The Cambrian

LET HER DEPART.—By MRS, HEMANS. HER home is far, old far away! The clear light in her eyes Hath nought to do with earthly (hy, "Tin kindled from the skies. Let her depart I She looks upon the things of earth, Evlti as some gentle star, Seems gazing down on grief or mirth, How softly, yet how far? Let her dp¡):;r!! Her spirit's liope--iter bosom's love— Oh! couhlthey mount and She never sees a wandering dove, Bnt for its wing to sigh. Let her She never hears a soft wind bear Low music on its way. But deems it sent from heavenly For her who cannot stay. Let her depart! Wrapt in a cloud of glorious dream?, She breathes and moves alone, Pining for those bright bowers and streams Where her beloved is gone, Let her depart!

GLEANINGS. Comparative Conditions. -One of the greatest arts, says Johnson, of escaping superfluous uneasiness is to free our minds from the habit of comparing our condition with that of others Oil whom the blessings of life are more bountifully be- stowed, or with imaginary states of delight and security perhaps unattainable by mortals. Few are placed in a situation so gloomy and distressful as not to see every day beings yet more forlorn and miserable, from whom they may learn to rejoice in their own lot. Method.—Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality. Punctuality promotes the peace and good temper of a family. The calmness of mind which it produces is another advantage of punctuality. A man without punctuality is alwaysin a hurry he has no time to speak to you, because he is going elsewhere; and when he gets there, he is too late for his business or he must hurry away to another before he can finish it. Punctuality gives weight to character: "such a man has made an appointment; then I know he will keep it and this generates punctuality in those with whom he lives for like other virtues, it propagates itself. Servants and children must be punctual, where the master of the family is so. Appoint- ments become debts. If I have made an appointment with you I owe yon punctuality, and I have no right to throwaway your time, even though I might my own. To be punctual, is to do as we would be done by; for who likes to be kept waiting? Punctuality is the best of economy for what have we that is so precious as time ? Punctuality is part of piety towards God for of what gift shall we be called to give so strict account as of those hours, without which no other gift can be exercised at all. Antiquity of Whisky,—There is pretty good evidence for supposing that no less a person than Osiris, the great God of Egypt, was the first distiller of whisky on record; for the Egyp- tians had, from time almost immemorial, a distillation or brewage from barley, called by the Greeks barley-wine, not inferior, they say, in flavour, and superior in strength, to wine. Allusion is made to this liquor in several passages of ancient writers. The poor people of Egypt drank it instead of wine, and were wont to intoxicate themselves with it, just as our poorer people do with whisky. It seems also to have been no stranger to the Hebrews, for reference is certainly made to it in the Old Testament, under the name of strong drink," stronger than wine, and resorted to by determined drinkers for the sake of inebriation.—Chambers's Edinburgh Journal. Royal Expletives.—" Edward the Confessor swore By God's inoilier the (on,itici-or I By God's splendour —"William Rufus By St. Luke's face —Henry First I By our Lord's death;'—Stephen By God's birth Second God's curse light on you and mine By God's teeth Henry Third By God's head — Edward First I By God's blood, per sangnhtem Dei;'—Richard Second 1 By St Edward;' -Henry Sixth By St. Edward,' his common word was For- sooth;'— Edward Fourth God's blessed lady;'—Richard ,rilir(t I By St. Paul;'—Henry Eighth By St. Marv,' when angry By God;*—Elizabeth By G- or God's death, or God's wounds;'—James Frst swore, but his oath is not mentioned.- Oliver Cromwell was not a swearer j- Charles Second, God's lish, a corruption of God's ISecrology of 1832.—The Revenue Encyclopedique enume- rates the following distinguished Europeans as having died in the first six months of the present year In England-Crahbe, the pact; Munden, the actor; Dr. HeJJ, founder of the Madras sys- tem; Muzio, dementi, the celebrated pianist and composer; Mrs. Musters, the Mary Chaworth of Lord Byron Bentham and Sir J. J'I,lackintosh. In Sweden—F. Orruie, a distinguished writer, by suicide. In Germany— Bishop Saibier, a learned taeologician Frederick de Gentz, Aulic Counseller Zeller, the friend of Goethe; and (he latter distinguished personage himself. Switz- erland-Bensletten, the philosopher, and friend of Haller, Muller, &c.; and NaelF, the founder of the deaf and dumb school of the Canton de Vaud. In Italy, Count de Samau, Austrian Minister at Tuscany; Cardinal Pacca Prince Camille Borghese, brother- in-law of Napoleon and the Abbe Angelo Cesars, astronomer, at Milan. In France—M. Casimir Perier, Prime Minister Ge- neral laniar(itie, the republican liberal; Marquess de Chauvelin, defender of thesame cause; 1\1, de Martignac, Minister of Charles X. Dukede Montesquieu, Minister ef Louis XVIII.; General Belliard, French Plenipotentiary at Brussel-s; Cuvier, the na- turalist Champollion, the Egvptiaa antiquary; Remusat, the oriental scholar Garcia, the composer, father of Malibran, the tutor of Adolphe Nourrit; General Ballasteros; and the Prince flCastelcicala; besides others of less note. The Church.—They cannot be friends of the reformed religion who oppose all reform of the Charch Establish- ment. Nothing can more certain! v tend to the ruin of the Church than a perseverance in the abuses which blemish the puritj- and im- pair the usefulness of this great national institution, founded, not for the purpose of aggrandising and enriching any portion of the Clergy, but for the preservation of the reformed faith in the sa- cred depositary of a well-ordered temple, and for the religious and moral instruction of the public mind. That the Church has abuses which ought to be removed, which it is practicable to re- move, not only without endangering the fabric which they deform, but to the improvement of both its symmetry and strength, has been admitted by some of the most learned and eminent Divines that have, by their talents and virtues, exalted its charactor, and adorned its history. Need we instance the earnest condemnation of pluralities and non-residence by Bishop Burnet, who struggled, nearly 150 years ago, to disencaruberthe Establishmentof those in- jurious appendages? Is no; the name of the good and pious Bishop Sherlock a great and unanswerable authority against the conti- nuance of such abuses? Do not common reason and justice ex- claim against that unequal distribution of ecclesiastical wealth, which, while it overloads a few with riches, beyond what are necessary for the maintenance of respectable rank or the moderate enjoyment of even the luxuries of this world, leaves the great number without the means of providing decently for themselves or families? We would have no Clergyman oppressed with the superabundance of the good things of this life, and we would have none whose attendance on his spiritual duties should be interfered with by the necessity of providing for his daily subsistence. We would relieve the Prelate from the temptations of a corrupting affluence, and the Curate from the sordid anxieties of depressing poverty.-—English Chronicle.

INTERESTING NOTICES. Produce of Sheep.—England and Wales feed 36,000,000 sheep, each of which yields a fleece of four pounds weight, or one hundred and forty-four millions of pounds. which, at one shilling per pound, is worth 7,400,0001. These manufactured produce twenty millions of pounds, leaving a profit of upwards of twelve millions per annum to the various manufacturers.—Ince's Outline of General Knowledge. Cotton.—The first cost of a year's cotton manufactured in England is estimated at (i,000,0001. sterling; the wages paid to 833,000 persons employed in its manufacture, in various ways, is 20,000,0001. sterling; the profit of the manufacturers may be estimated at 0,000,0001. at least. This gives a clear profit of 20,000,0001. from the manufacture of not quite one third of the amount, or the increased value of the manufactured over that unwrought material is three one-third to one and nearly a million of persons besides get from it consi ant employment. Improved Mode of Heating Hothouses, fyc.—ft. recent number of th,e Gardener's Magazine contains a plan for heating hot-houses by a circulation of hot water in hermetically sealed tubes, of small diameter, by Mr. A. M. Perkins. After giving some instances of the beneficial results of jHr. Perkins's plan, in reference to the purpose for which it was originally attended, the conductor of the Magazine says:—"But however favourable this plan WilY he for heating hot-houses, the advantages for that class of structures are as nothing compared to those which it tellers for heating dwelling-houses and all kinds of manufactories. This will be understood at once, when it is stated, that the water may be circulated, under ordinary circumstances of attention to the fire, at from 300 deg. to 600 and, with extraordinary strength of pipe, and application of tuel, to a still higher degree. It is found that 400 deg. will roast meat. The workmen in the bank-note printing-office of Perkins and Bacon have dressed a beefsteak at the farther extremity of the pipe of hot water used for heating the steel plates and lVIr. Perkins is constructing for himself ay oven for roasting by ivater It is easy to see that, in a very short time, this will lead to extraordinary and most hene- ficial changes in domestic arrangements, and that, if we could get rid of our prejudices in favour of open fires, the smoky atmos- pheres ot our great towns would be got rid of at the same time. Water at 500 deg. or, at least water at 330 deg. for the purposes of cookery, and for heating reserve cisterns of cold water, or masses of metal or masonry, for various domestic purposes, in- cluding warming rooms, heating baths, laundries, &c may, at at no distant time, be circulated by companies, in the same man- lier as gas and, HI London, instead of one fire for every room, as at present, there may be only one in a parish or in every square of an acre in area --No fact yst vsriii.es the Chaldean theory thai the comets have regular orbits: oae or two "have been •curinissd as identical, but it is doubtful. One is said to have a period of 76 years and ought therefore to appear in 1834, but there are few I years without them. Comets have very large atmospheres, and Hershell thinks some of them are all atmospheres; of course then the snn's rays pass through the spherical atmosphere just like light through a gla*s globe, and the projection (or tail) increases in length as it approaches the sun. Whenacomethasadistinct nucleus, the projection is divided in the middle by a sensible line, as that of 1811 these projections are some millions of miles long —some 80, some 150 millions. The comet of 1811 was 10,900 rai!es>j.n diameter, i. e., twice the bulk of the earth, and its lumi- nous projection was 1 Hi-J millions of miles, according to Schroeter. Lambert, however, calculated that this comet was 17 times larger than Jupiter, or 25,100 times larger than the earth. The comet of 1680, the largest in modern times, passed within half a million of miles of the sun's surface with a direct motion. The comet of 1770 passed within two millions of miles of the earth. The Planets.—The ancients were acquainted with only six planets, viz. Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Sa- turn modern discoveries have added five others, viz. Ceres, Pallas, Juno, Vesta, and Urania. The first four are in the space between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter the diameter of the lar- gest of this group is little more than 400 miles, the smallest only 120; they are never visible to thfe naked eye, but they move in heliocentric orbits like the larger planets, and are 223 millions of miles from the sun. Urania was ascertained by the late Dr. Herschell, in 1781, to be a planet; he called it the Georgium Sidus it is not so large as Jupiter or Saturn, being only 35,009 miles in diameter, whiist Jupiter is 91,000. The planets have eighteen satellites or moons, viz. the Earth one, Jupiter four, Saturn seven, and the Georgium Sidus six. The nearest planet to the sun is Mercury, revolving at the distance of 37,000,000 of miles, Venus,60,000,000, the Earth95,030,000, Mars 144,000,000, Japiter 490,000,000, Saturn 890,000,000, and Urania 1,800,000,000 of miles. The first makes his annual revolution in 123 days 10 hours the second in 228 days the Earth in 365 days, 5 hours, -17 minutes the fourth in 648 days the fifth in 12,7 years the sixth in 3°1 years and the last in 84 years of our computation thereforefore Mercury revolves round the sun about 250 times, whilst Urania goes once. A cannon-ball, fired from the sun, and moving twenty miles in a minute, would not reach Urania in less than 171 years.

CHOLERA.—The disease still continues to prevail in and around the metropolis, and during the last week the deaths have been verv numerous. The Central Board of Health have issued a circular containing some valuable pre- cautionary directions, among which are the following under the head of < £ Individual Precautions "Diet.—No sudden nor extensive alterations should be made in the usual modes of living. All -changes of food to be useful, indeed, not to be absolutely prejudicial, should tend to render it drier, more nutritive and concentrated. Moderately costive bowels, the almostinvariable consequenceof aregular invigorating diet, will be found more conducive to exemption from cholera than an opposite habit, every thing tending to relax the bowels unduly being apt to induce a predisposition to the disease. "Avoid, above all things, overloading the stomach. Indiges- tion, however produced, disposes the liody to cholera. If iu easy circumstances, take for dinner a moderate quantity of roast meat, in preference to boiled, with stale bread or good potatoe, two glasses of wine with water, or an equivalent of good spirits and water, or of sonnd porter or ale. Eat garden-stull' and fruit sparingly, and avoid fat luscious meats. In short, whilst under apprehension of cholera, use a dry, nutritive diet, sparing rather than abundant, observe great caution as to eating suppers, for cholera most frequently attacks about midnight or very early in the inoi-ninr. "Temperance should be most rigidly observed in every thing. In short, 110 means should be neglected which may tend to pre- serve individual health, for although the neglect of any or all of these cautions would not of itself produce the specific disease called spasmodic cholera, yet such neglect would most assuredly dispose an individual living in an affected atmosphere, to be attacked by that disease, who most probably might otherwise have escaped. Exercise.—Moderate exercise in the open air, in fine weather, is conducive to health but the greatest care should be observed by an, more espeeia1!y by the weakly and the aged, not to carry that exercise to fatigue or profuse perspiration, nor to sit down with wet feet or wet clothes. Indeed the most particular attention should be paid to keeping the feet dry and warm. "Whenever aperients may become indispensable, those of a warm aromatic kind in moderate doses, should alone be resorted to, such as two of the pills No. I,* or a tea-spoonful of the powder No. 4, taken over-night, followed in the morning by the aperient draught No. 7. "What is generally understood by salts, viz. Glauber's salts and Epsom salts, as well as other cold pur- gatives, should not be taken on any account, without the express prescription of a medical man, when cholera is prevailing at the time. "The Medical Members of the Board beg to state, that no specific preventive against cholera is known to exist, and that the drugs hitherto offered with this pretension, in places where the greatest ravages have been caused by this disease, not only did not possess the negative virtue of doing no harm, but were found to be absolutely injurious. The true preventives are—a healthy body, and a cheerful, unruffled mind but habitual drugging, at all times improper, is to be deprecated in the strongest terms when epidemic disease is present or apprehended." Pills No I-each to contain Blue Pill, Toasted Rhubarb, of each two and a half grains; Oil of Aniseeds, one drop. Aperient lJowder No 4—Calcined Magnesia, Rhubarb in powder, each two drachms; Ginger in powder, one drachm.—A tea-spoonful for a dose. Aperient Draught No 1--Tincture of Rhubarb and Aloes, Infusion of Cloves, of each three or four drachms.

BANK OF ENGLAND.—Delusive arts boldly exer- cised, and misstatements widely circulated, will have their effect, and in no case have they been more successfully at- tempted than against the Bank of England. In the present instance we shall deal with this subject very practically.— The two leading charges brought against the Directors of that Establishment are that they have mismanaged their affairs so as to reduce their means, and that they grievously inflamed the excitement of 1825 by their over issues. To these two points we will now confine ourselves, and in refe- rence to them we pledge ourselves to the country that the following atatement will be found in evidence and accounts about to be published respecting the affairs of the Bank of England —In February, 1819, the securities amounted to thirty-one millions. The resolution of Parliament declaring the necessity of withdrawing one-pound notes from circula- tion, these amounted to upwards of seven millions sterling, of course imposed the obligation upon the Directors of re dncing their securities to that extent. But the necessity was further imposed by the expected, and then decided upon, withdrawal of the notes of provincial bankers, which created a further curtaiiment of the bank securities for the purpose of issuing upon bullion to meet the wants of the country bankers. After these preparations had been made the Government came to the determination in 1822 to con- tinue the circulation of Country bank notes until the year 1833, thus leaving an inordinate quantity of bullion in the hands of the Bank, to the amount of fourteen millions, in the early part of 1824, which operation at the same time gave a great power of extension of the circulation to country banks by the continuance of the issue of theirpaper. Pending these transactions the profit of the Bank must diminish but, subsequent tc February, 1825, the dividends have been more than covered by the legitimate income of the Bank, which has also been enabled to provide for the loss of at least 250,0001. by Fauntleroy's forgery.—And now as to the y other charge, of largely contributing to the excitement of 1825. The increase of the circulation of the Bank between January, 1822, and April, 1824, arose solely from the in- crease of bullion held by the Bank in the latter period over the former; and if the calculation of the circulation be car- ried on to October, 1824, it remained as in the preceding April. On the first of January, 18.22, the circulation stood at 17,700,000?., and the bullion at 11,700,0001. On the first of April, 1824, the circulation stood at 19,300,000?., and the bullion at 13,800,000Z. These figures shew that, whilst the paper had increased 1,600,0001., the bullion had increased 2,100,000?., which is clear evidence that no forced issues were made by the Bank.—We leave this plain statement, to the accuracy of which, as it will appear in the evidence and accounts, we again pledge ourselves, to the unbiassed judg- ment of the public.—Morning Post. I:>

EARL GREY STEAM-BOAT.—Between one and two o'clock on Monday morning, while the steamer EailGrey was riding at anchor in Brodwick Bay, she was discovered to be on fire. The fire had got so complete a hold of her, and was so impetuous in its ramifications, Jthat every effort on the part of the crew to arrest its progress was wholly un- availing and to prevent the vessel from being totally con- sumed, they sunk her in between 6 and 7 fathoms of water. There were no lives lost. It is supposed the fire originated somewhere about the boiler. The Captain and crew ar- rived in the eveninp at Glasgow,—Glasgow Conner. IMPORTANT TO SHERIFF'S OFFICERS.—At the Not- tingham assizes, last week, an action (Dewhurst v. Pearson) was brought by the plaintiff, an inhabitant of East Retford, against the defendant, a sheriff's officer to recover penalties to the amount of 1001. under the 32nd Geo. IL cap. 23. The above act directs that no sheriff, under-sheriff, bailiff or other officer shall carry any person arrested for debt to any public-house against his will, or take him to any gaol or prison icithin less than 24 hours, under a penalty of 501. for each offence, together with treble costs. It appeared that a writ having been issued to the sheriff against the plaintiff, a war- rant was directed to the defendant to arrest him, which lie gave to an assistant named Ledbetter, who executed it in the market place at Retford, he telling the plaintiff when he arrested him that he must accompany him to the Marquess of Granby public-house. The plaintiff accompanied him without making any objection, and went by the coach the following day to Nottingham gaol. The plaintiff being unable to establish his case without calling Ledbetter, the latter swore that the defendant had merely directed him to arrest the plaintiff before the coach arrived on one day, and to take him by that coach to Nottingham on the following day.—The Jury were of opinion that the officers had not transgressed the provisions of the Act of Parliamen, and therefore returned a verdict for the defendant. TRIAL <>F COLLINS THE ASSAT/LL UR-OS KIS í J>IAJ £ .'STY„T3IH; trial took place on Wednesday at the Town-Hall, Abington, before Mr. Justice Bosanquet and •Mr. Baron Gurney. The prisoner was indicted for high treason. There were five counts, which charged him with throwing two stones at his Majesty, with intent to kill him, with intent to do some bodily harm, tending to the destruc- tion of his Majesty, and with intent to maim and wound him, &c. The prisoner, during the trial, conducted himself as if he was quite indifferent as to the issue of the trial. The Counsel for the Crown (five in number) were—the Attor- ney-General, Mr. Jet-vis, K.C., Mr. Campbell, K.C., Mr. Shepherd, and Mr. Maule. For the prisoner, Mr. Swabey and Mr. Carrington. The witnesses examined were Capt. Smith, R.N., Mr. B. Turner, Colonel Wood, Earl Brown- low Gardener, the officer, and Mr. Elliott, the committing Magistrate. The defence set up was, that the prisoner was under the influence of insanity at the time of throwing the stones. Mr. Swabey, in addressing the Jury, alluded to the prisoner having drunk a great deal of porter on the day in question, to his having been labouring under the effects of a wound on his head, and to his being under a deep sense of grievances inflicted on him. "What," said the Learned Counsel, "could the Jury think of the intellects of a poor weakindividual, who would assault the King of England, sur- rounded by his Court, and thousands of his loving subjects?" Mr. Carrington, in addressing the Jury, said it seemed sin- gular to him that so poor, weak, and imbecile an individual, as the prisoner at the bar, should have been placed there on so solemn and important a charge as that of high treason. It might have been supposed that a body of men, to the number of some hundreds or thousands, constituting them- selves in to a society, and threatening to march from Birming- ham to London in a body, and force the Legislature to com- ply with their demands for a particular law, were much fitter subjects for a prosecution for high treason than the poor fragment of a man who then stood at the bar. He would put it to the Learned Attorney-General's candour to admit it. The Attorney-General observed that such po- litical allusions were made in very bad taste. The object was to influence those gentlemen of the Jury who might by chance differ from the great body of their countrymen on the political questions which had lately agitated the country. The insanity of the prisoner had in no way been proved, and if such a defence should be established, atno time here- after would the lives of his Majesty's subjects be safe from persons in the station and circumstances of the prisoner, who might be under the same temporary influencing causes. The Jury found the prisoner guilty of throwing the stones with intent to do his Majesty some bodily harm." Mr. Justice Bosanqnet then sentenced the prisoner to be drawn on a hurdle to the place of execution, there to be hanged, after which, his head to be severed from his body, which should be divided in quarters, and disposed of according to the orders of his Majesty. Mr. Justice Bosanquet said, in the course of the address," Prisoner, you have stated that you are sorry for the offence you have committed if so, you can only prove your sincere contrition and repentance to your Sovereign, whom you have injured; it is to him alone you can apply, and in him alone rests the power of sparing your forfeited life. Collins, has since very properly been made an object of the Royal clemency. All who read the circum- stance detailed on the trial were convinced of the propriety of such a course—indeed, no one could in our times have contemplated the possibility of the sentence being carried 111tO effect. The offender is, like Margaret Nicholson and others, to be confined for life and we are not quite certain, however strange it may seem, that the commission of the highest crime known to the laws will not materially better the man's condition, and enable him to spend the remainder of his days in comparative comfort. To the poor destitute sailor, even if he be treated according to his rank, the ordi- nary allowances served will be a great addition to his ani- mal enjoyments. lilt

ENTIRE SUSPENSION OF BUSINESS ON THE SUNDAY. —A meeting of tradesmen and others friendly to the ful! enjoyment of the Sunday, and who advocate the entire sup- pression of business on that day, on civil grounds merely, I y was held on Thursday evening, at the White Hart Tavern, High Holborn, for the purpose of receiving a report, and for the general business of the Society for the Protection of the Sabbath. The report, which was read by one of the Secre- taries, stated that the object contemplated had been much promoted by the circulation of various publications; and that its friends were very much increasing. The various tradesmen who now kept open their shops on the Sunday, for the accommodation of their customers, were beginning to perceive, that, could the day be universally observed as a day of rest, their pecuniary interests would not suffer, and their comforts would be very greatly promoted. Amongst other things the report recommended the adoption of the suggestion of Sir A. Agnew, M. P., viz., that the trades should form themselves into associations for the purpose of procuring petitions to be presented to Parliament on this subject. A resolution, founded upon this recommendation was passed and the gentlemen present individually pledged themselves to carry it into effect. PIRACY AND MURDER.—A German and a Portu- guese seaman have been under examination vat.^ rtsmouth, for an act of piracy committed off the coast of Brazil. It appears that the brig Jane, of Bristol, Jas. M'Nalty master, was on a voyage from Monte Video with a cargo of jerked beef for the Havannah, and, on the night of the 5th of De- cember last, part of the crew, viz. two Frenchmen, a Ger- man, a Portuguese, and two Spaniards, rose on the rest of people, killed and threw overboard the Captain and two Mates, and confined the other Englishmen, consisting of two seaman and a boy. Very shortly afterwards the brig drove on shore in a gale of wind, and the mutineers with the boy got ashore in the boat: the two Frenchmen and the Spaniard ran off, and have not since been found. The two English seamen were washed ashore from the wreck, and very properly had the German and Portuguese apprehended, and they have been brought to England in the Maidstone for trial. It appears that subsequent to the Captain's death his cabin was ransacked, as several doubloons, sovereigns, and dollars were divided—probably to the amount of a thou- sand pounds sterling.—These men are committed for trial at the next Admiralty Sessions. TRANSPORTATION OF FEMALE CONVICTS.-It is in- tended to send a great number of female convicts to Van Dieman's Land, where there is a great dearth of the fair sex. Several large ships have been taken up for this pur- pose, and to-morrow or Sunday next the Frances Charlotte East Indiaman, Captain A. Smith, Commander, now lying off the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich, will leave the river Thames for Hobart-town, with 100 female convicts on board, and 80 convict children, principally girls, who have been found guilty of various offences against the laws. Exclusive of these, there are 50 free young English women, who are going out in the same ship to seek husbands in Van Diemen's Land, but who will have no communication with the convicts, and be kept separate from them, as far as is practicable. Several have the expense of their passage paid by various parishes to which they are chargeable, and who are adopting this plan to relieve themselves of the burden of supporting them. A surgeon and two experienced matrons will accom- pany the passengers. Three other vessels will shortly follow the Frances Charlotte with similar freights. REMARKABLE PRODUCE OF A SELF-PLANTED Po- TATOE.—A single root of potatoes was taken up on Tuesday, the 7th inst. in the garden of Mr. W. Johnson, Royston, Herts, which produced the astonishing quantity of a peck and a half, and were 70 in number. It sprang up amongst a bed of cauliflowers, and was never paid the least attention to, either by hoeing or anything else. It is of the early Shaw kind, as no other are grown in the garden and when taken up, the tops were as luxuriant as they had been at any time in the spring, and there is no doubt but there would have been more than half a bushel, if it bad remained in the ground two or three weeks longer; but that could not be, as the ground was wanted. It is conjectured that it sprang from a very small potatoe, as the man who dug the ground for planting cauliflowers never saw it. neither was it seen when taken up. A LARK."—There being no Reformers at Cher- rington, in the county of Gloucester, not one of the four bells in the belfry everlnoved on account of the "Hill;" but the five bells in the neighbouring village of Avening rang out many a merry peal in celebrating Reform victories—the po- pulation being all Reformers to a man. Some one among them having expressed a wish for six bells at Avening, on a certain occasion in December last, three stout Gloucester- shire bumpkins, by way of a lark," transported one of the bells, weighing4 cwt., from its place in Cherrington tower, to join its music with the five in Avening belfry, two miles dis- tant. Next day, the Chenington Churchwardens missed their bell, and though it might be supposed that its new po- sition could not be long a secret, they offered 10 guineas for its discovery, and a police-man from London went down to search for it! At length in July, the Avening Churchwar- dens informed those of Cherrington, that the lost bell was in Avening belfry? and on its being claimed by the Cher- rington Churchwardens, those of Avening agreed to give it up. It was accordingly taken from the belfry to the church- yard; but its further progress towards its old station was prevented by the rabble" of Avening. The result is, that the three Reform "larks" have been apprehended, tried, and convicted of stealing the bell, and sentence of death was recorded against them all at the recent Gloucester Assize the Judge (Mr. Baron Gurney) intimating, that on account of their previous good character, he would give their case his humane consideration."—We would advise all Reformers to take care how they "lark" it with any of the Tories just now; it were better to attempt playing with a tanner's mastiff at the instant when he has just had a savoury bone taken from him.-Bath and Cheltenham Gazette. As I S I'RAci'AliLK Oli> WoM VNV—TllOl'U JS HO formidable person than a spiteful old woman at a police office, if she chooses; and it is probably an inward feeling of their power and invulnerability, that has always made them so dis- liked, and yet so feared, on the part of the ignorant and lowly. This used to give a high gusto to the drowning and burning of witches: the delight of the populace in these exhibitions is only explicable on the ground of their being delivered from an antagonist with whom there is no means of contending. For what can you do with a plaguy old woman ? She is of the nettle tribe—a walking Touch me not, she is acrid from the condensation of the humours; she has outlived her beauty, even her womanhood—and is almost exempt from the wants of humanity; for she rarely eats-indeed, the means of mastication are wanting: but she drinks, here is her failing, and her source of mischief. She is nearly in- dependent of raiment: the day of fashion is long past-and patches are substituted for finery, rather in fear of acts of Parliament than the weather,—for cold never touches her: herhideis of leather—Russia leather or morocco—corrugated —tanned. The damps penetrate, it is true, and establish a chronic rheumatism, which like rust on hinges of ancient doors, makes the joints creak vilely, but seems to act as a preservative against the edax rerum, and instead of letting down the machine, only lends acrimony to all its movements. An old woman's wheels are kept going by vinegar, a young woman's by oil. How can you punish one of these mischievous old women? It is impossible: she is protected by pitv, and by the bluntness of her own feelings, and the impossibility of disposing of her. Who could beat an old woman ? It would be like fisticuffing a bunch of keys, or horsewhipping a parchment bag of bones. No one could place her zig-zag limbs on the treadmill: to see her shrivelled angularities sticking upon the wheels of that machine for the exercising of flesh and blood, would be a spectacle intolerable to humanity. Transportation is ¡also out of the question: she is not worth the money; neither would she be of any use in any land, except that Epicurean one in which they eat their grandmothers: what sauce these luxurious people have discovered, we know not; but it must far surpass the King of Ottde's, and is doubtless a secret worth knowing, Who could hang an old woman—more especially now, that criminals are gibbeted? A very old woman, like Sarah Stokes mentioned below, would in case she were hung up, ludibrium ventis, depopulate the most fertile lIcighbonrhoods-nay, produce a strike in all Man- Chester itself-were justice so ruthless as to exhibit her im- mortal remains in its vicinity—"the cynosure of neighbouring eyes." A female pauper, nearly sixty years of age, named Sarah Stokes was charged before Sir Chapman Marshall with having frequently insulted Kenuersley, the Beadle of Aldgate, and threatened to heat him. She had contrived to get about 30s. a week by her facility of telling lies, and was at last detected and punished, just after having levied contributions upon four parishes. Kennersiey stated, that the defendant, after having collected a mob about his house, let fly a volley of the grossest abuse against him and his family, and followed him about swearing that she would do for him and all who belonged to him. Upon one occa- sion, he had given her a loaf of bread but she threw it at his windows and, indeed, take her for all in all, he never had seen, even in Aldgate, so outrageous a person. As she was a woman remarkable for keeping her word when she promised to beat any body and as she was well able to fight, he apprehended serious in. jury from her. The defendant in a very mild manner, assured the Alderman that she had used no threats towards the Beadle but she had found it necessary to say something to his son, who had struck her and dragged her along the street for no offence. For the sake 9 of the public, she thought it would be proper to chastise such a low and she had accordingly given hilllllOtice of a right good topper. Sir C. Marshal)—" Oh, then, you meant to punish him?" Defendant—I did, s'elp me G-d, your worship and as sure as I'm poor, but honest, I'll pitch it into him the first opportunity." The Beadle of an adjoining parish said, that Mrs. Stokes was the t,error of that part of the city. No matter how kind! y she was treated, her fancy lay in abusing and beating people and it was all the same to her whether she had to light with man or woman. She had at the same time, a strong fancy for gin, which she drank when she could get it, until it stretched her in the mud; and on Monday last she was dragged out of the puddle to the w atchliouse. Defendant—" It is all true about the gin. I was I mops and brooms' Sunday, sure enough but that's no reason I'm to be keelhauled and floored like a buliock agoing to be slaughtered. Blessed if I don't give it your son, Kennersiey, for that ere whopping. I'll fetch him a right down jolly good topper." Kennersiey said he had no doubt of the woman's intention. Defendant—" Ay, and I'm blessed if I don't make you sing out too, if I catch you some day. I have a long score against you, yoa hard-hearted old wiUan. I'll give it you where you cupboard your grub—blessed if I don't, and no mistake." Sir Chapman Marshall said, that the defendant's conduct at that moment confirmed the truth of the Beadle's statement. DefEudant-" Oh, please your worship, I don't say I'll pitch it into lUr. Kiiiiiei-sley-I only say I'll fetch his son a wipe or two, for serving out my body just as if it was a bullock's." Sir C. Marshall—•" Kinnersley, do you swear that you are in fear of this woman?" Kinnersley-" Certainly I do, Sir. She is most ferocious." Defcudant-" Afeard of me ? Afeard of a poor old woman's tongue ? There's a dung-cock for vou. Well, I'm blowed if you a'nt a fellow of spirit. Why, I say, my master, blessed if I'd lower myself by raising my hand to you, for what are you a'ter all, but a poor insignificant old rascal of a Beadle Sir C. Marshall—"You must procure bail. You are a most incorrigible woman—your whole conduct here proves it." Defeudaut-" Bail! me find bail? Blowed if I find bail. I don't care how long you stow me in the crib. And I'll tell you what, Kinnersley, keep your body up till I comes out, and then we'll see which is the best man, you or me, for I'm blessed if I don't pitch it into your wittling department and no mistake." Mrs. Stokes was then conveyed to the Compter in default of bail. Judge Burnet, son of the famous Bishop of Salis- bury, when young is* said to have been of a wild dissipated turn. Being one day found by his father in a very serious humour, What is the matter with you f' said the Bishop "What are you ruminating on?" "A greater work than your Lordship's 'History of the Reformation, answered the son. "Ay! what is that?" asked the father. "The reformation of myself, my Lord," replied the son that is universally allowed to be the best reformation which begins at home." And who would not say to many of those noisy reformers of the present day, "Go and do likewise?"— 111aidstvne Gazcttc4 STOR y TOLD BY LJJTHER.—A MONK who had intro- duced himself to the bedside of a dying Nobleman, who was at that time in a state of insensibility, continued crying. out, My Lord, will you make the grant of such and such a thing to our monastery ?" The sick-m in, unable to speak, n xlded his head. The monk turned round totheson, You see, Sir, that my Lord your father gives his consent to my re- quest." The son immediately exclaimed, Father, is it your will that I should kick this monk down stairs?" The usual nod was given. The young man immediately rewarded the assiduities of the monk by sending him with great precipita- tion out of the house. 11 A THREAT EXPLAINED. Your unchristian viru- lence against me," said a Huguenot who had been prose- cuted for preaching, shall cost hundreds of people their lives." This menace brought the author into trouble; he was cited to a court of justice, and was charged with bar. bouring the most bloody designs against his fellow-subjects. I am innocent," said he, "of all you lay to my account. My only meaning was, that I intended (since I could not act as a minister) to practice as a physician ALARMING TO LADIES.—The Leeds Patriot says "It is with pleasure we learn that the Board of Health has given orders for Lady Beck to be thoroughly cleansed." Every Lady Rebecca in the county became terribly alarmed, till it was recollected that a Beck in the North of England means a Brook, which set many feminine minds at rest, who could not at first brook the idea of being cleansed at the beck of the Leeds Board of Health. JUSTICP. — A celebrated Counsel, being- sick and sadly, made his will, and bequeathed all his fortune to the Lunatic Asylum. Being asked Why"—Because (said he) I wish to restore my wealth to its original possessors. PREJUDICE v. EDUCATION.-Some literary worthies discoursing upon philosophy, in the presence of Mrs. Jameson, she asked, What good this philosophy had done to Humanity: Ma'am (said one) it has felled the whole forest of prejudices —Ah! (replied she) no wonder then that we have so many faggots of them. RATS.—A learned society has proposed for its prize- question, "TYhat is the best means of destroying rats?" Unless the subject is political, one might have a chance for the premium in answering, By encouraging the breed of cats."

BANKRUPTS from Friday's Gazette. To Surrender in Basinghall-street. E. CHOKER, Lotnbard-strcet, tobacconist, Ang. 31, Oct. 5. Att. Crosby, King-street, Clieapside, London. t. KAUNS, Jcnnyn-sticet, St. James's, Westminster, tailor, Aug. 31, Oct. 5. Att. Notley, Thanet-place, Temple-bar. T. PUESTON, Cambridge, victualler, Aug. 31, Oct. 5. Att. Beart, Tokenhouse-yard. W. PEA ISON, Lamb's Conduit street, tailor, Sept. 1, Oct. 5. Atts. Syl- vester and Walker, Fin nival's Inn. C. L. BIUCH, Great Queen street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, coach-maker, Sept. 5, Oct. 5. Au. Blankmore, Henrietta-street", Covent Gardlm. E. HOSMKR, Tunbridge Wells, Sussex, leathereseller, Sept. 5, Oct. 5. Atts, Brandrett, Spinks, and Randall, King's Bench Walk, Temple. 7'o Surrender in the Country. T. PARNHAM, East Retford, Nottinghamshire, grocer, Sept. 6, Oct. 5, at the Bell Inn, Barnby Moor, Nottinghamshire. Att. Owen, Work- sop, or Smith, Chancery-lane, London. G. MILLER and R. BLACKIH, Liverpool, joiners, Sep. 10, Oct. 5, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool. Att. Vincent, King's Bench-walk, Temple, London, or Hartley and Roberts, Liverpool. Temple, London, or Hartley and Roberts, Liverpool. W. BURTON, Cednor Park, Derhyshire, stone-bottle -manufacturer, Aug. 31, Oct. 5, at the George-Inn, Atfreton. Att. Wilson, Alfreton, or Austen and Hobson, Gray's Inn, London. J. PRETTY, Walsall, Staftordshise, ironmonger, Sept. 14, Oct. 5, at the Whiston Cross Inn, Albrighton, Shropshire. Atts. Walmesley, Ceightley, and Parkin, Chanccry-lane, London, or Willim, jnn. Bilston, Staffordshire. R. LORD, Barby, Northamptonshire, maltster, Sept. 3, Oct. 5, at the Goat Inn, Northampton. Att. Capes, Raymond-bnildings, Gray's Inn, or Lucas, Edwards, and Freeman, Long Buckby, Northamptonshire.

COPPER ORE •Sohi tl RuiilUlTll, on Thursday, 23. 18o2. WINKS. TONS. PURCHASERS. rlller.. Tresavean 98 Danioll, Nevill, & Co. and English Co. £ 10 8 0 Ditto .91 Daniel), Nevill, and Co. 9 16 0 Ditt0 88 Ditto 5 4 6 Ditt0 82 Ditto 976 Ditto 7f) Ditto 580 Ditto 78 Ditto 10 0 0 Ditto 76 Ditto 7 13 0 Ditto 74 Ditt0 9 19 0 Ditt0 64 Ditto 10 3 6 Who Towen 104 Freeman and Co. 3 9 0 Ditt0 76 Ditto, and English Co. 4 19 6 Ditto 61 Owen Williams .43t) Ditt0 .60 Vivian and Sons and Crown Co. 2 3 6 Ditto 58 English Co. 4 3 6 Ditt0 57 Ditto 760 Ditto 53 Vivian and Sons and Crown Co.306 Ditto 30 English Co. 6 15 0 Ditto 20 Vivian and Sons and Crown Co. 3 4 6 Cardrew Con. 63 Williams, Foster, & Co., Forest Cop- per Co., Geo. Wildes and Co. and Owen Williams 6 10 6 Ditto 02 Williams, Foster and Co., Forest Cop- per Co., and Geo. Wildes & Co. 7 H 0 Ditto 61 Ditto, Ditto, and Ditto, & O. Williams. 5 L 0 Ditto.54 Owen Williams 4 19 6 Ditt0 48 Ditto, Williams, Foster, and Co.,Forest Copper Co., George Wildes and Co., and Vivian and Sons .6 9 3 ,jf i' Ditto. 47 Williams, Foster, and Co., Forest Cop- per Co., George Wildes and Co., and Vivian and Sons 4 10 Cardrew 50 Owen Williams 4 10 6 Wh. Jewel 93 \ivians and Crown 3 18 6 Ditto .92 Williams, Foster, and Co., Forest Cop- pet- Co., and G. Wildes and Co. 8 f) 0 Ditto 88 Ditto, Ditto, and Ditto 7 18 0 Ditto 65 Ditto, Ditto, and Ditto 6 11 6 Penstruthal 124 Vivian and Sons 2 18 6 Ditto 80 Owen Williams 5 10 0 Ditto 66 Diniell, Nevill, and Co. 1 12 (i Ditto.55 0 Fowey Cons. 110 Williams, Foster, and Co., Forest Cop- per Co., and George Wildes and Co. 5 6 a Ditto 103 Vivian and Sons 4 14 6 Ditt0 73 Ditto 5 8 1; Pembroke 54 Crown Co. 11 4 « Ditto 52 Ditto 5 17 6 Ditto 51 Vivian and Sons 716 Ditto .45 Ditto 12 12 G Wh. Gorland 60 Freeman and Co. S 14 O Ditto 54 Englisli Co. 4 5 6 Ditto 40 Ditto t". 9 15 6 Ditto 38 Freeman and Co 5 12 9 Wh. Damsel 58 Williams, Foster, and Co, Forest Cop- per Co., George Wildes and Co. and Crown Co. fl 12 0 Ditto 53 Crown Co. 5 3 0 Diito 34 Williams, Foster, and Co., Forest Cop- per Co., and George Wildes and Co. 18 0 Ditto 21 Owen Williams 3 16 0 Wti. Sparrow 30 Crown C0. 6 a 0 Wh.Trannack.. 30 Vivian and Sons. 7 0 0 West Pink 22 Ditto 860 Wh. Pink 10 Williams, Foster, and Co., Forest Cop- per Co., and George Wildes and Co. 10 7 0 Quantity of Copper Ore sold, 3239 tons.—Average Produce, 83— Quantity of line Copper, 272 tons, 12 cwt.—Amount of sale, £20,177 7s. 6d.—Average Standard, £106 12s. Od.

High Water on Swansea Bar and at the Passages, FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. J SWANSEA BAR. THE PASSAGES. ,lYS* j Morn. Even. Height. Morn. Even. H. M. H. M. F. I. H. M. H. AI. Saturday Sept. 1] 10 14 10 38 14 3 11 34 n 58 Sunday 2 11 2 11 30 12 3 12 22 12 50 Monday 31 12 1 12 30 10 7 1 21 1 56 Tuesday 4 1 17 2 0 10 I 2 37 3 20 Wednesday. 5 2 39 3 14 10 0 3 59 4 34 Thursday 6 3 47 4 14 10 9 57 14 t' ifi-iy 71 4 37 4 59 12 3 5 57 0 19 Mood's AGE.-First Quarter, 2d day, at 2 morn.

Jitarf■- v ;««■ £ • — -,#-»»»«» MARK-LANE, LONDON, Monday, Aug. market was abundantly supplied with. new wheat, this morkiiu^from Essex, Kent and Suffolk, which met heavy sale at an abatement of 4s. per qr. on picked samples and from 4s. to 5s. on ihe. general nms front the above counties; and nothing like a clearance could be made at those reduc- tions. Old wheat was unsaleable, although offered on much lower terms. A few samples of new Barley appeared, which obtained from 34s. to 36s. according to quality. New white pease having come more plentifully to hand, have sold 2s. per quarter cheaper than on this day se'nnight. Old beans were a heavy sale at a decline of ls. per (jr. Having a continuance of large arrivals of Oats, chiefly from Ireland, trade was exceeding dull, the demand being very limited and to effect sale an abatement of Is. per quarter was obliged to be submitted to. tfKILE OF GRAIN- -Per linperi(il Qiiarte)-. S* S' S. "I Wheat, Red 40 to 52 MapJe 38#o40 f'f 53 55 White 32 36 — — Boilers 36 40 White 54 Small Beans 3s 40 £ llle 58 62 Ditto, old — Superfine 68 75 Tick 34 ,7 New Harrow 37 39 ^e, 30 36 Feed Oats 20 28 32 Fine o? JJ Ditto, fine new 33 35 Poland 22 p. 1 58 Fine 23 Ul £ .'ne_ 62 Potatoe 25 2fl Hog Pease 30 38 Fine 27 n FLOUR, per Sack of 280tt. Best. 50s. to 55s. Second. 458. to 50#. AVERAGE PRICE OF CORN, per Qi-. For the Week ending Aug. 17, 1832, and by which importation is regulated. s- *• di Wheat 63 5 Oats ,.21 2 Beans 36 3 Barley .33 0 | Rye 36 5 Pease .• 37 10 PRICE OF SEEDS. 8* s. a. 9 Turnip, White, per bush. 91012 Clover, Red, per cwt. 45 to 66 Red and Green 10 15 White 56 74 Mustard, Brown. 12 21 Foreign Red 52 65 White. 9 11 Foreign White 56 70 Canary, per quarter. 70 80 Trefoil 35 40 Sanfoin 46 50 I Carraway. 56 60 Rye Grass. 30 3t i Coriander. 22 2O PRICE OF HOPS, in Pockets, per Cwt. v £ s. £ s. £ A, £ s. £ ent 4 15 to 7 15 Sussex 3 15 to 0 10 Essex 4 12 6 10 Farnham 7 0 12 0 PRICE OF TALLOW AND SOAP, per Cwt. s. d. s. d. s. d. Town Tallow ..45 6 Melted Stuff., 35 0 Yellow Soap ..60 0 Russia Candle.. 44 0 Rough Ditto 23 0 Mottled ditto 72 O White Ditto ..0 0 Greaves 16 0 Curd diito ..80 n PRICE OF MEAT. SMITHFIELD.—To sink the otfal, perstone of Sibs. s. d. s. d. 1 j. d. Beef 3 0 to 3 10 Veal 3 0fe4 4 Mutton 3 0 4 2 | Pork 5 0 0 0 Lamb Os. Od. to 5s. 4d. Ilead of Cattle.-Beasts, 2,625; Sheep, 24,930; Calves, 210; Pigs, 19 By the Carcase.-Per stone of Sibs. NEWGATE. s. d. s. d. LEADENHAI.i,. S. d. g. d. Inferior Beef 2 0 to 2 2 Prime Mutton. 3 6 fo 3 10 Middling ditto. 2 2 2 4 Interior ditto 2 2 2 4 Prime large (litto 2630Middlitiu ditto 26 3 0 Ditto smalt ditto 3 4 3 8 Veal 24 40 Large Pork 3 0 4 2 Pork 36 48 Lamb 34 5 0 PRICE OF IRON. British Bars, Gl. 5s. to 61. 10s.; Ditto Pigs, 41. 10s. to 4l. 15s.; ■ Hoops, St. 15s. to 91. OS. CORN AND HAY MARKETS, Aug. 27. s. d. x. d. s. d. 8. d. Wheat, English 52 GtoGI 0 vtf Beans. 34 dtoVt 0 per qr. Irish and Welsh 42 0 52 OS'S, Pease.40 « 48 0 Malting Barley 36 0 42 o' «I Wh. Flour.. 42 0 45 Opersack Grinding ditto.. 24 0 28 0/ Seconds 39 0 41 0 Oats • • •. 18 0 24 0& Hay ■ • • 40 ft 65 0 per ton. Oats 18 0 24 0 Hay. 40 0 65 0 per ton. Vetches — 1 prewt. 7 n I Straw.101 6perdoz. BRISTOL PRICE CURRENT. SUGAR. S. s. COFFEE. S. B. Muse.veryBrown(percwt.)50 io51 Fine ditto .961ogg Dry Brown 52 54 Very fine 100 110 Middling 55 56 RUM. Good ditto. 57 58 Jamaica (per gal.) 2 3 3 4 Good CO 61 Leeward Isle .1 8 2 0 1—Fine 62 68 LOGWOOD. £ g. £ Molasses. 26 27 Jamaica (per ton.) 6 5 6 1ft COFFEE. I St. Domingo. 7 0 8 0 Jamaica, triage (per cwt.) 72 74i Campeachy 9 9 9 is Ordinary 76 80 Fustic, Jamaica 5 10 6 O Good ditto 80 82 Cuba 8 10 9 0 Fine ditto 83 85 Oil,. 86 881 Gallipoli (per ttin) 86 881 Gallipoli (per tun) 5-10 "er6 0 Good ditto 90 94 I Sicily 4S 0 i 0 Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, for the week ending Aug. 14, 28s. 8d. per cwt. PRICE OF LEATHER. d. d. d. d. Heavy Crops, per lb.12to16 Calf Skins to- Light and Middling. 12 14 Best Pattern Skins .21 23 Buffaloes 11 13 Common ditto 20 22 Middlings 12 I I Heavy Skins, per lb. 18 19 Butts 14 16 Calf Skins, Irish. 13 15 Extra Strong ditt0 15 18 Curried 18 20 Best Saddlers' Hides 16 18 Welsh 16 17 Shaved ditto 15 19 Kips, English and Welsh 15 18 Shoe Hides 14| 15 Shaved diitto 19 21 Common ditto 12 14 Foreign Kips 18 20 Bull ditto 12 15 Small Seal Skins 18 19 Horse Hides (English) 12 15 Large ditto 11 13 Welsh Hides It 13 Basils 0 12J German ditto 14 17 Foreign Shoulders 9 12 Spanish ditto 16 18 ■— Bellies. 8 JOj Shaved ditto, without butts, Dressing Hide Shoulders,. 13 14 9s. Od. to 10s. Od. each. Bellies 11 114 Horse Butts 12 13 NORWICH CORN MARKETS, AUG. 27. Fine weather continuing through the past week for thegatheriny in of the wheat crop, business here to-day nwy be said to be in a great measure suspended. The present unsettled value in the London market of new wheat and flour, and the prospect of further reduction, there and everywhere else in the kingdom, has rendered the sale of new wheat exlremelij dull; for the small quantity that has been shown to-day, although the quality has bem very fine, dry and heavy, 27 s. to 28s. per coomb luas reluctantly given. Flour fluctuating in value from 13s. to 47s. per sack.