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scious and joyous existence, until a sensation of almost
ses the blood through its several chan-
flow of healthful activity—an
never realizes, even in the all-
ideal life. A few miles

t the sl

stepped out before breaking the fast will make light
work of the rest of the day's labours ; and a keen appe-
tite acquired for breakfast is of itself no mean recom-
mendation—indeed, of such preponderating value is this
motive alone with many, that did it co-exist with no
other, it would raise them from their couch, and cause
them to sally forth early. We need scarcely stop to
remark, besides all just stated, that, as far as the search
of the picturesque goes, no time equals the morning for
')eauty and sharpness of outline, whether the objects be
nountain peak or mirrored lake : all nature around
row, and, if the sun shines out, then,
guage of Shelley's translation of a

wears a youtlth

and I hymn in Faust

" The world's unwithered countenance
Is bright as on creation's day."
kn old Latin doggrel has presumed even to fix the hour

g, in order, wesuppos

that, by adopting the
benevolent suggestion of a standard hour, mankind may
derive the advantage of imitating the regulated visits of
Aurora's early beams :

_ .
Praiide Dona,
Coena golutil,
Dormi Ilona,
Nec est morti
Vita prona."

Which

eing rendered into English, will run thus,
making allowance for our modern confusion of meal

Rise at five who has the power;
Breakfast and lunch at nine's good hour;
Dine at five's revolving magic;
So shall death by sickness tragic,
Who by nine sleeps if he can,
Ne'er cut short life's little span.
Thus, then, we have got our chart to steer by ; and,
though an adage of olden time, it will hold good now-a-
days—at all events, in country rambles and health-
seeking tours. We have the hour, then, laid down,
though the cloth wants laying for—

58: Breakfast; and, moreover, something to garnish
it with, suitable for the devastations of a hungry pedes-
trian. We can't exactly produce the materials, but
we can suggest what we have found, from experience,
the most hunger-proof amongst provisions—that is, in-
stead of tea or coffee, a good jug of well-made cocoa or
chocolate. There is something substantial in it : the
stomach takes some time to discuss its endless resources
of liquid nutriment. If to such a host in itself, you
append plenty of bread and butter, and an assortment
of fish, flesh, or fowl, or eggs, you cannot starve though
you wait till afternoon for your next substantial meal,
viz., dinner. Tea is all very well in a drawing-room ;
or when pursuing literary avocations, a light meal is
required, in order to let the brain have more opportunity
for concentrated thought ; but when at ploughman-like
labours, the nearer you come to his solid subsistences the
better. We fancy tea will come in with a better grace
towards the fag end of the day, say after dinner, as a
diluent of aromatic and grateful nature.

In C. Croker's Legends we find, and cannot help
extracting, the following rich and appropriate passage :
" A fine day anywhere is a fine thing ; but a fine day
at Killarney is the finest of all possible things. Only
see how clear the mountain looks, with but one little
silvery cloud sleeping in the hollow of the Devil's
Punchbowl, the broad face of the sun smiling on it, as
if he was just going to say, You brat of a cloud, I'll
swallow you up in a twinkling !' It would be a pity to
lose a moment—' Hallo, Gorham ! breakfast, break-
fast, all in a hurry, if you please ; tea, coffee, bread,
butter, toast, eggs, ham, honey, salmon, all very good
—is everything ready, Gorham ? " Yes, sare.' "

(TO BE CONTINUED.)

ARCHBISHOP CRANMER NO PERSECUTOR

(From the Works of Roger
_Hutchinson, edited by the

Parker Society.)

Much undeserved odium has been cast upon Archbishop
Cranmer in connexion with this case of Joan Bocher, in
consequence of an erroneous statement of Foxe the mar-
tyrologist, respecting the importunity with which he urged,
if not forced, the young king into the signature of the
death-warrant upon which she suffered. All classes of
objectors to the Reformation have availed themselves of
this presumed fact, to magnify the clemency of the king
by way of contrast to the primate's " importunity for
blood. * Cranmer's advocates have apparently felt this
passage in his life to be one extremely difficult, if not
incapable, of defence. They have mostly contented them-
selves with alleging that it was contrary to the general
tenour of his life, and with bringing forward the entry in
the privy-council book to prove that he was not present
when her fate was finally determined, and may therefore
be presumed to have exhibited but little of the eager spi-
rit of a persecutor. The last writer of the history of the
Reformation t has gone a little farther, and has ventured
to impugn the authority of this particular passage in Foxe,
on the ground of the silence not merely of the king's
journal, but also of the Romanist libellers of the primate,
respecting the alleged interview. Nothing is more likely
than that if the king's feeling had been such as Foxe re-
presents, the entry in his journal would have been differ-
ent from the one we find there: ; whilst, if such an in-
terview had really taken place, Sanders, and other writers
of that class, would have been delighted to avail them-
selves of it against Cranmer ; but it is unfortunate that
Cranmer's defenders have not produced the whole entry
in the privy-council book. instead of merely referring to
it, in proof of the single fact of Cranmer's absence. Had
that been done, it would long ago have occurred to some
one, that it contains evidence that Foxe's story, for which
he does not assign any authority, could not be true.
Amongst the minutes of the business transacted by the
council (who, be it remembered, under the will of Henry
VIII. were the actual governors of the kingdom during
the minority of Edward VI.) on the 27th April 1550, is
the following entry : _

" A Warrant to the L. Chauncellor to make out a
writt to the Shireff of London for the execucon of
Johan of Kent, condempned to be burned for certein
detestable opinions of heresie."

It appears from these words, that, in conformity with
the ordinary legal practice of the period, Joan Bocher
was executed upon a writ de hwretico comburendo, ad-
dressed to the Sheriff of London, and issued out of Chan-
cery, upon the authority of a warrant signed, not by the
king, but by the council. It would have been contrary
to constitutional custom for the king to have signed any
such document ; it is quite clear, from the entry quoted,
that, in point of fact, he did not sign it ; and the narra-
tive which the worthy martyrologist was misled into in-
serting, and Cranmer's difficulty to cause the king to
" put to his hand," and the tears by which subsequent
writers have declared that his submission to the stern
pleading of his spiritual father were accompanied, all
vanish.§

* Hayward's Ed. VI. p. 16. Ed. 1636. t Soames, in. 544.
I "Joan Bocher, otherways called Joan of Kent, was burnt
for holding That Christ was not incarnate of the virgin Mary :
being condemned the year before, but kept in hope of conver.
sion ; and the 30th of April the bishop of London and the bishop
of Ely were to perswade her, but she withstood them, and re.
viled the preacher that preached at her death."

g That no doubt may remain upon the subject I will add, i.
That it was not customary for the king to attend the meetings
of the council. ii. That whenever the council desired that the
king should be consulted, or communicated with, an entry was
made upon the council book similar to the following, which
occurs on the same day as the preceding: " It was agreed by
the whole counsaill, that the king's majestie should be moved
for the restitution of the duke of Somersett unto all his goods,
his debts, and his leases yet ungiven." iii. That the persons
present on the day referred to were " The Lorde Chauncellor,
The L. High Threasorer, The L. P. Seale, The L. Great Cham-
berlaine, The L. Chamberlaine, The L. Pagett, The 13usshopp
of Ely, Mr Threasorer, Mr Comptroller, Mr of the Horse, Mr
Vicechamberlaine, Sir Rauf Sadler, Sir Edward Northe."

A DUEL IN THE DARK.

(From Ainsworth's Magazine.)

All things being ready, the door, which had cautiously
been kept closed, to prevent the interior of the place from
being seen by the duellists, was opened, and they entered
the room of death together. The old man whose friend
one of them was, wept in silent bitterness, but by an in-
voluntary action, as the young man passed out of his
sight, evidently besought heaven to assist the insulted and
the innocent. The door was closed. The time-keeper
drew out his watch, and kept his eyes steadily fixed upon
it. The assembled party employed that brief period in
offering and accepting (in whispers) bets of from one to
five hundred and more dollars, as to the result. Accord-
to sporting phrase, " the colonel was the favourite,"
though the backers of neither one nor the other appeared
inclined to offer very long odds.
The
ee
time-keeper closed
allosed his watch, andon the landing and
gave the signal ;
at
staircase were extinguished, in order that no ray might
pass through the least crevice into the inside of the room.
Everybody expected, upon the giving of the signal, to
hear the commencement of the strife; but they listened
in dead silence to no 'purpose, not the remotest sound,
even of a footstep, could be heard. And thus they
waited five minutes, and ten, and twenty, and yet the
combatants gave no sign. After the lapse, as near as
might be conjectured, of half-an-hour or thereabouts, one
pistol was discharged ; and although the listeners had
been in the continued expectation of it so long, yet when
it did come, a sudden start of surprise ran through them,
as though each man had instantly felt that he might have
received the contents himself. And then followed a hasty
step across the floor—another pistol report—the clashing
of knives, and a brief but seemingly desperate attempt to
wrestle, which quickly terminated, and all again was
quiet.

" It's all up !" whispered one—" I'll bet drinks for
the crowd I"

" Taken !" said another—" I begin to want a julep !"
" Fifty to forty the colonel has killed him !" remarked
a third ;—" he was a very nice young man, but he can't
come in this time !"
And thus would they have gone on, bad not the third
report been just then heard,
followed by a prolonged con.
flict hand to hand, and knife to knife, in the course of
which the fourth pistol was exploded. The strokes of the
knives began to grow less frequent, and more faint in
sound ; but ere they had entirely ceased, a heavy body
dropped with a dead sound upon the floor of the room.
Another instant, and there followed another fall.
openingover the door irn-
ruled, on the
mediatelySom
propositionein;dibviudtuattiispresent
w
were
foru
ground that if the fight were not yet over, the most able

might take advantage of the appearance of the light to
kill the other, even ing on the boards.
About half-an-hour was, if I recollect aright, allowed to
pass in close and attentive listening to catch the most dis-
tand sound from within. None was heard ; and at the

expiration of that period, amidst a crowd of the most hor-
rible of anxious faces, the door was opened, and the whole
party rushed in. Towards the remoter end, and not far
from the wall, lay a heap like red cloth. It was com-
posed of the gashed and bloody bodies of the duellists !
One lay across the other. They were taken up, and some-
thing like a distant murmur of applause followed, when it
was discovered that THE COLONEL WAS UNDERMOST!

But many who best knew him spoke outright their glad-
ness, when an examination proved that he was perfectly
dead. Both bodies were so mangl-d, that it was next to
impossible to handle them without touching the wounds.
The best of it was, however, that the conqueror of this
fearful white savage was found to be still alive. He was
taken down stairs instantly, stimulants were given, and he
began to revive. His body was then carefully washed ;
after which, being cautiously wrapped up, he was con-
veyed away to the nearest surgeon's, sometime after mid-
night.
The room exhibited a spectacle not to be described.
The young man eventually recovered entirely of all his
wounds, and was often congratulated on having rid the
country of a monster whom few dared to attack.

SECOND EDITION.

Standard-office, Three o'clock

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COTTON MARKET—Tits DAY

An excellent demand to-day for Cotton, and chiefly
from consumers ; the extent of business may be estimated
at 4,000 bales at the full prices of:yesterday, with a steady
and firm market : many say prices are hardening.
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LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE, Tins DAY

<From Messrs. R. Makin & Sons' Circular.)
The arrivals of Grain into this port since Tuesda

which prove altogether very trivial in amount, are wholly
from our own Coast and Ireland ; the fresh supply of
Flour thence is also comparatively light, and that of Oat-
meal only moderate.

We experienced a sudden change in the weather yester-
day, and a heavy fall of rain for several hours during the
night, which has completely prostrated some of the corn
crops in this locality; but as we do not yet learn that it
has extended beyond the circle of a few miles around us,
it is hoped the effects may not prove extensively injurious.
The depression, however, in many other markets last
week, and the decline in London yesterday, with a better
appearance of the weather this morning, have decidedly
counteracted any tendency to improvement here ; on the
contrary, we have to report an extremely dull sale for
every article of the trade, and Wheat of all descriptions
was offered with very little effect at a further abatement
from the reduced rates of Friday ; and from those of this
day week, English and the best qualities of Foreign may
be noted about 3d., and the general runs of Foreign as
well as Irish, 4d. and 6d. per 701bs cheaper, and for some
parcels still lower prices were accepted.
The holders of Irish Flour submitting to a decline of
3s. per sack, this description sold rather more freely ; but
States and Canadian receding only Is. per barrel, were
taken off very sparingly.

Barley remained unvaried ; but Malt, Beans, and Pease,
though offered Is. per quarter cheaper, were neglected.
Oats, contiuuing to come forward in small parcels onl't
were notwithstanding very unsaleable, and scarcely more
than nominal in value.

Oatmeal likewise seemed to attract very little notice,
though offered at a decline of 6d. per 2401b5. below our

quotations

ARRIVALS OF CORN,
From the Bth to the 14th August, 1843, inclusive,

DESCRIPTIONS

IRE- , COAST- 1 FO-
LAND. 4 WISE. CANADA
REIGN

Wheat .. Ors. I 429
Barley Qrs.
Malt Qrs. 14 719
Oats Qrs. 799 883
Rye Qrs.
Beans Qrs. 387
Pease Qrs. 11
ShelledßarleyQrs.
Indian Corn. Qrs.
Rapeseed Qrs.
Oatmeal .. Loads 3682 8
Flour. .... Sacks 1534 41
Ditto Brls. 2

I 1

Into Runcorn.—lreland and Coastwise.—Oats, 480 qrs.; Oat-
meal, 1689 Ids. ; flour, sacks.

EXPORTS.—Foreign. Beans, qrs. ; Oats, 76 qrs. ; Pease,
3 qrs.; Flour, 4 brls. ; Oatmeal, loads.—lreland. Wheat,
27, qrs. ; Barley, qrs ; Indian Corn, 65 qrs. ; Flour, 35 sacks
570 brls.—Coastwise. Wheat, 732 qrs. ; Barley, 604 qrs. ;
Malt, 50 qrs.; Oats. 12 qrs. ; Pease, 2 qrs, ; Oatmeal, 839
loads ; Flour, 336 sacks 192 barrels.

Average prices of Grain, for the week ending Aug. 5, 1843.
Wheat 60s. pd. ; Barley 325. 4d. I Oats 21s. sd. I Rye 375. Id
Beans.. 31s. 9d. I Pease.. 345. 4d.
Aggregate average of the six weeks.
Wheat 538 ltd I Barley 2gs 10d f Oats 20s 2d. I Rye 34s 3d
Beans.. 305. 3d. Pease.. 335. Od.

Duty on Foreign Grain, &c. this week.
WheatlBsod I Barley gs Od I
Oats .. . 6s Od Rye.. 8s 6d
I
Beans los fid Pease .. gs 6d Ind. Corn Os 0(1 Flour 10s 10d
Ditto from British Colonies out of Europe.
Wheat.. ss. Od. I Barley.. is. 6d. I Oats ..2s. Od. I Rye.. Os. 6d.
Beans 2s. 6d I Pease is. od. I Indian Corn Os. Od. I Flour 3s Od

Liverpool Averages, week ending Aug. 8, 1843
Wheat. Barley. Oats. I Beans.
Qrs... 86 320 50
Prices 575. 5d Os. Od.; 16s. 6d. 295. 6d.

GOSPEL PROPAGATION SOCIETY.—" There has been
a considerable stir at Baripore in consequence of a perse-
cution headed by the Zemindar of the village, and direc-
ted with peculiar bitterness against a Brahmin of high
connexions, who bad lately become a serious inquirer after
Christianity. That mission, as I think, is proceeding
most hopefully, thank God ; and not at all the less so,
because Satan, seeing his kingdom shaking, excites, as in
the days of the blessed Apostles, the hated of the sur-
rounding heathens. Thus it has always been when a great
and effectual door is opened to the ministers of Christ;'
there are many adversaries,' as the Epistle to the Corin-
thians records, There is about our young missionary so
much simple, evangelical piety, such discretion and meek-
ness, and an activity so encouraging, that nothing in In-
dia has ever given me more pleasure. A work of consid-
erable extent, and daily widening, is there going on, by
the power of truth, accompanied with the blessed influen-
ces of grace in the consciences and hearts of men, and
guided and adorned, I may add, by the meek, gentle,
prompt, and wise behaviour of the chief Missionary."—
Bishop of Calcutta's Letter, Jan. 21, 1841.

AMERICAN MANNERS.—The following is a descrip-
tion, by the late Lord Sydenham, of some of his visitors
in Canada :—We have a host of Yankees, either in the
house, or arriving daily from the opposite shore, a gun-
shot off, to see Mr. Governor Thomson. You never saw
or can imagine such a set of people ; but they are great
fun. I gave them a review yesterday of the 92d, a High-
land regiment in kilts, which delighted them not a little,
I guess. I overheard one of them say, " I guess these
Britishers do it a'most as handsome as the Buffalo Citizen
Militia !" Another said to me, meaning, I presume, to
pay me the highest compliment, " I opinionate that you
are very like our old Hickory" (Jackson)—you downs
them everlasting locusts of play-goers, and won't stand
no up but your own ;"—pretty true by the bye. Yes-
terday on the balcony a Yankee lady was walking with her
little girl ; the child said, " Mamma, I can't bear this."
Upon which mamma looked daggers at her and said,
" How can you talk so before the governor ? You should
say I can't tolerate this." Such is their delicacy of lan-
guage. What it is practically, you may imagine from the
circumstance of my bed rooms opening ou a balcony that
is common to the house; and there is not a young lady
in the hotel who does not walk up and down staring at
the window of the room, which is about eight feet square,
every morning whilst I am going through all the processes
of my toilet.—Life of Lord Sydenham.

LONDON DINNER PARTIES.---" Sarvants keep goin'
round and round in a ring, slow, but sartaig, and for ever,
like the arms of a great big windmill, shovin' dish after
dish, in dumb show, afore your nose, you to see how
you like the flavour ; when your glass is empty it's filled ;
when your eyes is off your plate, it's off too, afore von
can say Nick Biddle. Folks speak low here : steam is
valuable, and noise onpolite. They call it a 'subdued
tone.' Poor tame things, they are subdued, that's a fact ;
slaves to an arbitrary tyrannical fashion, that don't leave
'em no free will at all. You don't often speak across a
table any more than you do across a street, but p'rhaps
Mr. Somebody of West End of town, will say to Mr.
Nobody of West End :of America, Niagra is noble.'
Mr. Nobody will say, Yes, it is ; it got its patent afore
the Norman Conquest, I reckon, and afore the subdued
tone came into fashion.' Then Mr. Somebody will
look like an oracle, and say, ' Great rivers and great
trees in America! You speak good English.' And
then he will seem surprised, but do not say it, only you
can see the words on his face, ' Upon my soul, you are
a'most as white as us.'—Dinner is over. It's time for
ladies to cut stick. Aunt Goosey looks at the next old
goosey, and ducks her head, as if she was goin' through a
gate, and then they all come to their feet, and the goslins
come to their feet, and they all toddle off to the drawin'
room together. The decanters now take the ' grand
tour' of the table, and, like most travellers, go out with
full pockets, and return with empty ones. Talk has a
pair of stays here, and is laced up tight and stiff. Lar-
nin' is pedantic; politics is unsafe; religion ain't fashion-
able. You must tread on neutral ground. Well, neutral
ground gets so trampled down on both sides, and so
plundered by all, there ain't anythin' fresh or good grown
on it, and has no cover for game nother. Housundever,
the ground is tried, it's well beat, but nothin' is put up,
and you get back to where you started. Uncle Gander
looks at next oldest gander hard, bobs his head, and lifts
one leg, all ready for a go, and says, Will you take any
more wine ? 1-1 No,' says he, ' but I take the hint, let's
jine the ladies.' "—Sans Slick,

SOMERSET BRIDGE, BRIDGEWATER.—Another and
fatal accident has occurred at this bridge, in the death of
two boys, brothers, Richard Hall, 18, and Joseph Hall,
15 years of age, who, being driven by the current against
a piece of balk. placed by the Railway Company, to pre-
vent boats striking the arch, were upset, and both drowned.
At this same dangerous spot a boy lost his life in Septem-
ber last, from the ill-adapted construction of the bridge.
DANGEROUS USE OF MESMERISM.—A young lad, in
Glasgow, who had for some time past allowed himself to
be mesmerised by all his companions who desired it for
their amusement, was for two days past so completely put
into the magnetic sleep that it was found impossible to get
him ont of it. During this time his eyes were shui, his
jaws firmly fixed, and neither food nor drink could be
administered to him. It was feared that the unfortunate
youth had forfeited his life to his folly. We are glad to
be informed, however, that he was taken out of this un-
natural sleep on Thursday afternoon by a lecturer on
Mesmerism, after two hours' work. This ought to act as
a caution to inexperienced operators.—Glasgow Chronicle

OUTRAGE ON A SAILOR.--A seaman, having occasion
to buy a suit of clothes, entered the shop of a broker in
the Bridegate. On turning over a number of clothes he
found a suit which he thought would fit him, and pro-
ceeded to try them on. For this purpose he divested him-
self of the garments he usually wore, and laid them aside.
As the price asked did not please him, however, he threw
them off, and wished to put on his own clothes previous
to leaving the shop to seek a cheaper article. This the
broker would not agree to, but instead insisted that, be-
fore returning him his own, he should either take the
clothes at the price he fixed, or pay him a sum for the
trouble he had been put to. This the lad resisted, whe❑
the broker praduced a drawn sword by way of intimida-
tion, upon which the other got out in the street, and was
discovered by the police all but naked in a close in that
quarter of the city.—Glasgow Journal.

SCENE IN A PLACE OF WORSHIP.—An occurrence of
a most unseemly character occurred on Sunday evening
se'nnight at the Welsh Baptist Meeting-honse, Ponty-
pool, and but for the arrival of the police, a serious riot
would have been the consequence. It appears that Mr.
Isaacs, the present preacher, has for some reasons given
offence to a part of his flock, and in the course of his ad-
dress on the above evening went so far as to threaten ex-
communication to several present, which led to an out-
break, and a series of recrimination and abusive lan-
guage, some of the party insisting that Mr. Isaacs should
immediately descend from the pulpit, whilst others urged
him to proceed. By this time many of the congregation
became alarmed, and a ush was made to the door, cries
of " send for the police" being heard within. The police
was immediately sent for; the tumult, however, con-
tinued, the following being part of the discourse which
took place in the mean time : "If he does not leave the
pulpit, he shall not have his life to go home with him."
" Pull him down; turn him out.'. "He has done no
harm—he has told the truth," ke. Bcc. At length the
police arrived and rescued Mr. Isaacs.

HORRIBLE CASE.-At the Stafford assizes, on Wed-
nesday last, before Justice Maule, Charles Higginson,
aged 26, was tried for the wilful murder of his son on the
2d April last. It appeared that the prisoner, who is de-
scribed by the reporter as a man of dull and stolid look,
was a widower. He had but one child, a little boy, aged
five years. This little fellow he put out to board, but
was unable to pay the charge, one shilling and sixpence
a week, for his maintenance. He was told that he must
remove him, which he did, borrowing a spade from the
parties by whom alone the poor boy had been supported.
The prisoner reappeared without the child, and gave such
answers to repeated inquiries made respecting him that
suspicion was excited. At length, he said his son had
died as he was taking him through the wood, and he had
buried him there. Search was made, and, near a gate,
some fresh soil was observed, upon turning up which the
body of the poor boy was found about ten inches below
the surface. There was a handkerchief over the eyes, and
another very tightly bound over the mouth. There were
contusions on the head, but no fractures. From the state
of the lungs, the surgeon thought he had died of suffoca-
tion. The surgeon having given his evidence, the pri-
soner was asked if he had any questions to put to him.
He replied, " I put the child in alive." A thrill of hor-
ror ran through the court at this declaration. The Jury
found the prisoner guilty, and the Judge immediately
passed sentence of death upon him, holding out no hope
of mercy.