Monthly Chronicle.

A gentleman of Greenock , who communicated the above method of exfisguishing fires , writes thus ; " About three years ago an alarming fire happened in this place . Before I went to the spot , the roof of the house had fallen in , but the flame was so great as to overspread the adjoining houses , and the whole street was threatened with destruction . Having read somewhere that , pot-ash extinguished flame , I tried it ( as above described ) , and in less than ten minutes the lire was completely got under . Some lime after , one of the sugar-houses at this place being on firethe same means were usedand they were attended with the

, , * ame success . Pearl-ashes may do as well as pot , and they are sooner dissolved ; but the latter came readiest to hand , and it had all the good effect I could wish for . Slate Prisoners for Hi g h Treason . Since the publication of our last number Mr . Thclwall has been tried and acquitted ; and Messrs . Kyd , Joyce , Holcroft , Bonney , Baxter , Richter , FranklowFliffierand Spencehave been dischargedno evidence being produced

, , , , against them . Hibernian simplicity . Not long since , an Irishman was arraigned at the bar of justice for felony , and on being asked the usual question , " How will you be tried ? " through ignorance ( for it was his first appearance in that character ) he remained silent , till told by one of the counsel to say , " By God and my country . " Paddy replied to his advocate , " By J—s , honey , I wou'dn ' t wish to be tried by G—d at all , because he knows all about the matter . "

COUNTRY NEWS . . Norwich , Nov . 20 . Saturday last , after a week's search , was discovered buried MI his stack-yard , the body of Mr . John Filbee , a reputable farmer at West Dereham , in this county . He had been missing from the Saturday preceding , and various were the conjectures respecting what Was become of him ; by some it was thought he had left his home in consequence of words between him and Iiiswii ' e ; by others , that he was either murdered , or some accident had befallen him . A most diligent search was madenot onlin the parish but throughout

, y the neighbourhood , and , when they had almost despaired of finding him , some fresh mould was observed in the stack-yard , within an hundred yards of his house , which being removed the body was discovered , and , upon inspection , it was found that he had received violent blows upon the head and other parts of the body , which had occasioned his death . Suspicion fell upon his own manservant , who was immediately taken into custody , and after a short time confessed hiruss ^ f to be the murderer ; that he had formed the dreadful resolution

of destrojMfchis master about four days previous to his accomplishing it ; that he had 'hfjM ^ of doing it the night before , but his heart failed him ; but after words h ^ SJrasen between his master and mistress , he resolved to dispatch him , and unf < SM § iately the deceased went into the stable about six o ' clock on Saturday everjMr , the Sth instant , with this servant , and as soon as he got out of the door mJ hardened wretch struck him on the left side of the head with afork , which instantly deprived him of life ; he repeated the blow , and then dragged

the body into the stable , went to the stack-yard and dug a hole , then returned to the stable , took the body on his back , and buried it , covering the earth with straw , all of which he effected in the space of an hour . Throughout the whole of this dreadful business there appears such a degree of unparalleled wickedness as is scarcely to be conceived , nor does it appear that any symptoms of remorse in the perpetrator were discovered , until after the corpse was found , since which he has made a most ample confessionnot onlof the murderbut

, y , of his motives for committing it , which being of a verv delicate nature , charity induces us to draw a veil over them until the whole affair be publicly investigated in a court of justice . The deceased has left a wife and two children , was a very industrious man , had been a very kind master to the culprit , who had . been in his service about three years . [ The Lists of Promotions , S .-. are unavoidably postponed till tur nert . l