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LITERATURE.

HISTORICAL SELLANY.

TAZACHILR, AND CO.

We noticed a new book byMr. PIN NOCK a few days ago.
11,is is net one of his; but it is one which belongs to a cer-
rain cis.., of his books. The title page informs us that it
givee " illustrations of the most important periods in
Ancient and• Modem History, with a particular account
of the British Constitution and Commerce--forming a
supplement to PIN NOCK'S Grecian, Roman, and Eng-
lish Histories." The author of this useful compilation is
W. C. TA Y LOR, A.M. of Trinity College, Dublin; and
of him it must be said with truth, that he has fairly
proved not only that history is one of the most useful
studies for youth, but that those engaged in the business
of early education have long mistaken the manner and
Matter of what ought to be taught. Within the brief
compass of 370 pages, we have the most stiiking and
important passages of the ancient history of the Greeks
and Romans ; the struggle between the former and the
Persians, and the wars between the latter and the Car-
thaginians. In the same department we have subjoined
a history of Greece in the classical and heroic ages—s
topic strangely omitted in the common school histories ;
and the blank left in the same course of school studies,
between the death of Alexander and the establishment of
the Roman power in the east of Europe and in Asia—a
period replete with events of interest and instruction—
is here filled up. From these ancient studies, the reader,
by an easy and natural transition, is brought to the modern
history of Europe—a study surely more important to
those who are destined to move in modern times than the
former. This portion of the work commences with the
age of CIIA ALEMAGN 11, when things begin to wear
more settled form, and when systems of government,
completely new, are found to be every where established.'
Here the feudal system began, which is scarcely extinct
in our own day; here chivalry had its commencement;
and we have an account of the origin of both, with a

history of the Crusades—those wars which exhibited
such a strange mixture of chivalrous feeling and religious
fanaticism, and the principles of which long exercised a
fatal influence in Europe;—but of which all the young,
and many advanced in years, of the present day, know
nothing, except what they may have gleaned from the
Romances of Sir WALTER SCOTT. In connection with
the modern history of Europe, the establishment of
such a vast empire as the English now possess in the
East could not be properly passed over; and therefore we
have an account of European commerce with India before
the discovery of the Cape of Good Hope, and the British
connection with India since. We have next some
chapters of the biography of such individuals as have pro-
duced permanent effects either on the politics or literature
of our country ; first from the invasion of the Saxons to
the accession of Henry IV. i. e. from the times of the
Venerable Bede" in 672, to those of GEOFFREY
AUCEit in 1400; secondly from the age of Henry IV.
to the Reformation, beginning with the life of WI ma AM
' SAWTRE the firstEnglish Protestant Martyr, (who,
as our readers know, was burned in Smithfield for main-
taining those doctrines which are now maintained by all
the Protestant Churches) and ending with the lives of
Cardinal WOLSEY and Sir THOO. MORE. Lastly, in this
interesting department, we have biographical notices of
such eminent persons as figured from the Reformation to
the Restoration, beginning with CRAMMER, Archbishop
of Canterbury, and ending with the beloved, the highly
moral; but yet the melancholy contitutedW. COWPEIL,WhO
died in 1800. We herein this valuable miscellany a very
comprehensive chapter on the British Constitution. The
time has been when the nature of the Constitution was
ae much a dead letter to thelLuik tiliful student as were the
contents of the Alcoran. God, that day is fast
passing away ; and it is to such useful treatises as those
of PINNOCK and TAYLOR that must be ascribed the
good effects arising from a thorough knowledge of the
rights and privileges of Englishmen, among all classes of
the people—from the humble cottager's boy, educated at
the village school, to the scion of aristocracy. From a
book of such varied contents as the one before us, we
cannot, in justice to the author, make any lengthened
extract ; but to shew the spirit of freedom and patriotism
that animates him, we here introduce a sentence or two
from his opening chapter on the Constitution : "In the
history of nations," says Mr. TAYLOR, "we may trace
their elevation or decay to the nature of their govern-
ments. That spirit of manly freedom, which is the life-
blood of national vigour and enterprise, is only to, be
found where wholesome principles of legislation have
been adopted, where licentiousness has been restrained,
without liberty being impaired ; and, on the other
hand, when on the corruption of public opinion,
despotism or democracy have reared an unholy edifice,
the pillars have mouldered away, and precipitated into
ruin the inmates of the building." Again :—" The ob-
ject of every Government should be the general good of
the people. Every rank, then, being concerned, and
equally so, in having their interests attended to, should
have a controul on the operations of the governing body
—mutual controul being the essence of permanence
among the parts of a system." Such are the lessons
which PINNOCK and TAYLOR would have inculcated.
What a pity it is that such a system of education has not
been steadily and universally pursued ever since the
signing of Magna Charta

TIIE CONSTABULARY.—There will be a clause in
Lord Level= Gower's new Police Bill, to move the Constabulary
from countyr to county, like the military, at stated periods, and also
the &ipeodiary Magistrates.
Soon after the Rev. Alexander Fletcher had com-
menced his sermon on Sunday evening, a Lady, from the excessive
beat of the Chapel, having fainted, a Gentleman, in order to re-
store her, incautiously lighted a piece of paper in the body of the
Chapel, but the blase having caught his fingers, he dropped the
paper. From this circumstance an alarm of fire was immediately
raised, which created such disorder among the congregation, that a
simultaneous rush to effect an escape took place at every qukrter of
the Chapel. In vain did the Reverend Gentleman encourage them
by his solicitations to remain undisturbed. The actor of confusion
was indescribable. We are happy, however, to say, that no acci-
dent occurred. Two engines arrived in consequence of the alarm,
and the Rev. Gentleman could no longer continue his discourse.
ECCLESIASTICAL PENANCE, OR, THE CUTTIE
STOOL" AT Caressewsz.t..—Sunday the New Church at Camber-
well was crowded to excess, in consequence of its baying been nod-
led that a male parishioner was to do penance according to the
Ecclesiastical law, for having called a respectable married woman
" out of her proper name"—that is, bestowing on her a certain ap-
pelted's°. The officiating Clergyman, the Rev. Mr. Vane, after be
had concluded his sermon, descended from the pulpit and ap-
proached the Vestry. The pressure of the crowd to obtain a sight
of the proceedings in the Vestry, where it was then understood the
recantation was to be made, led to great noise and confusion, and
a scene was esbibited very unbecoming the sacred character of the
building. At length the party offending made his appearance, at-
tired in a white covering. He was attended by four friends on
either side, end while the Rev. bit. Vane read the form of recanta-
tion laid down by the Ecciesiarical law, be bowed in affirmation
of the several points in it, and the ceremony terminated. The
party then left the Vestry room by the small door, to the manifest
diseppokuntent of several hundred persons who were assembled
outside the Church.

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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL'S.
The betting yesterday produced the following changes
DISST.
71 to 1 apt Sir M. Wood's Mummer
10 to 1 Mr. Petre's Brunrericker
is to I -- Mr. Dilly's Cetus
IS to 1 --- Mr. W. CI lfney's Cressida colt
16 to 1 --- Lord Exeter's Mabmoud
16 to 1 --a— Lord Cavendish's Mouse colt
17 to 1 --- Mr. Thornhill's Wat Tyler
16 to 1 .-- Lord Sefton's Sal. Colt
so to 1 Lord Tesistock's Custard
22 to I Lord Sefton's Mouche
95 to I -- Mr. Petre's The Major
25 to 1 --- Lord Sefton's Captain Arthur
95 to I --- 14. Egremoat's Brother to Grampus
OAKS.
6 to 1 Lord Sefton's Mouche
to I Lord Queeneberry's Sister to Emma
9 to 1 --- Mr. Stonehewer s Leeway filly
IS to 1 Lord Jersey's Filagree filly
15 to I Lord Exeter's Shumla.
17 to 1 -- Mr. Maberley's Zelus
The others as before.
SS. LEOZI.
0 to 1 Lord Cleveland's Raby
12 to 3 Mr. Petre's Brunswicker
No other backed.
FOX HUNTING.
On Wednesday last there was a field of about SOO, to see the
Cheshire Hounds throw off at Duddon Heath. The Duke of Sussex
and other visitors at Eaton Hall were present. Saighton gorse was
Ant drawn, where Reynard broke cover ; the dogs were, how-
ever, drawn off. At Cotton two foxes broke cover, and there was
a brilliant burst, bat the hounds came to a cheek at Tanks, io
coasequence of the snot lying so bad. The hounds get on the
scent again close behind Tanta, and after repeated checks paned
Pees Hall, through Manley to Alvanley Hall, where the duce was
given up.
STEEPLE CHASE.

Saturday. the long-talked-of steeple chase took place for fifty
guineas a-side, between two gentlemen, one residing at Kenning-
ton, the other at Walwonh—both gents well known on the Royal
Exchange. The parties started froniCroyflon, to go to Wimbleton,
a distance of about seven miles; but strange as it may appear, and
each taking a different route, they arrived at the same instant at
Wimbleton. Tbey were both very much fatigued in
of having been obliged to take many tremendous leaps; and
withstanding they made the best speed they possibly could, they
did not perform the task but within a few minutes of an hour.
The riders were a great deal more fatigued than their horses.

MURDER.

Front the Portsmouth Herald.

EMSWORTII, DEC. 10.—A Coroner's Inquest was
held on Friday, before C. B. Longcroft, Esq. Coroner, at the
Black Dog Inn, in this place, on the body of Mr. John Sims, in
the 91st year of his age, who was found murdered in his bed, at
Long Copse, about a mile from Eouworth, on the morning of
Thursday. It appeared in evidence, that the deceased had been
unwell for some time, and that his housekeeper, an old woman,
named Matthews, had sat up on Wednesday night (according to
her own account) to administer his medicines. About two o'clock
on Thursday morning, she had occasion to go out, and on opening
the door, a man rushed in, and pinned her in a corner, where he
detained her while two others entered, (one having his face co.
vend with black,) and proceeded immediately upstairs. Shortly
after this, she heard her muter cry murder three times, but she
was prevented giving the alarm, by the man who kept guard over
her. The two men then came down stairs, and took from a cup-
board, a silver cream cup, sugar tangs, seven tea spoons, and one
table spoon ; they then took from the pantry, some beef, pork,
bread, and cheese, and some wine, with which they regaled them-
selves. They also broke open a chest close to the bed where the
old man slept, with a chisel ; and took from it money, amounting
it is supposed, to somewhere about twenty pounds. During the
time the housekeeper was in custody, she said, she hoped they
would not hurt the poor old man, when she was desired to remain
quiet, or it would be the worse for her. The party having been in
the house nearly an hour, they prepared to depart, telling the house-
keeper that if she ventured to leave the premises, for half-an-hour
after they had left, they would do for her; having rifled the old
woman's pockets of all her money they then went away. A abort
time after, one of the men returned, and went up stairs again, to
ascertain, it Is supposed, if the old man was really dead ; be merely
remained a minute or two, and went away. At about four o'clock,
the housekeeper went to a neighbouring cottage about 40 yards
distant, when a labouring man of the name of Cooper resided,
with his wife and family, none of whom had beard any noise or
disturbance whatever, and gave the alarm—Cooper then went im-
mediately to the house of William Sims, son to the deceased, who
lived at about 500 yards distance, and the parties proceeded to-
gether to Long Calm, where they discovered the old man lying in
bed, perfectly dead and nearly cold. There were no marks of
violence discernable on any part of the body. From the evidence
of Mr. James Hicks and Mr. Spong, the two medical gentlemen
who opened the body, it appeared that the deceased came to his
death by suffocation. The Jury accordingly returned a Verdict of
WilfulAurder against some person or persons unknown." Four
men who attended the Inquest, were apprehended on suspicion,
but were discharged by the Coroner, no evidence appearing against
them ; they were however Immediately detained by order of Sir
Theophilus Lee and Capt. Lecke, two Magistrates who attended
the Inquest. The prisoners have since undergone a private ex-
amination before these two gentlemen ; the particulars of which
hive cwt transpired.
Saturday, 7 o'Clock.—We have just learned, that Thomas
Kelsey and William Farr, have been committed on suspicion of
having been concerned in the murder, for further examination
till next Thursday, at Havant. There is a third party supposed
to be implicated in the horrid transaction, but whose name we
did not bear. An application has been made by the Magis-
trates, before whom the examinations were taken, for a free
pardon to any one, except the actual perpetrator of the morder.who
shall give such information as shall lead to the conviction of the
parties concerned. Several persons hairs been apprehended upon
suspicion, but all, except the two above, have been discharged.

Now that the buildings adjoining St. Martin's Church
are removed, that edifice, when viewed from about the centre of
Pall-mall East, presents one of the noblest specimens of architecture
of the last age, and from which our modern Palladiot might take a
useful lesson. They have as yet created nothing like it.
LOVE AND GitAMMAR.The following is a literal
copy of a love epistle from a kitchen Sappho to a Peon of the
Calgage order f as it is rather a singular document, the public may
be amused by it :—" My dear t roe this day from a bad of sorrow
to writ to Tow i nivr tuk a pan in my hand In such a *tit bifor tbi
tits file and blinds mi whin i think on yow my dear 1 can not
explin the sift that i am In i pray yow nit mi this day any plies
yow pile and i wil cons i hay luked long for yow my dear be shur
and con for i am in dieters of it wir to say you i wud pit the bars
of my head undir your fit belly ml my dear hart for thus Is from a
true i refute yore my luv sofin your hart to mi SUSAN Hewn"
The meeting of the inhabitants of Huddersfield and its
neighbourhood held yesterday was full of distressing interest. We
have long thought and said that the suffering of the labouring class
in that neighbourhood was extreme, but the case made out yester-
day was stronger even than we bad imagined. The immediate
cause of the evil is low wages, aggravated in many cases by a defi-
ciency of work; and the era of the reduction of wages, though ft
was not mentioned at the meeting, is dated from the pertain, le-
Neal distress in 1826, when stout able-bodied men were employed
as the public highways st the rate of Sc. per week in breaking stones.
This employment not suiting the habits, nor, indeed, the constitu-
thous of the weavers, they were glad to accept employment in
their own business even at this extremely depressed rate of
wages, and the consequence has been that from that time to
this they have never been able to obtain any material advance.
This chine produced no lasting benefit to the masters, who soon
sold their goods at a price corresponding with the wages paid to
theft men, and, in many eases, even without any profit whatever.
Under these circumstances, both masters and men-deprecate, with
equal detestation, the system of low wages and low profits. These
evils the meeting with great justice attributed to exorbitant taxa-
tion, and unduly high rents, which the change in the currency
from gold to paper, in 1794, tended meek to produce, and which
the recent change Irons .paper to gold, without a corresponding
change in the rent and taxes, failed to remedy, and indeed greatly
aggravated. The cause of the present unexampled distress, as thus
stated, suggests the remedy, but bow far the people of the country
have the spirit to demand, and the Government of the country,
the courage and virtue to apply, the remedy, remains to be deter-
mined. his only candid to say that we believe than ism per.
don of the West-Riding of Yorkshire labouring under se nom an
extremity of distress as that with which Upper Agbrigg„ is whirl
Huddersfield ft situated. his long been visited, but ft Is immito
bent upon every part of the country. to contribute as me* se line
In their power to the removal of those evih which may sees reach
themselves, and in which too many of them do already psrddpess.
We are gratified to find that there was not a single meeker in the
meeting so far deluded as to attribute any part of the movies
distress to what is called the system of free trade.--Leeds Manage.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

VICE-CHANCELLLOR'S COURT, Mo. 14.

Mr. Cooing obtained a writ of habeas wpm. cum cause to bring
up the body of Elisabeth Parkinson from the Fleet Prison, in or.
der that she might put in ber answer to a bill of foreclosure filed
against her. It will be recollected that this female was brought up
a few days dace for the same purpose, when it was stated that an
answer had been prepared for her by her consent ; but to the sur-
prise of the parties, she denied all knowledge of Mr. Orchard, the
Solicitor who had been employed In the case, and refused to sign
the answer. Mr. Cooper said be could now explain this appa-
rently extraordinary circumstance. Mr. Orchard was only the
Agent of Mr. Conway, and therefore Mrs. Parkinson was unac-
quainted with him ; but it was sworn that the answer was prepared
by Mr. Conway, and drawn up by Counsel gratuitously, and with
her consent and approbation, although she afterwards refused to
sign it. The Learned Gentleman remit ked, that as long as the
practice of the Court continued as it was, parties were obliged to
take the same course to enforce their sights, however harsh they
might seem.
His Honour the Vice-Chancellor, In giving assent to the appli-
cation, said that the difficulty which before weighed upon his mind,
that respecting the Solicitor was now removed. It was Intended
the next Seftion of Parliament to alter the practice of the Court
with respect to commitments for contempt, and therefore it was
to be hoped that the subject of complaint would be removed.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Dec. 14.
BOLL V. roneson.
This was an action to recover compensation in damages for an
injury the plaintiff had received from an assault committed on him
by the defendant.
The defendant's cue was opened first. The defence was, that
the plaintiff had used insulting and unprovoked language towards
the defendant, in his own house, and that be was coodnually drunk.
On the part of the plaintiff, a sawyer proved that on the ath of
May last, he went into the defendants house, and while standing
there, a person of the name of Soatman came into the passage in
which be and the plaintiff were. Defendant said, " What are you
going to stand ?" or, "What are you going to give us to drink ?"
or, " Will you not stand something to drink?"—the plaintiff not
making any answer. the defendant said, " Come then you must go
out of my house •"—witness then took a pint of porter which be
bad ordered. and went into the tap-room. and sat down in such a
position as to enable him to look up the passage into the street—he
then saw the defendant come round his beer engine, out of the bar,
and lay hold of the plaintiff by the arm and put him out of the
house--be then saw the plaintiff tarn round, as If to speak to the
defendant, when the latter put his two bands on his breast and
pushed himalown.
The p ntiff's daughter and servant proved that they had seen
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the assa t committed, and that the plaintiff was confined to his
bed for days—that he did not quit his roans fora month.-that
he had not been able to leave the house for two months--tkat
he was not in a state to do any work for upwards of three months.
and that he could not perform his usual labours without the greatest
difficulty The plaintiff was about 60 years of age, and the de-
fendant 40.
The Surgeon proved that he had attended the plaintiff for several
weeks, and that be wits a severe sufferer from the fall, which caused
a contusion: of the muscles in the region of the hip—his charge was
upwards of £9.
Mr. Justice Pam said, that it would be for the Jury to say
whether the evidence produced was such as to entitle the plaintiff
to a verdict. The pleadings in this cause varied from those usually
drawn in similar cases. The defendant had set out a justification
on two pleas ; first, that the conduct of the defendant was such as
to justify him in .turning out the plaintiff ; and, secondly, that the
abuse and threats of the plalitiff were such, as to warrant the ex-
ercise of a greater degree of force than was usual in suck cases. It
would be for the Jury to say whether, upon the evidence, these
pleas were supported?—The Jury found for the defendant.