TTIT!, NATIONAT!_ _ _ Saturday .e'unight, as Mary Stone, of Kingswoud. was 411 nor ss, two a to Bristol market , wi th a tia,ket of eggs, she was attacked by fi ho cut oft her pockets, containing 21. in cash, and then titriplitsd hor of every thing except her shift. • Monday se'onight, a woman, in a fit of insanity, threw herself from the window of a house on St. John's Bridge, into the float, Bristol, and was drowned.—'l i fe same morning the body of a man was taken ont ' , of the float ma the Back, who was ascertained to have belonged to a coal-vessel, and had been missing about three week‘. Seven women, each of them with an alias to her name, were com. mitte' last week to the County Gaol of Sotnerset, charged with - having obtained by false pretences, and by means of a forged pars or rout. various sums of money from the Overseer of the parish of Cr •sti, Je scribing themselves as soldiers wives. These offenders are p:.rt oe' a gang of eighteen, who left London together to commit ti.ese nepredatians. Their method of making application to the overseer was two or three at a time, each describing a large family, %alert writ 4onc by in a waggon, or cart, &c. One parish alone is slated to have paid this party 501. and upwards in one day. On Tuesday sennight, between eight and nine o'cl-ck in the even ing, a young :11811 went into the shop of a poor old woman its North. Lnepton-street, Bath, exclaiming, " Your chimney's on fire !" and on he r :.ppearing inert dulotts, led her to the other side of the road, st His companion slipped into the shop, and stole the till, con 71. in notes, which, with some silver and halfpence, to the anionnt of IV. was all the pool woman possessed in the worki! Through the activity of .11. Smith and Thos. Allen, tythingmen, two yeang men were the following evening taken up on suspicion, and tn.e i) . them, named Bay's., was fully committed for the ()grime. The following is a translation of the letter of the King of Persia to Sir Gore Ouseley, on receiving a copy of the New Testament:— " In the name of the Altuighty God, whose Glory is most excellent, " It is our zugust command, that the dignified and excellent' our trusty, faithful, and loyal sk ell-wisher, Sir Gore Ouseley. Baro- Let, hl. Britannic M?jesty's Aml.assador Extraordinary, (atter being lioenred acid exalted with the expressions of our highest regard and consideration), should know, that the copy of the Gospel, which was translated into Persian by the learned exertions of the date Rev. }teary Marlyn, and which have been presented to its by your Ex cellency on the part of the high. dignified, learned, and enlightened Society of Christians, united fur the purpose of spreading abroad tl e Haly Books of the Religion of JESUS, (upon whom, and upon all Prophets, be peace and blessings!) has reached us, and has proved highly acceptable to our mind. " In truth, through the learned and unremitted exertions of the Fey. Henry Marlyn, it has been translated. in aattyle most befitting Sacred Books, that is, in an easy and simple diction. - Formerly, the four Evangelists, Matthew, Wilt, Luke, and John, were known in Persia ; but now the whole of the New Testament is completed in a most excellent manner ; and this cirentruitanee has been an additional source of plc asnre to our enlightened and august mind. Even the four Evangelists, which were • known in this country, had never been before explained in Co clear and luminous a manner.--We, therefore, have been particularly delighted with this copions and complete Translation. Please the most merciful rlriv we command the Select Servants, who are admitted to • our presedee, to read' to us the .above mentioned Book from the beginning to the end, that we may, in the most minute manner, bear and comprehend its contents. Your Excellency will he pleased to rejoice the hearts of the above mentioned, dignified, It arned, and enlightened Society, with os .airauceA of our highest regard and approbation ; and to inform t •use excellent individuals, who are co virtuously engaged in dissetni r.atit g and making known the tine meaning and intent of the Holy Gospel, and other points in Sacred Books, that.they are deservedly honoured with our royal favour. Your Excellency must consider yourself as bound to fulfil this royal . request.Giveu in Rebiala vil, • . • (Stated) 64 FATaI ALI SHAH KAJAR." , . •« I beg leave to remark , the Word t , Tihiwat ; which the translator has rendered " read," is mid honourable signification of that, act, almost exclu.ively applied to the perusing or recitiuc the Koran. The making therefore. of this terin.or expreision, chews the degree•of respect o d estimation in which the Shah holds the New Testament.—Nute by i w ie,;ore °weep, FASHIONS FOR DECE3IBER. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS —ln the promenade costume, our fair pedestrians seem tmarie with each other in the richness rather than in the variety of their attire. Pelisses are still in the highest estimation, but we have no variety to notice in their form; the ma terials of which they are composed, are either cloth, kerseymere, %civet, or satin; dark colours seem more in favour than they have yet been for the last two or three winters; dark green, bright purple s rutty, and brown, are generally worn ; but hi ck satin, stamped ssitn a rich black veitet, upon a new principle, lined with rose-co lour *armlet, has just been int; oticed. Ermine, swansdown, sable, • and seal skin. are the listed trimmings ; the two former are most in request, sval•skin has decliiied. In the mot niug costume chintz still retains its estimation, although the French washing silks are also much in favour, and Frei.ch cambric and jacconet muslin, richly trimmed with lace, ate also MOIR by many deviates In the form of high, dresses there is little novelty ; the waists are, if possible, shorter than ever ; the backs of themes continue about the samo breadth as last month, but collars, notwithstanding the coldness of flee season, are quite on the decline.—Morning dresses, when they are of silk or chintz. display underneath a rich shit t,and are trimmed on each side of the front with a silk trimming, full plaiting of rib. band, or, as we have noticed in a few instances, a piece of chintz better than a nail in breadth, cut at 'each side in scollops, which are ed g ed with a very narrow ribband, and this trimming is hen quilled, lull and set on. The bottoms of dresses are trimmed to correspond, except that " rows on rows" of trimming arise, as they have done tar sonic time past. For dinner dress, poplins, sarsnets, anti velvets are most general; cloth is also worn, but partially. The ladies who have recently returned from Paris have brought will them French silks, which might vie with the brocades of our grand mammas for substance and durability ; nothing can indeed be more beautiful than those double-sided siks, as they are called but at their importation is strictly prohibited, many of our fair fashionables are obliged to content themselves with our imitations of them, some of which are excellent. Irish poplins have lest nothing of their attraction, but they are generally worn in light colours.—ln full-dress, white satin, crape, and velvet for matronly belles, tare very general, but French gauze is more in request than any thing else; it is worn over white satin, and trimmed in general with blond. In the form of full-dress gowns we have no variety to notice ; frocks are still universal.— , There is little alteration in the mannero f wearing the hair ; some elegantes wear it full on the right side, wink a part of the hind hair is brought across the forehead on the left, and over this braid, the remainder of the front hair falls in the lightest ringlets, and partly shades the cheek.—ln full-dress, coloured stones are very general. Wads are in the highest estimation, artificial flowers Icing worn but very partially.—For the promenade and carriage costume, many clashing fashionables have adopted cordovan boots.—The dress slipper begimeonce more to assume its !mow form, and the simple rosette or clasp has given place to a rich embroidery in front. — Fashionable colours for the • mouth arc dark green, bright purple', ruby, and brown, fawn, amber, - pale green, and French rose co. lour.— La Belle Assonblee.- • The following extraordinary quantity of game was killed at Gipping, Suffolk, on Monday and Tuesday, the 21st and 22d ult. ; 169 pheasants, and 123 hares. The shooting party- consisted of the following gentlemen : General Wal pole. Colonel Upton, Sir Georg e Wombwell, Sir John Shelley, Mr. Thornhill, and Mr. R ust. •• Swaffham Coursing Meeting, which commenced on the I.sthi and ended on- the isibPnstant, was very fully attended. Mr. Wilkinson's red and white b. Clara, won the cup on the last day. There was excellent sport on all the days. The Rev. Dr. Hooker, Vicar of Rottendeio, Sussex, and proprietor of the great and small tythes of that parish, lately intimated to those who hire them, that, in consideration of the change of times which the peace has produced. as it re spects the farmer, it was his intention to lower the rents. • The Earl of Essex, 'we are happy•to state, is much better in every respect and his Lordship is announced out.of dan ger by his physicians. DEC. 4