A. 8. A claim to the crown was set up in favour of Lady Jane Grey, (more properly called Lady Jane Dudley.)

A. 9. The consequence of this was, that Lady Jane and her husband, Lord Guildford Dudley, were both beheaded.

A. 10. Yes; Queen Mary was married.

A. 11. Her husband was Philip II., king of Spain. A. 12. The town of Calais, in France, had belonged to the English since the reign of King Edward III.; but the French took it again in the reign of Queen Mary.

A. 13. The Queen was grievously vexed at this loss; and said that, when she died, she was sure the name of Calais would be found written on her heart.

A. 14. Her husband was a violent and bigotted man. Being a Spaniard, he was of the Roman Catholic religion. A. 15. He treated the Queen with great neglect, and seemed to have no regard for her.

A. 16. Queen Mary died in the year 1558.

A. 17. She had reigned between five and six years.

QUESTIONS FOR THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND.

(To be answered in our next.)

V.

Question 1. Who reigned in England after Queen Mary?

Q. 2. What relation was Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary?

Q. 3. What religion did Queen Elizabeth encourage? Q. 4. Who was Mary, Queen of Scots? What religion did she profess? And what was her end?

Q. 5. From what quarter was an invasion planned against England?

Q. 6. What religion did the Spaniards profess?

Q. 7. What name was their great fleet called by? Q. 8. What sort of persons did Queen Elizabeth choose for her ministers ?

Q. 9. What sort of persons was she fond of having about her court? and who was Lord Leicester ?

Q. 10. What great entertainment was given by Lord Leicester to the Queen, and where was it?

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Q. 11. Who was the Earl of Essex?

Q. 12. Do you remember the story of the Countess of Nottingham and the ring?

Q. 13. How did the Queen treat Lady Nottingham, when she heard what had been done?

Q. 14. Had the Reformation the effect of improving the state of the country?

Q. 15. In what year did Queen Elizabeth die? V.

A CHECK TO DRUNKENNESS.

THE Magistrates of Liverpool have set an example, which all other Magistrates in towns would do well to follow. They have stopped the tap on Sunday until one o'clock in the afternoon. Speaking of the effect of this step, a Liverpool paper says, "We were not displeased to see only one drunken person, where formerly nothing was to be witnessed but intoxication and disorder."-Country Paper.

ANOTHER GOOD EXAMPLE.-The Magistrates at Darlington have refused licenses to the three leading dramshops in that place. The parties applied to the quarter sessions, but the decision was confirmed. The reason assigned by the Magistrates was, that the original intention of licensing places, was to supply victuals and lodging to travellers and strangers, and hence the law always recognised them as "victualling houses," and that such places as "dram-shops not coming under the design of the law, they were justified in thus refusing those licenses"-From the same.

SAVINGS' BANKS.

THE object of these institutions is to place in security, and increase, the small savings of the industrious; to enable all persons who may have the opportunity to provide, by the gradual saving and accumulation of small earnings, against a time of sickness, loss of work, and unforseen casualties of life; to relieve the infirmities of old age; to spare the honourable minds of those in reduced circumstances the degrading and painful task of applying for parish relief; and to enable parents to make a certain and independent provision for their children; and for persons under age to have a fund at their own disposal. The property of a deceased depositor is exonerated from all

stamps, in case it does not exceed £50: and Friendly Societies, legally established previously to the 28th July, 1828, may invest in this Bank to any amount; those Societies formed and enrolled since, cannot invest more than £300. Deposits as low as 1s. are received; and as soon as they amount to 15s., begin to bear interest. Persons may deposit £30 in any one year, and continue their deposits to the amount of £150, which may remain in the Bank, with the advantage of compound interest, until the same amounts to £200. Charitable Societies may invest at the rate of £100 a year until their capital in this Bank amounts to £300.

In addition to the numerous benefits which attend these Institutions, it is a peculiar feature in their character that the business is transacted free of expense, and every facility is given in the dispatch of business that can encourage and reward the provident endeavours of the humble classes of society.-Account of the Kensington Savings Bank.

ADVANTAGES OF SAVINGS' BANKS.

WE are so much of Reformers, that we always rejoice when any changes are made by the government, which are likely to be of use to our poor cottage friends; but we have never encouraged them to expect much from those changes, as we are quite sure that no public measure can be of any use to them, unless they are, at the same time, careful in the management of their own private affairs; and it is certain that a working man may make far better regulations for himself than any government can make for him.

A man, about fifty years of age, called on us a few days ago, and said that he was in great distress; he had little. or no work, and had a family to maintain; he was obliged to live on a very few shillings a week. He said he had been a carpenter; that, in his early days, he had earned seven and twenty shillings a week. He seemed to think it hard that so many people should be abounding in money, whilst he and his family were almost starving. Another man, whom we are acquainted with, and of the same age, earned just the same sum in his youth, and lived upon the seven shillings before he was married, and saved the pound: even after his marriage, whilst his family was small, though

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he very properly spent more, yet he still continued to save a good portion of his earnings: at this time he has got a good property. One pound a week saved, will, in only seven years, come to more than four hundred pounds in twenty years it will make a good property. But few can save such a sum as this; and, besides, we would not recommend a man whose earnings are good to live in a mean and niggardly manner; we only desire to show what may be done; and every working man should save something. A saving of only two shillings in a week will, at compound interest, at four per cent., come to more than forty-one pounds in seven years; so that we see how much an industrious working man has in his power. And during all the time of this saving, a man is relieved from that fear of want which is so peculiarly distressing, and which often obliges a poor man to labour, at times when he is hardly able to do it, when any sickness or accident would have made a few days rest of such great benefit to him. The following table, sent by an obliging correspondent, will show the benefit to be derived from a Savings' Bank. The working man should, moreover, be a member of a good benefit club.

COMPOUND INTEREST TABLE,

Showing the Amount of Weekly Savings at Compound Interest, at Four

per Cent.

One Pound

52 0 0162 6 10 281 12

And in the same proportion for other sums, ponding periods of time.

0 164 5 7 6184 16 3 2 205 7 4

5 410 14 0

and corres

N. B. This table shows, generally, the amount of savings at interest paid yearly. As the time advances, the sums increase in higher proportions, on account of the compound interest.

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EXTRACTS FROM THE PUBLIC NEWSPAPERS, &c.

NEW MANURE.-Mr. J. H. Payne, of Bury, in Suffolk, has made the experiment of applying a solution of common soda as a manure with great success. The difference between vegetables so treated and those watered with common water is very conspicuous; and the vegetable marrow, in common mould, to which the alkali has been applied, surpasses in vigour plants placed on a bed of dung. The proportion used is one pound of soda to 12 or 14 gallons of water. A correspondent of the Bury Post has since recommended to farmers, who may be induced to follow the above example, 66 to make use of the dry carbonate of soda, as the crystallized soda (that is, the soda of the shops) contains from 60 to 70 per cent. of water, which can be as well supplied from the well at home, with a saving of more than half the expense of carriage. He affirms that one cwt. of the dry will go as far nearly as two and a half cwt. of the crystallized. The former, too, costs about 21s. per cwt., and the latter only 13s. 6d.

A carpenter, being on the premises occupied by Mr. French, of Wadhurst, Sussex, left in a shed a keg of mixed white paint, to which eight cows had access; four swallowed such a portion of the paint that three died in great agony, and the fourth was killed. The whole of them were in calf.

The dahlias are natives of Mexico, where they were found by Baron Humboldt, growing in sandy meadows, at 800 or 900 toises, or from 1,600 to 1,800 yards, above the level of the sea. Specimens were transferred to the Botanic Garden at Mexico, and thence to Madrid.-London Paper.

Lately a dreadful accident occurred to a lady upwards of 70, residing with her daughter-in-law in Upper Berkeley-street. She was accustomed to read in her bedroom after the other inmates had retired to rest. One morning the servant, who slept in an adjoining room, was alarmed by the screams of her mistress, and entering her room, was shocked to see her standing up, enveloped in flames, and vainly endeavouring to extinguish them. The servant threw the hearth-rug round the unfortunate lady, and thereby extinguished the fire; but her neck, arms, and body were burnt in a most shocking manner. It is supposed she fell asleep over her book, when her clothes came in contact with the candle.-Evening Paper.

The alteration of the Law of Settlement in the case of servants is already producing the most beneficial results. We were lately in a part of the country, about thirty miles from the metropolis, where we heard farmers express their satisfaction at being relieved from the necessity of dismissing their servants for a time, to avoid allowing them to gain a settlement. The men turned loose for some time got often into bad company in public-houses, and very often their best servants never made their appearance again.—Morning Chronicle.

NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.

We have received the communications of C. W.; M. F.; M. D. A. R. ; D. I. E.; S. R.; T. S. W.; F. F.; M. A. ; C. A. D.; M. Y.; E. A.; F. C.; H. S. T.; K. P.; W. D. L.; C. S. C.; C. P. F.; Labourer's Friend; One who desires to justify the Ways of God to Man; Axminster; and several anonymous articles.

We can assure M. X. V. that we had no other reason for omitting his story than that the length of it was beyond our limits. We are in the same situation with respect to many other valued correspondents. We have reasons for wishing to avoid the division of articles into different portions.