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- r , C* 4 4 '" L i ^7 4 L., 4. It 1644451-14 NIMIBER, 9153.] - I WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1821. PAYMENT of PRIZES of FOURTH LOTTERY for 1840. LOTTERY-OFFICE, SOMERSET-PLACE, December 24, 182 f. THE COMMISSIONERS appointed for MA NAGING the LOTTERIES do, hereby give Notice, That Numbers of TICKETS and SHARES thereof in all .preceding Lotteries may be examined at, this Office every day (Sundays excepted) between the hours of Ten and Three, With their Registers of Benefits and Blanks. And the COMMISSIONERS appointed to , take in the BENEFIT TICKETS of the FOURTH LOTTERY for 1920, do hereby give Notice, That they will attend at their Office, in Somerset-Place, on MONDAY, the 14th, day of January next, from Ten o'Clock in the Forenoon to Two t?'Clockln the Afternoon, to take in and enter the BENEFIT TICKETS (not )et paid) of the same Fourth Lottery for 1 820,, to be exchanged for Certificates, pursuant to the Act of Parliament in that'behalf. And for further dispatch thereof, the said COMMISSION ERS will take in and enter tile BENEFIT TlCKEPrbe ginning No. 1, and ending No. 1 . 0,000, at bne seat, and the Benefit Tickets beginning No. 10,001, and cutting No. 20,009, at another seat, and the persons possessed thereof are directed to bring witb their Tickets separate Lists thereof, marked A and D, formed in numerical order, adapted to each of the said seats, and at the bottom of each List to write the name with the proper additions of the person entitled to the value of the said Tickets. And the said COMMISSIONERS also give further notice, That Certificates for the value of the said Tickets will be de livered out on FRIDAY, the 18th day of January next, at Noon, after which. the said COMMISSIONERS will take in and enter Tickets in their usual Monthly entry; and all per sons interested are desired to observe they must bring dupli cates of their Lists when they come for their Certificates. The COMMISSIONERS also give further notice, That. Tickets brought to this Otlice for Payment, the Checks of which are turn or destroyed, will not be entered for payment, with snit a Bond being given to indemnify the said COMMIS'3ION FAS for granting Certificates for the same. ILOYAL-EXCHANCE ASSURANCE OFFICE ZstabliSiiedby Royal Charter, in thtt.iteign of King George the First. December, 1821. pERSONS; whose annual Premiums fall due on the 25th instant, n-c hereby informed, that Receipts are now ready to he delivered at the Company's Offices, over the Royal Exchange and in Pall-Mall, as well as by their re spective Agents in the seve.ral Comities; and the Patties as sured arc regnested to apply for the Renewal of their Poli cies on or before the . 9th of Jannal y next, as the usual Fif sten pays allowed. for Payment, beyond the date of each Po licy, wilt then expire. • . SA.MUEL FENNING, Jun. Secretary. N.B. Attendance is given, daily, at the said Offices, for the Assurance of Buildings, GOods, I Nlerchandize ' .and Ships, in Harbour, in Dock, or while Building, from Loss of Da wage h , ,.• Fire ; and also for the Assurance of, and granting Annuitces on, Lives. • Fire Policies will be issued free of Expence to the As sured, where the Annual Premium amounts to Gs.' or. up 'w'ards. • PRE COUNTRY VERSUS LONDON, - 41 - No. 111. Oro the Ist of JANUARY NEXT will be PUIILISHED, by :\lesrs, RIVING I ON, and to be had of all 13(mli,cllers in Town and Country, price Two Shillings. . , SNIIRKE'S SHAKESPEARE. In the conrse of Publication, if LLUST RATIONS of SHAKESPEARE , .M. , hmn Pictures • Painted expressly for this WORK, by irollEßT SMIRKE, Esq. ILA. and Engraved in the finest style by the most eminent I - 1 !SI OtiCit I Engravers. A celebrated German critic hiss said, that the fame of Shakspeare," - for centuries to come, will continue to gather strength, like an Alpiue avalanche, at every period of its de• scent." Certain it is, that any work connected with Shak - 'speare's name, and which has fur its object' the illustratiiin of . . his inimitable productions, may confidently rely 011 hiding fav;iiii vitli the world. His tame is the cause of hone 1 in others. Commentators innumerable have been permit. ted to inscribe their - otherwise perishable names on the eternal rock of his genius ; and even Players have for,. yearsacquited opulence and popularity by happy portraitures of his living characters. In announcing, therefore, a series of engravings, intended as embellishments for any edition of 4 Shakspeart's Plays, it is unnecessary to offer an argument to vindicate, or an apology to excuse, the undertaking. The spirit of poetry, which hauots every scene of the Plays of Shakspeare, beckons to her sister art to wander with her, and thus " make society the sweeter welcome :" and it will now, it is hoped, tie 'seen that she does nut call in vain: In the whole range of the drama, there are no works in w hi c h . characters so, striking and various, or ,fituations so romantic twit delightful, present themselves, to invite the illustration, and inspire the emulation, of pain ins. The edill0(1% of our Putt's plays have for the must part been published without embellishments, or encumbered with en g rayi ng S SO indifferent, as to make their possessors consider them "-when unadorned, adorned the must." It is chiefly TO supply inch editions that the Proprietors of the present Work have undertaken it. Each Play will furnish subjects for five elegant Engravings, iii addition to a Vignette; the aggregate number, therefore, of the plates will be Two Hun dred- and Twenty4wo. The name of the Artist from whose hand the Paintings for this Work are to proceed, may fully justify, and will doubt less not deceive, the most sanguine expectations. The Ge nius of Smirke has successfully displayed its power in-his ll lastrations to - Gil Bias, the Arabian Nights' Entertainmeuts, 1 and the late Edition of Pon Qeixote ; and the va ried scenes of passion andbumour, in the Plays of Shakspeare, will afford a still more ample scope for the extraordinary skill and f beauty oihis penZil. . • The Proprietors, refraining from the usual promises and flatteries of a prospectus, content thtuuselves with referring -•; the public to the Numbers already published of this Work, as a fair specimen of the care and ability with. which the whole ' . will regularly be produced. . . . . MODE OF FUBLICATIoN : . I. The Work will be comprised in Thirty-seven Numbers ; i each Number containing Five Illustrative Engravings, and a ' - Vignette. 11. A Number will be publisiled every Two Months, till completed. 4. .1. il. • India paper, proofs, tto • 1 10 0 French paper, proofs, 4to ..... - 1 5 0 Imperial Beo 0 18 0 i' Royal Bvo 0 14 0 * 4 ls. For the accommodation of those who may be desirous of possessing a beautiful and curt ect Edition of Shakspeare, it. is intended to publish one, in Octavo, (without Notes,) from the last corrected text of Johnson and Steevens; and the Play ilhistrated will be published at the same time with the Em bellishments, price Three Shillings each Number. A limit i•• ed number of copies will be printed on Imperial Octavo, t price Six Shillings each Number. f' The Numbers already published are as follow : ' I. The Tempest. • 11. Taming of the Shrew. • HI. Merry Wives of Windsor. • • • • • IV. Twelfth Night, (in February 1822.) V. Nlea,ure for Measure, Oil VI. Romeo and Juliet, (in June.) VII. Henry the Fourth, Pat t I, (in August.) VIII. Midsummer Night's Dream, (in October.) IX. Two Gentlemen of Verona, (in December.) Lostdon • Printed for Itodwell and Martin, Bond-street. ; • sold by Colnaghi end Co. Cockspur-street, and the principal noultstilers in the United Kingdom. TO THE PUBLIC. T. BISH has the .pleasure of performing the pleasing task, which devolves on him at the close of -each Lottery, of thanking his best Friends, the public, for he decided preference shewn to hint, and he is happy he can, as usual, congratulate them on the fortunate result of their purchases at his Offices. The following splendid List of Capitals, all sold by him in the Lottery just finished, will sufficiently justify the preference so generally and universally shewn to his Establishment ; and prove that fortune, how ever proverbially fickle, is constant in her attachment to her old favourite, , 7,849 . , cao,ono .18,868' • 2,000 602 17,363 • • 1,000 10,933 15,715 -17,040 ......... £3OO 15,374 ' 300 2,481 3,2.54 8.283 8;875 .. 2,032 4 . • (1,275. 3OO A New Lottery' was contract T. BISII will'have the pleasuu the Public in a few days 4, Cornbill, and 9, Charing ted for on Saturday last, and . e of submitting the Sch4me to Cross. PROCES to 'PREVENT MILDEW in every KIND of • CANVAS,- made either of 1-I.EMP, FLAX, or COTTON. It ESSRS. nROW ELL and, CO. 23; Alder kVA. luanhiiry, having had their Invention honoured by a thorough. examination - of the Society of Ship Owners of Great Britain, and Mr. COCK, its Secretary, having on the liiti October last acquainted them, " That the Committee (from " the evidence laid before them) - are perfectly satisfied that " the Invention possesses the valuable quality ascribed to it, " and consequently that it is of great importance to Ship " Owners in general ;" beg leave to acquaint the Shipping Interests that Sail-Uloth.of various tinds, which bare under gone their Process, may be bad of Messrs. Chalmers and Guthrie, Idol-lane, Tower-street. Each Bolt is marked by a red stamp with a Crown surrounding the letter 11.—The low price of sc. per Bolt (or lid. per yard) occasions an expence not exceeding in any case 5 per cent., for every Ship of what ever size, upon the whole cost of the DUBLIN, DEC. 22. (From Sanders's Newsletter.) CATHOLIC ADDRES§.—A deputation of Catho lics, headed by Lord FtiioALL, waited on Mr. GRANT yesterday, and presented the following Address:— Sen—We, the Roman Catholics of Ireland, who hailed your arrival amongst us with 4entiments of the highest gratification, beg leave to proffer to you, at your departure,•the unfeigned expression of our respect and regard., Your able assertion of our rights in Parliament, was the first demand upon our gratitude, and we have had repeated proofs in your official conduct of the consistency of that principle, which awakened in our vindication your eloquence and your zeal. In your late orders to the Commanders of Yeomanry Corps, we recognize that enlightened policy which would unite all classes of Irishmen, without religious distinction, in the pro tection of the public peace, and in the vindication of the public law. They have been conceived in that great spirit of concilia tion, which our beloved Sovereign sought to produce, which it has been your object to extend, and our most anxious wish to promote. While we deeply lament the disturbances which . at present distract our unhappy country, we feel consoled by the re flection, that they have not grown out of causes, religious or political—and we are fully convinced that their origin is to be found in circumstances which were not within your power to controul. We beg leave again to express our sorrow at , your departu re from amongst us, and to assure you, that in wh.atever more ex tilted station the service of your country may require your pre... sence, you will carry with you our highest admiration, and our lasting gratitude. To which Mr. GRANT returned the following . Answer MY LORDS AND GENTL'EUTIN, It is with feelings of peculiar satisfaction.that I receive from the Roman Catholics of Ireland this testimony of their regard and good opinion. • • I beg you will accept my. thanks for the assurance that, in your judgment, the general tenor of my public conduct has not been at variance with my early declarations. It is no small debt of gratitude which I owe you, that in quitting this Country, I am enabled to carry with the this gratifying recollection.— hatever may be my future lot in lite, I shall never cease to look back to the period of my residence in this Country with the deepest sense of the kindness, both' public and personal, which I have experienced. The issolution -of . iry official con nexion with Ireland cannot impair my zeal in her service, and will no; I trust, close my upportunities of promoting her welfare. INFERNAL MACHINE. The following is the report of what took place before the Recorder on Tuesday Sessions House, Green-Street, Dec. 18.—This morning, about 11 o'clock, the Grand Jury ap peeared in their box, when, after a short time, Captain Fitzsimons addressed the Bench on be half of his brethren of the Grand Jury, who had requested of him to call the attention of the Court to that unprecedented nuisance which con stantly annoyed the capital, and the country se veral miles round it, by a rumbling noise, no thing less than what precedes an earthquake. said he alluded, of course, to the machinery erect ed at Bow-street distillery, and properly called by the preSs " the infernal machine,!" and the question was, how could the nuisance be abated ? This noise had now assumed a most alarming character. The poor fatigued labourer, and the industrious mechanic, being thereby deprived of the only comfort they could enjoy, as the pecu liar reward of Heaven, a good night's repose ; while the poor feverish patient was, perhaps, sent to a premature grave by his rest being dis turbed. The Learned Recorder laid down the law. as applying to nuisances of the kind, with his usual clearness and precision ; he observed that there was an instance on record, of a man who con stantly blew a trumpet, to annoy his neighbours, being thereof convicted, and sentenced to a small fine and imprisonment, thus establishing the law as applying to the nuisance complained of, and which had been so forcibly stated by the Grand Jury. He then pointed out the mode of proceed ing, which was by presentment in the first in stance, upon which an indictment might be fram ed that would lead to the redress of the grievance complained of. Captain Fitzsimons replied, that the Grand Jury felt highly gratified in this fresh instance of the - Recorder's readiness to redress the complaints of his fellow-citizens, as there could now he no disappointment of this cause of complaint being speedily removed. A very crowded auditory expressed their satis faction at the Recorder's decision, which must add to his well deserved popularity. STATE OF IRELAND:- The folloiving Letter from a very intelligent Correspondent in Dublin' has been addressed to a Friend in London :--- No doubt considerable anxiety prefails in England in consequence of the disturbed state of part of the Southern Districts of this Country:- 1 17, u are too well acquainted with its moral and p constitution to be misled by the state ments of factious and interested alarmists. As, however, the outrages which have diSexaced the Country are somewhat more serious, both in their character and continuance, than any that hair . i .;occurred fora greaeietierti of time, and that were not of a decidedly. religious or politic - al nature, you are anxious,l know, to have my opinion con cerning the causes which have given rise to them, particularly as I have had opportunities of local information on the subject, which ought, at least, to enable me to form a tolerably correct judg ment. In the first place, then, I hope you will not consider it as pedantic if I make a'distinction between the causes and the occasions of these dis turbances. The causes I would call whatsoever influences have been operating for the last half century to produce the demoralization.and bar barism of the peasantry-. The occasions, the particular excitements which called that barba rism into active 'operation. The spark which makes gunpowder explode is not the cause of the explosion : it but furnishes the occasion and the opportunity for the manifestation and development of the inflammable. properties with which it had been previously endued. In the first place, then, let us consider what have been the causes which have produCed that deterioration to the morals of the lower orders of which we have had such convincing and melancholy examples. It is not enough to say that nothing has been done to improve them ; that they have been left to a state of nature. They have not been left to a state Of nature. For while nothing has been done to lead them right, every thing has been done to drive them - wrong. I lately had an opportunity of conversing with a gentleman of large property and conside.•able influence in the county of Lime rick, but whom the disturbances drove out of it to seek refuge here. He was bitterly deploring the condition of the country; and exclaiming loudly against the barbarism of the peasantry. Nothing seemed to have -excited. his astonish ment and indignation more than that the old and re§pectable families were not more exempt from the system of outr'age which was pursued, than upstarts and strangers. I here took occasion to ask him how long his family were settled in the county ; he told me upwards of sixty years. I then asked him what during all that time the Gentry had done for the improvement of the peasantry ? I am aware, I said, that they have been induc trious and intelligent. They have fenced their grounds, increased and improved their stock, and made two blades of grass grow where but one grew before. All this is very well, but what have they done for the improvement,of the peasantry? For unless it can be shewn that equal pains have been taken for their improvement, you have no more right' to wonder that they have re mained unimproved than you would have to wonder that your land remained unproduc tive, if no labour had been expended upon its cultivation. But is it in truth, I added,' enough to say that the gentry in general have been neglectful of the moral improvement of the lower orders ? Have they shewn any solicitude about their own ? 'What is their general mode of living ? if they have formed no associations and opened no schools to improve the minds of the peasantry ; if they have done nothing to instruct them by precept, have they been careful to in struct them by their examples ? Alas! is not the contrary notorious ? I do not wish, I said, under your present circumstances, to be severe even upon the vices of your Gentry ; but I cannot pretend to be at a loss for the causes of the de moralization of the lower orders. Man is an imitative animal. The lower orders are particu larly prone to ape the vices of their superiors.— If the Gentry are habitually and systematically drunkards, and gamblers, and profane swearers, and sabbath-breakers, and 'adulterers, it will go very hard with the peasantry if they do not im prove upon their example. " I am far from de nying," says my friend, (who is really a man of sense), 44 that a heavy responsibility devolves upon the Gentry of every country, and that they are in a great measure accountable for the improve ment of those placed by Providence in the scale below them.. But you do not seem to consider that in the present case there are difficulties which do not exist elsewhere, (in England for instance.) Here -the peasantry are divided by religion from the Gentry. They profess the Roman Catholic Religion, and have been until - lately under, the influence of their priests. How then under such circumstances can we expect that any -efforts made by us for their moral improvement can be availing." " You know,"i said, "' that where the work of moral improvement has been 'seriously and resolutely undertaken, even under the greatest disadvantages, much positive - good has been the resulL Look at the estate-of Lord De Vesey, neaq , the Town of Abbey-leix, and see what that resident and virtuous nobleman has been able to do for his tenantry. Every observing traveller is struck in, passing through the country with the contrast which it presents to what they - had seen before. I might also mention many parts of the county 'Wicklow, in which similar benevolent exertions have been attended With the most com plete success. In truth, I never knew the ex periment to fail after having been fully and fairly tried and 'persevered in. 'Why, then, should it not at least have been attempted.? With respect to the existence of the Roman Catholic Religion, it does no doubt oppose some difficulties to the moral improvement of the people. But you know very well that that superstitiOn is every day losing'its influence, while the people are unhap pily-not adopting any better. Light is every day breaking in upon their minds, which while it leads them from error, is not sufficient to lead them to truth. This then is precisely the exi gency, during which your exertions and your examples are likely to be attended with the best effects. You can at least suffer the fruits of true religion to appear_ in your lives and conver sation. But if they see that you are profligates, at the same time that they begin" to suspect their Priests to be impostors, it is easy•to conjecture the result. They will be driven from their faith in all religion, and plunge, from the most de grading superstition, into the most reckless and desperate infidelity." " Indeed," said my candid friend, " there is no point ,of view in which our unfortunate county appears more contrasted with other counties than in the absence of all active exertion to improve the moral condition of the lower orders." " Ex cept," I replied, " in Elie presence of all possible exertion to disimprove them. It is not enough to 3y that your gentry are not employed in for warding any plans for the education of the sons of the peasantry. They are chiejty employed in seducing their daughters. It is not enough to say that they neither inculcate nor exemplify a respect for the laws of the country. They con nive at,the violation of them, wherever their own least gratification is concerned,' and they rigor ously and vindictively enforce their execution when they only bear against the poor. I allude to the notorious encauragement which is _given to that bane of the country, illicit distillation, by means of which a system has been encouraged, which has contributed more to the growth of crime than, perhaps, any single practice that could be named." My friend here . ' loOked with a de gree of astonishment at me, as if I were magnify ing what he had before considered as the most in nocent thing imaginable had somethingmonstrous., " Only," said I, " consider the thing for one mo ment. The process is carried on bY.niglit. The parties meet, conscious of an unlawful purpose. The conversation naturally takes a turn unfriend ly to those from N - v hoth they• apprehend, any in terruption orAisturbance; The glass . circulates' freely ; the bad passions' are excited and inflarn , ed ; suspicions of danger give. rise to plans of precaution,' which gradually ripen into projects of resistance and revenge. Fraud and Murder are thus familiarized to their minds. An±con vinced am I, that almost every systematic . act of outrage which has been perpetrated in the coun try, has been quickened into existence in those hot-beds of iniquity, which the criminaland pro fligate connivance of the. Qentry :has caused to multiply to such an alarming extent. And these are the men Who .are now lifting their hands and eyes- to lleaven with:astonishment that this peasantry are knot good' Christians,! Who are, forsooth, expressing their - indignatiOn and" horror at the degree in which they are insubordinate and refraCtory ! As if they imagined that they might - go on for ever encouraging them in every thing wrong without: ever experiencing any per sonal inconvenience from it ; and that when you did suffer under any apprehensions from the vio lence of those whoni you had succeeded in de bauching and converting into savages and barba rians, Government should instantly interfe.re for. your protection, and ensure your safety by cut- . Ling their throats. Most undoubtedly the out rages which now prevail must be put down ; and strong.measures must be adopted against the de luded people concerned, in them. But tr'ily the Gentry of the Country are those whom I least pity. As . they have sown, so they should reap. And as they have sown the wind, they are reap ing the whirlwind." This was the substance of a conversation which I had with a Gentleman o f the County of Limerick, and who fully admitted the truth' of the statements which I have detailed. I shall just allude to one other feature in the po litical condition of this Country, a knowledge of which, may throw a further light upon tint pre sent state of the. south. The degree in which the Penal 'Code - has been repealed has ope rated upon the Roman Catholics in ti Manner worse than radical reform. It ha . opened the _elective franchise to myriads of beings in & state of the most brutal ignorance, while it :'has shut them aut;from all hope of aspiring after thoie Unctions which mould operate as a spur to their 'improvement. They are driven like . so many heads of cattle to the hustings ; and in hundreds of instances induced to qualify themselves for voting, by perjury. There are many other cir cumstances which I at present omit to tnentiou, but 'which would be found to bear materially upon the question. But, I ask, after. what I have Stated, is it surprising that the peasantry of the southern part of this country should be.. very much degraded and brutalized ? Is it surprising that when any occasion presents itself they should exhibit the most decided proofs of _barbarism ? I protest I think the oritra;: z ; '4vouid be surpris ing. And is this a state of things to be mended by drinking " the glorious and immortal memory ?" IS this a state of things t9.be radically cured by hallooing an Orange Yeomanry upon the_people? By crying havock, and letting slip the.. dogs of war upon them? Fy, Fy ! The times ,of this ignorance have passed by. A different system must now be pursued. It is in vain that we en deavour to throw the water out of the vessel of state, if we take no pains to staunch the .leak at which it enters. The axe should be laid to the root of the tree. The sources of crime must be dried up before we can hope for its discontinu ance. May. God grant that those who have the power and the influence may employ the talents entrusted to them, for the purpose of restoring the reign of religion and loyalty, and contributing in theonly effectual way to the present and•.per manent tranquillity of the country. . S. SMUGGLING.—The following occurrence took place at Romney Warren, on Saturday night last :-. 7 Messrs. DONNETT and HIGGINSON, Ad miralty Midshipmen, stationed at Little Stone Watch-house, discovered a large tub-boat near the shore, between nine and ten o'clock, and in stantly detached their petty-officer to summon a reinforcement ; the boat, however, came in almost immediately, and upon touching the beach was boarded, by Mr. DONNETT in the hOw.— Mr. H. waded in the water and attempted to cut her hawser with his cutlass, in which he.failed and Mr. D.'s pistol missing fire, he; was thrown overboard by the smugglers, and instantly fired upon by them : at the same, time My. H - tootNses was struck by an oar, or butt end of a musket, and immediately two vollies were fired upon them from the .full of the beach; the boat immediately hauled. ~off, . and . Mr. Doyr-Nrrt. being wounded and in the water,. and declaring his inability to swim, Mr. 11. immediately waded and swam to his assistance,.when_ the. blockade parties arriving in considerable strength, had merely to witness the escape of the smugglers, whose object was completely frustrated, and the retreat of the. dastardly smugglers who had fired from behind the beach, not one of whom could be seen. Mr. HtootsisoN succeeded in assisting his companion, Mr. DONNETT, to the shore, who has received three balls in the left thigh, but is likely to do' well. Mr..!!. is slightly wounded, but both these officers_ have several shots through .their hats and clothes : on ibis oc casion the object of the naval-blockade•ha4 been decidedly carried into effect, by preventing, the cargo from being landed.- 7 - (Kentish Gazette, Dec. 25.) The people of Perth. have it in contemplation to form Joint Stock Societies to obtain *butcher's meat at lower rates than they have.at present. A person from the neighbourhood of Edinburgh, having learnt that the price of butcher's..meat was high in Perth, went there last week with two fat cattle, which he slaughtered, and sold at lid. a lb. under the market price, _and declared that he had made more profit, after pay ing all expenses, than he would have done had he sold the. beef in Edinburgh. When the new farthings first came to town, a grocer in : the High-street, Perth, took one of them to a neigh lour, a merchant, requesting sil i ver for it. The farthing was taken for a sovereign, and the hoax_ was not discovered until the grocer went in next day to return the silver. 7'he Yorkshire Gazette contains the following paragraph " PERPETUAL MOTION.—The piece of mechanism con sists of only one small horizontal wheel, not exceeding 3,4ths of an inch in diameter, through the centre of winch, on the pane of the wheel, passes a iinall magnetic bar pro jecting about three-fourths of an inch beyond the circum ference of the wheel on the one side, and about three eighths of an inch on the other side. These projections are called the North and South Poles. The akit of the whee is, of course, perpendicular. Its operative power is mac ' netism ; its motion (probably owins to the friction insep a rable from' the long-continued action oz the axis in its Sockets) is somewhat irregular ; but on the whole, it is nenriosity highly deserving.attention. Owing ma sudden shock, its motion was stopped entirely the other day, but we have learnt that it has been restored. About two years ago it was stopped b,,SoMe unknown cause, but after a 'short pause recovered its tilOtkon of itself, - without any additional impulse, and continued its revolu dons without intermission. In a room at Mr. Swan's, in Cop pergate, Which was excessively warm and crowded wirh com pany, its action ceased altogether; after first becoming irregulkr and sickly.— Qy. Might not this simple fact- lead to some im portant issue on the question of the variation of the compass ? This we only know, that the in'agnetie inflikrice was deadened by eitftszive heat, and resuscitated by a more Moderate atmos phere." A Correspondent, in The neighbourhood" cif Stowe, Gloucestershire,, on Sainrday. last, while entertaining some youni; people with a s'ght Of the heavenly bodies, through a telescope by BCGE, of gz inches diameter, discovered a comet within the sphere „of J upiterss, third nacon, _and in a south-east ditection crow that 040. Tf . its appearance shoulafhav,e escaped !totice,,the men tion of .the above in a - ,newspaper May interest those ,who are more competent to describe: . situation, course,' kC.- - N ,It was also .. yrsible on Sunday. • 7 11 71' 4,4 11 , 14 ., • X "Y... t • "t' ,- ij : l lC *4 l • * PI , 10; '1 0 PRICE SEVENPENC.E.