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London, England, 1825-04-01 00:00:00

REFORMATION OF PRISONERS.

At the York Sessions, M. Stapylton, F.sq. with that
active. benevolence which has uniformly characterised his
public exertions, submitted to the magistrates assembled, a
plan for a Society to ba.cilled " The Yorkshire Society fur
Destitute Boys on their discharge from the prisons in the
county." The design of this Institution is to give. a
temporary refuge to such trufortunate persons, untjer 21)
yea's of age, as may.bc discharged from prison bytbe
acquittal of the juries, the non-appearance of prose-
cutors, or the completion of a term of punishment,
provided that their conduct in confinement has obtained
the approbation of the visiting magistrates, ',and that
their entire destitution of friends and character debars
them from the hope of an honest livelihood without such
assistance. And its olqects are to amend their hearts by a
course of pious and useful instruction, and to reclaim them
from idle and dissolute habits, by the invigoration of regu.
lar employment in the acquirement of a trade, and in the
cultivation of land. The plan for the formation of this
Society, we are glad to say, met with the approbation of
several Magistrates of the first consequence in the county;
and the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor of York, William
Oldfield, El. having heard of the plan, sent into the Ma-
gistrates' Room a letter, inclosing the liberal sum of 20
guineas, towards carrying the plan into effect. It is in-
tended however at prevent to confine attention to the North
aiding, and in consequence the liberal donation of the Lord
Mayor has been returned, with very polite acknowledg-
ments from Mr. S!apylton, who is now prosecuting his
object with unremitted zeal, and has stimulated the co-
operation of the nobility, clergy, Magistrates? and gentry
of the North Riding, by headi subscription list. wits
the munificent (lunation, as weave beard, of SOL—York
Courant. •

GAISTAX6.—A party of the inhabitants of this ancient:
Borough, consisting of more than fifty s, partookof
a moat exctilent .supper at the Royal St ar,anGarstang, ott
Tuesday evening, the 2211 instant, Thomas Bell, Esq. in
the Chiir. The object of the meeting was to drink the
health" of his Majesty's Ministers, and to express their re..
spectful gratitude for the late inost ample reduction of the
pubic taxes. The duties of the Chair were ably supported
by the worthy gentleman who preside-I. The accustomed
patriotic toasts were drunk with a degree of enthusiasm
which marked the most devoted attachment to, and greatest
admiration of, our glorious Constitution; and truly might
it have been said, at the time our national songs engaged
the attention of the meeting, that
" Merrily every bosom boundeth,
Wilt re the song of freedom soundeth."
The conviviality of the party was kept up to a late hour.
A most cordial health was drunk to 'Mrs. Kie, and
thanks given for her profuse liberality in providing every
possible attraction for the epicure, and the most wholesome
substantial' for the lion viratif.—Preston Paper.
From the promising appearance of the lead mines in the
Isle of Man, belonging to Michael Knott, Esq. he has
been induced to erect two steam-engine" and a powerful
water-a heel, to open out the different veins upon an exten-
sive scale. We arc informed by good authority, that from
.50 to 100 miners, in addition to those already employed,
will be wanted in a few weeks.—Whiteharen Paper.
The stagnant waters, occasioned by the late floods in the
neighbourhood of Eton, have produced come appearances
of fryer in the College, which made it prudent to disperse
the boys to their different homes rather sooner than the
regular holidays.—Aforning Paper.
By the proposed plan for altering the line of road front
Sherborne to Yeovil, so as to avoid Babylon HID, thaw -
will not only be a considerable distance saved, but mew
part of the line will the rise exceed • foot in nineteen of
length, whi!st part of the present hill is more than one
foot in six.
State of the barometer, in a northern aspect, at Twelve
o'clock—

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A house of Mr. Colville's, at Ballybough-lane, was
burned on Monday morning, having been set fire to by
some persona, who heat off two bailiffs set as keepers to the
house, and telling them that if they had Mr. Colville or his
steward, they would have thrown them into the fire.
CAN•DA AND LL CONlA.—Canada is said to have deri red
its name from the Spaniards, when thel landed in that
quarter, repeating the words "acs nada, " nothing here"
(meaning there was no gold to be found), of which the
Indians caught the sound. Some similar occurrence sp•
pears to have occasioned the name of Lucon. When
Magellan's patty first Went on shore, they found one
of the native women beating rice, as is usual at the
present time, in a mortar hollowed from the trunk of a
tree ; and, finding herself surrounded by strange men, she
held up to them the large wooden pestle, calling out
Loosen, which is the native term for it ; and this becoming
a by-word among the Spaniards, they named the island
Lucon. which has been modernised into Luconia.—.lfirsor.
MUTUAL ACCOMMODATION.—A short time since, a pri-
soner in the Fleet sent to his creditor to inform him that
he had a propoaal to make. On his arrival the prisoner
observed, " I have been thinking it is a very foolish thing
for me to lie here, and put you to the expense of 2s. Sd.
a-week. My !Ring so chargeable to you has given me
great uneasiness ;And Cod knows what it may cost you in
the end. Therefore, what I would propose is this : you
shall let me out of prison, and, instead of Sts. 4d. you
shall allow ine only Is. 6d. a-week, and the other ten.
pence shall go towards the discharge of the debt."
A SIMPLE MAGNlrtzft.—A large globular battle, made
of fine white t lass, is filled with pure rain or river water,
in which some salts are dissolved, or with which, in win-
ter, nitric acid is mixed, to prevent its freezing. This
bottle, called a beta) in France, is mounted on *woods&
rand, and being placed between a lamp and the workusst
collects the rays of light, and converges them on 11. f put-
, euler object. This instrument is much used by watch-
makers, jewellers, and others who hare flue work to
perform.—Dietionnaire Technologique. •
To MANS VINEGAR FROM SUGAR.-.-Get an iron-bound.
cask, to be extremely tight, and paint it. Put one pound
of the coarsest brown sugar to a gallon of water.; boil it
from half an hour to an hour, and skim it well ail the
time. Put it into the above cask, either hot or cold, and
' add to it a pound and a half of toasted bread, well soaked
in about a quail of harm or yeast. Stop the eask--net
tight, or cover it with a piece of thin tin plate, and place It
011 a stand out of doors, in the hottest place in the sun you
can find. Make it in March, and let it remain out in all
weathers till the end of summer. It is perfectly good in
twelve months. You may use it out of the cask, or rack
it off into jars or a cask if you like ; but when fit to tare It
must be kept remarkably well, and tight stopped. It is
best to brew two casks at starting.
MEIIIOD OP M•IIING SODA WATER.-- Take forty
grains of the carbonate of soda, put it into a common soda
water bottle, which generally contains about ten ounces of'
water. Immediately •afterwards put into the same thirty.
five grains of tartaric acid, then cork it quickly. The acid
and the salt ought to be put in in crystals, as when in
powder they are apt to seize upon each other before see
bottle can be well corked, and re a considerable quan-
tity of td:e carbonic acid gas which is evoked is lost.
In the shore poems. the tartaric acid having a greater af-
finity for the soda them the carbonic acid gas has, combines
with it, and forms the tartarate of sada, a soluble salt. By
this eon:hit:a:ion the gas which was gaged with the soda
is evolb ed, or set free, and mixes IP ith the water in the
bottle, and makes its escape when the cork is withdrawn.—
filarg.te 3fe eh. Meg.
On Friday a young woman fell down in the street, near
the church steps, Preston. and almost instantly expired, about half-
past eleven o'clt.ek ill the forenoon. BMWs, taken into the boom
of Mr. Walnut: T..,11n,;,) : and althougtt *any hundred roam
during the day, went to see the copse. it was:lentil:led till past
seven o'clock in the et ening. The deceased at her pocket ate
shillings in silver, a pit of gloves. and aboat an ounce of no:
voimiea. She was hobitvd as a (estuary aerrantgirl, and woes•
lady near in her appev7ance. About hal.-pant Bakers a person trews
Spitt.ds-mous, recognised her dross, and stated her name was
thi.Taingein,itionl.l,,,ronahendretsthhhuesnothsl :dater
blorgthetotbhmasaiservauthakeet's„daarArsilimi :tlawdoceri,i.ois
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Ham's !lead Inn. On Saturday au Ingo,_- was _
the body. when the Jury returued a verdict, tirdlng, " that
mined came b) her death in consequence of takia a qua
war tovtioe. knowing it to be a poisoroas substance, but
with a ex+ to d
estroy Iserseifor peodwee abortfou, obi Ming It the
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