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Rtteraturr. POETRY. SONNET. BY JOHN EVANS. 1.40011 the silver willow's trembling leaves The varying hues of ev'ning radiance glow ; Its last sigh there the breeze of sunset heaves, And dimples with soft kiss the rill below. The tenants of the field in pastime close Their festive day, their verdant couch resume, And silent nature sweetly breathes repose, As Luna's beams the twilight shade illume. The balm and freshness of a summer eve, Just as brown night her starry eye unseals, The languid qualms of baffled hope relieve, And the sick heart for one blest moment heals. Still may I, Evening, hear thy farewell sigh, Whisper of peace, and on the willow die. 3lanchester. VARIETIES. Why are young ladies like arrows ?—Because they are all in a quiver when the beaus come. Mahomet's father is said to have been so surprisingly handsome that the day he was married 200 virgins of the tribe of Koreish died of broken hearts.—lrving's Life of Mahomet. OCCURE.ENCE IN ONE OF OUR COMMON SCHOOLS. —The teacher, a young lady, put the question to her scholars, " Who made you ?" The oldest boy in school could not tell, neither could any of the scholars, till she questioned the smallest and youngest urchin in school. He answered promptly, that God made him. The teacher, turning to the oldest boy, said, "Are you not ashamed not to know what this little fellow knows ?" " replied the ' big 'un,' " Thunder ! I should think he might know ; 't aint a fortnight since he was made." CHILDREN ' S DlSCLOSURES.—Childrensometimes make unexpected disclosures, which produce great awkwardness. A gentleman dining with a friend one day, was struck by the earnestness with which one of the little girls recarded him, and, taking her on his lap, he caressed her. " Please, sir," said she, " tell me what is in the house next to you ; I'd like very much to know and to see it ?" " And tell me, my little dear, why you wish to know ?" " Because I heard mamma say, sir, thatyou were next door to abrute." We may suppose how mamma felt when she heard herself thus quoted. " What are you about, my dear ?" said his grandmother to a little boy who was sidling along the room, and casting furtive glances at a gentleman who was paying a visit. "I am trying, grandmamma, to steal papa's hat out of the room without letting that one see it,' said he, pointing to the gentleman, " for papa wants him to think he is out." IRISH AND SCOTCH PARTRIDGES.—There is a singular difference in habit between the partridge of the north of Ireland and that of the opposite portion of Scotland, as is well known to sportsmen who have - shot in both countries. I have myself remarked it with some interest. An Irish covey generally spring without uttering a call, but the Scotch covey shrieks with all its might when sprung. The Scotch birds, too, even when very little molested, more knowingly take care of themselves than the Irish ; their watchfulness is extraordinary. Their sense of hearing, as well as of sight, must be remarkably acute. A sporting friend, who has had much experience in both countries, remarks, that he has more than once seen every bird of a moderate-sized covey shot in Ireland, but never saw this done in Scotland. He has bagged as many birds from a certain number of individuals in the former island as he has from the same number of covies in Scotland.-7'homp son's Natural History of Ireland. AN AFRICAN SECRET SOCIETY.—There is a secret society in Cape Mount, as in most countries, called the Pourra Society. The rules are mutual assistance, sworn secrecy, to such an extent that, done should reveal any thing in a distant country, his brethren will travel after him, determined to kill him wherever they may meet him. Of course, they have many other rules, which, from the above reason, are kept pretty secret. The ap plication of the gridiron is really in use among the Pourra men, and the initiated are marked by a hot iron, from the lower end of the backbone to the shoulder-blades. In the vicinity of every town is a Pourra bush, and, during a meeting, it is certain death to be found in it. The term used by the natives is, " burying wisdom." The elder brethren, dressed as demons and wild men, with feerful howls and imprecations, raise, as they pretend, the devil, and by his alt name the candidate. A feast ensues, after considerable noise and howiine, and shriek ings, perfectly bewildering, and exciting the curiosity of the uninitiated.—Forbes's African Blockade. THE BEGGING-LETTER WRITER.—He has beseiged my door at all hours of the day and night; he has fought my servant ; he has lain in ambush for me going out and coming in • he has followed me out of town into the country ; lie has appeared at provincial hotels where I have been staying for only a few hours; he has written to me from immense distances when I have been out of England. He has fallen sick ; he has died, and been buried ; he has come to life again, and again departed from this transitory scene; he has been his own son, his own baby, his idiot brother, his uncle, his aunt, his aged grandfather. He has wanted a great-coat, to go to India in; a pound, to set him up in life for ever; a pair of boots to take him to the coast of China ; a hat to get him into a permanent situation under Government. He has frequently been exactly seven-and-sixpence short of in dependence. He has bad such openings at Liverpool— posts of great trust and confidence in merchants' houses, which nothing but seven-and-sixpence was wanting to him to secure—that I wonder he is not mayor of that flourishing town at the present moment.—Dickens's .ffousehold Words. ''EEpoRTING A SPEECH BY LORD BROUGHAM.—The present occupiers of the reporters' gallery are a very honourable body of men. Amongst the seniors, if not the seniors, are Mr. Dodd, the author of the Peerage, and of the useful little blue-coloured volume, the " Parli amentary Companion," who has been in the gallery for the Times for between thirty and forty years; and Mr. Tyas, another veteran of more than thirty years' parlia mentary service on the same paper. Tyas is said to have been the author of the sharp critiques on Lord Broug ham's classical knowledge; and is spoken of as the hero of another gallery tradition. The story runs that Tyas had been luxuriating over a glass of wine and the pages of Cicero, when the hour came, and be was due in the House. As he took his place, Lord Brougham was speaking, and soon the pencil of Tyas was on his track. The legal orator went on, and the mind of the reporter unconsciously kept upon the double thread of Brougham and Cicero. The scholar in the gallery thought the scholar on the floor of the House would remember a fine illustrative passage in the Roman Orator. But he passed it and concluded the harangue. Tyas went to work to write out his notes, and when the arguments required it he put in nearly a page of Cicero. Brougham reprinted the speech, adopting, without remark, the whole of the interpolated matter.—The Fourth Estate, by F. X. Runt. EFFECTS OF VOTE BY BALLOT IN GREECE.—The vote by ballot is converted into a constitutional method of counteracting any evil effects that might otherwise arise to ministerial candidates from the use of universal suf frage; for man is fallible, and the Greeks felt inclined, in some places, l o oppose the system of Coletti. We recom mend the plan adopted to the attention of an eminent historian of ancient Greece, who has more faith in the wood of the ballot-box than in the moral responsibility of the elector. When the number of electors in a district was about five thousand, and it was feared that three thousand might vote against the government candidates, and only two thousand in their favour, the ballot-boxes were doctored beforehand, by having one thousand votes placed in them before the process of the public ballot commenced. Intimidation was resorted to, to prevent at least one thousand of the real voters from attending, and it was generally successful with the middle classes ; but in one unlucky district, which contained only about four thousand voters, six thousand tickets were found in the ballot-box. At times, the success of the opposition was so great that nothing could be done at the t me of voting. The persons charged to convey the ballot-box to the place appointed for the scrutiny, were, in such cases, waylaid by armed bands, and the ballot boxes were destroyed. These scenes were enacted, even in Attica. We believe that, in order to s^cure free institutions to any people it is more necessary to create a feeling of moral responsibility, than to protect the electors from the effects of intimidation and fraud merely when they exercise the franchise. National liberty cannot be protected by a wooden box ; it must be fought for boldly before the face of all mankind. The vote by ballot injures the nation more than it protects the individual ; and it can only cease to do harm in a state of society where perfect equality reigns among the electors themselves, and between the electors and the elected.— Blackwood's Magazine. KERRY SCHOLASTICS : THE PRINCIPLE OF Asso ciAefoN DEvELopED.—Schoolmaster loquitur :—S. Here now, isn't this a lovely letter, Terry ? Did you ever see a swan in full sail? That's him to the life, if there was only a sup of water under him. You must call out Ess. (Terry : Ess!) You have it nate. See how Stately he is ! a mighty, elegant, stout, clever-looking letter, and one of the .best in the whole alphabet, being the father, and grandfather, and great grandfather of all the Saints of the blessed calendar, that would be no Saints at all but for his introduction. So you must rivi rince the S beyand all the other letters ; and rimimber that be stands for Sunday and Soap, wanst a week before going to overtake the Mass ; and Salt with the potatoes that day any how; and Saxons (bad scran to them) that drive us into holes and corners (myself of the real old stock that says that) : and School, where yer getting into great learning already, and will soon come to the history S c ipio, king of the ould Romans. and Solomon, that built the biggest chapel in the world; and Sampson. that pulled it down over his own shoulders. And now, Terry, dear, don't forget S stands for Straw ; and remind:your father of the holes there in the roof, that he promised to mend up for me again winter, and that it's for a O'Sul livan ! T. Down you pop now to T, a real nate letter, balanced as trua as a , what at the fair. the Ball out Tee ! (Terry : Tay !) No, that's Tay what quality do be drinking with creme and lumps of sugar in it. Try again, Tee ! (Terry : Tee !) That's right, ray dear, and you'll know him again when you'll see Mick Hal loran coming up from the river. with two pigging of water banging acrass the lift over his shoulders. You must know he stands for Tutor, and I being your tutor, he stands for me, and likewise for Turf and Twopence, (the regulations of this flourishing Academy,) and Tiber, the great river that runs through Rome, and Throy, a big city in the Aste, that was taken by the Phenishons just before they came to settle in ould Ireland. It also stands for Tara, in the county of Meath, the capital of the counthry in ancient tirees, and twice the size of Dublin, that's only a new city, an d th em th a t li ves i n it none o f the raal Irish at all, but mostly new comers, an' very troublesome people and hard to plan. My hand t'ye, wouldn't give a . stone out of ould Trinity for all the burnt bricks and Smoky chimblys in Dnbhn that were never heard tell of in mild times. Mo v e along now.— Dublin University Magazine. SCENE IN A TROPIC FOREST. The sun had for some hours passed the meridian, and ceased to throw his scorching and withering beams over the scene with that blighting intensity that had mariced him when in the flaming zenith. Nature began again to slowly struggle into life. The dead and almost unnatural silence which had been reigning over the leafy wilderness became slowly and almost imperceptibly interrupted ; a light air began to breathe through nature's glorious colon nade; the leaves of the plantain and the banana, which had been hanging pendant, drooping, rich and motionless, now slowly waved and fluttered like vegetable banners, and disclosed their rich drupes of fruit hanging like clustres of golden ingots ; the feathery palms moved their graceful crowns with an action so calm and gentle that to the imaginative thing might seem the genuflexions of gratitude to the god of day ; and although they owed to him their pride and majesty, yet were they thankful for a short respite from his burning embrace. The breeze began to blow more freely ; the hitherto still and steaming lagoon seemed to awaken in the general stir; the leaves of the nymphacea and victoria, which carpeted its dark surface, began to tremble upcn the bosom of the tiny wavelets, and over which the jacana might be seen picking its way with cautious steps; the rope-like bejuco either hung in inextricable mazes from the lofty branches of the mora and wild tamarind, or it embraced their huge trunks with its enormous snake-like arms, as would a Python round limbs of a giant; the countless orchidce, which as yet the most enthusiastic botanist has been unable to chronicle in his catalogue, peered forth in startling beauty from the hole of every decayed branch or rotten trunk ; while passaflora, convolvuli, and myriad others of which a Linnaeus or a Lindley never dreamt, hang in festoons of the wildest and most beautiful luxuriance. The wind, which now briskly stirred the woods, begun to also shake off the torpor which had fallen upon the animal world ; groups of parrots would fly from one tall group of cedars to another, their gay plumage gleaming and flashing in the sun ; parroquets would scream and chatter amidst the foliage of the brugmamsia or clianthus, shaking the snow-white bells from the former, and defy ing the eye of observation by the similarity of their colour with that of the leaves . amidst which they sheltered. trogons might be seen sitting lengthway, in stupid and stolid indifference, on the branches of any tree whose hori zontal arms afforded them a secure seat, while active woodpeckers, creepers, dendrocolaptes, and those who live by insect plunder, pursued their nimble inquiries into every hole and crevice of the forest monarchs. Here and there, wherever a glade appeared to break the arboreus waste in the tallest trees which overlooked it, groups of blue and yellow or red and yellow maccaws might be seen sitting in all the magnificence of feathered splendour, and screeching with most deafening and un tiring energy. Nor was the scene alone vocal by the waving branches, the rippling lagoon, for ever and anon the clear bell-like voice of the arapongo would startle the traveller, or the sudden scream of the shrike or fly catcher, as they darted upon their flying insect prey, cause him to turn a glance of quick inquiry. Merry groups of monkeys, cebus, and sapajous ever and anon gambolled through the lofty branches, and the beautiful little jacchus and midas would sit and squeak and whistle on the nearest branch with fearless confidence ; the sloth might be seen banging back downwards, motionless as the bough to which he clung, his grey, dry, withered coat not being easily distinguished from the parasites and mosses by which he was surrounded. Gaily-coloured agile lizards were darting and frisking around the black and scabrous stems of the zamia and cycas, in wait for the burnished beetle or brilliant butterfly, or in hopes of capturing the humming-birds as they flickered and sparkled amidst the noble flowers, like living gems. Herds of deer, roused by the step of the passing traveller, would retreat with cautious speed into their vegetable fortresses, but giving, from time to time, inquiring glances at the intruder who thus dared to break in upon their hitherto undisturbed solitude. Emerging into the plain, the great ant-eater might be seen mining and digging into the mountain-like erections of his tiny insect prey; and amidst the stems of a trailing cereus a snake might be perceived lurking in gay and gilded malignity. The sun approaches the western horizon, his beams diminished in fierceness but increased in splendour;from amidst masses of molten gold ; he flings his alories broad cast over the earth, illuminating tree and bird, and fish and flower, with all we can imagine of supernatural richness. The scene, however, soon changes within the tropics, his dying glories are brief as they are brilliant; he does not, as in northern climes, wear out an hour or two of dull decay, lingering and struggling on the horizon rayless, faint and feeble, but he rushes downwards into the lap of Thetis in one great "blaze of living light," and the next moment darkness deep as chaos wraps the scene. Few moments are allowed us to prepare for rest, no cosey fire, well-swept hearth, easy chair, easier slippers, smiling and happy wife, cigar and whiskey toddy, which some are proud to prate of, heralds our way to repose. But we carefully wipe our rifles' locks, set our wourali tube perfectly perpendicular, hang our dead game and bu:,- terfly nets upon a neighbouring branch, trice up our grass hammock between two strong stems of bijueo, and lighted by the sparkling glimmer of the fire-fly, lulled by the low booming of the bull frog, the gay chirrup of the cicada, the stridulous note of the hula, the far-off how ling of the mysticetes, and the speech.like note of the whip-poor-will, ten thousand miles from civilization, and its attendant train of boisterous and degrading refine ments, its cruelties, privations, heart-burnings, and miseries, and sink to healthy and happy repose within the bosom of the leafy wilderness.—Leaf from an un published MS: Omen! illfsrellanv, A pension of £25 a vear—a shamefully small sum—has been granted to the widow of Lieut. Waghorn. On Whit-Monday 51,000 passengers were conveyed over the Greenwich Railway without a single accident. Iron bars have been placed over the Duke of York's column, Hyde-park, to prevent suicides from its summit. A patent has been taken out for an envelope machine, by which from fifty to sixty envelopes are made in one minute. The Rev. George Anthony Denison, from the vehe mence of his zeal, is known at the Atheneum as " Saint George without the drag on." The Rev. W. Morris, an Independent Minister at Abergwilly, near Swansea, hung himself on Saturday week. He had been desponding for a long time. Lieutenant-General Sir William Gomm, K.C.8., goes to Bombay, to succeed Lieutenant-Ganeral Sir Wil loughby Cotton, G.C.8., as commander-in-chief there. Ann Peats and Rebecca Boden have been committed from Belper to Derby gaol, for trial at the next assizes, charged with the murder of their aged step-mother. Douglas Jerrold suggests, that in the event of the abo lition of the Laureatship, the salary should endow the keepership of Shakspeare's house. The auxiliary screw steam ship City of Glasgow, which left New York on Saturday week, will probably arrive during the present week at Glasgow. It is said that the Bank of England is to be empowered to lend money by way of mortgage on the security of Irish estates. Amongst the novelties of the numerous holiday excur sions this week was that of a train from Birmingham to Exeter and back at a halfpenny per mile, and of another from Bristol to Birmingham, 181 miles, for 7s. Mr. Boyer, the recusant chef of the Reform Club cuisine has taken out a patent for an apparatus which will enable a lady or a pic-nic party to dispense with cooks, coals, and stoves. _ Mr. W. Clegg, gardener, of Stanley. near Wakefield, on Monday last cut in his garden a head of cauliflower broccoli which weighed 7 lbs. when the leaves were stripped. Whitehaven received its first supply of water from Ennerdale Lake last week. Mr. G. Mould, the contrac tor, has received great praise for the expedition with which he has executed the work. On Tuesday afternoon a man named Patrick Barry, living in the colony of the lower order of Trish known at Jenning's-buildings. in High-street, Kensington, killed his wife, Mary Barry, by kicking her on the head. A few days ago a ball was found embedded in the marl three yards deep, in a sewer which some men were making near St. Thomas's Church, Wigan. It was a four poun der, and is supposed to be one of the balls used by the army of Cromwell during the civil wars. The Thames police magistrate has decided that a Jew cigar -manufacturer cannot compel his Jew apprentice to work on the Christian Sabbath. The master had refused to teach the boy his business because he had absented himself on Sunday. The Rev. Mr. Gresley, who (as announced in the Lon don and local prints) has been presehted by the Bishop of Lincoln to the vicarage of Boston, is the author of " Father Clement," and other works of a theological character. The bullion in both departments of the Bank of Eng land has increased from £16,565,039 to £16,631,080, being a difference of £66,041. The paper in actual cir culation has decreased from £21,128,555 to £20,659,416, being a difference of £469,139. A maker of cheap confectionery in Glasgow, was last week committed to prison, to take his trial for adulterat ing lozenges with a substance called sulphate of barytes. This article, when decomposed and formed into carbonate of barytes, becomes one of our most deadly poisons. The widow of Lord Jeffrey has not long survived her husband. She died last week. Mrs. Jeffrey was born in America, and was the grandniece of the celebrated John Wilkes, and second wife of the late Lord Jeffrey, to whom she was married in 1813. The furniture, &c. at Springfield Hall, near Lancaster, the seat of the late Richard Godson, Esq., M.P., were sold last week. The plate, wines, &c., realised high prices; Mr. Radley, of the Adelphi, purchasing a quan tity of fine old port at 78s. per dozen. The Globe believes that kr. Gladstone's visit to Italy is not of a political character, but that he merely went in the character of a friend to a noble lord, now in the Le vant, whose divorce case win come before the House of Peers this day, Tuesday. Mr. Gladstone's office is to collect evidence. The Newcastle Journal reports that a thief has com pletely stripped the church of Dinnington of every port able article — service -books, books belonging to the con gregation, an alms-dish, and even a box of steel-pens. He broke open every place; but the communion-plate was not kept in the church. IRREVERENT USE OF THE PRESS.—The following at tempt at a silly joke upon a subject connected with re ligion appears in the Banbury Guardian, which, though a dissenting organ, might reasonably be supposed to be guided, through the influence of local sympathy alone, by a higher standard of feeling and taste in reference to such matters :—" HOLY THURSDAY FAIR...—It appears by a statement in a Northampton paper, that our last fair was a bad'one, because it was held on Holy Thursday; not persons only, but cattle also, having a great objection to attend a fair an that holy day," THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. On Friday the Rev. H. James, vicar of Willingdon, near Eastbourne, was descending the cliffs at Beechy Head, vezen unfortunately he missed his footing, and fall ing on his head, was dead when found. He had been strongly advised by a reverend companion not to descend, as the cliffs are so steep. A Welsh journal states that some of the labourers em ployed on tho Vale of Neath Railway have wantonly, by the help of levers, overturned a celebrated logan, or rocking stone, situated near Sewd Wladis waterfall. This curious monument of British antiquity, which was sup. posed to weigh about 20 tons, was so accurately balanced that a mere touch sufficed to shake it. On Tuesday week, James Jennings, four years of age, fell into the canal, at Bilston, and was drowned before assistance could be obtained. On the body being taken out of the water, Mary Bagley, who lives not far from the spot, was apprehensive that it was one of her children, and directly she caught sight of the corpse she fell to the ground, and died in a few minutes. A young woman, who was on a visit to her sister, at Worksop, was, last week, informed that a young man, who had paid his addresses to her, and to whom she was greatly attached, had suddenly left the village in which her family resided, and gone to America. The poor girl was so affected by the announcement that she had a suc cession of fainting fits, which terminated in her death. THE WORSHIP OF JUGGERNAUT.—It was announced in the report of the London Missionary Society, at the annual meeting in Exeter Hall, that the East India Directors had sent out positive instructions to withdraw the payment to Juggernaut at an early date, and that they had also instructed the supreme government in India to abolish the law forfeiting the property of a native on his change of religion. INFIDELITY.—The Rev. H. Dobney, Baptist Minister of Maidstone, speaking at the annual meeting of the Bap tist Missionary Society, referred to the diffusion of the works of Strauss and Theodore Parker among the people; predicted that the conflict which had so long distracted Germany would extend itself to England ; and declared that the evangelical body was not prepared to meet the emergency. Last week, a lady, while proceeding down Piccadilly, dropped a small parcel containing a pair of gloves and a quantity of lace collars. The parcel was picked up by a lad, whose appearance denoted extreme poverty, and returned to the owner, who acknowledged the honesty of the boy by a present of a sovereign ; an amount that evidently terrified him, for it was some time before he could be induced to accept it. The Sheffield Independent states that Mr. J. Locke, M.P., the celebrated engineer, when a boy, drove a horse and cart carrying coals into Barnsley. At that time the boys used to tease him by calling him "Captain Locke," for which they have had very frequently to run out of his way to escape chastisement. As Chantrey carried milk into Sheffield, Locke carried coals into Barnsley. A critic in the Literary Gazette, reviewing Southey's Life, says, " There is a very affecting mention of Herbert Knowles, whose early death deprived the world of a youthful poet of exquisite tenderness and beauty. His brother, now eminent at the bar, favoured the Literary Gazette with the posthumous M.S. of a poem on a churchyard, for beauty and pathos only second to Gray's " Elegy." The brother alluded to is Mr. Knowles, Q.C. On Sunday, Lieutenant John Allen, commander of the Prince of Wales, revenue cutter, fell in with a vessel called the Sea Flower, of Hull, engaged in the smuggling trade. The smuggler was boarded about 100 yards off Hasboro' light vessel, and upon searching her was found to be laden with 122 bales of contraband tobacco of 501 b. each, being above 6,0001 b. in all the duty upon which would amount to upwards of £9OO. MISS JANE PORTER.—The well-known authoress, of the Scottish Chiefs and many other standard novels and romances, expired at the residence of her brother, Dr. W. Ogilvie Porter, Portland-square, Bristol, on Thursday night, from a second attack of pulmonary apoplexy. Miss Porter was in her 74th year, and maintained to the last moment not only her intellectual faculties unimpaired, but that cheerfulness of disposition for which she had been so much admired during her long life. A ROYAL COVE.—That class of chronologists of whom Sir James-Clarke is princeps, have found out, in the natural sequence of events, a reason, more satisfactory to themselves than any supposed compliment to the Dnke of Wellington, why the infant prince is named Patrick. By a comparison of dates, they have arrived at the gratifying conclusion that his royal highness is bona fide a Paddy from Cork, and that all the water in the Thames cannot wash the Iriah blood out of his veins. EXHIBITION OF 1851.—At a meeting of the directors of the Hull Dock Company, the following resolution has been passed :—Resolved—That all goods coming to the port of Hull, intended for the Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations, to be held in London in 1851, and passing over the quays of this company, be admitted free from wharfage rates, and that the secretary signify the fact to the proper authorities of the exhibition in London, as well as the owners of steam and other yessels frequenting this port. SECESSIONS TO ROME.—We regret to learn that two estimable clergymen, highly beloved and respected for their amiable character and the exemplary discharge of their sacred duties, were received at Rome in Easter week into the Roman Catholic church. Their names are the Rev. John Henry Wynne, 8.C.L., Fellow of All Souls' College, and the Rev. James Laird Patterson, M.A. of Trinity College.—Times.—[There is a mistake as to the place where this is said to have occurred. It was at Je rusalem, and not at Rome. They had been travelling together for nearly a year, and had passed the winter in Egypt.] CONDITION OF THE SHIPPING INTEREST.—The fol lowing .report of the rate of freights at several foreign ports affords a melancholy proof of the condition of our shipping interests. At Montreal, ashes are taken on board at 17s. 6d. per ton, and wheat at the rate of 4s. per quarter. This latter item especially deserves attention, as the free traders have generally assumed the rate of freight was 2s. 6d. per cwt., or £2 10s. per ton. As a finish, we have seen an account from New Orleans, stating that cotton was taken on board at id. per lb., and that a number of vessels could not obtain cargoes even at that unprecedentedly low rate. AN INFORMER OUTWITTED.—The driver of a coach which journeys between a distant city and Bath, last week received a hint from the ostler of an inn in the suburbs of the latter city that a common informer was seated on the roof of the coach. Conscious that he had exceeded his li censed number, the knight of the whip resigned the ribands to the ostler, and hastened to the magistrates, laid an information against himself, was fined £5, and received back one-half (£2 10s.) as the informer's fee. Great was the chagrin of the common informer on pre senting himself before the bench, for a summons, to find that he had been forestalled.—Bristol Mercury. ATROCIOUS CRUELTY.—On Wednesday Mr. and Mrs. Boreham, residing at Billericay, who had been committed to the Essex Sessions for most inhuman cruelty to Eliza Walter, a union workhouse child, were placed at the bar at the Town-hall, Chelmsford. Upon the indictment being read over to them, contrary to general expectation, both prisoners pleaded guilty. The facts related to the flogging of the girl, who was compelled by the prisoners to strip herself naked. The chairman, on the part of the magistrates present, expressed their horror and detesta tion of the cruelty to which this poor helpless and inoffen sive child had been subjected, and should mark their sense of it by fining them jointly in the penalty of £5O. Messrs. Searle, boatbuilders to her Majesty, have pre sented a very fine boat, of a novel description, which has been construct&l by them, to Lady Franklin. It is similar in form to a whale boat, 23 feet long, 5 feet 8 inches broad, 2 feet 2i inches deep, strongly framed with fir, the external part, covering the ribs, being a perfect skin of gutta percha. She will go out with the expedition under the command of Captain C. C. Forsyth, now about to sail for Regent's Inlet, in search of Sir John Franklin and party; and as she is calculated to carry six or seven men and 1,6001b5. of provisions, and,. moreover, possesses the advantage of extreme portability as well as strength, there is no doubt she will be found extremely useful. COURAGEOUS CONDUCT OF A CLERGYMAN.—AS the Rev. Thomas Bull, of Corby, was driving between Har borough and Farndon, last week, he observed in a field adjoining the road a ring formed and two men engaged in a pitched battle. Leaving his horse and gig under the care of a person in the road, he made his way alone up to the assembled crowd, rushed through the ring formed, and separated the combatants, keeping them from each other at arm's length, and calling upon them to desist from such a disgraceful proceeding. The mob, seeing how determined the rev. gentleman was, immediately dis persed, some of those who had been most violent in their threats and abuse declaring that he was a brave fellow, and that no one should touch or molest him.—Northamp ton Herald. SOUND SLEEPING.—A robbery was perpetrated on Monday night week at the house of Mrs. Eden, College street, Stratford-on-Avon, under very singular circum stances. On Mrs. Eden rising in the morning she die covered that thieves had entered her bedroom, and taken from under her pillow her pocket, containing a purse, money, &c., but had very fortunately missed a few valu able articles that were in some drawers in the room. The money stolen amounted to rather more than £5. They had removed a watch from under the pillow, but finding it of little value, left it lying on the chest of drawers. They also stole from out of the servant's room some linen and wearing apparel, after which they went down stairs and regaled themselves with rook pie, and drank a bottle of wine before taking their departure ; the door they left unfastened. It is supposed that the thieves by some means obtained an entrance into the premises on the pre vious night, as no external marks of violence were per ceptible.—Birmingham Journal. SUDDEN DEATH. — In Monk-Wearmouth, on Sunday, the Rev. Charles Johnstone, a minister of the United Presbyterian Church, conducted the religious services as usual in the chapel of that denomination in Hamilton street. In the afternoon he assisted his three brethren of the same religious body to cispense the sacrament of the Lord's Supper in Smyrna Chapel. In the evening Mr. Johnstone had ascended the pulpit of his own place of worship to officiate as usual. Having given out the psalm (part of the 145th,) which had been sung, he was engaged in reading the 7th chapter of Matthew, and had reached the 22d verse, when, becoming suddenly ill, he beckoned to one of the elders, sitting in the vicinity of the pulpit, who immediately answered the summons, and on entering the pulpit was desired by the dying minister to " read till"—the meaning being apparently that he should " read till" he should recover. But scarcely had the words been uttered before the sudden faintness which had led him to call assistance was followed by a stroke of paralysis, and he was only prevented from falling by the gentleman beside him. Other individuals, including his wife, immediately hastened to the pulpit. The service was, of course, at an end, and the rev. gentleman WES . conveyed in a cab to his residence, Dundas-street, where medical aid was promptly obtained, but without avail ; consciousness never apparently returned, and death ensued in about two hours from the time of the attack, leaving a widow and two sous e the elder about (=teen.— Neweasae lourna', BOATS LOST AND LOSS OF LIFE.—A boat which left Lerwick on the 10th instant for Dunrossness way lost when going round Sumburgh Head, by which seven men met with a watery grave. Three of them were brothers, and all were connected_—On the 6th instant, while Michael Georgeson and his wife were passing the high land called Whitnesshead, near Veils, Zetland, the sail backfilled and upset their small boat. They were seen on the keel of the boat for some time, but beford aid could reach them they had sunk to rise no more.—Edinburgh Post. Captain Henry Whittingham, of the merchant service, for a long period in the service of the General Steam Na vigation Company, met with his death in Bermondsey, on Monday, by falling under a heavily-laden waggon, the wheels having passed over his body. The deceased was in his 67th year. Most of the shipping in the river, as well as the vessels of the General Steam Navigation Com pany, had their colours hoisted half mast high, as a mark of regret at Captain Whittingham's melancholy death. Baron Rothschild has most humanely headed a subscrip tion for the bereaved widow and family. EXCLUSIVE DEALING.—At a meeting of the Ledbury Protection Society, on Monday, the following resolution was proposed by Mr. France, and seconded by Captain Webb, and carried without a dissentient voice :—" That this meeting deems it expedient in the present distressed state of the agricultural interest to establish a system of reciprocal dealing, and that this meeting pledges itself from henceforward to deal only with such tradesmen as are well known to be friendly to the landed interest and of Protection ist principles." On the resolution being handed to the chairman, he earnestly entreated the meeting to recon sider this subject. This appeal met with a decided oppo sition, and was received with strong murmurs of disap probation from various parts of the room. Mr. France immediately stated that as the feeling of the meeting was evidently so strong in its favour, he could not consent to withdraw it, which being acquiesced in by Capt. Webb, it was put and carried unanimously. STAMP DUTIES PAID BY INSURANCE OFFICES.—A curious parliamentary return, just issued, gives the stamp dut;es paid by each of the London and country fire insu rance offices during 1849. The three London offices which stand for the largest sums are the Sun, the Phoenix, and the Royal Exchange. who respectively paid £180,802, £120,194, and £74,297 in duties. The country offices who stand the highest in the list are the Norwich Union, the West of England, the Manchester, the Yorkshire, the Leeds and Yorkshire, the Liverpool, the Kent, the Birmingham, and the Royal of Liver pool—the first paying £72,240, and the last £11,664. The same return gives the sum insured by each on farm ing stock exempt from duty. The largest amount insured is in the Norwich Union, which stands for £9,722.490 ; and the next considerable office is the Sun (London), which stands for £8,075,123. The Royal of Liverpool stands for £80,767 ; the Liverpool and London for £73,870. The Manchester stands for £372,885. The Yorkshire stands for £3,037,553. THE EXTRAORDINARY TRANCE AT FARRINGTON.— On Saturday se'nnight, in consequence of a paragraph which appeared in this paper, and which was copied into several of the London journ als, two medical gentlemen from the neighbourhood of Colchester arrived at Farring ton Gurney, in order to investigate, personally, the facts relating to the mysterious illness under which Ann Cromer has for the last thirteen years been labouring, and the particulars of which were fully related in the paragraph to which we have referred. They found the poor creature in much the same state as we described, suffering from lock-jaw, and quite unable to speak, or move in the bed, or, indeed, able to assist herself in any way. The suppo sition of the medical gentlemen was that the lock-jaw had been produced from a severe attack of rheumatism, which caused a suppression of the nerves, and prevented general circulation, thus paralysing the whole system. Could the system be brought into action, the gentlemen consi dered that the jaw would, mast probably, become un locked. To effect this they recommended giving of sti mulants and the application of warm bathing.—Bristol Mirror. ENGLISH SPECIMENS" FOR THE PACHA OF EGYPT. By the Indus, which left Southampton on Monday, for Alexandria, were twelve horses, eight ponies, five dogs, about twenty pheasants, four swans, half-a-dozen rabbits, and as many barn-door fowls, all of which were purchased in this country at an enormous expense for the Pacha of Egypt. The whole of the united kingdom has been ran sacked to get the choicest specimens of the various animals, which the Pacha required. The horses were of the race horse breed, one of which cost eight hundred guineas. The ponies were Shetland. The swans were black ; the pheasants were great curosities, on account of the variety and beauty of the plumage ; the rabbits were high bred. The greatest curiosity, however, in the whole collection, were two bulldogs. They were thorough-bred, and so fierce and ugly that scores of persons who went to look at them recoiled for a moment with surprise and fear. The bulldogs were fastened to the deck with massive chains, but one of them broke his chain easily, and killed some poultry in the hen-coop before he could be secured. Two tigers would scarcely be more dangerous to encounter. TIIE TIMES AND ITS CIRCULATION.—SOIIIe interesting statistics relative to the printing of the Times were men- tinned at a recent meeting of the London Polytechnic Society, from which it appeared that on the 7th of May, 1850, the Times and supplement contained 72 columns, or 17,500 lines, made up of upwards of a million of pieces of type, of which matter about two-fifths were written, composed, and corrected after seven o'clock in the evening. The supplement was sent to press at 7.50 p.m., the first form of the paper at 4.15 a.m., and the second form at 4.45 a.m. ; on this occasion, 7,000 papers were published before 6.15 a.m., 21,000 papers before 7.30 a.m., and 34,000 before 8.45 a.m., or in about four hours. The greatest number of copies ever printed in one day was 54,000, and the greatest quantity of printing in one day's publication was on the Ist of March, 1848, when the paper used weighed 7 tons, the weight usually required being 41 tons ; the surface to be printed every night, including the supplement, was 30 acres ; the weight of the fount of type in constant use was 7 tons, and 110 compositors and 25 pressmen were constantly employed. The whole of the printing at the Times office was actually performed by three of Applegarth and Cowper's four cylinder machines, and two of Applegarth's new vertical cylinder machines. THE SAVINGS BANKS MEASURE.—There are in the United Kingdom very nearly 600 district institutions called savings banks. They have accounts open with more than one million of depositors, and the gross sum of the small accumulations entrusted to them amounts to no less than £28,000,000. Government proposes that the trea surer of every savings bank shall be appointed by the commissioners of the national debt—that each treasurer shall give security—that moneys shall only be paid to and by the treasurer—that for all moneys not so paid or re ceived the Government shall incur no liability—and that, as a check on the conduct of treasurers, a more rigid and formal system of accounts between them and the national debt office shall be introduced. It is further proposed that the national debt office shall have the power of ap pointing inspectors from time to time, to proceed in per son to any savings bank, and to examine into its affairs. Approving the general principle of legal responsibility here conceded, the Morning Chronicle states various ob jections on points of detail. It suggests an extension of the plan of inspection. As the clause now stands, an in spector will be merely a corrective, not a preventive officer. "It seems to us that if, instead of nominating six hundred treasurers, the Chancellor of the Exchequer would appoint ten or twenty inspectors —practical, zealous, and active men, expert at accounts, and not afraid of hard work—and would turn them loose upon the United King dom, to move about from one savings bank to another, he would obtain a far more effectual check upon the manage ment of those institutions than by the plan of procedure which he has embodied in his bill." THE ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA AND DELAPIELD'S BANKRUPTCY.—This case was again opened before Com missioner Fane, in London, on Monday, on the question of certificate. The disclosures were again extremely inte resting. The bankrupt is now only twenty-four years old. His father and uncle were partners in the great brewing concern of Combos, Delafield and Co. He inherited a partnership which yielded him in one year, as his share of the profits, £5,000 Nevertheless, at twenty-two years old, he retired from the firm, receiving £lOO,OOO as his share of the capital. He was fond of theatricals and music. and, as it appears, profusely generous. He lost on all sides by theatrical people, anti at length, allowing him self to be lured into the expensive concern at Covent garden, he quickly lost all his property, and got ruinously into debt. The balance-sheet and every interesting item in the "proceedings" have been published, but a sum mary of the leading figures may prove interesting :—The gross amount of debts and liabilities is £30,309 ; the capi tal possessed by the bankrupt when he engaged in the opera, £79,200; sums paid for decoration and architec tural improvements in the theatre, £21,144 ; present assets for distribution, £1,063 ; domestic expenditure. £22,228 ; gross receipts of the opera, (£44,008 12s. 11d., in 1848. and £29,047 Os. 10d., in 1849,) £73,415 13s. 9d. ; the gross expenditure in connexion with the opera was (in 1848, £78,765, in 1849, £54,862), £133,627 ; the debts due under the former management, and paid by Mr. Dela field, were £21,144 ; the loss by the opera, in the season 1848, under Mr. Delafield's management, was £34,756; ditto, 1849, £25,455. The total loss was £81,355, Judg ment was deferred. THE NILE HippopoTAmus.--The Ripon takes to the Zoological Society the hippopotamus which has been waiting in Cairo for the hot season, and a collection of animals and birds, among which aro an ibex from Mount Sinai, a lion, a leopard, two lynxes, an ichneumon, some civit cats, and a variety of serpents, lizards, and desert rats. A young giraffe was also to have formed part of the collection ; but it was unfortunately drowned in the canal, after reaching Alexandria. The hippopotamus, being only eighteen months old, is comparatively small, and lives exclusively on milk ; its daily consumption being about eighty pints, for the furnishing of which several cows have to be kept on board. It is very tame, and allows itself to be freely handled by its Arab attendant, whom it follows, and answers to the name of Ghebbaysch, an island on the blue Nile, near the seventh cataract, between Senaar and Fazoglu, where it was caught. It is a male specimen ; and Abbas Pacha, the viceroy, has issued orders to procure a female, which is expected to arrive here after the rise of the Nile, in about three months time, and will also be sent to England. Preparations for the conveyance of the hippopotamus had been made at Southampton, on board the Ripon, with a convenient iron tank, holding about 400 gallons of fresh water, which it will require to be renewed every other day, to bathe in. This is the first hippopo tamus that is taken to Europe alive.—. Alexandria Corres pondent of the Times.—[The Ripon arrived at South ampton on Saturday with many remarkable specimens of animals from Egypt, the principal of which is the hippo potamus, the great behemoth of Scripture. In appear ance it is like a gigantic hog, with the exception of the head, which is surpassingly ugly, and unlike anything we have ever seen in this country. It is in perfect health, and when seen by the writer the keeper was sitting in the cage with it. There were also on board the Ripon some venomous serpents, accompanied by an African snake charmer.] THE DEATH OF THE EMPEROR OF CHINA. " Pious country !" exclaims the ingenious and patriotic Lien Chi Altangi of his native land—" pious country ! where, if we do not grieve at the departure of our friends for their sakes, at least we are taught to regret them for their own" The Citizen of the World's exulting tri bute to the Agours of a' Chinese mourning, has, we la. ment to say, lately received a notable illustration in the fate of no less a person than Tao-Kwang (the Lustre of Reason (himself. "Upon the 14th of the first moon," says the official announcement, " his Majesty departed upon the great journey, mounting upwards on the Dragon to be a guest on high !" In homelier phrase, we have to announce that the Emperor of China died on the 24th of February —a victim, it is said, to the severity of the rites with which he celebrated the decease of his mother-in law, the late Empress Dowager, who preceded him by thirty-one days. Among his more personal antecedents, we may mention three. In 1828 be murdered a Ma homedan Tartar Prince, by name Jehangie, who had surrendered himself on the faith of the royal promise. In 1832, he killed his eldest son by a hasty blow. Later still, when he became involved in hostilities with this country, he is said to have suggested the brilliant notion of crippling the power of the English by cutting off their tea, and thus destroying them by constipation ? If Tao-Kwang's last catastrophe was of a piece with the prudence of his antecedents—if he died a victim to a barbarous devotion to barbarous ceremonies—if his offer to sleep in straw in the garden, with the corpse of his mother-in-law, be deemed neither dignified nor wise— it is also certain that he has found in his son and succes sor, Yih Chu, a mourner no wit less fantastical and extra vagant. In order to insure the due sympathy of his officers—they are imperatively required to assist at a solemn banquet of the dead. Meats were to be offered, and tea to be served, to the defunct sovereign; and, in anticipation, it may be, of these dainty offerings being declined by their august object, the ministers and officers of the court were to beat their heads against the ground periodically during the ceremony, and to howl and groan in chorus. These deadly-lively festivities were to last three days. For a hundred more the Flowery People were commanded to walk in the white garments of grief, their caps undecorated by tassel or button, their beards unshorn, their tails untrimmed, their eye-brows growing wild, in barbarous immunity from tweezers. As a climax to the whole, and " to satisfy in some degree, his babe like affection," the Emperor was pleased to extend the mourning appointed for his subjects, by his predecessor, from twenty-seven days to three years. Well, who knows, after all, whether there may not be a grain of sly meaning in all these monstrous mummeries ? It is certain thatlby their means our celestial neighbours are enabled to secure a spirit of loyalty within their borders, which is quite irrespective of the reigning prince. His decease is ren dered so formidable by the rites with which it is celebrated, that, be his rule what it may, its continuance cannot fail of being regarded by his subjects as a minor nuisance compared with its close. To leave this portion of our news, and to descend from the elevation to which the Vermilion Pencil has for a while transported us, we ob serve, with prosaic satisfaction, that the accession of the new sovereign, by bringing the able Keying into office, is considered likely to hasten the legalising of the opium trade; and that the Chinese authorities are evincing a growing desire to avail themselves of British aid, in their endeavours to put down piracy. THE BISHOP OF EXETER IN 1833 AND 1850. (From the Rev. W. Goode's Letter.) My lord, there is yet one more testimony which I must be permitted to bring under your notice before I conclude this letter. And that shall be an extract from the - charge of a bishop of our Church. not many years since, to the clergy of his diocese. The spirit which it breathes is one which, under present circumstances, it is indeed as " refreshing" to contemplate as " the noble statements of catholic truth" you have given us from Hooker. Youi lordship will not, I hope, be too much offended with the liberal tone displayed in it towards the Independent and Wesleyan Dissenters, and the admis sion it contains of their agreement with us in all essential poipts of doctrines, to listen to it with patience. When I tell you the name of the author, I am sure you will feel that it deserves attention. I quote the passage with. out abridgment, precisely as it stands in the charge, forming its concluding remarks : " Of dissenters of some other denominations, especially of Independents, there is a larger number; but these, I rejoice to think, are commonly of a much more evangelical description. In one signal instance, where an independent minister and almost the whole of his large congregation have returned to the bosom of the Church, it appeared on inquiry (and I felt it my duty to make very close inquiry) that their doctrines and worship were, before their reunion with us, sound and irre proachable. I have heard the same of some other instances, into which I have had an opportunity of inquiring; and I hope, therefore, that the same might be affirmed of man's of the rest. But the great mass of dissenters amongst us (espe cially in the western part of the diocese) are Methodists, and of these the far greater proportion are Wesleyans, a class of christians whom I grieve to call separatists—for separatists, I am bound to say, is but another word for schismatics—how ever those to whom it applies may think of it, and however we may, and ought in charity to hope, that the guilt of wilful schism belongs but to few of them. Be this as it may, dis senters they scarcely are. They agree with us almost entirely in doctrine—CERTAINLY IN ALL WHICH THE MOST RIGIDLY ORTHODOX AMONG US WOULD DEEM ESSENTIAL PARTS OF THE CHRISTIAN COVENANT; AND THEY DIFFER FROM US IN NO DOCTRINE WHICH THB ARTICLES OF OUR CHURCH CONDEMN. Would to God that THE NARROW PARTITION which divides them from us could be broken down." Thus spoke Dr. Henry Phillpotts, Bishop of Exeter, at his Primary Visitation in 1833. My lord, the catholic spirit which that passage breathes, the solemn words that form its conclusion—alas ! what a contrast do they pre sent to the sounds that are now escaping from the same lips I Talk you of change, my lord, in our venerated Primate ? of the teaching of his later contradicting the sounder -teaching of his earlier years! Alas! what a change is here ! FRAUDULENT ADVERTISEMENTS OF LONDON NEWS PAPERS.-At Guildhall, London, on Friday, Sir Peter Laurie called the attention of the sitting alderman to a letter which he had received from a gentleman in Rich mond, in Yorkshire, complaining of a new species of fraud practised upon country people and parties residing at a distance from London, by means of newspaper advertise ments. The advertisement had appeared in a Durham paper, offering to supply the London papers at certain prices for pre-payment. The complainant had remitted. Bs. for a quarter's Innstrated News, not a single copy of which he had ever received. The address was " Joseph Scott, 75, Farringdon-street." No such person could be found, the answer at 75, Farringdon-street, being that he only called there occasionally for his letters. Sir Peter directed Mr. Roe, the officer, to make further inquiries respecting Joseph Scott, and to endeavour to ascertain who and what he really was, in order that something might be done to protect the public from similar imposi tions. NOTHING LIKE LEATHER.—F. M. the Duke of Wel lington has discovered that it is not to the inherent sound ness of the British constitution, nor to the absence of just causes of discontent, nor to the tranouilising influence of beef and beer, that the security of England during the last two eventful years is to be attributed, but to the bayonets and pipe-clay of the household brigade : " Gentlemen, (said the Duke, at the dinner of the Coldstream Guards, on Wednesday,) I know it is im.. possible to see troops equal in efficiency to the Guards, Look at your every-day occurrences in foreign countries. What, gentlemen, shall it be said that in England the people are less courageous than in other countries ? Is not an English mob as brave as that of any other coun try, whether French or German ?- (Hear, hear.) Well, just look at the handful of men who in this metropolis, and in the great towns of England, have maintained peace and order under very difficult circumstances, and compare them with the enormous armies quartered in foreign countries. (Cheers,) Gentlemen, you have all seen what has passed both here and elsewhere, and I. need not enter upon it in this place. You are aware of the difficult position and trying circumstances which have occurred, but you must also have observed that while with ourselves anarchy has never had a chance of success,. other countries, after months of raplq& and misfortune,. have only been extricated from thelF difficulties after severe and fatal contests. (Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, I want to know how it happens, and I believe it is attri butable in a great measure to the principle of bravery and good discipline which animates the corps of Guards, and which has its example and effect among all classes of the people. (Cheers.)"' , Truly there is nothing like leather. GREAT MEETING OF'SILIPWRIGHTS.—The shipwrights of the counties of Durham and Northumberland held an aggregate meeting in Newcastle, on Whit-Monday. It was the largest assembly of working men that has been held in this town for some time, upwards of two thousand taking part in it. Early in the morning the shipwrights of South Shields met in'the Market-place, and proceeded to the head of Wescoe-lane, where they met their fellow workmen from Sunderland. There they formed them selves into joint procession, and with bands playing and flags flying, marched through the principal streets to the high end of the town, where a number of steam-boats were lying to convey them to Newcastle. As soon as they had all got on board, they were joined by the men of North Shields, Hartley, Blyth, Howdon, and other. places. They landed at Ouseburn, where the} were joined by three hundred of the Newcastle shipwrights. The whole body then formed into marching order, an d p rece d e d by eight bands of music and banners innumerable, flying in the wind, proceeded along the Quayside, up Dean-street, by Pilgrim-street, Blacket-street, Grey-street, Market street, and Grainger-street, to the Lecture-room, Nelson street, where it was found that the spacious hall would not contain one-half of the men ; those that could get in did so, the others had to remain outside.„ One of the Newcastle shipwrights was called to the chair, and de livered an excellent speech o n th e b en evolent purposes of the Shipwrights' Society. The meeting was afterwards addressed by Mr. John Ferguson, Secretary of the Wear Shipwrights' Benevolent Society, who read an interesting report of that society, showing that the total number of members on the Wear is 1,389, and during the last year they have paid to friends of deceased members the sum, of £226, and for aiding old and disabled members the sum of £2lO 2s. 4d., making a total of £436 2s. 4d. spent during the last year on benevolent purposes. The meet ing was afterwards addressed by several of the members, on the benefits arising from this excellent society. The whole of the proceedings were conducted with the greatest order and regularity. PE" ,tri butet alp punt loveii the appal teeth larizi rival] press Adr line igst onal the 'ith un and ,See lr turn reg emu my • ERSONAY. BEAUTY !—Among the most valuable att es of beauty, whether regarded as . dti - eive to mai ity and grace of aspect , or as-ailiary to femini liness, a beautiful set of t*Kmust ever rank among most important elerne s of a favourable perm] earance. The embe ment and preservation of t h and gums hay erefore ever been regarded wi aliar interest ; nd among tho mass of preparatic ge sted fart e desirable purposes, we could partic " Row ds' Odonto, or Pearl Dentifrice," as 11 lied for • a excellence in purifying, embellishing, a tent/ these traP9444( an.ct attract ive objects..-4 rer l a y TO THE EDITOR OF TH E I" e wa ß t.i P if, ell ,r 1 a rtocoio thug' i ' ai e so :foil tbsoieefitl yr his availeda pronounce t examplehem himself still • i 5 t hat " SIR, —Pray can you tell us how it„the tile world seem to sleep so profoundll 0,0660 . LslicCettoolhrOv TRllR:ScPurno_sff:yeo. : so i v t o l lcan l o t , c a a f n te b r e so r :a m t e e d ly ie e d x , p i e f ri s e :7 o g ul i d. ts t :;: rtsio ' dap w noe i lys t ue h si t vi h nae e nehrd c h e qp r iu t et a e i si n pst i t ro y eonvf o a f tiflhas i ra t s tt imla co itir u teai t tt i n ensin u a a i l ihi l o y en i t ipo e ut e n:io ;. , c r . 1 21 .", ,t ; , our time ; but how vain. If Plato, neatly ~,,efino since, rightly understood this intricat,e _ 4 0 9 recommended a double currency-001°11'9,1A that could not be affected by other ily " Il boot the l stances over which we have no controult a' Itb. Y r Of Vi es focfooforunendi civilizationnna et i t no r tn a g d e e t: hs h a naeottwdt settled es absurd wisdom, c s a u ogn r a d s it f :n : i vt u l h s y i t l o ec t h : ae l 1 k are Iron ti ti p t , not evidence our increase or decrease w ill the and where bey o ° ls part of our abundance of gold g? to ? n i e nt t° ' to us for our 1.0.U.'s until it is calve at b e cog io take it back again ; then all our trade °l o st re> and thousands ruined, without the slig gr , T a send you a speech made by the ge l ' b of highly-esteemed clergyman of the churc o loa f 0 at Retford, in Notts, which perhaps .lest thst I s tion in your paper ; but it is so exce, lie t ot . you will be pleased with it. Is it realll tree 0' men and farmers are beginning to und er n ifest I, strous evil, and our great merchants Ts c orn the most unaccountable ? Free trae, e ,i, t his q taxation, are as nothing compared ''', : l t higis We shall never permanently prosper uTa't bees,',es We are at the mercy of every change that 1i other countries, and it seems that We tha t prec r f remain so from the suicidal indifference ..nite I hope yet that something milder than u l l vency will drive us to the needful change' ol i s ef s y S u pß e l Yours obediently, Til _____.....---- _,„ 0 ,.., , THE PROGRESS OF PRu i sr- i ' i --- vpoo on 67, TO THE EDITOR OF THE LI TT.- , ; ,1 1 - 67, lit p_o e errv r i te e rh)resspl secession y OO. t r ß doe , tr — fekreoi T terniy le nte hbmferyoa liberalti n ti tosi motion, , success, shoutslperdess me b o s toifontvcctieochttueohs r a sei y a cis i cr 7 ;i : i co 0 5i0 ,: f07,4 15 .0 tection has receded or advanced sin e ', JO struggles of 1846;" not that I would ole t ioss 9 d ß uha o ecye b i ere e rddf r ea t iituat P hi hlnh e etfd e uuwd l lthea o hbass p eiusgri e stcn n hocwie e nlh. d d aosahnil t dlld h eeee e nrsrege b idneoc r g, due confusion, a rbrti c ao n a , :hu b s:a y , nufno or e, ° :11;b ' e i 10 :la b tel,ooo is 11 0 ti t 0 4 , b l . :0 drigye,,iiit,:ll.,, os,ic ort l ,eloti....ili ll ' e do ( l l r s; The (important f e n cti s onists were an impregn 4 0 bier . 1 1 others to our blustering O d d ) ivet4 ji dbta a hh l eui a tisthn r t m regtovh i t n abo g tudhtmehlaiadi spectacle every of a post deserted f honourre ot a l . l o, ::, a to o e rt y 4lti sd w aas o wAp u i lnhdagenahnddool the oe, e v uow a poo d rrs e psp , osrt fi y ;isg t n : igs " ns i s li re E ;ri Ohs o r :141 ,:e d r4 ". d a e e e - t e y s y t:r u ggle, sto t yu h hcc e nco y eßae n suj a eus t ,ds u teo r lri a l nsi l g Ot l , Y re e tl3 e 1 P ied reposedTttrh aggressions of a recruited fat s oi d t eorauhhrgawess r righteous sro h hhw t moh e eei o i rindn u h;rd s sea:aadln e a inf ddutdesrneso though boturr igoe r hyv c beut s a d i ape s td. q t ( : : d eji:: , llo.,c o : c eeteei iiiicets bir,vt oeiii:terj: :11, e_is,t ef d dabit a ru a x x i t aa a lu g i sa e p nfiseiv lv s n i t y ce ee ddg te , uh i d i a 'h t , c y t d i r ta i Y n h teie c att : e ar e thntntvtth l he f dh y hhel they exposed s 6' ye Peel vices a t nend f ch i r ya, sn t h dta a onv t odi rt m tr uaud o ne js r , a e l l i tl s eo t rnn w oi uht eternity oa l nf. o d v s e bd s :ro t s o geole c sv e sitire l:p e ti typoi ld etetsibspllicle,noramnatndiaodintnieoinoineicieloienoped:otetbluiteibliial:)l;iiit:3o3,epbdeo:.4o.lo:llolh i; e t in another parliamen disP" til Ir f th il ey ntb t i h uoil e nisl m t . a w ,uu h dtl i k c nt h uh responding results in the country ; all u f tile o r disunion and the apathetic indignatieni° itor bic4f, which raised Sir R. Peel to office, (°° l h Ys tis°, t° s9l and the now recognised protectionist 0 - 135., 0 0, condition than before ; they, hoirelf r o ,' infrdf, oppositionegt to ueprwuure their i more e n subdue. Sir Robert Peel and Lord J ° „ s ieti 1 Oeff, collected d tio u n u s d u ( o u noo reference both these statesmen (if such you cal' - 9 bota e i t of t. t T he h i e r s d e i d so iv r i g s l o n n o si e b:o:l 34 o l that they may be influenced by ole"' -' .oi, earned they er t ny e dd th ip e a u g p aon d wt e o t : i i whi i c r h a conflict, except under necessaaciig al c s 3 0 .7 ', i their fighting for ; they have not °nil A as,"cos ° „A y u a c r h o , u s a ir a , n i d s a pa b tr r :o ef ti r c e l v a i b e o w u o rs f w th it e b l s 4 o : l :::! iartctatshme wnihetsuch country oneeiptafenacsiladseealthtsvrrtselegenrrieletl aeahgt , , adte h r aolnerteipfl;adaaoloGeepnrasayiHrrsysdneaeetTdhcryossdyouasefi of eg t rii oeitlntraefhaf p coll,df a teruf r i aenaowll AGITATION,ta i ntin: h a ee.metesdi the, narsn e ecet n f is shcera t ,urneiveoe t cdohdy l 1 11:1 lit:s ttiti ,ce... ice.t p ,Loi, r idgo ira o n,:,r, ii , t t::::,,,i . , ` co: l osdi fiei i i , Ajto r,roo: o,: e: oi,fe, 1 , e t a o twhee E irg nglish history, any Pa iri °r)' ° °-.11 rt e eerotw q srat u tieui hcsi e n, :ke n : odim- c f:d e urßeaa s fnslune t ptlild h eti; sirp i swi s .arnhunh p ggide a lnrn r lelds t eis y auwaksydse: h :ewra a rrsy s ei,irit:i p . h, v r lteet o ehshri d asibc u ttte 1 he c cil i rio e sjiessbt.sl:iy.o..ttici: l o 9:et: h ie, : O a:, 9, u. nos 4 o:abt 6 t r I: , et,14 5; i s t oa h upn a sat t oratu i i r nrf r refi e od p rnin arable tll lose—which pers on selves by thinking it has lost grow,'" since ',; 5 1 0 09 ha L ve at ev o e s u s m ir a: a n s ta g z o n o e d d athiteizireopsosatToo:": i s : 5 ; .} : ofitsoturrub'e°;britee'dii",,st "011°14 faithlessness s b , s bh ‘ watchword an n F d f oß h v man,—we t ol o u f m m e difficultaa may i b t e erssuote r h e P a ; r tile: llB : l3 t e ri e b: tlif tl i i ec : , ,:iii . y '° . which ma n can gl t i t bill_ao- of, progress we have made, as with th e o ft P hos e I and let us remember the sustenance cs of 7, d # , we have received, as well as the vi le the v icfri a l l u at t loyalcousrse, -satisneel' o . s t pe c i °lt ..-; PEOPLE." —I am, Sir, &c. CO L ' . 4 1 ; . C. APR r. 0 4 ;/ l U if n e lerf le .a t k th er e s m ! . not ---.."---,.,,,, p 0 O M io j TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIT I2 " - tool 0 0` Sirt,—l reside in the Metropolis, b at e A nd c oni4 war-cry which GOD, w be,ey n h a a a y s, e ibl b le e ac o e u l l os .i- s, - o:st p i i r ti; ti c l os : 1 0 of perusing the Liverpool Standa r ri tirM 038 i glad to find that your sentiments sebebeco,l9oeo my P ow respecting the governmen' I , of ing from us the dear remains of thosothe b a n d tie's ; r,j committing their sacred corpse to, 4 ., g 0 °WO paid officio' ~. We may be allowe e ~`; l ;et s ee " p 0 0 0. we will not go out of our own hous e ic og , ~0 1 0 , 449 -whilst they say in their receptacles; sto w oo 1 lamented remains. We have born e w ho Ji o cr , ; o l the insolent Whigs ; a set of I ° o e ver/ . e pollial ° otWdearehtaoveoullegeello°:rgfigibillslre;sl°,oof,,, upon us the severest injuries ; Wil° se mote Al t• 0 90 1 11/ been to ruin our country, and to P er e tit: b ec lb, Pi, which to defend us our forefathers a 0 04 3 to r°,l l ' ling even to sacrifice their lives; BP - of ta til e er« , tbhyetahsrheeasteonfiitihgetochiinlavatdoentihinegisse n ider b og , of d oe t t e husband's remains are not tom ell t b jO O w ith . _ ieo ef,, be i c tltY o p) t be t , but should they dare to carry their in, ti u i p ot o itet) is to be hoped that the spirit of 1 3 r!` th otle i v e ill: er fi ti and that the nation will u nite, as , w r l e psrs b ncl 'o ° free-trade has done England allir„Thiv °AO. f b , the fine exhibition of 1851 wiu " - f ide' s , foreigners and depresq our hon es a io r , Si,e r ' ft 4' you will advocate our cause I re-T,A.S . " A COls i' 0? London, 111ay , 23, 1850. ___-, 1 0 0 ------------------n 'II IV i o etli REV. S. BARKWORTII .AN," OXFORD. , r 0 ° ,01) ----- n roP' 0 ti" f i The following letter, with the pert beel of the editor of the paper to which ra e . de/ a' them ia i 1 will, we imagine, sufficiently exP° s- ,.te 0° .„ A 0 A A the rumours which have been _eitgliv-uorivo; OOP / artO F circulated in Tractarian t he.° J .4.1 P ,,,f 44, men who dissent from the view s 4b 000-irpo'le or , olv - (ii ir ol t y s igned to propagate. Mr. Barks . / 0 genetil 0 e ,1 have been specially singled out ns. 9 0 ; f e , f o , scandalous attacks ; and as no lie w ith ? al ai) "" tradicted) not to obtain creden 10 3 1 ~o r ts that the rev. gentleman in questl_rthe Or , e s of exposing the utter untruth u , ..v:t OK, s to e , i be 0 cw t ,' respecting him : of' TO bat P ) fitig it tP ° ol/ "TO THE Y.DITOR ,_ ear d t „ or . 1) as, co t. .„ "Sin, —Having accidentallY P io' , /3o"oot`); 01 the sinc.,le quoted a passage from tbe i° pre par 0 00 , t o_ e w man, which stated that 'the Rev. ..iciti, tilealio7io,,,,,„e, episcopal censure for tamPeriegway 1 b e c ur e Prayer,' or words to that effect, ted as _, tile 1 Vor i cr i ti during the period - in which I citen".ure fro'', r e,d, ~1l ,f e of Oxford, I incurred no such co:i' n a ietee' re ceO r oilosi t , ~ indeed, I have in my possessioto b 0 . e ... joie o rl r il,c t o'; whose rebukes I am represenledTraetali'e dleoll°ll,,i,"/ lordship refers to paragraphs in a lters p 0 . a nd l'i ti 9 ,9 mimed that I bad made seine a .er voo l 4 tli e lo d e et N, Church, as appointed in the Pro) inr v O O l ,O t e cO r ti 0 0 v himself ofEcially bound to ac(lo°,,, r ai, ' s ' tll° t i li el - t er ti papers to ._ :0 A p , he simply requested a denial Hardlyaf , f saY eis t ar i , I could at once give.' I need .yn,ead.ole !Z ol a emphatically and jet. gi n &Tou! dii; I Z . S B uc a h rk more on the subject. You: our a,, , , t ,, gA iiel s d o communication. -1 remain , , P l Oll, •"' i r lc '' i.ip ~ S. M. B ARKIN Li st . Vete . f v " Late Curate of th e 1 01 4 ii tO 00 b IO "atford, May 212/ know, a common expedie nt ,.. mas i bo e its7 i o 'dDiVA The remedy for the nuisat;i9 pra va o o /,ar t or f every honourable and ing eni it sno tt 0 ; A rno of , do) a o too ,0, A o ,b o throw into the fire (as WO o f an/ 1:10 I , ' A tiona affecting the characte,r_ . spo se t o w. i t oro t o,O o r, lying grth relations °f ocrwlrlilltrrSlisellbl'"i'lltittltlaelflf,.: informer gives his name , i° 'pove j b's ills t o . p r opprobrium if the information goon der, e cerce R aft of the practice, and b,O. 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