The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-03-26 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS,

DREADFUL DEATH OF A CHILD.—On Friday week,
during the temporary absence of the family, a pig went into
the house of a man named Vicars, resident at Tottington,
near Bury, and took a child of two months old from the
cradle, and worried it, carrying completely away the nape of
its neck, breaking its arm, and mutilating it in a shocking
manner. When found, to the great distraction of the family,
the child was quite dead.
THE Bov JONES.—On Friday, Sir James M`Donnel, of
the War Office, attended at Buckingham Palace, and, in
company with Inspector Russell, made a most careful exami-
nation of all the approaches and entrances into the palace,
both from the public thoroughfares and from the gardens,
the result of which was the appointment of three additional
sentries.

UNFORTUNATE OCCURRENCE.-Mr. J. P. Tate, grocer,
Strangways, left his home on Friday week, and on Sunday
morning last, nine days afterwards, his hat was seen in or
near a pond between the public-house and the Bolton Rail-
way, in the direction of a short cut to the line, which leads
by a narrow path close past the pond. The pond was accord-
ingly dragged, and, about noon on Sunday, the body of Mr.
Tate was found. He had all his clothes on, except his hat,
and, when taken out of the water, had both spectacles and
gloves on. In his pockets were I ls. 6d. in silver, and other
articles. The night is stated to have been foggy, and it is
conjectured that he missed the narrow path ; or, as he com-
plained of illness, that he had been visited by an epileptic fit,
to which he had been subject for some years.—Manchester
Guardian.

IBRAHIM PASHA.—The Austrian Observer publishes in-
telligence from Constantinople to the 24th ult., brought by
the steam-boat Ludovico. It appears that Ibrahim Pasha
still remained at Gaza on the 9th ult., confined to his bed,
suffering from jaundice and dropsy. He had become so
much worse, that he had been obliged to apply to the com-
mander of the English ship Benbow, at anchor before Jaffa,
for a surgeon, who had been sent to him. The Tuscan
steamboat which had been purchased by Mehemet Ali had
been sent to Gaza to bring back Ibrahim to Alexandria. All
the accounts from Syria are unanimous in describing the ex-
cesses and cruelties -of which Ibrahim had been guilty before
his departure from Damascus. After having pillaged all the
surrounding villages to procure provisions, and.put to death
more than 100 persons suspected of wishing to desert, he
shot with his own hand one of his attendants. The new
governor, Hadschi Ali Pasha, appointed by the Porte, had
arrived at Damascus on the 21st of January, and bad been
received with acclamation. The inhabitants throughout
Syria had expressed their joy at having been restored to the
dominion of their ancient sovereign.

DISTRESSING CASE.—On Tuesday last, an inquest'was
held before Mr. Wakley, at Cierkenwell, London, touching
the death of an infant three weeks old. Its mother was in
Maidstone Gaol at the time of the child's birth, and was ad-
vised not to leave, but she would do so. She stated before
the coroner, that'she was an unfortunate woman, was in great
distress, and had no food nor milk for her child, which first
prompted her to make an end of it, which was effected by
throwing the innocent creature into the New River. The
mother was the first person to'give information of what she
had done, immediately upon which the river was dragged,
and the body of the child discovered. The poor woman ap-
peared to have been driven to a state bordering on distrac-
tion by continued suffering. She had applied to the reliev-
ing officer of Marylebone, but was refused any relief, though
she gave the age of the child. The jury, after a short deli-
beration, returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder
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EXECUTION OF MATTHEW FOWLES.—The execution of
this unhappy man, who was found guilty at our assizes last
week of the wilful murder of Martha Keeling, at Newcastle,
is appointed to take place on Saturday, the 3d of April. We
learn that Fowles displays at present much indifference on
the subject of his approaching awful fate, and persists in
asserting his innocence of the crime for which, on the most
satisfactory evidence, he has been condemned to an ignomi-
nious death. He accounts for the possession of the ring of
the deceased woman, byllstating that he purchased it with a
view of making a present of it to his sweetheart at Maccles-
field ; and, when asked how it was he did not pay the tailor
for the coat he purchased the evening prior to the murder,
he states that he had the money, but the coat required some
repairs at the cuffs; he also continues to affirm that the
"tiddler "

man, were in the house during the night of the murder. The

evidence, however, is deemed so conclusive against him, that

it is not expected any effort will be made to procure a re-
' —Staffordshire Gdzette.

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LIABILITY OF CANALS TO BE ASSESSED TO PAROCHIAL
RATES.—Many of the old Canal Acts contain a clause that
the canals shall be rated or assessed to the poor and other
parochial rates, according to the value of the adjoining land,
and not of the improved value by the making the canals and
works. The later canal companies have had no such ex-
empting clause ; but their canals are, like all other property,
assessed at their improved value. The consequence of this
state of thingsis, that the township of Marple, through which
the Peak Forest Canal and the Macclesfield Canal pass, the
former for the length of near four miles, and the latter short

of three, a rate of shilling in the pound produces from
the Peak Forest Canal only £2 Os. 2d. ; whilst the Maccles-
field Canal pays £2O 2s. 3d. The Peak Forest Canal Com-
pany are now in parliament for further powers ; but the rate-

payers of Marple, Disley, Whaley, Bugsworth, and Chapel-
en-le-Frith, through which the canal and its railway pass,
have presented petitions to the house of commons, praying
that the bill may not pass into a law without a clause being
inserted to repeal the present mode of rating the Peak Forest
Canal, and leaving it to be assessed like all other property ;
viz., the valpe at the time it was rated.

RATING OF RAILWAYS.—IMPORTANT DECISION.—At the
late meeting of the bench of magistrates at Croydon, a
question of very grave importance to every parish in the
kingdom in which railway works are in operation, was brought
flirward, and should the decision come to by the bench prove
correct in law, it will be found to affect their interests most
materially. A claim was made upon the directors of the
London and Brighton Railway for the sum of £l6 12s. 44d.,
the amount of a poor-rate assessed upon property in their
occupation in the parish of Croydon. The solicitor who
appeared in support of the rate contended that, as the com-
pany had purchased the land which was formerly assessed to
the poor-rate, had laid down rails, and used locomotives upon
them to convey soil, bricks, &c., they enjoyed a beneficial
occupation, and it was not at all necessary that it should be
profitable. Mr. Sutton, on behalf of the company, contended
that, until the works were completed, there was no beneficial
occupation, and, consequently, the railway could not be as-
sessed to the poor-rate. The bench, having deliberated upon
the matter, decided upon disallowing the rate.

SERIOUS AFFRAY IN BETHNAL GREEN.—Between 9
and 10 o'clock last night, the neighbourhood of Mape-street,
Bethnal-green, was thrown into a state of great alarm by a
report that two persons had been killed by a Chartist. On
inquiry it appeared that a man named Charles Groom, a
dealer in marine stores, living in Mape-street, had cut a lad
named Joseph Biddle on the hand with a short heavy sword,
which, from its peculiar formation, when examined by the
police, was unanimously pronounced to be one of those
awkward unfinished instruments with which the Chartists in
this quarter were well known to have provided themselves at
the tune of the Newport riots. The circumstances attend-
ing the assault made by Groom are somewhat curious, as it
appears that he was a "new corner" in Mape-street, and
that the mother of the lad Biddle, hearing a person inquire
for a man named Bannister, sent her son to inquire at
Groom's house if that was his name, when Groom, who
alleges that he supposed that Biddle was come to rob him,
rushed out upon him with the weapon we have described,
and struck him on the hand, and was about to repeat the
blow, when the grandmother of the lail interfered and re-
ceived a cut from Groom on her hand. Another woman
rushed to the assistance of the Biddies, and Groom was dis-
armed and given into the custody of the police, by whom he
was locked up. The old woman and the lad were taken to
the London Hospital, where their wounds were dressed, and
they were afterwards able to return home.—London Standard
of Monday.

SHOCKING OUTRAGE, NEAR BACUP, LANCASHIRE.—
On Monday morning last, about one o'clock, the family re-
siding at the Derpley Inn, a lonely public-house on the
moors, about two miles above Bacup, were subjected to the
following most atrocious outrage, involving at least robbery,
and perhaps murder. At the time mentioned, two men
called for admittanoe, which not being readily granted, they
broke two squares of glass in one of the windows, in trying,
as they alleged, to awake the inmates. The family consisted
of an aged couple, James Simpson and his wife, and a young
girl who lived as servant with them. The old woman, after
some delay, came down stairs and let the men in, and they
asked for a noggin of gin, which was filled to them, and they
threw down a half-crown for payment. At this time the old
man came down and gave them change, but stopped out of it
tenpence for the broken windows. They objected to this,
and words ensued, and one of the villians set upon the old
man and beat him with a stick about the head, until he was
senseless ; the other overpoweriid the old woman, and rifled
the drawer in the bar. When the disturbance began, the
girl escaped by the back door and alarmed a son of Simpson's.,
named James, who lived at a house at a short distance, and
who immediately hastened to the assistance of his parents.
He arrived just as one of the fellows was coming out of the
bar, putting something into his pocket. James laid hold of
him, threw him down, and speedily thrashed him so that, as
be said, "he could know him again." The other then came
up, and said if James would not leohis comrade go, he would
shoot him. James refused ; and the villain then presented
a pistol and fired ; and a ball or a slug passed through the
young man's body, from side to side. Of course the contest
was then over, and the villains made their escape across the
hills towards Burnley. The young man is expected to re-
cover, unless inflammation should set in and carry him off;
the ball, or whatever it was, having, it appears, traversed
beneath the skin, without touching any vital part. The old
man, on Monday, was reported to be dangerously ill, and re-
maining entirely blind from the wounds on his head. A cir-
cumstance, calculated to add, if any thing could, to the af-
fliction of this family, occurred only the previous day. A
married daughter of the old couple (the mother of eight
children) hung herself, at a place called Old Clough, near
Bacup.

MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR.—The following account is vouched
for as true, and many particulars not here related would be
given by the editor to any person likely to give a clue to the
solution of the mystery. A gentleman of elegant manners
and address, calling himself Captain Henry Maxwell, and his
sister Miss Maxwell, took up their residence in a town near
this city. Wanting a house, they called upon a widow lady
who had one to let, where Captain Maxwell saw and ad-
mired her eldest daughter, an accomplished and beautiful
young woman, 24 years old, to whom he made offers of mar-
riage. He stated himself to be connected with Sir Murray
Maxwell, and the nephew of a gentleman of fortune of his
own name, near Cork, in Ireland, on whom he depended
principally for an income. They were married, and Captain
Maxwell, after going to London with his bride, when he
seemed to shun being seen about the streets, left her for a
short time to go to Hanover, where he held a military ap-
pointment. On his return they went to reside at Bolougne,
where the husband received a letter from Ireland, on which
he told his wife that his uncle was dying, and that he would
leave her to go home under the care of his sister, who would
join him at their uncle's in Ireland. A fortnight after the
young lady's arrival at the house of her mother she received
a letter from Miss Maxwell, dated from Mount Maxwell,
near Cork, informing her that Captain Maxwell had died
eight days after his uncle, in a high fever, and that the
uncle, displeased with his marriage, had altered his will be-
fore his death, leaving him nothing, and that his own pro-
perty, being only a life-interest, ceased with his death.
Letters were sent to Cork addressed to Miss Maxwell,
making the requisite inquiries about Captain Maxwell's
death, and these were returned with the notice from the post-
office that no such place existed as that from which Miss
Maxwell dated her letters, nor was any family of the name
known in Cork or the neighbourhood. All inquiries have
failed in producing any elucidation of the strange mystery.
Captain Maxwell told his wife he was known to the Duke of
Wellington, the Marquis of Douro, a son of the Earl of
Wemyss, Captain Marryat, the author, with whom he sailed
on board of his ship; that he was with a Mr. Fitzroy in
Hanover; was related to the Marchioness of Donegal, Mr.
Colthurst, and General Gillespie. He had £7OO with hint
when he left his wife, besides a large chest of plate, &c.
There were many books and other things which might have
led to a knowledge of who he was, which the sister most
cunningly possessed herself of.—Exeter Flying Post.

FIRE IN THE PARISH CHURCH OF ASHTON.—About half-
past eight o'clock on Sunday morning last a person whose
duty it is to ring what is called the quarter bell at St. Mi-
chael's Church, Ashton, observed some pieces of burning
wood fall from the upper part of the tower, within the steeple.
Upon examination he found that the roof of the belfry was
on fire. He immediately made an alarm, and Armitage, the
sexton, went to call the firemen, whilst some other person
went to the police office. Some other officious person went
to the place where the engines were kept ; and having broken
open the door, one of the engines was taken to the church
yard. The Rev. Mr. Quirk, the junior curate, and several
other persons, repaired to the spot ; and a large number of
water cans having been procured from the neighbouring
houses, water was handed up the steps of the tower—men
standing upon every fourth or fifth step, and handing the
cabs or buckets of water from one to the other. To the ex-
ertions of these individuals are the parishioners indebted for
the safety of the church ; for, had the flames descended much
lower than the apartment to which they were confined, one
end of the church must have been destroyed, as one of the
engines was disabled immediately after its arrival at the
church. The hose was attached to the engine, and the at-
tendants commenced working the engine before the pipe had
been hoisted up into the steeple ; and the consequence was
that the hose burst, in consequence of its having been bent
when full of water, and the engine was useless. Such a scene
of confusion we have seldom witnessed. There was no per-
son to direct the operations of the firemen and bystanders,
and even the churchwardens were absent, until the fire was
extinguished. The fire took place in consequence of the lead
pipe which conveys the smoke through the steeple from the
church stove being filled with soot, which caught fire, melted
the lead pipe, and set fire to the dry timbers of the roof. We
believe it is just 20 years since the church was on fire be-
fore.

—Lancashire, froth being among the most backward part in
England, has worked its way into the front rank. The con-
trast between its condition up to the middle of the last cen-
tury, and the astonishing spectacle which it exhibits at pre-
sent

belongs to the transformation which a hundred fears
create in a new settled country like America, far more than
to the gradual improvement and change of an old English
county. It would be curious to analyse the concurrent
causes, and marshal the successive steps which Lancashire
has advanced ;—not only succeeding in appropriating to itself
a leading interest in the creative inventions of Arkwrightand
Watt, but connecting its name in honourable alliance with
literature and science. The very circumstances from which
a contrary presumption would originally have been drawn,
have (singularly enough) principally contributed to its ex-
traordinary progress. Lancashire owes the canals, by which
the commercial thoroughfare of that end of England had
been turned from the Humber to the Mersey, to the enter-
prise of a peer. It owes the docks, which have about them
almost a Roman presentiment of future greatness, to the
spirit of a corporation. It owes the taste and accomplish-
ments, by which the character of its wealth has been raised
above the drudgery and fanaticism of money-getting, almost
entirely to the zeal of a few dissenters.. The name of Gover-
nor Clinton is not so pre-eminently united with the canal
policy of America, as is the name of the Duke of Bridge-
water with the canals of England. He staked his last shil-
ling on the chance of cutting out a north-west passage to the
Atlantic. The corporation of Liverpool, by an enlightened
application of their vast resources, have accelerated, conso-
lidated, and secured the realization of every expectation and
contingency which fortune threw in their way. They have
hastened, not to say anticipated, events. There can be as

little doubt of the effect which the light, 1.-
assemblage of Priestley. Wakefield, Aikin, &c. at warring-
ton ; from the presence of Percival, Henry, Ferrair, and Dal-
ton, at Manchester ; and from that of Roscoe and Currie, at
Liverpool, spread over their circle.—Edinburgh Review-
-

from the

I,RESSIVE PROGRESS OF RUSSlA.—Within a period
of 54 years, the total acquisitions of Russia equalled her
whole European empire before that time. The acquisition
from Sweden equalled the now kingdom of Sweden ; from
Poland, a territory equal to the- Austrian empire ; from
European Turkey a country equal to Prussia, exclusive of
the Rhenish provinces ; from Asiatic Turkey, a territory
equal to the German small states, Rhenish Prussia, Holland,
and Belgium ; from Persia, an extent of country equal to
England ; and from Tartary, a country equal to European
Turkey, Greece, Italy, and the whole of Spain. The Russian
frontier has been advanced by these acquisitions about 700
miles towards Berlin, Dresden; Munich, Vienna and Paris,
500 miles to Constantinople, 60 miles to Stockholm, and
about 1000 miles to Teheran. The estimated population of
Russia in 1689, at the accession of Peter 1., was 13,000,000;
at the accession of Catharine 11. in 1762, it was 23,000,000,
and at her death in 1792. it was 36,000,000, whilst at the
death of Alexander, in 1823, it was 38,000,000.—MaltaTirnes.
IMMENSE ARTESIAN WELL.—At the sitting of the Aca-
demie des Sciences on Monday, M. Arago made a report on
the Artesian well at Grenelle, which showed the great diffi-
culties attending the undertaking. The first time the borer
fell into the cavity was when the perforation had been to the
depth of 115 metres-377 feet. This was soon after the com-
mencement of the operation, was soon recovered, and was in
fact as nothing to what occurred in 1837. Then the length
of the bars united together measured 384 metres-1,260 feet.
Not only these broke, but the enormous metal spoon used to
bring the materials to the surface, also fell to the bottom of
the cavity, from a height of 80 metres-262 feet, and it re,
quired extraordinary exertions to recover it and draw it out
again. The operation, which could only be worked by means
of a windlass, with horse-power workinz on the surface, oc-
cupied the whole time from May, 1837, to August, 1838.
The immensity of this labour for 15 successive months may
be well conceived, when it is reflected that it had to act to a
depth of 460 metres—upwards of 2,000 feet. This difficulty
being overcome, the works were continued without any fresh
misfortune until the Bth of April, 1840, when the alesoir,
another part of the borer, fell from a considerable height
with such force that it penetrated the chalk below to the
depth of 26 metres-85 feet. This created great delay. In
fine, a fourth accident occurred shortly before the successful
termination, when the metal spoon again fell to the bottom
of the bore, having nearly attained its extreme depth. This
time M. Mulot thought it better not to attempt to draw it
out, but to put it on one side by forcing it horizontally into
the earth, so as not to obstruct the passage.—French paper.

ORIGIN OF THE COTTAR'S SATURDAY NIGHT.—But how
have we been able to refrain from saying a few words about
the Cottar's Saturday night? How affecting Gilbert's ac-
count of its origin Robert had frequently remarked to
me, that he thought there was something peculiarly venerable
in the phrase, ' Let us worship God,' used by a decent sober
head of a family introducing family worship. To this senti-
ment of the author the world is indebted for the Cottar's
Saturday Night. The hint of the plan and title of the poem
were taken from Fergusson"s Farmer's Ingle. When Robert
had not some pleasure in view in which I was not thought
fit to participate, we used frequently to walk together, when
the weather was favourable, on the Sunday afternoons
precious breathing times to the labouring community), and
enjoyed such Sundays as would make me regret to see their
number abridged. It was on one of those walks that I first
had the pleasure of hearing the author repeat the Cotter's
Saturday Night. Ido not recollect to have heard any thing
by which I was More highly electrified." No wonder Gil-
bert was highly electrified ; for though he had read or heard
many things of his brother Robert's of equal poetical power,
not one among them all was so charged with those sacred
influences that conaect the human heart with heaven. It
must have sounded like a very revelation of all the holiness
for ever abiding in that familiar observance, but which cus-
tom, without impairing its efficacy, must often partially hide
from the children of labour when it is all the time helping to
sustain them upon and above this earth. And this from the
erring to the stedfast brother ! From the troubled to the
quiet spirit ! out of a heart, too, often steeped in the waters
of bitterness, issuing, as from an unpolluted fountain, the
inspiration of pious song! But its effect on innumerable
hearts is now electrical—it inspires peace. It is felt vet, and
sadly changed will then be Scotland, if ever it be not felt, by
every one who peruses it, to be a communication from brother
to brother. It is felt by us, all through from beginning to
end, to be Burns's Cottar Saturday Night; at each succeed-
ing sweet or solemn stanza we more and more love the man
—at its close we bless him as a benefactor; and if, as the
picture fades, thoughts of sin and sorrow will arise, and will
not be put down, let them, as we hope for mercy, be of .our
own—not his ; let us tremble for ourselves as we hear a voice
saying, " Fear God, and keep his commandments."—Pro-
fessor Wilson's Essay on Burns.

EUROPEANS ENTERING CHUSAN ON ITS BEING CAP-
TURED.—The ramparts were found strewed with pikes,
matchlocks, and a species of fire-rocket, arrow-headed; and
on the parapets, packets of quick-lime were packed up, to
blind the eyes of the barbarians had they endeavoured to
mount the walls. The main street was nearly deserted, ex-
cept here and there, where the frightened people were per-
forming the kowtow as we passed. On most of the houses
was placarded " Spare our lives ;" and on entering the jos-
houses were seen men, women, and children, on their knees,
burning incense to the gods; and although protection was
afforded them, their dread appeared in no manner relieved.
Many were posting down the back lands into the country
with their spoil, for we afterwards found the goods princi-
pally carried away were taken by plundering natives, not by
the legitimate owners. At last we came to the Chumpin's
house : the gates leading to the entrance yard were painted
with huge ungainly figures, denoting, they said, Justice and
Punishment. On one side was the Room of Justice, and
thumbscrews and rations were seen lyingabout. The path to
the inner apartment, called the Hall of Ancestors, lay
through an open court, round which were the offices of the
government clerks. Some letters and papers half finished
showed the haste with which they had evacuated the town.
Passing through the court we entered a guardhouse, which
led to a trellised walk, at the south end of which was the
hall. Here on the couches were the pipes half smoked, and
the little cups filled with the untasted tea ; cloaks, manda-
rin's caps, and swords lay about in confusion. Following up
our research we at last came to the apartments of the ladies :
these rooms were curiously furnished, and strewed with
clothes of all descriptions and for all purposes. Silks, fans,
china, little shoes, crutches, and paint-pots—the articles of a
Chinese lady's toilette—lay tossed in a sad and telltale
male ; and many of these fairy shoes were appropriated by
us as lawful plunder.—Jocelyn's Chinese Expedition.

ST: ASAill CATHEDRAL.--St. Asaph Cathedral appears,
from the style of its original features, to have been built in
the thirteenth century, in what is called the Early English,
verging into the Decorated; but like every other edifice of
so distant a date, has in the course of centuries undergone
a variety of changes, in architectual conformity with the
taste of the times. The most conspicuous of these changes
is in the enlargement of the windows, which followed the
general introduction of stained glass into this country. Al-
though almost every ancient ecclesiastical building presents
the spectacle of a mixture of styles, which would be deemed
inconsistent if adopted by the modern architect, yet in all
these variations there breathes the spirit of beauty and of
science, which lamentably contrasts with the innovations of
the present times ; in illustration of this remark, the anti-
quary has merely to glance at the miserable inroads which
have been made upon the purity of this cathedral, within
the last half century. In the year 1783, the choir was in a
great measure rebuilt by Turner, the then county architect,
in grievous defiance of all character and taste. In the year
1810, the nave and transepts underwent an internal modifi-
cation by Gummo, by no means creditable to that architect ;
the introduction of a coved and plastered ceiling under the
old oak roof, with fantastic groined ribs of stucco, and the
blocking up for this purpose of the unique and beautiful cle-
restory windows accord very badly with all notions of taste
and propriety. It would be a compliment to any dignitary
to restore this portion of the edifice to its pristine state. At
the intersection of the nave and transepts rises a plain, lofty,
square tower, supported by magnificent arches. The piers
which sustain the arches of the nave have no capitals ; but
the mouldings rim continuously through, producing a very
rich and harmonising effect. In the year 1832, the choir was
extended westward under the tower, and beneath the western
arch of which a stone screen and organ loft was erected
under the superintendence of Mr. Jones, of Chester. Al-
though the style of this screen is of too late a date to asso-
ciate with that of the rest of the edifice, yet the masonry is,
beautifully executed, in a superior stone from the quarry of
Llanasa. Since the tension of the choir the dry rot has
very unfortunately made its appearance in this edifice, and
is yearly making great ravages among the old and new work.
This may be attributed to the want of proper ventilation,
and the insufficient seasoning of the new timber.—Prom
Roscoe's Wales, new edition, now publishing in monthly
parts.

OLD TlMES.—Bishop Latimer's sermons are full of in-
formation respecting the state of England in his days ; and in
one of them he gives the following picture of the comfort,
happiness, and industry of his father's family my
father, says he, " was a yeoman, and had no lands of his
own; only he had a farm of three or four pounds by year, at
the-uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half-
a-dozen men. He had walk for 100 sheep, and my mother
milked 30 kine. He was able, and did find the king a har-
ness, with himself and his horse, while he came to the place
that he should receive the king's wages. I can remember
that I buckled his harness when he went to Blackheath-
field. He kept me to school. or that I had not been able to
have preached before the king's majesty now. He married
my sisters with £5, or 20 nobles, a-piece ; so that he brought
them up in godliness and fear of God. He kept hospitality
for his poor neighbours, and some alms he gave to the poor,
and all this he did of the same farm ; where he that now
hath it, payeth tl6 by the year, or more, and is not able to
do anything ror his prince, for himself, nor for his children,
nor to give a cup of drink to the poor."

• Elizabeth, Stone; Thunder, Small; and Water Witch, Robertson,
hence at Leghorn

Coronation, Scott, hence at Helvoct
Jane, -, hence for Constantinople, off Cape Spartel 3d instant
Kentrille, Hughes, hence at Donegal, with best bower anchor
and part of forerigging carried away by a schooner with which she
came in contact 14th instant

Caroline, Kirkpatrick, hence for Ballyshannon, at Killyhegs, with
toss of maintopgallantmast and rigging

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24.—Wind S.W. fresh

ARRlVED.—Highfield, ' from Africa—John & Robert,
Kechnie, and Concordia, Paine, from New Orleans—Hero, Wake-
ham, from Fayal.

Mary, Hogarth ; Marquis of Chandos, Sayers, and Mary, Haw-
kins, henee at Demerara
3 upitcr, , hence at Boston
Euiope, Marshall; Sheffield, Allen, and Roscius, Collins, hence
at New York
Margaret, and Sarah. hence at Galveston
Roseann a, hence at Rio Janeiro
Vesper, Harper, hence at Trieste
Mathilde, Rouschalk, hence at Copenhagen
Jarrow, Partridge, hence for Africa, at Cork
Agitator, hence off Cork Igth March f,:r New York
Orontes, Gardner, sailed from Venice for this port 13th March
Perthshire, Lister, hence for Harlingen, at Dartmouth. with loss
of foretopmast, &c.
Crescent, Domaile, from Antwerp for this port, at Ramsgate
Robert, Lawson, hence for Monte Video, at Waterford, with
loss of sails, and leaky
Lalla Rookh, Craig, from Laguna, at Waterford. with sails much
damaged, and crew exhausted.
Blair, hence for Sincapore, was spoken 16th Dec. in lat. 4 0 S,
long. 22 0 W

Countess of London, hence for Bombay. was spoken 4th Jan. in
lat. 34 31 S. long. 18 22 W
Patrick Henry, Delano, from New York, at thts port: sailed Bth
March, at 2 p.m. The President (steamer) was to leave on the
10th Marc, at 2 p.m. for this port
Svea, Lagervak, from Pernambuco for Stockholm, at this port.
On 16th March, off Scilly, encountered very severe weather, lost
sails, bulwarks, &c.
Rusco Castle, Symonds, from Constantinople, at this port. On
20th Feb. off Algiers, spoke the Palmyra, hence for Syria

THURSDAY, MARCH 25.—Wind S.S.W. moderate.

ARRlVED.—Otterspool, Scales, from Calcutta—lrlam, Morphew,
from Barbadoes—Columbine, , from St.Domingo—Denmark,
Frost; Lyons, Agry, and Mary, Johnson, from New Orleans—
Trenton, Snow, from Savannah—Republic, Thompson, from New
York—and Kingston, from Dublin.
SAlLED.—Corsair, Harland, for Mobile—Robert Bruce, Morgan,
and Thomas Bennett, Halsey, for New York—Ann Budson, Black-
stone, and Black Prince, Martin, for Lima—Brigand, Evil, for An-
tigua—Cabinet, Linnell, for Havana—Flowers of Ugie, Annand,
for Calcutta—Aerial, Robinson, for Montreal—Margaret Parker,
Dunn, for Newfoundland—Chariot, Fairlam, for Halifax—Eliza-
beth, Robinson, for Rio Grande—St. Lawrence, Bunker, for New
York—Gipsey, Norfolk. and Superior, Loutit, for Dordt—and Tran-
sit, Wrightson, for Stettin.

Eliza, Bartelo, hence at Naples
Agamemnon, Broomhead, hence at Algiers
Jane, Pennington, hence at Charente
Chronicle, Mantement, hence for Algiers, at Kinsale
Hector, Anderson, from Pernambuco, at ditto
Emma Graham, Ferguson, hence for Buenos Ayres, at ditto
Colonist, Driscoll, from Tobasco, at the Cove for Liverpool, short
of provisions, loss of mainyard, and rudder damaged.
Waterville, Mills, from Aux Cayes, at the Cove, lost mainyard,
split sails, &c.
Berkley, Cole, hence for Rotterdam, at Milford
DONAGHADEE, March 20.—The Nancy, May, from Liverpool to
Tobermory, on shore at Ballywater, has become a total wreck.