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Eittrature. NOTICE SANT IN OLD AGI PEER AND PI (From Mr. Warren's Now and Then.") Mr. Hylton was moved almost to tears at the spectacle which was before his mind's eye of these two old men upon earth ; and his offer to accompany his lordship at once to the cottage the earl eagerly accepted, and they both took their departure. As the carriage approached, the earl owed no little agitation a' one whom angel Jr. Hyltc bath there ever communion ,n exultingly, " yonder is the 11, and for but a little longer, lnistered to—with whom God and it is a hallowed spot !" • The earl spoke not ; and in a few minutes' time he was 3 be seen, supported by Mr. Hylton and a servant, losely approaching the cottage door, another preceding him to announce h side the door as thi arrival, and arl entered i Adam, here con rstoke—who s. alp Lora Milv iding uncovered out - - lis lordly master him- le9ri, done to 3 hither to tell yon so. 23 he stopped within, ho led him up to old s one to speak with you kith that he long, in sa m while he air of r and yours injus ." The earl tren bled on Mr. Hylton's uncovered, gazing with id this who, WI on 1 .ed, was sitting near the fire, leanin g staff beside a table, on which stood his old Bible open, with his spec tacles lying upon it, as though he had but just laid them there. He rose slowly as Mr. Hylton ceased speaking. " My lord," said he, solemnly, and standing more erectly than he had stood for years, " we be now both very old men, and God hath not spared us thus long for ale, and take 1] his right hand. said the earl faintly; advancing have had somewhat to forgive. For a father am 1, and a father wast thou, my lord. Here, since it bath been asked for, is my hand, that never was withheld from man that kindly asked for it ; and my heart goes out to thee with it! God bless thee, my lord, in these thine old and feeble days —old and feeble are we both, and the grasshopper is a urden to us ! Let me sit c I am feebler than thou ; auu Ua thou seated also ?" They both sat down down opposite to each other, Mr. Hylton looking on in silence. " God may forgive me (and may He, of His infinite mercy !)—thou, my fellow creature, mayst forgive me ; but I cannot forgive myself, when lam here looking at thee. Good Adam ! what hut thou not gone through these twenty years !" faltered the earl. . . .... " Ay, twenty years it is !" echoed Ayliffe solemnly, sighing deeply, and looking with sorrowful dignity at the earl. " Life hath, during these twenty years, been a long journey, through a country dark and lonesome ; but yet here is the lamp that bath shone ever blessedly beside me. or I must have stumbled, and missed my way for ever and perished in the valley of the shadow of death !" As he spoke his eyes were fixed steadfastly on the earl, and h placed his hand reverently upon the sacred volume besid him " Adam, God hath greatly humbled me, and mightily afflicted me !" said the earl. "I am not what I was !" " The scourge thou doubtless didst need, my lord, and ' with an eye and in a tone of voice belonging only to one who spoke with authority. "It is in mercy, too," he con tinued, " to me, that I am here to receive and listen to thee. 1, too, have been perverse and rebellious, yet have I been spared ! And art thou, then, my lord, in thy heart, satisfied that my poor son hath indeed suffered wrongfully ?" " Good Adam, " said the earl sorrowfully , and yet with dignity, " I be lieve now that thy son is innocent, and ought not to have suffered ; yet God hath chosen that we should not see all things as he seeth them, Adam. The law, with which I had nought to do, went right, as the law of men goeth ; but, alas ! as for me, what a spirit hath been shown by me towards thee and thine ! Forgive me, Adam ! There is one here that knoweth more against me" —the earl turned towards Mr. Ayliffe with a look of gloomy significance—" than I dare tell thee, of mine own awful guiltiness before God." " He is merciful, he is merciful said Ayliffe STORIES OF THE BEDCHAMBER.—The most sordidly ridiculous anecdote we remember of a bedchamber is one in the life of Elwes, the rich miser, who, asking a visitor one morning how he had rested, and being told that he could not escape from the rain which came through the roof of the apartment till he bad found out one particular corner in which to stow the truckle bed, said laughingly, and without any sense of shame, " Ah ! what ! you found it out, did you ? Ah I that's a nice corner, isn't it ?" This, however, is surpassed in dramatic effect by the story of two ministers of state, in the last century, who were seen one day by a sudden visitor furiously discussing some great question out of two separate bedsi n one room, by day time, their arms and bodies thrust forward towards each other out of the clothes, and the gesticulation going on accordingly. If our memory does not deceive us, one of them was Lord Chatham_ He had_the gout, and his colleague coming in to see him, and the weather being very cold, and no fire in the room, the noble earl had persuaded his visitor to get into the other bed.—L. Hunt. CHRISTMAS. - All hail, thou season of rightful, but solemn and elevating joy! Oh, what EVENT, gracious lu not commemorate ! Almighty Redeemer of mankind, the joy and glory of heaven and earth ! In the wrapt contemplation, behold the very dust of earth become instinct with heavenly in telligence : even as the stars sang together for joy ! Let an universal ROSANNAR fill the hearts and voices of man kind. For HE came ! and was God With Us ; dwelling In the flesh ! With us ! HERE ! on this dim speck, amidst the bewildering and inconceivable vastness of V- ,WIL -.Llig need out for such purpose in the unsearchabit. wisdom of the Most High Angt_Awi Angels unseen bow wit prLiouna! Together let us celebrate this Mystery, saying. " Glory to God in the highest; and on earth PEACE, GOOD-WILL TOWARDS MEN ! Thus, heaven-kindled, is the joyousness of Christmas : soul-elevating : heart opening. Therefore do all Christian people welcome this solemnly cheerful season : their hearts being first pros trate before God, and then expanding towards man, in deeds of charity and virt " Now and Then," a Tale by S. Warren, Esq., F SEC( LIVERPOOL DITION. Aided by a payt L~ is ha;i'e airiv lard-office, Two o'clock, p.m NT EXCHANGE-THIS DAY Valparaiso The transactiol ,d, several Irish and coasting close of last week, furnishing fine qualities ful all other kinds a Flour met a slo The fresh arriv3 terms, and Malt Wheat fr r ate time, including a few and Flour from the Ui om Odessa, Petersburg; Egyptiai ported ow vier in val without an were on a limited s , ates of this day week Oats a] qr. cheat . Pease Indian Corn Me y change in prices. taken off on rather hi, per ; other kinds barely same as before. e, and Oatmeal recedec I in valu, at a decline of Is. per 48C arrel cheaper. b,i&. n NATIONAL TRANSGRESSIONS.- CALAMITIES. NATIONAL I There is nothing, says Blackwood's Magazine, in historical experience to forbid the idea, that peculiar nations may have been appointed to separate purposes. If to ancient Greece was almost exclusively given the intellectual advancement of the world ; if to ancient Rome was as exclusively the preparative discipline for its government; there can be no doubt that to Judea was assigned the guardianship of religion. The process may be diversified in later times ; but the principle may re main. The rapidity with which the derelictions of duty in Judah were followed by punishments declaredly divine, ut x and on this point vi finds a memorable counterpart in the annals of England, even down to the present hour. B- - "-111 limit our selves to the evidence in Ireland • shall be as brief as possible. In the latter part of the seventeenth century, Popery, hitherto kept down, became suddenly triumphant in Ireland, and began its habitual system of severity to the heretic. Confiscation and exile swept away the rights of Protestantism. The result was the national punishment by the scourge of civil war, a renewal of conquest, the expatriation of the Romish army, and the decay of all the sources of national pros perity. Another era came. Under the government of Protestantism the country had recovered, privileges were successively awarded. and it enjoyed the peace and gradual opulence which belonged to English government. But, a parliamentary faction at length allied itself with Popery ; parliament was subdued by clamour, or seduced by popu larity, and the Popish population obtained the elective franchis" scenes of The elections instantly becam national iniquity. Perjury was scarcely less than a pro fession, and that notoriously ruinous system of " sub letting," which has covered Ireland with pauperism, became general, for the sole object of multiplying votes. This was followed by the foundation of Maynooth, a col lege expressly formed for the training of a Popish priest hood, whose tenets, every man who had voted for this foundation had sworn to be superstitiousand idolatrous." But, when did faction care what it swore ? The cup was now full. The priesthood of Maynooth had scarcely begun to learn their trade when vengeance fell upon Popery and the Parliament. Instead of the promise of gratitude, which had been so ostentatiously given by the Popish associations, and so ostentatiously echoed by Par liamentary Liberalism, the first act of the Popish pea santry was to take up arms ; a rebellion of the most treacherous and bloody nature broke out, in which the murder of Protestants was perpetrated in cold blood, and with the most horrid atrocity, Ireland was convulsed and impoverished, the rebellion was extinguished and punished by the sword, and at the cost of ten thousand peasant lives. The next blow was on the feeble and fractious Parliament. The Irish Legislature was extinguished at a blow; and its fall was as ignominious as it was judicial. lts national pride and acknowledged talent gave way with out a struggle, and with scarcely a remonstrance. It had already lost the respect of the nation. The mind of Ire land disdained the deliberations which had suffered the dictation of a mob. Parliament, existing without national honour, perished without national sympathy. Its own principle was retaliated on itself. The Papist sold it, the Borough-monger sold it, the Protestant sold it, not for the baser bribe of the populace, but for the prospect of peace ; it was given over to execution, with the calm acquiescence of a sense of justice, and tossed on the funeral pile amid a population which danced round the blaze. Popery now talks of its restoration. It is im possible. The very idea is absurd. As well might the ashes of the dead be gathered and reshaped into the living man. As well might the vapours of the swamp be purified by filling it with the fire-damp. Every hour, since that time, has made the country still more unfit for legislation, more furious and inflammable the nakedness of the people be covered by rags, reeking with the pestilence. We rejoice to escape from the sub ject. It can be no gratification to us to trace the pro gress of disease through the political frame which it first enfeebles, and then makes a source of contagion. We have no love for the history of an hospital, or those fright ful displays of a " surgeons' hall," where every skeleton is connected with public crime, and where science is demon strated from the remnants of the scaffold. But, it is notorious that the morals even of tha Irish peasant have been degraded in the exact proportion of his rise in poli tical power. Every favour of the English Parliament, from the beginning of the century until the fatal year 1829, only furnished him with an additional weapon, to be used with more seditious violence. In that year, the British Legislature was thrown open to him, and he entered it in a barbarian triumph. From that moment, England and Ireland were sufferers alike. In England, Irish faction was an insolent mercenary, which opened and alternately hired its services to both sides alike. In Ireland it was a ferocious rebel, which, as the notorious preparative for broader hostilities, exercised its arms in midnight murder. At length the final endowment of Maynooth came ; and, as an establishment, solely for the Romish priesthood, without any admixture of the laity, and allowing the means of an increase in the number of those pupils of Rome, and propagators of Romish doc trines, from about five hundred to double the number, was fixed on the empire for ever, taken wholly out of the further deliberation of the legislature, and conferred, to three times the amount of its former grant, on a religion which professes the worship of a creature, the Virgin Mary—which bows down to images—which assigns thrones in heaven to dead men, promoted by itself to nominal _ wiers weekly absolution for all crimes— which apportions the judgments of the eternal tribunal in a purgatory, and releases the supposed criminal on pay ment of money for masses=and which offers the most solemn adoration to a composition of flour and water, manufactured by a baker, distributed by the hands of a priest, and which it actually declares to be the Eternal God, whom " the heaven and the heaven of heavens can not contain." These are doctrines utterly abhorent to saintship—w .otestants uestiona- propagation of a belief in which they pronounce desperate defiances of the truth, startled many wise and religious men with fear of the consequences. We leave the con nection of this most unhappy act, with the subsequent events to the various contemplation of our countrymen. The subject is too solemn for the mingling of human con jectures with its awful reality. But, whether in of retribution or warning, the singular force of the blOw Len on -the Irish criminal and the :—may well humble us before ttor of the crime the Power which holds the prosperity of nations in its hand. Yet even now, while the two countries are still lying struck down by the same irresistible flash, and while the cloud which discharged it is still overhanging the horizon—while the only voice which ought to issue from the national lips would be the supplication for help and the hope of forgiveness, they are meditating an act more hazardous and daring than ever. We disclaim all exclusiveness in the exercise of the common rights of as a folly. and abhor all - co. on.rt rsllvt swst .11 hicrntrir persecution as a crime ; but we cannot venture an acqui escence in an attempt which we consider as an abandon ment of the first dictates of Christianity ; we cannot be silent when the intention is avowed to bring into a Christian legislature a sect which pronounces Christianity to be utterly a falsehood, its founder to be an impos tor, (we shudder at the words,) and our whole hope of immortality, dependent on his sacrifice and merits, to be wicked and blasphemous delusion. And this attempt from no additional discovery of the truth of Judaism or the failings of Christianity, but, ,igsirmt.pslyhftrpd ns om se as:nse . 8 _ of - slitical r- po.— convenience, (a most sh, ate(' sense, as we conceive ;) a feeling of liberalism, (a most childish and uncalled for feeling, as we are perfectly convinced ;) and political system or government of nations - , religion has no business whatever to interfere, to be regarded, or to be protected in any shape whatever, (an assumption which we believe to be contrary to all the experience of man kind.) Our remarks, of course, are not made with refer ence to the individual, of whom we know nothing but the name ; we speak only of the principle. •• LEIGH HUNT'S LOVE OF A HARD BED.—It is a good s • thing that custom is half the secret of content. The reason why we like a hard bed is, that we were brought up at a public school, without any luxuries • and, to this day, we like just such a sort of bed as we had there. We could find a satisfaction in having the identical kind of rug over our sheets ; and sheets, too, of no greater fineness. And the same reason makes us prefer the course towel to the finer one, and the gown, of some sort, to a coat, with a pocket in the same place as the one in which we used to put our marbles and tops, and our pocket editions of Gray and Collins. We have since slept in all sorts of houses— in rich houses and in poor, in cottages, in taverns ana inns, and public-houses, in palaces (what at least the Ita lians call such), and on board ship ; yea, in bivouacs, just enough to taste the extremest hardness of the bed mili tary ; and for the only contrivance utterly to vitiate our night's rest, commend us to the bed of down. That and the wooden bed of the guard-house disputed the palm. Habit does the same with kings and popes. Frederick the Second preferred lying in a little tent bed, such as Vol taire found him in at their first interview, shivering with an ague ; and we learn from Horace Walpole's letters that Pone Benedict the Fourteenth lay upon one no better (the palliasse, most probably, of his convent), by the side of the gorgeous canopy prepared for his rank.—Men, Women, and Books. A RUSSIAN BREAKFAST TABLE ON EASTER-DAY. — In the centre of the table stood a sucking pig, flanked with small hams, German sausages, chitterlings, black puddings, and large dishes of game. A magnificent pie, containing at least a dozen hares, towered like a fortress at one end of the table. The sondag and the sterlet, those choice fish of Southern Russia, garnished with aromatic herbs, betokened the vicinity of the sea. Imagine, in addition to all these things, all sorts of cor dial waters, glass vases filled with preserves, and a multi tude of sponge cake castles, with their platforms, frosted and heaped with bon-bons, and the reader will have an idea of the profuse good cheer displayed by the Russian lords on such occasions. On leaving the breakfast-table, we proceeded to the place where the sports were held ; but there I saw nothing of that hearty merriment that accompanies a popular holiday. The women, in their best attire, clung to the swings, I will not say gracefully, but very boldly, and in a manner to shame the men, who found less pleasure in looking at them than in gorging with brandy in their smoky kabaks. Others danced to the sound of the organ with cavaliers _whose zig-zag movements told of plenteous libations. We noticed on this occasion an essential characteristic of the Russian people. In this scene of universaldrunkenness there was no quarrelling; not a blow was s dr truck. Nothing can arouse the Russians from their apathy ; nothing can quicken the dull current of their blood ; they are slaves even in drink. Such are the Easter festivities. As the reader will perceive they consist on the whole of eating and drinkin g i nor di na t e ly. The whole week is spent in this way, and during all that time the authority of the master is almost in abeyance ; the coachman deserts the stables, the cook the kitchen, the housekeeper the store room all are drunk, all are merry-making, all are intent on enjoying a season of liberty so long anticipated with Impatience.—De Halls' Travels in Russia. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. c t~ i_7.4:i..l`,TAlVMES , M!Zinvrga«ttl STATISTICS OF THE DISTRICT OF VAUXHALL. The district of Vauxhall recently separated by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to form a new parish in this town, is in some respects the most remarkable in the diocese. In size it is above the average of the divisions of the parish by about one-fifth, and while the population of the districts in the parish averages about 7000, and those of the borough about-5000, the population of this district is 13,000. On the simplest grounds of comparison, therefore, it presents unusual difficulties; and the series of facts brought to light in the annexed table will astonish our readers. The design is that of the Rev. A. Hume, L.L.D , the minister of the district, who has examined in person all the streets and courts marked with an asterisk, the others were in general examined by some of the young men at Birkenhead College, except those marked thus f, for which they are jointly responsible. We have never seen such a statement before ; but it is not likely that many will be at the pains to enter upon such a minute investigation, though it places the clergyman in such an advantageous position in respect to the knowledge of his people. It appears by the table that the district embraces 27 streets, and 226 courts connected with these ; and when it is stated that most of the streets are private, i. e., leading only to the houses that are in them, the nature of the inhabitants will be better understood. No fewer than 152 cellars are inhabited, and in 515 instances morn than one family occupy each house. There are more than 2300 families belonging to the labouring class, and of these 1383, containing probably 6223 individuals, are supported by casual and ill-paid labour. There are 76 public-houses, and 51 beer-shops in the district, too many of them spreading immorality in every direction around them. One of the most start ling facts in the whole, however, is that there is the awful number of 9099 who attend neither church nor chapel, who use the name of God in blasphemy and impiety, but who know neither prayer, nor preaching, nor Sabbath bell. Of these 4635 still claim a connexion with the Church, but unless something be done and that speedily, these will all be sunk in irrecoverable infidelity. Among the members of the church alone, there are 258 bibles wanting, and 325 books of common prayer ; in a large number of cases there is neither of them in the same family. Of the adult population, 932 parents are unable to read ; and of the juvenile population, there are more than 2000 children of suitable age to attend school, who attend nn school ! There are 226 cases of sickness in the district, of which 77 are fever cases ' • and, at the present moment, notwithstanding the numerous removals , to the country, for want of employment, there are still 13,028 of a population !! For these.the Queen has appointed a minister, and the law has pro vided a stipend, but there is no church or licensed ehapelry in all the district, and the only dissenting chapel has Wesh services. There is, probably, not in all England such a lamentable case of destitution. One is ready to ask what can a single clergyman do among so many ? Our own decided impression is, that the ecclesiastical commissioners did not know what a multitude they were handing over to the charge of one man. or they would surely have divided it into two. There should be at least three clergymen for all this extent of population, two of whom could probably find a suitable residence in the district. Where is the Pastoral Aid Society, or others for similar purposes ? Surely, they would help to wipe away such a disgrace from our town. We have heard that the incumbent proposes to erect a temporary church, capable of containing 600, as soon as he can get a site for it. We do e, but this really looks like bringing a pail of water to quench a burning house. A church for 600 people, when there are are to be assisted and instructed. In our opinion there should be church accommodation for 1800 or 2000, and a vigorous There is not a school in the district except that connected with St. Mary's Roman Catholic chapel, yet there are 2000 waiting recently, there is still money enough for all these purposes, and spirit to give it. The people of Liverpool, and the public ;s exists ; and, when they know it, we have no doubt that the sympathies of other districts, as well as of this, will be awakened. ict, on whom the missionary and monetary labours will mainly fall, is not dismayed by the task before him. He has met with enters, as well as of Churchmen, who are extremely anxious to have a church and schools beside them, before it be too late for it spoken too, they afforded every facility for the enquiry which has just been completed ; and, in the most immoral localities adness, or injury of any sort. not wish to disparage any efforts that may be mad, 9000 to be civilized and christianised, and 4000 me effort made to implant good habits in the people. to be educated. Much as the town has suffered generally, do not suspect that such a state of thing We are glad to find that the minister of the distri large numbers both of Roman Catholics and Dissr themselves and their families. To their credit be there was not the slightest attempt at insult, unkir DWELL ING. RELIGIC Boom SUPPORT. IRALSI Labourer 0 ers 0 *Carruthers-st 1 10 *5 courts l4 7 1 9 6 8 14 63 67 22145 35 ;128 26 28 13 Al Chartres-street *l4 courts ... 'Chisenhale-st.. *36 courts ... 33 137 91 161 210 407 84 430 188 771 160 116 118 14 97 72 25 39 28 9 93 208 146 110 109 40 9 1.. 20 130 2 28 6.. 44 609 5 14 .. go '443 16 30 .. 180.926 27 16 6'.. 40 ,285 1 13 120 8 • • 76 101 20 .. 37 47 .. 31 6 4 9.. 20 1294 *Clement-street *9 courts Cockspur-street 3 courts .... Dickson-street *Eaton-street *ll courts .. *Eccles-street 29 5 6 2 .1 . 9 I .7. 10 253 30 138 5 4 2.. 4 114 24 2 .. 44 374 63 2 10.. 60 550 66 31 8.. 314 371 23 5 .. .. 68 68 4 7 .. 47 68 34 14 55 12 2 176 280 30 .. .. 4 138 287 . . 14 14 30 22 5 .. .. 62 81 9 .. .. 34 47 28 7 .. 166 96 5 .. 7 47 1140 15 11 7 3 60 305 24 .. .. 79 169 57 .. 11 12 224 170 34 24 .. 10 111 147 I 2 .. .. 44 16 19 24 60 284 ADULT UCATION ~f~~ *7 courts 3 1 9 19 46 25 31 45 85 8 15 8 11 2 6 1 1 JUVENILE EDUCATION 18 24 41 105 45 76 50 274 42 48 10 26 *Gascoyne-street. 68 *l6 courts .. ,135 Highfield-street 'llO 6 courts Key-street 2l 2 courts tLeeds-street tl3 courts . M`Viccar-street 2 courts Milk-street 3 courts Northampton-st.. 33 10 courts 39 Pall-Mall 14 courts... . tPlumbe-street 112 courts Pownall-square ll 3 courts Prussia-street 6 courts *Pump-fields 5 Ray-street 42 13 courts Smithfield-street. 66 12 courts 5l Tithebarn-street . 28 2 courts Upper Milk-street 39 8 courts tVeuxhall-road 54 3 courts Westmorland-st 5O 11 courts 6O *Wigan-street *2 courts 6 Worfield-street 3 courts IHealt, il 8 I 60 12 I 26 COUNTP 6 4 23 33 22 9 12 4 10 13 74 14 52 20 35 17 9 46 74 79 108 21 38 18 26 6 4 55 14 12 26 9 19 120 24 30 187 8 11 137 1 4 29 1 6 40 0 5 19 10 14 101 14 19 95 38 57 1 3 1 2 1 .. 15 2 13 1 3 51 16 35 _ 1 2 33 5 28 2 5 6 39 19 20 3 5 7 47 25 22 2 6 16 85 41 44 2 4 15 61 35 26 .. 1 1 77 22 55 2 7 8 72 25 47 2 1 11 6 5 .. 1 2 25 4 21 .. 1. 5 58 24 34 1 1 1 35 14 21 .. .. 2 19 6 13 .. 5 10 57 18 39 5 7 10 115 25 90 9 10 16 120 37 83 6 11 15 38 16 22 .. 1 28 14 14 .. 1 3 33 13 20 .. 4 7 47 19 28 _ 5 8 30 11 19 3 1 4 48 34 14 1 3 5 11 3 8 , 18 23 78 16 62 11 17 22 62 19 43 12 2 3 11 4 7 .. 1 4 16 8 8 1 7 9 30 21 9 .. 2 4 10 8 2 .. 27 streets 226 courts, 152 cellars, 20 12 3 30 7 2 2 2 . . 19 3 4 2 . 9 4 2 16 4.3 30 21 16 31 1 5 11 10 22 10 27 22 52 36 . 8 9 I II 1 26 i 81 1 22 30 12 30 6' 5 11 24 71 24 38 1 7 48 11 .. .. 4 2 1 .. 4 .. 1 .. 1 .. 2379 2894 940'1383 571 76' 1 1 1 2894 iiises Erntral 26 244 148 419 116 [ 336 244 51 57 30 74 11 37 301 86 310 81 I A 8 30 38 100 13 59 77 49 116 59 215 114 148 76 198 116 164 26 17 41 4 90 112 84 145 20 23 16 184 65 268 125 98 262 60 130 78 35 27 48 77 169 95 86 132 80 21 48 189 203 1131 90 8 24 1 29 13 187 97 123 124 17 2 1 1 12 1 1 ;5115949'5546 10591 1 .. .. 53(42 6 2 149 104 6 19 2 95 134 32 16 7 4 1g 1▪ 7 .. 5 216 ,325 181 204 .. 3 106 106 .. 3 25 105 .. 34 41 .. 119 180 3 .. .. 95 103 30 .. .. 126 123 28 41 .. 15 171 249 6 .. 8 83 171 19 .. .. 14 37 2 .. 65 ,102 .. 24 133 THE TYNE.—The river is crammed with shipping ; the oldest inhabitant" new saw so many. Patrick Reid, the Mirfield murderer, will suffer the ex treme penalty of the law on Saturday, at York. On Sunday a beggar died from starvation on the Leeds and Tadcaster road. - RETURN OF ESPARTERO TO SPAIN.—The Duke de la Victoria, with his family, left London on Thursday, on his return to Spain. A prize of one hundred guineas has been offered for the best essay " On the use of Alcoholic Liquors in Health and Disease." According to the latest returns of the average price of Wheat, it appears that on Dec. 24, wheat was eleven shil lings and eight pence a quarter lower than at the corre sponding period last year. The Emperor of Russia has presented through Baron Brunow, the Russian Ambassador, a very superb diamond ring to Mr. Nasmyth, of Patricroft, the inventor of the steam hammer and pile-driving machine. ___ vV A PITHY REPLY.—Lord John Russell's reply to the Dean of Hereford's letter is as follows :—" Sir, I have had the honor to receive your letter of the 22nd inst., in which you intimate to me your intention of violating the law." It is calculated that nearly three tons weight of Leices tershire pork pies are made weekly in Melton Mowbray, and forwarded to London, Liverpool, Manchester, Shef field, and other large towns. The Art Union Journal states that legal proceedings have been instituted to arrest the progress of art-lotte ries ; writs having been issued for penalties in the form of actions for debt and costs. An Edinburgh paper states that a woman lately stole a can of milk, and pawned it for threepence, telling the pawnbroker that as she wanted threepence, she would leave the milk in pledge until the cream rose upon it. Such was the effect produced by Christmas puddings on the price of suet, in London, that it was sold last week at rntes varying from is. to is 3d. per pound, while it can now be purchased at 7d. per pound. A CONTRAST. - The imports of this country in 1803 were in amount, calculated at the official rates of valua tion, £26,622,696, and the exports £28,541,405. In 1845 the imports were £85,281,958, and the exports £150,877,902. 313 1 83 1 78 ' 3929 9090 5 19 25 39 35 13 33 6 4 1 69 20 110 36 16 3 125 33 188 49 54 18 33 17 72 16 15 6 57 18 60 22 76 28 14 6 141 46 112 34 6 3 7 14 1 9 THE MIRFIELD MURDER.—A reprieve has been sent for Michael M`Cabe, who was convicted with Patrick Reid, at the late assizes held at York, of the murder of Caroline Ellis, at Mirfield. The law is left to take its course on the convict Reid. Lord George Bentinck has declined to become a vice president of an association for altering the right of repre sentation, as he considers " the Reform Bill to have been a measure calculated to fulfil all the rational wants of the country for at least half a century from its enactment." A WHOLESALE BIGAMIST. — It is stated, as a fact, that an excavator, either at present or recently, working in the neighbourhood of Sheffield, has thirteen wives living in various parts of the country ! None of them look after him, probably because he is not worth following. The tradesmen of London complain strongly and very generally that persons who are in no way affected by the present monetary crisis, most inconsiderately withhold the payment of their accounts, to the injury and ruin of many persons. The two children of a man named Blake, residing in Golden-lane, London, have been strangled by a woman with whom their father cohabited. The murder was com mitted deliberately, in revenge for Blake having abused her and cohabited with another woman. At the anniversary dinner of the Master Ironfounders' Association, in Glasgow, on Wednesday last, Mr. J. B. Neilson stated that since the introduction of his hot-blast process, the quantity of iron yearly made in Scotland had ,sed from 48,000 tons, which it was in 1828, to nearly ) tons. 29 7 I 3 68 21 4 1344 258 13028 m,...,.... The Queen Dowager is not forgetful of home duties though so far away. On Christmas-day, nearly a thou sand families at Hampton were regaled with beef and bread by her Majesty's munificence. The royal bounty, in this and various articles of warm winter clothing, was distributed by the vicar of the parish. Mr. Elihu Burritt delivered a lecture in the Town-hall, Newport, Monmouthshire, on Wednesday last, upon the philosophy of tabour: It was .tatcd that- +l.l 41mo last lecture of the sort he would deliver in England. We should have thought, indeed, that there is too much plain matter of fact about work to render it susceptible of phi losophical disquisition. ELECTIONS FOR MARRIAGE PORTIONS. — On Monday, three young women, educated in the schools founded by Mr. Rainey, the celebrated brewer, in St. George's-in the-East, London, were elected to the marriage portions of £lOO each for good and virtuous conduct since leaving the establishment. These marriage portions are annu ally given by order of the benevolent founder of these schools. . . SEASONABLE BENEVOLENCE.—On Christmas eve, the Duke of Marlborough distributed among the poor of the parishes surrounding his princely domain, Blenheim Pa lace, his annual gift of venison ; 125 prime fat does were killed and given away among about 600 families, who each received, on an average, from ten to twelve pounds of prime meat. A CONFUSION OF HATS AND PRONOUNS.—A corres pondent of the Su f folk Chronicle says that on the break ing-up of a tithe-feast at Halesworth, there was a confu sion of hats. Next day the following note was received : —" Mr. T's compliments to Mr. W., and I have got a hat which is not his—if he he have got a hat which is not your's, no doubt they are the expected ones." On Monday, whilst a letter carrier in London was de livering letters, at half-past eight in the evening, he was attacked, whilst in Bridge-street, Blackfriars, (one of the most public streets) by three women, who threw a sack over over him and robbed him of 21s. in silver and es caped. The money was the harvest of the man's Christ mas boxes. A LUCKY DISCOVERY.—Among the collection of paint ings, the property of Mr. John Wilson, of Stratford, Essex, he has discovered " A Sleeping Venus," executed by the celebrated Titian. The fortunate owner has sold it within the last two or three days for five hundred guineas. CURIOUS ERRATUM.—A vendor of quack medicines, who makes a fortune by spending a fortune in advertising, was surprised to find at the top of his advertisement the words " The greatest curse of any medicine in the world." The compositor had only set up curse instead of " cures," but it made all the difference. THE SWEETS OF OFFICE.—The chairman of a railway board of directors received, during the past week, by way of presents, among other items, 140 turkeys, 50 geese, and 56 hares. We understand most of the parcels were re-directed, and sent among his friends, and, strange to say, in nine instances out of ten the presents were unin tentionally returned.—Essex Standard. A few days since, while a sawyer at Carmarthen was sawing an elm tree, he discovered in its centre a bird's nest, containing the remains of a bird and three eggs, the shells of which were rather bruised, but otherwise per fectly sound. The nest must have remained there for some years, as but scanty remains of the feathers and bones of the bird were found. Loss OF LIFE IN THE NORTH. — The John o' Groat Journal contains a melancholy catalogue of the loss of life on the northern coasts during the last month, the total number being 36 ; namely, in the county of Caith ness, 14 ; in Orkney, 14 ; and in Zetland, 8. Of these, 28 were drowned in consequence of the wreck of the boats in which they were either hands or passengers. THIRTY-FIVE SHEEP DESTROYED.—The Rev. A. Packe (brother of Mr. C. W. Packe, M.P.), of Walton on-the-Wolds, Leicestershire, has just had a serious loss by the destruction of thirty-five sheep. On Wednesday a shepherd went into the meadow, where 40 sheep had been left the previous evening, when he found eight of the flock drowned in a brook, and twenty-seven so severely worried as to render it necessary to kill them on the spot. It is conjectured that while the sad havoc was being made amongst the sheep the eight ran precipitately into the water and thus lost their lives. Mary Anne Hunt, who was sentenced to death for the murder of a woman named Stowell, and who was declared by a jury of matrons not to be enceinte, was on Tuesday morning delivered of a fine male seven months' child. The mother and infant are both doing well. It will be recollected that her sentence was some time since com muted to transportation for life. LORD WILLIAM PAGET OUTLAWED.—The list of per sons lately outlawed contains the name of Lord William Paget, a captain in the royal navy, for whose apprehension on a charge of ataining money under false pretences a reward is offered. A letter from the admiralty has been addressed to Lord William, requiring a satisfactory ex planation of the charges preferred, otherwise his name will not be suffered to remain on the navy list. The lord mayor of London has published several letters, showing that some of the parties who are offering to sup ply The Times, Herald, kc., at low prices, are swindlers. They receive the money, supply one or two of the papers ordered, and never supply another. It also appears that fellows in London are raising money by pretending that they are going to bring out a periodical, which periodical is never destined to see an existence. 1 33 33 2 41 109 13 192 434 WHOLESALE DESERTION OF WIVES AND FAMILIES. —On Friday the parochial authorities of Saint Luke's, Chelsea, and Saint Leonard's, Shoreditch, issued de scriptions and rewards for the apprehension of 54 men, charged with deserting their wives and families, leaving no fewer than 217 individuals a burthen to those parishes. The men are described as good mechanics, and able to earn from 255. to 30s. per week. WELL OF Mns. SAREL. — The Crown will receive be tween £70.000 and £BO,OOO from the estate of this widow lady, Mrs. Louisa Sarel, late of Grove House, Enfield Highway, Middlesex, and of Henger House, in Cornwall, who died on the 7th September last, having made her will in the month of June preceding, but without dis posing of her personal estate, and there being no rela tives to claim the same. The Flax-growing Society of Scotland bas now been formed in Aberdeen. The prospects of the society may be estimated from the consideration that, of the 17,000 tons of flax annually imported into the country, 4,500 tons are landed at Aberdeen, the value being £lBO,OOO. The freightage of flax along the east coast of Scotland amounts to £120,000, which would give the home-grown an advan- tage to £2 an acre. SINGULAR DEATH OF HUSBAND AND WIFE IN ONE DAY.—On the 13th instant, at Rudston Walk, near Newbald, Mr. Daniel Foster, farmer, aged 77, and Fran ces, his wife, aged 70, both expired within a very short time of each other. The latter died about eight o'clock in the morning, and her husband, on sending for the un dertaker, observed, " You may as well take measure for me at the same time." He died about one o'clock in the afternoon. .• An unprecedented surgical operation was successfully performed in London on Monday, by Mr. Waklev, jun. on a man who had inhaled chloroform. The operation consisted in dissecting out the two chief bones of the leg which formed the inner and outer ankles. The bones were dissected out in less than six minutes , and the re maining portion of the foot having been adjusted in its new position by a bandage, the patient declared that he had not felt the slightest pain. IRISH CRIME.--A barrister on the Northern Circuit says, in a letter to the Times, that it has been proved from facts furnished by the Governor of York Castle, that about 25 per cent. of all the crime committed in York shire, and tried at the last winter assizes, was committed by Irishmen. About 66 per cent. of the crimes of vio lence in Yorkshire tried at the York last assizes were committed. by Irishmen. Of these crimes of violence eight resulted in death—in murder or manslaughter; and of these eight crimes, six were committed by Irishmen ; or 75 per cent. of the murders and manslaughters in Yorkshire tried last assizes were committed by Irishmen. He adds, that be has been informed by barristers attend ing at the late Liverpool assizes, that the proportion of Irish crime in Lancashire is much greater, nearly one half of the whole offences being committed by Irishmen. 1136 2092, I 3228 I 8 55 473 11 167 796 4 152 157 .. 90 12 .. 112 65 49 30 2 27 10 8 109 190 .. 136 123 2 94 50 2 61 47 .. 292 92 3 498 80 .. 389 244 .. 55 65 9 39 345 74 352 56 7 34 47 96 26 55 88 48 119 65 214 118 113 75 259 98 142 77 5 12 28 6 30 26 4 .. 95 .. 179 41 . 33 179 15 6 29 20 19 .. .. 260 47 .. 19 341 109 23 68 .98 281 .. 6 74 132 .. 6 118 11 .. .. 16 59 .. .. 124 168 .. 7 87 100 3 8 148 77 13 11 30 39 .. .. 174 236 .. 10 123 110 6 15 8 34 9 .. 30 12 .. .. 101 46 2 18 28 14 .. 15 Popu- 7716578:5550 Jan. 4, 1848, STAMPS ON BILLS OF EXCHANGE.—A return of the amount of duties received in the several years between 1810 and 1846 both inclusive, for stamps on bills of ex change,lhfBx(liofvBes ru6l.i3odr6n24mog: t at , ,I:lshBx3e4snlls7iBstt . 0, 5, w 81156588841 5 : 3949d54.: 9d., and inclusive). d 3 6s i d . n . 1 the duties e4566d1, 4unlt4ts;4eh73sei ,9 1 a8 a s4m s . 2 : 0 or promissory -notes, and bank-notes, shews that the largest amount of duty was paid in the year 1818, when it amounted to £845,749 155., and the smallest in s u i n x te y d ea to rs 45 109 7 ,11 9 . the platform, where, ineawcyataiwsvfeeoi At the inquest on the accident on the York and North Midland, of the 4th ult., the foreman of the jury declared a verdict finding all the directors of the company guilty of manslaughter ! The jury had framed their verdict in culpating the directors as guilty of negligence ; and, though impressed by the coroner as to the informality of the finding, the foreman persisted in the verdict he had de livered in. Ultimately the inquisitions were filled up " accidental death," and were signed by the whole of the jury except the foreman. A painful instance of the uncertainty of lifehas occurred at the railway station in Bath. The Rev. John Hampden, rector of Hinton Martel, Dorsetshire, who had been visit ing Mr. Caddell, of the Crescent, arrived at the station about eleven o'clock, a.m., on Wednesday, accompanied by his lady and Mrs. Caddell, intending to proceed to Clifton by the train which leaves Bath at that hour. lt.wee i rndaTua. Waterloo-road, orsuTl,satoehthonefet_oaihw.wmoe parentsaai tpdl s hie,aer i s rL e os i wao z dmi e voto d eht i enfrfed:sovereign with hg resr.:e, Having secured his tickets, Mr. Hampden proceeded to a fit terminating fatally after a very short interval. ur sui has t , gained ha s i in A LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS.—Mr. J. Dearden, of Pres ton, whose assiduity in collecting remarkable documents if i phe n s ouoi rs w st ytehp e enoio l mint : saks k etear n eas o tislonai wtofrhntnghtee, baet a nii nrl time emeasureetielsiwhosewprtaddressed o f perseve ring success to Aiinr . inquirythat iluov son—a draper wnr positionslddmi the locality of York will at once recognise the mercer and his good lady's commands. The following are the terms of the communication : " Mrs. Preston will be obliged to Mr. Hudson to send her per post 2 skeins of purse twist, exactly the colour and size as the pattern green which was got at his shop the other day. They had better be enclosed as in a letter.—Moreby Hall, Thursday night. " Messrs. Nicholson and Hudson, College-street." PLAIN ENOUGH, ONE WOULD HAVE THOUGHT.—May wood, one of the sanitary reporters on the state of Sheffield, narrates a conversation which may give some idea of the carelessness respecting noxious effluvia shown-by many of the humbler classes. " Do you not perceive an unpleasant smell from that place behind your house?"—" No, nowt as I know on. ' What I does not that wet which runs down your wall smell bad sometimes !"—Sometimes I It does a bit of a mornin', but nowt to mean aught." "Have you lived here long ,"—" About sixteen years." "Pretty good health since you came ?"—" Pretty middling,. consi dering." " What family have you had ?"—" Wye had fourteen childer." " Have they had pretty good health as well as yourself?"—" Nay, o've buried 'em all but " ebth W hoaFerd e ney r ad e otiiuhne t ned h rsp e Dfr y :Totr a mbao l y l vnsec b hrn o imro r ,e n —d i it n ehdr t eh h ee is roe h .f, o ,t u h s e e s ? e "— a ;N still o„ three." wereh but I it' rumoured, e the ed the bbody disease um iihnr Margaret yga de. Al Garet', agedfrom p A Bt y tahno a rfd inquest,iwh Po malignantrPrinces street, it was shouldhe onuatsDEATHs wereayy FROM vthoioaft vtseC she poor h o ae terminated n. , a died . circumstances,— fatally.r f. O r op CHOLERA.—On Pope, e , Thursday cholera surgeon,years, e a n e a inquest ofappeared was seldom tasted animal food. On the deceased being at tackedstreet, attended her, and administered the usual remedies, Pope stated, that, from the symptoms of the child, he form. The Coroner.—Do you mean, when you say ' cholera of a malignant form, the Asiatic cholera. ? Wit ness.—Decidedly not, but a malignant form of English cholera, a disease not at all infectious. The Jury re turned a verdict that "The deceased had died from En glish cholera." Mr. Hyde Clarke suggests the application of the electric telegraph to musical purposes. He remarks that if a suf ficient number of wires were used, a set of chimes might be as easily rung as two bells—indeed, that the chimes in York Minster, if there are any, might be rung from Lon don as well as York. Where bells are placed in a high tower, as some carillons or • chimes in Flanders are, he suggests that they might by telegraph be played with much more convenience from the bottom of the tower than at the top. By a proper application of wires, two organs or two apollonicans, he observes, might be played at any distance apart, by one performer, thus realizing by electric telegraph what Professor Wheatstone is said to contemplate by acoustic telegraph,—conveying musical sounds and compositions. We may yet, he thinks, have electrical organs in our chu rc hes as well as ele ctrical clocks in our houses, and worked almost as cheaply. PEDESTRIANISM.—FOUR-MILE RACE FOR TWENTY FIVE SOVS. A-SlDE.—This match for the above-named sum and distance between the celebrated W. Jackson, the American Deer, and J. Hayes, of Halshaw Moor, a youth ful aspirant, was decided on Wednesday at Peckham. The course, measuring 648 yards 2 feet in circumference, re quired eleven circuits, minus 80 yards, to make the sti pulated measure of four miles. For the first two rounds ARTIFICIAL HATCHING OF CHICKENS. — An invention Jackson led ;in the third and fourth the men,who seemed, for hatching chickens by artificial heat is exhibited at the especially the Deer, straining every muscle, passed and Cosmorama rooms in Regent-street, London. The hatch- re-passed each other repeatedly. At this point, having ing is performed by top contact heat, radiated through a gone rather more than a third of the distance, Hayes, sheet of vulcanized caoutchouc, over which flows a stream whose stride was truly wonderful, fairly ran away from his of water of 100 degrees of heat. The rearing of the rival. He continued to increase the interval between chickens is performed by pipes ; the chickens nestle under them, and finally ran by the goal 200 yards, honest mea and between the pipes. There is a continual circulation sure, the phenomenon. Some persons calling to ~f rho owk.saaupho.... of *ha- ....... orlauml-4.1.... -a, ___ 13.1a1a that- ha Karl smother eirenit to finish- th. littla.fallow--- FOOT RACE FOR £lOO A-SIDE.—On Tuesday last, the' ran on, but his time at completing the eleventh turn to much-talked-of foot race, for £lOO a-side, distance one the winning-post was 21 minutes 8 seconds. mile, between James Sherdon, of Sheffield, and John FUTURE ELECTIONS OF POOR-LAW GUARDIANS.—The Tetlow, of Hollingwood, near Manchester, came off on new Commissioners have issued several fresh instructions the Race-ground, Doncaster. After three false starts to the various parishes and unions. Among these the they both went off at a rattling pace, Sherdon taking a election of guardians is in future to take place between slight lead, which he gradually increased with the great- the 15th and 26th of March, and the polling papers are to est ease, and came in a gallant winner by more than 20 commence being cast up on the 9th of April and succeed yards. The race was run in 4 minutes 25 seconds. ing days, while the first meeting is not to take place until FATAL FIGHT.—On Sunday week, a quarryman named after the 15th of April. In all cases where the per-- Watson, and some others, collected on Lindrick Com- manent pauper obtains medical relief, the guardians mon, Nottinghamshire. They were afterwards joined by shall once at least in every year cause to be prepared' a " navvy" named Thomas Kay, whose dog was set to by the clerk or relieving officer a list of all such aged and fight with Watson's. A dispute arose on the matter, and infirm persons permanently sick or disabled as may. be Watson and Kay proceeded to strip, and carried on a actually receiving relief, and such list to be furnished from , combat even after it had become dark. Kay had the time to time to each district medical officer. The clerk 1 worst of it, and died next morning. At the inquest a is twice a year—namely, four weeks at least before the verdict of manslaughter was returned against Watson, 25th of March and on the 29th of September respectively who has absconded.. . in each year, to ascertain the cost of the relief of the poor: TRIUMPH OF ART.—On Wednesday the brig Viscount for the purpose of laying before the overseers the amount Canning, of 180 tons, new measurement, which was of money that will be required for the relief and mainte• wrecked and driven on the top of Dymchurch wall, about nance of the poor.—New regulations as to the admission three weeks ago, while on her voyage from London to the of paupers into the workhouse, hours of work, &c., &c., coast of Africa, was at length got off from her position on have been made. the wall, though her removal was thought a task which FATAL ACCIDENT FROM NAPTHA.—A correspondent was beyond the power of human art to accomplish. of the John o' Groat Journal, writing from Stromness, Through extraordinary skill the vessel was launched again gives an account of a singular and fatal accident. It ap on Wednesday.—Dover Chronicle. pears that some individuals of the town had commenced THE LATE HORRIBLE CASE OF HOMICIDE IN GGLASGOW.ntheess; burningand a f o jar of that napth dangerous aintheishop mo shops and wasof i h ate us i i i , —Our readers will probably recollect that, in Septemberlast, a woman was discovered in a closet of a house in brought from Leith. On the evening of the 11th ult.: Glasgow, where she had been immured for many months the persons concerned met, for the purpose of having the by her husband, George Fay, a shoemaker. The unhappy said article divided ; and, as it was in the dusk of the creature was in a horrible state of dirt and disease, and evening, they thoughtlessly availedthemselves of alighted died soon after in the hospital. At the Glasgow assizes, candle, which unfortunately coming in contact with the on Monday, Fay was indicted for culpable homicide, was gas issuing from the liquid, the contents of the jar in found guilty, and sentenced to transportation for life. The stantly exploded. The persons, three in number, w e r e in only defence made by this detestable being was that his a moment enveloped in flames , from head to foot, and wife was not in her right mind; that she was a drinker, were seen hurrying hither and thither distractedly. The and that her habits were dirty. neighbours were of course not backward in affording their CHRISTMAS BOXES.—The tradesmen of Pembroke aid.; but, from the inflammable nature of the substance: Dock having determined to abolish the custom of g i v ing the flames could not be extinguished, till nearly every rag Christmas boxes to their customers, and having had a of clothing on the bodies of the sufferers was consumed, meeting and issued an address to that effect, a very amu- and their bodies burned in a frightful manner. Mrs , sing degree of excitement was created. Placards were Dunnet, wife of Mr. • Dunnet, merchant, after enduring posted up of "No Monopoly !" " Down with Combina- the most excruciating sufferings, expired two days after , tion !" &c. ; and by public requisition a meeting was Mr. Dunnet, whilst endeavouring to extinguish the ele held in the Temperance-hall, a spacious building kindly ments, had his hands and face severely burned, and is not lent for the purpose, when certain regulations were yet wholly recovered. Miss Inkster, aunt to Mrs. Dennet, adopted for obtaining groceries and other articles direct also suffered fatally. She was destined to be a long suf from Bristol, Liverpool, and London markets. The local ferer, as it was only on Sabbath last that death came 10 paper states that " orders to the amount of £3O were sent her relief. off this week, and the sum to be transmitted during the Giesy FESTIVAL.—On Tuesday, the annual gathering ensuing will reach nearly .£100." of the reclaimed and wandering members of the Gyps} THE KIRTON MURDER.—The inquest was resumed race , took pla ce at Spring-hill House, South ampton , the yesterday week, when the investigation was brought to a residence o f the Rev. James Crabb. This was th e ni ne ' close, the jury returning a verdict of " Wilful murder " teenth anniversary, and though the proceedings at each against Joseph Travis. The prisoner , it appears, is very successive meeting have varied but little, additional inte' respectably connected. His father is a farmer, but the res t h as been manifested, year by year, in the condition prisoner himself is a joiner and cabinet-maker, and only and welfare of this interesting section of the hums' ) completed his apprenticeship afewmonths ago. Heis about family. The large school-room was filled with a higblY twenty-four years of age. It appears that for some years respectable assembly of ladies and gentlemen, and th° past he has led a most dissipated life, and he has acknow- swarthy visitors occupied one end of the room to the% ledged that he has been addicted to card-playing, and selves. The absence, from severe indisposition of tP, that he has lost considerable sums of money. It now ap- venerable man through whose la bours public ettentiot pears that deceased had gone to Kirton for the purpose was first awakened to this long-neglected class, was,mucP, of purchasing some articles at the market, but had un- regretted by all present , an d b y none more than those'' , fortunately gone to the Red Lion public-house.—Lincoln whom he is so generally and deservedly known as "irli e , Chronicle. Gipsies' Advocate." Amongst those who were preset P A man named John Wall, has died at Backwell, near were several clergymen. The proceedings commenced" Bristol, from the shot of a gun deliberately fired at him usual with singing and prayer, after which the Rev. Y r i i called attention to th e by a youth named Charles Manfield, aged only sixteen. Coney gave a brief address wG t hl o yicn t h he is gi n p o s w ies r , e a a n d d y it appears that Wall whilst sitting in his house was by reading a farewell address to them , from. th e Revq' t ; f e( Or ne tw hid el e: a d r o o w u , s e a d n dby uponthe thesmashing instant he e f h a epaarnde theof e glass liek o in f his the win lock of a gun. On looking up, he was horror-struck to see Cs b c o rah y ob s ob o l. r fo gir rT l hg s ei . Pgß3 ;he cvhi. skieCrvrserrinc'e closed with singing and praye r ; Manfield coolly looking through the window, with the and the assembly, retired to the playground,, whilst prep°, muzzle of a gun inserted in the broken pane. Before he rations were being made in the schoolroom for supplyln° had time to speak, the gun was again cocked and dis- the gipsies with dinner. After being regaled with a p leei charged, the contents lodging in Wall's thigh. Had the tiful supply of roast beef, plum pudding, &c., flannel en gun been discharged, as intended, when first cocked, there clothing were presented to the heads of the families. _.,,, is little doubt that Wall would have been shot through ANECDOTE OF D. C HALMERS. — Stu dious persons et a the heart. Wall, on finding he was shot, cried " You sometimes surprisingly ignorant how to act on ordine',', havn't done for me yet," or some words to that effect, occasions. Dr. Chalmers came home one evening o f and Manfield, who was still standing at the win dow, to horseback, and a s neither the man w ho ha d the charge ~e see the effect of his fire, on hearing him speak , to ok to his horse, nor the key of the stable could be found, '4 his heels. He was, however, captured, and there is little w as for some time puzzled wher e to fi nd a tempo rofl o doubt that he intended to kill the man and then rob his residence for the animal. At last he fixed on the gar de ,i cottage, as he was a notorious thief, though so young. as the fittest place he could think of for the purpose ; p e g EXPENSE OF USING HARD WATER. —Mr. Wrightson , having led t h e hor se thither, he p l aced i t on the gard e, after pointing out the extreme hardness of the water used walk. When his sister, who had also been from, hoio l if in Birmingham, has been showing the good people how returned, and was told that the key of the stable col, much this costs them. He says :—" Taking twelve of not be found, she inquired what had been done with t" i , Professor Clark's degrees of hardness to be the average of horse ? " I took it to the garden , " said the doet° f the entire quantity of water consumed in Birmingham, "To the garden !", she exclaimed, " then all our liole and taking 100,000 gallons as the average daily consump- and vegetable beds will be destroyed." " Don't o f tion in washing the person alone—which must certainly afraid of that," said the doctor, " for I took , partieij be below the mark, not being four pints to each person (I care to place the horse on the garden walk." ' And Al believe the population is over 200,000)—as 100,000 gallons you really imagine," rejoined his sister, " that he wale at sixteen degrees, would require 32,000 gallons, 24,000 remain there ? " " I have no doubt of it," said '0 gallons of soap solution (or its equivalent in soap) would doctor, " for so sagacious an animal as the horse co o , o be required for the same quantity at twelve degrees, in not but be aware of the propriety of refraining frr:' order to remove the lime it contains before the detergent injuring the products of the garden. "I am afraw h e property of the soap can have any effect. Now, this soap said Miss Chalmers , " that y ou will thin k less favour o k? solution contains as near as possible about 1k oz. of soap of the discretion of the horse when you have seen 'a in each gallon, therefore 24,000 gallons=27,ooo oz., or garden." To decide the controversy by an appeal 4 t, 1 ,6871b5. This for one d a y's waste, is 615,755 lbs. for the facts, they went to the garden, and found, from ' O l year, which, at 4d. per pound, is £10,262 ; no trifling sum ruthless devastation which the trampling and rolling he to be wasted among the inhabitants of a town in washing the animal had spread over every part of it, that '.,11 the person alone. The further waste in washing linen, natural philosophy of the horse was a subject with w h is t &c., must of course he proportionately great, to say the lady was far more accurately acquainted than bill nothing of the extra wear and tear, for it is well known learned brother. " I never could have imagined," 1,/ how destructive hard water is to linen, notwitlisteuding , the doctor, " that horses were such senseless animals the copious use of soap and soda, 1 llogg's Weekly Instructor. LATION 166-120 150 1653-803 'lOO6-153E 325 1133-458 1177 184- 261 263-577 168 118-286 418 610-1028 685 136-821 115 48-163 456 425-881 14 52-66 143 81-224 162 187-349 365 248-613 394 258-652 60 95-155 253 229-482 326 541-867 385 212-597 129 75-204 299 198-497 249 69-318 420 1254-674 42-93 167 1 7-224 F:. B : Et Pl] .violf fron Cc R( T 5 At Ci: Pool got Kin ; to en 130 Gran Na - was 1 Islan Lhrer and NI verp o Navin ton, N done( Hade dama llosto —Zan — Pet, and N Nant( SA I Foote,Oahu G. A, CAR Pyerr 's expi fro m Ets eery