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ORACLE OF ORIGINS. No. III. THE opprobrious title of bum bayliffe, so constantly bestowed upon the sheriff's officers, is, according to Judge Blackstone, only the corruption of boundbayliffe, every sheriff's officer being obliged to enter into bonds, and to give security for his good behaviour, previous to his appointment.

10 The three blue balls prefixed to the doors and windows of Pawnbrokers' shops, by the vulgar, humorously enough, said to indicate that it is two to one that the things pledged are never redeemed, were in reality the arms of a set of merchants from Lombardy, who were the first that publicly lent money on pledges. They dwelt together in a street, from them named Lombard Street, in London, and also gave their name to another at Paris.

The games of marbles, played by boys, are of great antiquity, and originated in the more manly games with bowls. In early times, before the invention, of grinding marbles into a perfectly round form was known, boys used nuts in their stead. It is said of Augustus, when young, that, by way of amusement, he spent many hours in playing with little Moorish boys, cum nucibus, with nuts. This trifling circumstance presents us with a pleasing trait in the juvenile character of the greatest of all the Roman emperors.co

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the thoughts of an Easter pantomime, because
we know, by sad experience, that for nearly
half the season they are sure "to be continued."
The knock of our tailor with his bill pierces
us through and through like a drawn sword,
forno other reason but our conviction that day
after day, until the rascal is paid, it is "to be
even two, of that fellow with the monkey or
continued." We could endure one day, and
hurdyguidy; but what uncentres and unmans
us is our consciousness that, unless we assassi-
nate him, or procure his assassination, his per-
formance is far more certain "to be continued"
than our practice of breakfasting or dining. I
could go on through half the woes that afflict
humanity; but of all our grievances of the
"to be continued" class, there is none so hard
to bear as an article in a Magazine; for which
reason it is, Mr. Editor, that this paper, like
the rotten borough system, ad (I think I may
add) the Bench of Bishops, is not
"to be continued."

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I know not whether Beelzebub ever contributes in person to the Magazines-we all know that he writes by proxy in one or two of them but, were he to do so, there is not the shadow of a doubt upon my mind but that he would break off his article with a bool oval haique nervisions Come To The "to be continued," in italic characters, be-uine) of noisenary tween brackets. It is an odious phrase, and THIS park is situated near the village | so well known for his taste in laying out worthy of all reprobation, that to be con- of Esher, about five miles from Kingston grounds, but who used tinued." I hate it as I do the gentleman I to consider himhave just named. I eschew it as I do-not and seventeen from London. Sir John self as of still greater skill in architecSatan, but the author of Satan-and all his Vanburgh, so well known for his parti- ture, to build him a house and model the works. How many Magazine readers has cular style of architecture, bought some grounds, without it prepared for St. Luke's! How many Ma- land here, and built a low brick house, pense. He performed the task much to any limitation of exgazine proprietors has it committed to the for his habitation, upon it. The spot he the satisfact Fleet! How many innocent Magazines them- chose was in low ground, without the not regard, the cost, which is said to have on of his Lordship, who did selves has it caused to be gathered prema- advantage of prospect. Thomas Holles been more than £100,000. Browne had turely to the Spectators and Tatlers, and the Pelham, Earl of Clare, bought it of Sir been often employed to alter houses, but other fathers of periodical literature! Oh! you "never-ending, still-beginning" writers, John, and was created Duke of Newcastle this, is said to be the only complete one who, like the evil genius that haunted Aug. 2, 1715. The Duke adorned thee ever built. It forms an oblong square Brutus, cannot leave us at Sardes without park by many plantations, under the di- of forty-four yards by thirty-four. On promising to be with us again at Philippi, rection of Kent. One of Kent's most the ground floor are eight spacious rooms, were there any wholesome discipline in the common designs at Claremont was a small besides the hall of entrance and the great commonwealth of letters, a winter in Siberia, and a speech of Sir Charles Wetherell lake, edged by a winding bank, with staircase. In the principal front, a flight daily, would be the sure recompence of scattered trees, that led to a set at the of thirteen steps leads to the great enyour misdeeds. I wish I were an auto-end of the pond. On a mor.nt in the trance, under a pediment supported by crat for your sakes. Willingly would I park he erected a building in the shape Corinthian columns. The situation see the British constitution overturned to of a castle, and called it Claremont," well chosen, commanding various views reach you. To your accomplices-I mean from his own name, by which the place of the water and plantations in the park. those who print and those who read you has been known ever since. I bear no malice. To the former I wish In 1816 it was purchased by Government a cell and a keeper; to the latter the for the country residence of his Serene guardianship of my Lord High Chancellor, Highness Prince Leopold, and his consort the proper protector of unhappy individuals, the Princess Charlotte: whose foreheads are inclined to the horizon

After the death of the Duke, it was purchased by Lord Clive, the conqueror of India. When setting out on his last voyage, he gave directions to Mr. Browne,

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NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.

W. W. will much oblige us by procuring Agents in the several towns through which he says he shall pass on his route to Falmouth. A few such active friends are highly desirable. To Z.-certainly not.

R. P. is thanked. The packet of engravings shall be

taken care of.

The young gentleman who writes" Stanzas to a
Carrion Bird," must not expect to crow in our
pages. His lines are trashy.
F.E., W.N., and others, must stand over till our next.

THE TOURIST.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1832.

ALL the world knows that a certain Society, called the Agency Anti-Slavery Society, has lately, from time to time, published certain Schedules, A, B, and C, containing the names of candidates for the ensuing Parliament, hostile or friendly to the immediate Abolition of Slavery. The measure was original, and not less bold than original; it has, of course, been largely discussed; and, as it is not unlikely to become a precedent, we will take the liberty of taking a part in the discussion.

"It is an unwarrantable liberty with my name," cries one in Schedule A. We were about to describe him, but we should bring a hornet's nest about our ears. "I insist on your omitting me," shout another of these luckless wights; "I have just avowed myself a friend to abolition." "How dare you to presume to pass judgment on my opinions without hear ing them?" exclaims a third, whose opinions nobody knows, cocking his hat on one side, and stroking down the sleek convexity of the epigastric region, with a leer that would have done credit to old Falstaff, when sipping his sack at the Boar's Head, in Eastcheap! But Schedule C has, no doubt, been sought with an anxiety scarcely less amusing than the angry remonstrances of the enfans perdus of Schedule A.

"I entreat you to remember Mr. A., our liberal candidate for the borough of B——. He has, to my knowledge, spent the last month in getting your reporters by heart; he will bear catechising as well as a charity-school-boy."- "The Committee of Lord beg respectfully to state that his Lordship will be bound' hand and foot to support any measure wi the Agency Committee think right, tena` ing, in any degree, to effect any object, or to assist any purpose, however remotely connected, in any way whatever, with the abolition of Colonial Slavery."

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66 Sir John- feels unbounded gratitude to the members of the Agency Committee, individually and collectively, for the high and unexpected honour they have done him, in scheduling his name with that noble list of distinguished philanthropists, whose names will be immortalized as the determined foes of that most iniquitous, most atrocious, most

base and detestable traffic, which, under the name of the slave-trade, has long disgraced the shores of Africa and New South Wales. Sir John has not hitherto had time to make himself master of this important subject, but pledges himself most solemnly, should he continue to be favoured with the Society's countenance, and obtain his seat, to bring in a Bill for the immediate emancipation of all the inhabitants of Liberia and Kamschatka." To be serious, we know not any plan that could have been devised better calculated to expose the ignorance, as well as the insincerity, of those pretensions which have long-far too long-been palmed upon the anti-slavery public. We are very apprehensive of touching the spear of Ithuriel. The Globe and the Herald have got into a terrible controversy on this point. Mr. Tom Macaulay will, perhaps, in charity, set us right, if we err: so we will venture.

"No falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper."

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We are very far from ascribing a celestial temper to the Agency Committee; but we do impute "falsehood" – that is, political insincerity-to a vast portion of professed abolition Members, in past Houses of the Commons. It would be difficult to mention any public topic on which so much ignorance and so much hollowness have been exhibited by our worthy representatives, as on this. We have ourselves conversed with men, public men, otherwise well informed, who, like Sir John whose letter we have just sketched as fancy paints it, know not the difference between Slavery and the Slave-trade; and, with almost antediluvian simplicity, have loudly professed their determination to terminate that which 1807 abolished, and 1811 made felony! Again and again have we heard solemn protestations, religious professions, and pious ejaculatious of Christian abhorrence, all of which, by some political hocus-pocus, far exceeding the legerdemain of Smithfield fair,-(take care, all ye Aldermen-candidates, we avow ourselves cockneys!) became converted into "Oh! ohs!" and gruff, uncourteous "Hear, hears," and sometimes into actual coughing," as soon as Buxton's honest energy and Lushington's animated vehemence are heard in reprobation of Slavery's crimes. No one who has not witnessed it can conceive the studied and contemptible confusion, the satanic sneering, the not half-suppressed growls of affected disgust, but real annoyance, with which HE has to contend, who hitherto has dared, in a British Parliament, to declare himself the friend of humanity, or the foe to physical oppression. Galway Martin could with difficulty assert the claims of brute life to pity, though here no personal in

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terest interposed; but let the oppressed and voiceless negro have His wrongs represented, not the sweet eloquence of Mr. Wilberforce, nor the pointed argument and energetic sincerity of Mr. Buxton, could obtain even the decency of tranquil attention. We hope these things will be managed better hereafter; and the way to secure it is to learn beforehand the character and feelings of those we send to Parliament. How can this be done, except by recourse to the plan adopted by the Agency Committee? We mistake if Dr. Lushington himself, in some of his anti-slavery speeches, has not most strongly enforced the necessity of distinct, specific, and most clear antislavery pledges; but cui bono a pledge, if not to be published? We hate those "private" and "satisfactory assurances," those very "clear understandings," which are perfect enigmas to all mankind besides, that are daily given from friend to friend, and will not bear the light. Have they not been given again and again? Would it not be easy to point out many who have thus beguiled the real friends of the cause of abolition, and wormed themselves into the confidence even of Buxton and Lushington, who nevertheless have failed at the pinch, and slided out of "clear understandings" and private assurances" with as much facility as an eel from the fisherman's grasp ? No, no we have had enough of this; the man that honestly means what he says, and understands what he means, wants no privacy-no convenient

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understanding. The English language is not so poor, but his heart can find expression; and expression is that which honesty desires. But, say some of our cautious ones, your Schedules make enemies-they deter would-be friends-they convert indifference into hostility, and give a bias to the doubtful scale. Is it so? We rejoice to hear it. We seek not to alienate, but to convict these men. Never did good arise from doubtful allies. The fellows hover round the field of battle like carrion crows-watch every turn-not a movement escapes them-they shift from side to side with wonderful agility, as either side preponderates, and thus create alarm a hundred times beyond their actual strength. These are the men for Schedule A: we wish to fix them-to nail them down: we despise them as enemies, we distrust them as friends; and this is the use of scheduling them. We ask the question calmly; we know full well the value of a vote, come from whom it may; but for our own part, we declare that we should entertain better hopes of the cause, if we saw Buxton and Lushington, Evans and O'Connell, dividing alone against all the House, upon the simple abstract question of slavery or freedom, than if we found them supported by a vast majority, en

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cumbered with all the twaddle of equitable arrangements, regard to property, vested rights, and due preparation. And what anti-slavery man, acting on principle, does not agree with us? What, in fact, was the last division but a Schedule A? and so it was viewed, aye, and felt too, by some scores of these half-and-half men, these drivellers that we have described. What caused the anxious entreaty, the reiterated appeal, the eager, almost suppliant petitions to Buxton to spare a division? Oh, how all deprecated a division! how earnestly they implored unanimity! how dexterously, how logically, they pointed out distinction without a difference, between Buxton's motion and Althorp's amendment! What was their meaning? They wanted not a place in Schedule A!-a division would schedule all-it would separate the spotted sheep, not less than the white and the black! it would send them, in their true colours, back to their constituents—it would blow away the cloak that hid their deformity. This was the real explanation of all that fidgetty distress which we viewed and exulted in with unfeigned delight and this was the embryo of Schedule A! And now we gravely ask you, our Anti-Slavery and Parliamentary leaders, whether you in your hearts and consciences condemn this Schedule A? Do you know, can you mention, one honest, sincere, thoroughgoing Anti-Slavery friend, whom it has alienated? Can you point the finger at one, a single Anti-Slavery professor, who has on this ground seceded, whom you did not distrust before? We know you cannot but what is infinitely of more importance, we know that the publicon whom ultimately you must rely-are satisfied with the step; we know that they hail it as a good omen of sincerity in the Anti-Slavery party-as a pledge, on their part, that no party feelings, no political ties, shall interfere with the honest exercise of their Anti-Slavery energies; we have received good proof of this at Hythe and Falkstone. THERE, in an especial manner, the value of AntiSlavery pledges has been TESTED-Schedule A has been of essential servicethere it has proved that neither personal esteem, nor private confidence, nor political respect, can blind the eyes of a body of men, however they may betray an honest and acute individual into injudicious confidence: "bind them hand and foot" was Dr. Lushington's advice to the Anti-Slavery body in reference to the candidates for 1830. "Bind them hand and foot" is the motto of the Agency Committee in 1832. Mr. Majoribanks will NOT be bound-then have done with him-act on the learned Doctor's advice; the man will not do for us: place him in Schedule A!-so says the Doctor!

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THIS cathedral is a noble but irregular four arches, which gave way, and occastructure, having been erected at different sioned its destruction. This accident led periods. The north and south transepts to the erection of the present octagon are the most ancient parts of the build- tower, supported by eight pillars, and ing, and date their foundation from the surmounted by a noble dome, terminated reigns of William Rufus and Henry I. by an elegant lantern. It was built from The great west tower was built towards the design of Alan of Walsingham, one the close of the twelfth century; and the of the religious fraternity, over which foundation of that part of the edifice he afterwards presided. The stonework which is now the choir, but was originally was finished in six years, and the superthe presbytery, was laid by Bishop incumbent woodwork covered with lead Northwold in 1234, and it was com- in fifteen more, the whole being completed in 1250. The three arches ex- pleted in 1342. The episcopal palace, tending further westward were destroyed near the west end of the cathedral, was in February, 1322, by the sudden fall much altered by Bishop Marson, but of the lofty stone tower which stood in retains traces of its ancient architecture. the centre of the building, supported on

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KIRKSTEAD, anciently called Cristed, is Kirkstead, is the chapel, a very curious situated on the east bank of the Witham, building, which, according to tradition, in the hundred of Gartree, and is about was built previous to the monastery. It three miles distant from Tattershall, and is of early English architecture, having eight from Horncastle. lancet windows at the sides and east end, South of the ruin of the Abbey at and an ox-eye window over the entrance

at the west end. The roof is beautifully groined, the ribs springing from corbel tables; and against the south wall, on the inside, is a rude figure in stone of a knight templar, with the front part of his helmet in the shape of a cross. For many years the roof of this building was covered with thatch, but in 1790 it was removed, and a covering of tiles substituted. At that time also the bell, which had previously hung in a tree, was placed over the west end of the building.

letter: it was from Frank Staunton, and ran thus:

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My dearest Aunt,-There are some tempta tions that are irresistible-that of the London mail I called to passing by my path proved so to me. the coachman, got up by the guard, and was miles on my journey before I remembered aught but the I shall ever retain the most grateful recollection of your kindness; I will send my cousins the prettiest of the new Annuals this year; but I've made a vow, and registered it in heaven,' never again to stir beyond the bills of mortality. "Your affectionate nephew, "FRANK STAUNTON."

happiness of a return to town.

THERE'S music in a mother's voice,

More sweet than breezes sighing;.
There's kindness in a mother's glance,
Too pure for ever dying.
There's love within a mother's breast,
So deep, 'tis still o'erflowing,
And care for those she calls her own,
That's ever, ever growing.

There's anguish in a mother's tear,
When farewell fondly taking,
That so the heart of pity moves,

It scarcely keeps from breaking.
And when a mother kneels to heaven,
And for her child is praying,
Oh! who shall half the fervour tell
That burns in all she's saying!
A mother! how her tender arts

Can soothe the breast of sadness,
And through the gloom of life once more
Bid shine the sun of gladness.

it was obvious that the two young men took an underbred pleasure in tiring, or trying to tire, the London stranger to death. "Sad was the hour, and luckless was the day, When first from Schiraz walls I bent my way," thought Frank, as he toiled up the half-dozenth hot hill, for the sake of the prospect, which he alone was expected to admire the others, as they observed, having seen it so often. At length they returned to the little wood; the stump of an old oak looked very inviting, and there Frank was about to sit, when his second This chapel is a donative of exempt cousin, William, caught his arm, exclaiming, "Mother, you have laid the cloth close to the jurisdiction, but appears to have had no wasp's nest!" All hurried off, but not till stipend for the officiating minister until it Staunton's left hand was as an armoury, in THERE'S MUSIC IN A MOTHER'S VOICE, came into the possession of Mr. Daniel which a score of wasps had left their stings. Disney, who, being a Presbyterian, ap- All hurried off, two or three dishes and plates pointed a minister of that persuasion to broken, also the gooseberry pie dropped in the perform service there, with a salary of scuffle; but, as soon as they were seated, due 301. per annum. This gift he afterwards attention was bestowed on Frank's wounds: a confirmed by his will in 1732, and in ad- key was produced from Mrs. Selby's ponderous pocket, destined to extract the stings; and dition, bequeathed to the trustees the use when, in spite of the universal declaration, of the chapel and chapel ground for the" that it was the best thing in the world," he same purpose. On the death or aliena- averred his conviction that it was the worst, tion of the minister, the trustees were to and withdrew his hand, it had just the appearDinner proceeded; present the names of two to the lord of ance of a honey comb. the manor, who was to appoint one of all seated themselves on the grass, nobody them, and, on his neglect or refusal, the knowing what to do with their feet or their plates, Christians not being so handy as Turks. trustees themselves were to make the ap- There was some romping, and a great deal of pointment. Ministers continued to be laughter excited by that local wit which is so nominated by the prescribed form until utterly unintelligible to a stranger. Mr. Selby the death of Mr. Dunkley. On that ocate like an Abyssinian and drank like a Saxon; casion the present owner took possession he was one of those true-born Englishmen of the estates which had been conveyed is ale. The repast was concluded, and both whose morality is beef, and whose patriotism to the trustees, and appointed to the he and his wife dropped off in their accuschapel a minister of the Church of Eng- tomed nap, with the mutual exclamation, land, paying him 301. per annum. "Frank, we have a water-party in store for you to-morrow." The party dispersed : Staunton saw the receding figures of his two fair cousins with the two young men, one of whom was entertaining his companion with the history of his brown mare's cold, and the other was being eloquent in praise of his livercoloured pointer; the ladies, however, seemed very well entertained. The wind had changed, and it was one of those raw, piercing evenings which pay November the delicate flattery of imitation. There was a melancholy rustling in the leaves, a dim mist rising from the lake, and the visitor walked "the greenwood glade" alone, his teeth chattering, and a small chill rain beating in his face. This small rain gradually took a more decided form, and a heavy pelting shower. Mr. Selby's voice was heard calling on the party to assemble together. They did so; and again the cart bore its crowded company. Suddenly it was discovered that Staunton was missing. To make short of a long story, they called, they hunted, but in vain. It was now getting dark, and home they were obliged to go-but minus their cousin. One supposed he was drowned, and another that he had fallen into some old gravel-pit; a third suggested that murders had been committed ere now. The evening closed in on a collection of those lugubrious tales that are the delight of an English fireside. But the next day they were, indeed, seriously alarmed; for no tidings could be learned of Frank Staunton. A ghastly fear seized on the whole neighbourhood-he might have been burked! Sacks and pitch-plasters were that day the sole topics of discourse in the neighbourhood of Uiles water. Next morning, however, came the post, and with it a

A GYPSY PARTY.

THERE is a species of entertainments peculiar to our islands, called in Wales " grass parties," in Jersey "milk parties," and at Greenwich and Richmond "PIC-NICS." They are days devoted to all those inconveniences which, at less favoured periods, would, to use an expressive Irishism, "set you mad." You give up the comforts of civilized life-tables and chairs are DE TROP-one glass does the work of many—and your dinner is spread on the grass, for the benefit of the ants, earwigs, and other insects. It was for the celebration of one of these mistakes (for they are called pleasure) that the Selby family assembled in a large cart, without springs, destined to traverse the roughest of roads that ever destroyed your nerves and threatened your joints. Two young men joined the party, and, quite as matter of right, appropriated the seats by the two eldest girls; and Frank was jammed into an inconceivably small space between his uncle and his aunt, both of whom maintained an unceasing flow of discourse-one touching his turnips, the other touching her turkeys; while the younger children kept up an incessant and Babelish din. At length they arrived at a nook in a wood: the father and mother, with the four younger ones, remained behind to get dianer ready, while they enjoined the others to go and walk for an appetite-an injunction Frank, at least, thought very needless. However, off they went, under a broiling sun, over hedge, ditch, hill, and dale; while to Staunton

A mother! when, like evening's star,
Her course hath ceased before us,
From brighter words regards us still,
And watches fondly o'er us.

THE HOUSEWIFE.

"A stitch in time."-OLD ADAGE.

bage-leaves, and either put them into a warm HOW TO KILL SLUGS.-Take a quantity of caboven, or hold them before the fire till they get quite soft, then rub them with unsalted butter, or any kind of fresh dripping, and lay them in places infested with slugs. In a few hours the leaves will be found covered with snails and slugs, which may then, of course, be destroyed in any way the gardener may think fit.

DOMESTIC YEAST.-Ladies who are in the habit

(and a most laudable and comfortable habit it is) of making domestic bread, cake, &c., are informed that they can easily manufacture their own yeast by attending to the following directions :-Boil one pound of good flour, a quarter of a pound of brown sugar, and a little salt, in two gallons of water, for one hour. When milk-warm, bottle it, and cork it close. It will be fit for use in twentyfour hours. One pint of this yeast will make 18lbs. of bread.

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TO MAKE THE BARK GROW ON TREES.-When branch is cut off a tree, or otherwise wounded, make the place smooth with a sharp knife; and if the tree be cankered, cither cut away the part affected, or scrape it out until you come to the sound wood. In all cases, make the surface as tallow into 2lbs. of tar, and warm it over a fire, smooth as possible; then put half a pound of till the tallow is just melted in the tar; when 1 oz. of saltpetre should be added, and the whole stirred well together. The composition must then be laid on the parts that you want to heal.

MEM. OF A SLAVE.

"Facts-not fictions."

In the "West Indian Reporter," and other papers recently circulated, with a view of refuting the common reports respecting the Cruelties of West Indian Slavery," the case of Juliana, a child said to be about eleven years of age, is detailed, as given in evidence before a Committee of the House of Assembly of Jamaica. It appears that when she was about five years old," she was sent by her mistress (Eleanor Whitehead) down to her house on the Bay for a flannel jacket, and did not return until the following morning, when her mistress flogged her with a cat of six tails, and, when running from the lick, the end of the cat licked her in the eye, and a little film grew over it." One witness stated, that "he saw the instrument, through the means of which the accident happened: it was a small cat with six tails, and was made for the purpose of correcting children."

"The Council of Protection, having considered the above depositions, and viewed the slave girl Juliana, are unanimously of opinion that there are no grounds for instituting any proceedings against

Eleanor Whitehead in the above matter.

"Dated at the Court House, Savanna-la-mar, the 14th of January, 1830.

"JOHN FALCONER."

From the proceedings respecting the little girl Juliana it does not appear that there was any thing singular in it; we cannot but conclude, from the testimony of the West Indians themselves, that it is one of common occurrence. The child was flogged with "a cat of six tails, made for the purpose of correcting children."

ANCIENT COINS.

A VERY handsome and well-preserved coin of the Emperor Nero was dug up last week in South Street, Exeter, by one of Messrs. Hooper's workmen, and is now in possession of Mr. William Hooper, in Paris Street. On one side is the head of that Emperor, with the inscription-NERO CLAVD. CAESAR, AVG. GER. P.M. T.R.P. IMP. II.—which implies Nero Claudius Cæsar, Augustus Germanicus, Pontifex Maximus, Tribunitia Potestate, Imperator 2. By this inscription we discover that the coin was struck in the second year of the reign of probably the second year of his Tribunitian Nero (or 56 years after Christ), which was also power. On the reverse is a winged Victory, holding a globe, on which the celebrated letters are inscribed, S.P.Q.R., Senatus populusque Romanus; and on each side of the emblematical sulto, or, by decree of the Senate. A small figure are the large capitals s. c., Senatus Concopper coin of the Emperor Gallienus was also dug up. It was silvered over, and exhibits the head of the Emperor with the diadem (caput radiatum), and the letters IMP. GALLIENVS, P.F. AUG., or Imperator Pius Felix Augustus. Gallienus was born A.D. 219, reigned with his father seven years, and eight years alone, and was slain A. D. 268, at Milan, by some of his officers. A coin of Flavius Julius Constantius, brother of Constantine the Great, was also dug up on the same spot, with this inscription round the head, which is merely adorned with a laurel wreath: FL. JLV. CONSTANTIVS. NOB. C., designating him as Nobilus Cæsar, and heir to the empire; and on the reverse, the representation of a building, surmounted by a star, and the inscription-PROVIDENTIE CAESS, which implies that he and his brother erected some publie work or edifice of note. At the base of the building are the letters P. TRE., which indicates that the coin was struck at Treves or

Triers, a city of Germany, on the Moselle, formerly called Treviri, or Auguste Trivirorum. Providentia is designed generally by a globe, a building, ears of corn, or such provision as the coin signified to be made by the emperors. Among other things found at the same time were three human skulls, with bones quite

CREATION.

"The

IN the progress of the Divine works and government, there arrived a period in which this earth was to be called into existence. When the signal moment, predestined from all eternity, was come, the Deity arose in his might, and created the world. What an illustrious moment was that, when, from non-existence, there sprang at once into being this mighty globe, on which so many millions of creatures now dwell! No preparatory measures were required-no long circuit was employed. "He spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast." earth was at first without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep." The Almighty surveyed the dark abyss, and fixed bounds to the several divisions of nature. "Let there be light: and there was light." Then appeared the sea and the dry land; the mountains rose, and the rivers flowed; the sun and moon began their course in the skies; herbs and plants clothed the ground; the air, the earth, and the waters, were stored with their respective inhabitants. last, a man was made after the image of God. He appeared, walking with countenance erect, and received his Creator's benediction, as the lord of this new world. The Almighty beheld his work when it Superior beings saw, with wonder, this was finished, and pronounced it GOOD.

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ing stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy."

CLIMATE OF ENGLAND.

THE main temperature of England may be taken as follows:-In the month of January, 47 degrees of Fahrenheit's thermometer; and April, 47; in July, 59; and, in October, 46 degrees. The average temperature of one year with another is found London is about 2 degrees greater than that of the not to vary more than 4 degrees. The heat of surrounding country; and there are places in Devonshire, Cornwall, and other parts of the south coast, where the heat is as much as seven degrees above the average. Penzance is believed to be the place least visited by the cold. The largest proportion of rain falls in the north-west of England, particularly in Westmoreland and Lancashire, owing to the neighbourhood of those counties to the sea, and the height of their mountains, which attract the clouds. The quantity of rain there is often double of what falls elsewhere;

but the mean quantity of rain falling throughout England may be taken at 1,483 inch. in January; 2,073 inch. in October. 1,786 inch. in April; 2,516 inch. in July; and

CURIOUS CUSTOMS.

Of all the portraits which have ever been pro- perfect, close to the old city walls; a farthing Branks placed upon their head. The instrument

duced of Sir Walter Scott, undoubtedly none equals that by Sir Thomas Lawrence, in his Majesty's collection. The loan of this picture his Majesty has been graciously pleased to grant to the house of Moon, Boys, and Graves, and a splendid engraving from it will shottly appear.

of Charles I., worn very thin, with a crown on one side, and the letters CAROLUS D. G. MAG. BRIT.; reverse, an Irish harp, surmounted by a crown, and the words FRAN. ET. HIB. REX. Also a tradesman's token, "J. Y. Silferton, 1660," and some others of less note.

AT Newcastle-upon-Tyne, it was formerly the custom for the common hangman to lead scolding women about the town with a machine called the helmet. A piece of iron with a sharp point enwas made of iron bars, and fitted the head like a tered the mouth, and severely pricked the tongue if the wearer attempted to move it. One of the branks is now to be seen in the Council Chamber, Newcastle.

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