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titerature, POETRY. BEAUTY. Men talk of beauty—of the earth and sky, • And the blue stillness of sweet inland waters, And search all language with a lover's eye For flower of praise to deck earth's glorious daughters. And it is well within the soul to cherish • Such love fur all things beautiful around. But there is beauty that can never perish— A hidden path no "vulture's eye *hath found. Vainly ye seek it who in Sense alone • Wander amid the sweets the world bath given ; • As vainly le who make the Mind the throne, While the Heart bends a slave, insulted, driven. Thou who wouldst know what beauty this can be, Look on the sunlight of the Soul's deep purity. —Hogg's Weekly Instructor. * " There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye bath not seen."—Job, xiviii. 7. THE REAPER AND THE FLOWERS, BY H. W. LONGFELLOW. There is a reaper, whose name is Death, And, with his sickle keen, He reaps the bearded g rain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between. " Shall I have naught that is fair?" said he; " Have naught bet the bearded grain? Though the breath cf these flowers is sweet to me, I will give them all back again." He gazed at the flowers with tearful eyes, He kies'd their drooping leaves; It was for the Lord of Paradise He bound them in his sheaves. " My Lei d has need of these flow'rets gay," The Reaper said, and smiled; " Dear tokens of the earth are they, Where He was once a child. " They shall all bloom in fields alight, Transplanted by my care, And saints, upon their garments white, These sacred blossoms wear." And the mother gave, in tears and pain, The flowers she most did love; She knew she would find them all again In the fields of light above. 0, not in cruelty, not in wrath, The Reaper came that day ; 'Twas an Angel visited the green earth, And took the flowers away. NOTICES. The Lord of the Manor ; or, Lights and Shades of Country Life. By Thomas Hall, author of " Raby Rattler," &o. London : William Shoberl, 20, Great _ Marlborough-street. 2 vols. . . . . To give an adequate description of the tale, or of the nu merous characters and striking incidents contained in these volumes, would be a work far beyond the limits of a newspaper critique. A little explanation, however, will be required to enable the reader to understand the ex tracts which we shall lay before him. The most promi nent character, and that which is first sketched for us by the author, is a youth named Jacky Stratton, a natural child of a Cheshire baronet. thrown at an early age upon the world, to live in a far greater measure upon his wits than upon the means afforded him by his dissolute mo ther, now become a Mrs. Brady. His education was of that heterogeneous description peculiar to many of the Lon don urchins. It " embraced a knowledge of the imitation of birds, cats, old-clothesmen ; chalk drawing of Newgate martyrs ; street preaching, chanting, whistling double, still-vaulting, single-stepping, boxing, aEd music. Those of the road were the driving of a dog-cart and pair, be longiug to a neighbouring knacker ; wheeling a barrow for a green-grocer woman ; and his most rustic accom plishment was shooting for cakes with a double-barrelled nut gun." At the age of twelve we find him introducing himself into the service and livery of a Dr. Benzoni, one of the cure-all tribe, to he found so numerous in the me: tropolis. This worthy is a most graphically painted cha racter. The following is the scene which takes glace on the occasion of JACKY'S HIRING TO DOCTOR BENZONI "Vas your mistressh, and the right honourable Mr. William Kentsh, very goodsh to you, then ?" " Too much so," said Jacky, lifting his pocket handkerchief to his eyes, " too much so." " Wotsh made yon leave for then ?" "Two of the hest people in the world, theirselves, but all around their es:ablishment—ah, sad example to one as has had a very moral trainin'." " Oh, wotsh, the other servants? too often the waysh in largsh establishmongs, like Lady Kentsh's : dosh the old ladysh every get very ill? wantsh doctor? Nervoush diseash. you see, I cure ; look at my booksh there — the 20.000 edition,' show her thatsh : soon make her ill : or, perhapsh, the hon ourable Mr. William Ketitsh—l shall allow you good percen taysh : that will be better than coining into my servish, don't you see, now? Dosh the honourable Mr. William Kentsh wantsh to buy a set of diamomish, or gold vatsh ? or—oh, I have all sort of things for young gentlemansh as ash been male me presents for my grand cures: isunk ! eh, votsh is your name ?" " John Stratford ;—.Tohn Stratford, when I'm hired." "Ah, very goodsh ; rarer aoodsh. Wells, instead of making a shervant of vcu, i will make a gentlehomme of you, if you will shell me those - preshents. It ish of no use, you know, keeping all the baubles ash the nobility force upon me." " Oh, I've no doubt I can effectuate sales of all them ere things ; but 1 should have to do it only in one way." "Veil, veil, the way, thensh ?" said the doctor, a little im patiently. "You must take me on trial for a fortnit ; and then engage me for a year ; and the old lady will be so pleased, as well as little Willy, (ah, that's what she calls him ; I must mind in future tense,) that there is no knowing what they might do for me." Are yon sure the old ladysh will be very ill, then?" "If she thought it would be better for me." Esh the right honourable—" " Remarkably so—" " Ah, but I means!) fond of the nobility's baubles—"' "Xc, no. I wouldn't ago to say, for the world, as he would covet anything as was his neighbour's." "No ; that ish not what I means. But very fond of buying themsh ; eh ?" " Lord bless you! only put me on some good livery; hire me for a year; try me for a fortnit ; give me lots of crack vituals, and write me a tearing character: and wont Master William Kent be pleased ! I suppose references will be given if required, by me?" "Mine gotsh—look at that piano -forte; that Madona, there; that picture, worth a million—" " I mean of ine—" "Shtav; thatsh is a carriage knock-and-ring, I'm sure thish time: you're hired; come to-morrish. Let the right honoura ble read that book of mine. Run." From the impostures practised in this establishment our hero graduates to the elevated position of man-monkey and vampire in the Sanspareil Theatre, with the modest sum of twenty pounds a-wcek as salary, and ultimately em barks very prominently in the cmicerns of the Lord of the Manor. _ . But who was this w )rthy ? We give the author's de. scription of the materials of which he was composed. THE LORD OF THE MANOR BEFORE COMING TO THE TITLE. It has elsewhere bee.: .Ftitted, that William Kent had a grand father, as well as a Cr:,.;-mother Kent; and that his grand sire had left home, ant .:rayed from it in a somewhat mysteri ous manner. We s, : I begin at the beginning of this. Robert Kent, the husbarv! Mrs. Kent, was from a good family of Chester ; the men, of it having been, for a number of years the principal me: - I:ants in that city, when it was a principal port. This Robert was brought up to the sea, and eventually commanded one 61 his father's ships; but, from a somewhat steady youth, he, upon the death of his father, became a very gay, if not to say, a profligate man. Suffice it, he soon got through his patrimony : married and a fortnight after joined the naval sery ce of his Majesty, in which he was soon appoin ted boatswain. His friends bought him off; and, that he might not do so profligate a thing again, one of them settled forty pounds a year upon him. By this time, he had several children ; and, after trying a dozen different pursuits, was settled down, in his fiftieth year, as a cobbler near the brewery of Barclay and Perkins—his chief business being to mend for the gentlemen connected with that establishment, viz. :—the coopers, brewers, draymen ; and indeed for most of them, save, of course, the clerks—or the other gentlemen's ladies. And then, for a few gratuitous stitches in a horse's collar, should the saddler be out of tile way, or p Ming a buckle upon a skate-strap in frosty weather—he was the man. His trade, with as much porter as he at all times liked to swig, which was at all times vouchsafed to him, with the forty pounds a year— made him very comfortable. We say him, because Mrs. Kent kept the whole family by means of the green-grocery store we have often mentioned. So Mr. Kent, as may be supposed, was a very jolly old gentleman—that is, not so very old—and par ticularly as he had originally been blessed with a very good constitution—but about sixty. At this period, however, though surrounded by all these blessings, he one morning took it into his head to leave his stall, his wife, his brewery customers, his stout—and the strangest of all, Billy Kent : for, though lie had a large family of his own, it was known that he loved his little grand-son the best of all. Still, away went Robert Kent. The family were a little surprised, but soon became reconciled, when, in about two months after, they heard that he had taken up his sojourn near the Wickes, in his old county of Cheshire. This, too, was at his sister's—one who, like himself, had not taken the most prudent course in early life—marrying one of her father's clerks : who—although an old man—was yet in the same capacity in one of the great salt-works. He had a tidy salary ; and, with a few acres of land, a couple of cows, his unmarried sons in situations, and two of his daughters engaged in busi ness, one as a dressmaker, the other in the fabrication of stays —his means were respectable—the family a tolerably united one—and all pretty snug. This most respectable old gentleman becomes, by the death of his cousin, Sir Joseph Vernon, the heir to his es tate in Cheshire, with a rent-roll of some £12,000 a-year, in which position he endeavours to conduct himself in the free-and-easy style to be expected from a man of his pre vious habits and tastes, but is thwarted in his ultra-libe rality, and ruled by a niece of most unamiable character. By this lady's machinations he is kept in a state of aliena tion from his family, until at length their reunion is brought about by the genius of Mr. Jacky Stratford. The doings at the hail during the dictatorship of the niece —the plotting and counter-plotting—are graphically de scribed ; but her character is a little too highly spiced with villainy, and those of some of her family and asso ciates are coarse and repulsive. The estate and title, after a series of attempted outrages, ultimately fall to a Mr. William Kent, the playfellow and intimate friend of Mr. John Stratford, and nephew of old William Kent. One of the most racy characters in the book is a Col. O'Craizem, an Irish adventurer, whom poor Tyrone Power would have delighted in pourtraying, full of swag ger and lies, with more pedigree than principle, yet not without a spice of goodness of heart. We are also intro duced to a few characters of a more every-day and pleas ing description. Amongst these are the family of a Mr. Walford, an old steward of thd manor, William Kent, the younger, and some others. Those of the Clough fa mily relatives of the Lord of the Manor, possess a degree of villanv and wickedness rather beyond belief in these days. Equally repulsive is a Lady Burgoin. We are brought also by the writer a little too often into the dis cussions which take place in gin palaces and other locali ties of metropolitan low lite. The following, however, is a pleasing description of LIFE AT THE OLD GREEN-GROCERY sum.. The glad news of Johnny's resurrection was carried to the Vernons. Poor Mrs. Vernon swooned when she was told that he was in Zn&land, in health, and that he was making his way to.tligt netthlourhood. Oh I she must see him, even if that '.ftervalogh . gaier last act. The poor lady — nor were her famil y inuclrbllliindl—was almost frantic with delight. William must :.set off for. the-rendezvous, at once, and at once bring Jacky to Grovelito, . And then of him Mrs. Vernon began to tell gentle tales, when a boy. " Ah! poor fellow, how happy we were, and particu larly on a Saturday night, after a heavy day's business, and lackyPutd conatedvp the copper, and had asked me what silver and gold I had got; and when I told him, he would begin to reckon the profits of the day. I could tell at once if it were above three pounds, from the delight expressed by his eyes; for that sum was the task. 'that we must do ; more, it we could; but I should have had a wretched night, ay, and Sunday, too, if we bad not managed that amount. Well, one. Saturday night it had got up to three pounds seventeen shillings. This was a happy night, and we must have something extra to sup per : so, after thinking over it a quarter of an hour as to what the extra should be—one thing not being good enough, another he could not allow, as being too expensive—it just fell down to what I saw it would all along, the usual supper of coffee, toast, and eggs. Indeed, Jacky was fond of his coffee. "Then he would boil the eggs, and begin to pet a bit—always pouty after a good day. I would be watching my gentleman, and at last, when all was ready, he would begin. " I don't know how it is. Ma'am, but though I've often brought up youreoffeeto bed,you neverbrought it up to mine.' "'Always, when you are poorly, my dear.' " Because 1 am never poorly.' " ' \Veil, come, Johnny, I will bring it to-morrow morning.' " How can you do that. ma'am, when you know gracious well I must bring it to you ?' " ' Well, I'll bring it to you, after.' " What! do you want to make a boarding-school girl of me, the first week of vacation ? I suppose I must get into bed again, in order that you can make me look anything but a gen tleman as can throw every youth in Westminster, if aught like my own weight?' " ' Well, well; come and take this egg, and this cup.' " Still Jacky petted. " now, 1 see what little baby wants ; it wants its mammy's egg—the one she has broken for herself. Will it have it, and her cup, too ?' "This did it; I would change his cup for mine, and his egg and toast. Then did Jacky's eyes brighten as did the fire; he would get up, give me an embrace, and say— " You know I have had no mother but you.' And then he would begin to cry, and s.ay be feared I did not love him as well as Annis, Jane, or little Billy Kent ; but when I did assure him that I did love him quite as well as my own, and in every way considered him as one of the family—_ _ . Then he was the happiest, and the kindest, best mortal upon earth." And this reminiscence was finished with a cry ; nor did the rest of the family refuse to join their mother in these gentle thinkings of the past. " I like to hear tales•about Jack," said the squire; "and if I had my days to go over again, I would have gone to the Royal Sanspareil every night, to have seen him play the monkey umpire." It would be a great improvement if Mr. Hall could persuade himself to lay aside some of the peculiar features of his style of writing. He may write forcibly and gra phically without indulging in singularities of language, and the coinage of words ; and his characters would be all the more natural if conceived in less heightened and melodramatic colouring. The scene, for instan7e, in the old salt mine, is drawn with a force and power of horror which takes it out of the bounds of probability. There is nevertheless scattered throughout these volumes evidences of intimate acquaintance with the human heart, and especially with human folly and gullibility. Fraser's Magazine. London : John W. Parker, West Strand. THIS month's Fraser contains abundance of highly inte resting matter, especially amongst the reviews of new works. In particular, the article on Huxtausen's Russia opens out to us a mine of interesting information about that great country, into the interior of which the author seems to have been the only traveller who has thus far extended his researches beyond the beaten track laid down in the Guide Books. Another valuable article is a notice of the Poor-law Inspectors' reports on the condition of the children of the poor throughout England and Wales, pointing out the great want of industrial schools and pro per classification in our Workhouses. The miscellaneous articles are of average merit. We shall lay before our readers a few extracts from this number in our next publication. SECOND EDITION. Siandard-office, Ten o'clock, a.nz. MIRAGES IBELIND. FRIGHTFUL MURDER. On Sunday morning last, at eleven o'clock, as Charles S. Gaze. EN., agent to Sir St. George Gore, was on his way to Creggan Church, near Ferbane, King's County, he was shot dead, by two persons unknown, from behind a hedge, in view of many persons, who saw the fellows run away. The left side of Mr. Gage's head, neck, arm, and side, in the region of the heart, was completely riddled with bullets and slugs. FATAL CONFLICT. On Sunday morning a large party assembled to carry off the crops of a farmer, named John Keyes, at Clonaslee, King's County, when the police endeavoured to prevent the removal, and a collision ensued, in which one of the constables was shot dead, and four others dangerously wounded. Several of the opposite party were shot, and one, it is believed, was killed. FRUITS OF THE SUPERSEDEAS. Wm. Parley Hall, Esq., of Fairborn, has addressed a spirited and temperate letter to Lord Clarendon, re questing that his name may be erased from the list of magistrates, as he " cannot any longer consent to retain a position which now seems to demand a blind subservi ence to the government of the day, or the alternative of an instant dismissal should that government prove tyran nical and unscrupulous." Mr. Hall has never been an Orangeman or political partizan, and is not the private friend of Messrs. Beers, though he is acquainted with Lord Roden. REPEAL ASSOCIATION. At the second weekly meeting yesterday, Mr. J. O'Con nell del;verecl his usual address, but the rent was only a few pounds. VARIETIES. When King James I. travelled from London to Edin burgh, some years after his accession to the Crown of England. the journey occupied a month. Queen Victoria has just travelled from Balmoral, in Aberdeenshire, to Osborne House, Isle of Wight, in three days. PRECOCIOUS CHILDREN.—The Feauty of childhood is that it is not like manhood or w ,manhood. When, there fore, a child loses its childhood, it loses half its interest by that loss alone; and it loses the other half by being what it ought not to be—a usurper of airs and manners which exclusively belong to a maturer age. ROYAL TURFITES.—George IV. outstripped all his royal predecessors on the Turf, and succeeded in forming a magnificent stud during his racing career—breeding Whiskey, the sire of Eleanor, the winner of both Derby and Oaks, and possessing many other first-rate animals. At Hampton Court stables were to be seen the Colonel, Waterloo, Tranby and Ranter—stallions ; also the cele brated mares, Maria, Fleur-de-lis, Posthuma, and others in foal to such horses as Sultan, iEmilius, Camel, and Priam, the best blood of that or any other day ! The Prince of Wales (George IV.) won the Derby in 1788, when only six-and-twenty years of age, and in less than three years afterwards, was actually " warmed off" Newmarket Heath by the Jockey Club, because his horse Baronet, an outsider, if so he could be called with only 20 to 1 against him—won the Ascot Oatlands from Escape— the favourite in the royal stable—and a fair field supposed to have been tried to beat all England, and of course his Royal Highness into the bargain ! The imputation of Turf fraud was never satisfactorily proved against the Prince to our thinking ; and the innumerable instances of horses running "in and out," or being fit or otherwise, when the most unlooked-for results have occurred, irre spective of all intent or malice prepense, go far to prove the Jockey Club to have been simply beaten as betting men, through the accident of Baronet's winning from being fit on the day ; his owner having backed him heavily, no doubt, as he did everything for the off-chance. Bentley's Miscellany. THE FALLS OF NIAGARA IN WINTER.—The great cataract is seen by few travellers in its winter garb. I had seen it several years before in all the glories of autumn, its encircling woods, happily spared by the re morseless hatchet, and tinted with the brilliant hues peculiar to the American " Fall." Now the glory had departed ; the woods were still there, but were generally black, with occasional green pines ; beneath the grey trunks was spread a thick mantle of snow, and from the brown rocks, inclosing the deep channel of the Niagara River, hung huge clusters of icicles, twenty feet in length, like silver pipes of giant or!,ans. The tumultuous rapids appeared to me to descend more regularly than formerly over the steps which distinctly extended across the wide river. * * 4. The portions of the British, or Horse shoe Fall, where the waters descend in masses of snowy whiteness, were unchanged by the season, except that vast sheets of ice and icicles hung on their margin ; but where the deep waves of sea-green rolled majestically over the steep, large pieces of descending ice were frequently descried on its surface. No rainbows were now observed on the great vapour cloud which shrouds for ever the bottom of the fall ' • but we were extremely fortunate to see now plainly what I had looked for in vain at my last visit, water-rockets, first-described by Captain Hall, which shot up with a train of vapour singly, and in flights of a dozen, from the abyss near Table Rock, curved towards the east, and burst and fell in front of the cataract. Vast masses of descending fluid produce this singular effect, by means of condensed air acting on portions of the vapour into which the water is comminuted below. Altogether the appearance was most startling. It was observed at one p.m. from the gallery of Mr. Barnett's museum. The broad sheet of the American Fall presented the appear ance of light-green water and feathery spray. also mar gined by huge icicles. The great masses of rock at the bottom were covered, as it were, with pure white heaps of cotton, whilst on the left and in front of the fall a cone was in process of formation from the congealing vapour. As in summer, the water rushing from under the vapour cloud of the two falls was of a milky whiteness as far as the ferry, when it became dark and interspersed with floating masses of ice. Here, the year before, from the pieces of ice being heaped and crushed together in great quantities, was formed a thick and high bridge of ice, completely across the ricer, safe for passengers for some time ; and in the middle of it a Yankee speculator had erected a shanty for refreshments.—Sir James Alexan der's l'Aeadie. air fl' if ty or rt. THE 141/ERIPOOI, STANDARD. ADVANTAGES OF EARLY CLOSING TO THE SHOPMEN AND THE PUBLIC. From Toil and Trial, by bars. Newton Crosland, (late Camilla Toulmin.) __ " Well, my dear Sir," said one of the ladies, addressing Mr. Denison, during a pause at dinner, " I hope you have quelled the rebellion in - Street, and made an ex ample of the impudent creatures ?" " Oh ' yes," replied Mr. Denison, " that was easily done. I have discharged the half•dozen who set the agitation on foot, and have vowed to keep open till eleven o'clock instead of ten for the next six months, as a les son for the remainder." "Quite right !" exelairned lady the second; "and I suppose the places of the half-dozen were soon as well filled—no doubt they were the idlest in the house ?" " No, I cannot say that," returned the host ; " the worst of it is, they are generally the best servants who make the greatest stir about the Early Closing ; they know their value, I suppose, and fancy masters will give way raffier than discharge them : but not when they have me to deal with, I can tell you." Mr. Warder had dropped his knife and fork—perhaps involuntarily—at this discourse, and Mr. Denison, per ceiving., addressed him, saying— " I hope this spirit of mischief and discontent has not travelled to Liverpool. Yet, we have had quite enough of it in London, I can assure you." " Do you mean the exertions which are being made to establish an earlier closing of shops in all trades ?" asked Mr. Warder. " Yes, of course." " Then, however much we seem to differ in opinion, I must confess that I am proud to say, I have been an active and succesgful agent in the Movement. In the provincial towns the evils appear to me scarcely so great and cruel as those existing in the metropolis, yet they have been sufficiently deep to call for vigorous and determined mea sures." "And is it possible," asked Mr. Denison, in a tone of real astonishment, " that you have given way to the clamour, and sacrificed your business, that a set of idle young men may have a few more hours in the week for smoking cigars and indulging in dissipation ?" " I have listened to no clamour but the clamour of my own conscience," returned Mr. Warder. " I hope that I should have obeyed even at a pecuniary sacrifice ; but I have not been so tested,—the most accurate calculations have convinced me that no loss is to be apprehended, were business hours to be greatly curtailed." "My dear Sir !" seemed the only exclamation Mr. Denison's astonishment would permit. " Indeed I mean what I say," pursued the other. " Were it thoroughly understood that shops closed at six or seven o'clock, purchasers would make their arrange ments accordingly, and by no means go without the a. ti des required. It is necessary to insist on thi , point, before we discuss the other question—how additional leisure is likely to be employed. Indeed, I am assured there would he no loss to trade were the early closing generally adopted." " Aye, if all shops closed together." " And how is this ever to be brought about, unless they who have the power make the first bold stand ?" Mr. Denison shrugged his shoulders, as he murmured something about "having no wish for the honours of martyrdom." " I deny there is any martyrdom in the case." said his guest, with a smile. "The better educated of the com munity are in the mass the better people, in more senses than one. It is they who have the most money to spend, at the same time that their hearts are the most open to good feelings, and their minds to common-sense argu ments. When the case has been fairly laid before mem bers of this class, I have ever found them warm and eager in their support of those who were fighting the battle of the oppressed ; and I hope to live to see the day when it will be a disgrace for a lady to enter a draper's shop in the evening, or send a person to make purchases of any description at unseemly hours ; for though the hardships of the present system are felt the most cruelly in estab lishments like ours, they fall sufficiently heavy in all trades, to call loudly for redress." " You forget the numbers of persons, servants and others," interposed Mr. Denison, who have no other time for shopping than the evening." " So far from forgetting them I hold that, next to shop men and shopwomen themselves, they would derive the chief benefit from the change we propose. Were shops universally closed in the evening, no mistresses or em ployers could reasonably refuse their servants proper op portunities for making their purchases ; and. I cannot conceive any circumstance under which, with proper method and arrangement, this could not be easily done." " But, my good friend," said Mr. Denison, " how many people in the world, do you suppose, are methodi cal and considerate ?" " Fewer, certainly, than we could wish," exclaimed Mr. Warder, hopefully, " but for that very reason, we should hail any necessity which would inculcate such habits. It is a curious fact in social ethics, that whatever positively and permanently benefits one class, is of ser vice to several others more indirectly. Thus, I appre hend that from the facility there is in making purchases at all hours, a vast deal of time is lost, which a little fore thouaht would economise. How common it is to send to a shop three times for three several trifling articles, for which one message and one messenger might have suf ficed. Time, that universal and most precious heritage, thus saved from waste, would be generally gained." " But you forget the thousands who live from hand to mouth, and who may not have the money to make their three purchases at once." " Alas, I have examined the condition of the poor very narrowly, and am painfully aware that they of all the community live the most expensively. For ever the turn of the scale' is against their ounces of tea and butter—so is the fractional loss whenever the miserable division be comes lower than the coin of the realm. And for this reason it would be well for them to be forced, even at the price of some seeming inconvenience, to provide for their necessities on a better system. There is, too, another fact, which should not be without its weight. It is noto rious that, in our business, purchasers by gas-light are often deceived, not only in the colour, but the quality, of the articles selected; and if we are to admit that these evening shoppers belong to the poorer classes of the com munity, so much the more lamentable is it that their little means should miss the objects they had in view while making their outlay. I will not say that it is absolutely a part of their system for shopkeepers to pass off inferior articles by artificial light, but I fear there are too many instances in which the sellers permit purchasers to deceive themselves." Mr. Denison again shrugged his shoulders, thought his guest a little mad, but, paying the customary homage of hypocrisy to virtue, felt it prudent at least to conceal his opinions. " And I have always thought," continued Mr. Warder, " that small derelictions from perfect integri:,y usually lead to large ones. This passive deception is very likely to lead the way to a more active sort ; and my experience has certainly shown me that what are called shrewd and sharp assistants are very often only cunning and unprinci pled ones, quite as ready, when opportunities offer, to cheat their masters as to deceive a customer." _ _ " But let us come to the question," said Mr. Denison, " of the manner in which shopmen do spend that portion of theevening which they call their own." " You mean," returned Mr. Warder, " the hour or two which they steal from the Night, when with minds and bodies enervated and exhausted, they are at last re leased from their toil ? I must confess they too often resort to the stimulants of dissipation; but before we judge them harshly we should remember that they are free only at the hours when Lectures are over, and Reading Rooms closed ; when a social circle round a friend's hearth is breaking up for rest, and when only the tavern or casino opens its wide portals. Let us not judge poor humanity by a standard beyond its grasp ; but rather remove the temptations to evil, and give scope to the the nobler faculties. The wearied mind is unfit to receive religious, moral, or intellectual instruction, while aching from the monotony of its protracted tension it rushes to some strong excitement for oblivion or distraction. Nor are the physical sufferings whieh result from over-toil without their moral influences. They work together, bringing death and destruction to tens of thousands. But wherever a fair chance has been given, the results have been most gratifying and encouraging. Healthful energies have been restored, moral• and intellectual pro gress has been made, and all but an insignificant minority have proved themselves worthy of the exertions we are making for them." ARTIFICIAL MAHOGANY. — The following method of giving any species of wood of a close grain the appearance of mahogany, in texture, density, and polish, is said to be practised in France with success. The surface is planed smooth, and the wood is then rubbed with a solution of nitrous acid ; one ounce dragon's blood is dissolved in nearly a pint of spirits of wine; this, and one-third of an ounce of carbonate of soda, are to be mixed together, and filtered, and the liquid in this thin state is to be laid on with a soft brush. This process is to be repeated, and in a short interval afterwards the wood possesses the external appearance of mahogany. DAVID'S NEW MASTER—D. STRONG.—But the Doc tor himself was the idol of the whole school ; and it must have been a badly composed school if he had been any thing else, for he was the kindest of men ; with a simple faith in him that might have touched the stone hearts of the very urns upon the wall. As he walked up and down that part of the court-yard which was at the side of the house, with the stray rooks and jackdaws looking after him, with their heads cocked slyly, as if they knew how much more knowing they were in worldly affairs than he, if any sort of vagabond could only get near enough to his creaking shoes to attract his attention to one sentence of a tale of distress, that vagabond was made for the next two days. It was so notorious in the house, that the masters and head-boys took pains to cut these marauders off at angles, and to get out of windows, and turn them out of the court-yard, before they could make the Doctor aware of their presence •, which was sometimes happily effected within a few yards of him, without his knowing anything of the matter, as he jogged to and fro. Outside his own domain, and unprotected, he was a very sheep for the shearers. He would have taken his gaiters off his legs, to give away. In fact, there was a story current among us (I have no idea, and never had, on what au thority, but I have believed it for so many years that I feel quite ce: tain it is true,) that on a frosty day, one winter time, he actually did bestow his gaiters on a beg gar woman, who occasioned some scandal in the neigh bourhood by exhibiting a fine infant from door to door, wrapped in those garments, which were universally re cognised, being as well known in the vicinity as the Ca thedral. The legend added, that the only person who did not identify them was the Doctor himself, who, when they were shortly afterwards displayed at the door of a little second-hand shop of no very good repute, where such things were taken in exchange for gin, was more than once observed to handle them approvingly, as if admiring some curious novelty in the patters, and con sidering them an improvement on his own.—David Cop perfield, by Charles Dickens. Orneral -111t5rellanv. The Earl of Liverpool has made a return of ten per cent on his rental. The hills in the Forest of Radnor were on Friday co vered with snow. The Archbishop of Canterbury has contributed £lOO to the Lambeth Anti-Cholera and Dwellings Improvement Committee. Among the bankrupts in Friday's Gazette is " The Rev. Thomas Frederick Paul Hawkins, of Hereford, cider and perry merchant." A whale was caught alive, in the river Thames, off the village of Grays, on Tuesday. The captors of the not them monster value their prize at £2OO. A little boy, about three years old, was suff)cated at Codnor Park, Derbyshire, on Thursday week, by falling into a tub filled with wash intended for Swine. There has oeen, during the week, a very large spot upon the sun's disc. It was upwards of twenty thousand Eng lish miles in length, and of kidney shape. The Historic News—a beautifully illustrated newspa per—of Saturday last announces that Conway Castle, a noble monument of the taste of the mid dle ages, is to be restored at the public expense. . . . The hills round Kendr;l and the lake district have been rather thicKly mantled with snow during the past week, and the temperature is much lower. At Stainmore, the snow had drifted a yard deep. The Mayor of Durham. accompanied by the town clerk, waited upon the Earl of Durham, at Lambton Castle, on Wednesday, and presented an address of congratulation to his lordship from the corporation of that city, upon his attaining his majority. The Builder gives a baker's dozen of tenders for the draining of an estate at Kennington Cross. The highest offer was £l,o36—the lowest (a very nice calculation) amounted to just £274 4s. 2d. ! One man, particular to a penny, tendered for £398 Ils. Ild. Charles Thomas Pearce, an unqualified homoeopathic practitionPr, has been committed for trial in London, charged with the manslaughter of his brother, who was alleged to have been starved to death whilst under the homoeopathic system o: treatment for cholera. The Lady Jane, one of the Davis's Straits whalers, which have been lost this year by being nipped in the ice, was built in 1772, so that she had been afloat 77 years, during 40 of which she had been regularly employed in the whale fishery at Greenland and in Davis's Straits. The town council of Leeds, which but a little while ago dismissed the sewerage question by a sine die postpone ment, has now, with only two dissentients, resolved to have the whole of the town, including the townships of Ilunslet and Holbeck, thoroughly drained, at a cost of £BO,OOO. At the Macclesfield Theatre, last week, during the per formance of the second act of the Forest Foundling, Mr. Ackerman inadvertently uplifted his dagger, and stabbed Mr. Calhaem through the cheek, the extension of the wound being only prevented by his teeth, one of which was broken.• On Thursday night, William Holliday, a chaise driver to Mr. Geldred, of the King's Arms, Patterdale, Westmore land, and the horse which he was driving in a sociable, were drowned in Ullswater Lake. It is supposed that he had accidentally fallen over Stybarrow Crag, a dangerous part of the road. George Nelson, the celebrated jockey, died very sud denly at Doncaster on Wednesday. Whilst in the Turf Tavern he was suddenly seized with an apoplectic fit, and dropped on the floor. He never rallied, and died in a few hours. He was a great favourite with both King George the Fourth and King William. The Rev. Thomas Bellas, Vicar of Bongate, has been elected mayor for the borough of Appleby, for the en suing year.—Westmoreland Gazette.— [The municipal bill especially disqualifies all clergymen and dissenting ministers from becoming members of a corporation; so we presume there is some mistake here.] Mr. Macready appeared for the first time in London since his return from America, at the Princess's Theatre, on Monday. The great bulk of the audience rose from their seats to greet Mr. Macready as he entered, the la dies bent forward from the dress circle to wave their white handkerchiefs, and hats were whirled in all parts of the house. Mr. William Crawshay, the eminent ironmaster, has addressed a letter to the editor of the Times, stating that he is ready to subscribe his name for £3OO towards a fund to be handed over to the Sultan of Turkey, to assist in defending himself and his country against the hostility of Russia, if any should be shown in consequence of her hu manity. LENGTH OF A KENTMERE SUMMER.—On a farm oc cupied by a friend of ours, in Kentmere, the snow this year lay as far down as the house door until the 11th June, and again made its appearance on the same spot on the 3d of the present month. The length of our friend's summer this year may thus be stated at sixteen weeks and two days. We believe, nowcver, we can state that he has finished his haymaking.—Westmorland Gazette. While a labourer, named Stead, was thrashing in a barn at Church Fenton, Yorkshire, on Saturday week, a man entered with a loaded gun, and laid it down. Stead's nephew, a boy nine years old, shortly afterwards entered the barn, and while examining it, pulled the trigger, when the charge of shot was lodged in his uncle's breast, who was so frightfully wounded that he died within a quarter of an hour. The Boston Herald reports two deaths by threshing machines. At Whaplode, a man who was tending the machine, while jesting about the effect of a pipe of tobacco, attempted to ride on the shaft, but fell, and was crushed to death. At New Leake, a laiourer noticed that some thing was amiss ; in leaning over to inspect the works, his jacket was caught by the wheels, and he was drawn between them, and dreadfally lacerated by the spikes. He was taken out in a few minutes, but quite dead. SENTENCE OF DEATH.-At the Jalburgh Circuit Court, on Thursday week, Thomas Wilson, John Brady, and Peter Rafferty, or Lifferty, alias the Switcher, were chatged with mobbing, rioting, assault, and murder at the last St. Boswell's fair. They were found guilty, and sentenced to death. The murder had its origin in a riot by Irish labourers. Brady wept bitterly when the sen tence was passed, but Wilson heard it without betraying any emotion. . _ _ Within the last few days a poor man, a tailor at Inver. ness, received tidings of a brother's death in Canada, leaving a fortune of £lO,OOO. besides a large amount of property. The lucky tailor is a hard-working, but illi terate man. In his younger days he was a noted smug gler, and for many years defied the excise to discover the whereabouts of his booty. At last an informer led them to the spot, and poor Donald was pounced upon, and suffered durance vile for many months. The Cheltenham .Examiner states that Mr. Dixon, of the Red Lion, Henley-on-Thames, was lately entertained to a benefit dinner by a number of his supporters, and among the dishes was a haunch of venison. The meat was so " high" that it was sent from the table untasted ; but, on the following day, a portion of it was hashed up for the family dinner. Immediately after partaking of it, Mr. Dixon, his two brothers, together with the cook and boots, were seized with sudden illness, and all of them died in the course of a few hours. THE TRACY PEERAGE.—A new candidate for this peer age has made his appearance in the person of Lieutenant Benjamin Wheatley Tracy, K.N., whose professional rank is dated in 1829. It appears that the life of the defeated claimant, who died lately, was insured for upwards of £14,000, which sum has gone towards the liquidation of the costs incurred in prosecuting his suit. The estates attached to the ancient Irish peerage of Tracy are worth upwards of £40,000 per annum. The property is princi pally situate in Gloucestershire. SINGULAR FACT.—On Saturday one of the crew of the Defence, a vessel in Newport harbour, was attacked with a severe type of cholera, and notwithstanding every effort made by a medical gentleman to save him, the poor man, who had been a good sailor, sank under the violence of the disorder. The ship dog, a short time after, exhibited symptoms of illness analagous to cholera, and died ; and on dissection by a surgeon of the neighbourhood, the vis cera presented precisely similar appearance of disease to the intestines of persons who die of the prevailing epide mic. NARROW ESCAPE.—On Thursday evening week, a widow woman, named Alice Wolfenden, resident in Middleton, put several quarts of warm water into a bottle, corked it up, tied the cork to the bottle neck, and then placed the bottle in the oven, which was hot, intending to heat the water in the bottle in order to keep her feet warm with it in bed. In a short time there was an ex plosion like that of a large cannon, the iron oven was shivered to pieces, and several portions of it went through the window into the street. Several persons were in the house at the time, but received no injury. GREAT FLoon,—A great deal of property was destroyed at Sheffield and Rotherham on Sunday last, and much inconvenience was experienced by the inhabitants, owing to the heavy floods which occurred at those towns and other places. A good deal of damage was done in the neighbourhood of Doncaster, and the Great Northern railway was injured, but not so as to stop the traffic. We have not heard of any loss of human life by the flood, except that of a boy, nine years of age, the only child of Mr. Harrop, shoemaker, Doncaster. The little fellow was drowned in a goit near Masbro'. DEATH FROM A BITE BY A LEOPARD. — On Friday week, a hrassfounder, named John Deval, residing in Lawrence-street, paid a visit to Batty's menagerie in an intoxicated state. Whilst inspecting a fine leopard, he incautiously leant his arm on the framework of the den in which the animal was confined. The beast immedi ately started up, and in an instant seized hold of Deval's arm, which protruded slightly between the bars of the den, with her teeth, and before he could extricate it, lacerated it in a shocking manner. He progressed fa vourably at first, but expired on Wednesday.—Birming ham Journal. In the drainage of Leeds, but especially Hunslet, great difficulties have always presented themselves, in conse qUence of the flatness of those parts contiguous to the river Aire, which runs between the townships of Leeds, Hunslet, and Holbec, not allowing of a sufficient fall from the street-drains into the river; but this will be over. come by the plan of drainage laid down by Mr. J. W. Leather, C.E., who proposes to form a main trunk sewer, which will be carried under the bed of the river, and extend beyond the boundary of the borough towards the south east, where it will have an outlet for the sewage in the lands belonging to Meynell Ingram, Esq., of Temple Neusam. Two men of the name of Riddells are charged with robbing their employers, Messrs. Pontifex, proprietors of the chemical works at Poplar, London. Evidence was given that the prisoners had had thirty-six casks filled with sulphate of lime—a worthless compound, but repre sented that they contained tartaric acid. On taking stock, the clerk valued these barrels at £l9OO, and thus the de falcations were not apparent. The magistrate did not think that this evidence went for much, as there was no proof that the tartaric acid had ever been on the premises. The counsel for the prosecution rejoined that the priso ners had been abstracting two or three hundredweight of the acid yearly, to the extent of £l,OOO. AMAZING DEPRAVITY .—An extraordinary and most infamous case of bigamy came to light, on Saturday week, at one of the London police-offices, where a man and his wife were committed for being concerned in a number of robberies. It also appeared that they had both conspired to rob about £l2 worth in cash and clothes from a young female, by pretending to her that the man was unmarried, and brother to the female prisoner. They succeeded in their design, and the victim of the conspiracy was married to the male prisoner, his real wife assisting as witness at the ceremony. After a few days they robbed and aban doned their victim. DESECRATION OF TILE SABBATH BY ORDER OF Go- VERNMENT.—A large deputation, consisting of the Bishop of LonElon, the Lord Mayo Mr. Masterman, Mr. Bevan, Ml. Cotton, Mr. Powles, and about thirty clergymen, waited on Lord John Russell, by appointment, on Thurs day, to present the memorial agreed on at the recent meeting of the merchants, bankers, &c., of the City of London against the Post -office Sabbath desecration scheme. The reply of his lordship, after a long inter view, was, that he could hold out no hope of any change. It remains to be seen whether the Christian people of England will submit in silence to the Sabbath-breaking resolve. It appears, however, that the Post-office autho rities have consented to postpone the intended alteration for a week. In moving an almshouse of the Livery Dale, at Heavi tree, near Exeter, the charred and iron-mounted remains of an execution-stake were discovered ; inquiries shows the stake to be that to which, in 1531, " Bennet, the Torrington schoolmaster, was tied up in a cowskin, and burnt with all the furze and faggots the parish of Heavi tree could supply," for denying the divinity of the Virgin Mary, and denouncing transubstantiation. "The stake is of elm, slightly charred ; and there has also been found the iron ring which went round the apex of the stake, into which a stout staple. clamp, or bold, somewhat in the guise of a ship's anchor, with transverse prongs or flukes, was inserted, having a ring or circular hole at the top, through which the chain went which confined the sufferer to the fatal tree." The relics are to be deposited at the " Institution" at Exeter. The news which we published last week, of the proba ble safety of Sir John Franklin and Captain Ross was calculated to cheer the heart of every humane man. We would warn our readers, however, not to take it for granted that the safety of the navigators is assured, or even that the intelligence published concerning them is strictly accurate. Unfortunately complete reliance cannot be placed upon the reports of the Esquimaux, who are apt to be:influenced by interested motives, in seeking to represent that which they think will give satisfaction. Moreover, there are some discrepancies in the accounts that have appeared, It was stated in the first report of Capt. Parker, that the missing ships had been seen by the Indians in " Prince Regent's Inlet," those of Sir John Franklin in the northern part of the inlet, and Sir James Ross's in the southern part; whereas, in the last report, it is represented that Sir John Franklin's ships were on the north part of Barrow's 'Straits, and those of Sir James Ross on the southern part of those straits. This is so melancholy a view of the case, that we are glad to find that an opposite one is entertained by those who may be considered the great Arctic authorities. We have caused inquiries to be made—and such is the result. Sir George Back, who has bad great intercourse with the native Esquimaux, declares " that he never knew an In dian or an Esquimaux tracing to fail : and after deliber ately weighing all the information, he is of opinion that four ships answering to those composing the two expedi tions were seen some time in the spring of this year by the Esquimaux; but whether in Prince Regent's Inlet or to the westward of Boothia is uncertain." Captain Parry, Col. Sabine, and Admiral Beaufort, are all in favour of the Esquimaux report. Loss OF LIFE IN A LONDON SEWER.—The pestilent condition of a sewer in Pimlico has caused the loss of five lives. Along a street of new houses under the builder's hands, called Kenilworth-street, runs a branch sewer, which is bricked up at the end farthest from that which connects it with the main sewer. On Friday morning three labourers entered this sewer to make arrangements for flushing it : they never returned. Towards the even ing Mr. Henry Wells, a surgeon, John Walsh, a young policeman, and Richard Sherwan entered the sewer at an aperture broken for them in the bricked-up end. In two or three minutes Walsh reappeared bearing the lifeless body of Mr. Wells. He returned to the sewer and brought out Sherwan, apparently dead ; and once more — unconscious, it is supposed, of what he did—he returned, and himself perished in the sewer. When his body was recovered, a short time after the skin was turned blue, and every piece of metal on him was blackened. Sher wan was resuscitated by medical remedies; but both Mr. Wells and Walsh were irrecoverably dead. On Saturday, the air in the sewer having been purified, the bodies of the three workmen were recovered, about fifty yards from the place where they entered. . _ AN HONEST INSOLVENT.—At the Insolvent Debtors' Court, on Wednesday, Mr. Charles Gill was bronght up on his petition to be discharged. He had been a grocer in Devereux-court, Strand. He bad offered to pay his creditors Gs. in the pound out of a sum of £llO, realized by the sale of a policy of insurance effected on his own life, but the offer was refused ; and it was suggested that a fiat in bankruptcy should be taken out. The insolvent's solicitors, however, considering that the expenses of a fiat would consume the whole assets, advised the insolvent to go to prison by means of a friendly arrest, and let the mo ney be distributed by this court. Upon this advice he acted, and thero was now £l3O paid into court, with a prospect of about £4O more.—Mr. Nichols, who opposed, objected that an insolvent was not entitled to choose his own time to take the benefit of the act. Mr. Commis sioner Phillips said, he thought the insolvent had acted very honestly, and on very good advice, the result of which would be that the creditors would recei7e nearly 103. in the pound. He thought the insolvent was entitled to the benefit of the act. and ordered him to be discharged forth with.—[Every honest person will wish him more success in the future.] THE BERMONDSEY MURDER.—Shortly after the Man nings had entered into the house at Kingsland, Manning called upon Mr. Moore, the well-known sporting print publisher, and, in a pompous manner, ordered several valuable engravings to be sent .to his house, as he wished to have the parlour decorated in a first-rate sporting style. Upon the understanding that the pictures were to be paid for on delivery, Mr. Moore was induced to send the pic tures to the house, when, instead of the ready cash being paid, an excuse was made by Mrs. Manning to the effect that her husband was out on business at Sutherland house. On Mr. Moore's calling a few days after he saw Manning, who, in answer to the request for the payment of the money, called Mr.. Moore by the vilest of epithets, and told him "to do his worst, for he'd be d—d if he would pay him." Mr. Moore subsequently took pro ceeding's against Manning in the County Court, and ob tained judgment. In consequence of this an execution was put in the house, and, just as the goods were being removed, Mrs. Manning rushed up to Mr. Moore, and, shaking a purse of gold in his face, exclaimed that he was "a poltroon," and that she had lots of money and would pay him. The money was then paid, much to Mr. Moore's gratification, who states that he never met such a " tartar" before in his life. NOVEL TRICK.—A few days since some vagabonds ap peared in the villages of Blyth and Sutton, Lincolnshire, and endeavoured to tempt the inhabitants to cheap pur chases of contraband goods, silks, &c. They were un successful until they met with an unlucky wight on the road between Barr.by Moor and Sutton Lane End, who was foolish enough to be induced to taste a drop of " pure Cognac" (smuggled of course,) and which could be sold a bargain. The stuff being the real thing, and the flavour right, he agreed to purchase three bottles at 3s. each, and repaired home in great glee at his bargain. After partak ing of supper, he and and his worthy dame determined to regale themselves with a drop of the "real thing ;" and tumblers and hot water being procured, one of the bot tles was broached, but for some time only about a wine glassful could be extracted, although the bottle appeared full. The good wife thought there was some obstruction in the neck, and obtaining a skewer, proceeded to probe most vigorously, after which the liquid poured forth more plentifully, but instead of being brandy, it turned out to be nothing but cold water. The bottle was then examined and it was found that it had been filled up to within an inch of the neck with the coloured liquid, upon which was poured a little melted deer suet, which setting firmly upon the liquid, the bottle was filled up with genuine brandy. It is needless so say that all the bottles were similarly treated.—Stamford Mercury. THE AUSTRIAN LOAN.—On Monday, a public meeting was held at the London Tavern, " to• consider the adver tisement recently issued by the Austrian Government for a loan of £7,000,000 sterling, and to• agree to an address to the friends of peace and disarmament throughout the world, on the general question of loans for war purposes." The large room of the Tavern was crowded, but the vast majority of the audience,—judging from their appearance —were more likely to require loans themselves than to afford the Austrian Government any pecuniary assistance. Mr. G. W. Alexander presided, and among the gentlemen on the platform were Lord D. Stuart, M.P.. Mr. Cobden, M.P., Mr. J. Williams, M.P., and Dr. Pve Smith. Mr. Cobden, in a lengthy speech, moved the first resolution, inviting capitalists to investigate the financial position of Austria, and the probability of its repaying the proposed loan, and declaring that, in the opinion of the meeting, no valid security could be offered in the present state of the Austrian Government which would justify prudent men in taking any part of the loan. Mr. Cobden argued, that as Austria had already committed three several acts of national bankruptcy, it was not improbable that she might again avail herself of the same means of avoiding new engagements; and warned persons disposed to con tribute to the loan that, although it might prove a profit able speculation to the great capitalists and bankers by whom it was originally taken up, and who would dispose of it in stock, the loss which he considered inevitable, would eventually fall upon the small capitalits who invested their £lO or £lOO in the purchase of such stock. He also re peated the assertion lie had formerly made, that the system of Russian finance is a gigantic imposture. and asserted that the Autocrat could afford no aid to Austria in her pecuniary difficulties. He concluded by a strong appeal to capitalists not to lend their money to defray the cost of the cruel and remorseless war which Austria had been carrying on against her Hungarian subjects. The motion was seconded by Lord Dudley Stuart, in a long declamatory speech on the wrongs of Hungary and Poland, and was then agreed to. Mr. C. Gilpin moved another resolution, declaring loans for war purposes and for the maintenance of standing armaments, unsound in principle, and injurious to the interests of nations. This proposition was seconded by the Rev. J. Burnet, and was unanimously adopted. Mr. Cobden then made a second speech, in the course of which, (somewhat inconsistently with his peace principles,) he stated, that if Russia assumed a hostile position towards this country, a six weeks' blockade of the Russian ports by a British squad ron would soon induce the Russian nobles to " dispose of the Czaes eccentricities," as they had done in other cases. No "address to the friends of peace and . disarmament" was proposed, Oct. 16, 1549,_ th at CHILD MURDER.—It has just been discovere - „of young woman named Hannah Taylor, about 20 Y.el:tier age, a farm servant out of pl a ce, but who lived sot"Tite uncle, an old man named Taylor, in a cottaelooe thorpe, near Driffield, was secretly delivered of a e or about the 20th inst. ; and that sbe died from n rr ;dis on the 29th. The body of the child was found in te tbe es 4 ' a plantation near the cottage; and according t° g one' dence of a medical man, who made a post morlem bo rn nation of its body, there is no doubt it bad bee n ewe alive, and in all likelihood it had been murdered. hoe women, named Mary Taylor and Sarah Brltl i r thi s been committed for trial at the next assizes shots county, county, charged with the murder. Mary Toler , ot her about 40 years of age, is cousin to the childslooill Sarah Britton is a hawker of small wares ; sbe 50 years old. r est POISONING WITH STINKING FISH.—On Sun dar 'holeee alarm was excited in the town by a report that the c_ es e had broken out with intens e virulence in some building" in Eastover, known by the nam e of Mogga-uu a g re e t u . b that num sixer were perso hntsheand lying died er night,in theill. and 3 ths nsse ll t tore inspector of nuisances, found th a t illness prevailed re in s to an alarming extent, and th a t th e buildings w e i t est most filthy and disgraceful condition. On inquiry, mbe learnt that a man who had b r ou g ht some large Al°, it ber oysters to the fair had met with a bad sale, and h a " i n his given or sold at small cost these oysters to the poor:, of neighbourhood: and that every one who had eateho, them had been attacked with violent choleraic diar„fee No time was lost in endeavouring to mitigate tbe ;: o pe ings of the poor people; workmen were got togelbe. too, or two of the families were removed to the old ,A1:00 house, where fires were lighted, b e ds obtained, 0 8 and comfortable food procured for them ; and tbetr kith lings, although it was on Sunday, were whitewasbe.bl the hot lime. The attack was undoubtedly induce d ole incautious use of stale fish, and accelerated by their of living.—Bridgewater Times. i; ,p tlOU rt t : CHARGE OF MIIRDER.—At the Lambeth Poi,--" bep on Tuesday, a man of juvenile appearance, named Stel f 4t* Alfred Jordan, alias Dowland, was charged with rifle oed, ing to murder Sarah Frances Ewings, in Dulivichl on the 19th of last month. The prosecutrix, who the ciente by the prisoner, met him at his request coded evening of the 19th ult., at Brixton, when he pen s iodg' her to go to Croydon, where he said he had taken end inks. He was provided with paper, pen, and the induced the girl to write two letters (which she did h p light of a lamp), one addressed to her landladY, 811 her other to himself, stating that " they would hear frooeleg in a few days." The priso ner p ossesse d himself of ( 1 1 8 , 00 letters, and they then proceeded into Dulwich -w t pri' their way to the railway station. In the wood, t h '''', o d, soner suddenly put his arm ro un d th e g irl's nect".esl whilo kissing her, stabbed her i n th e throat with t he instrument, which proved to be a.razor. She {ell t l s to/, ground, and on her endeavouring to rise he drew toe with which he beat her on the he a d, an d then - an d Although severely wounded about the throat, face , s be hands, she walked to a neighbou r in g c ottage, wh e ' . ibeee obtained assistance, and medical aid having been n ob afforded to her, she was conveyed to Guy's 11°5 ( f erse where she remained for some time i n a state of e 5 danger.—The attempted assassin was committed for do g A MATRIMONIAL DISAPPOINTMENT.—SOMe a • fer i n the, since, a rather romantic circumstan ce came " . 1 ; bee neighbourhood of Wells, which h a s occas ioned rtlY e , -e , a amongst lovers of gossip. It seems that Mr. . 111— t he grocer of that town, had for a long time been ivooingino affections of Miss a lady occupying a situatiel.er, draper's establishment. On Monday last, the grvi e e ct tired of single blessedness, summoned a party B ,f, 5 0 , 0 of friends to accompany him to the nei g hbouring vtu a 'ter' Cheddar, with his " fair one," for the purpose of e n r e, jointspr i puddings, d g d a i nngd weres ing into the marriage state. Previous to their deP . , Bl ll l O , p dressie pies, , all preliminaries were amicably arranged : the we', wet selectedh ta a r d t longtarts aron md obttehheeenr butcher'sd r a e i a n d t y i e; dainties, now the ca 0 .. ! e state of preparation. The invited friends were PI pro' the weather was favourable, and everything seemed b e d' pitious for a day of pleasure. The party arrived at 7 ro ly dar in high spirits, and after partaking of some r e ' Ott ments, all were soon in readiness to repair to churcb• r ot their way thither, the grocer's intended met ar;fter lover " more loved," who gave her the ws b he e ra c e k m , bini s e n sillectil :to ti proceeding a little further, she returned at full epee the outskirts of the village, where she met her real t .B , °° l o l ite, leaving the whole party in sitter astonishmen,„" a nd her poor forsaken swain to return to Wells as joY l '„ o rti wifeless as may be well conceived. The eloping roil' proceeded to Weston, where we believe they are noe' s ing.—Bristol Times. c ol' AN INTREPID GIRL.—On John asleep 1 ier, Selston, went to work, leaving his children , te d bed. His family consisted of a girl, named Hannah, d' eleven years, Joseph, aged three years and a half, younger boy still. His wife had gone from homel - 0 9 benefit of her health. About six o'clock the gir„ vi sS awakened by the cries of her brother Joseph, T an u p a ia alarmed to see him standing by the bed envelop t he flames. The fire had also communicated itself Tortil bedclothes, which were beginning to assume a f . ; fh aspect. With much presence of mind she rush" wit vessel in the room containing some water, and thre the over her brother, which fortunately ex tinguishe' c l i bet greater portion of the flames. She then pulle „o, younger brother out of bed, and sent him dowa s .ol. Under the bed was a cask containing about a stelleliast a-half weight of gunpowder, used by her father i n "ned in..; at the pits. This she dragged from under a nd calLi t g, into an adjoining room. She then went dowl: l , s '"bel alarmed the neighbours, and returned to the ei' a. 13641. with a pitcher of water, which she threw upGn the it The fire was subdued, but not totally extinguish ed ,; e of, was, however, entirely put out by the neighbours , °." O of whom stripped the little boy of the remaining portiLle night-dress, which was yet slightly on fire. The C ste little girl's hands were much burned, but her firs t ot os was for her brother, and she ran to the coal-pit, distance off, to fetch her father. Every attentie rl i , ate paid to the little sufferer, but he died at two oeloc' same day.—Notts Guardian. otsc B EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—At Southwark P on ce-- to g on Thursday, William Mew, a respectable looking li e u man, who described himself as a commercial tra ° : bl was charged with attempting to murder Helen Fain , ' to , administering poison to her. About three weeks ag o '- , t , couple took lodgings in Bennett-street, Stamford - 5 70 as man and wife; but the man was married to 0 1 3 01' woman. It appeared from the evidence that, on 010 nesday se'nnight, the woman cooked a dinner aftel r i oa she and Mew had some words; then Mew came stairs, told the landlady that his wife had left the 1 10.4 and that he was going to seek her. Mew had lec ke tyl l doors. and he did not return till Saturday morning . ,; ;0 %. he asked if his wife had been home ; and on rece o ; of reply in the negative he left the place. His manne red cited suspicion, and the landlady's daughter , through the key-hole of his bedroom, and saw the 911 e lying on the bed. The door was forced open. 3 ”,,, w was found slowly recovering from a state of le,,' apparently produced by some powerful na rcotic' would seem that she had been lying on the bed ias e r c ,oo 4 from Wednesday to Saturday. The surgeons nothing to prove what drug had been administered bet woman told the landlady's daughter that Mew peuT4o/c . out a glass of beer on the Wednesday, and that on ing it she was immediately overcome. Mew was,„:10 1 , quently traced and taken into custody ; but, as EaA l 7 o tr not sufficiently recovered to appear at the Police' he was remanded. vegorf. CoNsumpTioN of SMOKE,—A short time ago, -, c him p Chambers, of Glasgow, erected a new furnace ae u iv e ney for a ten-horse-power steam-engine, which f oil their printing machinery ; and, with a view to rele e o o , challenge respecting smoke, th e y a ppli e d Juckess P t 01. 0 _,T smoke-consuming apparatus. It consists of vil / s sarr be called an endless ch a in of b ar s, di s p ose d not ere ~,00,0 but lengthwise ; and this chain of b ar s forms the of the furnace, on which the live coal blazes. to moves very slowly forward—not more than at the of an inch in the minute—from the front to the bact i :y furnace, carrying the fire along with it. At the V A. ap d bridge of the furnace, the chain of bars moves wow', comes back beneath. Thus it goes on endlessiLial morning till night. The apparatus is fixed on 8_1°1: sr which is run into its place on a species of raike;;--e fill ,4 the whole—that is, the whole bottom of the furo efri„ be dragged in or out at pleasure, by which mese' V, facility is presented for cleaning, renovation, 84 2;01 chain of bars is moved by connecting gear from t"'" ft l / 4 engine. The coal is laid on a hopper at the mou t P:th 10 furnace, and is carried forward by the bars, the 10, coal that enters being regulated by an iron door, 40 0: depressed or raised like a sluice. The principle or_:001Pi consumption consists in the slow and regular edel: to >t of the coal. Instead of being heaved with a 8 13 9 1 : i l: t it to produce continual gusts of smoke, it is admit''' - 4.4 were, by hair-breadths. The ignition is therefolef tyi at a time, and what smoke is raised having to g O §ot l/1 : , bright fire beyond, it is necessarily consumed. Pew i>° gets up the chimney but a slight fume, scarcely Pp ble to the eye. The apparatus, we are told, i he s ,.,. O b ther advantage of economising fuel and attendae.:lo it sustains the steam equally with the c ommon P f t firing. s, ViL Alt • THE FINE ARTS IN ENGLAND, AND THE -E F . ir ojt IN FRANCE.—Englishmen excel in constructing 'f r ear. o . tial, useful, and lasting works. In this respeettuoi o. ol men are deficient.. We have been told that "the te ,o 4 don't pollute the waters of the Seine with the c 0 .5 • ,;t their water-closets." This is true, and there 1 99 •10.,:i good reason for it, and that is, " The Parisians Peot l ,7 o l common sewers" to convey this pollution to the Old waters of the Seine : deficient as London is i i ! 3 t re 51 ;41 sewerage—we are much better situated in te. than our neighbours. But, as a substitute le' r etin;) they construct large cesspools as reservoirs of web steak for the use of their barrack-like dwellings. e mP be from these, when undergoing the process of being p ot,, is unbearable; besides this, the water closets ' t ; f iv o l t d properly cleansed , for if a large quantity of I fa re 4 i 0 used, the cesspool would soon be filled, eueose' o te , emptying too often. From this cause water-dtbeid Paris are flushed with a small mug of water , a n c onl i k besides, deficient of an abundant supply. Wa ter the r oe by pipes the Parisians have to some extent. fortheirfoAl pose of washing their pavements and supplYie far' tains. This water is obtained from M. Argo fla rf o lV Artesian well, and is unfit for drinking and... r et i f fort et' poses, and nearly as warm as new milk. Ave''`by ing and drinking is brought to their housee loy ott l 4 of carriers—a laborious occupation, giving wet / c ono4 many thousands in Paris. With all this, the_ fp!, the Seine do not go unpolluted, for there er t v o lte; wash-houses on them,_ in which may be seeo__ 4 ll c loth washerwomen scrubbing diligently the di rty if tb e e r Paris, and mixing soap suds with anything 0 0 0 1 lucid waters of the Seine. Such is Paris, d 9 00040, London : in both there is much to admire MI% bore to decry. The English cannot be evalleci.; o°4 factories and shops—in constructing maehi e %ch 5 0 ways; let us see, then, if they cannot aln"..„,Arg nearer to equality in respect of the fine arts' and Build* Operative. pct, An lbqr trit a j a( 8 48, 11, 1), an Decrease E'nls z e t se • 1 • • . • , T pmaxes Ps . P - Perty Cron ost o ffice , La n; t as on, No ne A 1 141erit' T 441 Inca , , _ . _ _ _ ov ee "Zs • • . t o ,iTe.. • ` Ps. Pk • • N ot Pet tY Ti () the e 14, P ° 1111 La n ,• k ip Ato ll , XjeSt g c It;,4evs tlen 4valices T otal Inca , r,, tgle.l klrb Or 'ea rs 13 Oct. rip , O ctober, 18 18. 18 th 18. 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