News in Brief
It is stated that the diminution on the assessed taxes -or the laBt year, in the county of Devon alonc, amounts to nearly fifty thousand pounda (49,;869J.) SOUT}nAMPTON, Sept. 5.-MMiss M. Tree, of Covent. garden Theatre, arrived here on AMonday, under an engagement to piay four nights at our theatre. She played at Mancheter ean Sa tutday evening, and travelling during al&not *he whole interval, ar- rived here only two hours before she waa to appear on the stage. In consequence, no. doubt, of such great exertions, sbe was taken verv ill on Wednesday vith a apiting of blood, &c., which, to the great- regret of her numerous adariets, has diiqualed her from acting here any more this season. HOUSE SET o?J Fsa! BY RArlt.-However paradoxical this title may ajpear, it is certasily founded in trutb. Daring the heavy rain on Weane day,the 8th Inatant, at the bleacb-mmll be- longing to Ir. 'Thomas Pickering, Conmondale,near Jedburgh, an out-house, with is contents, a cart, vaon, plowas, &e., were all nearly destroyed by the rain comnunicatig wUh seome unslacked lihe erntai;nedl in the bulSdlng, which soonl gnited, and the fire had made doecn aerable progre6s Defore it coy d be overcom?'- une