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traturr. POETRY iNZAS, (For the Liverpool .Standard , peaks thy 3eguiled my he Mourn I—yet rejc w that H ich grief has borne t And tic To earthl ) waste no n But yield t unsmick-road, Jat, choicest fruits ;ht for t tried his eye, 'CHES OF A TRI ITALY, II art to come s wilere divine ; SAMUEL HUGGIN EDWIN KEET, ESQ No. VII. Written for the Liverpool Standard.) he dono: by Bianchini, em lie form of a Greek Peter in ' ins, of Greek marble Angelo by Cons wards the Naples gate a fine taken from the Pantheon, s Here is al stantine church, is the hot all are) to ascend to have 1 as tliey oddly moist th very antiqm porphyry, the pavement i Croce is said to ha` been er apartmc by degli A Upport the nay situation of tlis moulderinz mon le holy cr( church, amid groves, v ments, give it a solem remarkable f jewelle the ceremonious thr carnag , ,t its front e and sad ed with a out of the Joins, r accidents, misfortunes with'coachmen, grooms, or obstinate horses, to " Hye ! bye ! didn't I g sed,in a book pla upon the foundations of tri The two noble fron supported by lonic a tiara Ten this is and porticoes of this church are nd Corinthian columns. An Egyp- tenor a ice a very imposing appearance ; but solemn and grand than San Giovanni yet it is to me less in Laterano. For lonic columns of white marble and imense naves of the interior. antique columns of por ,. persons throng to this any remain all night, ring, to hail the dawn of the ganite divide the thre( The baldacchino is supported I phyry. An immense concourse of church on Christmas-eN lounging, talking, and sl natal nightl attle-fielc 34y aim- attire. ti DRESSED TO A LADY ON THE DEATH OF HER INFANT EP TO THE CONTINEI AND EGYPT. tos, dagger; of steel and silver, suspended on th ; of the churches, attract your attention,—as offering of confession ; art ly preserved &or, The nave ong, and 105 feet columns 40 feet The church of St twenty-nine Doric co re found, and brought Baths of Titus. Michael .curates the tomb of Pope terano, next me, or great antiquity, tine ; a grand colos- 'ronze door, ,emple of Saturn, decorates the front ; to: us of porphyry contained th nppa, is piacea in Ims magmncent church. the poryhyry tomb of the mother of Con- I my knees, and ,„ a very ght glad when I got up de steps ; these are said in the palace of Pontius Pilate, ry fellows, with their thick nailed )1y staircase very quickly, and I _ lies up the -steep and revered The church of St. Clement is also near this ; it is supported by four columns of Santa St. He- There is a subterraneou, The lovely yards, and Lnd affect- donkeys, dogs, mid other ani a curious c,ereinoty. Fine noble .bbons of thO gayest co- from_the crowd, in which it a very jocular and [essings are supposed to ward and bad luck. It is usual id drivers of vicious, restive, r, with their rattling birring, you a blessing from St. An- and is this your behaviour ? " - A small fee is a register made of the owner's name and the isle of the rch, built temple of Juno Lu the Virgin A.D. 330. of the Son of the beatissima Virgin. igil is not always characterised by the prudence and decent demand. The Church of Santa Maria was anciently the Temple of Jupiter Feretrius. The 124 marble steps lead ing up to it were taken from the Temple of Jupiter Qui rinus. The interior is supported by antique columns of • • and the occasion Egyptian grani few out of the multitude of in the Imperial City; and perhaps it is - a melancholy thought, that in Rome, Venice, Naples, and Florence, e not less than twelve or thirteen hundred ; and yet with some it might be a ques ti on , her tese costly edifices, with their festivals, proces itions, and rites, do not of the people as our there an churches crowded, hot, unwholesome factories of Manchester, Leeds, Glasgow, Birmingham, Bilston, and Spitalfields. The happy idleness of the Italian may be preferable to the miserable half-rewarded industry of the squalid, vicious, English,. Irish, and Scotch. If the former worship the Virgin, and reverence all the saints and martyrs, thelat 1, beer, tobacco, and Bac se, brutalized, and violent, face of the globe ; and in ysical brute force, to our warlike and ropensities, to our tyranny and conquests, is proportion to our pi ) mad arrogance of character, which has ) deservedly unpopular abroad. We forget that, wit vast possessions, our ill-gotten wealth by the awort thought of, but mu( )n the Continent ar Isitt that is, are these a the French everywher than the English. An !ustoms, laws, or religion !ODjoint the cause of. our naiior nstry, crime, and misery, tow We do not think sufficiently ( re's hint when I "This isle is but a wan's nest I I prithee think there are people out or Britain." What advantageisit to say upon our Queen's dominion, lever set adow of misery, crime, and nation like a gloomy dart iy of his hire, but be liber ally remunerated in proportion to the costs of the neces saries of life for his labour and industry. We raise costly bourer s; statues to our fighting men, while Burns, Galt, Blanefielci, Mitford, llofland, and many other people of genius, ta lent, and philanthropic benevolent minds die in compara tive' obscurity and want. Aye, raise the brazen statue high, Fann'd by the widow's orphan's sigh, only for t n war du handed t see the ble Does : of azooi of blood, of wounds , of piercir Alas! no - I . horrid _death upon the t beholds thc he gold emblazoned vravir r husband, brother, son, go fort ter! So also in Romanism . ,as in War, ihe'organ solemn symphonies ; the altars with ; the robed priest, clad in gold and silver ly stalks along the aisle, attended by his officers; the positions, attitudes, genuflexions, all so studied, so impressive. Down, down bows the multi tude at the shrine! The virgin stoops, and her glossy luxuriant tresses are skorpfrop her , head : every gentle friends, and the world too, sh e might hav4 of Atropos 11 severed by those fatal shear maiden, to thy cold, stony Go, helplc there thy si _ , thy God, and thy int } ie , world-forgetting," hapless maiden, soon shalt "by the world forgot." But my task is to de- Lot to moralize. thy despair, sh, turbable Father Confi IUNCELOT BLACKBURNE, ARCHBISHOP OF YORK Among the more remarkable persons introduced to no tice, in Walpoles memoirs of a part of the reign of George IL, just published, is Launtelot Blackburne, Archbishop of York. The origin of this man, and the early incidents of his life, have alike excited curiosity,. and baffled re search. He is generally said, and believed, to have been a bucaaier ; which means, it is presumed, a pirate—one who lives by sea plunder; and Lord Byron attempts to Mr. Noble, in his continuation of Granger's Biogra phical Dictionary, endeavours by conjectural inference says he Upon the early incidents of his life, thus veiled. in obscurity, an ad ditional fact now supplied may cast a fresh gleam of light. When the once celebrated author of the Confessional, of the same name with himself, went to him for deacon': orders, and his papers were under examination, " Black• bur e," said the prelate, " and Francis too (his own nem( was Launcelot) ; from whence tip yon come, young man From Merrick Abbey, your Grace "—Merrick Abbt a monastery, but then a lordship in the ni of Richmond, and in the parish of Downl forth Riding Of Yorkshire joined the inquirer hastily. " I bey, too." He had long bt right, the arms of the BI ,hat a bucani hould bay( so good a v Gree Ashire,and of LancaAir able,'between three ; before the same young man ar p of Merrick Abbey b( irth, his early education v so do I,"' re n Merrick Ab- Grammar School, where he might . , even then, occa sional fits of application afterwards, have attained that kndwledge of Greek, to account for which puzzled Gran ger. From thence, ardent,animal spirits, and a vigorous constitution— A frame of adamant, a soul of firs may, on the casual occurrence of some opportunity, have cast him into devious and irregular courses—bucaniering. Launcelot Blackburne was, undoubtedly, a man of great natural parts ; polished, not purified, by indiscriminate intercourse with the world. He was frank, generous, open-hearted, sincere, and hospitable. How long he was a bucanier rumour has not specified: but, whatsoever courage he may have displayed in the enterprises of that dangerous profession, in his more sacred one, assumed af terwards, he was e.--` enough to violate morals without thP -- -qqe - ress the de- !read of scaiidal cenc es of his station withou Horase Walpole thus wi justify his own conception of the character of The Cor sair from the supposed history of a Christian prelate in the Anglican church, as may be seen in the last note of that poem. Dr. Launcelot Blackburne became first known by hold ing, resigning, and receiving again the sub-deanery of Ex eter. He was then promoted to the deanery of that see, and with it held the archdeaconry of Cornwall. The bishopric itself was his last step up that ecclesiastical lad der, whence he was transferred or translated to the archie piscopal see of York in November, 1724, over which he presided when Godwin wrote his great work De Prcesu tilos. Erin ; whilst by his side, s boy poet, little known, coldly, and, indeed, unkindly received by his kindred, gazed upon the scene ; and his clear blue eye ,looked frozen upon it, for it was long ere_he could identify his shy andproud na ture with that of the courteous and the free around him. His eyes, be it observed, had that peculiar faculty of being enabled to seem quite glazed and lifeless, as if suddenly congealed ; and then they could glance such glances as only beam from spirits so fine, so fierce. "To pursue the theme were endless. All is gone, all has passed away ! That which the great metropolis most wants—its greatest, its almost only intellectual want—is an easy resort of the lettered and the gifted. No public institutions will do. One sickens at the thought. To es tablish one's self by privilege among lions, to go anywhere expressly to be wise, is enough to put a super crust of pride and indifference upon any honest nature. All good society must be private. Holland House has ceased to be the centre of all that refines, interests, and elevates so ciety. We have now no centre, our commonwealth of letters is tu rne d ups id e down. It wants a protector ; and yet, to use a metaphor seemingly inconsistent, sighs for the blessed days of a restoration." [some equipages anc IMPORTANT CORRESPONDENCE We stated in our last that a letter had been addressed to Lord Robert Grosvenor by a large number of the electivrs of Middlesex, for which county his lordship is a candidate, asking his lordship's opinion of the proposed endowment of the Romish priests. Lord Robert, in his reply, after stating the courteous terms in which the ques tion was pnt to him, says that he did not explain his senti ments previously for two reasons ; first, because he does not think it likely that the subject will be brought forward at present ; and, secondly, because that on two occasions he had indicated his views. His lordship then goes on as follows : " The occasions to which I allude, are, my votes upon the motion of Lord Ellesmere, then Lord Francis Eger ton, made, I believe,.in 1827, for the endowment of the Irish Romanist clergy, and upon the additional grant to Maynooth College, proposed at a recent period. I made no objection to the additional grant, but I voted with Mr. Ward, in order to record my opinion, that the Protestant establishment in Ireland is more than commensurate with the requirements of its members ; in 1827 I voted with Lord Ellesmere. Now Ido not attach any exaggerated merit to political consistency ; one may be as obstinate in a failing as in a virtue, and could I bring myself to the conviction that I had erred in these votes, I trust I should at once confess it. Having, however, attentively and seriously reconsidered the subject, in its religious not less than in its politi ca l a.snpm- T . ow, «_4. oouna to aeciare that — abstaining from any pledge as to detail—holding myself at liberty, should I then have a seat in Parliament, either to acquiesce in, or to oppose, upon its own merits, any measure that may be laid before the house having for its object the endowment of the Romish clergy in Ireland, — there may be again, as there were before, propositions to that effect submitted to the legislature, at a time and un der circumstances which will insure my concurrence. ***** * * * * " I beg to subscribe myself, with great deference, Sir, your most obedient and very humhlp gory:int " ROBERT GR6gVENOR " Mr. Henry Hoare,. New-street, Spring-gardens." To this Mr. Hoare replied as follows :--- <<" New-street, Sp r i ng • gar d ens, J an. 27. My Lord, The gentlemen in conjunction with whom, and on whose behalf, I addressed your lordship in my former letter, have requested me to ack now l e d ge t h e cour tesy and frankness with which you have replied to their inquiry. They have no wish. to enter into a controversy with your lordship, but it is manifestly desirable that both parties should be correctly understood. They will, there- vciiture KJ stare roe intent and meaning which they gather from your lordship's letter ; and, if I do this, in their name, correctly, it will be un necessary t o t rou bl e • y was not grouna, wnere ne perished of the cold. His boa, diScovered for some days, when hundreds of colliers gene rously left their work to seek for the missing man. The lady of the late Dr. Southey has written a letter to the Athempum, in which she accuses Mr'. Howitt of wil fully calumniating her husband, because she had refused to furnish him with information relative to the doctor's habits. and familiar scenes. Mr. Howitt, in reply, says that Mrs. Southey has formed her opinion of his work . from a review in the Athenreum, which is not favourable to her husband ; but that he has not said one word de rogatbry to his (Mr. S.'s) character. A few days ago, a number of people had assembled at North Maving, Shetland, to the funeral of a woman. Some large wreaths of snow had accumulated at the back of the (111 4211 era In r. A _ explosion, 14s-sinree-died A food 'riot took place . in Aberdeen on Friday week. The unemployed met in the neighbourhood of the town, car rying with them a black flag, and after moving certain with the concurrence oft he principal corn merchants, told them that shipments of grain would in the mean time be suspended. Throughout the day there was much excite ment, and special constables were sworn in. Towards evening a flour cart was - attacked, windows broken, and the pohce pelted with stones, but the latter having made a sally, about fifty men, " and a great number of women," were secured, which ultimately led to peac EXTENSIVE PH leven o'clock a young man, clerk in an extensive - commission house, in St. Vincent-place, drew from the Union Bank the sum of £l2OO for his employers, which was received in £2O notes to the amount of •£6OO, and in £5 notes to the amount of £6OO. Having occasion to do business at the Com mercial Bank, a few yards distant, he put the money in the outside pocket of his Taglioni, but he had scarcely been a minute in the. Commercial when he found that the money which he felt in his pocket on entering the door, had been abstracted. The theft is supposed to have been ressed fellow who left the bank as the young man entered it.—Glasgow Constitutional. MALT AND SUGAR.—A correspondent of the Times gives the following as the result of an experiment he made as to the relative produce of malt and sugar in brewing, ascertained exactly by the saccharometer—one hundred and forty . pounds of Jamaica sugar to one quarter of malt. Malt cost £4 3s. ; sugar .22 18s. 6d. ; £1 4s. 6d. being the difference in favour of sugar at the present price of both articles. The sugar produced about half a pound gravity per barrel more than the malt, which was of good quality: Malt, therefore, to come into competi tion with sugar, ought not to be more than 584. ner hy a wel quurLer. Lit any mucn mgner price the use of sugai: in brewing is certain ; and a most splendid article of ale can be made from it, using half sugar half malt. THE PREVAILING SCARCITY. —We are informed, says the Times, that the following document has received the approbation, iff - not of the highest personage of the realm , at least of alarge number of the highest ranks in our no bility. A simil ar vo l untary undertaking was , as many of th Nur readers are aware, very generally ador' une" of necessary subsis _ptec aer .1€ patronage of royalty, during the dearth which prevailed at B am ri o tai ng n a ad great Ireland, numberf from of our th e fellow -countrymen in G reat the beginning of the present century. " We, the under signed, deeplY impressed with the distress which pr eva il s tence, and observing that the piiices of food are rising. think it our duty to pledge ourselves to reduce in our fa milies, as far as may be p r acticable, the consumption of N - r•rt . •1- 1 n ho may concur wit emergency we invite tmeo-operation of those us in our estimate of the present ENTIRE DISAPPEARANCE OF THe LIGHT OF ALL NA TIONS.—The recent severe gales have swept away all that remained of the beacon, known as the Light of all Na tions, on•the Goodwin Sands. It will be recollected it was partially erected at the expense of Mr. Bush, with a view to avert the dreadful casualties which occur on those dreadful shoals ; but, meeting with overwhelming diffi culties, it was abandoned. The iron caison that fort , t/' f---- .. Is t `h ' Ile. foundation was sunk in,the sane .o a depth, it was thought, sufficient to meet all inroads of the weather, it being filled with concrete raid other hard material. The works had been raised fifty-two feet above low-water charactex Feb. 2, 18 1. Ct/ItN, DUTY FREE.--The first entry of foreign wheat, How 'ft) SAVE THE r—lt has been calculafed dot under the new act, suspending the 4s. duty, was passed at the people might produce t4i:*themselvea five million nil' the Hull Custom-house, OW Wednesday, when 720 qrs. of Wheat before next harver4,, simply by eati ng brow° from St. P e t ers b urg, were admitted duty free. bread. It is well known that ea of 112 lbs. of wheato Miss Matilda Brew, aged twenty-six, daughter of Major 28' lbs. are taken in the shape of brans and coarse flour' Brew, has been committed for trial on three charges of Now, if the brans only were taken out, which would in 1 1 ° obtaining goods from tradesmen in Uxbridge under false case exceed 7 lbs., there would be left; 104 lbs. of nutri' pretences. She is held to bail. tious flour—more wholesome and more digestible, as even' OPENING OF THE PORTS.—The locks- have been taken man can testify, than the fine flour now'used ;so that, °S, off the bonded w are h ouses i n this port dining the p resen t 1 04 exceeds by one-fourth, twenty million' quarters (wino, week, but there w as no t much grain to release. The ex- is believed to be about our consumption) would, if dressed ports from Gloucester to Ireland are now very considera- this.svay, produce as much flour as twenty-fib millions."' ble ; and the purchases of grain here for that destination Salisbury Journal. —some say on behalfof government—daily become larger. THE POTATO DISEASE OF 1847.—Mr. James Barnegf —Gloucester Chronicle. . of Bicton, Sidmouth, in a letter to the Gardene.'s- Chro. SIR ROBERT PEEL AND HIS LABOURERS.—During nide, expresses his " fears that the disease will be even the past week Sir Robert Peel has directed that the wages more serionis this year than the last, having obserosd the of the labourers employed on his estate be augmented old enemy lurking about to 'a greater extent thau hag' from twelve to fifteen shillings per week. This generous hitherto been known." He cannot see any prospect of 0 step on the part of the right hon. baronet has, we believe, crop from either spring or late planted tubers.' A similar been taken in consequence of the present dearness and disease, he states, has attacked the Jerusalem Artichokes' scarcity of food. The Cork Reporter says that a gentleman residing in the The Rev. Disney Robinson, who was found guilty of a neighbourhood of Kinsale planted in a hotbed about three libel upon a Mrs. Jane Barker, at the last Gloucester months since, a quantity of potatoes of the quarry kind,' Assizes, was brought up for judgement in the Court of and on examining the produce, a few days ago, which, bt Queen's Bench, on Monday. The rev. gentleman made the forced growth, had far advanced to maturity, he found an apology, and promised to pay £5O towards the ex- them black and diseased. The gardener of the Speaker penses, which conditions were accepted on the part of the of the House of Commons says that he has discovered plaintiff, and the proceedings ended. disease in the forced new potatoes. A meeting of agricultural labourers was held on Tues day,at Bicester_,Oxon, for the purpose of considering the ing : " The Blessed Sacrament carried in the streets for distress which they experience from the lowness of wages the first time since the Refortnation. Progress of the and the high prices of provisions. In the course of the Rev. Hardinge Ivers's mission at Kentish-town." The proceedings,_ it was stated that the highest wages received fact thus paraded, is stated in the following terms ; the by any of them did not exceed 9s. a week, and that many signature of Miles Gerald Keon being affixed to the corn labourers did not earn more than 45. a week. munication :—" It is only the other day that—for the first I In a paper read at the last meeting of the Royal Asiatic time, perhaps, in England since the Reformation—the Society, Mr. Gutzlaff says that the m a ss of the Chinese Holy Eucharist was carried through the streets of a Lon people know nothing of the politics of their country, and don suburb, with the lights blazing, and in full procession, are scarcely aware that they are governed by a prince of to visit the death-bed of a faithful departing. The sen foreign descent. Mr. Gutzlaff never heard of any denun- sation created among the Protestants in the neighbour ciations against the Tartars, except amongst the literati hood is indescribable. With recollected looks, the women and a few bigotted Chinese. bowed and the men took off their hats, as they beheld, On Wednesday week, as some parties were engaged for the first time, with what awful and profound venera turning a vessel in the river Idle, close to the wharf at tion Holy Church surrounds the Adorable Sacrament." Bawtry, they brought to the surface a piece of sacking, SEI ZURE OF THE " BLACK CAT" SCHOONER. ---A sei which on examination was found to contain the body of a zure was made last night week in the River Thames? near male child, apparently full grown. To the sacking was to Limehouse-hole, where a nearly new vessel, called the tied a brick, and the body had the appearance of having Black Cat, Capt. J. Davies, had been for some days re been immersed for about a week, ceiving her cargo, the greatest activity being manifested - John Richards, a poor man of Gellyh ave , h as perished on the part of the shippers to get their freight on bard." on the mountains between that plaCe and Merthyr Tyd- About ten o'clock, Mr. Davies, detective officer, went vil. He went to Merthyr to obtain medicine for his sick down to Limehouse, with assistance boarded the iesseb wife ; he was asthmati ca l, and it is supposed that the ex- and found several cases containing muskets and ertion of ascending the mount a i n i n h as t e h a d so_ over-, Upon turning to the entries ni1fm.,..1- -. J . ,- bayonets. , ,-. powered him• flint ha SITel CS • • .1,1:,......-1 ~.. ...:a. -1---- 1 › ,...i,vdrus at tne custom house, he found th a t th e Black Cat, schoone r , Captain J. Davies, had been entered as being destined for Gibraltar, but her real destination was Portugal, for which countrF the crew had been engaged. The vessel was inttnded, oir the following morning E , at four o'clock, to be towed bt steam-vessel down to rith. 11 gunpowder wergready to be shipped. HER MAJESTY S THEATRE. —The programme of the arrangements for this season has just been issued: Thu' operatic company before Easter consists of Mesdames Cas tellan, Sanchioli, and Montenegro-- r the latter a stranger here -, Signor Gardoni, from Paris ; Signor Fraschini, (Roth tenors), and Signor Superchi (baritone), all new to this country ; Signor F. Lablache : and as basses, Herr Staudigl and Signor Lablache. Jenny. Lind, as prims donna, will a nnear isimmpaintph, .ft.” and inter raster,'' Ineyer ‘,. ui.. uouNe, ana naa prevented th e f ree runn i ng of a beer's p d "Came Silesie," and another 'of his admired brook at the back of the barn; but the water suddenly act's diceuvres. Mendelsshon will visit England for the obtained ingress, and drove the snow upon the house, purpose of bringing out an opera expressly composed for which fell in, smothering the deceased's son, whose father her Majesty's Theatre, the libretto by Scribe, to be founded was also carried away by the current, and, though found on Shakspere's " Tempest," with the following pow er ful: alive, only survived twenty-four hours.. cast :—Miranda, Madle. Jenny Lind ; Ferdinand, Signor WRECK OE THE Sinins.—An inquest was held on Toes- Gardoni ;- Caliban, Herr Staudlgl, and Prospero, Signor day on the bodies of two men that had been washed on Lablache. Verdi has composed a new opera. for - London,• shore in Ballyeotton Harbour. It appeared that the whole with a plot founded on Schiller's " Robbers ;" a finer sub- - number of lives lost was fifteen. Th e I r i s h p eo pl e o n the ject for an opera could not well be found—while it presents coast behaved well, in endeavouring to save lives and pro- many situations of peculiar effect for the display, of a pow-- perty. It appeared also, from the general tenor of the erful chorus. Rossini's opera, or, rather,. as the great evidence, that the captain, mate, and crew conducted master himself styles it, pasticcio of " Robert Bruce" -- has' themselves in a cool and proper manner, and that the fog been secured. For the ballet we are to have Carlotta was the cause of the disaster. The verdict was, " Found Grisi; Lucile Grahn, and Cerito, while hopes are enter drowned." tamed of inducing Taglioni to combine in once more witch- The Dundee Papers relate a sad and fatal accident with ing the world with the Pas de Quatre and the. Pas, des naptha lamp. The three children of a shoemaker in the Deesses,. together with a new grand pas, which shall unite, neighbourhood were trimming the lamp, when an explosion and Surpass the attractions of these two, to 13w - entitled, took place, and they were all involved in flames. The "La Constellation." In addie;,.- 4-- - father immediat e l y ran to their assistan ce , an d succee d e d ' , mown in extinguishing the fire; but one of the children, seven years of age, died next day, and another was scarcely ex pected to live. The mother s a very delicate person, and who was at the time confined to bed from disease, and was a horrified spectator of the desolation caused ' vficzu favourites, there will be Mademoiselle Caroiine Rosati, Mademoiselle Wauthier, and Mademoiselle Caroline Bau court, all of. La Scala, and their first appearances in Eng land. The gentlemen will be M. Perrot ; M. D'Ot, of the Academie Royale, Paris, his fi rst appearance ; M- Gosselin, M. Paul Taglioni, &c. For n ove lti es i n t hi s department there are promised a new ballet for the open ing, by Paul-Taglioni, in which Mademoiselle C. Rosati will appear —an original grand ballet by the German poet Heinrich Heine, on a subject selected from the.old legends o 1, or liermany,, and a " nov,d and poetical ballet"'by a7'ino ble and distinguished poetess," entitled " Egeria;" Resides other novelties. The theatre opens in the middle of Fe bruary with lYonizetti's opera of " La Favorita,""for -, the first time at her Majesty's Theatre. Balfe is to be the conductor. SINGULAR , APPR EHENSION OF A G ANG OF S USPECTED BURGLARS.—Dur ing the last six weeks, t 4. family.and domestics of Henry Alwin Soames, Esq., a gentleman re siding in Vanhm.o.l-. v;_i.i_ Park, been— siZject lei t u o 6' st i ra le n ar ge. ,l u alz nd e er n g i ro ll 'u " nd ree n n o w i.:e c s h t and smoke proceeding in the same direction, generally in the night. The servants considered they heard persons talking and knocking with some heavy instrument near. the cellar under the parlour of the mansion, facing the lawn. On Sunday fortnight the family and servants were all absent except the cook, and she became so much alarmed by the noises that she secured all the doors, .and told her master, on his return, that she would iclise.her situation if again left alone, as she believed the house..was haunted. On the afternoon of Tuesday week. Mr. SoameS being satisfied that persons were at work underground, and that smoke frequently found its way into the lower part of the house, where there was neither chimney, nor fireplace, sent for a police-officer, who went to the,house, a large old-fashioned family mansion, overlooking ; from. , the back the Thames, and a very steep and rugged hang-. - ing wood. The police-constable, attended by the gardener, coachman, Ste, went on the paddock or lawn, and. at the bottom of which, 140 yards from the house, in the hing ing wood, drew his attention to an opening of brickwork into a subterraneous passage, leading to the centre.otthe belongi ng t o Mr. Soames mansion. A spaniel dog ein o n the spot, went int o t h e cave-, and immediately a b voice g was heard at the far end calling upon the dog to quit the place. The dog returned, followed by a man, who on seeing the parties, retreated back into th e cave , refttsingto surrendei. A bundle of straw was then put into ,the mouth of -the tunnel, and set fire to, but without effect. Two large openings were then made through the, lawn to' the brickwork, and more burning straw .was employed. , This had_the effect of bringing out three fellows, nearly?. suffocated, and imploring to be relensed. They we re t a ken , into custody. The police and others then searched; then cave with lanterns. They entered the passage in the hanging wood, on their hands and knees and, on proceed ing something more than 411ey discovered an o Pen space, the bottom oc ' -nd a iv' rimen was uoaraeu, ,aanto of bricks piled up, and covered with boards for seats-or, tables,,and on one s id e another quantity of bricks foi roe° into a fireplace, and which had been used for that - pose. On rem ov i ng th e b oar d s from the• bottom ofithL9 cell, an immense quantity of feathers was discovered about a foot and a half deep, plucked from all sorts of game..ana poultry, amongst which they found a cash-box; anctother small, boxes, which had been broken open, and their,-eon tents removed. Many appeared to be jewel and.trinket boxes and cases, several pocket-handkerchiefs, sundry rags, &c., a model of a ship. Finally, the passagebecame higher, and at the end of this they were stopped by &brick , • Avuo, .4.1.11.7 b s oeing, removed, 4n, open in was made into the cellar of the house. Neither Mr- Soames, or any of his family, had any knowled&o• of this' suhterraneous passage, having only recently remoNed to the house from his late residence on Shooter's-Hilt s It is supposed to have existed for centuries. The , faowing day, the prisoners, Henry Colgate (a sailor), Go uge phi lips, and John Jones, were taken to the Greenwich police' court, and the case being heard so far, were remanded for a week. INFANT MORTALITY FROM LONG HOURS. OF FACTORY LABOUR. In his speech, in introducing his Motion for a Tot Hours' Bill, Mr.. Fielden advanced the following statistics , sheaving the awful mortality resulting from the factorY system, as statad in, the last quarterly report of the Regis trar of the Manchester district. We auotc ttabairg. " The returns of the past quarter prove that not/q o fr effectual has been done to put a stop to the disease, sally, 'ng, and death in which so many thousands perish. T): - orovemt.nts, chiefly of a showy, superficial, Giitsia . have not reached the homes and habits: of the - house 1 people. Elie house and children of the labouring, can only be kept clean and healthy by the assiduous labou; of a well-trained, industrio us w i le, as any one who lia r paid the least attention t o t h e subject is aware.. This I overlooked in Lancashire, where the woman is often eni ag ed. in labour from home. The consequence is:- usands, not only of the children, but of the mei' al l women themselves, perish of the diseases fozmerly so fati!, le same seasons ---- ....cae, camps, gaols, ana snip , In the same page an ... ..”.. extract, given from a report of tbv Registrar of Heaton Norris, Stockport, says, "Of the 12 1 persons, 53 w ere c hil dren of one year an d under; and 0 these deaths of infants the causes were certified by 1 medical a tt en d ance i n on l y 28 _ cases . It i s to be feared 4.1...., mat many a re l os t a t this age for want o f medical ass;-% tance and care of the mother, who is soon obliged to lea''' . her child in other hands and go forth, to engage in CO" ; stant and unwholesome toil. The child sicens, and /- f soothed by • opiates." In the same page a quotation! e a similar nature is given from the Registrar of Deansgm„; Manchester, who concludes thin : In all Manchest s there is but one children's dispensary, and this has b„,," two medical officers. Such institutions should be nuic i ", rous large towns, and much goad might be effects', but the unfortunate outdoor occupations of the woole;,' 0 by causing the withholding of nature's nutriment from t' 4 , children,. is terribly destructive to the latter." In pageg ate Registrar -General sums up this appalling picture . 0 stating that—" In Manchester 13,362 c hild ren perished.,l, seven years over and above the mortality natural to ins kind. These 'little children,' brought up in unclep dwellings and impure streets, were left alone long daY o ,,d their mothers to breathe, the subtle sickly vapou r s, soot , , by opium—a more 'cursed' distillation than 'hebenorf ro , and when assailed by mortal di seases , th e i r stomachs Odie their bodies convulsed, their brains bewildered, left to to without medical aid, which, like hope, should ‘conle s ii, all,' the skilled medical man never being called in at ,be or only summoned t o W it ness the death and sanction. funeral," Bth, IS a lady THE IMERFOOL STANDARD. VARIETIES ANECDOTE OF THE DUKE. — During the regime of th, Peel administration an important situation in Ireland, be came vacant, to which an Irish relative of the Duke wished tc Grace, and, after having stated his wish, concluded hi: letter with these words—" Oneword from your Grace wil be sufficient." The Duke sent the following laconic anc characteristic reply :—" Dear —, Not one ward yrs. all] y. , Wellington." Sulphuric ether - is distilled from a mixture: of equal weights of alcohol and sulphuric acid (oil of vitrul). The vapour, when carried in what is technically called a worm through cold water, or otherwise cooled down by other similar process, condense densed into w (just as stean is con- a penetrating, pleasant, lemon-like' odow:, and sweetish acrid-taste. This limpid liquid is sulphuric ethe'. There is no sulphur in its composition. BENEFICIAL EFFECTS OF SEWERAGE AND TENTILA TION.—" The London Hospital was baAlly'drainal, heated with hot air, and not large enough for its innates. In 1837 and 1838 respectively, the mortality was it and 121 per cent, In 1839 the sewerage was completed and the mortality fell to 91 per cent. In 1840 the hot ai• was dis continued, and a further decrease to 9 per ceit. took place. The mortality in 1841 was 10 per cent. In 1842 the new wing was opened, when the mortality fell to 8 . . cent., and in,1843 to 7 pe• cent _ Evidence before the Health of Towns' Connnisson A CANADIAN GRIN From Mr: - Li Ven under bright ainshinc seraglio." , —H. Walpole's Memoirs of -King George 11 .... L. mums. sue w e onject to each of those votes, and deprecate a re earliest opportunity to avail himself of the partially of the petition of them,—first, as members of the united church reigning monarch, by asking his permission to dicontinue of England and Ireland ; and secondly as Protestants. the evening sittings in the Court of Chancery on Vednes- "As members of the united church, we view with the George 111. made a good stop, which deepest repugnance any proposal to divert funds at present ne used to tett ror the rest of his reign, of what pssed be- d evoted to the inculcation of pure and Scriptural Chris - • tween him and his chancellor on that occasion. I ..ttpd +„ _ _ vol. 1., p.,87 days and Friday bitterness, , . ject of his scandal th e b e tt er f or the imputation, had it been fully homp nut 67 +h. HOLLAND HOUSE AND ITS INHABITANTS ua wautinig a S 375• said tus majesty, " his reason for wishing tat these tem of dangerous and anti-scriptural error. And, while sittings should be abolished ?"—" Sir," answred he, we are not opposed to any reasonable plan of church " that I may be allowed comfortably to finish ay bottle reform, we are compelled to dispute your lordship's view, of port after dinner ; and your majesty. solicitou for the that a church „r .eman _.....,_._,,, —...,..—, .u. ...0 .....t, ...mt..' estaunsiiment or AoUtl,ooo per annum, for ,iiiu. L.'s Lulu one reornary numoer of Prayer has a hap - piness of all your subje'ct — s, I hope will confider this a nation of 8,000,000, nearly 2,000,000 whereof are Pro most interesting article, d escr ipti ve o f a lo ca lity which tere reason sufficient." The permission was gaciously testants, is to be regarded as disproportionate and exces has held, in its palmy days, some of England's finest spi- accorded—we may suppose an explanation beig added sive. Even limiting the usefulness of the Irish clergy to rits,. but which, it is too much to h e feared, is destined that post-prandian sittings were becoming geneally un- the 1,000,000 of people who are members of the Establish to be appropriated to the commone r uses o f this working- popular, and were unsuited to the changed mannrs of so- ment, the proportion does not differ much from that of day world. The dust of Alexa n d er , we are rem i n d e d , ciety.—Lord Campbell's Chancellors. England, where a Church possessing a revenue of may till a bunghole ; and the home of the Cope's, the £4,000,000 can hardly be regarded as comprehending MILTON'S Houses IN LONDON. This memorable Rich's, and the Fox's—the apartments in which our dwelling is /et standing. It no longer opens nto St. within its own pale more than 8,000,000 or 10,000,000 of statesmen, our philosophers, and our poets have "held James's Park. The ancient front is now the bek, and the people. On various grounds, therefore, we earnestly high festival "—are at present desolate. To use the lan_ James of, deprecate all plans for seizing upon, or diverting to nth.. overlooks the fine old, but house-surrounded guage of one who has often trod their floors, in this once j„..„„„___ D___,___ .1. .. -- • - A this ancient fmt i s a purposes, any portion o f th e en d owments of the Church. _ —, bearing the inscription—" Sacred to Milttn, the ' But, as Protestants, and on behalf, not only of the prince of poets." Thi s was p l ace d t h ere b y no I ss dis- mem b ers o f our own Ch urch, but of multitudes who, while tinguished a man than William Hazlitt, Who reted the holding the same faith, are separated from her by differ house some years, purely because it was Milton's. Ben- ences on non -essential questions, we object to every tham, when he was conducting people round his:arden, scheme or proposition for connecting the Romish priest which is now in the occu p a ti on o f M r. Gibb , t h e egineer, hood with th e St a t e, w h et h er b y a spoliation of the Esta :itch in a few more years may used to make them s ome ti mes go d own on their bees to blished Church, or by means of funds derived from the Jec,ome a union workhouse, a b arrac k, a prison, or a rail- this house. The house is tall and narrow, and has o thi ng national tr easury . road station,—what memories cling ! What lessons could striking about it. No doubt, when it opened ato St. " From your lordship's support of Lord Ellesmere's its walls teach us ! What anecdotes—what revelations of James's Park, it was pleasant ; now it fronts inttYork- motion, and of the Maynooth endowment of 1845, we the secret doing of courtiers and of statesmen in the street, which runs in a direct line from the wesend of gather, that you are prepared to establish the Romish olden time ! But we must leave our brother of Frazer Westminster Abbey. It is No. 19, and is occupia by a priests in IrelaAttl, either by handing over to them a por to speak for himself : cutler. The back, its former front, is closed in by wall, tion of the property of the Established Church,—or, if this " Before Holland House is o blit era t e d, l e t us - reca ll , i n leaving but a very narrow court ; but above this ra il, as course shall present difficulties, or the funds so a tt a i na b le one brief review those ch arac t ers w hi c h, p ass i ng b e f ore already said, look s i n t o th e p l easan t gar d en o f t h e ate ye- s h a ll prove i na d equa t e , th en t o supp l y t h e deficiency out us like the shadows fi g ur e d b e f ore M ac b e th, mus t h ave nerable philosoph er .—Willi am H ew it t ' s H one and of the general taxation of Ireland, Scotl an d , an d E ngland. figured there in the sever a l dy nas ti es w h o p res id e d i n Haunts of British' Poets. It can no t be necessary to prove, that to p rov id e any ade those venerable chamb ers . L e t us h as t en over th e b r i e f T HE C HURCHYARD HAS ITS D ISTIN CTIONS.—"Iere," quate endowment for the 2000 priest s o f I re l and, a very rule of the Copes ; p rec i se enoug h an d respec t a bl e, no sa id my eccen t r i c f r i en d , Lawyer Barclay, as he istniver- considerable annual payment would b e requ i re d out of the national exchequer. high-topped hats fresh from th e c ity ; an d l a di es i n t h e i r grave w i ves f or a h uman b e i ne is wr i tten i n a nrierihn " loubt ; gentlem en w ith b om b as t e d i nex b ress ibl es and sally called, " here, as e l sew h ere , th e rece i p t w : c h t h e d _ _To any. sue' , •oposal your lord s hip may ramous rt I seem as on Who walks alon Some banquet-hall dese IVhose glories fled, Whose iarlands dead. And all but im departed. .ouse, w almost lock-. ,wed, f sT he n rely un finding among the people of England an d Scotland, and a large part of Ireland, the most determined opposition. Bible in their hands, it is impossible for them - ether - cram uLlic I accurately entered. If here mercers and man-milli ners c l a i me d kindre&With minutely and Avaunt ! and t us on to the festive days of the I of importance, or belonged to a learned profeion, or gay mcnes. nere, in the library, in which the antique gravity of a college was so singularly blended with all that female wit and grace could devise to embellish a drawing-room, the handsome visage of the ill-fated Buck ingham, his suit of sable velvet close cut; his peruke, al ready inclined to the love-lock, was seen.' Buckineham _ - w regara rop er y in any m. _ Jght than as dishonouring serves in the Assembly, an d, a b ove a ll , if h e habeen a to God a n d d angerous to t h e souls of men. Hence they the title of honou ra bl e , it i s member of the uppe r h ouse of the legislature, a 4 borne would regard its n a ti ona l a d op ti on as an act, not only recorded at lqrge ; vale, on morally wron g an d i n d e f ens ibl e , b u t par t a ki ng o f t h e cha the other hand, if he h as d er i ve d hi s suppor t Nam an ratter of a nal- iny,ol .;,-. , . . .. bnra no+ 41....-1.-. 4-1... A: ea. ....... ....1. 1.... .I._ I. is gone, anc the scene changes and discloses Fairfax in - Lis armour ; his. long and melancholy, and yet not un leasing countenance, turned towards Rich doubtingly, or Rich was trusted by no man. He who had received to measure of obligation from King Charles, and had continued to flourish more than any man in the court then the weather was fair,' was no subject of confidence ith Fairfax. Aud, behold ! Rich is a prisoner —civilly e it said—in his own house : and the hall resounds wish it, lest it might w ou n d th e ar i s t ocra ti c feelings. .._. as- .-- "On such awful topics we desire to s p ea k w ith caution othis as well as charity. Bat we dare not close our eyes to the Airing' posterity. -It is said that truth is to be nand in tremendous fact that a visitation of the most fearful kind the win poste and the depths of a well. If revesng the has recently been sea upon the empire, and that its com secrets of others be truth, wine may be the enent it mencement was seen to take place at the very time when, loves. The well can only give it when exhaus..d, and and in the very place where, a national recognition and then the fact it has to communicate is scarcely foul to be encouragement of Popery h a d lust b een g i ven . ExePrit worth the trouble of th e searc h_ nar..1.7 that +1,....,11 :, among men who do no t even profess a belief in the Scrip tures, and who consequently deride the idea of a superin tending Providence, it might have been expected that the strange proximity of the act of 1845 and the judgment of - - nas passed, or the sou n d o f th e scu l p t or ' s mitt h as 1845, 1846, and 1847, wou ld a t l eas t h ave g i ven rise to a ceased, refutes the pomp ous f a l se h oo d b y a sem i mar- degree of doubt and hesit a ti on ; th oug h , b eyon d th i s feel ing riage ; and eyes as bright, and voice as s w e e t as Use that sio of doubt a n d h es it a ti on , we re f ra i n f rom any expres , n of sentiment. • are closed by death, seduce him into a di savows o f his . own words, Here lieth the best of wives,' ancompel Knowing that your lordship is not of the class to which we have alluded, we regret to find that your opinions him to acknowledge `Here the husband lies.' Ire dis- in 1827 and 1845 have undergone no change. But we can consolate widow whose affections are buried in te - ' assure your lordship, that the various feelings which we - , 1, in different de vs p 10/141/ 1,1 V, GIL 10 empty. Whenever it i s t o b e sought for, , one thin is cer tain, it is not to be found on a tombstone. The roken hearted husband who erects a monument to rord his inconsolable grief for the loss of his wife, ere of short seemea to grow!, led by some fanatical preacher. :` All has passed away ; and Mary, that Countess of War wick who was a daughter of the house of Cork, is seen here in her devout widowhood, writing Occasional Medi tations upon Sundry Subjects , a simile in one of whi c h had the honour of b e i ng imitated by Addison. This coun tess was the progenitrix of the social characteristics of Holland House. She was the feundress and inventress. says one of her admirers, of a new science, the art of obliging,—' great in a thousand things besides-' which she counted but loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus our Lord.' " She passed away, and Addison might be seen wooing .her great and shrewish successor, his Countess of War- to express are s; , - - ------ ----- ... ,,,, 0 have endeavourer aarec., in death, feels he r h ear t reanimated with th genial grees, b y so many of the electors of Middlesex as to ren warmth of returning spring. It rises from the WI with der it more than doubtful, whether the relation into which the primrose, shakes off its wintry torpor, and nppears your lordship purposes to enter, can, under these circum with renewed life and vigour after its short seclush. The stances, become one of a permanent c h arac t er . admired of all admirers n o l onger re f uses t o b e co f or t e d. " I h'ave the honour to be, my lord, your lo r d s hip' s The churlish miser receives th e h omage o f inhc,eritv -1.....1:-...,..___, _,_ ____ _ ‘_, wick ; or leading to heaven by prec€ from his le servant, loved earthly pleasures too well ; or resigning, in hopless disease, his post as Secretary of State in a set letter to his Bering ear can no longer listen to its flattering accts. chaste and beautiful allegorical figure of affections seen " HENRY HOARE The Lord Robert Grosvenor, &e." royal master . - - vision has been already before us., " So Chesterfield, and a host of others, spring forth from that ancient porch since that the old house, long shut up (the Riches are clean gone), has been opened again for the Wiltshire squire's family, and the peer whose maxim it was, as Burns says, to semblei a money-chest : you are losein doubt 'tether the tears so copiously shed are caused' by unexpeied le gacies to others, or by the prot rac t e d ,delay of pos:ssion. This is a double fraud. It represents. the dead a: - orthY The university of Oxford has granted £5OO for the of love, and the living as capable of loving. It iant gra- Scotch and Irish. tank, but a decent observance of a hypocriticalcstom. Upwards of £12,000 worth of -- • But why are men so shocked at the mention of flit on a hour (Isle of Man)-, on Thursday tombstone which the deceased published throudiut his The amount subscrib-- 1 ' - life to all the world. In this churchyard, numercasis the of £Boon graves care, no man is designated as tailor, barber,bucher, baker, or shoemaker ; yet, doubtless there are3cres of each who placed these ominous and forbidden vods on their signs in the largest letters, and the most etactive and conspicuous form. There is, indeed, one exertion, if such it can be called. This marble was eretd to a man who is described as a servant,' but it was •aied at the expense of a friend,' that styled himself hi: ulster, who, in enumerating his excellent qualities, haenc for gotten to proclaim his own liberality, nor been whined to inform us that he has expended more money n cttol lhli his services than in rewarding them. It msbeen @tntrat Keek through _ every other man Ramsey Wi' sharperi'd sly iitspectiop, appears in his court suit and bind riband ; and tried, but tried in vain, we should think, his incomparable skill in the art of bamboozle upon his friend Fox, whose charac ter he had so sharply, yet, at the same time, so leniently, set off ; and Chesterfield's smile=laughter being abjured by him as a vulgar indulgence—his compliment and po lished anecdote carrying the sting muffled, are contrasted in that gilt chamber with the course ribaldry and outrage- The Bishop of Ely, says a London paper, has purchased for a few shillings, an old dirty picture, which turns out to be a genuine likeness of Shakespeare. One passenger by the Sirius steam-ship lost £2OOO in his portmanteau, and a lady £l5OO, by the wreck of the vessel. SORRY PUN.—The Cambridge Advertiser states that l e r v e e l r a y n in. Staffordshire is up in alms for the relief of ous gaiety of Walpole, whose native coarseness no habits of intercourse with the refined could quench. And Hol land House is already assuming her mark of distinction, that of being the very centre of all the minor charities of life ; all the great men and women_who congregated there On Sunday week, upwards of £7OO was distributed among the poor Jews in London. The amouut,was con tributed by the congregations of the metropolitan syna- ler libraries " Too soon for the ambition of Henry Jos did Holland House lose her political coteries ; long silent were her turrets, during the minority of the late Lord Holland, un til, upon his nee to manhood and pre-eminence, a new race of the elite appeared beneath the ri c h ce ili ngs framed by Rich. vel, for the level is on a summit, and all are elevoecto it. Be it so ; but then strike out all your degres,your D.D.'s, your M.D.'s, th e wor d s J u d ge, C oune ilbr.tiar- Aster, Esquire„ and let the rank of the dead be Inform. cljmbed to the roof of the Globe Hotel, Glasgow, whence'Y' he•fell to the pavement, and received such injuries that he died next day. Of all places in the world a gra;reiarcitaileYst — siotidhe consecrated to truth. As it is, it seems d e votee b Y =aural:CS Us Tlle 110.. minican 'i - Si - ers of Penance, at Bristol, on Tuesday week. Their vows were received by D r . Ul lathorne. the bishop. Oa 11 summon, ostentation, and falsehou All sects retain their peculiarities here, and endeavour° per petuate them. A. little more taste, and a little are ex pense in the monument (but with a contemptuoudisre gard of veracity in its record), indicate that a chuhman is deposited there (for the Church in the colony ebraces I the greater part of the upper class of society.) " Gladly would one pass over the dissolute but enter taining clique, the George 6elwyn and the Carlisle set, who contributed to poison the mind of the young Charles James, then in his eighteenth year; gladly would one forget that early and fatal entanglement in play, which Haying Lord Carlisle's security for £15,000. To crown the. infamy, Lord C- plain, substantial one, witWthe modest assurance tat the soul of the deceased was immediately conveyed toeaven, lisle w Sarah LetiOx i then Lady S secret of his unlawful passic thought worth concealinz I near .e scarcely pangs, of such a passion, Lord Carlisle's own words will forcibly shew :—" If I am received with coldness," he wrote to Selwyn, alluding to an approaching meeting with Lady Sarah, I shall feel it extremely. I shall be misera. ble if lam made too welcome. Good God ! what happi• ness would I not exchange ta be able to live with hei without loving her more than friendship will allow ! my picture hung up, or is it in the passage with its fac( I Carlisle s•G On one alone Apollo deigns to smile knd crowns a new Rosciimmon in Carlisle " At twenty-, L......p, um , LOU nearl y connected wan Him : —.. -...... , “.. Lim iI , u., Limns vVA. VI we I our lordship refers us t o y our vo t es : -I s t , f or L ord cold upon the portion of the face that is exposedto it re- Ellesmere's motion for the endowment of the Romish " The other preceptor (to Prince George after the death sembles the application of a strong acid ; and th, healthy clergy in Ireland ; 2d, for the Maynooth endowment of of his father, A.D. 1751, subsequently George III.) was grin which the countenance assumes, requires —s I often 1845.; and, 3d, for Mr. Ward's proposed amendment of Ha ter, Bishop of Norwich, a sensible and well-bred observed on those who for many minutes had leen in a that bill. And, if we correctly understand your lordship, man, natural son of Blackburne, the jolly old Archbishop war m room waiting to see me—a considerable tine to re- you refer us to those votes, as votes you are prepared to of York, who had all the manners of a man of quality, lax.—Sir F. Head's Emigrant. repeat on any fitting occasion. though he had been a bucanier, and was a clergyman ; - hiit In,. ....i..;n.a m‘ti. „ ,... ~.., m. 4. ,.. ,„ ___,,,,,,,:__ ____, i ___ A CONVIVIAL REASON.—Lord Northingtnntnolr +1,,, , Ax ,- -„ -1... _,... , ~. mark, when a subsidence tot* place, and, notwithstanding the most strenuous exertions were made to overcome it, the completion of the erection was given up, the treache ruts character of the sa n d s ren d er i ng i t i mpract i ca b le. ' Captain Bullock's beacon, erected in 1840, higher up the- sands, braves the weather in the most successful manner. THE SWINDLERS OF, THE METROPOLIS. — On, Satur ofatilioeny the district, in 6t. Mary's The Hon. H. E. Roman Catholic Chapel. day, at the Mansion House, the Lord Mayor said, be Addington, son of Lord Sidmouth, has considered it necessary, for the information of. a great eh to adac b co orr in o m w o mo d committed suicide by hanging himself to a bed-post, at number of individuals who had written to him, complain his father's residence, at Albury, near Guildford. His in- ing of having been overwhelmed with printed' circulars tellect had:been deranged for some time previous. from persons who called themselves " Bosanquet and C 0.," The Bristol Journal states the pleasing fact that one clergyman alone (residing within eight miles of Salisbury) has raised the large amount of 4,000 amongst his family in commercial matters,learned that -A ;*----diatA rormortiona fin. *I-i. P.H.f of 1-I.P distressed tile various fraudulent concerns carried on under the ad- Iresses published, on former occasions had f.„„A :, ___ u"pligtrahernir and bills, C o dud' . :pt proposing oisgi state,t i n e t x g h t a t e h t n e h s rev winch had beenimmuadgeeulhealrd places of abode. ai) On Tuesday, some labourers began to level a Brandon, Suffolk, and speedily skeletons with some fragments of weapons. It is sup- had been given to understand, in the most hp.pfipica discovered several hundred The exposure a.; rk in many in 10 several towns in Ent advancers of mon inicuienea Him tnrough the press by not only changing POLITICAL USE or SULPHURIC ETHER.—The Chan- their places of address, but theirnarne4.—Aforning Herald. cetlor of the Exchequer, it is understood, will avail him- FALL OF A GRANARY.—On Friday a large portion of self of the recent discovery in medical science, and admi- an extensive granary at Port Dundas, the principal har ulster sulphuric ether to exery Englishman whose income bour on the Glasgow terminus of the Forth and Clyde exceeds £l5O a-year, that he may extra c t th e i ncome -t ax C ana l f e ll i n . I t i s a stone building from 70 to 80 feet i n from his pocket without pain. length, and six stories in height. Between twelve and A, corn riot took place in Okehampton Market, on Sa- one at noon, one or two cracks were heard, proceeding A farmer named Hooper, having refused to from the buildi ng . ...t.:- , - I , for less than Gs. 6d - - rdio n n of some proclaims the saint to have been a Dissenter. 'D com mon Christian emblem of the Cross is more in usamong Romanists than others, but you may identify theray their pious horror of Protestants, It would be dangerl;4 to be 7; for the Pope has'eelared found in such bad company they cannot be sated ; and who can question s i authority ? They, therefore the dust that is polluted lluted doubt, real one of the inscriptions, r and a scrap 'Latin Latin sets the matter at rest. It is an appropriate tong, for it is " a dead language." In this cartilage, then, hich is the common burial-place of all, sectarianism aneashion hare found their way and offered their distinctivbadges to their followers. The highway of life has been (tended into the churchyard, and is thronged in its usual miner. pings 1 se ;even, such was the misery of hi he wished himself no more , ful, and the vices of youth We. merge into the milder form of errors, into virtue. For who could resist the snares of that nating circle ? Even Pitt was nearly drawn into the va tex of play at Goosetree's, and Wilberforce yielded to i fatal charm. He once arose- the winner of £2OOO ;hi the pain he felt for those who lost, prevented all such ft ture triumphs of the infernal regions. but Providence was rnerci- dually tc thence to ex . " Another group attend_ names of .Sheridan, Erskine, I sound in' her entrance-hall ; and of these the m9st ap proachable, the most loveable in private society, vitas the last. His manners were noble, polished, courteous ; his spirits so gay that, even in the decline of life, he was the youngest of the young. Over his whole conversation,' thus writes a contemporary, was flung a veil of unrent classical elegance ; through no crevice, had there been any, would ever an unkind or au unconditioned sentiment have found entrance.' Again a break in the vast current of mighty intellects, and Mackintosh, tall, cold in aspect, kindly at heart, referred to as the very pattern-book of all knowledge, greatly independent, benignantly serene, sits at the table of the noble host, by the side of De Staiil. Her preoccupation with him, to use a foreign phrase, was so extreme that some doubted whether the great Scot liked it, yet he always spoke of her with that calm enthu siasm which was peculiarly his own attribute. And here, smiling, singing, charming all hearts, was the gay bard of t Holland House, and tt e, and Windham n expensive or toe ricu, the sobriety of the middle-( destitution of the nameless and unknown poor. le scale of colonial precedence survives mortality. Tlumitred bishop still regards with a condescending and air the poor ( [aSSeS t lit mtlizsing . . ...., ...... ~... ...., marble Monument upon his . quondam labourer ith his turf covering, and maintains his relative positioiin the society of the dead. The iron railing boasts a itquality and durability, and regards with pity or contept the temporary'and trumpery wooden enclosure. Tl'classic the man of taste ; while all look up to him wi repre sented his king, and whose titles are almost as kg as his eulogium—the old governor—the fountain of hotur, and the distributor of patronage and of rank. Atniall this al • v aulLy —nerc an CI tnere is to De tounct some constency— I nature. found that for about Du feet of the length of the building the antiquated virgin preserves her acidity of taper to I On Tuesday. night, about ten n o'clock, in the neighbour- the whole five floors had fallen simultaneously, tearing the the last. She is one of those of whom 'vulgar :!oPle so, hood of Linc°ln, very vivid L lightning was seen to flash beams from their sockets in the eastern gable, and snapping idly and flippantly predict ' that they dry, but n'er ( he. from a clear sky, and tne moon shining brightly at the them through at the iron pillars, about twenty feet from Accustomed to hear such agreeable eemPlimeatssbe an - time. This . was immediately followed by a heavy storm of the west gable, the walls, pillars, and floors, to the west. with a beams were also snapped through a few feet from the ticipates the sneer or the smile of youth upon filing the wind and- rain, which continued throughout the night. ward being perfectly unaffected by the shock. The cross word ' Miss' associated with seventy-foiu• yearof age ; Many other parts of the country were visited and as in life she maintained the privilege of the tt, word, similar storm on the same night. north wall, leaving the staircase, for the whole height of Years si , 3.ee, and so in death she claims a right to the first; and nth and Steam-ship.huildi ng on th e Clyd e i s a t present in an the building, untouched. It was most fortunate th a t i t beauty are admonished that ere long they mustindergo enterprising state. B es id es th e si moom war ship of 1 " w as so , as at the very moment two men were in the arjper the penalty of the law of their nature, MA be bulbled in barse - power, and nearly as large as the ill-fated Great flat receiving grain, which was in the act of being lirSisted the dust like herself, She thus avenges the slighiand in- Britain, the Glasgow Citizen e n umerates about twenty up. The granary was built about thirty juries of an unfeeling world, and, consistent,tecP last, other steam vessels, principally intended for mercantile had in it from 1000 ,to 1 ls of wheat, oie, s 8 ,,, , o f evinces her fondness for disagreeable truths.' Sam "Purposes which are at present in the course of construction which about thirty percent, Will be ~o• Slick, in Peaces Magazine. in the different building ports of the Clyde, rubbish. , among . .•the turday lasi per bushel, a crowd of individuals towards it. They di scover ed to their great ...s women loudly th r eat ene d tO cut the bags, and let alarm th a t th e centre o f t h e building facing the street was the corn run out. lie then acceded to their demands, slowly making its way outwards, and after a lapse of three and retailed it at 6s. per bushel. or four minutes, a b ou t three-fourths in • length of the COMFORTER—The widow of the late Lieut.-Colonel building came down on the street with a crash resembling Fe— by the percolating starvin awce„ whose death in a due/ with his brother-in-law, thunder. The effect was heightene. Lieut. Munro, in 1844, will be fresh in recollection, was of the wheat and other grain, from the portion of thL, married on the Bth inst., a t th e c h a p e l of the British Em, floors which remained standing, through the broken tim bassy, in Florence, to Alfred A. Shaw, Esq., of the 2nd bers, and which emitted a sound as of a very heavy fall Madras Infantry. of rain. The floors were laid upon strong longitudinal The Oxford City Council have decided by a great ma. and transverse beams of wood, supported at their jo jority,..withibut t wo dissentient voices, to petition Parlia tions by numerous cast-iron pillars in each flat ment for an Act to enable corporate bOdiei, and cities and perpendicularly on each other from the ground to the boroughs, to establish general cemeteries, on a comp- roof, and it was calculate d th at the building w ou ld b ear , hensive and unse c t ar i an b a sis. A general!re petition of the without undue straining, a large quantity of victual more householders of the city is also in course of extensive sig- than it contained. 12li;tlie dust clearing away. it was reb ARRIVAIbion VE California, I \lgwash SAIL ED • ..knleran; Phillip ic s, Si Hariiet an fron 43, Ion: 18— lat. 8 N, lon y, lonz. tn. lat. 4 e, merara: i l ui ngton, fror W---Queer' lat, 3 8, long black ball, b the Nonantn lat. 51, long. York, 'lsto, this Port, in lat. 9 N, to 13th Deceml ARRIVED.- POSSypium, Malabar hi Venice. , Swatara B ner masts , thi:r tr ona draggi n , Zenobia, f (he 7 th Jan.,. r t i , from Mat ° 1 Horst, an d hea in want , of Wm. Hatt Richard valparaiso. } . a Washington net with a Fro pon, and A perb sa T a ,lor n, IN rtut: - " et, S P. K . Mean th ers,•Lewi s , 1 49 - eatid e ; --ranee tin, - Tho mas u 17 ....„,,ith loss eri c k , aad fo, Samuel, fa t :"aftY Vagclat . irlaY. On tti ida Reef, ROtte on. On Alicket.ship Co I , f fore topmast nastant, lost of -.orld mate, fir, The • ahil lave on.board ?,I)erienced a sixteen d.iva ab l a ' nal HAN J ‘lll, Leavy e of o i°wned : gal the r and on .44: , of Bre me tt ot, remained httli" L ‘vAY Jai th• R st;) co' ,„"_ rani 'ortung; 4b P ana A, L, Jan. N'ov 4 °T ied at arrived 11 netit k pl t into 41 1341-4 1 t b F Nith t 0 this LLET, tea the ti mely_ as: agr e l,l„ _ ts ,vr Ithadan to h 'ltaly, Jan. Dtlt nvetri-r,ivetidul Oryalyhead. WESTPOR4, J. 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