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Etteraturr. P 0 E T 11 Y. THE OLD SEAMAN. (From the Keepsake for 1815.) You ask me why mine eyes are bent So darkly or. the sea, While others watch the azure hills That length , ;n on the lee? The azure hills—they soothe the sight That falls along the foam; And those may hail their nearing height, Who there have hope or home. But I a loveless path have trod -4t beaconlss career; My hope bath long been all with God, And ail my home is—here. The deep by day, the heaven by night, onward, swift and dark ; Nor leave my soul the dove's delight, Of alive-branch or ark. For more than gale, or gulf, or sand, I'v. proved that there may be Worse treachery on the steadfast land Than variable sea. A danger worse than bay or beach, -= A falsehood more unkind— The treachery of a governed speech, And an ungoverned mind. The treachery of the deadly mart, Where human souls are so.d ; The treachery or the hollow heart, That crumbles as we hold. Those holy hills and quiet lakes— Ah ! wherefore should I find This weary fever-fit, that shakes Their image in my mind. The memory of a streamlet's din Through meadows daisy-drest— Another might be glad therein, But yet I cannot rest. I cannot rest unless it be Beneath the churchyard yew ; But God, I think, Math yet for me More earthly work to do. And, therefore, with a quiet will, I breath.; the Ocean air, And bless the voice that calls me still, . To wander and to bear. Let others seek their native sod, Who there have hearts to eneer ; D,ly soul hath long been given to God, And all my home is—here. NOTICES. Saint James's, or I,k Court of Queen Anne. By Wm. Harrison Ainsworth, Esq. 3 vols. London : John Mortimer, Adelaide-street, Trafalgar-square. Of the works of this eminent novelist we infinitely pre fer those in which the writer brings his vast stores of antiquarian research to illustrate particular localities fa mous in the history of our country. These works may be said to constitute an entirely new style of romance, peculiar to Mr. Ainsworth, in which the relation of some contemporary- history, or fiction blended with history, is made the means of conveying, in a more agreeable form than that of mere antiquarian dissertation, facts connected with and a description of buildings and places interesting to his readers, which otherwise would remain a sealed book to the majority of them, and be accessible to future ages only through the musty records of the state paper office, or some similar uninviting source of information, if they did not entirely disappear as the perishing objects, which alone bind them to memory, are swept from ken by the hand of time and decay, or the march of modern improve ment. Amongst this class may be ranked "The Tower of London," probably the best descriptive work of its kind in any language, and one which must have re quired from the writer the most minute and careful per sonal investigation of the locality described. " Old Saint Paul's" is another of the same class, but of more thrilling interest, arising, perhaps, mainly from the more striking period to which it carries us back, viz., that of the plague and the great fire in London. " Guy Fawkes" partakes also of this peculiar feature of Mr. Ainsworth's recent works ; but it carries us over a greater field, and is espe cially interesting to us as rescuing from oblivion a number of the most interesting personages and localities of ancient Lancashire. We may add to these his striking romance of " Windsor Castle." The novel before us has apparently been a portion of a design to open up the history and antiquities of another of our royal palaces—Saint James's. In this, however, if indeed it was seriously attempted, he does not appear to have been as successful in finding material of interest as in some of his former works. But if Saint James's has furnished little ground for the display of antiquarian lore, it has supplied the scene for a history of the court in trigues and court life of one of the most distinguished reigns in British history, which the pen of the novelist has hitherto scarcely visited at all. The literary annals of that age of illustrious writers—the memoirs of the orna ments and, alas ! the disgrace of that reign—of Addison, Steele, St. John, Prior, and the rest — have been again and again recorded ; the characters of its statesmen—of Oxford and Bolingbroke, Marlborough and Godolphin, with the ambitious favourite and tyrant of royalty, his duchess, are upon the page of history. But the character and habits of the Sovereign herself, and her amiable— although trifling—consort, Prince George of Denmark, are little known. They have been cast into the shade by the brilliancy of the military achievements and of the literature of the period in which they flourished. The period of Anne's reign at which Mr. Ainsworth introduces us to her court, is the year 1702, when the Duke of Marlborough was at the zenith of his fame, as a soldier and a statesman, (characters which some envious detracters of the greatest man in modern days have told us are not compatible with each other,) and when his haughty duchess bad succeeded in establishing an almost dominion over, and at the same time arousing the impla cable resentment of, her Sovereign, and a determination on her part of throwing off the yoke imposed upon her. The introduction to the palace of a young lady of the bedchamber, Abigail Hill, a relative of the duchess and of her artful rival, Mr. Harley, afterwards Earl of Oxford, is made the means of precipitating that event which ulti mately led, as the reader of history knows, of driving in exile from his native land, whose name with his own he had immortalized in Europe, the greatest general of his age. The various intrigues by which this end was at length attained are vividly described, and the characters mingling in them, the state of parties, and the loose mo rals of the time, which contributed to their success, form a picture, or rather a series of pictures, well worthy of study. With these, the historical details of his story, the doings and characters of several inferior actors are skil fully wrought up. We have the trial of the celebrated Dr. Sacheverell, and the high church riots which were the result. The French adventurer, the Marquis de Guis card, with his valet, Bimbelot, and his bravo, Sauvageon, afford us happy specimens of the kind of instruments with which the court of Louis intrigued for the restoration of the exiled Chevalier de St. George, then holding his court at Saint Germains. The story of the loves of Mrs. Plumpton and Mrs. Tipping, for the Duke of Marlbo rough's favourite and valorous serjeaat, is a gem in its way, and throws a pleasant relief upon the more serious incidents of the work, whilst the character of Proddy, the Queen's coachman, is inimitable. When we have said that it deserves to be ranked in the same scale of funni ness and drollery with that of the valorous dwarf Zit, described in his " Tower of London," we have bestowed upon it ample commendation. The work is illustrated, with his usual excellence, by the inimitable George Cruickshank, who appears, in his portraiture of the various characters introduced, to have caught, and keenly relished, the spirit of the author. We cannot resist extracting the closing incident of the work : On the evening of Tuesday, the 27th July. 1714, Oxford received a sudden and peremptory intimation from the Queen to resign the staff into her hands without a mo ment's delay ; upon which, though it was getting late, he immediately repaired to the palace. Ushered into the queen's presence, he found Lady Ma sham and Bolingbroke with her, and their triumphant looks increased his ill-dissembled rage and mortification. Ann a looked ill and suffering. She had only just reco vered from a severe inflammatory fever, attended with gout and ague, and had still dangerous symptoms about her. Her figure was enlarged and loose, her brow lower ing, her features swollen and cadaverous, and her eyes heavy and injected with blood. She scarcely made an effort to maintain her dignity, but had the air of a confined invalid. On the table near her stood a draught prescribed for her by her physician, Sir Richard Blackmore, of which she occasionally sipped. Moved neither by the evident indisposition of the queen, nor by any feelings of gratitude or respect, Oxford ad vance& quickly towards her, and eyeing his opponents with a look of defiance, said, in an insolent tone, and with a slight inclination of the head—" Your majesty has commanded me to bring the staff. I here deliver it to you." And as he spoke he placed it with some violence on the table. " My lord!" exclaimed Anne, " this rudeness!" " Lord Oxford has thrown off the mask," said Boling broke. " Your majesty sees him in his true colours." " It shall not be my fault, Bolingbroke," replied Ox ford, bitterly, " if her majesty—ay, and the whole nation —does not see you in your true colours—and they are black enough. And you, too, madam," he added to Lady Masham, " the world shall know what arts you have used." " If I have practised any arts, my Lord Oxford, they have been of your teaching," rejoined Lady Masham. " You forget the instructions you gave me respecting the Duchess of Marlborough." " No, viper ! I do not," cried Oxford, his rage becom ing ungovernable. "I do not forget that I found you a bedchamber-woman ; Ido not forget that I used you as an instrument to gain the queen's favour—a mere instru ment—nothing more ; I do not forget that 1 made you what you are ; nor will I rest till I have left you as low as I found you." "My lord !—my lord !" cried Anne. " This attack is most unmanly. I pray you to withdraw, if you cannot control yourself." " Your pardon, if I venture to disobey you, madam," replied Oxford. " Having been sent for, I shall take leave to stay until I have unmasked your treacherous favourites. So good an opportunity may no t spee dil y occur, an d I shall not lose it. " But I do not wishlto hear the exposure, my lord," said Anne. I p ra y your majesty, let him speak," interposed Bo lingbroke, haughtily. " Take care of your head, Bolingbroke." cried Oxford ; di though her majesty may sanction your correspondence with the courts of St. Germain, her parliament will not." " Your majesty can now judge of his baseness and ma lignity," said Bolingbroke, with cold contempt, "know ing how he himself has duped your royal brother. " I know it—l know it," replied Anne ; " and I know how he has duped me, too. But no more of this, if you love me, Bolingbroke." " Oh that your majesty would exert your spirit for one rr ornent," said Lady Masham," and drive him from your presence with the contempt he deserves." " If your majesty will only authorise me, it shall be done," said Bolingbroke. " Peace ! peace ! my lord, I implore of you," said " You all seem to disregard me." " Your majesty perceives the esteem in which you are held by your friends I" said Oxford, sarcastically. " You are all aike," cried the queen, faintly. " What crime am I charged with ?" demanded Oxford, addressing himself to the queen. " I will tell you," replied Bolingbroke. " I charge you with double-dealing, with chicanery, with treachery, with falsehood to the queen, to me, and to the whole cabinet. I charge you with holding out hopes, on the one hand, to the Elector of Hanover, and to Prince James, on the other. 1 charge you with caballing with Marlborough— with appropriating the public monies—" " These charges must be substantiated—must be an swered, my lord," interrupted Oxford, approaching him, and touching his sword. " They shall be substantiated, my lord," replied Bo lingbroke, haughtily and contemptuously. " Bolingbroke, you are a villain—a dastardly villain!" cried Oxford, losing all patience, and striking him in the face with his glove. " Ha !" exclaimed Bolingbroke, transported with fury, and partly drawing his sword. " My lord !" exclaimed the queen, rising with dignity, " I command you to forbear. This scene will kill me— oh !" And she sank back exhausted. " Your pardon, gracious madam," cried Bolingbroke, running up to her, and falling on his knees. " I have in deed forgotten myself." " Oh! my head ! my head 1" cried Anne, pressing her hand to her temples. " My senses are deserting me." " You have much to answer for, Bolingbroke," whis pered Lady Masham ; " she will not survive this shock." • " It was not my fault, but h;s," replied Bolingbroke, pointing to Oxford, who stood sullenly aloof in the mid. dle of the room. " Let Sir Richard Blackmore and Dr. Mead be sum moned instantly," gasped the queen ; " and bid the Duke of Shrewsbury and the lord chancellor instantly attend me—they are in the palace. The post of treasurer must be filled without delay. Lose not a moment." And Lady Masham ran out to give the necessary instruc tions to the usher. " Shrewsbury and the chancellor—what can she want with them ?" muttered Bolingbroke, with a look of dismay. Oxford, who had heard the order, and instantly divined what it portended, softly approached him, and touched his arm. " You have lost the stake you have been playing for," he said, with a look of triumphant malice. "I am now content." Ere Bolingbroke could reply, Lady Nfasham returned with Sir Richard Blackmore, who chanced to be in the ante-room, and who instantly flew to the queen, over whose countenance a fearful change had come. " Your majesty must be taken instantly to bed," said Blackmore. " Not till I have seen the Dukes of Shrewsbury and Ormond," replied the queen, faintly. " Where are they ?" " I will go and bring them instantly," replied Black more ; " not a moment is to be lost." And as he was about to rush out of the room, Boling broke stopped him, and hastily asked, " Is there danger ?" " Imminent danger!" replied Blackmore. " The case is desperate. The queen cannot survive three days." And he hurried away. _ _ _ " Then all is lost l'' cried Bolingbroke, striking his forehead. And looking up, he saw Harley watching him with a malignant smile. " Lady Masham was assiduous in her attentions to her royal mistress ; but the latter beeame momentarily worse, and continued to inquire anxiously for the Duke of Shrewsbury. " Has your majesty no commands for Lord Boling broke ?" inquired Lady Masham. " None whatever," replied the queen, firmly. At this juncture, Sir Richard Blackmore returned with the Duke of Shrewsbury, the lord chancellor, and some other attendants. "Ah ! you are come, my lords," cried Anne, greatly relieved. " I feared you would be too late. Sir Richard will have told you of my danger—nay, it is vain to hide it from me. My lords, the office of treasurer is at this moment vacant; and if anything should happen to me, the safety of the kingdom may be endangered. My lord of Shrewsbury, you are already lord chamberlain and lord-lieutenant of Ireland ; I have another post for you. Take this staff," she added, giving him the treasurer's wand, which lay upon the table, " and use it for the good of my people." "As the duke knelt to kiss her hand, he felt it grow cold in his touch. Anne had fainted, and was instantly removed by her attendants. " So," cried Oxford, " if the queen's fears are realized, Lady Masham's reign is over; while your fate, Boling broke, is sealed. You have to choose between exile and the block." " If I fly, you must fly with me," cried Bolingbroke. "No, I shall wait, replied Oxford; " I have nothing ;o fear." " So end the hopes of these ambitious men !" observed the Duke of Shrewsbury to the chancellor ; " the queen has found they were not to be trusted. Her people's welfare influenced the last exercise of the power of Goon QUEEN ANNE." The Nature and Treatment of Th , afness, and Diseases of the Ear; and the Treatment of the Deaf and Dumb. By Wm. Dutton, Surgeon. Illustrated with Frontis . piece of Instruments. Churchill, Scho. 1844. Bvo. This is a neatly-got-out work of 118 pages. The style is correct and simple, disburthemsd of that tedious quo tation everlastingly from authorities often no longer such, though paraded like men of straw, to be knocked down cleverly by the author. Both legal and medical lore are so burthened with precedents and references, that the task of selection constitutes one of the most difficult of literary labours nowadays. However, in this particular, we congratulate the members of physic in their rapidly attaining this selecting tact ; whilst their twin brother, the law, is still busied collecting cases and precedents— ever and anon working their labyrinthical way from misty folds into the broad glare of truth and justice. Law dare not yet enunciate a proposition of right in the abstract, apart from some decision on a case in point by the Lord Chancellor Woolsack: it is a cripple still leaning on the crutches provided for it by its foster parent, the middle ages ;—whilst medicine has dared to be free. Its fetters of traditional error and wrong-directed judgment broken, it can discuss a question on its simple merits alone, com prehend it in all its relations to other questions, and state a fact or a principle in nature without deference to any authority, human or canonised ; and appeal to no tribunal, even on writ of error, but simply leaving it to be tested by the mirror of truth itself held up in ever ylhurnan breast —can go on from the station of experiment to that of sound Baconian induction, and thence to the terminus, where truth, arrived at, is to be put in practice—and then, like the last function of animated being, transmit the possession of such power to others, and close its la bours in the didactics of the schoolmaster, happy in the attainment of a portion of valuable truth, and rejoicing in the self-satisfaction of philanthropic effort of doing good. Law is at present stopping at the halfway station of •harm's way, if Irish Courts of Queen's Bench and English law lords are to be taken in evidence. Let her alone a bit : she is bruised herself with the awkward handling of her own weapon ; self-interest will be ballast enough, we trust, to right her, and bring her on safely at last to the terminus of Good-end, close by the village of Good-will. In contrast with the useless tediousness of law, how pleasant to take up a book without much pretension, written in earnest simplicity, unsophisticated in its state ments, and whose pleasant purport is to amend some of the ills, or soothe some of the trials, to which our won drously-compounded being is obnoxious! And amongst these infirmities, that of deafness occupies no insignificant corner in Pandora's box ; and if the modesty of the pre sent production, along with its scientific claims, adds but an hour's instructive reading to the devoted student of the divine art, or is the means, directly or indirectly, of procuring benefit to any " who having ears cannot hear," so that eve❑ one chord of nature's ever-varying and all musical sounds, or one dulcet cadence of the human voice, shall be caught up by the ear beforetime deaf as the adder (though the adder is not deaf), yet will it have accomplished more good than many an act of parliament ! SELECTIONS. USEFUL INDENTION.—An individual has discovered a process by which wood can be so impregnated with iron as very much to increase its hardness. He is preparing a considerable quantity of wood in this manner, which, with the sanction of the Poor Law Commissioners, he intends to convert into boards of guardians.—Punch. EDITORIAL DUTY IN CONTROVERSY.-It is no part of a journalist's duty, as some persons seem to suppose, to publish all that can be said on both sides of a contro versy. His duty is to give only what in his best judg ment he thinks likely to prove of public advantage. Let tels that bear the stamp of hypocrisy and falsehood on the face of them he commits to the flames at once. No appeals to his sense of justice should ever induce him to lend his columns to the propagation of error.—Britan nia. ENGLISH SEAMANSHIP IN A STORM. — During the recent storm at Boulogne, a vessel appeared in a situation to excite the greatest alarm. However, the opinion of the crowd decided at once upon the vessel and the com mander. "No other vessel hut the Princess Maude, no other captain but Captain Monger, would dare to face Boulogne Bay to-day." The conjecture was correct; it was the Princess Maude and the gallant commander named. It was long doubted whether the great steam power of the vessel could win the offing necessary to give her a free sweep in between the lighthouse and the bar. `• She will do it "—" It is impossibe," ran from mouth to mouth in anxious whispers. Having secured his offing, Captain Monger brought his vessel about : and, to the amazement of the timid and unskilful, spread a broad ex tent of canvas, under the tremendous gale, bearing down upon the mouth of the harbour with a rapidity perfectly terrific. As the vessel passed the lighthouse almost every heart sunk under the impression that nothing could check or divert her direct progress to the sands. A stifled moan was heard through the crowd, when, as if by magic, the sails dropped instantly, the vessel changed her course full 93 degrees, and then shot up the harbour at the rate of at least 15 miles an hour. The enthusiasm of the spectators found expression in a loud cheer, which was again and again repeated. A CAPITAL HASH.—A new sauce is advertised under the title of Sir Robert Peel's Sauce. lt has been concocted, we believe, from his promises that the income-tax should not last longer than three years.—Punch. THF. VOLUNTARY SYSTEM.—" I do believe, On my soul, if religion was altogether left to the voluntary in this world, it would die a natural death ; not that men wouldn't support it, but because it would be sapported under false pretences. Truth can't long be upheld by falsehood. Hy pocrisy would change its features, and intolerance its name ; and religion would soon degenerate into a cold, intriguing, unprincipled, merciless superstition, that's a fact.''— Sam Slick. The NON-RF.SIDENT RESIDENT.—" I remember a case in the Exchequer—upon a motion for a new trial, I think. A clergyman, with a small or no family, lived in a large roomy parsonage house. An attorney in the parish, who had a large family, lived in a house so small as to be inconvenient for that family. The attorney proposed to the clergyman to change houses, and the attorney to pay the clergyman a yearly rent of several pounds in conside ration of his residence in the larger and more valuable house. The year expired, and the attorney not offering to pay the rent, the clergyman applied to him for it ; upon which the attorney insisted that this was a most unreason able demand, as he had brought an action against the clergyman fur eleven penalties, I think of ten pounds each, for non-residence in the parsonage house, the law then not deeming a clergyman's residence, though in the parish, legal residence, if he did not live in the parsonage house. I remember Baron Eyre said it was the most abominable and impudent transaction that he ever remembered, but that the clergyman could have no ielief."—Life of Eldon. AN ACCOMPLISHED YOUNG LADY,—Her edication is slicked off complete; a mantymaker gets her up well, and she is sent back to home with the Tpwer stamp on her, "edicated at a boardin'-school." She astonishes the natives round about where the old folks live, and makes 'em stare agin, she is so improved. She plays beautiful on the piano two pieces, they were crack pieces, larned onder the eye and ear of the master ; but there is a secret nobody knows but he—she can't play nothin else. She sings two or three songs, the last lesson larnt to school, and the last she will ever larn. She has two or three beautiful drawtn's ; but there is a secret here too—the master finished 'em, and she can't do another : She speaks French beautiful; but it's fortunate she ain' t in France now, so that secret is safe. She is a very agree able gal, and talks very pleasantly, for she has seen the world. She was to London for a few weeks ; she saw the last play, and knows a great deal about the theatre. .She has been to the Opera once, and has seen Celeste, and Fanny Estler, and heard Lablache and Grisi, and is a judge of dancin and singin.' She saw the Queen a Voile back in the park, and is a judge of ridin' ; and was at a party of Lady Syllabub's, and knows London. This var nish last a whole year. the two new pieces wear out, and the songs get old, and the drawin's everybody has seed, and the London millinery wants renewin', and the Queen has another Princess, and there is another singer at the Opera, and all is gone but the credit, "she was edicated at a boardin'•school."—Sam Slick in England. POPISH RAPACITY—Thomas Eastwood, Esq., of Brindle Lodge, near Preston, a highly respectable Roman Catholic in a letter to the London Times refers to the disgraceful case, at Turin, in our last, and says "I am, Sir, a Roman Catholic, and I say it with grief and shame that I have beheld a parent set against a child, a wife against a husband, a brother against a brother, an uncle against a niece, and for no other cause than that by such estrangement the priest might more sec urely carry off the property which he coveted. We have, as lain in a situa ation to prove, in this country, many " unscrupulous agents " of the Roman Catholic church ; and the great misfortune is, that the infatuation is so great in the laity, that when facts are placed before them showing the wick edness of certain priests, they will not believe them, and this holds out an inducement to crime. To say a word against ` the anointed of the Lord,' is by many Catholics looked upon as a mortal sin, and the crafty " unscrupu lous agents" take advantage of this in the furtherance of their ends. The confessional is a means used by these `unscrupulous agents' to perfect their designs, yet you hear them from their pulpits harangue on its inviolability. If we may judge from the conduct of the Vicar Apostolic of Lancashire, neither the profanation of the confessional by a priest nor the detestable crime of perjury is deserving of his attention or reprobation. I have said enough to waken Roman Catholics who, like myself, venerate their religion to serious reflection ; perhaps, more than enough to rouse a host of bigoted and priest-ridden would-be saints to point their shafts at me. But, being girt with truth, I have nothing to fear." GRADES OF SOCIETY IN SYDNEY.—The distinctions in society here remind me of the " dock-yard people," described by Dickens, that keen and kindly satirist of modern follies. Thus government officers don't know merchants ; merchants with "stores "don't know other merchants who keep " shops ;" and the shopkeepers have, I doubt not, a little code of their own, prescribing the distances to be observed between drapers and haber dashers, butchers and pastry cooks. The general cha racter of the invitations to the entertainments at Govern ment House has caused much discussion and animadver sion • the citizens who drive chariots not liking to be mingled in company with their tradespeople who only keep gigs. But all this pride of munity, were not in its tendency so mischievous, could only provoke a smile. English customs and fashions are carefully fol. lowed, and frequently out done by the more wealthy and (if I may be allowed the phras?, in speaking of com moners) aristocratic of the colonists. Their extravagant mode of living, combined with the mania for speculation has greatly contributed to the late and still existing em barrassments of the colony. Many of these houses are elegant villas, with rooms of noble dimensions, expen sively furnished with almost every luxury to be found in a gentleman's residence in England, and environed by beautiful gardens where every description of fruit, both European and tropical, is cultivated. The riumereus servants, too, are a great and universal expense. The smaller houses of merchants, and various professional and official men, have much the style of those in suburban streets in England, standing alone or in pairs, all pro tected from the sun by verandas from six to twelve feet wide, with pretty gardens in front, often fenced by high hedges of gay geraniums. Several of these villa streets are very pretty, and a most refreshing contrast to the dust, dirt, noise, and closeness of the lower part of the town, which is, from the climate and other causes, some shades more unpleasant than any place I ever was in be fore.—Mrs. Meredith's New South Wales, A RIOT IN LIVERPOOL IN ANCIENT TIME.—MeM : ye 4th day of September, 1573, a grevious contention and discord sprang betwyxt these two, Barrtley and Sydnam, and Sunday morning next after, being sth Septembir, Roger Sydnam, levet'nent of the Blue Coats about five of the clock, at his uprising, walking and coming forth of Roger Jamieson's house„ his host with three or four of his soldiers, and the said Captain Barrtley coming with more company of his motley coats, drew their swords, and set upon the said levet'nent, and forced him and his men for safeguard of their lives to take unto the house and houses over against the ragious persecution of the said Barrtley therein by the good p'vise and fortuneshifts of the wife of the same house, the said Sydnam and his men, all but one, were conveyed into an high top chamber, by the ladder, and so they drawn up to them in the said loft, and so escaped death, as it pleased God ; but that one soldier which was stayed in the house was to all much swinged and beaten, kneeling upon his knees, bareheaded, calling and crying most woefully for mercy and pardon of life : upon this the said Captain Barrtley caused that soldier, blew-coat by name, to be set in the stocks at the High Cross of this town of Lyverpoole, and caused a cantill of a chystboard nayled to his—and there was watched with a dozen tall billmen of this town. Roger Sydnam, poor gentleman, was in cover all the whiles aft. It is long to repeat, and more to rehearse, the riots tumult and disorder of the said Captain Barrtley and Motley Coats, and over tedious to write of the spoils of both Motjies and Blue Coats, as well abroad in the country hitherto adjoining, as within this town. Truth is, there was such surrection stirred up by the said Captain Borst ley as was never seed in the town and this country, for to be short, Mr. Maior and all the town suddenly, as pleased God Almighty, were ready upon the heath of this town, every man with their best weapons, so as by good chance everp householder being at home, Sunday morning, eager as lions, made show almost even like the number of the said captains, and all their soldiers, so as the captain and all their men being arrayed, and there upon the said heath the said Captain Barrtley and all his gentlemen moved, Mr. Maior, and came up to the town in friendship and amity ; and after all this done, the captains and their soldiers were more gentley to deal with, all whiles they abode within this town.—Lacey's Pictorial Liverpool. THE NATIONAL SOCIETY.—A long correspondence has recently taken place between the Rev. T. Egerton, rector of Dunningham, in Yorkshire, and Lord Wharn cliffe, relative to the animadversions made by his lordship on an assertion of the rev. gentleman, that "whilst an annual grant of £750 had been made by the Privy. Coun cil in the summer of last year to the British and Foreign School Society, in aid of their normal school, an annual grant had been refused to the memorial of the committee of the dioceses of York and Ripon, for the support of their training institutions ; and, moreover that no annual grant had been given by the Privy Council to any training institutions connected with the Church." Lord Wharn cliffe complained that by this assertion the rev. gentleman had made a false and injurious impression against the Committee of Council for Education; for the fact was that a vote of an annual sum of £l,OOO for the mainte nance of the normal schools under the direction of the National Society, and therefore of the Church, was voted by the committee precisely at the same time as that £750 to the British and Foreign School Society for their nor mal schools. To this Mr. Egerton replied that no such gift as an annual sum of £lOOO had been obtained by the National Society, because the conditions on which it was offered, would not be declared by the committee ' of Council previous to its acceptance, and the society would not come to any resolution respecting the offer until those conditions were made known. Lord Wharn cliffe rejoined, that up to the receipt of Mr. Egerton's letter he never had had the least notion that any difficulty existed on the part of the National Society to accept the grant, and that he had always taken it for granted that the National Society had w•cepted it. He expressed his conviction that there had been no intention upon the part of the Committee of Council to impose any conditions to which the National Society could object; and added that a very few words of open and friendly communication with the Committee of Coune'l would have led at once to the dissipation of all doubts on the part of the National Society. Under such circumstances, Lord Wharnehffe declared that he must refuse to retract one word he had said upon the subject, and that he must persist in saying that Mr. Egerton ought 'to have been more cautious of making any imputations upon a public body, and of creating unfounded impressions as to the animus with which that body performed the duties intrusted to it. Against this declaration Mr. Egerton once more protested, but considered it useless to prolong a correspondence on which neither party would admit that he was to blame. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. [The following, which appeared last week in our Town Edition, is re-inserted for the perusal of distant Subscribers.] IRISH SOCIETY. The Liverpool services in connection with the Irish Society, the object of which is the promotion of the edu cation of the native Irish through the medium of their own language, commenced on Sunday. During that day sermons in aid of the funds were preached in the churches which will be hereafter named, along with the amount of their several collections : we are glad to say that the con gregations were large and liberal. A deputation attended from Ireland, consisting of the Rev. Edward Nixon, rector of Castleton, county of Meath ; the Rev. William Pennefather, incumbent of Mellifont ; and the Rev. Daniel Foley, Irish Scholar, Trinity College, Dublin, and curate of Dunhill. Last night a public meeting of the members and friends of the Society was held in the Royal Amphitheatre, which we never saw filled by a more crowded or attentive auditory. Every part of the house was crowded to excess, and the greatest interest was manifested though out the entire proceedings. We observed the following clery and gentry upon the platform :—Re:s. H. M'Neile, Edward Nixon, Wm. Pennefather, Daniel Foley, Dr. Tattershall, W. W. Ewbank, W. Butler, W. R. Hart, Thos. Dwyer, J. R. Connor, C. J. Hamilton, Henry Car penter, Fred. Parry, Fred. Barker. C. W. Lawrence, W. M. Falloon, J. Cordeaux, S. Fenton, H. Hampton, D. D. Stewart, H. H. Higgins, W. Maynard, G. A. Warner, D. Anderson, W. Rawson, P. Crawford, R. S. Burbury, J. Jackson, G. F. Greene, Joseph Baylee, B. Morgan, Finlay, F. Ould, A. B. Marshall, Gibbons. — Messrs. Win. Jones, Thos. Forsyth, Charles Cotesworth, Geo. Langtry, Thos. Crowder, John Eden, Keeling, (Runcorn,) John Howard, Lord Bangor, Thos. Porter. Chas. Townley, Edwd. Glazebrook, R. W. Preston, Jas. Parker. The Rev. H. CARPENTER moved that the chair be taken by the Rev. Hugh M'Neile, in the unavoidable absence of Mr. Adam Hodgson, who had been announced to pre side. The motion was carried by acclamation. Mr. M'NEILE having taken the chair, explained the cause of Mr. Hodgson's absence, from whom he read a letter; after which he called upon the Rev. Mr. Carpenter to supplicate the divine blessing upon the proceedings. Prayer having been offered, the rev. chairman addressed the meeting. They were convened together upon the present occasion, in aid of the objects and operations of what was truly and emphatically called " The Irish So ciety." The objects of that society was briefly stated in its extended name, upon the title pages of its reports— " The Irish Society, for promoting the education of the native Irish through the medium of their own language." They would observe the distinction made here was, as though they were Irish they were not natives. What was intended by the native Irish, was not all the people who were natives of Ireland, but those who spoke the language of that country, and those who required to have the lan guage spoken to them in order that they might receive instruction by what was said to them. The class so re quiring the use of the Irish language might be divided into three parties : first, those who knew no language but the Irish in any degree ; second, those who .knew a little English, just enough to ask for what they wanted ; and third, those who knew more English, but still not enough to receive any instructions through the medium of the English language. The number altogether, inclusive of the three classes now described, amounted to almost three millions, somewhat more than half a million of the first class, who knew not a word of any language except Irish, and two millions and a half ranging in different degrees of knowledge of English, composed the remainder ; but those among them, who knew most of the English language, did not know enough to receive any abstract or moral teaching through it. To this large body of our fellow-subjects no effort was made in the way of education but by this society,if we excepted one or two local bodies, such as that marvellous mission of the Rev. Mr. Nangle in the island of Achill. (Cheers.) For the instruction of that large body of the people of Ireland, England, in her public capacity, was doing, and had done, nothing. The government had done nothing. Not one shilling of the tens of thousands of pounds voted by parliament for education in Ireland was used through the medium of the Irish Society ; therefore there was a mass of the popula tion, amounting to nearly three millions of people, left, without the slightest attempt upon the part of the government of the United Kingdom to give them any information to raise their minds from the most degrading ignorance. (Hear, hear.) There was no attempt made at any literary instruction for this people. There might be some difficulty in the way of the government, constituted as it was, aiming to give them religious instruction ; but there was no attempt even at giving them literary instruction. Where were our phi lanthropists and our reformers, the men of movement, the men of life, who wish to send education through the world ? Where were they in their intercourse with these three millions of Irishmen? (Hear.) No attempt to print books of education, books of figures, books of any of the branches of natural handicraft, whereby their minds might be raised from their present degraded state, had been made either by the government or by the philo sophical ladies in the United Kingdom ! (Hear.) Three millions of Irishmen were thus left—to what ? Why to be told just what the priest chose to tell them. (Hear, hear.) He would not take upon himself to gay what those gentlemen told them. He knew, indeed, something of what they were pledged by oath to teach all their people ; he knew something of what was contained in the councils of their church, which they said was infallible ; he knew what, if they were honest men and true churchmen, ac cording to their views, they were bound to teach those people. He could not, to be sure, say whether they taught these things or not ; he knew not how much of truth they might teach the people. he knew not how much of treason they might teach the people; but he knew that thesethree millions of people were left to the mercies of these men, and that no officer of her Majesty's government knew what the mass of the population were taught. Was it any wonder, then, that so large a mass of the Irish people, so neglected, should, being numerous, and being neglected, prove to be dangerous? (Hear.) They gave physical weight to the wiil, however arbitrary, of the priesthood ; to the agitation, however pernicious, of the demagogue. (Loud cheers.) He did not say this as finding fault with the population; he protested he thought it their misfor fortune, not their fault; for how were they to know bet ter when those who did know better had taken no pains to teach them better? (Hear, hear.) It was, then, upon their behalf that they were associated in this society. Nothing could be done for them but through the medium of their own language; it was impossible to get at their minds through any other medium, as it would be impossi ble to get at the minds of the meeting through any other medium than English. The rev. gentleman illustrated this position by reciting two or three lines from Homer; following which, after observing that this matter of lan guage was a very interesting subject, he sheaved that if we addressed the native Irish in the English language they were " barbarians" to us, and we were " barbarians" to them. Nothing could be done for them except through their own tongue. And this, he thought, laid an obliga tion upon us. for to whom should these poor people look but to us. If the meeting said, as they might naturally, " Surely the government of the country ought to do something for so large a mass of the population," he agreed with them ; bat he thought he could tell them a part of the cause that had prevented any such attempt. There had been a feeling concerning the Irish language that it was a barbarous tongue, and the sooner it was done away with the better ; and in order to do away with the Irish language, the plan adopted by the most thinking people and government of England had been not to teach the people any other! (Hear, hear.) This society then set to work in this way. It got the people, grown as well as old, to the schools. The schools were not the like the schools we knew here, where a hundred children went every day in the week. In the schools connected with this society the greater number of the people were adults ; the whole number amounted to 17,301, of whom 12,035 were adults. The schools were kept not in fine school houses, built with cut stone, but where they might, in cow-houses, pig-houses, and in cabins that were not much better ; under a tree, where they had a tree, upon the sea shore, under the banks of a turf bog—any where, where they could assemble to read portions of the Irish Bible. (Hear.) It might occur to some to ask " How can teach ers be got for these people?"—for it would be a strange thing to have schools where the teachers did not know the language of the people, or the people that of the teachers. Why, they bad found some people in Ireland able to teach Irish, and willing to teach it, members of the Roman Ca tholic Church ; they were willing to teach the poor to read the Bible. They were paid according to the proficiency of the pupils. Inspectors were sent round periodically to examine into the proficiency of the pupils, and according to the number of the pupils, and the proficiency they had made, were the gratuities or salaries of the teachers. So that although the teaching was in a very desultory way, there was value given for all the money given by the Society. (Hear.) The readers cost, according to the last report, .£ll per year each, their salaries varying ac cording to circumstances from £5 to £3O. Here the rev. gentleman read from the report a statement of the num ber of the schools in actual operation. Having put the meeting in possession of the objects of the Society, he should call upon his friends to state the details ; but be fore doing so he would remind the meeting that a consi derable expense had been incurred by assembling them in that place. The rev. gentleman concluded by an urgent and affectionate appeal to the Christian liberality. The Rev. H. CARPENTER then read the report, of which the following is an abstract : The report stated that Ireland contained a population of above two millions who speak the Irish language. Many of these are so totally ignorant of any other tongue, that this is the only possible medium through which they can receive the saving truths of Christ's Gospel ; while to the rest it is a vehicle of communication so much more ready and intelligible, and one to which they are so enthusiastically attached, that practically speaking the Irish lan guage is the only avenue by which their heart can be reached, and their affections moved. This ardent love for their mother tongue caused it to be said Tong ago, in Ireland, " if you would plead for your life, plead in Irish." Now if this language would engage Irish sympathies in one case, it was reasonable to expect that it might en gage them in another. Accordingly, " The Irish Society," after his example who became all things to all men, that he might by all means save some, resolved to plead in Irish for the Gospel of Christ and for the salvation of souls. And, blessed be the God of all mercy and grace, their labour has not been in vain in the Lord. Hundreds of thousands have, through this society, become devout students of the Irish Scriptures; and many of them have been made wise unto salvation, through faith which is in Christ Jesus. Some have died in peace, rejoicing in that Saviour whose love they first learned in the Irish Scriptures. Others are living monuments of the efficacy of Christ's Gospel, exhibiting, by their blameless lives, that this Gospel is to them, what it is to all who really believe, the power of God unto salvation. In the work of instructing the na tive Irish, this society at present employs, in addition to some cleri cal assistants, 47 scripture readers, and 797 Irish teachers. Last year, more than 17,000 Irish scholars, chiefly adults, were examined and approved by the inspectors of the society ; and from its com— mencement it has been instrumental in putting into circulation in the Irish language, Bibles or Testaments, or books of scripture to the number of 138,199 copies. Now when we rellectthat from the period of the Reformation up to the institution of this society not more than 1750 Irish Bibles or Testaments were circulated in Ire land, during those 300 years, are we surprised that scriptural know ledge should have made such little progress in that country, or that the hearts of those who love the Bible should now be touched with an earnest desire to supply this lack of service, and to attempt in some degree to discharge that debt of love which they owe, for Christ's sake, to the people of that land ? The Report then affectionately appealed for support from all who love the Lord, or who wish to teach the Irish speaking population of Ireland those blessed truths which alone can make them happy in time and for eternity. " The Irish Society" is a religious society— it mingles not in the angry strifes of the men of this world—it walks in a higher and more heavenly region, seeking blessings from God, and seeking to convey blessings to man— " Like some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm ; Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head." The Rev. F. PARRY moved the first resolution, to the effect that the success which had hitherto attended the efforts of the Society, called for the deepest gratitude, and furnished an encouragement to its friends to proceed more zealously in this work of faith and labour of love. The CHAIRMAN, before calling upon the seconder of the resolution, said he had received two notices in favour of a project, which he would take the opportunity of sub mitting to the meeting now, in order that the deputation might give their opinion upon it. The proposal which he took the liberty of suggesting from the pulpit, yester day, was one, he thought, highly calculated to be of use in Ireland ; it was that the Pilgrim's Progress should be published in the Irish tongue. (Hear, hear.). It had never yet been put into that language. In one of those notes the writer expressed very high approval of the object, and inclosed £lO to be applied in furtherance of it. In the other note the writer said if the proposition was repeated at the next meeting, he should be delighted to contribute towards so noble a project. His name and sum would be given then. He hoped the deputation would give their judgment in favour of the place, and that a separate fund would be formed for that purpose, to which all present would contribute. The Rev. EDWARD NIXON ? rector of Castleton, county of Meath, one of the deputation, seconded the resolution. The project to which the chairman had referred, must, he said, be accepted entirely distinct from the Irish Society. The Irish Society bad - but one object in view; but he could not imagine any person who had ever read the Pil grims Progress, (and be spoke from his own experience,) that could hesitate to contribute to support a project that would put that valuable book into the hands of his Irish speaking fellow countrymen ; therefore he for one, would give to it the advantage of every ad in his power. The reverend gentleman then at great length explained the principles of the society, its modes of operation, and the success it had met with, illustrating these points in a most felicitous manner by admirably told anecdotes. In the course of his remarks he expressed his conviction that most of the evils that affected Ireland arose from, one doctrine, which was especially drilled into the minds of children from their birth, namely that noProtestant co be saved, but that all must be damned because they w Protestants. He traced the evil consequences of t principle in the opposition which this society had to con tend with ; but he was convinced that the bible, which it taught, would in the end bear down all opposition. The CHAIRMAN said the collection would now be made. The expense of holding the meeting in that building was £4O, besides which there were other charges of half as much again, so that unless £6O were supplied there would be a loss. (Hear.)—After the collection had been made, the Chairman stated that a Roman Catholic gentleman had recently subscribed £2O to the society ; and he also read a note enclosing a sovereign from some person who had intended to devote that sum to the purchase of a Polyglott Bible, but who said that for the sake of such a cause he would be content with those he had. The Rev. Dr. TATTERSHALL moved the second reso lution, which declared the cordial approbation of the meeting of the principles on which the Irish Society car ried on its labours, and that it peculiarly deserved sup port from the prominent place it gave to the sacred scrip tures in all its proceedings. The Rev. DANIEL FOLEY seconded the resolution in a speech of much length and animation, the most part of which was occupied by a detail of the unhappy effects of popery in Ireland. The resolution was carried unani mously, with applause. Mr. THOMAS FORSYTH moved the appointment of a committee and other officers for Liverpool. The Rev. Was. PENNEFATHER seconded the motion. He mentioned that there had lately been established in connection with the society an Orphan Asylum, which was located at Kingston, for the children of those teachers who had fallen victims to persecution. He related one or two instances of the benefit which had resulted from this new institution ; and he regarded it as furnishing a strong additional claim upon the liberality of the public. The CHAIRMAN here announced that there had been a marvellous accuracy in the answer of the meeting to his appeal. He asked them for £6O; the return was £63 ss. (Loud cheers.) The Doxology " Praise God from whom all blessings flow" was then sang, and the proceedings terminated at half-past ten o'clock. The following is a list of the church collections, and the amounts, on Sunday last : At Aigburth, after sermon preached by Mr. Cordeaux-- £l5 0 0 St. Bride's, ....... M`Neile—. 80 1 0 Christ Church ...,... Ditto —........,.. 50 0 0 St. David's ~... Ditto ...-.....,. 15 4 0 St. Clement's ...... Nixon .....,.... 10 4 0 St. James .... Byrth---- 15 0 0 St. John's...... ,„, Falloon--. 24 10 0 St. Jude's— -..... Quid,,,,,....,, 61 3 2 Mariners' Church„„ F01ey.....--,..... 6 6 0 St. Michael's ...., ...... Carpenter.,,,, 7 0 0 St. Saviour's ...... .... Hunt,..,„,,,, 15 16 0 St. Simon's ..... ~.., F01ey,..,,,.,.,,, 7 5 6 St. Thomas, Seaforth .... Pennefather 30 0 0 St. Thomas, Toxteth Park— Butler —,... 9 2 8 Wallasey ..... ~..,. Tattershall 18 15 0 Wavertree —.— Hunt................. 211 6 West Derby ...... •••• Hampton,,, 15 15 0 £383 13 10 Collection at the Meeting in the Royal Amphitheatre 63 1$ 0 Taal — £446 18 10 St. Simon's collection is exclusive of £6 es., which is to be ap propriated to the Achil Mission. THa REV. SIDNEY SMITH.—Mr. Smith has been seriously indisposed for some weeks, and faint hopes have been entertained of his recovery. The distillery, in London, announced elswhere as having been seized by the excise, is that of Messrs. Smith, of Whitechapel. The firm have been in the habit of pay ing between £300,000 and .£lOO,OOO annually to Govern ment. The buildings are estimated at £160,000, and if the Exchequer recover the penalties for which the firm is prosecuted the whole will revert to the Crown. GENERAL MISCELLANY. - Mr. Scott has contradicted the report of his intention to resign the representation of Walsall. The ship Isabella, of Leith, was wrecked on Fluider's Island, Bass's Straits, on the 22nd June. Crew saved. The hands at Stockport have returned to work, at an advance of five per cent. on their wages. On Friday evening six sheep, which had strayed upon the Hull and Selby Railway, were run over by the mail train, and killed upon the spot. The Glasgow Herald mentions a lame beggar, horribly distorted, who maintained his father, mother, brothers, and sisters in idleness. His receipts averaged 10a. a day. EARL OF DYSART.—The consistory court have granted the prayer of this eccentric nobleman for a restitution of conjugal rights. On Sunday week K. H. Hoppner, Esq. many years since a judge in Bengal, and lately resident in Bath, com mitted suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. On the 7th instant, a boat was upset in Kirkwall Bay, Scotland, and nine persons who were in it met a watery grave. The borough fund of the City of York is enriched £3OO by the refusal of the three members of the Council first elected to serve the office of Mayor. On Saturday week, and again on Monday night week, an extra Gazette was published, consisting together of fifty-six sheets, containing almost exclusively notices con cerning railway and other private bills. Mr. Locke, the eminent engineer, has received from the King of the French a magnificent diamond ring, for his attention to his Majesty on the South-Western Rail way. There are now residing near Hubbertstone, Pembroke shire, a brother and sister, Henry and Margaret Banner, of the respective ages of 97 and 101, the latter of whom can read well without the use of glasses. THE MINISTRY AND THE EAST INDIA COMPANY.— A London contemporary announces that ministers medi tate a complete change in the Government of India, by introducing a measure next session tantamount to the ex tinction of the political power of the Court of Directors. FIRES IN LoNnoN.—No fewer than 800 fires have oc curred in the present year in London, but they have not been of so extensive a character as in former years. The number of lives lost, however, is, we regret to say, much gr eater than the average. No FOG IN WALES.—A Welshman has almost as little idea of a fog as a Japanese or torrid-zone man has of ice. While London has been enveloped in fog we have had a clear blue sky, a bright sun, and weather such as would convert the coldest utilitarian into a worshipper of naeure, amidst the scenery of South Wales.—Welshman. MORT ALITY IN LONDO N.—The total number of deaths in the metropolis during the week ending last Saturday was 1,072, showing a considerable increase of mortality probably caused by the unseasonable state of the last ten days. The weekly average for the last five years has been 946. IMPORTS.—The steamer from Rotterdam has this week brought 100 quarters of garden beans for seed, 940 bushels of onions, with several sheep, swan geese and wild ducks. Considerable imports of French apples have also been made this week, principally from Ostend and Dunkirk.— Hull Packet. On Monday week the sloop Ranger, .of about 80 tons burden, belonging to Goole, in and laden with potatoes, came in contact with a collier brigthe river, below Graves end. The sloop sunk glmos . t immediately, and carried with her the master, whirpenshed. The rest of the crew were saved. On the 11th inst. two men, carriers, were returning from Pocklington to Leeds, with three carts laden with passengers, when they commenced racing, and one of the carts, with seventeen persons in, was overturned, and two women, one of them the wife of the driver, were killed. The men ha ve been committed to York castle on a charge of mans laughter. AFFECTING OCCURRENCE.—On Monday an inquest was held at Camberwell, on the body of Mr. Mason, for merly a merchant in very good circumstances, who died solely from want, which he chose rather to endure than go into the workhouse. His daughter appeared at the inquest and gave a heart-rending detail of the privations which they had endured. Nov. 26, 1844. 1 , • THE FRUITS OF THE EARTH.—Fine straworries, Of ~, perfect growth and flavor, were gathered on Monday wee in East-street, and ripe raspberries appear in varinu grounds in this vicinity. Potatoes of the best quality are selling in this town and neighbourhood from 35. to 35.6 0 per bag of eight score (1601bs.)—Taunton Courier. the INSANITY AMONG QUAKERS.—It appears from tu number of inmates in the Retreat of late years, that, CO pared with the total number of Friends in England Oa Scotland, the proportion of insane is somewhat less than 3 in 1,000. This is a much larger portion tbs prevails among the rest of the community. TILE SUGAR DUTIES.—We cannot learn that any free labour sugar whatever has been entered since the newt!: came into operation on the 10th instant ; but if there PRI been any, it ha 3 been quite insignificant in quantitY,T: its effects have been much more than counteracted by tu_ e . news of the destruction of the sugar in Cuba in the Veen' hurricane. INSTINCT OF RATS.—An old man named Turner, IR.i e t l e g e on Cotton's Common, while gripping last week in a l a L o of land in Bardelph parish, cut i n to a rat's cave, where Pea discovered two pecks and a half of beans carefully Inte ig n a up. They had been carried, no:doubt, one by one , lir bossed up for the winter. He took his prize home his pig. —Stanford Mercury. A short time ago, some thieves tied the handle of thte , shop-door of Mr. Stevenson, pawnbroker, College-s ttea h , Bristol, and then deliberately dashed in a pane S. window, and grasped 28 gold wedding rings. Mr. S. nessed the felony, and succeeded in snatching two ke., t watches which hung near the rings from their reach being unable to get the door open for some time, OP escaped with their booty. A n SUICIDE FROM DISAPPOINTED AFFECTION.'"-- o f ii quest was held at Brompton, on the body' of a soldier N the 11th Regiment, who had shot himself while on da4 in his sentry-box in Chatham Dockyard. The rit a f t 4 of a girl whom the deceased had desired to marry st,,, that on the morning he committed the dreadful ,":",, r she had told him it was no use his seeking her dang%„` for that she was about to be married to another et; The deceased, she said, shed tears. She told him it of no use his fretting—she thought nothing about him' THE BRAIN.—At the inquest held on Monday 4e . e upon a person who survived for three days a dreadf al t jury of the brain, Mr. Wakley said that a short timeZt a man was stru'rk on the head with a pickaxe, and . be . although his brains escaped from the wound and smeared his hand, he was able to run without assistantto the London Hospital. Upon arriving at the HOP o g be was asked how he felt; when he replied that he W much better since he lost his brains. Mr. Wat le T., in ";; ther said that it was almost incredible h ow long Pei-- survived injuries of the brain. ina A Dissenter lately insured in a London fire - o ffice, had the misfortune to be burnt out. In the policy surance was a clause, that the minister and churebst dens of ate parish shall certify or declare that the fire .7 happened by a simple accident. Being a Dissenter, a ll opposed to church rates, and because the minister resll/ does not know whether the fire took place by accideatl; design, the minister and churchwardens refuse to in g the declaration. Counsel have been consulted upon the clause, and it is said to be fatal to the goodness of t claim. 'Olt FATAL ACCIDENT AT KINGSTON RUSSELL.-" .- D 3 a distressing accident happened at Kingston Russell, e Friday, the Bth inst. Mr. and Mrs. J. Homer, of g a n r i tinstown, had been spending that day with a party friends and relations, at the house of Mr. Sansoraf; Kingston Russell. On departing about 11 at nigh t 2i f their four-wheel carriage, the night being dark, sha y ,: after leaving the house, the horse went too near the ba nk: and the vehicle was overturned, the splashing-board st ll a ing Mrs. Homer's chest, and, melancholy to relate, lad few moments she breathed her last. Mr. Homer escapeuninjured. The deceased lady was in the prime of ; and has left a family of young children.—Sherbo ra Journal. MURDER.—On Tuesday, night last, a very slioekl murder was committed at Yarmouth, Norfolk upon,: t body of Harriet Candler, a poor widow woman, who Jid e j a small chandler's shop there,' last Saturday, the deceased had received £l5O as a portion of her husband's me t % and uncle's property, and having no present use for tc she had probably told her neighbours that she should P,tlo it under her bed till her son came home. This seems have excited the cupidity of the murderer, for early od Tuesday night, the door of her room was found opent a i ii i f she herself lying down by the side of the till, liter deluged in blood, her scull having five wounds upon I ' o A knife, covered with blood, lay by her, but the surge o o thought the fatal wound had been inflicted by a chees cutter," used in her trade. The money was gone f roni under the bed, and also the till money. COSTLY VIOLINS.—A sale has been concluded at ere; morne House, Chelsea, of a variety of articles mad e tl i s )f of at tee different public entertainments offered the re the Baron de Berenger. Among the lots offered wer ety" violins, one made by Maximilian Zacher, in the year 175 21 and the other by Jacobus Stainer, in 1650. The auc‘ tioneer stated that there were many instances of violins bl: these unrivalled masters producing considerable sunto,,,, and he alluded to the singular terms of sale of one Count Trantmansdorf, Master of the Horse to Charlra VI., who, after paying down a large sum of money, ag,r, e b , to pay a certain number of dollars till his death, ww, a i , with other gifts, amounted to between 8000 and 9000 an% lass, or about £6OO. The same violin is now in the 1 0 _, session of an eminent musician. The Stainer violin w,s'7 sold for 55 guineas, the first offer being 25 guineas. 'De Zarher violin was knocked down for 30 guineas. f the THE PLEASURES OF HANGING.—At an inquesuon body of a person who had committed suicide the other day, Mr. Wakley, the coroner, observed it was extras:O . : That dinary how pleasing the effects of hanging were. was apparent from the fact, that of all the persons wh o committed suicide by hanging, the majority were foun d either in a sitting posture or with their feet or kneet i touching the ground. In one instance a young lady, who was watched by two females, one at either side of her bed, strangled herself with the strings of her night-dress, with out their knowledge. On another occasion a man hung himself while stretched upon his face, with his nose al most touchin g the ground. A short time since he hel d an inquest at Balls Pond upon a man who having hung himself up, the cord broke before he was dead, and be survived the attempt thirty-five hours. He stated that he bad enjoyed the most pleasing sensations while sus pended. Persons who committed suicide by haneinf, went off in a sleep and died without pain. He di d 001 ' speak of malefactors hanged at the Old Baile decease d : necks were broken, but of those who, like the hung themselves without subjecting their bodies to a jerk' In the latter case neither was the neck broken nor w'r the windpipe closed, but a congestion of the brain ensue"' which caused death. lis SINGULAR INCIDENT.—Between two and three teen- t „ ago we announced that an infant female child had bee found covered up in a basket amongst the goods a t railway station at Ayr. It was ascertained that the Ya w cel had been handed in to the booking-office at GIOI A on the preceding day—had been carried down on the goods truck, and locked up all night in one of the e i , n pro houses at the station, when the attention of the Po g r' o " o was only directed to it by some faint cries issuing fr o g the basket, while they were turning over and arrn as " 0 bales and boxes for delivery. That the life of one s b, young and tender—for the infant was believed to be e l3 c h a fortnight old—could have been sustained under sibs trying circumstances is not a little remarkable; bu t ` ei forsaken " wee lassie" was immediately put to a n ul l. she has thriven apace, and is now a healthy and interrtse ing child. For long the authorities were in search of ~r , P e, mother who could send her child on such a pe r ilous le". th ney, and we learn that, within these last few days , r• have succeeded in tracing her out, and apprehending her, She was brought to Glasgow from her father's resid? who is a respectable small farmer in the neighbourlbs of Ayr ; and has since been committed for trial. child is illegitimate, of course, and the girl, we belie l , l ; states that ecor i h rL e erEdeß excellent intention e—ne eAI ewntltythi qualities tvl a ßae s lrni British esdsshebnfAoodi Association, se i otr t hc, iewa to tehi economy oc h nhn e , o r msme f ery a r tb o ' tee:: Ayr.—Glasgow Herald. e and the eNsrsEswdb B s many s prevention of smo k e . Th e b o il er was o f 8 '-f(1 simple constru c ti on , o f t h e cy li n d r i ca l f orm. an d con tain e d , two internal flues, about 2 feet 6 inches diameter, ext e ° . ing the wh o l e length of the boiler. Each flue contain e bf separate furnace, which, surrounded in every direction it water, formed ready absorbents for the radiant h e at, el m passed off from the fire. On this plan the gasses, 1 ,;;;11 both fires were carried forward through the whole leu,f o il of the flues to the opposite end, where they unite, lies where a new and additional process of combustion la sgi t place. From the description thus given, it would B Pr e r , that the operations of the double flues were useful in ta ct fecting the ignition of the gasses as they came in O a pf respectively from each furnace. The original intentioto the double flues and fires was not to lessen the smokeffef to enlarge the steam span, and prevent what is techair'if called priming in the boiler; it, however, exhibited P e te liar properties, and by a simple process of firing the fe ct naces alternately, the whole phenomena of nearly P er itil combustion is accomplished. To effect these objects only necessary to charge the fur nac e s a lt ern ately e v ipe half hour, and it will be fou n d th a t d ur i ng th e time i fire is replenished with fuel, the other is making ga s ` a t $ the currents from the cl ear burning fire passing oil ; f ai higher temperature than the carbonaceous matter ese at y in the newly charged furnace, the products are ignite o lio moment they come in contact, and the nuisance of s' by these simple means prevented. to RECEIPT STAMPS.—IMPORTANT SUGGESTION' it the city article of the London Times of Thurs.:lg,, it remarked that " the subject of the stamp on recent', one which engages some attention among the tradl g eot terest, and a suggestion has been made by an inte' tbe member of that interest, following the principle ° ,,b . ose, universal penny postage, to tax all receipts for surna:„ i pee £5 at ld. only, and make it compulsory to give et a— s receipts in all cases, which he thinks would pro duc O o d revenue of £1,000,000, while the tax yields at the P r : , to time a sum less than £200,000." The writer goes es the say that the respectable party alluded to proposes tb a f o re , paper to be used shall be issued, stamped, as herenper by the Government, which is to print on the sam e r i a s' a form of receipt ; besides which, he would allow 1 " o per knowledgments of the receipt of money written on PO% which bears the Post-office stamp, as evidence of P a ; ,,t5 , through the Post-office, to be considered legal ree!4ot, All other paper to be used as invoices, accounts-an:re, &c., to be found by persons requiring it, and t o p oses , sented for stamping at the Stamp-office. He Pr"P or iot also, that all banker's checks should have the P ie d) stamp attached to them, which will make them us er vouchers, instead of being the means commonly itt . c al' as they now are, of evading the tax altogether. Th;„be culation of the amount to be raised is admitted _`"sof startling, but it is added that it appears at least lit°': o iS and the plan would induce better habits of businF'„,ol taking vouchers for all payments, a practice whicn4-04 prevent litigation and disputes. It would also ',redo' country bankers from evading the provisions of the ' O , Bank Act, which is of daily occurrence in various Wal