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itcraturr. POETRY. MAY YOU DIE AMONG YOUR KINDRED BY MRS. ABDY. (From the Church of England Magazine.) " How much is expressed by the form of oriental ben edicticn, ' May you die among your kindred :' "—GREENWOOD. "May you die among your kindred;" may you rest your part• ing gaze On the loved familiar faces of your young and happy days : May the voices whose kind greeting to year infancy wo.s dear Pour lovingly, while life declines, their music in your ear. "May you die among your kindred ;" may the friends you love the best, List to your fainting accents, and receive your last request, Read your unuttered wishes on your changeful features dwell, And mingled sighs of sorrow with your faltering faint farewell, !` May you die among your kindred;" may your peaceful grave be made , . . In the quiet, cool recesses of the churchyard's hallowed shade There may your loved ones wandr at the silent close of day, Fair buds and fragrant blossoms on the verdant turf to lay. 'Tis a tender benediction; yet methinks it lacks the power To cast a true serenity o'er life's last solemn hour. Ye whom I love, I may not thus love's Christian i ait fulfil; List, while I ask for you a boon more dear, more precious still So may you die that, though afar from all your cherished ties, Though strangers hear your dying words and close your dying eyes, Ye shall not know desertion, since your Saviour shall be near, To fill your fainting spirit with the " love that casts out fear," So may you die, so willingly submit your soul to God, That evermore your kindred, as they tread the path you trod, May picture your existence on a far-off heavenly shore, And speak of you as one not " lost," but only " gone before.' So may you die that, when your death to pious friends is known Each shall devoutly, meekly wish such lot may he their own : Not heeding if you died in want, in exile, or in pain, But feeling that you died in faith, and thus " to die is gain." St. John's Rectory, Southwark. COMFORT. (BY ELIZABETH B. BARRETT.) " Speak low to me, my Saviour—low and sweet From out the halle ujahs, sweet and low, Lest I should fear and fall, and miss thee so Who art not miss'd by any that entreat. Speak to me as to Mary at thy feet— And if no precious gums my hands bestow, Let my tears drop like amber, while I go In reach of thy divinest voice complete In humanest affection—thus, in sooth To lose the sense of losing 1 As a child, Whose song bird seeks the wood for evermore, Is sung to in its stead by mother's mouth' Till, sinking on her breast, love-reconciled He sleeps the faster that he wept before.'' NOTICES. Blackwood's Magazine. The number for the present month is replete with arti cles of deep interest to the reader of the sound and argu mentative, as well as to those who delight in the literary and amusing. On the mortifying issue of the Irish State trials there is a clever and learned paper, showing that both in reason and in common law the traversers ought not to have escaped the punishment due to their offences ; but the writer imputes no unworthy motives to those few members of the House of Lords who so hastily pro nounced the opinions of the judges who were called to ad vise them to be " cicarly erroneous." "My College Friend" is a light and pleasing exposition of College life —yet to be concluded. " The Tombless Man," a poetical drama, by Delta, has all the vigour and depth of mind so often exhibited by that writer. It is an •extraordinary picture which he draws, of a succession of visions of sepulchral desolation and horror, with occasional touches of the sublime, but ending in an escapement of the sole narrator, To sights and sounds familiar—to the birds Singing alone—and the bright vale beneath, With cottages and trees—and the blue sky— And the glad waters murmuring to the sun." An exposition of socialism, under the head " French So cialists," is, we think, a masterly view of all those utopian and debasing systems of communities in common. The " Memoirs of a Statesman" are continued, with unabated powers of description and knowledge of character—in cluding the dreadful siege of Valenciennes, during the French revolutionary wars. There is a long review of recently published " Poems, by Elizabeth Barrett," with numerous extracts. Some of the pieces are certainly very beautiful; but we think the reviewer has shown a degree of partiality to others which their merits scarcely warrant. We admit the lady to have great poetical powers. but scarcely fewer faults, especially in diction, which last she may be the less inclined to amend, when they are treated with reproval so delicate. The review of " Lamartine's Travels" will be read with much gratifica tion. The extracts are extremely beautiful and graphic, and a tone of generous feeling and moral reflections per vade the whole. We furnished some extracts from this number of Blackwood in our last publication, and others will be found in the literary page of our present sheet. Dublin University Magazine. Curry, Dublin. The present number of this magazine fully sustains its usual high standard of merit. Amongst the articles of a purely literary character, " Glimpses in the Mountains -IsTo. 2," is a beautiful piece of poetical extravagance, and well worthy of perusal. The most important article in the number, however, is the article headed " The National System of Education and the Established Church," in which we have placed before us the present critical posi tion of the education question in Ireland. We have given elsewhere some extracts from this article which will show the spirit in which it is written ; and we recommend its attentive perusal to all who are interested in the important question of which it treats. The Illuminated Magazine. London : No. 2, Crane- court, Fleet-street. The present number commences the fourth volume, and is under a new editorship, Mr. Douglas Jerrold having retired from his position as editor. We certainly cannot discern, so far, any falling off either in literary matter or illustrations. On the contr3ry, some new contributors have been added, and several valuable articles from their pen grace this month's publication. The poetical contents are especially excellent. Fraseee Magazine. _London: G. W. Nickisson, 215, Regent-street. Fraser this month contains a number of more than usually lively articles, amongst which we may particularise "A fine day at Stratford-upon-Avon," "The Smiths," and the conclusion of " The State Murder." The paper entitled " Hints on the Modern Governess System" con tains some excellent and just strictures upon the unwor thy treatment to which that useful and deserving class of females are subjected, and should be read in every family of which the governess is a member. The Medical Times. No. 263-266. Carpae, Essex street, London. 4to. A weekly medical journal. This periodical of medical science was wanted in the profession of the healing art, or it could not have risen so rapidly into favour as it appears to have done, even though its talent in editorial and original matter be great, which, as far as we can presume to judge of such matters, is most undoubtedly the case. Of course we are not competent to discuss the full merits of a periodical on departmental science—this must long ago have been judged by those who are capable of estimating its deserts ; and also its demerits, if there be any—prominent ones they can hardly be, though, when tested by " subtler fires" than ours, some caput mortuum of rubbish may be detected in its containing vessel—very possibly. The articles seem to be full of interesting and new matter ; its reports of distin guished medical bodies—its valuable groups of cases—its record of series of lectures by some of the most eminent physicians and surgeons—its bibliographical and gossip corners—its reviews—its leading articles, temperate yet energetic—all must render it a publication worthy of large support, we should infer, by the republic of medicine. We venture no more ; but close with an extract from its leader of October 12, which has reference to present times, and present things, and the present place, which must be gratifying to the medical practitioners of our town, as alluding to an aggregate meeting they held to memorialize Sir J. Graham on his new bill of medical reform :—" The most important meetings we have had, appear to have been those of Gloucester, Worcester, Leeds, Norwich, Birmingham, and Liverpool, some of the largest towns in the empire. In Birmingham and Liverpool, the very proper precaution was adopted of discussing in committee the clauses of . ..the bill seriatim, before pronouncing on them an opinion in public meeting. Our readers are acquainted with the result : the report of the Liverpool meeting, this day published, shows how entirely the opinions we so early expressed on this mea sure, are the opinions of some of the most enlightened practitioners in the empire. We own to a strong hope that a short time will reveal the profession acting in a si milarly cautious manner, speaking in a similarly judicious way, and equally unanimous in giving the bill a general support, while enforcing on it the great improvements that are on all bands admitted as essential." We are glad to find that our respected townsmen have won for themselves such a highly creditable position—to have dis cussed temperately, and therefore wisely, legislational measures touching directly their own professional inter ests, argues a state of most respectable mental, and, above all, moral attainments; and in so doing, we repeat, and that advisedly, when their own rights are to them con cerned, in the first place, and the public health, in the next, renders them an example to our senators themselves, whose principles often swerve before the brazen face of expediency, or become too frequently obedient to that ventriloquist, self-interest, whose projected voice in the distance often spoils all. Punch.—Part 40. Continues to pour forth his inexhaustible wit and drol lery, and, in his own felicitous style, to convey many a useful moral lesson. The loss of this periodical would be an event to call for a national mourning. Chambers' Edinburgh Journal.—part 10. The new series of this popular publication is very much superior in the value and variety of its literary contents to those which have preceded it. We observe in it contribu tions from several popul ar writers, amongst whom we may mention Miss Camilla Toulmin, who has presented us with a very beautiful tale of " The Neglected Child." The Abbotsford Edition of Waveri e y.— No. 67. The number just issued concludes "The F ortunes of Nigel," and commences " Pevertl of the P eak. " The illustrations, type, and getting up of the work, continue quite equal to those of former numbers, and, indeed, are even superior in merit. SELECTIONS. PROTESTANTISM V. POPERY.—It is the unceasing aim of the Romish sect to represent the church of England as a schismatical body, and thus to brand It with contempt, as having no existence previous to the reformation. The fact is notorious, however, that long before the arrival of a legate from Rome, or Augustine ever set his foot on English ground, Christianity had been preached and pro fessed in Britain. Whether the gospel was preached here by St. Paul himself, or not, it is indisputable that it was previous to the close of the second century. In 311 the bishops of London, York, and Lincoln, were present at the council of Arles. The councils of Sardica, A.D. 347, and of Ariminum, A.D. 359, were likewise attended by British prelates.— Church of Eswlantl Magazine. STAFFORDSHIRE EARTHENWARE. — If we compare the common earthenware of England with that of the French and Germans, or of any other nation, it appears not only excellent in quality, but also highly ornamental and unsurpassably beautiful. The common French and German earthenware is comparatively ugly, coarse, and misshapen. On the other hand, English porcelain, par ticularly those articles in which beauty and elegance are the main paints aimed at, are far behind those of the con tinent. I believe ther e i s some thing characteristic or the English in this. I n ar ti c l es o f or dinary use, the English seem better than we to know how to combine excellence of quality with outward elegance and beauty, whereas in those articles in which grace and beauty alone are to be kept in view, the English are never equally successful. Their tools, th e i r f urn it ure , their machines, their knives and scissors, their bread, their joints of meat, are not only excellent, vigorous, and nutritious, but also beautifully formed, and not to be at all surpassed ; whereas, their pictures, their sculptures, their pasties, and their cakes, and, in short, everything in which fancy takes precedence of usefulness, are far behind ours in excellence. Look, not merely at the earthenware of the French, but at their tools and their implements of gardening and agriculture. They are all strikingly rude and little suited to the purposes they are intended for. Even the common bread in France is inferior to that used in England. On the other hand, how much loftier flights of fancy are displayed by the French in works of art.—Khol's England. CHARACTER OF LORD ELLENDOROUGH.—Lord Ellen borough possessed many qualities which, had they not been neutralized or vitiated, would have earned for him much admiration as a statesman and much affection as a man. He had abilities of no common order, great quick ness of perception, extraordinary ardour of tempera ment, unquestionable courage, amd indefatigible industry. ' The moral sense was not very strong—as the appropria tion of Sindh amply testifies; but he was capable of acts of justice and moderation, and sometimes exhibited in his conduct the gederosity of a great mind. His impulses were often kindly, often noble ; and his errors were sel dom the growth of mean and corrupt motives. There was nothing inherently low in his nature; but he was subject to very strong prejudices, which lie had not always the magnanimity to resist, and which therefore sometimes caused him to commit mean and unrorthy actions. As in his policy, so in his personal bearing, he was impulsive and uncertain. With strong predilections and strong antipathies, which sometimes alternated towards the same individual, he was by turns courteous and uncourteous, attractive and repulsive, now produc ing impressions of deep gratitude, now of ineradicable dis like. Though he often showed great kindliness and con descension towards individuals, he at other times betrayed an utter disregard for theirf eelings ; and hesitated neither, as the whim led him, to caress nor to strike those beneath him. In this manner he made many enemies and many friends, and the different judgments which have been pas sed upon him by different parties can never afford matter for surprise. There is generally in the public treatment of an individual a just compensation in the end; his virtues are exaggerated by one party, his vices by another, and the undue enthusiasm of his friends is balanced by the undue bitterness of his enemies. Thus has it been with Lord Ellenborough.—Calcutta Review. PRESENT FEELING OF A PORTION OF THE IRISH CLERGY ON TILE EDUCATION QUESTION.—The time, they say, has come, when the friends of Scriptural educa tion in Ireland, and especially the clergy, should look se riously at the aspect which the education question has at present assumed, with a view to such arrangements as may, if possible, prevent the scheme which has been adopted by the government from operating most extensive evil. That they have appeared, hitherto, in an attitude of hosti lity to it, was only, it is admitted, their bounden duty. As long as there was a possibility, by pretext and reclama tion, of effecting any modifications in that system, by which its anti-Scriptural character might be changed, so long they were called upon to use their best exertions, that such modification of it should be procured. Those espe cially, who occupied the responsible position of an esta blished clergy, were imperatively required to use " all faithful diligence" in admonishing the rulers of the coun try, respecting the evils which might reasonably be appre hended from an educational system based upon latitudi narian views. But having failed to move " the powers that be" into the abandonment of their pernicious scheme, true wisdom would seem to indicate, that the next best thing would be, to extract as much good as possible out of inevitable evil. For the dangers with which the Irish education scheme is pregnant they are not responsible. They have duly forewarned our rulers of what may be looked for as its natural fruits. This they have done, not withstanding the sternest discountenance awaited them as individuals, fur their single-mindedness and fidelty to their great master. Against their solemn admonitions the wis dom of this world has prevailed. As spiritual advisers, they have been set aside—religious truth has been deli berately sacrificed to political expediency—and any further contest with the government or the legislature, in such a matter, would only be a bootless waste of strength, and loss of time, from which, until a change has been operated upon the national mind, no good result is likely to follow. The clergy, therefore, are not bound to continue such a contest; on the contrary, it seems their bounden duty to avail themselves of such facilities as the national system may afford for carrying out better views, than could be, without their agency realized—and for securing to the children of their own communion a sound Scriptural edu cation.—Dublin University Magazine. EMIGRATION OF THE FOURGOUTII TARTARS INTO CHINA.—The nation of the Fourgouths, one of the branches of that Tchong-kar, separated itself from the throne at the time when the most cruel wars desolated all the country of the Eteuths ; they removed themselves from their native places, and by degrees advanced to those lands which are strider the domination of the Russians, and obtained from them permission to fix their dwellings in the districts watered by the Etchil. There have they dwelt more than 70 years, in a profound ignorance of ail that was passing in the neighbourhood of the empire. The ill treatment which the princes of the Fourgouths formerly received from Tchoung-kar obliged them to for sake their country to seek a living in a distant land under a foreign government. The ill treatment which they af terwards received from the Russians, have equally com pelled them to abandon their recent abodes, to relieve themselves from a yoke which they found more burden some from day to day ; they determined to return to their ancient territories to live in peace under the dominion of our great emperor. The favours of his majesty extend even to the most distant regions ; he treats foreign na tions with the same goodness that he evinces towards the Chinese themselves who are his own subjects. The Four gouths come of their own accord to be able to live under our laws ; he did not reject them ; he received them even with pleasure and all the marks of the tenderest affection. When they arrived on our frontiers (to the number of many hundred thousand, although the extreme fatigue, hunger, thirst, and all the other miseries inseparable from a long and painful journey - had caused the death of as many more) they were reduced to the last stage of suffer ing; they were in want of all things ; the emperor fur nished them with all things. He had prepared for them dwellings suitable to their mode of life ; he distributed among them victuals to feed and clothes to cover them ; he gave them oxen, sheep, and utensils to place them selves in a condition to rear flocks, and to till the ground and this entirely at his own expense, which amounted to an enormous sum, without counting the money which he liberally gave to every chief of a family, to put him in the way of working afterwards for his own livelihood, and to provide substinence for his wife and children.- Chinese Olio. BUItLEIGH HOUSE.—Burleigh House, near Stamford, Lincolnshire, the seat of the Marquis of Exeter, to which the Queen pays her next visit, is a magnificent Gothic pile, remarkable for grandeur and for various interesting associations. The founder of the family was the famous Cecil, the cautious and wise minister of Elizabeth. Here ' are collected some of the richest paintings of the ancient masters, including the famous Salvator i\lundi by Carlo ' Dolce, which Sir Walter Scott said was " worth a king's ransom," and for which six thousand guineas were of fered. It is a small enamel-like picture, of transparent purity and brilliancy of colouring. The groves and park of Burleigh are worthy the splendid mansion, and were admired by Dryden, who translated the seventh book of the .zEneid in this patrician and hospitable residence. Ilazlitt has related a story of Burleigh House more touch ing and romantic than any fiction. The late Earl of Exe ter had been divorced from his first wife, a woman of fashion, and of somewhat more gaiety of manner than lords who love their ladies like.' He determined to seek out a second wife in a humbler sphere of life, and that it should be one who, having no knowledge of his rank, shculd love him for himself alone. For this purpose he went and settled incognito (under the name of Jones) at Hodnet, an obscure village in Shropshire. He made over tures to one or two damsels in the neighbourh oo d, b ut they were too knowing to be taken in by him. His man ners were not boorish, his mode of life was retired, it was odd how he got his livelihood, and at last he began to be taken for a highwayman. In this dilemma, he turned to Miss Moggins, the eldest daughter of a small f armer, at whose house he lodged. Miss Hoggins, it would seem, had not been used to romp with the clowns ; ther e was something in the manners of their quiet but eccen'ric guest that she liked. As be found that he had inspired her with that kind of regard which he wished for, he made honourable proposals to her, and, at the end of some months, they were married, without him letting her know who he was. They set off in a post-chaise from her fa ther's house, and traveled homewards across the country. In this manner they arrived at Stamford, and passed through the town without stopping, till they came to the entrance to Burleigh Park, which is on the outside of it. The gates flew open, the chaise entered, and drove up the long avenue of trees that leads up to the front of this fine old mansion. As they drew nearer to it, and she see med a little surprised where they were going, he said, Well, my dear, this is Burleigh House; it is the home I have promised to bring you to, and you are the Countess of Exeter !' It is said the shock of this discovery was too much for this young creature, and that she never reco vered it. It was a sensation worth dying for. The world we live in was worth making, had it only been for this. Ye thousand and one tales of the Arabian Nights' Entertain ments ! hide your diminished heads ! I never wish to have been a lord but when I think of this story." THE LORD CHANCELLOR, SHEIL, AND HUME.— Everybody must remember the " swePering venom" with which Mr. Sheil, Mr. " Success-to.fox-glove " some time ago revived against our excellent Lord Chan cellor the oft-refuted falsehood with respect to the im puted alien speech. Will it be believed that what Mr. Sheil, with a " rhetorical artifice," attributed to the Chancellor as applied t o th e Roman Catholics of Ireland, , was actually applied by a co-joint of the " tail "—no less a person than the veritable Joseph Hume—to the Protes tants of that country ? On referring to the debate on the King's speech in 1833, es reported in a generally-recog nised journal of the proceedings, we find Joseph thus unbosoming himself:—" Why, I would ask, is it that Catholics are carefully excluded from the list of twenty six stipendiary magistrates recently appointed by Lord Anglesey, in Ireland ? Why are they carefully excluded from such situations, and twenty-six FOREIGNERS ap pointed to them ?" (Several members—" Hear, hear r') " Yes, I contend that they are foreigners—they are per sons foreign in their hal:its and religion to the bulk of the people. I say, then, that foreigners were appointed to these offices." Mr. Sheil heard this. The man who thus dared to malign the loyal Protestant population of Ireland was a Scotchman—yet, foreigner as he was, an Irish member—the Kilkenny joint of " the tail ;" an ex conservative, and then radical ! Verily, the " rhetorical artificers" who calumniate Lord Lyndhurst had better look at home. At this time, however, the poor " tail" had scarcely a home to look to.—Herald. WHAT IS THE CHURCH DOING ?—Tractarianism has seen its zenith. It was true that a few had gone over to Rome. Let Rome have her own. We could afford her I a few traitors from the camp. He only prayed that, like the sincere-minded Sibthorp, they might discover their 1 error. He was happy to say that he knew several clergy men who had held Tractarian opinions, who had wholly renounced them, and now preached sound Evangelical doctrine. The Chtirch of England, though troubled, was not perplexed ; although persecuted, she was not forsaken. If Rome had built fifty mass houses within the last ten years, the Church of England had built 600 new churches. If Rome had built twenty or thirty schools and colleges, the Church of England had built and opened between 300 and 400 daily schools. Rome had applied for aid to build one or two schools ; the Methodists two schools ; the Bri tish and Foreign School Society some thirty or forty; but the Church of England had applied and received grants for 500 new schools. This did not look as if the Church of England was heartless in the cause of education. He wished, however, for no amalgamated system of educa tion. The Church of England was strong enough to stand by herself, and as it was a glorious English Queen who nursed and cherished the Reformation, in a compa ratively weak state, so he hoped it would be a British Queen under whose fostering care and protecting hand the Church would be rescued in the time of her peril. Of this her Majesty had given some pledge when she went to worship in a church which had been branded as Samaria. —Speech of the Rev. Hugh Stowell. INVENTION OF GUNPOWDER.—DateDS has selected many passages from Greek and Latin authors, favourable to the opinion that gunpowder was known to the ancients. He mentions the attempt of Salmoneus to imitate thun der, of the Brahmins to do the same thing ; but his most remarkable quotation is from the life of Apollonius Tya mats, written by Philostratus ; showing that Alexander was prevented extending his conquests in India, because of the use of gunpowder, by a people called Oxydracw. The passage to which we have alluded is so curious, that we make no apology for giving it. " These truly wise men (the Oxydracw) dwell between the rivers Hypharis and Ganges ; their country Alexander never entered, de terred not by fear of the inhabitants, but as I suppose by religious motives, for had he passed the Hypharis, he might doubtless have made himself master of all the country round them ; but their cities he never could have taken, though he had led a thousand as brave as Achilles, or three thousand such as Ajax, to the assault; for they come not out to the field to fight those who attack them, but these holy men, beloved by the gods, overthrew their enemies with tempests and thunderbolts shot from their walls. It is said that the Egyptian Hercules and Bacchus, when they overran India, invaded this people also, and, having prepared warlike engines, attempted to conquer them ; they in the mean time made no show of resistance, appearing perfectly quiet and secure, but upon the enemy's near approach they were repulsed with storms of light ning and thunderbolts hurled upon them from above."— Polytechnic Review. EFFECTS OF SCRIPTURAL EDUCATION IN IRELAND. When the scheme of Scriptural education was decided on, about six or seven and twenty years ago, confident predic- tions were hazarded of its certain and speedy failure. The Roman Catholics, it was said, would not read the Bible— would not accept secular instruction, on condition of re ceiving Scriptural also. Notwithstanding the discourage ment of such insinuations, the system was tried—and was found to prove successful, to the utmost extent to which the parsimony of public grants, made for its support, ad mitted of its being carried out. It is unnecessary, and would be tedious, to repeat the arguments by which this truth has been unanswerably proved—but there is one form of the argument which has not yet received the notice it merits, and to which we beg the reader's attention. The experiment of Scriptural education was a trial whether, and how far, the Irish people could be influenced to re ceive the Bible. It was proposed first in the form of a test, whether their hostility to Scripture was such, as that they would not accept of secular education, if accompanied by Scriptural; it gave, at the same time, to th e p eop l e a t large, an opportunity f showing what they thought, (whe ther favourably, or otherwise,) of the propriety of making children acquainted with God's word. The result was very remarkable, Before the end of thirteen years, exclusive of the Sunday schools, amounting to considerably more than a thousand—perhaps, to nineteen hundred, in which two hundred thousand children were instructed, there were found one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven schools, sander societies, in which Scripture was read—and of daily schools, not under societies, four thousand one hundred and seventy-nine were avowedly Scriptural. We say avowedly, because a large proportion of schools had declined sending an answer to the query which demanded if Scripture were read in them. It is not, perhaps, too much to say, that nearly two thousand of these school's should be added to the amount of the Scriptural. But, further, Scripture was read in 2,667 schools, under Roman Catholic masters—and was read in many schools under the roofs of Roman Catholic chapels, and under the govern ment of their priests. Such was the result, when the state demanded of Ireland that the education of the people should be Scriptural. In the year 1812, there were in Ire land six hundred schools, no doubt all Protestant, in which Scripture was read—the attention of the people at large was aroused to the question which the state propounded ; and in about thirteen years after the experiment was in. stituted, the judgment of the people was expressed in the existence of more than eleven thousand schools in which the Bible was read. Within that period, surely, secular schools had not increased in number—nay, notwithstand ing the great increase in the population, they appear to have diminished ; while Scriptural schools, to which so fierce and effective an opposition was anticipated, had been welcomed by all classes and communions, and had increased more than thirteen-fold. Such was the issue which a Whig government regarded as a failure—let it be com pared with that which a Tory government exalt and en dow, as a great success.—Dublin University Magazine. FORMATION OF RAIN.—The opinion of Professor Ste velly and Mr. Bowall is, that each particle of vapour rising through the air carries with it its portion of electric fluid according to its expanded surface; that if it remains within the electrical attraction of the earth, the vapour is condensed, and forms dew ; but, if it rises beyond the electrical attraction of the earth, and is there condensed, the electricity, being insulated, forms an atmosphere round each particle of vapour, and on the removal (by any cause) of the electricity, including the vaporous par ticles, the repulsion is removed, and they then attract each other, and form rain. Having observed that there was more rain and less thunder at Belfast than in Lon don, I was led to examine into the cause of the peculi arity, and especially on account of the electric fluid being less abundant in the atmosphere at the latter than at the former place, and found the above hypothesis to agree most perfectly with the peculiarities of the neighbourhood of Belfast, which is surrounded by hills. The highest of these is to the north of the town, and one of them, named Devis, twelve miles from it, is nearly 400 feet above the level of the sea. Whenever any mist or cloud descends upon the top of this mountain, it is a sure sign of rain ; and I have never observed it rain without some previous indication of the kind, which frequently takes place fur hours before the rain conies on. The cause of this ap paers to be, that Devis, which is conical, acts as a con ductor to draw the electric fluid from the cloud. that a portion of the clouds descends with it, and, as the fluid is drawn off, the watery particles in the atmosphere unite and descend as rain. On the 6th of May last, I had the good fortune to observe a remarkable instance of the drawing off the electric fluid from the clouds by this mountain. The weather, in the early part of the day, was clear and warm. Between 1 and 2 p.m. clouds ga thered ; they became gradually more dense, and were strongly charged with e l ec t r i c fl u id. Whenl first ob served them, they were movi ng f rom D ev i s to t h e west ; but the wind, along the surface of the ground, was mov ing in the opposite direction, namely, towards that moun tain. This was before the clouds presented any signs of a strong electric charge; after they assumed this appear ance, a slight shower fell, and the clouds and wind at the surface reversed their direction, the clouds moving from Devis, and the wind at the surface towards it. When this shower ceased, the clouds became stationary, and the wind at the surface of the ground ceased, the smoke from the factory chimneys, which had moved in the direction of the surface wind, rising perpendicularly. At this juncture a peal of thunder ensued, and a heavy shower fell; the clouds then remained stationary, and the wind began to blow at right angles to its former direction. It then gradually veered round until it blew direct towards Devis, and the clouds began to move to the same point. In four minutes the shower became very heavy, but in a short time the weather cleared up. I was so situated that I could not see Devis during the time of this phenome non, but at 6 p.m. it was repeated, when I was able to attend particularly to it, and watch that mountain. At a quarter-past six the clouds had gathered again, and were much charged with the electric fluid. After the occur. rence of similar movements to those mentioned above, the clouds became stationary, the wind moving from Be.l vis, the clouds overhanging the mountains became denser and denser, but they appeared to be kept by some influ ence from touching it, assuming the form of a mould in which the mountains had been cast. After they had re mained stationary some time, the wind still blowing from Devis, some fragments of them began gradually to de scend to the top of that mountain, a peal of thunder scarcely perceptible ensued, and a body of c'oud, sufficient to cover the summit, descended with rapidity and rested upon it, whilst the other clouds began to ascend. Within two minutes after the thunder and descent of the cloud upon Devis, a very heavy rain came on, accompanied by violent gusts of wind. At 8 p.m. the rain had ceased, and the clouds reposed in streaks of white and black, on lines from north-east to south-west.—Polytechnicßeviete. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. A MINIMUM or WAGES.—We often observe, in this country, an inclination manifested to regulate by law the rate of wages, not with the view of instituting any such naturally equitable partition, but of establishing a mini mum below which life cannot be comfortably supported. These reasoners proceed, it will at once be admitted, not on the rights of man, but on the claims of humanity. To such a project there is but one objection ; it will assuredly fail of its humane intention. It is presumed that the com petition amongst the workmen to obtain employment has so far advanced, that these cease to obtain a sufficient re muneration for their labour. The thousand men whom a great capitalist employs, are i na d equa t e ly p a id. Th e le gislature requires that they should be paid more liberally. put the amount which the capitalist has to expend in wages is limited. The same amount which sustained a thou sand men, can, under the new scale of remuneration, sus tain only nine hundred. The nine hundred are better fed, but there is one hundred without any food whatever. Our well-intentioned humanity looks round aghast at the con fusion she is making. Suppose, it may be said, that a law of this description should be passed at so fortunate a con juncture, that it should not interfere with the existing re lations between the capitalist and the workman, but have for its object to arrest the tendency which wages have to fall; suppose that the legislature, satisfied with the exist ing state of things, should pronounce it a punishable of fence to offer or accept a lower rate of remuneration, would not such a law be wise? The answer is obvious. If there is a tendency at any time in wages to fall, it is because there is a tendency in population to increase, or in capital to diminish ; circumstances, both of them, which it is not in the power of criminal jurisprudence to grapple with.— Bkckwood's Magazine. EASTERN Wllres.—The daughter of a king of P ers i a having conceived an avers i on t owar d s h er f at h er ' s v i z i r, said one day to her mother, " If I could destroy that vizir, Iw . ould do it with pl easure , f or h e i s a man w h ose inaus picious presence di s t ur b s me ." "B e compose d , my d ear child," said her mother, -' I will manage the matter." Having said this, she wrote a letter, in the king's name, to the wife of the vizir, to the following effect . " Kill your husband, for I have an affection for you, and wish that you should be mine ; but as you have an attachment to your husband, who is my vizir, it would be rather a disgraceful thing if I were to tear you from his arms, and make you my wife whilst he is alive." When the vizir's spouse read this letter, ambitious thoughts took posses sion of her heart, and she became intent upon finding some stratagem to rid herself of the obstacle. One night her husband being in a state of inebriation, she seized the happy occasion, killed him without compunction, and sent his head to the king by the hands of a young damsel. " Whose head is this !" inquired the king with great anx iety. "It is the head of your vizir," replied the damsel ; "his wife has sent it; you know why." The king insti tuted inquiries into the matter, and discovering the truth, took off the heads of the vizar's wife, his own wife, his daughter, and the young damsel. He then summoned the principal officers of his army, and said to them : " I want you all to give me your wives ;" but they unanimously refused. "We will surrender to you our property, nay, sacrifice our lives for you," said they, but we cannot part with our dear wives." After this, the king went secretly to the wives of those officers, and said to each of them apart, " I wish to make you my wife, if you can contrive to get rid of your husband." That very night, each of the ladies, by some stratagem, succeeded in cutting off the head of her husband, and in the morning, the king saw his generals' heads in his possession, sent by their wives. He was horror-struck at the spectacle. " What !" ek claimed he, " I asked these men to give me their wives, and with one accord they refused ; yet when I propose to their wives to commit a barbarous act of infidelity, they all consent, and kill their husbands !" His majesty, after this ejaculation, ordered all the expectant widows to be put to death without mercy.—New Asiatic Journal. LORD ELDON'S SUCCESSORS.—The Chancery Com mission recommended in 1826 a great variety of alterati ons in the practice of the court ; but early in 1827, before there had been time to make the necessary measures for effecting them, Lord Eldon quitted the Court of Chan cery. Lord Chancellor Lyndhurst, in 1828, put forth a series of orders, which accomplished some of the objects recommended by the commission, and the great combina tion of faculties which he brought into the administration of the great seal, induced an expectation that, if any hu man strength could accomplish it, Lord Lyndhurst would be able to overcome the arrears, of his court. But those arrears continuing to accumulate, he was constrained, in 1829, to propose a measure for the constitution of an ad ditional judge. It was renewed in 1830, but strenuously combated by the Whigs, who still maintained the notion that the work was not too much for those already ap pointed to perform it : and the demise of the Crown having brought the sessions prematurely to a close, the measure did not ripen into law during that Chancellorship. Lord Brougham next grasped the seals. He had been the most formidable of Lord Eldon's assailants. But, observed Lord Langdale in the House of Lords, on the 13th of June, 1836, when he himself (Lord Brougham) became possessed of the great seal, at first he was so far from supposing that the appointment of a new judge was necessary, that he seems to have thought the Court stronger than enough, and he actually expressed his opi nion that by the changes he was to bring about he should be able to dispense with the office of Vice-Chancellor. This was in February, 1831. In July, 1833, further ex perience had so far altered his lordship's views, that he laid on the table of the house a bill, entitled, 'An Act for appointing a Chief Judge in Chancery, and for esta blishing a Court of. Appeal in Chancery.' Yet the busi ness had not become greater since the time of Lord El don; on the contrary, the number of bills filed on the three preceding years, 1830, 1831, 1832, had been only 6,510; whereas duriug three years 1819, 1820, 1821, which for the reasons before-mentioned have been selected as the tests of Lord Eldon's judicature, the number of bills filed was 6,654 ; and in the years 1821, 1822, 1823, the last of which was the'period when the war upon Lord Eldon was at its hottest, the number was 6,988. It was, therefore, under a pressure rather diminished than in creased since Lord Eldon's time, that Lord Brougham, the great impugner of Lord Eldon, found himself com pelled in 1833 to 1834 to call upon the Legislature for ad• ditional aid. Now, however, the criticisms of lawyers may differ upon the judicial merits of Lord Brougham, merits which probably will be more highly estimated here after than political causes have suffered them to be in his own generation—urit enim fulgore suo—none will deny him to be unsurpassed in vigour and in speed. And yet, with all that speed, and with all that vigour, he was una ble to accomplish that feat, which, in the time of Lord Eldon, he had conceived to be so easy, and which he had rated Lord Eldon so roundly for failing to achieve. The sanction of Parliament having been withheld from Lord Brougham's measure, Lord Cottenham, the succeeding Chancellor, though justly held in high estimation as an equity judge, found it as little practicable as any of his predecessors, to keep down the business of his court without additional assistance. And thus, year after year, the evil continued and grew, until at length a bill for the creation of two additional judges was introduced by that party in politics who, during Lord Eldon's time and un der an equal or greater pressure of business in the court, had ever protested against any such increase as being useless and profligate.—Lord Eldon's Life. POPISH PERSECUTIONS.—The claim of infallibility, the grand principle of Romanism, has led the church profess ing its tenets to the belief that heretics (all, that is, who differ from her unscriitural doctrines) ought to be cut off from the church, delivered over, as they term it, to the secular arm, and put to death. Ido not speak of indivi dual Romanists—some assert that they do not hold with this persecuting spirit—but I affirm, that to this very day the cutting out of heretics is authorised by the decrees of the council of Trent, which contain the standard doc trines of popery. If the church of Rome had the power, and if the present age of religious toleration did not, pre vent open persecutions, we might yet hear of such deeds of cruelty as stain the history of the middle ages. We have the clearest proof that Romanism is the same as ever, in that it is seen to show itself in acts of persecu tion and treachery, even now, as far as it may. It is very observable that, whether popery has been in an oppressed or dominant condition, the same spirit has actuated her. If heretics are to be destroyed in the palmy days of po pery, the reign of Queen Mary, the flames of Smithfield are to soar up to heaven in the open light of day. If he retics are to be destroyed in the days of the first James then is there the secret plot instead of the open persecu tion; then, instead of the stake and the faggot, there is the calm and stealthy deliberation of conspirators, and the deed of darkness which, unless providentially frustrated, would have sent suddenly into the presence of the judge of quick and dead the king, the princes, and the nobles of our land. Yes, the same persecuting spirit of popery wbich in the thirteenth century (for I will not go further back) spoke to the brave Albigenses by the lips of Simon de Montfort, " Return to the Catholic faith, or ascend that pile and die !" which, in the beginning of the fifteen - th century, excited Henry IV. to " pass the law for the burning of heretics, which (says Blackstone) was the dis grace of our statute-book for two and a half centuries ;" which' in the sixteenth century, condemned Crammer and Ridley and Latimer to the flames; and which (such are its tender mercies) has consigned many to the stake after they had recanted and returned to their apostate church— it is the same persecuting spirit which, in our own day, excites the Irish peasant (taught by his priest that by any means he may advance the welfare of the church) to per petrate the deed of bloodshed; and which would, if it might—which may God, of his infinite mercy, forbid!— destroy the Protestant religion in that unhappy country. Let us think with deep and fervent gratitude, and at the same time with serious self-examination, of our present privileges. And here it should be observed that on the fifth of November we praise and bless God, not only for the deliverance of the king and nobles from the deep laid plot of the Romanists, but also for the •' arrival of King William 111. as on this day, for the deliverance of our church and nation." We may well render thanksgivings to our God for the happy results of the revolution in 1688. For, however men may differ as to the question whether, in any case, the succession to the throne should be altered, and although some may be of opinion that James might have been induced to have ceased from his favour ing the interests of the Romanists had less summary mea sures been adopted, still we must all praise and bless the goodness and the wisdom of God, who, " from the seem ing," yea, perchance the real evil of these political con flicts " educed good," for, assuredly, our religion and our liberties were preserved by the accession of a Protestant • king to the throne. Let us heartily, then, unite in the prayer that we may have " a spirit of fervent zeal for our holy religion, which the Lord has so wonderfully rescued and established, a blessing to us and our posterity." Let us be truly grateful for our present religious privileges, privileges not granted to our forefathers in those dark days of which our subject has led me to speak; permission to read the bible, the services of our church conducted in our own language, and the doctrine of salvation through a Saviour's merits rescued from the " wood, hay, and stub ble" of Popery. Let us never suppose that the mere name of Protestant, and a loud condemnation of the errors of the Romanist, will be of any benefit to our souls, unless we become true Chriatians.—Church of England May. MENTAL EXERCISE.—The great means by which the mental, moral, and physical powers are to be improved is by exercise. This has been well set forth in a modern work on education, with an extract from which, and an earnest prayer for the divine blessing on your labours, I shall close these rem' ks :—" The law of exercise is of universal application. It is a fundamental law of nature, that all the capacities of man are enlarged and strength ened by being used. From the energies of a muscle up to the highest faculty, intellectual or moral, repeated exer cise of the function increases its intensity. Inseparable from the very idea of exercising the faculties, and of course from the practice of that exercise, is the requisition of ex ercising each faculty upon the objects which nature points out as related to it. Muscular strength is to be gained by familiarizing the muscles with the resistance of exter nal forces, and by the habit of conquering mechanical difficulties, varied to exercise all the muscles, which amount to several hundreds in the human frame. The senses are improved by long and particular training, ap plying each to its object—sight, by habitual looking at distant or minute objects; hearing, by accurate practice in the perception of sounds; taste, in the discriminating use of the palate. In the same manner, the observing fa culties are rendered acute and diversified by the constant practice of observation of details in existing objects, their qualities, and of passing events. The same law extends to the moral world. For the exercise of justice, the child must be made aware of his own and his neighbour's right, and be habituated practically to respect them in all con tingencies. For the exercise of benevolence, the habit of repressing the selfish feelings, and of actually doing good, kind, compassionate, and generous things, not by fits, but as a steady unvarying principle of action, will be found indispensable."—Miss Mayo. 'LORD ELDON'S DESPATCH OF BUSINESS.—Through the only 10 years of Lord Hardwicke's Chancellorship whereof we have any exact records, the annual average of the matters despatched in the Court of Chancery was 4,220 ; while through the first ten years of the present century, the annual average of the matters despatched was 6,081, being an excess of almost one-half. And this in crease of business and of despatch in Lord Eldon's time was a progressive one. The last three of the 10 before mentioned years of Lord Hardwicke give an average of 4,230, or 14 beyond the average of the seven years by which they were preceded; but the last three of the before-mentioned years of Lord Eldon's give an average of 6,948, being 1.238 beyond the average of the seven years preceding them, and 2,718 beyond the average of the last three of the 10 recorded years of Lord Hard wicke. Again, comparing the years 1752 3-4 with the years 1819, 1820-1, we find the result of the tables as between Lord Hardwicke and Lord Eldon to be, that— Lord Hardwicke despatched business equal to 2,390 heavy matters ; and that Lord Eldon, in a like space, despatched business equal to 2,598 like matters, being an excess of 209 in Lord Eldon's favour. And, further, Mr. Twiss proceeds,—lt results, that Lord Eldon not only despatched in the Court of Chancery, during his three years, an amount of 2,598 heavy matters, being 208 more than were despatched in the same length of time by Lord Hard wicke, but moreover that Lord Edon effected this in only 455 days—or, if 61 days be deducted as before for politi cal and other duties, only 394 days—while his predecessor, in clearing the smaller amount of 2,390 like matters in the Court of Chancery, consumed 508 days —or, 61 days being equally deducted, as in Lord Eldon's time, 417 days —and Lord Eldon's real superiority, therefore, when cal culated, as it ought to be, with reference to the number of days actually available for the Court of Chancery in the course of each respective period of three years, is not merely to the amount of 208 heavy matters beyond Lord Hardwicke, but at the rate of 348 such matters, which would be a superiority in Lord Eldon's favour of about 14 percent.—Lift of Lord Eldon. WRONGS OF THE LABOURING CLASSES.—An extra ordinary degree of public attention is at present drawn to the state of the labouring classes. The whole press of the country, in every phase of political opinion, joins in proclaiming their wrongs and the necessity for some re medies. "It were needless," says the Morning Chroni cle, " to adduce examples of the pressing nature of these evils. Bishops furnish them in their charges ; country gentlemen quote them in their speeches ; city orators cite them at their public meetings; newspapers give them at full length from day to day. Such a state of things can not go on. Commerce is prosperous; trade is thriving; the revenue flourishes • yet look at the condition of our labouring people." What a throng of deeds of cruelty and injustice has even the last ten days produced ! In the metropolis, and in our great towns, we see, almost every day, coroners' inquests on men and women, either dying of want or committing suicide out o f mere despe ration. At this instant, in the wealthy parish of Mary lebone, such an investigation is going on. Meanwhile, our slopsellers persist in giving their fivefarihings for the work of a shirt, and sixpence for embroidering a shawl with eighty flowers ! And if we turn to the country, what meets us there ? In one county, we find a poor fellow who had brought up thirteen children, and inhabited one cottage for twenty years, sent to gaol, under a sentence which almost amounts to perpetual imprisonment, because found with a hare. In the next county, we see another man quietly sentenced to three months' hard labour, for being found with a gun; though whether lie was intend ing to shoot crows or rabbits, no one could tell ! In a third case, a poor man was sentenced to ten years' trans portation, having confessed, that, when almost starved, he was tempted by a neighbour to assist in stealing a sheep. Now we are not arguing for impunity in such cases as these. No offence ought to pass without notice. But what we press upon our readers' attention is this, — that here are three men, in the adjoining counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, and Oxford,—all tempted into crime by want and wretchedness, and all instantly punished with rigour, though in each case it was a first offence, and though in each case the cost of maintaining them and their families, at the public cost, in prisons and workhouses, would inevitably amount to a far larger sum than would have rendered them all happy and comfortable in honest industry. But, in truth, the manner in which the game-laws are now carried out, looks like infatuation. Sir Harry Verney declared, a few days back, at a meeting of the magistrates of Buckinghamshire, his conviction, that the game of that county ronsumed one-fourth of the produce of the soil. And a correspondent of the Globe declares, that " a few weeks back the principal occupier in an adjoining parish declared to me that the game cost the occupiers of the parish more than the poor did, and they were numerous." In fact, if we were to take the average consumption of the fruits of the earth by the game at less than half what Sir Harry Verney estimates it at, it would still be true, of the whole kingdom, that the landed proprietors actually bestow more upon their bares and partridges, than they do upon their poor !—Church man's Monthly Review. SHIPWRECKS AND LOSS OF LIFE. (From Ike Dublin Evening Mail.) The late storm has been extremely disastrous on the Irish coast, chiefly between Dublin and Drogheda. The brig Shannon, of Whitehaven, struck on a reef of sharp. pointed rocks, about two miles north of Balbriggan. Four of the men took to the boat, and though it was swamped the men were drifted ashore alive. Five men remained on board the vessel, which was at length capsized by the vio lence of the waves, and the men for a few minutes were seen clinging to the keel—the next wave swept three of them away, and they were drowned ; a fourth caught hold of a spar, and was saved. The fifth held on to the keel, but when reached the vital spark had fled. A large brig, name unknown, laden with wheat, sup posed to be from Wexford, and bound to Liverpool, was totally wrecked, at Clogherabont, and all hands supposed to be lost, as there was no account of any of them. Another wreck took place at Annagasson, near the same place. Name of the vessel unknown. She was dashed into pieces. A large vessel, about 700 tons burthen, named the Rose, of Belfast, Montgomery, master, was driven violently on shore at Skerries, but most fortunately the crew, consisting of fourteen men and one woman, a passenger, were all got off safely from the wreck. She was timber laden, and left Quebec this day five weeks. She was bound for Belfast. A large quantity of timber, and other things belonging to ships, were picked up be tween Balbriggan and Drogheda ; the figure head of a ship and a piece of board with the name " Fairy Queen" was found at Balbriggan. Several small craft were more or less injured at Baldoyle, Malahide, and along the coast. A large vessel, supposed to be an Indiaman—but all inquiry proved unsuccessful to ascertain anything about her—was seen in a wrecked condition off Ireland's Eye. Igavnui 'At Kingstown tadhy,l,lsabella,oagl eani against violence s t: ofb whichroin Sunderland, bo the h ur e r surge, v aws ti aa n so l berdoei coal-vessel, Iht v eva e ews s sts waves evd l cs t l b wod e , William shreioevtheo haheder completely settled down, her masts standing above water. At the entrance of the inner harbour lay the Kingston, of Liverpool, bound to Africa, which had put in for shelter at the commencement of the storm; she was secured by a hawser to the far side of the harbour, and by a cable to the quay, and had every appearance of riding out the storm in safety, when a cry was heard that another vessel was dragging her anchors ; this proved to be the Capri corn, of Liverpool, a West Indian vessel, from San Do mingo, with a valuable cargo of rum and sugars on board. She had been anchored at a distance of about 400 yards ahead of the Kingston ; it was about ten minutes to three o'clock when she began to drag her anchor ; it was fully half-past three b e f ore s h e reac h e d t h e d evo t e d Kingston. As soon as it was perceived that the collision was inevita ble, directions were given to cut away the cable of this latter vessel, and to get her round, so that there might be less resistance ; before this manoeuvre eould be accom plished the stern of the Capricorn had dashed against the bows of the Kingston, the head of which went crashing and grinding right through the bulwarks of the former ; at every gust of wind this scene of drstruction was re peated, the enormous bowsprit of the Kingston spring ing and starting from its seat, as though it were a lath. It was now evident that were the vessels to con- .. „........ ..,....,.. in d ti a r s m h e edto th a l t s om re doing e thispt i o n the O f done nothing ; it was reported they had been ill, and were withh . ilst t h d e m e atoms. r d T t h o e eoarcebwother,boardbo t h the would c ll Capricorn speedily eorn ha had unable to move. The greater part of the crew of the Kingston leaped on board, and commenced c . utting away one man, who, with great .foolhardiness, remained on board. As soon as the rigging was cut away,. th e masts remaindera t the rigging oof the to theore crew o to windward. n snapped across and tumbled over on the Kingston ; to all shore, W appearance one fell right on the man who remained on board, but he with much presence of mind contrived to give a leap away, and his arm only was caught. We be lieve it was only bruised, not broken. At eleven o'clock on Saturday night an alarm of fire was given on board the Kingston. An opinion generally p ti .l i e a t t el t y he co i n e s v u o m n devouring g to e t l h e e m ent water'sgot e a d - g h e e . a d T ; h i e t prevailed that there was a great quantity of gunpowder on board, and this naturally had the effect of preventing the necessary exertions to extinguish the fire. The conse quence lay near, had the side next the fire burned during the entire night, and on Sunday the vessel Cap riappearedCapricorn, con siderably r completely o n s r m' ured—the burning mast and rigging of the Nov. !.2, Kingston fell across her deck, set fire to everything with which it came in contact, and were it not for the timely assistance afforded, she would, no doubt, have shared the fate of the other. Opinion is contradictory as regards the origin of the fire ; however, the prevailing supposition is, , that some persons contrived to get on board with dishonest intentions, and that having made rather too free with rum, of which there was a large quantity in the vessel the fire took place by accident. This idea is strengthenelt by the fact that a boy, in a deep state of inebriation, was found concealed between the rocks were the brig lay. The Kingston was the property of Charles Horsfall and Sono, of Liverpool, but we have not been able to ascertain if the vessel or cargo were insured. In addition to the a bo v e, we have ascertained that "The Success," from Demerara to Dublin, with su g ar " experienced a heavy sea and violent gale on Saturday evening, at five o'clock. She had her main top-sail l!tia! she was thrown on her , and was ng reef fore-sail blown a wa y, an d th e c o nsequence was , w i t h water when assistance was afforded ; she was broughtfilli into 1 01 0 bour without sus t a i n i ng any additional injury. A large portion of the car go i s muc h d amage d, and part of bet ground tier of sugar was wholly washed away. At Bally b rac k, m id way b etween Killi ne y and Bray, a seaman's hat was picked up, in the lining of which the re In the river some vessels were injured by was written—" John Trant, Liverpool, September the h e 1813, three." against each other or the quay walls. Amongst those wal the Autumn, of Harrington, which had her bowsprit 30(1 jibboom carried away, and her bulk-head damaged. other coal-vessel had her bulwarks stove in, and her "„`P sails torn to pieces. Several flats—more commonly ko, ° "„f as the Ballast Board boats—were sunk at either Sioe re the river and opposite Ringsend, and a great many broken against the walls. A number of row boats, t, longing to private persons, met with the like accid ep h mor t and some that were moored off the island at the ' Bull were carried away altogether. dashing either_ COST OF MAINTAINING THE ROYAL FAMILY /er) We have frequently (says th e Bi rm i ng h a m Advera felt it our duty to correct a m i sun d ers t an di ng , which -I 1, v ery ", generally prevails, especially among th e working ,`,es,; as to the expense of the ma i n t enance o f th e R o yal Faull n i ki and every time we ha v e d one it, h ave rece i ve d the tha of some or other of our su b scr ib ers f or recalling atte tion to that which, tho ug h we h a d ment i one d it before, !s too readily lost sight of. Indeed, among the motives disloyalty, which demagogues and the mis-leaders of tti* Family." deem this, therefore, a fitting awt 0 1 people urge, few, if any, have a more telling e-- those which bear upon " the vast sums of money the people have to pay for the maintenance of the Roy a l pro when the Queen of England is brought w ith unusual minenee before her subjects, AGAIN to correct a mistake into which so many fall, especially as we have heard the remark being made at the time Of her 51 • Ws •n -confinement—" there is another young one for us to Ma l tain." The hereditary revenues of the royal house, arisill: from the crown lands. were, as we have more than un e intimated, given up by George the Third to the country, on condition of a suitable provision being always mod e l , the country for the Members of the Royal Faaa l George the Third, it is well known, had not a very am a de family, and it might be consequently thought had 013 ,,/ a good bargain ; but how stand the facts and figures 11 the case? opportunity, The averyge annual amount received by Govern ment from the Crown Lands, and are applied to public purposes for seventy years, from 1760 to 1830, was £1,3051 The average of the annual payments to the Sove reign and Roy a l F am ily 94 0,335 ,97 1 Leaving a balance a nnua ll y of . So that, in point of fact, leaving the INTEREST of t h i ;, savings out of the ques ti on , th e country saves ne Br he £400,000 a-year, by " KEEPING," as i t i s ca lled, t Royal Family. Let us, however, s ee w h a t thi s ma t ter comes t o , Rhe a interest is taken into account ; for we cannot bor:: s money off other parties w ith ou t interest ; and this 1 light in which we have never c l ear l y viewed it before- be , When last year Sir R. Inglis brought this subie ct th a t fore the Hou se o f C ommons, i t was s h own that up t°,.",,ra time the government h a d rece i ve d £17 , 00 0,00 0 mo re 'fi o the crown lands than it had paid to the royal family. interest upon .E 47,000,000 at three per cent. would c? ber annually to about £1,410,000. L e t us t h en d raw ono‘ table to illustrate this matter. Annual interest upon the balance due to the 00° crown in 1843 0.10 333 £1,410, , Average annual pay men t t o th e roya l family.. - Annual balance £46 9,665 The interest then alone of the money rece ived by aft country and applied to p u bli c purposes , beyond the arao% paid to the royal f am il y f rom t h e t i me t h at George t ri Li v . Third gave up his her e dit ary revenues to 1843, not ° pays all the expenses of the royal family, but leaves . annual balance of £469,665 ! Let us then illustrate the matter by yet another table. Th e coun t ry receives an nually, on an average, £1,3 33,306 From the crown lands From the interest of the sum already saved, after , 6 5 making all znnual payme n t s t o th e roya l f a mily 469,u £1,804, 911 Making an annual bal ance of CONVERTS TO POPERY. (From the Record.) The intelligence of the Rev. Mr. Penny's conversi n to Popery is confirmed, and we now s t a t e i t as a fact th at Mr. Newman has written to the Rev. Isaac Williams (the competitor with Mr. Garbett for the Chair of Poetry) an nouncing that it is impossible for him to continue in se fallen a Church as that of England. Mr. Williams, we understand, wishes this to be known ; and he has, in con- I sequence, broken off all connexion with Mr. Newman, and the Romish section of the party. We are now, in all probability, on the verge of a con siderable secession from our venerable Establishment. The fact, we believe to be that Mr. Newman would have gone over to Rome a year ago, could he have carried Dr. Pusey with him. But Dr. Pusey was not ready, and his secession, without Dr. Posey, would have had compara tively little effect. From the intelligence we have re ceived, we think it probable that about thirty Masters of Arts, in Oxford, will accompany Mr. Newman, if Dr' Pusey secedes also ; and we have heard it computed. h 5: those well qualified to form a just opinion of the case, that in Oxford, Cambridge, and over the country at larger there will be, in all, ab ou t 100 o f th e T rac t ar i ans , who secede to their appropriate place within the bosom o Rome, if Mr. Newman is accompanied by Dr. Pusey. _ Such a consu mma ti on i s most d evout l y t o be wishe d , as it regards the highest interests of our Church. Thll perilous matter has too long lain at her very vitals, an d the extent of the evil arising from its continuance there it were imp oss ibl e a d equate l y to estimate. An d besides _ this, the secess i on w ill a ff or d a new proof of the j us t 10 1 l of those pri nc ipl es w hi c h, am id st much contem pt a . obloquy, we h ave b een po i nt i ng at f or many succ essive , years, and will, w e t rus t, a l so i n t ro d uce a more wh°i some fear in regard to th em th roug h out t h e Church aic, ' a the country. E ven as it regar d s t h e unhappy me n wh o apostatise it is to be desired. F or i n error, as in other n a things, it is better to be h ones t th an di s h onest, —to ; I , conformity with specifi e d or un d erstoo d o bli gat i on s, tha n in opposition to them. to [Since the above was in typ e , a l e tt er h as b een sent , The Times, from M r . NV , denying that Mr. I .`„ e 'i, man has written to Mr. G. Tickell, of Balliol lege, who rec en tly apos tatised to popery whilst traveh l ",.. in Belgium, has written to The Times also and say s e " Now that I ha ve th e bl ess i ng o f b e i ng a C at holic, i na result is perfect pea ce o f m i n d an d restore d h ea lth ; in my heartfelt wish is, that the many dear friends I hav i e oo , l England may one d ay s h are t h e same bl ess i ngs I hat enjoy." Al a s ! a l as ! f or poor f a ll en h uman na t u re t men can thus be lead astray.] SUICIDE OF MR. AND MRS. BARKER, KILMARNOCK. These unfortunate persons were old inhabitants of B b i t i ; mingham. Mr. Joseph Barker was 61 years of age, to wife was somewhat younger. They resided, previo", orr , leaving Birmingham, at No. 54, Vittoria-street. fi e f s Barker was born at Preston in Lancashire, from v." 1 . 0.. town he married for his second wife the partner of 13 4 0 .. mantic but melancholy exit. He had resided in ' 1 e d.. chester, London, Malta, and several parts of the e,°.,,i.. nent, being at one time most extensively engaged in 1 7 00 ness as a foreign merchant. At the burning of Me;:for he estimated his loss at £500,000 ; from that time b' ship• tunes were reversed. His first wife died on board a i r o His only child, a son, on whose memory he appear ed , he entered the service of Mr. Samuel Kempson, floor d 8 , dote, also died when 21 years of age. Six years a ., g c " iot h manufacturer, Constitution-hill, where he rem e A ainntere— chief clerk and traveller until May last, when he e a lso into partnership with Mr. James Archer, who erred in nufacturers. In the arrangements there been with Mr. Kempson, and the firm was oPII „ na vi es m'iemper when, two months ago, he left home, as he '''.--nothing Summer-lane, as James Archer and Co., table-o_ 1 % ; " to disturb the equanimity of his proverbially ev_e, e him ; and He appeared on excellent terms with all a rour " el le to h is to partner, on a visit to Manchester, there was t eircurn indicate the fearful resolve to which subsequen. a. stances lead us to suppose he had made up were going to see a relation at a distance, hisn' Id they On leaving their house they told the servant slguld be back in eight or nine days. When he Pa a rt n e d and d from Mr,. bless Y ell ' Archer he shook hands heartily, saying, " --, that he Archer ;" and it was observed by Mr. Areue s t - fterwar ds turned away and seemed affected. It It discharged every tradesman's bill agains. when he l e ft found that he had, previous to his del:Trttur'rtee.s, was supposed that he had about £4O on him . wu` there was • t of view have Birmingham. In a pecunia oin embarrassment, and we heir met as we can ascertain, any of then' ' to the mystery met with no satisfactory solution self-destruction, habits and man' Mr. Barker was of most gentlemanly b, and German ners, speaking fluently the Italian, French, regard and languages; and of kindly disposition,_ associated in business and in love in those with whom he assoo a l woman of much amis . private life. Mrs. Barker was highly accomplished, and a bility and suavity of manner, proficient in music. upon Mr. Barker was an old- The gold watch found and the knife was a present from fashioned family relic, . Mr. Kernson's emplo friend, in . Kemp . n a young and esteemedtheknife led to the identity of then The description of o the firm. and seeing the London papers, M,.r . happy deceased. t Kilmarnock to identitY the parties. Archer sent his foreman over o Captain Mc. Arthur, formerly commander of th e Princess Royal, Liverpool and Glasgow steamer, hag been appointed harbour master at Fleetwood.