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_ . ... . _ THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. it tt a - atii r e. Occupant of that wretched bed • and he, too, slept—no THE NEEDLE.—How. often have I blessed my needle SECOND E more to wake on earth. He had been dead some hours; for rescuing me from the temptations which assail the -- -- and, by his position, which a glimmer of the reviving fire other sex. Bright and innocent little implement, whether EXPERIENCES OF A LIVERPOOL SURGEON. enabled me to ascertain, his last sigh.had been breathed plied over tasteful luxuries, or gaining the poor pittance in the unconscious f ace o f that victim of intemperate of a day, thou art equally the friend of her whose visions Standard DEATH IN A COURT. excess. Even in death, previously to which reason, 1 tend to wander amid the regions of higher abstractions, —sow— concluded, had returned to hime lac had not ceased to love and of her whose thoughts are pinned down to the tread (Concluded from our last.) her, and to look over her west frailty ; for his arm, now mill of thy minute progress. Quiet rescuer from clubs ONE DAY LATER Fl How often we are disgusted with hearing the Om - c old and nerveless, was thrown over her insensible form. and midnight revels, amid the minor blessings of woman's The Black Ball liner packet, 1.1 had . not firmness to stay and witness the miserable . lot thou shalt not be forgotten ! Still come, and let thy river Lhis morn . ing, bringing da risaical lamentations of the wealthy and the comfortab ly- awakening of that unhappy woman; but, gently closing fairy wand shine on her; still lend an ambitious joy to New York, being one day later housed and circumstanced amongst our fellow-men, over the door, I left her in that appalling contact with death, the play-things of the girl ; still move unconsciously un- the North American Mail. Sim the wretched population of our unwholesome streets! and passed into the street. I did not go away, however, der the glittering smile of the maiden planning thy trium- ing passengers :—Mrs. Stusken -They forget that there are causes, within their own power without communicating the fact of their father's decease phant results; still beguile the mother whose thought abel, Mr. and Mrs. N. C. 111 1 LE to his demoralised daughters, whose boisterous mirth it roves to her boy on the distant ocean, or the daughter Breese, Mr. A. J. Tobias, Mast to remove, which are hourly hurrying that population stilled at once; but it was not until I had addressed them watching by the sick bed of one who has heretofore toiled S. Levy, Lieut. Edward Swenta hats intemperance. They forget too that, in other shapes, in terms of angry authority, that they retired sullenly to for her; still soothe the long dreary moments of faithful Norrie, Miss Norrie, Gordon N. they are themselves—the most apparently temperate of their wret c h e d borne. . I never learnt anything of the love; and though a tear sometimes falls on thy shining Norrie, Miss Van Horne, Mr. them—guilty of excess, and resorting to stimulants for , subsequent life of either the widowed mother or those point, it shall not gather the rust of despair, since employ- children, and servant. Mrs. R. two girls. The workhouse, or the grave, has doubtless ment is thy dower.—Mrs. Gitiner's Recollections of a Mrs. Charles Wake and servant the relief of such excess. Is the man who gorges on received the former by this time. The latter, it is too Southern Matron, and Mrs. Andrew Moffett, and turtle, until the physician is called in to remove the c on- much to be feared, have contributed their quota to the MIXED COMMISSION COURTS OF SIERRA LEONE.—The The Massachusetts arrived at s equences of hi s se lf-indulgences, less vile in his propen- increase of the vice which fills our prisons, and thus visits Mixed Commission Courts form a conspicuous feature in instant, bringing dates from Vei Rides than the poor toiling wretch, who takes ardent upon us, in increased expense, the results of our sinful the history of the colony of Sierra Leone, from the cir- The following is from the corn spirits, at first only for the removal of that lassitude and selfish neglect. Would the widowhood or the or- cumstance of its being by their fiat that thousands of of the 23d ult.:— which over toil creates. although at length he sins in the phana g e which we are called upon to support, be half negroes have obtained their freedom. They are termed There is no doubt at all but tl quan tity of his potations ? Is the man who stimulates his what it is, if we attended, as we ought to do, and as I mixed, from those nations with which England has treaties twelve to fifteen thousand mn, appetite with curries, peppers, and pickles, when able to trust we are about to do, to the sanitary improvement of for the abolition of the slave trade having a right to send it is concluded on all sides that enjoy a pure atmosphere and healthy exercise, although our town ? commissioners to judge in their respective cases. This whip him, he will at least kee free from the same description of crime, which he is so ----41.--- right, however, has seldom been claimed, except in a few Scott, who left yesterday, reach ready to charge against his poorer neighbour? He isnot. VARIETIES. late instances by Spain and Brazil. But it requires little morrow night. The difference between them is only that which exists be- Chester is said to be the oldest city in England. Ac- penetration to perceive that they came, not for abolition, The Mexicans are playing a tween the expensive orgies of the frequenter of the club, cording to Sir Thomas Eliot, it was built by a great grand- but to preserve vessels engaged in the illegal traffic. Spain time bolder game than is usual or the hotel, and those of the denizen of the tavern or son of Noah ! is not to be trusted; and the Brazilian flag, like charity, they have killed no less than fif the tap-room ; between the refined indulgences of the e Bless me !" said an old lady, throwing down a news- "covereth a multitude of sins." The expiration of the last three days on the road. drawing-room, and the more coarse and vulgar debau- paper and wiping her spectacles; "here is John Doe and Brazilian treaty has already given a powerful impetus to Gen. Scott had issued a Procl ehery of the hovel. Richard Roe at law again—they've had a suit reg'lar the tradc, and the harbour of Sierra Leone has become urging them in strong terms to every year or so, for more'n thirty years, to my certain -This poor fallen creature had not arrived at her present swarmed with vessels bearing that flag. This treaty does and no longer countenance the state without many a hard straggle—many an hour of knowledge !" not, like that. with Spain, allow the condemned vessel to been leading them to destruction sincere repentance and its practice, followed, alas ! withbe cut up; by it, they must be sold, hence, the same ' and army as the friends of all CONTRADICTION.—Men resent nothing more than con sad, sad lapses into the indulgence of her frailty. Thevessels have been known to come in for adjudication seve- determined to protect them in a tradiction on a point which they themseves feel uneasy life of an excavator, or navigator, to which her husband ral times under a new name, as per example :—A sharp- rights. about. Truth may be disputed with impunity : a sophism had been driven by the early failure of his circumstances can only be torn from out the mind with a violence that sailing brigantine, within the year in which she was con- To-day being packet-day the ma as a yeoman, is not one which provides much of the corn- lacerates and embitters.—Ranthorpe. demned as a slaver, was purchased by a German house in and transactions too small to char fort, or even decencies, of existence for the families of ANGLO-AFRICAN JURIES.—The grand juries are usually the colony, freighted, and sent to Hamburgh, and in a able us to fix quotations with mud those who follow it. For four years that of this family composed of Europeans and the most respectable Africans few months returned as a prize under a new name, proving ch an n T of importance to note. A had been a wandering one ; and, whilst so, they—thus amalgamating intelligence and judgement w had ith in- that she must have made a voyage to Brazil, or elsewhere, have nel no effect, the tenor of hem known little more of settled habits than is afforded by a ferior qualifications ; hence, their deliberations are con- and was again sold to a slave-dealer. She was then a reedy anticipated. In the preser few months' residence at a, time at some common lodging- ducted in a sober and orderly manner, and their decisions second time purchased by the same house for 1:61/0, and affected more by the amount o no doubt will make her appearance a third time for adju- chan g es ._ .ab r o ad. ,... „ house, or in some cheap apartment in the town, or vi[- are generally in consonance with the evidence; but excep- .-o-rToN .cis leas active. Sates 0. lage, nearest to the place of tlit husband's employment. tions sometimes do arise, and national prejudices or pri- dication. The "Atala" is another instance. This vessel Floe s—The market is dull. At t During the last eight years of his residence in Liverpool, vote animosities occasionally give the black juror a majo- was purchased by a Mr. Machado, a Brazilian merchant sumption, the stock here would no whilst his employment bad been principally in sinking rity, incapable and unaccustomed as they are to listen to in the colony, and fitted out for a voyage to the Leeward the canal could arrive, which will coast, but in a few months put back as a prize as the trade, however, buy very sparingly foundations and in sewering, they had been located in nicer appeals of conscience comparatively with their white "E filthy dens, such as this in which I now found them, with b re th ren . Thi s i s b a d enoug h , t h oug h pur it y it se lf i n cuador."—Simmonds's Colonial Magazine. to wait a few days, when the price say a dollar. We continue to cite pestilence, bad example, indecency, and vice raging on juxta-position with petit and coroner's juries, the con- TAKING A TUCK OUT.—I declare it really wasn't pru- .137,623- to 87,75, and Southern at every side, impairing the animal vigour and insensibly stitution of which must be a source of regret to all who dent to trust that Emma to do a thing, and even that little There was some Ohio Wheat on sa debasing the minds of both to the level of those of. the honour this bulwark of British freedom ,• and to a us t lamb of a Kitty of mine was scarcely safe with a stupid, is held at 90 to 98 c. for white, and Mass, into which they had been cast. I need not trace judge at the head of that judicial establishment a never- like her, in the house. For I recollect once, I had been r a ot, verlitttle off ring. s T i o oN a s rriv the course of the unfortunate wife and mother's fall. ceas i ng cause o f unm i xe d di ssat i s f act i on, f rom t h e f re- thinking the simpleton had a great deal of spare time on sells s fl C * l e u e? yt a yn at ° i n : iola c. IL SUO ARCS Perhaps it was. hurried on by the contrast , ever presenting quent accidentally erroneous, and often intentionally un- her hands, itself, between her present lot and that which she deemed just, verdicts. It would appear from some of their deci- as sit twiddling her finger and thumb on an evening, so I 100 lbs. FREIGHTS are unsettled. was lost to her for ever. It is a well-known fact, that sions that they were habitually indifferent to the solemn told her that my little poppet of a Kitty was growing so tation, but it has been taken to fill the lapse into intemperance of a mind of superior order obligation of an oath, the sworn evidence being not un- I fast that all her things were getting too short for her, and vessels reported at 2s. is less eaeily retrievable than that of one which never frequently a matter of minor consideration, when in corn- I she really wanted a tuck out in her best frock, and would feels sensibly that it has fallen at all. To the waking petition with the momentary impulses of their private certainly look all the better for it, so I would thank her miseries of the one, there is superadded self - reproach feelings, particularly when they have partial or vindictive to attend to it that night, and let it be done before she THIRD El and loathing of the contamination seen around. The purposes to indulge, the manifestations of which being went to bed. In the evening, I was in the parlour, boil being who has never seen any higher gratifications than expressed by bursts of passion. Of petit juries there are ing down some quince pips to make a nice fixature for my - --- those of a debauch, or any higher comforts than th ose three panels entirely composed of liberated Africans, hair , a n d all the while I could hear that sweet little che- * Stands afforded by a full meal in a wretched and impure dwell- who. for want of intelligence, too frequently decide, even rub of mine down stairs crying; so I said to myself what ______...., s ___ ing, scarcely feels, when he h a s sun k i n to habitual squa- in cases of life and death, by a verdict that would greatly the dickens can that idiot be doing with the child in the LIVERPOOL CORN MA lidness, that lie has fallen at all. But the most strongly astound their lordships in Westminister-hall, if not at kitchen at this time of night, when it ought to have been inducing cause, in the present ease, I have no hesitat ion first impressed with the idea that it could only be meant undressed and in bed a good hour ago ? Off I trotted to Of foreign Wheat direct from 1 in affirming, was to be found, directly,as a black joke. When one of their own nation or colour see what precious bit of stupidity my lady was at now. careoe, from Ireland, we have afa in the impure air and the noxious gases which she had been for those eight is arraigned for any crime, no matter how deep the corn- When I reached the kitchen I thought I should have in for to-day, with a ra ,good o su i ply (' years constantly inhaling, and from the effect ofwhich plexion, though proven guilty, acquittal in most follows fainted, for there sat Emma, with my little angel on her ii e r s r s i l i m n ! s t ;Lo u t s h u e i a • i G an f e I d n a ' re not like she had found in ardent liquor a temporary relief.__ Aid as a matter of course: but should a white man come under knee, dressed out in its best frock, and with its dear little thence until the June shipments a to the craving of the constitution, thus created, the effect their tender mercy, though evidently innocent, he is con- I innocent face daubed all over with treacle, just as if it lead The decline in Mark Lane,, at of example. Consider, too, that she was placed amongst denined!—Simmondee Colonial Magazine. been tarred. " What on earth have you been doing with materially affects the sensibiitie a population, by whom the exhilaration produced by the child, Emma?" I exclaimed. " I thought as THE FOUNTAINS AND CHURCHES OF ROME.—Here drinking is regarded as the only one within their reach ; as everywhere, we were pursued by the shameless, wretched you sa id quote a reduction to-day of is. per rel on Flour ; 3d. per6olb. on Bari, it was to have a tuck out in its best frock, ma'am." she and to whom the mere change, from the dark and close- to 3s. per quarter on Indian Corn ; pauperism that disgusts and pains one the whole time, and replied, "it could have nothing nicer than plenty of bread A moderate business has been de smelling apartment, or the filthy court, to the gaudily- makes the ruined aspect of decorated and well-lighted gin-palace, with its bright one cheerful compared with the abject degradation of that when I told her I fancied the child would look all the country orders will at once come 8 array of brass implements or ornaments, is of itself ca- that which God has made in his own image. Oh ! I better for having a tuck out in it's best frock, bless and Fable of producing intoxicating effects upon the mind ; P. te would not live among those people for anything in the save us, if the stupid oaf dijn't imagine that I wished it ss , ! :s g 5: tg x and we cease to wonder how and why she fell, or to feel e world ; and, when I think of England and America Ito have a grand yeast in its - Sunday clothes !"Oh ! you 9, .1 ;.',..1 .. e rg'l: o curious to trace the steps of her fall. thank God that I was born in the on and shall live in the stupid, studid thing !" I said, " and what business have 4 t - i s, ;4 " g 1 .,1 -' F. x Of the two girls, to whom I have referred, what need other. Driving home we went to the Acqua Paola, the You to go giving the darling all that mess, when the doc- .2 . 0 .---; ,9, a /Pi PI tA I say ? With associations and examples such as those fountain in Rome where the volume of water is more se- tor has ordered me to let it have nothing but slops ?" ~,',.': • g F. .5, g , <7 ~..., n.; ,L, amongst which they had been thrown in their spring of tisfactory. The very ornaments with which they adorn " Nothing but slops, mum !" she exclaimed, with her g..... ,:-. ~.-.„- i . ›,p; ?.., a n, 9., I:E. _;4 , ...—.l. tm;---,, h,.. Q.;.1 to enjoy any such snring. a-- --a --a ....-55„.... ssisms. .ices A.,. 1.,4-...C...”, month wide mien with astonishment. "Yes, you stupid, =.=.. 5' 441 % ill g" P 2 • g'. 3• . saw passing check their vicious pro They do c asionally present Ltesmen and Brea he removal of early man privileged to visit the wr and to observe the eontaminl Curativ effort must be made fortable ho of thei 4 in vain without, can c To the medical if we wish to ns n I most ft eperated upon by the his lon patent Common sense from reaching character and men himself, it will naturally be gl afforded me no opportunity o unfortunately be never rallied end philosophers Or ti suttiOf to the a f malan already said that he man most Creditable to him did not at all tend to rai For the hr bad the cone, I upor The feveiish enc iting a ver fat a late ha o call and as, rs, in I s the a Lek, I made my way t which struck me was the man, one arm encircling hE other extended as a pillow to wake her up ; but . in yak the sleep of intoxication 1. I to enjo A they were utterly They thought they bed, the only being powerfully interposed to and it is much if their ,e of a:ratification at the 1 to think that there can 1 and revolting features themselves, however; and ,mers—tvell meaning men, ;inary causes, and devise and other similar devices , the medica tched hovela of our poor lions with which they are at a conclusion that the man, or any irst afford them - com- preserve their minds from Lsive than the material ones es in which ever a pig t such an improvement ulations are icceed in providing a cure. t of whose care is the body, influences, this conclusion e to pierce pose to prevent truth and he . minds of our statesmen ital capacity of the patient tthered that my first visit forming a judgment ; and ,ufficiently to enable me to never, I learnt that he had .nd, and less lost of his class nd indeed a strong man; to the atmosphere his constitution d this deprivation !ssary consequence, a want had induced considerable ,sed him for succumb iddition, I found that themselves in his the weakness of the ithstanding, I have _d an affectionate leniency a mental and bodily con- my hOpes of a favourable the treatment pursued I expected, with some system would be pro is, under which he la- far I succeeded that r man now began to ing partner to administer to herself about the apartment, eyes would follow . her, with can scarcely be described; any of those errands wt man's househok a gaze of mingle( jealous question. . The poor wo• nsity, for which th of these iempor e unnatural girls eve I in th t of their parent's suf- as by every h ail to invigorate tl from my first bis now bopeles, orne her up s( ;ompletely lef _ )ereaved, or niposed manner re posure of settled despair. Tb left for her to care for, or t Ty-day tragedy was a sad one. irgent case in the neighbour• evening, when it occurred tc one cheerful compared with the abject degradation of that which God has made in his own image. Oh ! I would not live among those people for anything in the world ; and, when I think of England and America I thank God that I was born in the on and shall live in the other. Driving home we went to the Acqua Paola, the fountain in Rome where the volume of water is more sa tisfactory. The very ornaments with which they adorn them, gods and goddesses, dolphins, shells, &c., interfere with the effect of the beautiful element itself; and though of course, there is no comparison between the graceful forms of the basin of the Acqua Paolu, Trevi, &c., and the simple turf bank that surrounds the fountains in the park at New York, the volume of water thrown to a height of nearly sixty feet, and falling back in a cataract, is a finer thing in itself than a whole Olympus of carved stone divinities. From this fine fountain, by the side of which one enjoys a noble view of Rome, we went to St. Peter's ; and here I was only astonished at finding how perfectly I knew it ; how absolutely like what I had imagined it was ; so that, except that the roof was a little higher than I expected. I felt as if I had been there a hundred times, and in no way exceeded or differed from my expectations. The four-post bed (the one idea those horrid canopies over the high altars ever suggest. to me) in the middle arrested the sweep of the eye from end to end condition of my poor patient. ice to the court in which In to find his two girls engaged. of this majestic temple, and disfigured it painfylly to ige, beautiful proportions—l was not prepared, and was •oportionately thankful, for the absence of all the tawdry, nseily, holy trumpery so perpetually hanging about the frerent shrines in Catholic churches, making them look ce old curiosity shops, and disfiguring both their beauti -1 forms and the beautiful materials they are built of.— LORD JOHN RUSSELL'S APPROACH TO CONSERVATISM. Meanwhile, Lord John Russell has marched as steadily towards the p'ace of a sound Conservative as Sir Robert HI has gone off in the direction of the movement. He h a number o in such locali ever, to thei no longer the advocate of extreme measures. The fa ous Irish Appropriation-clause is dead and buried, never ri=e again. There is not a whisper about an extended ffrage, either in Great Britain or Ireland. Corporation form has reached its limits; and the constitution of 31. seems to be complete. At the same time his lord ip is not idle. He has conceded to the Church a point hich the professed friends of the Church peremptorily LUbCtl. OL. ttsapu retains ors utsimp, anu, uu►ess Win - )n report belie bim, Lord John is about to sanction the .• licy alFo, whether sound or otherwise, is at least impar- J. There is no attempt to elevate one party above ano er. The Tail has lost its influence, and its voice has come mute, or, if heard at all, it seems to produce no .nd a shudder at their hearties rhich I thought it worth whit e arrangements made to meet the exigencies of the ish famine at the outset. We think that, considering enius of the people, they were as ill-advised in iheory xecution they have proved fruitful of abuse. Lord John of seeking this Lt we are far from " it could have nothing nicer than plenty of bread and treacle." And then to my horror I learnt from her, hat when I told her I fancied the child would look all the better for having a tuck out in it's best frock, bless and save us, if the stupid oaf di't imagine that I wished it to have a grand yeast in its'Eunday clothes ! "Oh ! you stupid, studid thing !" I said, `• and what business have you to go giving the darling all that mess, when the doc tor has ordered me to let it have nothing but slops ?' " Nothing but slops, mum !" she exclaimed, with her mouth wide open with astonishment. " Yes, you stupid, nothing but slops," I answered ; " don't you even know what slops are now ?" "In course I do, mum, —augh !—oh, la !" she replied; and from the way in which she turned up her nose, and the wry faco she made, I could easily see that she fancied that the dear babe was to be fed with the grouts of the . • when the breakfast things came down Plague of Life. CASE OF SomNAmnutism.--Altogether, the most in teresting case of somnambulism on record, is that of a young ecclesiastic, the narrative of which, from the im mediate communication of an Archbishop of Bordeaux, is given under the head of somnambulism in the French En cyclopedia. This young ecclesiastic, when the archbishop was at the same seminary, used to rise every night, and write out either sermons or pieces of music. To study his he bed by them, and entere vas still, and almost i The Greatest condition, the archbishop betook himself several nights to the chamber of the young man, where lie made the fol- lowing observations. The young man used to rise, to take paper, and to write. Before he wrote music he would take a stick and rule the lines with it. He wrote the notes, together with the words corresponding with them, with perfect correctness. Or, when he had written the words too wide, he altered them. The notes that were to be black, he filled in after he had completed the whole Af --1 , 44, 7 a sermon, he it aloud from 1c au I ning to end. If any passage displeased him, he erased it, and wrote the amended passage clrrectly over the other ; on one occasion he had to substitute the word "adorable" for " divin ;" but he did not omit to alter the preceding " ce" into " eel," by adding the letter "t" with exact precision to the word first written. To ascertain whether he used his eyes, the archbishop interposed a sheet of pasteboard between the writing and his face. He took not the least notice, but went on writing as before. The limitation of his .perceptions to what he was thinking about was very curious. A bit of aniseed cake, that he had sought for, he eat approvingly ; but when, on another occasion, a piece of the same cake was put in his mouth, he spit it out without observation. The following instance of the dependence of his perceptions upon, or rather their subordination to, his preconceived ideas is truly wonder ful. It is to be observed that he always knew when his pen had ink in it. Likewise, if they adroitly changed his papers, when he was writing, he knew it, if the sheet sub stituted was of different size from the former, and he ap- peared embarassed in that case. But if the fresh sheet of paper, which was substituted for that written on, was ex actly of the same size with the former, he appeared not to be aware of the change. And he would continue to read off his composition from the blank sheet of paper, as fluently as when the manuscript itself lay before him ; .ems to be, under any circumstances, impossible. In ke manner, his Irish Poor-law is not only not a party leasure, but if carried, as we presume that it must be, it ill become law in defiance of a powerful party opposition. .nd when we look elsewhere, what do we find ? Sc ny,A 1-vowstm trate to nay, more, be would continue his corrections, and intro duce the amended passage, writing it upon exactly the place on the blank sheet which it would have occupied on the written page.—Blackwood'B Magazine. ' E I CANADIAN DISCOMFORTS.—The accommodations for batever to stand upon, except t lone enabling me t eir presumed applica- Consi- here the firs ty to the w and wishes of the community. what is doing in regard to National Education; to im ovements in the morale of our military system ; to the Icory and practice of colonization ; to the improvement f the criminal law. Could Peel, or Canning, or Pitt imself, have managed these things better ? We do not , elieve that they coud : we are confident that, under the regime, none of them would have had the hardihood . Where are we, then ?—we who, for fifteen ars and more, have fought the battle of the constitution ,nder a Tory banner, and played no mean part in keeping he Tory party together ? Exactly where we have always wen, —the uncompromising advocates of genuine Tory Irinciples, the friends of social improvement so long as it be judiciously carried on, faithful to the Church oyal to the throne, and true to the people. But as to party tanners, leaders, cries, and so forth, we hereby lir , ' ur severance from them all. ) measures, not to men : and to ) attempt it Fraser Henceforth we shall loot me of those now un• STADA.-1 h the Gulf and I Lawrence. and thence terest lead him to the West) direct to Toronto, which may be designated the capital of Upper Canada. In his c ease the writer proceeded outward by New York, I homeward by way of Quebec; so that he has gained practical knowledge of both voyages. Those who for comfort, and who prefer the economy of time to t of money, he would recommend to visit New York Boston. The former is a city truly worthy of noti splendid bay, its fairy scene, and its majt F. all objects of interests, and tend, furnish an antidote to the unplc nger's taste or i the "man" were not alw - ayi of the most tempting kind. The beds were sometimes good, but much oftener bad, while the meals, except in the city and some few of the towns through which I passed, were the least inviting that could have been placed before a hungry traveller. Let the reader imagine to himself--sour, home-made bread— tea which resembles, in flavour, a decoction of hay, and sweetened with what 1 never could endure, the maple sugar of the country—a rasher of bacon or learn exceed ingly salt, and oftener rancid than sweet, and as thick as a 4eef-steak ought to be, but never is in this country — potatoes infamously cooked—eggs fried and overdone in grease-- a saucer or two filled with preserved apples, em browned in the same eternal maple sugar—a few other fruits, such as raspberries, currants, &c., spoiled in the same manner—a couple of large plates of potted butter, with hage particles of salt oozing from them like drops of hoar frost from a damp wall—cheese resembling hard prepared bees' wax, and tasteless and tough as leather — let the stranger, I repeat, imagine. this galimatias of eat ables, (he must not forget to add huge slices not of crisp, but soddened toast) and he will know what sort of a break- fast or supper he niay expect to find in Canad ever be induced to travel through it. Sometimes a fowl is added to what they pertinaciously insist upon calling "supper," if you partake of it after one o'clock in the clay, but which you, having only breakfasted, may incline to regard as your dinner; and this, if plainly roasted, is passable enough, but I confess that I never saw a piece of beef (for they have no joints) or mutton, or veal, placed on one of those "country inn" tables that was not smothered in grease, and altogether most uninviting in appearance.—Eight Years in Canada, &c. 1 -lo I • • Cana petition for the same MISTAKEN MERCY rivers, A WORD ABOUT THE PAUPERS OF THE ETERNAL CITY.—The quality of everything I looked at was very in• different, the prices enormous; and the shopkeepers, with an audacity and dishonesty inconceivable to a stranger, invariably take half the original price they demand lb; everything. The filth and stench of the streets give on( an imazinary fever as one drives through them. I wonder ill times monoton( xcellent trans-Atlantic st( nothing is wanting in tt d safety of I . - these people don't have the plague every year in this city. The great, wide, beautiful stairs leading up from the Piazza di Spagna immediately to the door of our lodging are the favourite haunt of all the painter's models—old men with grizzled beards and hair, and lads with blue-black locks, falling all round the Most wonderful eyes ever beheld TIN.al, yet, a hile the fare as to pro- V 11; as good as that on board of the Royal Mail But, as it has,been already stated, our finances must (if prudence be consulted) ever rule the route to be taken. Many respectable . families, however, prefer the more direct way, via Quebec; and without doubt, as far as scenery is concerned, we are at a loss to say which is most to be admired. The banks of the noble St. Law rence are richly wooded, and although the villages and clearings are neither as numerous nor as good as those on the Hudson, yet they are not without interest ; while the cities of Quebec and Montreal have no competitors be tween New York and Toronto. We cannot, in any case, recommend to those who may be straightened in their cir cumstances, the passag'i to New York ; for although tra velling in the United States is undoubtedly cheap, yet the distance is so great, and the changing from boat to boat or from carriage to carriage so frequent, that the expense becomes a matter of girave consideration. Many of the best of our British ships are constantly sailing from every port of note in the three kingdoms either to Quebec or Montreal. Some emi gran t s are i n duced to embark in the first ships," expecting, as a consequence, that those which sail first must arrive first; but this is far from be ing the case. It is true that they may reach St. Lawren( e before many others which leave at a later period ; but the probability is that they way be detained by, or damaged in the ice—the risk is much greater than the probable ad vantage of an early arrival—and it is therefore recom mended to passengers not to embark earlier than the be ginning of April.—Rev. G. W. War r's Canada as it is. girls in Zl:epicturesclueTositume of the lower orders here, with_ _splendid heads, and .sh(!uldre_r_s,,,,ati.slea,Dfrlehtnijra—ekhel.s; beeLillowed to tebates on t 1 any brew with half-closed eyes, upon the warm stone tstepN or, with true brotherly humanity, exploring the animated nature of each others elf-locks—beautiful, beastly crea tures. With those specimens of all that is finest in form and colour lie a rabble of hideous detormities, whose sole occupation is to extort money from every passenger that walks, or carriage that drives, by them. Women with huge goitres; men, with withered arms, hump-backed, blear-eyed, fever-smitten, halting, squinting; idiots lol ling out their tongues and goggling their eyes ; the blind, the maimed ; babies in arms and old creatures on crutches, alt swarm round the wretched wayfarer, and, with 4. vocife- _ . of the poor we r husband's shoulders, and the under his head. I stirred he She was in a heavy sleep— I felt the face of the other SECOND EDITION. Standard Office, Ten o'clock. ONE DAY LATER FROM AMERICA, The Black Ball liner packet, Columbia, arrived in the river this morning, bringing dates to the Ist inst. from New York, being one day later than those brought by the North American Mail. She has brought the follow ing passengers :—Mrs. Stusken and servant, Mr. Schon abel, Mr. and Mrs. N. C. MiLean, Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Breese, Mr. A. J. Tobias, Master A. H. Lessak, Mr. L. S. Levy, Lieut. Edward Swenton, R.A., Mr. and Mrs. A. Norrie, Miss Norrie, Gordon Norrie, Mary Norrie, Julia Norrie, Miss Van Horne, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Ewart, 3 children, and servant. Mrs. R. Child and son, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wake and servant, Mr. Friede Nictor, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Moffett, and Mr. C. Motz. The Massachusetts arrived at New-Orleans on the 22d instant, bringing dates from Vera Cruz to the 14th. The following is from the correspondent of the Picayune of the 23d ult. : There is no doubt at all but that Santa Anna, with from twelve to fifteen thousand m n, is between us and Jalapa. It is concluded on all sides that if Gen. Twiggs does not whip him, he will at least keep him in check until Gen. Scott, who left yesterday, reaches him, which will be to morrow night. _ _ _ _ . EX'rRAORDINARY Esc APE.—On Thursday night a wager boat was run into by a steamer on the Thames, and cut right in two. The rower, on seeing the impossibility of clearing the steamer, had the presence of mind to jump from the boat before the steamer struck her, and dive completely under it. coming up on the other side unhurt. HIGH PRICE OF WREAT.—At Reading market on Sa turday last, 36 quarters of wheat, the property of Mr. Crawshay, the extensive Welsh ironmaster, and grown on his estate at Caversham, near Reading, realized the enor mous and almost unprecedented price of 120 s. per quarter. The parcel was bought on speculation. NEW MODE OF ADVERTISING.—A large number of penny-pieces are in circulai ion in Birmingham and the neighbourhood, on which is stamped, in prominent cha racters, a recommendation to purchase a certain cheap periodical. We would advise the perpetrators of this act of disfigurement of the current coin to beware of the Mint authorities. The members of the Senior United SeYvice Club gave a splendid entertainment at the club-house in Pall-mall, on Tuesday, to Major-General Sir Henry Smith, to celebrate the return of that gallant officer to his native country, after his arduous services in the East Indies. Lieutenant General Sir Andrew F. Barnard, G.C.B. and G.C.H., presided, and Earl Waldegrave occupied the vice-chair. The Inverness Courier:of Tuesday, contains a detail of the loss by fire of a bark at sea, and eleven lives lost, when off the Western Isles. Several others were dread fully burnt, but escaped in a boat. The crew were Americans, bound to Leith. The accident was caused by a candle falling on some dry oakum while drawing some rum. The Me;deans are playing a bloody and at the same time bolder game than is usual for them, as it is thought they have killed no less than fifty of our men within the last three days on the road. Gen. Scott had issued a Proclamation to the Mexicans, urging them in strong terms to remain at their homes, and no longer countenance the military tyrants who had been leading them to destruction. He proclaims himself and army as the friends of all peaceable Mexicans, and determined to protect them in all their civil and religious rights. New York, April 30th. To-day being packet-day the markets have been very quiet, and transactions too small to characterise the market, or en able us to fix quotations with much definiteness. We have no change of importance to note. Advices by . the Sarah Sands have had no effect, the tenor of her news having been very cor rectly anticipated. In the present state of things prices are affected more by the amount of supplies, than the slight changes abroad. CorroN was less active. Sales of 6000 bales at previous rates. FLou R —The market is dull. At the usual average rate of con sumption, the stock here would not last until the receipts from the canal could arrive, which will be in about ten days. The trade, however, buy very sparingly at present rates, preferring to wait a few days, when the prices must be considerably lower, say a dollar. We continue to quote Genesee and Western at ,57,623- to 87,75, and Southern at 57,37 to 417,53. GRAIN. — There was some Ohio Wheat on sale, but nothing done. Corn is held at 90 to 98 c. for white, and 94 to 95 c. for yellow, on the spot, very little offering. To arrive, prices are firm at yester . .ay's quo .cions. _ sells freely at 10 to la c. SUGARS.—We mote sales by auction to-day of 286 hhds. prime New Orleans, at 37,06 to 57,56 per 100 lbs. FREIGHTS are unsettled. For flour. 3s. is a full quo tation, but it has been taken to fill up at 2s. 6d., and in British vessels reported at 2s. THIRD EDITION. Standard-office, Two o'clock LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET -THIS DAY. Of foreign Wheat direct from Europe, and some returned farzoe , from Ireland, we have a fair import of that Grain fresh in for to-day, with a good supply of Indian Corn, and several arrivals of other Grain : of American Flour, however, we have less in than usual, and are not likely to have any large quantity thence until the June shipments come to hand. The decline in Mark Lane, and continued fine weather, materially affects the sensibilities of holders, and we have to quote a reduction to-day of Is. per 70Ib. on Wheat ; ss. per bar rel on Flour; 3d. per 60Ib. on Barley; Is. to 2s. on Beans.; 2s. to 3s. per quarter on Indian Corn ; and 2s. per load on Oatmeal. A moderate business has been done, however, and the market closes more steadily, under the conviction that extensive country orders will at once come forward. . - ; . til Pn...1 THE CROPS.—AII the provincial papers speak in high terms of the growinc , crops. The following are speci mens :—ln the Fylde the corn looks well, and kitchen gardens are flourishing. In Shropshire " the appearance of the wheat and barley crops is indicative of a profuse harvest." In Kent " the beautiful warm showers have put a new face on the country, and all the crops pro mise abundance. The early potatoes look healthy." So much foreign grain has been stored at Perth this winter, that granary room is hardly to be bad, and im porters are re-shipping to other ports partly from want of the necessaryaccomodation. Glasgow is similarly situated, and some who had sent cargoes thither, and found no sale, are intending to re-ship them to the Baltic, where prices are fifty per cent higher than when originally put on board. Z ! W 2 o fsrrilann. At a public meeting in Darlington; on Tuesd resolved to economise in the use of food. During the past week, 95 vessels laden with rived in London, from different European ports The freedom of the city of London has been presente d to " the hero of Aliwal," Sir Harry George Smith. • On Saturday a tight took place at Cramlington, near Newcastle-upon-Tyne, between John Walton and Joseph Simms, pitmen, when the former was unfortunately killed. On Saturday week, Dr. Mesham, one of the physicians to the Infirmary at. Bedford, committed suicide by taking on. His circumstances were embarrassed. . ' ' " - ilrough the win- ay, it was Some atrocious villain fired a bullet t dow of Dr. Turley's library, at Worcester, on The Dr. was sitting at a table at the time, and 1 narrow escape from being shot. corn ar- Tuesda 'iad a very THE OAK HAS WON.—When the ash-tree opens its leaf before the oak, a wet summer usually follows ; and when the oak-tree opens its leaf before the ash, a dry summer usually follows. _ The oak is first this year. - - DISTRESS IN BRA DFORD.—A guardian of the poor states that one in seven of every man, woman, and child, in the township of Bradford is receiving parochial relief. One relieving-officer, Mr. Booth, has 1200 families on his book. The members of vie canton utuo, auopting toe 111.11J1C example set by our most gracious Sovereign, have directed that, during the existing scarcity, none but the seconds flour be used in that club. At the recent lettings of grass lands in the neighbour hood of Cardigan, by auction, the rentals have consider silly increased upon that of die previous years; the com- )eing very great. —A man was indicted on Wednes day, at the Old Bailey, tor stauwng nis own moiner, .uu endangering her life. He pleaded intoxication. and conse quently got off with a fortnight's imprisonment. In a late Gazette it was announced that a dividend of three thirty-secondths of a penny would be paid to the creditors of a bankrupt; so that a creditor to the amount The Chester Courant says that within three days the House of Commons was twice counted out, that the mem- le currency A. CONTRAST.—In November, 1834, the price of a bushel of flour in this city was 6s. 6d.;—on Monday, May 17, 1847, it was seventeen shillings ! Very shortly, we regret to add, the price will probably range between 20s. and 30s. per bushel.—As a proof of the laudable de sire in Hereford to economise in the smallest things, we may notice that we have seen handbills affixed to the walls, not with paste, but skewers.- -Hereford Journal. The London Dock Company has lately opened another stack of warehouses with vaults beneath, at the western end of the docks, nearest to the city. They have been built at a cost of about £BO,OOO, and combine light, space, and convenience of all kinds for the transaction of busi ness. The arches of the vaults are supported by iron columns, and have a light and roomy appearance, whilst they are so far from the water side as to be effectually free from damp. FOREIGN CORN.—The number of vessels which arrived at the port of London during the past week from ports in Europe, laden with grain, was 95, the cargoes of which were mainly wheat and oats, and were from the following European States, viz. Holland, Denmark, Prussia, Fran re (Marselles), Sweden, Hanover, Oldenburgh. Malta, Meek lenb urgh . and some others, the principal of which, however, were from the Hanoverian dominions, Denmark, and Prussia. _ _ . THE INDIAN WAR.—A package has arrived in the East India Docks directed to Lord Hardinge, the Governor- General of India, containing a bedstead and hangings, and also a quantity of Indian armour, the former of which is a present to His Excellency from the Maharajah Dhu leep Sing, and the latter has been taken in the late en gagement with the Sikhs; the whole of which will he de livered for or on account of his lordship, by the special di rections of the Treasury, duty free. _ _ _ _ . THE SHIPMENT OF GOLD.—The quantity of gold taken out on Wednesday by the American steamer was £190,000, but it was not taken from the bank, but had been received from Paris by an eminent continental banking firm here, to be shipped on French account—no doubt as the most profitable remittance which they are able to make in pay ment of the corn, &c. which they are receiving in such large quanties from the United States. It is understood, also, that the bullion in the bank is daily augmenting, anti that it cannot now be much below £lo,ooo,ooo.—Morning Chronicle. ANOTHER SPECIMEN OF ONE-SIDED CONSCIENTIOUS ness.—In the House of Commons on Tuesday, Mr. Wil liams opposed the adoption of the Report of the Commit tee of Supply, on the ground that the amount voted for the expenses of the Ecclesiastical Commission (X 3,450), being for the benefit of the church, ought not to be paid out of the public purse. The bon. member forgot to state, that this sum became due owing to the state interfering with the revenues of the church. But Mr. Brothertnn reminded him, that if the public were thus paying £3,000 for the Ecclesiastical Commission, the church paid £36,000 for registering births, deaths, and marriages, a measure adopted for the benefit of dissenters ? Nevertheless, eight members voted with Mr. 'Williams. DREADFUL COLLIERY EXPLOSION AT LEEDS.—SEVEN LIVES LOST.—Yesterday morning week, a terrific explo sion of fire-damp occurred at a colliery belonging to Messrs. Harding and Co., New Hall, Beeston, about two miles from Leeds, by which seven individuals have lost their lives, and another haS" received injuries from which he is not expected to recover. The explosion took place about nine o'clock. The miners in the course of their labours broke into an old pit, from which the con- stantaneous explosion. Six of the unfortunate persons who were at work in the pit were killed on the spot, and two others were got out alive and conveyed to the Leeds Infirmary, one of whom has since died DEATH OF A BOY FROM EXCESSIVE DRINKING.—On Saturday week, a boy named John Hall, aged nine years and five months, was amusing himself with other boys in front of the office of Messrs. Ridley and Thompson, spi rit merchants, Newcastle, but causing some annoyance to those in the office, they were ordered away. Unfortu nately, as an inducement to them to go away, a glass of rum was given to each of them, when they departed. The deceased, however, returned again, and asking for some more drink, a bottle containing rum was given to him by a traveller for the firm, and the boy applying the bottle to.his mouth, drank nearly the whole of the contents. After leaving the office he was overcome with the liquor and fell down, and- was taken up quite insensible, con veyed home, and put to bed, where he died on Monday, without having spoken in the interval. A verdict of manslaughter has been returned against the traveller. A WEALTHY PAUPER.—On the 19th instant, a labour- ing man named John Jarmy, and his wife, were admitted as in-door paupers at the Wangford union-house at Ship meadow, and, as is customary, they were taken to sepa rate apartments to exchange their own clothing for that of the union. attended by the usual officials. The matron, who was present with the woman, observing that her pockets were very heavy, asked what they contained, to which she replied, " Only a few rags" ' • but this not sa tisfying Mrs. Hammond, she examined the contents, and found sewed up in different parcels £132 45., consisting of 111 sovereiens, and the remainder in silver ; there were also three savings-bank books, in which were ac knowledged deposits in the Norwich Savings Bank to the amount of £l6O, making a total of £292 4s. ! There were found also nine silver tea-spoons, a table-spoon, and a pair of sugar-tongs.—lpswich Express. their gold for the notes of Jenny Lind HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—The attractions of Jenny Lind continue undiminished, or rather to increase. Thus speaks the Morning Post of Wednesday thereon, and of her general characteristics !—" The day before yesterday before the office doors were opened, a crow( . _ .., The Earl of Winchilsea, on , Monday drew the atten tion of the government to the alarming state of the country, in consequence of the scarcity and high price of food, and suggested the propriety of establishing public assem bled before them, and in their effort to get first served they broke the glass door. Not only from all parts of the country, but from the continent, persons are constantly arriving to witness the performances of the great vocalist ; nor can they accomplish the object of their journey at once, so difficult is it to obtain a seat of any kind. The sensation the fair Swede excites is in no wise extraordinary when we reflect that she has all the sweetness of Sontag, with far more vocal power, and all the dramatic energy of the great Malibran, with the advantages over the latter !hal granaries. ECONOMY OF BREAD.—A correspondent of the Times _ _ she never exaggerates feeling, and that her voice, insteaa of being a beautiful contralto forced into an unequal so -17 prano, Is throughout even, round, clear, and nen- toneu. MR. COHAN'S CONCERT IN LONDON. - Mr. Cohan be ing well known in Liverpool, the following paragraph from the Times, London paper, will be perused . with. interest by many of his friends :—This entertainment attracted a overflowing audience last night to the Hanover Room • • i - ng — Co — nside - r - aT3le mechanicaj, pretensions with a style and his composition, the most remarkable of which was a pot pourri called The Greek Revolution, an essay combining the fragmentary plan of the ancient Battle of Prague with executive difficulties that RotzwAra never dreamed of. Mr. Cohan was quite at home in these pieces, and was re- - - -0 himself by a very able performance of one of Beethoven's violin sonatas, in which he enjoyed the valuable co-oper- ation of Mr. Blagrove; and also in the exposition of an adagio and scherzo from a MS. sonata composed by him self, and written with a better purpose than the fantasais of which we have spoken. A vaaiety of vocal pieces sus tained by the talents of Misses Birch, Dolby, and Bans ford, Messrs. Hart, and John Parry, completed the pro- CONTINUED DISTURBANCES IN SOMERSETSRIRE. — r. t. .t.tp that the food riots. which originated at QC bread is not only more economical, but more whole ;ome and nutritious. _ _ set. At Litastonoury sympwiii _ have manifested themselves, and though , fortunately, the mischief was confined to stoppinc , bread carts, the occur rences are too ominous to be lightly regarded. The cart of Mr. Collins, baker, of Wetton-mill, was stopped on Tuesday while delivering bread in the High-street, and the driver had to return home at once with his vehicle. On the previous day, the bread cart of Mr. Puddy was stopped at Ashcott, and the driver desired to dispose of his bread at Bd. per quartern with which command he was obliged to comply. At Coker,l a village a few miles distant from Yeovil, a disorderly mob smashed in the windows of an inoffensive baker named Podger, and here the affair be came so serious that a magistrate (Mr. Batten) was called froth his bed at a late hour, and considered it necessary to swear in a number of special constables. At Taunton the disturbances were renewed on Monday, and the pen-, sioners charged the mob with fixed bayonets. Three men, named Stone, Valiance, and Brake, have been committed to gaol for trial, the two former charged with participat ing in the disturbances, and the latter with obstructing the pensioners. At Yeovil some apprehensions of dis turbances was felt, the more especially, as large gangs of railway labourers are at work in the inimediate vicinity of the town. v V SALE OF MR. EECKFORD'S TOWER.—This unique spe cimen of its late owner's taste, together with an acre of the surrounding land, was lately knocked down" by the auctioneer's hammer, for the almost nominal price of £lOOO. The purchaser is Mr. W. Knott, landlord of the Freemasons' Tavern, in Bath. EXPORTATION OF CORN FROM ENGLAND. — The French war steamer, Gomer, passed by Dover, on Monday se'nnight, having seven large British vessels in tow, laden with corn, bound to Cherborough, and on F r iday after- tow, similarly laden. In Bradford, Yorkshire, the owner of the Soke Mills claims to grind or provide all the corn or meal consumed within the limits of a district called " the Soke." A joint stock company (the vicar at the head) is to be got up in rows outcries, persec— . -- for dogs do not repel them, nor the threatening arm and lifted hand. They have lost all sense of shame, or of in jury. They are triple-cased in the impervious callous ness of the lowest degradation. The beauty of the womei of the middle and lower class of Rome is something reall_ wonderful: the richest colouring, great purity of features opposition. and nobility of form, particularly in the outline of the The Rev. J. C. Miller. rector of St. Martin's Birming head and its position on the shoulders. Their persons ham, has resolved to devote one Sunday annually to en are generally clumsy, however, and their feet and aneles force the claims of each of the charitable institutions of extremely ugly, thick, and ill-shaped : their divinity the town. It occurs to us ; that the adoption of this prac comes no ower than their shoulders.—Mrs. Butler. tice nearer home would be productive of muck good. listed in the same regiment vered wa Nay 25, Mt CONTINENTAL COMMUNICATION.—The Directors the South-Eastern Steam-ship Company intend to run one of their splendid vessels between Folkstone and St. Valery. The object in view appears to be the saving of forty miles by diligence from Boulogne to Abbeville, the port of St. Valery being only twelve miles from the Abbeville railway station, and the distance by sea from Folkstone to St. Valery, about fifty miles ; thus Paris would be reached in less time than either by Brighton and Dieppe or Folkstone and Boulogne ._ EXTRAORDINARY BIRTHS.—On Sunday last the wife of a poor labouring man, named Godfrey Butterworth, of Wike Common, was delivered of three fine girls. The names selected were Faith, Hope, and Charity, and they were the same day duly registered by Robert Broughton, registrar for the district. The children are all doing well. On the 12th February, 1846, the same woman had twins (two fine boys), which were called Joseph and Benjamin ; so that in little more than 15 months she has brought het husband five children, all of them born alive, but the two boys afterwards died.—Leeds paper. NARROW ESCAPE OF THE ST. VINCENT.—This perfect 120 gun ship left Portsmouth harbour at eleven o'clock on Saturday, for Spithead. She was taken in tow by the Centaur steam-frigate ; and when off Blockhouse beach, one of the hawsers broke, and left the St. Vincent nearly unmanageable, but by promptly letting go an anchor she was saved from getting on shore, although it was thought she did touch the ground. The officers of the dockyard and pilots did not deem it prudent, with the wind S.W., and a critical point of the tide, to run the risk of taking her out ; she was anchored ahead of the Victory, and soon after warped in safety to her former berth. If she had hung for a very short time, the most disastrous conse quences must have ensued, as the ebb tide soon began to make with great force ; and as she was between Point Beach and Blockhouse when she touched, she must, from her great size and draught of water, have turned over on her side, and been damaged for ever. It is reported that the tides will not admit of her going out of harbour for a fortnight. A SLIGHT MISTAKE.--THE SOOTY JENNY LIND ! The Quarry Walk, Shrewsbury, has been crowded every night during the past week to listen to the sweet and brilliant strains of the spirit of Jenny Lind, which it is reported pours forth most eloquent music from the yew tree at the skirt of the plantation under the,- residence of Mr. Badger, on Kingsland, opposite the Quarry Centre Walk. We (Shropshire Conservative) regret, however, to state, that the lovers of nature's music have met with a sore disappointment, as last night, about a quarter past eleven o'clock, when nearly 800 persons were present drinkinc , the luscious strains from the immortal wi;rbler, a cough was heard, and something, in colour approaching his Satanic majesty, seen to move ; when lo ! a little sweep was brought forth with a Whitechapel Birdcatcher's whi tle in his tiny fist, with which instrument he had been for several evenings beguiling the proud Salopians from their convivial parties, and beds. This has given a quietus to a contemplated " Nightingale Club," which was in the course of formation by the Choral Socipt• , T - GUN C k- - " • ,HE ,OTTON. - ..S all conjecture as to the nature of this immensely powerful agent has now been set at rest by the publicity of the specification of the patent, any official facts with reference to its actual utility must prove of interest. A course of experiments, to test its relative strength with the very best Ordnance gunpowder, have just taken place at the Holyhead Mountain, Anglesea; the Holland Slate Quarries, Penrhyn ; and the result shows that the saving by the use of the gun cotton is at least 30 per cent. ; added to which is the great advantage, that the miners, by its means, are enabled to obtain the most enormous blocks, and this with little or no waste. In an official report which appears in the Mining Jour nal of Saturday week, it appears that a " huge mass of 60 tons weight was gently pushed from its firmly bound bed by the explosion of only eight ounces of cotton, and that no splintering of the slate took place, which greatly as tonished the workmen." To obtain blocks of slate, alone, of such immense size, will in itself effect a vast amount of good; that material being in great and in creasing demand, even at its present price, for articles of building, of furniture and works of luxury and the arts. USEFUL RECIPES.—The following are recipes and in struction which are at the present time extensively used, and with great advantage and economy, in the town and neighbourhood of Carlisle, and were furnished by Mr. J. D. Carr, of that town :—Plain boiled hominy, or Indian corn shelled : Tie one pound of crushed hominy in a cloth, allowing plenty of room to swell, and boil three hours. This pudding may be eaten with sugar and melted butter or treacle sauce. One pound of hominy will make a pudding sufficient, as a meal, for five or six persons, at a cost of not more than 2d., when Indian corn is selling from 565. to 60s. per quarter.—Hominy milk : Soak half a pound of crushed hominy in water twelve hours, and then boil it in milk over a slow fire two hours. It must be about the consistence of rice milk when brought to table.—Rice hominy pudding: Mix the hominy, which has been previously boiled, either in milk or water, with eggs, a little sugar and nutmeg, a little suet, and with or without currants and raisins, as preferred. Tie up in a basin, and boil two hours. It is excellent either boiled or baked.—To prepare hominy as a vegetable, boil whole hominy in plenty of water four hours, and strain it through a culander for the table. This is a beautiful looking dish, and forms an excellent substitute for pota toes. Equal parts of Indian and English flour make ex cellent household bread and cakes. RAGGED SCHOOL UNION.—On Tuesday a very nume rously attended meeting of the above society was held at the Hanover-square Rooms, when Lord Ashley took the chair. Amongst the number on the platfoim. ze o re wp I Bishop of Norwich, Lord Kinnear, the Hon- "". ABla. Baptist the t Noe lt l :g a h n t d H a o Um F l3 "L er Ai o a f uiee clergymen. The noble Lord briefly, but very emphatically, addressed the meet ing.lfon. and Ite t v r ! The report stated that there were 16 schools open daily, morning and afternoon, 33 opon on the Sabbath, ing schools of both sexes, which are situated in the lowest and most wretched localities of London. The total num b-r in these are about 5,000 children of both sexes, and 456 teachers. A special fund had been established for a school of industry or juvenile refuge, in one of the most wretched and low localities in Westminster, to which a lady in the first instance subscribed £2OO, and subse quently £3OO, with a view under the latter donation of receiving 50 girls. A legacy of £2OO had been bequeathed by Mr. Strut Avery, of the University Club. The report was adopted. The financial statement showed the re ceipts to be for the past year £824 6s. 10d., leaving a balance of £172 18s. I Id. The special fund for the juve nile refuge fund, £857, which, after defraying all ex penses, and a contingent fund of £3OO, left a balance of £2Ol 13s. 7d. TIIE MIRFIELD MURDERS. — The local magistrates and police officers are strenuously exerting themselves to dis cover the perpetrator or perpetrators of the deed of blood which occurred there on Wednesday week, and the full par ticulars of which appeared in the Standard of Tuesday. At present there are two men in custody, on suspicion of sonsin custody are both Irishmen, hawkers of pots, re siding a few miles from Mirfield. One of them is Michael M'Cabe, about forty-one years of age ; the other seen in the neighbourhood of the house of the deceased Mr. Wraith about the time when the murders must have been committed, and it is said that a strong chain of cir- coroner'scumstan t al evidence jngue st,w willh which s l) e adduced e xpeete dt o a against resumed t them a a t t the ta latter part of the present week. The rerna:ns of the deceased Mr. and Mrs Wraith were interred in one grave, and those of their unfo r t una t e servant ma i d, Caro line Ellis,in another on Saturday, amidst a large con course of spectators. It is not true, as reported in som e journals, that the mother of Ellis died suddenly in conse quence of the news that her daughter was murdered W ing been communicated to her. She, however, is very ill, her illness arising from the shock to her nervous system by the awful death which has befallen her child. FIIRTFIRR NtIVELTIES iN GLASS.—Sir Robert Peel's anticipations of the extended use of glass appear to be on the way towards a complete fulfilment. Only the other day a proposal was made in the Builder, to add a new grace to the piano-forte by covering the key notes with varicoloured glass; and other projects, such as the con duction of illuminative gas through pipes of glass, with ground and closely-fitted jointings, have been suggested through the same medium. It now appears, however, that not only milk-pans (yielding, by the bye, an addi tionalflower croppo pots, c le r s e , a m g said)r,aiptei.soas sgrape-glasses, and dcrea variousm -p o cream-pots, other jars, ho a r nd cult and ti"-: urak - floricultural utensils are already made 6 but even also such unlikely implements as rolling.- pins, and a heterogeneous list . of other manufactures hitherto usually wrought in wood, or clay, or metal. BO" glasses, too, and propagating-glasses, seed protectors, &c.r are now made of this useful arid elegant, as WE material, which scarcely requires the estaolisnment tn anything like truth in a recent report of the discGyery of a mode of renderinv it malleable. in order to constitute ll it a most formidable antagonist and substitute for a kinds of manufacture. not only in metal. and wood. and clay, but in other materials, including even silk and worsted—for we may add, what may not be known to some of our readers, that beautiful fabrics, even as it igf, have been actually woven with a mixture of threads ot. coloured glass and silk. ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.—OIIe of the rural police ar prehended a young Irishman on Friday, the 7th instant► stealing some shirts from a farmhouse at Craignish, where he had lodged the night previous. He gave his name eS Tom 111`Lean, from near Derry ; but on his way here, en route to Inverary, gave hints of his intention to change / both name and sex, and actually proved to be a lady il l tights; and, from her own statement is the same AO M`Lean, from near Derry, who followed her " soldier laddie" from that place to Gls- '- co" but on her sex being-disco nt to the right-about; on which she took 01 work in and about Glasgow, and on the harvest-field, St" earner, in twice crossed the Atlantic as cook ; but on the last homy ward bound passage she was sent before the mast, in a t ' sequence of which she left the ship, and found her waY this quarter, and engaged herself to a countryman of b, g own, who is in the stoneware trade, with whom she seP' in the threefold capacity of cartman, boatman, or basitn man, and sharing her bed with the other boys. We 3rl h... ing of this life also, she decamped, in the absence o f hot master and mistress, taking with her a well-stored bssi c i , c o of glasses, which she sold at low prices through t" 'Country, till she perished the pack. She then enlisted Inverary, where, after a night's carouse and good lodg ia i; the party found themselves minus their recruit i n u h a s morning, she having managed to make her escape , b t oe s now been apprehended for the above theft. She g,s4 over her history since she adopted the tights ( now twai er months) without a blush, and with the greatest flue'? She is rather a good-looking boy, five feet six inches hlB 4 ruddy complexion, with jet black locks, about ninety% years of age. Irish Tom turning out a girl, has creatli; great deal of merriment and astonishment here, Part i _. • great deal of merriment and astonishment here, pao larly to her old master and mistress, with whom he v 77 .1 great favourite for the six weeks he lived with 0105 Edinburgh Register. ping eLd f this ev short, a At ThR% Tiler kira SA ford bath; Bilk. bella Xxcli Etew