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reduced, new mechanics' institutions, instead of new prisons
and new workhouses, would be called for, the resources of
our country would bo incalculably augmented, and her pre-
eminence amongst the nations of the world be maintained to

January, 1842,

MISCELLANEOUS

WEST CORNWAT.
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The Rev. T. M`Donnell, late of Birmingham, has been ap-
pointed to the Roman catholic mission at Torquay.
We have reason to believe that Dr. Gilbert, the Principal
of Brasenose College, Oxford, will be the new bishop.—
London Times.

PRESBYTERIAN MARRIAGE QUESTION.—It is said that
the Attorney-General has given instructions to Sir Thomas
Staples, Q.C., and other law officers of the crown, to prepare
forthwith the draft of a bill to legalise all such marriages as
have been solemnised by Presbyterian clergymen between
parties, one of whom was not of that persuasion. It seems
that it will not be prospective.
COACH ACCIDENT.—A correspondent informs us, with
reference to the death of Mr. Jones, that be was an Inde-
pendent Minister who, with his wife and three small chil-
dren, were proceeding from Oswestry to Kerry, near New-
town, where he intended carrying on his ministerial labours.
The Royal Oak Welshpool coach, in which they travelled,
was upset by coming in contact with a heap of stones left on
the road, there not being a lamp on that side of the coach.
Mr. Jones, with his wife, (who was also injured,) and chil-
dren. were taken into the Nag's Head Inn, where Dr. Johnes
promptly and benevolently attended him. He died, how-
ever, on Thursday.—Salopian Journal.
AVARICE REWARDED. M. Blainville, the naturalist,
and M. Gervais, a distinguished anatomist, went last week
to Abbeville, with the intention of purchasing the carcase of
the whale thrown on the shore a short time since (as we men-
tioned), at Berck, not far from the mouth of the Somme.
The persons who owned the carcase refused to part with it
except at an enormous price, and were at length fortunate
enough to find a buyer for 1,700 fr., who thought to realise
a considerable profit by the blubber and oil. When the
whale was cut up, the blubber was found all spoiled from the
length of time which had elapsed since its death, and in fact
the animal was worth scarcely anything at all.—Galignanes
Messenger.

THREE LIVES LOST BY DROWNING.—On Saturday night
the western coast was visited by a storm, accompanied by
thunder and lightning. The rain fell in torrents until about
midnight, when the gale was at its height. At this moment
two of the water guards, who bad just conveyed, from the
Squintz side to Castletownsend, a man of Mr. Thomas So-
merville's, were returning, when their boat was upset and
themselves drowned, together with a boy by whom they were
accompanied. One of the water guards was a good swimmer,
but the sea was so high at the time that skill was of no avail
to him.. The bodies of the men had been washed ashore, but
that of the boy had not been found.—Southern Reporter.
ANOTHER BURGLARY.—Yesterday week about six o'clock,
last after S. L. Behrens, Esquire, of Catteral, had returned
home to dinner, three men forced their way into the house,
and deliberately locked the door, after which they proceeded
to their work of plunder. From the person of Mr. Behrens
they took a blue and red striped purse, containing three or
four pounds in gold, one half sovereign, and some silver;
also a flat gold horizontal watch, with gold chain. The au-
dacious intruders, having committed this robbery, locked up
Mr. Behrens and the two women servants, at the same time
threatening to murder them if they gave any alarm. They
then pursued their search for plunder, but do not seem to
have obtained much other valuable property.—Preslon Chro-
nicle.

MR. AINSWORTH'S MA GAZINE—A MONTHLY MIS-
CELLANY, ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGE CRUIKSHAN K.—
Mr Harrison Ainsworth, author of " Rookwood," " The
Tower of London," and other productions of great celebrity,
is about to start a monthly miscellany of romance, general
literature, and art, of which he will be the sole editor. In
this pet iodical work, Mr. Ainsworth will commence a new
story of the time of Hogarth, to be called " The Miser's
Daughter," a subject which will enable him to represent the
curious and most distinguishing features of that most inte-
resting epoch. The illustrations of this story will be designed
and etched on the fullest scale, consistent with the page, by
Mr. George Cruikshank, whose rare genius enables him,
more than any living artist, to give, with the truth and spirit
of actual life, the manners and humours of the Hogarthian
period. That he might concentrate the whole of his powers
on " Ainsworth's Magazine," Mr. Cruikshank has discon-
tinued his " Omnibus," as a monthly publication. Inde-
pendently of the steel plates, the pages of the magazine will
be embellished by numerous wood -cuts, also by Mr. Cruik-
shank. The editor's story will extend each month to about
the same quantity as was given every number of "The
Tower of London." Mr. Ainsworth, desirous bestowing
on his magazine the utmost variety, has been fortunate in en-
gaging, as contributors, the most celebrated writers of the
day. The first number of the work will appear on the 29th
of January, and be continued every month.
FATHER M ATHEW—A POPISH MIRACLE.—The follow-
ing extraordinary statement is from the Limerick Chronicle :

—" The very Rev. Mr. Mathew arrived in this city last even-
ing by the Cork mail en route to Loughrea, and put up at
Moore's hotel. Immediately after his arrival became known,
hundreds of persons visited him at the hotel, where he ad-
ministered the pledge. One circumstance which came within
public observation we may mention here, as illustrative of
the effects of breaking the temperance pledge. A man named
Moneyham, a tetotaller, who worked at the Butter Weigh-
house, got drunk on Christmas-ev, and next day became
paralysed—his left arm, side, and thigh being perfectly inani-
mate. Ile was removed to Barrington's Hospital, and re-
mained there under the care of the surgeons without im-
provement, until last evening, when his friends having heard
of Fatber Mathew's arrival in town, went to the hos

tal and
brought him out on a man's back to where the Rev. Mr.
Mathew was staying ; a crowd had collected round the door,
when the unhappy invalid was carried into his presence, and
the reverend gentleman administered to him the pledge again
in a kind and impressive manner, and the man instantly
stood up, was assisted by his friends to dress, and to the as-
tonishment of all, walked up William-street to his home, fol-
lowed by a crowd of people." (!)

NOVEL OCCURRENCE IN THE TOWN OF MALLOW.—On
Monday week a circumstance occurred, which might well
find a place among the most amusing anecdotes of sporting.
A hare was seen scampering through the town of Mallow,
from one end to the other of the main street. As she passed
along it seemed as if, accustomed to a solitary existence, she
had taken an opportunity of paying "a flying visit" to the
crowded haunts of men, and was determined to produce a
sensation in the town. But the interest created by her ap-
pearance was very soon succeeded by feelings of a more ex-
citing nature, when that admirable and skilfully hunted pack
of beagles belonging to N. Webb Ware, of Woodfort, Esq.,
dashed through the street in full pursuit, closely followed by
their proprietor and his youthful son--Primos et Ascanius
curses, ut latus equestres Ducebat—with other gentlemen.
The busy inhabitants of this populous little town for a few
moments resigned tbeir various avocations, and hurrying to
their doors, witnessed an incident which they will, no doubt,
hereafter hand down at their firesides as an amusing tradition
to their grand-children. As for the countrymen in town,
they were beside themselves with delight. The highest
interest was manifested as to the fate of poor puss, and all
were delighted to learn that she was ultimately safe in the
arms of the gentlemanlike and popular owner of as gallant a
pack as ever they were iu the good times, when Henry Brad-
dell, Esq., with a jocund heart (and we may indeed add with
as good a heart as ever beat) cheered them along " right
merrily."—Cork Constitution.

SAVAGE ATTEMPT TO MURDER.—On last Monday there
was a savage and daring attempt made to murder Edward
Gaynor, a respectable;and innoffensive young man, in the
vicinity of this town. It seems he was ploughing in a field
opposite his father's house, at Ballinaclough, when four mis-
ceants, three of whom were armed with pistols, came up to
him, and compelled him to kneel in the " scrape ;" while in
this posture, two of them discharged their pistols close to the
lower region of the belly, and lodged three balls in that part
of his body. One of the balls passed from the left hip across
to the right thigh, doing severe and serious injury .in its
course. The third pistol was then discharged at the horses,
hut without any other effect than that of causing them to
plunge madly through the field. Supposing their victim to
be lifeless, the sanguinary and brutal wretches retired in the
direction of Kilcarey, in the burial-ground of which place
they made a pause, as if to hold a consultation before they
separated. Gaynor still survives—having received prompt
surgical aid, hopes are entertained of his recovery.—Nenagh
Guardian.
STATE OF TRADE.—At this season of the year the trade
of Leicester is generally flat ; but, at the present time, com-
pared with former years, it is rather better, and a consider-
able improvement is expected during the year. Cotton and
wool are now come in, and another clip will be inhand in about
five months ; this added to the large stocks in the hands of
the growers, must prevent higher prices ; neither is it desire-
able a greater price should be given for wool, as it would only
lead to larger importations or the substitution of cotton.
Much is said about the importation of cotton stockings from
Saxony dyed black, superseding the worsted black so gene-
rally worn by females—cold feet and coughs will probably
cause a return to the comfort of English manufacture. We
have often been surprised that more attention has not been
given to the making an elegant worsted stocking, such as
ladies would like to wear. The last Nottingham news-paper
states, that an increasing trade is carrying on in coats and
trowsers wove in tire stocking frame; and if the hosiers and
masters begin to manufacture large articles of apparel, our
stocking-makers will again see good times, and frames and
mills be fully employed.—Leicester Journal.

FASTING.—In the first report of the inspectors of prisons
is to be found a singular instance of long abstinence from
food, terminated, however, at last by death, as Cavannah's
would have been had he carried out his system of fasting to
the last extreme. Under the head of " Ipswich Borough
Gaol" the following anecdote is recorded :—" There has
been one death in the present year under such extraordinary
circumstances, that I venture to cite the case, although not
immediately in connexion with the subject of the report.
Wiliam Casey, a native of Ireland, was tried March 9, 1835,
for the murder of his child, and was acquitted on the ground
of insanity. He then manifested a determination to destroy
himself, and every care, was taken to prevent him. He then
resolved to effect it by starvation, and refused all food. The
first ten days he was without a drop of water. On the
eleventh day he drank a quart. Then he went for several
days without food, and drank a quantity of water again.
Food in every enticing variety was placed and left before him,
and carpets were laid in the approaches to his cell, in order
that he might be watched. He was frequently seen to crawl
out of bed and smell the food, and then return. His wife
once attempted to put a strawberry into his mouth, and he
would have strangled her had he not been prevented. He
lived on in this way, taking nothing but water, except on one
occasion, during the last five days of his life, when he took a
little rum. He died on the Ist of August. During the
whole period of his confinement he always stood, and was
never known to sit down when not in bed. His violence was
so great as to preclude the possibility of the surgeon's admi-
nistering nutriment to him otherwise than by the natural
channel."

CHILD Mutti3Eit.—We deeply regret being under the
necessity of giving the details of another brutal act, by which
a human being has been deprived of life on its very threshold.
The accused is a single woman, of loose character, named
Elizabeth Poole, residing with her uncle at Lee Bridge, be-
tween this town and Market Drayton, and who had formerly
given birth to two illegitimate children. On Sunday night
last, her uncle turned her out of doors, and she proceeded to
the residence of an aunt at some distance, named Maddox,
from whom she entreated a night's lodging, which was re-
luctantly granted. In the morning the husband of Maddox
got up, and made a fire previous to going out to his work ;
and Elizabeth Poole was then observed to get out and into
bed twice or thrice, which induced her aunt to ask if she was
unwell, to which she replied that she felt sick and very
poorly. Maddox having left, the prisoner went down into
kitchen, and presently Mrs. Maddox and a niece sleeping
in the same room thought they heard an infant cry, and on
the niece hastening down stairs she saw an infant, and told
her aunt. The aunt then came down stairs, and both fol-
lowed the prisoner to an outhouse, where they found her,
and on looking under the seat, they saw the body of an infant
amongst the filth. Terrified at the sight, they went off for
found that the poor infant, in its
assistance, and nearly an hour elapsed before they procured
it. On returning they
death struggle, had slightly altered its position, and stretched
out its arms, but was quite dead. The unhappy mother was
taken into custody, and an inquest held on the body of the
child; but the committal of the prisoner is postponed till she
is in a condition to be removed.—Shropshire Conservative.