Star. — London, England, 1831-09-12 00:00:00

P.' .ATILTIZr. THE EAST INDIA MAGAZINE. We earnestly direct attention to the first paper in this spirited periodical, entitled, " Indian and Colonial . Parliamentary Representation." We begin to suspect that it is too late to mend the Ether condition of our colonies; but " better late that: never." We would readily transfer the whole to our columns • but our limited space leads us to select another equally talented sum mers, on " the passing events in Europe." It nppe:irs to us to convey, in three score of lines, the Most correct idea of " things as they are" that we have perused of late. It is as follows: Since the discovery of a maritime passage to the Ariau hemisphere, the politica of the West have had a rwerful it.flaence on the happiness of the East; we are, therefore, jus:ified in casting a hasty glance at the moral chat,' now pervading the old world. The foreign polity of our owe, end o'' the Gallic Government, which should have been fore most in the race of frecOoto--in the struglie of iesprtism ag :ies. liberty—continues to excite the most unqualified surprise and indignation. France, while yet reeking under the intoxication of her dear-bought internal emancipation from slavery, hesitates—nay refwes, to intervene with pow ( rful Russia, against her almost curer-humanly heroic arta gi.ni,t ; 'he incited the priest-ridden, chained.clown. We mitate Italian, to rise against her haughty oppressor; and when the blood of her Borellis and M:rottla was Leinf , sa crificed cn the altar of justice and patriotism, France basely, infamously shrank from the contest she had provoked. Put she could retain an trmy in the Mores, to overawe the degenerate Greek—and contend on the brow of Mount Atlas, with the demi-barbarian of the desert. She could cowardly capture the whole fleet of a third or fourth rate European state, b. •nd down as it was in the shackles of .uper.tition and tyras..y ; and she could dare to march an army 14 50,000 men, in conjunction with England, Russia, Austria, and Prussia, against an impoverished and overawed Dutch Monarch! Awl Great Britain has joined her it. !his ignoble career, to interfere with t'.e weak, frighten the ti-Lid. and truckle to the mighty—and '• Proud o'er Ler conduct for ever be hurltd. The laughter—the triumph—the jeers of the World !" Spain still groans under the yoke of a Ferdinand—hut the convulsive throes that are now and then perceptible In her society, indicate an approaching earthquake. Miguel, immured with 3,000 pretorian guards in his Palace at Queluz, continues to lassie his unearthly edicts. crimsoning the Taus and the Douro with the blood of the eicscendants of Dila and De Hama. Austria pursues her t.eacherous course towards Poland. while Hungary threatens a com plete separation from the crud vindictive policy of Met. ternich, and hastens to relieve her immortal cempatrio on. the l'istula. Russia staggers under the combined ffect4 of cholera morbus, internal discontent, and repeated dis comfiture, from her pigmy antagonist. Italy lies bleed ing at the feet of her jesuitical rulers, awaiting the mo ment, when with Tenor-red strength she m'y invoke and cherish the spirit which made her " Capitol e. the dlistresa of Nations. P:ussia, like a tiger verily watches th: passing conflict, ready to spring on the leer opposing power. Bd. glum, after nearly twelve months turmoil c't ;nen z So vereign, whom she o' liged to swear to preservo L,r terri.o. ries, intact, and yet, when invaded Ly the Dutc:l, '•cr suL. jccts fied ignominiously from the Gad , when the Monarch had earned himself for their protection. Holland still lays claim to the possessions guaranteed to her by the 12th ar ticle of the 'tractile: Fiance on the cot nary, seeks the an nexatic n or Belgium an.l claims the Rhine as her natural ho•rdary ; and, in finc,"all the rower, of Europe, midmost) bating and distrustful of each other—are etch afraid to strike the first blow—too poor to stand upon the broad lassie of indeperdence, and too inef f icient to know that so Ion; as l'ohand and Italy remain un-emancipated, the peace of Eta pe i 4 uncertain, while a moderato portion of foreeisht would demonstrate, that it is only by securing the general tranq.tillity of the world, that the commercial embarrass. tort and taxation, now oppressing every nation, can be re moved, and the civilization of man advance in a ratio corres port' i:.g to the quickening rpirit of the age. count e 4% r 467 ' hr" . 01.114 w oc lute ..tik . • L rE R aa Vgl FRAMEWORK KNITTERS. Tie Ciril, Political, and Ailechaniad Hietery of the Fr am...work Knities rin Eusope and America, le. By CR Av Ewon HE Prsox. Nottingham, 1831. _ . This is the work of a journeyman lace-maker. It contains a great deal of interesting information. As in duty bound, we have read the book through with attention. The writer has collected a groat deal of information ! we confine ourselves to a few extracts, and the expression of our best hopes that tl:e persevering labour of the writer may meet with the reward of a ready and remunerating sale. As an historical fact, the following account of the in troduction of knit stockings in England desarves to be quoted : •• Knit stockings vere first introduced into England from Mantua, in Italy. William Rider, a clothier, rtho resided near London:bridle, being at the house of an Italian met cl ant, (a class then very '•ur:erous In London,) saw a pair of knit stockings, and had the ingenuity to make a pair ex actly like them, which be presented to Sir %Pillion Her bert, then Earl of Pembroke, who was one of the sixteen of the council of regency, appointed by Henry VIII. ilurinl the minority of Edward VI. The difficulty in fa shioning hose arose, ro doubt, from the shape of the foot, and the forming the heel, which though when seen dune, appears very simple, yet it is pro. bable afforded great impediments to the formation of a stocking. How and in what manner the sloth hose were made is not known; but it is very probable they were seen, and then formed by leg-boards to the size :rid shape required, by being shrunk from the cloth, in the operation of milling. This comfortable elastic wear (Rider's knit stockings) excited the attention of the English nobility and gentry, and they became eater to enjoy the luxury of hay. ing elastic stockings ; as we find from Dr. Howell. that the silk• women of Elizabeth, in 156 t. had acquired such dexterity in the art, as to make them of such fineness, as to be enabled to knit them of black silk ; after which, says that historian, Elizabeth never more wore cloth hose:' p. 12.13. The difficulty in " fashioning the hose," hers referred to, was not fully overcome in two cen furies; and we were at last indebted for the per fection of tl:e art to the personal vanity of a stocking -master, of the name of Villiers, a de scendant. as our author believes, of the Duke of Buckingham : " He was remarkahle for a handsome well-shaped leg, and generally wore silk stockings. Being a muter stocking. maker, and keeping a large shop of silk frames, in order that the stockings might fit his leg exactly. he paid great at tention to the fashiJii of the hose. from the frame ; the narrow. ings had been, previous to his time, all made by four courses, and, consequently, they looked as though the piece had been taken suddenly out ; Villiers directed his workmen to nar row them by degrees. • • • Pi eelcous to kis date, the hose bad the foot bottom set on the same width u the in. s tep, but as be had caused his boa to be well narrowed down in the small, to fit his fine-shaped leg, he invented the mode of setting the bottom of the foot wider than the instep, and then, after woi king about half an inch, narrow ing it gradually down to the width of the instep, which made it act as a gusset, and gave room across the heel and instep. He also directed his stockings to be mad. at ihe knee with natrowings and widening., called first narrow ing*; and had the heels and feet perfectly rounded by bind ings in, i. e. a narrowing reduces the width only one needle at a time, binding three needles in silk stockings. The result was, that the English silk and cotton stockings be. came decidedly snperior in shape to thole of any other county, and they still retain their superiority, which, in fine silk stockings, always secures for them a superior mar ket, and has caused them always to be preferred to French, Spanish, et Itallan."—P. 212. The traditional history of the invention of the stocking-frame, has a romance about it that makes it interesting: " The iimarion of the knitting machine, (since bettcr knorn 1 y the name of die etockin_ frame, an the reel:men is framecork-kbit.ers ) owed its origin, as is universally agre-4'. to a sin mbar circumstance, the ilisappointed love ,he inventor, the Rev. Wtn. Lee, curate of Calverton in the county ef hhetin:.!ian4. This :;ebtlernan, it is said, paid his addresses to a yuntig woman in his reiglihunrhood, to whom, from some cause, 1 is attentions were not ageeshle nr, as with more probability ii. Las been co jeettwel, shc affects' to treat 141 m whit negli!, Ince, to ascertain I er river over his affections. Whencv.r ne raid his visits, she always took ,:are to be busily employed in knitting, and would pay no attention to his addresses; this conduct %he pursued to such a beret extent, and fur so long a pe riod, that the lover became dis,;usted, end he vowed to devote his (mum leisure, instead of dancing attend ance on a capriclons woman, who treatetl hie attention with cold neglect, in devising an invention that should effeetnally aspersed,: her favourite employment of knitting. So sale lets ras Mr. Lee in :.is occupation, that be neglected every thir.g to accomplials this new object of his attentions, even 'lsis sacerdotal duties vac neglected. In vain did his sweet heart et.deavour to reclaim him ; she foued, too las, that she bad carried her humour too far ; all interests, all avoca tions, all erections were absurbcd in his new pirsult, frau which be inrylined he should realise an immense fortune.— His curacy %MS despised, and at length abandoned, u he- Death the notice of a person who had formal its ids imagiro don such gigantic prospects. The old stocking makers, particularly those in London, were fond of dilating in their cups, and in their general conversrtion, on the difficulties he encountered." —p. 38-9. Lee et lzst succerAj. In producing a cumbrous machine. the :limitation of his own age, though the won of ours ; mid his next effurts were directed to reap the reward of his long leaours “ He removed his invention to London, for the purpose of presenting it to the Queen, in the fond hope of receiving her congratulations, and those of her whole court. • • • Thuugh supiatted by the powerful intercession of Lord Hunsdun, and his son, Sir William Cary, equally a favourite whit Elizabeth, she refused to make either* grant of money, or secure him a monopoly or patent. Her answer is said to have been to the following purport bly lord, I have too much love to my poor people, who ob tain their bread by the employment of knitting, to give my money to forware an invention which will tend to their ruin, by depriving tium of employment, and thus make them beggars. Had Mr. Lee made a machine that would have made silk stockings, I should, I think, have been somewhat justified is granting him a patent for that mono poly, which: would have affected only a small number of my subjects, but to enjoy the delusive privilege of making stockings for the whole of my subjects, is too important to grant to any individual.' • • " Though disappointed he was not discouraged. Lord Hunsdoo, as well as hhi son Sir William Cary, was equally sanguine as to the making of silk stockings, and obtaining the patent, which they hoped to enjoy conjointly, and they determined to persevere. As s prelintinsty, it was agreed that Mr. Lee should learn Sir William (afterwards Lord. Hunsdon) ; and upon his requiring a guarantee for the .ecutity of his invention, Sir Wm. offered to become his apprentice, which was accepted. Thus the first stocking. maker's apprentice was a knight, and eldest son to a lord, who was of the blond royal." p. 43-6. Lee, however, received so little encouragement, that eventually, at the solicitation of Sully, then Ambassador in England, be removed to France : Flavin . ; established Ids frames, and commenced his ma nufactory, he went to Paris, where be was introduced by the Mike to his Sovereign, Henry the Great, who gave him a gracious reception. This benevolent 31onarch, who was then, and is now. the darling of the French nation, particularly of the working dunes, was meditating the bumbling of the ascendancy of the house of Austria, and was preparing fur the opening of a campaign the most brilliant that had taken place in that age, when the desperate amain, Francis Rn. vaillac, as he passed through the streets of Paris. during a momentary stop of hiscarriage, gut upon its wheels, and at two !•lows deprived Henry of life, and poor Wm, Lee, of all his brilliant expectations. He was then in Paris, expecting after the hurry of the departure of Henry, that his minister, Sully would have leisure to arrange with him the establish. ing of his manufacture upon an extended scale. Su dread ful a misfortune acted u a thunderbolt upon the uufurtu. nate ingenious man, and when, waiting upon Sully, he found that that great minister had resigned the whole of his ap. pointments into the hands of Mary Medici', the Queen Regent, and that he was preparing in disgust to retire to hie estate, leaving the government in the hands of Italians, his fortitude forsook him, and he gave way to the melancholy which had attacked him in London ; he thought himself the most unf.munate of men ; alone, unprotected, in a foreign country, after 22 years' struggles, he sickened at the thought, and sent for his brother James from Rouen, but before he ar rived the inventor of the stocking-frame died of a broken heart, in the midst of strangers. This happened in the year 1610.”—p. 61.2.—[A very minute and meritorious notice of the ingenious work of Mr. Henson appears in the Athe neum Saturday afternoon.] We regret to learn that at the Great Cold .harbour Farm, last week, a very manifest disinclination to assist In quenching it was shown by many of the agricultural labourers. The owner of the stock, it was said, had given dissatisfaction to the labouring population by having mowed his corn. It may be remembered that a thrashing °whim belonging to the same proprietor was broken a week or two seek since, and on Saturday sennight a man was committed to gaol for htc off e nc e . This continued state of warfare between employers and labourers is truly lament. able—lent Keruld. CRUELTY TO AwimAt.s.—The officers of the society against Cruelty, among several cues pro secuted by them last week, caused Charles Thomas to be find in costs, by Alderman Thorpe, for hav ing whipped a horse with great barbarity while It was overloaded : his defence was, that the poor animal was broken-winded, and therefore would not go without beating. We are only sorry that the worthy Alderman did not impose the full pe nalty allowed by the act. - .1... W''FvffErr 47 I PANORAMA OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. IVAKEPHILD JOVIZIVAL, &IA 11. WAKIITIALDrYaIterdAy filornin3, the on la Ismour of the corm:Woo of their Majestks, was formed at the bottom of Westgate, and prneeell . ed at ten o'clock op Westgate, through Silver-street, Woon-street, St. John's, down Nurtitgate, to the parish thumb, (where an eloquent armor was preached by the Rev. Thomas Kilby) in the fol- 1 lowin:t order :—An officer of the Yeomanry Cavalry on horseback, the Mator Bailiff, Mr. Joseph Howgate, or horseback, and to Clem :he highest degree of credit Is doe, not only for his superintendence of the iota:cotton i telt, ha also for his indefatigable exertions. makini the otliasinary arr.mgements ; firemen ; the band of the Yeomanry Ca valry, with such of the truly loyal numbers of the corps 171,0 resile in Wakefield, su.l rare not absent ;row terse; embers of " the society of the tom and sect ptu' =swat" .he town flag, std Land of musk; finmen ; Mr. Elie, Mr. flantlerlnnd, stn. arl Mr. Sunderland, jun. &platy consta bles—Mr. Gooney, the constable, did no; jolts the proces sion, for reasons better known to himself than ourselves ; then followed the Rev. Messrs. Thomas Rilhy, J. Tritoty man, T. Juhastone, J. D. Lorraine, IL Cope, LLD. and J. 1.1. Morris, ands few of the gentry and tradesmen, and other inhabitants of the town and villages at Etanley, and Alverthorpe. - I nALOYALTY AT HALITAT..--oi l T 110027, a requisi. don was presented to lir. Bernard Bartley, one of tl.e con. stalls of Halifax, to appoint I* public meeting, to .;. I .e into consideration the best means of celebrating the cororation.l The coustsl,L .111pliscl pith the request, but added, is N. individual rpluloo Is, shit i is ,ruw ft, tats to give du: feet to :be object you bare in view.. I must beg leave to star the, it is not uty in/as/hes to attend .he said weeny." A correspoodent informs u', and he is borne out In his a:- settion by thz Leeds paper of yestenloy, the, no one attend. ed the meeting ; the etertT, retry. bunkers, taerchatde, and principal featelfaeferers, al! stood dog,: Biycrat tad.w..en ' however, ~rend, to did: credit, subscribed arm-. of money for site purpose of giving about 150 old people. above slaty, a „out; substantial dinner at the Uinta. in honour of the day. %That pitiful thine it I. to -en .11:1 " clergy, gentry, bankers, merchaits, nod priecipal mato fungal'," as in :his in:lance. setting a' clavicle 0 ; 114 k/- city to the rising seneraihm ! An.i t: *re ar , tie men woo complain of the outbreakings of the lower or.lers, tr-o glory in special coninticAuto. in th? SOUti.b 11 th^ and plum in el.e re' ,4 perforn.ed " 1711;1 We the bayonet, and the 'ti Abet." flail this been a day ... celebrate 1.10 Loroustion of any one Iva Om r re- I former, less t'lar a good hus. an:, less thin a Inter of his cottons end his sivci.s, what a muter of Inc piety of III: tow.. of Halifax there wonhl h-ve been ! a.. 1 would haw.: f.e: II bor. • in countenance by 'hose of " goodly heritre," holdes. to butte ! with heads as figh as if the world b:10u,, , ;..1 .0 them. Is s yeomanry e2rpe to le raised, to cu. mad slas'..nen's notes and wooten's breasts ? (es was the et,: Ir 1C19,) then thLre is no keeping al.iof of ,be pen; le of Mammon thy run hcltcr.!kclter, us, 1. ur notbln:T. file ;tour, however, will have their tuna uf good thin c m in the to come, it Is to be l'opal, of ve•lch the Re form B II is but the for:gunner. Homer; Rev.—Yew Hay, at Holinfirth, a pnweglon WA place l n ',amour of the occaslun, consisting of the prin cipal grulemen, tradesmen, ikc. on borscb••ck, wearing hlee met white favours, together with th: various lodges a •u whet socktin, with banners, music, &e. Pit Z. 11 Lank a lON OF LEND ;.—Ar. Maeauley, r.s we' last weel anticipa ed, has sonseoted to become a candidate with Mo. Mar.h .11, for the represeouati ar of Leeds. Mr. lianuley is ar advocate for TOTING IT aat.t.o•r. and as I such, if for no other reason, h: is worthy to be (*tied. fb: °nig objectimn thich could have been raised against Mr. Baines is the opposition which M.ght be expected at his hands .o the question of baUe. it. a reformed Par liament. The Leeds InZeili...enees says that " Mr. Sadl.r wU be called out under the au-pices of the hue party it due season." Mr. tladier is a humane man, andoubtadly. and has rendered himself deservedly popols. (as we ohs( reed last week) l•y Mi speetb en Monday week ; but the bon. gentleman must :alp^ a miyhty stride to orertoLe the carrels' opinions of Pie :majority of the voters of Leeds kftwe he aspires t•. toe their representaave. Mr. Sadie: is one of the best men of his patty ; yet be has a good deal of the old leaven remaining. The following requisition to Lord Morpeth, Is lying at ' the Journal-office, for the signet re* of Freeholders We. the rnderalgoed Clergy, Gentry, Freeholders, and others who will be entitled to votes in the West Riding of Yorkshire, under the provisions of the Re form Bill, deeply impressed with a sense of your Lord. ship's distinguished talents, intellectual attainments, and private virtues; your ready, active, and perse. vering seal in die discharge of your Parliamentary /furies, stool yoer tried attachment to .i.e free principles tot the British enn•.itution, which emibettly qualify you to advance the intereats and protect the rights and liberties of the community, do hereby req..est diet you till be please; to eauctio.l with your early approbation and accepumee, our wish to nominate and retina jean as ode of the Represcotta awes of the West ltitliug of the County of Yot!:, whenever u new Parliament shall be mammal's] under any law t.•hleh may give to the Freeholders of each Ridinj it this County the right of sent'ting separate Representatives to Parliament, and we pledge ourselves individually and colleedvely to gin you our support, and to use our best exertions to promote ►our return on that occasion, free from all expenses, except those to which the law may then render your Lordship liable as a candidate. enuacm Raronts...-It is conAdently asserted, that Earl Grey is con.ulting with the Episcopal &melt ' for the pur pose or curtailing th e immense revenges of some of the bishoprics. In future, the income of a bishop Is not to ex. tied 6,0001. a year; the sgsplus u his revenues is to p .o a fund in aid of .Ite building and repairing elterel.es and chapels. DEW/BURIN—The morning was ushered in with the ringing of the church bells, the shops were generally shut up, and divine service was akbrated at the parish church. A party, consisting of most of the principal inhabhants of the town s atlerwards partook of an excellent dinner at the Man and ;addle Inn. MIADFOUD.—The Sunday School Jubilee was celebrated in the town and vicinity to the dumber of 400 or 500, who walked Li procession to their carious chapels and schools, where they were regaled with suitable refre-haunt ; and in the afternoon, the teachers and friends of the hadtutit.a took tea In the large room hi Darley4treet. Hurrah. asrts.. ~u.—Tue day vr..s celebrated with some s:.liit, soda the mausgensenc of a Cominhtee. The bud sees commenced di the parish church, at balf-pari tenn when the cathedral service was perfo.med and the coronation an. them sung by a full choir ; on which occasion a sermon was preached by the Bev. J. C. F. sake, A.M. Vicar. After the service a procesgon was formed in lt shucks. street, consisting of gentlemen on horseback, the conalable and his deputy, Inaglstrates, the vicar, clergy, church. wardens, erasers, gentlemen four abreast, carriages, spe cial constables mounted, all the various trades with their insignia, &e. Benesz.ev.--A dinner for two thousand workmen, on the Market Hal, ten and sugar for dire. thousand women. and buns and sweetened ale for one thousand seven hunched and fifty Sunday school children, were given yaterJay by subscription of .he inhabitant of Barnsley. Vortra—Vt sterday, all the children or the Churet and Wesleyan Sunday schools had s Coronatiun Medal given 1., them, ant , in t'..e afternoon they walked in proces.loa thrork•l -the principal streets of the city; after which they pans k refreshments. After the procession, a large party of .he Meade of the schools partook of tea, to the Wsaley-plaer school-room. There was aka a public dinner at Hui ge's Hotel, and a splendid ball in .he evening. The Lord Mayor and must of the Aldermen being absent from York, pre vented anything being done by the Corporation ass public body on this occasion. CHARGS op RATE.—At the Bury Petty Sessions, on Saturday, before Major Wadkin and William Grant, Beg Joseph Longworth, a laLuurer on the Bolton canal bank, was charged with committing a rape upon Susannah Booth, a reepectahle looking woman residing at Prestolee, near Rad 'el ffe. It app e ared t h at on M on d ay week the Prisoner had been at Bury, which place he left, in a state of intoxication, about eight o'clock is the evening, to proceed to his own house, near Radcliffe. He overtook the complainant on the banks of .he Bolton canal, near to Radcliffe, and lie in. stantly seized her and forced her over the hedge. Here site straggled until her strength was exhausted, when the pd. goner effected Ms Wee purposes. A fever Is prevalent in the neighboorhood of Lbeoln, which, in effect le very alarming. At Brewton, Norton, and Dunstan, several persons have dßtl two days after the first symptoms appeared.—Sfusford New. DI RD—At Leathley, 07, William Mildierp, Req.-70, Mr. Pewson, of Parsley, rnerchant-28, Mary, the eldest daughter of Mr. T. Sutcliffe, of Woodhouse, near Halifax. FELIX PARLEY'S BRISTOL JOURNAL, &pl. 10. Alallll,D AT Baru.--Lord Sidutouth, Hon. It. Browne, Sir H. steaebey ; Cols. Sherwood, Christie • Capt. and !dn. pal, Porta, Newport ; Caput. Caner, Dunn, Gregory, Wfison. Coe ; Coffin, Stevenson and family, H a y nes Lieut. and Mrs. !Lydon; Rev. Messrs. li. Browne, Eng. Bah, Lee, Ireland, loyers, Oliver; Drs. Gardiner, Wll. linos; Mr. and Mrs. Ogibane, Cousins, Fletcher, Gerard, Goldsmid and family, Symes and family, Mask, Smith and ' family. Henry Selwyn, Esq. of Chr,reli-street, Bailiwick, and his wife, were among the passengers lost on board the Ilothsey Castle steamer on the night of the 17th ult. A destructive lire broke out on Sunday evening, the 28.5 ult. at the Down fano of Mr. Jesse Rumbold, ef Broad Chalk, near Salisbury. citieii destroyed 200 sacks of r heat. 800 quarters of oats, and 50 sacks of rye. Mr. littuibold had ft in contemplation in erect a thrashbvmachine un hi. premises; and this calamity is s• pposl .o have been tb. work of an incendiary. who took this diabolical inchod o. giving vent to his vindictive feeling.. tioDsuav Scouoz..—l" th. Court of Chancery, on Titan. day, kid anent was gIICD in the matter of Sudbury &'•ettl. Thn questio,. was, whether the Master's Report shonl,l el ghoul.: nut be cm timed, rppointint. the palmy of 11.: school mast_r to be 1001. :! veer. Originally, the mon - y-partnent vies ordszed to be 201. ay. 17 a decree of die COIIIIII3. stoners of Charitable Uses, 'wide in be ciao of Charles the Flirt. Tile landed property had, of am:, sit•ce that time, much increased it' vain; :mil It was rJcrrcd to th: Muster to ascertain in what equal 1 roportior .lie 201. money. payment ought to he inerem.ed. The n p.m was, that it ought nor/ ,o be Or. times the , amount. JAMIE 3 ESQ..—ii'S are Itappy . 'm someone dud a very splendid tribute hiss beets paid to the merits t f this eioint aishen writer, for ills able, consist, it, yr lung, continues' advocacy of the rigNs of the eamists, tit: in. habitants of the imbed of St. Elisabeth, Jamaica. L consists a magnificent and massive Epergne, die slew and btu. branches of blisted carkownahip, of ie most delleatJ and Tic Coronation festival at Bath, ou Thursday, was of the most iinon.in;etitneription, and at take.. th? illum;nutioo was Ac Proem Pons 4 to 6,000 persons were sop plied with bread and beef. - An accl.l:et et' a peculiarly eistreulrg character oars. red at Wen :men wenateerie, exhibiting ht d.: fair. ail Wednesday • ming. A man rho was cinploy..d in clam.' kg the ca,ge bt whk:s the liken W;.llac: Is confined, 1,11. 1 I.rtidenely patted him at the i:ead several times, which 0 • animal apparel to take in good part, and In moon I licked t: Ita.nl that carom' him. A: length .:.e dos 'adds' ly aweit it: men's in his tctb, aid In his ottensp,ing to widtalraw it, o.e flesh an) mucks was dre.:dfully lacerated; and ere ha could extricate i• the animal actually bit off and swallowed the unfortunate keeper's hand ! lI.FORD PATI' v SESSIONS. On Saturday a Petty Sessions via hoiden at the Angel Inn, Ilford, before the Rev. Hall Duve, u t:lialrm..n, and a full bench of Magistrates, principally for the purpose of renewing the licences of the different Licensed Vli.wallen In the district. The licences, with one single excel don, and without a %Ingle complaint against their holders, were renewed. Mr. Briet presented a petition to the bench, praying that he might be granted Deena tot a house and premises which he had fitted op t Word. Mr. Wiboi, the 121.dlottl of the lime and aown, pre. settled n petido •en I.thalf him..it .:d h I tu t rights . the houses at pres.nt Her sed In rill , e, ward I. .7.0 thig ate: fiat e? • •1i wl.kl. it was •ct ii•at .here were already twenty liceined public-lunacy, and twenty. %even h.er-shsys .. , e j arisl. ; Nor of r Welt lieei.4:4l ..uuscp, t'ire• b•a-ahops, ea; r lier wed n tail 1 rewcry. were &intact! in Cr:a. ; and that those afiladed amble ae. eour•italatioe .or the i..l..thitants. A second pcdtbon aainst the licence bele; grautcd wasl i,irsoned by J. T;...0.p50n, Esq. tiltich was 'Weal by al another t f the moss wealthy, isluential, and respectable in. halli ts of the vicio.ity, 0i . ,1 stated that the Hawed ho•uscs J; present doer. , were. quite snakient to affot,l the necessary accontutodatim , to the inlosbita,os no The Magistrate, Cr conoooltaic,o,r:-ased the in.. Plicalions am Cid thoy shop a seco..cl one ro:a a I. MOD name I.iufield, at IValthanistow ; and a third frout Ale. White. t'ot, teeper of • betr.sloop a. Barkin. Four proprietnis of . oeer.shops acre ruled in mitigated penalties, rot keeping ,h. it house- open beyor•J 'be peeper tint*, and connuittin i g other acts contrary to law. rd LICE REFORTN. MANSION HOUSE. raKIERVATION or UWE BY • RAFT.-00e of the principal officers connected with the T. tunes Naviyation, applied to the Lord Mayor on Satohlay fo• permi,simi (or two gentlemen, who have constructer' s • life-raft,' to make experiments in various parts of the lisaloes of the wonder ful properties of the mathine. He bad heard front several witnesses thet the efficiency of the presener had been proved he mains and tempests upon most dangerous and rocky shorts, in situations where a life-boat el any desairtion would have faded, or been incvl.ably dashed to pleas. Per. sons in vessels wrecked are by the Inveetiou enahled to form in a few minutes, out of statcriale always at ;sand in ectsels of every description. a speedy tell pcfecly safe means of reaching the adjoining 1.:10Ct. The lose of t: : 1 Rothsay Cook it seems has revived the maims of mecl.a uical genius, and innumerable projects have ball lately formal to prevent fatal occurrences of the kind. 'fly: raft. however, now proposed to be tried is ow: wide, was ziteeti. matted in the year 1830 on the met of Frazee cud Je.sty, and several have borne testionoey to tite mining success 1 of the experiments. Otte of the Monona* s atcd was, whm 1 one or Mc inventors bested himself, the wire' blowir., a 'tut. rinse, oo the raft, and, casting o(' t',.e towrope, abut. (*toned hbasell to the fury of the storm, by laic:* he was .:riveu towartls the t.angerous reeks of La Colac ; his stirs fatal saws his breast, and, reclining backwr ds, be seem. ed as much at ease, and in as rem ~ degree ro amity, as if he were reposing upon a sofa; while the raft colt inu - d to drive amongst the rocks, against the points ..f which it was dashed repeatedly, until at length ^ hew vdoos hr:aki r threw it upon the shore. At the close or this espertmet the proczaled to Harr. de Pas, and there let off s.veral rockets with a wed fastened to each. thu s shoals; a elm r i. and c mitt method of ennveying a Iles from the short to snuck I. J irtre-s. The LOUD Mason .all that at a period like he ;teem' it would be moss Uesiraille to have a life-preierva sue . es tbs. finalised. He considered it to be his duty to Tablet all the assistance he could upon an oecasin of the kind, .oad he had no doubt that the public would be s e ue 4 gradii, d. The rail is, it seems, to go dew,: the river incest Putnry Bridge, Biel, at a time when the water to ottoet Impetuous a. Old London Bridge, the inventors will la It dash against the abutments and upset, on beitog plor.l:ed with violence by the rusbiog water over tenon exteneed sans the •oil langerous of the arches. The publk will 'aavo an.oppor tunity of seeing the experiments for a week or r. tom . Igen out the Thames, after which th e rats will be tried 0.. me most rocky parts of the coast. A wan who said his name was Jobs Thowspeon was brought before the LORD Diavon. charged with Navin . ; tic hat tal Messrs. Fenn and Browne, tea seal es, Cleolotte. row, Maneion.lionse, in a manner which Los of Lite ikaane I, very common. Mr. Browne stated mat the primmn called ' at the shop, told 'oho that he transacted began% e'vr Mr. Aousmal, a resptc.o'de rat:seceder, en I telieited to ha al lowed to dispuee of Mei. hrime.: lists of prices to the ban advanta t e: fo. them by wrapping them up in the newsp e p ess sal by hi , employer, who gave lobo permission to use the. privilege. Ile stated Cud I.e woe Id cloatrifes. a do nand for Jiving that sort of advertieemeot to the articles fur sale.— Witness =sated to employ aim, an; gays him a thousand lists of prices, toge.hco with lis far his trouble, However, he caused inquiry to be rustle at Mr. Boustead's ham, where he Inroad that: the prisnotr was not known there, and that no person tau autitorised to wrap up lists in tee way described. On Wejnesday last the prisoner called a second time, and asked for setae lists, etatin. at the same moment ei.at be 'SJ done ids duty with the last thou. sand. The witness inno.:•liately caused him to be apprehended. —The LORD Mason Laid there was Dever a titne a. which it was more necessary for people to look sharply about them. Thera were swindlers bight and day at work in the City, : and regular plans roe concocted for committing frauds two 1 robberies. —Mr. Browne, the Marshal, said, there was a be lkf abroad, that the swindlers gave premiums to those who bit upon the most eligible new expedient foe densoding. Certain it was, that the shopkeepers were hourly exposed to the most ingenious Inansatitrell.—The prosecutors ex yrest unwillingness to prosecue unfortunate wife bur children of the prisoner apmkikto theist mare la a way that co u ld not b e sr said he sever bad committed as s i nce before, mere: distressed wadi** et his poor family eon him to the hated.—The Loan Illovot said be believed that the practice of de. heeding wad er swab circumstances was very general t but be was satisfied with giving a !grimed ea the c s t ei L tt occasion, as the prisoner bad been two days con. FERNICART. By Thomas ATKINIIOII. 8o beautiful this scene, I wonder not Here Love ascending up to Rapture grew, Till on its own empassloned wing of thought, Into a higher heaven than others knew, — Guided by light that seemed voschsafed to few-- Faith-borne it to the empyrean flew, And thence leaked back with pitying eye to earth Oh !if 'mere vain—yet 'twas of holy birth, The wish that waxed to Surety, firm and street , And is there one can look with ribald mirth Ou what to aught so gentle did belong As she—the meek one of this lowly song? If such there be—back to the city's glare Let him hie hence!—Hs cannot love Loch Gair ! Thomas Amn on . So beautifisl a goose—l do not wonder Its reset and rhapsody to cackle grew When tired of spouting In the lowlands yonder, And buoyed by vanity vouchsafed to few, It stretched it's neck, and to the Highlands flew. There, fur Castalian rills, mistaking mountaimdew, Got drunk, and tumbled headlong in Loch Gait ! Oh ! if 'twere sane! but we believe 'ti. rare For wit to wax to wisdom in a goose. But is there one, of longer beard, will dare In its untimely fate, to find excuse To let his tongue, in ribald mirth, run loose. If such there be—why kt him do[ the bonnet ! He is a lowland goose—and cannot write a sonnet? FUJFICARY. A gentleman mistook a lady's arm for her waist, and lu dancing a ...Alta, seised the former instead of the latter. '!be lady never forgave him for supposing that her waist mull possibly be as thick es her ann.— Atheneum. RAIL-ROADS IN AMERICA:-.4 distance of about twelve ntile , and a half of the Mohawk and Hudson rail-road was to be opened last month, just twelve months after t h e eereninny of breaking the ground took place; and the whole w.ts expected to b: completed about the middle of October. Another is already projected. AMERICAN PREACH/MS.—This class of emi gra..ts has bemuse so numerous of late in Canada, that a petition has been presented to the legislature, praying for some enactment to prevent them front exercising their call ing among their neighbours on ;he Irf s ba n k o f t h e St. Lawrence. CHANGE OF VALUE IN PHOPERTY.—ThO Indian King Tavern, in intila.lelphia, with some pound adjoining, was lately soli fi.. forty.two thousand two bus. dyed dollars. A century no, according to an old deed, it WAS let on lease as a oven., i t a u annual rent of m em shillings Le Claw, which has fig some time advocated the doctrims of the St. Sittionists, awl become the organ of the new sect, lots at lettgfit been obliged to suspend its pub lication from a want of funds. VFEDINAND THE SEVENTH.—EarIy in the year 11126, his most Catholic Majesty. after claiming cer tain bulls de difiatius, or of the 4:ad, for his father sad mother, and his first Iwo consorts, sought for two additional ones, in respect of wide.' he asked 1 courtier at his doors, whether he could divine for who.n they were intended? Tne party questioned professing himself in a loss to sue. wine, Ferdinand replied, " The one is for Vinous, my chaplain, who, tun may recollect, got his throat cut in prison • and the othet is for that pour devil Alegi), who was fool en ough to come and tie thy noose round his own neck.' Ex PHASIS.—The different meaning that may be gives to sentences by emptiest', is shown in Lord Edward Fitegerald'a apology to the Irish House of Commons. In $ moment of great excitement, Lord Edward said—" Sir, do think that the Lord Lieutenant and the majority of this House are the worst subjects the King his.• This was fol lowed by loud cries of " To the bar," and " Take down his weeds ;" and three hours were spent in ineffectual at. tempts to induce him to apologise. At last be is reported to have said, with some humour, " I am accused of having declared that I think the Lord Lieutenant atsd the majority of this House the worst subjects the King has :—I said so, 'Us hit, and lass sorry fur if." FRENCH AND RONAN EXHIBITIONs.arjn the Paris exhibition there were 2,000 paintings, in that at Rome not more than one hundred and seventeen. Yet the latter Is reported to have borne the palm of meth.— Atheneum. _ The Paris Exhibition of Works of Art is, in fu tare, to commence at the Louvre on the Ist of April, and continue to the end of May : the works to be sent in be. tween February Nth and March Ist. The Geological Society of France, which was instituted in 1830, has published a volume of Tranesedons among the papas of interest is one ' Oa the peculiar cha racter of the clay soil in the south of Franc., and chiefly of the declivities of the Pyrenees t and another' On the tertiary soil of On lido.' In camequenee of a great number of the members of the Society being foreigners, it has bear deter mined to hold oseasional sittings in other countries where these foreign mambas reside, with a view of associating the learned of the surrounding nations in advancing the edema and industry of France, as well as Its amoral and pa Bakal freedom. THE CHOLICIA.--Dr. CIIITOEHier (at the sit th.g of the Paris Academy on the 211th ult.) took occasion to remark, that the people of India, in treating the cholera, make use of oil, into which, when they have sufficiently hutted it, the y ihfusc the leaves and buds of the camphor. tree. He added, that there would be no difficulty in eon pounding a similar oil, by ttissulving twelve grains of cam. phor in every ounce of oil of olives. This compound is I believed to be equally efficacious with the celebrated Cajeput oil ; and it may be obtained at a meth less price. An immense block of freestone was last week detached by the workmen h. Craigleith Quarry, the dimen. rims of which were as follow : Length 44 feet, breadth 20 feet, thickness 6 feet, and will weigh about 400 tans I The block was split off by 172 wedges, and moved about two Jest from is bed. This is the largest stone ever cut in the quarry, except one for the National bloonment, whirls somewhat exceeded even these ample dimensions....Caledo• sass Mercury. _ _ A LOYAL BELL-RlNGlia..—.Application being elude to the bell-ringer of a chards not a hundred miles from the cupolc. of St. Paul's, to toll the funeral bell at the interment of a corpse, which the friends of the deceased Intruded should take place on Thursday, after a pause of mingled horror and astonlshnsent at the proposal, the bell ringer demanded if the applicant was aware of what was to be celebrated on that day. The applicant replied be did —the coronation. " Yes," replied the loyal bell:lager, "the coronation to be sure; and sooner than tope death. I ben oa that day, 1 tell you what, Sir, I'd miler myself to be hanged by the rope on it first. Why. Sir, my character would be ruined for 'veil—they'd call me—sounds they'd call me a boovnglexteapr !" Remonstrance was meless• and the funeral was put of until Friday, when the loyal bell-ringer olleisred, relieved from the apprthensio of being stigmatised as a boroughs/over. BIRTH. The 10th hist at liavanuaeit-terrace, Hampstead, IN lady of Miles H. Prase% Esq. of a daughter. MARRIED. The 10th inst. at St. Matthew's, Brixton, T. Jobling. 'Esq. of Beaufort.bulidings, Strand, to Miss Dards:Der, as Herne-11111--Thnreday last, at Bilney, & Home, Jun. Esq. son of S. Hoare, Eaq. of Hampstead, Middlesex, to Cabe. rine Edwards, ascend daughter of the Rev. R. Hankins" of Bilney.ledge, Norfolk—the Bth inst. at St. Mary Abbots. Kensing.on, J. Johnnie, Ewa of aide, in the Isle of Wight, to Emily, third surviving daughter of the late T. Fox, Esq. of Lewisham—the 10th inst. at St. Peter's, Wak worth, L. R. Peacock, Jun. of Walworth, to Helen. secsoJ daughter of the lees J. Bggall. Freq. of Quality.court, Char! cardimr—tbe Bth hiss. at Camberwell, W. Elden, Esq. oc Leadenhall-street. to Such Meanly, widow of the hae Williams, Esq. Grove Cottage Camberwe ll —the Bth hat , . at the Collegiate Church, Man chester, J. Bill, Esq. Jun. Farley Ralf Staffordshire, barrister - a:-law, to Miss Hum' phrys, of Half, Manchester. DIED. The 7th Inst. et Bideford, Devon, Meaner, younfe l dit . aoter tad the hue J. Grilltha, Esq.—the Bth Instaet. S C ift8114412 " 08 9 Clifton, Gloucestershire Martha. relic:. et W. Breda*, Esq.—the Bth inst. J. S argent, EN. of Law bitcsi liallani_aged 81—the Bth host. at Cherwy. Ilusionah, ef .gge White, surgeon, aged 25 - 11 k 9 ` h Inst. at aged Iknow, Martha, the wife of the Rev. d. Eno , EL LONDOK: Printed and Published by Jolla MaTxt,at trn &tab °mica, Pia 1, Pickett-place, Temple Bar• ,