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Jttly 173 1849. Efttraturt. 13.1 rn6 , 8 'OO NOTICES. title ; Doctrinal and Practical. By the Rev. W. A. The 44 1 1 1 • A• Dublin : Hodges and Smith. lea s th - or of these eloquent and scriptural addresses Bity of Dub professor of moral philosophy in the Univer bY th e fn,h—cut off in the prime of life and usefulness w a . v _ s e,r yrl?ich, in 1847, desolated the sister country. lertit4) brilliant ornament of Irish literature and has °f his i eS e Pages an imperishable record of the vastness o f L. ritellectuai resources, and of the depth and fulness his Christi ' e rne an experience. Every line is pregnant with pine as it scriptural truth, expressed in . lanpi t age lecti la i _ it . s rarely our privilege to peruse—offering in el ls bcau`t.,Joyment and religious improvement. The work taiv er !I°llY printed by the publishers to the Dublin ta g and ought to be in the possession of every sin -4_,°llstian. The volume contains twenty-six . sermons et„i„ anion t o ilerltl Y u sef u l an extremely interesting memoir of th e . e life of the reverend author written by Chu! T . Woodward. From the discourse entitled isstru c`l'e ar Education Oin i Ireland" we take the following guments ti a ` ' New, r NATIONAL EDUCATION. 'le. object sought by all these projects of yish ot too ueation is union on terms of absolute equality. .It is 11 ,. ° Wed, fli T uc h l t to assume this, it is universally and explicitly . e .very same political governors who advocate a Irstin 'incational grant in England, insist that a combined trolti,„%required in Ireland where the differences are more a dist"' and ir reconcilable; and they do so on the plea that ehearteted country union becomes the sovereign principle veopposelunion on any terms and at any price. .To this the a s truth as the master idea of public instruction, and Pretn,„nincli union as • tible with the recognised su -I',nylis: of that truth ' in e veryschool. And on this issue is /I'Lateittnatrisginnent for union is sometimes dexterously inter ti is, it •"° very assertion of a national system of education ; is assumed that education, to be universal, must be thos,'„lbough, in point of fact, it is now well known that Clir.rpe'in°ntinental models to which our modern educators or" alto" all Y appealing, the principle of uniformity has been 6 . the pec;gether incompatible with the religious distinctions or lePti on t Ve- In this way the objection recurs.—the petulant of ail ,the advocates of a purely secular . ealightenme e t, i4lllglitenrnent whose appendix of religious doctrines o ';_ i gned at once byChristian, Mahomedap, and e H r In n dta a ~z4tta uunriu,nera/oldable diffretresattoo n s9tan ,ere o w r e e t v o have no a b n i Nt'Pe.achinrr t y l s which th e e ' n u a c tion ca . n combine? Is the di4 B jo ai tNn of peace and love to be evermore the source A nd firstgle dissension?' Here it is obviously necessary to trains of tho ug ht w hi c h are su b s t a ntially different. iVe 11 ) a word on the universality of national instruction. i s a glits. re for ever deceiving ourselves by words without t'aese ; 444 perhaps it might be truly said that the most for' itiel lt T n °r dsarew words m to i- which we attach little or no de the `e Of th e "g : For my own part I cannot acknowledge the tta, a jere no.Foarm whi c h, w ith suc h num b ers , encompasses 4,,,P 1 by i Patio of a common or n a tional ed uca t i on. I undez tfl,by illnal education,' education by and of the nation; oation an ideal aggregate whose sole reality is . in 4 '41 1 1 ."„'!als that comose it. Resolved, then, into its th at :""Oiects thisprinciple can amount only to the.ass.er b 18 right jai ,e well bro for the nation to provide that every indivi quaot very n o ght vi ta a vesery ltoget unquestionable idbut cer- her undeced the ae~aio'e to hic k ar e e ' to an get l erm e in v e the true character of the "e given. To educate the nation is not in itself tionajed ttslve r ' 4 blessing ; it may be the worst of evils in virtue bY Universality The clergy of the united Church are Eg i L n „eir ordinry slanderers as the opponents of Na lis'qt or -4 "on • but to pause—though we stood alone in the 01 e d it ' enthusiasm—when we hear this cry . of na -1 h 'alt to -c . a h l iell, and hear no more, it is not a proof . of ti,'," t oof o i'le sPread of knowledge, any more than it Irould be lo ra na th ey I , sh umanity in a board of medical commissioners, on 11 . ear of a gratuitous supply of food to the nation, ite r oa uri e 'r approval until they . bad examined . its a cT in al e i n y t . l itt la di re eed it not disguised poison . but genuine I stri,ase it „„, e l Proportion to the universality of the suppl ‘ y, just national' food would be the propriety ty p os their h t Pr eraat - its ' 141,;12.14,1,11,e__a,Poi:s°ties of National Education, in this and the 1 4; ie ett i , .ni f `.? r , mit s „ ua o l t ly e r u c c l a u t d io e n i . n their calculations a certain Th principle of union, tbe ° f differences the sacrifice of all petty disagree- ' ill s ; kid b e shrine shrine of science, is the idea which sheds its true k tu eld b e t eauty u „ pon their project. That an entire . country NO Of p„?., 40 1 - Med into one vast academy, with its thiou sta,l to ardently engaged in the pursuit of knowlec ge, 11lei 0 to rou g h the whole vast scene no rude vm . ce should be .;„ i'osturb the serenity with a breath of dissension, all the l l ever admitted admitted truths of science, and no other truths Tvei v nfered to interfere with that agreement,—this . is l k tj a ser n vi a,ion which fascinates so many, and to realize alOorsWten has been surrendered. But here again we are Tners of a name. Union in itself is no assured !• te ,i e That they value be all one,' . said Christ, lint it vi as 4131;4 obi The of the union depends on its basis eta,`" t essi, --- ` , - And for that union which is cemented by the to -a et all which makes the Gospel, that God Incarnate - Pubr •!sii, rise above the morality of enlightened hea q.ation,whi,:h casts aside all in which revelation is . in s de t e e d_a s tn_Datc.„_astid Pretends to clothe shivering souls in w h hie d h 4' t . i. of its moral sentences,—for t41 ) 0, in n that can really consolidate the union . of hearts and eo 4 r-tl, "Joer that children may read and write at the same . .."aion of the desk and the class-roll,—for this, I Neltein.;ave little value and little respect. But does such_a_ itaidon it even the nominal, and temporary, and super: INN Pro Poses ? If the parties be numerically unequ _I, 01,0tgedevItahly lost in ascendancy ? if they be equal . , in etg:ouro,nand bitter hostility If, without authori . zintiu ttahiteB decision you separate them from . their religious 4 (1 4 iyl;,,'° You no't deepen the distinction in the. ti v ‘a.o ti . re You profess to conciliate? if you combine them, r, r iise the distinction by erasing everything distnic ttie,olC'glen along with it ? If such a union could be Me aleal 4, 1 1 ch terms, would it be . justifiable? _What_ tn is s t e l? f eordterence between a conspiracy against (ed Hi th bssq tiPsation, such that the first . definite aowledge . ho t , earl s 'a truth must tend to break it ? Is it right to bind t all il kils of children together on such a principle as that the lii s a Ztee t b e shattered when they think of heaven ?—that they 810'`taii,' and love, and be one in spirit, as long as Christ and I lle ' i•ti ar e forgotten ; but that the, moment when that o f Qlbuld be the animating principle of our thoughts, tai this °lir life, is uppermost, the union vanishes? What whiapount to, but to make the forg' that ottkotliere:l Worketh by love' the only safeguard etfulness for o l ovi n g 14, me s c h • With, indeed, the whole spirit and management t - e apyp ° , °l perpetual assertion of divine truth, 7 the exclu -41;,"a of ZaeY of that truth everywhere recognised in . the tad Y ( asschool, in its master, in its forms , we may jus kr; N)eaL L 'le Society for which I speak proposes to do) allow . ettir, - ,"'age the dissident to enter and receive the pmethee ea„ l :ee 1 . ,„"„" God from our Church's hands, even though li no more; this is, as it were, a parallel system of tai`stlthn`° Meet the occasional difficulties, not . to supersede apeo. tY, of law, and is safe as truth as it is in safe i hands , tr)-b,"`r!), the tmendancy of and its recogntion, AleatiCi n a kce the lifeless residue a basis of Christian union, is ` e ssentially false, and narrow, and impracti cable, si h /I nt est. tV. l ' l eti:.° beyond this I will venture to go. I doubt the de- Niltr h tlai s i's of the , i sunion ere it ever so complete, co n u s n s e t r i y: ey 4 st r Ted as ours 'The peace of . God t th the unity of the Spirit in the bond of Grp' IN v e se are priceless blessings indeed; but . the peace o ~Dhif; l 4 t en be purchased too dearly. No sacrifioe seems to ° ‘sll in - thropists too costly for united education ev . en tel,4llo,„,',eould possess it, ought we earnestly to ask it 7 ~4 c ( l tioil y ,`" numerical inferiority of our people ; rye know the 4 ,1 'lia r , °f that dexterous and versatile faith which so aptly trdlite,-,,ates itself to every aspect and position of man. We iSi: °l .itow to be taught its spells to enchant, or its terrors N ad 4n,...,nd even were it in our power to insure a union to far Illth'ead y that is; or ever can be practicable, ought we be _ 't ad . l ada, v) eXpose our youthful charges to the influence f ‘atlio:Nents, backed by all that numbers, and examp e, ''tY, can bring to aid them?" e 00, °4i al Magazine. London : John Mortimer, -a wi th Beaufort-buildings, Strand. 4 . so r , e , e rit number of this valuable magazine opens • L e cY ,v,valuable abstract of the prize essay, by Mr. 4itioe--( uert's On Improvements for Growing , and Manu l„lee 7,4 1 ,' 1 11gar in the British Possessions,' to which gold medal was awarded by his Royal 4 t1 4 44, 4 ' at the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Zit tt ibi e ure s! and Commerce, last month. Amongst i,)eell,,,,tiadi:iliesdtilan,ganpa:aears is one on cotton-planting in Bra in T en ekuela • short account of the railways pro description of the infant settlement 8 p" tl ett -a l l ' in which the ignorance displayed by Mr. th;' l Po s ;14 his recent attack upon the Rajah of Sarawak, ef e t - h in a way which ought to bring a_blush to the e se lf - sufficient apostle of free-trade. to ~ iere r : ,b,e qf r England is Quarterly Review. London : %V 3 11 u W. E. Painter, Strand. more than usually full of matter inte leq Of the general reader, whilst it contains several lof bla, re at merit upon those subjects which it pro so Prominently to discuss, which, however, are I KOf th"Struse a character as to attract only the atten iCtioa th e ologian . One of the best of the latter de of 8 able review of a translation, recently pub (l,o4, a,4,WOrk by the Abbe Balmer, entitled " Protes tla,'Nie;,'u. C atholicity compared in their effects on the • k t *iif ~(4 Europe ;" and, amongst those of the former ljhich " e , read with great interest a sparkling review th e e „ w s Memoirs of the Life of Lord Nelson, in tl 4l - " I tot rer eor - .1 histo ry of the hero of the Nile and Lady h A t_ 1 i s . (1 4,,„'s ae, admirably epitomised. Another paper of this ehe'',,"rta,icrew of Eliot Warburton's Memoirs of Prince kt k letE, the Cavaliers, in which the reader will find the t rot,,i,eall: ;his chivalrous scion of a noble race most E4lB' SKetched. We have marked several extracts uarterly for insertion. VARIETIES. ip workpolplast ktp e :t B ALE,n The Ghost s Ba _ l)/41vertises f ikE TOIETY 0 4 0p. APp ol ___ Ep or sale "undivided iki gA i i.— half New of a n O e r g l r o e t a .n' he llora l)l 'in g to b e N T, ,to editor " dow_ i i a l a e e as a t a " d s a ay d s e t a h t a h h as l auie to present a mar- ~. p, vi , atter for his columns ; but a heavy thaw broke T144.4'44, and the doctor got sick, so the patient otlll4_BßV;;,,ifAlf,. erald states that the . Rev. Dr. M'Farlane, of rt„e‘r..da,,,t-i, livered a brilliant oration at Dunfermline, the r e ,,‘'`‘ip,...'" ,sut the reporter despatches it in four lines, re- Ttitt, The reporter ristenin t g o o , vercame the duty of jo s s p ee . aur pencil was idle .. . . • C " thi I Yed a letter yesterday containing sixpence, and i tf ri es s injunction inscribed over the address a . " .a T k o e of 4, 4 bpincis sorters—Don't steal this sixpence j a a 1 !v il Y 84,da,?v., as you did last week, and so deprive me 'fh,:el - tinei pa Ppr.''--- . Leed s Tiiris. , I,\ he e,i,idnBAire Times, speaking of an individual Ntth I ' l ll r iot tlY doe? not wis . h . to comliment, says -4 or th an. ,even indicate the initial letter of his name, it, o s perpa . ° Y observing, that if, as the poet s says,. "it NI --, In heeven, f f 4 N ' „ lq„ ~, it is most assuredly ` whispered tle '4lleN,"' ‘-,TNUNDRUM.---" Crow, n for t14:11tes114"111,-, "Well, Julius, succeed ;Is op _ 5e .,... I want , to ax e yoi! a p, e 41,4".1j., Can you tell me why de art Julius, It i . kp s4 't Be like a ribber at low tide ?" "No, _ r I . ki v ( s ha 3 , l e ,„ ;10 similarity in de two subjects, so . dai:to _ ese it e. ‘, Well, den I'll tell you. It is simply tii it Well de muse/4 'lV'stl •,,`„'DP NETTLEs.-Itis a singular fact that steel evii°Patel,,`_T juice of the nettle becomes flexible.. _ Dr. oiir t ‘; i l)la nts v;Uo has made the medicinal properties of 4 '4 , , e itiie, e lllB Peculiar study, states that lint dipped t in () hiLtile bleeding RI Put up the nostril, has been kfiown qr,`„'- , ; nu of the nose when all other remedies have lit ip ,',44 i a tit sads that fourteen or fifteen of the Eels_ 411:°, Ilt,l' tile°,l?c°,w(l_er, and taken daily, will cure the o s u n t T in , 43, i t i tui e ag tzgetinbe3r atlhhatr of goitre, i h A lady wrote with a diamond on a pane of glass, " 'God did at first make man upright : but he" — to which a gentleman added, " Most surely had continued so, but she" ALMS TO A BOSNIAN ROBBERY.—Another of the com pany had made several journeys into Bosnia some years ago, when travelling was less secure than now, and one of his anecdotes reminded me of a well-known adventure in " Gil Blas." One of the polite robbers to avoid unne cessary strife, laid his cloak in the middle of the road on the approach of a traveller, and, according to the custom of the country, awaited a donation, well-armed as a sti mulus to liberality ; but our Dalmatian was not to be caught so easily. Pulling up his horse, he laid his hand on a pistol in his holster, and thus addressed him : " Unhappy mendicant, I pity your condition ; you are able to work and be rich, and yet prefer idleness, and the prospect of being impaled. Charity is a duty incumbent on Turk and Chi istian and lam most happy to give you what you deserve." So, instead of taking a ducat out of his purse, he took a leaden bullet from his pouch, an* dropping it on the cloak, remarked, that, if applied by the rogue to himself, it would save him being hanged. The robner was so astonished that his eyes opened, and his jaw dropped, and the Dalmatian, executing a caracol, lest he should pay him in the coin he had given, cantered on out of sight.—Highlands and Islands of the Adriatic. A STRANGE SCENE OF RECONCILIATION.—Being now of age [James the Sixth and First] and the last of his family, he determined on matrimony, and opened a nego ciation with Denmark to that effect, directing his whole energies in the meanwhile to the reduction of his king dom to peace and quietness, anticipative of the happy prospect before him. His first object was to appease the hereditary feuds which either raged or smouldered throughout the kingdom. Crawford and Glamis, Mon trose and Angus, were the chief delinquents. These, and other hereditary enemies, he invited to a sumptuous ban quet at Holyrood-house, and persuaded them to pledge to him and to each other friendship and good understanding for the future. This reconciliation was solemnised after a singular fashion. "After supper," says Mr. Chambers. " the whole party sallied out of the palace into the streets of the neighbouring city, exactly in the guise in which they had sat at table, that is without sword and doublet, and, ranging themselves into a column, walked hand in hand to the Market Cross, the King at their head, sup ported by his kinsman, Hamilton, and they themselves each side by side with the particular individual against whom he had lately borne the most deadly hostility. So strange a procession attracted an immense crowd; and it was not without feelings of the highest gratification that the peaceable citizens beheld a scene which seemed to betoken a conclusion to all civil war in the country. The magistrates, according to the report of one of their fellow citizens, went in advance of the procession, dancing for very joy. The prisoners for debt were liberated from gaol ; the Cross was hung with tapestry, and planted with trumpeters and singers ; the gibbets, which had stood there for years, to execute the numerous victims of civil discord, were hewed down and burnt ; and, a long table being placed upon the street, the King and the nobles sat down and partook of a civic banquet, while every window and outer stair in the neighbourhood displayed a similar scene of feasting and social joy. After all the individuals formely at feud had publicly shaken hands with each other, and drunk to each other's health, the whole re turned in similar order to the palace, amidst music, the firing of cannon, and the blessings of a people which seemed absolutely transported:with joy.—Lord Lindsay's Life. STORMING OF A VILLAGE IN THE FAMOUS BATTLE OF GOOJERAT.--Our men, who had been held down all this time, started up with a cheer. It was the last some of them gave, poor fellows ! A round shot took off a man's head close to me, and spattered his brains in my face, the bullets whizzing about like hail—and as we came nearer, grape was poured into us, but not a man wavered for a second. " Officers to front—Lead on your men !" shouted the major; and we sprang forward amidst a shower of balls, dashed across a deep nullah, gave one rattling vol ley, and poured into the village at every point. Many of the Sikhs stood and fought like men, but the greater por tion (there must have been at least I 000) left the village at one end as we entered the other. Those who remained were shot or bayoneted on the spot. There was no quar ter given. A number of them shut themselves up in the houses, but our men beat down the doors, and poured in volley after volley, and sullenly and savagely they died fighting to the last. We captured three of their standards in the village and then, leaving the left wing to keep possession, we defiled to the right ; and found ourselves under a hot fire of grape and canister, totally unsupported, as we had advanced in front of the whole line to storm the village, and the troop of horse-artillery had been obliged to retire. being temporarily disabled. This was the roost deadly fire we were exposed to during the day, the balls hissing about like winged serpents. I was talk ing to Sprot, and made some remark about the fire, and he answered me with a smile, and I turned my head to watch Fordyce's troop of horse-artillery coming up again to our support ; when I looked round, Sprot was lying at my feet in his blood. I tried to raise him, but he was stone-dead. A ball had struck him on the back of the head, and entered the brain. And there he lay—the finest young fellow in the corps —the life and soul of the mess, beloved by all—struck down in his prime. The smile was on his lips as when he spoke to me last; and but for the blood that bedabbled his hair, and the cold blue hue about his lips and eyelids, you would have fancied him in a peaceful sleep—so calm, so painless was the expression of his countenance. He was one of my chief friends ; but it was no time for lamentation ; and, after taking ono long gaze at his pallid face, a moment ago so full of life and manly beauty, I rejoined my com pany.—Fraser. - - A. TRAGIC STORY.—Should a high caste female form a criminal intimacy with a man of lower caste, it has fre quently oecurred, that when the connexion is discovered by the woman's family, the life of the paramour is taken by the incensed relatives, who do not consider the act ei ther criminal or sinful under the circumstances alluded to, and formerly the woman's life was taken by the head of her family. It is lamentable to reflect upon the excesses which a mistaken sense of honour will lead mankind into, frequently causing the most powerful feelings of our na ture to be sacrificed ; and we do not believe that it can be exemplified more than in the following narrative. The daughter of a high caste Kandian became attached to a man of lower caste than her family. The girl entreated Tier parents to allow her to marry the man—their consent was refused, and they forbade her to hold further commu nication with her lover, stating it was utterly impossible that they could allow their family to be disgraced by an alliance with a man of lower caste than themselves. The maiden pleaded her devoted affection for her lover, stating that if her parents persisted in withholding their sanction, she should be rendered wretched, for without the society of her lover, life would be to her a dreary desert. Neither tears, supplications, nor entreaties could move the parents from their stern resolve, and the girl quitted their pre sence in mute despair. Some months afterwards the re latives discovered that the unfortunate creature " had loved not wisely, but too well," and had sacrificed her honour. In vain the girl pleaded her lover's willingness, and anxious desire to make all the reparation in his power, by marrying her—the father severely reprimanded her for proposing (in his estimation) to entail increased degrada tion upon the family, addine, that the only method which remained to obliterate the dishonour which she had brought on her family, was by giving her own life, and that it was his fixed resolve to immolate her. An ancient su perstition prevails in Kandy, that when a family of high caste has formed an intimacy with an inferior, the family honour will remain unsullied and untarnished if the wo man be put to death by her relatives; and in pursuance of this barbarous usage, the father sacrificed his child. Immediately this revolting murder came to the knowledge of the authorities, a warrant was issued for the apprehen sion of the assassin—the father did not attempt to make his escape, and when upon his trial openly declared that he bad taken his daughter's life, having a perfect right so act under the circumstances, for the purpose of vindicat ing the family honour • and he firmly contended that the British authorities had no jurisdiction over the domestic government of a Kandian 's household or family. Sen tence of death was passed upon the man, who protested to the last moment of his existence that he had been fully justified in taking the life of the daughter, and that we had no right to intermeddle with family arrangements. — Ceylon and the Cingalese. HAS ROMANISM PROMOTED CIVILIZATION ?—For nine centuries that church held a dominancy of usurpation in England ; yet no advance in civilization adequate to the period of her dominancy—adequate to that power of civi lizing, which Dr. Balmez claims for her, was made. The household book of the Duke of Northumberland, written not long before the Reformation, shows the low estate of agriculture and of every useful art throughout the land, as well as the want of domestic comfort even in the family of a powerful nobleman ; whilst the accounts of Erasmus, Holingshed, and others, prove that at the period of the Reformation little if any advance had been made since the Norman Conquest in the internal economy of the pea sant's home. It is, after all, in the homes of the masses, and not in the courts of princes, that we must ascertain the nature and amount of any civilization effected. If the Romish Church possesses inherently, and as an inseparable attribute of her constitution, the faculty of civilizing which is ascribed, surely she had sufficient opportunity for its manifestation during the long period of the middle ages, when none dared, even if they desired, to dispute her rule ; but what was the condition of the peasantry in every land where she was all powerful ? What is the condition of the Italian peasant at this present hour ? Is it in any degree better than that of his heathen ancestor ? There arc to be found in the vicinity, and even in the very heart, of the imperial city, hordes of men living in brute igno rance and brute discomfort. For centuries Rome has been full of priests ; prince-prelates, and popes have held undisputed sway in their own strong-hold. With all the peculiar machinery of the Romish Church at their com mand—with perfect facilities for the most ample develop ment of every element of social civilization which the Romish Church is said to possess—rigorously excluding the spirit of Protestantism, and teaching the poor to re gard its principles as promulgated by Satan and identical with Atheism, they have surely made of her population an enlightened and civilized people ? They have done no such thing ! On the contrary, she has kept them for centuries in the same condition. Hence the obedience of the Romans has been unintelligent—their newly-found liberty is at this moment ferocious license. With the fear of the savage they have been servile under restraint : with the cruel eagerness of the savage wh-n he breaks his bonds, they thirst for the blood of those whom they were supposed to have regarded with veneration. Reduce them once more, and they will cower and tremble like whipped hounds—licking the hands of the men whom they now hunt to death. Lately, at Rome, they murdered three unhappy Jesuits, whose only offence was the badge of their order. Not content with simple assassination they cut them into pieces, and "threw (says the account) the quivering portions into- the Tiber !" Some of these mis creants, a few months ago, would probably have stood in trembling awe before these very men, believing. them to be the arbiters of their eternal destiny. If Rome can civilize, why has she not civilized her Italia population. —Church of England Quarterly Review. 7,1= 41 lt .00 5, de wee 'LSO,,rea,t, 'ss, an the hOei Ire s t a te 0 ., occu rred. ' 1,9(1 tee to ah a ,` : tet t :' rd at t' ear tiest nt ,,,i: , repro,, e ea ltt, , , tbe x hich tileati a cc" Olt t` ; Fores sePar' h t his er' °' ith reP i d it watt o h lt ) 11 of tO [ld 11 " I r o ff E i c c o ,,l ,A io ,veltY' lbw the rofteo! t h e rot .„1 ,0 fo , radon ft c Ol •a oi t he n i `:00' THE LIVERPOOL STANIAR& PILGRIMS BATHING IN THE JORDAN.—In all the wild haste of a disorderly rout, Copts and Russians, Poles, Armenians, Greeks, and Syrians, from all parts of Asia, from Europe, from Africa, and from far-distant America, on they came ; men, women, and children, of every age and hue, and in every variety of costume; talking, scream ing, shouting, in almost every known language under the sun. Mounted as variously as those who had preceded them, many of the women and children were suspended in baskets or confined in cages; and, with their eves strained towards the river, heedless of all intervening obstacles, they hurried eagerly forward, and all dis mounted in haste, and disrobing with precipitation, rushed down the bank and threw themselves into the stream. They seemed to be absorbed by one impulsive feeling, and perfectly regardless of the observations of others. Each one plunged himself, or was dipped by another, three times below the surface, in honour of the Trinity; and then filled a bottle, or some other utensil, from the river. The bathing-dress of many of the pilgrims was a white gown with a black cross upon it. Most of them, as soon as they were dressed, cut branches of the agnus castue, or willow; and, dipping them into the consecrated stream, bore them away as memorials of their visit. In an hour they began to disappear ; and in less than three hours the trodden surface of the lately crowded bank reflected no shadow. The pageant disappeared as rapidly as it had approached, and left to us once more the silence and the solitude of the wilderness. It was like a dream. An immense crowd of human beings, said to be B,OOG, but I thought not so many, had passed and repassed before our tents, and left not a vestice behind them.— Lynch's American Expeaition to the Dead Sea. THE ATHENIAN MODE OF CHECKING LAWYERS' PRO LIXITY.—In some trials the time during which a party might address the court was unlimited; but in others it was regulated by a clepsydra, or water clock. The former class of cases comprised actions, brought by children against their parents for ill treatment ; by heiresses against their husbands; and wards against their guardi ans. In the latter, a certain quantity of water was measured out to each speaker, which ran something in the manner of sand in modern hour-glasses, and when it was exhausted he was obliged to stop. But while wit nesses were under examination, or legal documents were read (which, by what seems to have been a most incon venient practice, took place at different parts of the speaker's address, and interrupted its continuous thread); the water was stopped, and the time thus occupied was not taken into account. The pleader might if he thought fit, give up a portion of his allotted water to another party interested in the cause, and thus enable him to speak at greater lenath. This water-system gave rise to a number of curious expressions which occur in the Attic orators, and it is necessary to be familiar with the usage, in order to understand them. It was a frequent cause of complaint with them, that the time, within which they were thus circumscribed, was not sufficient, and the great est of them more than once laments that he is compelled to omit heavy charges against his opponents, because he is short of water. We might almost fancy he was speak ing of a locomotive. Auger, the French translator of Demosthenes, seems to think that this circumstance may have given to the forensic speeches at Athens their terse and business like character. The time, he says, was somewhat limited in private cases ; the clepsydra, or water-clock, afforded but little, and the advocate had none to lose."—Forsyth's Hortensius. _ WARNING TO CURIOUS LADIES.—A few doors further on, a China woman, apparently of the same class, appeared at the entrance of the house, surrounded by her atten dants, evidently drawn thither to gaze upon the strange being of their own sex wh'.) had come amongst them. The China lady bowed her head, and, beckoning with her finger, stood aside to allow the visitor to pass, endeavour ing by smiles and signs to induce our companion to enter the dwelling. Female curiosity, combined with a lauda ble desire to gain information connected with the domestic arrangement within, might possibly have induced the English lady to have accepted the invitation ; but this we would not consent to, knowing full well that we should not be allowed to accompany her, and having the fate of a fair countrywoman of ours too vividly impressed upon our memory. This lady had a great desire to inspect the interior economy of a Begurn's residence in India; after some preliminary objections and arrangements, she suc ceeded in causing herself to be invited, and fully resolved upon obtaining a personal and minute inspection of the faces, forms, and wardrobes of the Begum and her ladies. At the appointed hour, away went our fair friend, in the highest fever of feminine excitement and curiosity, and was received with great state and marked kindness by the Begum, who introduced her visitor to the various mem bers of her household. Upon entering the ladies' apart ment, the visitor, to her horror and amazement, too late discovered that female curiosity was as strongly implanted in the heads and hearts of the Begum ladies as in her own, and with the advantage of numbers on their side ; in fact, the inspection was theirs, and not hers, for they literally undressed her ; and, not contented with this vic tory, pinched her skin to ascertain if the colour was natural, and produced by cosmetics. The poor miserably pulled-about visitor was at length allowed to depart, being too happy to make her escape with her various furbelows and adornments not either so carefully or becomingly arranged as they were when she entered the Begum's abode.—Sirr's China and the Chinese. BISHOP WATSON GEOLOGISING NEAR KENDAL. — After the bishop's marriage into the Dallam Tower family, he was a constant visitor there, especially during the univer sary long vaca'ion. Whilst there he used to ramble about the hills and dales with a hammer in his pocket, as the Sedgwicks and Bucklands do now-a-days, chipping any little pebble he stumbled over; probably to see whether it was the philosopher's stone, or contained any of that precious metal which has been recently discovered in such quantities in California. In one of these rambles it chanced that he got to the top.of Helm Crag, not many miles from Kendal, and picked up a substance, which he at once pronounced to be thrown from 'Etna or Vesuvius, i or some volcanic crater. On his way home he came, naturally enough, to the conclusion (naturally we say, for what we wish we readily believe), that Helm Crag it self was an extinct volcano. At the dinner table he produced this piece of lava as proof conclusive of his amazing discovery. The authority of a professor fresh from his laboratory and still fresher from the university of Cambridge, could not be gainsayed ; the gentlemen too well bred, the ladies too gallant to attempt it. There was one man, however, within hearing on whom all this excited but pity and a smile—the old family butler. Of course he said nothing then, and Watson's discovery was all in all ; but on the following morning, finding the doctor in the library poring over the lava and taking notes, thinking probably that the honours of Dallam Tower were now at stake, and with the privilege of his order. he administered to him this salutary information :—" Dr. Watson, excuse me, but I thought I heard you say at the table yesterday that Helm Crag was an extinct volcano. I don't know what an extinct volcano is, as I never saw one, but I do know that when I was a lad, my father and I had a blast furnace on Helm Crag, and that's a piece of the cinder from the very spot." Facts are stub born things : the doctor looked aghast over his spectacles, put up his note-book, and with a gold guinea silenced, at least until the doctor's departure, the discovery of the doctor's ignorance.—The Worthies of Westmorland. THE FIRST BALLOON .ASCENT.—The scientific men in Paris were not long in testing Montgolfier's experiment. They succeeded admirably, and it was now determined to attempt a personal ascent. But before making the essay, three aerial voyagers were sent up in the form of a sheep, a cock, and a duck, all of which came down safely. Thus encouraged, preparations were made for an ascent. Mont golfier constructed a new balloon expressly for the pur pose. It was of an elliptical form, 74 feet in height, 48 feet in diameter, and was elegantly painted and orna mented. A gallery was carried round the aperture at the bottom, communicating with a grate which enabled the aeronaut to supply the fire with fuel, and thus to keep up the machine as long as the fuel lasted. The weight of the balloon and accompanying apparatus was estimated at about 16001bs. On the 15th October, 1783, M. Pilatre de Rozier made an ascent in this machine, and contrived to keep it suspended in the air, at a height of about 200 feet, for several minutes, by feeding the fire. But in this experiment the balloon was held captive by cords. The success of the experiment determined M. Rozier to undertake a free aerial voyage. In this he was accompa nied by the Marquis d'Arlandes, a major of an infantry regiment, whose valour seems, however, to have evapo rated in a very unmilitary manner. The ascent was made at La Muette, a royal palace in the Bois de Boulogne, in a balloon similar to that already described. Ail being ready on the 21st of November, 1783, the voyagers took their places in the gallery. After repairing some trifling damage which the balloon sustained in a first essay, it was, at fifty-four minutes past one, absolutely abandoned to the dominion of the air, and soon ascended with great rapidity. When the adventurers were about 250 feethigh, they waived their hats to the astonished multitude, and quickly rose to a height at which they could no longer be distinguished. The history of this voyage is that, in a great measure, of the terror of the Marquis d'Arlandes. When he found himself so high that he could no longer distinguish objects upon earth, both his curiosity and am bition were amply satisfied, and he insisted upon his com panion ceasing to throw straw upon the fire, that they might descend. M. de Rozier, however, deaf to the mar quis's remonstrances, continued his operations. At length, having attained an elevation of about 3000 feet, the marquis perceived some holes which had been burned in the lower part of the balloon, and at the same time beard cracks which seemed to proceed from the top of the machine, and which appeared to him to menace its instant and entire destruction. He now became perfectly frantic with terror, ancr, hastening to clap wet sponges to the burnt holes, he vowed, that if his companion did not immediately take steps to descend, he would throw him overboard ; at the same time he promised faithfully to to take upon himself the entire blame of shortening their voyage. M. de Rozier at length listened to the marquis's urgent solicitations; but on approaching the earth, the marquis, seeing the great danger they incurred of being spitted on the weathercock of the Invalides, hastily threw a fresh bundle of straw upon the fire, and even spread it, in order to raise a fiercer blaze. This carried them ove? a great part of Paris, at a sufficient elevation to clear the steeples, and passing the Boulevards, they landed safely in a field near the Bieetre, without having experienced the slightest physical inconvenience. The distance traversed was between six and seven miles, and they were in the air twenty-five minutes. The weight of the whole apparatus including the two aernauts, was between 16001bs. and 17001b5., and when they descended two-thirds of their fuel was unconsumed. Such was the prosperous issue of the first aerial voyage ever achieved by man. It was a conquest of science which all the world could understand ; and it flattered extremely the vanity of that ingenious people, who enjoyed the honour of its triumph in defiance of the doubts raised by English philosophers. The Montgolfiers had the annual prize of 600 livres adjudged to them by the Academy of Sciences ; the elder brother was invited to court, decorated with the badge of St. Michael,, and received a patent of nobility ; and on Joseph a. pension was bestowed, with a sum of 40,000 livres to enable him to prosecute. his. experiments with. balloons.—Fraser's Mag.. EXCRUCIATINGLY DROLL.—THE WRONG SMITH. — The Philadelphia Dispatch tells a story connected with the whipping-post of Delaware, where a man received twenty lashes, well laid on. The culprit, instead of bel lowing "like ten thousand" when the constable applied the lash, laughed immoderately, which made the angry officer lay on still harder. On giving him the twentieth blow the constable could stand it no longer. " Well, here mister," said the offended officer, " I've done my duty, and I can lick you no more, but I'd jest like to know what it is that's so funny ?" " Funny," roared the other, " funny ! why its the best joke I ever heard of ! Ha ! ha ! ha ! oh ! ha ! ha !" said he, as alternately his pains and merriment predominated. " Funny ? well what is the joke ?" " Joke !" roared the other, " why it's ex cellent. You've got the wrong Smith I I aint the man that was to be whipped ! It's the other one ! Now you'll have to go it all over again ! Really it's too good ! You must lick the other man now !" CONSUMPTION OF ARDENT SPIRITS IN ENGLAND. — One of the things which strike most forcibly the American visitor in Great Britain, is the immense amount of spirits and beer offered for sale. From the time he sets foot in Liverpool, until he returns thither for embarcation after travelling all over the Continent, the preeminence of Bri tain in the consumption of strong drink is astounding, and leads him almost to wonder whether there are any sober people in a country where alcohol occupies such a place among articles of merchandise. During a somewhat ex tended tour on the Continent, we could not but notice that the only people we saw drinking spirits were Britons —even in Germany and Holland, supposed to be drinking countries. The difference in this respect between Britain and other countries is more striking than any one could believe without actual observation, and the fact is certainly one which demands serious consideration. The number of persons one meets in England bearing evident marks of intemperate habits, shows that it is quite time the subject attracted the attention not only of the philanthropist but the statesman.—Fraser. A BALLOON EMPLOYED IN WAR. Balloons were prepared in this establishment (French Academy of Aeronautics) for the service of the different armies. They were named with all the form of christening a man-of war, and we read of the Entreprenant, for the army of the North ; the Celeste, for that of the Sambre and Meuse : the Hercule, for the army of the Rhine; and the Intre pide, for that of the Moselle. The decisive victory which General Jourdan gained in 1794, over the Austrian forces in the plains of Fleuris, has been ascribed principally to the accurate information of the enemy's movements be fore and during the battle, communicated by telegraphic signals from a balloon, which was elevated to a moderate height. The aeronauts, at the head of whom was the ce lebrated chemist, Guyton-Morveaus, mounted twice in the course of that day, and continued about four hours each time, hovering in the rear of the army, at an altitude of about 1300 feet. In the second ascent, the enterprise being discovered by the enemy, a battery was brought to bear upon the balloon, but the aeronauts soon gained an elevation beyond the reach of the cannon. Another bal loon, constructed by M. Conte, was attached to the army sent on the memorable expedition to Egypt. After the capitulation of Cairo, it was brought back with the re mains of the army to France, and subsequently employed by M. Biot and Gay-Lussac in their scientific ascent, when the latter attained the enormous elevation of 23,040 feet above the level of the sea, and satisfactorily demon strated that the air at that height contains exactly the same proportions as that collected near the surface of the earth. The use of balloons by the French in war soon created a panic among English alarmists. It was re ported that England would be invaded by clouds of aerial monsters, which would burn the cities and destroy the crops.—Fraser's Magazine. THE COMFORT OF THE COTTAGE, NOT THE SPLEN DOURS OF ART, THE MARK OF CIVILIZATION.—TEL every argument connected with the influence which the Church of Rome may have exercised in the promotion of civiliza tion, we are pointed to the magnificent works of art which she has elicited and the noble structures which she has raised. The poetry of the association ever connected with these objects leads to the mistake, that the power of mind exhibited in these productions is the exact measure of the social civilization characterizing the age in which they were produced. It must, however, be remembered, that the real test of social civilization, as we have already said, is to be found in the domestic and internal condition of society rather than in its external accessories. The Church of Rome has a peculiar faculty of absorption : she seizes upon whatever of talent, of artistic power, and of mental energy, she meets with in her way, and uses them as ap pendages to her power. The prestige of greatness is of vital importance to her, and the unthinking mind of the masses is ever wont to suppose that external magnificence is an inseparable attribute of real greatness. The policy of the Romish Church is, therefore, to surround herself with all that is pleasing to the eye and sense, so as to per suade beholders that the beauty which is thus conferred upon her, and which is simply that of reflection, is an in tegral element of her being. Hence, whilst the efforts of genius of every kind have served as the accessories of her pageant and for the enhancement of her temporal dignity, the true enlightenment of the individual mind by the in telligent teaching of her priests has been totally forgot en. The surface of society was blazoned with splendour : tae hidden misery of its depths remained unmitigated—the palace was adorned—the temple was beautified—but the cottage and its inmate were alike neglected. The same power which created the treasures of the Vatican keeps its subjects in the grossest ignorance, tying them down to the adoration of mis-shapen dolls and tawdry images, to which miraculous virtues are solemnly attributed. Thus, at this very hour, side by side with the finest conceptions of art which hold the wondering foreigner entranced in admiration, there are, in all the churches of continental Europe, frightful daubs and shapeless blocks—foul libels on the human form—to which the masses bow in tearful vener.tion. Whoever desires to know what was the social and moral condition of Romish countries, in the most palmy days of her power, will find it in such auto-bio graphies as that of Cellini, and in the dissertations of San chez, of Escobar, and Suarez. These dissertations show, ip the sad science of corruption which they display, one of two things—the debasing studies which an abstraction from the healthier duties of social life begets, or the wretched condition of the society to whose moral ailments they professed to minister : in either case, they prove but little for the civilizing tendencies of Romish rule which Dr. Balmez vaunts.-7 he Church of _England Quarterly Review. enteral 11115rtilaitv. Fresh herrings are selling in the Isle of Man at thirty for a shilling. The Sheffield Times modestly declares the " prettiest thing out of London to be a Sheffield watering-cart !" On Thursday Ledru Rollin, Martin Bernard, Etienne Arago, and Sergeant Boichot, landed in London from Ostend. _ _ _ _ Some labourers employed in excavating at the back of an inn at Dover have found a chalic coffin, of the rudest formation, containing the bones of an infant. Thefts of lead have lately become extremely common in Glasgow, and the roofs of three inhabited houses were lately stripped of their lead fittings on the same night. A vessel has arrived in London from the West Indies in twenty days, bringing 20,000 pine apples and 50 live turtles. The Times advertises that the two imperial theatres of Milan areto be disposed of by lease for six years. Austrian influence sends "to let" advertisements to the Times. One of the three war steamers now building for the Austrian Government, at the ship-yard of Messrs. Pat terson and Co., of Bristol, was launched on Thursday afternoon. _ _ . . The promised German opera, from which many had promised themselves so much of refined pleasure, is not to be produced at present, owing to the disorganisation of the company in London. LEEDS THEATRE ROYAL.—Mr. George Owen took his benefit on Friday, 29th June, concluding his engagement here in the character of Macbeth, and was twice called before the curtain at the end of the play. About mid-day the house of Mr. Grice, an inhabitant of Moxley, Staffordshire, suddenly sank down more than ten yards in depth, the roof falling in and only a small portion of the building was left standing. The cholera has made its appearance at Nantwich, and within a few days thirty fatal cases occurred. In one case the coroner's jury censured the guardians for not more promptly rendering assistance. So great was the heat in the neighbourhood of London on Monday, that a ginger beer seller dropped dead on Primrose Hill from a sunstroke, and a woman who was working in a hay-field fell down speechless, was seized with strong convulsions, and is not expected to survive. Serious riots and outrages have been committed this week at Killingworth colliery, near Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the property of Lord Ravensworth and partners. The rioters were a number of colliers who have struck for wages. Several of the ringleaders have been apprehended. ST. STEPHEN'S KIRKSTALS, YORKSHIRE.—A beau tiful marble monument has been erected in this church to the memory of the Rev. Joseph Ware, M.A., the late esteemed incumbent of the parish. The design is appro priate and chaste, and reflects great credit upon the sculptor, Mr. F. Webster. of Kendal. A MAIDEN ASSIZE.—The commission for opening the assizes for the County of Rutland was opened at Oak ham, on Wednesday, by Mr. Justice Coleridge, but there was neither prisoner nor a cause at nisi prius ; nor was there a member of the bar to be seen in the town. The high sheriff presented his lordship with a pair of white gloves. A BOY KILLED BY HIS MASTER.—On Wednesday a boy named Andrew M`Cafferty, the son of a labourer, residing at Springbank, Glasgow, while in Springbank Foundry, was assaulted by a man named James M'Arthur, an iron dresser, who threw him to the ground, and kicked and otherwise maltreated him in such a manner, that, on being carried home, he only survived for a few hours the injuries he received. FRIGHTFUL OCCURRENCE.—OR Thursday, while work men were repairing the steeple of the church in Clerken well, London, a man, out of bravado, attempted to descend by a rope. He had, however, only descended a few feet when the rapidity with which he came down caused the rope to pull the flesh off his hands ; and being unable to keep his hold of the rope any longer, he fell to the bottom. He was picked up in a dreadful state of suffer ing, and removed. DEATH OF MR. E. B. KENNEDY.—Tt is with sincere regret that we quote, from intelligence just received from Sydney, the following announcement of the tragical death of Mr. E. B. Kennedy, son of Colonel Kennedy, of the island of Guernsey :—" The exploring expedition of Mr. E. B. Kennedy, into the north country between Moreton Bay and Cape York, had unhappily terminated in the death of the gallant leader and nine of his men. Mr: E. $. Kennedy was murdered by the natives, and the men died from starvation. The government passed a high eulogium on Mr. Kennedy and his unfortunate oom panions..7 COMPETITION FOR FARMS.—AB a proof that the com petition for farms in this country is somewhat subsiding, there are now—and have been for months past—no less than six farms, situated in the very heart of the Pusey Vale, (one of the finest corn-growing districts of Wilt shire,) for which no tenant can be found !—Devizes Ga zette. —.— THE IRON TRADE OF SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE. — The correspondent of the Morning Herald writes from Dud ley on Saturday. The last of the midsummer quarterly meetings of the iron masters of this district was held to day at the " Hotel," and closed without any indication of that improvement which was anticipated. I have reason, however, to think that sales of bar iron have been effected at £5 per ton, and pig iron at 455., prices evidently unre munerative. Several furnaces have been already blown out, and it is feared many more must follow. The wages of the workmen have been reduced considerably, and the surrounding district is by no means in a healthy commer cial state. The Hon. Adolphus Capel, brother of the Earl of Es sex, applied on Friday to the Insolvent Debtors' Court for his protecting order. It was indignantly refused. The insolvent, with £9OO a year which he once possessed, had incurred debts to the amount of £25,000. Lord Maynard, the father of Mrs. Capel, allows that lady £6OO per annum for the support of herself and five children. The insolvent had the coolness to offer to pay £2OO per annum out of this (another man's money) till his debts were liquidated ! Even supposing the parties lived, and the allowance was continued, it would thus take 125 years for Mr. Capel to pay his debts out of the money given in charity to his wife and children ! AFFECTING CIRCUMSTANCE IN A CHURCH.—OR Sunday week, after the sermon, in compliance with the Queen's letter, was preached at Hullavington Church, Wiltshire, by the Rev. 'William Carter, vicar of the parish, the plate was taken to the three principal farmers, who each in succession refused to hold it at the door. The vicar's lady, on seeing this, left her pew, took the plate, and stationed herself at the door; but, after a few per sons had passed, the plate was observed to drop from her hand, and she fell in a state of insensibility, and so con tinued until her death, which took place between seven and eight o'clock in the evening the same day. A medi cal gentleman was promptly in attendance, who gave his opinion that death wns occasioned from apoplexy; and a verdict was returned to that effect. The deceased, who was a most amiable lady, was 42 years of age.—Stafford shire Advertiser. RED RAlN.—Early on Saturday morning, the 30th ult., a shower of rain as red as blood fell near the village of Bonvilston, South Wales, and extended from thence in a westerly direction over Lantrithyd, Flemingston, &c., towards Llantwit-Major—it was so manifest that it im pregnated the clods of earth, many of which were like ruddle. Several country people who witnessed it were dreadfully alarmed, imagining it to 'be some omen of com ing misfortune, and very many, who did not see it fall, came in the course of the day to see the discoloured soil. A phenomenon of this kind has been known to occur on the south side of Mount Blanc, between Condamine and Motet, where it left red spots on the snow, and the natives called it La pluie rouge, (the red rain). Again, in the iron districts of this country small streams have been so impregnated with chalybeate that the water was of quite a deep red colour for some distance. A MORMON PREACHER TAKEN AT HIS WORD.—On Tuesday evening, a follower of the notorious Joseph Smith, while haranguing a crowd in Murray-street, Montrose, adduced the fact, among sundry proofs of the blessings of Mormonism, that on a true believer, poison would have no effect. One of his hearers, having a navvy's exterior, challenged the preacher to a fair discussion, but the Mor monist endeavoured to sneak away. This the crowd seemed not willing to allow, and forming themselves into a circle around the preacher, gave him unequivocal warn ing that they were resolved to try his faith by a personal experiment. He was immediately presented with a few drops of prussic acid, at which he looked "unutterable things." The crowd began to laugh, both at the preacher and his principles ; but a policeman coming to his assist ance, relieved him from the dilemma by kindly becoming his counsellor and conductor. SUICIDE OF A BRIDE.—A sad event occurred at Hol beck, near Leeds, on Monday, at the house of Mr. Wil liam Wilkinson Walley. Mr. Walley, who is a wool stapler in Leeds, was married on the 21st ult., at the church of St Mary the Virgin, London, to Sarah Ann, the daughter of Mr. Joshua 11ldren, of Hoxton, the lady being about 27 years of age. Up to Monday last nothing had occurred to create any dissatisfaction between Mr. Walley and his bride, and on the day named he was about to receive company. When Mr. Walley left home in the morning his,lady appeared in her usual health and spirits, and in the course of the day retired to her dressing-room for the purpose of preparing her toilet, previous to the arrival of her friends ; but as she did not return, the ser vant proceeded to her room; where the uohappy lady was found quite dead. She had committed suicide by dividing the jugular vein. FEMALE COURAGE.—On Wednesday a large grey hound managed to break its chain, and ran away. It traversed the country all night, and on the morning of Thursday it entered the house of James Haldane, Inver ness, carrier, in the parish of Alvie. It ascended the stairs, and got into a room where the two youngest boys were asleep. It approached the bed, and one of the boys tried to keep it away by striking it with his hand. The dog laid hold of the boy's hand and bit it. The frightened boy got out of bed, and the dog leapt in and took hold of the other boy by the cheek and brow, biting him severely. The mother, on hearing the screams of her children, rushed up stairs, and finding the dog, she took hold with one hand of a collar that encircled its neck, and with the other she held its mouth shut. She dragged it down stairs, and managed to hold it to the ground, where she held it with her hands and knees till a man-servant knocked its brains out with an axe. Medical aid was shortly procured for the children, and it is hoped that they may recover.—Edinburgh Register. On Wednesday last the village of Beckenham, in Kent, was the scene of great bustle in consequece of the marriage of the rector's daughter to to the newly created Bishop of Victoria. At half-past ten the carriages of the neighbour ing gentry arrived : the children of the national schools were stationed on each side of the carriages, holding bouquets of flowers. The parents and brothers and sisters of the children were admitted to the ground, and formed in line behind the children, who strewed flowers upon the path MI the bride passed slowly along, leaning on the arm of her father, who led her directly to the altar, where the Bishop of Victoria was waiting. The Archbishop of Canterbury was attended by the Rev. W. Vine and the Rev. John Brandram. At the conclusion of the ceremony the party returned to the rectory, and soon afterwards the Archbishop, the bride and bridegroom, the clergy, and the happy pair appeared upon the lawn in front of the house, and every child was presented with a Bible by the young lady, who received many blessings from those assembled. At three o'clock the Bishop of Victoria and his bride left the rectory for the Isle of Wight, from which place they will, after the honeymoon, depart for Hong-kong. A STRANGE VISITOR IN GLASGOW.—One day last week, a person, who had been ordered by his medical adviser to take a hot bath, which he was in the habit of using, was imprudent enough to get into a bath at a temperature of a hundred degrees, immediately after par taking of a hearty dinner of roast beef, &c. In a few moments after submersion, he became delirious, started from the bath, rushed from the bathing establishment through several streets, into an entry, up stairs, and into a house, the door of which happened to be open, and, to the serious alarm of the mistress of the house, hid him self under a bed, evidently imagining that some evil was threatening. Of course he was in a state of nudity. Medical assistance was immediately procured, and so soon as he was relieved from the quantity of animal food, the digestion of which this dip had too suddenly arrested, he recovered consciousness, and was next day quite well, -with the exception of some abrasions of the skin, which occurred to him in two or three tumbles which he expe rienced in his headlong race. The hot air bath ought never to be employed while the stomach is in a state of repletion, or, indeed, until digestion is perfected.— Glasgow Citizen. MELANCHOLY FATE OF AN AERONAUT.—Considerable anxiety has prevailed in the vicinity of Cardiff and Swan sea, throughout the week, regarding the fate of an aero naut, named Green (not Mr. Charles Green of Vauxhall celebrity), who, it is feared, perished by falling into the sea, in his ascent in a balloon from Cardiff on Monday last. The balloon was the property of Mr. Wadman of Bristol, who had been announced to make the ascent, but through illness was prevented. Mr. Green undertook the trip, and took his departure from terra firma about six o'clock in the evening. Its course on leaving the earth was over the town in the direction of Pcnarth, Mr. Green liberating a parachute with a car attached to it as he passed over. The next morning about five o'clock the balloon was discovered at Wadmore, in Somersetshire, lying on the ground, about three parts filled with gas, and not at all injured. No one was with it, but in the car a coat, neck-tie, pair of boots, and a pocket handkerchief, were found. Inquiries have been made along that part of the coast after Mr. Green, but not the least intelligence can be elicited of his fate. At dusk on Monday evening the coast guard perceived a ballood crossing the Severn from the direction of Cardiff. It was close to the sea when discovered, and one party states that he saw it dragging through the sea, and suddenly ascend to a great altitude. This leads to a supposition that Mr. Green abandoned the balloon to save himself by swimming, but perished in the effort.—John Bull. ROMANTIC STORY.—On Wednesday night Mr. Payne went into an enquiry at St. John's, Horselydown, on the body of Mary Metier, aged 28, who came to her death under the following circumstances:—The deceased and her sister (Rehah Metier) were natives of Bretz, in Prus sia, and neither could speak a word of English. The for mer was about to be married to a young man of her own, village, but he broke off the acquaintance and made pro posals to another. This had such an effect on the de ceased that she induced her sister to enter into a plan to leave the place for ever, and go to their brother, who is said to be living at Birmingham. Accordingly they col lected what money they could, and took their passage by waggon to Harnburgh, a distance of 76 miles. They then embarked on board the Wilberforce steamer on Saturday morning. On the same night Mary Metter was taken very ill. On Monday she was not better, and, having walked the deck, was obliged to be taken below again, where she remained until the arrival of the vessel in Lon don, when she was seen by the assistant of Mr. Mishin, of Horselydown, who gave her brandy and other stimu lants ; but she never rallied, and died the same night. The two sisters, it was said, partook of a piece of salt herrir aat Hamburgb, and had a drop of broth. Beyond this they had no food for the voyage except a few oranges ; but Mrs. Meeson, the stewardess, seeing the helpless state of the two poor foreigners, gave them some wine and arrowroot, and the passengers made a subscription of 255., which the boatmen on the river had cheated the surviving sister of, and she was left helpless and friendless in Lon don. Mr. Hill, the assistant of Mr. Mishin, did not attribute the death to cholera, but exhaustion arising from retching on an empty stomach, occasioned by sea sickness, CORRESPONDENCE. ENGLISH RESOLUTION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Sin,—The House of Commons has of late been selected on many occasions by distinguished men, as the proper place to propound the opinion, that, " but for the repeal of the Corn-laws in 1846, England would have been revo lutionised last year!" This is an accusation introduced into almost every attempt at a defence of free trade, and it has been stated so often, that the Morning Chronicle, has expressed its abhorrence of Lord J. Russell for repeat ing it. Sir R. Peel, however, (although later in the field with the same opinion.) has escaped the castigation admi ministered to Lord J. Russell by the Drayton organ. Rational enough, most certainly, but not very consistent in the Chronicle. Might I ask Sir Robert Peel and Lord John Russell for their authority in uttering this calumny upon the loyalty of the English people! Under what pretence could a revolution have been effected here ? If they would say (as from their statements we infer) that the Corn-laws would have been the grievance which would have driven us to such desperation, then I say they brand us with a character they are unable to prove, and accuse us of grosser acts elan can be attributed to the French, or any other revolutionary people ! because what they say is sufficient to drive us to rebellion is tolerated and sup ported on the Continent and elsewhere--by a people who will throw up a barricade with avidity, when "their liberty has been compromised, or the constitution has been in their consideration unceremoniously violated." But suppose the people would have been so mad as to demand thus desperately the means for their own destruc tion, what shall be said of the men that led them to the brink of such a precipice—of Cobden and the League, who, according to Lord John Russell and Sir Robert Peel, raised the passions of the people to such a culmi nating point, that they were prepared to have stopped the streets with barricades, and disputed the passage with her Majesty's troops? Let the la,ggafd Cobden converts an swer the inquiry which their own suppositions have sug gested, and extricate themselves and their tutors from the difficulties which their own luckless assertions have thrown up around them. - However unscrupulous many of the free-trade and agi tating preachers may have been, I cannot believe that its average element was a spirit of insurrection ; but above all, however, Sir Robert Peel and my Lord John Russell may estimate the respect, which, as a nation, we render to the constitution of our country. I will not place my confidence in any man, however great, or my share in the interests of my country in a mind, however vigorous or well-informed, that can stoop so low as to serve a virulent and vindictive purpose, at the expense of this country's most brilliant character,—the loyalty and devotedness of her gallant sons ! No ! let them chase phantoms as long as they like, and combat imaginary dangers if they please, until the facts of the future dispel their delusions, and cover them with the shame their inconstancy merits,—the contempt their treachery deserves ;—but let them not dare, with all their dignity, to brand the records of history as a lie, the unwillingly accumulated testimony of the world as a fable ! England may have steered through many a strait in safety, and many a blackening cloud that dubiously ga thered over us may have blown away, and left no trace behind it ; but none were ever caused by the nation's disaffection, and many have been averted (humanly speaking) by its courage, its fidelity, its patriotism ! But, sir, the impeachment has been brought, it is now in Hansard's faithful custody ; the prime minister of Eng land has preferred it, and his vacillating predecessor has endorsed it with his sanction; that the nation which ac cepted a rejected Reform Bill, a spurned Emancipation Bill, at the hands of the House of Peers, with compara tive contentment, was yet prepared in 1848, to have chal lenged the decision of the House of Commons,—the deci sion of the representatives of a majority of " the people," even had it been necessary to substantiate and consecrate that challenge in rebellious blood ! ! From such a state ment I contemptuously dissent—such an assertion I in dignantly deny. Let Sir Robert Peel give the grounds on which he rests this base imputation, and then let Englishmen judge, if it is founded on fact or fiction ; if it is a sincere and designed attack on their historic character, or only another addition to the thousand and one unscrupulous means of enhancing the value of the personal pronoun, when used by that very ingenious—but in this particular, most infelicitous—per sonage, the pedantic Sir Robert Peel ! I have the honour to be, sir, Yours, much obliged, "VINCIT AMOR PATRIJE." --- WHAT STOPS TRADE AND CRAMPS INDUSTRY, AND IMPEDES PRODUCTION? TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. It is impossible that this country can be in a natural and healthy condition, when we see on ono side large numbers of skilful workmen, aided by an efficient machi nery, unemployed, and yet our population wanting the necessaries of life. England has store of stone, brick-clay, lime, iron -stone, lead, copper, and tin ore, salt, slate, potter's clay, fuller's earth, and her soil capable of much higher cultivation. She has au industrious population to work up this raw material into all things necessary and desirable to man. Whilst at the other end of the scale is the boundless and insatiable desire for all kinds, not only of necessaries, but luxuries. What stops production ? An instrument of exchange which is only tit for a nation in a semi-barbarous state—namely, a gold money, which remains stationary n amount, whilst the exchanges it has to effect ought, if un repressed, to double in amount at least every ten years. MENTOR. THE MERCURY, THE COTTAGE OWNERS, AND THE RATE-COLLECTORS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. GENTLEMEN,—I find in the Mercury of the 13th inst., an apology to Mr. Eyre Evans, for having designated him as owner of certain property in Prince's-court, Great Howard-street, at which one of the parish rate-collectors is stated t) have been abused. In this apology, which is from a person named Downes, the collector alluded to, 14IS substituted the name of Mr. William Evans, builder, Netherfield-road North, as owner, and he is stated to have asked the collector " What he was doing there ; " " to have told him he had no authority to demand such rates ;" "to have instructed his tenants not to pay them," and " to have threatened to overthrow the whole affair by a representation to the Council." Now, gentlemen, I am , Mr. William Evans, builder, of Netherfield-road sTorthi and beg to assure you that for my part there was no ask. ing for the collector's authority ; " no instructions to tenants ;" no insolence ; no mention of the Council, for the simple fact that I have not a single brick in Prince's court, nor did I see any collector on the day alleged. If Mr. Eyre Evans is not the gentleman, I am certainly not the party ; but let the collector institute a proper inquiry, and not without justifiable cause so culpably stigmatise the character of individuals unknown to the circumstantes. Leaving the matter with the Select Vestry, I am Gentle men, yours, &c., WILLIAM EVANS. Netherfield-road North, Everton, July 17, 1849. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL JULY MEETING. WEDNESDAY. Sylvan walked over for the Croxteth Stakes, and The Flying Dutchman for the Bickerstaffe Stakes. The Mersey Stakes were won by Col. Anson's f by Touchstone —Potentia, beating Simi], and four others.—A Produce Sweepstakes of 200 sovs. each was won by Tingle, beating The Italian and two others.—A Sweepstakes of 200 sovs. each was walked over for by The Flying Dutchman; and the Sefton Stakes by Cigarette.—A Produce Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each was won by Harriott, beating Probity and eleven others.—A Plate of £6O, for horses that never won £5O, was won by Roland, beating Burghley, May Day, and two others. `~.,rs~~ THURSDAY Being the Cup day, the attendance of fashionables was large, including Lord and Lady Stanley, Lord Grosvenor, the Earl and Countess of Eglinton, Duke of Richmond, Earl of Jersey, Lord Clifden, Lord Granville, Earl of Glasgow, Lord and Lady Newport, Lord Bateman, two Ladies Lennox, Lord George Manners, Hon. Mr. Fitz roy, Hon. Mr. Anson, Hon. E. G. Stanley, Sir Joseph llawley, Mr. and Mrs. John Stanley, Lord Dunstellin, Lord irooke, Mr. Hopwood, Hon. Mr. Villiers, Hon. Captain M'Donald, Hon. Mr. Strutt, Lord G. Lennox, Co!. Hornby, &c. &c. A Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each was won by La Voleuse, beating Capt. Harcourt's c by Young Longwaist, and two others.—Lord Stanley's Strongbow walked over for the Foal Stakes of 100 sovs. each. The LIVERPOOL CUP, in specie, of 300 sovs. given from the Racing Fund, added to a Handicap Sweepstakes of 25 sovs. each, 15 forfeit, was next contested for by ten competitors, of which the following were placed : Mr. Disney's Bon Mot, 3 yrs. Osborne 1 Sir R. Pigot's Essedarius, 3 yrs.... E. Sharp 2 Capt. Higgins ns Westow, 3 yrs .... Basham 3 The other starters were Thringarth, John Cosser, Kele shea, Saute-la-Coupe, Ribaldry, Woolwich, and Portrait. The betting at the start was 2 to 1 agst Essedarius, 3 to 1 and 5 to 2 agst Thringarth, 6 to 1 agst John Cosser, 8 to 1 agst Keleshea, 12 to 1 agst Westow, and 15 to 1 agst Bon Mot. Keleshea took the lead, closely followed by Thrin garth and Essedarius, and the rest well up. This order was preserved until they revelled the opposite side of the course, where John Cosser took second place, and Bon Mot began to creep up. At the turn into the straight running Thringarth was first, but he soon fell back, Es sedarius taking the first place. Bon Mot now challenged Essedarius, and passed him, when a beautiful and excit ing race home ensued between them, Bon Mot winning cleverly by a length, Westow being a good third. The Grosvenor Stakes were walked over for by Swiss Boy.—A Free Handicap of 10 sovs. each was won by Woolwich, beating Sir Robert Sloper and four others.— Elthiron won the Derby Handicap, beating the Widow and Circus.—Her Majesty's Plate was won by Sylvan, beating Thibault and the Alp. FRIDAY. The Liverpool St. Leger of 25 says. each, with 100 added, was contested for by four horses, which came in in the following order : Lord Eglinton's Belus . Sir C. Monck's Vanguard Mr. W. Jones's Magician Maroon 3 Mr. Minor's Thibault The betting at the start was 11 to 10 on Belus, who won his race by about half a length. Strongbow won the Knowsley Dinner Stakes, beating Fitzpatrick; The Muff filly the Stanley Stakes, beating Sicyon and three others ; Bon Mot the Bentinck Testi monial, beating Westow and three others ; Harriott the Aintree Stakes, beating French Susy and four others ; Little Isaac a Match for 200 sous., beating Voyageur ; Arab the Selling Stakes, beating The Great Western and four others.