to dinner. On the table were the gold ewers of George I., II., III. and IV., used by them at their coronations, in the possession of Lord Willoughby d'Eresby, as Lord Great Chamberlain of England; and there was also some massive antique plate, supposed to have been the gift of Annabella Drummond, the wife of King Robert III.-13th. Her Majesty left Drummond Castle; and, having visited on her way the Roman camp, in the park of Major W. Moray, arrived at eleven A. M. at Stirling, where the Provost and Magistrates presented an address, with the keys of the town; and the Royal party remained a short time in the Castle. They then passed through a succession of triumphal arches: at Bannockburn there were not less than five. At half-past two, Her Majesty arrived at Linlithgow; shortly after, she embarked at the pier at Queens ferry, and arrived at Dalkeith the same evening.-14th. The Lord Provost, &c. waited upon the Prince, and presented him with the freedom of the City of Edinburgh. The freedom of the city was also given to the Duke of Buccleuch, Sir R. Peel, and the Earl of Aberdeen. Dr. Lee, Principal of the University of Edinburgh, delivered to his Royal Highness the diploma of an Honorary LL. D., conferred by the Senatus Academicus. The Queen, the Prince, &c. then visited Roslin Chapel and Hawthornden.-15th. This morning Her Majesty left Scotland, after a stay of exactly a fortnight in that country. Dalkeith Palace was in a bustle before daybreak with preparations for the departure. The Queen and Prince breakfasted at seven o'clock: at ten minutes to eight, they entered

their carriage, and, followed by the suite, with an escort of Dragoons, they repaired through part of Edinburgh to Granton Pier. The preparations were far less elaborate than on that day fortnight; but the roads to the pier and the vicinity of the landing-place were crowded. Guards of honour, including the Body Guard of Royal Archers, were stationed on the spot. The Queen walked down the pier, resting either hand on the arm of the Duke of Buccleuch and the Earl of Liverpool. Several military, naval, and other gentlemen, with the Lord Justice Clerk, stood by to make their farewell obeisance. At twenty-four minutes to ten, under a salute of artillery, the Queen embarked on board the Trident steamer. In a quarter of an hour the steamer was under way in Leith Roads; the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch and a host of people watching it, as, amidst the salutes of the ships of war in the Firth of Forth, it passed swiftly out to sea.-17th. Exactly at ten o'clock this morning, the fine steamer Trident came to her moorings off Woolwich, having on board Her Majesty and Prince Albert. Shortly after nine, the Black Eagle and Rhadamanthus Government steamers made their appearance; and no long period elapsed before the distant sound of firing gave evidence that the Trident was not far in their wake. Her Majesty's embarkation for Scotland disappointed many: her return was a far more beautiful sight. A fine easterly breeze was blowing; and from the state of the tide (half-flood,) a considerable number of fine large steamers accompanied the Trident on her progress up the river.

At ten o'clock she was opposite

menacing tone, why they were at work; and immediately the whole mob made its appearance in such formidable numbers as to cause considerable alarm, and the hands left work. The military and police came up with the mob when they were leaving the colliery of Mr. Knowles, at Clifton Moss, where they had turned out all the hands, pulled out the plug of the engine-boiler, and cut down the bank of the reservoir, which would have the effect of stopping the works effectually for some time. No sooner did they perceive the half-dozen Dragoons that formed the advanced guard, than the crowd dispersed in every direction. Most of them were strangers, from the neighbourhood of Oldham and other places twelve miles from the scene of the disturbance.

The jury convicted six of the number, and acquitted all the rest. A party of seventy-eight were charged with riot at Heywood, on the 17th August, and another party were charged with riot at Little Lever on the 12th. A few traversed to the next sessions: almost all the rest were convicted.

Sentences were pronounced on those convicted. The punishment varied from a fortnight to two years' imprisonment: those who had taken the most active part in the riotous proceedings, and appeared to be the ringleaders of the mob, being condemned to the longest confinement.

-. The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, Master of the Mint, while on a shooting excursion, met with an accident, which caused the loss of the fourth finger on the left hand.

18. BURGLARY. -- PROPERTY WORTH 2,000l. STOLEN.-A most daring burglary near Southampton

was committed at the residence of Lady Lisle, at Millbrook. The robbery was effected between the hours of ten and twelve, and was discovered when the family were about to retire for the night. Α ladder had been procured, and placed against the window of Lady Lisle's bedchamber, a pane of glass was broken, and the window-hasp unfastened. The parties having thus made their entrance, succeeded in getting off with a valuable set of jewels, a large sum of money, and several articles of plate, altogether worth upwards of 2,0007., which were in the apartment. A portion of the property has been recovered in a curious manner. This morning early, Mr. Shakell, upholsterer, of Above Bar, was coming into town from Salisbury, accompanied by his son. They alighted from the van in which they were riding, to walk round the Millbrook shore to Four Posts. In crossing the brook, young Mr. Shakell discovered a portable desk, bound round with rope, and floating in the water of the canal. On again taking the main road at Four Posts, Mr. Shakell and his son met a policeman, whom they informed of the circumstance. They took the desk to the station-house, and deposited it in the hands of Mr. Enright. It was identified as the property of Lady Lisle. The contents were found to be two halves of Bank of England notes for 100l., Nos. 50,089, and 50,088; half a note for 501., No. 66,677; and a promissory note for 100%., payable on demand; some ladies' jewellery, and important papers. All the more available contents of the desk had been of course abstracted. In the Course of the morning, some trifling articles of plate were also found in the canal by some children. The

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perpetrators of the robbery have for the present eluded justice. It is, however, evident, that they must have been parties well acquainted with the premises, and with the place in which the property was deposited. - NOBLE INSTANCE OF SELFDEVOTION. Two miners, Verran and Roberts, were at work in South Caradon new shaft (which is intended to be sunk perpendicularly through a granite country, to intersect the lode at the depth of 140 fathoms.) The present depth is about ten fathoms; and they had prepared a hole for blasting, the fuse inserted, tamped up, and all ready for firing. On these occasions the men are drawn up by a windlass; and as they are only three in a core, there is only one man at the brace, and he can only draw up one at a time; conse. quently, after the whole is ready, one man is drawn up, and the kibble lowered in readiness to receive the last man, who has to put fire to the fuse, and then both men at the windlass draw him up with the utmost speed, in order that all may get out of the way when the explosion takes place, which is sometimes so violent, that large stones are thrown up at the top, carrying with them part of the roller and windlass to a considerable height. It unfortunately happened, that as the safety-fuse with which the hole was charged was longer than was necessary, they inconsiderately took a sharp stone to cut a piece of it off, and ignition instantaneously commenced. They both flew to the kibble, and cried out to the man at the trace to "wind up;" but, alas! after trying with all his might, he could not start them. At this awful moment (while the furious hissing of the fuse assured them that their

destruction was within half a minute's march of them), Verran sprang out of the kibble, exclaiming to his comrade Roberts, "Go on, brother, I shall be in Heaven in a minute!" Consequently Roberts was drawn up, and Verran threw himself down, and placed his poor devoted head under a piece of plank in one corner of the shaft, awaiting the moment when he should be blown to atoms. Just as Roberts got to the brace, and was looking down with trembling apprehension on the fate of poor Verran, the whole went off with a tremendous explosion, and a small stone struck Roberts severely on the forehead, as he was looking down the shaft. To the inexpres sible surprise and joy of the men at the brace, they heard Verran cry out, "Don't be afraid, I am not hurt!" Roberts immediately descended, and found that the great burthen of the blast was thrown in every part of the shaft except the corner where poor Verran was coiled up!

19. SERIOUS ACCIDENT.-Mr. Hardinge, son of the Right Hon. Sir Henry Hardinge, Secretary at War, met with a serious accident. Mr. Hardinge was on his way to town, from the family seat in Kent, and in landing from a steamer at Hungerford, by some means his foot was jumbed between the vessel and the pier. The injuries he sustained were very severe; and immediately on being conveyed to the family mansion in Whitehall-gardens, Mr. M'Cann and Dr. Lawrence were called in. It was judged expedient by those gentlemen, that, in order to obviate fatal consequences, the affected leg should undergo amputation just above the ancle, which operation was performed by Mr. M'Cann with every success.

23. GREAT FIRE AT LIVER POOL. A destructive fire broke out in a paint and oil manufactory in Paisley-street, Liverpool, at three o'clock in the morning, which proved to be one of the most destructive that ever occurred in this country. It even exceeded in the destruction of property the fire that burned the Goree warehouses at Liverpool in 1802, when the loss in grain, sugar, coffee, cotton (30,000l.,) and sundries, amounted to 323,000l. Although the night was very dark, and the rain fell in torrents, a considerable portion of the heavens was illuminated by the flames, and the reflection was seen for several miles around.

The origin of the fire could not be accounted for. It was discovered by a watchman on the premises of Mr. Penniston, an oil merchant, at about three o'clock in the morning. It broke out in a wooden shed, which was surrounded by others, offering in the materials and in the highly-combustible things which they contained, the readiest fuel for the flames. The Fire Police were called with all possible speed; but before they reached the spot, the fire, blown by a strong north-east wind, had attained a most alarming height. More assistance arrived from time to time the Mayor and Mr. Rushton the Magistrate were soon on the spot, giving directions; Mr. Highton, the Governor of the Borough Gaol, and Mr. Whitty, the Superintendent of the Fire Police, were active in their exertions. The Police and Fire Police were concentrated round the fire; a number of men arrived from the Queen's steamer Redwing; Commander Bevan sent a party of Marines to give assistance; and

many of the work people employed in the places burning or threatened with fire, were indefatigable in endeavouring to save their employers' property. At first the supply of water was scanty, there being no main in Great Howardstreet, and water was procured with great labour over the high wall of the Waterloo Dock; but subsequently an aperture was made in the wall, a sewer which carries off the overflow of the canal was opened in Great Howard-street, and water was brought from more distant sources in tanks drawn by horses. Fourteen fire-engines were employed.

No exertion, however, could arrest the progress of the flames, fed as they were by the combustible matters collected on the spot. From the numerous wooden sheds, the fire soon spread to the back of the buildings in Formby-street, on each side of which were large warehouses, principally filled with cotton; and by nine o'clock, the valuable buildings covering two acres of ground were converted to a heap of blazing ruins. The fire still moved forward towards the south: the houses in Neptunestreet were at last attacked; and as the flames swept by Neptunestreet, fears began to be entertained for the Borough Gaol, crowded with prisoners. People were employed to dash water on the roof; notwithstanding which, at time, the lead began to melt. The fire attained its height at one o'clock, when its violence had been much subdued in Comptonstreet, but the warehouses in Formby-street had been turned to an immense furnace. Wall after wall fell in; a fire-proof warehouse alone resisting the conflagration, while others around it successively