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Etttraturr. POETRY LADY FLORA HASTINGS' BEQUEST, (From Notes and Queries.) All who reverence and love the memory of Lady Flora Hastings; all who have had the hrippiress of a personal acquaintance with that gentle and gifted being ; who have mourned over her hapless fate; who have read her poems, so full of beauty and promise, will receive her "Last Bequest" with feelings of deep interest. This poem has never before been published.—EnzA. Oh, let the kindred circle, far in our northern land, From heart to heart draw closer affection's strength'ning hand To fill my place long vacant, soon may onr loved ones learn- For to our pleasant dwelling I never shall return. Peace to each heart tha . t troubled my course of happy years Peace to each angry spirit that quench'd my life in tears! Let not the thought of vengeance be mingled with regret ; Forgive my wrongs, dear mother! seek even to forget. Give to the friend, the stranger, whatever once was mine; Nor keep the smallest token to wake fresh tears of thine, — save one, one loved memo, ial, with thee I fain would leave: 'Tis one that will not teach thee yet more for me to grieve. 'Twas mi Nnen early chi'dhood turn'd to its sacred r The gay, the thou 'Tcsis Mine Or s f youtb e - ear to truth deep devotion bung breathless on peace, and promise, till I could call them ift of heavenly lot •akening lescOaded . frcm above Whenever had afll 'Twas mine Of pardon, Till o'er my s The spiri Unmark'd, unhelp'd, unheeded, in heart I've walk'd alone, Unknown the prayers I've uttered, the hopes I held, unknev Till in the hour of trial, upon the mighty trai With strength and succour laden, to bear the ight of pain Then, Oh, I fain The hidden mine Take, then, the g . Thy child's last t 'mild leave thee, for no are few, •e, whenc all my stre iy mother, and, till the patl; . is trod cherish—it is the Book of God. VARIETIES In the year cattle were hoil( and Port Philip A lawyer on 1849, 743,513 sheep and 45,050 horned ed down for tallow in New South Wales lunatic as be wished his r o return to the liberal class of people who CAI, MARRIAGE logical marriage took place which set , urhood in a flutter:—Miss Hen-rietta )ousel to Mr. Robbin Sparrow, by the sman being Mr. Philip Hawk, Lark-ins. ORNITHOL —ln Edinin iollowir the whole n Peacock was Rev. Mr. Date, the b and the bridesmaid M .gh the A PATRIARCHAL LOTHARIO.—An old man, aged 86, belonging to Strathglass, who had five sons, two daugh ters, and forty-two grandchildren, recently got married to a fair maid of thirty ! One of the bridesmaids on the oc casion was great-grand-daughter to the woman who acted arrinee xty years ago. B third Zr aptised by the tely after the marria übrity of Strathgi g the watch- to be in the habit of perpetually frightening the 1_ death to assure them that they are safe. Imagine all the dogs of Constantinople in profound affliction and pain, and you may form some idea of the howling of Vera Cruzian serenos. They have that pretty name, not cer tainly from the statefrom which they have suddenly aroused and horribly startled the unfortunate slumberers, but be cause in the Mexican climate in general the state of th weather (which thi and so they are cor have to r g a yellinv tempestuous st of their terrible hollabulloo, I believe, antly cryi nd " Ave Marie Purissima railed State I very differ in that capacity at to crown all, his fo same de man mime was perfoi•ined. So much —John 0' Groat's Journal VERA CRUZIAN =en make here is as consists of the hour Lady E. S. Wortley' is a fig sort of M parody on queen hon humanity of the plified in their taurornachia —" pan y t " are in Ar the Ul Clumsy beyond compari Sennir nd the exl 1. I witr If a funny one which the guese people w d the cha teristic s singularly exern- Bull-fights they must have et cir•censes."—for they. ton do not like to hurt any li ing thing, and so the bull comes in with two square blocks of wood on his horns and a har suspended between them. The picadors are mounted on mules, and the character of the matador is by especial desire omitted. The bull can roll the mules and their riders over and over in the dust, to his heart's content, and they in turn can belabour him with thick sticks to theirs, but no wounding, o s tolerated and when the audience, or rather spectators, have had enough of the thumping spectacle, the bull is allowed to go back again to his pastures and get his bruises healed, and doubtless becomes all the more " meek and mild" for the drubbing he has received.—Christmas's Shores and Is lands of the Mediterranean. DANGEROUS BIRD -NESTING.—WhiIe Alexander Wil son, the subsequently celebrated ornithologist, was strug gling against poverty in his early days as a weaver, he was much importuned by a shopmate to write him an epitaph. This individual had excelled in little, except, to use the expressive Scottish word, daundering about the hedge-rows on Sundays, in search of birds' nests. After much pressing, Wilson complied, and hit off the following : " Below t stane John Allan rest, t hail Sabbatli'da'ys foi = nest But always sought in vain." Had Mr. Allan pursued his nidal investigations in Ja maica, his curiosity might have met with an unpleasant check. A young gentleman of similar tastes, observing a parroquet enter a hole in a large duck-ant's nest situated on a bastard cedar, mounted to take her eggs or young. Arrived at the place, he cautiously inserted his hand, which presently came in contact with something smooth and soft ; he thought it might be the callow young, but Laving some misgivings, descended and procured a stick ; having again mounted, he thrust in the stick, and forced in the whole upper part of the structure, when, to his utter discomfiture and terror, an enormous pellow boa was disclosed, his jaws retaining the feathers of the par roquet, which had just been swallowed. The serpent in stantly darted down the tree, and the curious youth de sc2nded scarcely less rapidly, and fled, cured for a time of bird-nesting.—Bentley's Miscellany. A BULL AT A PICNIC.—A singular incident occurred to a select party of ladies, who last week went into the country to enjoy a social picnic. These fair ones having selected a field, not far distant from this town (Doug las), which they thought would just suit their purpose, proceeded to make the necessary arrangements ; and, having found a rising knoll, the cloth was speedily laid, and over this cloth was placed, in due order, cold ham, tongue, pies, tarts, biscuits, cheese, butter, with a quan tum sufficit of ale, porter, wine, and other accompani ments. It appears that in this field some cows were quietly grazing ; but they had with them what the ladies should not have overlooked, a protector, and, just as the ladies were going to partake of the good things which they bad provided, Master Bull walked forward in great ma jesty, and introduced himself into the society with some loud boohs ! As he did so, the daughters of Eve screamed, scampered off, and climbed up some trees which were for tunately close by. The bull, having a fair field, upset with his horns the table-cloth, with its contents, scatter ing them in admirable confusion in various directions ; and, to make the business more agreeable, he remained some hours on the same spot, apparently enjoying the sport which he had occasioned ! When it suited Master Bull's convenience, he at length took his departure, and the ladies effected a speedy retreat to town ; but they are determined never to patronise another picnic without having the protection of some of the lords of the creation, —nor are we inclined to blame them for this judicious re solve.—Manx Sun. THE Two FIRST GF.ORGES.—George the First kept his wife far away from England, immured in a continental dungeon, while the two Hanoverian ogresses f his harem, the " Schulenberg" and the Kielmanseck," the " May Pole" and the " Elephant and Castle," as they were nick named, openly disposed of place and pension, selling rank and honour to the highest bidder. He hated his son and successor, who returned the compliment with interest, and destroyed his father's will as a last actof filial reverence. George the Second selected his wife as the special confi dante of his various connubial peccadilloes, all his liaisons being by kind permission of his better half,—an agreeable and respectable domestic arrangement. As he and his father detested each other mortally, so did he and his queen continue this family affection in the direct line, by a cordial abliorence of their own eldest son, which occa sioned many scenes, and much expenditure of passion, to the scandal of the few who thought correctly, and the amusement of the many who preferred mischief above everything. The king inquired of his wife, as the safest authority, whether " the beast," meaning the Prince of Wales, was really his son. Her majesty assured him he was, and then expressed her maternal feelings as follows : 7" My dear first-born is the greatest ass, and the greatest liar, and the greatest canaille in the whole world, and I most heartily wish he was out of it." There was at least no mystification in these little family dissensions. Fre derick,. Pri nce o f W a l es ( the father of George III.), who die d 1741, was undoubtedly a very objectionable person, and his demise a p u bli c benefit , as it made way for the succession of a muc h better man { . —Monthly 21Iagazine. AmEalcxN FASHIONABLE ANNERS.—At the opera, if anywhere, in a cap i ta l like this, one looks to find gentle men and such good manners as are' conventional all over us the world. It is the one pu b lic ent which has been selected as the centre for a draenasseexmclarige sub stitute for a general drawing-room —a refined l attraction ion w hich the ill-mannered would not b e lik e l y to frequent, and around which the higher classes might ga th er for the easier interchange of courtesies, and for that closer view which aids the candidacy of acquaintance. T o t h e main object of an opera , music is, in a certain sense, secondary ; and should be considered as but a lesser part of the value received for the price of an opera ticket. A f oreigner standing against the stair railing of the Astor Place Opera lobby, between the acts, and coolly looking around upon the male crowd, would imagine that the men were mos t intimately acquainted, or obstinately determined not to be acquainted at all—there is such an utter absence of any form of politeness in meeting, greeting, parting, or passing by. A man in white gloves goes elbowing through the crowd, shoving and incommoding twenty people, without care or hesitation ; another knocks your hat out of your hand, and never dreams of picking it up or beg. sing Pardon third intrudes upon two who are waver,- ing, and perhaps takes the arm of one and draws him away, without the slightest excuse or acknowledgment to the other left behind ; a fourth is reminded by a polite foreigner that he is losing his handkerchief, or that another gentleman is beckoning to him, and expresses no thanks in return. There are no polite phrases to be overheard ; no hats seem to be lifted; no smiles of courtesy or indications of respectfulness at the greeting of older men ; and no sign of the easy and unconscious hilarity which marks a man not on the look-out for a slight —none of the features, in short, which make up the physiognomy of a well-bred crowd in an opera lobby of Europe. —Hurry-Graphs, by N. P. Willis. enteral ff,itsrellanv. The Glasgow Post states that Father Gavazzi is to visit Scotland in the course of five weeks. William Canty and John Tyler have been committed for trial for the recent robbery at the Westminster Bank. The report that the pot . ato disease has made its appearance near Bristol has been contradicted. On Sunday week two young men (brothers) were unfortunately drowned while bathing near Huddersfield. The deaths in London, during last week, were 1,032, — about the average number. A monster omnibus has begun to run between Glasgow and Paisley. It carries above sixty passengers. Sir George Sinclair has announced his intention of leaving the Established Church of Scotland, and joining the Free Church. Lord Londesborough has become the purchaser of the fine estate of the late Mr. Arkwright, situate near the town of Driffield, in Yorkshire. A thousand hogsheads of ale and fifteen hundred of porter are about to sent to Bengal, for the use of the Eu ropean troops, in order to supersede spirits. In Buckley, North Wales, the teetotalers are in such force that they purpose to erect a temple capable of hold ing 3,000 persons. There are three cardinals at present in London,—the three being the Cardinal Archbishop of Cologne, the Car dinal Archbishop of Bordeaux, and Cardinal Wiseman. At the rent audit of George Marwood, Esq., of Busby hall, held at Northallerton last week, a return of £2O per cent. was made to all the tenantry on their respective rentals. The Doncaster Chronicle says a hive of bees in the zarden of the Rev. J. Watson, of Marr, swarmed on the n one week The Mornin. states that a B :sh manufacturer can produce Yaisley shawls, and make a profit by them, at half the price that a manufacturer must have in any other part of the world. Some workmen in the Wear Pottery, Sunderland, in order to punish a lad who was in the habit of drinking their beer, put some nitric acid, by way of a lark, into a glass of ale, and gave it to him : he drank it, and died. On Monday last, a fire broke out in the premises of Messrs. Hunt and Co., oil merchants, Bristol, and destroyed the whole, or nearly the whole, of the valuable stock of oil, rosin, &c. The police of Glasgow seem to be rapidly thinning the numbers of the stray curs of the place, for a local paper notices that on Saturday last no fewer than 92 dogs were drowned in the police water-butt. The Dissenting papers report that the Rev. T. T. Cuffe, .sinister of Carlisle Episcopal Chapel, has seceded ne Church of England, and declared his intention formerli f of joining the connexion of the Countess of Huntingdon. The suspension of Messrs. Charles and Wm. Brunskill, silk and riband manufacturers, of Paternoster-row and Battersea, was announced on Monday. Their liabilities are stated not to exceed £9,000, and it is estimated that the total dividend will be ss. in the pound. The bullion in both departments of the Bank of Eng land has increased from £14,198,360 to £14,317,965, being a difference of £119,605. The paper in actual cir- being a difference of £3 At the Dorset quarter sessions, on Wednesday, great regret as expressed at the very large number of crimeof wi e calendar, and which presented an increase a compared with the corresponding quarter pondent of the Time. in noticing the great slaves at present in England, suggests urea to secure the may feel inclined to go to ty of adopting some m many fugitives the Wes MURDER AT CARDIFF.—James Lovnes, a well-known " bully," of a house of ill-fame, at \Whitmore• lane, Car diff. has been fully committed to take his trial for the wilful murder of Giuseppe Samucow, an Austrian seaman, by beating his head in with a poker. The glove-makers of Derby have been reduced to such extreme distress, about five-sixths of them having been out of work for the last three months, that they have been compelled to make a public appeal for relief to their fel low-townsmen. Since our last, says the Hereford Journal, the weather has been everything that could be desired for haymaking, and a great breadth of grass has fallen under the scythe; the crop is everywhere both excellent in quality and heavy in swathe. TYNE SniewurunTs.—ln consequence of a consider able number of Shields shipwrights having now remained for some weeks unemployed, a distinguished firm of ship builders have, we understand, generously offeted to set on a new vessel immediately if the men will consent to take 48s. per week. A MODERN GONEREIL.—On Monday an old man, named Cross, formerly a farmer, being destitute, went to the house of a daughter, at Warton, Westmoreland, to ask for a home under her roof. She refused to receive him, upon which he left the house and drowned himself in a canal. Mr. Caudwell, of Oxford, who fired at a student as he was attempting to remove a cannon planted near Mr. Caudwell's house, has been committed for trial at the assizes for wilfully shooting with intent to do harm, &c. The windows of his house have beensmashed by the under graduates. SECULAR EDUCATION.—Mr. Oastler, in his admirable periodical entitled " The Home," says, " let once the restraining influence of religion be got rid of in the training of the youth of this country, and the rising generation will grow up a money-loving race of cunning infidels." BRITISH ASSOCIATION.—The twenty-first annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science commenced at Ipswich on Wednesday. The proceedings of that day were of a formal nature, and " business" was not thoroughly entered upon until Thurs day, when Prince Albert paid a visit to the savans. Several French vessels, wheat laden, have been d's charging their cargoes at Exeter during the past week. A large vessel, 200 tons register and upwards, has been dis charging her cargo, consisting of hides and horns, in the same city this week. This is the first time the Brazilian flag has been seen flying from a merchant vessel at Exeter. At the Essex Sessions, on Thursday, Walter Smith, a child, between nine and ten years of age, was indicted for wilfully placing stones upon the Maldon branch line of the Eastern Counties Railway, thereby greatly endanger ing the lives of the passengers. The prisoner was con victed, and sentenced to twenty-one days' imprisonment. John Payne, only twelve years of age, has been com mitted for trial for wilful murder. It appears that, without any provocation having been given, he stabbed a boy in the side with a knife at Horsham, and the unfor tunate youth, whose name was Wm. Gibson, died from the wound inflicted. The deceased was eleven years of age. A meeting has been held at the George Hotel, Ship ston-on-Stour, to ascertain the amount of injury sustained by the sufferers from the late destructive storms resident in Shipston and the adjoining parishes, and it was found to amount to £20.000. Several of the landed proprietors of the neighbourhood have stated, with great liberality, that the losses of their tenants shall he made up to them. DRUNKARDS IN ENGLAND AND WALES.—Mr. Neison, at the Statistical Society, lately gave an estimate of the number of drunkards in England and Wales, from which it appeared that the number of males was 53,583, end females 11,223 ; making a total of 64,806, which gives one drunkard to every 74 of the male population, one to every 434 of the female, and one in 145 of both sexes. Early on Tuesday morning last a frightful explosion of sulphur occurred in a pit belonging to Mr. George Dud ley, at the Five-ways, in the neighbourhood of Cradley. It appears that the men had descended to their work, and the doggy was absent trying the sulphur in a siding, when the explosion took place. Eight men and a boy were killed, whose bodies await a coroner's inquest. At the Coventry Sessions, on Wednesday last, Grey, the notorious horse-stealer, previously convicted at Not tingham, was brought up by writ of habeas corpus to take his trial on a charge of stealing three horses. He pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to fourteen years' fur ther transportation. His confederate Varley, alias Fletcher, was also convicted, and sentenced to fifteen yettrs' transportation. The annual Conference of the Wesleyan Methodist Preachers will shortly be held in Newcastle-on-Tyne. Its sittings will commence on Wednesday, the 30th instant. The celebrated Dr. Bunting is expected to be present rind take part in the proceedings. It appears that the Con ference will not be allowed to pass away without some efforts on the part of the expelled and separated reformers to come to an understanding with the Conference, and to such terms as will allow them to unite with the present body. EARLY CLOSING AND CHRISTIANITY.—On Sunday last, the object of the Metropolitan Early Closing Asso ciation was ably advocated at many of the parish and district churches of the metropolis, the subject announced to be preached upon being " The late-hour system the great enemy to the spiritual, mental, and physical improvement of the commercial classes." Amongst the texts selected by the different preachers were the following :—Galatians vi., 2 ; Luke vi., 31; Exodus v., part of verse 16 ; Proverbs iii., 27 ; James iv., 17 ; xii., 15 ; Matthew xviii., 33. DEATIig FROM STARVATION.—By the Registrar Gene ral's last return we are sorry to perceive that deaths from sheer want continue to increase, and swell the lists of mortality in the metropolis. Two persons have recently died from absolute privation at the east end of the town, the particulars of whose cases are as follow :—On the 21st of June a labourer, upwards of 60 years of age, was taken by the police from Angel-alley to the Whitechapel workhouse in a most dreadful state of emaciation—in deed, to use the words of a spectator, his appearance was truly horrifying . Hi s case was a t on ce seen to be hope less, arising entirely from want of food, and after linger ing a short time he expired. At the London Hospital, on the same date, another labourer, aged 42 years, died a sudden death accelerated by want. An inquest was held in this case, and a verdi c t t o t h a t e ff ect returne d. Th e return contains the d ea th s o f two children from wapt of breast milli or inanition. AN . EXCELLENT SHOT.—At Morrell Green, Takeley, Essex, a few days since, Wilkins, gamekeeper to W. F. Maitland, Esq., was challenged to shoot at and mark ninety-nine potatoes out of one hundred thrown up,for a wager of a sovereign. The potatoes were tossed straight up into the air as high as a person could reasonably throw with great exertion. 'Wilkins hit ninety-eight, and thirty tunes he marked two potatoes each time. He performed this clever undertaking with a double-barrelled gun. Much to the surprise of the congregation attending divine service in the parish church of Stepney, the doors of the sacred building were found closed on Sunday after noon last. A notice which was posted last Sunday on the doors informed the parishioners that the Bishop of London had requested Mr. Poole, the lecturer elect, to abstain from preaching for the present, a request which that gen tleman complied with. In the Consistory Court last week an application was made for a faculty to disinter the body of a female who committed suicide in London on the 30th of May last, under the supposition that she was a Miss Pope, who quitted her home at Dover on the 6th of that month, being of very eccentric habits. The security of some trust pro perty in which she was concerned was involved in the proof of her identity. A faculty was granted. On Friday, in the committee of the House of Lords on the bill of the Great Northern Railway Company for com munication with Grimsby Harbour, an extensive dealer in the London fish market stated that, by means of the railway communication between London and Grimsby, he had received 8,000 lobsters that morning, and sold them for the supply of the metropolis, the cargo leaving Grimsby at eight p.m. and arriving in London at four a.m. Devizes and the neighbourhood were visited, last week, by a most destructive storm. Several persons were struck by the electric fluid and seriously injured. Two sheep were killed. The corn crops were damaged to a lamentable extent, the wheat, in many instances, being laid prostrate. It is said that three farmers have lost £l,BOO. Numerous buildings were moe or less injured, and many large trees were torn up by the roots. Some of the hailstones which fell were more than four inches in circumference. THE LATE CURATES OF HOLY TRINITY CHURCH. — On Sunday, the Rev. F. S. Barff, 8.A., and the Rev. T. Dykes, 8.A., who recently resigned their office as curates in the Holy Trinity Church, were admitted into the Romish communion, and received the sacrament in the Roman Catholic Chapel, Jarratt-street, from the hands of the Rev. Mr. Mottler. No public avowal of the change in their principles was made by the rev. perverts, neither was there any reference made to it in the sermons preached on that day.—Hull Packet. THREE SUNS !—About half-past 5 o'clock on the morning of Saturday week, the parish clerk of White Ladies Aston was passing along the road leading from Aston to Pershore, when his attention was directed by an acquaintance whom he met to the remarkable appearance of the sun. At that particular time the sun seemed to be tripled, the real sun in the centre being brilliant as usual, with one on each side equidistant but duller, apparently 20 feet apart from the centre. This singular optical illu sion continued for some time.—Worcester Journal. RAPACITY OF A CUCKOO. -- A few days ago, a workman of Mr. Harrold. the builder, employed at the baths, observed a blackbird chased into a hovel by one of those monotonous heralds of summer ' • and after watching for some time, he followed them, when he found the poor blackbird dead, with her ovarium, or egg bag, ripped up, and quite emptied of its contents. When such facts as these become more generally known, Master Cuckoo will bear even a worse character than the one he gives of him sel f.—Leicester Mercury. The corn markets throughout the country have been in a very depressed state during the present week, and prices have receded fully two shillings a quarter upon wheat. The advance previously obtained is, therefore nearly beaten down again. What else could be expected under the influence of fine weather, free trade, and large impor tations from all parts of the world ? It is assumed by many experienced persons that, in the event of the coming harvest lant and '1 _mg aouno. _. we,. secured, the price of wheat before the expiration of the present year will be nearer thirty than forty shillings a quarter. DUNMOW GAMMON OF BACON.—After the lapse of 10) years this gammon of bacon has been claimed by a couple in good circumstances, as farmers, at Felsted, Es sex, named Murrell, but, failing to obtain it from the lord of the manor, the inhabitants of Dunmow have pro cured one by subscription, which will be presented to them, instead of the lord's, on their taking the usual oaths, at Broomhills, near Dunrnow, on Wednesday, the 16th July. The couple will drive on to the ground (escorted by a band of tnusicl in their own carriage and horses. A large number of persons are expected to con gregate to witness the ceremony. A CHILD ATTACKED BY A RAT.---Early in the morning of Sunday week, a man living in Stirling was awakened by the loud cries of one of his children, an infant of ten der years ; and on rising to ascertain ie cause, he found the child's lip streaming with blood, without any visible means of how the wound had been inflicted. After hav ing applied a wet cloth to the cut, the parent again re tired to rest, but was soon re-awakened by the loud screams of his child. On hurriedly rising, and throwing the bed-clothes from the infant, a large rat suddenly sprang from beneath, when it was found that the arm of the child had been severely bitten by the vermin, which unfortunately succeeded in making its escape.—Stirling Journal. BALLASTING WITH WATER. — The principle of ballast ing vessels with water instead of by the ordinary means has been successfully carried out in the brig Benton, which was purchased expressly to test the practicability of the plan, which is the invention of Dr. White, of this town, who bought the vessel and fitted it with the appa ratus at his own expense. The project is one calculated to effect an immense saving of both time and money, and the result of the experiment with the Benton unquestion ably demonstrates its practicability. The water, which is admitted through an aperture in the bottom of the ves sel, is encased in bags, and is discharged through the same aperture by means of an improved patent pump, which, in this case, according to the account of Mr. Storey, the mster of the vessel, worked admirable.—New castle Journal. . An accident of a most heart-rending description oc curred at Aberdare, on Monday evening, by which four lives have been sacrificed and several persons injured. It appeared that a tram, laden with iron, which had been placed near one of the pits belonging to the Gadlys Company, by some means became detached from the fastening by which it was secured. The result was that the waggon was precipitated down the slight declivity, and dashed into the midst of part of the procession, then on its way to Abernant House, that portion of the road being very narrow, and the people consequently, closely wedged together. Some of the sufferers were dreadfully mutilated, many of them having limbs, &c., completely crushed. The majority of the injured parties were young persons. The man in charge of the truck was taken into custody by P. S. Parsons. THE TENNESSEE REPEATING RlFLE.—Within the last fortnight Lord Ranelagh, and a number of scientific gentlemen, have witnessed experiments with small arms at Chelsea, but none of the rifles experimented with come up to the Tennessee repeating rifle, which is described in the following manner by an American paper:—" By merely pulling the trigger, the rifle is loaded and discharged, and as there is a magazine of powder, balls, and caps attached, from which the rifle is supplied, the only limit to the number of successive discharges is the size of the maga zine. The rifle can, therefore, be loaded and fired from one to a thousand times in succession, or more, and this as rapidly as the trigger can be pulled, which is ordinarily about forty times in a minute. Aside from its wonderful execution, it is safer and better to handle than the com mon rifle. What a terrible front a regiment of men, armed and drilled with these rifles, would present." POPISH SCHEMES. — A " Working Man's Institution" has been set on foot in the Borough, by a Mr. Bennett , which is intended as " the commencement . of a general association of the Catholic labouring classes in London," for aiding other, and the labouring classes generally, in procuring employment, and for assisting strangers and others, whether male or female, who have no homes of their own, in finding respectable lodgings. The institu tion is also intended to " afford facilities for instruction and rational amusement, by encouraging meetings of Ca tholic societies for the working classes ;" singing and in. nocent games are to take place, and "zealous Catholic gentlemen" are expected to give lectures ; reading-rooms supplied with all Catholic newspapers arid periodicals, and with the daily London papers. and a district library are to form part of the institution. Combined with it is a coffee and dining-room, and a soup-kitchen, both selling at re duced prices. BE CAREFUL OF LOVE-LETTERS.—We give this advice in consequence of a pocket-book, now in the Police-office, containing a great number of billet doux, all sent to a young man, who, by some mistake, lost the precious treasure in a garden on the west side of the High-street, under the cloud of night. He seems to have no fewer than four sweethearts all desperately in love with him, each breathing out her very soul in the warmest expressions of t en d ern ess and affection ; every epistle, as usual, ending with a " yours till death separate us." One has suspicion that she is forsaken—another sets a tryst—and a third desires her letter to be burned—and all four seem ready to die. Poor creatures, we pity them, for none of them can have a true lover in such a gallant ; nor can he feel true love himself, for divided love was never happy. By the ad dresses to the letters it would appear that this amorous swain is a farm-servant betwixt this and Stonehaven, and we would advise our rural maids to bunt him down and duck him in the nearest burn. Let our fair friend "M. T." especially look to this.—Montrose Standard. ESCAPE OF A CARRIER PIGEON FROM THE FRANKLIN EXPEDITION.—SeveraI carrier pigeons were placed on board the Prince Albert, for the purpose of transmitting intelligence. One of these escaped at Stromness, just as the ship was putting to sea; but it found its way on board again, as appears from a note from Mr. Kennedy, which he threw overboard in a bottle, and which has been picked at Rapness, Westray, one of the northernmost of the Orkney Islands. A correspondent of the John O'Groat's Journal says :—" In your paper of the 13th instant I reported the escape of one of the carrier pigeons from the discovery vessel Prince Albert, an hour bofore she sailed for her intended destination. The following letter was written by Mr. Kennedy to A. J. Wylie, Esq., Writer, Stromness, off Hoy Sound, 3rd June, 5 P.M, and picked up at Rapness, Island of Westray, Bth June, by Mr. J. Scatter, Inspector of the Poor, and forwarded here. The following is a copy of the letter :—' Discovery Ship Prince Albert, off Hoy Sound, 3rd June, 1851, i 5 a.m --The carrier pigeon that escaped at Stromness s gain safe on bo a rd. It joined us immediately after the pilot-boat left us, and it is now with its sister. Lady Ross.—WILLIAM KENNEDY, commanding Lady Frank lin's Private Arctic Expedition.—P.o, Any person finding this will do an act of kindness by sending it to A. J. Wylie, Esq., Writer, Stromness, Mr. Wylie eV pleas e g ive petice to Lady Franklin." THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. MILITARY RIOT IN EDINBURGH.—The Lord Provost of Edinburgh had an interview on Friday with the Right Hon. the Secretary at War regarding the conduct of the 33d Regiment in the late riots between that corps and the police. In connection with this, we may state that the soldiers of the 33d Regiment were yesterday permit ted to quit the Castle for the first time since Wednesday last, where Mr. Sheriff Gordon requested that they should be confined till the excitement subsided, and that in the evening we observed an officer, with a serjeant, corporal, and 20 men, patrolling the High-street till half-past when the soldiers had all returned to barracks, besides several smaller detachments in charge of non-commis sioned officers, for the purpose of preventing any fresh outbreaks. Such duty must be very irksome and dis agreeable to the officers ; but we hope it may have the effect of impressing those under their command with a more corre.lt sense of their duties than they evinced du ring the recent disturbances.—Edinburgh Witness. THE FORCE OF HABIT.—On Thursday week, Mary Ann Lane, a young woman, convicted of felony at the January Quarter Sessions, was examined before the Bed ford magistrates, on a charge of stealing a silk handker chief, a shawl, pin, and a pair of cuffs, the property of the assistant matron of the prison. Her term of imprison ment having expired, she resumed her own dress, and was taking her departure, but on emerging from the prison door the chief constable immediately took her into cus tody. In her bustle was found a piece of rag sewn up in the form of a parcel, containing the articles named, with is. 6d. in silver, and a cap : a piece of black tape was found tied round her person. The assistant matron stated she missed half-a-crown from her bedroom, a short time ago, and had not recovered it. It appears the pri soner had occasionally been employed in the assistant matron's room, and that, when committed on the former occasion, 11d. was all the money found upon her. She was again committed for trial. WILD BOAR HUNT.—Some nine or ten months since, Captain Russell, who is in the employ of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, sent his father, Mr. Russell, of Stonehouse, a very fine wild boar, which was shortly afterwards accepted by the Right Hon. the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe. Better quarters than are to be had on his lordship's grounds could not be found in England, but there was one quality in them deficient, and that was liberty. So last week the stranger broke down all the barriers, and emancipating himself, revelled in the luxurious scenery of this lovely domain. However, in securing his own liberty, he had very much circum scribed that of the earl's family, and of those numerous visitors who are allowed to traverse in quiet these cele brated grounds To prevent the continuance of this obstruction became an object of imperative necessity ; and a sufficient number of men being gathered together, the earl and countess and their family were out to witness the capture. The wild boar being thus hunted and hemmed in on all sides, rushed down one of the slopes, and tossing himself over the steep cliffs which face the Sound, was speedily and effectually disabled, having sacrificed his life rather than lose his much-coveted liberty.— West of England Conservative. SIR JAMES GRAHAM'S TENANTRY.—A memo rito Sir James Graham, Bart., from his tenantry in Cumber land, praying for a reduction of rent in proportion to the fall in the price of agricultural produce brought about by the course of legislation of which the Rt. Hon. Baronet was a prominent supporter, was lately passed round for signature. This document was transmitted to Sir James on Saturday last ; it bore the names of all the tenants except four. Sir James was not long in returning an answer, which was in his usual mixture of the cold and scornful. He says, in effect, that those who are dissatis fied with presents arrangements may quit their holdings in twenty days, as he can readily let them ! They have, one and all, freely laid out their money and exercised their personal skill for the improvements of the property, and were led to believe that they would he met half way in all that they did. This is their reward : " Dare you rebel? Dare you set up your judgment against mine ?—Begone The tie of years is severed. There are tenants ready to step into your shoes. T want no lectures about legisla tion; my rent ! my rent ! or you quit at once." This is in the spirit of modern liberality and free-trade. " Every one for himself in this world"—Alderman Brooks. Sir James Graham, Mr. Cobden, Earl Grey, and all the rest of the Manchester school. TICKLING SALMON AND BASKETING FLOUNDERS.—In some of the narrow rivers situated on the Hampshire coast, especially such as are in juxtaposition with the New Forest, the poachers exercise their furtive occupation in various ways. At this particular season of the year they watch for the young salmon, coming up to enter the freshes, and they have a very effectual mode of capturing these fish, by entering the deep holes into which they retire during the day, and discovering their immediate haunts. They com mence tickling the creatures w'tli their fingers, until they are safely lodged in a handnet carried by the poachers for the occasion. So dexterous are these persons in the practice of kidnapping salmon after this fashion that scarcely one fish out of twenty escapes their mesmeric process. in catching flounders the men are furnished with broad-mouthed, deep baskets, having holes at the top" of them to admit the hand and arm through. With these implements the captors enter the river when the tide is out, and continue impelling them to the bottom of the water over the grass and weeds, where the flounders lie. The latter are secured within the basket, when they are removed by introducing the hand within the holes at the top. Some hundreds of these fish, as well as eels, may thus be taken in the course of a few hours, where the use of the net is unprivileged. HON CRIMINALS ARE MADE.—About six weeks since, amidst the falling of a tremendous shower of rain, our ears were greeted by the plaintive voice of a child singing " There is no more work for Poor Uncle Ned." On being desired to come in, a dripping, shoeless little wanderer presented a mild benignant face, lit up with in telligence, and an eye that flashed with noble enthusiasm. His story was soon told : father was a hatter, who did not work ; and mother sent him out to beg, and beat him if lie did not carry home money enough. A fortnight after, we met the poor little fellow again in the Low-street, North Shields, in a wretched plight. His mother, in one of her drunken fits, had struck him with some heavy in strument on the head, and inflicted a frightful wound. He was pale and weak, and his shirt steeped in blood. Again for a fortnight we saw him not, but having ascer tained from the police that his mother was in gaol, and he in the workhouse, we went to see him. There he was with his head healed, but still wearing the bloody shirt. The reason assigned for keeping him in this plight was, that he was not brought in the regular way, and was only kept there until his mother should come for him, to take him away once more to vagrancy, theft, or martyrdom— to be hated, beaten, starved, corrupted, hunted by the police, sent to a penal settlement,—lost in body and soul. Will no kind hand be put forth to rescue this poor boy fiom so wretched a state ?—Shields Gazette. THE SUSPECTED MURDER AT NORWICH.--On Monday morning, having procured dogs, the police proceeded to search the fields and hedges in the suburbs of Norwich. The result was the discovery of intestines, lungs, and a portion of the viscera. They were ordered to be at once placed in a solution of chloride of lime, and were found to be in a very decomposed state, and to have been chopped up into pieces of about three inches in length. This was evidently not the work of a medical man, for the purpose of scientific examination. These portions were originally found in a sewer-gully in Bishopgate-street ; here they were taken by a labouring man, ignorant of their nature, and thrown upon a dungheap. Dr. Copeman gave it as his opinion that the lungs were those of a healthy person. The officers also succeeded in recovering several more pieces of flesh, one of which was upwards of a pound in weight. These are declared by the medical gentlemen to whom the case has been referred to be portions of the same body. It should also be stated that near the dung.. heap in Bishopgate-street were found several pieces of linen and woollen fabrics stained with blood, all of which have been carefully preserved by the superintendent of police. The next step taken was to have the river Yare and all its tributaries carefully dragged, the result of which was the discovery of a black velvet bonnet, evi dently the property of a person in a respectable sphere of life. In a field where several large pieces of flesh had been found, and to which the especial attention of the police had been directed, a discovery of a very important charac ter was made at a late hour on Monday evening. During the day a body of men were set to mow down the grass, and, in doing so, their scythes came in contact with a hard substance, which they found to be the thigh bone of a human being. The circumstance was immediately re ported to the superintendent of the city police, and Dr. Copeman was called upon to examine it. He found that the flesh had been torn away from the bone, and that the bone itself had been sawn nearly through with a rough in strument. This part of the body was found at a place called Hellesden, near St. Augustine's Gate, in the imme diate neighbourhood of Norwich, and in an entirely oppo site direction to that from which other portions have been taken. During the whole of Monday and Tuesday pieces of flesh were brought into the city station-house, by per sons who are conducting the search, all of which the sur geons at once declare to be portions of the same body. They are placed in spirits of wine for preservation. It has been clearly established that the murdered woman, whoever she may be, was not an inhabitant of the city of Norwich at the time of her death. It has also been satis factorily ascertained that the work has not been that of a " resurrectionist," for it is established on the clearest medical testimony that the body has never been interred. It has also been proved to the satisfaction of the surgeons that the person, portions of whom have been found, died by violence, the hands being clenched and the toes con tracted, which would not have been the case in death from natural causes. As soon as any identifiable portion of the body shall be found, an inquest will be opened by the coroner. These already discovered are incapable of iden tification. On Tuesday a young man, named Eaton, was brought before the mayor charged with being an accessory of the murder. The precise nature of the examination did not transpire, as the inquiry was of a private character. After hearing the evidence of a man named Garrard, to whom it appears the prisoner had made some statement, the magistrates did not feel themselves justified in detain ing the man Eaton. He was, therefore, discharged; but it is understood that he will remain under the strict sur veillance of the police, in case anything else material should transpire. ANOTHER MIRACULOUS CURE OF A LIVER AND STOMACH COMPLAINT BY HOLLOWAt'S PILLS--Ex tract of a lett er f rom Mr. Harvey. orChapel Hall, Aird rie, dated Jan. 15. 1850. To Professor Holloway—" Sir, your valuable Pills have been the means, with God's blessing, of resto r in g me to perfect health, I had suffer ed for two years w ith a stomach and livercomplaint, and was given up as incurable by.several eminent doctors, my case appearing so hopeless that my death was daily expected. In that critical state I commenced taking your Pills, which I continued for a few weeks, and they have so effectually cured me that j now enjoy the best of health." THE REVENUE. An Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain, in the Years and Quarters ending sth of July, 1850, and sth of July, 1851, showing the Increase or Decrease thereof. YEARS ENDED JULY 5 Customs Excise. Stamps Taxes Property Tax. Post Office.. . Crown Lands. Miscellaneous Total ordinary Revenue.. . China Money.. Imprest &other! Moneys .. Repayments of Advances. .. '18,740,194 13,097,336 6,325,499 4,351,530 5,459.843 817,000 160,000 209,744 49,161,146 682,807 X X 18,715,072 13,219,609 122,273 6,040,249 4,322,681 .... 5,353,425 1.... 891,0001 74,000 150,000 1 .... 162,333 j .... 48,854,369 ; 196,273 655,396 £ 25,122 285,250 28,849 106,415 570,797 694,24 G 123,449 10.000 47, 411 503,050 27,111 Total Income . 1 50,414,750 Deduct increase Decrease on the Year, QUARTERS 50,204,011, 319,722 NDED JULY 5 530,461 319,722 210,739 1850_1. 1851. I Incr. I Decr X 1 £ I 15,490 £ £ Customs 4,333,708 4,318,218 Excise 3,325,225 3,419,810 94,585 Stamps. Taxes Property Tax 1,026,835 976,881 .... 49,954 Post Office 210,000 240,000 30,000 ... Crown Lands 40,000 30,000 .... 10,000 Miscellaneous Total ordinary Revenue... China Money.. Imprest & other Moneys 12,681,290 12,646,873 134,352 168,769 135,827 I 139,770 I 3,943 Repayments of Ad''‘'ances I 188,289 123,409 64,880 Total Income. j 13,005,406 112,910,052 1 1 138,295 Deduct Increase 233.649 138,295 Decrease on the Quarter I 95,354 Let us enumerate the various items of this revenue ac count. On the year there is a decrease in every depart ment of the revenue save the Excise and the Post Office ; and on the quarter there is a decrease in every depart ment save the Excise, Post Office, and " Miscellaneous" receipts. The Customs show on the year a decrease of £25,122: on the quarter a decrease of £15,490. The Excise gives an increase of £122,273 on the year, and on the quarter an increase of £94,585. In the Stamps de partment—the great test of the amount of commercial transactions, notwithstanding the recent reductions— there is a decrease on the year of £285,250, and on the quarter a falling-off of £65,275. Taxes show a decrease for the year of £28,849, and a diminution for the quarter alone of £28,050 ! The Property-tax (no small test of the condition of the country) has decreased on the year £166,418, and on the last quarter alone £49,954, or nearly one half of the decrease on the whole year. The Post Office gives an increase on the year of £74,000. Crown Lands show a decrease of £lO,OOO, which we presume has occurred—not by any reform in their management, in the course of the last quarter—for the decrease on the quarter amounts exactly to the same sum, £lO,OOO. The " Miscellaneous" item manifests a decrease on the year of £47,411, and on the quarter there is an increase of £9,767. There is a budget for the country ! much more instructive—much more suggestive as to our financial condition, than any statement which we can hope to derive from Sir Charles Wood ! THE NEW YACHT AMERICA. THE DEPARTURE FOR LONDON-THE TRIAL OF SPEED BETWEEN ENGLISH AND AMERICAN YACHTS. (From the New York Herald, June 24.) This superior piece of naval architecture takes her departure from the port at 7 o'clock this morning, to test her sailing qualities with the choice yachts of Great Britain, and, we believe, with those of any other Euro pean country who may think fit to place themselves by her side in a sailing match. As the result will be watched with much lively interest on both sides of the Atlantic, it being a trial for superiority in the sailing powers, beauty of model, and symmetry of construction between the vessels of England and the United States, a description of the America cannot be otherwise than interesting to our readers, both here and in Europe. She is 95 feet on deck, from stem to stern ; BO feet keel •, 23 feet amidships ; and her measurement 180 tons. She draws eleven feet of water in sailing trim. Her spars are respectively 791 and 81 feet long, with 21 inches rake to the foot. Her main gaff is 26 feet long, and main boom 58 feet. She carries a lugg foresail, with fore gaff 24 feet long. Length of bowsprit 32 feet. The frame is composed of five different species of wood, namely, white oak, locust wood, cedar, chesnut, and hackmatack, and is supported by diagonal iron braces, equi-distant from each other four feet. From stem to midships the curve is scarcely perceptible, her gunwales being nearly straight lines, and forming with each other an angle of about twenty-five degrees. The cutwater is a prolonga tion of the vessel herself, there being no addition of false wood, as is usual in most of the sharpest bowed crafts of similar description. Her fore cabin is a spacious and elegantly fitted up apartment, 21 ft. by 18 ft. in the clear, on each side of which are six neat lockers and China rooms. It contains six commodious berths. Joining the cabin are two large state rooms, each eight feet square, with ward rooms and water closets attached. Between these and the fore cabin there are two state rooms, joining which are a wash room and pantry, each eight feet. The fore cabin is ventilated by a circular skylight of about twelve feet circumference, and it contains fifteen berths. Directly under the cockpit, which is thirty feet in circumference, and which forms the entrance to the after cabin, there is a tastefully fitted-up bath room on the starboard side ; and opposite, on the larboard side, a large clothes room. Further aft, under the cockpit, is the sail room. She has a plain, raking stern, adorned with a large gilt eagle, resting upon two folded white banners, garnished with beautifully carved flowers of green colour. Her sides are planked with white oak three inches thick, the deck with yellow pine 21 inches thick. Three streaks of the clamps are of yellow pine, three inches thick. The deck beams are also of yellow pine. All the combings are of the finest description of mahogany. The mils, which are composed of white oak, are fourteen inches high, six inches wide, and three inches thick. She is copper-fastened throughout, and copper-sheathed from the keel to six inches above the water line, making 111 feet in all. Her sides are painted of a uniform lead colour, and her inside pure white. There is an open gangway extending the whole length, from the extreme points of the after and fore cabins. It is impossible for the pen of the most graphic describer to convey anything like an accurate conception of the beauty and perfection of the America. She can only be seen to advantage when viewed at a distance, from different points, by the natural and living eye. Under such circumstances only can her symmetrical and swan-like model be appreciated. She will proceed direct tp Havre, France, where she will remain for a few days, for the pur pose of getting her sides painted black, and every part of her fitted up in the most splendid style. Thence she will proceed to Cowes, where she is also to remain some days before exhibiting herself in the Thames. Mr. Geo. Steers, the modeller and builder of the America, takes passage in her to London, for the main purpose of being able to judge, by practical observation, where rests the material difference between the model and construction of English and American built yachts ; and also to see which nation will win the palm of superiority in point of sailing quali ties. Whether the America shall come off victorious is yet a problem ; but be the result as it may, she cannot but be an object of deep interest and admiration on the other side of the water; and the elegant appearance which she will make in gliding up the Thames to meet her com petitors must call forth applause on Mr. Steers, her builder and fashioner. She carries eight men before the mast, besides the cap tain, (Mr. Richard Brown,) first and second mate, and carpenter. Her cabin and state-rooms will be fitted up in a style that the people of Europe cannot but admire; and her accommodations are sufficiently ample to enter tain a large company. The cost of the America, when all completed, will be about 20,000 dollars. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS. The Rev. Dr. Sadlier, Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, has, owing to the delicate state of his health, resigned the office of Commissioner of the Board of Na tional Education. According to a parliamentary return, just made, it ap pears that the Bishop of Durham's income for last year was £38,619 Bs. 7d., out of which he has to pay £11,200 to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, leaving his lordship £27,419 Bs. 7d. to live upon, dispense charities, and be liberal even to dissenters with 1 REJECTION OF ANOTHER CLERGYMAN BY THE BISHOP OF EXETER.—A letter from Plymouth, dated July 1, says,—" A short time since, the Rev. R. Malone, the incumbent of Christ Church, in this town, accepted an appointment in London. The Rev. John Hatchard thereupon nominated the Rev. L. H. Gray, of London, perpetual he curate;was subjected an d on toa Saturdayclose that examinationgentleman on thpre sented himself to the Bishop of Exeter to be li cense d, when doctrine of baptismal regeneration, and ultimately refused admission into the diocese. Mr. J. C. Shepherd, being about to practice his pro fession at Ambleside, has resigned the honorary surgeon ship of the Liverpool Dispensaries, an office which he has held for above twelve years. The medical board of the Dispensaries have passed a resolution regretting his removal, and anticipating for him " a harvest of pros perity, which he deserves for his kindness, gentlemanly coaduct, end surgical abilities." July 8,1851. IRELAND. The Grand Orange Lodge of the county of Antrial resolved to have no public display on the 12th of f s 011..,, The Protestant Association of Dublin have pad re3s lutions of thanks to his Royal Highness Prince Alb e 7; for his recent admirable speech at the third jubilee Mee' ing of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. id A meeting of the senate of the Queen's University Ireland was held on Friday, in the Council Charon Dublin Castle, when the Right Hon. the Lord ChaneelilTh was elected Vice-Chancellor of the new university. THE QUEEN'S COLLEGES IN IRELAND.—On e1T,40, day e• bill in the House of Lords was printed to ameou'L, ie mentioned to students of the new colleges in several acts for the regulation of attorneys and soliciter The object of the bill is to extend the provision of the ii r * the same manner as to students of Oxford and Carobridet to facilitate their admission as attorneys and solicitors., ELOPEMENT.—Having received our information een,_'„ dentially, we must not venture further than to allude the romantic story which has excited as much interest in f 1 j far west of Ireland as the " North America steamer A f but has ended with greater glory. A young la-y o g attractions and large fortune—of course an heiress _ gentleman of distinguished family and high charactec midnight—relays of horses—and then a farewell tliet,,4 rail to the Crystal Palace—taking good old Gretna Gr on the route—are subjects we should like to dwelt but being learned in honour, we can only say, Irelaya the brave deserve the fair."LDablin E,ipress. THE MAYORALTY OF DUBLIN.—On the motion Francis Codd, the corporation of Dublin, on A1° 11 7. 21 ,;.; resolved to raise the salary of the present and all fai." -- Lord Mayors from £l,OOO to £2,500. Mr. Curran Oct gested that, as the corporation was heavily in debtirr: might be as well to be just before it was generous' b Taggert then moved an amendment—" That , i nns Lod as increasing the salary of the present and future -L4+lo Mayors from £l,OOO to £2,500 would cause the inflic:bst of a borough rate on this already impoverished citY! tg the salary do not exceed £l,OOO until the corporationfor out of debt." The amendment was lost, fi ve v oting no t and twenty.four against it. Mr. Curran said be dsai'Vry, consider £2,500 too much for the Lord Mayors ),eir but he thought it too much for the corporation in ":„A t present embarrassed circumstances to be called 011, 0 0 0, y s . um tie do wo s u ta ld n , d th a e t re it fo s re o , r m ig o in v a e l t a h m at o , u in nt p , l . a .v c i e z oj x,,, s,4 , :i : r ri a i thw h ea is motion was negatived upon a division by a ""# ° l of nine, and the original resolution was then Put` .- - carried. 1 THE IRISH CENSUS.—The Irish census will sh o ~ deficiencyof above 2,000,000, as compared with t benl l 6 tiers which would have been attained this year had tom. been no interruption of the ordinary rate of incre to On the last three occasions of taking the cellel. 9 '4oli numbers were—ln 1821, 6,801,827; in 1831, 7,7 tisbea in 1841, 8,175,124. The report about to be Pli„v ii ooo. will show, in 1851, very little more than 6,5 "' tp Phe same report will also show a remarkable decreaseber the number of " houses," as compared with the 1 103 0 in the preceding census, and, of course, still greaterred compared with the number which would have aP main ta Pea" ine (l. now had the former rate of increase been rn A lfl Tl.e anticipations which we have recently espress-faa our notice of the census of Great Britain wilt ther e ifi s iji be confirmed by the facts which have now to be e lc i — ber reported. The most startling fact of the census will that whereas the ordinary law of increase, had it no t „ r es9 interrupted in its operation, would have shown Pr°6:eot at the rate of 6 per cent., the returns now made Prt s se instead a decrease of about 20 per cent., the dee„.";o4 embracing above a quarter of the population whi ch 1 %0 anticipated that Ireland would possess at the Pre 're. time. The county of Dublin is the only county tbst o t, hi sents an increase—an increase, however, of onlY 7,C ocli a population of 150,000. The falling.cfr is ge nerallY ni t . f p greater in the Roman Catholic districts of the e i e l l un s iOr In Roscommon it is 31 per cent. ; in Galway an d 29 ; in Clare it is 25 ; while in the two gre at counties of Antrim and Down the diminution Inp former amounts to but 9, and in the latter to 12 P er Sept.l3- Wexford, however, with a large Roman Catholic P%Pubile tion, presents a falling away of but 10 per cenr.',' i bir Protestant Fermanagh has lost one-fourth of 1 7, - ;p0.• " bitants. It is a singular circumstance, that while 'We& pulation of the entire country is thus terribly diulitetr that of all the cities and towns of which there has ' separate enumeration has increased. Pr0t.e5.1,8 ~® THE GREAT EXHIBITION. The receipts luring the past week were—Tuesealslo, ls., £2,429 10s. ; Wednesday, at ls., £2,663 185.•1„4662P day, at ls., £2,651 195. ; Friday, at 2s. 6d. , Saturday, at 55., £2992 2s. Gd. On Saturday morning the Queen and Prince res lit e: their inspection of the interior, and examined thZearcie/ north galleries in the western half of the building. n i a thousand exhibitors whose contributions are P t ' o - re , there were assembled in their respective allotments a ft,' ceive the Royal visitors. They commenced their, with glass, in which department the stoics of Alle11)30' latt and Co., of Brunsky, of Thompson, of Osler, ail s thus, chance, and other leading manufacturers, ttra their marked attention. s filer the As the Queenwas on Saturday chieflY among a - e isi exhibitors, the desire of each to show off his mit e to the great industrial gathering was prop o rtiona l ortionani, of tense. One man, who showed a small cra dle canvas, set a tea-kettle inside, on the approach , O ;48°, 1 royal party, and rocked it gently with all the solid 411 a parent expresed on his face. Another had an T n or rocking-chair and footetool to show off, and for OW `old' pose laid himself out as a confirmed valetudinarian Oireff Her Majesty and the Prince closed their visit by 11 ,, e ct• careful inspection of the interesting india-rubb er mens shown by Macintosh and Co. t itiot l The Marylebone Committee have resolved to ,P e f t h e the House of Commons to prevent the removs4, Crystal Ptlace, and to convert it into a winter garu ec tia l ; The Times, which lent its aid to obstruct the e , r ,.; 0 10 1 / of the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, is now Indus endeavouring to prevent its removal. the't/ A curious accident occurred on Tuesday near fa il l entrance of the building. The heavy rain vthichetrel the morning caused a branch of one of the largo bt; there to give way, and descending upon a boY ' ° o o taken refuge beneath it for shelter, it killed bi Ca m e sp the ot. t bo eat On Tuesday 50 Radical girls from Bath , and Gr t, number from Bristol, were sent on a trip to 6004 Exhibition, by Sir John Hare, of the Royal bea ter Six of them, we hear, got lost in the crowd, o ' l ",i,e ion d been found by the police, were stowed away i f , ll , t h° room of the police station, and labelled " P'" e itc ll ,7:6 " Bristol." They were made as comfortable O A to stances would permit, and at last safely return g ocle'; persons who were sent in charge of the party. '‘, B „ 00 0 stand that Sir John intends to send another raw. 03 ? 1 .0 but why does he confine hs liberality to Raaicalls_le.. THE FOREIGNERS IN LONDON.—Thearrivalof 01_7(4 have at last begun to tell upon the exhibition, 11;0190 London generally. The foreign department t onedof i e e palace is crowded with men of all nations , al.'"for9.,„Ple, representatives of the most remote peoples l° roughfare. In passing from Hyde Park Corner to, he toy Bar, the other day, I saw two Chinese youths 0 111 '„ e d, an omnibus • three Negro princes, well arr i t ast oo f swaggering along the Strand in the happiest stYl s ,e/e„os aloe ; an Armenian in full costume ; a party of IV had "of physiognomy no one could mistake, even if theYees, T oo baen wearing the turban ; and last of all, two P,.e rs olObar our East India possessions ; not to speak el.e n 5. scis. number of Germans, Frenchmen, and Auter lcl %,sill 7tt though not so remarkable in their costume, are e j a der,. n v ir covered by their features. The two Parsees wer e ,A, 11 ,0r gallery of the House of Commons on Mon attracted, no doubt, by a wish to hear Mr Disr e i e ,l;iog,d , has seldom been a night this session—at least CY last month or two—in which there have not hee .. .. 13 COP" or two of celebrated foreigners in the house' pendent. COURT AND FASHION. 0 01 0 ——o -- Bru ss 0 , The King of the Belgians left London for Thursday. high 0050 The fashionable world has been in a stale of ! it of " 0 0 ment, in consequence of the sudden separat7s to t he wealthy Lord Ward and his young bride. I t vt „rg•to 0 weeks since Lord Ward married Miss De Burg 4' l l l tb o daughter of Mr. Hubert De Burgh, and it is n o t 9 fortnight since the lady returned to , her pare% '0 5 ., $ lO O noble lord set off for the continent. The i s ,nor d ,sl o : her the sympathy of the public, and the noby" 11 t P. 10' . . 4 1 0.- t o entitled to pity, for if all be true that is so,' t hat I ject, it is his misfortune rather than his fault ' 10 1 " -,A l oci toward separation has become necessary. v A 0. ve er ; p i STATE VISIT TO HER MAJESTY'S 'ri b— i l for , A in state to a place of public amusement iS °' "i i onse i - 44 currence than when the two large Engb si l the L'i to looked upon as the sole representatives 0 tet oeryter, Even then such visits always created an ! el l ti faS7 O Ol, was the sole occasion on which the the theatre visited was sure to be crowds,; by coantl large part of the public a performance ' 1 it co ll o de' Sove t lith t b o o , seen as the Sovereign for a length of tiese: be stio ° ol; corations and attendants of royalty. Hen ce ` d el l a° 4 ment that the new opera would be perforreeloge i e.: day " by command" naturally attracted a,. d efer, 4 hla without the walls of the theatre, who adoinecoopaP'olo gads,t see the State carriage and the r;_ e walT o ' f all guard!, and a numerous audience within. 0 .7 of it 6 occupied every seat. The demonstrationso s ee, I ns "ere of the same hearty kind that bad b e e trilol e ctr. heard over and over again, and that ~/ 1 w ss c' o per.,; never become old-fashioned. Her Male of the e ptly's the tw-°aPilPig;tl-°O7l cheered at her departure, and on her entrance, cheered at the end 0 neatest il d siasm was manifested during the perfe!'" estappt: the gre:00.°..4 National Anthem, which, accoiding be el f 00. dea t ea IP etiquette, both commenced and conclil_ntoppbropaof The royal party presented a most magalnr was , si itio , The box usually occupied by her ales'l on esep il, some feet forward, together with the box cot s ba c ", it, and all three were surrounded with gorib i the,itioaL of blue and crimson velvet, surgmaiona; while gold pilasters were placed a In front, across the end of the orchestra, wa! te nsivnit , royalty, the Yeomen, or, as they are__w o f hlr, I termed, the " Beef-eaters." The elefs3lo3poolopieflo on which were placed those ancient aP_P u o ' r e Pcrj e ja ° ty's dress added greatly to the effect of Or _ w ere,, r edv:,, by a certain simplicity of arranger° The diamonds, which she wore in profilogq r ens' on ensemble perfectly beautiful, The Folic!' , vva'' 0 0 , , 01 0 ke in full uniform. The opera of • Flor _ to no. co closer than on Thursday, but did not ser a il ober impression on the audience, who devote ent . / 0 70, e_ g f Itolcba -1145131 to the illustrious visitors. t11: 1 4 4, t iltc 41