The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-31 00:00:00

Oh ! queen' Have fled a The voic The hap Save th And the The plash Of the oali n the pre'', lies and Trne it is, the style of Mr. Montgomery is rich in imagery and illustration—his language beautiful and poetical ; yet is he not discursive, nor is there the slight est want of methodical arrangement in the composition of bis sermons. We do not mean to say but that his " Come u and I wil vision : first. avagant, or that will always bear t subic .nt noticing a find an orderly examin ;e, which is arranged under a fourfold di secondly, the the invited, " all who and fourthly, the encou hole, " and I will givf A 'yet with h more space than we style and Isibly command to exhibit fully the Ind one or two speci s they are beautiful in lan- Though he enlarge solemnly on the absolute necessity of a firm belief in th doctrines of revelation, he yet urgf wage, must s faithful certainly a nee at present th reiterated ssing necessity of consist aceritv what in the present da d by those who knos Christian E The basis of th While the earth re- 1 cold and heat, ar r, and day and night. shall not ceas these words the aspects of nature are considered .ntiment, as evout philosophy, as enjoyed by sound phi- I as applied by decided spirituality. In the n Mr. Montgomery turns to " the world of -frer showing how difficult it is to believe Ise are not the standards of reality and Is to ccnfute the materialism of the in- ,nd sen from adopting that creed or mere sens faithful prea and excitement. ling of " Jesus is proved to be the only cer a nearer and flea worldly spirit, and to Him who was mons) is the Divine mercy, as exhibited roduetive of true religion ; for the atone cent is , evelopement of the " Divine mercy," and as s it teaches mankind to love the Saviour who Iccomplished it, so certainly will it be productive of " true religion " in those who " receive the revelation of it with pure affection." The followi 7, extract is on a subject much mooted in " While physical science and sound philosophy, when subordinated to the demands of conscience, and spiritu alised by harmonious conjunction with truths which ap pertain to the soul's revealed eternity in God, may indeed be reckoned as handmaids to religion, and take a graceful position among the virgins which be her fellows'; yet who will deny, that, unless to men of faith, prayer, and close walking with their reconciled Father in heaven, perpetual intimacy with the secret laws of materialism, and an ardent pursuit after discoveries and facts in the physical world, is allied with much that is perilous to simplicity and humbleness of spirit? Malbranche asserts, that those departments of knowledge which are associated most with with the powers of memory, are most calcu lated to foster the pride of man, because they are the most producible before the attention of others ; but, whatever may be thought of this opinion, never may you forget that the abstract views your philosophy obtains of the Infinite Architect of heaven and earth, are, after all, but in a remote way relate.. to the mighty interests of your moral welfare; and that, however intellectual acut eness may be cultivated, and the imagination overawed. as more and more the riches of Divine wisdom and goodness are unveiled before your scientific progress into the oc cu l t paths of nature,—yet in the unutterably i mportant work of your own salvation, " all this profiteth you nothing ! " Nor is the danger simply negative. The habit of tenta tive research ; the exaction of sensible and ocular cer tainty ; and the ideas of boundless advancement i nt o the fields of knowledg e , w hi c h so o f ten a ll ur e and animate the experimentalist,—all these are extremely unfavourable to that docile frame and submissive temperament of mind, which are essential to the genuine Christian. And how often, too, will the lover of natural philosophy uncon sciously transfer his appetite for resistless evidence and •• • • nto the gh matters of the sou demption, and the mysteries of the Redeemer's work ! Nay, will he not sometimes endeavour to force those bar riers of sacred darkness, wherewith the Author of revela tion hath fenced His secrets from the audacities of a pro fane curiosity ? " SELECTIONS MAID SERVANTS.—THE NURSEMAID.--The nurse maid next claims our notice. She has a child's-maid un der her, or could not have left the nursery even for family yrayers. She is a smart lassie enough, but not with such pretty little sbynesses as the lady's maid. She has not been so much closeted from the eyes of men. Her brow is more bronzed with sun and assurance, for she has been much in public walks with the children, who have secured to her many an opportunity of a flirtation with the gen tlemen. No harm has yet been done to her, and sorrow to him who would effect it ! She (God knows) means harm to no one; but her situation is, perhaps, the one of all others needing circumspection, and the sooner she meets with a Dick Robins the better. Handsome fellows stop her to a little innocent play with children ; and glittering epaulettes, especially, are bright playthings for great girls as well as little ones. Parades and ramparts are generally open, airy healthy places, and the music stimulating ; but we must deny the assertion that, " where the banners flout the sky, they fan the people cold." Take care, Jenny—take care. Nurse your innocence as fondly and faithfully as you are nursing your mistress's child, and, with that child's growth, shall thrive your soft heart's happiness.—Fraser's Magazine. AUTUMN MORN ING.—The sun's disc peeping above an eastern hill—the ecstatic voices of a multitudinous throng of larks, rushing heavenward, and pouring out the while a flood of tremulous yet triumphant song—the jocund voices of labourers in the farm-yard, of reapers in the harvest field, and early gleaners in the bowery lanes—the clinking of harness, and the creaking of ponderous wains already astir and tending towards the harvest fields ; what plea santer sights and sounds than these to usher in the glo rious day ? And as the blue mists roll away—veil after veil withdrawn, and distant hills shine clearly out, and winding waters leap and sparkle in the sunshine, and hill side cottages send up their slender wreaths of white and vapoury smoke into the pure, bright, morning air, and the awakening breeze runs riot amidst the huge gnarled arms and waving boughs of every tree it meets with in its course—what seemeth it but a renewal of the primal beauty of the earth, order and light revolving out of chaos —life, teeming, vigorous, and lusty life, up springing from the heavy death-like sleep of night? So morning life, and sunshine dawn unon the world ; morning climbing the firmanent's blue arch—life in that vocal air, life in the mn wood ite in the twinkling grass, life in the so fe in the thrilling song of the exalted birds, he red-veined vine-leaves clustering round the oreh, life in the haunts and homes of men, and sunshine brooding- over, embracing and informing all.— I Illuminated M fe in t vazine, speaking, are very little understood in Our fair countrywomen are really seen to wear Inhish, which a Russian lady's maid would disdain. And as is commonly imagined, furs are ndant in Russia; on the contrary, strange s not been Ir, the great mass of furs used in Russia conies front London, and every fur is worth fifty or a undred per cent. more there than in England. Even the Siberian sable, is not Siberian, it comes from the is it may ap :mile Islands in the Pacific, whither the Russian govern -lent, every other year, despatch a vessel or two, which circuit of the world, and returns laden with sof this distant possession. In London, s well-dressed women with imitation h the real skin does not cost above twelve s, the darkest coloured from twenty to thirty ; but the sable of the Karile Islands may run as high as six guineas a single skin, and is seldom under four in price, whilg in the beauty of its long, thick, light-feeling, and dusk-coloured hair, there is more difference than in the uric , altho This is the sable used by the Russian dames; but in addition to this, two furs are generally worn in Russia, which are almost unknown in England—the most valuable of all furs—the sea otter and the black fox. The former is used for offi.-:ers' collars, and this narrow strip cannot be obtained under ten pounds, in its most inferior quali ties. The black fox is used for ladies' cloaks and muffs : a single collar of it is worth at least sixty guineas. AN ACTIVE MAGISTRATE.—DAUNTLESS COURAGE.— In 1829 strong symptoms of fresh disturbances began to g the " Boys of Doneraile," and the .earned that a conspiracy was on foot to mur .eral of the gentry of Doneraile, amongst other George Bond Low admiral Evans. and Mr_ Crean' anifest amor p • ...Aa!, Cllll4 0:1 • ,1 COO • .. Bond - Low was fired at on three different occasions, and his escapes were really marvellous. He was a very active and zealous magistrate, and from his extraordinary determination, nay, his downright heroism, was a most formidable person to all who meditated deeds of violence. He was a very large and heavy figure, possessed a cool and daring spirit, and with the exception of the Ki ng o f th e Frenc, no man was, perhaps, so often attacked by dis tardly assassins ; but all parrallel ceases between Louis Phillippe and Mr. Low, when the fact is noticed that the latter. riding amongst his foes without guards, and by - 4. alone, more than once captured his assailants, and 'lern to the gallows they deserved. On one oc- ca.ion, in 'he noon-day, two strong and active peasants, armed with fire arms, attacked him from behind a hedge. Nothing daunted, although his mare was severely wound ed. he jumped off and crossed the fence. The men fled beibre him, and he gave chase, but being rather unwieldy he had little chance of catching them. He had pistols one of which he ineffectually discharged—they had guns which they reloaded. He was afraid to fire lest they should be beyond his reach, and when the men halted to fire aglin at him, he calculated that by running in on them even at the hazard of his life, he would still have a chance of capturing them. He did so—one of the men fired— missed—and ran away. On rushed Mr. Low, when the second assassin had discharged his piece without effect, though he grazed the shoulder of his dauntless pursuer. Mr. Low having lessened his distance, fired his remain ing pistol, and mortally wounded the peasant. With as sistance he caught his other assailant, and brought him to trial, at which he was capitally convicted and executed. Such was one of Mr. Low's extraordinary escapes.— Ireland and its rulers since 1822. MAID-SERVANTS . THE COOK.—The cook. Ah ! how shall we adequately apostrophise thee, thou important ruler of the roast ? Thou vestal of that flame, which gives life and strength to carnivorous man ! Who shall dare impiously to intrude on thy orgies, armed as thou art with tongs and ladle? What a touch-me-not is there in thy chop—chop—chop—chopping-knife ! " Hands off!" thou exclaimest, "or I make mince-meat of your fin gers !" Lusty is thine arm, and radiant thy visage ! Portly thy form, and capacious that heaving, well trussed-up bosom, as though to prove " Who roasts fat mutton should herself be fat," _ _ Yet, take her from the kitchen, and how she loses all cha racteristic dignity ! Look at her away from the burning glories of her own stove, and the radiant constellation of her suspendid dish-covers, and she appears like the heaped embers of a dying bonfire, or the huge machinery of a melodram by daylight! Far be it from us to say that it really is so, but nothing can look more out of place than a thorough-going, regularly-built cook, at family prayers in a library. She always seems as if she had left her leg boiling in the pot, and her heart roasting before the fire. Every thing about her seems so tiny, and so cool, and so white, that she sits, es it were, appalled at her own size, hotter in the sense of her own heat, and redder under the apprehension of her own redness. She weeps perspira tion ; and, pathetically wiping her eyes, she seems to ex claim aghast, " What hands are here !" white she vainly endeavours to hide them under her apron. We say.vainly, for they gleam through its whiteness with a lurid glare like the blood-red moon through a mist ! But she is a good soul, and praised be her skill and her endurance. Well does she merit all the importance and homage which belong to her station. She is (spite of Mrs. Housekeep er's pretensions and governance) the grate woman of the house. With no one does such heavy responsibility rest. No other has more right to be ill-tempered and well-paid. Thoroughly well done, as she must needs be, and there fore tenderly given, may he who she favours with a sop in the pan prove worthy of her substantial virtues. The bai liff is the man for her. Let her well-warmed heart be dished up with his broad shoulder, and a central dish of frizzling young cutlets be supplied between them.—Fra ser's Magazine. THE CHURCH.—" In the case of multitudes," observes Dr. Vaughan, who is a dissenter, in his work on Congre gationalism, "the zeal now evinced in the cause of the established church has its origin, no doubt, in much laudable purpose and feeling, such as the men who think it mistaken should be prepared to respect. In the view of no small numbers of her children, the Church of Eng land is possessed of such attractions as belong not to any other institute on earth. Among all the ordinances of God or man she is esteemed the most lovely, the most benignant. Her antiquity carries the mind back to the infancy of our condition as a people. Her visible struc tures, in every form and shade of beauty, are the still and sensible links which connect her history with all the changes of the past. In every completeness, or as they take the shade of the ivy -mantled ruin, they serve to call up the bygone in lengthened succession, until the imagi nation rests upon the rudest appearances, amidst the deepening shadows of the most distant time. Before her altars all our fathers stood on their bridal day, and to her sacred inclosures they surrendered their ashes when their race was run. Her solemn forms of worship became more or more impressive to the living, as being through so many ages mementos of the dead. Beneath her roofs—beneath the humblest in common with the proudest—the men of all degrees have worshipped for more than a thousand years. The very paths leading to the spaces on which her spires and turrets lift themselves towards heaven, have been in a measure sacred in the usages of our people ; and the Sabbath-morning groups in our parishes are among the social pictures we have always been fond of cherishing. But the institution thus interwoven with our homestead remembrances and sympathies has still higher claims on our veneration. As we look back on the history of this church, we see monarchs, a line of dynas ties, do homage to her sanctity. Queens also, from the mother of Alfred downwards, bow at her shrine, and give up their children to her blessing. Her rulers, her scho lars, and her devout men, are often seen as the only august spirits of their times. Not a few of them appear like per sonifications of the repose of another world, coming forth amidst the darkness and turbulence of the present. Such men, resting on their own profound thoughts, and strong in their own strength, are often seen rising high above all the men of their own age. When the season came, some of these could take the place of the confessor and the martyr, giving to the dignity of their episcopate the high adornment of a spirit ready to be offered as an oblation on the altar of truth and sanctity. Such were Latimer and Hooper, and such were Ridley and Bradford. All these images of weal and wo, of the lowliness and great ness, of the intellectual, the moral, and the holy, through the past, arrest the eye of the churchman's imagination, and serve to bind his heart to the system with which they are so naturally associated. THE FARMERS AND SIR ROBERT PEEL On Tuesday last at the dinner of the Tamworth Far mer's Club, Sir Robert Peel presided and from his speech on the occasion we take the following extracts : —A friend of mine some time ago made a careful and impartial experiment with respect to the merits of a manure lately introduced, and of which you all must have heard--the guano. I desired him to communicate to me the result, which he did ; and you will perhaps excuse me for stating it to you. He planted potatoes on a piece of land about two acres ; the ridges were of the same length, the potatoes of the same quality, and the manure laid on in perfect fairness, the soil also being exactly the same. Three different manures were used —guano, stable manure, and Potter's manure. The produce of the several ridges was at length taken up, and the average result was, on equal proportions of land, nine bushels to the stable manure, eleven to the Potter's, while the guano produced fifteen bushels. (Cheers.) I asked for further and more complete details with regard to this particular experiment, and found that the guano and Potter's manure had been mixed with wood ashes and fine mould, iu the proportion of one bushel of guano or Potter's manure to six bushels of ashes and mould ; a bushel of guano weighs 851b5., and three bushels of that manure and three of Potter's weigh 5101bs. ; three bushels of the mixture was put on the ridges at two different times, at the rate of three cwt. per acre, one half of each being put under the ridges when the pota toes were planted, and the other half was applied when the potatoes had appeared about one inch out of the ground. The potatoes were planted on the 4th of April, and were taken up in October ; the produce on the two acres exceeding 600 bushels. The total expense was £l6 ; and calculating the value of the potatoes at Is. per bushel, the profit would appear to be £l4. The rentable value of the land was about £1 per acre. This was the result of an experiment made in perfect fairness. At the same time I cannot expect you—when you pro bably find that stable manure answers your purpose—to go to a great expense in the purchase of guano. But I am prepared to do so, and will willingly devote a por tion of my land to make experiments, under the superin tendence of a committee of the most intelligent of my tenants. (Cheers.) An iso with respect to other clas ses of manures, by applying them on different parts of the land, and then submitting the results for the benefit of the tenantry. There is another mode by which the landlord _ ortant services while thus co-operating with his tenantry. On a late occasion, and in a neighbouring city, I alluded to the subject of leases and said that if any tenants of mine felt that by an ex tension of their leases their confidence would be in creased, and if they would apply to me with that view, I should be disposed to give a favourable ear to such ap plication. lam of the same opinion now, and beg dis tinctly to repeat it. That is not an empty declaration, for in the case of the only application yet made to me I have granted a lease—it was to a new tenant, whose professed object was the improvement of the soil. He had a capital sufficient to undertake such improvements —which I think every landlord ought to require—(hear.) —I granted a 19 years' lease, with the stipulation that for the first seven years a reduced rent should be paid, and for the remaining twelve years the, same rent as had hitherto been paid. There is another matter I wish to advert to, in which the landlord has the opportuni'y of effecting much improvement—l mean in the regulation (Hear.) There are few more eager sports men than I ; but seeing the competition to which I am convinced the farmer is exposed, and must look forward to, it is certainly the duty of every landlord to make some sacrifice of personal pleasure for the purpose of affording a convenience to his tenants. (Cheers.) 1 believe the damage done by an abundance of game is chiefly by hares and rabbits. The occupier does not sustain much loss from partridges and pheasants, but by rabbits and hares. I have no hesitation in saying that I shall he pleased if not one single rabbit is allowed to remain on my estate. I do everything for their des truction. And with regard to hares, I would willingly forego the sport ; and if any tenant of mine will inform me that the hares exist on his farm in such numbers as to do him serious damage I will immediately give orders for their destruction. THE NECESSARY CAPITAL FOR A FARM.-"Let no one venture on a farm," says Mr. Low, " without having a sufficient capital to work it, which from long experience, I compute to be about £6 per acre : that is, £9OO money in hand, if his farm be 150 acres, and £1,500 if the farm be 250 acres, and £3,000 if it be 500 acres. The follow ing five will be the heads of his certain expenditure for the first year :—I. Implements, £1 per acre ; 2. Live stock, £3 per acre ; 3. Labour, £1 per acre ; 4. Seeds and manure (which last he must take of the outgoing tenant,) £1 per acre : total £6." SUICIDE AND ATTEMPT TO MURDER.—On Sunday night, about six o'clock, Mr. Hastie, a surgeon residing in Broughton-place, Edinburgh, who had recently re turned from abroad ; since which he has for a short period been in a state of mental derangement and in confinement, committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. He was in the house alone with a female servant, and previous to the attempt, locked the door and hid the keys. He then entered his bedroom, where he accomplished his purpose, and immediately came out streaming with blood, and the razor in his hand, with which he made an attempt to cut the throat of his servant also. She, however, wrested the instrument from him, not, however, before he was much weakened by the loss of blood, and had her hand severely cut. The inhabitants of the vicinity were made aware of the catastrophe by the loud screams of the female, and her calls of " Help, help, burst open the door —he is dying—he is dying—he is dead." The servant was see❑ at a window, struggling with her master, and partly outside, upon an iron balcony. Some persons immediately broke open the panels of the door ; but by this time the life of the unfortunate gentleman was at the last ebb from loss of blood.—Edinburgh Evening Post. ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—This institution has obtained a new charter of incorporation, with increased powers, under the title of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. The principal features thereof consist in the creation of a new class of members, to be called fel lows, who, with the exception of those first elected, must be 25 years of age, pass a special examination, arid pay an admission fee of 30 guineas. To this body is to be in trusted the election of the council, which is to consist of 24 members, three of whom (those who have been longest on the council) are to go out of office annually, but are eligible for re-election. No general practitioner, even if he be a fellow, is eligible for the council, nor any pure surgeon who resides beyond five miles from the General Post-office. Should any councillor practice pharmacy or midwifery, he becomes ipso facto liable to removal from the council. The present members of the council are to be life members, and to be at once admitted as fellows, the specific number of 300 being made up by their selec tion from among the members. If any vacancy occur during the year, a substitute shall be elected to hold office for the remaining term of duty of the person whose place he supplies. The election of councillors must be by the personal voting of the fellows, 15 of whom must be pre sent to form a meeting. if any eligible fellow be twice passed by, or, when hallotted for, not be elected, he will lose his eligibility of election. A certificate of recommen dation, signed by a given number of fellows, stating that the candidate is a fit and proper person to be a member of the council, and particularly that he does not now, nor has within five years, practised pharmacy or midwifery, and resides within five miles of the General Post-office, is requisite previous to election. The present court of examiners to continue for life, their places being filled up, as vacancies occur, by the council. The privilege of the sergeant-surgeons, and the surgeon-general of the forces, to be admitted examiners in preference to otbers, is abro gated by this charter. The president and vice-presidents are to be elected from the council. Any diploma obtained by fraud or misrepresentation to be void, on proof thereof. —Observer. WITCHCRAFT REVIVED.—CURIOUS TRIAL.—A wo man was last month tried at Dingwall, before Sheriff Jardine and a Jury, on a charge connected with the almost exploded belief in witchcraft. In 1836, Donald Matheson, a small farmer •residing in Strathconan, having lost some of his sheep by death and other causes, applied for ad vice to a divining woman or sorceress, named Catherine Beaton, the wife of a sawyer at Dingwall. He travelled thirty miles on this important mission, and Mrs. Camp bell having duly weighed the circumstance of the case, told him that there was great trouble coming to his house, through a woman who lived in his neighbourhood, and who bad consulted Miss Hay of Inverness—a once noted sor ceress—for means to carry out her intentions. Fortunately, however, Mrs. Campbell could avert the machinations of all wicked women, and the means were very simple. " Bring me a pound note," she said, " I will tie it up in a parcel, which you must take home, and your wife must place it under her pillow while she sleeps. After this re turn to me with the parcel, when you will get the pound note as good as before." bonald immediately borrowed the money from a meal dealer, and delivering it to the skilful woman, had it " charmed," and tied up., He trudg ed homewards, plumping himself on his sagacity and foresight, and his wife duly slept on the packet as desired. In a day or two, however, female curiosity got the better of her superstitious dread, and she opened the mysterious packet. The pound note was gone, and in its place were found some sand, rags, and a piece of pape r . D onald then returned to Dingwall to claim his money, b u t t h e sorceress was inexorable—nothing could be obtained from he:. The " charm " was unavailing and the money was gone. Another deception was practised by Mrs. Camp. bell. A widow in Lochbroom, named Elizabeth Murchi. son, about ten or eleven weeks ago, lost a sum of two pounds. She consulted the diviner as to the restoration of her money, when she was told to provide herself with other two pounds. This was done—Mrs. Campbell ut tered some words over the money—and the widow, at her request, spat upon the parcel in the name of Providence! The widow was charged not to touch the parcel till Mrs, Campbell would return the following morning; and she was further informed that, if she did not sleep during the night she would see a person come and place the two younds which had bee stolen, in the window. The honest thief, however, did not appear to replace the money, /mi. ther did the sorceress return, and the parcel being opened was found to contain merely some crumbs of bread. Thes e facts being fully established in evidence, Sheriff Jardine sentenced Mrs. Campbell to three months' imprisonment. The worthy Sheriff, at the same time, remarked on the extraordinary circumstance that so absurd a superstition should still linger among the people in these days of intel ligence and information, and certainly we may gay__ 'Tis true 'tis pity, and_ pity 'tis 'tis true,"—lnverness Courier THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD Eiteratttu. POETRY FIFTH OF NOVEMBER. To Thee, Eternal God, to Thee Ift our thankful praises, !e. Eternal God, to Thee Each voic When Po s anthem raises sh plots our land a . . Thy power o'er every art prevailed Which hellish guile embraces. Thou art the source of ever The God of o, Ai and nat every foe, Yea, in each dark and trying ho Preserve 1 *rom Satan's pa - - We pray for m Wh;t. ies to tt htirch S A LAST SONG OF SUMMER, BY T. WESTWOOD fair Sa er, thy beauty fades fast flown:rs er. thy v ht merry in hall thou art dy little I trove ed thee so gaily of yore Leath the bare bough, 1 of Winter with glee id on tl dark pinion. and wild ones, alas rain. and the groan deep and low is giant limbs toss to and fro mer. fierce Winter, ere long. t turbulent t: ,rth a requiem. dreary and 1 am of th yule not for ever. that stern conipanie.— .irt on thy fac And the bir portant The foil moots of ti ss for peculiar n by such a nion on any doc NOTICES reflectiv On each of the yet comprise a I r hundred and sevent the doe mind of Much h diffusion of th, and we shall therefor ation bro nstance o some littl his town, Mr. Mont preacher positor of God's holy Wor. Sustains tt character maineth, seed thr His doctrines s of our Apostolical Church I UP f ur and are storm-shaken n we are called upon to no lying a slow to employ a.r from occasionally expressing our ( final p ght specially before rmationof which we h s and liturgy of our nd a sound iay are denominated ultra-evangelical, but ertheless are faithfully embodied is the homi- FREE-TRADE FREE -TRADE, a very fine thing—if you can get it. TO THE SHOEMAKER. Are you in favour of Free Certainly. Free Trade must Trade? be a good thing. Is there any duty on Fo- To be sure there is. How reign boots and shoes ? could we exist without it ? Have you any objection to Take off the duty on foreign taking off this duty ? boots and shoes ? You must be insane to think of such a thing. Why, as it is, there is a Frenchman now in Regent-street, Le Hocq, getting over hun dreds of dozens of French boots and shoes every minth. He has run away with a good many of my customers already. The duty ought to be doubled. TO THE GLOVER. What is your opinion of lam q uite in favour of Free Free Trade? Trade. How do you find business We are sorely pressed by the just now ? competition with French gloves. But you are protected by a Of course we are. Would duty? you expose us to an open competition with the con tinent ? Then you are not prepared The notion is absurd. We to consent to the repeal could not carry on busi of the duty on gloves? ness for a month without the protecting duty. TO THE SILK WEIWER. Will you favour me with How can you doubt? Free your opinion on Free Trade is a great principle, Trade? and ought to be carried out. Certainly. What is the lam happy to say, that after present state of the Silk a period of considerable de- Trade ? pression, we are now stea dily reviving, and our peo ple well employed. Very glad to hear it. What From 25 to 30 per cent. is the amount of the protecting duty in favour of British silks ? Do you consider that a Barely sufficient. In good sufficient protection ? times we can just manage to hold our way against the French competition. What would be the effect How can you ask such a ques of repealing that duty ? tion ? The whole silk trade of the country would be ruined, and every man em ployed in it be thrown out of employment. But then with respect to Oh, it is utterly inapplicable the " great principle" of to the silk trade. No man Free Trade ? in his senses would attempt TO THE TAILOR Are you in favour of Free I am - for freedom in every. Trade ? thing. Good. Is there any duty A duty on foreign-made on foreign-made clothes? clothes ! Why, would you have those French tailors allowed to send their clothes here free of duty, and no protection given to the hard-working tailors of England? We should have half the people get ting their clothes made in Paris. Perhaps we might. But Take off as many of them as these protecting duties you please; but as to al are all against Free lowing foreign coats and Trade. trousers to come in free of duty, it would be infamous! TO THE CLOCK AND WATCHMAKER. Have you ever considered To be sure. Everybody talks the subject of Free about it just now. Trade? What is your opinion of It is a very good thing, with it ? certain limitations. Pray explain yourself. I think corn should be per fectly free. It is dreadful to think of a tax on the staff of life. But manu factures must be protected. We cannot exist without protection. Then you think that the lam quite sure that you can principle of Free Trade not apply it to the clock can only be partially ap- and watch trade without plied? ruining us all. TO THE COTTON SPINNER Are you friendly to the Every enlightened member principle of Free Trade? of the community is so. What is the state of cotton A greatly improved one. We manufactures at present? have now full employment for all bands ; but we have had a long period of de pression. It is the most important in the kingdom. Yon'. branch of manufac ture has attained great importance ? Are you much affected by Undoubtedly. The manu foreign competition? facturers of the continent are meeting us in all mar kets abroad, and they would take away a great part of the borne trade but for the protecting duty we have. What is that protecting Ten per cent. on cotton duty ? yarns, and 10 to 20 per cent. on cotton manufac tures. Then it would not be a safe You must not think of such thing to removethat pro- a thing. It would be mad tecting duty, even to ad- ness to attempt it. Re vance the principles of move all restrictions from Free Trade ? trade ; but above all things protect your cotton manu factures. TO THE FUNDROLDER. What is your view of the I think it delightful; I re- Free Trade question ? joice in seeing this great principle brought into dis cussion. The interest of my money in the Funds. How is that interest paid ? Out of the revenue, of course. Which is the largest branch The customs produce 21 mil of the revenue? lions per annum. Are not the import duties Extremely so ; most burden on goods great restric- some and abominable. tions on trade ? Have you any objection to What ! reduce the interest of see the interest on Con- the public debt ! violate the sols reduced from 3to 2 national faith ! disgrace the per cent. in order to national honour ! Sir, you carry out this great prin- are a wild theorist ! Carry ciple of Free Trade? out your principles of Free Trade by all means ; but, above all things, secure your revenue. What do you live upon ? EMINENT LAWYERS The following is a list of some of the eminent lawyers of the last and present age:— Lords Eldon and Stowell—sons of a barge-maker and small coal-dealer, at Newcastle-under-Lyne. Lord Stowell borrowed £4O to go the circuit, and both sup ported themselves for a time by their talents as private tutors. Lord Tenterden—son of a barber at Canterbury : he received an eleemosynary education, but obtained the means to go to college : while there, he enjoyed from a company in the city of London an exhibition of £3 per annum, until he took his degree. Some years since, in dining with the company, he alluded to the circumstance, and expressed his gratitude. Lord Gifford—prior to his being called to the bar, was articled to a solicitor near Exeter. His rise was owing chiefly to the interest of the Msrchioness of Conyngham, to whom he was distantly related. Lord Langdale, the Master of the Rolls—not very long since an accoucheur, and married a daughter of :Lord Orford, whose family he had attended. Sir John Williams, one of the Judges of the Queen's Bench—son of a horse-dealer in Yorkshire. Solicitor-General Wylde—an attorney in the city, in co-partnership with Mr. Knight : his brother is now an attorney on College-hill, Bread-street. Mr. Serjeant Talfourd—son of a brewer at Reading, received the rudiments of his education at the Protestant Dissenters' Grammar-school, at Mill-hill, near Hendon, and at that time wrote for the public press. He com pleted his studies with Dr. Valpy, of Reading. Sir Frederick Pollock, and his brother, Mr. David Pollock—the sons of a saddler, now Messrs. Cuff's esta blishment, near Charing-cross. Mr. Baron Gurney —his mother kept a small book shop for pamphlets in a court in the city ; his brother is short-hand writer to the House of Lords of Commons. The Baron was originally of the denomination called Bap tists, and for many years attended a Baptist chapel in Maize-pond, in the Borough. Lord Campbell, the late Attorney-General, and son-in law of Lord Abinger—reporter to a daily paper, at a time when such labour wes worse paid than at present. Mr. Serjeant Spankie was one of his colleagues. James Stephens, Esq., the Master in Chancery, was a reporter. Almost all the Judges sent out to the colonies were reporters. Mr. Wallace, M.P., was formerly a weaver. Sir Edward B. Suiden—son of a barber, and formerly a clerk to Mr. Groom, the conveyancer. Lord Lyndhurst —son of a painter, who died deeply in debt. Mr. Whitehurat, leading counsel of the Midland Cir cuit—son of a watchmaker at Derby. Mr. Petersdoff's father kept a furrier's shop. Mr. Clarkson, of the Old Bailey—his father was an at torney in the I nso l vent Debtors Court, on its first for mation. Mr. Charlton, Queen's Counsel—his father is an attor ney, and now in practice in Chancery-lane. Chief Justice Saunders, whose precepts to this day form the best text-book to pleaders, was a beggar-boy, first taken notice of by an attorney, who employed him in his office. Lord Keuvon—an attorney's clerk. Lord Hardwicke—a peasant, and afterwards an attor ney's writer and office-boy. If the Society of Friends have lost a member by Mr. Lucas turning Catholic, they certainly have gained one in the person of Dan O'Connell, who bas been a Quaker ever since the late government proclamation,—Argus., GENERAL MISCELLANY, Directions have been issued to the South Nottingham shire Yeomanry to hold themselves in readiness for active service at a moment's notice.—Globe. Mrs. Crawford, formerly well known as Miss Eliza Paton, is about to resume her professional pursuits in Edinburgh. We regret to state that that admirable comedian, Mr. W. Farren, was suddenly seized on Tuesday night with a fit of apoplexy. He is fast recovering. IRON WORKS.—The mills and forges at Methyr, are again in full operation. The late rains have materially benefitted both masters and men.—Cardiff Advertiser. The pin manufactory of Messrs. Phipson, of Birming ham, was on Tuesday night destroyed by fire. Tne par ties are insured. On Sunday last, at St. Austle, Cornwall, an infant was suffocated in its cradle by a cat lying upon the face of the sleeping child. A Nottinghamshire paper gives an acccount of the death of a child, 15 months old, in consequence of a piece of nut shell sticking in its throat. Mr. Buddle, the agent of the Marquis of Londonderry, has died lately worth the enormous sum of £150,000., having been a mere pit lad. Mr. Pattison was elected member for London 1„ .1 ma jority of 165, according to the official declaration of the poll. The rumour that Dr. WHale and the " Bishop of Ardagh" were to be included in the prosecutions for sedition is now believed to have had no foundation what- At a meeting of the Yorkshire and Derbyshire iron masters, held at the Tontine Inn, Sheffield, on Thursday, an advance of 15s. per ton was declared, with every pros pect of a further rise before Christmas. At a meeting of the Ribble Navigation Company, held last week at Preston, it was agreed to go to parliament for power to raise an additional £20,000 for the comple tion of the works. It is said that a marriage is on the tapis between Lady Chantrey, relict of the late Sir Francis Chantrey, and Mr. Corbould, the artist. Her ladyship is staying at Tunbridge Wells. EDINBURGH FESTIVAL.—In round numbers, it is stated that the loss by the recent festival at Auld Reale will amount to £2OOO. Fortunately, it will fall upon shoulders that can well bear it. WORKSOP MANOR HOUSE.—The building materials were sold o❑ Tuesday last, by direction of his Grace the Duke of Newcastle, for 20,000 guineas. It is said the original cost of the mansion was £300,000. On Wednesday last, another dreadful explosion took place at one of the Calder pits (Coatbridge). There were twenty-four men in the pit, who were more or less injured and two lives lost. Arrangements have been made with the Geeat Western and London and Liverpool lines to have trains at the dis posal of government to start at any time an order may be sent from the Horse-Guards to convey troops to Ireland. A meeting of from thirty to forty thousand pit men as sembled on Saturday at the Black Fell, near Newcastle, to petition for repeal of the export duty on coal and other grievances connected with the trade. Mr. Duncombe, M.P., and Mr. Feargus O'Connor addressed them. The Journal des Bruxelles states that the Belgian Go vernment has received, from its Charge d'Affaires at New York, official information of the conclusion of a treaty of commerce between the German Customs Union and the United States of America. REPRESENTATION OF SALISBURY.—The death of Mr. Wyndham, the Conservative mettber for Salisbury, oc casioned a vacancy in the representation of that city. Mr. Bouverie, second son of Lord Radnor, is named as a probable candidate. The greatest activity prevails in the carpet trade at Barnard Castle at the present time ; the stocks on hand are low, and most of the workmen are fully employed. A change most auspicious and gratifying in the affairs of that town since last autumn. The proprietor of a coffee-house, in London, lately dis covered that the whole of the story of " Ten Thousand a year" had been cut out from nine expensively bound vo lumes of Blackwood's Magazine. Robberies and mutila tions of this description have of late become very common in coffee-houses. Wooncocx.s.—On the 17th instant the gamekeeper of Mr. G. Perryn, of Trafford, killed a fine woodcock on the land in that neighbourhood. It is generally presumed that so early an appearance of this bird is a presage of a severe winter. The Welsh hills being now covered with snow, present also an early indication. —Chester Courant. LADY SALE.—The " Oriental " steam-ship, from Alexandria, disembarked her passengers at Southampton on Saturday week. Lady Sale was amongst the number, and was an object of peculiar interest. Her ladyship was looking remarkably well, considering the harassing life and severities she has of late undergone. The rump-steak dinner on the top of Nelson's Column came off yesterday week, of which 14 persons engaged on the works partook. The steaks were run up by a pulley, and appeared to be highly relished by the diners -out; the party afterwards returned to " dull earth," and finished the evening at the Trafalgar Hutel. SUDDEN DEATH OF A CORONER.—Died, on Sunday evening week, Mr. Robert Fowke, solicitor, of Stafford, and one of the coroners for that county. The deceased, who was in the prime of life, had partaken of a hearty dinner, as usual, and in two or three hours afterwards was found by his housekeeper prostrate on the floor in a lifeless state. PROBATES AND ADMINISTRATIONS.—By a late Par liamentary return of the total number of copies of wills and extracts of administrations sent to the legacy duty office in each of the years 1839, 1840, and 1841, it appears that in the first year there were 22,169, the second 22,106, and in 1811 the number was 22,908. There were 16,701 wills in the last mentioned year. EXPLOSION OF FIRE DAMP.—At Stevenson Colliery, Holytown, on Monday the 23d, three men and a boy were severely burned, owing , it is said, to o ne o f th e wor k men going with a naked amp into a part of the workings known by him'to be foul. One of the sufferers was re lieved on Tuesday by death, from his painful situation ; and no hopes are as yet entertained for the recovery of the other three.—Glasgow paper. FIRE AT FROGMORE HOUSE.—On Tuesday, a fire was discovered in the spacious corridor at Frogmore House, the residence of the Duchess of Kent, occasioned by the overheating of one of the furnaces. The splendid carpet, to the extent of some yards, and an ottoman, were burnt to a cinder, and other portions of the furniture which had ignited were considerably injured. FLOGGING SOLDIERS.—A letter, under date Malta, 15th October, says—" On Monday last a drummer of the 42d Regiment, named M`Callum, dropped down dead whilst flogging a soldier condemned to receive 150 lashes for being drunk and striking a corporal on duty. The dead drummer was removed to the rear, and another supplied his place to complete the sentence." SHIPPING FOR THE WEST INDIES.—There are at present no fewer than 70 vessels at the port of London, loading for the West Indies. Of these there are 29 for Jamaica, 5 for Trinidad, 5 for Grenada, 4 for Tobago, 3 for Demerara, 3 for St. Vincent, 3 for Barbadoes, 3 for Antigua, 2 for Berbice, 2 for St. Lucia, 2 for Domini ca , 3 for Nevis and St. Kitt' s . 2 f or Nassau, 2 for Honduras, 1 for Havana, and 1 for Montserrat. Total, 70. THUNDER-STORM AT ST. HELENS.—On Thursday afternoon, about three o'clock, St. Helens was visited with a tremendous thunder-storm : the lightning was awful and the:thunder terrifically loud. The electric fluid struck the engine chimney of Messrs. Bourne and Robinson's works, at Broad Oak Colliery, about a mile and a half from St. Helens, completely splitting it in two, about twenty yards down, and leaving one half standing. A poor woman, named Elizabeth Allen, of Lawley street, died suddenly on Thursday morning last, at Bir mingham, and from the evidence of Mr. Watson, sur geon, on the inquest, it appeared that she literally ex pired of a broken heart. On a post-morierri examination an opening appeared in the wall of the heart, six inches in length, one and a-half in diameter, nd two and a-half deep. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT AT FLEETWOOD.—A most melancholy occurrence took place at Fleetwood on Friday week, by which Mr. Anderson, the harbour master of that place, met his death. He was walking on the pier, the night being extremely dark and not any of the lamps lighted, and it is supposed that he must have walked off the edge of the quay, a height of about thirty feet, and fallen into the Wyre. LARGE REWARD.—The sum of £lOOO is offered (£5OO by the Government, and £5OO by the Cutler's Company of Hailamshire) for such information and evidence as shall lead to the discovery and conviction of the person or per sons who attempted to destroy the premises of Mr. Wm. Ibbetson, called the Globe Works, at Sheffield, on the night of Saturday, Sept. 30th, by gunpowder. WEEKLY H ALE -Hor.inAy.—An advertisement appears in the Manchester papers of Saturday, by which it appears that upwards of 270 highly respectable mercantile firms and individuals. including bankers, merchants, manufac turers, calico printers. &c., have agreed, at the solicita tion of those employed by them, to close their places of business at one o'clock every Saturday afternoon, from Saturday next the 4th November. We trust to see the example, already so extensively set, become general. REPRESENTATION OF KENDAL.—The Hon. Mr. Bou verie, who had come forward as a candidate for the repre sentation of the borough, has retired, and has been suc ceeded by Mr. Henry Warburton, the late member for Bridport. Mr. Bentinck, of Renington Lynn, in Norfolk, a gentleman of large property in that county and a son of the late Admiral Bentinck, has come forward as a can didate in the Conservative interest. Mr. Bentinck arrived in Kendal on Friday evening last, and Mr. Warburton on the following Monday. Both gentlemen have since been actively engaged in canvassing the electors. A MAYORALTY GOING A BEGGING.—It appears the radical town-council of Newcastle-upon-Tyne are unable to find a gentleman whom they consider a proper person to occupy the civic chair. The Newcastle Journal of Saturday says—" Mr. John Thomas Carr, who is a worthy and respectable man, and well able to support the dignity of the office, declines the mayoralty, even with the privi lege of selecting his own sheriff, so lightly does he esteem all the honours conferred upon him by his friends the whigs. What will be done in this dilemma remains to be seen, but things have certainly come to a pretty pass, when the mayoralty of the ancient and opulent town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne has to . qo a begging! Such was not the case in other and better days. Our advice to the conservative members of the council is upon no account to accept the distinction of chief magistrate at the present S juncture, however nevtin,,inno" Oct. 31, 1543. dec T r il ee E d S to ti re 6 men at 1, bel l found abandoned at the mouth'of the Shannon, ..e s • j o g paid (deducting the amount for agency) in the follow p 7 l li r d2 N lt n ol s 9t o h :: 2s C ialt A v. s o. T r.s z , o. 7. — .t.h T .is. he ve s s n se in i loc of bi:cli ti manner:— 0 12 men at £157 6 2 .......... £l,BBB It l A 6 men at 141 611 .......... 838 I 'i "41 1 5 10 men at 105 18 01 .......... 1,059 ...I FALMOUTH, OCT. 25.—A most melancholy instals., the awful uncertainty of human life occurred hereto' o i l mMorr.nißnagrnes, followingfo rm t e h r e l y eaartmhehircrheamnatinosf of i s n b ib on , w a L s . ill , .•.., w ife to r tomb, when, but a short distance from his house , "' t he ill and left the mournful procession, and went iwt° o ; house of Mr. W. Downing, who gave him a g lass of , 4 Choerdpsrea.nk He two a - p thirds ed ef in the ood wine, healthand t‘hvehnenfelilleal leißfey; g house. Both hi ms elf and wife had attaine d the age of i 3 ----- ----- - years. Mond,Y ° ril e A MAN KILLED WITH FIGHTING.--0° Gorg ing last, two young men, named John CI-unit) anucartes, Hammond, met by agreement to fight in a field in ~d se a near Macclesfield. The fight lasted nearly two bad re, a half; at the end of which time, Hammond, wh_o . ,, xs la: 0 1 . r m ed a . nsl A ai n Ig i h n t q e u r e w st as w ceived a severe blow on the left temple, and wb°., g erea vancing again to meet his antagonist, suddenlY s t a g back, and fell. He was carried to a house close by, , bee r , in a short time, and before the arrival of a surgeons ver dict li a e s n Pri eeiPsh returnedagainst n t and six others as seconds. L eireg THE BANK OF ENGLAND.—The Ban k er 's ~s_rdi._ announces, " that the Bank of England is ° d iatioo by branches in the country, and extending its circa ~ it if absorbing that of other banks." " The directorsiceste; added, " have determined to open a branch in l' e s dobir e he body, cruin w p and they have recently agreed with the IVlonnidaosek at and Glamorganshire banks, the East of Engle ° r pla t ' Norwich, the Yorkshire District Bank , and otbe_solf stock companies, and with several priva te banks,troVett• them with notes, on condition that those b anks ikortb etv ciliate no other notes. In the great county of the -13 be sides 1 ! 111‘ berland, there is but one issuing notes, of England." ors gII A, T. UELENS—A meeting of the gas-rated held, on Thursday last, at the Derby Arnis,Eec',..,rietle the purpose of taking into consideration tile Pr. u ovro sliiP,; extending the lighting to the outskirts of the L eee ad u o o ' and a motion to that effect was proposed and f tO rillS° An amendment was put, that the lighting °' the ~,b ie 05 with gas should be altogether dispensed v 7411.8440 carried by a very large majority. A poll e n as, 1 . ,‘ to ttilf il l demanded by those in the ore' .1, tv minority,,„,_ pa! of the opinion of the inhabitants generally. - 13 ' the X commence at the expiration of five days from _dvaesteo meeting, when it is confidently expected that the as 0 0 ! of darkness will obtain a great majority of votes , _,.„00i the badness of the times, the poorer inhabitants al' able to pay the rate. MoaDER.—A man of the name of Edward D , _Olt tj o loo .0, been committed for trial by the magistrates of wo e!) , t London, on a charge of the wilful murderof his,9 o , pig, a male infant, three months old, on the Pree e . ° ooo l a The offender, who is about 27 years of age ' 19 °is a° broo . n tlf man, and obtains a livelihood by hawlonb frell n ` - ea other articles about the streets. He has been, o ly be . ,, in custody before on charges of assault, and hila eure aa% liberated fromgaol . . within the or niece - hes conviction by Mr. Cottingham for biting ar . its - man's cheek. He destroyed.child by striking his whilst it was asleep, against a sharp counter. 6.,,,190, Loss OF £3O SENT THROUGH THE POST- 0 Vi e jo. ir. e s , the morning of Wednesday, the 13th instant, a 0, 00 1 ., posted at Bolton, directed for " Mr. J o hn ar a r , r oo l' i l sale grocer, 'Liverpool," containing a . 2t) I' g re sch of Bank of England notes. This letter not hav to sete r bb e its destination, application made to the P°' lo ' was ma de ,to Liverpool, and a strict investigation which apPee,rifed office, and among the letter carriers , :ee te e ' ea' have alarmed the thief, as Mr. Parratt has a/n d i ri on 0 1 the £2O note through the post-affice , en e r les f e o rala ti roy velope, bearing the Li verpoo l post mark. ', o aster",, to this strange affair has been sent to the Po,sl e raw eral, and a searching inquiry willdoubt , no no i, discover the delinquent. o f On "igr, The ColOsseum in the Regent's-park, q e s old h ,,f re tber,. classic buildings in the world, is at lengturagee, "'arrant George Robins; the purchaser is Mr. M° ll h is il° l3- d c rell , of the city surveyor, who is connected in t ri d 13re „ t oed purchase with Stanfieldthe tie? 9- Pr ° ' oe' great ar __,,tbe i ii , the mechanist, of Covent Garden Theatre an d ° ; ', r son alterations and improvements are immense, Th e ,,; pie' cupy nearly 12 months in the completion• Dee t'laili object is the pictorial scenery which is too i r i neY te e et t o ture of London, and Stanfield made a j ir e ene i d to purposely to obtain additional knowledge to gay is said his stupendous picture. Thepurchase r°.siocee be £22.500, and Mr. Br 1 a few ye er " Bra ham paid tr ol £40,000 for it. ee l) ~,„ t th!., 4 I s,,, s r s BODY STEALING.—The rand P. 1. ., 3 8 01.' 1 0 , Criminal Court have returned a true billaeorge bolt, Bridgman, a dissenting minister, an d g jonY is w ad' Bridgman, his son, a medical student, for n 'e bnrs t i's Oh ing open the tomb of the late Thomas " I in We l ; e ail' situated in the bur yin of a chaP e .,,, a n is t f tbe of which chapel the defendant Isaac Brir i g'a bodli,Pli, the nister, and stealing therefrom the coffin a n the " I t til said Thomas Ghorst Tawnev. In returningto tba, Aft. foreman of the grand jury stated to the e° art tbst'aria grand jury considered it as their duty t 0 prosreeen at° Tawney, the son of the deceased and th e j de re old thea i he 0° this case, had stared to them that coon i. - have restored to him the skeleton of his fa ' lOU' withdraw the prosecution. f , ;n • s ter ~,,i j e c i .. , THE TEETOTALLER ABROAD.—The rn l eta- 0 'V lenburgh Schwerin is, it seems, a decided,tesoedi for the may be seen from the following decree, :10,t.„lotloaghroop government has just published two proel a '' se of vole a purpose of putting a stop to the excessive use ererr tt 0 ' Retailers are ordered to send in a report e „ p ena_;ittin% act committed during drunkenness, un der ' s e oinT er tbe fine of five rix-dollars. Every drunken W e is bed diree any public disorder or scandal is to be Of o f too' a, al two first first offences with an imprisonroenitepea.aterpore to eight days, and should the offence b e 0 ,0 0 v; i tpe r ' penalty may be increased to four week, or e to P refe be s° punishment. The authorities are ordered a biia. b sct o j sons addicted to drinking from frequentingiePforsitcseen°s the proprietors of which are to be responsib l'be,iraon and pay a fine of fiorn five to ten rix donalierespo proclamation limits the number of shops vi Vs liquors are to be sold." .4. , the pit' n, '-' tD v efi COACH ACCIDENTS.---Tuesday afternoo of to bore n its v . ' •te thug mington and Cheltenham coach was ° fan' 0 011 1 ter place, about two miles from Beckford ace iescl„ set off at a furious rate, increasing thei PPlorner ' o de: galloped madly on the road and turned tl,i e b a tread.ise e er to the inn, when the coach came over sc' t os ions e :ed h a crash. A lady suffered some dreadful co',, t t ope hider 0,110 rations of the face, having her nose sfu h l ia slioJ, All teeth knocked out. A gentleman had " and h e- cbe i st leg broken, and was much cut on the fee T he coe a bo A • . :pp tiP the passengers were more or less injure.. ov en. e dia; o f was very seriously injured.—On Mond ° proe e on e 0 mail won w itb , tira nine o'clock, as the Aberystwith m ber yst o scb d ie% the High-street, on its return from A 0 t he c ; oln d; the leaders fell into an excavation , A : b p e erS° ° :' e ' gre o f upset, and the outside passengers , - , e a _ re d to -., h - fde. the coachman and guard, were preciP"f' 1 inju r li , hre * A but very fortunately received nomaterm p a in L , s el , ' COMO" co llier bo or the wheel horses was much hurt.— Te e igb r ip% ADVANCE OF COLLIERS' WAGES" n d its 9 0 cla d st ployed at the various works in Wig en „ a p of * veg o loY e hoSe hood have generally received an ailva ° ,% - n ds ea L iso - t olr Mr. past week. On Thursday, the„ ll- end e tt ott ot Mr. Fosbrook's colliery at Platt Briugl;eurh°° reeot'rbe at Mr. Pearson's, in the same n eigk r ero plol ia be be t work ; but have since returned to the/ re said r ye; c od an advance of wages. The folloirinVoned 91 1 °, e sP e or s.s, amounts advanced at the un der-ine t r 'f i e In el.- 10 •P dtl , ' none of them, it appears, come op to r go re; o , s, „ the by the men ; Load Balcarres, ls. fid• Pe pears e rs isPost Is. 6d. ; Lamb's, 70.; Ashall's, 6d• te ; rs hare pliii ° s ter s and some even less than 6d. The MaS tioW co 014tidt price of coal 10d. per ton, and the noe l ' l i t) . of b e ife the advance of wages which the generaa 3j , pe e l ar..t r be have given, will not amount to more th : 03 , P les oil t di. in some places, only one-half of that s er t ° ' l ' of t he eig ir believe, would be satisfied with sd. P eb oice t his a masters the other .fr clear gain' ex btaia ill s i nary profits which they so gener ally 0 0 pie c e bourhood by the sale of coals. fon' fo° G. 1 , Ode,. i , rt e ", of 'd FREEMASON RY.—A snuff-box,,, made try. c' thr - vt e 0. . the timber of the " Betsey Cains," ° o i bre by v e r boo e Shields, was presented to the officers °a be e to is 0 Bilds's Lodge of Freemasons, South : f u re spe'ver% t 11 ,6 F. Wison, of that town, as a mar or der. se ars 1 16•Foi initiated into the mysteries of e" e t han °fort: l° lof; deeper interest in the Betsy Caiil ~t Dept so e * 4 th preceding extract. She was launcheo at of e u to ef' being built expressly to bring o „,t e l w as s°, 4 in tb 4 o o , ° ' She was then named St. Anna. '''"oiploYe% ?O'. or' government service in the last W ar, % id to ty s . til i t ieo rr off; chant service, taken by the Freoeh,,,tthen b° cle r th e , the 1 and named by them Whilhelmina; ~,in e d tlad 0 : 0 ni I declared against Russia, she was u e r 180 7, %old 'de, s ;1, Sian flag at Plymouth ; sold there in tirsa re -- r era igk named Betsy Cains. In 1816 sh e „d haq e feb . d oil" Wilson, and employed in the coal af„,„ks, 111 ,, e se ro ela v r unfortunately lost on Tynemouth P-7 0 / po',; her n ott t Betsy Cains thus, after rnany change._ra. ani.:, fe eafr 139 e' ~.-1. de' cumstances, lived to the age of r o dge. ~ ha, A le 1.1 1 ory is thus recorded in a Masonic ..-, ar 01. y \ Quarterly Review for October. h Gr an:1 0 00 ot r ot The editor of the " Comic Eng li n a tr l l.. W e O E IO - dicated his labours to Mr. RobnsC_ bare toe wr iter s i t . of 0 '' t complimentary to our friend ' l ' of ovbinsttoelitie, as a l' the preface :—" To Mr. George f a r so origl so ign se t0 . ,,i walled in this, or any other age, e. , , u i t e , ~ ,,bo. to r , (if the expression may be pardon o_,lt a deleo_ a s i acl: 4 , 50 ., dexterity in the use of metaphor nog be tou re - t ale ri ' L l . .Y e ,t tifarious and sublime —it would may be_ ot _ef e ,eis o ,, talented—compositions would, 1 4 1- a b e r a hl'e,rellT: forytio serted, afford any enterprising n.O t P nurrY" e i W it :gel: Pe w to-be-met-with, and not-in-a-a_eot o o , B o, ie d 0 , tt opportunity for au eligible Inv !"_",,jeiouseAper'..et said ing a property which, under Jutt ho vv " ic itK e s ic , 1,, would soon become entitled to. l' vo ,biehr ig ht ' to e ,a e , li pellation of a princely domain 1 racily., P A ' by P n a p o s e -•d of s Ois e ' tv 9 ivl'" It citing a blush in the min b e fer b oa •. 0; o p i i (in a literary point of view) to bie for , e jel cr ipt, o o dering rivulet of poetry, strea m com of t u e f cl af ta r ie, ki turesque effect to the silvery , fidelity ) of 131 , 0 0 e i c of L lk richness (equalled only 13g h' t e ro the et g ate s P o d r, i 4.11 1 ‘, 6 ) presenting a refreshing contras ._ .., er pe! . ., ;r y 0,, 4 3 0 1 compeers, precludes the attelnyttn_sEnonsimi' baruis,,,..sd i otherwise than by assuming th o u.aO l norr ue egu tb e ik , applying to him the words of ' P rovo t 11 see his he DWI (se A O ll him for all in all, we ne'er shn. w ith t- s pec - his - i little Treatise on Comic English le ' w ith v e to ' 1)5 1 , r veneration. admiration, nay , ev e a,„ dedies po thor ' term is used ' advisedly'), hum :__he obliged and most obedient servant