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LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 141.

17th urges the payment of Tithes from the author:ty of the
Law of Moses."
- • •

" Ethelwulph's reign furnishes us with a subject, which,
though mentioned elsewhere, it will not b amiss to repeat a
ittle more largely of in this place ; I mean the grant of Tithes.
The Charter runs thus : _ .

(.4 I, Ethclwulpli, by the grace of God, &c., have, for the
ealth of my soul, and good of my people, taken the prudent
resolution of granting the tenth partof all the lands throughout
my whole kingdom to the Church and Ministers of Religion,
&c. &c.—Dated the Palace at Wilton, in the year 854, Indic-
tion the second, at the Feast of Eaker." .

The terms, date, and subscription of the Charter, have in,.
duced several learned men to belieVe it spurious. But without
entering into the controversy, I shall content myself with ob-
serving, that long before this Charter the Clergy of England
claimed a right to the Tithes, if they were not already in actual
possession of them. This is evident from the 17th Canon of
the Council of Calcnith, held its 785, where we find they urged
the payment of Tithes from the Law of Moses. If this Chaa-
ter, therefore, is not to be considered a forgery, it seem at least
to be of very doubtful authority. Add to this, that by the
tcnt.h part of the lands must necessarily be meant the tenth
part of the profits; which must be owned to be a very forced
interpretation, especially in a primordial Act such as this."—
Page 11 1, Rapin's History of. England.
" The plan which I have to unfold may at first appear start-
ling, . . . to introduce within the Christian Church.
It may appear to encroach by those who have strenuously ad-
vocated the sacredness of the clergy's income, and entered
their decided prOtest acraiest any reform being necessary, as re-
lating to ecclesiastical kairs."—Espilon Theta.
"The King, Henry the Fourth. representing to the Parlia-
ment his great want of an extraordinary aid, the Commons
went in a body and addressed him, ' That wititout bUrdening
his people he might supply his occasions by seizing the revenue
of the clergy.' Ihe Archbishop of Canterbury resisted—the
Commons brought in a Bill to seize the clergy's revenues—
the solicitations of the Archbishop were so prevalent With the
Lords, that they threw out the Bill, so the Commons were
forced to find other means to supply the King's occasions; the
clergy granted a.tenth and a-half."—Page 495.
'• The Commons, willing to comply with the King's
( Henry V.) demand of a subsidy, presented an address, praying
him to seize the clergy's revenues. The clergy perceiving
their ruin inevitable, came to the resolution to resign a part of
their riches to the King in order to save the rest."—Page 309,
1-lapin's History of England. (1. )—See the Sun, Nos. 14,628,
14,662.
" No mention, Bishop Barlow observes, is made of tithes
in the grand codes of canons, ending in the year of our Lord
457, (which, next to the Bibl he considers as the most au•
thent(e book in the world). During all that period, there-
fore, both the clergy and the Church appear to have been sup-
ported by the free gifts and other oblations of the pious.";—See
Selden on Tithes, an Barb. Rem. 169.

" Tithes, from the Saxon word Teoda, which signifies the
tenth part of a thing, may be defined to be the tenth part of
the increase yearly, arising and renewing from the profits of
land, the stock upon lands, and the personal industry of the in-
habitants."--2 Black. Corn. 24.

From the above readings the following scale is deducible :
Allowing agricultural product to realise thirty per cent., which
is absolute—tithe impost to be included—and increase being
considered synonymous with produce—a tenth is 131. per cent.
Here we must observe we think the imposition of three half-
pence in every shilling quarte"n loaf a severe infliction for our
spiritual edification. Albeit it would almost pass without a
murmur, but that our hallowed Faith enjoins us " To feed the
hungry"—and its denunciations are upon those who are unmind-
ful of " the child of misery bal.tised in tears."
Ethelwulph's Charter.—A tenth of the profit, 31. per cent.
Hebrew. New Translation —A tenth of a tenth taken on
roduce, 265. per cent.
Hebrew —A teeth of a tenth, on the increase or profit, 6s.
per cent —An Insight to " Forced Interpretation."
We cull from the " blue of eloquence" of immortal Milton
the epitaph for the patron of this work—" Revolutions of ages
do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of
which whole nations fare the worse,"

" In the House of Lords, the debate being on; he state of
Ireland, the Earl of Liverpool said, "Ile Noble Lord had in-
sisted on tithes, a property to which the Church had a right.
He could not go quite the length of his Noble Friend, and be-
lieved that ultimately the question must come under the con-
sideration of Parliament."—(Hear, hear. )—See Morning
Herald, June 20, 1823.
There is the recorded vote of the House of Commons to 10
per cent. property or income tax ! being oppressive.
Under the operation of the property tax an esquire whose
principal of 10,0001. netted him 500/. per annum, paid to the
State 50/., under the operation of the tithe composition, an
outlay of 5001. subjects the cultivator to the samesol. ; this, in-
ff tpoendon incomeccommenced int tax
nwcaesdn pansy bovegpoinsnitlitiogn
deed, is " th' oppressors wrongs."
0 " The alarm excited by announcing PrOlifisea ctintintiante
td y otri.ersttiieti
ir
trptia
ia-
ment, on Feb. 8, two petitions igAlest tjio lax, one from the
Lord Mayor, Alderman, ah'd Oolnmon Council, the other from
the Lord Mayor and Liverymen b°',ll-expressed in strmg lan-
guage, respeoting the (r.'iMus ?and inquisitorial,f ti
nature te
tax. The Min;• '
to mat acre and
their aerents increased their efforts
- ' -
• it appear that the opposition te the tax was fastened
oy popular clamour and party manoeuvres. This attempt re-
ceived a final defeat by a petition, presented en March 18, by
Sir William Curtis, from the merchants, bankers, and traders
of the city of London. The number of signatures was 22,000.
March the 18th the Chancellor of the Exchequer proposed the
continuance of the obnoxious tax several other speakers fol-
lowed on each side. At length every voice was drowned in the
cry of question,-and the House divided, when the numbers were,
for the continuance of the tax; 201, against it 238, majority 37.
When the result was announced, a long and loud cheering arose
in the House, which was re-echoed by the crowd that filled the
lobby anti avenues, and the event was felt throughout the na-
tion at a relief from an oppressive burden."—Annual Register
for 1816.
" It has been presumptuous," so we read in the pithy
Examiner, No. 780, " to dabble in chemistry ; to look through
a telescope; to inoculate for the small-pox ; to abate the viru-
lence of a pestilential disorder by the salutary assistance of a
cow; lastly, and we trust the argument will be deemed con-
clusive—to read the Bible. And in what has all this pre-
sumption generally consisted? In the .anxiety of some men to
knqw more than it was convenient for other men they should
know. The moment the daring inquirer discovered a truth—
a truth !—which threatened to militate against a profitable
system of error, then the' awful secrets' were, invaded—the
ark of the sanctuary' disturbed. Any. Barabbas of the day
was milk-white compared with the daring offender : in a word,
away with him.' Could great men thunder, says Shaks-
peare, ' there would be nothing but thunder.' Could they
make a thirst for knowledge sinful and presumptuous, there
would be a most inconvenient multiplicity of awful secrets.' "
Having now emerged from the honourable estimation in the
community, we take leave to mention a few whose great names
gave permanency to the system.
" Protest." "In our opinion, therefore, the land Is sub-
jected to a direct fixation, amounting on the rent, tithe, and
poor-rate, to 33 per cent !"
On the amendment of the Duke of Wellington don the Viirti
Bill. Signed Duke of Newcastle, Earls Rosslyn and Lauder-
dale.—journal of the House of Lords.—The Times, June 5,
1827. .

"It would shske the foundation of all property in the king-
dom."—Mr. Peel.—The News, Sunday, May, 23, 1823.
" Because he had an apprehension and timidity." Mr.
O'Connell, Herald, Dec. 2, 1836.
It is new more than thirty years since the eminent linguist
Bellamy divulged his biblical emendations, through a periodical
of the highest literary character in the country, the "Classical
Journal ;" it is twenty. two years since we became adherents to
his promulgations, and with an intent watchfulness, The Sun,
the Exam'ner, and the Chester Chronicle, are the only Papers
amongst the range, who have promoted the matter held to be
" of the utmost importance to the interest of mankind," and " a
life beyond life."
This enables us to repel the imputation to the " Continental
Despots," we rather say Sovereigns of Europe, or "the cruel
and faithless bigot," and it may go to assuage the acerbity of
vituperations against them, when one whose purport was and is
" of the utmost importance to the interest of mankind," and
" a life beyond life," has received such an act of unexampled
injustice from the press of England.—We hope this will not be
overlooked by the Germanic Diet on the regulations of the
Press.

" What complaint does the bulk of the people make of the
Legislature ? It is charged, in the case of the Corn-laws—
openly and distinctly charged, with inflicting hunger, disease,
and death on large portions of the community to enrich its
members. It cuts down the population, as Lord Ashburton
affirms. It curtails Ike supply of food, it limits the demand
for and the wages of labour. It plunders the working-cla.•ses
to put wealth in the pockets of the Aristocracy. All these
things are the very reverse of its duties. It holds power to
cherish and nroteet the people, and is highly criminal if it
shorten a life unnecessarily one day, or misappropriate one stick
of the property of the obedient people."—The Sun, No.
14,869. May (1, 1840.
" The Anti-Corn-law League yesterday closed its sittings,
and the members declared that they did not despair. Neither
do we. Our conviction that the Corn-law is a most iniquitous
impost is strengthened by what has occurred in the House of
Commons. We believe that to preserve such an impost for
any length of time is kevond the power of the House of Com-
mons. The debate and the division of Tuesday may help the
degradation and destruction of the Parliament, but they can
neither alter the public opinion of the nature of the law, nor
maintain it in opposition to the public conviction."—The Sun,
May 28, 1840.
It being spoken by him, " who spoke as never man spoke."
Mathew, c. iv., v. 4. " But he (Jesus) answered and said, It
is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word
that proceeddh out of the mouth of God," it being our purport
to carry out, and the majority of a House of Commons to abro-
gate the mandate of the Deity himself, (2) though what we
submit " may at first appear startling," emboldens us.
This tra;n of thought leads us to entertain the idea that it is
a national degradation ; that those in the receipt of from 3,000/.
to 30,000!. per annum should" writhe from the hands of pea-
sants their hard-earned pittance" of three-halfpence in a loaf,
and this, too, for the support of an Establishment of high in-
tellectual character. The country's dignity demands the
abolition.

Therefore we hope that her Majesty will he pleased to pro-
mote an assessment of one-half per cent. on all houses at a rent
•f 50/. per annum, U. per cent. on all houses at 100/. per an-
num ; two per cent. on all at 200/. per annum ; three rer cent.
en all at 2001. upwards at the annual rent-charge. niN paid
into hei Majesty's Exchequer, the Clergy to be paid by a gra-
duated scale.

We pray her Most Gracious Majesty " hear us for our
cause," that it may disarm every depraved mind against her
" sacred person," and that no—
" Peasant shall have cause to say,
Heaven shorten Victoria's happy life one day."
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of Wales,the History of England, written in French by M. Rap i n
de Thoyras, translated into English with additional Notas, by
N. Tindal, M. A., Vicar of Great Waltham, Essex, 1732.

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Hon. Lord Byron, and that Noble Lord's works complete
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Arthur Bertrand. Venice: J. B. Missiaglia. Petersburgh :
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Cases Illustrative of the Su-
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physic than in morality, when too the former is certain, and the
attee more than doubtful —for we must not forget that Copaiba
is Its uncertain as it is injurious—at one time appearing to sud-
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failing in producing either. It is also deceptive as regards the
permanency of the desired effect. The patient frequently re-
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hours, is sadly disappointed by the return of his complaint with
renewed or increased virulence—the symptoms being much ag- '
gravated by the consequent loss of time and the unequal action
of the medicine. It is now clearly the duty of the medical
profession to avoid and reprobate the use of a drug which has
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ground that the premises had been used for hazardous purposes,
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that Of combieing it equally injurious, though more pala-
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1. The orders of-Court on the Bth, 15th, and 19th of
January, 1841, to be rend.

To receive Col:ectors' Reports : of Cash r( ccivcd
and paid to the Treasurer—On Warrants granted at pre•
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Defaulters.

3. To receive the Clerk's Report: Of the state of the
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G. Bird, Jun.; Contractor, Balance of Bills to
Midsummer, 1840 ' 505 4 7

£555 4 2

5. To hear Appeals, particularly those of Messrs. Rose,
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the Jury on the Ranelagh and Counters Creeks Districts.

e To receive Petitions and Memorials

7. To consider the Cases of Parties summoned to ap-
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berland-street, Chelsea.
8. To sanction the Order of Court on the sth of Ja-
nuary for rebuilding 100 Feet of Sewer in Hornton-
street,Kensington, estimated at 1101.

9. Surveyors to present Reports, Opinions, &c., as fol-
lows:—On New Gullies requird—On Letter of Messrs.
Fuller, of Rathbone-place, respecting Drainage of Gran-
ville-mews—On Petition of Daniel Sutton, Esq.. for leave
to cover over, or build a wall by the side of, the Edwardes-
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To. -ro inspect the Book of Informations.
11. To examine Bills.

12. Mr. Leslie to move—That the 13ye- law, No. 10, be
altered so as to stand thus:—That all Questions be de-
cided by the names of the Commissioners voting being
taken down by the Clerk.
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INCREASED PREVALENCE OF
SMALL PDX IN THE METROPOLIS.

A circular letter, of which the following is a copy, was
yesterday sent by the Poor-law Commissioners to the
Hoards of Guardians of the Unions in those districts of the
metropolis where small-pox is now unusually prevalent
"Poor- Law Commission-office, Somerset-house,
Jan. 19, 1841.
" EXTENSION OF VACCINATION.

" Sir—The Poor-law Commissioners deem it right to
call the special attention of the Guardians to the preva-
lence of small-pox in the metropolis, as exhibited in the
weekly returns of the mortal;ty, and in the number of cases
which are sent to the Small-pox Hospital.
" The Commissioners are informed by Dr. Gregory, tbe
physician of that establishment, that the number of cases
sent to the Small-pox Hospital is so great that the este-
bl ailment will soon be filled, and that it may shortly be ne-
cessary to provide wards in the union houses for the recep-
tion and appropriate treatment of such cases.
The Commissioners are informed that nearly the
pester proportion of the persons received into the
Smallapos Hospital are (in the proportion shown in the
annexed return) adults, who have not received the protec-
tion of vaccination.

" The Commissioners feel assured this announcement
will be sufficient to induce the Board of Guardians to await
themselves to the utmost extent, of the powers placed al
their disposal by the Vaccination Extension Act, and of
the influence which they possess, in order to arrest the pro-
gress of this fatal disease.
" They would recommend the Board of Guardians to
confer with the vaccinators on the subject without loss of
time, to ascertain from them-1. Whether the measures
for vaccination already adopted in compliance with the
Commissioners' instructional letter of the 20th day of
August, 1840, and the recommendations and orders sub-
sequently issued, are sufficient to meet the present emer-
gency. 2. Whether the inhabitants of the Union avail
themselves of the opportunities afforded to them, or whe-
ther any means can be suggested of removing their objec-
tions (if such exist), or of stimulating their apathy.
" The Commissioners would recommend that, at all
events, a fresh notification of the times and places ~Nf at•
tendance, in large characters (and that in case the in-
crease of small- pox shoull have extended to the
Union, the notification should be headed ' Increase of
small pox in the parish of should be placed in
conspicuous places in the Union, and it should be particu-
larly stated therein that the arrangements are not confined
to children. only, but are also intended for the benefit
of adults.

4"rhe Commissioners would also suggest for the consi-
deration of the Guardians and the vaccinators, whether,
under existing circumstances, it might be expedient fur
the vaccinators to visit from house to house in their several
districts, and thus to bring to the honks of the inhabitants
the means of vaccination. . .

" Under ordinary circumstances, the Commissioners
would hesitate to recommend such an arrangement; but
feeling that On the present occasion, by energy and promp-
titude on the part of the Guardians and the vaccinators,
the progress of the small-pox may be arrested, and its at-
tacks rendered comparatively innocuous, the Commission-
ers think it well worthy the consideration of the Guardians.
" The Commissioners think, moreover, that if the extra
exertions of the vaccinators should require further remu.
neration the Guardians would be perfectly justified in
giving it.
The Commissioners are desirous that, in order that no
time may be lost, you would, if possible, request the vac-
cinators to be in attendance to-morrow at the meeting of
the Board of Guardians, in older that they may be at hand
when you lay this communication before the Guardians.
" The Commissioners also wish that you will not fail
to apprise the Guardians of any facts relating to the spread
of small-pox which may come to your knowledge as Su-
perintendent-Registrar, and that, in addition to other steps
and precautions which may be decided on, you would your-
self inform the ♦accinators of any particular parts of the
Union in which you may have ascertained the small-pox to
be prevalent, and that you will specially call the attention
of the resident in those parts of the Union, by hand-bills.
or by the agency of the Relieving-officer, to the measures
provided for vaccination.
" By order of the Board,
(S'gned) ' "E. CHADWICK, Sec.
" The Clerk to the Guardians of the Union."

RETURN OP THE NUMBER OF CASES (AND DEATHS) AD-
MITTED INTO THE SMALLPDX HOSPITAL DURING THE
YEAR 1840.

Where()
Numbers. died.
Patients wholly unprotected
... previously vaccinated l2B 8
.., supposed to have had small-pox
previously
... not having small-pox

Total 327 95
RETURN OF THE NUMBER, AND AGES, AND DEATHS OF TDB
CASES ADMITTED INTO THE SMALL-PDX HOSPITAL, IN
1640.

Where()
Numbers. died.
Patients under 5 years of age 49 28
between the ages of 5 and 15,
inclusive 46 9
Adults .•.•

Total
Jan. 18, 1841. G. GREGORY, M.D.

INDISTINCT VISION.—It behoves all who
value the importance of thet wonderful piece of " divine
mechanisie," the eye, to adopt every means to strengthet
and preserve it, particularly when those means are withii
reach, and the results from their application are both de
lightful and immediately felt. E. Solomons and Co..
Opticians, &c. (36, Old Bond-street, and 1, Old Jewry
Cheapside), have effected an improvement in Spectacles,
for e hich they have secured a " patent," and the strict
examination of scientific observers, as well as the all-
powerful test of personal experience, have established their
superior excellence. On their application to impairtel
vision their effects are both delightful and instantaneous
conveying at once a refreshing coolness to the Eye, and
rendering the most minute objects perfectly distinct, eithe
by day or candle-light ; in short, their superior poweis,
and freedom from the injurious properties of glasses ord'-
narily sold, have secured for them the powerful recom-
mendation of Sir B. Brodie, Bart., F. R. S. ; Sir An-
thony Carlisle, F. R. S. ; Sir J. E. Anderson ; M.D.;
Dr. J. ../ohnson, Suffolk-place ; Bransby Cooper, Esq.,
F. R. S., Spring-gardens ; Martin Ware. ; C. Aston
Key, Esq., F. R. S., &c. &c. &c.—E. Solomons and
Ce.'s Voice Conductors, when placed in the Ears, cannot
be seen, and enable Deaf persons to distinguish the faintest
inflections of a distant speaker. Being in no way coil-
nected with any other houses in Loudon, and having oc-
casion to guard the public against mistake., which a simi-
let icy of names (aided by various schemes thet are resortei.
t by empirics) have in several instances occasioned sever
disappointment to the incautious, they call particular attco
tion to the following address-36, Old Bond-street, and
Oid Jewry, City.
THE WHITE MlLLlNER.—Jerroltl's forthcom-
ing comedy at Covent-garden is said to be founded on an
historical anecdote related by Walpole, and quoted by
Pennant. In the New Exchange, or England's Burse,
erected in 1608, north of the present Adelphi-terrace, and
pulled down in 1735, a female, according to Walpole, sus-
pected to be the widow of the Duke of Tyreonnell, cup-
ported herself by the trade of this place. She sat in a
white mask and a white dress, and was known by the
name of the White Milliner. Vestris, of course, acts the
Milliner
On Friday last, the 15th instant, Thomas John
Fisher, William Bovill, Henry Tyrwhitt Frend. George
Hughes, Francis Ewart, and Richard Couch, Esqu.ires,
were called to the Bar by the Honourable Society of the
Middle. Temple.

PRICE sd.

SINGULAR EFFECTS OF THE
STORM ON THE RIVER AND HARBOUR.

(From the Glasgow Courier.)
Siuce our last the weather has been, upon the whole,
milder than for ten days previously. The chanee was
perceptible on Friday night. Thaw had then com-
menced, and about mid-day on Saturday the ice-bound
river and ponds in our neighbourhood, and the clotted
streets and snow-clad house-tops, presented unequivocal
symptoms that it was continuous and rapid in its effects.
Apprehensions were entertained that, in the event of
an overflowing of the river, the lower parts of the city
about Bridgegate and Stockwell-streets,'would be in
dame, r from the flood ; and just fears were also enter-
tained for the safety of the shipping in the harbour.
Prudential measures were therefore adopted by the
parties interested to prevent such disratrous con-
sequences ; itnd it is well that it was so ; as On
Sabb,ith a catastrophe happened which might otherwise
have occasioned the destruction of property amongst the
slopping in the harbour to the extent of many thousands of
pounds. The thick bed of ice upon the river above
the navigable part had given way to the rapid thaw,
and there hAving been several heavy showers of rain on
Saturday night, a spate was occasioned, with which;
during the early part of Sunday, the bread fragments of
ice floated down at a moderate velocity. But the
broken misses accumulated so fast, rolling down with
impetuous violence, that in the course of the afternoon
a surface was formed from Rutherglen Bridge to the
foot of the Steam-boat Quay, rugged in its appearance,
from the varied shapes and different positions which the
pent-up body of ice assumed, but as solid in its structure
as if it has been made by tle• 'iest mechanical skill to
last for ages. From the c-a,.irrued accumulation large
bodies would rise to the lieaht of several feet, and Frush
against each other with ;it. impetuosity, but the pres-
sure below, from the I; slges to the mouth, of the har-
bour, was so great ;Is to fortn an impassible barr;er.
while the ,dark surge rolled below as obscurely as if
it had been tunnelled over. The scene was one calcu-
lated to create uneasy feelings ; lint even in its most
dangerous aspect there was magnificence, and many
thousands were attacted to the banks of the river and
the bridges to gaze with wonder on a sight so unusual
in this part of the world. Some looked with deep con-
cernment on the scene, while others, giving full scope
to their ideas of the sublime, fancied they saw in
embryo the glaciers of the Alps, or the wonders of the
Tyrol. It belonged to another class not to remain idle
spectators—these were the toasters and crews of vessels
in the port, and the workmen of the River Trust, the
latter of whom had spent a sleepless and laborious
night in making precautionary arrangements, and were
at their posts at an early hour in the morning with
Mr. Bald, engineer of the trust, Captain Johnstone,
harbour-master, and Mr. Russell, superintendent of
the river police, giving such directions as to the
proper mooring and secure fastening of the vessels
as were necessary on the occasion. All the
ships had chains out that possessed them, and others
had double hawsers and strong hempen cables. The
straining on the vessels was dreadful, and in some
cases both chain and hempen cable were out, while the
anchor was thrown overboard. The foresight of these
shipmasters saved them ; but despite every effort, four
vessels went adrift, viz. the Earl Grey, the Mary Queen
of Scots, the Carl Johan steamers, and a schooner. The
Carl Johann went down to Govan ; the schooner to the
Saw Mills, a little below that ; the Queen of Scots and
the Earl Grey went nearly to Renfrew ; but they were
all brought up without damage. About an hour and a
half, from four o'clock till near six, sufficed to clear the
river of the ice, which tumbled over the wear at the rate
of some thousand tons an hour, boiling and raging in its
course. Before the breaking up a fool-hardy fellow, be-
longing to a Cheshire vessel, went on to the ice, and jumped
"Jim Crow" amongst the messes, to the imminent peril
of his life ; but he was wiled ashore, and deposited under
the care of Mr. Russell, in the Police Buildings, for fear
he would harm himself, and two boys who followed
his example, were placed in the same durance till the
spate ended. On the whole, great credit is due to Mr.
Bald, Mr. Johnstone, the harbour-master, and Mr.
Russell, police, for their exertions on the occasion, which
we think deserving the especial notice of the river trus-
tees. Yesterday morning frost again set in, and con-
tinued, though at a moderate intensity, throughout the
day. A large accumulation of the broken ice remained
a little below the Glasgow-bridge, extending from the
north quay about half-way across, and several hundred
yards down the harbour. One of the tug steamers,
which had been so useful the day previously, was em-
ployed in clearing it away, but the work was proceeded
in with considerable difficulty from the renewal of the
frost.

PROPOSED BRIDGE, OR TUNNEL,

FROM DOVER TO CALAIS.

A Havre journal gives the following account of a
project announced in that town :--An Englishman, de-
scribing himself to be an engineer, recently arrived at
Havre, has been to Paris to propose the plan of
a passage by land from Dover to Calois. The inventor
has given the following account of his gigantic plan
to many of the inhabitants of Havre :—M. VV. Cap-
pia (the inventor) proposes to place twenty thousand
piers of stone across the straits, which are to be
laid at the bottom of the sea. These are intended
to form the foundation of a moastrous bridge seven
leagues in length. A plan of this has been enuraved
in London, and will be' publicly e•ihibited in Paris.
According to the :;.inventor's account, he gives the
soundings of the straits with great exactness, and the
various depths of the sea along this extensive line.
The estimated expense or this bridge is not to exceed
1,800 millions of francs. Though the plan of cones or
piers in imitation of the dike at Cherbourg may appear
ridiculous, M. W. Coppitt is an ingenious man ; and
his determination being that England shall be united
with the Continent, he has another project to effect it.
His plan, number 2, is this :—lt is not to travel above
the surface of the water, hut underneath it, neverthe-
less on dry ansl firm ground. In order to accomplish
this, M. W. Coppitt proposes to fix a series of tunnels
made of cast iron, three feet in thickness, and eighteon
feet diameter inside. The first of these tunnels, which
is to serve as its entrance, is to be placed at Dover, and
the last to terminate at Calais, after following the
undulations of the submarine ground. " This plan is
simple," modestly says the inventor ; and the execution
of it is so easy, that I dare not claim any merit for
the discovery, You will understand," he adds, " that
if your countryman, M. Brunel, had thought of this
plan, instead of excavating with so much difficulty
through a soil of sand at the risk of a thousand acci-
dents, he would have laid down long iron pipes from
one bank of the Thames to the other, by the adop-
tion of this method, with a saving of twenty millions
of francs in money, and ten years of labour." M. Ws
Coppitt thinks that this metal tunnel from Dover to
Calais would not cost more than 1,000 millions of francs,
half of which he proposes should be contributed by
France, and the other half by England.

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