The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-12-27 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS,

Every exertion is making both at the Post-office and the
Treasury to bring the plan of penny postage into immediate
operation. It is thought it will be commenced within about
a month or five weeks.—•'Governrnent print.
AN EXTRAORDINARY PLANT.-A root of parsley, lately
grown by Mr. George Scholes, Moor Hey, Oldham, weighed
when cut, 1 pound 12 ounces, contained 116 stems, measured
two feet six inches diameter, and 12 inches high.
ST. PETERSDURGH, DEC. 10.—The navigation at Cron-
stpdt was formally closed on the 3d. 1,378 ships have ar-
rived during the season. At Riga the river Duna was free
from ice. Up to the 21st of November 1,724 ships had ar-
rived, and 1,790 sailed.

A remarkable case of small pox has occurred-at Hexham.
Robert Hopper, glover, about sixty years of age; and who is
deeply marked with smtill-pox, which he had when quite
young, is at present laboaing under the same complaint.—
LeecPslntelligencer.

1 t appears that since the Branding Junction Railway Om-
nibuses conunenced running from Sunderland to the Station
at Monk-Wcarinouth, on the 11th Oct. up to Dec. 14th, six
thousand three hundred and thirty-nine passengers have tra-
velled by these useful conveyances.—Netccast4 Journal.

It is said that a change has come over the politics of the
Bachelor Duke, and that, on the re-assembling of parliament,
he will not be found on the side of the Melbournites.

CRlEFF.—Several slight shocks of earthquake have been
felt in this town and neighbourhood, during the present and
past week, although they have not been so violent as some of
the former.

A turnip, of the green top kind, which weighed 251b5., and
measured in circumference three feet seven inches, was pulled
a few days ago upon the estate of Wm. Thos. Greenwell,
Esq., of Greenwell Ford, Lanchester.—Leeds Intelligencer.
Mr. Donthorne, architect, has been obliged to suspend
the building of the Peterborough gaol, in consequence of the
quantity of water preventing a foundation being sunk.—
Lincolnshire Chronicle.

TRADE, DUNDEE.—The demand for flax, hemp, linens,
and yarns, is still very limited : the stocks of linens are not
diminishing, and prices remain without variation.—Dundee
Courier.

WONDERFUL CABBAGE.—A Savoy-cabbage was cut dur-
ing the last summer, in the garden of Mr. John Lowrey,
cordwainer, of Ripon, and the stem has since produced the
wonderful number of fifty -two beautiful round cabbages.
It is said that the late Mr. Philip Hope has left to each of
his three nephews £30,000 a year. His valuable collection
of books was bequeathed to Mr. Hope, and the remainder of
his persotl property to the other two nephews.
Viscount' Dungannon, M.P., Sir W. W. Wynn, Bart.
M.P., and tition. T. Kenyon, have respectively given the
liberal sum of £lOO towards the erection of a new market-
place at Oswestry. Mr. W. 0. Gore; M.P., has presented
the munificent sum of £2OO in aid of the same object.

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Circulars to the conservative members of the House of
Commons, requesting their attendance at the meeting of
parliament, were issued last week.
The O'Connell tribute has been a failure in the county
Carlow ; no collection at all in some chapels.—Limerick
Chronicle.

The year 1740- was one of great scarcity; wheat was 24s
a load ; malt, 40s a quarter ; hay, 18d a stone. In the month
of June, in the same year, there was a great snow. The
next year, 1741, was one of unprecedented plenty.
We understand that our talented and enterprising towns-
man, Dr. D. 13. Reid, has obtained a government appoint-
ment to superintend the building of the new houses of par-
liament, with regard to their ventilation, &c.—Edinburgh
Courant.

Mr. James Haynes's new tragedy, founded on the story of
Mary queen of Scots, which was to have been brought out
last season at Covent Garden; by Mr. Macready, has been,
we are told, accepted by the lessee of Drury-lane.
Last week was slaughtered by Mr. Murton, a maiden hei-
fer, two years and eight months' old, bred and fed by Mr.
Giles Morgan, of Macknade. The weight of the carcasa
was 49 score 171b5., and the loose fat 7 score 101bs.—Kent-
ids Gazette.

We hear that it is now finally arranged that Lord Nor-
manby to be got rid of, is to succeed Lord Auckland, as
governor-general of India. The gengral belief in town is,
that parliament will be dissolved very soon after its first
meeting.— Western Luminary.
There is pow in the possession of a gentleman in Mont-
gomeryshire, a small Blenheim bitch, which pupped a short
time ago, and being deprived of the pups, she, of her own
accord, took to herself the care of two kittens, which she is
now suckling as her own progeny.—Salopian Journal.
The contemplated railway between Barnard Castle and the
Hagar Leazes branch of the Darlington and Stockton Rail-
way is said to have been abandoned, in consequence of the
refusal of his Grace the Duke of Cleveland to permit the
line to pass through any portion of his estates.—Newcastle
Journal.

RENIARKABLE JACKDAW.—Mr. Unwin, the cooper at
the brewery of Robert Bentley, Esq., Rotherham, has a
jackdaw, which is so much attached to his master, that it is
accustomed to follow him daily to his work, and frequently
accompanies him to other places, flying about him with un-
ceasing vigilance. In this way, Jack, not long ago, went with
his master to Sheffield ; and has also accompanied him to
Treeton, and some other places in the neighbourhood of
Rotherham.

We have been informed that the bank parcel (containing
upwards of £1000) sent by coach on Monday, from the
Devon and Cornwall bank in this town, to the branch bank
at Liskeard has been missed, and that every means have been
taken to obtain some clue to the property, but without
success.---Plipnou-th Journal.

NEWPORT CHARTISTS.—Sir P. Pollock, Mr. F. Kelly,
and Mr. Thomas, have been engaged for the defence of the
prisoners. The fees of Sir Frederick and Mr. Kelly will not
be far short of £l,OOO. The have 300 guineas each as a
special retainer ; 4s. 6d. each per mile to Monmouth and
back ; heavy fee with brief ; 25 guineas to each of their
clerks, and all expenseS paid. The comfort is, that they are
worth as much as any two men at the bar, and are not tinged
with one particle of Whiggery.—Northern Star.
A SOCIALIST
•SWINDLER.—A journeyman tailor, who had
of late become quite a popular lecturer amongst the So-
cialists or Owenites, at Oldham, and had been entrusted
with the management of a
,co-operation provision shop, esta-
blibhed in Yorkshife-street, dee:filmed on Thursday se'nnight,
and carried off a sum of money amounting to thirty pounds,
which the over-confiding Socialists placed' under his care.—
Manchester Courier.

SAGACIOUS CAr.-A few 'weeks ago, Anthony Douth-
waite and his wife, removed from Northallerton, with their
furniture, to reside at Sunderland, and took with them a fa-
vourite cat, which appears on its arrival to have had no re-
lish for Sunderland, for to the great surprise of the next door
neighbour to where Douthwaite resided at Northallerton, the
poor cat returned to that place a few days ago, having tra-
velled a distance of 47 miles.—Newcastle Journal.

An enormous turnip, grown by Mr. Josh. Green, Hill-
bank, near Corbridge, in a field called Colchester, has been
sent to our office for inspection. Its weight, with root and
top, is 371bs. and the girth of the bulb is 46 inches ; having a
perfectly sound and healthy appearance. It has excited much
curiosity, and several intelligent and extensive agriculturists
who have seen it, declare that they never before beheld so
large a one.—lbid.
That enormous I—r, O'Connell; stated at the Bandon din-
ner, the other day, that the party of the 45th engaged at
Newport was composed entirely of Irishmen.. The Limerick
Chronicle, no mean authority on military matters, says the
party in question was composed of seventeen English, eight-
Irish, and six Scotch—twenty-one English and Scotch Ca-
tholics., and ten Papists.

UNFOUNDED REPORT.—A paragraph has been running
the round of the newspapers, to the effect that the tirM of
Messrs. Samuel Greg and Co., of this town, had purchased
the extensive spinning concern at Ringley, belonging to Mr.
Thomas Crompton. We are authorised to state, that this
report is not only untrue, but that there is not the slightest
foundation for it.—Manchester Guardian.

The following letter was last week received by the corpo-
ration of a town in this county not far distant from the river
Humber :—" To Mayor Aldermens and Councesillers Jen-
telmen Mrs. Ellen White As givin up her free School.
Rowing to being Hill The Docter that Attends Mrs. Ellen
White is Mr. Bonds, and Jentelmen Mrs. Ellen White As
add this free School A Bove 36 years."—Lincoln Standard.

A GLUTTON.—On Saturday evening, Richard Brookes, of
Burton, near Barnsley, eat, for a trifling wager, in one hour
and twenty minutes, 41 pounds of dry bread ; also in the
course of the same evening, he smoked 3 ounces of tobacco ;
and afterwards eat for supper 1 pound of beef steaks and 1
pound of bread. He completed the whole much to the sa-
tisfaction of the spectators !—Leeds Intelligeneer.
REMARKABLE CIRCUMSTAN CE. Last week, Mr. Par-
kinson, butcher, of Blackrod, in dressing a cow, discovered
in the belly of it a gold ring, corresponding in weight exactly
with a sovereign. The ring had the initials of a person's
name on it, and was dated nearly a century ago—it was in a
high state of preservation. The beast was an Irish one, and
we believe had not long been imported.—Wigan Gazette.

RAILWAYS.—The Midland Counties Railway Company,
in proving their case before parliament, estimated the re-
ceipts from merchandise which would pass over this line in
travelling between London, Leicester, Nottingham; Derby,
Sheffield, Leeds, and York, at about X 35,000 annually. The
whole line (571 miles) is expected to be open in June next,
but at present 'only 151 miles are completed ; namely, be-
tween Nottingham and Derby. The income " estimated"
to be received from passengers over this portion of the line
was about £2OO a-week ; the actual receipts up to the pre-
sent time have averaged upwards of 4:300. The "estimated"
receipts from merchandise and coach parcels was under £l9
a week ; the actual receipts have averaged upwards of £2B
weekly, and are regularly increasing.

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NORTH MIDLAND RAlLwYv.=Notwithstanding the un-
favourable weather for the construction of railways which has
prevailed since last midsummer up to the present time with
little intermission, the works ()Nile North Midland Railway
have so far advanced that the line' from Derby to Wakefield
is expected to be opened next April, and from Wakefield to
Leeds a month or two later. When this great public work is
finished, the communication between Leeds, York, 'Wake-
field, Barnsley, Rotherham, Sheffield, and Chesterfield, and
the Metropolis, will be completed through the medium of
the Derby and Birmingham, and the Birmingham and Lon-
don railways, and the inhabitants of Leeds travelling on this
line will be enabled to breakfast in Leeds and dine in Lon-
don the same day, and vice versa.—Sheffield Patriot.
CAUTION TO TRAVELLERS.—We have of late cautioned
our readers against the dangers to which they are exposed
from evil-minded persons, in the vicinity of this city, whilst
travelling at night, and the following occurrence, which took
place on Sunday se'nnight, amply confirms the necessity of
,the caution. On that day, two persons, whose names we
are
.not at liberty to mention, but whom we call Messrs. S.
and L., had occasion to go to a village on the Parkgate road,
where they had remained until about seven o'clock at night.
They then proceeded homewards, and a short distance on the
other side Mollington Bridge, they were met by a person on
horseback, who informed them that it was highly probable
they would be attacked when they came to the bridge, as
there were three men who attempted to unhorse and rob
him. As the man, however, appeared to be partially intoxi-
cated, little notice was taken of his admonition, and Messrs.
S. and L. went forward without any apprehension of alarm.
In a minute or two afterwards, two gentlemen overtook them
in a gig, who, on seeing our travellers, immediately set their
horse on the galipp, and so continued until they had got safe
over the bridge. Messrs. S and L. on approaching Moiling-
ton Bridge, observed three men standing there, and one of
them came forward, and after staring them in the face, en-
quired if they hatl seen a person (evidently a fictitious one)
pass them on the road. They were then much alarmed, and
after answering in the negative, went forward without being
further molested. On arriving on the Chester side of the
bridge, they were agreeably surprised to find the two gentle-
men in the gig waiting for them, who then stated, that anti-
cipating Messrs. S. and L. would be attacked, they had
waited in order to afford assistance if required, and that.on
pulling up the horse, they heard one of the men say to the
others, " Damnation, they have stopped." The gentlemen
then told Messrs. S. and L. to run forward, and when they
had got beyond the reach of the ruffians, they would follow.
The advice was taken, and soon after the parties who had
acted so humanely overtook them, and walked the horse
nearly into the city. The conduct of these two gentlemen
was highly laudable, as there can be no doubt, if they had
not pulled up their horse, the parties would have been rob-
bed, and probably severely. abused. On the same night, and
nearly in the same plade, Mr. Prescott, Wesleyan Minister,
narrowly escaped being knocked off his horse, by some scoun-
drels who attacked him.—Chester Courant.

GHOST.—In the present extreme dearth of any subject of
an exciting nature in our northern locality, the denizens
have fortunately fallen on one which has furnished much and
serious speculation to both the gay and the grave. For some
weeks past, different it\dividuals who have had to Pa''
through the Wood of Inver after nightfall, have been sadlY
frightened by an apparition, something in the shape of an
old woman, gliding along the road with the speed of a roe deer.
Some of these unlucky wights who have chanced to see thus
strange being have declared, with their hair standing stiff O.
heckle-teeth, that it can be " no earthly creature ;" others
who with knife and steel have gone armed to encounter the
demon, have returned equally frightened. Indeed, none
who have got a glimpse of this bugbear pretend to give any
satisfactory account of its appearance, but it is generallY
supposed to be some poor maniac who has taken up his residence
in the woods ; but how a human being can possibly subsit
in such a situation in this season, is,not so easily settled..--7.•'
Perth Courier.

Tux GOLDEN EAGLE.—It turns out upon examination
that the eagle which was shot at Bodorgan by Mr. Meydek.s
keeper was a far more valuable ornithological prize than ,t
.
was at first taken to be. Mr. Fuller, by whose directions
the bird was presented to the Zoological Society, has obli-
gingly forwarded to us an extract from Mr. Ogilvy, secretary
to the society's letter of acknowledgment, which we subjoin:
I beg to inform you the eagle arrived safely, and much to
our pleasure and surprise turned out to be the golden eagle,
now a very rare bird indeed in the British islands. It is in
mature and perfect plumage, and will be the more valuabl,l
to us from being the only British specimen in our collection.
On referring to Pennant's Zoology we find that formed).
they bred occasionally on the Snowden hills.—North Jr. ales
Chronicle.

Too LATE !—The following curious case strikingly filo"
trates the truth of the proverb which says that "delays are
dangerous." About a week ago, a man came to this town
and took up his lodgings in one of the public-houses, in-
tending to await the arrival of the Manchester steamer, one
of the passengers by which is a young woman, withwhom he
had made an assignation to be married here. In the interval
his intended wife's sister came at his request, from Alnwiek,
to officiate as bride's-maid. Monday last, the day when the
vessel was expected, came, but did not bring the Manchester
—Tuesday passed away without any tidings other, although
she was hourly expected—and on Wednesday, the faithless
swain, tired of waiting, heartlessly made up a match with her
who had come to act as bride's-maid, and they decamped to-
gether for Glasgow, leaving the unsuspecting and unfortunate
young woman, now on her passage, to encounter on her sr:
rival, as'bitter a disappointment as ever woman was doomed
to experience.—Berwick Warder.

On Tuesday morning, our worthy mayor, Mr. J. E. Dixon,
surgeon, was requested by a boatman to accompany him 0"
a professional visit to a vessel in the Downs.- Shortly after
his arrival on board he introduced a new member to the
community, and finding matters going on favourably, pre-
pared to make his parting bow. Judge of his surprise whel
it was announced that the vessel was under quarantine, an"
that he must gang along with her to Standgate Creek ! The
law, we believe, is imperativein such cases, and, no/ens volens:
Mr. Dixon is compelled to remain on board the prescribed
number of days. We sincerely wish .fie may not suffer anY
personal inconvenience, or abridgment of any essential con'
fort, and that this involuntary trip, added to a fresh blow-
ing breeze, may provoke a _more vigorous attack on the
Christmas festivities.—Kent Herald.

RIBBLE NAVIGATION IMPROVEMENT.—As a proof of the
effect which this spirited undertaking may be excted to
produce, we may mention, that at a letting of corporate pro-
perty last Thursday week, a part of a plot of land, the fee-
simple of which the corporation has purchased within the
last three years, at about Id. per yard, was let at 91,1•• per
yard, upon a lease of 75 years. When it is considered, that
the corporation have about 60 acres on the east, and about P 6
acres on the west side of the river, some idea may be formed
of the vastly increased value of this part of the corporate
property, which the deepening of the-river will occasion.--
Preeton Chronicle. •

ROYAL MARINES.—In future all candidates for commis-
sions in the Royal Marine Corps are to be examined at the
Royal Navy College, Portsmouth, as to their mathematical
attainments, as a preparatory step to their entrance into that
corps ; therefore,
.in all cases, application must be made at
the Admiralty for permission to be so examined; and IIP"
the certificate then granted, the Admiralty will put the 011*;
didate on their list or not, as they-see fit. The following.wi,
l
be the necessary requisites :-Ist, Common .and
arithmetic ; 2d, first six books of Euclid ; 3d, algebra, as '3'
as simple equation; 4th, a portion of plane. trigonometry,
and the use of logarithms.—Hampshire Telegraph.
Although it has been stated that it was the intention.of the
Duchess'of Kent to retire to the continent immediately after.
the celebration of her illustrious daughter's nuptials, and
upon her Royal Highness's return to England, to resume her
old apartments in Kensington Palace, such are not, at pre-
sent her Royal Highness's intentions. Her Majesty, v‘lt!
that affectionate regard and kind consideration which she "I
ever observed towards her mother, has requested her Royal
Highness still to retain the splendid suite of apartments the
Duchess of Kent has so long occupied at the Castle, placing
them, far the future, as they have hitherto been, entirely a
the disposal of the Duchess. It is not, therefore, exPeete•
that her Royal Highness will either proceed to the conti-
nent, or retire to Kensington Palace, after the marriage--
even "for a time."—Morning Herald.
•

Our readers will learn, from the report of our Holyhead
correspondent, that Captain Beechy.and Admiral Sir Jan'el.
Gordon, the surveyors appointed by-the admiralty to inspect
the rival harbours of Ortneshead, Holyhead, and path:
dynllaen, in order to determine which is the best as a packe;
station, and as a terminus to the projected railway, set abot•
their task in real earliest on Tuesday last, proceeding Wu
Holyhead early in the morning for Ornieshead, and returnhY
4
on the evening of Thursday, having visited Porthdynllaen
in
the interval. . The necessary investigations, as far as the P.Ol
md terminus are concerned, are, doubtless, by this
ade; and, as it is 'understood that -a eonference is now bee
ing held at Holyhead between the admiralty surveyors a',.l,
the government commissioners deputed to investigate the
merits of the proposed railway lines, the affair seems to
?°et
progressing towards the desired close. It is rumoured,
Mr. Vignolles has withdrawn his plans for the Shrewspul.'„
and Porthdynllaen line. Be this as it may, we trust that tne
rival lines will be judged of by their own merits, and th3t o°
one-sided party interests will bias the determination of the
commissioners.—Carnarvoll Herald.

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BLAIRGOWRIE—RATHER AWKWARD.—A worthy 00li t -
for who domiciles not a thousand yards from the marke
cross of Blairgowrie, happened on a Sunday lately, &idol
the interval of divine service, to be dining on a certain anin;a
yclept a " Glasgow magistrate,'! when a tap was heard at the
door. Unwilling to be caught in such (as he thought) 0(.;
unfashionable act, he hurriedly forced herring and Platept,
small butter plate) into the interior of his hat, and, the f
ter to elude discovery, stuffed in a pocket-handkerchief
above all ; then opened the door, and admitted an acqual'
iti
ante, who sat down and chatted with him until, the sowed ~
the " church-going bell" reached their ears. Up started (1111.
bachelor ; and, forgetting where lie had placed the reinah.ej
of his dinner, donned hat, herring; plate, and all, and lae.
away to street chapel ; which having entered revere fl,
tially, he lifted up his hat, when down fell (" and what 3 tea
was there !") herring and plate with a clatter that attraei;es,
all eyes towards the unlucky wight, whose feelings, a Pe"
covering the catastrophe that had taken Place, may be eB'„t,
imagined. We believe that afternoon's discourse had a°
traction for him.—Perth Advertiser. .

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THE PROCLAMATION' OF TIIE ROYAL MARRIAThec.
ConunG.—The Post Arnpt Gazette of Frankfort, of 1')-3,
17, publishes in a letter from Coburg, under date of neecihe
the following account of this official announcement 01
the
approaching nuptials of Prince Albert with her Maie'-'ty fly,
Queen of Great Britain :—" This morning the ducal fan' of
followed by all the court, went in procession to the chaPe
the castle, and there remained during divine service'
four, p. m. the ministers, the court, distinguished foreig%eurs
the deputies of states and towns of the duchies of C° i,„O-
and Gotha, &c. assembled in the throne room. The,creest
ing duke, the duchess, the Prince Albert, and Duke '":"chols
of Wirtemburg, then arrived, accompanied by the 10,,,ipg
and their suite. The first minister then read the folflue•
proclamation By order of his highness the reignin6 coir
His highness the reigning Duke of Saxe Coburg Gotha, .eats
vinced of the deep interest which all his faithful su to
take in all that concerns the ducal house, has though
assemble around him the deputies and high functional bo
order to announce to them the approaching nuptials Great
son, the Prince Albert, with her Majesty the Queen 0f ,ditiO
Britain and Ireland. The very excellent and noble 010
of her Majesty are well known, and have given his hig
the firm conviction that this union will, by the Diviltacdo-
tance, cause the eternal happiness of his son, who „ air
secrate all his efforts to his new country, but who, at„ -with
tance from his native country, will always turn to
love and respect.' While the ministerairas reading thila:ov
clamation, the cannon from the fortress announcedth d the
event to the people. Their highnesses then receive
congratulations of the court."
Inn'er
We understand that Isaac Newton, the chartist druid the,
who gave evidence against the delegate Woodhouse,,:ber
County Hall, has this week been assaulted by a 117,piaCe
/men, and most seriously injured. The occurrence to a Aid,
in Goose Gate, in open day ; and had he not run into
tt's,ee
no doubt his life would have been sacrificed. 11%vivaltri",
are credibly informed, stabbed in one place. Mr. seal'
son, surgeon, is attending him. He stated his caA,fice.--
after it occurred, to the magistrate at the Police L''"
Not tingha
barknt Mercury.
The Antigua, M`Knight master, put into this sl - h
Sunday last, and carne to anchor in the Sound, lack:llliura'
rice, froM Calcutta, bound to London. On 31ondaroat Ap;
ing Mr. Drew went alongside in his gig, and as the lien .area
proached the pier on his return from the ship, he
two pilot fish alongside, one of 'which being struea,oe, do
P.'tac pre
oar, swam with great rapidity towards the landing-
was caught on the steps by Mr. Drew, who has s.'l_,ation:
sented it to the Natural History Society for pres(:,'..oo
These lish, there is no doubt, followed the vessel "1 w, ther
tropical seas, two -fish having been -repeatedly scejweatii
crew till the vessel entered the Channel, when, tl:et of, dile
becoming thick and boisterous, they were lost sil,R_wed th
it is fair to presume that the fish must also have low
boat from the vessel.—Plymouth Journal. a Partlr'a°
PERILOUS SITUATION.—About ten days ago,
fishermen, who earn a varying subsistence, by harv:lace -
from the Solway, nearly the whole year round, wei_eia fart' to
a highly perilous predicament. At Carlaverock, and dote
ae
round the shore, it has been the practice for s°lll'eace °OO
fish cod and skate by means of set lines ; and
proper seised
source of the supplies of fish which during the proyt. Wll,O,
find their way twice a week, to the Dumfries niarke_erier"'o
bent on these expeditions, the friendly piscators
take panniered donkeys along with them, and 0?'-d
one or more light carts—that is when the bawl, frof,!,,t`ei 011
of the winds and tides, is expected to be large, loith of!'od
ground lies as near as may be five miles to the scidirea ter
bra
whet 0
old castle ; and, generally speaking, our hardy
little difficulty, soft as the sand may sometimes lw:lang'efore
iu going or returning. But when fogs occur the 1!?th;
imminent. The beds of the Esk and the Eden rn`9l e 1%1 d
open to the action of south-westers than Ore beauti Voice tII
but neither is to be trusted in certain seasons, '
well-known saying— ,t
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" Love flows like the Solway, and ebbs like' its tid e' ; but.
for crille
The sky was pretty clear when the fishermen wents ach
scarcely had they drawn, and reset their lines,. re'ljed
for' yisl,be
became viewless, and enshrouded every object
in his own Cimmerian gloom. For a time the p`"
to the hope that a breeze would spring LW I_.. laden odic
fog away, and thinking it needless to detain toe. find
,ery
keys, they adjusted the reins and allowed them
vt been 1 to
way home as they best could. And it would hna to
aore
fortunate, as the event proved, had they been they par
follow in the wake of their burden-bearers. pt"sky, ;;„if,
as often deceived by what seemed a lane in tn.e_ was v)8:) rd
talii Ross was by lanes in the ice ; still as the tide 0
and might perchance overtake them, it was ri.ti 0:1° Aar•
d eta, o.
turn at all hazards. The slightest reflectionss
ible ;-
cessity of keeping together as closely as po- or.
groping their way for a considerable time theya
how or whither, one of the party came upon. ergs' the
the
bush which he had accidentally left behind,a"! saveuortl,
small runner. And this fortuitous circurnstLg
north
.hey,
lives of the party ; they now knew their bear
_,'whereci.lo
and after further scrambling, got to the ,siitis %.",seda
found anxious friends awaiting their arriva
guns
et()
_.,,dies 1;,;oct;
apprehension of the consequences of longer_oteire':/islt.aed re.
firing not so much guns of distress, as
proollier „owe ;t oure
From these neighbours they learnt that thc.,csbur"ote it -1)"0,
turned more than an hour before ;
which may furnish one useful hint for
ntl '
the I°c -et VI
better means of safety will be found i_me
pass of a peculiar construction, which tliii.an7ivir. Co''"
already ordered from our ingenious town-
ris, turner.—Dumfries Courier.