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I I ~~'.. LONDON WO R KIRKS E t * ret rY: ;! jt sletlei knows on Monday that All *am:se Nadia L sa bad been opened for the shelter qr . - of thee, who had not the means of procuring a lodging, few presented therneelvee for edmissiou at • the Workhouftr. On Tuesday, however, placard., announciag that the Institutiors had commenced operations, were posted up in various parts of the metropolis, and in the evening seventy wretched individuals, principally labouring men, who were prevented from working during the continuance of the frost, were admitted. Atethe sitting of the House Committee, Mrs. Gould and Mr. Gould, unit Mr. Aston, were appointed to join the it:tersest committee. !Messrs. Bodkin and Hick, together With Mr. Campbell. the Chairman, and the Gen tlemen on the nightly rota fur attending to the ad mission of the liumitelmis, were appointed to be the managers of the internal regu'atious iti the house. It was resolved by the Committee, that a respect ful application should be made to the Lord Mayor, fur the assistance of the City Police in furtherance of the benevolent purposes of the institution. We ale informed that his Lordship has returned a fa vourable answer to the application, and has eiguitied till detention to make some in:Mediate arrange merits upon lire sultjeet. .• It was regretted that no stir bed heart yet male at the east on,' west r o ils or the town for the open ing of places of refuge fur the 'meatless, partici:- , laily so as the udvaidages which have barer derived front the lesiiiutiou in the City have been so great fuel permanent. Offers were made at the I lose of last winter of t eteiisive premises in St. Mariires. lane, and riutilar offers were made about the same time by the East India Company of extensive pre ' itt..es at the tile end of the town. These offers have not. however, been repeated this year; but it was hoped that when the necessity and advantage of such places brit% opened in the east and we-t rails of the town was made known, that the belie. veleta in these quarters would have come forward with equal alacrity this year. The Ladies of the Guardian and other provi. simnel protective societies, *tent a truder of their services as a Ladies' Committer, to superinteed the arroligentenn: of the female wards. The aseiritemer rendered by ilea Committee last winter was found to be of the highest importance, and the Improve. item which they effected, 105 women. and 45 children being placed under their charge. The great chasige iii the appearance and liehaviiiur of most of the women, their stivancemret hi chintiliness, and their diligent spplicution to em ployment, under the superintendence of the Lathes' Committee, were particuletly striking and impres rive. Matey wretched females were reclaimed trout the streets, sod situations provided fur them in te rmer:table families; aid it is particularly saii.fec tory to state, that the conduct ,of those iedividuals in their new situations haw been quite unexception able, and that several applications have been made this yew' to some of the Committee for hooseless servants. A s there hied yet been no (entries serionigat those who hoer already entered the a.yloni, the Committee did not thu: the formation of a Ladies' Committee et present necessury. The individuals who have •Iready been admitted into the asylum have uudergone the most rigid ex emieation as to that settlements. as it is the deter . initiation of the Committee that all parishes shall be made to keep their respective poor. Some regula tions, we ate informed, ore intended to be adopted with respect to the poor who are kept by the Men elicit). Society. a 'mintier of whom. with Nlentlicity tit kris, hair taken advantage of the asylum, and steep thereat night, mid are kept by the Mendicity Society during the day. Two Members of the Committee, Mr. Gould and Mr. Aston. perambulated the City pa Tuesday slight, and visited the shambles of Newgine, Leaden , Mail, and Fleet-markets, which are the general retort of the wretched in the metropolis during inelement temouvi and have our that account been denominated . " City [hotels," which from having coustainly swarmed with beings• of every age, sex, aid character of poverty and crime, were found slow almost totally deserted. The alcoves of London-bridge were alto limed with out tenants. 'lime numerous gangs of wretched girls who formerly infested Bishopagate-street, and who, alter selling matches in the streets during the day, made their pillows of the stones in the might, were nut to be found. 'flee several headborneighs, might constables, trod others, with whom the Gen tlemen of the Committee conversed upon the *object. asciiheel this great improvement in the state of the streets at night to the extraordinary exertions of the Members of the Institution last year in clearing the streets of all wanderers, and by the discipline which they reacted, and by the t fficieut relief which they afforded to those who lied been taken ie, hid forced great num bers, who had long led a life of wretchedness in the streets, lido active awl useful socieit: The Gen t lemen of the Committee were particularly struck at the absence of all seafaring men, not one of whom could t i ny find, from the street.: 440 sailor,. who had been begging in the public ways last year in the moat deplorable condition, arid from Walt of prober clothing were unable to obtain ships until they were fitted out by the Institution, but for whom they must have continued to drag oil a useless mid wretched existence iu the streets. Yet, as liar al ready been stated, the average amount of the re lief afforded to 1,376 individuals, who had licen taken from the streets, did not amount to more than Mee shillings to each individual. Another cause which has operated to improve the condition of the streets of the City at bight, is the increased vigilance of the Police and otner brunches of the cuirmiumiy, which has been occasioned by the public attention having been directed to the subject by the Press. The parish officers are now more alert in ewe henditig street wanderers than before, when in per firming their duty with activity, , they were often chid for their ufficioustiess. It has been found in some instances, that the affording lodging ist houses indiscrimiustely to all perm's, hiss been productive of mischief. and at many places they bare been shut altogether to the Imo:Atm. 'Die benefits of a general refuge far the houseless are sirongly illustrined in • case which occurred out on day. night, near Loudon Bridge. A poor man. who hail been driven to town from the country its search of employ, had been wandering about the sireet, and towards dusk applied for shelter and relief at the 'watch-house, statiug, that unless it were afford- ed to him, he must ,perish of hunger or cold. A deaf tar was turned to the sepplications of the un fortunate mon, who declared, that unless he Gb wined a lodging that night, he must perish in the streets; to prevrnt which he went and stole a piece of beef from a shop iu Crooked-lane, and by that meaner the Gentlemen of the Committee, to whom the circumstances were stated, was informed the man obtained his object. FiFEMASONItY. 11144 a t .•.ze • fold Yesterday an/night being the sonireroary of Rt. Join the Evangelist, the brethren of the " Lodge of Economy," Nu. 111. accompanied by Sir Wm. de Carespigity, M.P. and Proviticlal Grand Master for the Coital, of Hants, walked in procession from St. John's Howse to St. Laorence's Church, Winchester, preceded by the Military Lodge in t►e 51st regiment of foot, and the bawd playing the tune of " The Ewer. d Apprentice;" obeli an excellent sermon, giving a M irf history 1.11 Masonry, pointing out its moral and spiritual duties, was preached by the Rev. J. Hopkins, Chaplain to ledge 111. Aficr which the procession returned in good order, amidst a great assemblage of spectators uf all ranks, to St. John's House, whet, Sir William do Orespiguy, P.G.M. gave a suitable and appropriate address to thy ancient craft. The installation of of for the ensuing year then took place: Mr. Wm. Early, High-street, was installed Worship. ful Master; Mr. J. Tomkius, 'motor, and Mr. J. Pierer, junior Warden. The Lodge then adjourned to their Lodge•room, at the Marquis of Granby Ina, and partook of an excellent dinner, provided by Brother W. Fo■ter, and the day coo t-lorded, afte► mocb conviviality, to the fall satisfaction of all the brethren. Yesterday Be'soright bring the festival of St. John the Evangelist, the Royal Gloucester Lodge of Freemasons met at their Lodge, Freemrsous'-hall, in East•strert, South ampton, to celebrate the day: the brethren sat down to dinner at five o'clock, Sir Wm. C. de Crespigny, Bart. 51.1'. Provincial Gram! Master for Hants, in the Chair. After the usual ceremony, the evening was spent with the characterisi ic harmony of this optima and honourable Society, and which was eun•iderably heightened by the well.knoww urbanity sit matinees mid truly masonic feelings of the distinguialied President. Sir William had previously been to Winchester, attended by his Secretary, Dr. Irving, to join in a masonic procession to church. The Provincial Grand Master, tin that occasion, wore the splendid insignia of his high office, sod was preceded by his banter. Yesterday seutright the Lodge of Union, No. 648, of Free and Ai:rcpt.-it Mesons, roinniemorated the festival of St. John, their tutele' Saint, at the Anchor and Hope Tavern, St. George's-square, Portsea—the Provincial Senior Grand Warden of Hants in the Chair. Upwards uf fifty brothers partook of an excellent dinner; after the cloth was cleared, Arm mobil, Domino was p►rformed, several ioacuoie song., doe's, catcher, and glees were rung, and Brother A. C. Fisher recital .in Ode on the nature and desigis of the craft. The greatest order and unanimity prevailed. • SPORTING EXTRAORDINARY. A match, which stands unprecedented in the annals or spoiling, wan decided in the High-street, Ilainmersmilh, shout three o'clock last Monday afternoon sailister Baker, living in the town, had belled a guinea with a neigh. hour iltat be and his mastiff would draw his bread barrow, with 20 quarierts loaves in it, a mile and a half, and do the ground in less time Shan any stage.corch that passed through the Nan (the baker to liner his choice), between one and three o'clock, provided the bursas Oki not break into a gallop. The baker ,tartest against the last coach (the Blue-eyed Maul), to the infinite •mititrment of several hundrrd specta tors, and sinprise of Jima', who was not in site secret, and who den-omitted not to be bratty what he called au cue and a dug, drove on furiously, but his borers invariably ,hrulta into a gallop, when he was requested to stop and canter, that being the terms of the agreement. He good-humouredly complied, hot the ground whirls hr so lust enabled the busker in get so far a head, that enackee could not overtake him, and he finally travelled the ground in a much shorter time, and won his wager. POACH ERN. - On Thursday night last, when James Johnson, game. keeper to Ottiwell Wood, Esq. was on duty, with assistants, its protecting the woods at Seurehy, he fell in with • des. perste gang of maned poachers.. After a severe contest, i■ which we are sorry to say both Johnson and his Iwother suffered extremely, they succeeded in securing three of them. They proved to be John G►thank anti his sun, and Robert Bean, all of this city. On the same day, they were committed to the Castle by the Rev. Mr. Read, to take their trials at the Assume for the double *Aimee of night poaching with arms, and the violent assault they committed *pun the gamekeeper and his assistants. We are happy to learn, that there is reason to believe the remainder of the gang. will nut escape detection —( York Ilerald.) CURIOUS OCCURRENCE. • A tradesmss of Plymouth having lately placed some opt tees in a cupboard, was surprised at Miaow, in the morning, • mouse caught by the tail, by the sudden collapsing of the shell. This incident, though curious, is not new. The oyster his the power of closing the two parts of its shell with con siderable Note, by means of a strung muscle •t the binge. This circumstance its stature! history may he illaelrated by • singular incident which happened about forty years since at Ashburton, at the house of Mrs. Aldridge, known by the name of the New lan. la an underground cellar a dish of Wembury oysters was laid, by way of coolness: at the time the tide flow., the oysters, it is well known, open their shells to admit the water and take their food. At this periml, • large oyster bad expanded its shell, and at the inotant Iwo mice searching for prey, pounced at mace upon the victim, and seised it with their teeth; the oyster, shrink. ing at the wound, collapsed with such force as to crush the morandes• to death. The oyster, with two mice dangling fruits its shell, was for • long lime exhibited as a curiosity. Carew, in his Meter, of Cornwall, tells of an oyster that closed It► shell an three mice. Au apposite instance is also t pigraiumatically recorded in the Greek Anthology. - - Tlll4 day the poisoners who stand committed on charges of felony will he removed from the revere' gaols iii the city of London and county of Middle sex to Newgate, preparatory to their taking their trials at the ensuing Sessions, at Justice H.ll in the Old Balky, which will commence 4111 Wednes day neat. The Sessions of the Peace for the county of Mid tlles..-it will commence at the Se.sions-house, Clerk envrell-green, on Mondry next, when the trials of traveirera 111111 others out on hail on matters of as sault, nuisance, and misdemeanors, will be pio ceriled nits At Norwich Merkel, en Saturday, ‘Vheat ad vanced Is. per cournti, but no alteration took place in the price of other groin.— The Cattle Market was nui 60 lull of stuck us usual, and great purl of the Scots were driven off unsold. The Sheep-pens were partly tilled ; prices rather lower. lin Tuesday uosinsg, about nine o'clock, as the Built coach (which leaves Piccadilly at sevei) was prucetiliiig 'dung the road to Slough, when at Coln brook the axle of the lure wheels broke, by which recitirtit teal outside passengers and four inside wrie more or less hint. The coachman was token tip to u stale of imensibility, and tine Gentleman inside had his face cut iu consequence of its bring forced through the window, but nut senoualy. Some met with bruises, and others were more trightened than hurt; but, among rhos whole, not u broken limb to4k ,„ ..,; Amirro not mem [from a Blackworar's Rdinburph 11401111.9.1 On my passing through the Harm, sw the ass• tumor of last year, I took occasion to pay a visit In the famous Professor Heidelbergus, in order to pre sent him with an account of the observations made in the late voyage to the Arctic regions. I found him mighty busily employed in his study. arrang ing a huge pile of papers, 'naps, and instruments, from which he seemed very unwilling to he disturb. ed. Pretty discoveries, indeed, mid the Doctor, for ate inhabitant of this globe; but had they possessed the advantage of a lunar view of these Continents, we should see a very different account of them. scarcely knew which way to look, at this observa tion, when the Doctor, perceiving ray confusion, desired me to listen t o him without scepticism, and he would communicate a portion of the wonders which he had seen in that delightful planet ; with a full relation of which he proposed shortly to favour the world. In Isis last aeronautic excursion he inadvertently set off with too much inflammable air, and was carried to a prodigious height, before he could possibly throw a single N ber of your Magazine out ; where, meeting with a vacuum. occasioned by the tail of air Aurora Borealis, and a pressure front the surronndisio element, the Doctor was whisked completely out of the atmosphere. Here he Witi taken in -the eddy of a furious vortert: and whirled with inconceivable swiftness in a spiral direction. towards the lunar regions. He laments extremely, that front the informal manner in which be was tost about, being sometimes him self uppermost, and onntraintes his balloon, he was precluded from making any observations in his fight ; hut he consoles himself by supposing that, as the moon was then at the full, these amino were proceeding outwards to form some ilea, planet, which lie will have the satisfaction to give the first notice of. Here 1 requested to know how he came to sustain respiration in such dreary parts, which we are taught to believe are quite a void. Heidelberg said that, PO far from there being a void outside our atmosphere, he was almost clinked with the pressure mid commo tion of the circutuar»bient eletuent ; but he begged me not to interrupt his relation ally more, where the accidents seemed to me unaccourituble, -as he would explain them in such a manner, in his pub lication, as should satisfy scepticism itself. liVheir lie hod arrived at that point, where the attractions of the moon and of our orb balance each other, his balloon was a considerable time in doubt what course to purser ; and would certainly have remained there in jeopardy to all eternity, had not • lucky impulse Irons one of the beforesmcntioueil inclined it some fractions of an 'rich (the exact quantity he intesic!, computing) towards the forr.ser of these globes. It now assumed a rapid inure ment onwards, when the Doctor suddenly experi:s owed a violent cuncussints on the head, which feu dered him senseless. This was no other than a shower of meteoric statues, that was proceeding on a visit to our earth, and was attracted by a sympathy • or particles, to that uncivitinvasion of the Doctor's person. When Heidelberg recovered, he found himself landed near a large pit, that appears from our globe like a dimple 011 the ninon'. chin ; and his balloon, at a little distance, entangled amongst the bushes. Nothing could he more enchantiog than the 10110 rounding scenery. Rows of poplar. and of elms here presented u grateful shelter from the solar brains, and there the majestic oak and cedar a secure refuge to the eagle and the vulture. Fields of waving cunt and of smiling meadows occupied the plains. bounded by groves of evergreens, where the birds, its ceaseless carols, filled the air with their melody; Here and there, too, on the plain, wits seen a flock of sheep, and several grotesque figures. that looked like the Sylvan deities of the planet. 'fliere wanted only the meonderings of souse rivulet, or the plashing of a waterfall, to constitute ; the place rosnantic ground. Without in the least minding this charmitsg prospect, Heidelberg had no sooner shook his limbs, and found theta not materially bruised. than he set himself to measure a degree of the me ridian with the almost alacrity. Fur this purpose lie seized the branch of a tree, and was proceeding to the measurement of a base line, when he recol lected that lie must have some standard length to measure with. Why, take a foot to be sine, thought lie—But how much is a foot ?—Twelse inches, certainly.—And how much is an inch ? The twelfth part of a foot. With that ready inge nuity which adapts itself to every emergency. the Doctor took up a large round stone. and, draw ing several threads out of his handkerchief, which lie fastened to each other, and round the stone, lit suspeuded the apparatus to the branch of** tree, which projected laterally. Then looking around. and making an allowurece for time buoyancy rod temperature of the atmosphere, as well as lOr the attraction of a ruurniteio, which lie observed peep ing above the horizon, he took out his watch:, and set his pesidulutn a swinging, to (hid what length would vibrate seconds at that latitude. After swinging it with great patience for two hoots, the thread gave way, owing to the Doctor's jerking it rather too suddenly ; but this he quickly replaced, and continued the experiment, computing the movements lost from the doctrine of chances ; as he considered that, in observations amuck delicacy, the 'ricketier they were repeated the better. Then shift jug his point of vibration for a centre of suspension, be set the other end of his pendulous iu motion. .to verify the experiment. After watching the i rbread,.sitaking about in the wind, for a time cor responding to the first, betook the means of all the «observation.; ; awl having now obtained !I deternie !wale measure, he took down the apparatus. But 'be was ugaiii at a stand for want of aomethitig to 'compute angles with. 'While is this perplexity lie perceived a atraisge figure, mounted upon an &Mind, somewhat resembling the fabled being .of a griffin, emerge Gout the woods, and ad •vaiscie swiftly towards bins, with a kind of move ment between boundusg and flying. Ile was above the size of a man, but resembled I • its other respects, except that lit. feet were part )td. like a goat's. A single garment was passed mith numerous folds mound Iris body, and came spoil his shoulder in a knot, that added a dignity 'to his bertign aspect and silvery lucks. The only %Splice that Heidelberg' took of this grotesque ap- .~_~ pnrition, was that of making him a lip .oat What he wanted. . The Lunarian pulled out a small theodolite, which he offered to our philosopher, who intone- dilater) , flung the instrument, with all his might, into the moon's dimple, and naked him, in a passion, if he dill not know that the three angles of it triangle had been discovered to be greater ilum two right angles? The Lunarian, sending, asked him its Latin, whether, since the moon was 111 motion through absolute space. at the same rate, and in precisely the contrary direction to that in which he had projected the itistrisinent, it could be positively stud to have moved or not ? Certainly, amid the I)octor, it has never stirred, but the moon rail swum it ; likewise, he observed, the gravity of the madamc is iticre.l-eel, since it has approached the eetitre of the planet. ‘l' e ll then, returned the Lunarian, whose neerie was Zoloc, since my theodolite his not stirred from this, I will thank you to hand it me, as it wits the best I had. But come. added lie, do soot troiae yourself any further shout this matter, for we have already aacertmined the exact drove of curvature to every point, not only on our planet, hut too yowl' alm, even to the ten atillioneth part of an itch. If you will mount behind we I will take you to ms obaervatnry„ anti also chew you a few odic:. things worthy of your notice. They secorilingly journeyed onward.; and in the way the Doctor ontimie.l mooch curious information : but it is much to he regretted that his intelligence is very scanty, except in what relater to his favourite pursuits. Zutoc had heard nothing either of th i s knight Acolyte's. or of Father litrelitr; but the three ancient philosophers who were tratisnorted to the Limier liegions to examine their tooeural productions, lbewi . who .„*qiceittlereil their time in sioging and dancitig, left belund them some Latta inamiscripts, which easbled the learned men to acquire fitat . language. The inhabitailia are divided into two classew; the Satyrs or learn ed men, and (he Shepherds ; and they reside almost wholly upon `lilts side "of the moon ; 'the other being Cousidared. from the absence of the Earth's light, us' a kind of purgatory. They do not ex ceed nine or teeilhousand altogether; but they live to a . eery lodes:iced age, souselients five hundred yens. The sh'enlierels live in the most charming slate of primeval iimplecity, tending their flocks ? end dancing to the melody of lutes and Puri pipes. 'Alrricot all the philosophers have oh. tones and apparatus of their own, which they Were brought to midi perfectiou as to hive made the moat • surprising discoverie s . Their teleicopes' bring • the tight within .a very few Miles Of . the terrestrial globe, so that they easily di/Jingoish our towns and rivers, fleets and arrieiek. Heidelberg has procured the moat accurate male of she regions Wallin our pular circles, together with tables of the curvature of the earth, to the hundredth Part of an inch ; front which there appears to .be a difference Of some inches between oar two hemispheres, that will occa sion is alteration of our geological systems. But thew most profound discovery - 4'l6M of Perpetual motidn; *hich - they ' have applied. to almost every subject ; . and which has enabled them to erect woo ka i , n a very short space of time, which it would Co a s ages to Girls. By this they have construct ed time-keepers, which will shear the longitude to 'the thousandth pert :of • second, for such as have occasion to 'Wit the treater side of the Lunar Sphere, where they have not the advantage of ob serving.this great dial of the earth. As our travelle.s were parsing a pool of water, the first which Heidelberg had seen in the moon, he was isteuished to observe it boiling and bubbling tip, u if it had beets in a cauldron. Zuloc ac quainted him that this was occassontel by the ex time livity of the Lunar atmosphere ; amid were it not for the pneuMatic apparatus for condensing fluids, which the philosophers have placed over certain wells, and wield, are kept convtuntly going, by their admirable invelitioo of perpetual motion, all the waters of the omen would sows eva porate. Blot the philosophers themselves will sel dom be at the trouble of resorting to these wells; for, by the mixture of several kinds of air in • gloss, and the mere . compression of it fillip, they can °kiln ai much water PS they please. Indeed, - this is one of the means they have in eontensplatieen for replenishing. the octets, which, iii the iufsucy of the moon, wus very con siderable, but which has gradually vanished from the preceding cause. To illustrate this great tendency of the air to ignition, our Lo itering' gently struck one of the trees with his - cudgel, sod immediately the whole forest sus in flames. Zuloc has computed the Lunar atm.- Sphere to be *even furlongs, two metres, and one inch, in height ; its weight, one million and six - ton% three entice', and teen grains, troy ; and that it would fill a globe, of the deusity of our earth, of one mile, nine inches, mod three teutha, in dia meter. Throe results Heidelberg has tendered ac cording to the English inellienl of computation ; us all measures sod weights, o 'periods sod quantities whatever, whether natural or attilicial, are aunt soled into decimal parts, for the cotiveuteoce of Md iliemmticians.—This conveoittion brought them to the uh-ervatory of Zeilirci which is situated in the prioctpal town, near the left earner of the moon's mouth. It consisted ' i m mp immense concave of I entire glass, with nit u. doors noel sky t loghts, which could be iTspied or closed at pleasure. by mechanical . iiiepeeiteages. The first objects that struck Heidelberg were a outaber of prodi gious prisms, suspended to the ceiling. These oere for separating aid conducting the rays of the soli into dilferent places. Zuloc placed the Doctor beneath one of them. and dect l ed the several rays of light into ditierreit bottles, an that Heidel berg was left perfectly in the dark, innwitli standing that the sun •ppeered to be al' ' g fall upon him: but he still eitperidoced the tune. ence of its heat. Our LUlldriell now attracted away the beating Isain, and Heidelberg was obliged speedily to decamp. or he would soon I Lave been frozen to death. The first of these pile emineue is employed for producing artificial night, *lieu the oestionomers wish to sleep; since the natural night, and days are too long fur the coma mon purposes of life ; and the.mcond is made use of in the torture of crimilials. This experi ment convinced Heidelberg of the finitustic , existence of colours ; and he row thinks that the diepote cooeenaiug the refute of sub . stances is for ever laid at rest. 7.- I * 7 : Jai Jrll4/1 Y. - 7' v=l: moilliiiatitieh was Wooed by Noma in the winter milatier, wpOldhe•icil to Janus by the Rumaus. Tlataegla i l , cods of this mouth, like the first days of the Mber wire loader else itrotectitua of Juno, the first of January was more particularly soder the care of Janus, to whom, nit New Year's day, was o f f ered a cake called Janus', nail likewise honey, figs, and dates, fruit. from the sweetness of whirls happy omens were drawn for the course of the year. The Jaimel was nide orates &wooer salt, incense, and wine. This day also, all th• artists sail artisans sketched nut their week, under the persuasion, that to procure a favour able ye3r, it was necessary to begin by labour. Ovid tells us that this was preseribeet by the gild Janus. This idea was "inch more rational than float of the early Claroduiso, w ho fasted to distinguish themselves from the - cause the letter legated themselves in the evening, i 3 .00‘r of J .lllll. Oa this day the Consuls Ore t (oubat Tinley to tl:c r.•,, Isle of Q F. N.•bilior •oil T. A. I.4eactia, in the year of 601) took p tarn-min.'s of their dignity. Tlo y •-cc,,!..1 !.. the Capitol, arettniunnied by a great cooed of n• opts, ii new cloth, ; and th►re, amidst perfume., th,or immortal( f to Jupiter Capitolinna two white hulls which bid n. Tyr b.s - , yoked. During this sacrifice, and afire haying taken tbe oat! t of fidelity, the neatens put up their prayers for the pros- Pcrity ... the empire, and the health of the Emperor. Tle same was dour by all the other Magistrates. Tacit.. tells us that it was imputed ■s a crime to Threats Ord be ha•t neglected in be relent alien she oath was taken and the pr ayes, offered for the Emperor. Ovid give' un •rcusol of the ceremooiet of this dry. On the same day the Romans swished each other a happy year, and took min nal care um to let fall any words of bad umets. Fritinle reciprocally made presorts, called 'teener, like our new yest'a gifts. Tha tither days of the month were thus characterieett and occupied The second era reckoned unlucky fur war, and was, therefore, called dies ales, an 'retort mutate, or black day. The third and fourth were comitial drat. The filth was a day fur. fitness''s causes. The loath was considered an unlucky. Os the at-remit, the coming of Isis! to Rome was celebrated. Tie. eighth was a day of assembly. The nin t h tiny held the festive' called Agonalia, in honour ofiaross, or a swat contend, of the god Agonies, whom the Romans ieaulted„ wises they nusle.tuek arty affair of importance. The tenth sae half • working and half a holiday. t)• the eleventh were the C•reseutaha, its honour of the Goddess Canasta, the mother of Evander. The dedication of the temple of Juturtia, in the Campos Manion, was alai, cele brated on this day. The twelfth was a day of assembly , ; and musellieets the festival of the Conspitalis was hytil on it. The thirteenth day, consterated 10 Jupiter, was marked le the calendar by these two letters, N. P. It'efastiss prime parte diet, to alp lry that the ft attest was tor , y is the moist. tog part. A .1(vell called eels idrfia .t* sacrificed to the so vereign of tl.t. gods. The fourteenth, like the tenth, wus partly • wos king and partly ■ holiday. The fiftecuil., the Carusentalia were • sceo•d bore solemn and; and wire therefore loran tl earwentalia secuuda. (ii the sanctions was the dedication of the an perh temple of COIMCOtti , which was first dedicated hey Camillus, nia which Irvin Drasilla decorated with several statues and • magnificent altar. From the !sixteenth to the first of February were essential days, or days of asoaernbly, with the exec pun of the arena (tenth, un which were given the palatine games ; the tangy. fourth, on a Ilith was held the feria semen:ins the twenty seventh, when as. celebrated eke dedication of the ample of Castor and Pollux, at the lake of Juno na ,• the tank), ninth, un which were given Ilse equine, ur hurarractria the Campus Marlins; and lastly, the ilairlinlx which was the festival of peace, uu which a %bile victim was sacrifired, and a profusion of incense burued. lu this mouth the sou niters Aspirins. IVAV4L INTIILLirik;NCE. HARWICH, JANUARY 2. Sailed the !And Duncan and Lord iNielinin whet. f or Cuxhaven, Alliance and Jane packets fur Goitenbarg—all with wails. esLitotrrw, nacelles* 31. Sailed the Miry, Wilson , 1.. r Bilime; Cegeste:lVebeter, fur Charente; and 'rbree Bruttvre,ll. Cur Lisbon. Lars-as-tory, JANUARY 2. The cow of the Saxony, Johnson, Las beru Kot past ur which is damaged; die vessel may yet Ist repsirtd. mown, INIRLDII, JANUARY I. . Ph. Verwagtiag, Miss!, from Guitenbarg (Jr Amster.. Afiriab bas piti in here with her cargu shifted, part of which lablatist 1158(133w. DEAL, JAiNVART 4. . . . . . . . Came down frum the River last night, and sailed, the On. iseetoed, Retaliation, fur Demeraua ; and Jon.., Lott, (or, Miami. Several brig. and coastei. (maul. s unitise* it) are pillegeng through the Due u• to the westeara. Of the cargo noted (rum the Duke of Cambridge VA Itbdo. of sloe, 1401 1111 hap of seed are in store at SAudwuch, and 79 hbds. mime slid warm bags of seed ale in stele here. CORN EXCHANGE, JANUARY 3. The navigation of 11w River being now completely slopped,all business 113 our Market is stopendeil, on sccuout of the impossibility of getting any turn worked from on shipboard, and consequently the prices of all Grain sue •ominal. COAL MARKET, havARY 3. Skip, at Market. Mips weld. Price. 40 Newcastle) li 3; Sunderland..." . i i Stone Coal .... PRICE OF invests YENYZIODAT. Bank Stock.. mil egsz I Er. BM*, 2... I pr. par 3 per Ct. Red. 701 70 I 1 die. 70k I Ditto Com 2 die. 31 per Cent 79k I Lottery I 'Ekes 211. 3, 4 pur Coati...—. 88 87/ I Rank for Acc.... 4431 Bunk L. Anu. 18 1-161 I Cons. for Ace.... 7 1 1 t India 800d5•.96 el pr., DEATHS. On the 17th of December last, at her residence is Lon don, in her 37th year, Mrs. Martha Anne Walford, the only surritriag daughter of Field Willett, Esq. banker, Brewkw, Suffolk. On Simile, last, at Bleb, after a short illness, in the 31.. r year of her age, the Honourable Agurta Yorke, b e ro•• • daughter and ru-heiress of Henry Johnson, of Great It hunistead, Eeq.; second wife and widow of the i. ,Chanrellor Charles Yorke (who was second sun of Pi., Sent Lori of lisidwicke); 3041 mother to the Right i ,Charles Ph.lip Yorke, Vice-Admiral Sir Joseph S. , ••• • Ywke, K.C.U. and to Caroline, late Countess of St. t.t, On the 25111 utt. at his apartments, No. 106, Fetter lane. Holborn, Mr. Vincent Swift, tit the Permit Ore, Exc. , aged 51 yrs', Sunday iiiglit, in the 84th year of his age t Henry Clark , Esq. many years an eminent stationer, in Gracechuri street. On Monday evening last, Mrs Pearson, of George.strei I. Hanover-square', wile of Dr. Pearson. aged 65. Oa Friday last, Mr. Juhu 1141.1101.1, sublreastirer Christ's Church, Oxfo,d. HIGH WATER THIS DAT AT LONDON BRIDGE. Morelia& 17 after 2. I Evenieg 44 after 2. 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