THE NATIONAL lirGISTER. An old seaman. of Purls, 76 years of age, has been cored of a can- err on her tongue by a young fretich surgeon, who cat one-third of the tongue off, wi . h the other two-thirds she continues to speak intel ligibly. T o s how what a rare felled and abject state France is reduced, the cel , brated dancer, Des Hayes, who by his profession is supplesed to have realised a fortune of twenty thousand poetic's, is now serving as a common soldier in the last raised levies of France. He came amongst the conscript 'and not being able to procure a substitute for menet!, he was tarn away to serve in his own proper person. A lion-hunting party of Nimrod% in Bombay, assisted by tome na tives, discos creel a royal _family reposing in a iunule They first irri• tated a lioness, who escaped with two cubs froin the jungle, but while in pursuit of her, a liege lion apperetched them, and though fired at and wounded, he sprung on a Mr. M. whose arm he facet ated dread fully. At the moment of the attack on Mr. M. a native pierced the ferocious annual with his lance. The poor kllow, rievertheless, fell a victim, being seized, torn, and strangled by the Iron. Atter this, a lioness that had killed a woman mid child in a neighbouring village, was attacked by the pnrty, when two out of the four of the natives that were foremost, were so crushed and manglen as to cause the instant death of one, and no hopes of the recovery of the other. Disc v. Ilene Limo ...W. Moore, of Loughborough, Leicestershire, bricklayer, a few days ago laid a gager of three shillings, that he , could with his hands fixed behind him, worry to death a liedgekw with his Ince. Ile commenced his extraordinary undertaking by piers trating himself en the ground, Mid attack.ug the exterior of his p irk'y areagoinst with his nose. In a few !ninnies his face was covered with blood, anti he appeared to have little chance of success : hoeeevi.r, :it leneth having pressed the little animal till it had protruded its head, he snatched at it, and bit it riff thereLy winning the wager, to the great amazement of the brutal spectators. OVURFLOW ING of zeta Misstssteei.—Letters received from the United States mention, that in June shd July, the Mississippi bud risen higher titan it had been kaown fur thirty years. The consequence% had been dreadful. The water had burst the moueds and inundiced the country on the west side to the distance of 65 miles The inhabitants lied to the heights, where they and their slaves were encamped ; but vast crops, plainatiens of sugar canes, with an immense number of horses, (attic, sheep, hogs, mat deer. were swept away. The loss of neat cattle alone was estitrated at 22,000 head. Every little spot of -bare ground was crowded with animals. It was not uncommon to find herds of deer intermixed with wolves, and both, front a sense of danger, equally domesticated. The total lose of property is variously esti mated ; the lowest is eight millions of drillers ; the highest twenty-two. MIRACULOUS EacAre.—llis Majesty's brig Martial, Lieut. Leaver, which sailed from Plymouth with dispatches and a considerable quan tity of stuck for the squadron ill Basque Roads, on the 13tli instant, was forced back on Sunday week, after experiencing a most narrow es cape front destruction in the late tempestuous weather. For three days she was beating about, nearly in sight of the French coast, when, as site was lying to, about two o'clock, p. m. a most tremendous cross sea struck her on her larboard quarter, threw her on her beam ends, ar.d carried away her bulwark, spars, &c. in this cri tical situation she remained some minutes, until, by throwing six of her guns ern erboard, together with an immense quantay of pota toes, casks, hampers, &c. by continual baling and pumping, and the unceasing labuurs of the officers, p.issengers, and crew, in ieher respects, she was in about an hour cleared of the water, and enabled to stand be fore the .rind. Bat this misfortune was only the prelude to a greater one. In steering fur the Sound, a wave more titan twenty feet high in her main iigging, swept away her starboard guiltier-deck bulwark, dm killed the corporal of marines, threw her on her broadside, amid completely filled her. She was apparentlyainking, and twenty minutes elapsed before the exertions of tho-e Mt hoard had any effect, or any hope of saving the ship could be indulged. Several of the crew were washed off the deck, and returned again by she sea in a half drowned state, from which they were recovered with the. greatest difficulty. At length the brig was lightened, and again bearing away before the wind, she reached Plymouth a complete wreck. SINGtiLAa oCCU IfFNcL.---Friday ee'nuight, the military stationed at and near Gosport, were diawn out in (tido to witness the infliction of corporeal punishment on a soldier of the Kildare Militia, who had been tried by a Ceent Martial, in consequence of neglect of duly. Brigade Major Gibbs began to lead over the proceeding s of tee Court, wherein the prisoner was stated to be a private. The Colonel of the Kildare here interfered, and suspended ail proceedings, telling the Brigade Major the prisoner was not a private but a drummer, and that the punishment could not take place. In consequence the troops were dismissed, and lite prisoner. will be held in durance until the plea of his Royal ilighnessthe Peinee Regent is known, to whom the busi ness is referred. GAS ExeLnstow.----On Monday the ut ivlittourbood of Great Prier sheet, Wustit,in•ter, was thrown into much alarm by an explasi-n of gas, wteeli shook the surrounding houses. It a;'peared, that a pipe unexpeett Illy burst in the pri wises of the Gas Light and Coke Com pany, in culiequence of which notch gas had oozed out and filled then ap irtment ; but nut calculatiog on this, one of the 'nen took a candle and pruCE eded to the spot. to aacertoht what was the mutter. The rue tilelit the cand;e %v as intioduced, the whole of the gas , that had escaped from the pipe hoist into a flame, with a dreadful t aphr ion, as if fire had been communicated to a heap of gunpowder. By it this man was much injured, as well as two or three mare of the workmen ; hut the speedy orris of the fire-engines, and the eaertioos within the manu factory, soon Q ui Ow filf• undet c•‘ntroi. A blind Vl'l,lllilll, named Macon, tpwards of 70 years of age, was burnt to death on Wednesday afternoon, at her residence in Great Earl-strect, Seven Dials. The accident was occasioned by a,spark which flew out of the fire and communicated to her clothes; she was instantly envelopod in flames, and expired almoat immediately afterwards. It is a remarkable circismstance, that her death was nearly oc,casioned a few months ago in a similar manner. On Friday last, as a lahonter of ths• name of Hicks, in the employ of Mr. Huntley, of Tenterden Kett, was driving a cart, into which lie had born& otly got, Site horses took fright and ran away. when the dri+i - r, in attempting to jump out, was caught by hes frock and thrown under the wheel, which passing over his body, from the shoulder to the toigh, caused his death in about an boar ufterwatds. He has unfoi Innately left a wire and three childtep. A quarrel some time a,,0 took place between two French pri soners of war, on board the Sampson prison ship, at Gillingham Reach, when Renoir Robert, who conceived himself insulted, in st,ted that Jaques Sotron should fight him in a duel ; not having any weapons on board, they unrivetted the blades of a pak of wheat's, which they strongly attached to two sticks, each about a yard long, with which they fought.—The duel took place on the v 4 of October, when Sotron inflicted a mortal wound upon his advemtry, of which he lingered till Thursday last, win is he -died. A Coroner's -Jury , which sat on the body, gave in a verdict ot•—.Self-Defence. Last Monday, Sir John Brines, Hart. was apprehended in this city, on a charge of embezzling King's stores. About zie years since, Sir John was charged with being concerned with Isgar, Crosley, &e. in forging the will of a gentleman of Monmouthshire ; and a reward of 3601. was then offered for his appreltension.—(Bulb Chroakie.) MATH. At the Countess of Kinnouirs, Oloneestetplace, the Right Hon. Lady 11. Di ununond, of a ilaagistia. MARRIED. Tuesday, at St. 'Mary-le-bone (laird', the Right Hon. Lord Henry Mullet, Rear-Admiral of the Blue, a Lord of the Adtnia*lty s and brother of the Marquis of Winchester, to Miss Maria Ravens. croft, youngest daughter of E. Ravenseroft, Esq. of Portland-Ware. Lately, in London, Mr. Thomas Maddison, of Shoreditch, to Miss Pindard, of Fareet, HOURS. It is very strange, but equally true, tl.at this is the third sister Mr. M. has Married in rather inure than four years, and he is own brother to their father-in-law. DIED. At her house on Clapham Common, in her 94th year, Mrs. Stain. fords, relict of the late G. Stainforth, Esq. At Morcot, Rutlandshire, in the 85th year of tier age, the Right Hon. Lady Elizabeth Chaplin, sister to Brownlow, ninth Earl of Exeter, great aant to the present Marquis of Exeter, and mother of Charles Chaplin, Esq. M. P. for the county of Lincoln. • On Ti►ursdav evening last, at his seat at Bytleet, Surrey, Robert Sparks, Esq. many years in the commission of the peace, who Byrd respected by all who had the pleasure of his society . SPYRINE AND MARSDEN'S LEMON A('lD FOR SAUCE, Ste. This Acid for the table (which, from its being a fine powder cogibised with the frai;.ance of the Lemon Peel, would be generally approved of if It was better. Iriown) bat been mostly mild:led to persons of high rank, and only requires a trial and sufficient publicity t become :renewal whenever Lemons are wanted for dogma tic p urposes. Thore is a direction on the buttl.l for Punch, Lemonade. £c. &c. It is sold at the tellnuing Italian Warvhonses:—Tbornas, Brown, and Ball. Bond-street; Mackor a.:(1 A veling. Piccadilly : Price. Maytnarkst ; Peaky and Barcliy, Oxford-sir. et; Plaistow, Pall-Mall; Stiaton,.St. James's-street; :West, Kine:--treet, Sta.,. Lazenby. FA ward-street. Portinan-square; Rawlinson,Gratat Portland- , ..treet Atkinson. 11:,gger, aud West. Orford-street ; Davis. Great Rug.- sell-street: Aveliu,. Gloticesier..ereet, Bloomsbury;, Wright, Lamb's Conduit. strect; Powell and Son, Shoat and Sou. Marchunt, Holborn: Hurcojabe, St. Paul's Church-yard Hale and Fanners, Poultry; Crabb, Lonsbard-street ; Hale, .Birchin-lane and Cornhill; Wix, Lesilenhall-street ; Stokes, resichurch-street, Gregory,Gracechurch-street: Young. Wapping; Simpson, Fleet-street; Hieson And 11./111011 -Strand ; Riches. Priooes-xtreet, Westminster ; it is also sold lir Druggist's, Coufeaimiers. and Patent Medicine Warehottses, in bottles Ss. 6d. Ple iSC to notice the mune. of Spyriug and blar,deu until,* wrappers. as no 11b Is genuine. ()CT. 31. ■