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There is no mo d ern nove li s t whose works excite so "'ell Public attention, ar e so much read, so much talked Although so much admired, as these of Mr. Disraeli. is ii isgh a very gr ea t number of his readers—ourselves Otg the number —dissent ereirely from many of the pats he a d voca t es , an d man y o f th e o pinions he fo rth, yet there are very few, if any, not willing to farf te stimony to the great amount of ability mani • t estec l his w r i t i ngs , an d th e grea t amount of amuse :Ant afforded by th e i r p er u s al ; and something t e than amusement—though the power of tunes g„ is no insignificant one for a novel. In ad di° to this, in, addition to the pleasure afforded th eir admirabl e s k e t c h es of s oc iety, by their accurate gt eations of men and manners, by the lively sallies bd brilliant sarcasms sparkling in almost every - page, i addition to the interest attached to many of the :s' ll4 ,ii r : jrl etet s, either from their being identified with real is 4141 5' or bring the embodiment of some graceful eal • • th re „ - en additi on t o a ll thi s , one grea t c haracteristic o f [ las e te lde " tiv els, and that a very important one, is their ° eY to engender thought. They are not to be h , skimm e d over and thrown aside; unless the reader most obtuse comprehension, they must inevitably St his attention and excite his meditations. Whether th'ere vi ncide with some truthful and beautiful idea—arid it4iire many such to be found in these pages--or sti rs ," we are startled by some trange proposition !r e - ,: we find it impossible to agree with—and there itr es l'PY startling things to be fount here —we are k tltk istibly i n d uce d to re fl ect . W e either follow the e i rr through his course of happy illustrations, or elit our to find a refutation for his fallacious argu• See e We not only read ; we think. Can it be other indeed, w h en we re fl ec t th a t, f o r the most part, t4Ste arguments that surprise us, and this irony let use i ,e admi re, are employed for the perpese of un -I,'"ig and overthrowing what custom and prejudice it: t educed us to consider favourably —or, perhaps, Which we have not considered at all. This was the case in " Coningsbe ," which was not remarkable for its satirical sketches and personal 14 3 , ; i g0s than for the boldness with which it exposed le s : d e al illusion—asking of Conservatism what it con phi e ,? &e. After " Coningsby" appeared " 11, following in the same strain, aspired to pourtray K m e rilY the condition of politicians, but of the triir• Like " Coningsby," it contained many as'ant sketches of London life, but it alsorpoolges relating to the aristocracy, it spoke f the r • . t 1 4,, vesicles telling of the gorgeous gaieties ofof the %tt er a ti L on, it spoke of the gloom and sorrow !Litt,: and spoke of them, moreover, in terms of the sym and encouragement ; and, inasmuch as it did this, "e • ki l d inclined to regard " Sybil "as a more valuable hi s r g„Gre interesting work than " Coningsby. Last Disraelee admirers were disappointed ; they ten' ) three-volumed novel from his pen. His lively e!oquent adjurations were confined to his li t e etioni s t ,ercches. Differing entirely, as we do, from htie a self upon this subject, and admiring his abi sod te as cor•delly as we de, we were grieved to telt to abilities only exerted in an ineffectual endea tsis .° make th e worse appear the teeeer cause, and I te il av ailable in imparting the last g:itter to a dying feis l Oh O i . It is therefore with pleasure that we this year lies him in his true posiiion—for, ho eever brilliant his t of debate, he ranks far higher as an author than as area—and we wel ioine him back with double b aser • te t t,. e, because in this new book we find no elluse,ns ly t C°st cause of monopoly. " Tancred" is doubtlessly Cs time in - the hands of many, and the first volume is, 04,4 3 , affordinte them much pleasure, arid the mote so ihte llse they will recognise in it not only a repetition b of tp d , r ely sketches which delighted them in " Coning! y kir ql 'S Ybil," but also the heroes and heroines of ., those i ! te l ,?'' volumes. Already, perhaps, they regard an- f 'Di as the third, and not the least delightful, o 1,4 sragi.'s brilliant political novels." as they are termed, keti " ?'" ! the first volume is finished—all is over, and the Chamsed. They are in another world—all is 4 a l s e " - "the scenery, the incidents, the style; they are PerCg a ;lifferent book! The title of the . work might, outsiiPe have led us to anticipate a visit to the East,. 116 t e were rather inclined to regard it in a figurative 1 ) r(* . ' ...4 crusade against some of the abuses of the (litr e : day ; but it is not so. Something very e4t.ent is meant by the " New Crusade," but tea s , that something is it is rather difficult 'fltio—of this, however, anon. It is quite impossible 41 t P,,P Q att of this work ' as a whole, for each volume has o s ` s T. a distinct character—we must therefore review it oststall, in which manner it certainly appears to the best Zitage, The first volume is filled with sketches of ee , , don life, and the others with scenes from the Orient, ;.1(1 specially, from the Holy Land. It will be readily s' o ' l 4i e o j u ve s d that such a combination must be most inhar --.!rhaps, the various scenes are better regarded contrast,beautifu'ansd not as a combination—like a collection ° lterly inco P n ie ge u u r o e u s s ' f Udell,- duff rent style and subject, 4 , ll e de fi ring their eatit'uabutdifference by their very attractions more conspicuous. .rst chapter of the first book, atter describing the r enillarities of a certain part of the parish of St. ki.hrge, " which is bounded ou one side by Piccadilly eon the other by : ' ! urzon-street," introduces us to ts"o presence of two celebrated cooks—we beg pardon, Mcelebrated chefs—and we listen, with a mixture of erest and amusement, to a conversation with which 4 3 ,''''Yer would doubtless sympathise. One of these chefs k f , l3 4ng but a genius, and consequently surrounded by trieelties, and he comes to seek advice from 'it 4 n i tn Ore experienced friend ; in doing so ho feelingly t r'aims to him his embarrassments, and the other as te_ t/ e ,.MY responds. lle tells him how he has been dis th_blted by one of his underlings, to whom he had en 'gee t edeint matter, and how he soujjfies, a most t• o 'o s °3' the most desperate personal exertion, all was t r i d Med from being lost.—" It was an affair of tIT , 'h a ° of Arcola!" " Ah!" those are m oment tatePathisingly exclaims the other, the pere 4 1Z" t • He, too, has anecdotes to relate; he served under Napoleon," that is, in the iel/Ziel kitchen. Had it not been for Waterloo he te;k 4 have had the cross; but the Bourbons and the l't ss ' s of the empire never could understand each other. g „ t ought over an emigrant chef, who did not com• thi s : ll ,Q the taste of the age. He wished to bring every les? uitek (Boerben all over) to the time of the ail de " When Monsieur passed my soup of Austerlitz this ` ta d► I knew the old family was deomed " After teen w e are favoured with the history of the noble of Bellamont, and here again, as its his former h ies Mr. Di srae li e ndeavours to show the 4 te s s t u ndignified manner in which some noble . families tied t a k tiained nobility. A Mr. Montacute having mar l: t hei r " heiress of ale Bellamonts, and acquired wit is th Property, their Parliamentary influence—five . votes ff e s e ,Rouse, besides his own—by means of this titles, 'tl 4 ,• ° °tsins the possession et all their rank itn L tili 4 - s ', r . ancient baronies and modern coronets." ]tut Aid t :' 4 snot effected without difficulty, every concession te l . ' s '. wrested from the minister. The time however qoa . " ( Mrable, the time of the American war. M . r. clehstaeute's support was ver necessary, but he was in -1 de nt, and only so, " ) he was conscientious, and s t f - ;% i iples. Saratoga staggered him. The defection "tle th L'lontaeute votes, at this moment, would have at i?l,7 l lllineted the struggle between England and her e itr/".` es • 4 fresh illustration of . the advantages of our tk 4t rnenta r y cons tit u ti o n ! The i ndependent Mr. Ain kstiss however, s to o d by his S•vereign; his five votes ',l!gt-I to cheer the Noble Lord in the blue ribbon, N is Teit master took his seat and the o tths in the qt)p - t : °F Lords, as Earl of Bellumont and Viscount k iett e e : l ite." Unhappily such an arrargetnent is by no ke llts i mprobable, and, very pessibly, such arratige- Na • are by no means rare ; but are we then jus cep ,;aciting such a proceeding ae an illustraion of 10:- arliatnentary Constitution ? What, are we t to take t h u se of a system as an illustration of that syst.on ? S ame Way, on hearing of an accident on a railway tot e i outable entirely to the faults of the parties surer the l ' oe d ing it) we may exclaim, " A fresh illustration of t a "antages of modern inventions !" or on hearing of We se li e r der committed with a knife, or any sitnilsr 11ti 4 7, " Behold an illustration of the advantages of k 1 dg such weapons." We are rather disposed to To lst' Rt. Disraeli's example as a fresh . illustration tes ° f the advantages. but of the abuses, of a '• 'qry constitution ; abuses which have, . rest tEt, th, , 11 re, been overthrown by the Reform . Bill—abuses, it th e s ure, of which every succeeding reformation , remains S s i`ending to sweep away. Th, whole of the first ttrae is, in style and character, a fit companion for stigoingsby" and Sybil ; we find here the same admir e:is delineation of character ; brief sketches, yet Or' with an individuality, like the portraits c oo ' unch, consisting but of a few lines, yet 4e i Ying a life-like resemblance. We hear again the t ss Nes dialogues of the idle habitues of the Clubs ; we dip: gain introduced to the fashionable ball, the recherche 4 1 , 1 . 1 ", or th e mat i n d e j euner . W e mee t Benin !1t 1 e.,, 01 our f ormer friends and favourites, Coningsby dus t Sybil and Egrement, and their companions. ttot Pass across the stage. It is, perhaps , s the " the rule " to introduce in tale sad e g r ( les and heroines of another, but the heroes e use 'h r °ines of Mr. Disraeli's recent novels may th e a, very allowable exception to this rule, for from tir e ebiteunastance eef their adventures having been et 40 v6 , 11 to the present day, and their fortunes tse,!Canstervroven with passing events, we are accu s s_ now t ? regard them, not as the fictitious heroes of itec" but as real inhabitants of the world we live in— the wr them, indeed, do exist under other names and tifi talt aracter s of all are drawn with such exactitude and ltot t e e r ' e ss, that we can readily believe they have living i l tin ° R -J e f' s e a• We are so accustomed to regard them as e eersonages that the casual introduction of the . m . the Ta "Fted" occasions us no more surprise than would cij rie m f uing of some acquaintance in a public assembly. mvever, as is the mention of them. we are favoured „gift dikes all-length portrait of Edell Coningsby—a very g r, ey s —n t pereo n from the Edith Milbank of former 'oe' ...svet y different from the timid girl who, on bard!l4gstn, „ 3 fi rst introduction to her at Milbank, could ki a 1; 1 s ummon sufficient courage to perform her duties ate ° etatess, when " she loeked at the chicken and them! p Illn gshY." Now she appears before us as ~:onlinent character in the fashionable world— le a lt as well as a beauty. "She could describe e ms taentenceand personify in a phrase." Mrs. Coningsby tae et ii !, Tashi , -n ' The chance, or roller the ' 4, 4' 1 (4)- 1 1 c:1 N ° ' Edith's character, is very forcibly and happily Il h kt ure ra ( )::d; is doubtless true to nature, at least to the 4 05 r artificial lif e . N ever th e l ess , th os e who may I,l,lago:mpathised with the farmer love story of C 0,1114.,0 ,1114., , 11 1 4. , rile Y tu o r n e d Edith, will perhaps, 1 dis ci appoi p n i t o cd uft w e l , t ; h B since we e their t ra s i aw be tl life. th - ree y y 'ears back, 3 et eve u a e , g asion to some very lively and amusing details: ' eal44 ll had ever a more difficult or laborious task PIA E SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, MARCH 22, 1847. to labour in London for the moral arid mental regenera tion of his oriental fellow-countrymen. Through that spirit almost as much as through force of arms, new relations of amity have been established between the Emperor of China and our belovod Sovereign. And very recently, through that sanb benign and enlarg ing spirit, a cordial understanding has for the first time been arrived at between the head of the Papacy and the Mahometan Sultaun. For these reasons we are disposed to welcome this little tale by Mr. Daunt with pleasure. The times are those of progress and liberality, and the book is in accordance with the principles of the times. Hugh Talbot is the chief victim of the laws of confisca lion—being a priest. Eveline is the heroine, and, for the advantage of her father and the benefit of the priest Huh Talbot, and also for the gratification of her own lust of power, she sacrifices herself by marrying an old nobleman, Lord Carthwaite. The incidents of the story are numerous and interesting, particularly those descrip tions of the various escapes and perilous adventures of Hugh Talbot himself. Altogether the tale is a genuine original. JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL AGRICULTU RAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. Vol. VII. Part 11. Another of those important and elaborate volumes which have in their character something absolutely national, is lying before us. As a specimen of the industry of the persons engaged in its composition, and as a sign of the comprehensive efforts ma'ie by the society from which it proceeds it is peculiarly remarkable. Agri culture, at this particular period. is attracting more notice in Great Britain, than it has ever done previously; and it is attracting more notice, for two reasons, first, because there is a manifest necessity for an increase of our enterprise as cultivators of the soil, now that we have to compete upon the same footing with the agri culturists of the whole world ; and secondly, because the vegetable disease, now afflicting Ireland and Scot land, is a fresh inducement to us to study yet more pro foundly the mysteries of the growth and nourishment of plants. On these accounts, the present part of the voluminous library of the Royal Agricultural Society of England is invested with more interest and importance than any of its predecessors. IMPORT AN T EXPERIMENTS SCHOENBEEN'S GUN COTTON. On Wednesday last, a series of experiments, to test the efficiency of gun cotton in blasting, as compared with the known powers of gunpowder, took place in the Standedge Tunnel, on the Huddersfield and Manchester Railway. As the occasion was one of peculiar interest to the scientific world, many gentlemen connected with railway and other extensive works availed themselves of the opportunity of being present, amongst whom we obsersed Wm. Leigh Brown, Esq., of Meltham Hall, and Thomas Varley, Esq., of Huddersfield, acting di rectors of the company ; Chas. Brook, Esq., of Melt ham Mills ; J. A. Barron, Esq., of Stainmoor, Middle sex, the legal representative in this country of Chevalier Schoc nbein ; P. Brumes Hall, Esq., of the Dartford Gunpowder Works. one of the patentees of the Gun Cotton ; H. F. Maekworth, E , q., resident engineer ; Morland Jee, Esq., and R. W. Wall, assistant engineers; W. A. Purdon, Esq., principal engineer, under Mr. Brunell, on the Dublin and Wicklow Railway ; Thomas Nicholson, Esq., contractor of the tunnel ; Mr. Clark, of Liverpool, and many other gentlemen, who take a lively interest in scientifie pursuits. The place selected for the experiments is in the midst of the great Yorkshire chain of hills between Hudders field and Manchester, where a tunnel is now construct ing through huge beds and masses of millstone grit, and which, when completed, will be the longest in existence. The rocks, which are situated at a depth of 155 yards below the surface of the mountain, consist entirely of close grained quartz. of which some idea may be formed by the fact that in 110 yards of the tunnel now completed, no fissure or joint is perceptible in the whole length. At the same time, therefore, that it afforded the surest test to the power of the guncotton, a more distinct compa rative test could not be instituted between its powers and that of gunpowder. A rough estimate having been made with firearms of the relative strength of those ex plosive compounds, a charge of gun cotton having the same effect on a wooden target as six times its weight in gunpo 'der. Holes were drilled 2 inches, 13 inches, and 1 inch; s diameter in the millstone grit, and the charges of gun-cetton varied from 1-6th to 1-3 d of the weight of powder ordinarily made use of in blasting. Cartridges, containing the guncotton, were dropped into holes, with the patent fuse attache:l, and the quantities varied from 10 ounces in the larger, to 6 ounces in the smaller tubes: the quantity cf gunpowder employed for similar blasts varying from 1 to 3 pounds. The shots prepared in the tunnel were twelve in number, 10 being charged with gun-cotton, and Nos. 4 and 11 with gunpowder. The shots numbered 2 and 7 in the south hesdings, and 12 in the north heading, were declared by Mr. Nicholson, the contractors of the works, previous to their being fired, to be those on which the test of the strength ot the gun-cotton com pare d with that of gunpowder woulsl be most certain, both as to charge seed position. No. 2 was charged with 10 oz. ot gun-cotton, and did wonderful execution, exceeding in everything the expectations of both the en gineers and miners. No. 7 was charged with ounces of gun-cotton,and did the same work as six ounces of gun powder would have done. The crowning experiments were Nos. 11 and 12 in the north heading. No, 12 was charged with 16 ounces of gun-cotton against 3 pounds 4 ounces of gunpowder in No. 11. The shots exceeded anything the engineers or miners had before tested. The gun-cotton exploded first, and threw against the side of the heading, and broke into nine pieces, 220 cubic feet of rock, or about fifteen tons weight. This shot with its connexion with No 11 was supposed to eave assisted it materially. No. 11 removed to the dis tance of shout one yard 224 curie feet of rock, or about 161 tons weight, but was br-ken only into six pieces. The following properties were established in these experiments. Ist. That the gun cotton may be con,i aered three or four times the strength of gunpowder. end. That it is entirely free from smoke—a qualification of great importance in tunnelling operations ; as the miners can recommence work immediately after the shots have exploded, which is not the case with gun powder. In works in Cornwall, where blasting opera tions have hitherto been carried on, ou a large scale with gunpowder, eight hundred men have been obliged to leave their work for an hour every time the shots have been fired. This, with gun cotton, is entirely ob viated. 3d. That no risk is incurred in stemming the holes. 4th. That in keeping the cotton on the works, and its being handled by the men, there is not so much risk from explosion or loss from waste as with gun powder. sth. That it ignites with more certainty than gunpowder. 6th. From the decreased size of the charge, the depth of the drill hole may be diminished, and the power more concentrated. Its other advantages are—that it may be kept under water instead of in a magazine. Schoenbein has kept it tinder water for six weeks without damaging its strength. It never misses fire or fouls the gun, and ie more instantaneous in its discharges. It possesses all the qualities of the best gunpowder, and there is no danger of its exploding from frequent firing. It explodes at 350 degrees. The advantages just recited apply themselves to all the conditions under which explosive mixtures can be em ployed, so that thsre is no doubt that when the powers of the gun cotton become generally known, that a com plete revolution will be effected in the use of materials holding such a prominent position in the arts of peace and war. We will just add in flue, a curious fact, pro bably unknown to our readers, that the so-called gun cotton is no longer, strictly speaking, cotton, having undergone a chemical change, and become, according to the experiments of Berzelue, the first chemist of the ege, a nitrite of lignine. There is in fact as much dif ference as between lime and gypsum. Li the evening about twenty gentlemen sat down to a sumptuous repast, prepared by eir. Joshua Hall, of the New Inn, at Meriden ; %Vile. Leigh Brook, E-q., occupied the head of the table, supported on the right by J. A. Barron, Esq., and on the left by P Brames hall, Esq., F Mackworth, Esq., occopied the vice-chair. The health of Mr Barron was drunk with honours. In returning thanks he stated that t_ h• valier Schoenbein wished the gun-cotton to have a fir trial, so that its properties nrght be fairly tested. M , ssrs. Hall's, of Dar , f,,rd, had not hesitates to make the case their own, when they saw that its powers were so gigantic. Its destructive qualities had been urged as a plea against its use, but they hoped to look to better things than that of warfare. They looked to its use in civil operations, and 0 the great utility and benefit it was likely to prove in mining and engineering operations. Mr. Hall, in re turning thanks for the ha,;(lsome manner in which his heahh had been proposed, stated that they had found the gun co , ton to be far superior to gunpowder. Mr. MACKWORTII, on his health being drunk, bore testimony to the experiments having succeeded well. For blasting purposes the gun-cotton hail been found to be an agent ut stronger power than what modern times had hitherto produced : when its qualities b eco me generally known it will supersede :all other agents, and by using it properly it weuid offer a better security for the work man's life. Mr. NICHOLSON, c!intractor of th- tunnel, on his health being drunk sa►d, as far as his humble efforts would go, nothing should be wanting to test the efficiency of the cotton. On the health of .Ir. Alfred Jee, the acing enginee r of the line, being proposed, Mr. MORLAND . TEE returned thanks. The health of IV. A. Purdon, Esq., engineer on the Dublin and Wicklow Railway, was drunk with honours. Mr. HALL proposed the health of u o c f h W L. Brook, Esq., reply stated that eng i h n e ee w r, mr.maw g e r k . a ic ti h ed by having y w o h n o n i g n a r n e d p proved their witness , d the events of the day, h when n c h isT s c a y w w of gun r c k o s tton i w f t , to have i a n s i t ) r ia o s n t g in d r es;:r H e e to m t t es p t le th as e u r r e e a w l their line A i railway progressing so favourably ; ° he ' thought no railway would superseee it The country through which it passed presented the most romantic and picturesque scenery in England. They had many beau tiful viaducts on the line, and would have one of the longest tunnels hitherto constructed. He begged to propose the healths of two gentlemen connected with the undertaking, who, bad they been pre sent in their little company, he felt sure would take a lively interest in their proceedings ; he al luded to W. Aldam, jun., Esq., M.P., the chair man, and J. Brook, Esq., of Greenhead, the Vice chairman, of the board of directors, gentlemen who ever felt alive to the interests of the undertaking, and whom he bet:-red would work well to the end. The healths of the gentlemen connected with " the Press" were proposed by Mr. Nicholson: he had felt a pleasure, he said, in walching the anxi et y with which they hal overlooked the experi men ts made that day in the lower regi ons , and doubted not bu t what they would chronicle the scenes that they had witnessed, not only with a good many flourishes, but wi th faithfulness. Our represent at iv e a t H u ddersfield, who h ad attended to witness the Thankscompany were vot e d t o t h e chairman and vice chairman , and then separated.--Loses Mercury. MARYLEBONE VESTRY• ASSESSMENT OF MARYLEBONE TO THE COUNTY AND POLICE RATE. On Saturday, at the Marylebone Vestry, Mr. FLOOD, the vestry clerk, reported, " That pursuant to an order from a committee of her Majesty's justices, acting under an Act of Parliament passed in the eighth and ninth year. 4 of the reign of her present Majesty, intituled, an Act to Amend the Laws relating to the Assessing of County Rates,' he attended such committee at the Clerkenwell Sessions House, on Tuesday last, and was examined as to the mode adopted by the vestry of Mary lebone, in assessing the poor-rate, and that he was in formed by the comm itt ee (J ames Wm. Freslifield, Esq., in the chair), that the magistrates' construction of the Act of Parliament the 6th and 7th Wm. IV., intituled, an Act to Regulate Parochial Assessments,' is that the rateable value to be assessed to the poor means the rack rent, after deducting therefrom the probable average annual cost of repairs and insurance, that is to say—that a pers.m paying a rent of 1001. a year, and the presumed average annual cost of repairs and insurance being 101., he should be assessed en a rental of 901. To the Vestry of St. Marylebone, 2d March, 1847." Mr. G. DAIiIELL, in moving that the report be received and entered on th e minutes, observed, that the parish of Martlehone had for a long time struggled to obtain some alleviation with regard to the immense assessment charged upon them as compared with other metropolitan parishes. In consequence of this excess, the vestry had hoped that the magistrates would have been enabled to trice theta some relief mirk r the Act 6th and 7th Wm. IV.; but, from the construction pat upots that Act of Parliament by the committee of magistrates, it. appeared that very little, if any, relief could be afforded. The magistrates told them they might appeal, and if success ful, they, the magistrates, would then have to assess other parishes higher to the county-rate, in order to produce a sufficient sum to meet the expenditure ; but any parish appealed against which could prove that there was even a single house in the parish appealing, not assessed upon its rack rental, then such appeal must fall to the ground. The Poor-law Commissioners had also the power to grant relief in such cases, but that parish not being under the poor-law were deprived of it. The parish of Marylebone, at that moment, was n as o se le ss ss ed a tt s i u t m he th c a o n unty 370,a2n1d6Lp,;leicrea-nrantiejmu.pon a rental of Mr. NICHOLAY seconded the resolution, which was carried. BILL FOR THE REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS IN SCOTLAND. The following is the Registration Bill for Scotland, which has been introduced by the Lord Advocate : Clause 1 and 2 propose to enact, that after the pass ing of the Act, an office is to be provided in Edinburgh, to be called " The General Registry Office of Births, Deaths, and Marriages," for keeping a register of alt births, deaths, and marriages iu Scotland, and the Queen to appoint for the said office a Registrar-General of births, deaths, and marriages, in Scotland, removeable at pleasure ; and that the Registrar-General may appint an assistant ; but who shall not have power to make, alter, or rescind any rules or regulations, or to dismiss any person from any office holden during the pleasure of the Registrar-General. 3. The Lords of the Treasury to appoint officers, clerks, &c., and to fix the salaries ; but the saLry of the Registrar-General not at any time to exceed the sum of SOOL yearly. 4. That the salary of the Registrar-General, of the Superintendent-Registrar, and all the expenses of the General Registry Office, including clerks, officers, scr vants, books, and stationery be paid out of the Consoli dated Fund. 5 and 6. The regulations for management of offie, and duties of officers to be framed by the Secretary of State, and submitted to Parliament ; and an Abstract of Registers to be laid annually before Parliament. 7. Every county in Scotland, and the towns of Edin burgn, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Dundee, Greenock, Perth, and Dumfries, sev , --rally shall form a district, to be under the superintendence of a Superin tendant-Registrar, the boundaries of each burgh to be those of the Retorm Act ; but that no county shall in clude any burgh or town forming a separate district fur the purposes of this Act. 8 and 9. The Sheriff-Clerks of each county, and the burgh Clerks and Town-Clerks of burghs and towns re spectively, to be the Superintendent Registrars of their dirtricts; and deputy superintendant-Registrar may be appointed by Superintendant. 10. The districts to be divided into sub-districts, con sisting of parishes, or, where it shall be deemed neces sary for convenience, into parts of parishes, in which last case each parochial board, acting under the Poor-law shall, on or before the Ist of August, 1847, divide the parishes into as many sub-districts as shall be necessary, which shall each be distinguished by a name or number, and shall be a Registrar's district; and each parochial board shall, on or before the Ist of September. 1847, ap point, in each sub-district a Registrar for the registra tion of all births, deaths, and marriage:. which shall take place within the parish or sub-district, and such Regis trar shall be a person possessing such qualification as the Registrar-General shall, by any regulation to be made by him, require and prescribe. 11. Deputy-Registrars may be appointed by the Re gistrar. 12. Provided always, and be it enacted, that it shall not be lawful to appant any Parish Schoolmaster to the office of Registrar or Deputy-Registrar under this Act. 13. Every Superintendent-Registrar, Registrar, and Deputy-Registrar, to hold his office during the pleasure of the Registrar- General ; but on any such officer being dismissed, notice of such must be published in some newspaper circulated in the district ; but no Superin tendent-Registrar shall be so removed without the appro bation of one of her Majesty's Secretaries of State. 14 to 19. Appoints the offices of the Sheriff-Clerks, Burgh Clerks, or Town Clerks, to be the register offices of the Superintendent-Registrars for the purposes of the Act. Registrars and Deputy-Registrars to dwell in sub-district ; and names of Registrars and Deputy- Registrars to be affixed on church doors two Sundays at certain periods. . _ 20. Every Registrar to inform himself carefully of every birth and every death which shall happen within his sub-district from and after the last day of Decem ber, 1847, and to learn and register, as soon after the event as conveniently may be done, without fee or re ward, in one of the register books, the particulars re quired to be registered according to the forms in the schedules annexed, touching every such birth or every such death. 21. And be it enacted, that the parents or parent of every child born, and the occupier of any house or tene ment in Scotland in which any birth shall take place, and the medical attendant and midwife present at such birth, from and after the last day of December, 1847, shall, within eight da) s next after the day of birth, give, or cause to be given, notice of such birth to the Regis trar of the sub-district in which the birth occurred, under a penalty, to be paid in case of failure by the parents, or either of them, of forty shillings, and by such occupier, medical attendant, or midwite, of twenty shillings i but such penalty shall not be held to have been incurred 4r be recoverable, if such notice shall be given by any one of such persons. 22. In ease any person shall find any new-born child, or the dead body of any child exposed, such person shall, under a penalty of forty shillings in case of failure, forthwith give notice of the finding of such new-barn child to the Inspector of the Poor, acting for the time under the said last recited Act, or of the finding of such dead body to the Procurator-Fiscal of the county. 23. The parents of every legitimate child and the mother of every legitimate child born in Scotland, from and after the last day of December, or in the case of the death, illness, absence, or inability of the said parents the occupier of the house or tenement in which such child shall have been born, or the medical attendant and midwife present at such birth, or other person being an inmate of such house or tenement, and having know ledge of the particulars, shall, upon being required I personally, or by written requisition, within three months after the date of such birth, to do so, and under a penalty of five pounds in case of failure, give informa tion to the Registrar, according to the best of his or he-r knowledge and belief, of the several particulars hereby required to be known and registered touching the birth of such child, and shall then and there sign the register in the presence of the Registrar accordingly; provided always, that in the case of any illegitimate child, it shall not be lawful for the Registrar to enter the name of any person as the father of such child. 24. If any child of a Scottish parent shall be born at sea on board of a British vessel, after the said last day of December, the captain of such vessel shall forthwith make a minute of the several particulars required to be inserted in the register, and shall, on the arrival of such vessel in any port of the United Kingdom, or by any other earlier opportunity, send a certified copy of such minute through the Post-office to the Registrar- General, who shall file the same, and shall cease a true and correct copy thereof, verified by his own sig nature, to be entered in a book to be kept for that pur pose in the General Registry-office, to be called " The Marine Register." 25. After the expiration of three months following the day of the birth of any child, it shall not be lawful for any Registrar to register such birth, save as after wards provided—that is, it shall be lawful for either of the parents of any legitimate child and the mother of any illegitimate child, or for the lawful guardians of e th ois s ltpenh u aradi e c rdgs h t ueißec declaration writingglnalegitimatecidrsh st birierbadle ergefaccording to register required oe aarr i dt l inedi l igd e ti eon g i fsg i itbt t st, eiretumrsoephravetteaterhheglriel:incs, Superintendent-Registrar uni l resr d eedtrth , deleionu a rf tt:to:ohfiault. thereupon, n esse: six months next after the birth, to make a declaration au thority of the Superintendent-Registrar, ac cording to the information of the person making the Super intendant-Registrar shall be entitled to demand a fee of two shillings and sixpence from the person requiring the l birth to be registered ; and the Registrar, over and th y gubro, :ci3ren. t rs,hi igttmthrhl child,aai et e ewhrr ehsfkoueufbn within know ledge above the fee hereinafter allowed in respect of every birth registered by him, shall be entitled, unless the de lay shall have been occasioned by his default, to have a fee of five shillings from the person requiring the same to be registered ; and every person who shall know ingly register or cause to be registered the birth of any child otherwise than herein, after the expiration of three months following the birth, shall forfeit a sum not ex ceedingfi fifty pounds. 26. No register of births, except in the case of children born at see, shall be admi ss ibl e i n ev id ence to prove the birth of any child, wherein it sh a ll appear that six months has intervened between the day of the birth, and the day of the registratien of tne birth of such child ; and ev . ery person wh o s h a ll knovvingiy re pSeen.aelltaynil of , whose birth shall haveir ' 27.5 e re gister the birth of any child, aft er t h e exp i rat i on o f s i x months, shall n sahn r ay eg childiee ll be etirl liable a er c nt c o o i r na d ing to the Act., shall, within six months atter having been registered, have any name given to it in baptism, or shall have the name by which it may have been registered altered in baptiein, the parent or guardian of such child, or other person procuring such name to be given, may procure and deliver to the Regis• tray or Saperintendent-Registrar in whose custody the register of the birth of the child may then happen to be, a certificate according to the form annexed, or to the like effect, signed by the minister or clergyman who shall have performed the rite of baptism, wideh certiti este such minister or clergyman is hereby required to t:livir immediately after the baptism, or weeeever the s tme shall he demau led, within :ix months ; and the said ltegistrar eer Superintendent-Registrar, upon receipt of such certificate, and on payment of the fee of one shilling, to which he shall be therefore entitled, shall, without any erasure of the original entry, forthwith re gister the name by which the child was baptised. and no tify the same to the Registrar-General. 28. In the case of children of parents not recognising the sacrament of baptism or infant baptism, the parents or guardians, within six months after the birth of the child shall have been registered, when any name shall have been given to the child according to the rites or usage of the sect to which the parents belong, to deliver to the Registrar a certificate signed by such parents or guardians, whereupon, and upon payment of a fee of one shillin ;, tke Registrar shall, without erasure as afore said, register the name of the child. 29. The medical attendant or other person present at the death, or in attendance during the last illness and until the death, of every person dying in Scotland from and after the said last day of December, and the occu pier of the house or tenement, and if the occupier be the person who shall have died, the inmates of the hence or tenement in which such death shall have happened, shall, under a penalty of forty shillings, within forty eight hours next after the day of such death, give or cause to be given notice of such death to t he Registrar of the subdistrict in which such death shall have hap pened ; but such penalty shall not be held t o have been incurred if such notice shall ha ve been g iven b y an y one of such persons. 30. The medical attendant or other person present at the death or in attendance during the last illness and un til the death, and also the near relatives of every person dying in Scotland after the last day . of December, or the occupiers of the hou ses or tenement in which such death s h a ll have taken place , sha l l within fourteendays,huder a penalty of fiv e p ounds in case of failure, give informa required, to the registrar, according to ttihenbu:spn being toofhisknowledge and belief, of the several par titulars hareby ri , quirecl to be registered toachieg tha death of suCa person; but in every CJ.- e in which a pre cognition touching the death of a person shall b 2 held, the Procurator-Fiscal shall inform the Registrar-General of the result of such precognition; and the Registrar shall, without requiring- the Procurator-Fiscal to sign the same, make the entry according, stating the Procu rator Fiscal as his informant. 31. If any of her Majesty's Scottish subjects shall die" at sea on board of a British vessel, after the said last day of December, the captain of the vessel shall make inti mation in the same way as provided for in the case of births; and the Registrar shall insert a correct copy thereof in the " Marine Register," verified by his own signature. 32, 33. Every Registrar immediately upon registering any death, or as soon thereafter as he shall be required so to do, shall, without fee or reward deliver to the in formant, for the use of the undertaker or other person having charge of the funeral, a certificate that such death has been duly registered; and such certificate shall be delivered to the person having the charge of the place of interment; and if any dead body shall be buried, for which no such certificate shall have been so delivered, the undertaker or other person having charge 6,f the I funeral, and the person having charge of the place of in terment, shall within forty-eight hours thereafter give notice thereof to the Registrar of the sub-district in which such death shall have happened, under a penalty of 101., the information given to the Registrar to be signed by the informant. 34. Every Registrar aball make out an account, twice in every year, of the number of births and deaths which he shall have registered since the last half yearly ac count, and the Superintendent-Register shall verify and sign the same ; and the Parochial Board, on pro duction of such account, shall pay to the Registrar for the first twenty entries of births and deaths in every year which he shall have registered, two shillings and sixpence each, and one shilling for every subsequent entry of births and of deaths in each year ; and in the event of such fees being inadequate to his remuneration, such further sum as the Parochial Board shall think fit. 35. In all cases of marriage contracted in Scotland from and after the laNt day of December, 1847, the persona contracting such marrage, at the time of the contraction thereof, or within two months then after. shall sign, along with two witnesses, in the presence of the Registrar, the entry of such marriage in the re gister-book to be kept by the Registrar, and if this be done within ten days, the Registrar shall for such entry be entitled to a fee of five shillings ; if after ten days and within two months, the Registrar shall be entitled to a fee of ten shillings ; or it shall be competent to the persons contracting marriage to require the Registrar of the sub-district to attend at the contraction, or within two months thereafter, at any place within such sub district, and such Registrar is required, upon a written notice of forty-eight hours given to him to that effect. to attend with the register book accordingly, and to make the proper entry therein ; and for such attend ance and entry, if at the contraction or within ten days of the contraction of such marriage, the Registrar shall be entitled to a fee of one guinea, besides the sum of sixpence for each mile which he shall be obliged to travel in going from his place of abode to the place of such marriage ; and if such attendance shall be required after ten days but within two months of the contraction of such marriage, the Registrar shall for such attend ance and entry be entitled to a fee of two guineas be sides the sum of sixpence for each mile ; and any per sons contracting marriage and failing to register the same, and sign the entry thereof in manner herein de scribed during the period of two months thereafter, shall be liable to a penalty of fifty pounds, and in default of payment to suffer imprisonment for one month. 36. In case of either or both of the married parties dying within the ten days or two months, the marriage unregistered, it shall be competent to the survivor, or for any near relative of either of the parties, to obtai❑ registration of the marriage, they, along with two other witnesses who have been present at the marriage, signing register, which must also !,tate, in the entry, the death of the person who may have contracted the marriage. .• 37, 38, 39, 40. Marriages may be registered after two months by the Registrar. Clergyman or person present at solemnisation, celebration, or contraction of marriage, to send nctice to Registrar within ten days, under a penalty of 21. Certified copies of register books to be sent half-yearly to the Superintendent -Re gistrar, under a penalty of 101. Str...erintendent- Registrar to transmit registers half -yearly to Registrar- General. 41. Every Registrar and Deputy-Registrar who shall have the keeping for the time being of any register-book of births, deaths, or marriages. shall at all reasonable times allow searches to be made of all register-book in his keening, and shall, if required, give a copy, certi fied under his hand, of any entry or entries in the same, on payment of a fee fir every search extending over a period not more than one year the sum of one shil ling. and sixpence additional for every additional year; and for certificate the sum of two shillings and six pence for every entry contained in such certificate. 47. Every Superintendent Registrar shall forthwith cause indexes of the register-books in his office to be made and kept with the other r, cords of his offit.e ; and every person shall be entitled at all reasonable hours to search the said indexes, and to have a certified copy of nny entry or entries in the said register-books, under the hand of the Superintendant-Registrar, on payment of the fees ; for every general search the sum cif five shillings, and for every particular search the sum of one shilling, and for every such certified copy, the sum of two shillings and sixpence. 49. Indexes to be kept at General Register Office, where they may be searched, on payment of the follow ing fees :—For every general search the sum of twenty shillings ; for every particular search the sum of one shilling ; and for every certified copy the sum of two shillings and sixpence. 44. Seal to be kept at the General Register Office ' and all certified copies of entries seal e d or s t am p e d therewith to be admissible throughout the United King dom and other of her Majesty's dominions. in evidence of birth, death, or marriage, to which the same relates. 45. Every sum received by the Registrar-General to be accounted for and paid into the Bank of England, to the credit of her Majesty's Exchequer, or to be applied by order of the Lords Commissioners in discharge of the expenses of the said General Register Office in Edinburgh. 46, 47, 48. Penalty for giving false information— Transportation for a period not exceeding seven years, or imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years. Every Registrar who shall refuse, or without reasonable cause, omit to register any birth, death, or marriage, and every person having the custody of any register book who shall carelessly lose or injure the same, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding 501. for every such offence. Penalty for destroying cr falsifying register-books, or certifying any writing to be a copy or extract of any register-hook, knowing the same to be false, ace.— Transportation for a period not exceeding seven years, or imprisonment for a period not exceeding two years. 49, 50. If any error shall be discovered to have been committed in any entry in any of the register-books, the Registrar-General is to examine regarding it on oath, and if he shall be satisfied that any error has been committed, he shall cause a rectified entry to be made in a separate register-book, to be called " The Register of Corrected Entries ;" and he shall also make an entry upon the margin of the original entry of such birth. death, or marriage (but which original entry shall re main unaltered), distinctly referring by volume, and page, and date, to the entry made in the register of corrected entries. Errors in the entry may be corrected before signing. . . . . 51. All pen"alties and forfeitures imposed by the Act shall be recoverable before the Sheriff of the county in which such penalty shall have been incurred ; and the penalties and forfeitures, if sued for by the Registrar- General, shall go to the Registrar- General, and if sued fer by any other party, shall go, the one moiety to the R gistrar-General, and the other moiety to the party suing ; and the deci,ion of the Sheriff in all such cases shall be final and conclo,ive, and not sutject to review in any court or by any process whatever. 52. The prosecution for every offence punishable upon summary convi-tion by virtue of the Act, shaU be commenced within three months after the commission of.the offe:ce, or Lifter c.tttsc of actio:, shall have uc curred. 53. Correspendenee of Registrar-General relating 'o the Act to pals through the Poil-office. 54. Provided alwAys, that nothing herein eon•ained shall affect the registration of baptism. burial., or Inst.- riages, us now by law etti bl is h ed, or the right of any Kirk-session or their clerk to receive the tees now usually paid for the r , •gistration of any bipeistr., marriage, or proclamation of banns. 55, 56. Acts requiring to be done under this Act, to be published on church doors, and notices to officers may be sent by post. 57. Interpretation chuse. The word " oath " shall include affirmation In the case of Quakers. or other de claration or soleinnity substitu•• d for an oath in the case or person. exempted by law from taking an oath. The word "Sh"riff" t, ineltiOe the -heritr Sohwitute. The " oeciip er" shall include the master, iv-eper, or su perintendent ..t every prison, or hon-e of correctio n, worklituve, hospital, tunanc asylum, or pabl . c o r charit able institution. • 58. Act to extend only to Scotland. 59 Act may be repeated or amended in the present seuion. ----- THE NEW HOUSES OP FARM AMENT.—In pur suance of the pledge given to the Government by Mr. Barry, the architect, that he would sufficiently complete the new House of Lords for the reception of their Lordships after the ensuing Easter recess, the works and fittings-up in She interior and of the necessary apartments required for use are proceeding with great rapidity, and in order to pre vent any hindrance or obstruction to the progress of the works, no person but those employed will be allowed to have access to the building after this day. The interior is a gor geous display of modern art. In the public hall the flooring is of great magnificence, being composed of Minton's encaustic tiles in colours. The outer gates of their Lordships' House are made of braes, and are of exquisite workmanship. In the works at the new House of Commons not much pro gres is making. NORTH OF ENGLAND JOINT. STOCK BAN K.--The directors of this establishment at Newcastle-upon-Tyne have made a call of 51. per share, to meet engagements which can not be postponed, and they propose calling the shareholders together at an early day, when a statement of the liabilities of the bank will be laid before them, and the course of future action determined upon. ABRAHAM PARK ERS.—The curiosity of the inhabi tants of Southampton was excited by an influx of about 20 Abraham Parker., or Turkish students, from Constantinople, who were imported by the Tagus stearne-r. Abraham Parker seems to let a generic term regularly ente re d i n the South ampton vocabulary for all who appear in the dress, or who come from the neighbouring country of the renowned bra . him Pacha.—Hampshire Guardian. We understand that an amateur theatrical perform ance, in aid of the funds of the Printers' Pension take place on Saturday, April 24, at Se'ciety' will Theatre. the Royal Olympic Theatre. --- SIR HENRY HALFORD'S BILL TO REGULATE HOSIERY MANUFACTURES. (From the Nottingham Review.) The following is an abstract of the provisions of a Bill brought into the House of Commons, on the 12th instant, by Sir Henry Halford, Mr. Packe, and Cclonel Rolleston, in tit uled— " A Bill to repeal an Act for making further regula tions respecting the tickets of work to be delivered to persons employed in the manufacture of hosiery in certain cases, and to make other provisions instead thereof, and to make further provisions to secure the wages of persons employed in the manufacture of hosiery." 1. The preamble states it to be expedient to abolish the Ticket Act, and to give further and more efficient protection to the workmen engaged in every department of the hosiery trade. 2, The old Act to expire on the Ist of next Septem ber, on which day the present Act is to come into force. 3. The interpretation clause contains the limitation of the term " manufacturer," to mean any person fur.. nishing material to be wrought into hosiery goods to be sold or disposed of on his account ; " agent" or " ser vant," any person meting for and in the name of the manufacturer; workman," any person by whom the materials furnished are to be actually wrought and con verted into hosiery. 4. Declares the p-actice of receiving materials by in termedi,te earti , s. and employing workmen under them to convert the same into hosiery goods to be objection able, and ought to be abolished and discontinued, and enacts that no person, save the manufacturer, being the real and absolute owner of the materials, and interested in the sale of the mat-rial when wrought up, shall give out work, employ workmen, or enter into any contract whatever for that purpose. 5. A partner may act for a firm, and make a contract and d -liver out materials. 6. Permits an owner to act by an agent or servant ; the lets of such to be binding on.the principal. 7. Enacts that every manufacturer of hosiery shall, on delivering out any materials to be wrought up, whether cy , his own premises or elsewhere, enter in a book nr books to be k"pt by him for that purpose, a statemet.t of th particulars of agreement between such manufacturer and the workmcn by whom such mate rials are to be wrought and conv , rted into hosiery goods, such entry to specify names and places of abode of work men. and be in form in every respect and particular of schedule annexed, and be signed by the manufacturer or his agent. The schedule for stockings requires twenty-three columns of particulars, besides signature. That for socks sixteen columns. For gloves seventeen columns. For shirts sixteen columns. For caps ten columns, and eight columns for any other description of hosiery. 8. Inflicts a penalty of not exceeding 50L, and not less than 51., for contravening, in any respect, the provisions of this Act, on proof before two justices; whether it re gards contracting between manufacturers and smaller masters, or non-inserting, altering, or obliterating the particulars of contracts with workmen as ordered. 9. Requires the book containing particulars of agree ments entered into to be kept at the ordinary place of the manufacturer's business, and makes it lawful for any workman, being at the time, or haring been within fourteen days in his employ, to apply for and obtain in• spection of, and to take copies of any entry er entries therein, at all suitable times. Any person hindering or refusing to allow inspection of copies, to be liable to a fine of not more than 20/., nor less than 51. Ia ow of dispute arising, this book to be pro duced, and the entry shall be evidence respecting the particulars contained in it. 11. Except where the dispute arises from alleged im perfection of work, when the piece of work in question shall be produced, or if not, it shall be taken to have been well made. 12. Makes the wags contracted for a debt, to be paid without any deduction whatever. 13. 1/-Glares that frame-rents are unjust to workmen, and have given ride to many evils, and therefore ought to be altogether nbAshed, and goes on to enact that no person shell let .n hire any frame to any workman, or take from him any tn. , ney, rent, gain, or pt.( fit, or de duct from his wages on account of Li.: renting, hiring, or using any such loom, frame, or a oaratus for making hosiery. 14. Enscts pen,thies for breach of the preceding clause ; but the sum is left blank, to be filled up in Committee. 15 to 18 Prescribe terms of legal proceedings, and give penalties to ri-e Crcwn, 19. Declares n rem val by certiorari allowable, nor any conviction to he inva id for want of form, nor any but special damage recoverable in case of any irregularity in proet edings. This Bill, though short, is of an extraordinary and sweeping character. It abolishes frame rent, but makes no provision foe securing the owner's right of preperty in frames, hitherto exercised. not so much by removal, for in many cases they have been continued in the uninterrupted custody of the same workpeople for twenty, thirty, or forty years, as by the weekly charge of frame rent, and by payment of the expense incurred by the larger rerairs. Who is to pay for these repairs in future is not stated I neither does it deal with the question of who is to compensate the owners of inde pendent frames for this legal destruction of their property. It makes every workman tt workwoman independent of any control but that of the hosier. All journeymen and apprentices are under this Bill to become their own mu ers. A hosier could not under it glee out work to a husband for his wife, or to a parent for a child. No excep'ions are contemplated ; the sole object seems to be to get rid of unjust charges, by destroying every species of intermediate agency at any cost. No one is to make a bargain for a working stoekingmaker but him self or herself. The hosier may employ a paid agent. but the workman must appear in person, and be dealt with separately. Each one must have his separate agree ment with the hosier, both as to money and material—a thing impossible. Will the hosiers be willing to increase the number of their accounts four-fold? Or to intrust a frame and materials to every stockingmaker on his own account? It is very unlikely. The chief places where materials are given out, and stockings are taken in, from the workpeople, are Nottingham, Sutton-in-Ashfieid, Belper, Derby, Loughborough, Leicester, and Hinck ley ; by the Bill, all the 40,000 men, women, and youths must waste their time, and strength, and money in going to these places, instead of three-fourths of them staying at home to work at the frame, clean the house, garden, or otherwise both profitably and safely employ themselves. How will this help them? In the county of Nottingham, for instance, there are 16,280 frames, gathered into about 5,200 shops. At present each shopmaster only attends the hosier's warehouse. In this county alone, therefore, this Bill, if it could be carried into effect, would oblige eleven thousand people, instead of five thousand, to travel every year four hun dred miles each, chiefly on foot, and this for the purpose of crowding still further warehouses already too much resorted to, and exposing them to temptations and ex penses.—The book containing particulars of agreements, is to be open for inspection and copying. Any one working for the house may see and copy all the entries he pleases, and do with these copies what he pleases-- publish them if he chooses. Is this fair dealing with the employer's business ? An apprentice may be pu nished for revealing his master's secrets—a workman may do it with impnnity,—No workman can incur any penalty under this Bill. We desire, as well as the gentlemen whose names are to this Bill, to see the stocking-maker disenthralled from his difficulties, and raised in his station and means. Bat this mode of dealing with the -object will no more answer any good purpose than d:d the " ticket" Bill, which we predicted would soon he repealed or fall into disuse, as it has done. In this effort at trade legisla tion we have another proof that Parliament can only be looked to for power to a.i . jost trade matt. rs , the exercise of that, power must be placed in hands accustomed to the dettAls and neeess , tics of the various businesses sub jected to their aet;en. reel heir.< stns e. ALLEGED DEATH OF A CHILD FROM CRUEL TREATMENT.—Ye , terdav Mr. W. Career held an inquest at the Three Stags, Lambeth, on the body of William Ralph age• nine :Fears, a son of a beer-shop keeper living in aleait's-row. The inquiry was instituted in consequence of intormation having been sent to the Coroner that the child had died from the elects of corporal punishment inflicted by his pater ts. Police. constable Beal, H 7 L, said that he had be ,, n residing in the same house as deceased, and about six or eight weeks since the deceased crept up stairs to one of the lodger's rooms, and begged for a piece of bread. He was then in a very dirty and deplorable state. During the late bitter cold weather wirness bad seen deceased with no nbetwit a s n li d irt m . rs. R K el i ie n c g c , a a E nd ll' h l a n d . se% A n s t y h l e um gr - e p a la te c :l said she brutality practised by both towards deceased. On one occa sion she saw him tied up by his hands to the skylight. The last time she saw anything done to him was a fortnight after when Mr. King beat him with a double rope, l knocked astC hris h r i n r down, pushed his nose on to the flooring until the blood ran from his nose into his mouth. Alice Anderson said that she had been engaged at Mr. King's as charwoman. She knew the deceased. He was an exceedingly dirty child, and ion,' of pilfering any hing he could lay hold of. She had seen his father beat him, but she thought the chastise ment was not at all excessive She did not think deceased wa4 right in his mind. The jury returned a verdict of " Natural death." MONUMENT TO LORD BYRON.—We have much pleasure to learn that the British Government are about to pay a just tribute of respect to the memory of our immortal bard Shakspere, by the purchase of the house in which be was born, at Stratford-upon-Avon; and we hope the same noble and generous feeling may extend to Missolonghi, where Lord Byron died. The erection of a monument at tached to the Vice-Consulate on the spot would tend to per petuate the memory of one so renowned. Indeed, weedi thatlteharait from a correspondent who recently vis i i l t l ed be rec Misso o l l o ie n c g t Missolonghi the actual house in which Lord Byron died no longer exists, having been totally destroyed, as it w on the Turks storming that garrison, seventy aged men, women, and children, entered a maga z i ne and blew them selves up, preferring death to cruelty and slavery. With this heroic act fell the house sacred to ,our last immortal poet. The proprietor of the s it e not only generously offers to give it for the erection of a monument, but also will g i ve a handsome sum toward s it , and surely the ' friends, the rela tions, the Governme n t, an d the admirers of his Lordship will at once set on foot a subscription for so noble a purpose.— Malta Paper. An acre of beet will yield as much true food as five acres of oats, or three and a half of wheat. Sugar beet makes excellent bread; nearly as good, that is to say as nutritive, as wheaten bread ; and therefore it is clear, that a man who has an acre of that kind of root, is in the position of the man who has three and a half acres of wheat ready for the sickle. If en acre of wheat will produce one thou sand loaves, an acre of sugar beet will produce three thou sand five hundred. THR REWARD OF MERCY; OR, DISAPPOINTMENT MITIGATED.—'The following paragraph appears in the last by personst h the re ceived American (New York) Sun:— a man Thou hduanogf, assembied at Racine, Wisconsin, to see name of Bonham, sentenced for murder. The sheriff informed the people that Governor Dodge bad reprieved the prisoner for thirty days, whereupon they hung the effigy of the Go vernor, and then separated peaceably." in acquiring eminence, no conqueror had ever more difficulties to avoid, or more obstacles to overthrow, in his ambitious career, than had this most patient and persevering lady in obtaining the grand ob ject of her life. But, notwithstanding the difficulties, the object is attained. Mrs. Guy Flouncy is now one of the exclusive sat. In the very amusing account of her doilies we are somewhat en lightened as to the miseries and mysteries of fashionable life. We find that to give a ball is a matter of the utmost difficulty; at one time Mrs. Guy Flouncy could no more think of giving a ball than of proroguine ' , Parlia ment, and we are told that there are many. who with every apparent qualification, have been waiting and watching jor years for an opportunity of t:iving a ball We have said enough of the first volume; to the ad mirers of "Coningsby" and "Sybil" it will be most interesting; indeed, it can hardly fail to interest and amuse all who read it. Turn we now to the second volume. Tapered, the son of the Duke of Bellamont, who has mingled very reluctantly with the gaities of fashionable life, resolves to go to Jeru salem ; and, opening the second volume, we find ourselves in the East. Not only does the scene of the story change, but the style of the author changes also ; and with this we are not dissatisfied, for, remembering the beautiful tale of David Alroy, with its eloquent orientalisms and gorgeous descriptions of Eastern manners the lavish magnificence of which were indeed worthy of the Altlte et un. Nulls, we know that Mr. Disraeli is as well qualified to delineate the men and mariners, and to expatiate upon the beautiful reminiscences of the East, as he is to pourtray the doings and satirize the follies of the inhabitants of what we denominate the West. Nor are we disappointed. The descriptions of the Holy Land are full of pathos and beauty. There is a most eloquent and t inching description of the scenery round Jerusalem—the street of Calvary— the gardeti of Gethsemane—the path that leads to Bethany. Yet beautiful descriptions of such places are hardly needed, their very names are sufficiently sug gestive; as Mr. Disraeli himself observes in speaking of the scenery of the sacred land—" a land," as he beauti fully terms it, " where the Creator deigned to dwell, and over whose impending fate Omnipotence had shed human tears." The readers of " Coingsby" must be well aware how highly Mr. Disraeli holds in estimation the Hebrew race. He has gallantly and resolutely come forward to rescue the despised J-ws from the contumely with which prejudice and bigotry have overwhelmed them. It is certainly a some what arduous attempt, but one worthy of all approba tion. Considering the difficult nature of his object, we can hardly he surprised at the means which he mak,s use of, if he goes to the other extreme, and in place of a despised and scattered race, whose badge is suffer ing, tells us of the " Hebrew mind," which, according to his showing, governs the world. In " Tancred" there is much of this ; speaking of Jerusalem, he cannot fail to speak of the Jews. The East—the cradle of the human race—is to him pecu liarly the home of the children of Israel; nay, even the Christian religion, which was founded there, becomes merged in the judwan. The Virgin Mary is to him a Jewess, and he loves to speak of the Saviour of the world as a Hebrew Prince—a Prince of the royal house of David. Tancred, who had sought the Holy Land only from religious motives, be comes unintentionally involved in political speculation. The third volume opens with a description of the various tribes and parties into which the inhabitants of Judea are divided, and gives an account of the combinations and disturbances which occasioned the >yrian war. This is followed by a description of the people of Ansarey, a remote and ex clusive tribe, to whom Tancred pays a visit. His ad ventures here are most romantic. The young queen who rules the Ansarey is captivated by her European guest, and a tale of love and jealousy ensues. Tancred, however, escapes, and the whole ends somewhat abruptly. From this brief sketch it will be seen that the work is of a very various charaeter. A manifest want of unity i 3 apparent in the whole ; but this we readily forgive, because. however disco-dart may be the several parts, the brilliant sketches of London life, the impassioned descriptions of Jerusalem, the history of the Asiatic tribes, or the romantic episode of the Ansarey each is either amusing, interesting, or instructive in itself, and the effect of each is rendered more strik ing by its contrast with the others. But in one re spect we are dissati,fied with "Tancred;" we cannot understand at what it aims. We close the third ,lume; we have been emused, we have been instructed, interested, perhaps d lighted ; but we are at a loss— we do not comprehend it. " Coningsby" had a definite object, it was written to expose the state of party and unmask the doings of political coteries. We under stood and we applauded the object of " " Con tarini Fleming" pourtrayed the history of a poet ; " Alroy " was a beautiful picture of tLeEast ; " Hen rietta Temple," a love story ; iu short, each of Mr. Doraeli's former works had some distinguishing characteristic, but " Tancred." inasmuch as we can comprehend it, has none With another thing, also, we are not quite satisfied. Tancred, like all the young Englanders, laments the great want of faith in the pre sent (ley; he mourns over the want of principle mani fested t,) , his countrymen ; he desires inspiration from above, and to attain it he seeks the Holy Land. Now the idea in the abstract is not without a certain degree of propriety and of beauty. The idea of youth turning with disgust from the narrow views and mean policy which are too much the characteristics of our social life, and seeking for a higher im.ailse and a holier teaching, is in itself sublime. But why go to Jerusalem ? The sky is over all the world—are we only to pray in Asia? The mercy and goodness of God is manifest wherever the sun shines; can His will only be made known at Jeru sakm ? We are quite unable to comprehend what Mr. Disraeli would mean by the " New C,usade," and. therefore, we must leave it in its mystery. We have marked many passages for extract, but must reserve them fur another opportunity. SELECT WRITINGS OF ROBERT CHAN -131s: RS. Vols. I. and 11. Pleasant as Mr. Chambers almost avows it to be in his preface for an author to behold the miscellaneous pro ductions of his pen collected together after many years of periodical publication, it is no less pleasant to his admirers. The writer of these goodly volumes has long since acquired for himself no small share of popularity, and that not merely through the enterprise which he has evinced in tiding his br.,ther in the dissemination of knowledge by cheap publishing, but likewise through his te..n earnest and industrious labours as a contributor to modern literature. The bulk of the humorous and familiar essays contained in the work jut issued is already known and adpreciaftil by the million. Some of the articles have been printed and reprinted in a hundred different forms, and distributed to the reading com munity through as mary different chanflels, so that they will attract attention less from their novelty than from their bearing Hbout them the associations of the old familiar faces. What is particularly observable through out the collection is, the admirable simplicity of the author's style, and the sedulous exclusion of anything pernicious, whether in manner cr matter, from his com po,,itions, The humour is always genial and natural; the themes are often homely, but never vulgar; the sarcasm is invariably good-natured; and the thoughts are, with one exception, namely, in the eccentric chap ter upon " Christian Name.;," never pursued to an ex travagance. To those who regard Robert Chambers as a source to them of many literary boons both agree able and beneficial—and of these there are thousands — the appearance of his select writings will be a matter of congratulation, as it will enable them to enshrine him on their booksh±lves as one of the most welcome and valued of their household companions. The volumes are compact and elegant, all their appointments being excellent—printing, paper, arrangement, and binding. Tne collection was watit,i(i, HUGH TA LBO .. A Tale of the Seventeenth Century. By William J. O'Neill Daunt. By several previous publications—more particularly Ireland and her Agitators"—Mr. Daunt is already famili-trly known to many of his countrymen. His present work, though coming under the unpretending title of a tole, we cannot but regard as the very best of his productions that have come to our knowledge. There is a liberality, moreover, about the object of " Hugh Talbot" that, to us, is peculiarly palatable. It makes it% appearance, too, at an appropriate crisis, when the bile of the polemical disputants throughout the kingdom is being excited into rancour by the revival of one or two very old and very obsolete bugbear eries. As is announced on the title page, the book is founded upon the Irish confiscations of the seventeenth century— namely, during the reign of James I. and the supremacy of Steenie. At all times the contemplation of intole rance is distressing; ut all times it forces upon us the spectacle of the degradation of our species. But when we find that intolerance, coupled with the dis semivation of the Biblica l truths, and, in fact, sprouting like a villanous disease out of the very stem and branches of Christianity, we cannot but mourn doubly for V - ,e, blindness and degeneracy t f our forefathers. The history of the penal laws is among the ms l a ment. able portions of our national records,and the skeletons of those penal laws—those la ws which Mr. , Watson is just now endeavouring to have obliterated from the ,tatute book—is a damning proof of the rathenticity of the narratives relating to their operation. Those laws—the laws, we mean, which are at present under the consideration of Parliament —are virtually abolished already. They are no longer enforced, and we would stake our word for it that the Honourable Baronet the Member for the University of Oxford would be very loath to clamour in the House of Commons for their enforcement. Bit, dead-letter as they are now, they were once enforced with the utmost rigour of the executive and many others, yet more strigent which have been some ti me s ince, to the credit of Parliament expunged. A barbarian code is not the code for a civilised and enlightened race, aed, therefore, the laws we speak of, have been ab o li s h e d I t i s u pon the miseries entailed upon the victims of those enactments this novelette has been penned. It is a melancholy and distressing hut salutary and instructive picture. Hugh Talbot is calculated to do good service in purging from the popular mind that old leaven of bi go t r y an d o f religious animosity which is still—though to an insig nificant extent—fermenting in the community. It is likely to render all classes more charitable the one towards the other, and to render the most obstinate and zealous religionists indi-posed to tyrannise over their neighbours. Dogmatism, of course, can never be got rid of until human nature be thoroughly transformed, but cruelty and petty despotism may be, and, indeed, are now tolerably well overruled. That not only in this country, but throughout the world generally, a spirit of sympathy and brotherhood is spreading is manifest. Through that expanding spirit Ibrahim P4cha was induced to pay amicable visits to the courts and people of Western Europe. Through that spirit his children are being educated in French seminaries. Through that spirit Dwarkanauth Tegore was prompted THE REGENT'S CANAL RAILWAY. Mr. G. Datintu., as chairman of the committee ap pointed to watch the progress of the Regent's Canal Rail way, brought up the following further petition to Parlia ment upon that subject : " Sheweth,—That a Bill is in progress in your Honourable House to enable the company of proprietors of the Regent's Canal to make a railway from Padding ton to Limehouse, with a branch therefrom, and to amend the Act relating to the Regent's Canal. _ _ " That the said Regent's'Canal passes through a con siderable portion of the said parish of Marylebone. That the said canal is assessed to the poor and other parochial rates of the said parish only as so much land covered with water, whereas your petitioners humbly submit the said land so covered by water, and by being appropriated to the purposes of a canal, is thereby im proved in its value, and ought in justice to your peti tioners and others, the ratepayers of the said parish, to be liable to, and be charged with its equal and proper proportion to the porochial rates in the same manner as all other hei editan2ents and property in the said parish of St, Marylebone, and according to the local Acts of Parliament by which the rating of the parish is re gulated. " Your petitioners, therefore, humbly pray your Ho nourable House that such a Bill may not pass into law without provision being made to effect and carry out the object aforesaid, and that your petitioners may be heard against the same by themselves, their counsel," etc. The petition, on being put, was unanimously adopted by the vestry. VOTE OF TIIANES TO TUE LATE AND ELECTION OP A NEW BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND GUARDIANS. Mr. JOSEPH brought forward a motion of which he bad given notice, for a rote of thanks to the retiring board of directors and guardians of the poor. He ob served, that no board ever elected by the vestry had, during their year of office, more arduous duties to per form than that which concluded their year of office that day. To the retiring board was the parish indebted for the defeat of the District Asylum job, and, in fact, almost the des'ruction of the Poor law Commission. In other respects their duties had been most onerous, consequent on the vast increase of distress ; within the last six months the board had had no less than 20,000 new cases before them to adjudicate upon.—(Hear.) Mr. JOHN WILLIAMS seconded the resolution. Mr. NICHOLA.Y and Mr. GLASIER considered the pro position unealled for, more particularly as there were some acts on the part of the board of directors and guardians which had been greatly disapproved of by the vestry. The motion was ultimately carried unanimously. Sir JAMES HAMILTON rose, on the part of the retiring Board of Directors and Guardians, to thank the vestry for this compliment paid them. He was sure it would act as a stimulus to the succeeding board to carry out their duties with humanity to the poor and justice to the parish.—(Hear, hear.) Sir WALTER STIRLING expressed himself RS highly gratified and deeply indebted for this testimony of the vestry's approbation, considering that the highest re ward an individual could receive in the discharge of a public duty must consist in the approbation of his fellow citizens, which was the incentive and best encouragement to his future exertions, and whenever they might be re quired. The duties of a guardian of the poor were suf ficiently onerous, and attended with considerable respon sibility when undertaken in a spirit of earnestness and z,ml; but whatev r the amount of those duties, or the extent of that responsibility during the past year may h a ve b e en, th e y had received an ample equivalent of re muneration this day. For his own private feelings be was almost induced to suppose by this vote of thanks that this last year of his life had not been spent altoge ther uselessly or in vain, and the surest road that a man could take to his own self-esteem was that which led him to the conviction that he had been, oven in the remotest degree, of' use in his vocation. It being now one o'clock, the ballot for the members of the new Board of Directors and Guardians, which had opened at eleven, was declared to be closed. There were 42 candidates to fill the 30 vacancies, those marked with an asterisk beim,: new candidates. At three o'clock the scrutineers reported the state cf the poll as follows : Mr. Sampson Hodgkinson, 72 ; the Rev. Edwa rd Sco bell, 72 ; Sir Walter Stirling, Bart., 71 ; Davies*, 47 ; Mr. Walpole Eyre, 67 ; Sit Ja mes John Hamilton, Bart., 65 ; Mr. George Spencer S mith, 65 ; Mr. Julius Anderson, 62 ; Mr. William A rtand, 62 ; ,•Mr. Mr. Jonathan Soden,* 62 Mr. Charles Roberts, 61 ; Mr. William West,* 60 ; Mr. Thomas Powe ll, 59 ; Mr. Charles Carr,* 57 ; Mr. Mr. Frederick ; Holland,* 55 Mr. W. Low, 56 ; Mr. Geo. Mallalieu, 54 ; Mr. Charles Cagey, 53 ; Mr. Thomas Pritchard,* 52 ; Mr. Thomas Worlege,' 52 ; Daniell, 52; Mr. Peter Laurie, 51; Mr. Rober t Turner, 49; Mr. Edward Findley, 30 ; Mr. James W ilcox,* 46; Mr. Richard Wright,* 46 ; M r . Thomas Coop er, 47 ; Alfredy Mr. Archibald Michie, 45; Mr. Henry Lewis, * 44; Mr. T m h u o r m ra a y s ,s Potter, 3B ; M 4 r 4 . 44; James m r. es Joh nßii Harris, 43; Mr. George Almson,* 34; Mr. Joseph Bird, 32; Classor, 41; Mr. Isaac Carter Curtiss, 42; Mr. David De la Fous,* 32; Mr. George Perry, 27; Mr. Robert Temple,* 25; and Mr. James Henry Dart,* 20. Mr.3s J A 0 11• 1;ri Francis The Rev. CHAIRMAN declared the first thirty gentle men duly elected, and it will be seen that out of the number elected eleven of the old Board have been un seated, and their places supplied by new candidates. Among those defeated will be found the name of Mr. George Perry, a prominent member of the old Board, and it will also be perceived that Messrs. Potter cud e. TMhie chic were within one vote of sharing a similar fat proceedings of the election excited conside rable interest. DETERMINED ATTEM P T A T —At an endeavour ing stopped a man who was hurrying 'don'', to conceal a large bundle lie was carryings suspecting early hour on Thursday morning, a constable on duty at it was the produce of some robbery, he con the Robert-street station. There the man gave the name of Smith, but refused to tell his residence or how he becatne possessed of the bundle, which contained a quantity of workmen's tools, two glazier's diamonds, and several coats; vy an eTthe man tl3_ it was, however, shortly afterwards ascertained that a house in the New North-road had been broken into by c u t tin g a t of one of the windows. and articles of that ae.scrip pane ou therefore locked up in one of the ce s a l was earched previous to his being placed in the cel , person was s • in his possession, as it was believed taken a w d h s h c w ar a c s ely eon el d ai te s d ed w a i f t t h er hi l m ie ti on carried away by the thief or thieves,ll a t n t d he th r e ea p r r . iso n ne is r and everything was lodged there, saw him stoop down over the watercloset, and, not see ' him afterwards move, thought something had happened te w n 'he m n ir a lt m es ai b i from him ; but lifinding the blood pouring in a stream from a frightful wound n o . him and went to his assistance, when he was horrified at in his throat, which he had cut completely across with a knife he had secreted. An alarm was raised by the other prisoner. and Meisrs. Coward anti Amsden, two su rgeons, were instantly sent for, who dressed the wound, w hi ch they pre.ounced of a very Clangerous description, and ordered the an's immediate removal to the hospital. A cab was, there , fare, pe cured, and the unfortunate man placed it - Aide it, with a c,nstable on the box to watch him and render assist since; but the vehicle had only proceeded as far as Chart street, and was going at a very rapid rate, when the prisoner was seen to leap out of it, and, with a desperate energy that was marvel!. us in his weak and exhausted condition, dash dawn one of the by- , treets, through which and three others he succeeded in running before he was re -captured in a fainting state. fie was again placed in the cab and driven to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where, at the time of the last inquiries by the police, he was pronounced to be in imminent danger, and but Yen - small hopes entertained of his recovery. THE WHEAT CROP IN MEATII.--A correspondent of the Drogheda Argus of Saturday writes as follows :—" I regret to learn that several farmers in this district have a ne cessity for ploughing up fields of wheat ; indeed I saw some fields, which after the late frost and snow had a healthy ap pearance, ploughed up and prepared fo r t h e reception of barley or oats. The kind of :and in which the failure is most prevalent is under leys, and, strange to say; this description of ground did remarkably well last year. It is thought that some kind of insect is rtitting the plant—probably the centi pede or wireworm : be it what it may, the crop is suffering very much. In parts of the county Meath, and also in por tions of Louth, which I visited within the last few days, I saw a great many indifferent- looking gelds, and only a few of what may be called good ones. I consider, when we have a change from the present scorching arid weather, that the wheat crop will prove better than farmers imagine. PERTIIIII.IIItE.—NARROW ESCAPE. —On Thursday lust, while the men making excavations betwixt shafts Nos. 2 and 3 in the railway tunnel, near Perth, were firing off a shot, and having set fire to a train, they retired to some distance to be out of danger. On their return they found a block of superincuinbent rock, about forty tons in weight. hag fallen front above, in the spot where they were working but half a minute before. flaying examined the place from which it fell , they fo un d that a slight stroke of the haanner would have brought it to the ground, an d that their escape was providential.---Edinb urg h W ee kl y Register. _~ NGS. a." `_