The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-12-26 00:00:00

'UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.

No. LXX.
is GOLDEN TOOEII.—FONTENELLE says, "If asi
of a Oct were always ascertained before its caw
Inquired into, or its nature disputed, much ridicult
be avoided by the learned." In illustration of thin,
be relates the following whimsical anecdote:—
131:4:1 a report prevailed, that a child in Silesia,
sego' old, having lost its first teeth, in the new vet
tsr go!el grew up in place of one of the cheek teeth.
~ professor of mrtlicins in the University of
ri.Anit, became so convinced of the truth of this story,
to trade a history of this tooth, in which he affirtned
iris partly natural and partly miraculous, and that
'lbw' sent by heaven to that child to console the poor
tr.. oppressed by the Turks. It is not, however,
psi to conceive what consolation the Christians could
,froin this tooth, nor what relation it could bear W

leen!, however, was but one historian of the tooth ;
caws 'ear that this work appeared, RULLANDeI
6 soother history of it. Two years afterwards, IN-
aos, another learned man, wrote in opposition to
saes rispeoting the golden tooth, who failed not to
,inry elaborate and scientific reply. Another great
busies, collected all that had been said on the
std : deed his own peculiar doctrine.
othing was wanting to so many tine works, but a
'dot this tools was really of gold ; a goldsmith at
was called to examine it, who ilkcovered that it wall
gm of leaf gold applied to the tooth with considerable
f Their books wore first composed on as assumed
, ad Men the goldsmith consulted."
lEstsr Ilevarima.—lo the early period of the French
0,140, when the Church of bi. Genevieve, at Paris,
scowled him/a Pantheon, to be dedicated to the it
pies drat, Me remains of Rmissean were among the
this were deposited there. They were enclosed in a
• made of boards and plaster, in the form of a
or coffer, at each end of which were folding-
qparently capable of being opened.
of they flaps. was open, and out of it projected
rl arm, chi hand grasping a torch, the flame of
,')read oil over the monument. On cousidering the
sod eircarnatances when this monument was con-
d, there is no denbt that the artist intended to re-
{ this philosopher u enlightening the world
.frnm the)
gf his toad), hut the mere aspect of this ex-
id arm, and this furiously flaming brand, rather lug-
the idea of an attempt to .s.t the u'arld on, fire. In
it appears to he an emblem much more proper to
re the memory of Eaos rnart•s, than that of the
! of the "Social Contract," understood as its par-
understand it.
This sarcophagus is diatiogu- ished by bring adorned with
trunks of trees, billets of wood, and branches with
instead of pilasters and other ornaments. The artist
s to hive had in his mind the idea of
.fiereaf semprr,
cad verdure ; hut this is no less impossible to be eve-
ed expressively in scolptiire, than to be insured to the
Nikolais of a writer of the character of J: J. Rousszeth•
Ter Flall AND TUE Boos.—ln the year 1626, a god
ins opened at Cambridge Market, and lo! in its
found a hook! hfr. c an, in a letter to =
_

,Ifcr.r.r, preserved in the British Museum, gives the
Cowing ray accurate and very grave account of this
'ire, if not strange accident."
•4 (Aises Church College, June 24th, 1626.
"Bat I wiil now tell you of an accident here at Cam-
ille, rare, if not strange, whereof I was, yesterday morn-
( sr. eye-witness myself. A book in decimo see°, of
bigger size, found in the maw of a cod-fish, then
piled in our fish-market in the presence of many. In
aewme were two pieces of sail cloth, one, half an ell at
it least, of unequal breadth, but in some part very broad;
k other, about half a yard long, of the breadth of a pod.
These were found wrapp.-d in the bottom of tb
enact; the book above them.
"The title of the book, being opened, was on the top of
leery P- 711TION TO Tlll It

of ionse
the like, to be written about the tnd of 1,
(May VIII. wt. An I was afterwards fully confirmed *
we other passages, if all be of one author.
" When I first saw it, it seemed almost turned into a
T, and consumed; yet, though it were loathsome then
handle or stand over, yet, finding the table of the two
looks of the Preparation to the Crosse in the middle parts,
is/ so not ri slimy, with a tender lifting with my knife, I
all them all, put clean papet between these leaves to pre.
are them, and since escribed all, being the contents of
very several chapter. The first was A Preparation to
du Crosse, and how it mbar be patiently borne.' I took
iikeial notice of two other:-
1. If thou be tempted of the faith of thy parents :
u, wherefore bellevest not thou that which thy forefathers
hare believed ?

" '2. If than be tempted of strange religion, of woe-
kipping of saints, pictures or images, or men.' There
iris another book at the end of these, in whose title-leaf
tlis amid the vintents was 'A Letter, which was written
11 the faithful Followers of Christ's Gospel!?

" I saw all with mime own eyes, the 'fish, the maw, the
deers of sail-eoth, the book, and observed all I have
written; only I saw not the opening of the fish, which
act many ilia, being upon the filly.votnan's stall in the
market, who first cut off his head, to which the maw was
Imaging, and seeming much stuffed with somewhat, it
wu searched, and all found as aforesaid. Ile that had
had his nee as near as I yester-morning, would have
been persuaded there was no imposture here without wit-
new. The fish came from Lynn. llusv they fed Lim
there l know not."

11e hare here a remarkable instance of the gross decep-
timu which, in On age of superstition, may be practised
14 ),an the credulity of minds that on all ordinary subjects
Si: staciently reflective, and upon men who, when their
worldly intereets ate concerned, are by no means so easily
" I ante all with mine own eyes," says this honest
::tester of the miralle ; •" the fish, the maw, the pieces of
11:i-cloth, the book, and observed all I have written ;" but
oat comes the unh..Ay exception, "only / saw not the
'f the fish, which not many did." There were
.s.sise some other little parts of the process, which he
(1,1 not see, but which lie might have seen, we suspect,
he been let into the secret, viz. the opening and
wnp-
the maw of the cod-fish to pat in the Gook, and.the
1::fully sewing it op again!

Yo ELECTION,---A requisition to Lord Alor-
Petit is now in course of signature, requesting him to °Ter
torten' as a candidate for the representation of the county
of York at the next general election, in the cause of civil
telirio•n and in support of the enlightened sys-
re's of legislation by which the great interests of the coun-
try are to he upheld.—Leeds Mercury.
During the panic Which lately convulsed the commercial
world, it is downing of notice that Dot oue failure was
.klare.l in the chanty of Lincoln.

The drain upon saving-banks during the late financial
ina:e is a proof of the eaten: to which absurd alarms may
ro when once raised. In one town where a private bank
tailei, demands to' he amount of thirty thousand pounds
were iinrnediately made upon the managers of a savings-
tank, though the public faith is pledged that the depositors
shall in no event suffer loss.
HON TST THIEVEL—One evening last week, as a poor
ell st.nuan was returning home to Ilcughtott 13ottems,
&::e was stopped by six villains, who demanded her money :
tiae poor creature, trembling for her life, begged they would
sot roh her, as she had a large family starving at home.
Puy remained inexorable' when she was compelled to
gi,e Up six shilling;, which she had just / received for some
work she hail b, en ta7zin; to the warehouse. One of the
• however, (less hardened than the rest), returned
'et yaws rieees of money, which he, no doubt, considered
:3 he thr..e shillings. She then proceeded homewards, but
L3A: lax got far on the road, when she heard the foouteps
gaol behind her : she immediately ran off, and had
/tut time to take shelter In a neighbouring house—the vil-
lain' g close at her heels. To cut the matter short,
• kicking afterwards at she coin which one of the party
higiren her, she discovered them to be three sovereigns.
*-L ir3"•poalle re?, ry

The ITALIAN OPERA in
.14e UNITED STATES.

[Prom the New Ynrk Ereuishe Post of N0v.30.]
THE OPERA.
Last evening was presented at our Park Theatre, and
for the first time to an American audience, this elegant and
charming sister of the Drama. The house was opened at
half-past seven, and before eight o'clock, the hour of com-
mencing, it was quietly and eutitely filled. An assemblage
of ladies so fashionable, so numerous, and so elegantly
dressed, was probably never witnessed in our theatre.
The restless anticipation which always precedes the ap-
proach of an untried pleasure dwelt on every countenance,
and made the company itself peculiarly interesting to an
observer.
14 'what language shall we speak of an entertainment so
novel in this country, but which has so long ranked as the
most elegant and refined among the amusements of the
higher classes of the old world ? All have obtained a
general idea of the opera from report. But report can
give but a faint idea of his seen, it will never he
believed that a play can be conducted in recitative or sing-.
ing and yet appear nearly as natural as the sltilinary drama.
We were last night surprised, delighted, enchanted: arid
such were the feelings of all who witnessed the performance.
The repeated plaudits with which the theatre rung were
unequivocal unaffected hoists of rapture.
'f be Opera was entitled It liashicre di and we
suppose brought out tne strength of the troupe. There
word no less than six whom we should esteem, in the ordi-
nary comedy, performers of the first order, •considered
merely as actors, and independently of their vocal powers.
Their style or manner of acting differs widely from any to
;which we breve been .accustomed. in the male performers
you are struck with the
.variety, novelty, and passion of
their ekpeessive, characteristic, and unceasing gesticula-
Son.
The female performers, on the contrary, appeared to us
to have Ices action, though quite as much expression as
■ny we had ever before seen. There is indeed in their
style of acting a moat remarkable chasteness and pro-
priety ; never violating good taste nor exceeding the
strictest bounds of female decorum. The daughter, Sig-
norina Garcia, seems to us a being of new creation ;
a" cunning pattern of excelling nature;" equally surpris-
ing to by the melody and tones of her voice and by the
propriety and grace of her acting.
We arc sorry that we hare no time to make any re-
marks on the musical performance and powers of these
welcome strangers. The Opera lasted from eight until
half-past eleven o'clock, and we have never heani such
enthusiastic remarks, on any similar occasion, as were made
in the lobby after its close. We consider the question
whether the American taste will bear the Italian Opera as
now settled. 4'e predict that it will never hereafter dis-
pense with it. Nothing could have been more judicious
and liberal, if they wished that it should obfain a perma-
nent establishment among us, than the course the mana-
gers have pursue]. They have brought out at once a large
number of first-rate performers, and we may boast that we
begin with as good a troupe as London, Paris, or Naples
elan furnish.

On Saturday the 17th inst. the last day of term, the fol-
lowing Degrees were conferred in this L'llieereity :-,-
HOCTOg IN DIVINITY.—Rey. Joseph White Niblock, St.
Edmund Hall.
DOCTOR IN CIVIL LAW..—Rev. Thomas Leeson Cursham,
Vicar of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. Lincoln College. _
MASTERS or Asurs.—John Wright, Brasennose College,
grand compounder; Rev. Sidney William Cornish, Fellow of Ex.
eter College; 'William de Capell Brooke, Bresermoso College;
Rev. Stephen Sanderson, Pembroke College.
BACHELORS OF AllTS.—John Nelson Palmer, St. JoT
College, grand compounder; Thomas Iforrls,
.Magdsk II ;ts
Thomas Sale, Dem, of 31sgelalen College; Roger Pillthstawitt•
eier College; William Palmer, St- Mary flail • Win= Luke
Nichols, Queen's College; Illishe William Hood, Wodhen Col-
lege; George Arthur Smyth, Edmund 11411; Thomas Riddell,
Edmund !fall ; John Parry, Craven Scholar, and Scholar of Bra-
Iciness College; Cyrus Morrell, ltrasennoseCollege; John Derby
Ness, Lord Crewe's Exhibitioner. Lincoln College; George Wil-
liam Brooks; Christ Church; Edward Jones, J College;
! Can uis Christi, Collage; Huth-
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-av•.!l-

THE CH,

gur.

The King has granted to the Rev. John Davison, B.D.
late Fellow of Ortel College, Oxford, the place and dignity
of Prebendary of Worcester Cathedral, in the room of Dr.
Wingtlehl, deceased.
On the 9th inst. the Rev. Francis Charles Massingberd,
M.A. and late Demy of Magdalen Concise, Oxfonl, was in-
stituted by the Lord Bishop of Lincoln, to the United Rec-
tory cf South Ormsby, with Kctsby, Dtiby, and the
Vicarage of Calez:by annexed, on the presentation of Ms
uncle, C B. Massingberd, Esq: of Ormsby Hall, Lincoln-
shire.

On Thursday se'nnibht the Rev. Charles Trelawny
Collins, M.A. and Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, was
instituted by the Lord Bishop of Bath end Wells, to the
Rectory of Timebury, void by the death of the Rev. Wm.
Brudenell Barter, on the presentation of the Master and
Fellows of the said College.
The Rev. William Scarborough, B.A. and Chaplain of
Christ Church, Oxford, is nominated, by the Dean and
Chapter, to the Lectorship and Perpetual Curacy of Market
Ilarborough, in the county of Leicester.
On Sunday last the lion. and Right Rev. the Lord
Bishop of Oxford held an Ordination in All Souls'
College Chapel, when the fo:lowing gentlemen were or-
dained :

DEACONS.—Robni Sherson, A.B. St. Mary Hall, Curate of
Rothertleld Peppard ; James Temple Mansel, B.A. Student of
Christ Church; Robert Hussey, B.A. Student of Christ Church;
Honoratus Leigh Thomas B.A. Student of Christ Church ; Thos.
Shawe Helder, B.A. Lincoln College, Curate of St. Aldate's;
William Legge, B.A. Student of Christ Church ; William Francis
Harrison, B.A. Demy of Magdalen College; John William
Lockwood, M.A. Student of Christ Church; Henry Gregory,
B.A. Christ Church, Curate of Halley; Matthew Hughes Geo.
Buckle, B.A. Scholar of Iradharn College ' • Charles Bathurst,
If C.L. Student of Christ Church ; James ill aellcy, B.A. Scholar
of Worcester College; James Hughes, B.A. Scholar of Jesus
College; James Russell Phillott, B.A. Demy of Magdalen Col-
lege; James Rhoades, B.A. Scholar of Wadhani College; George
Powys Stopford, B.A. Fellow of All Souls' College; George Mon-
ninguan, B.A. Chaplain of Worcester College.
Palmyra —James Thompson, B.A. Fellow of Liocolkollege ;
Charles Kevem IVilliams, B.A. Scholar of Pembroke College;
IVilliam Stone, M.A. Fellow of Brazenness College; William
Archibald Home, M.A. Student of Christ Church ; Sidney Wil-
liam Cornish, B.A. Fellow of Exeter College; Augustus Page
Saunders, M.A. Student of Christ Church; George Henry
wood, 111. A. Curate of Burford ; Edward Hay, M.A. Student of
Christ Church; Thomas Hart Dyke, B.A. Student of Christ
Chard) ; Arthur Bennett Meehan?. M.A. Fellow of Corpus Christ
College ; Stanley Miller, B.A. Curate of Swalcliffe ; William
Scarbrough, B.A. Chaplain of Christ Church; Joseph Smith,
M.A. Fellow of Trinity College; Henry Bellenden Bulteel, 31. A
Fallow of Exeter College ; James Charles Clatterblick, B.A. Fel-
low of Exeter College ; Edward George Simcox, M.A. Scholar of
Wadliam College; Thomas Hutchins. B.A. Chaplain of Christ
Church; Richard Towney, M.A. Fellow of Magdalen College;
John Allington, M.A. Probationary Fellow of Magdalen College;
Frederick Charles Plumptre, M.A. Fellow of University College.
At a General Ordiiaton by the Lord Bishop of Chichester,
in the Cathedral Church of Chichester, on IVedneaday the
following Geatlemen were admitted into H ply Orders:—
Dcac oxs.—llenry John Cooper, B.A. St. John's College. Cam.
bridge; Thomas Moore Feskett, B.A. Exeter College, Oxford;
Henry John Paulen, S.C.L. Aradham College, Oxford; Richard
Grua, B.A. Emanuel College, Cambridge; Thomas Ilomby.B.A.
Christ Church, Oxford; David Robertson, B.A. Queen College.
Oxford; Edward Browne Erman!, B.A. Balliol College, Oxford
(from the Bishop of Norwich.)
PRlLlTS.—llcorge Rownel Green, M.A. Ring's College, Cam-
bridge; Thomas Wheeler Wham. B.A. Corpus Christ College,
t'ambricl:re ; Charles Moffatt, M.A. Brasenoze College, Oxford;
John Wilder, B.A King's College, Cambridge; henry Haddon
Green, B.A. Worcester College, Oxford; George Price, B.A. St.
Alban Hall, Oxford ; George Osborne Townsend. B.A. King's
College. Cambridge; (leo. Aug. Frederick Chicheater, B.A.
Downing College. Cambridge; William Gunning, S.C.L. Christ
College, Cambridge.

FALL or VoNT/lILL Anser.—The Evening Paper from
which we copied the account of the fall of this fine archi-
tectural structure added the following particulars on Sa-
turday:—" The tower hail long been expected to fall, ■nd
preparations were going on to remove the valuable windows.
Indeed, on the carpenters removing the doors and frames
under the arch of the entrance to St. Michael's gallery, part
of the stone-work fell in. Mr. Farquhar's plate was buried
in the ruins. It would be difficult to ima,gine a more com-
plete ruin. The quadrangle comprising the yellow rooms
and brown parlour remains perlect, as wel as the eastern
wing."

TILE BRITISH .I).]

• PROVINCIAL BANKS.

S.

VORKSHIRL BANKS.
[From the Leeds Mender]
The panic in the country, like that in London, is rra-
dtuilly subsi.iing, and we have not had *single bank failure
in Yorkshire during the present week. The two first
months of the new year will be a period of pressure, aris-
ing from the return of dishonoured drafts, and. for sevetal
months to come, public credit will he oppressed ; but, with
a proper share of indulgence towards the suffering, money
transactions will soon get into their regular channels; and
already the tone of the public spirit is improved.' Cousi,
derable relief may he affarded from in accession of money.
in the retail trade at this season, by the prompt payment of
Christmas accounts.

We understand that the estates of Mr. Rishworth, of
the firm of Mesas. 14-entwertii and Co., are of the esti-
mated value of upwards of 50,000 f.. and that Mr. Went-
worth has one unentailed estate in Nottinghamshire, worth
30,0001. The amount of notes of this bank in circulation
is estimated by the firm at from 180,0001. to 200,0001.
SOrTHAMPTON BANK.
[From the Humpi4it • Telezruplt.l • •
IVe are sorry to communicate to the public, that the
Bank of Messrs. Kellow and Pritchard did not open on
Thursday last, as the advertisement we gave last week led
us to believe it would. Bills were posted about the town,
stating that in consequence of eunuch:rabic dissatisfaction
being evinced at the paying off the one-pound notes before
the fives, it had been determined to postpone the opening
of the bank for the present, *ppm ttp which was a de-
claration, signed by three merchan theitowp, of their
conviction, ft ens an examination o the apeounti, that the
firm was fully able eventually-eNt-paY4ll demainiS• It is
generally understood that the &niti' spoken-of in
statues the 6111 was felt (and 'verystatuesstatuesigetteia
by the owners
of deposits, Mme of whom interfer toprevent tiles:rolled
payment. We hope for better news.
STAFFORDSHIRE BANKS.
, IFrom the Putter., Meretitv.l
We regret to inform our realers that, the difficulties at-
tending the l'slofiey Market in London have extended to
various parts of toe country. Several Banks around uc
have been obliged to make new arrangements. In our im-
mediate locality, we lament to state, that the house of
Messrs. Sparrow and Nichison, of Newcastle-under-dyne,
has closed its payments for the piettent ; but, from the re-
spectability of the parties. and the general confidence
which prevails in their integrity, it is belicveti that the
public, will suffer little beyond inconvenience from the cir-
cumstance. As might be expectod, a severe run occurred
on Monday, as soon as this was- known, on the long-
established Bank of Mears. 'l'. Kianersly and Son,
and during the whole of that day the town of Newcastle
and its neighbourhood was a scene of confusion and
alarm. This tried and solid Louse, however, was fully
prepared for the event ; and, although under no obli-
gation to pay its notes in the country, it honourably paid
them, as fast as they were presented, with Bank of Eng-
land notes, till the applicants became ashamed of their
fears, and numbers. of them took their notes home again.
We were happy to see the friends of Messrs. Kinneraley
exert themselves in that way which was becoming on such
an occasion. A run was likeeriadi made on the bank of
Messrs. Wood and Co. at Burst brit happily the house
was amply prepared to satisfy the emends of the public
upon them. -,
WELSH' POOL *ANY.
A meeting took place on Thursdny, 22d inst., at Welsh
Pool, consisting of the residents of that town and neigh-
bourhood, who being fully aware of the ruinous effects
which must be produced if the notes of the above Bank
were withdrawn from circulation, and being fully im-
pressed with the high respectability and great wealth of
that firm, expressed their entire confidence in it, and
pledged themselves to receive their notes as usual to any
amount,
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HORRIBLE ACT OF ASSASSINATION,
.---wir....".
The following particular accocust, of What
termed a " heerible anewrinatiosOlki*wd fl
lucky Argar of the nth Instant :•zfir
The annals of our country do not present an act en hor- 1
rible as that which it is our painful duty to record. About
two o'clock on Sunday night last, Col. Solomon P. Sharp I
was awakened by a knocking at his door, and, on inquiring 1
who was there, was answered that it was Covington.
His wife observed it was not Calittbirs voice, and ad-.
vised him not to rise. Ile, howevi.r, got up, and the
stranger informed him he had come to town late and
could not get a bed at any of the taverns, and soli-
cited lodging for the night. Colonel Sharp told him he
should have a bed, and opened the door. The assassin en-
tered, and passed with Colonel Sharp by the door of Mrs.
Sharp's room. Ile then asked, "are you Col. Sharpe?"
The Col. answered in the affirmative. The assassin then
said, "my name is John A. Covington." Col. Sharp re-
plied "I do not know you." The assassin said, " damn
you, you shall soon know me," and plunged the fatal wea-
pon into his body. Mrs. Sharp heard her husband fall and
groan, and springing from her bed, alarmed the family.
Ile was found lying upon his face near the spot where the
blow had been struck, gasping for breath. Same of the
nearest citizens were immediately alarmed, and, on enter-
ing, witnessed a scene which beggars description. Colonel
' Sharp was expiring; his wife, prostrate upon his body, was
kissing him, and bathing him with tears : their infant child
was crying at missing its parents; and Dr. Sharp, the
Colonel's brother, was lying by his side exhausted and
overcome by emotion. Mrs. Sharp coon became wild and
delirous, in which state she continued several hours. Col.
Sharp never spoke, and could not have lived more than ten
minutes after receiving the blow. The assassin's dirk or
knife penetrated the centre of his body about three inches
above the navel.

is most truly

The murderer escaped at the door by which he had en-
tered. A bloody neck handkerchief was found near the
door, with one corner cut off and two holes through it,
evidently made by the tame instrument which gave the
fatal wound. Apparently the murderer had wrapped it
round his hand and arm, and stabbed through it, for the
purpose of avoiding being stained. bribe blood of his vic-
tim, and, as he passed out, wiped his weapon upon it and
threw it down.

Never was a more cool and deliberate murder perpe-
trated. The door at which the murderer applied was not
the street-door, but one wh:ch entered near the room
where the Colonel slept, and the moat private of the whole
house. It is evident that he lutist have known the house
and the room where his victim was sleeping ; for, had he
knocked at any other door, he would probably have been
met by some other person.
The gloom which this event has sr read through society
is of the deepest east. The murder of a man in his own
house, at the dead hour of night, almost in the presence of
his wife, and warm from her embraces, with his children
sleeping around him, while extending the rites of liespiti:
lity to his assassin, is a hlow at all that is sacred in social
and civil life. The public feeling is also much heightened
by the mystery which shrouds the motive of the murderer.
Colonel Sharp's talents, the station which beheld, the time
selected for the horrid deed, and the fact that be was net,
known to have a personal enemy, cause suspicions to flash
across the mind, that the assassin was nut emitted wholly
by personal considerations.—May Heaven grant that. in
the speedy apprehension of the murderer, all such painful
thoughts may be dispelled.
The Governor of Kentucky, by authority of the Legis-
lature, has offered a reward of 3,000 dollars for the appre-
hension of a man calling himself John A. Covingtou, a
tall man dressed in dark clothes, suspected of the.aesassina-
don of Colonel Salotnon I'. Sharp. An additional reward
of 1,000 dollars has been offered by the Trustees of the
town of Frankfort, and the sum raised by private subscrip-
tion, it is supposed, will amount to 1,000 dollars more,
making an aggregate of 3,000 dollars.

The trade of Bradford yet remains very depressed, and
the number os workmen out of employ, we Are sorry to say,
is on the increase. Many of our rpinnera deeming it more
prudent in the present state oFthings, to diminish th 2 num-
her of their hands, there must be a great deal of distress
amongst our poor, and as it appears that the hands of the
Roebuck Inn Committee are quite exhausted, we hope the
attention of our readers will be directed to their relief.—
Bradford Courier.

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LITERARY GLEANINGS. ' The ITALIAN OPERA in the UNII
No. LXX. [From the Nes Ynrk Evening Post o
. n.
Gotnrx Tooret.—FONTENELLS um "If Me THE OPERA.
Last evening was presented at
lass
of th 'fa fact were alwaya ascertained before its cow" for the first time to an- American audience
s, se wirer] into, or its nature disputed, much ridicule charming sister of the Drama. 'Fire boo;
•Erae be avoided by the learned." In illustration of this half-past seven, and before eight o'clock,
he relates the following whimsical anectlate:— menclng, it wa;quietly and eutitely filled
mere. '
r roe. 12 raj a report prevailed, that a child in Silesia, of ladies
wasem fashionable, so numerous,
ware old, having lost its first teeth, in the new set d , probably never witnesses
Eno. Of go!el grew up in place of one of the cheek teeth. The restless : I
hess,
.1 professor of medicine in the University of antleration which alwa s
p and e
ideuntried pleasure dwelt on e...
roa h of an 5.
Teo t;. i became so convinced of the truth of this story,
route, ,the company itself peculiarly i
arorote a history of this tooth, in which he affirmed m
observer.
146. "as partly natural and partly miraculous, and that fo what language shall we speak of an
coun seen sent by heaven to that child to console the poor novel in • this
country, but which has so lo
mos. .says oppressed by the Turks. It is not, however, most elegant and refined among the an
huh.
The
asy to conceive what consolation the Christians could higher classes of the old world ? All
nano Inen this tooth, nor what relation it could bear to general idea of the opera from report.
moo, trio give but a faint idea of it.—Until it ia seer
great orotius, however, was but one historian of the tooth ; believed that a play can be conducted in r
meal
. Oe sore tear that this work appeared, ROLLA %Del ing and yet appear nearly as natural as the
'eri" .3 1 it. Two .
, seether history o years afterwards, Is- We were last night surprised, delighted,
and
anti.
~,, s, smother lesenea man, wrote in opposition to such were the feelings of all who witnesses]
Nem . ;as respeefing the golden tooth, who failed not to Th
e repeated plaudits with which the tl
le
es i
en , a wry elaborate and scientific reply. Another great unequivocal unaffected blasts of rapture. LISAVICS, collected all that had been said on the The Opera was entitled It Bashi' ere tl ore. i
ter+, „ suit ; deed his own peculiar doctrine.
Ere. ,Nadoela was wanting to so many fine work., but a suppose brought out tne strength of the
o no r w less than six whom we should eat
e
this ;he the too:h was really of gold ; a goldsmith at nary comedy, performers of the first e
yto ,;.I,isnot ails]
wi afgoto
uezeapmplin:ditt,o wthheotootUit4couv.ritrhedeotnhsait,kirt
awLs merely Their as actors, and independently of th
las . style or manner of acting differs wi
the . . Their books w..re first composed on au warned which we have beenoiccustomed. In the
rvedS IDI Men the goldsmith consulted." you are struck with the
.variety, nevelt,
oure
„ea r,„, Ifroortioa.—ln the early period of the French their ekpreesive, characteristic, and unC
114 ice, when the Church of lit. Genevieve, at Paris, Oen.
too „owed inmea Pantheon, to be dedicated to the il- The female performers, on the contras
'rice
~ dead, Me remains of /feet:tan were among the to have less action, tbou;h quite as marInsi. oat were deposited there. They were enclosed in a any we bad ever before seen. There il
Iru.
is
.., made of boards and plaster, in the form of a style of acting a most remarkable char
me mink or coffer, at each end of which were folding- priety ; never violating good taste no
own - , apparently capable of being opened. strictest bounds of female decorum. Th
its pee af these nap, was open, and out of it projected norina Garcia, seems to us a being of
dor
of ;el arm, thi hand grasping a torch, the flame of a" cunning pattern of excelling nature ;"
a 'Tread all Derr the monument. On considering the ing us by the melody and tones of her s
has lob cileurnstamvs when this monument was con- propriety and grace of her acting.
,ioa let there is no doubt that the artist intended to re- We arc sorry that we hare no time
..t this philosopher u enlightening the world
.frnm the marks on the musical performance and
I ba
elole of his tonih, hut the mere aspect of this ex• welcome strangers. The Opera lasted f
. . arm, and this furiously flaming brand, rather tug- half-past eleven o'clock, and we have I
pa the i entheematic remarks, on any similar occasi
lobes of an attempt to sit warld on . fire. In
et, it appears to he an emblem much more proper to in the lobby after its close. \%'e cons
pole the memory of Laos riotous, than that of the whether the American taste will hear the
rd, :jrs of the " Social Contract," understood as its par. now settled. We predict that it will ne,
nto gcs understand it.
.. pence with it. Nothing could have beer
ley ri,:a sarcophagus is anaemia. ished by bring adorned with and liberal, if they wished that it should
na. qh trunks of trees, halms of wood, and branches with nent establiehment among us, than the c
.to WW, iastead of pilasters and other ornaments. The artist gers have pursord. They have brought 01
of (pun to have had in his mind the idea of
,fiereat semprr, number of first-rate performers, and we ni
ur- loud verdure ; hut this is no less impossible to be ex& begin with as good a troupe as London,
et- gol expressively in sculpture, than to be insured to the an furnish.
as, ?Weems of a writer of the character of J: J. Rousseau. .
elv 't N 1 OF OIFC
si Tee FISH AND THE Booze—ln the year 1626, a cod ---aem—
ivas opened at Cambridge Market, and lo! in its mouth On Saturday the 17th inst. the last day
n
re. as found a book! Mr. MEAD, in a letter to Sir M. lowing Degrees were conferred in this L'n
1,1; r.tisviect, preserved in the British Museum, gives the DOCTOIS IN DIVINITY—Rey. Joseph II
s.:oeing very accurate and very grave account of this Edmund lila
go DOCTOR IN CIVIL I,AW —Rev Thomas
is_ Ire, if not strange accident."
Vicar of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. Lincoln
" Christ's Church College, June 24th, 1626.
MASTERS OE AaTs.—John Wright, B
eh
" Bat I will now tell you of an accident here at Cam. grand compounder; Rev. Sidney William Corn
no .
ed alie, rare, if not strange, whereof I was, yesterday morn- eter College ; William de Capell Brooke, B
It. oan eye-witness myself. A book in &Tinto surto, of Rev. Stephen Sanderson, Pembroke College.
k bigger size, found in the maw of a cod-fish, then BACHELORS OF AUTS.—John Nelson P
Pt mud in our fish-market in the presence of many. In College,rbo grand compounder; Thomas 3gorrls,
7 same were two pieces of sail cloth, one, half an ell at si„ moollegela William of plgalljerenali°,llllelea:l,4 11:
ii, k lent, of unequal breadth; but in some part very broad ; Nichols, Queen's College; Emote Witii;m to
1., kosher, about half a yard long, of the breadth of a pod- lege; Goose Arthur Smyth. Edmund flail
Edmund lisp ; John Parry, Craves Scholar, ni
ice-be,;. These were found wrapped in the bottom of the
cd. sconces College; Cyrus Morrell, Braltennose.c/
twitch; the book above them.
o. Ness, Lord toteeee Exhibitioner, Lincoln Col
"Tim title of the book, being opened, was on the top of ham Brooks, Christ Church ; Edward Jour
1- "The
, e--' PREE•RATION TO Tlia CROSSE.: It was triC Mortis. Sch 141'01 COVINA Chriati,Coll
g, hiaraillilikikimmta which, Itt.inolta' . ~.. ..-
.• ”of some Wank, as sande for sa%-t,j4lelasyir or title.
a the Ile, seemed to be written about the end of King THE Cliu•
ncir.
o:
smot &sty
her Vlllpassa . where
s, if all be ofin I was aftone author erwards fully confirmed by --min---
The King has granted to the Rev. Jot
ge'.
late Fellow of Ortel College, Oxford, the 1
" When I first saw it, it seemed almost turned into a
oi,fPr. ebendary of Worcester Cathedral, ii
I ;die, and consumed; yet, though it were loathsome then
ee ingfiehl, deceased.
a handle or stand over, yet, finding the table of the two
re On the 9th inst. the Rev. Francis Char
kits of the Preparation to the Crosse in the middle parts,
a-
ni so not so slimy, with a tender lifting with my knife, I M.A.M and late Demy of Magdalen College
Kai them all, put clean paper between these leaves to pre-
stituted by the Lord Bishop of Lincoln, u
t, ere them, and since escribed all, being the contents of tory cf South lltinsby, with Ketsby,
V 4 nem several chapter. The first was ' A Preparation to kcarage of Calceby annexed, on the pi
P the Crosse, and how it most be patiently borne. I took uncle, CB. Massingbercl, Esq: of On us!
P medal notice of two other:—
shire.
'l. If thou be tempted of the faith of thy parents : On Thursday se'nniblit the Rev. C
'
P a, 'wherefore bellevest not thou that which thy forefathers Collins, M.A. and Fellow of Balliol Col
4 lore believed ? instituted by the Lord Bishop of Bath I
11 "`t. If thou be tempted of strange religion, of woe- Rectory of Timebury, void by the death I
kipping of saints, pictures or images, or men.' There Brudenell Barter, on the presentation of
'A Letter, which was written
t, was another book at the end of rhese, in whose title-leaf Fellows of the said College.
o do ant of the confetti was The Rev. William Scarborough, B.A.
e u the faithful Followers of Christ's Gospel!.' Christ Church, Oxford, is nominated, t
" I saw all with mime own eyes, the fish, the maw, the Chapter, to the Lectorship and Perpetual
rough, in the county of Leicester.
bo
Y pion of sail-cloth, the book, and observed all I have Ilar
a On Sunday last the lion. and Right
Britten; only I saw not the opening of the fish, which
sat many did, being upon the thillevotnan's stall in the Bishop of Oxford held an Ordination
' torket, who first cut off his head, to which the maw was College Chapel, when the foaowing gee
: 1
iseging, and seeming much stuffed with somewhat, dained
ma searched, and all found as aforesaid. Ile that had i Raalt:aViral;
arbdt7J.l es ItemAlle- ht-n3sell
had his nose as near as I yester-morning, would have Christ Church; PRobert Hussey, B.A. Studeni
' ken persuaded there was no imposture here without wit- Honoratus Leigh Thomas B.A. Student of Ch
ten. The fish came from Lynn. ]low they fed him Shave Berner, B.A. Lincoln College, Curs
s William brags, B.A. Student of Christ Churcl
there (know not."
tHarrison, B.A. Demy of Magdalen Colleg
We have here a remarkable instance of the gross decep- Lockwood, 31. A. Student of Christ Church
t
.
• in ' -
• s which, an 'an age of superstition, may be practised B.A. Christ Church, Curate of Bailey; Mat
14art the credulity of minds that on all ordinary subjects Buckle, B.A. Scholar of Wadhani College ;
si: suffeiently rigeetive, and upon men who, alien their S C.L. Student of Christ Church ; James Its
a of Worcester College; James Hughes, B.A
, worldly interests ate concerned, are by no means so easily
' allied. " I sew all with mine own eves," says this honest legs;'ll ja;rnjesamiftlol.l ILFA'h.i'Lltlto'lar O'fliiracta
' ::tester of the miralle; '" the fish, the maw, the pieces of Powys Stopford, 11.21.3.'Fe110w of All Souls' Col
11;i-cloth, the bcok, and observed all I have written ;" but ninguan, B.A. Chaplain of Worcester College.
wen comes the unlt.Ay exception, "only I saw not the PRIVITS —James Thompson, B.A. Fellow
r.e.teo if the fish, which not many did." There were Charlesulil K4ivem lyilliams, B.A. Scholar of
wise some other little parts of the process, which he Xr.giahmaid`lre'efit.A.l.ltlouldrenotforN,Trel
fi ,I not see, but which lie might have seen, we suspect, Nan Cornish, B.A. Fellow of Exeter Collet
lel he been let into the secret, viz. the opening and cusp- Saunders, M.A. Student of Christ Church; (
:,:-....; the maw of the cod-fish to pat in the Giro/', and.the wood, M.A. Curate of Burford ; Edward Hs,
1::'ully sewing it up again! . Christ Church; Thomas Hart Dyke, B.A.
Church ; Arthur Bennett Mattoon, M.A. Fell
------- Collrpe ; Stanley Miller, B.A. Curate of I
Ynettintoz Eereozoo,—A requisition to Lord Nor- rAbe. naYelh,,,wnei.Olirini( Chaplain of Citernis, vat,:
petb is now in course of signature, requesting him to offer Fellow of Exeter College ; Jamege 's Charlesr Cle
lorrell as a candidate for the representation of the county few of Exeter Conon ; Edward George Simnel
of York at the next general election, in the cause of civil Wadliam College; Thomas Hutchins. WA,
lid relieimis lib:rty, and in support of the enlightened aye_ Church ; Richard 'fawney, M.A. Fellow of
Frederick
Allington, M.A. Probationary Fellow of
rem of legislation by which the great interests of the caun-
trederlck Charles Plumptre, M.A. Fellow of I
try are to be upbeld.—Leeds Mercury. At a General Ordinaton by the Lord Bit
During the panic Which lately convulsed the commercial in the Cathedral Church of Chichester, t
wed.), it is eh *erring of notice that Dot one failure was following Gentlemen were admitted into
I.:dared in the chanty of Lincoln. Dcoecors.—flenry John Cooper, B.A. St. J
bridge; Thomss Moore FasketEzet
The drain upon saving-banks during the late financial
Henry John Paulen, S.C.L. Wadham College
pens. is a proof of the extent to which absurd alarms ma z Greer, B.A. Emanuel College, Cambridge; T
is when once raised. In one town where a private ban Christ Church, Oxford; David Rols•vtson. I
lailel, domande to the aniount of thirty thousand pounds Oxford; Edward Browne Everard, B.A. Di
teoe immediately made upon the managers of a savings- (from the M 419 of Norwich.)
hank, though the public faith is pledged that the depositors PRlZlTS.—ucorge Rowneo Green, M.A. n
bridge; Thomas Wheeler ()dhow. B.A. Co
shall in no event suffer loss. Cambria:re ; Charles hloffatt, M.A. Brauer
HoNrST THIEVES.—One evening last week, as a poor John Wilder, B.A Kines College, Cambric
cl,l seinen was returning home to Ileughton Bottoms, Green,l B.A.
Worcester
ter
I;eoo"regee,gtiferine'TGoee
Cs was stopped by six villains, who demanded her money : College, Cambridge:. Geo. George
Fredericl
14 Poor creature, trembling for her life, begged they would Downing College. Cambridge; William Gus
not rob her, as she had a large family starving at home. College, Cambridge.
They remained inexorable, when she was compelled to /
lire up six shilling;, which she hail just I tectived for some FAI.L or VoNTIIILL Ansiv.—The E
work she had been talOn; to the warehouse. One of the which we copied the account of the fall
t,_lllailli, however, (less hardened than the rest), returned tectural structure added the following 1
.uet o.l!er recces of money, which he, no doubt, considered turday:—" The tower had long been em
:3 he three shillings. She then proceeded homewards, but preparations were going on to remove the
La.! tax of far on the road, when she heard the foouteps Indeed, on the carpenters removing the
°e de gone behind her : she immediately ran off; and had under the arch of the entrance to St. Mic
ion time to take shelter Io a neighbouring house—the vii- of the atone-work fell in. Mr. Farquhar'
Pets ',tiro; close at her heels. To cut the matter short, in the ruins. It would be, difficult to jut
Cs looking afterwards at the coin which one of the party plete ruin. The quadrangle comprising
hd given her, she discovered them to be three sovereigns. and brown parlour remains perfect, as Si
—r •
otr.°-poolifercurr. wing."