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7Littrattire. POETRY AN EVENINC REVERIE of Standard.) (For the L wander'd o'er field by Spring's fair hand 11; ada ot i thp aried heart its rest, nor sigh 'e vanishing away ; the growing peace balm upon my spirit's wounds, Weak c Of who! O'er his bright 1 His look benign That bearo'd thf And live on t That ne'er de The sounds of life— - > dying; all bright things 3 wail fink halcyon bliss n dreams of heaven, day's sinking orb, to the tomb, by :—perfected the sphere of sense; be shroud of death; ;pit} sway'd, of worth, 1; accents soand name and deeds sh'd foith, Of jog, witich r hail'd ti April, 1847 SKETCHES OF A TRIP IT" BY EDWX (Written for the L Since the pri Dickens's Pietu tract, a n I ma ;htfol to by hundr t breittli'd aph's birth ! SAML. HUGGINS ) EGYPT T, ESQ pool Standard.) 'HE CONTINENT, y Bth c , hapter. I have seen Inv of these are hril- , dazzling, and - poetical portraitures: others are very .nd, to justify my humble protest, I need only rench postilion's driving : by words " Crick-crack" thirty bis very derogatory compari- Gregory to a Guy Fawkes he sth November—and in father pronounces the bad ; state his description of the tedious repetition of t two times in thirteen lines Don of the late venerable carried about our streets ( another place, when the v • benediction upon 150,000 persons assembled in the vast area of St. Peter's, Mr. Dickens thought he resembled a "wooden doll" !—and, as if the were not instances of bad n he looked over the Verona, what was his son—his sublime assoeia , that it very much resembled This I thought much worse lecessor Smollet, who, strut the more vast Amphithea sil, it was only a the Amphit braie idea—his noble coma tion ? Why, gentle r the inside of a si than his prototyn ting forth from t tre of Vespasia " /awe cockpit he Col Lid, aft .e only the crusts for ltrie men of true genius will .d the use of our lan )r sketches of travel, as our ar . In the hone, if nut i day amuse, if no vastly in?e will .be rec and belief. been led a )ortable form, they may some v-voyager; and in this confide, that facts only viisit to Rom perhaps rathe led, to the best of my knowledge, ability, Ls I fear I have been too discursive—have .v too much by my ever-to-be-remembered chapter must wind up the subject, abruptly, or I may never reach the end of my journey. Many of my friends have said, " IS it the climate or the diet that gives our countrymen so much content in Italy?" Ihe pxcee ling puri• y of the air is certainly one great cause of peace and content, and the diet, with light wines, abundance of fruit vegetation, &c., another. A very long chapter might be written upon the artists' studios at John Git love dying friend, th into famE tatues and groups, Mae masterly Ulysses, with his aition ; Hogan's struggle sunk into obscurity grave ! T trasted with many who have but Velati, the boar killing the wild bi Rome, before nai shadows of an early :an French painters ; iv and gifted artist : ing wounded by and in the mountains and woods near Lr,, bru 1 - transit, t eir portraits, is very interesting, hind leg one of these tuskan, he despatches him, during his o and through the bushes ; Velati is t completed a most 1 I down i er of It down . upon I Imoff hail just up, in clay, of Hagar looking iant ;, Tune, w 3. It is de studio fined. kind at P z to t at home than abroad. ( cruel scorn, the r y and derision, that and "i'llorwalsd to ereat destroyer of all o, and treat each other Liv- ' One isis too much in our is anything but credit ure, Architecture, and Painting, sublime in their" arious walks, should induce their votaries and followers to soar above the passions that degrade the less gifted classes of mankind. True it is we are the creatures of circumstances, in England gold is, alas, the god of a vast majority of its inhabitants. We have here neither the climate, the purity of the air, the colour of the sea, nor of the sky, the the people of B mild, balmy, h is more conducive to usely indulged ither have we gaze on every hand in Ital thou: that meet your tatues, the groups marble sculpture—the finest works of Greece and Rome these must tend to soften, elevate, and calm the cost of what you please to give for it is voluntary contri butions, that forms the great revenue of the Church of Rome ; unlike the law officers, enforcing tithes from the shopkeepers of London, regardless of their means or finan- all be taken into con that affect mind and !Inglishman and the Italian n this the at Egypt, sland we have What a world Malta, Sicily, our whole population, must gradually sink lower and lower, until they become little better than so many beasts of burden, " hewers of wood and drawers of water," as hopelessly doomed from youth to old age to one unvary ing round of toilsome drudgery, and as completely ex cluded from all possibility of amelioration in their social condition, as the manacled felon of Norfolk Island. The stupid booby, staring in anzement as the rushing train is hurried past by the irresistible power of steam, is only a fair illustration of the way in which the efforts of the ignorant labourer are outstripped by mechanical force scientifically applied ; and unless his willing bands and sinewy limbs be aided and directed by the improved in telligence of an educated mind, the labourer's exertions to earn his daily bread will every year be less availing. We cannot wonder, therefore, that the philanthropist should have his attention especially attracted by educ.- tion. It is the gr talk about feeding educating them. It is torrent of increasing cr tiplylng penal_ statu ion of the day clothing the people, and then aadness to attempt to stem the ale by building prisons and mul- Educate the people, and they THE LIVERPOO I particularly desire to guard you against being deceived, by the stuff now being written by some of the London newspapers, into the idea that Free-trade has little or nothing to do with our present degraded state in this country. You - will observe that I have been cautious in not charging Free-trade with getting us into this state (though I believe Sir R. Peel's 1842 measures have much to do with it), and that my charge against Free-trade is, that under it no elasticity or confidence exists to get us out of the scrape. I may, h6wever, state my firm conviction, that the evils arising from the potatoe rot are nothing compared with those which (in the absence of a potatoe rot) would have flown from the price of wheat being lowered one-half, not by an increased quantity of our own growth, but by foreign importations, for which we had to pay gold. Our home trade would now be going through the ordeal of a general bankruptcy, unconsoled even by the prospect that, after thus getting white-washsd, they can live under the undue and cruel competition of untaxed foreign labour. I pray you to rest satisfied that the present sufferings of this country are in no degree caused by the conduct of the Bank of England, but entirely by the want of confi dence caused by Sir Robert Peel's Free-trade measures. This is incontrovertibly a bullion, and not a Bank of England, panic ; and one which will convulse the mo netary affairs of the whole empire, and not only those of Lombard-strest. To be sure we have not as yet got a bullion panic in the shape of a run upon •the bank, and this shows the bank's innocence of the cause of the suction of gold ; but we have a bullion panic in the higher and less equivocal sense of a run on the country for gold, and from the en during cause that it is the most profitable and disposable property foreigners can take abroad. I have said that Sir Robert Peel's Free-trade measures will render a depreciation of the currency inevitable. I do not believe that the Bank of England will he able to sell Government securities, so as to prepare for the payment of the July dividends, unless Parliament, before it rises, passes a no less sweeping measure than MAKING SILVER SHILLINGS A LEGAL TENDER TO ANY AMOUNT, AND ALLOWING THE BANK OF ENGLAND AND ALL L STANDARD. organs . ___ . __ ...... .... _ _. _ . .. . . adually sink lower and PROTECTION TO THE CURRENCY. were merchants and mariners amo ng ma nkind ; but w hat I RISH IMMIGRATION' NTO Lownosr.—The importation P N ttcr than so many beasts were those passing phantoms to them ? John the son of of Irish paupers, so m uc h complained of in Liverpool and day, d drawers of water," as Thomas lived and died as Thomas the father of John had Glasgow, begins to wear & flireatening aspect in London. comps o old age to one unwary- Gl asgow, 17 t h April, 1847. lived and died from genera ti on t o genera ti on . Th e fi rs t O n S un d ay , t h e Prussian Eagle', from Cork, and the Li- kingd( and as completely ex- news of the American war reached it in the firing of the inerick, from D u bli n , l an d e d 1,200 I r i s h paupers a t Ald er - which elioration in their social TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CANADIAN PARLIAMENT. Woolwich guns for peace; and the original tidings of the man's-stairs, Lower East Smithfield. The nnew-comers— co mpa of Norfolk Island. The - G ENTLEMEN. — The most headstrong Free-trader mustl lent as the rushing train now feel, and begin to see, th a t th e untaxe d i mport o f l o - French Revoluti on , i n s i m il ar re j o i c i ngs f or th e Battle of who were in th e most wretc h e d state of distress—were since forthwith distributed over the eastern art of the metro olis. year tl Waterloo.. P P power of steam, is only reign labour is detrimental, not only to the agricultural 0 happy ye, the happiest of our kind, . The same vessels landed 1,200 Irish paupers on Sunday of the Who leave alike life's woes and joys behind 1 " week.- statina which the efforts of the body in England and the colonists (and, indirectly through eel by mechanical force them, to all other classes), but also directly to every inte- perfectly A MAN SHOT BY A PIG.—On Monday morning week, and di 3 his willing bands and rest of the empire, through causing a vast diminution of says the philosophic Cowley ; and with Cowley I agree.—But Erith is this scene of philosophy no more. about seven o'clock, the eldest son (about twenty-three holder ] ed by the improved in- th e currency b y t h e removal to other countries of our pre- It has now shar e d th e march of mind :it has become al- years of age) of M r . A mos , f armer , near th e C uc k oo , i n th a t ti the labourer's exertions cious metals, most a watering-place ;it has a library, a promenade, Spalding, left a g un h eav ily l oa d e d s t an di ng i n a corner o f S uit lodgings f or gou ty gen tl emen , a conven ti c l e , sev e r al vi. the barn. Durin g hi s a b sence , w hi c h cou ld scarce ly ex - sensa ti Ty year be less availing. I t i s true t h at f am i ne in Ireland is the ostensible cause porous politicians, three doctors, and, most fatal of all, teed ten minutes, several pigs entered, and whilst they Month that the philanthropist of part of the evils this country now labours under, but it is tour steam-boat arrivals every d a y, Solitude has fled, were being driven out, one of them knocked down the gter, B illy attracted by educa- equally true that our 'under Sir Robert Peel) having and meditation is no more.—But, to my story. In that gun, which immediately exploded, and the unfortunate comini f the day. It is folly to taken the suicidal course of depressing home employment, the people, and then and encouraging foreign, is th e cause o f th a t wan t o f con fidence which will prevent E ng l an d r i s i ng super i or t o th e century, lonely house lived for several years, in the beginning of individual a ll u d e d t o being not more t h an f our f eet f rom ma ki ng to attempt to stem the the a singular character, of whom nothing more th e muzz l e, t h e whole of the ch arge en tered a little belo w found i was known than that he had come from some distant the c a lf o f hi s r i g ht l eg, wh i ch was dreadfully lacerated. pears, iilding prisons and mug- present di stress w i thout a most serious interference with that England is better situated to place of abode ; that he never received a letter ; and that A N I NSOLVENT BARONET.—Sir Henry Chudleigh Ox- of mini the people, and they t h e currency. he never hunted, shot, or fished with the squiredom of mien, Bart.. an insol ven t, appeare d from the Queen's he woo tly prove the close con- carry out F ree-trade than e and feed themselves ; Th ere i s no doubt the county. He was of l arge f orm , l ou d vo i ce , had a pr i son, on his application to be dis c ha rg ed. From the at his any country in the world, and ,ce and vice. We hail if ot h er countr i es would reciprocate, the advantage would d sullen look, and no trust in her Majesty's ministers for sc h e d u l e i t appeared that the debts were in the aggregate intenti well-timed production, be ours IN EVERY CASE ; for even the circumstances of the time being. At length, on some occasion of peculiar £90,620, of which £29,563 were w ith ou t cons id era ti on , dress, public excitement, the recluse had gone to Gravesend, an d £3 OOO more than once entered. The consideration room. .rvice to this important t h e nat i ves o f H i ndostan were not so degraded as not to ,your of a man of clear be lowered by British co m p e titi on . E ng li s h men would where, tempted by the i m p u l se o f th e momen t, h e had de b ts from 1830 were £57,799. The insolvency was attri- merits, apple with a really broken through his reserve, d a shed out into a diatribe of b ute d to h eavy l aw expenses, aria to the failure of carry- in the 1 diffi- therefore ALL be Free-traders as a ma tt er o f th eor y ; but singular fierceness, but of remarkable power, accused C o out an agreement with the South Western Railway and tai wn views, he exhibits a what is about to be shown to be even England's expe- Fn ;land of all kinds of oppression to all kinds of coon- Cmpany. The court having appointed Mr. Kingsford at nigh with moderation ; and rience of free imports without reciprocity, which, in assignee, the insolvent was ord er ed t o b e di sc h arge d. tion, cc a rea experience. We rum !") alike indicative of bi tter irony, is called Free-trade, (" in me convertite far- tries, and finished his speech by a r e ca pit u l a ti on o f a ll th e, wishes, wants, w o es , an d wrongs , as h e ca ll e d th em , of THE CONSTABULARY FORCE IN E NGLAND AND W ALES . NAT cal viz.—that it matters not whether the cause of Ireland, On Friday, members of the House of Commons were put —The clever pamphlet. Mr. imports into England, disproportioned to our exports, be " First flower of the west, and first gem of the ocean." the question at issue is famine or Free-trade, the direful effects are the same. Within the next twelve hours, a pair of Bow-street offi- in possession of a return of the constabulary force in Eng- near H land and Wales, for each city, town, or borough, with the this tit, ducation, but betwixt a Ist. We have a reduction of employment to the people cars were seen galloping into the village in a post-chaise wages paid to the officers, &c. It contains no account of be exte )wledge. We have not of England to very nearly the whole amount we pay for and four. They brought a warrant from the Secretary of the rural constabulary force, and so far is defective. The true th. )t, educate the people ; foreign lab Our. State to arrest the Irish orator, as a leader of the late following summary of the total number officers and to repri generation to be useful 2nd. A reduction of England's ability t o manufacture, Rebellion, returned from transportation on his own au- men, consequently, must be taken with large allowances : be omit nto be trained and in- through the superstructure of our currency being brought thority. He was captured, and conveyed to the Tower. In the metropolitan and city of London police forces 5338 cidal at if vice. " Vice," says down by the removal of gold, its basis. And this was the last intelligence of the patriot ; except In constabulary forces in municipal borough& .... 4528 were t] )1s as well as virtue ;. 3rd. We suffer from the gain to our rivals in manufac- that he appealed to the government against all repetition In ditto in towns not municipal boroughs 142 Church ;, and punishments for lures being exactly equivalent to our loss, a better stock of of his Australian voyage, and swore that he preferred the as those at the disposal th e prec i ous meta l s g i v i ng an i ncreased power to manu- speedier performance of the law to the operations on the Total officers and men 10008 tion of ith be once thoroughly f ac t ure t o f ore i gn countries (so that in fact the less gold C oa l- m i ne r i ver. A remarka b le tempest, which broke all Superannuation funds have been established derstood that we have En g l an d h as t o p ar t w ith th e b etter. ) the windows, and threw down half the chimneys of the hed in ten temple boroughs ; in 201 the return u n d er this headis n il. tholic f and non-education, for To th ese genera l e ff ec t s m i g h t b e a dd e d the particular city, a few weeks after, was supposed by the imaginative SIMPLE DIVISION, OR A NOVEL MODE OF ARRIVING Yes, be ion is an utter impos- one as regar d s th e U n it e d States, that our new laws will to be connected with his disappearance. At all events, AT A VERDICT. - At the recent Maidstone assizes, an ac ibuctlianl lei t er ] wn but felt, that our turn a proportion of the cotton land into wheat and In- he was heard of no more.—" Lays and Legends of the I p il i r l i e v‘ E -as nd biught by Mr. Gardener, of the Globe Tavern,. or mis-education—that dian corn, thus, by diminishing its quantity, raising the Thames," in Blackwood. Road, near Bow, against the Directors of the e good and positive evil price of cotton to the English millowner. North Woolwich Railway Company, for trespass. The rn sle n c t es r damages were laid at £lOOO, and the defendants had paid extensr versies which have been Such being the experience of England, what would the 'ea- '1 iissed as sheer imperti- Canadas be under Free-trade? (Enna! illt:httianv. £75 into court. Some dispute arose among the jury as to t c h o e nfl se a n g bes some of the lumen- So that, whether this reaches you convened at Montreal - the precise amount of damages to which the plaintiff was 4.- hat depraved knowledge for your first session under Lord Elgin, or finds you sent entitled, when one of the jury suggested that each of them places.curr e Iby indisputable facts back to ask the renewed confidence of your constituents Mr. Aitken, of Aberdeen, has taken out a patent for the should write on a slip of paper the sum they conceived . ml education. This may in what we used to call British or protective principles at manufacture of iron coaches. . . equivalent for that purpose. The suggestion was acted extent Ir. Dufton's pamphlet. a general election. I feel it equally important by the pre- On Wednesday, a little girl was killed at Clifton, by a upon, the aggregate amount of the whole ascertained, and . cabinet ipon delicate ground, sent steamer to let you know the exact position of things stone thrown from a rock during the process of blasting. pivided by 12, which gave £137 damages. This verdict dequacy of all existing i n thi s coun t ry . O n M on d ay, at t h e C roo kh a ll I ronwor k s, near Shotley- was actually given in and recorded. bloodsh exigencies of the case. I p ar ti cu l ar l y d es i re to guard you against bein g deceived, b r id ge, s i x persons were killed by the bursting of a boiler. T HE W ESLEYANS AND THE G OVERNMENT E DUCATION to aLo A.. I:A.,_ _ und. But Mr. Dalton by th e s t u ff now being written by some of the L on d on Mr. Newman, says the Tablet, has beer! entrusted by SCHEME.—The , United (Wesleyan) . Committees. 3! Privi- one of c ory spirit. He is in newsnanerq _ i n t o th. i c ip. 41-.. f P..,,,, 4 ... n + . llO Pant. 11171+11 +llO +nal' of ,crtrlQlner ti-,a ty.a.:-.1.1-In. 1--- —_l . _ ._ t ipT.,..t . 1,,,,. _ _ On Monday, at the Crookhall Ironworks, near Shotley bridge, six persons were killed by the bursting of a boiler. Mr:Newman, says the Tablet, has been entrusted by the Pope with the task of revising the English translation of the Vulgate. The Macedonia, once a British frigate, but captured by the United States in 1812, is now on her way from Ame rica to Cork, laden with bread stuffs. The number of sailing vessels wrecked during the year 1846, amounted to 537, and the tonnage thereof to 91,899 tons. A farmer, in Dumfries, has lost several sheep lately by their swallowing horse leeches, which ate through the vital More than thirty thousand negroes in Africa and the West Indies have subscribed towards the statue of their bene factor, Sir T. F. Buxton. BURYING GROUND.-It is said that there are in Paris four hundred acres of burying ground for less than one million of inhabiiants, while in London there are but one hundred for two millions. In Aberdeen, the streets are swept every day, at an annual cost of £1,400, and the refuse brings in £2,000 - In Perth, the scavenging costs £1,300, and the manure sells for £1,730. A large meeting of the inhabitants of Wakefield was held on Wednesday, and a memorial to the Queen was adopted to obtain a charter of incorporation for the bo rough. Brandeston-hall, in Suffolk, a fine Elizabethan struc ture, the seat of Mr. Austin, Q.C., was totally destroyed by fire, on Thursday. The loss is estimated at upwards of £20,000. The mansion was not insured. Mr. Alfred Smee, who has all along attributed the po tato disease to the aphis vastator, lately placed some of those insects on a healthy plant, which they destroyed with symptoms precisely similar to those winch affected the crop last year all over Europe. Lord John Russell on Friday announced, amid general expressions of satisfaction, that £5OO, and a medal, were proposed to be granted by Government to Bernadino Camp, the Spanish captain, who saved the survivors of the unfortunate passengers and crew of the Tweed. DEATH OF 3,lns. DISRAELI.—On Tuesday information was received in town of the demise of this lady, the wife of J. Disraeli, Esq., the celebrated author of " The Curi . Total officers and men 10008 Superannuation funds have been established in ten boroughs ; in 201 the return under this head is nil. SIMPLE DIVISION, OR A NOVEL MODE OF ARRIVING AT A VERDICT.—At the recent Maidstone assizes, an ac tion was brought by Mr. Gardener, of the Globe Tavern, Mile End Road, near Bow, against the Directors of the North Woolwich Railway Company, for trespass. The damages were laid at £lOOO, and the defendants had paid £75 into court. Some dispute arose among the jury as to the precise amount of damages to which the plaintiff was entitled, when one of the jury suggested that each of them should write on a slip of paper the sum they conceived equivalent for that purpose. The suggestion was acted upon, the aggregate amount of the whole ascertained, and pivided by 12, which gave £137 damages. This verdict was actually given in and recorded. THE WESLEYANS AND THE GOVERNMENT EDUCATION SCHEME.—The United (Wesleyan) Committees of Privi leges and Education have made the following declaration with reference to the Government Education Scheme : "That on the whole subject, surrounded as it is with many difficulties, these Committees, after long, deliberate, and prayerful consideration, have come to the almost unanimous resolution, to advise the Wesleyan Societies and Congregations, under present circumstances, not to offer any further Connexional opposition, or to take any further Connexional action, in reference to the Govern ment Measure of Education, as these Committees under stand it to be now explained, and intended to be ulti mately proposed to the House of Commons." THE ROMAN CATHOLIC INSTITUTE AND THE EDU CATION SCHEME.-At a meeting of the Catholic Institute held on Wednesday, at which the Earl of Shrewsbury presided, and at which there was a large attendance of bishops and clergy, the following resolution was unani mously agreed to :—" That this meeting, deeply impressed with the outrage offered to the rights of conscience by the declaration of her Majesty's present government—` that Catholics are to be excluded from a participation in the grant of £1,000,000 to be voted by parliament for all other religious communions,'—call upon all classes of their fellow Catholics to unite in one cry of indignant reprobation at this insulting exception from a public grant, paid out of a public fund, under the administration of a ministry who have appropriated to themselves the title of ' Liberal,' but whose shrinking policy, at the cry of a bigoted sect, has countenanced the worst features of religious intolerance." THE LATE THOMAS BALDWIN, ESQ.—This gentleman died suddenly at Birmingham, in the month of January, 1845, possessed of personal property amounting to £200,000. He died intestate and a bachelor. A consi derable number of his relatives reside in this county, among whom are John Taylor, Esq., of Moreton Hall, near Padiham ; Mr. Thomas Robinson, draper, Burnley ; and Mr. Edmund Robinson, manager of the Burnley Gas Works. The first-named gentlemen drew £9OOO in behalf of his aged mother, who was a first cousin ; and the two latter in their own right, as relatives in the like degree, have each received the same sum. Mr. Richard Fort, of :ceived £lB,ooo—one the other in right of his wife. Mr. William Robinson, of - Padiham, hai also received £9,000. The money was paid on Saturday week, at the Queen's Hotel, Piccadilly, Manchester. We un derstand that this is only a first instalment, and that a further dividend will be paid in a short time. The legacy duty on each share amounted to £450. EXPLOSION OF A POWDER-MILL.—A terrific explosion, attended by the complete demolition of some extensive powder-mills, took place at the gunpowder manufactory of Messrs. Wakefield and Bainbridge, at the village of Sedgwick, near Kendal, on Monday night last. Near the mansion of Mr. John Wakefield, mayor of Kendal, were two powder-mills called Back Mills, worked by a water- erected of wood. Closely adjOining to the two latter mills was what was called the preparing mill, built of stone, to which was attached the composition-home. From some unknown cause an explosion occurred, by which the entire of these six erections were completely demolished, leaving only here and there a vestige of * the walls sianding - . Happily no life was lost. After the explosion a mass of burning timber was scattered about, and at one time the flames from a quantity of ignited saltpetre were very alarm- but by the assistance of the Keildal fire engines were finally extinguished. • INCITING A MAYOR TO FIGIIT A DUEL.—Last week, in the Bail Court, Mr. Sergeant Talfourd moved for a rule to show cause why a criminal information should not be filed against Mr. Charles Ricketts, Mr. Chamberlain, and another gentleman for having incited F. T. Elgie, Esq., the Mayor of Worcester, to a breach of the peace by fighting a duel. Mr. Elgie and Mr. Chamberlain are both solicitors, and a difference arose respecting the tax- ing of a bill of costs for a railway company. The former having declined to answer the letters of the latter, Mr. in the navy, to wait upon Mr. Elgie, to name the time and place of meeting. The mayOr very properiy declined to law and reason, and the matte; was therefore brOught before this court.—As nothing. however, had occurred since the 24th of March, Mr. Justice Coleridge hoped the matter would go no further. If anything unpleasant' did take place, of course a second application could be made —The subject was then dropped. CRIMINAL OFFENDERS IN SCOTLAND Amongst the week, was one r of a voluminous character, containing minute statistical information relative to criminal offences in Scotland. The offences are divided into six classes, from the higher to the lower grades of crime. The infe rence to he drawn from these statements confirms the view likely to be taken by the House of Commons—that crime is mainly owing to the want of education. The chief punishment (murders or heinous offences being rare) is imprisonment, varying from twelve months to less than six. In transportation the term seems to be usually seven years. During the twelve months (1846) only three were transported for life, while there was not a single sentence of death. There has, consequently, not been one in stance of the execution of the capital punishment ; and Anne v...., April 27, 1847. PRICE OF GAS.—In the House of Commons on Thurs day, Mr. Hume moved for " a statement of every gas company established by act of parliament in the united kingdom, stating the several acts of parliament under which established; the rates per 1,000 feet at which each company or corporation has supplied gas in each year since 1820 ; or, if later established, in each year from the year the company commenced to supply gas, and the price of the best coals in each year for the same- period : also, stating the amount of fixed capital of each gas company, and the rate per cent. of each dividend to the share holders or proprietors on their shares in each year during that time.' The motion was agreed to. SUICIDE OF SIR HENRY WEBSTER.—A most painful sensation pervaded the vicinity of Grosvenor-square, on Monday, in consequence of a rumour that Sir H. Web gter, Bart., residing at No. 31, Upper Brook-street, had committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. Upon making inquiry into the truth of the rumour, it was found to be too true. The unfortunate gentleman, it ap pears, has for some time past been in a desponding state of mind, but no fears were for a moment entertained that he would take his own life. On Monday morning he rose at his usual hour and took breakfast, and expressed his intention of going out to walk. He was left by himself to dress, and shortly after a heavy fall was heard in his room. The servant immediately proceeded to his apart ments, and found him lying upon the floor with a wound in the throat. Medical assistance was promptly obtained, and the wound in the throat dressed, but at twelve o'clock at night the unfortunate gentleman expired from exhaus tion, consequent upon loss of blood. NATIONAL SIN THE CAUSE OF NATIONAL JUDGEMENT. The Rev. W. Gillmor, perpetual curate of Illingworth, near Halifax. has just published an admirable sermon with this title ;it was preached on the fast day. It ought to be extensively circulated, for the observations are no less true than seasonable. There is much that we should like to reprint, but the following remarks are too pointed to be omitted. "In the year 1829, the passing of that sui cidal act, the Popish Relief Bill took place. And what were the consequences of this heavy blow against the Church of Christ in the British isles ? Waithe introduc tion of an idolatrous religion to occupy a position in the temple of the state, side by side with that of the true Ca tholic faith, punished as heretofore as a national crime ? Yes, beloved. There was an immediate withdrawal of the bounties of Providence. From that hapless period, when idolaters were admitted into both houses of parliament, until the year 1834, the United Kingdom, underwent a succession of unfavourable harvests. Agricultural distress extensively prevailed. Commercial transactions, during the same interval, were in a most depressed condition. Conflagrations in the rural districts were of almost nightly occurrence. Serious riots took place in several populous places. In short, violence and tumult and popular excite ment prevailed in the following year to so alarming an extent throughout our land, that, by the advice of the cabinet of the day, really believing that mischief and bloodshed might, in consequence, ensue, the King's visit to a London festival was obliged to be postponed ; and one of our principal cities was well nigh destroyed. And, at length, that fearful, mysterious and most appalling pes tilence, Cholera, whose advances no barrier could impede, was sent upon us, sweeping away, in its devastating course, whole masses of the population in every quarter which it visited. Persons, as I have known, were frequently seized with this dreadful complaint in the streets, and died, and were buried, in the course of a few hours. And so wide was its range, that the cry of death was heard in almost every parish throughout our land ; and, in some quarters, hundreds upon hundreds were, within the space of six or eight weeks, consigned to one common grave." On Monday, a general conference of delegates from the various metropolitan parishes, Brighton, and oth er pro vincial t owns , t oo k p l ace at the Court House Marylebone, with reference to the Health of Towns Bill, the Rector of Marylebone, (Dr. Spry,) in the chair. The meeting hav ing been addressed by the chairman, Mr. Daniel, of Marylebone, Mr. Davis, of St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, Mr. Dempstor, of Brighton, and others, resolutions were adopted, condemning the government scheme as a politi _ cap oio, mmer pretence of being a sanatory enactment, and as a scheme utterly destructive of the functions of local boards. It was then resolved forthwith to send copies of the resolutions to every parish and paving and cleaning district in the metropolis, as also to provincial cities and towns, with a view to obtain their opinion upon them; 'and a vote of thanks having been awarded to the reverend chairman, the conference separated. BLUE TEA.—Why should:we not have blue, or red, or yellow tea, as well as black and green ? An assortment of coloured teas would be rather an elegant improvement of the tea-table, especially if there were an array of variega ted tea-pots to correspond. " Purple, if you please." " / always drink yellow." " Indeed—l'm told it is bad for digestion, and that the most wholesome tea is sky blue—which matches, too, with our best London milk." Are our readers aware that there is no reason why rain bow teas should not be manufactured ? A Select Parlia mentary Committee is now sitting to inquire into our commercial relations with China, Sir George Larpent, the chairman of the East India Association, stated in his evidence, that " the whole of the supply of tea for the Eu ropean market was a manufactured article. There was not a pound of tea which came to this country from China which did not undergo a colouring process. Tea which we called green here was coloured green, and might as well be coloured yellow or blue. (Laughter.) The tea underwent that manufacture with the view to adapt it to the market in this country, and the process might to some extent alter the essential quality of the tea."—John IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF G4',, , Gas, for the ge nera l p ur p oses o f ar tifi c i a l illunlinl!t havin g no w b ecome one of the real necessaries 01li f e, any improvements in its quality, or greater economy in its production, must be of the greatest *moortance to society at large. We are led to these retcaving re us the prospectus of a new gas company, under title of " The Cardinal and Central Gas-1A..1d- Arm._ Li...iv., rmLLllllal kAntreoul, anu uaroonaceous manure Company," formed for the introduction to public utility of a new, cheap, and efficient manufacturing gas from sources hitherto unproductive—for a more efficient mode of warming and cooling apartments—for a new system of ventilation—for a new preparation of animal charcoal of superior quality—which, having been employed on various chem ico- economical operations, will form a highly-superior manure to any now in general use. The most novel fea ture in the formation of•this company is, the privilege to -..,.a t o the customer of changing the present mode I lighting at so much per 1,000 feet, to " such an illu minative power, at so much per quarter, to be estimated, by the size of the ro om t o b e lighted, by every 100 cubic feet of space, which will be accomplished at one-third the present charge." The prospectus states, that from the value of the remains in the retorts, and their improve mentsin the manufacture, a superior illuminative gas can be produced by them at 4s. per 1,000 feet. These advan tages are obtained from the use of one-fourth bones to is of cos: tion. sideration, with body of the I 1, cutti and Italy ! and as I now write, lust en fourth the fou v weather, with a month of th diffidulty, four holirs out of-t 1 ze twenty-four, y from eleven until th. der then that cold ,nd influenza pri s ? Yes, it is il, things unknown in vast importance to body and mind you for culina or ever nce eight or poor pay two pound price this wint th bread and Doi uch enormous ch throw some of their sui " show the h ibe the Cat able. Still, however, there are point which no description can adequately or a crisis may arrive. rival at Rome : Dickens description is in in the thing it with four wheel man and thre finally maske ntletnea mast richly and fantas- seven lovely girl: s, black velvet spencen,velve each a black masque only co es, each with an elegan into pretty little frcaran forehead and ey will be all the better able to elo urns abundantly prove the close con- We hail nection existing betwixt ignorance and vi lculated to render invaluable service to this important It is the successful en and comprehensive intellect to grapple with a really diffi- cult subject In supporting s own views, lie cx rare degree of taleid, combined with moderation ; and the measures which he suggest. ran-- of )unci judgment and of much practical experiencf will atten t a brief outline of this elevcn• pamphlet with sheaving that the question at issue is not betwixt education and non-edu good education and depraved knowledge all we not, educate the peopl but shall we educate the rising embers of society, or allow them to be trained and in ructed by the zealous agents of vice. " Vice, Mr. Dufton, " vice opens schools as well as virtue crime has rewards for the zealous, and punishments for the refractory, quite as efficacious as those at the disposal Let this great truth be once thoroughly -let it once be understood that we have )f recitud. not to choosti between edu the simple reason that non-education is an utter impos sibility ;—let it be not only known but felt, that our choice is confined to education or mis-education—that we have to decide between possible good and positive evil —and nine-tenths of the controversies which have beer raised on the subject will be dismissed as sheer imperti nences." Our author next (IP- commonly called ignorance, and by establishes the necessity of national education. This may be considered the first part of Mr. Dufton's pamphlet. In the second part he enters upon delicate ground, namely, the insufficiency and adequacy of educational systems to meet the ex This undoubtedly is delicate grounc writes in a kindly an 1_ conciliatory spirit earnest, and expresses his ,opinions strongly and with candour. Yet the tone and temper of his pages are far from being offensive. He may convince : he cannot an- noy : and our prejudices are not roused even when our prepossessions are opposed. With the utmost imparti ality he lays bare the imperfections of the National So ciety on the one hand ; and on the other he adduces the testimony of Dr. Vaughan to demonstrate the inability of dissent to supply the universally-admitted deficiency. In short, voluntaryism, whether it be the voluntaryism of the National Society, or of the British and. Foreign Schools, whether it be the voluntaryism of the established church or of dissent, he holds to be utterly inadequate to prOvide an enlarged system of national education co- He therefore invokes —,t; of the state. " For the same reasons, , " that state intervention is ne cessary in the dispensing of national charity, in establish ing national security, and in enforcing general rights, we hold that state intervention is necessary in national edu cation, not to supersede but to aid individual and volun tary exertion. extensive with the national wants the assistance and interferen " says he, The strongest advocate of poor-laws never recommended the distruction of asylums, hospitals, and infirmaries ; the firmest supporter of a police force would not advise us to dispense with bolts, bars, watch dogs, and watchmen ; the greatest admirer of law will not withhold his praise from private arbitration ; and in the same way the advocates Of state intervention would not recommend a single individual to withhold his sub scription or contribution from the erection and mainte nance of schools." And again : "We invoke the assist- ante of the state because it can alone interfere efficiently and beneficially—it clone can escape t imputation of trust the cause of mixed and unworthy motives national education to the state, because the state is the nation." In the remaining part of his pamphlet, Mr. Dufton brings forward the details of the measure which he submits for the adoption of the state. For these de tails we must refer our readers to the pamphlet itself, merely observing that the proposed j - and comprehensive, practicabi other subjects, to which we hav for alluding, OTHER BANKS TO ISSUE 'confined by Sir Robert Pi regulations) ONE POUND NOTES. This would, by raising gold to a market price, place the foreign trade on the same footing as the home trade, which draws no gold, but has its prices inflated to the amount of the depreciation of the silver currency. It will soon become evident that gold cannot be had except at a premium, and then will come the run on the Bank of England, not from shippers only, but also by parties to hoard for the premium. Such are the direct and legitimate consequences of Sir Robert Peel's departure from the principle of protection to British labour at home and abroad. I believe that he has undermined the prosperity, and truck a fatal blow at the integrity of th e empire. suicidal course, for it Is secured only by theindusVyTf the empire, from which we have taken away the ability to perform peculiar duties and bear neculiar burdens. by the removal of all its peculiar privileges. One shudders to think of the individual misery which will be inflicted on the population here, if we persist in viewing the currency and Free-trade as two questions in stead of one, as in reality they are—a fact that you know well, from the creel experie nc e o f ( Anadian industry, when the Legislature of the State of New York stopped specie payments in 1837. And begging you not to suppose for a moment that I am less the irreconcileable opponent of class interests than you knew me when I had the honour to represent e metropolis in the first parliament of United Canada, I remain, Gentlemen, your obedient humble servant, ISAAC BUC HANAN POSITION OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND We have already called attention to an admission by a very eminent authority on Free Trade—the London Times—that there is little hope existing that our imports of bread stuffs from the United States are likely to be paid for in British manufactures. There was little need, however, for such an admission, with the fact staring us in the face that specie is rapidly leaving the country; that the coffers of the Bank of England are rapidly being drained of bullion, notwithstanding the efforts made to repress speculation by the rise of the rate of interest to five per cent., and the caution—even at that price—with which the Bank is dealing with the commercial world in its selection of paper for discount. The Times of yesterday, remarking upon the position of that establishment, says,— " Although an unfavourable statement was expected, the re turns of the Bank of England published to-day took most parties by surprise, in the fact of the notes and bullion now held in the banking department having diminished to .€3,463,P8 (lieTng; reduction du r ring the week of 1927,842), while their liabilities in the shape of deposits have increased .4'738,081, making the total deposits 416,242,119. This is to be at tributed to large advances made by the bank upon deficiency bills at the very moment when a contraction of its liabilities became imperative, and hence the effect of the sudden with- of parliament She was in her_sixty-fifth year Mr. Edmund Garbett, for Many years a solicitor at Wellington, Shropshire, and well known to the profession in Birmingham and elsewhere, was last week committed on a charge of forgery, in placing the name of another person to an acceptance. T - - EXTRAORDINARY BIRTH.—The wife of William Squires, carpenter and joiner, Buckinghamshire, Kingsland, was safely delivered on Sunday, the ISth inst., of three chil dren—tiz., three boys, who, with the mother, are doing well. A woman died in London, last week, from exhaustion, caused by the loss of blood from a wound in her back, which she hed received in a very singular manner. While she fell upon some earthenware, of which a fragment entered her back and severed a small blood-vessel. Mr. Dunn, the barrister, who fell desperately in love with Miss Coutts' fortune, and is now a prisoner in the Queen's Bench, sent a long, formal, and written coin- plaint to the Southwark magistrates, on Monday, against a cobbler, who, having soled a pair of shoes for him, re fuses to deliver them without pre-payment of 4s. 6d. ! WARNING TO SURGEONS.—An Aberdeen paper reports the d,ath of Dr. Fic a puncture he received in one of his fingers, while making a post-mortem examination. The virus spread rapidly through the system ; and, notwithstanding the best medical was promptly aclmini, in great 3 nef rnn c ral, for causing all letter; to be marked with the dated stamp of every office through which they pass. Hitherto they have been posted and dated whence, they have been delivered. The new arrangement will facilitate the detec- tion of the particular office at which any c _ in the transmission of correspondence takes place SHOCKING DEPRAVITY.—One day last week at Hor- lay or error IiCIU pUlll V. 1 G1A..11. .J 1 4 ILI/1-111, ‘-••••••••••• the Bible, roasted it before a fire as he would a joint of meat, and basted it with beer. In the evening of the same day he was drowned,—whether by accident or not we do not know, but it is believed he committed suicide. —Bristol Journal. _ Throughout the whole agricultural districts of Scot land, the accounts of the seed time, and the promising state of the young wheat are more than usually favour able. In Lanarkshire the oats are all in the ground under favourable circumstances. In Roxburghshire the accounts of the seed time are equally favourable - . In East Lothian, all the young crops are looking well. In Ayrshire farm ing produce is declining in price generally. PALACE COURT, WESTMINSTER.--ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY PER CENT. PER ANNUM !—Among the parties summoned was a government clerk, at £lO a year, who had borrowed £5 at 30s. a quarter interest ! An ap plication for commitment was made, but the court ' clined to commit at the instance of the plaintifr taken such large interest. The clerk admitte who had that his rent was more than his salary ? The Duke of Bedford has intimated his intention of giving, out of his own private resources, in addition to a former gift of £lO,OOO, the sum of £3,000, still required by the Commissioners of Woods and Forests for the I efficient d in these pages ; such as the faL Will you separate religion from are admirably discus lacy of the cuckoo cry, education ? " and the par such an education as shall have a direct bearing on the career of the pupil. In conclusion, we beg to recommend this pamphlet most cordially to all who feel an interest in this important question, whatever their peculiar views mey be ; and to tender our warmest thanks to Mr. Dufton for his labours in this great cause. Canada as it is ; or, the Emigrant's Friend and Guide to Upper Canada. By the Rev. G. W. Warr. Painter, London. aluable war], The rev town, WE Oakeville Canada WcEt mately acquainted w ith the manners, customs, climate, has published the in_ this unpretending but useful every information that can and professions of the country, and 1 result of his experien little book. The author g from England will benefit ihi be of great advantage to tt give an extract from the work else Where NEGRO L mntry, whilst it will also important colony. We TURE ON THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH " Look a hea, Jack, what you call dem a is pintin' to." " What! (scratching his head) dem ar posts .dentical Dem ar wi - cl de wires ?" " Yes, dem are horizontal wir Well, de posts supportd Gosh, I 13ut what de wir for ?" "De wir for a moment, la' " said the other, completely at faul iuddenly lighting up with intelligence de wires is to keep de Post up SECOND EDITION. and-office, Two o'c RPOOL CORN Tnis D. )f wind our impor :,` e Friday, having from Ireland, wit Indian Co he exports,-as state was a moderat lay, which is 3d. Western brand ady in valu' ate prices. this day 'teal steady the substances obtained from this system are—grain black for the black for the japanner, currier, &c from the coke-ovens and retorts; sugar-refiner ; flake ; ivory black ; coke limpid naptha ; the -ammoniac and sal-volatile ; bone icture of am ; carbonaceous at the rate of The patentee ammoniacal salts mum, used in the mann.— porcei, manure; and a large volume of rich gas 7,000 feet for every ton of bones calcined. of this new. and annarentiv economic and is a gentleman who was Many . years a pupil of Dalton, the celebrated originator of the theory of atomic che mistry, and also of Berzelius ; and has founded his system on true chemical principles, and on the law of luminous bodies, as laid down by Day Sir J. Leslie, and other eminent men ; and, when carried out, will, no doubt, obtain great support from its purity and economy—it being, as stated by the patentee, free from those exhala tions so injurious to paintings and decorations. The capital is to be £750,000, in 75,000 shares, at £lo:each. THE HUMAN TEETH.—This beautiful organ not only forms the main point in our personal appearance, but a so ciiptly the instrument to cause perfect articulation, so as to give a distinct sound and utterance to our vocal ex pressions ; it is the masticating apparatus, or grinding mill, for our food and nourishment, and without the func tions of it we should be most miserably situated in respect to preparing our food previous to its being sent to the stomach for nutrication. A perfect, healthy set of teeth is the sure indication of youth and vigour; the means of a Geo CA U Mollii prevel pectet saved. Aiu from 1 SAL treal— New ' Newfa Garro, art, at Hayes Deb, Ural 18th IV P. .1 for Aie Cori Zan . March Mar Mar havin will with 1( havln). eeedec for Lc Lee AI 10th it and su Larl 26th A Ham. lon. 31 Wade, on T Olymr Vol Lr. '1 Etj 8i dria---! zon, ri , lo uam Co ; Rich Adri Chaff Joh' March Calcut Duii , Nile, - Kissoc port Eller Bon: BEL Port, r of Eni at the Alfa Medm gale, a Island, and to merry and happy h hundreds of others, ai I on slowly do' ith perfect imp, a serpent, with s an old man with four N delineat A of the Si contrary to their usual et horse-races dun 1 word from n 11 exhibited so pow( a to req4 for the poor their brawny, muscul ild even than the-grap h artist, Horace Vern horses, s, ig More from s! bells that swine )bserved among these p kens' idea that the mod would be to ;uinary combats t NOTICES What it is, and What it should be, s pamphlet, bearing the above .om the pen of the Rev. Johr The subject o !, Kent. Dufton liarly e province of the ,t the present moment, the terested in the welfare o s, seems to b Nor can w earnestly In a country and in an a; wonder ii 6 . civilization and progressive science, of mere brute labour is every year being elated, the only lever by which the industrial classes sa be raised to a more favourable position in society is the lever of education. Without education, those classes, constituting as they do so vast a proportion of is that chariot id thousand wded Corso Saturnalia, r then done—n ing imaginary ici table—no disput tail in its mouth, at oth tom; sacrificed bare-hea carnival are too well I never saw the fierce st men witi n to ( and resti e Amy tion to the of their bi rs aclht Id leaf g to small than counteracted by advances to the Governmeni:'? The question, however, with us is not whether the Bank of England has acted prudently, but whether that estaldishment, under the existing state of affairs, possesses any power to pro tect either its own shareholders or the public. Our imports must be paid for in something valuable—in fact, in the precious metald. There is no alternative between that course and an action upon the currency, which some parties will regard as almost equvalent to a declaration of insolvency. We know not how lonz the drain upon us for bullion may continue; but we know well the small amount of our power to meet that drain. And it will be wise in Government. the bank, and the com mercial world at once to look their difficulties fairly in the face. We beg to direct attention to a letter from an esteemed and well-informed correspondent, Mr. Isaac Buchanan, the late Vice-president of the Board of Trade, in Canada, in which some most valuable hints will be found. Mr. Buchanan, we may re-' mark, is no theorist ; has no class interests to serve, and it may be remembered " that, in our own paper and in other publica tions, he pointed.distinctly, when the Free-trade measures of Sir Robert Peel's administration were in agitation, to the coming of the very crisis under which we are now labouring. One part of theletter in question we cannot restrain ourselves from quoting here : " I do not_believe that the Bank of England will be able to sell Government securities t so as to prepare for the payment of the _ s, unless Parliament, before it rises, passes a nc measure than MAKING SILVER SHILLINGS A either of transportation or of imprisonment, nor one free pardon. The return was made by the Lord Advocate, and was received with peculiar interest. NARROW ESCAPE.—On Wednesday last a carriage and pair. containing three ladies, was waiting at the railway station at Rugby, whilst the coachman went to make in- alarmed at ti ~c , “ge. Luring LALZ 7 noise of the numerous engines that are constantly passing backwards and forwards at this point, turned round and started off at a rapid rate towards the town. A man engaged in mending the road, alarmed at the approach of the carriage , removed his barrow, but dared not attempt to stop the horses ; a young man, how ever, who lives at tire crown, seeing the dangerous posi tion in which the ladies were placed, gallantly ran towards the horses, and succeeded in obtaining possession of the reins, and also in checking the progress of the spirited animals, after being dragged a distance of nearly 30 yards. It was almost miraculous that the parties in the carriage escaped without injury, as the road along which the horses ran is nearly at all times thronged with carriages of dif- ferent descriptions passing to mid from the station to th The ladies in the carriage, to show the estimation in whim they hem the courageous conduct of the young man, by whose intervention their lives were most proba• bly saved, presented him with the munificent sum of 6d. PARLIAMENTARY FEES IN RESPECT OF PRIVATE BILLS arced on all private bills of whicl the operation is to be immediate. .£5 is to be paid on the deposit of the petition, or any other document, in the private bill office ; and £6 for every day occupied by the examiners into compliance with the standing orders. As to proceedings in the house, £5 is to be paid on the pre sentation of the petition, and £l5 for each of the following stages, these fees to be increased according to the money to be raised or expended undo the authority of the bill, in conformity with a scale. By this scale, which is gra duating, if the sum be £50,000, and under £lOO,OOO, the fees are to be doubled ; if the sum is one million and a half, and less than two millions, the fees must be multi- half million up to hve nrulhons, and for every additional million beyond five millions. For every day promoters appear before any committee by counsel, £IU; and if without counsel £6 is to be charged. Opponents are to pay £1 on the deposit of every memorial complaining of non-compliance with the standing orders • £2 on the pre sentation of every petition to the house ; 13 for every day on which the examiners inquire into the memorial com plaining of non-compliance with the standing orders; £5 if they appear by counsel before any committee, and £3 if they appear without. The general fees it is unnecessary to ;pee* here. The fees to be taken — bytheshorilianil writer remain unaltered ; and any bill for the particular interest of any person or persons, whether brought in upon Petition, motion, or report from a committee, or brought from the lords, is to be deemed a private bill within the meaning of this table of fees, is ._ I 1" L - I l' ' 1 i: : I I " I Fl 'men less sweepir TO ANY AMOUNT, AND ALLOWING THE BANK GLAND, AND ALL OTHER BANKS, TO ISSUE (confined by LEGAL TENDE Sir Robert Pef regulations) ONE POUND NOTES. "This would, by - raising draws no gold, but has its prices inflated to the amount of the depreciation of the silver currency. " It will soon become evident that gold cannot be had except at a premium, and then will come the run on the Bank of Eng land, not from shippers only, but also by parties to hoard for the premium. "Such are the direct and legitimate consequences of Sir Robert Peel's departure from the principle of protection to British labour at home and abroad." In confirmation of Mr. Buchanan's views, as to the difficulty in which the Bank of England feels itself, we may state that a report was rife on 'Change yesterday, communicated from Lon don, which even more strongly stated the same views than he THE LONE HOUSE AND MYSTERIOUS INHABITANT. — On passing the little village of Erith, once one of the prettiest rustic spots in Kent, where the parson and the surgeon formed the heads of the community, and its only intelligence of the living world depended on the casual arrival of a boat from the Margate Hoy in search of fresh eggs for the voyage, a small house was pointed out to me, embosomed in a dell, which would have completely suited the solitary tastes of a poet weary of the world. Fifty years ago, a weekly newspaper was the only remembrancer to either parson or doctor of the world which they had left, and that one only sent by the member for the county when he thought it desirable to awake the general grati tude on the approach of a general election.. The Thames certainly might remind the village population that there parisiiof Saint Paul, Covent-garden, as the amount of its contribution towards the formation of the new street from Leicester-square to King-street, Covent-garden. It is understood that this great improvement will be forth with commenced. EMIGRATION FROM THE POTTERIES A. few days since, numbering about sixty persons, took their departure for America. Eight of the families go under the auspices of the Potters' Emigration Society, but the destination of all is Columbia County, United States, where the society have purchased a tract of land. The emigrants are pot teis, but in the backwoods of the new world they are to obtain a livelihood as agriculturists. The Ralston estate was, on the 13th inst., sold by auc tion at Birmingham, by Mr. Tisdale. The principal part c iiis of the estate, containing 2083 acres, • ' uding the man sion, garden, grounds, &c., was ed of to Mr. Wright, of Manchester, for £9 5 , 000 (a out £.15 per acre.) The timber, valued at £lO,OOO, and 213 acres of detached land valued at £9622, are to be paid for in addition to the tate, thus, with other detached purchase-mo land, will realise abou The cs Lt £120,000, OSBORNE.—We very much regret to say that Mrs. Os borne, who was so savagely attacked by the murderer Cross, after he had perpetrated the horrid murder on his wife, died on Thursday morning. The wound in the neck had healed up, but she was troubled with a most vi- olent cough, which, no doubt, hastened her end. The murderer cut her fingers so bad, that mortification of one of them took place, and she had it cut off about a month ago; an operation which she bore with great fortitude. FATAL ACCIDENT TO LIEUT. HENRY.-011 Thursday, as Lieutenant Henry, of the Royal Marine Artillery, with two brother officers, Lieuts. Budd and Adair, were driving along King's-terrace Southsea, Hants, in a doz-cart, in -b urning a corner into , n-street, the carriage touched the kerb, ran upon one wheel, and turned completely over, the wheels uppermost, and the horse on its back. Mr. Henry was heavily thrown, and fractured the back of his head, )elides receiving internal injury, from the effects of which he died on Friday. His companions received no injury worth mentioning. The deceased was a very promising young officer. Messrs. Jennens and Bettridge, of Birmingham, have just completed a splendid suit of papier macho boudoir furniture for the young Queen of Spain. The suite con sistr ra, the " -ost of eighteen reclining chairs, aso —arge, ever made-in this material, sofa-table, light ornamented tables, conversation chairs, and ottomans. The shape 'of each article is exceedingly elegant, and their several uses are not sacrificed to, but enhanced by the beauties of form. The ornaments are chiefly of burnished gold and mother, of pearl, in the ornate style of Louis the Fourteenth. f groups of biros, ,ountains, and festoons, are disposes with excellent effect ; and the light and delicate tracery of gold forms an elegant fringe to the gorgeous pictures, one of which is a view of Windsor Castle. Et t~ V p (! '_' O clear and audible delivery of speech—the cause of and gradual digestion—necessary to our bealth,—and last, not least, one of the most prominent and striking features in the beauty of the human countenance; for no matter whom, be the figure ever so graceful, the body all sym metry, the cheeks tinted like the rose, the eyes sparkling with intellectual lustre, the hair in locks of gold or raven black ringlets on the alabaster neck of female beauty—if 111 this exist, and the mouth be wanting its pearly row of teeth, we shrink with repugnance, and pity the being whom a few moments before we were gazing on with de light. And vet, convinced and aware of the absolute ne cessity of those indispensable auxiliaries, is not the un pardonable neglect surprising of which so many individuals of both sexes are guiltyln regard 'to this most important and beautifully constructed organ ; particularly when all have it greatly in their own power, with a little attention and care, to have, if not beautiful, at least clean and some egular teeth, thus avoiding disease and a train t attendant consequences ? Scarcely is there what more re 6 of uppleasp-' a hotise containing a number of inmates where either ne glect, immoderate use of animal food, or frequent resort to quack medicines, most of them containing great abun- all, despoliation in the mouth, gums, or teeth; fetid breath, or spungy gums, which, when touched, begin to bleed, if not to emit matter ; the teeth loose in their sockets, loaded with offensive concretions of tartar, and if not totally lost, most of them decayed, showing their sooty or coal-black rottenness every ti m e the mouth is opened. What an unpardonable neglect ? Individuals, perhaps in every other respect cleanly in their persons, to be thus careless in their mouths. Yet all this may be remedied, and properly put right again, by applying to a skilful den tist, who will in a short time give ease and comfort to the sufferer.—De Lotide on the Teeth. (See advertisement) RAZORS AND RAZOR STROPS.—It is one of the greatest pangs of human misery to be compelled to shave with a razor the edge of which is not sufficiently keen to suit the tender skin of the operator. In a thousand forms will be draw his face, exhibiting in every movement a sense of pain —excruciating pain—that makes even byestanders shudder. lie clenches his teeth, and again attempts to remove from his tender cheek the wiry hair. The attemPt is in vain, and he declares the razor to be one of those described by Pindar—" made to sell, and not to shave.. Thus it is often that the innocent temperer of steel Is, convicted of what duly belongs to an itinerant vender of strops. Nothing is worse to procure than a good razar . strop; but there is one advertised that we know to p a l sess every requisite. It is Saunders's four-sided Amery can strop. It has been invented many years, and was so .. successful in America, that Mr. Saunders came with it Isu, England about twenty years ago. It has stood the ten t, ever since, and he is now located in the Strand, Londo., where those who suffer the torture of thick beards vyvoic` do well to call, or on his agent here ; for we are beards that if they were in general use, we should not bear ow' the ill-tempered complaints of ill-tempered steel. ARR Coffin, 111 oi Broun Ihnz e. Whitt tlarn at THi April, of an, Crew, to :r on 1111 got (J,l Vise AR ton, I lett; from denci rara Dal Lec Kit Des. Me FA; of an( rived on th, eight schoo from Const Lisbo Fello' Groot drowt the Ai The at sez blade( Gilt Good Ant Eliz Mat Mai Lan and J, Alec Isal Gre Lim Mara Mar GRI from Morel taken in her FAY pool fc ?Avery instan and pi the 7tl Sarah, EMTIIf Count Marc] a steal —Hasp Isal, Sam Mar; Agei Po - r . Eler Shang Joh and st Cla T for th