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Etteraturr. SELECTIONS. SECULAR KNOWLEDGE.—KnowIedge is not virtue; it may elevate the objects of crime, but it will never prevent its commission in some form or other. It did not teach Bonaparte to sacrifice his own desires to the happiness of any living creature • it neither made Augustus resp ec t th e life of Cicero, nor ;he pupil of Aristotle restrain the fury of his passions. Mirabeau, the genius of the French re volution, ails a monster of deprrvity ; and Robespierre himself was a man of education. lin,wledge, on the con trary, when undirected by religion it is made the servant of vice, has in all ages produced most fearful consequences. —Hogg's Weekly Instructor. THE IRISH COLLEGES.—The only case inexistence which can fairly be adduced as parallel, or nearly parallel, to that which the government is about to establish, is " University College," in London. There we have, indeed, a semi nary so rigidly secular, that the teaching of religion. and the exercise of its rites, in any shape, are forbidden. Now, has the experiment answered? Does University College flourish ? Can it be said to have answered the expecta tions of the philosophers and liberal-n-.inded men, who called it into existence ? We rather think not. The po pulation of London and its suburbs amounts, by the late census, to somewhere about one million eight hundred thousand souls. And the two colleges composing the University of London—one of which, by the by, is con ducted on strictly Church principles—are attended by something under four hundred students, of whom more than one half are students of medicine. If this be suc cess, then are our ideas of what success ought to be mar vellously exaggerated.—Fraver's Magazine. Way is ECHO FEMININE ?—Wben the exhibition was 'over, and we were plodding up the Gay, I asked Spillane why echo was always of the feminine gender? The bu gler scratched his head as if trying to elicit something from his brain, but soon acknowledged that he was unable to give a satisfactory answer. He observed that, although be had heard her every day, yet he had never seen her, and could not tell whether she wore petticoats or small 'clothes. All at once Spillane seemed struck with some new idea, and exclaimed. " May be, your honour, that echo is represented as a female because she has always , the last word." A newly-married couple were with us when Spillane delivered himself of his brilliant concep eon, and to the bride I referred the solution of the enigma. She very quickly and spiritedly replied, `" What, sir! would the lords of the creation wish to engross both the first and the last word! In that case, we poor women might lock up our tongues, as we do our jewels, to be used only on gala days."—Dr. James John son's Tour in Ireland. INCOME, &c., OF SIR W. FOLLETT.—As, like Scarlett, his main object was to make money, his gains must have been immense. He had as many special retainers as Scar lett in his best day, and more general and varied business; but Scarlett enjoyed forty-four years' practice, while Fol lett had only been twenty-one years at the bar when he died. Scarlett had been twenty-five years at the bar be fore he obtained a silk gown ; Follett obtained one in ten years, as Lord Plunkett had done ; but they were both in this respect outstripped by Erskine. who obtained his silk gown in 1783, when he was only of five years' stand ing in the profession. Scarlett was thirty-six years standing before be became attorney-general, while Follett was not twenty ; and only ten when named solicitor-ge neral. The professional income of Scarlett was for many years rated at £17,000 a-year ; and we have ourselves heard him say, he one year made £19,500; but we doubt that Follett ever made more than £15,000 a-year ; and we incline to think the gains of Lord Abinger must have been greatly exaggerated. He tins left not more than £BOOO a year behind him ; and making full allowances for some imprudent purchases, we doubt that his professional gains - put together ever amounted to £22o,ooo.—Fraser. MR. PITT'S DEATH-BED.—I happened to observe that I had read an account of Mr. Pitt's last moments in Gifford's " Life" of him, and that his dying words, pray ing for his forgiveness through the merits of his Redeem er, or words to that effect, together with the whole scene of his death-bed, appeared, as I thought, too much made up, and ton formal to be true; leaving the impression that the author, and those from whom he gathered his information, bad considered it a duty to make tile close of a great man's life comfortable to their religious feelings rather than to facts and reality. " Who is it that says it of him ?" asked Lady Hester. " Dr. Pretyman and Sir Walter Farquhar." `• Oh, it's all a lie," she replied, rather indignantly " Dr. Pretyman was fast asleep when Mr. Pitt died ; Sir Walter Farquhar was not there ; and nobody was present but James. I was the last per son who saw him except James, and I left him about eight o'clock, for I saw him struggling as if he wanted to speak, and I did not like to make him worse." After a short pause, she resumed :—" What should Mr. Pitt make such a speech for, who never went to church in his life ? Nothing prevented his going to church when he was at Walmer ; but he never even talked about religion, and never brought it upon the carpet."—Memoirs of Lady Hester Stanhope. A HINT TO THE ANTI-REVELATION GEOLOGISTS.— Nor let the mere naturalist say that this appeal to revela tion is out of place; for no other account can possibly be given of the present constitution of the earth, than one which admits of an agency which is supernatural. Things actually are in situations where they could not have placed themselves at first, and where they could not re main at the present time, save by the overruling of their natural properties and known laws by some power superior to these; contravening them in the first instance, and re sisting their tendencies ever since. And who can contra vene or resist laws ordained by the Creator but he him self? What, for instance, can be a more general law of nature than gravitation? Namely, that bodies heavier than water should sink—bodies lighter than water should swim ; and that when bodies of different gravity, yet heavier than water, are dissolved, they should subside to depths corresponding to their relative weights? But none of these things are so. For all the earths and stones, which form the land, are heavier than water; therefore, by the laws of nature, there should be no dry land—no earth or stones above the level of the sea. The whole globe, if left to arrange itself according to the laws of gravitation, would have been entirely covered by the sea; and even now, if left to the unrestrained action of those laws, would, by the natural tendencies of earth and water, speedily return to a condition in which neither men nor animals could subsist; and ere long, by the laws of gravitation, the heaviest bodies e raild reach the ocean, and be arranged one above the other according to their specific gravities; and one uniform sheet of water, varied only in its depth by tidal forces, would cover the whole surface of the earth.—Cnurch of England Quarterly. THE IRISH PROTESTANTS.—WhiISt every thing which the rapacity of Popery demands is granted to her the Pro testants look on with the apathy of despair. They are denounced as a feeble minority, worthless , and impotent, usurping the rights and fattening on the possessions of others. They give in a tacit verdict of guilty, and sit down ghastly, as men who await the fatal summons. One is shot at noon-day—another denounced by a rabid hire ling press, injured in character, and broken in spirit by monstrous lying. Another is hunted from the land by Ribbon blood-hounds; the rest sit by with their hands before them, isolated and heart broken—winking and nodding, as travellers tell us penguins do when sailors are throttling their companions. Could any one believe, look ing at the prevent position of the Irish Protestants, that they form a mighty and powerful party—that they have within themselves all the elements of moral and political greatness—that they possess nine-tenths of the property of the nation—that they compose the whole of the aristo cracy, with an exception too trifling for consideration— that in moral worth and intellectual power, they exceed in an equal proportion ; and that in number thay exceed two millions. Yet, with all this, they are overlo o k e d ant # despised by th e government, and trampled on and Assailed by the Romish party. Surely this must be their own fault—and so it is. It arises from love of ease, and from the total want of union amongst themselves. Their op ponents are confederated together—move, speak, think as one man, and bring in a moment all their force to bear upon a single point. They put forward their claims— make their demands—hold their assemblies—dictate their terms. Their success, the influence they exercise over the government, the concessions made to them in all they seek in reality, point out to the Protestant party the ne cessity of close and immediate union, if they would pre serve the remnant that is left.—Dublin Mail.—[Our con temporary then urges the Protestants of England to unite with their brethren in Ireland, and shows the advantage that would result from such a union.] ROMANCE OF REAL LlFE.—There is quite a little ro mance connected with a building in Genoa. It was for merly erected and owned by a wealthy man, who was in the habit of visiting a beautiful peasant girl in the neigh bourhood. Pleased with his attention, she cast off, as ladies are very apt to do, the rustic lover sbe had before encouraged. But although her new admirer was frequent and steady in his visits, he never mentioned the subject uf matrimony. Things went on this way for three years, till one night the gentleman was startled, as he was about leaving the house, by the abrupt entrance of the two bro thers of the innornarata, demanding that he should imme diately marry their sister. They told him that he had visited her for three years, thus keeping away other suit ors, and destroying all hopes of their sister's marriage except with him; three years were quite long enough for him to make up his mind in, and as he had not done it, they had concluded to do it for bim. This was bringing things to a focus he had not anticipated. For a man of wealth and station to marry a poor peasant girl, merely because he condescended to be smitten by her beauty, was something more than a joke; yet he saw at a glance that there was more meant by those brothers' speech than met the ear—in short, that his choice was to be a mar riage or stiletto through his heart. This was reducing things to the simplest terms •, rather too simple for the wealthy admirer. The trembling, weeping girl, the bold, reckless brothers, and the embarrassed gentleman, must have formed a capital group in a peasant's cottage. At length Signor attempted to compromise the matter by saying that then was not the time, nor there the place, to celebrate such a ceremony ; besides there was no priest, and the proper way would be to talk over the sub ject together in the morning. One of the brothers leaned back and rapped slightly on a side door ; it opened, and priest, with his noiseless, cat-like tread, entered the cir cle. " Here is a priest," said the brothers. There was a short interval of silence, when Signor made a slight movement towards the door. Two daggers instantly gleamed before him. He saw that it was all over with him—that the three years of courtship were going to amount to something after all—and so yielded with as good grace as possible, and the nuptials were performed. Like a man of sense he immediately placed his wife in a convent to be educated, while be, in the meantime, bought a title. Years passed by, and the ignorant pea -sant girl emerged into the fashionable world an accom- Wished woman. She is now a widow, and is called the beautiful Countess of —!—Headley': Letters front Italy. RELIGION IN ENGLAND AND FRANCE.---1 am full of admiration for your people and your-country, not only for your industry, and which, by the grace of God, has brought England to such riches and power; not only for the zeal, the devotedness, the sacrifice, the enthusiasm, which true religion meets everywhere in your Evangelical dominions; but also for that civil and religious liberty which you will very seldom find on the continent, and which is one of the greatest glories of England. I am astonished at the eloquence of your political orators and religious speakers. But could I be permitted, Sir, to venture one remark, to point out one contradiction, one defect ? I may perhaps err. but I express my sincere and respectful feeling. . . . We on the continent, especially in Switzerland, have always looked to England, as to a serious, Protestant, religious country ; and to France, as to an infidel nation, very apt to laugh, to rail, to abuse re ligion, but for some years we have remarked a very singu lar transformation. When there is some discussion on re ligious matters, in both Houses of France, we find, gener ally, a serious and respectful frame of mind ; while in England we meet, sometimes, words of contempt for Evangelical people, their faith, their meetings. We are quite astonished at this; we cannot understand the mat ter. What is the reason of that remarkable phenomenon ? Perhaps, that the religion with which French senators have specially to contend is a religion of man, and that man finds ever respect for a human system ; whilst the religion with which British senators meet is the religion of God, and the wisdom of God, which is folly to man. I hope, Sir, that matters will change, and that this reli gious and Protestant country, will have now and ever, religious and serious representatives. To be a serious, religious country, that is, Sir, in the world the honour of England !—D'Aubigne's Speech at Manchester. . CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR MURDER.—That which renders the punishment of death peculiarly appropriate, in our estimation, in the crime of murder, is not by any means its retaliatory character ; the sentiment, that " blood must have blood," is one which we have no de sire to foster; and if some less grievous penalty would have the same effect in deterring from the et ime, we should, of course, willingly adopt it. Our ground of approval is this, that it presents to the mind an antagonist idea most fit to encounter the temptation to the crime. As this temptation must generally be great. and often sudden, that antagonist idea should be something capable of seizing upon the apprehension at once—of exercising at once all its restraining efficacy. Imprisonment for length of years —the mind must calculate and sum up the long list of pains and penalties included in this threat, before its full import is perceived. But death ! And then the after death ! For what makes the punishment of death so sin gularly applicable to the case of murder is this, that it awakens whatever may exist of religious terror in the mind of him who contemplates the crime. On the one hand, be is about to commit a deed on which there are not two opinions ; it is not a crime made such by the laws ; it is not even a robbery, for which he may frame excuses out of his destitution, and the harsh distinctions of society ; it is murder, which heaven and earth, rich and poor, equally denounce. On the other hand, his guilt will bring him almost immediately before the tribunal of God, as well as the judgment-seat of man. No long interval weakens the impression, no long space holds out the vague prospect of repentance and amendment, and compensatory acts of goodness ; but if he will lift the knife, if he will mingle the poison, there is the earthly executioner ready to trans fer him to the still more dreadful sentence of the after world ! The same opinion which condemns the crime of murder here on earth, as the most atrocious that can be committed, follows him to that other tribunal; and all that his imagination has been accustomed to depict of the horrors of infernal and eternal punishment, rushes at once upon him.—Blackwood. THE BUXTON WATERS.—Tbe tepid waters of Buxton, whether drunk or used as a bath, or made use of in both ways, are found to be especially useful in cases of rheu matism, gout, neuralgia, spinal irritation, and certain forms of derangement of the digestive, urinary, and uterine functions. The effect of these waters on the system, whe ther in health or disease, is essentially stimulating. The stimulating effect is usually produced more immediately, and in a more marked degree, when the water is drunk, than when it is only used as a bath ; but the effect is ge nerally of much shorter duration. When the water is drunk by a person in perfect health, it frequently produces a slight sense of giddiness, followed by a sufficiently per ceptible degree of increased warmth, and the usual marks of increased action that attend the use of any other stimu lant. If, however, the water has not disagreed with the system, these indications will be found to pass away very speedily. If not thus rapidly got rid of, or the internal u , e of the water be continued under improper circum s'ances, the excitement increases, the irritation is set up, marked by thirst, loss of appetite, headache, quickened circulation, and other symptoms of feverishness and de rangement. The effect of the bath on a healthy system is, that the momentary shock at the instant of immersion is followed promptly by re-action, with a decided general glow and increased vigour of mind and body, increase of appetite and of general secretion and excretion. This is apt to be followed in the course of a few days, the use of the bath being continued every day, or even if used some what less frequently, by some degree of sluggishness of the organs, and, these indications being unheeded, by fe verishness and general derangement. It need hardly be said, that no such eff , ct would succeed the drinking of repeated tumblers of warm water at the temperature of 82 degrees, nor would such be induced by bathing re peatedly in warn water of this temperature ; and this would be sufficient to show, that the tepid waters of Bux ton have specific and remarkable effects upon the human system, and be a priori evidence that they may be influ ential in certi in cases of disease. The fact that these wa ters are so essen ially and largely stimulating renders es pecial care necessary that they be not made use of under improper circumstances, and that every means be taken to render the cases to which they are adapted as fit as pos sible for their beneficial operation.—Dr. Roberteon'a Guide to the Use of the Buxton Waters. VOLTAIRE A MONEY-MAKER. — Resolving henceforth to be a man of fashion, with literature for the occupation of his mornings, he determined also to increase, if possi ble, his fortune by some preliminary methods, to such an extent as should enable him to dispense with the usual gains of literary employment—in other words, to exert his talents according to his own taste and bent, without caring whether the results might or might not pass mus ter with royal or ecclesiastical censors, and receive or 1 want accordingly the protection of the law as property. What method he took remains in some obscurity ; that dabbling in the funds was one of them, all his biographers ' seem to take for granted. We have little doubt that this was the chief resource, and, moreover, that he was assisted by persons in high station, who sheltered their own dis- 1 graceful traffic in the raw material of official knowledge, by conducting it in the name of this roturier stripling. Lord Brougham seems to think that Voltaire owed his largest accession of wealth to some merely commercial speculations, in which he engaged under the guidance and patronage of one Falconer, an English merchant, during the few years that he spent, when still a very young man, in or near London. Where Lord Brougham found this story we are not aware. To the old suspicion that he profited very much by the Mississippi bubble, he objects that Voltaire was not apparently resident in Paris during that insanity ; but he admits that be might have speculated through agents, and that he had Parisian friends well skil'ed in such affairs, seems the best ascer tained fact in this department of his history. It is pro bable that he continued through life as determined a stock-jobber as his disc:pie Talleyrand; and there were not a few occasions on which Voltaire must have possessed means of access to government secrets both in France arid elsewhere, as precious for the purposes of this trade as Talleyrand himself, or any surviving liberal but one, ever enjoyed. There is no doubt that long before his fortieth year he was master of an estate not only abundant, but splendid. After that time he seems to have acted as a sort of banker to many of the French nobles, and even to several of the smaller German potentates. When he died he left, besides some landed possessions, a monied capital producing a revenue of full £7,000 a year—equal in France then to double the sum in England now, at the very least. And we see no reason to suppose that any part worth mentioning of this great fortune was de rived from the sale of those productions which had been piled on or under every counter in Europe, during half a century of uniform and unrivalled:popularity.— Quarterly. THREE GENTLEMEN AS ONE.—Any one who reads the evidence on which the report of the committee on the Dublin and Galway Bill is founded. will see that the charges against the company are completely substantiated, The examination of the witnesses forms a little drama, revealing, through the medium of some very amusing dialogue, a succession of the most startling incidents. The characters comprise a mixture of villains and victims, though the former greatly preponderate. We have wrong ful shareholders and rightful shareholders—few enough of the latter, by the way—and a benevolent old gentleman who has just returned to his native lari,4loler long years of absence. Such are the principal dramatis persona? who figure in the strange scenes which bare just been enacted before a committee of the House of Lords on the Dublin and Galway Railway. The principal character—if the term character can be applied to a person who pretends to none—is one Stinton, an importer of French leather, alias William Baldron, a silk throwster, disguised occasionally as Henry Penton, a ship-broker. This singular, or ra ther this plural personage, has a most extraordinary ta lent for personation; and he so completely puzzled the committee before whom he appeared that their lordships could not make out whether it was Stinton, or Baldron, or P ( w hade c e ba n en t e o nn n o , tg o ci v r a il nlgo one neither ee va one iodevn various nor ieo.o s t 2.T h n e .h o si v t h id e ur astonishing,a t l h l three,is Stinson, iv ni4 t t o h u fl e a ! or h ase ehr ßaldron, ,a dw,h or it ens P eh e ee n mi t se o , n ih, lemfeo been in a w ii fn e ct h c l e a ea n ri n il ye o h t ta ventureuncertain tat ai ak i t an o sg tfixloe letters from himself to himself, and receiving correspondence for himself as somebody beside himself, appearing in three disguises within one hour, and becoming three se parate shareholders in one railroad within the same brief period. Proteus himself could not have surpassed the promptitude with which Stinton changed himself into Baldron, then to Penton, and then to Stinton back again. It is said of Proteus that "he was diffi cult of access, and that when consulted he refused to give answers by assu ming different shapes." Such did Stinton prove himself when before the committee; for just as their lordships thought they had fixed him as Baldron, whose letters he bad opened and received, he suddenly eiodes a question as to his being absolutely , Baldron, by exc l a i ming, " Sup pose me to be his clerk ; thus leaving his examiners as much perplexed as ever what to make of him. Scarcely had he started the notion of his being Baldron's clerk, than he pops back into his original character of Stinton, and then making another dodge, with an air of sincerity, exclaiming, " Truth is best — a somewhat late disco ver y on his part—he acknowledges to his being the personator of William Baldron. The entire evidence of this extra ordinary man gives us a curious insight into the way in which railway shares have been procured. A schemer has only to select a few different names, and get his let ters taken in at a few different places, in order to multi ply to any extent his chances of allotment of shares, and his prospects of gain by the premium.— Times. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. EXTRAORDINARY SPECIMENS OF MOSAICS.—As an example of the extraordinary minuteness of the work in some mosaics, we may state that there is one specimen, a portrait of Pope Paul V. in which the face alone consists of more than a million and a half of fragments, each no longer than a millet seed ; and from this size up to two inches square, pieces are employed in various ways. Another celebrated specimen is that which Napoleon or dered to be made when his power was paramount in Italy. It was to be a mosaic copy of the celebrated " Last Sup per," by Leonardo da Vinci, and to be of the same size as the original, viz., 24 feet by 12. The artist to whom the task was entrusted was Giacomo Raffaelle, and the men under his direction, eight or ten in number, were en gaged for eight years on it. The mosaic cost more than seven thousand pounds, and afterwards came into the possession of the Emperor of Austria.-2'lie Builder. GENIUS. —Genius should not be confounded with the fumes of physical excitement, though many thus erro neously class and confound it. Its fury is not, to use the words of Milton, " the trencher fury of a rhyming para site." It is not, he says again, "to be raised from the fumes of wine, but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spi rit who can command his seraphim to take a live coal from the altar wherewith to touch and purify the lips of his chosen." Genius is a thing too etherial to be extracted from any narcotic weed, or liquorous distillation, or any such compound of " fire and dirt" as oozes from the pierced poppy. Often indeed has this haughty power condescended to call in such auxiliaries to its aid, but sel dom without loss, never without danger, and often with the absolute, slavish, and irremediable subjection of the higher to the inferior influence. Let the case of Cole ridge, who, like the Genie in the Arabian tale, shut up in the iron pot, though his freed stature reached the sky, vo luntarily inclosed his stupendous powers in a laudanum phial, stand a perpetual lesson to all youthful aspirants to beware how they tamper with such tyrannous enslavers. Burns wrote his earlier and better pieces on the regimen of porridge and milk. Cowper found in tea a sufficient stimulus to his mild but powerful genius. Wordsworth sings of his lake water with a gusto which seems to inti mate that it is his favourite beverage. The leading lite rary men of the present day, though not all practisers of total abstinence, are sober and regular in their habits. And Milton, stateliest of the sons of men, and only a lit tle lower than the angels, found in music an excitement richer and more ravishing than was ever extracted from the blood of the grapl.—Hogg's Weekly Instructor. OPPOSING ENGINEERS.—Of all the tribunals ever in vented by the ingenuity of man, a parliamentary commit tee is the most extraordinary. It is a court of inquiry con sisting of five members, whose principal qualification is absolute previous ignorance of the localities and conflict ing interests with regard to which they must decide. Of their impartiality, therefore, there can be no doubt. You or I might just as well sit down after a moment's notice, and adjudicate upon the merits of three competing lines between Pekin and Canton, with an equal chance of ar riving at a satisfactory conclusion. Of course they must be guided entirely by evidence, and have plenty of mate rials laid before them from which they may pick and choose. It is the richest thing in the world to see two crack engi neers pitted against each other. The first, who-appears on behalf of the line, does not know and cannot conceive the slightest engineering difficulty. If a mountain stands in his way, be plunges fearlessly into its bowels, finds in the interior strata of surpassing mineral wealth, yet mar vellously adapted for the purposes of a four-mile tunnel, and brings you out sound and safe at the opposite side, as though he had been perforating a gigantic cheese instead of hammering his path through whinstone coeval with the creation. If a lake stands in the way, he will undertake to drain it, with immense advantage to the neighbouring proprietors. If a valley intervenes, he will bridge it with a viaduct, which shall put to shame the grandest relics of antiquity. He bas no knowledge of such bugbears as steep gradients or dangerous curve ; a little hocus-pocus with the compasses transforms all these into gentle undu lations, and sweeps of the most graceful descriptioa. He will run you his rails right through the heart of the most populous city, —yea, even Glasgow herself,—and across the streets, without the slightest interruption to the traf fic. He will contrive so that the hissing of the locomo tive shall be as graceful a sound as the plashing of a foun tain in the midst of our bisected squares ' • and he ikindig nant at the supp os iti on t h at any human being can be be sotted enough to prefer the prospect of a budding garden, to a clean double pair of rails beneath his bedroom win dow, with a jolly train steaming it along at the rate of some fifty miles per hour. The opposing engineer has a contrary story to tell. He has the utmost confidence in the general ability of his scientific friend, but on this oc casion he has the misfortune to differ in opinion. Very carefully has he gone over the whole of the line surveyed. He is sorry to say that the gradients are utterly.impossi ble, and the curves approaching to a circle. Tunnelling is out of the question. How are two miles of quicksand and two of basaltic rock to-be gone through ? The flu st is deeper than the Serbonian bog, and would swallow up the whole British army. The second could not be pierced in a shorter time than Pharaoh took to construct the pyra mids of Egypt. He considers a rails ay in the heart of a town to be an absolute and intolerable nuisance ; and, on the whole, looking at the plan before him, he has come to the conclusion, that a more dangerous and impracticable line WaS never yet laid before a committee of the United Parliament of Great Britain.—Blackwood. RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. (From the Railway Magazine of Saturday.) NAME. Cor. wk. , Last gers. Passen- Money. lastyear, Div. , Arbroath and Forfar — 4257 4276 32 Birmingham and Gloucester.. 4 Chester and Birkenhead .... 938 648 i Dublin and Drogheda Dublin and Kingstown Dundee ai,d Arbroath . 8738 398 331 4 Durham and Sunderland .... 39426 414 498 i Edinburgh and Glasgow .... 25434 3378 2459 42 Eastern Counties. . . Glasgow and Ayr 19481 2203. 1621 5 Glasgow and Greenock 22448 1341 1075 22 Grand Junction Gravesend and Rochester 14050 341 Great North of England Great Western 64234 19805 18927 7i Hull and Selby — -- 1638 7 Hartlepool Dock and Rail. Liverpool and Manchester London and Birmingham — 22504 20741 10 London and Blackwall 87215 1435 1701 18 9 . London and Brighton London and Croydon.. 2!532 1777 632 42 London and Greenwich 53403 1107 844 2gs Southwestern Manchester, Bolton, and Bury 981 920 5 Manchester and Birmingham. 4565 3511 5 Manchester and Leeds and Hull and Selby — 7623 7 Midland Counties Newcastle and Darlington Newcastle and Carlisle Newcastle and North Shields 24822 531 568 4 North Union .. 19783 2222 1731 North Midland — 4-1 Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen 21587 6193 5920 7 Preston and Pyre Sheffield and Manchester n3o3 1524 757 South Eastern .. - Taff Vale . Ulster Yarmouth andiNorwich .. 5363 459 834 5 York and North Midland , 21298 5626 3001 10 FREDERICA BREMER.—Frederica Bremer was born in the year 1802. After the death of her father, a rich mer chant and proprietor of mines, she resided at Schonen, and, subsequently, with a female friend in Norway. She now lives with her mother and sister alternately in the Norrlands Gatan, at Stockholm, or at their country seat, at A rsta. If I were to talk to you about Miss Bremer's romances you would laugh at me, for you are doubtless ten times better acquainted with them than I am. But you are curious, perhaps, to learn something about her appearance, and that I can tell you. You will not expect to hear that Miss Bremer, a maiden lady of forty, retains a very large share of youthful bloom ; but, independently of that, she is really anything but -handsome. Her thin, wrinkled physiognomy is, however, rendered agreeable by its good humoured expression, and her meagre figure has the benefit of a neat, simple style of dress. From the style of her writings I used always to take her to be a go verness ; and she looks exactly like one. She knows she is not handsome, and, on that account, has always re fusrd to have her portrait taken. The one they sell of her in Germany is a counterfeit, the offspring of an ar tist's imagination, stimulated by speculative booksellers. This summer there was a quizzing paragraph in one of the Swedish papers, saying that a painter had been sent direct from America to Rome and Stockholm to take por traits of the pope and of Miss Bremer.- Boas' Letters from Sweden. • THE FATE OF STODDART AND CONOLLY.—At last it was agreed that he (Stoddart) should write to England, to be acknowledged as the accredited agent of Great Bri tain at the court of Bokhara, and that the King of Bok hare should be the acknowledged Sovereign of Turkis taun, &c. ; and Colonel Stoddart promised that in four months an answer should arrive from the Government of England. Though at his (Stoddart's) request, japar khanas (post-houses) were established from Bokhara to Sarakhs, which did not exist either at Bokhara or in the land of Turkistaun, from the time of Afrasiah, fourteen months had elapsed and no answer arrived. During the time that Colonel Stoddart was at Bokhara ; Captain Co nolly went from Organtsh (Khiva) to Kholand ; where he stopped a considerable time, exciting both countries to wage war against the Ameer of Bokhara. He at last ar rived at Bathers, announcing himself as a British agent, without having any letters from the British government; and whatever Colonel Stoddart had agreed to he upset, announci,g to the King of Bokhara that the British Go vernment would never interfere with the affairs of Turk istaun ; and all that Colonel Stoddart had agreed to went for nothing. Thus it was clear that Colonel Stoddart was a liar. During the stay of Conolly and Stoddart, they took every opportunity of despatchinz, in the most stealthy manner, letters to Cabul ; and on this account his Ma jesty became displeased; and Captain Conolly and Col. Stoddart were brought, with their hands tied, behind the Ark, (Palace of the King,) in presence of Makhram Saa dat ; when Colonel Stoddart and Captain Conolly kissed each other, and Captain Conolly said to Saadat, " Tell the Ameer that I die a disbeliever in the Muhamined,but a believer in Jesus ' • that I am a Christian, and a Chris tian I die." And Conolly said, " Stoddart, we shall see each other in paradise (Behest), near Jesus." Then Saadat gave the order to cut off first the head of Stod dart, which was done; and in the same manner the head of Conolly was cut off.—Dr. Wolf's Mission to Bokhara. SPANISH RAILWAY VISIONS.-1n this age of quackery _ _ _ we should look in vain for anything to match the scheme of railways for the Spanish peninsula—the grand Madrid and Aviles junction by Valladolid and Leon !—the grand Madrid and Barcelona line by Zaragoza and Lerida ! the grand Madrid and Alicante !—the grand Madrid and Cadiz !—the grand Madrid and Badajoz !—to be connected of course with the grand web of Portugal ! But only look at the map. See the enormous distances—the vast desert plains—the huge obstinate hard sierras intersecting the desolate ill-peopled wildernesses. Consider the few ness and the poverty of the far-separated, withered, idle, tradeless towns—even the metropolis inferior in every resource to any second-rate English city ; a venerable adage asserts that the angels have many a tussel amongst themselves for a place in the celestial balcony that com mands the best view of Madrid—but the capital of Spain is not larger than Edinburgh, and there is more wealth and business in one street of Liverpool. Consider the lazy, loitering, do-nothing character of the lounging na tion—abstemious in everything but cigars and love—the Asiatic fixture of the West. Consider that from what. little traffic there is, never as yet have decent roads been provided. Con-ider that the existing traffic has, from im memorial time, been in the hands and the sole support of the most energetic body of men in Spain—that railways, if successfully established by the force of English gold, must be ruin to the muleteer. Consider the resistance of these sturdy myriads and their innumerable allies—their revenge, how easily they will impede, how instantaneously they will destroy. Consider finally the fate of Spanish bonds. We have no doubt that many of our readers are overburdened with money—their case is hard—they have our imaginative sympathy—no doubt they must endeavour to get some means of relief—but we venture to suggest that a chain-bridge from Dover to Calais, or a tunnel be tween Portpatrick and Donaghadee, would be a more ju dicious plan on the whole than the Spanish rail.—Quar terly Review. CALVIN AND SERVETUS. — Once in Geneva, for the last century, there was a public disputation on some theo logical scheme. It came to the question of toleration. A Romanist, who happened to be in the n @sew bly, rose up and said (as in the House of Lords), What will you say to the case of Servetus ? What was the answer ? " Sir, _ _ it was a remnant of Popery." Ido not deny that Calvin, as well as Meldnctbon, held the opinion that a man who kills the soul by his error is to be punished, as well as a man who kills the body by his hand. All the men of that time did believe 50, 7 -the great Martin Luther, per haps, excepted,—and this is his greatest glory. Ido not deny that Servetus, condemned to death by the Rornish Archiepiscopal Court of Vienne, in Dauphine, flying from the Popish scaffold, and coming to Geneva, (where, he knew by his correspondence, that Calvirtwas at that time on very bad terms with the Council of the Republic,) in the hope of finding there a proper field for the diffusion of his heresy. Calvin felt it a duty to give notice to the ma gistrates of the arrival of that dangerous guest, whose doctrine would have overturned the Reformation, and ruined the feeble republic. But this was all. It is false that Calvin attracted him .to Geneva by supposed letters. It is false that he did all that was in his power to have him burned ; for, quite the contrary, he did what he could to prevent that horrible and Popish kind of death, and to obtain a milder one. It is false that he acted as a violent man ; he did all in his power by conversation and prayer to enlighten the mind of Servetus, to bring him to acknowledge the Divinity of our Lord, and so to save him from death. It is false, above all, that Calvin was the efficient means of the death of Servetus. I am quite sure that had Calvin been taken away suddenly at the be ginning of the trial of Servetus, this man would neverthe less have been condemned. Calvin and the Council of Geneva were, as I told you, on very bad terms at this time. Calvin bad excommunicated for bad conduct, some of the members of the Council; and very far from com plying with his wishes, the Council opposed him where they could. But here lies the true cause of the death of Servetus. The Council of Geneva consulted the Evan gelical cantons of Switzerland, and especially Berne, Zurich, Schaffhausen, and Bale, and all answered, The heretic already condemned by the Popish Archbishop of Vienne—the heretic who called in his book the triune God Cerberus—must die. For, if the Romanists can say, " 'You receive and you deliver the heretic whom we have condemned, it would be an eternal reproach on the Refor mation." A deputation from the Popish Archbishop came to Geneva, asking that Servetus should instantly be given back to them to be burned, but the Council refused. I affirm then, that Calvin can in great part be cleared of the case of Servetus, and that the only true answer to all adversaries, is, in wag a remnant of Popery. And re member it well, only one case on this side, while Popery has killed hundreds and hundreds, thousands and thou sands, and that, according to her principles and doctrines. —D'Aubigne's Speech. THE PRIVILEGES OF PARLIAMENT.—If Pym and Hampden, and Coke, who was as distinguished a lawyer as the others were patriots—if they had lived to see the times when there was no longer any danger of an infrac tion of the privileges of parliament by the crown—waen the apprehension was directed, not towards the crown but towards the people—and when the crown and the minis ters and the houses of parliament are united together so perfectly, and work together so harmoniously upon all occasions, that the only possible use of privilege must be not against the crown but for the crown, because parlia ment and the crown have become really one and the same —if they had lived to see these times, be was fully con vinced that the authority of the Cokes, and Pyrns, and Hatripdens, would not have been on the side of privilege. But the accident of parliament being pitted against the crown gave rise to their support of the high parliamentary privileges; and he might remind their lordships of the excess to which they carried this privilege. Suffice it to say, that the very year after the year 1641, the earliest great case of privilege with respect to the printing and publishing of libels—the very next year saw the issuing bf three ordinances by that house, which had thus clothed itself with power, which had thus seized, under the name of privilege, the right to declare what it pleased, and to act as it chose. The year 1642 saw an ordinance issued by that one house of parliament, without the crown's consent, without the lords' consent, for marshalling the train bands ; another ordinance for raising two troops of horse to defend the parliament—to " protect its privileges" said the doctors of privileges in those days —to give the needful protection to their witnesses who were examined against the king, and against the bishops, and against the lords ; and the third of those ordinances was to levy money for the sake of protecting those privileges upon a bill issued by the commons' house of parliament itself. But the train bands and troops of horse were used not merely in favour of the privileges of the commons, and to protect their witnesses when under examination ; they were used to put down the lords, and to imprison the king, and to commit regicide by the destroying the king's person, after having thus, step by step, undermined his authority ; and the third of these votes for money was to afford the sinews of war to the advocates of privilege, who had grasped power against all privileges and all the rights of the country at large. If he were to remind their lordships of the precedents which bad been referred to, and which were at this moment in full observance, though not in practice, but which existed upon the standing orders, some of their lordships would start to hear them. He would not go back to the case of 1621, when an 'in happy gentleman from the principality of Wales, Mr. Edward Floyd, thought proper, very indecorously toward James I. of pious memory, to call his son-in-law, the Electoral Palatine, " Goodman Palsgrave," and the Princess Elizabeth, " Good wife Palsgrave." Here the privilege was exercised in favour of the crown, as it always was in these early cases. They sentenced him, by their own authority, without trial, to be carried upon a horse from Cornhill to Charing Cross, with his head towards the tail of the animal, to be whipped, to be twice put in the pillory, to pay a fine of Xl,OOO, and to be imprisoned in Newgate for life, merely for the offence which be had named.--Lord Brougham'e Speech in the House of Lords, STATIONS OF THE BR : :TISH ARMY, ON THE IST AUGUST, 1845 (From Colburn's United Service Magazine.) [Where two places are mentioned, the last-named is that at which the Depot of the Regiment is stationed.] Ist LifeGuards—Hyde Park 40th—Bengal; Chatham. 2nd Ditto—Windsor. 41st—Dublin. Royal H.Guards—Rgnt's Park. 42d—Malta ; Isle of Wight. Ist Drags Gds.—Exeter. Reserve batt., Malta 2d—Longford. 43d—Halifax; Dover. 3 d—Ballincollig 44th—Dublin. 4th—Edinburgh. 45th—Cape of Good Hope, I.W sth—Nottingham. Reserve batt., Gibraltar. 6th—Manchester. 46th—Canada ; Armagh 7th—C. G. Hope, Maidstone. 47th—Chester. Ist Dragoons—Dublin 48th—Jamaica ; Kilkenny. 2d—Dundalk. 49th—Plymouth. 3d—Bengal; Maidstone 50th—Bengal; Chatham. 4th—Hounslow. 51st—Van D. Land ; Ch a th am 6th—Birmingham. 52d—Quebec ; Brecon. 7th Hussars—lpswich 53d—Bengal; Chatham. Bth—Dublin. 54th—Mullingar. 9th Lancers—Bengal ; Maidst. 55th—Winchester. 10th Hussars—York. 56th—Bury, Lancashire. 11th Hussars—Dublin. 57th—Madras; Chatham. 12th Lancers— Coventry. 58th—N.S. Wales ; Chatham. 13th Light D'goons—Cahir. . 59th—Leeds. i4th---Bombay ; Maidstone. 60th(Ist batt.)—Bombay ; Chat. 15th Hussars—Madras; M'ston (2d batt.)—Can ad a ; Paisley. 16th Lancers—Bengal, Maidstn 61st—Bengal; Chatham. 17th Lancers—Brighton 62d—Bengal ; Chatham. Grenadier Guards, (Ist batt.) 63d—Madr as ; Ch at h am. Wellington Bar. 64th—Dublin. (2d batt.)—Windsor 65th—Chatham. (3d batt.) St. George's Barr. 66th—Gibraltar ; Birr. Coldstream Guards, (Ist batt.) 67th - Dublin. Portman Barr. 68th— Walmer. (2d batt)—Tower. 69th—Weedon. Scotch FusileerGrds—(lstbatt) loth—Newry. St. John's Wood. 71st—Antigua ; Isle of Wight. (2d batt.)—Winchester. Reserve batt., Canada. Ist Foot (Ist batt.)—Gibraltar, 72d—Gibraltar; Templemore. Clare Castle. 73d—Fermoy. (2dbatt.)Barbados; Glasgow. 74th—Canterbury. 2d Foot—Bombay ; Chatham. 75th—Newport, South Wales 3d—Chichester. 76th—Portsmouth 4th—Madras; Chatham. 77th—Jamaica; Templemore. sth—Enniskillen. 78th—Bombay ; Chatham. 6th— Publin. 79th—Gibraltar; Naas. 7th—Barbadoes ; Kinsale. 80th—Bengal ; Chatham B th—Portsmouth. 9th—Bengal; Chatham. loth—Bengal ; Chatham. 8 8 2 1 ds 83d—Limerick. 81st—Canada ; ; Tr Jersey. ai ee. 11th—N. S. Wales, Chatham. 84th—Madras; Chatham. 12 th—Mauritius; Isle Wight. 85th—St.Vincent; Londonderry Reserve batt., Mauritius 86th—Bombay ; Chatham. 13 th—Chatham. 87th—Aberdeen. 14 th—Canada ; Plymouth. 88th—Malta ; Boyle. 15th—Cork. 89th—Canada ; Carlisle. 16 th—Buttevant. 90th—Ceylon ; Hull. I 7th—Bombay ; Chatham, 81st—Cape of Good Hope; I.ofW. 18th—China ; Chatham. Reserve batt., C. G. Hope. 1 9th—Corfu; Waterford. 02d—Edinburgh. 20th—Bermuda; Isle of Wight gad—Canada; Newbridge. hhtßßLßoeßiomtmegaibesbearairycyv;ecbahtat.t,haßmer.muda 94th — Aden I Ch K a i t n h s a a m le. 21 st — Madras; Chatham. 24 th—Limerick 96th—N.S.Wales ; Chatham. 23 d—Trinidad ; Isle of Wight. 97th—Corfu ; Isle of Wight. Reserve batt., Canada Reserve batt., Cephalonia. 98th—China; Chatham. 25 th—Madras; Chatham. 99th—N. S. Wales; Chatham. 26 th—Belfast. Ride B (Istb.)—Corfu ; Dublin. 27th—Cape G. Hope ; Guernsey (2d batt.)—Halifax.N.S., IsleW. nth—Bengal ; Chatham. Ist 30 th — Castlebar. R vv e . se i rv . R e e b gt a . t_t., j H am ali aj fa c z,. N. S. 2nd—Nassau. ;Chatham. Chatham . sd—Demera. Sierra Leone, &c. 32 d — Athlone. Ceylon Rifle Regt.—Ceylon. 39d—N. Brunswick, Clonmel. R. Canada Rifle Reg.—Canada. 34 th—Athlone Cape Mounted Riflemen—Cape 35 th — Mauritins; Nenagh. of Good Hope. 36th— Newcastle-upon-Tyne Royal Newfoundland Veteran 3 7th—Gosport, Companies—Newfoundland 38th—Gibraltar; Enniskillen. Royal Malta Fencibles, Malta. 3 9th—Bengal ; Chatham. St. Helena Regt.—St. Helene. SYKES'S ORIENTAL CAMPHOR TOOTH PASTE. HE premature decay of th e T ee th ar i ses f rom var i ous 'causes. but chiefly from early neglect, ill health, and the use of Tooth Powders containing Mineral and other Acids, which give a temporary whiteness to the Teeth, while they quickly corrode the enamel. This Paste im parts to Teeth, however foul and discoloured, a pearly whiteness, a healthy redness and firmness to the Gums, eradicates Scurvy, and, from its aromatic quality, sweet ens the breath, and will be - found highly refreshing to the mouth after its use. - From W. J. Brande, Esq., Chemist to the Mint. London, October 9th, 14, have examined the Tooth Paste of which you have sent me a sample, and find no ingredient in it likely, either mechanically or chemically, to injure the teeth.— Yours, faithfully, W. J. BRANDE. To Mr. B. B. Sykes, Liverpool. Laboratory, Liverpool Apothecaries' -hall, Oct. 7,1844. I have examined Mr. Sykes's Oriental Camphor of Tooth Paste, and find it to be a useful acid agreeable Dentfrice, free from Acid. Metallic, or other ingredients injurious to the Teeth, or otherwise prejudicial. DAVID WALDIE, Chemist. Prepared only by F. B. SYKES, 14, Upper Parliament street, (opposite St. James's-road, Liverpool,) in Pots with directions for use at Is. and 2s. each, and may be had of Messrs. Carter, Clay, Hogarth, Wagstaff, Jardine, Stretton, and all respectable Chemists and Perfumers. Wholesale of T. Eyre and Co., and J. J. Jackson and Co., Liverpool. Just published, price 2s. 6d. ; free by post, 3s. 6d., E SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on Human Frailty, Nervous Debility, Constitutional Weakness, excessive Indulgence, &c. With Observations on Mar riage, &c. By R. and L. PERRY and Co., Surgeons, London. Published by the Authors, and sold at their residence; also by Strange, 21, Paternoster-row; Hannay and Co., 63, Oxford-street; Gordon, 146, Leadenhall street ; Purkiss, Compton -street Soho, London ; and Newton, 16 and 29. Church-street, Liverpool ; and by all Medicine Vendors in Town and Country. THE CORDIAL BALM OF SYRIACUM is a gentle Stimulant and Renovator in all cases of Debility, whether Constitutional or acquired, nervous mentality, irritation and Consumption—by the use of which the im paired System becomes gradually and effectually restored to pristine health and vigour. Sold in bottles, price lls. and 335. The £5 cases may be had, as usual, at their Establishment. The CONCENTRATED DETRESIVE ESSENCE, an anti-syphilitic remedy for searching out and purifying the diseased humours of the blood, removing all cutaneous eruptions, Scurvy, Scrofula, Pimples on the head, face, &c. Price Ils. and 335. per bottle. PERRY'S PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS have long been used as the. most certain remedy for Scorbutic Complaints of every description, Eruptions of the Skin, and other disagreeable affections. These Pills are per fectly free from mercury, capavia, and other deleterious drugs, and may be taken with safety, and relied upon in every instance. Sold in boxes at 2s. 9d., 48. 6(1.. and Ils., by all Medicine Venders. Messrs. Perry and Co. may be consulted at their resi dence daily, from Eleven to Two and Five till Eight. On Sundays from Ten till Twelve. Sold by Mr. W. RAWLE, Chemist, Church-street, and Mr. PRIESTLEY, Chemist, Liverpool. FRAMPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH. T HE manifold advantages to the heads of families from the possession of a medicine of known efficacy, that may be resorted to with confidence, and used with success in cases of temporary sickness, occurring in families more or less every day, are so obvious to all, that no question can be raised of its importance to every householder in the kingdom. From among nuwerous testimonials, the fol lowing is respectfully submitted : " TO MR. THOMAS PROTIT, 229, STRAND, LONDON. " 5, Cooper-street, Manchester, Ma ch 12, 1842. " Sir,--I have much satisfaction in communicating to you the result of my experience after repeated trials of FRAMPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH, and I feel it but justice to state, that in the course of many years' trial of various Aperient Medicines, I have never found results at once so salutary and efficient in the relief of the system from re dundant bile, &c. &c., with so little inconvenience ; I am therefore warranted in declaring that they supply to me a means long wanting of being able to recommend to Fami lies, Schools, and especially Mercantile Men, whether at the desk or on the road, a most valuable resource in an occasional medicine. And I shall take credit to myself if, in giving this testimony, I am the means of making FRAMPTON'S PILLS more generally known and appre ciated. " I am, sir, respectfully yours, _ _ ' The unprecedent e d sa l e o f " the W se P iELIAM ills, ariSMITH! sing from the earnest recommendations of the many thousands who have derived benefit from their use, render any lengthened comment unnecessary ; they are not put forth as a cure for all diseases to which mankind is liable, but for Bilious and Liver Complaints, with their many well known at tendants, Bilious and Sick Head-ache, Pain and Oppres sion after meals, Giddiness, Dizziness, Singing Noise in Held and Ears. Drowsiness, Heartburn, Loss of Appetite, Wind, Spasms, &c. Two or three doses will convince the afflicted of their salutary effects. The stomach will speedily retain its strength ; a healthy action of the Liver, Bowels,and Kid neys, will rapidly take place; and instead of listlessness, heat, pains, and jaundiced appearance, strength, activity, and renewed health, extending to good old age, will be the result of taking this medicine, according to the directions acczimpanying each box. Sold by T. PROUT, 229, Strand, London. Price ls. lid. a d 2s. 9d. per box ; also by Rennie, Wagstaff, Howell, Phillips, Aspinall, Fisher, Apothecaries' Compa ny, G. Syers, J. Syers, Roberts, Johnson and Son, Lath.. bury, Scholefield. Smith, King, Bradford, Blake, Bird, Gerard, Watson, Mucklow, Lloyd, Carter, and Rowland, Liverpool; Law, and Gaskell, Manchester ; Grindley, Chester ; and by the Vendors of Medicines generally throuhhout the Kingdom. Ask for FRAMPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH, and observe the name and address of " Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London," on the Government Stamp. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. GOODWOOD RACES. TUESDAY. The DRAWING-ROOM STAKES of 25 sovs each, &c., Mr. Gully's Old England 1 ; Lord G. Bentinck's Longi tude 2; Lord G. Bentinck's Pic Nic 3. The GRATWICKE STAKES of 100 sovs. each, h ft. One mile and a half. Colonel Peel's Hersey 1 ; Mr. Grat wicke's Merry Monarch 2; Duke of Richmond's Laird o'Cockpen 3; Lord G. Bentinck's Cowl 4. WEDNESDAY. The STAND PLATE of 50 sovs., added to a Sweeps'akes of 5 sovs. each. Heats, one mile. Mr. A. Cook's Tce Shadow, (Lye) 1 ; Lord G. Bentinck's Croton Oil, 4 yrs, (Nat) 2. ,The Shadow made all the running, and won in a canter. The GOODWOOD STAKES of 25 Boys. each, 15 ft, and 5 only if declared. The second saves his stake. Cup course. (133 subs.,) 75 of whom declared. Lord G. Bentinck's Miss Elis, 3 yrs, sst. 71b. (Kitchener,) 1 ; Mr. Ongley's Roderick, 6 yrs, 6st 121 b. (Crouch) 2 ; Dukelof Rich mon d' s iL ot h ar i o, 5 yrs, Bst 111 b. (Nat,) 3. Twenty other horses started, but were not placed. Won by at least six lengths. The QUEEN'S PLATE of 100 Guineas. About three miles and five furlongs. Duke of Richmond's Red Deer, 4 yrs, (Nat,) 1; Mr. A. C oo k' s Th e Shadow, aged, (Lye) 2. The STEWARD'S CUP of 300 sovs, added to a handicap of 5 sovs. each. T.Y.C. (39 subs.) Lord Stanley's Psalmsinger, 3 yrs, sst 41b. (Irvine,) 1 ; Col. Peel's Physalis, 4 yrs, 7st 51b (Nat,) 2. Eighteen others started. Won cleverly by a length. THURSDAY. SWEEPSTAKES of 200 sovs each, for two-years old fillies. Lord G. Bentinck's Princess Alice 1; Mr. Wreford's Wilderness 2. The MOLECOMBE STAKES. Mr. Forth's Sting I; Duke of Richmond's Cuckoo Lord Eglinton's Sotades, 3. The RACING STAKES. Mr. Wreford's Worthless, 1 ; Lord G. Bentinck's Longitude, 2 ; Lord Chesterfield's Pam, 3. The GOODWOOD Cup, value 300 sovs, with 100 added by the Racing Fund. Lord G. Bentinck's Miss Elis, 1 ; Mr. Gully's Weatherbit, 2. Won in a canter. FRIDAY. The CHESTERFIELD CUP. ./Egis, 1 ; Needful, 2; Semi seria, 3. 18 others started. The MARCH STAKES. Ist Class—Beatrice, 1; African, 2. Second Class—Wolfdog, 1; Cockfighter, 2. The NASSAU STAKES, after a dead heat, were won by Refraction, beating Queen Pomare. The Chester Regatta will take place on the Dee, on Thursday next. A match played on Saturday last, between the Derby and Tranmere Cricket Clubs, was decided in favour of the former by one indngs, nine notches. Westminster beat Eton in a boat race on Tuesday last, on the Thames. On Wednesday the Winchester gentlemen beat the Harrow boys, at cricket, with immense difficulty. They only won by twelve runs. The King of Holland has intimated his intention of giv ing a cup of the value of 300 guineas, to be run for at Goodwood races next year. THE GRAVE OF SIR WALTER SCOTT.—We are happy to learn that a monument at Dry burgh Abbey, to the memory of Sir Walter Scott, will be immediately com menced. ,Various obstructions and delays have occurred to interfere with this pious and patriotic duty, contem plated shortly after the death of the great minstrel. Sir Francis Chantry had promised a design, but died ere he carried his intention into effect. Mr. Allan Cunningham, the friend and assistant of Chantry, knowing what was proposed, drew a sketch of a monument; and it is a melancholy and interesting fact, that the last letter ever penned by " honest Allan" was one transmitting this sketch to Mr. C; dell, Edinburgh. The same day that he sent off his design for the tomb of Scott, Mr. Cun ningham suddenly died, and followed his illustrious friends, the poet and sculptor, to the grave. After a d e l ay of thirtee n y ears, the original' object, however, will be at tained, and beautiful as is the poet's tomb in St. Mary's aisle (where nature has decorated the Gothic ruins with a profuse and picturesque variety of foliage, and the mur murs of the Tweed are heard in the distance), the scot will be rendered still more impressive by this external commemoration, the offering of gratitude and affection, combined with those higher and more solemn feelings which consecrate the grave of genius. —Inverness Courier. The late Duke of Kent was the son of a king, the bro ther of three kings, and father of a queen, but never a king himself. Auk. .5,,.1845' - ° ' AS SUPPLIED TO THE ROYAL 0 6 MIX TAB ,r I APTAIN PIDDING'S HOWQUA'S p ro V TEA is an admixture of 40 rare Black Teas, P,r f r aal on as many different pl an t a ti ons , each Tea di ff e rt atoth , the rest, and possessing a fl av o ur , a fragrance, or au; 0: p ° peculiar to itself. Blended to ge ther in the PoP e Oat portions, they comprise all that is desirable in 'ft, cl ot discovery was not the effect of chance, but of nlaw„ i l t of advantages united in one individual, and the re!alysis, numerous experimentsrand the most minute 8%005 For another to produce the same result, be rous t l i e er of equal skill, the same discriminating taste, equa l P n u e s th e procuring the forty various Teas required, and It k he 0, exact proportions of each kind used— and ts th p o r u o g l a l u .: , e t :: O n p e p ve o r rtu o n n i c t e ies ha o v f e s v e i c si u t r e i d ng Ch to ina h , im be se m lf u , st have l a `, t iens' with one who, like Captain Pidding, has spent Ye ats flow' in acquiring these advantages, and to whom eau! 0, t he qua—years before his death—imparted at Can° secret of compounding his Mixture.: to se ° Yet there ar e u p war d s o f 500 re t a il ers pretenaingre dik tea, they call " Howqua's Mixture—end' a L il lotee I.l' OO fering from a ll th e o th ers . N ow as th ere can . REAL " Howqua's Mixture, " it follows that , ea ' 0 6 ferent medleys are offered -499 must be spurious. ~o ri ti 499 counterfeits are so many evidences of the suP er p 'poos of the ONE GENUINE. And it would be absurd to eNi g bt that Captain Pidding, with advantages. the reault%tis t Voyages made to China, and five years spell:al ta, country, would be so silly—even were it nassi ul , 3 llob e yield them up to 500 others, or i m part to them ' a secret. bacl The very great celebrity this Tea has acquir e- ':i 'I tempted many unprincipled persons to give s ut u re s,"n nearly similar titles to their o wn s purious nra,bser" guard against such imposition, p urc h as ers shoal" " that " THE SIGNATURE THUS," Captain JOHN RHODES PIDDIN G erfI ' 'et, Honourable Company 6 S is on every genuine Package. To those who drink Green Tea. " Captain P i ; oe one Howqua's Small Leaf Gu n po w d er ," g rown on an estate, is recommend e d f or it, s t reng th a nd eacal °6 lar as being the pur es t an d mos t w h o l esome Green T ell ported from China. flit Captain Piddi ng h as a p po i n t e d t h e un der Agen ts this District : o at Manchester avuonc E aDnelcrunt i nriotetati Ishnon ß tesfoengoty G estr .O E . n ........................................................................................................................................ Agent for Liverpool. ee• Blackburn J. Parkinson, Chemist, Church-fstr Chester T. Bowers and Son, Druggists. GJJJ...eFomTHrog.ri Williams, aa y cm e ac r rs , oru, G.7trhpereaarrptsaell,prebortsme,cesm.rt-i.ss Chemist, Homer-street . :40 tureeste:.: r : Prescot Preston W. Turner Kydd, Tea Dealer and ° H. Armstrong, Chemist. Ditto Ditto ..... J. Higham, Draper. Ditto J. Knight, Waterloo House. Ditto T. Wren. Auctioneer. Southport S. Whitely, Wine Merchant. Ditto .. Wm. Tyer, Tea Dealer. Wigan. .. E. H. Burmish, Chemist. NEW ENVELOPE. t $ ll. IN consequence of the great variety of counteloot velopes of ROWLAND'S KALYDOR, disreputable means resorted to by unprincipl ed duals for imposing on the public their highly Per etolf compounds under the title of " KALiroort, theoentiio etors and sole Preparers of the Original an d a .rd lo Preparation. acting under a sense of duty, and r",„ -- rit °' of expense in the attainment of their object -0 ;0 0 ' TECTION OF THE PUBLIC FROM FRAUD AND IMP u",.4/ 0 ,1 have employed those celebrated artist s , Messrs• h " t Bacon, and Co., who have succeeded, at great r e s ojtl i i producing from a steel plate a NEW ENVEL O P W- C ," j o g site beauty. It comprises a highly-finished engravtavS the GRECIAN GRACES standing on a classic pe des ;o lo% each side of which is a rich profusion of flowers sl'f'diSf from an elegant cornucopia. These, tastefully b'gor` with Arabesque scrag' and wreaths, encircla the • Arms of Great Britain, surmounting the words " ROWLAND'S KALYDOR, " t; th e &c., &c., &c., whilst a plinth at the foot disP laY signature of the Proprietors, in red, thus -20, Hatton Ga r d en . A. ROWLAND SG sol4' London, Jan. 1, 18,15. ROWLAND'S KALYDOR, atll An Eastern Botanical Discovery of surprising eu-,„ fat for rendering th e Ski n soft, clear, and fair , a "A. bestowing a healthy rosea t e h ue on t h e ComPle s t l,, fair As a creator and conserva t or o f a transpare r ';, r t e o skin, ROWLAND' S K ALY , DOR may b e sa id to e- - .. t of almost magical power. C ompose d f or th e most p of all Oriental Balsamic Exotics, to the utter exclusion elf mineral admixture, it is distinguished for its extr.,Boa, bland, purifying, an d soo thi ng e ff ects upon the ski n ; so lo, by acting upon the pores and minute sec retoryev ery to expels all impurities fro m the surface, allays ev ; e a r es dency to inflammation, an d th us effectually diss i r - n bori u , redness, tan. pimples, spots, bl o t c h es , f r eckles , s u and other unsightly cutaneous visita t ions. Tb e A r licaci bloom it imparts to the cheek : the s oftness and L' - o pr which it induces on the hands, arms, and neck. i tS s de' bility of soothing irritatio n a nd remov i n g cutaneon der it fects, sallowness, and all unsightly appearances' re° indispensable to every toilet. Si r a t3b i It is invaluable as a re n o va ti ng an d refreshin,. . ' in travelli n g, d ur i ng th e h ea t an d d ust o f stine3l is in cases of sun b urn , st i ngs o f i nsects, or incident bee" flammation, its virtues have long and extensively acknowledged. 0 tel t , in T p o o r t L a A n D ce r rit d a u ff ri o r ns s t r h e e l p e f e r t i o o i d n fi o f a m s uecdk nipplei o t a s nc i c g 0 and renders the infant's mouth truly comfortable. OP' To GENTLEMEN afflicted with a tenderness of therotioti in shaving, the application of the Kalydor will b e . 01 1 e to allay all cuticular irritation, removing eve r y o , P ooti i • and all roughne ss , an d rendering the skin soft andsur to Sold in bottle s , a t 4 s . 6d. an d at B s . 6d. each, a eluded. title of CAUTION. Beware of deleterious Compounds, under the i- • fig eet s , " genuine " KALYDOR, containing mineral est r e lleq; utterly ruinous to the Comp lexion and by their reg e te action endangering health. The only genuinef nr ote e f enclosed in the Envelope, as detailed above. 1° r' the Public from F rau d, the Hon. Commissioee 'ova Stamps have also directed the Proprietors' l'C rale Address, thus— A. ROWLAND & SON, 20, Hatton Garden:Ned P to be engraved on the G overnmen t S tam p which :16 onßeoacxhvbLoAttNleD'S MACASSAR OIL . tive, restorative, and b eau tif y i ng qualidesintsforl fort 3s• Hair, is unequalled over the whole world. Pri ce n d (1911 is , Family bottles (equal to 4 small) 10s. 6d., 8- ble that size 21s. ROWL AND'S ODONTO, or PEARL DEl4l"geru a fragrant White Powder, prepared from Oriente l . o s f o r of inestimable virtue f o r p reserv i ng an d beautifYlo, r Teeth and strengthening the Gums.—Price 28 ' box, duty included Observe that the Signature of the Proprietor, no , tit Serjeant," is written on the Government S ta itettl e N Q. o. E l R , J L E o A ve N ir T:S cou L r O t, T p l a O te N rn , o t s h t e er T o l w iiff i e u c i t 2 7 ;ivi l atie •c ci a i tfil ri , L../ against Rheumatism, Rheumatic Gout, g Lumbago. Sold by the Proprieto r, G. C. SElr e il-3 1 „ r e. Temple-bar, London • and by all YEdors of ~••• Price 2s. 9d. per Bottle. The astonishing success which has crowned th e le ss ° e a tion of this external M e di c i ne i n th e most hO c e l epa ir be deplorable cases, when the unh a ppy su fferer bad iter M ile of ever gaining even the least relief, and tWO ablest advice and every other means had comPl e cg t %ted' A y most justly entitles it to the attention of the aiu l d, i9" 0 1 This excellent Medicine, so universally es teem °,O attended with the least danger or inconvenien„ ;ir e " hundreds have experienced its happy and saluta ry that since it was first introduced. ec 6c Such are the properties of this invaluable SY,,,, v aitt l i f y persons labouring under the most distressing g ii ' h ereb% Rheumatic Gout, and Lumbago, and rendered t;:„, - c ett i " capable of assisting themselves, have been e ' l ' t he few hours. . ce d o re Amongst many which are being daily reel following Testimonials:— r 0 oi e r 4, Pate rn e ure .' te ct VI SlR,—Having been informed of the surprisiog,, Barnes, of St. Paul's Churchyard, who was so severe? he W e a ai te. , Rheumatism, the intense pain causing delirium, that pelled to be confined by a strait waistcoat to preven.L borea ing any violence, and whose case was considered enttr'titilioof, twas induced to ascertain the particulars, and being trial ° . s , O r e he truth of my information, encouraged me to mal e f s uccea to. a g most invaluable Medicine, entertaining little hopes ° an y 01 ,0 1 ) ing been many years so severe a sufferer, and triedable in t ieno mytvaluable remedies. lam very happy in beiof , a • s.P a bl, e r estmony of the benefit I derived : after a few u a r ., 0 0 , S oe% the use of my limbs are perfectly restored, and atc e 'J 'lO attend my business, and, making an allowance f", r aili, c t be o oe was better in my life. Xo those, however severel ot tots hopeless their case may have been pronounce& stored toto het dicine. Health is a great blessing to those who make a trial, feeling quite satisfied they will be re ac i t , of their limbs, from the severe cases that nave Y' e ' snile sl " 00 to those who are deprived, none feels it so severe "_, so. J or mechanic, as it generally causes loss of business, it it f,O families. Iphall at all times feel it my duty to rii ,.,,,torti t ' those afflicted, to evince how grateful I am for foY "`',„ GEos,. Poyt am, Sir, yours truly, October 20, 1844. ca ttle t I 00 to , t gale."o CriPreo o :0 4 Well-stree bed by 0.03, SIR,—I have been several weeks confined to Inl f r om pi is Rheumatism, not a part from my head to feet free, „ fl oe. oit,,, as helpless as an infant : not even a finger could . a tten d 0 00- unpleasant situation I was informed by my mtareinei" 01 had applied all the usual remedies, and that I nijECL— in my deplorable situation. Fortunately your remedy was made known t ° c lose have been to this day confined to my bed. After a s apP ej o .o t S to of four days, my troublesome companion began to , s_ le j od week I was capable of walking about my roono, oaf ° ge week's perseverance in the use of your Medicinerip ease leave London. Fearful of another attack, you 011 0 ' six bottles.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, D. 6 1844:0 % Oet• 9 ' offe r' r 14, Belace, W toan d sw orth-road , (ter 9 lil Sta,—l feel in lmont- duty b o u n d ac k now ledge, that .5 oin. itt 01- Or acute pains from Sciatica or severe Rheuma tic affection v6OO. joint, and being deprived'of rest, I was persuaded to O r p ,;io,,of broeation, and have the pleasure to say that after three:y;:4.7o was I restored to my usual health ; and, alth i ou tuu gh t :ir i; s tl o s t l o . o, passed, I have no return of the disorder. -- yours, gore t berio%br , Sold by Pendlebury, Russell-street l '-` t . fit s ll• Oxford-street; Hogarth, Great George-sued, Bold-street ; Conpland, Parker-street ; Gerrar ° 00. 1 ' 0 '0 street; Parkinson. New Scotland-road ; Neal, s fr o rn o f road ; Simpson, Scotland-road, opposite St• .. 4" o rne r e ti Market ; M ck ow Vauxhall-road ; Britten, 'erAtfloge Dale-street and Haymarket; Smith, Great fiV ogi ,l oll eo t I Cox, Fox-street; Gillard, Richmond-row 1.J:i.0.5tn1,40/, ton ; vo - clowe 0 Walker, London-road ; Parry, ChA- . p • Wagstaff, Great George-place ; Smith, "°° Wavertree.