Star.
London, England, 1826-01-13 00:00:00

MY FATHER'S AT THE HELM.

The curling waves, with awful roar,
♦ little bark auail'd,
And pallid Fear's distracting psw'r,
O'er all on board prevaird!
Save one, the Captain's darling child,

Who stedfast view 'd the storm,
And cheerful, with composure, =ad
At Danger's threandhg form— •
" And sport'st thou thus," a Seaman cried,

". While terrors overwhelm'"
0 'Why should I fear r the boy replied,
" Aly Father's at the helot !"
So, when our 'worldly all is rest,

Our earthly helpers gone,
We still have one sore 'anchor left,

Qom helps, and he alone !
Hz to our prayers will bend his ear,
Hs give our pangs relief,
Ha tarn to smiles each trembling tear,

- -
To joy each toretiiig grief!
Then turn to Hue,.mid sorrows

When wants and woei Sierwhelm,
Itesnemb.ring, like tint fearless
Oar Fa man's at the Was !

DUMFRIES, JANUARY 10.

Chtigmas-day, a ewe of the Lancaster breed, the
property of Mr. Marshall, farmer in Parknouse, near
Kirkcudbright, brought forth a fine healthful lamb,
which is thriving well.
Yesterday morning, the body of a new-born male in-
fant was discovered, by a boy of this town, lying in the
river opposite the Moat, and was carried to the Council
Chamber. It was full grown, and appeared to have
been alive. No marks of violence were upon the body,
Two females have been apprehended on suspicion, and
put into confinement.
Friday, the body of an old woman, the widow of a
man named Barton. who many years since was snatched
from leer by the hand of death, was found in the Nith
here above the Caul, immediately beside the gullet door,
on the Masweltown side of the river. She had long
lived in a house in Red Lion-street, blisweltown,.,in a
separate part of which another widow also resides; and
having, in her lone:y situation•., but few friends or ac-
quaintances to note either her presence or absence, no
alarm was felt respecting her until the morning of
Wednesday, although her door had been observed to be
shut and her house silent from the morning of the pre-
ceding day. On Wednesday, her door was broken
°ten, when the bed was found newly made, the floor
and the fire place cleanly swept, and everything tidy
and in its proper place, save a large pig, or jar, with
which she had been in the habit of •" carrying in" her
water. And now it °centred to sonic of those present
that they had seen her on the Tuesday morning, with
the j4l in her hand, going towards the river. A search
was instantly commenced, and continued without suc-
cess until Friday, about three in the afternoon, when her
corpse was • accidentally discovered lying close to the
pullet door, to which the current had no doubt borne
at from the place n here she had descended to fill her
jar, and where, in all likelihood, she had sturabled, and
closed the winter of her life.

It gives us great pleasure to be able to say, that by
the latest accounts from Miramichi, it appears that the
unfortunate sufferers had, by the bountiful subscriptions
of the neighbouring Provii.ces, and the kind assistance
of philanthropic individuals, in a great measure reco-
vered from the effect of this distressing calamity.
O'ketez.—The public, who have derived so
much entertainment horn the woks of this dramatic
veteran, will hear with regret, that, in a very advanced
age, and deprived of sight, he has hardly the means of
decent support. Ile had e ijoyed a pension of 201. a
year ; but the Receiver of Covent-Garden l'heatre does
net conceive himself authorised to pay it under the te-
sti ictions of the LORD CU A NCELLOR.
Monday afternoon, while a plumber was looking at
the pipes at Sir 11. lintronn's, Curzon-street, he heard
some person groaning, and or. proceeding to the place,
discovered Sir 11. HA LFORD'S housekeeper in the. ago-
nies of death. She was immediately taken to a warm
room, and every means used to recover her, but to no
purpose, as she died a little before four o'clock. The
deceased was in good health at breakfast time.
Two °diets of the West-country 4ang of horse-steal-
ers, of the names of Colisson and fArogniortan, were
appiebended at Appleton; near Woodstock, on Tueiday
night, by the information of an accomplice, when three
stolen horses and a chaise were found in their possession.
One of the horses and chaise was stolen Irons Bowes-
rrr Osf .rdshire, last week, and the other two were
stolen from a paddock belonging to the Ittv.Mr.llowles,
near Farringdon, 11. rks. The prisoners kept a small
farm-yard, and tented a few steles of lan
• Cardinal Iliche!ieu one day asked his confetsor, M.
Mulot, bow marl masses a ere requited to get a soul
out of purgator) ? contessor answered that he
did hot know, and that the Church had not determined
the number. " I can tell yt u," said the Cardinal;
" about as many masses would be necessary as one
should want of shovelfuls of snow to light a stove."
It is well known that there is a small Church within
the walls of the Tower of London, dethcated to St.
Peter ad Vincula, but it is not perhaps tiJ Reuel ally
known what is the oi-igM of this title. The following
extract from the Sarum Breviary will explain it:—" A
certain Roman Captain, called Quit inus,had a daughter
whose name was Balbina, who had a disease in her
throat. This Captain kept St. A!exander the Pope shut
up in pets in. This maiden his daughter, went oft to
the prison whe.e blessed Pope St. Alexander was kept
bound in chains; and she kissed the chants wherewith
the Saint was bound, which she did hoping to recover
alifs thereby. 'l'n whom Saint Alexander said, My
eatiginer, do not kiss these chains, but go and seek the
shams wherewith St. Peter was bound, and kiss them,
and thereby thou shalt be cured.' She immediately
came to her father, and told him what she had heard
from the aforesaid Pope, which, when her father bad
heard he sent messengers to inquire for the p icon where
the Apostle had been bound, and from thei:ce to bring
with them St. Peter's chain, which they did ; and the
said maid kissing them was presentlz perfectly se-
covered. After this, blessed Alexander aiming out of
prison, appointed this solemnity to be kept on the
Calends of August in honour of St: Peter, and in his
name built a Church which is calkd Petri ad
solemnity they say that his chains are devoutly
the ale.'

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