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tteraturr. POETRY. FIRST LOVE. (From Poems and Ballads of Goethe, in Blackwood.) Oh, who will bring me back the days, So beautiful, so bright ! Those days v hen love first bore my heart Aloft on pinions Ight? Oh. who will bring me but an hour Or that de ightful time, And wake in me again the power That fired my golden prime ? I nurse my wound in solitude, I sigh the livelong day, And mourn the joys, in wayward mood, That now are passed away. Oh, who will bring me back the days Of that delig itful time, And wake n me again the blaze That fired my golden prime? POETS. BY T. J. OUSELEY. Poets are Passion flowers, That turn where'er the sun Brightest shines—the showers An shadows they will shun; licar a of gold they offer. At fleauty's chrywal shrine, Hauls of faith they proffer tiwee words that sound divine. Once the sun departed. The flower its leaves will close, And the golden-hearted No more with brightness glows. Poets ere things of earth, N\ ith minds of varied dyes, Like birds th,t 'float to birth In oriental skies; What thou;h heir thoughts ascend, On light a:nd gorgeous wing, O'er earth and heaven wend, And love, immortal sing? • They are but dust, and all Their beau y they enfold, Like birds 'neath t.O a's thrall, Pruning their wings of gold. Poets are rainbows crowning Earth with their glorious hues ; Hearts mid tears are drowning— Smiles lowly grii.; subdues. Words of gu le may banish Young Sorrow from her night; Smiles, like ra nhows, v Their memory is but bright— Trust not an , heir luring With light, not heat, they burn, Pangs are past enduring, When hope may not return. Poets have treasures rare; Their thoughts are silver st rs, Wand'ring in a.i.bient air, Beyond heaven's sapphire bars; They form from unseen things, Creations of delight, And quaff from hidde springs Nectar ambrosial bright. Like deep r ch laden ships, Thoughts undulating rise ; There's music on their lips, And magic in their eyes. NOTICES. Tweddell's Yorkshire Miscellany, No. 1. London : T. Miller, Newgate-street ; and Brittain, Paternoster row. Stokesley : G. Tweddell. The number before us is the commencement of an effort to get up in the lovely vale of Cleveland a quarterly publicat'on, to be su• ported by native talent and pa tronized by Yorkshire liberality. The editor has com menced well; and we are glad to recognise amongst his contributors several wilt se names are familiar with the public, and associated in our own mind with many happy memories. We cannot but think, however, that he has found rather too low an cstimat- of the disposition of his county to encourage such an effort as he is now making. Yorkshire could surely afford a shilling a quarter, for which more matter could be given, instead of sixpence, the price of the present number. The British Farmer's Magazine. London : J. Ridgway, There is much valu , tble information of a practical and scientific character in the present nnmber dads periodical. We cannot, however, agree with the tone of some of the articles—that for instance at page 189. If politics are prohibited at agricultural as octiations, surely contributors to such a work as the one baud us should shun their dis cussion. Ti.e piper entitled "Agricultural Facts" is a valuable one ; and that " On the Southampton Meeting," by C. W. Johnson, Esq., possesses the merit of being generally interesting to the public as well as to the agri culturist. Simmond's Colonial Magazine. London : Foreign and Colonial-office, 18, Cornhill. The number before us contains some valuable and inte resting papers, among,t wh'ch we may particularize " Sketches of Cape Breton," an article on the agriculture of Hindostan, by G. W. Johnson, Esq., continued from a former number, a graphic description of that unfottu nate piece of humbu!„ the Niger expedition, by R. Mouat, Esq., late of her Majesty's , tenmer Albert, and an excel. lent letter on the sugar dutes question, by Dr. Binns. The most important paper in the numb r, however, is the " Information for emigrants and interanz s:ttlers, com piled from the moot recent official sources." The publi cation of this article in a cheap form, for distribution, by the government emigration agents, at our various ports, would be indeHd an effort of true philanthropy towards those industrious rl4,ses or our felow countrymen who are yearly transporting their snrp'us labour, and sma 1 modicum of spiral, too often with little discrimination a; to the best market for them, arid encountering, as ihe result, disappointment and run. T he extract below we recommend to the attention of our emigrating friends:— " HINTS TO EMIGRANTS TO THE NORTH AMERICAN PROVINCES. "1. Caution toprovide means for subsistence and trans port after arrival.—M any emigrants having latterly been found to rtly on public funds for their assistance in the colonies, they are hereby warned that they have no claim of right nn such fund, and that they should provide them• selves with sufficient means of their own for their sub sistence and c nveyance into the interior fiora the port where they land. " 2. Tools.—lt is not gnnerally considered desirab!e that agricultural labourers should take out implements of husbandry, as these can be easily procured in the colo nies ; but artisans are recommended to take such tools as they mar posses., if not very bulky. "3. Time to arrive io the colony.—The best period is early in May, so as to he in time to take advantage of the spring and summer wo►k, and to get settled before the winter sets in. " 4. L.ngth of Passage.—The average to Qu-bec is 46 days, and to the other North American Colonies rather less: but by the P...s.,engers' Act (5 and 0 Vic.. c , ip. 107) provisions are required to he hid in for 70 days, to which period pa s sages are sometimes protracted. "5. Maintenance on arrival, ecc.—Passengers are en titled by law to be maintained on hoard in the same man ner as during the passage for 48 hours after arrival, unless within that time the ship sl ould quit the port in the pro- Isecution of her voyage. The water of the river St. Lawrence is stated to have a strong tendency to produce bowel corrphtints in stramers. It should at first, there fore, be drunk as sparinely as possible. '•6. Colonial Tax on Emigrant s. —Tho only British Colonies in which a capitation tax is levied in respect of emigrants, are Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward's Island. The tax is one dollar, or ss. currency (equal to about 4s. 2d. sterling), payab'e by the master cf the ship on each adult coming from the United Kingdom, reckoning every person above fourteen, and two children between seven and fourt-en, and three children under seven years of age, as an adult. No charge is made on children under one year of age. " 7. Caution not to refuse good wages.—Until emi grants become acquainted with the labour of the country, their services are of comparatively small value to their employers. They should, therefore, be careful not to fall into the common error of refusing reasonable wages on their first arrival." SELECTIONS. THE " MARINE OF THE GUARD'S" STORY. From Tom Burke of " Ours." " The ' Blanche' was under orders for St. Domingo, and was no way anxious to have our company ; and before a week was over, we were drafted into a small sloop of war, carrying eight guns, and called the ' She was bound for England with despatches from Nelson, one of their English admirals they're always talking about. This little craft could sail like the wind, but she was crowded with sick and invalided men from some foreign station, and there was not a place the size of a dog-kennel on board of her that was not occupied. As for us, we were only prisoners ; and you may think they wern't very particular about our comforts, and so they ranged us along under the bulwarks to leeward, for they wouldn't spoil her sailing trim by suffering us to sit to windward; and there we were, drenched to the skin, and shivering from day to dark. " Four days went over in this way, when, on the fifth, about eight o'clock in the morning, the look-out an nounced several strange sail in sight, and the same instant we perceived the officers setting the glasses to observe them. We could remark that the sight did not seem to please them much, but more we knew not, for we were not allowed to stand up, nor look over the bulwarks. The lieutenant of the watch called up the commander, and when he came on deck he ordered the men to cram on snore sail, and hold her head a point or so off the wind ; and, as soon as it was done, the rushing noise at the cut water told the speed she was making through the sea. It was a fine day, with a fresh breeze, and a nice curl from the water ; and it was a handsome thing to see how the bent to the gale and rose again, her canvass white as SLIOW and steady as a board ; and we soon knew from the er of the officers, and the anxious looks they'd give • ward from time to time, that another vessel was in chase of the Fawn. Not a man stirred on the deck, save the lieutenant of the watch, whot”lked the quarte r deck, and deek with his glass in his ha nd, now lifting it to his now throwing a glance aloft to see how the sails were drawing. .4 . she's gsining on us, sir , cried cried the boatswain, as h e went aloft to the lieutenant. Shall we ease her off a little more?' " No, no,' said he impatiently, ' She's coming I' over-hand now. Clear the deck, and prepare for lion.' "My heart jumped to my throat as I heard the words; and waiting until the lieutenant's back was turned, I stole my eyes above the bulwark, a•ol beheld the tall masts and taper spars of a frigate, all covered with canvas, about two miles astern of us. She was a good sized craft, appa rently of thirty-eight guns; but what I liked best about her was the broad tricolor that fluttered from her mast head. Every curl that floated on the breeze whispered liberty to my heart. " 'You know her,' said the lieutenant, laying his hand on my shoulder, before I was aware he was behind me. • What is she ?' " ' Lend me your glass, lieutenant, and perhaps I can into my you,' said 1, and with that he gave the telescope my hands, and leaned on the bulwark beside me. 'Ha !' said I, as soon as I caught the side of her hull, " I ought to know her well. 1 sailed in her for two years and a half. She's the " Creole," of thirty-eight guns, the fast est frigate in our navy. She has six carronades on her quarter deck, and never goes to sea without three hun dred and twenty men.' " • If she bad three tiers of them we'd not flinch from her,' said a voice from behind. It was the commander himself, who was now in full uniform, and wore a belt with four pistols stuck around it. "There is no use in denying it, the English prepared for action like brave fellows, and soon cleared the deck of everything in the way of the guns, but what use was it. In less than an hour the " Creole" worked to windward, and opened a fire from her long guns, to which the other could make no reply. There they came plumping in, some into the hull, some splintering through the bulwarks, and some crashing away through the rigging, and all the crew could do, was to repair the mischief the distant can nonade was making. " It's a cowardly way your countrymen come into action aeter all,' said the lieutenant, as he watched the shot hopping and skipping along the water to leeward. ' With four times our strength, they don't bear down and engage us.' " As he spoke, a shot cut the peak halyards in two, and down came the spars with a crash, carrying with it in its fall that ensign they're so proud of. It was all we could do, prisoners as we were, not to cheer at this; but the faces around us did riot encourage us to such a course, and we sat silently watching them. " The moment the accident happened, twenty stout fel lows were clambering up the rigging, and as many more engaged to repair the mischief; but suddenly tie com mander whispered something to the lieutenant—the men were called down again, and the craft was let fall off the wind, trailing the tads and the tangled rigging over her sides. " • And the prisoners, sir,' said the lieutenant, at the close of something I could not hear. " • Send them below,' was the short reply. " We cannot, the space between decks is crowded to suffocation, but here she conies.' And, as he spoke, the frigate came bearing down, in gallant style, her whole deck I swarming with men. " • Down —men, down'—whispered the lieutenant, and he dropped on his knee, behind the bulwark, and motioned to the rest to kneel—and I now perceived that every sailor had a drawn cutlass in his hand, and pistols in his belt, as be lay crouching on the deck. The frigate was now so close, I could hear the commands of the officers on the quarter-deck, and the word Bas les branles,' the signal to board, passed from mouth to mouth. The next instant she closed on us, and showed her tall sides, towering abole us. " ' Now, men,' cried the commander of the ' Fawn,' now, forward. All who care to live. there's your ground,' said he, pointing to the frigate. ' Such as Ike to die on a British deck, remain with me.' The boarders sprang up the side of the ' Creole' before the crew could fasten the grapples. Tonnerre de Dieu, what a moment it was. The fellows cheered like madmen, as they poured in to certain death—the lieutenant himself was one of the first on board, and fell back the same instant, dead upon his own deck. The struggle was a bloi.dy, but a brief one— for a few minutes the English pressed our men back, and gained a footing on the quarter deck, but a murderous fire trom the tops cut them down in numbers, and they now fought, not for victory, but vengeance. " ' Now, cap'ain, now,' screamed a youth, in a lieuten ant's uniform, but all covered with blood—and his face gashed with a cutlass wound, as he leaned over the bul wark of the Creole,' and waved his cap in the air. " I'm ready,' replied the English commander, and sprang down the main hatchway, as he spoke, with a pistol in his hand. At the same instant, a fearful cry burst forth from the prisoners, tor, with the instinct of despair, they guessed his de4perate resolve was to blow up the vessel. We were tied, wrist to wrist, and the rope run through the blocks in such a way, as to prevent our mov ing more than a few inches—but what will not the fear of a dreadful death do ? With one unanimous effort we tore the lashings in pieces, and got free. I was myself the first at liberty, and sprang towards the Creole.' Alas ! they had divined the awful doom awaiting us, and were endea vouring to shove off at once. Already there were some ten or twelve feet between the vessels. I rushed forward to gain the bowsprit, a vague hope of escape suggesting the effort. As I did so, my eyes caught sight of a book, which, with his hat, the captain threw from him as he hastened below. I stooped down, and put it in my bosom —why, I knew not. Life, and life only, was my thought at that moment. Then, with lightning's speed, I ran along the deck, and out on the bowsprit. At this instant the frigate shot ahead of us—l made a leap, the last effort ofdespair, and caught theflue of the anchor—a friendly hand threw me a rope, and dragged me on the deck—as I gained it, a thunder clap, louder than ten broadsides, broke forth, and the frigate fell over on one side, as if sinking—while over her rigging and masts flew spars and timbers, blazing and burning, am;rl a black smoke. that filled the air on every side. Evety roan about dropped wounded, or ter rified, on the deck—where they lay, amid the falline fire of the wreck, and the terrible carnage. 1 wiped the blood from my eyes, for 1 was bleeding profusely from a splinter cut, and looked about me. The deck was a mass of dead and dying ; their piercing cries and groans were mad. dening to bear. The frigate, however, was flying fast throt:h the water—the ' Fawn' was gone !" " 7'ele bleu ! he blew her up," said three or four in a breath. Paul nodded, and resumed—" Av, comrades, and the half-dozen of her crew who stood alive on her quarter deck cheered the explosion as if it was a victory ; and one fellow, as he lay bleeding on the planks, cried out, ' See there; look if our gay flag is not high above you's, as it always will be,' and that time he was right, for the spar that bore it was nigh the clouds." WELLINGTON AMONG THE PEERS FOR THE FIRST TIME.—It happened to be my duty, when I was Chancel lor. upon the Duke of Wellington's first coming into the Muse of Lords, to return him the thanks of the house for his great services to his country. I em not aware of any other instance in the peerage of an indivi.lual being, at his first entrance into the ht,use. a baron, a visclunt, an earl, a marquis, and a duke, having had from time to time each title conferred upon him for distinct services to his country. 1 made the singular fact a distinct and leading topic in my address to him. Individuals of the loyal family may have been introduced, having by patent all the dignities of one moment conferred up in them by royal favour. But this nobleman rose, from time to time, from one dignity to another, until he had every dignity, each conferred by distinct grants, and upon diff: rent oc casions for different services, and all those rendered t, the country before he could return to it to take his seat after the grant of the dignities.—Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon. EARLY PRINTING PRESSES.— A famou s Cll9 Badius Ascen s i anus . h as exhibited tti P s press in tl,e title page of a book printed by him in 1498. Up to the middle of the last century this rude press was i n ns e i n England; although the press of an ingenious Dutch me chanic, Blaew,—in which the pressure was rapidly com municated frotn the screw to the types, and all t h e parts of the press were yielding so as to produce a sharp but not a crushing impression,—was gradually superseding it. The early printers manufactured their own ink, so that Caxtf , n had to learn the art of ink-making. The ink was applied to the types by balls, or dabbers, such as one of the men holds who is working the press of Badius. Such dabbers were universally used in printing thirty years ago. As the ancient weaver was expected to make his own loom, so, even this short time s'nce, the division of labour was so imperfectly applied to printing, that the pressman was expected to make his own balls. A very rude and nasty process this was. The sheep-skins, called pelts, were prepared in the printing-o ffi ce, where the wool with which they were stuffed was also carded ; and these balls, thus manufactured by a man whose general work was entirely of a different nature, required the expendi ture of at least half an hour's labour every day in a very disagreeable operation, by which they were kept soft. — Biography of William Caxton. VALUE OF SALT AS A MANURE.—At a recent meeting of the Broomsgrove Farmers' Club, reported in the British Farmers' Magazine, the following letter was read from Mr. Mathews, of Park Hall, near Kidderminster, addressed to Mr. H. F. Fardon :—" If salt were found only on the shores of South America, and imported here at the price of guano, I think it would be in more general use than it is at present. Its value no one attempts to question, but nevertheless its application is very limited. My experience of its effects is confined to light soils; and upon such, I know of no article so greatly and so gene rally beneficial. Its copious use to every description of stock I regard as indispensible. For turnips, barley, clover, and wheat, it is equally beneficial, used either as a top-dressing or worked into and incorporated with the soil. Nor is it of value only as regards an increase of produce, for I have always found the quality greatly im proved where it has been used largely. The fold-yard should have an abundant supply ; it should be applied at the least once in every week. Upon grass lands, whether upland pastures or watered meadows, I have found its use alike advantageous. I have generally applied it in the form of a compost with soils, but I do not consider this as ne cessary. Last spring I dressed a meadow of five acres with salt and soil, putting on about 30 cwt. per acre of :all; and the effect was most convincing both in the hay crop and aftermath. The sheep and cattle I turned into it had access to an adjoining meadow, and their preference for that which had been salted was really ludicrous ; they could not be induced to leave it when it was as bare as a common, while the other meadow had abundance of grass upon it. Pray do the community the good service of urging the more general use of salt, especially in the rye land district. I am satisfied that every man whom you can prevail upon to adopt its use largely, will ultimately thank you for the good you confer upon him." These letters, Mr. Farndon said, afford practical evidence of the value of salt, and 1 hope farmers on light land will try it. Salt may operate in fixing ammonia by convert ing the volatile carbonate of ammonia into the fixed muriate, being converted itself into carbonate of soda, a valuableeliffehecttof consistent of manure. Salt may also benefit BritisdhryFraseronmidleerr is b n,z by its herbage attraction more alatrab l e and o its stock.— the Magazine. THE LIVERPOOL. STANIIARD. CHINESE GARDENS.—The Chinese Gardens are of a peculiar character, and differ altogither from ours in their arrangements; while the care bestowed on them by their possessors exceeds any thing of which we could have formed an idea. To each branch, often even to each leaf of a tree or a shrub, th e u t mos t p a i ns are t a k en to give appropriate turn; and thegardeners may be seen sitting con stantly beside the plants, and employed in binding and pruning them, in order to accomplish the desired form. The production of th e grea t es t var i e ty an d co ntrast of colours is the chief object of the Chinese flower-gardeners. Strangers to refinement and tender emotions, the Chinese have no taste for pure and tranquil enjoyment which the perfumes of sweet-scented flowers yield. It is only in gaudy colours, and by a marvellous skill in developing singular growths that the Chinese gardener excels. Long and straight alleys run directly through their gardens. and are bordered by low trees of one and the same species. Citrons and Shaddocks are cultivated assiduously, not old/ for the adornment of the gardens, but also for the well-known Chinese preserved citron. For this purpose they use chiefly the smaller fruits, three or four inches long, which are boiled in refined sugar. The larger fruits of monstrous shape are of the shaddock kind, and are from six to seven inches long, while the several seg ments extend singly in all directions. In the gardens these odd-shaped fru ts, as well as the sweet oranges, with which whole plots are planted, have a neat appearance, as they do not allow any trunk to form, but force them at once to spread into branches. Large borders are to be seen planted with camellia japonica, and others with cock combs, some with white, others with yellow or red flowers. —Coptain Pidding's Chinese Olio. LORD ELDON AS A WOOER.—After taking his degree young Scott (afterwards Lord Eldon) continued to reside as fellow, meaning at the proper age to take holy . orders, and looking to a college living as his ultimate provision for life ; but during the long vacation in the north he saw at Sedgefield Church a Miss Elizabeth Surtees, and the s , ght appears to have determined his career. The lady was just then of the perilous age—susceptible seventeen — and reciprocated the tenderness with which she was re garded by the embryo Chancellor. Her father, however, (a banker,) little foreseeing the fortunes of the suitor, became alarmed, and to put her out of reach of danger, sent her to a relation at Henley-upon-Thames. From that she did not return until after the vacation had expired, and Oxford (as the reviewer remark:) " is within an easy lover's journey of Henley." The following summer John again visited Newcastle. Among the aspirants for the lady's band was a rich old widower, whose suit was se conded by the father. It was now John's time to be alarmed. " Whatever accelerated the romance it galloped to a conclusion ; for on a moonless night in September, 1772, Miss Bessy trusted herself to a ladder : a postchaise was ready—the fucitives were safe across the border before either of them was missed, and married early next day at Blackshields—not, however, by a blacksmith, nor even by a justice of peace, but by an episcop .1 minister." Both fathers were displeased, hut ultimately relented, the gen tleman's first, and a small provision made for them, Mr. Surtees agreeing to pay £1001) as his daughter's portion, and Mr. Scott settling £2OOO on his son. They were then remarried, "in jade eeelesiee, in presence of both families, and set off for the south."—Life of Lord Eldon. BRUMMELL'S TAILOR. Brummell's tailors were Schweitzer and Davidson, in Cork-street, Weston, and a German of the name of Meyer, who lived in Conduit street. The Stultzes and Nugees, &c., did, I believe, exist in those days; but they were not then held in the same estimation as their more fortunate brethren of the shears. Schweitzer and Meyer worked for the Prince; and the latter had a page's livery, and on great occasions superintended the adornment of his Royal Highness's person. The trouser, which opens at the bottom of the leg, and was closed by buttons and loops, was invented either by Meyer or Brummell—the beau, at any rate, was the first who wore them, and they immediately became quite the fashion, and continued so for some years. A good-humoured baronet, and brother Etonian of his, who followed him at a humble distance in his dress, told me that he went to Schweitzer's one morning to get properly rigged out, and that while this talented purveyor of habi liments was measuring him, he asked him what cloth he recommended ? " Why, Sir," said the arliste, " the Prince wears superfine, and Mr. Brummell the Bath coating; but it is immaterial c‘hich you choose, Sir John, you must be right ; suppose, Sir, we say Bath coating— I think Mr. Brummell has a trifle the preference." Brummell's good taste in dress was not his least recom mendation in the eyes of the Prince of Wales, by whom his advice on this important subject was constantly snught, and, for a long time, studiously followed. Mr. Thomas Raikes says, in his " France,' that his Royal Highness would go of a morning to Chesterfield-street to watch the progress of his friend's toilet, and remain till so late an hour that he sometimes sent away his horses, and insisted on Brummell's giving him a quiet dinner, which generally ended in a deep potion.—Brummell's Life. THE COD FISHERIES OF NEWFOUNDLAND. The discovery of North America, and the commencement of the cod fishery on its coast, were nearly contemporane ous. As early as the year 1515, numbers of French, Spanish, and Portuguese ships frequented the banks of Newfoundland. The English, already engaged in the fisheries along the shores of Iceland, had not as yet made a push into those more distant western seas. In tne early part of the 17th century, England began to estimate the exhaustless fisheries of North America at their real value, as matter for peat national consideration ; and thus, during the successive reigns of Edward IV., Eliza beth, James, and William and Mary, various Acts of Parliament were passed. and regulations made for their encouragement and protection. But, notwithstanding the increased value of the fisheries thus foster-d by the parent state, and carried on by the colonists of New Eng land and Newfoundland, both, together, were in magni tude less than those tollowed by the French bef,:re the conquest of Cape-Breton. France, by the s e fisheries alone, increased her navy to an extent that rendered it formidable to all Europe. From the journal of Sir Wm. Pepperell. who commanded the New England troops at the capture of Louisburg, in 1715, it appears that the value of one year's fishery in tne North American seas, which depended on France possess'ng Cape-Breton, aas £1,000,000 sterling,. Compared with this, the most pro mising phases which the fisheries of the island have as sumed, at any time since its coionizatinn by England, are but melancholy and deplorable. At the present moment they have reached the very lowest point of depression. Can nothing be done to breathe into th9u new fife and vigour ? Are croak , rs ever to be listened to, and the it lazy. self-seeking, self-indulging policy to be adopted ? We trust not. A scheme for forming a Joint-Stock Company to carry on the cod and seal fisheries from Louisburg, will shortly be brought under the considera tion of our mercantile men, by N. H. Mar•in, Esq., a gentleman intimatrly conversant with the trade of the island ; and we enter►ain no doubt of its practicability.— Simrnorof's Colonial Magazine. EARLY Imens,-stoNs.—" I have seen it remarked," says Lord Eldo.. in hi,. Anecdotes Book, (1837,) " that something wh c to eirly south cap'iv.tes attention, in fluences tut it li ein all s'ages 1 c +me up from New cas.le in a c a , ll then rteronn•nated, on account of its quick trio r 1 tog eking was then estim,ted, a fly; heir„ as ue l s I retin-mner, neyer.heless, three or four days and wgi.t , on the road. There was no such veloclr as to end,,e • ov.-rtiirrung, or other mischief. On the pan ;s of the c. 0., re putted ihe words Sat eito, st sot bene, [t. e. quick enough, if well enough.] —words which male a most lasting impre , simi on my wind, and have had the .r , nflar nee upon my conduct in all subse quent life. Thy ir effect was heightened by circumstances (luring and imineliately after the journey. A Quaker, w h o w as a fellow-traveller, stopped the coach at the inn at Tuxford, desired the chambermaid to come to the coach door, and gave her a sixpence, telling her that he forgot to give it her when he slept there two years b fJre. I was a very saucy boy, and said to him, ' Friend, have you seen the motto on this coach ?'—' No.'—' Tnen look at it ; for I think giving her only sixpence now is neither sat cilo nor sat bene.' After I got to town, my brother met me at the White Horse in Fetter-lane, Holborn, then the great Oxford-house. lie took me to see the play at Drury-lane. Love playei Jobson in the farce, and Miss Pope played Nell. When we came out of the house it rained hard. There were then a few hackney coaches, and we got both into one sedan chair. Turning out of Fleet-street into Fetter-lane, there was a sort of contest between chairmen. Our sedan chair was overset with us i judicial, a d l i l cal, that La v r e e a h l a w d ay t to feltdti an o i 'Phis, thought 1, is more than sat cito, and it cer tainly t s at t? thisbene. e —) y ln professionalsiloarntd admonition on the panels of the vehicle which conveyed me from school. Sat cito, si sat bene. It was the impression of this which made me that deliberative judge—as some have said, too deliberative ; and reflection upon all that is past will not authorise me to deny that, whilst I have been thinking sat cilo, si sat bene, I may not have sufficiently recollected sat bene, si sat cito." APPROACH TO CALCUTTA.—The first view of Bengal- India gives the longing voyager a dreary pang of disap pointment owing to the low, ugly, and inhospitable shores of Saugor Island, with scarcely a sign of cheering civiliz ation, or any tokens of a thickly-populated land. This desolating appearance, and the corresponding sensation which it excites in the stranger's breast, arises from the peculiar circumstance of there being no town at the mouth of the river, nor any mark of one as far as the eye can reach. Ativing at Madras, for instance, the city, forti fications, and all oppidan appurtenances, burst upon you while you are yet at sea, and you at once feel that you are cast among a civilized community ; but Bengal frowns upon you, and you experience no temptation to explore her farther. Sail on, however, in the true hope which should always sustain those adventurous spirits who go down to the sea in great ships, and you will be richly re warded for your primary disappointment. Viewed from the magnificent bend of the river, denominated Garden Reach, where the town just opens on the apptoaching vessel, the coup d'(eil is one of various and enchanting beauty. Houses like palaces are studding the bank on the proper left of the river, and a verdure like that of an eter nal summer, renovates the eye so long accustomed to the glitter of the ocean. Anon, on your left appears the semi-gothic Bishop's College; and in front of you, every moment growing more distant, are beheld a forest of stately masts, a noble fortress, a thousand small boats new and undreamt of by the visitant, skimming over the stream ; the larger vessels of the country, pleasant to look upon even for their strange dissymmetry and their consequent unwieldiness ; the green and goose-shaped budgerow lying idle for hire, and the airy little bauleahs, with ther light venetian rooms, which seemed fitted for the water-bovrers of lovers in some of the lakes of those sunny isles which poets are wont to sing of, and where the breezes are never stronger than can be borne by silken sails. There cannot he a scene so beautiful, connected with the business and bustle of life, and the heart of the traveller feels light within him as he views it. He experiences indefinable emotions of joy, and he imagines he is in a country in which he could dwell unrepiningly for ever, voluntarily debarred from the prospect of ever again beh(tiding the gloomier shores of England.—Slocqueler's India. COFFEE HOUSES IN DAMASCUS.—DMRSCUA is cele brated for the number and elegance of its coffee-houses; they are for the most part built in the kiosk fashion, of wood painted different colours, green and blue pred oni nating, and open on the sides, except where partially closed with plants coiling up the slender columns that support the roof. The softened light that makes its way through the leafy walls forms a charming contrast with the intense glare of the sun glancing upon the waters, or reflected from the whitened walls of the houses of the town. Nor are they mote remarkable for their pictures que appearance than for their happily-chosen position, being generally situated on the border of some running stream, the view opening out on a pretty cascade, with gardens and orchards lying on the opposite bank. At night, when the lamps, suspended from the slender pillars, are lighted, the Turks of different ranks, in all the varieties of their rich costume, cover the platform, just above the surface of the river, on which and its foaming cataracts the moonlight rests, and the sound of music is heard, you fancy that if ever the enchantments of eastern romance are to be realised, it is here. THE OPIUM QUESTION IN CHlNA.—Memorials were presented to the emperor on both sides of the question : and his majesty Taeuk-wang, being old, and personally of feeble character, halted for a time "between the opinions," alternately yielding both to the one and the other, until he at length settled down into the old bigotry against change. and felt all the native prejudices of a true son of Han revive mote strongly than ever within his bosom. * * The question of the opium trade, or opium laws, which, for some time. had been really a party matter, like the corn-laws in our own country, became at length a question of interest and importance to the whole nation,. and was magnified in its relations by the very dis cussion of the points which it involved. It is said that the head of the reformer party (if it can so he called) in China was a Tartar lady. belonging to the emperor's court, remarkable for her abilities no less than her personal attractions, and possessed of certain very strong points of character, which made her as much feared by sonic as she was loved by others. She was soon raised even to the throne it-elf, as the emperor's wi'e, but lived only a few years to enjoy her power. Her influence soon came to be felt throuuhont the whole of that vast empire : it was the means of rewarding talent, and of detecting inability. She seemed to possess, in a marked degree, that intuitive dis cerr merit which sometimes bursts upon the female mind as if by inspiration. She was blessed with a tone and eneriy of character in advance of her age and of her country. She had many grateful Mends, but she had raised up for herself many bitter enemies; party feeling ran high, and became at length too powerful even for on empress. Gradually her influence diminished : the favour of the emperor declined, her opponents again got the upper hand, and at length she pitied away under the effects of disappointment and perhaps injustice, and died. But her influence, so long as it lasted, was unbounded, and was felt through every province. Her principal adherents and dependents naturally lost their power when that of their mistress was gone. The question of more extended trade with foreigners was now again set aside; the old feelings of bigotry and national pride resumed even more than their former vigour. Opium at once bec ime the in strument, but ostensibly patriotism became the ground work of their measures. The old national feeling against foreigners throughout the empire was revived ; and, in the midst of it all, as if ordained to hasten on the momentous crisis which waited for its fulfilment, the son of the em peror himself died in his very palace, from the effects of the excessive use of opium. —Voyage of the Nemesis. IMPROVED SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT.—The Euro pean, by which we more particularly mean the native of Great Britain, may not change his soul with his skies, but his manners assuredly undergo, in India, a remarkable metamorphosis. Accustomed in youth to habits of obe dience to authority, deference to superiors, and civility to equals, he cannot support with becoming equanimity the comparatively elevated position in which he finds himself placed. Invested at once with difficulty, or treated by his personal domestics, and the traders with whom he may traffic, with abject humility, he naturally conceives a much higher opinion of his own merits than he ever en tertained before, and hence is begotton an overweening amour propre, which thenceforth, more or less, influences his character through life. With this difference, however, and the adoption of a costume and habits peculiar to the climate, the European is much the same as we find him elsewhere. Energetic and active, courageous and specu lative, he performs the duties intrusted to him, or carries out his own plans of personal advantage, in a manner which excites the admiration and confidence of the people around him, and serves the country of his adoption. He is the upright and inflexible judge, the brave and adven turous soldier, the dauntless and skilful navigator, and the calculating and enterprising merchant. Even his pastimes partake of the loftiness of his character, for he tearlessly encounters the tiger in his lair, does battle with the wild boar, the bison, and even the untamed elephant, and, " witching the world with noble" equitation, ardently en courages every pursuit that serves to improve the horse, and render him more serviceable to the purposes of man. All that the Englishman might do, or might have done, for the benefit and advancement of the people who have fallen under British rule, has not, however, been accom plished. For more than one half of the period of our do minion, the natives were treated as a people who existed only as minstrants to temporary British interests; we drained the country of its wealth, and offered no compen sation for the heavy appropriation. But a better spirit has arisen of late years, and a sound and liberal policy is gradually taking the place of the narrow system of govern ment which erst rendered British rule in the East a bye word and reproach. 'I he lights of European science are spreading themselves over the Eastern world. Colleges and schools upon a considerable scale are established at all the great towns; offices of tru-t are rendered accessi ble to the intelligent and the upright native ; Englishmen have unlimited permiss . on to setae in the towns and agri cul,ural districts, and introduce improvements in machi nery and culture; the science of medicine is fre , ly taught, and the qualified practitioner in the healing art distributed over the country. But we have elsewhere touched on these matters already, and need not allude to .hens here, further than to express a hope that every man whose for tune may carry him to India will consider it personally incumbent upon him to return, in some degree, the bless ings of ease and competence, which the residence in the country may ultimately confer upon him, by an endeavour to improve the condition of its interesting population.— Slocqueler's THE DESCENT OF THE PRECIPTCE.—By this time I had grasped the chain firmly with troth hands, and with the resolve of one who felt life depend nn his own firm ness, I began the descent. The old man's voice. as he muttered a prayer for my safety, grew fainter and fainter, till at length it ceased to reach my ears altegetl.. r. Then for the first time did my heart sink wit hitt tee. The words of one human being, faint arid broken by distance, sues rested a sense of sympathy, which nerved my euurase arid braced my arm ; but the dreary silence that followed, only broken by the booming of the sea below. wasawtul beyond measure. Hand belt w hand I went, the space seeming never to lessen, as I strained my eyes to catch the cliff where the first rope ended. Tame, as in some fearful dream, scented protracted to years long ; and I already anticipated the moment when, my strength fail rig. ley hands would relinquish their bold, and I should se dashed upon the dark rocks below. The very sea-bi ds which I startled in my descent, wheeled round my head, piercing the air with their shrill cries, and as if impat eat ft r prey. Above my head, the frowning cliff beetled darkly; below, a depth unfathomable seemed to stretch, from whose black abyss arose the wild sounds of beating waves. More than once, too, I thought that the rope had given way above, and that I gas actual'y filing through the air, i h ll f flashe d aoietnhtf onihaf: heart, anoe d ega de, teisreseidrtteel h sme., ng:t e ,ffnrsora l ii d eaunnnonkg,pgsfedptou m swhirwo.:l y :i;sirssmicyoiuia L coi:cnect r unkdgati e t reshrni that a ni,:god t teegey h w dtsnlohnbia, beneath, n tlel leilotpugroe i aharnp:t l ~ , rmsmhrh. c tshtaa r eaa r i yei :Ind, r dunded o ce,dcratt r tvotooLitoh E olttei deofhla,mdrnb t ekimp l t.ni delhir e ee.iis n ouisTtsunftwier Idkehoratn a ,:rt:ii u g o:rleereae a ue:,:adm i igfwp r es:d i rladw t y leesi si e tt,abia.iotolioti s i dteeu l de r idea seconds ss safety ; but the fearful conviction of greater danger as suddenly succeeded. The rope I had so long trusted ter minated tere : the end hung listlessly on the rock ; and from thence to the brow of the cliff nothing remained to afford a grip, save the short moss and the dried ferns, withered with the sun. The surface of this frightful ledge sloped rapidly towards the edge, where was the rock around which the rope was tied. Fatigued by my pre vious exertion, I sat down on that moss-grown cliff, and gazed out upon the sea, along which the cutter came, proudly dashing the spray from her bows, and bending gracefully with every wave. She was standing fearlessly in, for the wind was off the land ; and, as she swept along, I could have fancied her directly beneath my very feet. Arousing myself from the momentary stupor of my faculties, I began to creep down the cliff; but so slippery had the verdure become by the heat, that I could barely sustain myself by grasping the very earth by my fingers. A loud " Holloa!" was shouted from the craft, and arose in many an echo around me. I tried to reply, but could not. A second cheer saluted me, but I did nut endeavour to answer it. The moment was full of peril: I had come to the last spot which offered a hold, and below me, at some feet. lay the rock, hanginsr, as it were, over the pre cipice. It seemed to me as though a sea-bird's weight might have sent it thundering into the depth beneath. The moon was on it, and 1 could see the rope coiled twice around it, and knotted carefully. What would I have given in that terrible minute for one tuft of grass, one slender bough, even enough to have sustained my weight for a second or two, with I should grasp the cord ! But none was there. A louder cry from the cutter now rang in my ears, and the dreadful thought of destruction now flashed on me. I fixed my eyes on the rock to mea sure the place, and then, turning with my face towards the cliff, 1 suffered myself to slip downwards. At first I went slowly, then faster and faster. At last my legs passed over the brow of the precipice. I was falling ! My head reeled. I uttered a cry, and, in an agony of despair, threw out my hands. They caught the rope. Knot after knot slipped past my fingers in the descent ere my senses became sufficiently clear to know what was occurring; but even then, the instinct of self-preservation was stronger than reason, for I afterwards learned from the boat's crew with what skill I guided myself along the face of the cliff, avoiding every difficulty of the jagged rocks, and tracking my way like the most experienced climber. I stood upon a broad flat rock, over which white sheets of foam were dashing. 0 how I loved to see them curling on my feet! I could have kissed the bright water, on which the moonbeams sported, for the moment of danger was passed. The shadow of a dreadful death had moved _ tdee p hat w to e i r l e e d u s a n n u d t h f i e g t t i e u d th ab a r o u l t from my s o u l. Wh a t care d I now for the boiling me, I minded v e p l ungingand , ss from my struggles. -- dragged on board almost life le g ande so s urf e when the not the oft-repeated warnings of the sa ilors, but , was in, I dashed towards her on a retr eatin g wa ve, Turn Burke of " Ours." emscealpedThferodma7 AN INDIAN TEMPERANCE ORATOR.—The Arkansas Intelligencer. an American paper, published a speech of sterline eloquence. as having been recently delivered by Ily M' Intoeh, a Creek Indian, at a recent council meet ing of his tribe. The fellowing passages are admirable— the genuine oratory of nature : " The strength of our people is like the oak in the forest ; the limbs, the leaves, and the fruit, are green and rich ; its branches are heavy and fine, and under its shade the wild animals rest, and the birds sit upon its boughs. So with our young men : their limbs are strong ; they are swift, arid their hearts are very brave and wise; they are a shelter arid protection to their wives, and their children sit in their arms. " But the lightning of the storm, when it opens a bright path through tee black cloud, can strike the oak, and lay its beauty in the dust—bring low its strength and grandeur. " S , r the lightning from the evil fire-water strikes my people ; then they reel, stagger, and fall ; they stab their friends, and are no longer a protection to their lodges; they cannot stand in the might of metal ead, but they wallow in the mud like a beast. " Warriors ! who of you is not brave ?—who of you is not wise ?—who of you is not swift?—who of you would fear to strike a foe? Your arm is long—you may reach your enemy ; your cunning is great, and can hide you from him; but the evil spirit is strong, and eats the heart. Who can stand, arid the fire-water burning his veins? Can the warrior touch him, and not fear ?—can he take him into his bosom, and not fall? The warrior has love for his home, his people, and his honour—the evil spirit has none, and seeks to destroy the warrior's. Who will suffer it? Who will be tamed by the hot liquor till he is like a kicked dog ? aho will rot Ifc his arm and say. This enemy—this fire-water—shall be gone, and shall destroy no more ? ' Warriors! your strength, your wis dom, your conning, say, ' Touch no whisky.' Husbands, fathers, and brothers ! your love, your happiness, your homes, cry against the evil spirit, and your young chil dren are fearful. Who shell teach them bravery, wisdom, and love, if the father be dead in liquor ? " Brothers ! our brave and great brethren, the Chero kees and Choctaws, have passed laws prohibiting the traffic in fire-water. They ate wise; their chiefs are cun ning, and they scent the, enemy. The law is doing them good ; I heir lodee hearths and their fields are green ; they sit down in peace, and rise refreshed. Let us follow their example. If we make a good law on this subject, and carry it into effect, our people will also smite, our chil dren will laugh, our women be strong, and our nation will be happy." CLEVER EXPLOIT OF MEXICAN TDIEVES.—The fol lowing instance of prigging is worthy the particular atten tion of the London swell mob ; and I euestion if it has been surpassed in adroitness, for some time past, in that notorious city, where boys are regularly tau.iht the sci ence of thieving, from the simple pilfer of a handkerchief, to the compound abstraetijn of a gold watch and guard chain .—As a certain learned judge in Mexico, some time since, wilked one morning into court, he thought he would examine whether he was in time for business ; and, feel ing for his repeater—found it was not in his pocket. "As usual," said he to a friend who accompanied him, as he Passed throngt the crowd near the door—" As usual, have again left my watch at home under my pillow." He went on the bench and thought no more of it. The court adjourned, aed he returned home. As soon as he was quietly seated in his parlour, he bethought him of his timepiece, and turning to his wife, reque-ted her to send for it to their chamber. " But, my dear judge," said she, " I sent it to you three hours ago !" " Sent it to me, my dear ? Certainly not." " Unquestionably," replied the lady, " and by the person you sent for it . 1 " Th e person I sent for it 1" echoed the judge. " Precisely, my (leer, the very person you sent for it ! You had not left home more than an hour, when a well-dre sse d man knocked at the door and asked to see me. He brought one of the finest turkies I ever saw ; and said, that on your way to court, you met an Indian with a number of fowls, and having bought this one, quite a bargain, you had given him a couple of reals to bring it home; with the request that I would have it killed, picked. and pat to cool, as you intended to invite your brother judges to a dish of moll 6 with you to-morrow. And, Oh ! by the way, senorita," said he, ' his excellency, the judge, re quested me to ask you to give yourself the trouble to go to your chamber and take his watch from under the pillow, where he says he left it, as usual, this morning, and send it to him by me.' And, of course, mi querido, I did so." " You did ?" said the judge. " Certainly," said the lady. " Well," replied his honour, " all 1 can say to you, my dear, is, that you are as great a goose, as the bird is a turkey. You've been robbed, madam ; the man was a thief ;—I never sent for my watch ;—you've been imposed on ;—and, as a necessary consequence, the confounded watch is lost for ever ! The trick was a cunning one ; and, after a laugh, and the restoration of the judge's good hu mour by a good dinner, it was resolved actually to have the turkey for to-morrow's dinner, and his honour's brothers of the bench to enjoy so dear a morsel. Ac cordingly, after the adjournment of the court next day, they all repaired to his dwelling, with appetites sharpened by the expectation of a raee repast. Scarcely had they entered the sala and exchanged the ordinary salutations, when the lady broke forth with congratulations to his honour upon the recovery of his stolen watch. " How happy am I," exclaimed she, " that the villain was ap prehended." " Apprehended !" said the judge with sur prise. "Yea ; and doubtless convicted, too, by this time," said his wife. " You are always talking riddles," replied he. " Explain yourself, my dear. I know nothing of thief, watch, or conviction." "It can't be possible that I have been again deceived." quon the lady ; " but this is the story :—About one o'clock to-day, a pale and rather interesting young gentleman, dressed in a seedy suit of black, came to the house in great haste—almost out of breath. tie said that he was just from court ; that he was one of the clerks ; that the great villain who had had the audacity to steal your honour's watch had just been arrested, that the evidence was nearly perfect to convict him, and all that was required to complete it was the turkey,' which must be brought into court, and for that he had been sent with a porter by your express orders." " And you gave it to him ;" "Of course I did ; who could have doubted him, or resisted the orders of a judge 7" Watch and turkey—both gone ! pray, what the devil, madam, are we to do for a d nner ?" But the lady had taken care of her guests, notwithstanding her simplivity, and the party enjoy e d both the joke and their viands.—Mover's Mexico. GENERAL MISCELLANY. For the Taunton Theatre, which was offered for sale by auction last week, there was not a sintde bidder. Dalmas has been removed to the Penitentiary, prepa ratory to b•ing transported for life. Lord Northland's valet was apprehended on Tuesday, in London, on a charge of having stolen from his lordship a £lO note. During the night he hanged hin self. The Home of Lords have decided unanimously that Sir Brooke William Brydg-s, Bait., had established his clit'm to the vacant barony of Fitzwolter. IRON.—At the Ironmasters' Quarterly Meetings, held la , t week, it was resolved riot to alter the present price of iron. the state of trade worraneng its continuance. SlNGrit,Aa Tv RN• OUT. —The singers and musicians at St. Micli.ei's Church, Tome, near Middleton, have turned out fir an advance of wages. At Winchester Ass7zes, a few day. ago, in a ease of manslaugh'er, the 'tuned Judge (Wighttnatt) decided that for a man to beat Iris wife, even with a small stick, was an illegal act. BRAZIL.—Her Majesty's packet Crane, Lieut. Lewis, R.N., from B-azil, arrived at Falmouth, on Friday list, bringing a freight of gold and diamonds to the value of £34 ,000. THE LATE MURDER IN SALFORD. — Thomas Stew, the man who is cha , g-Al with the wilful murder of Alice Nolan, appears to to recovering from the wound he infl:cted on himself, but slowly. EARLY CORN HARVEST.—A fine crop of rye, perfectly ripe, was cut on Thursday, on 11r. Baines's farm, at Barton, in the parish of Eccles, near the line of the Li verpool and Manchester Railway. The number of vessels which have gone to the African coast in search of guano is not less than 600 at the lowest estimate; and some persons even estimate it as high as 800, a great number of them being very large ships. COMMENCEMENT OF HARVEST.—A parcel of forty quarters of new oats was sold on Friday in Wakefield market. They were grown in the immediate neighbour hood of that town. The quality was very fine, and the price 13d. per stone. In the Bankruptcy Court, London, last week, the cer flcate of Mr. Palmer, a person who had purchased large quantities of colonial coffee, after he was insolvent, and sold them again immediately, at a loss of between £2OOO and £3OOO, was suspended tor twelve months. At a meeting of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, on Thursday last, Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, Bart., was elected president, and Samuel Cooper and William Lawrence, Esqrs., were elected vice presidents of the college for the ensuing year. On Saturday week, as one of the Manchester and Bury coaches was on its way to the latter town, the linch-pin of the off hind wheel fell out, and the wheel came off, and four passengers and the coachman were thrown from the top of the coach. One woman was killed on the spot. A lady of the name of Sigmond, said to be sister-in-law of Mr. Muntz, M.P., who left London on Saturday last, by the Ocean steamer for Rotterdam, proceeded to her cabin while the passengers were at dinner, locked herself in, and after divesting herself of a portion of her dress, jumped overboard and was drowned. . wound on by Mon day the ...... •••..... NS ,I , T.••••••• FIVE GENERATIONS.—On Sunday last, there were pre sent at the baptism of an infant, at Woodchester Church, his mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and great great-grandmother, that is, his grandmothers grand mother; which last walked no small distance twice to church on that day, hale and strong, and had attended the Lord's table—Glocester Chronicle. The Hon. W. R. Touchett stands remanded till next Friday. Mr. Smith is progressing favourably. Th e covered,bu A ll: v t, F f Lb r c uc e t d liat i tcisuse CIRCUMSTANCE.—DEATH ps o T u pAoN . s ecdE T .b_ h y e Dt b hE u e l A l in e T t He hd cal n L o itG gentlemenuTillNGw._ho attend him, that it is lodged between the fangs of the . vertebrae, having been stopped there in its progress and violent or e l d neAi n f n r tgp o ,oms althoughot injuring orrwmomt hana ot, thefnpaa shorti ms s s p eed i d n al overco Elizabethrmd. piece of coat which was carried into ay t n li s e fi Oscroft, nearly LIGHTNING.— The rheeveld, duration, was fatal in its 70 years of age, in the act of gather' y Has low Wood, a mile southmg bilberries , in Has of Mansfield, • her grandson and several effec hle t in company with the electric fluid and instantlyother persons, was struck by Mary Hind, also far expired ; another female, by the same shock,advancedin years, was severely in jured The children were and is not expected to survive. unhurt. on another spot adjoining, and escaped July 21, 1844. WEAR VEND or rOALS.—The usual statement of ths River Wear vend of coals for the half-year ending on the 30th of June last, as sworn to by the straithwen of the several collser;es, has just been published, from which 1t appears that the total ve id of coal in the period referred to was 175,974 chaldrons ; b e i ng 19.850 cbaldrous less than in the corresponding period of 1843. On Sunday morning, a fire broke out in the premises of Messrs. George Wilson and Co., lathe ani tool makers, Salford, which ended in the destruction of a great portion of those premises, as well as adjoining premises, in the ' occupation of Messrs. J. G. Lavino and Co., sizers, stiffeners, &e., and the property contained therein. The lois is about £5,000. THE Hops.—Great damage has been done to the plan tations in this district by the gale on Saturday night and Sunday morning. Poles have been thrown down in all directions, and an experienced planter states that not len than twenty thousand of duty has been blown away. In one plantation of between 30 and 40 acres the damage , is e-timated at four tons. Thi s a dd e d t o t h e s h o rt nes s of bine in Kent, and the extensive blight in Sussex, Inui t make the crop a short one.—Maidstone Intelligences. THE WESTMORELAND LAKES.—The company at the lakes during the last few weeks has been very numerouth The inns and lodging -houses at Bowness,Ambleside, Loe! Wood, and the Ferry, have been crowded. Amongst the anglers to be seen on Windermere, is a lady, who, by the bye, is no novice with the rod and line, busily engaged from morn tit night trolling for pike, spinning minnow for char, or bobbing for perch. She one day hooked se less than twenty-six fine pike. PROVISIONING THE NAVY.—Some idea may be formed of the vast expense of provisioning the navy, from the annexed statement of the stores taken by the Albion, 9° guns, when proceeding on her voyage to Gibraltar: 3,385 gallons of rum, I,ooolb. tea, B.ooBlb. sugar. 4,9981 6 . chocolate ' 1,9001 b. peas, 4.8001 b. p or k, 2.9901 b. beef, 10.80111). flour, 900 bags of bread, 89 gallons of vinegar , and 619,b. soap. The quantity of live stock, and fresh provisions, poultry, &c., was large in proportion.—Cos*' Examiner. ST. KATHARINE'S DOCKS.—At the half-yearly meeting of this company, l as t wee k, th e di v id en d o f 21 per cent. was declared. The statement of ships entered inwards for the last six months showed, compared with the same period of last year, an increase of 60 ships and 6930 tons, ihe respective numbers being 375 ships and 75,997 tone, and 435 ships and 82,927 t ons . Th e goo d s l an d e d d ur i n g the sam e p er i o d s h owe d an i ncrease of 424 tons, the de liveries TE an st incr e ase G i o N f T l E s6 a 9 g tons , sr._ and The r t e h the re goods at p warehoused an increase of 354 tons. " 21 4 2 vessels (exclusive of steam-packets) entered outwards at the London Custom-House, for foreign ports. Among these are—For Alqoa Bay, 7; Bombay, 9; Calcutta, 16; Ceylon, 4; Cape of Good Hope and Ichaboe, 8; Hob rt Town, Poit Philip, and Sydney, 10; Madras, 4 ; Victo ria, Macao, and Canton, &c., 3; West Indies, 16.—The number of ships of all nations that passed the Sound is June was—From the North Sea. 1633; from the Baltic, 984 ; total, 2617. The English ships were—From the North Sea, 373; from the Baltic, 249; total, 622. ROYAL ASSENT.—The royal assent was given, in commission, to the following bills :—The Bank Charter, Three-and-a-Half per Cent s . E xempt i on , Di ssenter s Chapels, Isle of Man Customs Duties, Education of the Poor, &c.. County Rates, Militia Ballot Suspension, Stock. in-Trade Assesstnent, Vegrants' Removal, Turn pike Acts Continuance, Parishes in Scotland, Pr-sons in Scotland, Loan Societies in Ireland, and the Turnpike Acts Continuance in Ireland Bills ; also to the Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, Ashton-under-Lyne, Stalybridge, and Liverpool, Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Man chester, Taff Vale, Eastern Union, London, and South Western, Garnkirk, Glasgow, and Coatbridge, and the Delahole and Rock Railway Bills; and several other mis cellaneous bills. A MASTER HARD TO PLEASE.--Thomas Litchfield, hired servant, lately complained against his master, Mr. W. Chambers, of Wellingborough, for the non-payment of wages due up to the time he left. Mr. Chambers con sidered that he had no right to pay the complainant until he completed the period of his engagement. " He sets me such funny jobs," said Litchfield, " such as standing on a gatepost to whitewash the moon with a pot of black ing; at another time to fetch a load of clouds to litter the horses; he teli'd me the other Sunday, wl.en I wanted my dinner, to cut a Bath brick into mutton chop., and fry them in a four-wheel waggon at Vishuvious ; it fl int likely I cr.n do them there conjuration tricks." The complaint was discharged, and Litchfield ordered to re turn to his work. SUICIDE —On the evening of Tuesday last, Dorothy Straken, an aged widow residing at Barnard Castle, Dur ham, subject to a despondency of mind, after her pre vious attemut at suicide, received an order for entering the Union Workhouse at Barnard Castle, but as she seemed so much better her friends delayed taking her there. About the time above mentioned she passed party of hay makers in a field by the river Tees, and on being questioned, stated she was going for a walk. Some suspicion was excited, and a boy sent to watch her, villa just came up to witness her leaping into a deep hole in the Old Boat pool, opposite Eggliston Abbey. She was dragged to land with a net hook, and when taken out moved a little. Means were used to restore her, but fruitlessly. A NOBLEMAN DONE.—A well-dressed men. John Alves, of 24. Piccadilly, was brought before Mr. Maltby. Marlborough-street, charged with havirl swindled Lord Charles Fitzroy out of two bills for £lOOO each. Th e prisoner had introduced himself to his lordship by a letter. dated in January last, to the following effect Circuro' imagine that your lordship would be willing to accept the stances having or ooyooi c ir o r x m l 2 : 0 0 to Ip y takeknowledget hthai amount, oo u t p l o o r a o y n c o u ° u r f r e X lordship on the srg j e st, as it is in my power to cutity, at a reasonable rate f interest." The usual ne gotiations followed. Mr. Alves received the hills, but Its lordship never got the cash, although the bills were Pw n t °l , lr t o cuh n n personal tn Yd ou fc induce nr writing n e t: - eegotiat, d receiving for one of them £5OO cash and a picture. FINE ARTS. —The Fine Art Comm;ss'oners have se lected six artists, from the exhibitors in Westminster hall, for the execu ion of six cartoons and further speci mens of paintings in fresco. The car oons are to be of the size of six tablets set apart for frescoes in the House of Lords, and the subjects are named by the commission; but no pledge is given to the artists that they shall be fi nally employed by the government. The subj-cts are still to he thrown open to the competition of the general body of painters, with the special and exclusive adsan tap to the six artists earned. that they will be paid. in any case, fur the proofs of ski!l required of them. They are to receive .t:400 each. The artists are Mr. Maclise, Mr. Cope, Mr. Dyce, Mr, Calder Marshall, Mr. Bal. a nd Mr. F.d t y, the r.lr. Thomas. Three si‘cluripitio°rlSsil Y' l'aveMjentleairve,aninaae and d e same excellent spirit. THE New COMET.—M. Victor Nirinvais. treoihrr of the Academy of Sciences, and one of she a• the t b-ervatory, has just discovered ato w mi tin Ito constellation of H reules. The disco,e e.irfiimed by the observations of Nlontlay night. Th s cititot ma/ be perceived with a god night Itlrset It is un between the stars of Sigma aid Ton. in tnr cons:ell' ion of Hercules—the appwrent diarreti r the nrbulosil is from three to lour mioutes of degr e, :nil r, has a small nucleus. A notice from the Grrunw eh Wiser vatory gives the position of the comet, on Monday nighto July 15th, at lOh. 17m., loran time. (tight ft,een-inn 15h. 43m. ss. North declination 42 drg. 4m. 14,. Too appearance of the comet is that of a small round ptanetarl body, surrounded by a coma. It is easily seen e,en with a weak telescope. An astronomical friend informs ill that the comet is approaching the um, and may become visible to the naked eye. LOAN FOR THE WEST INDIES.—The design of raising, a loan for the West India proprietors for the purpose ni applying it to immigra'ion under the guarantee of parlia ment, has been postponed for the present. Deputations have several times conferred with Lord Stanley on all the various bearings of the case, but his lordship has come to the conclusion that a bill could not be carried satisfac• torily through parliament in the present session ; and it IS therefore put off until the beginning of t'Ae ensuing session• The chief difficulty to be got over is the mode of giving security by the colonies for the payment of the interest on the money to be borrowed, together with a sinking fund for the redemption of the loan within some fixed period- Lord Stanley has submitted the plan a hick he consider necessary to be adopted for the security of the p a y m eotit which is to place the charge upon specific duties to be levied in the colonies. He has also made it a sine qua non that the duties shall not be imposed upon importer probably for the purpose of getting rid of anticipated 0P• position to the measure. _ _ THE Loss OF THE "MANCHESTER."—The relatives r t i h t ea remainsv e of the unhappy persons who perished on ill fatedboarhcdbeotrahwotshekhtyie:snibaenuaoapi knowing a m that e cast up from the deep • for, by the . late arrivals _ _f 'eleven bodies of the unfortu. liamburgh, we learn that captain. Mr. Dudley, and part of his the passengers,Ahe cap • at crew. Some sTrprise has been manifested the circum stance the body of the stewardess, Mrs. Webb, being stance of other: • • s found naked, as also several ._ which , gives r ise to now o t f h teh e melancholy sufferers have Bat a ir la c s t i t ° bee s e o e o ca rt f ,a a s ga s i a n v . a T h l a m s b w . r e e n ck so o l n d t b h y e a n u o c r t t io h n e f n: n ooows wfn a rh t ,:i ot e tric:m s aaea u ns fffßtdot supposition e eftet r rhii e wlsee r spinrt s elechun h ciank a rtsdgd v earto e ernihrsfd b enti mny e i,lg e l ahi n osat picked dinn epomvwreesovt been u toe ai p eui li , nsls comprisingltyphaercompletely o t. been picked up 14 6 _, th propertyet by the huge breakers breaking over it; and what portio n ,. £l4OO, for the bene fi t of the salvor s. ' Loss OF AN EMIGRANT SHlP. — lntelligence has be en received from Sydney of the loss of the Sir George Prevos t ' emigrant ship, on a reefs of rocks westward of Garberti,vA by which, but for the moderate state of the weather, 1 7 1 , persons on hoard wou ld h ave per i s h e d . Th e s hip Os commanded by Captain Savage, and was 600 tons bar' "th then. She left Newry early in the present year vvi.., emigrants. The voyage across the Atlantic was favou r able, able, but on the 31st of May a dense fog came on, en_ v c i, loping every object ahead, and at nine o'clock she stru_„• on the reef. The alarm on board, amongst the men. vi_u s . men, and children, was great, and the captain and °On,' had great di ffi culty in allaying it so that their lives n 11 _ 11 .,,, be preserved. Minute guns were fired for several he_u e ";. o and two vessels arriving near the spot, their boats T o o lowered, and with those belonging to the ship, the f t i.... of the emigrants and seamen were taken off and land ed the wind providentially keeping down. At daybrea k o g, , vessel was lightened, and attempts made to get bertotsi but she became firmly fixed, and in 24 hours was a. s o, wreck. Of the emigrants 102 were conveyed to Ar 15, ",. 0 , and given in charge to the authorities. The distress 'to tailed upon them will be great, having shiPPed ate property they could raise to insure a comfortable nts. l _ i ji mince in the apparent land of promise, and which is but destroyed. The ship, it is said, was insured. 1 I day too C wee Ulu In-p ; Re i . Le 'wadi Irreg Dead