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'il2s, 184 S. if such a step for s they are anxious holder forthwith,. ,00 went, i n order forthwith, vs of the proprietql [liar to each P roPr iswer s to these 01° . _ in order to rar' Yorkshire C ooPO the Board , they !.; directors conner wor th and Air. lo r ?l ew s an Mr. t o d th a t the arnount.of files of railway, I(ss ,385 for the covver, f or the carriage sod l for passe n g ers all port i one d ; being onding week of 1 0 The average Oro; whilst in 1847 tbe' LLANY. ins adjourned ford -- - Vca' fte. is office as 1 il to th e United Stl s been presente:l4: -cial travellers, .01 i ra ble and unvreafi ree trade." „es or ,ddress to the Cheshire, expresstny nd O privations at W h e m anly an d ?in g en dured. flow Ireland, there 151x011 al ; that of 170 d, >rs ; and that o f 1 11 ; mons only Oil t came out 14 16 10 ° th a t the fa ng es of the sop, to £3OO p er a: find the neeco". of s.—Mr. guutd a g raph which slaw do, g held in that ttreie in his opinion, tat is presiding at • fel s are quite i n ti„ be treason shoiso,l4 This is to° g fi l ;j: gress." J o 'g the new-boni,„ is Sunday trai°"oitl ether Chartisni.4o varms of del; 0, Reid of cone' ) th e united botil; on MonclaY• to ,yttleton, brotheiTior, the county of 0, or d Mandeville, nd a rejected c5131b oral electiong to Lands was dee fia lw" o o po ll took p lace wille was el rtetol mont is ref° ( e, ale, that he Jo „ ing that the e - 031 Tablet the bes 0 roo s . •il be of s will everal col)! ( . 0 1 stonyhurs , a paper, othe r r tly forbidden' t/02; 3ted with l to ieir rofe Or ['heir p reque s o ol , fr T a blet is a f g 0 i n letters 0 ve deelaration,Affplicei all ev ents , he govern raeoitoott of the Leg 0 0 1 on TueSelf,lo $l6 eclared 00 atever fora,' bb-pf object ; vb,ete in debate, itejlit n. ways 191 `', 4 Nn to take al ;as long s r the IlePasa. 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E. Painter Strand. , thee le number before us of this able periodical is one of ' Most interestinz with which we have been lately d t P,Pred ; and it will be seen that we have borrowed from •f,—,9. ll o ter paers theologian largely. It contains sufficient ,Zuo r theg and the politician ; and at the tlate time a number of highly attractive articles for the oaral reader, in which popular topics and studies are Zited in a most graceful and able manner, literary re ch and learning being mixed with pleasing gossiping mod. ,perception and judgment of the subjects tevi 'co. Amongst the latter description of papers is . a p . n e w °f " Zoological Recreations, by W. P. Broderip, 80 ;•" which has evidently fallen into the hands of a wr'irar, extensively read in the ancient and modern 4 ‘ uPon natural history. It is sparkling thronghout. ohs _ „Present Movement in Italy, by the Marquis l‘ls re'f tt ,Azeglio," affords the subject of some very striking the upon the political aspect of Christendom ; and notices 0 , Mr. Jesse's " Literary and Historical Me serise ofL d ondon " is not o n ly pl eas i ng ly written, but is characterised by a right spirit, and justly rebukes the :43,t)esr for occasional lapses and inaccuracies. We have 1 some interesting remarks on the social and commer- Th Progress of Great Britain, in a notice of Sir Edward eo ,, " Memoirs during Half a Century," The tic Aspect of the Times," in which the bearing of tti o In P°rary events upon the generally received interpre wet!, of the prophecies in the Old and New Testaments, 11 _ worthy of attentive perusal. ,ti c r o r ore serious and theological articles are, " A No -1100,, p. Peil's Annotations on St. Paul's Epistle to the and ," A Notice of the Views of Chalmers, Hume, Word, a 2 n Pnell on Miracles," and " A Review of Dr. renia t i:" t h's Works," which afford a theme for some tb ur '_uPon the respective positions and claims Politico E ngland England and the Church of Rome. The only Va ludi 1'8110n:deal article is entitled " The Theory of atian as ° th Which the writer dissents from direct t,x- It contains failssounde views, mode of raising revenue. 4ails re - r o " e r s the p ably stated ; and although the reviewer f Y Which he offers us for the inequality o failure resent , 'node of taxing income and property, such aibilit " n 'Y goe s to prove the difficulty, if not impos poste!' of d iscovering any mode by which such an ra ted nbe rendered acceptible, or just. We have orai o t-_ Se co an excellent review of " Ranke s History f dente -"o which the reader will find an excelleny con itu notice of a people, whose history is little known, Whose destiny is likely to be an important one. April, 1848 npe Reports, and Industrial Journal, iucluding the -- P° 7lB , Essays, an d T ransac ti ons o f th e R o y a l Agri cultural Improvement Society of Ireland. James Agri cultural 21, D'Olier- s t ree t, D u bli n ;W. S. Orr and Co., L on d o . vo Weurna have only recently received th e fi rst num ber of this i—a quarterly publication—which promises to be !)ine a m os t important aid tu the movement making by be government and the worthy portion of the wealthy ! l asses of Irel an d f or the regeneration f her agricultural 11,1,?,c1 industrious cl asses . I t contains, in addition to the arly report and proceedidgs of the Royal Agricul ;l Improvement Society of Ireland, a number of very Zuable articles on draining, the potatoe f a il ure , an d its ects on Irish agriculture ; the payment of farm servants, 8 4 5 eels of po u lt r y b es t su it e d to t h e farm, t h e b es t stitute for the potatoe, the reclamation of deep bog, a_ ro tation of crop s , advice to small farmers, and on other 7 1 . 4 ating s ubjects. They are characterised by sound i;Z:2ical ability, and if studied by the small farmers an 1 . 1 10 ,7 4 trY of Ireland, and their teachings acted upon, a w t e i le .'fKl not despair of witnessing the advance of Irelan t he position in the social scale. What a boon would Ali th v ea : the e e s x th ina o fit o ia d om o n of that country confer of trowould direct them to the study of such books instead upon their people if oratory columns of the United Irishman 4 " of Making and Mending Fishing Nets. Thi s London : Whittaker and Co. 1) f tier: 4lll l ) kt recently published by S. F.Every, Esq., of ri o t I',nnutains much information worthy the perusal anglers but practical inland and sea-coast li ta . tin e — r s' i l• It is illustrated with plates, and from the able , 11 which they are described, the difficult art of i perfectlywhg simplified. As this is the first work azul c e l i n hits been treated at length, there little doubtit will be useful to many. VARIETIES t torair L 1110 NY.—The " rebels" who seized Metternich's 1,00 0 Lof Johannisberg, containing a stand of some to se bottles bottles of glorious wine, have had the cruelty The to the expatr i ate d P r i nce — a cor k screw . tha t mo st exte ns i ve di nner ever g i ven i n England was G eo „?' Lord R omney, to the Kent V o l unteers, w h en Lreee ,'VII. revie we d th em near M a idstone. The tables labl es - ` 7 en miles an d a h a lf l ong , an d the boards for the A PUZZLE X 15,000 Yol kg FOR THE EASTERN HO LI DAY —Fifteen th, dies walk out seven days in succession, in a column dayabreast. It is required to arrange them for each v as , that no two shall walk twice abreast. There are ,T u L n inonbe r of ways in which it may be done. 104,4 r RETORT .—Counsellor Wallace once said to a th in V at to an in a smock-frock who was undergoing his tr4 ok i ° ll in the witness-box " You in the smock ,hti a`cnr much are you paid for lying ?" " Less than too unfortunately, or you would be in a smock-frock ‘ 'lc e ptabflN G IDEA.—In speaking of the precautions Y the authorities of Nottingham, during the recent At k plent, the Nottingham Journal says r-- 7 " Under the 4 44 1 Precautions, we must not omit to mention an % I,: hie one that was adopted, we are informed, at the N af °r ,k,s• At every gate a moveable pipe, attached . to the mains was fixed up, so that the persons inside Mt ° Pour upon the mob, in case they attempted to break 41Natie premises, a volume of flame, that would force the 4‘ „dating to desist ; and thus the works were guarded tr e :',4e necromantic castles of old, by dragons vomiting tO !t CO MPLIMENT - TO THE LAWYERS.—Among the 4 014",,Ped by Peter the Great, during his sojourn in tnai r,',Was Westminster Hall in term time, when the `4, 114 tl- v ,"'e court was crowded with lawyers in their wigs r7ose b ;„ n ". Peter, struck by the sight, enquired " Who 6, - ",..._°ns could possibly be ? " Being informed by tote sf"'arthen that they were all persons of the legal t he appeared to be greatly mystified, and at lay Ceiumed, Lawyers !—why I have only two in all the -111 'nions, and I believe I shall hang one of them t ft pornent I get back." Happy Peter !—Church of a . and Quarterly Review. 2,4,I:IRREDITARY TENDENCY TO SUICIDE .—There . tre richofsi x m c e h r i c i h d a n t CulY curious instances on record where whole families mve been swept away by suicide. I will only cite one ! 3 9 e fa :--- th A er of an impetuous character, was 14;lerable sum of money wh en th e y were all fully grown up. children, to each of whom he gave a con tieyoungest son became melancholy, and at the age of nty-six or t wenty-seven threw himself from the top of e house. One of his brothers became especially de 42.1Ned at his death, and after frequent attempts at sui ige, died a year a ft erwar d s f rom often repeated prolonged t e ltnga. The following year another brother had an at ht,, of mania ; a fourth, who was a p hy s i c ian, and who tieli Years previously remarked to me, w ith horrible cool- Q; that he should not escape his fate, killed himself. dent or three years afterwards, a sister was affected by el.al disease, and made many attempts to destroy her , and, lastly, the sixth brother, who lived in the hap -7t domestic relations, and seemed in consequence to tid re been spared during many years, also committed sui *--Journal of Psychological Medicine. Ii,4IL O SING SCENE OF THE TR IAL OF THE EARL OF 13tProRn.—O n the last day of his trial he was attended ie Young children, who were allow e d to stand by his fe e i at the b ar. Regading them with l oo k s of deep af /11 Iliet,°n, and ul appeal pointing to towar the d v s ast audience e thus concluded "cautif:—" lords, 'th an now now troubled your lordships a great deal l onger ;th e ' I should h ave d one were it not for th e in t erest of ~i s P l edges which a saint in heaven has left me." H ere for ~eeclings overcame him, and compelled him to pause f n - , l ew seconds. " I should be loath, my lords—what ble'elt for myself is nothing ; but I confess, that my deelsleretion should forfeit for them, it wounds me v . ery sobtr,:, You will be pleased to pardon my infirmity : abl e - ""Ing I should have said, but I see I shall not be ter Vold therefore I will leave it. And now, my lords, tot r — ,2 I thank God I have been, by his good blessing are n o t Me, taught that the afflictions of the present life th a n . to be Compared with the eternal weight of glory eve n s uall be revealed to us hereafter. And, my lords, taih nl ?, with all humility and tranquillity of mind, I do "Yself clearly and f ree l y t o your j u d gment s ; an d death,ethat righteous judgment shall be to life or to "^-4 8 Te Deum laudamus, to Deum confitemur." Vv ii B e 8 Literary and Hisorical Memorials cif Londo . n. best 0 ,... 1 ; ARE THERE DISAFFECTED MEN ?—Even ln the X v ertled countries there has always been a numer . - ban - n —ss of persons who have thrown away all their thi n and spoilt themselves for the existing statet_ that Vijp:B* There is no form of government whatever h on set' s , a to waY the stigma of crime, that will give common li en a fool and activity to a drone, or that wil ren m o d n er tiai i ° f di sagreeable temper anything else than a c .t d ts: nuisance to himself and his friends. The United tss o B, What with their free institutions and their unlimited Peet ce s give a m an as many c h ances as mortal can ex n this eph emeral existence ; but even there society kti:er the out a considerable portion of its members th e }pa backwoods, or into holes and corners, or across that ritish line. Thousands finding first this city, then tes s i e itY, " too hot for them," roam about under a suct tlek, of aliases, and either open gin-shops in a new se - th e ,nti Or, as a last resourse, cut fuel for the steamers on ar e utarshy banks of the Mississippi. In England 9iere Are ° such o u tl ets for branded guilt or disappointed qual. T here exist e veryw h ere amongs t us men w h o have 1)10;relled irreconcilably with their friends or their em theirtsesinen who h ave only half-learnt their trad . e . or Profession —men of desultory and useless abilities, 11( 4 ;1 their heads full of schemes applicable to every other thj,...but their own. Such men are generally beaten in Are ;:r.,,0f life by steady and industrious worth. Th ey Lilei r '„ ll ailY at the tail, while plodders are at the head of whenretY• Therefore, their only chance is . a row. ahour is disorganized, when large populations are rayti a l ci t a ted to ruinous stakes, the same folly that causes ile erils . to starve, raises such persons as we have been JaSt tv." l ug into wealthy and comfortable men. They arc sid eri t t 7 Bart of people to be the presidents and vice-pre-_ th e f „_?f union lodges, of course with the management of As o,"us, and with no end of meetings and deputations. tht as there are many such men, there is always the (real for sedition • and, therefore, it is necessary, in thet t ti t these, for' the working classes to be put on INCIDENT IN CHILDHOOD-A LESSON TO PARENTS. (From " The Caxton," in Blaektrood's Magazine,) My father was seated on the lawn before the house, his straw hat over his eyes (it was summer) and his book on, his lap. Suddenly a beautiful delf blue-and-white flower pot, which had been set on the window-sill of an upper storey, fell to the ground with a crash, and the fragments spluttered up round my father's legs. Sublime in his stu dies as Archimedes in the siege, he continued to read " linpavidumferiunt ruince !" " Dear, dear !" cried my mother, who was at work in the porch, "my poor flower-pot that I prized so much ! Who could have done this ? Primmins ! ' _ Mrs. Primmins popped her head out of the fatal win dow, nodded to the summons, and came down in a trice, pale and breathless. " Oh !" said my mother, mournfully, " I would rather have lost all the plants in the greenhouse in the great blight last May,—l would rather the best tea-set were broken ! The poor geranium I reared myself, and the dear, dear flower-pot which Mr. Caxton bought for me my last birth-day ! That naughty child must have done this !" Mrs. Primmins was dreadfully afraid of my father— why, I know not, except that very talkative social persons are usually afraid of very silent shy ones. She cast a hasty glance at her master, who was beginning to evince signs of attention, and cried promptly, " No, ma'am, it was not the dear boy, bless his flesh, it was I !" " You! how could you be so careless ? and you knew how I prized them both. Oh, Primmins!" Primmins began to sob. " Don't tell fibs, nursey," said a small shrill voice ' • and Master Sisty (coming out of the house as bold as brass) continued rapidly—" don't scold Primmins, mamma : it was I who pushed out the flower-pot." " Hush," said nurse, more frightened than ever, and looking aghast towards my father, who had very delibe rately taken off his hat, and was regarding the scene with serious eyes wide awake. " Hush ! and if he did break it, ma'am, it was quite an accident ; he was standing so, and he never meant it. Did you, Master Sisty ? Speak ! (this in a whisper) or Pa will be so angry." " Well," said - niy mother, " I suppose it was an acci dent ; take care in future, my child. You are sorry, I see, to have grieved me. There's a kiss, don't fret." " No, mamma, you must not kiss me, I don't deserve it. I pushed out the flower-pot on purpose." " Ha! and why ?" said my father, walking up. Mrs. Primmins trembled like a leaf. " For fun !" said I, hanging my head—" just to see how you'd look, papa; and that's the truth of it. Now beat me, do beat me!" My father threw his book fifty yards off, stooped down, and caught me to his breast. " Boy," he said, " you have done wrong : you shall repair it by remembering all your life that your father blessed God for giving him a son who spoke truth in spite of fear ! Oh ! Mrs. Primmins, the next fable of this kind you try to teach him, and we part for ever !" From that time I first date the hour when I felt that I loved my father, and knew that he loved me ; from that time too, he began to converse with me. He would no longer, if he met me in the garden, pass by with a smile and a nod ; he would stop, put his book in his pocket, and though his talk was often above my comprehension, still somehow I felt happier and better, and less of an in fant, when I thought over it, and tried to puzzle out the meaning ; for he had a way of suggesting, not teaching, putting things into my head, and then leaving them to work out their own problems. I remember a special in stance with respect to that same flower-pot and geranium. Mr. Squills, who was a bachelor, and well to do in the world, often made me little presents. Not long after the event I have narrated, he gave me one far exceeding in value those usually bestowed on children,—it wa3 a beau tiful large domino-box in cut ivory, painted and gilt. This domino-box was my delight. I was never weary of playing at dominoes with Mrs. Primmins, and I slept with the box under my pillow. " Ah !" said my father one day when he found me ranging the ivory squares in the parlour, " ah ! you like that better than all your playthings, eh !" " Oh yes, papa." " You would be very sorry if your mamma was to throw that box out of the window, and break it for fun." I looked beseechingly at my father, and made no answer. _ " But perhaps you would be very glad," he resumed, " if suddenly one of these good fairies you read of could change the domino-box into a beautiful geranium in a beautiful blue-and-white flower-pot, and that you could have the pleasure of putting it on your mamma's win dow-sill.' ` indeed I would !" said i, half crying. _ _ " My dear boy, I believe you; bxit good wishes don't mend bad actions." So saying, he shut the door and went out. I cannot tell you how puzzled I was to make out what my father meant by his aphorism. But I know that I played at do minoes no more that day. The next morning my father found me seated by myself under a tree in the garden ; he paused and looked at me with his grave bright eyes very steadily. MY boy," said he, " I am going to walk to - (a town about two miles off,) will you come ? and, by the bye, fetch your domino.box : I should like to show it to a person there." I ran in for the box, and, not a little proud of walking with my father upon the high road, we set out. " Papa," said I by the way, " there are no fairies now." " What then, my child ?" " Why—how then can my domino-box be changed into a geraniu myde a a r n ,4 : ,l a sa laue m -a y nt i tZe i fl ea ome l f g -po? his hand on my shoulder, every body who is in earnest to be good, carries two fairies about with him—one here," and he touched my heart ; " and one here," and he touched my head. " I don't understand you, papa." " I can wait till you do, Pcsistratus ! What a name !" My father stopped at a nursery gardener's, and, after looking over the flowers, paused before a large double ge ranium. " AIL this is finer than that which your mamma was so fond of. What is the cost, sir ?" " Only 7s. 6d.," said the gardener. My father buttoned up his pocket. " I can't afford it to-day," said he gently, and we walked out. On entering the town, we stopped again at a china warehouse. " Have you a flower-pot like that I bought some months ago ? Ah, here is one, marked 3s. 6d. Yes, that is the price. Well, when your mamma's birth day comes again, we must buy her another. That is some months to wait. And we can wait, Master Sisty. For truth, that blooms all the year round, is better than a poor geranium ' • and a word that is never broken, is better than a piece of delf." _ _ _ My head, which had drooped before, rose again ; but the rush of joy at my heart almost stifled me. " I have called to - pay your little bill," said my father, entering the shop of one of those fancy stationers common in country towns, and who sell all kinds of pretty toys and nicknacks. " And by the way," he added, as the smiling shopman looked over his books for the entry, " I think my little boy here can shew you a much handsomer speci men of French workmanship than that work-box which you enticed Mrs. Caxton into raffling for, last winter. Shew your domino-box, my dear." I produced my treasure, and the shopman was liberal in his commendations. " It is always well, my boy, to know what a thing is worth, in case one wishes to part with it. If my young gentleinan gets tired of his plaything, what will you give him for it ?" " Why, sir," said the shopmen, " I fear we could not afford to give more than eighteen shillings for it, unless the young gentleman took some of these pretty things in exchange." " Eighteen shillings !" said my father ; " you would give that. Well, my boy, whenever you grow tired of your box, you have my leave to sell it." - My father paid his bill, and went out. I lingered be hind a few moments, and joined him at the end of the street. " Papa, papa !" I cried, clapping my hands, " we can buy the geranium—we can buy the flower-pot." And I pulled a handful of silver from my pockets. " Did I not say right ?" said my father, passing his handkerchief over his eyes—" You have found the two fairies !" Oh ! how proud, how overjoyed I was, when, after placing vase and flower on the window-sill, I plucked my mother by the gown, and made her follow me to the spot. " Tt is his doing, and his money !" said my father; " good actions have mended the bad." " What !" cried my mother, when she had learned all ; " and your poor domino-box that you were so fond of ! We will go back to-morrow, and buy it back, if it costs us double." " Shall we buy it back, Pisistratus ?" asked my father. "Oh no—no—no ! It would spoil all," I cried, bury ing my face on my father's breast. My wife," said my father solemnly, " this is my first lesson to our child—the sanctity and the happiness of self-sacrifice—undo not what it should teach to his dying day!" And that is the history of the broken flower-pot. COMPARATIVE SOCIAL PROGRESS OF ENG LAND AND FRANCE DURING THE LAST TWENTY-FIVE YEARS. (From the Church of England Quarterly Review.) At the present time, the first reproach that we hear from foreigners is our provincial pauperism. It is true that deep poverty exists—how could it be otherwise where so many millions are cooped in a small island ? It is likewise true that the condition of the agricultural popu lation has not kept pace with the general improvement of the country ; and our fields are deserted more and more by the wealthy for the favoured town. But, in the ab stract, are our villages less smiling, or our cottage hearths less clean, than heretofore ? Are fewer roses in the gar den of the labourer, or fewer woodbines about his door ? We have ourselves known many a village lane purified from its filth—many a village street brightened and beau tified, even in our own recollection. It is, in fact, the very care we take of our poor which makes other nations talk of the pauperism amongst us. The serf of the marshes of the Drave or the Scandinavian peasant might envy the inmate even of the Andover workhouse. We have seen union-houses in which we were almost tempted to envy the inmates : the old women were making a round of visits among one another with a cheerfulness not always to be found in the visits of another class ; but we will not travel to Sweden or Transylvania—let us just look across the channel and hear what was said only the other day in the French chamber. •• In France (said Baron C. Dupin) —in France three men daily die by hunger ;" and at Pa ris, out of the whole population, one in three dies in the hospitals. It is hard that we should be reproached for pauperism simply because we make it known in the en deavour to relieve it. The same M. Dupin, in a report on the caisse d'epargne read to the Academy of Sciences, in 1843, sums up the progress of social improvement in Paris during the prece ding twenty-four years. After stating that it was still a subject of congratulation rather than of regret that THE LIVERPOII STANWIrD. 150,000 depositors existed out of a number of 500,000, who ought to have deposited, he says : " Four and twenty years. ago, the people of Paris risked twenty-nine millions of francs yearly at the lotteries —now, they risk nothing. Then houses of play were open on all sides, to the ruin alike of the opulent and the simple artisan —now, they exist no longer. Then, no .one paid a farthing into the savings banks —now, we finda 50,000 individuals, and the num ber yearly increases by 14,000. By a progress doubly rapid, the number of depositors among the working classes, once deplorably small, is now three-fourtha of the whole. Then, two hundred and five children in the thousand were exposed— the proportion now is one hundred and twenty in the thou sand. This is the fair side of the question—let us look at the other. Still, one-third .f the people live in a state of concu binage—still, one-third of the children are bastards—still, one third of the dead expire at the hospital or the almshouse, with out father, mother, son or daughter, to bestow a bier or give a rag to cover the nakedness of the corpse."—(Compte Readu de l' Academie des Sc. Jai. Sum: 1843, p. 14.) Such is Paris ! [Rather, the reviewer should have said, " such was Paris." Such was the progress made in restoring her po pulation to something like comfort, and redeeming them from their state of gross immorality, during the short period which has passed since the re-establishment of mo narchical institutions, and the substitution of order and industry for the excitement of the Revolution and the- Em pire. Will the same flattering picture of improvement be presented ten years hence, as the result of the rule of the Ledru Rollin's, Blanqui's, and Cabet's. who are just now directing the passions of its population to the realization of their absurd theories ? We suspect not. — ED. L. S.] ADVANTAGES OF SCHOOL OVER PREMATURE FORCING AT HOME. [To render more intelligible the following extract from a most promising autobiography, commenced in this month's Blackwood, entitled The Caxtons—a Family Picture," we must explain, that the boy having in his se venth or eighth ear shewn symptoms of losing the ordi nary vivacity of his age, and becoming sedate and preco ciously thoughtful, whilst his bodily vigour sensibly de clined, his father took the resolution of sending him from the parental roof to a public school.] A year after the resolution thus come to, I was at home for the holidays. " I hope," said my mother, " that they are doing Sisty justice. Ido think he is not nearly so quick a child as he was before he went to school. I wish you would exa mine him, Austin." " I have examined him, my dear. It is just as I ex pected ; and I am quite satisfied." What ! you really think he has come on ?" said my mother joyfully. _ _ " He does not care a button for botany now," said Mr. Squills. " And he used to be so fond of music, dear boy !" ob served my mother with a sigh. " Good gracious ! what noise is that ?" " Your son's pop-gun against the window ; said my father. "It is lucky it is only the window ; it would have made a less deafening noise, though, if it had been Mr. Squills' head, as it was yesterday morning." " The left ear," observed Squills ; " and a very sharp blow it was, too. Yet you are satisfied, Mr. Caxton ?' " Yes ; I think the boy is now as great a blockhead as most boys of his age are," observed my father with great complacency. " Dear me, Austin—a great blockhead 1" " What else did he go to school for ?" asked my father ; and observing a sort of dismay in the face of his female audience, and a certain surprise in that of his male, he rose and stood on the hearth, with one hand in his waist coat, as was his wont when about to philosophise in more detail than was usual to him. . " Mr. Squills," said he, " you have had great experi ence in families." __ _ " As good a practice as any in the county," said Mr. Squills proudly : " more than I can manage. I shall ad vertise for a partner." " And," resumed my father, " you must have observed almost invariably that, in every family, there is what father, mother, uncle, and aunt, pronounce to be one won derful child." " One at least, said Mr. Squills, smiling. " It is easy." continued my father, "to say this is parental partiality—but it is not so. Examine that child as a stranger, and it will startle yourself. You stand amazed at its eager curiosity, its quick comprehension, its ready wit, its delicate perception. Often, too, you will find some faculty strikingly developed; the child will have a turn for mechanics, perhaps, and make you a model of a steam-boat,—or it will have an ear tuned to verse, and it will write you a poem like that it has got by heart from ' The Speaker,'—or it will take to botany, (like Pisistratus,) with the old maid its aunt,—or it will play a march on its sister's pianoforte. In short, even you, Squills, will declare that it is really a wonderful child." " Upon my word," said Mr. Squills thoughtfully, " There's a deal of truth in what you say ; little Tom Dobbs is a wonderful child—so is Frank Steppington— and as for Johnny Styles, I must bring him here for you to hear him prattle on Natural History, and see how well he handles his pretty Hale microscope.", " Heaven forbid 1" said my father. " And now let me proceed. These thaumata or wonders last till when, Mr. Squills ?—last till the boy goes to school, and then, some how or other, the thaumata vanish into thin air, like ghosts at the cockcrow. A year after the prodigy has been at the academy, father and mother, uncle and aunt, plague you no more with his doings and sayings ; the ex traordinary infant has become a very ordinary little boy. Is it not so, Mr. Squills ?" " Indeed you are right, sir. How did you come to be observant i_ycu never seem _ _ _ " Hush!' r interrupted my father ; and then, looking fondly at my mother's anxious face, he said, soothingly, —" be comforted ; this is wisely ordained, and it is for the best." " It must be the fault of the school," said my mother, shaking her head. " It is the necessity of the school, and its virtue, my Kate. Let any one of these wonderful children—won derful as you thought Sisty himself—stay at home, and you will see its head grow bigger and bigger, and its body thinner and thinner—Eh, Mr. Squills—till the mind take all nourishment from the frame, and the frame, in turn, stint or make sickly the mind. You see that noble oak from the window—if the Chinese had brought it up, it would have been a tree in miniature at five years old, and at an hundred you would have set it in a flour-pot on your table, no bigger than it was at five—a curiosity for its matureness at one age—a show for its diminutiveness at the other. No ! the ordeal for talent is school ; restore the stunted mannikin to the growing child, and then let the child if it can, healthily hardily, naturally, work its slow way up into greatness. If greatness be denied it, it will at least be a man, and that is better than to be a little Johnny Styles all its life—an oak in a pill-box." At that moment I rushed into the room, glowing and panting, health in my cheek, vigour in my limbs, all child hood at my heart. "Oh ! mamma, I have got up the kite—so high !—come and see. Do come, papa." " Certainly," said my father ; " only don't cry so loud —kites make no noise in rising—yet, you see how they soar above the world. Come, Kate, where _is my hat ? Ah—thank you, my boy." _ _ " Kitty,"said my father, looking at the kite which, at tached by its string to the peg I had stuck into the ground, rested calm in the sky, " never fear but our kite shall fly as high; only, the human soul has stronger in stincts to mount upwards than a few sheets of paper on a framework of lath. But, observe, that to prevent it being lost in the freedom of space, we must attach it lightly to the earth ; and, observe again, my dear, that the higher it soars, the more string we must give it." THE BISHOP OF EXETER AND MR. GORHAM. A practical exemplification of the Bishop of Exeter's letter on tests has been given in his lordship's diocese, by the Rev. G. C. Gorham, whose case has been more than once incidentally mentioned to our readers. The question more immediately at issue here, however, is the right of the Bishop to refuse induction to a benefice of a party he believes unsound. It is one, we have been told by the Attorney-General in the House of Commons, that will, most probably, be tried in the law courts. Under these circumstances, it becomes our duty to lay before our readers a letter of Mr. Gorham's to a friend, giving his history of the proceedings. Mr. Gorham commences by noticing his appointment to the vicarage of St. Just, in Cornwall, in 1846, soon after which he received a rebuke from the Bishop for using the words, " The National Establishment," (instead of " The Church,") in a circular for building a district chapel. Soon after the Bishop stated his " high disapprobation" that Mr. Gorham had advertised for a curate "free from Tractarian error," and hinted that Mr. G. belonged " to a most dangerous set of men," and that the Bishop " no longer trusted him." The letter then proceeds as follows : " In August, 1847, the present Lord Chancellor (having understood that I wished to exchange my living for one in a situation better suited to the education of my children) signified his willingness to present me to the vicarage of Brampford Speke, near Exeter, a small agricultural pa rish, with a population of only four hundred, which was, consequently, for the reason above mentioned, more de sirable to me than St. Just, though the income is £3OO a year less. The Bishop took the opportunity of counter signing my testimonials for the Chancellor, to inscribe on the paper the following injurious attack on my ministerial character, without giving any instance to justify his inju rious imputation— " As my own experience unfortunately attests that the Rev. G. C. Gorham did, in the course of the last year, in correspondence with myself, hold, right, and maintain what is contrary to the discipline of the Church—and as what he further wrote makes me apprehend that he holds also what is contrary to its doctrine—l cannot conscien tiously countersign this testimonial.' " I remonstrated—in vain. Very inconvenient delay was thus occasioned ; but on my explaining the matter fully to my patron, he was satisfied, and issued his fiat for the presentation. Thereupon, on the Bth of last Novem ber, I requested institution from the Bishop ; but, as an immediate appointment was not convenient to him, I postponed my admission, with his concurrence, till I should have removed my family from Cornwall. I adopt ed this plan without hesitation, since he had not given me the remotest hint of his real intentions. My suspicions, however, having been awakened, I received, in answer to an application on the subject, two days after my , ark wal at my distant home, an official intimation that tile Bishop would not institute me until he had ' examined' me, to satisfy himself ' whether I was sound in doctrine.' I in stantiv returned into Devonshire, and I earnestly entreated that the examination might take place without delay, as the winter was fast approaching, when it would be incon venient to remove my family to so great a distance; and as the Christmas vacation was not far off, when my elder children would require a home, which St. Just (already nearly disfurnished) could not afford them. The Bishop declined to examine, being about to proceed to London for his parliamentary duties. I offered to follow his lord ship to town ; the proposal was absolutely refused. I then stated my determination to wait in the neighbour. hood of Bishopstowe till he should return, andnppoint a day for that purpose ; and I did wait, at Torqnay, for a whole month longer—namely; the 17th December, on which day he summoned me for - examination. " The examination was-exclusively on the unconditional efficacy of the sacrament of baptism and it was conducted in the following manner :—The Bishop read eye:Tques tion ; which was recorded by; the Rev. W. Memel ; his chaplain, and by myself. Each answer was given by me orally ; it was then recorded by the chaplain. The exa mination was most searching, subtle, and severe ;- and it very soon assumed the character of a theological disputa tion, in which I was required (not merely to state -my views, but) to maintain my propositions, while the Bishop was my perpetual opponent It was continued five days, for eight hours, eleven and a half hours, (to within a quarter of an hour of Sunday morning,) seven and a-half hours, five hours, and siritours ; in all thirty-eight hours, during a period f considerable ill-health, which had been certified to the Bishop at the commencement of the exa mination by my physician., who stated in writing that I was in too weak a condition to resume my parochial, du ties. I repeatedly expostulated on its unreasonable- pro traction ; and especially on the unjust motive assigned by the Bishop at the conclusion of the third day, for its- con tinuance, viz., his suspicion that I intended to lay it before the world, and my silence when questioned on that as sumed intention. On being summoned for the sixth day, 1 suspended the examination, (which had been extended to seventy-eight questions on this single subject,) that- I might seek advice or redress. It was virtually, however, continued for six days longer at my lodgings ; the Bishop having sent me a volume, for comparison, with many ad ditional questions, and-the promise of still more. Wearied with fruitless endeavours to induce the Bishop to desist from such an extraordinary and unreasonable course, I thought it necessary to leave Torquay, and to proceed to London for advice on the 10th of January of this year. "On the 10th of February, being then in London, I renewed my application for institution. On the 14th his lordship required a resimed examination. To this- de mand, acting under legal advice, I acceded ex abundanti cautela, though under protest. His lordship postponed it, at first by reason of the demands on his time in Lon don ; and, on his return into Devonshire on the 26th, by an intimation that he had a charge to prefer against me (it was one conected with rubrical exactness) which must be previously inquired into, as it would involve my suspen sion from the ministry, and that he had felt it his duty to direct that a commission should issue under 3 and 4 Vic., cap. 86. Without wishing to occasion the least delay in the prosecution of that inquiry—yet, this being the first intimation of such a complaint, I protested in the most solemn manner against the commission being interposed between the two parts of my examination. The Bishop then agreed to resume the examination, which took place on the Bth, 9th, and 10th of March, and lasted fourteen hours ; it was brought to a conclusion only by my ulti mately giving my answers according to the 36th canon, which simply enjoins consent' and subscription.' " This extraordinary examination occupied, therefore, in the whole, fifty-two hours during eight days, besides six days of full employment at my lodgings in Torquay. In the course of it one hundred and forty-nine questions were proposed to me on the subject of baptismal efficacy, the Bishop making a constant effort to impose on me this interpretation of the articles and formularies, while I maintained my ground of a sincere subscription' to the articles, in their plain sense, as the standard of the doc trines of the Church : and of an honest assent' to the formularies interpreted in conformity with that standard. The result was, that on the 11th of March, his lordship signified his decision to refuse me institution ; and, on the 21st of March, sent the patron and myself formal notices of that refusal, on the allegation of my unsound ness in doctrine.' " Mr. Gorham explains that " The general right of ex amining a clerk, previously to institution to a benefice, is maintained by the bishop on a statute A.D. 1315. It is clearly limited, however, by the thirty-ninth and ninety fifth canons, which: mildly define the character and the extent of the examination. It is to be an inquiry into the clerk's worthiness for his ministry' (if he has not been ordained by the instituting bishop), and an examination into his sufficiency and qualities.' It is also restricted to twenty-eight days from tendering the presentation, whereas the bishop did not even begin till the thirty-ninth day from that on which I delivered the document to his registrar." It is understood that this extraordinary case is under the consideration of the law officers of the crown, and it is to be hoped that means will be found to frustrate this " attempt of the Bishop of Exeter to establish his private dogma of the unconditional efficacy of baptism, by making that (instead of the Thirty-nine Articles) the standard without conformity to which admission to offices and benefices in the church shall be peremptorily denied." Orntral ffttsrellant). Six persons have died during the past week. at Darling ton, whose united ages amount to 494 years. There are only 28 public libraries in Great Britain and Ireland, while in France there are 107. Sermons were preached in some of the London churches, on Sunday, in aid of the fund for the English refugee ope ratives, so cruelly driven from France. The Chartists are still holding their meetings in London and in the provinces, and are arming in the north of Scotland. A verdict of wilful murder has been returned against William Tomkins, for the murder of the female at West minster. The Herald, 26, Captain Kellet, C. 8., on the American station, has received orders to proceed to Behring's Straits in search of Sir John Franklin and party. Mr. Henry Baring, of Cromer Hall, died on Thursday, aged 73 years. He had only survived his eldest brother, Sir Thomas Baring, Bart., ten days. The depression in ship-building at Sunderland has caused a further number of shipwrights to be thrown out of employment. The wheat crop in the Vale of Evesham has changed much for the worse ; the frosts and wet weather having made the plant yellow and prickly. Mr. George Distin, one of the family who have made the performances on the Sax Horns so popular, died on Thursday, from the effects of an abscess in the ear. An entirely new vessel, under Danish colours, was picked up last week, about 40 miles from the land, and brought into this port, in tow of a fishing smack.—Hull Packet. THE FAWEATHER MURDER.—The capital sentence passed upon Calvert and Mellor, at the late York assizes, for this murder, has been commuted to transportation for life. During the three weeks that the Mint has purchased silver plate for cash, an enormous quantity has been sold. There are in the Mint enormous masses of tea-pots, forks, knives, plates, and in fact, all kinds of articles. The new church at Horsforth, Yorkshire, was struck by lightning on Wednesday, displacing several of the stones in the bell turret, some of which fell through the roof, crushing the woodwork inside where they fell. STABILITY OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.—A house has been engaged at St. John's Wood, the western part of London, by M. Lamartine, for the residence of his family. The influx of foreigners and of previously-absentee Englishmen into London, is giving an impulse to the home trade, and benefitting generally the metropolis. Furnished apartments in the West End are said to be in great demand. The ex-king of France is constantly in the streets of the metropolis. He comes up by the South-Western Railway almost daily. M. Guizot is living in a very un ostentatious manner in Pelham-crescent, Brompton, and is almost daily at the Athenaeum Club. It is a well:ascertained fact that Mr. Mallalieu, super intendent of the R division of police, who conducted Mr. Feargus O'Connor from the deputation waggon to the presence of Mr. Mayne, one of the Commissioners of Police, had his pocket picked in the crowd. The greatest number of letters or signs which have yet been conveyed by telegraph in the United States is stated to have been 25,000 in lh. 30m., being at the rate of 277 and a fraction per minute, while in England Mr. Bain has accomplished 1000 per minute. The most necessary talent for a man of conversation is a good judgment; he that hath this in perfection is master of his companion without letting him know it, and hath the same advantage over men of any other qualification whatever. ROYAL NAVAL SCHOOL, NEW CROSS.-The Earl of Auckland has signified his intention of bestowing a marine cadetship for competition amongst the pupils of this in stitution, at Midsummer next. In addition to this valu able boon, two naval cadetships are annually placed at the disposal of the council by the Admiralty. The Earl of Yarborough has also given the munificent donation of £l,OOO, to found a " Yarborough scholarship." AN Arts URD FEAT.—The weekly return of the Regis trar-General for the week ending April 8, reports the fol lowing decease :—ln St. George's Hospital, a coal-porter, aged 24, died from hemorrhage from the internal carotid artery, consequent on a burn of his mouth and throat, caused by a red-hot poker forced into the mouth by falling while carrying the poker between his teeth as a feat. Three days elapsed between the receipt of the injury and the death. LEGACY DUTY.—A return moved for by Mr. Hume, M.P., shows that the total amount of capital on which legacy duty was paid in 1847, was £43,611,642, against £42,630,687 in the preceding year. The aggregate amount of capital, subject to the legacy duty since 1797, is estima ted at £1,425,661,841. The total amount of duty on lega cies, probates, and letters of administration received in Ireland in the year 1847 was £147,118 against £135,346 in the year 1846. On Saturday week, Mr. Morrison, of Jurby, in the Isle of Man, was accompanied a distance of six miles to Ram say, by a pet jackdaw, which attended him to every house where he went to transact business, and waited patiently at the door or window-stones until he came out. Mr. Morrison tried to escape its eye, by entering at the front door and escaping at the back door, but to no purpose ; for the faithful bird found him talking to a number of men in another part of the town. BRITISH WORKMEN EXPELLED FROM FRANCE.-011 Wednesday a vessel, chartered by the committee for the protection of British workmen expelled from France, left the river for Calais, where she will receive on board a number of English mechanics and labourers for convey ance to South Australia. The total amount subscribed towards this fund up to Thursday was about £3,749 19s. Two thousand refugees have passed through London alone, the whole of whom have received assistance from the funds. TRADE BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND CHINA. — The number of ships which arrived in Hong-Kong during the year 1847 was 699—viz.: 43 from Great Britain, 147 from the British colonies, 16 from the United States, and 195 from foreign states. The total tonnage amounted to 229,465. The value of the imports into Hong-Kong, in Chinese vessels, during 1846,. was 642,700 piculs, or £325,780 ; and in 1847, 840,990 piculs, or £493,239. The estimated value of sugar exported from Hug-. Kong during 1847 amounted to £144,822. At Mivart's Hotel, London, on Monday, night, a gentleman, named Bold Houghton, Esq. staying at the hotel, who, on his retiring to rest, left his jewel-case in his dressing-room, next morning was alarmed at not find ing the jewel-case in its usual place. On making a search the case, broken to pieces, was found under one of the beds, and diamonds worth £9OO had been taken there from. The thief, fortunately, did not perceive a secret drawer, in which were deposited jewels of still greater value. _ _ On Monday night week, the lightning struck- the spire of the church at Cubert, Cornwall, and entirely destroyed it. For a moment the whole church appeared in a flame of fire. So great was the force with which it was struck, that the stones were driven many feet in the air;. and the electric fluid having passed through the body of the church, and striking one of the pillars, made its exit through.the eastern wall. The plaster and whitewash having been torn off the western wall, some rude frescos. have been discovered, after having been concealed for nearly two centuries. SERIOUS AFFRAY.—On Saturday night week some of the Irish living in Walmgate, York, became valiant over their cups, and accordingly determined to give the `' boys in Bedern a severe " bating." With this object in view, they proceeded thither, when a battle ensued, and some apprehension was excited as to the result. This fear was not entertained without good reason, when it is known that pokers, chicory tools, hatchets, and similar danger ous weapons were used, and the combatants, not content with these, tore up the pavement and assailed one another with showers of stones. Several parties were apprehended, and the ringleaders imprisoned and fined. ARMING OF THE CHARTISTS.—The movement amongst the Chartists is giving some annoyance to the local autho rities in different quarters. In the north of Scotland, at Aberdeen, a communication had been opened between members of that body and the gunmakers of Birmingham ; the latter engaged to supply guns and bayonets at Its. 6d. ; and it was agreed that each Chartist should supply him self at this price. 500 had been enrolled as a `• National Guard." One of the speakers, at a meeting in favour of charter, declared that if Parliament and the Crown should refuse to listen to the demands of these meetings, their last and only resort would be to arms.. A SLEEPER AROUSED.—On Saturday morning week, a fish cart was creeping along on the high road leading out of Yorkshire into Durham, with the driver sound asleep among his fish. The gates of the railway crossing in South Stockton were open, and horse and cart, man and fish, got upon the line. An engine coming up from Mid dlesborough ran bump against the cart, and bore it along a distance of 21 yards. The cart was shattered, but the horse escaped unarmed ; and as for the man, the only thing that was broken about him was his sleep ! The Stockton and Darlington Company have since awarded him compensation for his cart.—Gateshead Observer. CALAMITOUS FIRE.—On Friday night, about nine o'clock, one of the most disastrous fires that has occurred for some time past in the metropolis, broke out in the midst of a large pile of buildings occupied respectively by Mr. Baron Waterstadt, patentee of ships' signal lights, Mr. Taylor, boat builder, and Mr. Horne, sail manufac turer, Limehouse. Energetic exertions were made to stay the progress of the flames, but before that could be accomplished five or six houses at the opposite side of the road had taken fire, and were either wholly or partially destroyed. The walls and roofs also of the buildings in which the fire originated fell to the ground. ANOTHER COAL EXPLOSION.—On Sunday, the Diadem, of Whitehaven, was blown up by an accumulation of gas from the coal with which she was loaded. She had her full cargo on board-157 tons. All things were ready for sea ; the captain and crew had retired for the night, and about one in the morning one of the apprentices got up for some purpose and lit a match by drawing it suddenly along one of the beams, when the gas instantly ignited, and blew up the deck, started six of the beams, and otherwise injured the vessel. The apprentice was severely burned. This is the third explosion that has taken place in these docks within the last three weeks.—Monmouth Merlin. THE DUKE OF BUCCIEUCH AND HIS TENANTRY.—The Duke of Buccleuch has lately introduced a change in the mode of occupation of his extensive estates in the south of Scotland. Many of the tenantry rented two or more holdings—those on which they did not reside being termed led farms. This practice, coupled with the large size of the farms, had been carried on to such an extent that wide districts of country were in a great measure depopu lated. The duke has determined to put a stop to this system, and at the recent let of his Selkirkshire lands, all those tenants that did not personally reside received no tice to quit. The same rule will shortly be adopted in the adjacent counties of Dumfries and Roxburgh, when the present lease expires. HIGHLAND DESTITUTION.—The Glasgow section of the Highland Destitution Board has forwarded to the several districts under their superintendence the follow ing quantities of garden plants and seeds (with instruc tions for their cultivation) for distribution to those who would otherwise be unable to procure them, care being taken that the small crofts and garden plots are first pro perly prepared :—Cabbage plants, 445,000 ; green plants, 445,000; early turnip seed, 4400 ounces; late turnip seed, 8800 ounces ; Swedish turnip seed, 8800 ounces ; carrot seed, 4400 ounces. This is in addition to other large quantities of seed which have been distributed by the Edinburgh section of the Destitution Board among the distressed districts ander their management. ARRIVAL OF JENNY LlND.—Mdlle. Lind arrived on Friday at Blackwall, at four in the morning, from Ham burgh, by the Countess of Lonsdale steamer. Her de parture from Stockholm was attended by the most extra ordinary demonstrations. It was on the 13th instant : the weather was beautiful,' from fifteen to twenty thou sand people lined the quays, military bands were placed at intervals : and she embarked amidst cheers and music. The rigging of the vessels in the harbour was manned. The hurrahs and the waving of hats and handkerchiefs continued as long as the vessel which bore Jenny Lind remained in sight. Her last performance in Stockholm was for the benefit of a charitable institution she had founded. The tickets of admission to the theatre on this occasion were put up to auction, and fetched an immense price. DISGRACEFUL PROCEEDINGS.—Some months ago, the parishioners of Swindon in vestry passed a resolution to rebuild the parish church on a new site; Ambrose God dard, Esq., gave the land; his son (A. L. Goddard, Esq., M.P.) gave £1000; and the Incorporated Society voted a loan. A vestry meeting was called on Thursday to ob tain the sanction of the parishioners to this loan, when, to the astonishment of every one, eight or nine hundred of the men employed at the Great Western Company's works came up and made a disturbance ; four hours were con sumed, during which these fellows attempted to get the worthy vicar (the Rev. H. G. Baily) out of the chair, amidst derisive shouts, and in the end the resolution for applying to the Commissioners was negatived. The men were urged to the course by a dissenting minister. — Gloucester Chronicle. BANK OF ENGLAND.—The public are not generally aware of the extraordinary means of defence possessed by the Bank during the late excitement. It was for the first time placed under military government, and from room to room, and from office to office, this establishment would have been defended, the centre being the citadel. Although many attacks have been threatened, yet the " History of the Bank of England" slates that the only one of importance occurred in 1780. The last period, however, at which preparations were made was in 1830, when, says Mr. Francis, " all the assistants were required to remain, and some casks of biscuits ordered in to pro vide against the wants of a siege." It is generally under stood in the City that the four corners of the Bank will be so altered that the defenders may always command the sides against any attack, however expected. _ ACCIDENT FROM PLAYING WITH FIRE-ARMS.- - A few days ago a serious accident occurred to Miss Dawson, of Scopwick. Miss Dawson, with her sister, and her sister's son, went to visit Mr. Gardiner, of Ashby, when the lad was permitted to have a pistol (which was not supposed to be loaded), to play with. It would seem, however, that it was loaded at some time, and the fact forgotten. Pleased with the weapon, the boy pointed it at Mr. Gar diner and others, and amusing himself by snapping the lock. After throwing it about for some time, he pointed it at Miss Dawson, and again snapped the trigger, when all present were horrified by its going off. Miss Dawson was most seriously wounded, a bullet being sent deep into one of her thighs. Happily, favourable appearances have presented themselves, warranting the hope of recovery ; but surely this affair will operate to the discontinuance of the silly practice of placing dangerous weapons in the hands of children for playthings.—Stamford Mercury. WRECK OF THE SE - NATOR DUBLIN STEAMER.-Letters were on Tuesday received from Penzance, communicat ing the probable loss of this fine vessel, which occurred during the night of Sunday last, near the Land's End. The Senator was a vessel about three hundred tons bur then, worked on the screw principle, and rigged as a three-masted schooner. It is stated she left Dublin for the Thames on Saturday morning, with a full cargo, and a number of passengers. The weather was very unsettled, with squalls from the S.S.W. On Sunday night fogs came on, yet the vessel steamed on. The consequence was that the Senator, about three o'clock, miscalculated the Land's End light, and ran into Whitsand Bay, close to Sinner Cove, and got ashore. The coast-guard afforded aid to the unfortunate persons on board, who were con ducted ashore in safety. By the last account it was diffi cult to say if there was any chance of the vessel being got off. She wag buried several feet in the sands, and the sea was beating upon her. PHYSICAL VERSUS MORAL.—Whether the Physical wants should be remedied through the Moral, or the Moral through the Physical, has been a question which has occu pied the attention of philosophers and philanthropists for centuries. Without attempting to decide the question, there can be no doubt that when the Physical condition is impaired it demands the first attention. For instance ; a person whilst suffering from an acate attack of Gout would be unable •tb appreciate the sublimest lessons o philosophy, eveti though enunciated by the divine Plato. How much, more welcome to the sufferer would be a box of Blay!s'Gout and Rheumatic Pills, so efficacious in era dicating this distressing malady. GAMBLING.—This vice has been practised by the most civilized and enlightened people, as well as by the most barbarous and ignorant. The coronetted legislator of the foremost nation in refinement has been known to sacrifice a princely income to this passion. No station is free from its degrading influence. The brutal bull-baiter, and the most profound thinker have alike met rain in its vortex. An instance of the latter occurred in the case of an author of European celebrity, who 2 ,,iti one of his works, said, " The gamester, if he dies' a martyr to his pursuit, is doubly ruined : he adds his soul to every other loss, and by the act of suicide redounces earth to forfeit heaven !" The man who wrote diet sentence was himself a gambler, and ultimately a suicide ! Such is the result of this demo ralizing habit,etmmenced perhaps in a state of dissipated ennui, and amtinued through a vitiated state of the diges tive organ's,. entailing a morose, peevish, and discontented state of mind, the whole of which might have been preven ted by the occasional use of that mild aperient, Frampton's Pill of Health. QUEEN'S BOUNTY.—OD Thursday, being Maunder Thursday, the Queen's bounty or Maunday money was distributed to fifty aged men and women, at the Chapel Royal, Whitehall. The women received £3 15s. 4d.. and as many silver pennies as her Majesty is years of age. The men received £4 15s. in money, with brown cloth to make a suit of clothes, linen, shoes, and stockings. The gold was placed in a crimson silk bag, and the small silver money in white bags of the same material. PRACTICAL GRATITUDE.—The nobility, gentry, bank ers, traders, &c., of London, have resolved, " in deep gratitude to Almighty God for his goodness in preserving their city and this realm from anarchy and confusion," to open a subscription, and it is suggested that the sum con tributed should be appropriated, as may seem most advisa ble, to all or any of the following purposes :-1. To erect, in the part of the metropolis in which it may be required, and where a suitable site may be obtained, a free hospital, dedicated to the use and service of the people. 2. To erect and to assist the poorer parishes in building bathe and washhouses for the accommodation and service of the people, and for the promotion of public health, per sonal cleanliness, and domestic happiness and comfort. 3. To afford assistance where required, and, under certain conditions and regulations, to established institutions for the benefit and assistance of the poor. A CUNNING FARMER.—rI farmer in the neighbourhood of Blankney, upon goinc , to one of his fi e ld s th e ot h er morning, was vexed to fin d i ' that a lamb had been worried by a dog, and two, others torn to pieces. How to dis cover the delinquent, and so protect himself for the future, seemed at first a puzzle, as had he begun by proclaiming his loss, every one would have prot es t e d th a t it cou ld not be his dog, and would have thrown all sorts of obstacles in the way of discovery. Having a shrewd suspicion of the whereabouts of the canine slaughterer, he accosted the owner of the supposed criminal, and asked, "'Do you ever lose any fowls ?" " Oh, no," was the reply, " I've too good a dog, who runs loose at nights." " Why, I'll bet my life, then, that he's the rascal who has worried some of my lambs," rejoined the gentleman, bent on vengeance. How to prove the fact seemed for a moment an obstacle insurmountable, but the ready ingenuity of the lamb-loser again came in aid of justice. Upon his suggestion, a quantity of salt was put down the dog's throat ; this powerful emetic brought to light portions of the worried lamb, and the culprit, thus convicted, was taken and hanged at once.—Stamford Mercury. THE EXPEDITION IN SEARCH OF SIR JOHN FRANK LIN.—The Herald, 36, Captain Kellet, C. 8.. was at Point Chirambira, above Panama, on the 26th of February. A. letter from her of that date says :—" We have just re ceived orders to proceed to Behring's Straits in search of Sir John Franklin and party. We proceed first to Petro polski (a Russian settlement of Kampschatka). We are not to run the risk of being ' pinned ' for the winter, but when that commences are to victual and store the Plover for the year, and to come away south with intelligence to Panama, where we expect to arrive about December. We are particular in this (off Panama) portion of our survey, as numerous rivers debouch on this coast which take their rise in mountains in the hack ground. Similar rivers descend the eastern side, rendering a passage across the isthmus possible at this point. In fact, we have met men here who assert that the river San Juan runs to within a quarter of a league of the Atrato, a river on the opposite side navigable for large boats. Should this be found cor rect, the new road in this direction (across the Isthmus) would soon supersede the one at Panama, as the anchor age at Chagres is so unsafe." _ TRICKS OF THE NEWSMONGERS. - At a meeting of the Marylebone Vestry, held on Saturday. Mr. Stanford begged to call the attention of the vestry to a great an noyance and nuisance which he and the inhabitants of all the respectable streets of Marylebone bad been subject to for some time past, and which was frightfully on the in crease. He meant that of four or five fellows, with sten torian lungs, selling newspapers in the streets at unseason able hours, and bawling out at the top of their voices, all at the same time, the most disgraceful and barefaced lies imaginable, in order to sell their papers. They were con tinually being treated in Portland-place with Frightful Assassination of Louis Philippe." (Laughter.) Twice the Emperor of Russia had been shot—(renewed laughter) —and three times there had been " Dreadful Riots in the House of Commons "—(laughter)—and once that " The Seat of the Collective Wisdom of the Nation had been Burnt Down." (Roars of laughter.) He wished to know if something could not be done in the matter ?—Sir James Hamilton said such parties could be taken up for pro pagating false reports ; but they managed the thing so cleverly as entirely to evade the law. They never went singly, and while one fellow on one side of the street bawled out " Dreadful Assassination," the fellow on the other side called out " Louis Philippe." (Roars of laughter.") The Atheneum mentions two schemes for remedying the great disparity of sexes now existing in our Australian colonies in process of organization. The one is a sub scription by the colonists themselves, for carrying over 20,000 young women, daughters and sisters of artisans, who are to pay a small sum as a sort of guarantee of their respectability. The other is Miss Burdett Coutts's Insti tution,of which we have before spoken and called her " Home" for penitent females. A large house has been taken at Shepherd's Bush, and fitted up at an expense of £l2OO for their reception. The institution is under the more immediate management of Mr. Charles Dickens and Mr. Chesterton, the governor of Coldbath-fields Prison. The female penitents are to be sent out to the Colonies— after a course of trial and probation here—as free women ; provision being made for them until they enter into ser vice or marry. Every kind of domestic art—cooking, sewing, straw-platting, &c.—is to be taught in the " Home," which can render them valuable as wives or servants. Great care is taken in the selection of the in mates ; real penitence, sobriety, honesty, health, being the qualifications demanded in the applicant for admis sion. As yet there are but twelve or fourteen inmates ; but if the scheme work well the promoters are prepared to appeal to the public for the means of greatly enlarging it. ART UNIONS.—If any of our readers take an interest in the great joint stock company for the distribution of works of art, called the London Art Union, they will have been aware, that, for sometime past, a controversy has been going on between that society and the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade ; but, perhaps, they were hardly prepared for the voluminous " corre spondence" on the subject, which the Council has recently presented to its subscribers, in the shape of a pamphlet of eight-and-thirty pages. The whole might, with advan tage, have been compressed into eight-and-thirty lines. It amounts simply to this, that the Board of Trade, hav ing been charged with the duty of fixing the conditions on which Art Unions are to be entitled to the protection granted them by Parliament a short time since, has deci ded that one of those conditions shall be, that the prizes which are to be distributed among the subscribers shall, in the first instance, be selected by a committee possess ing some knowledge of art ; and that the Council of the Art-Union object to the proposed condition, because it would be unpopular with the subscribers, and would lead, as they say, to a great diminution in the number of con tributors. This mode of arguing is somewhat irrelevant. The question is not, what mode of proceeding is likely to to be most conducive to the prosperity of the Art-Union ? but, what is most consistent with the policy of Govern ment with regard to lotteries ? GAS FOR DOMESTIC PURPOSES.—Among the advan tages enumerated by Messrs. Whalley and Clegg, the government surveying officers, they state that—" By having gas in their houses, they may cook by it in the summer season, thus superseding the necessity for a fire. By the aid of a wire frame fixed over the lamp, a kettle of water will boil in a few minutes, and, in case of sick ness, the advantage of having gas is incalculable ; and the artisan returning home after his daily toil, instead of finding a comfortless house without fire, will meet with a cheerful light, and a boiling kettle ; with this and a book he will have no inducement to go to the ale-house to waste his money and destroy his health. It is further stated that there was scarcely a week but some unfortu nate child was burned to death by playing with the fire whilst the mother was unavoidably absent ; this might be prevented by the use of gas. The saving to the landlord in the dilapidation of his houses, in having better tenants in houses lighted by gas, would also be considerable." Messrs. Whalley and Clegg recommend an arrangement between a landlord and a Gas Company, in respect of the introduction of gas into the dwellings of the poor. They say :—" The arrangement between the owner of a row of houses of the class above-mentioned and the Gas Com pany is easily made. The landlord fixes a meter at the first house, from which he supplies all the rest. The landlord is accountable to the Gas Company, and he fixes a rate upon his tenants ; instead, therefore, of the Gas Company selling the gas to the rich at about half price r under the name of public lamps, it appears to us that it would be infinitely better if the town were charged the same price as the private consumer, thereby enabling the Company to lower the price to the poor. Is it to be wondered at, we would ask, that the poor congregate together in gin-shops and ale-houses, those nurseries of crime, when their comforts at home are so totally neg lected ?" AN EMEUTE IN A ROOKERY.—On Saturday (week) two very curious scenes occurred in the colony of crows on the South Inch, Perth. In the first case, one of the black denizens had been laborious!) occupied in convey ing sticks from the opposite side of the river, wherewith to build his nest, when something seemed to strike hint that he was making no progress in its erection, and that he was the victim of some thievish neighbour. That his suspicions were correct he soon discovered, and evidently adopted the following plan to detect the culprit :—He set off apparently to cross the river, and kept his usual way, but on reaching the island he suddenly wheeled round, and sweeping behind the lime sheds, he reached his nest just in time to catch the suspected rogue in the very act of robbing him of a stick. A fierce engagement ensued, lasting several minutes, when the thief, clearly having the worst of the fight, was compelled to render justice to his injured neighbour by restoring his stolen property; as for nearly half an hour after, the latter was seen to carry stick after stick from the other's nest, without any molestation, and apply them to his own. The other case made so much noise as to attract some hundred specta tors to witness it; the carpenters, sailors, shipowners, &c., having left their various occupations to witness the cause of the uproar, besides many of the citizens who were pro menading on the Edinburgh Road. Those who saw the commencement of the scene say that the entire colony was congregated upon a tree, as if they had apparently constituted themselves into a deliberative assembly upon some momentous subject; that after having remained quietly together for a considerable time, they all with one Impulse commenced a most furious assault on a newly built nest. The noise, tumult, uproar, and confusion they made in their work of havoc may be fancied, not only from the circumstance of the ship-carpenters, &c. having left their work to witness the spectacle, but from the fact that several of the shore publicans left their houses to see it, attracted by the uproar. In fifteen minutes there was not a single stick nor a vestige of the obnoxious nest remain ing. The suppositim !: chat the nest had been built by an intruder or stranger to the colony:- 4 / 3 uitclii Cofirkre,