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celebrated Engraver. Mr. CHILES G. LEWIS, for nearly three
years, and is now brought to a most successful termination. The
engraving represents " Field-Marshal the Duke of Wellington, K.G.,
receiving his illustrious guests at Apsley-house, on the anniversary
of the glorious Eighteenth of June," and included in the Plate are
most of the great " Soldiers of the age," to whom the nation owed
its crowning victory at Waterloo.
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We regret to announce the death of ➢ir. William Dickin-
son, Comptroller-General of the Customs, which took place
a Saturday. at his residence in Charlotte-row, Walwortb.
This melancholy event will be a great loss to that neighbour-
hood. For many years he bad taken a deep interest in the
education of the children of the poor, and had spent much
money and time in establishing Sunday schools as well as
day schools for that purpose; and it is gratifying to find that
his labours have not been without effect, and that several
members of his family are following the good example
Deeds like these may well afford consolation on a death-bed.

WILY TIIE ANCIENTS HAD NO PRINTED BOOKS.
—What was the reason that the Greeks and Romans had not the
advantage of printed books ? The answer will be, from 99 persons
in 100—because the mystery of printing was not then discovered.
But this is altogether a mistake. The secret of printing must
have been discovered many thousands of times before it was
used, or could be used. The inventive powers of man are
divine; and also his stupidity is divine—as Cowper so playfully
illustrates in the slow development of the sofa through successive
enerations of immortal dulness. It took centuries of blockheads
to raise a joint stool into a chair; and it required something
like a miracle of genius, in the estimate of elder genera-
tions, to reveal the possibility of lengthening a chair into a
chaise longue, or a sofa. Yes, these were inventions that cost
mighty throes of Intellectual power. But still as respects printing,
admirable as is the stupidity of man, it was really not quite equal to
the task of evading an object which stared him in the face with so
broad a gaze. It did not require an Athenian intellect to read the
main secret of printing in many scores of processes which the ordi-
nary uses of life were daily repeating. To say nothing of analagous
at tifices amongst various mechanic artisans, all that is essential in
printing must have been known to every nation that struck
coins and medals. Not, therefore, any want of a printing
art—that is of an art for multiplying impressions—but the
want of a cheap material for receiving such impressions, was
the obstacle to an introduction of printed books even as early as
Pisistratus. The ancients did apply printing to records of silver
and gold ; to marble and many other substances cheaper than gold
and silver they eid not, since each monument required a separate
effort of inscription. Simply this defect it was of a cheap material
for receiving impresses, which froze in its very fountains the early
resources of printing. Some twenty years ago,. this view of the
case was luminously expounded by Dr. Whately, the present Arch-
bishop of Dublin, and with the merit, I believe, of having first sug-
gested it. Since then, this theory has received indirect confirma
tion.—Blackwood's Magazine.

RAILWAY ALLOTMENTS.—The following queries
have been submitted by a correspondent :—" 1. Supposing A ap.
plies for and gets allotted twenty shares in a new railway under-
taking, and after paying the deposit and signing the necessary
deeds, &c., sells them to B, who holds them till the Act is got, and
is then registered in the Company's books as the holder of these
twenty shares, is not B the party liable to further calls? 2.
Suppose B sells these shares to C, who has them transferred
to his name, and then C finds he cannot pay the next call
which is made, who is the party liable—A or B ? If C cannot
Pay this call, and the Company come upon A or B (or whoever, is
the party liable), is not the payer of the call entitled to have the
shares, and to have them transferred to his name ? 4. When does
A's responsibility cease ?"—Wc do not, at present, undertake to
give a perfect answer to all these questions. So much may, how-
ever, be stated, we believe, with correctness :—lf A, to whom
the shares are originally allotted, sells them to B, who, after the
Act is obtained, is registered as the holder, his (A's.) responsibility
ceases. If, however, Bis not registered, either because the Com-
pany will not accept him, or because, finding the undertaking not
so good as he anticipated, he does not desire to come forward, A's
liabilities remain, notwithstanding any sale to the extent of the
calls that may be made upon his shares. On paying such calls,
however, he becomes the actual shareholder, and the claim of B,
or any subsequent purchaser, may be considered as forfeited.—
Railway Mail.
CHARLES I. HANGED FOR OLIVER CROMWELL.—
There is a story current, that to guard against any further
insult being offered to the body of Oliver Cromwell, it was
privately buried in Naseby field, which was repeatedly
ploughed and planted to secure the spot from discovery.
The same account adds, that to render the scheme effectual,
the body of King Charles, with the head sewed on, was buried
for that of Cromwell. When, at the restoration, the supposed
body of the usurper was removed from Westminster Abbey,
and suspended on a gallows at Tyburn, amid the gaze and
taunts of the populace, a seam round the neck was observ-
able, and the eve of curiosity traced a likeness of the King's
countenance. The rumour quickly circulated, anti having
reached the palace, the body was ordered to be taken down
with all possible dispatch—the mob quickly dispersing not a
little amused (?) at the mistake.—Historic Prologues by the
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VOLUNTEERS FOR THE NAVY.—Since the establish-
ment, of the rendezvous at Kingroad in our port, for the
reception of volunteers for the navy, no less than six hun-
d. ed able-bodied seamen have entered. Of these, a party of
forty. two sailed from Bristol for Plymouth on the 2d inst ,
on board her Majesty's steamer Alban. This mode
of
manning our navy has proved eminently successful, and we
understand that at no other port in the kingdom have so
many efficient men been of late raised "to bear the British
thunder o'er the seas."—Bristol Journal.
The take of herrings all along the west coast of
Ireland is so immensely abundant, that the people cannot
procure salt in siufiziclielanete;jarnaenfttittilvetof
them.
111 r. Even the
flegArrn. t d
übrna ec tor of her Majesty's Theatre, left
Paris on Friday for Italy, with a view to import the novel
heedlessly lowered himself into the water
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Saturday night .ast,
was held
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stairs, in the dock-yard. An inquest wa
and aftempte.l to swim ashore, in which hei failed, as aths
body was dredged up on Tuesday morne ing, s
coroner fur the borough, W. Cooper, Esq., and a verdict of
`Tounddrowned" was recorded. We trust this will be a warn-
ing to our brave, though heedless
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FIRES —On FrAay two fires broke out and de.
stroyed considerable property, The first was about twelve o'clock,
and occurred on the premises of Mr. England, a builder, residing
ships
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Telegraph.derwhat
they
in the Ingerfield-road, Dalston. The flames were subdued, but not
before the interior was completely destroyed. Mr. England is in-
sured. A second fire broke out soon after, at the residence of
Mr. G. Squire, of South-place, Holloway. 'The firemen succeeded
in extinguishing the flames before much damage was done to the
house.
FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER —On Sunday
evening, about 7 o'clock, as the Citizen C steame-, without pas-
sengers, was running down to her moorings, she came into collision
with the ferry.boat plying between the Redhouse, Batter ea, and
he White-house, Pimlico. The boat was upset, and Mr. Power, i
landlord of the Grenadier Tavern, Chester-mews, Chester-square,
was unfortunately drowned.