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      BEAUTIES OF BTRON . RO . XXI . "CHOSE HAB 0 LD . " _' - . - - -----Oar extracts this weak commence with tl » follow i 5 rETBAtCB . There » s a ton *** in _Armia : —rear'd in air , j _5 llar _* d in their sarcophagus , repose The bones of Laura ' s lover ; hero repair jUny femiliar with his _well-sung-voea , Tie p ilg rims of his genius . He arose jo raise a language , and Ids land reclaim

      jrom the dull yoke of her barbaric foes ! _Tfatcring the tree which bears bis lady ' s name ¦ With bis melodious tears , he gave himself to fame . - They _teep his dust in Arqua , where he died ; Ihe mountain village where his latter days "Went down the vale of years ; and ' tis their pride—JW honest pride—and let it be their praise , To offer to the passing stranger ' s gaze _jfis mansion and his sepulchre ; both plain And venerably _simply such as raise A feeling more accordant -with his strain Than of a pyramid form'd his monumental fane .

      TAS 30 . _Icrrara 1 in thy wide and grass-grown streets , "Whose symmetry was not for solitude , There seems as 'twere a curse upon tlie seats Of former sovereigns , and the antique brood Of _Sste , which for many au age made good Its strength within thy walls , and was of yore _Tatron or tyrant , as the changing mood Of petty power impell'd of those who wore The wreath which Dante ' s brow alone had worn before And Tasso 13 their glory and their shame . Hark to his strain I and then survey his cell ! And see how dearly earn'd Torquato ' _s fame , And wiiere Alfonso bade his poet dwell :

      The miserable despot could not ' quell The insulted mind he sought to quench , ani blend _Tfith the surrounding maniacs , in the hell Where ha had plunged it Glory without end Scotter'd the clouds away—and on tbat name attend The tears and praises of aU time ; while thine _YTonld rot In Its oblivion—in the sink Of worthless dnst , which from thy boasted line Is shaken into nothing ; but the link Thou formest in his fortunes bids us think Of thy poor malice , naming thee with scorn-Alfonso ! how thy ducal pageants shrink Trom thee ! if in another station born , Scarce fit to be the slave of bim thon mad at to mourn

      Peace to Torquato ' s injured shade 1 'twas his In life and death to De the mark where _Wrcng Aim'd with her poison'd arrows ; but to miss . -Oh victor _unsurpass 'd in modern song ! . Each year bring 3 forth its millions , hut how long - The tide of generations shall roll on , And not the whole _combined and countless throng Compose a mind like thine ? though all in one Condensed their . _scatter'drays _, they would not foim a sun .

      _JJASTE . Ungrateful Florence ! Dante sleeps afar , Like Sdplo , buried by the upbraiding shore 1 The factions in their worse than civil war , Proscribed the bard whose name for evermore Their children ' s children would in vain adore ¦ With the remorse of ages ; and the crown ¦ Which Petrarch ' s laureate brow supremely wove _. Upon a fair and foreign soil bad grown , Eh life , his fame , his grave , though rifled—not thine own .

      Boccaccio . Boccaccio to his parent earth bequenth'd Jfis dust . —and lies it not her great among , With many a sweet and solemn requiem breathed O ' er him who form'd the Tuscan ' s Siren tongue . That music in itself , whose sounds are song , The poetry of speech ? Jfo ;—even his tomb _Uptoni , must bear the hy __ ena bigot's wrong , No more amidst the meaner dead find room 2 f or claim a passing sigh , because it told for whom !

      _ATAGZUO , ALFIEBI , C 4 I . l _ . EO , Kicni-LYELI . 1 . In Santa Croce's holy precincts lie Ashes which make it holier , dust which is E ven in itself an immorality _. Though there were nothing save tbe past , and this The particle of those sublimities " Which have relapsed to chaos !— -here repose Angelo _' s , Alfieri ' g bones , and his , The starry Galileo , with his woes ; Sere ilachiavelli ' s earth return'd to whence it rose . These are four minds , which , like the elements , _flight furnish forth creation : —Italy ! Time , whicli hath _wzong'd thee with ten thousand rents Of thine imperial garment , sball deny , And bath denied , to every other sky , Spirits whicli soar from Tuin : —thy decay Is still impregnate with divinity , _TTfiicIi gilds it with revivifying ray ; -Such as the great of yore , Canova Is to day .

      .Notice, Roetical Contributions For Our ...

      . NOTICE _, roetical Contributions for our " Christmas Garland " mast beat the Office of this Paper by , or before , December the 15 th .

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      The Purgatory Of Suicides. A Pbisos Rhym...

      THE PURGATORY OF SUICIDES . A Pbisos Rhyme e ? Tex Books . By TnoiiAS Cooper , the Chartist . London : J . How ) 132 , Fleet-street .

      ( Continued from the Star of Nov . 22 nd . J _2 * _irin _ ii > ATE 3 speaks : — Lvcurgns _, though thy modesty would wave Our foil soul ' s tribute _^—he arose and said , —• Yet here I laud thy wisdom deep , and sauve forbearance ' mid the scorn that on thy bead "We in our rashness— -by old pomps niisfed And ovn-Wown—poured , when we should iave praised "Wisely thou say ' st the lessons here outspread , Through hall and dome and aisle , have in US raised "Wonder that we so long in ignorance on sliem gazed .

      For ages did the lesson us invite To contemplation , —but the soul was held In earth ' s old bonds of prejudice , nor right Trom wrong discerned . In thraldom thus we dwelled Of self-deceit : vile thraldom , though we swelled "With blindly arrogant imaginings . Darkness and vagueness from the eouI expelled , — Her chambers tilled with Virtue ' s sjinholings , — . Reason disdaineth pride and its false glisterings . Sage Spartan , thus I Toad our visioned state . Rehearsal , how our sufferings passed away , . And how old Earth became regenerate , I yield unto my brethren , —though I mar _. Tor opening of the theme , thus much essay : 'Twas conquest over Evil physical Tliat ushered in Earth's glorious brother-day : — "Whence came , by law of sympathy whose veil Is still unrent . our soul-state beatifical .

      I judge that Earth had still in bondage been To Error , had the sons of enterprize And science , unobservant , failed to _jrlcan The truths Great _Xature spread before the eyes Of heedless man , whose psssion for life ' s toys Kobbedhim of its true treasures , and so doomed Him all his days with pain to agonize , "With want and woe ; a creature spirit-gloomed , _"Thoush tenanting a world where jocund beauty bloomed A world whose elements were his to wield And _sorsrn . Xow , — -behold the storm-tossed sea ' His pathway !—see his chariots o ' er it wheeled More swiftly than o ' er land , by energy Electric—which men deemed a mystery , Or sign of wrath divine , till from the cloud A sage , with children ' s kite , and string , and key , Drew the _vringed essence , and the truth foreshewed , _Unnittingly , how , one day , men would tame the proud .

      All-scathing power , and dandle its _hujre strength "Witli childlike effort ! Mountain , stream , and mine Their wealth aflford him : Earth , through all the length And breadth and depth of ber rotund confine , — Th ' impalpable and vital chrystalline Itself , are , each , Ms servitor I Of want Men talk as of some ancient fable : pine They cannot , for the soil , exuberant _Kendered _ny art , of food is _over-nrinistrant . The senses know no craving : neither strife 2 t * or guile to win indulgence , or obtain "What all enjoy , embitters human life : Disease is banished—until mortal pain Approaches : —ev ' n tbe bounds of life's domain Are trebly larger . Brothers , do I deem Aright that mortal men and spirits gain Their high beatitude , because supreme Men grew o ' er natural Evil ! But I yield the theme , —

      Cato follows , arguing that the fault of mankind s misery lay not in nature , but in man , the slothful pupil in her school , or the wild and perverse truant after vice . He adds : — Tis , then , unto the Few . the tireless Pew , "Who through all ages and in every clime Pursued tlie Good , our gratitude is dm * . Thus moraL mental conquest was the prime Of human victories : triumph sublime ( fer outward elements sprang from thc nrreath Of moral victory ; and through all time They shall be held glorious who did _bi-queath Lessons of moral struggle in their lives or death . — Zexo , _Glzaxtkes , and _Metroclks , It is intimated , express views similar to those of Cato , but their _speeclies are not given . _Lccuetics follows , and speaks at some _length . _ The intent or his address is _contained in the following stanza : —

      The march of Though * was onward from of old , — Onward , for aye , to _Nature ' s eye , —though dense Pilm-sigbted men no progress could behold : _Tiioairflt spring from th « - _"_ jht by _ei-ain of _oonie quence , — In old or newer cUme _, ~ -ti _ l violt-nce-

      The Purgatory Of Suicides. A Pbisos Rhym...

      _Fraud , _ignoranCt ; want , woe , and pain , and thrall Evanished at the new omnipotence Of Mind Nature brought forth : Mind that through all The Universe now reigns by might immutable . Arnccs , _Ghacchus , Cumins , _Chauondas , _Cod-Bu _* S _,-THEiasiOCI . ES , _Dfiuosrosras , . _CosnpucET , an Romillt , are the remaining speakers , but the speech of Gbacchub only is given . _AVe reserve the concluding stanzas till next week , when we shall bring to an end onr review of the '' Purgatory of Suicides . "

      Pictorial Penny Balladist. Part Ii, Iii....

      PICTORIAL PENNY BALLADIST . Part II , III . London : J . C . Moore , 12 , Wellington-street , Jiorth Strand . Since our first notice of this admirable publication wehave received Parts II . and III ., and a careful examination of their contents fully confirm the anticipations we had formed from a sight of Part I . The Parts before us contain several ancient ballads , and several of modern date , from the pens of Dr . _Lbtdes , _Scoir , Carleton , and others . Here are " The Lists of Nasuby Wold ; " " The Children in the Wood ; " "SirTurlough ; or , the Church-vardBride ;" " Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne : " " " Sir .

      Aldingar ; ' " Glenfinlas ; or . Lord Ronald ' s Coronaoh ;" "Xing Estmere ; " "The Cout of Keeldar . " and "Lord Soulis . " Ancient traditions , superstitions , fends , customs and maimers , are faithfully depicted in these ballads : even the food and dress of the generations of bygone times are set down in these poetic chronicles . Not the least interesting feature of this publication is the preservation of the old spelling , so quaint bnt so expressive . The illustrations , as we have before remarked , add much to the beauty of the work . We repeat onr earnest approval of this publication , and most heartily recommend the fenny _Balladist to the support of our readers .

      Pictorial Penny Shakespeare. Parts I., I...

      PICTORIAL PENNY SHAKESPEARE . Parts I ., IL , HI . London : J . C . Moore , 12 , Wellington-street North , Strand , The Englishman who has not read SnAKESPEAitii may doubt his nationality ; he is , at best , but half an Englishman , when ignorant of the works of his greatest countryman ; and yet , to how many millions has Shakespeare been but little , if anything , more than a mere name . It is painful to reflect that thousands , nay , millions have lived and died , and never known hira , who , " though dead yet speaketh , " and speaketh those words which , of mightier import than the words of priests or prophets , never "fail to elevate the minds and purify the hearts of those who willingly list to them . Of late years a knowledge ol Shakespeare ' s works has been widely diffused through the medium of theinany cheap and beautiful editions which Mr . Ivsiom and other enterprising booksellers have published . StiU , an edition , which should be within the reach of the poorest of the people , was a

      _desideratum unaccomplished . Half-crown and shilling parts , or numbers , of any work is , no doubt , cheap enough for many thousands ; but such prices are above the means of a still more numerous class . To meet the wans of this latter class the spirited publisher of the Picloiial Penny Balladist , has also commenced tbe publication of a Pictorial Penny Shakespeare , of which the first , second , and third mon thi v parts are before us . These parts contain the "Tempest . " " Two Gentlemen of Verona , " "Merry fHoes of Windsor , " "Measure for Measure , " and thc commencement of the . " Comtdy of Errors ; " and tlie three may be purchased for ls . 2 * d . But this is not all , the work , as the title bespeaks , is illustrated—and neatly illustrated too . A separate set of wood engravings , intended to form a pictorial biography ef _Shaeksfeabe , will also be gi _/ en with every alternate part ; twoof these haveappeared , the first being , allthcknoimi portraits of Shakespeare ; the second , two views ofthe house in vjhich he was born .

      As an immense sale must be indispensable to enab ' e the publisher to meet the expenses of this enterprise , we trust that the public will show their appreciation of this spirited undertaking , by giving it the support it so well deserves . No man need now be without a copy of Shakespeare . We perceive that Mr . Moobe is about to publish , or has already commenced publishing , a u JPi i * r ' . < . l Penny Arabian Nights' Entertainments , " & Pictorial Penny Robinson Crusoe , " and a "Pictorial Periny _Lunyuns Pil g rim ' s Progress . " We heartily wish him success .

      A Botanic Guide To Health, And The Natur...

      A BOTANIC GUIDE TO HEALTH , AND THE NATURAL PATHOLOGY OF DISEASE . By A . J . Coffi . v . Leeds : Moxon . London : Watson , Paul ' _s-alley . Dr . Corns is well known _thromrhout Yorkshire , where his friends are numerous . Those friends applaud him as a "medical reformer , " whilst hi ** enemies decry him as a " quack . " He repudiates most of the remedial agents employed bythe doctors , and confines himself to those ordinary and simple means of eure which nearly every field , gard « n , and hed « e-row abound with , and which , while known to almost every Tillage dame possessing ordinary intelligence , are unknown te . or despised by , the great body of medical practitioners . Now , in rejecting these simple remedies , which the experience of ages has pr oved the ralue of , it appears to us that tbe doctors are the " quacks . " Dr . Coffin ha g travelled much in America , where he associated with the naturalist Thomson , and snent some considerable

      time with the Indians of that Continent , to whom he professes to be much indebted for his medical and botanical knowledge . Whatever may be thought of Dr . Cofpis's " system , " which is , however , backed up by several cases of well authenticated cures , there can be but one opinion as to the virtues of those medicinal plants and herbs on which his " system " mainly depends . At least , then , so far as this work throws light upon the too much neglected science of medical botany it ia -valuable , and deserves our commendation . Unlike some gentlemen connected with the press , who assume to know everything , we must confess that our medical knowledge is extremely circumseribed , and , consequently , we dislike the task of reviewing medical books ; we h all , therefore _, content ourselves with recommending Dr . Coffin ' s work to our readers , leaving each to decide for himself as to its merits . The work is freed from al technicalities , and will , consequently , be understood by every one .

      The Family Herald. Pahts Xxix., Xxx. Lon...

      THE FAMILY HERALD . _Pahts XXIX ., XXX . London : G . Biggs , 421 , Strand . These two parts of the Pamilg _Herald attest the continued talent of this publication _^ which still maintains its high and honourable _position at tbe head ol the penny press . The editorial articles are most cleverly written , and we shall be surprised if these sdmirable essays are not at some future time reprinted by themselves . From one of these we extract the following sensible remarks

      on' EA 1 LS 0 ABS . That much of the railway business is substantial , productive , and profitable business , there can be no doubt ; but there can be as little doubt that tliere is a very large remainder that will be unproductive and ruinous . The mushroom rapidity with which it has shot up is rather a suspicious imd unfavourable symptom , Itis a species of revolution , producing great constitutional changes , without giving the old interests sufficient time to accomodate themselves to the new system . It is a rush of blood to " _** , e portion of the body politic , which either creates a _fOf . * spending deficiency in some other , or produces 111 flaai nation in the part affected . We have no means of ascertaining the amount of capital required for projects at present in the market , but if the Times , which has ample means of receiving the best iniformation npon such

      _sabjects , it amounts to about five hundred millions sterling . This is five-eighths of the National Debt ; and , as all the projects at present before tbe public comtemplate as speedy a realisation as possible , we may safely suppose tJiat this enormous amount of money is expected to be furthcoming , spent , and permanently invested in less than five years . Commerce never yet encountered a change so great and so sudden as this . It would be a commercial revolution . That it would ruin the country , we bave no fear ; but that it would ruin many interests and many individuals in the country ,- and give them little time and few opportunities to protect themselves from the storm thu 3 let loose npon tliem , must be evident to all who only think for a moment , that activity , labour , and capital suddenly directed to one department , must be , to a corresponding extent , diverted from another , unless there in

      be such a superabundance of each unemplojed the country as to supply the demand . Now this is not the case . " Supposing a million of labourers were required for these railways , and this for 500 railways is only 2 , OG 0 _rnfn to each ; where are the men to be found !—and if they be found , where will they be taken from ? According to the census of 1841 , there are 1 , 082 , 165 male labourers in Great Britain employed in agriculture . It would take the whole of them to construct the railways contemplated ; and then what would become of the land f There are 193 , 877 miners ; but , if they were taken , who would supply the population with coalg , and the engines with fuel , and the road-makers with rails!—we shall want moro miners , rather than fewer . There are 3 SG , _157 labourers , whose particular employment is not mentioned ; perhaps theyare day labourers . "Well , if they are making railroads , they cannot be carrying bods , and paviug streets , and doing many other useful thiDgs , which cannot he enu . merated . There are 1 , 687 , 477 engaged in trade and commerce . Were the road-makers taken from tbis class ,

      there would be a sad falling off in tlie revenue and resources of the country . This number is expected to be increased rather than diminished . There arc _741 , 872 en" « ' -cdin manufactures . "Wc cannot spare one of these . * tVe expect rather to increase than diminish their number . Xow , these five numbers embrace all the available labour of the country , with tbe exception of men-servants , _professional men , gentlemen , and others , who would not condescend to have any tiring to do with the construction of the roads , but only with the mania of the share exchange . Where , then , are the million labourers to como from ?—from Ireland ! A miliion Irish labourers , with a million wives , and four million children—six millions of the finestpbranfs inthe world imported into England ! Itis a splendid idea ; but , even supposing One-hulf Of tliem were to come from Ireland , h _» w could Great Britain sup ] dy the other half , and , at the same time , the _directing mind and capital , without deducting largely from the amount of vigour at present prevailing in other departments of industry . * * # * _Moreover , the fears of the mercantile world & Ve now be-

      The Family Herald. Pahts Xxix., Xxx. Lon...

      ginning to be aroused . The debts are not now so « " » ly collected as formerl y . Th _» debtors want time j « N »* many of the manufacturers are iustiiuting _inquiring re- * specting tlieir customers , resolved to withhold their credit from those who are gambling on the roads . Whilst other departments ofthe revenue have ' fallen * off ' to fhfe amount ofa million sterling in tlue . months , the stamp and post-office departments have increased the latter to tha aiuouns of £ 9 , 000 , whicli representsWards of two millions of letters . These additional letters no ' doubt cbiefly . Mnsist of applications , for shares , as we _ars in . formed that one company _alonej in tH _* eiity- __ bur hours , received 80 , 000 . . _' ¦ '* ' _-,...,

      That such a change is sufficient to regenerate a country is what we should be sorry to affirm ; but that it is a a change which is Indispensable in the work of mundane regeneration cannot well be gainsayed . It is a new medium of intercourse between nations and individuals—it is the contribution of mechanics'to the great work of social amelioration . # * A new era of mind is approaching , and thc mechanical means are preparing _loritaadvent . Can we discover what is likely to be'the character of this era from the symptoms already discernible 1 It is an era of more _universal sympathy and interchange ot kind feelings than any preceding . Tbe Iron links Of union are but the types of a common understanding and a common humanity . The idea of re-union is going

      abroad amongst the hearts of men . There is a striviug —a powerless one hitherto , we must _confeis—after the realisation of the wish . Churehes seek to unite with churches , sect with sect . They deplore their division . They meet to propose the terms of re-union , They make vows to observe hereafter more strictly than formerly the precepts ot charity in controverting * with each otlier . And in this they ars not behind the commercial world _, which carss for none of these things , for they are aiming at a virtue ! whilst others are aiming at a profit . In the literary world we sec a determined resolution to suppress every appearance of bigotry , intolerance , and party spirit , and an indulgent feeling is prevalent there for all peculiarities of opinion which do not show themselves iu contemptuous , reproachful , _perjecutive , spiritually proud , and gcornfnl behaviour , but which mildly and politely

      ir iaintain their own rights of thought , and accord corresponding rights to others . In the commercial world , monopoly , delusiveness , and restriction are fast giving way to more generous principles . National interests are giving place in rank to imperial or humanitary interest . And though each individual in all these departments of activity is acting for himself and seeking an individual good iu aU that he does , yet , associated with this _indiviiiuai spirit of selfishness , of which he cannot be divested without being divested of life , tliere is growing up a largeminded , enlightened , universal spirit , which looks at the whole in preference to the parts—wbich seeks the good of humanity at large rather than the individual iu particular , and which promises , when full-grown and well matured in experience aud the power of thought , to be the great ruling power of tbe coming age . To this tho individual -pit-it will be subservient and the elder shall serve the

      ymnger . The above is a specimen of the original contents of this excellent publication . The following extract from a work entitled , Scenes on the Shores of the ¦ AdantiC _f-a a specimen ofthe selected matter contained within its columns ;—

      THE _DICENCJE 8 OF DEATH . There is one very striking characteristic of the Irish peasantry , nnd which I believe they possess in common with other nations in a backward state of civilisation , an extreme solicitude about their burial . To have a wellattended funeral , to be a " handsome corpse , " and above all , to be interred with their own kindred , are objects of the highest ambition . Those who are totally regardless of the decencies of life hold the decencies of death in sueh estimation , that to procure a good coffin , grave-clothes , and the wherewithal for a " creditable wake , " they will undergo the greatest privations . I bave known a poor woman pawn her only iiannel petticoat on a bitter winter ' s day to procure a meal for her starving ehildren , reduced to pinching want , rather than intrench on the sacred hoard kept carefully for the funeral expenses . Somethere are who keep their eoffinat the head of their bod for years , and old persons have : generally some good clothes stored up to " dress their corpses ini . "

      An old woman applied to ns for an under garment , and having received one , together with a cap , exclaimed in tbe greatest joy— "Oh ! such linen , fit for a lady ; and a cap with elegant frills to it , bordered all round . The likes of them are much too grand for a creature tike me to wear . Ill keep them for th * day of my death , aad they'll look beautiful at the wake . '' " But , " we remonstrated , ' * they were not given you for that . Theyare meant to make you comfortable while you are alive , and you must wear- them now . " " A . id not

      have a decent rag to cover me in the coffin ! _Indies dear ! " she added in the most appealing tone , " sure now jou wouldn't be so unreasonable . " But we were " urreasonable , " and insisted on the garments being worn ; suggesting , however , as a mitigation of the case , that as the old woman was so far advanced in years , they might possibly last long enough to answer the double purpose fhis was a bright and happy thought on our parts , and our old friend departed , expressing a fervent wish that she might die" before such " elegant clothes" were worn out .

      When I was a child , we had a house-carpenter named Murphy , a very faithful creature , hut one to whom the French saying , " s « _qualilcs _surpassent _sci _cluirms , " applied most strongly . He was a most ugly man ; bigtieaded , hard-featured , and forbidding-looking . liis _person was distorted from having fallen oif a high ladder in liisyouth , which had injured his spine and legs , and made him a cripple for life . In short , to any one not accustomed to ' hi' appearance as we were , he must have looked something monstrous . One morning , poor Murphy came limping up with a most rueful countenance , complaining of feeling very ill with " pains in every bone in his body , and _suath an impression on his heart ( the lower orders always call chest affections by this name ) that he could scarcely draw his breath . " . He had evidently caught a violent cold . "Various reinedies were proposed , and he seemed greatly comforted by the prospect of approaching relief .

      My dear mother recommended a warm plaster to his chest , and gave hi _ n one to put on . Ho looked very suspiciously at it . " This is a warming plaster , ma ' am , is it V " Yes ; a very good thing for your oppression . " " May be so . Would it hurt a body , now ? " " Oh no ; you will find it very comfortable , on the contrary . " " Thank you ma ' am ; but will you tell me , would it leave any mark behind it 1 " " It reddens ths skin a little , that ' s all . " Ah , that ' s what I misdoubted all along , from tbe looks of it . I ' m greatly obliged to you ma ' am , and thank you kindly , every bit as much as if I had made use ofit . But ( returning the p laster ) I wouldn't put a mark or sign on my self for all the gold you could g ive me , or do anything that would hinder me from making a handsome corpse , plaze God ; and that ' s what I'd be if I was to die this night , without speck or spot , or any such thing upon my whole skill . " ¦

      And no argument could induce poor Murphy , unsightly nnd crippled and ill-favoured as he was , to run the risk of spoiling a " haudsome (!) corpse" by applying the warm plaster . It was a strange , but , among his class , a very common species of vanity . Eugene Sue ' s story of the " Wandering Jew , " of whicli so able a translation has been given in the Herald , is , at length , concluded . but its placo is well supplied by otlier well-written tales . In prose and poetry , from the first page to the last ,- each number teems with information and amusement of the best possible character . Great as is thc support given to the Family Herald by the public , it is not greater than it well deserves .

      Dbath Tbom Violksce.—Manslacoiiteu. — On Tuesday Evening An Inquiry Of Several Hours' Dura-

      Dbath _tbom Violksce . _—Manslacoiiteu . — On Tuesday evening an inquiry of several hours' dura-

      Tion Took Place Belore Mr. William 1'Ayn...

      tion took place belore Mr . William 1 ' ayne , at the bir John Falstaff , Kent-street , Dover-road , respecting the death of Mary Ilarrowfin , aged sixty-seven years , lately living at No . 89 , Ann-street , Kent-road , who , it was alleged , died from injuries inflicted upon her by her son . Elizabeth Bryant , of No . S 9 , Ann-Street , Kent-road , deposed that she lived in the same house , and had known the deceased for nine months . On Saturday night last , whilst in bed , witness heard John Ilarrowfin _^ the son of the deceased , call out for witness ' s daughter to fetch some brandy for his mother , as she was taken ill . It was then alter twelve o ' clock , therefore she could not obtain any .

      Witness got out of bed , and went into their room . She was standing against the room doer . Witness ran for Mr . M'Manns , but lie being from home , witness went to Mr . Babbage , who attended , but she was then dead . The sou told witness that his motherhad been subject to a complaint in her throat , and 1 he supposed it was a return of her old comp laint . Witness did not see anv blood about the place , nor was there any on her clothes . This witness made such prevarication in her evidence , in endeavouring to keep back important evidence , that the coroner threatened to commit her to prison . Jessie Eu _wavds , lodging in the same house , stated that she heard a violent noise on the night in question , as il they were quarrelling . . "Witness went inlo the room and there state

      « iw the deceased- ly ing on the bed in a dying . Deceased said that " she had received her death blow , and that it was her son John who had done it . Witness lifted up her clothes , and saw a wound bleeding Tery much . Deceased died bciore the arrival ofthe surgeon . A policeman came in . ihe son said that tlie deceased had received the injury by falling against the latch of the door . Mr . Wilhara Babbage , of No . 1 , Bengal-place , New Kent-road said that when he readied tho horn 0 tho deceased had csDired . Nothing was said of tho wound at first , but the son told witness that deceased had been troubled with a difficulty et breathing , and had ( rasped and died . Witness subsequently ¦ esnmined her person . He found a wound on the left side of the spinal chord , abeut midway between the sixth and seventh ribs . It appeared to have been inflicted by a sharp knife . The _i ™ und » _as _abont t , _* _enii- v _*™ nf «« irr _* li in _ICDSTtli , and one neh in depth .

      . , Witness had made ttpost mortem exam nation ot tlie body . Death had arisen from the rupture oi a blood _Tesiel in the brain , _whicli was _»«* _SKjt ' J _2 coagulum mi » lit have arisen Ir om _*^ _J _^'™ m _» quentupon the injury , or from « s ee _^ s _notemorrhage The coroner remarked on the evidence M great hihl -to trhich the iny [ _SwL _' _miW ' « _Manslaughter against John - _Iiar . " l _? ' _ T WiV committed on the coroner ' s irairant to Newgate .

      Tion Took Place Belore Mr. William 1'Ayn...

      _L _—^ _s _^ - _^^ V . _^____ -r I ositive A . _\* n CoMPA _ _uTivB . _ He whotravels ) by th . q . mck train is a Fast Traveller ; but he who stey * a . hon _^ a ll day without eating or drinking is a Faster . ± - ltb ? im _& Bsm Fcpg is often looked at with d / Vgust an 1 trodden to death _; but a Toad-in-the-hole it ? _fe _£ mi _™ _y-* T _^ Phael is a very Fine Painter : but Stubbs / 1 * the informer , is a Finer . —A good bus band , and fa . ber is a good man ; but he who bring * himself , wife , and family to destruction throiuu ' gambling 19 a better . s

      _ A Ivubious KusMostBB . —A correspondent of the Boston Post , from the Granite State , says : — " We are siekol suspense , and .. 'ant the matter settled , so that we _mavjiext prepare to annex Kanada , Kalifornia , and Kuba , which will ber a very Kurious _Kombination , truly ! " " A Kute fellow—this , " savs the hrodkl yn Star , " he would be a Kapital Kandidatr for Kongress , —is Kapable of a _KommUsion in a Kompany ; a Kornetcy , ' Korporalcy , Kaptaincy , or Ivolonelcy—would not make a b _^ d Korps de gardeno Kommon Kase to Karry a Kai __* ip or Kannonade a Kastle . A conscientious opponent to If . \ _NCiSG . —A gentleman in one of the interior town * is so much opposed to capital punishment that he refuses to hang his gate !

      THE LAY OF LAZARUS . Hark ! hark ! U the bcgj . ing . bor _shaking . ' For te . «» n is this _aluiu-money making ? 'Tis Dan —who is cramming His wallet while famine Sets the heart of ths peasant a . quakiag . Man ' s food ia earth * ! _boiora is rotting , And charit / s dol _» is allotting—T _« whom f At church door Th » _PAiip £ BKSD , on « e mora _. To plunder the pauper is plotting . The _prieBt from the altar inveigles , _Tkn peasant reluctant yet kigslei , His children ' * support Is bagged—a year ' s sport Is in store for the D * _rrynane " beagles . " 'Tis " godless" to give education , 'lis •* godless" to teach a gulled nation , But God-likk . oh ! call it

      To shoulder jour wnlUt , Swelling hugs , in this hour of starvation ! His rounds see the mendicant plying , To wh « e in his cabin is lying _. Death-stricken aud gaunt , \ The victim of want , Go ! enter—and pillag _* the dji » g ! Talse , tak _» it , in meal or in m » tal—But , hush ! where is infancy ' s _prattln » On its mother ' s parched breast Lies the bab _» in _Deaths r _» _st—Pshaw ! Come ! give tho box a good rattle ! The land is t \\ blighted with famine ! _Tki land is all blighted with famhw ! Yet still doth be crave ; And like Ghoul at a _gravs , Bakes rottenness , rooting for Mammon !

      low _IjAZAeds Has ! while tha victim , With a hand from above to afflict him , In his anguiih implore * , But in _uaiii , for his seres , Tbat the beagi _ £ s of Divt » may Ilek Ihem ! London , JSuv . 13 . F , itf . Saxon Revesge . — " England ' s weakness , " says Mr . 0 'ConneJl , "is Ireland ' s opportunity . " We would reverse the maxim . Ireland ' s weakness is tbe opportunity of England ; and we hope that England will take it—to help her . _Whea lier potatoes arcgone , let us give her bread . But kt ns take _speeial care that it shall be , literally , bread . Let us relieve

      her in kind ; but not trust her with a penny of cash ; at least , whilst her Agitator keeps a begging box . Candour . — " Did you attend church to-day ? " _inquired an African _planter of one of k » slaves as he returned to his dwelling . " Sartin , raassa , " was p _Bdjo ' _s reply— " an what two mighty big stories dat preacher did tell V " Hush , Cudjo , yoa mustn't talk that way ; what _storiea were they f " Why , lie tell de people no man can serve two _raassas ; now dis-is de fuss story , ' case yon seenole Cudjo sarves you , my ole masaa , and also young massa John . Den , de preacher says , " he will lub tlie one and hate de other "—while the Lord knows , Ikctte you boff !"

      A Powerful Preacher . — "Ah , Sir ! " exclaimed an elder in a tone of pathetic recollection , " our late minister was a man ! Uo was a powerful preacher ; for , in a short time he delivered the work amongst us , he knocked three pulpits to pieces , and b _& nged the life out 0 ' five bibles . " Tub Sueuhe ANn Beautiful . —A gentleman having occasion to-ask a lady for tho _snuffera , addressed her in the follewing emphatic and enamoured strain : — " Most beautiful , accomplished , and charming lady , will your ladyship , by an unmerited and undeserved condescension of your infinite goodness , please to extend to your moat obsequious , devoted , and very humble servant , that pair of ignipotent digests , tliat I may exasperate the excrescences of this nocturnal cylindric luminary , in order that tlio refulgent brightness of its resplendent brilliancy may dazzle the _virion ot our ocular optics more potently . "

      ,. THE _ANUOVElt SMALL SONG . " We wunt 1 »» beat I" was once our zong , — Vfe ' ve found as how that we was wrong , But _howsoinedoyer , wrong or right , We wunt be hinder'd of bur _spito : Thof' _Meeaster we did va ' aitily back , To Zurgeont we can { ie the sack ; Bwoan ' t let ' 1 lave oft' till we ha' done 't , We _'U zurve ' un . out : blest if we wuut ! A Doctor in tha feace to fly Of them ' a yarn * his liv ' n by ! A purty zort o' feller he , To think for to crow over w _«! As well expect a hog to budge , As think that we ' 11 vorget our grudge ; I _ et ' jine in one harmonious grunt ! ' We wunt , we wunt , we wumt , we wunt !" Punch

      A Promising Speculation . —It is rumoured that a company is in the course of formation to lease the contents of Lord Ashley ' s waste paper basket at a rental of so muck per annum . Tlic enormous number of persons who make Lord Ashley the medium of subscribing large sums to benevolent purposes , added to his Lordshi p's habit of throwing down his letters unread , must render his waste paper basket one ofthe most profitable as well as the safest investments of the present day . Supposing that only two .- £ 100 . notes find their way into this receptacle for his Lordsliip ' scorrespondenco ill the course of a week , there will be an income of upwards of £ 100 , 000 per annum . Several of the waste paper dealers have promised to join thc direction , and an influential provisional committee will be forthwith advertised . — Ibid .

      Budget . —The annual financial statement of the Chancellor of the Exchequer , which is called a Budget , because tho Ministers must Budge if they cannot carry their measure . Some etymologists derive the word Budget from the old French word bougctte , a bug ; and it is probable that in the days of corruption thu Minister bagged a considerable amount of the budget . Shakspeare speaks of a "sow-skin budget , " which would seem to indicate that the public money had been formerly kept in a sow ' s car , before silk purses came into fashion . —Ibid . Cahinet . —A common appellation for the Ministry , and supposed to be derived from thc word cabin , because ofthe number of snug berths to be found in it .

      ~ Ibid TnE JOLLY OLD BEGGAIWAN . Tonb . —The Jolly Young Waterman . H ! did you not hear of a jolly old beggarman , Who for Repeal was accustomed to cry ; And he feathered lus nest with sueh skill and dexterity , Winning each heart , and delighting each eye ? He talked so fair , and he vowed so steadily , His countrymen flocked to hear him so readily ; And eo charmingly eyed he the peasants around , That this beggarman ne ' er was in want of a pound S What sights of poor victims he gathered together , Humbugging them out of tlieir money—tfteiroK . _* _- And how , too , would he blarney the fino Irish ladies _.

      At a meeting ou Tara , or Corn Exchange Unlit And oftentimes would they bo giggling and leering * _. But ' twas all one to Dan , their jibing and jeering ; True lover of Ireland he _ne-rer was found , For tbe beggarman cared for nought else save his _pouTadt jr _* _e- _ M 4 «« it _ . Plea for Kissing . _—Alovergasedi in the eyes , of his mistress untii she blushed . lie _presssdher kind to his heart and said , " My looks-have _jlanted roses on thy check : he who sows the seed-should : reap the harvest . "—North American .

      A Surprise . —One of tlie ra > st singular and unheard of scenes perhaps ever _witmeseed iaa Quaker meeting-house took place at Baltimore . Shortly after the hour for meeting "to * comsaenee , whilst the brethren and sisters were _silently _comnanning with their own minds , one of the delegates to the assemblage from Pennsylvania , quietly , and without being observed , stripped himself , and appearing beforo them in a perfect state , -of nudity , insisted on being allowed to speak . He , -jvas immediately seized by his friends , and the partition to the female side of the meeting closed , and . it required almost main force to compel him to pu ' c on his clothing . Ho afterwards explained the ma _, tter in the following manner : —He

      had a dream on the previous night , and thought thai the spirit of thje Lord had appeared before him , am commanded > ahn to humble himself before tiic meeting on the , r _. ext day , by appearing in their midst witi his perso ' n exposed , and to address them in _thatsitiia tion wi . tVi respect to certain matters , which _wouli then 9 . nd there be revealed to him by the Holy Spirit It w ' g jn the fulfilment of this imaginary command and . whilst filled with a holy zeal and enthusiasm t-b ' at he thus acted . He was finally conveyed home * " nd appears since to be almost entirely deranged 0 the sunject of religion . These facts may be relied o . j as correct , singularly as tiiey may sound , as tliey ar iwell known throughout the city . —American paper ,

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      _EA 82 A 80 U 3 T _ ii _ atm ___ . t of a Lady by ber Husband _a-njj ii- « i oo . v , tuk latier a _Clkroyma ! .. —At the fetty Sessions conrt of Carricktergus , on the 9 th . _November , jRicliard Batlcrsby , _&<] ., and the Eov . John C . _Battersby , ' were called upon 10 answer , the _enlarge of Mrs . Battersby , the wife ofthe former and Jio mother of the latter , for having committed upon iier &„ . erie 8 . of assaults , extending from October last ¦ irev « 1 * _jciiw ; and , also , to show cause whj they . _tiid each of them should not enter into recognizances o be of _thv" * pcuce and goad behaviour . It appeared from the _ata . tement of Mr . pnvidson , of counsel for Mrs . _Battersb _;*' . that hw client waa married to Mr . Battersby _inV'o year 1818 , to _wlroni she brought £ i , WQ . For a _^ hort time after the marriage tbey lived on good term . * , but subsequentl y matters worea

      different aspect , Mr , Battersby refusing to allow his wife means f _» r the support of the house . Counsel proceeded'to _say—Instead of being furnished with the necessary comforts of _iiib- in accordance with her station , the ordinary duties , of my client were more those ofa doinestic servant than of a wife . Mr . Battersby , in place of _bringing up his iamily as he ought to do , for ten or twelve _. yean . had been in the habit of eating his meals witti the servants iu the kitcheu . Of course , such aline of conduct would not tend much to the comfort or respectability of himself or family . Mrs . Battersby _remonstrated with liim on his conduct , and , no doubt , spoke her eskd plainly and strongly ; and the _consequeaec was , tliat afterwards they did not live in the most coafortable manner . But there were other cimuniBtaiices which

      led to breaches of domestic peace * which io felt bound to _stase . Suspicions arose , _peuLips not justifiable , that Mr . Battersb y ' s attentions * were a little diffuse ; and the consequence was _that-servants had to leave the house under suspicious cir _** fumsta . _'ces ; lliere is no doubt that a servant iu thciamily ivas delivered of a child . In November , _island on a Sunday , Mrs , Battersby was sitting in herown parlour , with Mr . Battersby , and there was _soisc altercation on a favourite topic , namely ; the alleged drunkenness of Mrs . Battersby ' s father and mother . Mrs . Battersby remonstrated , and said that .- such conduct wns inhuman , and that no child could nit and listen to it .. Mr . John Battersby , her son , , was present , and , instead of interfering to bring about peace , ho caught hold of her , and in a most vielent

      manner pushed her out of the room . Again , in tho month of November , the father ahd son went to Belfast to dine . They came home at a late hour . _Whoa tliey came home they wanted some refreshment . Mrs . Battersby was in her bed-room , aud hesitated * giving the keys , but ultimately gave them to her servant to take down . However , her son , Mr . John Battersby , went up stairs to his mother ' s bed-room ( I suppose in ignorance that the girl had got the keys ) , and took the chamber utensil , and , while she was lying in bed , emptied it upon her . ( Great sensation . ) In ISio this young gentleman went to England , and in a short time after returned . 1 would mention that at this time he luid been ordained a clergyman of the Church of England . Well , he was not long home till he—this

      peacemakerhad an altercation witk his brother , in the presence of hia mother . The result wns , that he got up and seized his brother by the neck ; and , as was natural , Mrs . Battersby went between them . What was the consequence ? Why , she and her son Thomas were knocked down , as were the table and » chair . I merely mention this to show the court the violence which was used . On another occasion , in the year 18 io _, this John Battersby assaulted _bb mother , * and I should state tbat his . father was present on several of the occasions on which these _aas ; mU » were committed . Mra , Battersby was examined , and fully corroborated . the facts stated by . counsek Mr . Jackson , for the defence said that Mr . B . _* . _ttei _* _sby ' s instructions to him were , tliat he should not _resi'imi-!«» te . Let them measure the security i » whatever

      way they _pleaacd i _, nnd h * . wa « perfectly _willi _*^ to enter into it . Tiiecourt retired for a _shoit time ; on their return Mr . Molony ( _R-M . ) , said , in this- ease 1 have been requested' to state , the opinion , of the benefa , and when £ state they were unanimous in that © pinion , I am « y . iite sure I am correct , A » to tho _ceflduet of the so » towards his mother , it _is-of tiie most revolting description . I cannot expres _3 _*_ mys _* eif as _stroKfily as I would wish with reference to it ,, aiwl more particularly wheo 1 consider that that _s » n . ie- » clergyman—one whose duty was to endeavour , to make pea * e in the family . It appears tnat , while the son was acting in the-manner described tov « ii > d » his mother , that his father was looking on :. hi _» father , who should have been the director and guide of the family . Such conduct was-bad iii the extreme-, *

      but I cannot sufficiently express my horror at Misconduct of tbe son , in acting , as he has done—ic isquite beyond the means of expression . My only regret is , that , as wc have been * . ' _requested to inflict _, summary punishment in this case , the limit of onu _* jurisdiction only extends to a _> fine of £ 3 , or twomonths' imprisonment in the House of Correction .. Our wish would have been to send thc case to tlie-Quarter Session ; but , as tliis is not wished by the counsel for the prosecution , we award thc utmost punishment in our power—that " , that Mr . Richard Battersby and the Itey . John Battersby , do pay a line of £ 5 eacli ; or , in default , be imprisoned for two months ; and that they give security , themselves in £ 500 each , and two suretivs in £ 25 < i > eaeh , to be of the peace towards Mrs . Battersby .

      Liverpool . _—Ciiaucs of Wilful Murder . —An elderly man , of genteel exterior , n _.-nned Thomas Davis , was on Wednesday week placed at the bar of the police-court , before E . Rusliton amlJ . Lawrence , Esqrs ., _onaclutrgc . of having in the month of May last , murdered Elizabeth Johnson . The deceased kept a grocer ' s shop in _Kirkdale-roau , in this town , and cohabited with the prisoner , by whom she had two children . She had also a daughter by her husband , and these children were the chief witnesses in the case . It appeared that after the death of their mother , on the 17 th of May last , these children became chargeable to their parish , that of Ledbury , in Hertfordshire , and that in consequence of statements which they made , ihe relatives of tlie deceased

      brought the case before the magistrates of that place . The result was that Davis was apprehended , and , after evidence- had been heard , he was sent to Liverpool , by order of Sir James Graham , so that the case , which seemed shrouded in mystery , might be lurther investigated . Margaret Johnson , an intelligent girl , about thirteen or fourteen year * , of age , . deposed that one night , about six nionlhs ago , thc prisoner came homo drunk and quarrelled with her mother . that at last she came into tlic children ' s bedroom , whore the quarrel was renewed ; and that there Davies struck her o ; i the breast and temple , and kicked her on tile leg . During the three or four following days the deceased was almost entirely confined to her bed ; she was attended bv a medical man ( Mr . J . Johnson ) , and at length died . _Tlu-mas

      Davis , eleven years of ago , and Richard Davis , seven years of age , sons ol the prisoner , corroborated this evidence . Mr . James Johnson , surgeon , said that when called to attend the deceased , a day or two belore her death , he found lier labouring under congestion and _depresssion of _spiritslie inquired whether -. he had nny mental distress , to , whicb she made no reply , but the prisoner gave him a very distressing statement of thoir circumstances . He prescribed for her and _s-aw _iis-r again the following morning , when she was still worse , with ihe same symptoms aggravated , ilo _linker again the same evening , when it was evident she was dving last . The prisoner called him oui of bud to her that night ( Saturday ) , and in witness ' s presence she died . Witness ' s attention was never directed to any wounds or bruises she had received * , he was never informed of them . His impression was , that she was dying of congested fever , caused

      bymental agony . The injuriessp oken of by tbe witness would produce the symptoms he bad seen . Leeches were not applied , nor was ijwJ mortem examination Jield . It was now too Jate for a jmt morum examination to throw _lig _bi upon the present inquiry . Alice Darlington aud Elizabeth Wibboy , the women who had washed and laid out the body ., deposed that they h _& d found black marks on _th- > temple and down the side _; those down the side wi : r » apparently caused by kicks . The prisonei' Jiecottiito ? £ for the mark onthe _templa-by saying that the ('& - ceased , in getting oat of b « d for a drink , bad _falksu . Theprisoner , who was ua _« _tefcnded-,. decliiieiUithe _* to _eross-examiae the _-witnesses or to say anything in . ' _ais defence . Mr . _Risshtou said ills impression was to commit hira for trial at the winter assizes , _b'li he _shottld order him to b & reniauded for the- p _ . ai . enS . Il * was _awordiugly . veiaautled . On Friday , t ' _ae pvisoaer _was fully _eonrnv _. iited i ' or trial at the issuing assizes . He still declined saying anything .

      The _1 _ _j _ xe _Mviioas is _&&_ . _» n _ _M . iun £ i 2 __* 3 . Col ' ciougb _, the owner aad late occupier of _thss . _cottage where the _liomblc deed was committed , _bi 3 abandoned the ssene oi" blood , and tauen up her abode ¦ with ber sw _» , a . _oarr-ied man , residing near the _chapel , at Alsager _' a bank . Mycock , the paramour of -ibehomicide , and their little boy , still continue in &! ie hamlet , and are staying at the house of Wi _& am _, Scott , tbe collier who so narrowly escaped wick his life while attempting to seoure Dean i > _ntue 0 . ftlely after tbe murder . The little boy says , that jusU _>* jforo the dreadful crime was committed , Ids father ( Dean ) put him on the wooden squab orbciicn , p' . aoiiig un axe and a hammer underneath it . Dea _* . _i told iho child that if he stirred hand or foot he wmld cut his head off . Poor Fielding came in just at the moment ,

      and the maniac—for such we must _consider mmfelled his victim with an axe hammer * , before a word was exchanged on either side 1 Wh , vl an ill-starred visit for thc quiet inoffensive 1 ' _ieldbjg . What a providential escape for the child ; a * , there seems little doubt , but for the momentary a _jcidental appearanco ofthe unfortunate deceased , _th . e hands of Dean would have boen imbrued in the l _<\ p _,. d ofhis own off _e ring . _Andsupposing the _statement ofthe child to be correct —and there is no _reasor _, to doubt it—there was no previous quarrel , nor anything to excite the deadly animosity of Dean . Mycock _' s statement also—that Dean bad never sc . en his victim until I bo fatal daywould seem to _0 ' isproveall charge oi _rnaliceprc _\ icnsc 'lhe shocking - catastrop he cannot be accounted lot on any ratir , nai principle . It appears that Dean

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      burnt several articles of clothing belonging to _Mra _ColcitfUjs _'h , in his melting attempt to consume hy fire the bead ol the murdered man . Thin portion of the startling narrative is sickening to contemplate . We hear chat Dean , Mycock , and the boy slept iu a little room on tlie ground-floor , adjoining tho cottage . From and after the Friday ni ght previous to the murder , the other inmates who slept' _up-stairs took the _precaution of drawing up the ladder by which tlie ohambcr was approached . This plainly shows that their fears were aroused , that Dean was considered iaiid : iiigccousstatcofm ' _iitd , attd it is much to beregretted - that steps were not immediately taken for placing him Hiider effectual " surveillance . The lifeof one human being _ini » kt , in ail probability , have been saved . Oh tho night of the inquest Dean was kept in custody at the bouse of sub-inspector Price , at Audley . The guilty or unconscious man did not

      sleep ibr a moment . In tiie morning Price , assisteo by the police-constable Webb , took tiio criminal to Stafford Comity prison . They were accompanied as tar as the Whitmore station , by Mvcock . Guilty as she knew him to be , and questionable as was their connexion , Mycock could not leave Dean in ids _darkest hour of need . At the Whitmore station Dean refused to -et into the railway carriage unless accompanied by lu 3 « ' Fanny , " as lie called Mvcock . T < r pacify him she got into the vehicle , and escaped at the opposite door . Seeing this ho appeared _peevish and disappointed , venting his spleen bv throwingalter her a portion ofthe victuals he was eating at tho time . Ihs conduct during thejourncv was rude ani _mcoherent * , he Ivequenel y made uso of 1 ambling and unmeaning expressions . Since his incarceration _. Dean has written to Mycock , and the letter lias been yeeeivcdby lier at Alsager ' s bank . He expresses n wish to tee ber , and _ctates that lie is growing worse in _hiB-mino .

      _mii & B- _Insjiwcn op _IwuKpiBiir _^ A' Snip ' s _Cukiv _Savi !» . —About the middle of October last , the _barqttf Helen , Captain Clayton , , oi' Belfast , left _Quebec on her homeward voyage , with a cargo oi " timber . The * weather proved favourable till towards the end of the month-,, when it began to- blow a stiff gale ' from tke eastward .- Early on the morning of tbs 31 st it _insreased iw violence , but the vessel , , duller doublereefed- _topsail rode §» llanfcly on and ,, as alio \ va * - 8 tou *' and trim built ,- the erew felt liStle fear . About eight o ' clock , while off tke cast en * of one of _the-Newfmindland bmiks _. thoy discovered a _vessel less fortuimteiygituated _rimd-eaptainGkytou . hdiled tlio vmsel , _anpasked whether they bail-any boat which mightbear Un __ in . on _boiesd- tlie Helen ? . The answer

      returned wasin the negative , accompanied with an earnest prayer that lie would _dolilsbest to save them , : Captain Clayton hesitated for _a-. little what to do , [ The vessel was * -water-logged , without a rudder , and her _inizen naist and ibraiiasfc carried away ; . and if he ' abandoned her to her late she must . soon be . buriedwith her crew beneath the billows ; .. on the other hand , if ho . ordered some of his own mon to push off in _* a boat and fttfompt their rescue ,- they might perish * andhis own vessel-would be left with too few hands to work her with- efficiency . . Jn this- dilemma ho _placed a boat at the disposal of- any of _liis-crew wh * would volunteer as a- forlorn hope to the ill-fated _vessel . Three men > without hesitation , oftered themselves :- We feel pleasure in recording the nanus of

      tne men who could thus cast aside ail ideas- of personal safety , that they might at least make aa effort to rescue their fellow-creatures from » watery- grave . The men who * acted thus nobly , were , Daniel Menrns , second' mate ,-a native of tlie north of . Scotland ; James _M'lvennay the carpenter ; and John Martin ,, of Belfast . Without much Jo * s of time they entered- a- small . twooared boat-, the only one tliey could command ,- and rowed on to ths wreck , wliich they reached alter encountering , a host of dangers . . " / Tiie ship hun < f heaving-oa ' the verge of death , " and the . row ,, itt number twenty-two , were standing on the poop , theii . * voices rising- loud above theair . ot" the tempest , entreating deliverance . Seven of them wero got with-Wlt uooidonti into tli » _-Iwiif , nml tl _, „ .. ¦ . _( ..-lin . _i . t' flirt vessel , whicli-proved to bti She Harrison , , of * London .

      told the boatmen to return for- the others , and he would reward * them . _But' _-they did-not require « - pecuniary inducement to _simulate them in their mission of _morey . Again aad again- they- returned to the Harriso !> , and at length , every . 'individual was placed in _comgiwative safety _on-board-the llolun . A poor _Cilt , too , it-is worth-while mentioning , which _, had shared thcl ' ale of the erew also -gariicittated i » tho deliverance , - About the lOihinst . the Helen felt in with a vessel * bound for Greanook ,. which relieved herof nine of the crew of the Harrison , us the provisions of so mawy men pressstl rather closely oa ; their supplies . On Monday _wgek--tho Helen reached the poi _* D of Bell ' _iist , where the-. captain ot' thu lost ; vessel acknowledged the service' ) -of _tlis liirec men I who had acted so heroically , by giving , each of tliem ia handsome _doucowr-in money , a * hu promised .

      j ACCWKNT Al _TJHi . IIoUSK Oi' LORDS . — -Ill tllC _Cai'ly part of Wednesday morning , as two * mo !! ,. named . _Fai tsick Malyn and Henry Lote , wens , at work on some Sssaifolding at the Victoria Towuiv nearly forty feet ; high , some part of it-gave way , _aiuUht-y fell to the _^ _ISfouiid with frightful violence . -Without loss of ; tiBio they were _ccsvvcyed to thc Westminster Hospital , where every attention was paid to tiioni by-Mr . _Siaekwell and tlie-othcr surgeons . Malyn is suffering from a severe concussion of ths brain { . Lote has-, 0 ii 3 of bis _skouldsrs-dislocated , _and-is-otberwiae I much shaken .

      Rbath by _Drowjuxg . —On Wednesday forenoon Mr- W . linker held . an inquest at tlio 1 ' _i . _in . _on's lload . Tavern , Poplar , on Uie boiiy of Hubert Rarity , aged 22-,. a carpenter . Louisa Ward , . o £ JSo .- GO ; _iSti'iiigiitmouili-street , Greenwich , deposed , tliatslieluiuwtha _decsased , _whoresidudat 85 , Di * _oad- _ « i _* ect . t _ tiveiiwieh ; she saw him lastaliv * on the cvo __ iiig of Sunday , tl . a JJnd jastant ; lie hail been _sp . endi » g . tiie ' eveiiiiig witk her , and left between - eight , and nine . ( . ' clock , to go > hoixxcp he was in perfect- , health , and . of cheerful spirits- _wlien they parted , :. _* md _sho-knew-of nothing tliat distressed his mind . He had .- no occasion , to " go near the river in hi ** way home . She was to-havebeen married to liim . in a week ' s-tiins . Ou . Mouday _mornuig the dead tody of-deceased , was picked up iloatbjj down the river by . soiao _lishcrniwi , on their way _to-Biliingsgiite .. Tliere wove no marks ufvinjeiicc _* wpoft the body . Tkera _bfiiig 1111 _fui'tlmi ; evidence _, tho _jjjry , at the coroner ' s suggestion , returned ai verdtat of" Found drowned . " -

      Fai . \ i _ . Accide . \ "x __ _—OnMondaydast , a -fatal accident _occur-ed on tlio l _' ori mid _ Xi > l _* ih , _Uit _ iaiid raiiimy . it appeal's that a yost-boy named W ' mu llus .:: _* of * . lit the service ot My . _Shilluto , innkeepur ,. of i !„ ton Pe _ 'oy „) . ail been cagnged in removing , _ii'iniuhi- _^ _ajij from a . truck attached to a train ,, _wiudi-. i ' . did wumt the _u-ai . 1 . was iu iai > tion ,, aiid . in e « dfa . vi ; _iii'iiig . tujeave tlie * _A'u-2 k , bis -oot . slipped , and he was-thrown betwsen the trunk . and a-passenger , carriage ,. with IliS back laid _acsosa the _rwls :. a _SHissonyei- .. urriage _, and thi _* ee empty-trucks passed .-over . him ,, and the iiijurk'S hifliotcd . weve _so-strtous as- to produce death in ahttiit two _ho'irs-aftei _* w . _* a _* ds .

      1 _' _" . V ! : _al-. AC'CH'iiVf . —On Wednesday _nuroni _* , * Mr . Wakley held aii . imiuesi . at . ihe King !* Head Inn , Acton , on-the _bodyot Uowge Graham ,. ; i ;_ _iksI eighteen . It _appea-ued fro » i ilie evidence that tiiu - ' licensed was the-soil of M !\ .. ( miliiW »! _fr , » « _-nrri . w . a . D A <&»_ .. On tLe _Stkiinst . _OGnjy _Ftiwl _. e _.-i day ) in th «' eve _ ji :. g , thc _deoe-isvd wns in , a cart wish a younger-brutnor , . _lcturnins-homo frcaci town . ; .-when at , _Snephia-d ' _a Bush his broihe * _iLhtiid and _diselmrgsd a _cra-ilicr fireworks by . _whioh the . -hoi'so wm so _frightened , _siiatlm siarteu iii _ .: ' at full > rfivd , and lhe deceased , jti his endeavours to stop-hill ) .--. was -thrown eut of , the c ; _m-c , thu wiieoi of _wliidi _passRsLovisi _' . his body . Every proper surgical _i-. ssistance 'xaerendcired him ,. but lie expired on _ Su _ i-• iay last . Verdict , _Accidei'Jal Death . _Extens-wb F . A . n . _' . tiu _' . T-Aa _exiois & ivo ftulurc has Just uccuia-ed iu _iXiblin , j _tAtin- _'lv , . Mu . _ssi' . s . V . ' iKiams , _stock-brokers , for a sutnw _betwcxin £ 2 U _* , _UL ) 0 and £ 150 , 00 ' . }

      Fjkk—Bnoosr . —A . _mos'adestructive firs-took placeon _Moiylay liYun . iig , : _ t _liVuOlll ,. Willi" _iligsijuaxvadu , Ott the _fassx . of Mjv Samtiv } - * > '« _sl ,. hy w ' iieii twviity stacks » f com asd hay , with . _twenty-one ,. sheep _,. xvurc . dcstriraed ,. also * the _doTaj-honscv , _. _^ . ' _-lihwe is . little doubt / that the lire was . thuajdi of an . iucendbry . — Cam ' _si-hlge _Ad-iiwiizer . . M _ _ansKss ia . _KnAstiS-r _^ _SicfiP the _nablicati {_ o ,. say 5 tha Gazette de fm-y . ee , of , novels ai . the shape of . ' ' * fciiilieton _.-i , _' . ' and the bo ndless jabbing in raiixvay sli ; . ? es , menial _desftugemuats . ha ' . w _ipei'eivsd in set ursadi ' uL a . propo * * t ; on , t 4 . 1 t the director of one o £ thn most _-sele-brASsd , maikora- d & __»»«/« , d . _L _' aris . is _lvSrtv . building a _jittviiioi _^ in order to ii * , * * room _foriiiunuwiiHuates _^ '

      Two 1 _$ 0 \ S- K . M . U 1 J . SS F . _xii 7 _> 'G . _ixxa A . _VniL . — . 13 ctweo _* iieleTt " , i and twelve ofviock _w- Monday i ' ure-v 110011 , _atSingUijr _antLwy distressing , » tf _< : i _»* i : « _n « o i-: > _-i > _- pened . in _thri- yard ittaubicd to ti _** - _Western Me- > _thodi-is Schca _! ,. L . _evsK-streoa ,. Mnuehestor . Somo of thu _duUtca educated in ibe sch » . J . ww ; o _playi . ug ia the * yard ,. « kea a & i < c wh ' wk covw-d , an old well sink d . _ealy sank down at . om > si . de _» aad two- boys , muiied _"fidxvard Speavritt and ! thor _ i _ vi Uvcgovy , each sxhouti seven years of age , VelLir . _tn the wei .,. whli . h , is upwards of twca « y-iivo yavda deep , and nothing could _.

      bo seen of them . 'Win . Edwards , an excavator , descended into tlic Yfull . About a _quartor-pasi - . we ' ve o ' clock he succeeded in bringing up tiio luiiy oi ' Thomas Gregory , but tlte poor buy was _qti-l-.. . ifo ' _iss , having been in thu well about an hour . E !;' _y-T . s « ' to then mado to _get out the body of B . c _*; mitt , but _v * was nearly half-past four when this _wiiiaccumpiish ' _- ' , awing to the necessity for removing the flag a- ** . other materials . The " body -was at last found at _tiu bottom of the well , covered with wilier t <> thedepti of live foot , am ! by a quantity cf earth which hart fallen upon him . " liis - . kail was iVaciurcd and liis ankle _dbiocatwl . Before tlio _in-iut-st , _ir . speetoi

      Ai ' Mullen _madis various _liinnirsi-s J » _oruci'io ussertain whether any ono knew of the existo _:-ico oi " the well , but no one could bo found wiio had tiio lea ? 6 knowledge on the subject , oven amongst thoso who . bad known the premises fov forty yours . The well seemed to have been covered with timber , after which some earth and the Hag had been placed over it , and . thc timber having rutted , thu whole had given way .. A verdict ut' '• _Aeeklcnial death" wa 3 returned .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 29, 1845, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_29111845/page/3/