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"PRIESTS, WOMEN, AND FAMILIES.". Under the above title, a translated edition has just been )y Messrs. Longman and Co., of a work by M. ed lecturerand professor of the Col- publishe elet, the celebra ege du France; wh the peculiar sea3onab present ex h, as well for its great ability, as for , leness of its appearance during the meet with ex he religious world, ought to !alation. The object of the work ately to overthrow, that pernicious tion of their 11 rid especial the brethren of the the nu our lea ly. Th aid pro .ye recently detailed to us by a The qn mils, that sa, iausted to the do h fc rcnce of I there a bility t esteemed ned, if we n• teart of to exercise over the female por disruption of those lies of mutual Light to exist between between father and daughter in the period of Reformation--Rome has ishing in this country. The fluence as yet—sir Le power and numbers o bout Great Brit , shewn b monastic institutions whi Lied and are fot assiduity wb he principles nd the industry wit s into the confiden miiies, warn us th become not only our duty, as wens as well. to look well and to avail ourselves of doings in other countries, ns he author of the work . Michelet, " is about our fa which we all desire to seek the all our endeavours haveproved are no more, we return ea rth ; but do we find there the not dissemble, hut acknow p are; there is in our family and the most serious of alt. C lIVU ? Let u how thing sentiment our mothe which for but never o *or instanc e contrad a her wives, and daughters on a the topics of our conver nis, such as business or the n subjects that affect the heart rnity, religion, the soul, and the moment when we na ate with our family in common at the family table ; venture, se, at your own fireside, to say • - - - Your nvtber sad!) , bakes you, your daughter, by her sapprobation They are on one One would :e you, was ou on the other—and alone midst of them, and oppo to contradict whatever you nished at this tate of nought up y our enem we need s, aughters ar carcely remind our readers, is ngs in his own country,-..--of the isible British females ves who have set up , which has stolen ,—from daughters natural protector male p IA ..,A from wire their defer I are already for spiritual to God him ill, that the ling as they d obedie is of women the doting g spiritual he Societ leace and t the world ncement of rid un repose we sig ledge to our; a sid dif We may any of the so sation with in news of the da and moral life, God. Choose even ti one word abou her head. your side of the tab! think that in tl aur foal and governed Th writer t as at their bi the King my father nent be, the ?' She mu t when s an had ' I give ament w ol,on both Lched at Dijor :eats of kind solemnity ; and when it vanishes, the carrier, a corrected and altered man, is no longer the slave of pas sion and resentment. He narrates to the querulous and mischievous toy-maker his intention to separate from his much-loved wife, describing with consummate pathos his ' tears that their disparity of years may have made them un suitable—that her happiness, in short, had been unwisely confided to his keeping. But a few minutes more removes the veil from his eyes and Dot is again his own. The stranger is discovered to be the long-lost son of old Caleb who, when returning to his native village, hears of the in tended marriage of May, to whom be had formerly been betrothed. H e resolves to assume a disguise. but takes She occasi , )n to disclose himself to the Carrier's wife tells him that the intended marriage of his sweetheart is without her consent, being forced by the ambition of her mother; whereupon the youth resolves to carry her off, and wed her at once. in which scheme he is aided by Dot, who has during the progress of the affair been seen in his society, as we.l.ave intimated, under circumstances of sad The young man enters hastily with his bride, suspic and all is explained. u In an interesting interview which takes place prior to this, the blind girl is undeceived as to the character of the morose toy-maker ; she is told of his being a ' rdid, grinding man, ugly in his looks " and that her father is a spare, de- n his nature grey-haired deper down ;" and she bless truth, to be blind no lo God she has live d to learn „-r. With these denouements the having, however, exhibited the wicked Taa kleton in a repentant mood, like his prototype Sc and hinted at a jovial repast and a dance by all the chars. tern. One of the most tolerable passages in the book is the following, which pourtrays the workings of the poor book closes, arising from his fondness for his wife and his suspicions of her unfaithfulness:— The Dutch :lock in the corner struck Ten, when the arrier sat down by his fireside. So troubled and grief- worn, that he seemed to scare the Cuckoo, who, having cat his ten melodious announcements as short as pos. Bible, plunged back into the Nloorish Palace again, and clapped his little door behind him, as if the unwonted spectacle had been tco much for his feelings. If the little Haymaker had been armed with the sharpest of scythes, and had cut at every stroke into the Carrier's heart, he never could have wounded it as Dct had done. It was a heart so full of love for her; so bound up and held together by innumerable threads of winning remem brance, spun from the daily working of her many qualities of endearment ; it was a heart in which she had enshrined herself so gently and so closely ; a heart so single and so earnest in its Truth : so strong in right, so weak in wrong : that it could cherish neither passion nor revenge at first, and had only room to hold the broken image of its Idol. But slowly, slowly ; as the Carrier sat brooding on his hearth, no w cold and dark, other and fiercer thoughts began • e within him, as an angry wind comes rising in the The Stranger was beneath his outraged roof. mild take him to his chamber door. One .t it in. " You might do Murder before Tackleton had said. How could it be ave the Villain time to grapple with him He was the younger matr. It was an ill bad fur the dark mood of his mind. It t, goading him to some avengine. act. Throe steps blow would you know it," Murder, if 1;e hand to hand ! timed thought that he should chang ful house into ahaiinted place wl lonely travellers would dread to pass by night ; ad where the timid would see shadows struggling in the mined windows when the noon was dim, and bear wild noises in the stormy weather. He was the younger man ! Yes, yes; some lover who had won the heart that he bad Some lover of her early choice : of whom t and dreamed : for whom she had pined he had fancied her so happy by his side. -'F it 1 She had been above stairs with ruined w never touched she had thcug and pined he Ba t to bed hearth she beside hi without ling on the knowledge —in the turning of the rack of h •her sounds—and put her little her hand u With its great misery, he lost all stool at his feet. He only pion his c m, and faw be: No. It vias looking up into his face wonder ? er again nquiritlg 'lc 3ok, but no At first it was serious : then it ct range, wil of recognition of t her clasped ban as nothing !at head. a falling 1 nd the yr r lying down, ar self, was ,ougbts Her im the -we reed ti Iv ht.] tl ,de the fi minister of t in St T.nilia r.—Punt t a relief 1 ddenly ved a f-T. t nildek tE nto hat a Scot 1760 y THE LIVERPOOL Courous Loss.—We were favoured yesterday with the following advertisement : LOST OR MISLAID-STOLEN OR STRAYED " THE GARRISON BAND " It is nearly six months since there were any tzeces of it on this island ; and any one who can afford information as to its whereabouts, so that it may be restored to the advertisers, will receive the grateful thanks and smiles (surely the highest possible reward) of THE LADIES OF BOMBAY." —Bombay Paper. . . . . ORDERS IN THE CDURCII.—If it he true that in the first institution of the church there was a disparity of ranks ; that not only was our Lord superior in order to the Apostles, but the Apostles to the seventy ;—that, in a subsequent stage of the primitive history, Timothy and Titus were appointed respectively to preside over Ephesus and Crete, with power to ordain presbyters, to apportion maintenance, to hear complaints, and adjudge controver sies ; that the angels of the Apocalyptic Churches are ad dressed as the guardians and supervisors of their respect nunities, with many other similar facts ;—then upon which episcopacy rests is not unfounded in scripture, and the universal church, in adhering to It for fifteen centuries, did no more than follow th practice.— Wilke on the Church. THE NEW YEAR IN PARIS Apostol —The Ist of January be so ; for, of all raves nigt alack ! and sbou the days in the year, that of the New 1 the most detestible. Ererybot r is, in France to everybody, almos everybody kisses evervbod everybody wishes well to everybody, and every ody makes to e Tvbody of sent or other ; whilst pOrters, ser- sbopmen, waiters in the restaurants, th inels de lecture—c% STANDARD. METHOD OF FITING PMNCIL AND Cff AL/C DRAWINGS. For pencil drawings, a thin solution of isiuglass answers the purpose. It suould be allowed to run over the draw ing, or be very carefully applied with a soft camel's-hair pencil. For chalk drawings, make a thin solution of size, put in a flat dish, pass the drawing from one side to the other under the liquid, taking care that the liquid comes in contact with every part of it. The friction of a camel's hair pencil would injure the drawing. When it is com pletely wetted, fasten it to the edge of a table, or to a string, by means of two or three pins, until dry. Crayon oa charcoal drawing would be spoiled by this process, and for fixing them the paper should be washed over with a solution of size in the first instance. When quite dry, the surface is in a good state for making the drawing; after which it should be inverted, and held horizontally over steam. The steam melts the size, which absorbs the char coal or crayon, and when it has again become dry, the drawing is fixed. The process may be repeated several times during the progress of a drawing, the effect being increased each time.—Pharmaceutical Journgl. PLANT WATERING IN WINTER.—There is nothing connected with plant culture of more importance than the quaintance some p rants, postr. cafe - 1: a ttendatlts is in short, who regularly or occasionally is in the habit of rendering you little services, comes to wish you une bonne ?nnle, and- above all, to bleed your wretched purse. It give, all day long. Presents to your wives—presents to your friends' children- is pre, friends' give, give sents to your friends' servants—presents to your own— presents to all and every one—piles of presents for people for whom, perhaps, you don't care a single straw—plea sant prospect, truly, for the unhappy wight who has not the wealth of Rothschild, the coffers of the Bank of Eng land, or the yearly revenue of King Louis Philippe to fall back upon ! Take my word for it, New Year's Day is a nuisance ; and it is a disgrace to France that it was nut abolished long ago. Last session they passed a law for emancipating the black niggers of the colonies; and yet in all the Legislature cot one voice was raised to demand the emancipation of the more wretched whites from the monstrous exactions of the odious and abominable jour de l' an 1--Paris correvondent. GOOD AND BAD NEWS.—Bad news weaken the ac- tions of the heart, oppress the lungs, destroy the appetite, stop the digestion, and partially suspend all the functions of the system. An emotion of shame flushes the face; fear blanches, joy illuminates it ; and an instant thrill elec trifies a million of nerves. Surprise spurs the pulse into a gallop. .Delirium infuses great energy. Volition com mands, and hundreds of muscles spring to excite. Power ful emotions often kill the body at a stroke. Chilo, Dia gores, and Sophocles, died of joy at the Grecian games. The news of defeat killed Philip V. One of the Popes died of an emotion of the ludicrous on seeing his pet monkey robed in pontificals, and occupying the chair of state. Muley Moloc was carried upon the field of battle in the last stages of an incurable disease; upon seeing his army ive way. he rallied his panic stricken troops, rolled back t'he tide , shouted ♦ictory, and died. The door keeper of Congress expired on hearing of the surrender of Cornwallis. Eminent public speakers have often died in the midst of an impassioned burst of eloquence, or when the deep emotion that produced it has suddenly subsided. Lagrave, the young Parisian, died when he beard that the musical prize for which he had cutnpeted was adjudged to another. The case of Hill, in New York, is still fresh in the memory of all: he was apprehended for theft, taken before the police, and, though in perfect health, metal agony forced the blood from his nostrils, and he was car ried out dead.—Harriso A 1114u.rptous TOYMAHER.—Tackleton, the toy-mer- n Flather chant, for th; long a as the firm, 3nly having Lough Gruff bad been bought o'u nature name, and, as som etionary in the bus vocatio ney, or a at y-merchant, was have s I the foll run c misunderstood by his man whos )fficer, or a broker, he might ed oats in his youth, and, f himself in illnatured tran toymaking, be was a domes for th nto the faces o drove pip to the market, bell lawyers' consciences, moveabl airy, red 1 tumble aespise world ; 4 deligbtec m expr ved pies, and other a appa ses, vampire kites, e down, and were had ev Its out of counte !ma tur They were [itmare w his only re and he t Kok inventio 3blin slides for sh, with human fa leticious o that t certain solemn vows L minister of t no paint of - his arts for the c Hearth not a 'ere on who is )f Chri d up ly along ith the ag in proper Christi irat the vervetuatim tty of life, in th pear too frequently the alphabet of exi like a good healthy memory of home ; %re a more The shrub c sen as the Sydney " Chri f the honour It is a ly too old: friends alike numbered rs a-s" is Nv Lt care t of the ela and affection of the way for ft 61A S. DAY AT THE ANTIPODE 'e Christmas, in oar drives n )ns carrvi native Arab, 'to . decorate the er that vi h the bowery loa :1 he t e nodding ecked out e approl that on )11ity. 1 1 some of c winter months pits, and other similarly circumstanced structure for wintering plants, result from over-watering. The by The mjority of the cielthsC ich occu in cold grometer in such a situation would tell how impossible it is for vegetation to exist, at least that kind of vegetable . . fwhich the inhabitants of such dormitoi. composed. It is rarely that plants in such situations suf fer from want of moisture. To house them dry, and to winter them dry, is the passport to their future existence. Water should he gradually withheld from all plants as winter approaches to fit them for hibernation, not only because of the suspension of active growth, but also to harden the tissue, and partially to expel the redundancy of watery fluid with which this tissue largely abounds. Plants, therefore, brought by degrees into a condition of this kind, when all their active functions are for the time suspended, are not so liable to suffer from damp, which pervades all plant structures during winter, at least where artificial heat is never applied, unless to expel frost. The application of water during winter to plants thus situated is rarely required, because the atmosphere immediately sur rounding them for some months, in consequence of its coolness, is incapable of absorbing any of the bodies thus placed in contact with it. More plants are killed during winter by over-watering than by f. ort itself ; we are always on our guard as regards the latter enemy, but rarely as regards over-watering. ORIGIN OF CHRISTMAS BOXES. Whenever a ship sailed from any of those parts where the religious were unthr the au y of the Church of Rome, a certain saint was always named, unto whose protection its safety was committed ; and in that box every poor person put something, in order to induce the 1 riests to pray to that saint for the safe return of the vessel ; which box was locked up by the priests, who said that the money should not be taken out until the vessel came back. Another and more probable explanation is given by a well-in formed anonymous writer. " Christmas-boxes," says he, " may be assimilated to, and probably originated from, the Roman Paganalia, which were instituted, ac- cording to Dionysius,by Servius Tullius, and celebrated in honour of Ceres at the beginning of the year. An altar was erected in every village, where persons gave money. The apprentices' boxes were formerly made of pottery, and Aubrey mentions a pot, in which Roman denarii were found, resembling in appearance an appren tice's earthen Christmas box." Count Caylus gives two of these Paganalian boxes, one exhibiting Ceres seated between two figures standing, Hercules silo ncra tr the other with the head of the mid- The heathen plan was commute( ollections for masse in order to absc debaucheries of the season, w unable to pay. In like manner the grooms of the Earl o Northumberland's chamber bad a Christmas-box, and it is recorded that the earl deposited in it twenty shillings. itch the servan s were —Hampson's Dates and Charters THE AMERICAN NAVY.—The navy of the V Statfa is very respectable. Taking their navy list, it pears that they have, of all classes of ships, old, rotten on the stocks, and on the rivers and lakes, in China an d the Pacific, a grand total of seventy-six ; namely, ten line-of-battle ships, twelve frigates of the first-class, two of the second-class, twenty-three sloops of war, eight ght schooners, eight steamers, together with four - it may be safely reckoned that superior, and fifty of this list are really le vessels, and immediately available for any vice or emergency. Five ships of the line, alongsid between forty bat really more rise tit he considered nne SECRET OF IRISH PERVERSITIES..--I find in Hippo crates a mode of accounting for our insane tendencies, which occurs to me as being very satisfactory. " What is it, Proby ?" said Sharpe. ' Why, Hippocrates reckons not eating amongst the causes of lunacy, and it is a noto rious fact, that the great majority of the people in this island eat so little, that they may fairly be considered as not eating at all. Then, what they do eat (when they de part from the general rule), is the very description of food which the ancient physicians condemn as a windy diet! they feed upon roots exclusively. I have no doubt it is to this—to the use of the potatoe—we may ascribe our vapouring habits, our love of bluster, and our fondness for castles in the air." " 1 recollect," said Sharpe, " that Burton enumerates roots amongst the articles of melan choly diet, and also pork, so that our pigs have to answer for some of our perversities."— The Falcon Family. FILTH AND FEVER.—Deficient drainage, if not the parent, is most certainly the nurse of fever. My own opinion is that fever is a contagious disease, spreading from person to person, just as small pox or scarlet fever does, but, like those diseases, haunting over-crowded or ill-drained districts, and all places where, from any cause whatever, the air is foul, and filled with animal and vege table exhalations. It loves the banks of rivers, the bor ders of marshes, the edges of stagnant pools. It makes itself at home in the neighbourhood of cess-poolg and badly-constructed drains, and takes special delight in the incense of gully-holes. It has a perfect horror of fresh air, soap, and whitewash, but, when left to itself, will linger for years amid scenes of filth and corrur ion, and hold in its deadly embrace all human beings who have the same depraved taste, or are so unfortunate as to be thrown into its company. It is the favourite child of laissez' faire (in plain English, lel alone), and bears the same relation to FILTH as crime does to IGNORANCE.— Lecture by D. IV. A. Guy. GRAIN GROWING IN THE UNITrn STATES. - --While in the valley of the Mississippi. the author was astonished at the cheapness and abundance of bread and meat. fle inquired how it was possible for the farmers to sell their wheat at 2s per bushel, and their maize, rye, barley, and oats, at Sd ? " Why, sir, my friend in Indiana, bra got this year 2000 acres of wheat in one patch, which, at 26 bushels to the acre, amounts to 50,000 bushels. The thrashing by our simple machines, and the cradling at harvest time, enables him to get through the work much quicker than is done in Europe, and in this poor country 25,000 dollars is a large sum to receive in a heap for his crop of wheat, and as carriage is nothing on our rivers, or next to nothing, there are few deductions. There is always sufficient solar heat to insure good crops, the only danger being from drought, but there has never been a failure since I have been in the coentt y. Now you see how we can grow wheat to pay us at 2s per bushel, or as you say in England, 16s per quarter, and it is never likely to be dearer !"—Rubio's Rambles in the United States. NAVIGATION OF THE RIVER AMAZON BY STEAM.— The Mining Journal has the following further informa tion on the subject of the progress of Captain Clause in opening a new passage up the Amazon for steamers : " By private information we have received from a corres pondent at New York, by the Britannia steamer, we are informed, this experienced naval officer has had full power given him, by the company that is forming in the United States, to explore the whole of that territory, to see bow far the different rivers can be made navigable, so as to carry out mining operations on an extended scale, as silver and other ores may be culled in a perfect native state, being found abundantly on the surface or a very few feet below the prolific soil. The captain, we are informed, has gone on another exploring expedition up the river Gastoza, a branch of the Amazon, attended by several eminent mining engineers, who are commissioned to make not only a survey of the country, but, more particularly, the mineral resources it offers to mining enterprise and commercial speculation. From the accounts we have re ceived, the country is not only one of the most salubrious, rncerned, but it is most abundant in everything neces ry for the well-being and happiness of man, and, if pro- ultivated, it will, in a few years hence, become a most lucrative undertaking for those who had the adven turous idea of exploring a country hitherto unknown, not only to the Americans, both north and south, I ut more THE CHURCH OF SCOLTAND AND THE FREE CHURCH. —The avowed reasons for the late breach are chiefly these : —one, that the presentation to cures commonly understood by the term patronage, is unscriptural and insupportable ; and the other, that the constitution of the Established Church dishonours Christ, its proper head — or , i n th e _ at the headship of Christ is virtually v, with regard to the first, there are nied by her 'ew among us but will say, that the claim of any one indi_ nee4 30, 184‘. In accordance with a sort of instruction or ciruilar, ems" nating from the three London bashaws, a meeting of Poor" law officers was held at Newton on Saturday week,,.tc: take into consideration a bill to be submitteif to parlia ment, for the lishment oe yin submitted to the circularsesta st b ated that this th bill societ had been su bmitted to the Poor-law Commissioners, and highly-approved br them. The bill is to the effect, that the aforesaid com pulsory rate shall be levied on all officers in the service.; that when they become superannuated, or die, and thee widows or children, or_both, require relief, the Poor- Commissioners must be respectfully " memorialized! and them alone ; and that 'all the business must to transacted by the three bigwigs. At the meeting g Newton there were present, including the chairman, officers to whom the circular addressed itself; and si summonses have been sent to all - officers it; the service , thronghout England and Wales. A Mr. Richard Hal!► assistant commissioner for the London Districts is, LI appears, a main mover in this new and arbitrary emeufe , and lie is backed by his superiors, the triumvirate at the top of the tree. A resolution was submitted to the meet ing, to the effect that no parish or union officer should he compelled to contribute to any fund to be raised by tiae proposed society : and this being the general opinion, the first clause of the bill to that effect having been submitted for consideration by the opposite party, and duly argued' was thrown out by a majority of 33 to lg. We hail triumph of the parish officer; of our county over a dicta torial little clique of legisl a to rs i n London,. who never ought to have been possessed of th e powers they wield over the necessitous poor, m u c h l ess t o arroga t e the con duct and manner o f the p rov i s i on w hi c h d eserv i n g a"' acute public servants should deserv e , f or o ld age or those they may leave behind them. Th e y w h o l e s y s t em is one of insolent and tyrannous assumpti on , an d amo ngst the " coming" reforms that of the new poor -l aw must b 6 urged by the people at large. this dependence fifty-four, riptinn of ship has not been seen in any of our navy yarda, shall soon have to exhibit in a few razees out of some old fir II service rates that have *boat twenty sloops, or small Ad find bands, and nothing but the high lty shillings per month to the temperance act abolishing flogging, could enable 1 prove( )ver and t the seamen are far more efficien as in better discipline. without lk of hot cocoa or coffee, v hardy s e British navy.—Rubio's Rambl .e agreeable to tl n they reef SF. OF MEMORY happen politica, " I am not so fanci friends as you are I I' hay of so retentive a memory by " I don't understand yen," said Emily, 'orris to forget t .o employ the present than are but two of the mental lt in rrel 3—the memory and the ima are not occupied with t equally busy with an unattainable future: i divided between the subjects of King se of Qt !en Mab. Now, I am neither an my politics; my friend Tigernach days in Celtic recollections, and He is so industrious a visi ve-Supine." " How can y termed indolence, Mr. rd in the Castle of Indolence is all proper he dwell :eeded _to explain his treanir ry is abused when it is udgnient; when its records are .nd folly ; whe to water the flowers of pesce and strife weeds of higoL., ,ds of profane, as to those of sa Miss Falcon " — The not fur fire In the mean tim without t and to get tt Not that theie was much :of weight and mea- razee, the Ind not seen me with ; at topsails, stimulus in the U many de The coo activity i )ut to r [ would nd t? DOI He s in Ce Aivity b, The fat t shadow! roiled, and understand r with a rind for light THE BABY ANDS ere was a N I to be don ien the baby was got point of turn him out a tip-top was tlnexpectedly es' bustled off to bed ; wh tween two blankets for gii, took time naking of it a teal to doi about and about it, v easy stages, For instance, a thing , by hook and by crook, to anti might havc rationally sup- or two vc 7 oule finish him off, and baby, challenging the world, he tingnished in a flannel oap, and iere - he simmered (so to speak) he- he best part of an After which, he went tOsle6)Egain took advantag interval, to snake her- r a congrega ,f, simply considered, o submitted to; but this is not the true state - of the tioo. It is not a simple, but a mixed arrangement church demands of the state support. The state g Tt was this arrang avowed will a upon certain defined conditic land, and enabled it to persecute and drive out, as with such relentless fury, all competitor it has always been evil;—lust bat K and his made it, it now is : except 3r a short apace the tender mercies of Cromwell's reign, and for years after the accession of William the Third, and the short, but iron reign of the Covenanters. G support, and the right of patronage I willingly. You are aware, no doubt, t tronsge chiefly rests nd who are c ch - urches and su very few exceptions, not members of ti then. is the great error, if not wrong, in the late 1 ment ; the dissatisfied party should have come ou been c they demand support of the state, almost unconditio and denounce all who did not concur with them, at pecially the adhering members of the kirk, es g chiefest instruments! It is, in fact, in disguise, though they may not p Wit' to " headship of C a species of y _a regartu ue allowed by the kirk, it must be pronounced a mos The Church of Scotland, though h ultra sentiments on particular points of disputed the has ever maintained, and now. maintains, a pure r faith, and is far more likely to retain it, than thos have seceded from her. For to my mind, the late 1 accusation has opened the mistaken in th land with here Leiter in Gla THE YARM Great Yarmo' smed Charles im threw a lat MELANCtI —On Sa turd luence of tip AFFRAY V ers took plac fight never to be . - The ants it we up rill be ones ; and, if I arn not cbaracter of the Scottish mind al way to r here will lies and err 7oto Couri DOM ESTI( e a multiplication of•_ sec rery name and nat The Yarn sp' improvemcn on Viedne3dl it will t manner as Mr. M‘Gre played state have an oppc it in prices he sthcks departmek d, if the has dor r. of th tain the TH MW DE ier of Harriet ( tth, on the 18th Gloucestershire Mers, fe ber, 184 Silkstone, near Barns Cappelll over a fire shovel :o one of•his clogs, and iiuint him different parts of his d rescue him from his peril LY RMSOLT OF RAILWAY SPECULATIO P last, Mr. Wakley held an inquest at Pt on, on the body of Mr. George Graha if the firm of Messrs. Gr 114. Cheansidt lianc - with a your !d, and he cut his throat 172 POACHERS —A collision betwc d twa.notorious r tout two o'clock last Thursd, erves at Charlton, near Mahnesbnr STATE OF TRADE MANCTIVITKR.—AIthough only a moderate amount of l)flet ness has been done during the week, owing principally Collie intervention of the Christmas festivals, yet the tone at odr spinners and manufacturers is Improved, and they are evidentit much less anxious to press sales. Spinners are refusing to cob tract at prices current a week ago, and merchants have beers more incfMed to meet their views since the fact became ',nor that Sir Robert Pe:l had undertaken the task of reconstru , :tin# a Ministry. The appointment of Mr. Gladstone to the Secre taryship of the Colonies appears to give great satisfaction, as' the enlightened views on commerce, the practical experience and business-like habits of that able minister point him out ed pre-eminently superior in qualtScations to his predecessor (of the control of that important department; and, at the same time, they afford a guarantee that a wis e an d 't line 0. pruden. policy will be adopted by the new Cabinet, which WiV' develope the resonvces of the dependencies of the British croWas and increase the trade of the mother country. The alarm art!" ficially excited as to a " coming famine" is now subsiding, 11 ' 1 _2 as the price of bread stuffs i s ra pidly g i v i ng way, the prospeos of our home trade are growing more bright. The drain of golds from the batik has ceased, and the tide is beginning to flow la the contrary direction, leading to the expectation that the re striction in the money market will somewhat relax. Tiles. facts strengthen the expectation of mannfa - turers that, JlDDA diately after the turn of the year, there will be a steady and pro- gressive improvement in the demand for, and staple products of this district. We quote 2d-i prices o/, th e rh 61'5 at 4 3d to 43 4d; 27-inch 66 reeds at 4s 7id to Is ; - 272inCh72's al 4s lcid to 5 s 9d.—Manchester Advertises. -We are glad to say that all our operatives are SIIEFFLICLI employer+ and if we are not prepared to assert th a t Christmas ever found our workshops and warehooses more busy, We believe trade was hardly ever in a mere general healthy eon' dition on the whole.—Sheffick/ Mercury. ROCTIDALE.—There was no improvement in the Flannel mar ket, on Monday, the sales were extremely limited, and prices low. In Wool very little has been done; the manufacturers buy very sparingly, at last week's prices. . LEBDB.—The m arkets in our Cloth Hall, both on Saturday and Tuesday last, were but moderzteely attended either by buyers sellers ; but the business dose was equal to that of the preceding corre=ponding market days. Prices continue wittrust alteration; Not much is doing in the warehouses, but businessin general not slacker than it usually is at the period of Christmas. -JALIFAX Satardal as very little change ss was done in sa. s for fine lastines the latter si he principa' demand vral in was most called for. icipals for several shipp rts, which we hope may Wools are stead) , Su The spinner bur the prir quirt' for so] of business. speedily 14 per super t tter feelin, whatever the Bank Ikely to t England many part ld the loon an infatlibl Wools co Iteration fc and in r 1 to. T Mme instar ces a shade the market of the ye were makii !ad to an in ies to 100 th the w o tilts kingd )NDON C ootmeker. ah Camline x Harpent; o Sear, CI Lanca: oe granted a., Manc I Yarn n and De • tke last r and of VI :wing d 3AZETTE -- a im.- BANK RUE ,nnaught-terra 'l7, Margate, s Rand, WestmiE and Thomas R PS DISSOL Id W. L. E :on and S. S, td C. E: Ker C. Gam ire. alkall•mont. FICATES S DISSOLVED in, Lancashire, and shal-. tufactur ne to fa iviiittel's arv., mark- '<es, White/ ant, Rother 'thy, Mallet Kenworthy—H• East- ufactare u trary on the Ld retrogr, in their aster I nothi " Ch solat before his t what must t affairs of the Michelet's R IEARTH mph. this—an h 1 etranger wh ily circle, by and by rse and ill-naturec mple-hearted fathe er, Tackleton, con Fielding, the early 1 Chirp" trail )se blind dlnighter i ded by bles;i iected c g but it . .p the Th and he 3 t on the hearth s Is spruc and contented, and Tier and to enjoy their foitn Tuff old Tackleton i !e and d that rs the news with strange ie at length confesses that ter and s heaped upon her father ind reveres". unions, his anxiel declara- s to keep ,nd sorrows, have In the meanwhil is seen by Tackleton to arriei'a wife them, and presently invite nds of the window . , when hought Dot adjusting the horn he is now assured is crupulous gallant s found his cott rooding over his wrongs, and ige. Bat the voice of the trns him from his purpose, and m with monitory reflections which embody them ' "ry ♦isions of home, representing the days of his wife's fondness and 'solicitude, and arity. The fairy shape of the , and admonishes him in Sc- .ppiness CRICKET a deaf and it surpris ever you ur been tli motto ill WI) rema there two dependent on 1 her ref Mrs. 1 3M on Ui dvocat dramatist. " is the kindest have I a parce a fihilling Decide or, kindness." kindness dly replied t T DAYS At Berlin and I day has sixteen hours and a 1 Upsal, the longest has eighteen shortest has five and a half. and Stettin, the longest day bas ninete At St. PetWrsbur Find Tobc gest day has twenty-on At sence, but call that ` unre- Dim and Dantzi e shortest ongest has tad a half, .n Norway, laata three OF Es ND SYS- vating cett, under God, in her ministers and and have insti upon in their own primitive glory which she derived from triet martyrs and the suffrages of an admiring pun] land to that blood of her ple.—Wilks on the Church IRISTI ADVANTAGES ' Recollect, Mr. Falcon, I positively wont go to Ireland, unless the situation is per manent, and the country quiet." "Dublin is safe as London, my dear," said sible, for I am told it has ndeed safer, if pos lately been fortified. I know something about fortification. When I was deputy•.store keeper at the Tower—" " I don't like the idea of living in fortified places," replied the mother Falcon, not wait ing for the close of this interesting chapter in her hus band's life ; " it's not pleasant to think of being besieged, sacked, and ransacked. I have heard of women being sacked—they do it in Turkey constantly, and throw them into the Phosphorus. I'm not a coward, I flatter myself; I'm as stout as any woman, and I was never ashamed to own it—hut I do like to be hors-de-combat." " Indeed, mamma,"_ said Emily, " Ireland is quite as safe a country to live in as England : nobody is ever shot- but a tyrannical landlord, occasionally.`'— The Falcon Family, land, the lon and shortes the day lasts from the wo and rtiption ; and in Spitzber and a half gen ti SUFFICIENCY OF THE CHURCH members ke church asks for no projeo e power of renovation is p 1 lust and collective azencv o )ur Wise and holyrefo'rr ual decays and dilapidat toted a system, which, if fully acted world Eoc 'estore t Lo ycu he author ondon, tl At Stock en, and a Ask, the i orneo, in ruing from two. to twelve or fi leaves in shape like thos se•ches- lily two or three inches broad, with a dark ,ished, upper surface, the under one being pale. of its flowers when freshly ga'hered, is like w-mown hay. The " Christmas dinner " truly be a most odd and anomalous affair. Instead Ron a seasonable appetite by a brisk walk over now, well muffed in warm winter garments, I I a miserable morning, half dead with heat, on ttired in •lie coolest muslin dress I possessed nonade or soda wate the sofa, r, and endeavouring to re 11the enviable times when I had touched a lump rasped a snowball, and vainly watching the still, ,w for the first symp —Skelches of Neu he afternoon sea-breez South II PURIT FRorsEs.—The grievance of lay-impropria twenty ye a, baying never been abat and many plied with preachers, a plan was this year fallen upon to bseription, among persons grieved in that state .a fund for kuyina-in such impropriations as f matte T themselves 'or supporting goad ministers n destitute places ; and for otherwise en couraging the ministerial work. The originator of this scheme was the famous Dr. Preston, a Puritan college therewith doctor of immense fame in those and in prior yetrs : courted even by the Duke of Buckingham, and tempted by the gleam of bishoprics; but mouldering now iu great oblivion, nnr famous to any man. His scheme, however, was found good. the wealthy London merchants, almost all of them Puritans, took it . up, and by degrees the —who after- ever-increasing fund were vested in '• feofees wards made some noise in the world under that name— they gradually purchased some adowsons of impropria- Cons. such as came to market ; and hired, or assisted in a great r 'cen, po med tc any lecturers, persons not generally in s about the ceremon full priest's orders (having scrui but in deacon's, or some other orders, with permission to preach—to lecture, as it was called : whom, accordingly we find lecturing in ♦arious places tions, in the subsequent years— town, or market-day ; on Sunday afternoon mental to the regular priest when he might happc nder various en in so upple- be idle, or given to black and white surplices ; or running lecturers—now here, now there—over a certain district. They were greatly followed by the serious part of the com munity ; and give proportional offence in other quarters. In some years hence, they bad risen to such a height, these lecturers, that Dr. Laud, now come into authority, took them seriously in hand, and with patient detail hunted them mostly out ; nay, brought the feofees them selves, and their own enterprise. into the Star-chamber, and there with emphasis enough, and heavy damages, amid huge rumour from the public, suppressed them - Carlyle's Letters qr Oliver Croniwell. Peerybing as ever yo, II your 'if surprisi luring the sinuated herself into a ter . self or any thing that it had ,encer c a fashion so else in the universe s a shrun- ken, dog's eared, independent fact, pursuing its lonely course without the least regard to any body. By thi time, the baby, be untied efforts of Mrs. Pecrybingle all alive again, wa with a crear red mantle for its body, and a sort of head ; and so in. cou nankeen raised pie for its they all three got down to the door, where the old horse had already taken more than the full value of his day's toll out of the turnpike trust, by tearing up the road with his impatient autographs—and whence Boxer might be dimly seen in the remote prospective, back, and tempting him to come Dicken's Cricket on the hearth . it without orders.—: SUPPORT OF THE FIE CHVF.CH MINISTERS.— mestion most favourable received for the re ,nlation of this very delicate matter, was one which permitte,C I more to the common trea ed to draw from it, to retain sure than they might be allow , such a portion of the surplus, fat; the benefit of their own. ministers, as might be agreed upon with the consent, and subject to the control, of the Presbytery of the bound. ime it was the desire and confident hope of D Chalmers, having for future consideration the best mode of providing for the extension of the church, that all the ministers, who had actually withdrawn from the establish :,rtietit,,Otould he secured in the stipend of £2OO per an. litlriaYand it was not for one moment contemplated that any congregation, contributing less to the general revenue should be entitled to reserve any part of its re sources, raised in the customary way, for the purpose of supplementing the stipend of its own minister. Nothing, however, was then settled in reference to this point• It was not till the assembly at Glasgow, in the month of October following, that, for the first time, and to the sur prise of many, the arrangement was sanctioned riecl into effect, which permits our ministers to draw any amount of increase to their stipends which tbeir congre gations may be able or willing to give them out of the col church-doors. From that period this arrangement has gone on made at t Idown to the present hour to acquir a growing importance, till it length the people are openly and urgently importuned, by a consideration of all that is due ft= them towards those who " have sown unto them spiritual things," to enlarge their weekly con tributions, as the means of enabling their own ministers to reap a decent and a comfortable maintenance. Thus, then, the support of the ministry in the free church is pro vided for from two different sources—the sustentation fund, out of which they all, with the exception of new in cumbents who have been placed under another rule of very questionable propriety, derive the same equal sup ply; and the supplementary fund, which varies according to the circumstances and the good-will of the congrega tions among whom they severally labour.—Prospects and Perils of the Free Church. - :offered great many set in They w adjoining the turnpike-road at Charlton them ftm some time, when two men eat yards of them, but finding they were seen ti The keepers pursued the intruders, and Fields o , them, whoa they made a furious attack on him, at ben Hawes came up was on th poachers still heating him. One of them rnadea th Hawes with a spear which they had previously Ind wounded Lim in the shoulder.- m Fields Journal, ECGZNTRICITIES OF GENDus.—At the Maribo street Police-court, on Thursday, Miss Ann Joh a lady well known in the literary world, was charge Keith Barnes, Esq., of Portland-place. It was that the defendant went to Mr. Barnes's house, proved ►nd de- Much of t mage was caused through the agency of the lady works, she having discharged a couple of vc "Transition," and " Ellen O'llorick,' at the wi missiles though light in appearance yet ponderous cution. Miss Johnston did not deny the charge !wines, rdows. had been provoked to this proceeding because reason to believe that Mr. Barnes was accessory to need less delay in some law proceedings relating to property to which she was entitled.—Mr. Hardwick reasoned with the young lady, who appeared to possess more than a customary share of that "irritability" said to be the cha racteristic of all classes of authors, on the impropriety of adopting such an unfeminine course to obtain a particular object.—Miss Johnston replied, spiritedly, that she was the daughter of a sailor, and that had she had a cane in her hand, she would have exercised it on the complain ant, had she met him personally.—Mr. Vardwick told her she must pay the costs and damage, or go to prison. Miss Johnston declared she would rather go to prison than pay a farthing. Offers were repeatedly made to the lady to pay the amount, but she rejected them all, and was actually sent, per van, to Tothill-fields. TYRANNICAL BITCH OF7THE POOR-LAW COMMISSIONSRS.—A number of the relieving officers of the metropolis have recently been endeavouring to get up a society, or fund, for the support of superannuated poor law officers, and the widows and children of such. A relieving officer of London, Mr. Joseph Armitage, is the honorary secretary, and, through his communications to the poor-law officers in the provinces, it appears the scheme has so far been worked. The object is, to render it compulsory on all officers to contribute to the fund, by a deduction of Gd. in the pound, to be retained by pay masters of the force out of the amount of each quarter's salary, no consideration being made for the very poss'ble fact that, in many instances, the parties for whom a pro vision is thus gratuitously and impertinently proposed, may (and many of them have) insured a sum forthcoming on their demise, or joined societies, perhaps for years, by whom the needful, on such emergency, would he done. ANOTHER facturer. G. 11. a J. Brai' Curtis merch ri Jan. 22 Mills. Hs Jan. 23, . 23, J. an Morpetla, stablekeeper iron, Long-}al iinson, Prince ustus Absalom , N ortham p` o n alsou, Great , eter, Bristol, 1 ,lies, Newcastl orlt.terra —I). Litt and I. I ancheste. , Kent- road. " naon ~0 1 :.nti Co. LiVerv7,.. ps, ilirmin ; ham 'S OF DIVIDEND ler, Manchester, c, n sPinnerl' Manchester, cotton si?Lnnelv Iper. rnehouse, patent pump ras°6 iersbury, wholesale stat ;outh Island 'ace, Claphilii-re* 'anted, unle Bermondsey, currie treet, Chelsecowkeepe r row, Little Chelsea, surf' apon-Tine, grocer tees pen maker. DIVIDENDS. vi. r• _ _ egrum, North Br 'ton, carpenter-34a. wo-, .A-street, Mark.lan e, and High Holbora..tn erc , jao• A. Hindes and J. Thompson, Leeds, stockbroker s dJ. Thompson, Leeds, stockbrokers. CERTI FICATES o s tb• shown to them:NWT., To be gs cause t day of meeting. Jan . .1. Mortimer, Adelaide•street, West-stran d, W. R. Lejeunc, Southampton, R. Hutchinson, Jewry-street, Aldgatc, leather se ,„l - 16, 1 ; corn mereb a ,, n ;-4 00 17, G. Staight, Skinner-street, Snow-hill, dealer—Jr; 0, 1 Gibson, Motcomh- street, Belgrave- square, oilman—".a'; DO' H. Walter, late of Sonthampton-street, Camberwell, Onclads/ ger—Jan. 16, G. Couper, West Boldon and South Weida , 0 --9' burner—Jan. 19, C. Brogdcn, Lincoln, bookseller—Jan'o; W„' and J. Burton, Kingston upon-Hull, chemists—Jan.:, 26,'' Bickerton, Kingston-upon Hull, timber incrchant—J':,-o,aoa: and D.Woodhead, Netherthong, Yorkshire, woollen clott_ensea facturcrs — Jan. 16, H. Blunt, Wooltou, Lancashire,. ' e " , s ue- , victualler—Jan. 25, R. Warr, BeElMinStOT, DorsetanP.oo'. tioneer—Jan. 17, T. Arnold, Shrewsbury, veterinary ane7.,..jati• Jan. 17, J. 0. Harvey, Newark, Nottinghamshire, gr of 19. A' 21, J. Rawsthorne, Manchester, general agent Featherstonhaugh, Great Bolton, butcher — Jan . 19 ' wood, Bolton, innkeeper. Jan. i -Jan. 1 CERTIFICATE s bOw' To be granted by the Court of Review, unless cause .0 to the contrary on or before Jan. w irje-O e t H. and W. Kimber, Old Trinity-house, Water-lanib,,.a. chants—R. Reynolds, Manchester , cabinetrnaker-k= ford, ironmonger—H. Mallinson , Almondbtunyorks " f fancy worsted goods. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS . W. Allan, Glasgow, oil merchant. S. Davidson, East Kilbride, Lanarkshire. wriffh t * D. M‘Gilvray, Edinburgh, tailor. A. Morrison, Glasgow and Bilbirnle, nicrchatit• 1 facto! er o Healey Tess of