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London, England, 1826-11-27 00:00:00

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FROM' THE LITERARY SOUVENIR, 701 1827.
sr *u am riusas uosslow.

Hail, solemn register of hopes and fears,
Record divine of maa's uncertain rue;
How does thy page recall oar smiles sod slams...
Each blooming promise and each Withering grace !

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Yet all the varied picture points to thee, .
Poor, lost Mooing.% ! on thy noptialday,
Tom happy train In bridal white I see,
Strewing with rosy wreaths the village way I
I hear the holy words that made thee hie
Who loved thee long mark thee kneel spin,
To thank thy MAzza for a mother's bass,
And vow thy child to Heaves. Ah, pleasures vain !
Ah, fading Bowmen of dim ! another year
And, lo! beside*/ bed the sorrowing Priest
lends in calm aildi.owl soon the dark7plumed bier
.Vacs silence iiiindb end speaks a soul released!

Whet ray of joy as Y lone journey gleams,
Whoa:breaking kat resigned thee to thy Goo?
The thought, that when our Sun withdraws its beams,
It lives and glitters in some far abodo—.,
The trust that when those beams shall shoe no more,
Has vanished light in other waft all wake;
With Hoe shall wonder and with. Hos adore,
Rest in one mansion for their SAvsous's sake!

COLONIAL CURRENCY.

(From the Gibraltar Cluvnide of November 2).
PROCLAMATION.
LIT HIS ZICELLINCY. lee•
In virtue of instructions received froth the Right Hon.
Earl Bathurst, one of his Majesty's Principal Seem,
tanks of State, it is hereby ordered and directed, chit]
henceforward the several provisions of the order of bib
Majesty in Council, of the 2Sd of ?starch, 1825, regard-
ing the metallic currency of the Colonies, so far as the'
same apply to this ganis .n and territory, shall be,
strictly observed and enforced; and that in the liqui-
dation and payments of all debts and engagements, a
tender and payment of Biitish silver money, to the
amount of 4s. 4d. shall be considered as equivalent to
the tender or payment of one Spanish dollar, and so in
proportion for any greater or less amount of debt.
• It is further ordered, that British copper money shall
be a legal tender for us due and proper proportions of
British silver money, as by law established in Great,
Britain; bit that no person be compelled to take awn
than 12.1, in copier money at any one payment.
Given at Gibraltar, Ibis Ist day of November, 1826..
GEORGE DON,
General and Lieutenant-Governor,
IL MARTIN, Acting Civil Secretary.

By command,

Notice is hereby given, that British silver money will be re-
ceived at this office, in sums not less than 1031. from any person
who may tender the same, for ►ills upon the Lords Commissioners
of his Majesty's Treasury, at 30 days sight; for the money so t-n-
-dered, at the rate of a bill for 1001. fur every 1034 of silver money.
F. W. HADEN, a C. G.

fiord Douglas, and the noble family at Bothwell
Cas• le, with that sympathy for suffering humanity by
which they are so peculiarly characterised. have sent to
the Rev. Mr. Gardiner, i f B )thwell, 251. sterling, to be
laid nut in the purchase of coals and clothing for the
poor and the unemploLed in, the parish..
lay evening, a are bri out at fiarlingtoakin the
stack-yard of Mr. Thomas-,Rolfe, which in aver; short
time consumed the whole of the stacks and premises,
the dwelling-house excepted.
Friday se 'might, Mrs. Medcalf, wife of Mr. Townley
Medcall, viholives in Gerard-street; Liverpool,, with her
child, about 16 months old, called at his mother',
in Upper Dawson-street, and he called there in the
evening. After remaining some time, the child having
fallen asleep upon his knee, he took it up stairs, the
servant carrying the candle, and, with. her assistance.
put it comfortably into a folding bed, leaving its head
uncovered. S nietime afterwards, a girl of 15, having
occasion to make room for some additional company,
(it being a public•bouse,) went into the room where the
child lay, and, forgetting the child, turned up the bed,
left the company in the room. Shortly afterwards
Mrs. hledcalt inquired where. the child was, wept up
stairs, and, to her inexpressible grief and agony, found
the bed turned up, and the little innocent smothered.

A singular piece of cunning was practised upon the
Magistrates of Bury, at their sitting on Thursday last.
An information had been laid the previous week,against
a young man of the Soci, ty of Friends, for letting off
fire-works, and a summons was issued tor the attend-
ance of the supposed culprit, who had been crnvicted
of a similar offence on a reamer occasion; bid when
the constable was called upon to swear to the person of
this offender, three Quakers in outward appearance,
dressed so preci.ely alike, as to set his recollection at
defiance, stood before him, and as he was unable to
point out .4 the real Pare," no conviction ensued.
Thursday night, the 16th instant:, ;.abont. eleven
o'clock, a fire broke oat on the premise* of Mr, It. T.
Moseley, at Somersham, near Cambridge, which con-
sumed part of a stack of hay.
TYPHUS Fevszt..--It cannot he too widely knows,,
that nitrous acid gas possesses the property of destroy-
ing the contagion of typhus fever, and certainty of pre-,
venting its spread. By the following simple method,.
the gas may be produced at a very trifling espetis;e:'
place a little powdered saltpetre in a saucer, awl_ pour
on it as much oil of viuiol as will just cover it; a copious
discharge of acid gas will instantly take place, thel
quantity of which may be regulated by lessening or in-
creasing the quantity of the ingredients.
A melancholy accident happened on board the Sir
William Wallace smack, while in London harbour, last
week. The carpenter, C. Clark, standing by the hatch-
way, assisting the discharging of the cargo, fell to the
bottom of the hold. He was carried tethe Hospital in
a shocking state, and died in a short time. He has left
a widow and two.chilaren in Leith.
Monday last the entrance into Leith harbour present-
ed a very singular spectacle, there being no fewer than
six vessels aground when the tide left. Three large
vessels had attempted to enter the harbour on Sunday,
but stuck in'tl.e wat6-run; and three smaller ones, in
attempting to pass them, went en a sand bank.
He that has no fiend and no enemy, is one of the
vulgar, and without talents, powers, or energy.
In the parish of Tough, last week, as some boys were
dislodging a crow's nest, it was found to contain young
in a very forward state towards eight t and the same
day, one of Mr. Forbes of Denraill's firm servants
caught a young snipe, in the strath of Tonly, not fully
feathered.