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Vortrp. SONG OF TIIE FISHER'S WIFE. ( From the Penny Magazine.) Rest, rest, thou gentle sea, Like a giant laid to sleep, Rest, rest, when day shall flee, And the stars their bright watch keep ; For his boat is on thy wave, And he must toil and roam, Till the flowing tide shall lave, Our dear and happy home. Wake - not, thou changeful sea, Wake not in wrath and power • Oh bear h 4 bark to me, Ere the darksome midnight lower ; For the heart will heave a sigh, • When the loved one's on the deep, llut when angry storms are nigh, What can Mary do,—but weep '1 POETICAL SCHOOLING. (rrclui ' The Dtailt-bed of Politics; or, the Coming o f th e Comet in Seven - - A PORTICAL SQUIB. .STUDIRD nuder Bailey 111.0, -e-the famous Thomas Haines,— And, under that consummate master, took such constant pains, That I soon acquired the art of him, Aud at last so got the start of him, As to beat hiai altogether, both at " honeymotoa" and " Papa and 'ma, delighted at my gett:ng on so well, Were good enough to send me, for a year, to L. E. L. Whore a " Keepsake " being bought me, All the new effects were taught me, Besides some useful secrets, which I promised not to tell. One only that I feel. myself at lihorty to name, Was--" always make the leading words a every verse the same I•get so goo at this, That I wrote a little piece Of four-and-twenty stanzas, and they each began " Site canoe!" In this conjugating .style I also proved a great adept, The next piece published was " She's gone!"—soon after whieli— He wept!" Till nach number, tons?, and person, I'd a separate plet:o - of verse on,— " She sigkedl" produced " We. laughed !"—" ail wrote" was fol lowed by " Ueg slept vA . A . ATZ S. ALL NATURR.CRIES ALOUD—"THERE IS A GOD!"—He who cannot see the workings of a Divine wisdom in the order of the heavens, the change of the seasons,, the Bowing of the tides, the operations of the wind and other elements, the structure ot the human body, the circulation of the blood through a variety of vessels wonderfully , arranged and conducted, the instinct of beasts, their tempers and cuepositions e the growth, of plants, and their many etle'cts ler meat and medicine: he who cannot see :,11 these, and many other things, as the evident contrivances of it Divine wisdom, is sottishly tided, and unworthy of the name of man.—Junes ur Nayland. Mori:NFL:T. END OF A PATRlOT.—Captain Pedowski, a die tinguislit d officer of the Polish artillery, shot himself a few days ago at Besancon. The motives for this desperate act are given in a letter which he wrote immediately before his death, of which , time foilow.iii is au extract:—" Having lost all hope of seeing my native country restored—not finding the least chance even sit my being ceded upon to die in her service—and having learnt that my children have been carried into Siberia, by order of the • tyrant of the north, I have resolved to abridge my useless life, said put an end to all my sufferings. Adieu, unhappy Poland ! Adieu, my children ! Adieu to such of you, my fellow-country men, as hive only iu view the welfare of our beloved Poland —Paris paper. Love ors VTR BOARDS."—The following extraordinary cir cumstance took place at the commencement of the present munth :—Josephine Dumesuil, the daughter of the proprietor of an itinerant puppet-show, had formed an attachment to the Merry tnd:e.v of her tether's stage. This gave offence to papa, who, to pat au end to so unbecoming a liaison, dismissed the unfortu nate pickle-herring, and laid au injunction upon his daughter to tease alt further intimacy with him. On the 3d insh, however, the uiractor observed his discarded colleague amongst the de lighted' crowd, but his admiration was evidently more excited by toe appearance of the lady of his love than of the other dramatis persunie. This raised the choler of the mover of puppets. A contest ensued, and the features of the poor Jack-pudding were speedily brought into more than professional distortion by a viotent 'slow from his ancient master; the disgraced suitor drew a knife upon his antagonist, but was disarmed and driven from the field. On the following day the father of the girl having loaded her with reproaches, and threatened further chastisement to her lover, she, in alit of passion, suddenly seized the weapon lhrt had been levelled at the incest of her father, plunged it twice into her own, and fell dead at his feet, thus turning a ridiculous feree into a real tragedy.—French paper. NEW S l'A r ERS.—Soine centuries back, by far the greater pro portion of the middle classes in this country were wholly igno rant of passing public events, while the working classes seldom ia hired about any thing beyond their immediate callings. Seanv meets we arc advanced as a nation in this respect, may be seen from the following statement:—The first attempt at perio nice, lite:enure was made in England in the reign of Elizabeth. it was in the shape of a pamphlet, called the "English Mer curic;" the first number of which, dated 1588, is still preserved in the British Museum. There were, however, no newspapers winch aepeared in England in single sheets of paper as they do 'at present, until many years after that time. The first news peper, caesei The Punic futelligencer," was published by Sir Reeser L' Estrange, on the 31st August, 1661. Periodical parn lnses, which had become fashionable in the reign of Charms I, were more rare in the reign of James 11. The English rebel lion of 1511 gave rise to a great number of tracts filled with violent appeals to the public: many of these tracts bore the title , of Diurnal Occurrences of Parliament. The first Gazette in England was published at Oxford, on Nov. 7th, 1665, the court being, then heed there. On the removal of the court to London, the title was altered to The London Gazette. The Orange Intel- Vyencer was the third newspaper published, and the first after the revolution in 1683. This latter continued to be the only daily newspaper in England for some years; but in 1690 there appear to have been nine London newspapers published weekly. In Queen Anne's reign (in 1709) the number of these were in creased to eighteen; but still there continued to be but one daily daily paper, which was then called The London Courant. In the reign of George I. the number was three daily, six weekly, and ten published three times in the week.—ln. 1,53 the number of copies of newspapers annually published in the whole of Eng, Laid was 7,414i:57; in 176 U the circulation had increased to ( s), and iu 103 l) it amounted to 30,493,911.—Pe5ine eisanuetne. ' 1 HE HYDRO-OXYGEN MICROSCOPE.—We were yesterday ad inittted to a private view of one of the most extraordinary exhi bitions we ever remember; it is denominated the hydra-oxygen microscope, and is an application of the light employed by Lieut. Drummond on the trigonometrical survey to microscopic pins poees. A stream of oxygen eeas and another of hydrogen gas (the chief coustitutents of water,) arc brought into union, and projected in an ignited state upon a mass et lime, producing a tight or intense brilliancy, which, passing through a ions, throws tae images of objects magnified from 10,600 to ni.)0,000 times, in the manner of a solar microscope, upon a disk of 1-1 feet diameter. The inanimate objects consisted of fragments of insects' wings, of sea-weed, woods, hair, Ste. ; all the minute exte r n a l pre herties of which were shown upon an exaggerated s ca l e . A f ew airs of an infant appeared like tubes two inches in diameter. A small portion of the fine skin of the human per icavtium, exhibited the courses of the arteries and veins. The penetrating nature Of the light revealed the interior conformation of the (teas and epiders in the object-glasses. The sting of a bee was a mon serous barbed Weepon7fou r f e et long.he lancets of The horse fly scare sabres about two feet in length. The next ettrieuu part of the exhibition consisted of the small eaiimulculre in a drop of water, -some of which are seen . preying upon each ether. • Some skeleton larvae were, front their caeptianees texture, beautifully neveloned, eehibiting evens the veeicie of air which enables, them to rise or descend in the water; dud sortie Of the wet ins, fotinil in etagnatit ditches, the natural size of which is that-of a thread, enpeared like time largest sized boa constrictor. It is, short, an cenibition worthy to engage the attention of natural philosoph et of the. highest class, us well as of tile merely curious. The in strument is constructed under the Superintendence of Mr, Cooper, professor of chymistry, and of MreCary, the optician, The former gentleman attends and explithiss very clearly and scientifically, the different objects.— Thnesel nursday, Feb. 21. • Mrs. Stanley had her first "At ifetne " fOr the: season, on Saturday, at the Eight nen. Seerert'ary's new reside . licc iii Carlton gardens. . TIM LINE:RPOOL STANDAKO. THE LONDON PRESS. THE " CORPORATION REFORM . ' COMMITTEE. We wonder that no independent member of Parlia ment has yet directed the attention of the country to the monstrous partiality with which ministers have composed the committee who are to report upon the merits and de- , merits of chartered corporations. We published their names but a few days ago. Upon a reference to the enu meration our readers will find not half a dozen conserva tives pitted in most idle conflict against a score or two of reckless levellers. If it is intended to discuss a matter of most momentous interest with any semblance of honesty and caution, why is not the committee from whom we are to have a report upon its merits constituted with some show of fairness and propriety ? And if it is deter mined to make short work with the question—to abolish at all hazards the furred gowns and the gilded maces—to tear the seal from the parchment, and annihilate the town clerk for ever—why are we mocked with an inquiry upon a subject upon which his Majesty's advisers have fully formed their determination ? That ministers should have resolved at this time to bring forward a measure for the reform of all corporations would convince us, if we were not before convinced, of the absence of all practical wisdom from the councils of the government. They had enough of reform, we all know, to occupy them for some time. Reform of the church—reform of the law—reform of taxation—reform of expenditure—all these reforms were demanded with more or less vehemence by one or the other sect of re formers. But this reform of corporation was a reform which had not as yet inspired the lucubrations of the pamphleteer, nor enlivened the symposium of the club. It was a difficulty which no man forced upon the cabinet, a burden which the laborious shoulders of Lord -Althorp most superfluously assumed. When; however, it was de termined to superadd this toil to all for which the House of Commons was already prepared, surely an upright minister would have committed a matter involving the ownership of property, the preservatiOn of the pub lic peace, and the administration of justice, to tole rably unprejudiced hands. We could point. out some —several—of the members of his lordship's committee, who, having been opposed at their respective elections by the influence of a corporate body, are ready, at any loss to the country, to destroy the strength of that in fluence. If the representative of the town of Cambridge is properly a member of the committee, why is not the re presentative of the city of Norwich sitting by his side ? We are far from maintaining that a revision of the con stitution of corporations is to be avoided or condemned. Oh the contrary, it is because we think such a revision very desirable that we reprobate strongly the spirit in which it is commenced. It is because we wish to see the municipal government of our cities and towns.vested in the most responsible and respectable of their inhabitants that we anticipate with alarm the report of a: committee in whose eyes we are sure nothing that is responsible or respectable can ever find favour. The subject assumes its most serious aspect whe n we recollect that the Irish corporations, as well as the Eng lish, are to be submitted to the scrutiny of these admirably selected inquisitors. The Irish corporations have been exclusively Protestant, and the very purpose of their ex istence was to support and secure in Ireland the interests of what we used to call our national church. We com mend these corporations to the undoubted candour, the tried integrity, of Mr. O'Connell and Dr. Baldwin. We suppose that Lord Althorp has made up his mind that the remedy which is requisite for one island cannot but be beneficial to the other, upon the principle of the physician, who, "If Tom went sick to bed, " Would clap a blister on Tom's brother's head." Morning Post. RADICAL ATTACKS ON THE BISHOPS. We hope we , are not out of order when we inquire, who is Mr. Gillon ? An honourable gentle Man of this name, who happens to be a member of the House of Com mons, has given notice of a motion, "declaring that no. ecclesiastics ought to hold seats in either House of Par- • liament, and that those who hold them, at the present . moment, should immediately abdicate them." The extraordinary proposition contained in this notice is the reason why we ask, " who is Mr. Gillon ?" If we understand him correctly he is desirous to expel the bishops from the House of Lcrds. He stands so much in awe of the lawn sleeves, that he would rather not see them anywhere in the vicinity of Palace-yard. !' It is a proposition, nevertheless, of immense assurances How comes it that there are Gillons in the House o Commons ? Simply because the law allows certain other Wow. and three-and-tenpenny voters, to sen d t o th a t assembly any person who has sufficient influence to com mand their votes. These votes may be obtained in a thousand various ways, by means of which Mr. Gillon, or Mr. Smith, or Mr. Figgins are transformed from ob scure private gentlemen or tradesmen, into honourable members of the imperial Parliament. It is an honour we admit. To sit. near many whom we could name in that assembly is questionlcss esteemed a high honour; but with submission be it spoken, we see nothing irs i this ho nour, or the privileges it confers, which gives a right to an honourable member of the lower house to •.assail the , rights of the House of Peers. The venerable prelates of the established church, which every blockhead thinks he could reform, and every jackdaw prides himself upon plucking, after the manner of the jackass with the sick or dead lion—these learned prelates have surely as good a right to sit in Parliament as such a person as the afore said Mr. Gillon. This, we are told, is the age of the schoolmaster. Why, then, are learning, and piety, and exemplary morals, not respected. Have we reached such , a point of national degradation, that no man is deemed worthy of senatorial distinction, or competent, to legis late, who is not a dunce, or some of the other characteris tic epithets employed by Pope in his celebrated rhyme about the blood of "all the Howards ?" It would ap pear so. The quack says there ought to be no regular physicians. The tub-preacher, and the drum-major. who, has turned anahaptist,. deny the utility of the regular clergy. The smuggler hates the exciseman ; and the study pauper cannot conceive for what purposes. rich men are suflerecl to exist except for contributing to hiS neces sities and maintaining him in comfortable idleness. All this is very well as a matter of taste, and illu s trative of the vices of society ; but it assumes a more serious foim when persons who move in the higher circles, as we suppose Mr. Q-illen does, and who are generally sup posed to be gentlemen, place themselves in the obnoxious and unwarrantobie • position of attacking their superiors _superiors, w e mean, in every respect, as regards learn-. O ing, esperience„ patriotism, and. Christian charity. The bkilops may net be of those whom the honourable mem honeors and reveres. But why so chary as to stop with the bisheies ? In an era of enlightenment like the present; NV by :31101111 theresbe lords ? And from the abo lition of the peerage it is easy to leap to the climax-- why should there oe Kings ! . It is nut the degradation and overthrow cf the church which .i%r. G:llon's motion would effect, if succeaul, but the th!siruction of the uitper house altogether.'• :the ac compliAnnent cif the one project would lead to the other ; and there are those who can see far enough into a mill stone to perceive that the abrogation of the rights of the peers would be the expulsion of the King and the nulli fication of the monarchy. . How delighted must the movemeut party be at the bare idea of this happy con sifunn4tion .ICo King—no Peers—no Bishops—no noL.hiog at all," (1w Gillons! But do the sumphs not see that if all this were effected, the people might begin to think that there was no use for the Gillons either ? Why have any House of Com mons at all ? What utility is these in long dull speeches delivered by brainless orators on subjects ten million leagues above their comprehension ? What is there in talk, or in mere volubility, or in Gillonisms or babble isms, any more than in a woollen nightcap or a pair of leather breeches ? The House of Commons, now that the schoolmaster is on his .travels, and considering the human materials of which it is composed, is incompetent to instruct the people. What is the meaning of a four night's debate on a subject that a cowherd would decide perfectly well in four minutes ? Why are we dinned with such stuff, night after night, to the disturbance of our rest, and the disarray of our next morning's breakfast, wasting precious time upon Irish blunders, and diverting the attention of public men from the real business of the country, and the redress of national grievances ? Why ! —just because there are too many Mr. GILLoNs in the Commons House of Parliament. We do not write with any feeling of asperity, but we put ourselves in the position of the mechanic and labourer —that class of men whom the Whigs placed beyond the pale of the constitution by their invidious Reform Bill, and we ask where is the man among them who has the sense or honesty to bring forward a measure for the real benefit of the operative and labouring classes ? It is easy to nibble at the pension and sinecure lists. It is easy to make senseless speeches about the church, and the Jews, and the dog tax, and the taxes upon knowledge, and about civil and religious liberty ; but where is an honourable and eloquent orator amongst them who ever dreams of introducing a bill to encourage industry, to enhance the wages of labour, to protect our home manu factures, to correct the evils of the free trade system, or to reduce the burdens of taxation by a safe cheap paper currency ? Not one. They throw away . thousands of pounds in saving pennies. They chuckle with delight at the robbery of a poor half-pay subaltern, who has wasted his life in the service of his country, and this they call economy ; but they never for a moment think of any salutary and practical measure for the relief of the working classes. Relief !—no--the Whigs only hang the labourers. The gallows is the word, but no bread—stern justice, poverty, good gaols, and free trade ! They temporise, and then coerce; they preach sedition, and then punish it; they agitate, and then gather together military officers to transport their victims beyond seas for fourteen years, or for life. This, as we said before, comes from having so many GILLONS in Parliament.— Guardian and Public Ledger. THE CORPORATION " REFORM." His Majesty's ministers having referred the revision of all the municipal corporations in this country to a select committee of the House of 4 Commons, the composi tion of which presents a satisfactory guarantee that, whatever may be its faults or deficiencies, undue tender ness to any thing that exists will not be of the number, it can excite no surprise that the movement party should strive by every artifice to increase the power and enlarge the jurisdiction of this committee, and that attempts should be made subject to its jealous and unfriendly re view, in addition to the municipal corporations, every trading and every charitable corporation in the kingdom. If any good is to be expected from the labours of the select. committee, there is no mode in which this good can be frustrated so effectually as by charging the committee with an excessive multiplicity and complication of duties. Can those who affect to believe that every municipal cor poration is a sink of iniquity and abuse, deny, without the grossest inconsistency, that municipal corporations alone will afford the committee as much work as it will be able to get through in any reasonable time ? There is much reason also to apprehend upon general principles, not to insist upon the more direct proofs afforded in the case of the .Merchant Tailors' Coinpany of the city of London, whose petition occupied so large a share of the attention of the House of Commons last week, that to appoint a committee with inquisitorial powers into the affairs of charitable and trading corporations would be, in effect, to open a receiving-house for slander. Many of thoSe corp Orations have the distribution of large funds, and among their members whom the present charters keep out of office there are occasionally to be found needy and disreputable individuals to whom a share in the management of such funds would be exceedingly conve nient. With such provocatives to envy and discontent it would be absurd to doubt that the existence of a com mittee of the House of Commons empowered to receive complaints would give rise to the most desperate and reckless calumnies; that so favourable an occasion of promulgating libels with impunity would be seized with eager and malevolent avidity. If any further investigation respecting the constitution or conduct of such corporations should be thought neces sary, the only mode in which it can be conducted without producing manifest injustice and shocking immorality is by a commission, which can pursue its inquiries free from the liability, inseparable from a parliamentary committee, of becoming during their progress an engine for the se cure propagation of slander. It is proper to observe that the conduct of all the corporations of this class throughout the kingdom, with respect to the management of their charity funds, has recently undergone the scru tiny of commissioners appointed for the purpose. Most of them, we believe, have passed this ordeal with honour, and we know that the particular corporation which has now been made the subject of calumnious attack received from those commissioners a tribute of unqualified appro bation. -L-Morning Post. THE KING OF BELGIUM'S GIFT. Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg, now King of the Bel, grans, was on Thursday last taken under the protection of Lord Althorp as an extremely poor man. His Majesty, before he was called to the throne amid the acclamations of a brave people, had for fourteen or fifteen years been in the receipt of £50,000 per annum, the generous and munificent gift of the British nation, out of which he never' committed the extravagance of spending more than £7,000 or at the utmost £B,OOO a year in England. In which case it is fair to assume, upon the very lowest calculation, that the Prince, before he left this country, had accumulated the snug little fortune of £400,000. This is exclusive of his fair lands and fine mansion of Claremont. • At the period of his departure for Belgium, however, and in gratitude for the liberality of the people of Eng land, he magnanimously assigned his life interest in this splendid annuity of £50,000 a year for the benefit of those from whom he received it. It was announced by Lord .Grey,that the Prince, so long as he continued King of the Belgians, would not accept any portion of the an nuity for his own uses. After appropriating a certain, sum for the educational expenditure of his niece the. Princes Victoria, and paying the pensions granted to cer tain poor persons by the late lamented Princess Char lotte, he ordered the residue to be returned into the Exchequer for the good of the nation. This mark of liberality and good feeling was lauded .in the highest terms by the Whig friends of the King of the Belgians. It was considered a noble trait in his cha racter that, as the Sovereign of a free people, he dis dained being a pensioner on England. He naturally enough reserved to himself a reversionary interest in the pension, contingent upon the misfortunes of Kings, by which means, in• case of the failure of his monarchical speculation, his ' abdication, or, his" dethronement, he should have. it in his power to reseat himself amid the rose bowers of Claremont, and reclaim the susP e annuity. Nothing could be more fair or reasonable than It was excessive liberality mingled with praiser( circumspection. It evinced sentiments of gratitude tened by sober prudence; and the Prince had his re in the praises and the equally unbounded gratitude people of England. So far all is well. The account between him au t nation is clear and intelligible. The Prince Was turn the annuity, and we our thanks. This bey case, it will be presumed by the uninitiated that this £50,000 a-year, and seeing that nearly ' months have elapsed since he left England, a si ing to about £BO,OOO, must have returned to quer. Happy Lord Althorp ! what a windfall have been to thee ! Forty thousand pounc coming back, as things rarely come back, wi welcome than the dead from the grave! I reader, how much do you think has been reb Exchequer ? Fifty thousand ? No. Twent: No. hive thousand? No. Five pounds ONE FARTHING! We certainly never had any other than a opinion of the Prince, his party, and their but we never conceived that human meannel shabbiness, could have gone so far ! The m, plained in this way, but we must confess that nation is worse than the offence ; and sure would be held to be so in the justice-room at the House, and the Cqurt of the Old Bailey. A member of the House of Commons askei thorp, on Thursday last, what sums had bee' the Exchequer in the name of the King of th 4 The reply was, as we have stated,—none had On being asked for an explanation, the nob/ pleased to inform the House that the Prince burg had left this country considerably in del actually owed £lO,OOO, which had increased 1 dible sum since his departure—that the re: Majesty's annuity had been applied to liquidat which had not yet been accomplished, and he to add, that he could not fix any period wile' be paid off! The most extraordinary part of this story. lame, beggarly, and impotent conclusion—mi sparent enough. How came Prince Leopo, debt ? How could a prince be in debt who di( £lO,OOO, and certainly not £20,000 out a-year ? This is the part which Lord Althorp, ing as he is with candour, did not attempt And we do not feel any surprise at the noble tion, for a more bare faced imposition, unde of magnanimity and princeiy liberality, never tised upon a credulous people. Prince Leopold in —there is not a man in England who will belie' When a man is in debt it is supposed he has not the sent means of meeting his obligations. Now this c not have been the case with the Prince of Saxe Cob He may have owed a few ponuds to a few trade' but that was all ; and we are confident that th e s uns to him by his green-grocer, would haee squared the counts. In short it is, as one of our minist er ial co,' poraries would express it, a " wret c h e d, piece ,'1 temptible humbug altogether."—Guardian and Ledger. THE DUTCH TARIFF. It appears now, that in the case of Holland an am? quantity of well-imagined indignation has been fruity expended by tne ministerial press, for no toll has been established upon the Scheldt, and, o f cours e, c riff promulgated. The whole affair has been set common consent as a stock-jobbing speculation, participation in which our worthy contempora, doubtless quite clear. It wou ld be but right upon Mr. Osy, the deputy in the Belgian Chaml first astonished the world with information, to his authorities and authenticate his statement. after all, this is but a harmless piece of escreque self; part and parcel only of that grand scheme I presentation, deception, and fraud, by the ope which the English nation has been duped out of in the shape of loans to Dom Pedro and the eq of fleets to scour the Dutch coasts. The juggle: press, the loan jobbers, and the mini s t r y, have their cards in the full confidence of gamblers with all right and the game safe; but the battle is no to the strong, and one clumsy confederate ma: whole plot. Mr. Osy was, we presume, premat In the Guardian of Monday we ventured upol of honest advice to the public, which, to do them our contemporaries have availed themselves of. the liberty to doubt of the publication of the tari, exaction of the toll, since which the tone and t deuce of the Treasury journals have wonderful] rated, and the storm they raised has died away pers. To be sure we threw in an additional m , this discretion, by the information which we exi conveyed to them, that the five poWers had fort) cognised the right of Holland to levy the duties and exercise the right of search upon the Scl cording to usage in the year 1814; a piece of tion unacknowledged by them save in its eviden upon their subsequent language. Common der not gratitude; would have suggested a humble tion of all their high sounding invectives and ca based upon sheer forgeries, but we perceive the:, lenly bent on resting true to the maxim'of Figaro lomnier toujours—it en reste toujours quelque chose' free translation of which into English rhyme is, • Lay.. it on thick, Some, will stick. Guardian and Public Lede ROBERT CHANNING; who, at the last Admiralty SI was found guilty. of, and sentenced to death for the ran r Thos. Eaves, the captain of the brig Matilda, bound 1° Domingo, from Liverpool, died on Thursday in Newgatf; , will be remembered that subseq u ently t o hi s sen t enc e up respited during his Majesty's p:e a sure. The deceased seriously , indisposed at the tune of the ship sailing, 0 been ill during the whole time of his confinement. PATIENT MERlT.—There is something peculiarly plea o l the imagination in contemplatiug the Queen of Night., wb e j she is wading, as the expression is, among the vapour , : e l she has not power to dispel, and which, on their side, able entirely to quench her lustre. It is the striking iO patient virtue, calmly pursuing her path through g ood • and bad report, having . that excellence in her se lf which `' o r to command all admiration,' but bedimmed in the e yes ~6 world, by suffering,. by misfortune, by calumny,—Sir Scott. GRADATIONS OF DE UNKENNESS.—Thefe is a Rabbinic dition related by Fabricius, that when Noah planted th e d Satan attended and sacrificed a sheep, a lion, an ai!e!,.,y sow. These animals were to symbolise the gradations of o '4 When a man begins to drink he is . meek and ignorant lamb; then becomes bold as the lion; his courage is sool , tj formed into the foolishhesS of the ape; and at last he ‘r` l i in the mire like a sow.-4Varton's Dissertaihm ova die lloinanoruin. Admiral Sir Thomas G.C.8., Commander in at this port, struck his flag ou board the Victory on and proceeded to town on six weeks' leave of absenco 4 Command, ad interim, devolves on Rear Admiral Sir laud, K.C.B. Major-General Miller has been appoiutij - rector-General of the Royal Artillery, with a salary, ' l ` office, of only £lOO a-year ;, and Sir A. Dixon, Deputy t d tart-General, has been appointed Master Gunner of at. Park, with the additiOnal pay of 3s, per day, and no ali o o, making a saving of about a-vear to the public- ,e j mander Percy, F. Hall, lt.N., of Thynacuth, has resig?f commission in, the service; and published a pamphlet, 3 5) , r i his reasons for this step, which it appears are connect r, religious scrupl.r.;',. and a deiire to ~reach tie Gospei.7.- I'aq:rapt. • • - , - • ei b ipping Entritiffen TRADE OF LIVERPOOL bii"e"eelY a place in the world, to which e, that a ready conveyance is not atfordet Port : and the following information may b readers. We begin with the United Stab packets viz of the most spl en did description Y° Rs—On the Ist, Bth, 16th, and 24th of e Observ e —There is a regular mail from New lgement between the respective Postage is not demanded, as fort ter their arrival in New York. —On the Bth and 10th of each mor he sth and 20th, usually. OF TIIB UNITED STATES—The k erehants usually send , their letter CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, AND BEI are usually monthly conveyances. ►n the sth of each month. Ob.veri ' way of New York. alo—On the Ist and 16th of each m S OF SOUTH AMERICA-NOt regulai Ltonous—On the Ist and 16th of el the Ist and 16th of each month, 1y 3 weeks. SICILY —Every 3 weeks. CONSTANTIN ons—Every 3 weeks 22nd February.—Noon, Wind F. from La Guayra ; and Fieldfari , at Cape Ilaytien. ---, from Singapore, off St. Helena The, from Newfoundland, at Barb: Fleeke, .from this port at llambro )ard, from. Villa Nova, for Ostend. !ay, from Rio Janeiro, at Cowes, i )i.e, from Havannah, at Deal, in 35 Indlater, from this port, for Nassau 36, long. 34. from Demerara, for the Cl, I Jan. in company with the Isabel a . assed Barbados, and saw a large 4 1 he feared would not get off. ,River Gambia), Nov. 7th.—The I Ltd to Bissaowent, went on slim., 'as immediately taken possession of few arrived here. all, hence for Savannah, sprung a h b m 'anageable, having 8 feet water in at the entr ance of the Port of Plyr reakwater on the 20th, Master and ut 10 feet above water, apparent.l3 '.han one mast, was seen in Wield. low Head, W S. of Arklow Rock of Harrington, bound to Dublin. on board perished. aid, of Ardglass, was totally lost ne titehaven, for Dublin, went to piec house. with " John and Grace," on the if Ayr. ies and Maria, Jones, in ballast, i !ht, , her, 'Williams, of this port, with / - . this port, lost her mainsail, and is a of A yr. i gby, from Lancaster for this port, is near 'Libre. , I ,. ° '„ l se, of Workington coal laden, 4101yhead harbour, 'and bilged ; thecrew ;go. Redfern from WhitehaVen, for Dubli ' e e of H olyhe'ad harbour, and full of water. t. Chedley, sailed from Holyhead for Venic te4beth, (Oalliot) of Lancaster, is ashore oi:t L t from this port, at Leghorn, in Zwondrin, for Itiga—Aquatic, 4, Boardman, for New York—Marv, Whin' 'all ah as s et! Glover, for New Orleans—M leans —Mary, Tucker, for New Orleans w Orleans —George Canning, Burstall, for P th a , b, for Phi ladelphia—BOvkett, Shotten, eearce, for Calcutta—raura, Taylor, I t for liavana—Alersev Sharpe, for famaic: il;t Savannah —Mary anti Susan Pierce, for N , uni 2r se d h' }' °4sonby, for Newfoundland. Russell, from St. John's, N. 8., at this pox P 4 DY with the Endemyon, for Gloucest( e 'r b ' o r ni . a k r o o r o S n a , vNaNnrinna( Curtis, from Waterford. and )001. Aichison, hence at St. John's from Leghorn, at Messina. A. from Plymouth for Bombay Morris, f rom M ess i na , and C from Milford 19th February. from Charleston, for this pc loss of fore mast, bowsprit, , eb. Sailed 25th January. from Bahia, for this port, was ibroke Ferry, Milford, during a and is very much damaged. fast, from Demerara for Belfa Crew saved. from Greenock for Leghorn, Elaven, at the entrance of Milt goods) saved in a damaged Mary Ann, from St. Domi .ssel is a complete wreck. y. -, from Dundalk, at Iloyl Lancaster, which was on shot 'undalk with oatmeal, which , ed into Hoylake. The crew Newcombe, for New Orleans ; Hicks, Ingersoll, for New Y N B—Recovery, Gorley, fur 1 r irginia—Olymoa, Hammond terto Cabello—Tar, Holt, for 4th February.—Noon, Wind , wn ; and Benjamin Morgan, , hence at Trieste. all, hence at Naples. tell, hence at Leghorn. 'Farlane. hence for Rio Graz lugh, hence for New Qrleans, L. hence at St. Andrew. Lence at Port-au-Prince. Aden. hence at• Genoa, in 22 d Rogers. for New York—Cli Jth February.—Noon, Wind Tower, Henley, from Poole—N tblin—ltobert Napier, (steam from Ulverston—Esther and qtkti i • uonald, hence at Demerara. qtwLail sailed from Demerara, for this port 7 ,N7es, 25th Jan. 1833.—The Isabel, Griffitl 4,L 25th on the South Point, at 5 o'clock • tih w as _got off this morning at 6 o ' l " t , ,F l isle Bay, dis c h a rging I think fror ,Ct iet e greater part of the Cotton will be s I° t , from Bahia, which was on sh Cath.".nd along side a Wharf preparing to .I r ll, a ` d. ru, e. from Demerara, for Belfast, wa IV eri ek, Nagle, hence for Africa, was I t ‘4, ; tho. e t o p& 4 4' la ' Ray, from Newport, for this port ),„, 8 Ile a &• . qe ew erished. ay •ution, E The vessel gone to pieces , tl Evans, from Cardiff, for this ' 1, 4;,., °,11 Y the Iktas* , 7 saved. Little, from Llineriek !brads poTt, i , °, le t i ger ''a, off and for Belfast, from this N 21st inst.. about 25 miles S.E. of L ' A %aved. ~ from Cardifi, for this poi ti, a's'iarld„ from Dublin, for this ' 1 4 , 1 4 , Beaumaris. Newport, for Alexandria, bttlePTO'h s ' hilt o ed Boats staved, loss of mains 1 . George', frum London. for dischargetis nie 4 It is riposed, will have to P i iiib .t aves B , U fr om Yarmouth, for this por s t e ,_ ii,ttscsNaked and will be obliged to _ !4411,,.'.2-qajeatic' Lawson, for, Bombpy r — ai L ta , , !1,4h0,-LotiEupfiernia, Gordon, for Gliba— tZetfQ7eanot o orms , N h o e . ad lo6 , arch, Mondell, St Luc Jul 4 0inia, Turner, fur \ irginia. a t e Ltup OFFICE, 23th FEBRU2 4013, h , (i • g`o l lth °1 m l oderate in the morn 1, 8%11, At noon ; S.S.W. light breeze__ inAh °bat Lynas, inward bowl , , O. U4l • r 70 4, , r 0 5, B. 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