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Kiteraturt. VARIETIES A Yankee down-easter has invented this specific for the use of gold-hunters :—The operator is to grease himself well, lie down on the top of a hill, and then roll to the bottom. The gold, and "nothing else," will stick to him. Price 94 dollars per box. DEAD OR MISSING. —After the battle of Chillianwallah, an Irishman in a foot regiment went to his officer and -< , lf dead. " Yes -^s• " said he, "I'm reported him: , J er miner kilt entirely." _.. can ti—` ' ,s he, " when I see you before me '" .4ays Pat, "if I were dead, I s h ou ld h a .e, and as I wish to lave the sarvice, if you report me dead, I supoose it'll be all the same to her Majesty, God bless her!" Pat was told that his request could not be complied with, on which he declared that if he could not be reported dead he would be amongst the missing after the next fer— ment. 1 - 10 w can that '?" " Och, sur we left the ENGLISH MARRIAGES IN 1848.—The marriages in the year 1848 were about 137,135 ; which is more than were returned iu 1847, but 8529 less than took place in 1846. Only 118,825 women were married in 1842; the smallest proportion. 4 "or increase of populat' -- in an•- llo%vin of the 11 1 Lon register marriages rapidly increased, and were 143,743, 145,664, in the four years 1843, 4,5, 6; in 1847 they suddenly fell to about 135,170, which is in nearly the same proportion t o th e popu l at i on as t h e num b er 137,135 , lB4B.—The marriages are unequally distributed over the year; but the fewest people marry in the first, the most in the last quarter, which follows harvest, includes Christ mas, and is the marrying season in England. About 41,972 marriages were celebrated in the last, and 28,303 in the first quarter of 1848. A comparison of the mar riages in the three first quarters shows very slight signs of any inclination to rise from the depression of 1847 ; in the last quarter of 1848 there is an evident increase. LIBRARIES IN EUROPE.—The number of public libra ries in Europe amounts to 383, of which 107 are in France, and but 33 in Great Britain and Ireland, including one in Malta. Of these 33 British public libraries, no less than 19 are attached to universities, 2 to law institutions, 2 to medical institutions, and Ito a scientific society. And of the remaining 9 really public institutions, available for all classes of the community, 3 are of a religious character— viz., Dr. William's Library, Archbishop Tenison's, and Sion College Library, in London, and one is at Valetta, in Malta, leaving but 5 for the general use of the inhabit ants of our large towns—viz., the National )m that year tht QlB, 132,249 y in th British Museum, the Cheetham Lib rary at Manchester,e two public libraries at Birmingham, and one (doubtful) at Bristol; whereas in France alone, 89 " town libraries," each containing upwards of 10,000 volumes, exclusive of the magnificent National Liftry of 800,000 volumes, and several other large public collections of books, supply all the chief seats of population with an inexhaustible source of amusement and instruction.—Dr. G. Robinson on Education. MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY versus MINERAL TREA- suaEs.—Ever since the middle ages, when permission was given to commoners to amass fortunes by honest and persevering enterprise, the members of the industrial world have, from generation to generation, gradually en riched themselves by the acquisition of land, workshops, warehouses, &c. To form a just idea of this source of opulence in the industrial community, like that of the French, Dutch, English, and Anglo-Americans, compare it with the source of the most fabulous treasures,—with those treasures poured during three centuries by Mexico and Peru, at the feet of conquerors who had little sym pathy with industry. At the end of three centuries scarcely a trace of these rivers of gold is left upon Spanish ground. And what is the result ? Whilst the four emi nently industrious nations, by the simple manufacture of their wools, silks, and foreign cotton, by the working of their iron and mineral coal. by their fisheries, and the produce of their soil, have enriched the community, Spain has sunk into the depth of poverty —a fitting reward for its idleness.—Report of the (Paris ) Society for the Encouragement of National Industry, 1848. INTERESTING RECOLLECTIONS OF THE "- NOT."—Miss Strickland, in her Ist, of England, has given us a statement GET-ME- work on the Queens of the cause of the poetical than that name, forget :-me-not, scarcely I lands c says, " This royal adventurer—the banished and aspiring Lancaster—appears to have been the person who gave to the mvosotis arvensis, or forget-me-not, its emblematical and poetical meaning, by uniting it, at the period of his exile, on his collar of S. S., with the initial letter of his 'not, or watchword, Souveignevous de moy ; thus render ing it the symbol of remembrance, and, like the subse quent fatal roses of York, and Lancaster, and Stuart— the lily of Bourbon, and the violet of Napoleon —an his torical flower. Few of those, who, at parting, exchange this simple touching appeal to memory, are aware of the fact, that it was first used as such by a royal PlantaTenet. prince, who was, perhaps, indebted to the agency of this mystic blossom for the crown of England. It was with his hostess, at that time wife of the Duke of Bretagne, that Henry exchanged this token of good-will and remem brance." YOUNG STANLEY AND YOUNG PEEL.—TWO young men have lately t a k en th e i r seats, a b out whom public curiosity can hardly fail io be excited—the son of Lord Stanley, and the son of Sir R. Peel. The resemblance of young Stanley to his father is perfectly wonderful. We saw them together, and could hardly tell " which was which." Never could a parent with greater safety of conscience swear to a son, or a son to a father, than could the two Stanleys respectively. The same marked features, the same mass i ve b rows , t h e same strong crisped hair, indicative of stubborn purpose and determined will, characterise father and son. In form, too, in port, in gesture —nay, in style of dress, in the mode of using the eye-glass, of holding the hands, of doing any trifling thing, of looking, of listening—the one is the complete similitude of the other. It is dangerous to prophecy, but there is that in young Stanley which promises that he will not be unworthy of his sire. Although only twenty three years of age, he has the appearance of one much older; his costume is the reverse of beauish, and he pays con stant and seemingly deep attention to the debates. — Young Peel bears no very striking likeness to Sir Robert, and has nothing in his lineaments to raise expectations of future eminence. His features are like his mother's, de licate and regular, and he looks neither more nor less than any other sprig of fashion that we may see at the opera or elsewhere. He sometimes drops in during a debate, and has the air and manner of ono who esteems legislation a vast bore. Whether he will support the paternal fame, time will alone determine.—Atlas. BIRDS AND THEIR NESTS.—Everybody has read the story of the Maid and the Magpie, and how narrowly the maid escaped punishment for the theft committed on the silver spoons by the chattering pie. It will, however, we think, be a novel circumstance to our readers to hear of green linnets and thrushes becoming thieves ; but such is the fact. The plover may lay its eggs in a nest ready made on the ground—the magpie may build its canopy of sticks—the tit its beautiful and scientific nest, with its neat side entrance—the tailor bird sew together its elegar t and purse-shaped pendant house,—but it yet remains to be recorded of the extravagance of the thrush and linnet to steal lace caps and trimmings, cuffs, collars, &c., wherewith to enshrine their eggs and young, as the fol lowing story, furnished to us by a correspondent, will show, and urove an interesting anecdote for the next new work on Ornithology :—" For some time past, various articles were missed, that had been washed and put out on a lawn to dry. No trace could be discovered of them until a few days since, when something was seen in an arbutus bush, which led to an examination, and a frill was found partly hanging out of the nest of a green linnet, with a portion of it gracefully encircling its neck. On a further search, together with the usual materials of which the nest was built—moss and grass—there were entwined with and around it, preparatory, as it were, to the ap proaching arrival of the youngsters, a baby's lace cap, two yards of lace bordering, and two pairs of cuffs, and, at a short distance off, on the ground, was picked up the frill for the top of a child's frock, which seemed to have been too heavy for the little culprits to carry along with them. This discovery has led to a further search, and other missing articles of the same description, too nume rous to mention, have been found forming part of the nest of a thrush. Since the nests were taken, these novel little thieves have been intercepted carrying off similar booty." THE CHiIRCH.—The Protestant Church of England was not originally a detached body, and afterwards an nexed to the State—which would be union ; it was the State itself, constituting itself a Protestant Church. First, there was a national change of religion ; then, as the natural consequence, the religion tock the form of the National Establishment. This was no mere union, if by union we are to understand simply the uniting of a Church and State previously existing apart. The State was the Church, and the Church the State. This, in the main, is the condition of Church and State, which has come down to us from our forefathers. This primary idea of identity may have been subjected to some modification, in the lapse of centuries ; but certainly the modification, in the whole period from the Reformation to the present day, has been less than we could have anticipated, espe cially if we review the events which have occurred in the interval. And, thus far, the identity still remains; that Church and State are rather to be regarded as one homo geneous body, neither Church nor State discernible or definable apart from the other, than as two heterogene ous bodies united by legislative ties. Church and State, then, viewed in their general character, are not united merely, but identical. We are not assuming that this, because it is so, ought to be. We ask, only, that a plain matter of fact may be correctly viewed. A Christian community, comprising in its extent many thousand pa rishes, each with its parish church, makes provision, by general arrangements and legislative enactments, for the support of its own parochial ministers and religious edi fices ; that is, makes a general provision for its own reli gious wants. This, in the view of many persons, would be the wisest plan that could be adopted. This, however, is what is now assailed by a party as the idolatrous ' Union' of Church and State. The State, having adopted the reformed faith, arranges its own ecclesiastical polity, ministry. ritual, &c.,—all the individuals comprehended in this arrangement being members of the State. The State, in acting thus, merely exercises the right of self government. The State having constituted itself the Church, the Church, in conforming itself to the State regulations, is subject to no extraneous control. The case, in fact, is simply that of a Christian community regulating itself upon a uniform principle, the whole re gulating the parts. The control is in the Christian com munity itself, not in a body other than that community. This is no usurpation, then ; it is self-government, self regulation, self-control. A wife certainly wrongs not her husband by recognising the principle that his will is to direct her in all things, by laying down rules for her own conduct with a constant reference to that will, and by maintaining those rules. Nor is a public servant a traitor to his sovereign, if his sovereign has ordained that he should be paid for his work, and he receives from the public a stipulated remuneration for stipulated services. THE INQUISITION AT ROME The following letter (dated Rome, March 31,) from Father Mahoney, the author of the celebrated " Prout Papers," will, though presented to our readers at a later period than it might have been, be read with considerable interest " I visited this morning the works going on in the sub terranean vaults of the holy office, and was not a little horrified at what T saw with my own eyes, and held in my own hands. Though I have been familiar with every thing in and about Rome fora quarter of a century, I contess l never had any curiosity to visit the Inquisition, taking it for granted that everything was carried on there fairly and honestly, as I was led to believe by people worthy in other respects of implicit trust. Besides, the place itself is out of the beaten track of all strangers, and in a sort of cul de sac behind St. Peter's, where it natu rally retired to perform its blushing operations. and ' do good by stealth.' I was struck with the outward appear ance of civilisation and comfort displayed by the build ing, which owes its erection to Pius V., author of the last creed ; but on entering, the real character of the concern was no longer dissimulated. A range of strongly-barred prisons formed the ground-floor of a quadrangular court, and these dark and damp receptacles I found were only the preliminary stage of probation, intended for new as yet. uninitiated into the Eleusinian mysteries of the establishment. Entering a passage to the left, you arrive at a smaller court-yard, where a triple row of small barred dungeons rises from the soil upwards, somewhat after the outward look of a three-decker, accommoda ting' about 60 prisoners. These barred cages must have been often fully manned, for there is a supplementary _ _ row constructed at the b ac k o f th e quadrangle on the ground-floor, which faces a large garden. All those cel lular contrivances have strong iron rings let into the masonry, and in some there is a large stone firmly im bedded in the ceatre with a similar massive ring. Nu merous inscriptions dated centuries back are dimly legible on the admission of light, the general tenor being asser tion of innocence : 'lddio ci liberi di lingua calumnia trice," Io domenico Gazzoli vissi qui anni 18,' Calum niatorev mendaces exterminabuntur.' I read another :_i i somewhat longer, the d r ift o f w hi c h i s, ' T he caprice or i'll EARLS. — Abereleen, Auckland, Bessborough, Bruce, Bur wickedness of man can't exclude me from thy Church, lington, Carlisle, Cowper, Clarendon, Craven, Camperdown, 0 Christ, my only hope.' The officer in charge led me Cork, Clanvvilliam, Charlemont, Chichester, Cornwallis, Derby, down to where the men were digging in the vaults below ; Devon, Denbigh, De Grey, Ducie, Essex, Effingham, Erroll, they had cleared a d ownwar d fli g h t o f steps, which was Ellesmere, Fitzwilliam, Fortescue, Fitzh ar di nge , Fi ngal], Grey, Granville, no.son k e a n in m sb lr o e rcro,Glas g w Gosford,no, Lovelace, Leicester,Home, pemebraeort,t;adnor choked up with old rubbish, and had come to a series of Liverpool, Glasgow, dungeons under the vaults deeper still, and which imme- Miao, Aleath. Mori on, Morley, Oxford: diately brought to my mind the prisons of the Doge Roseberry, Ripon, Suffolk, Scarborough, Spencer, Sll.Germans, under the canal of the Bridge of Sighs at Venice, only Sefton, Strafford, Thanet, Uxbridge, Wicklow, Waldegrave, that here there was a surpassing horror. I saw imbedded Yarborough, Zetland. VlSCOUNTS.—Bolingbroke, Canni ng , Clifd en, Falkland, Har in old masonry, un s y mme t r i ca ll y arranged, five skeletons in various recesses, and the clearance had only just begun; dingo, i D lr. r u d 71 rlie'yMeTearcreonnelyMeit s Tr u n r % n PoLs u o n nZ SAd y n ro ei l: the period of their insertion in this spot must have been Beaumont, Belhaven, Canino, Carew, Carrington, Churchill, more than a century and a half ago. From another vault Crewe, Cowley, Cloncurry, Cottenham, Colborne, Campbell, full of skulls and scattered human remains there was a Cremorne, Dacre, Dorchester, Dinorben, Denman, De Manley, shaft about four feet square, ascending perpendicularly De Freyne, Dunfermline, Dunalley, Dormer, Erskine, Elphin to the first floor of the building, and ending in a passage s . t e or l l; fl , i l: i d en dislip o rz, de F n olei fa T e e r n t elg, Godolphin, icennin 4 Holland, Ho. v t o and n cif the hall of the chancery, where a trap-door lay between a Langdale. Leigh. Lovat, Monson, Montford, Milford, Mostyn, the tribunal and the way into a suite of rooms destined Monteagfe, Poltimore, Portman, Rivers, Rossmore, Sudeley, for one of the officials. The object of this shaft could Stanley of Alderley, Stuart de Decies, Suffield, Saye and Sole, admit of but one surmise. The ground of the vault was Stafford, Stourton, Talbot de Mlalahide, Vaux, Vernon, Wartl, l 12a_rncliffe, Woilek9use, ly ro tti, s l ey, W enlock. made up of decayed anim a l ma tt er , a l ump of which held W - . . i imharldarl i... ;4- ..1.-....•.. ..:11,--- 1-1- _r 1 • .- HOUSE OF LORDS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 9. The following list includes not only those present, but pairs and proxies : CONTENTS. DUKES. - Argyll, Bedford, Devonshire, Grafton, Hamilton, Leeds, Leinster, Norfolk, Roxburghe, :!.onierset, St. Alban's, Sutherland, Wellington MARQuists.—Abercorn, Anglesey. Breadalbane, Bristol, Clanricarde, Co»yngham, Donegal, Headfort, Lansdowne, Normanby, Northampton, Ormonde, Sligo, Westmeath, West- 1 - 31 , s t n , t o w., og i . r — il a tna , , n tg e b r u e r r ygul) ,o l l i t: , n Y n o , r k . .. , ...nail., as I tound by d Manchester, Nor personal examination as it was shovelled up from below. with, Oxford, Peterborough, Ripen, St. David's, St. Asaph, Why or wherefore, with a large space of vacant ground Salisbury, Tuam, Worcester. lying outside the structure, this charnel-house should be NON-.CONTZNTS. contrived under the dwelling, passes my ken. But that DritEs.—Atholl, Beaufort, Buct}ingbam, Cleveland, is not not all : there are two large subterranean lime-kilns, chaster, Marlborough, Montrose, Newcastle, Northumberland, if I may so call them, shaped like a beehive in masonry, Richmond, Rutland. filled with layers of calcined bones, forming the substra- MARQUISES.—Ailesbury, Ailsa, Dbwnshire, Drogheda, Ely, Wi ne r, Hertford, Huntly, Londonderm Salisbury, Waterford, tum of two other chamb ers on the g round floor, i n the Wi Itester. immediate vicinity of th e very trivsterinn. ahnfi• .t.,..,,, C -- • `••• 5 wub snatc aoove I EMlLBAbingdon, Abergavenny, Airlie, Aylesford, Bandon, mentioned. I know not what interest you may attach to Balcarres, Bathurst, Beauchamp, Beverley, Buckinghamshire, what looks like a chapter from Mrs. Radcliff, but had I I Brownlow, Chesterfield, Cardigan, Carriarvon : endc.igan,Catli not ti.e evidence of my own senses I wnuld L.,„- cart. czamm, ever nave ....,.., ...coon, k-awoor, unariev ille, Dartmouth, Digby, Desart, Delawarr, Darnley, Eldon, Enniskillm Erne, Ellenborough, dreamt of such appearances in a prison of the holy office ;. EgtnontEglintoun, Falmouth, Ferrers, Glengall, Guildford, being thoroughly sick of the nonsense that has for years Hardwick, Harewood, Harrowby, Huntingdon, Jersey, Kin been put forth on that topic by partisan pens. But here noul, Lauderdale, Lonsdale, Limerick Longford, Leven, Lucan, the thing will become serious, for to-morrow the whole Mansfield,. Malmesbury, Manvers, Mountcashel, Maccle , field, population of Rome is publicly invited by the authorities Mayo, Munster, Nelson, Onslow, Vrfcrd, Orkney, Pomfret, Lo n u ! d e w % to come and see with their own eyes one of the results of ! , ch l . l a4 a is i i ho ßa e nfiC T;er ß s od s e t n r , adt t p o r lzy s , i ß ann s o ly Ro , Shannon, 'Selkirk, entrusting power to clerical hands. Libels on the clergy seafleid, , Daibot, i P ankerville, Verulam, Winchilsea, Warwick, have been manifold during the last four months, and Wilton: have done their work among. the mn.scapa 1:14-, ~,,,,,.. 4-1, :, eresford, Canterbury Combermere, Done- Midleton, May- is nothing to the !that view of <<ag,, &a ,ACI44 al, 11111, The archives (wanti ng the veryre - c - en't vr ones only) have nard, O'Neill, St. Vincent, Stranglord. been overhauled, and a selection will be forthwith pub- LORDS.Abinger, Berwic, Braybrooke, Bayning, Bolton, prougham, Bagot, Boston, Blaney, Clintorr i Colville, Clarina, lished. The cases are of the most intense interest, ii i e r am br e o r c e k, D epr au o m n, Ca z stiLm e thir, Colchester; De Kos, Douglas, reaching from Galileo's time down to modern. days • and iz_e,p_owr r ies, f,lwribtin!,_Kurrs ter, here most disgraceful letters from the Sardinian and'Nes- Fecershat;,_ 7 ~,,,,,, .„,., ~,,-. KeVCI2,IIIIIII, U`rantiey, bray, Kenyon, Lyndh urs t, Middl eton, politan courts, including; choice correspondence from Northwick, Pa!warth, Rodney, Rayleigh, Rollo, Redesdale, St. John, Sondes Stanley of Bickerstaffe Saltoun, Sinclair, the Duke of Modena, will be given verbatim, in extenso. Skelatersdalc,Sothampton, Sherborne, SLilys, Templemore, Latterly the concern had become almost exclusively Tenterden, Walsingham, Willoughby dwresby, Wynford. political, and only busied itself with ' earbonari' and Blsnoes.—Bath and Wells, Bangor, Carlial4Cashel, Exeter, ' freemasons,' under which terms every aspirant after a Glocester, Llandaft; Rochester, Winchester. constitutional form of government was thoughtfair game, . .... . ._. ~.. —. . and L., ...1....A .1. IRELAND. one Croats of Radetsky may force hack on the popu lation of these territories clerical rulers again.;, but no friend of the Roman Catholic Church, acquainted with The proseeetion of Mr. C. Gavin Duffris abandoned. the present sentiments of the Romans, can view such an A farmer, his wife, and one of his children have died at event without deep alarm." Portnorris, Tkrone, of glanders caught fermi a diseased horse, and another child of the same family had been attacked by the disease. HARVEST PROSPECTS IN IRELAND.—The reports Of the crops in Ireland are, all things considered, tolerably Most of the members of Sir Robt. Peel's government favourable, though a fourth failure of the-potato crop is recorded their votes f or th e repea l o f t h e nav i gat i on laws, now anticipated : in the House of L or d s , on W e d nes d ay morning _ There PAUPER KILLING IN BALLINASLOE." - •:-SUCII is the were, however, some honourable exceptions. The Duke heading to an article in the Galway Vicwlicator, which of Buccleugh was abse n t and Lords Stanle Lyndhurst states that, out of 4886 paupe rs , th ere were i n one week Lonsdale, Ellenborough, , and Haddington, y, ~ v oteel against - 2 9 6 deaths'; ani of the rem a i n d er , 1027 areln fever. Th e the obnoxious measure. paper from which this is taken says that in any other c Cuntons FACT.—A correspo n d en t o f th e D a il y , N ews country the guardians w ou ld b e t r i e d f or mur d er. calls attention to the fact that by re fe rence t o t h e li sts of cation of this powerful agen t h as b een ma d e - at t h e Rath- BLASTING ET, G ALVANISM .—A very sat i s f actory appli divisions in the Lords and C ommons , it w ill b e seen that more tunnel, near Cork. U n d er th e a bl e super i nten d ence where a difference of opinion exists bet ween f a th er an d of Messrs M`Henry and Glassford, up war d s o f 3t) tons of son, the rising generati on i n th e H ouse o f P eers i s in rock were completely detached from the face, many blocks favour of Free Trade, Lord Stanley forming the exception • • of half a ton weight being thrown 10 to 12:yards distance. in favour of reaction. For Free Trade—Lincoln, Nor- On last Sunday mornine an armed party of ten men reys, Bruce, Villiers, Derby. For reaction—Newcastle '" attacked the house of a man name d Sh arpe , s t ewar d to Abingdon, Aylesbury, Jersey, St an l e y, Lord Monteagle, who resides in the rear of'Mount Tren- THE CANADIAN ADVISERS OF GOvERNMENT4.—EarI chard, (county. of Limerick,) beat him in an unmerciful Grey, in his speech in the House upon the Navigation manner, and actually cut off one of his ears I They also Laws, had triumphantly quoted as Lord Elgin's authority assaulted his wife and children. The only-cause assigned for the loyalty and peacefulness of the Canadians, a letter for the outrage, is the fidelity of Sharpe te•the interests from the house of Home, Young, and Knapp. Lord of his noble employer. Stanley produced a letter from the same house, which we DOWN Caettx—Dower Honer.—That 7 teland is now shall allow him to quote and comment uponein his own bankrupt—that her corn and cattle are driven out of the happy way :—" It is dated the 14th. of Mar c h, 1849, and market—that the very land which produces them both is runs thus : ' Dear sirs,—The value of annexation to the unsaleable. are the logical effects of adverse legislation in United States seems to be most prevalent among our the Imperial P'Arliament. Free trade, liberalized tariffs, people. (Hear, hear.) Co u ld th e measure h e b roug h t and a ruinous system of poor laws, have so reduced the peaceably and amicably about, there is no doubt that value of land, that to offer it for sale (when, burdened as three-fourths, if not nine -tenths, of the inhabitants would it is with poor'rates, men would hardly take a present of go for it.' (Loud cheering.) Non mews hie sonmo. They it) is a mere mockery of the proprietor s hopes. Thus, go on to say, No country can expect to retain colonies with reference to the bread-stuffs—whilst,ls,sso quarters under a free-trade system—(loud and continued cheering) o f foreign wheat-5,880 ditto of foreign Barley, and 1,610 --unless the two are allied to each. other by contiguity, or ditto of foreign oats,—forming in the aggregate 23,040 for the purpose of mutual protection. The commercial quarters of foreign supplies—found a- warm reception system of the United States now offers more advantages and ready sale, at the London Corn Exchange, on Mon to this province than any other within view. Their system, day, not one single ounce of Irish produce in the same as far as respects the int erna l a ff a i rs o f the union, is pecu- kinds found its way into the market Foreign cattle, liarly isolated and selfish, as regards other nations. also, are making their way into the various English ports (Cheers.) Our people being disappointed at their non- in great numbers.—Dublin Mail. concurrence in reciprocal free trade in the native pro- EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF FORGE-RT.—Considerable ductions of their country, will not rest till it is brought sensation-has-been created in legal circles, in cot se ,u3nce about, and then,' with a dash under, there is but one of a discovery which took !place in the early part or Sa certain way to do it.' (Loud cheers.) There is the turday last. It appears that a native of England, who letter of the loyal, friendly adviser of her Majesty's Go- had been a resident of Dublin for ye re, and who belonged vernment in Canada. (Renewed cheering.) What does to a branch of the legal profession, in which he enjoyed he tell you ? The colonies and free trade cannot exist b oth reputation and business, got married some time together; not being American citizens America repudiates since to-a lady of great respectability, who had a fortune us, and being British citizens our own country gives us of about £l2OO. This sum was invested in trustees no advantages. The conclusion is irresistible, and the for the benefit of the lady, and lodged in Government se loyalty must be powerful indeed which resists it. Let us curity, so as not to be drawn, save by, the trustees. Some annex ourselves to that country which will give us all the days since, the gentleman alluded to presented himself at privileges we desire, and more especially as the enlightened the Bank, produced two separate-powers of attorney for policy of the mother country is determined to give us, as nearly £6OO each, both purporting to he witnessed by American citizens, all the privileges we now possess." clergymen, and on these documents be received the mo (Loud and prolonged cheering.) ney, with which he disappeared. His absence for a day THE FARMERS AND THE PRICE OF CORN, &c.—At the of so. created no suspicion, but. its continuance caused great agricultural meeting at Worcester, last week, one of some uneasiness; and on Monday last, on inquiry, the the speakers, T. G. Curtler, Esq., in the course of a long whole case became exposed. The person who has corn argumentative speech, said, " Now, gentlemen, here is a milted this alleged forgery has left his wife, house, home, very good sample of corn, not to sell; it has been already and friends. sold. I will produce them for the inspection of those EMIGRATION FROM IRELAND.—Within the last few gentlemen who, if they ever come within the atmosphere days several first-class sailing ; packets moved, off from the of Sir Robert Peel, can tell him of what description they Custom-house quay, for Nevi York, with the full number, are. Now, gentlemen, in the face of those parties who of passengers prescribed by the American laws for each assert that the difficulty of the transit is such, and the ship to carry • and while we now write, there are thre e or expense of the carriage so great, as to deter parties f r om four more taking in luggage and receiving on board de sending corn to this country, I have produced to the hon. tatchments of the rural population, all of whom are sager and gallant general (General Lygon) a capital sample of in their flight from this country. Last year and the wheat ; and where do you think it came from ? It came year before, the class of emigrants that proceeded se Arne from Poland, was shipped on the south coast of the Black rice was almost exclusively composed of cottiers, agricul- Sea, was brought here, the duty of one shilling per quarter tural labourers, and mechanics, whose passage had been paid, was transhipped at Gloucester, the ship being laden provided by their landlords. F ew o f th e f armer or shop with salt at Gloucester last week. I can give you the keeper grades although alarmed at the spread of desti names if you like, and every particula r; an d w h a t d o you tut i on with which they- were surrounded, had resolved to think it was sold at ? Why, at 355. per quarter. I should fly with the remnant of their industry, which they still like to ask that gentleman at the table, who knows very retained, and hoping for better times, they braved the well that the trade of Birmingham depends very much calamity for another year; but now, and for the- last two upon home consumption, and which has got protection, months of April and March, a most important change has whether if wheat is to be brought into this country at that been introduced in the rapid flight of emigrants from this price, the farmers must not be ruined; and more than country to the United States. The last packet-ship that that, I should like to ask bins whether they, the ma- left the Dublin port for New York was the lEolus, and a nufacturers of Birmingham, must not be ruined as well as few reflections descriptive of her living cargo will, per us. But, gentlemen, I am not quite satisfied with that haps, convey a general idea of the rank and circumstances sample. Gentlemen, I have got a sample of beans to of those who are now escaping from the Irish shores. produce, and I should like to know whether they are not Every berth in the first cabin of the Xolus was occupied, good beans. I say they are. Those beans came from and had there been space for the accommodation of as Egypt. They were also unshipped at Gloucester and many more as had been there provided for, there would warehoused, and after all expenses were paid, including be no difficulty in filling it with occupants of highly re the merchant's commission, they were sold at 245. per spectable classes. The passengers in the first cabin com quarter. Now, gentlemen, there is no denying these prised men of the medical and legal professions, shop facts, for I have also a sample of white peas, as good peas keepers, graziers, and farmers, who hitherto maintained as were ever grown or sold in England ; they came also very important positions in the localities in which they across the sea from Dantzic, and I can vouch for them lived. The second cabin was occupied by about one huh_ that they are a very superior article indeed, and beautifully dred persons, many of whom, from their own merits and they boil—l only wish that Sir Robert Peel was obliged to acquirements, and the society in which they were entitled live upon nothing but them. I have no doubt, gentlemen, to move, were in no respect less respectable than the that these samples are calculated to produce a little risi- parties in the first cabin; but, forming family groups of bility, but I assure you I produce them before you in all four, five, and six, they could not all be accommodated; honesty and sincerity. I have not been making up the case besides, in a pecuniary point of view, it suited their ideas for the purpose of misrepresenting the facts, but I have of economy best to go in the second cabin. So sespect procured these samples from a respectable merchant, and able were the parties in the second cabin that the gallant 1 assure you, with respect to these beans, 2500 quarters seaman, Captain Driscoll, himself an Irishman, a native were sold last Saturday at 245. the quarter; and I can only of Cork, would not make any distinction between them and ask you whether you think it probable—l don't know first cabin passengers in the privilege of walking the poop. whether this wheat can be immediately manufactured into Those carried with them letters of credit and bills of ex flour by itself, I believe such is not the case, but it can be change on New York to a vey considerable amount. The with the assistance of a slight quantity of the growth of steerage passengers comprised four descriptions of persons this country—l can only ask you whether you think it will —farmers, who had held about thirty acres of land, and not reduce the price i n this country to such an amount as under; shopkeepers on a small scale, in provincial towns : to render it impos s ible f or the British farmer to grow it at mechanics of various handicrafts, and agricultural la. all. Talk of th e re d uc ti on o f r ents, lam prepared to prove bourers. The great majority of those in the steerage pro. to you, and perhaps that great practical farmer will check ceeded on their own account—a few only having been me if lam wrong, that if all the rent, every shilling of it provided by their landlords with a free passage and cash was taken off, it would not meet the difficulty. But be- in hand on arriving in America. But the most interest fore Ido that, gentlemen, I will give you another instance ing feature in the flight of those on board the lEolus is, of the injurious effect of Sir Robert Peel's free trade mea- that in addition to the money realised by the sale of their sures upon British industry. Connected with the land in effects in preparing to emigrate, a very considerable suns this county, and in a great many other counties, we know in the Aggregate had been received from their relatives POLITICAL MISCELLANY. TUE LIVERPOOL gtANDARD, that there are large pieces of land appropriated for the and friends in America, many of whom had left Ireland growth of willows, and called ozier plantings, and in pre- so late as February last, every shilling of which they have paring those willows and making them up into baskets a taken with them back again, to enrich the country of their large number of people are employed. A great many adoption.—Dublin Post. acres of this peculiar description of willows have been grown at a remunerative price to both the landowner and the workmen who are employed. During four months of the year large numbers of women and children were em ployed in pickin g an d prepar i ng t h ese oz i ers for the pur- The subscriptions for th e w id ows an d ch i ldren of the pose of making baskets. During the present year one of sufferers in the colliery explosion at Darley Main amounts these growers of willows went to Birmingham as usual for to upwards of £2,000. for the sale ^` The colonelcy of the sth Foot has become vacant by the demise of Sir Jasper Nicolls, formerly Commander-in- Chief in India. Earl Grey has just disposed of his fine Horton estate, near Wooler, to Matthew Culler, Esq., of Fowberry season.' Inc bitauc Tower, for a sum little short of £50,000. .m sorry to say your winovv,, _ The loss of lamb s th roug h out N ew Romney Marsh, „1,„, I h o ; during the sno w s t orm o f Th urs d ay se ' nnight, is roughly calculated at about 5000. At the Polytechnic Institution, in London, is exhibited one pound of glass, spun by steam into four thousand miles and woven with silk into beautiful dresses and tapestry ! @tntral 1116:irritant). . - ins oargains oi the willows, but when he called upon the party to whom he usually sold them, and who generally purchased them at the rate of from £25 to £3O per ton ; he was told, lam very sorry to tell you I can't buy any willows at all this i.' The same gentleman went to Bristol, and he was told there, lam sorry to say your willows are not worth £6 a ton.' Why,' replied the gentleman, ' how comes all this about ; I cannot peel the willows for the money ' Just come up to my warehouse,' was the answer, 'and I will show you,' and the dealer took him up to his warehouse and showed him an immense stock of French baskets, with a duty paid of £lO per cent. upon those imported into this country, upon which he ithe dealer) could get sd. clear profit upon each basket, which A servant girl has been committed at Paisley for the murder of an illegitimate new-born child. She endea voured first to smother the infant by lying upon it; but alarmed at its cries, she tore its jaws asunder, and after that thrust her finger down its throat. The Globe states that Mr. Harris obtained a special license at Doctors' Commons, on Saturday week, f or hi s marriage with Jenny Li n d, but observes that " that cir cumstance affords no clue to the period at which the union may take place." The Patriot weekly paper, an organ of the Dissenters, says, "Mr. Shore's committee intend to recommend the payment of the costs, in order to obtain Mr. Shore's liberation. This is unquestionably a measure of un sonnd expediency, but they see no other alternative." FATAL A cctuattr.—Lady Whichcote, of Ashitearley Park, near Falkingham, expired on Thursday last. Her ladyship was driving a one horse vehicle on the - previous Saturday, when the horse took fright. Her ladyship sprung from the carriage, and pitching on her head, re ceived a severe concussion of the brain. Trig " CAsttros."—The proceedings in all the•cases of the parties indicted at the Middlesex Sessions Court for keeping establishments for music and dancing without being licensed, have been removed to the Central:Crimi nal Court ; the effect of which (as stated by Mr. Serleant Adams on Wednesday, when the intimation was' made) will be, that the cases will never he heard of again. At WorshiP-street Police-otlice, last week, florge Snow, a young man, was charged riith a novel robbery. While walking through the hothouses of Messrs. Loddige, at Hackney, Snow slily cut slips from very rare and valua ble plants, placing them in his bat and pockets. He thus stole about a hundred pounds' worth. A gardener de tected him in the act: LATE PARIS EZCIIRSION.—We understand that a me-- dal, cast at the Mint in Paris, commemorative of the late friendly visit of the• two nations, liasbeen presented to. Mr. Crisp, by whose spirited enterprise the undertaking was so satisfactorily carried through.. Similar medals in gold have been presented to our gracious Queen, the Pre sident of the Republic;.General Changarnier, and others. At the Central Crimiital-Court, on Tuesday, a woman named Lydia Dixon, of respectable connections, was found guilty of shoplifting. Sentence deferred.—At the same court, on Wednesday, a Greek gentleman of good family, named Timoleon Masco, was indiettd for stealing 266 coins, valued at £soo;the property of the trustees of the British Museum, and found guilty. Sentence deferred. The defence was that stealing is his monomani a . RELIC OF CHARTISM.—The Leeds police made a sei zure a few days since of 2Uvlbs. of gunpowder in an old stable in that town. The ostlerin charge of t7* premises was summoned to account for its possession, which not doing to the satisfaction of the magistrates- he was mnitted in the penalty o f 2 , 1 , for every pott4of gun powder beyond the quantity (5011 S;) allowed by law. The powder and barrels were, of co - arse, confiscated. SA - Int/LEGE AT KEW CHUILVH.—Two men, - - - one a hawkeror costermonger, as the thief, and the othera man namedTilbey, of Great James-street; Lisson-grove, have been apprehended on a charge ofbreaking into the - parish Church'. of Kew, and stealing therefrom an iron chest, containing the parish registers. extending as far back as 150 years or more. The robbery took place on the night of the 22nd of February, 1845. The prisoners have been remanded to Kingston Gaol, the evidence in the present stage of the case not being allowed , to transpire. PISTOL.—A man who gives us areal name and address writes to us as follows :—"*Ori Sunday last, May 6, passing through a field near Potash-farm, I fOund a large double-barrelled pistol bedded in the ground, with `J. B. Rnah' engraved on the guard4Over the trigger, ante a. bunch of skeleton keys. You can mention this circum stance in-your paper, if you think proper."—Of course, we cannot say whether the above is a -hoax or a ssrious matter of fact; but we have put it kr/train for investigaa tion.—Nirfebt Chronicle. DESTRUCT/lON AMONG THE ROCEERIES -IN HANTS.— The severe frosts and snow of the Ith and 20th of Aprib last destroyed nearly all the youn-= , !rooks. At Lord: Bolton's, Harkwood, near Basingstoke, nearly all this year's birds have been either killed by-the frost or thrown out by the-snow before they were full-grown ; more than one thousand young ones have been picked up under the trees within the previous week. The same occurred also in the rookeries of several other gentlemen in the same was not Ig tbr t gentle- men, in the face of the the foreign grower ?" le facts, how could he compete with NAVIGATION LAWS county GtriTA PEREITA BOAT.—The attention of sportsmen in aquatiacindes has been this week :directed to a novel application of Gutta Percha, successfully carried out by Mr. John Taylor, of this town, the agent for the Gutta Percha Company, in the construction of a boat, which vessel was lthmehed on Monday. The•boat was manned by Harry Olkisper, and an efficient crew; who gu'dcd her down the river to St. Lawrence. From thence a trial of speed commenced between the 'h ew boat and a wooden one of the-same dimensions, and after a-short struggle the gutta percha, took the lead, and catne.h.Ome victorious. This boat,. which is about 26 feet longtand 3 feet wide, is light and buoyant in smooth water. Atrial of the gutta percha lido buoy was made after tha-race.--Newcastle Journal. LAUGITAIILB OCCURRENCE.—Last 'week, a gentleman residing about a mile from Burlington-made his usual purchases at the market, in the courseof which he bought a quantity. of seed, which he left, as was his almost inva riable practice. at an hotel in the town. Next day, the gentleman referred to sent down nr.messenger to the house in question for the required paneel,•but the landlord being absent,, his daughter, unconscious of the mistake she was about committing, gave the -applicant about six pounds weight of coffee bean, whichtthe lad, through his simplicity); conveyed home : and the master being absent, he, according to previous directions,-,com-nenced his du ties in the garden, and actually sowed-six pounds of coffee instead of the seed really purchased for the purpose. Our readers-will readily guess at the merriment which this af fair gave rise to in the neighbourhood.—frill Packet. A PATICTARCHIAL FAMILY, NEARI.OTLEY.-011r COT. respondent at Otley supplies us with some curious parti culars respecting a family residing in the neighbourhod of that ' town . The fathe r i s a farmer residing at Nor vrood,..his name John Marston. Fle-has been married to his wife- between 60 and 70 years, and by has had ten children, five sons and five daughters. The youngest child-is-43 years of age, and the united ages of the twelve persons-6E4 years. All the children-are married, and be tween them have children amounting in number to nearly ninety. Until last week, since the, marriage of the parents, a death in the family has-never occurred. Last week, the 7th child, aged 49, died, and was buried in Otley .churchyard. On Sunday:the- whole family attended divine service in Otley church„some of them having coma. a distance of 20 miles to do so,. For the first time they appeared in the habiliments- ofi mourning. —Bradford.' Observer. SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCR.--011 Friday last, a respec table farmer, coming out of the. Stirling corn market, was accosted by an acquaintance. and informed that if he con tinued to carry his watch ia.the manner he was doing, he would either lose it or it would be stolen from him. His hand went mechanically toatis fob to see that all was right; and finding his watch there, he began to think his ac quaintance was fooling him. But no such thing. There was actually a gold watch hanging by its chain to the haunch buttons of his eoat4 How came it there tar ssthe difficulty. But this Nvas soon.exalained, for a gentleman. in the town discovered rhat.he had lost his watch, and his first conviction was that, his pocket had been picked. `Applying to the party from whom he bad purchased the watch, he was informed of the watch which WaS• so euri-, ously found. The truth was, that both parties hadbeen in the corn market, and while passing through the crowd a button on the bark, part of the farmer's coat caught the chain and dragged the watch with it, and hence its awk ward situation was detected.—Stirling Observer , . JENNY LIND 1L:13 CHURCH, OR THE PEOFLE OY PLY MOUTH HOAXEIX—Some wags recently caused a rumour to be spread at Plymouth that Jenny Lind would attend at the parish church, and that she would sit with the lady of the vicar. The church was crowded ;: two female strangers were seen to enter the vicar's pew, and the younger joined audibly in the responses. chaunts, and an thems. Her notes in the latter were heard to swell and predominate over all others, and every ear was opened to catch a sound of the cadences for which the Queen of Song is so celebrated. After this the congregation took their seats, under the impression that they had heard the distinguished vocalist at a very cheap, rate. As soon as the benediction had been pronounced, a general rush was made for the door through which Jenny was to make her exit, vibe' e the people fell back and formed lines, in order that they might have an in-propria-personte view, when, to the chagrin of all present, the young lady laughingly remarked that she was not the renowned Jenny, and should be as happy as they to. see the Swedish Nightin ; gale. She was no more than a visitor at the vicarage. CONSUMPTION. -At the eighth anniversary festival recently celebrated in aid of the funds of that noble in stitution, the Brompton Hospital, the following interest, ing statistics relative to pulmonary disease were described in the appendix to a report prepared by the medical officers " The tendency of particular employments to induce a liability to certain diseases is a subject of great interest, and with a view to its illustration a comparison has been instituted between the list of phthisical patients attending this institution and non-phthisical patients of a general hospital. By way of illustration, it may be mentioned that the liability of tailors to consumption, as contrasted with their liability to all other diseases, appears from this comparison to be in the proportion of l9 to 15 Of bakers Of in-door servants Of printers and compositors Of clerks and shopmen .. as 314 to 78 Among 1294 female patients attending a general hospital, 169 were milliners and dressmakers ; but the number of females so occupied out of 1679 consumptive patients at tending the hospital for consumption was 312, the pro portion. of excess being as 312 to 220." Much of the liability to this disease among tailors and others may be attributed to the pernicious cnstoya•of large bodies of workmen being congregated m maperketly-ventilatO work-rooma, BIRD RESTING EXTItAtiItDINARY.- Oil the morning of Saturday last, bet w e en th e h ours of seven and eight o'clock, an adventurous youth desirous of obtaining *le nest of a bird which wus deposited in a chimney be longing to a currier's warehouse, in Davis-street, 'mounted the top of the building, from which he clam-- sered to the chimney mouth,in order to pursue his loves— :tigatiom The boy inserted' his' head into the chimney,, :but it had not been long there before he overbalanced ;himself, and was precipitated head-foremost into the (chimney; and after numberlessineffectuat attempts to free jhimself from the very lofty and'uncomfortable position whieli he occupied, found that ha was immoveable from the shoulders downwards; his regs - anly were visible to the gaze of the wonder-stricken crowd which had collected to lbok at' the singular-looking phenomenon. After the boy's visible parts had gone throughnumerous evolutions, it becttme apparent that he was-- in , danger. A young chiteney-sweep was despatched aloft; who succeeded in releasing the bird-nest seeker from his perilous situation. He was found` to be severely bruised; and greatly disco loure&—l-lia Advertiser. 11TIMIY LONDON.—In the parish of cripplegate, London, there aim. 13,000 inhabitahts.;l6oo'of whom never enter enlace of worship, and are n%iserably poor. How they exist 'they' cannot even thernsel7estell. To the town missionaries curious answers were often given to the in quiries made of the numbers of individualS in family. The two fellewing instances may serve as examples : I 'Well, and how many are there of yozehere ?" I asked as a dcor. was' opened. "Three legs- and a cripple," was the reply: Three legs and as cripple," said I, " how many . does that make ? What del. y3u , mean ?" " Wby, my•mate has a wooden leg and a , sound one, and I've got two ; :isn't that three legs an&a- cripple ? And my two world scarcely carry me to the - docks-this morn ing where I've gone, and gone, and cannot get a job." In another place r was answered by a ledger; who said, " At present there 'S a wife and four children, and 0 , husband hos.zone to make clay." Not immediately - ceiving the meaning of this latter phrase; ilsaid, will make si;;cin-fdmily, then." "In my warof reckonn, I think it will'Make live, sir." " Did you-not say'' was a man ancbwife arid four child ren ?" _ you he was gone to make clay. He's de RAPACIT7 07CROWS.—A curious in Biti I told mouse, a weasel, and two crows, were the performers, occurred at Skiprigg, ;mar Raughton Mad, a few days ago. A young :min was ploughing in a field,. over wbieh 4 • two crows kept . soaring, now and then desneuding to par take of a feed of 4 worms; the ploughman: coming in con tact with a laud =House, it immediately teoldto its heels ; and the crows- espying poor mousey, eagerly pounced upon it, tearing it barb 'from limb. In about;a-iquarter of an hour after this worry,. the ploughman turned out a-weasel ; the crows still', maintained their soaring position, bat discovering the weasel giving leg bail, down again they dropped, but zot'vvith equal success. The poor weasel would not submit to be killed outright; be put himself in a fighting position ; similar to that of a cat - pouncing upon its prey, and mane a desperate spring at thethroat of one of the crows, by vrhieli he held fast, to the-apparent an noyance of " blackey." The bird took fiight ; - the weasel kept its hold ; and the contest lasted for a=heiglit of about leo feet; when the weasel, either of his own accord or at the will of his antagonist, quitted his grasp and came lead foremost to-the ground. The weasel immediately made his exit, and the crows flew away.— Carlisl4 paper. EXTORTIONS IN•GRAIN AND MEAT.—The following paragraph, which appears in the Mark Eane- Express of Monday, is very significant :—" The oldest frequenter of zis (Smithfield) market has no recollection of such de pressed markets as-those we have had to- report during the last three week& The primest Scots-have sold with difficulty, since our-last, at very little 0ver441,. and the "Jest old Down F.tfitep,. out of the wool, ad. These prices, we need scarcely say, leave a loss to the graziers of fully twenty •per cent.; :yet the butchers are mostly still charg ing,high rates to their customers. The latter class must be realising immense profits, and which -will' be evident when we state thht. we have known both beef and mutton to have returned the retailers from forty to forty-five per gent: upon the prime cost." So, it appears that free trade in cattle has , been established, netior the benefit of the• consumer, but for that of the butcher. The same thing -takes place in corn. The greater part of the reduc tion of prices ispocketed by the miller and- haker. Far mers and graziers -are ruined, in orderthrtmillers, bakers, and-butchers may be enriched. Precisely the same effect took place somnyears ago, when the duty on- leather was removed; no human being got his shoes a farthing cheaper; but the bootmaker reaped all the benefit, and does so ATTEMPTEa MURDER.—At Banbura, on Monday, a desperate attempt was made by a man,. named James Layton, to murder his wife by sheeting her, and after wards cutting her throat. The parties-are both natives of Banbury, though for some time past resident at Learning ton, where the husband was a bnikler,,and had accumu lated some property, being the owner of nine or ten houses in that place. They have a-family of six or seven children ; and a son of the wife, ,born previous to her marriage with Layton, resided with-them. There appear to have been recently some disputes. about this property, and Layton accused his wife, her eon, and one of her brit tilers, at Neithrop, with conspiring to defraud him of it. On Monday he set off with his-wife to walk to Banbury. They were seen together upon the road six or seven miles from thaatown. One man who saw them thought they. were " sweethearting," as L a yt on h a d hi s arm over hs wife's shoulder. When they.x4ached the spot above re ferred to, Layton put a pistol , close to his wife's forehead, the poor woman says he put it quite under her bonnet,. and fired its An oblong piece of-lead with which it was:loaded struck. her on the foreheads., and the powder burnt her face; he then took out a large table knife, with whicla he cut her throat, and also wounded her hands. She screamed, and several persons being within hearing f .they ran to her assistance, and several of them went in pursuit of Layton, who ran into.the fields. He was captured, and taken to Great Bourton, to which place also. its wife wee conveyed. On Tuesday one of the county. magis trates took the deposition of the injured wornaa,,and the accused was remanded. SUICIDE OF AN lIMPERGRADUATE AT CAMARIDGE.— On Wednesday moaning a jury was empannalled in the Combination-room of Clare Hall College, Cambridge, to inquire into the circumstances attending the death of Edward Hayman,, a sizar of that College. Elizabeth Barton, bedmaker, to, the deceased, deposed to finding him, at half-past four on Tuesday afternoon, lying upon the floor, bleeding from a wound in his- throat. Mr. Hough, surgeon,, stated that the deceasedavas in his bed room, quite dead, when he was called in. On a high reading-desk in the sitting-room a sheet of writing paper, with blood on it, was found, bearing the words hastily scrawled; " God bye, father. Thank, you, dear Henry, for—" There was a pool of blood near this desk, and a. pen stained with blood, upon the table. A large nool of blood was observed near where the body was found, as well as. on the dressing-table, drawers, and looking-glass in the bed-room. John Marshall Hayman, undergraduate of St John's College, stated that he was brother of the deceased. He produced some correspondence between I deceased and another brother in London, which went to favour the idea that th e un f oetunate young man had, gone wrong in his mind on religious topics. Witness then said—l saw the deceased on the Thursday or Friday before he passed his " Little go." He came te my rooms on the Sunday ev en i ng b efore the examinations, his object being to satisfy me that it was impossible for him to pass, and that he ought to have a medical certificate to excuse him. It is clear that be was labouring .under a delusion, because he went in, and, as I am informed, passed a most satisfactory examination, being well prepared in all the subjects. My brother's spirits had been very low during the past fortnight, and I frequently noticed an appearance about his eyes as though he had been crying. Thomas Mayer Nixon said—l was a friend of the deceased. In the middle of last week he sent his bedmaker to say he wanted to see me. I went to his room. He was un dressed in his bee-room. He said he was very unhappy, that had committed a great crime, and wanted some one to comfort him. He then said he had been guilty of gluttony the day before, and that he had smoked a cigar overnight in his rooms, for the fi rs t time in his life. I tried to laugh the matter off, and deceased said he wanted to be comforted and not laughed at. I could not persuade him that he bad not committed a serious offence, and by his desire we went into the sitting-room, and there read the church prayers together, and some passages of Scrip ture. He seemed better.--The jury then returned a unanimous verdict of ". temporary insanity." He was th e sap of a gentleman la Somersetshire, and was about twenty-one Ye4K4 q esea A CHILD KILLED BY A. CAT.—A correspondent known to us by name and address, records the following painful circumstance, which occurred fully a week ago, in a house situated about six miles to the north of Moffat, on the road leading betwixt Dumfries and Edinburgh : —The only inmate of the dwelling at the time had gone out, it appears, to draw water from a spring about a hundred yards dis tant, leaving her child, a few months old, safe, if not asleep, in the cradle. And scarcely had she shut the door when a large cat, which had never exhibited symp toms of violence before, attacked the infant, and inflicted so many wounds on the head and upper parts of the body, that, although medical assistance was speedily procured, the unfortunate victim to feline ferocity died shortly after wards.—Dumfries Courier. STRANGE SUICIDE.—Mr. Richard Nicholson, a direc tor of the York and North Midland Railway, and brother in-law to Mr. Hudson, committed suicide on Tuesday. It appears that at half-past eight o'clock that night, the unfortunate gentleman left home putting on his great coat and informing his servant that as he had an engagement in the town, he might probably be detained, and therefore be need not sit up for him. Nothing more was heard of him until about ten o'clock, when some watermen disco vered a hat in the water, and on pulling up to it found Mr. Nicholson, the hat having fitted tight to the head. Life was quite extinct. It is conjectured the deceased had thrown himself from the bridge across the Ouse, where the Scarbro' line crosses. A coroners's inquest was held on the body, and a verdict of " Found drowned" returned. Heavy' railway liabilities, and a dread to meet the com mittee of inquiry, before which he was summoned to ap pear next morning, are said to be the muses of the rash act. A FENAZE M.P.—We have just heard a most extraor dinary fact ; and one which, however amazing it may ap pear, is, we are assured, literally true. person was re cently buried some few miles from Edinburgh, under very singular circamstances. The death and attendant cere monies were chit) , chronicled at the time in our paper. The individual had sat for some time as a member of par liament for an English burgh, and was well litiown as a highly respectable landed gentleman. Now,. it would appear, in consequence of certain disputes amongst the heirs-at-law, that the title of the party to the/nate cha- racter is doubted, and l that notwithstanding the diffieulties connected with the peculiar kind of interment chosen by the deceased, the body is to he disinterred, in order to prove the sex of the defunct M.P. We are familiar Ttith cases of females acting- as sailors, navvies, and is-other employments ; but the case of a female member of par liftmen t is, in commo n ph rase , "altogether uiaprec derrted."—Edinburah 3fav 104 for All _44 THE ST ANFIELD H ALL M URDE R S .". the üblie and effects i n S tan fi e ld-h a ll w ill b e sold 11 ] no t during the ensuing month, as the familt,... Poo there in fut ure . Th e h a ll i s t o b e let. '1"'" jertelj Eliza Chestney have l e ft Stanfield-hall; Dins' 7.6 Her ge n o f r n removed to Norwich on T u esday. han ge , continues to imp rove , an d we t r ust the ca d may tend to he r recovery. Eliza Chest ne y , pressed a desire to b e left in the neighbourinfe, her friends an d re l a ti ons are res iding, verY n ,i s tA lodgings have been taken for her by he r e 00 d t family, at Wy mon d h am, w h ere s h e will alsO T,ll hav and attend ance o f h er usua l me di ca l adviser CD' f 00., 1 scription on her beh a lf amoun t s to upwards ° O O, O has been genera ll y supposed t h at Eliza 96 native of Norfolk; but this is not the case. 0 .1 1 0,,r, born in the parish of Bradwell, in Suffolk , ch 4 f father is clerk of the parish, and her reutbeL, s oo 2 4 tress. " Her daughter Eliza," . says a corr es v; e d, only one proof —a shining one, it must be alto in I. many, on whom she has bestowed equal P ahis pvilf 7 religious principles." The subscription for S he ford closed on Saturday last. We understav abroad. under the protection of her brother'''. ChChronicle. 10 0 MIST ERIOUS PO/HONING OF CH ILD R=•-• ford, in the isle of Ely, several persons, m n- nelY° children have recently cried very suddenly after,oo7, hours' lAness, under circumst an ces giving ris e 3fr,,k suspicion of poisoning. At the present ticleircc): Marshall, the coroner , i s en gag ed in an r ug d; commenced' on the 17th alt. and which exte l, 3e d ft; cases only, nam e ly. John and Susan Buieff e htre;), spectfully about 2 and 4 y ears. Th e y are the i ff . n 1 ' 11 John Bailey, tai agricultural l a bourer, resiuf L c lore ford. It appears that the children were lenr mi ' their mother ort Saturday, the 14th ultr w " - ;ciogk:A the same day they were seized with violent volmr., ',urgings, shortly after partaking of their di'i ne r : fro consisted of meat, pudding, and friend and bet 0 0 . ., symptoms increased in severity, arid in the 5P 5 7 0 111 0 , gained of gr ea t thi rst an d excess i ve eight hours both diedt Previous to death they the. usual characteristics of poisoning.Mr* o° 4,1 surgeon, had since made a post-modem' era , both bodies, and Mr. Pearson had =dean On' 06, 4 F contents of both stomaclis, the result a wb'e th e torilY proved that both cAdren had died from i 0 id s of arsenic. The coroner - , after several au" d 1 );:0 remarked that although the cause of dcath. co' r y satisfactorily established, the labours of tb, e f toe; not terminate at the present point, as they if pn9-riihle. in whet manner and by va° ll was administered. The inquii7 was therefore a 1:0( 1 elt°' FI HMG' AV" A RAILWAY TRAM— GeOrg. I' ti 'George 1610 e, two well dressed youths, about er i i ",4 age, clerks-in a mercantile office in London, wf t r h l, at the' Ilford' petty sessions, on SaturdaY! t y pistol at a passenger train on the Ilistern way, near tie Forest Gate station, Mr. C h n . renr! ; superintendent' of the signals on the line, sra'„` 0 0 0 :watch the proceedings on behalf of the cnniPa n n ' . o., / 1 Pelham. the solicitor, appeared for-the Prin°r-eotrPritc delinquents were charged, under the Rail Al t, " with ohstrurting the passage of the rau'r - i o tsi ) " er d the bench decidedthat the charge could not be r iool under' that statute, and the chairman , .said tike,P c t sts / mustbe charged either under Lord Seyutout . ' n o,o' Police kct, as it clearly appeared that' the ° -e bs irv' committed on the public highway, He'P e „v e r PP ' must hear the charge under the Police A. said'the prisoners voturld plead guilty to therchsrg e rno str o j off - a pistol. They were schoolfellows, and trer, e l , o pectahly - connected. On the day in questleu " - OP') Pain in tbUPTe.ior theireld - Schoolinaster, and took with then , an4del o o and seme - gunpowder-r-to amuse themselves They did not intend to fire at the train. Th, e in hiirl o t passed le.otie of them was ex t en di ng th e pisteir t he)' .e hand. The yo u th s were very sorry for ve- I °' fain done,and had assured hi m th ey h a d no i n t e oou ° ing t?' passengers. ' They regretted having been gopOW,d such a foolish act, and - were willin g to offeral b ec o to the - passengers. The chairman s a id, that 511 1 , 5 01 I `,. proved that the act warwilfully done, or allr o intenderL .the prisoners 'would have been Sea' 'B ete sions foc trial. Th e b enc h were i nc li ne d to 'd the act was not done wa n t on l y or ma li c i ous ly, 3- fi rl o; fine vvo - aldrswer the ends of justi ce . He tbenj,,,ettr., prisoners Ws: each, andq-,a^atiZncd them, in el' pi: - iv manner, as to their future conduct. It the ° repeated, they would meet with severe punishine penalties were immediately paid. IMPCItfrANT DECISION- UNDER THE Poo' .nt few days-ago an officer of the Leeds board of tool Guardians, appeared at the Court-house of aP t o and applied to-the mayor-(Mr. John Hope Sf' T) otJ two of the other magistrates of the borough for Iv', to reclovea pauper and hie. family to Ireland.,-;y0 lived in Leeds 27 years. The act of Charge o . ll 7s o proved ;:;and that the pauper had lately been 1 10, for a month in the Borough,. Gaol for neglect Led,' t was insisted that this breach of residence reji a „;of And his• family liable to re mova l. The col, c- ate l o i board of giardians s a id th a t-th e pauper h a d him tha-be was born in Cork. The pauper, with an Irish accent, denied having made that d %`" e t and objected to being removed. After the . 111t ;;o 0 , 0 magistrates had consulted together for some t°''' 0 6 ) case, and examined the acts of Parliament, t,b: of said, " Whatever we might think of the hards' s i toi l ' roso moving a family to Irelazel under such circuit', at' those of 4 the present case, if we found that te e a ml rected the removal, we should not hesitate t ° l ,,. v . 1 5 0 t h o e duty ma into effebt,. It is our daty-to administer tileAC;et;°l6 gis o t f ra t t b es e stands. Diet we think the law has intrusted e,.., ; ;;,t, by °veneers under the 3dand4th of William L' c '', o sic; and this: -branch of the functions of overseers ito s P 1 ; 1 appointed, The present application 411 s e s e ar u y ar t d o ia i n n s qu in ire ) as that statute is re' •Minagissutrachtecsatrapon under the statute which transferred these funct°',, ll ) ; theoverseersto them, viz., the &hand 9th Victmtis parishes t e h e:r .c e fro O til s. 2. Thb words of that section, as far as rar er ,. ber i i questioaaow before us, are, that the 'Justices la !id and examine into the matter of such complaints , s 3 be made-to appear to their-satisfaction that suc',, be i is iiab4 to be so removed as aforesaid, and if ' ; .beil e fit, they may make and issue a warrant under theV i j and seals!to remove such person forthwith, at the o • of such union or parish.' ' We have heard end e „ s o o if f the matter of the complaint now before us; we for tha purpose of our present decision, that tbei n i, t to removal is satisfactorily proved ; but we th t itted, under the words 'and if- they see fit,' we are en, t i 5 exercise our discretion (and, if so entitled, that'l l to ,'0 duty to exercise that discretion with due re;' o f of ! „) pauper as well as the ratepayers) as to the htn e ' P i o order of removal in every-case brought before us r• present case we do notftsee fit' to grant an ort,„`, o lf;o thinklit would be a hardship on the pauper Toßie after he had lived 27 years in Leeds, we were to roe (f:01 ieet to the punishment the law has awarded his offee,sooi fih a et r ari Y rysee p ud o bn w teenteco er n .: t which he has already suffered) the far heavier 1: 4 '2 1 60 0 0 of what would he virtually a sentence of transeeloP„, life; and we think it would he a still greater her n d his family, who have committed no crime, to s e 'ibele o o to a country entirely new to them, and leale o dor straggle for a livelihood amongst s t rangers eedeP iv e their charity. We shall, therefore, decline tb by big order of removal in this case, unless we are tol"ctie e ter 2:p l :a at r t e ti t iv d s ee s m of e the nt i n the country, tow to- nt remove he all Irish magistrates t p te o f , authority cboausn t h tbt t bi i ef t rto i t s h o eby u e r eh d na u : t e y a ns t o o wt d ea o bfi so evl . ei ' e ' yyeea T i t h s e h: P .:9 : lo ,2 s ° t ..ho t had HER n o discretionary i‘iA jEs Tys THEATRE.—'• power i u n E the . . m T a b t e t e in u f l operaticieu of f epoeurfcoerrmtsr t s oo p k res p e la n o t e ed o b u y T Al,d_, b lra u ' l s r l t s e d O . a J f :; t : 4ll l. e r il i b u sf re . i ti fl i Swedish vocalist appeared as Alice, in N ej t J e 't , " Roberto 11 riavolo. Whether this means th?.tif tstt is really about to leave the stage, and-lapse ge l oo -Je' eo tr private life, vie canno t te ll . T he house was er excess, and rows for accommodation:were not o rl a 9ti jir evincing the k een i n t erest o f the town in the " 1 101‘,00 and its determination t o d o proper h onour t o to e lle tll tion—if such it was. The character of Alice is f ie 0V most remarkable in Jenny' s reperto i re. Sh e et r grifr, it, and at once establi s h e d those impressions e f ,:toslie which have gradually deep ene d unt i l she h a s idol such "as the world ne'er sax"—crowned n n e ool heads, gartered dukes, down to aßayors and tow" I . 0 1 7 0 e, lors innwerable, yielding to the influence of li e o g e of throat, and having-faith and enjoyment in n 0 11 14,, Her personation of Alice is one of the most Pl e b e try i nos ri g r" her representations, as it is. one of the The sentimeet of the part telis with redoubled WOO, $l O she is the exponent; for he,-,admirers find little t 0 in believing her to be no. artificial embodio°,:bond virtue and goodness which.. Meyerbeer herein- • 0,, 01 typify. That lovely voi ce o f h ers, w hi ch has fer;revLol months held England enthralled, was never in ho tb! tiful condition than last night, and the listener " e r st upon it for the first time would marvel no long i excesses of the publie‘ adoration. The " rce3 tbl and the " Quand o I nee i a i l a N ormandin " disli. t % e r splendid organ in alh its matchless purity,, tog e st beir, that exquisite sostenuto which entraps the seb ere o," e ft' and incontinently -converts him—stoutly as Ile t Oa defied Jenny anthill' her works. The encore t 118 00 0:e ceived in the second of these songs was. trerea l s it ` ( 0 ,9i 6 1 " vanishing" shake, so gradually retreating , 3 _0 5 5 into the distance, it was not in mortal power te" o ' t ioVA and there was no restraint put upon the erli n ve pleasure to which this delicate trick of art g`: r i, The great trio, in the last scene, when the poor g il l t he 0 0 : with a preternatural strength, contends sc,i. m .be,"; carnation• of evil for the safety of her 1.05 'V P 1 74' 4 has had many a burning paragraph written its ll' let them be remembered now, for Jenny e %ert j e o t e j 01 1 to the utmost, and produced all the transee n o 4 e -1, which has been given to this great and finelY t g .il situation by her alone. W e never w i tnesse d sl i t cleti r of, of acting that bore w a t c hi ng t o t h e minutesoe'r6 completely as this. Th e i n t ens it y w i t h whie i li P er i, l Op; with the demon is s t r iki ng l y manifest, 11 °". tit e r pli t s with which she i nvo k es aid from Heaven approaches seems absolutely to inspire ker• co li t .rx, efforts in this superb instance of dranist°,, eo betrayed the grandest degree of skill, and eft' t t he 0 0 , is passed, and the perilled Robert is kneelinV A her gestures of innocent and holy delight Wh i f the,* l o rt, him from a remote and unobserved corner ° mita () • o e,, f , dral, awakened a sentiment that is almost suy - feb i e jot , . l ,l applause that Jenny met with was loud no, vt 0 c al: 0 That it was sincere there could not be a sha d .bites oP2 for such enthusiasm as that which was ex il i th e pe o r not easily be feigned. The conclusion brought forth a demonstration that is seldet,4 fo od in ot within the walls of a theatre. J enn y was e . fs, .06,0 times, and the waving of h a ts an d handkereml elSr oP Ar copious shower of bouquets, were marks of P e ra pr not often vouchsafed in a similar degree. - 7, ll her IA I Jenny is stated in the Times to have closeu h oe i g p e , ) ance on the stage by this performance, we, I ,„,ee at greater length than we otherwise 020 14 "" 11 4 i t gq) ~ eII PED Eu -4 t 1 4 44 -14 n0r, 13 A i( in Carolit tiil l ex t tnl p 411 °le kll,-4 , 4 f kt...Lcheldoi f4 tr Q4 i.anz Eizzi ; Pa ' Holt) aer il e9 ai l; h 43 4 , , gnt Ra -441, an 3 4141 .1) „ " 1 1 Y, t o ) ed fi 1-„ttP, 'gym ;al I li' i I ?s il l 'grter, '°, VZlkbi rich „ V e c h n .e nr 1 G r itn 44 i ) It e 441 Y, I Do 4ck !hi I nrOr h i tt Y t 4 314 a, P i nti 44) . 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