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      SONG FOB THE MILLIONS . It fomea 1 it comes ! the glorious day , When holy freedom shall prevail , When battle strife , and Moody fray Shall be a * a forgotten tale—When virtue ab&ll triumphant rise , And -rice he nrept-tram off the esrth , "When man shall look up to the skies , And bless the God that ffave him birth"When joy , and charity , and peace , And tore , shall cheer the hnman heart—When lute ehall did , and discord ee&se , And tre&ebery from the world depart . Te millions that all sorrows share , And , ' midst o ! plenty , starre and pine , Be jojfnl , for yonr constant prayer Hash reach'd the throne of Heaven divine . He who can comfort ve hath sent

      His Angel to make loud proclaim , Tt&t " truth sh&ll reign . " each knee be bent , / or " Knowledge" is that Angel ' s nama . Oh . ' blessed messenger of Heaven , Bail I hafl to thee , the sonl's delight , Thy mission hath been Barely given , To torn oar darkness into light—Thy presence righteous rapture brine?—Men feel thy power , and own thy sway , Beneath the shadow of thy wings iBJnstice and deceit decay . Those rights usurped by the few TJsto the many them win give , ProTing the proverb to bs

      traa—That all shall free and equal hve . Then let mankind embrace thy farm , The f orttsste of immortal life , Thy fruits alone can qn =-il the storm Of Brutal ignorance and strife . Be it the potto * pride to praise Tby good effects , thy moral power , Who sees thy pure resplendent rsys , Descending in a genial shower . Inspire his heart , his head , and pen , To pioneer thy glorious Trim , To soothe the sonl * of savaee men . of

      And heal tbepan ^ s mental pain . ^ Knowledge 2 the patriot ' s heart tbou cheers , Freedom revives where ' ere thon goes , B * t tyrants ^ breasts are fi !! 'd with fears , Fjr thy disciples are their foe 3 . What fool is be would Etop thy c . urss , O : straggle to impede thy way . O ' er all tb . 2 earth thy mighty force Rolls on in triumph day by dsy . Thy works shall caise men to comtnne , And cleanse corruption to the core . Thou hast the power , the task be thine , Ice reign of Freedoni to restore . B £ xjaki > - Stot Manchester .

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      AX ADDRESS ' Tfniicn by John Watkins . and Spoken by Mr . Savtiie , at the Jtopal' Victoria Theatre , on Wednesday , December 1 th , 1842 . / or ; he Benrjii ef she Orphan of ths late Wuiitm Thomas , Stone Moaon . S = e here this child !—this little lonely flo-rer , Befresh'd to-night by your reviving shower . Ljck np , my boy '—thy benefactors see . 'Tis innocence we help when we help thee . ' He losi iia mother ! ( greatest loss below . " . Last her before a mother he could know . The vampire Death did steal her breath away , TTmTe he asleep upon her bosom lay ; Sot then be bad a father !—ziotr no more 1 Bereft of both , and left apon life ' s shore ; Had not onr TJSI 05 stretch'd its hand to wire , Ifcia brother * ! ehfld had perish'd on his grave .

      Twas on a luckless morn sear SonnLng ' a Brow , Where the Great Western cats the line below , The steam-horse fljing with its carriage-train Of Christmas folks , to visit home again ; All blinking of the friends they soon wiil 3 * e—Bat hark I that crash;—those shrieks of agony ! Daaih m £ t * t" » TT » tbera , alas . ' do more they 11 heir "A merry Christmas &od a Hapyy Year !" This orphaa ' i father shared the frightful doom—Bmi'd from the railway to a sad-iea tomb . Of parents , kindred , friends , and home bereft , And to the Bistile ' a tender mercies left . ilysterions Provifleries by this ha : h tried

      If we bad pity for him to provide . We sought yonr aid . and yon to-night h * ve ahown , Tour care no less for hist than for y ~ nr own . Be lost his mother and his father too ; Bat found the want of both supplied by yon . Tea , to yonr hearts we ne'er appeal in T . iii , TJnsteeTd by pride—onpetriSed by grun ! If 0 titled crowns around yonr broTS may shine , Bat there Philanthropy br&tns more divice ! Yonr breasts fUma not wiik high-born Honour ' s star , Bnt , warmed by pity , they sxe uobi-r far . Virtue more " » iTtnoc 3 is in sees of toil , Far virtoe loves a hardy , honsst sell .

      This child scarca knows how he can Thark ye yet , Bnt Heaven repays the poor man ' s pi . ns debt ; Bis parents' spirits hover o ' er yenr heid , And blessings on yon for his sake they shs 3 ! From a Corrcspsndeni .

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      LEEDS . —Tekpi ^ lsce Sc-ciett . —T ] i # annnal festival of thi 3 society was cek-bra ' rd on Monday -eTcning last , by & party in tie Mniic Hall , Albionstreet . There was a very numerous and highly re ~ gpettaVte company of both Ecxe ? , and the saloon of ; be Music Hall , -which vf ; -5 elegantly and appropriately decorated with evergreens , flags , & •; . Resented a gay and festive scene . Tea was serFed up on numerous tables , divided into suitable partitions , each section being presided oTer by a lady to whose management it had been previously assigned ; » d to » 11 of whom th » compxny were greatly indebted . The tables having been all stored . We

      tiaak thee , Lord , for this oar food , " was sang , after which ample justice was done to tbeviiDds , and the esp winch cheers bnt not inebriates" wa ? freely partaken » f . After tea the tables were cleared from the bodj of the room and the company , increased to l densely wedded mass , were accommodated by croEfi feats , every portion of the orchestra being slso occupied . Previous to the commencement of the business , four stanzas of an appropriate bynm by Mr . Sigonrney , of America , were sung . Mr . John Andrew jan . was ann » naced in the placards calling the

      Bie « ing to preside , but at his reqafst , and by tbe Tote of the meeting , his brother . Mr . Joseph Anfcew , occupied the chair , and addressed the meeting « some 1 fcngin , a 5 did also , J . 3 . Buckingham , Esq , fi » e orieatal traveller , who entered into a narradon of trails and eirenmstances Trhich Jed him to the conticsioii that total abstinence from intosicatiDx floors w& 3 the best adapted to tae physical and *^ E al health of man ; asd the Rev . Joseph Barker , of Newcastle . Thanks were then rotrd 10 the ladies tod tie meeting broke np abott ten o ' clock . -

      Jaiai Acctdett . —On Tuesday nooD , an inquest *» £ " nud at the Conrt House , before Jo > n Biackburn , tq-, on the body of John Calvemy . fi . iy-four years «» age , who died in the I&finnary on Monday « fa ; ing . The deceased was a sizing boiler , at Morlejjbehad been at GUdersome , on Friday Ia 5 t , v > bich Ji « ehfi'iefiabont fire o ' ciook iu me aTiernoon , and tocossing a field in ths occupation c : Mr . Thomas feertrs , he by som ? means , on s'epp irjg from the side « » fd ) tpEti , feii intoa duch and sniiained a compound fcitxktion of the ancle joint . He Jay in this Btate BasilJabvHK nine o ' clock , when he w » s found and * attofed home , from whence he was trcnght to the i ^ o&ry on Satnrday morning . 2 tir . Allan , the « ow ? Sorgeon , attribnted his death 10 the injuries « iad sustained , and the previous state of the seeaeed ' E health . Terdict , " Accidental Dasth . "

      CoxxiTTAi . —On Saturday ! s ? t , a boy named « mnel Scott , was committed for trial by tne sitting { MSttiaies , at tho Coari House , on a charge of swag 5 toHn two pairs of children's shoes from P ^ op of iii 3 . Wiicatltj , at the top of ileadow-High wat RoBBEiY . —On Tuesday last , a man of { rV ^ - ^' -er , named Samuel Foihendli , residing « tloiDcCK , was bronchi before GnS ^ Ji Wright , Jf-H- aau liichard Bramlev . Esq ^ on a charge cf ^ iwaj robbery . Iwo otner men , named Hudson «« rio . asworih , Were m custody on lie Bsme ^ kc , out iiifcre being no evidence to implicate ^ , taeJ Were di 6 charge < L xne kcT . i srael

      Hoifu 7 ' ^ tsieyan ministfcr , deposed , tha ; he resided at Tkr TT ' , oa ^ e evening of the Tuesday prejj ^ ae had been at Ar m ley to preach ; he was re-* riri ^ v *^ a 9 ** Desr n 5 ne w ' ciock , and when t ^ rA 5 t ° rt distance of Cockshot Lane Bar , on ju ^*^ aad Stanringley road , ha was attacked by ^ f ^ B who knocked him . down , covered hiseyeB , ^ . - "wDoinhis persona fciiver watch , with » steel B ^ JL ^* ' ^ -H witJi his name , " Israel jftSr ea g « ved on the lid , a pocket-knife with fiiirSf ? »»* two blades , a silver ponoU ca » , *» i otha 7 ^ boate ' ^ ™ °° ey , a pair of spectacles , iP'sstTtk - ^ information of this ro bbery was

      ejrentt ~^^ l Sandaj Lut , vrbea , from sotme a ^ d 7 hT ^* lli dl "wlied the ein of Inspector fteli (> J \ r S * rita Hajdey and Stubbs , went to ** whoa y ^?* owned StockweU , in Holbeck , * ked 3 ± otltefpU lodged ; they found him there ^ inhb L ^ **«*» £ him thej found ftotbing ; « ta , I ! , 7 *^ 8 po cket they found a silver pencil 5 B oKf * W tonfr i mu » » brass watch key 5 ?* n of iL * ""«« Mr . HuJr ; ave identified «• ^ T ® **? PWy of which he hau bt . nrobbed *• 'Widii » , t « ? r ° P « "y cad fc . fcu a scovered . ^ H ih « T ! t y c « iuai ; ted to Yoik CasUe for *** o next aAASck .

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      The Isle of Mas . —A memorial to the Board of Trade from several mercantile houses in Leeds has recently been trausmiitcd to London . The memorialists express their opinion of the injustice of levying a tax of 2 id per cent , on British goods imported into the Isle of Man , and they farther state their conviction that such a form of taxation is detrimental to the manufacturing and other trading interests of the united kingdom , whose goods , they submit , should go free into that part of Her Majesty ' s dominion- In reply to the memorial the following communication has been received : — " Office of Committee of Privy Council for Trade , Whitehall .

      December 10 , 1842 . —Gentlemen , —I am directed by the Lords -of the Committee of Privy Council for Tradeto acknowledge the receipt of the printed application , signed by yourselves and other merchants of Leeds , relative to the duty of 2 A par cent , and fifteen per cent , on the importation fnto the Isle of Man , of cotton , woollen , and other British manufactured goeds ; and I am directed to acquaint you , for . your information and that of the "memorialists , that my Lords do not at present see any sufficient reason for an alteration in the coastbg system . I am , gentlemen , your obedient servant , J-Macgregos- Messrs . Stowe , Brothers and Co ., Leeds . "

      Savage Assault . —On Saturday last , Mr . Joseph Norihor ~ p , of Pudsey , butcher , was fined by the magistrates at the Court House 40 s . and costs , for an aggravated assault on a young man named Cooke , at th « house of Mr , Wilson , the White Swm Inn , Briigate , on the Tuesday previous . The defendant was in liquor , and was very violem and abusive ; he not only struck the complainant with an iron spiioon , by which his hand w ± 3 greatly iujured , but also threw 3 tumbler glass at tho head of another person which only missed him by a very providential turn , or a sacrifice of lilein \ ght have been the r ^ suic .

      BOLTON—Chakge of Exbfzzlzhent—At the B-jRiuxh Court , on Monday last , Gror ^ e Harknoss , late a traveller for Robert and George John Clapperton , ef Bokon , drapers and travelling chapmen , Tvas brousht np , charged with having embezzled various sums of money belonging to bis employers , and with having stolen from them two yards of broad * cloth , and two yards and a half of kerseymere . It was stated in evidence , that , about May , " 1340 . . the prisoner entered the prosecutors' service as a traveller , for the term of four years , and was to have meat , lodgings , clothe ? , and travelling expenses ; . the clothes to be paid for at the end of the term , when they were to start him in business . He continued in their service until the 31 st of December

      last ; when , by consent , he returned to Scotland . It was his dut ) to eater all goods sold in one book , and the m ^ ney reciiv ^ d in another book , and make up his accounts every Friday evening . He had sold a gown piece te Mrs . Culcheth , of Horwich ,- for which ne entry had been made ; and it was pTOfed that he had received tbe money . A number of papers wnh various sums or money upon them , in his owa handwriting , were handed in , bu : not received as evidence . John Shaw . a feliow-servatit with prisoner , stated , that some time ago , on a Saturday night , he a = kcd the prisoner if he bad any money ; arid the prisoner said he had , aT > d showed rim 8 s . or 10 s . He then said he had suld goods for ready money , and not entered them . On the 22 d Octobtj list , h * saw prisoner cut off the

      cloth spoken of , in prostcutora' warehouse , fold it in a parcel , direct it for himself , and take it away . This witness was severely cros- ^ -examiued by Mr . Jardine , as" to being a servant ^ o long a time , and not having informed his imp ' oytrs when he had a knowledge of the prisoner's defalcations . Mr . Jardine declined calling evidence in defence , reserving it for the Quarter SssMons , if necessary . The prisoner , he said , had left by consent , br-ing furnished with money by the prosecutor to go to Scotland , aad no inqairie 3 were m-ide about him . He returned to Bolton about three weeks ago , aud entered the service of Mr . Watson , another draper , aud had been amongst tie prosecutor : * ' customers . Tney , probably , not liking their connection injured , had instituted the prosecution . The prisoner was committed for trial at the boron gh sessions .

      HUDDERSFIEI . 'D . —On Monday night last , as a young man named Hoiroyde , wa 3 returning from LSndley homewards , he mistook his road from the darkness of the iii . sht , and instead of coming through the style oil the road at tho Top of Ainlejs , go : so near to the edge of a precipice that he fell , aud so far injured himself that his life is despaired off . BAHNSIalLTr>— On Sunday a public examination of the children of the Odd r ellowg Sunday School , will take place Jn the school room , at two o ' clock in Ihe afternoon , after which several scholars will recite pieces . A collection will be made at the

      close . in aid of the funds of tha school . Also on Monday evening a public tea fsrtj aad ball will take place in the Odd Fellows' Hall , the proceeds to be appropaiated to the suppon of the above school . The amusements of the evening will b ^ interspersed with rongs , recitations , and a party of glee singers will be in attendance . Tbe tea will be on the table at five o ' clock , p . m ., and the ball to commence at ei ^ ht punctually .. Tickets , to tea and ba 4 , Is . each , Ball only , ' 6 d ,, may be had of tbe printer , of J . * chcol-ina-- ter , Mr . Tbomas Fretweil , Odd Feilowe ' Hail , Mr . Joshua Wilkinson , Musical Tavern , aud of the comtnitlftr " .

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      Wagss . —Lord LonsdaJe has cr-Jered a reduction to be made io the wages o ; hi * labourers—of two sail ic ;; s per Trcik on those itCfclTing 13 i . —Carlisle Journal . Bhidport . —As a proof of the mildness of the season , there is now to be ? een in the garden of Mr . James Travis , of Biddlelake faria , near this town , a robin ' s nest , Ttdih four youDg ones ; they appear quite healthy and strong . —Salisbury Herald . The Ttphits Fevkh continues its ravages , turning many once happy homes into houses tsf nu-urning . Many families have been severely visitedniore toan . orje gap having been made in soiae . — Dundee Herald .

      The Rev . Wil Bailet , L . L . D ., charged with forg ing a promis ? ery note for £ 2 S 75 , purporting to be drawn by Robert Smith , diseased , on Miss Anne Bailey , ( sister of the prisoner , ) has . bcen committed for tria : at the Old Bailey . A BCPEEFI 5 K beaver hat was sett by po .-t the other day ironi Manchester to B-lfast . The postage on this novel transmission was 3 J . —[ False : there is no sueh postage . ] A deote of 5000 geese pas 3 ed through Cambridge last wetk , on their way to the great holocaust in London . When they halted , the hissing multitude were fed with 10 ct-iabs of cats and 2 l > bushels of potatoes-The Leicester Herald ( an ultra T < - > ry journal ) was discontinued on isnturuay week , after being in exiaience fifteen years .

      A few days ago , as one of the entires , with the tender attached , was going at full speed between this town aud Rotherham . a pigeon was seen to fly very Jow , directly along the line before the engine . Whether from fright or want of speed is not known , but , strange to say , it was overtaken , knocked down by the-engine , and run oxer . —Sheffield Iris . Chhjstjias Boxes . —The board of management of the St . Marylebnne Alms-houses , St . JohnVwood , have distributed a Christmas gift of 5 s . to each single person inhabinng a room in that iii .-titutioii , aud 7 s . 6 d . to each married couple . The institution sffc-rds a refuse , with bread and coals , to above seventy aged and decayed ratepayers of St . Marylebone .

      ToutktTCBE cf a EittWAY . —On Wednesday , theil-tinrt ., Sir H ; -nrj Hunloko , Bart ., of Winnervrorth Hail , proceeded , along with Mr . Brown and other witnesses , to taka pos ^ rssion of the branch line of railroad itadlDg from Hopton-bridge to Timberlane ( known a 3 ihe Cuke ' s line ) , which the North Midland Company has forfeited to him under certain arrangfinenio . —Derbyshire Courier . The Ukehploted . —Large numbers of operatives in want of employment etiil wander about tbe streets . On Friday a party , consisting of upwardB of a hundred , held a meeting in Albion-street , in the open air , to discuss their grievances . Prevented as ibey are from soliciting charity , what can these famished creatures do ! ifaey are at present literally starving , with no prospects of relief . —Glasgoie Citizen .

      A iLiN Shot Dead with a Cohk . —A few jnornin / p a ^ o , Dr . G . II . ii'Cullock , oi Ma ^ asra , near Belfast , and Dr . Barr , of that town , w <_ ro visiting _ a patient a short distance in the country , and on their return to tojrn , they called at the hotel , aud # ot two kot : les 01 soda-water , when , whf'st Surges ; Birr was in the act of uncorking oiie of tho botties . the cork Rcrr , and struck Surgesn M'Gallock sciacwhere abou : the jugular vein , and he fell almost instantaneously . Surgejn Barr , who was much agitated at ths shock , was enable to render much relief . Surgeon Marcus Do&riih was immediately cal ' cxi in , who used every means possible to restore the unfortunate gentleman to lii ' o , but the vital spark had fled .

      Seykn children' belonging to St . Saviour ' s Chanty School , Soutbwark , civided among themselves a small packet of yellowish powder which one of them had picked np in tha street , and found to be of a sweedsh taste . They wk . soon afterwards 1 taken dreadfolly iU , the powder having been found to be arseaic . and although prompt remedies were applied , one of them who had eaten the largest portion died the same day , and the rest had a Tery narrow ea » P « - - . " . . __ ...

      L » r- > jn > Laboxtb . —A Bempstrea fai ? £ ** on >* appear ii paid Hi . for mafan * c a sailor * ihirt . By worSn * vVry hard , ud finding bar own needles , . be m y thus eara 4 * d . a day . The pneeof the cheapen quartern loal Bbe ean buy w IJd . A lo » f ofbS U Id . dearer than her whole day ^ ork . One of these- wretehed s niFererfl was M ^** * " ^ pmsic acid the other day . When the labour of hie £ bo severe , who can wonder that the P °° £ ^ often be wekleee in leaving it i When we , coaftMt ibevngee of induitry with the rewards of dissipation , is there room for surprise at the prevalence 01 vice f

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      « v FWKnD t 0 Astro-Meteorology Bta , tes his opinion that this winter will not only b 9 ranch more severe than any we have had of late years , bus that the cold weather will commence soon after the new moon , if not before . The year will pass oui with sharp weather , whilst from the 1 st to the 11 th of January we are likoly to experience the Iowe 3 t temperature for the next year . About the 3 rd and 7 th days wiil be extremely rigorous , with much snow and probably wind . " — Hampshire Advertiser . Loss of £ 3 , 000 in Bank Notes . —We have learned thata panel , transmitted from a provincial town by caravan , and containing , as we are

      informed , £ 3 , 000 in bank notes , has been Io 3 t or stolen . The parcel was directed to the office of a bankiug establishment in this city , and was delivered , lu mistake for another , to an individual who travelled by the caravan , on its arrival in this city . On inquiry being made subsequently at the residence of this person , he exhibited what he stated to be the contents , which consisted of brown paper folded neatly . The affair is enveloped in mystery . An inquiry upon the subject has commenced at one of the police-nffices . It is said that the notes were sent up to Dublia for the purpose of bang cancelled . —Mercantile Advertiser .

      A Rotai , Baroti of Chbistmas Beep . —Her Majesty commanded that a baron of beef , according to ' old English custom in baronial halh and royal palaces , " should be the chief dish at the royal banquet at the Castle on Christmas Day . A splendid biron , weighing nearly 250 pounds , was selected for th ^ occasion by one of the purveyors of meat to her Majesty at Windsor . .. The baron was nearly four feet in length , and upwards of two ftet wide ; " a dainty dish , " in every way worihy to *' set before " the Qieen . This enormous joint was roasted on Friday , and placed upon the banquet table cold .

      Extraordijuht Fjbe . —Oa the 12 tb in .-t ., before daybreak , as the LondoD mail was approaching Huntley , a village between Gloucester and Ross , the guard , in passing a van loaded with good 3 , discovered poaaething on fire inside the waxgoc , and immediately called and gave the alarm to the driver , who , quickly climbing up the side of the vehicle , removed the tarpaulin when tie flames burst forth with great violence : the horses , becoming much frightened , started off at fall gallop , and with such speed that the guard of the mail was obliged to call out to the coachman several time ? , to enable them to keep a-head of the fiery vehicle in the rear , which biszad away for several miles , the affrighted aninaals galloping at the top of their speed , till the whole of the good- ; , which consisted of hops , grocery , and drapery , ana ths body of tbe waggon , were totally consumed . The driver of the van is eeveroly burnt , and the value of the goods consumed is very considerable .

      Spain . —The Barcelonese have been effectually qnieted , but with a s : ropg hand , and at a heavy exptiusa to the rebellious city . Thirteen soldiers active Jn the insurrection has been shot ,, by order of the Regent ; some 70 or 80 moii ; are to be transported for different periods , up to ten years ; and a fine of twelve million reals have been exacted from the city of Barcelbni , to be paid within a peri -d of eight days . The conduct of tho French consul at Barcelona , M . Lesseps , during the insurrection , has roused strong feelings of indiffu lion is the Spanish Government ana its supp * rtsi > , which at oneiime almost threatened a rupture between Espartero and Louis Philippe . This functionary is accused of having by his statements misled the defenders of a

      fort at Barcelona into surrender to the insurgents , of detaining the wife and children of the Spanish Captain-General as hostages for the insurgent junta , and of re-landing several of the most violent of us members to return and blow up the flame of rebellion after the insurgents had laid down their arm * . The answer of the French Government to these charges was to take upon itself the responsibility of the Consul ' s acts by rewarding him with the rank of an officer of the legion of honour . Mutual remonstrances have ensued , the French Government alleging that its Consul has been calumniated , but as Espariero has been too cautious to give his too powerful neighbour any feasible pretext for a quarrel , the threatening asipect of affairs will , it is hoped , disappear . I

      Mks . Tkollope and the New Poor Law . — Every one to whom the New Pour Law forms a matter of consideration will be interested to know that Mrs . Troliope , who so successfully directed attention to the Factory System by her work entitled " Michael Arms : rong , " intends commencing the New Year with a new production in Shilling Monthly Numbers , called " Jessie Phillips , " of which the existing Poor Law furnishes the theme . The following is an extract from the prospectus : — * The object the author has had in view in tho composition of this work has been to call the attention

      of her readers to tho absolute necessity of some altera' .: ou in the Law which at present regulates the maintenance and management of the poor . Her own conviction of its tyranny and injustice , of the crual hardsbips which are inflicted on tho poor by the attempt to enforce them , is strong , and she conaoientiously believes well founded . She is also deeply impressed with the general impolicy and evil teudeucy of that system of administrative centralization , which teems of iato to have been creeping into the practice of our Government . Above all , the authoreFS is anxious to declare her detestation of the

      newly broached doctrine that tfeepoor havenoH ^ A / to a eufficienoy of neoessary food to sustain tho life which God has given them ; and she hopes and belieyts that there aro still abundantly enough English hearts to join with her in scouting this doctrine as unchristian . Shipwreck-. —On Friday morning last , we regiet to state , that in eonseqnence of the foggy and stormy state of the weather , the galliot Die Gute Hoffnung was driven into our bay , about three o ' clock in the morning , and grounded amid a

      tremendous surf on that formidable sandbank , Cefn Sitlan , immediately under T&nlan , which has bo often in-£ aired vessels and their valuable cargoes . feh « was bound from Leghorn , in Italy , to the city of Hamburgh , with a general cargo , consisting , among other things , of valuable marble statuary , the principal of which was a splendid statue of Diana , intended as a present to the King of Prussia , the value of wbich is estimated at £ 2 . 000 . The crew consisted of the captain , mate , and three sailors ; the captain ' s wife and two children were also on board . Of these

      all were say id , except 0110 little boy , the captain ' s son , who died from exhaustion and exposure to the teinpsst . From the time the ship struck a tremendous Burf continued to break over her , and it was with the greate .-t difficulty they saved themselves from being swept away by clinging to the rigging . In this forlorn statn they were discovered by David Williams , a fisherman , living at Penybacn , who , at low water , with a few of his neighbours , at considerable personal risk , rowed to the vessel , and succeeded in extricating the caotain and crew from their perilous situation . The snip sailed from the port of Emden , and belonged to the captain , J . N . C . Sclck , entirely .

      Jhu ship Jen Leghorn on the 2 blh of October , and in consequence of tho thickness of tbe weather the captain was unable to take a single observation since the O' . h of this month , which , with the heavy southwesterly gales that prevailed , will account for his ignorance of the precise position in which he was when the ship wa 3 driven pn Bhore . She has since bc-coine a total wreck , and is imbedded in the sands , Mr . M'Kierman , of Pembrey , thinks some of the marble in the hold may be recovered , and has engaged to make an attempt to rai « e the same on being allowed one-third in value of all he succeeds in bringing up . We are sorry to state the ship was only insured to half its value . —Carmarthen Journal .

      A Fashionable Miscreant . —At Bow-street , on Thursday , a gentlemanly young man , fashionably attired , who gave his name Charles Henry , wa $ cnarged before Air . HaL ) , with taking Isabella Spicer , a child interesting in appearance , and only nine j'ears of age , to a brothei . Mary Ann White , the owner of the House , slated that the prisoner came to her house , about two o ' clock this morning , and asked to be shown to a room . He was accompanied by a child , and she ( witness ) would not allow him to go np stairs with such a child . He then abused her , and knocked her down , when she gave him into the custody of a policeman . The child was ordered to be placed in the witness box , and as she appeared at the bar of the box , which she could

      butjnst look ovtir , an indescribable thrill of indignation ran through the court . After being questioned upon the nature of an oath , she was sworn , and stated that she lived in Oakley-street , Lambeth , and was oat selling lucifer matches , and having come over to this side of the water , she had lost herself , and was coining clown St . Martin ' a-lane , inquiring her way home , when the prisoner came up and asked her to come with him , and he would give her some money . She followed him , expecting that he would give her sometn ing , and he then took her to the house of last witness , in a court off Long-acre . The parents of the child said they were oiu all night looking for her , as her usual time for coming home was ten o ' clock . Mr . Hall condemned them far allowing their child to go about begging ; they , however , pleaded their extreme poverty . Police constable , 40 F , stated that when he took the prisoner into custody , he offered him £ 2 to de

      allow him to escape , bnt he ( the policeman ) was - termined to secure hi a . The prisoner then strugled to get away , and struck tbe officer so severely , as to ftll him to the earth . The officer pursued him , and succeeded in re-capturing him , when he eonveyed him to the station bouse . The magistrate said that the prisoner was guilty of three distinct charges , the first of which he would not at present give an opinion upon . But for the assault upon the woman , who so properly refused to admit him into her house with a child of such a tender age , he would fine him £ 5 , or , in default of payment , to one month in the House of Correction . For tbe assault , upon the constable , he would at once commit him for one month to hsrd labour . Mr . Hall severely animadverted upon the conduct of the prisoner , who , in answer to the magistrate ' s inquiry , said he was of high family , and a law stuu ^ iu . The prisoner was then removed , bat appeared not the least affected .

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      A MELANCHOtr accidenx happened at the Steventort railway station on Wednesday last . It appears that inactive young man of the name of Charles Ward , nineteen years of age , wib employed as an assistant by thaeompany , and 011 tbe arrival of one of the luggage trains , about one or two o ' oloek in the morning , He Tery imprudently endeavoured to get on tbe step of one of the trucks before it had stopped , and his foot slipping be was knocked down , and the carriage , went over both his thighs , crushing them in a dreadful manner . The poor fellow was brought to oar infirmary in a fly , but survivqd only one hour after his arrival . —Oxford Herald .

      Attempt to Mubder a Fabmrb in BRANDON , Suffolk . —On the night of the 22 nd instant a most daring attempt was made to murder Mr . George Wood , farmer , of tho village of Bwndon , Suffolk . He had gone dnring the day to Soham , a small town not fax distant , to transact some business , and started homewards at about ten o ' clock . Upon reaching his residence within a mile , and when near the house of Mr . Kenyon , which stands amidst some trees and shrubs , a gun or large pistol was levelled at him and dtsharged . It fortunately happened that he escaped uninjured , and the ruffian , as soon as he found that his object had failed , ran off as fast as he could . Mr . Wood is not better kuown than respeoted in the Tillage , and with what object his lifts can have been sought , except for the purposo of plunder , cannot be conceived . A ' reward of £ 50 for auch information as would lead to the apprehension of the parties has been offered .

      ^ Comparative National Statorb . —In consequence / of arguments respecting tho height for soldiers we have taken come pains at , various times to ascertain the relativo height of English , Irish , and Scotch recruit ? . As far as tbe Line Regiments are concerned the Irish have a decided , adyantege'in height . It must be . howover , taken into account that the Guards , the Marines , and thp majority of the Cavalry and Artillery are English , and the recruits for theso are all of superior standard . It may thoa be doubted , if an equal number of tall men were deducted out of the total recruits raised in Ireland , whether any difference would exist , in weight the English recruit has the advantage , the heights being cqnal . A regiment of the line that consists .-wholly' of Englishmen will generally bo found to average shorter-thau-either the Irish , Scotch , or the mixed corps . —Naval and Military Gazette .

      Singular Rtcr . vERT of Stolen Property ; , —A bag containing the sum . ' of £ 85 in notes and coin , the property of the stewards of the Ruby , was stolen from the cabin of that vessel , at Gravesendi ou Saturday se'nnight . No traces could be found either of the box or tne thiof , and the disconsolate owners had givenup all thoughts of ever recovering their lost treasure . On Wednesday se'tinight . it was discovered , with its contents untouched , amongst tb'j ashes heaped up in a coal barge . -It appears that on the night of tho robbery the Ruby was moored alongside the said barge , ami the robber , fearful of detection , had buried his plunder amongst tho rubbish until he could find an ¦ . opportunity of conveying it away iu safety . The culprit has not yet been discovered .

      Infant Li'cruREK . —Master Arthur Harvey , of Haletiworth , aged eight years and a half , has been lecturing on astronomy at Framlinghara , Woodr bridge , &c . The correct and appropriate language of the young lecturer , illustrated b y many suitable diagrams constructed by himself , excited tho admiration and called forth the warm approbation of his auditors . His modest self-possession and freedom from embarrassment , his extraordinarily retentive memory and accurracy of minute detail , we are told , would do credit to an experienced lecturer , —iVoruich Paper . —[ We think the poor child would have been better ia bed T

      Thk Poor Law Commissioners versus Christmas Fare . —At the last meeting of the 'Limerick Board of Guardians a letter was read from the Guardians , disapproving of the proposed dietary for tho paupers on Christmas-day , when the ^ following very sensible resolution , appended at the foot of the letter , was adopted , wiih the full approval of all present .: — " Resolved , that the Commissioners be requested to defray the expenses of the extra diet out of their enormous , salaries . " Mansfield —On Mondaytnornins ; two oat stacks , one barley stack , one of hay , and one of 6 traw , and two barns , one containing about forty loads of uhthrashed wheat , were completely burnt to a cinder , one barn was completely gutted ; nothing but the bare walls are standing . The property belongs to Mr . John Nayior , of Pleasley Bill , in the parish of Mansfield . The fire is supposed : to be the work of an inoendiary . /

      Green Christmas . —The weather on the continent during tho last lonnight has been equally fine and spring-like as wiih'us . Tuesday week , in Hamburg , was one of thf > most beautitul days which , during the revolving months of 1842 , has shone upon the picturesque and delightful scenery of its suburbs . Amongsttho shipping , the men at work threw off , not only jackets , but waistcoats and heckerchiefsi as they would have done in May . There was not a particle of ice in the Elbe ; but , on the contrary , the

      day was quite warm . Sinco Saturday , the weather at sea haa assumed a more equinoctial appearance , on Sunday , at break of day , the Bong of the blackbird saluted our ears with all the freshness of returning summer . Yesterday was one of the warmest days we have had during this very unseasonable weather . Our own out-door avocations gave us a broiling ; and we met with several windows thrown open to the full extent , where clerks and artizins were pursuing their industrious occupations . —Eastern Counties Herald . !¦¦ : ¦'¦

      Serious Affray between the military-.-. and Police , at Paisley . —Sinca tho arrival of the d ^ pot of the 87 th regiment of Royal Irish fusileers at Paisley garrison , a good deal of quarreftiug and disturbance have taken place baewcon them on the one hand , and the inhabitants and police on the other . Threeof the soldiers had : been drinking in a public house in Moss-street , on the afternoon of Monday , and had fallen out with some other company in the roi > m in which they were sitting . After having left the house , thoy returned in a few minutes , leaped the counter of a shop , and commenced an indiscriminate attack on all who came in tiioir way , which , as a matter of course , soon throw the whote house into the utmost

      confusion . Two police officers arriving , one of thorn was struck a plight blow with a stick , ivhion had the effect of making him Bt , art > back and be more on his guard . When the landlord had succeeded in getting all concerned in the row turiicd out at the door , he followed the soldiers towards the County-buildings on their way to the barracks , in order to preserve the peace till they got out of the town . When they arrived at the north end of the building another stand was made , and the stick or club with which the soldier was armed was again put into requisition—the fellow twirling it about his head , and striking at every one within his reach . The officer who was struck tho second time a « am approached , and received a blow Which f « liod him . This raised the

      indignation of the spectators , and one stout fellow , more covfragooua than th < s rest , rushfld upon tho madman and threw him off his feet . He aad one of his companions were then taken to the pblice-offioethe third escapod . The two soldiers have since been handed over to the county Fiscal for prosecution . The police officer is still in a dangerous state , his skull having been laid baro and slightly fractured . On the Bame evening , about eight o ' clock , a night watchman , while proceeding to the office to go on duty , was attacked by another of these men , who struck at him with his stick , and used the most threatening language . Ho was taken into custody , and will be brought up under a libel by the burgh Fiscal . —Glasgow Chronicle . ;

      A Fatal Experiment . —On Tuesday evening last , the quiet and peaceful village oi' Eckington , in this county , was thrown into a state of great excitement by a rep » rt that a boy about ten years of age , the son of a labouring man named Thomas Jeynes , had hung himsulf , and on inquiry the report was fuund to be but too true . For some time past the deceased had been in the employ of Mr . Sheppard , of the above place , as carter ' s boy , and on the evening in question , uponUajnes , tho cirtfer , going into the stable between five and six o ' oloek , he discovered him lying at full length upon the ground , with a cord , 0110 end of which was attached to a beam , drawn tightly round his neck , by which his head was raised , about a quarter of . a yard from , the

      gronnd . It was conceived almost impossible that strangulation could have taken pface while he Was in this position , as he had the Ireo use of all his'limbs , aud he could easily have extricated himself from his situation ; but it was supposed that he had balanced himself upon something while he fastened tho cord to the beam . having done which bo lost his hold and foil , and continued struggling until he got into the position in which he was discovered , but was then too weak to make any efforts to save himself . Immediately he was fouud be was taken into Mr . Sheppard ' s house , and . a person living in the village , who is occasionally called in in cases of necessity , was sent for to-bU-ed him ; but when he arrived lite was quite extinct , and the blood refused to flow . Various rumours were speedily anoat as to the cause of this melancholy event , some of which were calculated , if true , to connect with it John Haynes , Mr . Sheppard ' s carter . It was said that he was

      continually ill-treating the boy , and some ventured to hint that ho had actually bung him . On Friday an inquest was held on the body at the Bell Inn , Eckington , before Mr . C . Best , and a highly respectable jury , when , after diligently aud carefully investigating the case , the jury returned a verdict that the deceased died from strangulation ; and unanimously acquitted Haynes , the carter , of all blame whatever . la the course of the inquiry it was stated that while the deceased was talking with two other boys , about his own age , the night Before his death about the murder at Rouse Leaoh , upon one of bis companions remarking that the prisoner Archer would he hung , he observed " that he should not mind about being hung . " The general opinion now is , that he had no intention of committing suifcide , but was merely trying what sensation hanging would produce , wh > -u . he' lost his hold , fell , and could not recover himself . —Ten Town ' s Mcssenaen

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      Novel Mode of Robbing a Hen-Roost . —Farmer Budd , of North - Fareham , bad bis fowl-bouse robbed a few nights einct ' , in the following novel manner , of nine fowls ^ s—The thieves having tound a hol e in tho house large enough for ikeir purpose , sent in a ferret , secured by a string , whioh , on seizing a fowl , was drawn to the hole , the JHid taken , and the trick repeated . The tenth experiment failed by the string breaking , leaving the ferret behind to disclose the manner of a robbory , which' otherwise would havs been unaccountable . Many f < y » i-house 3 in the neighbourhood have lately been robbed in this ingenious way . —Hampshire Advertiser . .

      Meeting at Skibbrreen—Presence op the Military and Police dispensed with . — -A numerously attended meeting of the magistrates and inhabitants generally of Skibbereeh and the surrounding districts , took place on Thursday in the court house of that town , Lord Carbery in the chair , tor the purpose of adopting measures in , regard to the removal of the large military and police forces quartered in the town since , the unfortunate occurrence at Rath . The result of considerable discussion was the passing of a resolution , proposed by

      Alexander O'Driscoll , Esq ., seconded by Richard Towji 8 < in « l , Keq ., to the effect , that , deeming tho collection of the poor rates throughout the district , as represented by the returns of the collectors , to be in a much more satisfactory state than cauld , under the circumstances , have been looked for , it was the opinion of the meeting that the military should .. be reduoed to a major and fifty rank and file—the same to be quartered in barracks ; and the entire of the constabulary , say 120 , be ordered off . ' to their ^ respective ^ ^ quarters . —Cork Reporter .

      Death from over eating at a Christjias Peast . —Last Monday evening Mr . Payne held an inqaest in the vestry room of the church of St . Mary Somerset , Upper Thames-street , on the body of Thomas Rogers , agsd fifty-five . It appeared in evidence that the .- 'deceased was ' ' -a workman in the employ of Mr . Rathbone , of Trigg * 3-wharf , Thames-street . On Christmas-eve all the men on the premises Were , according to the usual custom , regaled with a supper , and at eight o ' clock sat down , to the table > The deceased ate very heartily , and upon the removal of tho cloth drank freely ; for , from the bottle ? of whisky with which his master had provided them , they were allowed to take as much as they could drink . After he not hold his

      eleyeii o ' clook at ui ^ ht could head up , and as he leaned fo ' rwards . pn the table his companions , thinking he would be safer if placed by himself , conveyed him intotbecounting-house , where they laid him on the floor , and put a great coat under his head . At ono o ' clock all the other iren , w ' th the exception of G-eorge Stagg , left the premises , and he being so far intoxicated as not to bo able to get home , laid down by tho side of deceased . At seven o ' clock deceasud was found dead . Mr . Pullen , surgeon , said that death was caused by conj ^ espon of the braiaj the result of eating and drinking immoderately . He was prodi ? posed to that affootion , and had before 6 uff .. red from fits of epilepsy . Verdict"Natural death , "

      The Weather . —During the hn raonth the weather has more resembled that of midsummer than hoarly midwinter . So genial has been the temperature , that the fields are now greener than they have been at any time since the month of May . In an evening walk lately the atmosphere was bo fresh and mild that it Beemed to want only the presence of the bean flower and white clover to persuade us that it was an evening of midsummer . The Wheat is everywhere looking fresher than we ever saw it at this period of the year , and there is a greater breadth of this staff of life sown than was ever seen in Scotland . However , it is a common remark that we have seldom very cold weather until after the

      " shortest day / ' That event passed off with Thursday , and yestorday morning we had accordingly some of the usual indications of winter , namely , haU and snow , accompanied by a perfect hurricane of wind from the North-West , which continued the greater part of tho day . This wintry change , we observe , has been felt with even more severity in the West , as the Glasgow Herald remarks , thas batween eight and nine o ' clock in the evening ( of Thursday ) a perfect torrent of hail came down , aocomanied by hurricane gnsts , a vivid flash of lightning , and a sonorous peal of thunder . The convulhion of the elements was fearful , but fortunately it lasted only for a very brief space . " —¦ Caledonian Mercury .

      The Biter Bit . —On Tuesday last , while a labouring man , employed at the printworks of Messrs . Charles Swainsqn and Co ., Biiinister-hall , near this town , was examining the lodge banks near to tho side of the river Darwen , his attention was called to a bed of sand at the river ' s edgu , by a shrill screaming as of something in distresSj which , ou more cloyely searching for , he discovered to be a weasel caught by the leg in the jaws of a large eel . On his near approach , the weaseJ , by a desperate effort , made his escape , but not so tho eel ; be , poor fellow , had been roughly handled by a more powerful foe—an otter , it is supposed—and left with eight

      or nine inches of his tail end eaten off , to perish by some smaller enemy . Tho map , afraid to come near so strange a looking thing , got a long stick , with which he turned it over several timea , to satisfy himself what it was before , he dare come near it . At length , when he saw the monster too near dead to do him much harm , he secured it and carried it home in triumph . No one will much wonder at the man ' s caution when informed that what remained of the eel weighed two pounds and a half ; and the followitg evening was , with a few potatoes , as the man expressed it , a hearty supper for four , such aa they had not bad , for quantity and quality , for a lone time . — -Preston Pilot .

      Extensive Fire caused by a Balloon . —On Tuesday information was received at the various insurance-effices throughout the metropolis of a serious firo having occurred on the night of Thursday last at or near the Tillage of Westor . zoyland , a few miles from Bridgewater , occasioned by a fireballoon . The circumstances under which it took place are as follows : —In the early part of last week , the village was placarded in all directions , announcing the arrival of the wonderful Wizard of the South , and that he would honour the inhabitants with a era > nd performance on the ev ^ uing ia question XThursday ) , the announcement of which would be signalised by the ascent of a " monster ' fire balloon . Accordingly , at the time named , a great crowd assembled to witness the fete , and the balloon was sent off , to the apparent delight of all ; but , before it had attained any great elevation , the : machine : suddenly burst into

      flames , and unfortunately descended into an extensive stack-yard of Mr . Taswell , situated about a mile from the village , where it set fire to a valuable rick of wheat , and before the inhabitants could reaeh the premises t ^ yo adjoining stacks ignited and blazed away with awful violence . Although every exertion was used to stay the work of devastation , it was impossible , in consequence of the strong wind that prevailed , and in a short time the whole premises , consisting of barns , cow and cart houses , besides the whole of the stock iu the Btack-yard , were in flames . For an hour and more the appearance of the fire was terrific , and the light ; was distinctly seen at Bridgewater , whence an engine was despatched to the spot , but was unable to reach it until the entire property was consumed . Happily noTivts were lost . In the course of the following day the Wizard was taken into custody , aud underwent an examination before tbe magistrates . He was afterwards discharged *

      A Man Shot . —At an early hour yesterday morning a ma n wasi deprived of life , abort t half a mile to the easttof Rutherglen , under the following circumstances : —Mr . Mason , farmer , in BaHochmill , it appears , being very much molested by midnight thieves , and having had his potatoe bin several times plundered of a part of its contents , sent out one of his servants , a young lad named John M'Bryd'V to guard the property . For this purpose , John M'Bryde was furnished with a loaded gun ; but , notwithstanding all the precautions he had taken , and all the vigilance he displayed , twice since he was set to watch , during the time he was in the house warming himself , considerable quantities of the potatoes were stolen . This accordingly called for more attention

      on the part of the guard . Yesterday morning , however , being very stormy and cold , about two o ' clock he wa » again induced to leave his post '" -for- the . purpose of warming himself . As happened oh former occasions , his absence was taken advantage of , and on going to examine that all was rightj he was surprised to observe three men at work amongst the potatoes . He instantly discharged the gun which he carried at the depredaturs , and the whole of them disappeared , leaving their sacks halt' fiUcd in the hurry and alarm . Spfar as we have learnt , it does uot appear that it had occurred to either M'Bryde or his master . tuat any of the thieves wore materially injured , no more haying been heard of tho matter till about nine o ' clock in the morning , when the

      corpse of a man , shot through the body , was found lying not above forty yards from Mr . Mason ' s potato bin by a person belonging to Rutherglen . The dead body having been conveyed to the burgh gaol , a constable was despatched to apprehend M'Bryde , who was likewise brought to the same place . During the day the body of the dead man was ideatified as that of a person named James Allan , a quarrier by . trade , who resided in H » vannah-street , Glasgow . " The poor creature had only one arm ^ seemed to have been blind of aa cye and his whole appearance indicated the most indigent circumstances . His back and arm were completely

      riddled , and it appears astonishing how he could have dragged himself to the place where he was found after being so frightfully wounded . The deoeased , we have been informed , was upwards , of forty years of age , and was not known as a bad character ; indeed , on the contrary , his neighbours , it is Baid , looked upon him as rather a decent , although a very poor man . - Yesterday afternoon Sheriff Bell went out to Ilutherglen , and took a preeognitioh of the case ; and subsequent to this M'Bryde was transferred to Glasgow Pri ? 6 ni The priaouer is only about seventeen years of age , — Glasgow Saturday Post *

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      Manslaughter at Waltham . —A case involving the Ios 3 of human life , and originating in the custom of " * Waits , " or parties proceeding round tho village with music and singing on Christmas Eve , occurred at Great Waltham , on Saturday night ; a quarrel and fight took place between the party when excited by the drink they had received at tho different houses , and at length Frederick Olive , aged twenty-seven , a carpenter , received a blow from John Gowerp , a shoemaker , which instantly deprived him of existence . Yesterday an inquest was held upon the body at tbe Six Bells pablio-house , bef <> ro C . C . Lewis , Esq .. and a highly respectable Jury , After a lengthened investigation of witnesses , the Jury returned a verdict of "Manslaughter- ' against John Gowers , and the prisoner was committed on the Coroner ' s warrant for trial at the assies . Ho appears about thirty years of age , and has a wife and twe children . —Essex Herald .

      Singular Occurrence—Some eonsternation . and alarm was excited at Brownlow Fold Colliery , in Hftlliwoll , near Oldbam , oa Monday morning , aboo * half-past five o ' clook , when , on descending the pit ) which is thirty-two yards two feet in depth , a female was found lying at the bottom . She was brought out , and found to be a young woman of twenty one years of age , named Margaret Brindlo , servant as a house near Great Bridge , Little Bolton , She was still alive , but in a state ot insensibility ^ and med'eal assistance was immediately procured . Her ancles apd logs were found to be iraotured , aod there was a severe contusion on tho back of the head . From inquiries immediately instituted , it was ascertained that she had kept company with a man named John Horrocks , the engine-tender at tho coal pit ; and , having been seea with her about eleven o ' clock on Sunday evening , he was suspected

      of having vhrown her down the pit . He wa 3 consequently apprehended , and brought before the magistrates , and remanded till Thursday . It appears however from other inquiries , that she heard of his haying been walking out with anothor female pa Sunday , and , had threatened to throw herself down —nay , ihat she had on a Former occasion made the attempt , liorrooks says that he left her at home at eleven o'clock in the evening , and went to his work , where he remained until two o ' clock ; but he never saw her . Another man was working there all night , and he also etnte 3 that he never saw her . She is not considered to be in a dangerous state , but is quite ineane . What probably saved her life was the force of air gathering under her clothes , and pro * venting that impetus which she would otherwise have . acquired . ¦

      Heartless Robbery . —Late on Saturday night or early the Allowing ( Christmas-dsy ) morning , some thitf or thieves broke ipto tho workshops of Alr . G . Carter , carpenter and builder . King ' s Arras-yard , Marylebone-street , Golden-Bquare , and stole therefrom the whole of the workmen's tools , together with every moveable article of the slightest value the workshops contained . A crow-bar , which was subsequently found , was used for effecting an entraRce into the premises . The loss to the poor workmen must be lamentably great , as a boiof carpouter ' s tools cost about £ 50 and upwards . The police am in active search of the villains , and it is hoped they will not long elude their vigilance . The Pat Day . —At the Oldham petit sessions , on

      Thursday last , before the Rev . T . c > . Mills , E . Hibbert , J . Mellor , arid J . F . Lees , E < q 3 ., the accounts of the special coasvabLea who were employed at Mid * dleton during ths late disturbances , were presented for examination . ; It appeared that two hundred and thirty-one constables had been engaged . Mr . Hibbert wished to know from county polioe-sergeant White , who was in attendance , by whose authority sixteen of these bad been allowed to continue oa duty five days longer than the remainder . The policeman was unabla to say who gave the Order ; but he supposed it w / is done by direction of a committee of the gehtlenien of Middkton . Mr . Hibberfc said He thought it was improper to allow such

      proceedings , without the authority of any magistrate or of any officer connected with the county . Mr . Mills poncurred in Mr . Hibbert's opinion on this subject , and said , there was another feature in the accounts which was irr . eiciular ; he alluded to the charges made for the time of the constables . In the commencemeni of the disturbances ^ they charged for eight hours per day ; when the riots were on tho decline , thej charged for ten hours per day } and at a later period * when the excitement was nearly over , some charged for twelve hours per day . This seemed strange . Policeman White wasunable to explain satisfactorily the cause of these singularities in the accounts . The bills were , however , ultimately signed .

      D 1 STRES 3 in Paisley . —The state of the poor ia Paisley was again brought before a . meeting of tho county of Renfrew on Tuesday . It appears that tha distress coutinHes without abatemeat . A faint hope is held out that trade may revive in January , but oa grounds which seem to us very questionable . Sir James Graham , in reply to an application for assistance from government , referred to tho money which had baou already remitted , and stated that the gentlemen of the district bad not yet done all th&t they ought to do . This assertion will scarcely be controverted , if it be true , as Mr . Saarpe stated , that the sum applied by the couuly ouiy amounted to one an * a fraction per cent , upon the assessable rent—one and a fraction , to keep a fourth part of the

      inhabitanta of the p lace from starvatiou ' . What will th © hcayily-taxad gentleuien of England , where tho ordinary average poor ' s rate is 2 u ' per pound , or tea per cent ., think of the measure here furnished of Scottish philanthropy I The absence of a legal provision for the poor in this country seem to have almost obliterated the great truth so beautifully enunciated bv ; Capt . Drummond . that" property has its duties aa well as its rights . " Whatever call euch great and sudden distress may make upon the country a 4 large , it is clear that the obligation is strongest upon the ueighbouriag cistrict . It may be safely said , that a town like Paisley , with 60 , 000 inhabitants , adds five or six per cent , to the value of all the lands vjFithin many milea of it . The money raised under the queen ' s letter enjoining

      collections in ail the churches , amounts to £ 90 , 000 ; and it has b < -en handed-over , it seems , to a manufacturer ' s ' relief committee in London . Of this fund , £ 12 , 000 had [ gone to Paisley , and it has received £ 6 , 000 from other sourcas , making in all : jel 8 , 000 . This is a large sum : but , if the number of the destitute amounts to 11 , 000 , as stated at the meeting , it Would scarcely supply them with bread and water for six months , while ths distress has already endured for eighteen . The provoBt said , that £ 100 , 000 would be required to give effectual relief j and both he and the sheriff spoke in ominous terms as to the * futuro peace of the district , if the sufferings of the people were not speedily alleviated . Greenock , too , is in a very depressed condition , and the state of matters in Renfrewshire altogether seems to be gloomy in the extreme . —Scotsman .

      Storm in America . —( From the Boston U . & , Morning Post , Dec ; 1)—In the evening , about six o ' clock , a south-east snow storm set in , which continued until aboHt uine o'clock , when it commenced raining , and the wind , -which up to that time had blown moderately , burst forth from E . S E with tremendous fury . Many vessels which were riding at anchor in the harbour were driven from their moor ^ ings , and either dashed agaiast the ends of the wharfs or jammed alongside of each other . Alarg © vessel was almost blown on her beam ends , and several schooners and brigs were jammed together , chafing and cracking—some of them with no person on board . One or two small Vessels were also sunk at this wharf . At Fort-hill-wharf several email vessels

      were more or less damajwd , A small schooner , tho Jana Fish , of St . ( Jteorgg&Maine , was driven from her anchor against thel ^ prft and Nathan Fuller , the mate , in attenapting . to leave the vessel , fell between her sirte and the wharf , and was drowned . The crew of this vesssel state that the brig . Uncle Sam , had been blown adrift , and was then driving about the harbour ; aud that the Bhip Tjrouo had parted her headfasts , swung round , and sustained considerable damage . The space between India and Central-wharfs was filling up fast with drifting wrecks , and those vessels at the ends of these wharfs were careening , as if their tall masts would turn them over . The end of Long-wharbrouuht up several email craft , which probably

      were sunk . The space between this wharf and Central-wharf was also the scene of great destruction * The noise of falling masts , and the crashing of drifting wrecks rose at intervals , above the Storm , and might have been heard even at tho centre of the city . At the northern wharfs , aud , in .- fact , at ail the wharfs , mote or less damage was sustained by a great portion of the shipping . Such was the terrific violence of the gale , that it was dangerous for an individual to venture to the ends of the wharfa . We were ' informed- that more than a down . vessels had been sur k , and that the crews of one or two of them had perished , but the uames of the vessels we could . not '' learn . Thia leads ub to hope that such reDorts are exaueerated . At 2 a . m . we

      took another stroll along the wharfs , and found things comparatively quiet , the wind having shifted to E . ri . E . Although we saw hearty twenty vessels more or loss damaged , we could not obtain any particulars , for roost of thorn were deserted . Tho schooner , Conclusion , of Gloucester , lying at tho north-end of T-wharf , had her stern etove to , and sustained other damage . A larger ship , said to be the Biga , was driven op the dock at Long-wharf , one bad her bowsprit carried away close to the knight heads . One ot the fhipBwbioh arrived yejh terday was reported to have drifted from her ait ohoTs . and sustained ereat damase ^ A ship at tho

      and of Commercial-wharf was also reported to tttVOj snffeted considerably . Tho bark Anita , too , was ¦ aid to have sustained some damage . Perhaps no gale that haa visited this place for some time haa destroyed so much property in this port in . so short a time . We fear that a few days will unfold tales of shipwreck and death along dor coasts that will bring pain and sorrow to many abewaved bocom ; for no vessel close in with land could cany sail or ride at anchor in exposed situatip-js and weather suoh a tempest . We have take " a no notice of the damage on the land , but undop ' otedly it is osniiderable , for nothing fragile , espogedto Woh furv < OOttld escape unscathed .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 31, 1842, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1193/page/3/