~Phere is a decision of the Court of Common Pleas, in this day's paper, POPLETT & STOCKDALE, which we deem a very improper one. It sechs that without the intervention of a Jury, a Judge can, on an ex parte statement, pronounce any publication to be infamous, and defeat a legal Clank however just. Mr Serjeant WYLDE denounces a book as most libellous and indecent.Oh!" exclaims Mr Justice BEST, (who, we all Kow, is a fost temperate, modest, and staid sort of a judge)" is it so, boother WYzbs, then the Court will never protect any one aiding in such infemina dhings and the Plaintiff is at once nonsuited. Now, though Harriette Wilson" may be an infamous book, and its Vice Suppressing and Anti-Catholic publisher, may also be an infamous person, we say, that until it be so pronounced by a Jury, no Judge has any right to assume the power of legal condemnation.Good books, as well as bad ones, may thus be condemned without trial; and as the precedent is a very dangersus one, we greatly dislike this wild kind of justice. New York papers of the 5th, 6th, and 7th, are filled with accounts of the to celebrate the performed, and the rejoicings which took place,

ceremonies which wetion of the Grand Canal which unites the lakes of kept untouched for three or four weeks, and then cranimed into a Supple.

the North, or the Mediterranean seas of America, with the Atlantic Ocean.
The provincial and municipal, Authorities of New York, together with the
general body of the people, expressed the greatest joy on the occasion.
It is a curious fact, that the Emperor of Russia has recently prohibited
the
entrance of a work into his States, which he formerly honoured with
his approbation, and for which he sent the author a diamond snuff-box.
Morning Chronicle,

PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.-An event which took place yesterday in this place, ought, we think, to satisfy the most strenuous opponent of any alteration in the representative system of England, that in Scotland some change is indispensable; and if the fact we are going to mention finds its way into the House of Commons, upon any discussion of this important subject, it is not very easy to see what answer can be made to such a proof of the degraded and corrupt state of the Electors of the Scotch counties, A Freehold Qualification in the county of Dumbarton was yesterday sold by publie auction at Gibson's sale-rooms; the upset price was, as nearly as we can recollect, 1200 or 14001. but this simple right of vating, without one single acre of land, brought the extraordinary sum of Two Thousand Nine Hundred Pounds. Will not any man of common sense at once perceives that he who bought this qualification must have a pretty tolerable certainty of getting a full return for the capital he has thus laid out?-Scotsman, Nov. 26.

—The above farrago of malignant falsehood and nostense appeared, in the Morning Herald of Tuesday, The extravagant absurdities which that paper puts forth once or twice a week in the most positive tone, might to be sure have prepared the public to treat with mere ridicule so stupid a paragraph; and indeed the clumsy attempts in the two last sentences: to point out symptoms and causes, are enough to prevent such a writer from producing any serious effect upon his readers. His folly however in no excuse for his love of mischief. There can be no doubt of the object of such a paragraph, put forth at a moment when all classes of traders were suffering the embarrassment resulting from an alarming check to all: pecuniary facilities. Besides, there is not a shadow of truth in the assertion upon which the trash of the Herald is founded; the Bank have discounted booksellers' bills every week, as usual; and we huppen to knowthat very large amounts were discounted this very week 20 We have heard that the Booksellers, feeling themselves aggrieved by this uncalled-for and unfounded attack upon their credit, and feeling also, that they shall lose little by not sending advertisements to the Morning Herald, to be' ment, have it in contemplation to withhold their advertising support from that journal. If this intention he carried into effect, it will perhaps have the effect of bringing "linen-draper Thwaites" to his senses. elek LONDON MECHANICS INSTITUTION The Members of this admirable Institution celebrated their second anniversary on Friday by a dinner at the Crown and Anchor tavern, which was attended by the Duke of Sussex (who presided), Mr Brougham, Mr Denman, the Hon. Mr Aber cromby, Mr J. Smith, Mr Alderman Wood, Dr Birkbeck, the other principal officers of the Institution, and about 600 members. So tumes rous was the assemblage on this occasion, that several ́individuals were obliged to remain standing, there being no room to accommodate them with seats. The Duke of SUSSEX, after his health had been drank, addressed the company, and cautioned the Members not to admit the introduction of political or religious topics into their discussions, buf confine them to scientific subjects, or else their eneintes would endeavour to create dissention among them-Dr BIRKBECK spoke of the benefits to be derived from an enlightened population; and Mr BROUGHAM congra, tulated the meeting on the irresistible progress which education was now making in all parts of the empire, particularly among the working classes, Mr B, alluding to the objectors to the present system, said, he could not conceive that any mortal man could reason him into a belief that it was better, or happier, for any class of men to approach the condition of brate beasts, than to improve and enlighten their reason.—Mr ABERCRONRY observed, that ignorance, not knowledge, was the mother of false conclusions ;-and Mr DENMAN also combatted the objections urged against the diffusion of knowledge amongst the working classes. As a proof that enlightening the mind did not encrease even the means, still less the disposition, to commit crime, he mentioned a case as having come within his own knowledge, in which the most cunning of forgeries had been of mind very nearly bordered on idiotcy: he effected the forgery by altering a guinea note into a ten-pound note. After the healths of several other gentlemen were drank, his Royal Highness retired.

PORNEY PAROCHIAL AFFAIRSA Correspondent (T. C.) complains of the system adopted in the parish of Putney by the Select Vestry and Magistrates. The poor-rates, he says, amount to between 3 and 40004. a year the collector has a salary of 401. per annum, but he holds another office, that of surveyor of the highways; and he persuaded the Magistrates at Wandsworth to raise his payment from 6d. in the pound to 1s. 6d. that is, three dimes the amount that others had deemed sufficient "Now wark fobserves our Correspondent) the advantage of a Select Vestry.committed by a person who could neither read nor write, and whose state The gentlemen keep away-the tradesmen fear to interfere-and three or fourdo just as they please without controul!" Our Correspondent, when he asked to see the accounts, was refused a sight of the books, though the officers have got the rates raised from 24d. to 84d. in the STORY OF THE SINGING DWARE.This (says the Dramatic Critic of pound he calls' upon, the respectable inhabitants to awake from their the London Magazine) is a remarkably plensing statement. It is a sorf of slumber; and maintains that Magistrates ought not to have the power to Coachmaker's Fairy Tale, fancifully told and full of agreeable conceiti. give away the money of a parish, of which they have no knowledge, on A large festival is held in the back workshop, and all the screwdrivers, the mere representation of an interested person. and springmakers, and varnishers, are, assembled together in their costly ORIENTAL JUSTICE.-Justice at this day seems to be administered in attire. Dunn too is there, the Treasurer; and the great George Smith, the East, whether in the Turkish or British possessions, much after the "the celebrated bass-singer."(Mark that!) Just as a very eminent ancient fashion. The last Oriental Herald gives us two specimens: buggy-builder, in the enthusiasm of broken springs, has given, “ Confo»In Egypt, recently, while a ship was discharging a cargo of coals from sion to Mr M'Adam, with three," Mr Birch knocks the table awfully, England, a poor woman and two children stole a few pounds of coals; and commands attention for "a voice from without." The song is fasci the officers inquired what punishment they should suffer; the Pasha im- nation itself! Who sang it? All the hundred guests express their admediately ordered that they should be shot!"-The other example is to miration seriatim, from eminent Birch down to the charmed journeyman! be found in the treatment of Mr Buckingham in India, from which he It must be a woman! "No," vociferates George Smith, the celebrated was banished by British Rulers, without trial, and despoiled of his valuable bass singer,' " it comes from a male." This magical declaration is the property, in the most summary and outrageous manner. Of this abomi- key to a delicate pantomimic trick. “From a mail!" exclaims eminent nable conduct, the Oriental Herald gives additional details, under the Birch-(his head of course running on his own wheels)--Smith, you are head of Further Disclosures respecting the Destruction of Mr Buck-right;" and suddenly a coach-door is opened, and out steps a little ingham's Property in India," which display a spirit quite as arbitrary as thing, only so high and so old, as musical as a nightingale, and of the that evinced by the Egyptian Pasha.. size of a tom-tit! Calcraft and Robins are immediately apprised of the Dwarf Treasure, and an engagement ensues-The first appearance of this Six-inch Prodigy will be marvellously amusingų

OATH TAKING. After giving our last week's expose of Mr Justice Park's pious irritability, the Taunton Courier adds, "It is quite farcical to talk of the solemnity with which an oath is ordinarily administered in either of the Courts at Westminster, or at the Judges' Chambers. The crier stands in the passage outside the Court of King's Bench, and, having a handful of affidavits, thrusts a small grease-covered edition of the New Testament towards the persons to be sworn, and with breathless rapidity says, 36 Take the book --Yon swear the contents of this your affidavit are trueso help you God-Eighteen Pence!"

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THE BOOKSELLERS AND THE MORNING HERALD." The book trade warndwer known to be in so depressed a state as at the present time. The Baok of England has refused for the last three weeks to discount any baukseller's bill. Nothing can be more confirmatory of the falling off in tho hookselling business than the fact of the two principal booksellers, Constable and Murray, having become number publishers. This state of things has no doubt been brought about by the refusal of the respectable newspapers to put into the newspapers, paragraphs puffing off books, except the word Advertisement was prefixed to such puffing paragraphs," kohal & eoNb-15 • 1937 "the wall Jol boysoilsiu savlade. J AT AL

NEWSPAPER CHAT.

GROSS BIGOTRY.-Mr George Mortimer, of Islington, having an infant, about twelve months old, lying dead, made application to the authorities belonging to the church (in the yard of which his family have a burying-place) for its interment; but what must have been his astonish ment and disgust, at being refused Christian burial for his daughter by the Reverend Minister of the parish, whose name is William Woolcombe Now, in this enlightened age, as it is called, who would conceive it pos sible, that a Clergyman of the Protestant Church of England refused to perform the burial service over the remains of a beloved infant, because it had not been baptised? Yet such is the fact.-Bath Journal.-And yet these Reverend Gentry sneer at the Catholics, forsooth, on accomm of their Superstition and Intolerance f

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SELF-INDULGENCE.-Mr Sheridan's chief misfortunes arose from his, "LORD ROLLE. The present Lord Rolle (who, it seems, from his coarse behaviour on a late occasion, when irritated respecting the shoot-indolent and self-indulging habits. He undoubtedly could feel for ing some game in Devonshire, has not learned during his long life to others, but he felt too much for himself, and thus, though in the carry himself like a gentleman)—when Mr Rolle, was the hero of a of large sums of money, as they were all swallowed up in his own grati satire called the Rolliad. Mr Moore, in his Life of Sheridan, describes fications, he rarely possessed the means of being generous to oilers, or him as "one of those unlucky persons whose destiny it is to be immor- of even doing his duty by them. When his immediate pleasures were talised by ridicule, and to whom the world owes the same sort of grati- concerned, he had no self-controut-the want of which virtue allowed tode for the wit of which they were the butts, as the merchants did, in him to become an inveterate promise-breaker, a spendthrift, a low sen Sinbad's story, to those pieces of meat to which diamonds adhered. The sualist, a dependant, a flatterer, and a pauper, His habits of procrasti chief offence, besides his political obnoxiousness, by which he provoked nation were excessive; he could scarcely ever find time to do anything this satirical warfare, was the lead which he took in a sort of conspiracy, that was not immediately" agreeable" to himself, however honourable or formed on the ministerial benches, to interrupt, by coughing, hawking, advantageous the result might have been. He seems to have adopted and other unseemly noises, the speeches of Mr Burke." This dignified literally the advice which Lord Holland used satirically to address to mode of harassing an opponent, it must be remembered, was practised his son: "never do to-day, what you can possibly put off till tomorrow one else to do for you." against Burke, before he had recommended himself to the late king by nor ever do yourself, what you can get any c ROYAL KINDNESS, CONSIDERATION, AND GOODNESS. Of the many his apostacy from liberty. We never before could imagine the cause of such a man's elevation to a title we now obtain a glimpse of those "dear friends" who are loaded with praises by Mr Kelly, in his book of services which a monarch like George the Third is never backward in Reminiscences, after a Mr and Mrs Shugard, boarding-house keepers at Brighton, his most gracious Majesty George the Fourth comes in for the honouring! greatest share of compliment; and, as Mr Kelly assures us, that the following circumstance, though but little known, richly deserves to be universally so," we hasten to give it the benefit of our circulation:-The King gave a splendid party at the Pavilion, and commanded the attendance of Mr Kelly. His Majesty did him the honour to seat Ifimself beside the musician, asked him how he liked the music, and was, he says, "all" kindness and condescension." Mr Kelly had a little god-daughter, whom he had smuggled behind the organ, in order that she might see the show. The girl had crept from her hiding-place, when his Majesty's quick eye, while sitting on a sopha between the Princess Esterhazy and the Countess Lieven, in a moment caught a glimpse of the little intruder. Who is that beautiful little child?" said the King: "Who brought her here" and immediately walked to poor Julia and asked her who she was. I belong to K. said Julia. And who the Deuce is K," said his Majesty.-I was seated (continues Mr Kelly) quite at the" farther end of the room, conversing with Sir Wm. Keppelt, and the moment I saw what was going on, I requested Sir William to go to the King and say that the child belonged to me, which he with great good nature did. His Majesty kissed poor little Julia, and, taking her into his arms, threw her over his shoulder, and carried her across the room to me, and placed her in a chair by my side, saying with the greatest con- i descension, Why did you leave the child in the cold? Why not bring her into the room? If she be fond of music, bring her here whenever you›

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YOU WILL DO A GREAT DEAL OF HARM."Such is the remark which the timid, the cunning, and the ignorant, commonly make, when they cannot give a reason for their opposition to reform, whether in Church or, State Prove to them that the evils complained of are most pernicious, and that the remedies are equally sound in theory and good in practice, they have nothing to say but," you will do a great deal of harm.”In noticing this inveterate, ancient, and loyal" habit of predicting evil, the Reverend Mr Thompson, at a late meeting in Scotland of the Church Patronage Society," related the following pleasant anecdote: A countryman, who was what is termed a little silly, got an idea into his head that it was always a fine day. His friends were anxious to get the better of this extraordinary prejudice of his. So one day when Samuel came in very cold, there being a severe snow and storm at the time, he came in all white, with his cloths covered with snow; he was like a cloud of snow they thought it a good opportunity to try him. They said, "A terrible snow this." Says Samuel, "It's a fine day." They were very anxious to convince him of his error, and they waited till another day, when there was a deluge of rain, and he was quite drenched his hat hanging down, and his cloths all wet, and he appeared in a most uncomfortable condition, feeling in such a way apparently as to confess anything. A terrible rain this," they observed to him-"O, a fine day, Samuel answered. After this they waited some months longer, and at last a dreadful to go through him-the lightning flashed about him, and the thunder roared loudly over him, and Samuel was in terrible consternation he came in quite pale with dread. They thought this a glorious opportunity to root out of his mind the extraordinary notion that it was always fine weather, and remarked" This But Samuel, with his usual manner, soused down on a chair, and said, This is a fine day!"-Now, (continued Mr Thompson) that is not a bad illustration of our friends. Attack them logically—prove to them by nothing will have any effect on them logical shape of the head and shrug of the shoulder, they give always the same answer, "You will do a great deal of harm." It is a sort of confession on their part, that they have nothing to urge against us.

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in torrents-the wind blew as occurred-the rain came down like."-This act of kindness, consideration, and goodness, was duly ap

is a terrible storm."

CHARACTER OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY.-There was something in the first frame and constitution of the Company which extended the sordid principles of their origin over all their successive operations, connecting with their civil policy, and even with their boldest achievements, the meanness of a pedlar and the profligacy of pirates. Alike in the political and military line could be

preciated by all who witnessed it, and by me will be ever remembered with the most respectful gratitude.-Kelly's Reminiscences.Well may the grateful god-papa exclaim, as he does, after relating this anecdote, and stating that for many years past, upon his annual night, he has been regularly honoured with a munificent donation by his Sovereign, “God save the King!"

A BATCHING CHANCELLOR.-Among the late Duke of Norfolk's owls at Arundel was one which was named by its keeper" Lord Thurlow," from imaginary likeness between the bird and his Lordships One from an imagin the Duke was closeted with his solicitor, the old owl keeper knocked at the library door, and said, " My Lord, I have great "Well," said the Duke, "what is it?", news to give your Grace." Why, my Lord," said the man," Lord Thurlow has laid an egg this morning." Not recollecting at the moment that the owl had been nicknamed Lord Thurlow," the Duke was not a little astonished, and, until the keeper explained, the solicitor was dreadfully scandalized by such an audacious calumny upon a Noble Lord, who had been so long

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and trading generals; and thus served auctioneering ambassadors sitting-upon the woolsack.-Kelly's Reminiscences,

saw a revolution brought about by affidavits; a town besieged on a note of hand; a prince dethroned for the balance of an account. Thus it was that they exhibited a government, which united the mock majesty of a bloody sceptre and the little traffic of a merchant's counting-house-wielding a truncheon with one hand, and picking a pocket with the other.-Sheridan.

BORYING IN CITIES.-It is notorious that there are many church-yards in which the soil has been raised several feet above the level of the ad=joining street by the accumulated remains of mortality; and there are others in which the ground is actuaily probed with a borer before a grave is opened. The commissioners for improvements in Westminster, reported to Parliament in 1814, that St. Margaret's church-yard could not, consistently with the health of the neighbourhood, be used much longer as a burial-ground, for that it was with the greatest difficulty a vacant place could at any time be found for strangers; that the family graves generally would not admit of more than one interment, and that many of them were then too full for the reception of any member of the family to which they belonged."-Paris and Fonblanque's Medical Jurisprudence. The author of that admirable and most original fiction, Frankenstein, has in the press a romance, entitled The Last Man.The publication of the Life of Napoleon, written by the Great Unknown, will follow the historical novel of Woodstock, or the Long Parliament," which the author of Waverly had on the anvil previously to his determination to encounter the Emperor of the French.-Morning Chronicle, outdo ELOPEMENT.-A Reverend Genleman, in the neighbourhood of Halifax, who took to himself a wife only on Saturday se'nnight, has had but a short trial of the married life; his lady eloped from him (whether in company or not we cannot tell) the Wednesday following, taking along with her, not her own maiden paraphernalia only, but also a part of the most valuable of the goods in communion.-Leeds Mercury.

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DR MARRYAT.-The following list of Dr Marryat's publications will probably be gratifying to your Correspondent W.-I. Medical Aphorisms; or a Compendium of Physic, founded on irrefragable principles.. Ipswich, 1757.-2. Therapeutics, or the Art of Healing, Written in Latin, and published in 1758. He then translated it into English, and the thirteenth edition was in the press at the time of his death. There have been as many since.-3. Sentimental Tables, chiefly designed for the use year 1771. Third of the Ladies. First published in Ireland about the Bristol, 1786.edition, Bristol, 1791.-Nature; a Poem, in six books. 5. The Philosophy of Masons; in several Epistles from Egypt, to a Nobleman, London, 1790. Ridgway printed a second edition (of the title-page only, I believe) in the same year. No other part of the work has been published. In 1791 an answer to it was printed in Bristol, entitled "A Brief, but, it is presumed, a Sufficient Answer to the Philo sophy of Masons; intended for the benefit of such unlettered persons as may have perused that work to their spiritual injury. By the Rev. H. E. Holder.". In reply to this tract, Dr Marryat immediately published-6. A Letter to the Rev. H. E. Holder, on his Brief and Sufficient Answer to the Philosophy of Masons. Bristol, 12mo. These are all the publications of Dr Marryat that have come to my knowledge. He was an extraordinary man; but great talents, extensive usefulness, and unbounded benevolence were unable to shield him from the animosity of s religious intolerance. He would have perished through, want in this city but for the assistance of one or two individuals. The memory of such a man should not be forgotten; and I have collected some circumstances and anecdotes relating to him, which I may probably form into a Memoir.-W. TYSON.-Bristol, 25th November, 1825.

A TAYLOR TURNED ACCOUCHEUR.-At a meeting lately held in Wor cestershire, to examine the accounts of an insolvent's creditors, a Tailor sent in his bill as follows:" To A Countess delivered, 157, 118. 9d.",

Josera HUME. The Edinburgh dinner to Mr Hume has gone off in MUSIC.-The number of the Harmonicon just out, contains a notice of the very best style. This is an event at which every journalist who loves a Collection of Motetts, for the Offertory, and other Pieces, principally his country should express his satisfaction; and we do so most cordially. adapted for the Morning Service: the whole composed, selected, and Mr Hume cannot be called a party man; nor has he any of the usual arranged, with a separate accompaniment for the organ or piano-forte, by attractions of high rank or showy oratory, that may be supposed suffi- VINCENT NOVELLO, Organist to the Portuguese Embassy in London." cient of themselves to draw an Edinburgh assemblage together: his sole The critic says, "it is a publication not only for the present but for the recommendation is, that he has paved a new way to the foundations of future generation-a classical work, interesting to musical amateurs, corruption, and sapped them so effectually, that no party will ever after-whatever creed they may possess, and of course doubly so to those of the wards be able to build much upon them, that he has curtailed the Catholic Church, by whom, we should imagine, it will be considered as means of that undue influence to the possession of which every party that an invaluable means of diversifying such parts of their religious service as can will aspire. The honour conferred upon him, therefore, is a better admit of variety, and also as a delightful occupation for some of their proof of the increased dissemination of right feeling and right principle leisure hours. We will add, that we most unfeignedly congratulate not in the metropolis, than any we have yet seen, although proofs of this only Mr Novello on his access to the rich stores of harmony, both ancient kind have not of late been rare.-Dundee Advertiser. and modern, whence he has drawn these volumes, but likewise the AMERICAN LITERATURE.-There can be little doubt that the claims of public, that such treasures should have fallen into hands so capable of America, as a literary nation, are shamefully underrated. In what converting them to the best possible use."-The Examiner, some time country has more been achieved in the same time, and under the same back, announced the intended publication of various pieces of choice old circumstances? The works on Politics, Law, Political Economy, Poetry, Italian music, contained in the Fitzwilliam Collection at Cambridge. and History, which have been published in the United States, during Mr Novello, of whose labours the Harmonicon thus speaks, is the accom the last ten or twelve years, would astonish the most prejudiced enemies plished musician to whom the University has entrusted the tank of of America. If we except Scotland, we know no nation in which there bringing out the work. is so admirable and effective a provision for the education of the people, POISONS.-A couple of sheets have just been published, entitled, “A under the immediate control of the Government authorities. There is Toxicological Chart, exhibiting at one view the Symptoms, Treatment, not a town without its school-house, nor a school without an adequate and Modes of detecting the various Poisons, Mineral, Vegetable, and degree of support, raised from the community at large. Upwards of 6000 Animal; to which are added, concise Directions for the Treatment of young men are studying at the different colleges and seminaries of edu- Suspended Animation; by Wm, Stowe, Member of the London College cation. All the popular works of England are re-published, as soon as of Surgeons."-From this very useful publication we extract the followthey cross the Atlantic, in a cheap form, so as to give the body of the ing directions concerning the treatment of persons who have been bitten people an opportunity of purchasing them. Public libraries are multi-by rabid animals, and those who have taken arsenic :—“ Hydrophobia. plying in every quarter, Literary and scientific schools are rapidly in- is more easily prevented than cured; indeed it is doubtful if ever it has creasing, and the number of native works published, in the States, is been cured. Mercury, arsenic, opium, musk, camphor, acids, wine, daily becoming greater. Two hundred periodicals are issued in the vegetable and mineral alkali, oil, various herbs, and many other remedies States, in addition to the newspapers, which, from being unfettered by whose effects are quite opposite, have been employed, but none can be a heavy stamp duty, are in the hands of the poorest of the population. relied on. Large blood-lettings, the warm and cold bath, and almost It is impossible for a nation possessing so many powerful rescources for every other remedial agent have been tried without success. The bitten diffusing the riches of literature and science throughout the country-part should be completely cut out, even after it has healed, if the sympenjoying, in its true sense, the advantages of a Free Press-increasing toms have not yet come on; the part should then be immersed in warm in wealth-and rapidly approximating to that state of national prospe- water, or washed with it as long as it will bleed; and after the most perrity when commercial occupations can be partially abandoned for the severing ablution, caustic should be applied to every part of the surface, calm pleasures of literary pursuits; we say, it is impossible for a nation and then the wound covered with a poultice, and suffered to heal by thus fortunately circumstanced, to remain long without attaining as high granulations. No milder discipline can ensure safety." When arsenic a character for literary glory, as it has for political freedom, without has been taken, "Vomiting is to be excited or encouraged by large adding to the invaluable blessings of a liberal government, the proud draughts of sugared water, linseed tea, or other emollient fluids. Lime and durable triumphs of literature, science, and philosophy.-Belfast water, or chalk and water, may be drank freely if the arsenic has been Northern Whig. taken in solution. Fat, oil, vinegar, charcoal-powder, alkaline, sulphu rets, and vegetable decoctions, which have been recommended, are not to be relied on. Magnesia would increase the activity of the poison. Inflammatory symptoms are to be combatted by bleeding from the arm and by leeches, fomentations, frequent emollient clysters, and other remedies as symptoms may demand. If death does not ensue, the diet must be fluid, farinaceous, and demulcent, for a considerable time after wards. No specific antidote yet known. In all severe cases of poison. The chief value of Mr Stowe's publication is this-it enables persons immediately to take some useful steps, when accidents occur to avert the threatened mischief, before the aid of a medical man, who is not always at hand, can be obtained; for the delay of a few minutes is frequently fatal in such cases.

MRS BELZONI. It has been generally supposed that Mrs Belzoni is a foreigner; but such is not the fact. She was born and educated in the west of England, we believe in the neighbourhood of Bristol, and has always conducted herself in the most extemplary mannery both as a wife and a widow. She has suffered almost incredible hardships and priva tions, in endeavouring to keep together the antiquities collected by her husband. She has often, and for a considerable time together, been compelled to subsist upon coarser and more scanty fare than the huming, recourse should he had to the stomach-pump, or to the syphon."blest of those who derive their sustenance from casual labour. All these difficulties she has borne without a murmur, and surely the public sympathies will be awakened in favour of a female at once so distresssed And so deserving of their support.-Morning Chronicle.

ADVANTAGES OF SCIENCE AND LITERATURE. The importance of science is not to be estimated exclusively by a pecuniary standard. The Decrease of RELIGION.—In 1815, after Napoleon's return, a violent pure and unalloyed pleasures and gratifications which result from the Royalist exclaimed to his Confessor, who happened to dine with him at cultivation of a taste for literature, are in themselves of the highest value. Ghent What !" exclaimed he, "Henry II and IV were assassi❤ You cannot be always engaged in the pursuit of wealth; nor in the com-nated, and nobody can be found to rid us of the Usurper Buonaparte!" binations and details of your different professions. Recreation of some The Priest fetched a deep sigh :-"Ah, my dear Sir," said he," there is said to have been much amused with this anecdote,

species or ano Indispensable; and those who are fortunately im- no longer any religion in the world as in those days!"-Buonaparte is

bued with a for scientific and literary studies, are not only strangers to that ennui and languor which so frequently embitter the leisure hours of the possessors of vast wealth, but are protected by the strongest barrier that can be erected against the risk of becoming addicted to vicigus and degradiag habits and pursuits."-From the able Speech delivered by Mr MCulloch at the opening of the City of London Literary and Scientific Institution, which has just been published for the benefit of that excellent Establishment.

› “The Church is in Danger.”—But what is the Church? What do they mean?. They mean, by the Church, a political engine, the domination of a certain party a great instrument for promoting Parlia mentary or other corrupt influence.

A ludicrous eircumstance occurred a few days back, which excited not a little, merriment. Our readers are aware that coach proprietors have lately established double-bodied coaches. It happened that a Frenchman, of no ordinary stature, had booked himself to London by one of these conveyances, and the book keeper faneying to himself the awkward situation his customer would be placed in by sitting at the back of the vehicle with both seats crowded, pilied the length of his legs, and placed him inside the front body, which had only one seat. Mongiect made himself very contented and the coach jogged on, until changing horses at Rochester, he alighted from his seat, and having paced the pavement a few minutes, minutely examined the coach, until expying os the door of that portion wherein he was accommodated, the wor

PROTESTANT HIGH CHURCH POLITICS. We have much talk of the slavish political principles inculcated by Priests of the Catholic persua Cheapside," he flew into a violent rage. Vat," said he "you pe sion; but passive obedience cannot possibly be more strongly insisted me here for I pay de best price, and I will not be disgraced by riding upon than t it has been by Protestant Divines, and some of them of the the cheap side of de coach." In vain did the coachman and passenger highest rank. Bishop Horseley asserted in the House of Lords, that endeavour to appease his anger; the Frenchman was inexorable; he "man's abuse of his delegated authority is to be borne with resignation," would hear no nothing-he pay good price and would ride in the othe like any other of God's judgments" that "the opposition of the indi- side." Words and persuasion were of no avail; his wrath had predt vidual to the Sovereign power is an opposition to God's providential nated over all reason. What was to be done? he would not heard arrangements; and that the people have nothing to do with the laws Cheapside: the coach too had been detained longer than its urus! tron. but to obey them."-The Reverend Nero Wilson teaches the same and in this dilemma it remained, the Frenchman without moderating alavish doctrine to his gaping flock, and we cannot well imagine that his choler, and the passengers cursing him for a fool; at last an arrang the duty of non-resistance to oppression could be more plainly enforced ment was made, and he proceeded in the hinder part the remainder s either in Turkish Mosque or Catholic Cathedral. the journey.-Kent Herald,

affair six weeks

EATH OF DR BLACK, THE GREAT CHEMIST.On the 26th November I see through the blind as well as over it. 1799, and in the 71st year of his age, he expired, without any convulsion, There was a sofa in the room large enough for five or six people to sit shock, or stupor, to announce or retard the approach of death. Being at The sofa was a cane sofa, without cushions. s. I mentioned this matter to table with his usual fare, some bread, a few prunes, and a measured the foreman the next morning, I did not tell my master, he because thes quantity of milk diluted with water, and when the last stroke of his pulse was to aving the cup in his hand foreman told me to let it be." My mistress's mother was at the house he had set it down on when I told my master. He called me day d to it before Mrs Ambridge and her mother, and I did tell it as I have Her father was sen for, and took her away that night.

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in the manner of a person perfectly at ease; and in countenance, as if an

his knees, which were joined together, and kept it steady with his hand,
attitude expired,
without spilling a drop, and without a writhe in his o
experiment had been required to show to his friends the facility with

Mr BROUGHAM addressed the jury for the defendant. He said, that not a tittle of evidence was giren to show that they lived even in ordinary. act adultery; and from this silence he had a right to take it as confessed

which he departed. His servant opened the door, to tell him that some comfort before this pretended that they lived in misery. He denied towards him, and seeing him sitting in that easy posture, supporting his that any criminal intercourse occurred; and extraordinary circum

one had left his name, but getting no answer, stepped about half way bason of milk with one hand, he thought that he had dropped asleep, which he had sometimes seen happen after his meals. He went back, and shut the door; but before he got down stairs, some anxiety, which he could not account for, made him return and look again at his master. Even then he was satisfied, after coming pretty near him, and turned to go away; but again returned, and, coming quite close to him, he found him without life.-Professor Robison's Preface to Black's Lectures.

would never believe that it did occur

felt assured the jury

stances related by Stevens. Would any man believe that the parties would select a small cane-bottomed chair for such a purpose, when a large and commodious sofa was ready for their use at the other side of the parlour? Was it probable that they would choose a situation in which they were liable to be observed from the window? And when did he first tell this marvellous tale to his master? Six weeks after the occurrence, IMPROVEMENTS OF LONDON.-The Gazette contains several notices of on occasion of a squabble among the servants, of which his mistress had projected improvements in the City, in Westminster, and the suburbs. given information, and obviously for the purpose of revenge. Surely the In the eastern parts several new roads are intended to be formed; and injury would not give credit to the statement he had made, absurd and inthe north; a new road connecting the Hackney road with Kingsland road. consistent as it was, but would refuse, by giving a farthing to the plaintiff, In the City a new street is projected from Moorgate to the Bank (connecting Finsbury square with the centre of the metropolis). To the to authorize him to seek the divorce which it was his real object to obtain. westward a new street is to be formed, from Lincoln's Inn fields to Holborn (which will complete the passage from the latter street to the Strand, through the intended opening at Pickett place, Temple bar). It sintended to enlarge Hungerford market, improve the adjacent quays, and establish a fish market (so long wanted in that part of the town). And the parish of Lambeth, having gained so great a population, is to be accommodated with a new bridge, from the Church to the Horseferry road, and a street from the same to Stafford-place, Pimlico, which will connect the Borough in a straight line with Hyde Park corner. And Further westward, it is intended to make a navigable canal from the

Thames to Kensington.

It is not generally known, that a coach has been established on the Stockton and Darlington rail-road which carries passengers at the low rate of one penny a mile inside.-Tyne Mercury.

case was

The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE left the jury to say whether the fact of adultery was made out to their satisfaction by the evidence of Sevens; and if it was, what damages the plaintiff ought to recover. On this last question, if it should arise, the jury would bear in mind at the singularly destitute of any proof of the previous happiness of parties and that, if the story of Stevens were true, the plaintiff's wife, had acted with a degree of grossness, which implied that her virtue was of no very high value, or requiring any great courtship to destroy The Jury, after retiring for half an hour, returned a verdict for the plaintiff Damages, 251.

Wednesday, Nou, 30.

ASKEW U. PERROT AND BERTRAND jest brand le This was an indictment against Elizabeth Virginia Perrot and Victor, Bertrand, the defendants, for a conspiracy maliciously to injure the prose cutor. From the evidence, it appeared that the female defendant had RAIL ROAD, Already do the inhabitants of Stockton begin to feel been brought over from Paris by Askew to conduct the millinery business most sensibly the advantages of the communication made by the opening for him at his shop in Oxford street, when the parties having quarrelled, of the new Darlington Rail-road; for the price of coals, which was she had him indicted for a felony, charging him with having stolen before the opening of the Rail-road 18s. a ton at Stookton, is now reduced jewellery and seven promissory notes for 1000 francs each, and fire for -lapsed to enable the proprietors of coal mines on the line of the Rail- been purloined from a drawer; of which 12. Now what must be the ad anal on Rail-500 francs each, which were alleged to belong to Bertrand, and to bad a Askew admitted he a oad to open the same? Incalculable. It is added, the Rail-road Com-key, and out of which he had certainly taken a private letter belonging to any find carriages, and propelling powers included, for one halfpenny Mademoiselle Perrot, of whose intimacy with Bertrand he appeared to be er ton per mile.-Liverpool Advertiser. PLM jealous. Askew, however, was acquitted of the felony, the Recorder having told the Jury that the charge against him amounted to a breach of trust, and that the remedy in that case was by a civil action. Bertrand, it was proved, was in indigent circumstances when Askew received them at his house; and he was introduced by Mademoiselle Perrot as ber brother, which was not the fact; and it was also proved that the defendants had both threatened to be the ruin of Askew.. A

The Duke of Bedford is said to be seriously, indisposed at Paris. His Iness began, we understand, with a sore throat. His Grace is accomanied at the French metropolis by his Duchess.

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COURT OF KING'S BENCH.

Tuesday, November 29.

CRIM CON,AMBRIDGE V. JAMES.

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After an ingenious defence by Mr Brougham,→→ Bla * 1 * 0 The CHIEF JUSTICE told the Jury, that the main question to decide was, whether the notes and property which, Askew was charged with stealing were left by Perrot in the drawer in Askew's house. If, they were left there, even if Askew did not purloin them, there was reasonable This action was brought by the plaintiff to recover damages for criminal ground for the charge; if they never were there, the Jury would consider onversation had by the defendant, a publican in Greek street, Soho. whether it was possible to reconcile the prosecution for felony to any but Mr SCARLETT very shortly stated the case. The plaintiff was a young wicked motives. In determining this question, he advised the Jury not to an, a butcher. In May 1824, he was married to his present wife, who look to the evidence of Askew, which might be fairly considered as opas of a suitable age. The act of adultery of which he complained took ace about the 28th of October following. On that evening the defendant posed by the oath of Perrot on the former trial, but to such other eircumstances as might lead to a just conclusion. *. Aš TL, Kuotar penyag, lled and supped with Mrs Ambridge, in the absence of her husband. The Jury retired, but returned in a few minutes, finding the defendants The room in which they supped was a parlour behind the shop, and having Guilty. window into the shop partially covered with a blind, so that any person COURT OF COMMON PLEASuấzah mati sufficient height could look over into the room. One of the servants, * Wednesday, Nov. 30. specting what was going on, looked over this blind and saw Mrs AmBREACH OF PROMISE-HUTCHINSON v. SAUNders. ridge and Mr James in a situation which, if he was believed, would Mr Serjeant TADDY stated this case to the Jury. It was an action to ave no doubt that criminal intercourse had taken place. It was true, at only one servant saw the transaction, but others could speak to cir-recorer compensation for a breach of promise of marriage. The plaintiff mstances which would confirm his story. This was the short account of was the daughter of a shoemaker. The defendant, a farmer, residing in e affair, which, if told by the witness in such a manner as to obtain Essex, now about 60 years of age. The plaintiff lived as servant with edit, would entitle the plaintiff to a verdict. With respect to damages, defendant, and by his promises so far gained on her, as that she yielded Mrs Ambridge brought her husband no fortune; but she to his wishes and became pregnant by him. In September a friend of ndered service not only in the management of his domestic affairs, but her's called on the defendant, and spoke to him on the subject of Mary so in the conduct of his business, of which this unfortunate connexion Hutchinson's situation, when he gave a promise that he would marry her, and the wedding-ring was bought, and the day, named; but after all he d deprived him. changed his mind, and refused to perform his promise.

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George Stevens said, he was in the service of Mr Ambridge. After the
op was shut up, and before supper, I went into the room to take
la-mode beef, but observed nothing, I afterwards went to put a lamp
in the shop, and then observed Mrs Ambridge move from Mr James's
air; this I saw through the blind; she moved to her own chair hastily.
went up stairs to go to bed, but afterwards, in consequence of suspicion,
came down softly. I went and looked over the blind. (The witness
re described the situation of the parties.) I told my master of this