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)DD COURT year 1 t b, the nin the f be bein, the prey Lori who of the Small pa* complains of :-garden market Vounz beauty, pleas iv from , at if Fought. 7 4-10 3 XII. : or two brought summer-pruning I. We give it on Fruiti3t for th t is well known to al their habits, have a continual 3n, to produce succulent ,t which the branches or watery diverge fr or four roately starve th with few excepti that of causing shoots to p very first on !lo by On, when t ght ur when the y are six uence of th :s' would, b ;ion, have consura propelled into t the fruit. In Ju shoots is to be g ened to about s; leave several gri i the remainder short- e extremities, to d Coy the as be admitt be taken, that light inches ; and by the could have been removed end of J to admit sun liuht rough the whole fabric of the tree relates for the simple pur minds of the Greek people acquainted with them, Lers, and to which most g it impossible to resign mean. " the divine tale ithOut effort the Ar- as a'n historic problem are glad n all attempt to extract a pro- saic truth out o liercr' exploits of Theseus or tl who smile at mention of a race of Amazons t times that neithe r himself ventured to doubt their exister lag the tale cf Tro its hosts, and all it: could yet shrink from surrender h all its military details, and all J part of it true no Aga- —no battles on 11 trace s the position of ," they might ex- Milton, when writing in his his line of English monarchs which tory of th in men's faith, nom keenest historical r€ L—in his time still lingering L to sleep unvexed by the ." Those old ' and inborn arch, - ' SIR ROBERT PEEL'S LETTER AND THE ELECTIONS (From Fraser's Magazine for August.) Did Sir Robert Peel's measure with respect to the Corn-laws really tend to relieve the distress which fell upon the country ? Was it not the necessary result of a change from a fluctuating to a fixed duty, rather to en hance than to diminish the price of the necessaries of life in the hour of need ? Under the old law, corn no sooner rose to an average price of seventy shillings than the duty ceased. Under Sir Robert Peel's act, it was liable to a duty of four shillings, over and above the mar ket price of the grain, be that what it might. Can as loran,- go much further, then, than the writer of the rth lett , r has carried it, when he claims credit to fbr s. n R," a measure involving the ultimate • t i L placed food within the reach of :rving p, ? iar is this from being the fact, that 4.1 of the ,ensures of 'Lord John Russell's admini .ration w• to suspend the Peel law, and suspended it aas cont; Red to be ever since. Think of this man boasting lout exploits, from which no human being has slightest benefit, from which no human being Li be benefited to the end of time ! Corn-I which ti first n e been good in themselves, or t is a question in which, for the )t interested. They are gone, and pro a statesman worthy of the name in the ns of reviving them. But if they were )bert Peel is responsible for all the evil done ; for, besides that he was their vocate for more than a quarter of a century, ig method of repealing them after he did make d to follow in the footsteps of the League, ren- up his ni d( t their transition state more mischievous ever were while in full vigour. Nor is this all. that the time had come for repealing them ; M- T argument's sake, that Mr. Cobden was right, hike of Wellington, and Sir Robert Peel, and elbourne wrong ; was it, therefore, necessary for me minister not only to stultify himself, while ling his party, but to drag through the mire such Mr. Goulburn, Lord Aberdeen, and even the Waterloo himself Why did they consent to be s tools ? Why did a mistaken notion of loyalty - vas never shaken—prompt them to recall their re, as after they had once sent them in, and aid him lowing condemned even while they took part in it ? If Sir Robert Peel intends his letter shall serve as a Dint round which men shall gather. for the purpose of ming a party distinct from that of Lord John Russell he one hand, and Lord Stanley on the other, we beg him that he has egregriously mistaken the tern the people of England. Read it will be, read it cry political circle; but if we may judge effect upon other men's minds from the impression which it has made upon our own, the writer has not risen `he estimation of any of them, but fallen. For our -"e can say with truth, that we bore with Sir Robert -, nd patiently, and experienced the utmost dis -.anon to fall off . from him to the last moment : but All that feeling is at an end now. He has shown himself, in his Letter to the Electors of Tamtvorth, to be without orinciple whatever ; indeed his protestations of Peel lon seem to convict him of a readiness to betray them. Nor has he alone, of the members of his cabinet, contrived to destroy, at the end of the session, whatever of prestige they may have carried about them during its progress. Sir James Graham has thought fit to come out in the character of a reviler of the Church. His attack upon the bishops has done him more damage than his opposi tion, however misplaced, to the erection of the see of Manchester : and it will not be forgotton, we beg to as sure him, in a hurry. Indeed, we have good cause to be lieve, that if Mr. Goulburn lose his seat for the Univer sity of Cambridge, and Mr. Gladstone fail of winning his for the University of Oxford, both the one and the other will owe his defeat, much more to the fact that they sat weir in the same cabinet with Peel and Graham shortcomings, whatever these may be. We are no Whigs. We anticipate little from the pre sent Government ; except a series of blunders ; for they _ _ lan to t: . are confessedly, one and all, the worst men of business that ever undertook the management of public affairs. But were the necessity of choosing between them and the return to power of Peel and Graham forced upon us, we should infinitely prefer the Whigs. Let us hope, how ever, that better men than either are to be had, and we look anxiously to the general election for supplying them. A PRIVILEGE REPUDIATED !—ln the reign of Edward the First, the Town of Ross, Herefordshire, sent mem bers to Parliament, but the privilege was relinquished upon petition of the inhabitants, and has never since been resumed. Probably the electors had to pay their repre sentatives for their services, and hence determined to do without them. THE RACE NOT FOR THE SWIFT BUT THE LOVING.— lt is death in Lapland to marry a maid without her pa rents' consent ; wherefore if one bear an affection for a maid, upon the breaking thereof to her friends, the fashion is that a day is appointed for her friends to be hold the two parties run a race together. The maid is allowed in starting the advantage of a third part of the race, so that it is impossible, except willing of herself, that she should be overtaken. If the maid outrun her suitor, the matter is ended, it being penal for the man to renew the mention of marriage. But if the virgin hath kings, never any their liv menit credulit not for curious to tr stood its ;ome part of what so long hath been re 1--it cannot be thought, without too strict in- theless, the whole narrative, were it xquire with the persons J fulfil t off ti liarity we earl 1, would be seen at once loetic fiction. And it is how, after having low" and as veritable history amongst the people it sustained attack after attack, first from an- bits of this fat - nous legenc with ou cient then from modern criticism, and has been gradually an affection for him, though at first running hard to try denuded of all its glorious circumstance, till now, even for the truth of his love, she will (without Atalanta's golden those who are most willing to believe, there remains the ball to retard her speed) pretend some casualty, and make driest, scantiest residue imaginable of what may be pro- a voluntary halt before she comes to the mark or end of pounced to be a probable fact. Herodotus, with all his the race. Thus none are compelled to marry against veneration for Homer, could not assent to attribute the their own will; and this is the cause that in this country Trojan. war .to .the cause popularly assigned : he seems to I the married people are richer iA their own contentment have been of - the opinion of our Payne Knight , that the 1 than in other lands, where so many forced mat Ches make Greeks and Trojans could not have been so mad as to in- I feigned love and real unhappiness.—Fuller's Worthies. cur-so dire calamities " for one little woman." We con- THE SANCTUM OF A DOMESTIC TYRANT.—Behind Mr. fess-that for ourselves, this is not the part of the story Osborne's dining-room was the usual apartment which which would at first have staggered us. The immediate ' went in his house by the name of the study; and was cause may be very trifling that brings two angry rivals sacred to the master of the house. Hither Mr. Osborne into conflict, and, the war once commenced, they fight on would retire of a Sunday forenoon when not minded to go for victory; the first object of the strife is forgotten in the to church, and here pass the morning in his crimson strife itself, and each opponent thinks only how to destroy leather chair, reading the paper. A couple of glazed his enemy. Herodotus, however, had heard another ac- book-cases were here, containing standard works in stout count from the priests of Egypt, which made him still gilt bindings. The "Annual Register," the "Gentleman's more disposed to dispute the popular tradition. Accord- Magazine," "Blair's Sermons," and "Hume and Smol ing to this account, Helen was in fact detained in Egypt lett." From year's end to year's end he never took one during the whole term of the siege. Paris, it seems, in of these volumes from the shelf; but there was no mem sailing from Sparta, had been driven thither in a storm ; ber of the family that would dare for his life to touch one and the king of Egypt, hearing of the wrong he had coin. of the books except upon one of those rare Sunday even rnitted towards Menelaus, had sent him out of the coup- ings when there was no dinner party, and when the great try, and detained Helen till her lawful husband should ap- scarlet bible and prayer-book were taken out of the corner pear to claim her. The misfortune was, that when the where they stood beside his copy of the Peerage, and the Greeks before Troy demanded Helen, and were told that servants being rung up to the dining parlour, Osborne she neither was, nor had been in the town, they would not read the evening service in a loud, grating pompous voice. believe the story, but continued to thunder at the gates. No member of the household, child or domestic, ever en " For if Helen had really been in Troy," says Herodotus, tered the room without a certain terror. Here he checked " she would certainly have been given up, even if she had the housekeeper's accounts, and overhauled the butler's been mistress of Priam himself instead of Paris : the Tro- cellar book. Hence he could command, across the clean jan king, with all his family and all his subjects, would gravel court-yard, the back entrance of the yard with never knowingly have incurred utter and irretrievable de- which one of his stables communicated, and into this yard struction for the purpose of retaining her; their misfor- the coachman issued from his premises as into a dock, and tune was, that while they did not possess, and therefore Osborne swore at him from the study window. Four times could not restore her, they yet found it impossible to con- a year Miss Wirt entered this apartment to get her salary, vinee the Greeks that such was the fact."—Blackwood. and his daughters to receive their quarterly allowance. PROGRESSIVE IMPROVEMENT OF SOCIETY IN GREECE. George as a boy had been horsewhipped many times; his —I. In the first place, the society of Greece has acquired mother sitting sick on the stair listening to the cut of the in an incredibly short space of time a polish and refine- whip. The boy was scarcely ever known to cry under the meat, which is universally acknowledged as one of the punishment; the poor woman used to fondle and kiss him characteristic evidences of a growing civilization. The secretly, and give him money to soothe him when he came youthful Grecians travel, mix with the world, seek educa- out. There was a picture of the family over the mantel tion where it is best to be had ; and bring back to their Piece, removed thither after the late Mrs. Osborne's death country an amount of knowledge and experience which —George was on a pony, the elder sister holding him up obliterates every local peculiarity except the love of coun- a bunch of flowers ; the younger led by her mother's hand; try, and enthusiasm in her cause. 11. Besides all this, all with red cheeks and large red mouths, simpering on the circumstances of the country itself—its old and glori- each other in the approved family portrait manner. The ous associations, and :he noble monuments of classic anti- mother lay under ground now, long since forgotten—the quity which meet the eye on every side serve to give a sisters and brother had a hundred different interests of tone of dignity and elevation to general conversation, their own, and, familiar still, were utterly estranged from which has no small effect in moulding the national cha- each other. Some few score of years afterwards, when racter. It see m s to the Greek to be almost impossible to all the parties represented are grown old, what bitter think or act meanly in the presence of such a literature satire there is in those flaunting childish family-portraits, and such a locale as his. He is, as it were, in an amphi- with their farce of sentiment, and smiling lies, and inno theatre from which the glories of five-and-twenty centu- cence so self-conscious and self-satisfied.. Osborne's own ries look down upon him. He represents, in his own stately portrait, with that of his great silver .i i i n t its e tandand eyes, a long line of heroes, whose ancestral renown lie is arm-chair, had_ taken the place of honour i bound to uphold ; and he is strong in the determination room, vacated by the family-piece.—Vanity Fa i r. not to disgrace such an illustrious pedigree by one un- beliefArg ADVENTURE ON Loon AVON.—We incline to the worthy act or thought. Nor is this honourable feeling that tourists in general would consider Loch Avon the finest feature in the scenery which we have undertaken expended in martial enthusiasm alone. The modern For our own part we must admit that we Greek is as earnest in his endeavou r to reform social, to describe. of as he was to shed his blood prefer the source of the Dee, as more peculiar and origt cause ; and the result is manifest from nal. Loch Avon i 3 like a fragment of the Alps imported and set down in Scotland. Our recollections of it m the improvement everywhere perceptible in riably become intertwined and confused with the features inva especially those connected with of the scenery of the upper passes. The resemblance was moral, and political abuses in his countr day to the national institution VILIMILIULI. 11.1 C L., iliv ci ait y , Lama., ..,..........,..., -------- ing, and schools are opened whereever a fair prospect pre- particularly marked on the first of August 1630 : it was a seats itself of obtaining scholars. 111. Connected with late season, and every portion of the mountains that did the preceding observations, is the improved condition of not consist of perpendicular rock appeared to be covered the priesthood in Greece. The sacerdotal body is now with snow. The peak of Ben Muich Dhui shot forth offered the means of general as well as spiritual enlight - from the snow as like the Aiguilles of Mont Blanc as one needle is like another. That was on the whole an adven enthent : and as that church has, in the midst of the grossest superstition,_ casket," good hopes may be enter ever " kept the true faith as a pre- turous day with us. We had set oft from Braemar very cious gem in a rough early in the morning, taking a vehicle as far as it would tained that she may yet emerge from her comparative Penetrate through Glen Lui. The day was scarcely pro darkness as a pure and apostolic _branch of the universal mising, but we had so long been baffled by the weather church. IV. The domestic morality of the Greeks has that we felt inclined at last to put it at defiance, or at ever been more pure than among the Turks. It has of least treat it with no respect. In Glen Lui every thing was late _years been sensibly improving, and patterns of true I calm and solemn. As we passed through Glen Derrie, fidelity and affection are to be found in most of the fami- the rain began to fall, and the wind roared among the hits throughout the country. To all these instances of old trees. The higher we ascended, the more fierce and advancement, most of them not at all or very imperfectly relentless became the blast ; and when we came within understood in this country, may be added the almost total sight of Loch Avon, the interstices in the tempest-driven cessation of brigandage throughout Greece. An unpro- clouds only showed us a dreary, winter, Greenland-like tected person may now travel from one extremity of the chaos of snow and rocks and torrents. It taxed our full land to the other, as safely as through the best parts of philosophy, both of the existence of the ego and the non- England ; and so rare is crime of an aggravated dye, that ego, to preserve the belief that we were still in the United capital punishment is scarcely known. Indeed, the odium Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and that it was a v .4 is held renders it extremely difficult for govern- the first of August. Our indefinite projects bad gradually net - any one to undertake the office of execu- been contracting themselves within a narrow compass. .ion .e difficulties of other kinds experienced some To reach the Stone of Shelter was now our utmost object year 4o in travelling through Greece, too, are now in of ambition, but it was clear that that was impracticable— altogether removed, and in the rest rapidly so we looked about for some place of refuge, and with lit- The roads are good, the horses sound, an d tle difficulty discovered a stone about the size of a parish ;cud the way-side acc ommo d a ti ons re- church lying like a pebble at the foot of a mountain, with [1 - 'dle is still the approved mode of con '' - a projecting ledge on the lee side, sufficiently large to pro -1 who is not inu re d t o it must tect our party. Some dry furze happened, by a singular te ..ty from fatigue and exhaustion, accident, to lie heaped in a corner of the natural shed ri ars nearest to noon : but he has With a little judicious management it was ignited, v( hindrances and exhausting priva. burned so well as to overcome the wetness of a - ed , which the most enterprising tourist thick heather roots, which were added to it. Int e l fteen years ago. L et us ho p e th at all the possession of some raw venison : ' --- eves ci,- - m which ment to prom tioner. Th, I tne tra tions to impede , -do not open your of something to come so, reader ; it was most unromantically and honestly progress, but attain a come by, being duly entered in the bill at worthy Mrs hnrip out a sun amidst I Plarke's inn. Havir lications r at Braemar. .ing brought certain con u ,ar in the constel- 3ring utensils with' s, we proceeded to cook our food and b e make ourselves comfortable. Water was easily obtained in the neighbourhood, and being in possession of the other theis : sh g eSsential deter of conviviality, we resolved that, as the A men4tss she o r e e m at ay and ,d her ; and that, if she be weather was the joys to make it winter outside, we ,le, she may claim and obtain should have joys of winter within • the shrieks of th@ ate, but ever-present and influ- blast were drow ned in wned our con v i v i a l shouts — witnessed ~outs — witnessed with such intense an d Th e storm without might rair and rustle -arty Greece reviving in the 1 Tam didna mind the st orm a whistle." ' • -- I ,—Blacktraocre Magazine, the darknc hine, a the na enabled to r ential emi glowing in bosoms of he which I :Dublin C. varsity Magazin P_Atcraturr. EMS lady wa lock to The Botanic ;rowing their THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. CRIMINAL RETURNS. The annual tables showing, for 1846, the number of criminal offenders in England and Wales, compiled from the registers kept in the Home-office, were laid before parliament on the 19th of June, and were subsequently delivered to the members. From these documents much interesting information may be gleaned upon the state of crime. The total commitments in 1846 were 25,107, or an increase of 3.3 per cent. over the numbers in the pre ceding three years. which increase is spread over a consi derable part of England, and appears attributable to causes of a general, not a local nature. In the first class of offences, (against the person,) the increase over the preceding year was no less than 14.4 per cent., which was most conspicuous in rape and attempts to ravish. In the second class, (offences against property with violence,) the increase was 2.4 per cent. In the third class, (of fences against property without violence,) an increase of 2.7 per cent. appears to have spread over the chief offences of this large class. In the fourth class, (malicious of fences against property,) the increase was no less than 40 per cent. on 1845 ; the commitments, however, being still greatly below the numbers in 1843 or 1844. In the fifth class, (forgery and offences against the currency,) the forgeries have increased, but there is a decrease of 7 per cent. in the commitments for uttering counterfeit coin. In the sixth class, (miscellaneous offences,) there is a de crease of 9.3 per cent., chiefly in breaches of the peace ; but the offences against the game-laws, which are inclu ded in this class, have increased. The following are the numbers, falling under each class, committed for the last three years : 1844. 1845. 1846. First class Second class Third class 20,425 .. 19,506 .. 20.035 Fourth class Fifth class . Sixth class 1,157 .. 773 .. 701 Total 26,542 .. 24,303 . 25,107 Of these 25,107 committals, 6,935 were acquitted and discharged ; 28 were detained for insanity ; and 18,144 were convicted. Of the 18,144 convictions, 56 were sen tenced to death ; 2,805 to transportation ; 14,902 to im prisonment; 372 to whipping and fine; and 9 were par doned. Of the capital convictions (56), 13 were for murder; 9 for attempts to murder, attended by bodily ,injury ; 5 for turglary, with violence ; S for robbery, with 'wounds ; 4 for arson of dwelling-houses, with persons therein; and 17 for other capital offences. Of the 13 sentenced to execution for murder, six underwent the penalty ; one in Berks, one in Leicester, one in Middle sex, one in Northumberland, one in York, and one in Norfolk : they were all males,—one for murdering his wife, one for murdering his father, two for murdering their children, one for murdering his employer, and one for murder with burglary. The numbers sentenced to death in the last seven years are 20 per cent. less than the numbers executed in the sane period only 20 years pre ceding—a striking proof of the extensive abolition of ca pital punishments. With regard to the instruction of criminals, which is restricted to the simplest particulars, the criminal records now extend over a period of ten years, and during the whole of that time there is conclu sive proof of the increase of primary instruction. The proportion of those entirely uninstructed, shows a yearly decrease ; and of those who have received only the first elements of instruction, a corresponding increase; the one class being absorbed in the other. The proportion and degrees of instruction in 1837, when these records were first kept, and 1846, are as follows Unable to read and write Able to read and write imperfectly Read and write well Instruction superior to reading and 1 0.43 _ writing well Not aseirtained A comparison of the relative state of instruction of the two sexes, proves that the proportion of the females without instruction is much larger than of the males ; and of those able to read and write well the proportion is considerably under 4 per cent., while in the males it reaches nearly 9 per cent Males. Females 29.32 35.73 Unable to read and write Able to read and write imperfectly Read and write well . 59.61 59.14 8.79 3.65 Instruction superior to reading and l 0.42 writing well Not ascertained The return concludes by observing, that although much stress cannot be laid upon the moral restraints to be ex pected from the small amount of instruction shown in these tables, yet they are evidence of the increased pro portion, not only of criminals, but of the classes from which criminals spring, who by the spread of knowledge become subjected to those improved habits which attend early control ; and are at the same time proof of a pro gress in the lowest grades of society, which must tend to the diminution of crime. INDUSTRIAL AND RAGGED SCHOOLS The following passages, from various works, illustrative of the effects of Ragged and Industrial Schools on the pupils and on their connections may be read with interest. The committee of ladies who manage the affairs of the Aberdeen Girls' Industrial School, after a close examina tion into the working of that institution, stated in their last report (for 1846) that the history of the school— " Demonstrated the great moral fact, that the children of the poor, and, it may be, of the careless and the worth less, can, at a small amount of labour and expense, be brought within the sphere of all that is good, and estim able, and praiseworthy ; and, without being altogether separated from their parents, made instrumentalin carry ing to their homes the saving truths of the Gospel; and by practising the lessons of industry, and cleanliness, and order, altering the character of these homes, and making them the abodes of social happiness and domestic com fort ; proving that the feature of the Industrial School, which many deemed the most objectionable, may, by the Divine blessing, become the one which most enhances its value. For, without breaking the family tie, the child is permitted during the day to receive a sound, practical, and religious education, allowing the parents to pursue, without interruption and without anxiety, their respective avocations, and to carry home at night, for the solace and improvement of the family circle, the influence of the school training, and thus strengthening and confirming the natural affections, without exciting any feelings of de pendance and degradation ; because, although the child is fed and educated at the expense of the school, she gives in return for these benefits, all the labour of which she is capable." In our former article we showed how striking had been the effect of the establishment of such schools in Aber deen, where they annihilated juvenile vagrancy. Take the following passage from the evidence of the Rev. W. Russell, before the Criminal Law Committee of the House of Lords, as to the effect of a similar school in Westminster _ . . " I have seen in the worst parts of Westminster a now no less than nine congregations of different denomi- Ragged School established. I had. the pleasure of taking nations in Girvan ; all this while the population has not part in establishing one of these schools ; and out of a large increased above 700 or 900.—Edinburgh Witness. number of the worst families in the district, where there The ruins of Kilcolman Castle, the residence of Spen had been from eighteen to twenty of the members of ser, in the north of Ireland, remain to this day. A those families annually convicted, SUBSEQUENTLY NOT tourist thither, inquiring of a postillion whether he had ONE OF THEIR CHILDREN BECAME AGAIN THE SUB- ever heard of Spenser at Kilcolman, was answered, "Is it JECT OF A CRIMINAL PROSECUTION." Mr. Spenser, of Kilcolman, your honour ? " Troth, then, Mathematical demonstration was never more complete I can 't just say that I ever heard tell of him ; but I sup than this, as to the effects of such schools as that whose pose he goes round by Doneraile way. for he never took enlargement and extension we are anxious to pro- horses in Mallow in my time, sir."—Lady's Newspaper. mote. In this town they are especially needed, since the VI AA.OST MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.—On Friday last, concurrent testimony of our excellent Recorder, of Mr. about mid-day, an Irishman, called Peter Serjeant Adams, and of Mr. Stephens, the chief superin- three children, tendent of our police, is to the effect that, excepting and six, the oldest and youngest boys, left the being . London, there are more juvenile offenders in Birmingham Newabbey shore, to gather . cockles on the bank opposite his whole family, aged fourteen, Hair ele w ven, than in any other large town in the country. This fact Carsethord. with r ex - they trace partly to the injudicious and partlyremainedthe to the pe - e boat could reach them tile three children were swept into eternity ! Their father was rescued by Captain Blair, c essarily made partly by one perso n and p artl y b y ano- o t N h N e E f L o t. o — w T in l g ie :_ C , Ir st h er e T just as the water was entering his mouth, and must also t her ; and the parts carried to and from the various work tWednesday Mn. have perished in a few minutes.—Dumfries Herald. shops by boys who are beset by tempters to stea l. What- THE conta°in'Cs ever be the cause, there is no doubt of the fact ; and here Courant REMAINS nt of lies the strength of our case. Schools like to that which we refer, are calculated to meet this great moral and social mortal remains of the late Mr. Daniel O'C onne ll arr i ve d lying want of the town.. Shall they not be supplied. in Chester on Monday evening, and are n ow l • in the i? nmnil Catholic T' - 'y o''' 'me kr - of ;-- • • Chapel of this city, whence th e y w ill be -lie on, _Jjection that we know of is one akin to that raised a few months ago by a cold-hearted few against Parliamentary succour to the starving Irish : that it tends to deprive the recipient of the'feelings of self-dependence. Just or not, it may be truly said that this is an objection which wont/ never occur to a man whose Christian feel ing was more than a name. It is not true, however, at least so far as Industrial Schools are concerned, as an ad mirable passage from the Rev. T. Guthrie's " Plea for Ragged Schools" will show. With this we quit the sub ject for the present : " This is no scheme to relieve those whose vices have brought them to ruin, or whose indolence keeps them in poverty. We fully accord with this sentiment of the apostle, 'He that will not work should not eat.' This is both the judgment of Scripture and V reason. In very mercy to this world, God has linked crime and suffering together; and it were a short-sighted benevolence which, interfering with that law of Providence, would dissolve the connection. Let guilty parents suffer : they have eaten sour grapes—let their teeth be set on edge. But has not God said, ' What mean ye that ye use this proverb con cerning the land of Israel, saying, the fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set pu edge ? As .I live, saith the Lord God, ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel. Andthe question which we put to a humane and Christian public is this : . removed on Sunday night, on their melancholy journey for interment in Ireland. Mr. Gardner, of Chester, has received orders to make a new coffin, as that in which the body is now encased, and which was made at Genoa, is of rather common workmanship. The corpse is to be em barked on board a steam-packet at Birkenhead for Dublin." The Dublin Freeman of Tuesday says " The funeral will certainly take place on Thursday, the sth of August." SERIOUS CASE OF POISONING A SHIP'S CREW.—On Saturday se'nnight, a very frightful occurrence took place on board the Achilles, of Newcastle, lying at Gloucester. On the previous day a new cook,, a black, had been re ceived on board, who on Saturday proceeded to maze soup for dinner. Most reprehensibly, ajar of arsenic had been left in the lazaret, and the cook mistaking this for nour, useu ulinvn,La v,.v ovatiß, v+ .....v.. when prepared, the cook himself, the mate, the carpenter, the captain's child, and a nurse girl partook. A custom house officer on board tasted the soup, but not liking it, refused it. The other five were speedily taken alarmingly ill. The nurse and child were soon placed out of danger by the prompt remedies applied, but the three seamen were for some time considered in extreme danger. On Friday night, a thief at Northmoulton, near Exeter, came by her death in a most extraordinary manner. A woman named Wesmacott, wife of a schoolmaster in the village, had gone out with an empty sack in her hand, Are we, without any efficient effort to save them, to allow these guilty parents to draw down into the same gulf with themselves, their innocent and helpless offspring? We do not propose to contaminate our hospitals with such children. Surely it would be one thing to rear the chil dren of the wicked in affluence,—to provide them with a finished education,—to house them in splendid palaces; and another thing, to save them from the pangs of hunger, and from the crimes to which hunger tempts them and drives them,—to bless them with a simple education, by which they may live decently in this world, and 13( taught the way to a better. Let me put get an answer. In the College Wynd friars' parish, Edinburgh, I found a moL three young children by her side, and infant in her arms : she was a drunkard. But there wa, no bed save some straw there ; there was no fire save some slumbering cinders ; there was no bed in her house and on the following morning she was found jambed and quite dead in a corn mill, between the water wheel and the wall. It appeared that the miller had latterly missed corn from his mill, on several occasions, and had watched a few nights previously, but without detecting the depre dators. There is an aperture above the axle of the water wheel, through which the entrance must have been made ; and, theref)re, on the night in question, he left the mill wheel slowly turning, to prevent the access of the thieves. However, through this opening the woman ventured to enter, and in the attempt came to her untimely and igno- se, and the Old Grey_ . T, with sco ne I pale sickly PRESERVING LIFE AT SEA.—A very interesting expe riment took place on Monday week, in the river Tyne, near Newcastle Quay, in the presence of the authorities of the town, and a large concourse of spectators. It was to test the efficacy of an invention to preserve life at sea by means of tubes of vulcanized India rubber, lashed to the inside of a boat under the thwarts. The inventor is this trom ,peaking to her, by the 'Miserable object in her arms in cessantly saying something to its mother. On asking what it said, she burst into tears, and told me it was ask ing for bread, and she had none to give it. They had not A. H. Holdsworth, Esq. , of Dartmouth, who is well known For his many valuable inventions, and contributions to The agent of the patentees had a boat fitted Ind holes bored through the bottom, fitted with the tubes broken their uuy, a... 7 . troop a happy country parish, I was horrified at such a scene, and sent out for a loaf of brea d. They f e ll on it like ravenous beasts. Now , t he question I ask, an d to which I crave an answer, is this :—Should I have left these children to die of hunger, because their mother Was with plugs. On a signal given the rowers withdrew the plugs, and the boat filled to the gunwale. They still rowed on, with the inconvenience only of a cold bath. Several hundred-weights of iron were added, but the boat still maintained her buoyancy. The experiment was perfectly successful. a drunkard ? And if not—if what I did was not to be condemned, but rather commended how ought this scheme to commend itself to the zealous support of Christian men! That food, perhaps, served to spin out for but a little their feeble thread of life : it secured to them no permanent benefit. But we beseech the public to observe, that the charity given in the way we plead for does what common charity does not ;—it secures for every child whose hunger it allays, and whose life it saves, the blessings of a eommon and a Christian edu cation."—Birmingham Journal. etntral iii rt laity. THE BISHOP OF NORWICH AND JENNY LIND.— Mdlle. Lind has been invited by the Bishop of Norwich to stay at his palace during the approaching concorts. The number of married couples above sixty years of age, who are inmates of the various workhouses in England and Wales, is 574. On Wednesday, the Rev. Samuel Jackson was elected president of the Wesleyan Methodist Society for the ensuing year. The Rev. Mr. Beecham was second on the list. At the Stafford Assizes, a postmaster, named Robert Ingle, was convicted of robbery, having embezzled a security of £2 Os. 3d., the property of the Postmaster General. He was sentenced to ten years' transportation. On Saturday last, Hannalißoys ' the wife of a labourer, at Alaston, Surrey, who had been haymaking, was struck dead by lightning whilst seeking shelter from a thunder storm. A movement is being made for the formation of a com pany to promote the cultivation of cotton on the Pacific coast of Australia, from the 30th parallel of latitude to the tropic of Capricoen. • LAUNCH.—Wednesday, Messrs. Robert Steel & Co., of Glasgow, launched a magnificent steamer of 700 tons, named ie Niagara, being the second of the addition to the Halifax line. It is stated that Jenny Lind was offered £4OO to sing at Sheffield, but she declined under £l,OOO, as she has only one night disengaged during her stay in England, which she quits in September. A playful whirlwind, says the Gateshead Observer, betook itself to haymaking the other day, in a field be longing to Mrs. Backhouse, of Norton. It ran off with a quantity of the crop, twohundrcd feet in the air, and then sportively scattered it over its fellow haymakers. FRENCH FRUIT.—The steam-ship Columbine arrived at the St. Katharine's Steam Whart, from Havre, has brought the immense quantity of 2,528" baskets of the various kinds of fruit in season, the production of France. This is the largest importation of the kind. The present restricted weight of letters by post, of six teen ounces, will be removed on the Ist of August, and from that day the Treasury are empowered to fix the maximum weight of letters to be sent by the post, in or der to prevent packets of an unwieldy bulk, or an incon venient size, being transmitted. THE CHESTERFIELD MURDER.—The grand jury, at the Derby Assises, ignored the bill against Robert Statham, charged with having, at the borough of Ches terfield, in the year 1845, aided John Platts to murder George Collis, on the 7th day of December, 1845. Anthony Lant was tried on a similar indictment on Tues day, and was acquitted. REMARKABLE HORTICULTURAL FEAT.—The gardener of Lady Rolle has succeeded in ripening pine-apples in the open air in Devonshire. After the fruit was set in May last, the pots containinc , the plants were placed in a trench sheltered from cold ° winds, and covered with charred hay, and the result has been ripe pines of excel lent flavour. A company, formed out of the late Drury-lane com pany, have been lately performing operas at the Surrey, and have migrated from the far south to the far north, their whereabouts being now Sadler's Wells. The prin cipal soprano and tenor are Miss Rainforth and Allen. They have produced the " Sonnambula " with consider able success. _ _ The new post-office act provides "that it shall be law ful to allow any printed words, writing, or marks (in addi tion to the direction), to be put on any newspapers, or other papers sent by post, or on the covers thereof, and any such newspapers, or other papers, shall from hence forth be forwarded either free of postage or subject to such rates of postage as the Postmaster-General with the Com missioners of the Treasury, shall from time to time direct." To PROTECT GRAIN FROM RATS.—An individual of much practical experience informs us that green elder, deposited in and about the mows of hay and grain, will prove an effectual preventive against the depredation of mice and rats. We have long known that the leaves of common mullen will drive rats from their haunts. There is something in the odour of this plant that is disgusting to the rats—they " cannot abide it. "—Scotch Gazette. At the Beaumaris assizes, Mr. Davis, surgeon, New burgh, and medical officer or the union, and Mr. Williams, a schoolmaster, were convicted on an indictment of libel against Mr. John Lloyd, surgeon of Llangefni, in the shape of a printed handbill, describing the prosecutor as an ignoramus. They were sentenced, Davis to imprison ment for two months, with a fine of £lOO, and Williams to two months' imprisonment. INCREASE OF THE PROPERTP-TAX. —The following rather startling announcement was given as the first article in Thursday's Standard:—" It is designed at the meeting of the new parliament to propose an augmenta tion of the property and income-tax to five per cent. Of this the public may be assured, and the design will explain what has been hinted in some of the hustings speeches of the ministerial candidates." At the Worship-street police-court on Monday, Wil liam Sheene, the man who acquired so much notoriety some years since by cutting off the head of his child, from which charge he was liberated by the judges on a technical informality, was placed at the bar charged with cutting and wounding a woman, named Mary Anne Sulli van, with whom he bad cohabited, with intent to murder her. He was fully committed on the capital charge. A YOUNG LADY SHOT BY HER BROTHER.—On Wed nesday, a young lady, daughter of Mr. Lesourer, of Sloane street, Chelsea, was joking with her brother in the garden, when the latter brought a fowling-piece with him to clean, presented it at her, and touching the trigger, the discharge entered the young lady's neck and face. Medical assist ance being obtained, it was found that the charge was chiefly small shot. Though the injuries are serious, fatal consequences are not anticipated.. SINGULAR PHENOMENON.--A SHOWER OF BLACK GNATS.—On Sunday evening, the good people of Mer thyr were very much astonished by being visited by a shower of these small insects. So dense were they for about an hour, that people coming from chapel could hardly see their way along the streets, and were obliged to cover their faces for protection. They were of a larger, size than the common gnats, and their sting like that of the musquito. CURIOUS INCREASE OF CHURCHES AND SECTS.—Ten years ago the town of Girvan had only two churches, in which public worship was regularly performed, with two chapels, in which there was occasional service. Since then three new churches have been built, and there are CHARGE OF FORGERY AGAINST A CLERK IN SO M E SET HOUSE.—On Wednesday, William Yates, chief clerk in the Income-tax Office, Somerset House, was brought up in the custody of Constable Kerr, F, division, and placed at the bar of the Bow Street Police Office, before Mr. Jardine, charged with forging a receipt for the sum of £137, with intent to defraud the Drapers' Company, and also with stealing that amount, being the property of the Receiver-General. The prisoner was in the receipt of £4OO a-year. and was said to be tha son-in-law of Lord Robertson. He was remanded for a week. At the Exeter assizes, all the men indicted for con spiracy and mutiny on board the Thomas Campbell were acquitted. In the course of the evidence for the prose cution, it was elicited; on cross exaMination, that the captain was a man of a violent and brutal nature, and that lie had just been liberated from New.zate. where he had been confined for a most violent attack on one of the crew of the ship he had formerly commanded. The captain himself admitted, on cross-examination, that he had been thirteen times before different tribunals, at home and abroad, on charges of cruelty to his men. THE SECRET SERVICE MONEY AND TEIE ELECTIONS. —The £30,000 a-year,.secret service, at the disposal of a Minister of the Crown, and especially at the period of a general election, is a sum capable of being " spread" portion's of this £30,000 will be sunk in certain election- Bering contests, which we have heard named, there is not the shadow of a doubt. Whether any share of the ex- penses of the City of London election will be paid from out of this sum. it is, of course, impossible for Ili to say. We have, however, an opinion about this matter—and in which, no doubt, our readers entirely coincide would be rather "hard" upon the Jew, say " people " of Houndsditch and bevis Marks, 'to call upon • • the great Hebrew capitalist to pay all the expenses, while Lord John has got so large a sum of money at the quiet disposal of the governmeit.—John Bull. THE FACTORY ACT.—We have been looking forward with no small degree of anxiety to witness the spirit in which this important measure would be acted upon by those manufa - cturers who anticipated its results with the most gloomy anticipations The factory workers of this district are now in u position to rejoice at the result of its introductiori thus far The noble and benevolent-►ninded Fieldens, of Waterside, have again come forward with an example worthy of imitation, and which, we are glad to report, is not without its pleasing effects on many 'Others, who have honourably followed the example of Messrs. Fielden, and are now working their mills 11 hours per day, and paying the day hands with 12' hours' wages. We rejoice to find that the result of the new bill has cre ated a spirit of inquiry among the factory workers (espe cially the young men), who are considering the best means of appropriating to advantage the extra time that is already and will hereafter be afforded them. And we are informed of several applications that are now being made to rent small plots of land, for the purpose of making cottage gardens. This is a step in the right direction.—Halifax Guardian. RIOT AFTER THE NORWICH ELECTION.—During the after part of the day of polling at the Norwich election, on Thursday, about 200 " navvies," wishing probably to give an'extra cheer to their master, Mr. Peto, one of the successful candidates, came into the city, and regaled themselves rather too plentifully with strong drink, and perambulated the streets, uttering the most vociferous cheers for Mr. Peto, till the closing of the poll. Mr. Peto had beaten the popular candidate, Mr. Parry, and that was enough to stir up the ill-feeling of the Norwich , mob, hundreds of whom had nearly all day filled the Church-mall of St. Andrew's. When these jolly fellows, unarmed and waving their hats, came past, an attack was commenced upon them. The Norwich men were chiefly armed with sticks and bludgeons, and chased the navvies. The half-inebriated men turned round, and, having no other weapons, the stones fell thick as hail amongst the crowd. A fight followed, and the " navvies" were driven through the market-place, along Davy-place, across the Cattle-hill, taking refuge in the Cattle-market Inn. Here the windows were dashed in, and in the fight nearly forty. of the men were severely injured, chiefly about the head. The police force was called out, and drove back the mob, taking the wounded'men to the police station, from whence they were afterwards removed to the railway station to be sent home, followed by the infuriated mob, who were with difficulty prevented making another attack upon them. The rest got off safe. Aug. 8,1847. this morning have never had ocular demonstration that such a craft floated on the great waters. This nondescript of vessels is now anchored at quarantine, Staten Island, where she arrived last night, and cast her wooden anchor. All the seventy-fours and frigates in the British or Ameri can navy, if moored below*, would not attract half that notice. Every person on the land and on the water is astonished at her unique appearance. She is unlike a ship, brig, schooner, sloop, steamer, canal boat, or any other craft. Her stern appears like two or three poop decks, piled one above another, nearly fifty feet above the water, and her rudder, which is latticed, weighs eight tons, and is in shape something like, only much larger, than a canal boats. It takes forty men to steer her in a gale of wind. Her prow is nearly square, and open in front, with a large wooden anchor projecting out like a figure-head. She has galleries or walks outside, extending from the stern to midship s. Her stern is nearly squire, and she is gaudily painted with figures. We learn from her commander that it is 212 days sin ce she left China, She has floated, drifted, and sailed along, stopping at the nape of Good Hope and St. Helena. She was bound to England, her captain being an Englishman and the speculation English, but in consequence of the long passage her course was altered, and she put into this port, where she will be exhibited for several weeks, and then proceed to her port of destination in Britain. Her bottom is very foul, which has prevented somewhat her sailing. She will have to be placed on the Sectional Dock to be cleaned. She has a: crew of about fifteen English and fifty Chinese. It is a, singular sight to see many of the crew at work nearly naked, and others in the Chinese garb. She is an ex cellent sea-boat, lies too and drifts with great ease and safety, is about 700 tons burthen, and has a large supply of provisions and water on board. The commander states that he has experienced very severe weather, particularly off this coast. The passage has been nearly 100 days less than he anticipated. Her accommodations within are handsome and commodious, and she is filled with cu riosities descriptive of the country she came from. We do not know her name, and if we did, probably could not give it to our readers. The ferry-boats from Whitehall to the island pass so near her that persons can have a line view of her. She will come to the city in a few days." QUARTERLY RETURN OF HEALTH AND MORTALITY This official and authentic document confirms the appre hensions that were entertained respecting the high amount of mortality during the epring•quarter. ^ : = •-- • . It is important to state, in the first instance, that the quarterly returns are obtained from 117 districts, subdivided into 582 sub-districts. 36 districts are in the metropolis, and the remaining 81• comprise, with some agricultural districts, the principal towns and cities of England. The population was 6,612,800 in 1841. The deaths registered in the June quarters of the five years were as follows :- 1843, 40,343 ; 1844, 38,977 ; 1845, 40,847 ; 1846, 43:734 ; 1847, 51,585. Thus the mortality, during the last spring quarter, ending June 30, greatly exceeds the average mor- t . ality of the Preceding Corresponding periods. )-tad the mortality been uniform, and the population increased from 1839 at the rate of 1.75. per cent. annually, the deaths dur ing the last quarter would only have amounted to 44;849 instead of 51,585, the actual number, which is an excess of 6,745 above the corrected average. The deaths regis tered during the four quarters of the five years ending June 30, 1847, were :-1843, 163,162 ' 1844, 164;673 ; 1845, 173,810 ; 1846, 163,05 R; 1847, 212,210. The average of 7 years is 165,831. Add 7.19 per cent. for increase of population, and the average applicable to 1847 is 177,700. The excess on the year ending June 30,1847, was thus no. less than 34,000 deaths. The districts under review are, however, stated by the registrar-general to include nearly all the towns of England, and are always unhealthy in• their natural state. The mortality is not more than 18 in. 1,000 in many districts, and entire counties, where the• population is far from being. in a favourable condition ; and after every allowance has made, if the ages of the inhabitants bad been taken into account, the mortality should certainly not exceed 2 per cent. ; at which rate, as the population was about 7,274;900, the deaths in the year ending June, 1846-7, would have been 145,498, or less by 31,200 than the average 177,700: The excess of mortality tried by this standard during the year ending June, 1847, was 66,712, and that in only one-fourth part of the popu lation of the United Kingdom. These facts prepare us for the information that sickness DIABOLICAL ATTEMPT TO BURN A WHOLE FAMILY:— prevailed to a fearful extent throughout the country dur- One of the most cold-blooded attempts to destroy a whole ing the hist spring quarter. Common cholera, says the family that has probably ever been made was tried on registrar-general, was fatal; scurvy prevailed more or less Wednesday morning, shortly after twelve o'clock, and all over the country, from the want of vegetable food, the• there is no doubt if it had not been for the providential potato having failed ; all food became scarce and dear ; discovery that was made every person in the house would typhus broke out, is still epidemic, and shows no sign of have been burned to death. It appeais that a waterman. decline. To add to the calamities of the country, the named Maxwell, with his wife and family, have resided poor of Ireland dying from starvation, and consumed by for some time past in Love-lane, Rotherbithe. The fa- fever, even cast on the coast of England, are now lodged roily retired to bed at their usual hour on Tuesday night, in the crowded, filthiest parts of the most unsalubrious but at the time before stated Maxwell was aroused from cities, or in workhouses and hospitals provided by English his slumbers by a strange noise in the lower part of the parishes. In London, we are told, small-pox has been building. He immediately got up, and on getting about latterly prevalent ; the deaths, which were from to 3to 7. half-way down stairs he smelt fire very strongly. He went weekly in the beginning of the year, amounted at :he close back and informed his wife that he thought the house of June, to 26 in the week. Typhus, which always pre- • was wrapt in flames, at the same telling her to get up and veils more or less, killed 58 persons in the last week of arouse the other inmates, whilst he went below to ascer- June; and was on the increase . Diarrhoea , too , was be tain if what he imagined was correct or not. The mo- coming more fatal as the temperature advanced. Pur ment Maxwell got to the foot of the stairs, he was met by Pura and hiematemesis have both been unusually com a young man, who, armed with a heavy hatchet, struck mon. They are probably of the nature of scurvy. '1 he him on the back of the head with such violence as to knock following remarks on diet are particularly deserving of at him on to the floor, after which lie inflicted another blow tention, emanating as they do from the high medical an on the head of the poor man. The family, hearing the thorities in communication with the registrar-general ! man fall, ran down to learn the cause, and the villain, The metropolitan returns do not present a much more seeing the people moving, rushed through one of the back favourable aspect than those of the large towns. In all' doors, and succeeded in effectin g a safe escape. In the the districts the mortality durin g the last sprin g quarter confusion of the moment the residents forgot that their 1 exceeded the average of previous quarters. The deaths first cause of alarm was the outbreak of fire, and it was during the last five spring quarters were—in 1843, 11,748; not until a dense body et smoke issued from one of the 1844, 11,597 ; 1845, 11,424 ; 1846, 11,423 ; 1847, 12,361. A very large proportion of this mortality was occasioned lower rooms, that they became aware that the place had I been fired. WEen they entered the apartment in c l ues_ by epidemic diseases consequent on the want of ventila tion they found that a bottle of spirits of turpentine had tion, water, and the absence of sanitary measures. On been set on fire in the cupboard, and that the flames were this subject the registrar-general says,—" That insalubrity extending. By the timely assistance afforded, the fire exists is incontestable; the causes of it are known;. and was happily soon put out. Everything has been done for that they admit of removal to a considerable extent is al- Mrr Maxwell, but he lies in a very precarious state. ! lowed by all who have paid attention to-the subject.. But it is a long time before the plainest principles can be car- ELECTRICITY AND THE POTATO DISEASE.—In a letter ried out. Whenbeere theyte works are comm d eneed, it will be addressed by Sir R. Meyrick to the Hereford Times, we can be completed a a d s yet find the following interesting statement :—"A. valuable no piece of information was communicated to me yesterday, thing been y h e a a a rs begun. After strafed that the health of the navy p cou n ld be demon by the Dean of Westminster. He had been a day or two 1 improved , thousands of the best seamen immeasurably hadtoprish,. before informed of the following interesting fact:—On my ; expditions to be defeated, millions of pounds expended, stating my disbelief in the injury having been effected by 1 thirty years to elapse, before anything whatever effectual a fly, he said that I was right, and that the conclusion i was done to place the health of the British navy on a sa come to by the various committees of savans abroad was, tisfactory . footing. ! So it is to be feared that, through the that we knew nothing about the matter, and that it must • natural obstacles in . the way, and the pertinacious opposi therefore have been caused by the peculiar state of the 1 I nof arish vestries of cor orations and com anies and atmosphere. This assertion induced a scientific gentle th tio e enemies of public ' health, P many times the I:Timber ' who man, living at Kensington , to inqure what had occasioned I have perished this year will fall a sacrifice ere the towns any such state in the air. On examining the meteorologi there of England enjoy, by the intervention of science, a mode years cal tables, he found that during the last two years rate share of the health which nature confers on the coun had been a much greater quantity of lightning than pre viously. Then came the question, would that injure the try around them." potato plant ? Lightning being electricity, to ascertain the There are two striking and most important facts, so aptly illustrative of the advantages arising from sanitary point he enclosed some atmospheric air in a receiver, and measures based on science, that we add them to the fore having insulated it, applied the electrifying machine. The going remarks. In 1750, the condition of Newgate and tato plant being then introduced into the receiver was po other prisons was such that a fever, called the " gaol immediately affected in the same way as those diseased - ones of last season. The potato was removed, and corn fever , broke to out, and in the above ear killed the Lord of various kinds, mangold wurtzel, and such like vegetable Mayor , were tryingof the judges, and an aldecman on the bench, prisoners at the Old Bailey Sessions. who substances, subjected to similar treatment. They were The assistance of the Royal Society was requested by the unsullied. A fresh potato plant ci t y was then put in and the authorities, to ventilate the prisons ; and accordingly, effect was the same as before. Thus was established the I Sir John Pringle and other distinguished f e ll ows o f t h e fact that the potato disease was occasioned b y lightning. I society, took such steps as e ff ec t ua ll y b an i shed the fever. This is the first record of s y s t emat i c sanatory measures Now to prevent it. The first thing necessar y was to as certain how the lightning acted. Mr. Adams found that being adopted in our prisons. Now, these are carried to it separated the air into its component parts, oxygen, by such a state of perfection that it was only a few weeks ago drogen, and nitrogen, the first so requisite for animal life, and the last for that of vegetation; but this was not all, that we had the pl easure o f record i ng, under t h e h ea d o f for it did the injury to the potato by converting the nitro- " Provincial Intelligence," that, in Glasgow, when fever gen into nitrous acid. Mr. Adams knew that quit lime was raging around, the prisons, containing about six hun was an antidote to nitrous acid; he therefore took a fresh dred inmates, had not one fever patient. Surely these potato plant, sprinkled it over with quick lime, and intro- facts render all comment unnecessary. The meteorological duced it into atmospheric air electrified as before—the po- tables whiffch accompany the return enable us to dednce tato plant remained u n i n j ure d." the lng results. The mean temperature of the quer- THE MONEY MARKET.—There is very little to notice t o e f r t t e Greenwichwas 53 deg. 2, 0 which i a s e 2 d deg.below that quartercorresponding fer The f 184 0.2 above that in our weekly summary of money and commercial affairs,temperature of the d ew almost universal attention being directed to the prepare- • of the point was 44 deg.,being I Ye s o ' wer than in the spring of 1844, tions for elections now at hand and in progress. The ac- 5, or 6, by 3 deg. 1; 2 deg. 4 ; and 4 deg. 2 respectively, counts relative to the probable yield of the harvest con- The mean height of the barometer was 29.793.; the quan tinue to be of a most satisfactory nature, and this circum- tity of rain 4.59 inches. The horizontal movement of the stance has inspired a considerable degree of confidence in air 849 miles weekly, being about the average amount. all banking and trading circles. The amount of business We observe that some valuable instructions for making, doing, nevertheless remains limited, and will doubtless and registering meteorological observations are appendedi. continue so until after the first week in August at least has to the report. • passed. The amount of mercantile paper coming to ma- " The groundless prejudice against fruit, and the abso-, turity on the 4th instant proves to be larger than was ex- lute necessity in diet of vegetables containing an acid, as pected. Every effort is being made to prepare for such the potato does, were dwelt on before scurvy and its kin payments, and, though difficulty is experienced, and will dred diseases made their appearance. It is true. that still be felt, until the event has been arranged, it is never- fruit, when taken to excess, produces symptoms which theless expected that, on the whole, the matter will be may be mistaken, by persons unacquainted with medicine,, brought to a satisfactory conclusion. The foreign ex- for common cholera. But beef or mutton in excess will. changes were quoted for three months bills as follows :--- do the same ; and the experience of this year has shown . Paris, 25.65 to 70 ; Antwerp, 25.70 to 25.75 ; Amsterdam, more clearly than had ever been shown before, that bread 12.41 to 5 ; Hamburgh, 13.112 to 12 ; Frankfort, 121 ; and meat alone are not sufficient to sustain the system in and Trieste 10 to 10.1. These rates exhibit a small ad- health. Fruit and acid vegetables are an essential part, of vance upon Holland and Germany, and more firmness the food of man ; but it appears that the body when d . ...aly upon other cities. The fluctuations in the funds have - s4plied with the principles it derives from these sources, been but limited since this day week, but the tendency of husbands them up, and can do without the acid diet for the week has been rather downwards. There has been some time. The appetite for fruit and pickles is not them some demand for cash both in the stock exchange and without its use, although the chemists have not hitherto disconnt markets, and the rates rule high, considering explained how vegetable acid subserves nutrition. With that there is little or no export of bullion going on, and out these aliments the blood loses some of its essential that the capitalists and brokers are very full of cash. The properties, and escapes from the vessels in purple spots fluctuations in the English stocks since our last, have been under the skin, or with more fatal effect into the struc in Consols for immediate transfer 884- to 88i and for the ture of internal organs." account 88 to 891. Exchequer Bills have realized Bs. to Our readers are probebly aware, that a great number of lls. premium, and East India Bonds 10 . s. to ss. premium. medical men have fallen victims to their indefatigable Bank Stock has been at iuna- to ion ana. have been marked mast num MOCK attention to the sick in the poor dist r i c ts o f Liverpool at 246 to 2431. The New 31 per cents and Manchester. The returns before us allude feelingly 911 to 901, the Reduced 3 per cents. 892- to 88k, and Con- to t h ese p hil ant h rop i c i ndividuals ; and the registrar sols Scrip 4to 1 premium. The foreign stock market has general very properly expresses a hope, that the heroic been very quiet on the whole, but the quotations keep up conduct of those now alive and of those who have perished as well as can be expected. The state of money matters will not be for go tt en by th e i r coun t r y. But c lergymen both at Madrid and Lisbon is certainly very discouraging, as well as medical men have died. The registrar of Great and, as to Mexico, we have no later news thence. The Howard-street, Liverpool, says:— Peruvian bondholders have decided to push their claims . Eight Roman Catholic priests have fallen victims to upon the government at Lima, and not to be at the ex- their indefatigable attention to the poor of their church, pense of sending an agent there, but to solicit the inter- and one clergyman of the Church of England. Another ference of Lord Palmerston. The range of prices for the (curate of St. Martin's) nearly fell a sacrifice to the same leading Foreign Securities, since our last, has been in disease. Indeed, their exemplary conduct in visiting and Spanish Active Bonds from 211 to 22/, the Three per relieving the sick has been the theme of praise with all. Cents. 32 to 31, Portuguese Four per Cents. 308 to 314, From ten to fifteen persons connected with the relieving Mexican 191 to 19/, Brazilian 84 to 841, Russian 1121 to department in the parish offices have also died of fever, 1114, Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 574 to 571. taken by them in discharge of their duties." THE CHINESE JUNK GONE TO NEW YORK.—The We observe that instructions were given to the regis- Chinese seem well qualified to realise the old nursery tale trars throughout the country to state in their returns of a respectable elderly gentleman, who shot at a pigeon whether any epidemic disease, such as measles, typhus, and killed a jackdaw. There was one of them, during the &c., has been prevailing in their districts. The number late skirmishes, let off his clumsy gun at one of our men, of registrars is 447. 111 have made returns to the effect and contrived to kill a pig which was grunting twenty that typhus, scarlatina, and other epic yards off. The crew of the Chinese junk so long expected been raging to a calamitous extent in London have, in their search for the metropolis of Liverpool and Manchester state tha England, contrived to arrive at New York. The following has prevailed amongst the lov;er class description of her is given in the New York Express : degree. Indeed, we havt "We have read in books a description and have seen pie- ing account of Raul , tures and models of these wonderful vessels, but until , genteel to us, The registrars in ie " Irish fever" :co an unparalleled ,ed a more afflict- rtality ti is here pre, 1837. 1846. 35.85 30.66