The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-05-21 00:00:00

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ZINC MILK-PAILS.—Among the patents lately taken out
in America, one is a process for extracting cream from milk
by the use of zinc. It is said, that, if zinc be put into the
milk-pall, or the milk be put into a vessel made of that sub-
stance, the same milk will yield a greater proportion of cream
or butter.—Repertory of Inventions.
A JEW DE MOT.—Somebody asked a wealthy Jew to
take venison. ":No," said the capitalist, " I never eat
whenshen ; I don't tink it so coot as mutton." Oh," said
his friend, " I wonder at your saying so ; if venison is not
better than mutton, why does venison 'Cost so much more ?"
" Vy, I will tell you vy ; in dish varld de people always
prefersh vat ish deer sheep."
TEA IN TARTARY.—Throughout the great Tartarian dis-
trict lying between the empires of Muscovy and China, tea is
taken with an ardour and frequency which must astonish
even all European votaries of that highly-valued leaf. In the
kingdom of Koendoz, nothing is done without it ; tea being
handed round at all times and hours, and giving a character
to conversation of the most sociable and agreeable kind. The
Usbecs, who, above all, are extravagantly attached to this
beverage, drink it with such delicate adjuncts as salt or fat,
instead of sugar ; invariably exclude milk from the mixture ;
and, when the pot' has been duly drained by a party, divide
the leaves, and chew them like tobacco.
MR. CROSS'S INSECTS,—Dr. Warwick, in a lecture at
Manchester, denies that Mr. Crosse has discovered any new
insect. He visited him, and obtained two of those said to be
newly discovered, and put them under-Mr. Tyrrell the bar-
rister's splendid compound microscope. Mr. Tyrrell imme-
diately on looking on them, said that he knew the insect ; it
was a curious one, indeed the most interesting of all the
mites. Mr. Warwick then told him, that one of them was
the insect discovered by Mr, Crosse. "Oh !" said Mr. T.,
" Mr. Crosse has got a nest of them in his house, and some
of them have found their way into his apparatus ; that is the
true history of it."
ATTACHMENT OF FISHES.—I once had occasion to ob-
serve the strength of friendship which can exist even between
fish. I was accustomed to keep some gold fish in a large
glass globe. I do not think that I should do so now, for
whatever care I might take of them, still it was a state of
imprisonment to which I was dooming them. It so happened
that from some cause, the nature of which I do not now re-
collect, my stock was diminished to two • I gave away one of
them. The other from that moment refused to eat, he lay
motionless at the bottom of the water, and, as I thought,
was evidently pining away. It struck me that he was mourn-
ing the loss of his companion. I shall never forget the
evident joy and strange antics to which he abandoned him-
self when his companion was restored to him.—Youatt on
Humanity to Brutes.
DEFINITION OF THE WORD " GENT."—A gent. is an
individual of that genus for whose particular eyes cheap stocks,
and flash garments at alarmingly low prices, are ticketed all
round Charing Cross—as shooting jackets for parties who
don't know one end of a gun from the other, pilot coats for
street-going swells, who would indeed be pleasant people in
a gale of wind, &c. A gent. is he to whom the assiduous
Boots proffers a pair of dirty slippers, and in which, nothing
revolted, the party sits at ease at his tea or brandy and water,
exchanging facetiousness with, or extracting conversation
from, the waiter. A gent. is the person whom the coachman
does not even turn to look at, as he says " Chuck down that
gent's carpet bag, Bill—come now, he alive !—imparting an
added dose of the principle of vitality to the galvanised Wil-
liam in a very surprising manner—the person whose offered
cigar the discerning candidate of the four bag probably de-
clines, while he accepts the pinch from a gentleman's civility.
There is a tournure about a gent. which there is no mistaking
—the superior ease of a gentleman is not the criterion, for a
gent. is consurnately at his ease in all positions, though some
of them are not happily chosen.—Blackwoodfor May.
LIBERALISM REPUGNANT TO TRUE ENGLISH FEELING.
—The people of England are a sedate, a rational, and a feel-
ing people. They have no love of change ; they suspect in-
novation without utility as the sign of coming evil. They are•
not, like one branch of the foreigner, dissatisfied unless they
see churches and constitutions shifting before them with ra-
pidity of scenes in a theatre ; nor like another, always look-
ing on earth and heaven distorted through a metaphysic fog.
They love to follow their old pursuits in peace, and to reve-
rence the old institutions which made their forefathers great
and happy. They are the last people in the world to clear
the ground for new fabrics of polity or faith by breaking
up the tombs of their ancestors. Ascribing their pros-
perity and their virtue to the united influence of a regulated
freedom and a scriptural religion, they will not patiently see
either torn down. And thus guarding the principles, they
will equally guard the rites and organs of their national in-
tegrity. They will not suffer marriage, of all human ties the
holiest and most essential, to be loosened into a vulgar bar-
gain ; nor baptism to be degraded into a superfluous cere-
mony. Nor will they suffer their universities, the noblest
strongholds of learning and sacred truth in the world, to be
stormed before their eyes; and stormed not for the purposes
of tenancy, but of dilapidation. They will look with disdain
on the conscience that- exhibits its new-found sensibility in
the 'evasion of notorious contract • and will utterly refuse to
join in the confiscation of the oldest property of the realm
under the cloak of the voluntary principle—that bill of in-
demnity for every meanness and every fraud of man. They
will look with still deeper disdain on religionists hurrying
from the extremes of opinion into an unhallowed embrace,
reconeiledilaVVY-conspiracy, and compromising their mu-
tual antipathies only in sacrilege. Finally, they will remem-
ber, that England has been twice brought to the verge of ruin
within less than two centuries, by both schism and supersti-
tion ; that she escaped, in the first instance, only through
the havoc of a civil war and, in the second, only througla
the perils of a revolution ; and they will not have the mad-
ness to provoke a third hazard, only to escape by miracle.—
Dr. Croly's Visitation Sermon.

ADVICE TO COTTAGERS.—Let this be your first rule, that
whatever you do, you do it well, you do it thoroughly. Many
a man is tempted to undertake too much, to engage in too
many things, and, consequently, to do nothing well. He
incurs often the expense, but does not reap the fruits of his
outlay, whether in labour or in money. He is apt to say,
for instance, when order and neatness are recommended to
him, " All this looks well ; it is very suitable for a gentle-
man, what does it signify to a poor man like myself?' The
real answer to such doubts, the offspring of indolence, is,
that neatness and order are economy; and is it nothing for a
poor man to avoid waste ? in other words,, to practise
economy ? Is it nothing to a labouring man to be able to
wake his tools last longer by a little care than they would
without that care ? to make his clothes serve him and his
family better for being put out of harm's way when they are
no longer wanted? Is it nothing to a poor man that the fur-
niture of his house should supply his wants for as long atime
as possible ? and thus that he should be saved from the ex-
pence of having to replace it ? yet the only means of ensur-
ing these objects are order and neatness, or, as it may be
explained in short, by having a place and time for every
thing to be kept to its time and place. I have often seen, from
a want of attention to this rule, children, and men too, labo-
riously collecting a scanty supply of manure from what they
can pick up on the roads, when they allow the offscourings
of their own houses to run not only to waste, but to become
a nuisance to themselves and others ; whereas had they but
taken the trouble to collect these in a hole, through a drain,
which any man might make to his house, at the expense of a
little labour, he would possess more manure than the utmost
labour of himself and family would enable him to draw to-
gether from other sources—more, probably, than his garden
would require—and he would have the advantage of a clean,
pleasant, and healthy dwelling. These are advantages spring-
ing directly from care, industry, and forethought; and there
are many incidental benefits to be derived from these sources,
which will never be guessed at till the time comes when they
may be enjoyed. There are, also, many incidental losses and
inconveniences not, perhaps, to be foreseen, that may be
be avoided in this way.—" Cottage Gardening," Saturday
Magazine.

CULINARY MATTERS IN GENOA,—In passing through
the streets of Genoa, it is amusing to look at the culinary
occupations going on in each ; with the exception of the
three principal ones. Nor is there aught disgusting in the
process, or in the odours exhaled • for the oil used in the
jrituras is of the pure olive, and the cooks are not only scru-
pulously clean in. their dress, but the utensils they employ
look equally so. Here the polenta, polpetta, and ravioli,
the three favourite dishes of Genoa, are prepared; and great
is the demand for them, and the avidity with which they are
devoured. But not only are the national dishes thus cooked
in the streets, but shops are in each, and ranged on the quays,
in which edibles of a more costly nature are to be procured ;
and where cutlets and capons, smoking hot, tempt by their
savoury odours the appetites of the passers-by. in the back
of these shops are stoves, round which are placed all the
necessary apparatus for cooking ; and the proprietor, with
one or two assistants, white-capped and aproned, with knife
in belt, stand ready to boil, stew, fry, or broil, according to
the wish of their visitors. A portion of the shop is devoted
to undressed dainties, which are seen peeping forth from
green leaves and snowy napkins, waiting to be selected by
some pedestrian epicure, who may see his dinner cooked,
and eat it on the spot, in a very short space of time. * *
Men and women roll barrows through the streets, piled with
trays, on which various kinds of comestibles ,are disposed,
and thus serve the inmates of the different artisans' houses,
who are saved the trouble of cooking, and the expense and
heat of fires. The cleanliness of these people, as well as that
of the articles on which the food is placed, precludes the
disgust one might experience at beholding such a constant
succession of eatables passing arid repassing • and it is amu-
sing to witness the eagerness with which their approach is
hailed.—Lady Blessington's Idler in Italy.

SHAKSPEARE'S COURTSHIP OF ANNE HATHAWAY.—
" How dost like our Ann's singing ?" inquired John Hatha-
way, when his daughter had lett the chamber to put the chil-
dren to their beds. " Very exceedingly, Ido assure you,"
replied the youth, with a notable sincerity. " Humph !" ex-
claimed the father, as though he were a thinking of something
he cared not to give speech to : " indeed she hath a sweet
throat." Nothing more was said on that head at the mo-
ment ; and they again talked of country matters, till his host
could not any longer contain his great wondering at his guest's
marvellous insight into such things, and inquired how he ac-
quired it ; whereupon the other truly answered he got it by
questioning of those whose business it was. In good time
the yeoman's daughter returned, andbusied herself with pre-
parations for supper, taking care, whenever she could, to
have her share in the discourse, which she did with a pretty
sprightliness exceeding) T agreeable to her young admirer.
Seeing her attempting to move the great table nigher the fire,
'he must needs jump up, and, with a graceful officiousness,
seek to do it himself, the which she appeared to object to in
some manner ; and there was a little arming of the matter
betwixt them, the father looking on withba glimmering smile,
as if he could see in it something exceeding pleasant. The
end was, that the two young people carried the table together,
manifestly to their extreme satisfaction. In due time; the
rashers were done, and, with a store of other wholesome
victual, were put on a fair white cloth that covered the table;
and William Shakspeare was pressed with blunt courtesy by
the father, and a more winning persuasiveness by the daugh-
ter, to partake of the fare set before them. This he essayed
to do with a notable good will. After this the blooming Anne
brewed a goodly posset, and, whilst they were enjoying it,
her father called on her to sing him a little song, the which
she seemed a little—a very little—to hesitate upon, with a
sort of pretty coyness time out of mind customary under simi-
lar circumstances ; but, after the handsome youth ha pressed
her with an excellent show of rhetoric, she sung a ditty then
popular, concerning of " The little pretty nightingale ; and,
at least, one of the listeners thought it exquisite singing. Then
John Hathaway would needs have a song of his guest, to the
which his daughter added her intreaties so prettily, the youth-
ful Shakspeare found it impossible to resist, whereupon lie
commenced the singing of a favourite love-Song of the time,
beginning, "If I had wytt to endyte." The words were of
a pleasant conceit, which gained considerably in admirable-
ness by the manner of his singing ; and the tune, by means
of his rich, fclear voice, came upon the air a very river of
melody. Whether the yeoman liked the song could only be
told by the pleasure lurking in the corners of his mouth, and
shining quaintly, in his half-closed eyelids, which might be
interpreted he saw more in it than the singer imagined ; how-
ever, that his daughter relished it there could be no question-
ing, for her smiles were full as evident as her praises. " Now
friend Will, thee must be agoing," exclaimed John Hathaway
at least, in his usual plain countryman sort of manner. " Tis
my custom, to go to bed with the lamb; and rise with the lark
—an excellent gcsad custom I'll warrant—so I'll e'en bid thee
a fair good night ; ,neurtheless I will add to. it, I shall be
happy to see thee at all times, and, if I be not at home, per-
chance Anne will be as happy to see thee as myself." He
said this with a look of humour that shone through all the
staidness of his aspect, and, shaking his visitor heartily by
the hand, he opened the door for his exit. His daughter
denied not a word of what her father had said. Indeed, her
lances, as she bade the youth good night, as plainly said,
`Come again," as ever was expressed by a pair of bright
eyes since theyorld began.—Youth Shakspeare.

BOARDING SCHOOL FARE.--" And do you live well, my
poor boy ?" said Cuthbert. " Lots of grub," said Tom,
sich as it is. Sundays we has baked beef—long bony bits
—hunder done, and plenty of ard pudden. Saturdays,
scrapings and stick-jaw. Hobliged to bolt all the fat, elsewe
kitches toko. They gives us swipes for dinner and supper,
with cheese as ard as hiron, hand as black as my at ; but they
tells us it's olesome."—Gurney Married.
FAMILY NAME OF THE WELLESLEYS—COWLEY.—The
name has been written Cooley and Colley, which last is the
modern mode of spelling it in Ireland ; but with regard to
its English descent there can be no doubt, from many well
authenticated facts. In Glaiston church there is a monu-
ment to Walter Colley, and Agnes, his wife. This Walter
was lord of the manor in 1407.—. Alexander's Life of the
Duke of Wellington.
RUSTIC ACUMEN.—A short time since one of the beadles
of Brighton took a quantity of butter from a countryman,
because it was deficient in weight ; and meeting him a few
days after in a public-house, said to him, " You're the man
I took twenty pounds of butter from." " No, I bean't,"
replied Hodge. "I am sure you are," says the beadle. " I
tell ye I bean't," rejoined the countryman ; " and if thee
lik'st I'll lay thee a guinea on't." " Done !" replied the
beadle ; and the money was quickly posted. " Now," says
the countryman, " thou didst take twenty lumps of butter
from me ; but if they had been twenty pounds, you'd have
no right to take them ; and this," continued he, very coolly
pocketing the money, " will pay me for the loss of the but-
ter."

RURAL SIMPLICITY.--A young lady, who had never been
out of the sound of Bow-bell, and whose ideas of a country
life were formed from reading " Thomson's Seasons," re-
ceived an invitation to spend a few weeks with her aunt
about forty miles from London ; and was extremely disap7
pointed at the total absence of that moral elegance, that Ar-
cadian simplicity, which she had pictured to herself of a
country life. One day, however, she considered herself for-
tunate in encountering a shepherd returning from the fields,
with hook in hand, quite ala Corydon. " Youth," said the
citoyenne, " why have you hot your pipe with you ?" " Be-
kase, ma'am," answered he, " I han t got no backee."

THOMAS CARN, AGED 207 YEARS.—Of this venerable in-
dividual, the following account is given in Taylor's Annals
of Health and Long Life:-" The most remarkable instance
of longevity which we meet with in British history is that of
Thomas Cam, who, according to the parish register of St.
Lesnard's, Shoreditch, died on the 28th of January, 1588, at
the astonishing age of 207 years. He was born in the reign
of Richard 11., anno. 1381, and lived in the reign of twelve
kings and queens, namely, Richard 2nd, Henry 4th, sth, and
6th, Edward 4th, and sth, Richard 3rd, Henry 7th, and Bth,
Edward 6th, Mary, and Elizabeth. The veracity of this
statement may be readily ascertained by any person who
chooses to consult, the above register."--Curtis on Health.

PIETY OF THE QUEEN DOWAGER.—The Duchess Dow-
ager of Beaufort has been the means of much spiritual good
among the higher ranks of society. L happen to know that
she carries on an extensive correspondence with persons in
her own station of life, on the subjeet of evangelical and ex-
perimental religion. Among her Grace's correspondents on
purely religious topics, is the Queen Dowager Adelaide, I
can state with certainty, that since the Queen Dowager left
this country, twelve months ago, for Malta, for the benefit
of her health, she has written her Grace a series of letters
which indicate a remarkable spirituality of feeling, a most
intimate acquaintance with the Scriptures, and the clearest
views of evangelical truth.—Metropolitan Pulpit; by the
Author of " Random Recollections."

THE LATE MR. IRVING'S FIDELITY AS A PREACHER.—
A friend of mine who was presefit at the time, lately men-
tioned to me, that on one occasion, after dwelling on the
frightful extent to which the Sabbath-day is desecrated by
persons moving In the higher spheres of society, he pointed
to a particular part of the chapel in which were seated a num-
ber of noblemen and ladies of title, and said with great
emphasis—" And you are the men and women who commit
these sins. You are the persons who are in the constant
habit of profaning God's holy day." Those only who have
heard Mr. Irving preach, can form any idea of what the
effect of this apostrophe must have been. His uncompro-
mising boldness and unshrinking fidelity as a preacher of the
gospel, have often reminded me of John Knox charging
Mary Queen of Scots with particular sins, when surrounded
by all the splendour of her court.—The fetropolitan Pul-
pit; by the Author of " Random Recollections."

A DAY AT A LADY'S SCHOOL.—I'II tell you my course.
Up at eight—prayers, always read by Miss Julietta Timmins,
whose grandmother was aunt to the curate of Cripplesdon—
fine voice, sweet delivery, and as slow as a slug—breakfast at
nine—no nonsense about nerves—never let them touch tea—
pure milk and water, the cow and the pump—out for an hour
—relaxation in the shubbery—at 10 in school—everything
parcelled out—method is the only mode of managing the
mind—seven minutes and a half for geography—ditto for
knotting hearth-rugs—a quarter of an hour for French—ten
minutes for astronomy—ditto for the use of the globes—a
quarter of an hour for Italian—and 20 minutes for mathe-
matics—then to learn lessons—dinner at two—then till half-
past three the play-ground—in again—fifteen minutes for
music—six minutes for algebra—nine minutes for drawing—
a quarter of an hour for English history—six minutes for
hydraulics under the inspection of Dr. o.—and nine minutes
and a half for ethics and moral philosophy—guitar 20 minutes
(for those who learn it—Newton's Principia and dancing an
hour and a half—the play-ground again.—Gurney Married.

WARMTH DURING CHILDHOOD NECESSARY.—" In-
stinct," says Dr. Edwards, " leads mothers to keep their
infants warm, though philosophers, by more or less spacious
reasoning, have, at different times, and in different coun-
tries, induced them to abandon this guide, by persuading
them that external cold would fortify the constitutions of
their children, as it does those of adults. Mortality from
cold is not confined to children whom the misery of their
parents cannot guard from the rigour of the weather, but it
operates to a great extent, without being either perceived or
suspected, in families enjoying affluence, and in which it is
believed that the necessary precautions are taken, because,
cold being relative, it is difficult from our own feeling to
judge of its effects on others. Children may not feel the
cold, but they have an uneasiness and indisposition which
arises from it ; their constitution becomes deteriorated by
passing through the alternations of health and disease, and
they sink under the action of an unknown cause. The con-
stitution is altered without the effect being suspected."
SWEDISH SOLDIERS.—A company of soldiers, as I thought
from their appearance, of the foot-guards, marched into
town yesterday, and the captain and six men were billeted
upon my landlord. They were remarkably fine-looking gre-
nadiers, well dressed in white round jackets, with yellow
epaulets and blue trousers, and all their appointments seemed
substantial, clean, and soldier-like. Their evening parade
upon the street before our door struck me very much. After
the roll was called, and the reports and orders delivered, the
commanding officer called one of the soldiers out of the
ranks, it appeared to me without turn or selection; and the
whole company taking off their caps at once, this man re-
peated the Lord's Prayer, after which they all sang a hymn
very beautifully, and the parade was dismissed. This morn-
ing early, about two o'clock, the company mustered before
the door again to march to their next halting-place before
the heat of the day set in. Between sleeping and waking, I
heard the same service repeated—the Lord's Prayer, and a
morning hymn sung, before they marched off. The service
was not hurried over. It lasted from fifteen to twenty
minutes, and was gone through as slowly and solemnly as in
any religious meeting. This is a remnant of the military
practice of the great Gustavus Adolphus, which has been re-
tained in the Swedish service since the Thirty Years' War.
—Laing's Tour in Sweden.

DEATH OF TIPPOO SULTAN.—The assailants were com-
pelled to halt, until the 12th, crossing the inner ditch, took
him in flank ; and he retreated, fighting, towards the gate of
the inner fort. Here he mounted his horse ; and the British
pressing on, he made for the gate, followed by his palanquin,
and a number of officers and troops. Here he received a
musket-ball in the right side, but still kept his seat till he
was stopped half-way through the arch, where he was struck
by a second ball, close to the other. His horse being also
wounded sunk under him, and his turban fell to the ground.
He was raised up by his officers, now fast falling around him,
and placed in his palanquin, where he lay exhausted ; till the
sword-belt,
rodp one of the soldiers seized the Sultan's
-ebanelts,ntti•shhicinhgwtha; very rich, and attempted to pull it off.
Roused at the indignity, the offended monarch made a cut at
the soldier, whom he wounded in the knee, and at the same
time was himself shot through the head. He instantly ex-
pired whera he lay, surrounded by the dead and the dying.
When the body was first recognised amidst heaps of slain,
the eyes were open, and it was so warm that Col. Wellesley,
who was already on the spot, was doubtful whether he did
not still breathe ; his
,countenance was no way disturbed, but
wore an appearance of fearless calm. His turban, jacket,
and sword-belt, were gone ; and an officer who was present,
with the leave of 'General Baird, tore off from his right arm
the talisman, which contained. sewed up in pieces of fine
flowered silk, an amulet, and some magical characters writ-
ten in Arabic and Persian. The body was placed in the
palanquin, and conveyed to the court of the palace—whence
he had only that morning issted—still the Sultan of the
Mysore.—Alexander's Life of the Duke of 'Wellington.
A PATRIARCHAL PREACHER.--A PICTURE.—The Rev.
Mr. Wilkinson is now in his 89th year, and as may he
imagined, is exceedingly frail. The church in which he
preaches is always full, except two or three pews at the bick
of the pulpit, where he is not only inaudible, but where the
sound of his voice would scarcely be heard. The necessity of
being close to this venerable minister of Christ in order to
hear what he says, always causes the passages to be densely
crowded. Immediately in front of and beside the pulpit, the
crowd is so great, that one can hardly move an arm. In the
seats, again, which are eight or ten yards from the preacher,
the hearers, in their anxiety to catch his feebly uttered words,
—made more difficult to catch from an indistinct enunciation,
caused, I believe, by the loss of most of his teeth,—stand al-
most all the time in an attentive listening-attitude, stretching
their heads forward, and in many instances, with their hands
to theifears. :Poets have often sung and others have often
spoken, about persons hanging on the words which proceeded
from the lips of some esteemed friend or accomplished orator.
I question if ever an assemblage of persons evinced a greater
anxiety to bear what 'fell from the lips of any uninspired man,
than so many of those who attend the Ministry of Mr. Wil-
kinson, to catch what proceeds from his mouth. I have
sometimes fancied that the scene which is witnessed in his
church on such occasions, must have resembled that which
was exhibited when Anne of the.patriarclis of whom we; read
in the Old Testanient,' called their children and childrens'
children around them, to pour their parting blessing on 'their
heads. It is a truly touching sight to witness the grave yet
serene countenance of this aged minister of Christ when ad-
dressing his people, in conjunction with the eager attention
, and profound personal regard, with which they listen to his
tender though feeble accents. They deem every word which
proceeds from his, lips to be precious : I had almost said
sacred, I have reason to believe that for some time past he
has delivered every sermon under the impression that it might
be his last ; and I am sure I may say with equal confidence
of a majority of his audience, that they hear every discourse
of his, under the same impression.—The Metropolitan Pul-
pit; by the Author of " Random Recollections."
HUNTING IN FORMER TIMES.—We find little worthy of
record relative to hunting in the reigns of the English mo-
narchs before the time of George 111. From an old record
discovered not long since at Nottingham Castle, it appears
that in 1194 Richard I. chased a hart from Sherwood forest

to Barnsdale, itifoiisli;e,—;nd there lost him. Richard
made proclamation at Tunhill, in Yorkshire, and various
other places in the neighbourhood of Barnsdale, that no one
should chase, kill, or hurt the said deer, that he might safely
return to his lair, in the forest of Sherwood. In the reign
of Henry 111. a heavy fine was inflicted on the proprietor of
certain lands in the neighbourhood of the forest of Black-
more, in Dorsetshire, for having a fine white hart, which had
afforded that monarch much amusement (and probably had
been several times proclaimed as in the case before men..
tioned.) This fine was termed white-hart silver, and an
acknowledgment of which has been paid into the exchequer
so late as the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Charles I. was ex-
tremely partial to the chase; was at the trouble and expense
of procuring a wild boar and his mate, from the forests in
Germany, and it is said they propagated rapidly in the new
forest, and it is not many years since that a breed of pigs,
having all of the characteristics of the wild boar, was dis-
covered in that neighbourhood, and were called forest pigs.
In the reign of Charles 11., the Royal Palace at Newmarket,
built by James L, to serve as a hunting lodge, but which
was destroyed in the civil wars, was rebuilt by thaLeelebrated
architect, Sir Christopher Wren. It is said that, when
Charles H. came to visit this palace soon after its comple-
tion, he remarked that he thought the rooms too low. Sir
Christopher, who was a man of small stature, walked about
them, and looking up, replied, " Indeed, Sire ! and please
your majesty, I think they are high enough." The king
stooping down to Sir Christopher's height, and creeping
about in that posture, cried, " Ay, Sir Christopher, I think
they are high enough."—The Sportsman.

RPbtppttig

FRIDAY, MAY.l7.7Wind_W.

ARRIVED-Julip, Myre, from Nieustadt—Clemence, Stinge, from
Antwerp—Philonlela—Philomela, from Monte Video—Eroe,
, from Malta—Mary and Ann, Bartlett, from Trieste—Per-
severance, Monnett, from Ostend—Liverpool, Johnston, from Mo-
bile—Columbus, Pentreath, from Savannah ; sailed 11th April—
Gleaner, —, from Savannah—England, Oakley, from Mobile—
Tiber, , and Kingscove, , from Trieste—Charlotte, \Vat-
tie, from Madeira—Gen. Parkhill, , from St. Mark's—Persia,
Mobile—St. Lawrence, Huggup, from Odessa—Cassiopea,
from Mauritius

SA ILED—Samarang, Abbott, for Batavia—Governor Troup, But.
man, and Westchester, Ferris, for New York—Four Brothers,
Domcke, for Narva—Little Catherine, Williams, for Demerara—
Matthew Bell, Hunter, for Quebec—Ganges, Jones, for New York
—Gustaff, Ryselin, for Pernau—and Racer, Predham, for Hayti.

Liverpool, (steamer,) hence to New Yew York,was spoken in lat,
47, long. 19, four days out
Lady Harvey, , hence to Bay Chaim', was spoken in lat.
47, long. 23

ew York, , hence to New York, was spoken 23d April in
lat. 47, long. 19
Susquehanna, -, hence to Philadelphia was spoken 28d April
in lat. 46, long. 36
George, Stothard, from Odessa at Constantinople, and cleared on
the 19th April for Cork
Black-eyed Susan, Watkins, from Odessa at Constantinople, and
cleared on the 20th April for Cork
Emerald, Weatherby, from Malta, and Hope, Guthrie, hence at
Constantinople, and both cleared 23d April for Odessa
Levant Packet. Reid, and Nereid, Watkins, hence at ditto
Susannah Cumming, Salter, hence to Boston, was spoken April
23d, lat. 43. long. 47.
Eliza, hence at Islay,
Daniel Wheeler, Boush, and Newham, Bruce, from Malta, at
Dardanelles.
Sante Anne, Perou, and Comet, Pearson, hence at Bordeaux.
Inje, Hazewinkle, hence at Texel.
Mersey, Webb, sailed from Newport for Savannah 15th May.
John and Grace, Goodman, from Jersey, at Falmouth, for this
port, leaky.
Capricorn, hence, off Cork 13th inst. for Bahia. •
Hebe, Warren, and Commerce, Primrose, from Alexandria, at
Dardanelles .

CONSTANTINOPLE, APRIL 24.—The Phantom, Sandars, arrived
here from Liverpool, got aground off Gallipoli, and was obliged to
tranship part of her cargo on board a Greek vessel : the latter has
also arrived here.

SATURDAY, May 18.—Wind S.W. moderate.
ARRIVED.—GIorat, Thorns, from Ceara—Franklin, -, from
Grand Gulph—Gondola, Rennie, and Dibdin, , from Mobile—
Pocahontas, West, from Philadelphia; sailed 20th April—Siddons,
Britton, (sailed 25th April) and North America, Louber, (19th April)
from New York—Rose, , from St.Michael—Freeland,
from Odessa—Zante, , from Zante—Grecian, , from
Cephalonia—Ferdinand, Bartlett ; Carl Wilhelm, Bartells, and Au-
gusta Caroline, , from Stettin—iEolus, , from Wis-
mar—Martha, , from Hamburg—Pink, --, from Bonny—
Washington, Adams, from St. John, N.B.—Helena, Telumah, from
Trieste—Feronia, Jarvis, from Palermo—Mary, Varlour, from Os-
tend—Pera, Rhennings, and Union, Allen, from Charleston.
SAlLED.—Shammon, Taggart, for Halifax, N.S.—Lintin, Gillman,
for Bombay—Saxon, Mansfield, for Boston—Narcisse, Corpel, for
Havre, &c.—Royal William, Francis, for Quebec—Judith, Hamon,
for Lisbon—Dotette, Dade, for Rostock—Maranhaense, (steamer)
M'Kunon, for Rio Janeiro—Tampico, Winder, for Narva—Erin-go-
Bragh, Sumpton, for Montreal—Union, Hudson, for Restigouche—
Copernico, Gorlero, for Leghorn—Rosalie, Premuda, for Constan-
tinople—Sempio, Starich, for St. Übes—Laf, Ivanich, for Constanti-
nople, &c.—Herculean, Grindall, for Bombay—Laidmans, Jackson,
for Jamaica—and Velocity, Darrell, for Kingston.

Rowland, , from Charleston, at this port. On 13th May, in
long. 10, boarded the brig Catherine, coal laden, abandoned
Medora, , from Demerara for Dublin, was run on board, 6th
May, by a large ship, and the master, mate and carpenter of the
Medora jumped on board the latter; the Welcome, from Trinidad
for Dublin, afterwards spoke the Medora, and put her mate on board
to navigate her
Ambassador, was to sail from Galveston, (Texas) with a
cargo of cotton direct for Liverpool, lath April
Thomas Rattersby, , from Bahia for Liverpool, was spoken
27th April, in lat. 40, long, 38
.Cybele, , from Pernambuco for Liverpool, was spoken 3rd
April, in lat. 44, long. 21)
Bencoollen, , from Sourabaya for Cowes, was spoken 4th
April, on the Equator
Janet, Wingate, from the Cape of Good Hope for Liverpool, was
spoken 26th March, in lat,B S, long. 14 W
Fanny Connell, , hence for Genoa, was spoken 16th April,
n lat. 38, long. 11
Rambler, , from Leghorn for Liverpool, was spoken 13th
April, off Gibraltar

Queen of Scotland, -, from Smyrna for Liverpool, was
spoken 12th April, off Malaga
St. Leon, --, from New Orleans for this port, was spoken off
Sandy Kay
Columbia, , from New Orleans for this port, was spoken
12th April, in lat. 33, long. 77
Hindoo; Van Zuileeom, sailed from the Cape of Good Hope for
New South Wales 7th March
Resolution, Forrest, hence at New Orleans

Colossus, Wylie, hence at Philadelphia
ndefatigable, Wilkie, and Sarah Stewart, hence at New York,
22nd April—Edward Thorne, Duncanson, ditto, 24th—and Sheridan,
De Peyster, ditto, 25th
Gladiator, Britton, from London, from London, at New York

Roi David, Guiacopello, sailed from Marseilles for Liverpool 10th
May
Christian, Grattner, hence at Loire
Johan, Gultzen, hence at Stockholm
Eva Suomost, Mury, and Dolphin, Bakker, for Liebau
Nicolaus, Herlofsen, and John Bull, Lind, hence at Copenhagen
Diana, Schoeffier, and Delphin Bruns, hence at Bremen

Venus, Bandon, hence at Helvoet
Leopold Ist, Pienschke ; Jean Van Eyck, Minne, and Marie An--
toinetre, Ocket. hence at Antwerp
RIGA, May 6.—The Deptford, , from Sunderland ; Orlando
and Duke of Richmond, from Aberdeen ; Pacific, from Montrose ;
Regina, from Perth; Christine, from Newcastle, all bound for Riga,
were totally lost in the ice, near Domesne, 25th April; crews saved.
Seven or eight other vessels are reported to have sunk near the
same place, of which the crews of three only were saved