The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-12-28 00:00:00

REPORT

" At the height of the gale the water was force
the river wall and the upper part of the coffer dam in
such quantities as entirely to fill the dock to the level of
the river outside. Before the dock filled, a portion of the
inner wall gave way, owing to the pressure of the water
behind—and the 50 feet gates, which were in course of
erection, were unstopped and washed into the dock.
From as careful an examination as I have yet had time to
make, I believe that from £3,000 to £4,000 will make all
good again, and that the whole of the damage sustained
may be repaired within six weeks.
" No delay will be occasioned by the accident to the
works in the course of construction around the dock, as
they have sustained no damage whatever, being above the
level of the water.

" had the dock been completed, the damage would not
have been sustained."

ir, your obedient servant,
STEPHEN C. COURT, Engineer
Liverpool, December 27th, 1852.

I am,

UNPRECEDENTED PASSAGE TO AUSTRADIA AND
BACK.—The fine clipper ship Marco Polo, J. N. Forbes,
commander, one of Messrs. James Baines and Co.'s
black ball line of Australian packets, arrived in the Mersey
about noon on Sunday. from Melbourne, after one of the
most remarkable voyages ever recorded. The Marco
Polo sailed from Liverpool on the 4th of July, and made
her outward run in 68 days. She sailed from Melbourne
on her return on the 11th of October, and arrived off
Holyhead at 3 p.m., and in the river as above stated,
having, as will be seen, made the voyage in the unprece-
dented space of 5 month and 21 days ; a voyage, we may
venture to say, which has never found any equal. The
qualities of the vessel wiil be better appreciated when it is
understood that the screw steamer Australian sailed from
Melbourne eleven days before the Marco Polo, and that
we have not, up to the hour of going to press, received
intelligence of her arrival. The Marco Polo, on her out-
ward passage took out 930 passengers, and had only two
deaths of grown-up people, both from natural causes,
besides nine children, principally from measles. On the
homeward passage she ran 316, 318, and 306 miles during
three successive days. She passed Banks Straits on the
12th Oct. 13.3 r ; on the 17th sighted the Falkland Islands ;
on the 3d November made Cr.pe Horn, and had fine
weather; and on the sth November passed Staten Island.
Dr. North, the chief government surgeon on board, who
has made several voya2es to Australia, and who was in
the ship Statesman when she made her celebrated passage
o' 76 days from Plymouth to Australia, states that the
MAT() Polo is by a long way the fastest vessel he ever
sailed in, and vastly superior to the Statesman. On
several occasions during the voyage home the Marco Polo
made 2f knot.. per hour for several hours together. Many
bets were made by parties resident in Melbourne that the
Marco Polo would beat the steamer Australian, from the
fact of having beaten her on the voyage out. The Marco
Polo was built by Mr. James Smith, of St. John's, N. 8.,
who also built the celebrated ships Tippoo Saib, Ben
Nevis, and Alfred, and who has now on the stocks a
splendid ship of about 1,200 tons burthen. Captain
Forbes is a native of Aberdeen, and lately commanded
the ships Maria and Cleopatra, belonging to the same
line. His passages in the Cleopatra were little less sur-
prising than the present voyage.

ROYAL PARK THEATRE.—There was an overflowing
attendance at this popular es'ablishment last night. Long
before the hour announced for the commencement of the
performances, the doors were besieged by dense crowds
anxious to gain admission, and who, doubtless, had been
mainly attracted thither to witness the new pantomine,
entitled " Ye Siege of Lererpole, or Harlequin and Prince
Rupert and ye Fayre Mayde of Toxteth, ' (the story of

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iliasst). character,lthe able superintendence of Mr. H. Bolen°, the "princ2
of clowns," we confess that the pantomime at the Park
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produced as
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took us completely by surprise. At the very late hour at
which we write, it is impossible to do more than simply

notice the piece • suffice it to say that, whether as regords
the opening dialogue (written by Mr. Millward, ane of
our most atlented dramatic writers(, and the comic
scenes, invented by Signor Boleno. The scenery.

dresses, machinery, or the wit and drollery with
which the piece abounds, we may fairly pronounce it
as one of the pantomimes evee seen in Liverpool. From
the opening scene to the transformation, we have
a Ell 'cession of pure local associations introduced, ending
with the "Palace of Brilliants and precious stones."
The transformation introduces us to the usual rounds of
mischief and drollery, in which Signor Baleno, (who made
his appearance amidst enthusiastic applause), as clown,
keeps the audience in a continued roar of laughter. It is

scarcely n(c scary to say that Madame BolenO, as colum-
bine, was enthusiastically received, as also, Herr Cole, as
pantaloon, and the new candidate for popular favor, M.
Conti, who made his first appearance in Liverpool as
harlequin. No expense whatever has been spared by
the management to place the piece upon the stage in
a style of splendour seldom equalled at our local theatres.
Mr, Wilimore, as machinist, deserves especial notice, and
too much praise cannot be awarded to Signor Baleno,
who has been indefatigabfe in superintending the entire

getting up of the piece. These were, of course, the
usual number of witches,—but these unavoidable defects,
always excusable under ordinary circumstances, will be
the more readily overlooked when it is known that the
theatre, and everything in it, is entirely new. For this
pantomime, we preeict a thoroughly successful run, which
it richly deserves. We shall next week give a more
lengthened notice of the scenery, masks, dresses, fricks,
&c.

BENEFICES. &c.—According to the annual return re-
specting benefices in England and Wales, which has just
been printed, there were 11,728 benefices. The total
residents numbered 8,077, and the nonresidents 2,952, of
which last-mentioned class there were 1,137 performing
the duties of their respective parishes. Under the class
" miscellaneous cases" 699 were returned, including
vacancies, sequestrations, &c. In England and Wales
there were 5,214 glebe-houses when the return was made.
A.nother part of the return was required to show the net
annual value of the several benefices in which the incum-
bents were nonresident in each diocese in England and
Wales according to the returns for 1850 made to her
Majesty in council by the respective archbishops and
bishops, in pursuance of the act 1 and 2 Victoria, chap.
106, sec. 53. No return of the value was made to 1,297,
and in the others the value was from £lO to £2lBO a-year.
The total was 2,960.

DISGRACEFUL OUTRAGE.—The Kilkenny Moderator
reports as follows :—" One of those demonstrations of
ruffianly intolerance and violence, which of late so fre-
quently disgrace this country, took place in our city on
Tuesday last. Mr. Tapper, the local inspector of the
Irish Church Missions, with his wife and one of his
children, went out to take a walk, at between three and
four o'clock in-the afternoon, and chance led them in the
direction of St. James's-green, through which they were
passing unconscious of aught that could give the slightest
offence or annoyance to any human being, and unsuspi-
cious of any intention on the part of the people there
resident to assail them by word or action ; but scarcely
had they made their appearance in the Green, and were
about turning into Flood.street, with the intention of
proceeding to the New-road, when a riotous mob
called together from the various houses by signals
from persons in the streets, assembled about them, com-
cmoemnmeeednceocipetroatihounrsl bstyoneysellinnagsinacrhde abuse, and
ognddts to
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attack their unoffending victims. Mrs. Tapper and her
child were several times struck and severely hurt by the
missiles, besides suffering the greatest alarm from the
attack of the. furious dogs, which were with difficulty kept
off by Mr. Tapper, and it is difficult to speculate upon the
amount of damage welch all three might have sustained,
bud not a few soldiers of the 71st Regiment providentially
made their appearance in the street, and seeing respectabe
persons most wantonly ontraeed, immediately proceeded
to give them their protection."

SEARCH FOR SIR JOHN FRANKLIN.--Her 'Majesty's
ship Rattlesnake is to be despatched with all possible haste
to Behring's Straits, to sustain the efforts of our Arctic
squadron in search of Sir John Franklin.

THE YELLOW FEVER.—The Lords of the Admiralty
have issued instructions to the Admiralty agents on the
West India station not to permit; invalids and distressed
seamen from places where the yellow fevei• is raging to be
received on board the homesvai'd-bound mail-packets.

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THE LIVERPOOL DASTANRD/ TUESDAY/ DECYNIBEE, 28, 1852.
A SONG FOR CHRISTMAS. PUNCH'S ALMANACK FOR 1853. THE CANTERBURY SETTLEMENT, CHESHIRE AND WALES. ' IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
AP- NEW ZEALAND. - _
- -
Oh ! the merry Christmas tide,
HOUSE OF LORDS-THURSDAY, DEC. 23.
MAXIMS FOR YOUNG LADIES CURL-PAPERS. ______.„,...,..._ ROBBERY AT NEW FERRY.-The house of Mr. Peter
With its long and festive nights,
When, the blazing, grate beside, The young gentleman who won't dance till after supper A letter from an experienced colonist at Lyttelton, in the Smith, of New Ferry. Cheshire, was entered by thieves ~ tl
We renew our old delights ; doesn't deserve to have any. on Christmas night, during the absence of the family, and Tne Stamp Duties on Patents for Inventions Bill was
o
Canterbury Settlement, New Zealand, to a friend of high •
property to a considerable amount was stolen. read a third time and passed.
When 'mid friends of early hours, The hand that can make a pie is a continual feast to the
Smiles our wrinkled brows illume, husband that marries it. standing, gives an interesting description of that colony. EFFECTS of OPIUM.-A farmer at Llanddarog in Wales, MINISTERIAL ARRANGEMENTS.
And we feel, there still are /lowers Between Life and Death there is frequently but the It is dated 7th June, and we subjoin some extracts from it. who swallowed nearly an ounce of laudanum, and who The Earl of DERBY.-In consequence of a communi- e
Time has not robbed of their bloom !
thinness of a shoe.had been asleep in a hay-loft from its effects for thirty- cation I have this morning received from the noble earl a
"As to the general condition and prosperity. The
Links have fallen from the chain The heart of a Flirt settles no more tenaciously on awho has been intrusted by her Majesty with the duty of v
usual year of stagnation and depression new settlements eight hours, has been restored to consciousness by medical forming an Administration, requesting me to move the
Of our sou!-unite.) band i- gentleman's affections than a button does on one of his
Kindred spirits ! that remain must not think to escape from has I think, arrived ; but, aid, adjournment of the House till next Monday, by which I
shirts, for, in fact, it is no sooner on than it's off again.
Heart to heart, and hand to hand, comparing old things with new, has,
such as you JESUS COLLEGE. OXFORD.-William Joseph Edwards, time he gives me reason to believe that his arrangements a
Twine more closely than before Dreams are the novels we read when we're fast asleep.
and I knew it, and Canterbury,at a corresponding period, second son of the Rev. W. Edwards, vicar of Llangollen, will be completed, I beg leave to move that this House, t
Life had lost the summer prime, Eyes are the Electric Telegraph of the heart, that will there is really no cause for fearing that there will accrue who gained the Powis Scholarship last July, has' been at its rising, adjourn till Monday next.
And give honour, as of yore, send a message any distance in a language only known to great losses to capitalists, or much suffering among the elected scholar of this College on the North Wales Their lordships then adjourned till Monday. c
To the merry Christmas-time. the two souls who correspond. lower classes. Wages maintain a high rate (4s. 6d.) while foundation.
The blossoms of the holly There are ladies who look upon a ball-room as nothing the demand for labour in the country (and not so much CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.-Traffic for the a
In our halls and chambers glow, better than an omnibus, that doesn't go off properly unless HOUSE OF COMMONS-THURSDAY, DEC. 23. 1
in towns) is a most favourable sign* to an old settler-
While sanctioneth sweet folly it's as full as it can hold. week ended the 19th December :-Railway : Passengers, r
pregnant with good omen for the future, and of a speedy
Our pale guest-the mistletoe ; parcels, &c., £lBl5 4e. ld. ; goods, £1,067 Bs. 11d. Several petitions were presented. r
And around the wassail-howl MOOT POINTS. emerging from temporary depression. Steam-boats : £l9l 133. Od.-Total 3,074 6s. 6d.- DUBLIN HARBOUR.
Float the strains of wit and mirth ; 1. Whether a police-van may be accepted as a legal "The best test, I think, I can take of the depression Increase compared with the corresponding week of last Mr. VANCE asked the Secretary for the Treasury 1
Oh ! many many seasons roll conveyance ? being of a milder character than usual is this-that, al- £63o 13s. ld. whether a memorial from the Chamber of Commerce,
Ere their lustre fades from earth ! 2. Whether a retired innkeeper can resume his avoca- though the consumption of spirits has greatly decreased, year,
y, CONGREGATIONAL TEA-PARTY AT CLAUGHTON.-On Dublin, bad been received at the Treasury, complaining ,'
All untouched by heathen change, tion without rendering himself liable to be considered a whenever a vessel arrives her cargo sells off most rapidly, of the undue restriction upon the foreign trade of Dublin
Wednesday last a congregational tea-party was held in the • • • ' N
Long may Christmas rites remain ; Republican ? and the fixed and ad valorem duties on necessaries showarising from the exaction of import duties upon all vessels ,
In renewing which, we range 3. Whether the ancient Hebrews were not invariably about the same average monthly total for the four last school-room, Claughton, when appropriate addresses were
from foreign ports entering the river of Dublin, for the s'
Childhood's flower-paths o'er again, tried by Jewry ? months that they did in previous ones, going back to about delivered to a large assemblage by the Rev. Dr. Blakeney,
construction of Kingstosvn harbour, whether such vessels '
And, oh minstrels of our isle ! Mr. P. F. Curry, the Rev. J. Blakeney, Mr. Henry
4. Whether public vocalists who sing out of time can June last year. There is but little grumbling either
Welcome merry Christmas-time, had availed themselves of the refuge of Kingstown har-
Denson. and other gentlemen.
With the sunshine of a smile, bt legally arrested for uttering false notes ? against government, or, what is in a measure a branch of bour or not, while coasters or vessels hound to any port i
And the music of a rhyme ! W. G. 5. Whether, by the Registration Act, you are required the government, against the association ;at least so far as THE FLOODS IN NORTH WALES.-The floods in Wales other than Dublin were not liable to any duty, even i
to register a berth under Government ? regards the acts of the association's employe's in the colony. have been more general and extensively destructive than though such vessels had been saved by the refuge of (
6. Whether a blind man can be held liable for a bill Where no discontent exists, primclfacie there is no suffer- was at first anticipated. The result in one locality, at Kingstown ; and whether any decision had been come to 1
LITERATURE. payable at sight ? ing, and all may be presumed to be well and busily engaged. least, has been fatal, while the accounts from all the sur- respecting such memorial. Mr. G. A. HAMILTON replied, 1
- PRIZE PROBLEMS. (BY OUR OWN COCKER.) More runs continue to be taken up each week, and would rounding districts afford numerous instances of narrow that the memorial had been with the Treasury for a con- 4
Boors FOR REVIEW, &c.-Books, New Prints, Music, &c., 1. If three feet make a yard, how many "hands" would be, doubtless, each day, did not the gold fields interfere escapes, of disastrous losses, and devastations of property. siderable time ; that it bad been found necessary to refer
intended for review, may be left at Mr. C. Mitchell's, Red- you take to make a garden. with the arrival of stock as fast as settlers would wish to EMIGRANTS' CHURCH AT BIRKENHEAD. -We are it to the Customs and some other departments ; and that 1
lion-court, Fleet-street, London, addressed "to the Editor 2. If sixty seconds make one minute, will any number purchase. There is a very considerable amount of real glad to learn that the Lord Bishop of Chester has licensed recently it had been referred to the Board of Trade, from
of the LivEßpooL STANDARD," when they will be forwarded suffice to make one gigantic? I property of all descriptions now accumulated, and it must a room in the Birkenhead Dock Warehouses, which has which a report had been received. That report, with the
and receive attention.
3. Reduce that very vulgar fraction of London, the City, be returning more or less of interest already. been fitted up as a temporary chapel for the use of emi- other reports and the memorial of the Chamber of Com-
to its lowest possible value. "In fact, all things considered-the validity of titles to grants, for the performance of Divine service, on the re- merce, was under the consideration of the Chancellor of
4. Calculate the altitude of Louis Napoleon's impu- land, the facility of getting on to it at once, admirable presentation of the Rev. J. W. Welsh, emigrant minister. the Exchequer, with the view of its being determined
Katie Stewart. London : Blackwoods. deuce. surveys, superior to any in New Zealand, an unlimited
DERBY HOUSE Rome FERRY.-It will afford great whether any measure should be introduced on the
This " true story" originally appeared in Black- 5. Given-his proper fare: you are to find, if you can, tract of country covered (without the expenditure of an
gratification to the friends of Mr. Crafter, who some THE ADJOURNMENT.
wood's Magazine, and we have on several previous the cabby who's contented with it. hour's labour by man) with abundant pasture, the prac- years since carried on the above well-known and extensive The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said,-I believe,
su_bject.
occasions given it a favourable notice. It now ap- tical knowledge imported by older settlers, who have es-
establishment, and who became embarrassed in his cir- Sir, it will be for the convenience of the public service
tablished themselves in all directions among the new onesthat I should move that the House at its rising do adjourn
pears in more appropriate form, being comprised in PASSING STRANGE.-A Lady passing a bonnet-shop (who are thus relieved of the necessity of " purchasing cumstances a few months since,. to learn that he has dis-
a single volume, which, like all the publications of without stopping. experience" through heavy losses), the proximty of other •
charged the whole of his liabilities in full, and is now
residing at a smaller inn in the vicinity of his late hotel. until to-morrow. at 2 o'clock.
The motion was agreed to, and the House adjourned,
Messrs. Blackwood, is perfect of its kind. The THE FIRST LAW OF GRAVITY.-Never to laugh at settlements, capable of supplying most of the wants of at a quarter to 5 o'clock, until 2 o'clock on Friday.
story is told in a bewitching kind of Scotticism, your own jokes. new comers-Canterbury has enjoyed from the first ad- TESTIMONIAL TO A CLERGYMAN.-A few days ago the
Rev. Dr. Baylee presented the Rev. L. R. Ellis, curate of
vantages which virtually throw it forward at leaat a couple FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24.
which adds point to the dialogue, without being MEMORANDUM FOR MINE-PROPRIETORS.-In build-of its real if I may -. k. Barnsley, Yorkshire, at the Church Institute in this The Speaker took the chair at two o'clock.
unintelligible to southron readers. The characters ing a column you commence with the base, but to sink a of Zaiarhaeln advance
sheep intictehe district amount,age atthissomspoemaent, to town, on behalf of the congregation and Sunday school The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said it would be
of the heroine and the other accessories of the story shaft you should first lay down your capital.
some 50,000, representing productive capital of not less teachers of the Welsh established Church, with Matthew convenient for the public service to move that the House,
are described with a pleasing simplicity, the attrac- 1 GARDENING FOR MANCHESTER.-YOU must get in than £50,000, which will nearly double itself next year. Henry's Commentary in 6 vols., a purse of gold, robes, on its rising, adjourn till Monday, at 2 o'clock.
your cotton crop before you can begin with your spinnage. and an appropriate address in a gilt frame, for his exec- Colonel SIBTHORP thought it his duty to make a few
tiveness of which is irresistible. Indeed we do not The importation of sheep last year was 14,000, cattle 600,
envy the mind that could not be pleased with such MERCANTILE MARINE.-Captains of merchant-ships horses 410, valued at £25,000. lions as a district visitor, while a student of St. Aidan's observations on the present state of affairs; he highly
a tale as Katie Stewart. Its
will never be well informed even if they become readers, "The crop of potatoes for last year is considered to be College. eulogised the government of Lord Derby, and lamented
publication is most
so long as they are skippers. more than is required for the population. Mutton and REPRESENTATION OF CHESTER.-We learn from the that they had not had a fair trial. Their opponents, he
opportune as a Christmas present or New Year's considered, were black sheep, and would soon show
FALLACY OF NATURALISTS.-It is not true, whatever beef are at 7d. per pound. The wheat crop has been Chester Courant thatthe Hon. W.O. Stanley;was in Chester
Gift. may have been asserted, that whales are produced by the small, a good deal of flour is therefore imported ; but pro- on Saturday week, congratulating the mayor and others of themselves in their true colours (a laugh).
-- ------- - -- - ----- sea lashing the shore. bably if the potato was more generally used, particularly his principal supporters on the defeatof ministers. Political After a few observations from Sir R. Isoeis relative to
by the lower classes, at morning as well as evening for gossips say that he was feeling his way for re-election, in the search for Sir John Franklin,
VARIETIES. A NICE QUESTION FOR THE STAMP OFFICE.-Sup- meals, the population would, within a very little, have the event of any junior appointment in the new adwinis- The House adjourned at ten minutes past two.
_ - posing duty to have been paid on a horse, is there any • • •
enough to subsist itself with. tration falling to his share. Mr. Stanley may however No new writs were moved for.
LAUGH at no man for his pug nose-you never can tell drawback if the animal jibs ? " The great scheme propounded by the association, and rely upon it he will never be re-elected for Chester without
what may turn up. 'WARNING TO YOUNG LADIES.-DO not too soon pro- the expectations they formed, and led others to form in an opposition.
A TALL YOLTH is a lad, but an implement used in nounce your lover a duck, lest you should afterwards dis- England, it is well known here are not likely of realise- INFANTICIDE AT SANDBACH.-Sarah Steele, late of MUSICT AND THE DRAMA.
building is a ladder. cover him to be a goose. tion. Too much was attempted in the hope of a support Alsagar, a servant in husbandry, was charged yesterday
A TRADESMAN in the south advertises that he has BETTING BY LADIES.-Ladies should never bet ; for far exceeding what, had they had colonial experience, week before the magistrates at Sandbach with the murder JULLIEN'S CONCERT.-M. Jullien will give the first of
6' always a large supply of leeches on his hands." though it may turn a man into a Better, it invariably they ought to have expected from men comfortably Inds- of her new born male illegitimate child, on the sth inst., his farewell concerts previous to his departure for America
makes a woman worse. pendent at home. The college, church endowments, by throwing it into a pit. It seems that she had been on Friday night next, at the Philharmonic Hall. The
" WELL, JOHN, I am going east; what shall I tell your
deans, prebendaries, bishops, clergy a discrOion,.a.t £2OO
folks?" " Oh, nothing • only if they say anything about A GOOD CHALK HEAD.-A youth with a turn for - strongly suspected of the crime by her mistress, Mrs. programme is an effective one, and we trust that his
whiskers, just tell them I've got some." figures had five eggs to boil, and being told to give them a-year, with gees , parsonages, and sundry other illusions, Barker, and was sent home to her father's, when she reception among us, before quitting our shores for those
have all for the present faded into thin air. Yet much
three minutes each, boiled them a quarter-of-an-hour confessed, and told where the body was to be found. She of the new world, will be such as will give him a prestige
MRS. HARRIS says she has the most obedient children of promise had been done, and with very small means. was fully committed for trial to Chester, on the capital of the success awaiti his skill and talent on the other
altogether. ng
in the world. All they want is to have their own way. , Mr. Godley has surprisingly well turned to account an charge. side the Atlantic.
"Don't cross them," she says, " and they won't cross ADVICE TO POPULARITY-HUNTERS.-If the trade of annual local income utterly insignificant in comparison to
nobody." philanthropy should tail at home, the friend of his specie the end to be gained, and, by directing his attention very MARRIAGE OF LADY OCTAVIA GROSVENOR.-It is PHILHARMONIC CONCERT.-The eighth of this season's
had better go to the Diggings. e• r ported that the nuptials of this lady,the eldest unmarried concerts took place on Tuesday evening last, when the
MR. PARTINGTON says the only way to prevent steam- earnestly to the subject of education and religion, Jdi-
daughter of the Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster, only novelty produced was Herr Nabicla whose perform-
boat explosions is to make the engineers "bile their water PREDICTION FOR ,jui,y,-A foreign ruler bows to cir- cloudy devoting to them a share of the sums that another
with Sir Michael Shaw Stewart, Bart., will take place at antes on the trombone have been pronounced wonderful,
ashore. In her opinion all the bustin' is caused by cumstances, and if he bows too low, his crown may fall off. would, perhaps, have spent entirely on what are called
St. George's Church, Hanover-square, this day (Tuesday). and who, on this occasion, fully sustained his previous
"cooking the steam" on board. A revolution spirit is stirred abroad by some spoons. But in too restricted a sense, " public works," has, I feel con-
there are spoons also of King's Pattern and by these a fident securely laid the foundation of a higher moral cha- the 28th instant. Sir Michael Robert Shaw Stewart, reputation. His tones are soft and exceedingly distinct,
THE SUSCEPTIBILITIES or FOREIGNERS.-Orders legitimist
stir _ ' ' ' ' •
may be attempted. Let diplomatists look ratter for the population of Canterbury, than
Lave been given by the Lord Chamberlain, that the Battle• •
to the River Plate. other settlements in the Australian seas. It is very gra.
of Waterloo is never to be performed again at Astley's, for and is seventeenth in direct succession from Robert the his shake being remarkable for the perfection and clear-
fear of wounding the susceptibilities of foreigners. HISTORICAL.-King John was crowned four times-on tifying that so early there should be within reasonable
Third, King of Scotland. The Baronetcy was created by ness of its tone, every note being produced with the
the principle, perhaps-that four crowns make a sovereign.walking distance of each settler (squatters of course ex-
INTELLIGENCE EXTRA.-The officer who arrested the
man's attention has been prometed ; the man who was THE custom of eating goose on Michaelmas Day has David, and in the second part a sort of " pot pourri,"
ordained clergyman, in fact, that none of the ministrations BARTHOMLEY.-The beautiful old parish Church here
hurt by a burst of applause is recovering ; and the indiyi- puzzled the sage, nor has any light been thrown on it by
of his church can be wanting to any who desire to benefit was re-opened for public worship on Sunday last, the 19th including airs from Lucia, Frank Abt's " Parting," &c.
dual who was injured by the accidental discharge of his the onions.
by them in a time of need and distress ; while at Christ- instant, after considerable restoration. The Bishop of He was well received by the audience. Mrs. Newton,
duty is still very low. , A HINT Fon. THE BALL-ROOM.-However familiar you church and Lyttelton the services are performed as orderly Chester preached in the afternoon. The ladies of the Miss Eyles, and Mr. Lockerby were severally deservedly
AT A RECENT SALE, the auctioneer, while expatiating ' may be with your partner, never approach her as an old and are as well attended (indeed better) than in most parish are co-operating with the Rector's daughters (the encored.
on the merits of a telescope, poetically observed, " How acquaintance. Your doing so would be an offence no lady English country towns with the same number of inhabit. Rev. E. Duncombe) to raise a fund for an ornamental east THEATRE ROYAL.-The performances at this theatre
often has the widow's heart leaped for joy when she has I could forgive. ants. About eighty children here, and one hundred at window in the projected new chancel, and also for the have been admirably adapted to the holiday season ;-the
observed her husband, at a distance, brought near to her 1 WIDE AWAKE.-A good lady at Peckham refused to Christchurch, regularly attend the schools. I consider new windows in the south aisle. They were designed pantomime especially-" Three Legs, King of Man ;or
by such an instrument as this !" i let her daughter dance with a young Cambridge man, be. that the affording a regular course of instruction to such under very limited order as to cost, by Frank Howard, Harlequin Lord Stanlie, and the Eagle and Child," which
WHEN ROBESPIERRE had been guillotined at Paris, a 1 cause she understood he' was a Bachelor of Arts. numbers, commencing from the first month or two (I be- Esq., for Messrs. Pilkington, of St. Helen's glass works, is as splendid in all its scenery and dresses, and as skilful
Garcon in the French army thus expressed the dread he GREAT NAUTICAL DISCOVERY.-No one can be alone lieve) after the arrival of the first body of settlers, is a and Messrs. Pilkington finding it impossible to execute the in all its tricks and transformations as was that produced
had entertained of that tyrant. "As often as the name of !in a ship-there is always the Companion Ladder. service rendered to the colony, than which none could be whole satisfactorily for the amount, most liberally gave the last year, and is likely to prove as popular. Owing, how-
Robespierre was mentioned to me, I used to take off my M,ISSIONARY PERILS.-There are some natives that more important, or in a higher degree creditable to the deficiency. ever, to the late hour at which the entertainment con-
last, in order to see if my head was in it." association and its agent ; nor, by comparison, reflecting A FEMALE HOUSEBREAKER.-For some weeks past eluded, we are unable to give any detailed notice of the
1 wont believe a word of the sermon, but will swallow the more discreditably on the Government as regards the old numerous burglaries have been committed in the neigh- " merry conceits" which have been so admirably dished
RAPID BUILDING.-" How rapidly they build houses ' preacher. settlements of New Zealand, where no educational plan of bourhood of Newton, Cheshire, but no clue could be up for us till next week.
now," said Cornelius to an old acquaintance, as he pointed ' A FAST MAN is like a glass of champagne-directly he a general character has to this day been carried out. found to the perpetrators. Yesterday morning week, PARK THE ATRE.-This tasteful theatre attracted
to a neat two story house ; " they commenced that build-
1 begins to settle he gets flat. " Unlike what you knew Auckland, Wellington, and however, lights were observed by Mrs. Tetlow, in the a large attendance last evening, the chief attraction being
ing only last week, and they are already
"putting in the !
LEGAL.-A Writ of Execution may be tested on the New Plymouth-places cramped up within a dozen or chamber of her son's house, at an hour when she knew the amusing pantomime produced under the direction of
lights.' " Yes," rejoined his friend, next week they I
will put in the liver."-Canadian Mail. 1 day it is issued ; but it is regularly de-tested on the day fifteen miles' range-' the plains' are covered with scat- that the proper occupants were from home. Search was Mr. Boleno-the celebrated clown-entitled " Legende
when it is put in force. tered settlers from the sea to the mountains, a distance of accordingly made, and a woman named Mary Humphreys of ye Fayre Mayde of Toxteth and of Leverpole, its Trustie
" The candles you sold me last were very bad," said 1 fifty miles east and west, and from their north extreme was found concealed in the coal hole, while a quantity of Squire." Respecting the admirable way in which this has
A PARADOX.-As , . _OX --is ugly as a witch is a proverbial saying • • •
Suett to a tallow-chandler. " Indeed, sir, lam sorry for 1 ' (30 miles north of Lyttelton) to the river Cholmondeley bed linen, and other articles, lay in various parts of the been placed before the audience, we must reserve our yet the Lancashire witches are the finest women in re-
that."Eng. " Yes, sir, do you know they burnt to the middle(Rakaia), about 25 or 30 south, or over some 3,000 square house, ready for removal. Tbe burglar had with her a marks till our next.
' d lan, whilst it is not the fact that the smartest men are to
and would then burn no longer." " Good gracious, you miles. This, of course, does not include those outside the crowbar and other housebreaking implements. She was
be found in the county of Bucks. RETIREMENT OF MR. BARTLEY.-Another histrionic
surprise me ; what sir, did they go out ?" " No, sir, no, , Canterbury Block, who straggle away as far north as Kai- promptly taken into custody, and has since been corn-
they burnt shorter." 41. star has fallen from the dramatic firmament. On Satur.
kora, 80 or 90 miles north of Lyttelton. Of these 300 witted for trial at Chester assizes. day Mr. Bartley, the veteran Falstaff' of the stage, bade
SHEEP IN BOOTS.-As the late continued rain, and ' THE Pore's LEGACY.-I'm not goin' to grudge it to square miles, one-fifth or m0re(550,000 acres) is occupied
ACCIDENT ON THE SHREWSBURY AND CHESTER RAIL- a final adieu, at the Prince's Theatre, to the footlights,
consequently wet pastures, may be productive of great the blessedest potintate on airth ; but, my song, that was by sbeepowners at this moment. At the stations a num.
WAY.-On Wednesday last, the afternoon train from and left behind him-nothing but a name. -
loss of sheep to farmers, from foot-rot, it may be of use no foolish Christmas-box, in the shape of a legacy-that her of the gentlemen settlers themselves reside, besides Shrewsbury at 3.20 for Chester, ran into a train of coal
to suggest some kind of boots for the sheep, cast in gutta £50,000 they say the late Lord Shrewsbury left to the which they receive, either as amateur learners, working and lime-trucks, coming out of the mineral branch of the
percha, which could be confined by an elastic band or tin ' Pope. Notwithstandin his ,I-gauge, I'm thiultio' " Pio" and learning without receiving or giving remuneration, or Shrewsbury and Chester Railway, at the Wheat-sheaf TABULAR ALMANACK FOR 1553.
at the top. The boots must be made at least as high as did'nt say " No-no" to that bequest, and bedad, 'tis aas bona fide stockmen, many young men, gentlemen's Junction, near Wrexham. Fortunately the engine-driver
the second joint, to prevent the water getting into them.- step-mother would blame him ! I'll be bound, beteune sons. with little or no means. saw the the danger, and, by shutting off the steam and apply-
Gardener's Chronicle. ourselves, that be has his own poor relations-not to "The safety of this harbour may be called in question ine the reak, the force of the collision was much broken, The use of the subjoined Tabular View of the Months,
mintion havin' to send, far and near, for frogs of a shu- some..day in your
.presence. Not. less than'.ls 000 tons of -
Weeks, and Days for the Year 1853, will be at once ap-
CURE OF SNAKE BITES.-Three boys were recently ' none oft he passengers at all injured, and only the pas-
payrior flavor, whenever he enthertains the Frinch shipping entered it fast year without a pilot (coasters not
bitten in the hand by a copper-head snake, near Liberty, senger engine-driver very slightly bruised. Several of the
marshals, besides dhrenchin"em with wine-the real bees' included), the majority of them strangers and without parent ; for instance, the 12th of January falls on a
Va, (U. S.) Their hands in a few minutes commenced trucks of lime and coal were knocked off the line on both
wing-and providin"em the means o' risen a fog about charts. Two vessels of about 200 tons were wrecked in
swelling, when a physician dosed them with liquor until the up and down rails, but a strong body of the corn- Wednesday, hence the table not only presents in the
that they drifted from , em of deliket-scinted tobaccy-smoke !-Terry Driscoll. it last winter, but it is remarkable '
pany's servants being quickly on the spot, the obstruction
they were drunk, and they shortly recovered. A negro in
their berths with an off-shore wind blowing down the vertical line under that head the date of every Wednes-
the same vicinity was bitten by a copper-head, and in the GALLANTRY OF FRENCH SAILORS.-Mr.Scott, English was removed, and the passenger-train proceeded, after
day in that and succeeding months, but also, at one
harbour from S.W. They were not anchored in the fair
course of half an-hour he drank a quart of whiskey, and consul at Bordeaux, has written a letter, in which he way, nor in the proper holding ground. The ' fetch' forir a delay of about an hour and a half.
glance, in other columns, the figures corresponding
recovered from the effects of the bite. speaks in terms of the highest commendation of the SEAMEN'S CASE.-Ten sailors, of the names of Thos.
a sea to get up is only three-and-a-half miles. No acci-
THE PUFF INDIRECT.-The ingenuity of a woman, and captain of the French schooner, the Josephine, of Bay. dent has yet happened to any vessel with a gale blowing Clarke, William Cooper, John Smith, William Jackson, with every day throughout the Year.
that woman a Yankee, could alone have struck out an I onne, for having, a few days ago, in spite of a tempestuous right in from the N.E. The harbours on the north side Dennis Lilley, William Robinson, Thomas Haw, P. A. -
4' avenue" to notoriety like the following, taken from an sea, sent his boat to the schooner Richard and Ann, of of the peninsula are all safe to make, as you have good Stewart, R. Jones, and Patrick Hutchinson, were brought 1
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advertisement in the New York Tribune :-" If the lady Plymouth, which was dismasted, and in great distress in soundings 10 and 14 miles out (a rare thing upon New before Mr. John Jackson, at Birkenhead, on Friday last, e ea ea 7 e ' 1 'a a: es
in the fourth avenue stage, on last Friday, who was eating the Gulf of Gascony, and for having thereby saved the five Zealand coasts, except at the north) gradually shoaling in charged with refusing to proceed to sea in the Mary Caro. - 0I a e a n 43 1 s'.! '-' _ells 'a es, 4
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a package of Mrs. Jervis's Cold Candy, and expressed persons who composed the crew. The Richard and Ann shore. line, having signed articles to sail in her. The Mary Ca. e c `sis) -e e, 7 E ' so e se .. aas a
cae e = a
herself to a friend as being benefited by its use, will had been tossing about for ten days, and three days before oTo make up for the want of wood, coal of a better roline was then lying off the Sloyne, bound for Mobile. ..e. -_.9, a -,... ,= 'l.-- cc 1
7.: 4E. ~... ~, ..., 4 ra E-2, L.
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address a note to Mr. R. K., Broadway Post-office, she the Frenchmen went to her relief a foreign ship, belong- quality than any I have yet seen in New Zealand, except- Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co., are her' agents. The ten I
will hear of something to her advantage." ing, it is supposed, to some foreign port, passed close to men in custody form not quite half of the crew, and about - -
ing only the Waikato coal, has been found in an accessi-
her without offering any assistance, and, to prevent herself 1 2
INTERESTING DISCOVERY.-A beautifully-executed ble spot, and is now being worked on trial. Limestone, nine o'clock on the preceding morning, when the vessel Jan.
~ 1 July.
from being known, covered the name of her stern. was about to sail out of the river, they refused to proceed 231 4 5 i 8 3,456 i 7 8 9
fresco has been discovered in Exeter Cathedral. It de- of course, is in contiguity with it. The discovery is one
picts our Saviour as risen from the tomb, holding a tro- ' GIRLS AT PLAY.-There is hardly another sight so of vast importance to such an immense district bare of in her, alleging that she made water fast, and that it would 9 10111 12 13114 15 , 10 11 12 13114 1516;
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zier in his left hand, and in the act of giving the benedic- ' pretty as that of a company of young girls, almost women forest, and when population becomes tolerably dense, it be dangerous to proceed to sea in such a vessel. The
tion with the right. Altogether about fourteen figures grown, at play, and so giving themselves up to their airy will bring an immense accession to the wealth of the set- captain admitted that when in dock she made 2 feet 11 23 24'25126 27 28 29 24 25 26 27:28 29 30
are visible, comprehending the principal persons men- impulse, that their tip-toes barely touch the ground. tlement. Evidently this coal, from the geology of the inches of water in 26 hours, but that she could he freed 30 31 31
tioned in the sacred narrative, while the city of Jerusalem Girls are incomparably wilder and more effervescent than plain, as far as lam acquainted with it, is to be found at by the pumps in 15 minutes, and that no danger was in- -
is the chief object in the background. Below this are boys, more untameable, and regardless of rule or limit, a greater or less depth all along the lower hills, at the base curred by going out in her. Mr. Cooke, superintendent Feb. 123 4 5 Aug.
6 7, 8 910 11 12 1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 910'11 12 13
evidently the remains of another mural painting. with an ever-shifting variety breaking continually into new of the mountain chain. of pilots, who had examined the vessel, went into details
13 14115 16 17 18 19 el
14 15 16 1s IS 19 20
WEALTHY AMERICAN.-The Boston Mail says the modesof fun, yet withan harmonious propriety through all. " I will only say in conclusion that this is the first set- as to the construction of the ship, with a view to prove
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yearly income of Eben Francis, a rich citizen of Boston, Their steps, their voices, appear free as the wind, but keep tlement I have been resident in in New Zealand which I that no danger need be apprehended to those sailing in
would buy twelve hundred farms. His income, six per consonance with a strain of music inaudible to us. Young have ever felt unhesitatingly satisfied to recommend as fit her. Mr. Jackson contended that a vessel making water 27 28 28 29 30131
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cent on the entire wealth, would amount, daily, to more men and boys, on the other hand, play, according to recog- for a man to risk (shall I say risk ?) his capital in, or for in. dock was no proof that she was not seaworthy, and told 1
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than the wages of two hundred hard working men. His nised law, old traditionary games, permitting no caprices a woman of refined tastes and educated mind to come to tpe men he should commit them if they persisted in re- Mar.
6 7! 8 910 11 12 4 5 6 7 8 910
with the hope of speedily being surrounded. by more. of fusing to proceed to sea. The latter accepted the alter-
income would buy a bottle of schneider or a pair of boots of fancy, but with scope enough for the outbreak ofl3 14:15 16 17 18 19 11 12 13 14 15 16117
every three minutes. Every breath, the old man is worth savage instincts-for, young or old, in play or in earnest, elegance and comfort, and friends befitting her station, native, and were committed to prison for thirty days.
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another ninepence. His enormous capital commands the man is prone to be a brute. than in the same space of time she could expect in any
other settlement in New Zealand. And a weighty con- I
toil of one thousand labourers and mechanics yearly, to HEALTH ASSURANCE.-An Indian paper tells a good HORTICULTURE. sideration in regard to females influences my opinion. It I
-
pay the interest. story of a thin, cadaverous-looking chap, a German, April 1 2 Oct. 1
is that the chance, at all times possible in the north, of a
SHAKSPERE'S NAME.-In the council-book of the about fifty years old, who poked his nose into the office of war with Maories-fruits of the labour of half a life being -_-_..... 34,56 7 8 9 2345 6 7 8
ccrporation of Stratford, the name of the poet's father a Health Insurance Company, and held with. the agent the
in one night swept clean away, and a whole family ruined OPERATIONS FOR THE WEEK. 16 11112 13 14 15 16 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
occurs 166 times, under fourteen different modes of ortho- following amusing colloquy :-" Ish te man in vot insures
-is here as one to tens of thousands. In no other part of Stove, Conservatory, Greenhouse, &c.-The plants in 17 18,49 20 21 22 23 16 17118 19 20 21 22
graphy, viz.:- de peeples helts ?" The agent politely answered, " I at-• • •
New Zealand would I have wished, with all the delight a these departments have suffered much during the long 24 25'26 27 28 29 30 23 24125 26 27 28 29
tend to that business, sir." "Veil, I vents my belts in- .30 11
1 Shackesper ...... 4 8 Shakspeyr ...... 17 shared ; you la' >" " Different ' vot sc arge . prices," answered a'ater's society would bring me, to have them join me." season of wet gloomy weather we. have lately had, and
Shackespere .... 3 9 Shakyspere - - -
2the agent, " from three to ten dollars a-year ; pay ten
3 Shacksper ...... 4 10 Shakysper ...... 4 dollars a-year, and you get ten dollars a week in case of THE RETIRING LORD CHANCELLOR. - Thepractical knowledge has been essential to the welfare of May 12314 5 6 7 Nov.
~. 1 2 3 4 5
8 910 11 12 13 14 6 i 8 910 11,12
4 Shackspere
sickness." " `belly" said mynheer, " I vents ten dollars portance of the following provision in one of the new 15 16 17118 19 20 211 13 14 15 16 17 IS 19
5 Shakespere ..... . 13 12 Shaxper ........ The&c., well carried on, have alone preserved our conserve- i
vort." agent inquired his state of health. "Veil, I Chancery acts (15 and 16 Victoria, cap. 80) will be felt 22 23 24'25 26 27 28' 20 21V22 23124 25,26
6 Shaksper .
Shakspere - tent evils, mildew and the various fungoid nuisances of 29 30 31 27 28'29 301
hours a toy, unt de doctor says he cant do noting more cellor :-Section 60. " Whereas it has frequently the arden. Judicious arrangement of the few plants in
MODERN PHRASES.-An American paper says :-" We goot for me." "If that's the state of your health," re- happened that after cases have been fully heard by the
g
flower is all that can now be suggested. June 1 2 3 4 Dec. 1 2 3
are, indeed, a happy, elegant, moral, transcendent people• turned the agent, "we can't insure it. We only insure Lord Chancellor in the Court of Chancery, and are 5 6 7 8 910 11 4 5 6 7 8 910
We have no masters, they are all principals; no shopmen, persons who are in good health." At this mynheer standing for judgment, the Lord Chancellor has delivered 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 11 12 13,14 1511617
Flower Gardens.-Avoid any work except mere cleaning
they are assistants ;no shops, they are all establishments; bristled up in great anger. " You must tink I'm a fool ; up the great seal without being able, by reason of other from dead leaves, &c., while the Soil is sodden with wet.
no servants, they are all 'helps ;' no gaolers, they are all vot you tink I come to pay you ten dollars for inshure urgent public business, to deliver judgment therein, and Nothing will be gained by working now ; but great evil 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 18 19120 21 22,23 24
26 27 28 29 30 25 26'27 28 29'30'31
governors ; nobody is flogged in bridewell, he merely re- my belts ven Ivos cell ."' much inconvenience and expense to the parties has been would most likely be the result of trampling the wet
ceives the correction of the house ; nobody is unable to pay thereby occasioned ; in remedy thereof, be it enacted that ground. Look well to the frames, give plenty of air, and -
CHURCH SPIRES.-Much of the beauty of Gothic
his debts, he is only unable to meet his engagements ; no- in every case it shall be lawful for the person who has so wherever mildew makes its appearance, dust the plants
CONVICTION FOR MURDER.-At the High Court of
churches depends upon the proportion of spire to tower ; 11 with " flower of sulphur. '
body is angry, he is only excited ; nobody is cross, he is delivered up the great seal, within six weeks after he shall we- _s• Justiciary, Edinburgh, on Thursday, a pensioner named
but the extreme difference existing in this respect between
only nervous ; lastly, nobody is drunk, the very utmost
different buildings, leads me to suspect that no law has have delivered up the same, to give to the registrar of the Kitchen Garden.-Opportunities may be taken for George Christie, belonging to Aberdeen, was charged with
you can assert is, the,: he has taken his wine.' " been observed in the adjustment of any. A law, however, said court a written judgment therein, signed by him, and Pruning and nailing fruit trees, but this is best done in the murder of an aged widow, named Ross, and her grand.
TN ENGLAND. every man's cottage is held to be his there certainly a,,,s he . let „s discover_ if we can. weet a decree or order, as the case may require, shall be dry weather. child, a boy of about five years of age, at Sunnybank,

IN ENGLAND, every man's cottage is held to be his
castle, which he is authorised to defend even against the
assault of the King ; but it may be doubted whether the
same privilege extends to Ireland. "My client," said an
Irish advocate, pleading before Lord Norbury, in an action
of trespass, " is a poor man—he lives in a hovel—and this
miserable dwelling is in a forlorn and dilapidated state ;
but still, thank God ! the labourer's cottage, however
ruinous its plight, is his sanctuary and his castle. Yes—
the winds may enter it, and the rain may enter it, but the
King cannot enter it." " What ! not the raining King ?"
asked the joke-loving judge.
A FEW PROVERBS BY MR. BRIFFLESS. Half
guinea earned is nothing saved.—Misfortunes seldom come
alone. (I see three of my creditors through my keyhole.)
—Experience makes those fools, my creditors, too wise.—
Pay as you go, but if you can't pay it is no use going.—lf
it is right to make a virtue of necessity, my necessities
should load me with virtues.—Possession is nine points
out of ten, and self-possession is the other.—Fortune
knocks once at every man's door, but misfortune is knock-
ing at mine with a bill in its hand all day long.—Custom
is said to be second nature ; but my custom is the cause of
nothing but ill-nature on the part of my tradesmen.

CHURCH SPIRES.—Much of the beauty of Gothic
churches depends upon the proportion of spire to tower ;
but the extreme difference existing i❑ this respect between
different buildings, leads me to suspect that no law has
been observed in the adjustment of any. A law, however,
there certainly must be : let us discover, if we can, what
it is. It has ever been my impression that a spire cannot
be the mere crowning or finish of a tower, but the principal
feature in the composition. I believe that the introduction
of a spire degrades the tower to the rank of a pedestal,
and that the latter must therefore in form and size be
adapted to a new office, viz., that of supporting, elevat-
ting, and giving dignity to the spire, which, being com-
plete in itself, calls for the tower as a basement : in other
words, it must be an imperfect tower, i. e. a tower which,
divested of its spire, would be seen to be incomplete, that
must be asssciated with the spire. Certain lam that a
spire on a complete tower, a tower perfect in its fully-de-
veloped proportions, that would satisfy the eye as a tower,
can never appear anything, but an incumbrance to it, a
thing to mar its beauty. To give the spire that effect of
grandeur of which it is capable, it must be made the chief
feature in the group, and be placed on a tower merely to
raise it above the roofs of the church.—Correspondent of
the Builder.

CHILDREN AND THEIR INFLUENCE.—Nearer to glory
they stand than we, in this world and the next. It was a
gentle and not unholy fancy that made the Portuguese
artist, Siquiera, in one of his sweet pictures, form of
millions of infant faces the flood of heaven; dividing it
thus from the vault beneath, with its groups of the damned
and lost. For how many women has this image been
realised ! How many have been saved from despair and
sin by the voice and smile of those unconscious little ones ?
The woman who is a mother dwells in the immediate
presence of guardian angels. She will bear on for her
children's sake. She will toil for them—die for them—
live for them—which is sometimes harder still. The neg-
lected, miserable, maltreated wife has still one bright spot
in her home ; in that darkness a watchlight burns—she
has her children's love—she will strive for her children.
The woman tempted by passion has still one safeguard
stronger than all with which you would surround her—
she will not leave her children. The angry and out-
raged woman sees in their tiny features a pleading more
eloquent than words ; her wrath against her husband
melts in the sunshine of their eyes. Idiots are they who,
in family quarrels, seek to punish the mother, by parting
her from her offspring ; for in that blasphemy against
nature they do violence to God's own decrees, and lift
away from her heart the consecrated instruments of His
power. The fact that there are careless and unnatural
mothers does not destroy the argument. So there are
men who are murderers—children who are monsters.
Nature makes exceptions to all her great unswerving
rules ; but rules they will remain to the end of time. And
among them none more general, more mighty, more un-
failing, than the mother for her child.

THE RETIRING LORD CHANCELLOR.—The in-
portance of the following provision in one of the new
Chancery acts (15 and 16 Victoria, cap. 80) will be felt
on the retirement of Lord St. Leonards as Lord Chan-
cellor :—Section 60. " Whereas it has frequently
happened that after cases have been fully heard by the
Lord Chancellor in the Court of Chancery, and are
standing for judgment, the Lord Chancellor has delivered
up the great seal without being able, by reason of other
urgent public business, to deliver judgment therein, and
much inconvenience and expense to the parties has been
thereby occasioned ; in remedy thereof, be it enacted that
in every case it shall be lawful for the person who has so
delivered up the great seal, within six weeks after he shall
have delivered up the same, to give to the registrar of the
said court a written judgment therein, signed by him, and
a decree or order, as the case may require, shall be
drawn up in pursuance of such judgment, and every such
decree or order shall have the same force and effect as if
the judgment in pursuance whereof it is drawn up had
been given in open court the day before he shall have so
delivered up the great seal."
THE LATE REV. GEORGE B. SANDFORD, M.A.—On
the 9th instant, the Rev. George Benjamin Sandford,
M.A., vicar of Church Minshull, near Middlewich,
breathed his last at Southport, in consequence of an
attack of erratic gout which flew to the brain. He was
for many years a faithful parish priest, and was greatly
beloved by his parishioners and by all others who knew
him. He was an occasional contributor to the volumes of
the Historic Society, one of which contains an important
paper of his, giving an account of his own parish. It was
printed as a specimen of the valuable contributions which
the local clergy might make, from time to time, from the
materials within their own reach. At the last meeting of
the society, a valuable book of Mr. Sandford's was
exhibited, consisting of an alphabetical arrangement of
all his parochial registers during a period of nearly three
hundred rears. Mr. Sandford was the author of several
works on theology and general literature, the last of
which was produced during the present year,—" An
attempt to illustrate the chronology of the Old Testament
by a reference to the year of Jubilee."

DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—Mr. John Gwynne, of the
Boughton Arms, Peterchurch, died on Saturday, at the
Seven Stars Inn, Cleonger, from injuries received on the
previous Thursday. The deceased had left the Dog Inn,
Blackmarston, about midnight on Wednesday, and had
not gone further than Newton-bridge, when either the
horse he was riding threw him out of the saddle, or he
slipped down, and, his feet being:held in the stirrups, he
was in this manner dragged for a distance of three miles
to the Bowling-green turnpike, where he was found lying
in the road at a quarter to five o'clock on Thursday
morning by a man who was going to work. The horse
was standing near to him, with stirrup-leather and iron
from the " off" side hanging over the saddle on the "near"
side. The man took hold of his shoulder and spoke to
him, but he made no answer ; he was taken to the Seven
Stars and undressed, when a dreadful wound was found
on his right shoulder, caused by the friction, and he died
on Saturday. Deceased was a widower, aged 48 years,
and has left two children.—Hereford Journal.

CONVICT]
Justiciary,
George Chri
the murder
child, a boy
Kitty brews)
He was sent

Edinburgh, on Thursday, a pensioner named
istie, belonging to Aberdeen, was charged with
of an aged widow, named Ross, and her grand-
of about five years of age, at Sunnybank,
ter, near Aberdeen, on the 4th of October last.
tenced to be executed on 13th January.

CHRISTA!
don on Girl
festivities of

MASCULINE AND FEMININE.—There are certain
nouns with which notions of strength, vigour, and the
like qualities, are more particularly connected ; and these
are the neuter substantives which are figuratively rendered
masculine. On the
other hand, beauty, amiability, and
so forth, are held to invest words with a feminine charac-
ter. Thus the sunis said to be masculine, and the moon
feminine. But for our own part, and our view is confirmed
by the discoveries of astronomy, we believe that the sun
is called masculine from his supporting and sustaining the
moon, and finding her the wherewithal to shine away as
she does of a night when all quiet people are in bed ; and
from his being obliged to keep such a family of stars be-
sides. The moon, we think, is accounted feminine be-
cause she is thus maintained and kept up in her splendour,
like a fine lady, by her husband, the sun. Furthermore,
the moon is continually changing ; on which account
alone she might be referred to the feminine gender. 'lhe
earth is feminine, tricked out as she is with gems and
flowers. Cities and towns are likewise feminine, because
there are as many windings, turnings, and little odd cor-
tiers in them as there are in the femt i
le mind. A ship s
feminine, inasmuch as she is blown about by every wind.
Virtue is feminine by courtesy. Fortune and misfortune,
like mother and (laughter, are both feminine. The church
is feminine because she is married to the State ; or mar-
ried to the State because she is feminine—we do not know
which. Time is masculine, because he is so trifled with
by the ladies.—Comic English Grammar.

'AS FlRES.—Several fires took place in Lon-
istmas day, causing a sad interruption to the
f the season. Amongst the sufferers were the

following :—Mr. Maybury, hairTdresser, 52, 'Wapping
High-street ; Mr. C. Holmes, dairyman, 185, Union-
street, Southwark ; Mr. R. Stain, tinman, 6, Britannia-
row, Islington ; Mr. R. Parritt, draper, 120, Great
Suffolk-street, Borough ; the Ragged School, No. 138
arch, under the South-Eastern Railway, Bermondsey ;
Mr. C. Case, cab-proprietor, Old-street, St. Luke's;
and Mr. W. Berry, 48. Old Baily.

A MODERN ROMANCE.—A short distance from Reading
resides a respectable family, one member of which is an
accomplished and pretty daughter. About three weeks
ago the mother and daughter came to Reading on busi-
ness, and put up at one of the hotels, at which was re-
siding a gentleman who had recently left the army. The
gentleman, by his agreeable deportment, made a favour-
impression on the daughter, and she became enamoured
of this Lothario. This coming to the parents' ears, they
waited upon the gentleman, and asked him his intentions.
Ile said at once that he was about to depart for Australia
—that lie was not in a position to marry—in fact, that he
could scarcely keep himself. Her parents kept her in
close confinement until she promised to banish all thoughts
of him, and she was released on making this promise.
The morning after she was liberated she attired herself in
a suit of her brother's clothes, and put a gown over them.
She left the house on pretence of having a walk, but at
once made her way to Reading, took off the gown and
bonnet, and threw them over a hedge into a field. In
this disguise she went to the hotel and asked for the gen-
tleman, and presented a note, which ran thus :—" Dear
G—, you will find me in the street, dressed in man's
attire, walking up and down. Do come. Ever yours,
B—." The ex-military gentleman said there was no
answer, on being told which the young lady said, " Oh, but
it is imperative ; I must have one !" The deception was
then discovered. She has since bitterly repented her
folly, and the hero is now on his way to Australia.—
Berkshire Chronicle.

MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF A YOUNG LADY.
On Tuesday, information was received of the mysterious
disappearance of a young lady, of high connexions, who
resided near Eaton-square, London. She went out
for a walk on Thursday, the 16th inst., and took the
omnibus at the end of Sloane-street, Chelsea, and
although every exertion has been made to trace the
fugitive, no tidings have been heard of her. The follow.
ing is the description of her i--Initials on linen are " K.
I. Q." about 18 years of age, but looks older ; dressed in
a coarse straw bonnet, lined and trimmed with blue,
edged with black velvet, with a wreath of pink daisies ;
sage-coloured merino dress, black cloth-paletot, with
brown parasol ; high .heeled black kid hoots ; gold ring,
with green stone, which she wore on her right hand. She
had with her also a brown paper parcel, containing a plaid
silk dress. Her height is about 5 feet 4 inches, dark
hair, pale complexion.
SIR GAMMER VANS.—The following piece of nonsense
went the rounds of the United States newspapers about 21
years ago. It was intended to burlesque Mr. Van Buren's
letter resigning the office of Secretary of State, which his
political opponents denounced as rather obscure and in.
comprehensible Dear Sir,—The great moving spring
of atheistical principles, predicated and promulgated by
the influence of Popish superstition, could not be more
gratified than Jeptlia was when he was commander, under
the influence of the Providence of the mail-packet coming
in contact with belles lettres. That class of persons who
are never intrusted with anything should be careful what
use they make of it, for it is a well-known fact that the
heterogeneous matter, compounding with a sour stomach,
renders the garment unfit for use ; therefore, buff vests
are fittest for the rising generation, especially when damp-
ness does not conspire to prevent horticulture from
springing up amidst the 'vapours of enthusiasm, which could
not have inspired genius with Junitts's Letters, although
might have had e hand iu inlnziog Gibbs the pirate."

APPLICATION OF A CURIOUS PHYSIOLOGICAL DISCO-
VERY.-It has long been known to physiologists that
certain colouring matters, if administered to animals
along with their food, possessed the property of entering
into the system and tinging the bones. In this way the
bones of swine have been tinged purple by madder, and
instances are on record of other animals being similarly
affected. No attempt, however, was made to turn this
beautiful discovery to account until lately, when Mons.
Roulin speculated on what might be the consequences of
administering coloured articles of food to silkworms just
before they began spinning their cocoons. His first ex-
periments were conducted with indigo, which he mixed in
certain proportions with the mulberry leaves, serving the
worms for food. The result of this treatment was suc-
cessful ; he obtained blue cocoons. Prosecuting still fur-
ther his experiments, he sought a red colouring matter
capable of being eaten by the silkworms without injury
resulting. He had some difficulty to find such a colour-
ing matter at first, but eventually alighted on the .13?fino-
nia cliica. Small portions of this plant having been added
to the mulberry leaves, the silkworms consumed the
mixture, and produced red-coloured silk. In this man-
ner the experimenter, who is still prosecuting his re-
searches, bores to obtain silk as secreted by the worm of
many other colours.—Morning Chronicle.