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Karrature. NOTICES. National Sin; what is it ? A Letter to the Right Hon. Sir Geo. Grey, Bart., M.P., by the Rev. Hugh M'Neile, D.D. Hatchard and Son, London ; Arthur Newling, 27, Bold-street, Liverpool. _ _ _ WHAT is that " national sin," the existence of which we are just now acknowledging in our churches, ani from the just punishment of which by the hand of God we are seeking by a special prayer to be relieved ? Such is the important question which the rev. doctor has undertaken to answer in the pamphlet before us. We are visited, as a people, by pestilence and tribulation. " Paleness is on many faces, and fear on many hearts; and lips unused to pray are muttering on every side, Lord, have mercy.' " The sin for which we are thus visited is committed by us, as a people, not as individuals. It is a national act of transgression of the law of God; and must be Icoked for in the proceedings of the legislature, which can alone place the nation in a position of antagonism against such law. The rev. doctor thus proceeds in his inquiry - - " We are suffering under the righteous anger of God against national sins t What sins? Confession wit out specification is pointless and inoperative. What sins? What national sins may our venerable Archbishop be supposed to have referred to, when, in the special Prayer now before ns, he wrote, We have departed from Thy commandments'? Surely this en quiry is most urgent : for if we know not in what our rational guilt consists, how can we make any attempt at national amendment? and without amendment. all appearances and expressions of repentance, however plausiule, are rank hypo crisy. " What is our national sin? We may not look to the cha racter and conduct of individuals, however wicked, for an answer. We may not look to national acts which have no immediate bearing noon the law of God, pro or con. We must look, then, to national acts which are direct transgressions of the law of God. Are there any such? Is there a statute, enacted by the representatives of the nation in their corporate capacity, and carried into extcution by the government, in direct and palpable violation of the law of God? Search and see. If there be no such thing, we have no national sin to re proach ourselves with; and national humiliation is but a name without reality, a pharisaic pretence at confession, without any real fault specified, or any practical amendment attempted. Let us he in earnest with ourselves, and with God. If there be any act of our legislature administered by our government in violation of the law of God, it should cease,—it should be repealed,—there should be nu:ions! amendment —or else our confessions and prayers are insulting mockery of Him who chastens. It' we be chastened for national sin, upon what principle is it that we can expect relief and forgiveness without national amendment? If we be chastened for national sin, and we wilfully and deliberately persevere in the commission of that sin, what can we reasonably or scripturally anticipate but more chastisement, and of increased severity ? " The great sin which he finds in the statute book is the sanction given by the nation to the practice of idolatry. God has said of images. " thou shalt not bow down to them ;" and the legislature has set itself up to teach what God has thus expressly forbidden. "The College of Maynooth is a great national sin at this moment. It is an act of England as a nation, in direct oppo sition to the law of God. For England to acknowledge her 81118 before God, without mention of this, shirkingis the wilful of hypocrisy. To make mention of this in confession, without any intention to forsake it, is insulting mockery. I stay not to examine the arguments by which our national adoption of Romanism has been justified. None of them rise higher than a supposed air dealii:g between man and man; and nothing of the kind, or of any kind, can justify wil.ul disobedience to Almighty God. This is the point, and to this I would invite the special attention of any who may dispute against what is contained in this letter. What is sin? St. John answers, ' Sin is the transgres-ion of the law.' What says the law ? God spake these words, and said,' Thou shalt not boto down to them."' - - ------• The writer proceeds to shew that not only does the Church of Rome, which we are upholding, teach idolatry; but it also tolerates the breach of another commandment, which says, " thou shalt not steal." It is shewn from the acknowledged text books of Maynooth College, that Ro. manists tamper with this law; that they lay down a scale shoving how far it may be broken with impunity ; what is venial theft, and what constitutes it a mortal sin. For example, Bailly's moral theology says : "`Does a person sin mortally, who steals trifling sums from one, or front several persons, which, when put together, make up a considerable sum?' "This is answered in the affirmative, but a caution is added, in which the students are to:d to observe— ""l hat, according to many divines, a somewhat greater quantity is required to be stolen, in order to constitute a mor tal sin, when the small thefts which make it up have been com mitted at different times, and on many individuals, than if they were all committed at the same tine, and on the same person. The reason is, because the loss having been inflicted in differ ent portions, the injury, according to the common sense of mankind, is less. anti is not taken so ill.' " Thus," Dr. 111'Neile remarks, " the people are t.ught, or, at least, the future teachers of the people, the students in May nooth are taught, and this teaching is now a notional act, that when thefts are distributed over a considerab!etitne, and com mitted against various persons, a somewhat larger quantity is required to make them mortal sins. No definite measure of time, or number of persons, or amount of increase in the mat ter of the theft is laid down; and, therefore, the thief himself is left to his own discretion, to determine when he has com mitted a sin which must be confessed, and how Jong he has confined himself to those only which snag be concealed without incurring blame." It is gross hypocrisy, he contends justly, thus to ac knowledge the national sin, and to take no steps to avoid its commission. We ought to withdraw our endowment of a religion, which transgresses against the law of God ; and this he sh,ws to be perfectly practicable, notwith standing the objoctions urged against the attempt. "But why is it impossible to erase from our Statute Book this high offence against God, and to aim at the good of our human Catholic fellow-countrymen by some more enlightened course than encouraging them in their systematic suppression and violation of the second comniandtnent? Who, or what, has made it impassible? What the nation has done, the nation can undo. The Act of Settlement, of 1688, was long looked upon as inviolable; but that good which the nation had done, was by the nation undone. Is the nation powerful to undo good and do evil ? and has the nation no power to undo evil and do good? The impossibility is imaginary • it is the off spring of unwillingness, and therefore it is the greater sin. This great national sin ought to be repented of, and might be forsaken. And until it is, Go I, whose commandment is wil fully violated, may well say to this nation, 'To what purpose is the multitude of your prayers and humiliations before me? Will you enter upon the Registry of your national acts systematic violation of my holy law? Will you adopt, in a friendly and liberal spirit, as you proudly call it, tin institution provided for educating it in practices which I have solemnly forbidden to all men as sins against me? Will you strengthen and encourage this retie lion against me, and then come and stand before me in this house, %N hich is called by my name and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations? Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of thieves and idolaters in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the Lord.' " In 1829, England, by a national act, incorporated an idola trous system into her civil polity. Three years after, in 1832, England was smitten by pestilence. In 1845, England, by a national act, adopted as her own the educational seminary of an idolatrous priesthood. One year after, in 1846, England was smitten by the Irish famine. causing disorder and confusion in the coinmeicial world front the Oregon to the Ganges, and wasting millions of the substance of Great Britain. Against remons•rance, against the light of revealed trait, in defiance of the plainest language of God's law, England has persevered, in a friendly and liberal spirit,' to encourage idolatry; and now, in 184 u, England stands aghast at a second visitation of the Cholera. Cod is not mocked, whatsoever a nation soweth, that shall it reap." The pamphlet concludes with the following beautiful appeal : "It may yet please God (for lie is long suffering, and of ten der mercy, to spare this nation for another trial, to give a pre sent lengthening of tranquillity, and e% en to create and make a national willingness to forsake national sin. Then, indeed, confession would be honest, and humiliation real, and prayer available. "For this some are now sighing and crying' in secret. They are grieved, not so much for the calamities felt or threat ened, as for the sins committed ; not so much for the damage to be sustained by man, as for the dishonour done to God. These are heard in heaven, and may yet prove a blessing upon earth. Queen Victoria, whom God preserve, has many such subjects, and their prayers for her are not cold and empty forms, but the warm and affectionate pleadings of loyal and loving hearts. They pray for you, Sir, and for all in authority under the Queen, that you j may have grace, wisdom, and un derstanding to execute astice, and to maintain truth; that so, we and all our fellow-subjects may be quietly and godly governed. "They pray also.for the multitudes of their fellow creatures, and especially their fellow countrymen, among whom the com mandments of God are made void by the traditions of men ; that now, while intel:igence on every subject is diffused, this best of all subjects may not prove an exception; but that, reading and thinking for themselves, discriminating between genuine catholic antiquity and modern Roman innovation, and emancipated from that deadly slavery which makes the light that is in them darkness, by turning what they esteem reli gion into actual sin; tiny may have peace, and liberty, and purity in the glorious gospel of the grace of God." Past and Future Emigrat;on ; or, the Book of the Cape. Edited by the Author of " Five Years in Ktifirbind." London : Thos. Cawley Newby, Publisher, 72, mer-street, Cavenoish-square.. 1849. 1 vol., pp. 379. THE present state of affairs at the Care of Good Hope, and the exciting events of the recent Kafir war, give a peculiar interest to any evidence, on the subject of the colony, which bears upon its face the impress of truth and experience. The author of the work before us—a military man, who has recently returned to this country— has evidently had not only personal opportunities for forming the judgment at which he has arrived, but has devoted himself to a searching examination of official records, and the writings of previous authors. Th e result has; been the addition of another damning page to the history of colonial mismanagement, and the injurious policy pursued by the Colonial-office. In the opening portion of the work, we are placed in possession of a succinct account of the rise of this settle ment, its colonization by the Dutch, its subsequent an nexation to the British empire, and its chequered progress up to the period of the Kafir outbreak of 1834 and 1835. Every step of that progress the writer shews, very clearly, to have been checked by the vacillation and meddling which has characterised the conduct of successive Colo nial Secretaries. Exposed to continual irruptions upon their territories by the savage Kafir tribes, the settlers have been doomed to see all the syrr p-.thies of the Go vernment at home, and cf - 'are , ' of the pseudo. philanthropists of England, enlisied on the side of their murderous and treacherous enemies. The ear of the Colonial-office has been possessed by unknown commu nicators of tittle-tattle; the colonists have been held up, in private representations and on public platforms, as aggressive tyrants, seeking ever to spoil of their lands the ' poor aborigines" ; and, upon such evidence, even the pressing entreaties of such men as Sir Harry Smith and the late Governor, Sir Benjamin D'Urban, in behalf of the adoption of more vigorous 'measures to prevent the continual robbery and massacre of the farmers, have been contemptuously disregarded. The result has been a na tural one. The cattle of the settlers have been continu ally driven off, their houses levelled to the earth, and frequent butcheries committed. without any salutary measure of retaliation being adopted, until the Kafir chiefs and population were encouraged to form the con clusion that the Colonial Government and troops were incapable of offering resistance or making retaliation. The mockery of a negociation, and a promise of restitu tion, never performed, have alone attended each fresh outrage. In 1834.5 the injuries thus inflicted upon the colonists are thus summed up :-5,438 horses ; 111,418 head of cattle ; 156,878 sheep ; 455 houses destroyed. By these losses, 7.000 of her Majesty's subjects were in one week driven to utter destitution. The cost of the war which was waged in 1836 to check these outrages, was £249,790; yet the weak and insane policy of the Colonial-office im mediately neutralised, by its let Tent concessions, the les son whit h had been soucht to be impressed upon the savages. The cost of the Kafir war of 1847-8 is estimated at not much under three millions sterling ! The writer does not appear to regard the missionaries as without blame in preventing the adoption of measures to secure order in the colony, or to think highly of their success in converting the Kafir population, but theFe opinions, from a military man, we are inclir►ed to receive with caution. Upon the latter point be says:— FAILURE OF MISSIONARY EXERTIONS IN KAFIRLAND, ' 6 Let us now take a retrospective glance at the means em ployed for conversion ; in attempting to effect winch, we have literally been endeavouring to teach the savage to read ere he had learnt his letters ; we have been enforcing n hat may be termed a mock religions regimen, in a repulsive form, be fore his mind was stifficient y enlightened to appreciate its advantages, or to fathom its—to him—incomprehensible sub tleties ; whilst instead of employing an experienced physician, who, in administering the proper remedy for infidelity and unbelief, would have duly timed and proportioned its quanti ties and ingredients, we have left the teaching of the gospel in the hands of teen who, in some instances at least, have not only deceived themselves and their pupils, but have seriously injured the cause they professed to serve. Indeed, in the very words of the celebrated missionary Vander Kemp,' we have begun at the wrong end.' he untu tored mind of the savage must undergo preparatory measures of civilization ere it be ready to receive the seeds of religion : that precious seed will, as heretofore, be wantonly east to the winds of heaven, if entrusted to the hands of ignorant. uncaring hosbatolmen, or those who look to their own immediate gain, rather than the imptovement and lasting good of the vineyard under their hands If, commencing with those contiguous to our frontier, it be the intention to humanize, so to speak. the savage hordes of South Eastern Africa, (for, in their present degraded condition, 'they can.' as Gibbon has justly remarked, be seer-ely considered us raised above the animal creation,') we must begin by attempting, by the medium of commercial intercourse, first partially to civilize them, or rather to make them feel the wants of civilization, and the comforts and ne cessity of religion. This object once effected by means of per sons properly qualified for their sacred calling, more p.ogress may be made in the attempt. The comparative inefficiency of the regular troops when matched against savages in the " bush," as experienced during the late Knfir war, was one of the causes of its prolonged duration. Our author thus describes its causes:— DISADVANTAGES OF THE RP ITISH SOLDIER IN THE RUSH "To cominence - with the Dragoons—never was a finer body of men so completely thrown away, as in this inst-nce were the 7th Dragoon Guards, whilst employed in Katir warfare; for which work, as a late writer observes, they are as welt adapted as a fine frigate would be, in drawing up the mud-buckets for deepening the Thames.' " In the first place, the small horse of the• Cape is guile ina dequate to carry the weight here put upon his back; the heavy Dragoon, when fully accoutred, riding, if we mistake not, somewhere up to the mark of twenty-two stone. Then again, the latter is armed with a long, unwieldy carbine, whirl, he cannot even re load without dismounting. If to these evils it be added that he is a most marked object for the aim of an enemy he can seldom see, and never reach. (for the Gwanga affair was a mere chance, and an exception to the general rule,) we think every military reader will allow that the 7th Dragoon Guards would be much better employed ai Houndslow or in the Phoenix Park, on 11 an opportunity offered of showing their mettle against some foe worthy of their steel,' and of whom we have no doubt they would manage to give a tolerable account. " urn we now to the Infantry. Let the reader picture to himself a British foot-soldier amidst the wilds of Kafirlaud, in the self-same costume that he has beheld him mounting guard at St. James's Palace—Fee him struggling through the Bush, to get a return shot at a Kafir who has just had a crack at him. Full of eagerness, and in his endem ours to follow the example of some leather-breeched. felt-capped' little Hottentot. who dives through the dense thicket, with all the dexterity of the Kafir himself, our British Grenadier' rushes heedlessly through thorns and brambles, regardless of their lacerating and abt ading effects, until, about ten yards front his point of departure. he is suddenly brought up by a sturdy mimosa branch, which carries away that highly useful and ornamental article of dress called the hat cap,' or chaco,' on stooping to recover winch the fish-hook-like thorns of a wackt-een heetje' bush lay hold of his nether garments; meanwhile the retire' shrilly sounds, followed by the `double'; and aware that the Kafirs know these calls Filly as well as himself, he commences a despera'e struggle with his tenacious thorny foe, from whose embrace he at last escapes, leaving, however, sun dry portions of his clothes in its possession. He succeeds in getting out of covert just as the Kafirs are upon him; and breathless. torn. and bleeding from bands and face, he may be seen scudding along and running the gauntlet of their not very deadly fire, to rtjoin his company or battalion, with head bent well forward to prevent the accursed `chaco' from again tie sorting its po,t—musket at the long trail in one hand, whilst the other is fully employed in steadying his pouch, which, like • a kettle to a dog's tad, is dangling and banging most unmerci fully about him. "-This picture may savour of caricature, hut if so, we can assure the reader that it is but little overdrawn. However, to make, certainly the finest infantry in the world, effective in this sort of hush fighting, you must lose sight, for a while, of the pomp and circumstance of glorious war,' and cast aside a little tailoring and pipe-clay." We subjoin the following description of THE CLIMATE OF SOUTHERN AFRICA. _ " Here is a tine extent of country, stretching its undulating and unfenced pasture-lands tor some hundred untenanted miles. Fertile valleys, rich woods of timber, clear streams, are spread, as in a panorama, beneath the eye of the traveller, who my wander for a day at a stretch, with only occi sionul rest and refreshment at some lone or dilapidated farm-h' use in the wilderness. Here and there a comfortable homestead presents itself; but this is rare, from the difficulties in procu rin arid mechanics. _ _ " First, we may observe that there are, in Southern Africa, two wet seasons—those of spring, in September and October. beit.a. the heaviest. The antimin rains fall in March and April, and both seasons remind us of the former and latter rains' mentioned in Scripture. Three crops of potatoes may gene rally be produced in the year; there are always two, and we have known four, but this last is not common, and the third is uncertain in unsheltered spots. " Of peas, beans, and such vegetables, there are always two crops, as well as of figs, peaches, and various other fruits. Peach-trees should be pruned to produce good fruit, but it is so abundant as to be useful in feeding pigs and ducks. Of oat forage there are also two crops within !he year, but the detai;s of Cape produce are so attainable that it were unsuited to our province to dwell longer on such minutiae." The writer enlarges upon the advantages which this colony possesses, if they were properly developed, and the Kafirs restrained within a defensible boundary line. For these, however, we must refer the reader to the book it self, which he will find of a highly interesting character. History of the National Constituent Assembly, from May 1848. By J. F. Corkran, Esq. 2 vols. Lou- don - : Richard Bentley. Tn ESE volumes must prove highly interesting to those par ties who have watched the rapid succession of incidents which has marked the history of France during the last few months, not only as giving a connected summary of the public events which have reached them in detached portions through the medium of the serial press, but as introducing them to a little of the by-play which has taken place behind the scenes, and expo3ing, to their view, with critical nicety, many of the actors in their undress. The tangled doctrines of Communism and Sacialism are neatly unravelled, and their professors brought individually before the reader to answer for them selves. And from the chaos which ensued when once the restraining power of monarchy was removed, how many different principles sprang into existence ! and how conflicting were the motives which influenced their au thors in thrusting themselves into notice ! We will in troduce our reader:: to two ndividuals, with very opposite characteristics. The following is a portrait of M. PROUDIION. " Had the insurgentaoi June planted the bonnet rouge on the guillotine, the arms of the New Republic, it is Nl. Proudhon who would have been elected finance minister. He is the in carnation of the wild spirit that is abroad. There is an awful sublimity in his blasphemy, a dreamy mystic grandeur in his subversion of, society, that pleases the ill-taught, mistaugnt, over stimulated workman. He holds to the class by his origin, and even by his sensibility. He impersonates the pride and envy that have turned into hatieil agair s• those who have easier modes of existence. His exaltation of labour into a stupendous exchange system strikes the imagination. There is, in fine, such a practical covering given to paradox, such promises of enjoyment, such deification of man, and such tumultuous work in the way of devising, scheming, revolutionizing. ruining, overthrowing., and upraising, that the bewildered denizens of the faubourgian chubs, fancying that they see clrarly, fall down and worship the evil spirit who shows the workman all the kingdoms of the earth for his domination." Let us now turn to M. Considerant, who is described as an amiable experimentalist, and, however mistaken, not to be classed with the coarse mob of revolutionists, with a torch in one hand to burn, and a knife in the other to slay. He holds peculiar doctrines, denounces the evils of competition, and the following may be taken as THE SOCIAL REMEDIES OF M. CONSIDERANT. " He classifies the remedies proposed under two heads—that of Communism, which he denounces as anti-social and illu sory; and that of Association, which he adopts as a pacificatory principle. Capital, labour, and talent are, according to Const derant—borrowing from Fourier—the three elements of pro duction—the three sources of wealth, the wheels of industrial mechanism, the great primitive means of social develop►nent. If there were a fair division of profits, not in equal degree, but according to a scale that would allow higher remuneration to the higher qualities engaged —so much for capital, so much for the talent, and so much for the labour,—why then, instead of the few wealthy, and the many miserable, there would be gene ral comfort. That is undeniable. By raising the condition of labourers, there would be immensely increased consumption at home, and with consumption, more manufactures for the home-market, and more to divide; with all the moral advan tages flowing from the substitution of comfort for want and misery." Our author states further that M. Considerant " Is a Christian, a Constitutional Monarchy-man, a foe to war; that he is against Propagandism, and interference with other nations or their concerns; that he writes for Frenchmen, and that instead of seeking to force an adoption of his system, he is for a commencement by way of practical experiment, in the hope that success in one instance may lead to adoption and imitation. A reformer who presents himself in this way is worthy of friendly attention." _ All the revolutions which have occurred in France of late years have originated with moderate men, who, not sufficiently powerful to make themselves feared without assistance from the masses ever ready to throw physical force into the scale, have permitted the sans-culottes of the past size and the red republicans of the present to take part in movements which they were never in tended to appropriate to their own purposes. But the wild spirit of Communism, in its worst and most un- Christian sense, once evoked, the difficulty has ever been to stay it in its frantic and desolating career. This brings us to a sketch of M. DITVERGIER DE HAITRANNE, " Who came forward to combat against Socialism, and was the real author of the reform banquets which terminated in the fall of the Monarchy. In an evil hour M. Duchitel, Minister of the Interior, affirmed that the country was indifferent on the subject of reform—the taunt was taken as a challenge—de Hau ranne at once retorted that the minister should soon be awa kened from his delusion, and the reform banquets were orga nised. The more commanding position of Wilton Barrot. his more impressive eloquence, gave him the conspicuous part in the performances; hut the manager was the gentleman whom we are now noticing. His is a singular physiognomy—a re markably fine head, long grave face, pale and thoughtful,. and testi.ying his descent from the pure ascetic Jansenist, of whom he hcars one of the historical names; yet his movementsbetray a nervi ns excitability, a combative impatient sp rit, that mark him our for what he is—a born Oppositionist. His writings and his speeches divide his characteristics. The first, like his fine head, are thoughtful, methodical, and cold—the latter brisk, petulant, and spirifeel. His writings are all political, and turn chiefly on English parliamentary history, or the conduct of parties in the British legislature. Like his old muter,Guiwt, whom he abandoned for Thiers, be regards our parliamentary government as a beau ideal of its kind t and, in spite of his own change of leaders, he remains a doctrinaire. He is not only well vereed i❑ English history, and a close observer, even a chronicler, as the Revue des Deux Mondes can testify, of the daily struggles of English parties, but he is personally ac quainted with their most eminent politicians. The task which Duvergier tie Hauranne imposed on himself was that of fami liarising his countrymen with English habits of meeting in public. Nu spectacle appeared finer to him than the meeting of representatives and constituents during the parliamentary vacation, at town balls, or at the festive board, for sake - of ren de•ring an account of their stewardship, or of combining with their friends some movement in which they were one and all interested. It was this wholesome agitation, this diffusion of political life, this unceasing acti%ity, that he saw with most envy ; and it was with the hope of transplanting so excellent a temper to the soul of the French popular mind that he planned the banquets, which ended in a manner so deceptive to his hopes." In the revolution of 1789 the restoration of order was found imprecticable for years; in that of 1830, Louis Philippe, elected by the people in the hour of victory, arrested the storm in its progress; but in 1848 the strug gle was again severe—Lamartine was unable - to stem the torrent ; Cavaignac, after his brilliant services. retained no abiding place in the affn:ctions of the majority ; and the permanency of peace may date from the DEBBY OF LOUIS NAPOLEON IN THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY. It was on the 25th of September that Louis Napoleon lsuo naparte took his seat in the National Assembly. He had been elected by ;iris. and by the departments of the Charente and Yonne, and such manifestations of popular enthusiasm had everywhere appeared as to have strengthened the uneasiness and deepened the distrust with which the heir of the Fmpetor had been viewed by the Republican party. It was resolved, however, to treat the Prince with perfect indifference, so far as indifference can be put on by an assembly, for the nonce - sus tained indifference by a large popular body being out of the questlon. %%lien Louis Napoleon entered the gale he w•is greeted with'no friendly welo , me. Quietly, almost timidly, he crept to the seat which was held vacant by his old tutor. M Viellard, whose affectionate smile and pressure of the hand were the only demonstrations of kindness that cheered this hi therto unfortunate exile. • _ _ _ _ - . " As soon as the President proclaimed that the Citizen Louis Napoleon Bonaparte was a representatative of the people, the new representative said. Je denzande la parole.' Straight way he mounted the tribune without a mark of encouragement. His sellpossession did not forsake him as he proceeded to read from a written paper, which in concise and unaffected lan guage declared that he owed too deep a debt of gratitude to the Republ:c, which bud given to him, after thirty years of pro scription and exile, a country and the rights of citizenship, not to devote himself to its service. " Simple and touching as was this appeal, it did not break the icy reserve which had been adopted. The enemies of the Prince were in one respect disappointed, and in another most perversely gratified. It was expected and hoped that he would have mitts his appearance in the midst of some c►aptrap or Cusp de Madre. some miserable parody of his wonderful uncle's manner, that wou'd have raised a laugh fatal to his prethge. He did quite the reverse. The compensating gratification was furnished by the discovery that the Prince had a German ac cent, and that he was very unlike a Parisian. It was perceived that if he did not afford the handle of an absurd entree on the political scene, his accent would furnish an exhaustless series of little ridicules which would wear him down, amongst a peo ple who, with a readiness for great changes, are the greatest conservatives of small habits, of routine, and petty proprieties, of any nation, rather of any city, on the face of the globe. There could be no salon courehance with a German brogue. The Prince had only to open his mouth, to offend the delicacy of ears not naturally very musical. The fact that the Prince could not speak French was registered that evening by the newspapers and repeated next morning with cordial satisfac tion. No event had caused so much pleasure since the limp of the Due de Bordeaux. When it was discovered that the royal Pretender halted. he was looked upon as civilly dead." Neither so unsuccessful nor so maladroit as had been his previous essays on the stage of public life, there was little in this to elevate him in the estimation of his fellow-citi zens. But the heir of " the hero of Austerlitz" had sub stantial and enduring witnesses who appeared on his be half: the Are de Triomphe stood forth in bold relief, the Place Vendome reared up a tower of strength, and a grateful incense rose from the ashes at the Invalides. His veriest foes found themselves smoking cut ~ f pipes with bowls fashioned after the well-known model of his uncle's head, and using a little full-length bronze Napoleon as a stopper. The tide set in, and as our author says, " a devotion to the Prince's person blazed out of a sudden in all parts of the land, east, west, north, and south, and with an intensity recognised by all to he irresistible." He was tound, moreover, to possess a clearness of intellect, and a knowledge of the nature of political and social orga nisation, which entitled him to respect as a statesmen, albeit his ooinions had been before the world nine or ten yeass, and no one had been fortunate enough to make the discovery before. Who could suppose the rash adven turer of Strasbourg and Boulogne capable of writing such a passage as the following:— LOUIE NAPOLEON ON CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT. ‘; .; ilie s. reign - Cif caste is finished ; there is no way of govern ing except through the masses : while government must be according to their will, it becomes the more ne cessary that they be so disciplined, that they may be directed and enlightened as to their true interests. Governments can no longer be carritd on forceand violence ; the people must be led towards something better, through appeals to their reason and their hearts. But as the masses require to be taught and made moral, and as authority requires on its side to be kept within hounds, and to be itself enlightened upon the interests of the greatest number, two movements become, as of neces sity, of equal force : action of power on the mass, and the re action of the mass on power. But these two influences can only act without clashing by means of intermediaries, which possess at once the confidence of those whom they represent and of those who govern. These intermediaries will have the confidence of the former so soon as they shall he free y elected by them, and of the latter when they shall lid an important place in society; for it may be said with truth, in general, that man is what the function which be fills obliges him to be." THE I,IIERPOOL STANDARD. VARIETIES. Mr. F. Douglas. in his North Star, quotes the follow ing from an exchange paper:—" Mr. Duncan, who has a plantation on the Alissi, , ippi river, has lost 91 negroes by cholera. His other cattle were in usual health." EPIGRAM. Men, dying, make their wills; but wives Fscape a work so sad— Why should they make what all their lives lhe gentle dames hove had? A COUNTRYMAN IN LONDON.—A verdant looking clown hailed an omnibus-driver in Oxford-street, with " Going to Paddington ?" " Yes." said Jehu, pulling up. " Well, so I thought," said Giles, and passed on. Jehu was done. _ _ NEWS FOR THE " BRITISHERS."—We extract the fol lowing choice paragraph from the Syracuse Daily Journal (U.S.) :—" Interesting Ride.—Mr. Chadwick, a member of the English Parliament ! recently rode upon a pony through twenty-three miles of the underground sewers of London ! !" BLUNDERING INFECTIOUS.—Mr. Charles Knight hav ing gone over to Ireland, to see that part of " The Land we Live fn." and collect • materials for Part XXV., " Dublin and its environs," tells us of " St. Valerie, the seat of Sir Philip Crompton, one of the most charming places in Great Britain." INCONSIDERATE.—" Pa," said a four-year-old. "I think you are very inconsiderate." " Why, my child ?" " Because you have brought that baby here whilst ma is so ill, and you are obliged to pay a woman to take care of it! Wouldn't it have been better to have waited till ma wag well, and have saved the expense of the nurse ?" Park Benjamin's new paper, The Metropolis, contains thefollowing announcement ;—" To advertisers—We have the pleasure of announcing that we have secured a stout, healthy young man, who will take all medicines adver tised in this paper, and furnish certificates of any desired stringency, according to price, to the proprietors."— American paper. PRESENCE OF MlND.—Wilkes never lost his presence of mind, hut was always full of resources. When he was apprehended by the king's messengers, the warrant in cluded Churchill, the poet. who entered the room just as Wilkes was captured. "Thompson, my dear fellow, (cried Wilkes, as if overjoyed to see him), they have seized me, and the warrant includes Churchill. You are not likely to see Churchill yourself, but if you meet any of his friends beg of them to warn him to get out of the way." Churchill took the hint, and after a few observa tions about Mrs. Thompson he took his leave, and took care to be off pretty quickly directly he was clear of the house. BREACH OF PROMISE.—For the benefit of our unmar ri•ll friends of both sexes, to whom a right understanding of the law may he important, we copy the following from an opinion of Judge Black, recently affirmed by the Su preme Court of Pennsylvania, per Coultor, Justice, " Dowey v. M'Millan," 8 Bsrr, 160 :—" If a man offers to marry a woman or promises to do it, he is not bound to comply with it, unless she agrees to accept. him. It takes two to make a marriage contract, as well as any other bargain. Where a man has a contract- of marriage with a woman, and merely puts it off, and she becomes impatient, she cannot drag him into court and demand damages, unless she has formerly offered to perform the contract on her part, and hedishonestly refuses, and so puts an end to the contract, because. perhaps, he would prefer the marriage to the suit, and he ought to have a chance to make a choice." OUR MELANCHOLY POETS.—Read their lugubrious ditties, and you would think that life had utterly lost all charm for them before they have crossed its threshold. The cause of such overwhelming despondency it is in vain to discover ; for none of them have the pluck, like Byron, to commit imagintry crimes, or to represent themselves as racked with remorse for murders which they never perpetrated. If one of them would broadly accuse him self of having run his man through the vitt ls.—of having, in an experimental fit, plucked up a rail, and so caused a terrific accident on the South-Western,—or of having done some other deed of reasonable turpitude and atro city, we could understand what the fellow meant by his excessively unmirthful monologues. But we are not in dulged with any full-flavoured fictions of the kind. On the contrary, our bards affect the purity and innocence of the dove. They shrink from naughty phrases with in stinctive horror,—have an idea that the mildest kind of flirtation involves a deviation from virtue; and, in the most savage moments of wrath, none of them would in jure a fly. flow, then, can we account for that unhappy mist which floats between them and the azure heaven so heavily as to cloud the whole tenor of their existence ? What makes them maunder so incessantly about gloom, and graves, and misery ? Why confine themselves ever lastingly to apple-blossoms, whereof the product in au tumn will not amount to a single Ribston pippin ? What has society done to them, or what can they possibly have done to society, that the future tenor of their span must be one of unmitigated woe ? We rather suspect that most of the poets would be puzzled to give satisfactory answers to such queries. They might, indeed, reply, that misery is the heritage of genius ; but that, we apprehend, would be arguing upon false premises, for we can discover very little genius to vindicate the existence of so vast a quantity of woe. We hope, for the sake of human na ture, that the whole thing is a humbug ; nay, we have not the least doubt of it ; for the experience of a good many years has convinced us, that a young poet in print is a very different person from the actual existing bard. The former has nerves of gossamer, and states that he is suckled with dew; the latter is generally a fellow of his inches, and has no insuperable objection to gin and water. In the one capacity be feebly implores an early death ; in the other, be shouts for broiling kidneys long after mid night, when he ought to be snoring on his truckle.— Blackwood's Magazine. A CONGO CUSTOM.—It is the custom in Congo to suffer an interval of time to elapse between the decease and bu rial of members of the higher classes, proportioned to the rank of the subject and the wealth of surviving friends. In the meantime the body is enveloped in voluminous folds of cotton cloth, pieces of which are weekly and al most daily added, so as to conceal any signs of decompo sition. This process goes on until the corpse attains an enormous size. When too large for the house in which it is contained, the building is taken down and a larger one erected in its place. In the case of very distinguished in dividuals, this is frequently done two or three times; and a fellow who, in his lifetime, never had clothing enough to cover his nakedness, is, after death, swathed into a ca pital illustration of the principle of compensation—clothing himself then, (or rather his friends doing so for him,) in all the cloth which he was formerly entitled to but did not have.—Kaloolah, or Journeyings to the Dje'bel Kumri. PIC-NIC PREPARATIONS.—To give a pic-nic party a fair chance of success, it must be almost impromptu: pro jected at twelve o'clock at night at the earliest, and exe cuted at twelve o'clock of the following day at the latest; and even then the odds are fearfully against it. The climate of England is not remarkable for knowing its own mind ; nor is the weather " so fixed in its resolve," but that a bright August moon suspended in a clear sky, may be a lady-usher to a morn of fog, sleet, and drizzle. But such an affair, long prepared and carefully arranged ! why is it of all the modes of human enjoyment the least satisfactory ? and the greater the care, and the longer the preparation, the more disagreeable is the result. The experiment has been tried by hundreds and by thousands on each of the fifteen or twenty days of an English sum mer, and invariably with the same ill success. The quan tum of pleasure derived has always been in an average ratio to the pains employed to produce it. It is unwise to draw at a long date upon a rickety firm ; and Madame Pleasure being in that predicament, the shorter you make your drafts the more likely is she to honour them. —Eliza Cook's Journal. SUPERSTITION IN CHINA.—Choa Chong Long, a well known Chinese merchant in Singapore. having realised a handsome competency by trade, proceeded about thirteen years ago to Macao, for the purpose of dying and laying his bones in his native soil, amongst those of his ancestors. He died a few months after his arrival ; and was buried in one of the Chinese burying-grounds at Macao, where his remains have since rested in peace, until lately Senlior Amaral took it into his head to order all such remains to be removed. One of his relatives, named Choa Kim Sean 4, accordingly proceeded to China by the last steamer to recover Chong Long's bones and bring them to Singa pore. He reached Macao in safety, found the grave un violated, and the bones were dug up and secured in a box for transport.; instead, however, of accompanying them to Hong Kong, he preceded them. A day or two after his arrival he appeared to be labouring under very extra ordinary delusions, fancying that people were coming to murder him, and evincing the greatest alarm at every sound he heard. He insisted on leaving for Singapore on the 24th in the steamer, although the bones had not ar rived, and accordingly went on board. On the third day after leaving Hong Kong he jumped overboard, but was picked up and brought round by the doctor, and a strict watch placed aver him. For two days he appeared greatly composed, but one night he was missed from his berth ; search was made, but he could not be found, and it is supposed that he must have again gone overboard. His relatives here say he must have due up the bones without first consulting an astrologer as to the propitious day and hour for accomplishing his purpose ; that he must have disturbed the hantu (spirit) who kept watch over the grave on an unpropitious day, and that the hantu, being very angry, had possessed him and driven him mad.—Singa pore Free Press. ANECDOTE OF ROSLIN CHAPEL.—Near the opening of this vault there is a large flat stone on which is engraved a knight in armour, in a recumbent posture, his hands closed upon his breast, on each side of his head a lion rampant. and at his feet an animal resembling a greyhound. This is supposed to have marked the burial-place of Alexander, Earl of Sutherland, grandson to King Robert the Bruce. But we shall not destroy the legendary ver sion of this " storied monument," which is founded on the following account given by ancient historians :—" King Robert the Bruce, who had contributed largely to the growing power of the noble family of St. Clair, waa on one occasion pursuing the chase on the Pentland Hills, and, having on more than one occasion started ' a white faunch deer.' which had always escaped his hounds, the disappointed King inquired of his nobles around him whe ther any of them had dogs which they thought would be more successful. No courtier had the temerity to affirm that his hounds were fleeter than the King's, until Wil liam St. Clair unceremoniously said that he would wager his head that his two favourite dogs, called ' Help' and Hold.' would kill the deer before it should cross the March Burn. The King instantly caught the unwary of fer of the knight, and betted the forest of Pentland Moor against the life of Sir William St. Clair. All the hounds were held up except a few ratches, or slow hounds, to put up the deer, while Sir William St. Clair, posting himself in the best situation for slipping his dogs, prayed devoutly to our Saviour, the Virgin Mary, and Sr. Catherine. The deer was soon roused, and the hounds slipped, Sir Wil liam following on horseback to cheer his hounds. The hind reached the middle of the brook, upon which the hunter threw himself from his horse in despair. At this critical moment Hold' stooped her in the brook, and Help,' coming up. turned her back, and killed her on Sir William's side. The King descended from the hill, em braced Sir William, and bestowed upon him the lands of Kirktnn, Loganhouse, Earncraig, &c., in free forestric. Sir William, in acknowledgment. of St. Catherine's inter cession, built the chapel of St. Catherine in the Hopes, the churchyard of which still remains." The worthy ci cerone, in describing the tombstone, always stated that Sir William is here represented in the attitude of vowing to God that. lie would never again put his life in such jeo pardy, his foot resting upon the neck of his dog. He fur ther adds that the Queen was present at the chase, and had declared that at the fatal moment, " she wadna fine glen a haggis and a horn spoon for St. Clair's head ;" which shows that in the days of King Robert the Bruce, the Queens " suppit their haggis wi' horn spoons."— Mackie's Castles, Palaces, and Prisons of Scotland. Onieral I+lisrellanv. Cargoes of wheat have been selling at Gloncestcr at 4s. 6d. per bushel. Another meeting of the Peace Congress is convoked, to be held in London on the 30th of October. In Suffolk, lately, a colt had an extra leg when foaled; last week the excrescence was safely amputated. A very large quantity of preserved meat, contained in 46,602 canisters, has arrived in London, from Russia. _ _ Lnrd Brougham completed his seventy-first year ion Wednesday week. It is in contemplation to establish public baths and wash-houses at Shrewsbury. The Herald says that during the last three months more than 50,060 persons have died of the prevailing epidemic. At present, German goods are regularly imported into Birmingham, and re-sold to the factors there for distri bution throughout England. The county of Hereford, and the towns of Stafford, Stourport, Bewffley, Stourbridge, and Congleton, have not been visited by the prevailing scourge. The Mayor of Worcester has been summoned before himself for church rates. His worship declining to ap pear as a defendant had to stop away as a madstrate. A Sheffield paper estimates that 18,000 elephants must be killed every year, in order to supply the ivory used by the cutlers of that town. John Blegshaw, hair-dresser, of Barnsley, has been fined 7s. 6d. for pursuing his worldly calling on the Sahhath. Messrs. Mechi and the other scientific agriculturists hrve declined to accept the challenge of the Cambrian farmer to test their theories on the score of profit and loss. Profesior Buckland, the geologist, at the late meeting of the British Association, declared Birmingham to he built upon one of the most salubrious rocks in the world. During the steeple chase at Falmouth, on Friday, the 14th instant, the grand stand fell, and many persons were seriously, though none fatally injured. Nearly £lOO was collected on Sunday in the Scotch Church, London, in which Dr. Cumming ministers, for the families suffering from the recent epidemic. Madame Rachel, who was engaged to Way in Jersey, refused to visit the island because she would not be allowed to give one of her performances on a Sunday. The vessel Jane Frances, arrived from Launceston, Van Diemen's Land, has brought 1494 bags of wheat as a portion of her cargo, the produce of that distant colony. On Thursday week the Rev. J. Craig, vicar of Lea mington. laid the first stone of what is intended to form a range of buildings, consisting of a " Poor Man's Church," in High-street, in connection with the National Schools. MARCH OF MECHANISM.—Mr. James Fernley, of Edgeley, has connected with his house crock a simple piece of self-acting mechanism, which, at any given time of the night, rings a bell and lights a candle. Mr. Butterfield, the Petersfield banker, has been out lawed, he not having surrendered to the fiat of bankruptcy against him. The debts are estimated at £12,000; assets about £B.OOO. An industrious housewife at Aberford, who lost her wedding ring while engaged in field-work, twenty-five years ago, had last week the identical one brought home to her on the point of the tooth of a harrow. On Wednesday a young lady named Selina Ann Turner, aged 16, suddenly fell down and died whilst paying a visit with some friends to the Surrey Zoological Gardens. Disease of the heart was the immediate cause of death. The Queen Dowager has forwarded a donation of £2OO to the Association for Promoting the Relief of Destitution in the Metropolis, to be applied towards the relief of the widows of those who have died of cholera. A boy, four years old, died at Leicester, a few daj s since, from dysentery and convulsions, superinduced by eating some pieces of raw cabbage, which had been placed in a yard as food for some rabbits. An explosion of gas occurred in the Lord Hill public house, Newcastle, last week, by which Mr. Jackson, the landlord, his wife, and a servant girl, were seriously injured. A sum of £l4 was found in the streets of Glasgow, last week, by three men, and divided amongst them. Two of them kept their share, expecting it would be called for ; the third spent his, and has got into gaol in consequence. The lives of four children were nearly sacrificed at Not tingham on Friday, through having taken something given them by a strange woman, and which was strongly impregnated with arsenic. The woman has not yet been detected. The wounded of the Punjaub were landed at Chatham last week ; and it was a mournful sight to see the number of poor fellows that were maimed of their limbs. Twenty of the men have each lost an arm, and eight men have each lost a leg. At the sale of the Rev. T. Schrieber's effects, at Brad well, on Wednesday week, the celebrated pair of full length portraits of Sir Henry and Lady Dudley, by Gains borough, after a spirited competition, sold for one hundred and thirty guineas. A mitigation of the sentence of John Mitchel, who is now in a precarious state of health, has been obtained. He will be allowed to resort to any part of the world excepting the United Kingdom. Wednesday was observed at Canterbury as a day of prayer and humiliation. The shops were all closed, and business entirely suspended. The various churches were opened, and filled with attentive congregations. The Cathedral was crowded both morning and afternoon. On Wednesday the first stone of the great city prison at Holloway was laid by the Lord Mayor. On the stone, which weighs 44 tons, the following sentence is inscribed : " May God preserve the city. of London, and make this place ' a terror to evil-doers.' " The Commissioners in Lunacy have called upon the Secretary of State to put in force the clauses of an Act of Parliament empowering him to order the erection of a new asylum for the pauper lunatics of Bristol. It. is said that the cost of such an asylum will not be less than £50,000. A TEST OF DEATH.—M. Maniple; a learned Belgian, has lately discovered a simple means of discriminating be tween real and apparent death. It consists in creating a small burn. If there is life, a blister is always formed, even in the absence of apparent sensibility. If death has already intervened, nothing of the kind occurs. A magnificent piece of plate, subscribed for by the members of the Town Council and other gentlemen, has been presented to Mr. Burges on his retirement from the town-clerkship of Bristol. It is a candelabrum, weighing 250 ounces, with triangular base, supporting the three figures—Dignity, Justice, and Prosperity. The Hon. and Rev. Henry Watson expired at Canter bury on Sunday, from the effects of an apoplectic attack. The deceased was third slaw of the second Lord Sondes, and brother to the present peer. He was rector of Kettering, Northampton. This living is of the value of .£786 per annum, and is in the gift of Lord Sondes. The Western Times points out the extraordinary vege tating power of liquid manure, as shown by an experiment tried by Mr. Scott, of Exeter, at whose premises a potato plant may be seen standing- above seven feet high, sad spreading over a surface of more than 20 superficial feet. TENACITY OF LIFE.—An advertiser in the Tivies of Thursday tells Emilie that her " desertion has broken his heart," but gives his address '• for a week longer" to the lodging where he means to be ! Emilie, we see, respond ed amiably on Friday, so that it is to be hoped the wound is healed by this time. The Gazette of Tuesday contains a notification that the Privy Council have renewed, for a further period of six months, from the 28th ult., the enforcement of the pro visions of the act of the 11th arid 12th Vict., " for the more speedy removal of certain nuisances, and the pre vention of .contagious and epidemic diseases." A SIGN OF THE TIMES.—A gentleman from Cornwall informs us, that he scarcely passed through a town with out seeing the walls literally covered with placards, an nouncing the sale of agr cultural stock and produce. This is significant, but we know not the worst yet. — Exeter Flying Post. During the last few weeks, the Bear and Ragged Staff public-house at Cumner, Berks, ;las been taken down. This was the house of which mention was made by Sir Walter Scott, in his novel of " Kenilworth," as the place where the parties who were concerned in the tragical fate of Amy Dudley, Countess of Leicester, frequently met. A young man, named Richard Cluderay, is in custody at Leeds, charged with having attempted to poison the il legitimate child of Mary Horsfield, of which child he is the father, by administering to it Cocculus Indicus ber ries. The prisoner is the son of respectable parents living in Wortley-lane, Holbeck. Sir Charles Shakerley, Bart., has purchased for six hundred guinea, the two splendid pictures by Count D'Orsay, one being the representation of Our Saviour, and the other the portrait of Queen Victoria. The former is intended for the private chapel in Someford-park, and the latter as a present to the corporation of Congleton. A COACH UPSET.—On Wednesday the coach running from Perth to Inverness was stopped by a flood in the road from four to five feet deep. The wheels got into a rut and the coach was upset, and the passengers were tumbled into the water, but after some time were all res cued. The luggage was very much damaged. A woman at Newtown, Wercestershire, has been taken into custody (hut discharged) on suspicion of murdering her child. The body was found in a pit entirely naked, and on being taken out of the water, it was found that its throat was cut by the side of the ear, a deep gash about two inches in length having been made in an oblique di rection. THE EXPELLED WESLEYAN MINISTERS. —At the quarterly meeting of the Leeds 4th circuit, held in Wesley Chapel Vestry, on Monday last, a resolution was come to " that the meeting is of opinion that the conference has acted constitutionally in expelling Messrs. Everett, Dunn, and Griffith." There were only four dissentients out of a very numerous meeting. A cricket match came off at Edinburgh, on Saturday, between eleven gentlemen of Edinburgh and the Ylin burgh Garrison, for £2OO aside. The gentlemen gained the victory, they having scored 125 to their opponents 58, the first innings deciding the match. The game stood thus at the end of the day's play :—Gentlemen, first innings, 125 ; second, 70; military, first innings. 58; second. 60. SINGULAR DEATH.—On Friday, a lad nine years of age, son of Mr. Hudson Brown, of the Royal George ship, lying off Chatham, while walking from the ward room to the cabin, for the purpose of cutting a candle, carrying with him a pair of scissors, tripped nd fell, when the point of the scissors pierced the jugular vein just under the jaw bone, which caused almost inAantaneaus death. DOVER.—On Monday morning last, a private of the 50;11 Regiment, apparently not more than 22 years of age, who had been convicted of not Icss than allay off:nces at various times during a period of two years' service in the regiment, was drummed out, after being previously flogged, and was then taken to the county gaol, where he will be confined 42 drys, by sentence of court-martial. RIOT AT THE SUNDERLAND DOCK.—On Monday and Tuesday last a series of events took place at the extensive docks now in course of construction on the beach side of the river Wear, which caused great excitement in the town, and which arose out of certain disputes likely to occa-ion a protracted and expensive litigation in the Chan cery Courts, unless amicably arranged._ _ _ SUICIDE OF A NAVAL OFFICER.—Mr. William Rem phry. clerk of her majesty's ship Ocean, committed sui cide at the Nore on Thursday, whilst the ship's company were at divisions. It appears the deceased took that op portunity of cutting his throat with a razor in his cabin, and so effectually did he perform the dreadful act, that life must have ceased almost instantaneously. Not long since, a lady, a member of the enthusiastic sect of the Irvingites, was taken with premonitory symp toms of cholera, and refused all medical aid until she had sent for the elders of her chapel to anoint her with oil and pray over her, as their custom is. The consequence was, the disease took such violent hold upon her that death shortly ensued. DISGRACEFUL BRUTALITY AND ROBBERY. A re spectable widow, living at Huddersfield, had been spending the day with her brother, and was returning home by a footpath through Spring 'Wood, when she was attacked by two men, who robbed her of her money and violated her person, and having inflicted sundry blows upon her, decamped. They have been fully committed to take their trial. A LODGER FOR LIFE.—In a Birmingham paper, last week, appears the following inviting announcement :—" A. gentleman about to attend the Birmingham musical fes tival is desirous to take up his abode in the house of a widow or single female. If she is found to be good tempered and agreeable, a good manager, clean and neat in her person and household, and an adept in all that is calculated to make a home happy and comfortable, the advertiser will make her an offer, and enter into negocia tions for a more endearing and lasting engagement." It is gratifying to find that the pestilence has already considerably abated all over the country, but especially in London. where the mortality has decreased from up wards of 400 a-day to under 60. The cholera mortality throughout the country for the first tour days of the week before last was about three thousand : for the same period of last week, it does not amount to two thousand cases. It is becoming less day by day. There is every indication, in fact, of its passing away ; and we may not unreasonably conclude, therefore, that the prayers of the people have been heard by Him in whose hands are the issues of life and death. INTRAMURAL BURIALS.—The following letter has been addressed by a correspondent to the editor of the Times ; " A curious clause in the twelve Tables of Rome turned up in my reading this morning:—` HOMINEM. MORTUUM. IN. UMW. NE. SEPELITO. NEVE. URITO.' This signifi cant enactment belongs to the rude and early legislation of 450 before Christ • but even in the days of M. Tull. Cicero himself, the code of which the above is an extract, was rigidly enjoined to be committed in youth to the memory of every Roman nobleman tanguam carmen necessarinm:—Legg., ii. 23.) It is no bad hint to law making Britons." A NEW TRICK.--A day or two since one of the mes sengers of a Life Insurance Offics brought a paper to the actuary, saying that " two poor boys had just picked it up in the street, and seemed very full of it, and expected something." The man was told to give them sixpence each, and to say the paper was of no great value. It turned out to be a form of proposal for a life assurance of £2,000 on the life of Captain —, of the regi ment, stationed at —. It was on the office form, the usual references being given, one to the surgeon of the same regiment, the other to the lieutenant-colonel, and got up. On referen ce t o th e army li st , before proceeding further, no su c h names were to b e a , lv r e e ry well found. THE BERMONDSEY MURDER.—The prisoners were brought up on Thursday at the Southwark police-court. Manning looked considerably better than he did on the last occasion, and the apparent indifference which both he and his wife exhibited to the serious position they occupy, was a general matter of remark. Mrs. Manning looked the very picture of health, and appeared even more com posed and at ease than she was before. She had divested herself of her black silk visite, and had put on in its stead a light and gay-coloured scarf, which hung loosely upon her person. Instead, also, of a black veil, she had on a large white one, which she kept down, except during a brief period, when they both stood up. The prisoners were remanded till Friday next. EXPLOSION OF A SEWER.—On Saturday evening, a fearful explosion of sewer-damp happened in Friar-street, London • there were happily no lives lost, though the shock of explosion was felt at a considerable distance round the neighbourhood. The cas -iron plates, covering the main-holes in the flag pavement in Friar-street, were all blown into the air, and flames came through the gully gratings into the streets. It appears that.the sewer in Friar-street has been in a most pestilential state for some time, and cholera is prevailing immediately around it to an alarming extent. Notwithstanding repeated complaints had been made, nothing had been done by the commis sioners, and on Saturday, Msssrs. Anderson and Cally, soap-boilers, were prevailed on by some of the inhabitants, in despair, to attempt to draw off the pestilential vapour by connecting a pipe from the sewer with one of their chimneys. All went on apparently well for about half an hour, when the explosion occurred. Oct. !, OA_ vett The remains of Mr. S. Winnall, of ElmleY I:anige Worcestershire, who died and was buried at thinelroi about three months ago, have been disinterred for, e , fool nation, it being suspected that he came to his end " I I as' play—the administration of arsenic. Mr. Winnaillal worth about £lO,OOO, and his property was left by s 4. to his relatives but to straneers. r diel The average price of wheat for the past week , e t sere to the official returns, is 41s. 9d. ; but, low as this i 5 1d p e cannot be a doubt that the real average, if it e9 „ u ns rtet accurately taken, would be several shillings P er i .steis lower. This serious discrepancy is owing to th e : be ie of taking the averages, under which, not only ie be e , ferior kind of wheat omitted, but every re-sale ot,r'Lliret tide from dealer to dealer is included, which 01 raises TASTE the price OF " andTHE heighten sHOßßlßLE the ave ."-- ra JOhlt ge. ess nankin . lately charged with stealing tea in the London v in t On being taken into custody, the unfortunate rns," 4 Into fit of desperate frenzy, drew a knife, and plunge," liner his body with an action as if he would per.orm toe _ 9 OO pudding feat of Jack the Giant Killer. Tb e stream gushed tbrth with tremendous impetunsl'; bele constable lifted up his voice in the greatest a larm I _ eet e, —there was rushing to and fro in hot haite fo r s ur er d „, when, lo and behold ! it turned out that the °Leith weel" had some bladders of port wine concealed nc" his vest. The prisoner was committed. sene ell PLEASE, GIVE ME THREE MONTHS,kt vier wife' Police Court on Saturday, a man was charged ing about Pentonville, with intent to commit s r e e ro st Mr. Coombe, the magistrate, asked if the Intl t aeet t known. The policeman said he was, but he ban l en til) : convicted, at least at that court.—Prisoner (irnPU` isi gh)• Then there is a good time coining, I SOPPOSe toil e —Mr. Coombe : Not for you, at least. You will Peyote , Home of Correction for two months.—Prisoner: Ze:ses give me three months (much laughter).—Mr. Coomuswell, I shall not accommodate you, this time.—Prison e t: : h ilt then, it only comes to this, after all, I must t t longer (roars of laugLter, in which the impudee heartily joined). and skipped merrily from the ha e r . in t i shi' BURYING IN TOWNS .— The struggle which I h ate tants of London, represented by the Board of lit'a e el making against the loathsome practice (everewehebraeois% abandoned, and now at length execrated here) r', l ~uses , the dead in the midst of the living, has receive d a' d e er' though temporary check, by an adver-e mazistelisorik sion. The managers of the Whitefield Chapel pn eel ground, in Tottenham Court Road, London , gn i t er ebi by the Board of Health for violation of an order w' l , e they were direct« d and required in pursuance of ° to ter 11th and 12th Victoria, c. 123, s. 10. to discontinicry, ments in their ground, duly notified by Dr. Gav in Rh; the inspector, as daugtrous to the health of the: p e ati bourhood, appeared by counsel before Mr. Jar u _ e ' n- , sod succeeded in procuring the invalidation of the oru the dismissal of the summons. o ublic with 00f, THE BIBLE SOCIETY AND CHEAP BIBLES.'"A t %io o ' meeting held recently, at the Mechanics' instibinde, in the metropolis, Mr. West, a master h° °l ' in the chair, the following resolutions were ad° l " nr iti9 " That this meeting hold the committee of the well and Foreign Bible Society to be responsible tor " e beriP, given their sanction to a system for producing e s Li' Bibles, which is mainly effected by reuucing the w a e we. female labour to a point consid era bly b e low a ju str nit tee neration That a memorial he presented to the the chairmanof tlie Bri t o i s n h b a e n h d al F f o o r f ei t g i l s B n i i b e l e e t S n e im tv p , signed c,m to make such trifling advances in the prices of their ors and Testaments as to enable their binders to pay ti llers el people the same rate of wages as is paid by the hint s the the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledg e ." parties employed in their establishment. rag! THE CHOLERA IN LONDON. —The registrar 's 'b s ten shows that the dreaded epidemic has con siderablY i tg on in London, the deaths from c h o l e r a i n the week en",!,,'"eet Saturday last being 839, against upwards of 2,C 0 9 t 7 tn ots weee of the month. We gather from his report the', OW than sin 1,000 of the inh a bitants of London dud t he lera ; the more accurate proportion was 53 in 10.00°:rste bitants. From all causes the mo r t a lity was 116; - cen t ' which is equivalent to an annual rate of 4'64 Prr f tut 35 in 10,000 of the inhabitants o n th e north side ° 3 , 1 0 Thames died of cholera. 104 i n 10,000 of the inhein'or on the south side of the Thames died of cholera• oa th mortality was therefore three times as great on the , 0. 00 0 as it was on the north side of the r i ver . Taking the in• abitants as the basis of comp ar i so n in earl' distrp'`,.teer mortality ranged from 8 in Hampstead to 255 in hithe. t , st EXTRAORDINARY MATCH AT CHESS.—T he - a t ti re chess between the celebrated foreign plaYeri o f Harrwitz, and four players belonging to the Nortteroi herland Club, which, from the extraordinary cha rae- eotl y its conditions, had excited great interest among th e e on ries of this refined and intellectual game, took els e o n b, Monday evening, at the Northumberland Ches s erre' Crown Hotel. Newcastle. The t e rms of the matc h n o that. HerrHarrwitz should pl ly two games simultaneoPf the without seeing either of th e b oar d s , ag ainst fou r t, at best players that could be found, two in coesultanorcio each board. This remarkable feat, requiring the (le tbio of intense mental exertion, has been achieved hvenire player on former occasions ; but h e has still CO loft till the pre-eminence exhibited in this singular tria l (! by the celebrated Philidor, who often obtained the tr ta ce ro• of a triple contest at blindfold chess. The ge ne ; a fter menced at half-past six, and were prolonged till midnight, Herr Harr C witz winn ng both. THE CAUSE OF C HOLERA.--Dr. —Dr. Budd, in his cor ni ne: nication to the London Times, on the above hig h Y is portant subject, states " That the cause of chole r / 0 N living organism of a distinct species, which aPP eare e e eini of the fungus tribe, and is taken by the act of seta ' the into the intestinal canal, and there prop ' gate., an d , t r Th e action they there exert produces the di sea se. eis , learned gentleman then offers the f o llowing advice ' ▪ -- en lgna water is the principal channel th roug h which th e P es ts' finds its way into the human body, a fact edit' blished by the researches of Dr. Snow, and of "'i s the, covery of which he must have the whole merit, s e ° ' e tas, procuring pure water for drink the first and most ol tie ol means of preventing its action." In a leading af t ,;;110 the flee rd, of September 27, it clearly establis i nr dont when this said disease has made its appearance in P° . e .ion, e . the above argument must be conga, as, on both oe - o eise it has oriainated in a portion of Bermondsey in impure water is used for domestic purposes. , th e GALVANISM.--The following is extracted Tr () ; fon t Court Journal of Jsnua r y 29 :—" It i s no w abu ll b - e re' years since that we informed o ur rea d ers it was ti' 0 gretted galvanism was not more ex t ens ively use d ths" remedial agent. We have every r eason to belie ce ,sor P, , our advice was attended to, for in a comparativelY fool time Mr. Halse's residence was crowded with the e j 10 fashion and their less fortunate fellow-sufferers, nnedisi, feel confident, judging from the a sto n i s hing r e ' D js effects it has produced on ourselves, after all b h — n e 6 " medicine and hydropathy had failed to i m part any %eon' that the public will thank us for our reconuneta gin We were delighted to notice. a sho r t ti me since, ti"-e and Halse was patronised by the Lord Bishop of lenn u i Llse j Sir Charles Clark, his lordship's physician. Mr• great reforms in the galvanic apparatus, and his in i ,f t , seer method of application, justly entitle him to rank ',l s e, in the profession. We again recommend our resu e i s P give galvanism a fair trial. Mr. Hale's residence t , 22, Brunswick-square, London."—See advertisen l 7 o 11' POISONING AT CHELTENHAM,..-011 ThUrSdßiA,: e lte°,: quest., which has been pending for some days at `i e . : a bet' ham on the bodies of Samuel, aged 14, and g" - i n e! Gregory, aged 21, terminated by the jury retu ra a tti verdict of "Wiltul murder against E m anuel 13 u r 'clee" who was accordingly committed by the coroner t° The cester Castle to take his trial on the capital charg e ' a la' mother of the deceased was a widow, and Barnett, bouring man, lodged with them. Quarrels ocensi°oo,/, took place between Bar ne tt an d hi s w if e , w ho wa g c o the training school, and did not lodge in the hous e A t her husband, and M rs . G regory and her childre a 'Aet' length Barnett brought home some flour in a ,, P ol °. 'i ne e t handkerchief, which was made into dumplings. -res• it was observed that Barnett did not eat as ust"eere before the meal was concluded some of the fan" the re taken ill. Eventually the deceased died, but the O o f th e recovered. Suspicion was excited, the stomachs s left( deceased, and a portion of the dumplii g 4 which w r, a ce e t was sent to Mr. Herapath, who d e p ose d to the • n a arsenic in large quantities. The wife of Barnet' eholly free frim suspieion. 15 34 1 . THE BOY JONES AGAtN.—Young Jones, the oie rverno of Buckingham Pelare, has, to the surprise of the g. mate of Newgate, been discovered amongst the presen t " - con e ' of the gaol. It is not more than three weeks since ei sa te man, named John Frost, was committed to gaol f e ° elin al e ; bing the house of Mr. David Williams Wire, at l' e- s tme in Kent, of plate which was soon afterwards fe nn- P P red , possession of the accused, who was tried, convie, e , cew ea sentenced to transportation for ten years for haw . " tr'" mitted the offence. That John Frost is no other thaiseett boy Jones. On Thursday last, it happened that t_ i he e ° o ll, who had most frequently taken the boy into cus rm ;il into one of the wards upon some business connec t fro 9 `; his duties. The moment his eye fell upon Ju bn ,jorl; he said, " Hallo, how on earth did you come her e ' eon e s You have not been to see her Maj e sty a g ain, he i r ' t hat i f The prisoner with great presence of m i n d, denie d an' knew anything either of young Jones, the e9li e , ~e r iea o the Queen, and requested not to be annoyed in n e '' s ee d cogitations. It was in vain that the officer uP . '„i s , ike:a other policemen of the metropolitan force positi r hon'e tilled the prisoner as the young chimney-sweeper wo, has made his bed under the sofa on which her Mkj e l.ein e been sitting. He most resolutely declared the ""iype r e stranger to every individual named, and that the oil s , th son of rank into whose house he had entered, v ` e Under-Sheriff of London.—Morning Herald. fru lter e ;' SINGULAR GENEROSITY.— A Mr. Brooke , ," e fte / residing in the Edgeware-road, found on Thor' e$ con', noon, the 27th ult., on his ccunter a pocket -be taming £500., and having served a lady with someas to articles some short time before, who stated she only in the country, he immediately called a cab e n , tee bra the Great Western Railway and examined al l 'ere riages to endeavour to find her among the passe n , g e - he r ( „1,- were about starting by the 4 o'clock train, h ns t he n i t not among them • so he returned and examined _ to ascertain if ;here was any mark by which bc pe trace her, and finding a grocer's bill whose residebet plea in the city, he took an omnibus and went there, rec ur nog no more success than he had at the railway g e tn ten d liei home and gave up the search, it being 7 p.m" . 1 sh e el to advertise it in the public p a pers the next day ',,, e Is , not make inquiries for it. The next morning crorilis came and asked the tradesman if he had fen n i o st book, for she said if he had not she must have .; P - c ; the streets or been robbed of it in an oninihu'eareaif Brooks was very glad the owner had made her uP.foss e to receive it, so he called in a neighbour W .7 1 01 ° tie giving it up, and to his surprise saw her take r eii° o; off without expressing the least gratitude fo r it' 100 tion. Mr. Wright, the neighbour, said. ' you will pay Mr. Brook his expenses in seek id 25. sureli 1 , 01 1 ; She directly asked how much it had cost, bol a ,' pol e ' she laid down 35., and then waited for the 91 " " Observer. Id, 2, 1 BUN I Im p cl n t, On t 814" ktion ty de : ( Z t l° iSSory i 110 t t ake t 1 t. 4 4,1 . .ait ti arnoun t. c q, 4 ' Ca s ' E ' %NI Ith P env, pv Ed vf erni, Arth k ' 1 (lo slam Will 30,c to b, 1 ckt. T o he utli ( t „ k, t; t . i