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CHILDR,EN AT THEIR MOTHER'S GAAVE. PROM ACIDISMAII . I 11070.01rf leg Eft, ro 11127. " And that same dew which sometime on the buds was Wont to swell, like round and orient pearls stood Now within the pretty infant's eyes In tears." SHA rsru PA. Look sister sweet, upon that hallow'd stone! We stand upon a spot of love and fear ; For there is laid a heart, the fondest one, That 'Orr left its children weeping here ! There sleeps our Mother in the silent dust, By an our sorrow all oar love unmoved ; Sleeps, till the solemn summons of the just, Bids her awake, to meet the Gob she loved ! I saw het fainting on the bed of pain ; I saw her like the leave* of Autumn lie; I saw ber strive to smile, but strive in vain— And then l— no, I dared not see her die ! Then came the bitter pageant of the grave— The fearful hearse, the following weeping crowd: I saw—'twas but one look—the plumage wave, And loafed to slumber with her in her shroud ! THOU, Bum of Kings, who on the babettlidst smile, And take the little one upon thy knee, Guide us through earth, and all its mares awhile— Then take us, innocent, to rest with Tam ! Sweet sister, bend no more on earth thine eyes— No more weep idly on that silent stone ; But fix thy pae, tby soul, upon those skies; There shall we go—for there our Mother's gone! LONDON IMPROVEMENTS. TROM rill MEW 11101 MILT . [Concluded from the &SAS of 'Monday.] In Crooked lane, (what associations does not the very name insp're!) there yet remains a proud relique of what London was, when about a century or two younger. You cannot miss it, though it seems to shrink from its neighbour buildings, as if fearful of contami nation. It is an ivory -turner's, of the very oldest school. Disdaining the modern auxiliaries of shop windows or doors, the achievements of the art court the . regards of the passers-by, in stoutly fashioned glazed cases, black with the accumulated smoke of at least a century. What an assemblage of antiques! Hornbooks, bone-alphabets, wooden-spoons and forks, lemon squeezers, and punch-stirrers! Alas! literature dis dains the aid of the first ; and, for the last. punch has clean gone out of fashion. At the back of the shop is a dark retreat, some two yards square, like the inner den of a spider's web. A tall and somewhat stately damsel, rather quaintly attired, and over whose head forty summers, at least, seem to have passed, sits there from morn till eve, watching the advent of cus tomers, whose visits, I fear, are " few and far between," and beguiling the lengthy intervals by the industrious employment of her needle. Strange speculations had occasionally floated in my brain as to all these matters. A thousand fancies had flitted across my imagination, as to whose was thf. shop, who was the dame, and who the damsel; and determined not to " burst in igno. ranee," I ventured a small purchase, to obtain the de sired information. I was served by the junior Lady herself; and truly, a very pleasant and communicative maiden I found her. I say " maiden," for, alack-a day ! she owned with a sigh that she was a spinster. She was delighted with my veneration for the " dreary pile," and readily detailed all its history. Certainly, it was very old; she could not say how old; but coeval, at least, with the Monument. Her father, who died eleven years ago, had been a resident there five and fifty years. He had served his time in it; and became, in due course, the successor of his master, who had like wise, in his turn, been a very old occupant. It was, even in her father's time, a place of much repute; the first ivory turner's in London. So extensive was their trade, that a large house opposite bad been used as a warehouie ; and Gentlefolk in their coaches (this was uttered with a smile of infinite complacency) came far and near to purchase their wares. Modern innovation ultimately dethroned its proprietor from this high eminence ; but though hints were ever and anon thrown out as to the policy of modernizing his boutique, and his neighbours, light and left, and opposite, evinced symp toms of defection by gradually becoming smitten with the mania of smart shop-windows, nothing could in duce him to listen to aught that savoured of change. If folks (he said) would rusts headlong to ruin, what was that to him ? Why should be follow their example ? When he first came to London, these was not a single shop in the City with so superfluous and impertinent an appendage. Then why should he shut out the blessed air of Heaven? For his part, he loved flesh air; ergo, beloved to live in Crooked-lane, and abominated shop windows. To the visitors, who now and then dropped into his nest to chat with him—incited more by curio- The course of Exchange has not undergone any sity than business—he was garrulous in its praise. He material afteratioa: bad lived there, he said, man and boy, upwards of half The number of individuals who perished in the High a century ; and, thank Heaven and his own industry, lands, during the late snow storm, is ascertained to have he was pretty warm. He loved his shop ; and, with been between 27 and SO. his own free-will, would never leave it till he was borne Upwards of 5,000 trees were blown down at Gordon to his last home. In this wish he was gratified ; and Castle, in the Highlands, by the violence of the gale, on his venerable relict, thoroughly imbued with the pre- Friday and Saturday se'nnight. judices of her mate, still maintains,with becoming con- It is a singular fact, that the house of Fermor should sistency, the primeval appearance of their ancient do- combine in their honours two titles, which are both uni. micile. Not that the profits would now defray the venially mis-spelt. The head of the family is Earl of board of her ti.ur.footed domestics, but she has not the Pontefract, Viscount Leominster, which are always pro heart to leave it, and cannot abide the rtmoval of a single flounced Pomfret and Lempster—indeed his Lordship article attached to it, save those only which are made spells both title- as they are pronounced. His Lordship for sale. An hour-glass, which has its prescribed the other day was shewing a snuff-box to Mr. Rogers, station at one end of the counter, is, I will be bound, the eminent poet, and told him it bad been in his family held so sacred, that no money could achieve its put- a hundred years. " Gad," says Rogers, " that's the chase. I hinted that the changes that must have very thing we want up in one corner in St. James's passed around them; the many new occupants of the place—a cent'ry box r neighbouring shops, they must have seen in the long Monday, a dreadful accident betel Mr. Banfield, the period of their establishment; a truth to which the jeweller, of Cheapside. He was driving down Brixton kunior damsel assented with a smile of triumph.— goad in a gig, with a little girl, his only surviving child; But there was one change, she said, more mournful when he accidentally ran agaii st a coach, and was than any, a change that she feared her mamma would Olio kn out, with his daughter. One of the coach never survive. Indeed, it was a doubt, whether the wheels went over his child's head, and killed it cn the anticipation of the event would not produce all the con. put. The unfortunate Gentleman received much in • sequences of the reality. This awful circumstance was jury, and was taken home in a deplorable condition of the rebuilding of London Bridge, arid the consequent ;Iliad as well as of body. No blame is, we understand, destruction that awaited Crooked-lane. I was condoling attributable to the driver of the coach. with her on this event, and suggesting that a young SPORTING ANRCROT/1.-At one of the late grand Lady like her should be more modern in her notions, shooting kllues, a Gentleman had several times been and hail the alteration as a great national improvement, very nearly shot by his friend, and had repeatedly cau when I was interrupted by tke entrance of a smirking tioned him not to shoot so much at random; but the Quaker, of some forty or thereabouts, who evidently caution was vain, for in an hour after he received four came for a flirtation with the fair spinster, incited, shots in the cheek. " Where are you ?" said the doubtless, by the well-known weight of her expecte& wounded man to his friend; " I am here," was the re cies. His mode of courtship was curious enough; being ply. 4 4 I cannot see you for the bushes; hold up your oddly interspersed with compliments to the Lady, and hand ?" He held op his hand, and had fourteen shots accounts of his prowess in the newly-revived science of put into it at forty yards. " Theses" said his friend, gymnastics; the one idea which seemed to put all his " is tit fox tat ! ' other faculties to Sight. My object being , accomplished, I took my leave, considerately recollecting an adage, to the truth of which I readily assented in my own billing•and•cooing days—and though two may be company, three are none. The banking-houses of Hoare, Child, and Goslink and Sharpe (the gosling, doubtless, a lineal descendant from her of the golden eggs), are equally singular mementoes. They remind us of the Old Dorntons, and Thorowgoods of a by-gone era ; and the Leather Bottle of the first is an object deserving the highest veneration of the antiquary: Much, however, as I admire the good sense which still preserves the primitive appear. ance of the establishment, I must quarrel with that obliquity of judgment which prompted the gilding of that ancient symbol; assuredly, as ill-advised a proceed ing as the modern barbarism, that decreed a similar fate to the Pewter Platter in Gracechurch-street. A few more edifices of the kind might be adduced; but to revert to the subject of improvements. There is now lying befcre me a project for levelling that vene rable structure, Exeter 'Change, the quondam nursery of aspiring shopkeepers, who here adventured on a moderate territory of some six feet square, in the bore of ultimately achieving the dominion of a wholesale warehouse: It was here that the renowned Clarke, that prince of hardware men, and pink of cutlers, amassed the enormous fortune of 800,0001. by those habits of frugality that clung to him to the last. What a de lightful lounge in our school-boy days, to explore the dark profound ; to gaze, with longing eyes, on its varied stores, and, by a sort of mental furtiveness, appropriate each tempting article to our own exclusive enjoyment! What a manifestation, too, of fair dealing in that pithy sentence—" The lowest price marked, and no abate ment made!' A voucher of integrity, that, but, for the simple lack of means, would have attempted us to purchase them all. And are we to lose thee for ever, thou renowned repository of walking-sticks, that are ever stationary ; watches, that never go ; knives, war ranted to be at leastas keen as their purchasers ; braces, brushes, and battledores, patches, pomatums, wash balls, and razor-strops. One liege adherent, at least, will shed a tear of regret over thy departed greatness. But important as all these matters undoubtedly are, who, that has a soul, would hesitate to stay the sacrile gious hand, raised to sweep away those hallowed haunts, where nur brightest bards and profoundest philosophers first drew their inspiration P Genius loved to rear her offspring in holes and corners. (Green Arbour Court, oh, Goldsmith! was thy academic grove, and I tremble at its destiny). Shall they not be deemed sacred?— Shall not a nobler feeling preserve them from the reck less ruin thatzoodern refinement would deal out to them? Away, then, all meaner regards I all mockeries of taste I I abjure the classic frenzy, with which I fancied myself inspired. Could we, at a wish, emulate the adific skill of Greece and Rome, and cause their proud structures to overspread the land—gained at such a sacrifice, I should deem the purchase dear. No; let us rally round the time-honoured memorials of our ancestors ; let us shield them from the spoliation that awaits them; and warring with the whole race of architects, projectors, and surveyors, establish the cause of Old English feel ing over foreign taste and modern innovation ! Q. Q. Q. NORTH WEST PASSAGE: In a letter from Mr. Douglas, the botanist, to Doctor Hooker, dated from the Great Falls on the Colombia River, 44th Match. 1090, dui.. Lit I. following paragraph respecting the North West Passage : " There is here a Mr. Macleod, who spent the last five years at Fort Good Hope, on the Mackenzie River. He informs me, that if the natives, with whom he is perfectly ac quainted, are worthy f credit, there must be a North West Passage. They describe a very large river that runs parallel with the Mackenzie, and falls into the sea near Icy Cape, at the mouth of which there is an esta blishment on an island where ships come to trade. They assert that the people there are very wicked, having hanged several of the natives to the rigging ; they wear their beards long. Some reliance, I should think, may be laid on their statement, as Mr. Macleod :hewed us some Russian coins, combs, and several articles of hard ware, very differeat from those furnished by the British Company. Mr. Macleod caused the natives to assemble last Summer, for the purpose of accompanying him in his departure for Hudson's Bay. The sea is said to be open after July. This Gentleman's conduct affords a striking example of the effects of perseverance. In the short space of eleven months he visited the Polar Sea, and the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, undergoing such hardships and dangers as perhaps were never experien ced by any other Individual." The letter, from which this is as extract, with various others from Dr. Richardson and Mr. Drummond to Dr. Hooker, will be published in the forthcoming number of Dr. Brewster's Journal of Science. FROM MR LONDON GAZETTE, Ditc.l2. ADMIRALTY 0 FMB, Dements 12. A letter has been received from Commodore Bullen, senior OIB• eer of his Majesty's ships on the coast of Africa, addressed to John Wilson Croher, I.lq. and dated at Prince's Island, the 15th Sep tember last, in which be reports the. capture of a slave vessel, under Brazilian colours, called the Prince of Guinea, by the Hope schooner, manned by aparty of &Beers and men from Isis Ma. jesty's ship Maidatime, under the orders of Lieut. William Tucker, of Char The Hope fell in with the Prince of Guinea on the sth of Au. gust, shortly after she had sailed from Whydah with Ave hundred and seventy-eight slaves on board, and after a chase of 28 hours the Hope came up with her on the 6th, and a severe action began be. tavern the two vessels. The Hope was a schooner of 140 tons, armed with a long tra versing 12-pounder and four 18-pounder peer guns, and manned with 324/scers and men, including eight native Africans. The Prince of Guinea was a brig of 240 American tens, recently built at Philadelphia, pierced for 16 gums, hut having only nine mounted, viz. a long traversing 94-pounder, four long 8-pounders, two long 6-pounders, and two swivels, and manned w i th 72 men. _ . After up wards of two hours bard fighting, Lieut. Tucker, haying three out of his five guns disabled, from the heavy fire of the Prince of Guinea, resolved on boarding her, and the Lieutenant being pre vented from leading the boarders by a very severe wound in his right foot, received at the commencement of the action (hut not withstanding which he continued throughout personally to light the traversing gun), they were led, in the most gallant manner, by Mr. Robert Lampert Pengelly, Admiralty Mate of the Maidstone (who, in boarding, was wounded in the right side by a musket ball), and they succeeded in gaining a footing upon the vessel's decks, and after a fight of several minutes, in getting possession of her, though not without considerable bloodshed. The slave vessel had 11 seamen and two slaves killed, and 15 seamen and 11 slaves wounded, and one seaman and one slave were drowned in the boarding. i The Maidstone's party had none killed, and only three wounded, viz. Lieutenant Tucker severely, but not dangerously; Mr. Pen. jelly, the Mate, slightly ; and William Newson, ordinary seaman, dangerously. In making the report of this capture, Commodore Bulien passes the highest encomiums on the brave and gallant conduct of lieute nant Tucker, Mr. Pengelly, and the men serving under the Lieute nant's orders in the Hope ; and he notices the active exertions of Mr. George Williams, the Assistant Surgeon of the Maidstone, both during the action and afterwards, in his humane attendance on the wounded prisoners. CERTIFICATES,JAw. 2. WUWm Itobinsan, late of Salford, Lancashire, victualler and builder. John Drake, Richmond Terrace, Bast-l ane, %hearth, Surrey, hop merchant. Thomas Spites and John B ailey, late of Chandos.street, Covent-garden, drapers. Alice Watson, burn, Lancashire, and John Watson, Lancaster, haberdashers and linendrapers. William Wilkinson and William Cooke GUI, Hol born Bridge, woollendrapers. Frederick Maitland, Norwich, beer brewer. George Haynes, sen. George Day, George Haynes, 'nn. and William Lawrence, Swansea, Glamorganshire, bankers. Mead and Charles Edward acomb, Battersea, Surrey, colour makers. William Carpenter, Leadenhall.street, woollen. George Petty, now or late of Bawtry, Yorkshire, makster mi sh t t t: merchant. Samuel Wood, Manchester, merchant. Chas. orth, Birmingham, cabinet maker. William Wilkinson, Broad Carr, Eland, Yorkshire, merchant and asaaufacturer. Jos. Breatley and James Brearley, Bekaa-le-Moon, Lancashire, ma. chine makers and iron founders. William Watts, Wood -street, London, warehouseman. John Elder, Ddlield, borwell-street, Middlesex, woollen and Manchester warehouseman. Thomas Brine and William Cheasnan, now or late or Parma, Southansp. ten, common btewen. OLD BAILEY, Dec. Is. SENTENCES. At twelve o'clock this day, the RECORDER took hi s seat in the New Court, Old Bailey, and proceeded to pass sentence of Death on the following persons: Henry Bailey, Richard Arnold, Benjamin Brown, and John Andrew Meek, for bustler); John Bunyan and George Horn, in t horse stealing; Royal Keats, for sheep stealing; W itlidm &nem and Thomas Brackney, for highway robbery; lames Wingfield ' fora rape; Henry Dunn, George Hall, J o h n S m i t h, Thomas , kinson, Henry Wright, Samuel Black, Ann Gardner, and Elisabeth Brown, for stealing in the dwelliaglouse; Thomas Canning, ki d Jonathan Batty, for house-breaking in the day-time. John Barthnrp to be transported for life. For Fourteen Years—Robert Fisher, Thos. Romano, William Gutteridge, James Crater Edward Robinson, Mary Ni c h o i see, Mary Ann Giles, John Co n lon , Catherine Kelly, Emma tfa.a er , Robert Elnall, Samuel Barley, William Smith, Joseph Ball, arj Martha Smith. Eighty-two were sentenced to be transported for seven year}, Joky Ambrose , who was found guilty of ma ns l aug h z ter, was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment, Slid to be keit to hard labour ; and a great many other, various periods of imprisonment, from one week to one year. It will be seen tbat Martha Srseith, the companion of Henry Dumb is sentenced to fourteen years' transportation. Yesterday :thontas Beckett was indicted for wilful and corrupt perjury, in swearing an affidavit of debt that Richard Car Coils was justly and truly indebted Ito him in the sum of 211. for goods sold and delivered. The Jury found bins Guilty. Mr. Awn- said be had another indictment against the prisoner. Mr. Sergeant ARA3LN observed, that he should not then pass sentence on the prisoner. He would be sent to Newgate (he had been out on bail) until the nest Sessions. His present intention was to transport him for seven years, for a more flagrant case never came before the public. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Elise Chingos and Maria Benson, Hammermanlth-loosse, diner, school nalatremes. John Crowell and J lt Crossen, St. Swithires-line, carpenters and builders. Samuel Riles, William Pitches, and Acton Salton Skinner-street, Snow-hill, and of Blackman-street, Borough, dealers (as far as regards Wm. Mullett). WUliam Bell and Richard Ballard, Bath, horse dealers and stable keepers. James WIJIMIr (deceased), Charles S. Parker, James Murray, and Robert Semple, Glasgow. Mr. Want= quits the Adelpbi Theatre at the close of the present season. He will act under the banners of his old manager, Mr. Assam, at the Lyceum, during the Summer, and in the Winter enter upon a Ave years' very lucrative engagement at Covent- f3arden Theshik Hatay Manta, the Proprietor of the Dublin The atre, is nearly recovered from a dangerous &track of cholefa mor. bus, which, for a time, placed hie life in imminent_periL An express WOO brought to Load= to his brother, Captain HA An who im mediately left town fee Dublin, where he had the satisfaction of ending Mr. Hamm quite convakacent. Yesterday a meeting of the Shareholders of the Cas tello and Espirito Santo Brazil Mining Association was held, to consider the present state of the Company's affairs. The Report recommending its dissolution hay ing been read, a Resolution to carry the recommenda tion into effect was agreed to. The residue of the mo ney advanced by the Shareholders was ordered to be distributed, and about 21.55. each share was promised. The law of libel wants radical alteration. No plain.' tiff should be allowed to bring an action who evaded, justification. This would be one decided impro vemen t.! —The other is, not to allow costs when the verdict is under 101. This would strike at the root of the grow ing evil of paltry actions being brought at the instance of needy pettifoggers, who care not whether their cheat be right or wrong—whether he be rendered triumphant by high, or stigmatized by low damages, since they are sure to have their expinses paid, whatever be the result. CUARLIS BUONAPART2 (nephew of the late Empe ror Napoleon, and eldest son of Lucien Buonaparte) recently arrived in this country from New York, pre sented himself before the proper authorities on Friday last, for the purpose of conforming with the regulations of the Alien Act. On calling at the office, he deliver ed his card to the person in attendance—Charles Buo naparte, Prince of Monsignano, Holding's Hotel, Da ver Street. He is a very interesting and gentlemanly young man, 23 years of age, dark hair, dark and pene truing eyes, with a very fine intelligent countenance, stout in person, in stature about five feet seven inches, elan elegant and easy deportment, and without the least tincture of affectation; is perfectly affable and communicative in conversation. He is perfect master of the English language, which he speaks fluently, and ap. pears to give it the preference, as when addressed in any other, be answered in English ; this, however, he might have deemed (on the occasion) a point of etiquette. He was dressed in a blue frock coat. fancy vest, dark trousers, and boots, and unattended. He is stouter than his uncle Napoleon was in the early part of his life, and taller, but his countenance bears a very marked resemb lance to the portraits of the Ex-Emperor when about 40 years of age, a handsome likeness, but a very striking due. There are certain questions necessary to be an swered by foreigners arriving in this country, amongst other., whether the party has been in England before ? On this question being put to the Prince, he answered he had, but as a prisoner, at least such was the impres sion on his mind. This. however, was not the case, his father Lucien Buonaparte, requested and obtained per. mission of the British Government to take up his abode in England, which he did in 1810, and with his family, resided here for some time, (luting the very zenith of his brother Napoleon's power. After the Prince's re questing, and being presented with, the addrets of the Netherlands, Austrian, Bavarian, and Sardinian Am bassadors, he signed the books at the office, expressing his intention of quitting England for Ostend, via Dover, on his way to Italy, where he is going to j in his family. The following is the description taken in his declaration at the Alien Office ;-4 , Native of Rome, aged 23, complexion dark, hair dark, eyes dark, height five feet seven and a half inches, nose Grecian; known to Messrs. Cropper and Benson, Liverpool. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. A young Gentleman came to the Office yesterday afternoon, sad presented a letter to Sir Rammer BOWIE, from the Earl of Kensing ton, dated from his Lordship's seat in Norfolk, requesting she as sistance of the Police, in the detection of a desperate gang of poach ers, who had assembled to the number of no less than thirty-Bee, and not ado dimmed a great quantity of game, but bad committed desperate astteage apse the Noble Earl's keepers,and other servants. The young Gen stated, that the poachers in the neighbour. hood of Lard Keaskstell had become alarmingly numerous, and went about so wen armed, sad in such strong parties, that it was a service of no small dar il lor the keepers, even with the aid o f auxiliaties, to attack Oa the occasion in question, the poachers were thirty-five in number, and all armed with guns; and the keepers, accompanied by a Mr. Evans and others, went in search of them. They met, and a conflict ensued, when Mr. Evans was shot in the side very severely, but not so as to en. danger his life. There can be little doubt that the man who seemed to be the leader of the poachers was killed, from this circumstance, that be was standing at the head of his gang when Lord Kensing ton's head keeper called upon them to surrender, and his only reply was—ti now give it them," and was presenting his piece ; but the keeper beffig too quick for him fired first, and the poacher fell. The parties were then at a very short distance from each other, and a stream of blood was traced to some distance the neat day. Re was of course taken away by his companions. The poachers were routed, and escaped in differe.e directions. Endeavours were subsequently made to trace them, but without success, and it was deemed expedient by his Lordship to request assistance from this Office. Sir R. anima said ko would send one of his most active Olken to the spot ; and limes John Smith was sent for, and received di. rections from Sir MICHASo to proceed without delay to Norfolk. Sir R. Bram took occasion to remark, that between the armed smugglers on the coast, and the poachers in -land, the country was in a lamentable state. A young man, named David Davies, late a letter-carrier in the "General Post Odice, has undergone two examinations at this Office, upon suspicion of having purloined a letter, containing a ten•noood and a five.pound note, the property of a Mr. Payne, a woollen draper, at Leicester. The defendant was first examined in pti vatr, on Friday last, and was again brought up yesterday. It app eared that, on the 2U of November last, Mr. Payne inclosed notes mentioned in a letter, addressed to Mr. Poole, in Bird Cage Walk, Commercial Road, London, and put it into the Post ice. The letter never reached Mr. Poole, and the notes were subsequently ascertained to have been changed at a Banker's, in London, on the day that the letter should have been delivered—namely, the 25d of November. The suspicion against the prisoner arose from the circumstance of his being, on that day, the letter-carrier of the district in which Mr. Poole's house is situated; and, front the declaration of the Sorter, that all the letters which arrived on that day at the General Post Office, for the prisoner's district, were handed to him. The prisoner denied any knouledge of the Bank Notes; and Mr. Harmer, ea his behalf, said he was willing to admit that there appeased some ground for suspicion, but he submitted that this was a ease is which the Magistrates would be fully justified in acting upon Mr. Peel's late Statute, and admitting the accused to bail. The Magistrates (Sir R. BUM and Mr. Hairs) coincided with Mr. Harmer's view of the matter, and the prisoner was ordered to Sod bail, himself in 401. and two sureties la 201. each, to appear at die thedeoa, or whenever called upon. The west end of the town appeared the whole of yes terday in a great bustle, from the movements of the military who are under orders to embark for Lisbon. The amount of revenue derived from Scamps on Re ceipts for the year 1825, and up to the sth of October, 1826, was 494,2881. Os. lid. LIVIIRPOOL, DEc.ll.—The Porter, from Lima, brings the value of about 300,000 dollars in specie and bullion; also Bolivar's old sword to be re-mounted. The Westminster play was last night repeated. Seve ral Ladies were present, as also were the Marquis of Lansdowne, Mr. Justice Park, and several barristers. His Majesty's ship Wellesley brought a remittance of diamonds from Rio Janeiro, for the interest and sinking fund of the Brazilian Loan, contracted in this country. The north side of St. Nicholas Church ; in Gui ldford, has been discovered to be in such a state of dilapida tion as to render it unsafe for the performance of Divine Service. The parishioners at present assemble morning and afternoon, alternately, in the Churches of the Holy Trinity and St. Mary, by the kind permission of the Rector. St. Nicholas Church is a very old structure, situate close to, and on a level with, the river Wey, so that it has been frequently flooded and useless during the winter season. Sunday se'anight, a wilier and a tailor, each with their respective spouses, presented themselves at the baptismal font in Grindleton Chapel. for the purpose of having their youngsters admitted to the rite of bap tism, this is the twenty-first time the dusty gentleman, who is in his seventy-second year, has presented himself with his spouse, for a SIMILAR purpose, and the twen tieth time of Mr. Snip am his spouse's appearance at the baptism] font.—/31eekbera Mail. MAILS —THIS DAY. ♦RR. DOB. 1 0 1 France 0 1 Hamburg 1 ' Doblin Watertuid ♦aa. DOE. I 0 0 •1 1 O 0 O 0 O 1 O 0 O 0 Guernsey and Jersey 0 11 Flaidets Lisbon 0 0 WWI Donathadee 0 0 Sweden Leeward Islands 0 0 i America Holland 0 0 I Buenos Ayres HI GH-WATBR at LONDON-BRIDGE TO MORROW: Mooing 47 minutes alter Atterooun 3 minutes after 3 • Lamm : Mold and Fitlitished by J. F. KEALT, at the STA& OWL", ivy. l, Piskstt-hace, Temple-Nan