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TILE DISINTERMENT OF JAMES 11. PARIS. OVR COURV4PONDENT.I SrPT. 10. resareday the ertfAt of Park emptied themselves into Sr. GSOMAINs, nit ch was thronged at an early hour, for the purpfx.e of witnessing the august ceremony of retnovEne the royal retrains of James 11., King of England, it 11;cli were unexpectedly diaeoveml, • short time since, by the workmen employed in digging the foundotiuu of the new c hurch, which is building upon the site of the old edifier, which was found to be in so ruinous a state us to he utterly i ncapable of repair. The road was thrototil with carriagis of doseilptions and pediatrist's of all claws s. The erre inor.y, which was crierluetal with great solottnity, began with a procession of priests, in their saceedoial vestments, who, entering the chapel built fur the temporary put-pores of religiemi worship, 00 I spite:lowly adjoining the church, performed the service of Mau in a must impressive manner. The weetators, who were very num rink, seemed greatly a:f•cteil by the whole Irene, which we strikingly grand, replele with moral associations. TI.o entrance to the dm?! VOID hung with a canopy of black cloth, as was the ioteriur. The coffin, containing the royal remains, was read upon a stage In the shape of a magnificent ittausa teuto. hung Tontod with tesselated drapery of the deepest mourning. The who's 'was summit:dell with the royal diallim of gold, placed on a rich curl of crimson vitet ; over the whole of which was thrown a veil •if black crape, which softened, without ( 4 :welding, their splendor. To searilo the close of the service the remain; of the Royal Sovereign wen removed, in great awe, to the altar, be neath which the attondants proceeded to deposit it, with all those 110141 • 'es, so powerful in their effect, which dis tinguish the Catholic Church service. The whole el re snotty closed about two o'ilock. Ott a plain !flack tahlt it: the (nett of the altar, is the following inscription :- 1). 0. N. Jane i7EOIIOII IV. ]l4/0t• flritannia, rt 84:4 li Cu•nnte Eguitc • EXL cAnotm asTt• An's. lords Itreanniat Curets antra rite pi:tar:is - Et ( 1 110 deed homi l y in vtirproa man% !lie nuper efho.ai Rrcontlita stint Jscosi Quo in servo& civitatis tioidu dams tritintrisis In pain* infrlicior Post ratios Gamow cants In sperm naafis vita tritt beam rroarrectionin Hic quint. in Domino Arita 1111141•1. V. Mum Srlit•mbris. - - - - - Immediately node r the above tablet, and within the vita of the eedimunion table, is a plain lieu altar, with the tvilioring inscription: Vet Ilepoolllet. nor.Ka Ennt ki En any:dant Qu'ellta soient Owen Lac• en Atonement ploy ConsPnable,, (rand la Nouse Sera cnnskacle. When t!!e new eburch will be a condition to receive " cgs Li,"rmillet Ittsulet" in very doubtful, as it is tow Aty yrara I.itive it was li-gun, and it iii not yi t advanced beyond the cuttstrucliou of about hill a dosen pillars and a tide wall. HOUSEHOLD OF HENRY TIIE EIGHTH. The following extract from • curious old MS. contains game very singular directions for regulating the ht.us:hold of Henry the Eighth:— '' Ilia 'lights. "is baker shall not put alum in the bread, or mix rye, eaten, or Lan flour with the saute. and if detect ed he shall be lout in the stocks. ills Highness*" attend ants are not to steal any luck or keys, tables, forms, cup boards, or other furniture out of noblemen's or gentlemen's lmas.l whate they go to visit. liaster cooks Judi not em ploy such scullions as go about naked, or lie all night on the ground, Is Core the kitchen fire. No dap: to be kept in the court, but only • few spaniels for the ladies. I)inuers to heat ten. slippers at four. The otliceoa of his privy chamber shall be loving together, no grudging or grum bling, nor Milt iitg et Ike King's pastime. The Kin,. bat:heels (idol lto be cleanly, not to frequent The eom- ' ratty of IlliNgllll women, for lost of danger to the King's royal renonti. e e shall be to romping with liilatil on th, staireake, by • which ali*hes and other thin; a are often broken !! Care shall be tultno of the pewter spoons, and 'het tl:e wcoieu out% used iii the kitelnw he not broken or stolen. The rages shall not iuts•rrupt the kilArn mulch! The growing hall not steal lois Ilighness's straw for beds. tualcient Laing allow' il for them. Coal only to be allover(' to the King's, Queen's, and Lady ,Mary's chandlers. The brewers soc not to put any brimstone in the ale." Among th," fish( s fur the table, Is 111CUILOU4 al the porpoise ; if too b g for a horse-load, so extra allowance to pone; or. Twenty-four towns a-day alio wed for his Royal Iligliness's greyl minds. " Ordered,',Uhat all 'wide-men and grniientrn. at the end of the Sessions' of she l'arliament, de part to tht a soh nil coy xtirs, on pain of the royal tlispleasur..!!!" . . . POKTXMOVTII, SI.rT. lifa;Clfyil ship Jupiter, Kith Resr-Aeltniral W. T. Lake and family, arrived st Halifax on the 3d ult. Lavine had a good passage! cut, and 4 , 11 that l Ith the Mialwary sailed from Halifax, .with Hear- Patti?, the former Commander in thief, and anchored at Spitheail on Sunday. The Rcar...Ailtniral has since attack his gag. By the arrival of this chip we hart) that the Sairlannig. Captain Sir W. iViseman, Hart. are. tie: d at Halifax a few days hdcre the Jupiter, and that it was intended she should sail again in a few lays for St. Johei's. N. w Brunswick, with the Lie utenanteGovernor of that Provii.ce, Alajor-teeticial Sir • Ilowarti Lou, las, K.C.B. Th.! Mtnai bad sailed for the Gulf of st. Lawrence!, anti the Rifleman for Quebec, where she was to eti:lxek the Naval Sterekerper of Upper Cana...a (Mr. 1.1 w), who i:. alert hued to•the same situation at Jamaica, rid rotary him to 'ff.( island, wham! she was exp. etill to bring a freight. 1 - he Dotterel had lately sailed to re sume her stmt. a in the Bay of Fundy, where she is cm. nu . sing for the prevention of stnueglin;. The A- ca ha I &liked with the mail for 'Sunnite*. We understand tint the Crews of the Asps via etat station were p aurally 11:11 , h,. It is, said to he the intention of Hear-Ailmina tale to r. snail, at Halifax, until November, and then pre terit to It..rintol3. Th . ' Blossom, 28, has again been ccioniisaiored at .4 1 by Captain Ik. eh •y, who, it may tic reeol- 1 1e411, !a% Lieutenant of one of the Dimenvtry ships ou r:,lts! in the Northers' Expedition. It is reptated that 4 . ey 11..e..h .y will Ir e employed on a voyagu to etc 4 "" 111 IVe, but the horn:shale object of the undertaking has not yet tran s pir e d. Th e 'Miami' is now in dark, !::org.iiag a gener a l rep a ir, and it is intendsd she shall be . il, with a view to strem;thcli her. I 1.C11 . 0 . 1tE T Aelyrs. —Daring the past week several of belonging to the lloyal Yacht Club have or watas..—Many of tlit.s.! beautiful res in the advantages of the tut tt thihhed :des some xshich are peculiar to thon re all the acionitimilations of a house, still jimmy:alio:via of a haul neighhourhoo.l, e clungeil at pleasure ; they have not hut also the must varied presp: its ; they. in house duty and window tax pay twi n. rate ; are cr. mpt from government and 11h1 hays. not only a co mmand of wool nay truly he said to possess the most ex ult). Innate in England !—Sonetartry.ltr A.:AINST °Nell INCLINATIOX.—On Fri iut, in •Ite aft. 'moon, u die strain-packet, was Ding urn Itti::,hton, for the purism: I the ty which she bad taken tht re on Is& it tanner, his daughter, and a friend, the fill Slit lc with an excess Of paternal', g to explain the machinery, and stiewing tbu vessel, till the recycling minarets of ded lihn that the vend was all that time Portamontli. The situation of the fanner can he better imagitud than &scribed, inform, a that they must, for that eight, de in Portsmouth. It was surmised by gets that the farmer was either enk:aged ,ad taken his place in one of the Lmiclon THE ARM?: On Friday morning his Royal Highness reviewed the Royal Faisileers, which chiefly performed the evolutions applicable to light infantry, which were executed in the usual stile of excellence of that very distinguished corps, and called forth the encomiums of the Royal Duke and every military spectator. Soon after returning from the field of exercise, his Royal Highness had a Levee of the Officers of the Mili tary Corps and Departments at the t7onaroanalant's house (Col. Sir A. Christie). At three o'clock his Royal Iligh nes* returned to the Lines, anal reviewed the Queen's !locals, under the immediate commend of their Colonel, sir Henry Torrena (the Adjutant-Cameral), who put the Regiment through a great many inovements of his own new cyst. an, all of which were perrormed with admirable precision, and called forth the highest praise from his no, a! I I;plmesa ; after which the Fuzileers had the honour of the Royalike's mummy at an elegant dinner. On SAttiolay morning his Royal Highness inspected the Division of Royal Marines minutely On the Barrack Parade, when the Battalion marched past in Cow and quick time : after this. Goland Campbell had the honour Of rucAving his Royal with a numerous party of Ladits, and Officers of the Garrison and the Navy, to a nmst elegant f/jeoni: a in fmr,.' tfr, from whence the Royal Duke s:t out for Bushy Park, busing a party to dinner. The 72t1 (the Duke of Albany's Own Highlanders) Regiment, wh;eh seilirl from Plymouth on the lit inst., du hoard the Loyal Briton NM Joseph Green transports, for Leith, on its mote to Eilinburgh t'astle, put into SWLIds, by contrary winds, on the loth inst. GENERAL ELECTION. CONTINUATION.OF BIS HOYAI. 11161INESS TIIE ‘, e. !From the Datb Freeman's J.ournul.l DUKE OF CLARENCE'S VISIT TO CHATHAM. OUNTY ue TIrrERARY.—TIIC Candidat es are said to be the present Members, Bagwell and Prettie, and Messrs. After the review of the Brigade on Thursday, the 9th !Awl! and Trait. Lidwell is supported by the Glen instant, a trial eas made of the efficacy of the two different pill, and, we believe, by the Landaff interest. Ile is methods of pessiti7 guns, troops, &c. over a rapid stream, • besidts, extremely popular. by pon WOOS, Of in Hewitt ater Bridge, at half-ebb, as directed; Coy NTY cr Aft it so H.—Mr. Brownlow will certainly by Lieutenant-Colonel Palley, of the Royal Engineers, as have I;, stand a contest for this county. Lord Mandeville well as by Lieutenant-Colmiel Sir Jam, s Colleton. The will offer himself—his Lordship is a Liberal. It would ! jtidges were selected for their abilities and experience, but be curiotot to see this county returning two friends to !the result will not be known till the rt port is made public. !CAtisolic Emancipation. There is no danger of Mr. I The Duke of Clarence, attended by the pt indica officers of Caulfield. the Navy on the spot, and of the Rivet 3in this garrisond COUNTY or CLART.—there will be a contest in this minutely examined the constructlon of Loth methods. In county. Sir Edward O'Brien, or his son, and Mr. Vesey the evening hall and supper, given by the Queen's Fits* raid, sell stand. Mr. Vandelcur, prother to the , Royals, at the Bull Inn, was attended by about tittl people ;Jiiw, has aLo declared his intention of offering himself.' of the highest respectability. The bull-room was tastefully . Mr. Vesey Fir z^eraltl is certain of his return. ornamented with warlike troyhies, the upper cud having a$ CouNTI or lin skICIC.—Sir Vete Hunt starts again,! transpartnev with the letter C, surmounted with a naval we understand, for this county. He will he sueported by crown, in illusion to his Bova' Highness; the floor was ; the Limerick independent ititenit. elaborately and brilliantly chalked, and the entrances hung I It is raid that a new candidate is about to offer himself with a pit:Oilskin of variegated lamps. The supper was for the City of Limerick—a gentleman of formne, and, hi elegant, anti abound, d with every thing et 'arable at such I every point of view, likely to prove acclitable to the an occasion. The dancing was opened by Lady 'omens j electors of that free city. sad Colonel Bolt, of the Quern's, and was kept up till (From the mobs Evening Post.) three 0'144)4. I _ OF DU 1,1 N.— . MNSICT E llis !Oust retire from poli .. _ . _ licel life, and confine himself, in future, to the duties of his office, which as he swore before the Commissioners, occupied the greitest partof his valuable time. Alderman Shaw will otter himself again, refusing, it is raid, to coalesce w;th Alderman King, the other Corporation can didate. The Former, we believe, is not in great odour with the party just now ; and the latter, some of the graver folks amongst them affect to regard as too violent ! Cer tain it is t'!at, even from the Freemen, neither of these' persons appt:r so sanguine as might be expected. Mr. Ilenry Grattan will also stand, upon the independent in terca, and, braider the Freeholders, will, be supported, it is th o ught, by a very respectable show of Freemen, with Alderman Nugent at their bend. We are sorry that we cannot yet mention the name of Mr. Robinson as a eand idate. Cot NTT or Prattiv.—There is talk of five Candidates for the Cuunty—Talhot, White, Danville, B-aliazon, sod Mimilion. latter. however, will not he of age, if the election takes place in spriiig, nor if he were, do we think he would stand any chance. Sir C. Danville we believe, is sirk from the last election, and we are afraid he will not be suf6ticistly recovered to come to the poll in time. But the two sitting Menshers, and the son of the resident Earl of Meath, will fight it out. (7oravy or Wcitroan.— There will be a contest, we are told, in this county. We really should not he sur- prises!, if Lord Stop:bill wait put hit. We are quite aware of the dominant interest he possesses, hut we are equally satislhal that be carnet calculate on his Roman Catholic, Tenantry. He should reconect the counties of Sligo' and Dublin. If Mr. Colelough could be brought to tae tes tingly, we should hare strung hopes of his success in the prey cot tiding of the courty. That the Valentia interest will again appear iu the held there is no doubt. Carew is said to be r cure. COI! NTT OP I NNT.—This county, owing to the compact bytiveen the Ittslantout and °monde families, has long been in the situation of a close borough. Utforts, Ir:yonal all doubt, will be made to open it at the ensuing electien. Whether these will be directed against the But ler or the l'imsonlay interest, we cannot say—possibly against both. CITY or MlAs:sec.—Our old friend, Donis Browne, we think, must nut reii. The son of Colona l'itrce Butler stands upon the independent isuerest, anal will la, ab through the corporate rights of the Orinotule family, with out qua shim. CITY OF I• 1 ERICX.—This City will be emeestesl be tween the Independents and Lord Gott. We have no doubt of the success of the former; anal we shall hare, we are certain, to congratulate the Cititens of Limerick on the re turn of one of the few efficient Members of Parliament that Ircland pods to the Lgislature. We need not name Mr. Spring Ri ce. COUNTY or G•LW•lf.—There till be infallibly a sot emtest in this county. The sitting Members are Daly and Martin; one of the new candidates is Mr. Lambert; he is said to enter the field untlar the auspices of Lord Clan ricartle, and is called his max. We own we do not like to sec a Pear take o promineut arpare-i* * popular election. Mr. I).aly if; said to be the man in danger. Tows; or Dat.way.—This town will he ai-o with the Corporation. Mr. Thomas Martin, of Balilaabi oda Castle, will endeavour to open the Danough. According to the 3fanciegler Cw:effe, the following :A a statement of the annual aintini:t of the poor rates for the township of Manehesti r 'luring the last eight , years " 11116-17 - .£54.4118 1817-18 -47.34 U 10114-19 . 311.643 18111-2 J - 31,1022 twIlL2l 1tU1.22 - 21.439 Ita2-23 - 19.460 - 111.7411 S eusucteo.—On the night between Saturday and &lit any het, a struggling lugger, with 700 tubs of spirits on board from Flushing, tent a boat with five men, containing ! 17S tubs, to attempt a landing at Roddin Limeworks, two' miles from Montrose, hut owing to a squall of wind coming on, and the men being :Ir:urgers to the coast, the Loat struck on a rod: and swamped, when two of the smugglers were drowned; the mhor three were loved by the exertions of Lieutenant Abselen, of the Preventive Service, and the sne's under his command. This vigilant officer hail pre viously observed the manceuvres of the 'um r, and, with his party, was on the look-out. The whole of the spirits was seised, and, with the three smugglers, brought into Montrose on Sunday morning. when the men were com mitted to prison, and the spirits lodgrd in the Custom !meow warehouse. The lugger was observed close in with the shore at six o'clock on Sunday morning, but seeing no appearance of her boat coming IA and no doubt antici pating an early inn -suit from the cruisers on this cation, tritest vigilance is well known she set sail for the south ward, end was soon out of sight. Some of the men who were saved are acre rely hurt; but they are treated with peat kindness, and 'Molded by an experisseed medical gentleman of Montrose. The names of the men saved are Limmont I,:mrners, Jacob Mocf, and Itolhef Ilaael: n. The fishermen at non report that they heard firing at sea on Sunday forenoon, ro that it is very probable saute of out eruisen may have fallen in with suet captured the lugger.— , Cart/amine illerciiry. Taste Rs PENTANCE.—We often hear of the penitence of malefactors, when alarmed with the fear of punishnknt, and of their deep contrition fur their offences alien brought to the gallows, or to sulfer in any way on account of them; but it has frequently ben observed, when such have, ' either through the defect of the evidence against them, or an eserciee of the Royal clemency, been enabled to (scary I the threatened punishment, the y have forgotten all their Promise's of amendment, and relapsed into their fu. rarer ' vicituu habits. The penitence exhibited by cul t witr, being' excited principally by fear of personal suffering, can have little efibet of a salutary nature 011 the- heart and mind, or conduce to an amelioration of the character. IVe are OA therefore, to record an instance of penitence, and of coin punctious, conscientious feeling, less equivocal in its ex pression, and not excited by the fear of personal or worldly punishment of any kind—an evidence of that true repen tance which disposes the ening individual to make mei-, tution and reparation to the utmost of his power. A re spectable shopkeeper, in Sandgate, Newcastle, had th e misfortune to 'nee his witch many years ago, at liesham, 1 wh e n h e was apprentice to a shoemaker there. lie had unfertunately got ink:cleated at a public-house in that town, and had retired to a isimmon privy, lettere he fell asleep. 11'hen he awoke he found he had been mobbed of, his watch. lle made every endeavour in his power to, recover it--offired a reward for the discovery of the of- 1 fender—but all iu vain: he heard no more of it till a few 'I clays at o, when it was nen to him by the Ilexham carrier, in a man parcel, carefully diteeted, and inclosing a brief anonymous note from the delinquent, saying, "'This, Sir,, is the watch I roldad you of at Ilexhatts (mentioning the particular place) above twenty-two years agu."—Drrhuml I Chronicle. 1 PANIII.III OT 11R1XICING COLD WATItle-A healthy stout mats, who usually threshed in the barns in Dobbie s Lean, oprosite the Infirmary, Glas,,-ew, a few days ago hired himself to go into the country to soap corn, and unfortunately, when warm, took a drink of cold spring water . he soon after became ill, and died at his residence, Cowcaddens, on &Imlay lost, leaving a diaconse!....e widow and feur ;11'..0.nt dradrati. V:I111111 era: .it_;; in oc 5 eomprchi nil al r 7' f '.4 rigs, bcra t• . y hay, •'- it.im the • ...lc ►iti• may . ti .y th.. richt alt, I ft , t• ftint tact t,;•., nor I •ot I 4- .41cal t.iNca ; 4 .1 U•at'i, I ti• in le . • ve Ilshery If r,./1 . • tt 1111 NG A C instac l'isrirrutil, pi it maim! wil tn •sii n, a ti H. hortrd :II . . • • i‘eiiting tlltlllll t' n tenni' to Li his c ' ll thi y net , . t ia t . .Hr t r, et hal INF,I.VTICIDE. A murder of cm infant, under circumstances of moisnal and appalling barbarity, occurred a few days ago near Scot's honor, in the county of Monaghan. A young un married woman, the daughter of a farmer, in c un fortable circumstances, and rather above the common class, hail e visibl wil child for some ie pes and report a be tt n ributed y it to t an illicit intercourse tm with t a Roman Catholic clergyman, who was intimate at the house, and whom report stated to have seduced and got pregnant another sister, who was some time ago delivereti,lbough no trace was ever heard of the infant. A few days since, the young woman lay-in ; and shortly after her father, mother, and two uncles were in the room with the door clinical ; and a servant oute'de heard the cry of the child, and also beard its mother say to her own mo ther, " Oh, mother, dept kill toy child." There was no appternice of the infant afterwards. Suspicion was CX• cited, by the mineral knowledge that the young woman lay-in--the ili,arpearance of the infant—the former con finement of her sisttr—anil the diaspreurance of that child—and. from some hints which fell from the servant maid, a search t.as made about the place, which lcd to the discovery of a fresh interred child, and the bones of an other, in an of 1 fort near their house. The discovery ,caused the mother of the chid. her parents, and her two mules to abccand.• Colonel Madden, of Hilton, a Magis !tate, has been exertio n " hiiwelf for their apprehension, and the elucidating of this dr, ailful atrocity ; but as yet his rxertiens have net sum ded in effecting their appre hension. We are sorry the character of a elcr,zyinan should be conceded in any manner with so dreadful an nfrenre ; awl we hope, for his sake, and for the sake of the religion to which he proftascs to belong, that it rill be so factorily elm idafeil. as to hurl down on him, if guilty, that iglioniiiiicus punishment, which would be I. nity for such a sefi:s of foul and horrid offeiscea ; or, if innocent, to r eine his character from that dreadful surpicion multi which it now laboitra.—Ce Herald. ll'aN TON CRU tLTIf . -AO act of the most wanton and deliberate cruelty was catmint ti in New Elect, in this cit.!, on Sunday forehemi last. A Frain belonging to the I town, of the name of Janus (' man, was going up that strea, in *Aurally with a youtt,r man, and l'ollowell by a deg, tele n a tine terrier, the property of Mr. (linen. sum cern, hi Old Elect, and the dog belonging to Cowan (panellist, and Mr. Green's deg having got the best of it and made the other animal cry out, went down slice ai:el had got about SO yards, when it was foilsmen by Cowan, who at lain it and brought it back to the spot where the turn-up took place. lie then gave it some hoary kicks with his feet ; but not content with doing this, laid hold of its nec k, and dulled it in the most meal. manner against tile wall two or three time, and finally threw it on the ground. The poor iodise! was severe by injnnal by this treatment, anal bad one of his 04;h-bones broken, and its this pitiable state it made its way heme on three !cgs. Se veral resp,setable permits witnessed this brutal scene, sonic of whom remonstrated ileitis him an his cruelty, but he aide muttered something about Mr. tireen's dog baring bit his, and walked away.—Unshorn Popes. A melancholy event nceurrel near slit Thorne on Satur day List. .1 respretabh• maltster, named Russel, litlng at Millierne-Porc, left tile thatrge lust, in company with his son, in a gig, the former being mods isitemicaten. as the read an altercation ensued, during which the still cut the reins, m.ti was cruel twice by the patent. The cry of murder was afterwards heard ; and on his return home Mr. Russel Lem tOr the tithitignum to take hie son into custody; he then w.ut into the yard, fell down, and ex pect'. The only wooed s iea;lc ns a slight gear on the left (31 -brow, but his death is supposed to hare bei n eceasioned by an internal injury. The young man it; &wined till the result of the Coroner's Inquest is known. Ileay. Seer. 10.—On 'euesilay last, a serious accident happened to Arthur Brook, gt:4l. of llorringer, near Bury. As that gentleman was out shooting, aeetonpahied by his boy, in pursuit of his game, he got eating!' a hedge into an adjoining Held, givieg his double-bundled gins to his boy to hold ; when on th.: teller side, he cartel to the lad for the piece, and at the same time saying, .• mind—it i s I cock , d," 1 ut before the last word was out of his tumuli the piece went of, and the contents of the charge lodged in Mr. Brook's shoulder, and we are sorry to say he now lks in a dangerous state. Another aceitlimt had nearly occurred from the same ,'ices; the buy takiog it into the kitchen, was in the act of showing the aid-s.tvant how his master was shot, when the other barrel went or, but happily the contents lodged in the coiling.—Sekek (4rmride. Ma. G.W EST . I MATIOI FOR VOL, SOVERI 10 xs.--This first-rate pedestrian started y 4 sterility wonting, at two o'clock, to go on foot to Maidstone, Kent, and return to a given spot, completing sixty-six milts in thirteen boom The road, from the number of hilla, alter a few mate tra velling, is decider:ly the most difficult out of London, and man, INAS at 6 to 4 were OIR4C at the sportieg-housee, the prer.iing night, on time. Mr. Barclay seas the chosen umpire for each side. The pedestrian performed the first eight miles to Eltham within an hour, and he proceeded on to a friend's house between Farninghain and Kingdown. If miles, to breakfast. Ile stayed there half an hear, an d reached half the distance in two minutes over six hems; be returned through Larkflehl Gate, leaving himself Sip miles to accomplish in six hours and five minutes; he walked, and now and then shog b ed between five and s i x miles an hour. and won with apparent care, with ten lei hutt s to spare. LUCKY .4ND UNLUCKY DAYS. Superstitions are as old as the world, and it is very pro batik that they will end only with it. Atnengst those that are to be traced to immemorial times, we must rank the ' opinions formed by nations respecting lucky and unlucky 1 1 days. The third day of the week pas eonsidertd fatal by the King of Egypt: they never transacted any business on that day, abstained from eating until biAlit, for fear, no doubt, of an indigestion. Thursday was in disrepute amongst the Athenians. All public meetings that fell upon that day, were carefully postponed. Hesiod, and after him Virgil, distinguished the fifth day of the Month as unfa vourable to all enterprises • hut at the same time, the Greek poet places the seventh, eighth, ninth. eleientli, and twelfth amongst the number of lucky days. The Boman calendars marked with Hack or white, the favourable or fatal days. Augustus would not have undertaken any thibg on the day of the Nunes. It must, however, be acknowkdgtd, that chance has often contributed to encourage such superstitions. The temple of Solomon, which was burnt on the Rth Sept., by the Babylonians, was a second time consumed on the same! day, and in the same month, by Titus. Timolion gained many battles nit the day of his birth. Charles V. was in cessantly loaded with Fortune's laYours on the day of St. Mathias. Henry 111. on the day of Prutecon ; Sixtus V. on Wednesdays: Louis X 111. ell Fridays: and Henry VII. King of Engjand. ou S aturdays. It is well known that the lid' of May was the day always fatal in the life of Henri IV. __..... _ 'tut these dif!•rcnt r•xarnplcs prove of theamelves, Hurt the influence c.t days contribute nothing to good or bcd fortune, since they use lucky to some, EA the reverse to It would, moreover, be easy to show, that the same day may bring very difYerent events. Pompey was assassinated in Egypt, on the same day that ha had tiinnerly triumphed over the pirates and Mithridates ; and Leo X. was cense• crated with great pomp, on the my in which he had been meek a prisoner the yt sr before. Alexander the Great was far from partaking of the superstitious notions of some of his captains. N:ver, raid they, did the kin ;s of Macedon °pets a campaign in the month of June. The y were right, replied Alexander; therefore I command, that the mouth of June be called the second mouth of May. In this age, the 13th of the month, and the Friday of every week, arc sti:l regarded as days of bad omen. And this pri possession, contrary to good sense and rt awn, is not confined to the !ewer east; of peop!e. alone. More than one man of rank yields to its influence ; and ',know even some men of intellect who believe in ;mod and bad days. All this proves, that trrors only change their names in being perpatuated.—News if Literature and Pashiatt. A straw-hat manufactory, under the lumpier, of the lion. D. G. liallyhurton, of l'itcur, Scotland, has been tstahlisbed on his estate. The superintendent is a well qualified Italian.—Fdiishargli Paper. The Sturipurt Adrertiscr says, " A Company, to be called ' the Birmingham and Liverpool Rail-road Corn pauy.t has been formed, promising to become of the first importance to the great manufacturing districts through which it is intended to pass. Among other advantages, they volitive to cony, y heavy goods at the rate of eight mil:, an hour, and fur less than half the prevent cost of canal carriage." It is a:tie...that an Irish Mining Company will, within a few days, be put in possession of a large mineral district in the South of Ireland, and that they trill commence opera tions with as little delay get possible.—Wafet fitrd Mirror. Some interest was excited in Ipswich on Wednesday last at the election of o ffi cers for the borough. The present senior Bailiff' admitted that his own election was illegal, and that being the case any one now elected would be brought before the Court of King's Bench by ipso warrant,' awl mandamus. At length a Mr. Set katop was elected. the burgrises agreeing t indemnify him if proceeded against. Two Russian Rabbis, named Goldbarg and Samson, have jtist abjured at Berlin, and embraced the Protestant faith. The King of Prussia was the eponster. We copy the following from the B a lls .I,,arna! :--" We have been informed. upon indisputable authority,that there now lives In Wiltshire a gentleman of large anded property, and an M.P. to wit, who will not permit a mar ried peasant to remain on his domains: and almuld a pea sant dart to await} ahem feelinga which nature has on tailsiaasikasaaokamllia4P/0114 anal eseter into the holy mate of matrimony, he is regularly limited off his lauds. 'this tyrant, this barbarian, will even go tonnd tu nu tenuru and forbid than, upon pain of being ejected from their farina, employing the offending peasant ; so that, dame' sheer persecution, he is driven to seek some more hoe ' phable asylum." No fewer, we believe, than three thousand Irish reapers have sailed ;luring the last week from this po..t, on their return to their native land. It is expected that an equal number will take their departure the ensuing we, k.— Liverpool Advertiser. In a severe stortn of thunder and lightning, at Barton, on the afternoon of Friday lag, two horses awl a pig, the property of a man named Robinson, were destroyed by de electric fluid. A third horse, which was in the saute' stable, was also much injured.—lfoll Adecrliser. At the bottom of a wood belonging to Mr. Teuton, of Knowlton, in Flintshire, is a rill of water, which empties itself into the river Dee ; which rill, when a person strider across it, he is, at one and the same instant , in the King dom of Engla nd, the Principality of Wales, and the pro -1 vines of Canterbury and York ; in the dioceses of Chester, Lichfield, and Coventry ; in the counties of Flint and Sa lop; in two townships ; and in the grounds of Mr. Turton and his tecigbbour.—.wane Advertiser. Ou iteetteselay week, a singular accident occurred on the Gairlot hill, Peebles-al ire. Two horses and a anule which had been in a grass park on the farm of Mitieeon. got out, and immediately, guided be the scent, took the road homeward by a direct line. 'Wry had, in conse quence, top ars down the steep side of the Gairlot Hill, upon which they came with great speed; ro much so that they were unable to return when they found they could not keep their feet, but slotted or rebounded to the bottom of the hill, which is of great height, and were clashed to pieces. The mule saved itself in a singular and ridicu lous manner—namely, by sittingou its haunches, and slid ing in this posture to the bottoin.—Edicebeetgh Paper. Wm. Telfair, a person who is understood for some years 'mat to have supplied Scotland with forged motes, has been seated with another noteal dealer, glary Ann Quin, and about SSC) forged notes on different Hanka taken with them. The notes are on the fludderafiehl, Royal, Leith Commercial Bank of Scotland, Sir W. Forbes and Co.', Banks. E.'FICT Or Oxvorx ON CLOW-wanes.--It is an in teresting experiment (says Mr. Parkes) to place a glow worm within a jar of oxygen gas in a dark mom. The insect will shine with mach greater brilliancy than it does -in atmospheric air. As the luminous appearance depends on the will of the animal, this exreriment probably afterds an instance of the stimulus which this gas gives to the sed um! system. CULOVItZD . FLANIIS.—AiId a little boraoic acid to a spoonful of alcohol, and stir them together, in a saucer or cup, then set them on fire, and the flame will be of a beau tiful green colour. If struntites in powder be reeleleal to alcohol, it burns with a carmine Hamm; if barytes be added, the flame is y e ; if the alcohol contain touriate o. magnesia, it burns with a reddish-yellow flame. Tracss.—ln the Edinburgh Police Court, on Tuesday, a fellow was seemed of practising an old stale trick at the cep enee of a young girl in Arthur-street, of which trick he had been previously convicted. lie hail introduced him self to the girl as a dealer in jewellery ; but finding that she would not bile, ha represented himself' as agent for a great lottery office in London, and produced a bag contain ing blanks and prizas, the latter of an incredible amount. The bait was irresistible, the girl thrice staked seven upon a chance, and thrice she threw a blank. She was inconsolable for the loss of her money, which, in truth, she had borrowed; and the fellow, to facilitate his escape, prominal to reimburse her. Afterwards, happening to meet hint in the street, she laid hold of him, when he premised to remote her what she had lost, and proposed that she herself should banish him beyond the bounds of police for the sake of public justice, as such a sentence coming from her mouth would be more gracious titan if uttered by a heartless Magistrate, and equaPy binding upon his con science. But she had been taught by severe experience to distrust his prof( miens ; and, accordingly, she delivered him over to the peculiar arm • and he was :11. Vo' 1101:0:CLII to eft days centinetrent in Bridewell. IVORTHRRIV CIRCUIT. LANCASTER SUMMER ASSIZES, SATUDIAT,SZPT. T ICI PRITIS. taoll Mr. BARON lIIILLOCIF. itifi s COMMON Jary.l MOLT v. /MITI' 1/141:1111. . . Hf. C • . — opened the pleadings , " 111 r. SCaRLETT stated the nature of the assaifft. The plaintiff. he said, resided at a place called Ridley litook, near Bury, in thug county. The poor amain was fitly ynara of age, and had re ceived such a blow from the defendant's wife (and they too were " twain"), as she won'd in all probability carry the intake of to her grave. The defendant bad put on the record that she was first assaulted, to which the plaintiff had rejoined by a new assignment, and thereby denied the tact. Hy hoped, for the honour of Isar.cas ter, that woman to woman wouill never conic in contact with each other again ; for " when Greek turns fireek, theu conies the tug of war." The Learned Gentleman then adverted to the facts at detailed in the evidence, and (411,4 Thomas le.rd, rx.alliaell by Mr er;I'ItTNEI-.He kcnws the plaintiff, Ilatinali 11,11, ray well. and Alice tinthh. the defend ant ; he raw them b o th o n the 23.1 of I teciniber last in the street ; he heard Mrs. Holt say to Mrs. Sinith--" Ira% you asking me some questions last Saturday when I met you 1." on which witness observed Mrs. Smith take up some brick hats and throw them at the plaints 4 f, and at the same time nbuscd her very much ; she struck her with paving stones—Mere the witness pulled mat of lel/ pocket a huge stone, tersely as large as a totrkem lapistune, which occasioned a loud laugh); the defendant threw it at her, and hit the plaisttiffon the knee ; she took up another and threw it at her, which missed the plaintiff; defendant went away, Lut afterwards returned with a bowl pot in her hand la kind of a burin) a sugar one, and taking It in both her hands. she struck the plaintiff on .ne head a tremendous blow; a pleee fell on her right arm and cut it ; the blood flowed ; witness said she had brosiOt herself under the lash of the law, and that she had used the plaintiff very bad ; de fendant said " she would as soon kill her as a toad dog ;" the plaintiff went away and the defendant followed her, and continued to use abusive language. Mrs. llok never struck her, nor attempted it. Ile wins present (rout the beginning to the anti ; he was quite near them. Crow-examined by Mr. 020170111 AX.--Slue newer used any sort of Indecent bustusge to the defendant; Osintlfl spoke to Smith is a frirodly way t she said, " How do you do, Mrs. amid., and how does your family do?" and'asked her that words she bad said or. the Saturday WO on which she tbttk ur some paving stores. 0;1 u m..... r i linnnnAll'hat we pare the streets with, without • ‘Vitneal--Ves, she a iel ; they were loose; he was sore the plain & gave her not any sort of ;Juke wimisotherer. He asked her what she had done that for ? It happened lour their factory. Mrs. Smith tens walking towards her ogai Itott.e, of course. Ile can't say how fir the fictury is 011'. It happened r.ct far from Mrs. Smith's house. Mrs. Holt was compelled to fiollow her; she was going for water. Mrs. Smith went !rat, end Mrs. llolt followed her; don't know why she did. Mew. Huh had 3lrs. Smith before the Magistrate. !!guess was there at ate examination. Can't say hos., long they were. She was bound to appear at the Sessions. Mrs. link Ohl, however, nothing at the Semitone. lle can't say If Mrs. Smith did attend with her Attorney. The plaintiff never •id she had received no damage from the defendant. She took up the stones with her right hand, and afkrwards :Tidied the sugar-bawl. Ito her head, which was presently shattered. The stones were taken up first. BROVOIIA T._ And you hare lain under tha law , too, Tommy, at ?—Aye. He-examinttl by Mr. SCAULETT —She tnok the basen up dill both ber hands and applied the aulistwore to her head, and idler wards tnuk up the Stones; she was going for wxtts, and the plat:aid' woe obliged to follow her. Elizabeth Bentley examined by Mr. scastl.STT —She Imowsthe parties ; she iv:to-mhos the time; she was standing at her oat. nom; she beard 3lrs. 11ob tuck her who: she had said cot tlte tater day, when Mrs. Smith called her a ~ Mrs. kink &aid. •6 you elm% pone ine one. though, can you ?" when Mut. Smith took up a stone; it was a paring one; site threw it at her and hit lire on the knee; it made the place black ; she then took up another stone but cannot say if that hit her; she ir:uke the bowl put abttut her lu•d she did • with both her hands; Mrs. Smith going first; sh e none vp to her face; the blow was enough to knock her brains out ; brute the pot to piecm; the defendant said she would as Mere kill her ass mad dog, and think it Do sin neitlitz. Mrs. 'hilt never touched her. Thomas told her that she had brought herself woke the lash of law ; he took the out of her hand ; atm went home afterwards. Had witness been her she would have thrown the pitcher at her head _(A loud laugh.)--Tas, that she would. The JVIIGE —That is only aritiee.—( A laugh.) She told Mrs. Holt to do so; she said, '• tio„ I shall wan; the pitcher another day." (Repeated laughter.) She taw her en tins day after ; she saw her often; she Fib unwell after) abe has bvea unwell ever since; very poorly 1u the head. Cross-examined by 31r. Iltocurtim—She lives it the neigh. beurbeod of them Mob, twenty or thirty yards of. She never braced up to her. (A laugh.) She was likay to follow her. when she went before! (Renewed laughter.) 31ra. Smith called her • w—e; she said it could not be proved; she Dever said lick her well; d—n her do! (Laughter.) Wimess--;No; but 1 would have licked her ! (shouts of Lughter.l Are, said the wit. Less, and thea had taken the law tou! (Loud and ointinued laughter.) Yes, that she sould, had it been her. Ilienvwed laughter.) She did not say 11—n her; she did *ay throe the pitcher h 4, bat not that she would maul her althougU she *mule' have atone so. (llontinued.litighter.) Mrs. :Smith had a cap on. and s bit Ma handkerchief round lei. neck. )lad she h.:recalled a Moss a w sho wnome.— Ali said 31r. Isuottutt.em. that yew would, date say—haes torn her eye, out.—(A roar at laughter.) Mes. link never said that she soul d get Mrs. &nigh to strike her, and then take the law of her. She was before the Maximum.. Margaret Perry examined by Mr. COIIIIT was Pee. sent no the llmi..Ler she saw her throw i..g a brick-bat ; she she did nut hear what had passed betwixt them ; she threw it at Mrs. Rah sho saw her th:ow another and it hither; she saw her break the bowl shout her had; she struck her upon the head with both hands. tYass-exaniined by Mr. BCOVGI:An—There were other petsomi present. bite stood eme by. She did not hear a word imuke, but they were sulking very loud. They _were both alik. for that. She Itat , seen Mr. liolt's attorney, and Mr. l'olkatoue told her what she nail to say. Dr. Greersaid. examined by sir. COVITNEY.—He is a pby. aidan, and resides at Bury, lie was called in to see the plaintiff on the Md of December lost. She complained of a pain in her head ; it was swollen ; it was attensled with great pain, it pttaluer..l a head-ache. lie ordered cold lotions and leeches to de nape of the neck. There wee an effusion of Mood; the abstraciii;s: of th• skin waa black between the pericranium and she brain. It cr health gradually slitubk ,; be could attribute it to no other cause titan trout the blow. It was a severe contusion. lie had attended her conjointly with others, and lately exclusively. lie himself has Ett doubt that her illness was occasioned by the filows she had received. Cross-examined by Mr. linovonasa--Sbc was aia Piclorig habit of body ?—Yes. , Mr. Han te Go a xi —isn't that ha there sitting, in black ?—(Wil. nest, turning round)—Ves. Mr. BILOUUIt•DS--%Vell, I thought as Unlel! You hart done her some good ? Witness—Hut 1 was not paid the fees. Physicians do:.'t get them so regularly in the country as they do in I.oadon, nor so teheu as 31r. Itrougham. Mr. llaocuttam—Now, don't put yourself in a passion, or in flammatory syuiptonis may arise, and then you will want lecelto g yourself on the tenitle. (lome, iter.) keep yew tamper, or tho ansseqmerccs may be. youn eEsculaplus„ sot:Tilting like poor Mts. Holt. (Lard laughter.) tie had seen her seven months before. SCAIILETT—This is our case, my Lord. Mr. BROVUSIAII addressed the Juty on the pan of the defeed. ants, and said that ho i.iaritlled much that this was his Lean:. I Friend's ease. The witness(' had told a tough story indeed ; and as to the Itoctor's phlegrnotous parenchymatous symptoms, they meant nothing at all. Perhaps there was a black rnailutut the Recount of the cffusion of blood was mere moonshine. What had this sun of .I.:sculapius done ? he hal Wed and ;dimmed the poor old woman, that she wouii never forget it so long ss she should live. It was said that she had been dangerously dl, but Was fast recovering, and not now plithisical,/kc. winch he was very glad to htva ; and at the (tent lemen of the Jury maid judge from appear.. once% this half.killed plaiting' now in Court, wax wildly and as ruddy as .1 swimmer morning. The Doctor said she hal been of a plethoric habit, and what a happiness it was now to-see her im proving stare. It WAS plain what die Magistrates thought of the case, by not taking cup.taince of the assault. Ile should now pr. teed to call a mincers, who would tell _ " unrarni■hrd Isle," and Nadia case in a F . oyer light. The Learned Gentleu=n that called !Vary Holder—She krnws the plaintiff and the defenilara ; !re hers utar Mr. Smith'. factory; she 'tent out of her house t!:.: nowniog the assault happentd ; she beard them have won't I . groper; they were standing . still; Mrs. Holt /slink, Mn. Sant.. what she %anted ? Mrs. S b went towards home, and Mrs. 8010 folloaed her. f•i!te said, " Why dust thou follow nic ? I have hal i h emnigh of thee before." Mn,. Koh said, " I thought au wanted r.:: about your Isaac" (meaning Mrs. South's hint:and. Mre. Sthi:', went forward to ho butt and she folfewnl her. F t again su;ii, '• Why 410311 thou f, !low me ?" She said," Ilecause I like thee as much as thou efts: my, and so dint thy Isaac." She got up to het. the wa behind; Airs. 11tht said. " Your Isaar likes me bone than thee." Mrs. 'loft damned her, and said she would 'leveller pot out of the house, at.l herself put in her stead. Me( Mrs. int ) called Mrs. Sni:th a skinning (skinny) b—h !—(A loud laugh.) Mr. St. AU I. C T T—Sperl out, woman. thy words are prcyirmt. The vr - itners cocain - lied—Sib; said Mrs.' Smith stunk so ert . :', that her Isaac coukl not lie with hit (laughter.) Airs. Smith KC... nothhig a".•r this She saw Mrs. Gently there. Mr Holt aid she had dune the thing she wanted. She said she w 0....! prorvk • her that she might strike her. and then she would take the Isis her afterwards. t , lte asked ti Mrs. Smith had hart hcr, and the I ." No." Cross-examined hr Mr. S4:antr.r - rt —Mrs. !full said that st s did not innell sweet—tA loud laugh). She stunk so much th :t hit loam could not lie with her—lltepeated Inaglita). She litga:l no more t she did not tell the story yesterday ; she is a hmant tat' Mrs. Smith's; her sun attends the strain ergioe in the factory; she never limnl foul winds from Mrs. Smith; she never followed her at all; the pitcher was under her arm; she clapped the down ; Mrs. Holt did vat strike her, nur did issillareaten her ; has told the whole truth. Mr. 114ot:unix said, this is our ease. Mr. Sc replied, and said it was any thing but a Jerome, and that the witness had perjured herself. T!a Lamed Junat . .:h.:.rsrd the Jury, sad said, I 1P t i I ""'s '• •I M