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Oct, 3, IS4S. ily cheered' The eue, Efttrature. VARIETIES. THE FINE ARTS. -4- Al) P:t )4 A Del‘ A 1 01 " d ili 'O O .absc' piv~ ice on rite 0 rt• p3O vit C°ltrAßtsox.—Why is a solar eclipse like a woman •„PPlog her boy ?—Because it is a " hiding of the sun." eY NATURAL.—" I hate to hear people talk behind 4 1 ,7 s hack," as the robb er sa id w h en th e cons t a ble called Stop thief " ..rtptsWentli:tt distinguished " knight of the hammer" best Pet ,s , h ow. a " Ragged School ?"—A. Tatters-all.—Pup- AX l o ne d RIS H ACQUAINTANCE.—An Irish gentleman was a aY speaking t o a f r i en d o f t h e d angerous qua liti es o f mou htual a cqua i ntance— " To say the truth I don ' t like al l o t° 7, 2l irelY—l really thi n k th a t h e wou ld m urdher a h d " Alurdher a man ! (exclaimed the friend) y—wh e o 1)1W her a b u ll !" p a t •—The f o ll ow i ng are sa id to b e t h e l arges t British t' r e, which we h ave on record :— The Cowthorpe, i n eh ire, which measure d 48 f ee t i n c i rcum f erence at a rd lcs from the ground •, the Shrewsbury, 44 feet at the th e ' o m ; the Essex, 36 feet at the bottom, and known by re nam nce and Fairlo fee" ; and the Hatfield, 38 feet dr -me 120 t high. e ara g EEN CORN PUDDING.—rake of green corn twelve , and grate it ; to th i s a dd a p i nt o f swee t m ilk, a 111arter of a p oun d of fresh butter, four eggs, we ll b eaten : pepper and salt, as much as sufficient. stir all well toge theeraod bake four hours in a butter dish. Some add to podPgredients a quarter of a pound of sugar 'and eat Tngyith sauce. 0p,,!! UHOLERA—The following fable may not beliln roo7loe at the p re sent moment :—One day a . traveller ~ po ru e plague going into Cairo, and a ccosted . it thus -3,000 w hat Purpose are you entering Cairo ?" "To la tpeopi,.., I Some time after the same traveller met ilzil4a,gue again, and said, " but you killed 30,000_4 1r th 7, plague replied, " I killed but 3,000 • f kut est. 'New en "E OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.—On a Y morning early, as the Duke of Wellington wss gr o - g an horseback from Chatsworth to Chesterfield, his hat4 e e e was accosted by an old Peninsular veteran of the could ° f Jackson, who, in a style which no imostor acti on C .a unterfeit spun a somewhat long yarn about an ustir - n i , n Spain a t which he had been present, and in the who iNilbourhood of his illustrious commanding officer, Jackso'eollected the circumstances referred to and gave son n h alf -a-sovereign. Still the story went on—Jack also „„' li ght another battle over again, where the duke ray C ommanded . " Give me back the half-sovereign, ,oe old fellow " said the duke, " and there is a whole ki e t ior yo- . 7 u .I;ckson has hitherto told his stories gra '4 4 1 a 1 Y, but he n ow inte n d s t o se t some va l ue o n his collecti ons of the Peninsula."—Leicester Journal. Ig',4IAICSPEARB AND C ERVANTES. —O n th e 23d o f Ap r il, 1 6 , the gentle spirit of the great Cervantes passed from Zrtit ; a day the more mournfully memorable because it ;tat Shakspeare expire too ! It is a singular coincidence i_kt these kindred spirits, the great high priests of nature, aptin her lore, initiated in all her mysteries, and the wa n rarely gifted of all her sons, together winged their i v l 3 heaven. Thus from the ark, when her mission i te d one, and the wide world of waters had subsided, iltthts forth the gentle dove—like them, to return no more. li tt las the dove, to administer to the happiness of Noah's o f e, world, left with it the green olive-branch which told So a id verdant hills and vallies of the reappearing earth. ; to Id Shakspeare and Cervantes leave us, in their works, tli a ,,"„ergreen inheritance ;—fields yielding fruit richer lle tt ;:uat of the fabled Hesperides, and flowers tinct with Inst tut .E. R. Denny's Lecture at the Collegiate — ` o4 , on the Life and Genius of Cervantes. ren of the Ocean" yacht going to the rescue of Thi s ,‘ The Ocean Monarch" emigrant-ship. 4 10 4 „" i 's a very truthful representation of the Ocean tit b ,„,'"ca and the surrounding objects, and has been de telr" and drawn by Mr. Henry Melling, who was him rt ev er a eyewitness of the distressing event, and is, more- Ike nautical man. He has painted a picture of the ca !iee,, Y with great fielity and accuracy of proportion. The o e . corabines the n eal state of things at the time. The Net„ B - t ePresented with her anchors down, and with her f o - and sails all standing, the latter aback and shiver the4l wind, as they appeared just before the more fu- Itei th a t,age of the combustion. That remarkably large 4 tgaLlog letter T is seen on her foretopsail; and the her,„ . of distress (the American jack half-mast high) at The fire is sweeping her deck abaft and mid ther",and the immense number of emigrants, and most of Th e w, crowding the forecastle, bowsprit, and jibboom. Ned,,,,,'Yacht was the first that went up, and was there i sh,`", n g assistance a full hour before the steamers. She t etid. - 7n as making a tack to windward, with her boat the; Loosened to launch overboard on the next tack, as Tilotinded the bow of the ship. and Ocean Monarch was a noble and frigate-like vessel, Pre v cat under full sail, with all her courses down, just Was t) ," 118 to the fire. A dense mass oark bwn smoke th e e first indication of the combus f dark brown smoke the e first indication of the combustion, , b asso seen from kle ac h. t and shortly afterwards the ship's wizen-mast 3'aeb t t il lorriast fell successively overboard in flames. The th e is represented as affected by that peculiar heave of to : a yes, (with about twelve feet scud of a sea,) which is so4ecially characteristic of fast-sailing craft of leer de lves n i ,"; She was hauled close to the wind—which she afft -ev ' tY llelY running before from Beaumaris—with her Per,d ° Psail and square-sail set. The commodore's broad at e' e n !' is, at her mast-head, and the R. M. Y. C. ensign alb% gr. The Gem, a fine small yacht belonging to ki O4 tad th e in h g , on her return from Beaumaris regatta, - urniag hull of the Ocean Monarch at 6 p.m., 11 " 21'e da Y of the calamity. There was not then a single foZiajere to be seen about the wreck ; and, but for the tetZng of the Gem's anchor and cable, at starting, which fl ty led her dep ar t ure, she would have been amongst the ill° render some assistance. 111 th: Se away, and the general perspective of the vessels sati.:-.Picture, are well carried out, and the mastery of the kg' . pictur e, his peculiar line will be obvious to all nautical - who see the print. -4131T10N OF THE LIVARPOOL ACADEMY. (THIRD NOTICE.) 14 u i e resume our remarks on thi s i n t eres ti ng ex hibiti on . e second room, w h ere are t o b e met w i th some pa i nt- Vs of st a begin very h first-class charact er . A mong st th ese we q wit E 2B l. The Funeral Procession of Henry the Seventh. 81 0 ,7,:„Pooclall. An interior of great merit. The fore kent- i ,tains some excellent painting and the manage of Lae distance, disclosing the long aisle, crowded t lever r g e ously-dressed churchmen and mourners, is very fi9. k "ot Boatmen looking out (Coast of Dover — n. 14. ..Zn,9, A . R.A.—is a very striking little picture. The ihotte Oil the ground, in particular, is excellently fore ened, and is a gem in itself. 2 „: E ringing a Stag from the Mountain—R. Ansdell to tr of those efforts in which this artist is inferior only 292" 111 1-andseer. It is a very clever picture. Portrait of Thomas 111uncaster. Esq.- 7 .D. Wil qtiO4*--the work of a young artist, we believe, is a t14,,,, 1 at likeness of a very well known gentleman. It great promise. N e i and 316. Miniatures—by .1. B. Cros—are exquisite_ cf the art. The latter especially, a portrait of keele, the pianist, is an unmistakeable likeness. t 8 1! 1. b et uto to the first room, where we find qte -.utrance to the Menai Straits. H. B. Pyne. A kik:Pe, Arlen of the artist. The rainy sky opposite the albti st 'Lls delightfully painted. Another painting by this ~a 1357 Heath Scene. The view in the distance is one utast m l Rut bits of painting in the exhibition. 7,,Ghtk•rcuins of the Temple of Eunout, Ancient Her -1124 ; A 2B, ,Upper Egypt—D. Roberts, R.A.—is a noble nnely conceived, and betraying great power of ao gloa tion and of artistic skill. p 11 °adside Forge : Moonlight—E. Williams, sen.— tit it et, clever picture. The glow of the forge upon the 3 and objects near is very skilfully painted. FAS HIONABLE Q , SOCIETY IN THE UNITED A.TES-PAINTED ON THE SPOT. (From the New York Sun.) the a leading characteristic of the fashionable society of 1 4t4.,,u it ed States, as it is called at the present day, is its of tO vulgarity. We s h a ll presently explain the cause 1 44 113; but, in the meantime, let us, unm oo o r ve in d by the phi 4 111 of anobdom, glance at the_m which ktionable vulgarity displays itself. lt m an ner us very 41 ves " 3 say, that amongst t he women who regard them- It latl t a s the leaders of fashion, the re Is a brusqueness of I l sss,:r , Which is probably intended . to be taken for self. ksiti v s l°4 and smartness, but which i s really nothing but 4 44 1 . 6 rudeness. Load talking at table—impertinent 4 41 t f at strangers —a disregard of those little civilities Idell.beesucies of life which are always respected by the ' a dies re d Person—lead us to suppose that the fashionable /14 1 1 e c: '' t his day imagine that the bes t . way to prove their ~e °, l lr tel °§ tY in the scale of refinement, is . to despiseall the t6tes and politeness which characterise the demeanour thi s asses, which they affect to call low and v u lgar. ti.exelil,Fertanly, these fashionable people a it e se Z." The " common people" f America, as l n aeii - `" 0 -fashionables style the masses o of th t e heir coun 7Ple i h a ll i d countrywomen, are amongst politest World, and have the nicest sense and . appre '• a t v ,"; t hosethusand nameless amenities which give Clf iT4 refinement to society. ''s b ewhiskered and moustached snobs who flatter thp ' that' s 11 „se ,not exactly the word—who dandle around • the — gl e exclusives —of gawky fellows who have t 4 'ariliness to avow the shop or the de s k . —of stu- Pad ie s , living on their relatives, with loins admirably a tter,, j ' a g them to officiate usefully and honourably as ,7 1 1a 4 72, 0 'ut Who are too lazy to work, and to beg are n o t . `4rnqu---of silly chaps who have inherited the t. wOl e firot,er dollars of successful hodmen, or indefa 1 1 0 ,htip b , s ' and now ae the air and manners of the fin ZuileT:, 44 ; of all thes e bipeds, it is hardly worth ou 0 1 111 1 ; S L .Peak It is tt hto say, that they are quite th e ws of e such og women as we have described . ._ q t e ani — tn u a li s g l enough to observe the little antics which eavghable d off t Newport, or the Springs—the tri clL ay. w e l h a ade the waiters snigger— . the att ettpts il a c t courtly m ease and self-possession, fiwall'illecessful as those of the elated supernumerary ' 4l th,-`4,3 himself inve t d on the Broadway boards, with ' l 'l;g lo rY of tinsel ! s e a - L ▪ es s, s,l e at secret of all the vulgarity, coarseness, silli er s° c i et insolence which characterise American fashion hat i 9 iS to be found in the fact,. that mere wealth, s the as good, the reputation of wealth , . con_sp . - %„4,Ppar„,o.Pen sesame" to its delectable precincts. Luis W u L eau T In, all directions. Wit, genius, talent, grace, " 44ti th - ty -I 'd o al i ,LPees for nought in comparison with the mar, THE JESUITS IN ENGLAND. (From" The History of the Jesuits, by Asdrew Steinmets.") The rich province of England is likely to be the general refuge of the company. When their colleges at St. Omer, Bruges, and Ghent crumbled under the horns of the papal bull, the establishment at Leige was somehow spared. The French revolution supervened : the avenger included the Jesuits in its fearful retribution ; the college at Liege was destroyed ; the Jesuits and their pupils were expelled. This misfortune was the harbinger of the pros perity of the Belgian Jesuits. They took refuge in Eng land ; and Thomas Weld, of Lulworth Castle, a Catholic gentleman, presented the exiles with the domain of Sto nyhurst. It is impossible to state precisely the number of the modern Jesuits ; certainly it is not less than 7,000 of all ranks in the company, scattered and lurking over France, Italy, and Germany; settled in various " Mis sions " in the east and west, whence they contribute let ters for the " Annals of the Propagation ;" but these let ters are very far from being as " curious," as those of old, the energy, the talent of the company passed away with the last failures of the original company. The modern Jesuits may have, according to the Gioberti, all the craft and cunning of their forefathers, yet neither as apostles, nor as men of science, nor as authors, nor as teachers, can they claim the slightest right to be named with the Jesu its of old. It was to me a most remarkable fact, that whilst at St. Cuthbert's College the educational system of the Jesuits was carried out to the utmost extent (as I can attest from the experience of six years nearly), I found lit tle or nothing of the sort at Stonyhurst ; and the pupils who had passed through their " Humanity studies " had evidently not attained the acquirements prescribed by the Ratio Studiorum. Nevertheless the establishment " pays ;" for the " gratis instruction " was not renovated at the res toration of the company. The college of Stonyhurst must receive, on an average, at least £6,000 per annum from pupils :—the number being about 120, at 40 guineas per annum, for boys under 12 years of age ; for those above that age, 50 guineas ; and for students in philosophy, 100 guineas. Besides this the college possesses farms, some thousand acres of good land, over which one of the fathers presided as procurator. The English fathers have no less than thirty-three establishments, or colleges, residences, and missions in England. Of course Stonyhurst is the principal establishment, where the Provincial of England resides. The college in 1845 contained twenty priests, twenty-six novices and scholastics, and fourteen lay brothers. Of the 806 missionary priests in Great Britain, including bishops, the Jesuits alone fan say how many are enlisted under the banner of the Ignatius, though doubtless this knowledge is shared by the " Vicars Apos tolic" of the various districts in which they are privileged to move unmolested. The Jesuits are muffled in Eng land ; it is difficult to distinguish them in the names of the Catholic lists annually published. They have esta blished a classical and commercial academy at Mount St. Mary's, near Chesterfield ; and the prospectus of the esta blishment, after describing the clothes that the pupils are to bring, simply informs the world that " the college is conductA by gentlemen connected with the College of Stonyhurst." These gentlemen are generally sent out in pairs, by the provincial, according to the constitutions, and thus may charm by variety; for the quantity of work on hand in the various Jesuit missions in England is by no means so evident as their speculation for more, by this constitutional provision. The secular priests are doubled and tripled, by the necessities of the mission ; the Jesuits doubled, tripled, and quadrupled, by the requirement of the constitutions, and the prospects before them. The Jesuits in England dress as any clergyman, or any gentle man ; by their outward man you cannot tell them. Strange notions are afloat respecting these men. I have been asked, by what sign can one distinguish a Jesuit ? Per haps the sign by which you may know the Jesuits is their being better housed, better clothed, and better fed than most other Roman Catholic priests. This sign is, of course, equivocal ; but the fact is undeniable ; the " missionary funds "of the Jesuits are liberally applied—to their num bers ; " they give freely what they have freely received." In other respects the Jesuits show themselves by " re sults." They dare not interfere openly in missions pre occupied by the secular clergy ; but they are independent of the Roman Catholic bishops, excepting for ordination, which is a matter of course. Still, perhaps, lam justified in believing that their movements in London are consi dered by many of the orthodox as somewhat encroaching. If these " doings " in London are " for a sign " as to their other localities, they are not idle. Nine years ago, there were only two Jesuits in London ; there are now at least four in one " residence ;" and if their great church in Berkeley-square be now finished, there must be twelve Jesuits in London, to " serve " their metropolitan specu lation, as was intended. The vice-province in Ireland numbered sixty-three Jesuits in 1841, and seventy-three in 1844. They possess, in Ireland, the colleges, of Con glowes, Tollabey, and Dublin. They have recently esta blishtd a second " house," in the last-mentioned city. NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION.—In an in hospitable portion of one of the Australian colonies there resided two young men, of education and respectability, who, with many others, had left their country and their friends to seek their fortune in a land of strangers. The place which they selected for their new enterprises proved to be unsuited to their objects, and a very common lot befel them—they were reduced to poverty, and compelled to resort to untried expedients in order to procure the means of subsistence. One of them commenced a school, and the other resolved upon an undertaking which, con sidering the circumstances under which it was prosecuted, may be ranked among the wonders of colonial life. The want of a small coasting vessel to trade between the out ports of the province had long been a source of inconve nience to the settlers; and this young man seized upon the chance of retrieving his lost fortunes by an attempt to supply this desideratum. He had never boforo been en gaged in ship-building, and he had no person to assist him in the laborious part of such a work. This, however, did not discourage him. His genius overcame the first of these difficulties, and his perseverance mastered the se cond. The keel of a vessel was placed upon the stocks, hewn out of the forest by his own industrious hands; and by indomitable toil the same hands cut and fashioned, and conveyed to their proper destination, the various timber necessary for the completion of this arduous work, the affectionate schoolmaster in the meanwhile supporting from his earnings the amateur ship-builder. The vessel was finished and launched, and, to the gratification of every one who had marked the consummation of this ex traordinary undertaking, rode proudly on the waters of the settlement. A melancholy event followed. The two brothers were struggling in a small boat to drag their newly-acquired prize over a bar which intervened between her and the ocean she was destined to traverse, when, from the violence of the surf and the inexperience of the sailors, the boat was capsized, and the unfortunate school master was drowned ! The bereaved brother was thus left to plod his lonely way, with his little craft, through the new scenes upon which he had entered. He progressed from step to step, rewarded by deserved success, until a more extended voyage was contemplated. The theatre of his labours were left behind, the staunchness of his little vessel was tested by the billows of the Leuin, and now she lies, safely anchored, in the harbour of Port Adelaide, the Gazelle of Western Australia, and a gem in colonial naval architecture. We give her enterprising owner (Mr. J. Kemp) a hearty welcome to our shores, and with him all the prosperity to which his unexampled industry and privations so richly entitle him.—SouthAustrallaßegister. GEORGE 11. AND THE DUCHESS OF QUEENSBERRY.— An anecdote is told of the Duchess of Queensberry's being forbid the court ; which belongs to the literary his tory of the cleverest opera in our own or any other lan guage—Gay's famous production. Walpole, justly re garding himself as caricatured in the " Beggar's Opera," obtained the Duke of Grafton's authority, as lord cham berlain, to suppress the representation of his next opera, " Polly." Gay resolved to publish it by subscription, and his patroness, the Duchess of Queensberry, put her self at the head of the undertaking, and solicited every person she met.to subscribe. As the duchess was hand some, a wit, and of the first fashion, she obtained guineas in all directions, even from those who dreaded to encou rage this act of defiance. The duchess's zeal, however, increased with her success; and she even came to the drawing-room, and, under the very eye of majesty, soli cited subscriptions for a play which the monarch had forbidden to be acted. When the king came into the drawing-room, seeing the duchess very busy in a corner with three or four persons, be asked her what she was doing. She answered, " What must be agreeable, she was sure, to any body so humane as his majesty, for it was an act of charity ; and a charity to which she did not despair of bringing his majesty to contribute." This proceeding was so much resented, that Mr. Stanhope, vice-chamberlain to the king, was sent in form to the duchess to forbid her coming to court. The message was verbal ; but she desired to send a written answer—wrote it on the spot—and thus furnished a document, whose style certainly exhibited more sincerity than courtiership : That the Duchess of Queensberry is surprised and well pleased that the king has given her so agreeable a command as to stay from court, where she never came for diversion, but to bestow a great civility on the king and queen. She hopes that, by such an unprecedented order as this, the king will see as few as he wishes at his court, particularly such as dare to think or speak truth. I dare not do otherwise, and ought not, nor could have imagined that it would not have been the very highest compliment I could possibly pay the king, to endeavour to support truth and innocence in his house—particularly when the king and queen both told me that they had not read Mr. Gay's play. I have certainly done right, then, to stand by my own words rather than his Grace of Graf ton's, who had neither made use of truth, judgment, nor honour, through his whole affair. either for himself or his friends.—C. Queensberry." When her grace bad finished this paper, drawn up, as Lord Hervey observes, " with snore spirit than accuracy," Stanhope requested of her to think again, and give him a more courtly message to deli ver. The duchess took her pen, and wrote another; but it was so mnch more disrespectful, that he asked for the former one, and delivered it. There was, of course, a prodigious quantity of court gossip on this occasion ; and, doubtless, though some pretended to be shocked, many were pleased at the sting of royalty, and many more were amused at the dashing oddity of the duchess. But pub lic opinion, on the whole, blamed the court. It certainly was infinitely childish in the king to have inquired into what the dueness was doing among her acquaintances in the drawing-room ; it was equally beneath the natural notions of royal dignity, that the king should put himself in a state of hostility with a subject, and in so trifling a matter as the subscription to an unpublished play and it was equally impolitic, for the world was sure fo range itself on the side of the woman, especially when that wo man was handsome, eccentric, and rich. It produced some inconvenience, however, to the lady's husband, as he, in consequence, gave up the office of admiral of Scot lan d.—Blackwood's Magazine. The slaves in the West Indies hook ruin in a very sci entific manner. They first fill a bottle with water, and invert the nozzle into the bung of a barrel full of rum. Water being the heaviest, sinks down, and the spirit rises in its place ; and Cuffee thus makes a swap on scientific principles. etnend lEtOtellanp. Of the £6,000,000 which our navy costs us altogether, £1,500,000 is wasted.—Times: Nothing can exceed the rapturous enthusiasm with which Jenny Lind has been received in Edinburgh. The Yorkshireman records the death of a little boy from an over-dose of worm medicines. Several sheep were killed at Mendip by lightning on Friday. Sir James Duke was on Friday elected Lord Mayor, and Mr. Alderman Finnes and J. Goodhart, Esq., sheriffs of London. HIGH PEAK Moons.—The Duke of Rutland and friends, during their stay at Longshawe Lodge, bagged upwards of a thousand head of grouse. At the late West-Riding sessions, there was not one female prisoner for trial—a circumstance which has not occurred for many years previously. A sportsman was shot near Bishop Wearmouth, last week, by a gun held by a companion, which fired acci dentally. He died the following morning. GONE AT LAST.—The " Telegraph Coach," that for nearly 70 long years has travelled the road between Ripon and Leeds, was shelved on Wednesday week. It is said that the reason for giving Vancouver's Island to the Hudson Bay Company is, that it may be immedi ately colonised, to preserve it from the Mormons, a party of whom were just about to `• squat " there. DOLLS' EYES.—A Birmingham manufacturer, who was examined in 1824, before a committee of the House of Commons, stated that he had once received a single order for £5OO worth of dolls' eyes, On Sunday evening a servant girl, who was crossing Arthur's Seat, Edinburgh, fell down a precipice to the depth of 40 or 50 feet, and was so severely injured that she died shortly afterwards, in the infirmary. During the winter months the Peninsula and Oriental Company have decided that the communication between Southampton and Ital . ) , shall be at intervals of six weeks instead of monthly, as heretofore. At the Quarterly General Court of the Proprietors of East India Stock, held on Tuesday, a resolution was con firmed to confer on the youthful hero, Lieutenant (now Brevet Major) Edwards, a gold medal, in testimony o f their sense of his distinguished services in Moulton. A CAT KILLED BY A MOUSE.—A curious circumstance occurred on Kingsdown, Bristol, on Monday. A cat, having caught a mouse, was playing with it on the lawn, when the mouse leaped into the cat's mouth, and actually forced itself so far into the throat as to suffocate poor puss. STATE OF BRADFORD.—From returns published by a Bradford rate collector, it appears that there are now in that town 1,300 unoccupied houses and shops assessed at above £4 per annum, and representing a total rate a bl e value of nearly £12,060. . The article known as " chain gimp," when it first began to be made, about four years ago, was paid for at the rate of 3s. per piece of 35 yards. The present price for mak ing it is ld. per piece. No new machinery has been in vented. The Wakefield Journal computes that at a very mode rate and safe calculation the corporate expenses of that town, have been increased at least one thousand pounds per year, by men who pledged themselves to economy and retrenchment ! A CURIOUS BEQUEST.—A rather eccentric individual in Bradford, who died about a fortnight ago, having the sum of £lOO to " leave to his heirs and successors," dis posed of it thus :—£so for burial expenses," and £5O to drink." BREAK-UP OF A ROMISH CONVENT.—The Romanist convent at Penryn is broken up. The last of the inmates departed this week, and the property is for sale. The establishment is broken up from the failure of the supplies. —Devonshire Chronicle. The whole of the officers of the Ely Union House have been discharged ; the master for intemperance ; the schoolmaster for inviting him to the revel, and then making complaint against him ; and the porter for aiding the schoolmaster. EXPERT PICK-POCKET.—In proceeding from Bath to Bristol, by railway, last week, a lady had her purse ab stracted from her pocket, the cash which it contained ap propriated, or rather misappropriated, and the purse re placed in its former depository. A beautiful specimen of a rare breed of Cashmerian sheep dog, presented to her Majesty by Lord Hardinge, has been recently lodged in the royal private kennel at Windsor ; it is very ferocious, of amazing strength, and weighs 1201 b. It was presented by Ghoolab Singh. The General Board of Health held its first sitting on Tuesday, at Gwydyr House ; the President, Viscount Morpeth, in the chair. The Board was attended by Pro fessor Owen, Dr. Southwood Smith, Dr. Sutherland of Liverpool, and R. D. Grainger, Esq. The mail guards are rapidly diminishing in number. There are not above 200 in England, Wales, and Scotland. A small batch of them have very recently been compelled to accept of the gratuity of £5O allowed them by the Treasury, and leave the service. SCOTCH COMPLACENCY.—A northern correspondent says, that on the departure of the queen from Aberdeen to Balmoral, " the folks were more than pleased with themselves for behaving so well and so orderly, and they were also pretty well pleased with the Queen and Prince !" PRINCE WALDEMAR OF PRUSSIA.—This illustrious Prince, who participated in the glorious actions in India, has forwarded to Lord Hardinge a superb gold cup, with a request that his lordship would present it to the 50th Regiment (the Queen's Own), in which he served as a volunteer. The regiment is at present quartered at Dover. By the act of last session, for preventing the extension of disease amongst cattle, it is provided that any person turning out sheep or lambs infected or labouring under disease, on any heath, common, open field, road side, or other undivided or uninclosed land, shall be liable to a penalty of £2O. A few days since, the potman of a London public house, while cleaning his pots, amused himself by teazing a cat and her young ones, and was bitten on the right wrist by one of the kittens. On the following day his wrist became inflamed, and ultimately his arm was at tacked by erysipelas, of which he expired on Friday last. A correspondent of the Morning Post relates that a person who was deeply attached to a deceased friend, caused his body to be dissected, and an analysis to be made of his blood, from which was obtained a sufficient quantity of iron to make a ring, which has ever since been worn by the surviver as a memorial of his departed friend. A singular and fatal accident occurred in London last week to an infant, lying in the lap of its nurse, who was preparing some boiled milk for its supper. While she was lifting the saucepan from the fire, the handle came off, and the boiling milk fell on the head and arms of the in fant, which was so severely scalded that it died within a few hours. A fishing smack, called Britain's Queen, belonging to a person at Barking, was boarded by a custom-house offi cer, a few days since, off Charlton, on the Essex coast, and 4,992 lbs. of tobacco found on board. The vessel was on her way to Billingsgate market, where it was in tended to run the packages (casks) ashore under the im pression of their containing fish. A NEW TEST Acz.—The guardians of Sunderland Union have issued a public notice to the effect that no relief will be given to able-bodied male vagrants, and that other vagrants and families in want of relief " shall be sent to the Union Workhouse for one night only, and to have a cold or shower bath as their several cases may re quire." BREAKING UP OF THE KERSAL CAMP.—The camp at Kersal Moor is now broken up. Eight companies of the 33d Regiment, which had been stationed there about two months, left Con Monday for Berwick. The removal of the regiment, we believe, is regarded with the utmost sa tisfaction by the soldiers, who have suffered not a little from their exposure during the late unseasonable weather. STRANGE RIVALRY.—A Radnorshire correspondent, who complains of the publication of county courts and petty sessions reports, as generally uninteresting and fre quently dictated by spite, says that the subordinates in one district of that county are " putting on the screw" to increase the number of plaints, in order to outdo another district, and so prevent their own court from being broken up if they cannot find business, &c. DEATH FROM TOBACCO.—An inquisition was resumed at Coleford on the body of John Evans, of Lane End. Mr. Batten, surgeon, found slight traces of inflammation in the stomach, and a very strong odour of tobacco. It appears that the deceased smoked a great quantity ; nearly half a pound per week, besides chewing pigtail. A verdict was returned of " Died by the visitation of God, acceler ated by the excessive use of tobacco." Mr. Brown, a farmer near Dalbeattie, has been killed by a fierce bull. The animal had been fighting, and the herd-boy was afraid to drive it home ; Mr. Brown was quietly driving it from a field, when the bull suddenly turned on him, butted him to the ground and trampled on him. When two men came to the farmer's assistance they found the bull standing quietly beside him. Mr. Brown died in two hours, from internal hurts. NK DIVIDEND.—It appears that the result of the ballot taken on Wednesday, on the amendment offered to theproposition of the Bank Directors on Thursday week, that the dividend payable to the proprietors of Bank Stock for the half-year accruing should be 31 per cent., has been unfavourable to the dissentients. The proposi tion of the board has been carried and confirmed by a small majority of fifteen votes-138 to 123. MELANCHOLY MORTALITY IN A FAMILY.—Mr. Pass more, a working shoemaker, residing at No. 10, Blooms bury-buildings, St. James's, Bristol, has been visited with an extraordinary series of affliction by the hand of death since last Sunday, when he buried his eldest child, who died of scarletina. On returning from the funeral, the distressed parents found a second child dead, and three days afterwards two others, all of the same disorder. Several Wiltshire farmers, especially in the northern division, have been drawn into a bubble joint-stock soci ety, termed " The Agricultural Cattle Insurance Com pany," by which many of them will be involved in utter ruin. The society was got up in London, by parties who have absconded from the country ; and the unfortunate shareholders are now called upon to make up a deficiency of £15,000. It is said that some of the Wiltshire agri culturists are holders of 1,000 shares, nominally of £2O each ; others of 700 shares, &c. HOME SUMMARY.—Other '` houses" being closed, the drama has taken refuge in the Old Bailey. " The Blush. ing Court," an original comedy, has been brought out with great success. The principal characters Were the Attorney- General and Mr. Kenealey, who blushed for each other, and Mr. Justice Erie, who blushed for them both. " The Visionary President," a broad farce, followed.. Principal charact era :—" Lying Tom," Cuffey, Lacey, and Fay ; allegoric characters :—" Luminaries," " Hellfire Jack," " Young Bombshell," and Toothpicks." The piece went off rather heavily, and will not be repeated. The company, it is expected, will have an engagement at Sydney. The accounts of the above theatricals have been audited at Marylebone. The county of Middlesex is to subscribe £36,000, and the Consolidated Fund £12,000, to make up the deficit. Popular entertainments are expensive.— John Bull. TIC LIYIIP•SL STANDARD. The "Times" of Friday, expresses its " belief," which is little short of certainty in so high an authority, that on the recommendation of the recently constituted Board of Health, an Order in Council may be shortly expected, enabling that Board to issue regulations for the enforce ment of the provisions of the act 11th and 12th Victoria, chap. 123; secs. 9 and 10, for the prevention of epidemic diseases. ILLNESS OF THE RAILWAY KING.—Mr. Hudson who arrived at Whitehaven Castle from Carlisle, a few days ago, in rather delicate health, is now very ill ; though report says, somewhat better. It is said that his majesty has had a severe attack of bile, but that having sent for his own surgeon from Newcastle, who well understands the nature of his complaint, whatever it is, hopes are en tertained of his speedy recovery. A TRANCE OF FIFTEEN YEARS.—One of the most re markable evidences of human suffering and credibility exists in Farrington, Devonshire. A young woman, named Ann Corner, daughter of James Corner, mason, has re mained in a decided state of unconsciousness for the past fifteen years.. It is thought by many that she is in a " trance." Her mother assured the writer that for eleven years she had not partaken of the least particle of food. She is certainly in bed, has a placid sniile, and though possessing vitality. has no consciousness of the approach of any party, neither can she distinguish any object. She has been visited by some of the most eminent in the medi cal profession ; and others, since her case has been made known, have called to witness what might be justly termed this phenomenon in nature.—Swansea Herald. --. -. MURDER AND ATTEMPTED , SUICIDE.—On the morning of Sunday last, Mr. James Bateman, farmer and miner, of Winster, got up early, for the purpose of going milking. taking with him his eldest boy, a lad of about 12 years of age, and leaving his wife, Lydia Bateman, in bed with the youngest child, about two years of age, three other child ren being also left in bed in the house. Shortly after Mr. Bateman left the bedroom, his wife destroyed the life of the youngest child by cutting its throat with a razor, and afterwards attempted the life of another child, which, however, escaped with two or three wounds about the breast. The woman next - attempted to destroy herself, by cutting a severe gash in her own throat, but not sufficient to produce immediate death. She has been committed for trial. POOR LAW RELIEF.—On Saturday, two provisions in an act of Parliament, passed on the 4th ult., came into operation respecting relief to paupers, throwing the ex pense on the common fund of unions, and not on parishes. By the Erst section of the 11th and 12th Victoria, chap. 110, it is provided that after the 30th of September, to the 30th of September, 1849, the cost of the relief to be given to any:poor person chargeable to any union, being a des titute wayfarer, or wanderer, or foundling, as well as the cost of the burial of the body of any such poor person within such union, shall be chargeable to the common fund of such union. In virtue of the third section of the same statute, paupers rendered irremovable are made chargeable from the 30th of September to the 30th of Sep tember, 1849, to the common fund of unions. THE eIIAIiANTEE SOCIETY.—We understand that one of the largest railway companies have determined that all their officers shall provide security for their fidelity, in or der to prevent the risk of loss ; and that the directors have determined on accepting the policies of the Guaran tee Society in all cases in preference to private securities. As the society offers the security of a large paid-up capi tal, and the undoubted responsibility of its proprietors, the directors consider that its policies are preferable to the bonds of private parties. The resolution of the com pany to require security from all its officers is a new fea ture in railway management ; but the facilities offered by the guarantee society for assuring the fidelity of all per sons of good character for a trifling premium, removes the difficulty which would otherwise present itself.—. Atlas, September 23. MARY OF GIIELDRES.—The skeleton which was found a few days ago under the site - of the Old Trinity College Church, and which was by some supposed to be that of Mary of Gueldres, has been examined by Professor Good sir and another professional gentleman. It now appears that the remains are those of a young female, who must have been of a weak intellect, or at all events the possessor of a mind far inferior to that of the royal foundress. From these and other circumstances, it is conjectured, with a degree of probability, that the skeleton is that of the daughter of Queen Mary; but the identity has not been, and perhaps never can be satisfactorily ascertained. All who take an interest in the matter incline to the belief that the body which was found some months since, and which was afterwards re-interred in the royal vault at Holyrood, was the real Mary of Gueldres, and there speculation rests at present. —Edinburgh paper. YIELD OF THE WHEAT.—There seems to be a general opinion that the wheat of this year will not yield well, and if we speak of the acreable yield, no doubt that opinion is correct ; but on land in fair condition, we believe that the yield in proportion to the straw will not be much amiss. On the badly-farmed lands the ear is small, and there of course the produce will be deficient. On this point the " Review" of the Mark-lane Express says—" The crops having, in the early districts, to some extent been put to the test of thrashing, an opinion may be formed as to the yield. The accounts which have hitherto reached us on this point are certainly very far from encouraging, and there can no longer be a doubt that the produce of grain, taking one kind with the other, is decidedly below the quantity grown in moderately good average seasons." The Norwich Mercury says:— Before reaping com menced the crop was generally spoken of as approaching to but below an average, and it does not appear that either in eating or carting, and, it may now be added, thrash ing, has increased the previous estimate. But one con clusion only can therefore be arrived at, that the crop in this district is below an average. To what extent it ..eld hardly be sm . . v,t to venture an opinion, but our idea comma.. with our hope, be very extensive." We learn, however, that the quality of this year's wheat, where dry, is super for making flour to that of last year. At the exhibition of the Darlington Horticultural So ciety, on Thursday, Lord Hardinge made a speech, in which he passed an eulogium on " the native army of ln. dia, led and conducted by British officers—men not ex ceeded by any in the world. Of this they had recently had an instance which must be known to every one in that room—that of Lieutenant Edwardes, on account of his services in the Punjaub. It was a subject of satisfac tion to him that he had appointed that officer to the situ ation which he now so ably filled. It was impossible to speak too highly of his services; and he was confident that if that young hero had the opportunity he would make great additions to his fame. The maintenance of peace was not only necessary on the score of Christianity, but also on the score of economy. They were all skilful and enterprising, whether as merchants or traders. but he would venture to say that there was not one of them, how ever glad they were to acknowledge the services of the military, but would wish for peace, though at the same time they could not but recognise the necessity of keep ing up such an army and navy as would enable them to place enemies at defiance. Beyond that he would not wish to raise an arm. He wished peace to be established on a firm and most honourable basis; and whilst the maintenance of our forces caused a pressure on our finan ces, still he hoped, though they might exercise the se verest economy, they would keep up the navy and army on such a basis as would not endanger the security of the nation." A FINISHED CHARACTER.—At the Middlesex sessions, on Wednesday, a notorious character, named James Fra ser, who, although but twenty years of age, has for years, as will be seen by the subjoined history of his career, been long a frequent inmate of our prisons, was convicted of picking the pocket of Mrs. Ann Lewis of a small sum of money. After his conviction, an officer of the West minster House of Correction gave the following history of the prisoner :—" On the 30th September, 1846, he was committed for six weeks under the name of Thomas Hartley. On the 18th July, 1847, he was convicted at the Middlesex sessions for felony, and sentenced to six months' imprisonment in the Westminster House of Cor rection. In this instance he appears as one John Wells. Shortly after his release, he was summarily convicted of an assault, and imprisoned for six weeks. On the 18th of April, in the present year, he was tried and convicted under the name of John Collins, and sentenced to two months' imprisonment for another felony. This term of confinement expired on the 18th of June, and three days afterwards, the 22d of that month, he was again convicted and sentenced at these sessions for felony, in the name of James Fraser. He has also been several times previously sent to the House of Correction, Coldbath-fields, for vari ous terms of imprisonment."—For his present offence the Judge sentenced him to ten years' transportation. THE NEW TOWN-HALL AT DONCASTER.—INSCRIP TION EXTRAORDINARY.—The new Town-hall at Don caster is now nearly completed, and has called forth some pungent remarks from editors and others of the town, in consequence of the vanity of the present mayor, who has some how or other contrived to procure his own name to be inscribed in characters ten inches long, and spread over the ample frieze of a Corinthian facade, as follows " FREDERICK FISHER, ESQ., MAYOR, A.D. 1848." This occupies so prominent a position on the building— I disfiguring the frieze—that it has become the subject of derision amongst the literati and men of taste in the town. It appears that the authorities of Doncaster, or part of them, are vastly desirous of present and posthu mous fame, the inscriptions being set up at their own expense on public places. One of the market thorough fares bears the startl►ng announcement in large letters, — "This street widened Miles Morley Mayor." A liale attention to typography, and accuracy of punctuation would be desirable ; but these great men have a contempt of the trammels of grammatical economy. FATAL AFFRAY.—It is our painful duty to record a most distressing case of manslaughter, that was perpe trated on Thursday last, on the farm of Viscount Dillon, at Ditchley. Three lads, of the several names of Hannis, Simmonds, and Harris, have been accustomed to work together on the farm alluded to, and were that day em ployed with others at the bean cart, with which ended the labours of the harvest ; and the shout of "Harvest home" resounded through the woods, which was shortly followed by an affray that proved fatal to one, and nearly so to a second. From what we can learn, the parties engaged in the fray were somewhat under the influence of beer, and the feelings of animosity which had existed in the breast of the former for some time previous, were on this occa sion aroused to an undue excitement. From the evidence taken, it appeared that Simmonds was the first to com mence the hostilities, which to him proved fatal. The affray took place in a building where a sheep was being dressed at the time, and it was nearly dark, so that Sim monds was dead before the other parties standing by were aware that he was at all hurt, or knew that the other had made use of any weapon ; he, Hannis, striking at Sim monds when down, caused Harris to go to his assistance, when he received two blows from Hannis, each causing a wound on the head : afterwards a knife was found on Hannis stained with blood. An inquest was held on the body of Simmonds, and a verdict -)f "manslaughter" was returned against Hannis, who was removed to olford prison to await his trial at the ensuing assizes. The boy Harris is considered nearly out of danger, though. still in a very precarious state.—Oxford Herald. It is very singular that so many of our Princes have died on the Saturday. It would almost seem as though the Revolutiyn had set the example,. the throne having been declared vacant on Saturday, February 16.1688. Willliam the Third died on Saturday, March 8, 1702 ; Queen Anne died on Saturday, August 1, 17141; George the First at two o'clock on Sunday morning, June 11, 1727. (what in common parlance - is called Saturday night) ; George the Second died on Saturday, October 35, 1760; George the Third died on Saturday, January 19, 1820 ; George the Fourth on Saturday, June 6, 1830. CROWN RENTS.—A return has just been made to an order of the House of Commons, showing that there are 31 places in Middlesex and Westminster leased by the Woods and Forests. The places are principally club houses. The Haymarket Theatre is leased to Mr. Morris for 99 years, from 1821, at £356 9s. 6d., and £32 19s. in lieu of land-tax; and the Opera-house and premises ad joining on various terms, ending October, 1892, at £6OO a-year. Exeter-hall is leased to Sir Thomas Baring and others, at £4BB a-year for 99 years from 1829. At Lady day last twelve of the places were in arrears. At haring cross Hospital owed upwards of £4,000 owing to inade quacy of the funds. James Collins, a miner at St. Blayey, has made a re markable escape from death. Whilst nutting amongst some trees at the mouth of a deserted mine-shaft, he overreached himself, and fall to the bottom of the shafts great many fathoms deep. By chance he was compara tively uninjured. The shaft was in a lone spot, and all hope of aid was quite vain, so he set about climbing to the top by the small projections in the rock of the shaft side. The nature of his task and his resolution in performing it may be judged from the time it took ; he fell into the shaft at eight, A.M., and reached the summit only at six P.M. He crawled home nearly dead with fatigue. A LION ASCENDING IN A BALLOON.-011 Monday evening, the " Royal Cremorne Balloon " ascended from Cremorne Gardens. In it were Mrs. G. Batty, the " Lion Queen," Lieut. Gale, and a lion. Attached to the bal loon, in place of the car, was a den, on the the top of which stood Lieutenant Gale, and inside which sat the " Lion Queen "on the back of her subject. After a trial, during which an assent as high as the top of the trees only was effected, it was found that the power of the balloon was not sufficient to carry up the weight attached to it, and this fact having been explained to the company, Lieut. Gale and the lion ascended, leaving the lady behind. A safe descent was effected at Mortlake. A WINTER GARDEN AT VAUXHALL.—It is proposed to transform Vauxhall into a winter garden. It is said that the four long avenues which form the large quad rangle at present, are to be increased about 20 feet, that is, 10 feet on either side. The roof of this pathway is to be raised a considerable height, and the whole of it is to be enclosed by means of a panorama of the overland route to India. This is to commence with Marseilles, then are to follow Malta, Alexandria, and all the principal points in the journey. These walks will lead directly to the Waterloo ground, which is to be covered in and converted into a hippodrome, where are to appear all the splendours of the chariot race, and other performances. To the right of the Hippodrome there will be constructed a large conservatory, to form a very agreeable promenade, and gas is to simulate the sun.—The Builder. EXTRAORDINARY FALL OF RAIN AND FLOODS. WORCESTER, Sunday Morning.-1 he whole of this dis trict has been visited by a very extraordinary fall of rain, followed, of course, by heavy floods. After some gentle rain during the early part of the week (Wednesday was a thoroughly wet day) rain began to fall at nine o'clock on Friday morning, and continued without a moment's inter mission during the whole of that day and night and yester day, up to this moment (Sunday.) During the latter part of yesterday the rains began to overflow the banks, and this morning the Severn and all the main streams have flooded the adjacent lands to a very considerable extent with the water still rising. Some very destructive results are apprehended. The rain began with the wind calm at N.E., and it gradually veered round by north to west. It is very unusual to have so much rain here with the wind northerly. AMUSEMENTS v. CRIME.—The Thirteenth Report of the Inspectors of Prisons (just published), contains, in the midst of much that is tedious and of little general interest, some information of value. Here is one bit of practical common sense. The inspector observes that in the Wake field House of Correction " the chief kinds of offences for which persons are committed are thefts, assaults, and va grancy ;" and respecting the chief causes of offences, the governor stated as follows :—" Few of the offences for which persons are sent to this prison are, in my opinion, caused by want. The chief cause of crime amongst adult prisoners is drunkenness, and amongst juvenile prisoners the desire to obtain the means of indulging in such amuse ments as cheap theatres. If there were a provision for le gitimate and rational amusements for young and old, I think it would be a means of preventing much crime." SOMNAMBULISM.—On Tuesday night, about half-past ten o'clock, a very serious accident occurred to a little boy, seven years old, named James Brown, son of Mr. Alex. Brown, piano-forte, at Braintree, by jumping from a three-story window into the street. It appeared that he had been in the habit of walking in his sleep during the last three years, and on several occasions had been kno wn to light a candle and take down part of the bedding, and also pull the bed-clothes off his parents whilst asleep. On the night in question he succeeded in opening the upper window, and precipitated himself into the street, a distance of about 20 feet, his head coming into fearful contact with the kerb of the pavement; his parents hearing him fall, hastened 'to his assistance, and carried him in -doors, where he lay in a state of insensibility, the blood oozing from his ears. No hopes are entertained of his recovery, his head being severely injured internally.—Essex Standard. THE CHOLERA.—According to the return of the Regis trar-General for last week, the disease would appear to •• cases are described as follow :—" In Stamford-hill (sub district,) Hackney, a boy 4 years, cholera (26 hours du ration).' In St. Clement Danes, Strand, M. 61 years, cholera morbus (5 or 6 days' duration).' In St. Anne, Westminster, F.). 29 years, diarrhoea (7 hours' dura tion) ;' English cholera (12 hours). In Anwell, Clerken well, a boy, 1 year, cholera.' In St. Leonard's (sub district), Shoreditch, M. 4 months, English cholera (3 days' duration),' In Bow and Bromley, Poplar, M. (age not stated), natural death, English cholera.' In St. John (sub-district), St. Olave's, M. 52 years, Asiatic cholera, (11k hours' duration).' " An announcement of this kind need create no panic, for time and research have robbed the cholera of much of that mysterious awe which surrounded it when it was a new disease amongst us. FUNERAL OF LORD GEORGE BENTINCK.—The funeral of this lamented nobleman took place on Friday, at the old parish-church of Marylebone, London, in which the family vault of the noble house of Portland is situated. The remains of the deceased were brought by railway from Welbeck Abbey to the Euston-square station, and conveyed thence to Harcourt House. The funeral was conducted as privately as possible. The Marquis of Titchfield, Lord Henry Bentinck, and Mr. J. E. Denison were present, but others connected with the family were absent, by desire of the Duke of Portland, that the solem nity should be as private as possible. At half-past nine the procession left Cavendish-square, the hearse drawn by four horses. There were but two coaches, the first containing the parties named, and the other the personal attendants of the late lord. The private carriage of the Duke of Portland closed the cortege. The remains were placed in the interior of Marylebone church, under the organ gallery. SAD CIRCUMSTANCE. — One of those peculiar and un frequent dispensations of an inscrutable Providence—the death of a husband and wife on the same day, occurred in Sheffield on Sunday week. The family which has sus tained this bereavement is that of a man named John Taylor, shoemaker, residing in Bank-street, in that town. His wife had recently been confined of her eighth child, all now living ; and on Sunday week she died in child-bed. Upon her husband, who had been some time in a de clining state of health, his wife's death, leaving him with such a family, had an overpowering effect, When the cir cumstance was made known the same day, he seemed to be bewildered and to disregard the matter. After a while, he went up stairs for the purpose, as it was supposed, of looking at his wife ; but he wandered into the garret, where he was found some time afterwards quite dead ; and thus in one day were eight helpless children (one of whom but newly-born), left without father or mother. APPEARANCE OF CHOLERA ON BOARD A VESSEL AT HuLL.—The Hull Advertiser furnishes a report of the death of three persons in one week from Asiatic Cholera, which circumstance had excited great alarm in the town, rumours gaining ground that the disease had become epidemic in the town. The editor, however. states that such alarm was groundless, as regards Hull, or the shores near it ; but that three Prussian sailors, on board the barque Pallas, from Hamburg, had died of the disease. These men h ad on their voyage eaten largely of fruit, especially plums. They were taken ill successively, and sunk under the affliction, after a few hours illness. Others of the crew were slightly affected, but all of them are now restored to health. The Advertiser states :—We apprize the public that the health of the town is excel lent, and that there is not the least danger of the spread of the disease, which is now known to be neither infec tious nor contagious. There is no real ground for the least alarm. TnE CHARTIST TRIALS.—The adjourned proceedings were resumed on Monday morning, when Mr. Justice Earle summed up the evidence, and the jury retired, Other prisoners were then brought up, and Mr. Ballantine applied for a postponement, on the plea that material witnesses for the defence were absent. The court declined to accede to the application, with an exception in favour of one prisoner who had but just been arrested. The pri soners were then called upon to plead, and " Not guilty" was returned by all; the celebrated Cuffey saying, in a loud tone, " I demand a fair trial by my peers according to the principles of Magna Charts." (Laughter.) The jury -list was then challenged. Cuffey, however, exclaimed, " I wish it to be understood that I do object to this jury. They are not my equals. I am only a journeyman me chanic." Mr Ballantine : " You must be quiet, and leave it to us." Evidence was adduced proving the case of the Crown. One of the witnesses deposed that he had been very anxious to be under such a redoubtable leader as Cuffey, because he expected, if he obeyed his orders, to become a general, and perhaps eventually pre sident of the commonwealth.—(A. laugh.) On Tuesday Powell, the approver, gave evidence ; and concurrent tes timony was also received throughout Wednesday, Thurs day, and Friday, in reference to the designs and prepara tions by the prisoners. Powell, it appears, bore among his comrades the title of " Lying Tom ;" one of the wit nesses for the defence affirmed that even were Powell on his dying bed he would not believe his oath ; and he was proved to have declared that the Apostles were " the biggest scoundrels he had ever heard of," while " Judas was the best fellow of the lot." On Saturday Baron Platt charged the jury, and at ten minutes to five o'clock a verdict of guilty was returned against the prisoners. The judge then sentenced Cuffey, Darling, Lacey, and Fay to transportation for life. The severity of the sen tences caused much surprise in court it is stated. It is expected that the Chartists who yet remain to be tried will now plead guilty. SHIPWRECKS AND Loss OF LIFE.—On Wednesday, intelligence reached Lloyd's that the brig Agnes, Mar shall, bound from Sunderland to Hull, had been totally lost off Scarborough, every soul on board perishing; tint the ship Greenlaw, Captain Ower, bound from Londcn to Calcutta, had been totally lost off Cominga, the entire passengers and crew, except three individuals, being drowned. On the night of the 25th instant, a collision took place off Newhaven, between the Cannel, of Fowey, and the William Pitt, of London ; the vessels remained locked for twenty minutes; on separating, a great outcry was heard on board the Pitt. The Cannel lay to all night, but neither saw nor heard more of the vessel, and it is supposed she went down with all on board. The Cumberland Pacquet has the following :—" A very crowded congregationattended Divineservice at Brougham Chapel on Sunday afternoon week, on which occasion a new organ, built by Robson and Co., of London, was opened, the delightful task of bringing forth the first fresh and full strains of the instrument in choral worship being undertaken by Mrs. William Brougham, the lady of Lord Brougham's brother. The Hon. and Rev. Mr. Ed wards, the Vicar, read prayers. The congregation in cluded Lady Brougham, the Marquis and Marchioness of Douro, Sir C. Taylor, &c. A contemporary states, ' that about the middle of the service, Lord Brougham walked within the chapel door, where his lordship stood a short time gazing around, as if amazed at the crowded congre gation ; he then turned about and walked out again."' ADJOURNED INQUEST ON ELIZA WILSON.—Ort Thursday the inquiry into the extraordinary circumstances connected with the death of Eliza Wilson was resumed before Mr. Carter. the Coroner for East Surrey. Mr. Chapman, the surgeon, who made a post mortem exami nation of the body, deposed that he was quite satisfied that death was caused by the use of some instrument or instruments used for the purpose of indueini, a miscar riage. Mr. Kay, a surgeon, corro b orate d the evidence of Mr. Chapman. A great deal of evidence was then re ceived, the larger proportion of which is unfit for publica tion, but all of it tending to strengthen the' case against the accused. The room was then cleared, and the jury left to deliberate upon their verdict. After a lapse of up wards of an hour and a half, the Court was re-opened, and the jury returned a verdict against the woman Spen cer Lindfield, of wilful murder ; and against Richard Orpin and Mary Ann Dryden, of being accessories to the mur der before the fact. No verdict was returned in reference to William Lindfield, the reputed son of the woman Spencer Lindfield. MELANCHOLY DEATH.—On Sunday, a great degree of excitement was created in this city by a report that Major Wemyss, the Chief Constable of the County Constabu lary, had been found in an apparently dying state lying in a plantation near:to Langley B r id ge , a b out two miles f rom this city, at an early hour that morning. On inquiry, this report was fully verified. As soon as the fact became known, information was immediately sent to W. Green, Esq., surgeon, who, together with Major Wemyss's ser vant, proceeded to the spot, had him placed in a carriage, and conveyed to his house in the North Bailey, where every effort that medical skill could devise was put into requisition to restore him, but without effect. He breathed his last about ten minutes after having been placed in bed. The deceased left his house on the morn ing of Saturday, and at one o'clock on that day was seen sitting on the battlement of Langley Bridge by a farmer named Jonathan Hopper. About two o'clock on the same afternoon, he was observed by some boys who were gath ering brambles, lying near to the place where he was found at four o'clock the following morning by J. Shaw, who, on crossing the bridge, had his attention attracted to the plantation by hearing some one moaning, and on proceeding to the spot, Major Wemyss was found lying on his side in a state almost entirely insensible.—Durham Advertiser. REVENGE IN SWALLOWS.—Not long since, some work men who were employed in repairing the farm-house at Seeside, Dumfries-shire, noticed a swallow's nest, the opening of which was closed up with clay, or some other adhesive substance. After it was removed, a dead spar row was discovered in the interior, and so much wasted as to lead to the belief. that it must have died of hunger. The circumstance is explained by a statement made to us to the following effect :—A pair of swallows built the above nest, and straightway settled in their cosy domicile, in the belief, no doubt, that they would get leave to bring up their forthcoming family in peace and comfort. But in a few days a pugnacious sparrow made its appearance, when the rightful owners were absent, entered their nest, and, on their appearance, pecked them fiercely, till they had again to make off. The fight between the parties was often renewed, but always with the same result. The sparrow kept the castle, and the swallows had to sleep, like vagrants of the feathered race, wherever they could find shelter. Having failed to dispossess the sparrow by force, they at last hit upon a method of blockading hint in his retreat, and accordingly, to use a familiar phrase, " daubed up his daylights " with clay. The scheme suc ceeded, and the poor sparrow was buried alive, and disin terred by the workmen in the manner we have stated.— Dumfries Standard. EMIGRATION TO CASADA.—A meeting was held on Wednesday, at Simmonds's Colonial Rooms, Bucklers bury, with the object of forming a society, to be called, " The Canadian Freehold Farm Investment Society, for the purposes of Emigration."—M r . L o yd, on ta ki ng t h e chair, said that it was proposed to found the society on the principle of building societies, which had succeeded so well, and the district contemplated for settlement was that part of Canada which was bounded by the three great lakes—Erie, Huron, and Ontario. It might be called the garden of the world, being covered with vegetable mould to the depth of three or four feet, growing every sort of garden tree naturally ; and, in fact, containing every re quisite for prosperity except labour. He had lately made a tour through the country, and the impressions left on ciety to be found there was quite English in its character, free from those peculiarities which were generally imputed to the inhabitants of the United States, and also distin guished by a warmth of hospitality which would make the emigrant almost forget that he was so far from home. Land was cheap, so cheap, as to be almost within the reach of every one, and the modes of preparing it for cul tivation were of the simplest description. There was plenty of it to be had in all states, from wild nature to per fect cultivation, and in all sorts of plots, from eighty or a hundred acres to as many thousands, and its transfer was quite free from those legal technic alities which were found to be so embarrassing in England. He had only further to say, that the object of the present meeting was to open up the advantages he had recapitulated to the working classes of this country, by means of an associa tion framed on the principle of the building societies. Resolutions were then passed pledging those present to the formation of such a society, after which the meeting separated. AFFRAY BETWEEN THE MILITARY AND POLICE AT SUNDERLAND.—On Friday one of the privates of the 63d Regiment was taken into custody in Sunderland, for being drunk, and obstructing and insulting the passers-by on the foot pavement, in a very unbecoming manner. On his way to the station, another private interfered, and attempted a rescue ; he was also taken into custody. Other soldiers joined, and it was a matter of considerable difficulty that they were at length safely secured. On the following morning, they were fined each £1 and costs, or 14 days' imprisonment. It may be mentioned, that in the scuffle several of the police were hurt by the violence and pressure of the military. On Saturday evening, many of the privates left the barracks, and meeting with police officers, vowed they would be revenged, for what they had done to their comrades on the previous day. They shouted and yelled at the constables, and, other soldiers joining a generol tumult ensued. The police were quite outnumbered by the military, and several of the officers were seriously cut by the soldiers, striking them with their belts, breast plaths, &c. At length they retired to the barracks ; and on Monday morning, the mayor, attended by his clerk, the officers who were inju red, with witnesses who witnessed the affray, proceeded to the barracks, to identify, if possible, the offenders. An investigation was entered into, when the soldiers broke out, and effectually closed the examination as far as re gards that day. An indiscriminate attack was made upon the authorities and witnesses. The mayor and his atten dants were escorted by an officer of the regiment, with drawn sword, to the barrack gate, and they escaped unin jured. Others, however, who retreated the best way they could by scaling the walls, received several bayonet wounds. It is expected that the authorities will now leave it to the colonel of the regiment to hand over the ringleaders to justice. Considerable fear has been occa sioned by the affair. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER.—Our market exhibits no improvement either in goods or yarns. The aggregate business of the present week may, indeed,, somewhat exceed that of last week ; this has arisen, however, not from any greater disposition to purchase on the part of merchants, but from an increased determina tion to sell at the best attainable fetes on the part of producers, in consequence of the rapid exhaustion of their orders, and the growth of stocks that is beginning to take place. For India and China, scarcely any operations are in progress. The Greek merchants are still out of the market, waiting advices as to progress of cholera, and the consequent state of trade in the Levant. And, in the present condition of the European conti nent, the German houses can be induced to purchase only by a sufficient temptation in point of price. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET.—The weather being unfa vourable, we have not had so many persons in the market as on the two previous Mondays, and yet there was a good demand for the middle qualities of flannels and the strong Yorkshire goods. Dyed Flannels were rather dull of sale, and all other sorts of manufactured goods sold readily at previous prices. The Wool market was much the same as on this day week. Prices firm. LEEDS.—About the same degree of activity which' we have reported for some time past prevails in the woollen trade in this town and neighbourhood; and from the lowness of stocks, and the fact that many of the manufacturers are working to order, a good winter trade is generally anticipated. BRADFORD. — WOOL.—There is no change since our last, and no disposition to buy beyond present wants. In prices no al teration. Noils and Brokes are firm in price; stocks very low. YARN.—There is no inclination to spin except to actual order, and no accumulation of stocks or alteration in prices. Pieces. —Plain goods are steadily moved off, and fancy goods are not likely to be plentiful, as the manufacturers generally stop making as their orders are out. HALIFAX.—There was a rather better attendance of mer chants in our Piece-hall on Saturday, and a little more inquiry for lastings ; but the prices at which they were purchased were miserably low. There was also a trifle more done in heavy figured goods, but at very low rates. There is more doing in yarn, for the continent; and some of the latter firms are work mg full time • but prices are low ? and the dem an d i s consider ably below the power of production. Some sorts of wool sell rather more freely, at old rates ; but other sorts go off heavily, with the turn in favour of the buyer. HUDDERSFIELD.—We have had a very quiet market this week, and a falling off in the demand for nearly all classes of goods, as the season is advancing. Stocks are unusually low, and prices are without any alteration. Norri NO HAM.—Lace :—We are unable to report any revival iu the demand for the home trade, very few buyers having been here this week. The great number of machines that have been recently set to work, we fear, will have a tendency to keen. down prices during the winter, as more is likely to be producta than present appearances warrant.—Hosiery —The same ac tivity for the trade in winter goods, that we havepreviously no ticed, still continues unabated.—Yarns of all descriptions re main at very steady prices. f): • or`• i th vy atit ram lat. laciftltaAt"4 r