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tional. it and nhc consid( trrature. POE CO TI- MEMORY NOTTCES 'ionary of Scripture Geography, containing Ac ts Illustrative of all the Places mentioned in the New Testaments ; with Chronological and Iles. By John R. Miles. Fourth edition. son, Manchester and Liverpool. sumnaary, or repertory of the sub itle. The meaning of the Hebrew duced first, then a digested account soil, geographical po lucidating the text. It ter devoted to the subject. ler are of the best, but the so as to be accessible to general the climate of Judea, after alluding to its )r mentions its warmth, ,d goes on, " The cold of der than in European eli :ther to the north, but it is aral character of the climate and cold are, however, tern surface ; the winter being 9 in the summer the heat `he contrary, in the more nonths, or rather weeks, sometimes falls, while commonly cool and refreshing. —it either snow or frost; and in - occurs, the sun in the warm, and often hot ; so ..ality but little felt, and the iTs, may enjoy, during several .iore genial and invigorating influ ,s is the ordinary character of the .1 some years the cold is more severely ort time that it prevails, which is never , and more frequently not so much ~ards the end of November, or beginning of domestic fires become agreeable. It was at time that Jehoiakim, King of Judah, is represented is winter house, with a fire burning in the hearth be him. The same luxury, though frequently by no ns necessary, is used by the wealthy till the end of n, the autlic ideed sometimes f) a tea RO asupportable, and on 'equently occur, and two months * * The inhabitants of six several seasons of the ind harvest, cold and heat, grieulture constituted the tics, they adopted the same once to their rural work : the Arabs to this day.— of seasons :y that the work has not been brought down to .cent discoveries of Dr. Wilde, Lord Lindsay, I to the situation of the field of blood—the e Armenians now bury their dead, from their nvent on Mount Zion—it does not appear 'one with it; though tradi- Dr. Wilde read an inte f Physicians in 1839, and an ound in his " Narrative of a Sze.," wherein he stated that ma. The following remarks cription does not correspond . "He had personally exa scovered at Jerusalem, and, in, he was led to believe it to ield of Blood.' purchased with turned by Judas to the Jewish of this tomb was of a mixed archi diment being Grecian, the floral chitrave Hebrew, and the door a horizontal hinges. Inside it of the solid rock, each the thre• sides, in all of I. The skulls which be ad never inhabited that ers' at Jerusalem at this period. The skulls belonged to oubtful rig paper at the College IT to Made Acaldama, or th are and y were of 1, Ethiopian, or the mixed races : two of uthority of Dr. Prichard, were of Turkish rohably a negro of Mozambique. by an Arab of the f Siloe Africa' . ) resent System of Business among ers. By Edward Flower. caring this title has recently been pub perusal of it has left upon our minds a he intelligence and philanthripy of the lan), who here most ably advocates the )keepers' assistants—showing its numer a hostile feeling to the interests of the Joints out remedial measures which, if t in the emancipation of )ably r iru unreasonably long night to themselves morally ue community at large. He general condition of the assistants, ander which their lives are passed; habits of life in a physical, moral, in ; how those effects reach ;y ; the reformation required ,ystem, and elevate the morals community ; and, finally, the means by )roved system may be brought about, and enefits that would arise from an abridgment f business, from fourteen and sixteen, to v. The subject has occupied public at years; and in this town the necessity for .ady been more fully acknowledged than ;hall not, therefore, here enter into de. Tons evils of the present system ; but perusal of the work—from which an • be found elsewhere—to our readers) )alysis of our author's remedial pro f.st term of daily labour to which subject being ten hours, he ell as t classes of societ emove the evils of the d artis a moderate claim on the part of the shop- ers' assistants, that their hours of attendance should duced to that time—terminating not later than seven . The object is merely "to compress the a day into so many consecutive hours as r their due performance ; "—the entire time employed attendance to be devoted to iiritual health of the assistants. The recommends, and which has already le progress in the town, is "to )f the assistants upon the benevolent he public,—showing the evils attendant system of never-ending toil, and the would be likely to attend an altered avouring to prevail upon all classes of their purchases by day, and to abstain my shops after six in the evening. He appeal should be made by advertise public meetings, and handbills widely of public lectures on the icts and, finally, by from blishing " the names of those high-minded take part in the good work of allowing tion and ennobling studies to their depen r quotes from a writer in the Liver stion, that, in order to show the ours with advantage, a leliver ssistants id others, to e of goods in the vari pkeepers, at which the adhered to; and that shares, say 500 of £lO for cash. The success 1, induce others to in our author is inclined differ from him in opi- lad would, in other ; and being in oppo- trades, it is not ers would retain the assistants it service, as they would virtu- in another concern carrying on NEW SONG Vords by Mr. Nantz. Composed 'I: Bold-street. ;ongster or song- compositions that TRY OF A FRIEND THE ORIGINAL ROBINSON CRUSOE Colonel Sutcliffe, " the retired governor of Juan Fer lclez," has recently published a volume, giving an count of that island from its discovery by Don Juan rnandez (after whom it was named), in 1572 ; and to s volume he gives the title of Crusoniana, from the ,t that it was the well-known abode of Alexander ]kirk on this island, which furnished De Foe with the Is of his inimitable romance of Robinson Crusoe. generally known that there was previ- mat( But it is ously to Alexander Selkirk a solitary tenant of this island, and one, too, whose sojourn there, as recorded by Dampier and Ringrosse, must have been known to De Foe, as will be seen from the following extract from Colonel Sutcliffe's hook, in which we trace the original of the story of Man Friday, and his discovery of his father in Robinson Crusoe At the moment of their [a crew of Buccaneers] ried escape [from Juan Fernandez], one of their y, a Mosquito Indian, named William, happened to so that the ship was bay. Poor Will oods hunting goats got - hack to th lad only the clothes on his back, a knife, a gun, a small corn of powder, and a few shot. His situation became till more critical when the Spaniards entered the hay, ook up the anchors and cables, and, having caught sight )f him, made a diligent search ; but he eluded their )ursuit, and remained the sole human occupant of the ropier, in the account which he gives of Will's ' At first he could procure scarcely any which he found hut ordinary eating : I btit seals some other articles he obtained by means of his powder and shot, but these were soon expended. He next made a saw of his knife, by notching it ; and so, by incessant labour, cut the barrel of his gun into small pieces. He kindled a fire by striking with the gun flint against a piece of the barrel. Having heated the pieces of iron, he hammered them out, and bent them just as he pleased with hard stones, and sawed them with his jagged knife. By persevering industry, he ground them to an edge and hardened them to a good temper, as there w as oc casion and thus he procured harpoons, lances, fish hooks, and a long knife.' All this may seem strange to those who are unacquainted with the sagacity of the Indians; but it i., no more than the. Mosquito men are accustomed to in their own country, where they make and striking instruments without either forge or anvil, though they spend a great deal of time about them. Having obtained these conveniences, he no longer lived upon seals, nor did he afterwards ever kill any, except when he wanted lines, which he made heir ow•n fishin by cutting the seal-skins into thongs. He had now a plentiful and comfortable subsistence, living upon goats, birds, or fish, as best suited his inclination ; his clothes wore out, but he supplied their place by fastening a skin round his waist; he built himself a little house or hut, about half a mile from the sea, which he lined with goat skins. To render it complete, his couch of sticks, raised . about two feet distance from the ground, was spread with the same, and constituted his only bedding. Du ring the period of William's residence on the island, he was often sought for by the Spaniards ; and at one time, being guided by the light of his fire, they nearly sur prised him. This escape, and his having frustrated, by his activity and wiles, all their endeavours to take him, made his pursuers consider him to be a supernatural being. Will could easily distinguish his friends from the Spaniards, by the rigging and appearance of their vessels and boats ; and, on two English ships making their appearance, he almost went frantic with joy, sup posing they came on purpose to fetch him away—of such consequence is a man to himself. In order to give them a hearty welcome, he caught and killed three goats, and dressed them with the chonta' (cabbage palm), that he might be ready to treat the crews as soon as they came on shore. On their landing, he was recognised by a Mosquito Indian, named Robin, who was the first that leaped on shore. Will bad stationed himself at the sea side, dressed in his goat-skin, to congratulate them on their arrival. The meeting of the two Indians, and old friends, was affecting. Dampier gives the following de scription of the scene he witnessed Robin ran to his brother Mosquito-man, threw himself flat upon his face at his feet—who, helping him up and embracing him, fell flat with his face on the ground at Robin's feet, and was by him taken up also. We stood with pleasure to behold this interview, which was exceedingly affection ate on both sides ; and when their ceremonies of civility aso, that stood gazing at them, drew were over. WE E ach of us embraced him we had found there, who was overjoyed to see so many of his old friends come hither, as he thought, purposely to fetch him.' Dampier and Edmund Cook were his firmer shipmates. The latter was now only a private seaman ; and Will found, that although his - friends had not made so long a voyage merely on his account, they proved themselves not unmindful of him ; for, as soon as they had anchored, they immediately got out their boat on purpose to send for him -- They stayed, to refit and refresh themselves, from the 23d of March to the Bth of April, 1684. Will was very useful in procuring goats, of which there was an abundance on the island ; and, after having resided there alone for three years, two months, and eleven days, he embarked with his former friends, to renew the avocation of a Buccaneer." SELECTIONS FAQUEERS AT AN INDIAN FAlR.—Several faqueers were to he seen walking through the fair, with one of their arms immovably fixed over their heads, and their finger nails a couple of inches long, and resembling horns. One of them carried a little light red parasol over his head, with his remaining hand, to protect his holiness from the rays of the sun ! All these men seemed in the prime of life; their arms were mnch withered and shrunk, and even some of their fingers had disappeared—probably from ulceration. Amongst them one sat preminent. This man's age was probably thirty ; his countenance was a most superb one, at once graceful and dignified. His air, while sitting on a tiger's skin, under his chatta or umbrella was perfectly majestic. One of his arms, per fectly shrivelled, was extended to the sky, thoroughly fixed arid immoveable. The nails of his fingers,, having pierced the palm, appeared to protrude a couple of inches. His thumb nail, of a dirty dark brown colour, was curved like a half-moon, about half an inch wide, and at least six inches long, s'rongly resembling the tusk of a wild boar. His plaited hair, full six feet long, was wound round his head, and worn as a turban. Here and there were to be seen groups of three or four men and boys, marked with tridents of white clay on their foreheads, ' chanting songs in praise of the river God Gunga, Krish noo, or other deities.—Davidson's Travels. CABRERA.—This remarkable partisan may still be called a young man; he is not more than thirty-nine years old. In appearance, Cabrera is about the middle stature, ra ther slight, and not ungracefully formed. To a stranger, his countenance is not indicative of the ferocity which has made him so remarkable even amongst the sanguinary leaders of the Carlist bands ; and his demeancur, when not under the influence of intense excitement, is mild and gentle. Even when affected by some overwhelming feel ing, his external manner betrays little of the tempest which rages within : it is not boisterous nor loud, but rather that of deep, calm, concentrated, yet deadly determina tion. On one occasion only it is recorded that this habi tual calmness completely abandoned him. This monster, who is not. redeemed by another virtue, wept like an in fant snatched from the bosom when the tiding's of his mother's death reached him. He loved her much ; and her murder turned to gall whatever little of earthly feel ing made his heart still human. He shut himself up in his apartment during two days, without admitting an in dividual, with the exception of one favoured servant, a re lative it is said, to witness the agony of grief to which he abandoned himself, and which almost deprived him of consciousness. How bitterly he avenged his ill-fated pa rent need not be told.—Mirror. NATURALISTS IN PRlSON.—Perhaps to none can im prisonment prove more irksome than to those whose delight has been in exploring mountain, wood, and field. Yet two naturalists, who were confined together in the King's Bench prison, contrived to pass their time somewhat agreeably in philosophic investigations. One, the son of an eminent ornithologist, employed his leisure in perform ing chemical experiments, and became a firm believer in alchemy, although he failed to produce gold enough to effect his liberation. Fancy-work carpentry was a favour ite occupation with him ; and his ingenuity was also dis played in converting watch keys into duelling pistols for fleas to settle their affairs of honour. The other prisoner had once possessed a very extensive and valuable museum, which was dispersed on the eve of his difficulties. Sixteen years he dwelt within that prison's high and dingy walls, never going beyond them for a moment, yet he was ever full of etomological enthusiasm and worldly hope, always fondly deceiving himself that in a few more weeks his case in chancery would terminate in his favour, effecting the-thy the replenishment of his purse, and his immediate libera tion. Year after year rolled over him, snatching away the bloom from his cheeks, and sprinkling his hair with grey, yet this one hope never abandoned him. " A few weeks more," he would say, " and I will be rambling once again on my native mountains in Wales. Look here at the prime nets I have just contrived for collecting specimens when I leave this place." In his window sill he raised , luxuriant sweet peas, nasturtiums, and other pretty climb- Then he had, as company, some choice a ins, singular cross-breeds of white, brown, and tor toiseshell mice, and many caterpillars, ose transforma tions were a great source of amusement to him. His reading was chiefly confined to the scientific magazines, which were his newspapers ; for the record of some natu ralist having caught some rare insect, or a new species, at such and such a place, was to him the most important of all intelligence then stirring in the world. The capture of the rare wood-leopard-moth. one of the many insects he had succeeded in alluring to his window by means of a bait of new honey warmed, constituted the grand incident in his life of long imprisonment. These amusements ing plant ing culinary or conservative art, in which he was greatly en ccuraud by his fellow prisoners, w ho hi g hly appl a uded `' , yea in inventing new so He was at once the Linr .s and the e. In one resoec captives we I had occasion to d, all p s heath EASY SHAVING.—He happened to have been sharpen ing his razors, which were lying open in a row, while a huge strop dangled from the wall. Glancing at these preparations, Mr. Bailey stroked his chin, and a thought appeared to occur to him. " Poll," he said, " I ain't as neat as I could wish about the gills. Being here, I may as well have a shave, and get trimmed close." The bar ber stood aghast; but Mr. Bailey divested himself of his neckcloth, and set down in the easy shaving chair with all the dignity and confidence in life. There was no resisting his manner. The evidence of sight and touch became as nothing. His chin was as smooth as a new-laid egg or a scraped Dutch cheese; but Poll Sweedlepipe wouldn't have ventured to deny, on affidavit, that he had the beard of a Jewish rabbi. "Go with the grain, Poll, all round, please," said Mr. Bailey, screwing up his face for the re ception of the lather. You may do wot you like with the bits of whisker. I don't care for 'em." The meek little barber stood gazing at him with the brush and soap-dish in his hand, stirring them round and round in a ludicrous uncertainty, as if he were disabled by some fascination from beginning. At last he made a lash at Mr. Bailey's eheek. Then be stopped again, as if the ghost of a beard had suddenly receded from his touch but receiving mild encouragement from Mr. Bailey, in the form of an adju ration to •` go in and and win," he lathered him bounti fully. Mr. Bailey smiled through the suds in his satis faction. " Gently over the stones, Poll. Go a tip-toe over the pimples ? " Poll Sweedlepipe obeyed, and scraped the lather off again with particular care. Mr. Bailey squinted at every successive dab, as it was deposit ed on a cloth on his left shoulder, and seemed with a mi croscopic eye to detect some bristles in it; for he mur mured more than once, " Reether redder than I could wish, Poll." The operation being concluded, Poll fell back and stared at him again, while Mr. Bailey, wiping his face on the jack-towel, remarked, "that arter late hours nothing freshened up a man so much as an easy shave."—Martin Chuzzlewit. PENNSYLVANIA.—If I were an American of any of the honest states, I would never rest till I had compelled Pennsylvania to be as honest as myself. The bad faith of that state brings discredit on all; just as common snakes are killed because vipers are dangerous. I have a general feeling that by that breed of men I have been robbed and ruined, and I shudder and keep aloof. The pecuniary credit of every state is affected by Pennsylvania. Ohio pays; but with such a bold bankruptcy before their eyes, how long will Ohio pay ? The truth is, that the eyes of all capitalists are averted from the United States. The finest commercial understandings will have nothing to do with them. Men rigidly just, who penetrate boldly into the dealings of nations, and work with vigour and virtue for honourable wealth—great and high-minded merchants will loathe, and are now loathing, the name of America ; it is becoming, since its fall, the common-shore of Eu rope, and the native home of the needy villain. And now, drab-coloured men of Pennsylvania, there is yet a mo ment left—the eyes of all Europe are anchored upon you— " Surrexit mundus justis furiis ;" start up from that trance of dishonesty into which you are plunged; don't think of the flesh which walls about your life, but of that sin which has hurled you from the heaven of character, which hangs over you like a devour ing pestilence, and makes good men sad, and ruffians dance and sing. It is not for gin sling alone and sherry cobbler that man is to live ; but for those great principles against which no argument can be listened to—principles which give to every power a double power above their functions and their offices, which are the books, the arts, the academies that teach, lift up, and nourish the world— principles (1 am quite serious in what I say) above cash, superior to cotton, higher than currency—principles, without which it is better to die than live, which every servant of God, over every sea and in all lands, should cherish. Uses ad abdita spiramenta animce. LAFAYETTB AND LOUIS PHILIPPE • —That was a hap py moment for Louis Philippe when Lafayette sent in his resignation of the post of commander-in-chief of the National Guards of the kingdom, a post which ought never to have been confided to any one but a king's son. That Louis Philippe was personally attached to Lafayette is certain ; that he felt that, on several occasions, he had rendered signal services to the cause of public order and peace is undoubted; and that his admirable tact in main taining the peace of Paris during the trial of Prince Pol ignac and his colleagues was entitled to the gratitude of the nation, the king was the first to assert. But Lafay ette was a dead weight on the pacific policy of Louis Philippe. It was known to, and felt by Europe, that the old general had too much influence at court, th • ,a,ll re volutionary agents over the whole world looke p to him for advice and aid, that he was peculiarly obnoxious to all foreign courts, and that his removal from so impor tant a post as that of commander-in-chief of all the mili tia of France, was earnestly desired. His resignation, then, was an immense good; and much as the king loved him as a man and a friend, his retirement from office was a boon which none could estimate better than the king himself. But although the loss of Lafayette was a posi tive good, the event necessarily led to increased hostility to the government of the king on the part of the men of the movement faction ; and Lafayette, Dupont de l'Eure, Lamarque, Lameth, and Audry de Puyraveau, openly headed the malcontents. That fact in itself led the popu lace to rebel. They attacked the church of St. Germain l'Auxerrois, and nearly destroyed it ; sacked the arch bishop's palace ; insulted the ministers of religion ; and, at length, the voice of Guizot was heard at the tribune denouncing the Lafayette ministry for its mischievous and ruinous policy. Now began that series of &mutes, in surrections, conspiracies, and plots against the king, the royal family, and the government, which lasted during many years, but which Louis Philippe has, apparently, finally succeeded in subduing, by a constant perseverance in his policy of peace abroad and obedience to the laws at home.—Fraser's Magazine. WHY CERTAU OLD PEOPLE, WHO HAVE NOTHING TO DO, ARE EARLY RISERS.—What a blessing should sleep be to that class of beings who do nothing when awake; how they should covet those drowsy hours that give, as it were, a sanction to indolence ; with what anx iety they ought to await the fall of day, as announcing the period when they become the equals of their fellow men ; and with what terror they should look forward to the time when the busy world is up and stirring, and their incapa city and slothfulness only become more glaring from con trast. Would not any one say, that such people would naturally cultivate sleep as their comforter ? Should they not hug their pillow as the friend of their bosom ? On the contrary, these are invariably your early risers ; every house where I have been on a visit has had, at least, one of these troubled and troublesome spirits—the torment of boots ; the horror of housemaids. Their chronic cough forms a duet with the inharmonious crowing of the young cock, who, for lack of better knowledge, proclaims day a full hour before his time. Their creaking shoes are the accompaniment to the scrubbing of brass fenders and the twigging of carpets, the jarring sounds of opening shut ters, and the cranking discord of a hall-door chain ; their heavy step sounds like a night-mare's tread, through the whole sleeping house ; and what is the object of all this ? What new fact have they acquired ? what difficult ques tion have they solved ? whom have they made happier, or wiser, or better? Not Betty, the cook, certainly, whose morning levee of beggars they have most unceremoniously scattered and scared ; not Mary, the housemaid, who, unacustomed to be caught in dishabille, is cross the whole day after, though he was " only an elderly gentleman, and wore spectacles ;" not Richard, who cleaned their shoes by candle light ; nor the venerable butler, who, from shame sake, is up and dressed, and who, still asleep, stands with his corkscrew in his hand, under the vague impression that it is a late supper party. These people, too, have always a consequential, self- satisfied look about them ; they seem to say, as though they knew a " thing or two" others had not not of; although the day, more confidential when few were by, told them some capital se. crets the sleepers never heard of; and they made this pestilential habit a reason for eating the breakfast of a Cossack, as if the consumption of victuals was a cardinal virtue.—Civilized differs from savage life, as winch as the lation of time as by any other feature. I see no ob man, who, probably, can't go to break ')ut the hones the peace SIZE OF TREES.—Our native woods often contain noble ELECTRICITY OF A HUMAN BODY.—The most remark specimens of which the bulk is ten or twelve feet in dia-, able case of the production of electricity in the human meter, a width greater by three feet than the carriage• being at present on record, is one lately related on excel way in Fetterdane. near Temple-bar; and oaks might be lent authority in America. The subject of it, a lady, was named on the block of which two men could thresh with- for many months in an electric state so different from that out one incommoding the other. The famous Green- of surrounding bodies, that whenever she was but slightly dole oak is pierced by a road, over which it forms a tri- insulated by a carpet or other feebly couducting medium, umphal arch, higher by several inches than the poet's sparks passed between her person and any object which postern at 'Westminster Abbey. The celebrated table at she approached. From the pain which accompanied the Dudley Castle, which is formed of a single oaken plank, passage of the sparks, her condition was a source of much is longer than the woo d en b r id ge th a t crosses t h e l a k e i n di scom f ort to her; when most favourably circumstanced, Regent's Park, and the roof of the great hall at West- four sparks per minute would pass from her finger to the minster, which is spoken of with admiration on account brass ball of a stove at a distance of an inch and a half. of its vast span, being unsupported by a single pillar, is The circumstances which appeared most favourable to the little more than one-third the width of the noble canopy production of electricity were an atmosphere about ten of waving branches that are upheld by the Worksop oak. degrees, tranquility of mind and social enjoyment ; while The massive rafters of the spacious reof rest on strong a low temperature and depressing emotions diminished it walls, but the branches of the tree spring from one corn- in a corresponding degree. The phenomena was first no mon centre. Architects can alone estimate the excessive ticed during the occurrence of a vivid aurora borealis ; purchase which boughs of at least 189 feet must have on and though its first appearance was sudden its departure the trunk into which they are inserted. Those on the was gradual. Various experiments were made, with the oak of Ellerslie cover a scotch acre of ground ; and in view of ascertaining if the electricity was produced by the the Three-shire oak its branches drip over an extent of fricfion of articles of dress ; but no change in these seemed 707 square yards. The tree itself grows in a nook that is to modify its intensity.—Popular Encyclopedia. of Na formed by the junction of the three counties of York, Not- tural Science, tingham, and Derby.—Ruins and Old Trees. HABITS OF EMINENT AUTHORS.—SheIIey usually ate RUINS OF INDIAN GREATNESS.—The surplus wealth a baked potatoe previously to sitting down to write. He of India, that used to be employed in building extensive has been heard to say that some of his finest ideas came towns, crowded ghauts, magnificent stone or brick seraees, while putting in the butter. Whether he purchased his some of them capable of containing from six to eight potatoes in the street, or had them dressed at home, does thousand people; enormous massive bridges, splendid not appear. Fielding wrote the whole of Tom Jones in mosques and temples ; is all gone ; it has disappeared one night, after a debauch with Hogarth, and sold it the entirely. All the towns in India, with a very few excep- next morning to procure him a meal. Such is the fate of tions, are in ruins. Delhi is surrounded by ruins. Agra, genius! Kirk White was much admired for his red hair, Booranpore, Aurungabad, have immense suberbs in ruins, which he allowed to grow down his back in two plaits. He The Deckan is a heap of ruins. Many towns in Central never would suffer any allusion to be made to it ; but when India that had their hunnreds of thousands of inhabit- writing used it as blotting paper. On this account all his ants are now literally without one, and are swarming with MS. works are translated in red ink, as may be seen in leopards, tigers, elks, and buffaloes. In deep forests you the library of the British Museum. Cuvier always wrote stumble upon Hindoo temples, Mohmmudan gateways, with a pail of water at his side, i n w hi c h h e a lt erna t e l y stone tanks eight hundred yards square, brick wells of dipped his head and feet to freshen his ideas. He has large dimensions ; scores of acres of burying-grounds. been known to do this upwards of sixty times in one night and all the other concomitants, and proofs of wealth, and when preparing his Regne Animal. It was his boast that power, and population. Malthus would never have writ- he had never been up in a balloon. Dr. Johnson could ten his too celebrated work, nor Godwin ever written his never see a post without jumping over it. Boswell re too little valued answers, had the y been in India. ludic i marking upon its puerility, Johnson observed, " Sir, what is a large forest, with agr many cultivated spots. a boy does in sport, a man may do in earnest." Upon India—l say it after due consideration—could contain which Boswell replied, "Then you mean to say that I and support five times its present population with ease ; I might play at chuck-farthing ?" " Sir," returned John and yet it is unquestionably the poorest country in the son, "any man might, if he had a farthing to chuck." known world. To the state of the wealth and resources WE MUST HAVE A KING.—The cannon had ceased of the original Hindoo monarchs imagination can assign to roar; the still bleeding victims of revolutionary fur) no limits. The more I think on the subject, the more I had been collected together in the hospitals; the dead am confounded.—Davidson's Travels in India. had been hastily interred in large but shallow graves, dug near the Louvre, the Marche des Innocens, and the Champ de Mars; the tocsin no longer rang its hear-sick ening sounds in the ears of the Parisian population - the soldiers bivouacked in the public streets a n d pl aces o f the metropolis ; boys and girls recounted some of the marvels of valour and some of the deeds of peril and courage they themselves, or their comrades, had accomplished ; a pro visional government had installed itself at the Heitz' de Ville; the paving -stones still stood in shapeless heaps, and, dignified with the name of " baricades " were the favourite lounging spots of the "Fl aneurs " o f Paris ; the warehouses were yet closed, the manufactories were still deserted, the public schools and colleges were as empty as a new-made tomb ; the palaces were yet open to the heavy and unceremonious tread of the populace ; the pop ulace; the public buildings were guarded by self-armed, self-elected, civic forces ; and Lafayette was hesitating, both with regard to his own position, and with relation to that of the Orlean's family, when suddenly a voice was heard every where, proceeding from every quarter, though uttering different tones, and that one voice said, " WE MUST HAVE A KING ! " It may be asked from whom did that voice proceed ? My answer is, from nearly every one. I was an eye-witness of all that passed; I mixed with all ranks and classes. No event of the slightest im portance escaped my observation and enquiries. I saw the peers, the deputies, and even the marshal's, the gen erals. and the officers, of all grades and degrees, who knew not, on the field of battle what fear meant, now trembling with anxiety and apprehension at the probable consequences of the victory of the populace, and all pro claiming in the most decisive manner, though fluctuating between hope and fear, that they must have a king !- Fraser's Magazine. BRITISH COLONIZATION.—The colonizing genius of the British people appears upon a grand scale in Austra lia, Canada, and, as we may remind the else forgetful world, in the United States of America ; which States are our children, prosper by our blood, and have ascended to an overshadowing altitude from an infancy tended by our selves. But on the fields of India it is, that our aptitudes for colonization have displayed themselves most illus triously, because they were strengthened by violent re sistance. We found many kingdoms established, and to these we have given unity ; and in process of doing so, by the necessities of the general welfare, or the mere instincts of self-preservation, we have transformed them to an em pire, rising like an exhalation, of our own—a mighty mo nument of our own superior civilization. Ceylon, as a virtual dependency of India, ranks in the same category. There also we have prospered by resistance ; there also we have succeeded memorably where other nations memo rably failed. Of Ceylon, therefore, now rising annually into importance, let us now (on occasion of this splendid book, the work of one officially connected with the island, bound to it also by affectionate ties of services rendered, not less than of unmerited persecutions suffered) offer a brief, but rememberable account; of Ceylon in itself, and of Ceylon in its relations, historical or economic, to our selves. Mr. Bennett says of it, with more and (less of doubt, three things—of which any one would be sufficient to detain a reader's attention ; viz., 1. That it is the Ta probane of the Romans ; 2. That it was, or has been thought to be, the Paradise of Scripture ; 3. That , :it is " the most magnificent of the British insular possessions," or in yet wider language, that it is an " incomparable co lony. This last count in the pretensions of Ceylon is quite indisputable; Ceylon is in fact already, Ceylon is at this moment, a gorgeous jewel in the imperial crown ; and yet, compared with what it may be, with what it will be, with what it ought to be, Ceylon is but that grain of mus tard-seed which hereafter is destined to become the stately tree, where the fowls of heaven will lodge for ge nerations. Great are the promises of Ceylon ; great al ready her performances. Great are the possessions of Ceylon ; far greater her reversions. Rich she is by her developments, richer by her endowments. She combines the luxury of the tropics with the sterner gifts of our own climate. She is hot ; she is cold. She is civilzed ; she is barbarous. She has the resources of the rich ; and she has the energies of the poor.—Blackwood's Magazine. A LORD MAYOR'S DINNER DESCRIBED BY AN ORIENTAL.—At length dinner was announced : and all rose, and led by thequeen of the city, (the lady mayoress,) withdrew to another room, where the table was laid out in the most costly manner, being loaded with dishes, principally of silver and gold, and covered with sar-poshes (lids or covers), some of which were of immense size, like little boats. When the servants removed the sar.poshes, fishes and soup of every sort were presented to view : some of the former, I was told, brought as rarities from distant seas, and at great expense. Before every man of rank there was an immense dish, which it is his duty to cut up and distribute, putting on each plate about suffi cient for a baby to eat. I turned to a friend, and en quired why the guests were helped so sparingly? "It is customary," said he, " to serve guests in this way." " But why not give them enough ?" rejoined I. " You will soon see," zeplied he, " that they will all have enough." Soon after, all the dishes, spoons, &c., were removed by the servants. I thought the dinner was over, and was preparing to go, not a little astonished at such scanty hospitality, when other dishes were brought in, filled with choice viands of every kind—bears from Russia and Germany—hogs from Ireland—fowls and geese from France—turtle from the Mediterranean (?) venison from the parks of the nobility—some in joints, some quite whole, with their limbs and feet entire. Operations now recommenced, the carvers doling out the same small quantities as before : but though many of the gentlemen present were anxious to prevail on me to partake, and re commended particular dishes, one as being " a favourite of the King - of the French" another as particularly rare and exquisite, I could not be prevailed upon to partake of any. Thus did innumerable dishes pour in and disappear again, the servants constantly changing the plates of the guests : till I began to form quite a different idea of the appetites of the guests and the hospitality of the Lord Mayor, on which 1 had thought that a reflection was thrown by the small portions sent to them. I now saw that many of them, besides being served pretty often, helped themselves freely to the dishes before them—in deed, their appetite was wonderfully good : some, doubt less, thinking that such an opportunity would not often recur. Nor did they forget the juice of the grape—the bottles which were opened would have filled a ship, and the noise of the champagne completely drowned the mu sic. One would have thought, after all this, no men could eat more : but now the fruits, sweetmeats, ices, and jel lies made their appearance ; pine-apples, grapes, oranges, apples, pears, mulberries, and confectionaries of such such strange shapes that I can give no name to them— and before each guest were placed small plates, with pecu liarly shaped knives of gold and silver. Of this part of the banquet I had the pleasure of partaking, in common with the selfsame gentlemen who had done such honour to the thousand dishes above mentioned, and who now distin guished themselves in the same manner on the dessert. The price of some of the fruit was almost incredible; the reason of which is, that in this country it can only be reared in glass-houses artificially heated . . . . thus the pine -apples, which are by no means fine, cost each twenty rupees, (X 2.) which in India would be bought for two pice—thus being 610 times dearer than in our country. Thus in England the poorer classes cannot afford to eat fruit, whereas in all other countries they can get fruit when grain is too dear. The guests continued at table till late, during which time several gentlemen rose and spoke : but, from my imperfect knowledge of the lan guage, I could not comprehend their purports beyond the compliments which they passed on each other, and the evideut attacks which they made on their political oppo nents. lat last retired with some others to another r6orn, where many of the guests were dancing—coffee and tea were here taken about, just as sherbets are with us in the Mohurrum. I must remark that the servants were gor geously dressed, being covered with gold like the generals of the army ; but the most extraordinary thing about them was, their having their heads covered with ashes, like the Hindoo fakirs—a custom indicative with us of sorrow and repentance. I could hardly help laughing when I looked at them ; but a friend kindly explained to me that, in England, none but the servants of the great are privileged to have ashes strewed on their heads, and that for this distinction their masters actually pay a tax to government ! Is this enjOined by their religion he replied. " Then," said I, " s ther a marl, the el,st " Oh, no!" eligion does ISt, ra- countm UNDER WHAT FLAG? (From the Colonial Gazette.) SECOND EDITION. Standard-office, Eleven o'clock. " Thus spoke the Rover To his gallant crew ; 'Up with the black flag ! Down with the blue !' " It is to be wished that the advocates of the immediate LATEST INTELLIGENCE FltO lw and unconditional equalization of the duties on the sugar of our own colonies, and of Brazil and Cuba, would emu- IRELAND. late the frankness of the Rover; that, if they are bent upon having free scope given to the slave-trader, they would hoist the black flag at once, and let us know with whom we have to deal. We invite them to a frank explanation of their views THE STATE TRIALS FURTHER ATTEMPT AT POSTPONEMEN T• -- were hallo. —not on the necessity of restoring the balance of labour Yesterday afternoon rejoinders in demurrer _ no w( and capital in the West I n di es — no t on th e ques ti on w h e - into the Court of Queen's Bench on behalf of m ther we are morally hound to regulate our dealings with O'Counell and the other moved that the demur rer be at' traversers. foreign nations, with ref erence t o th e i r b e i ng s l ave -h o ld- g "cl be ing or non-slave-holdi ng coun t r i es ; b u t t o th e quest i on sued thing FORDE (attor y. ne for Mr. O'Connell) said „ e „ whether or not Gre a t B r it a i n i s t o p ersevere i n h er thought he should not be called upon to act up on the ' efforts to put an end to th e s l ave -t ra d e ? T ed he th A e joinder till next term. t f t e o ll r e n w er n - g G d en a eral p ot For the best part of half a c e nt ur y h as G rea t Britain, The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said his object was by her diplomacy an d by h er arms,been endeavouring to t o annoy any person, b ut he renewe d hi s aeplicatiera co put down the slave trade. A n i mmense num b er o f valna- Mr. FORDE.—That motion came quite by eu l :P. r , that ble lives have been lost, th e na ti ona l t reasure h as b een them, but still he would suggest to their lordsr_q__tide lavishly expended, t r e a ti es h ave b een con t rac t e d w hi c h th ere were pos iti ve ru l es o f t h e cour t w hich would e' vats , expose us daily to delicate and da ngerous co lli s i ons — a ll them to oppose it. The s t an di ng rule of the court e , be• tern the sam a d 'o put down the slave-trade. Ar e we t o s t o p now , an d itnhatwthhieehdeitmwuersretrakweans. 4e A not be argued Gnerai hdine declare that all this ha s b een d one f or no en d ? A re t h e sides, omitted to give notice; and, people to have been burthened with taxes (E 500,000 is books by which they were bound had not been o'' admitted to have been expended last year for the sup or given to the 1, I. tO Wi fe pression of the slave-trade ; and this is only part of the The ATTORNEY-GENERAL . in • ted on his rip. -- ~s MS bOWI actual expense) ; the domestic hearths of Britain to havepaper boo, the demurrer argued to-morrow. As to the been weeded of their best and bravest; and is the great alluded to by Mr. Forde, they would be ready i n an pare/ . aim for which all these sacrifices have been made to be He trusted, therefore, that the Court would be O ats, he relinquished, in order th a t th e p ro fit s o f th e traders to to delaying those proceedings further. At all ev e d lel the e Cuba and Brazil may be increased ? (the Attorney-General) would be no party to , __, 4 00 It is easy to show that the perpetuation of the slave- and he once more urged the court, as a matter ot De trade must be the inevitable consequence of the imme- fix the argument for to-morrow morning. theCf°vnit diate and unconditional equalisation of the sugar duties. Mr. Justice PErtarre inquired of the Clerk of The slave-trade cannot be put down by the methods hi- what the rule of the court was ? , the paper therto adopted alone, though without them it cannot be The CLERK of the CROWN said, that when , be ba de put down. The civilization of Africa by immigration— books were made up at the expense of one . e.a,r7 . . r . oe edcd_ by bringing out the African into European society —must right to demand that the demurrer should be j a Ilse expense. secondly,th_e !LP: with; but it was otherwise when parties J I go hand in hand with coercion, but coercion must be per-can , the severed in. At present we have sc are d th e s l avers — The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that in th i s et , subjected them to diffic u lti es an d d angers, ren d ere d t h e i r books had been made up at the expense of the Cr. ac( brigandage more precarious—but we have neither dimi- pressly to .avoid giving a pretext for delay. il bea k s • to nished the number o f p ersons nor th e amoun t o f cap i ta l objection, however, to furnish one copy o f the _ a or iit engaged in carrying it on . C ommun i ca ti ons ma d e to us any attorney for the traversers who might be fixed this week from the M a uriti us s h ow th a t th e s l ave -t ra d er or d er to enable them to make a comparison. . a i r ialt is embracing a wider range of operations. The slave Mr. Justice CRAMPTON said that he certain ho of ships which sail from the east coast of Africa, now go understood that where a party pleaded in abatement round by the north of Mauritius, and, when they gain bound to sustain his plea then it was handed decided had zr the main ocean, direct their course to Brazil, or down to Mr. WHITESIDE said that the Court the coast of Persia and Beloochistan, according as the day rule,. and now, in accordance with monsoon serves. Along these coasts they carry on athis Tern] Should they claimed that a demurrer set down In. gainful traffic, and in Goa they are refitted and supplied t not t h r e a r a y r , gue andd until that nti.l the the traversers rse r s wets etTiteitrl e u d l e t o o t , e co : ttu - r i t , i with rice for their negroes at a cheap rate. The slave trade has extended the field of its operations, and if re- that four day rule, in his opinion they were The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, that although n ot e officer pression alone is to be relied on for putting it down, the to it. They were bound by the statement of stated eiiat 1 1, r to annual expenditure of £500,000 must be trebled. on that occasion ; and when the officer no arch" Now, let us give a glance at the machinery of the they were not entitled to what they c laimed t o that slave-trade. The Brazilian slave-trade is in the hands the rule of the court, they should likewise suu i r,, o3 . of the Portuguese settled in the Brazilian ports. The statement, although it happened to be agaius t .n t heta° Brazilian landowners would gladly be rid of slavery and The CHIEF JUSTICE would take ii for graneeu ee. the slave-trade, but they are deeply indebted to the slave- parties would be ready in the morning' __ briefs , ' traders. The bulk of the landowner's income flows into Mr. WHITESIDE.—My lord, we have got no .., re thew the slaver's coffers for slaves sold upon credit.. Every possibly prCP.' ,d o 0 0. Mr. FORDE said they could not poss . Lt t o ~, to-night. They would have to sit up all nigu i. out ye; additional facility given to the vent of Brazilian sugar in (Laughter.) There was not a single brief oar'. 00' this country—every diminution of the duties on it and The CHIEF JUSTICE.—That may be, but it is and i t extension of its sale—would put money into the pockets n oti,?e t i 00. ther your own fault. You got four days' of the slave-traders. To equalise the duties on British is perfectly idle to say you are not now prepare ° id tb. and Foreign sugars, would be to give a bonus to the Mr. FORDE.—Perhaps your lordship vvull— allow. re' slave-traders to encourage them to persevere in their argument to stand for Wednesday? h 0 case traffic, to extend it. To cripple the slave-trade effec- The CHIEF JUSTICE. —We will call on t- -- tually, we ought, at the same time, to cut off, if possible, morrow. -Pese 611 the supplies of the slave-trader : but they who cry out The Court was then adjourned Lt a quarter for immediate and unconditional equalisation of the sugar o'clock until this day. duties, propose to make larger advances to him. They recommend Great Britain to lay out £500,000 a-year on ships and sailors, and courts of mixed commission, to put down the slave-trade, and £500,000 more to keep the slave-trade going. tholitAm. It would he more honest, and would save many valua ble lives, and diminish the national expenditure, if they would come forward and say at once, " This putting down the slave-trade is all humbug—it is no concern of ours—let us give up the idea." There would be con sistency in this, which there is not in advocating in the same breath a measure for suppressing and a measure for encouraging the slave-trade. There would be honesty in this, for it would he letting the people of Britain know what they themselves know must he the necessary con sequence of immediately and unconditionally equalising the sugar duties. It may be possible to persuade the people of this country to relinquish their efforts to put down the slave-trade ; but, if they are to do this, let them do it with their eyes open -knowing what they do —instead of being trepanned into it by the pretext that they are only promoting free trade. Let the advocates of immediate and unconditional equalisation of the sugar duties hoist their true colours ; and, since th e y w ill fi g ht the battles of the pir a ti ca l an kidnapping slaver, hang out the black flag at once. MORE SHOCKING IGNORANCE! (From Punch.) A short time ago Punch had occasion to horrify his readers by publishing the report of his select committee on education, which revealed the amount of ignorance of domestic matters prevailing among young men generally. His commissioners have just sent up to him their second report, which relates to the knowledge of business and the affairs of life possessed by young ladies ; and he has determined, at the risk of creating a fearful panic in the marriage market, to print it. Miss Mary Anne Watkins examined—ls the daughter of a private gentleman. Has several brothers and sisters. Is engaged to be married to a young surgeon as soon as he can get into practice. Has an idea that she ought to know something of housekeeping; supposes it comes na turally. Can sing and play; draw and embroider. Cannot say that she ever darned a stocking. The price of brown Windsor- soap is from Is. to Is. 3d. the packet ; cannot tell what yellow comes to ; never bought any. Ciraassian cream is half-a-crown a pot; does not know the price of pearlash. Knows how to furnish a house ; would go to the upholsterer's and buy furniture. Cannot say how much she would expect to give for an easy chair, or for a wash-hand-stand, or for a set of tea-things ; should ask mama, if necessary; never thought of doing so before. Papa paid for the dress she has got on : forgets what he gave for it. She has no notion what his butcher's bill amounts to in the year. deli this E b P o E dy a L w A as s s h o e c ld t A yesterday,TtaN.—T ewuhseunalsyvveeecehkelYs,:leele7eaali ere d' vered by Mr. O'Connell, Dr. Gray Mr. tee 6d. others. The repeal rent amounted to '1;932 1 3 s* spa red THE O'CONNELL TRIBUTE.—NO eXertiOH W. aS ts ocei l f on Sunday to swell this amount. In some insA double the sum collected la s t year was recei/eA vie 3 Dublin and the subu r b s a l one , upwards of £ 4 ' le, gathered •, and the total amount is expected to be at all, under £30,000. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE HOOTON COURSING MEETIN' of The po . r xi t c . a s m t e a n o l e ff y B n a T r t u . s w d h a o y a w s it , h u p s o e n ir era tb l e c u ili s " : t o r / 0 gentlemen and admirers of this popular diversion's :sour the crround. The day was fine. Stewards: Charleostbe Esq.,ley,and N. Blundell, Esq. Mr. M`G eorge judge. he decisions were as follow : THE CUP. Solo m M r r . . BBaelnln,setßt'istteßrloubeeßat M. Welsh's W bea el t sh S , i s r INNl:isSetmanalneYs-tapief lo The Hon. T. Kenyon's Comet beat Mr. C. Miss Harriet Somers.—Papa is a clergyman. Is unable to say whether he is a pluralist or not. He is a curate, and has but one curacy. Expects to be married, of course. Would not refuse a young man with £3OO a-year. Has no property of her own. Has some skill in needle-work ; lately worked a brigand in red, blue, green, and yellow worsted. Can make several washes for the complexion. Cannot tell how she would set about making an apple dumpling. Loaves should remain in the oven till they are done ; the time they would take would depend upon circumstances. If she were married, would expect her husband to be ill sometimes ; supposing him to be ordered calves'-foot jelly, should send for it to the pastry-cook's. It never occurred to her that she might make it herself. If she tried, should buy some calves' feet ; what next she should do cannot say. Has received a fashionable educa tion; knows French and Italian. Likes dancing better than anything else. _ Mr. Ashton's Spring beat Mr. Swan's _ Sapon SECOND TIES. Blue Bonnet beat Bittern i Spring beat Comet DECIDING COURSE. for ° Spring, by Sultan—Fly, beat Blue Bonn et ' by Warwick Skyscraper Miss Jane Briggs.—Ts the daughter of a respectable tradesman, a grocer and tea dealer. Looks forward to a union with somebody in her own station in life. Was for five years at a boarding-school in Clapham. Really can not say what a ledger is; it may be the same as a day book. Has an album ; has painted flowers in the album, also butterflies. Has never ironed a frill. Knows what a receipt is ; it tells you how to dress things; should sup pose that a receipt in full was a receipt that told you all the particulars. Never heard of a balance-sheet ; it may be a calico sheet for aught she knows. Cannot say whe ther papa buys or sells at prime cost. Has eaten fowl occasionally ; never trussed one ; does not know how to make stuffing for a duck or a goose. __ THE SAUCER. maro ed ever -- Sic This, we rather think, is the first saucer • e d s for ; and, if silver, will no doubt be highly Pri l be and a " Pyers Mostyn, Bart., for its uniqueness , shining appenage to his breakfast table. ice Mr. Blundell's Beetle beat The Hon. T. gelilT t r i t s .13A Cw. Mr. Swan's Sovereign Queen beat Mr. Bennett for Mr. Shaw's Shap beat Mr. Stanley's Syringo 's L ori Sir Pyers Mostyn's Meteor beat Mr. Asht on SECOND TIES. Beetle beat Sovereign Meteor beat SbAP DECIDING COUR.SE• UpkppA Meteor, by Mariner—Alice, beat Beeler by of Berry. h our m T r. h ß e al H i,s o ß O u T g O le N , be S i T ng A r K u E n Supwbeyremdre.cisdwedal: ;: t o g r o : of The WIRRAL STAKES were decided io n rr ister• Mr. Buckley's Beauty, run up by Mr. Ba ll's NEWPORT PAGNEL STEEPLE C ) (0 o lle n t go o ) 3 (Ooner, if dea l HAEDICAP of 25 sous. each, 15 ft T . li a l r i f s9 : :l3; &c., with 100 added. Mr. T. Oliver's Cheroot, 12st. 4113.• • • Mr. J. Elmore's Lottery, Ilst ..... .. • • Lord Drumranlig's Cardinal, lOst. 121 b • • Won by about half a length sIS G ' EirS f dsl NIANCHESTEE., d Thu,. o o The coursing at Lytham, on. Wednes day na• be rs ';i o t ri n a caused the absence of several of the sub sc town ; in the meantime, however, the bet ting c' v ersr h°l° was unimportant. For the Chester C U P , bib mSbaf have been backed at 100 to 3, amongst d gr. ,06 mentioned General Pollock, The Bashavg , al : 40 °ire° toe's colt. To-day, at the Post-office not e " the booked, to a small amount, about Scalt aen : n afterwards; also 40 to 1 offered against rg xe ,ed a" s tts°, Derby little was done ; 500 to 100' was °" against n it to J . , Scott's lot, 6to 1 was wanted ;• 700 to 100 i .a;) kv o ltt: (offered ;-) 17 to 1 against Loadstone (offe%in.„ttol t° against Orlando (take 25 to 1;) to 1, 8 10 ou,boo (taken;) 50 to 1 against Foig-a-ballagb o ° l s ;) J o ies' 1000 to 20 against Campunero (take 1,-,n t° tO 1 to 20 against Vat colt (offered ;) and lou Lorimer. POACHING.—An inquest was held on bo dy o f Ton'e'llftric fore Mr. John Hinton, coroner, on the d tiv ° „ - / , '": Boreton. It appeared that between one B ', o ol o ii i e ri on Sunday afternoon last, the deceased, i" ton, the horrea a man named Chidley, went to Brookhar°P„on, 6 'oo o o Fish of Holgate. They took with thew tVoiliche pe rct: of which was separated from the stock, an e l y ie th eo dlif e r ;:a tts p ooi u on t nt ihwcneataops facts, h sit i nr s suca struck itlaldyg pocket.against niduseet O odid n t—a, nat gettingcharge af ru2gl over i: e s rfrp. tOO3/ i ii00 : 51 it l e a : ta : oiac p eac o o s o r e e... ` A l ia g b : and Sabbath-breakers. A verdict wag w as l e d t he P r g dhn u lraael‘l n hrdi . op Cci T etHac h Aev e sex w lospe o afiemn r af t d- h y coroner „ a d tha t cipal witness.—Shrewsbury Journal. __we l'''.; % -aafi 3 l; r consists s i.nvßo.Frr nn one 4 ' of action ' c t M i o e n s ' s ' felt, leather , ganyb ri bra ' c ha 6 d 0 f y o : A r dt ebony, :, : A n t b d y h N o e: s u - et c ( r F et de°acru mostPIANO-FORTE' 1: 1. 1 b, 9 ce " ' P i a : cl as : e s u r nci d e I i i e e ; ,: 9 ' . e t tf" Ina'} be t clt 6 h i t v o r t I f - : t ut l e e . : beef - wood, d i u , m o a . k , E p v i e n r e y , l o r n o e 'oexf egg, a t c h t e n! tleo rii p e g ee fashioned with the most scrupulouL toy of to e e ly scrupulously adjusted to its place. . 1 " Ore' 5 Cl °s de r 'rich sq d ore la are not more than a quarter or an i oar o o on tt .4 less. The qualities of all the varieties calarii;ecso:, studied, in order to determine their P ; prefe rre lin a , a n d for the different parts. One kind ' 5 " a noth er barP -1.1 55 slender rods made of it ;lawil not vaarP ; we it is an 0 cause the grain is straight smooth ; and so on. Some of the r ° seven th ° riasi three feet long, and only a sixth or a —Mil Gil a t hs in thickness. FgpT. e lude s ite EXTRAORDINARY PEDESTRIAN Leeds , coo oc ce, es , last, at midnight, James Searle , of Iles i n 10 0° ; 0 0, 1 " 01 Herculean task of walking 1000 re cho kapere , ee k ; 14 6 0 id hours, in o t ie n o, n t L h t e e oed piece tiiiso o t f as r k e a N d hee f w r c o po m ne ta t ic h no e tic i ' , "_ lltoile , 1 l b L i l i ,: ::ni a t b t p i a i l le it ,.;l , o'clock on Monday afternoon week, v;n e e u ii ,`, b o ur_, h ` o r vot o the distance of 1017 miles in 1017 Wee" 0 oberdt°gectil"otiao;s commenced on Monday, the 2d of t oe, sn',. 1 of 1 .5 of sixty-three yards over and above ea n _ s um the etia to t p i e le de f s e t a r t ia h n , i i s v m in .2 k "' • the a 0 t thirty-five miles 1400 yards, m a- i i i n iled in Ares Os miles 1400 yards (a feat unpara upon the n iglP s considerable bets were deP"ldinLice on him to -pled_, jr , beenSom Some udl°yubP e t s r ft a r In v e e e d b , e ebnuett bathe 1 s sii fa t e,. toirosat Miss Elizabeth Atkins—Resides at Hampstead, with her parents. Papa is a solicitor; his office is in Gray's inn. Will have a little money of her own shortly, when she comes of .age. Is not aware whether she is a minor or not. The property was left her by an aunt. Cannot say whether she is a legatee or testatrix. Her property is real property. Is sure of that. It is in the funds. Should say that it was not personal property, as it was not anything about her person. Knows what Consols are ; has read about them in history ; they were ancient Romans. Mama keeps house. When she marries ex pects to do the same. Is unable to say what the family milk-score is a• week. Starch is used to stiffen collars ; has no notion what it is a pound, or what made of, or whether it is used with hot water or cold. Drugget is cheaper than a Turkey carpet ; but how much cannot say. Her time is principally occupied in fancy-work, reading novels, and playing quadrilles and waltzes on the piano. Out of the sixty other young ladies examined, three only knew how to corn beef, six what a sausage was com posed of, and four how to make onion sauce. Not one of the whole number could brew. They mostly could tell what the last new song was; but none of them knew the current price of beef. Every soul of them meant to marry as soon as possible. What is to become of their husbands ? Echo answers " What!" and Punch shud ders at the idea. A LEOPARD KILLED BY A LION IN WOMBWELL'S MENAGERIE.—On Thursday night week, a singular event occurred in Mr. Wombwell's menagerie, now exhibiting at Leeds. In one of the large compartments of the me nagerie were two fine lions and two equally fine and very docile leopards, and these four animals were usually kept together for the purpose of showing their training and the command held over them by their keeper, who was in the constant habit of going amongst them, and putting them through a variety of performances after the style of and equal to Van Amburgh or Carter. Though the four ani mals are kept in one cage for the purpose of exhibition the lions have been always separated from t during the time of their feeding, until the night in ques ,eriment was tried of feeding them alto mner had four nieces of flesh been id that alwa large numbers of people ~,,.93.kspere arrival and departure from the Do" tha t ~ 4 .al strongly urge,d to Pr°,„ stieeeP,l On TuesdaY, t" ys in attendant,. —sse ad one of the leopards had s !diatelv v tO THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. 21, Ist Nov