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pressing his approbation of the 

 care and humanity of the keeper, 

 waited in the prison untQ six 

 o'clock to see the result. Mr. 

 Newman, being satisfied that 

 none of the prisoners could escape, 

 determined not to risk either the 

 lives of the constables or of the 

 prisoners by an attack on the 

 latter. He therefore waited un- 

 til the usual time of calling them 

 to breakfast, when they were 

 summoned to surrender, and in- 

 formed that, if they refused, no 

 food would be supplied to them 

 that day : hereupon one prisoner 

 came down, and brought infor- 

 mation that the rest would suffer 

 themselves to be taken. The 

 peace-officers then approached 

 the staircase, and in less than an 

 hour secured them all. Thirty 

 of the ringleaders were picked 

 out, and locked up in cells ; and 

 it will be a matter of future con- 

 sideration how many of this niim- 

 ber will be selected and tried 

 under the Act of Parliament 

 which makes it a capital offence 

 to destroy or break down any 

 part of a prison. It appears that, 

 while they were in possession of 

 their wards, they had attempted 

 to break their way through in 

 various directions, but in every 

 quart er found the walls too strong 

 for them. 



A small French vessel, laden 

 with fruit, has been seized at 

 Looe, in consequence of contra- 

 band goods being foimd on board 

 her. It appears that her ingeni- 

 ous owners had constructed twelve 

 small hor.ses, which had the ap- 

 pearance of a set of elegant play- 

 things. On examining these cu- 

 riosities attentively, it was found 

 that the animals were teeming — 



not, indeed, with armed Greeks, 

 but with silk shawls and stockings 

 of a superior quality ! This sin- 

 gular discovery, of course, was 

 followed by the detention of the 

 vessel. 



27. One of the most singular 

 suicides ever heard of occurred 

 lately at a boarding-school near 

 Birmingham. A young lady, it 

 appears, had been set a task, and 

 felt indignant at being obliged to 

 learn it out of an old l)Ook, while 

 some of the other scholars were 

 indulged with new ones. She 

 went next day to an old woman 

 in the neighbourhood, and told 

 her " that she had had a singular 

 dream, viz. that she was dead, 

 and had been carried to her grave 

 by such and such young ladies, 

 naming some of her companions 

 and young friends," and asked 

 the old woman what she thought 

 of it? who replied, "that she put 

 no faith in dreams." A few days 

 after, when going a walk with 

 the other scholars, she loitered 

 behind, and making her escape 

 from the party, drowned herself 

 in a pool near the school. She 

 left her hat (or bonnet) on the 

 edge of the pool, wherein was 

 pinned a letter for her parents, 

 entreating their forgiveness for 

 such a rash act : she therein re- 

 quested to have for bearers the 

 very young ladies who she had 

 said she dreamed had carried 

 her to her grave, and enclosed 

 some locks of her hair as memen- 

 tos of friendship. She was only 

 about 11 years of age, and the 

 daughter of very respectable pa- 

 rents in the neighbourhood. 



28. By a recent statement it 

 appears, that in Shropshire at this 

 moment there are 24 iron fur- 



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