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iteraturf. NOTICES. The Law Review and Quarterly Journal of British and Foreign Jurisprudence. London : Owen Richards, 194, Fleet-street. This is the first number of a publication which appears to us to be excellent in its design, and calculated to be of extensive usefulness not only to the profession but to the Public at large. The articles are ably written, and em brace a number of highly interesting subjects, amongst which we may mention one on the Joint Stock Companies Regulation Acts, one on Legal Education, and an article styled " Recent Regulations in Conveyancing Forms." The sketch of the career of Baron Abinger is well written, arid does justice, and no more, to the eminent lawyer in question. This publication should be extensively circulated. Fisher's Colonial Magazine. London : Fisher, Son, and Co:, Newgate-street. Contains several highly interesting articles, amongst which the best are those on " Indian Emigration" and " The System of Colonial Crown Land Granting." The proprietors deserve infinite credit with every friend of colonial interests for the liberality and pains with which they provide them with information, and advocate their and the country's best interests. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal.. New Series. This publication, of which the numbers for November are before us, supports the character of its predecessors. New Sporting Magazine. London : Office, 24, Norfolk street, Strand ; R. Ackerman, 191, Regent-street. An excellent number, full of information upon sporting "natters and amusing matter for the general reader. The two engravings are quite gems. The New Monthly Belle Assemble. 21, Norfolk-street, London. Contains its usual interesting variety of light literature, poetry, &c., with the fashions of the season, and a beau. tifully executed frontispiece. Abbotsford Edition of Waverley ; Part 69. Robert Cadell, Edinburgh ; Houston and Stoneman, London. The present part continues the novel of Peveral of the Peak, and contains in the frontispiece a beautiful steel en graving of W. Leitch, of Peak Castle, Derbyshire. The wood illustrations are of a high order of merit, and the type, paper, and general getting up of the number, fully maintain the standard of those previously published. The Dublin University Magazine. Dublin : Curry and Co. ; London : \V, Orr and Co„ Contains some articles of a very high order of excel . lence, amongst which we notice particularly one on the English and Irish Universities, from which some extracts will be found below ; an examination of the lectures of Father Cooper, wh,se fallacies and dishonesty are well ex posed, and a critical notice of Eugene Sue's writings—the latter beautifully written, and containing sentiments of great truth and justice. Mr. Lever's story, the Nevilles of Garretstown, is continued, and increases in interest. By the bye, we are happy to observe that this admired writer is about to re-enter the field of authorship with a new serial tale, to appear monthly, with the magazines. The Medical Times. Carpae, London. Through the politeness of the editor, the second part has been sent to us for our notice. Its technical objects, as being medicine, and the elaborate discussion of the various subjects relative thereto, will not be apt to com mend themselves anywise to the general reader, except to the curious in such matters. In the eyes of the regu lar professionals, its ability of conduct and valuable mine of current notices of scientific discoveries, as well as its temperate articles, are now, we believe and hear, largely appreciated, and our public opinion in physic cannot have great weight in adding to the reputation of its pages. But the convenient readable shape (being brought out in 4to, like the Athencrum, and in close columns) makes it attractive in garb. The editor is anxious to add a new fact to ophio , ogy, which ere this will have been revised, no doubt. We consider it like a phrenological organ hatched since Spurzheim could affix his inzprimatis, voted by the lesser lights as "unestablished." In the article of Saturday, 30th November, it says, "As the boa•con strictor sounds his rattle," &c., " so does Brodie pub licly apprise us of danger by a confidential communica tion." Only imagine the boa and the crotalus horridus contending like children for the rattle— " Pleased with a rattle, Tickled with a straw." The Mysteries of Paris. London : Chapman and Hall. We have received Part VI. of the " only English edi tion authorised by M. Eugene Sue," of this extraordinary work. The story is continued not only with unabated but with increasing interest. The characters, including the good and the vicious, are vividly drawn, and the reader is held in delightful anticipation and suspense of the denoue ment of the mystery that hangs about them, and which shall reward the one, and shall deal retributive punish ment to the other. The author is evidently gifted with strong powers of imagination ; and it is his highest merit that in drawing from the resources of fiction, so natural are his portraitures that we feel convinced that such things may be, and that he has wrought up a narrative of proba tions, sufferings, virtues, and crimes, that are stamped with the vraisemblarice of real Parisian and French life. There are humorous illustrations interspersed throughout the work, designed by French artists, with so much taste, boldness of outline, and keeping, that the several charac ters, in varied situations and guises, are throughout readi ly recognised. This translation, we should add, has been carefully revised by the author, and all that can possibly be deemed unacceptable to the most delicate English reader has been rejected, while the intense interest which has given the work such universal popularity in Europe and America is preserved. The typographical depart ment is, moreover, accomplished in the clearest and best style of the art. The Library of Travel. Chapman and Hall, London. Part VIII. of this truly interesting, and, in many points, useful work, has just appeared, and in the judicious Selec • tions and condensations from the writings of distinguished travellers, British as well as foreign, fully bears out all that was announced in the prospectus, in reality " fusing together their multifarious narratives, carefully preserving the general spirit of the originals, and at the same time re jecting their many repetitions and superfluities, and using, as well as they may be able, a wholesome discretion, to the exclusion of whatever seems trivial, false in substance or in colouring, or otherwise objectionable." The present number is in continuation of " Egypt and Nubia," and is by J. A. St. John, Esq., the celebrated author of works on Egypt and Greece. There is a fearful and painfully interesting account of the massacre of the Memlocks; an excursion to the pyramids, with a full description of those extraordinary and stupendous monuments of antiquity, together with a narrative of a perilous adventure in explo ring the interior chambers of one of them. The celebrated Sphinx is also described, with accompanying illustrations. A journey across the desert to Fayoum is also graphically portrayed, followed by a visit to the vast and wonderful (because artificial) lake, or rather sea, of Moeris. We have elsewhere quoted a few passages from this number. The Polytechnic Review. Mortimer, London. The numbei of this literary and scientific work for the present month is, on the whole, one of the most interest ing we have yet perused of the series, though we venture to suggest that more variety could be imparted, were the several articles on proximate topics scattered over several numbers, in place of occupying so many pages of one publication. We have here, for instance, a communication on the Parlby and Congreve Rockets, by Major Parlby himself; another (in continuation) on projectile Weapons of War and Explosive Com pounds, and another on Concussion Shells—all good in themselves, but to the general reader presenting a degree of sameness of subject that renders each less inviting. The recent experiments, however, of Captain Warner, and his high assumption of the destructibility and range of his marine projectile, and the exorbitance of his de mand from the government for his secret, if they will pur chase it—have excited so much public attention to explo sions, that our objection will, perhaps, not be generally sub scribed to. In Dr. Scofferns paper (the second enume rated) there is a sketch of the history of gunpowder, with an elaborate exposition of its manufacture—from saltpetre, sulphur, and charcoal—the purifying of these several in gredients, their admixture, &c., to the operation of " graining," and finally to glazing. Tables are also given of the exact composition of gunpowder—miners, fine shooting, and common shooting powder. There is an ar ticle on railway improvements, comprising an account of Kollman's Patent Locomotive Engine, in which a great desideratum appears to be attaintd in ascending inclines, and passing along curves with ease and safety. The sug gestions for a new Safety Lamp, in lieu of Davy's, (not always to be depended on,) will be read with interest by those connected with mining operations. An article on the drama, by James Hime, M.A., evinces much taste and talent in dramatic literature. Amongst the reviews, there is a paper explanatory of the monster telescope, erected by the Earl of Rosse, explaining the ingenious manner in which his lordship accomplished the successful casting and polishing of his speculum—the largest in the world. By this instrument he has been enabled to see ap pearances in the moon, which were before invisible. A notice is also given of an apparatus (with diagrams) of a self-registering wind and rain guage. The present num ber concludes the volume for the half-year. We give a few extracts elsewhere. SELECTIONS. MOUNT VESUVIUS.—The crater is a van circular pit, with nearly [perpendicular walls, about two miles in cir cumference and 200 feet deep. Its bottom consists of waves of black lava or scoriae, and in the centre of it rises a cone of scoria to the height of 150 or 200 feet. This cone has two openings on its summit, from which a con. tinual emission of white vapour takes place ; and about once in five minutes there is an explosion beard far within the mountain, and which is followed in a few seconds by the ejection of a vast quantity of fumes and fragments of melted lava, which, by daylight, have the colour of blood, but after Sunset, are of a dazzling white heat, while the vapour is brilliantly illuminated so as to appear like flame. Lava escapes in abundance from the base of the cone, and flows beneath the hardened crust which forms the floor of the crater. Occasionally, however, it melts its way through, and flows in a broad stream over the surface, which in its turn becomes hardened by cooling, and a fresh eruption takes place elsewhere. In this manner the whole crater will eventually be filled u p, an d when th i s occurs, an eruption on a great scale may be expected.— Polytechnic Review and Magazine. PRECEPT AND EXAMPLE.—Thomson, the author of "The Seasons," wrote in bed his beautiful rhapsody on early rising, commencing, " Falsely luxurious ! will not man awake ?" GEORGE FREDERICK COOKS.—His passion for strong drink was so great, that when he was without money, or means of raising it, he has been known to go to a pawn broker's, where he was in the habit of applying, and to say, " I want five guineas; but I have nothing to pledge but myself—give roe the money, they'll be sure to redeem me when they want me." And having sent word to the thea tre of his situation, he has frequently been found seated on the pawnbroker's counter with a duplicate pinned to his button-hole.—Ainsworth's Magazine. FORCE OF GUNPOWDER.—The enormous force of in flamed gunpowder is known to depend on the evolution of various gases, the volume of which, when cooled, it is easy enough to determine ; but at the moment of their formation they are v as tly dil a t e d by he a t, so that their ac tual effective volume and pressure cannot be justly ascer tained. It has been pretty correctly ascertained that a cubic inch of gunpowder is co nv e r ted by ignition into 200 cubic inches of permanent gases, which, according to Dr. Dutton, are increased in volume eight times at the time of their formation by the expansive influence of heat. Assu ming these data to be true, confined and ignited powder will exert, at least, a force of 20001bs. on every square inch! —Polytechnic Review and Magazine. LORD ASHLEY—CHARACTERISTIC ANECDOTE.—In Lord Ashley I always found a ready will to contribute heart and soul, as though he really loved it, to the welfare of others. The last time he ever came to Eton (at least, I think so), he travelled inside the coach, and I was on the outside, behind. There was a poor woman sitting near me, who was evidently far gone in a decline, and had set out from London for the purer air of Henly-on- Thames. It came on to rain heavily, and in such a man ner as to augur continuance. We changed horses at an inn, and the poor woman moaned piteously, for the doctor had told her, that any fresh cold would be fatal. During the silence of the coach stopping, Lord Ashley heard her, on which he got out, and came round the coach, and quickly asked me what was the matter. I told him briefly, and it ended in the noble lord giving up his place inside, to the poor woman, and himself taking a seat amid the pouring rain, on the outside. While we were standing in the passage of the inn, just after the woman had got in side, amid a profusion of blessings on Lord Ashley, he said to me, " Well, this is somewhat unpleasant, for I have no great coat with me " but immediately sprang for ward, as though the deed of kindness was sufficient com pensation for a good ducking.. The guard, however, lent his lordship an old rough coat, which was in reserve for night-work, and in this Lord Ashley enveloped himself, and arrived safely at the Crown Inn, at Slough, then kept by one Mrs. Harell. On arriving there, Mr. Maitland, who owned a mansion at Henley-on-Thames, wanted an inside place ; but Lord Ashley quickly went to the coach office, and paid for the poor woman's inside seat as far as Henley.—Bentley's Miscellany. VIEW FROM THE TOP OF THE GREAT PYRAMID OF EGYPT.—It was now about mid-day, and the sun, quite free from clouds, smote upon the Pyramid with great ve hemence ; so that, what with the warmth produced by the labour of the ascent and the ardour of its rays, we expe rienced a heat resembling that of an oven. The air was clear, and our view unimpeded on all sides. To the south, scattered in irregular groups, were the Pyramids of Sakkarah, Abousir, and Dasheur, glittering in the sun, like enormous tents ; and appearing from their number, and the confusion of their arrangementjto extend to an unknown distance into the desert. On the west was the wilderness of Libya, stretching away to the edge of the horizon; arid, undulating, boundless, apparently desti tute of the very principle of vegetation, an eternal prey to the sand-storm and the whirl-wind. A flock of gazelles or a troop of Bedouins scouring across the plain, would have relieved its monotony ; but neither the one nor the other appeared. In the foreground the sand of various colours, yellow, dusky brown, and grey, swelled into hil locks which looked like the nuclei of new pyramids. To the north and the east the landscape presented a perfect contrast to this savage scenery : night and day are not more different ; and if the contests of Typhon and Osiris represented symbolically the struggles between the desert and the river—the one to nourish, the other to destroy— the gods were still there, drawn up in battle array against each other ; though the evil demon, alas ! had evidently long prevailed, and was daily curtailing the empire of his adversary. All, however, that remains of the valley of the Nile is luxuriantly covered with verdure and beauty ; corn-fields, green meadows, woods of various growth and foliage, scattered villages, a thousand shining sheets of water, and, above all, the broad glittering stream of the Nile spreading fertility on all sides like a god. Beyond this were the white buildings of Cairo, Babylon, and Rho dab, backed by the long lofty range of the Gebel Mokat tam, reflecting the bright warm rays of the mid-day sun. —Library of Travel. PRINCIPLES OF THE JESUITS.—For a stake of suffi cient magnitude there is no reason to doubt that the prin ciples of the Jesuit Society would impel them to the em ployment of any or all of these criminal instruments. The fundamental rule of the society, implicit obedience, and the governing rule of conduct for its directors, the justifi cation of the means by the end, necessarily imply as much. In these two principles lie the germs of all possible evil ; for it is the duty of the Jesuit to execute every command of his superior, and it is the duty of the superior to effect uate the good of the church by every available means— honest, if he can; if not, by the needful means, be they what they may. In times of peace, and among well regu lated communities, the aims of the society require no ac tual crime. Activity in instilling high church principles into the minds of the youthful gentry, regularity in trans mitting written accounts of their proceedings to their su periors, and the prosecution of a small intriguing litera ture, are, in that phase, their chief, indeed their only vo cations ; many of them, accomplished and good-natured men, remaining unconscious of the fearful extent to which their obligations have committed them, and taught with a laudable prudence to laugh at the idea of their obedience being ever tested, beyond a clever apology for the last bull, or a white lie at the most, in contradicting some in convenient scandal. But in times of revolution or social excitement, when decisive blows have to be struck, ene mies discredited or silenced, and powerful individuals won over or set aside, then scandals must be disseminated with the speed of the wind, fanatical passions be raised to their highest pitch, impeachments be sustained by the needful evidence, riots be fomented, and, in the necessi ties of a great crisis, assassinations themselves be perpe trated, without hesitation, without remorse, without shame, but rather as so many acts of honourable duty, piously done for the glory of God, and the good of the Catholic Church. Christendom, which has given birth to such a system, and suffers its continuance, reproaches Hindooism for its Thugee with but a bad grace.—Dublin University Magazine. TRAVELLING " DAWK."—It is a delightful thing to travel dawk. I suspect that people in England know as little of the manner in which we get over the ground in that fashion as they do of other matters Asiatic. We are supposed to wander over wide and desolate plains, upon extensive elephants, attended by a gentleman in front, who drives a species of boat-hook into the animal's head, and a gentleman behind, who screens us from the piercing rays of the sun with an ample umbrella. Some folks, who have very general ideas of Oriental life, place us on the backs of camels, and suppose us to make one of a pa triarchal cavalcade ; while others, of more brilliant ima ginations, take it for granted that we start by the mail, " all on springs, like a corps de ballet," fall fast asleep at Calcutta and wake at Delhi. Few ever heard of The Dawk, or can conceive it possible that distances of a thou sand miles are accomplished in little boxes borne on the shoulders of four sable fellow-creatures. Yet such is the most common mode of transit, and, to my plain thinking, it is the most agreeable and independent method of getting over ground known to the civilised world—always except ing the luxury of your own carriage, fast post horses, and roads as level and smooth as a bowling green. It is true the bones ache after a long dawk trip in a manner to con vey a lively idea of rheumatism ; you can never sleep more than two hours at a stretch, because you are disturbed by the appeals of the relay bearers, who want buxis at every stage—the oil-fed flambeaux of your torch-bearers are flashed under your very nose the whole night through— and your ears regaled incessantly with the buzzing, hum ming, chanting, of your bearers—but still the dawk is a delightful species of carriage. «'e have not yet arrived at that point of civilization when travelling can be rendered absolutely comfortable under any circumstances. Take the railroad ! You see but little on your journey, and a pebble may whisk you to eternity before you can say Jack Robinson. The mail ! You are pent up for hours with a curious, forbidding old woman, vis-a-vis, afflicted with an obstinate cough and a yelping lap-dog ; on your right is an invalid attorney, who must have both windows up, and the fourth of the partie carrc'e has impregnated his garments with cigar -smoke ; the guard allows you but little time to bolt a few slices of indurated, time-honoured ham, and a cup of boiling-hot tea, and there is every chance of a de tention, on the most desolate part of the road, from a lost finch-pin or a broken coach-pole. Then for the travelling o' horseback, as is our wont in Persia and Asiatic Turkey, it is well enough for the ride, but you are exposed to all weathers, subjected to long halts, or relays of unknown brutes. A quiet camel ? Sea-sickness without the com fort of a steward and a swingcot. A ship I—according to Sam Johnson, " imprisonment, with the chance of being drowned." A boat on the Nile, the Ganges, the Eu phrates ? Confinement, sand-banks, contrary winds, and tedium vitae. Locomotion—barring the carriage and post horses aforesaid—is monstrously annoying in the best form : but as it is not given to mortals to transport them selves without auxiliary aid, and as every spot on the fair earth is worth visiting, commend me to the Indian Dawk. You are your own master; your palankeen is at once your arm-chair by day and your la2d by night; your dressing table, your kitchen, your library, are all compactly stowed before you. Your patient bearers stop when it pleaseth you, and where it pleaseth you. Here youfeast your eyes upon a magnificent landscape, in which silvery rivers rush through luxuriant jungles, and lofty mountains, covered with rich foliage, invite you to add to the wealth of your portfolio ; there you are arrested by the picturesque re mains of some antique temple, the halt-effaced inscriptions on whose mural adornments excite your curiosity and perplex your learning. Now you descend from your pa lankeen to sniff the morning air, and catch from the wild cry of the partridge, the carol of the lark, and the crow of the jungle cock, the pleasant infection of exhilarated spi riZs—and anon you are reclining on your portable couch, carried, in imagination, by an agreeable novel, to the land of the loved West, until the subdued pace of your porteurs apprizes you that you are reaching one of the comfortable little bungalows or asylums for travellers where attentive domestics supply you with a bath and a breakfast, and you stretch your limbs preparatory to another stage. I have tried every description of locomotion, the 1200 ton steamer, the 1500 ton Indianian, the Leith smack, the barque, the brig, the buggalah, the canoe, the elephant, the camel, the horse, the mule, the donkey, the rail-train, the mail, post-coaches, post-chaises, the diligence, the omnibus, the eil-waggon, the vetturino, the gig, the kad java (or pannier), the sledge, the—all, in short, excepting the ostrich and the balloon ; and the dawk still stands A 1 in my register of their respective virtues and recom mendations. The feeling born in 1820 exists in all its original force in 18.1.1.—Asiatic Journal. [The following, which appeared last week in, our Town Edition, is re-inserted for the perusal of distant Subscribers:] LIVERPOOL PROTESTANT OPERATIVE SOCIETY. The annual meeting of the Protestant Operative Asso ciation was held at seven o'clock last evening, in the Commercial-hall, Gloucester-street, which was filled by a crowded and attentive auditory. A considerable body of clergy were present, and many influential laymen ; but the bulk of the meeting consisted of operatives, their wives and families, who manifested the greatest interest throughout the proceedings. Mr. GEORGE JONES was called to the chair; and the Divine blessing was suppli cated by the Rev. JOSEPH BAYLEE. The CHAIRMAN having addressed a few introductory observations to the meeting, expressive of his firm at tachment to the principles of Protestantism, the Secre tary read the Committee's report of their proceedings durine the year just terminated. This was an elaborate and well-written production. It commenced by explain ing the grounds of the Society's constitution, and the necessity which existed for its continued operation. Pro testantism was in a crisis. The debt which had pressed upon the Association for some time was now liquidated ; and it was contemplated to revive the Tract Committee, the operations of which had been so efficient two years ago.—The accounts were next read ; from which it ap peared that after discharging every claim there was a small balance remaining in the hands of the Treasurer. The Rev. JOSEPH BAYLEE rose, amidst much applause, to move the first resolution ; and he commenced by ex pressing the pleasure he felt at again meeting the Protestant operatives of Liverpool. He would much rather attend such a meeting as this, than one of the higher classes, who had attended when politics were mixed up with religion, but who had deserted them now that they met for religion without politics. All classes of individuals were necessary to each other ; and he was just as well pleased, nay better pleased, to stand among his Protestant opera tive brethren, than he should be to appear in an assembly of more wealthy persons ; for he believed he was standing among men who were less tainted by the iniquities of the world, and more ready than many of the others to lay down their lives for Christ's sake. But they must remem ber their strength lay not in money, but in God our Sa viour, and that if they wished to be saved it must be by standing upon their religious rather than upon their poli tical principles. Our battle with Romanism was not upon political grounds only, but it must be fought upon political & religious principles ; and, though he was not a politician, he could respect the politician that was a man of religioui principle. Lord Eldon said, the church was joined with the state not for the purpose of making the church politi cal, but for the purpose of making the state religious; and if the Protestant operatives brought religion into their po litics, it was not to make religion political, but to make politics religious. (Loud cheers.) The resolution he had to move was, that the report be adopted, printed, and cir culated, under the direction of the committee. 'We heard, in these days, many people speaking of popery being liberalized; that Romanists now enjoyed religious freedom. There were upon the platform some examples of the religious freedom of popery. Here the reverend gentleman related the outlines of the cases of Signor Ciocci and Mr. Day, whose narratives of the persecutions they have suffered from the popish priesthood are before the public. He (Mr. Baylee ) was not, however, one of those who looked with gloomy despondency upon the pre sent aspect of things ; he regarded it rather as a motive for energy and activity. We should never expect an army of doubtful, wavering, hesitating, trembling sol diers, would be able to gain a victory. (Cheers.) Let us then, in the name of God's truth, do our duty. (Cheers.) We had statesman, who were forced by the circumstances of the times to tamper with popery : but let them do so at their peril : for if they did God would not honour their statemanship. It was very difficult for us to feel for the position of the Prime Minister of the pre sent day ; it was easier for us to point out the main point to remedy. If we remembered that the Prime Minister was but the representative of the majority of the people, in the long run, it was easy to see that the helm of affairs must go with the majority of the people. Purify the people, then. (Cheers.) Make the people Protestant. (Cheers.) Make the majority of the people what they ought to be—men who do not care who is the Prime Mi nister, but who require that he must be a Protestant Prime Minister. (Cheers.) We none of us felt so deeply as we ought to feel towards Romanists. We should always draw a distinction between Romanism and Ro manists. (Hear, hear.) If we desired to bring a Ro manist from his error, how were we to do it? By ridi cule, unkindness, and needless exposure of his errors ? Far from it. A VOICE.—What do you think of the Puseyites ? (Some confusion, and a cry of "Turn him out.") Mr. BAYLEE.—No : let him not be turned out; it was very wood question, and he should be very glad to answer it. (Cheers.) He thought that a Puseyite was little worse than a Romanist. (Great cheers, and applause.) When he resided, as he did for four years, in the west of Ireland, there were two Roman Catholic archbishops, both well known ; one was Dr. Murray, of Dublin, and the other was Dr. M'llale, of Tuam. Dr. M'Hale was very zealous and violent ; but Dr. Murray spoke soft things—he could sit at the same table with the Protestant archbishop to provide an united education for Romanists and Protestants—and it used to be said they would much rather have Dr. M`Hale than Dr. Murray, just as we would much rather have a man with a pitchfork over his shoulder than a man with one under his cloak. (Hear. hear.) Now he (Mr. Baylee) would much rather have a Roman Catholic priest in his parish than he would a Pu seyite, because the puseyite brought Romanism into the church, but the Roman Catholic brought it only outside the door. (Great applause.) He would rather have Pu seyism outside the door any time. (Cheers.) In the ra dical papers he had himself been addressed as a Puseyite, and spoken of as If he was a traitor, because he desired in his own church to teach his people to love the prayer book of the Church of England in all its integrity. He had never wanted to add one letter to, or to take one letter from, it ; but he should be glad, as every sound Protestant in that room must be, to have the service of the church in its fulness, as laid down in the prayer-book, (Hear.) Take, for example, the case of last Saturday, November 30, which was marked in the prayer-book as St. Andrew's day. What did the Bible tell us was St. Andrew ? A disciple of John the Baptist, who, as soon as he heard Jesus Christ, immediately followed him ; and when he found He was the Saviour, he went and brought his brother Simon. Now he would put it to every man present, was it a bad thing for those who had time to meet together in God's house, to pray, in the week-diy, and to have brought before them what the Scriptures taught about the holy man of God mentioned on that day? (Hear.) As a clergyman of the Church of Eng land, when he entered the church he declared his un feigned assent and consent to all that is contained in the Book of Common Prayer. He wanted no candles at the Lord's table, no surplice in the pulpit : he was glad to have a good Protestant gown in the pulpit—the emblem and mark of the Reformation, for it was then for the first time that the academic gown was worn in the pulpit. (CI eers.) He wanted not the innovations of Puseyism ; and, above all, he wanted not the doctrines of Puseyism. (Renewed cheers.) In short, his answer was that he thought a Pu seyite was a papist inside the Church, and he would much rather have a papist out of the Church. (Cheers.) The rev. gentleman then resumed his consideration of the cha racter of Romanism ; and in the remaining part of his speech, which was of great length, he showed that Popery takes the Word of God from the people ; that it sets the priest between the sinner and his God ; that it enfetters the mind and enslaves the body ; and that it is dan gerous to the soul. _ _ _ Dr. BETTELHEIM, an Austrian physician, and a con verted jew, who is on his way to Palestine for the purpose of labouring among his brethern of the house of Israel, seconded the motion in a speech of much length. The Doctor spoke English with fluency, and in a very ani mated manner he stated his conviction that by defending Protestantism we were best advancing the great cause of converting Jews to Christianity. The Rev. A. IRWINE supported the motion in a most able speech. Signor Croce', followed, with a short narrative of the treatment he had received at Rome, the circumstances of which have already been published. The motion was carried. The Rev. D. JAMES moved " that whilst this meeting desires to express its gratitude to Almighty God for the national prosperity which we enjoy under the present government, it cannot, at the same time but feel alarmed at the concessions made to the Church of Rome, and the continuance of the anti-protestant system of education in Ireland." During the reading of the report he felt the confirmation of a conviction in his own mind that we were arrived at a crisis in the history of English Protestawism. The persons who drew up that report must have observed what he had observed, for they had conveyed statements which had for some time been impressing themselves upon his thoughts. There had been for several years past a quiet movement, which might be called an under current, setting in within the bosom of the Church of England, within the domain of the Protestantism of our country. For a time it was unobserved ; but it had acquired strength in its progress, until it had at last burst into view in dif ferent parts of the empire. This movement had been de signated by the specious name of " a return to ancient and Catholic' usages ;" and it had borne along with it a large number of persons high in station and distin guished for piety and intellect, whilst it had also carried with it a host of individuals whose only claim to public notice rested upon their arrogant assumption of authority as derivable from the sacred office which they filled. But those who were intelligent among them, who had put themselves forward as guides of the movement and directors of its course, had declared openly that they could not bring the Church of England to that standard which properly belonged to a church of Christ, so long as the subject of Protestantism was discussed and recom mended from the platform to the attention of the masses of the people. (Cheers.) Protestantism, therefore, had been denounced by these parties as a barrier stand , ng in the way of those desirable improvements in the cha racter and condition of the Church of England, which it was the aim of those parties to attain. (Hear, hear.) The effect produced by this denunciation had had been two-fold. In the first place it had produced an impression on the mind of a great number of the true friends of the Church of England, that our Protestantism had something essentially wrong in it because it was stated to be antagonistic to the progressive improvement of the Established Church of the realm. The other effect had been upon the class of individuals who still retained their opinions of Protestantism—that it was the right thing— that it was Christianity in a pure form and state, but who had been driven to this conclusion, that it was expedient to yield to the movement for the present, and no longer lift up their voices against the encroachments of Popery. He (Mr. James) was glad to hear Mr. Baylee say he did not look with anything like despondency at this state of things ; but it was necessary, seeing that we were ar- THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. riving at a crisis in the history of England's Protestantism —the circumstances of the case forced it upon us—to re consider the subject, and to ask ourselves, " What is it we advocate ? Is there anything essentially wrong in the Protestantism we advocate and recommend ?" Was there any attempt to withhold the Bible from the inhabitants of the land ? That was popery. Did we advocate the dis semination of the Word of God in the language which the people understood among all classes of society ? That was Protestantism. What was it we denounced ? We de nounced any attempt on the part of Romish priests to sub stitute the offering of the sacrifice of the mass for the one sacrifice of the cross. That was Popery. We advocated the atonement of Christ's death—the cne death he died on Calvary —as a sufficient atonement for the sins of the world. That was Protestantism. We denounced all attempts to teach the people to bow down to idols and images, to relics, and to the other senseless things they worship—the homage of the knee, of the body, and the worship of the lip, which belonged to Almighty God alone. This was done by Papists, and this was Popery. We, on the other side, said that divine worship should be addressed to Almighty God through the mediation of His Son ; and this was Protestantism. ( Hear, hear, and cheers.) We denounced those who attempted to bring the Virgin Mother of the Lord Jesus Christ into the position of intercessor, or the apostles and canonised saints as mediators with Jesus Christ on our behalf, that he might be with God ; we advocated, on the other hand, the Scriptural doctrine, that there was but one mediator between God and man—the man Christ Jesus. This was our Protestantism. (Cheers.) He felt, then, after an examination of the principles of Protestantism, there was no reason why any individual connected with the Church of England should, believe there was anything essentially wrong in the principles thus advocated and in culcated upon the people. Our Protestantism was pure Scriptural truth. Then as to expediency ; and we must consider this subject in two bearings, first as to the feel ings of the individual, and then in its prospective effect upon the welfare of the country. It was true there were reasons for individuals wishing to retire from what they called the public agitation of Protestant principles, but was it profitable to the country that we should give up our meetings ? If ever there should come such a time when we from expediency must give up our advocacy— whether from the Popish camp or from a traitorous go vernment—he was determined to cling to the wreck of Protestantism! (Cheers.) And if, in an evil hour, any of those bright advocates of Protestantism, who had pre sented themselves at different times upon our plat forms, should be persuaded to withdraw their con nection with the associations in existence, and he hoped still intending to exist, he had no hesitation in declaring that expediency, like the tail of the dragon, would sweep them away, and their name would go down to posterity connected with disgrace, with want of courage, and with change, and all this was traitorous to the faith of Christ. (Tremendous cheers.) There was a time whe❑ Sir Robert Peel thought proper to change his sentiments and his conduct in reference to the claims of the Roman Catholics of Ireland. The position he held in the country previous to that change was higher than it ever had been since ; and though we were obliged to tolerate him at the head of our Protestant government, because we could not replace him with a better, he forfeited our confidence the day that he changed. We never could think of him as the same man again (hear.) Lord Stanley told him a startling truth, when he (Sir R. Peel) was in opposition; that his name would go down to posterity connected with change and with nothing else; and he (Mr. James) had ❑o question in his mind, that when Sir Robert Peel should go to his rest, his name, while it would call forth approbation upon the score of intellect, tact, and policy, would still be connected with something like treachery to the Protestant faith and Church of England, while the name of Eldon would be gilded with glory. (Tremen dous cheers.) The genius of popery, after the most mature examination of its character, he was fully convinced was an emanation from the regions of darkness. It came from that place in which dwelt misery and woe for ever. It brought in its hand a quill plucked from the wings of a demon, dip ped in wormwood ; and it wrote destruction to the souls and to the bodies of mankind in every land. Whilst the genius of Protestantism was an emanation from the man sions above ; it came down from the place of the great God, with a quill plucked from the wings of a cherub in its hand, dipped in the love of Emanuel, and it wrote upon the pages of our hearts and our faith '• Peace and Salvation to the ends of the earth, through the blood of the Lamb for ever and ever. (Immense applause.) Mr. SAMUEL PHILLIPS DAY, from Youghall, late a monk, followed with some details of the system of popery in Ireland, and of its effects upon the population. He put forward the celebrated motto,—" No peace with Rome till Rome makes peace with God." The resolution was carried, and the meeting separated shortly before eleven o'clock. MISS WELLER'S CONCERT.—As announced, Miss Christiana Weller's " farewell concert'' took place last night, at the Royal Assembly Rooms, Great George-street, and was most nume rously and respectably attended, a large concourse of the elite and their families being present. The services of some of our first local performers were called forth on the occasion, includ ing those of Miss Whitnall, Miss Joseph, Mr. Lewis (who ably presided at the piano), and Mr. Percival (the flutist.) Miss Whitnall and Miss Joseph sang the several pieces allotted to them with great taste and feeling, and were on several occasions encored. Mr. Percival played a fantasia, in which he exhibited great taste and much execution, on that difficult and rather imperfect instrument—the flute. Mr. Lewis sang one of his own songs, to his own piano accompaniment, with deserved ap plause. The great attraction of the evening, however, was Miss Weller's performances on the piano. We have before bad occasion to notice the extraord:nary talent of this young lady as a pianiste, and our admiration of her powers—which could not before be increased—were doubly confirmed. We have not, at this late hour, the space, had we even the ability and the scope, to do her justice in detail ; but we cannot do less than say that she possesses a mastery over the instrument, which is of rare acquirement in a life-time, and the more astonishing at her early years. This is to be accounted for from a peculiarly fine ear, great natural taste, superior tuition, and indomlable perseverance. Miss Weller is, in fine, a musical genius, and such is her com mand of finger. and of enneoption. that in nlay , ,, tti o ~0000 of her favourite, Thalberg, and other great masters, she diverges. in spite • f herself, into adornments the most beautiful and well timed, which the composers themselves would be delighted to hear. She also exhibited her powers as a composer with equal effect. We regret to say, that owing to the evident indisposition of Miss W., an apology was made for her non-performance of one of the pieces in the bill, and was heard with regret. The concert concluded with a duett, by Clement', Miss W. being ac companied on another piano by her younger sister, Miss De laney Weller, a most interesting and promising performer. The precision, force, execution, and variety of intonation with which this was executed by the two sisters, sitting at a considerable distance from each other, held the listeners in silent admiration. Miss Weller has announced this as her " farewell" concert. We hope this only means "farewell" for the present ; and that, as we are proud of her as belqnging to our town, she will, after acquiring new laurels in the south, revisit the " glimpses" of " the good old town," where, we feel assured, she will ever be hailed with a hearty welcome by all the lovers of musical talent. The Rev. Dr. Cramer, Principal of New Inn Hall, and Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford, is appointed by her Majesty to be Dean of Carlisle. The Rev. Mr. Ward was summoned before the Vice Chancellor of Oxford on Saturday, and requested two day's time to consider whether he should avow himself the author of his notorious and scandalous work. GENERAL MISCELLANY. The Queen has granted the widow of Colonel Stoddart £l5O per annum. The Barking fishermen have returned to work with one or two of their grievances redressed. There are five Jews on the list for high sheriffs of counties in England this term. A fire broke out in the steeple of Sudbury Church on Wednesday week, but was speedily extinguished. The Duke of Noi:olk is about to present fifty acres of land to the people of Sheffield for public pleasure grounds. The poet Camr bell's pension of £lB4 a year has been bestowed upon Mr. Patrick Fraser Tytler. Only four lives were lost by the explosion at Cwm Avon Colliery near Bristol. It is expected that the new Manchester Theatre, which is to cost £23,000, will be opened in March next. The Northern Star, Feargus O'Connor's paper, has removed from Leeds to London—a sign of the decay of Chartism. The Rev. Dr. Adler has been elected Chief Rabbi. He obtained 121 votes ; Dr. Hirchfield 13 ; and Rabbi Hirch 2. Lord Ashley has written to the Short-time Association, saying that it is his intention to 'ming the subject of the ten-hours bill before the 11 ou se early in the session. COMMERCIAL CURIOSITY.—A gentleman near Ayles bury has in his possession a Bank of England note for sixpence, issued in the year 1700. Richard Dadd, the parricide, having been removed to a Lunatic Asylum, by order of the Secretary of State, will not be tried for the murder of his father. The Leeds magistrates have decided, by orders of the law officers of the crown, that all officers on horseback ; in uniform, or otherwise, are not liable to pay toll for turnpikes or bridges. The current rate of discount on first-class bills by the joint stock banks and large discount houses in London is 2 per cent., just to cut in below the terms of the Bank of England. UNCUT OATS.—In the parishes of Eckington and Whitwell, in the county of Derby, there are many fields of oats yet uncut, whier would require three weeks of good harvest weather fit them for the reapers. Mr. David Irwin, for upwards of forty years editor of the .Norfollc Chronicle, and Mr. R. M. Bacon, editor of the Norwich Mercury, both died suddenly a few days ago. The London Gazelle of Tuesday night contains a trea sury warrant, fixing generally at fourpence, the tate on all East India and colonial letters, of not more than half an ounce weight. In the Court of Queen's Bench, Jenkin Jones has been sentenced to a year's imprisonment, for undertaking to procure Charles Bolson a place in the office of the Poor Law Commissioners for the sum of £l5O. A young ruffian, at Leicester, last week, in the hope of getting possession of a sum of money coming to him on the death of his mother, attempted to poison her, and in doing so had nearly poisoned the whole family. Chess players will be glad to hear that the celebrated player, M. Kieseritzkij. will visit London early in the year. A match of 21 games is arranged to be played by him and Mr. Staunton, at the St. George's Club. The Cambridge Advertiser mentions the recent case of a young woman, who, being frightened by a companio❑ who appeared suddenly before her in a hideous mask, fell into fits, became a lunatic, and died in a few days. Four persons were killed at the Beaufort iron works, by a mass of earth eight yards above their heads falling upon them, and crushing every bone in their bodies. Two of the party were girls of 18 years of age, and the other two young men of 18 and 21. On Tuesday, at her Majesty's dock yard, Woolwich, a scaffolding gave way, and killed one man, and very seri ously injured several others. Five casual paupers in the Eton Union Workhouse have been committed for trial on a charge of attempting to set fire to the building. An explosion took place at Seghill colliery, near New castle, on Sunday evening, by which two of the workmen lost their lives. A most brutal scene was exhibited in the streets of the Cathedral city of Durham, on Tuesday last, when a man in a state of intoxication, named Stellia, was attempted to be dragged to prison at " a cart's tail." On Wednesday evening last, an incendiary fire took plafle at Watton, Hertford, on a farm occupied by Mr. Kempton, and belonging to Mr. Abel Smith, M.F. The damage is estimated at £2OOO On Tuesday week a female lunatic leaped from a car riage on the Edinburgh and Glasgow railway, while the train was in motion. She miraculously sustained no injury. On Thursday, at York, Mr. Justice Coleridge, in most affecting terms, sentenced a young man, named Potter, to death, for having set fire to a neighbouring house whilst the inmates were asleep at night. ANOTHER ATTORNEY TRANSPORTED.—Thos. Field, alias John Easterfield, has been transported for seven years, at the Central Criminal Court, for having obtained two half-crowns and a sixpence from a party, under false pretences. At the Central Criminal Court, on Monday, a fellow uamed Ward was indicted for extorting money from Mr. Mieville, a member of the Stock Exchange, by threatening to charge him with the commission of an abominable offence. The scoundrel was sentenced to be transported for life. BRIEF FELICITY.—In a rural district, lately, a boy and girl, aged, respectively, nineteen and sixteen, were married on Wednesday, spent all the money they had (fifteen shillings), on Thursday and Friday, went to the union workhouse on Saturday, and were then passed to their respective parishes. SINGULAR ACCIDENT.—On Thursday last, as the head groom to Earl Bathurst, was standing in the stables, patting one of his Lordship's horses, the animal suddenly snapped at his hand, and bit one of his thumbs com pletely off above the nail. The animal must have swal lowed the precious morsel, as it could not be found. A RICH VAGRANT.—Mary Jones, with her son, a lad about 10 years of age, have been committed to Carmar then gaol for vagrancy. On her person was found the sum of £6 Is. 10d. In cash, and promissory notes from the Glaraorganshire Bank, and from several tradesmen, to the amount of upwards of £3OO, PRIZE FIGHT.—On Tuesday a pugilistic contest for £lOO, took place between Maley, of London, and Mer ryman, belonging to Nottingham, about half way be tween London and Nottingham. The fight commenced in good earnest, and continued for about one hour and a half, when night made its appearance, and it was found that darkness must stop the affair. THE MURDER OF AN ORANGEMAN.—OD Thursday at York, John M`Cann, 29, was indicted for the wilful murder of Benjamin Gott, at Bradford, on Whit-Monday, the 27th of May. There was another count in the indict ment charging the prisoner with the manslaughter of the said Benjamin Gott. Before the case had proceeded far, Mr, Wilkins said he could not resist the minor charge, and the jury found a verdict of manslaughter. A BRIDEGROOM SHOT ON HIS WAY TO CHURCH.— On the 22d ultimo, as James Cockburn was on his way to the church at the village of Presson, near Kendal, where the bride and her party were waiting for him, a man, named Johnston, a " hind" to the bride, fired at from a wood, and wounded him, it is feared fatally. Johnston was instigated by disappointment. He has been com mitted. THE COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The first examination for the Fellowship of the Royal Collego of Surgeons took place on Tuesday and Thursday last, when out of 30 can didates the following had the honour conferred on them : —Mr. Ward, Huntingdon ; Mr. Rix, St. Neots ; Mr. Sodon, jun., Bath; Mr. Boil, Arundel; Mr. Cotton, Lyme ; Mr. Cheeseman, Sheffield ; Mr. Rumsey, Glo, cester ; Mr. Ellison, Chester; Messrs. Robarts, Smith. and Barrow, of London, with three others. ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION.—On the 22d ultimo, a farm servant named Cockburn, residing near Dunse, in Scotland, was fired at while on his way to be married, and in company with another man. He received about 160 slugs and shot in his back, and is not expected to survive. A man named Johnston, who lived servant with Jean Rankin, to whom Cockburn was to be married, has been committed for trial, be having shortly before borrowed a gun, and having enteitaiaed a bad feeling to the injured man. CONDITION OF THE LABOURING CLASSES.—Twenty cottages are in progress of erection by the society for the improvement of the condition of the labouring classes, on the estate of Lord Caithorpe, within a few perches of the Clerkenwell Police-court. They will be inhabited each by one labourer's family. They will be fitted up with the greatest regard to the comfort and cleanliness of the occu pants, and will cost £3,000. The main object the so ciety has in view by the erection of these 20, is that they may serve as a model for such buildings to the aristocracy who may visit the metropolis.—Globe. ACORNS.—Curiosity has been rife in Godalming during the last four weeks,to account for the very extensive de mand which has taken place for acorns. One individual, it is said, has been commissioned to buy up no less than 2000 bushels, at ls. per bushel, and so great is the com petition for the article, that pig keepers are quite unable to keep pace with the rise in price. Some suppose that they are wanted as a substitute for bark in tanning lea ther, while others, no less wise, hint that they are wanted for the adulteration of coffee. They at. Au ...t ofd' as quick as purchased, to London, there to be made use of. — Sussex Express. ALLEGED THEFT BY A LADY OF RANK.—Mrs. Tyr whitt, the lady of fortune, who was charged with stealing a microscope OR the Bth of September, at the Soho Bazaar, London, worth half a crown, was tried at the Middlesex Sessions, on Thursday, and acquitted. A number of persons of rank and title were called to speak to charac ter. The jury were absent two hours and a half. The prisoner, who was supported by her husband, was most deeply affected, and said, in a feeble voice, " Gentlemen, you have acquitted me. I thank you ; and I here declare my most solemn innocence of the false charge that has been brought against me." She then sank down over come by her feelings, and was carried from the court. STRANGE DISCOVERY OF A MURDER. — About five years ago, a packman was known to have entered a cot tage in the village or parish of Kirkcolme, and was never afterwards seen or heard of. Shortly afterwards the neighbours remarked that the occupant of the hou se was much better off in worldly circumstances than before, and therefore could not help regarding him as having dealt the packman foul play, but nothing ever transpired that could positively justify the suspicion. The man died, it is said, about twelve months ago, and the occurrence ceased to be talked about, if it was not entirely forgotten, until last week, when some men, while making altera tions about the cottage, came upon the remains of a man buried underneath. Of their identity with the packman, the people entertained no doubt. EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE.—A short time ago, a fine strong pig, about a year old, was missed from the farm of the Rev. T. Cator, at Wath Wood. The other day, on removing a large quantity of straw, the pro duce of a wheat stack which had been thrashed out for seed, the poor animal was found at the bottom, still alive, having been buried under the straw for a period of seven weeks all but two days. The straw, it appears, as it was thrashed, was carried from the barn, and thrown over the wall of the fold-yard. The pig, it would appear, had been underneath the wall, and no doubt, liking the warmth of the straw, had laid under it until it had so far accumu lated that it was unable to get out. The poor animal had eaten a large hole into the earth, and apparently had subsisted on no other food than what the ground afforded. Doncaster Chronicle. EXTTRA ORDINARY OCCURRENCE.—In our obituary will be found the death of G. Durant, Esq., of Tong Castle, and we here mention a rather singular circum stance that took place on the occasion. In the year 1820 Mr. Durant took legal proceedings against his first wife, and in consequence of the jury having decided in his favour, he erected a monument on an eminence on his estate at Tong Knowl, to commemorate the event. The monument was a conspicuous object from the road from Shiffnall to Wolverhampton, and resembled a church tower. Immediately on his death being known to his family, two of his sons, accompanied by twenty-nine labourers, went to the place, and commenced excavating round it to the depth of six feet, after which they made a hole in it, and placed fifty pounds of gunpowder, in a cask, and twenty pounds in another package, under the monument, and at three o'clock on the morning of the LOth ultimo, a fuse was fixed to it, and set fire to, and in a few minutes the monument was laid flat on the ground, without any accident. The eldest son, and heir to the estate, died some years ago, and on his death-bed he requested the younger branches of the family that, as soon as their father was dead, they would cause the mo nument to be blown up, that it might cease to exist with the founder, that the memory of the scandalous cause fur which it was erected and he might perish together.— Shrewsbury Journal. TURN-OUT OF COAL-MINERS.—Very great excitement prevails at present amongst the colliers in the district of Wigan. Meetings are holding every week, in various parts of the districts, at which resolutions are always adopted unanimously, to the effect that their labour is not sufficiently rewarded, and that it is desirable to join the union, and collect funds to enable them to stand a strike an A d la c tt h e e rs . in the event of its being necessary. Mr. 11 7 .P. Roberts, solicitor, from Newport, commonly called the "Miners' Saturday Attorney General," has taken offices in Manchester,. with a view, it is said, of being en the spot to give such legal advice as may seem necessary. Delegate . nmteientintgos theirhave also been held in various places, but their proceedings, as nowf aras seemthe p t r o e sbseis fast concerne d,arriving are at a keptelim private.climax. Or last sbi r the e , except workmen tbe ii❑i St. every Helen's district, . county, se masters a written application demanding an advance of twopence upon each shilling they now earn. Should their demand be refused the result will, of course, b e a genera l strike. On Monday several meetings were h e ld, an d , as far as it was possible to ascertain , there was not a coal mine at work in the w hole district. T wo o f t h e most im portant of these meetings were those held at a place called Bardsley. between Oldham and Ashton, and the other in the village of Lammerhead-green, about two miles from this place. At La!nmerhead-green a delegate meeting was also held, at which delegates were present from every coal-pit in the two counties, except those in the neigh bourhood of St. Helen's. The publi c meet i ng at Lain merbead-green was attended by about 3000 persons. Dec. 10, 1514. RATHER GREEN.—At Manchester, last week, a young man, being determined to ascertain for himself whethir, the sensations of persons hanging are " most pleasing' , as Mr. Wrakley says they are, made the experiment, and had a most narrow escape from being suffocated in ear nest. SHOCKING DEATH.—Last week, two women bad oc casion to go up Llangattock mountain (Breconshire), Oct one of them took her little girl with her, w h o u nfortu; nately got separated from her mother, and, on account of the density of the fog, the night passed without all trace of her being discovered. On the following moat. ing she was found, in a sitting posture, quite dead. THE LATE BANK ROBBERY.—III consequence of A letter addressed to the banking-house of Messrs. Rogura and Co. by their s o li c itor, Mr. Hobler, suggesting a mod of cancelling all the Bank of England notes w hich have recently been stolen from that firm, and thus rendering tnha property taken valueless to the robbers and their federates, some some of the parties of the banking - the baya had an interview w ith the Secretary of State upon Oa plan proposed by Mr. Hobler, and the matter is nor under consideration with Sir James Graham. If so, v i e r are quite sure the public will be glad to know that a once the most adroit masters in the art of thieving 133/' THE MURDER AT DOVER.—Jam s Clark, met with their match. and William Smith, were indicted at the Maidstone assizes for the murder of a policeman. The facts, which via_ published at the time, will be in the recollection of our readers. On the Bth of September, the prisoners and number of idle disorderly persons had been drinking d u ty ' gether, when the deceased in the execution of his d ut y' blur ( interfered, and in doing so received a tremendous with a stick, which felled him to the earth. It was J i g . Clark who inflicted the blow. The prisoner Smith, deceased was on the ground, jumped upon his body, a ll , exclaimed, " There, you —; you've got it : you ate ri u ther e good." These facts we re proved in evidence, but rs was an absence of any distinct proof that the prisoneo were actually present when the blow was struck wm. Clark, jury acquitted the prisoners, after a consultation 0 1 "- hours. MISS MARTINEAU ON MESMERISM!• etter In the Athenceum Miss Martineau continues her I upon mesmerism. The present portion of this coairlii e cation is devoted to the case of a young girl, wh ° w a diete under the mesmeric influence, had visions, and Pre . „ nes a events in an extraordinary manner. Miss Mr i ,""i i er gives this girl a high character, and seems to thi n ' of quite different, from the truthfulness and consisteal,he fihresrto ccasions tatements,o her fro being mesmerisedmtheusua ofusual run was wh sonambiluelessap.,reg severe pain in the head and inflamation of the ey e ' ai be mesmerist was Miss Martineau's maid, who, it It re remembered; operated on the lady herself, and it , n " e lated that after being mesmerised, the pain and itil l , s l tion ceased, and the general health of the patie n n ' ot if ti e: proved so wonderfully as to attract very general While in this state of trance, the patient described the disease of her eye as structural; which will preven t being entirely removed. It seems that when awoke fr,, ° „a this trance, the girl had no knowledge of what she said, except on one occasion, and then she said she lo g been dreaming of what she had heard in church regar u : e r the nature and destiny of men. This girl had the 1 ,11 :i 0 of telling when she would awake from her sleep, whi e ",., l a common power with those under mesmeric influe ll ';'e We pass from Miss Martineau's introduction to this c,„ to the peculiar circumstances attending it. She sale' ,t " It soon became evident that one of her strong) powers was the discernment of disease, its condition, e . s a remedies. She cleared up her own case first, prescriq o for herself very fluently. It was curious to see, 00 awaking, the deference and obedience with which sh e 'lf ceived from us the prescriptions with which she helc; had just furnished us. They succeeded ; and so di d milar efforts on my behalf. I cannot here detail the v ll ';', derful accuracy with which she related, without an? q e sible knowledge of my life ten and twenty years BP , circumstances of the origin and progress of my ill-hea . o , of the unavailing use of medical treatment for five Ye ri s ao and the operation of mesmerism upon it of late. o ne little fact will serve our purpose better. Soon after s'' r , was first mesmerised, I was undergoing my final sr, e ie , ance from opiates—a serious matter to one who ha i u,„, , e i pended so long and so desperately upon them. As ri said, I got through the day pretty well ; but the alg o o were intolerable, from pain and nervous irritations, Wn e r , rcad-, it impossible to rest for two minutes togen Alter four such nights, I believe my mesmerist's forti ta and my own would have given way together, and c i i should have brought the laudanum bottle to light aga l ,, but for the bright idea, Let us ask J!' She said at ° ll ia what my sufferings had been, and declared that I sh ° sleep more and more by degrees, if I took—what was contrary to her own ordinary ideas of what was right 8 rational ideas of right as to mine—ale at dinner, and in't, a wine glass of brandy in water at night. I refused ' l ' 4 prescription till reminded—' Remember, she has net,;, bern wrong.' I obeyed ; the fact being kept secre t tween us two, in order to try, every evening, J.'s kit e ledge and opinion. She always spoke and advised , I° , o confident familiarity with incidents known only to us 0,, and carried me steadily through the struggle. I lost 11 1 miseries, and recovered my sleep, night by night, till, the end of the week, I was quite well, without stimulant?: sedative. Nothing can be more remote from J. th e nary knowledge and thought than the structure of ,_i human body, and the remedies for disease; and tho u g o 4 was well aware how common the exercise of this kind vp insight is in sonambules—how it is used abroad as, 84 auxiliary to medical treatment—l was not less surpris`ti by the readiness and peremptoriness with which a P ers % in J.'s position, declared, and gave directions about thing which she is wholly ignorant of an hour after, and wa s ' during the whole of her life before." We relate the statements given by Miss Martineall, briefly as possible without giving an opinion as to theft correct.. Tho above certai n ly i s ver y curious, Tu i. and n. less so is the circumstance she relates of children under mesmeric influence having the power to discourse abour, the Scriptures without having any previous knowledge er them, if only mesmerised by a clergyman I The patient stat , d in the course of a sleep, that the light she saw vre s beyond whnt was seen on earth, that it was pro d u ced the three powers of the soul, the mind, and the vit 11e, 1' powers of the body. She then stated that the mind die, the body died, but the soul lived, being self-existent, al,lO independent of either. Being asked the relation of t u soul to God after this statement, the p a tient was some what,e perplexed, but said it was by him reunited to body, at the same time expressing a strong mesmeric al; belief in this truth. This point is fortunately, we thiat carried no further, the mesmerist, at the critical morae't changing the ideas of his patient, a faculty on his pole which to us, is about the most wonderful in the process. Miss Martineau herself relates that the girl ut:i been talking about the day of judgment—a fact which Tie easily account for all her dreams and perplexities , i n ibe r pendent of mesmerism or anything else. Several 0 ' w e wonderful revelations of this patient are related, 1 1°14, have given enough to show that Miss Martineau is do no which some of our readers will no doubt consider as new characteristic of the lady. the BETTS'S PATENT BRANDY.—We understand the adoption of the Patent Metallic Capsules, by the M es ' . o , Betts, of Smithfield-bars, London, as a means of Prat, tecting their Patent Brandy, when bottled, has been 0 tended with the most perfect success. Public conntle,,qp has been, thereby, universally established, in the P 5 - 0, healthfulness, and general superiority of this nativ P 0 duction; irrespective of the enormous saving in Pri ce ' t he compared with the only article that can fairly rival it best Cognac. re' NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE.—His fate furnishes g tne s markable instance of the instability of human gren and there is no doubt that his dislike to medicine rerce•; 3 s caused his early dissolution for rather than takes r o simple remedy he allowed disease to gain the ascen,d'% it over his constitution, and death was the result. DV' o f is that persons cannot be too watchful of their ste t %ot health, and being always provided with a safe and effi el itia medicine, such as Frampton's Pill of Health—enPlige , two greatest blessings of this world, health and 1 00 g —See advt. s INJURY FROM SMOKE.—The :„ h' Rev. J. 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