CASTLE OF EXETER.-James W...
CASTLE OF EXETER.Jarnes Wriglht was brought for- ward on Friday by summons, for frcquently assaulting his wife, and leaving her with their chlldren unprovided, though his earnings were very considerable, and he had received with her some fortune. The parties were mutually very desirous of having their matrimonial connexion dissolved, but they were informed that hitherto the Le- gislature had not invested magistrates with that yower. How- ever, in case thev were determined to live in a state of pacific separa- tion, reconciliation being at present apparently out of tho questien, the magistrate would readily give his opinion as to the fairness of any terms the husband might pro0pse ; this was acqulesced in, and it was finally arranged that the children should be divided between the parents, and the hus'ond should Iallow the wife 69. per week, till ineir reciprocal dislike should subside, which the inagistrate hoped would take pla ce at no remote period; he also thought it right for the husband's own sake, :as he confessed hia uncontrollable irritabi- lity, as well as far the sake of his wife, to bind him in a recognizance of' 1001. to keep the peace toardsall His Mlajesty's subjects.-De- svonslire Freenolder. A heart-rendliig occurrence took place at Pallas Green on Tuesday ; the'particulars are as follow :-A men of the name of Phelan having gone to view a steeple-chase In that neighbourhood, left his wife and two children in his cabin behind hinm, and in some time afterwards his wvife had occasion to proceed to a ield quite con- venient, in order to dig potatoes for dlhner. Tho unhappy woman left her children (the eldest of whom was not foar years old) alone in the house; and it is supposed that they contrivedto set fire to tome straw or flax in it, for, on her return, she beheld her c4bin in flames, and, dismal to relate, one of her infants burned to a cinder, and the otlier was so dreadfully injured, that death terminated Ite sufferings on Thursday evening..Devoushire Freeholder. [Advertisement.1-The .advantages of cheap litetrture to the me- chanical part of the community are very strikingly exemplified in the new edition no: publishing of Fergwon's Lecture& on Mecha- nics, the last number of which contains thehistory, complet., of the steamn-engine, illustrated with 10 cuts, price only 3d. Another work, bv the same editor, entitled the echanis Gaery, firnishet dof intormation in every department of mecbanical science, at a similar cherp rate; the art of clock ind watch.making, for ins2ance, being conpned in tv.'o parta, price 2s. only-; thus con- centrauing, within a smnall cornpta 3a muci1-pJaticcl fhnilrmation as is elsewhere only to be obtained tbrough cellaxpee volumct. Published by Sherwood and Co., Paterr.n<otesfrow.