To the EDITOR of the EXAMINER. SIR, I have been requested by many, and especially by the widow of Southey, to write his epitaph. My opinion is, that an epitaph on an Englishman should always be in the English language; that is if he be buried in England. For what is the meaning of the word sepulchral inscription? Now who would write what cannot be read by the greater part of those who look at it; or what is a monument if it cannot admonish? We English have monopolised two gross absurdities, among many smaller. First, epitaphs with us are composed in a dead language: then they are carefully shut out from the public. This double lead coffin makes our great men indeed lie in their graves securely: it is only the reverend clerk who can break them open: others must pay even for peeping. Glorious names are grated and spiked round; glorious actions are held unfit for daily representation, and are overlaid with the dry sawdust of comment and disquisition. Such are the epitaphs of Englishmen ; such are the histories of England. Soon after Southey's death the people of Bristol were urged by me to to take into consideration the glory that would be reflected on the city from a monument to him. Since then certain steps have been taken toward it. Still, like Mahomet's, it is suspended in the air. Sir R. Peel and other personal friends, who would have brought him into Parliament and have laden him with titles, will surely be too politic ever to let people think that they would only have done it to serve their own purposes. I do not like to step forward where other people are, on any I occasion whatsoever. But time presses; age is coming over me; and I should be sorry to depart with a blush on my face for neglecting the last duties I could have paid to friendship. Genius has higher and more extensive claims. The nation that neglects them deserves the fall of which such negligence is the surest sign. Come, Sir Robert Peel! come, Sir Thomas Acland! if you will not take the leap first, I will. Here are twenty pounds, and here is the epitaph. Your obedient servant, W. S. LANDOR. ROBERT SOUTHкY, born in Bristol, Oct. 4, 1774, - In maintaining the institutions of his country In criticism, in dialogue, in biography, in history, rarely any sudious man so ready to assist the studious, to raise their reputation and to promote their fortunes. Wonder not then, O, stranger, that our fellow citizen hath left among us the resolution to commemorate, and, under the same good Providence which guided him, h to imitate his virtues. the ear compelled to lisp. The experiment happily succeeded, and ever word of the leter was read by the gentleman in the lisping style t the no small amusement of the party present, before whom it wa read. Every sound was given exactly in the manner in which i was intended by the writer, although the receiver had no previou knowledge of the fact. It appears from this fact, that this new method of phonetic writing, in addition to its many other valuab advantages, will enable a person to fix on his paper any sound c shade of sound the human voice is capable of producing, so the the exact pronunciation of any speaker can be given as well as th dialects and foreign languages. ODD FELLOW'S FUNERAL.-On Sunday morning last th officers and brothers of the Loyal Victoria Park Lodge, Marl borough Tavern, together with the officers and brothers of the vari ous lodges in the Bath District, assembled, to the number of 140 at the Lodge-room, and formed themselves into a procession ti pay the tribute of respect to their late respected brother, Thoma Ostler Page, of No. 4, Gloucester-place, Burlington-street, by accompanying his remains to their final resting place in the burial-ground of Walcot Church. The brethren wore their funeral regalia, and the proceedings assembled a large number of specta tors and private friends of the deceased. The highly respectable appearance of the fraternity, and the esteem evinced by them towards their deceased brother, made a most favourable impression respecting the Order, whose benevolence and philanthropy are always extended in support of its members in sickness, when in distress or old age, and in the maintenance of their widows and orphans. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY RECEIPTS for the Week ending Nov. 5, £13,060 : Os. Od. ANTI-PUSEYISM.-Sunday being the anniversary of the memorable "gunpowder plot" in 1605, and of the revolution" in 1688, the commemorative services of the day were used in all the churches in this city, the ministers of which took occasion to allude to the deliverance of the Church and nation from the domination of Rome. PROPERTY TAX.-It may not, perhaps, be generally known to the clergy, and other owners of tithe-rent charges, that by the 61st section of the act a provision is very justly made for deductions allowances in respect of tenths, procurations, repairs of chancels parochial rates, land-tax, and drainage, &c. The Commissioners have provided a form (No. 71) to facilitate claims of such allow.. ances. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. On Thursday evening, about ( o'clock, a widow, in reduced circumstances, named Mary Cook,, threw herself into the river near Green Park buildings; but after she was in was buoyed up by her clothes in such a manner that she was kept floating with her head above the water for some minutes. The act was witnessed by a boy who gave the alarm, when by the assistance of two men she was rescued from her dangerous situation, and conveyed in a state of exhaustion to the Park Tavern, where she was soon after attended by Mr. Crosby, surgeon, and is now quite recovered. 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