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'II 'UPON FOUR INFANTS Beneath this stone four sleeping infants lie; If deat h SaY were th ey lost or saved ? , If h B by sin, they sinned, for they lie here ; eaven 's by works, in hea ven t h ey can ' t appear lteason, ah, how depraved ! , iT i v ere the Ilible's sacred page, the knot s untied,— .. _ eY died, for Adam sinned; they live, for Jesus cued n -ttiATUOR INFANTES EPITAPHIUM QuTsatuor his tumulis infantes pace quiescunt ; pe"le, periere, colunt an super astra plagas ? f,catiirn seßuitur Si fixo ex ordine letum, pe_eceavisse tibi saxa docent. . Xrestsi rnerita est mther sibi cuique petenaus, i poterunt quoinodo luce frui ? 'Net, heu I ratio. Alodo, gum sacra pagma tradit, 41,t s res patefacta jacet. " Peccavit Adam, pmnas trt morte luei:unt , tit vivant, Chriaus mortuus usque dabit. NOTICES kte dio°PhY; or the Mode of Preventing of Disease, by a , ,PPreci ation of the Grand Elements Vitality— Air64t and Water, By Edward Bascome, M.D., Ae npriz ti 8 Wood, London. teeth,""'ng promise , we resume our remarks on this °eine th lM e Port . ant i publication,—intramural burial vettsl subleet which next presents itself to our notice, er glad to observe that a public meeting . has k tse 14 the metropolis for the purpose of devising the co theme of interment less injurious to the health 9f bi tY or o t u nitY than that at present adopted in the vici- Fr om t dwelling s . woul d "e nothing evinced," Writes Dr. Bascol i ne, !, aPPear that short of one of . those was won Zediatp iniQuiti. • o the eviis and perils of such -, elipiVtunai w hiChll l i o ey a l e n n s s p e ite r of common sense, actuated T he f Y and fo olhardiness, still perpetuate." ' t rn h e e e n iiz t i : _t e t s . l o i l i ° r v t 'v eel i d n B ing 0 historical sketch of the mode of inter t6among the ancients will be read with ~ Y interest. It affords a striking contrast . to /13 ,eilt iv f i l Pr wisdom of succeeding ages ; and the excite ;e t n .)ell this valuable pamphlet has produced among 44 Lon'Pal Profession , as well as other influential parties Pe ade r ima.a, is another reason why we wish to present our Bt4t eof wit h as much of the narrative as the crowded The aur columns will admit of :- 16):81n4URYPtians and Asiatics practised interment from the /p o i) ! hel4, tittle. Subsequently, it be . c s ame ese tlg ot f o u n sto o i f u ti t ,e b u :ral or i ,2!s oc o . f the dead. id ßy H e o o m r ' d e t l hat the Greeks used t e , ,, 'l t ti e ß rzlls e`a4riiry alsutsileitTwroajuan a y p war. They also had recourse 4 4 Of rit, as is seen by their historians, who , give r ace to ye. pie Mariner in which the body was placed . n , th war d th iltar eh tells us that they were laid with their faces th a h ti ir i B least or towards the west; and Cicero informs us Z tel l, e' d r ' Y es, tiM .a those of Cecrops, interment was alti:!- „i tl' h a i - e use oby s th Greeks,—but wit have ample testi lk,"ealaijat°,), that it always took place out their cities, , w ans dlr.albongst the Jews and Greeks, from whom the ot - :resi n - ''''''' ''. ' ut „ tne practice. We have several passages in the • "it, showing that the Jews buried their dead to:th utiope. c,itY. Thus, the sepulchre, in which Joseph laid our it t °ll4 , xi x " ( lY, was the same place where He was crucified Nate ta ught ) ; which was near the city (John, xix. 20). And lib• li0 1) te l t in St. Matthew (xxviii. 52, 53), Oa!, at our Loi - d s ti e graves were opened, and many bothes of the saints 0 4 ept Van a l arose and came out of the graves after his resurrec- We nt into th e H oly City and appeared unto many. " be 2bu r . g ( 0 remind our readers that the places set apart re slc ter are generally called cemeteries , which is a n a4 ra s ignifying " a place of rest or sleep," and 'llt isti P led to common places of interment by the early .ans. gg t011 e 7714, n . giving an account of the unhappy death of hi ! ,1 14, Which hannanond nronno nava that h '.1111,/1 unppciicia bityrt, LIIUL LIU any means obtain leave of the Athenians to allow ifte ' 44 le '' n s - Place within the city. The Romans observed thtrwarciscpstom from the first biiilding of the city, v‘hich be 4 r , hur ri ,!, Je came a law, as settled by the Decemviri. r e 4 th e hg.ii?r bury within the city.' They Lenerally buried . i %o h s i ii n ,,s . ee rn 6 ';‘LaY._B, infields appropriated to the purpose. Their well as civil ~e' O tells the then, inscription on the monuments, ' Sta viator!' There of Putt iftveir' that the air might not be corrupted by the °tit s . ere of , • ng bodies." L ic lde of u pe no doubt the early Christians also buried 12!al-ro..._ cities. brit 1 utr fttaracrn re] a I. rws:-1 h ;so r ---, um. to aiterwaros tneir i t ' 4 9babi ' os to the vicinity of the churches transrerrea within towns, b"lclin, the f or the pu r p ose , as D r . B ascome states, o f re se who ente . redtheir own mortality! , the church is surrounded by houses, it is atiots du a fit situation ; for the emission of putrid ex very i ing the decomposition of animal bodies must te, oiurious to health, and we are inclined to attri tes oftri rgreat proportion, to this cause the numerous tow; 1*11 s fever so prevalent in this thickly-popu- But to proceed with our interesting narra de,,i! i s be a ,aig tj,`„ l ,",ted of Propertius, that he was very earnest in her e the "e might not be buried after the ordinary custom biti e , how, !id, for fear it should disturb his shade. There of in t er, exceptions amongst the Romans to the prehi- Witt; S -ervi "Mural burials, as in the case of the vestal virgins, to ,' 4 the u.s informs us, were allowed by law a burying-place to gne 4, 4 Y. The same privilege or honour was permitted ho e :uriei„-traordinary persons, as to Valerius Publicola, and PliCre 4 1. 8, to continue to their heirs; yet none of their fami itan,..-t, srl!rwarde intorrini thm-. th. ep Aook it away, as an attestation of the deceased's rert iov 4 _, ,, his receding from the honour. The body was , e t' for burial to another place without the city. Dolij . kir i e . l . ent Persians never buried in cities or towns. bringo, p t 7 er re interred on a high hill on the east of Perso icihlng.rZylbroughou.t Persia and the Levant, there were . ee - ~ o ces except those without the city. fr o ' the ?neteries of the Turks were always without the towns, to 111 111 5 ! I r Might not be corrupted by the vapours arising pby e aV es ; they in like manner as the Romans, also kipy t e - „ e sides of highways, that travellers may be rtminded ti lt 4 Of , e 'nd for the deceased. The Chinese adopt a similar tl, O s, b y imiture. Eusebius informs us that when the Chris- Stio' hao prn.ur burial nstantine, built churches in the cities, tow ns their places allotted them outside the cities D. 4h A ten • t so, ° f 1 1 (11 / 1 to Gregory of Tours, it was not until the latter tik;ste r i e ! Itxth century, about 590, that funeral-places and int l .,: within the towns were consecrated. tip n e l riral burials and churchyards, it would seem, origi to `s o r t i .".e idea that persons passing the graves of their rela ; Ito°, l .fer 2:lends. Lucu way W WO151111). ungur reunnueu ti; L I ;11.,- prayers for them ; and the prntit . might also be ilOacat h , ive. The gross and horrible indignities now so N4thY. c drered to the dead in consequence of over-crowd tiaT ' c audal of our national religion and character as a t4,.'ry t e °Ple, could never have been Wa contemplated; on the. s intended to offer a sacred a sylu m for the mor n Puq ) ..Of those whose memories were dear to us. ;!uti informs us, that the ancients greatly opposed le.'"at t i ` lol l Of burying in towns and churches, and on that Wee% a e. C CU/Jells of their bishops made several canons and fia orpinat intramural and church burials. after Christianity, they never presumed to Sh the' temple the carnicle of the dead ; on the contrary, Nvt the a n mode of burial without the city began to be tr 111,4 bu rials in churches we r e opp ose d b y au th ori t y . A lesi"tle Theodosian code has these words :—` Let no one f . o , at the churches of the apostles and martyrs were n 4te d i le h ei r b urial-places for the dead.' ‘„lth r , wi t h ug buried in or near a church, we are told,. origi- Lhih: ll o t he first Christian Emperor, Constantine, who, b''.e did not desire to be buried within the curch . (a daY unheard of), was resolved that hiss emains tani.ialkizePosited as nearly as possible to it, and they were a;:4oph,' i nhumed in the porch of the great church at Con §ubsequently the practice increased, and persons nt'Okli"''uirried a similar privilege ; their inferiors again, WeY claim d t the riott of being buried within the Yikrollbaled reenaLed_ it e iin no honour to be buried as near thereto as out'i l e tir a c tl i o e t s llT reason assigned for large courts and (To BE CONCLUDED IN OUR NEXT.) VARIETIES i to h . B LUNDER.—At the Monmouthshire assizes, terltterttbleoltrnan made a lapsus Unglue, which caused f o rmer, Plerrirnent in court, particularly amongst the loft th e th e Ol the " long robe. Mr. Skinner was e oun qla,nl th Pto secution in a case, in which the he fie•-„,,e jury P r isoner. His attorney appli e d f or h is dm- Justice Coltman, addressing Mr. Barrett, kt,,ied Car of the gaol, said, " Tell Skinner he is dis kto h - !ett e ",.:° jury have acquitted him, and he may go.' r l4 ;,r, c outisel, rising from his seat, made a low bow O l r ti s l niP, and said, " Thank you, my lord." The is tio ß h t : barristers present immediately burst into th r ki„ 1 . ! Peal succeeding peal forsome Tinute.se, joined ' "linself and the rest of the audience d gene • % o t Merriment. E• ll • ez „ A., , afternoon. rn9lSCOVEßED BY A DOG.—Nicholson was ti the and taken fn fha enntar ... ..,. 'b'ee l 3 h.: "S PUr-Street. I Went tiereto — seehim, a and Illheopfi'llanied by the Governor to the cell in which he te;,,tertic,ll,,ed• Whilst speaking to him, a little black and 1 'l7 ll -4 1 -d " placed i ts fore-paws upon his knees, and 14ipte"o?0,iek6hisbreeches, which were made of some 1 10e0 14. red velveteen. Observing this, the Governor t ''‘ 4 1 - 1 4 1. 411 to remove them. On afterward t s ni ho h ld w in a g s %,;:tltly,,?,he light, the front part of each thigh it to i t kb' at h bi - ',-, 4 , 14 e(1, and a little moisture soon 14, 41' 40 i0 '°"• The Governor remarked that p m ro y . v- do , wes IN, lie,„118 little fellow ; but I could not . own . h . im s w g fo . r e _l N 4: u' aA t before seen him ; and all the inquirie ter hi o h r i l Til Ue ntlY made could not discover a mas t he e loa" th e more extraordinary because a public g 4,0144: Posted at the gates of the prison fo bi ''lttli 4 to he °f dogs. In the evening I sent toth r erison 4 0 , 1, ~,,•"ave th e dog, as I had heard he had not been ‘'itg49,/Aells-remarkable to say—he as , A , IJ a p n a "'„ he tad entered, AND WAS N EVER AFTER ',II . r itz,,,, - ' III) Experiences of a Gaol Chaplain. e Z Ltt) so,ft,SICETCH OF PEEL. — Another curious feature e t Pal, vti to less than the political idiosyncrasy of h 4 ki: tt litli - theextreme facility with which he will.sacri -411 tor - 413 d Principle to his notions of expediency. 4 rjtiter"atnPle : — suppose yourself and a Liheral and 41 te tl l'e I'Qi ‘soba in company together ; and, in the course I l ti ' - fr t , ) l4- e r t s 4 a e ti°4, You say -- that - . three an d . five make eight, lk., ro y r Persons, having different ideas of a.rithme -14% t tb °"° take issue with you upon the point, and t ho e t t 4l k tt i . t itil'Fee and five make six : you appeal to the L lt e k L° p4 4l s opinion. He knows as well as ou that OthrgieC°ns are wrong and you right ; but h is notio ns n- N ha th O Y, and the profound conviction which he e t tli t I N at the few should yield to the many, preven I LN(l l t il ti esti on iv , hi a g a candid straightforward opinion , upon %,, b u NI nd he answers you in this way : 'M_ y 4 1 , es ' You must not strain these matters too far. t io hk 4v e s ' You ~ k -,ti.- tr ial( --aye good reasons for saying that three fla,ltits 'se e ight ; and my other friends also have ee . Cher reasons for saying that three and . five 'oi l ' In • bzterefore, I should recommend both parties to _ to t4u, satin .Itiektit dothgttl.airt s t h h o r n e o e lrdd an r d i emake seven ; and, if I V: t tcl, , ? t he Doint, • recommend you, my old boy, prevent its being further I °.• p,.,lPhe po o l i i of eLiboerals, by Gabriel Good ' intect for Private Circulation. THE ARCHITECTURE OF LIVERPOOL AESTHE TICALLY CONSIDERED. (From Tait's Magazine for April.) We are at the landing quay, opposite St. Nicholas' Church, a modern Gothic composition, sufficiently ricketty in itself, but which, contrasted with a structure rising near by, called the Tower Buildings, has assumed a solid and substantial appearance. This building, which is in the Italian style, is slim, narrow, and feeble, and extremely faulty in composition. The proportions of the solids to the openings are inharmonious, the windows are squat, the mouldings and modillions are feeble, and, with the exception of the door. piece, which is really good, the whole design is an inartistic piece of patch work. A tower rises at the corner—thin, and perforated like the handle of a wicker basket. By the introduction of a massive arch in the basement, this might have been rendered a bold and striking object, but it is rut up and frittered away into rows of little windows ; while a thin cornice, with stone modillions, is carried round, having nothing to support, and, of course, quite out of place. This tower is used for telegraphic signals; and strangers ought to have had their attention arrested by a structure honoured in being the medium of transmitting, almost with the rapidity of thought, important intelligence to and from the most dis tant quarters of the globe. Passing along towards Dale-street, our attention is ar-' rested by the Royal 11:iik, a structure in the Italian style, which must have cost a large sum, but the effect of which has been somewhat marred by the introduction of a num ber of vertical lines. Horizontal massing is required in the Italian as well as in the Grecian styles of architecture, and. when then• tosses are rut up rectangularly, the effect j is perplexing and disagreeable. In North John-street, we find another new facade—the Royal Insurance Office. This structure is in the florid Italian style—a style which ought to be left to the fine material, and clear, cloudless skies of Italy, where it can be lighted up perpetually with golden sunshine; for such a style soon gets sadly begrimed amid the smoke and fog of Liverpool. The fenestration, however, of this building is good, the proportions ars harmonious, and one is led to regret that what might have been a very agreeable com position should have been overloaded with enrichment. The ornamental devices, moreover, are not what we ex pect to meet with in stone, but of a character such as is generally seen on backs of sideboards and sofas. Indeed, until we had learned the name cf the building, we had set it down as a successful attempt on the part of a furniture manufacturer to invest the house externally with the cha racter of the business to be carried on internally. In Fenwick-street, we were pleased with the Union Bank, a small but pure specimen of Grecian architecture. This structure has a portico in antes; the proportions seem correct, and the general effect is chaste and agreea ble. We were also much pleased with a building newly opposite, in Brunswick-street, called the Brunswick Buildings. This structure is after the Farnesi Palace in Rome, and has the requisite variety to arrest the eye, and the requisite regularity to satisfy the judgment. It has also a fine ornamental character, and in this respect con trasts favourably with the Fenwick Chambers in the street adjoining, which display the same ignorance of the prin ciples of composition so strikingly manifested in the Tower Buildings. Proceeding along Castle-street, we come to the Branch Bank of England, a building possessing considerable The details are all Well drawn and tied ; but there is a want of harmony between In this structure, there is a combi .nd this must have increased the claims to attention carefully tini the general mass , nation of various difficulty o producing a harmonious whole For example, . the columns and rusticated antic facing Castle-street are too massive for the weight they have to carry ' • the open pediment or attic being so far back from the front line, that, apparently, it has no connection with the heavy un derwork. The general effect of the side of the building towards Cook-street is very superior, and the Venetian windows formed by the three large arches are exceedingly noble and imposing. On the whole, this structure seems the work of an accomplished architect, although the inte rior is dark and gloomy, certainly not the most appropriate qualities for banking purposes. The Commercial Bank Buildings, immediately adjoin ing, form a fine lofty structure, which in its general effect reminds one of the continuous and unbroken masses found in Ancient Greece. denendine for effect entirely nn simnle harmonic proportion, and, consequently, a ture. The stado, or lower division of the building, how ever, is rather flat and tame, and would have been much improved by being executed in rusticated ashlar. It would then have formed a basement worthy of the fine range of Corinthian pilasters, entablature, balustrade, and vases, which it supports. The vases might well be dispensed with, and figures substituted, with excellent effect ; indeed we could conceive nothing finer than the sky-line of this edifice, if broken by a range of well-sculptured figures — as it is, the sky-line is good, and has been assisted by the tasteful manner in which the chimneys are grouped, and the introduction of an ornamental arch, which gives a coup de grace to the entire building. The structure is also apparently increased in altitude by the manner in which the fenestration has been proportioned, the upper windows receding in the true perspective ratio. The in terior is light and elegant, and the enrichments are intel ligible and appropriate. St. George's Hall and the Assize Courts are by far the most important and imposing of the public buildings in Liverpool ; and, in general conception, an advancement on any adaptation hitherto made of Greek architecture in this country. The façade and colonade towards the east, with their beautiful proportions and unbroken horizontal extension, fill the eye with unmingled delight, and excite universal admiration. The south ✓ portico is equally feli citous, and, if the pediment were enriched with sculpture, conceived and executed in a kindred spirit, would be the finest feature in the building. It is a pity that the cur vilinear form of the north circular end does not harmonise with the rectangular simplicity of the other parts, and that the central attic is so dead and heavy. The fenestration of the west side, with its open screen, although well pro portioned, suggests another style of building ; but we suppose the arrangement of the interior rendered such innovation indispensable. All the details are exquisitely drawn, modellel, and finished, and we sincerely trust that the interior will be completed in accordance with the conception of the young and talented architect, whose premature death deprived Britain of one of her most pro mising artists. The New Philharmonic Hall, in Myrtle-street, now advancing to completion, is a noble and imposing struc ture, characterised, both externa'ly and internally, by mplicity of arrangement . . style of this building is Roma-Italian, or Palladian, and being placed on an elevated position, at the junction of two streets, its fine proportions are seen to advantage. Both fronts have arched arcades in the ground story, having pilasters with impost piers, and archivoltes between. Between the under and upper divisions a bold and effective string-course is introduced, and the mezzanine under the upper windows is pannelled with consoles. The divisions of the open and solid work are well arranged, and the fenestration is very harmonious. The building is sur rounded with an enriched frieze with bold consoles. and an effective cornice, and the sky-line, is formed by an anti-fixa, the angles terminating with ornamental lyres, which, however, are not so graceful as could be wished. The music-room is, we believe, the largest in England, being nearly 150 feet in length, and above 100 feet in breadth. The ceiling has the character of the Roman Basilica, with elevated centre and lower side aisles : and this has been accomplished by the introduction of prodigious trusses of new and original construction, superseding the necessity of columns or arches, and leaving the vast area entirely open without any obstruc tion. The acoustics of this fine room seem to have been well considered, as on our visit we heard the worktnen at the extreme diagonal corner conversing in their usual tone of voice. The arrangement of waiting rooms, refresh ment rooms, and promenades, together with the modes of egress, are all excellent, and, on the whole, we arc dis posed to consider this one of the most successful attempts hitherto made to combine convenience and elegance in architecture. The Collegiate Institution, in the Tudor Gothic style, is excellent in general effect, but in detail very defective. The corbels of the oriel windows are clumsy and squat, and the oriels themselves want elevation. The terminals of the buttresses resemble chimney stalks, and are much too light for the massive forms below. The entrance-ball and corridors are dark and gloomy, suggesting the idea of the cloisters of the dark ages, and out of keeping with the enlightened philosophy taught in this institution. The façade at the railway station is broken up in a manner highly objectionable ; but the Stowe railway sta tion, in the Italian style, is striking in the general effect, and the interior rooms well adapted for comfort and convenience. The Sailors' Home, in the Elizabeth style, now in progress, will apparently form a very good feature. This styl e is indigenous to England, which first rose to maritime importance in the reign of Elizabeth, and hence, for a sailor's home, the style is peculiarly appropriate. The ground on which the building stands is awkward and angular, but this difficulty in perspective has been suc cessfully avoided by an ingenious introduction of curved lines. THE LIBERAL IN RELIGION (From " The Book of Liberals, by Gabriel Goodfellow ; printed for Private Circulation.") In a former chapter we mentioned that the Liberal author was very prone to record—and not even seldom to fabricate—divers matters to the disparagement of the clergy. We may here observe that the religious Liberal (as also, and perhaps more especially, the Liberal in re ligion), when he meets with a ficti on o f thi s ki n d, en j oys a spasm of extraord inary pleasure and applauds immode rately ; but if he meets with a work whose tendency is to make manifest the usefulness of the Established Church, and to place it in advantageous contrast with any class of sectarians, then, although " strongly attached to the Church," he forthwith exclaims—" What a pity to dis parage honest, conscientious Dissent, by such means as this ! It is in very bad taste —nay, it is ill-judged and impolitic ; for we should recollect that such arms may be turned against us." Profoundly considerate and thought ful man !—how can you be so oblivious as to forget w h a t has happened over and over again ? How can you be ignorant of the fact, patent to every eye but yours, that these are the weapons which have already been used, many a time and oft, against us ; and which, after muc h forbearance, are at length turned agFnst an old implaca ble aggressor ? Consummate . yet blind, m us t b e the im pudence which attempts to impose on men of common sense by such manifest and evident hypocrisy. There can be no mistake as to which side enlists the sympathies of the Liberal. Any one may see the worth of an attachment which can co-exist with such a decided penchant for the enemy ; but we could afford to smile at this dishonesty of the Liberal in religion—we could afford to pass it over as a natural and consistent trait of a cha racter which, taken all in all, is but a mass of disingenu ousness and trickery—yes, we could afford to contemplate it without annoyance or surprise, were it not too- often combined with hostile feelings towards religion as well as enmity against the Church: nay, we are mucluniataken. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. if hatred of religion does not, in many cases, excite the Liberal to attack the Church ; because the Church is a main instrument for preserving tangible, fixed, distinct, intelligible, and correct notions of Christian doctrine and Christian duty, as opposed to the cloudy mysticisms, the vague generalities,• and the lawless license of free thinking Rationalism. We May he wrong—we hope we are; but we fear there is only too much probability of our being right, when we view the effects of Liberalism in religion. Whether we regard the philosophic Socinians—those men of morality who reject the greatest truth of Christianity —or whether we turn our eyes to the Mormon priests of immorality, who, acknowledging the main truths of Christianity, en graft thereon a mass of impious absurdities—or whether - we look at the disciples of Robert Owen, who change the names of virtue and vice, putting bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter—or whether we glance at the proceedings of the most ardent Liberals of the present French Repub lic, who, in their potations, combine, with audacious blasphemy, the sacred name of Christ with those of Julian the apostate, Cataline the conspirator, Rousseau, and Robespierre —we cannot doubt but that, in number less cas's, a fiendish hatred of Christianity impels the blows that are aimed against the Church. Let the Libe ral ponder this : it may be of more moment to him than the humiliation cf a monarch, the fall of a dynasty, the • verthrow of• a %,thurch, or even the vindication of the political rights of his friends—" the people !" SLEEPLESS BECAUSE CRIMINAL One of tl-e most fearful instances we remember ever to have read of the relentless operation of remorse, is the case of Reston, who, being left heir to a large for tune by the will of a friend, after making. several un successful attempts to poison his friend, at t managed to place poison , ithin his reach, under circumstances which led to him taking it instead of medicine, by mis take. The consequence is thus related in the " Experi ences of a Goal Chaplain," just published. . " It was singular," observed Dr. Todrigg, emphatically, " and no less singular than true, that Reston ceased to be happy the moment he ceased to be dependent. The gaiety and cheerfulness of manner, once so natural to him, fled. The merry laugh and humorous reply, so often the provocative to mirth in others, were never heard. He looked a saddered, joyless, despondent man. His family said he had never recovered the shock of Sir Carroll's death, to whom he was devotedly attached ;' his apothecary maintained that the sudden and surprising change in his worldly circumstances had unnerved his sys tem.' I adopt neither opinions" said Dr. Todrigg shrewdly ; but he was a curious specimen of a fortu nate young man,' when his friends placed him under my special charge. And now observe the folly of which educated people are guilty, and the pains which they take to mislead the man by whose advice they profess them selves desirous to be directed. When young Reston was confided to my care, his previous history was carefully withheld from me. He was even introduced under my roof with a feigned name. I asked the particulars of his case, and received for answer that he had unexpectedly suc ceeded to considerable property, and was labouring under undue nervous excitement. A secluded village in Somer setshire, nestling under the Cheddar Hills, was to be his temporary home, and thither 1 was required to accompany him. Promises of ample remuneration were held out to me if success attended my course of treatment ; but no medical regimen would reach his case. Take what exer cise he might during the day, he could not sleep. Pend ing the three months he was with me, I have my doubts whether he ever had, at any one time, two hours of sound. refreshing, continuous sleep. And when, per chance, his weary eyelids closed, and a snatch of repose of some twenty or thirty minutes was granted him, he talked ;ncessantly. During the day he was taciturn, reserved and guarded ; but when he slept—if sleep it could be called—his loquacity was continuous. Of this I had ample means of judging. His sleeping-room com municated with mine—there were obvious reasons why such an arrangement was desirable—and the moment he was locked in slumber, his burdened spirit relieved itself. He would commence in a low murmuring, which gradu ally deepened in strength and volume till his exclamations became painfully distinct. am not to blame—it was his own act and deed —No ! I did not offer it.—l wasn't with him.—lt was his own blunder.—How came the phial there ?—How ! Why am I to tell ?—I won't, I won't.' A succession of shrieks would follow ; and in the midst of these he wakes. At another time he would break out with —' Ask me no questions!-1 intend to keep my own secret !—Yes ! he grew thinner and thinner.—What have I to do with that ?—They say you have killed him ? False ! False !—He killed himself !—D'ye ye hear ? he killed himself !—Oh ! it was cleverly done—cleverly done indeed ! Ha! ha! ha!' And in the midst of a peal of lauzhter, horrible to hear, the poor wretched creature would wake, nor close his eyes again for hours." " And what became of him ultimately ?" FATAL COACH ACCIDENT.—On Thursday, when the three horse coach, which runs between Blair-Athol and Perth, reached the new railway bridge near Stanley, be tween Dunkeld and Perth, the leader, at a sharp angle of the road, became a little restive, and taking the turn rather quickly, the coach was suddenly upset. The driver, William Cameron, was killed on the spot, and one of the outside passeners, a traveller, so severely hurt that he died within an hour after the accident. SINGULAR RAILWAY ACCIDENT.-A luggage train on Thursday afternoon ran into some sheep which had strayed on to the Midland line at Wigston, and killed two or three of them. On the arrival of the train at the next station (Leicester) it was found that by some means a sheep had been forced into the fire-box and was still alive, although the wool was burnt off its back, its ears from its head, and even holes burnt through the skin. It was immediately killed and put out of its torture. This would beat the American " cow-ketcher," were it not for the sufferings the poor sheep must have undergone.—Leicester Mercury. _ A coi;espondent of the Daily News says that some ex citement exists in Winchester respecting the dropping of a life on which a lease was held of one of the great titles of St. Cross's Hospital, and which has just now taken place. The fine to be paid to the hospital for the renewal of the lease is about £13,440, which is to be shared among the master, chaplain, steward, and the brethren of the hospital. Each of the thirteen brethren will receive twopence in the pound, or £l2O a-piece : the chaplain and steward, six pence - in the pound, or £360 a-piece ; the master, the Rev. the Earl of Guilford, will receive 16s. 10d. in the pound, or £11,520. A well-dressed man, named Ben. Smithson, engaged in restoring the painted glass at King's College Chapel. Cambridge, has been remanded en a charge of assaulting Mr. Quinlevan, a Roman Catholic priest in the town, by striking him over the head with a poker, after they had been engaged in conversation. It appears that Smithson was engaged to a young lady, named Alice Bovell, who was also a member of Mr. Quinlevan's flock, but the engagement was broken off, it is supposed by the inter- feren - ce of the priest. Much mystery has been added to the affair by the sudden death of the young lady, and whose remains are now undergoing a post mortem exami nation, on suspicion that she has been poisoned. At her Majesty's Theatre, on Thursday, a new ballet, called " Electra," was produced for the first time with much success. It is founded on an old classical story of the Pleiad who lost her lustre in consequence of her love for a mortal; but the scene is laid in modern Norway. In a melo-drama by Mr. Sterling Coyne, which was produced at one of the London theatres, some years ago, and in which the character of the Lost Pleiad was sustained by Mrs. Nisbett, the same principle of treatment was adopted. The principal dancers are Carlotta Grisi and Marie Taglioni. The ballet is the production of M. Paul Taglioni, and the scenery by Marshall, is described as being very beautiful. THE REV. G. S. BULL ON THE ODD FELLOWS.—The Rev. G. S. Bull, whose consideration for all the best in.. terests of the working considerable influence, thus editor of the Birmingham Journal, in reply to statements put forward in defence of the Manchester Order of Odd Fellows :—" I have no alternative but to conclude as I do, with unfeigned regret, that this vast body is, on the whole, and as a unity, insolvent—is deceiving itself, or deceiving the working classes, or doing both the one and the other; and must inevitably, and before very long, crumble under its own weight, pressing upon erroneous or insufficient payments, bad government, and the manifold evils of public-house connection." _ THEFT OF THREE HUNDRED POUNDS.—At the Central Criminal Court, London, one day last week, an elegantly attired and lady-like-looking woman, whose name was embellished by several aliases, was sentenced to ten years' transportation, under an indictment charging her with stealing a parcel containing £3OO, in gold and silver, from an inn in London, where the parcel had been left to be _ _ forwarded to the Luton branch of the London and County Bank. The prisoner, who is connected wits " swell mob," became acquainted with the fact of the parcel being deposited in the bar of the inn, and made a representation to introduce herself into the room, and whilst in the act of substituting a "dummy" parcel for the veritable one, she was taken into custody. It transpired at the trial that the prisoner had been concerned in numerous robberies with a man who followed a systematic course of plunder, and who, by his nefarious practices, had obtained upwards of £40.000: OPENING OF THE NEW DOCK AT GLOUCESTER.—On Wednesday the vessels in the old dock were decorated with their flags. At twelve o'clock, the Torrance, Rowe, of Wexford, from Constantinople, entered the new dock, with her yards manned and colours flying, guns firing, and cheers from an immense concourse of persons assem bled for the occasion. She was followed by English, French, Prussian, Austrian Hanoverian, and Dutch ves sels, some of which immediately commenced discharging toeir cargoes :into trucks on the railway, which were in readiness. The persons employed at the basin were after wards entertained at the joint expense of the Canal Com pany, and Mr. Guest, the contractor. The new basin nearly doubles the quayside accommodation, and there are two additional cranes, each capable of lifting upwards of 20 tons. At present the basin will be appropriated to the discharge of cargoes sent by rail, which accommodation s much req At the Marlborough-street Police-office, on Thursday, a middle-aged woman, who gave the name of Caroline Charlot`e Carlisle, and who has recently assumed the title of the Countess of Ca ham, charged with having intruded herself into the house of Sir Charles Forbes, of 9, Fitzroy-square, while in a state of intoxication. The magistiate ordered the pri soner to be detained, supposing her to be insane, and shortly afterwards a note, signed " B. Bouch," was re ceived, stating such was the fact. It turned out, however, in the course of a short time, that the prisoner, in com pany with another female, who acted as her servant, bad carried on a systematic and ingenious process of swindling. The insanity was assumed to facilitate the object aimed at, as occasion might require. When it did not suit, the pri soner passed as Mrs. Wetherelt, a friend of the Earl of Carlisle, and by giving orders upon him for payment, ob tained goods from various tradesmen to an immense amount. The prisoner and her attendant were remanded. SNOW STORM IN LONDON. — An extraordinary change took place on Tuesday in the weather. In the afternoon, between two and three o'clock, the metropolis was visited by a heavy fall of snow. At first the snow descended very gently, but in less than half an hour it was suffici ently dense to lead one to suppose that April had given place to December, for the remainder of the day presented keener indications of winter than we have hitherto ex perienced during the season. It was not a little curious to observe the omnibuses and their drivers clad in frosty white; and the budding trees in the parks and gardens exhibited an aspect equally anomalous. The morning being fine and spring -like, people walked about in cos tumes adapted for a continuation of genial weather; and the gay apparel of the ladies, which had borne the reflec tion of a glowing sun, suddenly assumed a most cheerless and uncomfortable appearance. In the course of the afternoon► the sky cleared up, but the sun disdained to shine ; and at a late hour last night we were favoured by another visitation of snow much more intense than the first. In a very few minutes the streets bore all the out ward signs of cold and dreary winter.—London Paper. STOWE PARK.-The work of demolition has again com menced on the extensive and still beautiful domains of Stowe. Hundreds, or thousands, of trees of all kinds are doomed to the axe, though not, as before, to the auc tioneer's hammer. Already the roads and walks are in tercepted with prostrate trees in the gardens, of which they have been the pride and glory for generations ; and it is painful to witness the havoc made by timber-waggons on the once well-kept lawn and glades. The only trees that have any mercy shown them at present are the oaks, but their doom will comebefore a month has passed, when the sap having risen the bark may be torn from their trunks. It will require a series of years to extirpate all the useful timber from the estate, as it can only be cut down when purchasers can be found for it. Another sypmtom of de cline in the good old town of Buckingham, during the past week, has shown itself in dismantling the well-known inn, the Cobham Arms, which has been the scene of poli tical and municipal feasts for about a century, and a post ing and coach-office as long. It is now to be converted into a bank, under the auspices of the London and County Banking Company, whose agent will open his commission there as soon as the necessary alterations are completed. " So much for Buckingham."—Oxford Journal. NAVIGATION OF THE SEVERN UP TO WORCESTER.— A special meeting of the Worcester Chamber of Commerce was held on Saturday night, with the view of memoria lizing the Hon. the Commissioners of her Majesty's Cus toms to make an order for constituting the city of Wor -qter, for navigation purposes, a part of the port of Glo- The memorial showed that great inconvenience had been experienced by the merchants of Woreester in receiving their goods from foreign ports and from the coast through the ports of Glocester, Bristol. and Liver pool; that the expense and delay of transhipment at the custom-houses was attended with great inconvenience; that the population of Worcester and the surrounding district (including many large towns) was far greater than the city of Glocester and its neighbourhood ; that it had been proved, within the last few days, by the arrival of the Two Brothers, from Dunkirk, that sea-borne vessels mop proceed up the Severn as far as Worcester, and that therefore a direct communication with foreign countries and the coast was of the utmost consequence to the dis trict of which Worcester is the centre ; and that for these reasons it would be highly desirable to place that city on the same footing as the town of Lydney and other places which were considered as creeks of the port of Glocester, and which were not therefore subject to those obstructions of which the memorialists complained. The memorial adopted ananimo 3ENTINCK TESTIMONIAL.—The committee, after meetings, have at length decided in favour of zn of Mr. Thomas Hine, architect, of Notting. Eionument is to be placed in the centre of irket-place, which is about half-way between and Welbeck Abbey. The memorial is to namented Gothic structure, about fifty feet ,tyle that prevailed in the fourteenth century. 3n the base, and occupies a space, includ twenty feet square. The whole is di e compartments, or stages, the lowest estal ; the centre a gabled canopy, sup buttreses and clustered columns ; the spire-roof, pierced with traceried and terminated with a gilded vane. The sists of a flight of steps, surmounted by an 1 containing shields with the armorial family of Lord George, and a deeply ed set-off to receive the buttresses and columns of )py. At the four angles of the set-off are pedes mounted by lions in a sitting posture, supporting aeon which also will be emblazoned the arms of iily. The gables of the canopy are filled with work, and contain_ carvings emblematical of the ,peated his lordship specially advocated. The whole of the pinnacles, gables, .and spire-lights are co vered with crockets. iilterest A YOUNG TRAVELLER TO THE SCOTCH HILLS.—On Tuesday, a child two years and ten:months old, daughter of Mr. Macqueen, Dalless, Streens, Nairnshire. wandered from home without being missed for some time, after which a fruitless search was made for her on the farm during the remainder of the day and the whole of the following night. At noon, on Wednesday, she was found by two persons on the top of a hill, on the Cawder side of the Streens, nearly six miles distant from her father's house. The little wanderer, when discovered, was much exhausted, but when it is considered that, besides being exposed during the night, she must have encountered ;m -mense difficulties, from the nature of the ground she tra versed, for one of her tender age, before she attained the height at which she was found, it seems almost incredible that she could have survived the fatigue of her arduous journey. But we are glad to learn that she has now quite recovered from the effects of her perilous situation.— Weekly Register. EXTRAORDINARY SCENE IN A CHURCH.—One Of th most extraordinary scenes which, under the circuin-' ever disgraced an assembly of professing • place in Burnley on Easter Tuesday. Mr. Brign, alone in his disreputable attacks upon Church ministe. nor is Rochdale now the only town in Lancashire o which it can be said, in Dr. Molesworth's words, that moh has been produced "so lost to Ail -'-- nothing of good English or Christiln not only a defenceless individual, but cause he exercised his right of following th his own judgment." Neither is Mr. Brio.' " mouthpiece of a misguided rabble, in the Parish Chn , -ch with 11 ces istians, tool Icy, to a clergyman, b clapping, and did interrupt the parish groans, and hissings, and laughter, and the sacred edifice which they never en Bad,—foul to the last extreme as a under Bright at I en exceeded 6y other and More shameful proceedingsat Burnley. Lingua of the worst kind—a rush, to tear the minister from I place —a fierce struggle on Me steps of the font—" colla ing and hauling," like blackguards in a street row crushed and broken hats, kicks and blows, with me than the noise, violence, barely put an end to by t the iom . meneeme whose peace had been so odiously, so he " WHAT'S IN A NAME ?"—A number we believe,—bearing• the same na me of B each other in a certain locality in the Dumfries ; and this led to a somewhat on Friday. One of the Eentlemen s clock, which was rather mit of order a respectable Istruations to Off aker in town to put it in _ went one of the assi,ta n t s , an d, rapp i ng a t a door in the above locality, told his message, and received the clock, which he brought duly to his master's shop. He had gone to the wrong F clock who was absent when it was taken away, havii turned, was vexed and astonished at the loss of his hle timekeener_ for he at nnra evsrlf.lll,-1..1 thnr a 1,..1 was nowhere to be found. vidual, but luckily, befor ie despairing owner oft 41. , dentally stepped into th e wat c hmakers, and thing that met his gaze w a s th e f am ili ar family looking into his face like an old acquaintance. tions were soon entered into: the wrong clock stored ; and the right one. which was wror works, was obtained from the richt Mr. Bro amicably terminated this per Standard COUNCIL ANt —Dumfries of Cot " I returned him to his friend not forbear remarking that he required . the divine more than the physician.' " and, as I did so, could "And hi;end?" "Oh ! he still lives—abroad, I understand, and under restraint ; but his bodily health is little, if at all, iaraired." " A sad history !" " Yes, Mr. Cleaver, but it points its moral. I never think of Reston without feeling that there is a worse ill than poverty—than disappointed expectations— than blighted prospects—than false friends—the ill of a guilty conscience, burdened with a load of unrepented sin. This reconciles me to my threadbare coat at any time. Erneval i t~flldn Serjeant Wilkins has contributed £25 to th politan Financial Reform Association. Metro- The Grimsby Docks are expected to be completed by the summer of 1851. A detailed account of the alleged marriage of Jenny Lind at Bath has been going the round of the papers. There is no truth, however, in the report. It is understood to be the intention of Government to extend the powers of the County Courts to £3O or £5O, giving at the same time an equitable jurisdiction. - The Duke of Wellington entered the 33d as ensign 17th March, 1787. He has accordingly held a commission sixty-two years, and is the oldest officer in her Majesty's service A public dinner was given to Mr. Charles Enderby, on Wednesday last, at the London Tavern, in testimony of his 1 borious and persevering services in laving the foun dation for the restoration of our Southern Whale Fishery. The Lind series of concerts at her Majesty's Theatre have been abandoned ; Madlle. Lind having consented to suspend her intention of retiring from the stage, and to appear in a series of performances in lieu of such concerts. A professional beggar-lad, in Glasgow, aged ten or eleven years exhibited himself several days in succession, with a board before him imploring alms on the ground that he had been " left with a family !" Unable to read, he had bought a wrong ticket. GUTTA PERCHA TUBING.—A coil of tubing, 950 feet in length, has just been manufactured by the Gutta Percha Company for a gentleman in Warwickshire to convey the supply of water from the park reservoirs to his mansion-house. A verdict of manslaughter has been returned against three men, named Wilds, Large, and Ingham, at Hert ford, for killing William Bosten in a pugilistic encounter, in which the former was principal, and the latter acted as seconds. Jenny Lind has divided £BOO between the Royal and Female Societies of Musicians, the Choral Fund, and the Government Benevolent Institution, as the proceeds of her performance in the " Creation" at Exeter Hall for charitable purposes. _ _ _ . . During the past year there were sold of the conscript song " Jeannette and Jeannot," and of the conscript polkas and quadrilles, between ninety-four and ninety-five thousand copies, realising, it is said, a profit of upwards of £5,000 to the publishers. William Scolla - rd and his brother John, egg-dealers at Bermondsey, were tried for setting fire to a dwelling house. The men fired their shop in more than one place, at night, while twenty-three lodgers were in the house. The evidence was very strong, and the Jury quickly gave a verdict of " Guilty." The sentence was transportation for life. Grisi returned to the boards of Covent Garden on the evening of Tuesday, in her great part of Semiramide, and is said to have acted and sung with more than her usual power and brilliancy. A new debutante of great conti nental reputation, Mademoiselle Angri, appeared in Arsace. She has been equally celebrated as a contralto and a soprano. On Wednesday, a young man named Adam Andrew Young, a writer's clerk, absconded from Dunfermline, in company with an elderly man, taking with him £490. On Thursday morning, the fact was telegraphed to Liver pool, and, within two hours after, both parties were appre hended, 5460 recovered, and a return message received by the Edinburgh authorities. The Conde de Montemolin has returned safely to the metropolis, from his recent escapade on the Spanish frontier. He was escorted through France by officers of the republican army with a speed and secrecy which awakens a suspicion that his immediate exit across the frontier was deemed desirable by the French President. He has now resumed his part of flaneur at the West End. A mother and child have perished in the Thames at Reading. The woman was the wife of a labourer at Lower Haversham ; she had been to Reading to buy gro ceries ; her basket was found on a slight wooden bridge which spans a cascade of the stream ; it is supposed th the child—a girl six years old—by some means fell inl the water, and then the mother was drowned in attemp ing to rescue her. CHARGE OF EMBEZZLING NEARLY .£5,000. Leeds Court House, on Thursday, Mr. Peter Mann, who has been chief clerk of the Leeds Waterworks Corn since its incorporation, upwards of seven years ago, v brought up in custody, having been apprehended (- previous day by a warrant, which charged him - ing received various sums of money, amounting to £SOC the property of his employers, and embezzled the same. THE NEW COMETS. - Mr. Graham, of Mr. Cooper Observatory, Markree Castle, Sligo, and M. Goujon, the Observatory at Paris, have written to Mr. Hind, Mr. Bishop's Observatory, Regent's-park, notifyii discovery of two new comets ; Mr. Graham's being sent situated in Bootes, and M. Goujon's in the constella tion Crater. Both comets, it is said, are in very favourablo positions for observation during the absence of moonlight It is a singular fact that Mr. Noel's first appearanc after leaving the Church of England should be in Regent square Scotch Church, the trust-deeds of which bind i to the Established Church of Scotland ; and though a present occupied by a Free Kirk minister, in spite of it plain trust, Tet its deeds provide that none shall be suf fermi to officiate in it but a licentiate or ordained ministe of the Church of Scotland. Thus, Mr. doomed to Erastianism, notwithstanding his en, protest against it. There is, at least, singular incon tency in leaving. one " Erastian" Church, and rushing into. the pulpit of another.—Record. Noel se THE COMMITTEE REPORTS.—A corr the Rev. G. A. D Secretar the Comr uestion whether tt THE INSPEC transmitted, as is the pract of Council, or whether ti directly, according to the terms of the a into in 1840, expressed in the Orde Aug. 10, 1840, as follows :—" We are f that each of the said inspectors, at the s )uld n ats any report rehiting to such in connexion with the 3rent. a htheC t be tr National S Archpishop of the province, and should also send a col to the Bishop of the diocese in which the school is situat for his information." Mr. Denison has given notice vernment Inspector into his school until the above stipu• lations shall be strictly complied with, or the deviatior be formally sanctioned in writing by the Archbishop anc by his Diocesan. The Committee of Council, on the other hand, while declining to continue the co enforce their right of inspection in the school of 'East Brent. Mr. Denison has also given notice that, at the annual meeting of the National Society, he will make an addition to division 2, of the first of the resolutions to be moved by him, which will run as follows :—" Provided always that such inspection shall not e respect depart from, to the prejudice o the agreement of 18. GREAT GP Br DOCKS, ---1 The first stone of the new the presence of a large number of nobility and gentlemen. His Royal Highness arrived on the previous evening, and was the guest of the Earl of Yarborough, at whose man sion he received various addresses. In the morning he was drawn to the precincts of the dock in a first class carriage by 100 stout navvies, and proceeded to lay the stone, about 50,000 spectators being present. A splendid dejeune'r, was served up in a pavilion erected in the neighbourhood of the dock, and after the usual loyal toasts had been given, and others more immediately con nected with the undertaking, h's royal highness left the pavilion and immediately proceeded to Buckingham Pa lace. The weather was very unpropitious, a heavy fall of snow taking place during the ceremony. At the banquet Prince Albert replied as follow his health was drunk :—" My Lord, I return you my most sincere thanks that any exertions of mine should have met with your approbation, and to you, ladies and gentlemen, for the great marks of cordiality and kindness with which you have received the toast (cheers). We have been laying the foundation of a dock, not only as a place of safety, refuge, and refitment for our mercantile marine, and calculated to receive the largest steamers of her Majesty's navy, but it may—and I trust it will—be the foundation of a great commercial port (loud cheers). This work, in future ages, when we shall long have quitted the scene, and when, perhaps, even our names shall be forgotten, (cries of " No, no, never,") will, I hops h...r.rrta 4,1 VI OW north.. of liF. wrifh +1 ing commerce of the world, and a most important link in the connexion of the east and west. (Great cheering.) I have derived the deepest gratification from this visit, as it has brought me for the first time to the county of Lin coln, so celebrated for its agricultural pursuits, and show ing so fine an example of the energy of the national character, which, in this county, has succeeded in trans forming the most unhealthy swamps into the richest and most fertile lands. (Cheers.) I could not, I am sure, possibly have seen finer specimens of Lincolnshire farming than have been shown to me by your noble chairman and my esteemed friend—(cheers)—who has not only made me acquainted with the most recent improvements carried on in this county, but also with the gratifying state of the relations between landlord and tenant existing here, which I hope may become an example to be followed in time throughout the kingdom. (Loud cheers.) Here it is felt that the mutual advantage of both does not depend on a mere written letter of agreement—(cheers)—but on that mutual trust and confidence which has always been con sidered a sufficient security to warrant the extensive outlay of capital and energy necessary to the carrying out of farming operations on a large scale. (Continued cheer ing.) I now, in conclusion, beg to propose to you a toast which I am sure you will be all anxious to drink with me— " Prosperity to the Great Grimsby Dock." (Cheers.) Several other toasts having been drunk, the meeting rose, and his royal highness returned to London, which he reached at a quarter before ten o'clock. EXECUTION OF SARAH HARRIET THOMAS, The wretched criminal Sarah Harriet Thomas under went the extreme sentence of the law at ten o'clock on Friday. The scaffold was erected over the great gates of the gaol. The scene throughout was a most painful one. On Thursday night four female turnkeys sat up with the prisoner, and between twelve and one o'clock on Friday morning she partook of a mutton chop. She afterwards lay down for about an hour or so, but the turnkeys are of opinion that she did not sleep. For breakfast she only had some tea, and refused to take anything to eat. The chaplain arrived at seven o'clock, and she seemed more attentive than before to her religious duties. Half an hour previous to the execution, the governor of the gaol an nounced to her the painful duty which he had to perform, and said he hoped she would accompany him to the place of execution quietly. She stamped with her foot several times, and said she would not go. She seemed almost frantic, and at the time appointed the governor was com pelled to procure the assistance of six or seven men, who led her into the press-yard. She resisted all the time. In the press-room, at the suggestion of the chaplain, she asked the governor to give her love to her father. After having been pinioned she walked without assistance as far as the drop, but afterwards she was obliged to be led up the ladder by two of the turnkeys. She struggled violently and shrieked in a dreadful manner. When Cal craft, the executioner, put the rope round her neck she exclaimed, " The Lord have mercy upon me ! I hope my mother and none of my family are present." Imme diately afterwards the bolt was withdrawn, and she was launched into eternity. The following is her confession of the circumstances of the murder, signed by her own hand : " Two days before the murder was committed Miss Jefferies called me up to her bedroom and attempted to strike me. She also locked me in the kitchen during the whole of the night. At five o'clock in the morning she unbolted the door and told me to make a fire in her room. I thought then to have struck her, but did not do so. On the following night I slept in her room, but did not contemplate murdering her till between five and six o'clock in the morning, when I got up. went down stairs, and returned with a stone, with which, whilst Miss Jef feries was sleep, I struck her on the head three times. Be tween the second and third blow she made some sort of a noise, and the last words I heard her say were, ' Christ God 1' I then dressed myself, robbed the house, flung the dog down the privy, locked up the house, and went home. I committed the mur der and robbed the house with my own hands, and no one else had anything whatever to do with it: neither did I mention having done so to any person. I regret exceedingly having committed so horrid a crime, and I pray to the Almighty God for forgiveness. I never should have committed so areadful a crime had Miss Jefferies conduct been less provoking. After Miss Jefferies had died I remained in the room for more than an hour. I then went home, and did not return till about nine o'clock in the evening, when 1 went for two boxes, but did not go into mistress's room, On leaTingthebouse, I saw a strange m n standing opposite, who carried my boxes as far as the In firmary, for which I gave him 9d. I then took a fly and went home." Had it not been for the arrangements made by the au thorities it is probable that fearful accidents would have happened amongst the crowd of spectators. Strong barriers were placed in front of the gaol and at each &de, so as to prevent: the people fr om b e i ng d r i ven t owar d s t h e r i ver. The services of a strong body of police were also called into requisition. The conduct of the crowd was similar to what generally takes place at public executions ; some of the parties present were smoking, whilst others were laughing and jeering, until the clock struck the fatal hour, a solemn silence then prevailed, and every eye was anxiously directed towards the spot whence the unfortu nate creature was to emerge; so strenuous had been the exertions made by the inhabitants of the city to get the life of the convict spared that many persons imaginedthat a reprieve would be received. One petition was signed by 3,500 women of Bristol, and sent to Sir G. Grey. REPUBLICAN LIBERTY The following document illustrative of the political power of the Protector Cromwell, and th that power wa: days of incipient democracy. "A Copy of one of Oliver Cromwell's asmuch as upon the Dissoluti .me necessary ti summonses to of the late Par_ Baca, Safety, and be pro s feare are, good Government of this Commonv vided for ; and, in order thereunto, h lug God, and of approved Fidelity h BY MY SELF, with the advice of Officers, nominated, to whom the of soe mighty Affairs is to be committed; and having good Assurance of your Love to, and Courage for God, , nd the interest of his Cause, and of the good People of great ( ncil of td Trust this Commonwealth "I, OLIVER CROMWELL, Captain-General and Commander-in-Chiefe of all the Armies and Forces rais'd and to be rais'd within this Commonwealth, do hereby summon and require you, Edward Cludd, Esq., (being one of the Persons nominated,) personally to be and appear at the Council-chamber commonly known or called by the Name of the Council-Chamber at White hall, within the City of Westminster, upon the 6th Day ily next ensuing the date hereof; then and there to upon you the said Trust unto which you are hereby called and appointed to serve as a Member for the County of Nottingham, and hereof you are not to faile. Given under our Hand and Seal the 29th Day of June, 1653. " O. CROMWELL." affixed the Protector's s put into a cover and For Edward Cludd, Esq., In the margin of this letter ii. with his nwn arms it !dressed These, 0. CRO2IfirELL. e State. s have withthat current two centuries ago. Late tran sufficiently shown this to be true, for though act sponsible and tyrannical as the one cited may not have been committed, there has not been wanting the will; the power alone has been absent. The which impel all demagogues are ambition and D irre.. .prints of action. such lures is not sur- prising that men lay aside whatever small degree of honesty may have appertained to them in a subordinate sphere. No man ever advocated popular rights with more apparent integrity than did Cromwell at the outset of his career, yet he became a most arbitrary governor, when ever he found himself strong enough to act. But revert ing to the times in which this singular man lived ; it must be confessed that liberty was a mere name which he pro- claimed, to attain his own cm] s; nor was t leceeiiing reign much further in advance. It is to the illustrious rr:nce who brought about the revolution that Englishmen owe their present condition, both as regards politics and religion. The advent of William to these shores was the occasion at once of enlarged laws, as respected the social and ecclesiatical government of the nation, notwithstand ing the very parties who became emancipated by his ac cession have since so industriously maligned his memory. It may not, perhaps, be saying too much to attribute the tranquility that prevailed here, while surrounding count r ies • • . ., • . were eonvu part to the solidi►y and comprehensive nature of those heinstitu.ed for the consolidation of the poll- laws w LOCOMOTIVE WONDER.- POWER. OTIVE Count de Werdinslcy has communicated to the Mining - ' a discovery which he believes he has made, by which a convenient, inexpensive, and highly effective mo tive power can be obtained from xyloidine, or gun cotton. `le crowns this discovery by another, which he declares he ade in the course of experiments for rendering the first —nothing less than a miraculous principle by d locomotion is obtained without any sort of L. These are his words : " - I have been engaged in constructing an engine and locomotive, to be worked on the common roads by xylo idine, on the following plan :—Small quantities of xylo idine are exploded successively into a copper recipient of a efficacious propulsion Each separate explosion is adequate to produce, by means of double cylinders, a complete revolution of the crank. The object of the copper recipient is merely to allow the intense gases thrown into it room enough to ex pand, and thus to change their percussive intensity into a more gentle dynamic power, without in any way losing any of the quantity of that power. I can, therefore, let out from that copper recipient as Much of the gases, through a stop-cock, as would produce a pressure of from 30 to 60, or 1201bs. upon the square inch of the piston ; moreover, by the very heat accumulated in the metal of the recipient, the gases are kept up to their original strength, so that the longer the engine continues to work the greater the comparative economy of xyloidine, on ac count of the heat of the recipient and of the machinery, which serve to keep up great expansion, and consequently great power in the gases. " My experiments with a steam-engine of about 24- horse power, on the above principle, answered admirably; but while these experiments were going on I made a fur ther discovery, and this last one is merging almost on a miracle. The most prominent features of my last disco very are, that the propulsion of carriages on railroads, and on common roads, will be now effected without en gines, steam, fire, water, magnetism, air, or animal power, and propelling of ships without either of the above means, sails, or paddles, or any propellers whatever." IRELAND. -4- MURDER IN TIPPERARY.—A man named Maher was murdered at the Horse and Jockey, within three miles of Thurles, on Saturday week. We have been informed that a distress was made on his property for rent, and that a scuffle ensued between the deceased and the bailiffs, in which he lost his life. . _ A NOBLEMAN NOBLY EMFLOYED.—At the meeting of the Irish Sunday School Society, in Dublin, last week, Lord Roden, in the course of an excellent speech, said, " I became a teacher of a Sunday-school in 1819, and from that period up to the present, with, of course, the exception of being occasionally called away from it by various other duties, I have always been enrolled as one engaged in such an office, and I can sincerely say that the result of that object has fully answered every expectation and desire which the fondest feeling of my heart enter- tained. (Applause). Our Sunday-school now consists, upon an average, of about fifty boys and eighty girls ; I have the privilege of teaching the head class among the boys, now young men ; but in the course of instruction in the school we are now teaching the children of those who have been taught and sent out into the world from our school, and I could name several—l know many of them— . and there are many of the number whom I am not able to namg, but 1 trust I shall see them where their names shall appear as the fruits of the instruction which they received from the knowledge of that blessed book which is the grand object of Sunday-school teaching. I could name several of our Sunday-school scholars who never received any other instruction but what they derived from the Sunday-school, who are now filling most responsible and high stations in their sphere of life throughout different parts of the country. One or two of them are stewards of gentlemen who repose the greatest confidence in them ; others are filling menial offices as servants in houses; and I hear from those who employ them the greatest character." EFFECTS OF PROTESTANT AND ROI4ISH TEACHING.--' At a meeting of the Irish Society in Dublin last week, the Rev. Dr. Drew said, " It is beyond dispute that in the British empire ti.ere does not exist a town of such rapid improvement, considering its peculiar drawbacks, as the town of Belfast. Liverpool has always had great resources and en ample corporate revenue. Belfast has not had one shilling of revenue. Under its Protestant corporation it is thriving, and under the enterprise of its merchants it is rising rapidly into a city of greatness and renown. It stands on the verge of the two northern counties, Down and Antrim; of all the 32 counties of Ireland, these have the greatest number of Sunday schools. True, there are on the rolls of the Sunday-school Society for Ireland, 686 teachers in Connaught, and 8,657 scholars ; iu Mun ster, 1,799 teachers and 16,805 scholars ; in Leinster, there are 3,178 teachers and 33,588 scholars ; while in Ulster there are 14,987 teachers and 165,082 scholars ! total, 20,650 teachers and 224,132 scholars. This is an average of 645 teachers and 7,000 scholars to each county —but it would be absurd to lay any stress on an average here. The preponderance of numbers is altogether in Ulster, and in the two counties of Down and Antrim above others ; in fact, these two counties alone contain the one-third of all the scholars and of all the teachers in Ireland (cheers). Are we at any loss now to account for the strange prosperity which adorns these counties; for the religion, order, industry, and loyalty which abound there ? Why is Belfast, so connected with these counties, able to scatter many thousands of pounds over the distressed parts of Ireland, while she asks no charity for her own poor ? Here is a lesson for statesmen. Here is a subject for perplexed statesmen. They may not like to admit that the more they do for popery the less they thrive, and the less poor papists have cause to re joice. But like, as the investigation sent out by the Society for the Improvement of the Aborigine 3 found. .prosper!ty and. the Bible side by side, even so wo had Up Antrim and Down. May we only beware of sacrificing to our own ' net and drag Who can help wishing to see all men Protestants, and to see our island covered with churches and Sunday schools, when we find (account for it other wise if you will) that the more abundant the Sunday schools, the more abundant is spiritual and temporal prosperity—the less i need of bayonet and transportation— the less danger of i nsurrect ion, repeal clamour, and the tricks of demagogues."