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Etteraturt. POETRY. AN EMBLEM.—A LONELY CLOUD. (Prom Charles Swain's "English Melodies," just published.) " Sermons in stones, and good in everything." A lonely cloud, as eve began, Its quiet rest did take, As graceful as a sleeping swan Upon a moonlit lake : One star, companion of the west, Shone 'mid that cloudy sphere, Like hope, within a human breast, When sorrow darkens near And oh ! methought, for all our woes A lesson here is given : Would man might thus his griefs repose, Upon the breast of heaven — Look upward to that realm afar When worldly cares have birth, And rest his hope on God's own star — And take his heart from earth ! N OTICES. The Land We Live In. Part XXV. Dublin and its Environs. C. Knight. This number is embellished with a map of Dublin acid its environs, and several views of public buildings in Dublin, &c., and two views of the Meeting of the Waters," in the " Sweet Vale of Avoca." This is an interesting part, and fully sustains the character of 'the work, and to a visitor to Dublin would be very useful... VARIETIES. At the York Assizes, 1649, (200 years ago,) a woman was condemned for crucifying her mother, and offering a calf and a cock a burnt sacrifice. Her husband also wtOi hanged as an accomplice of her guilt. It is said that. every boy-servant on a farm requires a man to look after him. The following is also a rural say, log One boy is a boy ; two boys are half a boy ; and three boys are ne er a boy at all." UNE Yesuvieteee.—An Irishman, after expatiating very warmly upon the temper and beauty of Lola Montes, was asked if she didn't smoke ? " Yes, sir, she does," he exclaimed " and so does every volcano—perhaps you'll show me the lovely crater who doesn't smoke 7" " That's a fine stream for trout," observed a piscato rial acquaintance to a genuine sprig of the Emerald Isle, who was whipping away with great vigour at a well known and favourite stream. " Faith an' it must he the same sure enough," returned Pat, " for deuce a one on'etn will stir out of it." The first weeping willow in England was planted by Pope, the poet. lie received a present of figs from Tur key, and observing a twig in the basket, ready to bud, he planted it in his garden, and it soon became a fine tree. From this stock all the weeping willows in England and America originated. TUE TRAVELLING DUTCHMAN.—It would be a curious problem to follow out the probable mental specu lations of a Dutchman. Can he have any amour de patrie ? How does he know, when he is away in Japan, or elsewhere, but that his country may have been en gulphed by an inundation ? It must always be a dubious matter with him to talk ahout his native land. He can never be sure that it is still in existence. Besides, it is not so much his native land as his native water. What a terrible tremor he must be in when he writes home to his wife, and directs his letter to the pleasant " Sans Souci" which it may never reach. With what nervous misgivings he must talk to strangers of the united family he left be hind him, and of their affectionate anxiety about ids safety ! Then, again, what must be his amazement when he first travels and sees a mountain ? What must he think of a running stream, or a torrent tumbling down an Alpine precipice ? What must be his emotions, and what the perplexities of his breathing apparatus, when he gets into the sunny south ? How astonished he must he when, for the first time, he sees a clear horizon many leagues off, and gazes over a champaign dotted with towns and rural domains, in which every item is palpable and distinct. There are such strange things awaiting the senses and the imagination of a Dutchman in a foreign country, that he must surely think himself translated into another country. AN AMERICAN STORY OF A Fox AND GOOSE.—The narrator was one day in :the fields, near a stream where several geese were swimming. Presently he observed one disappear under the water with a sudden jerk. While he looked for her to rise again he saw a fox emerge from the water and trot off to the weeds, with the goose in his mouth. He chanced to go in a direction where it was easy for the man to watch his movements. He carried his burden to a recess under an overhanging rock. Here he scratched away a mass of dry leaves, scooped a hole, hid his treasure within, and covered it up very carefully. Then off he went to the stream again, entered some dis tance behind the flock of geese, and floated noiselessly along, with merely the tip of his nose visilale above the surface. But this time he was not so fortunate in his mancevres. The eeese, by some accident, took the alarm, and flew away, with loud cackling. The fox finding him self defeated, walked off in a direction opposite to the place where his victim was buried. The man uncovered the hole, put the goose in his basket, replaced the lea:es carefully, and stood patiently at a distance to watch fur ther proceedings. The sly thief was soon seen returning with another fox he had invited to dine with him. They trotted along right merrily, swinging their tails, snuffing the air, and smacking their lips, in anticipation of a rich repast. When they arrived under the rock, reynard eagerly snatched away the leaves ; hut lo ! his dinner had disappeared. He looked at his companion, and plainly saw by his countenance that he more than misdoubted whether any goose was there as pretended. lie evidently considered his friend's hospitality a sham and himself in sulted. his contemptuous expression was more than the mortified fox could bear. Though conscious of his gene. rous intentions, he felt that all assurances to that effect would be regarded as lies. Appearances were certainly very much against him ; for his tail slunk between his legs, and he held his head down, looking sideways, with a sneaking glance, at his disappointed companion. In dignant at what he supposed to be an attempt to get up a character for generosity on false pretences, the offended guest seized his unfortunate host and cuffed him most unmercifully. Poor reynard bore the infliction with the utmost patience, and sneaked off, as if conscious that be had received no more than might naturally be expected under the circumstances.—Letters from New York. THE QUEEN IN IRELAND.—It was a noble spectacle to behold a young Queen, at a time when scarce a monarch in Europe was secure on his throne, setting out with her illustrious consort and family to make a royal progress through her dominions, and selecting for the first place of her visit the island which had so recently raised the stan dard of rebellion against her government, and for the next the city which had first in the empire responded to the cry of treason raised in Paris, on the overthrow of the throne of Louis Philippe. Nor has the result failed to correspond, even more happily than could have been hoped, to the gallant undertaking. If it be true, as is commonly reported, that our gracious sovereign said. 4 ` She went to Ireland to snake friends, but to the Land of Cakes to find them," she must by this time have been convinced that the generous design has, in both islands, proved successful beyond what ner most enthusiastic friends could have dared to hope. Who could have re cognised, in the multitudes which thronged to witness her passage through Cork, Dublin, and Belfast, and the uni versal acclamation with which she was everywhere received . by all classes of her subjects, the chief cities of an island long torn by civil disention, and which had only a year before broken out into actual rebellion against her govern ment? Who could have re cognised in the youthful sove reign visiting the public buildings of Dublin, like a private peeress, without any of the state of a sovereign, and chiefly interested with her royal consort in the institutions devoted 0 beneficence, the Head of a Government whom The Nation had so long represented as callous to all the sufferiugs of the people? And during the magnificent spectacle of the royal progress through Glasgow, where five hundred thousand persons were assembled from that great city, and the neighbouring counties to see their Queen—and she passed for three miles through stately structures, loaded with loyalty, under an almost continued archway of flags, amidst incessant and deafening cheers — who could have believed he was in a city in which demo cratic revolt had actually broken out only eighteen months before, and the walls had all been placarded, on the day when London was menaced, with treasonable proclama tions, calling on the people to rise in their thousands and tens of thousands against the throne ? And how blessed the contrast to the condition of Scotland when•her last Queen had been in that neighbourhood, and the towers of Glasgow cathedral looked down on Morton issuing from the then diminutive borough, to assail, in the immediate vicinity at Langside, the royal army headed by Mary, and drive her to exile, captivity, and death.—[lt is a curious coincidence, that the first man whom her Majesty met with and addressed, when she landed at Glasgow, was the Earl of Morton, the lineal descendant of the ruthless ba ron whose arms then proved so fatal to her beautiful and unfortunate ancestress.]—We are not foolish enough to expect impossibilities from the Queen's visit—how splen did and gratifying soarer its circumstances may have been. We know well how many and deep-rooted are the social -evils which in both islands afflict society, and we are not so simple as to imagine that they will be removed by the sight of the Sovereign, as the innocent peasants believe that all physical diseases will be cured by the royal touch. We ire well aware that the impression of even the most splendid pageants is often only transitory, and that sad realities sometimes return with accumulated force after they are over, from the contrast they present to imagina tive vision. Still a step, and that, too; a most important one, has been taken in the right direction, If great, and, in some respects, lasting good has been done—if evils re main, 99 remain they ever will, in the present complicated condition of society, and the contending interests which agitate its bosom—one evil, and that the greatest of all, is lessened, and that is an estrangement between the People and their Sovereign. Crimes may return • but the recurrence of the greatest of all , because it is the parent of all others—high treason—is for a time, to any extent at least, rendered impossible. The most sacred and impor tant of all bonds, that which unites the sovereign and her subjects, has been materially strengthened. The most noble of all feelings, the disinterested affection of a peo ple to their Queen, has been called into generous and heart-stirring action. The " unbought loyalty of men, the cheap defence of nations." is not at an end. And it the effect of the Royal Visit were only that, in the greatest cities of her dominions, our gracious sovereign, in an age unusually devoted to material influences, has succeeded, by the sweetness and grace of her manners, in causing the hearts of some hundred thousands of her subjects to throb with loyal devotion, and, for a time at least, supplanted the selfish by the generous emotions—the effect is not lost to the cause of order and the moral elevation of her peo plc.—Marl:wood's Magazine. PROPHECIES OF PFAC E.—On the 21st of January,l792. the French National Assembly recorded a solemn resolu tion not to enter into any war, except strictly in self-de fence. On the 31st of the same month George 111. opened the British Psrliament with a speech congratulat ing the country on the prospect of continued peace, and a consequent reduction of our naval and military expendi ture. Towards the close of the same session, Mr. Pitt said in the House of Commons, "England never had a fairer prospect of a long continuance of peace. I think we may confidently reckon on peace for ten years." The treaty of 1786 had then established all but perfect freedom of trade between England and France, and the trade be tween the two countries had increased rapidly during the intervening six years. In the same year (1792) the peo ple of Orleans had, in a burst of enthusiastic good will towards England, thrown down the statue of Joan of Arc erected in their market place—for the .voiced reason that it had been erected to commemorate a triumph over their new allies. But in February, 1793. France had begun with England, Holland, and Austria, the war which lasted : almost without intermission tilt 1815." A CHINESE BANKER.—I availed myself of the oppor tunity to accompany him to the banker's, whose house we found in a street of banks (every particular trade is confined in a great measure to its own street), situated in a suburb of the Tungmun oecast gate. We were kindly received by one of the partners of the establishment, and after the usual ceremonies, peculiar to the entry to a Chi nese dwelling, viz., obliging the guests to be seated and serving them with tea, my friend immediately produced the bank check. The corresponding part of the bank book had been sent overland, and was no sooner produced than being proved to be satisfactory, the money was offered in exchange. My friend did not ask in vain to be allowed to take only one hundred dollars at a time, the sum taken being each time marked on the order. As soon as he had specified the quantity rtquired, four men took positions at a small table near a huge iron-studded strong box, which was no sooner opened, than, for a minute or two, each had his employment ; one counted, a second cleaned off all old marks, a third renewed, with an Indian ink stamp, the seal of the bank, while a fourth, with blot ting paper, dried it. The object of the stamping was, in the ease of any being spurious on being presented with the house-stamp thereon, for them to be changed ; of course this never happened : while, on the other hand, it deterred any artful person from bringing bad money to the hank on pretence that it had been drawn therefrom.— Five Years in China. ANECDOTE OF A YOUNG LADY.—I find among my papers a curious anecdote of my dear Margaret, which I am sorry to have omitted. Our governess, Henrietta C—, amidst many faults, was passionately fond of her, but did not spare her when she was wrong. On a certain occasion, I forget what, " If you do so again," said she, " Lady Margaret, devil take me if I do not whip you severely"—adding, "You do not mind what I say, and, therefore, I swear to it." Margaret, at no great distance of lime, committed the same sin. " I see now how you have attended to what I told you," said Henrietta ; "if this happens once more, I positively must whip you." " I do remember what you told me," said Margaret, " and you are bound to whip me.". " I certainly shall the very first time you do so." "No, Miss C—, you must whip me now; you swore to it, and said, devil teke me if you would not whip me severely." Henrietta acknowledged it, but said this once she would excuse her. " And will God excuse you ? No." said Margaret, " I insist upon it that you whip me directly." Henrietta remonstrated ; Margaret cric,d, expecting every moment to see the devil take away the governess. At last she carried the point, and was laid on her knee; but Hen rietta feeling no anger, and being full of admiration of the culprit, who was insisting on a flogging to save her soul, instead of inflicting the punishment quietly, bellowed so loud herself at every stroke as to bring my mother into the room, who soon settled the business. Margaret was to receive four lashes only ; for though Henrietta bad sworn to whip her severely, she had not said what number of lashes she was to give her.—Lives of the Lindeays. ORDEAL AMONG THE AMERICAN INDIANS.—During four days previous to this terrible torture, the candidates observe a strict fast, and are denied all sleep. When the appointed day arrives, certain strange ceremonies, cf an allegorical description, are performed, in which all the inhabitants of the village take part. The candidates then repair to a large caban, where the chiefs and elders of the tribe are assembled to witness the ordeal. The torture commences by driving splints of wood through the flesh of the back and breasts of the victim; he is next hoisted off the ground by ropes attache(' to these splints, and suspended by the quivering flesh, while the tormentors twist the hanging body slowly round, thus exquisitely enhancinc , the agony, till a death-taint comes to the relief of the candidate; he is then lowered to the ground, and left to the care of the Great Spirit. When be recovers animation, he rises and proceeds on his hands and feet to another part of the caban. He *ere lays the little finger of the left hand upon a buffalo skull, as a sacrifice to the Great Spirit, and another Indian chops it off. The fore-finger is also frequently offered up in this manner: this mutilation does not interfere with the use of the bow, the only weapon for which the left hand is required. Other" cruel tortures are inflicted for some time, and at length the wretched victim, reeling and staggering from the intensity of his suffering, reaches his own dwelling, where he is placed under the care of his friends. Scare of the famous warriors of the tribe pass through this hor rible ordeal repeatedly, and the oftener it is endured the greater is their estimation among their people. No ban dages are applied to the wounds t bus inflicted, nor is any attention paid to their cure ; but from the extreme ex haustion and debility caused by want of sustenance and sleep, circulation is checked and sensibility diminished ; the bleeding and inflammation are very slight, and the results are seldom injurious—Warburion's Conquest of Canada. LOLA MONTEZ IN MONKTVEARMOUTIL—III a letter to the Sunderland Herald, Mr. J. G. Grant gives his rend- • niscences of Miss Gilbert, now Mrs. Heald. In 1831, • Mr. and Mrs. Rae came to Monkwearmouth, to establish 1 a boarding-school, and were accompanied by Eliza Gil bert, then aged ten or eleven years; Mrs. Rae being the sister to her stepfather, Major Craigie, who had confided her to their charge. Mr. Grant became Eliza's teacher in drawing : of the name of " Rosanna," afterwards used by her, he then beard nothing. She was "an elegant and beautiful child ; of stature rather promising to be tall than actually such for her age, but symmetrically formed, and with a flawing, graceful carriage, the charm of which was only lessened by an air of confident self-complacency, in full accordance with the habitual expression of her else beautiful countenance, namely, that of indomitable self will. Her features were regular, but capable of great and rapid changes of expression. Her complexion was orien tally dark, but transparently clear; her eyes were of a deep blue, of excessive beauty, althour. , ll bright with less indication of the gentle and tender affections of her sex than of more stormy and passionate excitements. The mouth, too, had a singularly set character, far more allied to the determined than to the voluptuous, and, altogether, it was quite impossible to look at her for any length of time without feeling convinced that she was made up of very wayward and very troublesome elements. The ex treme violence and obstinacy, indeed, of her temper gave too frequent cause of painful anxiety to her good, kind aunt. Her animal spirits were naturally very great. She romped as assiduously as any girl of her age, danced gracefully, talked with great animation in her merry moods, and seemed altogether what is called ' a clever child.' But how little could any cne have conceived that in a few years the little high-spirited child of Monkwear mouth would become the dangerous heroine of a foreign nation, the prodigy of a court! Oh, too famous Cleopa tra of an inglorious Antony ! would shake a whole king dom with revolutionary disturbance, and, in the scale of a monarch's passions, make that kingdom lighter than the fascinations of her perilous beauty." THE LATE WILLIAM JOSEPH DENISON, M.P.—The history of the Denison family, the last representative of which died recently, leaving a fortune of two millions and a half, affords a lesson which the mercantile world cannot study too curiously. Little more than a century ago the elder Denison made his way on foot to London from Skipton-in-Craven, his native place, with a few shillings in his pocket, and, being a parish boy, not knowing even how to read or write. He was recommended by a towns woman of his own (of the name of Sykes, whom he after wards married) to the house of Dillon and C 0.,, wnere sho was herself a domestic servant; and for some time the lad was employed to sweep the shop and go on errands. His zeal and industry recommended him, however, to his em ployers, and having been taught to read, he rose to a clerkship. After the death of his wife he obtained an independence by marrying one Elizabeth Bolter, daughter of a rich hatter in Tooley-street, and set up in business for himself in Princes-street, Lothbury, where the late Mr. Denison and the Marchioness of Conyngham were born. Here, by incessant attention to business and strict parsimony, he managed to scrape together a considerable fortune, and finally removed to St. Mary Axe, where he lived and died, after having purchased the estates in Surrey and Yorkshire, (of Lord. King and the Duke of Leeds,) i Denbies and Seamere. The Annual Revisler of 1806, in recording these facts and his end, states that through life Mr. Denison was a Dissenter. He remained to the last an illiterate man, aria even his son was, for his station in life, somewhat loose in his orthography. One of his daughters espoused the head of•the Cobyngliam then recently ennobled. But a connexion far more im portant to Mr. Denison was with the Heywoods, the eminent bankers of Liverpool, whose intelligence enabled him to double his fortune. The late William Joseph, a man of sound principles and excellent character, though less penurious than his father, who, when lie entertained a friend at dinner in St. Mary Axe, used to walk to the butcher's and bring home a rump-teak in a cabbage-leaf in his pocket, as many persons still living can w it n ess, was remarkable for his disinclination to detach even the smallest sum from his enor mous ca p ital. Three years ago, when the nephew to whom he has beque a th e d £85,000 per annum fell into railway difficulties, (the spe culation having been undertaken with the sanction of his uncle,) he permitted him to fly from the writs out against him to the semi-penal settlement of Boulogne-sur-Mer, and reside there a twelvemonth with his young family, rather than come down with a sum of X2OOO. Yet to this very gentleman—a man of the nicest honour—he had at that very period bequeathed more than two millions. Some surprise has been excited at the smallness of his bequest to his elder nephew, the Marquis of Cony ngham ; but no one knew better than Mr. Denison the enormous amount of savings amassed by his lordship's mother, the Dowager Marchioness, to which the Marquis is sole heir. The name of Denison, we understand, is to be perpetuated in the banking-house in Lombard-street, though the fa mily is in the male line extinct. it has always been un derstood that a peerage was offered to the late banker, through the intervention of his sister, who obtained a marquisate for her lord and a barony for her brother-in law ; hut the honour was respectfully declined by the stanch old Whig, who, conscious that one of his grandfa thers was a hatter and the other a labourer, considered that his patronymic was more in its place at the head of his own ledger than in the pages of the peerage. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. PRIDE OF POVERTY AND INTELLECT.—WO remember to have met somewhere with an anecdote illustrative of the pride of poverty and intellect united. A certain clever drareatical writer, who lived at the beginning of the pre sent century, or at the end of the last, was reduced to a state of great poverty. Like poor Goldsmith, in Green Arbour-court, his dinners came to be fewer than the days of the week. He struggled long, subsisting upon a few casual earnings. When these had ceased altogether, he began to starve. He was a proud gentleman, end could not beg ; he was a scholar, and a man of high talent, consequently he could not write the trash which an infe rior person might have written, and have been well paid for. In this state of things he happened to meet with an old acquaintance, a rich and benevolent manager, or the atrieal bookseller, I forget which. However, he was a man who, though not witty himself, had the grace of admiring wit in others. He had a profound admiration for the genius of our poor author. Discovering the state in which he was, he sent him a handsome present in mo ney, and invited him to dinner the next day. The man was starving, and as we all know " the prompt nature of hunger brooks no delay," he accepted the present grate fully ; had food at home that day, and on the next went to dine at the well-appointed table of his benefactor. Here, as is the wont with men of genius, the past suffer ings were for the time forgotten ; his conversation was as brilliant as formerly, and threw his host into an ecstacy of admiration. After dinner he endeavoured to strike out some literary enterprise for his gifted acquaintance. He went on proposing this and arranging that, when he suddenly discovered that his guest was in tears. With kind sympathy for his grief he endeavoured to console him. " It is all very well," replied the unfortunate man, " but is it not a dreadful thing, a thing to make one weep, that a man of genius, as I am, should be obliged for a dinner to a rich blockhead like you ?"—Sirarpe's Journal. THE CUTTING UP OF TUE SHARK.—AII hands gathered round the shark to see him cut up, which was as good as a play to them, becalmed as we were ; when, to my no small dismay, I heard Mrs. Brigadier's Brady's loud voice asking where her dog was ; and the Brigadier him • self, who seemed more afraid of his wife than anybody else, kept poking about with his red-faced English butler to find the animal. " For godsake." said he, in a half whisper, twenty times over, " haven't ye seen Mrs. Brady's dog, any of ye ?—she'll rout the ship inside out for it, captain, if we don't soon ase her mind'." How ever, I knew only Miss Hyde was aware who caught the shark, and as she didn't appear to have told, why of course I kept all fast, myself. " Here's a 'baccy-box 1" sung out the big old boatswain, standing astride over the tail, while the cook and his black mate ripped away from the tail up. " Hand over, if ye please, sir," said ' ugly' Harry, " it's mine's, Mr. Burton !" Harry gave it a wipe on his knee, and coolly bit a quid off the end of his lost pigtail. The next thing was Ford's hat, which no one claimed, so black Sambo placed it on his woolly head. " What's that you've got there now, Sambo ?" said the boatswain, " out with it, my led !" " Golly !" chuckled the nigger, rolling the whites of his eyes, and grinning like mad ; " oh sar, misser Barton ! dis 'ere shark riglar navligator ! I 'dare to you, sir, urn got chi'ometer aboard ! Oh gum ! berry much t'ink dis you own lost silber tickler, misser Barton !" " Bless me, so it is, my lad !" said the boatswain, as the black handed him a sil ver watch as big as a turnip, and he looked at the cook, who was busy fumbling with his knife. " Sorry as you was taxed with it, doctor !" said he, doubtfully ; " well I'm blowed, though !—it only goes an hour and half,—and here it's a ticking yet !" Here a burst of laughter went round, and somebody sung out, " Maybe the ould pawn broking Judas of a shark winded it up, hisself, jist to mark the time o' his goin' off the hooks' !" " I say, doctor !" hailed another, " too bloody bad, an't it, though, to cut up yer uncle 7" " Ha! ha! ha !" cried the cadets and writers, looking at the Scotch surgeon, " d'ye hear that, doctor? I wouldn't stand it! They say you ain't parti cular in Edinbro', though ! Some rum mistakes hap pened there, eh, doctor ?" The Scotceman got into a passion at this, being the worst cut they could give any fellow from a country where they were famous for kindred and botli-snatching at once—but all of a sudden there was a " Hullool Shiver my tavesels! What's this ? Let's see!" and the whole pcopful of us were shoving together, and jumping on each other's shoulders to haven look. " Well, we-ell !" said the old boatswain, as he peered curiously into the mess of shark's bowels—" I'll be d—d !" " The likes o' that now !" croaked the old sailmaker, lifting up his two hands, " tan't lucky, Mr. Burton !" " My eye! them's not young sharks, any how !" said one of the men. " What's t'ou think they be, mun," said the north-country Chips, " but litter o' yocurig blind poops ? an' here's t ou'd un, see, as deed's mutton Danz him, but some un's got an' baited t' hook wi't, there's nou't else in 's guts !" The whole poop was one roar of laughing, when Mrs. Brady's pug was found delivered of fcur pugs, inside the shark, since she went overboard, and two of 'em alive; the news ran fore and aft in a moment. " Took short she's been, Jack !" said one. " Beats the profit Joneh !" " I say, mate, them whelps is born twice over. Blessed if my Sal at home, now, wouldn't give a year's 'lotment for one on 'cm !" Peor devil !" said one of the writers, " she must have been sadly in want of a lying-in hospital !" " Look out, all hands of ye !" cried some one, " there's the old girl herself coming on deck ! sharp's the word !" And away we scuttled right and left, some aloft, and some down one poop• ladder, as Mrs. Brady, with the Brigadier and his butler after her, came fuming up the other. The black made one spring over the quarter as soon as he saw her ; but the Irish topman, Mick, slipped his foot amongst the shark's blood, and rolled on his back, while the old bo'sun made stand in the thick of it behind. - " Son the villains, I charge ye, Brigadier!" screamed Mrs. Brady, though he and his man-servant only kept doping the boatswain round a sort of quagmire of blood and grease, while the old vixen caught Mick by his red hair and whiskers. " Where's my dog, ye murdering spalpeen ?" said she, panting for breath, " what have ye done with my Dianny, ye monsther ? Spake, or I'11—" " Be the holy eleven thousand, yer ladyship !" said Mick, " an' it's lost did ye think she weir ! isn't there five of 'em back ! Whisper ! yer ladyship's riv'rence,—she's laid in, poor craythure, an'—" " you Irish thief !" roared Mrs. Brady , hitting him a slap as he tried to rise, that sent him down again, " is it that you'd say to —" " No, thin'," sung out Mick, rubbing his ear, and guarding with one arm,— " rest her soul ! but I'm innveint ! Av that 'll phase, mim, och an' I'll swear she died a vargin —" Tug came both Mrs. Brady's bands through his hair, while the butler caught a kick in the stomach from Mick's foot. " Murther !" gasped the poor fellow, " sure 'an' I dun' know she was ayven a fayni'le ; bad luck t'ye, 'mates, give uz a hand. Och, an' is this the road ye thrate a counthryman, mim ?" " Me your countryman ! ye bogtrottin' wretch ye !" screamed the old fury, her brogue getting worse the more she heated—" take that —don't rise, if ye dare !" " Faix, thin, yer ladyship darlin'," said O'Hooney, grinning in spite of his bard usage, " I tould a lie,—och, lave some o' my hair !—mur ther intirely ! I'm " All the time none of us could stir for sheer laughing, but seeing poor Mick like to fare hard with the old vixen, who was near as big as himself, and as strong as a horse, I whispered to the men to run round and let go the poop awning—so down it came, with a few buckets of water in it, over the five of them ; and you just saw Mrs. Brady's sharp elbow through the can vass, lifted for the next slap, when we had her all fast, struggling like a cat in a bag, while O'Hooney and the boatswain crept out below. " D—d breeze that we've had !" said the bo'sun, shaking himself on the forecastle. " Couldn't ye've bowsed over on the old jade's pitticuts, Mick ?" said one of his shipmatest e "and capsized her all standing ?" " Sorra fut you'd stir yourself, 'mate,"" said he, wiping his face, " wid such a shay grinnydeer r she'd manhandle ye as asy's twurl a mop !"—Blackwo:.4. The Essex Herald says, that so prevalent have been incendiary fires lately that many of the inhabitants have been afraid of going to bed of a night, lest theii houses should be set on fire and they lose their lives. THE CONVICT lIITCHEL.—The Neptune from Bermuda has arrived at Pernambuco, en route for the Cape of Good Hope, having on board John Mitchel. No details are given relative to the prisoner. The expelled Wesleyan ministers state that they do not at present intend to join any church, but that they will hold a series of meetings, at which they will exhort Me thodists to retain their present position. A woman was charged at the Marylebone Police Court on Tuesday with being drunk and disorderly, and stand ing in the middle of New Road defying an approaching omnibus to come near her, threatening if it did to knock it over. COMPETITION FOR FARMS.—In reply to an advertise ment which recently appeared in a local paper, announc ing a farm to be let, the agent, a solicitor at Doddington, had upwards of 20 applications by the next post, and a large number by subsequent ones. The cholera has been raging fearfully in Hull. The total number of deaths in the week, ranging from the 29th ult. to the 4th instant inclusive, is 252—a number larger, in proportion to the population of the town, than has been recorded in any other provincial town. A boy employed in carrying the letters frun Merthyr Tydfil to Dowlais has been committed for trial, charged with opening letters and abstracting their contents. Nearly 1,000 letters, a great number of which had been opened, were found in his possession. The sub-constable of Horbuty, through whose remiss ness the Cravens escaped, after being given into custody for concealing the birth of a child, took the matter to heart, became insane, and has died of inflammation of the brain. _ _ _ On Saturday week a drayman named Trigg quarrelled with a labourer named Phillips, at Kingston, Surrey, when the former in a rage pulled an iron pin from the dray and struck Phillips a fearful blow on the head from which he soon died. _ _ Geo. Hudson, Esq., paid a visit to Newcastle on Satur day, and after attending to the transaction of important business and inspecting the High Level Bridge, returned to his seat, Newby Park, in the evening. The hon. gen tleman was observed to be in remarkably good health and spirits. AN ANTIQUARIAN SWINDLER.—A man of gentlemanly appearance has lately contrived to swindle several anti quaries in Kent by selling them false Anglo-Saxon and early English coins, and has further managed to steal some coins from one or two collections which he had been allowed to examine. _ _ _ On Sunday week Mr. John Pratt, of Barnard Castle, died of cholera after six hours' illnePs, and on the same evening the same disease carried off his daughter. The organist of the Roman Catholic Chapel in that town died next day of the disease. Many other deaths have taken plaee. Wheat harvest is over about Bath, and we hear the most gratifying statements as to quantity and quality, The barley looks uncommonly well. Oats are a very fine crop. We saw a sample a day or two since, in this city, of excellect quality. Potatoes promise to be good and abundant. A man, between forty and fifty years of age, named Roof, visited several of the London places of amusement on Monday week, and was observed to drink very hard wherever he went. Early on the following morning, while still intoxicated, be fell from the box of a cab and never spoke after. The King of Prussia has presented the Rev. William Cureton, of the British Museum, with the gold medal for literary and scientific merit, as a mark of the high appre ciation in which the king holds Mr. Cureton for his recent edition of " Ignatius." The medal was accompanied by a letter from the king to the Chevalier Bunsen. A FATAL RACE.—L•rst week, a man in London laid a wager to run or jump any man two hundred yards. The challenge was received by a man who accepted the chal lenge and who was drunk, ran against his opponent and knocked him down. He died the next day from the in juries he received from the fall. A VETERAN IN THE HARVEST FIELD.—John Bidden, a labourer in the service of Henry Crane, Esq., Hall's Farm, in the foreign of Kidderminster, and now in his eighty-first year, mowed on Monday three acres of bar ley, and in three days of the previous week ten acres of the same grain fell before his scythe. On Tuesday, a man named Lemuel Beglay, a chimney sweep residing at Lutterworth, about twelve miles from Leicester, was committed to the Leicester county gaol, on a charge of murder, the act being perpetrated in a public house at the above-named place, on a travelling hawker, whose name was not known. It may perhaps be useful to some parties to know that by a recent Act of Parliament, on and after the 10th day of October next, the commif:sion of 7 per cent. hitherto allowed on the purchase of receipt stamps will be diseon inued. The allowance of 5 per cent. on Patent Medicine Labels will also be discontinued, except where tl►e pur chase amounts to £5O. A rumour has beea prevalent in the moneyed circles of the metropolis during the last two or three days, of the monetary embarrassment of a very old and well-estahliehed banking firm on the other side of the Channel. It is un derstood that the house alluded to has been under the necessity of asking its creditors for a temporary delay, in order to the liquidation of its liabilities. Mr. Claridge. who some years ago wrote a work on Hy drepetliy, has come forward in the daily papers to declare the " cold water cure " a specific for the cholera. He tells us that Priessnitz, the discoverer of the hydropathic sys tem of treating the disease, was engaged in 1832 from ' morning till night in attendance upon cholera cases, and that he never lost a patient. On Wednesday, Dr. Adams, resident physician in the Clyde-street Hospital. Glasgow, having occasion to make use of a quantity of chloroform, took several doses him self to try its strength, but without any serious conse quence ; however, having on Thursday afternoon repeated this dangerous experiment, and incautiously increased the dose to a very large degree, he no sooner applied it to his lips than he immediately fell back and expired. PATRIARCHAL MINISTER.—On Sunday, after a lapse of sixty-seven years, the same minister of the Gospel (Dr. Enfield) revisiting Newcastle, ascended the pulpit (which he had occupied upwards of sixty years), and opening the sacred volume read (without spectacles) the 22d chapter of St. Luke's Gospel in a firm and audible voice. He then took for his text the 41st and 42d verses, and preached to a congregation not one of whom had heard his first dis course from that pulpit. DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—Jonas Worthington, Emanuel Fulwood, Thomas Milky, and Solomon Bankes, four men employed at the Bishop-Wearmouth Iron Works, went to sea on a pleasure excursion from Sunderland harbour on Monday, in a small boat, being at the time in a state of intoxication. The boat was picked up at sea on the fol lowing day, bottom upwards, by a steam boat, and towed into the river. The body of Fulwood was washed ashore on Wednesday. The bodies of the others have not yet been found.. Bankes has left a wife and two ehildien, Fulwood a wife and one child ; and Worthington and Milley were immarried. CURIOUS OCCURRENCE.—On.the 29th June, Mr. John Millyard, farmer, Hartfield, Sussex, left home to visit a daughter, and called at the house of a friend or two on his way, but he has not since been heard of. A few days since a gamekeeper was shooting in the neighbourhood, when he discovered a small bundle, which he at once conjectured was the property of the missing farmer; and prosecuting his search he found a skeleton lying on the back, in a thicket growing near a " gill," or stream, run ning through the forest. His left arm was raised on his breast, his right was raised towards his head, and the money which he took with him was in his pocket. Mr. Wallis, surgeon, examined the skeleton, and found no marks of violence on it. The fresh was gone. The in ference drawn by these parties was, that the oIC man had strayed into the wood, lost his way, arid night coming on . he could not find his-way out, and had died. CURIOUS AND FATAL OCCURRENCE.—On Wednesday Joseph Kirkby, gamekeeper of the Duke of Hamilton, I was found lying on the Balantyne-road, near Glasgow. quite dead, with blood flowing from a wound in his breast. He had been seen a few minutes before, and it is supposed thot he lost his life through the discharge of a poacher's gun, the contents of which were intended for the game keeper's dogs, which it is said flew at the poacher. There are no marks of a scuffle on the road, and the shot must have been a close one as part of the deceased's clothes were scorched. It is worthy of remark that when the body of deceased was found, his two dogs stood over him . moaning piteously, as if conscious of the calamity which had occurred, and they would not allow any one to touch the body until some of the assistants of their deceased master, who knew them, were sent for and called them off. The poacher has been taken up, and his clothes bear marks of having been torn by the dogs, and it is possible the gun may have gone off accidentally in the onset. BOARD OF TRADE RETURNS.—These returns for the month ending the sth of August present results of a still more satisfactory description even than those which have been steadily shown. during each month of the present year. The increase in the exports, as compared with August, 1848, is not less than £2,012,500; and while considerably more than half of the increase has arisen from the activity of our cotton, linen, silk, and woollen manufactures, there are few articles which do not also appear largely on the favourable side, and likewise that there is scarcely one on the adverse side which is not for an insignificant amount. Amongst the adverse items machinery still makes its appearance, and furnishes con tinued evidence that from the neglect of mechanical im provements in foreign manufactories, caused by the dis turbances of the past eighteen months, a start has been given to our own productions which will probably not ho recovered by our competitors for many years. The total increase in exports during the first seven months of the present year, as compared with the seven corresponding months of 1848, is £5,754,113, and as the decrease of the first seven months of that year was not more than £4,747,588, we have now not only entirely recovered from the check which was then sustained, but are en abled to point to an increase of upwards of a million on the first seven months of 1847, when, notwith standing the commercial convulsions of the period, no decline in our exports had yet been experienced. As regards imports, grain and flour continue to ex hibit a very large increase, and in wheat the consump tion has again been greater than the supply. In the consumption both of coffee and sugar a considerable decline is observable, not only in the month, but throughout the year ; while in tea, cocoa, wine, and tobacco, there has been very little variation. Indeed, amongst articles of luxury generally, spirits alone show any considerable increase, and as this appears principally in brandy, it may be attributed to the cholera rather than to any other cause. The absence of expendi ture which is thus evidenced in the midst of increasing trade, may be due to the diminution of the indulgences amongst the labouring classes which were a consequence of the general employment upon railway works, and also to the economy which the disasters connected with those speculations has induced amongst the general population. Last week, when the workmen WOO employed in re pairing the interior of Chelsworth Church, near Biddle stone, a fine fresco painting, in excellent preservation, was discovered just over the chancel arch. The painting represents the Day of Judgement, with the Saviour on his throne, having on one side the Virgin, and on the other St. Peter, leading the wicked to receive their final sentence from the Supreme Judge. A FAITHLESS LOVER.—Alfred Smith. a Scotch jour neyman baker, was brought up before Mr. Hardwick, at the Marlborough Police-court, on a cearge of obtaining about £BO, and a gold watch, watch-chain, a pin,.and a diamond ring from Maria Foster, under false pretences. Prisoner had made proposals of marriage to prosecutrix, and obtained the above goods from her by stratagem, and then made off with them, but could not evade the vigilance of the police. TLe Marquis di Spineto expired on Sunday week, at his residence at Cambridge. The deceased came to Eng land at the outbreak of the war in Italy, after the first French revolution; and was very well known to the world as the Italian interpreter at the celebrated trial of Queen Caroline. He had resided for a long , •eries of years at Cambridge; as teacher of the Italian language at that University, and was highly respected by a numerous and learned circle. He was in his 76th year. Some activity is now visible in London in reference to sanatory matters. The Board of Health has commenced shutting up the most offensive of the churchyards within the metropolis; and other efforts are making with a tardy diligence, although officials, as well as professional men. are very much at sea respecting many things recommended to be done, as there seems reason to suspect that some of the cleansing and flushing operations have a tendency rather to aggravate than to abate the pestilence. ARRIVAL OF MRS. HEALD (LOLA MONTES).—Mr. and Mrs. Heald, veto have been on a continental tour, arrived in. London on Friday night. It is confidently expected that Mrs, Heald will make her appearance at the Marlborough -street Police-office, this week. Owing to the short period that has elapsed since the first examina tion took place, it will be almost impossible for any evi dence to be adduced from India, where Captain James, the former husband of Mrs. Heald, is with his regiment. EASY METHOD OF DETECTING FORGED BANK NOTES. —A. few days since a gentleman from the Bank of England explained the following simple but unerring test : He took from his pocket a genuine note, and placing it alongside a forgery, damped both in a part where the water mark was clearly visible, and in an instant the difference is quite perceptible. In the genuine note the moisture rendered the water-mark more conspicuous and distinct, while on the forgery it became almost wholly obliterated. Mr. C. Pearson, M.P., has been lecturing in various towns on prison discipline. His plan is to employ pri soners at work, chiefly on the land—to enforce the silent system—to make the duration of punishment, and the quantity and quality of their fond depend upon the amount of their labour, having regard to age, sex, and strength, and to make it a fundamental and inexorable lex loci that an able-bodied prisoner shall do more bodily work or less bodily comforts than the same amount of work would pro cure for him in the condition of a free labourer. SWINDLING ADVERTISEMENTS.—Announcements are often appearing in public jou , mils, for obtaining " profit able callings for £5," and allured by these promises, many persons are induced to part with their money. when they obtain " information" of no earthly good, and, of course, hear no more of their money. Such an advertisement appeared in the Times of the 2nd of July, directing the 'oney to he sent to J. W. Reed, Mirtield. A stranger, calling himself by that name, went to the Postoffice to receive the remittances,—some three or four hundred, — with which he decamped, and has not since been heard of. THE CHARTIST LAND SCHEME.—We hear that an in vestigation into the state of affairs at Snigsend, Glouces ter, has been going on. The state of affairs there arid at. Lowlands is bad. A number of the wretched " allottees" from the north, who were reduced to pauperism last win ter, have left their cottages and returned to their native districts, having in several instances succeeded in inducing some of the local peasantry to become occupiers in their room. Mr. Feargus O'Connor was at Snigsend last week, and has preferred a claim for rent against these persons ; in one instance, perhaps more, a distress has been put in. Mr. O'Connor very suddenly departed. FEMALE MODEL LODGING-HOUSES.—The Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes have opened a model lodging house in Hatton-Barden, London, for unmarried females of good character. The premises are done up in a style of comfort which is surprising, consi dering the moderate charge-2s. 4d. a week, payable in advance—for which the accommodation is provided. There is accommodation for about sixty females, each having a separate bed in a separate compartment, and light, fire, washing, and the use of culinary utensils; everything, in short, which could be had in a private house, except their food, which each inmate provides for herself. There is also a good sitting-room and a library. MISS CATHERINE HaYgs.—The - Herald, in its notice of the Birmingham Festival, says, " Miss Catherine Hayes produced a thrilling effect by her very artistic reading of the several suljects ; and in the air, " I know that my Redeemer liveth," she evinced a just appreciation of her author, and infused an intensity of feeling into the inter pretation of this exquisite composition. After Sontag she undoubtedly bore away the palm of snperiority." Ano ther critic says that on this occasion " she so far enraptured her auditory that they encored her in defiance of an express injunction by the president and committee against that practice—an extraordinary compliment in such a place and under such circumstances. She seems to have been received there as another Killington or Storace—as par excellence the English oratorio singer ; and they ought to be tolerable judges-of such matters there." ELOPEMENT OF A WIFE AND SUDDEN DEATH OF HER HUSBAND. — The inhabitants of Walworth-road, London, have lately been much scandalised by the conduct of Mrs. Bryan, the wife of a respectable tradesman residing near the Elephant and Castle, who has been for some time past openly carrying on an intrigue with a youth named Ward, whom her husband had taken into the house from motives of charity. A week ago Ward was observed by the police blowing a railway signal whistle under the windows, and shortly afterwards to pick up something thrown aut to him and walk away. He was taken into custody, and three purses with money were found upon 73im. His abandoned paramour appeared next day at the police court, and by acknowledging that she had given .him the money secured his liberation. At length, on. Saturday night week, Mrs-Bryan absconded with £6O, the property of her husband, and neither she nor Ward have !since been heard of. The most melancholy part of the tale remains to be told. On Tuesday afternoon Mr. Bryan was seized with cholera, and, notwithstanding the best and most skilful treatment, expired at an early hour on the following morning. While the hand of death was on him, Mr. Bryan, who was some years the senior of his wife, sent for his attorney, to whom he dictated his last will and testament, and to disposed of his property that his wife cannot touch it. EFFECTS OF OVF.RCROWDTNG BURIAL GROUNDS.—On Tuesday, Mr. Wakley held an inquest on the body of a young woman who, it was believed, died in consequence of the malaria from Spafields burial ground. One of the witnesses said that in the ground, which measured 72 feet by 72, there had been lately buried, at several depths not far removed from the surface, at least 3,000 bodies. Each grave contained seven or eight bodies. How space was made for new corners he could not say, unless by the destruction of the bodies and coffins. He was aware that coffins had been made away with. In consequence of the effluvia - from the graveyard he had been compelled to send his children to boarding-schools, and remove the other members of his family. It was well known that the same grave had been 50 times opened for bodies, and by the systematic destruction of bodies and coffins room was easily made for new corners. The witness did not know what became of the bodies, hut it was stated some years ago that they and the coffins were burned. Mr. Dove, whose house abuts upon the graveyard, corroborated the above evidence. Six of his children had been poisoned by the effluvium from the graves. His wife and himself had been seized with diarrheeafrom the same cause, and he was obliged to remove his- family to save their lives. Fifty thousand bodies had been buried there, and the ground' Sad been raised to the-level of the wall, siz.feet high. BIRMINGHAM MUSICAL FP.STIVAL. — The 26th anni versary of this great triennial musical meeting, which was established in 1773, in aid of the funds of the General Hospital, began on Tuesday, under brilliant auspices. As far as the artistes engaged, and the number of important works were concerned, the programme of the present meeting yielded to no previous one in magnitude and in terest. Mendelssohn's glorious oratorio of " The Elijah" formed the subject of the opening performance. The ap pearance of the hall was in the highest degree animated and enlivening. Almost all the entire area was- appro priated to reserve seats, and not a seat was observed to be vacant. There must have been upwards of 3,900 per sons present, including the hulk Of the midland aristocracy, and many others from the most remote parts of the king dom. On Wednesday, Mendelssohn's music to Racine's " Athalia" was performed as an oratorio. On Thursday . morning 'lenders oratorio of "The Messiah'^ was per formed. The band consisted of 22 first violins, 16 violas, 16; violincellos, 15 double basses, 4 flutes, 4 oboes, 4 clarionets, 4 bassoons, 4. , trumpets, 4 horns, Itrombones, 1 ophicleide, 1 serpent, 3 harps, and a drum of every class. The chorus comprised 80 trebles, 75 altos, 71 tenors, and 83 basses. Hence the band and chorus, with the assist ance of the principal singers, gave an orchestral total of 460 performers. The leader was M. Costa, and the prin cipal vocalists were Piachek, Mario, Sims Reeves, Luckey, Machin, Madame Castellan, the Misses Williams, and Miss Stevens. On Friday, there were two miscellaneous concerts. The receipts from these festivities amounted to £8.840. A PORCINE BABY.—At the Mansion-house, London, Sarah Prime war charged with having committed a rob bery. The prisoner, who is a young woman, was met by a policeman near Leadenhall Market. The prisoner had in her arms what appeared to be a child, and would have passed for such if she had not betrayed much dread of the policeman, who thereupon took the liberty to inquire into the nature of her bdrden. " Sure isn't it my babby ?" said she. " Ah, then, don't be so cruel as to wake him, for he's been very tinder in his bowels." The policeman, however, was so cruel as to try to awake the baby ; but on stripping it to the skin, be. found it to be a very fine leg of pickled pork. Alderman Gibbs—Did she carry it as a woman would carry her child ? The policeman — Certainly, my lord, and she spoke to it when I went up to her as a mother would do to keep it from crying. (Laughter.) Alderman Gibbs—Well, prisoner, do you choose to give any account of the manner in which you became the mother of this leg of pork ? (A laugh.) The prisoner—Please your lordship, I never said it was a child until he axed me whether it wasn't one, and I thought I wouldn't satisfy him by telling him that it was ; for as paid for it, I might call it what I liked. (Laughter,) Alderman Gibbs—You certainly hit Upon a very ingenious name, at the same time that it proved to be a very awkward one. There can be no doubt that you stole the meat, and you must go to bridewell for one month. The prisoner —Faith, thin, I didn't steal a morsel of it.— Committed. Omen! isreflanp. Lord Brackley is now gradually recovering. Mr. R. Attwood,. of Salisbury, has presented £2OOO to the infirmary in that own. More than 10.000 p: , rsons have died in London, of cholera, within the last two months. A hawker at Halifax has been fined £1 Is. for selling rotten pears to children. The Earl of Durham attained his majority on Wednes day. There were great rejoicings on his lordship's estates. John Bull, by Touchstone, out of Fortress, three years old, purchased at Stockbridge last year for 370 guineas, was sold on Monday, at Tattersalls, for 80 guineas. A brickmaker near Carlisle, has performed the feat of making 1,000 bricks in one hour, 100 in five minutes, and 26 in one minute. _ ...... Charlotte Harris,. the woman lying under sentence of death for the murder of her husband, at Bath, was deli vered last week, of a still-born child.. Last week, a woman died at Birmingham from drinking some herb tea, in which the poisonous water hemlock had been fused by accident amongst the other herbs. The Mark Lane Express of Monday notices the enor mous amount of importations of wheat and flour, during the late month, under all draw-backs of the blockade. The General Post-office authorities have adopted a very excellent plan, viz., that of receiving in St Martin's-le- Grand messages fot direct dispatek per electric telegraph. Mr. Ellis Roberts, who won the prize harp at the Eisteddfod, has been appointed harpist to the Prince of Wales. The crops in High Furness are said to be excellent in quality. Of wheat the yield will be an average. Barley and oats below an average. MANSLAUGUTER. - A railway labourer, named Brown, was stabbed at Low Moor, by a companion, named Wail kin, on Thursday week. Brown has since died, The Rev. Wm. Dalton, of Wolverhampton, has pre sented a donation of £lO 10s. to the Birmingham Eye Infirmary. The intramural interment nuisance has excited great attention in London, and negotiations were proceeing for its termination. • £l3O has been presented for the purpose of filling up the window at the east end of Hereford Cathedral with stained glass. The supply of mackarel at Douglas on Thursday was so abundant, that they were retailed at 10 for 3d. or 42 for a shilling. A vessel arrived from Ghent has brought 31 baskets and 15 boxes of live plants, as a portion of her cargo, the pro duce of Belgium. The third annual meeting of the Evangeli - .tal Alliance is to take place at Glasgow on the 10th of October and fol lowing days. Mr. Cash, a director of the Brighton railroad, and a member of the Society of Friends, died last week of cho lera, after a few hours' illness. The Duke of Cambridge has taken, for a short period, Plas Newydd, the Marquis of Anglesey's seat in North Wales. Robert Coates, the 'well-known pedestrian, who ha's carried off many prizes over hurdles, against horses, at long distances, has walked one thousand half miles, in one thousand successive half hours, at Birmingham. Last week, at the great sale of building sites at Llan dudno (a %illage behind the Great Ormshead), the land brought only from Is. to Is. 6d. per square yard. Twenty six thousand yards were sold, Sept. 11, ~~ 4 ~' _ ~n. ot ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.—The last extifiiime l e, flee Delafit•ld, in the Bankruptcy Court, took place eV; day. It appears that the loss by the opera sP'e g e t : was £81,355. In the ballet department , th ere , fe, female and 32 male creditors, but the claims are bari In the band department, there are 85 creditors, t'ireett‘ rum due to them being £1,732. The princiPalirip V are Madlle. Angri (for singing), £1,840; l‘f lab c( 49r cing), £320; Signor Casati (ditto), £255; eignocof, (ditto), £321 ; Signor Costa, for self and ° I es, director of the music, £3lB ; Madame Dorus Gras, ,Cl 60 Mdlle. Grahn (dancing), £1,000; 3 19aa Sif is (singing), £700: Signor Mario (singing), £37 4 ; s ee Roger, £200; Mr. Sims Reeves (singing), £°; Ronconi (ditto), £2,710; Signor Taraball", Signor Tagliafico, £203. Dime bi; SINGULAR WOUND.—A boy named George - -n3 had a narrow escape of receiving a serious', i i t n ot .4 04, injury, in the Market Place, last Saturday n ight , " re e 4 the wanton frolic of a lad named Batson, wh e l l9t , 4 e ts l e t" at a" pop gun." stall shooting for nuts. '' 9 'l, ° o l, l was drunk, was amusing himself and compania as eo 4 , at a target with a small gun loaded with a dart , ell' sharp steel or iron point, and forced from the hal-0: percussion cap. Dimbledee, who was a strong re tie. son, and merely a spectator, said, " now, e e , D ati l i srantly shot the boy in the face. The arrow Batson turned round and said, " I'll shoot you , ee l ' . under the eye-brow, and had to be pulled out b i e ible ° the poor lad's companions. It seems almost 41 1 0 3 in jarl conceive how it missed the eye without doing seri e + n eeee! to that organ. No injury to the sight was exPeel t ,...Y . sue, but the eye was completely closed and big • caster Journal. 1 ° LOVE AND SUICIDE.—Sarah Spencer Neale. rd 1 , 1 0 woman of respectable family, residing at DeP tf : e 4. l . ) : committed suicide under very pitiable circaustan ,atie had been much attached to a young man named veteel constable in the dockyard. Her parents at first Parfet: commanded the discontinuanceofthe • teeacY , le t in . to le t wards relented, and the marriage was appoint, .wife " piece at the end of August. It came to the kno c hte tJ Davis, however, that his intended motherAa'rsee spoken very disrespectfully of him, and, in f a ' broke off the engagement with the poor girt:o.4 l ; a almost broken-hearted in coesequence. She ",,,„itig; • him until he came off duty at the dock, and. „,",,," vain attempted to shake his resolution, she (Tie', ,ditL terly, and, taking a gold ring from her finger, P' 9 ,,, that of Davis, and told him to keep it for herb ; foo„ then left bin., and was seen no more alive, ell e fr drowned in the Grand Surrey Canal. The .larr'eest verdict, passed a strong censure on Davis,for hls conduct. SEARCH FOR PROPERTY STOLEN TWEl'"lrbl,s- YEARS AGO.—The Bury and Suffolk Herald mooed' a singular letter in reference to a robbery co a lees b h Bury St. Edmunds twenty-seven years ago, sch en v e , of a Mr. Gudgeon, watchmaker, was broken in t % letter is from a young man who has emigrated tnertejt. South Wales, and who writes to his father, a ear , t el k " in Bury St. Edmunds, that he had met with a " 99 ; 0 1i 0 ,P Chambers, who had been transported for lwrseeerso:t but was now emancipated. This man, the wr i 'o, o ll, had confessed himself to have taken part in the r , e „' se; Mr. Gudgeon, and described where he bad hid ae e - t , silt`., Lion of the stolen property, comprising seven te-- e f watches and two gold ones, viz.: "at the itt;, Gate-street, (Bury), just over the gate in that Woe. e nter to opposite the well, and under a tree with a large tt , I In . consequence of this information, the tree Pe a" spot. alluded to have been dug round, but without t l ie pre; There are, however, good reasons to believe lbt. t eicb perty is near the spot. Some circumstances - . 5 4 9 " confessed thief mentioned in corroboration o f thl 0(0 are borne out by the real facts, and another Par t „ i° „ e ll 3si ter property stolen on the same occasion was some y dug up in a field in the neighbourhood. t e s ri e llv J ORANGE DEMONSTRATION.—OR TlleSdaL, ebie, h versary of Queen Elizabeth Orange Lodge, l' a 'l"coll' e e - e at Bradford, was celebrated by the brethren arl" ; : e ab t i their friends dining together. Early in the morale,frf silk flag, with the emblems of the order on one -Ince on the reverse the ins c ription, "William F r o ' i n d o9 Orange," in gold, floated gaily from one of the t he to in front of the inn. The internal decorations of t' o eit room were in very good taste. The whole room P r ot ° a most splendid appearance. Mr. Simpson, and o l d the parish church, presided at the piano-forte, an' e , e10 7 , pany of glee singers were in attendance. At sil, ft ' a t; the company sat down to a sumptuous dinner. ~"„ sob, withdrawal of the cloth the choir performed 9,"tis pow Domine, after which the chair was taken be Ja i s ' l iitsra e he lard, Esq.. J.P., supported on his right bY, J '„ of I „"d L.L D., Vicar, and one of the Grand ChaP' 9 „' b p - • P e Order ; on his left, William Walker, Esq• near the chair were John Hollins, Esq., Jas. Wade, Esq., J. H. Burnet, Esq., Rev., )3rie tir Mitton, Incumbent of Manningham ; Rev. T. 1 ' .fte," • of Daisy Hill ; Rev. L. Howarth, curate of t he PutiseY' Claude Hamilon, of Seacroft near Leeds ; and T. Randall, Incumbent of Eceeshill. John Ferf, ferees of Pudsey, was the vice-chairman, who, as 01'000' chairman, Joshua Pollard, Esq., is an orangem an • ibo years' standing. roo ll 4 de THE MAIZE CROP IN THE PARK.—About two p back we mentioned that an eeriment bad ,i' e F` o res ga t in St. James's-park, by the Commissioners of P I e ls' l re Forests, in order to ascertain whether the olive' might be successfully cultivated in this co unt - II:, to pre now enabled to announce the result. It is riencionts mise that the experiment was made under dig'. -ideal", which must he manifest to every practical jutted Doric The spot on which the seed was put down al' at bicheil nursery of young shrubs and flowering shrubs sciltritlct, is well known absorb a large proportion of the •1 eb o9 o f sap of the soil, whilst the foliage deprives the 10 ,; 8 11 ing plants of the benefit of heat, light, and tur t ' hs taa t i which contribute to healthy vegetation. N° t : e n- e esec l i t' d inc these drawbacks the little maize crop full,Yr e ,. etw e e that was anticipated. It was sown in the la"e t is e lf May, and now in the beginning of September it is for cutting. The appearance of the plant is P e - t eill 9 t, graceful, far more so, indeed, than that of any ; te dg ll c t, corn field. The stems, which run up perfectlY mo a t are generally-from four to five feet high, and e e . ,olt thicker than the larger wheat straw. TheY e t e ; lea from the roots upwards a succession of 01 1 :0 the stem terminating in a little tuft, f t. the ears of corn, somewhat irregularly r c o lu m stere d a . this instance, apparently not heavily laden. ," s grlc'so from the concurrent opinion of several practic al t in ` s t turists, many of whom have taken a lively experiment, it seems not unlikely that the liaa l ips io 5, will be very generally sown henceforward. lt d gtal commendations are—cheapness of seed, rain" pr o o o ° ii, simplicity of cultivation, and comparatively larg, e e to tion. It requires a sunny aspect and a n.- t , ef' cfr of Amongst those who are about to experiment 1I Doke a t i n terc.s zo pls „ larger scale next year are Prince Albert, th„ e , o'oo' l Richmond, at Goodwood ; and the Duke of •I` e • 10 ° Arun LIFE del. *al, 1 ! t in% IN A MAN-OF-WAR.—A court-m ane t has already extended over six days, is at Presenn, of l ip at Plymouth, for the trial of Commander P itmli f cra e t he H. M. sloop Childers, on the charge chie fl y te al oa re d and oppression. The inquiry had been grant'entea complaint of Lieut. Graham and Mr.-Elliott, t ir e , ' Ito recently for desertion from the vessel. Near l y ol e o' nesses have been examined, and their 0 41 1 01 19 '1° show that punishments, the most severe all; et had been inflicted for comparatively trifling 091,,13brttete one case a marine had been se severely Pu'i t , oe stealing candles to give light in the lower d er be bef ti iie they were battened down in bad weather, tha r , e e S y se . insensible after the infliction. A private, na n- gt , el'er who was to have received forty-eight lashes bet a e j maneer Pitman said his clothes were dirty, kl lnr one o re , board and was drowned. A witness-- had !w e° ila s al° named Sangyar, naked and insensible at the g 9 „ te r' e ell after a punishment of " scrubbingr—therm otae o ,oo, Trd 53. When at New Zealand, an ordinary seating y e et it M'Cleet, had received three dozen laele's O r " - ecr u ' al' at devotions. A man, named Carters had bel t , fo r re ,4 with canvas and sand. A private, named 1 3 rle oa, b „s leged disobedience, was ordered to be eac hl ,l9 '" - and water for five days, eight hours aft e..traleoP marching order, and to sleep in irons at nig ht 'tehee t el‘ P watch and watch, grog stopped thirteen days. w et 11° ment towards a lad, named Cleverton, w as open operlJlteeps ish ;on one-occasion his head had been sP'," tvez 9 ; was punished with fanams on the hands, an", i - i tee' tli" the first watch on the quarter-deck with his nrecea, of his shoulders. Upon ore occasion. such hr, t hre ea t d° debasing anti butcherous nature of the Pu n qi e ute n 's sorted to, that a sentry was placed over the, ', a g 0 9 e ter the ship to prevent his going on deck, or (I° ' cidal act in his quarters,—his razors were telf r ,, l are ° d kept by the commander. Sergeant Junto Pe,: sOeestr e joined the Childers at Hong Ko W le. as Iw ri crise" any acts of cruelty, or that Cotarnsider Pitman 10" his duty in a harsher manner than is gen e ,.', o saaee, the service. The court martial has not yet `Oclv i t.r t MURDER OF THREE CHILDREN, AND ha et eri A FATHER.—On IVlotelay morning' o boe, g e„ 0 0 4 . pi , - 1,1,„4, eleven, a most fearful tragedy took place a ' re d' loswich, when a man named Grayson murd e r fet iq r ss l e his male children, of the respective ag. fe !sbe ir t t / 1 1 0 1 4 1 three years, and eight months, by cuttlne t beos'el 0 with a razor, and afterwardzecutting his own 0 1j, &oil, father was a painter by trade, about 33 Yea ° his ta.s. jts • been married nearly tcn years—the fruit of e to being seven children. He was always ki" d e atite 00° fond of his children, end of particularly telnr h e aC' t etl e i, Durine the last five or six weeks, howev er ' etetolii , failed him, and he frequently exhibited a 541 ? t r ee to despondency, arising from the cares of his sh l e p le e , - whom he seemed to apprehend he should r o sea l 0 0/ 0 eerly to bring up. Latterly he suffered lr ° h e beo in the head, producing lowness of sps, a_a ge t t„ o times was heard to say " I shall never live t e a ti l e tl I tio t (1 0 my troubles." On Sunday evening, lie r bre 9 , l' isa s : l o° mid appeared to sleep as usual, but eeterv.vet Is , Monday complained to his wife that he fe ()Je tt went shopping into the town, and faint. Shortly after eleven o'clock, -', ias tis'; 0 0 e children in the house ; but she had not bee; fi e tl'e l or eo than half an hour, when she heard the a th e i tag II leaving h er _ l a bse.PS , what had occurred. As soon as she diesreturPt f ce e ing spectacle presented itself of the four D,°_;. os ti 5. „ 0 the ground in the front room, with their lei e tb e ' r • dead—a razor lying between her hushal l i `, e ha 1 , 0 0 , 13 appears that no sooner had his wife left,_: ren , ere t o the unfortunate man said to the three clig t % n ,e P i f e c h o te r at the time in the back room , " Co'ne e a a hi l i t oarilis play in the front room, and I will give Y t ea t_ j 0 .1 1 0 each." This observation was heard bY ple tes ieft be t Emma, agel eight, who was washing 'T o se, d e th e adjoining kitchen, and she, in conseel e " re s he ' ie to tte tt kitchen and stood at the back door,i s t;e l e o' father take the baby jorfin 4 • iit e ' front room, the other two children fol eoll et few' eith returned to the wieshhouse, but in a he r la r into the front room, when she beheld three brothers lying dead on the carpet•ronteelt given, and surgical assistance instantly P course, it way taetrodual. in his arms and cam.e. Sept. 11 T HE Ro ~1404'011:_abilnyq r e h l Y t e e r B l the ofEt the pl e th P,, e , . roceedi Od te Ti wa , le] 11,1 , ol ayed , rl Mter th e t wl l Yed th„ ol e litathePrri°3cce( t u 111 " i e 1