ensuing crops of spring corn; the lands for which, owing to the extreme wet weather in autumn, did not receive their accustomed portion of manure. Previous to the frost setting in, the slugs had again commenced their depredations upon the young wheats, particularly the later sown, which have suffered considerably since the middle of December.-The early sownryes and winter tares are a strong crop, and promise a luxuriant and valuable recourse for spring soiling.

FASHIONS FROM ACKERMAN'S REPOSITORY.-Evening Dress.An Albanian robe of Sicilian blue velvet, crape, or poplin, with long sleeves, ornamented up the front with silver buttons, of the large pea form, embellished on each side, and round the bottom, with a silver vandyke border; bosom and cuffs to correspond. When formed of crape, or any light material, to be worn over a white satin or sarsnet slip. A Persian helmet cap of white satin, or silver-frosted velvet, turned up in front and on one side, where it is ornamented with a Tuscan border of silver; on the other, is placed a curled ostrich feather. The slipper of the same colour as the robe, and trimmed with silver: white satin or kid are preferred by some ladies. Carriage or Promenade Costume.-A round cottage gown of fine cambric or jaconot muslin, ornamented at the feet, collar, and wrists with borders of needlework, or fine fringe. The waist confined at the bottom with a white ribbon, tied in short bows and ends behind. A French watch, chain, and seals, in front of the figure. A Russian mantle of bright crimson velvet, lined throughout with the spotted American squirrel skin, with broad facings and high collar of the same. The mantle clasped in front of the

throat with silver, gold, or steel. The Spanish hat, with a variegated feather resembling the fur, pendant towards one side; or Siberian cap, composed of the same material, and trimmed with the same as the mantle. The boots, of crimson velvet, laced with gold cord.

FEBRUARY.

3d.-A singular circumstance has occurred in London within these few days. The Hon. Mr Eden, son of Lord Auckland, and one of the tellers of the Exchequer, a place of 1000l. per annum, has suddenly left his house, under circumstances so alarming, that his friends have deemed it necessary to offer a reward (through the public office, Bow-street) for his discovery.

A few days ago, as Mr Bruham, engineer to Messrs Goodwin's brewery, in East Smithfield, was oiling the steam engine, he made a false step, when his thigh was caught in the cogs of the wheel, and torn from his body. His cries soon brought assistance; but so dreadfully was he lacerated, that on being extricated and taken to the hospital, he survived his removal only a few hours.

Monday, the dead body of a man was found on shore at Ballyferris, about four and a half miles southward from Donaghadee. He was dressed in a very fine shirt, swanskin drawers, and cotton stockings, and wrapt in a fine shroud. The body was entirely sewed up in fine canvas, and enclosed in a large coffin, or trunk, of thick plank. Under his head was a fine feather pillow; and at his feet two bags of cannon shot, each containing twelve balls, from two and a half to four pound weight each. He

was about five feet ten inches high. -From these circumstances, it is thought he was an officer of some rank in the navy.

JAMAICA, Feb. 5.-Died, on the 1st instant, at her residence on Gay Hills, in the parish of St Thomas in the Vale, at the very advanced age of 120 years, Mrs Elizabeth Fletcher, a native of the island, and relict of the late Jacob Fletcher, Esq., of White Hall estate, St Anne. She retained all her faculties, enjoyed a good appetite, and possessed her usual flow of spirits, to the period of her death, and did the duties of her domestic concerns till the last three years; she was of a lively and cheerful disposition. Her daughter, at the good old age of eighty, attended to her wants and comforts at the close of this long life.

7th. As Lord Kinnaird and Sir George Wombwell were sporting near his lordship's seat in Norfolk, Lord Kinnaird accidentally discharged the contents of his piece into the face of Sir George. Surgical assistSurgical assist ance was immediately sent for from London, and we are happy to state that the sight of Sir George's eye (though surrounded by shot) will be

saved.

The distress of Lord Kinnaird exceeds description.

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EXTRAORDINARY CHASE.dog, the property of Mr Teasdale, of Ousby, Cumberland, in the late storm, took the quest of a fox, which he ran for the extraordinary time of 30 hours, four of which were run within view of some miners, who at that time were upon Dufton Fell. The dog and his intended prey were at that time running round the bottom of a hill. The arch dog, still keeping that side of Reynard which led to his cleft in the rock, at last came up with him, but being so much exhaust

ed by his toilsome chase, was unable to make him his prey for some time, and they both lay as if lifeless together. The miners then made to his assistance; but so ardent was his desire to make Reynard his own prey, that he would not suffer them to come near till he had destroyed him himself.

A few days ago, as some boys were walking along the beach, opposite the slaughter-house jetty, at Portsmouth, one of them discovered an old leather glove washed up on the beach, which he opened, and found it to contain 158 guineas, and a few half-guineas; so firm an union had taken place between some of the guineas that they could not easily be separated.

COURT MARTIAL.-On Monday and Tuesday a court martial was held at Portsmouth on the Hon. Captain Warwick Lake, of his majesty's ship Ulysses, for having, when commander of his majesty's ship Recruit, on the 13th of December, 1807, at six o'clock in the afternoon, caused a seaman, of the name of Robert Jeffery, to be put on shore in the desert island of Sombrero, in the West Indies.

It appeared, that, in the month of November, 1807, Jeffery went into the gunner's cabin, and took out a bottle with some rum in it; that on the day he was sent on shore, he broached a cask of spruce beer, which had been brewed for the ship's company; and that his general character was that of a skulker. The Recruit being off the Isle of Sombrero, Captain Lake asked the master what island it was, and if there were not some thieves on board; to which the master answered, "Yes, there were two."-Captain Lake then desired him to send Jeffery up to him; the

man soon came up, and Captain Lake said, he would not keep such a man in the ship. He then ordered Lieutenant Mould to land the man, and return immediately to the ship. So soon as Admiral Cochrane heard of the circumstance, he reprimanded Captain Lake, and sent him to take the man off the island. Some of the officers of the Recruit landed, and explored the island, but they found nothing on it; it was a barren spot, covered in the middle with a kind of rough grass weed. There was no house or inhabitant on it. It appeared, however, by the American newspapers, afterwards received, that the man had been taken off the island by an American ship, and landed in America. Captain Lake, in his defence, admitted that he put the man on shore, but denied that he ever intended to put his life in jeopardy, as he thought the island was inhabited; that in landing him he thought he would be more sensible of his want of conduct, and would reform in future. The court agreed that the charge had been proved, and did sentence Captain Lake to be Dismissed from his majesty's service.

15th.-COURT OF KING'S BENCH. -De Chemant v. Morton. Mr Garrow stated the case for the plaintiff. After some general panegyrics on the merits of Mr De Chemant, in his invention of mineral teeth, he entered into a history of the defendant's sufferings from the loss of his teeth, before the plaintiff came to set him at ease, by furnishing him with an entire set. This was a case which required no colouring of fancy, which drew its interest from no fine and fantastic fiction; it was real; it was present; it was one that came home to "the hearts and bosoms of men." All knew that beauty could not exist without

the ornaments of ivory teeth; and there were few, who, whatever value they might set on them while they had thirty-two white vigorous sharp teeth, yet when that goodly shew was grown thin and dark, when their hope of beauty, or their hope of eating was reduced to the miserable stay of a few scattered fragments of what once were teeth, would not think them invaluable, and be profuse and prodigal in their gratitude to the man who restored the honours of their mouth, and gave them the hope of living, and of looking lovely once more. The defendant had suffered under this gradual but melancholy visitation; his teeth had disappeared one by one, till his whole exhibition was reduced to fourteen stumps. In his despair he had recourse to the talents of the plaintiff. The stumps were extracted, and a mould of his jaws was taken, according to the process of the art. He was so enamoured of the prospect that was spread before him, that he was perpetually urging the plaintiff to expedite his work. The work was done; and the teeth were introduced into a mouth, to which teeth had so long been strangers. The defendant exulted in his new possession; he even evinced his powers by a voracious attack on a plate of toast, which happened to come first in his way, when he went forth," seeking what he might devour." De Chemant then demanded the price of his work. Morton offered him twenty guineas; this was refused: he was told that the price to all others was sixty guineas, but that, on the ground of old acquaintance, he should have them for fifty. He was permitted to take away the set on promising to pay them next day. But next day he was otherwise employed; the charm of

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possession had faded; the delight of new enjoyment had grown cold; he heard that a Mr Faleur made teeth at a lower rate, and to Mr Faleur he went. The teeth were returned on the plaintiff's hands, and for their value he brought his action.

A Miss Simpson, and other witnesses were called to prove, that an agreement for the price of the mineral set was implied between the parties; and that the teeth apparently answered the purpose for which they were designed.

Mr Young, a surgeon, was called to prove that the manufacture of the teeth was a work of considerable skill and delicacy. He stated, that a slight error in the work might destroy its entire structure; but that, on the other hand, the invention might be made one of the most propitious to beauty. He instanced the case of a lady of his acquaintance, who had purchased a set, of such a fortunate shape, as to make her look lovelier (by giving a new curve to her upper lip) than Nature had ever intended to have made her.

After many ludicrous observations from the counsel on both sides, Lord Ellenborough charged the jury. He was not of opinion that any evidence had been adduced on the defendant's side sufficient to rebut the claim which was then before them. That evidence had merely gone to prove that the defendant disliked his bargain, and wished to get rid of it.

The jury brought in a verdict for forty guineas; but on their stating a misconception of some part of the evidence, as the ground of their diminishing the claim, and being set right by the court, a verdict was found for the entire claim-Fifty guineas.

17th.-LIVERPOOL.-FALL OF ST NICHOLAS' CHURCH.-The dreadful calamity which happened at this place on Sunday last has left the most awful impressions on the mind of every person who is capable of the least reflection, not only in Liverpool, but in every part of the kingdom through which the news of this melancholy disaster has yet been diffused. As far as written records extend, or the living memory can reach, we believe that no casualty in the history of the town of Liverpool has produced such destruction of human life, as that which we are about to record.

On Sunday morning, a few minutes before the commencement of divine service, while the bells of the parish church of St Nicholas were ringing the second peal, a portion of the congregation being already assembled in the church, and more collected in the yard, and just as the officiating clergyman was about to enter the building, the key-stone of the tower gave way, when the northeast corner, together with the adjoining walls, and the whole of the spire, which was erected on the tower, instantly burst through the roof, and fell along the centre aisle. The ruins extended nearly to the communion rails, bearing down and demolishing the western gallery, the organ, the reading desk, and such of the seats in the body of the church as they encoun tered in their progress. The first impulse of astonishment and dismay, occasioned by the sudden and tremendous shock, were succeeded by a scene of confusion, grief, and anguish, which language is unable to describe.

The accident having most providentially taken place about 10 minutes before the usual time of beginning the service, not more than 15 or 20