... RANDOM THOOUGHIN LEIS BY FCBzs ELIZABBTH D3 B~~ Fw'rczs ?? Ul By FANCS ELZART~i DAVyU Black Ipirit an m~lt~be. II. rea spirits And groy Mingngle, gle, mi blmingle, YOU that 91,81 Do spirits walk the earth? How oftenitha suggested to the thoughts of the olirii qust; nature, but whene sball we find the Sage wh tdn of reov h roblemP Not Pythagoras lea? can t Itt lre, and backed by his fifteen ...

... et RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION v. LIBERTY OF et RELIGIOUS CONSCIENCE. 6 k- The reign of Charles II will long be remembered in B n- English history, as a period of violent persecution for re. Fv in Thious opinions, especially against the people called x? *. Quakers, who, for being faithful to their principles, suf. w te fered grievous spoil and imprisonment-the ganls in many . ,Igparts of the kingdom ...

... ORIGIN OF THE LIVERPOOL BATHS-, AND WASH-HOUSIFS.-THE FIRST OF! THE KIND IN ENGLAND. , !an ich A correspondent, who signs M. M., expresses the ool opinion that there ought to be raised a fund for- the C of purpose of rewarding Mrs. Wilkinson, in whose ble unwearied efforts to assist her poor neighboursat so. the time of the cholera, the first attempts originated he to establish a public wash ...

... * We are not aware that any very strong contests are likely to agitate the electors on Monday next, in selecting persons to fill the seats which will then have become vacant among the members of the town council. Indeed, we scarcely think that in Preston a proper degree of interest is felt in se- curing thei return to the Corporation of men duly qualified,' as well by zeal and energy' as by ...

... WMISCELLANEOUS NEWSS. Are'olr-MILNT.-The IRev. Gilbert Eliott has been ap- pointed to the living of Trinity, Marylebone, vacant by the death of the Rev. Dr. Penfold. QuicK Wonr.-A crop of oats has been sown, growi', cut, stacked, and thrashed, in twelve weeks, on the land of William Popplo, Esq., of Hall Garth, Brandesburton. CuRIous FACT.-During the nights of faturday and Sunday, sixteen ...

... If there has been too much indifference and apathy at some of the elections of town council- lors for Manchester, we think there is a little too much excitement at the present moment to permit the exercise of a perfectly calm and dis- passionate choice. The very violence, however, with which all the members of the CouncilS were assailed, as sanctioning or profiting by a shame- fully ...

... (broM the Literary GazeMtt.) th, al The wide-spread habit of sinolcing has not yet had due we medical attention paid to it and its consequences. It is ho' only by two or three years' observations that Dr. Laycock jus had become fully aware of the great changes induced in tinl the system by the abuse of tobacco, and of the varied and pa, obscure forms of disease to which especially excessive mE ...

... I , ~ ?? I REPREI3SNTATION OF ST. JORN's W.neD.-jNomhination of a Candidate.-On Monday evening, at eight o'clock, a meeting of the burgesses oM St. John's Ward was held in the Old Quay Tavern, Cobden-street, for the purpose of norminating a councillor for the ward previous to the en- suing election. The meeting was very numerously at- tended. Mr. William Walton Carter was unanimously called ...

... TOWN COUNCILLORS AND PUBLIC CONTR ACTORS. r r To gANtVgEL1OEJMEgRq., CandidaleforRodney-street Ward. Adav Sia,-The remark, that discretion is the better part of Mac valour, is peculiarly applicable toyoa at this time. I am read - surprised thatyou should put yourselfso prominently for- let I It ward at moment when such a course of proceeding is te N. sure to call forth animadversions on your ...

... I 1: . - Wnhack.-News has arived of the total wreck of the sjhip Active, of London,' the property' of Messrs. Wilson and Cook, merchants, of Bermondsey, on the coast of Coramandel. The greater part of'the passengers were saesd, but nine of the crew were drowned. The vessel and her contents Were totally lost. The wreck has ex- cited considerable attention from the fact of the charts by which ...

... K NUTSFORD. . QUARTER SEssIoNs.-These sessions commenced on' Monday, before Trafford Trafford, Esq., chairman, and a very strong muster of the magistracy, including the Marquis of Westminster, E. J. Lloyd, Esq., Egerton Leigh, Esq., Colonel Tomkinson, S. Jacson, Esq., W. Egrcton, Esq., J. F. France, Esq., Major Townshend, P. E. Ma-rsland, Esq., Captain Antrobus, P. Legh, Esq., John IHowiard, ...

... I - - I TESTIMONIAL Or RhsPECT.-The congregation meet- ing at St. Paul's Independent chapel have just presented PIa very handsome silver tea-service to their indefatigable and worthy pastor, the Rev. W. Roaf, in comamemora- tion of the completion of his first seven years' labour among them. At a meetinl of the subscribers three gentlemen were nominmated t present the testimonial, which they ...