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SHE SMILES IN HER SLUMBER. She smiles in her slumber! what beautiful visions Through the soul of the maiden are stealing? The angel of dream-land is hovering o'er her — Bright vistas of beauty are opening before her, And her bosom with pleasure is thrilling. She smiles in her slumber! 0, soft is the whisper Which the angel of dream-land is breathing; To the heart of the maiden he sweetly discloses The rainbow-hued future, and bright are the roses Which in fancy her pathway are wreathing. 0, rosy-lipp'd sleeper! may those visions of gladness By the cold couch of sorrow be never dispell'd ; May the day-dreams be bright as the dreamings of slumber, And blessings surround thee—an infinite number, While the boon of existence is held. LITEEATIJRE 800 Es FOR REVIEW, &c.—Books, New Prints, Music, &c., intended for review, may be left at Mr. C. Mitchell's, Red lion-court, Fleet-street, London, addressed " to the Editor of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD, " when they will be forwarded and receive attention. Blackwood's Maga: e. London : Blackwoods The number for December opens with a conti nuation of " My Novel ; or, Varieties in English Life," which is now evidently drawing to a conclu sion. It contains more serious topics than many of the preceding chapters, and we make the following brief extract descriptive of a Christian's opinion of REYgNGE In my world of a village, revenge is a common pas sion ; it is the sin of the uninstructed. The savage deems it noble ; but Christ's religion, which is the sublime Civiliser, emphatically condemns it. Why ? Because religion ever seeks to ennoble man ; and nothing so de bases him as revenge. Look into your own heart, and tell me whether, since you have cherished this passion, you have not felt all sense of right and wrong confused — have not felt that whatever would before have seemed to you mean and base, appears now but just means to your heated end. Revenge is ever a hypocrite—rage, at least, strikes with the naked sword ; but revenge, stealthy and patient, conceals the weapon of the assassin. We pass on to a really clever review of " Sullivan's Rambles in North and South America," in which the writer exposes with great ability the enormous lying about the romance of the American prairies and the Red Indians. Of the latter some idea may be formed from the following picture of AN INDIAN PRINCESS The princess had neither shoes, stockings, shift, nor any kind of linen; her bridal dress consisted of a petti coat of red baize, and a fringed blanket, fastened about her shoulders with a copper skewer; but of ornaments she had great plenty. Her hair was curiously plaited, and interwoven with bobbins of human bone ; one eye lid was painted green and the other yellow ; the cheeks were blue, the lips white, the teeth red, and there was a black list drawn down the middle of the forehead, as far as the tip of the nose; a couple of gaudy parrot's feathers were stuck through the division of the nostrils ; there was a blue stone set in the chin ; her ear-rings consisted of two pieces of hickory, of the size and shape of drum sticks ; her arms and legs were adorned with bracelets of wampum ; her breast glittered with numerous strings of glass beads ; she wore a curious pouch or pocket of woven grass, elegantly painted with various colours ; about her neck was hung the fresh scalp of a Mohawk warrior, whom her deceased lover had lately slain in battle ; and, finally, she was anointed from head to foot with bear's grease, w hich sent forth a most agreeable odour. " Major Moss, a Campaigning Reminiscence," is an amusing episode in the career of General Evans' Mercenaries in Spain. The succeeding article on " the Church of Spain" exposes in glowing terms the blasphemous frauds of the Church of Rome, and what fearless treatment of the Divine Word Popery can commit whenever it has an object to serve. " Paris on the Eve of the Empire-- is an impartial commentary on recent proceedings in France, as will be judged by the following de scription of THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT, That the conflict of the 4th December was foreseen, and even premeditated by the framer of the coup d'ltat of the 2d, there can be hardly a doubt. We may not see in Louis Napoleon a patriot, or anything but an un scrupulous and ambitious roan, far more concerned for his own aggrandisement than for the welfare of a country which can hardly be called his. The question does not hinge on the merits of the individual, but reduces itself to this : Can there, at the present moment, be found a man better fitted to govern France ? We believe that there cannot. The French need to be ruled with a rod of iron. Republicanism has had its chance, and shown itself incapable. With the single exception of Lamartine, the baseness and selfishness of the leaders of the demo cratic party have been sufficiently proved. The inertness of the Legitimist candidate is growing into a proverb. Although possessing some able adherents, the chance of the Orleans family appears daily to lessen. In France, however, less than in any other country, can one risk political predictions. It seems like a dream that Louis Napoleon, the needy exile, the usurer's prey, the neglected of English society, the man to whom none but his intimates gave credit for ability of any kind, should have raised himself in a few months to supreme power in France, and should exercise it—if unscrupulously—at least with unquestionable talent. After that, who shall assert that we may not one day see the sluggish Bourbon, or the heir of Orleans, seated on the French throne? The chance of either of them certainly appears slender, especially that of the Count de Paris, against whom many disadvantages combine. Too long an orphan for his father's temporary popularity to be reflected on himself, too young to have personally enlisted in his behalf the sympathies of Frenchmen, the insignificance of his uncles, his grandfather's ignominious exit from power, have cast an unfavourable shade over him. Odd as it appears, Paris positively dislikes Louis Philippe for not having cannonaded it. A little blood-letting in February might have saved depletion in June—to say nothing of deportations to Cayenne, shootings in December, and all the catalogue of evils that have occurred since the spring '4B. " I will put down the insurrection," said bluff Bugeaud to the aged and irresolute chief of the house of Orleans, "but it will cost a couple of thousand lives." Fifteen years before, (judging from his determined conduct in the early disturbances of his reign,) Louis Philippe would probably have said, " Fire I" and given the African marshal carte blanche. In 1848 his mood was more vacillating. " Will that expenditure of blood," he asked, " restore per manent tranquillity ?" " For that I cannot answer," replied Bugeaud, " but I will answer for suppressing the insurrection." The old king wavered and refused. The man of Isly should have planted his cannon and done his work. So say many now who bear no great love to Louis Philippe's memory, but who would rather have seen him end his days as King of the French than have beheld France delivered into the hands of anarchists, to be succeeded by an autocrat as absolute and unaccountable as Russian czar or Oriental despot. This is followed by " The Puff off Pernambuco," a spirited narrative of a tornado off the coast of South America, and a review of " Aiton's Travels in the East ;" and after some poems entitled " Day Dreams," the magazine concludes with a political essay on the recent debate in the House of Com mons. It exposes with master hand the bitterness of faction which dictated the move of which Mr. Villiers was the willing tool, and few will be pre pared to dispute the following view of THE LEAGUE FACTION " More states have been ruined by faction than have fallen before the sword of the conqueror." Such was the observation of one of England's wisest moralists ; and the temper of the times is such as to give it great signi ficance. For, in the movements which have taken place immediately before and since the assembling of Parlia ment—in the unscrupulous, bitter, and almost unpre cedented attacks directed by a portion of the press against her Majesty's present ministers—we can detect nothing else than the spirit of absolute faction. Absolute, and yet unmeaning, since, in the present case, even the usual pretexts for opposition are awanting. There is, as yet, nothing at issue between the policy of ministers and the feeling of the country. Not one single point in the speech delivered from the throne has been, or can be, selected as a substantive ground for opposition or amend ment. That system of commercial policy which was inaugurated six years ago, is not to be disturbed. That resolution, at which ministers have arrived after careful and mature deliberation, has bee❑ communicated to the country with a distinct assurance that it shall, in no way, be infringed. What specific measures may be proposed with regard to fiscal arrangements, is, at the moment we write, absolutely unknown. But we are assured that such measures are prepared, and that they will imme diately be submitted to the House of Commons. In genuity itself can lay no direct charge at the door of ministers—even suspicion can hardly be hinted at; and yet even now, both within and without the walls of Par liament, faction is hard at work, in order to prevent, if possible, even the disclosure of the ministerial scheme. The writer clearly demonstrates that the whole object was to damage the Ministry, in order to enable Mr. Cobden and his fellow-conspirators to occupy their places ; and that while it was ostensi bly to assert the benefits of Free-trade, it was a tacit admission of the weakness of the cause. As to the truth of the assertion in Mr. Villiers' resolu tion, the writer attributes to the real cause the boasted prosperity o f F re e-trade, which is solely owing to the go ld di scover i es an d t h e consequen t emigration. Upon the whole, the present number of this ably-conduct e d magaz i ne w ill b e f oun d fully to sustain its ancient reputat i on , an d p rove as entertaining and instructiv e as any that have pre ceded it. The Dodd 1 Abroad. No. IV London Chaprn an and Hall This interesting serial, by Charles Lever, conti aders by the pi quan t of the Dodd Fa their hopes We subjoin a nues to amuse its numerous epistles of the various mem who relate ti adventure humour Something ork every day is somettiit 'ould say th and fears, with tr few extracts : This sarr and fur hundred th from an egg se to be hammer tumult like tl for npro.._ , - for noise, and ti of " Nabachodot— r - Now, this same theatre isexactl, d'Angleterre, so that when, by dint of time, patience, and ,eir grea 'rent Of the H a partial dulness of the acoustic nerves, we were getting used to steam-factories and shot-foundries, down comes Verdi on us, with din and clangour to which even the works of Seraing were like an JEolian harp ! Now, of all the Pretenders o these days of especial humbug, with our " Long ranges," Morison's pills, and Louis Napoleons, I don't think you could show me a greater charlatan than this same Verdi. I don't pretend to know a bit about music ; I only knew two tunes all my life, " God save the King" and " Patrick's Day," and these only because we used to stand up and take off our hats to them in the Dublin Theatre ; but modulated, soft sounds have always had their effect on me, and I never heard a country girl singing as she beetled her linen beside a river's bank, or listened to the deep bay of an old fox-bound of a clear winter's morning, without feeling that there was some thing inside of me. somewhere that responded to the note. But this fellow is all marrow-bones and cleavers ! Trum pets, drums, big fiddles, and bassoons, are the softest things he knows. I take it as a providential thing that his music cracks every voice after one season ; for before long there will be nobody left in Europe to sing him, ex cept it be the steam-whistle of an express train ! But we live in strange times, Tom, that's the fact. The day was when our operas used to he taken from real life—or what authors and poets thought was real life. We had the " Maid of the Mill," and the " Duenna," and " Love in a Village," and a score more, pleasant and amusing enough ; and except that there was nothing wrong or in comprehensible in them. perhaps they might have stood their ground. There was the great failure. Tom ; every body could understand them, and nobody need be shocked. Now, the taste is, puzzle a great many, and shock every A grand opera now must be from the Old Testa- Not even drums and kettledrums would save you, if you haven't Moses or Melchizedek to sit down in white raiment, and see some twenty damsels, with petti coats about as long as a lace ruffle, capering and attitu dinizing in a way that ought to make even a Patriarch blush. Now, this is all wrong, Tom. The public might be amused without profanity, and even the most inveterate lover of dancing needn't ask David and Uriah for a pas de deux. And now, let me remark to you, that a great deal of that so much vaunted social liberty abroad, is nei ther more nor less than this same latitude with respect to any and everything. We at home were bred up to be lieve that good breeding mainly consists in a certain re serve—a cautious deference not alone for the feelings, but even the prejudices of others; that you have no right to offend your neighbour's sense of respect for fifty things that you held cheaply yourself. They reverse all this, here. Everybody talks to you, of yourself, aye, and of your wife and your mother, as frankly as though they were characters of the Heathen Mythology; they treat I you like a third party in these discussions, and very likely it was a practice of this kind originally suggested the phrase of being " beside oneself." TRAVELLING EXTRAVAGANCE You tell me that I'm not to expect any more money till November ; but you forgot to tell me how I'm to live without it. We compromised with the Jews for fifteen hundred. Our " Extraordinaries," as the officials would call them, amounted to three more; so that, taking all things into account, we have been living since April last at a trifle more than eleven thousand a-year. It's a mercy that when they sell a man out by the Encumbered Estates Court, they ask no impertinent questions about how he contracted his debts. I'd cut a sorry figure under such an examination. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1852. A FOREIGN DOCTOR Your foreign doctor is a dreadful animal. He has not the bland look, the soft smile, the noiseless slide, the snowy shirt-frill, and the tender squeeze of the hani, of our own fellows, every syllable of whose honeyed lips seems like a lenitive electuary made vocal. He is a mean, scrubby, little, damp-looking chap, not unlike the bit of dirty cotton in the bottom of an ink-bottle, the incarna tion of black draught and a bitter mixture. He won't poison you, however, for his treatment ranges between dill-water and syrup of gum ; in fact, to use the expres sive phrase of the French, he only comes to " assist" at your death, and not to cause it. I have remarked that homoeopathic fellows are more attentive to the outward man than the others, whatever be the reason. Their beards and whiskers are certainly not cut on the infinitesi mal principle, and assuredly flattery is one of the medica ments they never administer in small doses. By the way, I wish this same theory could be applied to the distresses of a man's estate as well as that of his body. It would be a right comfortable thing to pay off one's mortgagees with fractional parts of a halfpenny, and get rid of one's credi tors on the " decillioneth" scale. Mr. Lever has more than sustained his well earned reputation by the spirit which he has thrown into these adventures. The Christian Family Advocate. Edinb. : Whyte. This magazine has now reached a seventh num ber.' The chief object is to supply instructive and entertaining reading for serious families. It has several historical articles. The Dial of Love. London : Darton and Co. A periodical for young people, by the celebrated Mary Howitt. Its tendency is indicated in its title, and its author's name is some guarantee for the .ability with which it is conducted. Hogg's Instructor. London : Groombridge. This entertaining periodical maintains its popu larity. The part for December contains several in teresting articles, including " Scenes of Neapolitan Life," " Notes on Pianofortes," " London Porter," " Progress of the Royal Water-lily," &c. Cocks's Musical Miscellany. London : Simpkin. A pleasing monthly publication, containing seve ral pages of well-printed music, in addition to arti cles on music and musicians, and interesting anec dotes. The Dublin University Magazine. Liverpool : Orr. The number for December of this popular perio dical is in no way deficient in interest, although its contents are not so fitted for brief extracts as is sometimes the case. It opens with an article on " The Bright Spirit of Christmas," the length of which alone prevents us from transferring it to our pages, but we give the following little picture of CHRISTMAS MORNING. Hark ! the breakfast gong is sounding, and a gentle cataract of life is on the stairs, and the family comes pluring in ; the kind-hearted, stately sire, the handsome graceful matron, the grey and dignified grandam, the tall stripling sons, the gentle blooming girls, and curly headed children. Oh! what a happy meeting is here; what kind good-morrows, what tender kissings on brow and cheek, what fond enfoldings and joyous gratulations, and oft-repeated wishes for " happy Christmas," merry and many to each and all. Oh! what eloquent looks of affection from pure eyes, and breathings of kindliest care and prayer for all, and reciprocation of gift ; the book — the box—the gem—the drawing—the toy—the verses— the music—the knitted purse—the broidered kerchief — the useful and the ornamental—the thing oft wished for, never coveted, and now at length possessed. And, to crown all, the blending of artless and affectionate hearts around the domestic altar, as— " Kneeling down to heaven's eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays ; Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing, That thus they all will meet in happier days, Together hymning their Creator's praise In such society, yet still more dear, While circling titne moves round in an eternal year." Of the three narratives which have been continued, they are all very properly brought to a conclusion on this the last month of the year. The last of " Clough Fionn ; or, the Stone of Destiny," by the O'Hara Family, is followed by an article on " the Epidemics of the Famine Years," shewing the dis ease which accompanied the failure in the supply of food. " A Night with the Mystics" is one of those quaint rhapsodies by Jonathan Freke Slingsby, to whom a sonnet is addressed in another page. " How I Married to escape being Hanged" is a re miniscence by an officer in the Peninsular war, shewing the ingratitude of the Spaniards for their deliverance from the French. The conclusion of " A Sketching Tour of Five Weeks in the Forests of Ceylon" is illustrated with two well-executed wood-engravings. The fourth round of "A Flying Shot at the United States" contains some further descriptions of American sayings and doings, many of them by no means complimentary to our trans atlantic brethren. From the concluding part of " Tyrone Power, a Biography," we extract the following reflections on the LOSS OF THE PRESIDENT As thought and memory linger over the sad catas trophe, we grow giddy with vague conjecture as to its details. No surviving evidence, no transmitted record, has unfolded a single page of the dark volume. There were stories of bottles picked up, hermetically sealed, containing scraps of writing, and indications of despair ; but these were all fabulous inventions. We often ask ourselves how did the blow fall?—was it sudden and unexpected ; or foreseen, and gradual of approach ? Were that unconscious band startled into eternity, when dream ing of life, and happiness ; of affectionate welcome, and bright days in store for the future? Or had they time for preparation ? Did the voice of the experienced comman der, on whose skill under heaven they all depended, inform them there was no longer rescue in human energy, and warn them all to collect their thoughts, and turn to Him alone who was mighty to save, even when the last plank was yielding, or whose heavy chastisement, per haps, was meant in mercy ? Did they join in prayer, or shriek in desolation ? Did the strong console the weak, setting them the example of manly fortitude; and did the helpless gaze on the resolved, in mute despair, as if there might still be hope where there was courage, and calm ness, and christian resignation ? We may ask, and pon der, and conjecture; but we cannot answer these momen tous questions. After a cutting review of Sir F. B. Head's " A Fortnight in Ireland," and some poetical contribu tions, the number concludes with a letter on the vexed question of " Diplomatic Relations with Rome." The Great Exhibition of 1551. London: Cloves. The Commissioners for the Great Exhibition have just published a Second Report, addressed to Mr. Secretary Walpole. It contains a copy of the supplemental charter, their report thereon, a state ment of the surplus funds at their command, and as to its CilSposal. The palace recommend the purchase of ground at Kensington,part - f which is to be appropriated to a national gallery. Practical Reflections on the Funeral of the Duke of Wellington. Liverpool : Deighton and Laughton. The pamphlet before us contains the address which was delivered by the Rev. J. B. Lowe, at St. Jude's Church, in this town, on the day of the funeral. The occasion was one to give rise to thoughts of the highest importance; and Mr. Lowe appears not to have neglected the opportunity. The Confessional. Liverpool : Newling. The agitation which has recently taken place on this exciting topic has led to the republication of the sermon which was preached in January last year by the Rev. Samuel Minton, at St. Silas' Church, in this town. The argument is further strengthened by an appendix, in which Rome is convicted out of her own mouth. A Trip to Denmark, by a Gentleman, Liverpool : McCorquodale. To those who are acquainted with our respected townsman, Mr. Braithwaite Poole, it will be interesting to know that he has published the journal of his late visit to Denmark. During the month of August of the present year, in company with several gentlemen eminent in railway affairs, he made a trip to Denmark for the purpose of con ferring with his Danish Majesty upon the formation of a new railway in that kingdom; and the "Trip," so neatly got up by Messrs. McCorquodale, con sists of Mr. Poole's "Jottings by the Way" upon that occasion. We recommend it to our readers as a good half-hour's amusement. Supplement to the Laird of Logan. Robertson. Glasgow MANY of our readers will remember the publica tion a few years since of a work entitled "The Laird of Logan," which excited much attention from the great number of original anecdotes which it contained. We have now before us a supple ment to the above, which we have no doubt will he cordially welcomed, as it contains many interesting specimens of Scotch witticisms and quaint sayings. We give the following as specimens, but the book contains several stories of considerable length : A HIGHLAND CERTIFICATE " It's very much against you, Shames, the bad reports they'll talk about you, 'deed is it ; and I justtold some of them that call themselves frien's, that was making an abuse of you, that 1 never saw anything about you but decency ; indeed, said I, very little of that same either." STRONG DIGESTION One of the " kail sippers" of Fife used to say of his digestive powers—" Never onything fashes tx.y stomach ; I believe it could manage a dead sodjer stuffed wi' bayonets." EARLY HOURS. A gentleman called at Logan House early one forenoon, wishing to see the Laird. " Oh, Sir," said the servant, he bas some company wi' him." "I am afraid that I have called too soon ; they'll not have done with break fast." " 'Deed. Sir, it's yesterday's dinner that they're no done wi'." A BEGGAR'S GRATITUDE. An old mendicant made, with bonnet in hand, the beg gar's appeal to a clergyman, who was well known to the supplicant. The minister put a piece of silver into his hand, which raised to a high pitch the expression of gra titude. " Thank ye, Sir ! Oh thank ye ! I'll gie ye an afternoon's hearing for this ane o' thae days." VARIETIES. IT IS SAlD—that, whenever the wish is father to the thought, it will be a (p) parent. LEGAL INFORMATION.—If you bite a man's nose of, what are you bound by law to do ? Keep the piece. HORACE WALPOLE tells a story of a Lord Mayor of London in his time, who, having heard that a friend had the small-pox twice, and died of it, inquired if he died the first time or the second. A CHAP OUT WEST who had been severely afflicted with palpitation of the heart, says he found instant relief by the application of another palpitating heart. Another triumph in homoeopathy. " Like cures like." WHAT Cows TO KEEP.—A New England fanner inquires " What cows should farmers keep ?" Fubbs suggests that they should keep their own! as serious in conveniences often arise from a propensity to keep those belonging to other folk. A CORRESPONDENT of Notes and Queries quotes emi nent authorities in favour of the pronunciation of Gib raltar and Trafalgar with the accent on the ultimate, and not the penultimate, syllables. Dr. Scott was particular to call Gibraltar—Gibraltar. DOCTRINE OF INTENTION.—" There is a story of a French bishop, who declared on bis death-bed that he had never administered the sacrament in earnest, for the purpose of invalidating the ordination of all who had received orders at his hands." A CURE FOR STUPIDITY.—" You are very stupid, Thomas," said a country teacher to a little boy eight years old. " You are like a donkey, and what do they do to cure them of stupidity ?" " They feed them better and kick them less," said the arch little urchin. " Did you say, sir, that you considered Mr. Smith in sane ?" asked a lawyer of a witness in a criminal case. " Yes, sir, I did." " Upon what grounds did you base that inference ?" " Why, I lent him a silk umbrella and five shillings in money, and he returned them both." CUPID.—" Aminadab, who is Cupid ?" " One of the boys. He is said to be as blind as a bat ; but if he is blind, he'll do to travel. He found his way into Aunt Nan's affections, and I wouldn't have thought any critter could have worked his way into such narrow arrangements with his eyes open." A " SETTLER" FOR INSECTS.—When plants or flowers are attacked by insects, the following, which is in no re spect injurious to any plant, will be found an effectual remedy :—To six quarts of soft water add half a pound of black soap, and a quarter of a pint of turpentine. Apply this to the stems with an ordinary paint-brush.—Kidds Own Journal. LONG DRESSES.—In his " Fortnight in Ireland," Sir F. B. Head professes to a partiality for bare ankles and bare feet. " There can be no doubt," he says, " that there is a freshness in this costume of nature that cannot belong to a fashionable gown, which, from sweeping the ground, and from being tightly bandaged round the waist, forms a splendid unventilated palace, in which the archi tect has forgotten to insert either chimney, staircase, door, or window !" UNSOPHISTICATED ELOQUENCE.—A countrywoman was carrying on a very simple process against a neighbour in one of the small courts of Germany. The attorney of the opponent pestered her with so much of chicanery and legal subtleties that she lost all patience, and interrupted him thus :—" My lord, the case is simply this : I bespoke of my opponent, the carpet-maker, a carpet, with figures which were to be as handsome as my lord the judge, and he wants now to force me to take one with horrible cari catures, uglier even than his attorney. Was I not right in breaking off the bargain ?" The court laughed at the comparison, the attorney was stupified, and the woman won her suit. NAMING A SHIP.—" Namin' a ship's jess like namin' a babe,' said old Sarachback, " fust, 'propriateness ; next or sec'nly, beauty. Call a gal Prudence an' she'll be scattered-witted as a hen turkey. Call her Grace, an' see if she aint orkud. There was Stan'fast Leach, always the fust to run when we fit the Marble headers. Beats all the poetical, romantic, sentimental-like way folks has got lately of namin' vessels. Jubiter, an' such, is all ex ploded to nothin'. Clippers is in, and gundaloes is out. There's the White Squal, an' Black Squal, an' all kind o' coloured squals. There's the Greyhound, an' the Hell hound, an' the Hoarhound. There's the Wings of the Mornin' and the Tales of My Grandfather. There's the Westward Hoe and the Rake's Progress ; all up for Cali fornia, sharp as razors, and bound to be Mar in seventy five days—neck or nothin'. Flyin' Fish, Flyin' Brick, Flyin' Squirl, and Flyin' Ointment. The❑ there's some names, as long as the clippers—reg'lar three decker syl lables,—enough to make the underwriters charge an extra quarter per cent. Now, there's thousands of papers is got to be made out on every ship, and yet folks keep the poor clerk a spellin' over and over the Sovereign of the Seas, the Queen of the Seas, the Selectman of the Billows, the Water Commissioner, and others as long as a train of dirt cai ts. I don't go for your tearin' slap-dash figuree style of craft, and don't want to see n'ary Bloomer, afloat nor ashore. Always name your vessel after the captain's wife, or out of scripture, and then you're safe against pre sumption and poetry.—Boston Post. ELECTION PETITIONS The following is a listof 120 members petitioned against : 46 MINISTERIAL ISTS. Hanbury, Hon S B Montgomery, H L Heathcote, G H Peacocke, GM W Herbert, Sir Thos Pigot, Sir Robert Hill, Lord A E Robertson, P F Horsfall, Thos B ,*Rumbold, Chas E Johnstone,Hn HB Smith, Sir Frederic Ker, D S ITaylor, Colonel King, James King Taylor, Hugh Kirk, William Turner, Charles *Lacon, Sir E Vance, John Macaulay,Kenneth Waddington, Davd Mackenzie, W F Wellesley, Lord C Mare, Chas John Whitmore, Henry Miller, Travener J Woodd, B T Mills, Arthur IWyndhatri,General Astell, J H Bagge, Wm Bateson, T Bentinck, George P Booker, Thos Wm Booth, Sir R G Bremridge, Richd Brisco, Musgrave Butt, Isaac Dodd, George Du Cane, Charles Fraser, Sir Wm A George. John Gipps, H Plumptre Grogan, Edward Hamilton, J Hans 4 OPPOSITIONISTS. Aglionby, Henry A Fitzgerald, Sir J F O'Brien, Cornelius Alcock, Thomas Forster, M O'Brien, Patrick Armstrong, R Gardner, Richard O'Brien, Sir T Ball, John Goderich,Viscount i Oliveira, Benjamin Barnes, Thomas Gower, Hon F L Osborne, Ralph Bass, MichaelThos Graham, Sir Jas Peto, S M Bell, James Henchy, D O'Con iPhillimore,John G Bland, L H Higgins, Geo G 0 ,Ponsonby, A G J Boyle, Hon Col Kennedy,Tristraml Price, Sir Robert Brady, John Keogh, William Price, Wm Philip Carter, Samuel King, Hon PJ L Ricardo, John L Challis,MrAldrmn,Lawless,Hon Cecillßussell, W F Chaplin, Wm Jas Clay, James Clifford, H Morgan Cockburn, Sir A E Collier, Robert P Crook, Joseph Dent, J D Duffy, Charles G Eccles, William Esmonde, John Lowe, Robert Sadleir, J Lucas, Frederick Scully, Francis Mackinnon, W A Stapleton, John M`Taggart, Sir J Swift, Richard Hagan, V Him Towneley, Charles Maguire, John F Wall, Charles B Mangles, Ross D Walmsley, Sir J Mills, T Warner, Edward I .llilnes, Richard 111 Westhead, J P B qy opposition) Whatman, James 3eorge H Wickham, H W T B .M`Ghie M urpl. Fitzgerald, John D Norreys, Sir D J IWilson, -.Nlatthevs * These recognisances have been declared informal. MARTIN LUTHER. LECTURE AT THE COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION. On Friday evening last, an interesting lecture was de livered at the above institution, by the Rev. S. B. Sutton, Incumbent of St. Peter's Church, Everton, on the" Life and Times of Martin Luther." After introducing his subject, the Lecturer said that all ages and nations have had their great men ; men who had a mission to their fellows ; men who would be heard whe ther we would hear or forbear, and who could command attention. These great men had all one father—even Adam. They had the same flesh and blood, were cheered by the same sun, had the same wants, and were all mem bers of the same family ; for all of them were of God's family. They arose in different periods, under widely dif ferent circumstances ; in nations the most civilized and the most barbarous. They were, moreover, stars of dif ferent magnitudes,—some shining with the greatest lustre, and some with lesser brightness. But none of them lived in vain ; though some of them were great warriors, some poets, some moralists and philosophers, who vigor ously exposed the errors of their fellows, and struck out new truths for other minds to perfect; and some set them themselves to defend truth against error, and thus be came the reformers of mankind. A great living writer would have us believe that all great men were constituted alike that Burns and Newton, Luther and Wellington, had the same characteristics, and that they differed only in the world's reception of them. There are, however; spurious great men as well as real ones. There are Paines and Voltaires, Humes, and Gibbons, and Joe Smiths, as well as Miltons and Newtons, Bacons and Lockes ; but all are heroes to their several followers. Christian men have their heroes also ; but they are hewn out of a different quarry—are coined from a different mint. They are God's men, doing God's work and will. Has any other age or people seen such heroes as the Hebrew prophets ? They have long ceased to give utterance to their divine inspirations ; but there is not a Christian land in the world where their voices are not still heard. And who is there that has received the light of Gospel, but has blessed God for having sent to us the Christian reformers? Where is the social-hearted German who does not rever ence the name of Martin Luther ?—where the English man who honours not John Wickliffe ?—where the canny Scot who does not glory in John Knox,—or the Swede who fails to revere the memory of Zuingle ? It was theirs to make the beauty and holiness of the Bible known throughout Europe ; and their writings have never lost their charm. Above all,—and here lies the gist of the whole : they believed what they taught, and they spoke because they believed.—(Loud applause.) They tried their armour on their own consciences before they ventured to use it in doing battle with the errors of others ;—as David refused to put on the armour of Saul, because he had not assayed it. The lecturer then referred to the difficulty of the task which he had that night undertaken—not from any want of materials, but from their abundance, and the labour required judiciously to select them. Looking, however, at the wheels which set the character of Martin Luther in motion, they would find that his father, in the fifteenth century, was a poor peasant, living on the bor ders of the Thuringian forest, and doing his duty in the sphere to which it had pleased God to call him. That peasant's name was John Luther, and, being a younger brother, by the old law of the country he derived no inheritance from his father, so that John Luther was obliged, according to an expression common in Lancashire, to " rough it." But his perseverance and application enabled him to keep his family, and to save about £l2O in money. He was subsequently made councillor of the town of Mansfeld, the place in which he lived ; and, from all that we know of him, he appears to have been a model of what a working man should he. Instead of wasting his means in drinking and smoking, he thought and stu died good things. Instead of making his children work hard for him, while he lived in idleness, as many persons do in this town, he worked hard for them, even till blood was sometimes drawn from him by his laborious occupa tions ; and his wife seconded his efforts in all things, so that they lived very haupily together. Martin Luther, their their son, was born Nov. 10, 1483, at Eisleben, in Lower Saxony, at 11, p.m.—the great hero of the Protestant Reformation, and of the sixteenth century. His parents paid the greatest attention to the training of their child, though both seem to have dealt somewhat harshly with him. Generally, the mother is a city of refuge to her children, but the mother of Martin Luther was of sterner stuff than most mothers ; and one day she so severely chastised him about a nut, that he could never forget it in after years. Had they understood phrenology, and ex amined his bumps, they would probably have treated him with more gentleness—(laughter)—but at home, both by his father and his mother, and at school, he found that those who had him in charge never intended to " spare the rod and spoil the child ;" and he used to say, when he had grown up to be a man, that the treatment he expe rienced nearly made him spirit-broken. He stated that he had got flogged one morning fifteen times running. With regr.rd to spiritual training, however, he was treated most worthily, for his parents began with religion. At twelve years old he was sent to Magdeburg, where he studied diligently, and thence was removed to Erfurt, where, in the library of his college, he first had an oppor tunity of reading a copy of the Bible—the true word of God. This first awakened in his mind new impulses, and soon afterwards, having overworked himself in preparing for his examination, he was seized with serious illness, and expected death, when an old priest besought him to look for salvation to the atoning blood of Christ. About the same time, a friend and fellow-student, named Alexis, was murdered ; and on returning home through the forest Luther was overtaken by a terrible thunder-storm. He then fell on his knees and vowed the remainder of his life to God. Agreeably to what was at that time considered the fulfilment of this vow, he entered a monastery, where he soon discovered the idleness and vicious lives of the monks—being sent out to beg in the streets, while they lived luxuriously in the cloisters. God had evidently sent him thither, in order that he might see what religion was not. He was subsequently sent on a mission to Rome, where he saw that still greater debaucheries were practised by the priesthood of Anti-Christ. Julius 11. was then Pope, a man who was fearfully ambitious, who was fond of war, and placed himself at the head of his armies, instead of attending to the duties of religion. Luther then saw that the Papal church, as it existed, was vile and debased, and that its services were a mere mockery ; and he afterwards said, that, if there he a hell, Rome must be built upon it ; but he added, that he would not for a hundred thousand florins have missed seeing Rome. After his return home, Pope Leo X. issued a bull for the sale of indulgences, and sent a number of agents throughout Europe, allowing them a per centage for selling his letters, These purported to remit all venial sins at a certain scale of charges. A man might purchase permission to marry two wives, although he had one already alive, fora few ducats; he might steal from a church, or commit almost any offence, if he was willing and able to pay the fixed price of the Papal indulgence. The chief instrument for the sale of these letters of in dulgence was an old man of 73, himself a great sinner, and concerning whom the Emperor Maximilian had given orders that he should be put into a sack and thrown into the river. This man's name was Tetzel (concerning whose proceedings the lecturer narrated many character istic particulars). It was against these indulgences that Luther first raised his reforming voice. He wrote and nailed up at the church door 95 theses, which at once created a strong sensation throughout Germany. They were read in the monasteries and the uni versities, and eventually reached Rome, whither Luther was cited to answer for them. He next assembled a large congregation at Wittenberg, where, having read the Pope's decree against himself, he committed it to the flames. He was then excommunicated ; but, subsequently, was induced to go to defend his principles, and expose the errors of papacy to the Diet which had been summoned at Worms, consisting of a large number of bishops and archbishops, nobles, and princes of the empire. There, feeling that he was the champion of truth, he defended himself manfully; and his defence is now producing its good fruits throughout the Christian world. The lecturer then related the main facts of Luther's subsequent life— his retreat to the Castle of Wartenburg, his steadfast preachings of the Gospel, and his wrestlings with the devil—who he believed continued to haunt him in a tangible, bodily form, till the period of the Reformer's death, in his 64th year. The leading traits of Luther's character were—that having embraced the truth, nothing could deter him from maintaining it ; devotional feeling ; strong belief in a superintending providence ; and a stern adherence to the permanent authority of the Holy Scrip tures. Mr. Sutton subsequently described some features in the back-sliding tendencies of certain clergymen of the Church of England at the present day, in the manifestation of a strong leaning towards the errors of Rome, and a dis like of what they designate Bibliolatry ; and concluded by exhorting his hearers to preserve their attachment to the written word of God, and to assist with all their hearts in spreading the light of evangelical Christian truth. (Loud applause.) A vote of thanks to the lecturer, moved by the Rev. Williams, curate of St. Peter's Church, was carried by acclamation ; and the Rev. Mr. Sutton having briefly responded, the auditory separated. NOVEL TOLL-TAKING. — The accounts of the late floods give an amusing incident at Gloucester. It is something novel for a man to demand toll from his bedroom window, when his gate was under water, but such appears to have been the case in the following instance, related by a far mer of his man, whom he had sent on an errand :—" The little muscular blood mare which took him is deserving of the highest praise, be being the first man who faced the water into Gloucester, after the flood became so high as to be thought dangerous to pass. He tells me, for a mile. and-a-half there was nothing to guide him but a high hedge on one side of the road, and many times he saw nothing but the mare's head ; as he says, it was nothing but the mare's game which saved him, for every time the water went over her back she would snort and press for ward with determined vigour. At the toll-gate, which was nearly at the far end of the flood going into Glouces ter, the toll-keeper was driven up-stairs, who, with a lad der at his window, stepped out with one foot on the gate post to demand his toll, there being nothing visible but the tops of the two posts. The poor fellow, who is a most faithful man, and dexterous among horses, acknow ledged he was frightened for the first time in his life." UNSEEMLY FRACAS.—On Wednesday, at Bow-street, London, the Hon. B. Johnstone, M.P. for Canterbury,ap peared before Mr. Henry, the magistrate, charged with violently assaulting Mr. Benj. Oliveira, M.P. for Ponte fract. It appeared from the evidence, which was gone into at great length, that on Friday night, after the divi sion on the free-trade motion in the House of Commons, the complainant and defendant were walking along Pall mall, the former in company with Mr. Hastie, M.P., and the latter with Lord Drumlanrig. Both parties called a cab, and the cabman driving up to the side of the pave ment, the complainant got inside, when the defendant struck him twice in a violent manner with a cane, and then ran away. Mr. Oliveira, feeling himself aggrieved, on the following morning took out a summons against the defendant. Several witnesses were called to prove the above facts, and after some considerable conversation between the parties, Mr. henry, the magistrate, stated that the best course to pursue would be to send the case before a jury, and let them decide or !ratter at issue ris to be taker fore, order the and the defendant to be bound over to appear at the next Middlesex sessions. The parties were then bound over to appear and prosecute. GENERAL NEWS. A Max died last week, in London, of " nervous ex haustion, from drinking and from chewing tobacco." FREE PORTS.—The seven principal ports of the Canary Islands were opened as free ports on the 10th of October. GOLD.—The Duke of Wellington has arrived from Syd ney, with 21,360 ounces of gold, valued at about £86,000. MR. URIAH SCOTT, 'Wesleyan minister, of Sherborne, has been ordered by the magistracy to pay 2s. 6d. weekly for the support of the illegitimate child of Jane Hunt. MR. PETO, M.P., it is said, has purchased the building known as the Diorama, Regent's-Dark, London, for the purpose of converting it into a Baptist Meeting-house. THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL in Foreign Parts has, during the year, paid no less than £78,500 in aid of the operations of the Church at home and abroad. FEVER.—A very bad type of fever has made its appear ance at the Kingswood Collieries, near Bristol, and it is understood that as many as thirty persons have died there in one week THE EDITOR of the Agricultural Gazette begs one of his correspondents to use, in future, something less etherial than sky-blue ink, which does not agree well with old eyes. PANIC IN THE WHISKEY TRADE.—By the expectation that the Chancellor of the Exchequer would propose to raise the duty on the Scotch distiller, no less than 400,000 eallons of whiskey were taken out of bond lass week in Glasgow. DIVORCE.—In the appeal " Giels v. Giels," the House of Lords has confirmed the power of the Scotch courts to grant a divorce " a vincula matrimonii" after a separation " a manse et tlioro" has been granted by the ecclesiastical courts in England. BARON ALDERSON gave it as his opinion, the other day, that the term "menial" applied to all residing intro mcenia, and that a governess so residing accordingly fell within the description of a menial servant, and was entitled only to a month's notice. Miss CAMPBELL'S CASE.—Anne Campbell, late Sister of Mercy, charged with robbing Mrs. Phillips, was tried on Wednesday, at the Middlesex Sessions. Mr. Bodkin withdrawing from the prosecution, the prisoner was de clared not guilty, and discharged. LOVE TILL DEATH.—A servant girl has bequeathed to the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Bene volent Society a legacy of £5O, out of her hard-earned savings, in remembrance of her engagement to a young sailor at Sunderland, who was drowned. THE COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH have decided in the case of " Regina v. Ashton," that playing at dominoes in a public house, not for money, is not gaming, and quashed the conviction of the defendant by the magistrates at West Bromwich, as it was not stated therein that money had been staked. FOREIGN VISITORS. — An order has been issued to the authorities at our different dockyards, directing that all foreigners who may pay a visit are not to be allowed, under any pretence whatever, to enter the workshops or view the vessels at present constructing. This amounts to a total exclusion.—Kentish Mercury. SOCIETY OF ARTS.—On Wednesday the first ordinary meeting of the Society of Arts was held in the Society's house, Adelphi, Lord Monteagle in the chair. Mr. H. Cole, C. 8., read a paper on the international results of the Great Exhibition, being the last of the series suggested by his Royal Highness Prince Albert. GOLD FROM AUSTRALIA.—The total amount of gold actually shipped from Victoria, and of which there were returns only up to 26th of June, exceeded 43 tons. This was independent of five or six tons then on its way to the city by the escorts, and an immense quantity in the banks, the treasury, and in the hands of private individuals. COALS.—A parliamentary paper, just printed, shows that last year there were 3,246,287 tons of coals imported as sea-borne coals into the port of London, and the net duty was £165,461 ls. 3d., at the rate of ls. Id. per ton. The coals by railways, or landwise, in the same year, reached 221,339 tins, and the net duty £12,071 ss. 51J. THE LAST OF THE STUARTS. , --It is understood that the nearest of kin to the Stuarts now living is the present King of Sardinia, and that the last descendant in the direct line was Cardinal York, who died some years since, in Rome, and was interrei in the Vatican, where a tomb is erected to his memory, inscribed, " Henry IX. King of England." ATILITIA. — The accounts from the various parts of the country continue to announce the utmost propriety of conduct, and the admirable and rapid progress made in their military duties, on the part of the new recruits. All those bodies hitherto incomplete in point of numbers are being rapidly filled up, and few or no ballots are expected to take place. THE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGA TION COMPANY held their half-yearly meeting on Saturday, when a dividend of four per cent. was declared, and a bonus of £1 per share from the profits derived on underwriting account. This company own a fleet of 31 vessels, in addition to 11 building ; the gross total being 53,850 tons, and 14,290 horse-power. THE CLERKENWELL MAGISTRATES have sent a " fa shionably-dressed middle-aged woman, named Mary Sea bright, to the House of Correction, for a fortnight, for obtaining money under the false pretence of telling per sons their fortunes. She lived in a splendidly-furnished house, and had numerous dupes. She drove one poor woman out of her mind by telling her that her husband was faithless. SOUTH AUSTRALIAN TARIFF. —The new bill has passed the Legislative Council, and will, ere this, be in operation. The following are the rates of duties upon imports :—Coffee, per cwt, lOs ; spirits, proof, per gallon, 7s ; cordials, liqueurs, &c., 7s ; spirits, perfumed, &c., 7s ; tee, per lb, 3d ; tobacco, cigars, and snuff, per lb, 2s ; wine, per gall. is ; all other goods, wares, and merchan dise are free. THE STEAMER MADRlD.—lntelligence reached South ampton on Friday that the steamer Madrid, which left that port on the 17th ult. with the Peninsular mail, and had not been heard of at Vigo on the 23d ult., although due there on the 20th, bad arrived at Vigo on the 24th, and was to proceed to Lisbon the same day without calling at Oporto. The Oporto mails were to be left at Vigo, to be sent overland. THE MUTINY IN THE MELBOURNE.—An investigation, which has been going on at Southampton into the mutiny on board the steamer Melbourne, was brought to a close on Saturday, when James Flinn was committed for trial at the next assizes, on the charge of murdering the de ceased Cohn Lamont ; and the boatswain's-mate, Chris tian Johanson, was sentenced to six weeks' hard labour for not obeying the lawful commands of his captain and officers. A FATAL WAVE.—The Fair Kathleen, of Tynemouth, while off Scilly on the 28th ult., on her passage to Venice, from the Tyne, and in a gale of wind from the W.S.W., was struck with a terrific sea, which swept her decks, stove in her boats, carried away the bulwarks, and drowned the mate and two seamen. The master received a severe scalp wound, and another seaman was disabled by the same fearful disaster. The vessel has been got into Cowes, strained, and making water. A REMEDY FOR JIBBING HORSES has been suggested by a correspondent, which, having witnessed in India, he practised with success the other day on the horses of an omnibus, though laughed at by the crowd on first making his proposal to get a slight rope and attach it to one of the fore-feet of the stubborn animal, and the person ho' ' ing the other end of the rope to advance a few taking with him the horse's foot, when as a ma course, the horses and omnibus must follow. SALE OF A WIFE.—One of these disgraceful exhib tions took place the other evening at the Cardigan Arm! Kirkstall-road, Leeds. A man named W. Bean has coin bited with a married woman named Martha Spence ; an the woman's husband, W. Spence, at her solicitation, agreed to " sell" her to her paramour. She was taken to the Cardigan Arms in a halter, and sold, in the presence of the company drinking there, for a sovereign. The trio then sat down to a jollification.—Leeds Times. BURNING OF TURPENTINE WORKS.—On Friday_a fire broke out in the range of premises belonging to Messrs. Grace and Co., white-lead manufacturers and turpentine distillers, Thames.-bank, Pimlico. The various hands employed on the mills were at once sent for, and they went to work in a praiseworthy manner, by throwing many tons weight of sand, gravel, and earth upon the flames, and succeeded so well in their object that the business of the firm will not be retarded by the damage sustained. FRIGHTFUL FIRE-ARMS ACCIDENTS. - Wm. Norman, aged nine, and another boy, were playing on Saturday with gunpowder, when they ignited it, and Norman, who was standing over it, received the fire in his face, which was frightfully disfigured, and it is feared that he will lose his sight. On Sunday, as Henry Taylor and a compa nion was shooting birds in a field, they took separate sides of a hedge, when Taylor's companion fired through the hedge, the whole charge entered his arm, shattering it in a frightful manner. THE FLoons.—The waters still continue to cover the land for a great distance round Windsor, and much incon venience to all parties, with a vast amount of positive suffering amongst the poorer classes, is the natural con sequence. Subscriptions to relieve [the neceseities of the latter have been set on foot at Windsor, Eton, and Datchett, and it is understood that Her Majesty, with considerate benevolence, commanded that the most de serving of the humble claimants should be ascertained and relieved. The bodies of the men drowned last week have not yet been discovered. ELOPEMENT. —An extraordinary sensation has been created in Sidmouth, by the elopement of a wealthy heiress with the son of a baronet, to the great discom fiture of her parents, who had, it is said, a more favoured, or rather favourite swain in view for the young lady, who, in addition to expectations and reversions, has fifteen thousand charms in her favour. The happy pair were pursned by mamma, a footman, and policeman, to Exeter, but the trio arrived just in time to be too late. Various rumours are afloat as to the motive which in duced the lady to take such a step. The happy pair are believed to be in London.—Exeter Gazette. SUBSTITUTE FOR GUANO.—At a monthly council of the Royal Agricultural Society, Lord Ashburton in the chair, a report on the subject of the society's prize for the discovery of a substitute for Peruvian guano, not ex ceeding £5 per ton, was unanimously adopted. The re port recommends £lOOO, and the gold medal of the so ciety, for the discovery . of a manure equal in fertilising properties to the Peruvian guano, and of whi c h an un limited supply can be furnished to the English farmer at a rate not exceeding La per ton. The prize originated on a proposition made by several active members of the so ciety, in consequence of the result of the discussion on the Lobos Island question. The testimonial in favour of Blair tic Pills, from Garret _Foster Gill, I Gotit-and Rheuma -147, New Bond " Whenever 1 feel aching, I have instant ireet, London, conclud any symptoms of the recourse to this medic to me is so valuable th were it not that th ,ve ceased, I should Lain to that cause y health has not it legree,rl the ter:46y - of B Sold Vail modlcine ven'3 trary, I believe that nprovemer litaszow— Mr. -Blair !lirn into custod . per box. to seven I's' transportation RoMISH TYRANNY. - At Southwark police-court, Mr Secker granted a warrant against a Romish priest, for as saulting a poor woman, who stated that the priest called at her lodging, and inquired if she had had a child bap tised by the Rev. Mr. Armstrong ; and upon her replying in the affirmative, he got into a great passion, and said that both she and her offspring were sure to go to hell. She begged him to leave, but, lifting his umbrella, he gave her several blows with it over her head and shoulders, and then quitted. FRIGHTFUL OCCURRENCE.—OnFriday week an accident of a fearful character took place in the East India Dock, Poplar. A large number of men were engaged in landing foreign deals, when one of the piles toppled over, and one of the men, unable to get out of the way, was crushed beneath the ponderous mass of timber. The body, when extricated, presented an awful appearance—the head being crushed to atoms, and other parts terribly disfigured. He must have been killed instantaneously, and it is wonderful more lives were not sacrificed, as numbers of men were constantly round the spot. SMUGGLING TOBACCO.—I❑ the Court of Exchequer, on Monday, actions were sustained against three persons, named Archer, Hammond, and Biggs, the captain and crew of the Alert, charged with having illegally unshipped and harboured, at Ipswich, eighty bales of tobacco, which had not paid duty. A verdict was entered for the crown in each case, giving penalties of £784, the value of the tobacco, including duty. Similar actions were sustained against one Prentic, and four others of the ship Neptune, for landing two hundred bales of tobacco, the penalty in each case being laid at £1,960: making a total of 11,952 penalties for smuggling. SUPERSTITION. — The Inverness Courier relates an in stance of gross superstition in Rosshire. In the centre of St. Mary's Isle, in Loch I , ,laree, is a deep well, reputed to have been consecrated by the saint to the cure of the insane. The other day, a mother took her imbecile daughter to the island to cure her. Resisted by other persDns, she compelled the girl to drink of the water of the well, and then ducked her in it ; after this the girl was towed round the island behind a boat, and at midnight again plunged in the well. The result was, not that the girl was cured, but that the quiet imbecile was converted into a raving maniac. Mr. GEORGE LEADBITTER, the well-known Bow-street officer, in the days when such a name was the terror of London pickrocliets, met his death through accident on . . Friday. He was returning home in a cal 3, and when opposite the junction of Lower Grosvenor-place and Victoria-road, adjoining the Royal Mews, Buckingham Palace, he suddenly shot his head out of the window to call to the driver, who was taking the wrong turning► when, being a large, stout-bodied man, and the cab wheels on the backing turn, the weight of his body, so forcibly thrown on the opposite side, overturned the vehicle, which fell on the same side, crushing him so severely that he died shortly afterwards. RAILWAY ARRANGEMENTS.—It is said that the long pending arrangements between the London and North western and the North Staffordshire Railway Companies have been brought to a conclusion, and only await the final consent of all parties. The terms are, we under- . stand, 3 per cent. for the first year, 31 per cent. for the' second year, and 31 per cent. for the third year. One peculiar point is, that, whilst both parties are benefited,' the public will also be sharers in the benefit. To Man chester they will be particularly important; for, by the acceleration consequent upon carrying them out, the distance between that town and London will be accom plished in four hours and a half. HOME SLAVERY.—SevereI ladies have written repu diating any share in the meeting at Stafford-house against slavery, on the ground that the Americans could too truly turn round and say, look at home. Lady Kaye Shuttle worth writes to say that had she been well enough to attend the meeting, she meant to have told her fair compatriots in plain terms :—" So long as American women can justly taunt the women of England with the neglect, ill-usage , and starvation payment of the lady teachers employed in their fandlies, there is little hope of their listening to our protests on the subject of slavery. Let us reform our schoolrooms, and we may expect them to reform the cabins of their slaves. THE NATIONAL DEFENCES.—The Morning Reread states that orders have recently been issued to hasten:the preparations for commencing the construction of the bat t e-ies in the Isle of Wight, and to expedite the works es much as possible. It is proposed to add to the present strength of the Royal Marines 1,500 men. The same paper adds :—" We stated, some time since, that the naval forces of England would include ten screw line-of battle ships. We believe that before this time next year we shall have double this number of two and three deckers. propelled by screw machinery, afloat. Messrs. Penn and Co., and Messrs. Maudslay and Field, are ordered to con struct screw machinery for eight of the line-of-battle sh:l ,s in course of construction." A PLURALIST.—There is a clergyman in Nottingham shire, who holds no less than three places of church pre ferment—thatis, hehas no less than three livings, although , he has a great deal of difficulty in making a good living out of the whole—namely, Sutton-in-Ashfield (with El population of about 8,000 or 9,000), Skegby, and IVrans' field Woodhouse. This rev. pluralist receives for the duties of those places just £53 13s. 4d. a year ; but there is a reason for this in the shape of a lay improprietor, who has got hold of the good things, and is actually drawing from these three places nearly £lO,OOO a year—namely? from Sutton-in-Ashfield, £7,600, and from the other ttre paces £2,ooo—while the clergyman who has the superin tendence is starving, or nearly so. THE NEW CRYSTAL PALACE.—The decision of the government on the application of the directors of the Crystal Palace Company for a charter has now been given' This decision had been postponed until the opinion of the law officers of the crown had been ascertained as to the bearing of an old act of George lll.—prohibiting tb e opening of disorderly places, under the pretence of dis cussing religious and political questions, on Sundays— )n the case of the Crystal Palace. This opinion is to the" eff.ct that the wording of the statute in question ten ders it illegal to open any portion of the Crystal Palace or park on Sundays, and consequently the charter ha g been given with a clause providing that no such opening shall take place, unless the legislature shall think fit to sanction it. THE GREAT EXHIBITION SURPLUS.—The second re-- port of the commissioners of 1851 was issued on TuesdaY , by which it appears the commissioners have purchased the Gore House estate, at Kensington, facing Hyde-park' containing 21,1 acres, for which they have given £60,000• They have also passed a resolution authorising the outlay' of a sum not exceeding £150.000 of the surplus in the, purchase of land, on the condition that government wou l d engage to recommend to parliament the contribution of sum of like amount towards carrying out the views of t s ' commission as to the establishment of certain institutio ns. of an educational and national character on the g round i" purchased. Ministers having given this assurance, t; commissioners purchased 48 acres of land adjoining Gn i ', House estate, for the sum of £153,500. Of this amou rs £15,000 has been paid already as a deposit.—Daily Ne ws ' CHARTERED COMPANIES.—A deputation on the saT ject of the Charter applied for by the London, Liverpoo r and North American Steam Screw Company, had an ! Il i ; terview with the Right Hon. J. W. Henley, on TueE° ll) at the Board of Trade. The deputation consisted of From the Merchants' House of Glasgow—Mr. Jae.: Hannan (Lord Dean of Guild), Mr. James Rodger , Thomas Richarlson, Mr. George Gillespie, and - 0▪ 1 ' • Thomas Buchanan. From the Chamber of Commerce °f Glasgow—Mr. Hugh Cogan (chairman), Mr. John . Kinnear (secretary), Sir Jam 1% Jaynes Anderson, M.P., ,'„ t William Brown, and Mr. George Binns. From the derwriters' Association of Glasgow—Mr. William (chairman), and Mr. Peter Clouston. From the Se` l• 1 ; owners' AssOciation of Glasgow—Mr. Allan Gilmo u From the Chamber of Commerce of Greenock Robert Steele, and Mr. Thomas 0. Hunter. From it. -Mr. David Gilchristson. From Sunderlan d , From London—Mr. M'C a l mon t. The ue c , - f putation accompanied by the following members.. Parliament : Mr. John Macgregor (Glasgow), ; George Macartney, Mr. Alexander Hastie, Mr. Ken n ,`f . r , Macaulay, Mr. Charles Hindley, Lord Gooderich , ' 7 l y, Turner, Mr. George Duncan, Mr. Seymour, Mr' p Lockhart. Mr. Davison, Mr. Cairns, Mr. Charles COI and Mr. James Clay. EMIGRATION.—On Friday an interesting pap e r s r g printed by order of the House of Commons. It all efj a t that there are fourteen officials on the fixed establishrne_s, of her Mjesty's Land and Emigration Gemrnissionetbe The highest salary is £BOO a-year to the secretary, ,anti e s, lowest £55 to one of the messengers. There are, ue'' 0. 42 extra clerks and a boy. There has been a greatelp, crease in the business of the commissioners, as wil l he re pear from the fact that, in the month of June, 18 50, tyo were 1564 letters received, being at the rate of 62 Phe working day ; and 1765 letters despatched, being stool rate of 71 per working day ; whilst, in the same In„°,l of the present year, 18,910 letters were received, or !g le e day ; and 12,184 despatched, or 468 per day. 13e " 3 0• the officers mentioned, there are emigration officelOi n ts, sistants, and clerks ; and, in addition, 31 selecting - ag e ea' who have no fixed salary, but are paid fees on a . bet a, grants between the ages of 14 and 50 selected by,`,,iti who may be approved by the commissioners, an" - til ls' mately proceed to the colonies in one of the CO n ' r 1 4 " sioners' vessels, No fees are paid on children underied years of age, or on persons over 50. For each el r os , ; couple the fee is £1 ; for each unmarried woman 1 ears and for each unmarried man, 7s. In the last two loco ending the 30th of June 136 ships chartered by the .10 , missioners sailed, of which 31 went to South ju st the From the Ist of July. 1850, to the 30th of June l as '2c l .; receipts by the commissioners were £807,31 0 14 %dea and the payments £441,015 19s. 6d. The uneXP e r tlo o balance is deposited in the Bank of England, the P n ..:o 3 e• not required for immediate use being invested in °' quer- bills. TRANSPORTATION OF A CLERGYMAN. — At t he Brtß Der ton Sessions on Thursday, the notorious Rev. Je ll . ll bard ; rington was tried for obtaining from Miss Anna ~, ~ son, a governess, four £5 bank notes, under fra ud pretences. There were also several other indienugh charging him with swindling. The prisoner, 911 ":', 0 30 s. clergyman of the Church of England, wee one of ta„;ole7 notorious swindlers about town, having been seve r _ l ,;',b a before apprehended on charges similar to the pres e f s e th e had hitherto managed to escape. In the present re' prosecutrix wrote in reply to an advertisement, ,a" to ow e ceived an answer from the prisoner that he wished t hat 1) 0 the advantage of a governess for his children , a nd ou t to ; desired to see her, as he was about to send the'" shoal Australia with many other young friends that n e e sta blO sail in his own vessel ; and that he was about te y e rrif, a college in Geelong. The letter was signed " j otber 1- a ton, LL.D., Manor Cottage, Rottingdean.” . ters having passed, the prosecutrix, accomParl i ori l _ friend, went down to Brighton, and had an intersovverne!.7, Berrington, when he said he wished to engage 3 g 0 0 0 ' 3 ' 0 and housekeeper at a salary of 120 guineas. W . . his 0 0, and that it was his intention to go to Geelong o,ovio ship, the Diligent. He also stated that he had sna l id but that it was difficult to ny,ke r. figure with tn i _b l „ . 0 1 0 0 , 'ngland, and that when he got to Geelong the 'ld a college and a church. Upon the faith 01. this (et!, siltation she wtiel he not otlh In the soonerptir,iesocnroeeucrrestihev received coi.hfta_hici.,:ent;eeliwtec.:l:2o:l3o character, ants which being refu s S '6O l was found guiltY,