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London, England, 1830-11-23 00:00:00

TUES"AV FVENING, NOV. 23, 1830.

PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS.

CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS. 1
Abttract of a Bill to declare in what roes the Possessions of etliain
Charitable Institutions shall be liable to the payment of Rates for In.
cal purposes.
The Preamble seta forth that doubts as to the legality of assessing
Charitable Institutions.fer local purposes have arisen.
Clause I, therefore enacts that Hospitals, Houses, &c. of Chari.able
Institutions of Royal foundation, used only for.patients, shall be ex-
empted from parish assessments.
11. This Act not to extend to houses, &c. not actually occupied by
patients, nor to houses of Governors, &c.
111. This Act to extend only to such Hospitals, Institutions, &e. In
England as shall have been or shall be founded ui endowed by some
grant, charter, or letters patent of some King or Queen of England or of
Great Britain, or of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ;
and shall extend to any such Hospital or Institution although the same
may be increased, supported, or assisted by any other funds or revenues
besides those with which the same may be so endowed by such grant,
charter, or letters patent, or by any other means whatever.
LAW TERM&
Abstract of a Bill to amend an Act of the last Session for the better ad-
ministration of Justice, so far as relates to the Resoign and General
Return Days of each Term, and to substitute other Provisions in lieu
thereof, and to declare the Law with regard to the Duration of the
Terms in certain cases.
Clause I. Enacts the Repeal of the Provision in the former Actin,
relation to appointment or duration of Terms.
11. All original writs to be issued out of Chancery, and made re-
turnable before any of his Majesty's Courts of King's Bench, Common
Pleas, or Exchequer, may be made returnable on the third day before
the commencement of each Term, or on any day, not being Sunday,
between that day and the third day before the last day of the Term ;
and the day for appearance shall as heretofore be the third day after
such return.

111. In case the day of the month on which. any Tenn according to
the Act is to end,shall fall to be on a Sunday, then the Monday nextafter
such day shall be deemed to be:the last day of the Tenn ; and in ease
any of the days between the Thursday before and the Wednesday next
after Easter shall fall within Easter Term, then such days shall be
deemed to be a part of such Term, although there shall be no sittings
in bane on any of such intervening days.

PRICE 7D.

smooth chin and a %of: t kin, were in their opinion fit only for women ;
they were men, and rewired to look like men. They held the law.' in
ornament to the man, b.diet•irg that N:uur.• to adorn 1.1, by
it, am she gave ilie mine as an ornament m nobles of beasts, the
horse aid the lion."

Nearct.us informs us, that the 1-dia..s daub ;heir beards with
scveral sorts of colours, insomuch that son.: of diem appear white, others
black, some red, some purple, and others green." --A mai Atell Ik:di in
Hist. ch. Ili.

viii. 9, 22, tills us that they never shave. DtODORI'",
' iv. 6, assures us that they received this custom from Bacchus, whom
they called the bearded deity. St taco, xv. p. 1023, gives precisely
the ►ame account as Arrian. PLUTARCH, in his life of " Theseus,"
intones us that Alexander ordered hie '3lactfflonian troops to shave their
beanie, these being a ready handle in battle.
-4, Anson; the Catti, a nation of Germany, '• they encourage the growth
of their hair and beard ; nor will any one, till be has slain au enemy,
direst lajmaelf of that excrescence, which by a solemn vow he has de.
voted to heroic virtue. Over the blood and spoils of the vanquished,
the face of the warrior is, for the first time displayed. The C.ettian then
exults ; he has now answered the true end of his being, a id has proved
himself worthy of his parents and his country. The sluggard conti-
tinues shorn, with the uncouth honor of his visage growing wilder to
the close of his days." Tacrrus, Germany, xxxi.
To bind themselves by a solemn vow, not to clip their hair or beard
till they had accomplished their revenge, was usual among barbarians.
Upon this principle, Civilis, the Batavian Chief, curtails his hair and
beard as soon as he bad performed his promise. See TACITOS, Hire
iv. 61.

litmus, in his note on that passage, men►ions from the History of
the Langobards, six thousand Saxons, who survived the slaughter of
their countrymen, and bound themselves by a solemn vow, neither to
shave their beard nor cut their hair, till they had revenged themselves
on the Suevian nation.

This practice was known to Sums ITALicus :
" Occumbit Barmen,, &ram qui poncre victor
Cassarien, erinemque tibi, Oradive, vovcbat
Auro certantetn, ut rutiluut sub verde. nodum."
Ball. Punic. iv. 200.
See also STIADA, De Bel. Delidoo, vii. p. 3.30, and GROTIUS,
Awl. ti. p. 40.

The Britons, in the time of Caesar, " shaved all the rest of the body
except the head and upper lip" B. C. v. 10.
The Jews wore their beards very long, as we may see in 2 Sam. a.
4 ; and the deprivation of it, was one of their punishments. It was
the custom for particular friends to salute each other, by kissing the
beard. Augustus " would sometimes clip, and sometimes shave his
beard ; and during the operation, would be either reading or writing."
SUIT. 79.
Julius Caesar was " so nice in the care of his person, that he had
not only the hair of his head cut, and his face shaved with great exact-
bat likewise had the hair on other parts of his body plucked out
by the roots. SuitT. 43.

This mark of virility is held in the highest veneration by the Ori.
soak TIREVEXOT, 1. 67, says, the Turks greatly esteem a man
who law a fine beard ; that It is a great affront to take one by his
beard, Eden to kiss it, and that they swear by the beard. D'Aa-
vrieux, 11. 114, gives a remarkable instance of an Arab, who, having
received a wound In his jaw' chose to hazard his life, rather than suffer
111:=4 to remove his beard. blauxnaut. gives the following
:71="of the manner in which beards are perfumed in the East I—.
comes the finishing part of your entertainment ; which is
perfuming the beards of the company ; a ceremony which is performed
In this manner. They have for this purpose a small silver chaffing-
dish, covered with a lid, full of holes, and fixed upon a handsome
In this they put some flesh coal's, and upon them a piece of
n aloes, and then shutting it up, the smoke flame-
d y ascends with a grateful odor, through the holes of
eln
the cover. It is held under every one's chin, and offered, as
it were, a sacrifice to his beard. The bristly idol soon perceives fhe re-
verence done to it, and so greedily takes in, and incorporates the gum-
my steam, that it retains the savor of it, and may serve for a nosegay a
good while after."—Journey, March 13.
The beard was sometimes used in the 16th century as a tooth-pick
came I The celebrated Admiral Coligny always wore his tooth-pick in
his mouth, his ear, or his beard, whence the Italians used to say, Die
mei guards del mused e ekes del aleiregfick

An old historian thus satirizes the various beards of his age : " Some
are shaven from the chin lyke those of the Turks'; not a few cut short
like the beard of the Marques Otto; some made round like a rubbing
brush, others with a pique devan ; oh, fine fashion ! others being suf-
fered to grow long; the barbers being grown as cunnjnge in this be-
hal* as the taylouss ; and therefore if a man have a leant and straight
face, a Marquis Utton's cut will make it broad and large; if it be
platter-like, a long slender beard will make it seem the narrower; if he
be weasel-beaked, then so much haire left on the cheekes, will make the
owner look big, like a bowdled hen, and so grymme as a goose."—
Mammon's Description 9f Brittritie, p. 172.

The growth of beards was regulated by statute at Lincoln's Inn, in
the time of Elisabeth.—Prieto Slim "It was ordered, that no fellow
of that house should wear a bard above a fortnight's growth."—
Bigig. Hosp. Line. iv. f. 346.

Transgression was punished with fine, loss of commons, and finally
expulsion. But fashion prevailed, and in Nov. the following year all
previous orders touching beards were repealed.—See Ificuous'a Prop.
of Elie. an. 1562. p. 26.

" His fair large front and eye sublime declar'd
Absolute :tale; and hyacinthine locks
Round from his parted forelock manly hung
aust'ring, but not beneath his shoulders broad."
Par. Led, iv. 300.
" Slashing BaNTLEY," in a note on the above passage, is surprised
that Milton should not have described Adam's beard. Bishop Now-
TOW thinks it was because the painter never represent Adam with one.
FIZLNONT, however, gravely asserts, that Adam was treated a hand.
someyoung man, without a beard t but that his face was afterwards
degraded
with hair, like the beasts, for his disobedience ; and that Eve,
Mug less guilty, was permitted to retain her smooth face. There are,
however, many recorded instances of bearded women : I subjoin a few.
4, You oad be women, and yet your beards forbid me to interpret
that you ass so."—Stiaxsissanz. Whenever any public calamity was
impending over the Pedasenses, a people who inhabited the country
above Hallearnassus, the chin of the priestess of Minerva budded with a
huge beard. This is slid to have occurred no less than twice or thrice.
See HEIODIANITS 1. 171, viii. 104. HIPPOCRATIS has preserved, in
his sixth book, the names of two bearded fair, in whom this masculine
attrit.ute was no obstacle to matrimony : Phattusa, the wife of Pythias
of Abdera, and Hamysia, the wife of Gorgippus of Thasos.
" There is a female saint, whom the Jesuit Santel, in his Annus
Saar Pooticta, has celebrated for her beard—a mark of divine favour
bestowed upon her for her prayers." SOUTHEY's OlSSliiiiii, ii. 54.
'Sculls:nos, in ins Observations. Modica, notes that at Paris, in his
own days, there was a woman ~ with a black mustachio of a just size,
whose chin was also indifferent hairy."
Balm r.a. in his Anthroporiarlonsorphosis, affimis, that there is " a
mountain its Ethiopia, near the Red Sea, where women live with prolix
beards."
" December 21, 1688. Went into Holborne, and there saw the wo.
man that is to be seen with a beard. She is a little plain Iwo.
man, a Dane ; her name, Ursula Dyan ; about forty years old;
her voice like a little Aires I with a beard as much as any man I ever
saw, black almost and grisly : it began to grow at KWIC years old, and
was shaved set above seven months ego, and is now so big as soy man's
almost that ever I saw s I say, bushy and thick. It was a strange sight'
to me, I coofess, and what pleased the mightily." Piers's Diarp.
to. V2l. i
Philelphus had ones a diem, awl the goatadty ef a syllable
with one Timetheus, and it was agreed Isstweso &in that Phikpinits,
if convicted of being in dN *Mil Abdul bilk a midi of money ;
bat that finicheao, if mistabani dumb We kb hal ash ea Phi.
lelphus west:mistier and was imembide. The vangsbboil would have
compounded fora aim; but wa. alligal to soli alto all ha his beard
BsLoe's Aktliki•B of Li/mature, iv. 40. J. J. W.

THE TURF.

TA TTERSALLTS—Yzirs WAY.

An exceedingly dull day, and few beta made calculated to have any
serious influence on the odds. Caleb has been MA NI •or 2091 a.l I
stands a shade h4ther than in our last quotation. Paitille is also in
great demand. Lord Exeter's horse Bohemian has rer-:cleci a point or
two, and is not in any request. The rest ou befute. The clo,ing prices
more as undo :

111E1IST.
14 to I apt Mr. Chifney's Caleb (15 to i taken)
16 to 1 Mr. Eleardswortles Co!wick
16 to 1 ---- Lord Jersey's Cobweb
17 to 1 Lord F.reter's Bohemian
18 to 1 Lord Sligo's Bras.de-Fer
18 to I Lo►d Jersey's Sunder
20 to I Lord Exeter's Halmos
15 to I Duke of Grafton'. Pastille
25 to 1 Lord Jersey's Fillagree
30 to I Sir J. Shelley's Cressida
30 to 1 Colonel Udny's Antiope
6000 to 100 Mr. Petre's Rattier (taken)
Rattler and Mortimer each ag•t the Odd Trick (or 500.
OAES.
Circassian was backed at 6 to 4 several times, and was about as gooi
to Oxygen ; the last offers were stol oa the field. •
Colonel King repeats his challenge to run Bessy Bedlam for 300
each, against any horse or mare In England one mile, in the York
A gut or Delimitate, Slatting. The horse to carry 7st. 711,. dt.d tiie
marr 7st. 41b. or, n; horse that wit! give the year.

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