The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-02-28 00:00:00

ECCLESIAWTICAL INTFITTIGENC.R. f ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

PREFERMENTS-AND APPOINTMENTS

Rev. W. Acton, 8.A., to the Vicarage of Wicklewood, Nor-
folk.
Rev. Dr. R. N. Adams, Rector of Rempstone, to be chap-
lain to the High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire.
Rev. T. Wilcock. 8.A., to the Vicarage of Fleckney,
Leicestershire.
Rev. W. Baxter, to be Colonial Chaplain at Hong Kong.
Rev. I. Bowman, M.A , to the Perpetual Curacy of Walton,
Cumberland.
Rev. It. D. Dingle, Mathematical Master of the Diocesan
Training School, Durham, to be Vice-Principal of that Insti-
tution.
Rev. J. H. Dodsworth, M.A., to the Incumbency of Man-
n ngt ree, Essex.
Rev. R. Dtirnford, M.A., Rector of Middleton, to be an ,
Honorary Canon of the Cathedral of Manchester.
Rev. J. G. Edward 4, M.A., Perpetual Curate of Whoriton,
to the Vicarage of Pittington, near Durham.
Rev. D. Evans, M.A.. Fellow of Jeans. College, Oxford, and
Incumbent of Llandygwydd, to be Chaplain to the High
Sheriff of Cardiganshire.
Rev. J. Fox, M.A., to the Vicarage of Hedon, near Hull.
Rev. 0. Goodrich, 8.A., to the Vicarage of Tidenham,
Gloucestershire.
Rev. W. Greenwell, M.A., Principal of Neville-hall. in Dur-
ham University, to a Minor Canonry in Durham Cathedral.
Rev. C. J. Hawkins, to the Vicarage of Huey, Lincoln-
shire.
Rev. T. J. Henderson, M.A., to the Stipendiary Curacy of
St. Luke's, Heywood.
Rev. H. Jackson, M.A., to the Incumbency of the new
Church of St. John the Evangelist, Hurstmonceux, Sussex.
Rev. W. R. Jolly, to the Stipendiary Curacy of St. Bride's
Church, Liverpool.
Rev. C. A. L'Oste, 8.A.. Curate of Wethersfield, to be
Chaplain to the High Sheriff of Essex.
Rev. T. P. Metcalfe, M.A., to the Incumbency of Bilbrougb,
Yorkshire.
Rev. F. Morse, to the Incumbency of the new Church of
St. John, Ladywood, near Birmingham.
Rev. A. Murdoch, to the Church and Parish of Boharm, in
the Presbytery of Aberlour, and County of Banff.
Rev. W. Proctor, M.A., Incumbent of Boddington. North-
umberland, to an Honorary Canonry in the Cathedial
Church of Carlisle.
Rev. T. Sewell, 8.A., to the Curacy of Twineliam, Sussex.
Rev. F. T. Seymour, M.A., to the Rectory of Hannington,
Hants.
Rev. A. Shears, 8.A., to the Curacy of Escrick, Yorkshire.
Rev. H. G. Symonds, 8.A., to the Curacy of Chickerell,
Dorset.
Rev. T. Westmorland, M.A., Vicar of Leominster, to be
Chaplain to the High Sheriff of Herefordshire.

NB* FORT.—The Manchester Guardian states that a
wish to perpetuate the memory of the Rev. Geoffrey
Hornby, late rector of the parish, has resulted in the erec-
tion, by subscription, of a new font and cover; which will
henceforth form a very beautiful embellishment of the
parish church :—" The font is of freestone, richly carved
in the decorated or middle-pointed style ; the upper part
or bowl being a series of arches, terminated with foliage,
and cusped within each arch. The monogram
interlacing triangles, and crosses, are engraved on alter-
nate panels • the spandrils are filled with conventional
foliations, and round the rim is engraved, in illuminated
medixval characters, the following inscription :--` In
memory of Geoffrey Hornby, Clerk, xxxii. years rector of
this parish : he deceased March iv., 1850, aged 70 years.'
The stem is niched and richly diapered, and the base
partly carved and partly a mass of mouldings. The cover
is of carved oak, about thirteen or fourteen feet high, in
three stages of canopy work, surmounted by a perforated
and crocketed spire ; the whole cover being perforated,
and executed in the most elaborate style of cathedral
tabernacle-work. Round the base is inlaid a brass in-
scription to the following effect To the glory and for
the service of Almighty God; this font and cover is
humbly offered by the worshippers in this church.' The
font and cover thus erected, at a cost of about £7O, are a
graceful tribute to the memory of a deservedly regretted
rector, and, as a work of art, we believe will bear com-
parison
with any in existence."

COCKERMOUTH CHURCH, after much local contention
since the fire to which we alluded at the time, has been
rebuilt, and is now very nearly completed. The plans of
Mr. Joseph Clarke, of London, were adhered to by the
committee ; and the cost, we understand, has not ex-
ceeded the original estimate of £4.500. The east window
has been filled with painted glass, by subscription, amount-
ing to 300 guineas, as a memorial to the poet Wordsworth,
who was born in the town, and educated as a child at the
grammar-school, in the church-yard. Various other
windows are promised. The convenience of the railway
was brought to bear on the materials ; and as it was
found difficult to procure the local freee-stone, the grit
from Prudhoe, in Northumberland, has been-used for the
greatest part of the church. This, with the blue lime-
stone walling, forms a good contrast. - An organ, by
Bishop, and a heavy peal of eight bells, by Mears, will be
put up, as soon as the church is fit to receive them.—
The Builder.
A LADY has recently bequeathed £l,OOO and the resi-
due of her estate, which may amount to a few hundred
pounds, for the purpose of building and repairing churches
in the diocese of Glasgow. The same benevolent lady
left £5OO to the cathedral of Perth.

EDUCATION FOR THE BRITISH COLONIES.-
THE BAHAMAS.
LBTTBR

TO THE: EDITOR OP TRH LIVERPOOL STMFDARD.

" Far as the breeze extends and ocean rolls,
Survey our empire."
dniruSmecibtilio—rn of the Bahamas consists of a vast
ThosfsoeimsraidssnyfrowinhicthhesteareystchofinGraanscioußahtsteama,l
latitude 27° 37" north, long. 790 5" west, to the island of
Mayaguana and Inagua, in latitude 20' 55" north, long.
72 40" west. Formerly the government extended to the.
"Caicos" and "Turk's Island," but in 1848 they were
separated from it and joined to the government of
Jamaica. The islands were settled about 200 years ago,
but their population has undergone many changes during
that time. Many of the loyalist families in the United
States, after the revolutionary war, settled in the
Bahamas. Their climate is the best in the West Indies,
being, during the summer months, about the same tem-
perature as the Mauritius and Ceylon. During the
winter months the heat is delightful, and they would
afford a charming and salubrious retreat to numbers in
England and the United States, if their condition in this
respect was rightly known. Thousands of valetudinarians
in England might spend six months of the year in these
islands for recruiting their health, instead of going to
Madeira or Italy ; so might thousands from the ports of
the United States, where the people are afflicted with weak
lungs and other pulmonary complaints, for which the
salubrious climate of the Bahamas would prove of the
greatest benefit. But their condition in this respect has
been little known, for visitors in the islands are few. The
natives have improved much in their condition both in
morals and religion. Vice and immorality may yet be
found among the negro population ; but the ministers of
religion have given to them such habits of order, decency,
and even sobriety, along with feelings of religion, that
their condition is far above that of most colonies where
slavery has so lately existed. No one, Sir, can wit-
ness the administration of the Holy Sacrament in the
churches and chapels of Nassau without being forcibly
struck by the numbers, the decent appearance, and the
devout demeanour of the negroes and negresses as they
successively follow and kneel at the rails of the communion
table along with their white fellow-subjects. Governor
Gregory, touching upon this subject in his despatches for
1850 to Earl Grey, says : " Nor is the fruit of the
unwearied exertions of the clergy invisible in our towns.
It is seen daily in the tranquillity of our streets, the
absence of riot and violence, the proper observance of the
Lord's Day—still more in the absence of serious crime.
Concubinage, indeed—one of the many legacies of slavery,
—still exists amongst the negroes to a lamentable extent;
but it is gradually giving way to the marriage con-
tract, through the strenuous remonstrances of the
clergy." How fully does this substantiate what was
said in one of my former letters about the negroes
in Jamaica, taken from the private correspondence
of a gentleman at present living in it ? Yet, with all this,
we have great reasons to hope for a better state of things
among them, for the negro's nature still manifests that
it has some moral good left in it, as our first parent Adam
had when driven from Eden for his disobedience. But
the negro's moral nature, like that of all other races of
mankind, is a mere relic of what it was before sin was ,
committed ; just as a ruin in Greece or Persepolis may
still serve to show the traveller what the temple or palace I
was in the days of Pericles, or the Persian emperors_
Lovely are the ruined relics of Greece and Persia still to
travellers ; and lovely still are the emenations of goodness
from mankind to the moralist ; and the more so if culture
has not been given, and bad examples set. Speaking
thus, I do it in a human, moral sense, and not in a theo-
logical one. The high, pure standard of the latter one
teaches us to say, with the Psalmist, that our nature is
above all things deceitful and wicked. This we are told
by the Psalmist, and not in his haste either, as when he
told us we were all liars. But we can speak in a Platonic,
or moral philosophy sense, and in suclra one we can rejoice
in any acts of goodness manifested by our kind, in any
country or in any clime; just as we can in an ancient
ruin ; " where'er 'tis seen, no matter where," "in Britain,
or in other lands," it suffices to tell us what the temple
was in its pristine days; and so do acts of moral goodness
done by the moral relic still in our nature ; they serve to
exalt the Christian's views of his state of purity and inno-
cence before the fall. They have also served to enable the
speculative philosopher to build up systems of hypothetical
reasoning upon our moral nature, and sense of right and
wrong ; the personal meum and Num of men in society.
A gratifying thing to remark is, that a spirit of bro-
therly love is entertained by the inhabitants of one island
towards those of the others ; this was most remarkably
evinced, not very long ago, by the negro planters of St.
Salvador : no sooner did they hear of the great tornado
at Nassau, than they, one and all, contributed their mite,
and sent up twenty bushels of corn as their subscription
towards the relief of their suffering brethren—a striking
example of Christian charity emanating from the first dis-
covered
land in the Western World, showing that they
appreciate the commands, "Be ye kindly and affectionate
one towards another,"—" Let brotherly love prevail."
The religious establishments of the Bahamas are upon
a scale highly creditable, both to the island legislature
and the imperial parliament at home. The number of
the clergy belonging to the English Church is eleven ,•
they are under the general superintendence of the Lord
Bishop of Jamaica, who visits the colony once every two
or three years. They are more immediately under the
supervision of his lordship's " commissary," who holds a
commission from the British Crown as Archdeacon of the
Bahamas, with a salary of £lOOO, paid him out of the im-
perial treasury at home. In Nassau and its suburbs,
comprising a population of about 8000 persons, there are
twelve places of worship. Of these, five belong to the
English Church, one to the Free Kirk of Scotland, three
to the Wesleyans, two to the Baptists of England, and
one to the local Independent Baptists of the Bahamas.
Most of the out islands have places of worship in
them. The members of the Church of England are
in a minority in the islands. This is in consequence ,
of the lateness of the period when their missionaries ar- I
rived, and the zeal with which the Baptists and Methodists
have laboured ; the latter had cultivated the ground before
the others arrived, and impressed deeply upon the negroes
the peculiar tenets of their societies. For a considerable
time a strong spirit of animosity pervaded the clergy in
the colony towards one another, through the parochial
burial grounds. The Presbyterians and Baptists claimed
An equal right with the clergy of the English Church in
its ceremonial use, for the purposes of burial. Angry and
prolonged was the contention among them, in consequence
of these rival claims. The Colonial Legislature took up
the question at last, and passed an act which threw open
to the public all burial grounds (not being bona fide
churchyards) to the ministers of all religious denomina-
tions in the colony. To this bill the Lord Bishop of
Jamaica gave his entire assent ; and in his charge to his
clergy, 21st March, 1850, he pointed out to them their
duties of acquiescing in the arrangement made by the Le-
gislature. In the " signs of the times, said his lordship,
I think I discover more of the bow than of the cloud ;
alluding to the settlement of the question upon its present
condition. The course which he recommended them to
pursue was one of consistency and conciliation—more
strongly attached to the performance of their duties than
to the enjoyment of their privileges. The principles of
order, of charity, of respect to the laws, and of entire
subjection to the spirit of the gospel of peace, were to be
the principles to guide them, and then they would endea-
vour to allay the excitement and revengeful feelings which
had been kindled and existed all around them. Finally,
said his lordship, in conclusion, " Be ye all of one mind,
having compassion to one another ; love as brethren ; be
pitiful ; be courteous : not rendering evil for evil, nor rail-
ing for railing, but, contrariwise, blessing." He finished
his charge with the above appropriate expressions, and his
clergy have acted upon them.
The local Legislature appropriates annually upwards of
one-fourth of the revenue of the colony for the purposes of
religion, education, and charity. The sums given for each
of the above stand thus :—£2,923 for religion ; £9lO for
education ; £1,550 for the poor : total, £6,383. Whole
revenue of the colony, £25,057.
The following sums show how the clergy of the English
Church are paid by the colony :
Rector of Christ's Church, Nassau, £273 Bs. 9d., with
a parsonage house and £7O from parliament.
Rector of St. Matthew's, 2270 16s. Sd., and £52 for
house rent, with £7O from parliament.
Rectors of St. Anne's, £l5O, and £3l for house rent,
with £l5O from the Society for Propagating the Gospel.
Curate of St. Agnes, £l2B.
Curate of St. Mary's, £93 155., with his salary as Gar-
rison Chaplain.
Rector of St. John's, Harbour Island, £260 Bs. 4d.,
with £26 for house rent.
Rector of St. Paul's, St. Salvador, £lBO, with £lOO per
year from the above society.
Rector of St. David's, Long Island, £l5O.
Rector of St. Patrick's, Elurtheror, £l5O.
Rector of St. Peter's, Abaco, £l5O.
Missionary at St. Stephen's, Qrand Bahama, £lOO a
year from a colonial church fund.
The Minister of the St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church is
paid by the colony £260 Bs. 44.1., with £52 for house rent.
The Baptist and Wesleyan Ministers are paid by their
own societies at home.
This is a bright prospect to look upon.
The general control of all the public schools is vested
in a board, which meets once a month, the governor gene-
rally presiding over their meetings.
At first, all ministers of religion in the island were
members of the board, but it was found to work badly,
for they began to squabble about doctrinal points, most
seriously, and retarded very much the proceedings. They
are no longer members of the board. It now consists of
lay members only, five in number, of whom the governor
is one, and the other four belong to the executive council.
They have a secretary, who keeps minutes of the proceed-
ings. Mr. Doyle, a gentleman once practising at the
English bar, but now at the Bahamian, fills the
office most efficiently, giving nearly the whole . of
his time to its duties, for which he only gets £6O per
year. A master had to be sent for from England to go
over the many islands forming the colony, and visiting
the schools, and reporting thereon to the board. He has
a salary of £2OO per annum given to him, and his travel-
ling expenses paid.
The board now maintains 36 schools, which have in
them 1,736 children under tuition, nine-tenths of whom
are coloured or black children. Their schools are orga-
nised upon the plan of the British and Foreign School
Society, where the buildings are such as to admit of it,
but a great many of them will not allow of it being fully
carried out ; for where the school-rooms are broad enough
they are deficient in length; thus the desks go within
two feet of the walls, so that one person has barely room
to pass, and should another be coming in the opposite
direction, then there is not room for them, but one must
go in till the other passes. Thus the old dame school
plan of " shift for yourself " has to be carried on in them.
The teachers are not as efficient as they should be, though
the board has made every exertion which their limited
means would allow of to get them'. Money was even sent
to take out two young men from the normal school of
Glasgow ; and many of the' teachers have been turn ed
away as inefficient. But still before teachers can make
schools effective they must have suitable buildings erected.
This the board has not the means of doing at present,
though the cost is not great. A good substantial building.
to do lis by of 52 feet by 26 could be put up for 200 dollars ; partieso
the Colony have expressed then willingness •

contract. The-timber could be bought at Harbour laland
for 25 dollars per 1000 feet. Thus the expense would not,
be very great. The board employs 35 teachers, to who=
they give: £1,051, being :the aggregate of their salaries-
The number of children who attend their schools is 1,736,
of whom 988 are boys and 748 girls. In respect to the
attainments of these, they give 1,106 as those who are able-
to spell, 992 read, 428 write in books, and 633 on slates ;
673 are in the simple rules of arithmetic, and 201 in the
compound and higher rules ; 486 are instructed in gram—
mar, 458 in geography ; 308 are taught needlework, 1.5
tailoring, 14 shoemaking.
I am, sir, yours, &c.,
Liverpool, Feb. 24,1834.

JA.- MSS LISTEE.

APPALLING SHIPWRECK,

A horrible story has been brought home to Sunderland.-
kntaheDbearqs, uoefCLubivaerpool, in the. accThouentßoofnatherileossssoaifledthefsrmahipL
Havana in charge of a pilot, and soon after getting out,
fell in with bad weather. During the night of Monday,
Jan. 23, a tremendous sea struck the vessel, causing her
to tremble violently. All hands were lashed to the pumps,
and pumped till they became useless, and the water had
got to within three feet of the main deck. Presently
heavy lurch threw the captain and four men overboard,
and the sea washed everything out of the cabin and stores
at the same time—not a morsel of bread, or a drop of
water, was left. The weather was frightful. They
managed to get an old sail over the stump of the mizen-
mast, and lash themselves there, although they expected
every moment that the poop would go to pieces. ?her
remained in that situation all that day and night. Them
we have the following fearful diary :
Tuesday, Jan. 24.—The gale still blowing as hard arc-
ever, with a terrific sea constantly breaking over the ship..
A sharp look-out was kept the whole day, but nothing was.
seen.

Thursday, Jan. 26.—Spread a tarpaulin to catch some-
rain water, as a few showers were passing, but did not
succeed, owing to the sea breaking over all. Broke down:
the ceiling of the cabin, in the hopes of finding some-
crumbs of bread or something else, but in vain—none
were to be found. It was then the third day that they
had not tasted food or water. Towards night some of the
men complained of thirst, but remained quite reasonable
and manageable.
Friday, Jan. 27.—At daylight saw a barque, not more
than three miles from the wreck ; but they either did not
or would not take notice of the wreck. They were unable
to restrain themselves from drinking salt water. In the
course of the day a rat was caught, and divided equallx
among them.

Saturday, Jan. 2S.—Drank large quantities of salt
water during the day, besides chewing lead and bits of
rope.

Sunday, Jan. 29.—Saw two ships not more than three
miles from them. Strange as it may appear, neither of
them took any notice of their awful position ; they passed
so close that they distinguished all the sails, spars, &e..
The horrors of starvation now broke upon them, and the
thirst was almost maddening. They, towards night, dis-
covered a kitten, which had crawled out from below • it
was instantly killed, and greedily devoured. Symptomsi
of insanity presented itself among some of the men. They
were still without water, and all in a very exhausted state
their legs and feet began to swell.
Monday, Jan. 30.—The weather nothing abated. Drink-
ing immense quantities of salt water.
Tuesday, Jan. 31.—Most of them now began to despair;
some were delirious, and others commenced talking about
sacrificing one of the number to save the rest from being
starved to death. The men proposed they should drawn
lots to decide who it should be. At five o'clock in the
evening saw a large ship standing to the N.W. A sharp
look-out was kept, expecting to be relieved in the morn-
ing; but, alas ! they were doomed to disappointment; the
ship was ought of sight.
Wednesday, Feb. I.—The men now drew lots. One
poor fellow, named James Lilley, who appeared to be in
a dying state, offered himself to save the rest. Mr_
M`Leod interfered, and cheered them up with the prospect ,
of being soon relieved. No water.

Thursday, Feb. 2.—The weather moderating. The men
were now become unmanageable. They were determined
to have the dying man sacrificed. The poor fellow had
offered to do the deed himself, and he cut his arms in two
places to bleed to death, but no blood came. The men
afterwards surrounded him, and one of them cut his
throat. Mr. M`Leod says the scene that followed was-
most horrible—too horrible to detail.

Friday, Feb. 3.—Many of the men franticly mad, and
crawling about the deck in a shocking state ; the remainder
were nearly prostrate, and unable to move. Weather
moderate.

Saturday, Feb. 4 (twelfth day without food or water).—
Mr. 111`Leod and two men were the only portion of the
crew who were able to get about. The whole of the
remainder were perfectly prostrate, and among them four
quite deranged. All, in fact, were fast sinking, and could
not possibly have survived another day, the immense
quantity of salt water they drank increasing their suffer-
ings to a frightful degree. At about nine o'clock a vessel
was observed through the haze. The vessel proved to be
the Cuba, of Sunderland, bound to Swansea, front-
Coquimbo, Captain G. F. Organ, master. By one o'clock
they succeeded in getting all on board. Those who were
insane were carried below, and put in a roomy clean, anal
comfortable aft-deck, whilst the others were placed in the
forecastle, with a fire and everything suitable for their
condition. The moment they came on board, a little..
boiled rice and barley water were administered to them;
they were then washed in warm water, and dry clothes
put on them. One of them, however, amuel Blanc, the
' cook, died almost immediately he was brought on board.
Four others died in a few days after, notwithstanding
every possible means were taken to save their lives. They
had continued insane the whole time, and died raving
mad. The remainder—Mr. Duncan M`Leod, chief mate;
Thomas Phillips, second made ; Benjamin Mooney, Jolitr-
Doherty, William Harrison, John Naylor, and Charles
Philpotts, seamen—all recovered, and were landed at
Swansea on Thursday last.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]
HOBBS'S LOCKS PICKED.
TO THE EDITOR OF T1.113.1K0RN1150 ADVERTISER.

SIR,—ALout a year and a half ago I obtainedOneofHobbs's
Patent Protector Locks, and, after carefully examining its•
construction, I felt convinced that I could pick it. I then.
prepared suitable instruments, and picked the lock in fire'
minutes ; this I did again and again ; the third time it occu--
pied only one minute and a-half. I also picked another lock
about two months since. Hearing the week before last that
a paper on locks was to be read at the Institution of Civil
Engineers, by Mr. Hobbs, I requested my employer, Mr.
Chubb, to allow me to operate on Mr. Hobbs's locks in such
a manner as to prove to the world, beyond any doubt, how
easily they may be picked. Mr. Chubb then, on Friday, the
10th of this month, put into my hands one of Hobbs's locks.
sealed up. the only access to the interior of it being through
the keyhole. I had to make fresh instruments for this lock.
I commenced operating upon it on Monday morning, and in
two hours I succeeded in picking it. I neither saw the key
nor the interior of this lock. I then picked two other of
Hobbs's locks, under the circumstances detailed in the follow-
ing certificate:—
"London, Feb. 20. i 554..
"On the 13th of February, Dr. Lobb and Mr. S. Maw,
called at the shop of Messrs. Hobbs and Company, Cheap_
side, and asked for, and purchased, two of Hobbs's ' best
Patent Protector Locks,' with different keys. Each lock was
accompanied by a label, stating that `the peculiarity of these
locks consists in the arrangement of the tumbler stump, it
being attached to a moveable piece that works under the bolt,
thereby preventing the possibility of ascertaining the proper-
position of the tumblers, which renders the lock secure
against picking.' The locks were then taken to Messrs.
Liddiard and Co., Friday-street, where the bolt of one was
locked out with its own key ; the lock was then enveloped its
paper, and sealed with the seals of Messrs. Liddiard, Sheriff.
and Loh'', the key-hole only being left open. This lock was
placed in the hands of John Goater the same evening, who
returned it picked (still sealed up as when given to him), on
Wednesday, the 15th February. The second lock was then
sealed in the same manner by Dr. Lobb, Mr. Copeland, and
Mr. Arthur Lobb. This was delivered into John Goater's
hands, at nine o'clock on Thursday morning, who picked and
returned it (sealed as when given to him) at three o'clock the
same afternoon. The keys of the first lock still remain
sealed up in the custody of Mr. Sheriff; and those of the
second in that of Mr. Arthur Lobb. Both these locks were
fairly picked by the use of certain instruments, solely through
the key-holes, and neither previously nor since has the un-
dersigned, John Goater, seen either the keys or the interior
of the locks.
" We, the undersigned, append our signatures, to vouch
for the truth of the above statement, so far as each of us is
concerned therein :
_

" S. MAW, IL Aldersgate-street.
"J. NI: COPELAND, 2, Vernon-place,
Bloomsbury-square.
" WILLIAM Loau, 12, Alderagate-street.
"G. W. SitaitlTY, 61, Friday-street.
" WM. LIDDIARD, 61, Friday-street.
'tARTHUR Loaa, Stock Exchange.
•"Jonlll GOATBR, 14, St. James's-walk."
In order to show there was no unfairness in the way I picked
these locks, I explained the manner in which it was done to
Mr. Carpinael, of Lincoln's-inn ; and on Friday last, Mr.
Carpmael purchased a lock at Mr. Hobba's shop, which he
sealed up and gave to me; this I picked the same afternoon.
It was not my intention to have explained the manner which
I adopted in picking these "Unpicked American Locks;"
but, upon second consideration, the plan being so simpe.
easy, and certain in its results, and knowing that the fact of
their having been picked would set many to try their hands
at it, that it was sure to be discovered, induced me to alter
my mind ; therefore, I described one of the methods at the
Institution of Civil Engineers, on Tuesday last ; it simply
consists in the application of a piece of watch-spring and two
common picks.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant,
JOHN GOATER.

14, St. James's-walk, Feb. 23, 1854. ------
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TIIII TRBTII.—A new and very curious invention con-
nected with Dental Surgery has been introduced by Mr.
Howard, of 17, George-street, Hanover-square, London; it is
the production of an entirely new description of Artificial
Teeth, fixed by his new patent system of self-adhesion and
capillary attraction, without springs, wires, or ligatures.
They so perfectly resemble natural teeth, as not to be dis-
tinguished from the originals by the closest observer. They
will never change colour or decay, and will be found very
superior to any teeth ever before used. This method does not
require the extraction of roots, or any painful operation what-
ever, and from the nature of the materials used, the most
perfect fit is obtained, and they are guaranteed to restore ar-
ticulatione and mastication. The invention is of unPogaoja
to many persons, and those who are interested in it,
avail themselves of Mr. Howard's skill as a dentist.
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COUGHS, COLDS, BRONCHITIS, AND INn,,,,,,mpair,
During theprevalence of unsettled weather,
,fogsdathe windpipe
the glottis (at the upper part of the windpiPe,
,I. :R:dustily extends
itself, take an inflammatory action, whi-m-brolichial tubes
along the mucous coat until it reaches nistreosing cough,
which penetrate the lungs, giving rise
cl?!.`..":and often, if un-
expectoration, spasmodic pains of the.sfz. In other cases,
checked. ending in fatal putrnonary
the inflammatory action occurs inetedh dei:isns u :et a the
tohfe ey
ebse,aadnadn
ad
face, causing watery eructation,
extremity' of the nostrils. This is
stinging sensation at the
eies is inflammation
the epidemic termed /afbicazi,;: Bronchitis
the bronci in its whole
of the mucous membrane wbc'
ohnin
on cold in the young and.
extent. It commences as
continuesn
a month or two, and returns
middle-aged, and
eudgh,y It is sometimes erro-
every winter with increased
and sometimes asthma ; n.
neously called wintVade Mecum, edited by Dr. Ryan, it is
Hooper's Physicians
candidly stated that they (the medical profession) did not
know any effectual' freatwnstufbosrtatnheeesehadsisboeerdnerisn‘rsoidnuceeetdb,_at
led a De
work was comp
Fig si' en IAL SEDATIVE: the influence of this sub—
stance""S --
°the exact track of the inflammatory action.
pursues
causing cough.
. First soothing the
glottis and epiglottis (the
or g
ans of voice), its sedative
influence passes along the
mucous lining of the
windpipe unto the bronchi, allaying
pulmonary irritation, giving ease and comfort to the chest,
and restoring the voice to its accustomed clearness and power.
This medicine is without doubt the only cure for these dis-
orders. Since its introduction, it has been rapidly supplant-
ing every other preparation administered for pulmonary
disorders. The proprietors strongly urge the Medical Pro-
fession. Chemists, and others, to introduce it to the afflicted.
It is sold by most respectable Chemists, and by all the AS'entS
for Braude 's Enamel.