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,al!!._)t. 18, 1349. Rarraturr. POETRY. THE THREE CALLERS. More ealleth fondly to a fair boy straying shenal golden meadows, rich with clover dew; W O ' he still thinks of nought, save playing ; WO' so she smiles—and waves him an adieu! ti e ,t B t be) still merry with his flowery store, 'us not th a t M orn, sweet Morn ! returns no more. hH CO Metil—hat the boy to manhood growing, tae not the time—he sees but one sweet form; ; , I nang fair face, from bower of jasmine glowing, s o all his loving heart with bliss is warm : end"n, unnoticed, seeks t..e western shore, Man forgets that Noon returns no more. " ht 'aPpeth gently at a casement gleaming p w ith the thi n tire light, flickering fain . and low; Iyliich a gray-hair''d man is sadly dreaming ' h igh Pleasures gone —as all Life's pleasures go : sile nt and s him to her—and ne leaves his door, dark ;—and he returns no more. NOTICES. 1 (0,, , vuta _ r ' Journeyinge the Djibel Kutnri : an 41 C °6 jography of Jonathan Romer. Edited by W. S. I tt. : 4M, M.D. London : David Bogue, 86, Fleet-street. I' e ditor of the work before us —or, we rather suspect, tj e t : l , tit ilor, although he treats us, in his preface, with a the—l'eti description of the mode in which he met with I,et,lllatuseript in the town of Rabat, in Central Africa, iy fa 7 P r oductio ' n of a young American of errant habits— tpo eur ably known to his fellow-countrymen ; and has P ro l ten tlY seen much of adventure, both by sea and land. but the „ somewhat fabulous character—as we cannot wth tn k—of th e conc l u di ng s cenes of the story, we can believ e th e wr it er ' s d escr i p ti on o f th e sor t of mental e ,, a . ti ' l 'ne which hi mse lf , or hi s h ero , h a d un d erg on e , to of L. le him to gi ve th e roman tic colouring to this portion Is adventures. Of his early studies he says : A QUIXOTE IN EMBRYO. tipo t itled in the depths of the sombre forest, or floating the bro a d St. L awrence on a raft of ray own con g9k,l°49 or seated amid the ruins of the old trading have mentioned ; tales, travels, plays, poetry and t o t , Dt a 'ere swallowed indiscriminately with the most "die l - " e nsive avidity. All came alike to me, and were tta aj e d alike. I knew that many people looked upon l books as fictions. I could only wonder at such tl ftl ittu. • Were there not kings and princes, and beau ttit4,.aules in the world ? Then there must be dragons, 14 01,•',. and enchanted castles. The evidence was the gh t i ar both. 1 knew that the Seven Champions once t he' " l ed each one i n p ro p r i a p e rsona, and that some of mb r i t , tel ations were still left in the world. I knew that l kh r ,i Crusoe was a veritable personage; no imaginary to),a•''lcation of a common-place Scotchman, but a true lElle i ,de fellow, who bad no more to do with Alexander i;,,;, t han I had. Even Jack the Giant Killer—if any %ce that"" dared to doubt, in my presence, his bodily exis katii boy would have been flogged. At length this Da' for it amounted to that, reached its crisis. A copy tit etil °ll Quixote fell in my way. The pleasure—the ex -1414„e,at, as I re amounted to agony. There was uo ,!iiioldierous in any of the Don's adventures. Taking `, 4 e for giants was a mistake, no doubt, but then themselves were worthy opponents. I / ie„ ti c) : t n attack a windmill. I had a perfectly clear con -2041,7' that, if I could once fairly charge a windmill, I ,overthrow it and compel it to resume its true °tit-' it , v t hat of some gigantic magician. Unfortunately the i ndmill in the neighbourhood was one with wings " 4 % 4 - eyed horizontally, and at some distance from the tbea;teThe talest knight that ever beEtrode a charger hot ;,, e ahands could not have touched the lower edge of e . , tn , the poit of his lance. The windmill was safe, the l p -11 ,u1 not help feeling something like contempt for • 7 1 a ' if``' cowardly whirligig, that, confiding in its secure seemed to mock my ambition. The excitement lit; r nind seemed to increase. My brain became as full s urd con ce it s as th e o ld Don's. I could not sleep, 411 th . e Ya pPetite, grew pale and emaciated, and in fact was `Ce ver y verge of settled insanity." S hb lSt, however, proceed in more regular order to tthi v e e j to the rea d er an id ea o f the nature of the work, k li i s more f u ll o f var ied incident—of " strange ad are both b y fl oo d an d fi e ld "—than any which has nt • T h 7 issued from the press. au tobiographer, Jonathan Romer—a most fit cog ken btt ' if an a had been inserted between the o and na— kahea I nitive of N an t uc k e t, an d come of a race of whale ts; Adventure, he says, was hereditary in him ; Lkot ' llt th ,oUgh every effort had been made by his widowed Ltsl;•', 2 . Prevent his embracing the pursuit of the sea, ,h„is ancestors ha . d fallen victims, and which had the family propensity was strong in the youth, and ,' 4 )ar„ a ,uifested itself in his undertaking a sporting excur ,lll-40 the western woods of his native State, in corn i,4N)lavl°.ith, a veteran trapper, in the course of which he [ages 'Ltne native hardihood of his race, and the advan ;?eti.,`. a proficiency in every athletic exercise. This !rl, :g Portion of the narrative is most graphically writ re CZ! full of versatile talent. is at length, upon th,;"u of his widowed mother, placed as an apprentice t ' l l i ill; i n ledical prof e s s i on , to which he had been destined ; hi s got into a scrape, caused by mismanagement tork" urst attempt at body-snatching, escapes to New t ool l ' and embarks in the " Lively Anne," a vessel I °Y a a uded by a friend of his father, bound for Bermuda. "V" series of misfortunes, he is at length thrown on 414 slaver, of which, and of her hairbreadth escapes, o lfri e ,• l ll ng description is given, until we find him on the ,qc. tt , coast, in the character of the (forced) medical 'q!irk A ,Of the ship, a witness to the proceedings in a slave illti* This portion of the work is most graphically , t t R - L i • Here he discovers, amongst the slaves offered a female captive, Kaloolah, a white girl, the rt e 4 et hutsortio of the interior of Africa, not .yet aid to be inhabited by a perfectly white race, `ottl,.. nl a state of high civilization. This girl and her (the children of the king of the country in ques- A tl,n , c ,, a Purchases, with a view to rescue them from the ;tter„ B of slavery, and sails with them in the slaver. tgiel l ' a tue further stirring events, amid the narration of we have given to us amost striking description of gl),() w ens of the " middle pa m ssage," the three are nicked wri ng jumped overboard—by a British cruiser, which oathe e nase of the slaver ; and are brought to Sierra yA • From thi s pl ace J ona th a n Ro m er, enfeebled by thi l i nvr fever, which he had caught at the slave barra -4[444 a longing to visit the scenes of home, notwith tbtlie,.g a growing affection for Kaloolah, who, with her k ikde,: , were a b ou t t o set out, with a party of Mandingo ip f o ' r op the route towards their native country. A Liverpool offered itself, in which he took his i t , Da r e and we give the following extract, describing mtla w i ng from Kaloolah, as a beautiful specimen of the 8 management of pathetic narrative i— wh.rhe A SCENE WITH RALOOLAH. i ll NI Dallo r of death overspread the features of Kaloolah t ‘ N 1 1) 4 , l ln9unced to her that I had made arrangements t n o o sr a l i i, l 4 4 l t ie eye,tegu r yeringip, fix d l the bloodless cheek, tote :shrunken rigidity of her whole frame indicated the in hat th e within. For a moment she stood thus, erect, jr,'lxt save asm passing, my outstretched arm was I h time to her from falling to the ground.. Gently Woh a 'lt 0 . upon the green sward at the foot of a waving palm, 4 41. Y Q !ler side. She did not faint-1 was in hopes that she Ili 1 s hocked and frightened, I knew not what to say or I screamed to Enphadde, but he was far down the h , L !t44: ll outed to some negro women for water, but they paid t0,,,, 4 1c e : fl an. I rubbed her hands, raised her head, and turned L`l'Y t o the cool sea breeze that came up from the broad es. YBi gec r and at last did what was the very best thing to do d bp s l!er in my arms, pressed her to my heart, and kissed . 4 Pl'ee n a fe W minutes she struggled with the tide of feeling that V a suddenly thrown back upon her heart. She gre a w 'o 4 '4 gs gazed. When I first saw her she was a child—n 411141"seinating child—and now ! It seemed as if at one !oelle b e reached the verge of womanhood. 'tiulir at . e nt forward her head, covered her face with her hands t ko l %ve r .ll 2to a passionate flood of tears. I felt relieved. Iler pyl sre „lo trie like the rain drops to the mariner in a hurri- Ptesage of a calm. 'Tis well, thought I, and I drew le l ,' th e more freely, 'tis well the heavy night dews, dropping th e ended flower, relieve it from the weight that endan kte stem . s eise d her head. Kaloolah !' said I. ,kl4,ang into my arms, and buried her face in my bosom. t ", s Tali 1 you love me!' / (4 T, nouht els in tis worl' she relied. Kaloolah e was about , p to add some protesta -40.e th - ;"°n, but would my feelings towards he- warrant it q" fr o 'Y those of strong abiding love ? Were they other r, - ernap, tt 411 1 . a• • Other than a syinpathy for her misfortunes, 1 10'4 4 %lon of her simplicity—her innocence? I knew not 4 1 _they were, would it be right to express them ? I I T „'") , mother, and fancied I could almost hear the son ! my son !' amid the sighs of the gentle sea , ' Aim sw ept through the rustling palm-tops. 0 ,ttf,\Vilt!'hliad de?' said I. a ) „,, u r P neY more easily without me—he will reach home An gladden the eyes that now weep for him. h i :V t Kaloolah ?' passionately exclaimed Kaloolah, am your k., e/ro t osorittii i:ylwbiy e a l u—where you go I will go—your country shall Kaloolah Enphadde will never go and .behiadt Wth you how would he dare to meet ‘il jc,in,a eyes °` that white- haired old man who sits -mourning for tiliAilth:tt child, beloved daughter, in the halls of al i rick of you cousins, Kaloolah. Think of the play -041,6f t6fillends, and servants, who all loved ypu so much. 'rk 4 sh a e all of crystal, the court of the fountains, and the , tt y gallery that looks down upon the joyous and man e t• Think of the pleasant walks in the royal gardens kre r t th e a Wss of the Wollo. Think of your favourites—the irds, the diamond fish, and Gogo, your golden that yo woull mind no 4 omhut you, and who was , so s jtk,t"la ;.:I))ttve Z O o p t ensthle ,. . the y beau n oatinfunn t leap 11 : 1 4 . 1 ;* 1(011 r en t e a t l ll k g sisters, Kaloolah, op,e4,T,„..Presence will change their tears into smiles. s rourn are in gloom, for there is grief in the wi tll.l',4 ki th .19unsi, the father of his people return will tiDieark ie le voices of gladness. The hall of crystal will the h 1 fla we and play in the court of the fountains 7 -e 4, 1 11 1 v e deers will raise their bended heads—your silent will resume their songs—the diamond fish will alat'Wev light from the lowest depth of their marble 4. a one ` Jo go — sensible Gogo—will cease to pine when he th e ore in the footsteps of his mistress.' sh e 7 r e e Kaloolah withdrew herself from my arms. O at h:htle a s w 1, 1) her slight and graceful figure to its full Parkle of feminine pride beamed from her eye. ‘3t esti „ ,she said. • I undestand you. You love me -94 ee. 15,1 5 be burdened with me no longer. I forgot „' Of th e ,You but a useless slave , I fancied that I was a k t .,l/4 . 1 0 0 Q40ng line of Shounsi—forgive my foolishness—' 4 N._ co ti , t , said I, reproachfully, taking her hand. ,4riS vnitilCe fell, she grasped my hand in both of hers )Ittyorgi;Tnin .st,arted to her eys %4 she sobbed you have been too kind to me. Wit ha ve go with nphadd , b t—b t—those pleasant t ay e i v ` hee s rtn P s t rit hd o eei f E in , Jr , l ov e dh u_ u Kaloolap, think not so. Enphadde feels con& Ing them. " He may—he will, but unless in company with you, Jon'- than, 1 shall never see them. They are here, Jon'than, and here,' pointing her hand to her head and heart; but we look upon the realities together, or I shall never see them.' " A foolish fancy, Kaloolah. Why should you think so ?' " I know not why, but so it is. Yet mention it not to En phadde—l would not discourage him in the attempt.' " Perhaps you will tell a different story when I visit you a year or two hence in Framazugda,' said I. " How! what mean you?' exclaimed Kaloolah. " That, perhaps, I will yet undertake to visit your country. It is possible, I will even say probable, but it would only be in hopes of finding you.' " Oh, Jon'than, if that could be so! but I cannot hope it.' "' It shall be so—l feel that such will be my destiny—be as sured that I shall make no resistance to the march of fate.' As I spoke the resnlu'ion full formed sprang into life. I felt its invigorating influence. Why should I not give Kaloolah the full benefit of it? _ _ _ " • I will certainly make the attempt to reach Framazugda," said I, energetically. "`When?' " Ere the almond-trees have three times strown, with their silver leaves, the garden walks on the Wollo.' " You promise?' " No circumstances, that I can control, shall prevent me from being there. I promise.' " Oh, Enphadde !' exclaimed Kaloolah, throwing herself joy fully into the arms of her brother, who was advancing to join us. Jon'than will come to see us. We shall see him again— he has promised to join us ere long in Frainazugda.' " God grant it,' replied Enphadde, no stranger could bring such light and joy to the court of Sellta Shonnsi.' " We seated ourselves upon the sloping green sward, and for an hour discussed the pleasant and newly-opened prospect of a future meeting. Uncontrolled by reason, hope revelled wild and free, indulging in the most delightful vagaries. An event, really so improbable, seemed to grow more and more simple and feasible the longer we considered it. Kaloolah, so far from dreading now the journey, was anxious to set out at once, that she might be at home to receive me. " Unfortunately, the kaffila of Mandingos would not be ready to start for two or three weeks, whereas, in a day or two at most the ship in which I was going would sail. This would be a lonely interval of time for them, but there was sonic encou ragement in the reflection that it was short. and would soon " Again and again had I to repeat the promise of coming to Framazugda. Kaloolah dwelt upon it every hour of the three days that elapsed before my departure, and at the last moment she exacted its solemn renewal. " I shall watch the fall of the almond's silver leaves," were her last words, the fourth time, and you come not, they fall on my grave. Farewell !' " Farewell, Kaloolab " Gracious heaven I like not, even now, to think of the horrible choking sensation with which these words were pro nounced. Not ten miles from land, and I would have given the world to have returned and linked my fate indissolubly with hers. But it could not be, and well it could not. Myste rious agencies were weaving the threads of destiny far more skilfully than we could have done, hadwe had complete control of warp and woof." We pass over his shipwreck on the Arabian coast, and the narrative of his captivity, and various escapes and suffering in the Desert, where he meets with Kaloolah, who is a slave travelling to market with a company of Arabs, and with whom he proceeds towar_ls her native country. The following adventure, which occurred on the route, displays the writer's powers of description in another vein : • - - THE IRISH RENEOADE " Returning through the narrow and filthy streets, to ne door that opened into the little court in front of my house, I was struck with the appearance of a ragged and squalid figure that accosted me for alms. A few woollen tatters hung about his person, which was thickly bestudded with sores; a brown rag was tied around his black, bullet head, and the ends brought down so as partially to defend his eyes, which were disgustingly inflamed. His form was emaciated, and he walked with a feeble and tottering gait. His age was about thirty. Such figure are common enough in any Mahommedan town, but there was something in this tellow's appearance that at once arrested my attention. There was a familiar look about him, and there was a melancholy twinkle at the bottom of his dark gray eye, that spoke of a soul not yet broken down by the frowns of fortune, or driven into the Mussulman's usual refuge —a stupid indifference to life, with its miseries and pains. "He said that be had not tasted food for several days. His looks were sufficient proof of the fact ; so, slipping three or four feloos—a copper coin—into his hand, I told him to go and purchase bread. " An hour or two afterwards, as I was standing in the little court, which was separated from the street by a low wall, I was startled by a voice, singing. in a low tone, a verse or two of the well-known Irish song, the Exile of Erin. Mounting, so as to overlook the wall, I saw the beggar, seated on theground be side the wicket, apparently awaiting my exit. In the meantime he was amusing himself with singing and talking to himself, and in poking a pile of offel with his staff. There was no one but myself within hearing; but, even if there had been, he need hardly have feared to discover his secret thoughts and feelings, inasmuch as he was speaking a language which no citizen of El Garwan could have understood. My surprise may he ima gined, when I heard the fellow talking in good, plain English, though with certain peculiarities of accent and pronunciation that spoke strongly of that gem of the ocean, the Emerald Isle. His words ran nearly as follows : " Sure, its in luck you are to-day, Mr. Hugh Doyle!' Taint every day that yer stomach has a chance to cry enough, in the face and eyes of a calabash of milk and meal. Will ye be aisy now, an' may be I'll get ye some more from the same place. Ali, Hugh Doyle I Hugh Doyle ! do ye remember the time when ye'd hardly say thank ye for a meal of parates and meat? and now ye're starving to death I—And don't ye deserve it, ye vaga bond ? Didn't ye desart yer country in anger, and havn't ye renounced your God in fear?—Are ye a true man, Hugh Doyle? Devil the bit of it ! Ye're a cowardly, lying, skulking thief of a renegade !—Can you pray? Yes, ye can, to Allah and Maho• met ! Allah, illah, Allah 1 Mohammed rasoul Allah ! And is that yer creed ? Ye've sworn it, ye villain I Holy . Mother of God ! ye're damned Hugh Doyle ! All the praists in the world, with the pope and his cardinals at the back of 'em, couldn't absolve ye ! And how have ye bettered yerselt? When a slave ye were worked and paten, but ye were fed. Ye chose to make a haythen and a beggar of yerself, and now ye're starving to death Ye have the lot of Lazarus in this world, without a chance of his fate in the next ; and all becase ye are not a true man. Ochone i Ochnne ! I mourn for ye, Hugh Doyle !' " The beggar bent his head in silence. A few low sobs came from his breast,which was evidentlyfilled with emotions deeper and stronger than would seem to be indicated by his deliberate, audible, self-communings. With his thin hand he passed a portion of his tattered garments across his eyes. " In a few minutes he raised his head, and commenced sing ing " There came to the beach—" ah !if I could only get to that same Bache I—seems to me if I could see the ocean on'st more I could die content. Sure I could look across it as aisy as across the lake at Bournboy, and see the green hills of Erran and Derrymoni. Sure I could pick up its drops in my hand and ask them, did they know anything of the water of Cavan ? had they ever fallen in rain upon the Ballyneegeerah ? Had they ever hung in dew diamonds from roses of Eneskillen ? Had they ever been scattered from the daisies by the light steps of the " Pride of the Borne l'--Och, Bessy, mavour neen, why did ye smile on Teddy Moffatt and frown black as night on Hugh Doyle? Could ye see me now, but little would ye drame that ye saw the boy ye drove to list in the marines --I was mad----Ye thought I wouldn't, but I did, and here sits Hugh Doyle among haythens, himself as big a haythen as can be found in the four quarthers of Asia, Africa and America--Och, Hugh, you vagabond (had luck to ye, I would say, but sure ye've enough of that same,) ye've desartedyer country, ye've changed yer religion, ye've sold yer soul for nothing at all. Small price ye may say; and so it would be for a dacent soul, but yer's is worth no more, and ye can't complain, for hasn't the divil paid ye up like a jintleman, and a man of his word? Hugh, Hugh Doyle, ye'll starve in this world and roast in the next, ye poor, mane, un fortunate vagabond We shall not attempt to pursue the story to its de nouement, or weaken the interest of the reader by even hinting at the nature of the further adventures of our autobiographer. The wonders of the city of Kiloam, the capital of the country of Kaloolah, will be read with inte rest even by those who have devoured the narratives of the Princess Arunzibede, and be relished even after Swift's delightful delineations of the Brobdignagians and Hounyhyms. The wild notions of our Yankee are full of snatches of mingled sarcasm and playful wit. As a whole, we recommend the work to our readers, of every phase of taste, as full of varied talent; and conveying as well, along with a considerable amount of wild inventiveness, much information, bearing upon the habits and charac teristics of the different localities through which he leads us in his erratic " journeyings." RAILWAY AFFAIRS. A railway from Ulverstone to the Lancaster and Carlisle line at Burton is said to he contemplated. The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company have agreed to purchase at par the Liverpool and Southport The English shareholders in the Dutch Rhenish rail way have gained their object, the directors having agreed to concede b their wishes. CALEDONIAN RAILWAY.—On Monday, this Company opened the Clydesdale Junction line for traffic to and from Hamilton, connecting it with the Ayrshire and Greenock Railways, and giving them a terminus on the south side of the Clyde. The passenger receipts of the railway lines leading to the metropolis have fallen off very much during the last few weeks. This is attributed chiefly to the prevalence of cholera in London. The receipts on the lines leading from London to Herne Bay, Margate, Brighton, Folk stone, and other places have very decidedly increased. HORSES TRAVELLING BY RAILWAY.—in the Stafford shire county court a plaintiff has recovered £3O and costs for damage done to a horse intrusted to the North Staf fordshire Company's care for conveyance between Crewe and Langport. It was argued on the part of the company that by their regulations for the conveyance of horses they were not liable for loss or injury, where it arose from vice, violence, or restiveness. The court would not undertake to say whether the conditions of the company were bind ing on the community. As it was not shown that there was vice or restiveness, but on the contrary, that the horse in question was tractable and quiet, and " accustomed to railway travelling," and that the oscillation of the car riages on the occasion was such as to throw a person off his seat, and consequently sufficient to alarm a dumb ani mal, the company were declared liable to make full com pensation. 11Ir. J. S. Yeats, of Bank Chambers, London, in a letter published in the Times, supplies the following com parison of the merchandise traffic in some of the principal railweys, in the half-years ending the 30th of June, 1848 and 1849: 1848. 1849. London and North-Western .t 239,800 385,081 Great Western Lancashire and Yorkshire 96,181 153,422 Miland Yor d k and North Midland 2,937 251,320 104,327 94,255 ;York, Newcastle, and Berwick 168.161 203,075 ft:astern Qout,ties South-Western . 47,960 56,410 Brighton The large decrease on the York and North Midland rail way may, to a certain extent, be attributed to the blockade of the ports in the north of Europe more i mme di a t e l y con nected with the port of Hull. THE BRITANNIA TUBULAR BRIDGE. --Active prepa rations are being made at the Menai Straits connected with the renewed attempts at raising the tube to its per manent level, a process looked forward to with considera ble anxiety, in consequence of the late misadventure. The new cylinder intended to replace the one that sprung, was cast on Saturday week. It has to be a week in sand, to get annealed, by which process it will soon become toughened. When in perfect readiness, the new cylinder will be shipped on board a steamer direct to the Straits. It will be a machine of prodigious power, of cast-iron, in one piece from sixteen to twenty tons weight, and capable of sustaining a pressure of 9,000 or 10,000 lbs. on the inch. Since the accident, last month, the whole range of the scaffolding and ell the immense machinery have re ceived such a superabundance of strength for the next trial that any recurrence of the recent casualty is looked ußon as improbable. The tube is now raised about: one- .r - . An anonymous donor has presented £lOOO to St. Mark's Training College, Chelsea, to be applied to the extension of the College. Dr. Sutherland arrived at Hull on Wednesdoy after noon, having been sent down expressly by the General Board of Health, to make inquiry as to the causes of the present fearful amount of mortality and sickness. On Saturday. at Tipton, Worcestershire, two boys were suffocated by foul air in a pit, and two men who went down to their assistance lost their lives through the same means. An explosion of fireworks took place in High-street, Kensington, on Monday evening, on the premises of a Mr. Jones. That house was blown down, the furniture de stroyed, and Mrs. Jones killed. The whole coast of Scotland is alive with shoals of her ring and mackerel. One boat entered the harbour of Dundee, last week, realising £45 for their night's work. One penny per dozen is the common price for herrings. The committee of the common council of the city of London have fairly abandoned the colonisation of Con naught, for the simple reason that the corporation has not got funds to apply to the purpose. If done, it must be done by private speculation. John Tollemache, Esq., of Peckforton Castle, M.P. for South Cheshire, has sailed with his son on a tour to the corn and cheese growing districts of the United States. His sojourn in the Western World will be of about two or three months' duration. On Tuesday a commercial traveller at Hull got intoxi cated. accompanied a female to a house of ill-fame, was seized with the cholera, and died ; as did also three fe males in the house. The four corpses lay in the house at one time. The man and woman implicated in the late case of attempted extortion on the Messrs. Herries, the bankers, have been committed for trial. The female is not the man's daughter, but a woman of loose character with whom he was living. The Carlisle Patriot, describing a fete at Brougham hall, in celebration of the birth-day of L4,l_ Brougham's nephew, says—" No one more enjoyed the dance, or was more attentive to the country lasses, than Lord Brougham himself." On Tuesday the body of a child was found buried in a garden at the village of Donnington, near York. A ver dict of wilful murder has been returned against the sup posed mother, who had previously borne three illegitimate children. Among the visitors to the new Birmingham Gaol, which was opened for public inspection last week, were several thieves, who contrived to pick the pockets of three or four other persons, whose curiosity had led them to the prison. Several tradesmen and billstickers of Nottingham are about to petition the town council to make a bye-law, checking the practice of stripping posting bills from walls, in order to sell them as waste paper, a practice which has lately become very common in Nottingham. A correspondent of the Times. by way of aiding the movement against intra-mural interments, proposes that all burial grounds shall be upon the route of lines of railway, and suggests that on certain days " funeral trains" might run with advantage to the companies. The Rev. P. Hall, a visitor at Nialvern for the last few months, has committed suicide by cutting his throat in the presence of his lady, who, in endeavouring to prevent him had her hands cut. He had been under medical treatment for some time. The number of houses erected in London since January Ist, 1839, amounts . to 64,058 ; and the number of new streets formed to 1,652, two hundred miles in length. The increase of population, from 1839 to 1849, is esti mated at 325,904; the total population of the metropo litan district being now about 2,336,960. In confirmation of a statement that shoemakers were entirely exempt from the great plague of 1666, it is a remarkable fact there was not a single death from cholera among the members of the London Shoemakers' Trade Union when that disease visited this country in 1832. A man named Thomas, a trombone-player at the theatre at Reading, met his death by his instrument, which had become partially covered with that green in crustation frequently to be seen on brass, corning in con tact with a slight razor-cut on his lip, thereby causing mortification. Dugald Madeay, forester to the late Mr. Hay Macken zie, of Cromartie, has accidentally killed himself, in the forest of Rhidorach. He had brought down an eagle with one barrel of his gun, and it is supposed he was despatch ing the bird with the butt end, when the other barrel exploded, lodging the charge in his body. EXTRAORDINARY ROBBERY.-011 Monday night a field of wheat, of the quantity of about half an acre, the property of Mr. Lawrence, surgeon, at Cheddar, Somer set, which was cut and ready for carrying, was actually stolen and carried off the ground; and as yet the thieves have not been detected. TAKING THE VEIL.—On Saturday two young ladies went through the ceremony of what is termed "taking the veil," or entering upon their novitiate. previously to being admitted as nuns. at the new convent of the Good Shepherd, the second Catholic institution of the kind in Hammersmith. A singular accident occurred at Worcester last week. A Mr. Thomas Brookes had placed a pair of kid gloves on his hands for the purpose of cleaning them, and was washing them with turpentine : whilst doing so, he went incautiously to the fire to light paper, the turpentine ig nited, and his hands were dreadfully burned. A few days since, a valuable mare, the property of a clergyman, near Tavistock, fell down an old mine shaft, seventy-two feet deep. A man was soon after lowered, and having fastened a rope round the fore legs of the animal, she was pulled up by about fifty men who had as sembled there; and, what is very extraordinary, she was not in the slightest degree injured. MR. MUSTERS.—This gentleman expired on Saturday last, at one of his country residences, Annesley aged 72. He was the fortunate rival of Lord Byron, and was married to Miss Chaworth, the noble poet's " Mary," in 1806, when his lordship was but a minor. He is suc ceeded in his immense possessions by his grandson John, a boy thirteen years of age. LIFE ASSURANCE AND CHOLERA.—The fear of death from this fell malady has had a material effect upon the business of the best assurance offices, as, to use a common expression, there has been quite a " run upon them" during the last two months. It is satisfactory, however, to state that the claims upon these companies on account of cholera, and, indeed, on account of deaths from all causes, have not exceeded the estimated mortality of this season of the year. DREADFUL bEATH.—On Thursday a pauper idiot was scalded to death at the Stroud Union Workhouse. The surgeon had ordered hire to be placed in a warm bath, and he was immediately conducted to one which had just before been used by a temale pauper. In it he was placed, without tha slightest precaution to ascertain the tempera ture of the water, and his attendants appear to have totally disreprded his piercing shrieks. The miserable creature was at last found in the bath scalded to death. It is not generally known that Isabel Kelly, a cele brated novelist in her day (50 years ago) is alive at ninety years of age, residing at Brompton, and retains her facul ties and reads the smallest print without spectacles. Connected with the highest families in Scotland, she boasts she was born in a castle, (that of Caernbro',) nursed in a cottage, (by one of the family cottars,) and bred at court. Her father, Captain Fordyce, was the last carver and cup-bearer to George 111. Sir Fitzroy Kelly is her only son. DESPERATE ASSAULT BY A PRISONER.—One day last week a burglar named Morris, confined in the Hereford gaol, attacked the governor with a large iron bar, but in co n sequence of the smallness of his cell his fatal inten tions were not accomplished, it being impossible to wield the deadly weapon with effect. The villain vowed the most dreadful revenge against a gaoler, and professed his readiness to expiate his acts by death provided he could only sate his brutal desire for the blood of an unoffending man, Fifty lashes were administered to him as a cor rection. --- ----- HEREFORD MUSICAL FESTIVAL.—The one hundred and twenty-sixth meeting of the three choirs of Worcester, Hereford, and Gloucester, has taken place this week at Hereford. The festival has been well attended. The list of the principal vocal performers includes the names of Madame Castellan, the Misses Williams, Miss Poole, and Messrs. Sims Reeves, Hobbs, Lockey, H. Phillips, and Machin, and a small but complete band, under the leadership of Messrs. Blagrove and Willy, Messrs. Amott (Gloucester), and Done presiding respectively, at the organ and pino-forte. HORRIBLE DEATH.—Mr. George Tyther, author of the " Pictorial Spelling Book," died last week, in West minster, aged sixty. He had for some time been very eccentric, not allowing any one to enter his lodgings. When they were broken into the stench was so horrible that the landlord and those with him had to retreat three times before they could enter the room. When they did so they found the deceased in the last stage of putrefac. tion, and around him vessels of the most offensive matter scattered in all directions, together with heaps of other filth, including crab-shells, rags, &c, A voter in the interest of Mr. Best, the Conservative, M.P. for Kidderminster, was drugged, kidnapped, and spirited away to Shrewsbury, where he was placed in the lockup, and his captors retired to enjoy themselves, ima gining that their victim was safe. The fact, however, came to the ears of the Conservative agent at the latter town, who got the man liberated, and conveyed him back to Kidderminster to vote a few minutes before the poll closed. His abductors during the whole of this time fancied their prey was secure, and they left ten shillings to be given to the man when he came to himself. CHOLERA PRECAUTIONS.—The remedy proposed in this town by Dr. Sutherland is comprehensive to an extent which will astonish some of the pennywise, pound-foolish members of the Hull Board of Guardians. We are now to have three additional medical officers for night service, six medical officers for house-to-house visitation, a house of refuge with sixty beds, an additional cholera hospital, two dispensaries for South Myton, a dispensary for the town within the docks, twelve labourers to cleanse and lime-wash houses in which deaths from cholera shall occur, and a proper inspector of nuisances, who is to di rect the operations of the lime-washers.—Hull Adver tiser. GALVANISM.—The following is extracted from the Court Journal, of Jan. 29 :—" It is now about four years since that we informed our readers it was to be regretted galvanism was not more extensively used as a remedial agent. We have every reason to believe that our advice was attended to ; for, in a comparatively short time, Mr. Halse's residence was crowded with the elite of fashion, and their less fortunate fellow-sufferers ; and we feel con fident, judging from the astonishing remedial effects it has produced upon ourselves after all kinds of medi c i nes an d hydropathy had failed to impart any benefit, that the public will thank es for our recommendation. W e were delighted to notice a short time since, that Mr. Halse was patronised by the Lord Bishop of London, and Sir Charles Clark, his Lordship's physician. Mr. Halse's great reform in the galvanic apparatus, and his improved methods of application, justly entitle him to rank at the head of his profession. We again, recommend our readers to give galvanism a fair trial."' The Times of Saturday contained a list of subscriptions to the column proposed to be erected " as a sea-mark for the navigation of an intricate and dangegous part of the navigation of Morecambe Bay, in the neighbourhood of his birthplace, Ulverstone, Lancashire," in honour of Sir John Barrow, forty years Secretary to the Admiralty, whose whole life was i passed in usefully serving his country, who accompanied Lord Macartney's embassy to China, explored far into Africa, &c. The amount already sub scribed is 500 guineas. BOARD OF HEALTH PROSECUTIONS.—Friday's Gazelle contains instructions from Lord Ashley slid Mr. E. Chad wick, as representatives of the Board of Health, author ising Mr. Austin, the secretary of the said board, to prosecute the guar dians of the poor of the City of London Union, the guardians of the Greenwich Union, the churchwardens of St. Margaret's, Westminster, the churchwardens of St. Saviour's, Southwark, and the managers of the burial ground of Tottenham-court Chapel, Middlesex, for wilful violation and neglect of orders issued by the Board of Health for the prevention of diseases and nuisances. LOLA MONTES.—This lady fled again to the Continent on Monday night. On Wednesday the recognizances were estreated, the counsel for Mr. Heald's aunt, declaring that that lady's object was to rescue the son of a deceased and beloved brother from a marriage equally illegal and disgraceful, and that she would enforce that object here after, when further information should be received from India of the continued existence of Mr. James. The ef fect of the decision is that Lola Montes forfeits £lOOO, and her two sureties forfeit £5OO each, and that she does not then debar herself from being criminally proceeded against. - IMMENSE ARRIVALS OF FOREIGN CORN.—For some months back there have not been such arrivals of foreign corn into the port of Cork as have taken place during the past few days. The harbour of Queenstown may now be said to be glutted with foreign breadstuffs. On Monday no fewer than eleven vessels arrived with maize; Tuesday six vessels with maize and one with wheat; Wednesday the unusual number of twenty-seven vessels with maize, two with barley, and one with wheat; and on Thursday four vessels with maize, making a total for four days of 48 vessels laden with maize, two with wheat, and two with barley. These importations must have a disastrous effect on the Irish agricultural interest—the only interest at pre sent existing in the country. NEW ROTARY ENGlNE.—Captain Fitzmaurice (late second Life Guards) has invented a rotary engine, merely consisting of two pieces so mathematically arranged that the interior part works in the outer with the greatest ease, being free from dead points and without the slightest vibration, however great the velocity. It has no springs or packing, and the parts meet each other so harmoni ously as only to give a humming noise like a spinning top, and is not in the least liable to get out of order, the wear being perfectly uniform throughout. The entire motion being a rolling instead of a cutting one, the engine will last long without repair, as the surfaces become case hardened in a very short space of time. The engine weighs considerably less than one cwt. to each horse power, and requires much less fuel than the ordinary engines, and is so easily set in motion, graduated to any velocity, or stopped that a boy of twelve years of age might mannage it with one hand. An engine of 100-horse power on Captain Fitzmaurice's construction would only occupy a space of four feet by two feet. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT CAMBRIDGE.—About twelve o'clock on Saturday night a fire, wh'ch proved a very de structive one, broke out on the premises of Mr. Ledge, who has lately opened a ready-made clothes shop in the Market-place of this town. The owner of the shop had set off to London but an hour or two previous to the fire being discovered, leaving no inmate in the house. The fire having soon demolished these premises, spread on either side, burning down the shops and premises of Kent, hatter, and Peerless, draper, on the Town-hall side; and those of Orridge, chymist (the corner house of the Mar ket place), then taking its course towards Warwick street, burning every house on its way, including those of Milligan, draper, Morden, oil merchant, Wanfor, confec tioner, and an uninhabited house next to Wanfor's, facing Warwick-street. The houses of Wilson, optician, in the Market-place, and Andrews, bootmaker, in Warwick street, were also much damaged by fire and water. The origin of the fire is not yet known. There was a plentiful supply of water. The fire was not thoroughly got under till nearly seven o'clock next morning. A large amount of property was saved, though it is supposed that even now £lO,OOO or £12,000 worth has been destroyed. THE CONTRACT PACKET SERVICE.—On Friday ap peared a blue-book containing the report of a select com mittee of the House of Commons, appointed (last April) to inquire into the contract packet service. The commit tee report-1. That so far as the committee are able to judge from the evidence taken, it appears that the mails are conveyed at a less cost by hired packets than by her Majesty's vessels. 2. That some of the existing contracts have been put up to public tender, and some arranged by private negotiat;on, and that a %ery large sum beyond what is received from postage is paid on some of the lines ; but considering that at the time these contracts were arranged, the success of those large undertakings was uncertain. the committee see no reason to believe that better terms could have been obtained for the public. 3. The committee recommend great caution either in renewing the existing or in forming new arrangements. They suggest that if it be decided to renew the existing contracts, the most strict and searching inquiry should be instituted, by some responsible department of the Go vernment, into the cost of the execution, into the manner in which the service has been performed, and into the profits resulting from the several transactions to the com panies by which they have been carried on ; and if it should be decided to put up the several contracts to public tender, ample notice and full particulars of the terms and conditions of the service required should be given to the public, as being most likely to secure a real competition by responsible parties. SUFFERING FROM HYDROPHOBIA.—The Leeds papers contain accounts of a very lamentable case of this kind. The fear of liquids manifested itself in the patient in a dreadful manner. When attempting to get his breakfast of coffee he was dreadfully convulsed, and could not touch the cup it was in. He wished, during the day, to be washed, and desired his mother to do it for him. His mother's description of his agonies as he manfully strug gled against the horrid fear that was convulsing him was most heart-rending. She had to desist and run with the bowl of water out of the house. His appearance when under a paroxyism was most fearful. Mr. Statter, the town's surgeon, saw him in the evening. He was quite collected and sensible, and described his sensations. Mr. Statter asked him to drink a little milk from a cup. He, with an effort, turned and stretched his hand out to take it, but before he could do so his arm was drawn with great force back to his body, and the muscles of the chest, neck and face, were fearfully convulsed. Mr. Statter was now satisfied that unless a powerful remedy was speedily ap plied, he must die within 24 hours. On Wednesday night the paroxysms increased in frequency and violence, and deceased died raving, and requiring five or six men to hold him down. His sufferings were dreadful to behold. What perhaps added to the grief of surrounding friends was, the fact that at intervals he was perfectly rational in his conversation, and in one of these lucid intervals be said to his mother, " Mother, I am dying —come and kiss me" ; and then added, suddenly, "No, no, don't, I may bite you." He requested that if in his ravings he should bite his mother, they would knock his head off the next moment. For some time before his death he barked and gnashed his teeth just like a dog. ELOPEMENT EXTRAORDINARY.---Th inhabitants of Nottingham, especially those moving in the middle and higher spheres of life, have during the last few days been greatly astounded, in consequence of the sudden disap pearance from amongst them, under very extraordinary circumstances, of one of their most highly-respected fel low-townsmen, Mr. Robert Parker, cotton agent. It seems that about a fortnight sincc Mr. parker wept with his wife to Cleethorees, where he left her, promising to fetch her home within a brief specified time; but not keeping his engagement, inquiries were made for him by his friends, who, to their great consternation, found that he had not only left the town, but that he had actually embarked per steamer for the United States, taking with him property in merchandise, a large amount of cash, and a girl in her teens. Mr. Parker is 62 years of age, and has been married upwards of 40 years. The girl with whom he has eloped was recently his kitchenmaid, and is by no means either ladylike or good-looking. It would appear that he has been fascinated with this girl's charms for some time previous, for about twelve months ago he placed her with Mrs. Farmer, on the Longrow, to learn the millinery business, and was often seen escorting her to her lodgings. Owing to the large amount of cash taken away, it is to be feared that Mr. Parker's creditors, espe cially his bankers, and Mr. Kirk, his partner, will suffer very seriously by his absence. The only sum left behind that might have been readily carried off was a check for £3OO, enclosed in an envelope directed to Mrs. Parker, and which was found within the leaves of the family Bible. The defaulter had no children, but he and his wife had brought up and educated several orphans. By Mr. Par ker's absence from Nottingham, it is feared that the liti gated bankruptcy case of Wakefield and Co., which in volves great liabilities, and in which he was one of the trade assignees, will be greatly impeded. Tim ROYAL ETCHINGS.—Mr. Judge, of Windsor, who was condemned in costs for violating the copyright in the royal etchings, has addressed a letter to the papers, endea vouring to show that he has been treated harshly by the Queen and Prince Albert, who abandoned proceedings against Mr. Strange immediately on his submission. Had Mr. Judge pursued the same course he would have been treated as leniently; i ns t ea d o f w hi c h h e p er sisted in hi s opposition, and now complains of having to pay the penalty. It appears Airs. Judge addressed a petition to the Queen, which has received the following dignified and merciful answer, dated Balmoral, September, 8 ,am commanded to acknowledge the receipt of your pet4tioktao the Clirwn for intercession 441 behalf of your hushand,"Vq . .7l.llge; an to 'ef:A , that, having been iirected make ii.tinu tea into the allegations brought forward by you, it appears that they are wholly unfounded. Neither have Mr. Strange's costs been added to Mr. Judge's, nor is Mr. Judge's debt owing to his Royal Highness Prince Albert. " Air. .budge was from the beginnin , . liable for the whole cost : the suit against M r . Strange was dropped from his hav ing made his submission; your husband, on the contrary, obliged it to proceed against him by following the opposite course, and the heaviness of the costs are entirely the conse quence of his pertinacity, and the costs are due to the solicitors employed in the cause. Any payment of costs, therefore, on the part of her Majesty and the Prince would be a gratuitous donation to your husband. " From your knowledge of his unremitting . efforts for many years to inflict every possible injury on her Majesty, the Prince, their family, and the Court, by a system of espionage into, misrepresentation and vilifying of, all the acts of their private life, you will be the best judge whether he deserves such a boon at their hands. Nevertheless, it is repugnant to the feel ings of her Majesty and his Royal Highness that innocent per sons like yourself and children should suffer in a cause with which their names are in any way connected, and I am com manded to forward to you a check for £lBO, with which you may pay your husband's costs, .and extricate him from prison ; and may be in future support hok family by a more honourable industry. " Requesting you will acknowledge the receipt of this money, I am, madam, your obedientaervant, G. E. ANSON. " Mrs. Judge." COURAGEOUS ACT.—A balloon ascent was made at Hull, on Thursday, by Lieutenant Gale, the wind blowing at the time a fresh breeze. The =cline rose beautifully, and when at a considerable distance Lieut. Gale was seen to descend, by means of a rope ladder, from the car at tached to the balloon t o ano th er pen d ant some distance below, whence he discharged a number of fireworks ; and then rejoined his companions aloft, ascending in the same fearless and intrepid style up the connecting ladder. THE CUTLERS' FEAST.—The annual grand banquet of the Cutlers' Company of Sheffield, took place on Thurs day, at the Cutlers'-hall, on the usual scale of magnifi cence. The number of the company exceeded 300. The Master Cutler, Mr. H. Atkin, presided, and near hi m were observed his Grace the Duke of Newcastle, Earl Fitzwilliarn, the Earl of Arundel and Surrey, Lord C. ord W. P. Clinton, Mr. J. Parker, M.P., M r . J. A. Clinton,ioebuck, M.P., the Mayors of Sheffield and Don caster, Sir A. J. Knight. and many other influential gen tlemen connected with the district. SINGULAR EXTRACTION OF A NEEDLE.—A woman in North Shields, while engaged fifteen years ago in wash ing the yard attached to her house, felt the prick of a needle in one of her fingers. On examining the place she found that it had actually gone in and disappeared. She applied many things, and among others a magnet, to ex tract it, but all to no effect. At length nothing more was thought of the needle. A few days ago the same woman became seriously ill with an acute pain near the shoulder. She sent for the doctor; he examined the painful part, and, singular to say, extracted the needle which, fifteen years before, had entered at the point of her finger. EXTRAORDINARY STORY. — A month ago a bull two years old, the property of a farmer named Barker, at Lar ling, near Thetford, which had been apparently unwell for some time, became so ill that the veterinary surgeon was sent for. lie administered a strong purgative medi cine, not long after which the bull was relieved of five snakes, two of which are each about 6 feet 3 inches long, and the other three are about three feet long each. The medicine had filled them before they came away. Their heads seem to have been destroyed ; but they were un doubtedly snakes. They are now shrivPlled and unnatural looking, but they are as thick as one's finger. The sur geon says that he never met with anything like them in his practice, nor heard of such a thing. His conjecture is, that they were swallowed by the bull in the egg. DANGER OF DELAY.—One of the registrars of Lam beth, says :—" At least half the cases of cholera I have registered were allowed to proceed unchecked until the most alarming and dangerous symptoms had manifested themselves; but lately more circumspection seems to have been used. Nevertheless, the cases are still nume rous in which persons seem (from the painless nature of the attack) to be unconscious how highly necessary it is that immediate attention should be paid to it." People are so much accustomed to associate danger exclusively with pain, that the most fatal symptom unaccompanied by pain is neglected. They must, however, be taught to look upon painless diarrhoea with the anxiety that people in the plague looked upon the swellings, called tokens— which were also painless—but with less fear. ORANGEISM AND EDUCATION.—On Sunday week at the request of the Orangemen of the Wibsey (Bradford) district, the Rev. J. Fawcett, M.A., Incumbent of Low Moor, preached a sermon in Low Moor Church to their body, and a liberal collection was made in aid of the funds of the Hill Top Sunday and day schools in that village. The brethren formed in procession at Wibsey, to the number of upwards of 500, and walked to the church. The rev. gentleman took for his text the 10th chap. of Nehemiah, and the latter clause of the last verse—" And we will not forsake the house of our God,"—from which he preached an excellent sermon, at the latter part of which he read the qualifications of an Orangeman, and spoke in high terms of their principles. After the sermon the brethren again formed in procession, and returned to their lodge-room at Wibsey, and then quietly separated to their own homes. PUNISHMENT IN THE NAVY.—During the recent examination in the case of Commander Pitman, by a court martial. Mr. Stephen Fisher, late paymaster and purser of the Childers, deposed that the sort and degree of the punishments was such as he had never seen in sixteen years' previous service. The boy Hayter was repeatedly punished with a cane over his hands and shoul ders ; at different periods was on bread and water, also carrying his hammock. He used to wear a collar made of heavy wood, which was locked around his neck. The collar was about two feet in length, and some fourteen or fifteen inches in depth. It opened in the ce ntre . with a large iron hinge to admit the neck, and an orifice was cut in the centre, and was then locked up. It was upwards of two inches thick. A piece of f. arnought was nailed inside as a lining to protect the neck. The collar was put on in the morning, and taken off when the hammocks were piped down. Hayter's head was also shaved on one side, as a punishment; and on his half-shaved head a great wooden funnel was tied for a cap. Mr. Elliot, mas ter of the Childers, whose trial and punishment were last week reported, gave detailed evidence as to the falseness of the entries in the log-book. He proved that Com mander Pitman got the Childers on Patras shoal, when he supposed he was ninety miles off; and that the log-book was subsequently altered in respect to bearings, track, rate of wind, and loss of sailing gear. The court has decided that the charge against Commander Pitman is partly proved, and ordered that he be dismissed the ser vice. HUMILIATION. —The Bishop of Salisbury has already had a special day of fasting and prayer throughout his diocese. The Bishop of Exeter has taken steps for the same. The Bishop of London, we regret to see, merely recommends particular parishes " where cholera prevails," to agree on some one Sunday, and to convert that Sun day into a partial fast day. The Bishop of Hereford has recommended his clergy to appoint a day for the same purpose; and the Bishop of Ripon, in reply to a letter from the Mayor of Leeds, has written to his rural deans stating his opinion that it would " be well that the clergy of each church should invite such among their respective congregations as are religiously and devoutly disposed, to assemble in public worship on Wednesday the 19th inst., and to humble themselves under the Mighty Hand of God ; beseeching Him of His great mercy to stay the pes tilence which is abroad, and to make this His righteous judgment a means of quickening the godly to increased devotion, while it awakens careless sinners to the peril of their souls, and leads them to the Cross of Christ as their only refuge. I will thank you, as rural dean, to commu nicate these my sentiments to your brethren of the clergy in the parish of Leeds : and praying Gad that He will strengthen all your hands for the unusual labours which press upon you; that He will protect you from all dan gers, and comfort you again after the time that be has af, flitted you." In many, very many of the towns in tl:e kingdom, a day has been set apart for the purpose, but a contemporary observes rightly, that such partial and iso lated observances are almost nugatory—must be so, unless the State cooperates to relieve all its subjects so disposed, from the clashing obligations of their secular avocations. Such awful exigencies, such admitted " Visitations from God," demand nothing less than a general day of national humiliation—according to all the instincts of natural, and all the dictates of revealed religion. PROGRESS OF THE CHOLERA.—Notwithstanding the evidences of a definite law of diffusion in cholera, the progress of this mysterious malady has been marked by anomalies, irreducible to any law of propagation hitherto ascertained, and even baffling theoretical interpretation. Of its rate we have already noted the extraordinary vari ations: having seen it span, within a year, the base of the Indian peninsula, yet take six years to travel from London to Rome. We have seen it sometimes radiating in all directiOn9-4e On it; `nisi outburst at Jessore; sometimes travelling in a definite stream, as along the Ganges, the Tigris, and the Danube. The limits of the cholera streams are sometimes astonishingly well marked. The poison often ravaged one bank only of the Ganges; and Colonel Rowles mentions a case in which it swept one side of a ship, lying in the Madras Roads, killing many of the sailors, while their comrades on the other side of the vessel remained untouched. We have seen the infection pursuing a course alternately regular and erratic, creeping and saltatory. This is as true of its progress from street to street of a single town, as of its spread from town to town, or from country to country across the globe. Thus, it leaped at once from Sunder land to London,• the intervening towns remaining unin fected. At the same time it also spread step by step from Sunderland to Houghton-le-Spring, Tynemouth, Newcastle, &c. So, in London, the other day, it ap peared one week in Fetter-lane, the next in Chancery lan; the next in Shire-lane,---creeping westward from street to street; yet, at the same time, it was heard of breaking out simultaneously in remote parishes, as if from separate centres of infection. On its first outbreak in Bengal in 1817, during its progress along the Ganges to the British camp, it overleaped Banda, Allahabad, Benares, and several other cities lying in its track ; but attacked them, as if by a receding wave, in the following year. Moorshedabad, one of the filthiest delta-towns of Bengal, lying in the very heart of the conflagration, is said to have entirely escaped. In its passage through Europe the epidemic left whole countries almost entirely untouched. Hanover, for example, with the single excep tion of Lunenburg, escaped ; as also did Carinthia and the Tyrol, though surrounded by infected districts. Leipsic, Dresden, and the principal towns of Saxony were equally fortunate, though their exemption cannot be ascribed to any special superiority in point of drainage, ventilation, or general well-being. A low level, heat, and humidity, usually promote the spread of cholera; yet to these rules we find many unaccountable exceptions. Generated in Bengal during the heats of a tropical sum mer, the poison yet ravaged Moscow and Archangel in the depths of a Russian winter, with the snow lying thick on the ground and the thermometer 35 eegre s below Zero. It was as virulent at Delhi and Meerut during the rainy season as in Bundelcund during the dry hot months. And though it spared many hill forts and isolated moun tains, as Rhotass, Adjeghur, and Killengur, while the plains around their feet were decimated, yet, strange to say, it clinched to the medical det,Ot at Landour, 8,000 feet above the level of the sea. At Gibraltar, too the epidemic proved as fatal to the men encamped on Wind mill-hill, and on an elevated part of the rock called Buena Vista, as to those quartered in the very centre of the town. Even the neutral ground, though always a safe refuge from the terrible black-vomit which infests the West Indies and Spain, afforded no immunity to those who fled thither from the cholera in 1834. We have seen the pestilential influence ascending the Ganges against the periodical monsoon, and travelling, thus op posed, as rapidly as in other districts during a windless season. It is equally inconstant in its relation to other meteorological changes, though much stress has been laid upon its supposed dependence on the electrical condition of the air. It has sometimes, as at Petersburgh, been ushered in by thunderstorms; but thunderstorms have often, also, as at Paris last year, appeared to cliii*Exa_' progress. At Madras it was heralded by earthq r Chittagong and Dacca it prevailed during juin ohs 5 4 - Z at Nagpore and Saugor it raged with the .• • . s oltißd's _ 4 / 4 sweeping violently through all the streets • Itt ip a ,51 *e, town or other, as well of Europe as of In vailed during each month of the year, fr 14uviry -14 . „ • December. 4 -1 -wzi -AT l THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. quarter of what will be its actual ultimate elevation, and is resting twenty-five feet above high water. It has sub sequently to be hauled up 75 feet higher; and it is ex pected that in twelve days from the commencement of operations it will attain its proper level. THE RAILWAY ROBBERIES AT HIIDDERSFIELD.—In addition to the four persons (Wood, Whiteley, Yates, and Mellor) at present in custody on a charge of being connected with the robberies at the Huddersfield station of the London and North Western and the Yorkshire and Lancashire railways, nine more servants of both com panies have been taken on suspicion of being implicated in the affair, and also a person who resides in Golcar, named James Bailey, and the police are still on the alert after others. The whole of the prisoners, now fourteen in number, will be brought before the Huddersfield bench on Wednesday for examination, but it is probable that they will be remanded for further hearing. The quantity of goods missing is very large, and even since the first four captured prisoners have been in custody, two trusses, delivered to the London and North Western Company on Friday week, have disappeared in the same mysterious manner. The loss to the two companies through this system of plunder is proving to be very serious, and the extent to which it has been carried may be inferred from the fact that the Yorkshire and Lancashire Company have had heavy claims against them for compensation for lost goods during the past two years, and amounting in one half-year alone to more than £5OO paid by the Hud derfield agent alone. THE BERMONDSEY MURDER. On Tuesday, Mr. Binns, Manning's solicitor, wrote to the Commissioner of Police for a portion of the seventy three sovereig is found on his wife, for the purpose of con ducting his client's defence. He urged his claim on the ground that the money was Manning's,and as his wife had been allowed £2O by the magistrates, the same indulgence should be granted to him. The Commissioners have directed Inspector Yates to deliver to Mr. Binns a similar sum to that granted to Mr. Solomon for the defence of Mrs. Manning. The cholera has attacked some of the witnesses in the Bermondsey murder case. Mr. Bassett, clerk to Messrs. Killick, sharebrokers, Bank-buildings, to whom Manning disposed of O'Connor's Eastern Counties shares, was suddenly attacked on Friday week, and expired next day. Mr. Hammond was also attacked on Sunday. Both were in good health and spirits on Friday, when at the Police court. During the last few days Inspectors Yates and Burton have discovered some important additional evidence. Burton ascertained on Friday that the daughter of Mr. Wells, the bricklayer, was in the counting-house when Manning entered it to write his name and address for the lad co carry the lime. She took such particular notice of the man from the bouncible manner in which he conducted himself, that she informed Burton she was confident she could identify him again. In consequence of that In , spector Yates obtained an order from Mr. Secker for her to visit the prison, when the male prisoner was placed among twenty others in one of the yards. She instantly pointed him out as the party who purchased the lime. Her evidence, therefore, will be conclusive on that point. Hannah Fenner, the girl who washed the house for Mrs. Manning on the Saturday after the murder, also visited the prison, and identified her among other female pri soners as the person who employed her. These witnesses, with three or four others, were examined on Saturday. On Thursday. Inspector Yates received the following curious letter from Bolton, in Lancashire, relative to the murder : " Sir,—ln a cellar underneath the house where the body of O'Connor was found concealed will be found the pistol with which the murder was committed. Should the information be correct, publish it immediately, and I will send you more infor mation, detailing the . particulars of the affair, which I am enabled to do by the ata of a clairvoyante. " Your obedient servant, " W. _ _ . " P.S.—The clairvoyante says that there are three cellars underneath the house, and she could not see the one in which the pistol is hid. Search and you will find it." What makes this letter rather extraordinary is that there are three cellars, and one of them bad not been minutely searched. During Burton's search on Thursday afternoon, with Mr. Colman, the son of the landlord of N 0.3, Miniver-place, be perceived some spots and streaks of blood on the wall opposite the back kitchen door. The finding of these marks corroborates Manning's state ment respecting nis wife's conduct towards O'Connor, " that she induced him to go down stairs to wash his hands, and jest as he had reached the passage leading to the kitchen, she put one hand round his neck, and shot him with the other." The marks of blood are very thick, and it is supposed by Burton that O'Connor, after being shot, must have fallen against the wall, and that he was then struck with some heavy instrument. It is very strange that these marks were not discovered before by the constables who searched the house, as they were very prominent near the back kitchen door. Theinhabitants of Bermondsey, especially those residing in the immediate vicinity of the scene of murder, contem plate making Barnes and Burton (the two officers who discovered the body of the murdered man) some testi monial for the activity displayed by them in tracing out the extraordinary evidence which has brought the guilty parties to the hands of justice. In the course of a few days, a meeting will be held for that purpose. It appears that the " Clairvoyant" is mistaken in her letter of advice from " Bolton," received on Thursday by Mr. Yates, Burton was actively engaged on Friday in searching the cellars, but no pistol or other deadly instrument could be discovered with which the murder was supposed to have been committed. The " Clairvoyant" is, therefore, la bouring under a delusion. On Saturday, the re-examination of the prisoners took place. The court was densely crowned. Precisely at a quarter to two the prisoners were brought in, each held under the arm by a policeman, and in charge of Mr. Keene, the keeper of Horsemonger-lane Prison. Manning entered the felon's dock first, and took his seat in the right hand corner of it, by the side of his solicitor, Mr. Binns, and with his face towards the bench. Mrs. Manning next entered, and sat down in the left hand corner of the dock, her back being towards the bench. Opposite to her sat Mr. Keene. her solicitor, Mr. Solomons, not having as yet arrived. The male prisoner looked ex•• tremely pale and wo-begone ; in fact, he was the picture of despair. On the contrary, Mrs. Manning looked the picture of health, and one would rather have thought that she had arrived from a country cottage than from a prison cell. She was dressed very neatly in a straw-bonnet of modern make, a black satin visite, and a dress of similar material. She wore a plain muslin collar, and ruffles at her wrist of rather ornamental fashion. Tight-fitting black gloves were on her hands, which were small and well-shaped. She immediately complained of the absence of her solicitor, through Mr. Keene, and through him re quested that the proceedings might be stayed until the arrival of her legal adviser. In a minute or two Mr. Solomons entered the court, and took the place Mr. Keene occupied. The prisoners were here ordered to stand up. Mrs. Manning immediately rose, lifted her veil, divested herself of her visite, turned towards the bench, and leaning her left arm on the left partition of the dock, and holding the tips of her left hand fingers in her right hand, remained immovable in that position during the remainder of the proceedings. Her husband complained of weakness, and begged to be allowed to remain in his already sitting posture. His request was complied with. Whatever may be the character of Mrs. Manning's countenance, her figure is decidedly good, and she is remarkable for what the French would term, "une suelte ceinture." After the examination of two or three additional wit nesses, including the girl employed by Mrs. Manning as a charwoman, on the day after the murder, the prisoners were again remanded for a week, with an intimation that when next brought up they would be fully committed to take their trial at the October sessions of the Central Criminal Court. enteral 11t5trilanv. The lead mines of North. Derbyshire, after being for some time partially neglected, are now Lilly worked. A cottager living at Stickney, Lincolnshire, possesses a sow which in three years has farrowed 92 pigs. On Friday, a clergyman named Brown, aged 80 years, dic d of cholera at Stamford. A white sparrow was shot last week in the neighbour hood of Kirkby Ireleth, Westmoreland. The receipts at the Birmingham Festival amounted to £lO,OOO. In 1846 they were £11,638, and in 1843 £8,822. Major-General Ellis has received orders to assume the government of Malta for the present. The projected Anglo-Saxon festival has been aban doned. Lord Albert Connyngham has obtained the royal license to use only the surname of his maternal uncle, Denison, in lieu of Conyngham. The number of applications for the office vacant by the death of the late Mr. Cottingham, the police magistrate, amounts to nearly five hundred. It is stated that contracts have been made, within these five days, for American wheat, to be landed in London, free of all charges, at 28s. per quarter ! Mr; Craven, of Horbury, has been committed for trial, charged with the concealment of the birth of the child of which it was supposed his daughter was delivered. Good wheat was sold in Canterbury market last week at 365. per quarter. This is about the point to which the Cobdenites have desired to bring us. Among the victims of cholera is mentioned Mr. Thomas Inskip, of Shefford, known as a poet, more particularly in association with the name of Robert Bloomfield. On the 27th ult. a keeper in the Kensington (London) Workhouse lunatic asylum was killed by a pauper lunatic, who overpowered him and fractured his skull. Within the last twelve months, Mr. Lewis, butcher, of Pontypool, has had no less than one hundred sheep stolen from meadows in the neighbourhood. A movement has been commenced by the Farmers' Committee of Chipping Campdcn, to obtain the abolition of the Gloucester county police. Captain W. P. Hamilto . n, R.N., has been discovered dead in a field at Littlehampton. He is supposed to have had a fit of apoplexy. The churches in the metropolis were densely thronged on Sunday, and a more than usual solemnity was ob served. The Bishop of London had requested that the day might be set apart as a day of humiliation. Joseph Williams, the well-known chartist, who was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for treasonable conspiracy, has died of cholera in the Westminster House of Correction. The Times emphatically warns the public against em barking their persons or money in any of the gold mining companies evoked in the city by the recent accounts from St. Francisco. PRODIGIOUS CROP.—A letter from a gentleman in Kent states that the wheat crop this year, in the Isle of Thanet, has yielded from sixty to sixty-five bushels per acre. It will hardly be believed that the whole quantity of gold currency in the world, taking it at its usual estimate of 150 millions, would only weigh 1150 tons, and than in bulk a room 20+feet 10ng,.12 feet wide, and 10 feet high,. would hold Wer e gal e I°.l t sV P i I d tire'