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NEW SCHOOL DICTIONARY.

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ADICTIONARY of the ENGLISH
LANGUAGE, containing the Pronunciation, Etymology, and
Explanation of all the Words authorised by eminent Writers ; to
which are added a Vocabulary of the Roots of English Words, and an
Accented List of Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names. By-
ALEXANDER REID, A.M., Rector of the Circus-place School,
Edinburgh, Author of " Rudiments of English Composition," &c.
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SINGULAR INSTANCE OF STRANGULATION BT
MACHINERY.—Monday Mr. Baker held an inquest at
the York Minster, Bunbill-row, St. Luke's, on the body
of William Lawrence, aged eighteen, employed by Mr.
Martin, paper glazer and embosser, of Old-street, but
whose factory is in Bunhill-row. On Friday evening
deceased was about to glaze some paper at a one-horse
power steam-engine, and was passing a proof sheet
beneath its rollers, one of which is of hollowed brass.
heated by a red hot round bar of iron, in the manner of
a tea-urn. He wore at the time a handkerchief with
the ends depending loosely. The sheet of paper he
was trying, missing its bite, slipped. and, as he stooped
to catch it, the ends of his neckcloth got beneath the
brass roller, and he was drawn in, with his neck and side
face tightly fixed against it. He cried out, " Stop the
engine;" and two fellow-workmen hurried to his assist-
ance, and did so. They then unscrewed the roller, and
extricated deceased. He sighed heavily once or twice,
and expired. Mr. John Matcher, a neighbouring sur-
geon, having been sent for, pronounced the cause of
death to be strangulation, and accounted for its sudden-
ness by the close contact of the deceased's visage with
the heated roller. Had it been cool he might not have
been strangled. Verdict, " Accidental death."
SUDDEN DEATH OF AN ECCENTRIC CHARACTER.—
Mr. Wakley, M.P., held an inquest at the Dolphin, Tun-
bridge-street, New-road, upon James Leach, a master
shoemaker. aged 72. The deceased, who was a widower,
led a kind of anchorite life during his widowhood, seldom
admitting visitors, and allowing his apartment to be
cleansed but once during the past six months. Last
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do some work for him, and he told her to go away and
return about one o'clock. She did so, and upon her re-
turn she found him stretched and insensible alongs:de
his table, at which he was dining, with his half•consumed
meal before him. Medical assistance was called in, but
he was lifeless at three o'clock. Verdict, " Natural
death."

SUSPECTED MURDER OF AN INFANT. -On the

11 th of December last a common white wicker bas-
ket, of rather bulky appearance, was brought to the
Southampton Railway terminus at Nine Elms, by a
female, directed to " P. Muspratt, Esq., Winches-
ter." It was accordingly sent to the latter place
by the mail train, but no person of that name could
be found there. It was shortly afterwards brought
back to Nine Elms, where it laid in the parcel office
until yesterday, when a putrid stench from the basket
attracted the attention of the clerks. It was accordingly
opened in the presence of the superintendent, when the
body of a new-born male infant was found inside, rolled
up in a piece of old flannel, over which was a piece of
yellow oilskin. A surgeon was sent for, but there were
no marks of external violence. It is presumed that the
infant died for want of nourishment and proper attentior
from its inhuman parent. The body, which is in a vert
putrid state, awaits a Coroner's inquest.
Lord Mayor Gibbs presents his compliments
the editor of the Great Gun, and would be obliged b"
being informed whether Tyler, the President of th
United States, is any descendant of Wat Tyler, wh,
WAS once knocked down by an unaccountable Lore'
Mayor.—Great Gun.

GLOBE.—The remaining points in controversy
between the Bishop of Exeter and the laity continue
to occupy more space in publicity than perhaps any
other subject. We agree with the Times in con-
gratulating the public on having obtained concession
of that which the Bishop made a great point of, by
preference, because it was a small one. We so far
concur with the Right Reverend Prelate, that we
consider the smallest point equally good with the
greatest one to try the right upon —to try,
namely, the question whether the hierarchy
have a right, ex cathedra, to impose unde-
sired innovations (as regards this generation, and
many generations back, they are so)—or whether a
Protestant hierarchy is under the obligation to con-
sult the Protestant community in some shape, before
introducing novelties (to them) in their discipline
or worship. If, again, the title of Protes-
ta:it hierarchy is not accepted, if—as Mr. Pal-
ink.r said, in one of his writings he, and
those thinking with him, would leave the
Church, if it expressly adopted the Protestant de-
signation—if, as Mr. Gladstone says in the Quarterly,
our Church was not founded by the Reformers of the
sixteenth century—and if the inference to be drawn
from this (although it by no menus follows as a neces-
sary consequence) is meant tube, that those Reformers
had no right to make any fundamental changes in it—if
all this, we say, is admitted, then we are thrown back for
ecclesiastical titles to some state ofthings previous to the
Reformed, and previous to the corrupt Roman era. Now,
to find this, we must go a great way back. We must go
a great way back to find the ecclesiastical system free
from those characters which the Anglican Church has
struck out of her symbols as unscriptural. We must,
in short, go back to primitive times; and this our
Anglican doctors indeed say they do. Well, we have '
no objection. But if we do this in good earnest,
we shall find that it was not " the Reformers of
the sixteenth century " who first took it into their
heads that the laity should have something to do
in controlling Church matters. "We cannot fail
to recognise," observes a recent Church-writer '

(Conybeare, Bampton Lectures for 1839') "many
minor differences between the earlier discipline of
the Church and that which still remains ; and this
is particularly striking in the more direct in-
terference during the primitive ages of the lay
membets of the congregation in the election of
Bishops and Presbyters. Bingham, in his invaluable
storehouse of Ecclesiastical Antiquity, the " Origines,"
produces many authorities to show that the power
of the people on such occasions was not barely
testim•inial, but judicial and elective; that in the ap-
pointment of Bishops they exercised exactly the same
consent, suffrage, veto, election, and choice, as the
inferior clergy; and the same privilege was like-
wise on some occasions conceded to them in

the designation of Presbyters. The testimony of
Cyprian is very important on these points. In
the 67th Epistle, p. 172, he strongly insists, that
the whole analogy of the appointment of the
priesthood under the old covenant, and every
order of ministers under the new, demonstrated
ordinationes sacerdotales non nisi sub populi assistantis
conscientia fieri oportere ; ordinatio justa et legitima
est, quce omnium stitfragio et judicio fuerit examinata ;
and he himself apologises (Ep. 33) for having been
under the pressure of the times of persecution obliged
to ordain a very meritorious individual by his own
single authority, without having had an oppor-
tunity thus to consult the Church. It appears
then that the laity were considered pars magna
of "the Church" in those primitive times which
our orthodox Anglican doctors are fond of appealing
to. And with reference more particularly to ques-
tions of discipline (more important than the present
ones) it is clear that, in the earliest ages of the
Church, those were not decided, as it were, over the
heads of the laity, but, on the contrary, remitted
to their express concurrence. " A painful con-
troversy arose," says the writer above cited,
" as to the terms on which the lapsed brethren,
as they were called, were again to be admitted
into the bosom of the Church they had for-
saken in her hour of trial. Ile (Cyprian) throughout
scrupled to issue any determination on the subject
from his own judgment alone; and declared his
desire to remit its decision to the public
synods of his Church, which appear to have
included its lay as well as clerical members. He will
take no steps, he says sine petite et conscientia
plebis." That Father of the Church who had perhaps
most resemblance to Henry of Exeter (if we may judge
by the tone of his fulminations against Vigilantius)
—we mean Jerome—by no means, however, extrava-
gated in the direction of " dropping-down-deadness"
before Bishops. On the contrary, he devoted much
of his monkish labours and temper to demon-
strating not only his personal disposition to defying
episcopacy when it came across his way—but the non-
existence of any original distinction in office between
Bishops and Presbyters. On the whole, we cannot think
that ecclesiastical sticklers will take much by their
motion, if they insist on driving us back to primitive
times from " the Reformers of the sixteenth cen-
tury." The plain question we take to be—whether
the Church-going people are to adhere to the general
style of worship of the ages after, or the ages before,
the Reformation. Of course a very unblameable pre-
ference may be entertained either for the one, or the
other. We do not undertake to decide on any
grounds applicable to all religious communions,
between altar and communion-table, priest and
minister, sacrament of penance, and doctrine of re-
pentance and remission. 'We do not undertake to
say what human forms most approach divine
truths. But we do say that the people of Eng-
land, who have hitherto been accustomed to one
set of forms, as those most expurgated from ad-
mixture of superstition, have a right to be con-
sulted before the usage of centuries is changed
in conplaisance to the feelings of certain scrupu-
lous clergymen--.whose scruples, for the most part,
point Romewards. In fact, it is shrewdly suggested
by a correspondent, that the Bishop of Exeter himself,
however satisfactory a testimony he adduced lately
to his own Protestantism, in stating that he had
withdrawn from the Cambridge Camden Society,
because they patronised windows with pictures and
mottoes indicative of " Mariolatry"—has placed
himself in a singular position towards :Protestantism,
and august Protestant personages !
STANDARD.—It certainly is not the least
gratifying of the proofs of the advancing intelligence
of the eouutry, that, notwithstanding the successive
announcements of the rapid improvement of the
revenue, we hear little or nothing from the people
of a reduction of taxes. The millowners, no
doubt, clamour for a diminution of the cotton
duties, though they never had cotton at so
low a price, and like demands are heard from
other classes, but the claims for reduction are
all class claims, in which the people take no
part. It cannot, however, be supposed, that the
present generation have more pleasure in paying taxes
than the generation before them ; and, therefore, we
must conclude that their contentment with the ex.
isting financial arrangement arises from a conviction
that a hasty reduction of taxes may be in the end
more injurious than beneficial. In short, that the
" ignorant impatience of taxation" (to borrow the late
Lord Londonderry's happy though much abused phrase)
has given place to an enlightened consideration of the
future. The reductions of the late Administration have
demonstrated that such relief may be bought too
dear, and fully exposed the fallacy of Lord Syden-
ham's theory of fructification from deficit. Never-
theless, it is scarcely to be expected that,
with that steady and rapid improvement of the
revenue, which may be anticipated from the
continuance in office of an Administration
that has, in four short years, so wonderfully
reversed the financial state of the country__
it is scarcer to be expected, we say, that if Sir
Robert Peels Government continue to hold office, the
public will not look at its hands for a remission of
taxation. We fear the time has not yet arrived
when all men will see, what all thoroughly-in-
formed men see already, that the contribution to
a public revenue wisely laid out in providing for
the national defence, and in promoting national im-
provements, is the most profitable of all investments ;
that double taxes may be made to produce double
wealth to the people collectively and individually. As
yet we have had but half the lesson--that half
which teaches that a deficient revenue, arising from
diminished taxes, leads to collective and individual
distress—the other, and more valuable portion of the
instruction remains to be inculcated by an experience,
for which, perhaps, the mass of the People are not yet
prepared. The time, however, will co.ne, and question-
less the measures of the present Administration are
well calculated to advance its arrival, when the public
will feel that defence and war are not the only good
that
laid out
money
reasons for a nation's making large pecuniary
may be
sacri-
afisees—when it v
properly, a
in providing docks and harbours—in promoting a
Nndill much be thou hou
snore ;ht
profitably,
well-considered system of colonisation—in extending
religious and secular education, and the means of

comfort to the poorer classes— as in equipping
fleets and armies, important as the due equip-
ment of fleets and armies must always be. A
great deal has been done, and will be done, in
this country by individual enterprise and by pri-
vate benevolence ; but there are objects of the
greatest national importance (we may cite the
construction of refuge harbours) which present no
temptation to individual enterprise ; and there are
others of no less importance, as the full extension of
religious and secular education, too vast to be ade-
quately effected by private benevolence. Sir Robert
Peel, no doubt, acted with true wisdom in leaving
to private enterprise the Irish railways, so pro-
mising of prosperity and civilisation to the sister
island ; but if the construction of the Kings-
town harbour had been left to private en-
terprise, the whole western coast of the Irish
sea would be at this moment without one safe port.
In the same way it is manifest that the edu-
cation of the people cannot be safely -confided to
private benevolence. Without a reasonably well
supplied exchequer, however, no Government can
undertake anything beyond routine expense.
We are aware that there was, at one time,
a sufficiently strong objection to leaving with an
administration the command of more money than
was absolutely necessary to carry on the public ser-
vice. The successive Whig administrations of
the first two-thirds of the last century had
reduced peculation and robbery to a perfect
system, and there was no reason to hope that
money at the mercy of a government would be
applied to any but corrupt personal or party
objects ; unless, indeed, it should go to pamper
that passion, the indulgence of which was said.
and then truly said, to be " the pastime of kings."
The checks, however, imposed upon the public expen-
diture during the last fifty years (we are proud to say,
self-imposed by Tory and conservative Government
are, it is confessed by all, a sufficient guard against
any misapplication of it ; and kings have had enough
of that game which was once their peculiar pastime,
from 1793 to 1815, to serve them for one good century,
even were not the British people too wise to join in
the game, upon any save the strongest provo-
cation. We are thoroughly persuaded that were
the revenue from the present taxes augmented
20 or 30 or 40 per cent., as, if these taxes are con-
tinued, and the world remain in its present happy
state, it will be, the increase would be to any Bri-
tish Government a dissuasive from war—because it
would commit the country to such civil im-
provements as are the surest hostages for
peace, while the influence of such proof of our
national wealth upon foreigners would have just
the same pacific tendency. A large and even re-
dundant revenue, applied to civil government, is,
in the present condition of Europe, the best
possible guarantee for peace, while, we need
not repeat it, such a revenue, so applied,
is the fertile seed of internal prosperity and
happiness. Every class, therefore, which calls upon
the public to join in demanding a remission of taxes
for its own class benefit, really solicits the public to
sacrifice, by so much, its guarantee of peace, its seed
of prosperity. In offering these opinions we must
be understood as speaking merely from ourselves,
as, indeed, merely repeating what we have
constantly laboured to inculculate—the mis-
chief of reducing the revenue--what we laboured
to inculcate, whether it was the Government of the
Duke of Wellington, or of Lord Grey, or Lord Mel-
bourne that sought popularity by diminishing the
revenue. We hope that we speak with a better hope
of success than formerly, because we know that the
more revenue the more good the Government can
effect ; but of Sir Robert Peel's financial purpose we
really know nothing.

ownasthhis
eeenitiinree
oftimee wreapseedlTeaoutseed,
btout thhee
eopoulbdlitec sllerthviecme.
The English newspapers were congratulating each other
that he was not acquainted with a man who was a re-
pealer in 1843 or 1844 who was not a repealer at that
moment. Their policy was uniform—their opinions
unanimous. It had been stated that Mr. O'Connell had
lost his influence—that he was no longer able to
direct the power he had raised up—but he could inform
the people of England that he was still the acknow-
ledged and recognised leader of his countrymen, and
he was confident that nothing could ever occur to inter-
rupt the harmony which existed between them. An en -
deavour had been made to create disunion amongst the
people of Ireland, and certainly if the British Minister
meditated such to be the result of his Bequests Act, he
could not have gone a better way about creating such a
result. But he told that Minister he would be disap-
pointed. The prelates who had accepted office under
that Act, had declared the measure as being deficient in
many respects, and he was sure that unless these defects
were remedied, they would refuse to assist in carrying
out a Bill which was so obnoxious to the country at
large. The decline of the repeal rent had also furnished
their friends on the other side with a subject of gratula-
tion, but he trusted that the people of Ireland would
contradict that assertion, by systemising that taxation—
a self-imposed taxation, which should continue till the
union was repealed. The people should supply them
with the means, ha was going to say, of carrying on the
government of the country, but he would not expose
himself to an indictment of 36 yards length, and he
would say, all the operations incidental to the carrying
on of the agitation. After some further observations,
the Hon. Gentleman resumed his seat amidst loud cheers.
Mr. O'HEA (barrister) moved that the Committee of
the Association should be directed to prepare a general
view of the proceedings of the Association for the past
year. The Learned Gentleman then commented at
some length on the various political phases through
which the people of Ireland had passed during the last
forty-five years, and detailed the several constitutional
triumphs they had achieved, and concluded an eloquent
address amidst general applause.
After the dispatch of some routine business, Mr.
Smith O'Brien a nnounced the rent for the week to be
2431. 15s. ld.—T he meeting then adjourned.
VICE-REGAL (201:MT.—The Lord Lieutenant enter-
tained the following party at dinner on Saturday, at the
Vice-regal Lode e:--Hon.Miss A'Court, Lord Eliot, Lady
Jemima Eliot, the Primate, the Archbishop of Dublin,
Marquis of Waterford, Marquis of Neadfort, Earl of
Meath, Earl of Roden, Earl of Charlemont, Earl of Lei-
trim, Earl of Donoughmore, Earl of Miltown, Earl of
Wicklow, Earl of Rosse, the Dean of St. Patrick's, Sir
William Bethain„ Sir William Leeson, Colonel Bowles,
Mr. A'Court; Lord Francis Gordon, and Mr. Daly,
Aides-de-Camp in Waiting.
THE LATE STA TE TRIALS.—The alterations which
were made in the Court of Queen's Bench this time last
year, for the purpose of affording additional accommo-
dation to the bar and public during the late State trials
are in course of removal. Workmen have been for)some
days employed in removing them, so that the Court may
upon the first day of term (Saturday next) resume its
orieinal appearance.
RIOT VC LO:IGFORD.—The Government, with the
utmost promptitude, sent the Adjutant-General from
Athlone to this town on Monday last, to investigate the
riot which took place, as far as the detachment of the
54th regiment, pa wing through here, was concerned, and
the particulars c f which we gave last week, but the
result has not been mid/ known yet. He proceeded on
Tuesday to Beilliiiareore, in the county Leitrim, where
the detachment is stationed : Captain Hill, R.M., Ho-
I ert Curtis, Esq., county inspector, and two of the con-
stabulary, also pr, m.eded there, and we have heard two
of the soldiers )twee been identified by the police as
being concerned in the riot.—Longford Journal
ATTEMPT TO A SBASSINATE JAMES GEsSPROY, ESQ.
—On Monday ewe] ling last, between six and seven
o'clock, a most datricg attempt was made to assassinate
this gentleman ; ha was on his re:urn from his country
residence at Brackle n to his house at Edgeworthstown,
and when within a. Nhort distance of the latter place, a
person named Wil Liam Kerrigan came up to him, and
presented and snap] ,ed a pistol at him, which providen-
tially only burned'. priming. Kerrigan then ran away,
but the Edgewortlls town police being up to the spot in a
few seconds, and pec•eiving the name of the offender from
Mr. GefTroy they went in pursuit of Kerrigan, and, after
a fatiguinz search, succeeded in arresting him, and
marched him into Longford gaol on the following morn-
ing, to take his trial at the next assizes. It appears
that Mr. Geffroy ejected Kerrigais's father some time
age from some lar4 —Longford Journal.
On Thursday ight last a threatening notice was
served on Mr. Will him Johnston, of Kilgarvin, threaten-
ing him with the de 'ath of the Sheppard. in the open day,
if he did not surrtm der some land he held from which the
widow Byrne was ,ejected.—Athlone Sentinel.
The Lord Cha,le ellor has given a donation of 30/. to
the Wexford Lui iaaic Asylum.

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT AND Loss OF LIFE AT
KNOCKNAROON.- -A most appalling accident, attended
with the loss of tie lives of four children, took place on
Saturday evening,, about four o'clock, at the little hamlet
of Knockmaroon, which lies contiguous to the southern
and western bouisOary wall of the Phcenix Park, and
the low road to Ole Strawberry Beds and Lucan, &c.
The Commission ?.t s of Woods and Forests, in the late
extensive and v linable improvements in the Phcenix
Park, constructea'. a new road at the back of the Royal
Ilibernian Military School, through what is familiarly
known as the Fur r:s• Glen, about midway from the sum-
mit level of the g round to that of the valley alongside the
River Liffey. T hie place was so romantically beautiful
in its aspect that it was resolved to add to its appear-
ance by forming the upper part of the glen into an arti-
ficial lake, natur e having provided for a supply of water
by a rivulet whi eh ran along, emptying itself into the
Liffey, and forms d the boundary between the parishes
of Chapelizod and Castlekneck. The usual precaution
for permitting the. overflow of the lake to pass away was
provided for by a leans of a sewer. The boundary wall of
the park was at the bottom of the glen, and about 100
yards from it we re the houses, the inmates of which fell
victims. It won Id appear that the masonry work of the
sewer gave way, arid the great body of water speedily
filled the lower Oen, as it is stated to the height of seven
or eight feet, the opening in the wall being quite iisuffi-
cient to let off the rush of water; its weight soon bore
down about twenty or thirty feet of the wall, and an
overwhelming flo 0(1 swept into the houses, and in a few
minutes, before a ny human help could be afforded, four
children, and a cuw , the chief support of one poor family,
were drowned. a officer, whom we understood to be
Mr. De Laney, of the Ist Royal Dragoons, who was
riding fortunately along the road, with intrepid humanity
which does honor 0.• to him, rode into the water, and
succeeded in res, ruing an aged woman and three chil-
dren from destt ,fiction. Three others of the houses
were not approac /able. The names of the sufferers are
Roger Fox, by t rade a weaver, but who is a fireman
now on board one of the London and Dublin steamers,
and at present o a duty, lost three •hildren, the eldest
eleven years, they youngest an infant, the third about
four years old. One of the children, aged nine, providen-
tially saved herseif by climbing on the top of her father's
loom, and was found in that position half dead, clinging
with death-like grasp to it. The eldest girl, it is sup-
posed, lost her life in i her anxiety for the infant and her
youngest sister. Th e poor mother was at market, pro-
viding some necessar ics for the week's support, and re-
turned but to witnes: s their dead bodies, and that of the
cow, their chief m eans of support. A man named
Joseph Coyle had or .e child drowned. A poor helpless
man named Mullen, by trade a smith, living on the
bank of the Liffey, the opposite side of the road, had
his house and furnitu re all wrecked and destroyed. A
respectable tradesman f named Butler had his furniture
destroyed. It was to the courage, decision, and huma-
nity of Mr. De Lac cy that this man owes the pre-
servation of his mother and children's lives. The
furniture, bed-clothes, store of potatoes, firing, &c.,
were all destroyed„ and a scene of more unqualified
misery than these wretched dwellings presented could
not be imagined. Some prompt measure of reli f
should be devised for these suffering families ; but it
is imperatively inc•annb.ent upon the Commissioners of
Woods and Forests: to compensate them for the injury
thus unwittingly inflicted upon them. The bodies of
the four children hie in a public-house awaiting an in-
quest.

The Lady Thomas Hay, who is at present sojourn-
ing at the Hotel Brighton, in Paris, gave birth on Tues-
day last to a daughter. The infant, we regret to statr,
survived its birth only a few hours. Her Ladyship is
going on well.
NAVAL IN TELLIG Eli C E C 11, JAN. 7.
In consequence of Mr. Sunderland declining
to have
more experiments made with his propeller in the Rattler
any
t
take
steam-vessel, the intended trial. on Monday, did not
place, but she will leave on Thursday morning, at
a ten
cbleocsk
t,
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sttreya
mA-Ivre.
sslielo,drgescoen's ntl;
d
el;vaaragbeoliic.n
surveying Propeller."
Captain Vidol, with Lieutenants Gill and Cox, are to be
the Azores, was paid off at Woolwich llonday, and
inWilliam e r draught nnd.Maryof water yacht,te
hTheorn borne
Styx th
beinge booksrather o
war
the surveying service, be re-commissioned as a
steamer, and have a crew. of 145 men.. Mr. Frederick
of
largethe
Sturdee, late of the Daring, experimental vessel, has
been appointed additional master of the William and
Mary. The following ships aro building at Woolwich:—
The Royal Albert, 120 guns, 3,330 tons burthen ; the
Anwhion, 36 guns, is being lengtheped eighteen feet
forward, under the direction of Mr. White, of Cowes,
and will be fitted with a screw propeller, and have
engines of 300 horse power. The Sphinx steam vessel
is now in frame, and will be completed about June next.
Mr. Penn, of Greenwich, is preparing her engines. The
other three building slips at this dockyard are at present
vacant, with the exception of one in which is a barge
seventy feet lcng, recently built and in progress of beit.g
fitted with Mr. Foulerton's ship manceuvrer, which is
formed of a three-bladed screw, and it tended to show
that it is applicable to turning the largest vessels by the
aid of the crew in the event of any accident to the
rudder, or during calms.