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      ^ T THE "NE W SHOP" OPPOSITE THE " GREAT GOOSB IKS , " IN CHICHBSIEB , FROM VISE TILL FIVE , 1 TBICS FROM A " SUSSEX FARMER" NOT 0 >* E HITATXRED MILES FROM GOODWOOD .

      " Broadbbuc , " " soUis , " Baliloquiaja * . « Here are books and baits for fiatfi&h and gudgeons—¦ R- e'll famish yon cheap , -for 'we ' re deep caramdgeoxu : TgjTB your gold here , you fools , tia " all my eye , " Om P » P « rt i'S * 16 ud "rft . and wont hart your thigh . ¦^ Ty-, -what the devil , do 70 a think na cbe&ta ? ( Tiongb , by the bye ,-we ought to " sweep the rtreet *;") Enlarge the jail , for rogues tis much too small , ¦ f West Hampneit Union" wonld not hold them alL " Rabbitrskin Jack' * * ad * nch , are honest men Compared to others that we all could name : The hairs upon yoar heads we would not hurt , / Althongfa our motto ' s " rather rob fhaa woric «¦} fbbbett be d d , and his disciptej too ; - mid cvsh ( and work ) for us will never dogite we not got Great Welling ton and Peel ? Tbe advocates of paper and of steel ?

      Consider , too , the toU of getttng ^ gold prom out the mines—it scarcely can be told—¦ jfkile the " cast-off * moek ** of a beggar wench wiQ make " : Smk notes enough to buy the poke ' s e » tate , ; f And the cJoni in wldch her ugly brat doth iijtial ] Would pay off the feck diamond dnes , sna all !! Xbe parson * tell yon not to covet gold- ^ If you dent heed them , can they save your soul ! Peer ' s the thing , ye vagabonds , d'ye doubt it ? ^ bai conM the " Surrey ploughboy" know about it ? SgW an jou dare his " library" to loach ? Bead Malthas . Mareoa , Marfinean , and such . The nation's overstocked—tis quite s pert—Hail emigration , andl&e "workhouse test ! I ¦ What happened 4 a ^ he . town the other day ? y ^ j 1 »> ti £ a d d affair , I can but say . "

      ( As Larder said to the Churchwarden » fld , ? When be and ethers , met to " eat & -child" }—Sai , be asssied , 'tis but a nine days' -wonder—A penny meter t « a clap of thunder—A little ' ifMrlwind to the hurricanes jhat sometimes sweep the length and breadth of lands . Bat dont let paper men haTe all the blame , We have " rotna . es in paper , '' and we hare " rogu . es in gratnf :.

      -(" Goggt MOORS , " iAebiuslicker , listeiiingJ * ' lay cut a trifle , Sir , for I am bat poor , Ibongb a descendant of old " FxaacU Moore j " ¦ We Meore's were never noticed for theology , Tie " forte" of our family ' s astrology . I foretold , lon « ago , amongst my feEows , We should haw " broken banks" and " watery . eel W Before the coming year of " forty-two : " And I was right , by dad , my words prove true : ging " Ga Ira , " and " Cock-a-doodle-doo ! "

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      ? BaHHt-siin Jack , a poor fallow in the jail , confined fa petty larceny : t Deie of Bidanond . * Peter Pindar ,

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      THE LABOURERS' LIBRARY . No . 2 and 34 " THE LAND , ' tbe oaly remedy for national Poverty and impending national nan . now to ** it tad how Woe it . . Bj Fmsgi * O'Cok-* ° a , E « q . Second Edition . Leeds , J . Hob » on ; M anchester , A . Heywood ; London , J . Cleave , Sboe-laae , Fleet-street . . * " are glad to perceive thai this valuable tract *« reached a second edition . Mr . O'Connor well ¦ awi stttta the subject on whieb he writes ; his r ^ eoDingB are dear and unanswerable , and his coneittaofi s l ^ jcji Md gatisfactorj . We hope all ' - ^ "isw will nnite ia cirisg to tbos « letters a girersal eireulatwa throogbOTit the few ** & '

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      PARLEY'S PENNY LIBRARY ; or , Treasnry of Knowledge , Entertainment , and Delight , vol . 1 . London : Cleave , Shoe Lane , Fleet Street ; Hobson , Leeds . Farley ' s Penny Library has been published in weekly numbers , and tbe first volume , neatly bound in cloth , has just been completed . We gave a faYourable notice of the work ; at an early period of its issue , and , © n the eonupletioa « f tbe first Tolnme , it gWes us pleasure to be able to-aay that the hopes held out by the spirited projectors have been more than realised , though a Blight deviation froib the plan marked out in their original address , has been

      made . There is perhaps less ef historical and classical lore ; eat the curt&iment does not injure the volume or milita te against its interest , for by it greater scope has been giten for an analysis -of the works of Charles Pickens , from whenee the pith has been extraqtedj witb Hca explanations , in . * brief , witty , and conversational style , as tend not only to arnnse , but to instruct those for whom the work is more immediately intended . All Glasses , however , oaght to possess Peter Parley . We give tbe following interesting extract from the Memoirs of Henry Masers de la Tude , a prisoner , for the long period of thirty years , in the French baBtile , in order to Bbow the capacities of that despised animal—the

      eat : — The dungeons < rf the BastUe are octagonal ; the one in which I was now confined had a loop-hole two feet and a half above the floor . On tbe inside ft was two feet long , and about eighteen inches wide ; but it gradually diminished , to wards th » exterior , aothat on the outside wall It scarcely exceeded three inches in size . From tMs loop-hole I derived the only light and air I was permitted to enjoy ; the stem * which formed the basis of it served me also for chair and table . When tired of reclining on a foul and infected pallet , I dragged myself to the loop-hole to enjoy a little fresh air ; to lighten the weight of my chains , I retted mj elbaws and ami on this horizontal atone . Being one day in this attitude , I saw a large rat appear at the other extremity of the loop-hole : I called to him : he looked

      at me without manifesting any symptoms of fear ; I gently threw him a piece of bread , taking care not to frighten him by any violent action . He approachedtook the bread—went to a little distanoe to eat it , ana appeared to solicit a second piece . I flung him another , but at a lea distance ; a third , still nearer ; and so on by degrees . This continued aa long as I had bread to give him ; for , after satisfying bis appetite , he carried off to a hole the fragments which h » had not been able to devour . The following day he came again . I treated him with the same generosity , and added even a morsel of meat , which he appeared to find more palatable than the bread ; for this time he ate near to me , which before he had not done The third day he became sufficiently familiar to take what I offered him from my fingers .

      I had no idea where his dwelling-place was before , bnt he appeared inclined to change it , to approach nearer to me . He discoyered on each side of the window a hole rafneientJy large for his purpose ; he examined them both , and fixed his abode in the one to the right , which appeared to him ' the most convenient . On the fifth day , for the first time , he came to sleep there . The following morning he paid me a Tery « arly visit ; I gave him his breakfast : when he had eaten heartily he left me , and I saw him no more till the next day , when he came , according to his custom . I saw , as soen as he issued from hfa hole , that he was not alone ; I observed a female rat peeping from it , and apparently watching oar proceedings . I tried to entice her

      out by throwing her bread and meat ; she seemed much more timid than the other , and for some time refused to take them : however , at length she ventured oat of the hole by degrees , and seised what I threw halfway towards her . Sometimes she quarrelled with tire male ; and when she proved eithtr stronger or more skilful , ran back to the hole , carrying with her what she had taken . When this happened , the male rat crept dose to me for consolation ; and , to revenge himself on the other , ate what I gave him too fer from the hole for her to venture to dispute it with him , but always pretending to exhibit his prize as if in bravado . He would then set himself on his haunches , holding the bread or meat between hi * fore paws like a monkey , and nibbling it with an air of defiance .

      One day tbe pride of the female conquered her shynesz ; she sprang out , and seized between her teeth the morsel which tbe other was beginning to munch . Neither would let go , and they rolled over each other to the hole , into which tbe -female , who was nearest to it , dragged the male aftsr her . This extraordinary » pec ~ tade relieved by contrast the monotony of my ordinary sufferings and recollections . In the bastle of the world , it is difficult to conceive the pleasure I derived from such a trifling source ; bat there Are BensifciT * minds who will readily understand it .

      When my dinner was brought in , I called my companions ; the male ran to me immediately , tht female , according to custom , came slowly and timidly , but at length approached dose to ate , * ad Tentor * d to take what I offered her from my hand . Some time after , a third appeared , which was much less ceremonious than my first acquaintances . After his second visit , be constituted aims * If one of the family , and made himself so perfectly at home , that he resolved to introduce his comrades . The next day he came , accompanied by two

      others , who , in the course of the week , brought Svb more ; and thus , in less than a fortnight , oar family circle consisted of ten large rats and myself . I gave each of them names , which they learned to distinguish . When I called them , they c&cae to eat with me from the dish , or off the plate ; "but I found this unpleasant , and was Boon forced to find them a dish for themtelves , on account of their slovenly habits . They became so tame as to allow me to scratch their necks , and appeared pleased when I did so ; bat they womld never permit me to touch them on the back . Sometimes I amused

      myself by making them play , and joined in their gambols . Occasionally I threw them a piece of meat scalding hot : the most eager ran to seize it , burned themselves , cried out , and left it ; whilst the leas greedy , who had waited patiently , took it when it was * cold , and escaped into a corner , where they di-rided their prize . Sometimes I made them jump up by holding a piece of meat or bread / suspended in the air . There 'was among them a female whom I had christened Rapino-Hiroxdeile , on account of her agility ; I took great pleasure in marl j ? her jamp , and bo

      conscious was she of her superiority over all the others , that she never condescended to tika what I held np for them . She placed herself in the attitnde of a dog pointing game^—allowed one of the rats to spring at the scoad morsel offered to him—and , at the moment when he seized it , would dart forward and snatch it ont of bis mouth . It was unlucky for him if she missed her spring , for then she invariably seized him by the neck with her teeth as sharp as needles ; the other , yelling with pain , wonld leave bis prey at the mercy of Rapino-Hirondelle , and creep into a corner to cure the wound she bad inflicted on him .

      With these simple and innocent occupations , I continued for two years to divert my mind fr-m constancy brooding otbt my miseries ; and now and then I surprised myself in a sensation of positive enjoyment I myself in the midst of a family who loved and interested me ; why theD should I wish to transport myself into another hemUphere , where 1 had met with nothing bnt assassins and executioners ? One day when ray Rte&w had been changed , I found among what had been newly brought a piece of elder , ¦ which had helped to tie it This discoveiy caused an emotion I cannot describe . I conceired the idea of

      converting it into a flageolet , and the thonght transported me . Hitherto I had heard do sounds within my dungeon but those of bolts and chains ; 1 could now vary them by a sweet and teaching melody , and thus accelerate , in some degree , the tardy steps of time . What a fertile source of consolation . ' But how could I consteDct this flageolet ? My hands were confined within two iron-ring ^ fixed to a bar of the Bam e m etal ; I could only move them by a most painful exertion , and I had no instrument to assist me . My gaolers would have refused me even a morsel of wood , had I been able to offer them treasnres in exchange .

      I contrived to take off tbe buckle wbieh confined the waistband of my small-clothes , I used the irons on my legs to prepare it , and to bend the fork into a kind of small chisel ; but it proved so ineffective , that it was with the utmost difficulty I could cut the branch of elder , take out the pith , and shape it as I rtqaired . At last , after many attempts , and several months" labour , I had tbe happiness to succeed- 1 call it happiness , for it truly was so ; I eajoy it to this hour with increasing interest Thirty-four year * have elapsed since I constructed this little instrument , and during that time it has never been a moment out of my possession . It . formerly served to dissipate my cares , it now enhances my enjoyments .

      , _ The time occupied by these important labours in some degree distracted me from my domestic cares , and caused me to neglect my little family ; during this interval , it had considerably augmented , and in . lea than a year it amounted to twenty-six . I was not certain there were no strangers among them ; those who attempted to gain admittance were received with hostility , and compelled to fight with the first who encountered them . These battles afforded me a most amusing spectacle . As soon as tbe two ehampions placed themselves in position , they appeared at once to estimate their respective force before a blow was struck Thi stronger gnashed his teeth , while the weaker uttered his back

      cries , and retreated slowly witbont turning , u If fearful lest bis adversary should spring upon him and destroy him On the other hand , tbe stronger never attacks in front , which would expose him to thedanger of TSving bto eyei torn ont ! the method h * adopt * is ategular and araosiog ; be plaoes hi * IkmI between bis fore paws , and rolls head ovtr heels two or three toea , until he comes ' in contact with his enemy ' s nose . The latter attempts to fly ; the former selects * hat raoaear , to seise htaj he gi * cpe him * a ama * . and junaiirn ' ja they fight aottfttriotuly . If any otbsrraUarepreerat , they re main passive spectator * of tb * combat , and » jtm jeU two agafawt one .

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      Thx Latb Musdm . —St . Helen ' s , Thnjrfdf y afternoon . —Various witnesses having been exam . ined ( the in quest was closed , and tbe jury after aba ut twenty minutes' deliberation Tetnrned a verdiet v ' t * Wilfnl murder" against Isaac Jacques , Robert Woods , and Thomas Moljnenx . The prisoners al , denied any participation in the crime , but w co committed , under the coroner ' s warrant , to taV . e their trial at the next assizes .

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      The ixpences to be ineurredin the christening of the Prince of Wales will exceed , it is 6 aid , a . hundred thousand pounds * . TCidk will be bread , and- ' mcat too , - for the starving millionsjn the country ! .. ' /"' . '' . ' - King Ehnbst ' s Hakued or Sohgs ! -t Adviees from Hanover state that a seisuro of a collection ef political pongs , termed . * Songs of . a Cosmopolite , " has just been made in the capital by order of govern ' ment . —GaHgnani . ¦¦ . ¦; . ¦ ¦ u :. . ..- ¦ ;>;• - " The man who hath not nasio fh his soul , ' Is fit for treason , Btratagetoj ^ and spoil * . " ' : ¦ ¦¦ ' Shakspeibe .

      Ukexpkcied Good Fortune . — -K eingnlar idstance of £ ood fortune has , within tho last r \>« rdaya , < happened to a poor man named George Peters with a numerous family , who followed the occupation of a jeurneyman baker , and resides in an obscure street at Camberwell . It appears that a distant relative , residing » t Bath , aad frvra whom do expectations were ever entertained , has recently died , bequeathing to the wife of Peters large , funded property amounting to near £ 50 , 000 . Peters has for sojse time been working at his trade in this city .

      FORGKKTES AT THE CUSTOM-HOUSE , BRISTOL , DiC . 17- —Muob anxiety has be » u felt by the commercial world here in . consequence of a gentleman holding a high situation in the Custom-house having absconded , and who it is alleged has committed \ forgeries to the amount of about £ 8 , 000 Or £ 9 , 000 ; about £ 7 , 500 of forged acceptances having been already ascertained , one or two of whioh , it is said , are held by the branch of the Bank of England . ( The individaal is very highly connected , and tbe acceptances , it is said , purport to be those of a distinguished and gallant officer of high rank in the army ..

      Cork Wokkhobse . —Influx of p oor Irish . — Owing principally , to the influx of paupers brought by the steamer Jupiter , from England , the jaumber f pauper inmates for whom , by dint of exertionthe oreatttrea lying four and five in a bed—aecointsodation could be made in our "workhouse on Thursday night , was nine hundred and eighty-sixl —a mass of destitution never before crowded within the walla of any Institution in this City . — Cork Reporter .

      The Nkw Yobx packe ' -ship , Ftesoius , which has arrived at Liverpool , fell in , oh the 7 th , with the wreck of the Erin-go-Bragh , Sumpton , master , of Liverpool , homeward bound . from tyutbec . The wreck was in a sinking state . Mr . Collins , the commander of the Rosciug , took the master of the Erin go-Bragh , nineteen of the crew , and Mr . J . W . Merrit , a passenger , on board the packet , and conveyed them in safety to Liverpool . So imminent was the peril , that not an article belonging to any individual was saved from the ship , which sank immediately after the Rosci us quitted her .

      Ferocious Brutality . —To the catalogue of daring crimes described in the publio prints during the last few months , we have to add the perpetration of an ontrage committed a short time since at Cheddar , which , for the atrocity of the ' act and Vhe savage barbarity with which it was accompanied , surpasses in extent of wanton cruelty anything which it has for a long time been our office to record . A poor woman returning from market ; after nfghtfal ) , to her home , was sudden It accosted by three footpad ? , who ^ Sercelv demanded her money ., The poor creature

      instantly delivered up the whole of her liitle treasure , the produce of her market transactions ; but whother tho ruffians were disappointed by the « mallness of tho amount , and were resolved on rifling all heT under-garmenta , or whether they were solely influenced by the promptings of diabolical ferocity , we know not , but they literally stripped her of every particle of clothing , and left her , in that state of dreadful destitution , to the chance of casual charity , or to perish by the way aide , under the complicated agonies of terror , coid , and tortured modesty .

      Matrimonial Adventureus . —At Samarang , tho second town in the island of Java , there exists a species of matrimonial lottery , which gives riBe to many singular speculations . Orphan children , rich as well as poor , are all brought up in a public establishment The mest profound si ' ence a 3 to the fortunes of these children is enjoined to every person employed in or about the institution * These fortunes are placed under , the management of persons at Batavia , on whom a similar injunction of socrecy is imposed . The feuialr- orphans arc kept in the '

      establishment until their marriage . Lvery man possessing an annual income of 730 florins , or two florins a day , is at liberty to choose a wife from among them , but' tbe amount of her fortune is not tnade knows to him till several days after the marriage . A servant of the military hospital at Samarang lately selected one of these damsels with a fortune of 65 , 060 florins . Since "his good luck , the applications for vnves from the asylum have become very urgent ; for a report has got abroad that there is a marriageable girl still left , who will bring with her a prize of 200 , 000 florins .

      Anti-Malthusian . —The . followers of Mr . Mai : thae must be horror-struck at some recent circumstances in the parish of Cbristchurch , Hants , where within the lest three weeks two women have ^ been confined with three children each , And within three mouths , ten women have each borne twin children . The former are the wife of John Troke , who give birth to three boy ? , two of whom are living ; and the rfifeof William Morley , three boys since dead , ExEcmriojf of Job J . Ward . —The punishment of death was on Monday morning inflicted ou Job John Ward , who was convicted at the last November Sessions of the Central Criminal Court of the wilful murder of Timothy Ested , his illegitimate son , sged only one year and nine monthp . The culprit .

      who was in the prime of life , his age being only twenty-eight years , has ever since his condemnation suffered the most acute mental anguish , and on Sunday , during the condemned sermon , he fainted away in the chapel cf Newgate , and the service was suspended for nearly a quarter of an hour in consequence . Shortly before eight o ' clock the Reverend Ordinary , the Sheriffs , and other officers were in attendance upon the prisoner hi his cell . Mr . Carver asked him whether he admitted the justice of his sentence , and he replied , " Oh dear , yes . " Mr . Sheriff Magnay then asked him whether ho would now wish to state anything as to the manner in which the child was killed ; he replied that the child was lying in the bed aud he struck it with hiB

      fiit twice ; ho added , that when he did se , he had not the least idea or intention to kill it , and he concluded by declaring posititvjy that he never tnaiie use of the hammer . The Sheriff then asked him whether it was true thai he was intoxicated at the time , to "which ho replied that he was , and he at the same time said he hoped that all working men would refrain from drink , for that had been the means of placing him iu his present dreadful situation . Upon another occasion ho told the Ordinary that it was drink which put the idea of striking the child into hia head , and that he wished . 'iqaor had been a guinea a quart on that day , as it would have prevent-td the unfortunate occurrence taking place . The Sheiiff then asked the prisoner whether it wa 3 not possible that the head of tho child might have come iu contact with the chair or bed-post , but he replied that that could not be , and again repeated , that the only injury inflicted

      upon the child were the bJows with his fi = t , aiichn ? that at the time he had not tho slightest intention of killing it , but as those blows were thecauBe of death , he acknowledged that he was jusiJy charged with the murder , and he was , therefore , liable to the punishment lie was about to suffer . When the prisoner was pinioned he expressed a wish to shake hands with the Sheriff ' s aud Ordinary , and having done so , he exclaimed " God bleBS you , £ thank you all for your kindness . " The usual h < mr , eight o ' clock , having arrived the culprit wa = led to the scaffold , with tho usual procession . He appeared very faint , and was supported by one of the turnkeys and Mr . Holding , one of the surgeons . The appearance of tbe wretched man on the scaffold was the signal for & burst of cheers , mingled with gioans , from the assembled crowd . He appeared to struggle for aboat a minute before life wa& extinct . At nine o ' clock the body was cue down , and interred by the side of Blakesley .

      ExTshsiva Fraud on the Bank of Engiakd at Livlepool . —During the last week a fraud to the extent of £ 1 , 330 was committed upon the above establishment , by means of forged checks upon a Belgian bank , known by the title of " Societe General pour favoriser 1 'lndustrie Rationale . " The guiity party i * a foreigner named Ranyier , between 35 and 40 years of aue ., His height is five feet four inches ; he has a florid complexion , and reddish hair . He speaks bad English , and but indifferent French . He is supposed to have arrived in Liverpool since tbe 1 st instant , in order to embark tor

      America , The following is a description of the notes obtained : —One £ 300 , dated the 3 d February , 1841 , No . 47 , 312 ; six £ W 0 , dated tbe 5 th Febraay ; 1841 , No . 79 , 366 to No . 79 , 371 ; five ^ 50 , dared the 6 th of October , 1841 , Ko . 13 S 63 to No . 13 . 367 ; two £ 40 . dated the 7 th of June . 1841 , No . 40 , 575 and No . 43 , 361 ; five £ 10 , dated tbe 10 th of September , 11 ) 41 , No . 70 , 010 to No . 70 , 014 ; ten £ 5 , dated the iSiu , of October , 1841 , No . 74 , 837 to No . 74 , 846 . A confederate of B&nyier ' s was supposed to have gone to Lwjds on Friday se ' nnight , and the pblice-offioerB wore p » the alert te secure him . Their efforts , how--teter , if he did enter , the town , were unsacceBafol .

      Thr ABMSTBOitoLivsB Fills axe recommended ai aa Anti-bilious medicine , to every . sufferer from . Wioui eotsplainte * nd indige 6 tib » . or from an Inactive liver , and are-procurable at all DroggistB , and at Uie Northern Stmr office . It to onlyjieceseary to aet that the stamp had "Dr . John Armstrong ' s Liver Pills" engraved on it , in white letters , and to let a * one put you off with any other pills . - jj b . —The Pills in the boxes enclosed , in marbled waper . and marked B ., are a very mild aperient , and are particularly and universally praised . They are admirably adapted for Bportsmen , agriculturists , men of business , naval and military men ; aa they contain no mercury or calomel , and reqou-e neither eonfinement to the house , aor restraint in diet .

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      Enviable Sto > crtbkrs . — The Tipperarv Free Press in ; a ? opmmei : cial and mone 4 ry arMcle , ' ' Jwl ^^^ f ^ W ^ i'i . JWtos ! - Mark , we do not domplain of having a limited number of reitders-oxa complaint id thai we have top many ! The saperabundant'nnin ber may be placed under three , heads ., Jfirj * , . the jtoMt&ppfaw or-penny an Tiour readers , in .. Cloaznel , ( we e « eent those who cannot Afford td stiMcribe ); secondly , ( hose who haunt dnr subscribers' ndttBeein'MeiF to borrow thi . paper , ' * n&i % he ? are a most numerous class of robbers , But the greatest scoundrels are those who fiubaeribe and" never pay—these fellows should be transported for taking property under 'ftlgepretenoesT" - : . ¦ ¦ ¦ : --U' ^ u i ^^ . ¦ ¦/ . r . ; ¦ , u

      Artificial lea fob Skatino ^ ' Ooi ?^ readers will doBbtless ^ utter a , note of ; j admiration , signifying * ft 80 j = ^ credulity . in regard tot the " import of these rorda ^ -neverthelesa ' tis true ' : andtttue it is ^ . without ' any < ocea » ou tot pityVthat a new taarvellofis fBat'bf soierioe is added i »< ho 8 « by which , this era hasbeea already distinguished , in .-She discovery of aohenjical compound having all the appearance of ice—capable of being depdrfted' fe ¦> tfeirahee ^ and offering to the skater asurface much wore agreeable for the purposes of . hia graeefot exercise thanithat ordinariiy supplied by the wip ^ eroperationa of nature upon our , park waters . - The ' gentleman ?? h <> has achieved this viotory over the elemenisof cbeitfstryiMr . Henry Kirk , now exhibits the results of hi 8 some five years ' labour toihat end at a building on the grounds of Mr . Jenkins , la the New-road , nearto Dbrget-square . The floor of the apartment . 24 feet bY 14 . iaeovered

      with an apparent icy integumentr-npt quite as dear as crystal , bnt like dpngelation after ' a white frost , upon which a considerable number of members of the skating club indulged jn their evolutions , and fully tested its pretension * . ' This sutjstance , ' seveneighths of an , inch thick , in thjs instance ; lies dose upon thefloor of theroom , and cannot be broken fey any concussion short of tha | by a aledge-hamnier , and its endurance untie * the abrasion of the slate ie also mostremarkable . Heat up to 100 degrees has also no effect upon it :. In a word , it can be created and used 4 * readily in summer as & winter , and we may therefore make lip our " minds to hare as « opd skating in the do g- days as at CKrialmas . M » . Kirk projects an extensive Ice-ground ,, surrounded by and set off with scenes of wittier , exeeuteij by the best artistsiritturt line . ^ ? ,.. ¦ , - . r ,. . , .,

      The Pauses of Wales . —Batiopal beings , or persons capable of the slightest pretenoe to ration * ality , cannot re > 3 ;^ e Ga ette whioh proclaims the patent creation of Prince of . Wales , without ' -sHrprise thai euoh Goth jo ibatbari ties , and absurdities should be still persevered in .. > A > child of 'a few weeks old is Ksreatiefi . Prince of Wales , and yet ae he is not 'born' Princa of Wales , his elevation to the rank might as well be postponed until he is able to comprehend what it meanB , 'and fo ! understand even what nominal functions he has to perform or , execute . Preoed-nt is the plea for these tom-fooleries j but the age has arrived when we are to estimate precedents by their rationality and utility ' and not by their antiquity . The older the precedent the greater

      is the presumption that it is absurd , ridiculous , or . pernicious . If our barbarous , Iguorant , superstitious , aud priest-ridden ancestors inaaefoold of themsetves , is that anyreason why we should follow thefr example ! There must be an-eud to stupid precedents at one time or another : they are not eternal , and we are just as capable of destroying them now as our sucoessors can be / This infant in its long clethes , upon , being created Prince of Wales ( what a quit upon poor Taffy ) , is girt with a sword , which he cskimot distinguish from a spoon , bodkin , or tweezer ; he has then a coronet placed on his head , a gold ring put on hie finger , and a gold rod put in his hand , in order that he may '' direct and defend those parts ' tbe borders of England and Wales , there

      having been no such borders to defend since the reign of Qieen Elix&beth , when border warfare ceased , and a' baby in long clothes not being exactl y the most fit person to enter into border , warfare . It is quite time that such disgraceful nonsense should be removed from the sight ot a rational people . The bishops , always'most prominent whereNwremonios aro ^ tho most disgraceful , are active on this occasion , and it is a biBhop that begirts the baby with the sword . By a parity'Or consistency it ought to be a general or aa admiral that places the mitre on the head , and the crosier in the . hand of a bishop at his Episcopal creation ! After this comes a worship proclamation , from { he' QAeen . ' as defender of the faith . " May we not inquire what faith ismeant \ The British Empire comprises every . faith under the sun , and as a Sovereign is in theory and in principle ,

      an impartial and equal defender of all parties , it follows that our Queen is not the defender of the faith , whatever it may be , but the defender of ail faiths . ' Though , If a faith cannot defend itself , it is not worth defending . Well , her Majesty , as defender of the faith , forsooth , orders a new edition of the prayer-book , and in which we freeborn and rational ' Englishmen are ordered to pray'for the Prince of Wales , after Prince Albert . ' Falstaff would not have even reason on compulsion ; nor do we like prayers upon royal command . We would pray forth * Priuce of Wales after or before Prince Albert , or pray for only ore or neither , as it Suited us , and in no case would pray npon compulsion . If the present Prince of Wales should be like the last Prince of Wales , we woal 4 heartily , pray for his happiness , its locality being in the other world . "

      The Boy Jones . —This extraordinary lad , whose repeated visits to Buckingham Palace caused so much alarm some time ago , and who after being released from prison was seat out to eea in a merchant ship , has lately returned to England , and is how at Liverpool . His case is likely to come under the notice of the authorities , for it appears he was sent away without the concurrence of his father , an old man of good character , who is living in Bellyard , York-Btrtet , Westminster , and who , not knowing the destination of his son , was labouring under great anxiety about him until b , e received a letter from him a few day * ago , stating that the ship in which he had been induced t 6 leave England nad returned to Liverpool , and that he had ; been

      subjected to much ill-mage on . board . There appears 10 have been some irregularity in the mode of getting rid of this troublesome : lad , and a good deal oi money unnecessarily expended by a tradesman named James , re&idtngin Westminster , and aThames Police inspector , named Evans , who , after travelling about with him in England and Ireland fora month , eventually procured hint a berth in a Liverpool ship , and not at Cork , as was Etited Bome thne ago . The lad is anxious trreturn to London , and has written to his father for the means of doing so ; but his father is too poor to defray the necessary expences of providing him with a passage to London . Several of his neighbours have promised to assist him , and there is no doubt he tviJl soon reach home .

      His father states that there is no reason for believing that his son will ever repeat . the foolish freaks he has been guilty of , and that long before he was sent out of the country h » repented of his conduct , and was anxious to obtain employment , which was offered him by several persons , who found the lad to be very intelligent . It appears that after the boy ' s liberation from the Westminster Bridewell he was takeu in hand by Mr . James , his father ' s landlord , who keeps the Bell public-house , in Bell -yard , Yorkstreet , Westminster , and James Christopher Evans , jun ., an Inspector of Thames Police , vfho acted from inductions conveyed from the Home-office . Evans represented himself to the father and his son as the agent of a ship in the London Docks , who would , on

      the recommendation of Mr . James , provide young Jones with a berth on board the Diamond , the Captain of which was stated to bo a friend of Mr . James . The Diamond hai , however , left the London Docks when the parties arrived there , and Mr . James , the Police Inspector , and the boy hastened to Cork ; but for reasons stated in a letter from the boy to his father , he was not shipped . After visiting Plymouth and several other places , during which the lad was treated with the greatest kindness , he was ultimately conveyed to Liverpool , and there shipped , upon wtiat voyage has not been ascertained , nor has the boy in his letters mentioned the name of the vessel or the voyage . Tbe affair has been badly managed t for the boy , after all the

      expense and trouble whioh has been taken about him , is again in England , after a five months' absence , and heartily sick of a seafaring Me , for whioh , it appears , he . never entertained a predilection . The same money , judiciously expended * would have procured him a good situation , and paid his passage to a distant colony , to which his father would not have objected , » ad where be oonld have given no more uneasiness to the authorities hen . On Saturday , in consequt-Dee of its having come t » tbe knowledge of the father of the boy ; Jones that the New Police had something to do with the shipment of his son , he attended at the Thames Police Court for ' the purpose of waiting upon the Magistrate , and obtaining information ou the subjeet . He saw Evans , jun ..

      whom he recognised as the very person who was introduced to him six months ago as the agent of a ship in which his son was to be sent' to sea . . Evans ssid he was the agent of a particular ship at that time , and all that had been done for hiB son was done for his benefit . Mr . Jones expressed bis surprise that » : police officer should represent himself as the agent of a ship , and said that he ought to have been consulted on the aubjec ^ and infornied of the destination of the boy previous to bis leavuag the oountri , - Evans said the boy's interests wouldlave been materially affected if his destination had been made known , and spoke in high terns of the koy ' a intelligence and rood eonduot while be was with

      him . Mr . Jomg Vben Bai 4 he wished to V < mM Ahe Magistrate on the Bobject . and waa aWAJjU boy would be trepanned ana \ wnk away to tea again without hii concurrence ; but he wm infiwaea the Magistrate would not be able to interfere in the matter , and after some further conversation he lef the Court . The poor man is labouring under great anxiety about bis son . and has been unable to follow bis usual occupation dnring the last week , owing to his distress of mind . He intend ? to communicate with the authorities at Liverpool , and request them not to allow bis son to be trepanned into another voyage , whioh there is reason to fear may / bo attempted .

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      iNTEBeSTINp AlfATOMICAI ., EXAHIIU « 0 » , OF X Fmai . hChihpa . wzbb;— In July last | kVt vyfipopair of chimpanzees were purchased by the Co mmltteeof the Bristol ftna < 3 iftoii Zoological Garo : > n «» tb ; ey naving beeri brought dirM from Africa to tWs pprt . Dnrin ^ the ^ m tner and antumn these rare animals atteae ^ ed ' the ; at t en tion of viaitors from ai ' .. pacts ' . From the circumstance of no specimen havu ^ g been preserved in this country for , a longer period t nan ¦* '¦ few months , " aa they ^^ have generall y died of com 'umptioni moris than . ordinary .. cara and attention were bestowed upon them b y the keeper ; for aa 0 iej : \ vere , a pair- * very unuBual thing—the Cpmmittee St 't a , ywy high valne ' upon them : but i | was of no « T . ^ l as far a * relates to the female , for she died ont be

      6 W lBstaD » , tHdngh not f as it has eabsequentlv bet n found ) of the usual disease , consumption , " bafe c f dysentery , t » which she had , in ft * et , been subject " m her voyage , and eontinued to suffer tlrom it iUlfet « eath . Indeea ; thert wfe >' o wmedy , 'for it w found impossiWe to administer any nledidne . Tb *; keeper was in the' habit of ntjfetrwtlng'h ^ r ^ odj ' anc feeding her from Ms motitp'f ^ but ' tttejhomeniany kinS of * aedicihevi ^ s ;» ttempte ^ jto 1 be jniroducea me wjeotedlt , / tad trreA ' after it had bee ; ii ; tbrced down per throat ahe . wettlcl throw it oy her sioinaeh . ' Tie body hSVing bees ' pres ented- tp the Bristol Philosopfiio Kstittttidri ; wa 8 opened by ' Dr . Fairbrdtherj is the presence of ' some of the m , embers . On being anatomicaaiy : exaininafl . Its great similarity to tp human frame was SBrpneinglyapjiarent . The brain , lungs , heart , stomach , liver , spleeiu kidnpysj intes- , tines , &b . ' y were in form and Bhape ^ almoist exactly

      the counterpart of those in a hun ? an being ; the heart , in particular , presented a peeuliaTity ^ ever fouild in any oiher of the monkey tribe—that is , it had nearly the lame obliquity aad rested , oa the midriff in the same manner as in the human body ; indeed , the Only striking exception waa in the organs of the voice , tuere being bn : the upper part of the ventricles of the larynx two ' small membranous bags or sacks , iEto w'hicfi part df the air " must passfrom < he lungs during respiration ; so that the column of air is divided and diminished , and , consequently , the vibrfttions produced by its : passage' through the glottis are . weakened ; ;¦ . $$ & the voice becomes inarr tioul&tes "If H yrfere not for '; tbis singular provision , it is . suppbsed that thjJ chimpanzee Would be capable of « LVin ^ ttt | ferance ' . tomfeelinga and waots iu the same manner that man does . — £ rts / o / Standard .

      • ' 'Fovr Vessels Run- Down at Sea —Within the ; last two or three da ^ s the anderwritera at Lloyd ' s have received intelligence of four vessels having been run down during 1 the late dreadful galesfrom the north-west , unhappily attended with Ios 3 of life . The vessels in question are the schooner Eliwi belonging to Ipswich , the Defiance , of Green wren ; the schooner Nancy , " belonging to Yarmouth , and the brig Queen , of- Nftweastle . It appears that the Eliza , which was afaef-saUingvessel , was run down on the night of the 5 th inst ., between ten and eleven , near Harwich , by a brig oalled the Conudon , of Stockton , and it was a miracle that tha crew , many of whom were asleep in their berths , were not Carried down with the vessel , for she sank in » few minuted

      after the collision . Fortuately they got on board of the brjg , but were not able to Bave . any property . The vessel » is snpposed to be insured ; The Nancy was lost on the Bame night , and the aecoint given of her loSs is , that she was to the roads ofTtheekstern coast , -making for Yarlnonthj when"th * fJean arid Mary , of Whitby , came athwart her bows with booH tremendous violence that « htf" almost'immediately sank , and it was with the utmost difficulty that'the otlier vessel was prevented from sinking , her « tatboard ; quarter being completely driven in . The master , Mr . Todd , and the crew sav * d themselves by j limping into' the long boat , and landed the following morning at Yarmouth Very much exhausted - ' The Jean and Mary has since been run ashore ( 0 save

      her . Both vessels « re insureaw As' regards' the Defiance , she was lost on _ the 10 th JBSt . ' , ' off € romer Liahthouse . She ^ waa at anchor at the time , and the vessel that caused her destruction was the schooner Alert , of Whitbyt ¦ Themaster , Who is ^ th ' e owner of the vessel , is unfortunately hot ihsUfed . TJn the morning of the ! 11 th , Saturday week , the Queen , on her voyage to London ¦ from Shields , laden deeply with coals , when off Scarborough ; , Was run down by a barque , name unknown , and three of the crew sank with the ship . ' The ramainitig portion of the crew ; sprang into the jolly boat juat as she . was sihking , and were picked up about four hours after by a fishing truack , and landed at Flamborougb . The vessel was valued at £ 2 , 000 . . ,

      DRfiAD )? ul Eabthwa KB ^ -The following account iaa been received frpqa a resident at San Jose , Costa Rlea , on the Xfithmus ofDirien , dated September 14 , J 841 ,:-Tt " . We have had latelysonieshocks ef earth quake which . have caused great oenBternation , bnt happily , in this place , have not been , attended with fatal effects . A , little after six in the morning of the 2 nd instant the . first shock took place . I was dressing at the moojeHt , and immediately rushed lo tho door , some woodwork from ; the top of whioh , falling davro , smaehed to atoms ... my washhandbasin , and gave me a slight blow on the leg . However , ' I s ^ on . found my way to the square , where I encoUhtered a motley assemblage , soaie en chemise , others with blankets round , ' their shoulders ,, women

      screaming , dogs howling , and evory sign of confusion aud diemay . i This was an awful moment . The houses though much shaken , had not follen , and , we were every instant expeoting another shock . The next was less violent , aud fortunately did no damage ; but for nine days and nights we were kept in continual alarm by slighter tremblings of the earth . We passed the nights in our clothes , with the doors open to the street , to favour our escape , if it should be necessary . My house is so much damaged that I have not ventured to sleep in it sincbi and I understand it will be taken down . I have probably mentioned in my fo'mer letters that the houses here are only frost twelve to fifteen feet iu height , as some precaution against the danger of

      earthquakes ; but , as I live opposite to a church , I did not view , without apprehension , the tower , which is one hundred feet high . In Cartago , five league ? hence , the effects were dreadful in the extreme . In lesB time than I can write it , a city of . ten thousand souls was laid in ruins . What are all the evils of war compared to such tremendous devastation ? It seems wonderful how so few lives should be lost . The inhabitants were indebted for their preservation to their early rising ^ All the houses were levelled to the ground , and not more than forty or fifty persons killed and wounded . You may imagine the distress of the survivors , without a roof to shelter them , and exposed to the mercy of the elements . They have pitched their tents in the strtets and squares—miserable huts roofed with hides or leaves ,

      a rerj slender protection whea the rain is coming down in torrents for eight or ten hours successively . Many of them will , no doubt , perish from Jevers . The poor will suffer much from the clearness of food , the chief article , maize , having been much damaged by the cattle getting into the fields , the enclosures having been destroyed by the earthquake . Tbe cause of all these calamities has been an eruption of a volcano three leagues beyond Cartago . The last earthquake took place in the year 18 ' 22 , bat the mischief was then confined to the destruction of a few houses . The people have , as you may suppose ,, conducted themselves like good Catholics . Images of saints were carried in procession through the streets , public prayers were offered daily , and women wtro walking about , doing penance , by carrying huge stones on their heads . "

      Bokough Court of Ke < juests > Saiuhday .. —The Ddstmam ' s . CiiiusTEiuNG . —Joseph Brown , a regular dustman , summoned Charles Norton , a gentleman in the same line of : business , for £ 1 2 a . 6 d . Although the parties were in humble life , the case created no little degree of interest , numerous gentlsmsn , being present with their " fantail shallows , " accompanied by their wives and darters , to hear , a 3 one of the young ladies expressed herself , the result of the "in-WegistatioB , " Complainant—It ' s rather a long story , but I shall keep to the main pinte of it . ( Laughter . ) Commissioner—Thank you j "Brevity is the soal of wit . " Complainant— -You are werry right , Sir ; my . eldest ) darter hunt that at school . ( Laughter . ) But to come to the pint , as-1 said afore ,

      my old homin was confined with a boy the same day as her Majesty—( load laughter )—and me aad Sal agreed aa now we'd christen him Albert o * the same day as the Prince of Wales . I looked aevery day into- the Court Circu ! av , \ o find out veil the hinterestiDg eeremosy was to be performed , but , finding the afiMt was not to come off till -Fc&rw » ry ,. me . » ad my vif » had a consultation , and , finally , ve agreed a 3 oar'first boy should be christened last Monday . ( . Laughter . ) I inwited a snug party to have some supper and spend the hevening . I guv my old homan a suvereigaand a half wot I had' saved up , ; she bought two ribs of beef , whioh Was sent to the bakehouse , and a lot of tatera under it : besWes , we h » rt two ham and veal Dies , a pisee of the buttocks of

      beef . &e . ; I got in four gallons , of heavy wet fc two bottles of gin , * drop of brandy , and loto of lipcs and tobacco . ^ Ihe defendant was inwited , with his old homan , and five other pals ^ we all m * deaeapit&l supper , except Bill Sasaaers , who bavpere ^ yathBr fresh when ke first oome . Arter the o >* h was cleared , the = isual loyal" tdaate Were given and done due honour tof and Mr * . Nor ton san * : * h *¦' ¦ ** 'li « h't o ** other days "—( l » ufthter)—wd Jem Rokerte the "Btorm "—OaughUJi . )—Bat pttle did I think 9 , storm w * b brewing ; ( Laughter . ) JTo « Smithers then proposed the health of Master Halbert Brown , vich ms about to be givat froia tt » cheer , when

      the defendant sot up , aud said asLhelonged to the lArittocrqtuMl party , and , he wou \ 4 not drink the tout ; : IiM ohe « rBUMi voee todemand ati hexplai * - tioa , whes he ( def «| dMrty » ys , *\ % fifth * . any man in tke tw > m for fire-V / b ' . I go * up to put him out of the tomtit watnhe » ei » ed me , and tore my wehze UenjtuVet » Ut # pieflee , and that ' a vot I summon him for . ( Roara of laughter . ) Defendant—I don't deny it , Mr . Cpmmissioner , but I hates royalty , even by tha nawe . I did BOt wish to injure Mr . Brown ; bit if he had not given his boy auoh a oraok jaw word , this here affair oould never have took place . T . ' ae defendant then paid the amount ) and tho genitlejnea left the court .

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      S . ' . vguwr CiECDMSTANCK . —There is at present in the possession of Mr , Robert Lyon . Cop Hall , Sessayiu tbe North Riding ; a hen Which has " for > ix successive years changed the col onr of its plumage ; it is one year beautifully speckled , then the ensuing ye » t completely white . TjuvfiiuKo ExtRAORpHTABY . —Two ' , wlseaorei . residents-of Petersfield , were last week neatly gulled bj a man calling Mmself a sailor . He stated to those greenhorns that he bad about seventy pounds prize money to receive , and that he had drawn ten pounds » t Portsnnouth to ' ponvey him and pay his expenses to London , but which he had unfortunately lost : the remaiader he was tb receive at Somerset

      , ' House immediately on hi 9 arriving there , bis papers , for which heha 4 forwarded : to his sister at Ratcliffebighway . He very , generously ^ offered . th . e parties twenty pounds / to convey him to London in some vehicle , which' they , did , and were to pay all travelling expenses . ' The money was to be paid immediately On their arrival in London . The party lived ¦ i floxiouajy on tbe rdid , sparing no expense , Btitoa a rriring-in London Jack made a sudden bolt , leaving k s JoonipaMiottB to * travel back to PeterBfield . attd ^ bt wail their nnlucky fate in having to pay the piper e « ' * . of their 6 Wn pockets , instead of grasping twenty pm . nds tor ho sllfeht a service rendered ;—Hampshire iJmi ipehdenf . • -. '

      ; '¦ ' . D . vhf iK—Cwm . -Tbeaimkut op the Poon .-i-The be « n 'of guardians for the Cork nnion intend retaliating- ^ ion the English Poor Law authorities for transntittn K to Cork a number of paupers who were properif 1 ¦ shlirgeable upon that or other Irish unions , bat km t upon an English union . A number of the pauaexi ' . brought Over in the ship Jupiter , applied 1 ' orad * ission . The first applicant was a woman WiU » tk . ree children . She wag a native of Cork , but her . husband was a Welshman . Mr . Cantillox ( aceor ^ M , ? to the Cork Constitution ) said that , althoa ^ i the woman bad no claim on the union * they codk ' not turn her out upon the streets-Mr . M * Car , * y : Out' with , herr-out with her—she fe an EnglishA voman . —Mr . Cantillor : Ohoh ! What

      , willbeeoae of her J—Mr . M'Carthy : Letherdiein the Btreeta- -Mr . Hackett : Oh ; not so fast . —Yes ; she is au Ei ^ ^ lishwoman :. Let her die in the streets —it is merely ' » return for their kindness to our poor . ( Cries of " Shame t shame f ')—The paupers were ordered 1 to be turned ont of the house , though the mother pro \ ' ested tha , t she and her infants , oneof whom was eevt n , mother five , and the third three yeare of age , h * i no means of procuring shelter or a morsel of food . Several menj women , and children . were- turned pat of doors , even though they were natives of Ireland , becaase theyhad lived some years in England ; and » ere considered by the guardians . a « properly charge * iWe upon English unions . The proceedings of the . guardians , in reference to this

      matter , were long . and stormy . They , ultimately decided upon applyh g to hia excellency Earl de Grey , praying his inte rference whh the secretary of state for the home department to prevent the immense influx of paupers from the port of London to the port of Cork , without' reference to' the immediate aniott ia Ireland to Which the s * id paupers mar belong ; and further observing , that the trairwjigaion or Irish paupers from Lou don te Coik was ilkgaL Dsathiw THrQaEENSRe ^ chPjiis » W (— On Thursday Mr . Le Pipre held an inquest in the Queen ' s ' Bench prison on the body of David WSdi aged ? 1 , > prisoner confined for debt , and formerly a linen draper . The jnry consisted , as usuaV of twelve prisoners ^ six being rulers . Mr . Samuel Cooper .

      surgeon , said that he was first called to see deceased on Monday afternoon last , and found him ia his roomylaboBriBg . under oppression of theohest , and having a . very troublesome cough and Bain in theregion of the heart . He wore a plwter on the ohest . which" showed that it had been affected for sometime . Wftheas offered ifo fake aim into the infirmary ^ but deceased preferred his owrl room . Witacsa pto » scribed for hfm , and the next day , being urged ^ to do so , deceased oon 8 en | ed to go into the infirmary ^ ia which he died on Wednesday last . , Deceased ; had applied too' late fot medical succour ; if . he- had appMed sooner , he might have been bled , and received other treatment , which probably would have prolonged his life , Deceased said to a prisoner , on

      coming into the prison , thathisheartWasbrokeD , and that a creditor had taken his property from him , and then cast him into prison . Decease'd was perfectly sane , but his circumstances must have preyed upon his mind He had been in prison a fortnight . Ho died of disease of the heart , combined with an affection of the chest . Charlotte Harris—I had been the deceased ' s housekeeper for the last seven yeaTS He was subject to gout , and had •> long iilnesa last Christmas . Deceased told me confinement wonld break his heart . He had no children , and had pever been in prison before . The amount of the debt for whioh he ' was , confined was about £ 40 . Verdict- ^>; Died of disease of . the heart , Which was greatly accelerated by deceased ' s ha vine been

      imprisoned at such an advanced age . " Accident nv Lightning . —On Friday , during a storm ¦ of hail and thunder , WLich raged about oao O ' clock , ah , alarming accident happened at the new printing and dying works erected for Messrs ., Higginbotham and Co ., near Little Govan . Mr . Fleming , cashier of the works , and Mr . Bow , coqtraotor for the brick building , were standing in one of the flats of the new mill , looking at the large stalk , and conversing as to the propriety of keeping on a fire to dry it , when Mr . Fleming observed a ball or flame strike the south-west side pf the stalk , and darting forwards , the concussion having occasioned a noise like the eiplosion of a sun .

      Immediately after , ' it was observed that the stalk was shattered ; and rent for the ' space of about twenty or thirty yards . A labourer , who was employed ia working lime at the foot of the stalk , was struok with the thunderbolt , and precipitated into a hole near to the place on which he was standing . Oil being lifted up , his arms and legs were powerless ^ and he appeared altogether debilitated for some time , when he regained the use of his limbs , except one leg , the power of which , it is feared , he will Hot recover . The wall of a building erecting adjacent was also struck and broken . The stalk , which was recently -finished , ia 220 feet ia height , ' and ifc measures seven feet in diameter at the top . — Glasgow fferald .

      Frightful , ahd Fatal Accident on the London and BntuiN&itAn Railway . —On Saturday afternoon an accident of a frightful nature , and which terminated fatally , took p lace on tbe line of the London and Birmingham Railway , at a place called Chigington , a few miles below Aylesbury . The up third class , or goods'train , had arrived within a short distance of the station , and the train had not yet stopped , when a man named William Gil ley , foreman of the plate-layers of that division of the line , and who had come ttp asa passenger , imprudently jumped out of the train . The unfortunate fellow , nut being aware that any thing else was approaching , instead of jumping off on the same side as tbe station , did to oa that next the road , at which moment the York

      passenger train was coming up at the rate of at least thirty miles an hour . Before poor Gilley could reach the ground he was caught in the back by the buffer of the engine by which the York train was being drawn , and with such fearful violence Was the shock that his body was seen by the guards of the goods train apparently to fly to the extent 0 / between thirty and forty yards . It had not reached the ground the second time before hi » body was again caught and hurled forward by the front of the engine , the driver of which endeavoured to stop the speed , but was wholly unable to do so before the entire train , consisting of nearly thirty carriages , had passed over him . The guards ef the goods' train instantly ; ran to the spot , at least sixty yards from the . place

      where thVpeor fellow bad jumped out , and notwithstanding the dreadfully shattered appearance of his body in every part , liie was not quite then , extinct , and he breathed for » few seconds after * The body of the unfortunate man , who was twentyeiftht years of age , and single , was conveyed by the goods' train on to- Aylesbury , where it awaits * Coroner's inquest . The ..: Forgsd > Exchequer Bin Affair .. —Th * veil that was drawn over this atrocious business is beginning , to be seen through , and the mystery which hung about ii to be gradually , giving way to the enquiring eyes of the few . It is now rendered pxetty evi&flt that Beaumont Smitk is not the principal in the affiair ,. although he has avowed himaelf tebeso : he is the scape-goat for the greater ^ more

      exalted knaves ; and his declaration of Being "whollyand solely guilty , " was to throw dust in the eyes of th&publieas to the detection of the seal calprits . It is a juggle between tbe officers of the Growa and jusfcioe , umI is to be hushad up" with as little noise ae possible . Smith will not bo transported , or if he is , will be sent out on a voyage of pleasure to New South Wales * and re-shipped after a short time for the Europe ** Continent , whare he will pass his life in luxury , provided for him ky the greater rascals in the business . It is a joggle , we say ,, to gull that jackase John Boll ; and all the parade of legal bigwigs at Smith ' s trial , andr the affeeted solemnity of the proeeediDgs , waa of ihe fashion : of tko Cardijcaa juggle in the Houfe of Lords . It was . known very well to the jndge and ike counsel on both sides , that Smith was to plead goUty , and Rapallo was to be let out of the bag in time fi lough t » afford WmtheiacUity of fiseatie before anT new mock , proceedings were

      got up against him . If Rapallo woe brought to trial he . could , and terhaps would , impliwtfcpirties in the fraud at Whom the finger of pnspioibri has not yet pointed \ mar * ' than one no */ man is sfcidtorest under the imputation 1 of havinc % TkiioaJtdge of the affair , and of BftVing i ^ rt !( wp » t « i in the profits of tae forgery . Of eomrse the nonl »» en . being oa the k ttonl i ^ ' side of tht queslion , would « Mt » jrt » hJ upon the jagglew who now ftrtet the whitlwind of affairs aad floats the pelitieal storm between plaee and perdition . Tho nutter mort be " hu » hted npj ! the mbUe defrauded ^ and the - eolpritn . abUWwU Smrtli , we say , will be handsonjely provided forwill be secured a provision for life . ? and this for taking upon himself the guilt of more devout raseau —men who will pass to the grave in * 'moBumental pride , ? bat . who , if there existed aa equitable admnistration of justice , would be paraded b e fore the world in all the deformity of titled delinquency uA " bomI" and MlitiOal degr » d * ti « o , —i ' a / irM * .

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      gentry , whenever they hear an honest man advocate equlity of rights immediately cry out mfideL Mr . Morr ison has certainly proved the claim of these socalled Ckristiacs , to the unenviable title they arson all occasions eo ready to bestow . We sincerely hope the dose he has administered will work effectually . Tofiad themselves practically denying the existence of 1 God and the immortality of the soul , mast &fiord . singular satisfaction to the saintly hypocrites of the present day .

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      mjCOMMONWEALTHSMAN or CHARTIST ADVOCATE , Nos . 1 and 2 , pablished by Thos . Cooper , 11 , Qmrch-gatej Leicester . This is a new Chartist print containing some good articles . It is both amusing and instructive , and we think calculated to effect much good .

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      Considering the many editions and corrections of the text of Saakspere , -which have appeared , many ef them by men of eminent learning and ability , it appeared almost hopeless to expect any considerable improvement from the labours of future com-ESEtiiors : the pamphlet before us , hewtver . gives uaple proof of such a supposition being unfounded ; md should the promises held out by Mr . Collier be realized , tbe admirers of the bard of Avon will have the satisfaction of beholding him in a more correet lad origiE&l form than any in which he has hitherto been presented to their notice .

      The pamphlet is well written , displaying a close leqaiintanee with the subject , and contains much valuable and interesting information . The author k *? bad access to the invaluable collections of various editions of the vrork 3 of our great dramatist in the Possession of tbeDake of Devonshire , Lord Francis Egertoc , and a large circle of private ftiepdE . We frns ; the -work will be a valuable addition to our < frani « ic literature .

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      Thi 3 edition is improved in many respects ; and if the teacher attends to the hints given in the prefc * e it may be made exceedingly useful in making fas ; impressions both agreeable and permanent . In » ihird edition , the auihor , if so disposed , may still foiher im prove his labours .

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      num-» ers now before us cod win some English articles of e onaderible icterest . Two on the subject of ot * dieEee are of great merit , and cannot fail to extate the most serious attention of those parents * n < i instructors who are really desirous of promoting « f interest of those committed to their charge . Be-Bdes those , there are excellent essays upon style , » Q also is reference to exercise . We sincerely hope * oe fail- autfcoresB will receive that encouragement feti ch & « important hbonrs give * her so just a

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 24, 1841, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct734/page/3/