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of 



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the bell brought 



the thunder 

 upon the towers and the 

 spire was much damaged. The 

 poor schoolmaster was sti'uck by 

 the lightning, and received such 

 a contusion in the arm that he 

 will be lame for lite. The pre- 

 fect of the Moselle, in making 

 known this circumstance to his 

 coadjutors, has renewed his pro- 

 hibition to ring the bolls at the 

 approach of a storm. 



16. Extract of a Letter. — " I 

 am sorry to inform you, that 

 during the night of Saturday last, 

 the village of Lumley, about 6 

 miles from this place, was visited 

 by a large number of persons, 

 armed and disguised, under the 

 command of the invisible General 

 Ludd, who addressed his forces 

 in a short speech, on the nature 

 of the service they were then em- 

 pliiyed upon, and then dividing 

 them into small parties, ordered 

 them to their respective posts. 

 They immediately commenced the 

 work of demolishing a number of 

 lace and 2-necdle frames, in dif- 

 ferent parts of the village, belong- 

 ing to vaiious hosiers in this place. 

 In some of the houses they broke 

 and destroyed every article of fur- 

 uitiu'e, taking away with them 

 knives and forks, and jirovisions 

 of every description. These night- 

 ly depredators went to the house 

 of a person named Necdham, who 

 was the prosecutor of Simpson, 

 executed for highway robbery last 

 Lent Assizes^ and they told him 

 " they had come to punish him 

 forswearing against Simpson!" 

 The number of frames broken is 

 not exactly ascertained, but cer- 

 tainly they amount to nmrc than 

 30 ; and the reason assigned for 



this outiage is, 

 Vot. LVIII. 



that the lace- 



frames were making what is call- 

 ed in the trade, two-course hole ; 

 a lace of the worst quality ; alike 

 injurious to the workmen, the 

 honest manufacturer, and the 

 public." — NoltlnghatiL Review, 

 Oct. 18. 



In the latest Memoirs of the 

 Academy of Petersburgh, there 

 aj)pears an analysis of a statistical 

 work, in which are the following 

 statements • — ^The revenues of the 

 Russian state amounted in 1811 

 to 215,000,000 of louldes, and 

 the expenses to 274,000,000. 

 The land forces in 1810 were 

 621,15.5 men; the marine in 1813 

 was 289 sail, with 4,348 pieces 

 of cannon. The dominant Greek 

 chinch includes 1 metropolitan 

 churches, 11 archbishoprics, 19 

 bishoprics, 26,747 churches, and 

 a great mmiber of convents. To- 

 lerance being general, there were 

 in 1811, 3, .500, 000 Catholics, 

 1,400,000 Lutherans, 3,800 Re- 

 formed, 9,000 Hernliutters, 

 60,000 Armenians, 3,000,000 

 Mahometans, 300,000 followers 

 of the Dalai-Lama, and 600,000 

 adorers of fetishes. There are in 

 Petersburgh It printing-offices, 

 13 foreign bookshops, and 30 

 Russian. In 1S15 the manufac 

 tories of the Russian empire 

 amounted to 3,253. 



17. A new coach was started 

 by some Jews in the S})ring to 

 run to Brighton, a distance of 

 52 miles, in six hours, with a 

 j)ledge that if they did not ac- 

 complish the journey in that time 

 they would c;irry the passengers 

 gratis ; to accomplish which the 

 horses were kept uj)on a gallop 

 all the way ; and notwithstand- 

 ing this great risk, the coach was 

 olvviiys filled with passengers. In 



