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London, England, 1824-09-11 00:00:00

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SECRET SORROW.
There is no wrinkle o i my brow,

No sadness in mine ere.
Who ever saw my to i-drops flow,
Or heard my plain err sigh?
A nil ever jocund is my smile,
And joyous is my tongue ;
Who then could gue ; how, all the while,
My heart of heart; is wrung?
While jests are flowing from my lip—
While loudest is my laugh—
Or while with thou who larcest sip
The cere• ring bowl I qu:.lf
Who could suspect that ;dl inside
No touch of joy could feel ?
Or that the sini;ing tact- should hide

.1 soul of lireissi stc,l?
Yet, so it is. No csre have I
For aught I ssy or do;
Deep in Jon grave my fond hopes lie,
Under the church-yard yew !
I live wi.hout a thought—an end—

A purpose to pursue;
And care not how through life I wend,
So that it were pasted through!
But why should I my friends torment
With sorrows all my own?
It gives my bosom more content
To feel them quite alone.
And therefore do I smooth my brow,
And brighten up mine eye,
And check the tear, though prompt to flow,
And stop the bursting sieb

EXtRAURDI SA RV PHENOMENON.

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We gave an account of a phenomenon of a very
extraordinary nature which occurred on Thursday
last at Crowhill, Haworth, near Keighley, in York-
shire. By some the convulsion is thought to have
Leen caused by an earthquake, but it seems rather to
have been merely the bursting of an immense bog—
accelerated, in all probability, by the great quantity of
rain which has recently fallen in the neighbourhood.
For a considerable distance round the spot where the
phenomenon is said to have occurred, the land is a large
swamp, in which the water has been accumulating for
centuries. The first intimation which the inhabitants
of Leeds received of this very singular eruption, was
from the appearance of the river Aire, which on
Friday morning was discovered to be unusually tur-
bid, and swollen consider ably beyond its usual bounds.
On Saturday and Sunday mornings quantities of fish
were seen floating dead on the surface of the water. At
Horsforth, about six miles from Leeds, no less than two
hundred stone of trout and perch were taken out of the
river, evidently poisoned, or rather suffocated, by the
Stygian stream that blended with their native element.
The Aire still continues as turbid as it was on Friday,
and totally useless is the water for all domestic purposes.
It is still of a deep chocolate colour, the water of which,
after filtration, yields a black subtile residuum, with a
strong smell resembling that of peat or bog.earth. The
principal part of the deposit was, of course, made nearest
the spot where the eruption took place.
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A Court of Proprietors of the London Docks assem-
bled at one o'clock on Thursday, at their house in
Prince's-street, for the purpose of considering the expe-
diency of enlarging the Works of the Company. Mr.
Solly in the Chair. After considerable discussion, the
following resolution was carried by a considerable ma-
jority :—" That Directors be empowered to enlarge the
docks and warehouses of the Company, as to them may
seem proper, provided the expenses do not exceed the
suns of 200,000/." The Court was then dissolved.
The workmen employed in laying down pipes for
lighting the Church of St. Paul, Covent-Garden, with
gas, have discovered beneath the great western portico,
a sepulchral vault, which appears to have been unob-
served at the time the present Church was built. In
this vault were found seven leaden coffins, with the
colter cases of wood, entirely decomposed, and nothing
remaining inside except a quantity of sawdust at the
bottom of each, and a couple of thigh-bones in one of
them. They bear engraved inscriptions of various dates
between 1717 and 1732, and on the lid of them is a
wellsexecuted cast of the face of the deceased in high
relief, underneath which is the following inscription :
" Judith, Lady Viscountess Coningsby, died 23d April,
1752, aged 88 years."
SINGULAR DEATH.—An Inquest has been held at
Chevington, Lincolnshire, on John Wallis, a labouring
man, who died from drinking beer infected with some
poisonous quality. The beer had been brewed by the
deceased, and put into the cask, which he bought about
a year ago of some person unknown, at Berry. This
cask had been used to keep a ferret in, which had died
there, and it was afterwards made up in a smaller size
by a cooper, who cleaned it. Some of the beer was
drank by the deceased, Iris wife, and son, on Thursday
week, and they became sick shortly after. Several other
persons had afterwards partaken of it, and had subse-
quently become ill ; but it did not appear that any sus-
picion was entertained of the cause of their illness till
after the man's death, which took place on Friday. The
remainder of the beer had been thrown away by the
advice of the neighbours, and there was no mode of
ascertaining its quality. The state of the body, and the
time which had elapsed, rendered it impossible to ascer-
tain any material tact from dissection, and the Jury
being convinced that the death was caused innocently,
returned a verdict of " Accidental Death."
Wetsit POETRY.—At the Royal Eisteddfod, or Con-
gress of Bards and Minstrels, held in Powys un Thurs-
day, and at which 1,-'rd CLIVE presided, Mr. J. JONES
(Myllin), Mr. °west (Meirion), Mr. o.Wlia.taists (Car-
narvon), and Mr. THOMAS EDWARDS, of Corwen, re-
cited in succession, and in a most animated manner,
such verses as they had respectively composed for the
occasion ; and after the company were entertained with
some beautiful airs by the band, the Rev. WALTER
DAVIES 4-1 Manatoo, delivered the following report:
64 The distinguisising character of Cambrian poetry,
for many centuries at lea,,t, is that of a complicated
rhyme, called Cyngli.ine.,! or alliterative—symphony of
consonants rendered harmonious by a a correspondent
antiphony of vowel sounds. Whether this be the most
eligible mode of cornroting Welsh verse is the point at
issue between our modern sectaries. We must, how-
ever, beg leave to state, that when a happy idea is
conveyed by cygnhaned through the auricular portal
to the judgment-hail of the sensoi ium, where is seated
the angelic mind, with a swiftness outstripping the
swift-winged arrows of light, the effect of such a con-
comitant and instantaneous influence upon Cambrian
taste is scarcely desti inahle ! "
A Se' jeant's guard of the Ist Royals were mostly
killed arid wounded in a rencontie with tire country
people, in the neLl.baurhooti of Casrlebar, county Mayo,
while endeavouring ;a protect an illicit still s‘ hich they
seized, and which ss as 'weird by the mcb. The bocies
of some of the soldiers have not yet been found.

NEW COMBINATION ACT.

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Friday, the Sd instant, appeared before two of his
Majesty's Justices of the Peace, R. Myfirt and W.
Meat, Jun. weavers, in Green-street, Glasgow, in
complaint at the instance of Mr. P. Hutchison, ma-
nufacturer in that place. The complaint went en to
state, that a conspiracy had been entered into by the
weavers and some manufacturers, to root the plaintiff
out of trade; in consequence of which a mob had en-
tered the shop of Andrew Millar, weaver, who was at
the time working a web to the complainant, and the
defendants were recognised among the mob, and by!
threats and intimidation endeavoured to force the said
Andrew Millar to return his web unfinished. When the
defendants were brought before the Court they denied
the charge, upon which Alexander Millar, evidence for
the plaititiff, being sworn, stated, that on Thursday, the
25th of August, while he was peaceably engaged at his
usual empluyment, a number of persons, to the amount
of thirty or thereabouts, entered the shop, among
whom he recognised the defendants. One of therm in-
quired if any work belonging to Mr. Hutchison was
wrought there? Witness replied that his web belonged
to Mr. Hutchison. Some person in the crowd then ad-
vised him to take :he web out when the cut was finished,
and return the same. Witness refused to do so, and
expressed his determination to finish the web. Witness
recollected nothing further of what was said. On being
asked if he was any way afraid, or suspected danger
from the number of the mob, and the manner in which
he was addressed? he said he was not at all intimidated,
and no threats were used to frighten him, the witness
therefore considered himself perfectly safe. Witness
also stated, that he had joined the Weavers' Association ;
but four or five days after the mob entered the shop,
he ordered his name to be erased from the list.

Several witnesses for both parties were afterwards
sworn and examined, but nothing of any consequence
was elicited; and the Court acquitted the defendants,
deciding, that by an error in the complaint, the facts of
combination and intimidation were not legally proved.

The rains in the neighbourhood of Chester have been
very heavy this week, with a likelihood of continuance.
The very small quantity of grain in the fields is there-
fore placed in great jeopardy.
Thursday evening, an explosion by gas took place at
the shop of Messrs. Hart, linen-drapers, Holborn-hill,
which was fortunately the occasion of no further serious
consequences than the totally demolishing of every pane
of glass in the window where the accident happened.
SIR HUMPHRY HUMPHRY DAVY, Bart.
President of the Royal Society, has arrived at his house
in Grosvenor-street, from Norway. Sir HUMPNEY has
been engaged during the months of July and August
in pursuing various philosophical researches, for which ,
the Admiralty granted him the use of the Comet steam
boat. He has ascertained that his principle of protect-
ing the copper-sheathing of ships by the contact of
1-200 of iron, is perfectly successful, even in the most
rapid sailing and in the roughest sea; and Dr. TIARKS,
under his superintendence, and by direction of the Board
of Longitude, has connected, by chronometrical obser-
vations, the trigonometrical surveys of Denmark and
Hanover with that of England, so that the triangula-
tion of a great part of Europe may be now said to form
one system, M. ARAOO and Captain ;CATER having
two years ago connected the surveys of England and
France by observations between Calais and Dover. In
the course of this last expedition to the North'Seas, the
longitude of the Naze of Norway, a point of great im-
portance in navigation, has been accurately ascertained,
and some other useful data for correcting the nautical
maps of Europe gained.
HOUSE 01 LOADS. IRISH ASTRAL KIRWAN N.
O'CoNwo&.—ln this cause the defendant, Mr. Valen-
tine O'Connor, had appealed from the order of the
Lord Chancellor MANNIRS, di' ecting him to complete
the purchase of an estate in the county of Galway,
which he had bought under a decree of the Court;
and to pay the purchase money, £19,000, into Court
immediately. Mr. O'Connor paid the purchase money
into Court, and instantly appealed from the order, com-
plaining of the injustice of holding him to the purchase
of an estate with a bad title, as that was, and desiring to
be exonerated from the purchase. The hearing of this
appeal lasted three days, and the House pronounced
judgment upon it on the very day before it rose for the
year. It reversed the order of Lord MANNERS; exo-
nerated Mr. O'Connor entirely from the purchase, and
ordered that he should be repaid his purchase money,
1:19,000, with interest, and all his costs.

CALEDONIAN CANAL..—In the Inverness Journal of
Friday last, we notice a list of the vessels which have
navigated the Caledonian Canal during last month.—
The number is 121 of all descriptions ! Several of
these, we observe, are carrying off wool to Hull and
Liverpool. Others pass with lime, slates, and stones
for buildings; and a very great number with salt,
hers ings, staves, deals, &c. &c. to and from Dumf.' ies,
Belfast, Londonderry, Liverpool, Newcastle, atc.
Three steam vessels are advertised as plying on the Canal
between Inverness and this city. This great national
undertaking will, we have not the smallest doubt, daily
increase in prosperity, and add facilities to the trade of
this country. As soon as the Canal is eighteen feet
deep, which will be next summer, large merchantmen
will be able to pass through from th?. Eastern to the
Western Sea, and vice versa, and then the Canal will
certainly be frequented by a great number of ships en-
gaged in the foreign trade of this country.
LONGEVITY.—In the commune of Esladens, in the de-
partment of the Upper Garonne, there died on the 22d
ult. a man of the name of Stephen Baque, who was op-
wards of 124 years of age. He was born on the 16th of
January, 1700. He was latterly called The Saint, from
his disposition to visit, as a pilgrim, the celebrated
churches or miraculous shrines which abound in Spain.
He had several times paid his devotions at the shrine
of St. James, of Gallicia, and that of our Lady of Mont-
serrat. Fur the last sixty years of his life, he constantly
traversed the Pyrenees, collecting medicinal herbs, and'
living on the charity of the peasantry. The excess of
alms which his extraordinary reputation for sanctity
obtained, he distributed among the less fortunate poor ;
and, relying on general benevolence, he repeatedly re-
fused the succours even of Government. His grotesque
chess excited surprise, and his piety commanded respect
wherever he went. Occupied to the last with the ex-
erci es of prayer and mortification, he refused the offer
of a bed on which to rest his dying limbs, and begged
I,ermission to expire rather on his pallet of straw. His
memory, which continued unimpaired to the last, was
so .tiong as to enable him to recognize his friends after
LO or 60 years of absence, and recount to youngsters of
80, ti,e occurrences which took place in the days of their
gr.andfathers.

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