your pleasure to become sin. Help your fellow-servants on a Sunday, if they want to get through their work, to go to Church. Before you retire to rest, beg God's blessing upon you and all your friends; entreat his pardon for the sins of the day; thank him for means of grace, and an inclination to attend upon them. This will give you more satisfaction at the time, than if you had squandered the day in idleness, or wasted your time over purl and porter. In the hour of death you will find it better to reflect upon, and in the day of judgment, it will better stand inquiry. I shall soon furnish some more Hints on the groom's particular business, and plans for this world. May all who read this paper, reflect, pray, and profit in consequence. JOHN C EXTRACTS FROM THE PUBLIC NEWSPAPERS, &c. Poisonous Dose of Opium.-At a late meeting of the London Medical Society, Mr. Wray, an eminent surgeon of London, related some instances of individuals, whom he had roused from a state of stupor (occasioned by swallowing large doses of tincture of opium) by dashing, suddenly and repeatedly, on their heads, basins full of cold water. The effects, in all the cases, were very remarkable; the stupor was so completely removed, that the patients were able to swallow emetic draughts, which succeeded in emptying the stomachs, and in obviating any bad consequences.-Durham County Advertiser. Curious Arithmetical Paradox.-In an Arabic manuscript was found the following remarkable decision of a dispute:Two Arabians sat down to dinner; one had five loaves, the other three. A stranger passing by, desired permission to eat with them, which they agreed to. The stranger dined, laid down eight pieces of money, and departed. The proprietor of the five loaves took up five pieces, and left three for the other, who objected, and insisted for one-half. The cause came on before Ali the magistrate, who gave the fol lowing judgment:-" Let the owner of the five loaves have seven pieces of money, and the owner of the threė loaves one." Query the justice of the sentence? Answer: Ali's sentence was just; for, suppose the loaves to be divided each into three equal parts, making twenty-four parts in all the eight loaves, and each person to eat an equal or eighth part; then the stranger had seven parts of the person who contributed five loaves, or fifteen parts, and only one of bim who contributed three loaves, which make nine parts! The Same. The heavy gales' which bare blown from the west and south-west, in the early part of last month, have placed the fishermen on our coasts in great danger and we lament to add, that in one instance they have proved fatal to an unfortunate member of that industrious class. On Sunday evening many of the fishermen of Hartlepool proceeded to sea, and among others James Harrison, aged 32, accompanied by a young man named John White. When off Black Halls Rocks, about six o'clock on Monday morning, a tremendous wave approached them; White foresaw what was to happen, and he seized the oars-the wave struck the boat, which it filled with water, and knocked Harrison overboard. He sank to rise no more! White felt the boat go down beneath him, and he floated out of it with the assistance of the oars, but these were soon knocked away from him by another stroke of the sea. White was now placed in a situation of imminent peril, but he had presence of mind sufficient to seize the bowl or dand*, which he placed under one arm, and by means of the other drew towards him seven bladders, affixed as floats to their fishing nets; by the aid of these buoyant materials he contrived to keep himself above water. After remaining in this situation for about three quarters of an hour, he was discovered by the crew of another boat, and taken back to Hartlepool in safety. We have conversed with White since his miraculous escape, and obtained from him the above particulars. He further informed us, that the accident happened in eight fathoms water-that a short time before it happened, Harrison observed, that" no good came of going a fishing on Sundays, and if he got safe ashore this time, he would never offend again in that particular." When he was knocked overboard, he was heard to utter a single scream, and he then finally, disappeared. He has left a widow, and also a daughter by a former marriage.-The Sames * A kind of buoy formed of a painted sheep-skin bag filled with air, through which passes a stick, having at the upper end a plume or tuft of horse hair. It floats over the nets to mark the place where they are laid. A farmer at East Horndon, Essex, by spreading 100 acres of wheat with cabbage-leaves, and employing thirty persons to collect slugs from them, has gathered fifteen bushels of these vermin in a day. State of Crime.-We have much pleasure in stating that at our Sessions on Monday last, not a single criminal cause was for trial. The Recorder, C.B. Wollaston, attributes this in a great measure to the establishment of a Mendicity Society, and to the exertions which had been made by the officers in the apprehension and punishment of impostors.-Dorchester Gazette. The magistrates of Plymouth find, on consideration, that they have not the power of changing their market day from Monday to Tuesday. It is a chartered market, and therefore cannot be altered without an Act of Parliament. They have resolved, therefere, to consult the several other market towns in England, which have Monday markets (the number is said to be fifty-four) and to endeavour to obtain a general Act for that purpose. Among the evils of Monday markets, is the too common breach of the Sabbath in slaughtering cattle, and other preparations for them.-Exeter Flying Post., The warrants issued from the office of the sheriff of the. county (Kent) during the last ten months are less by between. three and four hundred than they were during the same. period last year.-Maidstone Journal. A pumpkin was cut on Wednesday last in the garden of Charles Hoare, Esq. of Lascombe, near Dawlish, which measured mine feet three inches and a half in girth, and weighed two hundred and forty-five pounds.-Exeter Paper. Extraordinary Produce of Bees.-Mr. W. Wyatt, of Michelgrove, Sussex, has this season taken five hives of honey, each of which produced him upwards of forty pounds.Kentish Chronicle. CORRESPONDENCE. S. C. O. has been received. |