oil which was remarkabl y heavy.

The Town Plate of 501. for three-year olds, d. i., was won by Mr. Batson's Seraph

Sir M. Wood's Rosary, Sst. 2lbs., beat Mr. Payne's Pauline, 8st. 8/11.bs., 20, t. y. c. the altitudes of stars with the sea horizon.---New Monthly Magazine.

first-rate horses are entered for the been translations; the rest were wholly indigenous, '° neither stolen, taken, bor-

tangled, and she was exposed to the heat of the flames, which came from the of 3glebys die with his grace. But we certainly know of no better model of the window as from a furnace. fine gentleman of the last generation, nor one, by attention to whose costume his- A destructive fire occurred last week, at Water-lane farm, Hempstead, the pro-, trionic aspirants to Lord Ogleby's honours could profit more.

THE LATE MR. WILLIAM HUNT.—The will of this eccentric old gentleman was

in too damp a state. The flames communicated to a stack of wheat and to the proved on the 24th ult. and the property sworn to be under 250,000/. The tes- tator expresses great anxiety not to be buried alive, and also to escape the restir- rectiononen. An advertisement, cut out of a newspaper, of patent self-closing long time been in such a bad state of repair that it was deemed necessary to bring and unopeuable iron coffins, is gummed on the top of the first sheet of his will; and he directs that he is to be buried in an iron or stone coffin, but not until un- Thursday last, the water rushed into her with such velocity, that she sunk almost doubted signs of putrefaction appear upon his body. Other characteristic marks

instantaneously ; and had it not been for the promptitude of Captain Smith, the are scattered through the will. One legacy to a friend is afterwards revoked on superintendent, the whole of the prisoners on the lower deck (upwards of two account of the said friend's " extreme bigotry and ignorance in burning the Philo- hundred) must have been drowned. There is no communication from one deck sophical Dictionary of Voltaire, because he could not refute it." The principal to another, and the hatchway that leads to each deck is only sufficiently wide to feature of the will, however, is the magnificent bequest to Guy's Hospital,

sue residue of the testator's property, after a few legacies to executors Islerchant had come down from Deptford to take in prisoners for New South and friends, and other charities, and estimated at upwards of '200,000/. For this Wales; eighty were immediately sent on board the former, and one hundred on he binds the Governors to build and fit up accommodation for one hundred more board the latter ship ; others were sent to the other hulks, so that the lower deck patients than the original founder provided for. To St. Thomas's Hospital, the of the sunken ship is cleared. Refuge for the Destitute at Hackney, and the Philanthropic Charity, St. George's On Tuesday last, a couple were united together in wedlock at Trinity Church, Fields, he has left 1000/. each ; with other contingent benefits, in the very ins- Hull. After the ceremony was performed, and duly registered, the bridegroom probable case of the Governors of Guy's declining to comply with the conditions was asked for the usual fee. He replied he had no money, and asked his wife for the needful; but she, unfortunately, was equally unprovided. Leaving the lady of his bequest to that hospital. The vault at Guy's Hospital be selects as the in pledge, he departed to raise supplies, having indignantly rejected a proposi- place of sepulture, in lieu of Bunhill-fields,—on the ground that his late brother, lion to deposit the wedding-ring as security. On his return, after an absence of Theodore Hunt, who had used him ill, lies there above their two uncles ; and he is determined " not to mix his bones" with those of the person alluded to.

to leave the ring, which was taken off the finger of the bride, and handed to the Mr. Charles B. Williams, of the firm of Williams, Whitmore, and Co., solici-

attendant. When the parties had got clear oil, it was discovered that the artful tors, died a few days ago, at his house in Lincoln's Inn-fields. His will has been rogue had substituted a brass ring for a gold one : Next day, a party of soldiers proved : the personal property amounts to three hundred thousand pounds, in ad- were in quest of the bridegroom as a deserter, and it was stated that he had dition to considerable freehold estates. Mr. Williams acquired this vast wealth fifteen wives living.—Boston Gazette. in a comparatively short period. The bulk of his fortune is left to his brother, On Thursday last, a large space in the East Riding of Yorkshire, including the executor. Beverley, Market-Weighton, &c., was visited by a tremendous storm of thunder, A ROMANTIC OLD MAN.—An old man, residing in the neighbourhood of Glas- . lightning, and snow, and hailstones an inch in circumference. Very soon after gow, lately found in a corner of his cottage, a miniature of his wife, taken in her its commencement, a fire-ball struck a barn at Market-Weighton, belonging to youthful days. Although of strictly sedate and religious habits, and although his Mr. J. Giles ; and the barn, being full of straw, wheat chaff, and other combusti. wife had been many years dead, the effect which the miniature had on him was bles, it was very soon a burning mass. By active exertions, they connivent to singular and surprising. From the moment of its discovery, until his death, which save a quantity of,wheat, but the building was burnt to the ground. On the hill took place some months afterwards, he neglected all his ordinary duties and em- just above the town, men and boys were seen snow-balling. After the cessation ployments, and became in a manner imbecile, spending whole days without ut- of the snow-storm, succeeded rain in torrents, filling the water-courses almost in- tering a word, or betraying the slightest interest in passing occurrences. The statitaneously; and this furious storm seems to have succeeded a hurricane which only one with whom he would at all hold communication, was a little grandchild, they had at Peswick, situate between Beverley and Driffield. It appeared to who bore a remarkable likeness to the portrait, and to whom he was perfectly rise near Mr. Johnson's, at Beswick Carr, argil carried devastation in its train, docile. A day or two before his death, he gave this grandchild his purse, accom- tearing up every thing in its way; and passed through a plantation called the panied with strict injunctions that she would lay the picture in the coffin beside Rush, threatening destruction to Mr. Duggleby's men, who were loading barley him.—Glasgow Courier.

Spaniards, and the late Admiralty Surveyor in that quarter, Mr. De Mayne. Captain Owen, it is understood, will be principally employed among the Bahamas, and the coasts between Carthagena and Yucatan, more particularly to examine the dangerous shores of the latter place, and to ascertain correctly the meridian

NEWMARKET FIRST OCTOBER MEETING.—The races on Thursday were the most distances between the principal points in tine West Indies chronometrically. He important of the Meeting, especially that for the 100 Sovereign Stakes, the betting has received for this purpose a supply of the very finest instruments ; and no

pains have been spared in the equipment of the Blossom. Captain Owen it is

beating Mr. Pettit's ch. f. by Tromp, out of Prue, and Lord Orford's br. c. Chiron. mported, has been particularly directed to report on the qualities of the star Sweepstakes of 100 sovereigns each, for fillies, ah. m., was won by Lord Exeter's quadrant, a late improvement of the quadrant, in which the glasses are consider- Tuna beating Mr. Payne's Pauline and Mr. Dilly's Windfall; five paid. Sir M. Wood's ably enlarged, for the purpose of gaining as much light as possible in observing John de Bart, 8st. 4lbs., beat Lord Southampton's Barnard°, Sst. 41bs., 200, t. y. c.

The King's Plate of 100 guineas, h. e., was won by the Duke of Rutland's Cadland METHODISM IN IRELAND .-..The progress of Methodism in Ireland has, of late heating Mr. Thornhill's Mariner. The match for 200 between Burman and Semiramis, was off by consent. years, been greatly retarded by the distracted state of the country, and by the Epsom OCTOBER RACES, which commence on Thuraday the 8th, will be uncom- numerous emigrations which still continue to take place. The system of terror manly attractive this season, as many of the

which has been adopted, has induced many Protestant families, residing in cows- different stakes ; and much sport is anticipated under the spirited management of try places, to leave their native land ; while the decay of trade, and the want of the Stewards, the Earl of Derby and John Illaberly, Esq. M.P. food, have forced thousands of the Irish poor to seek a refuge abroad. Nearly a thousand members have been added to 'Methodist Societies in Ireland during the

ENGLIRII Oreae-House.—This theatre closed last night, after one of the most past year ; and yet, in consequence of the facts just stated, the actual increase successful of all its seasons. Mr. Bartley, in taking leave, claimed credit for nine does not appear to exceed one hundred. The total number of members in the new pieces, eight of which were successful :—the two German operas only had Irish connexion is 22S46.—Christian Examiner. , , rowed, nor translated from the French. Novel. PUNISHMENT FOR DRUNKENNESS.—Since Saturday night the surgeon STAGE COSTUME.—"Gentleman Lewis " was in the habit of amusing his friends of the police establishment (in Glasgow) has almost constantly been occupied with an account of the circumstances in which be first saw the greatest tragedian with the stomach-pump. - The Lord Justice Clerk said, with great truth, in. of his time. At an early period of his career Mr. Lewis, on his way from Co- charging the jury on the last trial of our present Circuit, that every thing in this vent-garden to Liverpool, stopped at Leicester for the night, and witnessed at the part of the country begins with drink and ends with drink. It was lately sug- theatre there a representation of the Clandestine Marriage. Lovewell was played gested by a contemporary, that drunkards should have their heads shaved in the by a tall gaunt young man, tricked out inan antique drab suit, with lon,g, lank,black Police-office, in order, if possible, to terrify them into some sort of decent so- hair hanging about his shoulders—the very moral, in fact, or a stage puritan. Such, briety ; and we understand that it was at once determined tc try this new pe- at that time, was John Kemble—destined,%fterwards, to embody in his personations nacea. On Saturday night, therefore, an incorrigible toper, in a state of torpor, all that his contemporaries could concetse as heroic in stage action, and to aid underwent the first trial under the new regime ; and nothing in this world could the effect of these by the adoptions of althat was classical in stage costume. His possibly exceed his astonishment and horror when he put his hand on his head in labours in this department were, howiller, confined chiefly to tragedy ; and the the morning. If it be generally understood by these pests to society that when costume of comedy remains scarcelyrIess anomalous than was that of tragedy they begin with drink the police are to end with shaving,; in the literal sense of before the days of Kenible. It is, in fact, a tissue of patch-work, neither ancient the word, the practice will, to a certainty, prove as beneficial as was contem- nor modern, but presenting to our view at once the actual and the obsolete in plated.—Glasgow Herald of Monday.—" If this account be quite true" quoth dress. Why should not the costume in comedies of manners—comedies having the Glasgow Chronicle," there is no doubt that the infliction of elle punishment is no inviolable connexion with history or chronology—be thoroughly modernised ? quite illegal; and that the person who was so disfigured can sue for exemplary The Lovewells of the present day do not transform themselves into counterparts dannages. The punishments that can be legally awarded for otTences are clearly of Simon Pure—they wear the fashionable city dress of 1829 ; and why specified in the statutes : nothing is left to the arbitrary discretion or caprice of should the Lord Oglehys by their side masquerade it in a court suit of George police officers. If such were the uncertainty of the law, offenders might as well the First ? Let the Lovewells and Melees keep each other in countenance— be branded, tatooed, or painted, as whim might dictate. let the difference in their styles of dress correspond with the difference merely in ANECDOTE OF AN IDIOT.—Every reader of dramatic history has heard of Gar. their ages. Lord Ogleby is not exclusively the battered beau of Garrick and rick's contest with Madam Clairon, and the triumph which the English Roscius Colman's experience, or of the era of Queen Anne. He is, not to speak it pro- achieved over the Siddons of the French stage, by his representation of the father randy, "not of an age—but of all time." A hundred years hence he should ap- struck with fatuity on beholding, his only infant child dashed to pieces by leaping in pear but a generation behind the younger part of the spectators. We would its joy from his arms: Perhaps the sole remaining conquest for histrionic tragedy is not, indeed, have him caricatured as one of our modern evergreens ; we would somewhere in the unexplored regions of the mind, below the ordinary understand- dispense with the dandy.surtout and artificial whiskers of some venerable young- ing, amidst the gradations of idiocy. Tine various shades and degrees of sense stem, of whom " the times give us proof." Let him represent the beaux of thirty and sensibility which lie there unknown, Genius, in some gifted moment, may dis- years back. We are old enough to recollect the Duke of —, seated in his cover. In the meantime, as a small specimen of its undividged dramatic: trea- lelcony in Piccadilly, in a green and huff club uniform, with a broad-brimmed sures, we submit to our readers the following little anecdote. A poor widow, ins straw bat to guard his eyes and complexion from the intrusive beams of the sun, a small town is the north of England, kept a booth or stall of apples and e.weet- and believing himself "the glass of fashion" all the while. Nor did the race meats. She had an idiot child, so utterly helpless and dependent, that he dirt not appear to be ever alive to anger or self-defence. He sat all day at her feet, and seemed to be possessed of no other sentiment of the human kind than confi- dence in his mother's love, and a dread of the schoolboys, by whom he was often annoyed. His whole occupation, as he sat on the ground, was in swinging back- wards and forwards, singing, " pal-lal " in a low pathetic voice, only interrupted at intervals on the appearance of any of his tormentors, when he clung to his mother in alarm. From morning to evening he sung his plaintive and aimless ditty ; at night, when his poor mother gathered up her little wares to return home, so deplorable did his defects appear, that while she carried her table on her head, her stock of little merchandise in her lap, and her stool in one hand, she was obliged to lead him by the other. Ever and anon as any of the schoolboys ap- peared in view, the harmless thing clung close to her, and hid his face in her bosom for protection. A human creature so far below the standard of humanity was no where ever seen ; he had not even the shallow cunning which is often found among these unfinished beings ; and his simplicity could not even be measured by the standard we would apply to the capacity of a lamb. Yet it had a feeling rarely manifested even in the affectionate dog, and a knowledge never shown by any mere animal. He was sensible of his mother's kindness, and how much he owed to her care. At night, when she spread his humble pallet, though he knew not prayer, nor could comprehend the solemnities of worship, he prostrated himself at her feet, and as he kissed them, mumbled a kind of mental orison, as if in fond and holy devotion. In the morning, before she went abroad to resume her station in the market-place, he peeped anxiously out to reconnoitre the street, and as often as he saw any of the schoolboys in the way, he held her firmly back, and sang his sorrowful " pal-lal." One day the poor woman and her idiot boy were missed from the market-place, and the charity of some of the neighbours induced them to visit her hovel. They found her dead on her sorry couch, and the boy sitting beside her, holding her hand, swinging and singing his pitiful lay more sorrowfully than he had ever done before. He could not speak, but only utter a brutish gabble; sometimes, however, he looked as if he comprehended something of what was said. On this occasion, when the neighbours spoke to him, he looked up with the tear in his eye, and clasping the cold hand more tenderly, sunk the strain of his mournful " pal-lal" into a softer and sadder key. The spectators, deeply affected, raised him from the body, and he surrendered his hold of the earthy hand without resistance, retiring in si- lence to an obscure corner of the room. One of them, looking towards the others, said to them, "Poor wretch ! what shall we do with him ?" At that moment he resumed his chant, and lifting two handfuls of dust from the floor, sprinkled it on his head, and sung with a wild and clear heart-piercing pathos," pal-lal—pal-lal." —Blackwood's Magazine.