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KRISUVIK CHURCH, IN ICELAND. 0 There was nothing so meted in'the appearance of the Church, as to make us hesitate to use the Altar as our dining-table."-;- Nackerte's Travels ir. Iceland, p. 114, Though gilded domes, and splendid fines, And costly robes, and choral strains, And Altars richly drest, And sculptur'd saints, and sparkling gems, And mitred heads, and diadems,- Inspire with awe the breast! The soul enlarged—devout—sincere, With equal piety draws near The Holy House of GOD, That rudely rears its rustic head, Scarce higher than the peasant's shed, By peasant only trod! 'Ti, not the pageantry of show, That can impart devotion's glow, Nor satictify a pray'r : Then why th' Icelandic Church disdain, Or why its sacred walls profane, As though GOD dwelt not there ! The contrite heart—the pions mind— The Christian—to that spot coufied, Before its Altar kneels ! There breathes his hopes—there plizhts his vows 7— And there, with low submission bows, And to his Goa appeals ! In realms that touch the Northern Pole, Where streams of burning lava roll Their desolating course; Sulphureous mountains raging boil, Blasting th' already sterile soil, With wild volcanic force ! Wheie cold, and snow, and frost cohspire, With livid subterranean fire, To curse the barren lands, Where deer morasses faithless smile, In transient verdure to beguile, This humble fabric stands! Oh ! scorn it not because 'tis poor, Nor turn thee from its sacred door, With contumelious pride; But ent'ring in—that Pontes adore ! Who gave thee, on a milder shore, In safety to reside! Where Zephyr breathes in tcmper'd gales, Thro' wood-crown'd hills and verdant vales, And gentle rivers flow; And herbs, and fruits, and fragrant flowers, And flocks, and herds, and shady bciwers, Their varied gifts bestow! Let no presumptuous thoughts arise, That thou art dearer in llts eyes, _ Than par Icelandic swain ; Who bravely meets the northern wind, With brow "rette—and soul resigu'd To penury and pain ! Where touch is giv'n—more is requied ; Where little--less is still desied En3oy thy happier lot With trenibling awe, and chasten'd fear ; isuvik's Church to Goo is dear, And will not be forgot! All the Theatres, both major and minor, had yes terday rehearsals of their new Pantomimes, tobe pro duced this evening for the rival attraction of their holiday audiences. A poor woman, on going up Church.street, Black burn, one evening a short time ago, accidentally hit something with her foot, which she conceived to be a small bundle of rags; however, on inspection,. it proved to be a pocket-book, containing bills and notes to the amount of £2OO or £3OO, which had been dropped by a traveller. The woman immediately got the bell-man to publish the event. The money was claimed by the traveller, who made the honest woman a handsome present for her integrity. UNFORTUNATE HoNet-Moos.--:A marriage took place at the ohurch of St. Lawrence, without Witlm gat,...-llar, in the vicinity of Yolk, on Monday se•nnight, which was succeeded by several most extraordinary and unfottunate circumstances, of which the following is a detail ;—George Fearby, a stone-mason of that ety, was the fortunate bridegroom, and Mrs. PHs - cilia Armstrong, from a neighbouring village, was the happy fair one. After the usual marriage cere mony, the newly married pair went to an inn near the church, for the purpose of regaling themselies with tobacco and ale, until the marriage certificate was prepared. They went into the kitchen of the inn, and in that kitchen was a closet, generally used as the repository of something better than the blood of Sir John Barleycorn. Here they remained, till the landlord discovered that his guests exhibited more spirit than ale and tobacco generally excite ; he therefore inquired of his own rib if the private closet was secure? and was informed that it was locked, but the key was on the chimney-piece. Ap prehensions of danger now were busy, and the ser vant was ordered to peep into the room ; when, lo ! she saw the bride also peeping into the closet above named. The landlady was informed, and, on enter ing, found that the happy pair had aspired to better cheer than ale and tobacco—they had taken from the closet a large jug of rum shrub, drank a considerable quantity, and, finding it very excellent, had nearly Stied a bottle with it, in order to preserve it for home c2nsun:ption ; but the bride attempting hastily to put it in her pocket, let the bottle fall into a spitting-box sear at hand, and ultimately was found with the jug concealed under her clothes. Resistance was now vain; she therefore fled through the window, and being' taken in a neighbouring field, was, with her rum skrub loving spouse, conveyed to a watch-house im mediately. Alas ! how uncertain and transitory is human happiness .'—at eleven o'clock this unfortunate pair were married, and at the summit of their joy— at half-past twelve they were both in a prison, where they were doomed to pass the first twenty-four hours of their union on a bed of straw. About noon the fol lowing day, they were examined before the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, and were committed to the Mouse of Correction for trial at the next Sessions.— , hus they whom the Clergyman "joined," hads.the Magistrate very properly "put asunder cand not all the trial takes place shall we be able to ascertain, whe ther in this instance Eye tempted Adam, or Adam tempted Eve s to take the forbidden fruit. OLD CHRISTMAS FIRE-SIDE. " There is one portion of the winter (observes that amiable writer, Dr. DRAKE, and HEAVEN bless him for it, say we), when the fire-side, from the cus. tomary convivialities of the period, becomes peen li:arly attractive. I allude to the season of Christ mas: a festival which, from a vivid recollection of the manner of its celebration in the North, about fort,/ years ago, has . been indissolubly associated in My mind with all the delightful reminiscences of early life; blending the rainbow visions of youth and unalloyed hope, with those religious feelings and in nocent recreations, which give to the close of the year so hallowed, and, at the same time, so exhila rating an aspect. With what a soothing melancholy, as the blast sweeps across my shutters and whistles round my room, do I often sit by the fire-side on the dark nights of December, and call to mind the fes tive pleasures of a northern Christmas eve: 6 The happy night, That ; i tke•cottage as the crown, Brought aims of salvation down ; ihen, -after h4fiag surrounded the Yule-clog, as it lay in ponderous majesty on the kitchen-floor, and each had sung his yule-song, standing on its centre, we consigned it to the flames that went roaring up the chimney wide,' and, tripping across the hall, sprang with joyous faces into the parlour, where the tale, the dance, and the game, the minced pie, and the spiced howl, rendered doubly sweet by the ap— proving smiles of our delighted parents, - completed our satisfaction. it is in combination with imagery such as this, which, in the morning of life, spread, as it were, a fairy mantle over the severest rigours of the season, that Winter, independent of the attractions arising from its awful and sublime scenery, ever after charms. Well may those, who are still wise enough to cherish the feelings of these enviable hours, and love to sec them remembered in the sparkling eyes and joyous gambols of their owil children, deprecate, with the Poet, the misrepre sentation of the season as cheerless and severe : They should have drawn thee by the high-heap'd hearth, Old Wlarsa! seated in thy great arm'd chair, Watching the Children at their Chrismas Mirth; Or circled by them, as thy lips declare Some merry jest, or tale of murder dire, Or troubled spirit that disturbs the night ; Pausing at times, to move the languid fire, . (k taste the old October, brown and bright !" BETTING AT TATTERS ALL'S YESTERDAY. Mum. 13 to 1 agst Gustavus 118 to art Truth 14 to I agst bro. - to Partizan I ':0 to 1 agst Sycsraz 17 to t art Morel I 20 to 1 apt Charut OAKS. 11 to 2 agst My Lady 11 to 1 agst Emily 9 to 1 nit Breeze RIDDLES °K7$. _ _ _ 7 to 1 agst Selima " 14 to 1 agst Mord • HtsTING. The Pytchley Hounds meet to-morrow, at Weekly Toll-bar ; Friday, at Crausley ; Saturday, at Stowe; at half-past ten. The Duke of. Grafton's Hounds meet to-morow, at Stoke (Brum) Park; Friday, at Whistley Wood, at half-past ten. The Oakley Hounds meet on Thursday, at Kernpston Wood ; Saturday, at Rushden, at half-past ten. The Quorndon Hounds meet to-morrow, at Widmerpoo' ; Thursday, at Vi'imeswold; Saturday, at Clifton; at half-past 10. The Worcestershire Fox-bounds meet on Thursday, at Red marley ; on Saturday, at Bredon-hill. The Quorndon :Hounds, on Wednesday last, threw off at Owthorpe, Nottinghamshire, and had an excellent day's diver sion ; they lost the Fox at Bingham Town, who escaped his pursuers by entering sonic out-buildings, after a run of one hour and 28 minutes. Monday ae'nnight, Mr. Meynell's hounds met at Stone Gorse, not finding there they went off to that part of the Forest banks opposite to Hanbury, known by the name of the Greases ; the bounds had scarcely brushed into laver, before they unkennelled fine old fox; he took off in gallant style, breaking cover at the button% of the Greases, and going over the hills of Ilan bury. They ran into him in a most gallant style, and he was killed after a noble run of an hour and forty minutes, almost without a check. Obt of a numerous field, there were not more than twenty Gentlemen up, besides the huntsman and whipper-in; amongst whom were Mr. Calvert, jun. of Hound hill (who got the brush) ; Mr. Meek, Mr. Peel , of Burton; Mr. Werthington ; Mr. Landor, and Captain Hammersley, of the 19th Lancers. The different pethctions of a greyhound, it seems, have been comprised in the following rude and barbarous rhymes : The head like a Snakes The neck like a Drake; The back like a iteant The side like a Breast; The tail like a Rat; The foot like a 014 _ . _ Ludicrous as tilpot7ticalefftlrtMay he, the description is still correct; and these different qualities. when united, even now form the model of perfection in the race. A Gentleman who recently challenged any sports man of his own age to ride ten miles with him, and with the Duke of RumsNes old pack of hounds, has entered the 46th season with the pack; inva riably attended at the places of meeting during that pei iod, and, at a moderate computation, has ridden at least 50,000 miles in the &ace. About a quarter past eight o'clock, on Saturday night, the extensive paper and rag warehouse be longing to Mr. John Barber, paper-manufacturer, in Baldwin's-place, 13aldwin's-gardens, Gray's Inn-lane, in the rear of the National School, was discovered to be on tire; the flames spread with great rapidity. Several engines arrived. which being well worked, h•al plentifully supplied with, water, preserved the adjoining houses, but the materials and stock in the warehouse burned with irresistible fury, and the whole was destroyed in half an hour, leaving nothing but the bare walls. How the fire happened cannot be ascertained, as there was no person on the pre mises. The paper.mill, which was directly opposite, escaped, the wind blowing in the opposite direction. About three o'clock on Friday week, the extensive flax-mill , in the occupation of Mr. Prest, of Maslram, in Yorkshire, was discovered to be on fire, which spread to various parts of the building, and before the engines arrived from Bedale the devouring ele ment had increased with such rapidity as to render all endeavours to save the building fruitless. After burning for some time with unabating fury, the roof fell in with a tremendous crash, and the whole of , this extensive building, which was thirty yards in length, ten in breadth, and five stories in height, soon became a mass of smoking ruins, nothing but the bare walls being left. The loss amoents to £IO,OOC, and was only insured in the Norwich Union Office for £4,500. It is supposed the machinery in the mill had been overheated, which caused the fire.— The dwelling-house and twenty-five cottages adjoin ing would have shared the same fate, but happily the wind blew in a contrary direction ; providentially no lives were lost. The building belonged to Mr. Wyvill, and was occupied by Mr. Prest on a lease, 30 years of which are unexpired. . i LAW INTELLIGENCE. VICE-CIIANCELLOR'S COURT, DECEMBER 23. - -------- - TILE ATTORNEY-GENERAL v. DUKE OF MARL/30E01113R. In this case, which has already occupied so much of the time of the Court, Mr. BELL said, that the pre sent was the Petition of his Grace the Duke of Marl borough, and prayed.that the injunction which had been issued in. this case might be dissolved, or that such order might be made as would be consistent with the rights of his Grace. It also went on to pray, that the blaster might be directed to inquire what part of the timber on the estate of Blenheim ought to be cut down, and that such timber and other trees, after they had been selected and felled, might be sold and applied to the use of his Grace the Duke of Marl borough? It went on to pray, that the order might be made without prejudice, and to state what had taken place when the demurrer had been heard, but with which the Learned Counsel (Mr. Bell), Would not now trouble the Court.. lie proceeded to read the Petition.—After hearing' Mr. HART and several other Counsel on both sides, The TICE-CHANCELLOR said, he would direct an order for the Master tc inquire what ought to be cut? and restrain the Duke from cutting any but that which was essential or necessary to the preservation of or ornamental to the house, with a view to its general improvement. The Vice-Chancellor further said, he should continue the injunction of the Court. After some further arguments, The Vice-CHANCELLOR said—" Let this stand over till the next Seal, and if, in the meantime, anything that has been done is repeated, or the conduct com plained of continued, you will find that those persons who have committed the first contempt will feel that they are in a wore situation by continuing it." COURT OF KING'S BENCH, DECEMBER 23. KEAN V. CROFTS. This was an action to recover £lOO money lent by the plaintiff to defendant's wife previous to her mar riage. The facts of the case detailed in evidence were as follow :Mrs. Medhurst, such was the name of the Lady previous to her intermarrying with Mr. Crofts, had fallen into some little pecuniary difficul ties, and seeing no probability of a speedy end to them, she determined to set herself free from anxiety in the fashionable way, namely, by taking the benefit of the Insolvent Act. The plaintiff, desirous of assisting her, advanced her £lOO to repurchase her furniture, which, by the provisions of this salutary Act, were w. be disposed of for the benefit of her creditors. Mrs. • Medhurst giving her warrant of attorney as security, matters were soon arranged ; but Mrs. Medhurst could not keep herself out of difficulties, for, as soon as she was relieved from the importunities of her cre ditors, she submitted herself to those of Mr. Crofts, and having got rid of her pecuniary bonds, she took on herself the bonds of matrimony! The plaintiff' soon after :wiled for payment of his £100; but Mr.' Crofts, who thought to enjoy all the sweets of matri mony without its bitters, demurred to pay, and the plaintiff was under the necessity of administering to him the present unpalatable _dose of law. It ap peared, that the defendant knew of the £lOO having been lent, and of the warrant of attorney having been given, and the Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff. Damages £100; Costs 40s. GLEDHILL V. COOKE. This was an action by a hackney-coach owner, against the defendant, a Hendon carrier, for negli gently driving his cart, whereby one of the plaintiff's horses was killed. The principal witness in support of the plaintiff's case was the coachman, who swore, that between nine and* ten o'clock at night, on the 6th of May last, he was driving a fare between Camden Town and Tot tenham-court-road, at a smart trot of seven or eight miles an hour, on his own proper side of the road, when he saw the defendant's cart approaching him on the wrong side of the way, going at the rate of about four or five miles an hour. At the distance of twenty yards, he called to the defendant to keep on his own side the way, but he did not do so, and the consequence was, that one of the shafts of the cart entered the body of the near coach horse, and killed him on the spot. For the defendant, four unbiassed witnesses proved, that en the night in question, the defendant, an aged man, was driving his cart, in which there were two of his grand-children, at a creeping pace, on his own proper side of the way ; that the coachman was on his wrong side, driving at a full gallop, and in the violence of the concussion, the defendant's horse and cart were upset, himself and the children thrown on the ground; that the coachman kept still driving on for about twenty paces, when his horse dropped down dead ; that when the coachman was desired to give his number, he stripped, and offered to fight the de mandants.—Under these circumstances, the plaintiff's Counsel elected to be nonsuited. WILES V. DELL. The plaintiff in this case was a publican, residing at Aylesbury ; the defendant was a brewer, and had, for some time past, served the plaintiff with beer.— The plaintiff now charged the defendants with hav ing served him with a quantity of beer short of what he had paid for, and by this action sought to recover back the excess which he alleged he had paid. The Cmies JUSTICE, on lookin& over the record, said, the action could not be sustained in the form in which it was brought. Here the money had been paid willingly by the plaintiff, and at a time when he had full information of all the facts which he now alleged. He might have resisted the payment, but could not, by the present form of action, recover back the money which he had paid willingly. The plaintiff was nonsuited. PERRY V. CHAPMAN. This was an action of assault. It appeared from the evidence, that , the plaintiff was a foremast-man on board the Venus, West Indiaman ; the defendant being chief mate of the same vessel. On the night of the 4th of March, of the present year, the ship then lying in Carlisle Bay, Barbadoes, the defend ant ordered the plaintiff to stow the awning which covered the deck during the day. The plaintiff de sired to have more stops (small cords used in stowing sails); and the defendant ordered him to do it with those which he had. Plaintiff refused ; and the de fendant gave hint several blows with a rope's encl.-- The Captain being on shore at the time, the defend ant was in commagd of the vessel. Mr. GURNEY, for the defendant, treated the assault as trifling. The Jury found for the plaintiff—Damages 40s. ,roLrcz Tut DARING RESCUE GANG.—We have the factionto state that Mark Herd, the leader -of I'. k gang, was taken on Saturday by the .. two Brands, COldbathifields prison, and F. Furzman, after m3O days search. 11th fellow will be distinctly proti, to be one of the persons who acted with &a,ley, c!,, Jack Jolly, in making the first assault upon a: knocking Marsden down. lie is the same man some time since rescued a prisoner from St. Martin watch-house, and could not be found afterwads; h . is also charged with a burglary in Surrey. One of e., gang, against whom the evidence will not reach, i ; admitted King's evidence, and in a few days the c: will be brought home to the majority of the soners, by the unceasing labours of Messrs. Co.N.t:,! and FARRAN?, and the assiduity of the officers. WORSHIP-STREET..--lil consequence of the nume. rous robberies lately committed in Shoreditch, City-road, - Sec. the Magistrates cn Friday night ism.: a search-warrant, and ordered the officers to brie; all suspicious persons found in the streets, or at of the noted public-houses which they frequent; i ;ts fore them. The whole of the officers went to execte t this duty, and apprehended no less than forty wel known thieves, some of whom were taken in the a,: of committing street robberies. A great nurtiller gentlemen who had been robbed attended t'o the prisoners, but only a few were recognized; the: were committed for the frlonies ; some were ccrr. mitted under the Police Act, others were ordered to find sureties for good behaviour, and such as could give a good account of themselves were discharged. MARLBOROUGH-STRELT.- - A man who clanged another with a row, at St. James's watch:hot:s2, ca; Friday night, on leaving the place took a fancy to the beadle's coat and handkerchief, and was wa tki n off with them, when he was stopped, and taken :o Marlborough-street Office, • but being drunk, charge was not persisted in, and,he was discharged. An Exciseman was taken into custody. on Satur day, for stealing three pounds and a half weight (.f candles from a tallow-chandler's in Mary-la-I;oni , c, where he attended in performance of his duty. flv was taken to the watch-house, to be brought up this day for examination. An article from Tobolsk, in Siberia, dated October 14., states, that a labouring man, who, in Si purse cyl skin, which he wore at his breast, bad placed the hard-earned savings of his life, was murdered by two of his companions, for the sake of his little treasure. The murderers escaped to a neighbouring forest, foii. lowed by two dogs belonging to the deceased, which would not quit them. The wretches did everything to appease them, but in vain. They then endeavoured to kill them, but the dogs were upon their guars', and continued to howl dreadfully. Reduced to de !pair, the murderers, at the end of two days, returned to Krasnojarsk, and delivered themselves into the bands of justice. Between eleven and twelve o'clock on Saturdav morning thn Coventry stage coach, heavily loaded with passengers and Christmas preseots from Oh country, was overturned on going arcing Londoa Wall, occasioned by the two near wheels going over some loose paving -stones, Nvherb the street was mer.,!- ing ; one gentleman was thrown from the coach•box an the ground, and received a severe injury ; he was carried into a neighbouring surgeon's, to have his wounds dressed; all the rest escaped with only a few slight bruises. Monday se'nnight, a Meeting of the Inhabitants of Romsey was held at the Town Hall, for the purpose of agreeing to a dutiful and loyal Addressio his MA JESTY, JAMES ALDRIDGE Esq. in the Ul air. Mr. LINTOTT, after a few prefactory remarks, proposed an Address, expressive of loyalty and attatchment to his MAJESTY'S person, but embodying nostibject of a political nature. This beipg seconded by Mr. LONG cam.; Mr. THOMAS SHARP addressed the Meeting at length, questioning the propriety of a proceedi ng like the present, which, in his opinion, was ae imputa tion upon them which they did not merit, as he had never heard their loyalty called in question. Mr. GEORGE observed, that if it was necessary to ad dress the KING, that Address should speak the sen timents of the People, and should convey to tl:e royal ear the language of truth and sincerity.— He then proposed an Address, expressive of the ut most loyalty to his MAJESTY; but animadverting on the conduct of Ministers; and strongly censuring the late proceedings against the Quars:.. Some further discussion took place, when the Address moved by Mr. GEORGE was then carried by a large otajbrity. The Address to his MAJESTY from this town, which was left at the Town Hall for signatures, was for warded for presentation on Thursday last, signed by about SOO names. The Address left at the King's Arms, and which prays for a change of Ministers, IF, we understand, to be forwarded this day, sigted by. 2300 names.—Preston Paper, Dec. 16. BIRMINGHAM MZRTING. — The " Loyal Declare tion"from (not of) this Town, is, we believe, gone up to his MAJESTY, by one of the fly waggons: and will represent the state of public feeling here, about as much as it would that of the people of T•Caliki- There may be some different views held by respect able people as to the precise object of a Public Meet• ing; but in respect to the slavish Address of a few sycophants, adopted in a private manner, having the forged signatures of respectable persons ; and the forced ones of the lower orders—it has an opposition of at least 200 to one among the people of the town. The conduct of the tools of the Administration, has made it imperative on the true friends of the Throue and the Constitution, to address the KING, on the real state of the country. BIRTH. Dee. 16, at 'yarning, the wife of the Rev... Lakin, of a son: DIED. • Last week, in Green-park-place, Bath, Lady Christiana Keith, daughter of the late Earl of Kintore. Tuesday fel:might, of -a decline, ht the 26th year of her age, Caroline, eldest daughter of Dr. irdlestone, Great Yarmdutb. Tuesday, Nathan Adistrst, Esq. Major of Portsmouth garrison , At Southampton, on Sunday se'nnight, aged 56, Miss Char lotte Biddulph, daughter of the late Lady Dltldulpb. In Chichester, aged 60, Mr. Mark Mitchell, an eminent schoolmaster. ... Sunday sennight, at Southampton Henry, youngest son ut the late MajorZole, of Twickenham: _..... HIGH-WATER st LONDON BR IIiGR TO-MORROW. Morning - - - 51 minutes after 0 Afternoon 4 14 --... . 7__—. I.O 4 IiJUN - ; rrinttd and putiliiped by Kerr, Tentple• Dar r~ 1 i I