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I. te /....,e- j r'„Z 67 L. 4 3- - 7 - 1-:7 - // c/` ne -- I • . 4 1 1 , tp, ith• ..12, d " ÜBL, re t ate 4e 810' dose 44. , • c 4. Z • • • 1,4 4 •• s_ (h, Wig -• • • __ 1,, •\ • , ,440- 08. • dit 1.10 k • ' 1 0 /17.1.4;11411C :SQ ... IF,T* I , OF ANTIQUARIES OF SCOT- LAND. The Society met ire their Museum yesterday evening, when Sir William Forbes, Bart. ; David Dundas, Esq., advocate ; Robert Whigham, Esq. advocate ; and Daniel Fisher, Esq., S.S.C. were elected Fellows. he thouglit , noticed all n•ed, Atl i a very • of the fire ot, on his ;he door, 11, being al: re. A 01101 iturday and S i .Irsation with he tranaactios F Hatton-POI R o wleY new irrepros 1, ;ober he als of his two e u y g: the business,: London'' ie lined t moslnc house io submitted to to ilnP lies he t hat pr oved to o had fl° ; c oo' j did P ° v ben " re m ise s ,roce . •tv 0 the jo he bro t, f ti mi W o oler n t hiruselhiad uld ay ace CS iir er ent ntilgi_,‘ 'aloe of thery nother ntimation uh the Are ild not but mitted. at, was broPv rd Ol a th e 1h 1 L tb ov: l Ship ' n ". e ,terdoi 'tab f 'P' ;Is 0. eral bold on is a W ie W daY • : r rcurn stauce 9 ei t I, who is a'4 w-prisoner s hor i , committed 11; e some tob , in % ,on, an d 1 :11 1 'i i omm itte . . co f nan until he was • •ine t4 01, the p ry kAI restmingter , he wag al i f t o He place t ole with his b y e' rse of tho3e e I baceo. :ty shop wber;ty igth eke outtbebri ket for l'i le see itig Re pel . , a n , h e at in the he to the "' her Leg bro by mt on + the ate d of }'j9 abse nce tv b oco, he P iQ ye ( a m A ro bbeo , Lry on. wieg ally IT ° b e e o of having Saturday'. Jones, dre' fting• r pet Messrs.H a stated, tlaat a nd requ e9 o le the sh o p , l! slip a large:ev ito her bao' iiscovered in' en into etistdprd persisted in frienclA. Bail° ithaniptov, th° the born. e l/ illon, Esq. ;shire , f o rb! , s Jobil t o v ste . . c4 c . i. t 'Acar t i rarneS 131,00r 1 ; s' 01/" Dm" . f liroohvita Rev. ‘ S ;,tl ll to 1.: 117 ', 1e ,t1i , lotntOn ti) e 'll uret:. rt, of ui CrosehlP f‘ b y the f Fr'' o Ater jfe e , to Ao h Reg -41 ' 6 > _;„ , J V Lie st year, :,giivien t. eoo f ,odford, s age. I' oll' tli f ° • a, Iv- As - iutrolic• few hi ve „ttl' !eply late e f the house ° Or ► Itowlath JO E rg b, miss uNa, 'Troub V I CTUALLING YARD, DEC. 22, 1827. S are to give Notice, that on THURS cZTt the lath of January next, will be put up to , -ALE, at Ten o'clock in the forenoon, Sundry . ‘ . 1 , 4 . or the followin g UNSERVICEABLE PROVI g-T're ati S al l STORES now lying in the said Yard, viz.:— Oatea s si ' lsr ead Dust, Flour, Flour Sweepings, Pease, n atoi 7 a , nakeh ouse S weep i ngs, B ags an d R ags , Cocoa ancriZtter) Cheese, Beef, Pork, Suet, Sugar, Raisins, eels, S taves of different sorts ; Irish Tierces and Bar eA b e , -- "Z Ceeks, Fire-wood, &c. &c. t teapf' "Lt of 251. per Cent. is to be made (in Cash o at r the b an k of England) upon the amount o f eac h m n t he tim e of Sale, and the remainder of the purchase p ° I . D 1 1) be paid before the Stores are removed, for which fr n o t iC th 4 . ,Period of fourteen working days will be allowed that n - 0 - 1 75) , of Sale Buyers particularly observing, aw a y els, than one half of the quantity is to be taken en 4 f w i ltoui the first seven days, and the remainder in the 6 fo ev zf e i n ,l ll° Wing days, otherwise the Deposit money will be as 1 1 , —l e e ed the Stores remain the property of the Crown, Th e " gor -4 ion of time will on any account be grante d. the 0 " may be viewed, during the working hours of of P aie. lll, -n the three days immediatelyn preceding the day Ca 0 tal 8117 may b e had on application at the said yard. JOHN HILL, Com missioner. wE r S n i . INDIA DOCK COMPANY. E vab — ‘ 4 JßT o f DIRECTORS of the Mice, th a t INDIA DOCK COMPANY hereby give 1; 9 I,'"l t 4 HALF-YEARLY GENERAL COURT -e'd, the to the directions of the act of Par at t he Wed India Dock House, No. 8, Blither- Tuasnar, the Sth day of January next, at One T oik :6th: afternoon, for the ELECTION of a DrREC - Qtalth room of James Ilaillie, Seq., who retiree front 0 4 w at Which Meeting, a DIVIDEND wiil be de- By I° , the Half-year ending the Slst instant. By order-of the Court, W ▪ eft ~. HENRY LONGLANDS, Sea. 114 41. k u°l4 Dock House, Dec. 18, 1827. Chair will be taken at Two o'clock precisely. 1 411 en itIAL FIRE OFFICE, SUN.COURT, -- qatn,r„, and No. 5, Sr. JAalEs's-STREET. DIREcToRs• Horsley n Palmer, Esq. Chairman. C h Gl.an t ks DanYera, E sq , De p ut y Chairman. All E Mi tchell, s q' William Esq. Barclay, sq., M.P. Sir Charles Price, Bart. keliat}lax*, Esq. J osep h Reid, Esq. Q 1 Bland, E s q , nel'age BrOW John Baker Richards, Esq. n' E sq , Sir James Shaw, Bart. ` . 44 Esq. Robert Slade, Esq. t eolrile, Esq. John Smith, Esq. M.P. ki tt Preive, E sq . John Benton Tritton, Esq. Esq. • a nd red, E sq. Joseph Timperon, Esq. je lls 1 1/ EX - DIRECTORS. W* Arik ki er q Deffell, Esq. J erem iah Olive, Esq. 8i t 4 14 ,rY, Esq. Henry Starry, Esq., and Esq. Richard Twining, Esq. 43 ,4 41 , AUDITORS. „Tikk,:et, te_ Visage, E sq . Martin Tucker Smith , Esq. •co ‘ •41 k id E sq , and r ed, jun., Esq. John Tritton, Esq. EX-AUDITOR. 4• 4 : es Pattison, jun. Esq. qihere James Pattison, jun. Esq. ereby given, that Insurances which exp ire at or they. hlsilould be renewed within 15 days there from , s ar e se; p "'"oule void, and that receipts for such d rc o n n e 1 and te ady for delivery, at the O ffi ces is L t o h n rou the"ith throughout vick m r espective Agents for the Compa n y riiL-ngdoin. P. MILNER, Accountant. 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The corps of Yeomanry Cavalry under your command being released, after the 24th inst., from its present mili tary engagements, I have the honour to request that you will be pleased to inform me whether, after satisfying all out-standing claims for the public service of the corps, there is any and what balance of the contingent and clothing allowances of the corps remaining unexpended, in order that I may give directions that such balance may be paid in to the account of the Paymaster-General of the Forces. I have also to state that his Majesty having been gra ciously pleased to order that the Adjutants and Sergeant- Majors on constant pay, belonging to those corps of Yeo manry whose engagements are about to cease, shall receive a gratuity of six months' pay on the discontinuance of their services, I have to desire that you will pay to the of your corps, on the 24th instant, a sum equal to the amount of his pay at a day, from that day to the 24th of June, and charge the same in an account, a blank form of which I enetuse, and will be pleased to fill up and return to me at your earliest convenience. I have the honour to bt, Your most obedient humble Servant, PALMERSTON. To Commandants of 0.-aps of Yeomanry Cavalry. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. CONVERSATIONAL TALENT. Good conversation comes 13,f nature, it is a gift of heaven ; and he whom " the gods have not made" conversational, will never attain to it by mere la)our and industry. Study will do much to improve a happy predisposition, but he who cannot " snatch a grace beyond the reach of art," can never figure in the first class of talkers. To arrive it this eminence requires a powerful flow of animal spirits, a retentive memory, a dis cursive imagination, strong social sympathies, a ready wit, considerable versatility and facility of character, a nice tact for the apropos, and just a sufficient spice of vanity to love display, without making it the sole entl of existence, To these natural and constitutional gifts should be added extensive and miscellaneous reading, (espe cially a' thorough knowledge of the French memoirs), much intercourse with the world, good manners, and an early acquaintance with whatever is passing in London, Paris, and Vienna, if not with the chit-chat of all, the smaller European capitals. A good talker, in fact, should know every body, every thing, and as much more as he can scrape together. He should never baulk curio sity with an " I don't know," nor suffer him self to be thrown out by the starting of a sub ject in which he can be taken by surprise. He must be au, ait, not only to the greater interests of religion, politics, literature, and science, a good musician, a tolerable judge of pictures, a politi cal economist, something of a stockbroker, a lawyer, and a physician,—but he also must be at home upon all minor subjects of discussion, deep in green-room secrets and opera squabbles, a very Aristarchus of pirouettes, and have a per fect taste in women, horses, and dogs. He must be able to tell the odds without hesitation ; he must perfectly understand the racing calendar, be at home in the Fives' Court, the confidant of all the intrigues and flirtations ; and au courant with the whole subinfeudation of h—lls in St. James's parish. He must have travelled over half the habitable globe, and be personally ac quainted with every remarkable man, wit, states man, artist, or literati, in Europe. These and many other excellences being re quisite to form a conversationalist, it is not very surprising that the personage should be some what rare. The proverb, it is true, says, that where there's a will, there's a way; and, gene rally, the proverb may be as true as any other specimen of public wisdom ; but, as far as it applies to conversation, it knows nothing of the matter. Nothing, indeed, is more common than the noisy and pertinacious pretender to after dinner conversation, " cramming his words into mine ears against the stomach of my sense," and making the most desperate efforts to be agree able, while he succeeds only in being troublesome or ridiculous. Fortunately, however, for those who love these distinctions, if good talkers are rare, critical lis teners are not more common. There are com panies for every class of conversationalists ; he who' has the skill to know himself, and to choose his circle with discretion may dine out, even with a very decent reputation. A man who is con scious of his own deficiencies, has only to look out among some of the upstart rich, the fellows of a plumb or a plumb and a half, and he may sit in their company " for a long summer's day," without being, called upon for a word ; if he can but keep himself awake, and look sympathy through their never-ending self-satisfied accounts of themselves, nodding and staring in due time and place, he will be sure not only to pass for a very agreeable companion, but for a man of un common understanding and sound sense. The same plan succeeds also to the life with your rural lords,. your landed gentry, and your second-rate authors. Madame de Stael mistook a poor dolt ' of an apothecary, accustomed to any thing ra ther than a parler aux viages, for a Venetian senator of political and literary eminence ; and she declared that he was the most eloquent per son she had ever listened to, merely because be had preserved unbroken silence during one of her interminable harangues upon things in gene ral, and herself in particular. If, however, you " feel the god within you," and cannot submit to this system, just cast a glance around, and you must be a queer chap in deed, if you don't find some latitude in the great city that suits your calibre. A safe company for a dashing experiment at " all in the ring," is that of a set of plain matter-of fact men, if you catch them in the humour,. They have no ambition to shine themselves, no desire but to get rid of their own stupidity, and they are very easily pleased. Good animal spirits, ease, and a tongue that never ceases, with them is suffi cient to earn the reputation of a merry fellow. But bewaice of all grave subjects ; no politics, no price-currents, or they'll set you down at once foi a nincompoop. Talk of every thing they know nothing about, and then you are safe. Set them staring, and you are sure of success. I remember passing a rambling summer among " the country gentlemen," very agreeably, and came off with the name of an uncommonly learned and pleasant companion, only by dint of interesting my audience with marvellous com mon-places, concerning every thing that they had never heard of before.—New Monthly Ma gazine. RAMSGATE.-011 Thursday, Mr. Sawkins, was found dead in his bed, by a neighbour who used to attend him. As he lived alone in the house, and not find ing him up as usual, she thought she would not disurb him. About noon she went again, when, finding the shutters still closed, and the door fast, she made an entry by the cellar window, and on proceeding to his room found him dead in bed. An inquest was held on the body, and a verdict of " Died by the Visitation of God" recorded. He had been in good practice as an attorney in the early part of his life, but latterly had fallen into a slothful habit.— Kentish Chronicle. Yesterday afternoon an inquisition was taken in the Committee-room of St. Thomas's Hospital, before Titomas SIIELTON, Esq., the Coroner, on view of the body of HENRY COOPER, aged :35. MATTHEW SWAN knew the deceased. On Saturday week last, witness, the deceased, and some others, were engaged in a mill in re moving sacks of flour from the ground-floor through two well-holes to a warehouse at the top of the mill ; the sacks were being hoisted up by means of a tackle ; they were in the act of raising one of the sacks in this manner, when the tackle grappling-irons unhappily parted from the sack, which fell from a height of 20 to 18 feet, through the loop-holes, on the hack of the deceased, who was at work underneath ; he was conveyed insensible to a surgeon's. Verdict, " Accidental Death." The deceased has left a family. PRICE 7D. CHRISTENINGS AND BURIALS. The following is a General Bill of all the Christ enings and Burials within the City of London and the Bills of Mortality, from December 13, 1826, to December 12, 1827, according to the Reports made to the King's Must Excellent Majesty, and to the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, .by the Worshipful Company of Parish Clerks : Christened in the 97 parishes within the walls, 1,022 ; buried, 1,065. Christened in the 17 parishes without the walls, 4,768 ; buried, 3,646. Christened in the 29 out-parishes iks Bliddlesex and Surrey, 19,847 ; buried, 13,512. Christened in the 10 parishes in the Cities and Liberties of Westminster, 4,288 ; buried, 4,069. Christened. Males Females In all Whereof Under two years of age 6,580 Between two and five 1,875 Five and ten Ten and twenty 862 Twenty and thirty 1,565 Thirty and forty Forty and fifty Fifty and sixty Increased in the burials re] ing principally from two yeas from St. Leonard's, Shoredit Buried. Males Females • 10,996 Iu all iave died, Sixty and seventy ... 2,044 Seventy and eighty... 1,630 Eighty and ninety ... 666 Ninety and a hundred 74 A hundred A hundred and one 1 A hundred and two lofted this year, 1,534; aris s being included iu the return MURDER AT OXFORD. OXFORD, DEC. 26.—This morning, at ten o'clock, the examination of witnesses into the conduct of the prisoner Williams, on the night of the murder of Ann Crotchley, was resumed l.efore Mr. Hickson, the Mayor, and the other Magistrates, aided by Mr. .Robertson, the town clerk. Williams was brought up from the city gaol in the custody of the head gaoler; and the crowd, whose sympathy for the prisoner was considerably heighten ed by the length of time he had been in custody, was still more numerous within and around the Ma gistrates' room in the town-hall, than on any former examination. The young man (Williams), whose appearance is not affected by his imprisonment, as the Mayor had kindly allowed him every indulgence consistent with his safe keeping, bowed to the Magistrates, and stood within the bar. The first witness examined was Dr. Kidd, the Regius Professor of Anatomy to the University, who deposed to the state of the body at its exhuma tion last week. The details of the Professor's evi dence need not be entered into; but it went to prove the nature of the wounds inflicted on the de ceased, and the sort of instrument with which they must have been committed; the impossibility of their being inflicted by the deceased herself, and the excruciating nature of the torments she must have endured between the perpetration of the inhuman deed and the period when they were terminated by death. Mr. Tackwell, Mr. Wingfield, Mr. Paxton, the medical gentlemen who assisted in the examination of the body, were also examined, and their testimony went to the same purport. Other witnesses were examined, with a view to account for the appearance of the stains on the linen of Williams, and to speak to the fact of his having said that he had drawn claret, from a gentleman with whom, according to his own account, he had been engaged in a row on the evening when the young woman (Crotchley) was so cruelly and in humanly murdered. The most decisive -evidence was given that Williams had no stick or umbrella (with either of which, it is conjectured, the wounds must have been given) in his possession, either when he left the City Arms public-house on that night, shortly previous to the time when Crotchley was found lying drunk in Blue Boar-lane, or at any pe riod of the same night. In explanation of the circumstance of Williams turning up his coat when he talked of having drawn the claret from one of the gentleman who had, ac cording to his own story, assaulted him in the street, it was proved, that what might, upon a slight and indistinct view, appear to have been blood (or rather the impression that it was such made on the minds of the witnesses by his having just spoken of draw ing the claret) was not really such. It was given in evidence that he occasionally bound up his wrist with a riband, in consequence of its weakness, from having formerly been sprained, and that he used an old red watch riband for that purpose, which had been given to him by Mrs. Barton, the landlady of the City Arms. The mayor and magistrates retired after the entire of the evidence had been gone into, and after some consultation with Mr. Robertson, the town-clerk, as to the power of magistrates to admit to bail on a charge of felony of a serious nature, the latter gen tleman consulted Mr. Peel's Acts, and advised the magistrates under all the circumstances of the case, it being in his opinion one which had all the at tributes belonging to those which Mr. Peel's Act contemplated, viz.—where the presumption of guilt was much weakened by the examination of the wit nesses, to allow the prisoner to stand out till the period of the sessions on bail. The Mayor accordingly intimated to Williams that he would be discharged from custody upon his en tering into recognizances, and finding bail to answer any bill of indictment which would be preferred against him for felony and murder at the next Ge neral Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the city of Oxford, to be holden in the course of the ensuing month. The bail to be, himself in 500/., and two sureties in the sum of 2501. each. The prisoner was then removed, the bail required not being at the time forthcoming. The discretion allowed the Magistrates by Mr. Peel's Act, resorted to by them, appears, in this instance, to have been judiciously exercised; as whiie there seemed from the examination of the witnesses, as far as it has hitherto proceeded, not sufficient grounds to commit the prisoner fully, still there does appear some cause of suspicion, which, for the prisoner's sake, it were well, in the present highly excited state of the public mind, to have removed by the decision of a Jury of his country. It is doubted whether the prisoner will be able to make out the required security; but as the time of trial approaches so nearly, only a temporary de privation of liberty will be experienced by him. The city of Oxford enjoys a privilege possessed by no other city within the British dominions, with the exception, perhaps, of Bristol—namely, the power of trying at the sessions of the peace, by its own legal head, the Recorder, felonies of the worst de scription, treason, murder, &c. It is said that upwards of 30,0001. have been expended this year by the booksellers upon their annuals. The Keepsake alone cost HURST, CHANCE, and Co. 6,000/. Forget Me Not cost AcKERm,..NN nearly as much. The Bijou cost 3,oool.—Edinburgh Observer. GRAND LODGE OF DRUIDS.—Last night a meeting was held at the Freemasons' Tavern, for the pur pose of electing officers for the ensuing quarter, when, in addition to the members who usually attend the weal) lodge, many visiters from the country, and other London branches were present. After the election of three Mem bers of the Council of Direction, and the appointment of the Bards and other officers, the Lodge proceeded with the harmony of the evening, and continued in conviviality to 1‘ late hour. It appeared that there were more than a hun dred Lodges, most of which were in a state of great pro sperity. The arrangement of the various donations made to the Society, during the recess, had a pleasing effect. Our readers will be best able to judge of their number and importance from tho following list : Thirty-two ancient vases and fragments of vases—several of them containing human bones and ashes—found [at : Colchester, Dean near Edinburgh, and Bavay, a celebrated Roman sta tion (Bajacum Nerviorum) in the north of France ; also, solar head, thirty inches in diame ter, of a cast taken by Mr. W. Bullock, in Mexico, from the Great Calendar, vulgarly styled " Montezuma's Watch" of basaltic porphyry ; casts of the sacred serpent; and head of the vic tim within the jaws of the colossal serpent, in the cloisters of the Dominican Convent at Mexico— being the munificent gifts of E. W. A. Drum mond Hay, Esq. secretary. Several dies of the coin of the realm—found in the possession of forgers tried before the Court of Justiciary—froth Thomas Thomson, Esq., Advocate. Parts of a Collection of Scottish Melodies— George Thomson, Esq., Edinburgh. " Samlinger for noderns fornalskare"—Alex ander Seton, Esq., Stockholm. Pamphlet, describing Hindoo Bellows—W.A. Cadell, Esq., F.R.S., the author. List of the Examinable person within the se cond bounds of the N. K. Parish, 1704—(M5.) —James Law, Esq., York-place. Part I. vol. 11. " Archcelogia Adamson, Esq., Secretary. Eulogium on Thomas Jefferson, Esq., by Nicholas Biddle—printed 1827--American Philosophical Society. Account of an antique metallic vase discovered in the bed of the Severn—General H. Hutton, royal engineers. Illustrations, Graphic and Literary, of Fonthill Abbey—John Britton, Esq. F.A.S., the author. Union of Architecture, Sculpture, and Paint , ing. Description of Rosslyn Chapel. Beauties of Vk , iltshire. Lambeth Palace. Portrait of the author. Javanese spear—Mr. Robert Fergusson. Gift of the late Miss Foulis of Colinton, daughter of Sir James. Her father'S Journal from Portugal in 1761-2. Poems by Sir James. An unfinished translation of Hesiod's Weeks and Days, in the handwriting of Sir James. Several of General Paolis' Letters. His speech French, his a June l d 7 h 6 e r 9 e . nt s Letter wln ie to surrounded scoti t r b y y the countrymen, May 1, 1794, and his address to the citizens of Corsica, 1795—W. Dallas, Esq. W.S. Ancient vase found at the Roman _ Camp Limeworks. Antique Bronze, in shape of brace lets, found at Pitcalpin, near Dundee, 1732. Asiatic Shield of Buffalo. A description of the Isles of Zetland, by Thomas Gifford of Busta, 1733, (to all appearance the original MS.) Dr. Farquharson of Broghdarg's Dissertation on Ale, MS. 4t0., 7 leaves. Ancient inscriptiOns on stones found in Scotland—Countess Dowager of Morton. A matchlock, shield, and steel coat, part of the arms of a Ghaut soldier, killed at the siege of Bhurtpore, and taken from the fort after the storming—By Alexander Murray, Esq, lieute nant 59th regiment. Twelve Tov arrows, said to have belonged to King James IV.—Master J. Stevenson, 15, B ccleuch Place. " Religion der Babylonier"—Von D. Fred rick Munter, B. of Zealand. A Malay Creese—Robert Allan, junior, Esq. Edinburgh. The will of Rob. Josey, and of his grandson, Joseph Herriot, 2d February, 1660—W. C. Trevelyan, Esq. through Dr. Greville. Ancient Sandal, and Coins found at the Mag dalen Guard, Dundee—Lieut. A. Sutherland, Edinburgh. " Nordiske Kaempe Historier," 3 vols. and in 3 vols. royal Bvo. " Forumanna Sogur."—C. C. Rafu, Ph. D. Prof. in Un. of Copenhagen. Six Burmese idols, formed of a thin plate of silver—George Swinton, Esq. Secretary to the Government, Calcutta. Chinese hat—Thomas Thomson, Esq. M.D. Canon ball found at Castle Campbell—J. G. Dalzell, Esq. Specimen of vitrified fort at Cullen, and series of coins—John Gordon, Esq. of Cairnbulg. Six small Greek vases—Alex. M'Donald, Esq. Asst.. Curator. Vol. XXI. Part 11. Archfelogia—Through Sir Henry Jardine. Some wheat found among the Roman remains, near the Forth and Clyde Canal—J. Robison, Esq. Vol. 1. Transactions of Perth Antiquarian Society—Earl of Kinnoul. An Essay on the War Galleys of the an cients, with a model—Mr. John Howel, (the author.) Blowing pipe, with quiver full of arrows — some poisoned—from Demerara—William Gor don, of Evie, Esq, A pass, by Charles Earl of Sunderland, 1708 —James Drummond, Esq. writer. Fac simile engraving of the signatures of the Commissioners for settling the Union between Englandalid o Scotland—Thomasfalithe above don T at h i o o m ns s , by on Esq., Dep.-Clerk-Reg. A Description Mr. M'Donald, Asst.-Curator, was read at the meeting, and wholly occupied the Society during the evening.—Edinburgh Observer of Tuesday. It is pretty generally known that the jbrk, which is now so universally adopted with knives at our tables, was introduced into this country from Italy by the celebrated traveller CORIAT, about 1600, and who was called furcifer, from using this implement. The spring guard, which is now so commonly affixed to our carving. forks, is a modern improvement ; and it may be entertain ing to many fork users as well as fork makers, to be in formed that we are indebted to the ingenuity of a cutler of the name of BARNETT, who resided at Warwick, for the introduction of an appendage, which, as most persons have observed, is equally simple and useful.—Shejfiekl Iris. GRA VESEND,DEC. 20.—lesterday morning, about ten o'clock, four men came to this place for the pur • pose of going to London by the packets ; but being tots late, they went on board a small decked boat, about 12 tons burden, and the man agreed to take them up ; the wind at the thee was blowing very strong from the S.W. Shortly after the above got on hoard, five persons were brought on board by the Tilbury ferrymen, from Esaex, they also being too late for the packet. Shortly after the boat started ; but dreadful to relate, the boat arrived near to Greenhithe, when, by a strong squall of wind, she was upset, and eight out of the ten were drowned, including the waterman. Three of the passengers were taken up by a boat belonging to a brig which was passing at the time, kme of whom died before he could be got on shore. The five that came from Essex were of the same family. —viz., husband, wife, two children, and the uncle of the wife , who all shared the same disastrous fate. The otb 9r t wo who are drowned are not k nown at this Plsce a t present. LIVERPOOL. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 26.—High water 36 minutes put five o'clock.---Wind S.S.W.--Arrived the Amity, Vaughan, from Bahia, with cotton—Arrow, Booth, from Glasgow, with sundries—Clyde, Hall, from ditto, with ditto—Manchester, Mitchell, from ditto, with ditto—La tona, Walker, from Leith, with ditto--Countess of Lone. dale, Marshal l ( steamer), from Whitehaven, with ditto— Con l eig l'i n li a i l l , )3 (steamer), from Dublin, with the mail. Private Wright, Taylor, and Co. ; six brigs off ditto— Comet, at four o'clock. Telegraph Office, December 26. Wind at Holyhead, at 10. 45., S.W., light breeze. — Nothing to report. A brig off Golden Grove, at 2. 30., homeward bound, has not shown her number. CLEARED OUTWARDS.-Levant Star, Owen, for Genoa and Leghorn. CHILD MURDER.-011 the morning of the 14th inst. two boys, fishing in the canal of the trustees of the late Duke Of BRIDGEWATER, in Hulme, near Man chester, discovered the body of a fine new born child, floating on the water, naked, and with a string fastened round its neck to which was attached a stone. On the Isth, an inquest was held before Mr. MILNE, at the Bull's Head, in Hulme, when after the examination of wit- nesses, and a surgeon, the Jury brought in a verdict 01 " Wilful Murder against some person or persons unknown."—.-.l3lackburne Mail. at present