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to Boy oaf 24. f the clo e; , e evelY : htfui with iuto cl i a ti er w ° oo o er ! at , ly r: 0 th I ls , 0 00, 4 " P rt toll per r JO - t he :to lb ntr il egt b 0" if # o f ,aro i f ) h ob f o ht le I th e or gttioirsd aetive operation before any Minister of ely,.Avrtii.,shall dare bring Into the House of Commons or, in more appropriate phrase, any lit s tl i s'3 ,; e n 12 t-tk ri al3se,i'l'itgaiest Ireland. 1 4 , p i: i s, true that it has been said that Sir Robert Peel 41 114 g e 'l himself, in answer to my questions, to bring 4. 0 4 on the part of the Goveri'uneot, to extend tin , Ir s s trid :es and ameliorate the condition of the people of lie rag'' h as been reproached with this as a crime by o rhi former supporters. He is not guilty of any 3 eri ee 3 4 What has Ile is pledged to no such measures. otlopetusititisit:noasheoccurred is this—l gave notice of four put to Sir Robert Peel, giving him full i ked ..Y to consider his replies. My questions re it) Is, I . 4. 43 to be brought in by the Government. lios of the ftrqauest.ion rerated to any Bill for the exten , e sir ~ . nchise in Ireland. !Nit! is l ' eee , II Peel's answer was most unsalisfactory; kin g • "e noped that the Government would be able to tie • ins Pillregulating the ; 3 ln / , - f tts • rel and, b 0 144. , ea and also for altering in soma r degreethe Ze e" id got Ile usidr nothing of extension st franchise. ' .iishel:':,lu_ flew re e c l u u l l a a t t ; i u n i g i i t s b emrossf wanted.s ryi e nto its and to " I t i s quit e e kith. clesr, trierefere, that he pledged himself a l s e le se' not even that he would positively bring in L l itst L ord h' even thls. session. But when it is . . recollected N -. hi se i l'anley • s bill, which went to annihilate the I) ,t. to entitled ' A Bill to regulate the rn tilettipe voters," it will be seen how very chary Sir N irel e , d e o l was to pledge himself to do anything useful os ty r, in fact, to anything definite. m4l l t ee caro tid . question regulated to an augmentation of Ikiero tribers in a just roportion. Ilt, 644 question he P gave no answer—he was totally 114sitt7s„third question related to an equalisation of frau- L 'r, t i l l, Power s in the municipal corporations. e m !„ltied e la question his answer was nearly , satisfactory. I ;``silie w -rst ° o dhin s , he promised a bill for equalisation, Is t 4 i to h e et h r, some reservation. What this reservation k ei t th b . e did not state. I am, however, afraid of If' %at.' 7 O rd `reservation' allows him to omit the 1111 44'41 f ranchise It may mean much less, but, I :11 7 ; 0 43 , it is au ugly word, and I am afraid of it. ' 11 ,4 ts e er , ll , question related to a Bill to give to the L AS t h is tuil value of all their improvements. sre„re. iqnestion his answer was vague and unsatis :',Stetb.e, h owever, gave a hope of bringing in a Bill clet t j e t ; but his description of the intended Bill )04, . ~.. teedo s -i e r such a Bill as Lord Stanley brought into S ots - ,1 e t as t Year. The tendency of what he said Vitt than me such Bill as Lord Stanley's. He said lielto beet Could in any respect show his in ten -4,104),. 13 1 a Bill sufficiently extensive in its opera 11,44etee „ sat isfactory to the tenants. I E-e ts ~ Pl ee l.Whole, - therefore, it will be seen that Sir le i spi ed 13 guilty of no deceit. fli , i has given no s'Yte e „„g e or promise, and what he did say was not es, tit th e "s satisfactory. isteti e t ruth is this—promises, however distinct and yliele;tF°Uld not be accepted as any mitigation of, or te, V/ flat ieh for, a Coercion Bill. iaL"'ke Bill reasonably insist on is, that before any .. '1 1 4(1 b ea ,: i ll sh ou ld be' brought in, that a new system actu allyacted upon. Franchises should be ,_,lsie.....:presentation should be made more just and ll,'lth„ la l til and religious rights should be equalised 4 t ilt et e e a f of landlord and tenant mitigated to meet tf Let th e.. _``'e Union and of absenteeism. te ot voe s ,re things be done before any man talks to me ieki2 . eio 4 l l l l , l3 , ill. Let no man dare to talk to me of ti kp it i t . I 't until he has tried the experiment of hisealar e s is quite clear that uotil the cause of the hts',eir tsd ""e away with, coercion cannot be a pre. to set, eau scarcely produce any but unavailing; ste aler It It will, however, produce more irritation kb, l et „ e3 Peration. 1 % 4 '4, le:" People beware. Let them recollect that %Wet s - ",__ ll 1 : 4. '98 was got up, and fomented, and fos- Ntse sd ,ei:alstence to carry the Union. Let them be kli t . e to C a t there are enough of evil disposed persons iiepte7lent another Rebellion, in order to prevent I N V. Othe u n i„ . ad oats; never was a period when it was so incum tojte: People of Ireland to be perfectly peaceable, l 4 „, 1 ;1 4 ii 3 within the strictest limits of the law. 04 d h °Ur Peaceable exertions alone, that we can %1,41%,,,ereitt this atrocious measure. The Bill is not 4‘ lo .,.osL ai l,d we are entitled and bound to denounce it 40, 44 44Titi0n and hatred of our country. le t Na s - °ne comfort, the attempt to continue the fuss t 0 ,of Irel an d b y t h e means of coercion, with leCtt thjustice, is an additional stimulant to , tedl,7, numbers and increase the zeal of the . re- -°, e p "e demonstration is complete. There is no , e e t , , tr anquillity, no prosperity for Ire ,tij;,in the repeal of the union, and the restoration ktrtse nationality. 4 le a ,"il l e / ;. t hee, for the repeal ! kik 11 l ete nae to be yours, very faithfully, _, 41 1 .411 1 .1) pin e s. 1 Es .1. 1 1 • 1 1 01, " DANIEL O'CONNELL.' M.P., and several other gentle- l k t 4, g Irish red the meeting, and a remonstrance t * l t n h e Irish Coercion Bill having been adapted, the 1114 ale:, . 1" e Wass nnonced to be 2271. 13s. 3d. -an g °leo aourned. S f llle d BtoRE CONVICTIONS. k sm Uesday last four men were arraigned at the ' i.W ees a ssizes, for the wilful murder of Henry Bergin, oc,efilled Gowl an , on t h e n i ght of the Ist of No- ltl ip ties,,: l4 /0 of the pri s o ners on l y , J o h n Buchanan t , 4 ki ' l 'd Dl'G eo y, were put upon their trial, and oep ; m.Lwei,7 and patient investigation, the jury brogglit N,m,lo v e. °l Guilty against both prisoners. Oa the tili o ; b e t kl the two convicts were again put to the , I b f ! Purpose of receiving. sentence, when the tfhsseerightful scene ensued :- 11714,ilerk of the Crown, in the usual manner, ki th Nth rsoners what they had to say why sentence IN Leh i4 ) ,C I execution sEould net be passed on them. I th 4 tteC er n knelt down in front of the dock, , et Cs hn an, who appeared to speak for t ‘ 44t )a. 44 1 1 - ' 4 ,; said, 'ln the sight of God, this tto t 7t In ' - , t ,ne jury, I protest I had not hand, act, I N l ee o - " l e murder of Henry Bergin, and may I N 1 f . : (1 , or his angels in heaven, if I murdered l 'iekti o - s e i ," •my prosecutors, judge, and jury: He . 111 1,,c' ihto an explanation of how he was occu- St l i a Pte t ,„ ti g. f ard the day of the murder, and closed with . ape °n Which shocked and made the hair of '44, - . 11 e in court stand on end, that `Hell may be 1 / 4 It s -11 u the devil my angel, if I murdered you, her k iztte &i t ; ! ; b ,, i s he rose, and the judge, in a most feeling Il k L eta t ii°_, that no person who had heard the evi- LOoth" °°Ubt the justness of the verdict, called on V t o d. se, v th . r _enent,an - d said he could_ hold out no hope `sa it ; Lo them, and sentenced t em to be , b anged. ;tiled is Saturday, the 21st of March. S o l tWe - , IN G's COD NTT—POTATO DISEASE. kikerfPforrneel by a correspondent that . potatoes tilt 4 ' 4 Y getting worse with the disease . in the h t) L tle e ; h h i l l , tY. One gentleman, when removing t e it ls4 . - Rtst Potatoes from the pit-hole, found that, way Stts itt l'e s e et eons, he had not over ten its any ls,. e„, Poor (we are also informed) are in a most ". wstate, without any employment whatever, and S ti 9lll 3 , e telt s more, it is feared, famine and . fever will Ns, tt h c re ysil. Seed potatoes are selling in Philips ''`resent at from 12s. to 15s. per barrel of 24 1 : 14. ' Iv AL AT ,/t hs ' - 0, 14 OSTEND.—NEW kt„"let ra a _ STEAM SERVICE. N i r tb:q , alancrs 3,—A sumptuous entertainment Veitec Yesterday at the Ostend Hotel de Ville. on AO e?n of the inauguration of the daily steam-boat i* t 4 t 7 t w ; e en that town and Dover. About fifty It ta k 3 l4: l 4 nVited expressly by the Belgian govern- t t .i a 'n to table in one of the noble rooms of thzi P4l ‘l 4es t "I -ee • Amongst the company were Baron T. tli t i ' ll4h t , t i of * te h ° acted aschairman ; Major and Captain the s no Belgian Admiralty ; M. de Bidder Mem- S 4 44 e -eh ate ; M. Donny, Member of the ' Chain- SNstsetesentativee ; M. Curry, the English Consul iii,:i, the' l P. Bared, of the Belgian post-office .; M. „le laic- Prussian ' consul ; the civil and military tli,tiea,holSir. Latham, the Belgian Consul at Dover ; le fo r „•°, the distinguished traveller , Mr. Bourson, ' h tl e 4 a b rree e ° ` t he Government organ, the Moniteur Beige; Siz katiVes of the Rhe no-Prussian Railway, &c. I IN N et ' four rooms forming the magnificent suite of '.!t e qii te , were brilliantly lighted up- and tastefully ~st i, .„" litith flowers and shrubs; and from the walls 1 4 kt otl til i f d . e ,d in massive gilt frames the superb folio cie s +of -,,`" Gothic edifices of Europe,_ by Simonau h \ Of ,curussels. A full military band was stationed r - ` l t : l t ne ro oms o l ‘ 1 1; e lte ll i n „ t° • a n, "The Health of his Majesty the King N a t rnit, and of his August Family; may SllKnoe, , , e ,r7 long yet, to see his andPeth)Pleouhrary•ll-de 1 4 1 te etti W 55 received with all_ the ‘ t ili Jetty after,_ a brief interval by f iii_ e the " The Health of 1 :2 h il, Kt ear i, Queen of Great ritin and Ireland." tit, li d 'ormer toast, was enthusiastically drunk. ~, -. 4 i , „ eek up the national air " God save the kl i ty:aelitt'llkexcheue_llent style, and, on c.eieluding, it received A general 1 4 1 4 %, her e 3 applause of the company.the muc.lerespected L l ' is it flee s ni at Ostend, who, in obedience to it, ENti l t cm a short pause", and returned thanks N h 7 Of illeetfOl and corial manner in which the t e t ‘er s hee *Sovereign had been received by the dis tj'ae4te it ` lefilbly. Mr. Curry, who spoke in French.. 11, 111 i) t i , e „ 1: 1 13,' Propeeing "Prosperity to the . Town of I , s,k 6 Ato tt L e h A:as greeted with much cheering, and f , 1 1 : '' s ',,t . 1' The next toast was " The Health o rkint i l lea t s*P tasia " iii proposing which the chair; 1 1 - Qte tt ' th f 3e- . L ' 4 ,is ireg ' ret tha: M. Decharnea the present Ilei tl e e '',, ° l t t e "ve' n Affairs, and late Minister o ka t .; I„ - 1 (3t ,--, was . Unavoidably ebsent on that oces!.- 1 / 44 % , ti, , 4 -ru ily ,:;., iloized that able minister forh . is 1 1 1 41 -t ts to in crease and extend the means of in- Pttteki alsoenlim• between Belgium and Rig ,' .... b ee _eoles ition le ll t le "weer), the former country and Rhemish 41 - Nt kir % , lit e !. hwhi e h h s re seas ks were warmlyapplauded, and t„ - a i l] - 4e tt t he ‘ ani \mil iced was duly responded• . _ I t ' ft ; ' me Pr assean Consul, briefly returned th k P llC 4 or 4 , Qlll%,''''ern - "teplia l , ilt rin , observations respecting k ki t . -ti e aere h i ~, I N i ., 'ka t) NI, w 3 gp, ni o f enterprise, the health of f i l e s• by c, as Prop, used, e eith the permission . of the :th NV'. V e ers Jeltrain L Shure and was received no t aj ll Wl l, it ts ti e w' olt ie rweittuh all'. the Ti,. -riish honour. 4 1 e tend sanvi et i - 11 0 d thanks in English, and ex -04, rh 011 the the h„sp. t ' able town of (s -ttlitstit-r444tvvvereeitlyslunmaite i be ' n it t e,qt ff f )eeeffdoiretrscwomhimchunhie lall•q "Pied r il th e Eaft I ° dies ant r e o c al ta th si e Great Britain. ye be V"idst n ti ole Yta Is I.i. much a pplause) the!, he was en t- OP tc, e th,„"rarious att n t and urged to persevere en -144 „ftetll,,"Ot that, 1 )3 (4 . e 13 ,, 'o* g Euro 1rt,..-' ►''.i he r, as it were : r W n it's lh- romoting the great e t th e , ati on ,be P pe find Asia Ai & ers se tor ee . a nd Chi ist'e o' ' ity . ec k 0 - f ols e b ee,ntlg toast s had been disposed of, the Nak ta usie ewLieitae gentsrael a l e d animated, several % NI f ro : a " ta llaairabty exe cuted ; and atter th _ t bi e ..Lb, e eq ,,mpany promenaded up and down the elegant suite of apartments, sipping coffee and talking of .` politics and policy." In three or four little groups the new measures of Sir R. Peel were di , eussed, and various opinions expressed respecting the manner in which they would be rk:ceived and met by the con tinmtal states, particularly by this country and Ger- Aft ,J- the festival had been concluded, the majority ot the company proceeded to the Casino, a private club in porti,n of the, Hotel de Viile, the members of which most cJairteously received the strangers who had been invited to the entertainment. .111; exterior of the Town Hail was ornamented with Belgian and English flags, and numercus rows of lamps were placed along the entire front of that building. About six o'clock this morning, the majority of the company who had assisted at the festival embarked in the new steamer, the Chemin de Fer (built by the Messrs. Ditchburn and Mare fin. the Belgian Government), for Ostend. The quays and the various ships in port were crowded with eager spectators ; a full guard of honour was stationed opposite the place of embarkation, and as the boat glided majestically on its first voyage to Ostend the military presented arms and the assembled croktd gave some hearty c cars. The passage was a rough one, and the majority 'of the gentlemen (there were no ladies), particularly the Belgians, did not ap• pear to be quite so much at their ease as they were yes terday evening. The company on board had been in vited by the Belgian Government to make the trip, with the privilege of returning to Ostend on Thursday or Sunday next. The directors of the South-Eastern Rail way, with equal liberality, gave to each gentleman on board a first-class free pass ticket for London, and for the return journey to Dover, the ticket to hold good till the 7th instant inclusively. All the foreign gentlemen shortly after landing at Dover proceeded to London, where they will stop till Saturday next. The following, amongst others, have availed them selves of the opportunity to visit the great metropolis : —Captain Lahure, Director of the Belgian Marine ; Cap tain Schohkeil, M. llauchhorn, and M. Richardson, of Cologne ; M. Jerlache, M. de Breyre, M. de Basson pi-e, Intendent Militaire ; M. Parys, Lieut. Vanhae verke, Lieut.-Colonel Benckers, Captain Vanderpltnte, M. Deladriere, Commandant de Place of Ostend ; M. Van Isseghen, Dutch Consul at Ostend ; M. Bourson, Captain 'garnet, Livut. Ablay, Baron T. Setclaes, Lieut. Guyette, Major Lahure, M. Allard, and Count de Buisseret. Mr. Latham and Lieut. NVaghorn, who had been officially invited by the Belgian Government to the festival, also returned to Dover by the new boat. The Captain of the Chemin de Fer is an experienced seaman named Claes, a native of Belgium. lie speaks English well, and gives his ord. , rs to the head engineer, stokers, and pilot, in that language. The head en gineer is an Englishman named Davies, who has two Belgians under his instruction. The lieutenant of the vessel and the common sailors are Belgians. A Cus tom-house officer will always be on board, and will, when required, examine the luggage, &c., during the passage, in order to avoid delay at Ostend. The pas sagc to Dover was performed in five hours and three quarters. The engines are of 120-horse power. Them will be for the future a daily communication between the two ports. INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS. (Sir John Rennie, President, in the Chair.) The first paper read (on the 24th ult.) was a " De scription of the Dinting Vale Viaduct, on the line of the Sheffield and Manchester Railway," by A. S. Gee. Member I. C. E. This viaduct consists of sixteen arcle-s, five of which are of timber, and seven of of bricks. The whole of the large piers, wings, outside spandrils, and parapets are built of stone, from the quarries in the . neig,hbaurnood. The five large arches, which are each of 125 feet span, and twenty-five feet versed sine, are built of Memel tim ber; the main ribs of these arches are composed of planking three inches thick, bent and laid longitudi nally, and fastened together with oak trenails, and firmly stayed by means of wrought iron tie-rods. The smaller semicircular arches, situated at each end of the viaduct, are built of brick, with stone quoins. They are of fifty feet in the span and three feet in thick ness, and are built in a curve of forty chains radias, the piers being wedge shaped to suit the curve, leaving the faces parallel with each other. The entire cost of the viaduct (which was given in its various details in the paper) was stated to be 35,2501. 6s. 5d., its total length 484 yards, and its greatest height, about 125 feet above the water course. It was com menced early in 1843, and was opened on the Bth of August, 1844. The average cost of construction was calculated at about 21. 14s. per superficial yard, and 6s. 9d. per cubic yard, the viaduct being eighty yards wide. The paper by Mr. G. W. Hemans, M. Inst., C.E., de scribed the system invented by Sir J. Macneill, and em ployed on the Dublin and Drogheda Railway for pre paring the transverse sleepers, and fastening the rails upon them. The sleepers are half baulks 12 inches by 6 inches at the junction of the rails, and intermediately half trees of larch, with the bark on, not less than 8 inches by 4 inches, are placed, with the round side upwards, at an average distance of 2 feet 6 inches apart. These sleepers are prepared for bearing the rails, by fixing twelve at a time on a sliding table, similar to that of a planing machine ; they are moved forward by steam power beneath two circular cutters, set at the given distance of the gauge apart, and re volving very rapidly, and which pass through the whole series of sleepers, cutting, at a given inclination, the seats for the rails. A slight stoppage of the table takes place as each sleeper is cut, in order to aff)rd time for four drills to descend simultaneously, and to pierce the holes for the pins or trenails for holding down the rails. An engine of six-horse power suffices for working two of there machines, by which one thousand sleepers can be finished complete in twentrfour hours, at an expense of about Id. each, instead of 2id each, which they formerly cost by manual labour. The sleepers thus prepared are used traversely be neath rails of the bridge, from which the side: are slightly pinched inwards, in finishing, so as to form a dovetail with a joint plate with a raised rib, which is laid at each junction, and which, by using a screw pin and plate at one end, and a collar-headed pin at the other, holds the rail very fast, preventing lateral and vertical motion, but permitting longitudinal action in expansion and contraction. These rails weigh 831 b. per yard. The total cost per mile of the double line, including rails, sleepers, piers, spikes, joint chains, &c., laid complete, is stated at 3,4701. 2s. Bd., when the rails cost 71. ss. per ton. The paper by Mr. W. Vanderkiete, Assoc. Inst, C. E., described a very useful arrangement of machinery for workiug the diving-bell used in setting the masonry, at a depth of about eight feet below the level of extraor dinary spring tides, in the extension of the pier at Kilrush, in the river Shannon, unler the direction of Mr. T. Rhodes, the chief engineer of the Shannon Commissioners. Upon a series of piles and longi tudinal timbers, a railway was laid, upon which two travelling platforms were constructed; with winches, &c. One of them brought the stone nearly over its intended position, and lowered it into the sea ; the other then brought the diving-bell over it, and by means of a cha, in and purchase, the stone was lifted and placed properly in its place by the men in the bell. This work was continued through all seasons, and with the utmost regularity, and the work so constructed was as solid as if built on dry land. The drawings accompany- ff ; ' 1 LITERATURE. THE LAW OF RAIL WAYS. By L. Shelforii, BarrEger at law. Second Edition. At this particular stage of railwa) investment and of the Parliamentary session, a more thoroughly useful or valuable book than the present could not have been published. In the present digest of the enactments which relate to railways, the editor has shown more than mere painstaking ; he seems to have always kept in view the convenience of its readers, insomuch that any particular section of the subject may be referred to with the greatest facility. The selection of illustrative cases is likewise most appropriate and judicious. To every one interested in railways—and to whom does this nut in some measure apply!?—the volume here produced from the research and industry of Mr. Shelford, will prove a most decided boon : it will unravel to them whatever might previously have appeared intricate ; it will show them the bearings of any questionable point; it will inform them when they are in need of informa tion, and guide them when they require guidance. This edition is very considerably improved and extended, and comprises, under their several heads, the powers, the privileges, the responsibilities, and the duties which de volve upon railway cdmpanies after incorporation. In one word, we would recommend all who are connected with railways, either as shareholders or otherwise, to provide themselves forthwith with this little volume. MAGAZINES-(CONTINUED.) FRASER. In these days, when bitter reproaches, abusive epi thets, and calumnious charges form the arguments of one section of the political world the Conservative leader, if we are to place any confidence to words, is more detested by many of his former friends than any Whig, or Radical, or Repealer ; it is a relief to find one writer, at least, viewing his conduct with calm impar tiality, and doing justice to the statesman whom the writer considers as lost fur ever to his party. This is a proof of good sense, and by-and-by it will have many imitators—for many of the Tory school at present have recourse to abuse from sheer vexation, and forget the first principles of justice and charity in the midst of disippointments which they never anticipated. They will, like the writer, be convinced in time that Peel's conversion is no selfish act—that it is rather a great sacrifice of power, of friends, of principles long che rished, and of many ties which no rational being would break asunder, but from dire necessity or pure love of his country. This is fairly admitted. - "We give," says Fraser," Sir Robert Peel full eredit for a conscien tious change of opinion on the great question which is now under discussion in the Legislsture. But for such change, indeed, his conduct would be quite inexplicable. He has become a free-trader, because he believed that free trade would benefit his country." He then admits that the system of free trade may be very good—that the repeal of the corn laws and the removal of protection from our heavily-taxed manufacturers and artisans may be a wise thing, but then says he, measures like these should not have been proposed by the Conservative leader, and be should not have dragged his friends through the mud. This "dragging of friends through the mud" has become a favourite phrase with a certain class—a class so obtuse that they cannot perceive the folly of using it. Why are they dragged through the mud? Because they will neither walk, nor drive, nor be led. They are obstinate as the most obstinate of all classes, and if they can be sated from ruin no other way, what other resource is there but to lay hold of tht in vigorously, and drag them through either mud or ater, or whatever lies between them and a place of safety ? It is equally preposterous to say that the Con servative chief should not have performed this act. Who, then, could have done it? Neither the strength of Lord John Russell, nor all the power of Mr. Cobden and the League, without years of ruinous agitation, and scenes which every friend of peace, and every sincere patrit t would regard with deep anxiety and horror. If any two facts connected. with these measures are more palpable than others, they are these. Sir Robert Peel can gain nothing personally or politically by the change, and there is not one statesman in the country but him self who at the present day can carry it. HoWever, the article altogether is very fair, and one or two portions of it might be read by the protectionists with advantage. We will give one as a specimen. It is well known that the landlords boast loudly that they, and their tenants and farm labourers, and other dependents, are the best customers at the markets of Manchester, and Leeds, and Birmingham. Listen, ye protectionists, to your friend:— "In favour of a free trade the argument unquestionably lies, that there are periods in the history of all nations when the system of policy which reared ceases to be applicable to their maintenance; exactly as in the individual man, the morale nd even physical culture which most avails in youth becomes injurious in the vigour of our days, and kills if it be persevered in to old age. No fact, for instance, can be more perfectly established, than that the customs and excise, and other sources of revenue arising oat of the system of protec tion were stretched by the Whigs, in 1839, beyond their just limits; that they imposed upon both dealers and consumers inconveniences innumerable, and had ceased to be profitable. In like manner the old assertion that the agriculturist is the manufacturer's best customer, will not bear a moment's in spection. That the home market is more to the manufac turer than all the foreign markets into which he makes his way, we quite believe; but the error is to suppose, that the only buyer in this market is the agriculturist. Consider what the articles are which the manufacturer produces. He gives us cotton-piece goods for our shirting and our sheeting, for the gowns of our wives and daughters ; he gives us broad cloths and narrow, and woollen fabrics of other sorts for our coats, trousers, waistcoats, blankets, and such like; he supplies us with stockings, shoes, hats, cravats. Every ar ticle that is used in the furnishing of our houses—our win dow-curtains, bed-curtains, carpets, chair-covers, are the pro duce of his loom. Now, who are they that consume these different articles chiefly? Does the country gentleman ' with his rental of five thousand a-year, expend half so much upon the clothing of his own person as a spruce clerk in the Ad iniralty, or a shopman in Howell and James's? And when you look to the farmer, what is his every-day costume? A shooting-jacket, which lasts him on an average five years—a pair of corduroy breeches, leather gaiters, and high-lows, to work his way through which will take him three years at the least. It is only on market-days and Sunday that he arrays himself in his green coat and yellows, and these are carefully pulled off and fo'ded and laid away again as soon as the oc casion ceases. Nor is the case different if we compare the style of dress that prevails among the operatives, and that which suits the tastes and purses of the agricultural labourers. We venture to say, that more money is spent upon wearing apparel in any one thriving street in Manchester, than in half the purely agricultural villages of Lancashire put to gether." In this number, the other articles in general are respect able, and a few of them excellent. We may mention among these, " The History of a Literary Man (Laman Blanchard), by Titmarsh;" " Newman's Theories;" and " Contemporary Orators—Lord Palmerston." The con cluding advice in the article on "Puseyism" ought to be listened to with religious care by every friend of the Reformation:— _ THE NEW TIMON. A ROMANCE OF LONDON. Part IV. With this fourth part concludes one of the most re markable poems of the present generation ; we speak this emphatically, regarding the " New Timon " as re markable in a threef o ld d egree —it s conception being strictly original, its language and imagery new, its ten dency eminently moral. On its appearance it was in troduced to the lovers of poetry with the most decided of all passports to popularity with which any production of real merit can possibly be accompanied—it had the prestige of being anonymous. Many, doubtless, may consider this a very questionable sort of advantage ; but, for ourselves, we must ever regard it as the safest course a literary aspirant can adopt. For one thing, if a publication attracts attention by its intrinsic worth, while its title-page is without any clue to the authorship, the euriosity of its readers is excited, and, in con sequence, a double interest is aroused. Without this preliminary secrecy the " Waverley Novels" would in all likelihood have been regarded as very clever and successful efforts on the part of Mr. Walter Scott ; people might possibly have exclaimed "What versa• Why !" passages in " Marmion" and " Old Mortality" might have b,en compared, and those glorious fictions might have subsided much sooner into the quiet immor tality of bookshelves. Without this incitement to in quiry Junius would never have achieved one moiety of Cis present renown ; without it, the humourous writings of" Boz" would scarcely have reached their first extraor ordinary circulation; without it—to come to a more recent, a more insignificant, but nevertheless quite as appropriate an instance—" Cecil, or the Adventures of a Coxcomb," would most assuredly never have extended its admirers beyond the subscribers to the circulating libraries. Having adduced these examples, in corroboration of our opinion as to the peculiar benefit which redounds to a thoroughly meritorious work, when unaccom panied by its author's name, we will revert, and that eith no inconsiderable pleasure, to the anonymous writer of the "Romance of London." To this multitude he may still continue to be anonymous; to us the paternity is manifest; through every couplet the peculiar bias of the practised literateur is evident. Every description is iinhued with his peculiar idiosyncrasy; the plot, the cha racters, the situations, are traceable to his imagination alone. Unlike his illustrious predecessor of Abbotsford, he bas thrown aside the arabesqued-garment and opium vapours of romance, to assume instead the bay-garland and the crystal goblet of poetry. Upon this his re-ap pearance in an unexpected character, and that, too, with correspondent freshness and vigour, we congratulate the author of the "New Timon," and we congratulate our selves. As a translator of the ballad-glories of Schiller, he had already tasted the hippocrene--in the present bold and not unsuccessful effort' s he drinks a full and refreshing draught of that celestial beverage. Those who have not been fortunate enough to peruse this satirical poem may conjecture that such commendation is over-laudatory and mis judged : with an earnest desire to clear ourselves from this imputation upon our character ass candid critics, we commend those individuals to the production itself— but especially to this fourth and concluding part, which in every respect is so immesurably superior to its pre decessors. Meanwhile, as some assurance that, such praise is fully merited, we will transcribe one descrip tion, a description of that very he.cknied subject " Morning"—a description, however, which of its class has no exact companion in the language : " At dawn, while yet, around the Indian, lay The dark fantastic groups—resumed the way ; • w • • • Behold the sun I—how stately from the 'east, Bright from God s presence, comes the glorious Priest ! Deck'd as beseems the Mighty One to whom Heaven gives the charge to hallow and illume ! How, as he comes—through the great temple, EARTH, Peals the rich jubilee of grateful mirth ! The infant flowers their odour-censers swinging, Through aisled glades Air's anthem-chorus ringing; While, like some soul lifted aloft by love, High and alone the skylark halts above, High, o'er the sparkling dews, the glitter;.ng corn, Hymns his frank happiness and hails the morn !" The imagery employed in the opening of this passage is most daring, but the success with which it is embodied is most noble and most beautiful. A bolder symbol of the great luminary was never imagined, and the manner in which the metaphor is carried out is commensurate in all respects. As sone additional evidence of the " true poetry" stirring within the secret chambers of our author's mind, as a token that his fancy aspires to very lofty similes, turn we to one of those ambitious gleamings of imagination which occasionally glitter in the pages of "a dreamer of dreams." Ile is depicting a tempestuous night, where "At times the wild blast dies—and fair and far, Through chasms of cloud, looks down the solemn star— 'Or the majestic moon ; as watchfires mark Some sleeping War dim-tented in the dark; Or as, through antique chaos and the storm Of matter, whird'd and writhing into form Pale angels peer'd !" Assuredly no meagre or impoverished intellstet could have generated a thought at once so huge and delicate as this! No mere dabbler in the Helicon could write with a firm iron grasp like this! We do not wish to squeeze out a beauty where none exists: doe quotations are their own index. Part IV. opens with a d escr ipti on of Morvale's pilgrimage in search of "forgetfulness;" and here his title to be distinguished as the New Timon is fully demonstrated. His affe(!tions sered by the criminality of Lucy's father; his sera' burning with a holy thirst for vengeance (a holy thirst, we say, be. cause originating in his reverence for his sister's fame); his heart empty and pulseless with, desolation, the Indian wanders through the fields, find the city ways, and through the fields again—at dawn, at mid night, at evening, and at noon—without the solace of any CREED which might console him with the promise of future happiness. And here we would pause to point out more clearly than by any of our foregoing insinuations, the identity of the author ship of this " Romance of London," by comparing two passages fraught with a subtle but unmistakable similarity in thought, in language, and in illustration. To be brief : our anonymous poet, when alluding to this incer titude of Morvale as to a futurity, says—in this final portion of the " New Timon"— " Nor when his instinct of the life afar Soar'd from the soil and tackle the unanswering star, Came more than Hope—that reflex-beam of faith— That fitful moonlight on the unknown path." Several years ago Mr. (now Sir) Edward Lytton Bul wer produced (his first literary production we believe it was) a little volume, entitled " Falkland" : in it occur the following eloquent ejaculations, and we would have the reader compare the two fragments in spirit and in word:— " I would give worlds for a proof that death does net destroy. . . . I have watched over the tomb; I have , called in the agony of my heart to her who slept beneath. . . I have been, as it were, entranced with the intensity of my own adjuration. I have gazed upon the empty air, and worked upon my mind to fill it with imaginings. I have called aloud unto the winds and tasked my soul to waken their silence to reply. All was a waste—a stillness—an infinity—without a wanderer or a voice! The dead answered me not when I envoked them ; and in the vigils of the still night I looked from the rank grass and mouldering stones to the eternal heavens, as man looks from decay to immortality ! Oh that awful magnificence of repose —that living sleep—that breathing, yet unrevealing divinity, spread over those still worlds! To them also I poured my thoughts, but in a whisper. I did not dare to breathe aloud the unhal- Po anguish of my mind to the majesty of . the unsympa tthe in n id d s oft t stupendous system of universallife—mylilthest orderofereation— m doubt in quiry were murmured forth — a voice crying in the i l ' i i e sin g stars t wilderness, and returning without an echo, unanswered unto myself." It is perfectly unnecessary to analyse a resemblance which must be manifest to every one : has the " New Timon" author borrowed from himself or from another ? More as to the source of this poem cannot assuredly be requisite. Our observations, however, should relate to the writing as well as to the writer ; for that purpose therefore the short space we have still remaining must be allotted to the former. One evening the hero over hears an old man "sainted and obscure!" discoursing of the Christian doctrines to a neophyte,—tracing out its tenderness, its purity, its accordance with our better reason, and its solid, hopeful truth—while he demonstrates the depravity, obscurity, absurdity, and foolish antagonism of the Heathen Dieties. This harangue of the old sage is a masterly exposition of the creed of the ONE GOD : the angelic simplicity of which creed is con densed into the two admirable lines— "To reason less is to imagine more; They most aspire who meekly most adore !" Morvale the stern Infidel is embued with these divine sentiments ; he is converted. With Christianity he acquires a negative serenity ; he allays his vile yearn inga for Lord Arden's blood ; he becomes, in the ab stract, passionless. As a proof of this total alteration in his temperament, the two enemies meet by accident, in a storm, at nightfall, upon a plank, that trembles over a swollen and boiling stream. Lord Arden is sw(pt into the river by a hurricane, an d i s save d f rom i mme di a t e destruction by —the Indian, but very recently his dead liest foe. Subsequently, h owever , L or d A r d en di es ; hi s daughter is once more thrown penniless upon the world through the cruel operation of the bastardy laws— but encounters the wealthy Mory ale at the grass tomb o her parents, where their love is assured for ever amidst the twilight of that region of death ; and the story ter minates thus— " Sudden rose up, above the funeral yews, The moon ; her beams the funeral shades suffuse! Thus in that light the tender accents cease, And by the grave was Love, and o'ercreatien peace !" Viewing this poem as a whole, it promises largely as to the future poetical excellence of its author. It has its blemishes, no doubt, many of which we have particu larised; but it. has also beauties of no ordinary lustre, " Every bond of union with such a party ought to be reso lutely and immediately broken asunder. Friendship, habit, kindness, personal advantages, what are these to an uncor rupted heart and a conscience void of offence? Under cover of our own betrayers, Rome advances. Not a moment ought to be lost. Let the separation from the Jesuitism of Pusey and the development of Newman, be instant and complete. Severe crises demand decided measures. "If private sympathies still weigh down and detain the struggling disciple,—if the anchor, encumbered by drifting weeds, will not rise to the hand,----then one course only re mains, and that is to cut the cables and prepare for action at the signal, which ought now to be making from every high place of education throughout the kingdom,—.'Enemy at Sea.' " ing the paper gave all the details of the machinery. " An ac eount of the drops used for the shipment of coals at Middlebbro' on Tees," by G. Turnbull, Mem. Just, C. E., was announced to be read at the meeting of Tuesday, March 3c, 1846, when the monthly ballot for members will take place. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY IVIORNING , MARCH s, 1848. .._ . like 4. t• . , , • - - ;- ;.1 , . . many.of *hicb, in i manner, we have carefully ex- out transcribing the table' of contents, we could not do traeted or-referred to. The animus of the work is essen- - justice to this number of the Bankers' Magazine ; we tinily humanising; its diction is peculiarly nervous and therefore refer every one curious as to our commercial musical; its plot, with a few minor exceptions, is in- prosperity to its pages. genious; and its effect altogether bold, harmonious, and original- No poem of equal length has issued from the English press for such a number of years as we have not the heart to enumerate, with anything approaching to the ability of the " New Titnon"—it augurs a resuscita tion of our bardic glcries. Earnestly we commend the author to his pencil and the woodlands; with due exertion he may carve himself a niche for posterity. DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE. Wonderfully silent is our political essayist of the Dublin University at this extraordinary period of com mercial change; the great achievements of free trade appear to have frightened his editorship into this un usual state of silence,—a silence, however, which we cannot induce ourselves to regret. In lieu of any lamentations at the downfall of protection, the magazine leads off with an agreeable story of a Roman sculptor's first-love. For one article we can exprEss our personal obligations; we allude to a survey of" The Insurrections and Insurgents of Italy," translated from the Revue des Meux Mondes. In those two short chapters the reader obtains a perfect knowledge of the different moral con vulsions which have disturbed the Italian states during the past century. Seeing that it has long been the fashion to regard the domination of Italy under Napoleon as a most vicious and baleful despotism, we are rejoicf-d to find a correct exp,sition of that great man's policy brought berore the English public in a con densed and ropuiar manner like the present. Far front reducing everything into subserviency fur the purpose of insuring the continuance of a tyrannic sway, and that at all risks, at all hazards. and at the expense of any and every subordinate portion of the kingdom, Napoleon infused into the Government of Italy, a healthier tone than that country had ever before acquired What does our writer say respecting the modelling of his Italian constitution ? This— same place a N- ce timeer) a . d h g e e aur taeaniteentdw reward,ba 3r s s o Et l u ig g eu h a t li o t y u, and cede, ofb y right the obtained nme,aws its oa tr pro perorgan- isation -e isation of the tribunals and the administration, and by the laws, which were highly favourable to industry and manufactures, and to the development of the power of the middle classes. * * * * Dating from 1808, there was throughout all Italy but one code, one system of judicial organisation, one financial system, one method of public instruction ; the brigands were rapidly disappearing; the public roads were rendered safe to travel ; and fusion of manners and intermingling of interests, was hurrying on the work of nationality. At the same time, a spirit of activity was infused into every mind; the peninsula began to be covered with new monuments ; ancient structures were completed and repaired; vast roads were traced out ; agriculture made astonishing progress ; and the arts, sciences, literature, and even the Italian lan guage itself, never received greater encouragement, than during the reign of Napoleon As to that section of the aristocracy which did not side with Napoleon, it was annihilated by the salutary influence of that arrangement which elevated to the highest posts in the State men whose only recom mendation was their talent. The democratic party had noiselessly appeared, absorbed into the highly-popular admi nistration of Napoleon. The democrats saw that liberty and equality, though not now talked about, were, notwithstanding, realised." These are important admissions, and show in its true light the abstract beneficence and practical good devolving upon the inhabitants of those classic territories through the agency of the Emperor's sovereignty. Nor is the subversion of that wonderful man's power in Italy attri butable to any fallacies or discrepancies in his code, but rather to extraneous circumstances of a most unforeseen description. An internal agitation was excited by the aristocratic party, who bad been slighted by Beauhar nais; and this agitation was furthered still more by cer tain democratic factions of no principle whatever, either moral or political. Fanaticism, in the shape of a new sect, entitled the Carbonari, tended at the same time to stir up the more ignorant among the population; while a foreign interference on the part of the Austrian Go vernment fomented the difficulties of the Viceroy Eugene —difficulties which were brought to their consummation by the disasters of the Russian campaign. Thus—in our estimation, and in the estimation of all sensible readers of Italian history—a most benign and humanising rule was subverted. Has the cara e Lelia Italia been a gainer or a loser by the change of masters ? Is not its present position a sufficient answer? " Stray Leaflets from the Oak of German Poetry," are rugged and occa sionally uncouth, but rich with thought and feeling. " Glintings of the Shannon" are picturesque ; but the following, by that accomplished author, G. P. R. James, is the most powerful and apropos contribution in the Number:— ON A WAR WITH AMERICA. A cloud is on the western sky, There's tempest o'er the sea, And bankrupt States are blustering high, But not a whit care we. Our guns shall roar, our steel shall gleam, Before Columbia's distant stream shall own another's sway ; We'll take our stand, And draw the brand, As in the ancient day. They count on feuds within the isle, They think the sword is broke, They look to Ireland, and they smile— But let them bide the stroke. When rendered one in hand and heart By robber, war, and swindler art, Home griefs all cast away; We'll take our stand, And draw the brand, As in the ancient day. Oh, let them look to where in bonds For help their bondsmen cry— Oh, let them look ere British hands Wipe out that living lie. Beneath the flag of Liberty We'll sweep the wide Atlantic Sea, And tear their chains away; There take our stand, And draw the brand, Ar in the ancient day. Veil, starry banner, veil your pride, The blood-red cross before, Emblem of that by Jordan's side, Man's freedom-price that bore. No land is strong that owns a slave, Vain is it wealthy, crafty, brave: Our freedom for our stay, We'll take our stand, And draw the brand, As in the ancient day. Shout, dusky millions, through the world ! Ye scourge-driven nations, shout ! The flag of liberty's unfurled, And freedom's sword is out ! The slaver's boastful thirst of gain Tends but to break his bondsman's chain ; And Britain's on the way To take her stand, And draw the brand, As in the ancient day. This is a fine. stirring, and noble• spirited poem. The number altogether for March is really excellent. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, Martell 3. —Although the pressure for money continues with little or no abatement, there has been rather more inquiry for goods during the last three days, especially for printing cloths and 40-inch shirtings of good quality, and prices remain without any sensible change. l'or yarn the demand has been very lan guid, and prices arc generally rather lower than last week. We are sorry to learn that the losses iu this town, by a recent failure in Liverpol, of a house in the East India trade, will be very serious,—report says from 70,0001. to 80,0001., generally in large sums.—[By a very absurd error of the press on Saturday, the reduction in the price of yarn was stated to be 6s. 4d. per pound: it should have been a farthing.] ROCHD %LE, MAncit 2.—The flannel market still remains dull and heavy, and there is no improvement in the demand for gc.ods. Last week another manufacturer stopped pay ment, but the amount of claims upon his effect= has not yet been ascertained. The wool market has undergone little change for some weeks past as respects either price or demand. LEEDS, MARCH 3.—No symptoms of revival in our markets are as yet perceptible, the demand still continuing very lan guid and very limited. HUDDERSFIELD, MAscii 3.—To-day there has been a very flat market, but few goods having changed hands, and those of inferior quality. Heavy complaints are made as to the difficulty of obtaining money, and great anxiety is felt for the results of to-morrow's settlement. Should it pass over favourably, it is hoped that confidence may be restored.— Manchester Guardian. TRADE OF BRADFORD, Trtunsnar.—The wool market was a very heavy one. The spinners continue to buy only for present consumption, and under the expectation that p r ic e s will be much lower. There was no variation m p r i ce . Th ere is certainly more inquiry for yarns, especially by the export houses, though on the whole the market on Thursday was in all its branches very dull. Prices of yarn were the same as for the last week or so. Business in the piece market ;was extremely dull. A good number of merchants were present, but they pui chased very sparingly. We attribute this to the suspense respecting the corn laws. TRADE OF NorriNcitAm.—The cotton hose trade, whe ther wrought or cut, continues in a dull and lingering state. The silk glove trade has very suddenly revived, and may be said to be brisk. There is evidently a want of hands, and no apprentices have been taken for years in the silk hosiery manufacture, though some years ago many masters had thirty and forty apprentices. The silk hose trade has by no means felt this improvement in demand, and, in fact, it has every appearance of becoming extinct. The fancy bobbin-net trade is in a stagnant state, hundreds of young and able workmen being unemployed. The warp lace trade, with a few excep tions, is in a wretched state, especially the hand blond-net. —Nottingham Review. TRADE OF LEICESTER.—Our market still continues in a very depressed state without any symptoms of amendment this week ; the operatives are still fairly employed in expec tation of a change. The cash locked up in railway specu lation, and the doubt hanging over the political horizon,fully account for this depression. Worsted yarns are dull of sale without alteration in price. A fair bu , i ness doing in wools at steady prices.—Leicester Journal. PRINCE ALBERT AT RYDE.—On Monday his 1103 al Highness Prince Albert arrived, in the Fairy steamer, off Hyde, where he was received by a vast concourse of people, the guns of the Superb, 80, tiring a royal salute. His Royal Highness, accom • pained by his suite, proceeded to the site of a new building about to be erected, and there, with the customary ceremonies, laid the foun dation stone of the Royal Victoria Yatch Club House. A spectator observes, " It was one of the grandest days Hyde ever saw ; and the inhabitants of the island, it would appear from the numbers assem bled on the occasion, estimated the oeremony as an event of surpass is invortauce." THE JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE. Nell compiled, and elaborately complete in its several departments, this quarterly journal—by the way the title sounds something 'lke a b u ll— must be a welcome per iodical to agricalturists. None of the novelties of science in relation to this branch of industry are for gotten ; in proof of which the present number contains a perspicuous essay on " The Electro-Culture of Farm Crops," one of the most marvellous and interesting of the phenomena broached by our living philosophers. " The Farmer's Note Book" again, teems with practical hints, and would prove good reading to any tenant-farmer in the United kingdom. Of the tables of the public revenue, showing the nett produce of the year last past, we can only observe that it is drawn up with very lauda ble accuracy and clearness : one circumstance in these tables we would especially call the attention of agri culturists to, namely, the remarkable increase in the price of butcher's meat in January, 1846, compared with 'hat of December, 1845. Let them candidly bear this in recollection when the protection agitation is mooted in their presence, or when the presentemergency is treated lightly. Besides the original matter contained in the journal itself, a careful digest of the " Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland," is appended : an addition which materially enhances the value of the publication. THE BRITISH CHURCHMAN. The character of this magazine is strictly in accord ance with its title. Among its articles —the most apropos is the one devoted to a consideration of " Ab solution and Dr. Piney's Sermon ;" but the one which must attract its reader's attention soonest is respecting " The State of the Country." " Developements of the Papacy" reaches its fifth chapter: of its tolerance we cannot trouble ourselves to speak. One thing, however, we would remind the Rumor—the time has arrived when nicknames cannot render argument sounder, or enforce one side of a controversy in the slightest de gree. With other contributions of a more discursive nature, the L'hurchnian fills its allotted number of pages. ALIIIANACK OF THE MONTH. Whoever enjoys a digestive of laughter, let him get wti .n : de doubt rfo bi of t o finding f this little comical varlet of a book :—we will wager a gbod waistcoat-full of chucklings, and mellow to boot. Gilber t a Beckett, as penman, and Doyle, g as eat ilm ; en i ct is an rare morsels of drollery, sufficient to put one on goo d is—great pencilman, wonderful terms even with the blustering winds of M arc h ? " T h e Co burlesque, : h ckney Mariner," a p a rody of Coleridge's r enowne d poem especially with the basso reltevo illustrations. The " Fashionable Novel, in Three Chapters," too, is an achievement : it is horribly true to the originals. Some serious curmudgeons might look upon this atom of a brochure from the Punch office, as an affront upon the public—to which opinion we can only say—let every one rush into the nearest bookseller's, and—pocket " the affront." SPORTING REVIEW. " The High Mettled Racer," after a picture by Her ring, is wonderfully spirited—it is a very cre dit a bl e frontispiece to the Spoiling Rev i ew for March. The literary portion of the magazine is proportionably ex cellent. Craven's chapter on " The Royal Hounds," " The Griff i n's Re ll be ver y acce pt a ble. will be read with much tutere . st while t o a ll a d m i rers the Review is a v o lve f t t gt h ie e , 0" t f ha a ne c rd e u st s iQy o u r Fa t ni h er e sotu d Hi e scocorrns) Horse, b r w e ti , it. ions, fair specimen of its average merit. BANKERS , This valuable and cleverly-conducted periodical pro gresses with its usual ability. Its selection of articles for March is judicious and happily timed ; and a tone of real truth and integrity pervades every expression of opinion. " Suggestions for a Decimal Currency" is worthy of very general perusal ; it is singularly origithil, and at the first blush looks really very feasible. Whether on reducing the theory to practice much confusion might not result to boJk-kk eping generally, i ns t ea d o f b r i n ging with it increased simplicity, a trial c an a l one t es tify. " Special Burdens' upon Banking and Commerce" is the old song of " Special 13, urthens upon Ag r iculture" to an entirely new tune. e recommend it to all pro tectionistsmay regard it as P merely a p h e o n w t e h v e e m r , s they may as far as the title of the paper is concerned, i t is so decidedly. With. HOOD'S MAGAZINE. The principal feature in the March number of this periodical is the commencement of an historical romance, entitled, "Nell Gwynne, .or the Court of the Stuarts." Some conception may be formed of its character when we remark that it is thoroughly Ainsworthian, a more precise imitation of manner and incident cannot po-sibly be conceived, the resemblance is little short (to employ a paradox) of identity. Being anonymous, all kinds of conjectures as to the authorship may be indulged in ad libitum. And while we cannot for a moment fix the paternity upon Mr. Ainsworth, we must be allowed to designate the author as his other self. The story opens in the dilapidated and abandoned pre cincts of Whitefriars, otherwise known' as Alsatia ; pistols are fired to frighten rats from subterraneous passages, night-prowlers are soundly cudgelled, thunder rolls overhead, house-doors are burst open, and trap doors lifted up, giving all lovers of the wonderful a dish precisely to their palate. Among the personages intro duced are the heroine (of course)—very faintly and feebly done is this sketch, by the way—a nameless knight (as a matter of nec(!essity. very handsome); a king of the canting crew, christened in the true slang as " Rum• dumber ;" and a young lady disguised as—O thou origi nal novelist page. The whole closes in the most admired confusion ; and altogether the first instalment of this romance is of the usual cut-and-thrust, highly peppered, and ridiculously impossible style. As an other specimen of a well-known genus in fiction, " Nell Gwynne" is satisfactory. A jocose paper on the " Ana tomy of Ghosts" follows ; and immediately afterwards comes a continuation of the " Bushranger of Van Die men's Land." Ono sonnet we must, in cheer grati tude, transcribe ; it is by that right exquisite son neteer, J. Jones : MOONLIGHT ON THE WATERS. " If, from the gorgeous sun, more genial rays, To warm and cheer humanity, unite ; His sister-regent of the skies displays A more suggestive, soul-communing light— In this the mystical and vast we trace; In that a festal joy for all our race. Forth on the fancy's musings ! o'er the sea, The moon creates a causeway with her beams, Capacious in its shining pageantry, And broad and firm, tho' undulous it seems. Awe creeps upon us as the distance blends, So glassy cold, with space that never ends; And our thoughts reach it, chasten'd and subdued. The flesh is weak to grasp the spheral solitude." Other articles of various merit impart a very tolerable interest to the twenty-seventh number of the Comic Miscellany. NEWTON'S LONDON JOURNAL. -•- - _ _ As complete as ever in all its departments, the re pertory of arts, sciences, and manufactures, is deserving of a very extensive patronage. One valuable addition we would particularise, we mean the catalogue of " Celestial Phenomena" for the current month ; it is neatly arranged. SIMAIONDS'S COLONIAL. In the present Number we have a paper on the growth and production of Indian corn, or maize, and the manu facture of sugar from the stalk , which should be studied a ttentively by every practical agriculturist, for, if we mistake not, maize is destined ere long to be an impor tant article of diet in this country, and its cultivation will, in many districts, be a source of profit to the oc cupier of land. It yields magnificent crops, and its im portance "will soon be felt in the new application of it to the manufacture of sugar from the stalk, and oil f rom the meal." As it is grown extensiv e ly in the B r iti s h American provinces, there can be little doubt but that, as far as climate is concerned, it could be cultivated in this country. To those who feel inclined to try the ex periment, the following information may be useful : A clay soil is not congenial to the growth of Indian corn ; the best preparation for it is a clover ley, made rich by ma nure. If the manure is long and unfermented, spread it on the sod and plough in with a clean smooth furrow. But if the manure consists of compost, or if it has been made fine by fermentation, spread it on the furrow after the land has been ploughed, and incorporate it in thi earth by thorough harrowing. Plough but once, and spare no means to do it thoroughly. Plant early; kepi:, the crop free from weeds, by f req uently stirring the soil with the c u ltiv a tor and hoe ; and avoid hilling, especially for corn." We have, in addition to this parer, at interesting ac count of Captain Sturt's expedition into the interior of Australia, and several valuable articles on Colonial Statistics. CEKARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT, , • . COMMITTAL OF .A LIVERPOOL BROKER. (From the Liverpool Courier of Wednesday.) Yesterday extraordinary interest was excited at the police court by the circumstance that Mr. James Spence, of the firm of lessrs. Spence, Cochrane, and Co., brokers, of Water street, was put to the bar, charged with having embezzled 119 casks of oil, of the value of 2,000/. and upwards, by transferring the property without the consent of the owners. The prisoner is a young man of very respectable appearance. Mr. Lowndes, solicitor, of the firm of Lowndes, Robinson, and Batumi, of Brunswick street, appeared to prefer the cl.arge, I and Mr. Bardswell, solicitor, of the firm of Bardswell and Littledale, Royal Bank-buildings, appeared for the prisoner. Mr. William Glrtsido, on being called, deposed as follows : I carry on business at Ossett, near Wakefield, in partnership with my brother Joseph, as dyers. In the month of October last we had 119 casks of oil lying in Liverpool. Seventy casks belonged to the firm, and forty-nine were my own, lheee oils were in the possession of Mr. Bilbrough, as our broker. He informed us he was about to give up business, and requested directions as to whom the oil should be trans ferred. We gave him directions to hand them over to Spence, Cochrane, and Co. I have bad correspondence with them since about the oil. I produce a letter signed Spence, Coch rane, tu.d Co., dated the 4th of October last. I also produce a circular, dated the 24th of September last, signed Spence " and Co.;• a letter dated the 26th of November last, signed Spence, Cochrane, and Co. ; another dated the Ist of De cember, signed, per pro Spence, Cochrane, and Co., Edwd. J . ... Spence ; another dated the 6 h of December. signed Spence, Cochrane, and Co.; and another dated the 11th of December, signed Spence, Cochrane, and Co., which we received from them. The last four of these letters relate to the oil I saw the prisoner, James Spence, at Ossett, on Friday last. He told me had suspended payment. I said that that would not affect our oil. He replied, " Yes, it will." I asked how ? He said he had transferred it to another parts-, Messrs. Wonostroclrt and Co., about six weeks ago. He added, that in an .evil moment he had transferred it to another party. He also said that he had obtained money on the oil. Ido not know Oat he named the amount. Myself and my brother came to Liverpool with the prisoner. I saw him yes terday, when he gas'e me the paper, now produced, which he wrote in my presence. I never gave authority to the pri soner, or to Spence, Cochrane, and Co., to pledge the oil. We never had any loans or advances from Spence, Cochrane, and Co., on those oils. We had no other merchandise in their hands. We have only had one transaction with them about some logwood, and that was paid for. Cross-examined by Mr. BaTdswell—The prisoner came over to see me. He did not invße me to come to Liverpool. I said it was time to come, and we came together. On my arrival I did not require to see a statement of his affairs. Yesterday I did require such a staement. I was at the prisoner's office on Saturday, and my brother was with me. The prisoner said he did not look upon me as a creditor, and that he would endeavour to pay my account in full. We asked him if he could give security; I did not say that if he could we would give him time—three or six months, nor did my brother say so. No security was named. He said he had none. I asked if his father would 'give security. He said he was in the West In dies. We left, and said we should call on Monday morn ing to see what was to be done. We went on Monday morning. I did not ask for a statement of his affairs. One was shown to us, and we then asked for a copy, as we wanted to see how he stood. in the afternoon a copy was furnished to Mr. Bilbrough, :and we got it. At the first meeting in the forenoon tie promised to make a copy and send it. I got it, and have it now. Our names are sot in it, but " owners of olive oil " are. I think Mr. Bil brough asked in my presence the probable amount of the dividend. Spence said he could not tell. He said he would endeavour to pay us afterwards, if he could make it. I made no reply that I know of. I cannot tell whether I said I was not satisfied without security. I did not go for the express intention of getting security. 1 went to see what was to be done. I wanted to get the oil back. Nothing was said in Liverpool about his wife's uncle, but in Yorkshire he said he had no one but his wife's uncle to become security, and that he had refused. 'When we left, I did not tell him that. further negotiations were to be carried on through Mr. Bilbrough. I saw the account partially male out before I got a copy. I only looked it over casually. I did not see " owners of olive oil "in it. I took very little notice of it. I did not tell him that my name was not to be inserted as a creditor. After I got the account Mr. Bilbrough and myself looked over it,'and I had no conversation as to security. My brother did not leave me direction to get security before I went home. Re-examined by Mr. Lowndes—My first knowledge of the pawning of the oil was on Friday evening last about eight o'clock. The oil cost us about '2,2001. or 2,300/. I was much put out of the way about it. This evidence being reduced to writing, it was read over to the prisoner, and Mr. Rushton intimated that he should com mit him for trial at the assizes, but admit him to bail on finding security, himself in 4001. and two sureties in . 200!. each. The prisoner will be again brought up to-day, when further evidence will be produced on the part of the prosecution. TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. DIVIDENDS DECLARED. W. 11. and T. B. Turner, cotton spinners, Blackburn, Lan cashire—third div. of 2id. in the pound, on any Tuesday, at the office of Mr. Fraser, Manchester. E. T. Jones and H. M. Crosskill, booksellers, Rochdale, Lancashire—first div. of 10s. Bd. in the pound, on any Tues day, at the office of Mr. Fraser, Manchester. E. T. Jones, bookseller, Rochdale, Lancashire—first div. of 9d. in the pound, on any Tuesday, at the office of Mr. Fraser, Manchester. H. M. Crosskill, bookseller, Rochdale, Lancashire—first div. of lid. in the pound, on any Tuesday, at the office of Mr. Fraser, Manchester. T. Todd, cotton dealer, Manchester—first div. of ss. in the pound, on any Tuesday, at the office of Mr. Fraser, Man chester. _ _ _ _ J. Cummins, joiner, Newcastle upon-Tyne—first and final di v. of sd. in the pound, on any Saturday, at the office of Mr. Wakley, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. H. G. Gibson, chemist. Newcastle-upon-Tyne—first div. of 2s. 6d. in the pound, on tiny Saturday, at the office of Mr. Wakley, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. G. Clement anti H. Sammons, grocers, Nelson-terrace, Stoke Newington, March 24, at twelve—B. L. Watson, manu facturer of flags, Cornhill, March 24, at half-past eleven—A S. Tucker and G. M. Bidwell, grocers, Melcombe Regis, Dor•' setahire, March 26, at twelve—J. Vines, mealmen, Battersea, March, '23, at two—ll. Goertz, upholsterer, New Wtwisor, March 27, at twelve—G. Barnes, innkeeper, Pertsea, March 23, at eleven. In the Country. J. David, mister, Langharne, Carmarthenshire, March 27, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court—T. and J. Gundry, merchants, Goldsithney, Cornwall, April 2, at one, at the Exeter District Court—W. Smethurst, Jacquard-machine makers, March 25, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary, on the day herein mentioned. A. Bunnett, window-blind maker, Newington-causeway, March 24-11. Muggeridge, wiredrawer, St. John-street, Smithfield, March 24—C. Bartlett, merchant, Southampton, March 24—T. Adams, calico printer, Cheapside, March 26 F. Taylor, tallow chandler, Orange-street, Red Lion-square, March 27—A. Palmer ' druggist, Feltwell, Norfolk, March 26 —W. Wilks, builder, Leeds, March 24—R. Agars, woollen draper, Kingston-upon-Hull, March 26—W. Lockwood, worsted spinner, Birstal, Yorkshire, March 26—W. W. Benn, merchant, Liverpool, March 24—J. Roberts and H. Hughes, liuendrapers, Manchester, March 26—J. Rothchild, watch maker, Bristol, March 24—J. Peake, miller, Tolleshunt Knights, Essex, March 24—A. S. Tacker and G. M. Bid well, grocers, Melcombe Regis, Dorsetshire, March 24—J. Brooks, currier, Glastonbury, Somersetshire, March 24—F. Corduroy hatter, Liverpool, March 24—E. Malian, surgeon dentist, Lower Brook-street, Grosvenor-square, March 24 W. Brown, ironmonger, Atherstone, Warwickshire, March 24 —W. R. Edwards, linendraper, London-road, March 24. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. R. Gould and J. R. Hall, merchants, Manchoster—J. Good win and W. R. Bibby, law stationers, Birmingham—W. Ayers and R. Amer, millers, Sutton Poyntz, Dorsetshire— S. Spooner and J. Punster, ironmongers, Castle-street, Long Acre—T. F. and S. Adams, whip-thong makers, Bir mingham—J. King, J. Witt, J. Long, and F. King, mer chants, Southampton—T. Sands, jun., and J. Barker, woollen drapers, Norwich—J. Turnbull and W. Turnbull, builders, South Shields, Durham—A. S. Thornton, E. J. C. Atterbury, and B. B. Atterbury, commission agents, Manchester (so far as regards B. B. Atterbury)—R. M. Giles and J. I3ayes, starch manufacturers, Old Ford—J. llirst and J. Stocks, carpenters, Huddersfield—J. and J. Vero, hatters, Atherstone, Warwickshire—A. Buffery, jun., and E Buffery, uphosterers, Stratford-upon.Avon--J. Ross and T. Cairns, drapers, Red ruth, Cornwall—J. Warburton and W. Parker, sharebrokers, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—T. Grissell and S. M. Peto, builders, York-road, Lambeth—E. Brooks and T. Brooks, silk manu facturers, Spital-square—A. Silcock and J. Relph, engineers,r. Langey Burrell, Wiltshire—R. and R. C. Judd, bo_otu a ke Beak-street, Regent-street — J. M ulliner and T. Crook, commission agents, Manchester —J. B. Prichard and J. R. Croft, brokers, Liverpool—J. Winter and J. Jordan, fancy waiscoating manufacturers , H uddersfield-4. J. RipPon and W. S. Burton, Newman. street, Oxford-street—W. South worth and T. Porter, cheese dealers, Mawdsley. Lancashire —E. L. Baker, E. Cantrell, jun., and E. Cantrell, sen., share brokers, Manchester—W. Hopkinson and J. Benson, im proved woollen-fabric-machine manufacturers, Leeds—O. Gray, J. D. Hulton, T. Gray, A. D. Dangerfield, G. H. Lovegrove, J. Fames, C. Ashdown, J. White, and R. Taylor, printers, Salisbury-square, Fleet-street—W. C. Bell and T. Briggs, stockbrokers, Leeds—J. Wilson, B. Walker, M. Armi stead, W. Waithman, R. Walker, and J. Spence, leather dressers, Leeds. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. Alexander Jeffrey, printer, Jedburgh, March 7 and 28, at twelve, at the Spread Eagle Inn, Jedburgh. _ John Bowden, merchant , G las g ow, March 5 and 26, at twelve, at the office of Mr. Monteith Glasgow. John Cook Neil and Co., ironfounders, Govan Haugh, Glasgow, March 9 and 30, at one, at the chambers of Mr. Stewart, Glasgow. James Flem i ng , bootmaker, Dumfries, Ma rc h 12 an d April 22, at one, at the Commercial Inn, Dumfries. James M‘Gill and Co., victuallers, Glasgow, March 7 and 28, at twelve, at the office of Mr. Young, Glasgow. A CONTRAST. THE REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE OF ENGLAND AND FRANCE, IT THE BARON CHARLES DUPIN. In 1816 the British Government, in perfect peace, victo rious, and tranquil, spent 86,000,0001. sterling, no part of which was applied to the extinctionrof the national debt. In 1814 its expenditure still exceeded 67,000,0001. In 1844, the latest period to which the accounts have been completed, its expenditure was reduced to 55,000,0001. In 1816 the interest of the national debt amounted to 33,500,000/. ; it is now reduced to 26,000,0001. and 4,000,0001. of temporary annuities, which are gradually disappearing year by year. Whilst Great Britain was obtaining these splendid results she was effecting a vast reform in the manner and extent of her public burdens. Between 1815 and 1841, a balance being struck between taxes increased and taxes diminished, this power has abo. lished an amount of 24,000,000/. of taxation, and last year has suppressed a further sum of 6,000,000/. The taxes aboli , hed are those especially which paralyse industry, and oppose obstacles to the superiority of British commerce over that of other nations. In effecting this, do not imagine that England has ab stained from carrying out gigantic enterprises, sustain ing mighty struggles, and defending her wide spread domi nions with an armed hand. She possessed in India, in the year 1816, 80,000,000 of subjects ; she now numbers 1C0,000,000. Canada revolted ; the revolt was suppressed by force. Her will was contested in the Syrian question ; her ships decided the matter. China resisted the odious commerce in opium • an expedition after the fa shion of Cortes subdued the Celestial Empire. Tiro seas existed, the entrance of which was not under the command of England, the Chinese Oceat. and the Red Sea. Aden and Singapore have completed the chain of forts which bind the commerce of the world. I admire this at the risk of being accused of Anglmnania, the more that these results have been accom panied by a wise reduction of expenditure and taxation, dating from the peace to the present moment. -- - - . . In 181E1 England was, without exception, the Me relYt heavily burdened by the weight of taxation. Site is now,in proportion to her wealth, less taxed than Frati4e:, -is Thirty years ago England spent 80,000,000titerlinghi1e: we spent but the half. • . In 1844 England spent 55,000,000/, whilit we have ex pended 57,500,0001. Let us observe, at the same time, from one single fact, the, enormous difference in the resources of the two countries for the supply of such heavy public burdens! Looking still at-i , 1844, as a means tlir comparison, I find that the commerce - of England, favoured by a skillful system of taxation, k so great, that the mere amount of the produce of the soil and industry of Great Britain sold to foreign nations, iu eleven months, is equal to the total annual expenditure of the Treasury. On the other hand, in France, we only behold an unlimited increase in the taxation, and we have reached a point at which it wculd require the amount of 23 months of the sale of cur produce to threigners:th pay our expenditure, whilst eleven months only suffice to the English. STATE OF OUR CONVICTS IN VAN DIENIEN'S LAND. (From the Glasgow Examiner.) We have been favoured with ti:e following extracts from the letter of a highly respectable gentleman in Van Diemen's Land, who has been eye wiliness of the scenes he describes:— My protege, A-- B-- has now served hi, proba tion, and come to town. As his eonduct during that time has been remarkably good. he has at once received a third-class ticket and is eligible for employment. I have been doing my best to interest in his favour those who are most ek to serve him. Already, through the Rev. Mr. Lillie, I have got him placed amongst the convict writers at the Comptroller-General of Convict's Office. It is almost impossible to get a suit able situation for him just now, as the country is deluged with people similarly situated, of acknow ledged talent and abilities, who are glad to take the most mean and paltry situation in order to earn a few shilling. Under these circumstances, he has set his heart upon the situation of javelin mar. This is an em ployment under the sheriff ; the pay is very trifling, I believe, but he prefers such a situation to a better with one of the colonists, as he will be sure of passing through the various stages of indulgence more quickly by being thus placed under the eye of those who can extend thes 3 advantages to him. lie will, besides (as in private ser vice), live away from the prisoners' barrack, and when not occupied with his duties, be quite unrestricted ;n *he employment of his time up to a certain hour of the evening—l believe seven o'clock—when all but free people must be at their places of residence, or they will be immediately picked up by the police— who are Argus eyed here—and if they cannot produce a special pass from their employer, be consigned to the watch-house, and next morning be sent by the police mogistrate to the tread-mill. I am in great hopes that I shall be able to procure this situation threugh Mr. Lillie, for him, as Mr. Burnet, the sheriff, is Mr. L.'s father-in law. You ask me if the convicts are obliged to wear their peculiar garb after they are engaged by the free population, thus marking them as belonging to the class they do, to those who might be otherwise ignorant of it. After a convict has served his probation, he can wear any dress he chooses, so that in that respect he is not marked. I mean that strangers passing him in the streets would, of course, think him a gentleman if he was dressed as one ; but do not for a moment suppose from this that a convict has any better chance of being received into respectable society again merely by the change in his dress. As I have before mentioned, many prisoners have remained here after their sentence had expired, and acquired a fortune, and are now rolling in their carriages ; but for all that, there is a broad line of demarcation placed between those that have been convicts and those who have not this awful stigma upon sheen. The history, origin, and circumstances of every one who is in society here are all known ; and in select society, a gentleman could not commit a greater offence than by introducing a person who has been a prisoner. If the people at home are remarked for being reserved to strangers, what would be said of the people here who would scarcely talk civilly to a stranger until they knew his history. I could astonish you very much in a walk through Hobart Town, by pointing out various charac ters who have obtained an unenviable notoriety at home, whom we would meet now and then, and whom you would pass by without remarking anything unusual about them. Suppose I had the happiness of thus acting as your cicerone, I will give you an example or two :—Look at that good-looking man who is walking with a quick pace towards us ; you see he is very fashionably dressed, and has quite the air of an ; and were it not that his clothes are a little faded, and the worse for wear, you would at once lay him down as an exquisite of the first water ; well, that is King, the London Post-office money-letter abstractor. You will observe that he is accompanied by another person, a stout, grave, gentlemanlike individual, who, judging by his manners and appearance, has evidently moved in good society, and enjoyed the comforts and luxuries of thia life ; that is Beaumont Smi t h, t h e celebrated exchequer bil forger, who, disdaining to com mit a trifling peccadillo, aspired to glorious c e l e b r i ty as the prince of forgers, by doing business in that way to the extent of two hundred and odd thousand pounds. Going on further, we meet an old and rather shabbily dressed man w earing a straw hat ; he is a clerk to one of our grocers, and by the popery in hi s h an d , we may guess that he is going about collecting the accounts of his employer. If you lock attentively at his face, you will at once concluCe, from Its grey hairs and wriekled care-worn face, that he is a man on whom the burning ploughshare of grief and mental agony has done the work of years ;—that is the unfortunate and misguided Frost, the Chartist Reformer—one of the many hun dreds who might be pointed out to show the cruel and wretched system pursued towards transported criminals. I allude to the equality of punishment which is dealt to all offenders ; --no matter how various their crimes, how dissimilar their dispositions. how different the depths of moral depravity to which they have sunk, all are indiscriminately mixed together in gangs; where men who have probably lived at one time in an exemplary manner in good society, supported the various characters of husband, father, and friend, in a becoming and praiseworthy manner, who are possessed of great abilities and good education, but have in an evil hour (perhaps maddened by injury and insult, or driven to despair by the prospect of indi gence and want) committed an act which has rendered them amenable to the laws of their country. Men such as these are herded together with the s y s t emat i c burglar and robber, the pickpocket, the habit and re pute thief—wretches who have been guilty of every crime under heaven, who from their infancy have been reared and educated in every shape and form of vice, whose language is obscene and blasphemous in the extreme—all are worked, fed, and lodged indiscrimi nately together. • We are told that the object of punish ment is the reformation of the criminal, and are ime pelted to give our cordial approbation to the benevo knee of such a principle; but how such an enlightened principle can be connected with the working !out of the present probation system of convict discipline I am at a loss to conceive. It is not the description of punish ment that I would altogether find fault with, although that is to a certain extent objectionable, both in kind and degree, but it is the loathsome and degrading association. Bow can he who wishes to amend his life be expected to reform—no matter how strong-minded he may be-- when all day long his ears ring with the curses and laughter of the vilest of mankind? If he shows a de , termination to conduct himself well, he is assailed with the ridicule, mockery, and persecution of his companions. In the evenings he hears nothing but the exulting rela lations of successful villany, of credulity deceived, of charity and goodness abused, together with histories of profligacy, ingratitude, and every species of wickedness. The natural result of passing through such a dreadf u l ordeal is, that what was at first heard with the utmost hor ror, the unhappy man gradually becomes accust ome d to— ghradis f a e t el jo i n nis an be d eo a r last a , y , w af t te th r day dteoatdaelneetintoctu o his de -t every moral and religious feeling, he becomes an active partisan in crime, or he is only passively honest until temptation is thrown in his way. This is a matter in which our colonial autocrat, Lord Stanley, incurs a fearful responsibility. I doubt not if he were presented with a complete and true picture of the awfully bad effects of his crude and ill-digested experiments in" penal science," it would barrow up his soul, if he had a particle of feeling. Instead of Van Diemen's Land being a spot where the erring children of men are reclaimed and won back to the paths of virtue and honesty, where a wise and good Government pursues those measures which can best en sure the reformation of its criminals, it is converted into a frightful pandemonium, where the comparatively good are initiated into a knowledge of vice and wickedness, of the existence of which they never previously dreamt. This distant island, therefore, intended to be a theatre for the development and growth of every latent spark of honour and principle, is turned into a vast moral grave, wherein is buried for ever every good and right feeling with which a convict is possessed, when be sets foot on its polluted shores ! I am, however, forgetting our friend, A— B—. As he was without money, and not allowed to bring out clothes with him, he found himself quite destitute in that respect when he came again to town, and would have laboured under a very great disadvantage in ob taining employment, if dressed in the prisoner's clothing. I therefore sent him to my tailor, who supplied him with a new suit, so that he now looks respectable. The whole expense of his rig -out, which was managed as economically as possible, will cost me something more than five pounds, which will be well bestowed, it I cars get him a situation away from his vile associates, and so be the means of saving one victim of imperial expedi ency. I have great hopes of him ; he appears very grateful, and, I trust, will d o we ll. If he should dis credit the description I have given of him to those whoml avespoken to on his b e half, by misbehaving, I shalt of course be compelled to abandon him to his fate. ul:ttlioefwthreikalli'veisinguttsiairune:aoitnr: highs Tuesday inonou,r or nu _ with M Mr. Mackinnon lclerman Il in u fa rn vo p u h r e o ry f 3 p l a r. ird e. v off ini o eni n , mediate repeal. THE WAR IN INDIA.— In a private letter just re inig d a ig g „ . l i t e eo t. h t s b e e rv re es we th re ati ,o l oo nde o p r e t t u td e an s t e l i y kto l drowned In attempting to cross the Sutiej. tcheolvsesawfronifealininclicteerlahtle eI ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN IN IRELAND.—The return of 3 w i o r i n t a h r i n Xtg el irg f i ° tr i mlt n e 'o ch tl i o ld n r f e o n r. r a el n ie a v c rd Ireland during the half-year ending the 25th of September, 1845, .. was yesterday printed by order of the House of Commons. From tlia summary of the returns from 119 workhouses it appears the munbeira relieved during the ni•ove period were —women hav i n g children, 2,091; Illegitimate children, 3,688. OSTEND, MARCH I.—The General Stettta Company's steam-ship Triton arrived at our quay on Monday, at, two o'clock in the afternoon, bringing over several families, and tb A equipages of Sir Moses Montetlore, from London, in something over ten hours. Partaking necessary ref res h ment, the pawn' Art proceeded same afternoon on wards per rail toward* the Rhi' ~;, eeded the After To Gentlemen who shave • query is proposod—WhY do all them , elves the folly ,wing the first cutlers in Europe r recommend Saunders' Four-sided Tablet Razor Strop Tbe answer Is simpl y b ecause it is the only one that gives to r . . se and ? keen and smooth e d ge. Manufactory, 28, Strand , c razor A - - `r.~~. Ater ship en , the repli gioti laving 3f S h. lea° 13il l 14 of 0 cc , ; 0 ,, c ! letber sh'f o ; o