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•L(teratulc. NOTICES. The Church of England Quarterly Review. Oct., 1840. London : W. E. Painter, Strand. THE present number of the Church of England Quar terly is very various in the style of its contents, although maintaining generally the peculiar character which dis tinguishes it from the laical periodicals. Amongst the most interesting of the reviews are those upon Milman's Horace, Sir Thomas Philip's Wales, Bell's Memorials of the Civil War, and Pascal's Works. There is some pleasant reading also, in a rather gossiping style in the notice of Cunningham's London, Past and Present; and Bell's Wayside Pictures through France, Belgium, and Holland. We append a few extracts from the Number. A QUOTATION FROM HORACE THE BEST SUBSTITUTE FOR PISTOLS "There are about a score or so of men in the House of Com mons who are as partial to Horace as James I. was to tobacco ; and equally hateful as the smoke of the weed was to the pedan tic king, so hateful to the honourable members are quotations from the Latin poets. These burly, pompous gentlemen, who stalk up the floor of the house as though the house derived all its dignity from their presence—who take their seats with that Peculiar air and importance which characterises a London journeyman in tin Islington tealarden—who are so obtuse to everything that is said to them in their vernacular tongue, and who rail the loudest against whatever is right in principle and sound in argument—it is amusing to see how constantly they quail under an apt quotation from Horace—how the eye twinkles and the lips writhe under the sound of those few cabalistic words, the meaning of which. they are tortured by, in the smiles they see and the laughter they hear. But, besides these, there are thousands and tens of thousands of men in the kingdom to whom the caustic sayings of Horace are es pecially distasteful. Every man who is in a false position in society loathes the poet : all who appear to others what they are not in themselves—all who live upon delusions and who dread discoveries—all, in fact, who are cheats and in their several ways impostors dread any application of the satirical poet's verses to their own person and cases. " We consider Horace, therefore, to be more than any other writer, tit , most useful ally and the best'protection to a gentle- man in his daily walk through life. and in his general inter course with the world. The ignorant are awed by the uncouth words they hear; the intrusive are repelled, and the insolent are cowed, by the biting sarcasms that eighteen hundred years since exposed to the laughter of Rome a set as impertinent as themselves; and as duelling is in great disfavour with the public, and is really getting out of fashion altogether in the fashionable world, every man must guard himself as he best can against the knaves that would injure him and the bullies who would insult him. The time was when a long sword or a brace of pistols served very effectually as checks to insulting words and bad manners; but scorn and disgust have together driven these much out of disuse; for, since the apprentice of Ludgate-hill sent his challenge to the apprentice of Cheapside, and then got a friend to talk openly about it and to get the magistrate to interfere in it, and since sisters' husbands from the most sordid motives levelled their deadly weapons at each other's breasts, the public loathe duels, and are generally of one accord to think ill of all who engage in them—equally of him who accepts a challenge as of him who sends it, a chal lenge being usually the last resort of the swindler and gambler —of the passionate and the quarrelsome—of the profligate and the coward—of the bully and the braggart. Of necessity, of very necessity, every gentleman must occasionally meet in society with others who are not gentlemen ; but he has a strong guard about him, and a very potent weapon ever with him, who has it ever in his power to make the men of no principles and the men of bad manners notoriously ridiculous, or odious, or contemptible, by directing against them some of the smart sayings of Horace. Ridicule and not wrath, wit and not bul lets, the lyric poet and not cold steel, are the best defensive weapons a gentleman can use against the aggressions of the intrusive, the insolence of the impertinent, and the conceit of the fool: Omnes hi metuunt versus, odere poetam." CURIOUS ORIGIN OF SURNAMES. " Some names are sobriquets from some personal peculiarity, as Skyp, Standeven, Golightly ; or from some particular taste, as Drinkwater, Drinkdregs. Paybody was probably an honest man who did pay his way when others around him did not; while Swindles and Bilk were probably arrant cheats. There was an odd collection of names on the books of Pembroke College, Oxford, in the year 1832, as Guppy, Maingy, Bubb, and Grubb, which are scarcely so intelligible as Cram, Chew, Rideout, Gotobed. In some instances men are found to sub mit to bear a new name imposed upon them by their neigh bours. Thus, the editor knew a man whose name was John son, but, as he was a dealer in pigs, the people called him Pig. man, and Pigman he calls himself, and this name may to this day be seen over the door of the public-house which the man keeps in Staftbrdshire. Another man who grew excellent po tatoes was called by his neighbours Taterjohn, like him who, having a large orchard, was called Applejohn. Rottenberyng, a name in Hull, was no doubt given to a dishonest dealer in fish ; but Blackmonster ought to be amended outright, since his name was derived from Blancliminster, the white monastery. Godskin is the name of a man who was continually crying out Odsbodikins. But a man may gain to himself a name from one saying equally as from a thousand. Thus, the parish clerk of Longford, near Wellington was called Redcock for many years before his death from having one Sunday slept in church, and, dreaming that he was at a cock-fight, he bawled out "a shilling upon the red cock," and the family are called Red cocks to this day. Some men are truly unfortunate in their names, and no ingenuity in man can improve them. Thus, a gentleman whose father's name was Bear and whose mother's maiden name was Savage had both imposed upon him at his baptism, and Savage Bear is to this hour his name." DANGER OF A MISTAKE IN A NAME, "Mistakes mighthe madelii names which would far exceed a joke in their consequences. An old lady wbo was very anxi ous respecting a favourite nephew, a student at Catherine Hall, enquired of his tutor bow be conducted himself. 'Oh (replied the latter), very well indeed, madam ; he sticks to Catherine Hall.' Sticks to Catherine Hall does he, the reprobate : but his lather was just like him, always fond of the girls.' If the old lady had taken a huff at her nephew stick ing to Catherine, and had left her fortune away from him in consequence, the mistake would have been too serious for the joke it is." The Dublin University Magazine. Dublin : James M`Glashan, 21, D'Olier-street ; and W. S. Orr & Co., London. THIS month's number is excellent. The first article gives some striking facts, bearing upon the condition of Ireland, which we have noticed elsewhere. The reviews of Lord Castlereagh's Memoirs and Correspondence, and Lord Cloncurry's Correspondence, are most interesting— the latter especially. The number gives us also the con clusion of the beautiful tale, " Philip Marsden ; or. the Experiment," and two graphic chapters of " The Under graduate." We quote from the latter the CONCLUDING SCENE OF MY FIRST COLLEGE PARTY. " David Drake had for the last half-hour been discussing with our host and some others, who were members of the Boating Club, the necessary qualifications for taking a part in the eight-oar. In the warmth of his feelings he had become totally unconscious that a weight of eighteen stone was ap pended to his reasoning powers, so had enlisted himself in the nautical corps, and was expressing great doubt whether he should hold the coxswain's office or pull the stroke-oar. His opinion was slightly gravitating towards the latter, when, without assigning any reason, as if some new idea had sud denly struck him, he rose up from his chair and laid hold on his heaver. " Where are you going ? ' asked a tall man who sat next him ; you cannot go down the river to-night.' " Going?—going straight to my rooms, to be sure,' an swered Drake; where else should Igo ?' " Why, you haven't yet fixed what place you'll take,' urged the tall man. " Both—both.' ,-,uttered David, who, in his temporary exaltation, no &ul,: fancied that he could have upset the gate posts of Gaza,. pulled an eight-oar himself, and steered it into the bargem. " 6 Come, cc- sit down—you're not going, I'm sure.' " David, ever, was determined to drink no more for no man's pleasur;,' so proceeded to move off, like a floating island. His neighbor;:'. however, who was a great bully, presuming upon his size and good-nature, took an effectual means of pre venting his escape. " There,' said he, find your way out if you can ;' accom panying his words with a weighty blow on the top of Drake's hat, which crushed it over three-fourths of his face. " Notwithstanding the feelings of indignation which must necessarily rise on witnessing an attack so unprovoked, a per son could hardly have repressed all emotions of a lighter nature on seeing an exhibition so ludicrous as that of Drake, as he stood. His broad features were peering from below his hat, like the fat face of Falstaff from below the buck's horns. Every nerve in his body was strung with rage; and muttered sounds of revenge rolled horrible' within the cavern of his heaver. David, though good-natured, was no coward, and would resent an insult as courageously as any mail living. Supported by his own weight, with his legs slightly apart, Ile dilated stood, Like Teneriff or Atlas, unremoved.' To be sure he slightly swayed; but his feet were firmly planted, and if he was acted upon by the same trifling vibrations as the pendulum, his centre of gravity still retained that position which mathematicians can demonstrate to be the only safe one for a substance under the influence of attraction. He rocked like a sturdy oak before the whirlwind, and was based as im moveably, so long as no external force was applied. During this time be was endeavouring, with all his might, to raise the obstinate beaver, to the infinite detriment of its brim. His rage increased with his efforts. " During this struggle, some of the company were evidently shewing their disgust at the cowardly conduct of the tall man. Wesley coolly asked him bow he would like to be pitched out of the window, or stuffed up the chimney like a bundle of straw; and our Lost, who was a thorough gentleman, ordered him to leave the room. Now amid this disturbance one of the company, whose correctness of aim and correctness of thought were in an inverse ratio, levelled a medlar at the tall man with all his force. At that very moment Drake had fought through his difficulty ; and lie was just catching the first glimpse of light from beneath his hat, when the medlar, missing its des tination, squashed on his cheek, and stuck there. It looked like a knotty excrescence on the rough bark of an oak. It was thrown with considerable force; and although its softness pre cluded any serious damage to the flesh; the mere impulse was enough to upset Drake's stability. Before that he was slightly tottering, but firm—excluding pressure from without. No sooner had it struck him than he threw up his arms, winked one eye, and staggered back with that ill-omened step which betokened downward motion. Of course he strove against the impending disaster; but every backward step brought his cen tre of gravity further over the falling point. " • Order, gentlemen, is the first law of nature—peace— propriety—Plato'—(hiccup.) " This was the commencement of an oration from De Were, who, in the energy of his feelings, had risen from his seat to allay the clamour and appease the fury of the combatants. Poor fellow I he saw not the weighty mass moving towards him. Slow and heavy were the footstepl of Drake; but he heard them not. Indeed the wine bad not imparted quickness either to his faculty of hearing or of sight. Taken unawares as lie was—being moreover less stable than usual—it is easy to fancy the slight resistance he opposed to the impulse of the moving mountain. Poor De Vere I he was crushed like a wil low before a train of steam-carriages ' or a reed before a rocky mass rolling from the summit of tale Alps—and his oration was lost for ever I " Backwards went David, and every step brought him nearer to the ground. At last, when the awful moment of a downfall arrived, be was within half a yard from the partition. Now this was only :a thin wooden wainscot ; so, when the terrific shock arrived, it splintered in a thousand pieces, as if a bomb shell had been levelled against it. " Gaudetque viam fecisse mina,' said a tallow-complexioned man, who could talk in Greek or Latin far more fluently than in English. " A moment's stillness succeeded the crash; as soon, how ever, as we were able to collect our scattered ideas, we per ceived a yawning hiatus in the partition, and Drake prostrated in the adjoining room. On examination we found that it was a bed-room—that the wretched occupant, unable to sleep, had been reading in bed, and, which was worst of all, that the magnitude of Drake was on him like a nightmare— ' Look on the magic loading of this bed!' No effort of his could move David's enormous trunk—he could as reasonably have lifted a cheese-press. We hastened to the poor sufferer's aid ; and, sooth to say, no time was to be lost— for the studious paleness of his face was turning into a sable red. The poor fellow, after being relieved of his load, was in little better plight than the mangled Tybalt,' in the New Readings of Old Authors'—he seemed rolled into the shape of an oval pancake. With much ado, ,e assisted Drake to his own bed, who, as he inutterea some, indistinct words, about, powder and pis tole,' twelve paces acid percussiomtape; Iromediately dropped into a heavy sleep." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. W. Blackwood and Sons ! George-street, Edinburgh, and Paternoster Row, • London. THE number for this month contains some excellent papers. including "The Green Hand," part 5; "The English Mail Coach, or the Glory of Motion"—a plea sant sketch—and a few others of more than average talent. The gem of the number is the conclusion of Sir E. B. Lytton's splendid tale "The Caxtons." We can not resist giving a portion of the last chapter, in which THE PROFESSION OF THE YOUNG DE CAXTON IS DETERMINED. " Standing on the hearth, his band in his waistcoat, my fa ther said musingly, ' Among the last delusions of Human Er ror, I have had to notice Rousseau's phantasy of Perpetual Peace, and all the like pastoral dreams, which preceded the bloodiest wars that have convulsed the earth for more than a thousand years!' And - to judge by the newspapers,' said I, the same delu sions are renewed again. Benevolent theorists go about, pro phesying peace as a positive certainty, deduced from that sibyl book the ledger; and we are never again to buy cannons, pro vided only we can exchange cotton for corn.' • " Mn. SQUILLS, (who, having almost wholly retired from general business, has, from want of something better to do, at tended sundry Demonstrations in the North,' since which he has talked much about the march of improvement, flee spirit of the age, and us of the nineteenth century heartily hope that these benevolent theorists are true prophets. I have found, in the course of my professional practice, that men go out of the world quite fast enough, without hacking them into pieces, or blowing them up into the air. War is a great evil. BLANCHE (passing by Squills, and glancingtowards Roland.) —Hush ! Roland remains silent. Mn. CAx'roN.—War is a great evil ; but evil is admitted by Providence into the agency of creation, physical and moral. The existence of evil has puzzled wiser heads than ours, Squills. But, no doubt, there is One above who has His reasons for it. The combative bump seems as common to the human skull as the philo-progenitive ; if it is in our organisation, be sure it is not there without cause. Neither is it just to man, nor wisely submissive to the Disposer of all events, to suppose that war is wholly and wantonly produced by human crimes and follies —that it conduces only to ill, and does not as often arise from the necessities interwoven in the framework of society, and speed the great ends of the human race, conformably with the designs of the Omnipotent. Not one great war has ever deso lated the earth, but has left behind it seeds that have ripened into blessings incalculable. Mn. SQUILLS, (with the groan of a dissentient at a " 17e monstration.)—Oh ! oh! OH ! _ _ Luckless Squills l Little could he have foreseen the shower bath, or rather douche, of erudition that fell splash on his head, as he pulled the string with that impertinent Oh! oh! Down first came the Persian War, with Median myriads disgorging all the rivers they had drunk up in their march through the East—all the arts, all the letters, all the sciences, all the notions of liberty that we inherit from Greece—my father rushed on with them all, sousing Squills with his proofs that, without the Persian War. Greece would never have risen to be the teacher of the world. Before the gasping victim could take breath, down came Hun, Goth, and Vandal, on Italy and Squills. " , What, sir,' cried my father, don't you see that, from those eruptions on demoralised Rome, came the regeneration of manhood ; the rebaptism of earth from the last soils of pa ganism ; and the remote origin of whatever of Christianity yet exists, free from the idolatries with which Rome contaminated the faith ?' "Squills held up his hands, and made a splutter. Down came Charlemagne—paladins and all ! There my father was grand I What a picture he made of the broken, jarring, savage elements of barbaric society. And the iron hand of the great Frank—settling the nations, and founding existent Europe. Squills was now fast sinking into a coma, or stupefaction; but, catching at a straw, as he heard the word Crusades,' he stut tered forth, I there I defy you l' "' Defy me there!' cries my father; and one would think the ocean was in the shower-bath, it came down with such a rattle. My father scarcely touched on the smaller points in excuse for the Crusades, though he recited very volubly all the humane arts introduced into Europe by that invasion of the East ; and showed how it had served civilisation by the vent it afforded for the rude energies of chivalry—by the element of destruction to feudal tyranny that it introduced—by its use in the emancipation of burghs, and the disrupture of serfdom. But he showed, in colours vivid as if caught from the skies of the East, the great spread of Mahometanism, and the danger it menaced to Christian Europe—and drew up the Godfreys, and Tancreds, and Richards, as a league of the Age and Necessity, against the terrible progress of the sword and the Koran. You call them madmen,' cried my father, but the frenzy of nations is the statesmanship of fate! How know you that—but for the terror inspired by the hosts who marched to Jerusalem—how know you that the Crescent had not waved over other realms than those which Roderic lost to the Moor ? If Christianity had been less a passion, and the passion had less stirred up all Europe—how know you that the creed of the Arab (which was then, too, a passion, might not have planted its mosques in the forum of Rome, and on the site of Notre Dame? For in the war between creeds—when the creeds are embraced by vast races—think you that the reason of sages can cope with the passion of millions? Enthusiasm must oppose enthusiasm. The crusader fought for the tomb of Christ, but he saved the life of Christendom.' My father paused. Squills was quite passive; he struggled no more—he was drowned. " So,' resumed Mr. Caxton, more quietly—' so, if later wars yet perplex us as to the good that the Allwise One draws from their evils, our posterity may read their uses as clearly as we now read the finger of Providence resting on the barrows of Marathon, or guiding Peter the Hermit to the battle-fields of Palestine. Nor, while we admit the evil to the passing genera tion, can we deny that many of the virtues that make the orna ment and vitality of peace sprang up first in the convulsions of war!' Here Squills began to evi nce faint signs of resuscitation, when my father let fly at him one of those numberless water works which his prodigious memory kept in constant supply. Hence,' said he, hence not unjustly has it been remarked by a philosopher, shrewd at least in worldly experience— (Squills again closed his eyes, and became exanimate)—" It is strange to imagine that war, which.of all things appears the most savage, should be the passion of the most heroic spirits. But 'tis in war that the knot of fellowship is closest drawn; 'tis in war that mutual succour is most given —mutual danger run, and common affection most exerted and employed; for heroism and philanthropy are almost one and the same!"' (Shaftesbury.) " My father ceased, and mused a little. Squills, if still living, thought it prudent to feign continued extinction. " Not,' said Mr. Caxton, resuming—' not but what I hold it our duty never to foster into a passion what we must rather submit to as an awful necessity. You say truly, Mr. Squills— war is an evil; and woe to those who, on slight pretences, open the gates of Janus, —" The dire abode, And the fierce issues of the furious god."' " Mr. Squills, after a long pause, (employed in some of the more handy means for the reanimation of submerged bodies, supported himself close to the fire in a semi-erect posture, with gentle friction, self-applied, to each several limb, and copious recourse to certain steaming stimulants which my compassion ate hands supplied him,) stretches himself, and says feebly, " In short, then, not to provoke further discussion, you would go to war in defence of your country. Stop, sir—stop, for God's sake ! I agree with you—l agree with you! But, fortu nately, there is little chance that any new Boney will build boats at Boulogne to invade us.' " MR. CARTON.—I am not so sure of that, Mr. Squills. (Squills falls back with a glassy stare of deprecating horror.) I don't read the newspapers often, but the past helps me to judge of the present. " Therewith my father earnestly recommended to Mr. Squills the careful perusal of certain passages in Thricydides, just pre vious to the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War. (Squills has tily nodded the most servile acquiescence,) and drew an inge nious parallel between the signs and symptoms foreboding that outbreak, and the very apprehension of coming war which was evinced by the recent lo paeans to peace. And, after sundry notable and shrewd remarks, tending to show where elements for war were already ripening, amidst clashing opinions and' disorganised states, he wound up with saying , So that, all things considered, I think we had better just keep up enough of the bellicose spirit, not to think it a sin if we are called upon to fight for our pestles and mortars, our three per cents, goods, chattels, and liberties. Such a time must come, sooner or later, even though the whole world were spinning cotton, and spinning sprigged calicoes. We may not see it,Squills ; that young gentleman in the cradle, whom you have so lately brought into light, may.' " And if so,' said my uncle abruptly, speaking for the first time—' if indeed it is for altar and hearth Pi " My father suddenly drew in and pished a little, for he saw that he was caught in the web of his own eloquence. " Then Roland took down from the wall his son's sword. Stealing to the cradle, he laid it in its sheath by the infant's side, and glanced from my father to us with a beseechin g eye. Instinctively Blanche bent over the cradle to protect theNeo gilos • but the child, waking, turned from her, and, attracted by the glitter of the hilt, laid one hand lustily thereon, and pointed with the other, laughingly, to Roland. " Only on my father's proviso,' said I, hesitatingly. For hearth and altar—nothing less !' " ' And even in that case,' said my father, add the sheld to the sword I' and on the other side of the infant he placed Ro land's well-worn Bible, blistered in many a page with secret tears. " There we all stood, grouping round the centre of so many hopes and fears—in peace or in war, born alike for the Battle of Life. And he, unconscious of all that made our lips silent, and our eyes dim, had already left that bright bauble of the sword, and thrown both arms round Roland's bended neck. " ' Herbert,' murmured Roland; and Blanche gently drew away the sword—and left the Bible." The Colonial Magazine. London : John Mortimer ; Strand. THE present number is an interesting one ; and discusses some subjects of great importanceto the colonist. Amongst these are the questions of " Banking in India," " Cotton from India," " Railways in India," and " Steam to Aus tralia." The opening article is a notice of "The Book of the Cape," reviewed by us last week. VARIETIES. WINNING A WAGER.—" I will bet you a bottle of wine that you shall descend from that chair the first time I ask you." " Done," said the gentlemen, who seemed de termined not to obey the summons so obediently. " Come down." " I will not," was the reply. " Then stop up until I ask you a second time." The gentleman having no desire to retain his position till that period, came off the chair, and the other party won the wager. In the memoir of Dr. Chalmers, inserted in the Trans actions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, it is said that on one occasion, when some person present was animad verting upon the wealth of the Church of England, and gave as an example of its over-abundance the revenues of the see of Durham, the Doctor exclaimed with character istic eagerness, " Sir, if all that has been received for the bishopric of Durham since the foundation of the see, were set down as payment for Butler's Analogy, I should es teem it a cheap purchase." TIT FOR TAT.—The peculiar disadvantages of farming near a populous town may be illustrated by an anecdote related by a near neighbour of Mr. Rigden's :—" One day (he said) just before harvest, I met a fashionable gentleman with a large handful of ears of wheat take n from my fields. I saluted him respectfully, and expressed my admiration of the beauty of the wheat. ' Yes,' said he, ' it is truly a fine sample, and does the farmer great credit who grew it.' I acknowledged the compliment, and asked him from which of my fields he took it. After he had pointed it out, he assured me he always liked to take a good sample home, as it amused the ladies. Upon this, noticing with admiration the beauty of his dress coat, T asked him to allow me to look at the skirt. He readily did so, and I quietly took out my penknife and cut a large piece from the tail. The gentleman bounced and swore, but I told him I always took samples of cloth, as I found they greatly interested my wife. I added, that he had no more right to take my wheat than I had his i coat, and that I wished the public to beimpressed with this truth, for when thousands of people visited one's fields, and each took away some ears, the losses annually were very great."—Sussex Express. FLOATING DOWN A WATERFALL IN THE SANDWICH ISLANDS.—One of the greatest attractions was a water fall, about 300 yards up the river. It needed not the feats done there to make the fall of the Wailuka or River of Destruction worth looking at. The river ran for some hundred yards or so in rapids, over rocks and stones ; the banks, crag, and precipice, 200 feet high, whose rudeness was softened and refined by tendrils and creepers, that hung down to the foaming water, which iii-Ratoredly THE LIV_ERT.OOL STANDARD. jerked them as it rushed by. A huge rock divided the stream, one half of which dashed petulantly on, and met a noisy fate down the fall ; while the other, of a milder gentler nature, ran along a channel of solid rock, and fell in one heavy stream a depth of about 25 feet, joining the rough waters below. A little turmoil succeeded the junc tion ; then they flowed quietly on, like brothers. arm in arm, till they fell again, and soon were lost in the salt waters of the ocean. The great delight of the natives is to go down this fall. They sit in the channel I have de scribed ; they utter a shout, a scream of joy, join the hands gracefully over the head, and, one after another, the girls of Hilo descend, emerging like sea nymphs, in the eddy below. The figure, as it gleams for an instant in the body of water, appears to those standing below quite perfect • and the gay taunts and laughing shouts to follow, have fed to the death of many, for there is some secret current that not only drowns, but carries away the body too. The feat was attempted by three of our men ; but none. I think, did it twice. The descent of the lower fall is a lesser feat, and the sensation of going down it headforemost delightful; even that, however, is often fatal ; and, during our stay here, a man was lost merely through making a false step from the bank. The surpris ing agility of the women especially baffles description. One will sit by you on the high bank, and remain so until you throw a stone into the water with all your force; then doOn she jumps straight as an arrow, her feet crossed one over the instep of the other, and emerges with a laugh, holding up the stone. On first attempting to rise to the surface after going down the fall, the water seems, from the force of the current, to be matted over head, and it is only by striking out in the eddy that you can rise ; this the girls manage to perfection. They kick out their feet both together, and replaiting their hair with their hands, they float about the edge with a grace that is beautiful to see. Then the water is clear and blue, not cold, frosty, half-thawed. As lazily one watched the stream, down dropped from the ledges overhead, and cut the bright water, what soon re-appeared--a man or wo man. These ledges are 50 or 80 feet high ; yet none seemed to regard it as a feat, and the merry laugh told you it was done but to surprise the European. We ap peared contemptible in our own eyes, as we skurried from the rain with our umbrellas ; but we soon yielded to wiser teaching, threw care away, get wet and dry again without minding it, swam and enjoyed it as much as they did.— Walpole's Four Years in the Pacific. Curial filiatilanp. Keswick is at present exceedingly full of company. Alderman Farncomb, " citizen and tallow chandler," is the Lord Mayor Elect of London. Three pilots were drowned on Friday week, at Monk Wearmouth, through the swamping of a coble. Eliza Cook, the poetess, is now on a visit to the United States with Miss Cushman, the eminent tragedian. Mr. Helstone, of Alverstone, lately raised some pota toes which were planted on the 30th of November last, and which were very fine. The potatoes in Scotland are very seriously affected by the disease. The yield of corn, if the weather continue fine, will be considerably above the average. Lord Ossulston recently shot four stags in ten minutes, at Ben Aulder. The stags had respectively fourteen, thirteen, twelve, and eleven points. The meeting of the Barnard Castle (Durham) Agricul tural Society has been postponed sine die. in consequence of the prevailing epidemic. The Rev. Mr. Parry, curate of Newent, lately refused to bury an infant because it had been baptized at the Independent chapel in that town.—Gloucester Journal. Lord John Russell has presented a donation of £lOO to the association for the relief of those who have suffered from cholera in the metropolis. A statistical table of the profits and outlay of the Dur ham Gas Company has been furnished, by which it appears that their gains for the year 1848 were at the rate of 27i per cent. The Lords of the Admiralty have signified that nothing is to be deducted from the wages of the dockyardmen on account of those days of cessation from labour which were ppointe d for prayer, fast, and humiliation. The Lord Mayor of London has an allowance of £B,OOO per annum ; but he is not considered to support the office with becoming dignity unless he spends £4,000 in addition. The station-master at Chesterford Station, on the East ern Counties Railway, has been apprehended for alleged embezzlement. It is said that his defalcations amount to £2OO. READING IN BED.—On Thursday week, an old woman, named Newman, living at Southampton, was burnt to death by a spark from a candle, pith which she was reading, igniting the bed clothes. On Thursday, a boat, containing a shoemaker, named Patrick Desmond, his wife, five children, and three other persons, upset by coming in collision with a barge, when Desmond, his wife, and youngest child were drowned. The shipping interest is at so low an ebb in Gainsbo rough, that the captains of some of the vessels are com pelled to accept situations of a subordinate character on the Hull and Continental steamers. Two vessels, the Margaret and Emily, of Sunderland, and the Commerce, a Norwegian barque, with 25 passen gers, were wrecked on the sands off the coast of Essex last week. Several of our wealthiest English capitalists, including some members of the London corporation, have formed themselves into a joint-stock company for the purchase of the extensive Connemara estates. A clothier in Montrose has recently been adjudged to pay £8 6s. Bcl., as damages for at injury caused to a horse and gig by his dog, which frightened the animal by his barking. About a century ago the amount expended over books, periodicals, and newspapers, did not exceed £lOO,OOO a-year, whereas the sum now so expended annually is calculated at £2,100,000. Mr. Charles Eastland Michele, the• editor in chief of the Morning Post, than whom no man on the metropo litan press enjoys a higher status both on account of ability and integrity, has been appointed by Lord Pal merston to be the English Consul at St. Petersburg. A novel mode of plunder has been practised in South Devon during the harvest. In the wheat fields, after it has been cut and stood in stitches, some night marauders have, with a sharp instrument, by handfuls cut the flush of the ears and carried them away. THE POST-OFFICE--THE SABBATH.—The Chancellor of the Exchequer, at an interview with Rowland Hill and Colonel Maberly, has instructed them to proceed with their iniquitous order. This comes from undoubted authority. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has told the hop planters that payment of the moiety of the 1848' duty, due in October, will be insisted on at the appointed time, but that he is " not indisposed to allow time for payment of the second half,. due in November." Two Irishmen now preside over the most eminent cor porations of savants in the United Kingdom, Lord Rosse being the President of the Royal Society, and Dr. Rom ney Robinson of the British Association for the advance ment of Science, lately assembled at Birmingham. The Birmingham Journal states that Lord William Paget is " a-chasing the wild deer, a-hunting the roe," in Norway and Sweden, under the name of Brown, Jones, Higginbottam, or some other patronymic variety of the Smith genus." He dares not set a foot in this country. On Thursday lastthe foundation-stone of the new Wes leyan normal training and practising schools was laid at Westminster. The institution is intended to provide ac commodation for boarding, lodging, and training, as teachers of day-schools, one hundred students, at one time, and the total outlay is calculated at £30,000. The Rev. N. Padwick, of Milnthorp, and his sister, had a narrow escape from destruction on Tuesday week, through the overturning of a gig in which they were riding. The lady's arm was fractured, and Mr. Padwick fell under the gig and had his right foot and shoulder very much strained.. The ceremony of the consecration and the laying of the first stone of the new Roman Catholic Church of St. Alexis took place on Monday at Kentish Town.. ' His Royal Highness Prince John the Infante of Spain per formed the ceremony. The church is to hold 1,000 per sons, and is of the decorative style. The property of Patrick O'Connor, for whose murder the Mannings stand charged, is bout to be divided amongst his relatives, residing in Tipperary, one of whom is the present parish priest of Templemore ; the others are persons in rather humble circumstances. It is sup posed that it will amount to £7,000. The London thieves of the pave" are availing them selves of the use of chloroform, to stupify th3ir victims before robbing them ; this was done in a recent instance, by suddenly applying a saturated handkerchief to the mouth of an elderly gentleman, whom they eased of his gold eye-glass, spectacles, and cash. Mr. Pusey, the celebrated agriculturist, has offered to accept Mr. Hodgson's challenge as to the n,anagement of farms. He engages "to back three southern farms, occupied by - tenant farmers, and probably all in the Eastern counties, for a hundred guineas, against the other party of six—whichever side has two farms placed highest to be the winner." PUBLIC LIBRARIES FOR THE WORRING CLASSES.--011 Friday, the parochial authorities of St. James's, West minster, opened a public library of 1,600 volumes in Marshall-street, Golden-square, for the exclusive use of working people. This step has been taken on the recom mendation of the Bishop of London, and will be generally adopted in all parishes within the diocese. THE REVENUE.—The Observer says that all the sources of income for the quarter ending the 10th instant will show an increase, except the customs, which will show a decrease of upwards of £300,000, which will be almost covered by the increase in the excise. The stamps will exhibit an increase of £lOO,OOO, as will the Post office. A meeting of merchants and manufacturers was held in the Chamber of Commerce, Glasgow, last week, to for. ward the plan proposed by Mr. Bourne for navigating the rivers of India by steam-vessels of a light draft of water, and thus developing the trade of that vast continent, in suring a large supply of cotton, and opening up new mar kets for our manufactures. It is stated that in consequence of the threepenny omnibuses running from the Citt to Chelsea, Paddington, and neighbourhoods, there is only one house in thirty three in the former, and one in thirty-seven in the latter vacant, whilst at Kensington, with sixpenny conveyances, one in ten is vacant. The inhabitants of the latter are, in consideration of this fact, forming a company to run threepenny omnibuses. THE SISTERS OF MERCY.—The establishment of the " Sisterhood" has been removed from this parish (Stoke Damerel) to that of St. Andrew's Plymouth. The two houses at the north west corner of Wyndham-place are occupied temporarily, as it is said the Sisters have pur chased or are in treaty for a piece of freehold ground in one of the Five Fields, for the erection of " A Home." The appeals for pecuniary aid made by the Sisters and the Bishop of Exeter have been very successful, a capital stock, exceeding £14,000 having been thus raised.— Devonport Telegraph, LIEUT. GRAHAM AND MASTER ELLIOTT.-It iS said that, owing to a fatal mistake in pronouncing sentence on the above persons, a court of law will liberate them on a writ of habeas corpus. The mistake consists in first dis missing them the service, and then sentencing them to imprisonment. By the - sentence of dismissal they become civilians, and are no longer amenable to martial law ; consequently they are illegally imprisoned. On Monday morning the body of a man named Walter Linn was discovered in a field in the neighbourhood of Reston, % village between eleven and twelve miles from Beiwick, and situated on the line of the North British Railway. From a wound in his head it was discovered that he had met his death by violent means. A sum of money which he was supposed to have on his person seems to have led to the commission of the deed. A man named IVl'Quee has been apprehended. • A fisherman of Balladoole, in the Isle of Man, having baited a number of hooks with herrings for the deep-sea fishery, left them suspended in an outbuilding for the night. The door was open, and a lot of pigs having scented the fish, they entered to eat them • and presently every porker was fast hooked by the cheek, the tongue, or the snout. A great uproar ensued, which brought the women of the village to the spot ; but in the darkness they could not see the lines, and they thought the swine bewitched ' • so they added to the din by their terrified clamour. When some fishermen arrived with lights, the poor pigs were liberated, at the expense of sundry gashes to extract the hooks. THE GODLESS MINISTRY.—We wish we could altoge ther acquit her Majesty's ministers of having themselves provoked the suspicions with which the post-office changes are assailed. There has lately been a concurrence of blunders, of a nature to annoy the religious feelings of the country. The worst specimen of coinage that ever came from the mint has been rendered still more disagreeable in the eyes of loyal subjects by the absence of two or three letters, to express our recognition of Him by whom Kings do reign. Then there came the unfortunate lathes of appointing no day of humiliation and prayer at the ap proach of the pestilence, now happily abated. Such in advertencies, as we cannot but think them, make a deep impression on sensitive minds. There are not a few per sons who are, perhaps, even more anxious to ascertain whether we live under a religious government than to know their own spiritual state.—Times. Buouon HILL FArn.—This fair, which is much the largest held in the North of England at this season of the year, was held on Monday and Tuesday. For fat cattle the demand was not brisk, but most met with customers at prices averaging full £2 a head below last year's prices. Calving cows were also saleable at a proportionate reduc tion ; the prices ranged from £lO to £l5, according to quality. Three year old bullocks went off better, yet the seller had to put up with a much lower price. Thousands were left undisposed of. The figures varied from £8 to £l2. With respect to country cattle generally, great difficulty was experienced in meeting with customers. The average reduction in the article of stock since last year was considered to be fully 30s. a head. This great fall was attributed to the extraordinary quantity shown, and the probability of a scarcity of food through the winter. The Irish cattle went off - with the greatest rapidity. The sheep market was full of white-faced, Cheviots, and fell sheep. White-faced hogs brought from 14s. to 205., being as well sold, or better, than any other kind of sheep ; and black-faced hogs averaged from ss. to 6s. Black-faced and Cheviot ewes were not much in demand ; the former realised from 7s. to lls., and the latter from 10s. to 15s. a head. The shew of horses was small, the demand very bad, and the prices considerably down ; £2O was the full value of a horse for which £25 could have been obtained a year ago. THE EXHIBITION OF THE WORKS OF INDUSTRY OF ALL NATIONS.—This proposal, for which the world is indebted to Prince Albert, has assumed the aspect of a certainty. The prince proposes the exhibition should consist of raw materials of all kinds, mineralogical, agri cultural, &c. ; of machinery and mechanical inventions ; of the results of these, namely, manufactures; and, lastly, of sculpture and plastic generally ; and that the exhibition should be open to all nations. A portion of Hyde Park is considered to be an eligible site for the exhibition. It is proposed that a royal commission should be appointed to conduct the exhibition, and to determine the nature of the prizes. It is settled that the best way of raising the funds for the prizes, &c., would be by voluntary subscrip tions ; and the Society of Arts has presented a useful machinery for organising the means of raising such funds. It is proposed that one prize should be awarded as high as £5,000 ; and it is thought that perhaps the Queen might be induced to give away some of the prizes; but nothing, we believe, can be considered as determined upon this point, except that a sum of £20,000 will certainly be given away in prizes. Three gentlemen are "to travel through the manufacturing districts of the country, in order to collect the opinions of the leading manufacturers, and further evidence, in order that his royal highness may bring the results of such inquiry before her Majesty's government "—Journal of Design. THE BERMONDSEY MURDER.—On Saturday week Mr. Solomon, the solicitor to Mrs. Manning, applied to Mr. Seeker for the restoration of a letter which she received from Patrick O'Connor, in July, 1847. That letter was stated to be of great consequence to her, inasmuch as it was sent to her while in the service of Lady Blantyre, at Stafford-place, St. James's Park, and related to the pur chase of stock in railway and other securities, she being at that time in possession of considerable sums of money. Yesterday Inspector Yates waited upon Mrs. Manning-, at Horsemonger-lane County Gaol, for the purpose of ascer taining what letter she required, as there were an unusual quantity of documents in his possession. She then in formed him that the letter she wished to be placed in the possession of her solicitor was one she received from Mr. Patrick O'Connor a short time after they became ac quainted—that it contained a request for her to purchase some Eastern Railway and foreign► stock. Mr. Yates in formed her that her parcels had been minutely examined, and no such letter could be found'. The only letters of a public or private nature had been given to her solicitor, but still some might be at the bottom of some of her boxes.- Mrs. Manning was certain that such a letter was taken from her by Mr. Moxhay, and that if it was produ ced it would prove how she became possessed of the pro perty found on her; she therefore requested Mr. Yates to search her boxes and produce the letter. The inspector accordingly left the prison, and related the circumstances to the magistrate at the Southwark Pblice-court, when he received orders to give copies of any letters that might be required. Mrs. Manning seems confident of her success, and states to every person who visits her that she must be acquitted.- She never alludes to her husband. On Friday, the prisoners were again brought up at Southwark Police court, and formally committed for trial. There was no change in the aspect of the prisoners.- Manning looked pale, sickly, and anxious. His wife very much the reverse. The following letter from Manning to his solicitor may give some idea of his acquaintance with orthography. The writing, it may be mentioned, is very distinct, and resem bles much the writing of a lawyer's clerk, being written in a slanting direction, to the left instead of the right : " My dear sir r puneittality his the order of the day, I must beg of you to attend if possable this morning at ten o'clock you , will greatly oblige, yours, truly, FREDR. GEO. MANNING. Horsemonger Lane Gaol Surrey, Sept. 28th, 1849." Address, " Thorns. Binns Esq. I Trinity St. Boro." LONDON POST-OFFICE.—On Wednesday, at noon, a very numerous meeting of bankers, merchants, and other influential men of business, met at the Hall of Com merce, London, to memorialize the Government against the proposed desecration of the Sabbath at the General Post-office.. The meeting was densely crowded, and the greatest enthusiasm was evinced throughout the proceed ings. The chair was taken amid loud cheers by the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, M.P., who said that he feared this attempt was the getting in of the narrow end of the wedge, and he therefore hoped that the citizens would follow up their present opposition energetically, and that they would never cease until they had achieved their Christian-like object. (Applause.)—Mr. Mastertn an , M.P. proposed the first resolution as follows :.—" That this meeting has observed with regret and alarm the proposed new regulations in the General Post-office, by which a large amount of Sunday labour wilt be required in that establishment; and that there is no reason why a slight relief to the country offices should be bound up with so great an evil in London." He read letters from the Postmaster-General and Colonel Maberly, to the effect that the proposed change was not intended in any wise as a desecration of the Sabbath ; but he (Mr. Masterman) agreed with the Lord Mayor that something more was hereafter intended than these letters would seem to con vey. He confessed himself anxious to abolish Sunday labour in the post-offices throughout England generally. (Loud Cheers.)—Mr. Roberts, the banker, seconded the resolution, which was put and carried unanimously.—Mr.. Labouchere proposed the second resolution, as follows " That the meeting feel persuaded that any plan that brings the mails into London on Sunday morning, and requires them to be sorted, must: ultimately lead to a de livery of letters in London on that day also."—Robert Hitchin,. Esq., seconded the resolution, and Sir E. N. Buxton nroposed a memorial to the Treasury embodying these resolutions. SaIPWRECKS.—Since Saturday night week the equi noctial gales set in along the north and north-east coast with unusual severity. Between Seaton Carew and Hart lepool the damage occasioned in the course of Sunday was enormous. No fewer than fifteen vessels were driven ashore. Two of them afterwards sunk, and the others became perfect wrecks. Among them were the brig James and Francis ; brig John Watson belonging to Hartlepool ; the Hartlepool ; the Malta, Siren, Curlew, Cumberland, Elizabeth,. the schooner, X Y Z, the George and Eleanor, Voyager,, Swallow, Nimrod, Aid, and two German brigs laden with coals. A most providential cir cumstance connected with this terrible instance of wreck age is, that the crews succeeded in saving their lives with one exception, viz., those belonging to one of the Ger man brigs, who are reported to have been washed off the rigging and drowned. From Shields we hear that three vessels are announced to have been lost to the north of the Marsden Rocks. One is described to have been the Verbena, bound for St. Petersburg. Here, happily, the crew were preserved. Another was a schooner, which was totally lost, and all hands belonging to her perished in attempting to gain the rocks. Further northward, fragments of wrecked vessels and several bodies have been cast up. In the vicinity of Redcar four distressing losses happened. In two instances every unfortunate crea ture belonging to the vessels met with a watery grave. They were the Albion, a brig, of Newcastle, coal laden, and the schooner John of Sollcoats, with a cargo of lin seed and deals. They were driven ashore in the dead of the night, the gale blowing tremendously from the N.E., and very speedily broke up. The other two were a Dant zic brig. called the Johanna, and a vessel named the Frankfort, hound for Shields. It is expected that the latter will be got off, but the foreigner was thrown on the rocks and became a total wreck. Off Sunderland, Mid dlesborough, Whitby, and other places along that part of the coast great mischief was caused. Between the upper part of the coast of Durham. and nearly as far as Yar. month, as many as fourteen vessels are reported to be ashore. A cask containing a skeleton was found in a warehouse of the London Docks, on Wednesday week ; the remains were those of a male person, about 35 years of age. The general supposition is that the cask in question must have been unshipped from some foreign vessel. It was a rum cask, and had been empty a considerable period. The deceased is supposed to have been a foreign sailor. It is a singular fact that the whole of the teeth are entirely gone, and no vestige of clothing could be found. The captain of a vessel recently wrecked in Davis's Straits arrived last week in Scotland, and brought a sealed bottle, picked up by the natives, containing a despatch to the Admiralty by Sir John Franklin. Public hope was very much excited by this intelligence, but it turns out that the documents only reach the 30th June, 1845, and advices subsequent to that date have been already received. The intelligence which we publish in another column is, however, much more satisfactory. CURIOUS CASE.—A singular case of mistaken identity has just occurred in connexion with burial societies. S. Longford, formerly barman to Mr. Low, publican, of Holborn-hill, London, having been missed for some time, was supposed to be drowned, his wife having identified as his body one lately taken from the Thames. The wife had the body taken home and buried, having received £lO from a burial society for that purpose. On Thursday, however, much to the surprise of his friends, the missing man returned home, after an absence of nine months. CHURNING IN THE ISLE OF MAN.—There is at pre sent a family living in one of the parishes of this island who keep a cow, two sheep, and a goat, which are pas tured upon the long field known by the name of the Queen's Highway. The family having neither churn nor churn-staff, the whole of the stock are miked and mixed together in a large tub. When there is a sufficient quan tity for churning, the tidy dame gieds up her loins with her garments around her waist, gets into the tub, and dances about until the milk is churned, when the butter is taken off and made ready for market, where it is taken the following Saturday, and sold for the best possible price obtainable.—Mona's Herald. COACH ACCIDENT.—On Monday, on the arrival of the Banbury coach, at Adderbury, the only passengers left with the coach were two ladies inside. After pulling up at an inn in Adderbury, the coachman left the horses un attended. They very shortly started off at a rapid pace, and on passing the toll-house, ran the coach against the gate-post, upset the coach, kicked themselves out of the traces, and the front boot of the coach to pieces. The vehicle, by the force of the concussion of the post, the smash of the upset, and the kicking of the horses, was shattered to pieces, and rendered utterly useless. The first intelligence of the event that reached Banbury was by the galloping of the leader at a furious pace into the town. The two ladies escaped without injury, excepting a slight cut which one of them received. One of the ladies lost her watch, which was found next day in the hedge.—Banbury Guardian. THE HEALTH OF LONDON.—It is gratifying to observe the further abatement of pestilence in London. After the first week of September, in which the fatality of cholera was greatest, and 3.183 persons died from all causes, the total number fell in the second week to 2,865, then to 1981, and in the week ending last Saturday the total deaths registered were 1,611. During the same period the weekly numbers of lives destroyed by cholera had been 2,026, 1,682, 839, and in the last week 434. Diarrhoea was fatal successively to 272, 280, 238, and last week to 163. In comparing the returns for the last two weeks, the decline of mortality is most obvious in the south districts, where the deaths from cholera have fallen from 422 in the week ending September 22 to 161 in the last. In the whole metropolis the daily number of deaths from cholera last week has fluctuated between 102 and 53, but showing an almost constant tendency to fall. The mortality from smallpox, measles, and scarlatina is much less than the average ; from whooping cough it is near the average ; typhus has recently shown a slight increase.— Registrar General's Report. TRADE AND NAVIGATION.—The accounts issued by the Board of Trade for the month ending the sth ultimo again exhibit a most remarkable increase in the export trade of Great Britain. The declared value of our ex ports stands as follows :—For eight months ending Sept. 5, 1849, £39,203,322 ; for same period, 1848, £31,633,214 ; increase, £7,570,108. Upon the month the increase is proportionately still greater—For the month ending Sept. 5, 1849, £6.323,4571 for same period, 1848, £4,507,462 ; increase, £1,815.99a. It thus appeals that during the past month the export trade of England has increased nearly two millions in comparison with the trading during the same period of last year; and that on the year gene rally there has been an increase of upwards of seven mil lions and a half ! The increase is not partial or confined to any particular trade, but is shared by every branch of manufacturing industry throughout the empire. The only articles in which there is a trifling deficiency are bricks and salt, and the deficiency in those cases probably arises from accidental causes. ADULTERATION or TOBACCO.—On Thursday week Mr. William Hughes, an extensive tobacco manufacturer at Halifax, was charged with the adulteration of tobacco. Dr. Bateman appeared on behalf of the crown, and stated that on the 20th of July the officers went to the defen dant's premises. Iu the cellar of the house they found 14 gallons of treacle, 2181bs. catechu, 1161bs. saltpetre, and 5 gallonsref ink, or something like it. [These materials formed the subject of two of the counts of the information, and bore the fines of £2OO in each case, besides forfeiture of the property.] The officers then went into the manu factory, and there seized 2141b5. of rolled tobacco, which contained 3 94 of saccharine matter. [Penalty .£300.] And 2631b5, of leaf tobacco, partly manufactured, and with it what it had been made from. This portion con tained nearly 2 per cent. more of saccharine matter than the standard leaf. [Penalty 200.] Mr. Mitchell, who appeared for the defendant, and pleaded guilty to the in dictment, could not succeed in obtaining any mitigation of the punishment, and Mr. Hughes was mulcted in the full penalties, amounting in the aggregate to £9OO, with condemnation of the goods.- At the conclusion of the case Dr. Bateman stated that the profit of one year's fraud, at this rate, would be above £lOOO. A FATHER SHOT BY ma- SON.—On Thursday night last, the neighbourhoods of Cheswick and Hammermith were thrown into much excitement by the fact transpiring that Captain J. F. Monkhouse, of the Mull, fronting the Thames at Cheswick, had been shot by his second son, Henry Monkhouse, a sailor, 27 years of age. It appears that on the night in question, the aggressor named had hired a cab, which was by his orders driven to the gate of his father's domicile ; on reaching which he sent a mes sage by the servant, who opened the door, to the effect that' a gentleman wished to see Mr. Monkhouse. On that gentleman making his appearance, the prisoner sprang out of the car, and exclaimed " I see him," fired a pistol at his parent which took effect in the neck. The offender afterwards fired a second pistol, the ball from which went harmlessly into the ceiling of a room. The wounded gentleman fell to the ground, and was conveyed to his bedroom, _medical assistance being sent for. Infor mation was given to the police, and the offender who had driven off in the cab, was traced to the Bull public-house, at Ealing. There were found upon him a pistol, several bullets, some gunpowder, and caps. He was taken into custody, and the examination before the magistrates took place on Friday, and the prisoner was remanded until Wednesday, (to-morrow,) the father being in- a very dangerous state. As to the motives which led to this horrible deed, the following particulars are stated :—Mr. Monk4ouse inherited from his father, an army clothier in Coventry-street, a very large fortune—upwards of £lOO,OOO, which was entailed upon his eldest son, Mr. John Monkhouse, of Castlebar Hall, Ealing. The second son was sent to sea as a midshipman at an early age, but having through misconduct, as is alleged, forfeited his father's good opinion, has for the last six or seven years been engaged as a common seaman in the merchant ser vice. He landed in Liverpool from his last voyage on the 20th ult., and on Tuesday last went down to Chiswick to see his friends. Mr. Monkhous, sen., it appears, received him unkindly, and upbraided him with the insult he had offered to his mother and sisters some twelve months previously, in bringing home to Chiswick an abandoned woman, and introducing her to his family. The young man left in a passion, and was not again heard of until Thursday morning, when he breakfasted with his grand mother, a respectable lady named Piper, residing at Shep herd's Bush. He makes no secret of his guilt, and has confessed to having purchased the pistols and balls shortly before the fatal occurrence. The prisoner is entitled to the reversion of a large sum of money at his father's death, and on the back of a card found in one of his pochets the gross amount, £8,722 4s. 4d., is set down, with a calculation as to what a one-fourth share, to which he was entitled, would amount. On Thursday morning, he called upon Messrs. Ley and Dendy, solicitors, of Bream's-buildings, who are engaged professionally for his father, and obtained £4 from them. WHALE FISHING.—PAINFULLY INTERESTING NEWS FROM DAVIS' STRAITS.—A Hull paper of last week states, that intelligence had been received of the total loss of the " Prince of Wales" of that port, and also of the " Superionr," of Peterhead,—both wrecked in Davis' Straits. The crews, who had lost their all• in clothing, arrived in Hull yesterday week. The " Prince of Wales" was lost on the 12th of July, in latitude 74.50, and had on board one fish, 17 tons, when she was subjected to the pressure of two large masses of ice, and almost immedi ately became a total wreck. The crew consisted of 48 men, 24 Shetland raen and 24 from Hall. The nearest spot of land was about 40 miles distant, namely, a head land called the ' Devil's Thumb," and they were up wards of 300 miles from any human habitation. Seven boats were manned and laden with provisions from the wreck, and in this condition they commenced their journey over the ice to reach the open sea. They dragged the boats over the ice nearly eight days, when they came to the open sea, and s a il e d f or four days without meeting either ship or land. On the fourth day, the 19th of July, in latitude 73.50, they fell in with the " North Star," dis covery ship, in search of Sir John Franklin. They were immediately taken on board and received by the com mander with the utmost kindness. On the 23rd they succeeded in reaching the Danish settlement, Proven. They remained in Denmark until the 27th of August, when they left in a Danish ship and were landed on the Orkney Island " P a p a W es t re , " on Thursday week, and arriving in Leith on Friday, reached Hull as stated.—The Lady Jane of Newcastle, and the Superior of Peterhead, were similarly wrecked on the 12th June, and the united crews of those two vessels had subsequently to pull be tween three hundred and four hundred miles, in open boats, to reach the Danish Settlement, where they all arrived in safety. ANY BILIOUS COMPLAINTS, INDIGESTION, FLATU LENCY, OR AFFECTIONS OF THE LIVER, CURED BY HOL LOWAY'S PlLLS.—Symptoms indicative of these disorders are a feeling of nausea, distention and spasmodic pain in the stomach, sense of oppression and sinking after eating, want of appetite, heartburn, langour, dejection of spirits, and general debility. Holloway's Pills possess such cleansing and renovating properties that, by their means, the action of the liver is speedily corrected, the redun dancy of bile carried off, the stomach strengthened, the spirits revived, and the patient by their means is thus restored to perfect health even where every other treat ment had failed. Oct. 9, 114/1 rfiS t ' thec Of t ht while lecturing on Thursday night, in adrT e kbrolo l i land" as the salvation of the people, Was low hial, A l s° to by a man in the audience who offered W, et o scrip in O'Connor's land scheme " at an Or r eroir l 'o fice." The demagogue turned round and cool F_ or e that if the land scheme had failed, it was n° hundreds of other schemes had done ! 10 1 4 THE RANTERS.—An• infant of eighteen nOni e s b 9.4 died at Purleigh, Essex, under circumstances Rh tbecb,o for a coroner's inquest, it was ascertained ths..ents,lo. had died of suppressed measles, and that the o.i - it fit, are "Ranters," had, under the influence o f tne r ot The l"" the cal notions, refused to c a ll i n medical aid. • a boi turned a verdict of " death from natural cau ses ; their °)o. father and mother were severely censured for A duct by the coroner. [A wonderful pedestrian feat was perforine , • s of spie fe4s l ago by a gentleman of Darlington, upward s igs, °be of age, who takes great deli g ht in open-air ese edge,, unaccountable as it may seem at his ady s° „ c o s c,s; l , - walked from Darlin g ton t o N e wcastle in ° ° ' . l o o7 ll ',l tance of upwards of 33 miles.—Newcas tle [This is not so extraordina r y a feat as that ac ' e d gotic` e i a few weeks back by an o the r old man, na nl i e, o rcO o f Stephenson, living in that part of the country , disto nee e ,i in one day from Darlington to Romaldkirkt a c, more than 20 miles, and, through missing his o id.J fie about 16 miles further; and he is above 1 00 re3- ze Two OF A TRADE NEVER AGMEE.— A StrOicorpe • occurred in the Revising Barristers' Court, at ', r oe on Wednesday. The barrister is a sharp, une°7 o 4 , ing speaker, and verbally castigated the overseer be joie ous faults. The town-clerk remonstrated : t et ifogg i ! asked whether he was to be dictated to by " a P e ' te rn attorney ?" " A briefless barrister" was the „clef torted ; an order to walk out ensued ; the te"'i o dge e j snatched at a friend's stick to " horsewhip" thermic! and being disappointed, rushed homeward anc i m oed b ' himself with a short cud g el. H e happily was sd. his friends. , n f 3 ",.5, A COINER'S CORRESPONDENCE.—A man na ripp, alias Hammett, has been committed by t'" psi; trates at Portsmouth, on a charge of receiving A it h 9 containing a roll of counterfeit crown P ieces' Sep 5 e ..1 1 1 following note enclosed :—"London, Wednesn,',bow, 26,1849. Dear Sir,—l am much surprised that P"ittliei find fault with the last goods I sent you, as I 0010 is to° were just what would suit you ; perhaps the Pa tte ,,,, r tili full for you ; send me word if you will haves da" - 0 b or if you will try a Vic. one ; send me word ou l would like, and I will endeavour to please Y°°' ; a it truly, J. L." The pris oner , i n hi s defence, s' s ' all a mistake; the parcel was not for him. .00,t ber : THE PRICE or FLOUR.—Six or eight months " T o gli° o was a good deal of correspondence in our c01n °3 1 ,00.," the subject of the price of flour, and it was s ., t biiP; o think conclusively, that the middlemen, bY " -(1 th e ' dtge s bet profits, cut off from the poor whatever a if i t may be in a cheap loaf. Assuming as the Prin„iilet' 3 , l ; e an offer of ss. per bushel ma d e by a fir a nio s : i i, r ing li ;d e d Cambridge to an extensive agriagriculturist,nd i o i " offal" for the cost of ending, a sack of no",..ndt from six bushels of whea g t) was calculated to millers 305., and they were then selling it at 4 . 45 ibe s°l ; was a hard case upon the poor, still worse is ° f s ' , A L ; they are now placed i n . Wh ea t i s l ow er; ins a, st bushel. 4s. mar be t a k en as near th e m ark, an rate, a sack of 'flour will be i sproduced at 245. a t the 4 5 9 , per The retail price this week is 2s. 3d s t o ne, °r per f s sack ; so that after the wheat leaves the farole a r ig oq, the " middle men" contrive to exact a profit of `;'.oll)'' each six bushels before it reaches the labourerh:noloo: This is a matter which certainly calls for OP ftbi 4 ' w T h h e e n re s m o u g s i t ari be ng so a m w et r h o i n n g g ca ve n ry b w e r p o e n r g m ,nao bridge Chronicle. ~n iro efj , - . 0 4 LOAN SOCIETIES A TALE OF WOE.--A gunmaker in London, haring more at heart the jo g of Christ, to love one another, than the ° I T T - 5 13 ',, Solomon, that he who goeth surety for a strang' s ocioi smart for it, made himself responsible to a I°so e b srl for as honest but as poor a himself, wh° s efr man as, A bee necessities had driven him to the well- • gn''' i i a tte th d a to st el tiest°•CUlP x j , . 0 lence of the loan-m onger , an d w h o , b or rowing Vi e ) engaged to repay the s ame by weekly instalmenis•4oble: were manfully paid up u n til domestic m i s fortune Who; him just as he had liquidated twenty-two shilling s i c or t ° l he paused, down came th e t en d er -b oso med soc ie ,: e 0 1, 45 the surety, the poor gu n - ma k er — no t in the s , i"P ri til!', request that he would conti nue th e instalments ‘ l o n 0/ responsibility expired, but in the terrible visitanseal writ for the balance of £3 18 s . Th e writ 05 00 panied by a menace, and th e menace was not biPai by the secretary but at the cost of one pound ten s , l pcii - „ The half-scared mechanic paid the sovereign , 0 ' 4 00"; —(not as a part of the debt)—and had time e om r s ° e a ately granted him for the remaining ten sbillinaretcb,e the day this sum fell due, three of this P o° ,, r a li cei ti l ii 'd man's family lay dead at his feet, smitten by t" - ;ed which has so especially fallen upon the half-st ar ,,,, the over-worked. Death cau s e d a d e l a y; but t E - htit re e ts secretary —(compared with w h om Shyl o ck was 3 •,! nf incarnation)—charged th e b ew ild ere d mechalii-each"t additional shillings!' It was a shilling a-head for hol' fie the children whom cholera had torn from th e workman's hearth. The poor fellow scraped t° g e money, and paid this infernal head-tax in order t ,f fe sts„.: a more costly process of law. The unhappy `realm, heart-crushed and bereaved, found some, but ( OP comfort in the thought th a t now , a t a ll e vents, li e h r s l 4 to provide for the payment by i ns t a l men ts, of t : r igia B , le . pounds eighteen shillings for which he was " to liable. He was bending his resolution, perhaP. s i c oni, prive himself and those yet left to him of mani. - 1 • until the debt was acquitted, when a law offic_ A l a at detestable and oppressive Palace Court Weir'', i „ of poor man's threshold, and swept off the isn, ° ;T i ocl.` d r; furniture under an execution- for £9 Is. for d t eu" s ane:pit penses ! Think of the feelings of the astounoe"f hiord when he found four bare walls left for the honleg cort l ij, and his family ! The execu t or o f t h e l aw actusads ou to off, for the above supposed liability of nine P°. n T o tri ° furniture that in better days had cost the in," t erfe s :o craftsman fifty pounds ! The society would notT e cret b is its ears were marble and twice as cold : the - in t refused to be softened—he had alump 0 f stOn e e obi7 s bosom, and he called it a heart! Before th l if 000, vro r vision of the pl un d ere d gunma k er all hisle • were - sold for something more than £l4—that t ° fit r e all was-said to be sold ; but how some articles Ae o n held, and how, for othe rs , articles much infer in if stole offered' and knocked do wn as his, may be s ' - hei ° ,ss report. The wretched man was stunned' with t. - 00 90, 0 : proceeding ; but, when he recovere d a little cons c r i ldif F;ltf he bethought himself; they had sold all his w „. ° l l efe, A b° sessions fur £l4—they were sei ze d f o r £ 9 " -- , the balance ?He ha s te ne d t o rece i ve it—it," bss,e.,o better than nothing— an d w ith it h e m ight o P humble and decent necessaries which he retlu t , J - 60 1 " hope !—" The balance wou ld pro b a bly be Ow in additional expenses !" POETRY. COME KISS ME, AND' BE FRIENDS. BY JOSEPH MIDDLETON'. ue Lisette, put off that angry look, I cannot bear toseevol t oi `V A cloud upon that face whereon sweet smiles Nvere,.„ A careless word, a thoughtless jest, in reck ic— . 0 v spoken— cl l9l „, And oft, alas-t the brightest links in friendship s broken. 9 ';11 3 ' And is it thus that we must part. No : / ,rn nie - For mine, I own, is all the blame—Come, V s friends. od pa" Oh ! think how many charming years have can e . Pl . ' away, at isor Since first we met, since first we loved, two baby eiceo e .; And how, as life's career advanced, by youth's 0 , 0 0 1 ' rounded, From sport to sport with lightsome steps and 0, we bound And do I love ed e thee less to-day? No: I will n3a. 5De ao d And thou ! thou wilt not say me nay—Come, /" 1 friends. rein itor he of The world is but a dreary place —a dreary place w. fo th A blighted heart will little find that's worth its Pa l b rigb l No future joy, nor new-formed tie, however itiP seeming, t‘' Shall ever wholly sweep away the-memory's bitte r The Past !*it is a magic word—its magic never 0701 e It's thraldom o'er the human heart—Conte los friends. 0. /too tpt How fair a sight it is to see (when summer das l eotd ilei The gladsome sunbeam chase away the dark 00 sk ; But fa irer than this—than aught—that with its c bsr° t re c us • ie tiO As : Is that sweet smile of hearts estranged—the t 4L ;f ,' cites us, °e ' And thou, Lisette, art smiling now, and here our tl ib fv e I read forgiveness on thy brow—Come, ki ss friends ! 10 ,1 ' DAY OF FASTING AND HUMLLO 01 t0 ,f11 4 , 0 1 11 In compliance with the wishes of the clergy °,, r ogh ,et and neighbourhood, expressed to the Pda t " 1, ici ilo' Rev. Jonathan Brooks, Archdeacon of LiverPocfbad ba apart this day (Tuesday) as a day of fasting sPoollif),,fe, tion, with the approval of the Bishop, his ``. l ice with commendable alacrity issued an official o f commending the inhabitants of the borough., °,` bectr' and denominations, to observe the day s' t „"d 8 5 , I ; solemnity; to close their shops and offices , t— practicable to suspend all business." We have no doubt that the inhabitants viii 64' observe the day with that devout demeanour. .00° invariably characterised their conduct on all rcy A r sions. _ a ble d With the sanction of the Bishop the vene':,- it:tD deacon of Liverpool has selected the followiLgoTed vices appropriate for the solemn occasion W various churches. ( 10', 5 0 ; Morning prayer : the usual service of thewecloviiP psalms, collect, epistle, and gospel for Ash - (0 10 j with the addition of the litany. First lesson, A second lesson, St Mark xii. • lesson for the ( 10. 50 1 . 0 r. Evening prayer : the usual' service. T. f e t collect for Ash Wednesday. First lesson,. J °l3 cond lesson : 2 Cor. viii. ; lesson for the otO r : r eco . joo s ; As a suitable thank offering for the usercie3pitingt,e;', the hand of Almighty God, amidst his des° "" c htir4 ment, a collection will be made in the vario c r ies , aid of the funds of the Liverpool, disPet.„oc those useful and indispensable charities are,;" e ffec.e Voo pounds in debt, and have contributed to tyll",,, n ic, l ot of lief of thousands during the prevailing e1 3 r,7 t0 50u,,119 no doubt that the public of Liverpool 1 1 sincerity of their humiliation by contributing w ith p eg h o the abundance which God has given theie , do Oifo i cy "to loose the bands of wickedness► to un to 50 ,1 00) burdens, to let the oppressed go free ' an i ci th°: ) o o° afflicted souls." Let them, by self-denial-, cr ot st ;c l o ter to the relief of their suffering fello w ' t ioa they will do much to render their burs ~ocCe fast as Ged has chosen," and to make the di°. to the Lord." I t, 9,1! 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