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e the ss Caro which we gave s sound vie P ar We ha of it, nar e of B xtracts tatraturr. N OTICES THE MAGAZINES AND SERIALS with rat cal. The firs of solid and in- I f those that are generally to be I f acute feel tine inciden ; by De Quin his relapse into account; for the ew years r a review of Mrs affording a pleasing pursuits, and even nre.ient inhat aper on w of St-phens' Lord ,ce," lately pub °r, and furnishes ed, of the secret In happy union of 3 Prince of Wales) with the German- American emarkable scenes Picts r, Mexico in 1812 The article that with our taste, is on " Bri eenth Century," from which we think, replete with res the corruptions of Magu. tne Eign luoted. I soning, and s ,s. " North's Specimens of the ) closes the book. It is clever sther opine, too long for such a !vantage have been divided. The writer is, however, undeniable. from the number before us in e present month contains se- nd one or two of a superior order. le, " The Policy of Ministers," we do The Great Ward Business," from tracts in our last, contains some I amongst the lighter literature, " A. e in the Lives of Rubens and Rembrandt," and Squid, the Sea Ghost," are well-executed sketches. n University Magazine.—An excellent number. " Tales of the Trains—No. 3," an the two chapters (28 and by Mr. Lever, _.... of light literature in the number. _..,wever, several interesting and valuable arti ',er descriptions, amongst which will be found a Garretstovrn he only article r cn the Earl of Rose's telescope, a sketch of the f Mrs. James Gray, (from both of which we gave ,cts in our last nzs of Burns, riotlier article on the character and i several reviews. The poetry in mber is, as us ual, of a high order of merit The 0' Donoghue. (No. 3,) by Harry Lorrequer, pro mises to be one of the author's most interesting produc characters are in this number ably ; is thrown upon the state of Irish o," which may be new to English :cresting to those who wish to trace sh discontent and outrage, many of are as powerfully operative in the present day as n times past. - 1; and a light .nd wall be :es of Iri! The Illustrated Shakspere.—Th s splendid edition full second number of quals in merit, and justifies e bestowed on No. 1. The wood ar specimens of the art, and well ivings added give this a great su- ormer issue of the work the encomiums whic illustrations are fine, el ty over tt Abbotsford Edition of "Waverley.—Nos. 74 and 75 of n commence the novel of Quentin Dur artists who furnish the illustrations sting field. There is no falling off n any department, artistical or this unique edi ward, and carr into a new and inter, from former exc ographical Mount Sorel; or, the Heiress of the De Veres. Chap man and Hall.—The third part of this delightful tale is and increases the interest which the former two had excited. The characters of Edmund Lovel, Re ginald, De Vere the haughty and unhappy aristocrat, and of Hiegins, the jacobite and hater of all the conventiali ties of elegant life, are finely developed. The main inte- centre's in the character of the gentle and lovely Clarice de Vere, upon whom the knowledge of her love for Reginald is just breaking, and the struggles of the unfortunate Edmund to repress his nnreturned passion. In the developement of these two characters, the writer has sbewn a deep and intimate ac quaintance with the workings of the human heart. We give an extract or two in another part cf our paper, not the best specimens of our author's style, but yet evincing considerable power. The Libra"y of Trace!. Chapman and Hall, London. —We have before us the 6th number of Part 11. of this interesting work, and can truly say that it continues to be conducted with the same care and judgment as the former numbers in the respective literary, typographic, and illustrative departments. This is a continuation of the travels and researches in Egypt and Nubia by J. A. St. John, author of " Egypt and Mohamed Ali," &c., and comprises, in a journey from Mimeh to Manfalout, descriptions of the Grottoes of Benihassan—of Manfalout —Story-telling on the Nile—a most striking account of the Crocodile Mummy Pits, with a fatal adventure within these frightful subterranean abodes—a second exploration of them—Conscription in Egypt—visit to Siout—anec dotes of Defterdar Bev—the " Cities of the Dead"— Siout to Abydos—t he Red and White Convents—Market day at Serat—the Palace of Memnon—the Temple of the Goddess of Love—Visit to Thebes, and to the Tombs of the Kings. The whole is interspersed with entertaining anecdotes and historical reminiscences ; and the vignette woodcut illustrations are in the first style of the art, and form pleasing auxiliaries to the narrative. We insert some extracts in another column. The Illustrated Sailors' Magazine. 12, Vv'ellington street, Strand.—The second number of this useful pub lication fully comes up to our anticipations, and to the promise held out by the publishers in their first number. The illustrated article is the commencement of a tale by the author of Cavendish," and the remainder of the contents are interesting and valuable. The Naval and Military Sketch Book. Hugh Cun ningham, Strand.—This is a spirited commencement of a very spirted enterprise —an attempt to gather together, in a publication fit for the hands of all readers, the most striking occurrences, past and contemporary, connected with our naval and military services, or with those of other nations. It is liberally and very ably illustrated. Wade's London Review. W. S. Orr & Co., London. —This is a very interesting number of a magazine which bids fair to attain a very high standing in the ranks of our periodical literature. The reviews are well written, without being pedantic; and the lighter articles are smart and attractive. The Mirror, ( New Series,) February.—The number before us supports the interest and the reputation of this well-known periodical. Fanny the Little Milliner.—The interest of this story deepens in the present number. --.1.•••-- STORY OF IBN KmASIB.—" Lord Lindsay, in speaking of this place, relates from Ibn Batuta, a'story which may " The Old Duke in his Prime."—A song bearing this be worth repeating :—Ages ago, in the days of the Abbas le, and which, it may readily be conceived, refers to sides, to whom Egypt bowed the knee, from tht middle __a veteran of Waterloo and " a thousand other fields," of the eighth to that of the ninth century, one of the Ca has just been published ; and such are its merits, not only liphs, even the great Haroun Al Raschid himself, was dis musical, but poetical and patriotic, that we are proud to pleased with the Egyptians, and desirous at once to hail it as written by one townsman, Mr. John Murphy, punish and make them an example to others, picked out and the music by another, Mr. Molineux, professor of the lowest of his slaves, one Ibn Kasib, the bath-warmer singing, &c. The subject is one which, independent of of the palace. and sent him governor to Egypt, in full con its musical and literary merits, is likely to obtain the ear fidence that the insolence, rapacity, and cruelty of such a of a British public; and we shall be much surprised if it ruler, would imply express his resentment. Never was do not become a great favourite, both at general assem- a man more mistaken than the Caliph ; never was blies and in domestic circles. The air is at once simple, Egypt happier than under the mild rule of Ibn Khasib. but masculine and effective ; and the accompaniments— His fame spread far and wide : many even of the Caliph's in which the fife, drum, and other martial instruments, immediate courtiers, and one, especially, of his nearest may be appropriately introduced—are arranged with a kinsmen, visited, and was entertained by him ; in short, degree of skill and taste highly creditable to the corn- Ibn Khasib was a second Chebib. On the return of his poser. We relieve ourselves from the trouble of all eu- kinsman to Bagdad, the Caliph, who had remarked and logy on the words by giving them at full, and we doubt wondered at his absence, inquired where he had been ? not but our readers will concur with us in awarding to To Egypt,' replied the prince, and proceeded to extol the author that meed which is due to his powers as a poet, the humanity, justice, benevolence, and generosity of the and his feeling as a patriot : governor, and display the presents he had received from THE OLD DUKE IN HIS PRIME. him. The Caliph, enraged at the failure of his scheme, sent instant and peremptory orders for his degradation ; that his house should be razed to the ground ; his goods confiscated, his eyes put out, and that he should be cast forth, naked and a beggar, into the streets of Bagdad. To hear, of course, was to obey ; a few weeks, and behold Ibn Khasib, friendless, hungry, destitute, groping his way through the streets, or sitting near the gate of the Serag lio, forgotten by his own fellow-slaves, unheeded by the nobles who had eaten his bread and salt in Egypt, and whose silken garments touched as they swept pig him; the summer birds fly with the summer flowers! He was accosted one morning by a poet Ibn Khasib,' said he, I was on the point of starting for Egypt with a poem in your praise ; your arrival here in Bagdad saves me the trouble of that long journey ; and, if you will listen, I shall have great pleasure in repeating it." " Poor and blind, naked and miserable," replied Ibn Khasib, "what have Ito give thee ! Go, my friend, seek a richer patron ; ray star is set.' Only iren to me,' replied the child of song ; and as for recompense, God only do for you as you hlve done for others!' Khasib listened, and his heart was touched ; they were the first words of sympa thy that had consoled him in his misfortune. " Cut open this seam," said he, when the song was ended, " and ac cept this ruby ;" it was the only valuable that he had been able to secrete of the reck of his fortunes. The poet expostulated. Ibn Khasib insisted ; and the poet accordingly carried the gem to the jewellers' bazaar. Such a stone,' cried the syndic of the jewellers, can only belong to the Caliph ;' and before the Caliph they brought him. He told his little story ; the Caliph's eye glistened ; he sent for Ibn Khasib, owned he had done wrong, loaded him with presents, and sent him back to Egypt, proprietor of Minieh, the spot he was fondest of in all the valley of the Nile,—that Nile, to whose bounty the poet's fancy had likened his own ; the place is still called after him, ' Minieh Ibn Khasib,' and his posterity flourished there, for I cannot say how many generation, since they were extinct, when my authority, Ibn Batuta, visited the spot in the fourteenth century."—Library of Travel. N E W MUSIC A brave old man I'll tell you of, who long And always fought su Each Briton will with And though the sn A fine bold Br var waa great, s of the state ; de his warlike deeds relate ; ears now rests upon his pate, h warrior was the Oid Duke in his prime ! to defend his country's cause he entered into w•ar, He kindly saved his soldie His standard waved on Fr brave from ev'ry needless scar; tom's tow'r, and glardened those 1 be a guiding star, A fine bold reer in g Like echo flying thi: tinned bound, ,und s awoke by trumpet is name be ever found, As pore as light on helm tht when sunbeams dance around id British warrior, & e on the 1: 1-nger could subdue. For though the fire was raging wild, he gallantly rushed through; • flight, the foe he did pursue, stories like brilliant meteors flew, &c. as a whirlwind le scept 71 he gave native lamd to sway, 's cause, till earth [all pass ch Britis tier seek his virtues to display For Eng A fii hearts, her enemies dismay e bold British warrior, & It may be added of this song and music, that we have seen a letter from the :‘larquis of Douro, who states that he considers it " a very pretty song" ; and another from ebrated singer Horncastle, who expresses his ad- miration of its spirit ROME TAKEN BY SHIPS.—On the arrival of the Rus sian squadron at Naples (1799) I directed Commodore Troubridge to go with the squadron and blockade closely Civita Vecchia and to offer the French most favourable conditions, if they would evacuate Rome and Civita Vec chia; which terms the French General Gre n ier complied with, and they were signed on board the Culloden; when a prophecy made to me on my arrival at Naples was ful filled, viz., that I s h ou ld take Rome with my ships.— Neloon's Skeen of his Lift. SELECTIONS THE GOSPEL PLOUGH.--." But now you will ask me whom I call a prdate ? A prelate is that man whatsoever he be that bath a flock to be taught of him ; whosoever bath any spiritual charge in the faithful congregation, and whosoever he be that hath the care of souls. But, now linketh I hear one say unto me, Wot ye what you _ Is it a work ? Is it a labour ? How then hath it happened that we have had so many hun2red years so many impeaching prelates, lording loiterers, and idle min isters? Ye would have me here to make answer, and to s I show the cause thereof Nay, this land is not for me to plough—it is too stony, too thorny. to hard for me to plough. They have so many things that make to them, so many things to say for themselves, long customs, cere monies, and authority, placing in parliament, and many things more. And I tear me, this land is not yet ripe to be ploughed, for, as the saying is, it lacketh weathering ; at least way, it is not for me to plough. For what shall I look for among thorns but prickling and scratching ? What among stones but stumbling ? What, I had almost - , dare say, that since lording and loitering hath come up, preaching hath come down, contrary to the apostles' times : for they preached, and lorded not, and now they lord, and preach not. Paul was no sitting bishop, but a walking and a preaching bishop.—Gospel Magazine. FRENCH CHILDREN.—I observed some French children —the very small ones, fantastically dressed up as play things, seemed petted, caressed, and spoiled; but the elder ones, from ten to sixteen, looking careworn, conceited, independent, and miserable. Everything is gay in Paris but childhood. Old age is gay—pleasantly so even when fantastically so ; and death itself is tricked out in garlands and "turned to favour and to prettiness." Why then are the children so joyless? It cannot be that they are too harshly restrained, or ruled by fear; for a cruel discipline is no part of the French character, or the French educa tional practice; on the contrary, a French boy soon be comes his own master, and studies or lounges as he pleases. Is it not that there are no firesides—no Comes ? It seems a fine independent thing for a Parisian shopkeeper to dis pense with the plague of domestic servants—take every day with his wife, the freedom of the restaurant and the cafe; and, when he shuts' up his shop, leaves it to take care of itself, while he lounges, or dances, or smokes, or reads a journal, or does all these in some public garden, or, better than all, goes to the play. But the pleasures and comforts of children are of home growth, and require a home shelter. They are also sad, wearied, wondering spectators of the gaieties of their parents, which are all associated with coquetry, gallantry, and feelings akin to those in which they do not participate; and though some amends is made by an early initiation into their essences, and an early emulation of their symbols, still children, as children, have no food for their affections in the whirling kaleidoscope which dazzles them. In Prussia, children are happier, because they are under a stricter discipline ; but England, with all its imputed sins of fagging and flog ging, and excess of Latin versification, is the place where childhood is most happy as childhood, happy in restraint; happy in indulgence ; happy in the habits of obedience, and respect, and filial love ! You would not find such a set of careworn, pale, unhappy faces, in any charity school in England, as you may mark in a throng of wandering, dis sipated boys in the gardens of the Tuileries.—TaYourd's Rambles. . OATMEAL VERSUS FLOUR.—Professor Johnson, in the recent edition of his Elements, tells us, that, from expe riments made in the laboratory of the Agricultural Che mistry Association of Scotland, it turns out that oats are far richer in all the three things essential than the best wheat flour grown in any part of England—that they con tain eighteen or twenty per cent. of that which forms mus cle, five to eight of fat, and sixty-five of starch. The ac count, therefore, between shelled oats (groats) and fine wheaten flour stands thus. One hundred pounds of each contain— Muscular matter Fat Wheat. Oats. 10 lbs. 18 lbs. 3„ 6 „ Starch 63 „ 89 „ What do you say to these numbers, Mr. Cockney ?—You won't pity us, Scotch oatmeal-eaters, any more, we guess. Experience and science are both on our side. What makes your race-horses the best in the world, may be expected to make our peasantry the best too. We offer you, !here fore, a fair bet. You shall take ten English ploughmen, and feed them upon two pounds and a halt' of wheaten flour a-day, and we shall take as many Scotch ploughmen, and feed them upon the same weight of oatmeal a-day—if they can eat so much, for that is doubtful—and we shall back our men against yours for:any sum you like. They shall walk, run, work—or fight you, if you like it—and they shall thrash you to your heart's content. We should like to convince you that Scotch parritch has some real solid metal in it. We back the oatcake and the porridge against all the wheaten messes in the world. We defy your home made bread, your baker's bread, your household bread, your leaven bread, and your brown Georges—your fancy bread and your raisin bread--your baps, rolls, scones, muffins, crumpets, and cookies—your bricks, biscuits, bakes and rusks—your bath buns and your sally Inns — your tea-cakes, and saffron-cakes, and slim-cakes, and plank-cakes, and pan-cakes, and soda-cakes, and currant cakes, and sponge-cakes, and seed-cakes, and girdle-cakes, and singing -hinnies—your short-bread and your currant buns—or if there be any other names by which you de signate your wheaten abominations, we defy and detest them all. We swear by the oatcake and the porridge, the substantial Bannock and the brose—long may Scotland produce them, and Scotchmen live and fight upon them ! ! —Bla-kwood's Magazine. EFFECTS OF THE WINDOW-TAX IN COURTS IN LARGE TOWNS.—II is in places like these that thousands on thousands are every year born, every year live, and every year die. These are the plague-spots of great cities — these are the very courts and sanctuary of fever—the native places of foul and loathsome pests which in the thick heats of the summer time walk abroad, smiting down youth and strength, and scarring, with furrowed traces, the once fair skin of the beauty, which they spare not. We know that in all great cities which have risen gradually and slowly, ere the principles of ventilation and drainage were attended to, there must exist narrow streets and unwholesome al leys like these. It is scarcely possible that without the recurrence of some such catastrophe as the fire of London, they could be altogether altered, and their had qualities altogether remedied. But, for Godsake, let all be done that can he done. Let in as much light and air as you can ; the builder has done mischief enough—let not the tax-ga therer be called in to do more. Better it would be to put premiums on windows in such situations than taxes. There are the poor herding together—sitting, sleeping, cooking, washing, in the same chambers. This is bad enough, even were windows and air-holes everything that could be desired. But are they so ? Every aperture that can by possibility let in a ray of light upon the gloom of frowsy underground cellars and dingy blackened cham bers, is construed into a window. Down comes the tax upon it ; and by next quarter the hole is blocked up, and the inmates may grope and gasp as they best can. We hardly know a more melancholy sight than a house with half its windows blocked up, to avoid the duty payable upon them. The mind flies from the out to the inside of such a dwelling—and a dreary picture it sees there. Rooms illuminated only by an eternal twilight, not bright in sun shine—dim when a summer cloud passes—dark from the morning to the evening of the cheerless winter day ; then passages, like the passages from cell to cell in gaols, where you grope, and stumble, and feel your way; staircases where your only guides are the bannisters or the wall, and kitchens like the bottoms of mines. Outside the sensation is as dismal. You look upon the house deprived of half its windows as upon a one-eyed man. The thing is unna tural. There is no cheerfulness, no lightness of expres sion about it. The architect may have been skilful, and the form of the fabric may be graceful ; but the skill has been thrown away—the grace lost. The tax-gatherer has overthrown the artist in the struggle.—Jerrold's Mag. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD CAIRO AS IT IS, AND WILL ERE LONG BE.—Cairo is at present, with the single exception perhaps of Damascus, the most purely Arab city in the East; but the ruthless reforms of the Pasha, and the constant passage of the Franks on this new high-road to India, will erelong divest it of its distinguishing characteristics, and give it as hybrid an aspect as that of the Frank intruders into the Pash a s chamber. An English hotel has already started up ; and Mrs. Poole informs us, that " by a proclamation of the Pasha, the houses are to be whitewashed within and with out ; those who inhabit ruined houses are to repair or sell them ; and uninhabited dwellings are to be pulled down, for the purpose of forming squares and gardens ; meshree beyehs (projecting first-floor windows) are forbidden ; and mastabahs (the seats in front of shops) are to be removed. Cairo, therefore, will no longer be an Arab city, and will no longer possess those peculiarities which render it so picturesque and attractive. The deep shade in the narrow streets, increased by the projecting windows ; the pictu resque tradesmen, sitting with one friend or more before his shop, enjoying the space afforded by his niastabah— these will be no more ; and while I cannot but acknow ledge the great necessity for repairing the city, and remov ing the ruins which threaten the destruction of passengers, I should have liked those features retained which are essentially characteristic—which help, as it were, to group the people, and which form such admirable accessories to —Blackwood's Magazine. TOWN EDITION. LONDON MARKETS OF YESTERDAY. MARK-LANE CORN EXCHANGE There was a moderate supply of English Wheat, a good de mand was experienced for fine qualities at fully the currency of this day week. Other descriptions, however, only a slow sale without change in value. There was rather more doing in free foreign at late rates. The arrival of Barley was liberal. The finest chevalier in good request, but the coarse and secondary qualities still diffi cult of disposal without a reduction in terms. Grinding unal tered. Malt, Pease, and Beans in better supply, and the price in favour of buyers. We have a further good arrival of Oats. Scotch Oats were fully 6d. per qr. cheaper, and the sale of Irish was liii ited chiefly in retail sales to country buyers, hardly supporting the prices of Monday last. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE Wheat, Essex and Kent Red .. White Norfolk and Lincoln, red White Irish, Ted WlAte 48 0 - 38 0 - 40 0 43 0 - 47 0 Rye, old New Barley, Grinding Malting Chevalier Malt, Suffolk and Norfolk Brown Kingston and Ware Chevalier Oats, Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, feed Potatoe Youghall and Cork, black Cork, white Scotch, feed Beans, tick Pigeons Pease, Grey Maple White Boilers 30 9 34 0 35 0 36 0 27 0 00 0 33 0-35 0 36 0— 00 0 58 0 63 0 56 0-60 0 6u 0 oo 0 64 o— 65 0 22 0-23 0 23 0 24 0 29 0 —22 0 21 0— 23 0 23 0 24 0 34 0-36 0 38 0 39 0 34 0 36 0 35 0 36 0 33 0 35 0 36 0 38 0 Flour, town made Suffolk 33 0 35 0 Stockton and Norfolk FOREIGN GRAIN AND FLOUR IN BOND. pictures." EFFECT OF SUPERIOR BIRTH AND MANNER UPON A VULGAR MIND.-Mr. Perrott had seated himself a little apart from the ladies, and nearer to Mr. de Vere; who, too polite to suffer any one in his house to feel neglected, addressed himself with great urbanity to the somewhat cloudy-countenanced citizen, and enteavoured to lead him into conversation. But there was a certain dignity, a cer tam air of unaffected superiority when be addressed our philosopher, which all hi good breeding could not entirely conceal. lam sure he did not intend it, but he could not help looking like one politely bestowing attention upon an inferior in need of it; and the advocate of universal equa lity and the rights of man was quick enough to perceive this, and was with it in proportion offended. In vain he tried to assume a certain coarse and impudent tone of su periority, which he, in his turn, was accustomed to exer cise over his fellows ; he felt as if a kind of magical bar rier was opposed to familiarity or presumption by the dig nified politeness of Mr. de Vere. As he had not been much in what is generally called good company, he had been accustomed to carry all before him in the circles he frequented, by the coarseness, bluntness, and sarcastic bit terness of his conversation. He never felt so ill at ease in his life : he fidgetted in his chair, crossed and uncrossed his legs, endeavoured at an harsngue, but found it impos sible to insert the wedge of his discourse into the conver sation : while the ease, spirit, and gaiety of Mr. Higgins at last forced upon him the unwilling conviction that an oration, however eloquent, upon the rights of man and wrongs of governments, would be here quite out of place. —Mount Sorel ; or, the Heiress of the De Verea. Wheat, Dantzie... Hamburg 32 0 - 30 0 -.- 20 0 -24 0 17 0 - 18 0 15 0 - 17 0 24 0 -29 0 28 0-32 0 19 0 - - 18 0 - - Barley ... Oats, new Flour, American Baltic .... SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET Since Monday last the imports of foreign stock into London have amounted to 40 Oxen, 20 Cows, and 35 Sheep, all from Holland. The supply of home-fed Beasts was sufficiently nu merous, but very deficient in quality. The demand for them was steady at an advance on last week's quotations of 2d. per Blbs.—the highest figure being 4s. per Sibs. ; but the middling and inferior Beasts were a slow inquiry, at about previous figures. The number of Sheep exhibited a falling off, indeed, they were somewhat limited. Prime old Downs were in steady request, and a turn dearer. All other kinds were heavy, at previous figures. Calves were in limited supply, and steady request, at full prices. In Pigs a fair average amount of business was doing but at no more money. Per 81bs. to sink the offal. THE TALLY OR " SCOTCHMAN'S" TRADE.—What so easy as to give an order to the tallyman ? And though the articles are higher in price, and not nearly so good as those she used to buy, and that, besides, she has no power in making a choice, (being obliged to take just whatever is offered,) there is the independence of ready money, so convenient and pleasurable to a poor and needy woman, and the flattering argument that it can be paid by degrees, or a little and a little at a time. In this way all the scru ples of her simple and honest prejudices are got over, the hebdomadal visits of the tallyman continue till she is se cure in the toils of this want-producing system ; compro mised in moral, as well as womanly dignity ; in debt to an amount she scarcely dreams of, and her happiness as a wife dependent on the forbearance of an unprincipled agent, who keeps the secret involved in their dealings from the deceived and injured husband, just so long as she finds the means of meeting his extortionate demands. H owever imposed on, she has no power of purchasing elsewhere, the weekly drain upon her limited means leaves her, of course, without money, and renders this exacting and fraudulent channel the only one by which she can obtain whatever is necessary for her family. By-and-by, sick ness or accident occurs to render less punctual the pay ment she has subscribed to ; weeks go by without her li quidating any part of it, and then her creditor, dropping his obsequious complacency, becomes harsh, insolent, and loud ; she learns to know his step, and to tremble at it ; and, conscious of the coarse rudeness that will meet her defalcation, hides herself at his approach, teaching her little ones deceit and falsehood in bidding them deny her. The man raps at the doo'r, and they answer from within (though she is is in the next room to them) that their mo ther is not at home ; and sullenly re-shouldering the heavy pack he had cast down at the threshold, after peering rudely in through the window, the man walks away mut. tering imprecations on her want of principle ; and what is the issue of all this ? Conscious of deceiving her husband, for he knows not a moiety of her enthralment, she feels no longer satisfaction in meeting him, and lives in continued dread of her indiscretion coming to his knowledge, her cheerfulness sinks beneath this mental burden, and the fear of her merciless creditor renders her morose and fret ful. The state of mind naturally spreads to her expres sions and temper; her children are affected by the change; they grow quarrelsome with one another, and seeing no cordiality exist between their parents, cease to share their loving natures with them, and shun as much as possible their presence. Alas ! what a change is here ; nor this its worst climax. Day by day the weight of deceit and debt grows more intolerable, till, what began in credulity and the love of acquisition, ends at length in confirmed crime ; and the lost victim of this vicious system flies to the Lethe of drunkenness to stifle the sense of her own imprudence, her husband's reproaches. and the budding depravity of her neglected children.—Jerrold'a Shilling Magazine. s. d. s. d. a. d. s. d. Inferior Beasts.... 2 6 2 8 Second quality do. 3 2 3 II Second [quality do. 2 10— 3 4 Coarse do. 3 8— 4 0 Prime large Oxen. 3 6 3 8 SouthdownWethers 4 2 4 4 Prime Scots, &c... 3 10— 4 0, Do. out of the wool -- Coarse Calves .... 3 10— 4 8 Large Hogs Small do. Suckling do. each ; 8 0-30 0 Qr. old Pigs, each 16 0-20 0 Inferior Sheep.... 2 8— 3 0; Lambs SUPPLY AT MARKEL Beasts„ 2,945 Sheep, 2'1,450, Calves, 63 .. Pigs, 330 LONDON SHARE MARKET The Share Market has not been so lively this morning, but still the business done has been extensive. Prices are on the average well sustained. Churnet Valley shares were last sold at 73, Caledonian 7i. Cambridge and Lincoln 4, Eastern Coun ties 183, Birmingham and Gloucester 134, Brist ii and ditto 591, Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 114 Great Western 1763, Haves 1003, Hull and Selby 97. Brighton 64, London and York 64 Midland 129. Newcastle and Berwick 14, North British 173, Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton and Dudley 33, South Eastern South Devon 173, South Wales 42, Trent Valley 23, York and North Midland 1044 Boulogne and Amiens 11, Tolouse 2a. Toulouse and Cette 23, Great Northern of France 63, Orleans and Bourdeaux 103, Paris and Orleans 523, Paris and Rouen 453, Tours and Nantes 23. TATTEI6IIAL'S. Last Night, Six o'clock. CHESTER CUP. 12 to 1 agst Cataract 12 1 16 1 16 1 22 1 25 -- 1 Winesour 25 1 33 1 50 1 66 1 66 1 DERBY. 10 to 1 agst Alarm 16 1 Idas 16 1 16 1 Cobweb colt 20 1 Pam 25 1 Clear-the-Way 30 1 Pantasa 33 1 Mentor 40 1 Old England 40 1 40 1 Fitz-Allen 50 1 Young Eclipse AN ENGLISH DEMOCRAT OF THE TIMES OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.—Mr. Higgins, on his return from London this time, was accompanied by a man most par- ticularly disagreeable to Reginald. This gentleman :was one of those political adventurers with whom the times --- swarmed, whose purposes were directed to take advantage MAYNOOTH.—No protestant has a right to be taxed for of the simplicity and vanity of his fellow-creatures in or- the expense incident on making a popish priest. The der to advance his own fortunes and interests. Such was Popish priest should not be manufactured into such at the Margarott ; such was Robespierre ; such did Horne Tooke expense of the state ; and Maynooth is a mere state-paid and many others always appear to me to be. Our present manufactory for making popish priests. It is the lair in subject was a small, rather ordinary-looking, black- which the nightmares are engendered that overlay the browed, black-eyed man, who affected the sans culotte in mind of lreland , and p revent its state-paid education his habits and manners, and the bitterest contempt for all from educating ; and it is foul injustice that the money of the delicacies and refinements of life : who eat, and drank, a protestant people should be squandered in nursing up and enjoyed himself, and talked of Cyrus and his Cresses : these nightmares, and making them formidable. Nor who advocated universal freedom of opinion and never have the effects of Maynooth been confined to Ireland. would suffer himself to be contradicted : and declaimed It has been a masked battery raised against protestant upon universal equality, while he commanded the services ism all over the empire; and it is rather hard, in such of every domestic about him in terms and tones which few circumstances, that the party shot at should have to pay domestics in the worst of times would bear. His name all the expense of casting and working the guns employed was Perrott. Where Mr. Higgins picked him up, or what against them, and of supplying them with ammunition. he could see in him, it was difficult to say; but that he " All the young men who enter Maynooth," says Mr. exercised a very extraordinary influence over that bold and Grant in his recent work on Ireland, " are presumed to masculine understanding was certainly true; and that he do so with the view of preparing for the priesthood. In flattered him in a way which would have sickened many fact, if any young man made an admission to the con a crowned king, greedy of flattery, as it was then the fa- trary, he would not be received into the institution. shion to suppose kings alone to be, was manifest to every Consequently all the students go through the same one. Perrott understood his man and his times to per- routine of education. It happens, however, that not fection. The dislike or disapprobation of Reginald or of much more than half the students do, after all, eventually others troubled him not a whit. He had entangled the enter the church. It is ascertained that, taking one year great fly round whom his meshes were cast; the little ones with another, out of every 75 students, only forty settle were not worth his notice.—Heiress of the De Veres. down in the capacity of priests. The remaining 35 en- ORIGIN AND DECLINE OF THE COMMERCIAL CIVES, gage in secular occupations of various kinds. A goodly OF ITALY AND GERMANY.. THE just remarked, Englano number of them connect themselves with the newspaper press—some as editors, and others as reporters." We was not the first of European states to reach mercantile deem this a pregnant statement. What do our readers preeminence. She had illustrious precursors in the thir- thi n k o f th e fact, that no inconsiderable proportion of a teenth century in the line of commercial and manufactur- 1 class of men who direct and originate opinion in the conn ing distinction, in the Italian cities of Genoa, Venice, try should have been educated as popish priests? This Florence, and Leghorn. These cities were unknown to evil did not exist ere Pitt originated his miserable expe the ancients ; they are all of modern foundation, and dient for rearing a home-spun priesthood in Ireland at their greatness the result of commercial industry. About previous priest the national expense ; the year 1450 Florence had 200 factories and 30,000 work-» as the popish people that time was imported ready ma - de from abroad, and to employed in the woollen manufacture alone. At a supply did not largely exceed the demand. And when, period a little later, but nearly contemporary with the I by Peel's still more miserable and more unjustifiable ex prosperity of the republican marts of Italy, had risen into ptdient, of much more than doubling the grant to Slay power the great confederation of the Hanse Towns, com prising in its defensive league Hamburgh and Lubeck, nooth the pr i est -manufactory shall be extended, we shall with eighty of the more considerable cities on the Rhine see the evil mightily increased.—Witness. and Baltic. The enterprising merchants of these cities and THE MUSICAL GIIOST.—The following curious in of Italy used to form companies, and settle in England, to stance of a musical ghost occurred in the writers own advance and manage their trading interest—much in the family. A lady having watched several nights by the bed same manner, and for the like purposes, as those for which side of her sister, (a married woman,) suffering under the London, Liverpool, or Glasgow merchant despatches dangerous illness, was at length fairly exhausted by phy his agents to India, China, or the Levant. The Lombards sical fatigue and mental anxiety. Long privation of became especially noted as the bankers of the metropolis ; sleep had worked its bewildering effect. Further attend and the industrious Germans exercised also in this court- ance, was out of the question at that time. It was abso try all the functions of the English merchant. German lutely necessary that she should repair to her mother's vessels were almost solely employed in the transit of house, and recruit her strength and spirits in order that goods ; Germans were the brokers, buyers, and sellers— she might better be able to resume her affectionate offices bringing here silks, linens, and cloth of gold, tapestry, on behalf of one so dear to her : and her brother having wines, books, household furniture, and drugs, in exchange undertaken to sit up with the patient's husband, and to for our wool, coarse cloth, lead, tin, sheep, beer, and communicate, in case of need, with his unmarried sister, cheese. The prosperity of Holland was about a century the latter set out on her return to the maternal home, subsequently. In the middle of the sixteenth century there to find repose of which she stood so excessively in Antwerp was famous for industrious enterprise and the need. Utterly weary, worn out, and plodding towards her extent of her navigation. The number of ships that every residence, more by instinct than by perception of outward day entered and left her port averaged 500 ; the carts and objects, she almost slept as she walked, and was only other vehicles employed in the conveyance of merchandize roused to consciousness by the sudden glare from a shop arnouu, ed to 10,000, and she contained 100,000 inhabi- window, produced by a strong light before a polished re_ tants. The opulence of some of the Dutch merchants flector. Looking about her, she could not distinctly re may be conjectured from what is related of one named member how she came to be where she was. She felt Fugger. He gave a public entertainment to the Emperor I bewildered and alarmed. Being in the neighbourhood Charles V., on which occasion he made a fire in the hall of one of her friends, she thought it would be prudent of cinnamon, and lighted it with the bonds that prince had to call, and, distrustful of further progress in the streets given him in security for a public loan. It would be gra- by herself, ask for sonic one to accompany her. Accord tifying, doubtless, if our own national creditors would try ingly, attended by a servant, she reached her home safely. to emulate the munificence of this wealthy Hollander, by But whether her somnolency while walking, or the shock laying on one blazing pile our public obligations. Fugger, she had received on having been startled into conscious despite of his splendid liberality, died worth six millions ness, or the extreme agitation under which she laboured of crowns—an enormous accumulation for the period. The on account of the critical state of her sister—whether any causes of the decline of these glorious cities and states or all these had brought about nervous irritability, cer were chiefly political. Antwerp was ruined by its siege twin it is that she had no tendency to sleep on sit; ing down and capture by the Spaniards in 155, arid its mercantile in her own room, where she remained in a state of painful interest transferred to Amsterdam. But the causes of vigilance—her thoughts in the meanwhile shaping them the general decline of Holland were the oppressive weight selves in all kinds of dreary prognostics. A pianoforte, of taxation and the natural growth of other countries. Her closed up, was in the room ; and, as tie almost-exhausted exhausting fiscal system was h however, a principal cause lady leaned back in her chair, she heard, (so she thought,) of her paralysis. On fish, for instance, the price paid to the keys of the instrument struck on a sudden by sonic the fishermen was six times over paid to the state in im- unseen hand, which, after a wild and dismal prelude, per posts. On one particular sauce thirty different duties were formed a dirge-like melody. She had never before heard levied. Excess of opulence, and the debilitating vices it the air, nor could she imagine how so mournful , so ghastly , engenders, appear to have been a leading cause of th e de- so f unereal , so spiritual a character could be given to cline of the Italian cities. They became rich, effeminate, music. In the weakness of her fear, she started up, luxurious ; lost their military energies, and became sue- grasped the back of the chair for support, and ejaculated cessively the prey of the brutality of Switzerland , the in- to herself, "My sister is dead I —these sounds which seem solence of France, and the rapacity of Spain. The pro- born of tears, announce to me her dissolution I" On a gress of navigation, and the discovery of a new passage to sudden the strains ceased • and the returning silence was the East round the Cape of Good Hope, also contributed quickly broken by a loud knocking at the street door. to divert the commercial stream from the Mediterranean j Gasping with terror, she staggered to open it, when her ports. The fate of Spain forms a singular example of vi- brother appeared. "Maria is just dead!" she shrieked ; cissitudes. Her empire in Europe once equalled that of " you come to tell me so I" "Be calm, I beseech you," Charlemagne, and exceeded that of Napoleon ; for the he replied; " I bring you news from the physician that all French emperor was never master at sea, while the Spa- danger is over, and that she will soon be well. The niards ruled over both elements. They are memorable delight was too much. The poor watcher fainted in her instances of the mischief that may be wrought by bad go- brother's arms, was conveyed to bed, and, after a night's vernment, since this was the very cause of the decline of repose, waked happily at sunrise. The imaginary and their commercial and political greatness. The Protestant presaging sounds were falsified, as such omens often are, Reformation, so salutary to other European nations, was though the failures are seldom recorded. Had not the ruinous to Spain—only made her people more bigoted, her hearer of them been so utterly worn out in mind and body, Inquisition more vigilant, and her rulers more imbecile.— no such sounds would have seemed to be audible. Ex- Wade's London Review. haustion is a cunning impostor.—Ainstvorth's Magazine, SPO L TING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING AT TATTERSALL'S-THURSDAY CHESTER CUP 10 1 agstMr. W. Scott's Cataract (taken, and after- wards offered) 12 to 1 Mr. Jaques's Semiseria (take 13 to 1) 15 1 Mr. A. Johnstone's The Era 20 1 Mr. Parry's Zanoni 25 1 Mr. Davis's Yheoman ac Knuck 50 1 Mr. Ongley's Mystery THE DERBY. 10 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Alarm (tak and aft'ds offered) 15 1 Col. Peel's Cobweb colt (taken) 15 1 Lord Stradbroke's Idas 16 1 Col. Anson's Kedger (taken) 20 1 Lord Che.terfield's Pam (tak & aft'ds offered) 30 1 Mr. A. W. Hill's Ironmaster (all in. taken) 35 1 Mr. A. Johnstone's Annandale 40 1 Mr. Gratwicke's Doleful 1000-20 Mr. Coleman's Young Eclipse (taken) 2000-25—Mr. Ford's Fuzbos (taken) 3,000 to 200 was laid against Ironmaster (with a quali fication), and 4,000 to 200 against Newsmonger and Anti- Repealer. The room was thinly attended, and betting flat. LATEST BETTING IN MANCHESTER FRIDAY EVENING A few members present, but not sufficient business done to warrant a list of prices. The only bets laid for the Chester Cup were-22 to 1 to a small amount agst Wine sour, and 500 to 10 agst Queen of Tyne. LIVERPOOL STEEPLE CHASE. On Wednesday this great national affair came off at Aintree, in presence of many thousand spectators. The day was keen and frosty, and not quite so favourable for the sport as could have been desired. The Earl of Sefton, Lord Glamis, Lord Callodan, Lord Alvanley, and Lord Alford, with a large party of the surrounding gentry, were early on the ground, and contributed by their pre sence to add eclat to the scene. The race was an excellent one. Clansman broke his back at the water leap opposite the grand stand, but with this exception no other accident happened. We subjoin the results : FIFTY SOVEREIGNS, given by the Earl of Sefton, added to a Sweepstakes of 10 soya each, 5 ft. One mile. 7 subs. Lord Chesterfield's Jenny Wren .. W. Abdale 1 Mr. Mostyn's Master Stepney . Coeur de Lion, Duke of Rutland, and Erebus, not placed. A HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES, Of 20 says each, 10 ft, with 100 added. Four miles. Mr. W. S. Craufurd ns br g Cure-a 11.... Loft 1 Mr. Thornton's gr h Peter Simple .... Frisby 2 Captain Boyd's br g The Exquisite .... Byrne 3 Mr. J. I. Blackburne ns bk g Tom Tug 4 Eleven others started. Won by a length : a good race. The Steeple Chase Match, 120 sovs to 100, between Mr. Watson's ch m, aged, 9st 10Ib, against Mr. Clark's b m, 4 yrs, 9st 41b, did not come off. HOOTON STEEPLE CHASES FRIDAY, MAR. 7. A SWEEPSTAKES of 10 sous. each, with 50 added by Sir M. Stanley Sir W. Stanley's Herborough.. (Lord C. Russell) 1 Mr. Hargreaves's Marengo Lord Russell names Satan ...... (Lord Glamis) 3 Four others started. A good race, won by three or four length. Mr. John Stanley's ch g Mickey Free broke his back in taking a leap, and was killed. A SWEEPSTAKES of 5 sous. each, with 25 added ; llst 71b. Mr. Cross's Lady Grey Mr. Ball's Sankey.. (Copeland) 2 Six others started. WATERLOO COURSING MEETING, Over Altear, near Liverpool. TUESDAY AND THURSDAY, MARCH 4 AND 6. The WATERLOO CUP, value 100 sous, in specie, a Sweep stakes of £25 each, for 32 dogs ; from which will be given a bonus of £l7O for the 16 beaten dogs in the first ties. Dr Brown's Cantrip Mr Swan's Snapdragon Mr Blundell's Brewer Mr Robinson's Scotia Mr Ball's Gaiety Mr Gale ns Duchess Mr Edwards ns Waxy Mr Smith's Sherwood Mr Graham's Notatore Mr Clarke's Lune Mr Watt's Kathleen Mr Jepson's Flisker Mr Standish's Streamer Mr Scott's Dressmaker Mr Jebb's Titania Mr Taylor's Testy beat Mr Woodburn's Brandy Lord Eglinton's Sea Mill Mr Bennett's Derbyshire Mr Deakin's Tyrant Mr Segar's Doctor Mr Garvin's Gambler Mr Nash's Cruiskeen LdEglinton's Charlie Bates MrWodehouse'sDashaway Mr. Fowler's Kizzie Mr Alderson's Pepper Mr Hunter's Ranger Mr Pollok's Cross House Mr Wynne's Kitchen Maid Mr Eden's Emilius Mr Nash's Captain SECOND TIES. Cantrip beat Snapdragon Lune beat Notatore Scotia Brewer Flisker Kathleen Duchess Gaiety Streamer Dressmaker Sherwood Waxy Titania Testy Scotia beat Cantrip Sherwood Duchess Lune beat Flisker Titania Streamer THIRD FOURTH TIES Titania beat Lune DECIDING COURSE. Mr. Jebb's Titania beat Mr. Smith's Sherwood WATERLOO PURSE. Sherwood beat Scotia Mr Clark's Young Lill beat Mr Pollok's Queen of the Meadow Mr. Eden's Rowena Mr Wynne ns Breeze Mr Smith's Turk Mr Ball's Burgundy Lord Eglinton's Duke of Wellington Mr Robinson's Enchanter Mr Graham's Screw Mr Edward's Cowboy Mr Watt's Skipaway Dr Brown's The Willing Maid Mr Swan's Sparks-of-Fire Mr Deakin's Distiller Mr Standish's Spree Mr Garven's Grimaldi SECOND TIES. Young Lill beat Rowena I Screw beat Skipaway Turk beat Duke Wellington 1 Sparks of Fire beat Spree THIRD Young Lill beat Turk I TIES. Screw beat Sparks of Fire COURSE DECIDING Mr. A. Graham's Screw beat Mr. Clark's Young Lill THE ALTCAR STAKES Lord Eglinton's Sea Mill beat Mr. Woodburn's Brandy Mr. Bennett's Derbyshire Mr. Deakin's Tyrant Mr. Garven's Gambler Mr. Segar's Doctor Mr. Nash's Cruiskeen Ld Eglinton'sCharließates Mr. Fowler's Kizzie Mr.Woodhouse'sDashaway Mr. Alderson's Pepper Mr. Hunter's Ranger Mr. Pollok's Crosshouse Mr. Wynne ns Kitchen Md Mr' Eden's Emilius Mr. Nash's Captain SECOND TIES. Derbyshire beat Sea Mill Kizzie beat Pepper Cruiskeen beat Gambler f Emilius beat Crosshouse THIRD Cruiskeen beat Derbyshire i TIES. Kizzie beat Emilius DECIDING COURSE. Mr. Fowler's Kizzie beat Mr. Nash's Cruiskeen APPORTIONING OF THE STAKES. WATERLOO CUP. Mr. Jebb, £300; Mr. Bowyer Smith, £100; Mr. Ro binson, £3O; Mr. Clarke, £3O; Dr. Brown, £2O; Mr. Gale, £2O ; Mr. Jepson, £2O ; Mr. Standish, £2O; Mr. Swan, £lO • Mr. Blundell, £lO ; Mr. Ball, £lO ; Mr. Edwards, ilO ; Mr. A. Graham, £10; Mr. Watts, £lO ; Mr; Scott, £10; Mr. Peter Taylor, £10; Mr. Eden (beaten by the winner in the first course), £lO ; to be given to the beaten dogs in the first course (the Altcar Stakes) £l7o—total, £BOO. ALTCAR STAKES. _ Mr. Fowler, £lOO ; Mr. Nash, 30; Mr. R. B. Ben net, £10; Mr. Eden, £10; Lord Eglinton, £5; Mr. Garven. £5 ; Mr. Alderson, £5 ; Mr. Pollock, £5 ; total, £l7o WATERLOO PURSE Mr. A. Graham, £lOO ; Mr. Clarke. £42 ; Mr. Baggs, £5 ; Mr. Swan, £5 ; Mr. Eden, £2 ; Lord Eglinton, £2 ; Mr. Watt's, £2 ; Mr. Standish, 2—total £l6O. SOUTH LANCASHIRE COURSING CLUB MEETING. MARCH STH AND 6TH. The SCARISBRICK Cop, for all aged dogs. Mr Robinson's Rocket beat Mr Dickenson's Dart Mr Slater's Selina Mr Hunt's Hope Mr Bake's Butterfly Mr King's Vanish Mr Deakin's Despatch Mr Buckley's Waterloo Mr Robinson's Empress Mr T. B. Bennett's Smoker Mr Slater's Signora Mr Bake's Zurich SECOND TIES. Rocket beat Selina, Butterfly beat Despatch, and Sig nora beat Empress. THIRD TIES. Butterfly beat Rocket, and Signora ran a bye. DECIDING COURSE. Butterfly beat Signora, and won. THE FLEETWOOD PUPPY CUP. Mr Emmett's Floldfast beat Mr Buckley's Barrier Mr Bake's llighflyer Mr Slater's Sir Roger Mr King's Alfred Mr Robinson's Phoebe Mr T. B. Bennett's Ellen Mr Clarke's Cotherstone. Mr King's Silk Mr Deakin's Duchess Mr Buckley's Blackcap —Mr Bake's Bolivar Mr Slater's Blossoms Mr T.B. Bennett's Banker Mr Clarke's Clasher Mr Emmett's Skip SECOND TIES. Highflyer beat Holdfast, Alfred beat Ellen, Blackcap beat Silk, and Blossoms beat Clasher. THIRD TIES. Hightlyer beat Alfred, Blossoms beat Blackcap. DECIDING COURSE. Hig,htlyer beat Blossoms, and won. The CHURCHTOWN STAKES. Mr Slater's Sandy beat Mr Robinson's Stella Mr T B Bennett's True Briton Mr King's Bloomsbury Mr Bake's Ben-y-Ghlo Mr. Clarke's Collet Mr Robinson's Ariel Mr. Hunt's Dangerous. SECOND TIES. True Briton beat Sandy, Ben-y-Ghlo beat Ariel. DECIDING COURSE. True Briton beat Ben-y-Ghlo, and won. The CEARET STAKES, of four dogs, were won by Mr. Bake's Zurich; Mr. King's Bloomsbury ran up. The CHAMPAGNE STAKES, of four dogs, were won by Mr. Robinson's Phoebe; Mr. Bake's Bolivar, ran up. NEWMARKET MEETING The ALLINGTON HILL STAKES. (Sixteen dogs.)—Mr Dobede's Destiny and Lord Stradbroke's Maiden divided the stakes. The Cur. (Twelve dogs.)—Won by Mr Foremost; Mr. Vipan's Slasher ran up. The PORT STA.KES. (Eight dogs.)—Lord Stradbroke's Fyson's Mar. 11, 184.5. Mintman and Mr. Dobede's Duncan divided; Mintinan having had three courses with Mr. Vipan's Victor in the first ties. The RUTLAND STAKES. (Eight dogs.)—Mr. FYec 4l won the stakes. The ALLINGTON HILL SECOND STAKES. (Four dogs.) —Mr. Dobede's Duchess and Dispatch won the stakes. WHITEHAVEN MEETING. The Cup. (Sixteen dogs.)—Won by Mr. Ritsoill Claret ; Mr. Jefferson's Jester ran up. The LONSDALE STAKES. (Eight dogs.)—Won by gr' Mossop's Joker; Mr. Postlethwaite's Ben Brace ran UP' BORDER SPRING MEETING. A SWEEPSTAKES. (Thirty-four dogs.)—First clogt £l2 ; second, £l4 ; the third to save his stake. Won Mr. Elliott's Jock; Mr. Fraser's Willow (late Garci a ran up. TROTTING MATCH FOR £lO A-SIDE—OR Wednesdaft the match between Hobson's pony and 11I'Clue's mare trot in harness ten miles, came off over ten miles of ros i. at Tottenham. At the conclusion of five miles, whi c h was completed In eighteen minutes, both horses were tc )• gether, and were pulled in. In two minutes they resum e "' their work, and covered the next two miles in seven 111 nutes ; at the ninth mile they were well together, and trot' ting fresh. The mare " broke," and the pony won, ec, complishing the ten miles in thirty-eight minutes and 0 0 ' seconds. THE SUGAR DUTIES The East India interest are warmly contending a gains t , the distinction to be made between the Muscovado tic,' white sugars, which they think will operate injuriousif, on their own produce. Clay is not used in the proces 3 0 refining adopted in the East Indies, but it comes oven for the most part, in a white state, which would bring P . under the denomination of " sugar rendered by any pro" s cess equal to white clayed," and subject it to a duty 0 ` 16s. 4d. ; while from the West Indies the bulk of suga r comes in the Muscovado state, and will therefore be sub; ject only to 14s. As the degrees of strength are differen t in the sugar from the West Indies when refined and the. o f white sugar from the East Indies, the representatives the latter consider they will be unfairly taxed, and refer to the report of the Board of Customs made in March, 1823, to show the impracticability of making the colour of the article the standard of taxation. The Commi s " sioners, who were precisely the same gentlemen 0 had been consulted on the present occasion, state as fol' lows . We deem it right to state to your lordships, that sc great are the difficulties in obtaining an unbiassed oploW upon the question of fact on which the payment of th e higher or the lower duty is made by your lordships' order to depend—viz., ' has the sugar, or has it not, undergo° any process, so as to discharge from it the molasses or other impurities in such a degree as to make it equal t, (/ , clayed ;'—the interest of the West India merchant broker and that of the East India being so materially a; variance, and even the most experienced and unprejudicc; persons holding the most opposite opinions on the set sample—that it appears to us impracticable to put IP force the act of the Ist George 1., c. 106, with correct' ness or satisfaction ; and the only course seems to be to repeal that act, and to impose one rate of duty on Eiss India sugar. What that rate of duty should be, wit hs reference to the duty on West India sugar, and wh a regulations and modifications it may be most expedien t to adopt in the duties both upon West India and EB 3 India sugar, so that the duties upon each may be governs ° by obvious and fixed principles, and bear their proper re;: lative proportions to each other, are points upon whic: we are not, upon the present reference, called upon tu offer our opinion ; but we are prepared to do so on r e ' ceiving your directions for that purpose." The sugar refiners continue their movement for a drag: back in respect of the bonded sugar upon which the Wet duty has been paid. They rely much on the circumstacS ° that the Sugar Duties Bill has long been an annual OP and that they made large purchases on the faith of the duty of 255. 3d. continuing till next July. They hale also a precedent in their favour. In 1830, when th, Sugar Bill was suffered to expire at the regular period' but in the new bill the duty was reduced 35., a dravvbee l i was accordingly allowed. As for the postponement 0 ' the new duty for a fortnight or three weeks, they consl" der it as an injury instead of a benefit, as it stops tradei and there is enough sugar out of bond for the supply the consumer. PROPOSED ENDOWMENT OF POPERY. (From the Record) It is now, for the first time, proposed to a British PO' liament to undertake, at the national cost, the whol e charge of the education of the Roman Catholic priestho of Ireland. A grant of £26,000 per annum is intenke; to be made to the College of Maynootb, beside whichr building is to be kept in repair ; thus treating it as a i` 4ll- tional Institution. That a Protestant nation should be taxed for the 1 31.° ' pagation of what it must regard as most dangerous error, has always been felt to be a grievance; and acc ordingly the grant of £9,673 per annum, which has been given le, , many years past, has been continually protested agair lB ; But bold assertions have often been made, that so 0 3: compact was entered into, at the commencement of t 1 ): College, in 1795, or at the Union, in 1801, by which t5,,v British nation was morally bound. And there can be I I " doubt that the tolerance of the grant for nearly h a lf !I century has been mainly owing to the unwilligness. bol t , of the legislature and of the people, to do anything wh it might render them liable to the charge of a breach cs' faith. This supposed compact, however, may now, after fa ll investigation, be pronounced to be a fiction. For, 1. Not a tittle of evidence has ever been adduced , t ° prove the existence of any such agreement. On the co y trary,- 2. It was distinctly asserted in the debate of April Of 1808, by Sir Arthur Wellesley (now Duke of Welling that that " when Maynooth College was first established. e was not intended that it should be maintained by tu t public purse." And on the sth of May, 1808, Sir Art bo ti further stated, " that the original Memorial of the Roma a Catholics to Government—a copy of which he had inn possession—showed that the object in contemplaticn, ° fr the Catholics themselves was, to be permitted to estab l ' B 6 the Institution with their own funds." Thus we 1 19 , ' 0 the clearest and strongest proof, that neither of the tv!A parties to the supposed compact—the Government, ad, the Irish Romish bishops—had even an idea of the Ici,t l 3. In entire agreement with which we find, that vi e the bill for incorporating the trustees, and rendering t t college lawful, was introduced into the Irish parliame,t l there was not a word of any public grant, or of any ocher funds being provided, save those of the Roman Catholi c themselves. And it was only when the bill had gi' n through several stages, that a clause was suddenly int!ri; duced, empowering the government to contribute xsn, " towards establishing the said academy." But 0 , - a either this, or any other sum, was promised or pletik e t for the annual maintenance of the college, is clearly i i „ e true ; the sum given in following years varying from to time, and being in 1800 only £1,093. 4. Still, being found at the time of the Union, 0 07 0 t divers other annual grants made by the Irish Parliatneto for educational and other public purposes, it s eerns,. 3 , have been continued, as a kind of bequest, by the Par' l oc l ment of the United Kingdom, and some have imag , i' o , that its continuance, on that ground and for that reas° o was obligatory on the nation. The simple an swer which is, that the only stipulation made by the Irish P 9 'ig liament at the time of the Union, was, that for twe li .,icl years from that time, a like amount, in the whole, OW" f be given to the charitable and benevolent institution s Ireland, as had been given in the years preceding.„ r i, stipulation which has bee n am ply p e rf o r m ed by the P. b e tish parliament ; but whi c h h as never p r evented fr House of Commons f r o m red uc i ng or discontinuing of particular grant. Thus, in 1802, one year after the Un l i ,"fic the finance accou n t s s h ow th e f o ll ow i ng gran t s to pm - hospitals and schools in Ireland : Incorporated Society for Promoting Eng- , 1 lish Protestant Schools Foundling Hospital 17,500 °, 6 Hibernian Marine School Hibernian Military School 4,500 ° 0 Lock Hospital Roman Catholic Seminary B,OOO ,°, 0 House of Industry Society for Discountenancing Vi ce Female Orphan House Penitentiary for Young Criminals ......2,025 0 Fever Hospital , go 1 500 v Secref ary of the Commissioners for Chari table Donations But in 1539 the list is thus altered : Foundin; Hospital - o 300 0 £1 2 .1 Hibernia; Marine School - 0 0 2: 5 4 g Lock Hcspital Roman Catholic College House of Industry Female Orphan House Fever Hospital Commissioners for Charitable Donations Lying-in Hospital.... Dr. Stevens' Hospital .... s° o Hospital for Incurabl es possibly be clearer than th s-hes t us Nothing, then, can 0 government held itself in no way pledged to any of t' institutions. o t: Repudiating, then, entirely, the notion of a coulee and challenging the production of proof of such ail f fet. gagement, if any such exist, we must further 0b 5 .4 ° that the new position now taken by the government be regarded as a voluntary act, and as infinitely rna ft ' s pugnant to Protestant feelings than the continuan; o o l , l the old grant, under its dubious and disputed eir' ot lb, stances : inasmuch as it more plainly and unequi c° ;o ol undertakes, on the part of the state, the whole bu s pod of the education of the Irish-Romish priesthood i„ that in a manner and on a basis which naturally lea°',llltg and plainly involves, the endowment and support oef;014 priesthood when spread over all the parishes of Ir e Thus we are plainly bound, by every considerat io o o llo principle and policy, to oppose in the most stre l3 o ll/ manner the adoption of a system, now, which natl i e ott leads to a large national expenditure, within a few y OOl to be devoted to the public endowment and m ainte n ms ) of a body of teachers inculcating most dangerous an d error. cof The proposed endowment of Maynooth, in thi s (I,o' plete and national manner, can only be justified on ,1316 ciples which will equally justify, in 1848, the vote 01 r a-million per annum to provide for the Irish priesto..letlf the propriety and justice of the Maynooth grant be ck: o sir conceded now, it will be impossible, without inf: l 4 tency, to oppose the larger measure, hen it shall be A posed, as it assuredly will be proposed, to coniPl e ,l 6 o, work which many statesmen have at heart—the re n Z o Su the Irish priesthood the allies and pensioners of tP vernment.