The Express.
London, England, 1853-12-15 00:00:00

BAILED.

Aex Hearts—frets Liverpool, Dec. 14, to ........ ..........Helbourre
AORMORA —from Liverpool, Dec. 14, to '4llitroo
ColNitil WILMA= EDWAID —fromPortamoutb, Demean 13, to
&mg Koog
CAL,. (a a)—from Liverpool, December 14, to Genoa
COIWORAST (e.s.)— from Liverpool. December 14, to.. Rottman"
Cuomo:ea —from Liverpool, December 14, to Alarm,
Cum—from Crammed, December 14, to Rotterdam
Cal. or Low worm-dram Grave-end, December 14. to... Hamburg
FAlST—from Portmaoutb, December 19, to Australia
FLOILA Mute—from Gravesend. December 14, 111: DOt
FTSlloolth—tlolll Gravesend, UPC. I I to
to lto,ntittetiti:Alllo:
lawn—from Liverpool, December 14. to New Yore
INDIAN perks —trout Liverpool. Dee. If. to Barbados
Kaso.sioo (a.e.)—Lrom Liverpool, December 14, to Bordeaox
LOAD Erma—from Pill, December 13, to
Lion—from Gravesend, December 14, to
Maio—from Gravesend, December 14. to..- .. ...... Gibridtar
NONFAROIA—from Liverpool. December IL to . Bt, maw,.
PACIFIC (e.)—from Liverpool. lk ember 14. to New 'Vora
PTSFOLC (a .r (—from Liverpool. December 14, to ..... ...... Nom.
PANTURY—from Gravesend, December 14, to 00teta
Qt.:BAN—front Gram:mad, December li, to ...Harlingen
RAIIIIPOW —from Gravesend, December 14, to ..... -..,_ Antwerp
ititnee—ham Gravesend, December 14, to Rotterdam
item PARK —fres ORIVIFSII6, DeCellato t 14. to Swan River
tiliADWlLL—from Liverpool, December 14, to . ............ se,iik,

VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.
Akbar, for the Mauritius, Aug. 18, lat. 12 8., lon. 123 E.
Credenda (.14), frog London for Port Phillip, Sept. 20, lot. 32 8..
lon. 17.28 W.
Castle, from the Clyde for Adelaide, July 10, lat. 18 N., lon. 22 W.
gllen (ship), of and from Liverpool, outward bound, Dec. 3, og
Wicklow.
Panepe (brig),s
from London for San Praaeisca, Aug. 20. Ist. ISM
N., low. 23.1 W.

AUSTRALIAN SHIPPING. From our Melbourne
files we find that 72 vessels from Great Britain arrived in
Hobson's Bay in the month of August, and 36 from foreign
ports, besides the following six steamers :—The Manches-
ter, Iron Prince, and Antelope, from Liverpool; the Culla
deo, from Glasgow; the Victoria, from London; and the
Hercules, from Dundee. The number of passengers by
these vessels was 7,694, beiog 2,200 in excess of my pre-
vious month. There were only six of these vessels which
made the passage trim England under 90 days, namely—
the Victoria steamer, in 61 days ; the Gibson Craig, from
London, in 80 ; the Falcon and Indian Queen, from Liver-
pool, in 83 ; Marchioness of Londonderry, from Locdon, 87
days ; and the Lochiel, from Liverpool, in 88 days.

SUPERSTITION IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.-
At the Bristol Police Court on Thursday a prisoner was
brought up for professing to tell fortunes. lie pretended
to be dumb, bat the police ascertained that he could talk
fast enough when he liked. It appeared that one day last
week the man, whose name is David Boyd, went to a
woman named Sykes, and left a paper with her, in which
was the most glowing description of his unfailing power of
ruling the stars and telling fortunes, by which she was in-
duced to call at his lodgings in Gloucester-lane. There she
was introduced to him in a darkeaed room, in the middle of
which the astrologer was seated at a little table. Around
him were sundry triangles, segments, and other instruments
of a mysterious and unearthly character. The foolish
woman intimated to him that she whked to have her for-
tune told, when he commenced making a number of
cabalistic signs on the slate, and at length, in a lit of pro-
phetic fury, seized a sheet of paper, and scribbled down a
lot of nonsense of the most extraordinary and ludicrous
character, and couched in language that set all the rules of
Lindley Murray, both of orthography and construction, at
defiance. This letter he folded up, intimating to the woman
by writing that it was het fortune, and she must put it
under her pillow at night, but that if she liked she might
break it open first, which she did. At the bottom of this
strange jumble of crosses and signs, written on the paper
—which, by the way, was ornamented by the drawing of a
ship in the centre, intimating that Mrs. Sykes had a
journey to go—was the following charm " Pangus,
gloriosa quorum et mr•erum sinews mostaqua preposta
quarem mysterum." The poor superstitious woman pat
the letter under her pillow, and her excitable mind during
the whole night was, she declared, haunted with such hor-
rible dreams, that next day, fearing she bad been dealing
with the Dowers of darkness, she sought some spiri'ual con-
solation from her minister, by whose advice she let loose the
police on the astrologer, who was captured and placed
like his brother Gallotti, in the reign of Louis XI. is dur-
ance vile, and on Thursday, it being proved that he had
obtained 2s. 6d. of the woman, he was sent by the Bristol
magistrates, who don't believe in astrology, to gaol for two
months as a rogue and vagabond —Bristol Vases.
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Oar, Na NM dipole* : from the Right Boa, the Lord Stuart le
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authorise the pablistios of these lisea."—Stuart de Nola. gold la
maidors, L lb., at 1m 114.• 2 lb., at 48.6 d; lb., at Ile.; IS st
Roper-reenad quay, It .0., tha.; 6 lb., at 225.; the le lb.
and 11lb. moisten hes of carriage, by Baum Do ileum smith..
77,1theematreet, laden.

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BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.
BIRTHS.

BRANFOOT.—Dee. 12, at Old Steyne, Brighton, the wife of J. B.
Branfoot, M.D., of a sou.
DOWNE.—Dee. 11, at Brighton, Viseounteas Downe, of a son.
OIBSON.—Dee. 11, the wife of Mr. W. M. Gibson, of Redcliftatreet,
Bristol, of a Goo.
MAOGREGOR.—Dec. 12. at Gloucester-place, Portman-square,the
wiled Capt. R. O. Macgregor, of • son.
MAYNARD.—Des. 12, at Tottenham, the wife of Mr. B. Maynard,
II SOLI.
OSBORNE.—Dec. 10, at Preswylfa, near Heath, the wife of R. Ge-
borne, Esq., of Lawrence Weston. near Bristol, of a son.
RADPMRD. —Dee. 10, at Newesalle-upon-Tyne, the wife of J. Rad-
ford, Reg., of a son.
BEDMAN.—Dec. 10, at Stook Hall, Stock, Essex, the wife of P.A.
Redman, Em., of a son.
WILLIAMS.—Dec. 10, at Victoria-road, Kensington, Mrs. J. I.
Witham, of a eon.

DR VOSHOL-11117T091..--Dec. 11, at the British Embassy, Paris,
Baran d'A. B. de Vashol, Chamberlain to the King of the Nether-
lands, and his Counsellor Si Legation at Perla, to Anna Maria,
youngest daughter of the late R. N. Sutton, Faq.
DlClEN—vauourox.—Des. 8, at Ashbouru Church, Derbyshire,
T. Dicks, Beg , eery son of T. Molten, Earl , of St. Stephen'obLl,
Staffordshire, to Mary Anne, eldest daughter of the her. R. R.
Tsugb.cm, of Yeldereley House, Derbyshire.
DOMVILLE—ASPINWALL.—Dee. 14, at Wandsworth, by the Rev.
George William Cookerell, M.A., Incumbent of St. John's, } Zingston-
vele, WillLun Ileury Domeilte, Esq., of Lincolnshire, younger ten
t Sir W. Danville, Bart., to Eliza King, surviving daughter of
Lon
Colonel Aspinwall, late Consul-Oeneral of the United State* at
don.
HALL —COUSIN.—Dee.B, at the perish church, Ilskewell, by the Rev.
J. H. K. Cornish, Vine, Mr. J. Nal4 of Preston, to Ann Webb,
eldest daughter of the late Bev. M. Cousin.
HA IPER—PATTRICK.—Dee. 11, at Thorpe Church, Ease; C.
H reg., of Hadleigh, to Elias Lydia, third daughter of Mr.
G. Patrick.arper,
MARSH —BMITIT.--Dee. a, at the pariah church, Sheffield, Mr. W.
Marsh, of Sheffield, to Catherine, daughter of T. Smith, EN., of
Meadow Head.
POWILL—TATLOR..—Dee. 11, at Elnewhill Congregational Church,
Wolverhampton, by the Bev. W. Bevan, Mr. F. Cowell, to Sarah,
daughter of the late Mr. T. Taylor, both of Wolverhampton.
WHITEROUSS--GRAZEBBOOK.—Dec. 9, at werwichatreetCba.
pet, Laelningtoq by the Bev. Dr. Winslow. Edward. second non et
Mr. B. Whitehouse, to Bunn, youngest daughter of Mr. Graze.
brook, of Leamington.

DEATHS.

ALLEN.—Dee. le, T. Allen:P.ai,..oF
aged 60.

Blooll.—Dee. 12, at Coagrosbra Somerset:shire, Edith Henrietta
Charlotte, infant daughter or the Rev. 0. R. Blau
COTES.—Dee. 10. at Stanton. George Washington, second eareren4
son of the Roe. C. 0. Cotes, aged 5.
DRIVER.—Dro. 12. at North-tleld Cottage, Wandsworth, T. g•
Driver, Esq., aged 69.
HOOPES. —Dec. 12, at .It. Peter's-alley, Cornhill, 11. Hooper, Las
sewed ran of Mr. J. T. Hooper, aged 27.

LASCELLES.—Deo. 12, at Morniagton.plaoe, Mrs. Elisabeth 1-7A-
cells,, relict of the late R. Laloelles, Eq., of the Hindi, Tempe.
seed 74.
REEl3.—Dee. 13, at Cork.strest, Emily, daughter of J. Rees, Eiq.
BCROPE.—Dee. 11, at Royal Yort.erescent, Henry, second son st
8. T. scrape, Esq., of Denby, Torlabire.

6IIERIDAI4.—Dre. 13, at
Meriden. Esq.. M.P.

the infant son of E. E.

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