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London, England, 1825-12-28 00:00:00

THR ICING.

Wtranson, Dec. 24.
His Majesty's phaetons were ordered to be in attendance
at two o'clock this day, but, from the appearance of the
weather, it is not likely that his Majesty will leave the
Royal Lodge. • His Majesty attended the new private
chapel yesterday morning, where he heard divine service,
and received the sacrament from the Rev. Dr. Sumner, his
Majesty's private Chaplain. His Majesty did not take an
airing either on Saturday or yesterday.

Mr. Secretary Canning left his residence in Downing-
street, yesterday morning, on a visit to the King, at the
Royal Lodge, Windsor.
The remains of the Dowager Marchioness of Bath were
removed on Wednesday last, from her house in Lower
Grosvenor-street, for interment in the family vault in Wilts.,
Mademoiselle Bonini, who will make her first appearanc
in this country in the opera of /1 Crociato its Egittn, at
the King's Theatre, on Saturday evening, brings a high
refutation with her from the Continent. She is reported
to be an accomplished singer, and a very scientific mu-
sician. We understand this lady will be succeeded by
Pasta.

D'Egville has been rehearsing his new ballet at the
Opera-house nearly every day during the past week. Ilia
,figurantes will present a perfect novelty in the King's
Theatre ; where, during many years in this department,
we have been accustomed to old women. These worthy
persons have been in general pensioned off, and a number
of pretty faces introduced in their stead.
Mr. Bengough, formerly a performer at Drury-lane
Theatre, and lately at the Surrey and the Coburg Thea-
tres, died yesterday, after an illness of some weeks.

A person in Dalmellington (Ayrshire), in writing to a
friend here, says, " The only news I have to communicate
is the sudden death of the Rev. Mr. Currie, Minister of the
Gospel in Coraphairn, on Friday last. While marrying a
couple in the school-house there he suddenly dropped
down, in consequence of an apoplectic fit, just as he was
finishing the last sentence, and instantly expired."—
Stirling Journal.
We have been favoured with the perusal of a very polite
letter from Mr. Gcdby, of the General Post-office, Edin-
burgh, in reply to a communication from a gentleman in
town, regarding the transmission of letters to India, in
which he states that it is not necessary that newspapers for
India should be put into the Post-office on the day of pub-
lication, as the regulation, respecting them, remains ipt
formerly.—Paisley Advertiser.
Step TRADE .—lt is exceedingly irksome to as to be con-
tinually recurring to the deplorable state of' the silk-ma-
nufacture in this town and its vicinity. How many work-
ing people will be discharged this night we cannot say ;
but at present there are not less than eight thousand men,
women, and children, either wholly out of employ, or put
upon such short allowance of work, and at such reduced
prices, that the parish must soon have atburden thrown
upon it which will be insupportable. It is painful to
know that industrious families deprived of employ, are
now subsisting by selling or pawning their clothes, a re-
source which must soon fail them.—Macelerfirld Herald.
Our Liverpool correspondent states that it is confidently
reported there, that the opposition to the Manchester and
Liverpool rail-road will be abandoned, and that the
Marquis of Stafford hu purchased 100 shares in that very
useful public undertaking.
SINGULAR MISTAKES.—On Thursday morning last it
was stated that the packet-ship James Cropper, Captain
Marshall, had arrived at this port (Liverpool) from New
York. lt was subsequently discovered, however, that the
information was erroneous, the ship not having arrived.
The mistake arose thus. Capt. Marshall, of the James
Cropper, has a brother in command of the packet-ship
Manhattan, at present in port. The two brothers arc, we
understand, so very much alike in person that one bas
been frequently mistaken for the other. Qn the morning
in question a person met Capt. Marshall, of the Manhattan,
and not knowing that he was brother to the Captain of the
James Cropper, mistook him for the latter individual. So
confident was be that he had seen Captain Marshall, of the
James Cropper, that the statement of the vessel having ar-
rived was, on his authority, posted at Lloyd's and the Ex-
change-room. It is a singular proof of the personal
likeness of the two brothers, that a second gentleman said,
on Thursday forenoon, that he also had seen the Captain
of the James Cropper go through the Exchange-square !
This vessel arrived the next day.—Lireepoel
AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATIL—A mclanclwly instance of
of the uncertainty of human life occurred on Sunday. Mr.
Rowe, one of the chief constables of' Liverpool, and whose
duty it was to bear part of the civic regalia before the
Mayor to St. George's Church, was standing a few minutes
before eleven o'clock, in the vestibule of the Town-hall,
with his cloak on, waiting until his worship came out of
his room. Whilst conversing with one of his companions
Mr. Rowe turned his head a little, and suddenly fell down
on his fare. He was immediately raised up; but his eyes
were fixed, and the vital spark was fled. Mr. Rowe was
upwards of seventy years of age: and had been one of the
constables of the borough nearly thirty-three. Ile was a
man universally known and respected; and his awfully
sudden death has excited general regret—Liverpool .a/hion.
DARING ATTEMPT AT It01:Br.RY.—Ill the night t f Sa-
turday last a most daring attempt was made to rob the
Stamp-office, situate in the' ati Chnrchyarll, Liverpool.
The Stamp-office and the office of Messrs. Shand, Ellis,
and Shand adjoin each other. The entrance to the former
office is protected by two doors, both of which are ex-
tremely strong and well bolted. The robbers, aware of
this circumstance, made their entrance into the office of
Messrs. Shand, Ellis, and Shand, the doer of which W3S
protected by a single lock only. The two ((flees are se-
parated by a brick-wall, nearly a foot thick ; and the rob-
, hers, with the aid of a mallet and chisel, made a round
hole in it, sufficiently large to admit the betty of a man.
By this means they gained an entrance into one of the
closets belonging to the Stamp-office, in the hope of finding
in it the iron-chest in which the money is deposited. In
this, however, they were disappointed, the safe being
placed in an adjoining closet. But they found Mr. Stani-
forth's private desk, which they broke open, and robbed it
of sixpence in copper, having missed the sum of twenty
shillings in silver which was in it also. Determined, how-
ever, upon reaching the closet in which was the iron chest,
they had began to perforate the wall, in order to make a
hole similar to the one which they had made in the first.
In this operati"u, fortunately, they seem to have been SUN
prised, as they had only proceeded so Poe as to break the
plaster. They decamped so suddenly, that they left behind
them their tools. During the ti:ne they were in Messrs.
Shand, Ellis, and Shand'e office the robbers must have re-
regaled themselves, as broken fragments of fowl were found
ni the room. We understand that they would have been
disappointed of much booty, even if they had succeeded in
reaching and opening the iron-chest, as Mr. Staniforth '
rarely keeps much money there.—Liverpool raper.
We have read in PK :tral journals an account of six dead
bodies being brought into Dover on Sunday last, but after
diligent inquiry we can find not the smallest ground for
the report. A number of dead bodies did arrive about that
time, but the numberfar exceeded six—they were turkeys,
and known to be from France, not even supposed to be
from the Ogle Castle.—Cintee Poet: Herald..

TO TILE EDITOR oF THE BRITISH PRESS
St rt-1 addressed to you, shout a fortnight ago, a few re-
marks on the much agitated question of the Slut Taeae,
and I addressed them to you with the more confidence
because I felt satisfied that you' would receive them with
=doer, and that they would obtain from the amputee_
turers themselves a fair and impartial consideration. On
every queation of political e
conomyc which the pasting
events of the 'day have brnr discussion yet,
hare displayed more profound views, and illustrated them
with more clearness, than I have met with in any other
daily journal. At the same time, however, there are
many points on the subjett before us upon which 1 differ
from you, and from those whose sentiments you
may very justly be tuppased to convey. That you
have no wish to excite any unnecessary apprehension I
am sincerely convinced. I have no doubt but that
you actually. feel all the alarm from the collie.
quences of removing the prohibition from foreign
silk, which you so forcibly express; but my own impres-
sion is, that the consequences you describe are not hkely
to ensue. If your premises were true, I should then
readily admit that your conclusions were correctly &atm;
but as to the total ruin of this branch of trade, and the
throwing out of work the numbers said to be employed in
it—there is no likelihood, I apprehend, that any such evil
will arise. How can you suppose that the manufacturers of
France, who even during the time of the prohibitory
system in England, have been as actively employer! as
they could be, can all on a sudden be prepared to supple
the full consumpt;on of the English market, which, "i
doubt not, is nearly as great as that of the whole continent?
Are the French manufacturers to neglect all their former
connexions, and withhold the regular supply from
their own market, for the purpose of speculating in a new
one, with which they have but little, if any, previous ac-
quaintance, and in which they have no regular connexion
formed ? If therefore you, and your readers concerned in
the silk-manufacture, reflect for a moment, that before the
continental manufacturers can, with certainty, employ any
great number of their looms for the London market, it must
be the work of time, and not a short time either, you will
be forced to admit that the British silk trade has nothin;
like immediate ruin to dread. With the talents and loud
judgment that you manifestly possess, you are capable of
affording much valuable information, and of giving much
useful advice, but you may, at the same time, occasion
much evil by creating unnecessary alarm; because, taking
things at the worst, and even at the full extent of your or-
ticipatious, it will take years before the foreign silk mine-
facturer can supply the English market with goods equal
to its demand, and for the present the English manufac-
turer will secure himself from loss, if he only, as a prem.-
tionary means, reduces his work. If he stops it entirely, 1 e
will only secure success to his rivals; and being left alone
in the market, they will, in the end, obtain a price for
their goods which would • have amply compensated the
English manufacturer.

If this takes plate, the latter will repent his hasty dcci.
sion, in giving up his manufactory, but he will repent,
when it is too late, that he has given way to feats for
which there was no sufficient foundation. While therefore
1 contend that nothing can be so fatal to this branch of in.
dustry as the great dismay that seems to prevail, 1, on the
other hand think, that good advice is much wanted, and
may be most salutary, and this service your columns ma:,
most essentially render. Admitting the imposaility Of
the French supplyino, fully the English market—especially
in its first imports—l should incline to advise the manu-
facturers not to despair; nor to abandon themselves to the
idea of being unable to compete with their rivals. I would
entreat them to reflect, that ahhough, by the sth of July
next, the importation of foreign wrought silks should be
permitted, yet that the foreign manufacturer cannot at
once supply all that will be required for our consumption,
and that the advantages with which his limited supply will
come into the market, will be in some degree compensat,d
by the thirty per cent. duty, anti that at all events we mint
have a considerable share—if not thogreatost share—of the
market.

Let it bo remembered that until the repeal of th, prohi.
bitory system came under consideration, but little, if any,
improvements had been made by the English in the
mode of manufacturing their silks. Secured against the
introduction of foreign goods, the English manufacturers
were content to carry on th:ir business in the same man-
ner as their predecessors ; but no sooner was it intimated
that the trade would be thrown open, than they endea-
voured to ascertain what improvements could be made, and
it is a well-known and important fact, that within the las:
two•years looms have been constructed and are now in use
which will produce, at a very little additional expense,
nearly five times the quantity of silk produced by the
looms previously employed. Ido not pretend to offer any
opinion as to the time within which these improved learn;
may be brought into general use, but if such (and within
I so short a period) has been the effect of anticipated coin-
' petition, what may we not expect from British skill and in-
dustry aided by capital, when forced into actual competi-
tion ? Should the result even be such is to evince that we
have a chance of success, we shall at leagt not be ruined
by the trial. We shall have profited by the experiment,
and we may feel confident that should practice prove the
theory of Ministers to be erroneous, they will not be back-
ward to devise other and better means of protection. From
their generosity towards the Silk Trade, by giving back to
it the large stun of five hundred thousand pounds, we may
rest assured that they will not readily permit a trade to be
ruined for the encouragement of which they tr.vc already
done so much.

Inintyhfaotrmiterwcilolmbmenonuicat toiofntilmhpuavweesrtoaffel my con-
viction
theeriliss
successfUlly to cnmpete with the French manufacturers,
so long as they shall be obliged to pay fourteen or fftetn
per. cent. dearer for the taw material: but as this 'tiff-
culty cannot be retuoved without the risk of materially
injuring the throwster, I think the attention of his Maicst-
ty's Ministers should be particularly drawn to the preclud-
ing, by every possible means, the clandestine imports:lot
of French goods, which, if not effectually checked, will
occasion incalculAlc injury to the Silk Trade. I wish to di,
understood as speaking on the supixvition that the law sr
it now stands will be carried into tact, htat without
nouncing any opinion upon its policy. My sentiments mi
that point will he the subject of a futme ktter, havittc
already trespassed too long on your indulgence. My objcc:
is impartiality, and full and fair discussion, and I therc!ct.:
again claim to subscribe myself
A CALM OBSERVER.
' CONSPIRACY AT Sr. SErAs:rtAy.—We have recc;v: •
further particulars respecting the conspiracy at St. S,•bri-
tian, and we arc concerned to fin,' that an Etigrislintsr.
named Jenkins, has, on the stispkion of being itnplicAt.
in the affair, been treated in the west igncininicus
thrust into a Spanish' prison, and actually march,: I
fetters to Bayonne. At this plsea be r.-n^ itnnwilintely (--
tiered out of confinement, by the Frcr,ell G-n-nandant..
tha prompt and d. terminal n of the En:.
Consul. We shall to-morrow give a.. 1 the partenl,•
his examination before the commandants at St.
and at Bayonne; his innecenca is arpari tit, free!
being released, one, receiving palTort3 to p1r,•e,..1
land. A Frenchman, said to
racy, is in chains at Bayonne. Ti..e•mar.: a: iLe ?:!1
Madrid to France, has been intercepted by alcro:ed 1•
—nothing but the Government dcvatcht
PARLIAMENTARY rIF. , lis said to he t!..? i -

tion of Alt. Hume, early in the onuing,S.F,i, . It, ti` C,,, ~
a return of the tannbr of sytare can'scf plwr-:-• :,'
consumed on Christmas-dav in London and W(sn:.,; • : •
distingnishing the strocts, lanes, and ttlioyS in Idlic., !
consumption took place, and rto•ing tl!c speci!it trivi.. 1.
each description of padding. The ohje:t of :qr. Ilirr c, usaid to be tivc-fold; hut the princ:;•al Fiat i, :,, 1-r., .- ~
u
the lower classes of p:ople in this contry :r- . th.. ri,•
wretched on the face of the etnah, and that it 1:7 : !2. r
a want of education that we are 10 :11:ri'a..., ;'•.''r ::'5:

racy in persisting in rre'crt:ng r;t.t.s:l,:-.:tf an I Pi.
ding to Scotch broth.
MURDEIL—The body ef a man, mho la' LA.:: I:1]
days missing, has been fonntl in the tei:',lt!tott,
Kilcolgan, with marlcs of ‘iol,:oco about
tithe proctor to the Itevc:cail Mr. nuke,
is supposed to have been inurikicil while in di::
of his duty. A policetuan who came here fcr a CjTOll, !
formed us of the circumstance, but we have not het::
to learn the verdict.—G.:!L•a: .!dr:?tiscr.

LITE:RJR?' G f,EANINGS.
No. LXXII.

AT'...tSSINATION OF MARAT DV CIFARLOTTE
CORDAY.
_

. _
Corday was born at St. Saturnin des Lignerets,
1768. Nature had bestowed on her a hand-
wit, feeling, and a masculine energy of under-
received her education in a convent; but
frivolous minutiae of that species of educa-
well with constant assiduity to cultivate her
, and hourly strengthened that bent of her
towards the qrund and sublime which accorded
illext;)le purity of her manners, while it fitted
pori:ous emery:lac, to which,, at the ago of
Ity, she fell a devoted sacriliee.
Raynal was her favourite author among
Hers- She frequontly quoted his thoughts and
She delighted to explore new systems and the-
Revolution found her an ardent proselyte to
to which it owed its origin.
study rendered her careless of the homage
beauty attracted, and her desire of independence
- to refuse many offers of marriage from men to
heart was indifferent. But even philosophy
patriotism could not_always render the breast of their
-,,y1 heroic disciple invulnerable to the shaft of
e young and handsome Belzunce, Major-en-
the regiment of Bourbon, quartered at Caen,
oted to her, and succeeded .o inspire her with
virtuous as prOfound. This young officer was
the 11th of August, 1789, by a furious mul-
e Karat, in several successive numbers of his
ailed L'Ami du Penple, had denounced the un-
Belzunce as a counter-revolutionist.
-t moment the soul of Charlotte Corday knew
, and reposed only on the desire of vengeance
whom she believed to be the author of her

hatred of Marat became yet more vehement after
the 31st of May, when she beheld him who
the death of lielzunce now master as it were
destiny of France ; while the Deputies, whose
' • loved and whose talents she honoured, were
and destitute fugitives, and looking vainly to
,ry, to Frenchmen, and the laws, to save them
outstretthed sword of tyranny. Then it was
Charlotte Corday resolved to satisfy the vengeance of
and snatch her country from the grasp of the

ute with perseverance and caution that which
planned upon principle, was natural to the tleter-
' steady mind of Charlotte Corday. She left
9th of July, 1793, and arrived about noon on
at Paris. Some commissions with which she

by her family and friends occupied her the
'her arrival. Early on the next morning she
Pa!ale Royal, bought a knife, and, getting
hackney-coach, drove to the house of Marat. It
• then possible for her to obtain an audience of
ugh she left nothing uneasayed that she thought
influence in her favour the persons who denied her

returned to her hotel she wrote the following letter

am jest arrived from Caen. Your love for your
Inclines me to strppa•ie you will listen with pleasure to
• events of that part of the Republic. I will present
your house; hare the goodness to give orders for my
and grant me a moment's private coorcrsation—l can
• means by which you may render an imporiant service

that this letter might not produce the effect
. upon Marat, she wrote a second letter, still
pressing, which she intended to carry with her, and
for hint in case she was not received. It was ex-
' •M

to you this morning, citizen Illara4 Rave you re.
letter ? 1 cannot imagine it is possible you have,
your door still closed against mc. I entreat that you
e an interview to-morrow. I repeat—that I come from
have scents to reveal to you of the highest importance
or the Republic. Besides, lam cruelly persecuted
of liberty. lam unfortunate; to say that is sufficient
to your protection."

unnecessary to present the second letter ; for,
Charlotte Corday arrived at the house of Marat,
seven and eight in the evening, and spoke impres-
- desire to see him to the women who opened
,tarat, who heard her from his bath, where he
concluded it was the person from whom he had,
he letter of the morning, and ordered that she
imedlately be admitted.
alone with him whom she intended to immo.
manes of her lover and the injuries of her
1 sitting close by his side, she answered with
perfect self-possession to his eager questions re.
the proscribed Deputies that were at Caen. He
their namen with those of the magistrates of
'I of whom site named accurately. While be
.oranduins of their conversations upon his tablets,
Corday measured with her eye the spot whereon
; when Must having said that all these Deputies
accomplices should presently expiate their treason
scaffold, her indignation received his words ai the
vengeance; she snatched the weapon from her
' buried the entire knife in his heart ! A single
escaped the miserable wretch: " For me !" he
_ _ _

and unmoved amidst the general consternation,
-day, as if she proposed to atone for the mur-
she deemed it necessary, by a public death,
attempt her escape. She had received several
on the bead from a neighbour of Marat, the
ran into the room on hearing the news of his
but when the armed force arrived she put
t their protection. An officer of the police
lutes of the assassination, which site cheerfully
was then conveyed to the prison of the Abbey.
ittd, abused, and even personally ill-treated, by
of Ararat, she was three days exposed in her
ill their insults and ill-usag: she was
:al. During this interval she found means to
father, imploring his forgiveness for having
I of her life withont his concurrence.
the presence of the men about to decide upon
that one should have seen Charlotte Corday to
the grandeur of her character. The records of
tnd her own letters, give but a faint picture of
! and noble department. If she spoke to ber
was neither with the wild energy of a demoniac,
affect the language of innocence; it was with
is action of a voluntary victim, who feels it
levote her life to the salvation of her country,
vetdeome death as the expiation of a crime, but
the inevitable consequence of a mighty effort
Injuriesof a nation. While the curses of an
I prejudic2ll People resounded on all aides,
I neither acorn nor indignation. When abe
i the angry multitude, her eyes expressed
pity for the sufferings and delusion of her
If she despised the men who sat in judg-
life, she forbore to insult them. While her
nmon were animated with the bloom of youth
her words were graced with the eloquence of a

Ice made by her Counsel deserves to be re-
for its peculiar propriety in her circum-

beard," said her Counsel, altogether Confounded by
e bad displayed, " the answers of the prisoner t shc
her guilt ; she even acknowledges, in a very deli-
, her long premeditation of the event. She has not
the most revolting of its circumstances to pass un.
She confesses the whole charge, and does not seek

to justify baself. This immovable temper, this ab.
lon of in the very presence, I may say, of death—
of all remome, these are so far from being natural,
I be only resolved into that political frenzy which
lard in the hands of a maniac ; and it is for you, el-
determine what weight lifts consideration ouirit to
11C4 of justice."

tumult and load app lsuses that followed her
had ceased, she addressed herself to 11:r

:efentled me," she said, " in a manner as generous
was tastily one that could have rendered me that
'as your object t accept my thanks and my esteem.
7) s .r.fortn me that of rrorerty is coollscated t but
little debts to pay in my r-ison ; and, as it proof of
11,:. you, I glee the perfurtnanee of this my last duty

Sher psnishment had drawn immense crowds

into every avenue to the place of execution. When sue
appeared alone with the executioner in the cart, in despite
of the constrained attitude in which she sat, and of the
disorder of her dress (for, with k litt!encsa of malice, they
had despoiled her of everything that could contribute to
the decency of her appearance), she excited the silent at
of those even who were hired to curse her. One
man alone had courage to raise his voice in her praise : he
was a deputy from the city of Mentz ; his name was Adam
Lux. He cried, " She is greater than Brutusl7 He pub-
lished the same sentiment, and signed his own condem-
nation. He was shortly after guillotined.

RHYMES IN PRAISE OF RHYME.
iTIOM 11159 svArta's corms.]
Though we roust own, poetic dicticn
Too oft delights to deal in fiction ;
Yet this is certain, honest Rhyme
Will tell plain truth at any time,
And in oae word will oft say more
Than the best Prose could in a score.
A few plain cases we shall state,
To free this matter from dehate. •
31-.4 you yon glutton at a feast?
And what says Rhyme? he calls him—Beast;
See you yon Drunkards swilling wine'
Rhyme in a mum:tit names them—Swine;
When Flavia, not content with four,
Adds a fifth husband to her store,
Rhyme thinks a word, but speaks no more;
What wants that Senator who blasters,
And all his tropes and figures musters,
Against the man who rules the Steerage?
Rhyme whispers in your ear—a Peerage.
What makes yon Patriot strain his lungs,
And bawl as loud as twenty tongues,
To prove his Country's dire disgrace?
Rhyme smiling says—a Place, a Place.
W hen Priests above seek their abode,
Yet love to loiter on the road,
And still on Lords and Statesmen fawn,
Rhyme shakes his head; and whispers—Lawn
Which is the Nymph, who, soon as seen,
Is hail'd through Europe, Beauty's Queen,
Before whose charms the fairest fade?
Rhyme gently sighs—the British Maid.
Which is the Man, whose daring soul
Conducts in war, from pole to pole,
His country's proud triumphant car?
Rhyme shouts aloud—the British Tar.

THE CHURCH.

The Rev. R. Pole, B.A. is instituted to the Rectory of
Sherlock, in Cornwall, on the presentation of the Right
lion. R. P. Carew.

The Rev. Rowland Huisli is instituted to the Vicarage
of East Coker, Dorset, void by the death of the Rev.
James Carrington, clerk.

ROMISII SUPERSTITIOY.

During what were called the Bible discussions in Ire-
land the Roman Catholic priests boasted of the unity of
their faith, and reproached the Protestants with the absurd
fanaticism ti some of the sects which have grown out of the
renunciation of the papal authority. Without asking whe-
ther any disciple of Joanna Southcott can exceed in credu-
lity the besotted believers in Prince Holicnlolie's miracles,
we should be glad to know what opinion we ought to form
of a church which authorises the sale of such revolting trash
as the following, which we copy from the books sold by
the Romish missionaries in the French departments.

" PRAYER TO STOP THE TOOTH-ACHE.
"Saint Apoline seated on the marble stone, our Lord passing
there said to him, • Apoline, what dolt thou there ? ' • 1 am
here for my chief, for my blood, and fur my tooth-ache.' Apoline,
return: •If it in a drop of blood, it will fall; if it is a worm it
will die.' Fire Pater ind Eve Ave Maria, in honour and to the
intention of the fire wounds of our Saviour Jesus Christ. The
sign of the cross on the cheek with the fingte, against the pain which
is felt, anti in a Ter: abort time you will be cured."
" PRAYER TO STOP THE BLEEDING OF ANY SORT OF CUT,
AND ALL SORTS OF WOUNDS.
"God wns born on Christmas night, at midnight God died.;
God rose again ; 00t1 commanded that the blood should stop, that
the wound should close, that the pain should pass. and that it
should neither suppurate nor swell, nor show proud flesh, as the
five wounds of our S.iviour did. Fetus est Christus mostmus est,
et rearre.rit Christi's. sktepcessliese Mfr words thiler, and ruff
time blow to the brm of a crosedif the wound, naming the name of
the person, saying—• God has cured thee, so be It.' . The ninth
day shall be a fiat, on account of the five wounds of our Saviour
Jesus Christ."

" PRAYER FOR RHEUMATISM •1113 °Tura TAWS.
" The blessed 'slat Anr. , who bore the Virgin 3lary, the Vie.
gin Illary, silo bare Jesus Christ: God cure thee and bless thee,
poor creature N. from diulocation, wound, fracture, impediments,
and all sorts of infirmities, for the honour of God and the Virgin
Mary, as Saint Come and Saint Damim cured the tire wounds of our
Lord. _

----;
" bay three Pater and three Ave for nine days, every morning
fasting, in honour of the *Anguish whica our Saviour suficrtd on
Calvary."
• There are similar prayers for the itch, for venni:: fevers, for dis.
persing bad spirit:, for preserving front Me clouds, for sore eyes ;
there are others in which medicines or pharmaceutical receipts are
routed with invocations, as the following:—
" olutvEn FOR CURING QUICKLY FROM TIIE COLICK.
" Put the thumb of the right hand on the pain, and say--• Mary
who art Mary, or Colick passion, which arc between my liver and
my heart, my spleen and my lung., stop in the name of the Fa-
ther, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, and say three Pater and three
Ate, and name the name of the person, saying, • God has cured
thee. Amen.'"

" PRATER roes CUIRING ALL SORTS OF BURY&
" Three different times you will blow on them in the form of the
cross, and say, ' Fire of God, lose thy heat as Judas lost his colour
when he betrayed our Saviour in the Garden of Olives, and name
the name of the person, saying, God has cured thee by his power,
without forgetting the nine days' fast, on account of:the live wounds
of our Saviour Jesus Christ. So be it.' "

(A number of other prayers of the same description are girer..)
There are also prayers for animals the following is •specimen

" PRAYERS TOR CURING HORSES OF TILE GRIPES.
" Black or grey hone,—for the colour of the hair of the beat.
must be distinguished,—belonging to N., if thou haat the glanders,
of whatever co:our they are, or in thirty-six sorts of ailments, what-
ever they.mny be, God cure thee and the blessed St. EloL
" In the name of the Father and the Holy Ghost, so be it.
" And you will say live Pater and five Ave Maria, to thank
God for his Grace."

On Wednesday evening, the Church of Monmouth re-
ceived a very violent electric shock. The lightning struck
the cranks, to which the wire is fastened, and commu-
nicated with the wires belonging to seven of the other
1 bells, and to ate hammers which strike the hour, all of
which were melted. No injury vas done to the clock, or
to the building.
FALL or Ilonsec—Wednesday afternoon a dreadful
occurrence took place in Nelson-street, Birmingham, by
the falling of two houses recently erected, in consequence
of which one person was killed and four others more or less
injured. The houses had been very slightly built, and
about nine weeks ago an arch, which had been run over a
cellar, gave way. The accident was repaired, and the
building run up and closed in. • A few days since the same
arch a second time gave way and fell into the cellar. The
building, however, was still considered safe, and on Wed-
, nesday tire persons were at work in various parts of it • two
of them in tha cellar, cleaning and bringing out the bricks,
when about four in the afternoon the whole building sud-
denly gave way and fell with a tremendous crash, burying
in its ruins all the persons on the premises. Four of the
men succeeded in making their way out without receiving
any material injury, but the other remained beneath the
rubbish. A number of persons immediately set to wothto
remove the mass of timber and bricks by which the unfor-
tunate man was overwhelmed, but near an hour and a half
had elapsed before he could be found, and he was at that
time quite dead. Tho name of the deceased is Philip
Haines. The buildings. are entirely destroyed, all the
walls having fallen completely level with the ground.—
rmingha In Journal.
Two men, in a state of intoxication. fought in Isling-
ton.fields on Monday, and one of them, Barnard Ilarrkon, a
sawyer, was killed Oct a fight of twenty minutes. firs imago..
nist immediately absconded.

SHOP Ronessv.—A few nights since, two persona,
dressed like gentlemen, went into the latter of Mr. L. Pettit, watch-
msker, at the side of Fleet.muket, and begged to see a band.
some silver watch. 31r. Pettit produced several, and after a good
deal of examination they at length decided on one, and one of the
fellows took oat his purse to pay for it, at the same time remark-
ing that Le should want the usual appendages of chain, seals, key.
&c. Mr. P. turned round to get them, and the fellows darted olf
with a ease containhg twelve watches and four :ale., and escaped.

THE BRITISH PRESS.

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