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*dui by Auction. SALE OF A FEW IN EVERTON CHURCH. By Messrs. T. and J. TROTTER; 84 order of the Trustees,—On FRIDAY nr,t, / the 30th instant, at Six o'clock i n th e e vening, at the 6use of Mr. Stretch, A ?EW in the n'ue Liver Tavern in Kirkdale, GALLERY of EVERTON CHURCH. lii, s _ Further articulars may be known on application to I, 6 ::::_TROTT'E p R, Whitechapel. Mantel. • WANTED, to Rent, a commodious FA. Y . HOUSE, stir I not exceeding MO per annum, within three or miles of the Liverpool Exchange • t e entered upon next q! l i t h• The neighbourhood -Address; Derby, Wavertree, or wi th i ttvail would be preferred. Box VV, 44, Post-office, %.„....lescription, particulars of Rent, &c. HOUSE Olt COTrAGE WANIE ANTED, a moderate...sized HOU 'E ith Garden, Stable, and Gig-house, distant n ore than three p; the neighbourhood of avertree w dbe preferred. to S. Tit ANCEYS, Liverpool Standard Office. 10 111iSHIRE FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE ItCOMPANY. tIE RATES of INSURANCE demanded this Office, chf especially in the Life Department, a wer than those tarhrlY fr Officethe in th Agent for i Liver dom. Particulars hick may be ob om, LA'FHAM HAMMER, Jun., 18, Exchange-buildings. ~iIOTHERS, INVALIDS, AND ALL SUFFERERS 1 4tOM COUGHS, COLDS AND SORE THROATS. ANY severe Coughs commence that either prove fatal or tk extremely troublesome, which may . be entirely r moved th e e first instance by the use of appropriate remedy , among ipecacuanha holds the first rank ; Dr. P. s remarks its action on the pulmonary organs is extr , ely ihterest -44, that in certain conditions of them ate .ed with a dry k m c l Couoh it promotes expectoration, w i in affections a te '4ed withan invidinate secretion of cus, it as certainly k, i tsse s it, and acts the part of an astr . gent. The Ipecacu -41, Produces these -varied effects, gradually excites the stop and promotes perspiration. By a nice manufacturing ti o t ess, Messrs. WHITNEYS have combined it with a prepara ipt;L of Black Currants and Gum Arabic, which soothes the 14, - ,ted air-tubes, at the same time forming a Lozenge of the c at °.‘ grateful flavour. Thus presenting an innocent and effi lit'lls remedy under the most elegant form. . 11,2ePared only by Messrs WHITNEYS, Chemists to His P i : 74l Highness the Duke of Sussex, Duchess of Kent, and W ll , , ess Victoria, Shrewsbury. Sold Wholesale in Liverpool, k i MAwnoon • and Retail by all Druggists in the Zgdoin in Box es:ls. 1;•;._d. and 2s. 9d. each. \ ..2 1 ( for Whitneys Black Currant Lozenges. tontion Orattte. .Friday, Nov. 23. 1832. INSOLVENT. .23—JosErn STAMPER, of Chertsey, Surrey, carpenter. I t BANKRUPTS. 4 iOgs EMLEY, of Liverpool, merchant and broker, Dec. 12, and Ai o 4 , at one at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool. Solicitors, Mr. 41 son, Liverpool and Messrs. Adlington, & Co. Bedford-row, th k :WARD GRAY, and JOHN RUSSELL GRAY, of Liverpool, corn-mer- N, i ts, Dee. 10, and Jan. 4, at two, at the Clarendon Rooms Liver- Itr,` Solicitors Mr Bardswell, Liverpool ; and Messrs. Blackstock ..r es , • i t gee, Serjeant's-inn, Fleet-street. ktiol', B4, a'r Ginnie'', of Liverpool, coach-proprietor, Dec. 7, at one, ~t y ,;4 11 . 4, at tivelve, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool. Solicitors, Nits. Watson & Byrom, Liverpool ; and Messrs. Adlington & Co. ° N -row. MAYNARD KNIGHT and JOSEPH BARBER KNIGHT, Of 4,,nersmith, board and lodging-housekeepers, to surrender Dec. 7, Ad.", 'and Jan. 4, at twelve, at Basinghall-street. Solicitor, Bin', q ie -stre e t, Adelphi ; official assignee, Mr. Clark, St. Swithin's- N. At ,„, 4l3 sTus HERMAN. AYCRBOWN, of Wendover, Buckinghamshire, 'Cr: 4l and apothecary, Nov. 30, at two, and Jan. 4, at one, at Basing i'treet. Soiicitors, Messrs. Gole, Lothbury. ILLIA M MABLEY, of New Bridge-street, Vauxhall, pawnbroker i 'q' i !vcrsinith, Dec. 4, at twelve, and Jan. 4, at eleven, at Basing t444mhte.t. Official assignee. Mi. Abbott, King's Arms-yard, Cole .) - str eet ; solicitor, Mr. Harris, Stone-buildings, Lincoln's Inn. ev en, Geoltuß of Hereford, timber-merchant, Dec. 3, and Jan. 4, gsli`Yert, at the' Bowling Green Inn, Hereford. Socitors,. Mr. Li erefurd ; and Mr. Church, Great James-street, Bedford-row. (ieLiaxi BROUGII and SAMUEL SMITH, of Sculeoates, Yorkshire, ,` arid colour mannfacturers, Nov. 29, 30, and Jan. 4, at twelve, at i peton-upon-Hull, Solicitors, Messrs. Rosser and Son, Gray's Id ee ; and Mr. Frost, Hull. :5 4 , 4 s.is COOPER, of Thatcham, Berkshire, and of Bristol: stage -44t-proprietor, Dee. 8, and Jan. 4, at one, at Cooper's Hotel, Bris- Oolicit o r, Mr. Sydney, Fenchureh-street. it w,,q 1 1.41•N krrxFws CHITTY, of Shaftesbury, Dorsetshire, scrivener, ' 1 &7, at tweve, at the Lamb Inn, Minion. Solicitors, 1 11 4 Venning Naylor, l Bucklersbury ; Messrs. Helder, Clement's and Mr. Buckland, Shaftesbury. • ILLimu CORKHILL, of Whitehaven, ironmonger,and Jan. tt i kt tit eleven, at the Globe Inn, Cockermouth. Solicitor, Mr. Rudd, ,1 4: Prnouth ; and Mr. Stubbs, Verulani-buildings. 1 1 4 :YA PITT and CATHERINE PITT, Of Worcester, goldsmiths, sil k, th Iths, w a t c h- m akers, and jewellers, Dec. 3, and Jan. 4, at noon, Ct o e Guildkall Coffee-house, Worcester. Solicitors, Mr. Phillips, IZ-street, Red Lion-square and Mr. Thornberry, Worcester. u l•t FREEMAN, of Shipston-upon-Stour, Worcestershire, draper, 1?3, and Jan. 4, at eleven, at the George Inn, Shipston-upon-Stour. ,4_tors, Messrs. Findon & Wood, Shipston-upon-Stour ; and Dyneley 8.7, Co. Gray's Inn. %kb ERicR FRANCIS CRoss, of the George-sasd, Whitcombe tv,,,, Leicester-square, and of the Horse and Groom-yard, Dorset ; Pall Mall East, livery stable-keeper, Dec. 4, at twelve, and `t, at eleven, at Basinghall-street. Official assinee, Mr. Green, t 6 Arms-yard; and Mr. Sanford, John-street, Adeiphi. _ . linnAORDINARY CASE OF BANKRUPTCY.—In the Bank- Y Court, yesterday, a meeting was held of creditors, or 4 4 , , i 7lePresentatives, under a Commission of Bankruptcy issued It!' k „ - "tist Patrick Phillips so long back as 1796. The bankrupt oyster-dealer in 1794, in Hungerford-market, and had iiiq t toirsly obtained a lottery prize of £lO,OOO, part of which he 911 t. in freehold houses. He, however, became involved, 4 eh i l rl 1794 he fled to America with his son, leaving a daughter xi d• In 1796 he was made a bankrupt, and subsequently he ti,V o utlawed. The debts were £1,500, and the assignees ob:. k k ed th e appointment of a receiver, as the bankrupt ,had left bk. e Property, as well as a house in Bond-street, Which was tkic,Lga, ged for £3,000. In 1826, certain information was ob kihe't not only of the death of Mr. Phillips and his son in 11 14 :rica, but of the decease of the daughter, In 1827, the ages were paid oft; and a clear balance of £658 was left tht e 3 Per hands of the Accountant-General, as well as £2,970 in k l e.lier cent. Consols. On the 30th of July last, an order was 4 „e for th e payment in full of the debts, some of which were QtlYears' standing ; and after this had been discharged, a in hand of £1,237 was left applicable to the payment rt t s e rerest from the time the debts were contracted, as well as 1 444 ?Id property producing £460 per annum. 'this will be t'd s e 'ellt to pay interest at the rate of 1:40 . per cent, A claim N t i Put in by the surv i v i ng ass i g n e e, Mr. Mobil, for coach ex- Ye k :es, stationary, postages, &c., incurred uuring:the last 38 ,t,1.14' in ntana , ing the estate: The Court allowed Mr. Mobil L 'tgentleman observing, that the expenses of following 4 0, 41 (Ni - it getting information, &c„ had " broke his back, not received' any return until 1827." A dividend upon th t ,, t est of M. in the pound was then declared. In ordered to t ‘, th, e accumulation of interest, it may be remarked, that l et t 74 -ier of one bill for £l7O has been paid in full, and will '4'4, £377 1 Is. 2d..for 41) years'. interest. On another bill for sl niterest is due to the amount 123.7-21 he heir-at-law 94;" bankrut was in Court, who will be entitled to the rati, ii~ 4 f the pro p erty, should it be established that the outlawry 1 15 t good, the property is escheated to the crown. th e y has long been a 'trick of our radical reformers, whenever ' 4 j si 'esliked the principles of a pu'i lie man, to call names—such s e.; ll nnginnonger—Placeinan and Pensioner—hoping thereby ~llg e tte a prejudice against him, and to• induce those who are Pt ;Js ready to believe that which is boldly asserted, to join in 6, 1 '.Y. I n this Manner Lord Henley, one of the candidates 't11 4 .4 : representation of Middlesex has been assailed, and the curious scene which • too'it p'ace at a public dinner t 'ie t wo his lordship, by'about two , hundred of the electors, at ittlth , a sh and Clarence hotel, Staines, will shew with what ; 41 ii ,„"'e charge of being a Pensioner has been made against i i - gnst amiable and respectable nobleman. His health hay can _proposed by the chairman, his lordship, on returning t`r Myer - led to the i harge as follows:—" He would now re 4tl, a report in circulation, and to which a reference had been t ~AG t I . 4 a most turbulent meeting, that his fami!y were pen -110 only bound to answer for himself, his wife, qv 6 .1 I children, and`he sell the amount of their pension . '', s lz t i e shilling." Mr. John Biu!ey, of Uxb:ldge,—" give ,N 1 1; ,?e shilling "—(Lau.., , hter.) -Load Henry—" I'll take,. the gikt e lT ; handit up."—(Laughter.) The was imme ',4 th e ) ! f orwarded. Lord • Henly—" I declare, in the' presence . )41 keo -ing that this is a reguiar conveyance and assignment `ttilyhllitettisi,on; received by myself, wife, and children, well and ' 14 . '—(Laughter add cheers.) . POLICE II\TTELLIGENCE. FRIDAY, Nov. 23. A gentleman, in Seymour-street, was fined 10s. for his chimney being on fire. lames A'teift was fined 55., and costs 55., for leaving his cart (without horses) on Copperas-hill, on the evening of the 14th instant. Eight hucksters were fined each ss. for exposing for sale and en croaching upon the parapets in Pownal-square, Milk-street, and also Smithfield-street with their articles of fish, potatoes, &c. The pre-' siding magistrate, said, in answer to some excuses, " There are markets provided for you, and we are determined, that; on no account what ever, shall the footpaths of the streets he infringed upon." Two shopkeepers, in Pownal-square, were each fined 65., and costs 55., fur having their handcarts before their doors unemployed. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SATURDAY, Nov. 24. Samuel Nowlan was convicted of having unstamped Almanacks in his possession, and committed to the House of Correction for one month. James Scott, William Wright, and Joseph M'Culloch, three able bodied well-dressed men, who seem to have had no regular occupa tion, were committed for trial on a charge of robbing Samuel Keene, of a pocket book, containing seventeen sovereigns, and three Ameri can bank notes for five dollars each. The prosecutor, who is steward of the Monongahela, Philadelphia packet ship states, that about eight o'clock on last Monday evening, he went into Mrs. Wyatt's public-house, in Williamson-square, and was shown by Mrs. Wyatt into a parlour, where she said there were two gentlemen. On enter ing the room he saw the prisoners Scott and Wright, and having called for some brandy, he took out his pocket book, and taking half a-sovereign from it to pay for the liquor, returned it again into his trousers' pocket. He was sitting close to Scott and Wright at that time and while he was paying for his brandy, the other prisoner M'- Culloch entered the room and gave Wright some money, and the three then entered into some conversation which he did not over hear. The prosecutor began to smoke a cigar, and the prisoner, Wright, asked him for one which he gave him, and afterwards they got into conversation together, in course of which, Wright showed him a pair of braces, which he said a lady had made him a present of, to whom he wished tointroduce the prosecutor, which oiler the latter declined, but, on the matter being pressed he consented to accompany Wright to her house for haif an hour. Scott and 31' Culloch then said they also knew the lady and would go with them, and they all proceeded together to the house of Mrs. Margaret Eachus, 45, Great Newton-street, where Scott enquired for Maria Eachus, who, Mrs. Eachus said was gone to Mrs. Rogers's, in Gildart-street, whither they then went, and on being shown into a parlour, one of the pri soners called for a bottle of wine. A bottle of port, and afterwards two of sherry were brought in, and Maria Eachus entered the room and was introduced to prosecutor by Wright, who he had never seen before, as " a particular friend" of his. The prosecutor drank four glasses of wine, and afterwards took out his pocket-book and gave " one of the ladies" (Mrs. Rogers was present) a sovereign, and Wright gave him six • shillings in change. He then returned his pocket-book to his trowsers pocket, which he buttoned up. 'He then began to feel very heavy and drowsy, and shortly afterwards Maria Eachus said she was going home, and the prisoners and prosecutor went with her, the latter walking arm-in-arm with S. M. Ile walked with great difficulty, but was pefectly conscious of all tha t passed. When they got to Mrs. Eachus's house, they'all went into the parlour together, and Wright called for a bottle of wine. and in about half an hour, Wright proposed to take him to bed, and accord ingly Scott and he helped him up stairs, and he remembered nothing more than that they threw him down on his face, he fell asleep, and awaking next morning he found himself lying in bed, with all his clothes on, but his trowsers pocket was unbuttoned, and the pocket book with its contents was gone. He then told Mrs. Eachus that he had been robbed, and she said if it were so, it was by the gentlemen who had put him to bed, who had left word that they were staying at the Bull Inn, Clayton-square, which on enquiry he found to be false He then went to the Police-office and stated these circumstances, in consequence of which, Turner, the constable, apprehended M'Culloch on Thursday evening at the Globe Tavern, in Russel street, and calling there again the next morning, received a note ad dressed to M'Culloch, which he opened. It was to request M'Cul loch to meet Scott at the Throstle Nest Hotel, whither he accordingly proceeded, and took him into custody, and in the same afternoon he found the prisoner Wright, at dinner at Clarke's public house, at Windsor. They all, on being taken, denied any knowledge of this business ; but Wright said it was very lucky Turner had taken him then for he was "in another hobble," and should have set off for Birmingham as soon as he had dined.---Mrs. Eachus states, that when she hia placed 'the bottle of wine on the table, after the party had re turned to her house, she went up stairs, and shortly afterwards she saw Wright and Scott pulling the prosecutor up stairs. The latter ap peared quite insensible, and Scott held him up, and told her to go out of The room as they were going to undress him. She then saw Wright unbutton the trowsers pocket of the prosecutor, and heard "him say, " it's all right," upon which Scott threw the prosecutor forward on to the bed, with his face downwarda, and they left him. She asked why they had not pulled, his boots off, and they said he would do well enough for a couple of hours, and she must then awaken him, and turn him out, and he would know w here to go to. They then went down stairs to M'Culloch, who had remained below, and there' they told Maria Eachus they 'should' be much obliged by the prosecutor being allowed to stay all night, as he was a particular friend of theirs, and, that if she would get him some breakfast in the morning, they would call for him about nine o'clock ; and they then, all three, left the house together. CORONER'S INQUESTS. Inquisitions have been taken before James Aspinall, Esq, one of the Bailiffs and Coroners for this borough, as under: • CAUTION TO PARENTS, AND TO DRUGGISTS.—On Friday last, touching the death of Ellen Cain, an infant about fourteen months old. It appeared that the mother of, the deceased was in the habit, when putting her to bed in the evening, of giving her a few drops of laudanum to make her steel). She.usually procured it from the shop of Mr. Furness, druggist, in Scotland road; and on Wednesday evening she sent her daughter,. a lit tie girl about nine years old, to get some, and she went to the shop of Mr. Greetham, another• druggist in Scotland-road. The mother says, that she ,observed that she then received more than she usually got, and she mixed it with some water, in a teacup and then poured into a spoon about the same quantity that she usually gave the child, and adiniziistero.d it. `the child presently afterwards fell asleep,' and in a little time she became alarmed by its unusual snoring, and sent for a sur geon, but before he arrived the child was dead. The whole quantity of laudanum which,Mr. Greetham gave to the little girl who fetched, it, he 'says was a• drachm and a half. Mr. Lockwood, the surgeon .who examined the body after death, stated that he had no doubt, from the appearances, that the taking of the laudanum was the cause of the Child's death. Verdict—Accidental,death, caused by administering' too large a dose of laudanum. The jury expressed, an opinion that Mr. Greetham had not exercised a proper degree of caution, in sel ling a poisonous drug to a child only nine years of age; and the Coroner admonished him •to be more careful of such .matters for the future. SPIRIT DRINKING.—On Saturday, touching the death of Maria Bellamy.—On Thursday evening, about eight o'clock, the deceased, with her husband, 'Joseph Bellamy, returned home to their house in Bostock-street, having been Out from about eleven o'clock in the forenoon. About eleven o'clock the deceased sent an apprentice of her husband's to get her a noggin of rum, of which she partook with a female friend; and some time afterwards she desired a .woman .named Elizabeth Sharp, who lodged in her house, to see her friend home. About half'-past eleven the apprentice saw the deceased sitting on the steps of the street-door, and Elizabeth Sharp, on her return, about twelve o'clock, found her lying in the channel, and with assistance conveyed her in doors, when Mr. Parkinson, druggist in Scotland-road, was 'sent for, and he found. that she was dead. Her husband, .who had gone out again about ten minutes after eight o'clock, did not return home until some time - after she was found in the street. He states, that she had taken two-pence worth of rum about half 7 pa.st 'eleven o'clock before noon, and had not ,drunk any more during the day.—Mr. Lockwood, the surgeon who examined the body after death, found in the stomach, which was.mueh inflamed, about half a pint of fluid emitting a very strong smell of spirits, and observed that the inflammation extended into the small intestines. He had no doubt of her death . having been caused by excessive drinking. Verdict—Died from .excessive drink n. WEYmorru, Nov. 22.--The T.laria, from (e;o for Amsterdam, de tained by the Eaule revenue cutter. The Danish schooner Emily from Oportoi was fallen in with yesterday by the Hero • pilot boat, and towed in -here, wi:h loss of foremast, bows;:rit, and , windlass, bow stove in, and other daMage, having been in contact with an American ship. • The crew are safe, two of them got on board the American. o;NartTO, Nov. Majestys' ships Orestes, Nautilus, Levi rot, and Etna are stationed in a line near the quarantine ground. The City of Edinburgh, Echo, and London Merchant steamers arc in the river. The Bar has been impassable for the last three days, during which there has been much rain and strong wind frdm the south. THE CHOLERA ACCOUNTED FOR. "The cause y knowe, and of his arm the rote."--Chaucer.* Mr. Herapath attributes our chnlera of 1832, to the COMET of 1811. A Correspondent of the Birmingham Catholic Maya ., zzne, a letter which we extract below, gives it us as his own opinion,. and that of some of our forefathers, that pestilences of tlw, kind, and, indeed, of all kinds have not unfiequently been brought into the world by GHOSTS! He allows that this soleann truth "is not susceptible of mathematical demon stration • " but yet insists that. 'it must be admitted to be fully as probable as any of the numerous explanations which have been devised." Should our readers loork into the letter, they will perhaps, like ourselves, be sometimes at a loss to know, whether PNEUMATICS be only a homan Catholic wag, or really a deep theologian. That the gentleman, however, is actually serious will probably be our reader's conclusion, as well as our own ; and, in any case, if, like ourselves also, they are not in disposed to enjoy a smile at one of the wildest of human fan cies, and human relish (which who has not ?) for a few ghost stories, with the remarkable addition of (to us at least,) some novelty of circumstance, they will not think that we have done amiss in making this extract for their amusement. But PrsE c m ATlcos in some of his remarks, seems to have forgotten the distinction proper to be made by demonologists, between (inesTs and \ AMPIRES ; and, in illustration of that part of one of his narratives in which we find a "corpse cut to pieces," in order to prevent a repetition of its misdeeds, and we permit ourselves to remark, that according to an Oriental tradition, when Nebuchadnezzar died, his son cut his body into a great number of pieces, and dispersed them in various directions, in order that he might not repeat the trick of returning to his throne, as had been the case after his seven years' eating grass as an ox. (From the Birmingham Catholic Magazine.) MR. EDlTOR,—Whether you are acquainted with the follow ing fact, I am ignorant: it is well known to every inhabitant of Smyrna. As the Imaum of the mosque at Barnagat was watching one night, he saw . passing by him the ghost of a dervish, who had been buried in the morning. Aware that he must be a mes senger from thejProphet, he hailed the ghost from the minaret, and enquired, whither he was going. "To Smyrna," he re plied, "to carry the cholera there, and to kill three thousand persons." The next morning the pestilence broke out in the city; for ten days it continued its ravages; and thirty thousand victims. perished. On the eleventh night, the Imaum ascended the minaret, and seeing the ghost on his return, reproached him with having exceeded his commission. "No," he replied, " I killed but three thousand, the doctors killed the rest." Now, if I were to say, that I give entire credence to this tale, I have no doubt, that some of your readers, in the pride of superior intellect, would laugh at me as an old woman. Well: let them laugh. I know that the sway, which ghosts once held over the human mind, has of late been on the wane : since the schoolmaster came abroad, they have grown more coy, and more chary in their personal appearance : but every thing has its day, and reaction.follows : that mania of intellec tual reform, which has severed the links which united us with .the race of ghosts, will paSs away ; and our children like our fathers will be permitted to enjoy the same pleasurable excite ment', which, I remember ,I used to enjoy in my younger days, when the family, being collected on a winter evening round the fire, . listened with curiosity, wonder; and terror to tales of supernatural apparitions. In the East, the belief in Ghosts is still universal : no man doubts that they are the agents of the divinity in the infliction and propagation of pestilential dis eases; and such also was the opinion of all European nations, even of our Christian ancestors. Now it appears to me, that a doctrine so ancient, so universal, common to Christians, Mo hommedans, and Pagans, adopted for centuries by the most learned and most pious of the human race, is deserving . of serious consideration : and the more so, as it is the only opinion yet known, which satisfactorily accounts for the latent cause, the irregular propagation, and the capricious appetite of the pestilence, called the cholera. Philosophers have speculated on these things till they have been bewildered and confounded, andThysicians have tried experiments, and killed their thou 4ands and tens of thousands, till they are compelled to confess their ignorance : but let them only admit the preternatural agency of ghosts, and every difficulty will vanish. Does the plague leap from district to district, without infecting the inter mediate villages ? Why : the ghost did not choose to tarry anywhere on his journey. Does it carry off sometimes the Most healthy, and spare the weak, the drunkard, and the de .baathed ? The ghost acts according to his own whims and partialities. Do .the most dangerous cases of cholera com mence soon after midnight ? It is only at midnight that ghosts are permitted to begin their rambles. Evidently the facility with which this hypothesis solves every difficult question, must be taken as strong evidence of its truth. Here I am interrupted by a friend, who denies that this opi nion was ever adopted by our Christian ancestors; but I shall soon convince both him, and those of your• readers who think like him, of the contrary ; and, for that purpose, shall appeal to a celebrated . writer of the twelfth century, William of New burgh, in the twenty-third chapter of his fifth book, De rebus A nytieis. "Near the mouth of the river Tweed," says he, "there is a right goodly town, called Berwick, belonging to the King of the Scots. In that town lived a rich man and a wicked one also, as his doings after death plainly chewed. For, on the night of his burial, he issued from his grave ; and not he alone, but a pack of hounds with him. Where he got them, I know not: perchance from the devil's kennel : for the devil was the only master that he ever served. And lo away they all ran through the streets of Berwick, the man hallooing, the dogs yelping, and the people in. their beds screaming through fright. 131 . 0 when this c ontinu e d to be done every night, judge ye,' if the townsmen were not in a strange quandary. Every house was barred from sunset to sunrise ; and no man dared to put his nose out of door or casement. At last, the elders of the town, discreet men and wise, plainly saw that, unless the ghost was laid, his nocturnal visits must breed a mortal pestilence. A common- hall was called, and after long and earnest debate it was resolved to attack•the foe in' the day time,' while he lay in the grave, still, and stiff, and yowerless of mischief. Ten young men, stout of heart and limb, undertook the perilous enterprize. With secret fear and misgiving they removed the earth, and opened the coffin: the corpse gave no signs of in. tended resistance. They dragged it out, divided it into pieces, and threw each piece into the lire, where it was consumed. '0! that was a blythe and bonny day at Berwick. For how could the ghost repeat his nocturnal pranks, now that he had no body in existence ? The bells rang a •merry peal : the gudewives laughed and chattered; their husbands quaffed their ale, and sang.. But how brief, how deceitful is human bliss ! That very night- 7 -whether the frequent perambulations of the sprite, or the burning of his body, had contaminated the air, I know not —that very night the pestilence appeared in Berwick ; in a few days it had penetrated into every house, and scarcely man, woman, or child escaped its baneful influence. "I have often marvelled how it came to pass, that there, were nd ghosts in times of yore. For that there were none is mani fest, since none have ever been mentioned by the ancient wri ters, albeit they were careful to chronicle matters of less note, But in our days they are both rife and mischievous: wherefore. for the instruction and guidance of future generations, I will add two other similar instances. • _ _ Near to the noble abbey of Melrose, there lived a certain dame, of high lineage and wide possessions, who kept in her family a chaplain, more worldly than devout, and so fond of the 'chase, that the people gave him the nickname of the hound priest. He died, and was buried in the cemetery at Melrose : but he could not rest in his grave ; at midnight lie regularly lose; and, though within the holy precincts he did no mischief ---the virtues of the monks were their protection—yet the mo ment he left the walls, he raised the most terrible shouts and shrieks, and -hastening to the castle of his former lady, conti nued to course round it, till the appearance of dawn admonished him to return to his prison for the day. She, poor , lady, felt, as it was like she should, the molt dreadful alarm, and begged of one of the monks of Melrose to'solicit his brethren to pray for her deliverance from the nightly visits of the ghost. • Ihe monk pitied her case: he associated with himself another monk and two yeomen belonging to the abbey; and all four, invigor "atedSwith ale, and armed with battle axes took their station within the wall of the cemetery. It was a cold and clear win ter's, night: the clock struck twelve, and no ghost appeared. Thinking that the spell was broken, the other three retired to a neighbouring shed, to warm themselves by the fire : and the moment they, were out of sight, the lid slipped from the stone coffin ; a human figure arose, and with eyes of flame, the hound priest rushed on the solitary monk. At the first he was petri fied-with horror: but despair nerved his arm, and he aimed with all his might a blow at the spectre, who uttered a loud cry, and ran back to the tomb, which instantly closed upon At.the.noise, the other watchmen .returned, forced up the lid, and found the body; with a ghastly wound in the breast, acid weltering in blood. Phis proved that they were victorious, they carried the dead man to the neighbotnitig moor, burnt him with the furLe, and scattered his ashes to the wind. Of course lie disturbed the lady no more. This history was told by cer tain religious m en . Another" instance, and more melancholy in its results, hap pened at the castle of Annan, the particuairs of which I re ceived from an.eye-witness, a holy man, of noble birth, and much respected in those parts. It chanced that an English man, gusty of several crimes fled from Yorkshire to escape punishment, and was received by the Lord of Annan among his retainers. There he married a Scottish woman: but grow ing suspicious of her fidelity, pretended one day to set out on a long Journey, and, returning secretly, was concealed with the aid of a female servant in the garret; whence by, some mis chance, he fell through into the room below, and in the f,u:, received a contusion, which ultimately caused his death. informant, through motives of charity, visited him in his sivk ness, and advised him to make his confession, and receive We ho.y communion, as became a Christian. He promised :.) do so on the morrow, but lived not to see that morrow, an,: ) et, unworthy as he was, he received •the rite of Christian bur. i. That, however, availed him little. He could not rest in los grave : from midnight he was accustomed, for hours together, to course with a pack of hell-hounds up and down the street, and round the houses of Annan. The horrible din which they made confined the terrified inhabitants to their houses, and in a short time, the stench arising from 'his half putrid carcase bred a mortal pestilence in the town. Every house was filled with the sick and the dying, or else stood empty, being aban doned by its owners. The - venerable clergyman, who narrated this history, grieved at the depopulation or his parish, invited to his church several pious and learned clerks on Palm Sunday, and, after the sermon and ceremonies of the day, conducted them to dine with hint at the manse. But white they sat at table, two young men more courageous than their companions, determined to wreak their vengeance on the ghost, the un doubted murderer of their father, as he had died of the plague. They proceeded to the grave, bared away the earth, and found the body bloated, an d distended with blood like a leech ' • a plain proof that he h a d b een accus t ome d t o f ee d on th e blood of his victims. Instigated by rage, they dragged it through the vil lage, tore out the heart, threw the carcase on a bonfire, and called the visitors at the manse' to be spectators of their tri umph. The body was consumed the ghost appeared no more; the air became pure and wholesome, and the sick rapidly re covered. Ghosts, Mr. Editor, are grave subjects: but grave subjects seem to be favourites, with you and your fellow-Labourers. I may therefore'be allowed to make a few remarks on the afore said narratives—for no one will dispute their truth, as William of Newburgh must .have drawn from authentic sources.—l. The original race of ghosts differed 'from that which existed during the last century. They were not made of that thin ! shadowy, ill-defined, and unintelligibl e substan ce , w hi c h mar k e d the ghosts of later days, but possessed the self-same flesh and :blood, in which they badpreviously lived among men. 2. Nei ther were they penitent sinners coining from purgatory for the purpose of warning a friend against tue evil of his ways, or of procuring reparation for a person whom they had injured : they were the servants of Satan, whom his Satannic majesty—and this should be told to his praise, for it is the only amiable •trait in his character—furnished with the means of occasionally en : . joying after death, the same amusements to which they Were so much attached during life. 3. Neither were they to be laid, as in more recent tildes, with holy water, or the sign of the cross, or adjuration in the name of the Almighty: It was ne cessary to seek the enemy boldly in his den, and to deprive him of the power of mischief, by depriving him of his dead body. 4. Though the opinion of our ancestors, that . pestilential dis eases arise from the circumvagation of ghosts, is not susceptible of mathematical demonstration, it must be admitted to be fully as probable as any of the numerous explanations which have hitherto been devised of our present pestlience the cholera. • PNEUM AT [COS. • " The cause known, and the root of his harm or malady..!' THE GUANA is one of the largest lizards of the tropics. • The appearance of this animal is somewhat alarming; and, when irritated, it puts on I. menacing aspect, swelling out the great pouch of its throat, erecting the scales on its back, lashing its tail, glaring with its fiery eyes, and snaking a sort of hissing noise like a serpent. the animal is very gentle, though it can bite and scratch ; and it may easily be domesticated. The guana is common in several countries of South America, and it was formerly found in considerable numLers in the West India islands ; but the race has there been nearly destroyed, its flesh being considered a delicious article of food. This remarkable lizard is easily distinguished from every other species, by the pouch which hangs from the under side of its neck, by the in dented crest which reaches from the head to the extremity of .the tail, and by the pecUliar beauty of its general colours ; and the metalic brilliancy of its scales. Its extreme length, from the muzzle to the end Of the tail, is sometimes five or six feet. The ground colour of the guana is in general green, mixed with wilco', or various shades of blue; but the colours of the species differ considerably in different individuals, and are, probably, dependant upon circumstances of age, sex, and c'imate. 't he guana feeds on the flowers and leaves of trees, and on earth worms and insects. Its jaws are furnished with teeth, but it swallows its food with scarcely any mastication. It runs with astonishing nimbleneis along the highest branches of trees, and seldom descends to the earth, sleeping and leading on the same tree. The female, however, at a particular period of the year, goes to the'sea-shore to deposit her eggs in the sand. After feeding the guana is - very dull, and is then easily taken. In some places it is hunted by cogs trained to the chase, and in others taken in a noose or trap. It is extremely difficult to kill, except in one 'way—that of thrusting a sharp instrument up its nostrils. The flesh, as we have mentioned, is esteemed a de licacy.—Penny :Magazine. FORGERY AND R ACING EXTRAORDINARY.-011 the 25th'IsToy. 1831, a tali, well-dressed young man, of mustachioed and mill tary appearance, purchase'd a horse at Mr. Beardsworth's Repository, Birmingham, for which he paid with a £5O Bank of England note, .Itating . his name to be Hickman. This note was subsequently discovered to be a forgery, and rewards for his apprehension were offered, £5O by Mr. Beardsworth, and £lOO by the 'Bank, but without effect. On Thursday, Mr. &-ardsworth, who, it should be observed, had not seen Mr. Hickman for more than *a minute or two during the purchase of the horse, while walking down the Lowther Arcade, met a person whose appearance and dress bore a military pretension that at once brought "Mr. Hickman" to his recollection. A second look proved the identity; " Mr. Hickman's memory .seemed to be no less; accurate, for he at once quickened his pace towards the top of the arcade; no sooner had he cleared this than, to use the phraseology of the turf, he made strong running towards Chandos-street; he had a "good start.," and having the advantage in stride and height, was some "lengths" ahead before Mr. Beardsworth got into play; the latter, how ever, is very "quick upon his legs," and is always in full work," and can go a great pace for a short distance ; he gained ground every stride, forced Mr. Hickman to double towards St. Martin's-lane, where he pressed him so closely that he turned short to the left, and again " ran out of the course" into Trafalgar-square; here it was "straight running," and was all in favour of Mr. Beardsworth, who collared the pur sued about the middle of the square, the latter being fairly beaten both in speed and stoutness. Mr. Beardswoi th kept his grip, and actually. " him in this way to Bow-street, without calling for or receiving any ass i s t ance; nor is it a little remarkable, that the occurrence (at two o'clock in the day) did not excite any astonishment, or draw a crowd. When taken before Sir F. Hoe and Mr. Halls, the pris o n er was highly indignant, dud declared his name to he Hollis. He was remanded till this day (Tuesday). Mr. Beardsworth was com plimented by the magistrate for the singu:ar courage and pre sence of mind he had displayed. His coolness is, indeed, re markable; for by capturing the prisoner without assistance he saves the reward offered by himself, and becomes entitled to the £lOO offered by the Bank of England. The prisoner is supposed to be the tome person who paid a forged £5O note to Mr. Hawley, the jeweller; besides which, it is expected that other charges will be brought against him of a similar nature.— Since writing the above we have collected additional parti culars, which give considerable importance to the transaction. The officer employed is Gardiner, of Bow-street, who, notwith standing the systematic taciturnity of the prisoner, has, by great exertion and ingenuity, obtained his real name and ad dress. On searching his lodgings, No. 11, Shaftsbury-terrace, Pimlico, he found a portanantua; in this were a forged £5O and £lO note, a genuine £5 note, and the apparatus fo r com mitting the forgeries, including a fine hair pencil, gum-water, &c.; from this, it is presumed that the "five" and "ten" are 'cut out of good notes, and the "fifty" introduced from some Bank of Fashion notes. The Bank of England has long been on the look-out for the prisoner, who has uttered forged notes to a large amount. It is' suspected that he is connected with a gang of forgers in r Frauce. The prisoner is about five feet ten inches in height; at Birmingham he had black hair and whiskers, which have faded to a kind of carroty gray. He has severally passed as Mr. Hickman and Capt. Harcourt, but his real name is 'l'hos. Pelham Hollis.—Times. NEWHAVEN, Nov. 22.--The galliot Dolphin, from Marennes for Bergen, has been detained, and sent in here, by the Stork, revenue cutter. FURTHER DETENTIONS OF DUTCH VESSELS.---The Dolphin, Bak her, from Marennes to Bergen, has been sent into Newhaven ; the Atalanie from Surjnam to Amsterdam, has been sent into Scilly. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 22.---S.E. The Dutch ship, Regersdaal, Capt. Zaarlan, from New York to Amsterdam, has been detained and brought in here, by his Majesty's ship Conway. DEAL, Nov. 22.---S.E. by S. The French armed steamer, Castor, of six guns, sailed about noon to the southward. His Majesty's ,thips Spartiate and Rover, with the French ships La Sufirein and Melpo mene, remain. Arrived from the river and sailed the Dryad, for New South Wales, also sev era l ou t war d b ound. Arr i ve d th e Me . dora, Coward, from Jamaica. Herd. 1 to 61• L i t ° 11 21 r rj e Loa el,' ar ac,r. Al l igh