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F Juvenile French Conversation. By M. De In
in Liverpool. London
.' Simpkin,

Claverie, Professor

Marshall, and Co.
a judiciously-planned manual for the use of juve-
.onch language. The phrases, whilst
vied, have just sufficient idiom in them to
ant of peculiarities of that nature almost
In this respect the book has our

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dation. Besides this, the dialogues have
the want of which is so
We therefore re-
-3d this little work as one of the most successful ef-

nd practical character,

rich felt in

ar productions

author

is SLIDING SCALE.—At a school in Clap-
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OPERATION ON' GEORGE THE FOURTII.—The king sent
so Sir Everard Home, myself, and Brodie, to go to Windsor,
tumour on the summit of his head, which annoyed
its appearance, and was growing larger. When we
was tender, painful, and somewhat inflamed ; and
..ought it best to delay the operation. The king was
ach disappointed, but yielded to our advice. In the spring
succeeding year, 1821, Sir Benjamin Bloomfield came
"o go to Brighton to see the king, and I went down
The king came into my room at one
o'clock in the morning, and said, " I am now ready to have
it done. I wish you now to remove this thing from my
head." I said, " Sire—not for the world now—your life is
too important to have so serious a thing :done in a corner.
Lady C— S— died of such an operation, and what would
the world say if this were to be fatal?" * * He hastily
said, " This is the second timed have been disappointed."
" Yes, sire, I am sorry for it, but I should not choose to do
-nless Sir E. Home, Mr. Cline,rand Mr. Brodie were
* He said, " Well, I respect Cline, and I
-aspects me, although we do sot :set our horses
I replied, " Perhaps not, your ma
Jut the best policy, I think. will be to have him."
an came to town soon :afterwards, and went to the
ad he said, " How do you d.o, Cooper ?—well, next
" I called upon Lord Liverpool, and requested
ay.
persuade the king to let Home do the operation, as
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3eing Sergeant Surgeon,
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always been successful, and I saw that
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my reputation. On the next day
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might be present, to
u. On the Wednesday we all met,
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Who isome to do the operation ?" I said, " Slr
--A- Sir Henry Halford was called
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waggon passing along a paved street. The impression,
slight as it was, was single and brief, and must have origi-
nated with the first shock of the powder, and not from the
subsequent and prolonged rush of the ruins, which I can
positively say communicated no perceptible tremor whatever.
I have not heard of a single scattered fragment flying out
as a projectile in any direction, and altogether the whole
phenomenon was totally unlike anything which, according
to ordinary ideas, could have been supposed to arise from
the action of gunpowder. Strange as it may seem, this con-
trast between the actual and the expected effects gave to the
whole scene a character rather of sublime composure than
of headlong violence, of graceful ease than of struggling
effort. How quietly, in short, the gigantic power employed
performed its work, may be gathered from the fact that the
operators themselves who discharged the batteries were not
aware that they had taken effect, but thought the whole affair
a failure, until re-assured by the shout which bailed its suc-
cess.

The remarkable absence of noise and tremor which cha-
racterised this operation is explained by the structure of
chalk as a material, and by the rifty state of the cliff as a
body. Of all substances, perhaps chalk is the worst adapted
for conveying sound, and the best for deadening the vibra-
tion propagated through it by a heavy blow. The initial
hammer-like impulse of the newly created gas on the walls
of the chambers of the mines (of which it must be recollected
there were three, simultaneously exploded) was doubtless
thus deadened by traversing at least 75 feet of chalk, even
in the shortest direction, or line of least resistance ; and this
must have taken place before the mass could have been sen-
sibly moved from its seat by the expansive force generated,
which, however vast, proved incapable (as indeed it was ex-
pressly provided it should be) to communicate to its enor-
mous load any greater velocity than barely sufficient to rift
and bulge it outwards, leaving gravity to do the rest. No-
thing can place in a more signal light the exactness of calcu-
lation which (basing itself on a remarkably simple rule, the
result of long practical experience) could enable the eminent
engineer (Mr. Cubitt), by whom the whole arrangements are
understood to have been made, so completely to task to its
utmost every pound of powder employed, as to exhaust its
whole effort in useful work, leaving no superfluous power to
be wasted in the production of useless uproar or mischievous
dispersion, and thus saving at a blow not less than £7,000
to the railway company.

I have the honour to be, &c

Collingwood, Jan. 31, 1843

J. F. W. HERSCIIEI

* It has been stated that the flagstaff continued erect, but this
if I can credit the distinct evidence of my own senses) is incor-

The brig Liberty, of Sunderland, was wrecked off Redcar
on Saturday last, and the master and four seamen perished.
One youth alone was saved. She was 200 tons burden.
From Christiania we learn that, during the violent storm
on the 4th ult., a fishing-boat, with 40 men on board, foun-
dered off the islands of Haviding, and every soul was drowned,
it being impossible for any assistance to reach.

Loss OF THE SHIP GEORGE MTEOD.—lntelligence was
in the course of Friday received by the underwriters at
Lloyd's of the destruction of another Indianian, named the
George M'Leod, with a valuable cargo of rum and 3,700
bags of sugar on board, by running upon a hard sandbank
on the coast of Scotland, in the Solway Frith, within a few
miles northward of Southerness, on Sunday night. She

was, like the ill-fated Reliance, Conqueror, and J
homeward bound. All the wrecks occurred within a very
few hours' sail of the places of destin^f

M'Leod was conarnan6d by Captain W

The George

crew of 16, besides officers and mates. She was of about
600 tons burden in measurement, being the property of
Messrs. Leishman and Huntly, merchants, residing at Glas-
gow, and sailed from the Mauritius in the early part of
November last for the Clyde. At the time (3 o'clock in the
morning) the wind was blowing almost a gale from the north-
west. They had all sail shortened, and hopes were manifes-
ted that the vessel would reach the Clyde by 12 o'clock that
day ; the light was perceptable, and the utmost hilarity pre-
vailed amongst the crew ; but suddenly she struck, and it
was discovered, that instead of the Clyde they had been
steering for, they had run the vessel upon one of the most
dangerous sands along the coast of Scotland; and the light
they supposed to be the safety beacon at the entrance of the
Clyde, was one to denote danger. The yards were instantly
backed, in the hopes of her floating off, but finding that in-
effectual other means were adopted, but all in vain ; for as
the tide advanced, every wave threw the ship higher up upon
the bank, and her situation became more and more perilous.
The crew exerted themselves to save her, and, as a last
resource, the mast and rigging were cut away. This was use-
iess ; she rapidly filled, and was laid upon her beam ends,
with the whole of her broadside under water. The boats
were lowered, and preparations were made for abandoning
her, for the gale was increasing with foggy weather. Accor-
dingly, at 7 o'clock the crew lowered Captain Murdoch over
the ship's side into the boat, and having got in themselves
they pushed off for the shore. At that time the sea was
making a clear sweep over the ship. The crew laboured
hard at their oars until 10 o'clock in the forenoon, when
they came in sight of Southernness Lighthouse, which they
succeeded in reaching in a short time. All of them suf.
fered dreadfully from the cold, but particularly Captain
Murdoch, who lay in the bottom of the boat apparently dead.
Upon being taken ashore every possible assistance was ren-
dered by the inhabitants of the town, and several medical
gentlemen were in attendance upon the unfortunate captain
He shortly afterwards rallied, but only a little, and his dis-
solution is hourly expected. The crew having recruited their
strength, in the afternoon proceeded in a boat with a party
of pilots down to the wreck. Upon arriving at the sands
not a vestige of the ship or cargo was to be found. She bad
gone to pieces. The spot where she bad struck was opposite
Drumruff, between Balcarry Bay and Southernness. On
Tuesday last portions of the wreck, namely, a head-board
with the name " George M'Leod" painted on it. and the
top of the round house were picked up by a sailing smack
between Port Carlisle and Skenburness.

THE ESTATICA AT YOUGHAL.—UIIder this head the Cork
Examiner treats the public to a letter frem a Roman Ca-
tholic priest, named Foley, addressed to another clergyman
of the same persuasion, detailing a series of miracles now in
full work at a convent in Youghal, which threaten, if not to
eclipse, at least to equal, the Alpine wonders witnessed by
Lord Shrewsbury. Of course, it was not to be supposed but
that many persons were rather incredulous with respect to
the alleged miracles of the Munster Adolorata, which, ac-
cording to Father Foley, "are now shining brighter than ever
in Youghal." A few passages from the narrative of this
somewhat credulous gentleman may be perused with amuse-
ment :—" But among the many wonders I have seen at the
castle, this seems not to be the least; it is that this dear vir-
tuous girl, who is a near relation of my own, and who is now
so much calumniated, predicted the night before hand that
a certain class of persons would come to visit her on the fol-
lowing morning, and that they would, &c. The five of us
who had heard the predilection were much surprised to see it
on the next morning verified to the letter. Something simi-
lar 1.4,41 happane,l to the afflicted adolorata at Caldaro, when
she said; ' There is now a ?hysician on his way to see me,who
will annoy rne very much. These gentlemen whom you have
mentioned to me have seemed displeased, as they had not
witnessed the wonders they wished to see, as if the Almighty
should bow to us and gratify our curiosity by exhibiting
things so plainly to our view as not to leave a shadow of
doubt upon our minds. They went off, lam told, discon-
tented, and thought themselves authorised to pronounce,
without scruple, that all the work was pure imposition.
What will they think when they hear that many witnesses
are ready to prove, upon oath, that upon that very same day,
after these curious persons bad gone off, there was blood vi-
sibly seen upon this woman's head, upon her hands, upon her
feet, and upon her side ? I know a man can be found who
will say, perhaps, she had a nail or a needle with which she
could perforate her hands, feet, and side. I leave the judg-
ment of that man to the judgment of an enlightened public,
and to the awful judgment of an angry God. To resume, in
a word or two, the question is this,—Father Foley, though a
pious priest, as they say, is one of the greatest dupes that
ever stood on ground. He has been selected by the bishop
of the diocese to direct a pious community of nuns in
Youghal. Many, and very many persons, have always
thought him to be an enlightened director of souls, yet with
all his science and sanctity he is now the fool of fools : he is
credulous beyond conception. For months, nay, for almost
years, he has had two persons in his establishment who are
practising under his eyes the greatest villanies that were ever
practised by a woman, and yet he cannot detect them. The
author of such opinions must add too, yes! he is deceived by
a woman, a near relative of his own, an always pious girl,
whom he saw elevated over ground in prayer, whom he often
saw in ectasy ; from whose ^ blood

hands he often saw the
Ring at L Ile our of holy communion, and from whose lips
has beard many things regarding the passion of Christ,
and the sufferings of his blessed mother, things which arena
to be told now, but which will be related in their proper
time. I have, dear rev. sir, written to the bishop of this dic
cese, and invited his lordship to come and see what I hay
witnessed. I

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;final judgment upon the point whether the appearances on
Lc bodies of the females subject to such periodical visitations
re natural or supernatural, and their caution and reserved-
ess upon a point 59 important are wise and judicious. We
hall call attention in a future post to the whole matter."

f this singular

It appears that Miss Young, one of the recent converts to
the Church of Rome, instead of possessing.£ls,ooo a-year, and
being a protegee of the Archbishop of York and the Duke
and Duchess of Hamilton, is entirely dependent on her
mother, a widow, for support.
Sir ROBERT PEEL—The inhabitants of the town of
Greenock have prepared an address to Sir Robert Peel, con-
gratulating him on his late escape from assassination, when
it was the fate of the unfortunate Mr. Drummond to be
murdered by M'Naughten.

Mr. J. B. Butler, of the Ennis poor law union, asserts the
absentees of Clare draw away £200,000 a-year ; and he ad-
vises a charge of five per cent. on their estates, which will al-
most defray half the expense of the several workhouses in that
county.

LANCASTER BANKING COMPANY.—The sixteenth annual
meeting of the proprietors of this bank took place on Tuesday
last, when, as we are informed, the directors made a satis-
factory report of the state of the company's affairs, and de-
clared a dividend of 10 per cent.

The election of a member to serve in parliament for the
University of Dublin is fixed to take place on Friday (to-day).
No rival candidate appearing in the field, it is understood that
Mr. George Alexander Hamilton will be unanimously
elected.

REDUCED CHARGES TO COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS.—
The iukeepers of Dorset and Devonshire have reduced the
price of oats from sd. to 4d. per quartern ; and beans have
been lowered in the same proportion. The charge for break-
fast is ls. 6d. instead of ls. 9d., with meat.
On Wednesday evening last some evil-disposed person set
fire to a straw-stack on the farm of Mr. Hall, of Frettenham,
tenant to Lord Suffield. The stack contained from 30 to 40
loads of straw, and was consumed, as were some bullock-
sheds, to which the fire extended.

The official account of imports and exports at the ports of
the Clyde shows a falling off of £22,228 9s. 2d. in the Cus-
toms' revenue on the year 1812 as compared with 1811. This
may not be thought large, considering the amount of the
gross revenue drawn in the Clyde.
The adjourned inquest on the body of the woman whose
trunk, so horribly mutilated, was discovered a few days since
in the river Aire, near Leeds, was held o❑ Monday, and fur-
ther adjourned to the 20th instant. The affair remains veiled
in mystery.

The Courrier de Lyon has the following from the Gi-
ronde :—" La %Cole has been completely laid under water.
This part of the country is a vast lake. The village of Bard
has almost disappeared. Only the steeple of the church re-
mains to show that it was an inhabited spot."
Mr. Speakman, the secretary to Earl Jersey, the Master of
the Horse, has decamped, and his defalcations, it is said, ex-
ceed £lO,OOO, though this is doubted by many. His net
salary was £7OO per annum, with perquisites. Mr. George
Lewis, lately clerk to the stables in the household of the
Queen Dowager, has been appointed his successor.

A new varnish, manufactured of naphtha, is in future to be
substituted for the paint now applied to the outside of the
iron water tanks of her Majesty's ships, the cost of which is
only one-fourth that of paint. The varnish has been well
tested, and proved to be perfectly efficacious, and is applicable
to all sorts of wood and metal.

Mr. Ellis stated at a Lyceum lecture in Boston a few days
ago, that the greatest discoveries of future ages would pro-
bably be made by electro-magnetism—not animal magnetism
—that water could be seperated into its component gases and
burned to light our houses and cook our food, and then re-
combine and form into water again ! What wonders are we
to have nest.

The Helvetic, says :—" Whilst Mont St. Bernard and all
the lateral valleys are covered with snow, the Simplon is
almost free from it. and it is as easily passed as in the sum-
mer. So mild a winter .haq not been experienced there for
many years. The wind has, indeed, at times been very high,
but no calamity has occurred, no avalanche has fallen, and
no traveller has been impeded in his passage."

THE 'WEATHER IN RoME.—A letter from Rome of the
19th ult., published in the Journal des Debats, states that
tne cold increases daily, and water is frozen not only in the
streets, but in the interior of the houses. During several
days snow bad fallen continually, and according to an old
custom, whenever this phenomenon appears, all the estab-
lishments for public instruction and the libraries are closed
until the weather shall have become more mild.

SECESSION OF THE NON-INTRUSION PARTY.—We re-
joice to understand, that arrangements are in progress for
immediately and universally commencing to make provisions
for places of worship and the support of the ministry, in the
event of the apprehended disruption ; and that a matured
plan will be submitted to the meeting of elders; to be held on
the Ist of February.—Witness.—[The organ of the Scotch
non-intrusion ists.]

FAILURE OF THE COLD WATER CURE.—A. curious scet,
was witnessed a few days ago in King's-square Avenue, Bri:
tol, which attracted a numerous crowd of spectators. Soul
bailiffs who bad to execute a distress warrant were seen t
stand under the windows of a house, holding umbrellas ovt
their heads, to shelter themselves from copious falls of watt
poured from buckets by the inmates. They gained admit
tance in the course of the day, " the cold-water system" ix
having prevailed.

BANK OF ENGLAND.—Quarterly average of the weekly
liabilties and assets from the sth of November, 1842, to the
28th of January, 1843, both inclusive, published pursuant to
the act 3d and 4th Wm. IV., cap. 98 :
Liabilities.
Circulation.... £19,342,000 Securities
Deposits...... 10,317,000 Bullion

£21,672,0(
10,705,0

£29,759,000

£32,377,0(

ASSESSING RAILWAYS FOR THE PROPERTY TAX.—A'
the last general meeting of the Birmingham Railway Compan]
the report declared a net profit for the half-year of £242,261
15s. 4d. In declaring this dividend, the directors lost sigh
of the income tax, which amounted to £7,096 19s. 4d., whicl
oversight exposes the purchasers of shares after this meetioi
to be charged with the amount in common with the old pro
prietors. The affair has given rise to considerable agitatioi
amongst the shareholders, and will no doubt act as a cautioi
to other railway boards.

NEWLY-INVENTED OPERA STALL.—The German papers
relate, that, at Feece, a fat English dilettante, not being able
to find a seat in the house unlet for the season, paid XlOO fur
a chair, to be let down from the ceiling. On the first night
of his enjoying this privilege, the audience were lost in silent
amazement when he came down through the trap-door near
the lustre, sitting in state ; but when they found he had not
come there to sing, an uproar ensued ; and our British hero,
in his efforts to) resist being hoisted back by the frightened
impresario, lost his seat, and fell on the heads of the audi-
ence ; for which divers injuries and actions for damages have
ensued.

THE LATE SIR CHRISTOPHER CODRINGTON.—The de.
ceased only survived the death of Lady Codrington, his wife
five weeks, her ladyship having expired very suddenly on the
Ist ult. He was eldest son of the first baronet's second son
and on the death of the third baronet, in 1816, succeeded tc
the title. The late Sir Christopher married, 15th August,
1796, the Hon. Miss Foley, only daughter of Thomas, second
Lord Foley, sister of the late and aunt of the present peer,
by whom he had issue a large family. His eldest son, Mr.
Christopher William Codrington, M.P. for East Gloucester.
shire, who succeeds to the family property, married, Decem-
ber 29, 1836, Lady Georgiana Somerset, second daughter of
the Duke of Beaufort, by his first marriage. The deceased
represented Tewkesbury in the House of Commons for some
years, having been elected for that borough in 1807.

BAD MATCHES.-Mr. Bim was seized with a bad pain in
his stomach the other night, and got out of his bed to look
for his hot drops. From the usual place on the mantlepiece
he took up what he supposed to be a row of matches, and
one after another he snapped them off without effect, and as
he threw down the last he gave vent to his vexation, by ex-
claiming, " Dang it, these matches won't go." His wife
now came to his assistance, and upon the other end of the
mantlepiece found some matches, and having obtained a light,
the tlrst object that met the astonished eyes of both was the
head of her best tortoiseshell comb, with every tooth broken
out, and thrown upon the floor. As Mr. Bim stood looking
agast at the destruction worked by his own misguided hands,
Mrs. B. cast a reproachful glance at him, and retired to her
bed without uttering a syllable.—Boston Post.
ENGLISH GENEROSITY—GRATIFYING CIRCUMSTANCE.
—There is now to be seen at the shop of Mr. Ralt, goldsmith,
Buchanan-street, a beautiful and richly chased tea and
coffee service of plate, together with a magnificent silver can-
delabra, presented with equal generosity and delicacy of
feeling to Mr. Alison, sheriff of this county, by an unknown
individual in one of the commercial cities of England. The
fo lowing inscription is engravers on the tribute :
To Archibald Alison, Esq.,

Author of the History of Europe during the French Revo-

lution,

In testimony of the sense entertained of the benefits he has

conferred upon his country !
From an unknown donor.

—Glasgow Mail,

NORTHERN HOSPITAL, FEB. 4.
[WEEKLY REPORT.]
ADMITTED. DISCHARGED.
Accidents 9 Cured
Medical and Surgical cases Attending as Out Patients
Upon recommendation irregular
Total Died
24 )
Remainingin the Hospital . . 83

House Visiters, R. B. B. H. Blundell and Daniel Neilson, Esqrs
Treasurer, R. W. I;ateson, Esq.
Chaplain, Rev. Win. H ughes.--House-Surgeon, Mr. Parker.