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from his grasp, and give immediate alarm, which, however, we are sorry to 

 add, did not lead to the fellow's apprehension, although prompt and imme- 

 diate steps were taken by the authorities. The person is strongly suspected." 



This rascal must decidedly have been a disfranchised elector : no 

 other rascal would have been so daring. The lady doubtless thought 

 herself perfectly safe in the carriage of a man possessing such a name 

 as GUILD HALL. She appears to have been a conservative. 







CHARITY AT A DISCOUNT. A Durham paper has edified us to the 

 following extent : 



" On Sunday last, the 20th inst., an excellent and most appropriate sermon 

 was preached TO A VERY NUMEROUS CONGREGATION in Wolviston Chapel, 

 by the Rev. W. R. Wyatt, M.A., Chaplain to the Most noble the Marquis 

 of Londonderry, and private tutor to Viscount Seaham, in aid of the funds of 

 the Wolviston Sunday School : afterwards a collection was made for de- 

 fraying the expences of the above institution, amounting to . Lord 



Seaham a most interesting youth, was present, and seemed to listen with 

 great attention to the admirable discourse of his worthy preceptor." 



We have purposely omitted the sum total. What might it be, think 

 you ? Of course you will conclude that the Marquis of London- 

 derry's chaplain, by his excellent and appropriate sermon, solicited at 

 least a couple of hundreds from a VERY numerous congregation. 

 Guess again. One hundred and fifty. Still wide of the mark : but 

 not to be tantalizing, the sum total was FOUR POUNDS NINE SHIL- 

 LINGS AND SIXPENCE ! 



This of course included Viscount Seaham' s donation. Doubtless 

 the chapel was attended by all the fashionables then congregated at 

 Wynyard House, in honour of her ladyship's birth-day, as well as by 

 the indigenous aristocracy of Durham and its neighbourhood. The 

 congregation, we are expressly told, was not merely numerous, but 

 very numerous; of course a Sunday-school sermon by "the Rev. 

 W. R. Wyatt, M. A. chaplain to the most noble the Marquess of Lon- 

 donderry, and private tutor to Viscount Seaham," " a most interest- 

 ing youth," could not fail to prove attractive. There were, one 

 might venture to suppose, 500 persons present ; and so " excellent 

 and appropriate" was the sermon, that its hearers, on an average, 

 must have deposited in the plate a fraction less than a farthing above 

 twopence a-piece ! 



We should like to have been told how much the young Viscount 

 subscribed, after having, as it is stated, " seemed to listen with great 

 attention to the admirable discourse of his worthy preceptor." 



The existing state of charity at Durham may be further illustrated 

 by the following important paragraph from the columns of the same 

 paper: 



" Mrs. Fawcett, of the South Bailey, has become an annual subscriber of 

 one guinea, to the Blue Coat Schools in this city/' 



It is proper that the British empire should be made acquainted 

 with such munificence. 



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