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TH LO ‘Ni DUN, WEDNPSDA v MORN IN G, § 11446. Was not satisfactory, when he was again assailed with sprig of coral pendent from her nose, she *as a pfactical il- I lustration of that most poetical and delicate idea of beauty great c l amour and uproar. The CHAIRMAN at last put the question whether Mr. when unadorned, ado r rn tra e k dt s h t e , Parr should b e heard, when the negtstive was carried by l " IW vz h it e h hi rei : t ommy be a considerable majority, and consequently he abandoned a Z ed wirr : the attempt to speak. The Rev. WM. CurtLitio, in an Ultra-Pro-Protest -- • - Speech, m ove d a resolution that, art-r heari ...616 "- went of Mr. Filcher, he was er 6 tne state the As soc i at i on at the .. . eri- —..tted to the support of Mr, LO RD - _.. wing election. and car -cvonded the resolution, when it was put ...ed with a few dissentients. .. , , , yote of th anks having been given to the chairman, . ""4 Wee cheers to Mr. Filcher, the meeting separated. .ae chid; as ha spoke he k—promiscuous -like► ...arriwovr pointed to the path *hi& lad to their ...sttage °meet A white Mit tomes " 6 What sort of a man is he ?' said the chief, his mouth watering with anticipation► " ' A very fat one I' 6 ' The elite% eyes sparkled. " Cover yourself,' said the chief, with your mat.' " His wife obeyed ; she threw over her eopper.coloured shoulders a sort of New Zealand Polka,—rather scant,—and awaited the approach of the stranger. " Mr, Augustus Snivelle arrived--not at the door—be eause it had no door,—but at the entrance of the chief's dwelling. " He surveyed the lady with intelligent curiosity. " The chief frowned, and then smiled as he made a rough mental calculation of tenpenny nails. " Mr. Snivelle beheld the native's teeth, and tried to smile too, but he could'nt. " The chief looked at him earnestly ; Wirriwarriwow was right ; the stranger was very fat ; but he might get fatter. Purnmereboo meditated. " Mr. Snivelle was rather at a loss to communicate his wishes to these Aborigines,—and very original he thought certainly they were; but, seeing that he could not speak their language, and they could not speak his, he was unable to communicate his ideas by speech ; but he remembered that the language of signs is universal. He opened his mouth, and imitated the action of chewing with much energy. Wirriwarriwow comprehended him perfectly ; with the willingness to oblige natural to her sex, she immediately pre sented the stranger with the bit of fern-root which her hus band had hut half eaten. The stranger took it ; smelled it ; pared it with a knife which he took from his pocket, tasted it, and shook his head. " The chief looked at the stranger's knife, and his mind was troubled with strange visions I He stretched out his hand for it ; took it, ff•lt its edge, gave a chuckle in his throat which resem bled the gobbling of a turkey, and secreted it in a corner. Mr. Snivelle was charmed with this instance of native inge nuttiness. " The chief invited him by signs to a great feast. Mr. Sni. velle being very hungry, accel.ted the invitation with the most energetic readiness. " One of his wives was dispatched to give intelligence to the tribe that a white stranger bad arrived, so fat as to be valuable personally, and exhibiting sundry foreign qualities curious and entertaining. " The feast prepared, an old and dignified chief, the supe rior of the tribe, presided. Having had the advantage of several communications with Europeans, the great man was well acquainted with the manners and customs of the white people, and wishing to show off on the occasion, he commanded that things should be prepared with a sumptuousness suitable to the occasion. The steam of the earth-ovens arose on all sides. A GAZINES-(CONTINUED). AINSWORTH'S MAGAZINE. The author of " Cmsar Borgia" does not by any Ileum make the best use of his material:—of the ma teriels, at least, which he might have collected for his parpose —as his story proceeds. The whole history of the Middle Ages presents no passages more remarkable, in every point of view —moral, political, and chivalric— P s ychological and romantic—than those which are con nected with the fortunes and the fall of the monster sake of the Borgias. There is no portion of European story for which these anecdotical collections—diaries, teeMoiri, biographies, annals—so invaluable to the novelist, exist in such variety or abundance. The most 4 "ret chamb ers of the VatiCan—the most fl agitious touneils of the detestable Pope Alexander and his still *ore execrable son, Duke Cassar--the debates of the Holy Consistory—ethe intrigues of the Sacred College— andthe profound duplicity with which the Courts of Naples and of France - l ong ma i ntained an unequal contest ofl. nst the u napproachable perfidy of the opal closet ; these are among the bequests which contemporary his tsne, annaly s t s , an d diplomatists have left to pos rlLitY, t in co nfirmation of the oth erw i se i ncre dib le tra ...he ons of Borgian gu il t . T he same authorities are, for most part, equally rich in all those details, not only :Of banners and customs, b ut even of costume, which can , 'ild to th e i nterest of authentic narrative the excitement pictures ucclescription. With th ese f ortunate inci tient; attac king to th e e p oc h w hi oh Our author has *elected for his story, we must confess, with disap pointment, that as this romance of " Borgia" devel .ps ttlelf, we can recognise no corresponding development the Pod taste or skill in the author's mode of handling lsaceevast resources that he might have enlisted in its ser atwehleiciir laden, there are some indications of extreme not of unpardonable ignorance, in that personal to be his favourite employment —namely, Sir Th. , ~ portrait painting. In days like these, when NA ti l l ' l la t hleyrick has supplied authors and artists with Ind arms a nd graphic aft account of the military armour 12'1,u :I:3th): eaollitratt great E ro ean nations from the errors as these., vantaiement of the to be aa much protested are a u P 18t h century, such ed in the following passages, l e e° lo ß of !Allan in imitation of the'se mail a b g ei a n i g nst as the slip-slop phr - e ancient Itotna‘ ther the author m , , eans by the swo t , 4, n ap m pa i r li e t n a t r l y y g m a a r n b upc ‘ i l u Th re e d . "garb" the " chlamys," or i t i. -, Paluaarnentun," or the flowing o dalmatica," 4, perhaps usel ess to inquire. If, however, he be sPeakieg neither of cloaks, nor robes, nor gowns, but of Colts of • mall, we beg to tell him that the Milanese armour worn by any forces °f the Italian princesin the 14th or 'lsth centuries were not fabricated in imitation of that borne 4 ,., b y the old Romans (who had no plate armour at other that neither Papal guards nor body guards of any . designation in Borgia's time wore " greaves of Polished steel" Which are (and i t i s clear that, instead of greaves, plate leggings, he eans cui, which were Protectors for the thighs), nor m exhibited sses such a Cockn e y medley of minor theatre costume as legs encased in steel 1114 bare knees. But the "short kilts of quilted steel" area violation of all " theatrical property propriety," wh ich we should look for in vain in the dresses intro duced in one of Richardson's melodramatic spectacles. faed " The atone table was occupied by some thirty mite-at-arm,, i sll en a kind o f b lack barley bread, cheese, curds, and Milk. Beside each man, crossing the table, lay a spear nearly double hi s own height, its point barbed like a fish-hook, so Nlthat on being withdrawn from a wound the flesh must be fear ) lacerated: their armour was at once atron and rich, bright from the smithies of Milan, and apparently manufac tsreil in imitation of the ancient Roman military garb—greaves of Polished steel, bare knees, short kilts of quilted steel, breast sad back pieces of gleaming plate, helmets surmounted by silver eagles with outspread wings and sun-soaring upward I. A round shield with a spike in the centre, a short sword, and a massive sauce intended to knock those on the head 'whose armour denied the sword access when overthrown, com pleted the uniform." We have Lord Campbell's autoeity for saying that, Until very lately, it was a tnr•each of the privileges of the Upper House of Patel :ment to write the life of a de ceased 'Peer. We enudder when we reflect on the amount of damages ....' s which, under any analogous custom touch ing i ll"L.srious foreigners long since departed, the de lic:aadants of Bembo or of the great Florentine secre tary would be entitled t o es ti mate th e i n j ur y do ne by our author to the reput a ti on o f th e grea t C ar d i n al an d .. the still mo re renowne d M ac hi ave lli , b y hi s mo d e of ex Chiang them in these chapters, and still more by the totonceivable imbecility infused into their conversation. `` The 1110011 and the Stubble" is a pleasant paper on the 12th .of August and the Ist of September (the mar t t Yrology days respectively of the grouse and th e par ridge), by Frederick Tolfrey, whose agreeable writings we never encounter without pleasure. But can Mr. Tol frey. be serious in th us not i c i ng the absurd pamphlet by ii• Grantley Berkeley on the G ame -l aws , wh i c h we have more than once introduced to our readers:--- rpm......" One of our oldest and best sportsmen has taket up the , and in the House, as Well as in a pamphlet remarkable "I'd "riting and an admirable analysis the laws, has of aws, amed the o ut and remedy for the existing evils ; and we, in hcoornvemtohnatwtihth 7 1 , sPertsmati in the kingdom, most d.... offered b y M r. Grin e ti they deserve and the Gran d e BedrkeltYl will hints and advice so forcibly and clearly Th. ~ go, w . . se emands.- cer:tzg': feried to tou xi st meet with the attention y to the precious production . re . - the most writing" ever ad • • homeopathic dose of " ,, good Nt toocchio (or mlntstered to the public patient : The ' Eeii.E ...,,, Ye ) 13 C tain kedwin, is a sketchy bold e extravaganza," t h e p a r P eternatural horrors Of which . . are not satisfactorily or plained by the somewhat ' y solution attempted o natural causes. " A $- : ni f m a s Stran even plausibly ex- f Strange Childhood," by Arnheldt Weaver, is told with o some pathos and Marseilles," $ and a lions,' n „.., slight as the anecdote is, is as well lone as such an affair " Reminiscence of Marseilles,. Can perhap s be. The best, most, vigorous, and ra c ily writ ten article i s " C a p ta i n Bobadil,', but it is devoted, not Is this title would imply to that dramatic impersona tion, but to the class of which he is the type. It par- Port;-so be by " Pat Fogarty of Cork." No Irishman "deed have hesitated to affix his real name to a contribu tion which contains many other passages as good as the following : " And here we would take leave to ask, are the recent pro jects of recent Bobadils wiser than the foregoing? Are the eerftpanies for doing everything by steam—by gas—by gal vanism—by air—by smoke—by humbug, one atom more likel to be successful than Bobaild's grand nostrum ? Have not our ' Joint-Stook Banks driven thousands to beggary ? How many hundreds are wandering and starving through the count'. limit our knavish Assurance Societies? What is the m eaning of of the great tunnel just about to be made under FieetmD , ...of the marble bridge, of ten millions cost, that is to he thrown across the fishing-brook at Walton ? Is ther e no Bobadil at work in the American Loan, the Spanish Loan , the Cherokee Loan, the Portuguese Debentures, the Cetral Mo Colonization Company, the erection of National Schools Mo n rr Leone ? Truly, good peop le of England, of each and all of them, a Bobastil is the mainsp ring ; and it is only when Ye are fleeced to your heart's content that you will discover grandalitbeartttih_e.o.,, ~ p a l an which was . . to enrich you all, was started ilnancie'rs "vrlilln sep;:leerkebtes weiyaesnmekdi,ngnoarshaft.thr.ough yours. But by the destruction of those capitalise' ever deterred who h av e gone before them in the Nate line, and the valiant tribe o s , swindlers laugh and grow fat fast at; ever. Exult then, 0 ye illustrious Behadils I—exult, end be assured tha t ther e are fool.. 7(ritr dynasty is immortal. So long as eece, and f *le be fleeced, so long will there be rogues to tare that lam toe history of the past we may safely conjec ee/prim:XS race of both will continue per omens secula " In due time the assembly sat doe n to table; that is to say, he natives tucked their legs under them and sat on the ground, while their wives brought in the dinner. " The dress of the Great Chief was magnifieent in the ex treme. He wore on that occasion a drummer's jacket, which being too small for him was necessarily open in front ; around his loins was tied a blue apron, which had belonged to a ship's betcher. On his head he wore a judge's wig, intended for a dignitary in New South Wales, but which, having been repu diated by that functionary, had been bartered by a trader *ith a native for a hog, and had been Belied by the Ureat Chief as an ornament too grand for any other head than his own. At the top of the wig he had placed a cocked hat. His admiring subjects gazed at him with a sort of awe. Mr. Snivelle looked out anxiously for the dinner. " The first dish was a baked young woman, It was borne in with great ceremony. At the bottom was a stowed dog. There was cold boiled missionary as a middle dish. At the sides were two piccaninny pies, with their toes appetisingly displayed through the crust. " Pummereboo sat by his friend's side out of compliment, and to assist him to do justice to the good things before him. " He detached with his fingers a delicate piece of the top dish for his guest, with a cut of the centre one which he accom plished with his tomahawk, and pointed out the piccaninny's tope as the most delicate morsel. But Mr. Snivelle turned very pale, and felt very sick. The Great Chief was pleased to take notice of his indisposition. He pointed to the banquet. "Mr. Snivelle shook his head, and endeavoured to make his dusky friend Understand that he was not hungry. " The natives regarded him with pity and amazement I The feast was delicious. " They talked among themselves tnd pointed at the stranger, and they regarded him, he began to to think, lovingly. They said some words to the Chest Chief: fortunately that distin guished ittdividlial Was taste to speak a few words of English. With ttmoh petiteness he interpreted the conversation of the unstaphistocated savages to their guest. The talk ran thust— " Great Chie— , Say you climb tree ?' " Mr. Augustus Snivelle—' No.' ~ Great Chief—' Say ,you catch fish ?' " Mr. A. Snivelle—' " Greet Chief—' Say you snake mat ?' " Mr. A. Snivelle—' No.' " Great Chief—' Say you fight ?' Mr. A. Snivelle—' No.' " Great Chief—. Brother say you no good." " Mr. A. Snivelle—' Eh ?' Great Chief—' Say you nice and fat.' " Mr. Snivelle—' They are very obliging.' " Great Chief—' Say you no good only to eat.' " Mr. Snivelle—' I wish I could get something to eat.' " Great Chief—' Little mistake. They say not you eat, but they eat you.' " Mr. Snivelle—' What l' " Great Chief—' Say they make you very fat, and then they eat you up.' " Mr. A. Snivelle—' The devil they will l' " Mr. Snivelle jumped up quickly. The natives jumped up too. They were very merry, and they danced round the white man and sung a festive song. Pummereboo acted as leader of the baud ; the rest joined in chorus. The following is a translation of the roundelay as sung by these unsophisticated children of nature " Walleloo ! Wallaloo ! Love white man and eat him too I Stranger white, but that no matter I Brown man fat, but white man fatter I Put him on hot stone and bake him I Crisp and crackling soon will make him. Round and round the dainty goes ; Eat his fingers ! eat his toes 1 His body shall our palates tickle I Then we'll put e ki s o h ßu ea s d , in pickle 1 n On the white man dine and sup, Whet your teeth, and eat him up l" The Great Chief bad the kindness to interpret these ments to Mr. Snivelle for his informatioh ; but that gentleman, far from acquiescing in this disposal of his person, capered about with fright even more energetically than his entertainers. terror, But it ecirlinede h grew vain asnwwthat he end e a voure d t o escape f rom t h e le h s e s m a m nd ed le i s n s b ev y e t r h y e sa m v o a m g e e n s t , landln h to his s frantic fear he gave up all his valuables ; his watch, his spy glass, his moustache-brush in an ivory case, his gold chain—his everything. Th e nat i ves were delighted with his liberality. They sung, and they jumped, louderand higher than ever. " And now they closed nearer and nearer, and Mr. Snivelle screamed louder and louder: at first a friendly native seised his hat ; and then another tore off his coat ; and a third dis encumbered him of his waistcoat, while , a fourth untrammelled him of that part of his apparel which is ever considered, in civilized life, most indispensable; and presently he stood be fore them in nature's garb alone, as the poets express it, which is the most unpleasant one that can be ; and the savages re joiced to find him fatter even than they had hoped ; and one, lifting up his tomahawk, was about to salute him with an un sophisticated salutation of its edge of flint, when the unhappy Mr. Snivelle, fear lending him wings, as he afterwards de scribed it, made a desperate bound through the excited throng, and while the savages set up a yell of auger and disappointment at his escape, fled to the woods, and concealed himself in the trunk of a hollow tree. " There, for three long days, and three longer nights, did he remain ensconced, hungry and cold, and making many silent vows that, if ever he escaped from the bands of these unsophis tinted children of nature, be would ever afterwards content himself with such minor advantages as civilisation offered, without seeking for the attractions of primitive simplicity, of which he had experienced a New Zealand specimen. At the end of three days, hearing no sound of his enemies, he ventured to peep from his covert, and teeing the coast clear, he made the best of his way to the nearest European settlement, where he arrived ' a wiser and a thinner man. " 1 he next day he returned to England, and from that time forward, whenever he heard a sentimental enthusiast extolling the superiority of a man in his natural state, he would relate his adventure in New Zealand ; and thanking Heaven that he had escaped from the watering mouths of Pummere boo and Wirriwarriwow, and the rest of the copper-coloured fraternity, he would sing the song of the natives : " A nice after-dinner song for a party of gentlemen; and a nice chorus for a convivial meeting, wasn't it?' "' On the white man dine and sup! Whet your teeth and eat him up I' " " Symbolic Mone-y" is an excellent article on the pro position brought forward by the Society for the Eman cipation of Industry some few weeks ago, for effecting the restoration of Quebec from the calamitous condition into which she has been reduced by the two conflagra tions that have laid two-thirds of that city in ashes. We are glad to find such an advocate as the reviewer of the doctrines we have repeatedly propounded on the subject inv ilved in the title of this essay. We quite concur in holding with him, that of ad the schemes for effecting the desired ..bject of re• establishing Quebec, " the most philosophical in conception, and the most easy and safe in execution, seems to be that suggested by the Society in question." But we shall defer further commentary till we have this writer's next promised paper to demon strate that " the more that which is meant by ' money' departs from its character of a symbol, the ItSs it is fitted for the uses which it is inteitt -1 .,11 tor." Truly, the time is not distant et Which Robert Peel will dis cover that there is more in " currency " than is dnamed of in his philosophy (P.) of that question. al ==someein= tur., HOOD'S MAGAZINE. iyttc:ll‘)A:cr,oft. continues to fill the chair once occupied c ""a, with a spirit which does honour to the l i n e ' ll rua ° 4 - e ° ,` h h a ls, l amented predecessor. Ho cont . ribut , , ls eatids), piers of " the Bushranger of Van Diemen 's ~,u`'lolot,irron of the second series of his " Tales of des ct a Very clever chapters these are; full of a l atere t and marked by great pvrers of " 4ssiirr4,73.ge-e3 ,llima interest, for , the " the n ew Stratagem," the Skirmish," and c s erer, i ; P er )," makin g a declaration," all of these are , il "Man i s " a Ps, in chapter 19 and chapter 23, Mr. Sale Dieet '°4lewhat of a more essential cockney than It ani s l w o, i th in the existing varieties of , that genus. `Korou, t he cockney rather of Seymour s coarse but tints -_ caricatures of cockney sportsmen than a por- Df n( .° real life. Bar of England" is a sort 4 ,re lik e iti on of those gentlemen who b. , ing barristers !utbN.a+-140 reporters for the press, which is mu,•fi tco 441 ' th e ;` e f or the purpose. The resolution of a bar-mess lihanrd!r eaclusdonvvas a preposterous and presumptuous aho u i d lt ?: Which has already cut its own throat, and th ro ,oe left t o the o bli v i on it challenged. " Rainh!Z,l I n u l" Bohemi a n Vill ages, " are quite pleasant enough fi rie '"c us heartily wish we could avail n'tirselves of the past autumn to accompany the agreeable auth or on suc h iikc:rquo expeditions. " End)mion," is most moon tor., mystic, dim, and somewhat incomprehensible ; the ttd cif keeping which the pictu re o f such a stolen r.itenture on the part of a lady probably required. The and 3d chaptersthe Chronicles of the Fleet," 1" Turnkey's Daughter," are rather heavy. " A io of New Z ea l an d" i s a savage pi ece o f d rollery. It If e . ; °° good to abridge ; and then, it is so like one of te,l ll : ri ch Ifeyne's diabolical jokes, that we are tempted 4 .v0 a lags extract. Here it es' -that a roof thatched with the leaves of the flax plant ;31,rututriereboo. His fore was untrammelled by the artifi d-Irftelsr_estranzt of braces, because he was without that article of tle • ° which those conveniences are intended to support ; oiler ad he shoes or stockings, or waistcoat, or coat, or shirt, 401 r shirk, 'cellar. His only garment—a sort of mat which . 14 4 lied his person when he went abroad—was carelessly laid Piouslye dis PlaYing without encumbrance the elegant patterns cn -4 tattoecl in various devices on his bistre-coloured skin ; a foss he smiled as he thought of his coming repast, he showed . d , r al a e row of teeth strong and firmly set to make a fat 44 tre m bl e. d : In hi s l eft hand was a bit of fern root, at which he con ,eended t o nibble while he waited for his breakfast ; in his kt i'l a pt he held a nat i ve tomahawk with which he was wont to slave or a wife occasionally when it pleased him to do so. hi:He wa s an unsophisticated child of nature ! t Where, he said, as he threw away his fern root, and gave ( nahawk a little flourish Where is Wirrivrarriwow !' lor,:Wirriw arr i wow appeared. i . Sh twas as little trammelled•by artificial restraints as her m atuti Bung entraged in the domestic duty of preparing the tim es Meal she had dispensed with the mat which some is shad e d h er charms from stranger's eyes; and she stood pe_tlatture had form e d h er , per f ect l y unconscious that her ap- D__" n ee would h ave exc i te d cons i derable surprise inthe Re- Lrt-street of the white people. She stood—in the wilds of lip Znland—ini the unsophisticated state of nature's love. 14 4 lave a lOW of shark's teeth round her nook, and a Bailey Re i ' t 7 -- --11.1ar thing of blood, and bigotry, and igno. ...oce—that, in ono little year, in almost the first twelvemonth of the new drop, the itatignm war sem to hitteti-si'k *ri.:tihd, Who freftlilliiliary eared of their ills in the front of Newgate I And the King in Council thought there was no such remedy Air Crime as the grave ; and therefore, by the counsel of his pri'ry sages, failed not to prescribe death-warrants. To reform RUM *ls a tedious and uncertain labour t now hangitig *as the sure work of a oinute." Faint with horror at this disgusting sight, he stinks refuge in a public-house, and there is met by Toth Blast. He. hopes Blast doeg not ftctigtniSe hitli. gilds has his pocket picked by an urchin who takes re fuge with Blast. St. Giles would fain recover the hand kerchief which bad been a gage de amour, and Blast makes the boy who had found it deliver it up. St. Giles is about to give him money, when Mast interposes,— " "Tisn't right ; not at all proper; not at all what I call Wear—and here Blast whispered in St. Giles's ear—' that money should pais atween brothers.'" Yes, St. Giles's mother was dead, and left this wretched orphan to the care of Tom Blast, who was training him for Newgate and the gallows. The next article is a thoroughly " German " defence of optimism, and then fellows, perhaps, the best account that has yet appeared of the pilgrimage to the Holy Coat at Trlves, by the Englishman in Prussia. " The Poor Man's Friend " is a biting satire, biting from its very truth fulness : much appearance of interest and emotion, and heard to ex b,len, s'il vivait encore lui donnerais sa liherte tai; in%;st Ot gard to le Masque de fer, l is that ehieb sUppots hitn to li,f;,atc been an elder brother of Louis XIV., the well-accredited off spring of an intrigue of Ann e d'Autrich, whose legal legitimacy it might have been so difficult to dispute, that to conceal its elliteittt stltegether appeared the most _obvious course. SiMAIOND I S COLO/ViAL MAti.a/ The Atilt's of the Nova Sdotia baronets to the eiteii sii,e lands granted to them by former sovereigns are ably advoCated in the opening article of the present number. It appears that the baronets intend to proceed by petition of right, and certainly they make out a strong case. Should they succeed, they are, we understand, pre pared to perform the conditions on which the land was granted, in which ease they will afford a practical answer to the question sneeringly put by Sir James Graham in the debate on Lord John Russell's resolution, " What is systematic Colonization ?" The revival of the rights and duties of the Novo Scotia baronets is a matter of great national importance, for while it secures to the Scotch emigrant that immediate care on his arrival in the land of his adoption, which is so necessary to his well-being, it erects a barrier against Yankee encroach. ment, the most effectual that can be devised. Wu hope they will succeed in obtaining those rights to which they are so justly entitled. There are several valuable arti cles in the present number of the Col "dal. Among them is the report of the Committee of the General Assembly of Newfoundland on the state of the fisheries of that colony—a document well worth the attention of all who consider the maintenance of a nursery for sea men can alone secure the continuance of our naval supremacy. " The Poor Man's Friend ; the best of friends, A friend when others fail; For he the starving poacher sends To banquet in a jail." Pine Apple Shot" is a quaintly-told story of Mr. and Mrs. Pratt, who, having a pinery, flattered themselves that they possessed a mark of aristocratic distinction, which never could become vulgar. But, alas ! Inter course and enterprise have made another onslaught into the stronghold of the exclusives of the earth. New Pro vidence pines are sold in the street of London at one penny a slice, and Mrs. Pratt, muttering the words "French Revolution," dies of cheap pine-apples. The account of the " Colony of Mettray. near Tours, for the Reformation of Young Criminals,'' is a very valuable contribution. It is entitled " The Child and the Cri minal." In the article " Serving the Country," the true meaning of that much abused phrase is properly laid down, and confined within just limits, As the writer truly observes, it is " a gross injustice to describe the men who serve and fight in any cause for a stated hire as serving their country." Coventry Patmore con tributes a fanciful poem, entitled " Young "and Ohl England," and Juniper Hedgehog, Prince of Cabmen, indicts a letter to Sir J. Tyrrell, on an eulogy passed by him on the Duke of Welington at Conservative Mellon True-blue dinner, at which the Baronet quoted the words of some one who said the Duke was the greatest man who had appeared since the time of our Saviour, adding, if that language is too strong to apply to him as a man, his claims on the country o iuld 11 , 4 be overrated." Most severely, yet most justly is the utterer of this blas phemous trash rebuked by the indignant cabman, who if he lashes his horse as he does his Bart. must stand in some danger from the officers cf the Animal's Friend Society. Of the remaining articles in this Num ber we would commend to the especial attention of our brother litterateurs, the article on " The Position of Men of Letters," It is a paper, by the study of which we may all profit, The FARMERS' MAGAZINE. rot. XXIII. No. 111., uld Series. A Hereford ox, the property of John Hudson, Esq., of Castle Acre, Norfolk, supplies the subject of a capital engraving by way of frontispiece to this very good num ber of a most able an useful periodical. An Essay on Trees, by a Practical Farmer, illustrated by three en gravings, will well repay the trouble of a perusal. There is an infinite varkty of matter in this numbers bill of fare--a capital dish of " Joint stock Banks," and a " stout" contribution on " Ale and. Beer." The number of papers is so great, and they range over such a mass of subjects, that we are too puzzlef by over-abundance of cho ce to select any as more worthy than others of beirig extracted. We must add, however, that this magazine is out of all comparison the cheapest " two shillings'" worth that we know of. RELATIVE CLOSING PRICES OF RAILWAY SHARES tai fi PRINCIPAL ..igNia,..TciwNs IN ENGLANI), • SCOTLAND, AND' liIELANp. 'AIMS or RAILWA.YII. d g .71 i ,.: ~~ ,: ;~~ Y 1 4I F. .2 i 3 x a 1 4 *V . 1 8 1,. I I. Aberdeen • • • • • • Airdrie and Coatbridge • • -- Artird3tl 4 . etr! Foetal* .• .• Ditto Half Shares .: Armagh,Colr.,& Portrush I% 2% Bandon and Bautry .• •• • —1% Belfast and Ballymena .• —7% Belfast and County Down —4% Brk !dui UHL 85 hes.eTtio. 14% 16% +4I ail .rmingham and Glcistef I Do. New• (iss. at 7 % dis.) Az, /4 0 . 64i _ - I 1% 7% - Ditto Half Shares •• • • Blnninghru & Oxfid.Junc. 6 lilekburn i and Preston.. IllekNutt, Vdr*n o k Bolts —10 U Bolton, Wilms, & tlifetpl. 33% ab Boston, Stamfrd and Blend 13a9e4 496 d Brighton, Lewes, & Asst. Bristol and Exeter ••• • • • 92 Ditto New...... Bristol and Gittacester • • Bristol and S. Wales ./tIIIC. ...- British and Irish Union — Calcion. and Ayrsh. June Caledon, & Dumbar. June. —I Caled nian .•••••• .. •• • • 12% 124 12% I% 1 - Ditto Extension •• • • ‘• Cambridge and" Lincoln•• Cheater and Birkenhead.. Ditto New Shares •• ••• Ditto Dail Alidres •• •• Chester and 11. lyhoad .• 21% 31 1 ,4 Cheltotham and Oxford.. 2 Chichester and Brighton.. Chitrnet Valley •••• • • •• Clitheroe JuriCtion ...... Clydesdale Junction •• • • - Cork, Blackrck & Passage Cork and Bandon .• ••. • • Cork Did Killarney .• • .• Cork and Waieffoll Cork and Youghal •• •• • • - Canterbury and Dover... -- Coventry and Leicester.. 3 3% a k Cellitta ) l •• •• •• •• • • 43 , . Wales, .01—Armagh, anq 2713—Co ventry, Nuneaton. &c., 3 1 .4—East i.F, , ,, , elr,shife, 7%—=Eitet. Coast, 25s.—Goole, DoncaAter, shettiell, Union, 4Rs.—Hull and Gainsborough, 15q. 6d. Leicester tfoAford, 3,-,--Leicester and Birmingham, 4!4 don and Ilifiulrtghltri Extension, 303.—London and York, 7N—Ditto( Bawtry Sere), Chester, Buxton, and Mat lock, 9 1 , —Newcastle, Durham, and LitricPshire, 514—Not niryfrei Erewash, 31. 103.—Nottingliat3 :aid Boston, 50s.—Nottiiiglfen and Mansfield, 36s.—North Westsrn, 6%—North Stafford'ililrei 71. 23.—Rugby, 3—Rugby and Huntingdon, 55s —South Midland ; 7, Sheffield and Lin colnshire Junction, 73i —Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, Dud ley, ilk., S---Shrewsbury and Trent. Union,s—'Tan and Dove Valley, 3—Wakefield and Bradford, s%—West Yorkshire, 18%—York and Carlisle, s'y—Yorkshire and Glasgow Union / 31A. 4 - s u i 4% 4% - 6$ 5% 5% 103 - - 9 - I - Derby and Croft ..... . Direct Lon. and Mancligif Diss, Beccles, & Yarinoth 2 Direct Northern •••• • • • • 3 3% 3% Direct Norwich .• •••• • • • Dubrn and Ile June. 9 9 1 ,‘ Dublin, Belfast, & Cf.dri.e 5 I 5% -. 4 1 Dublin and Drogheda.• . Dublin and Galway . Dundalk and Enniskillen I Dundee and Arbroath . • • I 6%- I - Ditto New Dundee and Fer.h • •- • • Durham' and Sunderland East Lancashire (No. I) 22% 24 Ditto (No. 2) .. ••• •• II M 12 Eastern Cotiritlea • • 20% 20% 22 Do. New. .•• •• •••••• •‘ 7}ip - Do. Perp. spr Ct., No 1 1 . do. N 0.2 21 East Dereham &Norwich 1 Eagt Cain": 31 Oitto Exton!Ott •• Ednibgh, Was., and Duni. Edinburgh and Glaigew.. 90 Do. Quarter Shares •• • 21% Do. New Quarter Shama 14% Ec#fit hi Ltith, and Grant. n -- Do. Pref. b per Cent.. Edinburgh and Northern Edinburgh and Peebles • • Edinburgh and Perth•• • • Ely and Huntingdon •• Ennigkiqen and Sligo • . • • 4% - - I - Exeter, Yeovil, at firetnnr Fltwoud, Prstn, &W. Rid. Garnkirk and Glasgow • • Glasgow and Ayr Do. Quarter Shares •• • • GlasgoW Mid Greenock — Ditto New. • • •• • Ditto Preference • •• • (llasgw, Dmfries, and Car. Olsgw, Kilmarnck, & Ard. GlaAgoW end Belfast Uu. Goole and DOiletteter .. • • Grand Junction .•••• .• • • Ditto Half Shares •• . • Ditto Quarter Shares • • Ditto New Quarters • • Ditto Eighths Grand Union ... • . is • • 3% 3% 3% Great Eastern & Western % 3 Gt Grimsby & Dk Extens. 8 Ctt Ctilmslty and Sheffield 19% 18 Gt Sthfii St Went (hind) 261! -- Ditto Extensioft •.•• • • • 127 Great Munster • • • • • • ••-• Gt Northern of Scotland 3% Oft Northern of England 222 Do. NOW 401, Shares • • Do. New 301. SUMS ‘• • 14 Great We5tern .. ........ 117 Ditto Half Shares •• • • Ditto Fifths Fotellin, & Porto. Harwich . • t• ;$ .•• Hudraid&Man.n.stetttil 18%1 19% Huddersfield and Sheffield 17 Hull and Gainsborough • • said Selby ••••• • • • • . 102% MHO Oaatter Shares • • Ditto mit - Bltefed •• •• 23% Inverness and Elgiti "•• Isle of Jersey • . Kendal and Windermere Kingstown itn4 Bray .... Killarney JUitetiolla ~• Lamistd rind Carlisle Lancaster and Pfektiii • • Leedi and Bradford •• • • __=• Ditto Extension Leeds and Dewsbury• •• • Leeds ant Thirsk •.•• - • • • 21 20U Leeds &W. Biding Juno. 18% 1834 Leicester IC Bifirlingliam 3 p 334 3is Leicester and i)eufdfd • • 1% p 4% Limerick and Wait/111rd O% Limrck, Ennis, & Kil. Jnc. Lincoln, York, and Leeds LIT. Man. &OtN. of Eng. etil )01 And MatiChester Di ttcl Half Shared •• • Ditto Quartet Hihirei• , Liver pl, Or mskrk, & Prstft •-= '-ondon and Birmingham 224 I Ditto Thirds • • . • • . • • • • ----6 1 44% 3 %1 A - 1 - 774 1 1%1: - 6 11640 • Ditto Quarters •• •• •• 29 -- London and itliOckwall ~ 10% Los.&slanAltemingidn'si 1. 4 , 4% L on don and Isrighton. ' /I 4 -= ...... Ditto Congolid. Eighths ' _r. London and Croydon •• • • 27 Ditte New , •••• • • • • 15i p Do. Gliataid: 5 per Cnt. London and GreenWitit •:..• Do. Pref. or Privilege • • -----', London and South Westru 78% ..-, Do. New Cons. Eighths Do: New, 501 Shares . • 15% Do. .NO./1 40th Shares.. 12 • London and York . • ... .. 7 7 % 7% Ditto (ilawtry) .•• • • ...w London and Windsor •• • • 1 --'. 2% Ltindil, Salsbury, & Yeovl 3% . Londondefi - Y SD Coleraine 4 % Londonderry& EntilSllon Lynn and Ely . • ••• • • • 8 Lynn and Dereham .• •• • 4% --. 5% Manchester and Leeds • • 217% Ditto Half Shares • • 104 Ditto Quarter Shares • • 30 Ditto Sixteentili .. 14% M anchstr and Birkenhead —2% Manchester &Birminghm 73% 14 19% Ditto Quarter Shares 13% 12% Ditto New Quarters . • 11% 11% 11% Du: Con. ii Welsh June. —3% 4 Manchestr, Boltn, kiiiiil -- Mnchstr, Buxtn, & Matlk $ p 1,0 9% Man. Shef. and Mid. June. .... Manchestr & Southamptn —5% Midiaiid.. .• ...... •• • • 174% 175% Ditto Fifths ••••.: :: .• Ditto New Do. Con. Birm. & Derby 134% 134 -= Midind Gt Westrn (Irish) Do. Extension to Sligo Newest' & DatingtnJunc. 57% ik Do . New (Bratmllhlg)• • 49 - Newcastle and fiefiiielti: Ig 29 Newcastle and Carlisle.. ~,... ----- --. Nwcstle, Durham, & Lan. 5% --. ili34 Newport &'Abergasenny Newry and Enniskillen• • 3% Newark and Shettleld .• • • North British Ditto New Shares 4, 9% Northern aid Eastern l, Do. Scrip Hs& at 5 dis - Do. Quarter Shares • North DCTOU . • • • • • • • • • North Kent •• - • • •• • • • North Staffordsbiris •• • North Eastern • • . . North Union (A) • • • • • • • Ditto (B)• • • • • • • NOrth Wales Mineral• • • b 634 —3% 200 200 Ditto New Shares • • • North Western ..... . • North Wales .• •••• • • . Norwich and Brandon • YORK, Sr.E.r 1. STOCK ExcnA:g'W",--The sales are—Eastern L ttion Exten • sion, 3A—Great North otEngland, New, 33—Newcastle and Darlington Junction, New (Nrandling), 4114—York and North I‘lldlmid Extension, 25%—Clithcroe Junction, 5% —Grand Union, 44—Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction, Quarter Shares, s%—Leicester and Bedford, 434—Lon don and York, 7 5 44—Newcastle and Berwick, 274—North Staffordshire, 74—North Western, 64 —Rugby, 27.4 — Sheffield and Lincolnshire, B%—South Midland, 9—Welsh Midland, 54—West Riding Junction, 19—York and Car lisle, 6. 641 234 3% 81s6d 4%, 3y4 44 —3% 3 )4 5 34 64 10 10 % 10)4 24 its I -- 3 I- - I - 3 I 35s - 126• pi - 455 pi -- 15u6di -- 25% 11% 18% Ms p 68s p su 1 -- 4% - 1 4 !2 - 756p1 - - 4%1 - - 10341 -- _„ -26%1 I-- - 1 314 -~~ ~ i 5 ow I - 1136161 - • I Ditto New.... • • • • • • • Not., Bel"oir, & Granthsn Nottingham and Roston • • Nott., Er wsh. Val.& Man. Nottingham 16 slansfleld Oxford and Binning. June Oxtbrd and Worcester • • Oxford and Cambridge • • Perth and Inverness • • • • Portsmouth Direct • • • • • • 6% Preston and Wyre ••• • • • 42% Ditto half Shares •• • • Do. Pref. 5 per Ct. Guar Do. Pref. 5 per Ct. & dlr. Preston & Wyre Extens. Richmond &W. End June 124 Rugby, Worcestr, & Tring 2% 2% 2% Scottish Central ••..• • • • 7 -- Scottish Midland •••• • • • • Sheffield and Manchester 141% Ditto Quarter Shares.. 18% 184 Ditto ditto (No. 2)•• 16 Ditto ditto (No. 3) - —8% 8% Sheffield and Lincoln.. • • 334 7% Shell - 101d and Rotherham Shrervsbry & Grand June. 8 Shrewsh., Wor., & Crewe 5% 5% .98s9d Shrws.,Wolv.,liudl, &Mr 8 7%1 9% iihrwsbry & Trot Val. Un. 3% 4%1 5% Slims, Ilerefd,& N. Wales 5 4% slaniamian . • • • • • • • • • • • • South Devon . South Midland 7t —8% South Eastern and Dover 48 49% 481% Do. New (iss. 321.) No. k 22t,( 23 ~'• Do. (i 55.331.• 5.8 d.)., 2 15% 17%1 16x, Do. (iss. 301.) „3 81tj liti, 9% Staines and Richmond .• • 4 1 St a ff o rdshire &Shropshire -- 3 Stirling and Dunfermlile South Wales • • • • • • • • • • • • Teats and Dove Valley • • (rent Valky .• •.• • • ..... 19 - Do. noel I iolyheadJurte. 3% - Vale of Neath • • •• • .• - West London, Old Shares - West Elul Sc. Sothrn Coon. - Wexford wit' Carlow •• • • - Warwick atifl Cheltenham 27. - Waterford and Kilkenny - IVatrtd,Wxfd•Wick& Dub 24 2'\l Wakefield And Bradford.. Waittld, Ponteirct, & Goal Wakefield and Harrogate Warwick and London . • • west Lancashire • • • • • • • • Worcester and Tring • - • • Whits:haven and Furntsss 1)0. New Half lihrtre• • • - Welsh Midland , ssi 4% 4% WeCornwa ••••• • • • • • 3 % A. ll — , West Yorkshire •••• • • • • 19% 144 Wilsontwn, M.& Coltness -- Wilts, Somrst, & Weyrath Yarmouth and Norwich • • Ditto New .•••• • • - • • York and Carlisle .••• • • • 51i York and North Midland 108 Ditto Half Shares •• • • -' Ditto Scarbro' Branch 54 .--.- Ditto Selby ••.••• • • • • 76% Ditto Extension ;YorkslllV. & Glirsgovr Ctn. I ou 1 - 343 p - -4% - 7%1 .- s%' 5 %, 7 1a 914 6 - 2 20 SHEFFIELD, Sixr. 1. STOCK EXCHANGE.— The sales are—Proston and Wyre Extension, 474—Derby and Crewe, s—East Lincolnshire; M. 6s. 6d.—Goole and Doncaster, 5--Grimsby and Sheffield, 2114j—Ditto, Quarter Shares, 4;y—Grimsby Railway and Dock Extension, 9 1 , , —London and Windsor, 42s.—London and York, 734 —Nottingham, Erewash, and Ambergate, 5 1 ,4—North Western, 5 —Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 7 1-6 —Welsh Midland, 54.( 3 —10rk and Carlisle, 5. HUDDERSFIELD, SEPT. 1. STOCK EXCHAN . OZ.—The sales are—Nottingham and Boston, 40s —Shrewsbury, Hereford, and North Wales, 5 1 .4 — Cambridge and Lincoln, 4 1 / 2 —Essex and Suffolk, 1 Is. fid.— Grand Union, 3:!,,i —Huddersfield and Manchester, 21—Hud derstield and Sheffield Junction, 20 c. n.—Leeds and Thirsk, 22—Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 73.'i —Rugby, Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 7%. EXETER, Sas-r. 1. STOCK Excitalicii..—The sales are—Exeter and Cre diton, 10—Exeter, Yeovil. and Dorchester, Si prem.—North Devon, 2 1 4—Aberdeen, 3 3 4—Eastern Counties, 20N —South Wales, D:4. - I 21,1 - 5 4 9% 6j 634 -2% -2% - ,%1 - ; , 4 Is% 41 - - - - HULL, SErr. 1. Sroc Excswrox.—The sales are—Hull and Selby, Half Slisreft, 11—Fort'i Braisit, 5100, gd.—Forttl DOUGLAS JERROLD'S SHILLING MAGAZINE. We have but one chapter St. Giles and St. James in the present number. St. Giles, attired in decent livery, arrives in London to attend ou young St. James, who has engaged him as a groom. On his way to St. Jars .s's square, he passes the Old Bsiley, and sees fifteen human beings hanging in frunt of Newgate. The author thus proceeds:— " Reader, pause a moment. Drop not the book with sudden indignation at the writer who, to make the ingredients of his story thick and slab,' invents this horror. No ;he but copies from the chronicles of the Old Bailey. Turn to them, incre dulous reader, acd you will find that on the balmy morning of the twenty-third of June, in the year of our offended Lord, one thowand seven hundred and eighty- four, fifteen human beings were hanged in front of Newgate : death- offerings to the laws and virtues of merry England. It was the first day, too, of the new drop ; and the novel engine must be greeted with a gallant number. Fame has her laurels : why should not Justice have her ropes? There was, too, a pleasantry—the devil, if he joke at all, must joke after some such fashion—in trying the sub stance and capacity of a new gallows, by so much weight of human flesh convulsed in the death struggle. And so—great was the legislative wit l there were fifteen to be strangled. A great example this to an erring, law-breaking world of—the strength of timber " The Lords of the Privy Council had met, with good King George the Third at their head, to correct the vices of the land. There was death for the burglar—death for the footpad —death for the sheep-stealer—death, death, death for a hundred different sinners. The hangman was the:social physician, and was thought to cure all peccant ills. Horrible, ghastly quack! And yet the King's Majesty believed in the hideous mounte bank, and every week, by .his Lords of the Council —the wise of St. James's—the Magii of the kingdom—the starred and gartered philosophers and philanthropists— every week did sacred royalty call upon Jack Ketch to cure his soul-sick children ! Yea; it was with the hangman's fingers, that the father of his people touched the people's ill. And if, in snoth, the malady vas not allayed, it was for no lack of paternal tending, litce we find in the Old THE SPO R 771% G RE VIEW The illustrations of the present number are, a portrait of " Iteraction," the winner of tl,e Oaks, engraved h) Ilucker, from a portrait by A. Cooper, and a boat iftil little picture (engray. d by Scott, from a paint ing by J. Haceman), entitled, " The Fruits of the First." The stifij ict being the looking over the game-bags after a day's partridge shooting. From the letter•press illustrating the picture we extract the following sensible advice to sportsmen t—. "There isn't a pleasanter Month in the whole year than Sep tember, and there hit' a pleasanter sport in the whole month— perhaps it would be but justice to add year again—than par• tridge shcoting. But then a man must have the proper spirit to appreciate it, and the proper tact in practising it. What a pity that such a nice, social, round-the-farm sort of amusement should ever become the outrageously magnified toil and trouble some peopl- are so fond of making it. What really reasonable reason can be given for a man knocking himself up at half-past four A.m., to knock down partridges on his own home in England, because such a virtue is necessary for the snipe shooting in the swamps of the Indies? Or why, forsooth, should the man who does not disdain the aid of Jasper or Juno to find his game, refuse that of Gimcrack or Jim Styles to carry it ?" THE BALLOON, or AEROSTATIC MAGAZINE,. In addition to the usual aerostatic intelligence of the month the present number gives a minute description of the waterproof car (constructed on the principle of a life boat), an ingenious invention of the editor (Mr. Wells), by tirleatiA of *high the aeronaut can with safety make a descent into the Acid. THE STUDENT ; Or, YOUNG MEN'S ADVOCATE. . This, the organ of the dsbistant drap-rs, who are engaged in the short-time agitation, still cdtaluties its career of usefulness. We congratulate the young men on the ability displayed by their advocate. The present is an excellent number. FANNY, the LITTLE MILLINER, la advanced, we see, through a tenth number, towards the goal of ultimate happiness which we trust awaits the interesting heroine. REVOLT OF THE CONVICTS AT ADEN. The following particulars of this occurrence, with which we have been furnished by our corresprtdent at Aden, may be relied upon as p-rfectly correct :—" On June 21st, whilst the convicts were at work about two miles outside the main or northern pAss, they surprised and dis awed their military guard, a niisting of a Havillar and twelve Sepoys of the 47th Regiment M. N. I It appears that at twelve o'clock noon the prisoners had, as was usual, left off work till one o'clock, at which time, it seems, the guard and the convicts were corn ple•eiy mixed together inn very tinteilitary manner : at a preconcerted si iial three or four prisoners seised each Sepoy and wrenched the musket from his hand, with which they ran seawards, and took posses sion of an Arab boat, which they tried to launch, evidently supposing that once afloat they could easily manage to gain the Arabian side of the. bay, distant abut a mile and a half. As many of the con victs had been fishermen in the Concert, this plan was perfectly feasible, and only f a iled from the tide being too low to float the boat. Being bold, resolute, despe rate villains, they instantly dashed in o the sea. fetterel as they were, with the intention of swimming to the opposite side of the bay; By this time the Sepoys had recover 'd from their confusion, and having also recovered their arms, opened a fire on them, by which two were shot dead, and five b a dly wounded. Many of the prisoners not being able to swim, and finding the water dfeper than they had evidently calculated on, came back and surrendered. A great many persevered, and thirteen eff cted their * escape—twelve wer e d rowne d, an d one was subse queutly found dead on the Arabian side ; thus making the total loss of life on this melancholy occasion fifteen. Of those who escaped, four were recaptured, and one was brought back by the Arabs. Seven are still at large, aad have found shelter in Fouthli country, the chief of which has written to the political agent to say that he will send them in prisoners. This he will not do. As the prisoners are Hindoos, they will doubtless prefer the Mahomedan religion to irons and hard work on the roads for life. After they have embraced the tenets of the Koran, no true Alussultnan can, according to the creed, give up the proselyte, One of the prisoners, whose arm was much shattered by a ball, has undergone amputatioe by the civil surg-ein. It has appeared on evidence that not one of the guard, thirteen in number, in charge of sixty-four desperate convicts, all of whom are condemned to hard go labouron t o rt w ed the th e road s, mslves to be surp r ised and e ither for murder or gang robbery with violence, h a d l oa ded muskets. That they completely disarmed without having been abl e to inflict the slightest injury on a single convict , will a pp ea r some what singular to our n .n-military reader s. There is e not a shadow of doubt but that the guard mixed in a very familiar, ,manner ‘pith the prisoners, contrary to all military pt inciples. It has been fully ascertained that the rising was previously planned and arranged, and that the unusual remissness of the guards en couraged them in their well organised plan to re volt. The prisoners were also aware that they had no danger to apprehend from unloaded muskets. They ssy that they had no intention to endeavour to escape previous to their being worked outside in a man ner which they were physically incapable of per forming in a climate so unusual to their former pl aces of imprisonment ; that the work was greater than their debilitated frames . could endure ; and that they rush' d on certain death rather than bear their present life of endless toil and unsupportable misery. A military court of inquiry has been assembled to inquire into the circumstances of the escape of the pri soners, and strange to say. it acquits the guard of ail blame. Government should not rest satisfied with this very singular decision, which the cir cumstances of th wti , c4 ca ni se ilit d „ i r t y n d o i t sci a p t tri a e l . l s T op he po n r , t ) . re-c T om he opinion of the court is emin ent ly calculated to act in _ command of th e guard oug h t to d a a v n e g r e y r ' i u t s i j 11 6 1 . . a io y us man with a general co urt mart i a l. Th ere the guard with un l oa d e d arms ? missioned officer in have been hr. iughe befere still remain two po:nta not dispos e d o f i ns sat i s f actory manner—why were and why did they permit them selves to be surprised and disarmed ?"—Boalb4Y Times, d il l y 13. OBJECTIONS TO VOTERS THR OUGH 'NIS POST ofFic E. —We understand that a great num b er o f o bj ect i ons to parties on the register of county voters, posted en the 25th inst., and on previous days. did not reach the overseers to whom they were addressed till Thurs.lay morning last, the 28th, though in due course of post all notices b ear i ng t h e M anc h es t er post-mark of the 24th, a , posted nn th at d ay, shou ld h ave b een delivered on 'he following day in ?Man c h ester an d t h e cont i guons townships. The clerks foued it altogether impracticable to sort for delivery on the '?sth the th ousan d s of not i ces o f o bj, c- o n the 22d, 23d, obj-c -tion which were posted and 24th inst., and hence the delay—one which neither the objecting parties nor the overseers could obviate. and for which none but the Post offi a department can be regarded as strictly answerable. — ,t cheater Guardian. FATAL ACCIDENT AT PUTNEY.—O n Saturtlay a melancholy accident occurted oa the river, near Putney bridge, by which a 4,1, shout fifteen years of age, namcd. Thomas Ilrown, an aol iren!iee to Mr. Stiles, captain of the Rainbow steamboat, lost his life. Some of the crew sliep on hoarel, and deceased was one of the number. After the boat had been moored on Saturday night, he proceeded on shore to buy provisions. He did not a gain make his appearance below, although the fact of his having returned to the boat was apparent, by the boat being found made fast on the follow ing morning. It is supposed that atter he had made the boat fast he returned to her s tern for his bundle, and that his head coming In contact with the steamer tilted hint over into the water. No cries for help were heard, The bundle was found at an early hour on Sunday morning, floating through the third lock of Battersea-bri d ge. His body has not yet been recovered. RAILWAY CELEBRATION.—The workmen of Messrs Stephenson and Co., t he eminent civil engineers, of Newcastle, celebrated the triumph of the locomotive over the atmospheric railway system, in the passing of the Newcastle and Berwick Railway Bill, yesterday (Friday), hy walking in procession through the principal streets of the town, and afterwards dining in sections at the different inns. The workmen, upwards of eight hundred in number, assembled in St. Nicholas's-square, and formed in vocesatoot-with - iwo bawds of- amiss •and several appropriate banners.—Setvcasre Journal. Nuts and filberts are very plentiful this season, particularly near Raeford, ROss, and C'aeritow..— Cambrian. DOLMAN'S MAGAZINE. This clever periodical maintaint, its career of improve ment. The present Number has sonic papers of peculiar ability and interest. " Pictorial Art in its Christian Development," is a Vasari-like piece of biography, but much disfigured by a species of pictorial puritanism which cannot away with the human loveliness of the type of Raffaelle's second manner, but is moved to ecstatic rapture by the tiny, though certainly 4-vated ex pression —the deep sentiment s not a little marred by the hard drawing of Perugino, the early master of the " divine U r bin o ," and the penultimate glory of the Umbrian school. The noble itreations of the Florentine school, the delicious *orltg of those master-hands whose labotirs Were consecrated to the titstN elegance, and munificence of Lorenzo de Medieis i are stigmatised as Pertaining to a school of " naturalism ;" and Raffaele himself—the great and good--4s mourned over as hay ing passed over ; liter painting his great picture of the " DispDispute of flit! Orly Sitdittlent, 4l to Paganism (i) forsooth, in which relapsed State he continued all the rest of his too short life, because—he never more returned to the hard style of the "Christian" art of Perugino. The writer of this paper may be a good Catholic, but he is a very bigoted critic. It is strange that even the chastened grace with which Raffaelle has developed his exquisite, his unapproachable perception of female beauty, cannot—in his second manner—pro tect him or his admirers from that preposterous charge of " naturalism," (i. e. materialism), which M. Rio and Rutnohr (or his lialianische Forschuagen) have brought into vogue, We have been sometimes at a loss to account for the sudden irruption of a species of vandalism, or heresy in art, thus directed against the prince of painters. 'rho almost contemporaneous origin of this twaddle, with the " sudden apparition" (as we somewhere, lately, saw it termed) of two score of German students at the Vatican, at the " Santa Marie del Popolo," and other old churches of Rome, who had discovered that the pictures of what the writer whose paper is Row before us calls the " Peruginesque style" were pervaded by a feeling of m re orthodox Catholicism than those pro duced by Raffaelle between 1510 and 1520 (in which latter year he died). The consequence was that they returned to Bavaria, to produce those clever—certainly—but stiff, hard, and mannered frescoes, which are the pAttern types of a school that an overweening but ill-info-med taste—directed by still more deficient sentiment and knowledge, is now attempt ing to introduce, under some such meretricious and un meaning appellation as that of "decorative art"—into the at , ia and slloons of our great public edifices. 01 " Darky D:iff, the Madman," a tale of South Munster, being rudely broken off at its "agony point" of interest, we have no means, as yet, of reporting any formed opinion, but it seems likely to turn out a clever sketch. " Anecdotes of the Bastille" are continued in this Num ber, and serve to renew the feeling of astonish. ment amounting almost to indignant conteiner— with which we have ever contemplated the marvel of a great and gallant nation like the France of the last two centuries, submitting, tamely, to the bru tality arid wantonness of an abuse of despotic power,— far, very far more disgustingly atrocious than any which was ever habitually. tolerated by the abject slaves of the Ottoman Sultans, or the but half-Tivilised serfs of the great Khans of Tartary. We allude, of course, to the lettres de-cachet, and the horrors perpetrated under their authority. In the continuation of the " Countess Clemence, ' by the editor, we recognise further evidence of those powers which we have before described as being generally exhibited in his former chapters. But the most interesting sub ject for extract will probably be the following notice of the " Iron Masque," in the note to which we need scarcely point to the iron-heartedness of the modern Bourbons' remarks on traditions that dye the bad memory of their wicked house so deeply as these. On the 18th of September, 1698, arrived at the Bastile, sl. de St. Mars, its newly-appointed governor, and with him, concealed in a closed litter, the my-terious prisoner known by the name of "Le Masque de Fer." In the fortresses of Pignerol, Exiles, and Les Isles Sainte Marguerite, he had already languished in captivity since the year 1671. He was always treated with the greatest distinction, and provided with everything he required or asked for. The Governor, and M. Rosarges, the Major of the Castle, alone had access to the prisoner, in whose presence they rarely presumed to sit down. He wore at all times a mask of black velvet, so se cured upon his face that he was unable to remove it, yet so con structed as to admit of his seeing, eating, and breathing with facility. He died, as it was reported, suddenly, on the 19th of November, 1743, after an indisposition of a few hours, was wrapped in a winding-sheet of new linen, and buried next day in the cemetery of St. Paul, under the name of Marchiali, in the presence of M. Rosarges and the Sergeant-surgeon of the Bastille. The funeral cost forty livrea. He had been a pri. loner at the Bastille five years and sixty-two-days. • Everything in the room which he had occupied was carefully destroyed, including bedstead, bed furniture, tables, chairs, and other utensils. Every silver or metal article used by the prisoner was melted down. The chamber he had tenanted was entirely renovated, its walls scraped and repainted, and doors and window frames burnt. On the burial registry of St. Paul's cemetery, his age is stated to have been forty- Ave years—an obvious and premeditated inaccuracy, as he was at least thirty years older. The precautions enforced in regard of " Le Masque de fer" during his captivity in the Bastile were all calculated to excite the public curiosity respecting him to the highest pitch. When he assisted at mass, he was expressly ordered neither to speak nor exhibit himself, and soldiers stood by him with loaded muskets to enforce obedience. He was accustomed to he indulged in every gratification consistent with the severity of close incarceration, particularly in his inordinate love of fine linen, lace, and rich plate. From the year 1671, until his death, 'le Masque de for t had never been removed from the custody and imthediate surveillance of St. Mars. His h story antttedently to 1871, when he must have been upwards of thirty years old, is a blank impenetrable mystery ! It is stated that the prisoner one day wrote his name on the back of a plate, which a servant, thinking thereby to pay his court to the governor, placed in his hands, and was rewarded fur his officiousness by the loss of his life. On another occasion, when confined at Pignerol, the mask had contrived to write some communication upon a shirt which a peasant found floating upon the water of the castle ditch, and brought to the go vernor. St. Mars rigidly questioned him, and was apparently not satisfied with the peasant's assurance that he could not read, for, two days after, the man was found dead in his bed. Le Masque de fer' lytguiled his hours of captivity with music, and was a proficient on the guitar. By the surgeon of the Bastille, who was occasionally called in to attend him, he was described as being a very well-made man, with a clear brown skin, and a soft plea*ine voice. It is alleged, that the day after the burial of • le Masque de fer,' the gravedigger was in duced, by a heavy bribe, to re-open the grave, for the purpose of examining the body, which was discovered to have been de prived of its head, in lien of which a large stone had heed substituted. Louis X V., during his minority had been very solicitous to know the secret of le Masque de fer ;' which, however, was only revealed to him by the Regent, Orleans, on the day he assumed the reins of government. The young king was observed to receive the important communication with • After all the theories broached and volumes written upon the question of " le Masque de fer," the subject remains as deeply involved in mystery as ever. He has been at times supposed to be the Duke of Beaufort, the Duke of Monmouth, the Superintendent Fouquet, the secretary of the Duke of Mantua, an elder or younger brother of Louis Xi V., or the Comte de Vermandois, a natural son of Louis XIV. by Mdlle. de la Valliere. None of these eonjectures, however plausibly handled, carry conviction. Every record tending to throw light up .in the identity of this remarkable captive, had been carefully suppressed. Louis XV. was heard to say, in refe rence to the conjectures rife respecting him, " Laisse-les dis puter, personne n'a encore dit la verite stir le Masque de fer." One day the Due de Choiseul pressed Louis XV. on the sub ject, but could obtain from him nothing mere, " Sinor. que de tout ce qu'on avast imprime jusque hi stir le Masque de fer, it n'y avait pas un mot de vrai ; et que de toutes les conjec tures qu'on avait faites la-ilessus, it n'y en avait pas une de vraie." Napoleon vainly endeavoured to ascertain the real history of le Masque de fer, and was known to have ex perienced bitter mortification at finding himself foiled in all his attempts to unriddle the mystery. Louis XVIII. being ques tioned on the subioct, drily replied, " crest nn aecret de ~~i ~. RAGE !levet Or ,oust}' hat e terl isted .nd °lv; le hill' r WAS Sl° )e(.l the JJ In t of v , fool°. maj ittl l puIT, .roue,ree hope' Igifig $lO 0 v hich 1 and ill V7 )l ' rice, 1/ !, r Tyr Willi° hick ie per; sicit A n ) per"' ;0 1 seer , ' r, 10°1 suPPI O O u 3 5 0 1;4 Id SOI/t1 —. IN ciati° o l Natily far ' gr ec a direct:i 'd Mr. isra 11? ; Abe. Wide 0 e riv e r C&' i 4 „, co, ' ible• 'Ord e : ri*" our)' er 11 0° r ic nog' ERs 6 0 5 ;* rieS ; IS 941-- WO to het , ' ea him ot ,yer ,ogre 6 a h e° , th `' l3 : .ro too Itio llY 110 v/ the ra tio P; )121Wc - m i l -- -2% l - 70s6d :4564 74d 12%- IS 12 - -6746 d -- -4% - 61;1: - .. . 1 3% -- I RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE._ --- GREAT EASTERN AND WESTERN RAILWAY. WORCESTEIt, MONDAY EVENING.—An important meeting, in connexion with the above undertaking, has been held at the Guildhall in this city to-day, the chair being taken by Alderman' G. Allies. It sheuld be ex, plained that when this line of railway was first pro jected it was intended, by taking Birmingham as the. manufacturing capital, as well as the centre of England, to make a direct communicati , (n between it and Swansea on the west, and Yarmouth on the east, thereby con necting the Irish Sea and Brist 1 Channel with the German Ocean, embracing a population of three millions. This gigantic project has now b&en c , .ns , derably modified, t ied in place of proceeding northwards from Worce•te,, rid Stourbridge and Birining,Laun, to Leicester ant thence to Norwich and Great Yarmouth, the line is now proposed to diverge from Worcester, through the I)roit w•ich salt works, by Redditeh, Henley-on-Arden, War wick, and Leamington, to Rugby, where it meets the Huntingdon line, and occuppying a course parallel with that originally proposed, passes by Ely and Thetford to Norwich and Great Yarmouth. The line of new rail way to be constructed, therefore. stops at Rugby. From Worcester the line passes through the important agri cultural district of Worcestershire and Herefordshire, to the immense ironworks of South Wales, embracing Crickhowell, Abergavenny, Nantyglo, Tredegar, Ithym ney, Dowlais, Merthyr Tydvil, Cyfaxtha, Irwan, Neath, and Swansea, branch lines extending to Pontypool and Newport. It is to be constructed upon the broad gauge —the gauge of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhamp ton line of railway just commenced, and which it meets at Worcester. At the meeting this afternoon the above notifica tion was fully explained by Mr. Ward, M.P., the Chair man of the Great Eastern and Western Company, who was accompanied by other members of the Provisional Committee, their engineer, and other officers. The Hon. Member observed that the great difficulty which the Company had bad to fight against was the mountainous character of the country surrounding the most important portion of the proposed line, viz., the South Wales iron fields, and upon this part of the subject the opinion of the chief engineer, Mr. Gravatt, was perfectly satisfac tory. After stating that nothing but a too confident reliance in the mere judgment of the eye, unsupported by any actual admeasurement, and without any regard to the improved state of railway science, could have pre vented this railway being brought forward long ago, that gentleman goes on to state that even on this, the most 'difficult part of the line, they had, at a fair cost, obtained inclinations and curves as much as 50 per cent. easier than those on some other lines in the kingdom now car rying on an immense traffic in both heavy goods and passengers, with great advantage to the public and great profit to themselves. J. WHEELER LEA, Esq., the Chairman of the Com mission for the improvem..nt of the navigation of the Severn, aIA) pointed out tke advantages offered by this important line of railway, and especially the peculiar advantages to be derived to the trade and commerce of the city of Worcester. On the motion of Mr. BENNET, seconded by J. M. GUTCII, Esq., banker, an unanimous vote of thanks was passed to Mr. Ward, and the gentleme❑ who accom panied him, for their atten farce here to-day, and the satisfactory explanation made to the meeting. Mr. WARD, having acknowledged the compliment in a few brief remarks, moved a vote of thanks to the chairman. Alderman ALLIES, in his reply to this vote, observed that he had entertained doubts about the feasibility of this project, on account of the engineering difficulties which it presented, but these were entirely remov2d. The meeting then bra ke up. CALEDONIAN RAILWAY. The first general meeting of the Caledonian Railway Company was held on Friday at the Royal Edin burgh, J. Hope Johnstone, E q., Af.P., in the chair. The Board of Directors, fifteen in number, were all continued; the remunerati‘m of the Board fixed at 1,000 guineas per annum; David Lindesay, Esq., Account4nt, Edin burgh, and IL Brock, licq. Manager of the Clydendair Bank, Glasg - w, were appointed auditors,. and the meet ing separatrd. FASHIONS FOR SEPTEMBER. Coutil is much used fur dresses intended for country wear ; those with green or blue stripes on an ecru ,round are embroidered with very narrow braid, and are often made with corsag, s n basques, with pock. ts. gobet peignoirs, in toiles de Chine, Bros de Naples striped lengthways, or foulards in horizontal stripes, are also fashionable. Narrow fringes are in great request, and made in every variety, as is also the dentelle de Grenade, which forms a pretty contrast ou satins and watered silks ; gimps I jour are much used on shot silks. Some autumnal dresses are trimmed with four rows of fringe or gradual widths. - Toilettes entirely of black have been fashionable last month in Paris for visiting dresses ; they are much re• keyed by the quantity of lace used on them, such as four rorP of narrow lace en tablier ; large lace slee ves, and lace scarf, and black lace bonnet, ornamented with a coloured flower, also five and six flounces of black lace and oannezous, with sleeves of black lace, are worn ; some redingotes are made this season with the pointed backs la grand' me.-e. The prAtiest form of corsage for tarlatanne, and materials of clear transparent tex ture is that a la vierge ; the fullness confined round the top in a band, with square shoulder- strap ; this style revives the narrow ceinture, with small buckle. Slight taffetas, in all light colours, are worn for even ing dress, with trimmings of flounces, cut in deep fes toons, and edged with narrow fringe, or a narrow blonde neige; the corsage pointed with berthe of the same; sometimes on these large berthes, narrow hies is laid, but they are usually plain. Pretty travelling cloaks are made of grey levantine, lined with flannel or merino, checked in dark blue, green, or red. Scarfs with hoods are also worn. Bonnets i la Suisse, chevriere, or gla neuse, accompany all toilettes de campagne, ornamented with field flowers; they are sometimes lined with co loured silk, and trimmed with silk velvet. For pailles de riz, Leghorns, &c., plumes of small feathers are very fashionable; sautes marai,:;ats, pink and black, are used on black lace bonnets,—London a:id Paris Magazine of Fashion. FOREIGN CATTLE AND PROVISIONS.—The importa tion of cattle, &c., from Holland last week has met with more success than was the case in the instance of the last voyage of the Batavier from Rotterdam, of which' we gave an ac count; the passage this time having been made without the least detention on account of squally weather at sea, and the cattle having been safely landed in very excellent con dition. The Batavier steam-ship, from the port of Rotter dam, arrived at the St. Katharine Steam-wharf on Wednes day evening, with her usually extensive cargo, consisting of 66 4.xen and cows and 53 sheep, which were of superior quality and in excellent condition, and were, after the usual inspection, landed and delivered immediately; a quantity of yeast, poultry, melons, 1,977 baskets of fruit of various de scriptions, besides a variety of every description of Dutch produce and manufacture usually imported into this country from that place. 'I he General Steam Navigation Com pany's vessel Columbine, which reported on Friday frets the same place, brought 24 calves and 46 sheep, which were landed at and delivered from the Brunswick-wharf , Black wall, with 3r39 baskets of plums, pears, and other descriptions of fruit, 25 baskets of peas, 2E4 barrels of yeast, 9 . , quantity of cheese, and other produce. The sa me company s from Havre, al=o brought 255 baskets o various escrip- The Count , ss of Loos tions of fruit, of very fine quality. dale, from Hamburr4h, on the same day, brought 25 shecp, some oxen, 241 packages of plum., 12 baskets of other de scriptions of fruit, besides a variety of other produce ; and the Caledonia , on the same day, from the same 'lace, brought besides a variety of other articles, upwar , 'S of 2110 paci,so r , s of plums, &c. The whole of the fruit btought by these vessels waslanded at the St Ka t harintss Wharf, whe re th e revenu e offi ce rs stayed each evening after th e o ffi c i a l hours of bu.iness, and at which every facility was given for it s immediate inspection and delivery with all possibl e d is p a t c h. The i mportation of plum, in „articular, and fruit generally, has been very extensive for the last fortnight or three weeks, and it has, generally speaking, arrived n first-rate condition and been found to be of a very superior quality. PROTECTION TO MERCII &NT i S Y E . NMEN • I portion of the Act of last session,. to protect Merchant sea men from impositions, cam 41 into operation. Henceforth no persons are to obtain situations for seamen unless they have a license from the Board of Trade. ACCIDENT AT TIIE RED 110 USE PIER.—On Sunday evening, about half-past seven o'clock, a' hawker of ginger• bread who was returning to town from Battersea-M..14 by one of the twopenny boats, was pushed or fell off the Red House Pier, whi.. , h was at the time excessively crowded. He wastaken out of the water apparently dead and conveyed by the police to the Red House. Hot blankets vrer provided and friction was resorted to by the police constables, and after.twenty minutes of incessant rubbing the man showed signs of life. Dr. Statham aftorwarCs attended hire, and bad hirn pot to bed. Yesterday morning he Nvas quite recovered, VAL INTELLIGE CE TFIE ElTlttimrxT•i. :::•:AIUADROI4.—The Alban steam-tee sel, Lieut.-Commander Lowe; has arrived at Devouport front the experimental squadron, to ships forming vrhleh she conveyed seamen and boys, left behind 6:7 the fleet sailing from Sphead. By her we learn that the fleet ir.:f l Brad no trying weather ; at all the trials, which had taken place in light and baling wintls, the Queen, 110, three decker, eons mended by Captain Sir Baldwin Walker, of the Surveyor of the Navy's con , 4ruction, had the advantage of all the other., but it was very slight ; the Albion, 90, Captain Loekyer, C. 8., another of the Surveyor's ships, was second on some points ; but the Rodney, 92, Captain Col lier, C. 8., constructed by Sir R. Seppings, Was second on other points of sailing ' • the Canopus, B', Captain Moresby, C. 8., the old French line of battle ship, built in 1794, was fourth ; the St. Vincent, 120, Captain Rowley, the flag ship of the commander in chief, Rear-Admiral Hyde Parker, C. 8., built in 1816, and the first in the cape& rimental cruise last year, was fifth ; the Trafalgar, 190, Captain Martin, built in 1941, by Mr. Lang, of Woolwich Dock-yard, on the lines of the St. Vincent, was sixth ; the Superb, 80, Captain Corry, the newest ship of the squadron, built by the Surveyor, was seventh ; and the Vanguard, 80, Captain Willes, sister ship to the Superb, and ctlled the " crack ship" of the Mediterranean in 1838 and 1839, although lighter than any of others, was last. They were to go in to Cork, and then proceed on another six weeks' cruise, to try their rate of sailing on a lighter draught of water. The Queen and Albion have ranch larger sails and lesser armaments than the St. Vincent, Trafalgar, and Rodney. The Canopw, also, has a heavier armament than the Van guard and Superb. Commander Arthur Lowe, Acting Commander of the Ex cellent, and nephew to Sir Thomas Hastings, the late Captain of the Excell en t, b u t now Storekeeper of the Ordnance, has been appointed to the rank of Post Captain. Lieutenant Richard Moorman, of the Excellent, has been promoted to the rank of Commander, and Mr. Alfred Rose Lee, Mate of the Excellent, to the rank of Lieutenant. Mr. Frederick Marryat. late of the Cambrian, son of Cap tain Marryat, R. N., anti Mr. Charles Bromley, of the Driver, son of Admiral Bromley, have been promoted by Lerd Had dington to the rank of Lieutenant. . THE WEATHER, THE HARVEST, AND THE " ESCAPE." Uninterrupted sunshine has prevailed throughout the past week. Each day has been brilliant, hut there has been less heat than might have been anticipated at this time of the year, owing to the strength and coldness of the winds. The nights and mornings have been parti cularly cold, but this has been of less importance in consequence of the absence of all wet. Harvest is everywhere in full and uninterrupted progress, and the reports as to the crops are, perhaps, upon the whole, more satisfactory than might have been ex pected. There is sti I, however, a complaint of the quality of the grain in many quarters ; accounts seem generally to concur in the opinion that it will weigh light, and though several instances to the con trary have made their appearance at market, they are of course to be taken as no criterion of the character of the great bulk of the produce. The fine weather has had quite as beneficial an effect upon the commerce of the country as upon its grain crops. Speculation aga;n seems rife, and the geo-ral aspect of atnirs is buoyant. The fact is that England has just had " an escape," and every man is enjoying that flow of spirits which the reco&ction of dangT past, coupled with renewed hope and prospective success, is calculated to induce. But the present safety, it such it really be, ought not to make us forget h Av imminent was th.e danger to which we have been exposed, nor overlook the appalling fact, that it has left—as it found—us, without the slightest means of pre paration or protectiun should a similar calamity again menace. Brief as was the period during which the storm impended, its duration was sufficient to check the progress of commerce throughout the kingdom. Ask any banker, merchant, manufacturer, or trader, of any mark, and there is not one who will not at once admit that, during the first fortnight in August, independent of the painful sense of coming danger of which his own mind was conscious, he could distinctly trace a tremulous pause in the current of the country's commerce. To the eye of the careless observer the storm may have only appeared sufficient to ruffle the surface of the ocean; but those accustomed to look more deeply perceived in that agitation the turbulence of the entire body of the waters from shore to shore. Happily the storm has blown over. Ere, however, the recollection of the dread inspired by it shall have passed away, it may' be salutary to point out that our present safety affords no proof that such danger was one jot the less terrible, or that its re turn may fail to be attended with the same merciful results. • Unless Sir Robert Peel be possessed of nerves of iron and a c, nscience of adamant, his existence during the first fortnight in August must have been an ex cruciating one. Will he risk the recurrence of so fearful a responsiblity, or will he elect to brave the terrors of the " Agricultural mind," as displayed on the' back benches of the House of Commons 7—Susses- Ad-. vertiser. EXTENSIVE ROBISERIES.—On Saturday informa tion of the following extensive robberies was eircalatod throughout the metropolitan and city police divisions :—Frans the house of Dr. Halliday, 73, Oxford-terrace, Paddington, a large emerald and diamond cross, an emerald and diamond ornament for the neck, attached to two strings of large pearls, with a diamond clasp ; a gold centre crnament for the neck, set with emeralds, diamonds, and rubies, and attached to a gold neck chain ; a large gold Maltese cross, set on a brooch, with emeralds, diamonds, and rubies; a white enamelled brooch set with thirteen turquoises ; a hoop ring with five diamonds; a ditto with five emeralds ; two ditto with ice rubies each ; a ditto with five rubies ; a cluster ring set in diamonds; a cluster ring set in diamonds; a set of amythist ornaments, consisting of necklace, two brooches, pair of ear-rings, pair of bracelets, waist clasp, &e.; a gold snuff-box ; several silver bracelets, China silver ear-rings, and other valuable articles of jewellery, &c. ; and 4501. in Bank of England notes, amongst which are seven notes of 50/., two of '201., and three of 51., the numbers of which are known. A reward of 50/. is offered for the discovery of the thieves. Also from Orleans House, Twickenham, the residence of Lady Anne Alurray, a small oval miniature likeness of the Earl of Lucan, about one inch and three-quarters long, the name of " Santarilla" on the back, surrounded by sixteen diamonds, and had a small Venitian gold chain attached, value 1001. ; as opal brooch, an inch long, set with small diamonds, value 301. ; a ring set with a diamond, an opal, and a topas, value 251. ; a ring with a ruby in the centre, a large diamond on each side, and surrounded with small diamonds, value 45/. The whole of the articles have been abstracted from her Ladyship's jewel box. Total value 2051. TIIE ASCENT AND DESCENT OF THE NASSAU BAL LOON.—Ors Monday evening, at half-past six o'clock, Mr. C. Green made an ascent in the Nassau balloon from the. gar dens of Cremerne House, King's-road, Chelsea. which were open on this occasion for his benefit, in consequence of the lose be had sustained by the destruction of the Albion balloon. Mr. Green was accompanied by Colonel Charles, Mr. Granville Mansell, Mr. C. N. Kirkham, Dr. Henry, Mr. Moss, of Lea denhall-street ; Mr. Butler, of Farringdon-street ; Mr. W. Green, and two other gentlemen. The machine, on being re leased, rose in a very beautiful style, and upon reaching an al titude of about 400 feet it wt., carried in a sonth-west direc tion. About half-past eight o'clock information was brought by means of some express pigeons. whick were taken rip with) the aercnaut, that the balloon alighted in safety in the neigh bourhood of Epsom. The gardens were crowded. BATHERS, BEWARE OF SHARKS !—The Pembroke Herald says that ik shark, four feet long, was caught at Mar loes, in that county, which had been seen prowling about near a young lady whilst she was bathing, but she got oat of the water in time to escape. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE BETWEEN DRATTON AND lII' BRIDCZ.—Monday information was received in London that an extensive and destructive ire occurred on a large farm be tween D.ayton and Uxbridge, between one and two o'clock in the morning, destroying several hay-ricks, barns, stabling, and out-houses; the flames were observed for miles on the road, by passengers travelling on the high-road and ow the railways. A FRENcti MR. Quil,r.—A few evenings back, at Toulouse, the alley of Lafayette wits the scene of mush excite ment. A most extraordinary noise was heard proceeding from a house in which a show is kept for public exhibition. A crowd soon collected. The noise seemed to bo a compound of cries and blows ; on some persons entering the house they were seized with horror, they saw a man, in the highest state of ex citement, brandishing an enormous cudgel, and at his feet lay several human bodies, motionless and apparently dead. The police were immediately sent for. Fortunately the affair did not turn out to be so dreadful as it had at first seemed; the• bodies proved to be only wax figures. It appeared that the two men to whom the show belonged had had some misunderstand ing. and one of them had vented his rage by falling foul of the historical personages that constituted their joint property. Several kings, princes, and princesses of Europe were this sacrificed (in effigy) to the fury of this madman. A LUCKY DiscovEay.--On Monday morning, * young woman named Mary Howell, housemaid in the service of T. Gersell, Esq., of Gower-street, Bedford-square, discovered in a false bottom of an old teacaddv, which she had purchased for half-a-crown, 34 guineas of George 111., and 14 WOO shilling pieces, as well as five silver spoons. AN IMPUDENT TRICK.—OtI Monda y afternoon, fellow having the appearance of a coach-office porter, called upon Mrs. Halsewell, in Frith-street, Soho; and presenting a note, apparently from Mr. Halsewell, stating that he had just arrived from Margate, and, having had the r aisfertune to lose his purse, he desired her to send him a sovereign by the beaver to enable him to pay his expenses, for which he was detained. Mrs. Haslewell, expecting her husband home from Margate, gave the money to the fellow , who was scarcely gone when Mr. Haslewell arrived, and the cheat was discovered. DEsTftliclivE FIR.. AT M V .—Sliort , af:er one Ml iddlesex, l e broke sel, in ou t t he m oc r u e pat e i t on tb e so r yesterday morning a dre ß ad wi f: houses of Ol d Mr. W. F ord -lane , and glazier. The inhabitants were soon aroused, and a party of the K division of metropolitan police lo,t no time in procuring the pariah engine, whilst others were dispatched to town for more assistance. By two o'clock ntghi and c b r j i m g a p d a e n y s , t a a t r i r o i n v e , d w at i t t h h e t i s : c a e t n belonging u t e o tio t n h: 01 bWutt7t notw i t hitanding the most prompt measures were resorted to by all present, nothing could prevent the entire destruction of Mr. Ileole l s property , and the damage of four buildings ad joining. It is believed that some of the property consumed is insured. ESPER AT SUICIDE.—On Mon , l;:v morning, be tween twelve and one o'clock, a middle-ages man, named Fletcher, residing in John-street, Tottenham court-road, de stroyed himself by cutting his throat in his lied-room With a razor, which was foua lying by his side on the floor. 'lns; (;11.1 , ..5T rt,., tillecers W.? 0E64.. paled for the • Great Britain ‘Xlivn reporting her departure Mt her maiden ocean voyage has beet fully realised. She left the Mersey, as our readers will remember, on the afternoon of the 26th of July ; and we learn by recent atki,tes from New York that she arrived off that city at noon on the lOtii ultimo, after a run of somewhat less than fifteen days, during which she had to contend with contrari winds, ere,s seas, and dens., fogs, and set but little canvass. We congratulate the projectors of the Great Britain upon the triumphant manner in which she has vindicated ti , e sagacity which led them to adopt the then novel mode of construction and I , ropul•ion which she em bodies; and while, on the one hand, we think the Government and the town of Liverpool should support the men who have thus a sc cond time led the way to an important advance in steam communication with foreign countries, we cannot re frain from again repeating the hope we formerly expressed, that Captain Ilosken, the pioneer of the screw, will receive on his return to Liverpool some testimonial to his ine;•its.—Lieeeptscd Albion. SIMPLE MODE OF PURIFYING IV/amt.—lt is not so generally known as it ought to be, that pounded alum vows-. ses the property of purifying water. A table-spooiful of pulverised alum sprinkled into a hogshead of water (the water stirred at the time) will, after the lapse of a few hours, by rceipilr.ting to the bottom the impure particles, so purify at that it will be fund to possess nearly all the freshness and clear. ness of the finest spring water. A padfull, containing four gallons, may be purified by a single teaspocnful: 1