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Ritruaturt. POETRY THE DENYER'S DEATH-BED, AND WOMAN'S DEVOTEDNESS. (From Thorn's Epochs: Book VI.) xxxi. "I entered; on a couch extended lay The wreck of a strong man, one of that crowd •Who slew themselves by grasping in a day The life of many years : he, for the loud Tumult of sinful pleasure, early bowed His head to death, even as a flower destroyed By an excess of heat. He had been proud Of mind, and had that mind through life employed In proving God's fair world to be a guodless vo►d. XNXII. "No word of sober truth had moved his lips, Strengthening men's souls. His path of life bad grown As fruitless as the furrow of a ship Upon the sea. As winter hurried on From land to land, he hurried, and upon All souls brought barrenness; even as a cloud Travelling from star to star ? rest be had none; And darkess, hiding all things as a shroud, Dwelt with him in lone deserts or in cities loud. XXXIII. "Spirits, was never sadder sight in time Than that of a proud soul with full intent Strengthening itself 'gainst God! 'Twas a sublime And dreadfulspectarle! the Heaven-sent Oppressed by Hell till growing discontent Deepened to dire rebellion ! All life frayed And darkened in mad tumult, and ail spent, Warring with little things in pomp arrayed, Forth standing 'mid grim nature, lone but undismayed. XXXIV. "Godless, arrayed 'gainst God, silent and lone. Waiting what next might come. Souls of my race! Blessed in heaven ! ye have looked upon This sight in pity. But in that dim place Of mortal struggle—Earth, man turned his face And heart away, and on the tortim.Kl one Heaped idle curses, seeking to efface The bond of brotherhood, or raised the hand Of idle wrath 'gainst him who durst the Lord withstand. xxxv. "Now he of whom I spake lay on the brink Of the unknown Eternal ; and that mind Which was his former boast, he felt shrink, A c•aven, from the prospect. All those kind Philosophies that sat on the divine, Hiding it from his sight, transparent grew; And stable reasons, as the mournful wind, Sighed through his desolate soul. Behold, he knew Bias from whom life, and space, and time their being drew xxxvi. "A woman, worn and wan, beside the bed Of him who tried to die, sat with her dry And sunken eyes—which seemed as if they'd shed Whole seas of tears, and then waxed suddenly As parched and motionless as summer's sky— Fixed on his troubled face. She had forgot To move—to hear—to see—to weep—to sigh— The solitude and sadness of her lot ; To her all earthly thing, save that pale face, were not. xxxvir. "But close upon my footsteps came a man Of venerable aspect, old in days And sorrows too, as I did understand From after conversation. By the blaze Of a still fire he stooped, and straightway lays Open the book of God, and therefrom read Of my transgression in the youth of days ,• Of the fallen world to grievous sinning led; And of the blood of Christ for an atonement shed. xxxviii. "Sudden the sick man, rising on his bed, Looked out upon the reader: Hold!' he cried; I ne'er in heart withstood that Christ who shed His blood for mankind, nor that God defied 'Who fashioned Earth and Life, and sanctified The Sabbath for our rest. Old man, proclaim That I believe thy creed.' He spoke and died Triumphant in his death o'er that bad fame Which made him cling through life to falsehood and to shame XXXIX. Lo! while he spoke, a solemn light diffused Itself through the large eyes of her who watched The dying man. A feeble glow diffused A lustre o'er her cheek, as though it catched The shadow of a pleasure, and she snatched The hand already cold, and to her pale Lips pressed it with strange ardour. Love unmatched! Spirits ! on earth sin did not all prevail, Though hell did every form of holiness assail ! XL. "An icy coldness shot through all her frame, And froze the spring of life, and her young heart Grew still for ever—breathing the dear name Of him she loved so well. Thus to depart From earth with him had been the only part Of God's great bounty she had asked. She died, And did her history in this fact impart, That her young love, by suffering sanctified, Triumphed o'er life and death, and, dying, death defied. XLI. "And they were laid in fitting time beside The wreck of generations, by the hand Of those who tilled the valiey,—from whose wide Compass poured forth at morn a rustic band Of earnest mourners. All could understand That he had strangely fallen, and deeply proved The agony of life ;—that she was one Whose being was another's; that she moved— Lived—suffered, and then died with him she loved." PRIZE ENIGMA. My parent died, when I leaped from her side, To fill mankind with wonder; And now I abound in the wide world around, The greensward above and under. I hold the flower in the sunny bower; I shelter the dead in their graves ; I circle the hair of the maiden fair ; And bid defiance to knaves ! The miser his gold often gives me to hold; I aid to extinguish the fire; I'm chased o'er the green where the school-boy is seen ; I wait at the toper's desire. I ride on the wave the sailor to save, When he shrieketh aloud in despair; I whirl the machine whose arms, dimly seen, Hiss as they fly through the air. I've been tried and am cast with felons at last ; I'm balm to the wounded and torn ; I rival the oak; the tell-tale I cloak ; I'm fashioned as high and low born. I constant]) mind the sightless blind ; Many garments my long arms hear; By the sick man's bed—by the ship's mast head— In various forms I am there. Deep in the earth, though unseen is my worth, I faithfully serve mankind; I bear the whisper of the softest lisper ; And hold that which traceth the mind ! When the emigrant lands on far-oft' strands, Perchance he treadeth oli me; On the rich man's table—in the horses' stable — My forms you may frequently see! Now I challenge your mind my secret to find, • Though I travel along by your bed; I come from the south ; I may dwell in your mouth; Or may rest on the top of your head ! ! In the Family Friend for September, the Editor offers a prize of £5 to the person who shall first solve the above Enigma. THE MANSELS : A TALE OF THE LATE MONETARY CRISIS. CIIAPTER V. We shall not intrude upon the domestic circle which received Mr. Mansel on his return, sorrow-stricken, and almost overwhelmed by the new misfortune which his house had sustained. Our duty will be briefly to explain the nature of that misfortune, and to follow for a while the steps of his son. We referred in the last chapter to a successful financial operation, effected on the preceding day with a friendly capitalist, by which a considerable engagement, then coming due, had been enabled to be discharged. To effect this operation a considerable sum, in acceptances not yet due, had, contrary to the general practice of capi talists at this period of universal alarm and distrust, been discounted by the friend in question ; and, amongst the largest of these, was one, which they had received by the previous mail, from the very house which the letters re ceived on that morning announced as having been com pelled to suspend their payments. A hurried letter from Messrs. Mansel's agents abroad, written at the last hour before the departure of the mail, announced merely a rumour of such an occurrence having taken place, or being about to take place; and the first shock of the communication thus made almost paralysed our mer chants. The natural hopefulness and elasticity of youth, however, in a short while enabled William Mansel to rally under the blow. It was mere rumour, after all, he reflected. He remembered that, during the severe pressure of the past few weeks, the most sinister re ports had been current respecting the most stable commercial houses; and after a few arguments offered to reassure the drooping spirits of his parent, he set out, with the view of learning, if possible, the exact truth. With a beating heart he passed through the few streets leading from his counting-house to the Exchange; and, in every face he saw, he imagined that he read confirma tion of the rumour. Once or twice he paused mechani cally, half resolving to return and wait for those tidings of ill, which proverbially travel fast. A moment served to render him ashamed of the pusillanimity of such a course; and at length, though by a circuitous route, taken to afford him time to calm his agitated manner, he arrived at the place " where merchants most do congregate." It was there, from the rude lips of one of that fraternity, whose chief pursuit on 'Changs seems to be to chronicle the misfortunes of their fellows, that he first learnt the reality of the disaster. The truth is ever, to the well-fortified mind, less hard to bear than the suspicion of evil ; and perhaps it was on this account that William Mansel was enabled to part from his busy informant, without betraying any more than ordinary interest in the intelligence communicated; and to resolve at once upon the next steps to be pursued. A few moments afterwards saw him proceeding towards the counting-house of his friend, with whom he had, on the preceding day, negotiated the bill, now certain to be dishonoured by its acceptor. It was with a calm demeanour, free however from any thing like immodest assumption of confidence, that he passed the dreaded threshold of his creditor ; and, on being announced, entered his private room. His face was un naturally pale, and its expression was that of one nerved to endure unkindness and even reproach, without shrink ing. He expected to find sternness and anger from him, who had, so benignantly and encouragingly, granted his suit of the preceding day ; for Mr. was said to be as severe to the unfortunate as he was occasionally kind, and even generous, to those who sought his assistance. He was received, he thought, with coldness ; and he felt slightly unnerved, as Mr. handed to him for perusal a circular from the suspended firm, intimating their inability to meet their engagements. He read it mechani cally; and was about to enter upon an apologetic expla nation, when he was checked by the changed expression of the countenance of his friend. There was nothing in Mr. —'s look to indicate harshness. He read in his features only deep concern and sympathy; and there was a kindliness in his tone which affected him deeply, as h e addressed him—" You were about Mr. William, to take blame to yourself for the unfortunate occurrence, which makes you my debtor. Spare yourself, my dear sir. If I, who have grown grey in commercial pursuits, and imagined myself perfectly intimate with the ability of this extensive House to meet its engagements, even in disastrous times like the present, have been deceived, I ' cannot expect greater foresight from a young man like yourself. My only grief is that my own involvements with them, as a large holder of their bills, will preclude me from affording to von, and your worthy father, any other aid than forbearance to press my claim upon you, until you have had time to meet it without undue sacri fice. This I trust you will be enabled to do, by the exercise of your well-known energy." William Mansel endeavoured to reply ; but his heart was too full. He could only press the hand that was offered him ; and make his way, voiceless, to the busy street. With a lightened heart, but with a deep consciousness of the arduous duty that was before him, the young man retraced his steps to his own counting-house, where lie found his father and his confidential clerk deep in the mys teries of cash book and ledger. The sad news of the morning had outstripped him, its bearer being the princi pal of a petty house, whose fortunes the Messrs. Manse! had materially aided during their career of prosperity ; and who now importunately demanded payment of a petty debt, which was yet scarcely due. It was a happy circum stance ; for the insolence and ingratitude of the dun roused Mr. Mansel from his prostration of spirit, for a time sufficient to enable him to receive the more detailed communication of his son, and to communicate with him, with all his accustomed clearness of mind, as to the course to be adopted for their extrication from the present new difficulty. It was with delight that William saw revive in his father the mental vigour and perspicacity of earlier days • that he heard him dictate sacrifices to be made, which he himself would have shrunk from advising. There was an elastic vigour in the old man's very bearing, and a proud consciousness of honesty in his brightened eyes and features, which bespoke a frame of mind which misfor tune, when undeserved, could not depress. For many hours that day he devoted, with his son, the energies of almost early manhood to the task of preparing to breast and overcome the wave of misfortune which had burst upon his head ; but that task being performed, worn na ture gave way. He could have met fearlessly, and, con fident in the probity of every action of his commercial life, defied an insulting and a sneering world ; but his firmness shrunk beneath the thought of meeting the beloved of his own household, with the knowledge of their fallen fortunes gnawing at his heart. William Mansel, we have said, dal not return to his home that evening. The midnight hour saw him the sole occupant of the gloomy counting-house of the firm, engaged in diligently calculating their precise position, and endeavouring to form an estimate of the means left them to maintain an unblemished character in the com mercial world. It was with a heart sick with the thought of sufferings to be heaped upon the unconscious victims in his lately happy home, yet full of the pride of conscious rectitude of intention and ability to meet the last demand which could be made upon him, that he at length closed his weary labours and sought a few hours of rest in a neighbouring hotel. VARIETIES. A farmer at Holton le Clay, near Grimsby, has in one of his bean fields a plant, on the stem of which are grow ing 116 pods, all healthy, and likely to be very productive. . . FEROCITY OF WAsrs:—ln a small outhouse at Baled garno, used for holding broom and firewood, a colony of wasps had planted their paper palace several months ago. The house cat had taken possession of part of the same premises, and was rearing three thriving kittens among the brushwood. One day last week, one of the kittens seeing the wasps' nest suspended from a twig, drew it down with one of her paws to examine it, when she was instantly assailed by hundreds of the ferocious inmates. Her screams brought the old cat to the rescue, but being met by a dozen or two of the enraged wasps, she was glad to escape, and the kitten was stung to death in a few mi nutes. The other kittens, singularly enough, remained unscathed, not a single wasp touching either of them. — Dundee Courier. CURIOUS HOAX.—Not very long since, a small farmer in a little village in Somersetshire, who prided himself on his cheeses, in a fit of unwonted generosity, for he was a penurious man—sent to her Majesty Queen Victoria a prime cheese. A person given to practical jokes knowing this, bought an eighteenpenny gilt chain, and sent it in a letter, purporting to be from her Majesty, appointing him her " well beloved" mayor of the village, in the document exalted into a corporate town, but whereof he, the said mayor, formed the sole body and whole authority. The ignorant poor man swallowed the bait, and called the vil lage together; gave an ox to be roasted whole, and walked at the head of the invited procession, wearing his chain of office, and for several weeks exhibited the insignia of royal favour—the chain and royal autograph—at church and at markets. It is a doubt if he be yet undeceived, and lowered from his imaginary brief authority.—Blackwood. CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE.—On the 231 d inst.. Messrs. C ink's celebrated equestrian troupe paid a visit to Cha pel-in-Weardale, where they bad a bumper house. On the following day they proceeded on the road to Alston ; all went smoothly until they came to Kilhope Head—the highest hill in Wcardale—when it appears the horses at tached to the vans by no means liking the idea of making so formidable an ascent, became restive at the foot of the hill, and notwithstAnding abundant threats and persua sions, uttered in the choicest style of stable literature, ab solutely refused to advance one inch. In this dilemma, after mature consideration, Mr. Cook ordered the horses to be unharnessed, taken to the top of the hill, and allowed for some time to view the level country on the other side, after which they were again harnessed, when they ascended the hill at full trot, amidst the cheers of the multitude.—D urham Advertiser. A PHILOSOPHER MISTAKEN.—It appears by the fol lowing that Dr. Buckland , who has boldly pronounced upon the physical state of our globe millions years before, ac cording to the Mosaic account, it leas created, cannot at this day tell the quality of the clay under his feet. Hereis the proof:—THE LONDON CLAY : BORING D. BUCRLAND.—It will be recollected that at the first court held, on the pro posed tunnel of Mr. Phillips, Dr. Buckland asserted une quivocally, that there was not an atom of London clay between Rotherhithe tunnel and thebaseof Shooter's-hill,' and that "it glanced off at the north-east cdrner of St. Paul's." Since that time, evidence of the most satisfac tory nature, and from unquestionable authority, has been obtained, that it does exist, and in large quantities, in places altogether denied in the speech of Dr. Buckland, as will be found in the following statement :—At Green wich Marshes, cpposite Blackwell, 55 feet of London clay; near the London Dock and St. Katharine Dock, 55 feet ; at Bermondsey, 55 feet ; near London Bridge,. 130 feet; and, extending upwards, it was found at Lam beth 160 feet ; at Westminster. 170 feet; at Kensington 170 feet ; and at Brompton, 237 feet ; and for a consi derable distance above London bridge the bed of the river is cut in the blue clay."—The Builder. POPULAR CRITICISMS OF THE QUEEN IN SCOTLAND.-- The humbler classes of our citizens were prodigiously pleased with the plainness of her Majesty's dress, and the homely simplicity of her deportment towards her children. They were delighted to find the Queen, to use thdr own phrase, "so much like other folk." A group of the poor aborigines of the north quarter were overheard expatiating on these themes while her Majesty was in the cathedral. A shrewd weaver was loud in his praises of the Queen's economy of dress. " Monv a braw leddy that walks the streets in silks and satins micht follow the example of her Majesty, and no be less a leddy after a'." " Deed many a shopkeeper's wife dresses better than the Queen, and can ill afford it," remarked a second. " The puirest amang us micht tack a lesson frae the Queen," rejoined a third of the party. And a fine gash old matron added, authoritatively, and withal in a tone of enthusiasm that it did one's heart good to hear, " She's just a rale decent woman at hame, and looks after her ain weans." " When I saw her sittin' beside them," said a motherly body, " my heart gaed to my mouth, and I could have ta'en her in my arms !" 'How true is it that " one touch of nature makes the whole world kin."—Scottish Guardian.. THE COUNTESS DE Rossi.—Revisiting the scenes of her early lyric triumphs : On the first news of the losses experienced by Madame de Rossi, knowing how perfectly she had preserved her voice, the direction of Her Majesty's Theatre Made, in the most delicate manner that could be devised, ample offers to the unfortunate lady, in case she should deem it necessary to return to the scene of her former triumphs. The Count and Countess Rossi did not contemplate then the necessity of so great a sacrifice. Later offers of unlimited temptation were made by other parties, and emissaries sent to Berlin secretly to treat with the great vocalist of the golden age of the opera. But they were at once refused. As events assumed a darker complexion, Madame de Rossi, the most affec tionate of mothers, grew more and more anxious for bar children, and used every endeavour to pre-sail on her noble husband to sacrifice the privileges and prejudices of rank and the sweets of high office to the future welfare of their children. An artist a European fame, who not only commands admiration by his talents, his conversational powers, his elegant and amiable manners, and his noble and elevated character—M. Thalbovg—happened some months since to be ih Berlin, and he is said to have seconded Madame de Rossi's eforts to persuade her hus band. Communieations were resumed with the direction of Her Majesty's Theatre, although still in a problematical and conditional form, and the Count Rossi repaired to Turin to endeavour to release himself from his duties. After some delay the Count obtained permissn from his sovereign to retire for a time from his career. When it was known later at Turin what was the cause of his re tirement, and that it was definitive, letters were written, by order of the sovereign, in the highest degree cordial and flattering, both to M. and Madame de Rossi. From Turin the Count returned to Berlin. There Mr. Lumley had suddenly arrived—every arrangement was made, and a week after he had left Berlin, the Count and Countess Rossi arrived in London in a manner totally unforeseen. In a week mere she appeared on the stage; and although, unlike other great singers, she had not, owing to the ne cessity of secrecy, been preceded by those announcements which, habitually long beforehand herald forth a prima donna, and work upon public expectation, her reception was one never surpassed in enthusiasm.—Madame Son lea's Memoirs. THE HAIR.—Of the numerous compounds constantly announced for promoting the giowth or reproduction of the human hair, few survive, even in name, beyond a very limited period ; whilst ROWLANDS' MACASSAR OIL, With a reputation unparalleled, is still on the increase in public estimation. The unprecedented success of this discovery, either in preserving the Hair in its original strength and beauty, or restoring it when lost, is universally known and appreciated ; and it is recorded by testimonials most nu. merous in themselves, and certified by the highest autho rities. It has obtained the exclusive patronage of Royalty, not only as regards our own Court, but those of the whole of Europe. From its exquisite purity and de licacy, it is admirably adapted for the hair of children, even of the most tender age, and is constantly employed for this purpose in the Nursery of Royalty, and by the fami lies of the nobility and aristocracy. It is alike suited for either sex, and whether employed to embellish the tresses of female beauty, or to add to the attractions of manly grace and aspect, will be found an indispensable auxiliary to the toilet both of ladies and gentlemen.—See advt. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. THE SUMMIT AND THE ABYSS. In June, 1798, Nelson, as all acquainted with the his tory of those times will vividly remember, was in search of the French fleet. How he discovered it at Alexandria towards the end of July, and what havoc in the course of 12 hours he played with it on the Ist of August, no En glishman is ever likely to forget. But there are incidents connected with this wonderful pursuit and this noble victory with which our readers are perhaps not so familiar. They belong rather to the history of Lady Hamilton than to that of Nelson, yet how potently do they effect the character and fate of both ! Sir William and Lady Hamilton were aroused from their slumbers one morning in the aforesaid June by the arrival of Captain Troubridge, with letters from Sir Horatio Nelson, " requ7sting that the ambassador would procure him admission to enter with his fleet into Naples, or any of the Sicilian ports, to provision, water, &c., as otherwise he must run for Graraltar, being in urgent want, and that consequently he would be obliged to give over all further pursuit of the French fleet, which he had missed at Egypt, on account of their having put into Malta." It was-much easier for Sir Horatio to make the request than for the Ambassador to comply with if. At that very time Naples was at peace with France, a French Ambassador was resident in the Neapolitan capital, and Ferdinand had stipulated with France that no more than two English ships of war should enter into any of the Neapolitan or Sicilian ports. What was to be done ? Sir William Hamilton did the best be could. He jumped out of bed, hastened to Sir John Acton, Ferdinand's Prime Minister, who convened a Council immediately, at which the King himself was present. The Council sat down to consider Sir Horatio's demand at half-past six o'clock, and took one hour and a half exactly to come to a determination, for they did not rise until 8. Captain Troubridge accompanied Sir William Hamilton to his residence after the Council had broken up, but Lady Hamilton had already gathered from the countenances of the King and Sir John Acton the dismal confession that Naples could not break with France, that the fleet of Nelson could receive no help. We are reaching a point in the narrative at which the craft of the penman fails him, and the superiority of the painter becomes strikingly manifest. Imagine the vexation of the disappointed Ambassador, picture to yourself the bitter regret and downcast looks of the faithful Troubridge, and then behold, close to them both, a form lovely as an angel's, a face beaming with the animation of triumph, and the ecstacy of an irrepressible delight,—observe her hand trembling with the anxiousness of the precious treasure it grasps, and then seeher waiving high up exultingly in the air the order which the Council bad refused, and the ambas sador himself could not obtain. Dr. Budd's nurserymaid had positively in her possession the permission for which Nelson had petitioned in vain, and which it was impossi ble satisfactorily to carry on the war. Oh, how the sor ceress must have chuckled when she saw King. Ministers, and Councillors, all issuing from their solemn consulta tion with their lugubrious visages, indicating helplessness, inability, and unutterable disgust ! We have had occasion to observe that the King of Naples was a fool, and his Queen very much the reverse. This was unfortunate enough for his Majesty; but, what was worse still, his loving people were cognizant of the fact. The King certainly commanded in his dominions; but his wife was obeyed. Who knew this better than Lady Hamilton ? That very clever lady suffered Sir William to wake up Sir John Acton to get the King out of his bed to cause the Council to be summoned, and when all was done, and the wise men were fully engaged in discussion, she herself quietly slipped into the Queen's bedchamber, and got up a little council of her own. The reader bears in mind the consummate ability of this actress. He has been told that Siddons could not be more tragic, O'Neil not more pathetic. Domestic drama in the apartment of Majesty gave place to classic tragedy. Not a moment was to be lost, Lady Hamilton came at once to the catastrophe. In the most passionate manner she threw herself upon her knees, and told the Queen that the fate of the Two Sicilies now de pended upon her resolution ; the Council was sitting ; let them decide upon negative or half measures, and the family of Ferdinand was doomed. The great French force must be followed ; it could not be pursued unless the English fleet found refreshment in the Sicilian ports ; and if allowed to go free the peril, not to England, but to Naples, could not be overrated. The terrified Queen became alive to the danger of the situation, but she had faith in the King then sitting in Council, and was sure he would provide for the emergency. He might, replied the petitioner, or he might not and, if not, who could reflect with patience upon the fate that threatened Naples and the royal family ? Her Majesty, with a stroke of the pen, could be her own deliverer. Why hesitate ? Her sign -manual was respected throughout the king's domini ons ; a line, and her country, her husband, and his crown, were rescued from destruction. No doubt the word was suited to the action, and the action bathe word ; pen, ink, and paper were in the room, Lady Hamilton dictated, and the Queen with her own right hand directed " All governors of the Two Sicilies to receive with hos pitality the British fleet to water, victual, and aid them." Lady Hamilton enclosed that order to Nelson, and bade him commit the Queen no further than the glory end service of England required. Nelson amswered that if he gained a battle it should be called her's and the Queen's, for to them alone would his country be indebted for the victory. He did gain a battle, and it was that of the memorable Nile ; had his fleet not been fkirnished with the necessaries of life at Syracuse, the battle would not have been fought. It was for the country to remember that fact. Against the faults of Lady Hamilton moralists cannot too strongly inveigh ; society for its own protec tion cannot too emphatically protest : but had Lady Ham ilton been the most degraded of her kind, England was bound not to forget this great and unparalleled service. How she did forget it we shall presently blush to.read. * * * * * * * * * * Not far from the Merton turnpike, and within a few miles of London, there is to be seen a field upon• which once stood the home of Nelson and his mistress. It was left, with its debts and liabilities, to Lady Hamilton.. These were large enough, for extravagance accompanied the meridian of her life as it had characterized the dawn. The Government proving obdurate to the last, the owner of Merton was dismissed from the place. She went to Richmond, and then took temporary lodgings in Bond street. Hence she was chased by importunate creditors; and for a time hid herself from the world. In 1811 we find her imprisoned in the Mng's Bench, but charitably liberated therefrom by. a city alderman. Threatened again with arrest by a coachmaker, in sickness of heart the unhappy woman escaped to Calais. Here the English interpreter gave the refugee a small and wretchedly furnished house. What follows completes the romance of Lady Hamilton's life.. There is sublimity in the moral. An English lady in Calais was*in the habit of ordering meat daily for a favourite dog. She was met on one oesa-- sion at the butcher% shop by the English interpreter.. " Ah, madame, madame,"said M. De Rheims, " I know you to be good to the English. There is a lady here that would be glad of the worst bit of meat you provide for your dog. , ' M. De Rheims received permission to sup— ply the poor woman with whatever she needed, but he dared not reveal the sufferer's name, for he had promised secrecy, and she was-too proud to.see visitors. Through the charitable kindness of the English ltdy (let her name be recorded for the credit of her- countrywomen ; she resided in Brighton, and her name was Hunter), wine and food were supplied to the pauper until she became too ill either to eat or drink. M. De Rheims intreated the poor wretch again and again to see the lady who had been so good to her Finally, she said she would, if the lady were , not a woman.of till& Mrs. Hunter came—the poor patient thanked and blessed her—and so La/ly. Hamilton died ; " beautiful," says her humane visitor,. " even in death."' _ . _ -..... Is the lesson told? Not yet. Mrs. Hunter desired to bury the remains according to English custom. She was laughed at for her importunities upon the subject, and Emma Hamilton was placed in a deal box without inscription, her pall being a black silk petticoat stitched on a white curtain. No English Protestant clergyman could be found,in Calais,. but an Irish half-pay officer was sent for, and he read• the burial service. The ground in which the body lies interred is now a timber yard;; it ceased to be a public cemetery in 1816, and Lady Hamil ton had found her resting place in the January of the preceding yoar. SONTAG AND:MAI,P.BRAN.—MdiIe. Sontag returned to Paris in December, 1827. The Italian Opera was then fallen under the rule of M. Laurent. There she found Malibran in the plenitude of her fame and glory. The theatrical gossips and the Parisian gobemouche3. either hoped or expected—all of them predicted—that a war was about to arise betwixt the two stars now forced to move in the same orbit—a war which would eclipse the encoun ters of Juno and Venus in the days of Paris and of the siege of Troy. For once, the Greeks of Paris and the Trojans of the Salle Favart were disappointed. It is little to be doubted that the gentle and affectionate nature of Mdlle. Sontag,. and the generosity which characterised at all times the impetuous Malibran, would, under any cir cumstances, have united the two great vocalists—and of this supposition the more than probability is established lay the fact that all other caatatrici, of equal pretensions, have never failed to be severed by jealousy the moment they hale met on the same stage. But long before Mdlle. Sontag's arrival in Paris the second time,.she had become acquainted with Malibran. Those amongst our readers who have lived in Paris when it was a centre of society, instead of a centre of revolution, =mot fail to have heard, at least, of the Countess Merlin. This Havanese lady, a gifted practical iilletante, with Countess de Sparre (Mdlle. Naldi) and her countryman Orfila (no less distin , guished as a vocalist than as Dean of the Faculty of Me dicine of Paris, and the greatest of toxologists,) were wont to give concerts which were thronged by all the Melomanes of the French capital. Madame Merlin thus naturally became the " arbiter elegantiarson" of Paris, at least as far as regarded musical taste, and her house the rendezvous of all who aspired to fame on the lyrical stage. Here Mdlle. Sontag was frequently invited on her first arrival in Paris. On one occasion the countess introduced to her a fair Spaniard, a protegtrof hers, just arrived from New York. This artiste, who had spent some years in perform ing in the inglorious theatres of the New World, was afterwards the celebrated Malibran. Madame Merlin begged Mdlle. Sontag to encourage her friend, who, she assured her, had the greatest gifts of voice, by singing with her the duet in Tancredi. Mdlle. Sontag cheerfully consented. So astonished, delighted, and overcome were the two fair vocalists at their respective talents, that at the close of the duet they threw themselves into one another's arms, and from that day began their friendship. Memoirs of Sontag. A blacksmith was lately summoned to the county court as a witness in a dispute between two of his workmen. The judge, after hearing the testimony, asked him why he did not advise them to settle, as the costs had already amounted to three times the disputed sum. He replied, " I t0.t.0.1d the fo-f-o-ools to se-e-e-tile ; for I said the clerk would take their coats, the lawyers their sh-ir-irts, and if they got into your honour's court you'd sk•sk-in 'em !" THE MODEL LODGING-HOUSE KEEPER. (Selected from Horace Mayhew's " Model Women.") She's very sorry, but she cannot make twenty break fasts, and wait upon twenty gentlemen all at once ! You really must wait a little longer. She is so hurt to hear that the children disturb you! She has the greatest trouble in keeping them quiet, but begs you will not hesitate to mention it it they are at all noisy. She has told them at least fifty times never to come into your room, the little plagues ! She hopes he feels comfortable ? Well, it's very strange, but the chimney never did smoke before ; whatever can be the cause of it ? Oh ! that noise at the back is the skittle-ground—she quite forgot to mention it previously, but her house adjoins a " public" —it's a great nuisance to be sure, but it's only of an evening, and won't trouble you much atter eleven. She can't for the life of her, make out who takes your books ! All she knows that she's no time for reading—it must be that hussey, Ann ; she 'll send her away as sure as she's born, if she catches her at it ! You must make a mistake—there was'nt a bit of of the leg left yesterday, she's ever so positive that there wasn't—she can show you the bone, if you wish it. She never recollects coals being so abominably dear ; it's quite shameful! The ton you had in last week is all gone, and she was obliged to lend you a coal-skuttle herself this morning. She can't make out what makes the paper so very late—those tiresome boys are enough to wear one's life out. She's very sorry if there's no mustard in the house, she had told Ann to get some at least a hundred times, if she had told her once, but it's of no use. She must get rid of the girl ! Lor ! how very provoking—she wishes you had only told her you wanted some hot water for your feet—she's just that very minute put the kitchen fire out ; but there's some delicious cold water, if you'd like any. What ! a FLEA.! 1 ! (it is quite impossible to express this scream in type ; the reader must imagine in his mind's ear something equal in shrillness to a railway whistle)—A FLEA !! ! did you say ? Oh ! that she should live to hear such a thing ! She's only a poor lone widow, and it's cruel—that it is—to throw such a thing in her face ! Well ! if you are bitten all over, it 's no fault of hers ' • you must have brought the " nasty things" in yourself. Her house is known to be the sweetest house in the whole street ; you can ask anybody if it isn't ! Would you be kind enough not to ring the bell so often —there 's a poor invalid lady on the first floor, and it distresses her sadly ! She begs your pardon, but linen always was an extra : she had a gentleman who stopt in her two parlours once, for ten years ; he was a very nice gentleman, to be sure, something in the law, and he never, all the time, raised so much as a murmur against the linen, nor any other gentleman that she has had any dealings with ; you must be mistaken. She really cannot clean more than one pair of boots a day—some persons seem to have no bowels for the ser vants, poor creatures !—Well ! what 's the matter with the curtains, she should like very much to know ? What, rather old ! Well ! on her word it's the first time she's ever been told so, and they have not been up eight years, if so much, but decidedly not more! However, if per sons are not satisfied, they had better go—she had been offered three-and-sixpence a-week more for the rooms— and goodness knows she doesn't make a blessed farthing by them. She's anxious to satisfy everybody, but cannot do wonders—and what's more, won't, to please anybody ! She's extremely sorry to hear that yod have lost half your shirts, but she cannot be answerable for her servants, of course. She has told her lodgers over and over again to be careful and lock their drawers, till she's fairly tired of telling them ! What do you say ? They always have been locked ! Well! she shouldn't at all wonder now that you suspect her ?—lf so, she can only tell you to your face that she doesn't wear shirts, and begs that you will suit yourself elsewhere. She never experienced such treatment in all her life, and more than that, she won't— ' no, not to please Prince Albert, or the very best lodger in the world ! Perhaps you'll accuse her next of stealing your tea and sugar ? What, you do ? Well ! she's ashamed of you, that she is, and should like exceedingly to know what you call yourself ? A gentleman indeed ! No more a gentleman than she is a gentleman. How ever, she won't harbour such gentlemen in her house, she's determined of that, so you 11 please take the usual notice, and bundle yourself off as quick as you can, and precious good riddance, too ! She won't stand nonsense from anybody, though she is nothing better than a poor lone widow, and has not a soul to protect her in the wide world ! She never saw such a gentleman. Not a word more, however is said. The next evening some oysters are sent in for supper " with Misses' com pliments"; please, she says they're beautifully fresh ;" or if is Sunday, she goes in herself with her best cap, and two plates, one over the other, and " hopes you will excuse the liberty, but the joint looked so nice, she thought you would just like a slice of hot meat for lun cheon, with a nice brown potato." She stirs the fire, sees that the windows are fastened down tight—can't make out where the draught comes from ! asks in the softest voice whether you wouldn't like a glass of pale ale? and finishes by dusting with her apron the mantel piece and all the chairs, and hoping that you're perfectly comfortable ? As the fatal day' draws near, she knocks at the door, "Is she disturbing you.? Woold you be kind enough to let her have a little brandy—she should esteem it a great favour—she feels such a dreadful sinking." The next morning she lays the breakfast cloth herself. For the first time the weekly bill is not ready, " but she's in no hurry—any time will do. Why ! surely you're not thinking of going in this way ? You have been with her ED long ; she should be miserable to lose you—such a nice gentleman, too—you cannot mean to go !" But. alas ! there is no•appeal,. Here let us run away. Language is too weak t© describe the fearful slamming and hangings of every door, and the noisy sarcasms of that last day. Arithmetic,, also, falls powerless before the awful array of formidable " extras" in that last week's bill og the MODEL LODGING-HOUSE KEEPER. " CHRISTOPHER" ON hIMORTALITY.—The implanted li longing in every human bosom for permanent existence— the fixed anticipation of it—and the recoil from annihila tion—seem to ns intimation , vouchsafed toy the Creator of His designs towards us ;—the horror with which Remorse awakened by sin looks beyond the Grave, partakes of the same prophetical inspiration. We see how precisely the lower animals are fitted to the places which they hold upon the- earth, with instincts.that exactly supply their needs, with no other powers that are not here satisfied— while we,• as if out of place, only through much difficult experience can adapt ourselves to the physical circum stances into which we are introduced—and thus, in one respect, furnished below our condition, ars, on the other hand, by the aspirations of our higher faculties, raised in finitely above it—as if intimating that whilst those crea tures here. fulfil the purpose of their creation, here we do not—and, therefore, look onward ;--That whilst our other Powers, of which the use is over, decline in the course of nature as Death approaches, our Moral and Intellectual Faculties often go on advancing to the last, as if showing that they were drawing nighito their proper sphere of ac tion ;—That whilst the Laws regulating the Course of Human Affairs visibly proceed from a Ruler• who favours Virtue, and who frowns upon. Vice, yet that a just retribu tion does not seem uniformly carried out inthe good suc cess of well doers, and the ill success of evil-doers—so that we are led on by the constitution of our souls to look forward to a• world in which that which here looks like Moral Discrder, might be reduced into Order, and the Justice of the Ruler and the consistency.of His Laws vindicated et—That in studying the arrangements of this world, we see that in many cases dispositions of Human affairs, which, upon their first aspect, appeared to us evil, being more clearly examined and better known, resulted in good—and thence draw a hope that the stroke which daunts our- imagination, as though it were the worst of evils, will prove, when known, a dispensation of bounty— " Death the Gate of Life,." opening into a world in which His beneficent hand, if not nearer to us than here, will be more steadily visible—no clouds interposing between the eyes of our soul and their Sun ;—That the perplexity which oppresses our Understanding from the sight of this world, in. which the Good and Evil seem intermixed and crossing each other, almost vanishes, when we lift up our thoughts- to contemplate this mutable scene as a place of Probation and Discipline, where Sorrows and Sufferings are given to school us to Virtue—as the Arena where Vir tue strives in the laborious and perilous-contest, of which it shall hereafter receive the well-won and glorious crown ; —That we draw confidence in the same conclusions, from observing how closely, allied and agreeing to each other are the Two Great Truths of Natural Religion, the Belief in God and the Belief in our own Immortality; so that, when we have received the idea of God as•the great Governor of the Universe, the belief in our own prolonged exis tence appears to us as a necessary part of that Go vernment;. or if, upon the physical.argurnents, we have admitted the independent conviction of our Immor tality,.this doctrine appears to us barren and comfortless, until we understand that the continuance of our Being is to bring,us into the more untroubled fruition of that Light, which here shines upon us,.often through mist and cloud ;—That in all these high doctrines we are instructed to'rest more securely, as we find the growing harmony of one solemn, conviction with another—and these predomi nating principles carry us to.these convictions—so that our Understanding then first begins to possess itself in. strength and light when the heart has accepted the MoraL Law ;—Bat that our Understanding is only fully at ease, and our Moral Nature itself, with all its affections, only fully supported and expanded, when both together have borne us on to the knowledge of Him who is the sole Source of Law—the highest Object of Thought—the Favourer of Virtue—towards whom Love may eternally grow, and still be infinitely less than His due—till we have reached this knowledge, and with it the steadfast hope that the last act of this Life joins us to Him—does not for ever shut us up in the night of Oblivion ;;—And ' we have strengthened ourselves in inferences forced upon us by remembering how humankind has consented in these Beliefs, as if they were a part of our Nature—and by remembering farther, how, by the force of these Beliefs, human Societies have subsisted and been held together—how Laws have been sanctioned, and how Virtues, Wisdom, and all the good and great works of the Human Spirit have, under these influences, been pro duced ;—Surely GREAT IS THE POWER of all these con current considerations brought from every part of our Nature—from the Material and Immaterial—from the Intellectual and Moral—from the Incividual and Social — from that which respects our existence on this side of the (crave, and that which respects our existence beyond it — from that which looks down upon the Earth, and that which looks upwards towards Heaven.—Blackwood. A BAD LEG CURED BY HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS, ATTER TWENTY,YEARS' SUFFERING.—Extraet of ' a letter from Mr. Andrew Brack, blacksmith, Eyemouth, dated August 10, 1848 :—" To Professor Holloway,—Sir, I have the pleasure to inform that I have obtained a most extraordinary cure by e use of your celebrated Ointment and Pills. For pwards of twenty years I suf fered with a dreadful ba eg, and during that time I ttocon sulted several eminent urgeons, but their efforts failed to do any good. I then had recourse to yor Ointment and Pills, which, witVhe blessing of Providence, have com pletely healed *leg, and wade it as sound as ever. ('Signed) " ANDREW BRACK." Ottirral Seventy-four plans for the drainage of fiici met polis have been received at the Metropolitan Cowl df Sewers. Two cases of cholera occurred last week amongst the parties attending the London Central Criminal Court. The strike of the colliers in South Staffordshire is at an end. The iron trade is now much more brisk. Good new wheat, 161bs. to the peck, was sold in Taun ton market on Saturday, at ss. 6d. to 6s. a bushel. Father Dominic, of Poplar-house, Westend, Hamp stead, died suddenly of disease of the heart, on Monday. Two !gentlemen have been fined £1 each, in the police-court, Edinburgh, for perambulating the reets in female attire. A Greek, a German, an Irish, an English, and a Scotch naturalist, each on a scientific tour, are at present in the Orkneys. Two children died at Guyhirn,Lincolnshire, onWednes day week, in consequence of eating some berries of the mountain ash. It is stated in military circles that a brevet promotion, to commemorate her Majesty's first visit to Ireland, will be gazetted about the middle of the present month. At Bury St. Edmonds, a young woman, named Robin son, was committed for trial charged with murdering her illegitimote child, fifteen months old. A man named Davenport, who was apprehended on a bastardy warrant, shot the officer who took him into cus tody, near Birmingham, on Saturday. On the 13th instant the Duke of Athol went to shoot deer in his forest of Atli°le, and in the course of the day he fired 24 shots, each of which was fatal to a deer. David Coombes, the Thames waterman, has died of cholera. The deceited was 35 years of age, and, with his three brothers, had been the successful competitor for many hard-earned prizes. A final dividend of three farthings in the pound, upon the bankrupt estate of Mowbray, Hollingsworth, and Co., bankers, Durham, who stopped payment in 1815, has just been declared ! The death from cholera of Mr. Beale, one of the City medical officers, took place on Thursday. He was known as a zealous public officer, and as the author of a volume on the " Natural History of the Sperm Whale." The bakers of Salisbury have given notice that they will discontinue to labour on the Lord's Day. The bar bers of the City have also come to the same determina tion. During the examination of Mrs. Manning, on Friday, persons were driving a profitable trade by selling portraits professing to be likenesses of Manning and his wife, but which were in fact likenesses of Rush and Emily Sand ford. The Sun gives a humourous account of the freaks of a furious bullock, in London, on Tuesday. It knocked down various pedestrians without respect of persons, and made crashing deed with a stall of crockeryware, goring the vendor and divers others. Mr. Judge, who, it will be remembered, was prosecuted by H.R.H. Prince Albert, for printing and publishing the " Royal Etchings," is now incarcerated in the County Prison, Reading, for non-payment of costs, amounting to £lBl s. Bd. A MAN ACQUITTED AGAINST HIS WILL.—At the Halifax petty sessions, Richard Hamer was charged with assaulting William Halstead. He pleaded guilty, but the plaintiff's own witness swore that he was innocent, and the case was dismissed. Mr. F. R. Haggitt, M.P. for Herefordshire, has re ceived license to use the surname of Wegg-Prosser instead of Haggitt, henceforth, in compliance with the will of his maternal great uncle, the late Dr. Richard Prosser, one of the prebendaries of Durham. TURN OF FORTUNE.—A person named Joseph Fielder, well known in the neighbourhood of Tichfield as a vendor of water cresses, is likely to come into possession of £lB,OOO, the proceeds of an estate in Somersetshire, which has been in Chancery for many years. By a recent regulation, any letter having the writer's name and residence engraved on the seal, or written on the outside, and not finding the party to whom the same is addressed, will be returned to the writer immediately through the Post-office, and not through the Dead Letter Office. While two young men were bathing between Hastings and St. Leonard's, on Wednesday, one of them suddenly sank, apparently from fright at unexpectedly finding him self out of his depth. The other was seen to endeavour to save him, but was dragged under water, and both were drowned. At Stanton, near Devizes, last week, two children, neither of them Ave years of age, caused the destruction of a barn and cart-house, with the property they contained. They got some inciter matches, and scraping loose straw together took it into the body of a cart, and there set fire to it. The daughter of lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton, " Horatia," is now the wife of the Rev. Philip Ward, who holds the small vicarage of Tenterden, and has eight children. Several warm appeals have been made to government by the Times , in behalf of her children or herself. A youth, carrying a loaded gan went, on Sunday week, into a field, near Snaith, Yorkshire ' for the purpose cf fetching some horses, one of which accidentally struck the trigger of the gun, which went off, and the charge of shot was lodged in the stomach of the lad, who died after lingering for a short time.. SvICIDES.—On Saturday,.Thos. Erskine, an old man,. a weaver by trade, hung himself from the bed-post, at his lodgings, in Rosebank-street,.Edinburgh.—A private in the 85th regiment shot himself with his sown musket, in Waterford barracks, because he bad been refused per mission to go out for the evening. The Edinburgh News mentions the case of a boy, who, having been afflicted with cholera, was supposed to be dead. He was laid out in the dead-house of the infir mary. Just as they were about to place him in a coffin for interment be showed signs otlife, and proper means being used, he quickly recovered. The royal yacht, Victoria and Albert, was thrown open to the view of the public of Greenock, who were much gratified, but were surprised at the extreme plainness of everything, contrasted with the expensive and elaborate adbrnments of the Clyde steamers,- particu'arly of the Orion and the Liverpool traders. hIPORTATION OF FOREIGN* CORN.—A correspondent of the Railway Chronicle truly states that the continental steamers to the port of Hull are bringing corn at Is. to ls. 6d,.per quarter; " but (adelt , the writer) we believe there is no part of the world from which importations would leave a profit. At llamburgh bread and beef com mand'the same prices as with us.' Sarah Jackson, a widow, about 49lyears of age, living at Enfield, has been co.nmitted for trial for attempting to murder Eliza Jackson, aged 9 years, .and Mary Jackson, aged 5-years, her daughters, by endeavouring to cut their throats with a table knife. The prisoner had, since the death4oPber husband, which oruorred about three years ago, carried on the business of a general grocer at Enfield. - An extraordinary demand for; and advance in, brandy has taken place, which is ascribed to the popular idea that it is an antidote against cholera. No doubt, used medieinallY, it is beneficial ; but the indiscriminate use of spirits-is-more likely to derange the•system, and aggravate the disease when it does break out. The consumption of malt has decreased in proportion... On Thesday, a fine Newfoundland dog, with which some children were playing in a garden, in the neighbour hood of London, leaped over the inclosure, and upset two large beehives. The enraged insects immediately attacked the unlucky dog, which they stung so severely that he died within two hours ; and the children and their nurse were also • much stung before they could effect their escape. CHOLERA FROM DRINKING; IMPURE WATER.—At Hartlepool, last week, an experienced medical practi tioner stated, before a coroner's-inquest. that cholera was• most prevalent on shipboard among those sailors whose vessels-had cleared out of London; and that this arose from the-impurity of the water which they took from the river Thames for ordinary consumption during their voyage. SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE.—On Saturday it was sup. posed that a poor woman was dead at Fisherton ; and, consequently, the appointed parish authorities paid the husband the burial expenses for coffin, bearers, &c. It providentially was subsequently discovered that the poor woman had symptoms of life remaining, and she has recovered : but her husband is since both dead and buried.—Hereford Journal.. Great numbers of holly trees in the woods in the county of Durham have lately beea.stripped of their bark, which the plunderers use for mahimg birdlime. Some idea,may formed of the extent to which these depredations- have been carried, from the fact that in the woods at Ham sterly, the seat of Mr. Suttees, nearly 200 holly treeshave thus been barked, and many fine trees, which have been "ringed." have thus been destroyed. SINGULAR MARRIADD.—On Monday, the 20th ult., at Bridlington, by the Bev. H. F. Barnes, M.A., Mr. Robert Knowles, hawker, to Miss Catherine Conolly— , both being deaf and dumb. The ceremony was performed by the clergyman in the usual manner, the parties point ing on the book as he proceeded ; and, on coming to the responses, they replied in the dumb alphabet. Both bride and bridegroorn wrote their names remarkably well in the register-book., SIR JAMES CLARK AND THE CHOLERA.--Last week's ' papers contained what purported to bee recipe for the cure of diarrhoea and cholera, by Sir James Clark, physician to the Queen. Sir .I)arees has written to the Times and says—" I shall feel greatly obliged by your permitting me to state that the prescription was never written nor sanctioned by m e; on the contrray, I consider it abso lutely dangerous in the dose, a tablespoonful (nearly equal to five grains of opium !) in which it is recommended." . , ------. VALUE OP LAND.—On Monday the - Gilston Estate, situated in Herefordshire, comprising about 1,496 .acres of arable and meadow land, and of the value of about £2,500 per annum, was put up for sale at Garraway's Coffee-house, London. There is a mansion attached, which was built in the reign of Elizabeth ; the majority of the trees on the estate are oak being above 300 years old. There are also several lakes, a park, &c. The first offer was £30,000, and after some competition it was knocked down for £55,000. CLEAN SHIRTS FOR WORKING MEN.—A Cumberland paper states—" That an establishment exists in the Mar ket-place, Whitehaven, where labouring men resort on Saturday nights to procure clean shirts for Sunday. Having bought the original shirt at this shop the owner takes it back on Saturday night, after a week's wear, and exchanges it for a clean one on payment of three half pence, being one halfpenny less than would be charged by the washerwoman. An extensive business is done in this way." A practice similar in character, but on a more SCRIPTURE READERS.—On Thursday last an interest ing scene occurred at Moor-park, the seat of Lord Robert Grosvenor. The noble owner invited the whole of the Scripture Readers of the Church of England Metropolitan Association to spend the day there. They arrived, between eighty and ninety in number, about one o'clock, and at two o'clock the repast was served in the Cipriani Gallery, the noble host and hostess presiding, accompanied by their visitors, Mr. and M.U. Henry Kingscote, the vicar cf Rickmanswortb, Co. Sept. 4, l'3~~~ extensive scale, exists in various parts ,$) establishment to which we refer, parties f rt o ies i4 m n e d ; rl: u eaccs)l' , modated for a single day or any longer term with:o 01 1 ., suit of clothes, or any particular article of 013P_s, ev may require. At the present time, when so reffoof: are occurring among the poor, the loan of a suov ing for a day is a great accommodation. Rath recta JOSEPH ADY AGAIN. —A gentleman of „opt„ received one of Joseph's circulars, offering, 011,1,8,;11', a fee of 205., to inform him of "something _ mAn to sr& tage." On behalf of the gentleman in 9 11 1 - 4 . was sent, from which we make the following el d oref; e , " If you will only look at the Dividend Boob !ti e ioi g ` b ' little information on the subject, so that I may be., "" whether there is really anything to be got or not, be., * L l. l ° (shou!d it turn out be the case, on Mr. for , keep faith with you, to and send you ) the 20s. asked ~„ta) deed, something more if he touched the cash; 7 5b ine ; , decline to do this. I shall consider it to be all WI * am, sir, yours obediently, P P° The above called forth the following me° epistle : „died n 1) ;f 1 "Sir,—Some seventy years ago, a cro* was P-- h it tree, eating cheese. A fox, named * , stoPr up, saying, My dear Mrs. Crow, pray favour T i f e 50 4 1 song which I overheard last night ; oh, it " ' as ote, i` f el which fox ever heard. Oblige me with only orie : i e ll, drib go to my very heart of hearts.' The silly crow tri yol,o the cheese, which * * * snatched up, sae fl sod that is all I want.' Sir, you must send me the cas. j, you shat. have the cheese.—Respectfully, "28th August, 1849." FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. ITALY. It is said that the Pope has been again att 3 ,.. epileptic fits, to which he has always been subjee!.. Rol bed e' The Sun says the Inquisition is in full vigourl".. Several persons have been arrested heesu -ce t seri;A sres -0 Protestants, and copies of the translation of the r t ic into Italian have been seized and burned• tong lire are now everywhere saluted with the cry of re , the French ! but death to the Priests !" t lea The Roman Journal says General Oudinot i 5 ° FrBrl; and that 10,000 French soldiers were to rdta!r A t ° d ea th Public feeling becoming more and more exew,4g (it evening of the 19th the people went about shot re to the priests; patrols were sent out to ,re s r he Frey ' The Austrian Envoy strenuously supporte a ht government. 1 , Accounts from Rome of the 20th and 21st , I,;tion sb b e a the French steamers to Toulon, describe there ', ti t to , 5 tween the French authorities and Papal goverare:eb to t er most unsatisfactory. Theo pposition of the Fr,? " 0 , hef t ' re views entertained at Gaeta was obtaining for tue ds hl e , feelings on the part of the population. The butte CO' so crowded with sick soldiers that steang,r 9 cn P o stantly employed in carrying the sick to rr e ;ith tw" The orders for a return of part of the aryl' batteries of siege artillery, have been nterras-• cou mi ta . a te Two couriers have arrived at Toulon from ""„, fr 4 id chia. The steam corvette Vaoce and the ste,, - 0 -05 5 S;i Sane'arrived with despatches and 300 sick. "„ t horit l he that the relations between the French and th e . su e of at Rome were not at all friendly, and that the'510108; negotiations at Gaeta would perhaps baffle all ° A t trac t : s i The promises of the Pope were of a very vag ue ,real u ,he It was believed at Civita Vecchia that the Fol'e tio of - O f last go to Bologna and remain under the prat ee- u - Tabe r r e Austrians, Neapolitans, and Spaniards. The 1:1t-tiii sick at Rome was considerable, and the bOO% 00 05i' it crowded ; two hospitals at Toulon had receivt' a nd between them, proceeding from Civita Vec c ' B ' n d would be necessary to establish more hospitals - ca pat Venice has fallen—has capitulated—after a t he s u o f glorious resistance. After the fall of Rome an m atte r ta t mission of Georgey, this was to be expected as s ait teP ; course, the only question being whether the, - . 5 lae; would take place a few days earlier or a few r u i n c e, Thus is Austria in possession of Milan and Ne ll oc caP' o f ancient territory—in occupation of Bologria --41 ,tialpeie tion of Florence and Leghorn—in occupatioa,. P a e lic of ' a Piedmontese fortress, and in occupation Par` i nt territory of Modena. ht a T A a A CORRECT OPINION.—Dr. Wolff say s - letter,—" How sadly the world has been disaPP:lf Pius the Ninth ! I never was disappointed; reforms consisted, as far as I could disce already i.oett dience to an actress—a piece of liberality u Pdid elt 1 ; by Alexander the Sixth ! Yes • Pius the Nin t r a lO s ' ' other act of liberality, which consisted in wea r— A °IV tachios !" EFFECT Or DISTURBANCES,—The the -°thie Naples rre 9 P ) , tel ent of The Times, says, " There are 180.bed 3 , 111 , 1 „ t ing ' r e where 1 now live ; five only were occspiea acting h e „ winter, and I do not believe that £5OO was ese he tb°" ' by travelling English in works of art, in lies al sands they scattered in other years." FRANCE. an • Louis Napoleon Bonaparte has obtained therrbince'' the daughter of the King of Sweden. Th e -I ° •P Leuchtenberg, brother of the Queen of Sweden, -.7030,4° ried a daughter of Russia. The name of the rri w bo Charlotte Eugene Auguste Amelie Alberteae' born the 24th April, 1830. to tiio t . The grand banquet offered by the manufacturer:oo4 President of the Republic took place at theJar di :re P A re n e on Thursday evening. Nearly 1,200 persons " - t he!' ce ", sent, the most eminent in science, comet of JO U t arts, the press, and literature. The Ministers° pregail; of the Interior. Agriculture, and Commerce sverLe..ail, rile In returning thanks for his health being Pr o t he • j 3 President of the Republic said—Gentlem en ' Congress of Peace was not in the Salle St. C e f g area here; and you are the men who compose it; P'st flower of our French industry. In the Sall e - 1 :e re" wishes and hopes were.only expressed, but here 9 ,4 o pet Marseillesf o o r Amin t h nr t. in hEaenn h dgt o pns o f rl i osmb r sented all the great interests that peace alone d i er 3s . bav At the close of his speech repeated acclao w° a t Rome. M t 'Tuesday. He was killed-on the spot. This i s "t• - ebru ' a l 3n a roioa M fy eA o ta n hnre t st e o s oi : nf laehagtcateeva,e, tibe.e:raeretobhrlseos,:rhed.soo;e.rf,saiiio:o: suicide of the same kind.since the revolution of .foottalitnfrh,deteahatlecohedbo:(uesi dent. and the 36th since the erection of the colnmp• Julym THE H I f E j4u. O s tViRoLo arrived),iAr a N i D Maa was e A . condemned Bombay,— T h e dates by t h l g l sl e'reu " eC re' tii6f commended to Mercy, and his sent j e t n nu c lYd e e w 2as a i s ha i n ni i ' lg r it; ;°; c ; for life in the fort of Chanan. There had been a it re , of a misunderstanding between Goolab Sing h ' r ati e o lo s also said that an advance had been made on l ea tst These reports were, however, groundless. It a P 1 /$l O the Sikhs are rapidly entering the British ser i T e cete ye! - upper part of the Bay of Bengal a verl i , - o osty occurred on the 22d and , 24 of July, by wine' Tbrtr e were lost, and several vessels were wrecked. been much rain in all parts of India. ?s r Opt& TERRIBLE TRAGEDY IN CINCINNATI. -- ; 30NED BY A SON- —The whole family 0 . d to a sell ti tl e); Blair Summons, eight in number, including “Tho s cfr is' been poisoned by his son, Captain Summons, s c ,.! the b . 3r that means to get possession of the propertiy tli tally. Apein`7.ld The Corporation of Ath, Belgium, have -- cbow,te , houses left uncleansed,and in an unfit sta te "' : terSlit' forcibly closed, and a bill, with the words 1 , 1/ t l house," fixed to the char. Brussels, Leiger „t nay, had agreed to act in the same manner. yo pie: T y p wi E mi E te T hs.s ß taT A t e l h L se W rt echAaa carriages or r tri — ei bl wegAbywuNs roundellown Yorkeanrrail l ppc:aoacrresneu_lar.reufrotove:edoepiolt t a h w e S a t th e Ta s e t axh a rjl nereEiscar:agNiln. will railway will awn T igl The troduced into that cityy.whereby omnibuses r oa l ar t ' b eit ne not interferebe d ar s a some time on the continent, in the neighbonfil:be r.„ e , t- Rhine, where she has retired for the season,in:ada~ of health. Though forbidden, under inedici" o us t ,': follow the duties of;her profession, with Pi ii i r t o ,l Ll:gm—This accomplished vocal' hoed the rosity of feeling she could not help making "lof re: a traordinary talents for the benefit of the Pctoo/1 - a '- on leaving that town a short time agp, ha v- ree l ' .;( there for some short period. She is nos P - fir 0 visit the Tyrol. o i ja h igOli j HORRIBLE TRAGEDY IN AMERICA.---A Yfi C Ia occurred on the nh of August at Battle Cronfolt; of A fmo l ra r. a . ayA longys h e a b r e ta l i Kellogg,meexperienced president form g ro e ef r a l ty thetar ()ub resident banlek, i„tif. o , 0 1 ; :e 0 45 , 00 : 00 . with be an d s t h u b s ee p epdnasrdaseuveo fhoo the dissipated character and bad conduct, of O n oto` Liam, who made a demand upon his father s :ps i ; of money ; his- request being refused, ns, " v rThic h from his pocket, and renewed the reques t .", joit.44 rently made a, maniac of Mr. Kellogg,-v : .,"; t seized an axe that was near at hand. and ' ' l l l l for'' 3 of agony, spiit his son's head open, with stl e ,, o rtrLl his brains fell upon the ground.—Airiarion ° c arne t , a l a te get , tit SLAVE- HOLDING CHURCHES.—BF thorough investigation, it appears that t, h e ,isce2P e ,: Cllurch, in the United States, holds 250,9tft'd ot:l re cni. Baptist, 45,000 ; the Presbyterian,,B o , ooo held 'tee" nominations 45,000; making 600,000 slaves . by po f fills up the measure of the iniquity • by Christian members of churches. But tb i ' ds? o B l . sl' t sands are held by monied institution ' s , and 113 . i'Vieb t ' the north, by assignment, bonds, mortgag it e e ' 'd i n stsli almost all the plantations are deeply inv?„ 0 , 1 0;00 and thus Christian men at the north are , I", int!, p holders, while they are not suspected ofit;e7.l'ftsr the abominable system. —Extract of a le t ter pros York, dated April 12. 1849. , rh rho coo , FATAL AFFRAY IN ILLINOI3. -- - e frto , 't IP' 0` papers contain a telegraphic report of a , r t oi.,tf htindFecbod fo which took place recently in the southern a p" - on, desperadoes, called "flatheads," who belon, tie Th e se , ree'i / to between a company of " regulacors" n n „. u e d t° ol s it iti r ° o of some 300, who for some time have heV t he various depredations on the inhabitants 0,1: end of Illinois. Writs had been taken oT' de prel to o o ten or twelve of the "flatheads." teeth, and refused to surrender when, 8 , 12 0 , 0 " .. .,t5 c 0 el hearing of it fled in force to a log-W .1 % 3 'r% on eu o .ol lo house was then charged by the " regula' n „d tux' 0 , " flatheads" killed, and three wounded, n'• " regulators" mortally wounded. .r- - ; h e JULY 16.—The King, the Queen-Mott' ".. e . FIGHT BETWEE4 A BULL AND At.e-7,°;llJule-tOO,OlO be t de Rianzares assisted last night at tbe te f a ilab a ll, 0 5, bull and a lion, which proved a COraPlf, o f the is horse lion, when let loose, jumped on the ba,n„.„ f e el ',pea 1 1 0 the latter, having shaken him off, made retu agag e id and completely put him to flight. Tboi . ,. e tiger .f bP times to the charge without being 1 1,11% k ial oeV , adversary, who constantly fled: before tto seat erjgos then brought up, but he quietlY we a ha-ha the lion. The bull havinottacked.birta. o,lrto' which ended to the advintage stiedsnore" excessweil in their disappointracnk commi wo uld opt and burnt chairs, aild , a serious esnewe, o t inte r bably followed the scored. time. Sept. 4 tot Ah A I YEDNI t l r ‘ del ßa sit,froma Am l s l i Nit Er , for bltio J L;9, for Puzv thi e T i l er hill or Buono 1 . 0048 4EuvE. i tte r,, °, built' to ha-Aved into e b een at %Mb R ad VViCa IR, Mar' F inn, 11 .itardo joh it erlek Utlitleltril and Ar etL , from Hie d a, W bone. 11 , 1 ;1%; ; ; I ;di t tl e es, 28tIP oiiigto w d off, L 1 ,ki., Fl 1,4 1 LE 1. , .__ 1 q'4 41 , f 0 i lot,tel., i '3tv 41111:(17,11L- N i t Lt t ZC " 1 % fop —La k N a ac„ — , s ( A t 44 44 Vei kA it i( Ak At fro tl ?, 0 fro' le 4 Itof,‘ I L 1 1 e 't t ti Pisa for 4 4 !at. 1461