A work of great curiosity...
A work of great curiusily and researeh, as connected with the art of printing, has just issuedl Irom the piess. It is eititled Tyypogr.pk1ia, or the Printer's Instructor. and contailns ali accouut of the origin of printing, biogra phical iiotices of tne mnost eminesit printers, aud an eluci- dation of every subject, in fact, that has referenice to the art. It embiaces every species of' technical infbrmation required by the meclhanical printer, as well as an inex- haustible lund or illustration alaptedl to the general reader. The name of the author and comnpiler of the work is J. Johnsoni, hitnself an operative prinLer, who has devoted the labour of imaore than six years to tne comnpletion of his arduous undertaking. Ott the whole, this publication has very genuine claims to public patronage. Yesterday inoraing, between three ani( four o'clock, the cxtenrive premuises of Alessrs. Daweon and Sbaw, colour-manutac- tursis ani( wholesale stationers, 117, Bishopsgate-street W'iL-in (late the residence uf Dllr. tirey, hilvermit!i r) were broken into, and property to a con.iderable itnmant carried oflt Five ruffians were observed, by a servant girl opposite, lurking about the premises, and one cntered the shop-door, but fromn the faciiity with which he weot in, shle had no suspicion that he was a robber. They forced an iron bar, and entered by means of a false key. No one slept on the premises that night, as Messrs. Dawson and Shaw have not been above tlhree weeks in the house. Atter getting in, they broke open every lock in the shop, including that of a strong irorn chest, and took about 3001. worth of stanmps ; they then proceedled to the colour- manufactory, and selected those that were the miest valuable. Some ot the party were evidently judges of the article, as they took care to select those that would fetclh the mtost monev. Th4i depredation was comamitted about twilighlt, and the robbers escaped undisturbed, twonwithstaniding the numiber o0 watlhmcn that are placed near the spot. AIELArJCHOLY ACCIDEN'I' -Duke Ormsiyb, Esq., wlho occusionally residcs at one of his lhouses in Ballinza, took a drive in his gig yestertlay along the river, accompanied by Alrs. Ornmsby, Lte wite of Dr. Andrew Ormsby ; at.er passing tne tee-house, at the :-almon-tishery, the horse took tright anti darted suddenly down the precipice into ite river. The lady's thigih-bone was broken, and shie has beeti otherwise seriously injured: sense hopes are entertained of her recovery. Mlr. Ormsby's letL thigh was broken in several places, anid presented a dreadful spectacle. Eromn the nature of the fracture, and the season of the year, it is apprehetnded that it will termsinate fatally.- Waterford Mirror.