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It appears from the three registers of the So- ciety of friends, that, as a consequence of their exemplary temperance and steady conduct, half of their born live to 47 yt-ars of age whereas Dr. Price !e!Lt us, nil: ct ae general ¡IOIH¡Í;llion ot t1/lJdOll, hair ,jf I.he Iw'rn ¡¡\Ie >nly to 2^ years; and also, that among the i J'riends, 1 to 10 arrive at SO years of ag but } of tite general population of London, only I io 10. Parlour Company.-Friday, about eleven o'clock in the forenoon, a large bullock tha' ran from the drove, being closely pursued by the drovers, ra-.i into the shop of Messrs. Bald- win and Co. booksellers, in Newgate-slreel, I and on the drovers coming to the door, he walked into the parlour There were t%,vo oi, three ladies sitting at the time in the parlour, who wf-re tiaturallyNei. much alarmed, parti- cularly as the room was sor small that the ani- mal stood with his head between them. One of the drovers, however, went into the par lour, and held him by the horns until the la- dies retired, and they happily received no I other injury thaa what was caused by the fright An inquest, or precognition, washed on ihe 23d ult. before.Mr. M'Ked, Sheriff Substitute of the county of Sulhenaud, N B. by order of the Marquis and Marchioness of Stafford, and of the King's Advocate, who attended the May Circuit at Inverness, to investigate certain charges brought against Peter Sellar, ap uuder factor on the Sutherland estate, by certain tenants of the parish of Far, in tne vale and district of Strathnaver, of certain cruellies ex ercised by the said Sellarin May or June, 1814, when he took possession of a large sheep fat 111 in the same district, from which the complaii. ants hau been then removed on which occa- sion several lives were charged to have been lost, by buining and pulling down the houses about the people's heads. The tenants prov- ed their cases to its fullest extent, on the most distinct evidence Three lives were lost one woman, old and bedridden, by her house be- ing set on fire, and two mfin; owe woman whose house was polled down and being far advanced in pregnancy, miscarried fro,6> ter- ror and a man aged 90 aud upwards, whose house was pulled down, had an arm fractured, while in b .-d, by Ihe falling roof. The ;,hentf; was so affected by Uie detail, that he fainted in j court, overpowered by his filings. Sellar will. of course, st J r unmittiid to take ills trial at the assizes, to oe huidcu at larerness in September uexL I Planting of Potal-es.-The cuts or sets takei from ih> titi aii(i niort- i(sx. Mlant than those from the rooL end of the ame pofatoe. Mr Poole, n farmer of Blagdon, near TdUQ" ton, in Somersetshire, was, a few days ;ieo the fortunate discoverer of considerable wealth. As he was digging in a field, the spade struck against a hard substance, which proved to be a military el, -st, coi)laii -ii-- Portugal gold coiu, and LOf S d'Orç, &e. to the estimated value of 20,000! In the cbesf was likewisea parcel of paper, which Mr Poole unfortunate- ly destroyed, and thereby probably prevented the cause of so large a property being thus buried, becoming known 11 is conjerfured that this treasure has been concealed e»t-r since the Doke of Monmouth's rebellion in 1685, Shocking Murder. -On ruesday evening, at about 8 o'clo(, k. barberoas murder waseom- m'ffed on Mrs. Be siey, the wife of a farrier, residioi; at No. 17, fieiton street, Drury lane, London, by a man we understand, had lodged iu she house, and who, alter having nearly severed her head from the body, threw het down the kitchen stairs, where site was found by the landlord, who saw the ruffian es- cape from the house, exclaiming that a drunk- en woman lay there. A puirty of the Bow- street officers went in pursuit of him, and had information of his retreat. Prophecy. —• Mr Faber, who is well known as having wri feu Urjrely >n the subject of lh« prophecies,is recently idd-i,.t-cd a letter tf) ther Editor of a periodical publication, whit b con- cludes with this passage »—«♦ I take this op- portunity of mentioning, that I believe the French Revolutionary Government, from the year 1803, down to the present time. Iris been under the baoeful influence of the fifth vial. It is not impossible that vial may not be yet exhausted; should that be the case, we may expect the French arms to experience further reverses. I fear, however, that nothing will prevent the ultimate re-establishment of the Franco Roman western empire though such re-establishment will only h" the prelude to ita final subversion, a d though I much incline to believe that England, "r.i.nigh scourged, will be safe in the midst of in whirlwind.—Mv principles of exposition led nie to anticipate the downfall of the Bourbons, and the resto- rafioii of Revoiutiouaiy Government, even from tbe very orst. My reasoning was, of course, hypothetical. It my principles were right Ibensurh and such events must inevita- oiy follow. Yet I felt them to he so strongly established, that I had htile tear in reasoning upon them accordingly, In a note to the 5tit edition of viy work on the 1260 year9, which is dated July 28, 1814, I stated at large the grounds of my persuasion, that the Bourbon. wzl,ild not long reign in France, and that the Revolutionary Government would soon be restored. The reader will find that note ia to).S.p. 400.

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