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- Nov. 14, 1848. Efteraturt. P O E T R Y. JUDAS ISCARIOT. (From the Italian.) 'The infamous reward he cast away— Base bribe, by which the life of Christ was sold ! Then on a tree he fixed the fatal noose, And from the bough the sordid sinner swung. Murmured the dark apostate spirit, pent In sad and rabid sound within his throat, And Jesus cursed, and cursed his own foul crime, Adding another gain to murky hell! — Forth sprang, and with a loud and hideous howl, The struggling spirit, which stern Justice then Awaiting seized ; and en the Holy Mount, Tinging her finger in the blood of Christ, Wrote on the traitor's forehead sentence dire Of never-ending woe, and forthwith hurled Disdainfully the wretch to penal fires —Passing those gloomy gates Hell stood aghast, And quaked throughout her bound, and yelling wild, As from the traitor's forehead, meteor-like, With lurid ray that sign portentous gleamed ! J. F. VARIETIES. It is not generally known that stale bread, when im mersed in cold water for a moment or two, and rebaked for about an hour, is in every respect equal to newly baked bread. SMOKE v. CHARITY.—The Rev. F. Close told a public meeting the other day that the people of England indul ging a vile German habit, puffed out of their mouths annu ally a sum that would suffice to maintain all the charities Of England ! A TEMPERATE RETORT.—A tourist who had " put an enemy into his mouth that stole away his legs," tumbled from the deck of a barge into the Crinan canal, and, being fished out, quarrelled with the captain for not having a rail round the craft. The skipper turned the laugh upon him by retorting that he should have had a rail round his mouth. CHARACTERISTIC.—An American lady, who had been sick at Marseilles, and had received many kind attentions from many of her sex, both French and English, was asked to give her op i n ion respecting the two classes of her a jmPathisers. Her r eply was, "They are both kind. The French ladies brought me flowers all day ; the English ladies sat up with me all night." A BEAUTIFUL HEDGE.—The best hedge in the United States, says the Genesee Farmer, extends a mile on a Plantation of three thousand acres, near Augusta, Geor gia. It is the Cherokee rose, which is now in full bloom, presenting a magnificent floral spectacle, and filling the atmosphere with delicious perfume. No animal without wings can get over it or through it. DECLINING A LOAN.—Phil was inclined for a trip to the springs, and called upon his friend. " Hal, my dear boy, lam off for the Capes, and I find this morning l ' m a trifle short—lend me a hundred will you ?" Hal, after a pause, which apparently included a mental examination of his financial arrangements, " Well, Phil, to tell you the truth—l do not feel disposed—to make any permanent investment." NEW MODE OF SCARING RATS.—Catch a rat in a wire trap keep him until night ; then procure a preparat i o n of phosphorus in oil, apply it all over the rat, except ais head, and turn him loose into his hole. Such scam pering and getting out of the house as occurs, as his Phosphorescent majesty pursues his alarmed friends, Whom he is anxious to overtake, afford certainly a secu -I'4 against the return of the depredators for a long sea- son. —Suffolk Chronicle. THE POPULAR TASTE.—In one of the principal tho roughfares of one of the principal towns of the West Riding (Sheffield) is to be seen the following very attrac tive exhibition. We copy the announcement verbatim et literatim, as it appears emblazoned in large characters over the entrance :—" To Bee, Seen, with in, Mr. W. Smith, O'Brien, who, was, Condemned, to, be hung, Drawn, and, Quartered. Also, Peter, Reaney and is, Mother, admission one penny. EASY METHOD OF INCREASING A LIBRARY. — Ptolemy Euergetes was unscrupulous in his mode of augmenting the royal library. He seized all books im- Ported into Egypt by foreigners, had them carefully tran scribed teed returned the copies to the owners , keeping the originals. He borrowed the works of Sophocles, JEsehylus, and Euripides, from the Athenians, and served them in the same manner, accompanying the return (not of the originals, but of the copies) with a handsome douceur. CHEAP FOOD.—At a meeting of the Academie des Sciences, on the 16th ultimo, a paper was read by M. Payne, on the part of the auth or, M. Flandin, who exhi bited some specimens of horse chesnuts fecula, entirely deprived of bitterness, and other specimens of bread and biscuits prepared with one part of this fecula and three Parts of wheat flour. The author declares that a horse chesnut is worth as much as a potato, and that two trees bearing this fruit at the door of every cottage in the coun try are equivalent to several acres of potato fields, the more so, as the horse chesnut almost always yields a good crop, and requires hardly any care. THE FoximuNns.—The feeding of a ker.nel of fox hounds is one of the most striking illustrations of the power of training to produce complete obedience. The feeder stations himself at the door, a nd calls'each dog in dividually, the rest, however impatient they be, remaining quiet until their turn arrives. In these kennels a bar barous custom of the dogs towards each other has some times been observed. If a dog gets down of his own ac cord from a bench on which he has been lying, no notice is taken of it by the others ; but if he should unfortunately fall from the bench by accident, his companions fly at him and worry him to death.—Rural Cyclopmclia. • A NATURAL MISTAKE.—A National Guard was walk ing into St. Paul's, when he was stopped for the ordinary twopence. " Qu' est que c'est ?" said the astonished Frenchman. " Twopence," exclaimed the clerical door keeper. " Plait-il " inquired the Frenchman. " Two- Pence," shouted the twopenny janitor, getting very wroth. After numberless explanations, the twopence was paid, and the Frenchman walked in. " Hollo ! you sir, you must take your hat off." No notice was takenovhen the enraged doorkeeper ran after the Frenchman, and ex plained to him very warmly that he must not walk about with his hat on. Pardon millefois," said the National Guard, removing his shako, "mais je ne savais pas gee c'crtait une 6flise !"—Punch. CHLOROFORM A RELIEF IN THE CRISIS OF CONSUMP 'TION.—Another instance of the efficacy of this very valuable medicine I have just witnessed ; the beneficial esult of which will, I trust, induce others to try it under similar circumstances. This was a case of consumption, where the patient had frequent vomitings of blood. Amongst many other painful symptoms, perhaps the most distressing was that of an extreme nervous irritability, Producing a state of great anxiety. No relief could be obtained from the most powerful soporifics. Chloroform Was in this case administered with extreme caution, and largely diluted with atmospheric air. The smallest pos sible quantity was sufficient. The agitation of the sys em was immediately subdued, the pulse quickly abated in frequency, and the poor sufferer, with a serene and Placid countenance, sank into repose with the expression that she felt as if in heaven.—Bainbrigee on Chloroform. THE END OF AUTUMN.—It was now the end of autumn. The fog was heavy in the morning, as it hung sluggishly about the hills over Pottleton, chilling the sunbeams as struggled through it, so that the large drops of dew t h enl g all day to the blades of grass. The shrivelled brown leaves, as they fell from the trees, allowed glimpses of the distant country to be seen through the skeleton branches ; and then, pattering down, lay thick upon the ground, covering the wet doggy footpaths through the shaws and copses. Th e tops a the noble chesnuts, that had been so glorious in the spring, were now quite bare : except that here and there a tawny, ragged leaf fluttered and whirled about in dreary loneliness; and the creepers that reached even to the chimney-tops of the old houses had turned fiery red, striving to Make as warm an appearance as they could in the sharp mornings. Smoke curled up from the cottages, and people began to collect wood for the long evenings, and stack it in " cords" in the yard, as the cold nights announced the approach of winter. Otherwise, the sea son was still fine—the calm old age of the year, now that the turbulent passions of its spring, and hey-day of its summer-tide, had settled down to rest, as it tranquilly awaited its final passing away.—The Pottleton Legacy. MR. MACREADY IN AMERICA.-We witnessed last evening, with great pleasure, a repetition of Mr. Mac ready's Hamlet. We have no occasion to qualify in the slightest degree the high praise we have before bestowed Upon the impersonation. The actor masters the grand difficulty which very few are able to master—to preserve a nice yet palpable distinction between the madness Hamlet is forced to simulate for the purposes of his great revenge, and the real frenzy to which he is wrought up by the melancholy tendency of his own mind, the visits of his father's ghost, and the fearful disclosures Which " harrow up his soul." In Mr. Macready's de lineation there is no confusion of the real with the feigned —no slipshod reading to perplex the sense, and, we must in justice add, none of that claptrap extravagance that has been charged upon him in the part. If we were to take exception at all, it would be to an over . precision, although such an exception might be unjust, as in Hamlet More than any other of Shakspeare's characters, precision is most absolutely essential, as it is the one in which, least of all, an intelligent audience can tolerate that roughness and unevenness which may be easily overlooked in cha racters reouiring a lower standard of art for the delinea tion. We amen attempt to instance any portion of the Part evincing more especial merit than the others. The death -scene, as are all Mr. Macready's death - scenes, was strikingly impressive and beautiful.—New York Herald. TH E WRITINGS OF ST. LUKE.—St. Luke possesses two qualifications as a writer, which, in a great degree, com- Pensate for his omissions, and which enable us to supply many of them with the greatest certainty. The first is, ms perfect knowledge of his subject, and the next his ac curacy. No man who was not gifted in a super-eminent eeree with this quality could have given a narrative capa ble of being tested as his has been in the following examin ation : he must not only have been an accurate observer, but his memory must have been accurate, and his habits '9.f thought and reasoning not less so ; hence his facts af ford the firmest grounds for resting conclusions upon, and these, in their turn, furnish data for mathematical l',easoning. The reader may give an incredulous smile at the idea of working the dead reckoning of a ship .from such disjointed and apparently vague notices, yet I have none so,—and the result is nearer than I could have ex pected beforehand, had it been the journal of a modern Ship, and I had her log-book lying before me. I admit that a coincidence so extraordinary is, to a certain extent, ac cidental; but it is an accident which could not have happened had there been any inaccuracy on the part of narrator : had he made an error of a single day it fould have been difficult to have reconciled his state- Z 17 19 ; and bad it been any other island than Malta upon Which the s hip was wrec k e d it would have been impossible. refer the reader to the account of the voyage for the Calculations and authorities upon which they are founded. The Voyage and Shipwreck of St. Paul. Is IT LAWF UL TO ALLEVIATE SUFFERING BY CHLO ROFORM.—If there are some women who suppose that God has ordained seasons of suffering to which they feel it a duty to submit, and that the word "sorrow " means either mental or bodily pain, or both, they will do well to remember, that the sentence does not determine either its amount or its duration, and we know that the amount of suffering varies with almost every sufferer. The an guish is heavier on the one, lighter on the other, and even with all the aid of this wonderful and valuable remedy it must still remain so. For pain is in all cases more or less endured, before it would be prudent to ad minister chloroform. Those remedies which for ages women have never thought of scrupling to accept stand on precisely the same ground as chloroform, only less efficacious and less useful in their degree. If these were lawful, so, too, is chloroform. They ameliorated pain to a certain degree, but with unpleasant consequences; this to a still higher degree, and with the happiest and most harmless results.—Bainbrigge's Remarks on Chloroform. KNIPP AND HER HUSBAND. - Gth. To a dinner and much company. Mr. Cuttle and his lady and I went, hoping to get Mrs. Knipp to us, having wrote a letter to her in the morning, calling myself " Dapper Dicky," in answer to her's of " Barbary Allen," but could not, and am told by the boy that carried my letter, that he found her crying ; and I fear she lives a sad life with that ill natured fellow her husband : so we had a great, but I a melancnoly dinner. After dinner to cards, and then comes notice that my wife is come unexpectedly to me to town : so Ito her. It is only to see what I do, and why I come not home; and she is in the right that I would have a little more of Mrs. Knipp's company before Igo away. My wife to fetch away my things from Wool wich, and I back to cards, and after cards to choose King and Queene, and a good cake there was, but no marks found ; but I privately found the clove, the mark of the knave, and privately put it into Captain Cockle's piece, which made some mirth, because of his lately being known by his buying of clove and mace of the East India prizes. At night home to my lodging, where I find my wife returned with my things. It being Twelfth-Night, they had got the fiddler, and mighty merry they were ; and I above, come not to them, leaving them dancing, and choosing King and Queene.—Pepy's Diary. SUCCESSFUL MANcEUVRE AGAINST A SOCIALIST. — A very good story is told, the truth of which is well known, and which illustrates pretty strongly the real value of la liberte du vote, for which the heroes of February fought. In one of the more distant departments it was well known that the peasantry had the full intention of voting in favour of Raspail, who had been represented to them as the friend of the people. The opponent of the socialist candidate, aware that such was the case, immediately formed and executed a scheme calculated to checkmate the movements of Raspail, and ensure his own nomination. Some few days previous to that fixed for voting, the inhabitants of the surrounding country remarked that several men, bearing the ap pearance of engieeers, or land-surveyors, were busily em ployed in measuring the land in every direction, and in taking notes thereupon. Extremely puzzled as to the cause of such very unusual proceedings, a sturdy old peasant, upon whose corn-fields the surveyors were then at work, went up, and demanded what they were about. The answer was :—"As it is well known that Le Citoyen Raspail will certainly be elected in your department, and that imme diately after his nomination he will carry into effect a law upon the division of property, we are taking the measure of the land hereabouts, that as little delay as possible may take place in carrying the new law into execution !" The report immediately spread like wildfire, and the result was, that Raspail scarcely obtained a single vote, and that his opponent was duly elected representant du peuple. So much for the liberte du vote of Republican France. —"Politics en Passant," Bentley's Miscellany for the present month. NAPPER TANDY.—General Napper Tandy, once more celebrated than Mitchel or " Meagher of the Sword," is thus described by a spy, who accompanied him on a voyage to Ireland in a privateer, with some French offi cers, artillerymen, and arms :—With respect to him, the French Directory had little reliance on the great promises he made. He promised to raise for them in 'lreland a legion of 10,000 men ; but they suspected his means of doing this, as well as the weakness and vanity of his dis position. Being importunate, the Directory made him a General provisionally ; he pledged his head for the success of his proposition ; but, to his woful experience, could not raise a single man, and bad scarcely set his foot on Irish ground until obliged to make a precipitate retreat. There was on board, besides Tandy, holding the rank of General, provisionally, from the French Directory, Black well, educated under the Jesuits, but at the commence ment of the French revolution, being able to proceed no further in that line, entered the army, and on the 14th of July last got the command of a company of hussars, was shortly after made a colonel, and during the passage com pelled Tandy to give him first the rank of adjutant-gene ral, and next that of general of brigade. This Blackwell had Tandy like a child in leading-strings. There was also on board General Ray, who was during the American war a sort of commissary-general among the Illinois Indians ; a colonel of artillery, eight captains, a captain of hussars, and some inferior officers. His (Tandy's) weakness ap pears very prominent in the following circumstances : He has got a few laced coats, which he is eternally over hauling and gazing on. The day he landed, for a few hours, on the Isle of Arran, at Rutland, he intoxicated himself to such a degree as to be incapable of getting to the boat. During the action with the Tom armed mer chantman, he squatted on the deck, with a pint bottle of brandy, which he emptied twice. The only thing in which I saw him imitate the man was, that he had put two eight-pound shot in his pockets, to leap overboard in case of striking to the English ship. The French officers on board, all except General Ray, agreed in atxusing Tandy of cowardice, imbecility, and weakness, and wrote a letter of impeachment against him to the Minister of Marine. The names they gave him were " infame, imbecile, scele rat."—Castlereagh Correspondence. THE COPYRIGHT OF PARADISE LOST.—As Lord Cam den cites the example of Milton, to show that he placed no value upon the right of property in his great poem, it may be well to repeat the authentic facts concerning the sale of that copyright. Milton sold his copyright to Samuel Simmons in 1667, for an immediate payment of £5. But she agreement entitled him to a conditional payment of £5 more when 1,300 copies should be sold of the first editition ; of the like sum alter the same number of the second edition ; and of another £5 after the same sale of the third edition. The number of each edition was not to exceed 1,500 copies. In two years the sale gave the poet a right to his second payment, for which he signed a receipt on the 26th of April, 1669. The se cond edition was not printed till 1674, and Milton did not live to receive the payment stipulated for this impression. The third edition was published in 1678 ; and his widow, to whom the copy was then to devolve, agreed with Shn mons, the printer, to receive £8 for her right, according to her receipt, dated December 21, 1680 ; and sh 3 gave him a general release, dated April 29, 1681. Simmons sold the right to Brabason Aylmer, a bookseller, for £25, and Aylmer sold it to Jacob Tonson, one moiety in August 1683, and the other moiety in March 1690, at a price con siderably advanced. (Todd's Life of Milton, 193-195, London, 1826.) It thus appears that the poet was very careful to assert his full right of property, as he and others understood it at the time, and to make it available to his family. The amount which he chose to receive, compared with the real value of the poem, or measured by a modern standard, seems very trifling. But as such rights were estimated then, and considering that the poem gained slowly upon the attention of his own age, it was not a grossly inadequate price. When it had been published fourteen years and upwards, the copyright between one bookseller and another, brought only £25. Yet its value could not have been affected by any apprehension, at the time of this sale, that it was not protected by the common law. Such a notion had not then arisen ; and long after, viz. in 1739, Lord Hardwicke protected by injunction the title of Tonson, derived under the assignment made by the poet in 1667 Doubtless Milton did not write his great poem for money ; but we have seen that he supposed the right of exclusive property in authors was acknowledged by the law of his country, and he took pains practically to assert the right in his own case. It seems by no means a wild conjecture, that he did this for the sake of example, as well as in order to preserve his reputation, by keeping the control of the text of his poem.—Curtis on Literary Property. NARROW ESCAPE OF SIR CHARLES NAPIER BEFORE CORUNNA.—It was a matter of extreme importance to silence an advanced gun which was making great havoc in the English lines, and a shot from which very gun even tually struck down Sir John Moore. Napier, as one of Moore's Majors, par excellence, advanced upon it. The ground was much broken, consisting of walled gardens, and byroads, with deep cuttings. In the heat of the combat, Napier had seized a musket, and gained a position, on which he stood firing and rallying his men, urging them to form a rush upon the gun. Four only of the gallant 50th were able toreachhim, so deadly was the fire to which they were exposed. Finding further attempts vain, and observing that he was cut off from his regiment by a party of the enemy who had concealed themselves in the village, whilst he passed, he called upon his little band to endeavour with him to cut their way through. Three were instantly cut down : the fourth was wounded, and called on Napier to help him. Napier, whilst assisting him, was wounded in the leg, having the fibula fractured by a musket-ball. He now re linquished his musket, and using his sword as a support, endeavoured to regain his regiment. At this moment he felt a wound inflicted in his back by a soldier who had emerged from one of the houses. Turning rapidly round, he seized the musket of his assailant, which having struck upon his spine, fortunately did not pene trate deeply. Whilst struggling, several other sol diers closed in upon him ; but with a degree of activity , almost supernatural, he managed to keep his close anta gonist between him and his assailants, never losing hold of the musket. At length the unequal combat was termi nated by a French soldier coming up with a short sabre, and felling him to the earth with a blow on the skull, which was supposed to have cleft it in twain. As he lay in this state, he was rifled by the soldiers with such fero city, that they tore away a portion of his dress with his watch ; and one, conceiving that he perceived some vitality remaining, was about to extinguish it, when he was rescued by the humanity of a French drummer, whose admiration had been excited by his bravery. While the French were carrying Napier to the rear, he in some degree recovered con sciousness, and saw Hennessy, an Irishman of the 30th, one of the stragglers who had survived the murderous conflict, deep in the French position, coining all alone with his musket at the charge, towards Napier's escort, with the full intention of rescuing his commander, or being himself killed. Napier at once ordered him to lay down his arms and surrender. " And for what should I snrrindher ?" was the reply. However, the habit of obedience was too strong, and Hennesey merely vented his displeasure by letting the butt of his musket drop heavily on the drum mer's legs, and pushing him away from beside Napier, determined, if he could not rescue, at least to carry his commander. Soult, with the chivalric spirit of a great warrior, rewarded Napier's preserver, and treated himself with the greatest kinduesi.—Dublin University Magazine. THE IRISH CHURCH THE CHURCH OF THE PEOPLE. (Fro,m the _Record The assumption, that England forcibly took away the possessions of the ancient Church of Ireland, and confer red them on Protestants,—is not only at variance with the truth, but is utterly and entirely opposed to it. When Henry VIII. threw off his dependence on the see of Rome, he not only met with no opposition from the Catholics of Ireland,—they were even forward in taking part with him. Dean Murray, in bis History of the Irish Church, states, that " No sooner had Henry asserted his claims to the entire sovereignty of Ireland, than all the nobles ar rayed themselves on the side of the Crown." " Desmond was the first who presented himself ; on the 16th of Jan uary, 1540, he executed an indenture, in which he utterly denied, and promises to forsake, the usurped primacy and authority of the Bishop of Rome, and all that should by any means maintain it. " Shortly after, O'Connor and O'Dunne gave similar pledges. O'Donnell, in his inden ture, dated August 6, 1542, declares that he will renounce, relinquish, and to the best of his power annihilate, the usurped authority of the Roman pontiff.' His example was followed a week after by M`Mahon. " In the January following, O'Neil, the leader of the northern Irish, met the King's Commissioners, and en tered into similar engagements ; and the course of that year the same was done by O'Brien, the first chieftain of Munster ; by O'More, O'Rourke, M`Donel, and the head of the De Burghs, who was known by the Irish title of M'William." Dr. Murray gives a copy of one of these indentures, from the council-book at Dublin Castle, in which the Lords Barry, M'Carty More, M'Carty Beagh, M'Cor mick, O'Sullivan Beare, Barry Roe, M`Donough, O'Cal laghan, &c., &c., " do promise that they will, as far as in them lieth, annihilate the usurped authority of the Bishop of Rome, and will expel and eradicate all his favourers, partisans, and abettors, &c." As a plain and undeniable historical fact, then. it may be stated, without fear of contradiction, that when Henry VIII determined to throw off the dominion of Rome, the Irish, the native Irish, by their leaders, warmly and ea gerly went with him in the separation. On Elizabeth's accession, both threats and allurements were used by the Romish see to induce her to renew Eng land's fornier submission. But the Queen, says a Romish bishop, " resolved to shake off the yoke of the Roman see," and proceeded to the formation of aNational Church. "As soon," says Dr. Murray, "as this determination of the Queen was made known, the whole body of the Romish priests abandoned their connexion with Rome, and adopted the Liturgy of the Church of Ireland, and the entire mass of the population outwardly conformed to the Ritual of the Established Church. That the whole island did actually profess the Protestant faith in the time of Elizabeth, is a fact as certain as any in the records of his tory." Carte thus describes the fact, " In the beginning of Queen Elizabeth's reign, the Roman Catholics, univer sally throughout England, went to the parish churches, where the English liturgy was constantly used. They continued doing so for eleven years ;—and the case was much the same in Ireland, where th Bishops complied with the Reformation, and the .aoman Catholics in gen eral resorted to the parish churches, in which the English service was used, until the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign. But swarms of Jesuits and priests, educated in the seminaries founded by King Philip in the Netherlands, coming over to that kingdom (Ireland), as full of secular as of religious views ;—they soon prevailed with an igno rant and credulous people to withdraw from the public ser vices of the Church." Bevington, a Popish Bishop, says,—" For some time the great body of the clergy conformed externally to the law. It was publicly declared by Sir Edward Coke, At torney-General," and " admitted by Father Parsons, that many throughout the realm did, either for fear, or lack of better instruction, repair to the Protestant churches." " What do we find, then ?" says Lord Roden, in his Letter to Lord Alvanley, " not the property transferred, as is often stated, from one sort of ecclesiastics to another, but the persons then in possession consenting to, and ef fecting, in conjunction with the State, a reform in religion, and subscribing and conforming to the doctrines, rites, and ceremonies of the church, as it is to this day estab lished. Only two of the bishops, Kildare and Meath, were deprived of their sees ; and this, for an act of rebellion against the Queen, in refusing to acknowledge her as the supreme governor of the clergy as well as laity." So that the Irish Episcopacy, far more readily than the English, joined in the Reformation ; in England every bishop, ex cept one, quitting his see rather than consent to Elizabeth and the system of which she was the representative ! It is, then, one of the clearest and most unquestionable facts in history, that o'n the proposition of Reformation being made to the people of Ireland by Henry and Eliza beth, the people, their chiefs, and their bishops willingly fell in with it ; and that with greater, not less, unanimity than was shown by the Roman Catholics of England. The change was made, not violently or by arbitrary power and force of arms, but by consent. publicly and willingly given. And the Popery we now find in Ireland is not the descendant of the Irish Church of the fifteenth and the sixteenth centuries; it is wholly of foreign implantation. Jesuit priests were sent over from Rome, to re-convert the nation ; and their success was mainly owing, as we shall endeavour hereafter to show, to the gross neglect, and positive wrong and injustice done to the Irish church by the aristocracy and the governing powers, set over her by England, most of whom shamefully abused the trust which was publicly committed to them. Till LIVERPOOL STAN#AIRD. ABD-EL-FADER. The Tribune of the Gironde gives the following inte resting particulars of Abd-el-Kader and his family " Thanks to the friendly interference of the officer who has wholly devoted himself to the noble mission of alle viating the exile of this great fallen one, we obtained the favour of a private audience. We found the Emir seated on his bed ; on our entrance he immediately rose and squeezed our hand with warmth and dignity. His stature is above the average ; his white woollen clothes exhibit in fine relief his superb face, which is adorned with a long black beard ; his white hands are perfectly shaped, and his feet seem surprised to feel the softness of carpets, after having been so long accustomed to tread the sand. Since I have confided myself to the honour of the French,' remarked the Emir, I have not had occasion to repent it a single moment, and I can well understand that weighty reasons at present prevent the realisation of my dearest wish—to live and die at Mecca. I will wait.' Here his fine black eyes, the expression of which is at once melancholy and proud, became suddenly animated. and darted lightning—one word had electrified him, and that word was uttered by a female voice. Abd-el-Kader really looked sublime. He soon, however, recovered his habitual expression of gravity, and only spoke to us of the fatigues of his journey and the uncertainty of his present position. The women forming the family of the Emir are lodged in a suite of three rooms joining his own apart ment. His mother inhabits the most distant ; she is a woman of 70 years of age, with a sad and dejected mien, but her eyes sparkle occasionally like those of her son. She was indisposed when we visited her, and was reclin ing on a mattress, before an immense brazier, surrounded by young black and white female attendants, who ap peared to serve her with great zeal and attachment. In the second room were the three coloured wives of Abd-eh Kader on their mattrasses, with their children in their arms ; the faces of the latter are very pretty ; their hands are entirely shaved ; they say bonjour ! and shake hands very willingly. The women are all habited in white stuffs, a sort of long gown, and double tunics of muslin or cloth, fastened at the breast by chains of silver ; on their naked feet they wear rings of the same metal. Their head-dress conceals their hair entirely • their ears are pierced fo r im mense earrings which reach as low as their shoulders. Some of the women in this room were tatooed on the face and arms, in the most curious manner ; they appeared resigned to their fate, but much astonished at the scenes of the surrounding world. The third room is the most curious of all. It is a large saloon, darkened by the par tial closing of the shutters, the faint light that obtains ingress being increased by that of an enormous fire. Here we found the white wife of the Emir, on a sofa, watching over her children at play. She is about forty years old, and her face is handsome, and though the expression be somewhat severe, it is by no means bad. Her white gar ments are finer and neater than those of the black con cubines. Her sad glance seemed to ask Heaven what would be the future fate of her unhappy family. Of the two daughters of the Emir one is a superb beauty. Her face is one of those ideal ones that haunt the imaginations of painters, and her eyes are such as when once seen can never be forgotten. Her bare arms, perfectly shaped, are encircled with very simple bracelets ; her hair is adorned with very simple bracelets; her hair is adorned with a large riband, and some flowers, which announce that the women of the desert are as vain and fond of borrowing the foreign aid of ornament' as their more civilised, and therefore less excusable sisters of Europe." YOUNG GERMANY.—TheGermans used to shave, at least they kept their chins reasonably clean, and if they cultivated any extra capillary growth, reserved their care for their moustache. Now every one of them has a beard like a Rabbi, and to use razors is considered a sure and infallible sign of a loyalist and an aristocrat. At Juliers I had the pleasure of encountering the first speci men of Young Germany that crossed my path, and a precious object be was. I had been sitting for some time vis-a-vis with a little punchy fellow from Vienna, with a beard as red as that which the old masters have assigned toßarabbas ; and as he spoke little, but smoked a great deal, I was inclined to think him rather a companionable sort of individual than otherwise. But, at the station, in stepped a youth apparelled precisely after the fashion of an assassin in a melo-drama. His broad beaver hat, with a conical crown, was looped up on one side, garnished with an immense cockade of red, black, and gold, and sur mounted by a couple of dingy ostrich feathers. I lament for the sake of our home manufacturers, to state that he exhibited no symptoms of shirt collar, nor, so far as I could observe, had he invested any portion of his capital in the purchase of interior linen. Over his bare neck there descended a Maximilian beard. A green blouse, curiously puckered and slashed in the sleeves, was secured round his person by a glazed black belt and buckle, and his legs were cased in a pair of rusty hessians. In short, he needed but a dagger and a pair of pistols to render him theatrically complete, and had Fitzball been in the carriage, the heart of that amiable dramatist would have yearned within him, at the sight of this living per sonification of his own most romantic conceptions. I had forgotten to state that the patriot had slung by his side a wallet, of the sort which is familiar to the students of Retzsch, in which he carried his tobacco. To my amazement, nobody, not even the Bens-d'armes on the platform, appeared to be the least surprised at this formid able apparition, who commenced filling his pipe with the calmness of an ordinary Christian. For my own part, I could not take my eyes off him, but sat speechlessly staring at this splendid specimen of the. empire. —Black. wood. enteral Alga'lnv. There is not at present a case of cholera at Hull. Mr. William Henderson, one of the most popular gen tlemen in Durham has been elected mayor of that city. A fleet of 26 French ships arrived in Gloucester basin last week, laden with corn. Sir William Stanley was declared an outlaw, on Thurs day, at the London Sheriffs' Court. Mr. (or the Rev. Mr.) Barker, the Chartist, has been returned as a member of the Leeds Town Council. George Bradley, charged with stealing, at Wolverhamp ton, 500 sovereigns from a trunk belonging to his sister in-law, Sarah Stanley, has been committed for trial. A Roman Catholic monk, converted to Protestantism, is shortly to be ordained to the pastoral charge of the Independent church at Crediton, Devonshire. The Earl of Ripon is about to erect six almhouses for poor persons, in order to commemorate the circumstance of his eldest son's attaining his majority. A poor German •musician hung himself, last week, in the neighbourhood of Sheffield, from a disappointment in love. _ _ _ _ Trade is at present pretty brisk in Birmingham, owing, in a great measure, to the re-opening to commerce of the River Plate. ___ _ Mr. Charles Wood, proprietor of the railway foundry, Millsands, Sheffield, was on Monday last thrown from his gig and killed. The Hull solicitors have agreed to close their offices at one o'clock on Saturday, in order that the clerks may enjoy a half-holiday once a week. Several associations of tradesmen have been formed in London, for the purpose of endeavouring to abolish the custom of giving Christmas boxes. A conger eel, measuring seven feet in length, and 20 inches in girth, and weighing between five and six stones, was caught last week in the Solway Frith. A live toad was discovered in the heart of an old oak at St. Wenn, in Cornwall, last week. It had probably been entombed 200 years without either food or air. The sloop " Eagle," Richards, of Aberystwith, from Porthcawl to Aberdovey, in working out of Mumbles Roads, ou the 28th ult., struck on Mumbles Point, and went down immediately. Crew saved. In consequence of the late flood in the fens, several ves sels, laden with apples and vegetables, were delayed above three weeks in,the Brayford and Witham, and their car goes were either wholly spoiled or great ly deteriorated. A bruising match for £lOO, took place near Andover, between Gill, of Coventry, and Maley, of London, on Tuesday last. It lasted two hours and thirty-nine minutes. Gill was the conqueror. A Town Councillor of Bradford was arrested, a few days since, for illegal drilling, but discharged in conse quence of the witness against him being one of the parties drilled, and therefore not impartial. The vestry of St. Pancras has agreed to let certain rooms and ground to Dr. Wiseman, for a Roman Catholic grammar school. but the Duke of Bedford, the owner of the land, has objected to the carrying out of the bargain. The Orangemen of Bradford, Sheffield, &c., met in their respective lodge-rooms on the 4th November, to celebrate the discovery of the gunpowder plot and the accession of King William. The extensive hand-loom weaving factory of Mr. Robt. Kerr, in Seedhills, Paisley, has been destroyed by fire, The damage is said to be £lO,OOO, and the prsmises are insured for 1:8,000. The Whigs and Tories of Sunderland, this week, agreed to a compromise on the question " Who is to be Mayor ?" A gentleman, who has, in his time, belonged to both par ties, was appointed ! CHURCH RATES.—The magistrates of Hull have deci ded that persons living in that portion of a parish awarded to the district church are not liable to a rate for the mother church. _ _ _ _ _ There was a transit of the planet Mercury over the sun's disc on Thursday. The transit commenced about eleven o'clock ; and the last contact was about twenty five minutes past four. The office of Mayor went begging at Oxford on Thursday After seven or eight aldermen and councillors had been nominated and elected, a volunteer (Ald. Thorp) kindly stepped in, and got rid of the difficulty. PERSONATION AT THE BRADFORD MUNICIPAL ELEC TION.—Edward Hill, a stonemason, was on Monday last committed for trial for having personated a John Ed mondson, of Manningham Ward, at the recent election of town councillors. _ _ _ RAGGED SCHOOLS.—The Queen. Dowager, in addition to her former donation of £lOO for the general purposes of the Metropolis Schools Fund, has given a donation of £5O, for the special purpose of assisting the fund for the establishment of ragged schools in the metropolis. Cases of cholera continue to occur in the metropolis, but not in such numbers as to excite any alarm. Invari ably, we believe, the cases have been produced by damp houses. filth. insufficiency of food and clothing, or intem perance. A PARSON WITHOUT A SERMON.—On Sunday week, the minister at one of the Independent Chapels, at Brad ford, upon presenting himself before his congregation, made a public apology for not being prepared with a sermon ! The cask of dollars which was lately lost overboard from the Brazilian packet Penguin, has at length been reco vered by a diver, who had made several descents in vain, but at length succeeded in discovering the cask, which contained about three thousand dollars. The result of the British Davis's Straits whale fishery this season, so far as it is at present known, is that four teen ships, belonging to Hull, five ; Dundee, four ; Kirkaldy, two ; and Newcastle, Boiness, Peterhead, and Aberdeen; one each ; have captured fifty-eight fish, with 712 tuns of oil. 6INGULAR 4TH. - -A woman Vas, a few days since, killed at Moorcroft, near Loxley, by the fall of part of the floor of a house ; it threw her into an old coal-pit over which the building had been erected ; and she perished, not from the fall, but from the foul air in the pit. The Queen has presented to two brothers, named Thomas and Francis Bullock, working men, at Cheadle, Staffordshire, a sum of £lO, to enable them to publish a work which they have jointly written, and which they have entitled " Popular Education : an antidote to juve nile delinquency, and a great security of national virtue." IMPROVED STEEL PENS.—In the use of the best steel pens the nibs are continually undergoing oxidation, wear to a fine point, and in a short time become useless. Drs. Babbington and Spurgin have taken out a patent for the application of a piece of zinc to the nib, whereby a gal vanic action takes place, and the zinc alone being de stroyed, the nib of the pen is worn only to the extent of the friction occasioned in writing. A WINTER ASSIZE.—The Government have at present under consideration the propriety of issuing a special commission for holding a winter assize for a part at least of the home circuit, the cases of the Coggleshall gang, the poisoning at Ramsay, and the other crimes of a seri ous nature, for which prisoners have been committed for trial, appearing to render such a measure, as regards this county in particular, advisable.—Chelmsford Chronicle, SUICIDE OF M'DONOUGH.—On Tuesday a most de termined act of self-destruction was committed in Green's Shooting Gallery, Leicester-square, by M'Donough, the celebrated steeplechase rider. The deceased entered Mr. Green's gallery and called for some duelling pistols, and he fired several shots at the target : he loaded the pistols himself, and was seen to approach the target. He then deliberately placed the muzzle of one of the pistols to his forehead and immediately fired it off. A MAN CAUGHT INSTEAD OF A SALMON.—Some poachers, who were fishing in the Wye, near Monmouth, a few evenings since, heard a splash, and immediately cast a net, as they fancied the noise was caused by a salmon. With some difficulty they succeeded in hauling their net ashore, and then discovered that instead of a fish they had caught a drunken man, who had mistaken his road and walked into the river, where he would have inevitably been drowned, if he had not been thus singularly rescued. SNOW STORM.—We have had a second visitation of winter, since our last, Friday and Saturday being days of very sharp frost, with occasional snow showers from the north. The ice on the pools was fully one inch in thick ness, and on the Inch pond boys were enjoying their winter amusements all day. In the Highlands the storm was very severe, particularly in Aberdeensh're and Inver ness-shire ; and on Saturday the north mail was nearly three hours behind time, the snow having drifted several feet deep along Drummaichdar and Slockmuich the usual places of interruption. On Sunday a mild change set in. —Perthshire Courier. _ Lord Mayor's day seems to have gone off very bril liantly this year. The new Lord Mayor is Sir Jas. Duke, M.P. At the banquet at the Mansion-house, the Mar quis of Lansdowne, in the absence of •Lord . ..l"olin Russell, occasioned by indisposition, returned thanks when the toast of the government was proposed. He congratulated the country that peace had been maintained in Great Britain by the exercise of the civil power only. The French minister, M. Gustave de Beaumont, spoke very strongly in favour of peace, and highly complimented England, which he emphatically styled " the land of liberty." He was much cheered. RAGGED SCHOOLS.—From inquiries which I4ve been made into fifteen of the ragged schools of the metropolis, it appears that there were 2345 children attending these schools, that the average attendance was 1600, and of those 162 had confessed that they had been several times in prison, 116 had deserted their homes, 170 slept in lodg ing-houses of the lowest description, 253 lived by begging, 263 had neither shoes nor stockings, 280 had no covering, 21 had never slept in a bed, 68 were the children of con victs, and 306 had lost either one or both of their parents. In London alone there were 80,000 prostitutes, by far the greater number of them were under 20 years of ago ; many of them were under nine or ten years of age ! ADVERTISEMENT EXTRAORDINARY.—The celebrity of the Times as the repertory of remarkable advertisements is well known ; but we think the following, which we copy from Saturday's Times, one of the richest gems in its way that it has been our lot to peruse :—" A married gentleman, having made every effort to rescue his fair partner from the frightful malady of drunkenness, now proposes to others similarly situated to take a house and grounds, wherein the ladies will find every amusement, but no drink, except by order of the medical man. A liberal table will be kept. Each married couple to pay £l4O a-year, to include eve] ything. Single ladies £BO. The advertiser will take all responsibility. Address, Y.R., &c." MURDER OF A FEMALE AT WESTPORT.—It appears that the fair held at Westport last week exhibited more than the usual amount of drunkenness and dissspation, and in one instance was marked by a most brutal and murderous attack. The victim is represented to have been a fine young woman, named Scannell, who went to purchase a pair of scissors from a dealer named Scott. His price was 11d. ; she offered Id., and refused giving more, when the savage plunged it into her ear, and in two days afterwards she breathed her last, leaving her death (to use her own words) on Scott. Mr. Walsh, the officer of police, had upwards of forty men under his command in search of Scott, and on Sunday morning he succeeded in arresting him in the suburbs of the town, in a pig house. James Whiteside, Esq., the eminent Queen's counsel, who has so eminently distinguished himself on the Irish state trials, is now on a visit to Scarborough. Mr. White side is the brother of the Vicar of Scarborough. The subscription for the purchase of the Chandos testi monial is now complete, and the members of the com mittee are about to meet and decide on the best mode of presenting it to the Duke of Buckingham. HULL DOCK COMPANY.—At a special general meeting on Wednesday, it was resolved to go to Parliament for a short bill to enable the company to raise the sum of £150,000 on loan, in addition to the £400,000 which they are, by their existing acts, authorised to borrow for the completion of their works. A SIGN OF THE TIMES.—On Sunday, the fifth of November, a Popish processional cross was, for the first time since the Reformation, carried through the streets of Halifax, accompanied by a Romanist priest and his clerks. Not there fault that there was no breach of the peace. A man employed on the Aberdeen Railway, at the bridge of Dun station, has been killed in a singular way : in chaining two carriages together, he was so incautious as to put his head between two buffers ; the engine moved and his head was crushed. _ _ _ The Norfolk Chronicle states that the combined ages of a Mrs. Gilbert and a Mr. Holmes, residing near Ely, amount to 212 years, the lady being 102, the gentleman 110, and either can walk a mile better than many persons half a century behind them. A young lady named Miss Harriet Wilkinson Tricket was yesterday week found dead on the beach, about two miles to the westward of Cowes, Isle of Wight. She had left home owing to a quarrel with her sisters, and it is supposed she drowned herself, or was drowned by acci dent. _ _ _ Our readers will probably recollect an event which occurred at Lochee, near Dundee, in which a man shot at three persons who were stealing potatoes in a garden, and killed one of them, a female. At the recent Perth Circuit Court he pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to fourteen years' transportation. A woman of enormous corpulence, who had been an in mate of the Yarmouth workhouse during the lest three years, died on Tuesday week; and a post mortem exami nation showed that the immense quantity of fat around her heart, and in other parts of her body, was the imme diate cause of her death, as it had increased to such an extent as to produce suffocation. On Monday, a fire, involving the destruction of a large amount of property, broke out on the premises of Mr. John Elisha, at a place called Spencer's Wood, in the pa rish of Shinfield, about four miles from Reading. The property destroyed is estimated at not far short of £l,OOO. The fire is generally believed to have been the act of an incendiary. At a meeting of the Ashmolean Society, held at Oxford, on Monday last, Dr. Buckland mentioned that he had re ceived from Sir R. Peel a letter, describing an extraordi nary large bull trout, weighing 211bs. which had been taken at Tamworth, and which had probably been enabled, by the late floods, to cross the weirs on its way to that place. The Aberdeen Journal states, that at a recent sale of farming stock, a calf three months old was sold for one penny, and was purchased by two farmers, who each paid a halfpenny, on condition that the one was to keep the animal through the winter, while the other was to feed it next summer, and that it should then be sold, and the proceeds be equally divided between the speculators. A. M'Kenzie, trading under the firm of Durand and M'Kenzie, of Milk-street, Cheapside, London, merchants, is charged with forging an acceptance for £3,000 upon Mr. F. Phillips, of London-street, provision merchant. The case has been adjourned for a few days, the Lord Mayor having accepted bail for M'Kenzie's next appear ance, himsel in £2,000, and two sureties of £l,OOO each. On Thursday week the Training College at Carmarthen for Welsh schoolmasters was opened. It has been erected under the superintendence of the Welsh Committee of Education at a cost of £9,000, thus obtained—£3,ooo from the Committee of the Privy Council, £2,500 from contributions, and £1,500 from the fund of the National Society. A further sum of £2,000 will be required to discharge the whole of the liabilities. A DIFFERENCE.—Now that the proprietor of the Shef field Times has bought the sheet containing the names of the subscribers to the late Sheffield Mercury, handbills have been issued from his office, stating that the list of subscribers was, for forty years, the most respectable of any of the Sheffield papers. About a year ago an article appeared in the Times, in which it is stated, "as for the Mercury, nobody reads it." On Wednesday evening, a woman living in London, who was holding in one hand a lighted candle, and in the other a lamp, which she was filling with naptha, poured the naptha until it overflowed on her dress, with which the candle came in contact, and she was immediately en veloped in flames. She ran into the street, when two men who were passing rolled her on the pavement, and suc ceeded in extinguishing the flames, though not before she had been severely scorched. SINGULAR FATALITY.—On Friday an inquest was held on the body of Thomas Hutchinson, who died at the Leeds Infirmary on Wednesday. The deceased, who was only 23 years of age. followed the occupation of a shep herd; and on the 23d of September, in dressing the feet of a sheep, he had occasion to use a knife, and during the operation the animal made a start, and came in such vio lent contact with the instrument that the blade was plunged into the left thigh, penetrating the femoral ar tery. TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF A SHIP BY FIRE.—From intelligence which has been received from Annotto Bay, Jamaica, we learn that the barque Captain Ross, William son, loading at Port Maria, for Greenock, was totally destroyed by fire on the night of the 22d of Sept., and one man and a lad seriously injured. The crow have all (ex. cept those two) saved their clothing. The master has not saved a stitch of any thing ; his chronometers, maps, a large amount in money, and some very valuable papers, are all gone. At the Central Criminal Court, on Tuesday, Shea and his wife, an Irish couple, were convicted of a most savage attack on Mary Cox, their landlady, whom they beat on the head with hammers and otherwise maltreated ; ser ving the woman's husband in the same way, and kicking him, when he came to his wife's assistance. Shea nailed up the door that he might not be stopped in his mur derous pastime, and when an entrance was forced, the room " looked like a slaughter-house." The gentle pair were surprised to find that they were to be severely dealt with ; Shea to be transported for ten years, and his wife to be kept to bard labour in prison for two. A " PRINCE "IN COVENTRY.--A person representing himself as Prince Christophe, brother of the King of Hayti, and who has completed a term of two months' imprisonment, as a rogue and vagabond, was brought up at the Mansion-house, London, on Tuesday week, on a charge of swindling a hotel-keeper, by contracting hotel debts, without any means of paying them. He had re ferred the proprietor to a banker, who said he was a great blackguard. For some time past he has been going about London, hiring apartments at the various hotels, and living (himself and family) in a sumptuous manner. The Magistrate said he should remand the prisoner, for the purpose of giving an opportunity to others of coming forward and identifying him. NEWS OF THE EXPEDITION IN SEARCH OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN.—The following is a copy of a letter picked up by the barque Prince of Wales, which arrived here this morning, in lat. 68.10 N. and lon. 64.30 W. on October 2d, 1848:—" Her Majesty's ships Investigator and Enter prise cleared the main pack, in Mejville's Bay, on the 20th August, and after examining Pond's Bay, on the 23d, passed on to the northward, in search of the expedition under Capt. Sir John Franklin. The cask which contains this paper was thrown from H.M. ship Investigator, on the 28th of August, 1848, in lat. 73.50 N. and lon. 78.6.30 W. ; all well. Enterprise in company. Whoever may find this paper is requested to forward it to the secretary of the Admiralty, London, with a note of the date, lati tude, and longitude, in which it was found. EDWD. BIRD, Captain."—Hull Packet. ABUNDANCE OF MONEY IN LONDON.—The old collo quial proverb, that " all is not gold that glitters," was never more strongly verified than at the present moment, for never was the country, as a trading community, in a poorer state, and never was there .a larger accumulation of gold, silver, and money of all denominations, in the various banking-houses of the capital. Like Midas in the ancient Greek poets, we are starving amongst the gold heaps lying at our feet ; and experience, a'much more intelligible master than any system whatever of political economy, has at length taught us the hard but salutary lesson, that it is not gold and silver, but active and pros perous industry, always in motion, but always changing its shape, going forth in one form and returning in ano ther—it is this, we say, that makes a nation rich and a people happy.—Bell's Messenger. THE MARQUIS OF WESTMEATH.—A few days ago the Marquis of Westmeath was a passenger on board one of the Chester and Holyhead Railway Company's packets. While on her voyage from Kingstown to Holyhead, and when approaching her destination, his lordship called the attention of the crew to an object at some distance in the water, which he thought resembled a human form. The captain at once ordered the coxswain to steer in tha direc tion indicated, when it was discovered that a sailor, nearly exhausted with cold and fatigue, was still clinging to a spar. A boat was lowered from the steamer, and the man was saved. The poor fellow had been washed overboard from an inward bound brig, the master of which must have supposed him lost. A tolerably round sum of money was subscribed for the sailor, so fortunately saved from a watery grave. ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION AND SUICIDE.—An in vestigation has taken place before the magistrates of Ross, Hereford, elucidating the following facts :—A discharged servant, named Samuel Garras, occasionally lodged in the Full Moon public-house, which he had been forced to leave by the landlady, Mrs. Phillips, who conceived a dislike to him on account of his leaving his wife and two children in distressed circumstances a few miles from the town. He subsequently, however, went there and de manded a pint of beer on credit, which was refused. On the last occasion she told him he was drunk, and that he only came there to annoy her, upon which he pulled a pistol from his pocket, and fired it at her. She fell to the ground, and it was thought she was wounded; but, how ever, the ball had missed her. He then discharged a second pistol in his mouth. The ball passed horizontally along the roof of the mouth, and lodged in the back of the neck. He was removed, under the care of the police, and the latest accounts announce him to be still living. BOWEL AND LIVER COMPLAINTS CURED BY HOL LOWAY'S PILLS.—A person of the name of J - 4 -Butter, of Uckfield, Sussex. belonging to her y's service, was four years in Barbadoes, whe 'suffered severely with a disordered state of the bo 6; ending in dysentery ; at last his liver and stoma ecame much disordered, and his health was alto er very bad. He received every attention from e military medical gentlemen in Barbadoes ; but y e continued so ill, that his recovery was considered ry doubtful. Failing to get relief from the usual t meat, he commenced taking Holloway's Pills, wh' completely cured the liver complaint, and induce perfect action of the bowels. Tits POOR LAW.—Mr. Charles Buller, chairman of the Poor Law Board, has addressed a circular to boards of guardians and others, on the great increase of casual paupers and tramps, and by way of a check (! ! !) on im position, recommends the issue of a certificate, specifying that so and so, with a wife and so many children, as the case may be, are deserving characters, reduced by such and such a calamity, the production of such a certificate entitling the holder to the best quarters in the workhouse, and the best cheer the larder affords ! Is the Honourable Gentleman aware that the forgery of certificates of this nature is a regular trade, and that thousands of impostors are traversing the country with them in all directions ? LOUIS PTIILIPPE AND HIS FAMILY.—The .Assemblie Nationale has a letter from London, stating that some days ago the members of the ex-Royal family of France narrowly escaped being poisoned. All of them were si multaneously attacked after dinner with acute pains, and the ex-Duke de Nemours having drunk nothing but et glass of water, the few drops that remained were analysed, and found to contain a strong dose of very virulent poison, produced by the decomposition of the copper of the con duit-pipes and reservoirs by which Claremont-house is supplied. The medical treatment of Dr. Clarke soon neutralized the effects of the poison, and restored the sufferers to health. BUILDING HOUSES FOR BURNING.—On examining into the causes of the rapidity of the spread of the flames in London houses when on fire, it will almost invariably be found that, whatever may have occasioned the fire to break out, the rapidity of its progress has been in pro portion to the greater or less extent of the lath and. plaster partitions, the hollow wooden floors, and the wooden staircases. Were the occupiers of houses suffi ciently aware of the danger from lath and plaster parti tions, especially when they enclose staircases, they would never occupy such houses, or, if they did, they would not give such rents for them as they would for houses with brick nogging partitions. Again and again we protest against the absurdity of constructing buildings as if for the express purpose of readily burning, and urge, on the other hand, the importance of adopting every practicable precaution to render them fire-proof, and the sin against society which the neglect of these precautions involves.— The Builder. VAGARIES OF Drtuerse.nris.—On Saturday night three labourers, of the parish of Fordham, who had been drink ing at a public-house in Great Tey, were met by police man Butcher on quite a contrary road to that leading to their homes, and were by him directed aright. Very soon, however, they again lost their path •, and on the return of the same officer at three o'clock the following morning, one was discovered fast asleep in a ditch, and at a short distance was a second standing up to his knees in a pool of water, and also in a heavy slumber. The third could not be found for a considerable time ; and as his clothes were discovered on the farm of Mr. Pettitt, at Aldham, fears began to be entertained that he was d rowne d, an d one or two ponds were dragged accordingly ' • but lie was at length disco v e re d on th e Fordham road, safe and sound, but quike naked, with the exception of his shirt, having, as he afterwards stated, undressed himself with the idea that he was at home and going to bed, but which he found to consist only of a ditch of water ! Although they were all lucky enough to escape accident or injury, it is hoped they sustained sufficient inconvenience to deter them from intoxication in future.—. Essex Standard. LORD BROUGHAM AT BROUGH.—Lord Brougham and Vaux, who, during his forensic career, has extricated himself from many a difficulty, and emerged unscathed from many a thorny labyrinth, was fairly in a " fix" a short time ago, at Brough. The noble lord, wishing to proceed from Brougham Hall to Raby Castle, and know ing that the coach from Penrith only ran as far as Brough, had ordered a note to be dispatched to the "head inn" at that place, to order a chaise and pair to be ready on his arrival to convey him forward. The note was delivered to the Castle inn, but the officials at that place, elated with their distinguished visitor in prospectu, had spread the news through all the village, and coming to the ears of the landlord of the White Swan, he was deter Mined to contend for the honour of receiving the noble guest. A. short time previous to the arrival of the coach, the inhabitants of Brough watched with some degree of inte rest the preparations made by the two inns. Each I brought out its chaise, and the domestics belonging to I each bustled about with great agility. No sooner had the coach stopped than a landlord flanked each side, and both endeavoured, by persuasive eloquence, to induce his lord ship to visit their respective inns, and place his person in the conveyances they had prepared for him. His lordship was almost transfixed to his seat by this unexpected at tack, and was heard to mutter something like `• Whatever must I do between these two men !" At last, Mr. Magee, of the Swan, put a period to the conflict by re ferring to a point which affected the loyal feelings of his lordship. " You know, my lord, ours is the queen's inn." Then, most assuredly, yours is the head inn," and Lord Brougham bolted into the p arlour of the Swan, leaving the discomfited opponent of Mr. Magee in the street.—Correspondent of Kendal Advertiser. Scnooe GARDENS.—In the Midland Florist for Oc. is an account of an admirable plan for promoting the love of industry in boys, which we should likd to aee adopted in this and every other town. "In the immediate neigh bourhood of Nottingham are an immense number of small gardens, occupied and cultivated by all grades of society ; and, with a most laudable and praiseworthy feeling, the friends connected with the High-pavement Chapel Boys' Sunday School have purchased two of these inclosures, in each of which is a commodious summer-house. One of the gardens is cultivated by the elder boys, the other by the juniors. Each garden is sub-divided into smaller allotments, which are assigned to their respective tenants, boys from ten to fourteen years' old, who cultivate and crop them according to their own fancy, a small portion of each being devoted to flowers, The diligence and ability displayed by these youthful gardeners is really astonishing. We have inspected their crops during several past summers, and with truth can say we were highly de lighted with them. The onions, lettuce, celery, carrots, potatoes, &c., were excellent, and would vie with the pro ductions of older and more experienced cultivators. Prize gooseberries are also grown. In fact, these boys always endeavour to obtain, either of seeds or plants, the best varieties possible. In connexion with these gardens, and to excite emulation, a vegetable and flower show is in. stituted. This is held in the school-rooms, at Notting-. ham, and prizes are given for the best productions in vegetables, as well as for stands of pansies, verbenas, collections of annual and perennial flowers and nosegays, or bouquets as they are called by some, but we fancy our readers will like the old English name best. These ex hibitions of youthful skill and industry are well attended." Should any of our readers wish for a copy of the rules by which these school gardens are managed, they are to be found in the above publication.—Lancaster Guardian. SINGULAR DISCOVERY AT WHITEHAVEN.—A short time since. two human skeletons wergdiscovered by some railway labourers, near Braystones, not far from the sea shore, but they were missed again in a few hours after wards, which gave rise to the supposition that they had been aolen. It appears, however, that they had been only temporarily concealed by some workmen, about twenty yards from the spot where they were first found. An inquest has been duly held before Mr. W. Lamb, coroner. The bodies were evidently those of two very tall and powerful young men. By some it is conjectured that the bodies were those of shipwrecked mariners cast ashore, and covered over by the drifting of the sand. Various circumstances, however, have transpired to render this conjecture extremely improbable, if not impossible ; and there is too much reason to believe the bodies had been cast upon the beach, stripped of everything found upon them, and purposely buried to enable the plunderers to remain in undisturbed possession of their ill-gotten booty. It is remembered in the neighbourhood that about 40 years ago a large vessel was wrecked upon the neighbouring coast, when all hands perished, and that all the bodies were afterwards found, with the exception of two—those of the master and mate. Announcements in the local journals at the time speak of the wreck of the Peggy Lawson, of Harrington, the finding of drowned men, a vessel having gone to pieces, and the restoration of such of the cargo as had been saved is promised to the rightful owners. Again, the Irish Linen Company, who had property on board of the Peggy, acknowledged their great obligations for its restoration. These facts, coupled with the circumstance of two bodies having been after wards ascertained to be missing, render it highly probable that the bodies lately found are the two in question. A MAN RESOLVED TO GET MARRIED. — About a month ago the parish clerk of T—, in the neighbourhood of Dum fries, was aroused by a rather smart rap at the door ; and the vistor. on being ushered into the audience chamber, proved to be a stout young Milesian, on, as he soon an nounced, a matrimonial errand. With that mixture of abruptness and courtesy natural to his countrymen, he signified his wish to get the banns of marriage proclaimed —the parties being himself, Lawrence —, and a nice young woman he had courted, Kitty Martin by name. The clerk demurred a little on the ground that the said Kitty had no one to represent her : but the Hiberbian. Ccelebs made short work of the difficulty :—" Isn't Kitty dear and her sister waiting quite convament at the duce, your worship, I'll have them here to speak for themselves in less than no time." In a trice Larry returned with the females, and, from their voluntary statement, it ap peared that the courtship of the loving pair had lasted three weeks, and that the design of the trio was to pro ceed to America, after the nuptial knot was tied, and on receipt of money from a relative of the females residing in the Far West. The interview, which was really an amusing one, was finished by Larry paying the fee for " three day's call," and off the parties went. On three successive Sabbaths the walls of the parish church echoed 'to the matrimonial announcement; and by the fourth, at farthest, people who do not know that " the course of true love never did run smooth," concluded that the courtship of Larry and Kitty would be duly consum mated, and the blessing of the priest pronounced. So at least anticipated the parish clerk, when, on Friday night, after a rap fainter than the first he had given, in walked Mr. Lawrence, evidently bent on business as before. " Sit down, Larry; sit down ; ye'll be waiting for the extract, no doubt, to show to the priest. I hope Kitty and you 'ill do unco wed together." " Augh, bother," was the abrupt - response; " the ould jade put bad blood betwixt Kitty and me, all about the bit 'o money from abroad ; and we're as far apart as if the deep sea had divided us. I must think no more of her; but, by good luck, I've fallen in with another swate little cushla, and if your honour would obleege me, I'll pay for another three shillings worth of calls for her !" The worthy clerk was a good deal astonished, and still more so when his visitor's statement was substantiated by the silent testimony of a blushing maid, whom her amorous swain introduced as the object of his second flame. It was not the part of the clerk to remonstrate—he saw it would be useless —repeated half aloud the old proverb, " He that will to Cupar maun to Cupar"—crooned the tune " It's gude to be off the auld luve before ye be on wi' the new"—and having thus expressively signified his sentiments, entered in his record the names of " the happy pair." Whether Hymen will in this case prove propitious remains to be seen ; but it is to be hoped that Mammon will not, as on the former occasion, interfere with Larry's resolutionto get married.-DumfriaStandard. el: ly, ed ps he nd ,de on ra •tc Of )e -he lie ec eSS te, cer ler di- ul lad at an- her ion i ted had ken ,L.- -- leant is in l an",, rim+ 2 0 20 2 1 29 17