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WE'LL GO AND GATHER ROSES. BY WILLIAM FORSYTH. We'll go and gather roses While summer beauties last, Ere the cloud its coming shows ns By shadows round us cast. We'll go with song and laughter, Light heart and sunny eye, Load think on care hereafter 'Heath winter's cauldrife sky. We'll go and gather roses, summer's sweetest roses, Through the bowers of beauty vaunted, Woods where ceaseless songs are chaunted, And by fountains fairy haunted, Go and gather roses. We'll go and gather roses, Our flowery path along, Each step some sweet discloses, Each breath is full of sung. The merry waters falling, The wild birds as they sing, The woodland fays are calling From out the fairy ring, To go anA gather roses, bonny budding roses, To wreathe young beauty's flowing hair, With sisters meet to blossom there; Sweetest flowers —though ne'er so fair As earth's own peerless roses. We'll go and gather roses, Where'er they brightest be, While a thousand radiant glosses Glint o'er the gowan lea. Ere the loveliness of summer And its happy hours depart, And the sunshine waxeth dimmer On the hills and in the heart, We'll go end gather roses, dewy bosom'd roses, The cloud may come before we wot, The tear before we dream Then, let's enjoy our present lot, And gather summer roses. LITERATURE AND THE FINE ARTS, ♦ The Parlour Magazine of the Literature of all Nations London : Houlston and Stoneman This magazine contains original English and American contributions, and translations from the literature of eight different nations. The idea of establishing such a cosmo politan collection of literature was suggested by the in. stitution of " the Great Exhibition," and in the Crystal Palace the periodical is printed. Whatever may be the ultimate fate of that wonderful structure—by the bye, in the opinion of many more wonderful and attractive than its contents—we conceive it to be clear that the " Exhibition of the Literature of all Nations" now before us will be permanent. The collection in the present part comprises tales, essays, and poetry from the German, French, American, and Persian languages, &c. ; and in some of the selections we can vouch for the accuracy and effect of the translation. The Home Circle. Part 25. London : W. S. Johnston. The amount of entertaining and superior literature with which this periodical abounds must enlighten the intellect of every member of that " home" in which it is received. A Story without a Name," an historical novel, by Mr. G. P. R. James, is continued throughout the present part, and in beauty of description and interest of narrative it sustains his reputation. " Quentin Matsys, the Black smith of Antwerp," by Mr. Pierce Egan, increases in in terest, and is Scott-like in its truthful delineation of cha racter. " Northern Loves and Legends," by Frederika Bremer, is beautifully written. Here is an elegant passage NIAGARA. tntitled " And there it flows still, since thousands and thou sands of years, ever green, ever young, ever fresh with the sweetness and majesty of a great and noble love ;—its spirit for ever ascending towards the light, whose loving rays are for ever descending upon it, embracing it with radiant rainbows, touching its pure waters with purest flames. There it riseth to.day, as on its first day, a solemn, joyous hymn, type of the ever young, ever over flowing life of nature—a solemn admonition and invita tion to the heart of mankind to feel and grow and flow as that of its mother." - - •• - The " Accomplishments for Ladies," and the " Answers to Correspondents," are of a superior and entertaining character. Pictorial Half Houra London Topography, Part II London : Charles Knight, This part contains highly-finished and accurate wood cuts of the public structures in London—a fine field for such an exhibition of artistic talent. There are elaborate descriptions and historical accounts —altogether forming an important and useful work. Half-hours of English History. Part 111. We are afraid that the untiring enterprise of Mr. Knight, in his efforts to diffuse throughout all classes of the com munity cheap yet highly-superior literature, has not been attended with such pecuniary results as they deserve. It is hardly possible to place before the mass of the Bri tish public more instructive information than that con tained in this periodical. It consists of concise, yet re plete sketches, of the monarchs and institutions of power in the early part of English history. Their perusal, in the present eventful period, conveys something more than mere historical narrative ; something of the natural philo sophy of government is exhibited : thus, in describing - - - THE CHARACTER OF WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR. " With all his ferocity, William evinced throughout his life a reverence both for the ordinances and the minis ters of religion ; and, although he would not suffer either his clergy or the pope to erect within his kingdom an ecclesiastical dominion separate from and independent of that of the crown, he showed himself anxious on all occa sions to maintain the respectability of the church by pro moting able men to the chief places in it, as well as by upholding it in its legal rights and powers. That he was eminently endowed with the qualities, both moral and intellectual, that raise men above their fellows, is anun dantly proved by what he did. Few men have projected the influence of their genius across so wide an expanse both of time and space as the founder of the Norman dynasty in England. In moral disposition William was passionate and ruthless ; but he does not appear to have been vindictive, nor even, properly speaking, cruel or bloodthirsty, notwithstanding the destructive character of some of his military operations. There was nothing weak, nothing little about this great king. In his latter days, the chronicler intimates, he fell into the vices of avarice and greediness ; but this love of money was only one of the forms assumed by his love of power, the natu ral passion of all superior minds." Curiosities of Industry and the Applied Sciences. Part I This is another of Mr. Knight's issues. The present number treats of the manufacture of glass and iron—the component parts of the Exhibition Building. The trea tises are very elaborate, and really valuable. It ap pears that the roof of the " Palace" contains 16 acres of glass ! and that glazing the structure was " no joke," if we may judge by the technical manner in which the process is described. That the most highly-prized things may be reduced to thebasestusesis w ell illustrated by the remarks on THE KOH-I-NOOR DIAMOND " In these days, when the famed Koh-i-noor is under going criticism alike from all quarters, from the duke to the dustman, and when Spanish jewels and Russian jewels, Indian jewels and Tunisian jewels, are being gazed at by millions of persons, it may be interesting to bear in mind that the diamond has on some occasions been used to convert iron into steel. A somewhat startling and costly experiment this ! One of the points of difference between steel and bar-iron is, that the former contains more car bon than the latter ; and as the diamond consists of abso lutely pure carbon (so far as experiments have hitherto determined), it has been thought worth while to try whe ther iron can be imbued with the requisite dose of carbon from this source." An experiment of this kind, made some time since in France, is described; but, as the writer gravely informs as, has not often been repeated. This we can credit. Trade and Travels in the Gulf of Guinea ; with an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Inhabi tants. By J. Smith. London : Sim pkin , Marshall, & Co. This is an interesting and well-written work, and to parties carrying on mercantile traffic with the western coast of Africa its information must be invaluable. Mr. Smith appears to have had considerable experience on the subject of which he treats, having made several voyages to thecoast as surgeon and passenger; and his work sup plies a blank, for we do not recollect any previous work minutely and practically describing the state and inhabitants of the coast of Guinea, and their religion, laws, and cus toms. The results of his intercourse with, and observa tion of, a race of men the lowest in the creation, affords great scope for charitable and philosophic thought. Here is man in his most debased condition—a direct opposite to the Creator, in whose image he is made. The author says—comparing the condition of the negro in his native land and the_horrors of THE SLAVE TRADE " The negroes sold to the nefariou s ro tra ffi ckers in slaves, are already in a state of slavery. Africa,ply speaking there the master and are only two classes of people in all the the slave. Among the latter may be classed women, who, though called wires, are virtually near ly t . !n a state of bondage ; the master a proud, cruel, despot ic whose will in his law; the slave . a poor, ini p sera lc ble yrait, de graded piece of mechanism, subject in body in mind' to capricious and degraded master. An English donkey is a comparatively happy creature, and much less inhuma nly a treated, or its master falls under the lash of the officer of a humane society ; the negro has no law to protect him, and he is usually ill fed, worse clothed and lod g ed, has no will of his own, and his master can sell, or maim, or kill 'aim at discretion. * * * * A. great deal has been written and said on the cruelty fo r .. libsrly practised on the flares in oar West India colonies, and no doubt severe censure was merited; but their lot was happiness compared to their wretched condition at home. Were an offer made to the newly-imported African bred slaves to convey them home again, and land them at their former master's door, I am persuaded the offer would be rejected in ninety-nine cases out of every hundred." The Protestant Magazine. London : J. F. 'Shaw , The contents of this useful publication for the month are highly attractive, and rendered peculiarly interesting at the present time. - The Family:Friend. London : Houlston and Stoneman. This periodical does not belie its name. The matter it contains is varied and interesting. The Girlhood of Shakspeare's Heroines. Tale TX. By Mary Cowden Clarke. London : W. H. Smith& Sons. The design of this issue is to trace the probable antece dents in the history of some of Shakspeare's women. The manner in which the work is performed is certainly equal to the design. Lewis Arundel; or, the Railroad of Life. By Frank Fairlegh. Part IX. London : Hall, Virtue, & Co. This novel continues to sustain its amusing and olaver character. The Ladies' .then Book. London : W. S. Johnstcat This is appropriately styled " a companion to the work-table." It contains some chaste designs in knit- The Great Gun Polka, by Richard Harvey; My Polka, by Carlo Minosi ; and The Minstrel Knight, composed by Charles Glover. London : D'Almaine and Co. We have much pleasure in noticing these talented compositions Smities Practical Bookkeeping Is as concise in form as it is clear in example and expla nation. Any person with ordinary ability might, with the assistance of this guide, become an efficient master of his books. It is not, however, more useful than ano ther small book that Mr. Smith has just issued under the title of a Trade :Reference, or Commercial Dictionary, which contains lucid explanations of all the terms of trade in use amongst the mercantile public, as well as all ne cessary forms. Mr. Smith, who is we believe a practical man, has evidently a thorough knowledge of his subject. Both works will be useful to mercantile clerks and others. THE LIVE RPOOL STAND'. , TUESDAY, ATJUITST 19, 1551. -♦ SIMPLICITY OF DRESS.—:Female loveliness never ap pears to so good advantage as when set off with simplicity of dress; and our dear human angels, if they would make good their title to that name, should carefully avoid ornaments which properly belong to Indian squaws and African princesses. These tinselries may serve to give effect on the stage or 043 the ball-room floor, but in daily life there is no substitute for the charm of sim plicity. The absence of a true taste and refinement or delicacy cannot be compensated for by the possession of the most princely fortune. Mind measures gold, but gold cannot measure mind. Through dress the mind may be read, as through the delicate tissue of the lettered page. A modest woman will dress modestly. A really refined and intellectual woman will bear the marks of careful selection and taste. SHEIL'S WlT.—The pungent wit of Mr. Sheil was not the least remarkable of his shining qualities. What he said of a late Irish member of parliament could not have been surpassed by Congreve. On being asked whether Mr. bad any Irish estate, Sheil exclaimed' " Why, he's an Irish estate in himself ! He is heavily encum bered—he is openly for sale—and though he has a parlia mentary title, he can find no buyers at all !" His good things were always said with a rapidity of utterance and pungency of manner that doubled their effect. One night he was asked by Lady Morgan, who was a Mr. who made himself unreasonably conspicuous in Irish agi tation ? "He is patriot to a brewery," was Sheil's answer—of which the humour may not be understood in England, but in Ireland, where speculators often trade in porter and in politics together, the description is tho roughly comic.—Athenaeum. PRUSSIAN ANECDOTE.—Frederick of Prussia had a mania for enlisting gigantic soldiers into the " Royal Guards," and paid an enormous bounty to his recruiting officers for getting them. One day a recruiting sergeant chanced to spy an Hibernian who was at least seven feet high ; he accosted him in English, and proposed that he should enlist. The idea of a military life and a large bounty so delighted Patrick, that. he at once consented.— " But," said the sergeant, " unless you can speak German the king will not give you so much."—" 0, be jabers," said the Irishman, " sure it's I that don't know a word of Gronan."—" But," said the sergeant, " three words will be sufficient, and these you can learn in a short time. The king knows every man in the Guards. As soon as he sees you, he will ride up and ask you how old you are ; you will say twenty-seven—next, how long you have been in the service ; you must reply three weeks—finally, if you are provided with clothes and rations, you answer both." —Patrick soon learned to pronounce his answers, but never dreamed of learning the questions. In three weeks he appeared before the king in review. His Majesty rode up to him : Paddy stepped forward with " present arms." —" How old are you ?" said the king.—" Three weeks," said the Irishman.—" How long have you been in the service ?" asked his Majesty.—" Twenty-seven years."— " Am I or you a fool ?" roared the king.—" Both," re plied Patrick, who was instantly taken to the guard-room. TURKISH COURTESY.—We happened to be serving in the Adtiatic under the orders of the late Admiral Free mantle, then commanding on that station, and attended him, with other officers, on a visit of ceremony to the Pacha of Scutari, a young man who had scarcely ever had any intercourse with Europeans before. He invited the party to accompany him in a ride, and mounted them all in excellent style. The Admiral remarked the extreme beauty and docility of the Pacha's horse, and he was glad the Admiral admired him. A Turk says but little at a time, never laughs, and seldom pays or returns a com pliment. After inspecting the palace, surveying the fortifications, and partaking of coffee and pipes, the party took leave and returned on board the flag-ship, the Milford, a noble seventy-four. The first thing the Admi ral saw when he ascended the ship's side was the horse, standing on the deck, as the Pacha had dismounted from him, with a demipique saddle, considerably the worse for wear, bridle with tarnished embroidery, and velvet housings of faded hue. He was accompanied by two officers, bearing a message from the Pacha to the Admiral, expressed in the most courteous language, to the effect that he would do him much honour by acceptirg the horse, exactly as he had ridden him that morning. There was something in the whole manner of this which indicated one of nature's gentlemen. A pupil of the artificial, or Chesterfield school, would have been shocked at the old saddle and bridle. He would have sent the horse entirely uncaparisoned, or with new and gorgeous trappings. The Admiral, who was himself a noble specimen of what the British officer should be, in mind and manners, always quoted this as the most per• feet instance of gentility he had ever met with.—Dublin University Magazine. __ ATHENS DURING THE MIDDLE AGES.—It is usual to suppose that Athens was a miserable and decayed town during the whole of the middle ages, and that Attica then offered the same barren, treeless, and unimprovable aspect which it does now as a European kingdom. Such, how ever, was not the case. The social civilization of the inhabitants, and their ample command of the necessaries and many of the luxuries of life, were in those days as much superior to the condition of the citizens of Paris and London as they are now inferior. When Walter de Brienne succeeded to the duchy, it occupied a much higher position in the scale of European States than is at present occupied by the kingdom of Greece. The Spaniard Muntaner, who was well acquainted with all the rich countries around the Mediterranean, then the most flourishing portion of the globe, and who was familiar with the most magnificent courts of Europe, says that the Dukes of Athens were among the greatest princes who did not possess the title of king. He has left us a description of the court of Athens, which gives us a high idea of its magnificence ; and he declares that the nobles of the duchy then spoke as good French as the Parisians themselves. The city was large and wealthy, the country thickly covered with villages, of which the ruins may still be traced in spots affording no indications of Hellenic sites. Aqueducts and cisterns then gave fertility to land now unproductive ; olive, almond, and fig trees were intermingled with vineyards, and orchards covered ground now reduced by the want of irrigation to yield only scanty pasturage to the flocks of nomade shep herds. The valonia, the cotton, the silk, and the leather of Attica, then supplied native manufactories, and the surplus commanded a high price in European markets. The trade of Athens was considerable ; and the luxury of the Athenian ducal court was celebrated in all the regions of the west where chivalry flourished. Nor was the position of the Greek subjects of the dukes at this period one of severe oppression. Civilization had penetrated deeper into the social relations of men in Greece than in the rest of Europe ; and its effects were displayed in the existence of a middle class, living in ease, and by the decay of slavery and serfdom. Though the Greeks of Athens were a conquered race, the terms of capitulation granted by Otho de la Roche secured to them all the privileges as individual citizens which they enjoyed under the Byzan tine government, with much greater freedom from finan cial oppression. The feudal conquerors of Greece soon perceived that it was greatly for their interest to respect the terms of the capitulations concluded with their Greek subjects, and to gain their goodwill. Each grand feuda tory soon became aware that the Greeks from their wealth and numbers might be rendered useful allies in opposing the exorbitant pretensions of their own immediate vassals and military followers, and in restraining the avarice of the Latin clergy, the ambition of the Pope, or the pre tensions of the Emperor of Romania. The peculiar con dition of the Greek landed proprietors, who were in some degree both capitalists and merchants, taught their princes the necessity of alleviating the natural severity of the feudal system, and modifying the contempt it inculcated for the industrious and unwarlike classes of society, The high value of some of the productions of Greece before the discovery of America and the route to India by the Cape of Good Hope, placed the landed proprietors on the coasts of Greece, and particularly those of Attica and Bosotia, in the receipt of considerable money revenues. They were thus enabled to pay to their dukes an amount of taxation which many monarchs in western Europe were unable to extract from numerous cities and burghs, whose trade depended on slow and expensive land eommunica hone, and from cultivators without capital, who raised little but corn and hay.—Mediaval History of Green. FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. FRANCE. It is announced, though not officially, that the'Presi dent of .the Republic will, between the 20th and 25th of this month, make a tour in the departments, proceeding first to Angouleme, thence to Bordeaux, la Rochelle and Rochefort and returning to Paris through Ferigueux, .Limoges, Moulins, and Nevers. He will be accompanied M. .Leon Faucher, Minister of the Interior, .Ceneral Randon, Minister of War, and M. Fould, Minister of Finance. _ _ Thereere now no less than three classes of Orleanists. There :are the Orleanist-fusionists, who can scarcely be anything but Legitimists in disguise; the Orleanists who support the candidature of the Prince de Joinville for the Presidency., and the Orleanists who oppose it, because they wish only for the regency of the Duchess of Orleans, and think that the election of the Prince de Joinville would tend to consolidate and strengthen the republic. A feeling of some uneasiness prevails at Lyons, owing to the.great sympathy which a large portion of the:popu lace arelnown to have with the prisoners now on their trial before the court-martial. Nothing like a serious de monstration of public feeling has, however, taken place hitherto. The state of siege which still continues enables the military authorities to take every precaution. The people, too, understand, that the best way in which ,they can serve their friends is to remain quiet. SOCIALIST AMUSEMENTS IN PARIS.—A soldier was recently drinking in company with two workmen in a public-house at Grenelle. A man with a huge beard and a broad brimmed hat came in, and in a loud voice cried, '` Citizen, _give me a glass of wine : if I were to take two I should be an aristo 1" On perceiving the soldier he began singing a song in which the army was grossly insulted. .He then abused the President of the Republic in the grossest terms. The soldiers and workmen pro tested against such language ; this led to a quarrel, and the quarrel to blows. The public-house keeper interfered, but was grossly illtreated by the demagogue. At last the man was secured and taken to the guard house. PRUSSIA, A curious g.nd melancholy illustration of the German mania for smoking has recently occurred at Berlin, where two boys. one eight and the other nine years old, were burnt to death through their hiding in a loft to smoke. They were believed by th, it parents to be safe at school, till they were missed at supper time. On inquiry it was found that the schoolmaster had not seen either of them that day; and on searching thu half-consumed building their bodies were found, and near them their pipes. SPAIN The King was to proceed on the 11th to Buitrago, to represent the Queen at the ceremony of laying the first stone of the canal which is to convey to Madrid the waters of the river Lozoya. ITALY, The 'Marchioness Maria Pentini died, at Rome, on the 27th ult. She was the daughter of Gaspard Santini, who was sent, in 1781, by the Empress Cath.erine 11. to the Sovereign Pontiff Pius 'VI. On the 2d instant, M. Cesar', one of the keepers of the archives, was stabbed in the abdomen by an unknown person, who immediately took to flight. The wound, however, was not considered mortal. The Pope, it is stated, is not unwilling to come to terms with the Sardinian Government. provided civil marriage and the secularization of church property be given up, and the Archbishops Franzoni and Morongin reinstated in office. The Frankfort Journal attributes to the journey of the King of Saxony to Italy an important political objea. Being a relative of the King of Sardinia, his Majesty was to use all his influence over King Victor Emmanuel, to induce him to dismiss his ministers, with the exception only of M. de Foresta, and to shake off the English in fluence. A fearful illness. occasioned by eating blighted grppes, which is mentioned by anc i en t me di ca l wor ks of Italy, has broken out in Tuscany. The National states that since the appearance of Mr. Gladstone's letters, the rage and enmity of the King of Naples have been stimulated to an extraordinary degree, in support of which it cites a long list of fresh perse cutions. LATEST FROM AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE STEAM SHIPS ATLANTIC AND AMERICA. By the arrival of these splendid vessels we have re ceived advices from New York to the 7th instant. The Atlantic left that port on the 6th instant, and sdluted the Rock Lighthouse on Sunday morning, at three o'clock, having made the run against light head winds in ten (lays ten hours and fifteen minutes. The British and North American steam-ship America, with accounts from Bos ton of the 6th instant, reached the river on Sunday morn ing at a quarter to eleven, after a run, deducting the de tention at Halifax, of ten days fifteen hours and forty-five minutes, equal to a run from New York of eleven and a half days. The Atlantic brought 55 passengers and 110,000 dollars specie, and the America brought 50,000 dollars and 41 passengers. The Atlantic reports her own arrival out at New York, which port she reached on the 3d instant, and was, therefore, only detained three days. The movements of the other ocean steamers will be found as usual detailed in our shipping intelligence, where the details of the destruction by fire of the brig Jane are also given. . . . . . The intelligence by these arrivals is not important. Many rumours were current about the proceedings of the pira ical band in Cuba, but little credit can be attached to them, though it appears certain that the United States Government had ordered several steam-ships to the Gulf of Mexico, with reinforcements to check the invaders. The Typhoon clipper ship had sailed for China. and the steam-ship Golden Gate for San Francisco. The new steamer S. S. Lewis, for the Boston and Liverpool line, would sail from Philadelphia to Boston on the 21st inst. She is to be the most splendidly furnished vessel and one of the largest ever built in Philadelphia. Rumours were current that the Government of Nicar agua had revoked the canal treaty formed with Mr. Van derbilt, but the report was not generally credited, and letters were daily expected in New York announcing the completion of the surveys for the canal. During July the immigration into New York amounted to 27,512 souls._ The total gold coinage at Philadelphia from January to July was 27,260,751 dollars. From Canada, we learn that, in the Legislative As sembly, on the 28th ult., Mr. Merritt's proposition for a convention to consider the expediency of a legislative union of all the British provinces, was rejected by a large majority. One of the New York journals supplies the following :—" No progress has been made in the Canadian Legislature towards the settlement of the reciprocity question. The government still refuses to concede the navigation of the St. Lawrence to foreign vessels, until it obtains •an equivalent from the United States. A pro posal was made in the Assembly last week, to open the St. Lawrence to the vessels of all nations, but it was opposed by the government. A motion against removing the seat of government to Quebec, until after the expir ation of four years, from the time of its removal to Toronto, has been negatived in the house by a vote of 48 to 12. It is considered certain that the removal will take place during the present season. Mackenzie's bill for the election of sheriffs, and Ross's bill for disqualifying per sons from sitting in the Legislative Assembly who may, hereafter, be guilty of treason, haveboth been thrown out." The following is the intelligence received from New York, by electric telegraph, via Halifax. " NEW YORK, AUG. 7. " In cotton no alteration, with more disposition to buy. Flour and grain dull, at Tuesday's quotations. Fire at San Francisco ; three millions worth of property destroyed. Money quieter; stocks a little better; two millions gold dust arrived since last advices ; accounts from the mines as good as ever." CALIFORNIA The steam-ship Empire City, with 1.700,000 dollars from San Francisco, and with accounts from Chagres of the 25th ult., reached New York on the 6th instant. She brought advices from San Francisco to the Ist July. On Sunday, the 22d June, the unfortunate capital city of the Gold Regions, was again the scene of a vast conflagration, supposed to be of incendiary origin, destructive of pro perty valued at £600,000 sterling. From the Alta-Cali fornian we learn that the fire included thirteen squares, with five other squares situated between Powell and San some and Broadway and Clay. Of the origin of the con flagration, beyond the suspicion referred to, no conjecture is hazarded. Several parties had, however, been arrested, and preparations were being made to rebuild the burnt districts. Life and property were in a very unsafe state, and both in San Francisco and Sacramento " committees of vigilance" had been formed. Numerous lives had also been sacrificed by the Indians near the Mines. The Alta- Cattfornian says :—" Accounts from the mines and placers are very encouraging, especially in th e r otten quartz diggings. The prospect through the country for good crops is excellent, and a vast amount of vegetables will undoubtedly be produced. Our city is being built up again very fast, some two hundred buildings having been erected and many of them finished during the past week. A horrible murder was perpetrated at Senora, last Friday, by persons who took offence at an article published in the Senora Herald. They repaired to the editor, Dr. Gunn's room, dragged him from his bed, shot him through the head, killed two other persons connected with the office, and wounded or killed three or four other persons who went to their assistance. There has been a Quartz Mining Convention held in Mariposa county, at which some very important resolutions were adopted." A San Francisco journal says, " George Hubbard, a native of Scotland, about forty years of age, who had been confined to his bed in a house in Jackson-street for eight days past, expired while being removed to the Plaza." One of the telegra phic despatches from New Orleans, on the arrival of the Alabama, supplies the following mercantile report : " Since the fire tbere has been more inquiry for some de scription of goods, but)the large and continually increasing stock checks any material advance. Flour, quiet and steady; coffee, very dull; cement and bricks, in fair re quest ; sugars, slightly lower ; provisions only in moderate demand. There had been a number of additional cases of Lynsh law, and the crime still prevailed to a fearful extent. From the Mines the reports were conflicting, but generally favourabla. The Quartz diggings continued to yield well." We learn, by the Tobago papers, the sudden death of his Excellency D. R. Ross, Esq., Lieutenant• Governor of that colony, occasioned by his being precipitated, with his horse and gig, from the side of the road into a ravine about thirty feet deep, whilst returning from a public ball. Strange to say, horse, gig, and servant, escaped uninjured. THE BRAZILS. The news brought by the Severn from:Brazil and the River Plate seems to indicate that 'hostilities were on the point of breaking out. Brazil has , waived her ter ritorial claims in the Banda Oriental, but she and her allies seemed resolved to drive Oribe thence. General Urquiza, with 8,000 well-armed and devoted men, was to undertake this devoted task, aided by Corrientes, Para guay, and Brazil. Oribe, it was thought, would concen trate all his forces for the purpose of giving battle to the invaders, immediately upon their entering his ter ritories. As France has withdrawn her subsidy from Monte V:deo, and, as Balsas has accepted the mediation of Great Britain, it is thought that an adjustment of dis putes may be effected. The slave trade in Brazil has been reduced to its lowest ebb, and the British cruisers have defeated a deep-laid scheme for reviving the traffic. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE The screw steam-ship, Sir Robert Peel, has arrived with papers from the Cape to the 4th of. July. She brings no decisive intelligence respecting the !Kaffir war. Sir Harry Smith was on the frontier. The enemy was in check, and he contemplated a decisive movement, which, it was hoped, might lead to a termination of hostilities. Sandili continued on the Amatola mountains. It is said that his favoured prophet, Umlangeni., had deserted him and joined another chief. Pato remained faithful to the British cause. The colonists at Cape Town believed that a constitution had been sent to them, but the officials bad not published it. The Cape Town Mail declares that the rebellion of the frontier Hottentots had assumed a new development during the past month. The insurrec tion had spread more widely, and the general nature of the objects which the rebels had in view was becoming better known. " These objects (according to the Mail) were the expulsion of the English colonists from that por tion of the frontier districts which is situated between the Sunday's, the Bavian's, and the Keiskamma Rivers, and the occupation of that territory by the Hottentots, as an independent nation." INDIA advices from Trieste, of the 13th inst., we are in formed of the arrival at Suez of the Indian Mail. The Haddington left Calcutta on the 3d July, and arrived at Suez on the 4th inst. Ver dates from Bombay are to the sth July. The Mail, which left Bombay on the 7th June, must have returned to Ceylon on account of bad weather. Her arrival may be looked for a month later. it was reported that orders had been given for the sur render•of the northern provinces of the Nizam, in satis faction of the sums due to the East India Company. There were rumours of an outbreak in Cashmere An Enjish vessel has been wrecked in the neighbour hood of Aden, and a portion of the crew murdered by the natives. Lord and Lady Dalhousie and the Commander-in-chief are at Simla. The steam-sloop Reynard is reported lost; so is the ship Larpent, from Liverpool. A Lascar has been convicted for wilfully setting fire to the Ariel, in May last, on her way to China. Heavy rains had fallen at Bombay. A heavy decline in cotton, and commerce dull. The Indian Mail has arrived with intelligence from Cal cutta to July 3 ; Bombay, June 7 (the mail which was detained) and July 5; and China, June 23. Exchange at Calcutta, 2s. 14d. to 2s. lid. At Bombay money is more abundant. Exchange, from ls. Md. to Is. 111-d. IRELAND. THE GREAT NATIONAL CATTLE SHOW.—The annual exhibition of the Royal Agricultural Improvement Society of Ireland opened on Wednesday, in Dublin. and the ex hibition surpassed all former meetings. The attendance was very numerous and most respectable, comprising a great assemblage of the aristocracy, including the Duke of Leinster, the Earls of Leitrim, Roden, and Mayo, Lord Viscount Monck, and several others of the same class. DISCOURAGEMENT OF INDUSTRY. — The crusade waged by the Roman Catholic clergy, not merely against the system of mixed education, but against all attempts to soften down religious asperities by training to industrial pursuits in the same schools children of different religious denominations. continues in operation here. Some months since it was mentioned that a school in the immediate vicinage of Dublin was attended by a large number of young girls. Protestants as well as Roman Catholics, who, having been duly taught fancy needlework, &c., were paid weekly wages in propor tion to their abilities ; and as it was decided that the question of religion was to be altogether excluded from the course of instruction afforded to the pupils, matters went on smoothly until the sittings of the Thurles Synod 'caused the parish priest to interpose his dictum, and by degrees the Roman Catholic children dropped off in their attendance. For some time the Protestant clergyman endeavoured to stem the course of defections, but all in vain. The numbers grew thinner and thinner, and, at length, he has struck his colours be fore the Roman legion. The undertaking is abandoned, and the doors of an institution which gave employment and bread to a most helpless and destitute class of the community, are abouc to be hermetically sealed up. _ THE POTATO CROP.—The reports are, day I . )y day, becoming more cheerless, and there is no longer a shadow of doubt as to the setting in of the disease in the form it assumed in the two past years—that is, somewhat more mitigated in its extent and virulence, but still sufficiently wide-spread to cause alarm for its ultimate consequences. The weather, too, continues unfavourable. Mr. J. Kin caid, of Leinster-street, one of the most extensive land agents in Ireland, has addressed a letter to the Evening Post in reference to this subject, and the evidence of a witness of this gentleman's position, whose interests are, as he remarks, " all the other way," is more than alarm ing in the ordinary sense of the word : " I am sorry to say," he writes, " the potatoes are gone.— Going—going—gone I I have been in different parts of Ire land, and over very many farms within the last fortnight, and have watched the potato crop most closely, and up to Thursday last I thought all was safe, but on that day, for the first time, I saw the first partial appearance of the disease in the county of Meath ; and yesterday. when in the north of the county of Dublin, I saw, unfortunately, not merely partial indications of it, but whole fields affected, and precisely the same general appearances as in 1849 and 1850. I obtained yesterday some diseased stalks that were green and sound on Wednesday last, and I have now in my office diseased tubers taken out of the same field, in which there were, however, many stalks quite gone, the tubers at the roots of which were perfectly sound. The disease may be considered as having commenced generally last week, and is spreading slowly and gradually. lam not an alarmist, and my interests are all the other way, but I think it right to give the public this early intimation of another visita tion, in order that, as far as possible, it may be anticipated and provided against." Mr. John Lamb, the Quaker correspondent of the Nor thern Whig, has just completed a tour of the province of Ulster, and his report of the state of the crops. including the potato, is upon the whole satisfactory. With respect to the latter, he admits that he saw undoubted cases of blight in some localities, and that the disease will progress he thinks is quite certain, but it seemed to be of a less virulent type than even last year, so that, judging from former seasons, we may hope that there will not be a very great loss of food. The accounts from the south are of a diversified character. In the eastern districts of Lime rick, and throughout a great portion of Tipperary, there has been as yet but little cause of complaint. Intelligent observers assert that about one-eighth of the crop is totally free from the blight, and that the early potatoes are all safe. From Waterford the intelligence is of an opposite nature. The crop, it is said, has been all blighted from Mothill to Credan, a distance of twenty-fives miles along the north-east of the county. "It is plainly visible in the stalks, and in some places the tuber is affected." In the west, where the crop up to within a day or two had held its ground, the fatal blight appeared extensively in several unions in the county of Mayo. Its ravages, how ever, are confined to the leaves, the tubers being still sound and healthy.—We have subsequently received more satisfactory accounts from various parts of the country. BARBAROUS MURDER IN THE 'COUNTY DONEGAL.— It is our painful duty to record another of those horrid crimes which have of late become so frequent in this hitherto peaceable county, and to present our readers with the details of a murder which, in point of savage cruelty, stands almost unparalleled. The unfortunate victim, named David Moore, was an aged man of the most quiet and inoffensive character, who had for some time past been engaged as a day labourer and bailiff on Colonel Platt's estate, having been employed by the agent, James Johnston, Esq., Woodlands. On Saturday morning last, at six o'clock, deceased was proceeding as usual to his daily labour, without any apprehension of danger, and, when at the distance of a few paces from Coravaddy Lodge— near the same spot where Mr. Johnston was lately attacked, his horse shot, and himself robbed and severely beaten — he was assailed by his savage murderers and left mangled in the most shocking manner. The skull was cleft to the nose by some sharp weauon, such as a bill-hook or sickle, and the right hand almost severed from the arm, no doubt when raised as a defence against the blows; the chest blackened and bruised, where the inhuman monsters had leaped on their victim when down ; and, as if de delighted with their bloody work, the demons hewed the calves of both legs, stripping them to the bone, and then decamped, leaving the unfortunate man for dead. He lingered till evening in great agony, and then expired. All this was perpetrated in the light of day, near the house of Mr. Platt, and at an hour when the daily labourers proceed to their work ; yet so secure did the assassins feel, that they had been amusing themselves, before their victim came forward, by cutting the tops off the weeds and brambles which grew near the fatal spot • and, looking at the time they must have tak e n t o mutilate and mangle the body, they could have entertained no fear of detection. The only cause that can be assigned for this wicked murder is that, a few days previously, Mr. Johnston had been under the absolute necessity of dispossessing several tenants who refused to pay any rent, and were not less than seven years in arrear—thus bidding defiance to landlord and agent. Their miserable cabins had been demolished by the police, and Moore, it appears, was standing by at the time, little dreaming that he was to become the first victim of the lawless spirit of retaliation. The murdered man was a Protestant, and bore an irre proachable character. He has left a mother, ninety-eight years of age, and a sister, to deplore their bereavement. We are afraid, from the extended spread of the Ribbon system in the county Donegal, that this dreadful murder, like former outrages, will remain a mystery. It is, to say the least, remarkable that all the late outrages in this county have been perpetrated upon Protestants—first, the murder of Mr. Davis; then, the attack on Mr. Richard Pratt, on the fair day, in the public market, where he was beaten and left senseless in the midst of hundreds, and yet no person to identify the dastardly assailants : more recently, the attack on Long (the process-server), and Mr. Johnston, of Woodlands ; and, nor, the lamentable mur der of unfortunate Moore.—Derry sl4o9dard. ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE. PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS. Andrews, Rev. , G., to the Rectory of Castor, Northampton shire ; Baxter, Rev. W., to the Curacy of Fyfield, Hants ; Berry, Rev. E. F., 8.A., Rector of Tullamore, to be Chaplain to the Earl of Charleville ; Bishop, Rev. C. W., to the Curacy of Upton. Northampton ; Blakey, Rev. R. H., to be Chaplain of Bishop Hatfield's Hall, Durham ; .Brien, Rev. J. T., to the Stipendiary Curacy of St. Simon's, Liverpool ; Courtney, Rev. D. C., to the living of Glenarm, in the diocese of Down and Connor; Cox, Rev. J. P., 8.A., to the Rectory of St. Ervan, Cornwall ; Crisford, Rev. A. T., to be Chaplain of the Borough Gaol, Cambridge ; Day, Rev. E.. to'be Assistant Curate of St. Ann's, Limehouse.; Denning,Rev. S. P., to be Censor of Bishop Hatfield's Hall, Durham ;;Echlin, Rev. J. R., to the Stipendiary Curacy of Hollinfare, Lancaster ; :Flower, Rev. W. 8., Curate, Stoke Damerel, to the Incumbency of Christ Church, Ply mouth, on the appointment of the Bishop of the Diocese ; Garland, Rev. J. to the Rectory of St. John's, Jamaica ; Grice, Rev. W., 8.A., to the Rectory of Tothill, near Alford, Lincolnshire ; Humble, Rev. C. P., to the Curacy of Great Grimsby, Lincolnshire:; Hartley, Rev. A. 0., to the Curacy of Holy Trinity, Bungay, Suffolk; Inman, Rev. H., to the Stipen diary Curacy of Newburgh, Ormskirk ; hard, Rev. —, to the Assistant Curacy of Christ Church, Salford ; James, Rev. J., to the Perpetual Curacy of Headington-Quarry, Oxfordshire ; Lempriere, Rev. W., to the Curacy of Woolverstone, Suffolk ; Lever, Rev. J.. M.A., Vicar of Ardnurcher, to be Chaplain to the Earl of Charleville ; Marshall, Rev. C., to the Perpetual Curacy of Coalbrookdale, Aladeley, Shropshire ; Martin, Rev. N. C., to the Rectory of Carradonagh, diocese of Derry ; Martin, Rev. W., M.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of Sutton, Northamptonshire ; O'Brien, Rev. E., M.A., to the Vicarage of Thornton-Curtis, Lincolnshire; Ommanney, Rev. Edward A., M.A., Prebendary of Wells, and Vicar of Chew Magna, to be Rural Dean in the Deanery of Chew, Somerset ; Ripley, Mr. F. W., 8.A., to the Mastership of Lyme Grammar School, Cheshire ; Roberts, Mr. H. Seymour, of Queen's College, Cam bridge, to the Third Mastership of Bristol Grammar School ; Salmon, Rev. T. F., to the Vicarage of Bieston-cum-Buckland, near Aylesbury ; Sherwood, Rev. Thomas M., M.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of St. Philip and St. James, Hucciecote, near Gloucester ; Smith, Rev. H., to the Curacy of Holbrook, Suffolk ; Venables, Rev. G., to be a Surrogate, diocese Oxford. BENEFICES AND APPOINTMENTS VACANT. CANONRY.—'Exeter Cathedral ; patron, Bishop of Exeter; Rev. R. Ellicombe, deceased. RECTORlES.—Alphington, Devon, diocese of Exeter ; value £852, with residence ; patrons, Representatives of the late Rector, Rev. R. Ellicombe, deceaseeL—Swinnerton, Stafford shire, diocese of Lichfield ; patrons, Representatives of the late Rector ; Rev. C. Dodsley, deceased.—Leguan, St. Peter, diocese of Guiana ; Rev. W. Hanneton, deceased.—St. John's, diocese of Jamaica ; Rev. J. Dowse, deceased. VlCARAGES.—Scredington, county and diocese of Lincoln ; value „Cif) ; patrons, Dean and Chapter of Lincoln ; Rev. W. Grice, prom.—Abbotsham, Devon, Diocese of Exeter; value ..t 159, with residence ; patron, Lord Chancellor ; Rev. E. A. Sanford, promoted.—Canterbury, Saint Mary Bredin ; value ,e 149, with residence ; patron, Rev. H. L. Warner ; Rev. V. G. Guise, promoted.—Magheragal, Ireland, diocese of Connor; patron, Bishop of Down ; Rev. C. Courtenay, promoted.—San creed, Cornwall, diocese of Exeter; value £265, with resi fence; patrons, Dean and Chapter of Exeter ; Rev. H. Comyn, deceased. CUR A C r.—Towcester, Northamptonshire, diocese of Peter borough ; stipend .EBO ; patron, Vicar of Towcester. i~IASTERSHIPS.—LudIow Grammar School, Shropshire ; salary £2OO, with residence ; testimonials before October 20. Llanwrst Grammar School, Head Mastership. PERPETUAL CU RAC Y.—St. Cross (or Holywell), Oxford ; value £80; patrons, Merton College, Oxford; Rev. E. Prichard, resigned. OBITUARY, The Rev. Samuel O'Sullivan, D.D., Chaplain of the Royal Military School in the Phoenix Park, Dublin. July 30, aged 54, the Rev. Robert Charles William Wilkinson, 8.A., Curate of Middleton. June 30, at Kingston, Jamaica, the Rev. James Dawson, Rector of St. John's, in that island. July 6, at Leguan, British Guiana, the Rev. William Hamilton, M.A., the Rector of St. Peter's, Leguan, aged 34. The Rev. Samuel O'Sullivan died in Dublin last week. He was the brother of the Rev. Mortimer O'Sullivan, and had been for the last thirty years chaplain of the Royal Military School in the Phoenix-park. He was a gentleman of high literary attainments, and contributed to Blackwood and the Dublin University Magazine. The Rev. John Harding, D.D, late rector of the united parishes of St. Andrew's and St. Anne's, Blackfriars, has been consecrated Bishop of Bombay, in the place of the Right Rev. Dr. Carr resigned. The ceremony took place in Lambeth Palace, the Bishop of London and Bishop Carr assisting the Primate. The new bishop will leave this country on the 20th of October, per overland route for Bombay. SEPARATE SEE OF GLOUCESTER.—The petition for this object has been forwarded to the Home Secretary for pre. sentation to her Majesty. Appended to it are the names of no fewer than 169 of the parochial clergy of the dio cese of Gloucester, and 227 churchwardens ; besides which there are the signatures of a large body of the no bility, magistrates, and resident gentry of the county, making a total of more than 1300 names. This list might have been increased to a very large extent had it been the desire of the promoters to display mere numbers : they, however, confined the signatures to those only who per fectly understood the object of the petition, and really felt the necessity for its prayer being granted.—Gloucester Journal. REPORT OF THE CHURCH BUILDING COMMISSIONERS. —The 31st annual report of her Majesty's Commissioners for Building new Churches, presented to Parliament, has just been printed. It seems that in the last report the commissioners stated that 470 churches had been com pleted, in which accommodation had been provided for 498,066 persons, including 291,190 free seats for the use of the poor. They state that 27 churches have, by the aid of grants from the funds placed at their disposal, been since completed. In the 27 churches accommodation has been provided for 20,313 persons, including 14,442 free seats for the use of the poor, as far as the same can at present be ascertained. Thus, in the whole 497 churches have now been completed, and provision has been made therein for 518,379 persons, including 305,632 free seats for the use of the poor. Further, the commissioners report that 22 churches are now in course of erection, towards which they have on certain conditions contributed pecuniary aid from the funds placed at their disposal. They also state that plans have been approved of for building 17 other churches, and other plans for new churches are under consideration. The commissioners since their last report have afforded, or expressed their willingness to afford, the facilities contained in the Church Building Acts for obtaining the enlargement, or providing new and additional burial grounds to several places set forth in the present document. THE GREAT EXHIBITION. TUESDAY.—The total amount taken at the doors was £2,828 195., the number of visitors being 68,554. WEDNESDAY.—OnIy one season ticket was sold. The money taken at the door; amounted to £2,264 10s., making the total receipts £2,265 10s. The police report gives the number of visitors as 47,817. THURSDAY.—X2,3BO was the amount taken at the doors, the police return of visitors being 49,452. FRIDAY.—The receipts from half-crowns amounted to £2,051 75., and the number of visitors was 20,859. Among them came a party of four Iricaris Indians, who, besides inspecting the interior of the building, had a "pa laver" with the executive committee, and were less re served and more sensible than from American romance might have been expected. They expressed great aston ishment, not at the Koh-i-noor itself, but at its value, and the whoop which they raised when Mr. Catlin, their guide, told them this, for a moment suggested misgivings for the safety of the policeman who guards the treasure. The machinery in motion also produced a strong impres sion upon these wild men of the woods, and when one of the self-acting " mules" was suddenly arrested in its course, " the manitou" or " great spirit" was the cause. Their " palaver" with the executive related, we hear, to some things which they had brought over with them from the other side of " the Salt Lake," and which they wished admitted into the exhibition. SATURDAY.—Season tickets £29. At the doors £1592 7s. 6d. Total £1621 7s. 6d. Police numbers 16,741. Within the last few days an unoccupied space at the west end of the building, close to where the agricultural implement display terminates, has been filled up with specimens of those descriptions of goods which form the staple manufactures of Manchester. In strong contrast to these Manchester goods are con tributions from China by Major Edy, among which is in cluded a setof remarkable bronzes saidto be 5,000 years old. It is said that a meeting of the Royal Commission will be held this day (Tuesday), to settle finally as to the exact date on which the building should close, and the manner in which that event should take place. On the first point, it seems probable that an early day in October will be fixed for the purpose, as otherwise contributors from the north of Europe may have their goods overtaken by the winter ice ; and, under any circumstances, at that period, the pleasure-seeking season of the year is over. We may, therefore, fairly take it for granted that the building will close on some day before the middle of October. The following letter has been addressed by his royel highness Prince Albert to M. Dupin. President of the French Commission, in reply to a note addressed to the Prince on the occasion of M. Dupin's duties terminat• ing Monsieur le President,—l have received with much satis faction the letter of the 27th of this month, which you have addressed to me in my quality of President of the Royal Com mission for the Exhibition of 1851, in the name of the French Commission, on the occasion of your return to France, after having terminated your labours relative to the Juries. I fully appreciate, together with all the Commissioners of her Majesty, the great devotedness displayed by you and by the Commis sion over which you preside. I appreciate the incessant zeal. nd scrupulous attention with which, during three months, you have accomplished, together with a great number of the most eminent men ofall countries, the extremely laborious and responsible duty of jurymen. The best recompeuse you will have to receive will be given to you by the general approbation of the public, when the results of your labours shall be known. The royal commissioners Commissioners the reul ati o n in are not insensible to the readiness with which the members of the French Commission have conformed to the regulations imposed on the subject of the conditions on which the first asjaeysty's that medals were to be accorded, though your experience of French exhibitions caused you to consider those conditions as not necessary. after the most complete consideration of the peculiar circum s stances of the Universal Exhibition; all their desires were to question vlt e r i s e scarcely laid do down n necessaryb by her to m act in the way best calculated to obtain the success of the en terprize. I cannot let this occasion pass without exp ress i ng our sentiment of the great advantage we have derived from France having formed by her productions such an interesting and precious portion of the Exhibition; and at your govern ment having taken care to send so many chefs d'muvres, the character of which will certainly exercise a happy influence on the sciences and arts of our own and other countries. I con clude by expressing to you, both in my own name and in that of the Royal Commissioners, our thanks for the part which you have personally taken in our labours, both as president of one of the groups of juries, and as vice-president of the supe rior Council of Presidents, as also for the impartiality and urbanity you have displayed o n a ll occas i ons on w hi c h you have fulfilled those functions. Accept, &c,, ALBERT, President of the Royal commission of England. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S.—TnURSDAY. can 011 Not above a dozen members having attended, we Ca give the nominal quotations : agst Nun 1 , EBOR HANDICAP.-3 to 1 agst Nancy; 10 to 1 ford—taken. A letter has been received by Mr. the ow' written, professedly, by desire of Mr. Martinson, to . _ ir e that unless Mr. Martinson can get 5,000 to 1,000 about Ms w he shall not start her ! ,_ .„ . 3 tO I GREAT YORKSHIRE STAKES.-2 to 1 agst Nessus., ~.... agst Nancy ; 3 to I Marlborough Buck ; 8 to 1 agst Ariostv ST. LEGER.—Offers to take 8 to I about Newnanster. Tatterzi MANCHESTER.—FRIDAY. ; n The Ebor Handicap throughout the week has cOatat- ed „. th of e principal event invested on, and Nancy to-day, in the fa, ' tilt her owner's declaration of not starting her, unless upon the conditions that he obtained 5,000 to 1.000 übout her, wage. leading crack till the muster broke up. On this event ai; favourite—Hungerford, was in liberal request at and,. 7 1 : 40 Haricot at 10 to 1, but the other business thereon was 14 " e tti to offers. The Great Yorkshire Stakeetransactions were Pr.., free, generally about the Marlborough Buck, who in cotn_ with Nancy and Neasham, divided the honours for favourtt;; For the St. Leger, Newminster, who is reported to hav e bo rt his trial the other day easily, was in favour at a YerY 0. price. Nancy again was the only animal talked about for .1. the Cesarewitch or Cambridgeshire Stakes. The latest 00"" wele as quoted : j'so ' 6t of EBOR HANDICAP.-5 to 2 agst Nancy—taken to „Rio agst Hungerford-7 to 1 taken to .t',so ; 7 to I WI "alor Masham—offered ; 10 to 1 agst Haricot—taken to .eza; ' to agst Italian—offered ; 12 to 1 agst Cyclops—offered; t e d; agst Knook Knoll—offered ; 100 to 6 agst Officious — of 0 1 100 to 6 apt Candlewick—taken, afterwards offered; tO I agst Snowstorm—offered-25 to 1 agst Sunrise—offered; ." AT S Y t o o 1 2 K S agstH I R E m S a T r STA K ES.-9 o s u . — O 9 ant Tilsit—offered. 5 tO taken GE ;S to 2 t oo Neasham—offered ; 6 to 1 agst Ariosto—taken, afte rw ,loo Buck—taken; -- "51 offered. Offers to back Neasham and Marlborough 132' evens against the field. 8 011 GREAT YORKSHIRE HANDICAP, DONCASTER.--- inn •••- W a fter' the field—offered; 100 to 8 agst Prince Caradoc—taken , wards offered. aft ST. LEGER.-3 to 1 agst Hernandez—offered; 5 to offers John Day's lot—offered; 8 to 1 ant Newminster — v - imine take; 100 to 8 agst Miserrima—offered ; 100 to 6 BO"' Minister—wanted. 20 to 1 agst The Ban—wanted. , CESAREWITCH STAKES-40 to 1 agst Na n cy—offerem D „, 3 0t0 CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES.-25 tOl agstNancy—ta.- „ticou The Derby, and other forthcoming events, were but nv in a very slight degree. PROPHECIES FOR THE YORK AUGUST ME—TING• rt The Flying Dutchman gives the f o ll ow i ng : —Eb o r St • Leg e ~r es Confessor.—Ehor Handicap: Lady H v ld a or H ar icot.- - "" Yorkshire Stakes: Neasham.—York Cup : Mark TapleY'v o rX• Hotspur gives the following as the probable winners shire Oaks : Confidence, 1 ; Unity, 2.—Colt Sapling j; Claverhouse, I; Augur, 2.—Ebor St. Leger : Newrain e ` err d, 1 Confessor, 2.—Prince of Wales's St a k e s : Homebrewe i; Daniel O'Rourke, 2.—Chesterfield Handicap : Me l° , l „ Y lialet Prince Caradoc colt, 2.—Produce Stakes ; A ze th, 1; _ up: 2.—Ebor Handicap : Haricot, 1 ; Champion, 2.—County,o.. Maid of Masham, 1 • Cossack, 2.—The Juvenile Stakes : ; lace, 1 ; Black Audrey, 2.—Filly Sapling St a kes: Hir;o l Brawn, 2.—Dundas Stakes The Saxon, 1 ; Tonic, 2.—p lat ßes: 100 sovs : Flirt, I ; Gray Tommy. 2.—Gre a t Yorkshire S ta g Neasham or Marlborough Buck, with Nancy third.—Gim pier Stakes : Daniel O'Rourke, 1 ; Blackstone, 2.—Brambsin c o y Stakes : Hook'em Snivey, I ; Balsamo, 2.—York Cup: sack. 1 ; The Italian, 2. Mazeppa gives the following as most likely :_yorliosboeire, Oaks : Iris or Tightwaist—Colt Sapling Stakes : Claverti with a start—if not, Grand Duke.—Ebor St. Leger: ConiSor —Prince of Wales's Stakes: Homebrewed.—Chesterfield,P o pt dicap : Vanguard.— Produce Stakes : A ze th.—Ebor Ha nul icia Maid of Madiam or Nancy, 1 •, Cnwus, 2; County CeP, : a ges: ofTrumps.—Juvenile Stakes: Glenluce.—Filly Sapling t itl w ate' Hirsuta.—Dundas Stakes : Mark Tapley, 1 ; l an the, 2. at Gray Tommy, with a start—if not, Ev a d ne or Flirt._ t 'l o t, Yorkshire Stakes : Marlborough Buck, 1 • Nancy or N eae rsrg 2.—Gimcrack Stakes: Agnes Wickfield.—Bramliara Stakes Sir Rowland Trenchard —Knavestnire Stakes' sterdale—York Cup: Knook Knoll or Mark Tapley at • A match at bowls, 31 up, will take place to-morrOvf , ~n 11,0( Dickenson's, Old Swan, for £25 aside, between Mr. Lot., this town, and Mr. Wilkinson, of darpurhey. t M r ' A Welsh main at bowls will take pl ace thi s day, a Cowell's, Kirkdale. Bird to John Osborne has sold his two-years old filly Merry Mr. Brookes for 500 guineas. Dur rt* Lord Waterford bas refused 600 guineas f or Duc-an- , ;( 1(11e' The Ebor has been sent to T. Dawson' s s t a bles, at N' ham, to be trained for his future engagements. d Of Eccles Races are fixed to come off o n th e I s t, 2d, and Seqtember next. Tbut sdlr Eglinton Park races take place on the Wednesday, and Friday following Doncaster. d o tilt CHELMSFORD RACES.—The stewards have avfar - Queen's Plate to the owner of Baroness. Mr. Baxter has sold his yearling filly Peggy (own sister tP Nancy), by Pompey, out of Hawise ; th e p r i ce , 700 guill es tu n d for Lord Ribblesdale has purchased Colonel Peel's 5 £lO,OOO. Notwithstanding the change of ownership tbe 1 1 " sa e of the first portion took place yesterday. on Web YORK AUGUST MEETING.— These race s commence -- g s q.r nesdav next, and, under the stewardship of J. Meikla rn 4liellS Hon. Captain Rous, and Lord Zetland, promise very 0 '" sport. LORD DERBY'S STUD.—Uriel, Storm. Croupier, r'C'tco' and Iris, along with three two year-olds, will be offered 10 bettir on the first day of Doncaster races. gballb. l ll Champion, Backbiter, Westow, Essedarius, ConYeg list O~ - are on the look-out for new masters, appearing in the "sales by private contract." -ddea The Flying Dutchman, a pony so named, was recentlY..,rie per through Preston by a man of seventeen stone ; and so': selly r s a o t n e s i , y smitten with The manwithcurio wsitya,shfoaduntdhteo be ho thrseaenhdearivdiee.r of the two by seven pounds. I t°b e BARNSLEY RACES.—This novelty in Barnsley is lik e t a tioo 6 realised in a manner to exceed the most sanguine exp o c ter of its promoters, and two days' sport of excellent character , now considered a matter of certainty. THE Goonwoon CU wifc P.—This splendid trophy, - bas has recently brought into the possession of her own'''. „01l " shown in Mr. Martinson's bettin g - o ffi ce , t o t h e adrn , hoel• numerous parties. It will be prese rve d as a f am ily heir foe Colonel Trotter, of Staindrop, now in his 86th year, ' 2° Pe° day last, was out with his gun and dog s , a t Woodlae,d s, o,e to Cockfield, and after about five hours sport returned `',„ e bd , dinner, with seven and a half brace of grouse in his ga'" all shot by himself. EXTRAORDINARY SEIZURE OF A CH IL D A I r, CHURCH.-ANOTHER TRAIT OF poPF,* Div i " On Sunday morning last, just after the close of „efics Service, great excitement was occasioned in cons eg 'dsoa of a little boy, the son of Mrs. Jerningham, and gr, ~,,81iff, sa of Mrs. Mangles, having been seized and carrie at) it is believed, by his father, just as the mother was lea St. Andrew's Chapel. 4 „, Mr. Frederick William Jerningham is a Rant tholic, and a brother of that Miss Jerningham yrn D isc! the head of the nunnery recently so notorious as ti'"osw of incarceration of Miss Talbot. Mr. Jerninghsel'of tb.! years since, married Miss Mangles, the daugh,,te t ,,,o o ,' late Rev. George Mangles, vicar of Lewannick , l' e u - orsw; and that lady subsequently conformed to the .`" - 00 0 1 ' Catholic faith. They continued to live together forrotiotl years, but differences eventually arose, and a seP a ensued. In the year 1847 they separated, and T h e P . , while Mrs. Jerningham was living with her Southampton, she still retained possession of her en'' glO 1 0 but one morning in the month of March Mr. Jer e- •0g was seen watching Mrs. Mangles's house, and , h* i . biS P servant in his interest, he got the door opened ..1 0 5 The two children came down to breakfast, when H aig ningham rushed into the passage, threw a b ° l shawl over each child, and forcibly carried then 3 o t eldest child had been very ill, and was taken 0/ 81 ,4 1 ,,,, risk of her life, as she had not recovered, and the red man bad ordered that she should not leave th,stiotot Miss Jerningham, the abbess of the convent at o „ftbs" received these children, though against the consentLf, tic mother and grandmother, on whom the child tit pended. They remained at the convent until th e e so,, Miss Talbot's case, when they were clandestinellligi s lo to the convent of Notre Dame, at Namur, hlr e lse o A where they at present remain ; but Mrs. Jelko.,ol not allowed to hold any communication with "" 0 1. friend of Mrs. Jerningham's recently visited 14 ,er o ftk e os had the greatest difficulty in obtaining even a sigh t ingb Id It is not much to be wondered at that Mrs. Je t. l . n c t i cu,tf should cease to be connected with a church vv,t i ,oni. thus hold her children in close confinement, and to a treatment of them which we care not to che,,',;(,b,„ 11 The result is that some six month s ag o she left 1 :: 00 1 n" of Rome, and took sittings in St. Andrew's for herself and her children. 0 1 4 It appears that on Sunday last, from the incl m are s ' , have made, while Mrs. Jerningham was in St' b o a let* Chapel, a stranger entered after the service t , 0 , menced, and looking over toward Dr. Butter's *r agel4 Mrs. Jerningham had recently sat before she td /bow modated with a pew for herself and children , ti e e , should like to be put into the doctor's pew. L . :A, jos' came acquainted with her position in the charootiot was near the south door, and he then toolt givoe of inside the door, where he remained till the c o ' 10; service. In due time Mrs. Jerninghani e e 1 4 church, being followed as she supposed by ba r be rs o re: but on looking for her little boy he was ht hn found. She then went home thinking he 0 3 4 . 0 0 . 0 01/ ceded her, but he had not come home, ana ; t oo," could be heard of him it was feared, and h ll dantVor feared, that the poor little fellow had been seeut oo i b ol ried off. Inquiries were at once set on foot, u, 001 As , mation could be obtained of either the child thorots connected with him ; and in consequence , 13 P o which the following is a copy, was issu ed Joa' throughout the three towns : pel u r jsf te . d s ges Imp: roo ; g : tmehn L :ol Lost jacket,gto, Adolphus ra k d eto i y d itp n heh a ey p ue kidnapped, purple xe:fpFari fresh psae f hatd r i o cecoa m roni lcow S koua t f r . j:Ate waistcoat, a d ni : r ae e g: sv b i .r; B o o:cas 70 0 : : years. He is tall for his age, fair comple*le 10*,00, r ag ~p 0 A, purple and white neckerchief, and blue uh' e m t hee,, - band of the same colour. The boy, who left the hou'Vv, his mother, was supposed to be following was missed only a fe w paces from the chanei lose 1"ftl ,Kt ever can give any information of him willincls*ftle" municate to the mother of the child , a t 4, at. Ano . 4 Plymouth; or to the Rev. George Hadow , 051., air Chapelry, Plymouth.—Plymoutb, August l i tc , c o, .14 Some of these placards were sent to Ta1." 00 1.09,70, 1) .,", twohSooiustahsberao,twhhereroefCmapr.ta Jerningham , m ust th 3 eolo o 6 sr, lieved that the father of these children in 1 3 . 71 to 1 3 *it ported by the Catholics, as he is not ljnu gon 4a3 l , , o o",, means for maintaining them himself. u_rorrieutoll, learnt for certain that Mr. Jerningham hpu n Si 40 0 ,4 achndildh—adthcaotraheeohvaedr andcom e sta d y o e w d n at f a ro p na ub t i Z t h h o o i i s ies e j3 , l l 4 o,rob il e ? , house. He had also called on several sa in fi g ner I in into "'1 11 ;fr mvswwti going aaasrisstste:gde that os f ek w s sh h oh o a dr a os k ef Intfhe of f thqdcptit.he I c t b s s . r i si o pio that on getting outside, he jumpe d and t hen on o Colebrook, ceeded to London, first writing a letter t r a d Eih j thetatrein'osPV where g ai } : l m t ohtetohsieunbfCsoerm her a s t i subsequently ktookatpriest, jis r 4 ° e • 0 Nothi ji e et g rni f si Or ns tner has been beard of it. p ly