faith in the worship of Vishnu was immediately shaken. They happened to be of the class, or

of fishermen in Ceylon, and were particularly struck with that part of the Scripture in which our Saviour tells the Sons of Zebedee to follow him, and he would make them fishers of men. They became curious to see the people who had the means of

sending throughout the world the glorious truths of the Gospel. They applied to the then governor (about to return to England on account of his lady's illhealth) to be allowed a passage in the same vessel; but they were refused. So great, however, was their desire to visit England, that they actually took a boat, followed the vessel to sea, and were taken on board whilst she was under way. He took them into his house, gave them every instruction in his power, and eventually admitted them into the bosom of the church by Christian baptism; and he had now the pleasure of presenting them as the first-fruits of the British and Foreign Bible Society in the island of Ceylon. The assembly broke up at a quarter past five o'clock.

Yesterday [the 2nd] the friends of the families of the unfortunate men who were executed the day before for high treason met at a public-house, and after some discussion upon the subject of raising a subscription for the wives and children of those who were transported, as well as of those who were hanged, adopted a resolution to apply to lord Sidmouth for leave to take away the bodies of the deceased from Newgate.

They accordingly sent a request to his lordship that the bodies might be given up to the friends of the deceased, and stating, that the object was the humane one of raising the means of support for the wives and children by a public exhibition.

It is unnecessary to state that lord Sidmouth did not hesitate to refuse the request.

It appears that a channel was

dug on Monday night alongside of the subterraneous passage that leads to the cells, and about seven o'clock in the evening the coffins were filled up with quick lime, and being strongly screwed up, were placed in a straight line with each other, and immediately strewed over with earth, and finally covered with stone.

THE CONSPIRATORS. Gil christ, it is expected, will only have a short imprisonment.-[He has been since pardoned.]

The decapitation of the traitors was not performed, as we supposed, by a surgeon, but by one of those who go by the name of resurrection-men, who received a fee of 20 guineas for doing it.

At one o'clock on Tuesday morning, the respited traitors, Cooper, Harrison, Bradburn, Shaw, Strange, and Wilson, were removed from Newgate in three post-chaises,, under a proper escort, on their way to Portsmouth, in order to be sent to New South Wales for life.

It is said, that Tidd had constantly an impression on his mind, for the last twenty years, that he was to be hanged. He frequently expressed to his wife that he should die on the gallows.

Davidson, the man of colour, acted with great levity and carelessness, until the arrival of the fatal warrant at Newgate. Prior to its arrival, he had danced with his irons on, until his legs were completely swollen, and became so sore, that he could scarcely walk, which was the cause of his only wearing a single iron.

The utmost industry is exerted to discover the retreat of Edwards. The Paris papers of Tuesday the 2nd, give the following par

ticulars of the attempt on the Duchess of Berri. In consequence of measures concerted between the Prefect of Police and Marshal Macdonald, the incendiary was seized almost in the act of setting fire to the fuse, with a lighted segar. The Attorney-general held him under examination from one until sixo'clock in the morning of Monday, and three of his accomplices were arrested in the course-of that day. After undergoing his interrogatory, Gravier was conducted to the hotel Elbeuf, from whence, on Monday evening, he was sent to the Conciergerie. It is said that he has confessed himself the author of the former explosion.

M. François Amand Louvel de Maison-neuve, has solicited permission to erase the name of Louvel from among those he bears.

4. Marshal Soult had an audience of Monsieur, a short time ago. A few days subsequent, the marshal received a gratifica. tion from the king of 200,000 francs, as a mark of his majesty's special favour, according to the Moniteur.

The accounts from Madrid contain a royal decree, abolishing the custom duties on books, prints, &c. which were connected with the prohibitory regulations. of the Inquisition.

A case which has been lying in one of the stores of the dockyards at Portsmouth for many years past was opened on Monday last, and found to contain a beautiful painting, by Russell, representing her present majesty, in a sitting posture, with the late Princess Charlotte on her knee. The package was landed, in 1797,