The Weekly comet., 1855-08-19
From our Ps,liatlelphia Correspondent

to do "in extremes" OF sorrow for hav-
ing been the innocent cause for arous.
ing your expectation of the Charge
ship; let us hope that you will be en-.
abled to mitigate the sorrow of disap-
pointment with the recollection that
something is rotten in the state of
Denmark" and that probably you may
have sufficient exercise for your skill
in country or excursion-upon the
abundance Of carious fungi existing
within your present reach.
The Rev. Bard appears by your
(no doubt correct) reporter to have
donkeyfed himself extensively in his
Clinton harapgue but stumped politi-
clans will, when ,oarmed up, say some
foolish, funny things rather than put
fofch the grain Of their sense upabus.
ed, "God save the mark" of the tinsel
Of their verbosity.
1t is plainly observable that you
occasionally put yourself into snarl
with Ecclesiastic and that in. the col
lision there is elected spark or SO of
light; but my dear eccentric, you will
find it an up hill work to reason the
matter with children or men, born in,
and bred to perfect faith in the dog
mas of tbe "ancient church," the deni-
al of the right Of private judgment is
particularly one of the foundation
stones Of its power, it is the key stone
and you may not hope to question
with impunity this right Of acting as a
grand central, thinking, reasoning,
regulating machine. Certainly you
may suggest the possibility of i'm
provements in economy of time, or
regularity of motion; an improved
Cingaless praying machine Or Chinese
joss paper might be crowded into our
faith with quite as much show Of
sense as is in the last new dogma of
the immaculate conception Amicus
Pldfo, dn,tcus Socrates, sed mdg,s,
AMIGA ueritas. JNo. GRrGG.
10 The anniversary of British
emancipation in the West Indies was
celebrated in Flushing, Long Island,
on Wednesday week, BY the abolition.
lists Of New York and vicinity, when
the ceremonies usual to such occa-
sions were gone through with. Also,
"Young Africa" demonstrated at Sta
ten Island on the same day, excluding
from the performances their white
friends, Garrison & Go. A military
company escorted the delegation from
New York, dignified with all the
pomp and circumstances which the
negro population are so we'll able to
assume.
GREAT Su1T.-The Commercial
Bauk Of Manchester, at Yazoo City,
Mississippi, on yesterday, through its
counsel, L. Madison Day and Smiley
& Perrin, fled a bill on the Equity
side Of the Circuit Court Of the Uni
ted States, in this city, against Hen
ry S. Buckner, to have bis discharge
in Bankruptcy declared void, and to
recover about $12o,Ooo, principal and
interest. The suit is one of great
Importance, and if sustained may lead
to important results, as the principles
settled in the same would be applica-
BILE to other similar cases.
ShakesSsar as an Actor..-There is
very paradoxical belief existing in
the presers age founded on spurious
tradition, that Shakespear never ex-
celled as an actor, and only shone as
the Ghost in his own 3" Hamlet" -
That he might have sometimes taken
low parts, to put to shame the vanity
Of the inferior actors, was not impro.
bable but let it never be forgotten
that in his celebrated panegyric, Ben
johnson speaks Of his friends as much
as an actor as an author. ~
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OUTRAGEs ON SAINT NAPoL
STREET.-For several nights past,
some heartless sinner has been Of
work on Stint Napoleon and othe.
streets in close proximity mutilating
and cutting down the beautiful shade
trees in that vicinity. Mad Marion
and Mrs. Kitty Langley, have been
the sufferers. The watcbful police Of
that district should be on the look out.