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Dec. 5, 1848. literature. OAK-TREE WITH A CARRIAGE.WAY THROUGH IT.— An anecdote is told of the late Duke of Portland, father VARIETIES. of the present Duke, and grandfather of the late lamented I Lord George Bentinck. His Grace, who was a celeb r ated Mrs. Somerville, in her Physical Geography, says that 1 the honey bee was introduced into America not many man in his day, had a large party at dinner, and after the cloth was removed, the wine having circulated with the years ago, and is now spread over that continent. One hundred and forty unpublished letters, addressed usual freedom, the company was somewhat elevated, when _by King William 111. to Henry de Lorraine. Prince of an immense oak, celebrated throughout the whol e corm _ Vaudemont, were recently sold for something like 6s. 6d. try, and the ruins of which are still to be seen at W e lb ec k, became the subject of conversation. The duke offered to a-piece. bet five hundred guineas that he could drive a carriage The Musical World has a curious letter from R. Seim- Man, from Leipsic, pointing out a canon attributed to and six right through the heart of this ma g nifi cen t re p re - Mozart, which is note for note the same as Non nobis sentative of England's forest glories. A gentle man t oo k him at his word, and the subject was dropped for the even- Domine, said to be by Bird, asking if there be any evi ing. Next morning his Grace recollected, not with the deuce in England proving the composition to be by Bird, most pleasant feelings, the transactions of the preceding either from the date of publication or otherwise. The awful results of war are not confined to the bloody evening. The oak which he had virtu a lly d oome d t o de scenes of the battle-field ; but disease—slow, consuming struction with one of the finest orn amen t s o f hi s es t a t e , and rather than devote it to ruin, he resolved to sacrifice disease—more than any of the instruments of war, scat the five hundred guineas. Accordingly, he intimated the ters death among those engaged in the trying fatigues and design of immediately delivering a check to the gentle exposures of military duty. Of those who have died in man who had taken the bet, when he learned that nume active service of Mexico, the proportion of those cut rous bets on the same subject, amounting to a very consi douin by disease to those who fell on the battle-field is derable sum, had been made by other parties, in justice to about five to one.—Gen. Taylor's Address. ! whom he considered that he was bound to attempt the feat. RAFT LOAD OF MONKEYS.—We find the following Accordingly, an archway, sufficient to ad m it a carr i age , story in La Democratic Pacifique :—" A state corvette, was chalked out on the ample trunk of th e t ree; a t unne l just returned from a cruise in the Indian seas, brims was excavated through the solid mass, and his Grace, on news of a rather curious incident. At one of the islands the appointed day, in the presence of a large company of a dozen monkeys were caught and brought on board. ladies and gentlemen, was actually driven in state in a Their gambols were mightily relished by the crew. One carriage drawn by six beautiful horses right through the night, however, when the ship was out at sea, some of oak. The remains of this giant of the forest, magnificent the monkeys managed to get into the commandant's even in ruin, are still standing ; and, but for this foolish cabin, scattering ink over o ffi cial charts and papers, and frolic, the tree might have flourished for many ages to perpetrating other mischiefs, so that he ordered them all come on the ducal domain of Welbeck. to he flung into the sea. The sailors, however, were LAW IN RUSSIA.—In Alexander's reign the Jesuits touch grieved at this, and on their remonstrance, the corn had made themselves all-powerful in some parts of Po on gave permission that a raft should be constructed land. A rich landholder and possessor of 6,000 peasants on which the poor animals might be left with some chance at Poltzak, the Jesuit head-quarters, was so wrought on of being drifted ashore. The sailors fitted the raft with a by the artful assiduities of the Society that he bequeathed small raft and a sail, which they set easterly in the direc- his whole fortune to it at his death, with this stipulation tion of the land. They placed on the frail skiff a store of —that the Jesuits should bring up his only son and after- 1 biscuit and water, and then were obliged to abandon the wards give him whatever portion of the inheritance they twelve prescripts to their fate. The crew, much moved, should choose. When the young man had reached the I waved their hats, wished them a bon voyage, and watched age of twenty, the Jesuits had bestowed on him three them out of sight. hundred peasants. He protested vehemently against their THE CHEVALIER PAUL JONES.—The following adver- usurpation, and began a suit against the Society ; b u t hi s tisement in the Times brings back to popular recollections father's will seemed clear and explicit, and after having the name and the deeds of a faithless son to his country consumed all his little fortune, he found his claims dis- When the latter was so pressed by foreign foes as to need owned by every tribunal in the empire, including even the the aid of every arm she could call her own :—" The under- G enera l A ssem b ly of the Senate. In t his seemingly hope signed, baying been appointed deputy public administra less extremity he applied to a certain attorney in St. Pe tor of Admiral the Chevalier J. Paul Jones, the first corn- tersburgh, famous for his fertility of mind in matters of modore of the American navy, Member of the Order of cunning and chicanery. After having perused the will the Cincinnati, Chevalier of the French Military Order and the documents connected with the suit, the lawyer of Merit, Knight of the Russian Order of St. Ann, &c., said to his client, " Your business is done; if you will and who died in Paris, in 1792, hereby gives notice to the promise me ten thousand rubles, I will undertake to pro heirs of the said Chevalier Paul Jones to transmit their cure an Imperial ukase reinstating you in possession of all claims for ju addication, that they may participate in the your father's property." The young man readily agreed late decision of Congress, and approved by the President to the bargain, and in eight days afterwards he was m in of the United States, granting 50,000 dollars to the heir, ter of his patrimony. The decision which led to this sin of the said Chevalier Jones. The undersigned is also gular result rested solely on the interpretation of the authorised to receive the claims of the heirs of the officers, Orase, they shall give him whatever they choose, which Zcc., of the first American squadron of 1779, consisting of plainly meant, as the lawyer maintained, that the young the ships of war Bon Homme Richard, Alliance, and man was entitled to such portion as the Jesuits chose— Pallas, commanded by the said Chevalier Jones, that i. e., to that which they chose and retained for themselves. th ey may particip to in the bill before Congress for The Emperor admitted this curious explanation ; the son 200,000 dollars, should that bill also become a law. All became master of 5,700 peasants; and the Jesuits were claims, attested by documents, to be directed, prepaid, to obliged to content themselves with the three hundred they the undersigned, on or before March 1, 1849. , had bestowed on their ward in the fi r st i ns t ance . • THE REMNANT OF THE " GRAND ARMEE."—Did tne A HIGHLAND FLOOD.—That stream (the Findhorn) tears of exiles fertilise, Siberia would be a teeming land. which was so calm, and bright, and sunny, when the ot- Since its first subjugation by Ivan the Terrible, how many ters floated down its current in a still summer's morning, a Russian magnate, lord of thousands of serfs, owner of was a fierce and terrible enemy in its anger ; and, for a Millions of rubles, proud of his position, and confident great part of the year, the dread of its uncertainty and of imperial favour, has suddenly found himself travelling danger was a formidable cause for the preservation of that eastward under escort, banished and a beggar. How profound solitude of the forest which so lon g made it the luny mournful trains of minor offenders have plodded sanctuary of deer, roe, and every kind of wild game. The their weary way across the Uralian chain, guarded by rapidity with which the river comes down the impassable barbarian Bashkirs, to labour in the mines of Nerchinsk, height to which it rises in an incredibly short time, its in or to lead a peasant's toilsome life on the margin certitude and fury, would render it an object of care to of the Frozen Sea. From those vast and ice-bound re- bold forders and boatmen ; but with the peasants of the gions, escape can rarely be accomplished. But at inter- " laich," unaccustomed, like the Highlanders, to wrestle vals, during the last five-and-thirty years, bearded and with a mountain torrent, and, excepting in rare instances, toil-worn men of martial aspect have crossed the German unable to swim or manage a coble, it inspires a dread, al frontier, and astonished those they accosted by wild tales most amounting to awe, and none except ourselves ventured of suffering, and ignorance of the most notorious events. to keep a boat above the fishing-station of Slui. Pent within Some have inquired for Napoleon, and wept when they a channel of rocks from fifty to a hundred and eighty feet learned he was a captive, or dead. Circumstances of cur- in height, the rise of the water is rapidly exaggerated by rent history, known to each child and peasant, were to the incapability of diffusion ; and the length of its course them a mystery and a marvel. These strange wanderers, sometimes concealing beyond the horizon the storms by 'escaped from long bondage in Siberia, were amongst the which it is swelled at its source, its floods then descend last survivors of that countless host led northwards by a with unexpected violence. Frequently when, excepting a Corsican's ambition, and whose funeral pile was lighted in low wreath upon Beann-Drinechain, the sun is shining in Moscow's city.—Blackwood's Magazine. a cloudless sky, and the water scarce rippl es o ver th e MAN'S Foon.—What do men really live upon ? The glittering ford, a deep hollow sound—a dull approaching answers will be various enough. The Guacho, who in the oar may be heard in the gorges of the river; and almost Wide pampas of Buenos Ayres, managing his half wild eford the wading fisherman can gain the shore, a bank of horse with incredible dexterity, throws the lasso or bolas water, loaded with trees, and rocks, and wreck, will come to catch the ostrich, the guanaco, or the wild bull, con- down three—four—five feet abreast—sweeping all before it tunes daily from ten to twelve pounds of meat, and re- in a thunder of foam and ruin. In ordinary cases, after gards it as a high feast day when in any hacienda he gains i , ‘ ,,, d „,„ n f ~.;„ +l,. ~...„,, ~,:ii ,;,,‘ +m, ,,, + „ ~... „,..,” ~,, y vv, 'A . ' , Jva a al., ...lc ou Call] WILL 11ZU Lweiluy Ur Luau) , wet. a variety in the shape of a morsel of pumpkin. The word —it has risen nearly ten fathoms in its rocky gulf ; an d bread does not exist in his vocabulary. The Irishman, Once upon this occasion it mounted fifteen f ee t i n a quar t er on the other hand, regales himself in careless mirth on of an hour. When the dawn broke, it appeared sweeping his " potatoes and point," after a day of painful labour, through the trees, which the evening before hung fifty he who cannot help making a joke even of the name he. feet above its brink—a black roaring tempest loaded with gives to his scanty meal. Meat is a strange idea to him, ruins and debris, from which were seen to rise at times the and lie is happy indeed if four times a-year he can add a _L:,._ _i__,...,. ' - . . .. . . . _ ~...__ _ Led of their bark, herring to season the mealy tubers. 'the bunter of the couples of houses—a cart—a door—a cradle, hurrying and prairies lays low the buffalo with sure bullet •; and its tilting through the foam and spray, like the scattered " float- Juicy, fat-streaked hump, roasted between two hot stones, some" of a wreck.—Stuarts' Lays of the Deer Forest, 8 ( c. is to him the greatest of delicacies. Meanwhile, the in- A SHIP AMONG ICEBERGS.—It is impossible to convey dustrious Chinese carries to market his carefully fattened a correct idea of the beauty, the magnificence, of some rats, delicately arranged upon white sticks, certain to find of the scenes through which we passed. Thousands of a good customer among the epicures of Pekin ; and in his the most grotesque, fanciful, and beautiful icebergs and hot, smoky hut, fast buried beneath the snow and ice, icefields surrounded us on all sides, intersected by numer the Greenlander consumes his fat, which he has just car- ous serpentine canals, which glittered in the sun (for the 'red, rejoicing over the costly prize, from a stranded whale. weather was fine all the time we were in the straights) like Here the black slave sucks the sugar-cane, and eats his banana; there the African merchant fills his wallet w sweet dates, his sole sustenance in the long desert jr . . ,rees pee Seams anc threads of silver twining round ruined palaces of crystal hey ; and there the Siamese crams ty of rice, from which an European iimself wit would shrir a quantl , d als churches, columns, arches, and spires that I could k annallea. ----- _ Ana wheresoever o v er Proach and dem magical Ail IT litill, ppcaicu a uvau .......u, ...cu azititit CO trie a different kind of food is set before us, and the " daily magical effect of the scene. A light but steady breeze bread" offered in another form.— The Plant, a Biogra- urged her along, with considerable velocity, through a Phy, by Schleiden. maze of ponds and canals, which, from the immense PRINCE EDWARD'S ISLAND.—Prince Edward's Island, quantity of ice that surrounded them, were calm and situated on the coast of 1, ova Scotia, contains about unruffled as the surface of a mill-pond. Not a sound 1 ,300,000 acres, and a population of about 50,000. The disturbed the delightful stillness of nature, save the soil is generally fertile, light, easily worked, and adapted gentle rippling of the vessel's bow, as she sped on for every agricultural purpose. It grows excellent crops her way, or the occasional puffing of a lazy whale, of grain and potatoes. The quality of wheat grown is awakened from a nap by our unceremonious intrusion on superior to that of New Brunswick. When the French his domains. Now and then, however, my reveries were had the island, it was considered the granary of Quebec- disagreeably interrupted by the ship coming into sudden The oats grown are better than the average produce of contact with large lumps of ice. This happened occa ngland. The island is long and narrow, and has many sionally when we arrived at the termination of one of fine harbours. No part of it is twelve miles from the those natural canals through which we n a.Q.,l - • - Water, which is full of fish of various kinds. In many i f yto force Places carts may be taken down to the water's edge, and Tere som filled with lobsters ; cod, mackerel, and herring abound 1 ring ; all round the coast. The climate is extrem e ly h ea lthy ded wi. and the country beautiful ; but the long winter is an necessary to force our way into t next. These con cussions were sometimes very severe, and even made the ,hip's bell ring ; but we heeded this little, as the vessel s provi 1, huge blocks of timber on her bows, 1 is ' was besides built expressly for sail- 1 meal-time them seas. It only became annoying at hen a spoonful of soup would sometimes make a little private excursion of its own, over the shoulder of the owner instead of into his mouth. As last compelled us to bore thrOugh it. The ship, however, was never altogether detained, though much retarded. I recollected, while thus surrounded, filling a bucket with water from a pool of ice, to see whether it was fresh or not, as Ihad been rather sceptical upon this point. It was excellent, and might almOst compete with the water :pring of Crawley.—Ballatyne's Hud- from the famous son's Bay. AN ENCOUNTER ON THE PRAIRIE.—No enemies showed themselves as yet, and the hunters proceeded quietly up the river, vast herds of buffaloes darkening the plains around them, affording them more than abundance of the choicest meat; but, to their credit be it spoken, no laughter made by most of the White travellers plains, who wantonly destroy these noble ani- mals, not even for the excitement of sport, but in cold blooded and insane butchery. La Bonte had practice enough to perfect him in the art, and before the buffalo range was passed, he was ranked as a first-rate hunter. One evening he had left the camp for meat, and was approaching a band of cows for that purpose, crawling towards them along the bed of a dry hollow in the prairie, when he observed them suddenly jump away towards him, and immediately after a score of mounted Indians appeared in sight, whom, by, their dress, he at once knew to be Pawnees and enemies. Thinking they might not discover him, he crouched down in the ravine; but a noise behind causing him to turn his head, he saw so five or six candar.xl y creek, whil more were riding on the bl u ff s . The cunning savages had cut off his retreat to his mule, which he saw in the possession of one of the Indians. His presence of mind, however, did not desert him ; and seeing at once that to remain where he was would be like being caught in a trap, (as the Indians could advance to the edge of the bluff and shoot him from above,) he made for the open prairie, good fight With a yell the 'II] halted when they saw the sturdy tra. Jper Jection Winter for labourers, in clearing land, procuring fuel fencing, and getting timber for shinbuildine. A onnt seal of shipbuilding is going on in 1847; in consequence of the 10..,„ island, and its numerous harbours, a man can always bear enough to take wood to a shipping place. There i sufficient water-power for corn and saw mills. The Le gislature provides schoolmasters in every district, am good churches are open to all dennminntionc of 200 vessels were built vy•••./ AAAAAA usoavalo UL ,11115. tians. The wages of common labourers are 3s. a day. Air. Cunard, the contractor for the trans-Atlantie ,steam boats, holds a large estate in this island, which he di , Poses of in the following manner :—He extends through his waste lands, and lays out lots of fifty acres each along the sides of the roads, in such proportions as to always have ready a good stock of these small farms for sale or lease ; he is ready to let eleh of these farms to any man of respectable character, on a lease of 999 Years, paying no rent for the first three years, then 3d., then 6d., then 9d., and then is. an acre, with a clause *nablinff thf, tenant nt nnv time tl, at twenty years' purchase. TDB MADONNA IN ROME.—The veneration shown to the Virgin by the lower classes is inconceivable. She oc cupies so prominent a place in their minds, that there is no room for a just sentiment of the Deity or his works. ,Where there is one knee be n t t o G o d, t h ousands b ow to her,—with them she is the ruler of the world. We con stantly find her picture at the corner of the streets, under which a lamp is kept incessantly burning. There is not a hook or recess anywhere in which some pious person has not erected a tinsel altar under her figure, so that passers 13 3' . can kneel and say a prayer or two, and then move on. th all mishaps and difficulties she is the refuge to which they fly. Votive pictures, similar to what has been de scribed in the church of St. Augustine, are bung about her, even in the streets—offerings for their hair-breadth seapes. Effigies of the Virgin appear in every church hut some are held in higher estimation than others. Oc , h4sionally extraordinary miracles are reported to have taken place —every one of which increases her popularity. Lately it was currently believed that she had onpn.d ion with an o . Lady w THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. TRADE PROSPECTS. [Bankers' Circular.). We see no reason to alter the view which we ventured to take last week concerning the immediate prospects of temporary improvement in trade in the manufacturing districts—that word temporary may mean four, six, eight, or ten months, according to individual impressions, and we would not fix on the shortest of those periods. Con sequently, although we have been censured for presenting a too sanguine view—a censure not specifically neutralised by an opposite—yet we adhere firmly to what we have said, because some of the most cautious and considerate merchants have commended it for moderation, and for not passing the boundary which the facts and circum stances of the case, as they come under their own obser vation and experience, would completely justify. The mannfacturing and mining affairs of this country are, however, in so peculiar a condition, so liable to in terruption from political causes, or from a policy likely to be pursued by the best customers of England, which is in direct antagonism to that which is, or rather has been, for seven years in vogue here, that we think it right on the present occasion to extend our views beyond a short period of comprrative prosperity, for the purpose of en deavouring to ascertain what is likely to come after that temporary period of relief. We hold with an overwhelm ing force of conviction to the opinion that we have been for many years reiterating, viz., that the operation of the existing free trade policy of England, with the existing monetary system of England, will produce effects so un bearable, that one or the other, and we think both, will be changed with'n two years from the present time. When we say changed, we do not mean changed to their opposites: judicious currency regulations, which the Acts of 1844 and 1845 aimed at but did not accomplish, are requisite; the removal of obnoxious import duties which teased and perplexed without yielding revenue, might be necessary : but we mean that the uncircumspect head long measures which have been forced onward on an in dividual anthority, will be wisely modified and be placed on a foundation not incompatible with the welfare of the people, and that within two years. * * * * We have dwelt long on our distant prospects and their ultimate results ; it is a prolific theme of deep interest for us. Our immediate prospects for immediate demand and more employment for the people are, however, improving, and are exhibiting symptoms of endurance which could not be discerned last week. The French are showing a willingness and a capacity to buy and pay for imported goods. For nine months they have imported no spetter ; they are now buying fair quantities in Hamburgh at im pro"ed prices. They are also importing more copper. They are, moreover, beginning to import and work up more cotton and other raw materials. And a fact seated in the Morning Chronicle speaks emphatically con cernine the restoration of confidence and the power of consumption in Paris. It is this :—" The prOsperity of Paris is generally in proportion to the amount of the octroi duties. \TV hen they are low, Paris suffers; when they are high, Paris prospers. It now appears that the octroi duties of last month are, for the first time since the revo lution, equal to those of the corresponding month of 1847. In October, 1847, the amount of octroi duties collected amounted to 2,916,420 francs ; in October, 1848, they amounted to 2,608,983 francs. The uroduce of the first fortnight of November amounts to 1,575,819 francs. The produce of the first fortnight of November amounts to 1,575,819 francs, which is at the satisfactory rate of 105,053 francs per day." . For these and other reasons (to which we may advert on another occasion) we hold to the opinion we expressed last week concerning the prospects for trade in the manu facturing districts, which we repeated on commencing these observations. The volcano that has burst out with such fury in Germany will, we trust, be stopped, and it certainly would have been some months since if an extra ordinary degree of energy had been exercised by the go vernments. A great majority of the middle and higher classes of the people are on their side—especially in Prus sia ; and all would be so, if a moderate degree of intelli gence and liberality, combined with inflexible firmness, characterised the administration of their rulers. eentral Altorellann. ---.100.-- The barque Arrietta, from Cuba, for Swansea,. with ore, was wrecked in Swansea Bay on Monday night. Parliamentary notices may in future be forwarded through the Post Office, under certain regulations. Shrawberries and violets are now growing in the open air, in a garden at Strangeways-terrace, Truro. Mr. Steegman,.a German, has been elected to the office of Sheriff of Nottingham. A farmer's pocket was picked of £350 at the Monmouth fair, on Wednesday week. When Jenny Lind visited Bristol Cathedral on Sunday week she was honored with a seat in the Bishop's throne. The Corporation of Durham have resolved to petition against the introduction of the provisions of the likalth Act into that city until the local acts are found insufficient. A female prisoner in Gloucester gaol died last week in consequence of exhaustion, from having persisted in tak ing insufficient food. THE LYME PARK CATTLE.—A fine well-fed wild bul lock was slaughtered last week, at Lyme. and a hina quarter forwarded for presentation to her Majesty. "An Appeal to the Public," is the title of a small affair produced at the Lyceum, which exhibits the bustling talent of Mr. Charles Mathews to advantage. On Friday night the Southwark Flax Mills, belonging to Messrs. Chapman and Co., were destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at £2,600 and the firm is not insured fora penny. On Friday a destructive fire took place in the premises of a Mr. Powell, optician, Gray's-inn-lane, London. A man and woman lodging in one of the upper rooms were suffocated. At Kirriemuir, Scotland. lately, a girl about 9 years of age, died of suffocation, from a dose of turpentine which her father was attempting to pour down her throat for worms. Dr. John Stewart, of Cumnock, Scotland, died recently from inflammation and fever, produced by a slight burn on the wrist, by the accidental dropping of some melted sealing wax upon it a short time previously. During the course of a trial at the Central Criminal Court, on Monday. the Recorder intimated that a publican clearly connected with a Derby Sweep lottery, is liable to a penalty of £5OO. Last week the chapel erected in the Duke of Buc cleuch's grounds at Dalkeith was broken into, and a num ber of valuable articles used in the service of the church Were stolen. We (Daily News) could point to one church, not many miles from Guildhall, in which there are as many as five lecturers appointed who preach to congregations varying in number from five to thirteen ! A Hull paper describes a full-grown crab. bearing on its back two score and a half oysters, apparently as firmly imbedded in its shell as if they constituted a proper part of it. THE CASUAL POOR.—According to the official returns it appears there were 17,500 casual poor relieved in the the workhouse of St. Martin-in-the-fields, London, during last year. At the Criminal Court, London, on Saturday, the Ba ronness St. Marv; was found " not guilty" of the charge of having stolen two rings, value £4O, the property of Sir J. Hare. One more of the last frail links by which hope hung in the matter of the party who have so long disappeared with Sir John Franklin has given way. The latest of the whal ers have come in—and brought no tidings. Floating or camping they have seen no trace of the lost expedition. A few days ago, a pensioner at Carlisle cut out of his left arm a flattened piece of lead, about the size of a six pence, being a portion of a ball which shattered the upper bone Of the arm at the battle of Waterloo, he beii time in the 73d Regiment, The great clock - for the Victoria Tower of the new Houses of Parliament is to strike the hours on a bell of from eight to ten tons weight, chime the quarters on eight bells, and show time on four dials of thirty feet in diameter. The Queen Dowager has ordered an agent at Cowes to distribute among the widows and poor the two months' supply of coals furnished to the houses which her Majesty engaged for that period, but which she on . y occupied as miny days. The bha'rtist trials in Edinburgh, closed on Saturday, when the court, by a majority of four, Lord Cockburn alone dissenting, repelled the objections to the sufficiency of the verdict. The sentence upon each of the prisoners was four months' imprisonment. At a vestry meeting held last week, at Barnard Castle, it was resolved, by a large majority, to support, by legal proceedings, the right of the parishioners at large to ap point the sexton ; and it was also determined to levy a rate to meet the expenses. A good deal of eicitement has been created at Gorbals during the last few days, from the circumstance of a man named George Johnston, a master baker in Thistle-street, having absconded with 'a sum of money amounting to nearly £lOOO, which belonged to a Society, of which he was treasurer A large meeting of dissenting clergymen and laymen Glasgow, on :Tuesday, for the purpose of op )roposed endowment of the Roman Catholic posing the priesthood, and also in opposition to exist of every description. : was called to the chair. A. Hastie. M.F. for the city, SCARCITY OF COPPER COlN.—Such was the extreme scarcity of copper money in the town last week, that it was quite impossible to get " change for sixpence." One individual, of somewhat more than ordinary perseverance, contrived, after s search of some hours, to get a four pcnny-piece:and twopence.—Banff Journal. GUTTA PERCH A.—This article continues to be imported in very large quantities in order to meet the extensive de • mands which are made for it. A vessel just arrived in t London from Singapore has' largest =ugh f 3,294 ne , unporta packages, 710 lumps PALTRY SPITE.—The Board of Guardians of the Andover Union have withheld their advertisements from the Times, in consequence of that paper expressing an opinion on their proceedings. We talk of the freedom of the press in England, but is not this infinitely more tyrannical than any continental censorship ? HONOURABLE CONDUCT.—A dinner was given on Tuesday night, in London, to ➢Zr. J. B. Graham, by the creditors of his late father, in testimony of their approval of his conduct in liquidating the claims not only of his deceased father, but those upon the firm of which Mr. Graham, sen. was a partner. A RELIC OF OLD TIMES.—A golden bracelet, of the intrinsic worth of about £2O, which is thoueht to hay/ at the tim _ . Romans and the sons of the British king, Cunobelin, was lately found by a ploughman on the estate of Mr. It. Fox, near Wendover, Bucks, and is to be presented to the British Museum. SHAM GENEVA GLOD WATCHES.—The public must be on their guard in respct to a beautiful imitation, in base metal, electrotypes of the small Geneva watches, with a THE ARMY AND NAVY When we find an energetic association of men com bined for the purpose of depreciating the merits and demanding the reduction of our military and naval forces on principle—industriously exaggerating their cost and extenuating their usefulness -- mixing up truth and false hood, a few right and judicious suggestions with much that is erroneous * rash, crotchetty, and violent, we feel that the cause of reform is suffering a great damage at the hands of pretended reformers, and that the staunch advocates of old abuses may justify them by the state ments and theories of their opponents. According to the gentlemen who met at Liverpool last week, the terrible evil in the country is its taxation. Its taxation is due to its wars and its army, and its wars and its army to its aristocracy. This seems a fair summary of all that they stated there, or are likely to state any where else. We are paying annually twenty-seven mil lions of debt incurred for past foreign wars, and twenty millions more (this is an exaggeration of 3 millions) fcr present defensive establishments. The former were com menced, as the latter are continued, for the sole benefit of some five or six thousand officers, who are sons, brothers, or connexions of the aristrocracy. This is, we believe, a fair relation of what is believed by the mem bers of the Financial Reform Association, and what they wish the thinking population of England and Wales to believe likewise. Now, we are not going to contend that a public debt of £770,000,000 is a public blessing, nor that the taxation of 26,000,000 persons to the amount of £53,000,000 is not heavy. We had much rather the truth should be told We may be angry, sorry, indigm our burdens ; but we need not lie _ _ If the truth , the people of this country are responsible for the - - ut Luis country. iNo people were so fond of ;—for a number of years—gained so much b war, and it as did popular najority, or on hen unpro, . . Fepys relates the gloom an d distrust which prevailed in the city at the Dutch war ; but he also tells us that the merchants were angry, first, because it was an inglorious war ; secondly, because it was not a French war. Again, the only means by which William 111. could consolidate his power and party in England was by a French war. Unpopular himself his war with France was popular. Detested by two-thirds of the nation as an alien and an usurper, he enlisted their sympathies in his struggle with Louis Quatorze. A Whig Ministry could never have weathered the storm and tempest of opposition in Queen Anne's reign, had it not been for the victories of Marl borough. Nothing can so clearly indicate the heat to which party passion in those days rose as the interruption Lay so,' uty waac oci Ivo vi Lritunpns wmcn min begun at Blenheim and Ramifies. These were cherished years after by the people, who never ceased to contrast the pa --:-4...1-C _ 4-1 • • - era, wi QhPd PA which glory and conc Walpole's scrupulous avoidance of a warlike policy exposed him. At one time he was for giving up Gibraltar to the Spaniards, and was prevented only by his dread of the nonular fury. It was the mass of the of Spain"—who assailed him for resisting their own pro pensities, and finally drove him into a conflict which his judgment and his prejudice equally condemned. It was led a name and Which his capriciousness never forfeited nor his inconsistencies effaced. It was the boast and the theme of his panegyrists, that he had taught our armies confi dence and our navies victory. The American war was popular till it became inglorious. On Franklin's first visit to England he found the national bias against the colonists. It was only when they had lost men, money, and honour. in a fruitless 4 - 1 influenc lar with three-four disaTane And M.... 'rench revolutionary war was popu of the nation. Even in the face of • ...a .. Al/ Ulla,. I, a I.I.JJCEIUu large sums out of their private pockets for its continuance. Never, perhaps, did men contribute so largely to any en terprise, as merchants, bankers, landed gentry, and other of their class did towards the assistance of Pitt's projects against France. Never was such enthusiasm excited in the populace as was excited by the victories of the Nile, St. Vincent, and Trafalgar. There was not a respectable corporation of England that did not shower down gold snuff boxes or diamond-hilted swords upon Jervis, Nel son, and Collingwood. Liverpool itself has perpetuated the names of Rodney and Nelson in her streets; Talk of the aristocracy having encouraged wars for their own in terest ! Why, it would have been impossible for ;Inv aristocracy to check the martial spirit displayed, both be fore and after the peace of Amiens, by more than half the tax-paying cl Inaccurate equally inaccurate in others. The army is not officered by the aristocracy—i. e. by the members of any narrow and restricted class. It is officered by gentlemen, and we hope it may always be so. unless the financial refnrm.,.. ssesof the empire iy the example of foreign States that it is better Ins put Dyrham Wood, which was forbidden ground, being a favourite fox cover of the Duke of Beaufort's hunt. The little pack, however, were not to be restrained. They stiff fenc the special use of the duffers, and are worth from 15s. to 20s. each. The articles are being offered to the pawn brokers, as pledges, for £2 or £3, their apparent value being £6 to £B. n Hare, in his recently c. • examined at great length and singular acuteness the argu ments which were brought forw.rd in the debate of last session in favour of admitting the Jews into parliament. In this question he is opposed to his friend the Bishop of St. David's and others who advocated their admission. The publication of his sentiments is well. measure will be introdueed again in the ensuing session LLANDILLO BRIDGE, CARMARTHENSHIRE.—This noble structure is completed. At the Carmarthenshire quarter sessions, Mr. E. Haycock, the architect of the bridge, presented his report, from which it appeared that the bridge, which is the third largest in the kingdom, being nearly 150 feet span, is built principally of black marble, at an expense of about £18,000; while Gloucester Bridge timed, as ti ,eave your read from them CHOLERA entirely barred the•further progre scent, continued the chas them or the fox is not known after dark altogether wending Being hungry, they attacked a flock of sheep in the Val of Coldaston ; a fat one was selected, killed without ce mony, and every bone cleanly picked, Having freshed themselves, the pack moved how( arrived at their kennel at daybreak, just as was up to greet them. CHARGE OF FELONY AGAINST A COUNT Central Criminal-court on Frid Cabral, aged 50, married, and A ried, were indicted for stealing a brooch and div( of linen, valued at £2, the property of Hester unattended !le pad their way horn m soon laria Carlota Alvez lar, masculine-looking woman, is a Portuguese Countess in her own right, and the younger prisoner was her ser vant. The prisoners, it will be remembered. lived in a Portuguese and Spanish boarding.house, in Finsin square, and sundry articles were found in the apartir which, it was contended, were only suci mate. This view of the case was alsotaken by the It( corder, who said the charge struck him as being anythin but a larceny ; and it was rather hard to charge a perso with felony for ]racing a few more thi ngs i n use t h an th , )üblished Charge, has regulations of the house permitted. He then directed acquittal, which was afso taken upon the in regarded Rosa, who had only acted as the ser elder prisoner. They were ordered to be i discharged from custody. ant Ass meeting of the Birmingham Proie a few days since, Mr. T. Ragg, the con tary, related an extraori place during the past week in that towr woman, a Roman Catholic, residing tl ter who attended one of the Birmingh this school she had received a which she I covers; put them into the fire his stick till sufficiently co Jere, I —At a a, held id taken ew Testament, o 1r5,"4.11.e.• .• • would so serve all such books houses where he visited. The Rev. Josh cumbent of St. Peter's, Birmingham, say " The priest acknowledged to me that he b. tament, and also declared that he would burn or tract which he found in the houses of any He also charged me never to enter the house, nist in my district, and upon my assuring him that I should pay no attention to his command, and that the law of the land would protect my person, he said he would order his people to use scurrilous' lan and to offer me insult, if I ventured to y Upon my appealing to him, and askine. burn the Word of God ?' he told riv-- pulpit,. and not to preach to hir -DIRT AND I guage t Friday an inquest was held in Goo don, on the body of a child named William Keatinz aged 4 years, who died a is, Lou- the symptoms of malignant cholera. The inquest v called at the instigation of Mr. Liddle, the medical off SECOND EDITION. Standard O f fice, Twelve o'clock. DREADFUL FLOODS IN SCOTLAND. DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY. On Saturday and Sunday very heavy snow and rain fell in the southern districts of Scotland, and all the rivers and streams became swollen to a terrific extent. At La mington, on the Caledonian line of railway, about 36 miles on this side of Glasgow, the wooden railway-bridge which there crosses the Clyde has been washed away, the embankment on each side having been carried away by the river. At Crawford, about nine miles further, on the same line, another wooden bridge across the Clyde has been carried away in a similar manner. The passengers to and from Glasgow have of course to leave the trains at the re spective places, and get across the country in the best way they can. The district for miles is one sheet of water, and such an extensive or destructive flood is not remem bered. No doubt we shall hear of the loss of very much 40,000, A.t Leamington, on Wednesday, the Grand Open Stee- plechase was won by a length by Mr. Fuller's Knight of Gwynne, beating the Doctor, Alfred, Chandler, Red Lancer, Prince George, Khondooz, Venom, Ace of Trumps, Alexander, Linkboy, and Vindictive. Betting -3 to 1 agst Prince George, taken ; 4 to 1 agst Red Lan cer ; 6 to 1 agst Doctor ; 10 to 1 agst Gwynne ; 8 to 1 agst Alexander ; 8 to 1 agst Chandler. A sign that cholera is on the wane in London, was afforded on Tuesday by the fact that the Board of Health issued no report of cases. The deaths, from all causes, iq the metropolis during the week ending Saturday last, were 1,207, being 53 over the average. Of the total num yen days, 118 were destroyed ied dt by scarlatina, and 70 by typhus—two diseases which con tinue to be much more fatal than the dreaded cholera. .FATAL AFFRAY.- -Grl Saturdays a band of Irish navies, employed on the Clydesdale Junction Railway, went into a public-house in the village of Alddingston^, parish of Bothwell, where they had a quantity of whisky. While together in the house referred to, it appears that a dispute had arisen betwixt them, and that ultimately they came to blows. Onp - - - so man, named Joseph iison, was verely injured in the scuffle that he died from the effects --.inds upon Wednesday. THE SEASON.-011, Thursday last a quantity of new potatoes, varying from one to four ounces in weight, were got from an open garden belonging to James- Green Armi tage, Esq., situated at the very foot oFliollm , Moss, a lo cality known throughout - Yorkshire as the ne- plus ultra of bleakness, and almost eternal snow. The remainder of the growing crop are in.a .very thriving condition, and free from disease. MELANCHOLY DEATIDOWMAJOR Ross,.—This gallant officer of the Royal Horse Artillery. eldest son of Major- General Sir Hew Dalrymple Rhss, K.C.8., Deputy Adjutant-General to the Royal Artillerp, died on Sunday last at Newcastle-on-Tyne, where he was stationed on the recruiting service. His death took place from injuries he received a few days previously by falling from his horse when out riding, the animal having rolled upon him. Major Ross was a comparatively young officer, being by seniority Second Captain in Captain Gilbert's troop of Royal Horse Artillery, although holding the brevet rank ' of Major in the service. SHIPWRECK AND LOSS-OF LIFE.—On Friday, the brig Seawitch, of London, Freeman, master, from Sierra Le one, with a cargo of African oak, and ground nuts, was totally wrecked in Pontifex Bay, on the north west coast of Guernsey. The vessel on striking recoiled, when a wave carried her into a trough of rocks, and she was al most instantly broken in halves. The master and seven men, who were on the afterpart, we•e swept away, and perished. The three men who escaped were in the bows, where they remained till daybreak, when they were res cued, the tide having left the forepart of the wreck high and dry. Part of the cargo, together with two small boxes of gold dust and some jewellery, have been recovered. THE OAK FARM "IRON- WORKS.—An arrangement is said to have been entered into between the assignees in the bankruptcy of the late Oak Farm Company and Sir Stephen Glyn, Lord Lyttelton, and Mr. W. Gladstone, the proprietors of the estates, by which further litigation will be avoided : £20,000 is named as the sum agreed to be paid by the proprietors in lieu of breaking up the ma chinery ; and, although, from their heavy claims, the greater part of this will revert to themselves, yet the cre ditors will sooner have a dividend declared. There are now in the district of South Staffordshire 106 furnaces in, and 31 out of blast. The cholera broke out in Fighting Cock Yard, Monk- Wearmouth, on Friday week, and on that day and Satur day five deaths occurred. This is not surprising, as within a space of fifty yards no fewer than fifteen middensteads exist in the most disgracefully filthy condition, and the whole place is a scene of destitution and dirt. Thence the epidemic extended to Monk-Wearmouth Colliery, where, from Saturday to Monday, inclusive, twelve cases occurred, five of which terminated fatally. Since then, other s cases have occurred, and two persons have died. mai+ the deaths in all seven, and the remaining cases twels Owing to the above sickness and deaths the colliery has for the present ceased working NARROW COURTS AND BAD DRAINAGE INDUCE CHO- In the official return of deaths registered in Lon e week ending Saturday last, the cases are re- ported of two children, of the ages of two and five years, and a woman aged 45, who aied of Asiatic cholera, the infant suddenly, the child in four days, and the woman in 18 hours. They all lived in the same court, two in the house, and the other opposite. The register states that " This court has 21 houses, which have two rooms in each. Most of these houses contain two families. The width of the court is only five feet, with very bad drain age. There is one water tank for the supply of the in habitants. The inhabitants are very poor, and several persons have been taken ill." Nottingham is visited by a " suicidal endemic. lowing close upon the death of the Rev. Mr. Browns Woman, v Amnon, a lace-manutacturer, poisoned num, on learning that her protector w herself with bout to In Gadd, a young man, had farmed an attachment to a girl named Cant; Gadd's friends were adverse to his marry ing her; the unhappy couple declared that if they could not live tocrether they would die together ; so they bought some arsenic, and put it into two little cakes, which were baked at Cant's house. They ate the cakes, and were soon in a dreadful state, but medical aid having rginnvpri STRANGE CIRCUMSTANCE.—A boy named Edwin Hay ball, of Chard parish, one day last week fell into a mill- Everybody believed the child d; lose affliction was very great. She took her the child showed symptoms of returnir c upon which some change in the position Jf place, when it was discovered that the chi been in the fire and was dreadfully burnt. having been called in did what was neces of the body took child was getting on very well days after the mother placed him before th she went into the garden, and or iefire for a momeiit whilst ..- k to find her child b urn t a l most to a cinder. —lt is a singular coincidence that a girl. the cousin of the above-named Edwin Hayball, a short time since fell into the fire, and one of her breasts was almost entirely con sumed , • in her agony she ran to the millp on d t o a ll ay the ror-struc len she fell in and was drowned.--Devon Chronicle. ADVENTURES OF A PACK OF HARRIERS pack of harriere, kept in the neighbourhoo ast week a property besides that mentioned FEARFUL MASSACRES on SU 1P89.11{ D. The following two communications appeared on the notice board of the Exchange News Room, this morning, about II o'clock : "Londonderry, Dec. 3d, 1848. " The Sligo steamer Londonderry, from Siigo to Li verpool, has just put in here, with 53 people dead, said to have been murdered on the passage by a gang of robbers, who. went on board to rob some emigrants who had a deal of money. The military and p3lice have mounted guard." " Mail Steam Packet ' Trafalgar,' Liverpool, October 51h, 1848. " Shortly before the mail for Liverpool left Dublin yesterday, a telegraphic communication was received from the northward to the following effect:—• A dreadful c g co- t—'- 3C. ook place on bo ar d an em i grant ship, which had recently left Ireland,—the poor class having attacked the farmers for the purpose of plundering them of their money. Durolg the conflict a heavy storm obliged the master of the vessel to. put into Derry, where no less than An narann a rya. C.-- 1 - Av vcs avila 4.4cata were iounj on board. These,' it is added, ' were all the particulars known when the Trafal gar left Kingston.'' There can be no doubt, we think, on perusing these but that both refer to the same dreadful oc- documents currence It would scarcely be within the range of proba- bility, that nearly a similar number of persons should be murdered on board each of the vessels named, and that both should afterwards put into Derry. esides the steamer was not an emigrant vessel strong probability is that the murders took place on board the ship, and that as she was overtaken by a storm. she steamer, which took off the bodies DOUBLE ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.—On Thursday morn ing last, a little before six o'clock, the inhabitants of Pex wood, were thrown in great alarm by seeing a woman in the road almost destitute of clothes. Two men, named Folds and Crowther, went up to her, and found her to :)e • . Miss Taylor, who had evidently been attempting to drown herself in the water-trough. They conducted her into her house, and it was soon discovered that ber brother, John (r•r;fl, 1:--.1\ )y cuttin, attempting •oat. Mr. iately sent N. Foster, sur )n, of Todmoraen, wa;'immeci teg um ents over the ugular vein, but had no He also found that he had tied a string round his arm and inflicted several cuts with the intent of bleeding himself to death.—Halifax Guardian. FASHIONABLE SWINDLING IN EDlNBURGll.—Consider able excitement has been occasioned in certain quarters by the appre /Inc rinrin '.tension of a person on a charge r the last few mnntha freely in the higher circles of society here, and lived in a Le at one of the principal It appears that he had assumed a high and had extensively patronised ....,ments in town, chiefly clothiers and mer cers, from whom he obtained a large supply of articles, at first by paying cash down for the goods he purchased : hotels in the city degree of military rank various establis . - but having succeeded in establishing his credit, he then transacted business on a more enlarged scale and sud denly left the city without settling the nu merous claims The iMIT fate cause of his abrupt de 11.1 1./CCU Kuo.uy, iur a minima sum, the party whose name he employed being at present on service in India. He was traced to Hull, and having been apprehended there, in terms of a telegraphic message transmitted thither by the superintendent of police here, he has been conveyed 3u rgfl.—Edinburgh Courant. MANY WIVES. —At the New Court, Henry Brammell, surgeon, pleaded L._. _ lon, on Friday The second wife, who was in court, and in;u-chia'dread ful state of mental and bodily suffering that she was com pelled to be brought in a chair, said that the prisoner lived with her three months after his marriage, and had nearly ever since been at sea. She had seen him when at home, and he had sent her money when away. Since their marriage he had sold her furniture, plate, linen, and all she possessed. Two other indictments—one for mar rying Emma Georgina Rose at Calcutta, cn the 13th of October, 1847, and another for marrying Hannah Amelia Bland, in September last, at Liverpool, he pleaded guilty to. The Recorder than said, upon the first indictment s he should sentence him to seven years' transportation, onri ' vas called upon to pass sentence upon a !Mau L uouru second indict nent. He should avail himself of the discretion the act flowed, and sentence the prisoner to seve n y ears ' trans- porration upon the second indictment; the second sen tence to commence at the termination of the first. —On Tuesday an in- MANSLAUGHTER BY A quest was held in Tottenham-court-road, London, on was al hilleti,the ac deceased last she had fastened her with a cord to till she returned home she found the doo opening it all was dark and quiet.,...l but received no answer. She ler, a widow. 1, on being examined, said she live at half-past seven on Friday when she locked her in the room, and did not half-past ten same night. She admitted that When Bed to hE r down.—Mr. Joseph Layman, landlord of the said Pullen and her daughter occupied a room 3. They had had for three weeks a yOi t out of place, with them ; but she went out on l did not return till Saturday n night th( ead—what shall Ido ?" II went with Thursday 'ound :cused knociedhini-;;; What is the use cite dead s she is dead Something must be She said she had left her to mend She returned at eleven o'clock, and and there must be rejoined finding she had clone nothing, she put the rope round her neck, and fastened it to the bedpost, so as to prevent her from sitting down, tying the ends round the foot of the bed to prevent her from untying it. She had put the rope round and round her neck.—The surgeon who had examined the body stated that there could be no doubt that death was caused by suffocation from hanging; he found no food in the stomach of the deceased.—The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against the mother, I for trial wing to a clos lace we noticed at the time, may not be fter leaving )üblin, at a con- cert in the Music Half, Birmingham, (being 'her second visit to that town in the course of this autumn), which attended by a very numerous and enthusiastic andi -- she went to Brighton, where she sang at Monday the 30th ult. and per find " Figlia del Reggimento', a morning concert, on formed in " Sonnambula' out of doors was made on Tu vv.". rsatu. tAnnillUCU 1.1) UO SG), Lill yammer num equally wonderful drew their attention elsewhere. the most certain way of gaining the favour of the Virgin 13 , by presenting her with som e ar ti c l e o f d ress . I n the C _ ol lpel near the Grotto Posillipp o I no ti ce d a r i c hl y em broidered pocket handkerchief which she held in her hand, and learnt from the sacristan that it had lately been pre 4W,ed to her. When Lady Drummond was in Naples dressing was importuned by the priests f or a d ona ti on t owards uressing up the Virgin for a festival. Her ladyship did !lot choose to give any money, but offered an old light blue and silver court dress, which was gladly accept e d. After this the idol was paraded through the streets, to t he admiration of the people ; decked out as it was in the het-off finery of a heretic. A similar request was made to the Duke of Saxony, who had just been married. He " I have no money, but I can give you my wedding %at, which I shall not use again, if that will answer your Purpose." My friend afterwards saw it adorning a saint 10 the chapel of Loretto, and noticed that they had taken o ,,fr the jewels, and replaced th em w i t h s h am ones .— '"ights in Italy. SAGACITY OF A NEWFOUNDLAND DOG.—A few days a go, a merchant of Newcastle-on-Tyne had occasion to 4 end his servant on horseback to Blenheim-street, accom tlenied by his master's dog. O n arr i v i ng at hi s destina °o, he dismounted ; but before going into the house ,P,llere he had been commissioned to go, he hung the bri dle of the horse on a small iron crook at the door. Im kediately after the horse shook the bridle off the crook, j l ld galloped away at full speed. The dog, however, s ',ved, and, on coming up to the animal, he seized one of stirrups, but being of a patent construction, it sud renlY opened, and he lost his hold. The horse still con 'truing his course, the dog at length succeeded in seizing , 9 11 1 e bridle, just as the horse reached the cattle market, 'eh fortunately brought him to a stand still ; and the Z i thful dog could n o t b e ma d e t o qu i t hi s h old until the " r Unt came to his assistance.—Newcastle Courant. kneel, and, resting his rifle on the wiping-stick, take j a steady aim as they advanced. Full well the Pawnees know, to their cost, that a mountaineer seldom pulls his trigger without sending a bullet to the mark ; and, certain that one at least must fall, they hesitated to make the onslaught. Steadily the white retreated with his face to the foe, bringing the rifle to his shoulder the instant that one advanced within shot, the Indians galloping round, firing the few guns they had amongst them at long dis tances, but without effect. One young " brave," more daring than the rest, rode out of the crowd, and dashed at the hunter, throwing himself from the saddle, and hanging over the opposite side of his horse,—present ing no other mark than his left foot, discharged his bow from under the animal's neck, and with such good aim, that the arrow, whizzing through the air, struck the stock of La Bonte's rifle, .which was a t hi s shoulder, and, glancing off, pierced his arm, inflicting, luckily, but a slight wound. Again the Indian turned in his course, the others encouraging him with loud war whoops, and once more passing at still less distance, drew his arrow to the head. This time, however, the eagle eye of the white caught sight of the action, and suddenly rising from his knee as the Indian was approaching, hang. ing by his foot alone over the opposite side of the horse, he jumped towards the animal with outstretched arms and a loud yell, causing it to start so suddenly, and swerve from its course, that the Indian lost his foot-hold, and, after in vain struggling to regain his position, fell to the ground : but instantly rose upon his feet and gallantly confronted the mountaineer, striking his hand upon his brawny chest and shouting a loud whoop of defiance. In another instant the rifle of La Bonte had poured forth its contents ; and the brave Indian, springing in to the air, fell dead to the ground, just as the other trappers, who had heard the firing, galloped up to the spot, at sight of whom the Pawnees, with yells of disappointed vengeance, hastily retreated.--Blackwood. Mean: who have no civil ties and no civil sympathies while we should advise them to study the Army Lis_ , they may discover how many of the officers owe their com- 1 more o maw!, and—what are st. ~anoxious—their and decorations, co their own services rather than the in vidious possession of an " historical name." Our military system may be too mercantile; it certainly is not too aristocratic. Inaccurate in their facts, they are naturally loose in their inferences. We have the old stuff reproduced about colonies, and the hacknied comparison of our trade with the United States and that with our own colonies. That this mode of reasoning should be tolerated anywhere in England is strange, but monstrous that it should be lis tened to in Liverpool. Why, the history of this city is actually imbedded in the history of our colonies and our navy. You cannot read twenty pages of any history of the West Indies or the American war, without stumbling on the name of Liverpool. How much of the money which has expanded the little creek of Liverpool into a large city with magnificent edifices and towering ware houses—how much of this, gentlemen reformers, was the produce of those possessions which you disparage, and those wars which you denounce ? And pray, where, but for this acquisition of territory, which your much-abused and much-worked army (an army just equal to that of Belgium, and one-fourth of that of France) has gotten for you—where, but for this and the spirit of colonial enterprise which you discourage, would have been those United States, whose commerce you vaunt and extol ? Where, but for the army, which in the piping times of peace you so contentedly slight and despise—where would have been the gains of your fathers and the booty of your forefathers ? Gentlemen, reformers, look at home, and then look wide abroad, before you coin facts to give cur rency to follies, and, under the pretence of easing the burdens, impair the strength and dim the honour of England.—Times. the National Gallery The apparatus, of Which the most the ,nnoanp rpflertnr hahind light, was so placed as to illumine the whole of Trafalgar so:pare, the rays reaching as far as Northumberland House. If the illumination can be sustained, there is no other means of lighting the streets that can at all be com pared with this electric light. The Sheffield Times says that that town is fast losing all its trade, and though many leave it no one comes to it as a residence. Nothing answers there—everything fails —though the town is beautifully situated, with plenty of canal and railway accommodation. If our contemporary bad not been such a free-trader, he would have found out that the foreigners have taken away the prosperity of the town, and would have put the saddle on the right horse by blaming free-trade. PRACTICAL JOKING AT THE LONDON STOCK Ex- CHANGE.—An accident has just occurred at the Stock Exchange which it may be hoped will check the silly love of practical jokes which has so long disgraced that esta blishment, and which is a reproach to the vigilance of the committee. One of the members attacked yesterday in sport of this kind was thrown down and 'received hurts which rendered him insensible. Upon medical aid being sent for it was found he had been seriously injured.— Times. MONSTER TORTOISE. — Captain Dady, of the Duke, a large vessel, owned by Messrs. Hoghton and Co., of Liverpool, and now delivering a guano cargo in the Junc tion Dock, has exhibited within the last few days a tor toise of extraordinary dimensions, being about five feet in length, of the capture of which, upon an island in the Pacific Ocean, a wonderful account is given. The crea ture lived three months after it was taken on board the Duke, and used to move upon the deck with the captain and two or three others of the crew upon its back.—Hull Advertiser. he first experiment of this light -sdav evening. in front of to attend no less than five cases of Asiatic - cholera in that the court was about 70 feel in lens might touch the houses on both sides,) the ventilation was impeded by a dead wall at each end of the court, the houses were crowded and dirty, and many of the privies were overflowing. He had no doubt the child died a natural death from Asiatic choler marked that the court was or The coroner re- witnessed, and it appeared imposableto; defective ventilation of it. He said the paroc ~edy the hial authorities respectine it merveu ivai u was nighty expedient that an officer of health should be appointed to the Tower Hamlets, who should have power to compel the owners of property to render the houses which are let to poor people whole some, and if the p ro p er ty b e so b a d t h at it cannot b e remedied, then it should be condemned. The law now gave power to surveyors to condemn property that was dangerous from dilapidation. The same power ought to be given to an officer of health, to condemn houses which endangered the lives of the inhabitants from poisonous emanations. The coroner said he believed there was a law which rendered an owner liable to the charge of man slaughter if a case of death ensued from the unhealthy condition of a dwelling-house. AN IMPORTANT CURE BY THE USE OF HOLLOWAY'S PlLLs.—Extract of a letter from a gentleman residing at St. Helier's, addressed to the editor of the Mirror de Jersey, dated June, 1847. " Sir,—For some time I had suffered from a severe malady, for which I sought the advice of the most eminent of the faculty. but to no pur pose. I resolved, therefore (and in sheer despair), to give Holloway's Pills a trial ; by the use of one box I found myself better, and by a short continuance of this inappreciable medicine, I was perfectly cured, to the great astonishment of my neighbours, who supposed that I could Rot possibly have recovered. formances were on .se were Mane room for ecinesaay and tcriday. The morning its were very well attended, but the operatic per _ y indifferently so performances on her tour, as N . , Roger was then compelled to leave this country to fulfil his engagement at Paris. On the Wednesday following, there was a concert at Southampton, which was well attended ; and on Friday, one at Clifton, in the assembly )ms. The room, which will hold about 1000 person 4 s crowded with a fashionable and enthusiastic audience ; Mdlle. Lind expressed herself highly Cheltenham, Gloucester and Leamington, all of whi, _ . were numerously attended by audiences who received Mdlle. Lind very cordially. An intended concert at Cambridge was obliged to be relinquished, in consequence of Mdlle. Lind having been indisposed for a few days. On Friday she sang at Oxford, in the theatre of tl•e Senate House, which will accommodate 4,000 persons, and which was well filled. Last night she sung at Leeds, for the benefit of the members of the band and chorus accompanying her throughout her tour. We have heard that, after singing at Leeds, Mddle. Lind is to sing at a charitable concert at Birmingham, (at which she gives her services gratuitously), and we believe that she will not sing any more in the provinces at present, with the exception of the two concerts in Manchester, for the benefit of the Royal Infirmary. Although Mdlle. Lind has received several invitations from the principal resi dents in the different places she has visited, she has in variably declined them on account of the.shortness of her stay, and has gone to an inn. In Manchester, however, she is expected to remain probably for some weeks, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Salis Schwabe, Crumpsall Hall. We believe she will remain there during the Christmas holidays, enjoying a little quiet and retirement, after her long and arduous campaign, until again called to the metropolis by the opening of the next operatic season. This is in all probability her last visit to England,