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Eittraturr. POETRY. SONNET.-NATURE. BY M. S. HUGGINS. (For the Liverpool Standard.) . • 'I love to quit the haunts of men, the scene Of low-born cares, on Ocean's shore to stray ; Or through the lonely glen, or where some ray -Of Nature's pristine majesty is seen Where scarce th' unhallow'd foot of Change has been : I love to gaze upon her virgin face Unsullied by the breath of man, her grace (Unmarr'd by his deformity) of mien. Moods of her witchery there arc, 1 ween ; Moments of tranquil loveliness, while Earth Sleeps in Heav's smile, when, Art ! e'en thy groups then But faint their classic eloquence speak forth : When colounade--dorne--statue — Beauty's own, Need an apology, intruders grown 1 Liverpool, June 11th, 1847. • EXPERIENCE OF A LIVERPOOL SURGEON. • THE NEW VILLA. It is not a correct view of the sanatory condition of our town to regard our densely peopled streets, and the hideous courts and alleys, which abound throughout them, as the sole source of that high rate of mortality, for which Liverpool has gained an unhappy notoriety. Other fertile sources of disease are to be found, and are yearly increasing, in quarters where the uninquiring observer would look only for salubrity and health ; in the breezy and elevated outskirts, by the shores of our noble river, m th&se pleasant and beautiful localities, to which the merchant, the tradesman, and the superior clerk, retire at the close of their daily labours, to enjoy the delights of ilemi-rustic abodes, and to breathe an atmosphere, un tainted by the smoke, and far away from the infections of the crowded town. Few that ramble through our suburbs and notice the clusters of neatly-finished villa erections, with their fronts of stucco work, their neatly painted trellises, their pendant ornaments, the trim lawns, or the ornamental gardens and rockeries, ambitiously intruded upon the eye :—none who have marked the air of comfort, and even of luxury, which they wear, when the winter fire glows cheerily through the half closed shutters -would imagine that many, very many, of these abodes of affluence, or of competency, produce work for the doctor and, too often, for the sexton, as abundantly as - localities which wear a far less promise of healthiness. In nine cases out of ten, a solid substantial house in any • of the respectable streets of the town, where the sewer age has been attended to, and within reach of the visits of the scavenger, is preferable to these hastily run up abor tions, despite the pseudo gothic or grecian finery in which they are bedecked. A fruitful source of the ill effects produced by this de scription of residences is the eager haste with which they are occupied. Scarcely has the plasterer's trowel put the finishing touch to the interior of the walls, and before the shrubs on the lawn, or in the garden-plot, have fairly taken root, we see them already tenanted and their mis guided occupants preparing to winter in them. Unsewered and but half drained, with the natural damp of the, soil Oozing up through the flags of the cellars, and the perspiration streaming from the undried walls, they imagine that a fire in each room for a few days will remove all danger ; and jog on through slight colds, coughs, sorethroats, and influenza, longing for the ap proach of summer and sunshine, dreaming of crocuses and pinks, rhododendrons and - roses, until rheumatic or some worse fever—if worse be possible—stretches them upon a bed of sickness, or of death; and effectually awakes them to a conviction of their want of caution. Hundreds of such cases have come before me in the course of my own practice. That which I have selected for the subject of this article, I have chosen for the somewhat peculiarly melancholy circumstances by which it was attended, and because I is as personally interested in the case of the poor sufferer. Poor Mary Bennett,—l record her real name ; for all who were connected with her are by this time removed from their 'place on earth—was the only daughter of a retired mariner, who had commanded a merchant vessel out of the port, and amassed a small competency. He had married rather late in life a lady some years his junior, who died in giving birth to a second child, who only survived her a few days. Of Mary's years of childhood little need be said. It is sufficient to state that she grew up a gentle and interesting girl, and formed at once the prideand delight of a doting father, prompt to gratify her every wish, almost before it could be expressed. To do this, however, it required no unreasonable effort of affection ; for never was there a more unexacting being, or one who had less of selfishness in her disposition. To sit day by day with her fond parent ; to prattle with him hour by hour by ,the winter's fireside or in the' sum mer twilight ; to sit at his feet and listen, in childish wonder, to his interminable stories of his adventures at sea or in foreign countries, and as she advanced to girl hood, to read for him her little stories, or his weekly paper, were her favorite occupations. Her delight was in her Home; and of the usual amusements of those of her sex and age she seemed ever disinclined to partake. This happy life, however, she was not destined long to enjoy. She was in her thirteenth summer when an event took place, or rather two events, which imparted to her lot a cast of sorrow. The failure of a mercantile house, in which Captain Bennett had invested the larger portion of his earnings, reduced him to a straitened condition of circumstances ; and the shock which this blow inflicted upon a mind and constitution already severely shaken, could-never be repaired. He sunk slowly into a state of mental paralysis, which continued, with scarcely an inter mitting hour, until his death, which occurred some years afterwards. It was now that the real strength of Mary's character developed itself. From a careless and happy child, she sprung up at once into the active and thought ful woman. The small establishment which had been kept up in their time of prosperity was quietly reduced, almost without her suffering parent being conscious of any change. The limited means now at her disposal were husbanded carefully, yet without meanness, and with a study always to provide for him every former comfort. It was at this time that I first became acquainted with Mary, having been called in professionally to attempt the hope less task of restoring the poor old man to his former state of health • and such was the interest she excited in my mind, that I continued to call occasionally as a friend of the family, long after all hopes of being professionally of service bad been relinquished. Must I confess it ?—there was almost a selfish interest in these visits. It was delightful to one who, like myself, had seen so much of the rough exterior of human life, and the hollowness and heartlessness of the human cha racter, to enter this abode of patient and suffering virtue. It was refreshing to witness the calm serenity with which this mere child performed offices which required almost more than a woman's fortitude ; to mark her gentle step as she glided about her household tasks, and ministered to the sometimes peevish complainings of her parent ; to see her denying herself all the pleasures and amusements of her age and sex, that she might smooth his passage to the grave. Mary Bennett could not be called beautiful in features, or in figure. Her form was slight, although perfectly symmetrical; and her face was not marked by any character at which objection could be taken, unless her exceeding paleness was an objection. This very pale ness, however, comported well with her mild blue eyes, her rich auburn hair, her quiet manner, and the task to which she had set herself; and I have often thought, as I gazed upon her, that the beauty of mind and heart, which beamed from that face, was more to be prized than the rarest charms which a thoughtless world admires. Thus years passed away ; but they were not destined to remain years of lonely watching. rho little parlour of the invalid was occasionally shared with another occu pant, between whom and Mary it was evident that a mutual affection had sprung up. Robert S— (I cannot take the same liberty with his name which I have done with that of Mary) had been the occasional playmate of her early childhood-; and acquaintance had ripened, on both sides, into a sincere attachment, which was under stood between them, but was never expressed. Poor Mary preferred her duty to her happiness ; and indulging her own heart was with her a thing not to be even dreamt of. Once, something approaching to a declaration of his affection was attempted by him ; but a mute glance, which she cast at the poor old man, beside whose couch of imbecility they were sitting, checked the utterance of his feelings, and the subject was never again mentioned between them, until the bar was removed' by the hand of death. In due time the blow fell—if blow it could be called— which exchanged a life of suffering upon earth for another and, I trust, a better world. On this trying occasion I was.summoned by the poor girl to advise with her as to her future course in life. Very properly she considered that to remain herself the occupant of her now solitary home would be improper, as well as unpleasant; and'at length, after much entreaty, she consented to take up her residence with myself. One condition, however, she reso lutely insisted upon ; and I need not say that it was gladly granted. As a return for her board, she desired to take the-charge of the younger branches of my family; and a more gentle and pains-taking instructress could not have been found. At the expiration of twelve months of mourning, the attentions of Robert S— were openly. renewed ; and in a few months more they were married from my house, I myself giving away the bride, and her favourite pupil acting as bridesmaid. There had been a studied reserve on the part of the young man, which I had, as it , subsequently proved weakly, indulged, with respect to the selection of the fu ture home of the newly married couple. All that I knew of it was that it was to be one fitted up - with no niggard hand, and with studied regard to my poor Mary's gratifi cation. Indeed, I learned from him that he intended for her a pleasurable surprise, when h e s h ou ld be able to in duct her into it, whit could not be, however, until their return from a short wedding tour, as the furnishing and upholsterer's work was not completed on the day of their nuptials. To this postponement of the expected gratifi cation, Mary submitted with her usual meeadkny, she ce essand sai p d a- ; pa tience. She was too fullof happiness, already, and she was sure her dear Robert would do everythin g far better than she could do herself. Accordingly, after a slight lunch, and the usual felicitations had been received, the youthful pair took leave of my family and myself, not, however, without some tears on the part of poor Mr,, ; and proceeded, by railway, to pass the honeymopnma ramble through the Lake country, in which Robert had e some distant relations residing. I need n t sa y that the gentle step, the quiet smile, the soft low tones and the happy influence which that artless and unassuming yonng creature shed around her, as she moved about the trifling household duties, to which she would set herself, were missed by myself and my children for many, many days. The world, however, has calls upon the' attention of the medical man, which soon tend to dissipate such feel ings and to till up the void, which the absence of those ("" the wuac arAkr to u. estat‘s. ress,ipt, therefore, about a month after the marriage, of a letter from Robert, announcing his return on the afternoon of the next day, and conveying an invitation to the new home of the young couple—my daughters had each had kind communications from Mary, breathing of happiness unalloyed, and de scribing, with the delight of one to whom such scenes were new, the various beautiful places in the roman is county through which they had journeyed—came upon me almost like an unlooked-for pleasure. The address which it con tained, and at which we were to call, was a locality about three miles from my own residence, and in the eastern outskirts of the town ; and without a thought further than that of ascertaining the nearest way to it, and how we were to transport ourselves thither, I set to work to dispatch the day's business, and to make such arrange ments in advance as would, I hoped, enable me to spend at least half a day uninterruptedly with the young couple. The next afternoon and evening were accordingly passed in a visit to thing approaching to perfect happiness, 1 found and wit nessed it that day. There was an added bloom upon Mary's cheek as she welcomed us ; and I could fancy that, whilst doing the honours and dispensing to us the hospi talities of her new home, a matronly appearance and manner had already taken the place of her former child like and diffident habits. There was, however, nothing assuming in her deportment—nothing beyond an appear ance of consciousness of the charge which now rested upon her as the mistress of that home. From the artless and quiet being I had always known her, she had only changed to the being I had pictured her as certain to become—an honest, homely, and affectionate English wife. As for Robert, I could feel at once that I had not been mistaken in his character. He was at once fond and proud of her, whom he had vowed to love and protect through life ; and his affection was manifested, not only in his deportment towards her, but, as Well, in the liberality with which he had surrounded her future home with all that, in his view of things, was necessary for her comfort and gratification. I must confess that, on that day, I scarcely bestowed a thought upon the character of the house itself in which I found the youthful pair. It was one of the villa erections to which I have referred ; a sweet place, delightfully si tuated, and the little ground by which it was surrounded laid out with all the taste which the ornamental gardener could bring to the task of decorating such a dwelling. By Mary, it was evidently regarded as a sort of Paradise, more grateful to her because it had been the spontaneous choice of her husband ; and it was with infinite delight that she paraded before my own dear girls its beauties, and re hearsed to myself its domestic conveniences. The season, which was a dry one, did not afford an opportunity of no ticing any defect of drainage, or any unhealthy appearance connected with it, although the fresh painting, and other evidences of a first habitation, might have struck a more attentive and critical observer with fears. The occasion, however, was one of too pleasurable a character to allow of any such thoughts obtruding themselves upon my mind. I saw the poor dear orphan girl happy in the love of a man who I knew would exhaust every effort, and spare neither trouble nor expense, to gratify her wishes, even before they could be expressed ; and, for the time, that confidence was to me sufficient. I could not think of throwing a damp upon the buoyant feelings which such a day excites. In fact, all seemed so complete and well arranged about this new home of the young couple, that a doubt as to anything about it deleterious to health never entered into my thoughts ; and it may be some excuse for my want of consideration to remember that a villa house, even although recently erected and tenanted for the first time, is, like other houses, not necessarily dangerous to life or health. That I had been wanting in forethought, however; and that my young friend had acted unwisely, or had been deceived, in his selection of a home ;—that beneath the nicely stuccoed and painted exterior, and the beautifully papered walls within,—for all its boasted conveniences, its pump in the scullery, its soft-water tank, its slop stones to carry off waste water, and its reported contri vances for other similar purposes,—the provocations of dis ease lurked about nearly every apartment of Villa, unseen bufpotent; we were destined to discover fully only when discovery was too late. Within, at the utmost, a fortnight after taking up their residence there, during which period there had been a change of weather, with an almost continuous fall of chilly rain for three or four days, I was called in by Robert to visit their servant-of-all-work, whom I found labouring under the effects of a cold, at tended with feverish symptoms, which she had caught, she thought, from wearing her house slippers when wet with the damp of the garden and outhouses, during one of the days of rainy weather. As she was a robust woman, and there was nothing to distinguish her case from the or dinary ones, to which every person in this moist and un certain climate of ours is subject, her illness excited nei ther alarm, nor any particular precaution for the health of the other inmates of the house. Her recovery, however, was slow; and whilst she was partially incapacitated from pursuing her usual avocations, I learnt afterwards that her young mistress herself had occasionally visited the kitchen, assisted in the preparation of the family meals, and superintended other portions of the usual household affairs. I must describe the character of the apartment in question and the condition in which I sub sequently found it ; and I may remark that, whilst doing so, I am describing a large number of similar offices, in too many of which our poor household drudges are doomed to pass the principal portion of their time, and to sacrifice health and life itself. SKETCHES OF A TRIP TO THE CONTINENT, ITALY, AND EGYPT. BY EDWIN KEEP, ESQ. ; No. XI. (Written for the Liverpool Standard.) The principal objects that commanded my attention at Naples were the mountain and volcano of Vesuvius ; the ruined cities of Herculaneum and Pompeii ; and the Museo Borborico, containing many thousand objects of marble and bronze, in statuary, busts, vessels, machines, &c., exhumed from the ruined cities. It is wondrous the vast amount of lava that deluged these cities of the sur rounding plains for miles, and even extending as far as Rome. While I was at Naples, in making the railway, they cut through lava thirty and forty feet deep, and laid open two empty rooms that had lain buried seventeen hundred years. The time of the city of Herculaneum's foundation is not accurately known ; but Dionysius Hali carnassus refers it to 60 years before the Trojan war, or .1342 years before Christ. Could the manuscripts lying in dusty heaps be unrolled and translated, perhaps some new lights might be thrown upon the history of bygone ages, involved in so much mystery and uncertainty ; but this task cannot, without immense difficulty, be accomplished. From the top roof of the New York Hotel the prospect was novel, grand, and sublime—the far-famed bay, the shipping, the mole, the Isles- of Ischia, Pescida, and Ca prea, where Tiberius held his corrupt, tyrannic, profligate, and lawless sway ; the restless multitude ever rolling like the sea, far down below, along the streets, the noisy tide of human life flowing on till midnight; while the huge volcanic mountain stands sublime over the city and sub urbs on one side ; the lofty St. Elemo lifts high its tower ing head on the other. Thirty years since Naples con tained 400,000 inhabitants, and, according to Keysler and Dr. Moore, 18,000 courtezans and 30,000 lazzaroni or blackguards. It has forty-five convents of Dominican, Franciscan, and the Augustine orders; and many propor tionate members of other orders. The Carthusian Mo nastery contains a splendid crucifix by Michael Angelo. Monks, nuns of forbidding countenances, beggars, and thieves swarm here, like drone's preying on the industrious bees ; bands of music ; marching of soldiers ; firing of tannon ; drilling of recruits ; everlasting rattling of coach es, cabs, carts, vetturini, and ringing of bells, made one scene of continuous hubbub, noise, and confusion. If you go into the churches, you do not, though somewhat sub dued, escape a degree of noise ; praying aloud ; apostro phising saints ; clamour, with gesticulations and ejacula tions ; the people seem to partake of the hot, sulphureous, bubbling, boiling, exploding nature of their volcanic soil ! On my way to the Museo my pocket was picked at mid day. Returning from the promenade at the Chiaigo at dusk, I was dogged by three fellows, and narrowly escaped being rifled by force, and was glad to run to a soldier at the guard-house for protection, who only laughed at my danger. Indeed, whatever might have been said in the late dispute about the character of Naples, a city robbery from the person is with them but a pastime, and if caught, the prosecution of the impudent, clever plunderers is at tended with so much difficulty, delay, and trouble, that a kick, cuff, or blow with a stick—and every pedestrian there carries one—is the mild, summary, but uncertain punishment. Catch a fellow with your handkerchief in his hand at the moment of abstraction, he gives it you grinning, and says it is quite a mistake, he is a " poor innocent," &c. You go down to the hotel on the margin of the bay, and dine on a wooden pier over the water, covered by an awning from the heat of the sun. There I the vagabonds beset you. They cannot get to you by land, but they swim round to you by water; and you must, to get rid of their importunity, throw some copper coins into the water, and they will pursue them and dive for them 20 feet deep, till they bring them up in their mouths or hands, like water spaniels or aquatic magicians. Then down on the Mole, to hear those extempore orators, surrounded by their admiring auditors, men and boys of the lowest classes, with here and there a sprinkling of decently-clad persons, and the few passing curious listen ing travellers. Two circles form the auditory : the inner one seated on the ground, the outer one standing :—their fee for the eloquent and impassioned oration varying from one-fourth of a halfpenny to a farthing. In that strange scene, under that lovely sky, the solemn dashing of the blue waves of the Mediterranean, the distant hum of the city's noise, see how intently that group of auditors lis ten ; their lips apart, the muscles of the mouth quivering, as the eyes of the poet and orator are gleaming with un wonted fire, or in a fine frenzy rolling, from " Heaven to earth ;" his arms thrown up with wild gesticulation, de scribing in transporting language the life, the heroic deeds, the hapless death of the tax-destroying, disinterested, he roic Masaniello, and then with folded arms, his panting I bosom heaving so long with stormy passion and patriotic rage sink quietly into a calm as with an eye to the solid pud ding as well as the empty praise he sends his hat over to the distant part where you stand, saving the noble English man or Frenchman must not stand to be enlightened and instructed for nothing, and he has his joke if you give him a small piece of silver coin—" Why it is nothing consi dering the rich country you come from ;" if it is a small brass coin—" Oh ! the gentleman loves to get his learn ing cheap ; but we will instruct him for nothing, if that is not too much." Thus from deep pathos, the dark scowl 1 against tyranny, to the broad laugh, is but a step. These improNisatrici are truly Nature's orators and poets, wild as the m ounta i n breeze, musical as the iEolian harp. When I em b ar k ed for Palermo, a boat with two fiddles and a castanet player and dancer, came alongside, and it was wonderful the dexterity with which that half-naked, happy, laughing young dog would play his castanets, and strike the soles of his feet t oge th er with a noise as loud as the c l a pping of hands when we stop the dance in England. The Punchinello, too, at Naples, is very clever, as it is also at Venice : quite a petite thatre, with scenery and division into acts. Passing the streets of Naples at night, the minor theatres have a very odd appearance : to see J the audience, the play lituceetimg ; ti., i ke „ r t h y duciunia. LIV ERPOOt STANDARD. T HE t ions, divided only from the street by one half-closed door, and one policeman keeping guard. There is this advan tage, that in case of fire, accident, or panic, the avenues are not so intricate, long, and dark, as those of too many of our theatres, which obstruct egress, and have been oc casionally the loss of many lives by crushing and suffoca tion. But we have now arranged, the Bostonian and I, to get up early, go by railway to Torre del Annunciata, and walk thence three miles to the city, buried for so many ages by the lava and ashes of Vesuvius—the city of Pompeii. It was a melancholy trip , and as we approached, through gardens and vineyards, the gate of the city, there stood at a little distance the gigantic cause of so much loss of life and property, calm as any honest man, with quiet mind at ease ; and the smoke was so gracefully curling from the crater, that you might think the monster was smoking a cigar, indifferent about all mundane affairs. The awful solitudes of Pompeii, the streets of tombs, the dilapidrted, ruined theatres, temples, shops, grottoes, &c., all impress the soul with the insignificancy and brevity of mortal things. But my observations upon Pompeii, Hercula neum, and my ascent of Vesuvius, must be reserved for my next chapter. Human nature, left to itself, is a fierce and frightful thing's and the stories of savage life are nearly all of the same ca libre, and all exhibit a dreadful love of revenge. About twenty years ago, a large encampment of Black-feet and others, had been formed in those prairies for the purpose of hunting. The warriors, however, growing tired of their peaceful occupation, resolved to make an incursion into the lands of the Assinabaians. They left behind them the old men with the women and children. After a suc cessful campaign, they turned their steps homewards, loaded with scalps and other spoils, and on reaching the ' top of the ridge that overlooked the camp, they gave note of their approach by the usual shouts of victory. But no shout answered, and on descending to their huts, they' found the whole of the inmates slaughtered. The Assi nabaians had been there to take their revenge. On be holding the dismal scene, the triumphant warriors cast away their spoils, arms, and clothing, and then putting on robes of leather, and smearing their heads with mud, they betook themselves to the hills for three days and nights, 'to howl and moan and cut their flesh. It is observed, that this mode of expressing public grief, bears a striking resemblance to the customs of the Jews. The track [of Sir Geo. Simpson] towards Fort Vancouver exhibited a country, which may yet make a great figure in the Ameri can world,—immense valleys sheltered by mountain ridges, and containing beautiful lakes. In one instance, their tents were pitched in a valley of about five hundred acres enclosed by mountains on three sides, and a lake on the fourth. From the edge of the waters there arose a gentle descent of six or eight hundred feet covered with vines, and composed of the accumulated fragments of the heights above ; and on the upper border of this slope there stood perpendicular walls of granite of three or four thou sand feet high, while among those dizzy altitudes, the goats and sheep bounded in playful security. This defile had been the scene of an exploit. One of the Crees, whom they had met a few days before, had been tracked into the valley along with his wife and family by five warriors of a hostile tribe. On perdeiving the odds against him, the man gave himself up for lost, observing to the woman, that as they could die but once, they had better die without resistance. The wife, however, said, that " as they had but "one life to lose, they had the More reason to defend it," and, suiting the action to the word, the heroic wife brought the foremost of the enemy down to the ground by a bullet, while the husband dis posed of two others by two arrows. The fourth warrior was rushing on the woman with uplifted tomahawk, when he stumbled and fell. She darted forward, and buried her knife in his heart. The sole surviving assailant now turned and fled, discharging, however, a bullet which wounded the man in the arm.—Blackwood's Magazine. VARIETIES. THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.—It used to .be the fashion to say that English—our own old cartilaginous tongue, as a quaint writer styles it—is an unmusical language ; and even Byron, whose own melodious verses shew the infinite power and variety of our language, does yet, in one of his moments of impertinent caprice, describe it as "Our harsh northern, whistling, grunting guttural, Which we're obliged to hiss, and spit, and putter all." Yet this is most ludicrously untrue. English is, to the full, as noble and copious a tongue as that " miraculous language," the ancient Greek, and like it, the appropriate vehicle to give forth to an admiring world "Man's towering thoughts in lofty language dressed." Besides, with the solitary exception of the Greek afore said, which is beyond all criticism and compare, it is the most musical of languages that the children of clay have ever yet learned to use. That is to say, when properiy and fully pronounced, judiciously read, or wisely and feelingly recited. But the fact is, not one in every ten thousand— nay, peradventure, not one in every hundred thousand of her Majesty's British subjects, know how and feel how to do justice in reading or recitation to our English tongue. Men may learn most things abroad, in schools and col leges, but the secret is, to read English well ; the boy must learn to read at home under the guidance of gentle and accomplished parents, who know how to read them selves, and have music in their souls Read well, and you will disclose passages to the charmed ear in prose and verse—in Bacon, in Bolingbroke, in Burke, in Shakspeare, in Spenser, in Milton, and in a host of others—the leaders in our mighty literature, which are altogether unequalled in fervour, grace, and melody, except in the Greek.— Fraser's Magazine. JOURNEY FROM THE DEAD SEA.—After having travel led about half-a-mile up this horrible ravine, with moun tains on each side, the tops of which we could not see, our guard suddenly halted at the mouth of what may be called a natural cave. Nicalo, after having had some talk with them, came to me, and said this was theplace where we should have to stop all night. I felt not a little astonished, but not in the least alarmed as to danger, so I jumped off my horse, marched into the black hole, and began to grope about. Not feelin g anything in the way of a bench, upon which I might stretch myself, I said to Nicalo, that there was nothing but the bare ground to lie upon, but he said, " Never mind, I shall lend you my cloak, and we shall get the night over very well ;" so he spread down his rough Arab cloak, and I laid myself upon it, totally igno rant as to the state of the ground, whether filthy, or in fested with insects or reptiles. Finding that I could not induce sleep, or in fact keep my head down without a pil low, I directed Nicalo to bring a large stone which he did. I then wrapped his cloak about me, and laid down again. By this time the guards and muleteer had tied their horses toge ther, and given them some barley, and they turned into avail themselves of the shelter which the cave afforded. When all had lain down, I told Nicalo to ask them if they knew the name of our hotel ? They replied, " El Antra." I said, I do not know how far the name may suit the place, as an Arabic word, but the first part of it suits very well as an English name ; for it does certainly give to the mind such an idea of gloom and horror as I had never had any conception of—such an idea which we usually associate with the place of final punishment. I got but little sleep, as my feet were very cold from riding so long as I had done, in the night air ; besides this, the horses kept trampling about among the great stones, and often differ ing with one another, so that I was kept awake the greater part of the night ; on which account I thought it to be a very long one, and when I saw the peep of day I felt very glad.—Lowthian's Visit to Palestine. SUNRISE OFF CONSTANTINOPLE.—The following morn ing I was early upon deck. The sun had not yet risen, and the air was fresh and invigorating ; while upon the white, heavy, oily sea, was a slight fog, which the breeze was dispersing in flakes. Around us a quantity of por poises were either splashing in the midst of the waves or floating like buoys upon the surface. The most profound silence reigned upon the deck of the steamer. Wet with the night-dews, the half-slumbering seamen of the watch were seated in a circle near the funnel ; while numberless Turks, rolled up in their yellow coverlets striped with red, were sleeping forward beneath the netting : the steersman at the wheel and the man on the look-out were alone really wide awake. Suddenly, I perceived dawning in the east a greenish light, which became yellow as it ascended in the heavens ; the low and flat shore appeared like 'a black line upon this luminous back-ground, and by degrees the sea resumed its azure tint. An hour afterwards we were within cannon-shot' of the Seraglio ; but, alas ! a thick fog covered the city. Constantinople was invisible —and I was deploring the mischance, which was depriv ing me of a long-anticipated pleasure, when suddenly the sun shone out brightly, and the fog acquired, as if by en chantment, a wonderful transparency. The curtain was, as it were, torn to bits, and from all quarters at once there appeared to my dazzled eyes forests of minarets with gilded peaks, thousands of cupolas blazing in the light, hills covered with many-coloured houses, surrounded by verdure ; an immense succession of palaces with grotesque windows, blue-roofed mosques, groves of cypress-trees and sycamores, gardens full of flowers, a port filled as far as the eye could discern with ships, masts, and flags ; in a word, the whole of that enchanted city, which resembles less an immense capital than an endless succession of lovely kiosks, built in a boundless park, having lakes for docks, mountains for background, forests for thickets, fleets for boats,—in fine, an incomparable spot, and at the same time so grand and elegant, that it seems to have been designed by fairies and executed by giants.—Blackwood. CHRISTIANITY THE BEST POLITICAL ECONOMY. — We already begin to see another field for the exercise of human energy spreading wider and wider every day ; another ob ject, destined probably to supersede the necessity of the excitement by the love of war and the love of gain, and to carry on the progress and education of the human mind ; another war, affording a grander scope for human effort ; another object, demanding as much activity, prudence, and reflection as the love of gain : the war against moral and spiritual evil, conquering the kingdoms of this world to become the kingdoms of God and of Christ ; that com ' bat which was begun by him, and has been carried on by his followers, with varying numbers, and varying success, to the present time ; but now the numbers of those en gaged in it, and their success, are increasing day by day. Many are making it the great object of gain to win souls from sin, to produce good out of evil, to carry treasures of moral and intellectual and spiritual light to the dark places of the earth, bringing back no returns but the sweet hope of having been the means of diminishing human vice and suffering, of having been fellow-workers with Christ. In the meantime it is well worth serious consideration whe ther a stricter application of Christian principle might not he advantageous in an economical as well as a moral and benevolent point of view ; whether, instead of the present . reckless pursuit after wealth, making it t he g reat object of human energy, more moderation in the desire for it, more conscientiousness in the means by which this desire is to be gratified, might not advance individual as well as na tional prosperity with a steadier and more real, if perhaps apparently slower, progress ; besides diffusing the means 1 of comfort and enjoyment among a far greater number, if in smaller proportions, and saving an immense aggregate of suffering, not only to those who are crushed beneath the wheels of the idol wealth, but to those who, in the rapid race, suffer the alternations of hope and fear, and too often risk all they have on the most uncertain chances : whether greater consideration for the moral and physical welfare of those employed in the creation of wealth would not produce a greater advantage to the employer, in work being performed more carefully and industriousl3-, and with a more conscientious regard to his interest, and a saving also to the nation of the great waste caused by vice, destitution, and early death ; whether, in short, for nations as well as individuals, " godliness be not profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, as well as of thaewhich isto come ?"—Sisoiondi'sPolitieakEeonony. MEXICO.—Of all the cities built by the Spaniards in the New World, Mexico is the handsomest ; and Europe might be proud of reckoning it amongst her capitals. In the midst of terraces, of houses, and of flowers which or nament these terraces, rise up churches, with domes of blue and yellow earthenware ; houses, with bright, many coloured walls ; and balconies overhung with canvass, which gives them the appearance of a constant gala. The cathedral occupies one side of the Plaza Mayor, and towers over the palace of, the presidency, a low parallelo- gram, containing within itself the seven administrations, a prison, a botanical garden, a barrack, and the two Cham bers. The Ayuntiamento (municipality) forms with the palace a right angle, continued by the porticos of Las Flores and the Parian, vast commercial stores. The streets of Santo Domingo, of San Francisco , of Tacuba, of La 14Ionnaie, and of Monterilla, pour into the Plaza Mayor a crowd incessantly renewed, always in motion; a few minutes spent in which, suffice to show you Mexican society in its strangest contrasts of vice and virtue, of splendour and of misery.—Fraser's Magazine. • INCIDENTS OF SAVAGE LlFE.—Many summers ago, a party of Assinabaians fell on a party of Crees in the nelgli'- bourhood of the Beatte a Carcajar. a conspicuous knoll in the neighbourhood of the Red River settlement, and nearly destroyed them all. Among the assailants was the former wife of one of the Crees, who had been carried off from him, in an earlier foray, by her present lord and master. From whatever motive of domestic memory, this Amazon rushed into the thickest part of the fight, for the evident purpose of killing the original husband. He, how ever, escaped ; and while the victors were scalping his un fortunate companions, creeping stealthily along for a whole day under cover of the woods, he laid down for the night in a hollow at the top of the Knoll. But his wife had never lost sight of him, and no sooner had he, in the ex haustion of hunger and fatigue, sunk into a sound sleep, than she sent an arrow into his brain. She then possessed herself of his scalp, and exhibited it as her prize to the victors. The title of the slain savage was the Wolverine, and the spot is still called' the Wolverine's Knoll. The Indians assert that the ghosts of the murderess and her are aita to 1 , 4; is al Dtr4galiiig vit the height. etntrai 2flis'rellanv. On Thursday and Friday, 51 ships, laden with foreign corn and flour, arrived in London. On Tuesday, the London bakers lowered the price of the 4th loaf id. The prize offered by the Carnarvon Eistedvod, for the best poetical description of thunder, has been awarded to Mr. 0. W. Thomas London ; 52 competitors. A woman named Ann Morris has been committed for trial at Shrewsbury charged with the wilful murder of her new-born infant child. A considerable quantity of wheat at Torrnarton, Glou cestershire, was destroyed by fire a few days since. The fire was the act of an incendiary. The Salisbury Herald mentions that a sago palm tree is now in flower in a hothouse near that city. This tree has only once before been known to blossom in England. The prize of £l,OOO for the best picture of the Baptism of Christ in the Jordan, has been awarded to Mr. John Wood, of No. 65, Upper Charlotte-street, London. Sir Robert Peel presided on Tuesday at a dinner in Stationers'-hall, given to celebrate the eighth anniversary festival of the King's College Hospital. On Monday last a commercial traveller, named David Brown, was drowned in the Severn, at Worcester, while bathing. It has been announced that cases of breach of promise may be tried in the New County Courts, provided the willowed maiden or widow will estimate the value of her shivered hopes at £2O. A premium of £lOOO has been offered by the Royal College of Chemistry, for a discovery by means of which iron, when applied to ordinary purposes, may, be rendered as little liable to rust as copper. Some cherries have arrived in London from Holland, before any supplies of the kind have taken place from France, and before any but forced cherries of English growth have appeared in the London market. An excellent crop of grass, belonging to the Rev. J. Monkhouse, of Lyzzick Hall, near Keswick, was cut on Wednesday last, and was the first that has yielded to the scythe in that neighbourhood this season. In Covent-garden, on Friday, there was a fine show of peaches, apricots, grapes, strawberries, French beans, Windsor beans, with other vegetables, at (for the season) very reasonable prices ; new potatoes most abundant and cheap. At the Hertford station, on the Eastern Counties line, an engine-driver named Williamson, while shunting some carriages, endeavoured to pass between two of them. He was struck by one of the buffers and forced against the preceding carriage. He died after lingering three hours. It is stated that in Scotland a marvellous improvement has taken place in the appearance of the crops, by the late propitious weather, but that oats have been severely tried by the previous long continued rain and cald, and in some districts the wheat plant also has suffered. The Hampden estate in Buckinghamshire, celebrated as the residence of John Hampden, and the place where his remains are deposited, is again offered for sale by its pre sent owner, Lord Harry Vane, who lately purchased it from the Earl of Buckinghamshire. Several hundred cases of pine apples were received by the steamer Dee, which arrived on Thursday from the West Indies. A number of sailing vessels entirely freighted with this article are on their way here. The Dee also brought a quantity of live turtles. Last week a woman, at Stockport, who had had some disagreement with her husband, tied his legs together while he was asleep, and emptied a saucepan fall of boiling water over his body. He is at the infirmary, in a very precarious condition. A person residing at Hucknall Torkard, Notts, placed an effigy in his garden to frighten birds ; but a few days singe, one of the family, on examining the scarecrow, found in one of the pockets a bird's nest, ready for the reception of eggs ! The admirers of Mr. O'Connell have resolved to honour his remains with a grand and solemn funeral procession through London, should they (as it is expected they will) pass through en route for Ireland ; and the Roman Ca tholic clergy intend, it is said, to have a solemn high mass and requiem over them in Moorfields Chapel. In consequence of the earnest desire felt by the late Dr. Arnold, as recorded in the history of his life, that some mark of Royal favour should be bestowed on Rugby School, the Queen,has been graciously pleased to intimate her intention to found a gold medal for the special encou ragement of the study of history in that institution. A valuable picture, by the celebrated Dutch painter Francois Miens, who was born at Leyden in 1635, and died in 1681, was lately stolen from the public picture gallery of Munich. The picture, one of small dimensions, was a portrait of the artist himself, in the act of indulging in deep vinous potations, and was the only authentic "Miens" in the possession of the institution. Mr. Wyld, the eminent map publisher, was fined on Friday £B, being £2 in each case, for neglecting to depo sit copies of four of his publications at the British Museum. Mr. Wyld stated, in defence, that errors had occurred in each of the four publications, and he only delayed sending avail him. they had c b o een its. c_or T re h c e te c d o , rn bu r t et t u h r i t s is d o ld f WEEKLY SALES OF . n tl o te t the sales of the towns from the transactions of which w m e o e r k e than made flu,pootoo last quarters Sa u rodfay,,-,,hsehaotwasal:()leuinangtriteyt returned e hr l ittle ave rages are calculated. This is the smallest quantity re turned as sold since the new list of towns was established under the act of 1842... 7 -Morning Chronicle. WHEAT FROM THE EAST INDIES.—The vessel Socrates, arrived from Calcutta, has brought, besides 6408 bags of rice in the husk, (now free of duty,) fifty bags of wheat. This is a most remarkable importation from the East In dies, and at the present time, when the question of the supply of the articles of grain food from all quarters is a subject of general interest, it assumes a degree of great importance. _ TILE EARL. OF IJAJIROWBY.—At the Harrow Speeches, on Thursday, the 10th, the Earl of Harrowby was descend ing the school steps, supported by his sons, Lord Sandon and the Hon. Granville D. Ryder, M.P., Sir Thomas Acland called Gut, " Three cheers for the head boy," which was instantly and vigorously given. Lord Harrowby raised his hat, and said, ! Gentlemen, it is now sixty-eight years since I had the honour of being the Captain of Harrow School." SERENADE TO JENNY LIND.—At ten o'clocken,Friday evening, a party of sixteen gentlemen, members of the German Vocal Club (Liederkranz), repaired to Miss Lind's residence at Brompton, and having obtained ad mittance to the garden at the. back of the house, they executed , several beautiful serenade airs in a very superior and musician-like manner. Mdlle. Lind walked into the garden, and thanked the gentlemen for their unexpected attention. The party then.left delighted with their visit. TILE BOZJESMANS, OR BUSH PEOPLE FROM SOUTH AFRICA.—The Grand Duke Constantine and suite visited these extraordinary human beings, at the Egyptian-hall, Picadilly, London, on Thursday last. It will be recol lected that they were landed at this port by the brig Fanny Coft, Wheeler. Lady Peel and daughter, Lord Jocelyn, and Lord Castlereagh, were also of the party. Lord Chief Justiee Denman, the Baron Parke, Lord Wynford, and the Bishop of Norwich, we understand, have also ho noured these singular savages with a visit. JENNY LIND.—The furore created by this great singer and actress does not at all subside in the metropolis ; on the contrary, each night of her appearance seems to in crease the desire to see and hear her. No less a sum than five guineas has, we understand, been offered, but without success, for a stall for Tuesday next, (this evening s ) when Madeinotsblle.Jefiny appears in the opera of " Norma." On - this occasion her Majesty will attend the opera in state, when the house will, without doubt, present a sight which, for Magnificence and splendour, has been, or will be, seldom equalled. SUICIDE ON THE SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.—On Wednesday, a young woman deliberately threw herself in front of the seven o'clock express down train, as it was approaching the iron bridge which carries the Wands worth-road over the line near the Plough at Battersea. The line at this part forms a curve, and a person upon the line would be concealed from view of the driver of a train until he got very near. The driver saw the young woman, and called to her to get out of the way, and almost mo mentarily the engine struckher, andhurled her a distance of several yards from the spot where she fell. She was taken to the `Wandsworth Union, where every attention was paid her; 'she survived, however, only ten minutes after her admission. The deceased is an entire stranger to the neighbourhood, and there was nothing upon her person tit iroti to her itkatiiy. " THE OLD COMMODORE." — OId Charley Napier, who hag just hoisted his flag at Portsmouth, has issued the following characteristic notice:—" The crew of the St. Vincent is increased to eight hundred and fifty men. Any young fellows, who are fond of fun, had better rally round the ' Old Commodore,' whose bit of blue' flies on board of her, and who is looking out for squalls. Apply on board the flag ship." Such an invitation is relished far better than the usual " west end" mode of advertising for seamen byshowy placards, announcing that Somebody, " Esquire," is in commission, and wants " A. B.'s and petty officers," but that " none but the beet need apply." —Brighton Gazette. THUNDER STORM.—The storm of Tuesday last was severely felt in and about York, and did considerable damage to the windmill occupied by Mr. Askwith, on Heworth-moor. The lightning struck the mill sails, a considerable portion of which were shivered to atoms, and the numerous fragments scattered in the adjoining fields. The electric fluid entered the mill, and completely melted the chains at the end of a rope used for drawing sacks into the upper chambers. Mr. Askwith was in the mill at the time, but he fortunately escaped with a stunning, his hearing being taken away for a short time. The same afternoon Dodworth, a village a short distance to the west of Barnsley, was severely visited by the storm. A cottage, occupied by Mr. Booth, was struck by the electric fluid, which passed down the chimney, broke the clock and fur niture to pieces, and then made its egress through the window. Fortunately, Booth and his wife were both out at the time. FAIRS.—At Worcester, on Tuesday, there was a brisk trade in fat stock,. but at a reduction in prices the top rate was 7d.; and nearly all sold. Sheep were in abund ance, and many were sold; realizing 7d. ; a few fine we thers brought 7id. Lambs were short and readily sold at Sid. to 9d. The horse fair was better supplitd than usual, and high prices were given for good ones. Pigs were scarce and at a decline in price.—At Cleobury Mor timer, Shropshire, same day, there was a short supply of all kinds of stock, and for the few fat cows on offer from 7d. to 74d. per lb. was asked; the price being so high, little business was done, the greater part of the anmais being driven back unsold•. Store stock and cows and• calves met with purchasers at prices lately obtained at other fairs. Fat sheep were about the same, but very few were offered. Ewes and Lambs and all kinds of store Sheep sold well. Pigs were more in demand, with a fair supply. DEATH OF THE ELEPHANT AT THE LONDON ZOOLO GICAL GARDENS.—The habitual visitors at the Zoological Gardens, in the Regent's-park, will learn with regret that their old friend the elephant, known by the familiar name of "Jack,' departed this life on Sunday morning week, after a short illness. During the last few weeks preceding his dissolution, the health of the poor brute had been rapidly deteriorating. On Friday, the 4th instant, the skin under the Tower jaw cracked, and a copious effusion of blood took place. On Sunday morning he sank back upon his haunches, with his fore legs extended before him, and remained in this motionless posture for about two hours, when, at half-past seven o'clock, his trunk dropped to the ground, and he expired without making any further movement. A large abscess had formed under the lower jaw. Thus terminated the career of poor Jack, whose amusing tricks and docile manner had ren dered him everybody's favourite. The height of the ele phant was between 12 and 14 feet. THE INTENDED OVATION AT ROME.—It appears that, if Mr. O'Connell had reached the eternal city alive, he would have been received with honours, so far exceeding those ordinarily, or extra-ordinarily, given to sovereign princes, as to merit the appellation of divine. These he was not permitted to receive. He was on his way from the country of a monarch to whom he professed more allegiance than he felt, to the footstool of a crowned priest for whom he experienced more fidelity than he acknowledged. Popery was on the eve of exhibiting a wonderful spectacle to the world. The agitator was about to do homage to the sole sovereign on earth whom he probably looked upon with an undivided spirit of allegiance. This homage he was not permitted tai per form, nor the honours resulting from it to enjoy. This is a simple fact, which we as simply record ; but there may be " more in it, Horatio, than is dreamt of in your philosophy."—Church and State Gazette. A Goon. HAUL.—A notorious young thief, known by the name of Bill Somers, was charged at the Lambeth Police-court, on Tuesday, with stealing seven silver watches from the shop of - Mrs. Shaw, a watchmaker. About an hour before the prisoner was placed at the bar, Mrs. Shaw had occasion to leave her shop for a few minutes, and, on her return, saw the prisoner creeping from behind the counter. She endeavoured to secure him, but he broke from her, and escaped into the street: She followed, crying " Stop thief!' and the lad was caught. Seven watches were found, which he had thrown, away during his flight. Mrs. Shaw said the thief must' have been an adept in his trade, for that was the entire number of watches hanging in the window, and he had abstracted them in a minute or two without noise. The police knew the prisoner to have been several times sum marily convicted, but they could not say whether he had ever been sent for trial. The magistrates remanded him,. to allow time for inquiry into his history.: THE POTATO DISEASE.—We regret - to find in the last number of the Gardeners' Chronicle, a journal of the highest authority in such matters, a- positive statement that the same misfortune as ruined it last year, is again impending over the potato crop of the present season. Professor Lindley, who conducts that. paper, writes on Saturday :—" It is our painful duty to announce the cer tain re-appearance of the potato disease in its old form, in the open ground. We have for some time had too much . reason to feat that our forbodings would be realized, and within a few days, especially since the last heavy fall of rain, so many cases have occurred as to put the fact be- - yond all controversy." After giving confirmatory and indisputable proof, by letters from various parts of the country, of thi§ inevitable evil, the Professor adds,—" It is fortunate that this evidence is obtained :so early as to allow of the potato grounds being re-cropped. We, how ever, have no present intention of again occupying our columns with the subject, for it is exhausted. The public must now be left to their own resources. When the autumn arrives, and the result of the numerous experi ments now in progress shall have been ascertained, it will be soon enough to revive this miserable question." We are happy to repeat that the reports received from almost all quarters of the United Kingdom continue of a most sa tisfactory kind, and give reasonable hope of an abundant, and generally speaking, of an early. harvest. FAMINE WHEAT.—A correspondent at Grimsby has; forwarded us a sample of one hundred quarters of wheat which have been stored by a farmer at Swallow, near Grimsby, Lincolnshire, for some years in anticipation of famine prices. There is scarcely a sound grain in it. The long looked-for famine prices have arrived ; the carefully hoarded corn, is brought out for sale ; and the farmer's " hope deferred which maketh the heart sick," is at length converted into the "consolation" which the possession of a hundred quarters of worthless rubbish may be supposed to afford.—Hull Packet. [The Hull Advertiser in speaking of the crops, which ib describes as "most pro-. inning, says "a stranger would conclude that corn was a very scarce article in this part of the East-Riding. Most of the stack-yards are nearly empty, and have been so for some time. The fact, however, is, that farmers were obliged to thrash their corn much- earlier than usual. on. account of the scarcity of fodder, and even now they have considerable quantities in their granaries, which they are holding in hopes of higher prices. A miller, I ho h :L .d ac cess to most of the granaries in this neighbour. god , the other day that hut few f ar mers were without corn, and that many had a great deal.on hand. In many in stances the farmers will not acknowledge the fact, and yet they find it difficult to conceal their regret that they did not sell when they might have obtained £5 10s. per quarter."] MARRIAGE OF JOHN BRIGHT, ESQ., M.P.—Yesterday (Thursday) morning, being the weekly meeting of the Friends at their meeting-house, George-street, in this town, was fixed upon as the day upon which Mr. Bright's marriage with Miss Leatham should be solemnized according to the usual form of that body. For half an hour previously to the time appointed (half-past ten), the chapel began to be filled by a numerous and respectable portion of the inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood. Amongst the company present, most of whom were of the fair sex, we observed a great number of Mr. Bright's po litical friends. Within a few minutes of half-past ten the wedding party arrived, and immediately took the seats ap portioned to them. The whole company sat for about three-quarters of an hour in perfect silence,. when i‘lr. Bright arose, and taking the right band of Miss Leathain, pronounced in a low, but distinct voice, the following 1 words :—" Friends, I take my friend Margaret Elizabeth Leatham, to be my wife, and promise by divine assistance to be unto her.a loving and faithful husband until it shall please God to part us by death." While still holding hands Miss Leathain pronounced the same words, substi tuting John Bright for her own name, in a low, but tremulous voice. After which another pause of some minutes occurred, when one' of the congregation offered up a short prayer, the whole assembly standing. After some minutes had again elapsed, Mr. George Benington, draper, read the certificate, or declaration, which was signed by the bride and bridegroom, and their relations ' and friends, and afterwards by a large number of the con gregation. The whole ceremony lasted about an hour and a half. — Wakefield Journal. _ ____ THE TRIPLE MURDER AT MIR?IELD.—The examina tion of Michael M`Cabe and Patrick Reid, at Dewsbury, was resumed on Saturday. The prisoners • are virtually committed for trial on the charge of having perpetrated the atrocious murders at Mirfield on the 12th ult., the na ture of the evidence adduced on that day being such as to leave no other course open to the justices. It is highly probable that this important link in the chain of circum stantial evidence already collected with reference to the particulars of this diabolical• affair, would have remained undiscovered, but for the publicity given to the examina tions which have taken place before the Deputy Coroner and magistrates in the public journals. It was stated that Kiltv had, at first, some disinclination to reveal what he knew about the ownership of the soldering iron, but that his wife inadih the circumstance known as soon as she had learnt from the papers that such an instrument had been found, and her :husband minutely and correctly described it to the superintendent of the police before it was shown to him. Reid's countenance betrayed same uneasiness as soon as he saw his neighbours called into the witness box, and he appeared greatly agitated after hearing the testi many whioh Kilty and his wife gave. Reid frequently conversed privately with his professional adviser, and M'Cabe was no less anxious in holding conversation with Mi. Watts, who was conducting his defence. The cap which Reid wore a few minutes previously to the murder has been found in his father's house, and there are several marks upon it which are supposed to have been occasi oned by human blood, but which were cut out and placed in the custody of Mr. West, chemist, who has not yet given his opinion upon the subject. The prisoners were allowed to hold conversation with their friends in the pre sence of the police, and to consult privately with the so licitors. The magistrates informed the prisoners that they might consider themselves fully committed for trial on the charge of baying committed this atrociow rmullex! June 15, NA MORg FtiOD RIOTS.--At the latter end of last week, an immense body of miners entered Redruth in Cornwall, and proceeded to attack the butchers' and bakers' shops, demanding that meat should be sold at fourpence a pound. The magistrates and influential gentlemen of the neigh bourhood assembled, and addressed the mob. The men, however, were deaf to the entreaties of those who ad dressed them, and proceeded to commit many acts of vio lence by seizing meat and vegetables. The disturbance at length became so great that the special constables were unable to act against the exowd, and the magistrates called on the military, a detachment of the st h Fusiliers and. Capt. M`Dougall's company of veterans, which had ar rived from Falmouth in the morning. The Riot Act was read, and the most energetic measures adopted to preserve the peace. Fortunately no lives were sacrificed, but seve ral of the magistrates and constables were very roughly treated, and received some severe bruises, many of the mob being armed with bludgeons. A company of the sth Fusiliers and a detachment of artillery were despatched from Plymouth to the scene of the riot. FORGERY OF A Warr BY AN ATTORNEY.—A prac titioner, named Turner, has been committed for trial by the magistrates of Sheffield, upon a charge of having forged a writ. It appears that Turner had been instructed, in November last, by the trustees of a benefit club, to issue a writ against a person who had failed to pay the money which he had borrowed of the club. Before the writ had arrived, the defaulter made arrangements for pay ment; bat Turner said that he had received the writ on; the day following that on which the arrangements were made, and he was consequently paid 255. costs. When this sum was paid, he was required to deliver the original writ ; and, with some reluctance, he handed over a writ in which several erasures were discernible. The writ was suspected to be a forgery, and Turner was afterwards ap prehended. A clerk of the Queen's Bench-office, Lon don, stated, at the last examination, that no precipe for such a writ had been issued in November last ; and that, he believed that the precipe for the writ produced in court had been issued in January, 1846. The prosecutors offered to abandon the proceedings, if Turner could produce a letter from his London agent enclosing the writ, or other wise show that he had really received one ; but he was un able to offer any proof whatever. NOVEL MINING ACIIIEVEMENT.—A short time since, Capt. Joseph Vivian, manager of Wheal Tryphene, during a conversation with some of the adventurers, respecting the state and prospects of this very promising and profit able adventure, observed, that he would engage to go underground, and break with his own hands, without the slightest assistance from any other party, £lOO worth of tin in eight hours ; and that, too, without being allowed, or receiving, either before or whilst at work, any advan tage above what the common miner would be entitled to. Upon which Mr. one of the adventurers present, said, in the event of Capt. Vivian's undertaking and ac complishing this laborious task, that he would engage - to wheel away the ore to the plat, with the provision, also, that Mr. P—, another adventurer present, would pro mise to fill the kibbles, and send it to the surface ; to this. Mr. P— readily and cheerfully assented, Immediatelr on this annotmcement, Mr. being of the party, and alsoan adventurer, declared that'he would undertake' the office of Lander, and would be reedy to receive the• ore at the surface, and carefully land, wheel away, and: deposit the same into the slides. This -declaration having-. met the approbation of all present, Captain Vivian was requested to name the day, which he did; and on Wed nesday week, the 2nd instant, at half-past eight o'clock in the morning,. Captain Vivian commenced working, which he continued to do with little intermission, till half past four o'clock in the afternoon ; at five o'clock the kibbles were sent down, and the other three adventurers commenced with their respective and allotted tasks—two • underground, and one at the surface ; and breight o'clock the whole of the ore was drawn up, and deposited in the slides, which, on being weighed off, was found to be 8 tons 3 cwt. of tinstuffs, and from 5 cwts. to 7 cwts. of copper ore—the former, on being fairly sampled and care fully assayed, was pronounced to be worth .El6l 9s. 5d., and the latter about'£3; in addition to this, it should be understood that the piece of ground from which this tin, &c., was broken, was left in a much better state f or work ing than when aptain Vivian commenced operations on it—so that a first-rate - workman might break from £2OO to £220 worth in the-same space of time.—Mining Jour. District Rao, Jenny. Lind will appear at the Manchester Theatre- Royal in the middle or latter end of August. There was a severe thunder-storm in Manchester and the neighbourhood on , Tuesday, and the electric fluid caused several accidents, none of them, however, destruc tive of human life. A young German named Adolphus Schutz is in custody at Manchester on a charge of having fraudulently obtained • a sum of £lBOO from the firm of H. J. Merck and Co., of that town. On Tuesday, at Lytham, a child eleven months old was • strangled in a singular manner. It had been put to bed by its mother a short time before, and when she went soon after to look at it, the little thing was found between the bed and a chair that had been placed near it, resting with its throat upon the rail at the back of the chair, and quite dead. Messrs. Horrockses, Miller,. and Co., of Preston, com menced on Monday (yesterday) working ten hours per day, at all their mills ; not owing to the depresed state of trade, but in consequence of the " Ten Flours' Bill" having paased through both Houses of Parliament, the permanent provisions of which the firm intend carrying out imme diately in their works. AWFUL EFFECTS OF FEvER.—The typhus fever, which is at present raging amongst several families in Oldham, has within the last few days committed dreadful ravages in a single dwelling in Smethurst-street, Boardman- Ground. On Saturday morning last, James Schofield, the son of James Schofield, a respectable operative, resi dent in that street, died from the effects of the fever, and in a few hours his mother died from the same cause, whilst the father was lying dangerously ill of a similar attack. On Sunday forenoon, the father likewise expired, and in the evening of that day these three unfortunate victims of contagious disease were interred at Oldham Church. THE LATE MR. O'CONNELL AND THE CHURCH OF 'ROME. (From the Dublin Mail.) To a calm observer of passing events, it appears impro bable that the priests of the Church of Rome ever trouble themselves about consistency; or is it, that Popish con 'sistency is of that undefinable nature, termed sui generis ? In reference to the death of Mr. O'Connell, Dr. Miley, intending no doubt to be magniloquent, as well as pathetic, writes thus—" The glory and the wonder of Christendom is dead ! Dead ! no, O'Connell is in Heaven. The spirit which had moved the world took its flight so peacefully, that all who were there, except the angels who were wait ing for it, were in doubt if it had departed." Now, ac cording to this, the soul of the lamented gentleman was in Heaven, and truly glad should we be to believe so, and let the matter rest there. However, we are informed by this same Dr. Miley next day, that in the great chapel of Genoa " the solemn votive mass was celebrated by the whole chapter ; to-morrow the same ; snd on Wednesday the grand mass. a naushxz with catafalque at the grand altar, and at twenty-four other altars." Now it is very natural to inquire, if the soul of the deceased was in., Heaven, for what purpose were these masses ? The con clusion forced upon us is, that Dr. Wiley either s tated that which he did not believe, or that he had masses, and what, according t o hi s c h urc h , he must regard as the glen-- flee of the body and blood of the REDEEMER, offered; knowingly in vain. What solemn mockery ! It is obvious that the creed of the Romanist, even on is the most important matters, is not uniform. Dr. Miley assured that O'Connell is in Heaven." Doctor Mac Hale believes his soul is still in Purgatory—and forthwith , orders propitiatory masses for its rescue to be celebrated• throughout the diocese of Tuam. Thus in a Pastoral, addressed to his " subjects," dated Trinity Sunday, 1847. —he commands them to take, in their respective deane ries, the earliest opportunity of assembling and offering up the propitiatory. Sacrifice of the. Mass for the repose of the soul of the late dutiful and heroic champion of the Church," . k * "in order that, by prayers, and the oblation of the Unbloody Sacrifice of the Altar his soul,, if detained on account of venial or unexpiated guilt, may be freed from that prison from which there is no libera tion, until the payment of the last farthing. due to the Divine Justice." Now, this is an awkward slur on the veracity of Dr: Miley ; and we must say matters have not been mended at Rome, where—as we learn from a letter,, dated from the Sacred City on the 27th ult., and printed in the Times of Saturday—a solemn requiem has, ere this, been performed for the departed in the Church. of St. Agatha. (From the Cork Constitution.) The fathers of the infallible church ought to settle. Mr. O'ConnelL's state. They ought to decide whether he needs their masses and supplication or needs them not, for at present it must be somewhat perplexing to their people to find• that they are at "sixes and sevens" about the con dition of " the first Catholic layman. in the world." Where he is, or how he is circumstanced, is all conjecture; and if this be the case with the first Catholic layman, how must it fare with his humble followers ? If it is so hard to determine whether a man who laboured so long and so lovingly for the church needs the masses and offices of her priests, equally hard must it be to determine whe ther those masses and offices for which so many millions are annually paid have ever yet secured the liberation of a single soul out of that " prison" in which, as Dr. Machale hypotheticates, the soul of Mr.O'Connell is " detained." Some certainty would be desirable. With the apostles there is no mistake on the subject. In the case of the followers of their Master, to.be absent frnin the body" was to be " present with the Lord ;" but as the Roman, titulars have chosen to set up " another Gospel," their disciples ought to pray them to adopt some means of settling a question of so, much interest. As long, how ever, as they can make merchandise of the souls of men, they are not likely to do that. But to come back to. Mr. O'Connell. " The least we can do," (says Dr. Magian, coadjutor and apostolic administrator of Derry, in a. letter to his son John) — "The least we can do for our Benefactor,' our Liberator,' is to follow his spirit to that God that made it with our humble prayers. My own opinion is that he does not need them." There is a letter from Mr. Mathew, which is worth in serting FROM VERY REV. THEOBALD MATHEW. * * " Few have known longer or more intimately* , or have more honoured and loved your great and good father; In the holy sacrifice I daily present him before the throne at the Most High, and on thousands of altars from the rising by ministry , the setting sun the tremendous mysteries are celebrated TY, priests, pure and spotless as the stoles of their for the eternal repose of the soul of him who is wept by the whole_ world. 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