The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-12-02 00:00:00

BIETIEs.

RETORT.—A clergyman was censuring a young lady for
tight lacing—" Why,' replied Miss, "you could not surely
recommend loose habits to your parishoners."
" BEAR AND FORBEAR.”—Every thing in the house and
the whole household arrangement is in order. Little parties
are baking in the kitchen; the weather is oppressively hot,
and every leaf and bird seem as if deprived of motion. The
hens lie outside in the sand before the window : the cock
stands solitarily on one leg, and looks upon his harem with
the countenance of a sleepy sultan. Bear [my husband] sits
in the room writing letters—l hear him yawn, that infects
me—oh ! oh !—I must have a little quarrel with him on pur-
pose to awaken us both. I want at this moment a quire of
writing paper, on which to drop sugar-cakes. He is terribly
miserly of his writing paper, and on that very account I must
have some now. I went to my husband, and said quite
meekly, " My angel-bear,. you must be so very good as give
me a quire of your writing paper to drop sugar-cakes upon."
He (in consternation)—A quire of my writing paper ? She
—Yes, my dear friend, of your very best writing paper. lie
—Finest writing paper ! are you mad ? She—Certainly not ;
but I believe you are a little out 'of your senses. He—You
covetous sea-cat, leave off raging among my papers ! you
shall not have my paper. She—Miserable beast ! I shall
and will have the paper. He—" I shall!" Listen a mo-
ment. Let's see how you will accomplish your will. And
the Bear held both my small hands fast in his great rough
paws. She—You ugly Bear ! you are worse ,than any that
walk on four legs. Let me loose ! let me loose ! else I shall
bite you ; and as he would not let me loose, I bit him—yes,
Maria, I bit him really on the hand ; at which he only
laughed scornfully, and said—" Yes, yes, my little wife, that
is always the way of those who are froward without the power
to do. Take the paper ! now take it !" She—Ah ! let me
loose, let me loose ! He—Ask prettily. She—Dear Bear !
He—Acknowledge your fault. She—l do. He—Pray for
forgiveness. She—Ah, forgiveness ! He—Promise amend-
ment. She—O yes, amendment ! He—Nay—l'll pardon
you. But now, no sour faces, dear wife, but throw your arms
round my neck and kiss me. I gave him—a little box on the
ear, stole a quire of paper, and ran off with loud exultation.
Bear followed into the kitchen, growling horribly ; but then
I turned round upon him, armed with two delicious little
patties, which I aimed at his mouth, and there they vanished.
Bear all at once was quite still, the paper was forgotten, and
reconciliation concluded.—Life in Sweden, by Frederika
Bremier ; translated by Mary Howlett.
Do STONES GROW ?—.l.s a question often asked by your
readers, "Do pebbles grow ?" Tournefort contends that
stones grow in like manner with organic beings, drawing their
nutriment from the earth—nay, he presumes that they gene-
rate in like manner ; but although he adduces as a proof that
they do grow, the curious fact afforded us in the famous Cre-
than labyrinth, where the names formerly carved in the rock
now stand out in basso relievo, yet is this solitary fact in-
sufficient, because the actual growth, and the mere exudation
of matter from rock, are vastlyy, different from each other.
Stones do not grow, but Ille'.etomic particles and aggregates
of bodies, are united by-a common silicic or crystalline basis
forming as one consolidated body the force of cohesion being
determined by the nature of the. bases. Thus numerous
aggregates, having little or no affinity to each other, become
united as one aggregate ; but the rocks and stones, when once
they have assumed their degree of density as a crystalline
body, do not receive any increase to their quantities, from sur-
rounding bodies, such matters assimilating to their respec-
tive qualities, although mineral matters may exude therefrom.
Thus their cavities are sometime filled up with quartz or me-
tallic veins, and caverns become lined with stalaclites ; for
rock, even the most ponderable, is by no means a solid body ;
it expands and contracts, as influenced by the atmosphere ;
it receives compound elements from bodies surrounding it,
and it gives forth occasionally certain homogeneous qualities
of its own, and by this emission assumes a new character.
A body of rock is not seen to form, but the forming action
is manifest throughout the bed of earth from which it forms,
the atomic particles of the whole being similarly and simul-
taneously affected ; and if, after forming, silic acid be deposi-
ted on its surface, it remains a body of distinct qualities. It
is a well-known fact, that a gelatinous matter, whether the
same be of animal or vegetable life, or is:,reproduced in the
decomposition of bodiei, favours the conglomeration of silicia,
and the process of petrification, or lapidification, in all parts
of the world, but more particularly so in tropical regions,
where animal and vegetable production is in excess; thus it
is, many springs and rivers, holding in solution these matters,
gradually convert organic bodies and aggregates of bodies
into silaceons aggregates—even the ocean waters, in localities,
manifest the like properties ; thus on the shores of the Island
of Ascension, the animal and vegetable matters, continually
thrown up, unite with the soil, and form a conglomerate as
hard as rock, even the turtle's eggs being converted into flint-
like fossils. So long as the sands are aposrd:to the action
of heat alone—so.long as they continue' unchanged in their
parts and qualities, but exposed to the 'conjabint affections of
heat and moisture, a rapid and manifest • Change takes place,
the nature of the change, and its ultiinate' result, depending
on the nature and qualities of the material acted upon.—
Mininy Journal.
ORIGIN OF THE STORY OF CINDERELLA'S SLIPPER.—
In common with most of the popular fairy tales, which, in
all languages, and throughout successive generations, have
continued a source of delight to the youthful, and of amuse-
ment • even to the adult portion of mankind, the story of
Cinderella and her slipper would appear, in the main inci-
dents of the fable at least, to claim a parentage of great anti-
quity. For our own part, we are not aware that the coinci-
dence has hitherto been noticed by the curious in these
matters; but ttleie can exist but little doubt. we imagine,
that the prototype of our. favourite Cinderella is to be traced
in- the celebiated beauty- of the ancient world—the far-famed
Rhodope;—who is; by historians, reported to have been fel-
low-slave with .lEsop, and to have built one of the pyramids
Of Egypt: The following account of this heroine's adven-
tures, as it is related by all the classical authorities, will, we
think, place our suggestion in a point of view sufficiently
clear :—" As she (Rhodope) was once bathing in the Nile,
(for she was a native of Naucratis, a city of Egypt,) an eagle
snatched one of her slippers out of the hands of ber waiting-
woman, and, carrying it to Memphis, where the .king sat
administering justice in a public place of the city, dropped
it in his lap. The king was surprised at the novelty of the
adventure ; and, being smitten with the beauty of the slip-
per, immediately despatched messengers all over the country,
with orders to bring him the woman with whom they should
find the fellow of that slipper. In short, Rhodope being
found, was brought to the king, and made by him Queen of
Egypt." Thus far the classical narration: the addition of
the miraculous slipper being made of glass is apparently a
fabulist's license—an interpolation of comparatively more
modern date; and here it is not a little curious to remark,
that the late well-known invention of weaving from so brittle,
and apparently intractable, a material as glass, has now de-
monstrated not only the possibility, but even the actual fea-
• sibility, of the existence of " the little glass slipper;" and
has removed the incident in the fairy tale of Cinderella from
its hitherto assigned position in the region of fancy and im-
probability, into that of sober truth and practical reality.
Is this, too, but another of those mysterious hints of the
anterior existence of long sinbe lost and forgotten arts, occa-
sionally to be recognised beneath their shadowy disguise of
magic and necromancy, in the ancient popular tales and
works of fiction, more especially those of Eastern origin ?
such, for instance, as the indication of the telescope—to be
traced with a degree of probability closely bordering on cer-
tainty, in the story of the " Magic Tube" of the wonder-
searching prince of the Arabian tale, and, by the instrumen-
tality of which objects and personages at a distance far
beyond the reach of mortal observation were clearly dis-
cernible to the eye of the fortunate possessor . or, again, of
the former knowledge of steam-locomotives, in the curious
'details, in another of these oriental tales, of the enchanted
wooden horse, or machine, by the aid of which, and " by
the mere turning of a peg:"—[Query : Could the allusion
to the machinery of a steam locomotive engine well be more
explicit, under the circumstances ?]—the party seated on the
machine could transport himself to any spot, and in any di-
rection he wished. It were not difficult to adduce a variety
of similar conjectures in point ; but the digression might
appear somewhat of the widest, from the " little glass
slipper" of a fairy tale to a dissertation on the lost arts of
antiquity. ,
On the summit of the lofty mountain Tschebat Ej Kofferi,
on the banks of the Nile, are a series of subterraneous re-
mains, which could be intended for no other purpose but
initiation into the spurious freemasonry of Egypt. They
consist of " a large saloon supported by hexagonal pillars,
contrived in the rock itself. The roofs are adorned with
paintings, which even at present we distinguish exceedingly
well; while the gold, with which they were originally deco-
rated, glitters on all sides. Here and there we perceive open-
ings, which lead to other apartments ; but, as they are'filled
with: rubbish, and as the passages into them are embarrassed
with it, few travellers choose to venture themselves there.
Above, there is another apartment, to which you may with
difficulty arrive by climbing up the outside of the mountain.
It is not so extensive a saloon as the former, but it is painted
after a similar manner ; and, like it, communicates with other
adjoining apartments." This account i§ taken from Norden ;
and Pococke further describes them as a series of long rooms
and spacious galleries, some of which were beautifully finished
with painting and sculpture. A splendid specimen of " the
lowest of valleys
terly Review. ."--Rev. Dr. Oliver.—Freemasons' Quar-

1742 AND 1842.—(Prom an American paper.)

1742.
Man to the plough,
Wife to the cow,
Girl to the yarn,
Boy tq the barn,
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MISCELLANEOUS.

The Queen's departure from Walmer Castle has been
postponed until to-morrow (Saturday.)

On the 28th uh. a new church was consecrated at Llanrwst,
North Wales, by the Lord Bishop of St. Asaph.
The overland mail to Egypt and India via' Marseilles, will
be made up at the General Post-office, London, on Monday
next the sth instant.

A local radial paper states, that Mr. Davies, the con-
servative candidate, will be returned for Carmarthenshire
without opposition.
On Thursday the London and Dover Railway will be
opened to Ashford, thus completing three-fourths of the
whole line.

A poor lunatic of the name of Nicholls; who declares him-
self to be heir to the kingdom of Russia, has been prowling
about Walmer Castle during the last few days, but no act
was committed by him to justify his apprehension. . ,
A white hare .was recently caught on the estate of John
Tewart, Esq., of Glanton, near Whittingham, in whose pos-
session it now is.—Newcastle Journal.

So numerous are the men-of-war seamen unemployed that
the crew of the Frolic was complete in a few days. Hun-
dreds of fine able-bodied seamen will be entirely lost to the
service, unless a sea-going ship is soon commissioned to re-
ceive them.Hatnpshire Independent.

Mr. J. Varley, the well known water colour painter, died,
on the 17th instant, in London, in the 64th year of his age.
The London city police force, for the year 1843, is recom-
mended not to exceed 542 men.

The sandal-wood gates of Mahomed's mausoleum have been
carried off from Ghuznee by General Nott at the express de-
sire of Lord Ellenborough.
The payment of the money due by the Chinese is to be
effected in the following manner :—lmmediate payment
6,000,000 dollars; in 1843, 6,000,000; in 1844, 5,000,000; in
1845, 4,000,000.
The lucrative appointment of postmaster at Leeds, vacant
by the death of Mrs. Temple, has been conferred by the
Lords of the Treasury on Mr. James Anderson, the chief
clerk in the office.

THEiCALENDAR.—A correspondent of the Oxford Herald
asks the following question :—" Can you account for the
direction in the Calendar, Nov. 16, that Eccles. xlvi. is only
to be read to,verse 20, when there are only twenty verses in
the chapter ?"
It is stated that the evangelical party in the Church of
England are to make the first move in a threatened separa-
tion, and to call themselves the Reformed Church of Eng-
land.—. Radical Paper.—[" It may be said," with as much
correctness, that radicalism and popery are lovers of truth.—
Ed. L. S.]
Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket,
and don't pull it out to show that you have one ; but if you
are asked what o'clock it is, tell it.
Mr. Foster, the spirited iron-master, is preparing for
building furnaces and carrying on very extensive works at
Madeley Court, which he has lately purchased.
The weavers of Coventry have formed themselves iuto an
" Association for the Protection of Wages in the Figure
Trade."

We have to state, with great gratification, that, at the in-
stance of Sir Robert Peel, her Majesty has granted a pension
of £lOO a-year to Mr. John Curtis, F.L.S., the eminent
naturalist, whose British Etomology alone, the labour of
nearly twenty years, so justly entitles him to the Royal
favour.

Dickens's American Notts for General Circulation reached
New York, by the Great Western, on the evening of Sunday
the 6th instant, and was published next day in newspaper
" extracts," and sold for one penny !

A New York paper says, that at the last sitting of the le-
gislature of Maryland, a tax was laid upon all salaries or
incomes from employments.
The Rev. Dr. Warneford has promised £5OO towards the
endowment of a church proposed to be erected on the Dicker
Common, near Hailsham, Sussex.

Among the 178,000,000 individuals who inhabit Europe
there are said to be 17,900,000 beggars, or persons who sub-
sist at the expense of the community without contributing to
its resources. In Denmark the proportion is fie per cent„
in England ten per cent., in Holland fourteen per cent.
The prisoner Mortlock, who is confined in the csAiy gaol
of Cambridge, to stand his trial at the next assites, for at-
tempting the life of his uncle, the Rev. Edmund Mortlock,
fellow of Christ's College, conducts himself, it is stated, with
the greatest indifference, and talks as if perfectly reckless of
his fate.

AN EXTRAORDINARY DELUSION.—There has been for
some time resident in Bangor a native of the sister kingdom,
who is a believer in the transmutation of individuality. He
believes that, in " by-gone days," he existed as the celebrated
Dean Swift, and that his next doom is to be metamorphosed
into a rabbit. The poor creature is inclined to mischief, but
good management and weak intellect neutralise that inclina-
tion.—Carnarvon Herald.
CAUTION IN SENDING NEWSPAPERS.-.—lt iS well known

that many persons who send newspapers are in the habit of
cutting them in order to direct attention to any particular
paragraph. The post-office authorities have recently decided
that such are marked papers and are liable to
_postage charge,
whilst the parties sending.such are also subject to the usual
penalties for writing in newspapers.
THE CHINESE WAR.—The following is an extract of a
letter from that gallant officer Captain Hall, of the Hon.
Company's steamer, Nemesis, to a gentleman in this city,
dated Nankin, August 31,0342:;—" Now the war is happily
over, I have time to thinkf my old friends. Yes, thank

God, We, have at last brought these fellows to respect the
the name of our noble country, and to speak of us with res-
pect. They have been regularly beaten into it ; and I feel
proud and thankful in having taken such an active part. The
particulars you must have seen and heard all about before this.
Yes, the Chinese know her well, they call her the devil ship,
fire ship, and all sorts of names. Well, I do think myself
truly glad to get out of it as I have. At Chapoo I had two
of my men shot at my side ; and the other day, at the taking
of Woosung, one of my men had his right arm shot ofl, the
arm chest near where I was standing was shot to pieces, add
15 shots struck us that day. I hope some of these days to
give you all particulars myself ; for the present, you must be
content with this short scroll. Peace was signed on board
the Cornwallis on the 29th instant. I was present, and a
very interesting sight it was ; and the day before I was at the
top of the far-famed Porcelain Tower, and had the pleasure
of drinking the Queen's health and friends north of the
Tweed. The sight was truly splendid. We rode out, about
25 of us, on Chinese horses, and had a good dinner there,
and returned the same evening to our outer advanced guard,
where our artillery was. The latter are a fine set of fellows."
Caledonian Mercury.

MARRIAGES IN FIANCE.—There is a good deal of round-
abouts as well as ostentatious ceremony in French marriages.
In the first place, the names of the parties are stuck on the
door of the town-ball a fortnight previous to the approaching
day, as well as the forthcoming event being announced in the
provincial newspaper. Then, when the happy day arrives,
instead of going at once to the " hymeneal altar," the bridal
party are obliged to present themselves to the authorities at
the Hotel de Ville, proceeding thence to their church: The
procession generally consists, in the middle ranks of life at
least, of from three to five hired carriages, the drivers of them
having a bunch of ribbons tied at the end of the crop of their
whips ; and if the " happy pair" reside in a town, and are
of the respectable order, large flags are hoisted over the door
of the bride's house, as well as over several of those of her
neighbours, and occasionally suspended by ropes across the
street. A good supper generally closes the wedding day. A
curious distinction is observed amongst the lower orders.
Should one of them not belong to the same parish with the
other, a firing of guns is kept up during the whole evening of
the wedding day. Something like a jumble of the church
bells occasionally takes place ; but as to " a peal of bells,"
I have yet to hear that in France. Those evening bells,"
with their beautiful melody, are only to be heard in one or
two countries under the sun. There is, in one respect, a
striking difference between an English and a French wedding,
in the lower orders of society. With us the parties endea-
vour to avoid the, public gaze, and here they court it. They
will be seen parading
,the streets and the adjoining public
ways, not only on the wedding day, but on the day following.
They have also a curious., custom of issuing circulars an-
nouncing their nuptials, one of which, having just received
it, I shall here transcribe Monsieur et Madame Ducastel,
et Delvue, ont l'honneur de vous faire part du marriage de
Monsieur Louis Ducastel, leur fils, docteur en medicine,
avec Mademoiselle Bopbie Gonard. Calais, 16 Janvier, 1840."
I was for some time at a loss, having no knowledge of the
young doctor or his bride, for the reason of this compliment
being paid to me ; but at length I recollected that I bad pur-
chased a carriage of a Monsieur Gonard, a coachmaker, who
I have since learned, is father to the bride.—Nimrod Abroad.
The correspondent of the Times, dating " Walmer Castle,
Monday," gives the following aneddote of the Princess
Royal :—Mrs. Hulke, the lady of Mr. William Hulke, sur-
geon, of Deal (who is in daily attendance, by command of her
Majesty, upon the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal,
at the Castle), was confined of a son, on the 12th instant, the
anniversary of the birth of the Princess Royal. Mr. Hulke
has just received the distinguished honour of a communica-
ton from the Queen, through the medium of the Dowager
Lady Littleton, couched in the most gracious terms, request-
ing (which may be viewed as a command) that the infant son
of Mr. Hulke should be named after the Princess Royal, and
that Her Royal Highness's name being Victoria, the for-
tunate and highly-honoured son of the Princess's medical
attendant should be christened " Victor." Such a request,
and from so illustrious a source, will, of course, be most lit-
erally and gratefully obeyed by its highly honoured parents.
Yesterday Morning, upon Mr. Hulke visiting, professionally
the Princess Royal, as usual, her Royal Highness, in a most
artless and graceful manner, presented Mr Hulke with an
elegant and (gold pencil-case set with precious stones, and
containing beautiful medallion portraits, in bas relief, of her
Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert entwined with
the Garter. The Princess rose from her chair (being at
breakfast at the time) and addressing Mr. Hulke, said, " I
have something to present to you, Mr. Hulke (handing the
pencil-case), I beg you will give this to Victor as a present
from me." I need not observe, that this gratifying mark of
the Royal favour is duly appreciated by the parents of the
highly-honoured " Victor.'
INDIAN PREVENTION OF Dior ROT.—At Yaynanknyvin,
on the banks of the Irrawaddy, are the celebrated Petroleum
Wells, which supply the kingdom of Burmah, and the adja-
cent countries as far south as Junk-Ceylon, with lamp oil.
The pi is s.s, whose religious works are all written upon the
leaf of the talipot-palm, smear the surface with this mineral
oil, for the double purpose of filling the interstices with a
dark matter which shall render the letters visible, and in
order to protect them from the attacks of insects, and the
ravages of time. I have seen such books of various ages,
from fifty to one hundred and fifty years, whose antiquity
could be verified without difficulty—their preservation having
been attributed solely to the indestructible properties of the
Petroleum, in which they had been soaked. Having men-
tioned these facts, it only remains for me to draw the atten-
tion of scientific persons to them, with a view of testing the
qualities of Yaynan' as a preventive to dry rot in timber.
the experiment may be tried without much expense, by satu-
rating some planks with this liquid, and giving them a fair
trial with others not so protected. There cannot be the
same objection made to this mineral production as there is to
arsenic or corrosive sublimate, inasmuch as the Yaynan is
not only perfectly innoxious, but has rather an agreeable
odour.—Medical Times.
PRINTING BY MACHINERY.—At the meeting of the Paris
Academy of Sciences last week, M. Arago, in the name of
the Commission of the Academy, appointed to report on the
invention of M. Gaubert for the composition of printing
types by means of machinery, addressed the Academy as fol-
lows : Your commission comprehend perfectly that, by
by pressing upon keys like ihose of a piano-forte, it was pos-
sible to compose with rapidity from characters arranged be-
forehand, but such an invention was destined to remain use-
less, unless accompanied with the means of distributing into
the printing cases, and also of placing the type in regular
order for the supply of the machine. This was the difficult
point of the problem. The inventor has only succeeded by
calling to his aid all the most subtile resources of mechan-
ism. Your Commission have seen the machine at work, and
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and interesting class of persons engaged in typographical
composition, although it is evident that eventually the ma-
chine must be a benefit to every body. With a view of dis-
sipating this fear, M. Gaubert has entered into explanations,
which leave no doubt that the new machine may be put up
in all printing offices, offering to the public all the prondsed
advantages, without injury to the compositors,"

Archdeacon Torrens, Dean Vignoles, Archdeacon Packen-
ham, Dr. Singer, Dr. Daly, and Mr. Gregs, are severally
spoken of as the new bishop.

EXTRAORDINARY DIVIDEND.—It iS said that the Far-
mington Canal Company, in Conoecticut, have this year made
their first dividend. They mowed the tow path, and divided
the hay.—New York Paper.

The price of bread in Lambeth was, on Monday, generally
reduced to 54d. per quartern loaf.

- - Lady Patteson, wife of Mr. Justice Patteson, died 01,
Monday last.

We are glad to perceive, from the Sporting Review, that
a series of articles are to appear in that periodical, reprobating,
in the strongest manner, the fiendish practice of prize-fighting.
A Cambridge correspondent of the Morning Herald says,
that it is rumoured in that town that the Hon. H. M. Sutton
is about to retire from the office of Under-secretary of the
Home Department, to fill that of a commissioner of excise ;
and that, consequently, a vacancy will occur in the parlia-
mentary representation of the borough.
STATE OF TRADE IN GLASGOW.—The tidings of our suc-
cesses in India and China have exerted a beneficial influence
on trade, so long and so painfully depressed. An improved
spirit is easily apparent, and many kinds of Glasgow goods
are now held and sold at a fair advance on the terms at which
they would have been readily offered on Tuesday forenoon.—
Glasgow Mail.
THE FATAL AFFRAY NEAR WELLS.—The inquest on the
body of Samuel Britton, whose death was alleged to have
been caused by a blow given him by the landlord of the
Hunters' Lodge, with a cart-trigger, was resumed at the New
Inn, Lawford'-s-gate, on Monday. One or two other wit-
nesses were examined, and the jury returned a verdict of
manslaughter.
PARISIAN DIAMONDS.—It may be interesting to our
readers to know that these beautiful imitations of the

" princeless gem," which have lately attracted so much at-
tention, are made by a chemist in Paris, and are only the
oxide of tin. It is to be regretted that the brilliancy which
has rendered this imitation so famous cannot be depended
upon, as, after exposure for some time, they become as dull
as common glass.—Mining Journal.
The Phare de la .Rochelle gives the following account of a
strange suicide, which has just taken place there :—" A
soldier of the 14th regiment of the line, quartered at Chateau
(Oleron), drove with a stone a large nail, of the kind called
point de Paris, into the summit of his head, and then went
to bed ; but soon his agony became so acute that he fell on
the floor in the midst of his struggles. His comrades took
him up, and carried him to the hospital, where he expired in
the course of the day. The nail left so little trace of blood
that it would have been difficult to discover the cause of his
agony had he not disclosed it himself.

DEATH OF A MISER.—At Minfordd, Penmaen, near Dol-
gelly, on Friday the 18th instant, died Robert Lewis, aged
83. This man, through life, followed the business of a hand-
loom weaver of the course woollen cloth manufactured in
this neighbourhood. By dint of extreme parsimony, denying
himself, and those living with him, almost the common ne-
cessaries of life, he amassed the sum of £2,000. Robert
Lewis has been thrice married, and has left his widow £2O
yearly for life, and £lOO in cash ; the remainder of his pro-
perty goes to distant relations.—Carnarvon Herald.
DOINGS AT DERRYNANE.—Mr. Alderman O'Connell has
fled from his unclad auditory of the Corn Exchange to enjoy
the Christmas amidst the fastnesses of Derrynane, where, it
appears, he is engaged on his forthcoming History of Ireland,
the first part of which is, according to a " puff" in the Tip-
perary Free Press, to make its appearance on the Ist of De-
cember next, and all persons, " friends of the Liberator,"
are duly cautioned that the purchase of this most impartial
record of Ireland's degradation will be absolutely indispensa-
ble at the present juncture. It is fairly supposed by the hint,
that this is but another mode of raising the wind, in order to
cover the (anticipated) defalcation in the annual revenue.
WANTON CRUELTF.—A canary bird belonging to George
M`Lachlan, Borland-park, near Auchterarder, was taken by
his son to the bothie of a farm where the youngirian was ser-
vant to a farmer in the neighbourhood. One Sunday, last
summer, a person, whose feelings we do not envy, got access
to it, and actually put out the eyes of the little songster. In
this dark state it was restored to its owner, who, by careful
attention, taught it to find its way to the seed-box and the
water-glass. In time it became reconciled to its fate, and
now it makes the cottage ring with its melodious notes. As
it cannot distinguish night from day, it continues to pour its
sweet warblings till all the inmates of the house are fast locked
in the arms of Morpheus, when it partakes a little of the ge-
neral repose, but renews its song with the first breaking of
the universal silence.—Caledonian Mercury.

On Saturday a little boy fell into the SeVern at the back of
Hylton-street, and his death appeared to be inevitable, the
stream being so rapid; but providentially another boy of the
name of Bryan saw the. accident, and with admirable pre-
sence of mind jumped into a boat, which happened to be
moored near the spot, and caught the sinking child and
brought him to shore, though apparently lifeless. He was
immediately carried to a public-house, where every attention
was paid him, and a medical gentleman sent for. Anima-
tion, which was for some time suspended, was gradually re-
stored by the application of the necessary remedies, and the
boy is quite recovered. Bryan, who behaved with such in-
trepidity on this occasion, is a Sunday scholar at St. Cle-
ment's school, and is only eleven years of age! He obtained
as a reward a handsome Bible, from the Society for Pro-
moting Christian Knowledge, and 10s. in money from the
Humane Society, which his father has very properly laid out
for him in clothes.

It has given us much pleasure to understand that our
countryman, Mr. T. C. Thompson, R. H. A. (now in this
city), has it in contemplation, immediately on his return to
London, to commence his historical picture of George the
Fourth's embarkation from Kingstown, on a scale of such
convenient size as will render it suitable for an engraving,
and thereby more extensively commemorate an event that
has been attended by important political consequences. 'We
need scarcely remind our readers of Mr. Thompson's whole
length portraits of the Duke of York, of the Marquis of
Anglesea, Earls Talbot and Fingall, and of Lord Chancellor
Manners, and the late Lord Gort, all of which have ap-
peared at our exhibitions, and are more than sufficient to
establish his character in the first line of art, independently
of his various works exhibited in London.—Evening Packet,
November 26, 1842.
We regret to learn that a case of fraud has been committed
upon one of the banks in this neighbourhood, of a very
serious kind, and the more so, that it is both ingenious and
may be repeated here or elsewhere, unless every vigilance is
used. Recently a respectably dressed person called at a
branch bank in Falkirk, and obtained, in ordinary course, a
letter of credit for a small sum payable at the corresponding
branch in Dumbartonshire. In the meantime, it would ap-
pear, that the fellow, or his accomplices, had discharged, by
some chemical process it is believed, all the writing on the
letter, excepting that which was necessary to his fraudulent
purpose, such as the agent's name, &c., and the consequence
was that when the letter was presented for payment, it bore
a credit for hundreds instead of units—in other words, the
sum of £1 12s. had been increased to £330. • The document
being duly signed, and in other respects having all the ap-
pearance of a genuine letter of credit, the money was paid at
once, with which the thief has in the meantime made his
escape, though we are well aware that every effort is being
used for his apprehension, which we trust may be successful.
—Glasgow Mail.
DEPLORABLE CASE OP DISTRESS.—At Guildhall, on
Friday, a respectable-looking man named William Hadlow,
who was without a shirt, and whose general appearance indict
cated the greatest distress, was placedet the bar before Alder-
man Sir J. Pixie, Bart., charged with begging.—Police con-
stable Burgess stated that on the previous afternoon he saw
the defendant begging at the corner of Poppin's-court, Fleet-
street : it was raining very hard at the time; he told him to
go on or he must take him to the station-house, when he said
that that was just what he wanted, for he was begging for that
purpose, as he desired to be taken before a magistrate.—Sir
J. Pixie : You appear to have been brought up respectably •,
what have you to say to the charge ?—The defendant stated
that he had been formerly a clergyman, in very good circum-
stances, but latterly had become so dreadfully reduced as to
be obliged to make application for the admission of himself,
wife, and three children, into Clerkenwell workhouse. The
matter was referred to the board of guardians, who agreed to
receive his wife and children, but told him they considered
him to be an able-bodied man, and that he must get his own
living.—Sir J. Pixie : How long is that ago ?—Defendant :
Two months ; and since that time I have suffered the greatest
privations, and am now reduced to the deplorable state in
which you see me, without even a shirt.—Sir J. Pixie here
desired Burgess to take the (unhappy man to the relieving
officer of Clerkenwell with his compliments, and request that
he should at once be admitted into the workhouse, and, in
event of his refusal, to desire him to attend at this office.—
Burgess returned in a short time, and informed the worthy
alderman that at first Mr. Barling (the relieving officer) re-
fused to take him in, but, upon his telling him that he must
attend at this office, he consented to admit him. It was
stated in the court that the unfortunate applicant is a doctor
of divinity.
NEWSPAPER TRICKS.—It is amusing to notice, in the
fearful struggle for daily bread which seems to have been re-
served as the most striking characteristic of the present age,
the varied means resorted to by people of different characters
and classes to obtain some degree of notoriety, however ques-
tionable or otherwise, and with it a footing above the mass
of their fellow candidates, where they expect to be in a mea-
sure free from the stern realities of want, or the horrid dread
of being buried alive in oblivious equality. We have long
been accustomed to witness the efforts of our drowning

brethren of the press, who try to keep themselves and their
establishments afloat by means of gratuitously distributing
whole reams of wretched portraits ; writing numerous
answers to correspondents who never existed; presenting
whole columns of original" novels or tales, which, as far
as regards good taste or originality, would excite a smile in
even the unintellectual and swarthy frontispiece of our
" devil ;"—but we were not yet prepared for the seductive
announcement made last week by a new London print, of the
intention to present, gratuitously, a silver service of plate
to their subscribers who had prepaid their subscriptions for
the ensuing six months. The thing is catching enough ; but
alas for our contemporary's ignorance of human nature—.
who ever heard of any man, however honest or straight-
forward, being induced to prepay for his newspaper ? !
Such a race of bipeps, if ever in existence, have, to our
certain knowledge, been extinct for many years.—Worcester
Journal.—[Our contemporary is in some respects perfectly
correct ; but such a race of " bipeds" have, to our certain
knowledge, not been extinct for many years.—En. L. S.]
SINGULAR DISCOVERY OF COUNTERFEIT COIN.—On
Saturday last, as three labourers were engaged in digging
foundations for some new houses in a field adjoining Mill.
lane, Lancaster, one of them, named Parkinson, observed a
folded paper projecting from a cavity in the dyke-side. In-
cited by curiosity, he attempted to dislodge it, and, in so
doing, was astonished and delighted on finding its withdrawal
followed by a shower of coins, apparently shillings and six-
pences. Having pocketed a handful, he was unable to keep
the discovery a secret, and in the fulness of his heart popped
his head over the hedge, and acquainted his companions with
his good fortune. The latter cleared the hedge in a twinkling,
and were presently at his side, when a scramble ensued for
the remainder of the unexpected windfall. After every doit
had been carefully gathered up, and the vicinity of the spot
narrowly examined in the hope of stumbling on some other
pile of hidden treasure, a council was held to determine as to
its disposal, when in the midst of their deliberations it flashed
across the minds of the parties that the money might form
part of the proceeds of some robbery ; and that, by advertising
the police of the circumstance, they might possibly reap a
handsome reward. No sooner said than done. They im-
mediately posted to the station-house, and displayed their
acquisitions to Mr. Superintendent Wright, who, on exami-
nation of the coins, pronounced them to be base metal, to the
great discomfiture of Parkinson and his companions. The
squrious imitations are one hundred and fifty in number, and
consist of twenty eighteen-penny bank tokens of the reign of
George 111., and bearing the date of 1811, sixty " slape"
shillings, and seventy " slape" sixpences. Mr. Wright en-
tertaining an idea that they had been secreted by some
" smasher," formerly residing in the neighbourhood, in
order that, if on any occasion his house were searched,
nothing might be found to criminate him, instituted an in-
quiry, the result of which was, that Mr. T. H. Higgin, the
late governor of Lancaster Castle, stated that he perfectly
recollected a man being apprehended, convicted, and trans-
ported, for passing bad money in Lancaster, but that he did
not remember his name ; adding, that it was thought at the
time that he had a "plant" (a cant term for secreted money
or other valuables) in Short Mill-lane, having been repeatedly
noticed going thither; but, though a strict search was made
in the field in question, it proved unsuccessful. The coins
are in an excellent state of preservation ; the " tokens"
looking almost as fresh as when first turned out of the mould.
—Lancaster Guardian.

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EAST INDIES, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, Sre.
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Fanny Connell, -, 171 Sincapore, COtesworth & Wynne
Reis Effendi, G Pringle, 176 Cape of Good Hope, W N Moore

R & G Benn
W Quayle

AFRICA.
Hero, F Grant, 388 Africa,
Sarah Fleming, S Walker, 346 Africa,
WEST INDIES AND MADEIRA.
Amelia, J Alexandre, 191 Trinidad and Puerto Cabello,
Imrie & Tomlinson
G Quayle

Nlyrene,— Duris, 244 Demerara,
SOUTH AMERICA.
Heart of Oak, E M Evans, 329 Valparaiso and Guayaquil,
Jeffryes & Meek
Mellors & Russell

Thomas Mellor, J Palethorpe, 257 Brazils,
UNITED STATES.
Messenger, .1' McKandy, 586 New Orleans„ W Quayle
Lord Palmerston, A Rattray, 448 Charleston, Campbell & Rudd
EUROPE.
135 Syra and Salonica, Bahr &Co
Trieste, Bahr, Behrend & Co
Leghorn, J G White
Algiers, Wilkin & Preston

Beiram, W B Simpson.
Active, A Wickiund,
Cuba, D Leitch.
Europe, H F Barrett,