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).- . 4 I . I •...• • , • • . . . . „:. • , - , • . A rti. , s/ 37 04, 11 .. E • //2 a • ~~.,.,, TT7lutt() ;: t. ; ~. I NUMBER 10,080. SATURDAY EVE.NING, JANUARY 1, 1825. PRICE SEVENPENCE. { ~~i~f WEST INDIA DOCK COMPANY. "lIIE COURT of DIRECTORS of the WEST INDIA DOCK COMPANY do hereby give No.- that an HALF YEARLY GENERAL COURT will held, pursuant to the directions of the Act of Parliament, the West India Dock House, No. 8, Billitet-square, on WAY, the 7th day of January next, at One o'Clock in Afternoon, at which Meeting a DIVIDEND will be de red for the Half-year ending the 31st instant. By Order of the Court, H. LONGLANDS, Sec. Vest India Dock House, Dec. 17, 1824. i.B. The Chair will be taken at Two o'Clock precisely, JEST'S GALLERY, •No. 14, NEW.. MAN-STREET. L'he GRAND PICTURES of CHRIST REJECTED, and ;ATH on the PALE HORSE, painted by the late BEN MIN WEST, Esq. 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'The Philomathic Journal, and Literary Review, has taken high_ and independent groun d , an d appea l s to t h e P u bli c f or that encouragement which is the best support of sincere and earnest endeavour. _ London : Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, B ro wn, and Green, Paternoster-row ; Wheatley and Allard, 108, Strand ; and Cox, 11, Berners-street, Oxford-street. OLD CUSTOMS on NEW YEAR'S DAY. This festive day appears to have been observ- ed at all periods, and in nearly every nation, as a season of more than ordinary jollity, as the vulgar, says Bowme, are al ways very careful to end the old year well, so are they no less solicitous of making a good beginning of the new one. The old one is ended with a hearty composition ; the new one is opened with the custom of sending presents, which are termed New Year's Gifts, to friends and acquaintances. He resolves both customs into superstition, as being observed that the suc ceeding year ought to be prosperous and successful. The record Of rural festivity and amusement, must, as far as it is unaccompanied by any detail of riot or intemperance, he a subject of pleasing contemplation to every good and cheerful mind. Labour, the destined portion of by far the greater part of human beings, requires frequent intervals of relaxation; and the encouragement of innocent diversion at stated periods, may be considered, both in a moral and political point of view, as essentially useful. Unfortunately the license on these oc casions is too often abused. The ushering in of the New Year, or New Year's tide, with rejoicings, presents, and good wishes, was a custom observed during the sixteenth century, with great parade and regularity, and is still kept up in various parts of the country. In old times, the young women in the country, on the New Year's Eve, went about with the wassail bowl, which was the same that is called the gossip's bowl in Shakspeare's lifidsummer Night's Dream. The composition was ale, nutmeg, sugar, toast, and roasted crabs Or apples. It was also called Lamb's wool. " A massey bowl, to deck the jovial day, Flash'd from its ample round a sunlike ray Full many a century it shone forth to grace The festive spirit of the Andarton race. As to the sons of sacred union dear, It welcomed with Lamb': Wool the rising year". This custom of wassailing, Dr. Milner informs us, (" Ar chavalogia" v. xi.) was not all abOlished by the introduction.of Christianity among us, though one certainly of Heathen ori gin. On the contrary, it began to assume a sort of religious aspect; and the wassail bowl itself, which in great monasteries was placed on the Abbot's table, at the upper end of the re fectory or eating-hall, to be circulated among the community at his discretion, received the honourable appellation of Pocu tans Chatitatis. This in our Universities is now called the Grace Cup. It was practised, as we learn from the collection of Ordinances for the Royal Household, published by the An tiquarian Society, at the Court of Henry VII., at which time it appears that the ancient custom of pledging each other out of the same bowl or cup, had given place to the more elegant practice of each person having his own cup, and that " when the steward came in at the door with the wassel, he was to crie three times, r✓uss;l, wassel, wassclt and then the chaplain was to answer with a song." Another custom still observed in Cumberland on New Year's eve, is Mentioned in Ilutchinson's History of that county— " On the eve of the new year," says he, " the children go from house to house, singing a ditty which craves the bounty ' they were wont to have in Old King Edward's days.' rhere is no tradition whence this custom arose ; the donation is two-pence, or a pve at every, house. We have to lament that so negligent are the people of the morals of youth, that great part of the salutation is obscene and offensive to chaste ears. It certainly has been derived, the author observes, from the vile orgies of heathens." " Druidian customs of going out to cut the misletoe," Sel den says, " some have grounded a custom on, to this day used in France ; where the younger country-fellows about New Year-tide, in every village give the wish of good fortune at the inhabitants' doors, with this acclamation, " Au quy l'An Neuf," i. c. to the misletoe this New Year; which, as I re member, in Rabelais, is read all in one word, for the same purpose." In Scotland it is still observed as a custom, and particularly at Glasgow, to distribute sweet cakes, and a certain kind of sugared bread, called short bread, for several days before and after the new year, and on the last night of the old year (pecu liarly called Ilagnianai), the visiters and company make " a point of not separating until after the clock has struck twelve, when they rise, and mutually kissing each other, wish each other a happy new year. Of the lower orders many parade the streets, carrying a jug or kettle full of whisky toddy, of which they invite such acquaintance as they meet to partake, seldom, parting, if each are of the opposite sex, without a salute. In other parts of Scotland it is customary, upon the last night of the old year, for the children to go about from door to door, asking for bread and cheese, which they call nog-money, in these words : " Get up, gudewife, and buino sweir (be not lazy), And deal your cakes and cheese, while you are here ; For the time will come when ye'll be dead, And neither need your cheese nor bread." Dr. Plot, in his History of Staffordshire, mentions that, within memory, at Abbot's or I'aget's Bromley, they had a sort of sport, which they celebrated on New Year's Day, cal led the hobby-horse dance, from a person who carried the figure of a horse between his legs, made of thin boards, and in his hands a bow and arrow. The latter passing through a hole in the bow, 'and stopping on a shoulder, made a snapping noise when drawn to and fro, keeping time with the music.— With this man danced six others, carrying on their shoulders as many rein-deer heads, with the arms of the chief families to . whom the revenues of the town belonged. Thep danced the heys and other country dances. To the above hobby-horse dance there belonged a pot ; all people who had any kindness for the good intent of the institution of the sport giving pence a-piece for themselves and families. Foreigners also that came to see it contributed ; and the money, after defraying the ex pence of the cakes and ale, went to repair the church and sup port the poor : which charges, adds the Doctor, are not now, perhaps, so cheerfully borne. Prynne in his " Histrio-Illastrix," speaks with his usual malignity of both Christmas and New-year's sports, but affords us at the same time an insight as to the manner in which it was then customary to celebrate those festivals : Our Bacchanalian Christmasses and New-years' tides with these Saturnalia and Feasts of Janus, we shall find between them both such neat affinitiye in regard to time (they being both in the end of December and first of January), and in their manner of solemnizing (both of them being spent in revelling, epicurisme, wantonnesse, idlenesse, dancing, drinking, stage-plaies, masques, and carnall pomp and jollity), that we must needes conclude the one to be but the very ape or issue of the other. Hence Po lydore Virgil affirms in expresse tearmes that our Christmas Lords of Misrule (which custom, saith he, is chiefly observed in England), together with dancing, masques, mummeries, stage-player, and such other Christmas disorders now in use with Christians, were derived from these Roman Saturnalia and ilacchanalian Festivals; which (concludes he) should cause all .pious eternally to abominate them." At Bamff, in Scotland, we are told by Sir John Sinclair, "on the first night in January, they observe, with anxious attention,. the disposition of the atmosphere. As it is calm or boisterous ; as the wind blows from the South or the North ; from the East or the West ; they prognosticate the nature of the weather till the conclusion of the year. The first night of the New Year, when the wind blows from the West, they call dar-na-coille, the night of the fecundation of the trees ; and from this circum stance has been derived the name of that night in the Gaelic language. Their faith in the above signs is couched in verse (thus translated.) " The wind of the South will be productive of heat and fer tility ; the wind of the west, of milk and fish ; the wind from the North, of cold and storm ;- the wind from the East, of fruit on the trees." * l'olwhele's Old English Gentleman, p. 117- FOR THE SUN. . . . . , Mtt; EDITOR—I dare say your Correspond ent of Tuesday is very wise ; and so they are,4 dare say. But as, perhaps, I,(19 not know. much more than the ".Methodist Parson" .alluded to, what is meant in the passage about the . thief, hell, and Paradise; .possibly, if you, ask him, he will tell me. And then again, when he is about it, perhaps he will also tell me, only cau tiously, because I have tender eyes and ears, why the name of Johanna has lately been . so much built.up in order to, be beaten down again ; .and why the apparently harmless Southcotians, must be so ravaged and torn to pieces, instead of being invited out of error, if in error, into truth. No one, I think, reverences the Clergy of the Church of England more than I do, regards them more tenderly, nor esteems them more highly ; but still I dare think there is no sufficient depth of earth, even among them, for them to lay a claim to ge4• nuine truth ; they must leave this to other hands, and not grasp all the loaves and fishes to them selves, which, to ,say the least of it, would at best be selfish. I think, indeed, with your Cot:- . respondent, that it is not right to turn out the unlearned and unskilful upon the Bible, as into . an uncultivated waste and wilderness, not merely without a commentary which is not enough, but even not 'without a living guide ; lest perchance they be placed in the. satne perilous situation with-our Church, of being deluged by the torrent of curses from the mouths of dragons and devils, instead-of falling into the hands of good and kind Shepherds ; but I do not think him authorized to indulge his vein of satire, even on the Popes -of Rome;- and still less so on the Methodists and Soutlicotians. Let - us leave ridicule to the Vol takes, Chesterfields, and Rochesters; at least, let ours be a careful irony, and not. strong enough to poison where it cannot heal. When Thomas Paine thotight he had cut the Bible to pieces, he began, but too late, to find his error too truly ; that it was not the Bible and the Priests, but himself and his compeers, that his axe had hewed down : and so I think it will be wise in your Correspondents, if they must be severe, at least to traduce very cautiously what they cannot un derstand, lest. the same judgment.fall upon them selves. For men to vent their indignation, even upon the enemies of Christianity, is no proof of themselves being Christians. We want no more Crusades ; and the Ivauhoes and Richards of the day had best learn caution--the virtue I most want, and which therefore I conclude is most wanted in the world, is humility. I was myself obliged to be stammered at, as a child is, before I could learn any thing of truth, and then learned it slowly enough, Heaven knows ; and what I now know, as they are verba rnagistri, I will not boast of, as though my own. But if the columns of your Paper, from which I have cer tainly derived information, though dangerously given, at least to one so weak as myself, will ad mit this Letter, your Correspondent will be asked openly for knowledge or wisdom, which, if it be right for. him to give as well as myself to receive, many, as well as myself, I think have need of ; but I would rather be without it than have it given wrongly, rudely, or incautiously ; and if he or she answer me satisfactorily, per haps I may tell more about Maynooth College than is engerally known or thought of. .. Your's, &c. INUNDATIONS IN GERMANY. Extract from a Letter of the Secretary of the Frankfort Association to the .Secretary' of the London Committee : " FRANKFORT, DEC. 17, in 4. " By the direction of the Honourable Association of Clergy men and Merchants formed at this place. I have the honour to answer your valuable letter of the 6th inst., and in their name to express to you and the respectable London Committee .for the Relief of the Distressed Inhabitants of the South of Ge r - many, their sincerest thanks for the interest which, by word and deed, they have excited and evinced in behalf of our unfortunate brethren. The Higher Hand, from which this calamity came, will reward those who spent a part of what they possessed in. alleviating it. " The London Committee may rest assured that the Associa tion established here is constituted in such a manner. as will enable them to obtain authentic communications concerning -the wants of the different districts, and particularly of those who have suffered most, so that the allotment of every kind of :re lief will be made with full knowledge of the state of things, with conscientious impartiality, and by persons of acknow ledged integrity. They have obtained a still more accurate knowledge of the state of things in the most distressed districts by one of their members, who has visited, and, with the assist ance of the Magistrates and the Clergymen, made minute. in quiries at most of the places. Extracts from his reports I shall have the honour to communicate in a few days, to give a general idea of .the great misery. But they. will only be words. Eye-witnesses alone, who have beheld the unexampled de vastation, the manifold wants, and the distress of the unfor tunate, they are deprived of all means of supporting them selves, their losses in houses, fields, gardens, cattle, provi sions, and every kind of property, are able to judge of 'the whole extent of this calamity. For three or four months this distress will continue, during which time frost and cold will be new enemies to be contended with. Many resources .are now already found to be exhausted, a considerable part of the pro visions for the winter having been either swept away orspoiled. Under all these circumstances, a continuation of the exertions of the London Committee to make further collections, is highly to be recommended. " The Frankfort Association of Clergymen an&} others, will not fail hereafter to render an accurate account of the applica. tion of the sums entrusted to them." quantity of lead pipes EXTENSIVE SYSTEM OF ROBBERY AT LORD) SUFFIELD'S MANSION.—At M a rlba b ro y u t gh wo -s o tr f e t e h t e y ß es o te w r . d a a:s ee a t young man, named Henry King, in the employ of Messrs. B. W. and C. Jearrard, the eminent builders, at No. 261, Oxf or d_ street, and Clerk of the works that are now extensively going on at the mansion of Lord Su ffi eld in Park-lane, was brought on being struck by the harpoon, patrol,before I ‘ c Ir a . r Cg charged with, tiT, ha th v e in m a gistrate, la sto gi l s e t n ra a te l , arge and sheet lead; and Mary Ann King, his wife, was charged as 7 the depth of 800 fathoms, at which depth the an accessary. After an examination of Witnesses the prisoners were remanded. . pressure on its body exceeds the weight of sixty of the largest ships of the British navy, when manned, provisioned, and fitted for a six months' cruise.—( Captain Scoresby.,