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London, England, 1824-09-14 00:00:00

HOUSEHOLD OF HENRY TIIE EIGHTH.

The following extract from • curious old MS. contains
game very singular directions for regulating the ht.us:hold
of Henry the Eighth:—
'' Ilia 'lights. "is baker shall not put alum in the bread, or
mix rye, eaten, or Lan flour with the saute. and if detect-
ed he shall be lout in the stocks. ills Highness*" attend-
ants are not to steal any luck or keys, tables, forms, cup-
boards, or other furniture out of noblemen's or gentlemen's
lmas.l whate they go to visit. liaster cooks Judi not em-
ploy such scullions as go about naked, or lie all night on
the ground, Is Core the kitchen fire. No dap: to be kept in
the court, but only • few spaniels for the ladies. I)inuers
to heat ten. slippers at four. The otliceoa of his privy
chamber shall be loving together, no grudging or grum-
bling, nor Milt iitg et Ike King's pastime. The Kin,.
bat:heels (idol lto be cleanly, not to frequent The eom- '
ratty of IlliNgllll women, for lost of danger to the King's
royal renonti. e e shall be to romping with liilatil on
th, staireake, by • which ali*hes and other thin; a are often
broken !! Care shall be tultno of the pewter spoons, and
'het tl:e wcoieu out% used iii the kitelnw he not broken or
stolen. The rages shall not iuts•rrupt the kilArn mulch!
The growing hall not steal lois Ilighness's straw for beds.
tualcient Laing allow' il for them. Coal only to be allover('
to the King's, Queen's, and Lady ,Mary's chandlers. The
brewers soc not to put any brimstone in the ale." Among
th," fish( s fur the table, Is 111CUILOU4 al the porpoise ; if too
b g for a horse-load, so extra allowance to pone; or.
Twenty-four towns a-day alio wed for his Royal Iligliness's
greyl minds. " Ordered,',Uhat all 'wide-men and grniientrn.
at the end of the Sessions' of she l'arliament, de part to tht a
soh nil coy xtirs, on pain of the royal tlispleasur..!!!"

. . .
POKTXMOVTII, SI.rT. lifa;Clfyil ship Jupiter,
Kith Resr-Aeltniral W. T. Lake and family, arrived st
Halifax on the 3d ult. Lavine had a good passage! cut, and
4,11 that l Ith the Mialwary sailed from Halifax, .with Hear-
Patti?, the former Commander in thief, and
anchored at Spitheail on Sunday. The Rcar...Ailtniral has
since attack his gag. By the arrival of this chip we hart)
that the Sairlannig. Captain Sir W. iViseman, Hart. are.
tie: d at Halifax a few days hdcre the Jupiter, and that it
was intended she should sail again in a few lays for St.
Johei's. N. w Brunswick, with the Lie utenanteGovernor of
that Provii.ce, Alajor-teeticial Sir •Ilowarti Lou, las,
K.C.B. Th.! Mtnai bad sailed for the Gulf of st.
Lawrence!, anti the Rifleman for Quebec, where she was
to eti:lxek the Naval Sterekerper of Upper Cana...a (Mr.
1.1 w), who i:. alert hued to•the same situation at Jamaica,
rid rotary him to 'ff.( island, wham! she was exp. etill
to bring a freight. 1-he Dotterel had lately sailed to re-
sume her stmt. a in the Bay of Fundy, where she is cm.
nu.sing for the prevention of stnueglin;. The
A- ca ha I &liked with the mail for 'Sunnite*. We understand
tint the Crews of the Asps via etat station were p aurally
11:11,h,. It is, said to he the intention of Hear-Ailmina
tale to r. snail, at Halifax, until November, and then pre-
terit to It..rintol3.

Th.' Blossom, 28, has again been ccioniisaiored at
.41 by Captain Ik. eh •y, who, it may tic reeol-
11e411, !a% Lieutenant of one of the Dimenvtry ships ou-
r:,lts! in the Northers' Expedition. It is reptated that
4. ey 11..e..h .y will Ire employed on a voyagu to etc
4""111 IVe, but the horn:shale object of the undertaking
has not yet transpired. The 'Miami' is now in dark,
!::org.iiag a general repair, and it is intendsd she shall be
.
il, with a view to strem;thcli her.
I 1.C11.0.1tE T Aelyrs. —Daring the past week several of
belonging to the lloyal Yacht Club have
or watas..—Many of tlit.s.! beautiful res-
in the advantages of the tut tt thihhed
:des some xshich are peculiar to thon-
re all the acionitimilations of a house, still
jimmy:alio:via of a haul neighhourhoo.l,
e clungeil at pleasure ; they have not
hut also the must varied presp: its ; they.
in house duty and window tax pay twi-
n. rate ; are cr. mpt from government and
11h1 hays. not only a command of wool
nay truly he said to possess the most ex-
ult). Innate in England !—Sonetartry.ltr

A.:AINST °Nell INCLINATIOX.—On
Fri-
iut, in •Ite aft. 'moon, u die strain-packet,
was Ding urn Itti::,hton, for the purism:
I the ty which she bad taken tht re on
Is& it tanner, his daughter, and a friend,
the fill Slit lc with an excess Of paternal',
g to explain the machinery, and stiewing
tbu vessel, till the recycling minarets of
ded lihn that the vend was all that time
Portamontli. The situation of the fanner
can he better imagitud than &scribed,
inform, a that they must, for that eight,
de in Portsmouth. It was surmised by
gets that the farmer was either enk:aged
,ad taken his place in one of the Lmiclon

THE ARM?:

On Friday morning his Royal Highness reviewed the
Royal Faisileers, which chiefly performed the evolutions
applicable to light infantry, which were executed in the
usual stile of excellence of that very distinguished corps,
and called forth the encomiums of the Royal Duke and
every military spectator.
Soon after returning from the field of exercise, his
Royal Highness had a Levee of the Officers of the Mili-
tary Corps and Departments at the t7onaroanalant's house
(Col. Sir A. Christie). At three o'clock his Royal Iligh-
nes* returned to the Lines, anal reviewed the Queen's
!locals, under the immediate commend of their Colonel,
sir Henry Torrena (the Adjutant-Cameral), who put the
Regiment through a great many inovements of his own
new cyst. an, all of which were perrormed with admirable
precision, and called forth the highest praise from his
no, a! I I;plmesa ; after which the Fuzileers had the honour

of the Royalike's mummy at an elegant dinner.
On SAttiolay morning his Royal Highness inspected the
Division of Royal Marines minutely On the Barrack
Parade, when the Battalion marched past in Cow and
quick time : after this. Goland Campbell had the honour
Of rucAving his Royal with a numerous party of
Ladits, and Officers of the Garrison and the Navy, to
a nmst elegant f/jeoni: a in fmr,.' tfr, from whence
the Royal Duke s:t out for Bushy Park, busing a party
to dinner.

The 72t1 (the Duke of Albany's Own Highlanders)
Regiment, wh;eh seilirl from Plymouth on the lit inst., du
hoard the Loyal Briton NM Joseph Green transports, for
Leith, on its mote to Eilinburgh t'astle, put into SWLIds,
by contrary winds, on the loth inst.

GENERAL ELECTION.

CONTINUATION.OF BIS HOYAI. 11161INESS TIIE
‘,e. !From the Datb Freeman's J.ournul.l
DUKE OF CLARENCE'S VISIT TO CHATHAM. OUNTY ue TIrrERARY.—TIIC Candidates are said to
be the present Members, Bagwell and Prettie, and Messrs.
After the review of the Brigade on Thursday, the 9th !Awl! and Trait. Lidwell is supported by the Glen-
instant, a trial eas made of the efficacy of the two different pill, and, we believe, by the Landaff interest. Ile is
methods of pessiti7 guns, troops, &c. over a rapid stream, • besidts, extremely popular.
by pon WOOS, Of in Hewitt ater Bridge, at half-ebb, as directed; Coy NTY cr Aft it so H.—Mr. Brownlow will certainly
by Lieutenant-Colonel Palley, of the Royal Engineers, as have I;, stand a contest for this county. Lord Mandeville
well as by Lieutenant-Colmiel Sir Jam, s Colleton. The will offer himself—his Lordship is a Liberal. It would
!jtidges were selected for their abilities and experience, but be curiotot to see this county returning two friends to
!the result will not be known till the rt port is made public. !CAtisolic Emancipation. There is no danger of Mr.
I The Duke of Clarence, attended by the pt indica officers of Caulfield.
the Navy on the spot, and of the Rivet 3in this garrisond COUNTY or CLART.—there will be a contest in this
minutely examined the constructlon of Loth methods. In county. Sir Edward O'Brien, or his son, and Mr. Vesey
the evening hall and supper, given by the Queen's Fits* raid, sell stand. Mr. Vandelcur, prother to the,
Royals, at the Bull Inn, was attended by about tittl people ;Jiiw, has aLo declared his intention of offering himself.'
of the highest respectability. The bull-room was tastefully . Mr. Vesey Fir z^eraltl is certain of his return.
ornamented with warlike troyhies, the upper cud having a$ CouNTI or lin skICIC.—Sir Vete Hunt starts again,!
transpartnev with the letter C, surmounted with a naval we understand, for this county. He will he sueported by
crown, in illusion to his Bova' Highness; the floor was ; the Limerick independent ititenit.
elaborately and brilliantly chalked, and the entrances hung I It is raid that a new candidate is about to offer himself
with a pit:Oilskin of variegated lamps. The supper was for the City of Limerick—a gentleman of formne, and, hi
elegant, anti abound, d with every thing et 'arable at such I every point of view, likely to prove acclitable to the
an occasion. The dancing was opened by Lady 'omens j electors of that free city.
sad Colonel Bolt, of the Quern's, and was kept up till (From the mobs Evening Post.)
three 0'144)4. I _ OF DU 1,1 N.—. MNSICT Ellis !Oust retire from poli-
.. _ . _

licel life, and confine himself, in future, to the duties of
his office, which as he swore before the Commissioners,
occupied the greitest partof his valuable time. Alderman
Shaw will otter himself again, refusing, it is raid, to
coalesce w;th Alderman King, the other Corporation can-
didate. The Former, we believe, is not in great odour with
the party just now ; and the latter, some of the graver
folks amongst them affect to regard as too violent ! Cer-
tain it is t'!at, even from the Freemen, neither of these'
persons appt:r so sanguine as might be expected. Mr.
Ilenry Grattan will also stand, upon the independent in-
terca, and, braider the Freeholders, will, be supported, it
is thought, by a very respectable show of Freemen, with
Alderman Nugent at their bend. We are sorry that
we cannot yet mention the name of Mr. Robinson as a
eand idate.
Cot NTT or Prattiv.—There is talk of five Candidates

for the Cuunty—Talhot, White, Danville, B-aliazon, sod
Mimilion. latter. however, will not he of age, if the
election takes place in spriiig, nor if he were, do we think
he would stand any chance. Sir C. Danville we believe,
is sirk from the last election, and we are afraid he will
not be suf6ticistly recovered to come to the poll in time.
But the two sitting Menshers, and the son of the resident
Earl of Meath, will fight it out.
(7oravy or Wcitroan.— There will be a contest, we
are told, in this county. We really should not he sur-

prises!, if Lord Stop:bill wait put hit. We are quite aware
of the dominant interest he possesses, hut we are equally
satislhal that be carnet calculate on his Roman Catholic,
Tenantry. He should reconect the counties of Sligo' and
Dublin. If Mr. Colelough could be brought to tae tes-
tingly, we should hare strung hopes of his success in the
prey cot tiding of the courty. That the Valentia interest
will again appear iu the held there is no doubt. Carew is
said to be r cure.
COI! NTT OP I NNT.—This county, owing to the
compact bytiveen the Ittslantout and °monde families,
has long been in the situation of a close borough. Utforts,
Ir:yonal all doubt, will be made to open it at the ensuing
electien. Whether these will be directed against the But-
ler or the l'imsonlay interest, we cannot say—possibly
against both.
CITY or MlAs:sec.—Our old friend, Donis Browne,
we think, must nut reii. The son of Colona l'itrce Butler
stands upon the independent isuerest, anal will la, ab
through the corporate rights of the Orinotule family, with-
out qua shim.
CITY OF I• 1 ERICX.—This City will be emeestesl be-
tween the Independents and Lord Gott. We have no doubt
of the success of the former; anal we shall hare, we are
certain, to congratulate the Cititens of Limerick on the re-
turn of one of the few efficient Members of Parliament that
Ircland pods to the Lgislature. We need not name Mr.
Spring Rice.
COUNTY or G•LW•lf.—There till be infallibly a sot
emtest in this county. The sitting Members are Daly and
Martin; one of the new candidates is Mr. Lambert; he is
said to enter the field untlar the auspices of Lord Clan-
ricartle, and is called his max. We own we do not like to
sec a Pear take o promineut arpare-i* * popular election.
Mr. I).aly if; said to be the man in danger.
Tows; or Dat.way.—This town will he ai-o
with the Corporation. Mr. Thomas Martin, of Balilaabi oda
Castle, will endeavour to open the Danough.

According to the 3fanciegler Cw:effe, the following :A a
statement of the annual aintini:t of the poor rates for the
township of Manehesti r 'luring the last eight, years

" 11116-17 - .£54.4118
1817-18 -47.34 U
10114-19 . 311.643
18111-2 J - 31,1022

twIlL2l
1tU1.22 - 21.439
Ita2-23 - 19.460
- 111.7411

S eusucteo.—On the night between Saturday and &lit-
any het, a struggling lugger, with 700 tubs of spirits on
board from Flushing, tent a boat with five men, containing !
17S tubs, to attempt a landing at Roddin Limeworks, two'
miles from Montrose, hut owing to a squall of wind coming
on, and the men being :Ir:urgers to the coast, the Loat struck
on a rod: and swamped, when two of the smugglers were
drowned; the mhor three were loved by the exertions of
Lieutenant Abselen, of the Preventive Service, and the
sne's under his command. This vigilant officer hail pre-
viously observed the manceuvres of the 'um r, and, with
his party, was on the look-out. The whole of the spirits
was seised, and, with the three smugglers, brought into
Montrose on Sunday morning. when the men were com-
mitted to prison, and the spirits lodgrd in the Custom-
!meow warehouse. The lugger was observed close in with
the shore at six o'clock on Sunday morning, but seeing no
appearance of her boat coming IA and no doubt antici-
pating an early inn-suit from the cruisers on this cation,
tritest vigilance is well known she set sail for the south-
ward, end was soon out of sight. Some of the men who
were saved are acre rely hurt; but they are treated with
peat kindness, and 'Molded by an experisseed medical
gentleman of Montrose. The names of the men saved are
Limmont I,:mrners, Jacob Mocf, and Itolhef Ilaael: n. The
fishermen at non report that they heard firing at sea on
Sunday forenoon, ro that it is very probable saute of out
eruisen may have fallen in with suet captured the lugger.—
, Cart/amine illerciiry.
Taste Rs PENTANCE.—We often hear of the penitence
of malefactors, when alarmed with the fear of punishnknt,
and of their deep contrition fur their offences alien brought
to the gallows, or to sulfer in any way on account of them;
but it has frequently ben observed, when such have,
' either through the defect of the evidence against them, or
an eserciee of the Royal clemency, been enabled to (scary
I the threatened punishment, the y have forgotten all their
Promise's of amendment, and relapsed into their fu. rarer'
vicituu habits. The penitence exhibited by cultwitr, being'
excited principally by fear of personal suffering, can have
little efibet of a salutary nature 011 the- heart and mind, or
conduce to an amelioration of the character. IVe are OA
therefore, to record an instance of penitence, and of coin-
punctious,
conscientious feeling, less equivocal in its ex-
pression, and not excited by the fear of personal or worldly
punishment of any kind—an evidence of that true repen-
tance which disposes the ening individual to make mei-,
tution and reparation to the utmost of his power. A re-
spectable shopkeeper, in Sandgate, Newcastle, had the
misfortune to 'nee his witch many years ago, at liesham, 1
when he was apprentice to a shoemaker there. lie had
unfertunately got ink:cleated at a public-house in that
town, and had retired to a isimmon privy, lettere he fell
asleep. 11'hen he awoke he found he had been mobbed of,
his watch. lle made every endeavour in his power to,
recover it--offired a reward for the discovery ofthe of-1
fender—but all iu vain: he heard no more of it till a few 'I
clays at o, when it was nen to him by the Ilexham carrier,
in a man parcel, carefully diteeted, and inclosing a brief
anonymous note from the delinquent, saying, "'This, Sir,,
is the watch I roldad you of at Ilexhatts (mentioning the
particular place) above twenty-two years agu."—Drrhuml
I Chronicle. 1

PANIII.III OT 11R1XICING COLD WATItle-A healthy
stout mats, who usually threshed in the barns in Dobbie s
Lean, oprosite the Infirmary, Glas,,-ew, a few days ago
hired himself to go into the country to soap corn, and
unfortunately, when warm, took a drink of cold spring
water . he soon after became ill, and died at his residence,
Cowcaddens, on &Imlay lost, leaving a diaconse!....e widow
and feur ;11'..0.nt dradrati.

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