THE MOST INNOCENT CRIME. —A poor man who was a candidate

for admission into St. Giles's workhouse, finding all other means of attracting the attention of THE MOST INNOCENT CRIME.—A poor man who was a candidate for admission into St. Giles's workhouse, finding all other means of attracting the attention of the magistrates and overseers to his case unavailing, bethought him of breaking one of the lamps in the neighbourhood of the workhouse. When brought before Sir Richard Birnie, he said he had smashed the lamp as "the most innocent spe- cies of offence he could commit." He was detained, and consequently lodged; so that the offence succeeded to his wish.

Psr9ams....as-Caammusara„—To-morrow the ancient punishment of doing' penance will be revived in the new Church of St. George, Camberwell, in obedi- ence to the mandate of the Commissory Court of Surrey, by a young man, for calling a female by a very opprobrious epithet. , The official delinquencies of Mr. Burton, late a churchwarden of the parish of

St. Mary, Woolchurcb, Haw, have been recently 'discussed in the Insolvent Court. Mr. Burton embezzled nearly 5001. of the parish money, and endeavoured

to compound the matter at the rate of two shillings in the pound. This offer was refused; and the Insolvent Court has ordered him to be imprisoned for six months for breach of trust.

An old Chelsea pensioner, who had absented himself from the hospital without leave, cut his throat on Sunday morning, on the Deptford Road.

The neighbourhood of Cornhill was thrown into consternation yesterday morn- ing by a fire in a trunk-maker's shop, which in a short time consumed the premises, although five engines were playing against the house. Mr. Charles Henry Gossling, surgeon, supped at the Queen's Head in the Borough on Sunday; and on going to bed there, swallowed prussic..acid,.and Was found dead next morning. A drunken fellow Of the name of perm irole. of VALI Ate or 6ohriationi on Sun- day last, threw an Italian iron at nis wife, and killed his child whom she was suckling.

A beadle at Pimlico discovered a house in that neighbourhood to be on fire on Saturday morning. On bursting open the door, he succeeded in rescuing three children, who had contrived to set fire to a sack of shavings, and were nearly suffocated in consequence.

A rencontre took place last week, on Kelso race-ground, between Mr. Pringle, son of Sir John Pringle of .Stitchel, and Captain Stewart, both officers in the 92d Regiment. The former was severely wounded. Captain Stewart has since been apprehended, and, along with his second, lodged in Jedburg,h gaol.

A well-dressed young woman was discovered on the West Street Road, Boston, last week, apparently dying. It appeared that she had been for some years on town ; and having left London for the purpose of returning to her native village, the reception which her friends had given her, drove her to swallow laudanum.

Mr. Strange, watchmaker, Banbury, received a message last .week to carry an assortment of watches to the house of a gentleman in the neighbourhood, that he might select one. Mr. Strange did not go on the night appointed, and saved his property. The message had been sent by some ruffians who meant to rob him. A gentleman, whom they mistook for Mr. Strange, was stopped on the road, and ordered to deliver the watches.

A young man named Edward Lovesy, a sawyer, residing at Rotherhithe, died on Friday week, from hydrophobia, occasioned by the bite of a little dog so long ago as July 1828. His health had never been affected by it till last Thursday, when he was seized with the fatal symptoms. He has left a wife and three children.

A boat laden with six hundred tubs of spirits, besides packages of tea and to- bacco, was secured at Shoreham last week by the Customhouse officers. The smugglers ran the boat upon the rocks, in consequence of the darkness of the ight, and deserted her.

Last week, a ferocious dog entered a shop in the Cannongate of Edinburgh, .d bit the proprietor and his wife very severely. The owner of the dog then en- red the shop, and muzzled it; but on the daughter of the couple who had suf- ered venturing to remonstrate, he unloosed it upon her, and allowed her to be orn in a most frightful marines. Thp scoundrel has been imprisoned. The Rev. W. J. St. Aubyn, Rector of Stoke Damerel, in Cornwall, claims a ee of 2/. 12s. every time a valt in the burying-ground is opened. A Mr. lackmore wished to bury his son last week in his family vault, but had no fancy or paying a fee for the exercise of his right. The Rector opposed the interment

.f the body, when it had trived in the churchyard ; the father refused to pay he Rector's claim; and the body has been fitted for preservation in the father's ouse, till the question of right shall be decided by law. On the 31st of October, a violent gale was experienced at Quebec, which aused considerable damageito the shipping generally, but particularly to the • .mall craft at St. Rocks, which suffered severely.

The Manchester steamer which during the storm ran ashore on the South Bull

• .ear the Dublin Lighthouse, on the 24th ult., and was with great difficulty and .xertion on the part of Captain Penn and crew got off on Sunday last, we are

.orry to announce, went down on her passage to Liverpool (whither she was going or repairs ) within eleven miles of Holyhead. Fortunately no lives were lost. I he Balltitaake etemnera being in company) sand aptain Penn anti crew; &el amounting to near forty persons. The Manchester was a fine new steamer, worth, we understand, 18,0001.—Dubli4 Paper.

The Dublin Register of last week imparts the intelligence that a whale had jus swallowed a fishing boat and its crew, on the Irish coast.

The American papers contain an account of a hurricane that had visited Tam- pico in September, and done incalculable damage. The Sir James Kempt, from New Brunswick, with timber for Liverpool, got water-logged lately off the Irish coast, and drifted about for five days ; the crew and passengers clinging all that time to the rigging, and having only raw pota- toes for their sustenance. They were rescued at last by some fishing-boats.

The Jamaica Gazette received this week contains an account of the execution of four slaves for the murder of their master, three years ago. His wife, it ap- peared, had instigated them to the crime. The Cornwall Chronicle states, that the brig Irlam, from Liverpool to St. Vin- cent, was plundered when about 500 miles S.W. of Madeira, by pirates under French colours. Several of the crew and passengers were murdered.

A man sixty years of age has just been released from the galleys, in France, after an imprisonment of forty-two years. He had saved by his labour there se- veral hundred francs; and was called on, by the judge who liberated him, to de- posit a considerable portion of his gains for the security of the public. •

Last week, in the commune of Octeville, a woman hearing a dog barking in the yard, armed herself with her gun, and went about her farm, in order to alarm the robbers, by whom she had been continually annoyed. She soon discovered a young man, but the darkness of the night prevented her from recognizing his fea- tures. The woman, however, presented the gun, fired, and the individual fell dead. It was one of the servants on the farm who had been shot. The young man had gone but a few minutes before his mistress to see if there were any thieves, having also been alarmed by the barking of the dog.

The French papers contain an account of a dreadful storm that spent its fury on the town of Navarino on the 18th of November. Nothing can paint it better than the language of Rear-Admiral Rosamel, in a letter to the French Minister of Marine, dated on board the Trident, Navarino Road, November 19.—"! hasten to acquaint your Excellency with a horrible event, which has plunged into mourn- ing our army in the Mores.. A dreadful storm broke out last night, at half-past eleven, over Navarino. The lightning fell upon the citadel, and setting fire to the powder-magazine, blew it up, with all the walls and buildings in the inclosure. The injury extended to a great distance beyond, principally in the town, where not one of the wretched huts which compose it has remained habitable. Above one hundred artillerymen, who were lodged in the casemates, have been victims of the disaster. As far as we have hitherto discovered, seventeen are killed, and seventy-eight wounded, among which is an officer of artillery, and nine men miss- ing, who are supposed to be still buried in the ruins. The commotion was so violent that every vessel thought itself struck by the lightning, and an examina- tion was made both within and without to ascertain the fact. Soon afterwards, being informed of the misfortune, I went on shore with eight hundred men, draughted from the different ships, and a great number of torches, &c. It will be difficult to form an idea of the dreadful scene which we witnessed. The dark- ness of the night rendered our task extremely difficult. It was even dangerous, because many thousand bombs and grenades had been scattered by the explosion, and covered the ground, still loaded; and before our arrival fires had been kindled in the Midst of them to afford light. Happily a heavy rain had spoilt the matches; one, however, caught fire, and burnt, bat did. not explode. Orders were imme- diately given to put out all the fires;and keep only the ship's lanterns. The as- sistance afforded by the squadron upon this melancholy occasion was indispen- sable to the garrison of Navarino, the ardour and zeal of which are above all praise, as the garrison would on the one hand have been totally insufficient to clear away the enormous masses of the ruins, and on the other hand would have wanted several necessary materials, particularly lanterns, without which it would have been absolutely impossible to work with success. Our surgeons particu- larly have rendered the greatest service, aided only by four or the of/icier: de sante belonging to the garrison." A conjuror in Austria, who wished to have his wife thought fire-proof, was in the habit of engaging a party of soldiers to fire at her with ball.cartridges ; their instructions being to bite off the ball as they loaded their muskets. At a late ex hibition, one of them seems to have forgot his orders, and the poor woman wa- in consequence shot.

KING'S COLLEGE.—The Standard says it is meant to set apart the whole of Somerset House for this institution ; the offices that at present occupy it being transferred to Whitehall. Does this mean that we are to be taxed a little more to build Government offices, that the old ones may be made a present of to the subscribers to King's College ?

A Brighton paper of this week tells us that the Chancellor lately lost his way in a fog near that town. Who could have thought that any atmosphere would seem hazy to a person just emerging from the Court of Chancery ? The second representation of Terence's Phorrnio which took place at West- minster school on Wednesday night, was succeeded by an epilogue in the form of a scene in a police-office, the object of which was to furnish ludicrous expositions of some of our recent changes oil the road and elsewhere, The omnibuses, the Fire King, the new police of Westminster, and the consequent increase of robberies in the City, cigar-smoking, cab-driving, and codification, were the more prominent of the subjects to which allusion was made; and the doggrel Latin in which things unknown to Roman imaginations was sung, was highly effective,— though the Times does think it necessary to protest against its want of classical polish. The witty Lord A. (we suppose Lord B. or any other Lord in the alphabet would do as well) after an absence of two or three weeks from town, called the other day on his bookseller in Bond Street, and inquired if there were any new and interest- ing publications ? Yes, replied the bibliopolist, handing to his Lordship "Mill- man's History of the Jews." Ah I replied he, at the same time returning the book, "tell Millman, I know snore about the— Jews than he does." The second steeple chase took place on Saturday, between Captain Ross and Mr. Osbaldeston. Mr. Osbaldeston was again the winner, but the race itself was very inferior to the previous one. The fashionable circles of Brighton, are engaged in discussing an elopement which took place on Monday. The gentleman, Mr. W. Locke, who, according to report, is thirty years old, and not possessed of a superabundance of worldly means arrived early in the morning; at two o'clock he returned, taking the road to London, accompanied by Miss Selina Tollemache, of the tender age of seven- teen, daughter of the Admiral of that name, now residing at -Brighton. The flight bell discovered, Lord George Lennox set off he pursuit of the fugitives, whom he overtook, and persuaded to enter into the holy bands of matrimony, instead of Dying farther north for that same purpose....13rsaldon Guardian. Madame Wyse arrived in Waterford on Thursday morning from England, ac companied by a lady to whom the title of Madame Murat has been given. She put up at the Commercial Hotel, and in the course of the day enacted various- scenes which kept the multitude constantly agog. She went to the school of the Misses Quin and other places, as it was said, in search of her. children. She made an unsuccessful attempt on the house of George Wyse, Esq., but was refused ad- mittance; and we understand applied to the Mayor for assistance to force an en- try, one of her children being in the house. The aid required was most respect- fully refused. After this, she returned to the hotel, opened one of the front win- dows, and addressed the mob, whether in French or English we have not learned. She concluded by throwing money amongst them—sovereigns. Fortunately for himself, Mr. Wyse was not in town to be a spectator of this exhibition. Yester- day the scene was partially renewed, and Madame paraded through different parts of the town with a long train of rabble at her heels. It is said that she only seeks to have her children ; bnt sumehow her case excites no sympathy here. These Buonapartes are troublesome folk.— Waterford Mail. The clergyman of a village in Leicestershire desired his clerk to give notice that there would be no service in the afternoon, as he was going to officiate for another clergyman. The clerk, immediately as the sermon was ended, rising up, called out, "I am desired to give notice that there will be no service this afternoon, as Mr. L— is going a fishing with another clergyman." Mr. of course, corrected the awkward, yet amusing, blunder.—Morning Herald, after .41r. Joseph Miller.

THE VISION OF THE Posnes.—Let no man, or woman either, despise dreams. A military gentleman sported, in a car of no every-day fashion, a pair of re- markably small Shetland ponies. One pony was black, the other piebald (dun and white), and both, as they frisked about with their long tails, were the delight of Richmond in Surrey. At last enjoyment produced satiety, and satiety brought the desire of change, and the possessor carried his very small beautiful ponies to Brighton, in the hope of finding a good market for them there. An Oxfordshire heiress of vast wealth, whose attractions are said to have captivated the heart of a Royal person some years ago, still lives in single blessedness, and sometimes gladdens Brighton with her presence in the fashionable season. Now it so hap- pened, that this lady was smitten with a passion for ponies about the same period that the passion of our military friend began to decay ; but her choice of the size, colour, and other requisites, was yet undetermined, when she had a DREAM! In the visions of the night, she beheld a car of a rather remarkable form—a gentle- man, of features which she had never before seen, but which she distinctly marked—and the said car drawn by two of the most fascinating creatures of the small breed, the caballus Zetlandicus, that ever a lady languished for. The heiress awoke, but her dream departed not with he slumbers : on the contrary, it was so strongly impressed on her memory, that no reasoning could convince her that it was not something more than one of those wanderings to which both the fancies of rich and poor are subject. She determined (and ladies sometimes act on slighter reasons) to discover whether her faith in dreams was well or ill founded ; and accordingly gave in charge to an agent to endeavour by all means to discover whether two such creatures as she had seen in her vision were any- where for sale. It seemed almost a wild goose chase—but what chase will not good payment and the commands of a lady induce men to pursue ? In the course of his manifold inquiries, the agent at length discovered something which he imagined might be like what the lady desired in the ponies to which we have alluded ; and the gentleman was requested to wait on the lady accordingly. And here comes the singular (and not less singular because true) part of our story. No sooner was the owner of the ponies introduced, than the lady abso- lutely screamed with surprise—he was the very man who in her dream had driven the car, and the animals in question ! The real ponies were equally iden- tified with the fancied ponies—the substantial car with the aerial ! The gentle- man had not, it appeared, quite made up his mind about parting with his horses; but under such extraordinary circumstances, he could not resist the lady's en- treaties. He demanded no price; but that was of course no obstacle, when the purchaser was equally wealthy and liberal. The bargain was accordingly con- cluded; and now the lady has not only possession of the animals she had so much longed for, but in their possession the solution of a question that haspuzzled many wise heads—whether in these degenerate days dreams do yet now and then proceed from Jupiter, as it is universally acknowledged they did in the days of our fathers. As an additional memorial to her very curious dream, the gentleman, at her particular request, was induced to have his profile likeness taken ; and it is now in the possession of the fair dreamer. She has thus always before her waking eyes all the proofs possible of the realization of her sleeping fancies. We do not know whether it was fortunate or unfortunate that the gentleman had, previous to this singular introduction to the Oxfordshire heiress, been equally happy in his selection of an accomplished spouse as of accomplished ponies. Had he been a single man !—but there is no perfebtion in this sad world, even in dreams.— From a Correspondent.

TUE Osnsinus.—The omnibus system is progressing, as Jonathan says; and when we consider that the omnibus carries its freight of twenty solid citizens at the rate of ten miles an hour, we may fairly apply the word. We hope that some active legislator in the coming session will redeem the character of Parliament by showing that it is doing something, and that the mode of redemption will be by allowing us to have an omnibus in every street. We should be glad of this, if it were only for the sake of the shivering poor devils of hackney coachmen whom we see frozen on their boxes in this merciless weather. If they were all turned into the snugly great-coated and well-fed fellows that pilot the omnibus, they and we would be equally comforted.-217ont/dy Magazine for December. FALSE "ABERNETHY BISCUITS."—Biscuits chiefly composed of wheaten flour, carraway seeds, and sugar, are puffed off under the sanction of the name of Abernethy. The composition unfortunately happens to be that which he con- demns. The sugar they contain runs rapidly into the acetous fermentation in an irritable or nervous stomach, and thereby tends to keep up the morbid state of excitement of the stomach, so as to disturb the head, and often the whole nervous system.—Monthly Gazette of Health. PAUPER Garinem.—The Gardener's Magazine recommends a garden to be attached to each workhouse, and where the workhouse is in a town, that the poor should be sent to the garden every day in a van ! Such a piece of advice, from such a quarter, is very much like the old story of " nothing like leather." Gardens are good things ,no doubt, both for poor and rich ; but where they can only be visited in vans, we rather think we must dispense with their advantages. New GOLD AND SIINER MINE.—While working a recently opened mine—cop- per having beeil the object of search—there has been discovered a large and regu- lar lode of silver and gold in the Wigford Mine, which is situated not far from Loddiswell, near Kingsbridge, Devonshire. The ore of the Wigford Mine is of a dark gray colour, approaching to black, with a Metallic lustre and upon analysis it is found to consist of iron, antimony, copper, silver, and gold. The lode is of considerable width, and the accompanying minerals are a white fluor spar, spatese iron ore, and carbonate of lime.—Globe.

REVERSE OF Jemmett, Esq., who formerly resided at Little Milton House, Oxfordshire, where he kept his carriage, an establishment of ser- vants, a pack of hounds, and who forty years ago served the office of High Sheriff of the county, has, in consequence of a fire (supposed to have been occasioned by an incendiary) by which he sustained a loss of six or seven thousand pounds, and by a series of misfortunes, been reduced from a state of affluence to indi- gence ; and has now for some time been the inmate of a cottage at Cuddesden. A subscription has been opened to preserve Mr.Jemmett, who is now seventy-five years of age, from the sad necessity of applying in his latter days for parochial assistance.—Morning Chronicle.

Sza HARCOURT LEES AND THE Cow.—The little active hero of Anti-Catho- licism was very nearly destroyed the other day by a cow—we don't know if it was a dun 2ne. The Irish papers give the following terrible account of the combat "Sir Harcourt Lees, and his second son, while walking on Sunday afternoon on the Bray road, accompanied by a favourite water-dog, of the old Irish breed, were attacked by a cow, following her calf, tied on a car. The cow, from some unknown cause, suddenly turned on the child. Sir Harcourt, with great quickness, threw himself between the enraged animal and the boy, and with his welkin. cane struck her a violent blow on the forehead, which had the effect of making her retreat some paces ; however, it was only for the purpose of making a second and more wicked assault on the worthy baronet himself, who, cool and undismayed, averted the charge by a still more powerful blow on a tender part of the nose, which had the effect of bringing the cow on her knees. At this critical moment the dog rushed forward, seized the animal by the forehead, and diverted her from her contemplated attack. Sir Harcourt called loudly to the man, who was looking on, paralyzed with fear, to drive forward ; which had the effect, for the cow immediately followed the car, and gave up all further attack."

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A BARRISTER.—At the Old Bailey this sessions I con- ducted a prosecution against a man accused of a rape. I knew that two medical men had maintained that the prisoner could not be guilty, and I took care that they should be subpoenaed for the prosecution—not, you may be sure, that I should examine them, but that I might keep them from my opponent. I was for some time uneasy lest the counsel for the prisoner should venture to call them, but at length I had the satisfaction of seeing his fear prevail, and I obtained a verdict. Some time afterwards I saw the prisoner executed. He was a handsome young man. No hero was ever more proud on bringing down his antagonist than I was. What I would have given that my poor father had lived to witness such a bless-

ing on his endeavours for me I this sessions succeeded in obtaining the acquittal of a felon who had committed a highway robbery. I had before befriended him. He had ample means, and by my advice the principal

witness was got hold of, so that an acquittal followed of course My fortune was now made. My reputation was such, that when a prisoner saw me appear against him, he gave himself up for lost; and, on the other hand, the pri- soners for whom I appeared were full of confidence. I was never so well pleased as when I was opposed to an innocent man. Confiding in his innocence, such a man is often taken unawares by the preparations against bins; whereas a rogue is generally wary and suspicious.—Fragment in the Morning Chronicle.

Mn. T. P. Comm—This son of Thespis, when a boy of eight years old, in consequence of seeing a nautical spectacle at one of the theatres, imbibed a pre- dilection for the sea, which became very speedily gratified by a friend of his family who commanded a ship taking hint out as a cabin-boy. In the year 1796 be embarked on board his Majesty's ship the Raven, and sailed immediately, via Gibraltar, for the blockade of Toulon. Being ordered to the Mediterranean, he was with the Earl St. Vincent in the great and distinguished victory which gave the gallant Admiral his title, and partook in many minor actions : the bravery he displayed in boarding art Algerine corsair procured him the thanks of his captain, for his coolness and intrepedity. Accident alone prevented him from being pre- sent at the battle of Camperdown; for, having sprung her main-mast in a violent gale, the Raven bore away for Cuxhaven, and, upon the coast adjacent, under- went the horrors of being wrecked in a season of peculiar inclemency. For two days and nights the crew of this ill-fated vessel were subject to incredible misery. The cold was intense ; and while clinging to the fragments of the shattered ship, many brave seamen wasted with toil, dropped in the chillness of death to a dark stormy grave. Mr:Cook contrived, by dint of great exertion, to reach the shore alive ; when, being carried to a barn adjacent, lie was recovered, and soon after was sent home. The fatigue he underwent during the calamity had impaired his health, and he became severely afflicted with a rheumatic fever, which, from its long duration, had nearly proved fatal. When recovered he listened to the wishes of his friends, and left the Royal Navy, being at that time rated as a midshipman. —Globe.

SMUGGLING CORRECTED.—An inhabitant of 'a commune-in the arrondissement of Bar-le-Due having lately purchased a quantity of wine on which no duty had been paid, was visited by the cure, who coolly took from hisparishioner's drawers the amount of the duty, saying at the same time, he wculd apply it to the use of the poor. If smuggling were so met in England, the Coast Blockade might soon be dispensed with. Of the two claimants, the Church and the King, few would prefer the former.

A TRULY GREAT MAN.—Air. Osbaldeston, if his age be considered, is an extra- ordinary instance of game and fine jockeyship; indeed, at fox-hunting, pigeon- shooting, rowing, cricketing, cocking, or any other sport requiring skill, strength, or ilitrepidity,Mr. Osbaldeston is 'decidedly the first sportsman in the kingdom.— Globe.

THE ITALIAN TWINS.—It appears that the French authorities refused permission to the parents of Ritta and Christina to exhibit them for money ; and that in con- sequence they were reduced to great distress, and could not even procure necessa- ries for themselves, or the haus nature their offspring. This does not say much for the authorities; but why do our neighbours leave so many things to the discretion of the Government? Surely it is easy to frame a law for such exhibitions, and for all exhibitions, which should render persons in office, who interposed so un- necessarily as was done in the present instance, amenable to justice.

RUSSIAN Pohice.—In the night, a Russian city is as quiet as a small village: • no watchmen call the hour, the frail sisterhood are in bed betimes, and you may walk from one end of the city to the other without hearing a word. Attempt to make a disturbance, you are surrounded by people who pop out of curiously palmed boxes, (the Emperor's colour), and who hand you off in one second.— New Monthly Magazine.

CKEMONA FIDDLES.-■-It is remarkable that almost the entire of the fine violins now to be found are the work of the Cremonese makers. Time may have done something for them, for the violin certainly improves by age if it be originally a good one. But there is still something more difficult to be ascertained, in their workmanship. Their violins have often been taken to pieces by the most expert artists, for the purpose of constructing others on their exact model, and yet the experiment has utterly failedMonthly Magazine. AMATEUR BAnuee.—The Pawtucket (Rhode Island) Chronicle states that a comical crazy fellow, who is in the habit of ranging the country, recently entered a

magistrate's office in the village, in the absence of the rightful occupant, and be- gat' to examine the documents upon the table; among which were a dozen or more writs against persons whom he knew by sight, but who did not know him. He pocketed the instruments, and in about an hour afterwards was seen coming up the street followed by three or four sorry-looking fellows, whom he had ar- rested, and carrying under each arm a journeyman tailor, who inclined to show fight rather than be taken at such short notice. He conveyed them to the place from whence he took the official papers, and finding the justice still absent, made use of the lock and key, to confine them there, as he said, "that they might take their trial at the next sitting of the CourtY

MISSIONARY MoDesee.---,de reverend Samuel Dyer, writing from Penang, says A few evenings since, there was special worship performing in their temple; and while the worship was proceeding I was engaged in the temple distributing tracts. A priest saw me, and laughed very contemptuously at me." After de- scribing SQIII8 of the religious ceremonies of the people, he adds—" I sometimes think the priests will soon expel me from the temple. My tracts are mostly dis- tribated therein, or at the threshold, or just outside of the gate; and it is very common to see persons who have accepted my books entering the temple for Me sake of the lights, and there reading them." We ask not what would be done to e Chinese who should play such pranks in an English cathedral; but suppose a Catholic zealot, a believer of the same Scriptures and a worshipper of the same Creator, were to; take his stand in the Scotch National Church, and, under the very nose of its gifted parson, fall a distributing of tracts on the immaculate conception—or say he stood "at the threshold, or just outside of the gate"—what would the congregated saints regard the intruder ? how would Ma Irving look on him ?

REFORMING A DRUNKEN Huse:sem—The Western Intelligencer relates the story of a lady in the state of New York, who took the following summary means to avenge the frequent insults and injuries she had received from her drunken partner. She had married him with a fair prospect of enjoying competency and happiness; but in the course of a year he joined himself to a club of merry fel- lows, and became a toper. She bore his abuse, and even his blows, for a long time, with no other complaint than her tears ; but at length her situation became so intolerable that she could endure it no longer. She resolved on a desperate expedient; and 'on his return from his usual haunt of dissipation, just drunk enough to leave him strength to beet here she put her plan in execution. As soon as he was fast asleep, she sewed him up in a sheet with strong twine, leaving him only a little space to breathe. She then packed up her clothing, dressed her child, eadffled a horse, and waited calmly for her husband to wake from his slum- bers. At daylight he began to move, and finding the predicament he was in; • Poured forth a ,torrent of curses upon his wife, ordering her to release him in- stantly. She arose, took down a raw hide which he had often exercised upon her own person, and approaching the bed, with perfect composure, recounted the injuries she had received—the ruin he had brought upon himself and family, the patience with which she had endured her sufferings, and even declared that she then loved him as she did her own life, but she could endure his tyranny no longer—she was going to her father's house, taking nothing but her child and a few articles of clothing ; before she went, however, she had a painful account to settle with him. Suspecting her intention, he promised amendment; but she commenced the work of flagellation with all the strength she could exert; he cried for mercy, and attempted to extricate himself, but she had got the " whip- hand" of him ; he rolled from the bed to the floor, but his wife kept the whip moving until she thought she had pretty well repaid his kindness, when she bade him good merging, took up her child, mounted her horse, and rode away. She called at a neighbour's house, made known the situation of her husband, and re- quested that at a certain hour, he might be released, which was accordingly done. Shame and mortification overpowered his love of drink : he lived soberly for a year, when his wife consented to return to his house, and they have since lived happily and affectionately together, rearing up a numerous and well-ordered fa- mily.—elenerican Paper.