ME NATIONAL REGISTER. having only a few friend,. His practice has been for some tinn• ping 16 mile, out to work is the morning, and returning home the St Me evening. Ms last week's task was as follows : Monday lie completed I •St miles. Tne•day Do. . . 46 WedneAday Do. st Thursday Do. (constant wtt) • • •54) nicht) , Do. to Yeah rilay morning he Tete at half past time o'clock, and com menced his sixth day's task at five, and was in high spirits, and completed 13 miles and a half at nine, and then retired to his tent, where he breakfasted nn coffee and Oa!, and aoin started in half an bow ; and at 11 o'clock be had completed tt2 miles; and was expected to finish his day's performance bet‘%ren nine and ten p'clock last night—making then in the whole 198 miles. tie is al lowed to walk this day without hindrance. ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, Sic. IMPORTANT CUSTOM-110MR SITIZURE.—On Saturday evening, an information. tinder the Excise Laws. the 55th of the King, ch. 93, came nit for discussion before the Surrey Magistretes, relative to the arieure of one of the Brieltton coaches and four horses, whilst coming to town on the 14th of July last, in consequence of its hay. ing a parcel therein, containing contraband coods.—lt appeared from the evidence of Oliver Boys, an Excise Officer, that in cows (pence of some intelligence he had gained., he went down to Reigate 401 the 14th of July last to meet one of Messrs. Cross, Morris, and Newman's Brighton coaches in its way to to(yn ; when the coach came up, he obtained a seat on the outside the coach, and arrived at Croydon without his making any discovery ; but between Ceoysinu-and Streatham, the Croydon coach poised, and the wi t nese °bier-mad .a mans rtained-Joice on the roof, between whotwand Mr..Newman.who drove the Brighton coach, a sign passed. When the coach arrived at the 'White Hart, Streatham, Mr. Newman got (loam, bud was taking a small trus► tint of the boot, and proceedinginto the house milk it. this was -the article alluded to in the witness's information ; he' jumped down, seized the truss, and asked Mr. Newman if he knew *hat it eoi.tained. At first he hesitated, and then said he did not. • The witness told him he was a Condom lionseP ffi cer, and would a'iew him. He aceordiu g ly cut.sspen one. end, and discovered some Pandasia handkerchiefs. He immediately put the mark on Ilse truss, and ordered Newman to pia it into tin bootregain; at the sane time sayiag he- should. Om aciae ; the coach and borseP.; When they arrive d at the,, Elephant ised Castlejloys ordered the, ' coach to go to the King,s Arms -in the Borough. At the varuest, solicitation of Mr. Newman, however, he at 'length . it to go to its usual ian, the Golden Cross, where,• before tho . wits: peas would stiffer the horses to be taken -off, Mr. Morris ate! - .Mr. Newman signed an. undertaking, for self and partner., to produce the coach and herpes when, called for, under a • for teitnre of 2001. The pack, contenting forty-six pieces of Bandanas, was taken to the Custom house.—:A person named Edward Joice, stated that he knew Mr. Western or Brighton; he was there on the ;30th of May last, when Mr. Western introduced !Jr. Newman,. saying, " This is my confidential man, by whom I send goods to town." Some conversation. passed at .this time respecting a box which was to be sent on the following Friday. Joke expected the guess which came on the lath of July ; he passed the. Brighton coach ON that day, and noticed Newman, as stated by the officer; but he did not know that Newman's notice of him had any allusion to the truss in the coach; he heard that night the goods had been melee(' next morning lie saw Newman at the Elephant and Castle, who merely said some person bad fallen in love with the truss, but that be might learn all the particulars at the office. He did not soya word olliaving been imposed upon, or that the coach and horses had been seized.—Mr. Alley, as Comtel for the defendants, contended-- }irst, thatthere were objections fatal to the information; second, that before Cross and Morris could be considered at liable, their privity must be proved ; and third, that Newman was no partner: 'tit:liber of these objections were held by the Magistrates as valid. , refute the last Objection, Newman 114 d signed the undertaking to produce the coach and horses as a partner; and in answer to 1141 assertion that he had no knowledge of what the truss contajtied ; *hat also was (kerne.' inadmissible. In-this the' Magistrates *grim!, and declared the coach and horses, valued at 2N31., to-be forfeited. , 4 hatablelaUn and distressing - accident hapP ( l l 4. o lo fisc GAI of OCTG 22 October, at Moll, one of the Wallas at'Scoll•intl. The packet boat between 111n11 awl Cnll , having on board twenly•otse awn and one %num), ovcr.rt in A Itivii wind and all on board perished. Timm was a fair at Coll, to which the passenger. were going. On Tuesday morning last. T. poolv, E'q of Hedshreve. puller- took, for a wager of fifty guinea!, to ride down the steepest part of the Devil's Dyke, near tirielstort, on horseback, a descent at least of three hundred yards, awl, in many places. almost vertical I—Mr. Poole is not only one of the most darieig. hut Otte of the hest ciders in the county, and the frightful task alinveosamrki he ntrtortned Tnetlay, with the greate+t ease , iu restore of a field of , e.srly 100 sportsmen ! In the descent lie was allowed I. diverge ten yards only to the right or left of the starting pains, but all nearly stra:elst was his progress, that he did not deviate more thee three C•t:t at most from the line. He rode an aged snare of hi. ow l s, ul l o rapidly executed her task, galloping wi th her fore feet, :mil most: ' , er hpcks, no less to the astonishment than admiration of all sive- i • At a farmer's house, near Guildford, the followiny ie eumstance took place :—A little boy haying met with e t of young rabbits which were yet blind, hro9glit them hem. . tiiA fatherAnowing they could not be long kept alive, detetnv. . ,ton giving them as a dainty meal to the cat, concluling p!ja tyke them for young rats; aecor4ingly one Wil% thrOW I) to tie r phC instantly took in her mouth and carried out of sight; 7: { bile after she returned, mewing, and licking her chops feu ••iht•r, which was given to her, and this 40e treated in a simian It was taken for ge•nted that she had derntired them ; lot • t : • time, after, to the great surprise of the fernier, it was di.covored stead of that being the cake. she had given them slick. an•l treated them as kittens. They had grown tonsiderably, and had gviticd their sight, sold seemed woite reconciled to their yew in,otlier. Rochester is now become the scene of perlestriast amusement. A man of the name of Toffy has undertaken for a consider.il►le % % R e ef to perform the arduous task that Wilson rya. tutted in Permis•loq having beets given by the worthy Mayer, P. Plow, q fie started op Monday morning, at a (paltry past five o'clock. mill completed twelve miles and a half before breakfast ; he then pnr•ned Ili. task, and completed 26 miles and a half before diner, and finally hi!. 3►lth mile at a quarter past eight o'clock, without the least inconvenience or apparent fatigue. An immense number of spectators was c o l. lected the whole of the day at Deice Farm, Idiom a quarter of a mile from Rochester, the spot of his performance. Many bets have been laid, which on the average are in his favour. A labonring man fell from the work* at Vattrfleall Brides., on 4a torday, into the river, and the body leas not yet been)fonnd. A •Atrauge idea WAS am:grated by a pltilosapher, on -41011(11 that if some cannon were-fired. the body would rise, andithis ridicu lous notion wa,s carried into effeet•from Cumberland Coredens ! ..Saturday evening la*t , a fire .broke out at Ifowig; i lc fartu,,ba longing to :William Citrre, Esq. of Itton, near-Clirmtow. About midnight, one of the isnildising, in which ercvted 4 itowcrtill •theashi.ng machine, and the straw4tonse adjoining thereto, w e re discovered to be in flames • .and a poor man. who sit:o.o)4lle latter bnilding unhappily perished ' . A building, about ball amide di-trot, .that- contained another thilashing inaohine, was.also.set omfire and , consumed. AZr. Curre having introdnoeil a variety of machinery for the improvement of agriculture, is supposed to have occasioned the %Illations act. FRACD.-011 Thursday last, yoneg.tuau of . genteel appearance, went to the home of Mr. James, a eurgeou of ;he New Road, and requested that gentleman would go, as quick. as posri• We, to Mr. Roberts, Warren-street. Fitzroy-square. Mr., fa pro .ceeded without delay to the appointed place—but, to hi. Plltplise, found there was no such person wanting as a surgeon,--On his re • torn home, in half an hour, he found that as 80911 as he had pone out. the se►ne young man who had called for him carne beck, and called for Mr. James's ease of instruments. They were ►rtttnediete ly given to him ; and by this fraud be sucgeededipobtaiulug proper ty to the value of 1.51. An elopement lately from the neighbourhood of Twickenham, is at present the topic of coniersation. Thc. youpg lagy is an only child, _aild.her paramour a 413 4 colour. . . ■ L. 1 1 1 -a a • {