CHRONICLE. 
sent year were this day adjudged to 
Edward Garrard Marsh, bachelor- 
of arts, late scholar of Wadham col- 
lege, and now fellow of Oriel col- 
Jege, for the English essay—Post- 
humous Fame ; and to John Latham, 
commoner of Brasenose college, for 
the Latin verses—Trafalgar : also 
the prize, by a private donation, to 
Henry Allen Johnson, commoner 
of Christ-church, for the English 
verses —T'ravels of discovery into the 
interior of Africa. 
The rev. Mr. Wood, second mas- 
ter of St. Paul’s grammar school, 
put a period to his existence, by 
hanging himself. 
A boat belonging to the grand 
junction company arrived at Mr. 
Homer’s Paddington wharf, which 
has been fitted up in Northampton- 
shire, for the purpose of bringing, 
at once, near 100 live fat sheep to 
the London market. This being 
the first attempt of the kind, it ex- 
cited considerable curiosity. It con- 
sisted of a common canal boat, that 
had, by way of ballast, a lading 
ef ten tons of lime-stone; on this 
there were two slight decks, ata 
proper distance above each other, 
and a roof of thin boards above, to 
shoot off the rain; the space be- 
tween each of the decks was divided 
by sliding boards into near fifty se- 
parate pens, so that each sheep had 
a distinct one to itself, in which he 
could either stand or lie down at 
pleasure. On the arrival of the 
barge alongside the wharf, the slid- 
ing boards at the side of the boat, 
and between the pens, were taken 
out, and the sheep jumped on the 
wharf in a few minutes. The boat 
left Braunston on the 20th, at three 
o'clock, and in 53 hours arrived, 
after a journey of upwards of 95 
miles. itis expested that a boat 
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Jaden with sheep will weekly arrive’ 
in future. 
24th. A dreadful fire happened in 
Langford this day, which consumed 
in its progress two breweries, and 
above fifty dwelling houses. 
Twochildren, brother and sister, 
the boy about ten, the girl seven 
years of age, while playing a few 
evenings ago, near the new dock at 
Leigh, both fellin. There was 
eight feet water in the dock at the 
time ; when captain Nash, of the im- 
press service, and a private of the 
Argyllshire militia, named Frow, 
were let down with ropes round 
their bodies, and succeeded in pre- 
serving the sufferers, after they had 
both disappeared, 
In the court of king’s bench, a 
Mr. Jukes, on an indictment pre. 
ferred against him by Mr. Henry 
Erskine Johnston, the comedian, for 
an assault in the boxes of Covent- 
Garden theatre, was found guilty. 
The offending party proposed terms 
of accommodation, which wereac« 
ceded to. 
This morning, a pleasure-boat 
was nearly upsetin Black wall reach, 
by tacking about ; and a lad, named 
Smith, beingstruck by the main-sail, 
was forced overboard, and drowned. 
A similar accident happened on 
Thursday at Bugby’s hole, in the 
same neighbourhood. 
The same day, a man who at- 
tempted to undress the body of a 
labourer, who died by suffocation a 
few days since, in consequence of 
sleeping by a brick-kiln near town, 
in order to put it ina shell, was so 
overcome by the efiluvia, that he was 
deprived of his senses, and soon ex- 
pired. 
An accident happened this day to’ 
Mr. Charles Buxton, on his return 
from Epsom. Mr, 8B. in his phaeton 
and 
