News in Brief
The guards and mail-coachneu *vho arrived in towm verterday, stated the great fail of snow they in gentral experienced in the early part of the morning, which con-inued without intermois- sion from two till their arrival in Lombard-strcet. The waters are also out in many places at Hockley-in-the-Hole, ncar Woburn in Bedfardshire, it was up to the girths of the horses. In several parts of Buckinghamshire it snowed on AMonday the whole day. WVe are requested to state, that Clay Hall, acquitted at the yrecent Lancaster Assizes of setting fire to his house at Liver. po0 , with irtent to defraud certain Insurance-offces, was not pro- secuted at the instance of anv of sucI offices, but on the commit. ment of the local magistrates; and that the namne of a Director of one of the offices vas used pro firmat only. CAPE OF5 (ooyD Hope, Jan. 31.-The Farquharson fell in with the Thalia,fronm Batavia,to the southwatd of Mladagascar. and put on board a qouarter-master and six men, towed her for two days, but was obliged to cut in a gale of wind. IIARlWlCII, AMarch 22.-The Loid Duncan packet, from Cuxha. ven has blrought over the master and creaw of the Portsmouth of Portsmouth. Thev state, that about 16 miles E.S.E. from the North Foreland, on the 4th, being water-logged, worn out by pumping, and expecting to go down, with a signal of distress fLying, they were taken out by the brig flizabetb, of London, and lauded. _