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which she was almost forcibly separated by the Earl of Wilton and Lord Gran.

ville.

The death of Mr. Huskisson cast a deep gloom over the town of Liverpool, and every token of respect was shewn to his memory, when the melancholy truth became known. The shops and dwelling houses were partially closed; the flags on the public buildings, and on the shipping, were hoisted half-mast; and anxious groups were seen in the streets conversing with mounful countenances on the melancholy accident, which had deprived them of their representative.

An inquest was subsequently held on the body of Mr. Huskisson, at which the Earl of Wilton and Lord Granville were present; when the Jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death."

It was at first proposed by the Corporation of Liverpool, to the Town-hall of which the body was removed, to honour Mr. Huskisson's remains with a public funeral; but his afflicted lady declined it, and wished his obsequies to be performed with as little parade as possible. A spot was selected in the centre of the new cemetery for the interment, and sufficient space will be reserved for a monument, and to serve, if wished, for a family burialplace.

On Friday, September 24th, the ceremony of interment took place; and at an early hour in the morning, the bells of the different churches reminded the town of Liverpool of the melancholy duty which they had that day to perform.

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will transmit their Petitions to both Houses of Parliament, by that day, or as soon after as possible. No needless delay should be allowed to prevent the fulfilment of this sacred duty.

GLEANINGS.

Watch to Wind without a Key.-For this' very great improvement in the winding of spring pocket-watches, the public are indebted to the inventive genius of Mr. Isaac Brown, 27, Gloucester Place, Clerkenwell, London, by whom a patent has been obtained, characterizing this curious piece of mechanism as "a Patent Bezel Winding Watch, manufactured by Isaac Brown, patentee and manufacturer of the Bezel Winding Clock and Alarum Watches."-The method of winding this watch is by moving round the bezel or rim of the case, from left to right, with the finger and thumb, until the watch is wound up: if it is a fuzee watch, the bezel must be turned until it stops, which will not exceed half a turn in any case; and the superiority of this mode of winding, in comparison with that of the common method, must be obvious to every one. There are also other important advantages belonging exclusively to this watch, namely, that of setting the hands to time, which is effected by drawing out a little, and twisting the milled head of the pendant; and that of regulating the watch, by means of a small point, which projects through a groove in the edge of the case, and moves the index, which revolves in a graduated circle on the face of the dial. These important improvements render the opening of the watch quite unnecessary, either for the purpose of winding, setting, or regulating.

Horses.-The learned and benevolent Burbequins, who was ambassador at Constantinople in the 17th cen tury, gives the following account of the Turkish horses. Our grooms and their masters too, may learn a lesson of wisdom and humanity from his words;-"There is no creature so gentle as a Turkish horse, nor more respectful to his master, or the groom that dresses him. The reason is, because they treat their horses with great lenity. This makes them great lovers of mankind; and they are so far from wincing, kicking, or growing untractable by his gentle usage, that you will hardly find a masterless horse among them. But, alas! our Christian groom's horses go on at another rate! They never think them rightly curried till they thunder at them with their voices, and let their clubs or their horse-whips, as it were, dwell on their sides. This makes some horses really tremble when their keepers come into the stable-so that they hate, and fear them too. But the Turks love to have their horses so gentle, that at the word of command they may fall on their knees, and in this position receive their riders. They will take up a staff or club upon the road, with their teeth, which their rider has let fall, and hold it up to him again; some horses, when their master has fallen from the saddle, stand stock still without wagging a foot, till he get up again. Once I saw some horses, when their master was at dinner with me, prick up their ears to hear his voice; and when they did so, they neighed for joy."-Library of Useful Knowledge.

The Gazette of Cairo.-This journal is one of the most remarkable literary curiosities of the present

day. It is the first attempt of the kind, which the

Turks have made to establish a periodical in their native tongue within the limits of their eastern dominions. About a twelvemonth ago, the Viceroy of Egypt, in his anxiety to further the introduction of European refinements among his subjects, determined upon publishing a species of official gazette, for the purpose fof giving publicity to state documents, and forming a record of domestic occurrences of moment, the arrival and departure of foreign shipping, and the introduction of, any mercantile and agricultural improvements. It is compiled in Turkish and Arabic, the notices inserted being given simultaneously in each language, and each of them occupying one of the two columns which are contained in every page. The head-piece to this paper consists of an engraved vignette representing a pyramid, with a palm tree rising from its base, and a moiety of the sun's disk rising above the horizon. Within the pyramid stands the title, "The Occurrences of Cairo:" for there is no expression in Turkish or Arabic which is at all synonymous with our word newspaper, or gazette. The first article is invariably devoted to an announcement of meteorological observations made at the place of publication. The original editor was one Aziz Effendi; but he disfigured the reports of the proceedings in the council of state with such pompous and fantastic interpolations, that the Pasha was obliged to get rid of him, and entrust the task to the secretary of his divan.-Athenaum.

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Come in Time." I never come late to a friend's dinner," says Boileau, for I have observed, that when a company is waiting for a man, they make use of that time to load him with abuse."-Family Album. Drowsy Hearers.-In the early times of this state, as we learn from Lewis's History of Lynn, a person was deputed to wake the sleepers in church. Ile bore a long wand. On one end was a fox's tail, with which he gently touched the faces of the drowsy fair; but on the other end was a ball, with which he bestowed on the sconces of the snoring men a startling rap.Boston Bulletin.

Dear

Singular Circumstance.-The "Liverpool Mercury" states the following as a fact, and avers that it took place near the village of Upton-in-Wirral, Cheshire:-A female, of respectable appearance, with an infant of colour at the breast, entered the cottage of a labouring man, whose family consisted of a wife and several small children. The visitor was welcomed to the homely dwelling, and observing an infant in the cradle, she wished to ascertain the child's age, and seemned pleased to find it correspond with her own. She then inquired by what means the family were maintained: and being informed that their only support arose from the husband's labour, with much seeming sympathy and kind feeling ob served,-"Suppose some friend made you a present of five hundred pounds, to open a small shop, don't you think it would be the means of helping you to bring up your family"-" Yes, madam,' replied the poor woman," but I have no such friend," upon which the lady took from her pocket-book a £500 Bank of England note, and presented her with it. The astonished cottager, struck speechless by such unexpected good luck, was roused from her stupor by her benefactress requesting change for a sovereign, meaning to share it amongst the rest of the children. 20 shillings being a sum not often seen by the poor woman, she replied, "O dear madam, I have not one shilling; but, if you'll wait, I'll go to the next village, about a quarter of a mile distant, and get it for you." " The poor woman, in high glee, made the best of her way towards Upton; but, before she had reached a hundred yards from her door, the generous benefactress placed her swarthy offspring in the cradle, and made a precipitate retreat with the faircomplexioned infant, leaving the poor woman to console herself, on her return, with a Mulatto child in one hand, and five hundred pounds in the other.

Merican Manuscripts.-Several Mexican manuscripts, brought some time ago to Europe, and forming part of the celebrated collection of Botturini, have been purchased for the Royal Library, Paris. Amongst the number is the report of the spies sent by Montezuma to the Spanish camp; a third manuscript represents the human sacrifices.

Literary Notices.

Just Published.

Views in the East, comprising India, Canton, and the Shores of the Red Sea; from Original Sketches by Capt. Robert Elliot, R.N.-The Subjects of Part II. are, Entrance of a Mosque at Futtypore Sicri Tomb of Shere Shah, at Sasseram; and Aurungzebe's Mosque, at Benares.

No. XVIII. of the National Portrait Gallery preBents Likenesses of Viscount Melville, Viscount Clifden, and John Abernethy, Esq.

A Series of Church of England Divines: No. 1. Works of Bishop Sherlock; to be continued Monthly. Valpy's Greek Exercises, or Elements of Composition. 2d Edition. 12mo, bound.

The Sixth Part of The Family Cabinet Atlas, will complete the first half of the Work, and will contain Maps of Holland and the Netherlands, Spain and Portugal, Sweden and Norway, and the West Indies.

Humann on the Greek Metres, abridged and translated into English, for the Use of Schools and Colleges, by the Rev. J. Seager. 8vo.

Divines of the Church of England, No. 4, being a continuation of the Works of Bishop Sherlock, with a Summary to each Discourse, Notes, &c., by the Rev. T. S. Hughes. Small 8vo.

Valpy's Greek Grammar. 12th Edition. 8vo. Elements of Latin Grammar, by the Rev. Dr. Valpy. 19th Edition.

The Life of the late John Walker, M.D., Director and Vaccinator of the Royal Jennerian and London Vaccine Institutions, by John Epps, M.D., Lecturer on Materia Medica and Chemistry, and now Director and Vaccinator of the Royal Jennerian Society, and London Vaccine Institution.

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Deadly Adulteration and Slow Poisoning, or, Disease and Death in the Pot and the Bottle.

Models of Modern French Conversation; Dialogues in French and English, by M. de la Claverie. Full Annals of the Revolution in France in 1830, by Wm. Hone, with engravings.

Utility of Latin discussed, for the Consideration of Parents, by Justin Brenan.

Composition and Punctuation familiarly Explained, &c., by Justin Brenan.

Anti-Slavery Reporter, Nos, 66 and 67.
Pinciples of Dissent, by Thomas Scales.
The Family Library, No. XVI.

Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft, by Sir Walter Scott, Bart.

The Substance of a Course of Lectures on British Colonial Slavery, delivered at Bradford, York, and Scarborough, by the Rer. Benjamin Goodwin.

The Omnipotence of the Deity, a Poem, by the Rev. John Young. 12mo.

By Messrs. Blackie & Fullarton of Glasgow, in one volume quarto, a new and corrected edition of Brown's Self-Interpreting Bible.

In the Press.

A Help to the Private and Domestic Reading of the Scriptures, by J. Leifchild. Second Edition, considerably Enlarged and Improved.

Also, A Defence of the Surinam Negro-English Version of the New Testament, by Wm. Greenfield. Superintendant of the Editorial Department of the British and Foreign Bible Society.

The Law of the Sabbath, Religions and Political, by Josiah Conder.

By Mr. Bray, Author of De Foix, The White Hoods, &c. a Romance, entitled, The Talba, or Moor of Portugal, in 3 vols. post 8vo.

The British Merchant's Assistant, by G. Green.

Neatly bound in cloth, carefully revised and enlarged by the Author, an entirely new edition of " An Original Essay on the Immateriality and Immortality of the Human Soul, founded solely on Physical and Rational Principles," by Samuel Drew, M.A.

An elaborate work on Book Keeping, in its various branches by Edward T. Jones.

Preparing for Publication.

The British Herald, or Cabinet of Armorial Bear ings of the Nobility and Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time; with a complete Glossary of Heraldic Terms; to which is prefixed, a History of Heraldry, by T. Robson.

A Manual of Prayers, in Easy Language, for every Day in the Week, by the Rev. J. Topham, M.A. F.R.S.L. Rector of St. Andrew and St. Mary Witten, Droitwich.

The Poetical Works of the late F. Sayers, MD; to which is prefixed, his Disquisition on English Poetry, and English Metres: and also a Life, by W. Taylor, of Norwich.

On the first of November will be Published, Price One Guinea, in One Volume, Post Octavo, elegantly bound in rich crimson silk, and illustrated with 18 splendid Engravings on Steel, by the most celebrated Artists of the day, Le Keepsake Francais.

On the first of November, in royal 18mo elegantly bound in crimson silk, The Winter's Wreath, for 1831, illustrated with 13 elegant engravings.

The First Volume of the Quadrupeds of the Zoological Gardens, will be ready in a few days.

The Lyre and the Laurel, two volumes of the most beautiful fugitive Poetry of the XIXth Century, will appear in a fortnight.

The true Dignity of Human Nature, or Man viewed in relation to Immortality, by the Rev. W. Davies, Minister of Croft Chapel, Hastings, 18mo.

Mr. Boaden has nearly ready, his Life of Mrs. Jordan, from her first appearance on the Irish Stage, until her lamentable death at St. Cloud.

The Lives of the Italian Poets, in 3 Vols., by the Rev. Henry Stebbing, the much admired author of the History of Chivalry and the Crusades, are just ready for publication, embellished with nearly thirty medallion portraits.

Chartley the Fatalist, a Novel, from the pen of a regular Contributor to Blackwood's Magazine, may be expected in a few days.

The Sixth Edition of the Cabinet Lawyer, revised and enlarged, in One Vol. 18mo. and comprising the New Acts of the 11 Geo. IV, and 1 Wil. IV. and Legal Decisions to the Summer Assizes.

Professor Jameson has undertaken to edit, for Constable's Miscellany, an edition of Wilson's great work on American Ornithology. The whole of the Literary Contents of the original and only Edition will be comprised in Three Volumes, not only without abridgment, but with numerous additions and improvements.

ST. JAMES'S CEMETERY, LIVERPOOL.

(With a View.)

THE man who denies that we live in an age of improvement, must be a hardy cynic, in every respect worthy of the tub which Diogenes occupied. The inventive powers of man have given birth to energies, which to former generations were totally unknown; and human ingenuity has formed contrivances, through which the elements of nature are controlled, and rendered subservient to the purposes of art. There are few departments of life to which the inventions and improvements of modern times do not extend. Our streets, warehouses, shops, and taverns, our churches, chapels, theatres, and other public buildings, are illuminated with gas. Steam has extended its influence over the ocean, and both wind and tide have been taught to submit to its power. In machinery, stationed on the land, its mighty agency has been long well known, in giving motion to engines which drain our coal mines of water, and render productive of wealth, those still deeper excavations in Devon and Cornwall, which the adventurer explores, while searching for subterranean treasures.

From stationary existence and operation, the powerful agency of steam has been taught to acquire a loco-motive property. It has been directed to traverse our public roads, and, with a celerity unknown before, to transfer enormous weights from one town to another. Liverpool has had the honour of giving effective birth to this peculiar mode of its operation; and future generations will register this place as the cradle of the infant giant, when, having attained maturity, its history shall, hereafter, be recorded among the memorable inventions of the world.

The improvements which will distinguish the present century are not confined to the living. They extend to the repositories of the dead; and here, also, Liverpool will stand foremost in the field of honourable enterprise. Increasing both in population and commerce, the inhabitants of this justly celebrated town long felt the inconveniences attendant on the interment of the dead. The burying places were found too contracted to 143.-VOL. XII.

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accommodate the victims of death. It was frequently difficult to discover room for a grave, without disturbing bodies that had been previously interred; and many instances occurred when they were removed while only in a state of partial decomposition. This violation of decorum was acutely felt, and seriously deplored by all; but to the surviving friends of those, whose mouldering fragments were mutilated by a premature disinterment, the feelings excited were too agonizing to be described. The claims of decency became at length too imperious to be resisted. To meet these demands, a cemetery, comprising about 24,000 square yards, was formed at Low Hill, near Everton. It was opened Feb. 21, 1825, and furnished to the inhabitants a great accommodation; but even this was found too contracted for general interment. A new and more enlarged burying-ground became absolutely neces sary, but the difficulty of finding an appropriate place was, for some time, an obstacle not to be surmounted. At length, a spot was discovered suitable in almost every respect, for the solemn but useful purpose. The situation was eligible, being somewhat detached from the habitations of the living, without being at an inconvenient distance; and what operated still more in its favour was, its being scarcely adapted for any other use.

Of this cemetery, the prefixed engraving furnishes a faithful representation, and gives an appropriate distincness to every thing remarkable that is included within its confines. The foundation stone was laid Aug. 28, 1827. It was consecrated Jan. 13, 1829; and the first interment, that of Mr. Haram, a wine merchant of Liverpool, took place June 13, 1829. In an entertaining, useful, and much circulated work, entitled "The Stranger in Liverpool," a brief description of this cemetery has been published, from the pages of which we transcribe the following particulars.

"This burial-ground is situated at the top of Duke-street, and is formed on the site of a delf or quarry, from which sufficient stone has been abstracted to construct many of the public buildings of the town, and several docks. The cemetery comprises 44,000 square yards of land, sur3 Q