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nearly seven hours, they could 

 not find their boat again, the tide 

 came up, and they all perished. 

 The bodies of John Skeltou and 

 the two men have since been 

 found upon the sands, and on 

 Tuesday last an inquest was taken 

 in view of them before Mr. R. 

 MuUenden, Coroner. — Verdict Ac- 

 cidentally drowned. The body of 

 the young woman lias not yet 

 been discovered. Skelton waa 0'8 

 years of ;ige ; he has left a widow 

 to laoicnt his loss. The other 

 persons drowned are — AndrcAv 

 Nea^y, of Annan Water I'oot, 

 labourer ; he has left a wife and 

 five children. Tiic name of the 

 other man is unknown. Ihe 

 youiig woman is about I'O years 

 of age. 



8. A bwarm of bees took up 

 their lodging 8 jeurs ago, be- 

 twixt the roof and ceiling of a 

 t>ummcr-houbc, in the garden of 

 Thomas Holme Maude, Es'j. of 

 Kendal. Here the colony has 

 remained unmolested c\er since, 

 nor huii it been Iuionmi to send 

 otF a swarm. On Wednesday 

 se'nnight, (i. Bellasis, Escj. had 

 the curiosity to remove part of 

 the hive, when he found 60lb. of 

 comb lilled with honey, part of 

 which was become graniJated in 

 the cells from age. Jt appeals 

 from this fact, that tlic casting 

 of bees, and the mortality to 

 which these provident animals arc 

 exposed in unfavourable seasons, 

 are effects arising from the nar- 

 row apartments to which they 

 are conlined under the cjirc of 

 man. 



9. The annual solemnity of the 

 Lord Mayor of London's assum- 

 ing the insignia of lus office was 

 rendered remarkable by the cir- 



cumstance of the person chosen, 

 (Alderman Matthew A\ood) being 

 the same who occupied that im- 

 poi tant station in tlic last year ; 

 which re-election was owing to 

 the liigh opinion entertained by 

 his fellow citizens of the vigour 

 and attention with which he iiad 

 discharged its duties, and the pe- 

 culiar necessity of such e.\ertion= 

 at the present critical period. 

 Another novelty was the conduct- 

 ing of the procession from West- 

 minster-hall by land, instead of 

 the usual return lo Black-friars- 

 bi idge by water. 



A letter from AV'ey mouth, of 

 the 8th instant, says — " It is with 

 citreuje concern, that I have to 

 cDumiunicate the loss of the ship 

 Barbadocs, Captain Parry, be- 

 longing to Livcipool, on the 10th 

 of last month, on the Rocks of 

 I?ciUy : bhe was from Smyrna, 

 bound to London, m ith a valuable 

 cargo. The cajjtain and 15 men 

 took to two of the ship's boats, 

 but 500U after leaving the ship 

 the boats upset, and they all 

 poishcd. The chief mate, Mr. 

 C. Grundy, the ojdy pcrsonsaved, 

 who is now with me, gives nie 

 the above account : he says he 

 was the only man that remained 

 Oil board ; that, after the loss of 

 the captain and crew, he con- 

 structed a small raft, on which he 

 wa^ driven to sea: that on the 

 second day (say the 12tli ult.) he 

 was taken up by a small French 

 vessel, and landed in France. He 

 came over to this port yesterday 

 by the Countess of Liverpool 

 packet, from Guernsey." 



1 J . On the evening of Satur- 

 day, about 8 or 9 o'clock, a body 

 of poachers, 7 in number, as- 

 sembled by mutual agreement on 



the 



