wardens, having placed his five children in the pew, went into the vestry to speak to the clergyman before the service commenced, and, as he was returning, he heard the tremendous crash. He soon found, with a degree of terror and alarm which can only be conceived by a parent, that the pew in which he had left his children was buried beneath the ruins! He soon after met Mrs Knowles, and after they had both endured this state of agonizing expectation for almost half an hour, they found that the children, contrary to their usual habits, and against all probability, had left the church without their father's permission, intending to return as soon as the service should commence, and were met by their overjoyed parents in perfect safety.

A person of the name of Martin experienced an escape almost miraculous. The pews around him were broken to atoms, and heaped with stones, but that in which he sat sustained but little injury, and he himself got out of the church unhurt. He returned public thanks to Almighty God for his astonishing deliverance, at St Peter's church, in the afternoon of the same day; very properly acknowledging a superintending Providence, equally conspicuous in the most apparently contingent events, as in directing the smooth and regular current of human affairs.

John Brandreth, one of the singers, was the only person in the organ gallery, which is placed in the southwest corner of the church, immediately joining the inside of the tower. The

organ, and front of the gallery were brought down and dashed to pieces, and Brandreth was buried in the wreck. The incumbent weight was, however, sustained by the timber which surrounded him in cross

directions, and he was dug out with no other hurt than a slight cut in his forehead.

With respect to the injury which the church itself has sustained by this accident, it is evident that the whole of the remaining tower must be taken down. The roof is broken through in two places. The first opening extends to about one third of the whole length of the church. The massy stone pillars which support the roof have preserved the centre entire; but towards the east end another considerable opening is made, through which the upper part of the spire forced its way, and striking against the carved wood partition, which divides the chancel from the body of the church, has driven the splinters as far as the altar itself. Almost the whole of the pews in the centre of the church are either entirely demolished, or much injured.

The activity and humanity of the mayor and magistrates, the gentlemen of the faculty, who gave their assistance, and the subordinate officers of the police, are deserving of the highest applause.

No less than nineteen of these unfortunate sufferers, consisting of the girls belonging to the Moorfields school, were buried at St John's church on Tuesday last. They were attended to the grave by a great number of girls of their own age, friends and acquaintances, decently habited in white, and walking in procession. The spectacle was solemn and deeply affecting.

The tower of St Nicholas' church is the oldest erection in town, and in consequence of the fall of the spire is likely to be taken down, but the spire and upper part of the tower were modern The old tower, on which these were erected, is supposed

A new-born infant was lately found on the road, three miles from Kil. keel, with one of its arms torn off, supposed to have been done by swine. The unnatural mother, who thus exposed her child, has been searched for, but to no purpose.

Within the course of ten days, a coach from London to Dover was stopped, and a seizure made of three thousand guineas.

A curious well, of Roman masonry, has lately been discovered by the workmen employed in digging the mound, on which the half-moon battery lately stood at Newcastle, in order to procure a firm foundation for the new court-houses for the county of Northumberland. It is situated thirty feet below the surface, and is formed of fine hewn stone. Within a few yards of the well, two very large horns, resembling those of a stag, and the jaw bones of the animal, were found. On digging further, a great number of large beams of solid oak, some perfectly sound, others as rotten as dust, lying in a variety of directions, have been met with. The above circumstances have given rise to a variety of speculations as to the probability of the whole of that immense mound being the production of art.

Last week, the inhabitants in the neighbourhood of Leed-hills were alarmed about midnight with the appearance of a tall figure, armed with a huge pole, stalking about the country; and imagining that it might be a robber, two men armed, the one with a musket, the other with a sword, sallied out to attack him; but the moment the person with the musket made his appearance, the unknown dropt down and expired. Every medical assistance was immediately procured, but in vain. He afterwards proved to be

a poor maniac, who had escaped from a place of confinement.

Four persons have been released from the gaol of Derry, and one from Colerain, whose debts amounted to 1081., by the active benevolence of Mr Pole, who spread the light and solace of the jubilee festival even farther than the particular funds provided out of that occasion could extend. The Rev. Mr Grattan, inspector of the Derry prison, has been the immediate instrument of those good works. The jubilee fund being destined only for the liberation of debtors confined for sums under 501., must have left those persons to linger still in those mansions of misery, had it not been for this humane and compassionate intervention. Under the pious and christian auspices of the Bishop of Derry, nine persons were delivered out of prison by means of the jubilee fund, who had been a long time debarred from the blessing and comfort of liberty.

21st.-COURT OF KING'S BENCH. Munyard v. Gilbee.-This was a trial on an issue from the Court of Chancery, to try the validity of a marriage.

Mr Park stated the case. The defendant already named was a nominal one, and named only as connected with the deed on which this cause was originally moved in Chancery. The real defendant was Mr Daniels, lately a stock-broker, and now residing at Hampstead. The plaintiff was also a stock-broker. Some months before the 8th of April, 1809, the plaintiff, going to the defendant's house on business of his father's, a wholesale ironmonger in Castle-street, saw the defendant's daughter. His connexion with the Exchange enabled him to serve Mr Daniels on some occasions in his busi

he expressed himself in terms of the warmest affection for his intended sonin-law; said that nothing should now delay the match, and that he might have taken a horse, and rode from one end of London to the other before he could have met a man in every way so eligible. He afterwards went with his daughter to Doctors Commons, to execute the necessary papers for the marriage; in short, went every where with her but to the altar. If he saw her insane before that, why not forbid the marriage? if at the altar, why not stop her there? He attests the marriage, he signs the register, and yet now comes forward to invalidate the ceremony, to which he had given his full sanction. I can believe nothing low or insulting of the church; there was a clergyman officiating-would he not have refused to go through the rite if he had seen insanity in either of the parties? The exhortation of the form of marriage was among the most solemn in the entire Rubric. The clergyman read it so that it was heard by the parties; it was heard by the aunt, who was now to be brought forward full of testimony to the insanity of her niece, and acknowledging, with a base and bold defiance of the feelings of a relative, and the faith of a virtuous woman, that she allowed her niece to go a sacrifice to the altar, to swear to the performance of duties, of which she could not know the nature; to vow obedience to a husband, while her brain was distorted with madness; to contract amarriage, which that aunt knew must be a nullity; and to load an unhappy and doating husband with the shame, the burden, the misery of a lunatic wife, and propagate a race of unfortunates, cursed with the dreadful visitation of that malady, which had made their mother an object of

ness. This produced an intimacy, in the course of which the plaintiff paid his addresses to Miss Daniels, ‍and was desired to wait till she was a few months older. One evening, at supper, Mr Daniels suddenly announced to his daughter his consent that she should be married to the object of her declared regard. She was a delicate girl; and the intelligence produced such an immediate nervous agitation, that medical aid was necessary. She recovered soon after, and from her strong attachment, and her habitual irritability of frame, her friends advised that the marriage should not be delayed. If it were possible that a verdict should go against him this day, he could not conceive a man more hardly treated than his client; his addresses sanctioned, his marriage solemnized by consent of both families, and this without any hope of emolument, excepting the distant one of a very moderate fortune from the precarious and capricious bounty, or rather from the inveterate and unaccountable enmity of his father-in-law. On the 27th of March, Daniels, his daughter, and a Mrs Newman, her aunt, came to town from Hampstead, to buy clothes and trinkets for the wedding. On her return, Miss Daniels went on a visit to the plaintiff's father, who lives at Camden Town. She remained there from the 1st to the 7th of March, without any appearance of the insanity which was now alleged as the cause of breaking off a marriage contracted in the face of the church, according to the forms of law. On the third of April, a dinner was given at Mr Daniel's house; to which the entire of the Munyard family were invited. Mr Daniels was laid up in bed with the gout; but the females of the party were admitted to his apartment, and

mingled compassion and horror. No; this was not credible; it was not in human nature to believe so weak a fiction; it was not in human artifice to make that fiction strong; the jury would decide upon the simple question, whether at the time of solemnizing the marriage, the 8th of April, Miss Sarah Ann Daniels was, or was not, in a sound and perfect mind.

Mr Munyard, sen., his wife, his se cond son, his sister, Mr Gosling, his partner, at whose house the wedding dinner was given, were brought to prove the sanity of Miss Daniels at the time of the marriage. She dined at Mr Gosling's on the following day also; and at dinner, apparently from bashfulness, she shed tears on seeing the attention of the party naturally turned on her. Her father advised her to retire to compose herself; and, on her retiring, said, that it was mere ly from not being in the habit of seeing company, and that she would soon recover. They had heard that Miss Daniels was seized with a nervous affection, which had been explained to them as merely arising from her esteem for Mr Munyard, and her disappointment in having the marriage protracted. At that time she appear ed weak, but in such spirits as might be expected. In a few weeks after, she had an attack of insanity, but recovered in a month, and continued perfectly sane ever since.

The Rev. Mr White was rector of Hampstead. He married the parties in question on the 8th of April, between 8 and 9 in the morning. Though he observed a carelessness and levity of manner in the lady, which made him feel it his duty to impress her with a sense of the importance of the ceremony, she gazed round at the organ and galleries, and seemed unconscious of the great responsibility

under which the ceremony must place any one. He had known but few instances of lightness on such an occasion. He recommended to the parties the receiving the Holy Sacrament, by the direction of the Rubric, as soon as possible after their marriage, but perceived no insanity. He would not have solemnized a marriage when such a suspicion hung upon his mind. He should have thought himself guilty of a great crime in advising the Holy Sacrament to a per

son not sane.

On the part of the defendant, the attorney-general stated, that his object was to release an unfortunate woman from hands which could now only ill treat her, and restore her to the protection and fondness of a father, who had consented to this disadvantageous match merely as a forlorn hope, to recover the hurt mind of his daughter, and now was only anxious to have the power of protecting and cherishing her.

Several witnesses were called to prove, that she had been seized with attacks of violent madness in 1805 and 1806, and that a few weeks before her marriage, she had had a strait waistcoat on, and was strapped down in her bed.

Drs Reynolds, Monro, Symmonds, and Walker, were called, with the apothecaries who attended her, to prove her returns of insanity.

Mrs Newman, the aunt, was called to depose to the facts already stated by the attorney-general.

Cross-examined by Mr Topping. "You are, of course, greatly interested for your niece?" Yes." [Observing her fanning herself—

Pray, ma'am, are you incommoded by the heat?"-"Yes, sir; it is very warm.". "You saw Miss Daniels on the 15th; was she then mad ?"—