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tteraturt. POETRY. - THE OLD SEAMAN. (From the Keepsake for 1145.) - Iron ask me why mine eyes are bent So darkly on the sea, While others watch the azure hills 'That lengthi.in on the lee? The azure hills—they soothe the sight That falls along the foam; And those may hail their nearin; height, Who there have hope or home. • But I a loveless path have trod — A beacon!, ss career; .113, hope bath long been all with God, And all my home is—here. 'The deep by day, the heaven by night, Roll onward, swift and dark • Nor leave my son! the dove's delight, Of olive-branch or ark. For more than gale, or gulf, or sand, I'vc proved that there may be • Worse treachery on the steadfast land Than variable sea. A danger worse than bay or beach, A falsehood more unkind— The treachery of a governed speech, And an ungoverned mind. The treachery of the deadly . mart, \\ here human souls are so d; The treachery of the hollow heart, That crumbles as we hold. Those holy hill quiet lakes— Ah whereto ould I find This weary fever-fit, that shakes Their image in my mind. The memory of a streamiet's di*. Through meadows daisy.drest— Another might be glad therein, But let I cannot rest. I cannot rest unless it be Beneath the churchyard yew; But God, I thins, hath yet tor me More earthly work to do. . 4, And, therefore, with a quiet will, I breatha the jaipan air, And bless tilt v that calls me still, To wander and to bear. Let others reek their native sod, Who there have hearts to cheer ; .My soul bath long teen given to God, And ail my home is—here. NOTICES. .Faint James's, or the Court of Queen Anne. By Wm. ltarrison Ainsworth, Esq. 3 vols. London : John Mortimer, Adelaide-street, Trafalgar-square. Of the works of this eminent novelist we infinitely pre fer those in which the wrier brings his vast stores of antiquarian research to illustrate. particular localities fa mous in the' history of our country. These works may be said to constitute an entirely new style of romance, peculiar to Mr. Ainsworth, in which the relation of some contemporary history, or fiction blended with history; is made the means of conveying, in a more agreeable form than that of mere antiquarian dissertation, facts connected with and a description of buildings and places interesting to his readers, which otherwise would rernaie a sealed hook to the majority of them, and be accessible to future ages only through the musty records of the state paper office, or some similar uninviting source of information, if they did not entirely disappear as the perishing objects, which alone bind them to memory, are swept from ken by the hand of time and decay, or the march of modern improve ment. Amongst this class may be ranked "The Tower of London," probably the best descriptive work of its "kind in any languege, and one which must have re quired from the writer the most minute and careful per sonal investigation of the locality described. " Old Saint Paul's" is another of the same class, but of more thrilling interest, arising, perhaps, mainly from the more striking .period to which it carries us back, viz., that of the plague -and the great tire in London. " Guy Fawkes" partakes also of this peculiar feature of Mr. Ainsworth's recent works ; but it carries us over a greater field, and is espe cially interesting to us as rescuing from oblivion a number of the most interesting personages and localities of ancient Lancashire. We may add to these his striking romance ,of "•Windsor Castle." The novel before us has apparently been a portion of a -design to open up the history and antiquities of another of our royal palaces—Saint James's. In this, however, it indeed it was seriously attempted, he does not appear to have been as successful in finding material of interest' as in some of his former works. But if Saint James's has 'furnished little ground for the display of antiquarian lore, it has supplied the scene for a history of the court in trigues and court life of one of the most distinguished reigns in British history, which the pen of the novelist has hitherto scarcely visited at all. The literary annals of that age of illustrious writers—the memoirs of the orna meats and, alas ! the disgrace of that reign—of Addison, Steele, St. John, Prior, and the rest—have been again and again recorded ; the characters of its statesmen—of Oxford and Bolingbroke, Marlborotieh and Godolphin, with the ambitious favourite and tyrant of royalty, his 'duchess, are upon the page of history. But the character and habits of the Sovereign herself, and her amiable - although trifling—consort, Prince George of Denmark - , are little knovan. They have been test into the shade by the brilliancy of the military achievements and of the literature of the period in which they flourished. The p rind of Anne's reign at weich Mr. Ainsworth ' •introducel us to her court, is the year 1702. when the Duke of Marlborough was at the smith of his fame, as a soldier and a statesman, (characters which some envious detracters of the greatest man in modern days have told us are not compatible with each other,) and when his haughty duchess had succeeded in establishing an' almost dominion over, and at the same time arousing the impla cable resentment of, her Sovereign, and a determination on her part of throwing off the yoke imposed upon her. The introduction to the palace of a young lady of the bedchamber, Abigail Bill, a relative of the duchess and of ' :her artful rival, Mr. Harley, afterwards Earl of Oxford, is made the means• of precipitating that event which ulti mately led, as the reader of history knows, of driving in exile from his native land, whose name with his own he had immortalized in Europe, the greatest general cf his age. The various intrigues by which this end was at length attained are vividly described, and the characters mingling in them, the state of parties, and the loose mo rals of the time, which contributed to their success,form a picture, or rather a series of pictures, well worthy cf study. With +twee, the historical details of his story, the doings and characters of several inferior actors are skil fully wrought up. We have the trial of the celebrated Dr. Sacheverell, and the high church riots which were the result. The French adventurer,. the Marquis de Guis cardo with his valet, Bimbelot, and his bravo, Sauvageon, afford us happy specimens of the kind of instruments with which the court of Louis intrigued for the restoration of 'the exiled Chevalier de St. George, then holding his court at Saint Gerrnains. The story of the loves of Mrs. Plumpton and Mrs. Tipping, for the Duke e of Marlbo rough's favourite and valorous serjeant, is a gem in its way, and throws a pleasant relief upon the more serious incidents of the work, whilst the character of Proddy, the queen's coachman, is inimitable. When we have said, that it descry( s to be ranked in the same scale of funni mess and drollery with that of the valorous d w a r f Zit, described in his " Tower of London," we have bestowed upon it ample commendation. The work is illustrated, with his usual excellence, by the initifitable George Cruickshank, who appears, in his portraiture of the various characters introduced, to have caught, and keenly relished, the spirit of the author. We cannot resist extracting the closing incident of the :work On the evening of Tuesday, the 27th Ju1y.1714, Oxford received a sudden and peremptory intimation from the Queen to resign the staff into her hands without a mo ment's delay ; upon which, though it was getting late, he immediately repaired to the palace. UShered into the queen's presence, he found Lady Ma sham and Bolinebroke with her, and their triumphant looks increased his ill-dissembled rage and mortification. Anne looked ill and suffering. She had only just reco vered from a severe inflammatory fever, attended with gout and ague, and had still dangerous symptoms about her. Her figure was enlarged and loose-, her brow lower ing, her features swollen and cadaverous, and her eyes heavy and injected with blood. She scarcely made an effort to maintain her dignity, but had the air of a confined invalid. On the table near her stood a draught prescribed for her by her physician, Sir Richard Black more, of which she occasionally sipped. Moved neither by the evident indisposition of the queen, nor by any feelings of gratitude or respect, Oxford , ad vanced quickly towards her, and eyeing his opponents with a look of defiance, said, in an insolent tone, and with a slight inclination of the head—" Your majesty has 'commanded me to bring the staff. I here deliver it to :you." Arid as he spoke he placed it with some violence on the table. " My lord !" exclaimed Anne, " this rudeness !" " Lord Oxford has thrown off the mask," said Boling broke. ." Your majesty sees him in his true colours." "It shall not be my fault, Bolingbroke," replied Ox ford, bitterly, " if her majesty—ay, and the whole nation . —does not see you in your true colours—and they are black enough. And you, too, madam," he added to Lady ..Masham, " the world shall know what arts you have used." " If I have practised any arts, my Lord Oxford, they have been of your teaching," rejoined Lady Masham. " You forget the instructions you gave me respecting the Duchess of Marlborough." " No, viper! I do not," cried Oxford, his rage becom ing .ungovernable. "I do not forget that I found you a bedchamber-woman ; Ido not forget that I used you as ..an instrument to gain the queen's favour—a mere instru ment—nothing more ; I do not forget that 1 made you what you are ; nor will I rest till I have left you as low as I found you." " .My lord !--my lord !" cried Anne. " This attack is most unmanly. I pray you to withdraw, if you cannot -control yourself." Your pardon, If I venture to dislbev you, madam," replied Oxford. " Having b een sent for, I shall take leave to stay until I have unmasked your treacherous favourites. So good an opportunity may not speedily occur, and I shall not lose it." "But I do not wish to hear the exposure, my lord," said,Anne. " I pray your majesty, let him speak," interposed Po. lingbroke, haughtily. " Take care of your head, Bolingbroke," cried Oxford; 44 though her majesty may sanction your correspondence with the courts of St. Germain, her parliament will not." "'Your majesty can now judge of his baseness and ma lignity," Said Bolingbroke, with - cold contempt, " know ing how he Itimselfhas duped your royal brother." " I know it—l know it," replied Anne; " and I know how he has duped me, too. But no more of this, if you love me, Bolingbroke." " Oh that your majesty would exert your spirit for one moment," said Lady Masham," and drive him from youli presence with the contempt he deserves." " If your majesty will only.authorise me, it shall be done," said Bolingbroke. " Peace ! peace ! my lord, I implore of you," said Anne. " You all seem to disregard me." " Your majesty perceives the esteem in which you are lied by yourjtiends!" said Oxford, sarcastically. " You are all eike," cried the queen, faintly. " What crime am I charged with ?" demanded Oxford, addressing himself to the queen. " I will tell you," replied Bolingbroke. " I charge you • with double-dealing, with chicanery, with treachery, with falsehood to the queen, to me, and to the whole cabinet. I charge you with holding out hopes, on the one hand, to the Elector of Hanover, and to Prince James, on the other. I charge you with caballing with Marlborough— with appropriating the public monies—" " Toese charges must be substantiated—must be an swered, my lord," interrupted Oxford, approaching him, and touching his sword. " They shall be substantiated, my lord," replied Bo lingbroke, haughtily and contemptuously. " Bolingbroke, you are a villain—a dastardly villain!" cried Oxford, losing all patience, and striking him in the face with his glove. " Ha !" exclaimed Bolingbroke, transported with fury, and partly drawing his sword. " My lord !" exclaimed the queen, rising with dignity, " I command you to forbear. This scene will kill me— oh !" And she sank back exhausted. " Your pardon, gracious madam," cried Bolingbroke, running up to her, and falling on his knees. " I have in deed forgotten myself." . " Oh! my head ! my head - !" cried Anne, pressing her band to her temples. " My senses are deserting me." " You have much to answer for, Bolingbroke," whis pered Lady Masham ; " she will not survive this shock." " It was not my fault, but his," replied Bolingbroke, pointing to Oxford, who stood sullenly aloof in the mid. die of the room. " Let Sir Richard Blackmore and Dr. Mead be sum moned instantly," gasped the queen ; " and bid the Duke of Shrewsbury and the lord chancellor instantly attend me—they are in the palace. Tue post of treasurer must be filled without delay. Lose not a moment." And Lady Masham ran out to give the necessary instruc tions to the usher. Shrewsbury and the chancellor—what can she want with them ?" muttered Bolingbroke, with a look of dismay. Oxford, who had head the order, and instantly divined what it portended, softly approached him, and touched his arm. " You have lost the stake you have been playing for," he said, with a l oo k o f tr i ump h ant ma li ce. " I am' now content." Ere Bolingbroke could reply, Lady Masham returned with Sir Richard Blackmi.re who chanced to b e i n th e ante-room, and who instantly flew to the queen, over whose countenance a fearful change had come. " Your majesty must be taken instantly to bed," said Blackmore. " Not till I have seen the Dukes of Shrewsbury and Ormond," replied the queen, faintly. " Where are they?" "I will go and bring them instantly," replied Black more ; " not a moment is to be lost." And as he was about to rush out of the room, Boling broke stopped him, and hastily asked, " Is there danger?" "]mmineat danger!" replied Blackmore. • " The case is desper.ite. The queen cannot survive three days." And he hurried away. " Then all is lost !" cried Bolingbroke, striking his forehead. And looking up, he saw Harley watching him with a malignantsmile. " Lady Masham was assiduous in her attentions to her royal m;stress ; but the latter became momentarily worse, and continued to inquire anxiously for the Duke of Shrewsbury. " Una your majesty no commands for Lord Boling broke ?" inquired Lady Masham. " None whatever," replied the queen, firmly. At this juncture, Sir Richard Blackmore returned with the Duke of Shrewsbury, the lord chancedor, and some other attendants. " Ah! you are come,. my lords," cried Anne, greatly relieved. " I feared you would be too late. Sir Richard will have told you of my danger—nay, it is vain to hide it from me. My lords, the office of treasurer is at this. moment vacant; and if a n ythi ng s h ou ld h appen to me, the safety of the kingdom may be 6ndangered. My lord of Shrewsbury, you are already lord chamberlain and lord-lieutenant of Ireland ; I hare another post for you. Take this staff," she added, giving him the treasurer's wand, which lay upon the table, ' e and use it fur the good of my people." "As the duke knelt to kiss her hand, he felt it grow cold in his touch. Anne had fainted, and was instantly removed by lit r attendants. " So," cried Oxford, " if the queen's fears are realized, Lady Masham's reign is over; while your fate, Boling broke, is sealed. You have to choose between exile and the brock." " If I fly, you most fly with me," cried Bolingbroke. "No, I shall wait, replied Oxford; " I have nothing to fear." " So end the hopes of these ambitious men !" observed the Duke of Shrewsbury to the chancellor ; " the queen has found they were not to be trusted. Her people's welfare influenced the last exercise of the power of Goon& 'QUEEN ANNE.' The Nature and Treatment of D afness, and Diseases of the Tar; and the Treatment of the Dtaf and Dumb. By Wm. Du'ton, Surgeon. Illustrated with Frontis piece of Instruments. Churchill, Soho. 1844. Bvo. This is a neatly-cot-out work of 118 pages. The style is correct and simple, disburtherml of that tedious quo tation everlastingly from authorities often no longer such, though paraded like men of straw, to be knocked down cleverly by the author. Both legal and medical lore are so burthened with precedents and references, that the task of selection constitutes one of the most difficult of literary labours nowadays. Flowerer, in this particular, we congratulate the members of physic in their rapidly attaining this selecting tact; whilst their twin brother, t ,e law, is still busied collecting cases and precedents— ever and anon working their Irbyrinthical way from misty folds into the broad glare of truth and justice. Law dare not yet enunciate a proposition of right in the abstract, apart from some decision on a case in point by the Lord Chancellor Woolsack: it is a cripple still leaning on the crutches provided for it by its foster parent, the middle ages ;—whilst medicine has dared to be free. Its fetters of traditional error and wrung-directed judgment broken, it can discuss a quest'on on its simple merits alone, com prebend it in all its relations to other questions, and state a fact or a principle in nature without deference to anv authority, human or canonised ; and appeal to no tribunal, even on writ of error, but simply leaving it to be testedby the mirror of truth itself held up in ever ylhuman breast --can go on from the station of exp:rintent to that of sound Baconian induction, and thence to the terminus, where truth, arrived at, is to be put in practice—and then, like the last function of animated being, transmit the possession of such rower to others, and close its la bours in the didactics of the schoolmaster, happy in the attainment of a portion of valuable truth, and rejoicing in the self-satisfaction of philanthropic effort of doing good. Law is at present stopping at the halfway station of harm's way, if Irish Courts of Queen's Bench and English law lords are to be taken in evidence. Let her alone a bit : she is bruised herself with the awkward handling of her own weapon; self-interest will be ballast enough, we trust, to right her, and bring her on safety at last to the terminus of Good-end, close by the village of Good-will. _ . . In contrast with the useless tediousness of law, how pleasant to take up a book without much pretension, written in earnest simplicity, unsophisticated in its state ments, and whose pleasant purport is to amend some of the ills, or soothe some of the trials, to which our won drously-compounded being is obnoxious! And amongst these infirmities, that of de ifness occupies no insignificant corner in Pandora's box"; and if the modesty of the pre sent production, along with its scientific claims, adds but an hour's instructive reading to the devoted student of the divine art, or is the means, directly or indirectly, of procuring benefit to any " who having ears cannot hear," so that even one chord of nature's ever-varying and all musical sounds, or one dulcet cadence of the human voice, shall be caught up by the ear beforetime deaf as the adder (though the adder is not deaf), yet will it have accomplished more good than many au act of parliament ! SELECTIONS, USEFUL INVENTION.—An individual has discovered a process .by which v.ood can be so impregnated w ith i ron as vei'y much to increase its hardness. He is preparing a considerable quantity of wood in this manner, which, with the sanction Of the Poor Law Commissioners, he intends to convert into boards of guardians.—Punch. EDITORIAL DUTY IN CONTROVERSY.—It is no part of a journalist's duty, as'some persons seem to suppose, to publish all that can be said on both sides of a contro versy. His duty is to give only what in his best judg ment he thinks likely to prove of public advantage. Let teas that bear the stamp of hypocrisy and falsehood on the face of them he commits to the flames at once. No appeals to his sense of justice should ever induce him to lend his columns to the propagation of eiror.—Britan nia. ENGLISH SEAMANSHIP IN A Szor.m.--During the recent storm at Boulcg ne, a vessel appeared in a situation to excite the greatest alarm. However, the opinion of the crowd decided at once upon the vessel and the com mander. "No other vessel hut the Princess Maude, no other captain but Capthin Monger, would dare to face Bimlogne Bay to-d .y." The conjecture was correct ;it was the Princess Maude and the gallant commander named. It was long doubted whether the great steam power of the vessel could win the offing necessary to give her a free sweep in between the lighthouse and the bar. "• She will do it "—" It is i .mpossibe," ran from mouth to mouth in anxious whispers. H aving secured his offing, Captain Monger brought his vessel about : and, to the amazement of the timid and unskilful, spread a broad ex tent of canvas, under the tremendous gale, bearing down upon the mouth of the harbour with a rapdity perfectly terrific. As the vessel passed the lighthouse almost every heart sunk under the impression that nothing could check or divert her direct progress to the sands. A stifled moan was heard through the crowd, when, as if by magic, the sails dropped instantly, the vessel chang d her course full 93 degrees, and then shot up the harbour at the rate of at least 15 miles an hour. The enthusiasm of the spectators found expression in a loud cheer, which was again and again repeated. Standard-4ice, Eleven o'clock, COURT OF REQUESTS. PARKER. v. BROWNBILL. The Commissioner of the Court of Requests having adjourned the case from Friday until this day, that he might consider how he should decide upon it, it was ac cordingly resumed at nine o'clock this morning. Both .the parries, and several of their frierlds, were present, but the att , ndance of others w* 6 Ve'ry nVeagre. The COMMISSIONER said, that before he gave judgment he wished to put a question or two. The defendant, being sworn, said, in reply to questions put, that the application for payment of the promissory note was first made to his brother-in-law, James Brown bill, by Mr. Parker's clerk, ou the 2d November_ De fendant was not himself present, and his brother-in-law was not now here. He was his brother-in-law, though of the same narn?, as they were cousins, and had married two sisters. He supposed Mr. Parker's collector had called on his brother-ia.law in mistake. • Mr. Wigge, the collector, being called. said, he had called on the brother-in-law of defendant on Friday fort night, the 9th instant. He had mistaken the man, as both were watchmakers, and both of the same name. He did no see the defendant about it until Saturday fortnight. Mr. Parker, being sworn, said he had mentioned - the amount to be due to his collector amongst other small debts; but he could not recollect the precise day. His suspicion had been raised (as he before stated) by the defendant drawing his attention to the post-mark of the letter. But he would not have proceeded so hastily against him, bad he not been informed tbat a member of the Reform Association had declared that they would spend £l,OOO sooner than not turn him out of the ward. He certainly felt hurt at this, and therefore brought the matter forward. The COMMISSIONER then proceeded to give his deci sion with great slowness of utterance and at great length, hut we can but give the' heads of his principal remarks. He said that the court had undivided jurisdiction in claims of £2, but between £2 and £5 it had a concurrent juris diction with the Borough Court, in which last the ques tion could be investigated by a jury, and an appeal could be had to the courts at Westminster. lie remarked on the evidence of the two parties, and quoted several law authorities as to what constituted bribery and corruption. There were two modes in which the court might come to a conclusion. One was to nonsuit the plaintiff,. which would not prevent him from proceedirig in another court if he thought that advisable ; and another was to give judg•- ment to the defendant, in which case there would be no appeal, and penalties might he proceeded for in the higher courts. He had cbme to the conclusion that the case was one of such suspicion that the plaintiff could not recover the amount in this court. He had not, however, come to the conclusion to give judgment for the defendant, for that would imply that there had in reality been aeor - - rupt transaction and bribe, and a party could pro ceed for the penalti es upon that judgment as con clusive evidence. If he saw this to be a clear case of bribery, he should have no difficulty in pronouncing his decision in that form, which would be' final; hut, under the circumstances, he would not pre judice the plaintiff by the selection of courts made by his collector, a person whose conduct in this court he had observed to be universally respectable. He should nut therefore give a conclusive judgment, because he con sideredit no more than a case of suspicion. The plaintiff would, by the decision he should come to, have an oppor tunity of proceeding against the defendant in another court, from which an appeal might be had to the superior courts if any penalty. were involved. He then decided that the plaintiff should pay the costs and be nonsuited. THIRD EDITION. Slandaed-office, two o'clock. LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE. Tins DAY. The arrivals of Grain Coastwise and from Ireland for the week ending yesterday, are on the whole, for the sea son of the year, only limited in amount, but of Oatmeal and Flour we have to report a good supply ; while the im ports from abroad are extremely light. The leading markets of this district last week having been generally rather languid,. and the accounts received this morning from Mark-lane tending rather to coun teract than to impart the slightest impulse to the trade, we have to report a slender attendance of buyers at our Corn Exchange to-day, and a dull sale for Wheat of all descrirtions ; the stock of Foreign, however, in the granaries of the port, hay* been for some time past gradually decreasing, withou'; the prospect of any efficient imports during the winter, holders of such steadily adhere to former prices, which therefore remain unvaried. English and Irish, on the contrary, declined ld. to 2d. per 701 b. ; and Flour was difficult of sale at rather lower rates. Oats were a little dearer, and new Oatmeal brought rather more money. . . Barley, Malt, Beans, and Pease, were in limited request, without any material change in. prices. ARRIV, From the 19th to the .S OF CORN, ;sth November, 1844, inclusi IRE LAN D. 'COAST- COLO- FO WISE. MAL; REiON TOTAL. Wheat 0 - s. 4434 Ba; •ey Matt Q s. 3 A - 5. 3529 Rye Ors. 123 Beans Q s. 125 Pease 0 s. Shelled Ba:leyQ S. Inclipn Co 13: Q Re ueseed.... Q Oatmeal Flour. . Ditto .. .Loads 7732 .Sacks 7410 .. Br's. 213 52 370 560 316 5057 3 gi 373 3 479 123 125 560 8045 ;461 652 41 605 Li o lead an.l Covs:mi,e,-W,ileat, 8574,, Barley, 187 qrs.; Malt, 18 qrs.; 041 s, 4615 cis.; . Or.;:ineal, 3772 loads; Floor, 736 saci:s. EXPORTS.—Foreiga. Wheat. (Fs.; Ba.: - 'ey,— qrs. ; Pease, 647 qrs.: Oats, 1008 qrs.; iodiao Cor , q •s. ; oa...:aseae, loads ; Flow, ISSB arts.—l+ el. ad. Whert. 1040 o s. ; Ba— ley, q• s. ; Beans, q Rye, qrs.; 1.14 an Co:.). qrs. ; Oa:meal, Ids; Four,— sts, 30 Wis.— —Coa , ,v:se. Wheat, I'l2 qrs.; Barley, 60 q-s. ; :Malt, 18 ws.; Oars. 3; qrs.; Beans, qrs. ; Pease, 27 qrs.; oalrneal, 10 loads ; Indian Corn, 2 qrs. ; Flour, 330 sacks 1724 brls. Average prlces of G a'n, for the week ending' Nov. !6, 1444. Wheat 465. 4d. 1 Barley 355. gd. 1 Oats..:: Is. 9d. 1 Rye 345. 2d. Beans.. 38s. 4d. I Pease.. 355. 7d. Agg.eg•r."ce avera!re o' ie C.: weeks. Wheat 46s 2d 1 Beriey - 31s I Idj Cia:s 21s. le. I Rye.. 36i 10d Beans.. 375. 3d. j Pease.. 345. Du' a oo Fore; P odivre is week. Wheal2Os Ott 1 Bac , ey 4s Od I I 10: . oofßye.. 6s 6d Beans 556 d I Pease.. Si 6(, ilt.Co.:a Os oil Flour 12s O 1:14,4 on Cr aad'an. Wheat.. Is. Od. IBe - ..05. hid. I oa.s ..2s. Od. I Rye.. Os 6d Beans Os. 6d I PeazEe us.6d. I i n.. Co os.OC, I Flour.. Os 7.id Du:y on o;.her Colo&al Wheat.. ss. Od. IBarley.. s. 6d. I Oats, 2 . I Rye... Cs. 6d. Beans.. us. 6d. I Peace.. es. 6d. I Pod - . :Is. 0;1. Liverpool Averages, week ending 19th Nov., 1841. Wheat, 1751 qrs., price 452. 5d.; Barley, 118 qrs., price 524. Od. ; Oats, 258 .. qr5., price ass. 3d.; Rye, qrs., price es. Od.; Beans, qrs., .Os. Od. ; Pease, qrs.. CS. Od. Duties paid in Liverpool, for week ending 21st November, 1844. —Foreign—Wheat, 449 qrs.; Barley, G 2; Oats, 314; IleanS, 14,'• ; Pease, —; Rye, 209 ; Indian Corn, 39; Flour, 2 barrels. —Colonial—Wheat, qrs.; Flour, 1612 barrels. A CAPITAL HASH.—A new sauce is advertised under the title of Sir Robert Peel's Saudtk lt has been concocted, we believe, from his promises that the income-tax should not last longer than three years.—Punch. The NON•RESIDENT RESIDENT.-- , " I remember a case in the Exchequer—upon a motion for a new trial, I think. A clergyman, with a small or no family, lived in a large roomy parsonage house. Au attorney in the parish, who had a large family, lived in a house so small as to be inconvenient for that family. The attorney proposed to the clergyman to change houses, and the attorney to pay the clergyman a yearly rent of several pounds in consideu ration of his residence in the larger and mare valuable house. The year expired, and the attorney not offering to pay the rent, the clergyman applied to him for it ; upon which the attorney insisted that this was a most unreason able demand; as he had brought an action against the clergyman fur eleven penalties, I think of ten pounds each, • for non-residence in the parsonage house, the law then not deeming a clergyman's residence, though in the parish, legal residence, if he did not live in the parsonage house. I remember Baron Eyre said it was the most abominable and impudent transaction that he ever remembered, but that the clergyman could have no :elief."—Lffe of Eldon. Portsn RAPACITY—Thomas Eastwood, Esq., of Brindle Lodge, near Preston, a highly respectable Roman Catholic in a letter to the London Times refers to the disgraceful case, at Turin, in our last, and says "I am. Sir, a Roman Catholic, and I say it with grief and shams that I have beheld a parent set against a child, a wife against a husband, a brother against a brother, an uncle against a niece, and for,no other cause than that by such estrangement the priest might more securely carry off the property which he coveted. We have, as lamin a situa ation to prove, in this country, many " unscrupulous agents" of the Roman Catholic church ; and the great misfortune is, that the infatuation is so great in the laity, that when facts are placed before them showing the wick edness of certain priests, they will not believe them, and this holds out an inducement to crime. To say a word against' the anointed of the.Lord,' is by many Catholics looked upon as a mortal sin, and the crafty " unscrupu lous agents" take advantage of this in the furtherance of their ends. The confesiional is a means used by these ' unscrupulous agents' to perfect their designs, yet you hear them from their pulpits harangue on its inviolability. If we may judge from the conduct of the Vicar Apostolic of Lancashire, neither the profanation of the confessional by a priest nor the detestable crime of perjury is deserving of his attention or reprobation. I have said enough to waken Roman Catholics who, like myself, venerate their religion to serious reflection ; perhaps, more than enough to rouse a host of bigoted and priest-ridden would-be saints to point their-shafts at me. But, being girt with truth, I have nothing to fear." ANECDOTE OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.—The first and noblest character of the present age to be men tioned in- common wi' I, Eton scenes and Eton men, must be the Duke of Wellington. Wellington was an Eton boy, and, if tradition may be credited, a daring and ad venturous one. He seems to have been a lad not given to .much study and painful research i to books. Nature having already placed an original stamp upon him, and presented him with the highly favoured signet of her own right hand. He who is now familiarly called the " Iron Duke," might well have been in the earlier stages of life yclept the Iron Boy. Instances of the Dike's hardiness, or rather of young Wellesley's hardiness (as he then simply was) are on record; and among them it is related, that when all the good burgomasters and thrifty trades men of Windsor and Eton had retired to rest, `young Wellesley, on the commencement of a cold winter's night, would be proceeding up old icy Father Thames, in a lonely skiff, to the vicinity of Maidenhead Bridge, and there, wrapt in a single blanket, and watching with single gun, he would be ready by daybreak to get a shot at the wild ducks, or other wild fowl, which were accustomed to congregate under shelter of the eyots, and other har bours of refuge on the Thames.. '' Every one to his taste," a fashionable dandy will exclaim : but young Wellesley was no man of fashion, and his tastes were all of the dar ing and grand. When we consider the stratagem' neces sary at a school like Eton to achieve what Wellesley did . ; perhaps the squeezing through a small window, and tra versing frozen roofs of houses ; the obtaining clandestinely the gun. and the skiff, and ammunition, with the convey ance of his blanket, and the needful grog; and then the difficulty of an undiscovered return, loaded with booty; let us think of these things, and then acknowledge in the very boy something that progensticated the wonderful and unexampled career of the European Duke. The poet. Wordsworth, another Wellington in his way, has written truly, that " the child is father of the man." Young Wellesley seems to have been liked i❑ his generation at Eton, because his feats were admired by the whole school, and very few could dare to he his companions in many perilous and persevering endeavours in pursuit of a fa vourite abject of pastime.—Bentley'r Miscell(Jny. THE SOCIALIST SYSTEMS AND IlltEE SOCIETY Con- TRASTED. — Nothing is more charming to the imagination than the firm general idea of some new community, where all men are to be happy, every body active, benevolent, reasonable. But the moment we leave this general idea, enter upon particulars, and set about the arrangements necessary for - this universally comfortable state of things, there is nothing in the world more tedious and oppressive. Proposals for new political institutions are sufficiently wearisome; bur proposals for earthly elysiums, which are to embrace the whole circle of human affairs, become in supportably dull. it is child's play, .played with heavy granite boulders. No'; if we were capable of beingseduced for a moment into the belief of some golden age of equality, where a parental government, presiding over all, should secure the peace and prooperity of all, we should need no other argument to recover us from the delusion thatesim ply to read on, and learn how this parental government intends to accomplish its• purpose. When we find that, in order to be relieved from domestic cares, we are tohave no home at all; that our parental government, in order to provide for our children, begins by taking them away from , us ; when we picture to ourselves the sort of wooden me=- lancholy figures we must become, (something like the large painted dolls in a Dutch garden, stuck here and there with out choice or locomotion of their own,) we speedily lose all inclination to enter upon this discipline of happiness. We• quit with haste this enchanted garden, which turns out to be an enormous piece of clockwork, and embrace with re newed content the old state of personal freedom, albeit at tended with many personal inconveniences. Whilst read ing of Utopian schemes, the idea has very vividly occurred to us e suppose that some such.society as this, wi , ere land and wives, money and children,. are all in common, had been , for a long time iu existence, and that some clever Utopian had caught an inkling of the old system so fami liar tie /le, and had made the discovery that it would be possible, without dissolving society, to have a wife of one's own, a house of one's own, land andaehildren of one's own. Imagine, after an age of drowsy clockwork existence, one of these philosophers starting the idea of a free society, of a social organization based upon individual rights and in dividual' effort—where property should not only be pos sessed, but really enjoyed—where men should for the first time stretch their limbs, and strain their faculties, and strive, and emulate, and endure, and encounter difficul ties, and have friendships. What a commotion there would be r How would the younger sort, rebelling against the old rotten machine in which they had been incarce rated, form themselves into emigrating bands, and start forth to try upon same new soil their great experiment of a free life •l. How would they welcome-toil in all its seve rity—how willingly practise abstinence, and suffer priva tion, f.r the sake of the bold rights which these would pur chase l—how willingly take upon themselves the responsi bility of their own fate to enjoy a fortune of their own shaping ! Hope herself would start front the earth where she had been so long buried, and waviog her rekindled torch, lead on to the old race of life !—Blaekwood. MODERN. JERUSALEM GRAPHICAIA,Y DESCRIBED.— We ascended a mountain ridge, strewed over with enor mous grey rocks, piled one on anoilier as if by human hands. Here and there a few stunted vines, yellow with the colour of 'autumn. crept along the soil in a few places cleared in the wilderness. Fig-trees, with their tops there'd or shivered by the blasts, often:edged the vines, and cast their, black fruit on the greyrock. On our right,-' the desert of St. John, where formerly " the voice was heard crying, in' the wilderness," sunk, like an abyss in the midst of five or six black mountains, through the openings of which, the sea of Egipt, overspread with a dark cloud, could still be discerned. On the left, and near the eyo,., was an old tower, placed on the top of a projecting' eminence ; other ruins, apparently of an ancient aquaduct, descended from that tower, overgrown with verdure, now in the sear leaf ; that tower is Modin, the Stronghold and tomb of the last heroes- of sacred story, the Maccabees. We left behind us the ruins, resplendent with the first rays of the morning —rays,. not blended as in Europe in a-confused and vague illumination, but dart ing like arrows of fire tinted with various colours, issuing from a dazzling centre, and diverging over the whole heavens as they expand. Some were of blue, slightly sil vered, 'others- of pure white, sortie of tender rose hue, melting into grey ; many of burning fire, like the corns cations.of a flaming conflagration. All were distinct, yet all united in one harmonious whole, forming a resplendent arch in the heavens, encircling, and issuing from a centre of fire. In p r op or ti on as th e d ay advanced, the brilliant light of these separate rays was gradually dimmed—or rather, they were blended together, and composed the co !oarless light ofday. Teen the moon, which still shoneover- head, " p7il,A , her ineffectual fire," and.melted away in the general illumination of the heavens. After having as cended a second ridge, more lofty and naked than the f,rmer, the horizon suddenly opens to the right, and pre sents a view of all the country which extends between the last summits of Judea and the mountains of Arabia. It was already flooded with the increasing light of the morn ing ; but beyond the piles of grey rock which lay in the foreground, nothing was distinctly visible but a dazzling space, like a. vast sea, intersperceds with a few islands of shade, which stood forth in the brilliant surface. On the shores of that imaginary ocean, a little to the left, and about a league distant, the sun shone with uncommon brilliancy on a massy tower, a lofty minaret, and some edifices, which crowned the summit of a low hill of which you could not see the bottom. Soon the points of other minarets, a few loopholed walls, and the dark summits of several domes, which successively came into view, and fringed the descending slope of the hill, announced a city. It was Jerusalem, and every one of the party, without addressing a word to the guides or to each other, enjoyed in silence the entrancing spectacle. We rested our horses to contemplate that mysterious and dazzling apparition ; hut when we moved on, it was soon snatched from our view ; for as we descended the hill, and plunged into the deep and profound valley which lay at its feet, we lost sight of the holy city, and were surnunded only by the solitude and desolation of the desert.—Lamarline's 7ravels. PAISLEY IN 1800 ANIXlB4l.—From 1790 to 1800 nearly one half of Pais ey was hull( by weavers from savings of •their ordinary wages. Every house had its garden; and every-wea%er being his own master, could work it when he pleased. Many were excellent florists, many possessed a tolerable library, and all were politicians, so that about the period of the French Revolution, Mr. Pitt expressed more fear of the unrestricted political discussions of the Paisley weavers, than 10,000 armed men. Had Paisley been then what Paisley is now, crowded with half-in formed Radicals and Infidels, his fears would have been justified ; but truth and honest dealing could fear nothing from a community constituted as Paisley then was.; and never, perhaps, in the history of the world, was there a more convincing proof of the folly of being afraid of a universal and thorough education, especial W when im pregnated with the Religion of the Bible, than in the state of Pailey at that period. At the period alluded to, every man, woman, and child, above eight or n i ne y ea s Of age, could read the Bible ; arid many could write ai.d cast accounts; and not a few of the weaver's suns went throgh a regular course at the grammar-school. To have had a distant relative unable to read, or one sent to prison, would have been - felt as equally disgraceful. The inha bitants - were so universally regular in their attendance upon church, and , trict afterwards in keeping in -doors, that .it is recollected, at the end of the last century, or the commencement of the present, that not a living crea ture, save two or three privileged blackguards, were ever seen walking the streets after Divine service ; or if any chanced to.appear, an errand for the doctor was supposed to be the probable cause. In 1818-10, during the Radical reriod, there were found full three thousand, Paisley-born and Paisley-bred, who could not read; and the decline of intelligence has been followed by the decline of that tem perance, prudence and economy, which are the cardinal virtues of the working-classes, by which alone they can elevate their condition, or preserve themselves from sink- . . ing into the most abject poverty. The Paisley weaver of forty years ago married -ea:ly, because he foresaw that he could, in decency, suitort a family, and even sieve some thing for sickness, or age, or the flactuations cf hia traJe. The Paisley weaver lad, in 1842, marries equally early on a pittance that scarcely supports himself ; because he has neither judgment to reflect on the misery which he is en tailing on himself and others, nor moral principle. to feel the solemn obligations of the state into which he is enter in. Those who have no consideration concerning the things of this life, are not likely to have any forethought regarding the life to come ; and just in proportion as the modern Paisley weaver is without religion. does he despise it. All clergy are necessarily hypocrites, as all kings and magistrates, in their estimation, tyrants. Uni tarianism, infidelity, or reckless profanity, too generally abound ; and the popular cry is against all the Church Establishments, however much demanded by the poverty and irreligion of our own town; and against all distinc tions of ranks. Thus, measuring themselves by them selves, they would reduce society to their own level. Paisley thus furnishes an affecting illustration of the dt - elaration of holy writ,. "That righteousness exa'teth city; but siq is the ruin of any people."—No , th &Jags Review. TFIF, LIVERPOOL ► TA NbAn il SECOND► EDITION. TOWN EDITION. LONDON NEWS OF YESTERDAY. MARK-LANE CORN EXCHANGE. During the pl:t week rather an extensive supply of Eneish Wheat came to hand from Lincolnshire, but from Essex and Kent the receipts of that article of grain were only to a mode rate extent. Of other kinds of grain the arrivals were by no means large. Fresh up the supplies of Wheat coastwise. as well as by land carr loge and sample, were only moderate, yet we had rather an extensive show of parcels of butts red and white, ow ing to which the demand for all kinds cf Wheat of home pro duce was in a very sluggish stat.. However. the finest quali ties were mostly cisposed of at fully last week's quotations, but all other kinds were a mere drng at barely late rates. The ge neral condition of the samples was inferior, _ _ _ _ The imports of foreign Wheat have been small, and we had very few samples here to-day. Generally speaking, holders were firm. The finest qualities commanded a fair inquiry, at very full prices. in other kinds next to nothing was doing. A few speculative sales took place in bonded Barley; but other Corn, under lock, was almost nominal in ♦alue. The show of Barley was tolerably extensive. Fine parcels sod at a decline of Is. ; other kinds Is. to 2s. per qr.. and a large prrtion remained over for Wednesday. The Malt trade was very dull, and, in some instances, the rates were somewhat easier, The show of Oats was good, while all de:criptions met a slow in quiry, at barely last week's quotations. In Beans very little was doing, at an abatement of Is. per quarter. Gray and Ma ple Peas were Is. per quarter cheaper, Flour, and all otha ar ticles, were very dull. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. Wheat, Essex and Kent. Red White .. Norfolk and Lincoln, red . White Irish, red White s. d. s. 40 0 50 0 46 0 56 0 38 0-46 0 42 0 —5O 0 Rye, oiti . New Barley, Grinding 27 0 32 0 Malting Chevalier - 33 0 4o 0 Malt, Suffilk and Norfolk 5B 0 t 2 0 Brown 56 0 6o 0 Kingston and Ware . Chevalier Oats, Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, feed • 22 0-- 23 0 Potatoc - Youghall• and Cork, black - 21 0— 22 0 Cork, white Scotch, feed Beans, tick 36 ti —37 0 Pigeons Pease, Grey Maple White , 36 0 38 0 Boilers Flour, town made . 40 o' 45 0 Suffolk 33 0 —35 0 Stockton and Norfolk. 33 0 35 0 FOREIGN GILAIN AND FLOUR IN BOND Wheat, Dantzic Hamburg Barley Oats, new Feed Beans Peas Flot:r, American . tßaltic 32 0 36 0 39 0 - 27 0 - 29 0 17 0 - 18 0 15 0- 17 0 24 0 - 29 0 20 0- 32 0 21 0 - - 20 0 - • SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET. Compared with that exhibited on many previous Monday% the supply of Beasts on sale was bat moderate, while its gene ral quality was very inferior. The Beef trade this morning was' acttve, at an advance in the currencies obtained on this day , se'nnight of quite 2d. per Bibs. ; the best Scots, &c. readily pro ducing 4s 2d per Sibs.. and at which improvement a clearance we& effected without difficulty. During the week the imports of lit•e stock at Hull have amounted to. 06 Beasts and 40 Sheep; in London 72 Oxen and Cows, exclu sive of 40 Sheep. To-day we had only fi ve B easts an d 20 Sheep of feting from Holland. The whole found buyers at a trifle more money. The arrival of Beasts frora ,, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, and , Northamptonshire amounted to about 1,400 Short Horns. From.NorAilk, Sussex, Essex, and Cambridgeshire, 300 Scots, &c.; froarthe Western and Midland Counties, 600 Devons, Herefords, Runts, Irish Beasts, &c ; from other parts of England, 500. of va rious breeds, and from Scotland 200 Horned, and Polled Scots. The.supply of Sheep was only moderate, but quite equal to meet the wants of the buyers. Prime old Downs commanded a steadyrinquiry, at an advance in the quotations of 2d. per Sibs., the highest figure being 4S. ad. ; but in the value (1 other qua lities no variation was noticed. The Veal trade was extremely inactive. Then: was a steady business doing in the primest Pigs, butother qualities were a mere drug.. Per Bibs. to sink the offal. • s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. Inferior Beasts.... 2 6 2 h Second quality do. 3 4 3 8 Second quality do. 2 10— 3 2 Coarse de.. Prime lanfe Oxen. 3 4 3 6 SouthdownWethers4 , 4 2 Prime Scots,. &c... 3 10— 4 2 Do. out of the wool Coarse Calves .... 3 0— 3 C Large H gs Small do. .. 3 8— 4 0 Small Porkers , Suckling:do. each.lB v-33 t Qr. old Pigs, each 16 o—' , o 0 Inferior Sheey..... 3 0— 3 2 Lambs ...... • SUPPLY AT MARKET. Beasts, 3,338. Sheep, 27,210.... Calves, 81.... Pigs, 450. • DOMES32IC TRAGEDY.—Perhaps one of the most e recting suicidal tragedies that has happened in the metro polis for many years occurred yesterday at a very early hour, tv ts.e dweliing cf a Mr. Duckett, an accountant. No. 9, Raven-row, Mil, . end, viz , the self destination of Charles Wm. Duckett, aged 21, son, and Elizabeth Wil Hams, aged 22, lovers, from the effects of prussic acid: • EXTENSIiVE ROBBERY.—During Sunday last a robbery took place at the bank of Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co., St. Clement's-lane, and notes and geld to the amount of I;4o,oooswere. stolen. It appears that the money was deposited in the iron safe; and, as usuil,. a clerk was ap pointed to watch ouer its safety during the day, and ano ther clerk to perform the like duty during the night. One of the rartners remaining at home on Sunday, the day clerk asked permission to go out for a few hours, which was granted. At the accustomed hour in the evening the other clerk came, and remained during the night ; but when business was resumed yesterday,.and the iron safe opened with the ordinary key, it was found tntirely empty; and yet no force whatever had been used to rid the chest of its valuable contents. Of course, all is conjecture upon the subject. Notes to the amountof £35,000 have been stopped at the Bank. GENERAL MISCELLANY. Mr. Scott has contradicted the report , of his intention to resign the reprisentation of Walsall. Tne ship Isabella, of Lehi'. was wrecked on Fluider's Island, Bass's Straits, on the 22nd June. Crew saved. The hands at Stockport have returned to work, at an advance of five per cent. on their wages. The Glasgow Herald mentions a fame beggar, horribly distorted, who maintained his father, mother, brothers, and &liters in idleness. His receipts averaged 10s. a day. EARL OF DYSART, T .The consistory court have granted the prayer of this eccentric nobleman fur a restitution of conjugal rights. . _ On - Fridity evening six sheep, which bad strayed upon the [lull and Selby Railway, were run over by the mail train, and upon the spot. . - - On Sunday week K. H. Hoppner, Esq. many years since adjudge in Bengal, and lately resident in Bath, com mitted suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. On the 7th instant, a boat was upset in Kirkwall Bay, Scotland, and nine persons who were in it met a watery grave. The borough fund of the City of York is enriched £3OO by the retusal of the three members of the Council first elected to serve the office of Mayor. On Saturday week, and again on Monday night week, an extra Gazette was published,. consisting together of fifty-six sheets, containing almost excluiively notices con cerning railway and other private bills. Mr. Locke, the eminent engineer, has received from the King of the French a magnificent diamond ring, for his attention to his Majesty on the South-Western Rail way. There are now residing near Hubbertstone, Pembroke shire, a brother and sister. Elonry and Margaret Banner, of the respective , ges of 97 and 101, the Litter of whom can read well , %ithout the usoof glasses. THE MINISTRY AND THE EAST INDIA COMPANY.— A London contemporary announces that ministers medi tate a complete change in the Government of India, by introducing a measure next session tantamount to the ex tinction of the political power of the Court of Directors. FIRES IN LONDON.—NO fewer than 800 fires have oc-. curred in t ' e present year in London. but they have riot been of so extensive a character as in former years. The. number of lives lost, however, is,'ite regret to say. much greater than the average. No FOG IN WALEs..—A Welshman has almost as little idea of a fog as a Japanese or torrid-zone man has of ice. While London has been enveloped in fog we have had a clear blue sky, a bright sun, and weather such as would convert the coldest utilitarian into a worshipper of naeure, amidst the scenery of South Wales.—Welshman. MORTALITY IN LONDON.—The total numberof deaths in the metropolis during the week ending last Saturday was 1,072, showing a considerable increase of mortality probably caused by the unseasonable state of the last ten days. The weekly average for the last five years has been 946. IMPORTS.—The steamer from Rotterdam has this week brought 104 quarters of garden beans for semi, glO bushels of onions, with several sheep, swan geese and wild ducks. Considerable imports of French tipples have also been m f a u r i l l eth a i a sw t. eek, principally from Ostend and Dunkirk.— i ,pke On Monday week the sloop Ranger, of about 80 tons burden, belonging to Goole, andlnlen with potatoes, came in contact with a collier brig in the river, below Graves end. The sloop sunk almost immediately, and carried with her the master, who perished. The rest of the crew were saved. On the 11th inst. two men, carriers, were returning from t'ocklington to Leeds, with three carts laden with passengers, when they commenced racing, and one of the carts, with seventeen persons in, was overturned, and two women, one of them the wife of the driver, were killed. The men have been committed to York castle on a charge of manslaughter. AFFECTING OCCURRENCE. — On Monday an inquest was held at Camberwell, on the body of Mr. Mason, for merly a merchant in very good circumstances, Who died solely from want, which he chose rather to endure than go into the workhouse. His daughter appeared at the inquest and ga a heart-rending detail of the privations which they bad endured. SIMPLE MODE OF PURIFYING WATRR..-4t is not generally known that •pounded alum possesses the pro of pulverised s o P rx i v i a fu ter, the water stirred at the time, will, i w nt a o ter a. hogshead d after the lap se o f a few hours, by p re cipitating to the bottom the i mpure particles, so purify it that it will be found to p ossess nearly all the freshness and clearness of the finest spring water. A paleurntl, of sprinkled p P r n i:i i k Y le i d ng pailful, containing four gam s , ma .. be purified b 3: single teaspoonful. THE:FRUITS OF THE EARTH: — Fine strawbe r r ies, ee perfect growth and flavor, were gatheral on Monday weet in East-street, and ripe raspberries appear in raw grounds in this vicinity. Potatoes of the best quality er: selling in this town and neighbourhood from 3s. to 3s. ba • per bag of eight score (160lbs.)—Taunton Courier. INSANITY AMONG QUAKERS.—It appears from the number of inmates in the Retreat of late yand some 'ears. that, _Com pared with the total number of Friends in England Scotland, the propor:ion of insane is bat a se than 3 in 1,000. This is a much larger porzion than ll prevails among the rest of the community. came into operation on the 10th instant ; but if there a l; lah T u te ur E s S u te ga G r A: h DUTlES. a -e s: N b li e - e en ca e n u n te o r t ed lea si r u n e t e b t a i t le an n y evi fe ; been any, it has been quite insignificant in quantity, , h u e its effects have been much more than counteracted by , i e., news of the destruction of the sugar in Cuba in the reel' hurricane. Hein; INSTINCT OF RATS.—An old man named Turner, piece s o h n oAp Cotton's Common, while gripping last week in a lt of land in Bardelph parish, cut into a rat's cave, wb ere ke d discovered two pecks and a half of beans carefully Pee and Brist - o d l o , up. They had been carried, no:doubt, one by " e ' pe. boared up for the winter. He took his prize WO short u arnn t d i f time hi e er a .n g s o dt , s vi o t : se , his pig.—Slantford Mercury. r - ni t e l: window, and grasped 28 gold wedding rings. Mr. .gold nessed the felony, and succeeded in snatching two gee': watches which hung near the rings from their reach ! bat being unable to get the door open for some time, ta". escaped with their booty. . An is SUICIDE FROM DISAPPOINTED AFFEtTION. --- the 11th Regiment, who had shot himself while on dal! r, quest was held at Brompton, on the body of a soldier o ype pawnbroker, tied hh er ud ki t ea h r ahcapinia pane ..0 0 f ft r t tb : e. , in his sentry-box, in Chatham Dockyard. The Wi lle d of a girl whom the deceased had desired to metre state., sthhaethaodn told hmimorinti wasng li n e n committed ek t i h ng e d h r e e t ed d f a u u l gi l t e e e r c : for that she was about to be married to another iesn', The deceased, she said, shed tears. She told hien it was of no use his fretting—she thought nothing about bite. THE BRArN.—At the inquest held on MondAY week , upon a person who survived for three (Iry s a dreadful iII jury of the brren, Mr. Waidey said that a short Ole tg ° t a man was struck on the head vuth a pickaxe, andti3 although his brains escaped from the wound and bee said he almostfel t, w incrediblehen how smeared his hand, he was able to run w ith ou t assis' P e - a i to the Lendon Hospit "Upon arriving at the lir - P e ." - a e nhtileuercvilie s asked that i ho w t w a better since he lost his brains. Mr. Wakley t survived injuries of the brain. A Dissenter lately insured in a London fire-office , ?, had the misfortune to be burnt out.. In the policy i° surance was a clause, that the minister and churche s '', dens of the parish shall certify or declare that the fire ba s e happened by a simple accident. Being a Dissenter, en e opposed to church rates, and because the minister re am does not know whether the fire took place by acciden t or design, the minister and churchwardens• refuse to 1e,5 11 : 6 the declaration. Counsel have been co n sulted upon ee" , clause, and it is said to be fatal to the g oodness Of the claim. A t FATAL ACCIDENT AT KINGSTON RUS•SELL.--4 - . distressing accident happened at Kingston Russell on Friday, the Bth inst. Mr. and , M rs. J. Homer, of Ma t " tinstown, had been spending that day with a party °( friends and relations, at the house of Mr. Sansoen , ! l " their four-wheel carriage, the night bei n g dark, Itingeton Russell. On departing. about II at night la after leaving the house, the horse went. too near the ban k, -and the vehicle was overturned, the splashing-beard strip ing Mrs. Homer's chest, and, melancholy to relate, in e l few moments she breathed her laste• Mr. Homer escaped uninjured.. The deceased lady was in the panic of lire , and has left a family of young children.—Sherbo rae Jhurnal. MURDER.—On Tuesday. night laet, a- very, shocking murder was committed at Yarmouth,. Norfolk upon the body. of Harriet Candler, a poor widow vtloman, who kepe a small chandler's shop there, last Saturday, the decease,' had , received £l5O as a portion of her - husband's- mot her and uncle's property, and haling no present use for it , she lute probably told her neighbours that she :hotted Pu t it under her bed till her son came home.. This. seems to have , excited the cupidity of the murderer, for early el Tuesday night, the door of her room was-found litetaliy she herself lying down by the side of the. tilli delugedin blood, her scull having five wounds upon' it. A knife e covered with blood, lay by her r but the s urgeon thought:the fatal wound had been inflicted- by a "ch eese cutter," used in her trade. The money was-gone from under-the bed,. and also the till money. COSTIFY Venerets.—A sale has been concluded at Cre morne House, Chelsea, of a variety of articles made lOC of at tea different public entertainments offered-there by the Baron de Berenger. Among the lots offered meet' s.° violins, one made by Maximilian Zacher, in the yearlP2, and the other by Jacobus Stainer, in 1650-.4 The auc tioneer stated that there were many instancesof -violins bY these unrivalled masters producing considerable sums , . and he alleided to the sineular terms of stile of- One to s hortly Count Trantmansclorf, Master of the Horeeeto Charles VI., who, .afrer paying doyen la a rge sum of money, agreed to pay a certain number of dollars till his death. which , with other-gifts, amounted to between 8000 and 9600 del' tars, or about £6OO. The same violin is now in the 1 ,05- session of an eminent musician. The Stainer violin leas sold for 55 guineas, the first offer being 25 guineas. the Za, her violin was knooked down for 30 guineas. THE PLEAsuR.Es OF HANGING.—At an inquest-On-the body of a person who had committed suicide the other day, Mr. Wakley, the coroner, observed it was extraor dinary how pleasing the effects of hang-ng were. •That was apparent from the fact, that of all the persons who committed suicide by hanging, the majority were found either in a. sitting posture or with their feet or knees touching the ground. In one instance a young lady, who was watched by two females, one at ell her side of her bed, strangled herself with the strings of her night-dress, with- - out their knowledge. On another occasion a man butte himself while stretched upon his face, with his nose al most touching the ground. A short time since he held an inquest at Balls Pond upon a man who having.. hung himself up,. the cord broke before he was dead, and lie survived the attempt thirty-five hours. He stated teat he had enjoyed the most pleasing sensations while sus pended. Persons who committed suicide by banging went off in a sleep and died without pain. He didnoc speak of malefact firs hanged at the Old Bailey,- whose necks were broken, but of those who, like the deceased, hung themselves without subjecting their bodies to aeerk. In the latter case neither was the neck broken nor was the windpipe closed, but a congestion of the brain ensued, which caused death. SINGULAR INCIDRNT.—Between two and three moath s ago we announced that an infant female chile had bee° found covered up in a basket amongst the goods a t the railway station at Ayr. It was ascertained that the per" cel had been handed in to the booking-office at - G , :x 9 g t e h : on the preceding day—had been carried : down on „ t ,. goods track, and locked up all night in one of the t s houses at the station, when the attention,oft the Pel'", was only directed to it by some faint cries issuing fr?"; the basket, while they were turning over and arrangtes, bales and boxes for delivery. That the life of one " young and tender—for the infant was believed, to, be on l y a fortnight old—could have been sustained under su e trying circumstances is not a little remarkable; but the forsaken " wee lassie" was immediately put to a ralrEe . she has thriven apace, and is now a healthy and interest ing chili). For long the authorities were in search of the mother who could send li r child on such &perilous jou ney, and we learn that, within these last few days, they have succeeded in tracing her out, and apprehending he r ' She was brought to Glasgow from henfather's residence; who is a respectable small farmer in the neighbourhoca of Ayr; and has since been committed for trial. The child is illegitimate, of course, and the girl, we believet states that her intention. was to send it to her father to Ays.—Glasootv Herald. • New . BOILER.—At the British Aseociation, Mr. Fair' bairn described a newly invented boiler,. which seemed to possess many excellent qua li t i es f or the economy o ffset and the prevention of smoke. The boiler was of a vt l e' simple constru c ti on , o f t h e cylindriell form. and contain ed i t t w ) g o the w internal le fl l u e e n s g , t a h b o o t u t t h 2 e feet bo diameter e fi r i . hcl E te a s chtiue ex te d contained a separate . furnace, which, surrounded in every direction water, formed ready absorbents for the radiant beat, as ' t passed off from the fire. On this plan the gasses froth both fires were carried forward through the whole leng' i l of the flues to the opposite end, where they unite, 50 where a new and additional process of combustion takes' place. From the description trims given, it would apPl... r : that the operations of the doubl e fl ues were use f u l in e fecting the ignition of the gasses as they came in costaeqs respectively from each furnace. The o r i g i na l i n tention u p the double flues and fires was not to lessen the smoke, but to enlarge the steam span, and prevent w h a t i s t e chnical" called priming in the boiler ; it, however, exhibited Pecu liar properties, and by a-simple process of firing the fur naces alternately, the whole pheno m e n a o f near ly perfq combustion is accomplished. To eff ec t th ese o bj ec ts it la only necessary to charge the furnaces alternately & el half hour, and it will be f oun d th at d ur i ng t h e t i m e ca; fire is replenished with fuel, the other is making gae• an ' the 'currents from the c l ear b urn i ng fi re pass i ng o ff at ; bights.. temperature than the carbonaceous matter- eyolsl e in the newly ch arge d f urnace , t h e pro d ucts are i gn ited W e moment they come in contact, and the nuisance of seenl‘ - by these simple means prevented. RECEIPT STAMPS.—I MPORTANT S UGGASTIO N." the city article of the L on d on Ti mes o f Th urs day, iTo t ig,' remarked that " the subject of the stamp on receipts rs one which engages some attention among the trailing ini terest, and a suggestion has been made by an intelligei2e member of that interest, following the principle of the universal penny postage, to tax all receipts for sums abc"e £5 at Id. only, and make it compulsory to give stamp e d receipts in all cases, which he thinks would pro nicest revenue of £1,000,000, while the tax yields at the cre se te time a sum less than £200,000." The w riter goes en, say that the respectable party alluded t o p ro poses that Hi e ~ paper to be used shall be issued, stamped, as heretofor by the Government, which is tn'print on the same PaP er a form of receipt •, besides which, he would allow all a t : knowledgments of the receipt of money written on PaP e e , which hears the Post-office stamp, as evidence of ettE o through the Post-office, to be considered legal receip ts. All other paper to be used as invoices, accounts-eurre t e : &c., to be found by persons requiring it, and to be P r sented for stamping at the' Stamp-office. Ile proposes!, also, that all banker's checks should have the Pen u s i; vouchers, s tan'p attached d of being the means commonly in instead► as they now are, of evading the tax altogether. "Thecae in to them, which will make them l e g : ciliation of the amount to be raised is admitted to be startling, hut it is added that it appears at least Posa t and the plan would induce better habits of business tti taking vouchers for all eayments, a practice which mat prevent litigation and disputes. - it would also preve e 2 country bankers from evading the provisions of the at: Bunk Act, which is of flail QCOVrenee in various WaY Nov. 26, IR 14.