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h • ?Literal-um POETRY. RYDAL HEAD FROM WINDERME,RE. JUNE 1, 1549 On Rydat Head the sunshine loves to rest, Bright when near summits are in shade o'ercast ; With Evening's golden radiance parting last, When grey clouds sleep on Fairfield's sheltering breast ; 'Tis a briiht spot—and on its airy crest The dews of heaven descend, and tree and fast The crystal stream pours down, where linger last The verdunt hues on autumn's gorgeous best; And long shall England love it—dwelling near A bard who wrote no line he need to blot, The current of his verse as pure, as clear, As is the mountain-rill. ' iis a bright spot, Even for his sake. whose song shall still be dear To those pure in heart, who of the world are not.— JULY, 1830 On Rydal Head the weeping clouds shall lie, Feeding the eager ever-flowing stream, Whose varied melody for us shall seem To mourn - the silence of the voice that nigh Murmur'd long time resposive harmony. When evening suns burst forth with golden gleam, Bright'ning that summit with benignant beam, Then imaged forth how fair his memory. The good man's memory i 3 more than fame; The Christian's life departs, but not to douse, A sacred sweetness breathing from the name. Like fragrance rising from the gather'd rose. His works are his best monument, how vain A crumbling stone! that fails—these shall remain. [From "Hand Book for the English Lakes."] NOTICE. Observations on the Elements of Taxation, and the Pro • Active Cost of Gran, by S. Sanders, Hemel Hempstead. London : John Olivier, 59, Pall Mall. - TUE pamphlet before us, which we must apologize for having overlooked, consists of cbe,ervations made by the writer froni time to time during the discussion of Free trade in Coen, and now printed in a colleCtive shape. An mportant feature in Mr. Sanders' views and mode of reating that question consists in the fact that, he very properly connects it with the great problems of taxation and currency, which our Manchester school of philosophers studiously Keep in the back ground. The whole of the essays, or sections. into which the pamphlet is divided, a .e very cleVer ; and will repay an attentive perusal. The leadingpesition laid down by Mr. Sanders is, to state it briefly, that by far the larger portion of the taxa tion of the country enters at once into the various articles of food, and other products of its industry, enhancing the price of labour, rnaterial.',', and failing, at last, upon the consumer, whether at home or abroad. Thus, to commence with the labourer, if he is taxed sixpence per day, or one4hird of his average incime of Is. 61, thirty three per cent. is thus added to the cost of the product of hislabour, Whether it is corn, hmases, or any other de scription of property, of which lab'our is the base. Nearly the same rate of taxation pr, sses upon the other portions of the community, whether engaged in commerce or in manufactures ; and has been added to the realized pro perty of the coentry, which is only the accumulation of such taxed labour. Hence, we have established two values; an intrinsic, or labour value, and an artificial value, or labour with taxation added. A house, the value of winch is £lOO, contains £66 13s. 41 of intrinsic labour, and £33 6s. Bd. of taxation on the articles used and consumed by the labourers; and were houses moveable and capable of being transported, like grain, from countries where they can be constructed for less money, we should soon witness an extensive fall of rents, and the labourer would have to pay his quotum of taxation out of diminished wages, to enable us to compete with the foreigner. Our manufactures and other products being similarly enhanced in price, no difficulty would occur in their interchange amongst ourselves : and under a system of protection to the extent of tie rate of oer taxation, as compared with the foreigner, creaieeition with him would not be inju riously felt. If we bought of our neighbour at the artificial, or enhanced value, we should sell to him our labour, or its proceeds, at the same. Free traders have altogether lost sight of this new element of the cost of production, introduced dutieg the last century by the large increase in our debt and the cost of our public establishments. They have omitted to consider the fact that if the natural price of a quarter of wheat, measured by the intrinsic labour contained in it, is 335. 4d.—the rate which prevailed two centuries ago, with wages at Is. eld. per day—we are now compelled to demand a price which will enable the British grower of wheat to collect from the consumer the 33 per cent. of taxation andincreased cost of labour, &c., imposed upon him by the ration. It is perfectly obvious too that justice requires that the British f grower should have protection to this extent. We cannot at present notice one half of the striking arguments, anal facts with which this pamphlet abounds; but we shall probably on an early occasion lay a few extracts froM it before cur readers. The remarks upon the question of the currency, as indissolubly bound up with that of protection, we recommend especially to our agricultural . ien ds. Baines' Eistory of Liverpool. Threenurnbers oft hisundertakine havealrendybeen issued, and judging from theircontents, the wort: wilt be in t liigh est degree uscful and interesting. Mr. Baines commences by minutely tracing the causes which led to the commercial power of this port and the surrounding district ; in the course of which much valuable information is thrown out with regard to the appearance of Lancashire and Cheshire prior to the reformation, with the state of agriculture and the pursuits of the inhabitants at that remote period. In treating this subject, it has been necessary to glance at general history, not only as respects England at large, but also the cotithrnt ; and, in doing so, the reader discovers the minute acquaintance with everything bearing on his subject possessed by the author. The work will be em bellished by a number of accurate wood-cuts, and will, when completed, form a most valuable item in any library, whether public or private, select or miscellaneous. Mr. Baines has been long esteemed as an excellent historian, and this work will enhance considerably his well-earned fame. VARIETIES. The sparks of calumny will be presently extinct of them selves, unless von blow them. Captain Halsted, It.N., draws this distincti.m between the screw and paddle steamer, that " whereas the one will sail hest without her paddles, and paddle best with out her sails, the other will screw the fastest with her sails, and sail the fastest with her screw." Mr. Carlyle asking, "What thing to admire has America ever done ?" has been thus answered by one of the Ame rican papers :—" She has produced a girl, deaf, dumb, and blind (Laura Bridgeman,) who, with her own hands, did sewing eunuch to send a barrel of flour to some of your starving countrymen, sir !" At the meeting of the Midland Railway Company, on Friday week, -TNIr. Iron ides, a shareholder, during a rather acrimonious discussion, said—" The chairman wantad to make things pleasant. (A laugh.) The chairman defied any one to say that he ever attempted to make things pleasant. (Laughter.)" SOUTHEY ON THE CURRENCY.—"I cannot but think," writes Southey . , " that Government is altogether wrong in abolishing small notes; they should allow of none which have not the stamp of national credit; but without small bills there will be a want of sufficient currency. And as for forgery, Heaven help the wits of those who do not perceive that for one who can forge there wig be twenty who can coin. Peel has never recovered the cre dit with me which he lost by becoming a bullionist ; and Rirmrdo's opinion I hold in so little respect, that I am glad he has not an English name." - A GOOD HlT.—The Morning Chronicle, in its very amusing report of the " ministerial white-bait dinner," attributes the 'following to the noble and eloquent. but somewhat rethorical, Commissioner of Woods and Forests : —" The Earl of Carlisle said that the exhalations from the rosoate wine, poured in libations to friendship, formed round the social board a glittering and hallowed halo, in which were hanged the prismatic colours of faith, hope, and charity, and poured upon the soul en ambient atmo sphere of translucent light, redolent of odours, and glis tening with si'very dews. He was also happy to add that the sewers were going on well." , (Cheers.) THEM'S UM.--" I say, captain, ' said a Pate keen-eyed man, as he landed teem the steamer Potomac at Natchez, " I say, captain, these here arn't all. I have left some thin' on board, that's a fact." " Them's all the plunder you brought on board, anyhow." " Weil, see new, giant it's 0 K according to list—four boxes, three cheats, two bandboxes,: a portenanty, two hams, one part cut, three ropes of inyans, and a teakettle ; but you see, cap tain, I'm dubersorne : I feel there's sotnethin' short. Though I've counted urn over nine times, and never took my eyes off urn while on board, there's somethin' not right, somehow." " Well, stranger, time's up ; thorn's all I know on ; so just fetch your wife and five children out of the cabin, cos I'm off." "Them's um ! darn it, them's urn ! I 1. aow'd I had forgot somethire."—Ameri can paper. LANCASHIRE COTTONS.—It vri'l be seen that Bolton on-the-Moors was the principal place at which the ie;;cle (by a prophetic misnomer) called cottons was produced. Camden informs us that the Manchester cottons of his day were in reality woollens. The name of cottons was probably given to them from some real or fancied resem blance to the castians of Lombardy, or other strong cot ton goods, which were known in England as early as the reign of Edward the First ; that is to say , nearly three hundred yeors before the fine fabrics called e-licoes were imported by the Portuguese from Culicut in India; a n d probably long before the sti'l finer fabrics called muslins (which were sometimes of cotton, sometimes of silk and gold thread) were imported by the Genoese and Vene tians from Mosul, the successor of the ancient Nineveh, on the banks of the Tigris.—Baines's History of Liver pool. BEAR WITH PATIENCE.—Two Yankees were strolling in the woods without arms in their possession, and ob serving a bear ascending a tree, with its large paw clasped round the trunk, one of them ran forward and caught the bear's paws, ore in each hand. He instantly called out to his comrade—" Jonathan, I say go home and bring me something as fast as you can, till I kill the varmint ; mind, don't stay, for I'm in a fix." Jonathan ran off as fast as be could, but was an exceedingly long time re turning. During the interval the bear made several des perate attempts to bite the hand of him who held it. At length Jonathan Came hack. " Hollow, Jonathan, what the deuce has kept you ?" Jonathan-replied, " Well, I'll tell you; when at home breakfast was about ready, and I guessed it would be as well to wait for it." " Here now, Jonathan," said his companion, " come you and hold it, and I'll kill the critter in a jiffy." Jonathan seized the bear's paws, and held the animal while the other could kill it. " Well, Jonathan, have you got hold of him ?" " I guess I have," replied Jonathan. "Very well, hold him fast; I guess I'll go to dinner."—New York Journal. EXTENT AND RESOURCES OF THE UNITED STATES. — It has been calculated that the United Sta'es have a frontier line of 10,750 miles, a sea .coast of 5,130 miles, sod a lake-coast of 1,160 miles. One of its rivers is twice is long as the Danube, the largest river in Europe. The Ohio is 600 miles longer than . the Rhine, and the noble ' ludson has a navigation in the " Empire State" 120 miles longer than the Thames. Within Louisiana are bayous and creeks almost unknolvn, that would shame , )y comparison the Tiber or Seine. The State of Virginia clone is one-third larger than England. The State of Ohio contains 3,000 square miles more than Scotland. The harbour of New York receives the vessels that navi gate rivers, canals, and lakes,. to the extent of 3,000 miles, equal to the distance from America to Europe. From the capital of Maine to the " Crescent City" is 200 miles further than from London to Constantinople—a route that would cover England, Belgium, a pirt of Prussia, Austria, and Turkey.—National Intelligence. AN UNLUCKY DINNER PARTY ON A MARCII.—We had been at table for about an hour, when a violent storm :rose, of wind and rain, accompanied by thunder and lightning, and the water came down in torrents. The force of the wind was such, that in a very short space of time after the commencement, the tent-pegs, which had not been bushed, were forced out, and the storm-ropes snapping, down came the tent upon us, a huge mass of wet heavy cloth, sufficient to smother us all. Fortunately, there was no damage done, saving the smashing of sundry plates and glasses. The colonel, being rather slow in his movements, consequent on an attack of the gout (to which he was subject), could not scramble out of his chair in time to get away, and, had I not been close to him at the moment, I do believe the poor old gentleman would have been suffocated ; as it happened, however, I seized hold of his large walking-stick, and, by dint of much exertion, contrived to raise the wet cloth from off him, until he was able to move, and creep under the table, where he was safe, and whither I, as well as the rest of us, took refuge. It was indeed an amusing sight, when we had daylight, to behold the unhappy-looking group under the table, almost every one having his own special bottle of wine under his arm, hugging it most affectionately ; and, when the ruins of the tent were removed, and the prisoners in durance vile liberated, the laugh that our awkward posi tion created was truly great.—Hervey's Ten Years in THE ALLIGATORS AT VELLORE.—ThC alligators are very dangerous creatures in the Vellore fort ditch. I have heard of several dreadful accidents happening at different times. I recollect one lamentable occurrence taking place shortly before our arrival. Many of the natives are in the habit of feeding them with live fowls, ducks, sheep, &c., and are very careless how they venture to the edge of the river. It so happened that an unfor tunate boy, while crossing the causeway, saw a large alli gator close by him, and having some bread in his hands, stopped and sat down, with his feet dangling over the side, and amused himself by throwing in pieces of bread, which the alligator snapped up. Little did the poor wretch know of what was coming ? Another large monster from behind crawled up the embankment (which was in a dilapidated state in those days, without any water), and seizing his victim by the hinder part, plunged back with him in his jaws. The poor little fellow shrieked and cried in vain. A sentry on one of the bastions heard the cry, and looking through the embrasure, beheld the dreadful sight of the wretched boy struggling in the jaws of his formidable destroyer, while the alligator writhed and twisted violently, mangling his victim most horridly, and rendering escape impossible. There was no hope-- the boy could not have been saved. The sentry called out to the guard; hut before anybody came the monster had disappeared with his prey, and all was still, the only thing visible of the catastrophe being the blood stains in the grass and discoloured state of the water. The au thorities have oftentimes determined upon destroying those animals; but have been prevented doing so on ac count of the natives, who hold them in veneration in consequence of their having been placed there lyy so great a man as the tyrant Hyder.—Hervey's Ten Years in India. GEORGE THE THIRD AND THE RUSTIC.—George 111. was wont to visit familiarly' the original " Jack Robinson," the Member for Harwich and Secretary to the Treasury, while the latter was residing at Wyke House, Sion Hill. The King was once obliged in the chase to cross Wyke Farm ; but on riding up to a gate, he found it locked, and hailed a man at work close by ; the man seemed lazy, or unwilling to do as he was bid. " Come, come, man," said the King, " open the gate." " Nay, ye man gang abaci," was the answer. " Gang aboot !" replied the King, " open the gate, man; I'm the King !" Why, maybe," said the chap, "hut ye mun gang aboot. if ye ert King." And sure enough the King was forced to gang about; which in plain English means, that he was obliged goto round nearly the whole inelosure of Osterly Park. Whther Nimrod lost his temper or not is unrecorded, but that he was not in at the death may be taken for granted, without any record of the fact. Robinson came home in the afternoon, and was told of his royal master's disappointment, and being assured of the fact by the of fender himself, he instantly ordered his horses to his car riage, and diove post-haste to Kew. He was admitted, as usual, without ceremony, and the King, laughing, greeted him thus :—" Ah, Robinson, I see you are in dis tress; be of good cheer! I wish I had such fine fellows in my pay as Auld gang aboot. Tell him from me that I shall always be glad to see him." Robinson was at ease; and Auld gang aboot very soon and very often found a more direct path than around the palings of Osterley Park to Kew Palace. where he always met with that kindness which his sturdy honesty and practical good sense were sure to meet. with, under the roof of one who himself had so large a share of both. The King never saw friend Jack afterwards, without inquiring affectionately after Auld gang aboot. This worthy's name was Atkinson, from Kirby-thore ; he was the farm-bailiff at Wyke House.— The Worthies of Westmoreland. SALARIES OF Aeroas."-Mr. Bunn, the ex-manager of Drury-lane and Covent-garden Theatres, makes some curious revelations respecting the exorbitant salaries paid to our celebrated actors and actresses. It is difficult to conceive upon what principle their demands are regulated. For instance, in 1814, when Edmund Kean was putting into the treasury of Drury-lane a nightly average of £484, he was content to sien an agreement for three years at £B, £9. and £lO per week, and considered that the committee acted with singular liberality in cancelling that article and substituting one for £2O a-night ; but at the termination of this agreement he stipulated for, and received to the close of his career, £5O per night ! In 1821-2, Mr. Charles .Young had a weekly salary of £2O at Covent garden, and in the following year he had a nightly one of the same amount at Drury -lane, a scale of remuneration according to which he was paid until his retirement from the stage. In the very height of their popularity, such actors as Munden, Fawcett, Quick, Edwin, Irish John stone had £l4 a-week ; and in January, 1812. Mathews, the Mathews, the most extraordinary actor that ever lived, says in a letter to Mrs. Mathews on the subject of a proposed engagement at Covent-garden,—" Now to my offer, which I think stupendous and magnificent, £l7 per week." John Kemble, for acting and managing, had a weekly salary of £36 ; Miss O'Neill's salary at the begin ning of her brilliant career was £l5, and never exceeded £25 per week ; George Cook had £2) per week ; Mrs. Jordan's salary, in the zenith of her popularity, was £3l 10s. per week ; Mr. Charles Kemble, until he became his own manager, never had more than £2O per week ; Dow ton £l2, and never more than £2a per week. Up to 1822 (and during the greater part of her career to that period she was highly attractive) Miss Stephens (the present Dowager Countess of Essex) had £2O per week •, but in the following season at Drury-lane she was paid at the rate of £6O per week. In 1822, Mr. Macready had £2O per week ; in 1832 and up to 1837 he had £3O per week, and in 1839 he demanded and received £25 per night. In 1832, Mr. Power had £2O per week, and some time after wards, and until he left this coentry, he was in the receipt of £l2O per week. In 1822, Mr. Farren had £l6 per week, in 1832, £3O per week, and has since received £4O per week. In 1822, Mr. Liston had £l7 per week ; he then sprang up to £5O and £6O per week, and finally had £2O per night. Miss Ellen Tree received, when engaged to play at both theatres. and eventually only at one, £l5 per week ; she went to America, stayed there two seasons, and returned to stipulate for, and receive, £25 per night. NIAGARA SPOILED .—At Newstead Abbey, blackened with the stains of centuries in the clays of the poet-lord, was a far more interesting object than its present elaborate.' renovation, so Niagara of old was greatly to be preferred to Niagara new and disenchanted. For all this old fashioned still life has been grubbed up •, and in its place we have a tall square hotel, encircled with two or three gal leries. and watching the Falls f:om a hundred windows. On the pillars of these galleries we take a certain kind of lazy interest in scanning quaint devices in pencil, original thoughts and impressions in rhyme and prose, with many newly-married names coupled in love-knots. names of !off) , sound sweet to the western ear, such as Adrian and Formosa, Herman and Mariana, &c., &c. Higgs, or Snell, or Smith, usually follows. Other such house monsters there are hereabouts, and more on the Ameri can side. Instead of the ferry that was wont to cross the billowy current below the cataract with a freight of ladies a state of safe consternation; we have now two shaky bridges, one above, and the other below the Fall ;—the impudence of the mechanism robbing us of the august end natural. It is to be hoped that some April avalanche of ice and trees, rushing at midnight clown the rapids, will sweep the upper abomination into the abyss. In stead of the seed-royal of prepared worshippers (with a few stragglers perhaps), the pilgrimage to the Falls is now performed by swarming crowds of all conditions and ages —Canadians—the sallow Carolinian and his full-blown lady—rich people from Tennesse, Georgia, and Ohio—the Spaniard from hot and hateful Cuba, a spectacled German or two, and occasionally some British officials, in costume without any ei:ing fold, and as impassible to human in tercourse as ice to lightning, until warmed up by their favourite oporto. The great majority of the visitors only slay a couple of hours, and order their horses for the next stage before they see the show. Those who do stay a little longer treat the patient cataract. with the same vul gar, prying contumelies that the public of bygone days did the dragon when • the Cappadocian saint had slain him. The Ariel, a little steamer, plying in the chasm for hire, may be almost said to walk into its mouth. Seclu sion, that pleasant nymph, has ran away outright. You are guided to death. No sooner has the mind acquired the tension so indispensable to the enjoyment of the won derfnl scene, than a man with a bit of spar for sale breaks up the vision ; or the atigry cries of a sulky child are heard ; or a bundle of affectations from one of the inter minable streets of New York comes rushing and 'buzzing and l effectually cuts short your ecstacies. heard au pretty little miss call out, " it uj oh th , emastmeempa, l is not all as it's put in my geography-book. Where is the promenade between the curtain and the rock? Where are the bears and the moose struggling in the rapids, and then swept into the abyss ? and where are the hundred Iroquois waiting below to receive the wild beasts on their spear-points? I am qu!te disappointed !"—and so on. If this little lady had been present when the Indian fe male went over the Falls in 1820, it is hoped that she would have been more than satisfied.—The Shoe and the Canoe. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. A SURPRISE AND AN ESCAPE. I • From " Maurice Tierney, tlid Soldier of Fortune," in the Dublin University Magazine. It is a very common subject of remark in newspapers, and as invariably repeated with astonishment by the read ers, how well and soundly such a criminal slept on the night before his execution. It reads like a wonderful evidence of composure, or some not less surprising proof of apathy or indifference. I really believe it has as little relation to one feeling as the other, and is simply the na tural consequence of faculties over-strained, and a brain surcharged with blood ; sleep being induced by causes purely physical in their nature. For myself, I can say that I was by no means indifferent to life, nor had I any contempt for the form of death that awaited me. As lo calities, which have failed to inspire a strong attachment, become endowed with a certain degree of interest when we are about to part from them for ever, I never held life so desirable as now that I was going to leave it ; and vet. wiih all this, I fell into a sleep so heavy and profound. that I never awoke till late in the evening. Twice was I shaken by the shoulder ere I could throw off the heavy weight of slumber; and even when I looked up and saw the armed figures around me, I could have lain down once more and composed myself to another sleep. The first thing which thoroughly aroused me, and at once brightened up my slumbering senses, was missing my jacket, for which I searched every corner of my cell, for getting that it had been taken away as the nature of my sentence was declared " infamante." The next shock was still greater, when two sapeurs came forward to tie my wrists together behind my back ; I neither spoke nor resisted, but in silent submission complied with each or der given me. All preliminaries being 'completed, I was led forward, preceded by a pioneer, and guarded on either side by two sapeurs of " the guard ; " a muffled drum, ten paces in advance, keeping up a ow monotonous rumble as we went. Our way led along the ramparts, beside which ran a row of little gardens, in which the children of the officers were at play. They ceased their childish gambols as we drew near, and came closer up to watch us. I could mark the terror and pity in their little faces as they gazed at me; I could see the tr-;t- of compassion with which they pointed me on:, to each other, and my heart swelled with gratitude for oven so slight a sympathy. It was with dif ficulty I could restrain the emotion of that moment, but with a great effort I did subdue it, and marched on, to all seeming, unmoved. A little further on, as we turned the angle of the wall, I locked back to catch one last look at them.. Would that I had never done so! They had quitted the railings, and were now standing in a group, in the act of performing a mimic execution. One, without hl jacket, was kneeling on the grass. But I could not bear the sight, and in scornful anger I closed my eyes, and saw no more. A low whispering conversation was kept up by the sol diers around me. They were grumbling at the long dis tance they had to march, as the " affair" might just as well have taken place on the glacis as two miles away. How different were my feelings—how dear to me w ,s now every minute, every second of existence ; how my heart leaped at each turn of the way, as I still saw a space to traverse and some little longer to live. "And ma yhap after all," muttered one dark-faced fellow, ` t we shall have come all this way for nothing. There can be no fusillade' without the general's signature, so I heard the adjutant say ; and who's to promise that he'll be at his quarters ?" " Very true," said another ; " he may be absent, or at table." " At table !" cried two or three together; " and what if he were ?" " If he be," rejoined the former speaker, " we may go back again for our pains! I ought to know him well; I was his orderly for eight months, when I served in the Legers,' and can tell you, my lads, I wouldn't be the officer who would bring him a report or a return to sign once he had opened out his napkin on his knee ; and it's not very far from his dinner hour now." What a sudden thrill of hope ranihrough me ! Perhaps I should be spared for another day. " No, no, we're all in time," exclaimed the serjeant ; " I can see the general's tent from this ; and there he stands, with all his staff around him." " Ye 3 ; and thei - e go the other escorts—they will be up before us if we don't make haste; quick time, lads. Come along, mon cher," said he, addressing me—" thou'rt not tired, I hope." " Not tired !" replied I ; " but remember, serjeant, what a long journey I have before me." " Pardie ! I don't believe all that rhodomontade about another world," said he gruffly ; " the Republic settled that question." _ _ I made no reply, for such words, at such a moment, were the most terrible of tortures to me. And now we moved on at a brisker pace, and crossing a little wooden bridge, entered a kind of esplanade of closely-shaven turf, at one corner of which stood the capacious tent of the commander-in-chief, for such, in Moreau's absence, was General Berthier. Numbers of staff-officers were riding about on duty, and a large travelling carriage, from which the horses seemed recently deta c h e d, stood before the tent. We halted as we crossed the bridge, while the adjutant advanced to obtain the signature to the sentence. My eyes followed him till they swam with rising tears, and I could not wipe them away, as my hands were fettered. How rapidly did my thonzhts travel during those few mo ments. The good old Pere Michel came back to me in memory, and I tried to think of the consolation his pre sence would have afforded me; but I could do no more than think of them. Which is the prisoner Tierney ?" cried a young aid de-camp, cantering up to where I was standing. " Here, sir, replied the serjeant, pushing me forward. " So," rejoined the officer, angrily, " this fellow has been writing letters, it would seem, reflecting upon the justice of his sentence, and arraigning the conduct of his judges. Your epistolary tastes are like to cost you dearly, my lad ; it had been better for you if writing had been omitted in your education. Reconduct the others, serjeant, they are respited; this fellow alone is to undergo his sentence." The other two prisoners gave a short and simultaneous cry of joy as they fell back, and I stood alone in front of the escort. " Parbleu! he has forgotten the signature," said the adjutant, casting his eye over the paper : " he was"chatter ing and laughing all the time, with the pen in his hand, and I suppose fancied that he had signed it." " Nathalie was there, perhaps," said the aid-de-camp, significantly. . 14 She cuss, and I never saw her looking better. It's something like eight years since I saw her last ; and I vow she seems not only handsomer, but fresher and more youthful, to-day, than then." " Where is she going —have you becrd ?" " Who can tell ? Her passport is like a firman—she may travel where she pleases. The rumour of the day says Italy." " I thought she looked provoked at Moreau's absence ; it seemed like want of attention on his part, a lack of cour tesy she's not used to." _ Very truo ; and her reception of Berthier was anything but gracious, although , he certainly displayed all his c i v i. lilies in her behalf.' " Strange days wo live in !" sighed the other, "when a man's promotion hangs upon the favourable word of " Hush !—take care !—be cautious !" whispered . the other. " Let us not forget this poOr fellow's business. How are you to settle it? Is the signature of any conse quence ? The whole sentence is all right and regular." " I shouldn't like to omit the signature," said the other, cautiously ; " it looks like carelessness, and might involve us in trozble hereafter." " Then .we must wait some time, for r see they are gone to dinner," __ " So I perceive," replied the former, ES he lighted his cigar, and seated himself on a bank. " You may let the prisoner sit down, serjeant, and leave his hands free; he looks wearied and exhausted." I was too weak to speak, but I looked my gratitude ; and sitting down upon the grass, covered my face and wept heartily. Although quite close to where the officers sat together clotting and jesting, I heard little or n o thi ng o f what they said. Already the things of life had ceased to have any hold upon me; and I could have heard of the greatest victory, or listened to a story of the most fatal defeat, without the slightest interest or emotion. An occasional word or a name would strike upon my ear, but leave no impression nor any memory behind it. The military band was performing various marches and opera-airs before the tent where the general dined, and in the melody, softened by distance, I kit a kind of calm and sle3py repose that lulled me into a species of ecstasy. At last the music ceased to play. and the adjutant, start ing hurriedly up, called on the serjeant to move forward. " By Jove 1" cried he, " they seem prepared for a pro menade, and we shall get into a scrape if Berthier sees us here. Keep your party yonder, serjeant, out of sight, till I obtain the signature." And so saying, away he went to the tent at a sharp gallop. - A - few seconds, and I watched him cross the espla nade; he dismounted and disappeared. A terrible chok ing sensation was over me, and I scarcely was conscious that they were 'again tying my hands. The adjutant came cut again. and made a sign with his sword. "We are to move on!" said serjeant, half in doubt. " Not at all," broke in the aid-de-camp ; " he is mak ing a sign for you to bring up the prisoner ! There he is repeating the signal—lead him forward." I knew very little of how—less still of why—but we moved on in the direction of the tent, and in a few mi nutes stood before it. The sounds of revelry and laugh ter—the crash of voices, and the clink of glasses—toge ther with the hoarse bray of the brass band, which again struck up—all were co-mingled in my brain, as, taking me by the arm,.l was led forward within the tent, and found myself at the foot of a table covered with all the gorgeous ness of silver plate, and glowing with bouquets of flowers and fruits. In the one hasty glance I gave, before my lids fell over my swimming eyes, I could see the splendid uni forms of the guests as they sat around the board, and the magnificent costume of a lady in the place of honour next the head. Several of those who sat at the lower end of the table drew back their seats as I came forward, and seemed as if desirous to give the general a better view of me. Overwhelmed by the misery of my fate, as I stood awaiting my death, I felt as though a mere word, a look, would have crushed me but one moment back ; but now, as I stood there before that group of gazers, whose eyes scanned me with looks of insulting disdain, or still more insulting curiosity, a sense of proud defiance seized me, to confront and dare them with glances haughty and scorn ful as their own. It seemed to me so base and unworthy a part to summon a poor wretch before them, as if to whet their new appetite for enjoyment by the aspect of his mi sery, that an indignant anger took possession of me, and I drew myself up to my full height, and stared at them calm and steadily. " So, then !" cried a deep soldier-like voice from the far end of theitable, which I at once recognised as the ge neral-inNclilers—" no then, gentlemen, we have now the honour of seeing amongst us the hero of the Rhine! This is the distinguished individual by whose prowess the pas sage of the river was effected, and the Swabian infantry cut off in their retreat 1 : Is it not true, sir ?" said he, ad dressing me with a savage scowl. " I have had my share in the achievement !" said I, with a cool air of defiance. " Parbleu! you are modest, sir. So had every drum mer.boy that beat his tattoo ! But your's was the part of a great leader, if I err not ?" I made no answer, but stood firmand unmoved. " How do you call the island which you have immor talised by your valour ?" " The Fels Insel, sir." " Gentlemen, let us drink to the hero of the Fels Insel," said he, holding up his glass for the servant to fill it. "A bumper —a full, a flowing bumper ! And let him also pledge a toast, in which his interest must be so brief. Give him a glass, Contard." " His hands are tied, mon general." " Then free them at once.' Y The order was obeyed in a second ; and I, summoning tip all my courage to seem as easy and indifferent as they were, lifted the glass to my lips, and drained it off. " Another glass, now to the health of this fair lady, through whose intercession we owe the pleasure of your company," said the general. " Willingly," said I ; " and may one so beautiful sel dom find herself in a society so un ;worthy of her !" A perfect roar of laughter succeeded the insolence pf this speech, amid which I was half pushed, half dragged, up to the end of the table, where the general sat. " How s ), coquin, do you dare to insult a French gene ral, at the head of his own staff!" " If I did, sir, it were quite as brave as to mock a poor criminal en the way to his execution !" " That is the boy !—I know him now !—the very same lad !" cried the lady, as, stooping behind Berthier's chair, she stretched out her hand towards me: "-Come here ; are you not Colonel Mahon's godson 1" I looked her full in the face ; and whether her own thoughts gave the impulse, or that something in my stare suggested it, she blushed till her cheek grew crimson. • " Poor Charles was so fond of him !" whispered she in Berthier's ear ; and as she spoke, the expression of her face at once recalled where I had seen her, and I now per ceived that she was the same person I had seen at table with Colonel Mahon, and whom I believed to be his wife. " A low whispering conversation now ensued between the general and her, at the close of which he turned to me and said— " Madame Merlancourt has deigned to take an interest in you ; you are par toned. Remember, sir, to whom you owe your life, and be grateful to her for it." I took the hand she extended towards me, and pressed it to my lips. _ _ " AlLlaine," said I. " there is but one favour more I would ask in this •vorid, and with it I could think myself haupv." `• But can I grant it,'rstoti cher," said she, smiling. " if I am to judge from the influence I have seen you wield, madame, here and elsewhere, this petition will easiiy be accorded." A slight flush coloured the lady's cheek, while that of the general became dyed red with anger. I saw that I had committed some terrible blander, but how, or in what, I knew not. " Well, sir," said Madame Merlancourt, addressing me with stately coldness of manner, very different from her former tone, " Let us hear what you ask, for we are al ready taking lip a vast deal of time that our host would prefer devoting to his friends—what is it you wish ?" " My discharge from a service, madame, where zeal and enthusiasm are rewarded by infamy and disgrace ; my freedom to be anything but a French soldier." " You arc resolved, sir, that I am not to be proud of my protege," said she haughtily : " what words are these to speak in the presence of a general and his officers ?" " I am bold, madame, as you say, but I am wronged." " How so, sir—in what have you been injured ?" cried the General, hastily, " except in the excessive condescen sion which has stimulated your presumption. But we are really too indulgent in this long parley. Madame, per mit me to offer you some coffee under the trees. Con tardo, tell the band to follow us. Gentlemen, we expect the pleasure of your society." And so saying, Berthier presented his arm to the lady, who swept proudly past without deigning to notice me. In a few minutes the tent was cleared of all, except the servants occupied in removing the remains of the dessert, and I fell back unremarked and unobserved, to take my way homeward to the barracks, more indifferent to life than ever I had been afraid of death. As I am not likely to recur at any length to the some what famous person to whom I owed my life, I may as well state that her name has since occupied no inconsiderable share of attention in France, and her history, under the title of " Memoires d'une Contemporainc," excited a de gree of interest and anxiety in quarters which one might have fancied far above the reach of her revelations. At the time I speak of, I little knew the character of the age it which such influences were all powerful, nor how des tinies very different from mine hung upon the favouritism of "La belle Nathalie." Had I known these things, and still more, had I known the sad fate to which she brought my poor friend, Colonel Mahon, I might have scrupled to accept my life at such hands, or involved myself in a debt of gratitude to one for whom I was subsequently to feel nothing but hatred and aversion. It was indeed a terrible period, and in nothing more so than the fact, that acts of benevolence and charity were blended up with features of falsehood, treachery, and baseness, which made one des pair of humanity, and think the very worst of their species. enteral 111(5,-relialiv. Lord Lyndhurst is likely to recover his sight, after the experiment recently performed. M. Ledru Rollin inhabits the small house at Brompton, occupied some months since by M. Guizot. EXHIBITION OF 1851.-A local committee, to collect and forward articles for exhibition, has been formed at Hong-Kong. On Wednesday workmen were employed in erecting a scaffolding of considerable strength round the marble arch at Buckingham Palace, preparatory to train; it to pieces. Several hundred head of live stock had to be thrown from the vessels sailing from the Dutch ports to this country during the late stormy weather. Last week, in London, a youth of nineteen committed suicide with an Italian-iron, an impromptu touchhole to which he had previously manufactured. On Monday, Mr. George Binns, a Quaker, was run over and killed, by a train of thirteen waggons, on the Bowling iron company's tram-road, near Bradford. The Rev. David James Stewart, M.A., vicar of Hill marton, Wilts, has been appointed one of her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools. _ _ AN ANCIENT FORTRESS DISMANTLED.--Berwick-on- Tweed is about to be dismantled, and its walls converted into building sites, by order of the Crown. An equestrian statue of her Majesty is about to be erected in Glasgow, in commemoration of the Royal visit in 1849. A verdict of manslaughter has been returned against John Gould. a toll collector at Vauxhall, for killing a lit tle boy seven years' old by wilfully throwing boiling water over it. A dissenting minister at Bradford who had lately been extremely popular, was found a few nights since in the streets so intoxicated that he had to be taken care of by the police. On Thursday week, a person, by means of Cox's patent swimming stockings, swam across the Firth of Forth—a distance of nearly two miles. He was fifty minutes on the passage. There are now 82 sailing vessels on the stocks on the river Wear, in addition to which there are four flat bot tomed keels for river use building. It is upwards of 20 years since any keels were built at Sunderland. A very destructive disorder has been discovered among large quantities of the wheat grown in Worcestershire. Its ravages extend over the whole of one farm s and several adjacent ones are much affected. The great rowing. match on the Thames, between T. Coombes, the brother of the champion of the Thames, and Chitty, of Richmond, for £lOO, came off last week, when Chitty won by nearly a length. A strenuous attempt is now making at Bath to have the assizes removed to that town from Wells. The latter town has a population of only 7,000, whilst the inhabitants of Bath number 52,000. A FACT.—A piece of wheat, containing seven acres, was sold on Friday last, at the Carpenters' Arms, in Tickhill, for twenty-four pounds; the tenant-right of which was seventy pounds!—Doncaster Chronicle. BRITISH MUSEUM.—AII the galleries throughout the building are now open, though in the new part the fittings have not yet been set up. Barely a wreck of the old en trance remains, and in a short time Montagu House will be swept away. On Sunday, a young man aced 25, undertook for a wa ger to drink a pint and a half of brandy, and afterwards walk from Charing Cross to London Bridge, in less than two hours. He drank the brandy, but almost imme diately rolled off his seat and was a corpse in a few hours. The idea of erecting a memorial window to Queen Adelaide, at the east end of Worcester cathedral, has been changed to - the placing of one in one of the tran septs, the sum collected not having reached more than £520. The parishioners of Hull have presented the governor of the workh; use with an elegant silver tea and coffee sei vice " as a testimonial of their appreciation of the zeal and ability displayed by him in 1849 and 1850, and espe cially curing the visitation of cholera in the former year." Aint:ng other visitors at the great exhibition, next year, :ritl be a Gelman chorus, made up of Liedentafel societies, rivalling in number the never-to-be -forgotten Colnzne gathering, an assemblage of more than 2,000 voices. _ _ . Several riots took place last week at Portsmouth, be tween the military and seamen. On Thursday the riot act was read, and many were seriously injured. A large number of windows in the public-houses have been broken. THE ROMANIST SYNOD.—The proceedings of the synod hitherto are so unimportant as to render them utterly unworthy of a report, being in fact mere form and cere mony. A meeting took place on Thursday, at which that prince of firebrands "John of Tuam" delivered a speech. Vessels, during the last few days, have been loading coals in the Tyne for London at ss. to ss. 3d. per ton freight; and yet, notwithstanding this miserable rate of remuneration, ship-owners continue to extend their tonnage. At the Exeter district court of bankruptcy, on the 20th instant. Charles Parnell, grocer and draper of East Looe, Cornwall, in consequence of the numerous prevarications in his evidence, was committed to prison, until he should be prepared with more satisfactory answers. Last week, an Irishman was apprehended at Cambridge for being drunk and disorderly in the streets, and fought so violently that eventually he had a fit. The policeman who had him in charge ran off for assistance, but when he returned the fit was over, and the Irishman had vanished ! CURIOUS CHURCH ARRANGEMENT.—The church of Philip's Norton has been. recently " repaired and re— stored." One of the most curious arrangements, how ever, is the provision of .iron spittoons for the congrega tion, so that they shall not spoil the place by spitting about.—Bristol Times. Benjamin Augustus Wallis, aged fifty, a gentleman of independa►lt property, residing at -Stamford-grove, Upper Clapton, died last week under circumstances which led to the belief that his death arose from starvation, the only food found in the house being a small quantity of pudding and a dried crust. The Duke of Cleveland has subscribed £lOO towards the purchase of a site for a new Roman Catholic chapel at Wolverhampton.—[The duke professes to be a church man and a protectionist. How can his grace look for support from his Protestant tenantry when he com• mits such an outrage as this on their religious principles.] The Sheffield Times says, "On Monday, while the wind was blowing very fresh, it forced a pane of glass out of a window of the Talbot beer-house, in the Haymarket. It fell upon the paving -stones of the street, and though a large pane, measuring about fourteen or fifteen inches, it was taken up unbroken." LOUIS PHILIPPE'S WILL.—It is supposed that the son-in-law of Louis Philippe, the King of the Belgians. has been appointed testamentary executor and trustee of the deceased king. Thus the duty will devolve upon Leopold of maintaining that union of interests and har mony of action among the surviving members of the house of Orleans which was latterly the chief care of the ex-king. CONISHEAD PRIORY.—The following lots of this pro perty were sold in London on Friday week :—Lot I. The Bardsea property, comprising 87 acres, £5,500. Lot 2.—The Deer Park, 138 acres, £10,500. Lot 5, ad j lot 2. 138 acres, £6,801 Total, £22,800, exclu sive of the timber, which is to be taken at a valuation. The whole was purchased by Wm. Gale, Esq., Lightburn house, Uiverston. A few nights ago, a young woman in the service of Mr. Page, of 404, High-street, Cheltenham, was found in her bedroom with her hands and feet fastened with a cord, and her neck tied with a napkin. This, she stated, had been done by a man who entered her room by the window, but she has since acknowledged that she had committed the act herself, having been provoked to do so from something said by her sister. The Oxford Herald gives an account of the opening of an Independent meeting-house at Banbury, consisting of a nave, south aisle, chancel, and vestry, with well-pitched roofs, and the front gable surmounted by a stone cross. It has lance-light windows, mostly filled with "green tinted cathedral glass." There was an effective choir, by which the psalms were chanted, the sanctus sung r and anthems performed. The Brighton Guardian relates that during the late races two young farmers were conversing on the course, when one of them espied a purse on the green sward before him. He remarked, " There lies a purse," but to his astonishment, cat picking it up, he discovered that it was his own, and that it was empty, the impudent thief having extracted the contents and thrown the purse down at the feet of its owner. FRATRICIDE.—On Sunday, two brothers, William and Nathaniel Brown, on their way to Stroud, in a cart, Quar relled as to which should drive. From hard words they came to blows; when, shocking to relate. William Brown, in the course of the struggle drew a knife from his pocket and stabbed his brother in the bowels. The wound was of a fatal nature. The wretched brother, William Brown, has been, of course, taken into custody. THE GREAT GREENHOUSE.—The glazing alone of the building for the Industrial Exhibition will employ about one hundred and fifty glaziers for ten weeks ; and as that number of respectable workmen will be rather difficult to collect they will require efficient superintendence, or half the glass will be put in without proper bedding and the risk of leakage much increased. Probably. one hundred and fifty tons of putty will be required. On the night of the 12th ult., at Barton, 'Lincolnshire, a man named Sanderson was awakened by some persons throwing in dirt at the windows. He got up and saw some men standing at the gate. He warned them off, and on their refusing to go, went out with a poker, and during the fight that ensued one of the men was so severely injured that he died next day. A verdict of mauslaughter has been returned against Sanderson. SINGULAR VERDICT.—On Tuesday an inquest was held on the body of a child, at Dodsworth, near Barnsley. It appeared that a young, unmarried woman, named Hannah Stones, had been delivered of a still-born child, and made no one acquainted with it for several hours, although she had prepared clothes, &c., for the child, and had made no secret of the matter. The jury returned iI verdict of "No use." We presume they intended that holding an inquest under those circumstances was of no use. It is stated that John Bowes, Esq., of •Streatlam Castle and Gibside, formerly one of the members for the southern division of the county of Durham, who has been the lessee of the Theatre des Varietes, at Paris, for the last ten years, has within the last few weeks purchased that esta blishment for the sum of 1,260,000 francs (X 50,000 ster ling.) The purchase is made in the name of Mad'selle Delorme, an old actress in the theatre, and a lady of great personal attractions. _ _ The Morning Post views with well-founded jealousy the new patent process for refining sugar by the agency of acetate of lead, and, after describing the process by which the poison is to be neutralised, and the efficiency of which depends entirely upon the the.judgment of one individual, denominated the " tester," observes :—` Is any govern ment justified by prudence, duty, or morality, in con fiding an unlimited power over millions of lives to a single irresponsible individual ? This is the proposition to be considered, and upon► it the entire case hinges." A coroner's inquest has been sitting for ten days on the bodies of the four Irishmen who were drowned in endeavouring to escape from the pursuit of several Eng lish " navvies," •on Saturday last, at Partington, York shire. Seventy-nine witnesses were examined, and a verdict of manslaughter against two men named Robert Bielby and James Brown, who have accordingly been committed to York to take their trial at the next assizes. Four other men have been committed for trial at the next Beverley sessions on this charge. EXPLOSION OF GUN COTTON.—On Tuesday week two women, mother and daughter, were engaged i❑ cleaning their house' in Aberdare, and in making up the fire, when one of them threw what appeared to be some rags on the grate. Instantly a terrific explosion was heard—the " rags " proved to be gun cotton. The windows of the room were blown out, the house set on fire, and the two women burned in a dangerous manner. The noise at tracted the neighbours to the spot, who extinguished the flames and rendered every assistance to the sufferers, who now lie in a very precarious state. Irk:TEMPERANCE AND SUICIDE.—On Sunday. a party of labouring men and their wives, all more or less intoxi cated, were returning to London from Battersea, when, off the Houses of Parliament, a Mrs. Shadbrook, who had conceived that an improper intimacy had taken place be tween a female of the party and her husband, in a frenzy of jealousy, suddenly threw herself overboard. Mr. Shad brook, though unable to swim, leaped in to save his wife ; the unfortunate woman, however, who was very drunk, was not seen to rise again, and her husband was with difficulty dragged into the boat. At the Berks county court at Reading, last week, Mrs. Chapman, a milliner, recovered from Mr. Stanford, M.P., the sum of £l7 lls. 10d. for " bows" and " favours" at the time of the election. The agent said an order had been given for only £5, but different members of the committee gave orders which the Judge held to be a suffi cient liability. A verdict was entered for the full amount for the plaintiff, who had been obliged to give up her business in consequence of the non-payment of the bill, she having spent her little capital of £lO in providing the. necessary ribbon to make up the favours. _ _ . MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.—On Tuesday, a ticket collector at the London and South Coast railway station, at Lewes, named Isgar, was within a hair's breadth of losing his life. Ho was on the rails below the platform when he saw a train entering the station and just upon him. In this position - Isgar threw himself on his face, dreading lest he should be crushed. His fearful position was seen by the station clerk, who fully expected that lie would be found dashed to pieces when the train bad passed. There was one moment of agonizing expense, and then up leaped Isgar, but not injured in any way. Isgar is an exceed ingly small made man. _ FATHER IGNATIUS.—On Friday last, the Hon. and Rev. Geo. Spencer, brother to the present Earl Spencer, delivered a lecture in the Catholic Chapel, Bedford-st., North Shields, --" On the prospect of the conversion of England." The reverend gentleman was formerly a clergyman of the Church of England, which he left about eighteen years ago, when he became a convert to Roman Catholicism. He is nJw a monk of the strict mendicant order of the passion, sworn to poverty, and named Father Ignatius. He wears a coarse woollen habit and no stockings or shoes, his feet being protected by sandals. Shields. Gazette. A FAMILY REAPING PARTY.—On Saturday, in a wheat-field situate near the Cross gate, adjacent to the town of Ihninster, were to be seen a father and his ten sons reaping: The field is rented by one of the sons, and, by his request, his father and his brothers helped to reap. The father is an athletic man, named William Mullins, aged 65 years. His sons' names and ages are John, 40 ; William, 38 ; Noah and James (twins), 36 ; Esau and Jacob (twins), 34; Matthew, 32; Henry, 30; Robert, 28; and Emanuel, 22 years. The sons are all fine and robust men, and, on an average, stand 5 feet 11 inches each. A great many persons went from the town to see them reap, and the bells of the venerable church rang two peals on the occasion. A - SCENE.--Last Sunday week an occurrence at oncebya Church, l p u a r d c i a c as r o o n l u t hs thrust ii l a dr n gu i es l st h distressingacross The the It entrance n o e k ta i rm p wn la ca e c s e obo a y t t Chesterton e h l a e pd s o t yi e o r wt t h o o n of entering the reading-desk, when hi s p rogress was b arr ed suddenly started up from an adjoining seat. " I forbid your entrance," cried she, in a loud and commanding tone : " you are no priest, you are no priest." The con gregation stood aghast ; churchwardens and beadles were petrified, and stared with open mouth, but moved not ; the Vicar mildly remonstrated, but was met with a repe tition of the declaration, " you are no priest, you have no pedigree : look to the 4th chapter of Jeremiah." By and by the author of this extraordinary movement stalked so lemnly out of the church, and the servic3 proceeded with out further interruption. The lady, as may be imagined, s not of sound mind. THE WONDERFUL CURES PERFORMED BY HOLLO WAY'S PILLS ASTONISH EVERYBCDY.—Threi.pi re nove complaints which the f_illicruelty--Ple incura ble;the delicate, and the com pletely invigorated ; the ne us, there is no other medicine weak are made strong ; m re p m la e in d t y s, fo a r s • and effectual in curing indiges tionknown that is so cert debilitated constitutions ,by their use, Holloway's Pill they are also . an to and every disease incident females, dropsical affe ons, established family medicine, and stand nrivalled as an stomach h len co t and all bilio ,liver, and sto e m x as they rify the blood, . cleanse the system, sengthen remedy often after every other has failed, the >day, and reinstate it in the . soundest health, and Sep. 31851 ------- massa.. lnn nno• -'W t° ' A Fooß - MINER FALLEN HEIR TO .6..,v,..- • _. iot Bell Walton, a poor miner, living near Asaaone. 7; an d week left by will, heir and executor to the PrcP i l e r ih a m, estate of William Bell, Esq., near .atteeata estimated to be worth about il l z l h OO S , ho O ieoh . f, ctable heir of this magnificent property is a decent respe , a . a man, with a large family, and has been for some ..e e 7 .... . consistent member of the Wesleyan Methodist soct tY Shields Gazette. t nti the NEW INCLCSURE ACT.—On the 14th ins a e _ o _ l Second Annual Inclosure Act, 1850, received th N Y . : . laces • assent, authorising inclosures in the following p bridge , Runhall commons, in the county of Norfolk ; 1 3 am w , c h. in York; Piston Marsh, in Flint; Shepton-Little - Drag.' wood, in Oxford ; Nanteynllo, in Cardigan ; Littl ! an d; ton-heath, in Salo Over Staveley, in Westmoti, en. Burn-common, in York; Mepal, in Cambridge; 'r,l ieo : tain's Earth Moor, in York ; Llanyrwys,in Cavn,arrtaad; Garsdale, in York; Warkworth, in Northumbiesa`eL. Waterfield, in Norfolk • Coven , in Stafford ; Souti!.7. cum-Woodcote, in OxfOrd • Haughlev, in Suffol her tintd";_ Musgrave, in Westmorland ' ; Talken Fell, in CuraS u i rre y ;,, Hitchenden, in Bucks • Farnham Manor, in °. in Pencarreg, in Carmarthen ; Salthouse and gelling, , Norfolk; and Litcharn, in the same county C e ntre' trill Cri- AFFECTION AND BRUTALITY.—At the ~en ,r n s med Ce lli urinal Court, London, on Monday, a Wan na- The Pe llr was indicted for feloniously wounding his wife- j ot!! wife, upon getting into the witiiess-box. was el o ner. The t resolved to do all in her power to shield the Pr, l _,..h. ;he She began in a very voluble manner to declare tha t was the only person to blame in the transaction ; str ike to was drunk, and had aggravated her hu sband her; and that the injury she had receive d was v ery tri „ c learly fling. The other evidence in the case, however, %aloes made out that a most savage and brutal attack a c ha table; made upon her by the prisoner with the leg 0. a injuries and it appeared that, in addition to several severe 111_,,e0. about the head and body, one of her arms wo g blio sa s eer The jury returned a verdict of guilty, and th!,g . r ea the was sentenced to be transported for ten years. "I' n sentence was pronounced, the wife of the prisoneris:erkt, into hysterics; and as she was being carried past the ~.°',o 3 he leaned over to her and exclaimed, " Noy, I haP' ' are satisfied HOLDS, ain't t ir o ; 4 ' THE OF VESSELS AND THEIR PILESER,Aipg —To preserve the hold of a vessel free from continua hip; effects, and render them, by the simple process of alaa only, both sweet and bright, is now very readilY,a'i n a nt plished, by the discovery of a means of making sviutlf an from zinc, which, while it is f r ee from the objectiottoce s ictg i h b pha l ut e tsr f tp r hfo o oes n rye i Ga t other white paints, exerts a positively wholesome bleracu patent dt it ao i ms s tea p t o ; rights upon both vessel and crew. The invention is ° ' 0,0 one, and has been adopted by the French govern The Messrs. Hubbuck's, of London, have all their works. The paint made by it may be tastt; c h to even swallowed with impunity, thus differing 95 81 ,10 1 ' parch to rrl its :eea utpoisonousvirtuesßritain, ira m ren i cd x oo t ubi u tvil r it e i osr s uyb in smu i et d nad e titfile:Tob benefit teroet the of their good fortune in the most liberal mariner. play hag ' ll he painted throughout without the slightest inconclied to to or the removal of the re sidents, and may be fi ' r'is b i sst er. resemble a surface either of enamel or unsullied ala g o n- BANQUET TO THE LORD MAYOR OF LONDON' 08 11 of day having been fixed for Opening the Town ''' da le new . e , Southampton; arrangements on a most ex don and were made to welcome the Lord Mayor of Londonaeca, other civic authorities who had been invited on tllOO. sion, and never was there a more general feeling ,° at ie3t s ' imity among all classes to rec eive their esteemea a, du' Nearly every house in the public thoroughfares tile corated either with flags banners, or e vergree ns, and with High-street being hung a profusion of colour' magnificent banners, in different parts, extending Bcrot§ 01 the road. The north and south sides of the Ton the were illuminated in the evenincr as well as tool l Y. - t h tbe, hotels and tradesmen's houses,'"which, together wi , g ssea, display of fireworks and other demonstrations, sur`liciela anything of the kind ever witnessed within demonstrations, a fter walls. An immense procession was formed , ' O O l.O p‘Tambulating the town amidst thousands of seeehaaq-uet very large number sat down to a most splend id l a and and the evening was spent with the utmost bnan ; enthusiasm. e c° °l. HOLYHEAD HARBOUR.—The government hav ty t e. pleted the purchase of all the ground and Pr°P er e sad quisite for the construction of the new harbour prober, the whole of the works will now be pushed forro'beill the utmost expedition, nearly fifteen hundred InS e ell' constantly engaged in the various operations., of the gineers are proceeding rapidly with the e xtols- 1 1 0 pre' sea walls at the northern breakwater, and are 8 , t hou' gressing with the erection of the -stages. f or % o 0° 1 ; sands of cubic feet of stone are now ready t ih ono mencement and erection of the immense sea sva heigh ts fresh supplies are daily obtained from the loftY ill 011- that overhang the harbour, where extensive harry ob operations are being carried on. The material t arr as tained, when thrown down into the brea . rovater!;sted masses from 10 to 50 feet in thickness. Tho e!! ‘; ac re cost of this new harbour, which will consist of :J'A e or of sea room, is £700,000, and of this sac , the x u t ' ea t of f and Holhead Railway Company is liable to ql . e ;lose ° £200,000, but the measure introduced int° t h e Commons will relieve them of the responsibility solidi PENANCE AT WAKEFIELD PARISH CHOW ll e . , t arlCe e l last being the day appointed for the per id) LI penance by Mr. Horner, sen., in accordance: the judgment of the Ecclesiastical Court in the s,°;`,,"aiff at' as nandes v. Horner for the slander he Pis st'''' upon t aa v , 6 , parish church of Wakefield was crowded by a n -- e eed,p s 'Ot . large congregation desirous of witnessing the Pr ° o7/ Pursuant to previous announcement, a largo c c° 1 ° - ' n o h ot the working classes met in the corn market to l' o n t t Mr. Horner to the church, their duct - in° s and con f t he . a , way thither, and also at the church door was ° en Pi; indecorous character. But it is due to Mr. fl°,l°,,s of rho to state that he endeavoured to restrain the see dfeta l- og s ` the mob, and to induce them to abstain from Pr o At r e little in keeping with the sacredness of the day' a rty aled conclusion of the service, Mr. Horner and the °gr.•''',. admitted into the • e le vestry of the church, whoa t hel ~ { read the required recantation in the presence ~..b acee'a g and some friends of the plaintiff. Time mob n' e 'i s frien-rf panied Mr. Horner was addresssed by some 0' his c e ",,l detailing the circumstances of the case, conu e- specie' - freely on the proceedings + and condemning the i. . punishment with which he had been visited. t her of t''' „ o at TRANSITIONS AND TRANSITIONISTS. --4an—° ,enit c i inmates of 'Archdeacon Manning's `` e ° 9; rev ere nd Wantage, has followed the example of the c o, all'" mother" whose perversion was recently unn °° t il t st 148t° ' has just been drafted into the Romish c(uvq,, College, ' mersmith. E. Windeyer , E N of w in g - and London, has also joined te Romish ish Church.° for t he proceeded to St. Edmund's College to rola. Wind' priesthood. It is understood that several 'of l‘ t b e boll eyer's relatives have'also seceded. Mrs. Sivas , a f o llow% keeper of the clergy house, Margaret Chapel, b • 3 trea s ' arj the example of the schoolmaster and schoolrnla caves; has been received into the Church of Ronie• A, the fl it dish, whose perversion was lately announced, 1 ~,., Wu clergyman from thatchapelsecession "' or derg . whose - over (t 6 recorded. Several other persons of the I force )Jed - have also taken this step. Mrs. Henry Wilber rece ive lady of the Vicar of East Farleigh) has also been nd of the into the Romish Church : this lady is the se ° o Per bee . OL I Bishop of Oxford's sisters-in -lacy who hav e e eetv • c, been r ikfr• verted—Mrs. William Wilberforce havina a fi go. hag into the Roman communion several we e " c o - stev , al Anderdon, the Vicar of St. Margaret, LeL n a is sale recalled all his sermons, &c., in which anat"' a' . It is (Lee , - to the disparagement of the Romish Churrcn reported that Mr. Bowyer, the eminent laweydethe Ro sati on Civil Law in the Temple), has also join Cou rts , Catholic Church.—Church and State Gazette..n iCo d , A LOVE CHARM.—At the Central Crit2 3 , l , n o n * o London, on Saturday last, Martha Sharpe , '') e calenaar J . - rather good-looking woman, described in th ting to a a a widow, was indicted for feloniously atteV a illy pois° lo ; minister to Charlotte King a quantity of ue, J u ly, ° be with intent to murder her. On the 23rd °'ectins to ~.. sent a tart to the Pavilion Theatre, with dir ea .,. Ir it I er too a delivered to Mr. Elphinstone, one of th . e t l ,1 ' 1: 1 i dress _e Elphinstone refused to receive it, but '''' lt i e of it, ti b ad home, and gave it to his wife. She ate aII tha t he o o was very ill.—Mr. Elphinstone deposed onlb s er, known the prisoner by sight for about four in oat h h n icatiou : t itres had always declined to have any contain ' ap plies et but he had been continually annoyed by her _ s o wa ... ! to him, through another woman, to meet her ~0 , 0 0 0 . , anY ' woe' with her. He had always declined to have _ ari ~ , cation with her. On the 23rd of July he salv e ll _ l f,e sog r a: sitting in the boxes of the theatre, and on th refused to S he retub ow his dresser brought him a tart, which if he C her eelve.—Mr. Baron Platt aSked the witness if . form any idea of the object of the prisosnaed 1 ' l a i he ealaaaler company upon him.—Mr. Elphinstone. ht sugge s ' • o ivg none, except what the imagination mig ea as or a 4 H. T. Cornelius, a surgeon, deposed that, up r e gra in i ; f the remains of the tart, he discovered t! e lo vet t i 'lv that 8 `'• u til o cantharides, or Spanish flies. He bell es , a , a „ o ne, _, notion was very prevalent that cantharidar. nVpiriiiterit; effect, and that it was considered as a s tof he jun' whe rde r love charm,—Mr. Baron Platt asked t eero a o , ?tet , they thought the prisoner intended to r Tirlyediaiill', by the act she had committed . — The iv,u . 0 ~ ,i t ow said they were of opinion that she had n° a , ci ' I " ~ a ' of not guilty . and at once-returned a verdict w e n otice 4. ' BLooDHOUND FOR SHEEPSTEALERS. . ti , his nt i ) ; 0, few weeks ago, the loss which the farmers ; i 1" ected t° rac' bourhood (Lincoln) were continually .1 sli nefarious poe gang of sheepstealers, who carry on their f de t e ction . or ed , tines in so secret a manner as to de y s ..., „ ro c 0 ,, Association for the Prosecution of Felop.,rn_terd bloatic at a great expense, a thoroughbred, w ell-trai n s p orP.',,, bound from the Highlands of Scotland, to . thel'. 01.91';'0 of tracing sheepstealers or other thieves. eh , has ..-e. C 6„ -- superintendent of police, Mr. John Alasonc. 8 tr ial fia c om f of the dog, and on Saturday last gay field o ti Broxhohne, a few miles from Lincoln, on the for ', a l a c roP Fothergill, who had a sheep slaughtered rer a - fa H a s ov al purpose, and taken a distance of two n, ever y _,,, country—hedges and ditches not omitted, and t. T hee culty interposed which ingenuity could sugg e s ,„ se cl 0 1 f t arrangements having been made, four hours n uT r i v ek e zio the sheep was slaughtered, when Mr. masa e ;l i ' ate ly t .', '. the place with the - hound. The animal blur an d stt,7f on the scent, though the ground was very &Va il to rn ... a short time, in which he traced every track a. yothe..l a the man, led his followers to the house fled, - 1 eat, r a: gill's shepherd, the door of which was . a t he!, being opened, the sheep was found hung:l.ll,j s po o n , Several gentlemen from Lincoln were presenacilog , in high terms of the training and breed of the i blo se rv ' e l 0 5 there is no doubt that he will be of rotifer a town el the association in the prevention of t c_ : a s the discovery of thieves, who have infested h _ b! lad alert, n etta neighbourhood for a long time past. I ,_, win _ s r : . dog of this description here some years sZ u u rtiere j n r v e , r late respected Mk. Parker, of InglebY, was te m ould ha' e u gh his home, it is very doubtful whether it resent tam , t or u• mained a mystery, as it does to the over per)'sra ~..... every effort was then made to discover the , st r ea co ) ; the deed, besides a reward'of nearly £2OO being.. " i Doncaster Chronicle. I / , / s~~