houses. In the Oberland, near Frutigen, the country was covered with snow in the early part of July. Numbers of cattle have been brought down from the mountains into the vallies, where great want of forage prevails, and in consequence some of them have perished. All the districts bordering on the lakes of Bienne, Morat, and Neuchatel, have suffered equal losses. The low grounds are under water, and the course of the rivers is scarcely perceived. The village of Landeron alone estimates its losses at 24,000 fr. The earthfall which took place on the 3d inst. in the commune of Kappel, canton of St. Gall, overwhelmed three houses and three barns; the earth giving way, the precipice above was extended over a space of almost a quarter of a mile, and stopped a river in its course, which soon formed a small lake, covering the banks. Eighteen persons were either killed or severely hurt, and forty cattle perished. 16. A most savage robbery was committed at Limehouse, on the person of a poor industrious la bourer of the name of John Millard. From the statement of the poor man, given to the Rev. James Rudge, the minister of the parish, the following are the particulars of this atrocious case :-About half past eleven at night, as Millard was lying down on a sack in a lime-shed, by the side of the New-cut, he was attacked by five men in a yard in which he is accustomed to work night and day. On asking them what they wanted there, one of them answered with an oath, "I'll soon let you know: where is your money?" The villain had scarcely uttered these words before he violently seized the poor man by the throat, and with the assistance of the others, having first bound his feet together, cut off his breeches pockets, and took from thence one hundred and fifty-one Bank of England notes, together with two pounds, which were in a small tobaccobox, the whole of which were the savings of fifteen years of hard servitude, and which he had always carried about him! He had often imprudently mentioned this to his fellow-labourers, and to others; and it is more than probable that the perpetrators of this brutal act were persons in whose hearing the circumstance had been related. After rifling his pockets, and robbing him of nearly all of his property, with the exception of two dollars that had escaped them, one of the villains strongly urged that they should finish the business by cutting the poor man's throat. To this proposal there was a good deal of objection, another insisting that they had got all they came for, and that he could not now pursue them. Not, however, content with this, Day, and two others, whose names and persons are well known to the poor sufferer, began, in the most savage manner, to kick him on the head, and beat him with sticks on different parts of the body. Neither his groans nor entreaties were of any avail, and it is probable that in a few minutes they would have murdered him, had not a providential noise which was heard compelled them to desist from their barbarous work. They then jumped over the wall into a road which passes by, and instantly made off. 17. A fatal accident happened by the upsetting of the York mail, which passes through this place to Liverpool. The driver of that coach from Warrington was racing with a horseman upon the road, when the coach, coming to a sharp turn, at the entrance into Prescot, was thrown over, and the passengers, of whom there were four outside, thrown to the ground. Mr. D. Bancroft, of Manchester, a member of the Society of Friends, who was sitting on the coach-box, received so dreadful a hurt from the fall, that after languishing in extreme torture till Saturday last, he expired, leaving a widow and six young children to lament his untimely fate! Another of the outside passengers, of the name of Masterman, of Runcorn, had his shoulder dislocated; and Mr. John Ritchie, a merchant at Liverpool, an inside passenger, though he had no bones broken, received several violent contusions, which disabled him from pursuing his journey. The day after Mr. Bancroft's death, a coroner's inquest was summoned, who returned a verdict of Manslaughter, and the coachman is committed to Lancaster castle to take his trial at the ensuing assizes.-Leeds Mercury. 18. The Gipsies. Of late years some attempts have been made to reduce the numbers, or at any rate to civilize the habits, of that vagabond and useless race, the gipsies. In pursuance of such purpose, a society of gentlemen have been making all the preliminary inquiries requisite to a proper under standing of the subject. A series of questions have been proposed to competent persons in the different counties in England and Scotland. Reports in answer to these questions have been received, and their contents are thus briefly stated: "1. All Gipsies suppose the first of them came from Egypt. "2. They cannot form any idea of the number in England. "3. The Gipsies of Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, parts of Buckinghamshire, Cambridge, and Huntingdonshire, are connually making revolutions within the range of those counties. "4. They are either ignorant of the number of Gipsies in the counties through which they travel, or unwilling to disclose their knowledge. 5. The most common names are Smith, Cooper, Draper, Taylor, Bosswel, Lee, Lovell, Loversedge, Allen, Mansfield, Glover, Williams, Carew, Martin, Stanley, Buckley, Plunkett, and Corrie. 6 and 7. The gangs in different towns have not any regular connexion or organization; but those who take up their winterquarters in the same city or town appear to have some knowledge of the different routes each horde will pursue; probably with a design to prevent interference. 8. In the county of Herts it is computed there may be sixty families, having many children. Whether they are quite so numerous in Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, and Northamptonshire, the answers are not sufficiently definite to determine. In Cambridgeshire, bridgeshire, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire, Wiltshire, and Dorsetshire, greater numbers are calculated upon. In various counties, the attention has not been competent to the procuring data for any estimate of families or individuals. "9. More than half their number follow no business: others are dealers in horses and asses; farriers, smiths, tinkers, braziers, grinders of cutlery, basket-makers, chair-bottomers, and musicians. "10. Children are brought up in the habits of their parents, particularly to music and dancing, and are of dissolute conduct. "11. The women mostly carry baskets with trinkets and small wares; and tell fortunes. "12. Too ignorant to have acquired accounts of genealogy, and perhaps indisposed to it by the irregularity of their habits. "13. In most counties there are particular situations to which they are partial. In Berkshire is a marsh, near Newbury, much frequented by them; and Dr. Clarke states, that in Cambridgeshire their principal rendezvous is near the western villages. "14. It cannot be ascertained, whether, from their first coming into the nation, attachment to particular places has prevailed. "15, 16, and 17. When among strangers, they elude inquiries respecting their peculiar language, calling it gibberish. Don't know of any person that can write it, or of any written specimen of it. "18. Their habits and customs in all places are peculiar. "19. Those who profess any religion represent it to be that : of the country in which they reside but their description of it seldom goes beyond repeating the Lord's prayer; and only few of them are capable of that Instances of their attending any place for worship are very rare. "20. They marry for the most part by pledging to each other, without any ceremony. A few exceptions have occurred when money was plentiful. 21. They do not teach their children religion. 66 22 and 23. Not one in a thousand can read. "24 and 25. Some go into lodgings in London, Cambridge, &c. during the winter; but it is calculated three-fourths of them live out of doors in winter as in summer.” 19. The Journal de Paris says, that on the 19th there was a new fall of stones, or aërolites as they are called, in a garden at Sternenburg, near Bonn, on the Lower Rhine. One of them, it is said, weighed 100lb.; others from 20 to 40. Their fall, which took place in a cherry-garden, caused a horrible noise and deep trenches in the earth. The gardener, and several labourers who were at work, both saw and heard them fall; the proprietor, who was in his house with a friend, heard the noise of their fall. The colour of these stones is stated to be green, verging to black; their weight like that of marble; and they resemble the residuum or scorice from the iron forge. Wologda, July 19 (0. S.) We have received the sad news, that on the 5th instant, during a great thunder-storm, the cold and the warm church church of the parish of Archangel, on the Kubenza, in the circle of Kadnikow, was struck by lightning and burnt to the ground. The lightning struck the roof over the door of the cold church, which was immediately in flames; all the church utensils, garments, books, &c. were consumed, not the least thing being saved. From the cold church the flames caught the warm church, from which, indeed, what was in it was saved; but as all the utensils, books, &c. were in the cold church, the other is thereby deprived of every thing necessary for the performance of divine service. St. Petersburgh Gazette. 20. The Duke and Duchess of Orleans gave a grand entertainment at their house, at Twickenham, in honour of the christening of their infant Princess, at which there was a most splendid assemblage of dignified personages: among them were, their Royal Highnesses the Prince Regent, the Dukes of Clarence, Kent, Cambridge, Gloucester, the Duchess of York, the Princess Sophia of Gloucester, the Prince Paul and Prince Nicholas Esterhazy, the Princess Esterhazy, the Spanish Ambassador, the French Ambassador, the Marchioness D'Osmond and their two relatives, who were presented to the Prince Regent at Carlton-house a few days since, the Duke De Bourbon, the Duke De Coigny, and the Duke of Fitzjames. The Rector of Twickenham was present to register the christening of the infant in the church book. Prince Esterhazy, the Austrian Ambassador, stood sponsor for the Emperor of Austria, who is uncle Vis to the Duchess of Orleans. count Sidmouth and Earl Bathurst were also of the party. Stafford. We had in this town on Sunday afternoon, 20th, one of the heaviest showers of rain ever known: the consequences have been most serious, and the loss, we fear, almost remediless. The quantity of hay carried off by the torrent is not to be calculated, and much more has been entirely spoiled. A labourer of Mr. Lycets, of Shallowford, lost his life in endeavouring to save some hay. This storm has done even greater damages in the town of Stone and the neighbourhood. A horse belonging to Mr. Styles was washed down a brook, and was drowned. Messrs. Brett and Holah, Mr. Tharme, and Mr. Butler, whose premises adjoin the brook which runs through the town, have sustained considerable loss. The streets were in many parts four feet deep in water, and the cellars of many of the inhabitants were entirely filled, and their ale and other drinkables lost. A small house was washed away by the flood, but fortunately its inmates escaped unhurt. Many travellers to Stone were obliged to stop at Walton, and get beds where they could. Several mills on the Modders hall stream were much damaged. The quantities of hay destroyed and carried off by the torrent are incalculable; and, at a moderate calculation, it will take 5,000l. to make good the damages sustained in the parish of Stone. On Tuesday and Wednesday last, an immense fall of rain was experienced at Brown-hills, Norton, and Longdon, near Lichfield. In the former place, place, the heath was forced up by the roots on the waste lands and elevations, and carried by torrents in different directions. The thunder was heavy, accompanied by gusts of wind, and partial spouts of rain, as though poured from solid masses of water. At Norton, the thunder was the heaviest and most alarming ever known. At Longdon, the deluge had all the appearance of a water-spout, which cut up the roads and moved masses of earth in heaps; and at a recently built house, where a new turf had been laid, the whole site of a grass plat was laid bare as before the work was begun and the most frightful vestiges of its effects are traced through the whole neighbourhood. On Tuesday afternoon, about six o'clock, the whole hemisphere, as viewed from an elevation near Lichfield, presented one unbroken curtain of cloud and rain, but without being accompanied with remarkable darkness. A correspondent says, that previous to this general aspect of rain, he never saw the clouds so low. A servant of John Atkinson, Esq. of Maple Hays, near Lichfield, was killed by the lightning on Thursday evening at Lemonsley. The thunder was tremendously heavy, and the lightning extremely vivid. On Sunday 21st a riot took place at Ballyvourney, to the west of Macroom, between two parties, the Lynches and Twomeys, living in that neighbourhood, who, it appears, have been for several years hostile and unfriendly to each other; in consequence of which Sir Nicholas Colthurst directed his under agent to desire that they should not go to the same chapel on Sundays - that the Twomeys should attend the Western chapel, and the Lynches the Ballynkeeny chapel: the Lynches, notwithstanding, refused to go to the chapel appointed for them; the Twomeys, however, went away from the chapel; the Lynches said, they would go too, left it, and proceeded towards home. The Lynches party, which consisted of about 100, or upwards, swords, scythes, pistols, and various kinds of weapons, remained about an hour and a half while mass was saying, and kept shouting out for the Twomeys : as soon as they saw them going away from the chapel, they followed, and surrounded them about a quarter of a mile from it, attacked them, and, in the course of the conflict, a man of the name of John Hagarty, of the Twomys party, received a cut of a scythe on the right side of the neck, under the jaw, which nearly severed his head from his body, besides several other wounds, which instantly caused his death. A man of the name of Cornelius Casey also received a blow on the head from a stick, which knocked him down, and had four of his fingers cut off, besides receiving several other wounds, from which he lies in a very dangerous state. An inquest was held on the body of the man who had been killed; and the jury found a verdict that the deceased, John Hagarty, came by his death in consequence of a blow received with a scythe on the right side of the neck under the ear and jaw, of which he instantly died.-Cork paper. armed with guns, 22. This was the day appointed for |