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Two white rats, with red eyes, were lately caught in a barn belonging to Mr. Hilborne, of Isle Brewers, near Ilminster.

the finest specimen of native capillary sil-weather, rescued, at the extreme peril of ver ever seen in Cornwall, and containing his own life, eleven persons who had clung also a great portion of cobalt. This valu- to the rigging of a vessel which was wrecked able production, which, even as an object off the harbour of Howth; and who must, of curiosity, is truly interesting, was raised but for the intrepid exertion made for their about four miles from Tavistock, from a preservation, inevitably have perished. The mine called Willsworthy. circumstance was at the time mentioned to Lord Whitworth, who; it seems, without making any offer of service, kept it in his recollection, until an opportunity should offer of a substantial tribute to the preserver of eleven fellow creatures from deoccurred, and his Excellency has taken struction. That opportunity very recently advantage of it in a manner to recommed his generosity and his justice to the public approbation. Mr. Dodd, we understand is a Roman Catholic.-(Dublin Paper). Catholic Question.

Chesnut Tree under water.

For a length of time, the navigation of the River Thames, between the Eel Pie Island and Richmond shore, has been much impeded: at length it was determined to discover the cause, aud within these few days, after ballasting the spot, with the assistance of a strong chain and twentyfour horses, there was drawn forth an im mense trunk of a tree, which is supposed The divisions in the Catholic body begin to be a chesnut tree, from the circumstance to assume features of a more fixed descripof a number of that fruit being found in a tion. On Saturday se'nnight, two different hollow of the tree, in a perfect state, by one meetings of Catholics were sitting in this of the workmen employed. It is supposed city, at different places at the same timeto have been lain there at least 200 years; the Association at Mr. Fitzpatrick's, and it is perfectly sound, and of a black apthe Seceders at Lord Trimleston's. They pearance on the outside, but the inside is have appointed distinct secretaries, the of a dark brown. A gentleman at Twick- Chevalier M'Carthy being secretary to the euham has purchased a part of it, for the Seceders, and Mr. Hay to the Association. purpose of converting it into articles of fur- The Seceders will commit their petition to niture. It was claimed by the City of Lon-Mr. Grattan, and the Association to Sir don, as Conservator of the River Thames. H. Parnell, for presentation in the House Caution to Grocers, &c.-Dealers in cho- of Commons; but Lord Donoughmore colate wholesale and retail, not having the unites the opinions of these discordant word chocolate written over the door, ac-meetings, as both have resolved to commit cording, to act of parliament, are subject to him their respective petitions to the to a serious penalty. House of Lords.-(Dublin Evening Post.) Preservation of Game.

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The noblemen and gentlemen of the Queen's County, Ireland, have formed an Association for the preservation of the game, and the prosecution and punish ment of poachers, and all unqualified per sons keeping any dog calculated for the destruction of game, and have offered very lead to the conviction of any poacher or sporting rewards for information that may unqualified person. They have also offered libera! premiums, as below stated, to any person bringing the heads or nests of vermin, and making it appear that the same were destroyed within the precincts of the county:

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of just now, on reasonable terms, the seasou was so unfavourable, and indeed his family was growing so much less, &c. &c. The applicants were admitted one by one, and the pretended purchaser, after some preliminary civilities and inquiries, begged leave to take down their names and restdences, promising to wait upon each in the

If every county in Ireland were to form similar associations, our game in a few years would be restored to its former abunance. It is a well known fact, that the dearth of amusement in this way is the cause of the absence, at least seme mouths in the year, of several men of consequence, who are obliged to seek this sport in Scotlaud or England.-(Dublin Freeman's Jour-course of the day to close, the bargain, nal.)

which he punctually did, bringing the suThe Dublin Evening Post of the 12th pervisor, moreover, along with him, and instant, contains the following account of introducing him to the disconcerted and the failure of the taxes in that City :astonished parties as the gentleman that “In Dublin alone, notices to discontinue advertised for the accommodation. This 1,050 Jaunting Cars and Gigs, have been as may well be conceived, produced a desent in to the proper office. This, of course nouement of the most risible description. must proportionably diminish the taxable The effect was altogether theatrical, and a objects, under the heads of "horses" and scene of consternation and embarrassment "servants;" and further, must, and has ensued, to do justice to which would rethrown out of employment, saddlers, har-quire the broad farcical delineation of a ness-makers, coach-makers, painters, and Foote, or the exquisite colouring of a Hosmiths, and a crowd of other labourers garth !—( Erne Packet.) aud artisans, who derived support from this article, so necessary to the comforts of a capital city."

Ingenuity in a Taz-Gatherer.

All the brewers of the city of Waterford, have agreed to reduce the prices of porter, strong beer, aud ale, five shillings per

barrel.

MONK BECOME PROTESTANT.

The Rev. James Power, sub-deacon of the Church of Rome, a Monk of the Order of La Trappe, aud resident in the Monastery of Lulworth, abjured the errors of the Church of Ronte, and was publicly admitted into the communion of the Esta

The present inconvenient duty on jaunting cars has brought that mode of conveyance into general disrepute, and substituted a prudent taste for pedestrianism, which is daily becoming more and more fashionable. We may soon expect to see revived among our fair countrywomen, the good old comfortable pillion, so long ex-blished Church of England and Ireland, ploded, and on which Queen Elizabeth was so often wont to recreate her royal person. A hearth collector, as we are informed, lately doing supervisor's duty in a large town, in the south of Ireland, looked somewhat aghast to find that every car (of which 100 paid the preceding year) had disappeared, was put hors de combat, or disposed of in some way to escape the tax. The collector, who, it appears, had a dash of the wag about him, coucérted a little plan to try the honesty of so many respectable persons denying their liability to the duty. In a newspaper printed in the town, he published an advertisement to the following effect:-" Wanted immediately, a second-hand jaunting-car, with harness complete, and a strong steady horse, to suit a travelling family." Directions were added where to apply, and a fit person, properly instructed in the secret, was placed the following morning in a convenient apartment. The scheme succeeded to a miracle. Before ten o'clock the knocker was almost beaten through the door by successive crowds of visitors, every one of ❘ whom had an excellent car, very little rup, which he had no objection to dispose

in Blandford Church, after morning service, and in the presence of a very large and attentive audience. The particulars, which have come to our knowledge, are these:-the late Mr. Weld, a respectable Catholic gentleman, of very extensive property, whose seat is at Lullworth Cast!c, near Weymouth, in Dorsetshire, at the breaking out of the French Revolution, gave an asylum to some Emigrant Monks of La Trappe, and finding by the course of events, that the members of this order, in common with others, had very little prospect of returning to France, he very generously offered to give them materials, and a sufficient quantity of land, in his own. neighbourhood, upon which they might build a convenient house, and by cultivating the land, grow all the corn necessary for their support. The offer was accepted, the Monks built themselves a house, and have continued by their personal labour, to cultivate the land, complying most rigidly with all the rules and regulations of theirorder, the extreme severity of which is well understood. The fraternity thus established, consisted of ten monks, among them some English and some lish, has existed for

Then go !-and in the faithless smile,
That marks the harden'd heart below,
A little space thou may'st beguile,

The pang thou yet shall know;
For now the deaf thy coward ear,
The time will come when thou shalt bear,
In impotence of woe;

"That juggling friend who cries at last,
"I warn'd thee,-when the dust is pass'd."

many years; one of the holy brotherhood, however, either for conscience sake, or growing tired of Matins, Mass, and Vespers, or of living upon vegetables, or daily viewing the grave he had dug for himself, and observing perpetual taciturnity, formed a rasolution to withdraw, which he accomplished, by escaping not many days ago, from the monastery, travelling with all possible haste to Blandford, the nearest town, where he immediately waited upon, and claimed the protection of, the clergyman of that place, painting the hardships he had endured, and the errors he had long laboured under, earnestly requesting to be admitted into the Protestant Church. He was received with Christian considera-sical medal, a passage out of a play of tion, by Mr. Hoare the clergyman, and after a proper representation had been made of the case to the Bishop of the Diocese, the Monk, on Sunday March the 3rd, in the charch of Blandford, in the presence of an immense congregation, read his recantation from the errors of popery, and

was received into the Protestant Church. This ci-devant Monk is a man of family, and nephew to an Irish Bishop.

Poetry.

TO A CELEBRATED NOBLE POET.
When Genius sounds the tuneful shell,

Or heaves the plaintive sigh,
Entranced upon the theme we dwell,
And love her minstrelsy,

Yet should the Muse her treasures bring,
From guilt and errors tainted spring,

The Circean cup we fly;
Reject the sweet but poison'd bowl,
That pours corruption on the soul!
And thus thy rich and varied strain,

Enchants and wounds the car;
Thy bitter smile of proud disdain,

Mocks what we most revere; Still touch'd with all a poet's fire, Thy verse compels us to admire,

Though 'neath that veil appear, "The darkness of the soul within! "The gloom of unrepented sin! "Ill minded man?" was deep remorse,

Felt with so little pain,

That thou would'st run the guilty course,
And taste its gall again?
Could Virtue in her loveliest dress,
And pure affections chaste caress,
Engage thy heart in vain?

Had infant innocence no charm?
Did nobler feelings cease to warm?

CAMBRIDGE CLASSICAL Jeu d'esprit. After the late examination for the clas

Aristophanes was given to be turned into English verse, in the limited time of two translated into English prose, and then the hours. We give the passage first literally by Mr. Lawson, Eellow Commoner of translation or rather parody of it in verse, Magdalen College, one of the two equally successful candidates.

AN ATHENIAN OFFICER.

We wish to eulogize our forefathers, because they were men worthy of this country and their standard, who, in battles by land and sea, always conquering in all places adorned this state; and none of them when he saw the enemy ever stopped to count them, but his heart was at once for fighting, and if perchance any one fell on his shoulder, he would wipe off the dirt, and deny that he had fallen, and fight again; nor would a single officer petition Cleenetus for a public maintenance; But now, if they don't obtain precedence and a pension they de clare they will not fight. Now we, for our part, think it right to fight like men for our state and the gods of our country; and we petition for nothing, only just this, that if peace should come, and we have a respite from our labours, you do not grudge us wearing fine heads of hair and scraping our skins clean.

A BRITISH OFFICER.

Let's chant the days of good Queen Betty,
When folks look'd down on actions petty;
Lads then were lads, nor wanted bounties,
A credit to their cloth and counties.
Amphibious rogues! By land and water,
They left the French small scope for laughter,
Prescribed steel for all diseases,

Steel opes the pores and quickly eases.
Some count their foes, as drovers cattle,
A sort of grace before a battle,
Now these were poor arithmeticians,
Nor from the Muses held commissions,
No Cambridge troops, militia local,
Nor their horseguards, Parnassus vocal.
So this they deemed a paltry shuffle,
And straight at sight commenced the scuffle,
Nor, if knocked down, would they complain,
But rise and cut and come again;

Nor would a single serjeant major,
Dun Harry Calvert for half pay, sir!

But now, without their carnal leaven,
Their K. C. B's and first cuts given,
Their stars and clubs, that root of evil,
They'll see the fighting at the Devil.

Now we without such idle prattle,
For church and state will stoutly battle,
Nor pen we threatening long petitions,
In peace to better our conditions,
Give Windsor soap, Macassar oil,
Let curly locks reward our toil,

We'll then be beaus and share between us,
The conquests not of Mars but Venus.

NATIONAL THEATRE.

The following paragraph deseribes a feat, which, if it had been performed by a country woman of our own, we should have thought no words too strong, in which to execrate it; had it been performed before French audience, instead of a British, we should have ascribed the endurance of

PARLIAMENTARY HISTORY.

CHAP I. Addresses in Answer to the Prince Regent's Speech-Statement of the Public Finances-Army Estimates-Navy Estimates-Opposition to the continuation of the Property Tax.

We have already given the Speech, with which, in the name of the Prince Regent, and of his Majesty, the present Session of Parliament was opened on the 1st of February. In the House of Lords, the Address was moved by the Marquis of Huntley, and was seconded by Lord Calthorpe. A few words from Lords Grenville and Lansdowne, testified general apticulars. probation, but with reserve on some par

In the House of Commons, the Speaker read a letter of thanks, from the Duke of

Wellington in the name of the army, for the honour of Parliamentary approbation conferred on the exertions at Waterloo, &c. Sir T. Acland moved the Address; he

it, to the demoralization of the people. It is said, indeed, that the audience were rather astonished, than pleased, and that the very idea of beholding this woman running over their heads, was offensive in the high-congratulated the House and the Country, on the Peace, the prospect of its continuance, and the honourable rank now held by Britain among the nations of Europe. Mr. P. Methuen seconded the motion.

Mr. Brand insisted that the distresses of

est degree, to the more decent part of the Company in the Pit. We cannot help wishing, that they had expressed their sentiments, and relieved their country from the imputation of having greeted this Agriculture ought to have been mentioned uncalled for indelicacy with unbounded ap-assigned why Parliament had remained so in the Speech: that reasons ought to be plause.

Covent Garden.-After Measure for Measure, the new Pantomime was again performed, and at the conclusion, Madame Sachi, whose wonderful performance on the tight rope at foreign theatres has attracted so much notice, astonished the au

dience by the ease and activity with which she ascended the rope, fixed from the back of the stage to the centre of the two shilling gallery, and made a race with such swiftness, that the eye could hardly follow her. On her arriving at the destined place in the gallery, she curtesied most gracefully to the audience; and her attendants having replaced the pole with which she balanced herself,, into her hands, she returned with

the same velocity to the back of the stage, when she was greeted with the most unbounded applause, and repeated bravos. by a most crowded and brilliant audience, She was dressed Jike an Opera dancer, except a helmet with an immense plume of ostrich feathers. Her figure is light, and her manner graceful.

YOL. IV. No. 19. Lit. Pan. N.S. April 1.

long unassembled, that the army was too numerous; &c.: he moved an Amendment. Lord John Russel seconded the Amendment.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer replied, that peace was not sigued with France till Nov. 20, nor were the ratifications till the 20th of January: were the Hou. Gent. complaining of the delay of ten days? There was not a single treaty, to be submitted; but a series of treaties; not less than sixty or seventy: could they be prepared in the time? He was not ignorant of the embarassments of Agriculture, the sudden subtraction of an immense capital, the change in the direction of expenditure, the resumption of intercourse with the Continent, all must create a variation for a time unfavourable to various interests. He admitted a design of continuing the Income Tax, at five per

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[As the question of the continuation of the Property Tax was the most important, and most occupied discussion, we shall direct our attention to that, as an entire subject.]

Feb. 2.-Mr. Baring måde several enquiries concerning the Property Tax.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer answered: that he proposed various modifications to continue for two (or three) years. Agriculture to be relieved, as far as possible.

Feb. 7.-Mr. Lambton presented a petition from the inhabitants of Durham against the renewal of the Property Tax. From this day, petitions, often many at a time, were presented to the House, from various parts of Britain, all intreating the cessation of the Tax.

Feb. 12.-The Chancellor of the Exche

the revenue arising from the assessed taxes would continue to flourish, and might be safely reckoned upon. He should now proceed to take some notice of the application of those very large and liberal grants which had so greatly contributed to our final success ju the conflict.

Of last year's grants there were 21,000,000l. due for past expenditure, and which formed no part of the supplies wanted for future exertious. By this means what was previously due had been all discharged. But, on the 5th of January last, the unfunded debt had been by those liberal grants still reduced by 21,000,000l. There was last year a reduction to the amount of 41,500,000l. Navy debts had also undergone a reduction of from 6,000,000l. to about $,000,000l. If he looked to the amount of our manufactures exported, he found it in the quarters ending October 10, 1814, 37,167,000l.; and, at a similar date in 1815, the amount was 42,425,0001. The house would have time and opportunity to peruse and examine the particulars. He should, for the present, merely advert to one or two of them. Of cotton goods we exported, in 1814, to the amount 13,169,0001.; aud in 1815,

quer in a Committee of Supply, proposed 15,372,000!. Of linens in 1814, 1,100,000). the following particulars.—

in 1815, 1,340,000. Of woollens, in 1814, 6,000,000l.odd. Having so recently exerted The customs for the year ending 1815, all the great sinews of our national strength produced 11,590,000l.; for the year ending the house would be frequently this session 1816, 10,487,0001. The house would, called to the important consideration of however, recollect the expiral of the war our financial affairs. Of that situation he taxes on tonage, which produced 600,000l. wished as clearly as he could to state his or 700,000l. In 1814 the excise produced own general views. The greatest difficul25,145,000l. and for 1815 26,562,000l. an ties seemed to result from the prices of yaincrease of 1,400,0001. over the preceding rious articles; and more particularly so, as year. No particular means operated last they regarded the interests of agriculture, year, except what concerned licenses, &c. in which, during the war, they had swellThe stamp duties for 1814, produced ed in too great a proportion. It should be 5,598,000l.; for 1815, 5,865,0001. A con- recollected that great alarm had been occasiderable increase in duty had no doubt sioned by the scarcities of 1800, and of a taken place, but he could not just then year or two before; and it became geneascertain accurately to what it had amount-rally thought that our means were very ined. The post-office had produced for 1814, 1,450,000l.; for 1815, 1,548,000l. | The assessed taxes produced in 1814, 6,400,000l., but there was in the next year a diminution of about 200,0001. For 1814, the property tax produced 14,200,000l., and for 1815, 13,500,000l., making an increase of 100,0001. The land tax for 1814, produced 1,059,000l. [We could not exactly collect what the Chancellor of the Exchequer stated to be its amount for 1815.] The total revenue for 1814, was 65,430,000l.; for 1815, there was an increase of about a million. He had great satisfaction in hoping that the branch of

adequate to our supply, Besides this, our means of supply from foreign countries were frequently interrupted, and rendered very difficult to procure. We had the fear of depending upon other countries, and the pretensions arising from liability to scarcity. Some powers had wholly withheld their supply. During the war, government was in habit of constant purchase. The victualling-office bought at the rate of 200,000 sacks of flour. The proposal which he had stated on a former occasion to reduce the property tax from ten to five per cent, would produce a relief of seven millions. About four millions of this tax, which fall

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