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is now full of them. It is more remarkable, since it was an-

ciently used both among.thoGreeks and Romans, who were so
exceedingly religious in it, that we find it often annexed as a
codicil to their wills (as appears by an old inscription at Ra-
venna and another at Milan) by which they ordered roses to be
yearly strewed and planted on their grave. Hence the line of
Propertius, Et teneret poneret ossa rota. And old Anacreon,
speaking of it, says that it doth protect the dead.-4 Camden's .
Britannia.)
SINGULAR TENURE.—Some farms in America
arc easily held by the tenant: but on a tenure *filch we should
' think was not quite agreeable to the landlord. "An instance of
',this lately occurred in a distant part of Pennsylvania; a pro-. •
prietor having heard of several settlers upon his land without
purchase or permission, mounted his horse, and journeying to :
his allotment soon came up to a good log-house ; a squatter was
at his door, and the owner, by way of entering into con-
versation with him, observed that lie had erected a comfortable
dwelling there; to which the other assented. But my friend, 4,
I am told that you and several more have built here without any
title to the land, and the owner is coming to remove you.' The
man, who had his rifle in his hand, immediately pointing to a
:pig at a distance, took aim and shot it dead ; then turning to ;
the alarmed proprietor, told him, that if the owner should ever
come to disturb him he would serve him as he had served that '4
IVelby's Visit to North America.)
SINGULAR RESOLUTION.2-Among the various •
modes of encouraging domestic manufactures, the following
rd-
solution, adopted by 100 young men in a village in Pcniisyl-
vania, partakes of ancient simplicity.—Were a similar resolution
adopted and persevered in by the young men of our large cities,
how soon would disappear our large Leghorns and our costly '
Cashineres.—" Resolved, that we will, in paying our addresses •'
to the young ladies, give the most marked preference to such
as clothe themselves in homespun, and make use of articles
the growth of our own country." ,
SINGULAR PIIENOMENON.--A number of bag-
berry trees, growing on the banks of the Girvan, atoitt a mile
beyond Kirkmichael, are at present entirely divegfed of their
foliage; and covered with a sort of silky substance resem-
bling in texture and appearance the finest cambric 'cooper, 'but
much stronger, which is occasioned by myriads of small worms. ,
These insects are first seen in an inactive state•hanging in large
clusters under the branches. On bursting lams embryo they com-
mence crawling up and down the trunk and branches, each
emitting a small slimy thread somewhat finer than the spider's,
which, from their incalculable numbers, urlitt together,
and from this singular substance, which covers the trees, and ,
imparts to them, when viewed at a distance, the appearance of
blighted trunks covered with snow. Some hundreds of these insects
are at times observed suspended by as many threads, *hie:
are spun out till they join another branch, and forty a passage
across.

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A labouring mechanic, named Henry Geeri'ng,
travelled, on Saturday: last, from Newark to Stamford, on an
improved velocipede, manufactured by himself at an expense
of about 111 - He calls it " a mechanical horse.'.' It dif-
fers from the fanciful things which excited so much notice
a year or two ago, inasmuch as the rider on Geeririg's piece
of mechanism does not depend on his legs and feet for mak-
ing way, • but places the latter in stirrups at' the'end of an
axis provided for giving direction to two side-wheels, which
wheels support the carriage and keep it upright.' A third
wheel, towards the hinder end of the frame of the carriage,
is turned with the leather straps on 'the principle .of a lathe,
and the power is communicated to these by a windlass placed
conveniently in front of the rider, who turnsit withboth hinds,
and makes progress in proportion to his activity and-force in
so turning. (Jeering himself travelled at an average rate
of, seven miles an hour; progress up hill is of course attende;d
with more labour. He was riding rapidly about the streete Of
Stamford on Monday, and picked up several pecuniary tri-
butes to his ingenuity. lie means to run his mechanical
horse" at Stamford Races.

A most melancholy accident occurri.d• on the
West load, about'dwo miles from Alnwick, on Wednesday
sennikht. As THOMAS ADAMS, Esq., of Longloughton, who
has just succeeded to the valuable estate of Acton, was re-
turning from a visit to a neighbouring Gentleman, in company
with the young Lady to whom he was to have been shortly
married; he fell from his horse, and was conveyed into Alnyliek,
the same evening, a corpse;—a melancholy instance of the un-
certain tenure of human happineSs.
HYDROPHOBIA.—a number of eases of hydro-
phobia are stated in. the Montreal papers to have.
very recently occurred at St. Andrew's, Upper Ca-
nada. Three families in particular .have suffered
from its shocking effects, in one of them, quite
numerous, every member, except the father, had
been bitten ; the two eldest, sons,arrived at.man-
hood, were,dead, and there were no hopes of the
survivors. Anco her family bad three children bit-
ten. No suspicions, it appears, were entertained
that/ the dogs were tnad until after many persons,
had shown symptoms of hydrophobia.

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

EXTRACTS FROM. THE 1) XII, Y 14.1011.NrNG PAPERS,

JII7IC '27, 182.

[NEW TIMES :2

The advices from Constantinople are of no im-
portance. It is indeed said, in a letter from that
City, that the Porte continued to refuse the con-
cessions required by Russia, in the place of
which it only held out vague and general pro-
fessions.; but this is mere rumour or invention.—
The intelligence from Spain is, as usual, well
calculated to exhibit the consequences of revolu-
tion and anarchy. The country continues to be
disturbed and agitated by bands of mal-contents,
who, we observe, are now styled " Royalist In-
surgents." Armed bodies, amounting altogether
to nearly four thousand men, are enumerated in
One 'of the Spanish 'papers. The Revolutionists
'of Spain, in imitation, probably, •of those of
France, have imputed many plots to the
Royalists, which have turned out either never
to have existed, or to have-been the subjects
of gross exaggeration. An instance of this kind
his recently occurred at Madrid. It was said,
that on the 10th inst. the Political Chief re-
ceived information of two meetings of conspi-
rators in the Capital to arrange a rising in New
Castile'and La, Mancha, and a march to Aran-
juez and Madrid to obtain possession of the
-King, and annul the acts of the Cortes. On a
search, however, of the two alleged places of
meeting, two or three obscure persons were
seized at one, and not an individual at the other.
The persons arrested were fo be immediately put
'upon their trial in order to gratify the commit-
• iteros, who were extremely clamorous, and de-
clared that the' patriots, were not in safety at
Madrid, and that the Cortes must remove to the
Isle of Leon.

[TUE TIMES.]
We left it, a few days ago, to the benevolent
feelings of our readers to decide whether, upon
a brief statement of the facts connected with the,'
lieart rending situation of the Irish poor, which
statement we laid before the public in the words
of the Committee at the City of London Tavern,
it had not become the duty of every human being
in the country, who had more than a sufficiency
for his own wants, to add yet something to each
former ,mite contributed towards he relief of
their starving fellow-creatures in Ireland. The
ivadequacy of the charitable fund to its objects
was, 'on the slightest calculation, evident to those
'Who would be at the trouble of making one ;
but the Committee have sittee with great pro-
priety circulated printed details of 'their dis-
bursements, a satisfactory voucher that if the
great end of the charity kid not yet been com-
pletely or nearly accomplished, the cause was in
the intrinsic magnitude of the evil itself, and
not in any improvidence on the part of those
who had undertaken the administration of the
funds for removing it. The list of remittances,
of which a copy has been sent to us, is drawn up
in a. clear and simple form, containing in one co-
lumn the name of the county and town, barony,
parish, village, &c., to which relief has been
forwarded ; in' a second column, the names of
the parties, Noblemen, Bishops, Clergy, or
Gentry,. who have been entrusted with the dis-
fribution•of the bounty ;- in a third., the date of
the remittance and in a fourth, its amount.
The, counties, to- whiCh the most ample proofs
of the kind and, benefice/it nature of our
countrymen have been extended are—Clare,
11,0951.; Cork, 11,6-101.; Kerry, 6,2504 ;
Mayo and Galway, 19,6051.;Limerick, 5,2801.;
Leitrim, 1,9501. ; Roscommon, 4,1801.; - Sligo,
2,5301.; and Tipperary, 1,4251. ; besides
which, there have been remitted to seve-
ral other counties, where the distress is compa-
ratively lighter, sundry small sums. We see
with pleasure the unwearied activity of the
Archbishop of Tuam and other clergymen of
both persuasions, in dispensing the stores of Eng-
lish charity to their famished people. It is a
pity that such men should be exposed to the
misery of seeing that the success of their pious
exertions is but transient, and-to the dreadful
consciousness that if the tide of charity should
now cease to flow, the unhappy beings whom
they have already rescued from the pangs of
death, have'been but tantalized by a momentary
suspension of their sufferingS, soon to relapse,
and undergo a second mortal agony.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
The Marriage Act Amendment Bill was further
discussed last night in the House of Lords. The
retrospective clause was carried, and an amend-
'moat proposed by Lord Liverpool, that it should
not extend to any marriages respecting the va-
lidity of-which a suit was now depending, was
negatived by a majority of 39.

Last night Mr. Creevey submitted a series of
resolutions, the object of which was to repeal
the present Pension Bill. The Hon. Member
stated himself that he had no idea his proposition
should be acceded to of inserting these resolu-
tions on the Journals, but so strongly did he feel
the injustice of the Pension Act, in the present
distressed state of the country, that one day it
must be repealed. The motion was opposed by
Y'jtr. Bankes, who moved that they should pass to
the other orders of the day._ Mr. Creevey took
rile sense of the house on the first, and moved
the-others as amendments in their several. orders.
A division then took place, when there appeared,
for Talr. Bankes's Amendment, 143—For the
ekiginal Motion, 42—Majority 101.—(/bid.)

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]

Mr. Abercrombie gave notice that he should
this day move for the production of all the pro-
ceedings in the civil action between Borthwick
Alexander, and copies of all the precognitions
aial informations on which the criminal prosecu-
tion,against the former was founded. We shall
thus have a complete development of this. most
appalling business. The various actors will be
-made to pass in review before us. Of one of the
coadjutors of the Lt,arned Lord, something has
already transpired ; and it is well to be a little

better acquainted with him, as when his Lordship
shall at length receive,in the accustomed promotion
to the Bench,the reward of his exertions for the pub-
lic good,this distinguished individual will in all pro-
bability be fixed on as his successor. We believe
the whole Parliamentary History of this Country
furnishes no instance of a Judicial Officer offer-
ing such a shock to all our notions of justice and
propriety as is exemplified in the case of the
Lord Advocate. The Officer who alone can
commence criminal prosecutions, is found at the
head of institutions in different parts of the coun-
, try, set on foot for the sole and avowed purpose
of violating the laws. He is found in con-
nection with systematic libellers, coolly pre-
pared to add murder to the catalogue of
their outrages. -We have his name to the
very charters of these corporations of infamy.—
The thing has been brought home to him in
the clearest and most convincinc, manner. The
only thing that looked at all like justification in
his speech,—and a singular justification it was,
no doubt, for the Grand Conservator of the
Peace of a Nation,—was that the Press of Scot-
land promulgated the most licentious opinions,
and every effort was resorted to for the purpose
of inflaming and stirring up the minds of the
people,—that is, the spirit of the Press of Scot-
land was bad, and it was therefore determined to
exhibit an example of• a still worse spirit. This
to be sure is one way of bringing about Refor-
mation,

[MORNING POST.]
Mr. Michael Angelo Taylors Motion respect-
ing the Court,of Chancery and the High Appel-
lant Jurisdiction in the House of Lords, was last
night at length disposed of for the present Ses-
sion. He moved that the House should resolve
itself into a Committee, to take into considera-
tion the Act passed in his late Majesty's reign,
authorizing the appointment of a Vice Chan-
cellor ; upon which the House divided—ayes 51,
noes 108. It is unnecessary for us to follow the
Hon. and Learned Member through the various
details and observations in which he indulged,
and the more so, because it appears to us doubt-
ful whether the above minority exactly expresses
the relative number of opinions concurring in Mr.
Taylor's object; The honourable Gentleman
very punctually votes with his party on all sub-
jects, and as there can be little danger of his
Chancery speculation being realized, to support
it once a year is but a reasonable return. In
coming to this conclusion we are solely guided
by the nature of the proposition which was last
night submitted to the house, and our respect
for the good sense of Parliament. The Office of
Vice-Chancellor was created in consequence
of the universally admitted fact that one
individual, -however highly gifted and qua-
lified, was physically incapable of getting
through the immense and accumulating mass
of' public business which in the progress of
this great Empire has devolved upon the Lord
High Chancellor. The mere statement of this
last mentioned fact immediately suggests the
seriousness of the evil and the necessity of at once
correcting it. With the exception of the Lord
Chancellor's share in conducting the Govern-
ment, and presiding in the House of Peers, his
entire business is Judicial, and that of a descrip-
tion superior to all other Judicial business of the
Nation. Whatever, therefore, tended to obstruct
this most important function, was a grievous injury
to the Public ; and accordingly, in order to
prevent delay in the Administration of Justice,
the 'office of Vice Chancellor was created.—
The result has been, that the facility thus afford-
ed for suitors, and the consequent saving of delay
and expellee,- has greatly increased the general
business of the Court of Chancery ; until both
the Lord-Chancellor and the Vice-Chancellor
are now incessantly employed in the public
service. Yet, upon this very ground, Mr.
Taylor proposed last night to abolish the office
of Vice-Chancellor, and to re-model the Court
upon some new principle of his own ! We
need scarcely add how averse any Parliament'
must be to such a measure. For ample particu-
lars, proving the efficiency and the utility of the
I Vice-Chancellor's Office, we refer to the speech
of the Attorney-General, founded on the re-
turns made to the house of Commons. To the
same source we would also direct our readers
for a just estimate of the extraordinary and pro-
found talents of the Noble and Learned Lord who
now holds the Great Seal., The exalted opinion
entertained by the whole people of the United
Kingdom of those talents, is, in short, the great
cause of that accumulation of business in his
Lordship's Court, which is alone complained of.
Under these circumstances, so far from soliciting
a change in its- constitution, we must rather ex-
press a fervent hope that no event may occur
for a long period of time in anywise calculated
to derange its present' salutaey operation.

NOT AT domc.—Another knock !—Another
" Not at Home !" A fat tradesman, with all the
terrors of unauthorised impertinence written
legibly on his forehead, was combating with per-
tinacious resolution the denial of a valet. " The
Captain's not at Home," said the servant : " I saw
him at the window," cried the other. " I can't
help that," resumed the laced Cerberus," he's not
at home." The foe was not easily repulsed,' and
seemed disposed to storm. I was in no little fear
for the security of " the Castle," but the siege
was finally raised. The enemy retreated, sending
forth from his half-closed teeth many threats,
intermingled with frequent mention of a power-
ful ally in the person of lawyer Shark. " Here,"
said I, resuming my meditations, " here is
another instance of the utility of my theme—
Without it, the noble spirit of this disciple of
Mars would have been torn away from reflec-
tions on twenty-pounders by a demand for
twenty pounds ; from his pride in the King's
Commission, by his dread of the King's Bench.
Perhaps he is at this moment entranced in dreams
of charges of horse and foot ! lie might have
been roused by a charge for boots and shoes. In
fancy he is at the head of serried columns of
warriors ! His eyes might have opened upon
columns of shillings and pence.—ln fancy he is
disposing of crowns! Horrible thought ! he
might have been awakened to the recollection
that he has not half-a-crown in the world.—
(Etonian)