Revealed Bell Ringers of Yorkshire

by JOHN PEEL

Bell-ringing. The ringers of the village of Hollywell, in the parish of Dunderhead, in the East Riding of the county of York, met on Saturday, the 17th inst., and rung round a merry peal of triple bob majors, in the key of D, in the short space of fifty-nine minutes and seventeen seconds (the tenor weighed three hundred and eighty-one pounds); after which the gentlemen partook of an excellent dinner at the sign of the Cat and Bagpipes, at West Barking, in the same parish. In the course of the evening many good catches were sung, and the party did not break up till Aurora, with rosy fingers, unbarred the portals of the East!
Unseasonable Arrivals!

Uncommon Mildness of the Season. Mr. Polhill, of Penryn, has now a rose in blossom in his garden.

Opera Season Report.

Unparalleled Severity of the Opera Season. Such as been the unparalleled severity of the Opera Season, that the fashionables at the Hay-market Theatre, on the first night of its opening, were all frost-nipped. …

Shaggy Dog Story.

Remarkable Instance of Sagacity in a Dog. On Saturday last, a labouring man named Baldwin, in the employ of Mr. Stokes, of Weymouth, had his dinner brought to him as usual by his second daughter, an interesting little girl of nine years of age, in a covered wicker basket. But being unexpectedly called away for a few moments, his faithful dog (which is a sagacious quadruped, of the terrier breed, curiously dotted over his eyes with light brown, or tan-coloured spots, and partially web-footed) most unaccountably abstracted the poor man’s fare, for, on his return, the basket was found lying upon its side, and quite exhausted!!! …

Wife of Ambassador to Papalcy Missing!

Fair Damsel stolen by Musselmen!

Lady Cynthia Hamilton-Smyth late of Higher Clapton and wife of Sir Henry Hamilton-Smyth ambassador to the Pontiff is reported missing. Reports are she is being held on the island of Malta by the Emir of said den of iniquity. It was raised in the House this very day by the MP for Uxbridge 'What is being done!'

The Secrtary of State for Foreign and Colonial Affairs replied that all efforts where being pursued in an effort to free and urged calm. He went on to suggest any person holding the fair English Rose would speedily release the good lady and her maid if they knew what was good for them.

Lady Cynthia Hamilton-Smyth

Reports of conditions which the Fair Lady is being held are of course difficult to ascetain. It is generally believed that she is being held in the Emir's Villa near Medina. This corrispondent can only imagine how she is fairing in that vial despots seraglio.

Brittanic Forces leave Gibraltar

Showing the Flag in the Mediterranean

Today a small group of ships set sail for a sojourn into the Mediterranean Sea that Musselman lake. The War Office announced that the intention of the voyage is to show the Great Britannic Flag ensuring it is seen in the foreign ports of that inland sea.

"HMS Falcon leads out the flotilla of naval ships."

Alone with a number of naval ships the flotilla also contains a contingent of Empires valiant red coated warriors. General Montgomery leading the land element told the waiting press that it was anticsipated that a landing execise would be inclded in the expedition. He added he sincerely hoped thet the Caliphate would join in and contribute to the benefits such an endevour would engender for all.

Smith Beadles multiply

A remarkable fact

It is a remarkable fact that within the last twenty-three years there have been no fewer than four individuals serving the office of head beadle of Mary-le-bone parish of the name of Smith!! And what makes the coincidence the more singular, three of the churchwardens during the same period were named John!!! These individuals were in no way related to each other, and they all died before they arrived at the advanced age of ninety!!!!

Narrow Escape!
As a gentleman was walking on the Chain Pier at Brighton, on Tuesday night, his hat was blown off by the fury of the boisterous element, and had a narrow escape of falling into the briny deep. It is a curious circumstance that the same individual nearly lost a hat in the very same way some years ago when walking on the pier at Margate! …
Hogg Hung!!

A Curious Coincidence.

Curious Coincidence. It is a curious coincidence that James Hogg, aged thirty-three, was hung for house breaking at the debtor’s door, Newgate, on Monday, the 5th of March, and that, strange to say, the father of this very man died at York at the age of fifty-two, on the 7th of August, 1819!!!!