The Lancaster Herald, and Town and County Advertiser. — 1831-12-17 (Lancaster, Lancashire, England)

NELL. We neither under.. value nor deny the eminent abilities and even • services, both direct and incidental, of that extraordinary man ; but no services and no talents, however exalted, either for public Or private ends, :ire entitled to demand this implicit prostration of reason, or to authorise a sort of yell of excommunication against every body and every thing which can taply a real presence without the pale of Mr. O'CON NEIL'S li-e know of nothing more preposterous, comparing small things with great, except the conduct of certain ,risiely informed souls composing the majority of the readroom inmunittee at Bristol, who have determined to take in no daily papers but the ilaraiay Pool, this Standard l flit! Albion. The absurdity and imrrow-mindedness of II such attempts, greet and small, cannot be sufficiently ; but as ill the instanee of Mr. O'CosisEni, where amounts to a demand of social bondage w'lich it is as 41i-qraeeful to submit to as factious to require, it should rkted by general consent.—G/obe. The meetieg of Lords Ilarrolby, Chandos, and l'ilarneliffe With Lord Grey at the Treasury, on Saturday was, we understand, at the request of those noble Lords, and not on the suggestion of the Pretnier.—Globe.  NrovsvArcrs.-.-It was Bishop home's opinion that there is no better moralist than a newspaper. Ile says—elhe Wes, vices, and consequent miseries a multitudes ,phi)eil in a newspaper, arc so malty admonitions and warnings, so many beacons, continually Mulling, to turn hers from the rocks on which they have been shipwrecked. What more powerful dissuasive from suspicion, jealousy, nnd anger, than the story of one friend murdered by tlivr in a duel? What caution likely to be more (sae, had against gambling and profligacy, than the mournful rdatien of an execution ; or the hite et a despairing suicide? AVl.at finer lecture on the necessity of economy, than an tion Of estates, houses, and furniture ? Talk they 'of ,rals ? There is no need of lint:Wilson, Smith, or Paley. litly take a newspaper, and consider it well; read it, and it ail instruct thee."  UGII A BLE I Nell)). ST.-- old gentleman was lately accustitl by a nymph on the pare, in London, and in the ortte of theil conversation she managed to abstract from Hs pocket a gold watch, with which she ran away. The •!,1 Roltlcinan hobbled after her as fast as he could, calling ,tt tbLt time—o Collar her, collar her." Several lip, ard the old gentleman being taken with ' colighimr, in the midst of his cries, he was forthII leo alds the London Hospital, the looktms-ca l,itt cly of " e' liar her," for that of "cholera," ttlch ti y thought the old man had been suddenly oaken. IL, ttoitie difficulty in convincing tite Of .I:wir mkt:, so.  To Joshua Bates, of Bishopsgate-strect, in the city of London, gentleman, in consequence of a communication made to him by a certain foreigner residing abroad, for an invention of certain improvements in machinery or apparatus for roving, twisting, or spinning cotton, silk, wool, hemp, flax, or other fibrous substances. Sealed 27th October, for Introlment-6 months.  To Sarah Guppy, of Tarway House, Clifton, near Bristol, widow, for her having found out and invented a method of applying and arranging certain articles, parts or pieces of cabinet work, upholstery, and other articles, commonly or frequently applied to bedsteads and hangings, and also others not hitherto so applied. 27th October-2 months.  James Macdonald, of the University Club House, Pall Mall East, in the county of Middlesex, gentleman, in consequence of a communication made to him by a foreigner residing abroad, for a certain improvement or improvements in the construction of bridges made of iron, or other materials, which improvement or improvements are also applicable to the construction of piers, rail-roads, roofs, and other useful purposes. 31st October-6 months. To George Minter, of Princes-street, Soho, in the county of Middlesex, cabinet-maker and upholsterer, for his having invented a fastening for dining-bibles, and other purposes. 9th November-2 months.  _ To Thomas Brunton, of Park-square, Regent's Park, in the county of Middlesex, Esq., for his having found out or discovered a new application Cr adaptation of certain apparatus for heating fluids or liquids, and generating steam for various useful purposes. 15th November-6 months.  To Thomas Brunton, of Fork-square, Regent's Park, in the county of Middlesex, Esq., and Thomas John Fuller, of the Commercial-road, Limehouse, in the county of Middlcsex, civil engineer, for their having found out and invented an improvement or improvements on certain mechanical apparatus applicable to the raising of water, and other useful imposes. Lith November-6 months.  To Arthur Ilowe Holdsworth, of Dartmouth, in the county of Devon, for his having invented improvements it‘the construction of rudders, and in the application of the same to certain descriptions of ships or vessels. 19th November-6 months.  To David Seldon, of Liverpool, in the county palatine of Lancaster, merchant, in consequence of a commusition made to him by a certain foreigner residing abroad, for an invention of an improved carding and slubbing engine for wool, and other fibrous substances. 22d November-6 montlis.—Newtores Journal tf Arts and Sciences.