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for her own commitment during twenty-one days.

The French prisoners manufacture obscene toys, and Italian pedlars are the great agents in this kind of ware.

MEUX's brewery sold for £112,000, the stock to be taken at a valuation, and the public houses, 134 leasehold, and eight freehold and copyhold at £61,360.

BONES of all kinds, not excepting human bones, are sent by sea in great quantities from London to the North; many hundred tons of these are ground, or rather broken small in mills contrived on purpose. The quantity necessary for an acre of land being small in comparison of other materials.

A LIST of cows' names appeared in the advertisement of a set of dairy stock in Shropshire, 1809. Earnest, Curlpate, Jezebel, Judith, Bee, Gayless, Early, Secunda, A. One, Fancy, Firbrina, Firbrella, Roseberry, Pretty, Curly, Browney, Yorkshire, Daisy, Rose, Rosalina, Second, Standfast, K. Wouski, Broad Cap, Rosely, Helen, Fillbowl, Sexta, M. Broadface, Fillpan, Rosebud, Wisky, Doctress, Lovely Lass, Urah, Third, Rurorea, Cot Lass, Rosamond, Rosella, Miss Key, Tertia, Furba.

1793. The bull Shakespere, by Shakespere, off young Nell, sold for 400 guineas, the seller conditioning that he should have two cows bulled by him yearly.

Ar the lying-in hospital, Dublin, twentyeight boys baptized at one time by the name of Patrick.

MR. LAMBERT, forty years of age, weight 52 stone 11 lb. being 10 stone 11 lb. more than "the greatest weight of the celebrated Mr. Bright." His coffin was built upon two axles and four clog wheels. The window and part of the wall of the room in which he died (on the ground floor) being taken down, he was drawn out with ropes by eight

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Courier, Wedn. March 2, 1814.

Dublin. Feb. 21. Ar the Quarter Sessions, the King at the prosecution of John Miller v. George Hope. The latter was, after a patient hearing, found guilty, and sentenced to twelve months imprisonment in Newgate, after which he must give good security for his conduct. His offence was fraudulently secreting a farthing belonging to his employer, which it appears was one of three coined by Queen Anne, and esteemed of high value to antiquarians. He wanted to extort a bond for £700 from his master for the farthing, and refused to restore it otherwise. The Recorder regretted that the Court was unable to go as far as it could wish in his punishment."

MONEY in both pockets. Lord St. Vincent's hornpipe. Long life to the petticoat. Dances.

"The present times," says Mr. Wilson, in his Treasures of Terpsichore, "would give a foreigner a deplorable idea of the English nation, if he were to judge from their country dancing,-which is a credit to the nation when properly conducted and executed; if not, it only wants the addition of grimaces to reduce it to the dances of the savages of Terra del Fuego. It is indeed lamentable that our amusements should be on the decline, while the arts, sciences, and manufactures flourish beyond all precedent among us. At a period, too, when a powerful and inveterate enemy is endeavouring to surpass us in every art and science, and who would perhaps rejoice to hear that we could neither dance, paint, nor write, we should therefore endeavour to do everything in the best manner possible, not only for our own satisfaction, but for the credit of

our country." He goes on to prove, in defiance of ridicule, that good dancing is requisite to preserve a high national character; and hopes that as dancing, being only an amusement, perhaps is not likely to be promoted by its professors, not being formed into a corporate body as the painters are, (i. e. that there is no Royal Academy for Dancing,) that his exertions may reform the present deplorable state of country dancing, which will cause the superior departments to advance in proportion; and we may then perhaps have the satisfaction to hear of an Englishman blending all the powers of attraction, drawing down the reiterated plaudits of approbation from the Parisians, to the credit of himself and of his country.

HORSE RACING. Newmarket Craven Meeting. Sweepstakes of 100 guineas each, half forfeit, for the produce of untried mares, covered by untried stallions.

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screams; and by its third, a married lady, because the bird chose to be jealous of her husband.

Ar the siege of Copenhagen, the villa of a wealthy man, about five miles from the city, was taken possession of, and the family fled, leaving the plate on the dining table. By the capitulation, private property was to be respected. The owner returned to his house, and was refused admittance by a sentinel, who told him that his orders were to guard the property, and that no person should enter unless he brought a permission in form from his commanding officer. The owner persisted in asserting his right, till the sentinel threatened to shoot him on the spot if he did not retire. Then he went in search of the colonel, procured the formal order, and upon entering his house found everything just as he had left it,—not a spoon or a salver missing.

"We know several masters of stage

coaches, particularly on the Essex road, who, when their stage horses are past labour, let them run in the pastures, or frequent the stables, as they had been used to do when in service. They come regularly to see the others set out on their journey, and when they are off, they return to their strawyards. We remember some such instances living for years in that condition, and others after having received incurable hurts. If any doubt this humanity, let them enquire of Cracklin of Brentwood.”— Panorama, Oct. 1809.

On Saturday evening, 1 July, 1809, being the first club night after the annual feast of St. Peter's society of change-ringing artists of Norwich, which is kept always to the honour of St. Peter, on St. Peter's day, Mr. Samuel Thurston, one of the above society, struck on their peals of musical handbells the five following intricate short peals, in the society's club-room, at the New The

2 I have frequently met the person here alluded to in Copenhagen.-J. W. W.

atre public house, that evening, in presence of most of the change-ringers.

1st. A peal of plain-bob-triples, containing 84 changes, and was nobly brought round in 2 minutes and 45 seconds.

2nd. A peal of bob-major, containing 112 changes, and completed in 3 minutes and 48 seconds.

3rd. A peal of bob-major reversed, containing 112 changes, and finished in 3 minutes and 12 seconds.

4th. A peal of double-bob-major, containing 112 fine changes, completed in 3 minutes and 55 seconds.

5th. A peal of grandsire-bob-cators, containing 126 changes, and was nobly finished in 5 minutes and 14 seconds.

N.B. The first four peals he struck on eight musical hand-bells, and the last on a fine-toned peal of ten, being the greatest performance ever completed by one person in the world.

O.P. THE Rev. Solomon Herschell, high priest of the Jewish synagogue, has caused 100 itinerant Jews to be struck off the charity list for six months, for making a noise at Covent Garden theatre. He has also warned them of excommunication in case they should be guilty of the like again.

DIED, 1809, at an advanced age, Mr. P. Tompkins, in an obscure lodging near Moorfields. This person was formerly supposed to be not only the most correct, but the most incorrect bookkeeper in the kingdom; and obtained a very handsome independence by making sets of books for those persons who were, for their own interest, obliged to appear before certain gentlemen in commission at Guildhall. It is said he was the first person who suggested the idea of imputing the losses of bankrupts to speculations in the lottery, and procured the unsuccessful numbers (collected at 28. each) as having been purchased unfortunately by his employers.

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consume annually the produce of rather more than 34 acres of land: half an acre for bread, one-eighth for beer, cider, &c. one-fiftieth vegetables, 24 animal food, 39 stone of which, on an average population of 10,000,000, each person is computed to devour. In England and Wales there are computed 1,759,000 horses for labour and pleasure, requiring with their colts 7,500,000 acres of land for their support. In Middlesex, 1797, the number of taxed pleasure horses was 18,266; for agriculture, &c. 12,709. The cultivated lands in England and Wales, allowing 3,603,000 acres for hedges, copses, wood, water, and roads, is computed as 39,027,000 acres, of which about 14,000,000 are supposed to be arable, namely, 3,850,000 wheat, 1,050,000 barley and rye, 3,500,000 oats and beans, 1,400,000 clover, rye-grass, &c., a like quantity turnips and other roots, and 2,800,000 lost annually by the generally injurious system of fallow. The commons and waste lands are stated at 7,889,000 acres, the whole superficies 46,916,000. The metropolis consumes butcher's meat annually to the amount of £7,000,000 sterling. About 12,000,000 sheep are annually killed, and 3,000,000 lambs. The number of sheep in England and Wales, according to evidence in the Wool Bill, exceeds 40,000,000.

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A calf for the London market consumes as much milk as would make a hundredweight of cheese.-Panorama, January, 1810.

DEAN NOWELL was fishing when news reached him which made him fly without

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going back to take anything out of his house." He left his bottle of ale covered when he returned, happening to recollect it with grass or earth; and after Mary's death,1 when fishing on the very spot, looked for it, uncorked it, and found it, says Fuller, not a bottle, but a gun, such the sound of

'FULLER'S words are-" he found it some days after." Worthies of England, Lancashire, p. 115. Folio. His love of fishing is well known, and the motto," Piscator hominum." See CHURTON'S Life of Alexander Nowell, p. 20.

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it when opened; and this, as casualty is the mother of more inventions than industry, is believed the original of bottled ale in England.

A. D. 1810. LATELY, as some boys were walking along the beach, opposite the slaughter-house jetty at Portsmouth, one of them found an old leathern glove washed up, which contained 158 guineas, and a few half guineas. Some of the guineas adhered to each other so closely, that they could not easily be separated.

Two sisters employed at Windsor as chimney sweepers. Women must have been not uncommonly thus employed, when Fawkes wrote his Epithalamium upon the marriage of a cobbler and a chimney sweeper.

THE first spelling-book in the Irish language was published in London, 1810, at the expense of the Hibernian Society. The Panorama complains of this as late,-so do I, as being in Irish. Those who are taught to read should be taught in English.

A.D. 1810. IN Dartford workhouse, James Gibson, 106. He had been ten years in the house, and till within these two months used daily to perambulate the town. His faculties were entire to the last. He was so much attached to smoking, that he requested his pipe, together with his walking-stick, might be placed in his coffin, which request was complied with.

Courier, August 3, 1814. Joanna Southcott has lately given out that she is pregnant with the true Messiah, and expects to lie in in a few weeks. She is nearly seventy of age. A cradle of most expensive years and magnificent materials has been bespoken by a lady of fortune for the accouchement, and has been for some days exhibited at the warehouse of an eminent cabinet maker in Aldersgate-street. Hundreds of genteel persons of both sexes have been to see this cradle, in which her followers

| believe the true Messiah is to be rocked. The following has been given us as a correct description: "A child's crib, three feet six inches, by two feet; of satin wood, with brass trellis, side and foot board; turned feet, carved and gilt, on castors; a swing cot, inside caned, to swing on centre; at each end gilt mouldings, top and bottom for gold letters; a canopy cover, with blue silk; carved and gilt under it, a gold ball and dove, and olive branch; green stars at each corner, gilt; blue silk furniture; an embroidered celestial crown, with Hebrew characters, gold letters; a lambs'-wool mattress, with white fustian down bed, down pillow, and two superfine blankets." £100 expended in plate for the expected child,— and there was an intention of having a gold service for his use!

A MAN at Paris has lately (1810) published a treatise on the game of 31; and to ascertain the chances, obtained 1,560,000 throws, which he conceived equivalent to four years of uninterrupted play.

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MR. TUKE, of Wath, near Rotherham, (1810), bequeathed one penny to every child that attended his funeral (there came from 600 to 700); 18. to every poor woman in Wath; 10s. 6d. to the ringers to ring one peal of grand bobs, which was to strike off while they were putting him into the grave. To seven of the oldest navigators, one guinea for puddling him up in his grave. his natural daughter £4 4s. per annum. To his old and faithful servant, Joseph Pitt, £21 per annum. To an old woman who had for eleven years tucked him up in bed, £1 18. only. Forty dozen penny loaves to be thrown from the church leads at twelve o'clock on Christmas day for ever. handsome brass chandeliers for the church, and £20 for a set of new chimes.

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AN Otaheitean and a Hottentot engaged in the Greenland fishery.

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its main beams of cast iron. At Newport, | of race in the inhabitants, says F. Juan Monmouthshire, a building 40 feet long and Antonio.-Hist. of the Philippines, vol. i. p. 21 wide, roofed with iron; the whole roofing was brought in one waggon, and fixed ready for the tiler in five hours. Such roofs cheaper and lighter than wood!1

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A.D. 1753. GLOUCESTER. "Here is a modernity (says H. WALPOLE, Letters, vol. i. p. 313) which beats all antiquities for curiosity. Just by the high altar is a small pew hung with green damask, with curtains of the same; a small corner cupboard, painted, carved, and gilt, for books, in one corner; and two troughs of a bird-cage, with seeds and water. If any mayoress on earth was small enough to enclose herself in this tabernacle, or abstemious enough to feed on rape and canary, I should have sworn that it was the shrine of the queen of the aldermen. It belongs to a Mrs. Cotton, who having lost a favourite daughter, is convinced her soul is transmigrated into a robin-redbreast; for which reason she passes her life in making an aviary of the cathedral of Gloucester. The chapter indulge this whim, as she contributes abundantly to glaze, whitewash, and ornament the church."

"I DID go to Bristol," says H. Walpole, (1766, Letters, vol. iii. p. 197), “the dirtiest great shop I ever saw, with so foul a river, that had I seen the least appearance of cleanliness, I should have concluded they washed all their linen in it, as they do at Paris. Going into the town, I was struck with a large Gothic building, coal black, and striped with white; I took it for the devil's cathedral. When I came nearer, I found it was an uniform castle, lately built, and serving for stables and offices to a smart false Gothic house on the other side of the road.

-"two windows of painted glass in the cathedral, given by Mrs. Ellen Gwyn. (?) There is a new church of S. Nicholas, neat, and truly Gothic.”

"WHETHER got by imitation, or some hereditary defect in their tongue, or proceeding from some secret quality in their soil, it is observed in a village at Charleton, in Leicestershire, that the people therein

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