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?Ltteraturr. POETRY. SWEET BUDS, YE ARE BURSTING. The foll7,wing beautiful s'anzas were written in the spring of last year, by 'or. Ros Ear Spotty, author of •' The Isles are Awake," a , d several other stirring and animated pieces poetry. The author is ati ue son of genius, and was placed In a humble lot; in this pretty effusion he describes the ne glect which he had experienced from those whom, he con ceived. should have extended to him their protection. We are glad to say that Sir Robert Peel, some time ago, confer ed upon the author an appointment in one of the government offices. Sweet buds, ye are bursting profusely to sight, Th 2 earth is becoming one fairy dsunain And the hearts of its thou-ands ,re touched with delight, By your promise of spring and her beauties again. But my heart SwQ.:t heralds of joy —not to me or to mine: For. talk of bright days to the world as ye will, To us ye speak neither of bloom nor of shine. No summer to me shall the summer restore, But one comfortless desert. all wintry and bare; And hopeless, and heartless, and nerveless, no more I battle with fortune, or cope with despair. Perchance too much heat in the advocate woke : 'Tw. - .ls so; for lam not, and cannot be. one Whc flings o'er his thoughts and opinions a cloak, Standing fair with all parties, but siding with none. Yet I sung not for party, though partisan called ; But I sling what I felt—what each Briton should feel, When anarchy threatened and peril appalled—. My arty, my country; my motive, her weal! And for this lam crushed! Yet I blame not the men, Destructives, indignant at missing their end : It is human to crush an oppon ut ; but then Is it n Dt so to shield and to succour a friend? It is, and 'tvvere e, and worthy of those ho have gained the high tower of their hopes, to declare That cacti step of the ladder by wi:ich they arose, The lowest—the weakest—may challenge their care. Vain hope ! The protection to principle due, Some rebel may get ; but the patriot and bard Shall die—bearing witness that loyalty true Ts its own—and is ever its only reward! NOTICES. The Library of Travel. We have received Part I. of a neat and interesting work under this title, being "A popular Description of Foreign Countries, edited by Walter K. Kelly," and have been much please., with a hasty glance at its pages. It is ex ceedirgly se!l, and, we may add, elegantly written, the object of the editor being to supply the very gist and mar row of the best modern narratives of travel and adven ture, with reminiscences of the past ; and judging from the specimen betore us, we should say th•lt he deserves the highest success. This part is occupied with Syria, and mare especially Beyrout, being the commencement of " Syria and the Holy Land." The appearance of the country—the town—the varied and motley inhabitants, and their equally varied and somewhat antagonist man ners and customs, are all interestingly described, with moving incidents interspersed, which impart to the whole a peculiar degree of vivacity and entertainment. The book, which is of very moderate price, is illustrated with numerous well executed wood-cuts, of scenery, figures, &c. In the prospectus forming the cover, the editor states— "Topography, archaeology, and all other matters that come within the scope of a traveller's speculations, will enter of course int, the composition of our mosaic; but they will be treated popularly, and always with reference to the main purpose of the publication, which is to pre sent to the reader's imagination, not the bloodless ab stractions of science, but the living and breathing forms of nature and of men. In a word, it will be our endea vour tia picture foreign scenes, and those who dwell in them, as they meet the eye of the visitor ; to reflect in our pages the striking features of nature and of art in distant lands—the peculiar, social, domestic, and personal habits they diplay—the ways of thinking and acting of their people, and all the pleasures and crossings, the perils and adventures, the poetry. and romance, the whims, hu rnours, and surprises incident to the traveller's career.'' An extract or two will be found elsewhere. Blackwood's Magazine. Thee are several excellent articles in the number for the present month, chiefly, however, of a solid character, with a rather smaller sprinkling than usual of those of a light and amusing vein. The first is No. I. of a series of papers on " Imprisonment and Transportation," with re ference, in this instance more especially, to tne " Increase of Crime." The author, we think, takes rather a gloomy view of the subject, imputing —on the authority of some. what exclusive statistics, the real accuracy of which may be questioned, if indeed they be not ex parte—by far the greater weight of our national delinquency to the increase and demoralising influence of our manufacturing system. Recent accounts from Preston and other towns state. on the contrary, that—probably owing mainly to the opera tives being p ret ty f u ll y employed—crime had during the last th”ee months decreased to about one-fourth of its amount within the same period last year. Our author by no means approves of the recent relaxations in our pedal code, which he considers altogether inoperative for good ; and though we are not friendly,. saving for the highest offences, to extreme or sanguinary punishments, which are the general resort of bad and arbitrary governments, it must be admitted on behalf of his argument, that it has become extremely difficult of late to visit great criminals with condign punishment. We concur with him that the progress of education, such as it generally is amongst the working classes, has effected but a negative amelioration, if any at all ; for the heart must be improved by religious and moral training, as well as the head, before men in a dense and naturally vicious state of society can be re claimed. The mere mechanical art of reading and wri ting, and that imperfect in degree, without this, may be a bane. Our author promises in his next paper to consider the causes of the general failure in the recent relaxations of the law, &c., and the means requisite for the diminu tion of crime. He will fail to convince us if he do not include religious instruction, and the putting down, if possible, of the too general resort to the intemperate use of intoxicating liquors, with its concomitant evils of reek. lessnsss and domestic improvidence.—" The Rhine and Rhinelanders " will be read with interest, especially by continental tourists. " The Monster Misery of Litera ture" is forcibly depicted no literary production, how ever talentel, will command an adequate sum from a bookseller, unless it be span out to " three volumes," to suit the ridiculous and iminutahle taste of the circulating libraries. " The Memoirs of a Statesman" is continued, and with increasing interest. There is an article on Indian affairs during the last few years, which places the whole within a glance, And vindicates Lord Ellenborough. " The Freethinker" is well narrated, and, in conclusion, imparts an admirable moral to all would-be atheists. " Love in the Wilderness" is not much to our taste, but de gustibus, &c. Finally, there is a paper on the Land lord and Tenant question in Ireland, showing that the owners of the soil it, that country have been most grossly maligned by the partisan O'Connell press ; that the al leged extortions in rent have no existence; and that the sufferings and discontent of the Irish peasantry must have their origin and continuance in far different causes. Some extracts will be found elsewhere. SELECTIONS. SCENE IN THE THEATRE, HOBART TOWN.—Mrs. Clarke has adopted an excellent method of preventing blackguardism in the boxes of her theatre, and it says much for the " lower order.i," that it is found in no other part of the house. On Monday evening, four drunken blackguards, who had assumed the character (masquerad ing is all the fashion) of gentlemen, not only annoyed the audience and literally stopped the performance by their continued interruption, but carried thei r bl ac k guar di sui e can find no other appropriate word) to the highest pitch, by throwing a potato at Mrs. Clarke, when in the michi,e of one of her finest songs. The spirited lessee then being it t7le "costume" of Macheath, with the whip in her bine, without a moment's delay, went roand to the box, and whipped the blackguards out ! It was well done. Murray's Austral Asiatic Review. CHARACTER OF THE PEOPLE OF HINDOSTAN."—It is a problem to this moment, whether the character of a peo ple is formed by the government or influenced by the cha racter of the people. If the former proposition were ad mitted, the English would have slight cause for selfgratu lotion ; for, considered in the gross, there is not a people in the world who are so little distinguished by the virtues which adorn the human race as the inhabitants of Hindos tsn. They are not insensible to the natural affections, nor are the examples they present of patience and resigna_ lion under calamity, and charity in the bestowal of alms, by a . y means rare : but the per contra exhibits a selfish. ness, a sensuality, a cowardice, a degree of avarice,cunning, falsehood, malevolence, prejudice, inertness, and a host of minor vices, with which it i s nee dl ess to swell our catalogue; still there are brilliant instances of exceptions to the , ordinary rule. The charge of supineness does not lie at the door of the pharasee—he is industrious and energetic, and generous in the use he makes o f his accumu lated wealth. Cowardice is not the characteristic of the Rajpoot, nor can the educated class be accused of the in difference to truth or the indulgence of strong prejudice. --Stocqueller's Hasid-Book oflndia. MR. MONTAGUE'S MURDER.—As the sunlight died away, and evening fell upon the wood, he entered it. - Moving here and there. a bramble or a drooping bough which stretched across his path, he slowly disappeared. At intervals a narrow opening showed him passing on, or the s'aarp cracking of some tender branch denoted where he west : then he was seen or heard no more. Never more beheld by mortal eye, or heard by mortal eve : one man excepted. That man, parting the leaves and branches on the other side, near where the path emerged again, came leaping out soon afterwards. What had he left within the wood, that he sprang out of it, as if it were a hell! The body of a murdered man. In one thick soli tary spot, it lay among the last year's leaves of oak and beech, just as it had fallen headlong down. Sopping and soaking in amongst the leaves that formed its pillow ; oozing down into the boggy ground, as if t o cover itself from human sight ; forcing its way between and through the curling leaves. as if those senseless things rejected and foreswore it, and were coiled up in abhorrence; went a dark, dark stain that dyed and scented the whole summer night from earth to heaven. The doer of this deed came leaping from the wood so fiercely, that as he cast into the air a shower of fragments of . young boughs, torn away in his passage, and PT with vi o lence upon the grass. But he quickly gained his feet again, and keeping underneath a hedge with his body bent, went running on towards the road. The road once reached, he fell into a rapid walk, and set on towards London.—Marlin Chuzzlewit. WHAT IS THE BEST VIEW FOR A SICK ROUNIe What a the best kom of for k dows to command ? I have chn•en tre sea, and anm sati•- fied with my choice. We sio have the widen' expanse of land or water, for the sake of a sense of liberty. yet more than for variety; and also b,cau-e then the in stt mable help of a telescope may be called in. Think of toe difference to us between , eeing from oit the width of a street, even if it be Sac.viit—str..et, Dub • lin, or Portland-place, in London, arid thirty milts of sea view, with its long boundary of rocks. ant the cower of sweeping our glance over half a cont-ty, , iiy means of a telescope! But the chief ground efe ;nice of tie sea is less its space than its rnotinn, and the per;..-trial shittmg of objects caused by it. Torre cin he nothing in iiiiand scenery which can give the sense of life and moot ni and connexion with the world like sea cliaru4e=. motio of a waterfall is too coot nuous—too lane varied, as the breaking of the waves would b-, if that were alt the sea could afford. Ttie fitful action of a windmill, the waving of trees, the everchanging aspects of mountains are good and beautiful; but there is something more life-like in the going forth and return of ships, in the passage of fleets, and in the never-ending variety of a fishery.—Ess y an Invalid. DISEASES IN INDIA.—The diseases most common to India are fever, dysentery, liver complaints ; and cholera morbus. These annually sweep away their tens of thou sands, the latter disease baffling the skid of the most emi• nent physicians, and leaving even the theory of it s cause enveloped in doubt and uncertainty. But there are a multitude of other diseases peculiar to the country, though less fatal in their general results. Elephantiasis, or the swelling of the leg, is common to the natives in every pro vince. In the hilly districts, goitre is very prevalent, and ophthalMia afflicts myriads in the upper provinces, where the soil is sandy and the people care less of their persons. Leprosy is often seen in its most hideoite fort, ; and rheu matism counts its victims amongst its thinly clad, and ex posed poor during the rainy season. Piles, ulcers, inflii mations, and a peculiar eruption, popularly called prickly heat, are extremely prevalent, particularly amongst Euro :, ans, whose habits of Ii e are less regulated by climate .11 an consists with a proper regard to health and longevity. Influenza and disease of the lungs sometimes make de mands upon the leech's skill, but they do not present themselves in the formidable guise which distinguishes their appearance in more northerly reg crivs; neiteer do hoopitig-cough, the measles or other complaiels, afflict in• fonts so severely as the same maladies in England. Still, the mortality amongst the newly.b , trir is considerable, in some measure from c.involsions, teething, lever, &c , but more commonly from the ignorance of midwives, slid the carelessness, if nothing worse of native nurses. Small pox was a terrible scourge to the population of flindos tan : but its ravages are now diminishing, thanks to the philanthrephic exertions of the ined•cal officers in the East-India Company's service, whit have zealously la linur ed to introduce vaccination.—Slocqueller': Hand-Book of India. FRUITS OF PROTESTANT MISSIONARY EXERTIONS IN IRELAND.—Let any one who wishes to know what may be done by judicious exertions to increase the num ber of our Pretestant population, inquire what has been done in Mr. Preston's inter sting colony in the cow./ y of Kildare. Of the heroic enterprise of Mr. Naugle at Achill our readers are sufficiently aware, lied of the a , - tonishing fact, that in that extreme part of pop'sh Ire land the labours of the missionary have been blessed to so extraordinary a degree, that an ailnitinpal church has been lately required for the aricommod +bon or the inerea sing converts. And there has ben just put into our hands a report from tar D ogle Colony, in an extreme part of the count. of Kerry, from which we make the following extract :—" The ~umber of c inverts in Dingle, in January 1843, was 310 indiviihrals. The nrindirr of converts in Dingl-, in March, 1844, Wl4 330 individuals ; 73 families. Attendance at the scieeil i t Dingle children 180; on Sunday, adults 130. At Keeln elcherlar there are convert: 80. Children at Keelorelche.lar school 41. At Dunerlm, converts 50. Children of Dunerlin at school 28." Such is the work which is now g big on in every part of this country, end to whi tr " a !wavy plow and gre-it discouraeetaent " has hien i. eii by a•y stem of policy which strength , its the hears nt utiscriptured priesthood by legislat erke,,nrageow, t and temporal aid, exactly in proportiett as !lilt au boil- is fading before the progress of truth and knowledge ! God says of popery, "It shall decrease." "No " says the British legislature, "it shall increase." Gad sass, " The circle of light shall gain upon the eit ele of tlai . kness.'" " Ne," says the British parliament, "the circle of darkness shall gain upon the circle of light." Is tb-re any other lan guage in which, with our convictions, we could convey an adequate idea of the perverse policy by which the domina tion of a tattering superstition is maintained, and the labours of evangelical men marred or counteracted in Ireland ?—Dublin University .'Magazine. KINDNESS IN CONVERSATION.—There is no WRY in which men can dog aid tooth -rs, with so little expense and trouble, as by kindness in conversati n. " Words" it is sometimes said, "cost nothing." At aay ra.e, kind wi cost no more than those which are harsh anti piercing. Hut kind words are oftenmore valuedthan the rnosteostly gifts— and they are always regarded among the best tokens ordesire to make others happy. We should think that kit d words would be very common, they are so cheap; but there are many who have a large assortment of other language except kindness. They have bitter words, and witty words, and learned weris in abundance ; but their stock of kind words is small. Toe churl himself, one might suppose, would not grudge a little kindness in his language, however closely he clings to his money ; but there are per,ons who draw out their kind ness with more reluctance than they draw their purses. Some use granting words because they are of morose disposition. Their language, as well as thei r manne r s , show an unfeeling heart.—Others use rough words out cf an affection of frankness. They may be severe in their remarks—but then they claim that they are open and in dependent, and will not be trammelled. They are no flatterers, they say--and this they think excuse enough for all the cutting sp -ech which they employ. Me; s wish to be thought witty—and they will with equal indif ference wound the feelings of friend or to-, to show their smartness. Some are envious, and cannot bear to speak kindly of others, or to them, because they do not wish to add to their happiness. Others are so ill-bred that they take delight in using unki.id words, when their intentions are good, and their feeling: Cr- warm. Their words are rougher than their hearts—they will make sacrifices of ease and property to promote comfrsrt, while they will nor deign to employ the terms of courtesy and kindness. Of those, the Scots have an expressive proverb, that " their bark is worse than their bite." Many a man would be loved for his liberal deeds, if his torigue, by his harshness, did not repeal affection. And he riften wielders why his friends care so little for him, when from -tilers tht-y receive not halt' so many favours. Some at.. eau-tic and severe in their language, fir the sake of showing their acute ness and discrimination. They would rend in pieces a cloth of gold, detect a defective thread which had escaped the less keen oeservations of a thers. Tney are always on the watch to spy out some fault in character, or in disposi tion, which others overlook, that they may appe‘s to have uncommon discrimination and rare skill in criticism. If the happiness of others is not motive enough to their influ ence on ourselves, the habit of using them will at length conform our feelings to our langu , ge. We shall become kind, not only in our speech, but in our manners, and in our hearts. On the other hand, to make use of carping, harsh, and bitter words, se!d am fails to sour the disposi tion and to injure the temper. SERGEANT TALFotian.—Thomas Noon Talfourd is a native of Reading. His mother vas the daughter of Mr. Thomai Noon, who wa: for titiry years the minis ter of the Independent congregation there. Accordingly he was instructed in their strict tenets, awl his early edu cation was obtained at their school at Mill Hill ; but being removed to the public school under Dr. Valily, be there acquired a love of Shakspeare and the drama—for bidden ground to his tiabve sect—and soon adopted the less rigid doctrines of the Church of Rigland. At the same time he accpiirezi those ardent" political feelings, which, tempered by time, he has alway. since maintained. His poetical talent was developed early. In the year 1811, while still at school,•he published a volume entitled Poems on various subjects.' The suhjects are interest ing, as evi-leing the character of his th in2hts at this early period. One of them, entitled On the Education of the Poor,' and another, "fhe Union and Brotherhood of Mankind,' obtained for him the acquaintance of Joseph Fox, di,tinguished for his zeal in the cane of education, and his new friend introduced him by letter to Lord (then Mr. Henry) Brougham. He was received by that dis tinguished individual with the utmost kindness, and en- coiliaged to work his way at the bar through literature. Following this judicious advice, he engaged himself in 1813, to Mr. Chitty for a period of four years. The literary career of the young lawyer began with an essay published in the Pamphleteer,' early in 1812, entitled ' An appeal to the Prot-stant Dissenters of Great Britain on behalf of the Ca , holics.' This essay was eloquently written, and breathed a spirit of liberality, such as is denominated, ' Christian. Talfourd was then under eighteen. A Critical Examination of some objections taken by Cobbett to the Unitarian Relief Bill, was a very successful attempt to grapple with a writer of such sin gular pow er . ' Observations on the Punish men t o f t h e Pillory, and An Appeal against the Act for regulating Royal Marriages,' took the side of humanity against bar barous custom and mistaken notions of national poli c y. An Attempt to Estimate the Poetical Talent o f th e Present Age,' written in 1815, is chiefly r emar k able as testifying his high appreciation of the poetry of Words worth, (at a period when sitch testimony was sufficient to ensure almost universal ridicule), arid scarcely less so for the courage with which it denounced t gloomy exagge rations of Lord Byron. who a as then in the full blaze of his popularity. ' Spirit of the Age' was not published till ten years afterwards. Mr. Talfourd was probably the very first who putilicly declared, on critical grounds, that William Wordsworth was a true poet. * * In 1817, Talfourd starred as a Spetral Pleader. During his period of study he had assisted Mr. C itty in his vo luminous work on the Criminal Laws. Tile chief quar ters in ahich he carried on his literary labours, were now in the " Retrospective Review,' and the EncyclocEedia Metropolitan.' The articles ` Homer,' on the Greek Tragedians,' and ' Greek Lyric Po-ts,' in the latter were written by him. He began his c innection with the' New Monthly' in 182!), and continued to furnish the dramatic criticisms, besides other papers, in toat magazine for twelve years. He subsequently wrote iu Vie Etlinburgh Review' and London Mag and published in 1826 a Memoir of Mrs. Radcliffe, prefixed to tier posthumous work of Gaston de Blondeville.' Mr. Talfnurrl was called to the bar by the Society t.f the Middle Temple in 1821, and joined the Oxf o rd C ircu it an d Berkshire Ses sions. I n 1822 h e marr i e d R ac h e l, t i aul h te r of John Powell Hutt. Esq., a name well known political re formers. The gra dual exteo-ion of his professional so s to at h t e . d e g ex . e p e of e rg en gagements throu g h the elr c ult,i iii..ceil him to r e tire from the of al t it '' — ei th e - very same year in which he wrote trahedy of lon.'—Hortte's " New Spirit of the Age." y ea rs, when he was s callede IN DISCRIMINATING lI UMANITY OF Meolcel. :OEN. —Dr. Anthouy renreached upon a eerie!. eeelei'm by the Queen, Marie Antein-tte, for not eppearine of Vei - sailles, 's had been expected, teplied. Mel .in. if / came not to Ver-eilles veste , d,y, it was berm', I eas di t ~i red with a neasent's wife in her confinement ants in ilit""" danger of losine her lire. Your Majesty errs, moreo,er, in supposing that I neglect toe Datiohin for 1115. poor; have o eh n it t h hn e „ rto t. eded the child with greater care arid at if he had heen the son of one of your Ma ' jesty's gr mins " tt. At ayo, Eloge de Bailly. THE AMERICAN CODE OF HONONR. —TIT American system of duelling is quite different from r•urs, and far more consistent a ed ra tonal : they never rhir-k of apolo. gies on the ground, or firing ill the air, Of seperaring after a harmless interchange. of shots. which, in England, throw an air of absureity over most proceedings of the k•nel. In America they " mean business," nor child's pine, when they fight duels, and never senerate till one is killed or wounded. The usual plan is to fire at ten pares. and to advance one pare each soot till toe desired effect is produced (the n-wspapers gave an ecoount of a duel where the parties ffred six times each). The challenged has the cheice of weapons; and pistols, muskets, er rifles are usuaily -selected. Net long since a well-known individual; who, I see, figured as second in an affair that took place abou a month ago, challenged another man who had objected to his vote at an election for personation ( which, of course, involved a charge of perjury,) to walk arm-in-arm from the top of the Capitol with him. As this was declined, his next proposal was to sit upon a keg of powder, and wryly n match. However, in this country, these were considered rather strong measuree; and through the media inn o' pacific ftietels, it was at length amicably arranged that they should fight with muekets at five paces. Each picee was loaded with three balls, and of course both parties were nearly blown to pieces; the challenger, however, unfortu nately recovered, and is now ready for flesh rereeiti fee Of course such a case a= this is rare; but I think I am right in stating that a bloodless duel is almost unknown. —Codley's Lepers. PROPOSED ENCOURAGEMENT TO CULTIVATE WASTES IN IRELAND.—Adjoining mountains and bogs, where the poorest class of the population generally reside, arid where there is abundance of ground attached rent free to each farm, and capable of being rendered profital - le at a very little expense—in fact, without any other orail,y than the labour required to open drains, and level rt—we see scarcely any efforts made at mnrovement. A Sc.tcliman, or an Englishman, would consider the posse-siou of the land rent-free for three or five years. wording to tire dif ficulty of the undertaking, as a sufficient recompense for his trouble; although his time is much more valuable, on account of the higher rate of wages pail him. But an Irishman will consider a twerry-one years' 1 as too short a tenure, to justify him in expending the time which he wastee in gossiping with his neighbours, or sunning himself at the hacks of the di.ches, in the re ofitable em ployment of adding to what ought to be, if he had in dustry, his alreedv too small hol 'bag. Here is a case in which we conceive legislation might operate much good. If every man who reclaimed ground which did not before pay rent. was guara'.teed its possession by law for ten ve ars after the first crop, at a nominal rent of one shilling the acre, it might he an inducement to the tenant to la. boar: it could beno loss to the landlord, as, it still left in a state of nature it would be useless to him, and after the expiration of the time gneranteed the tenan as remu treration for his trouble, the benefit w.: uld be his exclu sively. Io the case of a tenant-at an arrangement mold easily he eff•-cted, by which the tenant, if renewed from the farm befo-e the expiration of the stipulated term, might receive a jest and reasonable compensation for the improvemeets which he had effected, or an allow ance or the loss of the cr ips which, had he remained, he would still have been entitled to: and thus, without any government outlay, encouragement would be g. ven f ir the reclamation of that part of the Irish waste lards which would be worth the trouble or expense of cultivate re_. Blackwood. EFFECT OF SCRIPTURAL EDUCATION.—The following most touching incident ee-s related by the Dean of Jerk, with a view to the practical illustration of this part of the eetMnal sy-t-'m :—" About four years ago an un odly Pritestant, f. torn a neighbourinz parish, sent his child to his (the Dean of Cork) scriptural school, about three miles from Bandon, After some time the tattier told the .master not to teach the child the Scriptures, as he wished that be should devote his whole time to arithmetic. When the parent found that his request would not be acceded to, he sent his child to a hedge school. Finding that the child did not improve in arithmetc, he sent him back; and it pleased God that, besides alvencing in the other branehes of education, be made such a happy progress in the Scriptures, that they were spiritually bl,st to his soul. It sn happened, after a short time, that the child, by a fall from a cart, had a limb fractur d, which he survived only thirty hours, having died at a lodging-house in Ban don. Believing death to he near, he sent for his father, that father who had on :e directed that he should not read the Scriptures, and said to him, 'Father, the Scriptures I was taught at school were blest to my soul lam now dying happy, for I know I am going to my Saviour; but, father. I have a parting request, which is, that you wilt dad.,; read the Scriptures, with prayer to God to blest:: them to your sal ation ; for remember, father, callme our selves Christians. and saying we believe in Christ, will not save us. No. We mus have that faith in Christ, which is wrought by the Hoiy spirit in our souls, and which alone can convert us, acrd bring us to heaven.' The poer father was so overp ray.red by the dyrne request of his child, that his opposition to scriptural education gave way ; and the evening of the funeral he seta one pound to the sch,ol, a. a testimony of his gratitude that his child had been taught the word of God there, and died in such a happy state. Now. would any Christian person say that the request the father of that child lied once made should not have been acceded to ? Surely not."—Dublin Universilp Magazine. VALLEY OF MEXICO.—COTICeIite yourself pineei on a mountain nearly two thousand feet above the valley, and nine thousand above the level of the sea. A sky above you of the most perfect azure, without a cloud, and an atmosphere so transiHrently pore, that the r-motest objects at the distance of many , eagues are a- distinctly visible Hs if at hand. The gigantic scale of every thong first strikes you—you seem to be looking down upon a world. No other mountain and va ley view has inch an assembi-ge of features, because nowhere else are the mountains at the same time so high, the va I -y .o wide, oe filled with such variety of I tnd and water. The plaint be neath is exceedingly level, and for two hundred miles around it extends a barrier of stupendous mountains, most of which have been active volcanoes, and are now covered some with snow, and some with forests. It is fared w4l, large bodies of water looking mere like seas than lakes--it is dotted with innumerable villages, and estat, s, and -.Attu tations ; eminences rise from it which, elsewhere, would be called mountains, yet there, at your feet, they seem but ant-hills or, the plain ; and now, letting your eye follow the rise of the mountains to the west, (near fifty miles distant,) you look over the immediate surnrcits that wall the valley, to another and more distant range—and to range beyond range, with valleys between each, until the whole melts into a vapoury distance, blue as the cloudless sky above you. I could have gazed fir hours at thi. little world while the sun and passing vapour chequered the fields, and sailing off again, left the whole one bright mass of verdure and water—bringing out cleorlv the domes of the village churches studding the plain or leaning against the first slopes of the mountains, wth the huge lakes leornieg larger* the rarefied atmosphere. Y, t nothing was wanting. Over the immense expanse there seemed scarce an evidence of life. There were no figures in the picture. It lay torpid in the sunlight, like s one deserted region where na'ure was main beginning to assert her empire —vast, solitary, and melancholy. There wire no sails—no steamers on the lakes, no smoke over the vil lages, no people at labour in the fields, no horsemen, coaches, or travellers, but ours-Ives. The silence was al most supernatural; one expects to hear the echo of the national strife that filled these plains with discord still lingering among the hills. It was a picture of • still life,' inanimate in every feature, save where, on the distant mountain sides, the fire of some poor coal-burner mi•ieled its blue wreath with the bluer sky, or the tinkle ,if the bell of a solitary muleteer was heard from among the dark and solemn pines. —Mexico as it was and as it is. LORD ELLENBOROUGH.—No former Governor-Gene ral of India entered on his office—at all tires the most arduous under the British cr.)wn—under such unfavour able auspices, and with such a complicated accumulation of diffilulties to combat, as Lord Ellenborough ; few. if any, of his predecessors have had their actions, their mo tives, and even their words, expos d to such an on. sparing measure of malicious animad►ersion and wil'ul misconstruction; yet none have passed so triumphantly through the ordeal of exper'ence. Many of his measures may now be judged of by their fruits; and those of ti e Calcutta press who were loudest in their cavils, cotnpeded to admit the success which has attended then', are ,e -duced to aim their censures at the alleged magnilocinetice of the Governor-General's proclamations : wli!ch, it should always be remembered in England, are addressed to a population accustomed to consider the bombast of a Persian secretary as the ne plus ultra of human compo sition, and which are not, the-efore, to be judg,d ny th e European standard of taste. Much of the hostility di rected against Lord Ellenborough, is, more.rver. owing tn his resolute emancipation of himself from the hureau cracy of secretaries and members of council, who had been accustomed to exercise controul as" viceroys uv r" his predecessors, and who were dismayed at encount- r i ng a man whose previously acquired knowledge of the coun try which be came to govern, enabled hitnio dispense with the assistance and dictation of this red tape camarilla. Loud were the complaints of these gentry at what they called the despotism of the new Governor-General, on finding themselves excluded from that participation in state secrets in which they had long re% eil-d, in a country where so much advantage may be derived from knowin g beforehand what is coming at headquarters. But much of the success of Lord Ellenborough's government may he attributed to the secrecy with which his measure's were thus conceived, and the promptitude with %void; his per. sonal activity and decision enab!ed him to carry them into effect —success of which the merit is thus due to himself alone, and to the liberty of action which tie obt tined by shaking off at once the etiquettes which had hitter o t rammeled the Indi an governmen t . I n J u l y 1842 we ventured to p ronounce, that " on the course of L or d El. lenborough's gove rnmen t w ill mainly depend the qiiestiNn of the future stability, or gra d ua l decline, of our Anglo. Indian empire; an d if , at the conclusion of his vice royalty, h e has only so far succeeded as to restore ou r foreign and domestic relations to the same state in which they stood ten years since he will merit to be handed down to posterity by the side of Clive and Ilaitingc." Theta sk has been n o bl y un d ertaken and gallant l y ca r r i e d through; a n d t h ough time alone can show how far the present impr ove d aspect of Indian affairs may be destined to permanen cy . L ord Ellenboroughis at tea=t justly en titled VI the me r it o f h aving wrought the change, as f ar it resis With one man to do so, by the firm and f-atl-so energy wilh which he addres.ed himself to the ebterurise. —lndian Affairs in Blacktvood. THE; LlVEfitoOnt, STANDARO. SECOND EDITION, Standard-office, Half-past Six o'clock. 137 EXPRESS. DUBLIN CeURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. Monday, May 6th. All the avenues to the Queen's Bench were crowded from an early hour this morning ; the listlessness which had so strongly characterized the public during the de livery of the long-winded and time• killing harangues of the traversers' counsel, having, now that there appeared some probabilty of judgment being pronounced this term, given way to an intense anxiety to ascertain the result. By eleven o'clock, the hour at which the full court usually sit, every disposable inch of room in every part of the Court - . was occupied. The front of the gallery was filled with ladies. None of the members of the Court appeared at the usual hour, which caused much disappointment to the public curiosity. Twelve o'clock came, and still their Lordships remained absent. The ladies, the gentlemen of the bar, the press, and those liege subjects who are classed as the public at large, might be seen in little groups, en gaged in the most animated conversation on such topics as, what the Judges were now actually doing ? Whether they were, or were not, arranging and discussing their judgment ? However, all the various and interesting speculations— and they were numerous—were put an end to by the crier shouting " Silence ! " a few moments after which Mr. Justice Burton entered the court and took his seat, and in a few minut , s was followed by Mr. Justice Crampton, and at a quarter past twelve o'clock the Lord Chief Jus tice took his seat, but Mr. Justice Perrin did not appear. The Attorney-General and several of the Crown counsel were present, together with the Crown Solicitor and Mr. Hodges, the Government reporter. Some of the counsel and agents for the traversers were in attendance, as also were Dr. Gray, the Rev. Mr. Tierney, and Mr. Steele, O'Connell's head pacificator. The CHIEF JUSTICE having inquired if Mr. Attorney- General wished to move any thing, The ATTORNEY-GENERAL bowed to the court, but bad no motion to make, upon which The CHIEF JUSTICE made the same inquiry o f Mr. 13REWSTER, Q. C., who rose and said, that in the case of Stringer v. Mac Donald, he had been instructed to apply to their lordships for a new trial. The motion was destitute of any feature of public in terest. Mr. Brewster's motion having been disposed of, for the present, upon a preliminary objection, The Court proceeded to call upon the Queen's Counsel present to move, according to their seniority, some of whom having availed them of the opportunity, one or two c +ses were heard, during the last of which Mr. Justice Perrin, who, it was understood, had been engaged with the Grand Jury in chamber during the morning, entered the court, and took his seat amongst his learned brethren. Atter hearing two counsel on either side in support of the application, which was a renewal of a writ of habere, the Court refused to grant what the plaintiff required, and gave their opinion at some length on the subject, atter which the Court asked Mr. M`Donough if he bad any thir.g else to move, who was riot at present prepared to wove a nything. The same question was put to Mr. S..oti, Q.C., and to Sir Thomas Staples, Q.C., both of whom similarly d •elined. The Csief-sluqiee then addressing Mr. French, Q.C., said, have y u anything to move? upon which the learned gentleman, 'stoking a low bow t the bench, immediately rose from his seat, and moved himself out of Court, amidst pcals rf laughter at the learned counsel's mode of answering the question, in which the Bench heartily joined. Half-past Three o'clock. The Court. with the most provoking indifference to the curiosity of the public, have not as yet said a syllable on tne subject of the traversers' motion. Half-past Four o'clock. The Court has just adjourned, without announcing when they will pronounce their j►idgment in the case of the Queen v. O'Connell. On Wednesday the Term ends, so that it is to be feared the decision will not be given till next Term. The rent received at the Repeal Association to-day was £248. THIRD EDITION. Standard-office, Eleven o'clock. LAST NIGHT'S PARLIAMENT, &c. HOUSE OF COMMONS. On the motion of Sir 11. DOUGLAS, the report on the Liver po,il Fire Prevention Bill was brought up and agreed to. BANK OF ENGLAND CHARTER. Mr. Greene it the chair. Sir R. PEEL then rose and addressed the house on the important subject of the Bank charter. In 1833 there had been a r:-nee al of the charter to the period of 1855; but a rower was reserved by parliament to reconsider the charter wi•htn ten years, which period would exp r August next. and if that time was passed by, the present charter would continue until 1855. It was therefore un der these circumstances that the government wished to lay their views and plans before the legislature, and he hoped the most impartial attention would be paid to th s great subject. lie did not ask the House of Commons o come to any deckion then, he only asked members to ne,ir the argon eilt, oA hirh would be off-red, and well consider the resoloti••n= which would he proposed. He asked for no decision on the present occasirin, hut that the resolu tions might be considered pro forma and attentively in quired into (hear.) He ho•oed no hon. member would e,.me to the discussion on this great question with preju• di:•ed tteling• (hear, hear.) lie trusted tha nothing which hid , aken puce at public mee ings would bias their judg m e n t (hear.) His first propo-ition related to the issue of promb:sory notes, and he trusted that proposition would be fully and maturely discussed before any decision was pronounced (hear.) He courted discussion on the mea sure and value of the standard coin and the principle of paper currency. The right hon. hart. then took a review of the changes which had been made in the currency from the time of William the Conqueror to the present period. DREADFUL ACCIDENT-ONE HUNDRED LIVES LUST, NEAR LLANELLY. (From the Welshman of S4turday.) A most dre idrul accident occurred yesterday i n a col liery near Llauelly. It appears from the particulars we have been able to gather, that between two and three o'clock yesterday afternoon the engine in the Penh% leh gwyu colliery, about two miles from Llanelly, caught fire. After a short time the engine with a tremendous crash fell into the t it, shutting out every chance of escape for the liuntire,l ii.en and children who were working in the pit. At! a teairt sto put out the flames were vain. Ex et-ions to ext.-iv:ae the sufferers wete used incessantly, but at eight o'clock last night not one of them was got out of the pit. Ii is much to be feared, therefore, that every soul has perished. A Court of Directors was held at the East India House yesterday, when Lieut.-General !he Right Hon. Sir Henry Hardinge, K.C.8., was appointed unaannously Governor-General i.f India. It is rurnonr-d t?)a . Sir George Clerk will probably succeed Sir Henry Hardinge as secretary at War. In the French Chamber of . Deputies, on Saturday, M. Givzot di-dared, on the presentation of a petition on the sunjt Cr, that it was the intention of the gnvernin•-!iit to abolish negro slavery in toe French colonies, and that in so doing they should be guided by the example and expe reric;- Great Britain. GENERAL MISCELLANY. • E Hose has been appointed Deputy Grand Master of the Eng!i,h Freemasons, under the Earl ot• Zetland. Jo:.n TopliQ. tobacconist, of London, was, on Tnursday laNt. filled £309 tor having adulterated tobacco with sand. earthy matter, &c. He was also condemned to forfeit a large quantity of tobacco. Early on Wednesday morning a destructive act of in sendiarstn was committed up ,, n the extensive plantations in the Forest, near Bagshot, the property of Prince Albert, and upwards of 700 acres bave been totally destroyed. On Tuesday morning at eleven o'clock their Majesties the King and Queen 01 the Belgians embarked float Woolwich on board the Pe to est, Alice steam-packet, and sai:ed fur Ostend. THE BARK H ARVKST. —Bark stripping has commenced generally rh,oughoui this county, kn , l two !owls were delivered in tins ci , y on Thursd iv. Tne price is Hot fixed, but i. generally thouTAht to be £4 15s. per txt.—Hereford Time*. Sir R. and Lady S ale will arrive in England this week as passi-ngers in the Greiit Liverpool, from Alexandria, Which is due at Southampton on the Bth ins , ant. Ltidy George Pollock, the site of the hero of Affghanistan, ar rived in town on Friday from India. THE CONVICT AT YORK.—An order has been issued that George Lowther, wh was convicted at the last assizes of th- murder of the Marquis of Normanby ' a game ke. per, and sentenced to be executed, shall be transported fur ikf-. PROSPECTS FOR GOVERNMENT APPLICANTS.—Sir Robert Peel ,t&ed, in the c urse of Tuesday's proceed ings in the House of Commois, that there are no fewer ihAn 22.000 applicants fir governokent situations. Out of this enormous mul itude, how many have a chance of ob taining the object of th,-ir wishes ? THE EGG TRADE.—To give an idea of the extent of this br B ticli tra :e, kt 'nay be stated ?he :'fitteeFe /Vice, t r . In Doolin to Flf.• twood, o tt Sooday, beouglit Vitr y-right tons, or ahou' 700,000 eggs ! Tile whole were destPttnitt l i by railway to M.kkcbes er, Birtnin4hom, and Lund ,n, FOURTH EDITION. Standard-office, Twelve o'clock. Total Destruction of the Theatre-Royal, Manchester, by Fire. We regret to state that the Theatre Royal, Cooper street, Manchester, was this morning destroyed by fire; but with, happily, no loss of lite. We have been enabled as yet to obtain but a very imperfect account, the parttes who arrived by the last railway train having learned little more than the simple facts. It appears that last night " The Christmas Carol" was presented, in the second actot which a rocket is sent up from the stage. The inference is that part of this combustible projectile had lodged in the canvas of the scenes, or wood-work, above ; and ren .ined smoul dering and unnoticed during the night. Be ti.is as it may, smoke was seen to issue from the building at about six o'clock this morning, and on a door being tpened, the dr rushed in, and the building was soon in a complete blaze—defying all control. By seven o'clock it was entirely burnt down. The firemen it is said directed their attention tothe saving of the valuable property, warehouses, &c. adjoining, which, however, suffered considerable damage. Half-past One o'clock p.m. The fire, at the departure of the last train, was quite subdued, and all danger to the adjoining pi emises was at an end. The walls of the Theatre were still standing. As to the origin of the fire, nothing is known beyond what has already been communicated. It is fortunate that, owing; perhaps, to the peculiar formation of theatres, in which there is little to burn beyond scenery and benches, the conflagration was confined within the build ing, which is surrounded by a mass of the most valuable property in the town. At one end of the Theatre, which is situated in Fountain-street, is a Calico warehouse, which was formed a few years ago by taking away a portion of the box lobby. At the back, divided from it only by a narrow street, were several valuable warehouses, the Assembly and Club Rooms, facing Mosley -street ; and at the front the Parish-offices, and the extensive silk mills of Messrs. Occleston and of Messrs. Tootal, adjoin ing to-which is a mans of buildings, very closely packed, which, if ignited, must have resulted in a vast sacrifice of property. The Theatre itself belongs to a company of proprietors, and, we understand, is, with the proprietors' scenery, &c., fully insured ; and, not having been a p , ,ying concern of late, will, in all probability, never be rebuili. The site, which is of great value, will most likely be in a short time covered with warehouses. THE DUKE of WELLINGTON. — Wednesday last was the birthday of the Duke of Wellington, who con.pleted his 75th year. His grace dined in the evening with Count and Countess St. Aula - re, at Manchester House, where a grand banquet was giveo by his exi . ellencv in honour of the fete day of his Majesty the Kqig of the French. In the morning of the same tlav, his grace, accomoanied by the Marchioness of Douro, hooolirrd M. Clasidet with a sitting for a portrait, at Vie daltierteotvpe estatili hmeilt in the Adelaide Gallrrv. The noble duke sat w•ce, and the result was extremely satisfactory.—Standard. MR. DYCE SOMBRE —lt is well known t most of our readers that Mr. Dyce Sombre has b-en resi ling for some time past at Paris, where he has been giving a series of entertainmen's to the elite of that city. He has also b TT' received by Louis Philippe at the Tuileries. Being strongly impressed with a conviction of the injustice of the decision by which he was declared to be incapable of ma naging his affairs, he consulted some of the first medical authorities in Paris. An army of French physicians after lengthened examinations, long reports of which have appeared in the public journals, have decided—" That from the appreciation of all the conversations that they have held with Mr. Dyer Sombre, of all his acts which have come to their knowledge, they are all perfe-tly con vinced that at the present time Mr. Dyce Sombre is in full possession of his intellectual and affective faculties, that the movements of jealousy, the tenacity of which are revealed in several expressions of Mr. Doyce Sombre, do not appear to exceed the ordinary fi-elings of an European and with much more reason than these of an Asiatic.— That from ail the information furnished by several persons, who have known Mr. Dyce Sombre ever since his arrival in France. the full possession of his intellectual at•tl affec tive faculties I,as not failed him since that period. " A petition has been pres.trittcl to the Court of Chancery, to set aside the finding of the cornmi:sion, which was argued on Friday, when the Lord C.:linnet-11er said Mr. Sombre ought to he brought within his juriAdicti in order that he might iscertain by petsonal enqui , y whether he (Mr. S.) was a party to the proceedings and understood their nature. DARING ROBBERY IN CHESTER.—On Sunday after noon last, some scoundrels br-ke into a house adjoining the city walls, near the race course,"in the occupation of the Misses Foulkes. It appeared that an entrance was effected by getting over the will which bounds the house on one side, and then f acing open the drawing-room window, during the absence of the Mi , ses Foulkes 'and the female domestics at Church. Every roam in the house was ransacked ; the principal batty obtained be the robhers consisted of a larhe qqa:itity of jewellery. Among the articles stolen were a geld tnaltese fine chain about t.vo yards, and a tortise shell and gr:ld eye-glass appended; a new g.ild chain ; a pair of bracelets ; one agate,. cut in circles, and other diff-rent gems ; a silver philigre shell brooch ; a gold pin with hair, set round with small garnets; rings; a chrysolite w:th single stones, of yellow tinge ; a ring of Irish gold, with In-h motto, and the sham rock in Irish emerald ; a gold ring, with hair, old fa-pion-d, and set with small garnets ; diamond pin ; two pios of onvx stones, with gold chain uniting the pins; a cotnelian br. och ; a trooch, green stones and socket, &c., appended ; and old-fairioned ring, set with small garnets ; a ring with small diamond in the centre, on each side of it topaz and par' ; a ring set round with pearl, and other small brooches ; tortoise shell and gold eye glass. The thieves left behind them several skeleton keys and a picklock. The police are pursuing a vigorous search after them, and we hope they will speedily be brought to justice.—Chester Courant. ART-UNIONS.—On Saturday week a general meeting of artists took place in London on toe sohjert of the in terference of government with the Art-Unions. Mr. Wye, M.P., who was in the chair, spoke at great length, On the advantages of th -se institutions. and apttear : d to entertain a confident op;nion that the legislaiure . will he disposed to ititerfer- in their favour. It wis &ode Iby the meeting, to present a memorial to the First Lord of asso ciation, the Treasury, praying for a committee of ii , ci;ry, and pe titions to the two houses of parliam ent t o th e s a m e eff ec t. If the Art-Unions are really to he su pp re s se d, we n ave art,by wthheophiaicnecifpulellyol provedlhi o tt w l e much thibt rn ti: i a y t b t e h a e c f c r o i ti will devise some other means by which the same advantage may be secured. The editor of the Art-Union (in the number for May) urges upotaall who are favorable to these societies, that an effort to place the, mAm a firm basis should he at once made. Ile sass : " Toe stoppage of Art-Unions will be to British Art a heavy blow and great discouragement.' But let us not anticipate so terri ble an evil. Vire shall wait at least for the next step. It must he tsken ere long. The personal le-ling of the pre mier will he tantamount to a decision of the matter. No marl, state man or private gent eman, is more universally esteemed for his lova of the arts and his desire to foster all things that tend to elevate the character, refine the mind, and promote rational enjoyment. If he opposes a well-dig sted scheme—should such a one be submitted to him—for placing Art-Unions on a firm principle. and a safe foundation, we shall at once conclude that he is pre paring some plan by which the British Government will sustain and encourage Br . tish Art—remodelling old insti tutions, so as to render them more in accordance with the spirit of the age, and trAking it—as it is made in other states—the business of the nation to foster and advance that which will ever be the chiefest of national distinc tions." FACTORY BILL.—At a meetiig of the friends of the ten-hours clause in Rochdale last week, Mr. Leach, one of the sneakers, blamed the millowners for sanctioning some r , f the most palpably f a lse s t a t em ents, which appeared in the Manchester Guardian of that week, for the purpose of deceiving the House of Commons relative to the pro portion of women e m pl oye d i n f actor i e s. In the article to which he referred it was sta t e d that, taking 412 mills, in which there were employed 116,281 persons, 28,459 were men and 26,710 women , the object being to show that the advoc a t es o f th e T en Hours Bill were wron g when they stat e d th a t th e ma j o rity of workers in the mills were women. But the injustice and trickery of these ta bles would appear when it was considered, in the first place, that not one-half of the working population was accounted for. In the mills enumerated 116,281 t , ersons were said to be emil..yed. and of these account wa s t a k en of only 55,169, leaving 61.112 entirely out of the question. (Cheers.) In fact, they only gave the men and women above 21 years of age, while all below 21 (the mote cri tical age fir women, aid the great preponderance of those in the mills being under 21 ) were left unacennut e d f or. , whl e l i must b e extios d as ot (Cheers.) Sarely it was sit least as imp ortant t h at female labour in factories should he protected when und er 21 as when above - that age. (Cheers.) There wis another misstatement of t- nos in t hat b r p ar a r i ort wicked a t tempts to delude the ceuritry he had ever known. Tie stat ement was this _that since 1833 there had been no reduction of wage, beyond 2d. per head per week. (C r i es of " What a lie !") Y,s, a lie indeed was, t.nl most atroeieu s one t oo . i t de In the cotton districts of Yorkshire and Lancashire wages had since that period . bee n re d uced at least 2s. 6d. per head r week. (Cheers ) He k new a mill at Fit nand wood which had lately been runnitte from half-pas' 5 a.m. till 11 at nicht, six days in the w.sek ; and he knew a fa mily—father, mother, an d children—who w-re now work ing in that mill 17 and 18 hours a day. (•• Shame !") Surely such a state of thi;igs rt quired sane ratulation. ((:beers) The masers • w•oild be consultieg their best int, rests, and the i.oev,,t, of society !tree. by pro 'come the labourin a eL tsses , a, d n(ivoc oinsr t le rights of native indu•tt Y. II- hoped tey won+d yet cure for ward, and assist their men in getting the Ten flours Bill. May 7. 1844 SPo .1: 11 _V G 11YTELLIUENCE. CHESTER RACES. TUESDAY. A PRODUCE .I'VEEPSTAkES 0* 50 80VS Pa Ch, h ft, COltJ Bst 41h, fillies. 8-t ; two miles ; 10 subs. Mr. Most br c 11, ithel by Velocipede.... (Holmes) I Sir R. 13ulkeley's bl f Coal-brick lictse..(o.Whitehouse) A MATCH 49 sovs each, p:p. mile and half. Mr. Smith's is g Tnlialvaqt, aged, Bst (Copeland) / Mr. Coile't's br h Rory ( t'l‘4 , .re, aged 9q.(Whitehouse) 2 Even betting. and 5 to 4 on Rory O'More. A SWPEPSTARES if 25 ,ovS each, fo- two years old colt/ 8-t 51b, fillies Bst 21 ; half a mile; 12 suhs. . Mr. Worthingto n ' s e h f L ancas hi re W itch .... (Oates) i Mr. Smith's gr f Alice Gray Six others started. A SWEEPSTAKES of 5 says each, with 50 sovs added the Proprietors of the Grand Ftand, for horses that never won before th- day of entry for the Pled' He , ats. one mile and a half; three years old 6st 101 b, four Bst 21b. five Ss: 81h, six and aged Bst 1216; mares and geldings allowed 31h. ; 5 sob s . Mr. Daw-o 's b g D a , t W a •t v , 4 yrs (L ye ) 4 1 1 ._ Mr. Speed's ch g Wal,o r , 3 y rs .. Mr. Wils ,n's be by H am' t on . 3 yrs.. (D ar l ng ) 2 dl°' Sir R. Pigot's ch f by Dr. Faustus, 3 years (Arthur) 3 a WEDNESDAY. -- - The DEE STAND CUP, in specie, by subscription of IG sovs each, with 50 sous added by the Dee Stand Pro prie tors. Three-year-olds 6st •' four, 8 , 4 21b; gv e l Bst 12th ; six, 9 s t 21b ; an d aged 9st 41b. Once Nano and a distance. (7 subs.) Mr. Meik!aon's br c Best of Three, 3 yrs .. (Abdale) Lord Westminster's hr f Phvrne, 4 yrs .. (Templem4a),.: 6t04 on Best of Three. Phy rne too k t h e Ira d ;at w; distance Abdale chall enge d, soon d e f eate d P hyrne , aa" won, hard held, by two lengths. The TRADESMAN PLATE of 200 sOvs in specie, added a Handicap Sweepstakes of 25 sous etch, 15 soya ft' Two wiles and a quarter. Second horse to save bii stake. (94 subs.) at lb 4 0 Duke of Richmond's beliceFeßreHeedda.D,mtet7rn....(.(HK..ei.stc,hertnineel 7 87 8 38 M M Mr. r r . IVlPSl'ouesmPti;menne'rss:'scnhb'semeGhAeneral Pollock (Cartw ( r N igh tt ti . S ' 8 6 Mr. Wrather's b c Nutwith 8 5 Colonel Craddock's b h Pagan . (Templeman) 0 711 Mr. Coll-tt's b h Cattonite .. 7 10 Lord Eglington's br h Jamie Forest...(J. Howlett) 0 ° 7 0 Lord G. Rentinck's b e Br 'milk .... (S. Rogers) A 7 5 Mr. Worthington's hr c H oo t to (Owes) 7 5 Mr. W. Dawson's br c Merry Andrew.. (Bliontiy) v 7 4 Mr. W. W. Wynn's ch c (Mann) 7 4 Mr. Igoe's eh g The Broken Down.... (Dodgson) v 7 3 Mr. F. A Milbank's b g Arnagill 7 2 Mr. Graydon's br h Roseius....... (J. Williams) 7 1 Mr. Toke's br m Ermengardis ..... (G. Francis) v 7 0 Mr. Gough's b g Greenfinch.... (Denman) 6 13 Sir W. Stanley's ch g Vakeel .... 7 12 Mr. Bri•ztow's b c Pharoah . (Crouch ea 6 8 Lord We s t m i ns t er ' s b g M artyr 6 8 Mr. Speed' s gr c E ver t on (Darling, o jtinn ti 6 4 Mr. Oven's b c Xanthos. 5 10 Lord Millt , ,wo's b I Birdeen (M a iden) „v 5 10 Mr. R. J. M os ty n ' s c h f Miss Miler; (W. Arthur) v 5 0 Mr. H. St e b o i ng ' s b r f C e l es t e ( L angsta ff) 0 4 6 Lord G. Be n ti nc k' s B es t Bower .... (Abdale„) o A most beau iful s tart to o k p l ace at th e fi rst go. iv: 1) •er taki ng th e l ea d, Fverton second and Bra m bl e thin", At the C ool i e - po l e , fi rs t ti me roun d , R ed Deer i n cre ased oi the pa-e, and led by several lengths, which he maintaine d to the end, and won with the greatest ease by ten length' being most admirably ridden by little Kitchener. TO old mare ran very game with all her weight. Roseins' Arnamill, and Rowland brough up the rear. Celeste or' tied 21h over. Everton 31b, Broken Dawn 31b. and Mk s Miggs 81b. Celeste threw her jock opposite the Judge_, chair, fi rs t ti me roun d, b ut h e was not hurt. Lord Genrs; Bentinck brought the horses together i n t wo li nes . fruit and rear, an d a ft er th e , race comp li mente d the jockiefi ;„r, the h'ghest terms. Value of the stakes, deducting tv" money to second, &c., £1,420. BETTING BEFORE STARTING.-31 t o 1 agst Red fi r ' 5 to to 1 agst Br am bl e , 8 t o 1 agst P agan, 1 0 to 1 vt c .". , Nutwith, 15 to 1 Rest Freedom, 15 to 1 agat Cann 21 to 1 agst Jamie Fo r e s t, 25 t o 1 agst X ant h us , 2r agst Everton, 25 to 1 a gs t P o ll oc k, 30 to 1 ag . t A w , thorn, and long odds agat any other. . SIXTY GUINEAS (clear) th e g ift o f the members •- rm the7lbi City Three-year-old colt s , 6 s t 101 h; filli e s, 6st four, colts, Bst 61o; fillies, Bst 31b. Heats, once round arida distance. 1 Mr. Meildim's br c Truebov, 4 y r s .. „(Templerrian) 1 2 Mr. J. King's ch c D .la mere ,4 yrs ..... (Marlow) Mr. Jones's ch f Mystery, 4 vrs THURSDAY. Her MAJESTY'S PLATE of 100 Guineas. Three-year-olds 7-t 21b : four, 9st 2111; five, 10st ; bis and aged, lOst 51b. Thrio, ron.d. S IVIr. irß A . li , lc . la ß m u ;s ke o t r ey e ,s Tr b ue m bo b y y , 4 B v a r y s . i .. idd ( i T i. e to m n pms , le s n) yrs 1 (Darling, sen) 2 Two others started. Won by a‘ head. The DER STAKES of 50 soya each. h ft, with 200 500 added by 'he Proprietors of the Grand Stand. Derby weight. Grosvenor course. The owner of the second horse to receive P5O snits. (31 sobs.) Mr. Williatnson's b c The Cure, by Physician—Mor sel Lord Stanley's b c by Touchstone—Verbena (Nati) ; Five others started. MARQUIS of WESTMINSER'S PLATE, value 100 toys in specie, added to a Handicap Sweepstakes of 20 s o" each, h ft. One mile and a quarter. (16 subs.) Mr. Plummer's b m Alice Hawshorne, 6 yrs (Temple: man) (Lye) 2 Mr. Meiklam's ch c Philip, 4 yrs . Six others started. The SELLING STAKES of 5 sous eac h, w i t h 30 sous a-- tided from the Racing Fund; heats, the Grosvenor Course' The winner to be sold for 100 sous, if demanded within a unarter of an hour after the race. Mr. Dawson's Da'esman, 3 yrs Mr. Smith' s b h M orpe th, 6 yrs (Fowler) )0 2 01 Mr. Cook's ch h Bedalian, aged .... (W. Jones) 1 0 2 Mr. Tate's ch m Sunflower, 6 yt s (Tate) 0 2 3" Dalesman the favourite, who took the lead, and or neared to he winning easy, when Jones. on Bedalian, up and defeated the crack cleverly. Dalesman carrrie 4!b over. Second he a t won i n a can t er. — Th i r d beat cleverly.—Fourth easy. FRIDAY. We had again a most glorious day, a large compaa' and good racing. The event came off as follow : The ROODEE HANDICAP STAKES of 10 sovs each, b f 1 with 30 sovs added, for three-year-olds that have Oa during the week ; from the Two Mile Post in (nearly mile.) M Nlr r . " J M . ° Vo n g" s s b ch f eLYadayrrAowlice'.3 yrs .... ... (Marlow) I (Francis) ': Mr. Price's ch I M iss y, 3 yr 5...... Mr. Dawson' s h r c D a l esman. 3 yrs (Lye ) . . An excellent race, won by half a head. : A FREE HAND ICAP S TAKES o f 10 sovs eac h , wit,.l. 50 sovs added by the Grand Stand Proprietors, for all ages' three quarters of a mile. (17 subs.) Mr. Dawson's br g Lo r d S a lt oun, 3 yra Mr. Bristow's b c Freystrop, 3 yrs The CHESHIRE STAKES of 25 soya. each, 15 ft, with _A soya added by the citizens of Chester. The seal "- saved his stake. Mile and a half. 20 subs. Lord Meiklam's ch c Phili i. 4 yrs N 2 Lord Westminster's b g Martyr, 5 yrs ...... (IVlaiden, „ Sir C. Monck's br f Glossop, 4 yrs Tilt WIRRAL STAKES of 10 sovs each, with 30 added 13 ! the Gentlemen of Wirral, for two and three-Year-olds. T.Y C. Second to save his stake. 7 subs. Mr. H i 11's br c Beaumont, 3 yrs Mr.Meiklarn's hr c Best of Three, 3 yrs (Templeman) 2 The. LADIES' PURSE, value £5O, to be run for by belles beaten during the week: heats, once round and a tits' tance. Second to receive £lO. 1 Mr. Gough's b m Fausta, 6 yrs.... .... (Dadgson) 1 3 2 Mr. Mostyn's ch f Miss Miggs, 4 yrs (G. Francis) 3 1 , 2 (A bda le) so s yrs 2 2 1 Sir R. W. Bulkeley's b m by Bay Middleton, 5 ........ 4 4 4 Mr. King's ch c Delimere, 4 vrs . PIANO-FORTES.—Iii another column in our Pape r of this day appears an advertisement from Mr. J. Batwing of Pembroke-place, announcing an enormous reducti" u , re about on w th o e cr t p Ah r ßy i t c po e tEh . bTe i e n aEmt c ts o aeTd n nAe s t consequence esh on o n Hif c s m e t phe o roeN f ; e e t b e swo n , u s ote i f v tw e ot he a per l e t un e vr r uc a thmh t a i ee o sre n oo. s tu ths:r ex t : se lent instruments he has on hand. They are ext r e me l y L m o u r eh d. s e t r r e a e ti t fi , e r d e . c b e y n t a visit l yre-establ i shed to th e 'carpet m w r a . re E h l o l l use o stock of Brussels and other carpets, hearth-rugs, B‘c"' to most extensive and select, showing a vast improvetne ° I both in quality and pattern, in these beautiful and ur n e . ful products of the mo d ern l oom. Many of the drartl-be and dining-room c ar p e ti ngs are novel in design, o f "si finest texture , and o f th e r i c h est and most delicate, yo, r ie enduring colours. A mongst the numerous rugs e1e,„, 9 i.. t centre r -pieces e a c n t d p b ic o t r u d r e e r s i , ng, so auT he ab tired yexecuted some with th as s to most elaborat e nee dl e - wor k . T he proprietor e i g n u e ai b ot°°s l this localil 0 for his establishment— n e ar th e cen tre of _„/ chipping bu s i ness —h a d i n v i ew the greater convenien e . a re " ; the captains of vess e ls an d f am il ies res idi ng i n Cheah l and as he has det..rmined, notwithstandinz. the c e t he great and continued adva n c e i n p r i ce o f a ll ar ticles in „a trade, to content himself with selling at tbe old Prices_.4, confidently recommend all who would adorn their d or m tiles at a * cheap rate to visit his extensive rooms. Life r, ASSAULT.—On Saturday an : e ng i neer u pon the gr. pool and Manchester Railway was summoned befo re a n, go Rushton, on a charge of h av i ng assau lt e d a n elderly i . eAs d named Jones, by striking him several blows on th e an d and face. Jones stated that, contrary to his wis h , bit against his consent, the defend a nt b a d been in thl7 - 04 of courting his daughter and taking her out to Wal_tl. o f w ith the he that, when he recently interfered, putting an end to the fellow's unwished-for adnif.e;ti'igh was struck by him in the manner described. ivi_r d co ,tif ton ordered the defendant to pay a fine of b0 4 3-17 i , d oing or, in default, to be imprisoned one month; ar_ no relaral so, he said Jones had a perfect right to exercis e l ha t the authority for the protection of his daughter, f!"__ our able , defendant, if his intentions were pure and ne' Aijon st• should have gone openly and fairly to the e!Tl: sis. peri Per told him that he admired his daughter, and ksl: . 0 2' vig il_ tnission to nay h s addresses to her, gain he h __ res .e . l the Sue, was discharged. twoi,charrsroyf heron an parent. intim a c The w i defendant, thh e her aue t r th h e a e v Poi I