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.132F4EMM==.....V1. Etteraturr. POETRY. ON PSALM CXXXIX. On angels' wings I soared on high, Heav'n's utmost bounds to tra'e ; To find a place where I might flee, Shut from my Maker's face. I reached the great and glorious arch, So calm, sereue, and fair; • Loud, loud hosannalis burst on high, And showed that God was there. Then down to hell's deep, dark abyss, r,Ty search I pressed with care: The `‘ devil; trembled and obeyed," And showed that God was there. I took the wines of morn arrk fled (That I no pains might spare) To furthest ocean's utmost hound, Yet still that God was there : For in r the tempest strong He rode; His thunders shcok the sky; The lightning's flash, the raging sea, Proclaimed that God was nigh. I said, " Let darkness he my cloak From His all-seeing eye ;" lo ! the darkness turned to light, And showed that God was nigh. • Since, then, from Thy pervading sight I cannot, Lord, depart, Renew in me a mind that 's clean, Grant me a contrite heart. Nth September, 1817. NOTICES. LIVERPOOL, PAST AND PRESENT. - The Land We Live In. No. 19. London : Chas. Knight. The present month's number of this interesting publi cation contains an accurate descriptive history of Liver pool, illustrated with wood-cuts of a high order of merit. W 6 subjoin an extract or two, as a specimen of the pro auction : COMMENCEMENT OF THE DOCKS OF LIVERPOOL. It was in the year 1561 that a circumstance arose, which may be said to have been the commencement of dock ope rations. A dreadful storm occurred, which destroyed the enly haven of which Liverpool could boast ; and imme diately after this, the creek, or pool, from whence the town had in part derived its name, was turned into a much better haven than had before existed. The town seems to have advanced a little after this; for Camden, writing in 1586, says :—" The Mersey spreading, and pre sently contracting its stream from Warrington, falls into the ocean with a wide channel, very convenient for trade, where opens to view Litherpole, commonly called Lirpoole, from a water extending like a pool, according to the com mon opinions, where is the most convenient and most frequented passage to. Ireland : a town more famous for its beauty and populousness than for its antiquity." - What the evidence may have been for this character of " beauty and populousness," we are not told ; but Cam den must have judged by an humble standard. In the commencement of the next century, Liverpool had a cause of dispute with Chester, in which her insignificance was made very apparent, contrasted with the position of her ancient and proud neighbour. Even in 1634, when ship money was levied, the High Sheriff wrote to the Govern ment to the effect that, " if you shall tax and assess men according to their estate, then Liverpool being poor, and now goes, as it were, &begging , must pay ver y little. INCREASE OF THE CUSTOMS AND SHIPPING OF LIVERPOOL. The amount of the custom's receipts at Liverpool is one of the most marvellous features connected wiih its com merce. Going back to a period just one century ago, we find those receipts to have amounted to about £200,000 : they have since risen more than twentytold : for the last doien years, the Liverpool customs' receipts have consi derably exceeded four millions sterling annually ! Nothing can more strongly illustrate the extent of the commerce than this fact ; for these dues are a million more in amount than all the customs' dues of Scotland and Ire land put together; a million more than all the outports of England, excluding London ; and equal to one-fifth of the whole customs' duties of the entire empire ! It was estimated, some years ago, that the import and export trade, in respect to which these duties were realized, amounted to about thirty-five millions sterling ; that is, twenty millions of exports and fifteen millions of im ports. Raw cotton amounted in value to about a third of the whole imports, and manufactured cotton amounted to more than half of the entire exports. The number of vessels belonging to the port is another index of its greatness. In 1650 there were only fifteen vessels owned by the Liverpool merchants ; in. 1710, when the first wet-dock was constructed, the number had risen to eighty-four ; in 1716 there were some what more than a hundred. After this period, the in crease of shipping went on more rapidly. But the extent of commerce is better shown by the number of ships which actually enter and leave the docks, than by those simply which belong to Liverpool. We find, then, that the whole of the ships entered outwards and inwards at Liverpool, at the commencement of the reign of George 111., was very little above a thousand ; whereas, in recent years, the number has frequently been twenty-four thousand, com prising a tonnage of nearly four million tons It is said that, including coasters and small craft, the vessels be longing to the port of Liverpool amount to very little short of ten thousand. It is also calculated that about fifty millions hundred weight of goods are annually exported from the docks. One can really hardly follow in the mind the immensity of these quantities. • VARIETIES. Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together for talking and thinking are two quite different faculties. and commonly there is most depth where there is leas) noise. THE BIBLE.—Take a plain man with an honest heart, give him the Bible, and make him conversant with it, and I will engage for him he will never be at a loss how to act agreeably to his duty in every circumstance of life.— Poynder 8 Literary Extracts (New Series). LADIES' PAGES.—Ornaments by this pretty name are now in fashion in Paris, consisting of a gold thumb and finger suspended by a chain to the waist, and constructed with a spring, by vihich they hold up a. lady's dress in crossing side walks from shop to carriage. TIIE ADVANTAGE OF SICKNESS.—I may say one good thing of sickness, that it is the best cure in the world for ambition, and designs upon the world, or fortune ; it makes a man pretty indifferent for the future, provided he can bat be easy, by intervals, for the present.—Poynder's Literary Extracts. (New Series.) .ON THE SIGHT OF AN OLD I.INTHATCHED COTTAGE.— 'There cannot be a truer emblem of crazy old age ; mouldered and clay walls ; a thin uncovered roof ; bend ing studs ; dark and broken windows ; in short, a house ready to fall on the head of the in-dweller. The best body is a cottage • if newer and better timbered, yet such as age will equally impair, and make them ragged and ruinous ; or before that, perhaps casualty of fire, or tem pest, or violence of enemy. One of the chief cares of man is to dwell well. Some build for themselves fair, but not strong—others build for posterity, strong, but not fair, not high ; but happy is that man who builds for eternity ; as strong, as fair, as high as the glorious con stellations of heaven.—Bishop Hall. NAPOLEON'S ATTEMPT TO COMMIT SUICIDE.—" From the time of my retreat from Russia (said he) I had con- stantly carried round my neck, in a little silken bag, a portion of a poisonous powder which Ivan had pre pared by my orders, when I was in fear of being carried off by the Cossacks. 11ly life no longer belonged to my country : the events of the last few days had again rendered me master of it. Why should I endure so much snaring ? And who knows that my death may not place - The crown on the head of my son ? France was saved—l hesitated no longer, but springing from my bed, mixed the poison in a little water, and drank it with a sent of happiness. But time had taken away its strength ; fearful pains drew forth some groans from me ; they were heard, and medical assistance arrived. It was not heaven's will that I should die so soon—St. Helena was in my destiny."—Blackwood. THE BIBLE SOCIETY:—When the first bull of the Pope was issued denouncing this society, an aged member of the committee rose, after it was rea d, and quietly addres singLordTeignmouth, the chairman merely said—" I wish, my lord, his holiness would only read the second Psalm!" This was felt to be conclusive, both as to the Pope's igno rance of Holy Scripture, and as to the folly of his attempt to defeat the divine counsels by keeping the Bible from the world. It is impossible, however, to record this simple fact without observing upon the guilt contracted by many of the national clergy in issuing Protestant bulls, in the form of printed pamphlets. denouncing the Society as in jurious to a Church which is founded upon Scripture, and to a country which owes its greatness and glory to an ad herence to scriptural truth, and to the maintenance of moral principle. Such was the course universally pursued by the followers of the heresy named after Dr. Pusey ; who yet, with the infatuation peculiar to false doctrine, called themselves " the High Church," of which Church there is no doubt his holiness considered himself to stand at the head, when he issued his bull against the Bible So ciety. "Be wise, now, therefore, 0 ye kings ; be in structed, ye judges of the earth. Kiss the Son, lest He be angry, and ye perish from the way."—Poynder's Lile yary Extracts (New Series). How TO MAKE GOOD SERVANTS.—" Good mistresses make good servants. Human nature can only be ruled through its love.or through its fears. The one leads our fellow-creatures to serve us as milling friends, the other forces them to serve us as unwilling slaves. It is for you . and . ther mistresses to choose between the two—remem bering that it is the natural disposition of kindness to be get kindness, and of tyranny to beget rebellion." " Oh, i n deed," I replied; " then I suppose you would like your system of kindness carried out in the kitchen ? and nicely they'd treat you for it :" " Indeed I think not. At any rate, the stake is so little that it is worth the risk ; and I, • for one, have such faith in the power of kindness, com bined with firmness., that though I don't mean t o sa y b u t that you might occasionally meet with ingratitude, still that would merely he the exception that proves the rule. The heart has been so wonderfully constructed that it has . not been left us to choose whether we would be thankful . -or not for benefits received ; but gratitude has been made an animal instinct. The very dog licks the hand that fosters it, and I do not think servants worse than dogs— though' you aml many other ladies T know seem to do so. Do you not expect from your domestics that they should consider your interest theirs ? and yet you forget that the first step in the process is to make their happiness yours. How did they manage in the olden time? There was none of this hubbub about bad servants then, and none of this continual changing and changing ; but the old servant's son grew, like his father, to be grey in the service of the same family. And why was this ? Be cause he was looked upon, and treated, and loved LIKE 40 NE OF TiE FAMILY.—TIee Greatest Plange if Life. A CAPRICIOUS VISITATION OF FORTUNE (From Blackwood's Magazine) Poor Dubois was one of that unhappy class, which we are given to understand is dying out of Europe, (we hope for the sake•of suffering humanity this is true) ; of that class, which we in England used to call Grub-street poets. Heflourished at the time of the Empire, and had been flourishing during the whole of the eventful period that preceded the elevation of Napoleon. Poor Dubois had alternately applauded and satirised all parties; and written songs for all sentiments ; but had extracted very little either of praise or pocket-money from any of the feigning powers, whether republican or imperial. He was quite in despair. Still young kit years, but with worn-out rhymes, he was lamenting one day to his sister his mel ancholy and hopeless fate. This damsel was in the ser vice of Pauline the sister of Napoleon. " Write me a sonnet," said she, " about Pauline, and about beauty, and let me try what I can do." A beautiful sonnet, and a sonnet about beauty, are two very different things. Dubois made nothing of his task, but did it out of hand ; his sister took the sonnet with her. ...„ It was not long before she had an opportunity, in her capacity of femme. de chambre, of speaking to Pauline about her brother the poet. She produced her sonnet about beauty. Pauline did not exactly read it ; no one but the writer, and a few afflicted friends, and those heroic souls who do things to say they have done them, ever do read sonnets ; but she glanced her eye down the rhymes, and saw her own name in harmonious, connexion with some very sweet epithets. Therefore she asked' what she could do for the poet--what it was he wanted Alas ! every thing ! was the prompt and candid reply,—some little post, some modest appointment. Now it happened that Fouche at that time was doing his best to conciliate the fair Pauline, who, with or without reason, had shown a little humour against the minister of police. He had frequently entreated her to make use of his power in favour of any of her friends. " Well," said the good-natured Pauline, " this Fondle is always plagu ing me to ask for something ; give me my desk." A lady's pen upon the smooth vellum—you know how fleetly it runs, and what pretty exaggeration of phrase must necessarily flow from it. The style, the very ele gance cf the note, demands it. Dubois was in an instant, and most charmingly, converted into a man of neglected genius and unmerited distress. What was the happy turn of expression is lost to us for ever ; but as Fouche read the note, he understood that there was a man of talent to be assisted, and, what was still more to the purpose, an opportunity of showing his gallantry to Pauline. The next day the minister rode forth in state accom panied by four mounted Bens-d' armes. Following the address which had been given him, he found himself in one of the least inviting parts of Paris, far better known to his own myrmidons of police than to himself. But, arrived before the enormous pile of building, which was said to enclose our poet amidst its swarm of tenants, he made vain enquiries for Monsieur Dubois. At last an old crone came to his assistance : she remembered him ; she had washed for him, and had never been paid. If you do not wish to be forgotten by all the world, take care there is some one living to whom you are in debt. Meanwhile Dubois, from his aerial habitation, had heard his own name pronounced, and looking out at the window caught sight of the gens-d' armes. For which of his satires or libels he was tek undergo the honour of pro secution, he could not divine ; but that his poetical effu sions were at last to bring him into hapless notoriety, was the only conclusion he could arrive at. That he was still perfectly •safe, inasmuch as write what he would nobody read, was the last idea likely to suggest itself to the poet. He would have rushed down stairs, but steps were heard ascending. So much furniture as a c- , pboard may stand for, the bare walls of his solitary room did not display. There was nothing for it but to lean into what he called his bed, and hide beneath the blankets, always presuming they were long enough to cover both extremi ties at one. The minister, undeterred by the difficulties of the ascent, and animated by his gallantry towards Pauline, continued to mount, and at length reached the poet's retreat. Great are the eccentricities of genius, and lamentable the resources of pride and poverty, thought Fondle, as he gently drew the blankets down, and dis covered the dismayed Dubois. Son% conciliatory words soon relieved him of his terror. The awful visit of the minister of police had terminated—could it be credited ! , —in an invitation to breakfast with him next morning. The Earl of Chichester has declined the appointment of Chief Commissioner of Poor Laws. Sir Harry Smith embarked at Portsmouth on Thursday in the Vernon, for the Cape of Good Hope. Very large importations of walnuts from Holland and Belgium are just now taking place in London. Last week four vessels arrived bringing upwards of 7,000 baskets full. The match for 1,000 soya. between Van Tromp and The Liberator is off, Lord Eglington having, in the handsomest manner, consented to cancel it. COSTLY MULLERITE ASYLUM.—At Ashley Down, near Bristol, alarge asylum is being erected at a cost of £lO,OOO, for a sect known as Mullerites.—The Builder. A woman at Broughton Hackett, near Worcester, has died of a rupture of the stomach, produced by having eaten a great quantity of cold potatoes and buttermilk. The Newcastle Journal says " We can testify of our own knowledge to the fact of several farmers, holding all their wheat of 1846 ; one a grower of nearly 250 acres." Mr. Robins announces the sale of a beautiful marine villa, at Kemp Town, which affords a very tempting abode. No doubt there will be much competition, as the residence is appointed in the most perfect style. The Queen will hold a Privy Council at Osborne to-day, when it is expected that a day will be fixed on when the thanksgivings of a grateful people can be offered up for the late abundant harvest. It is rumoured that Dr. Wiseman is shortly to become Archbishop of Westminster! By whose appointment? Who will create that dignity, or who will name the person to fill it ? The answer must be—the Pope ! ARRIVAL OF SPECIE.—The specie in gold and silver of the value of a million of dollars, brought home from South America by her Majesty's ship Fisgard, was delivered at the Bank of England on Tuesday morning. Alexander Dickson, who erected the hustings which fell it the late election at Peebles, was tried at Jedburgh Cir cuit Court last week, for culpable negligence, and ac quitted. The potato crop turns out so exceedingly productive around Salisbury this season, that one grower has realised £32 per acre for his crop, although he has sold at mode rate prices. COMMENCEMENT OF THE JEWISH YEAR.—TUeSday last was the first day of the year 5608 of the Jewish era. Monday, being the last day of their old year, was kept as a strict holiday by the Jewish people, who suspended all business till after sunset. The late James Alexander, Esq., of Hermitage, mer chant in Glasgow, has bequeathed the residue of his large fortune, amounting to from £50,000 to £60,000, to endow an hospital for the education, the clothing, and, if neces sary, the support of poor children of both sexes in that city. A girl, only fourteen years of age, living with her pa rents at Erne, has eloped with a labourer. The silly girl, before leaving, broke into her father's cabinet, and took a considerable sum of money. The pair were captured at a western seaport, and the man is in custody, some of the stolen property being found in his possession. A new martyr-mania is springing up in the shape of sympathy shown to people refusing to take oaths. The third case, within a few months, occurred in Leith last week, and as the party was as usual sentenced to a month's imprisonment, a meeting has been held to commiserate his fate. All the offenders have been young men of the debating society age, and glib in casuistry. At a meeting of Roman Catholics in London, last week, resolutions were passed expressive of their'" heavy indig nation at the late iniquitous proceedings of the Austrian despot at Ferrara," and that " Pope Pius IX. deserved their unbounded respect and admiration as a wise tem poral ruler, and as a firm assertor of national, liberty and independence." CHELTENHAM.—Mr. Robins gives notice in an adver tisement of a very extensive sale of land at Cheltenham. This town has been so long and so highly favoured, that there have been few opportunities of obtaining land near it, and we are not surprised therefore to learn that very great competition is now taking place as to who shall be come the purchasers of the present advantageous sites. PERILOUS POSITION OF THE MACEDONIA.—It is sin gular that the two vessels—the Jamestown and the Mace donia—placed so liberally by the American Government at the service of the Irish people should have fared so badly. The former, it will be recollected, was lost on her way to Mexico, and the latter, on the 16th instant , was in a dangerous pogition off the Isle of Arran, and we have not heard the result. The solicitors to the Marquis of Chandos, in a letter to, the Morning Chronicle, state. that the whole of the Duke of Buckingham's interest in his real and personal pro perty was purchased by the Marauis of Chandos, for con siderably more than its value, in May last, and deny that the change in the ownership of the property was not made THE FIRST FORGER OF A BANK NOTE.—The day on known until the execution was put into Buckingham which a forged note was first presented at the Bank of House. England, forms a memorable era in its history. For The venerable pile, Lanercost Abbey, so greatly ad sixty-four years the establishment had circulated its paper mired by antiquarians for its rich architectural beauties, with freedom ; and during this period no attempt had is now in ruins, in consequence of the falling of the roof, been made to imitate it. He who takes the initiative in which took place during the gale of wind on Thursday a new line of wrong doing, has more than the simple act week. On examination it was discovered that the roof to answer for ; and to Richard William Vaughan, a Staf- had given' way in that part of the abbey in which divine ford linen-draper, belongs the melancholy celebrity of service was usually performed. The untoward event has having led the van in this new phase of crime, in the year caused Much regret. 1758. The records of his life do not show want, beggary, SAILORS' AND SOLDIERS' LETTERS.—The Postmaster or starvation urging him, but a simple desire to seem General has ordered that the letters of soldiers and seamen, greater than he was. By one of the artists employed, and both in her Majesty's service and the East India Corn there were several engaged on different parts of the notes, pany's, should be forwarded in future at the reduced rate the discovery was made. The criminal had filled up to of postage, whether they be liable to foreign postage or the number of twenty, and deposited them in the hands not. The foreign rates of postage, however, must be paid of a young lady to whom he was attached, as a proof of in all cases, in addition to the reduced rates of British his wealth. There is no calculating how much longer postage. Bank notes might have been free from imitation, had this The arts of the Parisian claquers would seem to have man not shown with what ease they might be counter- been introduced into England ; for the Stamford Mercury feited.—Francis's History of the Bank of England. mentions that while the play . of -Black-eyed S USW?, was THE LATE Mu. WALTER OF THE " TIMES."—When being performed at the Victoria Theatre, a sailor was so George IV. ascended the throne, Mr. Walter had reached touched by the distress of the heroine, that he rushed on his 44th year • and the most extensive review of p ersonal the stage in order to protect her from her assailants, but history scarcely presents a single instance of any man in was induced to retire by one of the players, who reminded whom there existed, as in him, an entire union of the him that the scene was only a fiction. wisdom and circumspection which accompanies age with A GLUTTONOUS EEL.—A gentleman who was spearing .the strong passions, vivacity, and the activity cf early eels, at Bolton-le-Sands, on Monday week, in company youth. No one moved about more than lie did ; but he with a friend, found a large eel lying dead on the surface was not impelled to the indulgence of locomotive habits of one of the tidal ditches at that place, with the tail and by any childish impatience of restraint. His activity did hind paws of a rat protruding from its mouth. The eel, not result from any series of temporary impulses, but from which weighed about two pounds and a half, had evidently a sense of duty which his position and his previous life had fallen a victim to its own gluttony, in endeavouring to imposed. Within certain limitations it might be said that swallow the rat whole. he preferred an interview to a letter. In his intercourse The highest price ever attained by Bank Stock was in with total, or even comparative strangers he—being a can- the year 1818, when it touched 292, and the lowest tious man of the world—liked to communicate through was in 1762, when it was done at 91. The highest amount third parties—through the agency of the half-dozen pro- of circulation was in 1818, when the total was £27,771,000, fessional gentlemen who were respectively at the heads of and the lowest in 1785, when it was £5,923,000. With the several departments which he himself governed in regard to the stock of bullion, time maximum amount ap chief. But with those whom he admitted to his acquain- pears in 1844, when it was £15,784,000, and the minimum tance lie generally conversed rather than corresponded ; in 1797, when it, was £1,086,000. he therefore largely patronised every mode of conveyance DEATH IN A BATH. —On Thursday, a man named that served to bring him into contact with those whom lie Brian, 70 years old, had a private warm bath at Stepney. desired to see, or to escape from the bores who desired to Soon afterwards ona of the men employed at the baths see him. Men incapable of understanding his character found him lying at the bottom of the bath quite dead. would exclaim—" Strange man that he is—no sooner set- Mr. Cheshire, a sugeon, was called in, who said the de tled steadily in his business in the city than he is off to the ceased had died from an affection of the heart. lie con west end, no one knows about what ; then back in the sidered his death had been accelerated by the warmth of middle of the night for an hour or two, and the next morn- the bath, which had caused an increased action of the ing at sunrise away to Bearwood." At one moment heart. tempted from home by the stirring calls of business, the A grand cricket match, between eleven of All England next invited to return by the recollection of past happiness and twenty of the Northumberland Club and neighbour and the hope of future enjoyment. An almost consuming hood, commenced at the ground of the latter, near New zeal for the prosperity of the Times newspaper alternating castle-upon-Tyne, on Monday last. The All England with his passion for planting and pruning, creating artifi- scored 92 in the first innings, and 167 in the second. , The cial lakes and undulating lawns. At n i g ht, seated in the Northumberland scored 134 in the first innings, and had editorial chair, directing the pens that made the popular scored 1 4 in the second inning s, with nine wickets do go voice of England heard in every court of the continent, down, when darkness on Wednesday evening put a , stop spending his strength in the foul atmosphere of the city, to what thus became a drawn game. and the exhausting labours of a newspaper office ;in a few SCOTCH DISTRESS.—The Lords of the Treasury have hours afterwards, however, the carol of the lark and " in- declined appointing a commission to inquire into the tense-breathhig morn" restored his jaded faculties, and state of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. In his the same hand now wielded a wood man ' s axe which a official letter, Mr. T rev elyan says, " That their lordships short time previously had been guiding the greatest poli- • are of opinion that the state of the Highlands and Islan of ds tical engine Europe.—The Times. of Scot l an d i s so well known, that the appointment a REAL PATRIOTISM.—We are only beginning to gather commission of inquiry would not be productive of any up the true features of this virtue. The time was when advantage which would counterbalance the objections to we fancied it to be a bluster about war. There came ano- that course of proCeeding." - ther dine, in which it seemed to be a struggle against MIXED MARRIAGES.—It is reported that the Pope has narrow laws. At present, it is public spiritedness,—a g iven express orders to his ecclesiastics to celebrate no term which hides beneath its vagueness a world of lies ! marriages between Catholics and Protestants with Out a Had we looked deeply into the lives of those great men, written promise that the children, the issue of the mar who lave done true service for their country. we might singe, shall, without exception, be brought up in the have erred less and learned more. We should have Catholic faith. This is natural enough on the part of learned, for one thing, that the beginnings of all patri- Pius IN. ;it is the unions thus formed which are un otism are in the heart and home, and that the public natural, and which may be expected to result in misery, spiritedness which is not rooted there is spurious and rot- strife, proselytism, or indifference to all religion. ten to the core. For in the inner life of our greatest men, The Cricket, the steamer in which the late melancholy there was ever first a struggle for truth and freedom to explosio n took p lace, was an iron steamer which has been tlieir own soul s , b e f ore t h ey ventured into public service. plying on the Thames at halfpenny fares. She was con- These men understo o d, th a t th e s a cram ent of admission tracted for — boat , machinery an d all, at £2,sso,—the sti into the church of the patriots is the baptism of the spirit pulation being, that she should be equ al in s p eed to an y in self-denial. And, therefore, you always find that they , of the " above bridge" boat, and consume withal no more were great in the inner courts of their being, having sub- than a given quantity of fuel per diem. The performance dued their own wills to God, and established His law in 1 of the contract is said to have satisfied the proprietors, their homes.—We have much talk about social freedom 1 , though the opinion of the Government inspectort ctiowe nt in our day ; and we are not without earnest, well-directed seriously against both Materiais and the e oil s Judge if he failed in his appointment; judge if he was not surprised beyond all measure of astonishment, when the minister politely asked him whether he would accept so trifling a post as that of Commissaire-general of Police of the Isle of Elba, with we know not bow many francs per annum, with half-a-year's salary' in advance, and all travelling expenses paid. The little condition was added that he must quit Paris directly, for the post had been too long vacant, and there were reasons which demanded his immediate presence at Elba. How he contrived to ac cept with any gravity, without a broad grin upon his face, can never be known. He would certainly have bounded to the ceiling ' • but by good fortune. or happy instinct, he had convulsively grasped his chair with both hands, and so anchored himself to the ground. Off he started the very next day, happier than Sancho Panza, to the government of his island ; for his post vir tually constituted him the governor of Elba. Nor was the stream of his good fortune half exhausted. For im mediately on his arrival he was appealed to fora decision, between two rich and rival capitalists, both desirous of undertaking to work certain mines lately discovered in the island. One offered him a large share in the future profits ; the other a large sum of ready money. Our go vernor decided for the ready money. When a gallant man renders a service, he does not run and proclaim it immediately. Fouche allowed a few days to transpire before he waited on Pauline. He then alluded to the appointment he had made ; he hoped she was content with the manner in which he had provided for her client, Dubois. " Dubois ! Dubois !" said the lady, " I know of no Dubois." The whole affair had entirely escaped her memory. Fondle assisted in recalling it. " Oh, true !" she said, " the brother of my chamber maid ; well, did you give him any little employment ? What did you make of him ?" Fouche saw his error, bit his lips, and let the subject pass. That very evening a messenger was despatched to recall Dubois—and home he came ; but " with money in both pockets”—a little capital of solid francs. Poet as he was, the man had sense ; he did not spend, but invested it, and the revenue enabled him to assume the life and bearing of a gentleman. We leave him prospering and to prosper. It is said, that Fouche did all he could to keep this story secret. But Pauline discovered the truth, and was malicious enough to disclose it to Napoleon, who more than once jested his minister on his Governor of Elba. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. • aimings towards it. But we lack one thing much. We could do with less talk ; but we must have more personal preparation. Our public men do not wrestle enough in private for inward freedom. There is too little of the secret battle against heart-tyranny in their midst. They are too easily content with seeking freedom and reform for the far away and the external : they want the wisdom and the self-denial to begin at home.—Men like Taylor meet us in every province and grade of society. They often rush into the sphere of public life to escape the de mands of their own hearts at home. And they end in deluding themselves by the lie, that they are bearing the yoke of public service, and furthering the cause of human happiness, when they are babbling about these things. Woe for them, when society shall discover that every sphere of duty is sacred in the eye of Heaven,lind open only for those who have prepared themselves aright !--lt is high time we were making this discovery. "Of the sounding brass and tinkling cymbal" we have had more than enough; of the men who go forth into the ministry of public duty, without a call from above, we could want a part ; yet we still tolerate on our platforms, and vex the heavens by applauding, many who exercise a tyranny at home which might make us weep, and yield to a bondage within, which should make us blush. The simple patri otism which kindles her torch in the heart, and sheds her first light over the family circle, and so outwards, is hardly known in our land ; and in Heaven no other kind is known.—The currents of some young heart, whose eye is falling on these words, are setting lifewards ? The young heart has fond dreams about social freedom—fond hopes of its own fair future ? Do not cease to cherish these. While the windows of Heaven are open, admit the light. But one counsel in your ear, young friend. If you would realise the dream of your youth—if you would still tread onward, beneath azure skies, over a flowery, fruitful earth—if you would be really great and useful to your fellow men, take this counsel into your heart of hearts, and - let your free spirit brood over it ; it comes to you from the solemn pas 1; it is the key to your golden future ; it is as high as heaven ; it is as deep as hell: — THE WORK YOU WOULD DO FOR OTHERS, DO FIRST VOR YOUR OWN HEART AND HOME.—Fraser ' s Magazine. @entral AVsrellanp. PAUPERISM IN MARYLEBONE.—At a meeting of the guardians of the poor of this parish on Friday, Mr.Thorne stated that the increase of paupers was so great that the workhouse could not contain those who applied for relief. There were already 2,067 inmates, besides 6,000 persons who were receiving ont-noor relief. Donald Maclean, Esq., formerly M.P. for Oxford, who is at present at Naples, is about to be outlawed, by the Court of Bankruptcy, in Pasinghall-street, for not appear ing to undergo an examination under the fiat. The bank rupt not having appeared on Wednesday last, on account of alleged ill health, the court intimated that he should be outlawed, in the usual form, on Tuesday next (to-day.) RAI3Y CASTLE RED CURRANT. Very handsome bunches of a large red currant, from Raby Castle, Dur ham, were seen in excellent condition on the Bth instant. The racemes were nearly six inches in length ; the berries large, of a darker colour than Wilmot's red, but not so deep as the red Dutch. The pulp contains more mucilage than is usual in red currants, and consequently the sharp ness of the flavour is not perceptible in the first instance. In size it is equal to Knight's large red ' • but its principal merit is its late ripening.— Gardener's Chronicle. FACTORY GIRLS. — A committee at Leeds, formed for the purpose of ameliorating the condition of the factory girls, took, as a first step, a house in a healthful situation, which they fitted up as a lodging-house, with good beds and furniture. A respectable matron was engaged, and lodging was offered to the factory girls at ls. per week. The scheme has turned out a complete failure. The girls continue in dirty, unhealthy lodgings, for which they pay Is. 6d. and 2s. a week, rather than submit to the order required of them in the committee's lodging-house. CORN FROM PORTUGAL. — A vessel, named the Nornen, belonging to Norway, has arrived from Lisbon, with a cargo comprising 500 quarters of wheat, the produce of Portugal, and imported in a Norwegian ship under cover of the suspended navigation laws ; the Nymph, from Oporto, has brought 757 bags of beans, as a portion of her cargo ; and the Senhor dos Passos, of Portugal, from St. Michael's, 75 quarters of beans and 100 quarters of wheat. These arrivals of grain from Portugal are of much interest, as the supplies of grain from that parti cular southern state of Europe have been exceedingly trifling and rare during the recent influx of such produce. RECOVERY OF ONE THOUSAND POUNDS' WORTH OF BANKRUPT'S PROPERTY. — in March last a fiat in bank ruptcy was issued against David Edwin Columbine, soli citor to the defunct London and Exeter Railway Com pany, but an injunction obtained from the Lord Chan cellor prevented the ale of his property as belonging to his wife. Last week, however, a quantity of jewellery worth £5OO, which he had himself deposited with an inn keeper in London, was seized for the benefit of his cre ditors, and furniture and money to a like amount, which the bankrupt had in France, has likewise been made le gally available for the same purpose. Messrs. Jennens, Bettridge, and Sons have just com pleted a very magnificent order for the Pacha of Egypt, for a series of trays and other articles of ornament in papier mach. The trays are five in number ;• two are larger than ordinary 100 tables, and the smaller three of greater dimensions than the tea trays in use in this coun try. They are made thus large to suit the Oriental fashion of sitting on the ground, so that after all, though only trays in this country, they really serve as tables in the east. No two are alike in pattern or in colour, and in one we observed pieces of mother-of-pearl of larger size than any we can remember to have seen before in papier mache articles. THE SWINTON MURDER. — Edwd. Garland, alias Shak speare, who stands charged with the murder of the old man named Caleb Barker on the 4th inst., has attempted to destroy himself. A few nights since the inspector had occasion to go into his cell, when, on attempting to un lock the door, he discovered that it had been fastened on the inside. It was instantly forced open, just in time to prevent him from committing self-destruction. He had torn a long strip from a woollen rug which covered his bed, and, after fastening this round one of the bars over the door, was in the act of securing a noose which he had made round his neck, when he was frustrated. EXTRAORDINARY INVESTIGATION IN THE DRAPERY TRADE.—An investigation has lately taken place tending to impugn the honesty of transactions in the drapery trade. At a meeting lately of parties interested, sealed packets of goods from many of the wholesale houses were examined, and the result showed that there was much reason for complaint. Among other instances, reels of cotton thread, marked " warranted 100 yards," were found to measure respectively 922, 89, 86k, and in some cases even 25 per cent. less than the quantity indicated by the stamp, while in no single instance did the measure ment reach the full standard. In tapes the deficiency was found to be still more considerable. _ _ _ We find it stated in the Literary Gazelle that " Miss Coutts has determined to prepare a domicile at Shepherd's Bush, under judicious and merciful regulations, capable of maintaining a considerable number of discharged fe male prisoners, who have been condemned for offences, punished, and then thrown upon the world characterless, tainted, abandoned, and helpless. To these the gates of reformation will be opened. They will be instructed in the consoling and upholding value of morals and religion. They will be taught the means of industry, whereby they can earn their bread. They will be rescued from the ne cessity of guilt ; and if not doomed to ruin by evil dispo sitions which cannot be changed, they will be restored, repentant and virtuous members, to society, instead of being outcasts and curses to that and to themselves." THE SALE OF ARSENIC.—The Times of Saturday has a long article on this subject. The following concluding paragraph contains, however, the pith of the whole, and contains a recommendation which is well worth attending to :—" We might go on multiplying almost endlessly the possible and almost probable instances in which the lives of the innocent may be destroyed for want of a very easy precaution in re g ulating the sale of arsenic. The adding of a powerfully nauseous taste to the deceptive sweetness and slight acid which are said to be its present charac teristics, or the introduction of a strong colouring pro perty, would not injure its efficacy for any proper use, and would thoroughly deprive it of its power in the hands of the secret assassin. We hope to see our advice taken without delay, for of all the horrors with which our crim inal annals have been recently stained, none is so revolt ing or so frequent as the crime of murder in the domestic circle by means of arsenic." THE COAL TRADE.—PnIcEs'.—A meeting of owners and representatives of collieries vending coals at the ports of Tyne, Hartley, Blyth, Wear, Seaham, Hartlepool, and Stockton, was held at the Assembly Rooms on Thursday. The business was conducted with closed doors ; but we learn from a circular which has fallen into our hands, that the meeting considered " That the very inadequate remu neration generally derived from capital invested in the collieries of this district, during the last two and a half years, has tended to discourage the power of production ;" and this.opinion, coupled with the fact "that the demand for their staple commodity is increasing," led to the con clusion "that an advance of 2s. per chaldron should be made." It was resolved that the prices of London and coast coals be assimilated, and the prices be—Best coals, 265. 6d. per chaldron ; second class; 245. 6d. ditto ; other prices to be in proportion. The measure is restricted to 54 cwt. per chaldron.—Newcastle Advertiser. SINGULAR CASE OF POISONING.—CAUTION TO GAR DENERS.—On Saturday, as some little boys were playing in the vacant ground opposite to the Jarratt-street Rooms, they found a large plant of the Atropa Belladonna, or Deadly Nightshade, which had been pulled up by the roots by some person, and incautiously thrown there. The shin ing blackberries of this poisonous plant, which are sweet and pleasant to the taste, tempted one of the boys, a grandson of Mr. Ayre, Mason-street, to eat of them. A few hours afterwards he was seized with vertigo, delirium, and strong convulsions, nor was the cause of the boy's suf ferings known to the parents, until Mr. Munroe, surgeon, who was in attendance , p ronounced him to be poisoned by some irritant-narcotic poison. The usual remedies in such , cases were applied, happily with success ; though the de lirium lasted some days. We understand he is now in a fair way of recovery, though bad not timely medical aid been resorted to the case might have proved fatal. Would it not be better for gardeners to burn, and not throw aside all poisonous plants of this class, to prevent such dange rous occurrences.—Hull Advertiser. HORRIBLE TREATMENT OF A WIFE BY HER HUSBAND. —On Thursday a most revolting case of cruelty and bar barity, on the part of a husband towards his wife, was dis covered by Mr. George Campbell, one of the sub-inspect ors of the poor of Glasgow. From information which Mr. Campbell received, he went to the house of a man named Geo. Fay, in South St. Mungo-street, and on examining the premises, he discovered Fay's wife in a water-closet, where, according to her statement, she had been kept by her husband ever since May last. The dimensions of the closet were only 3 feet 10 inches by 2 feet 11 inches, and the height 10 feet. The poor creature was in a most wretched condition, being literally covered with filth and vermin, with scarcely an article of clothing on her person, and in a half famished state. The inhuman monster was given into the custody of the police, as well as a girl named Margaret Hume, the servant, and two lodgers named Alexander Hume and Alexander Holland, who are charged with,being accomplices in the offence. Every care and attention was paid to the unfortunate woman by Mr. Campbell, and it is expected she will shortly recover from the effects of her long and close confinement.—Glasyou, Mail. ROMANTIC STORY.—A seaman belonging to the north of Scotland, eleven or twelve years ago sailed from Liver pool in a British vessel, which he left in the West Indies, and entered on board a foreign ship. Thereafter he was entirely lost sight of, and though many vague rumours reached his friends, nothing satisfactory could be ascer tained concerning his fate. All doubts, however, have now been dissipated by the unexpected appearance of the long lost one, in propria persona, and his long absence is sufficiently accounted for by the following story, which comes to us in an authenticated shape :—When he dis appeared he had entered the American brig Endeavour, which was dismasted in the Gulf of Mexico by one of the hurricanes so common in those seas, and the vessel soon after filling with water, the crew were left entirely without provisions of any sort. For forty days they floated about, supporting life and appeasing the demands of appetite by the horrible expedient of cutting up and eating the bodies of their dead companions, till, in the case of his companions, exhausted nature gave way, and out of a crew of twenty, he alone survived. He was taken off in a state_ of insensibility and carried away by a poor Indian fisherman, in whose cabin he lived for three months, slowly regaining strength. On his recovery he joined a party of seven British sailors, who were ship wrecked on the coast, resolving to travel to the nearest seaport (in Texas) of which they knew. On the route, however, they were attacked and captured by a company of Indians, by whom they were stripped and compelled to undergo incredible privations. Under this treatment four of their number sank in less than eight months ; and after witnessing the death by torture of two more, this individual, after a lapse of ten years, found means to escape, and has again appeared in this. country. The same man was formerly a prisoner for a considerable time among the cannibals of New Zealand, and also came through many hardships and adventured in the Peruizian. War of independence.—Scotstnaq, NEW METHOD OF RAISING MONEY.—During the past week a man has been travelling the streets of this town with a vehicle resembling a teazle cart, upon which are fixed a number of wooden horses, and behind them seats for girls. The steeds are let to little boys at one half penny each, and the sittings for a like sum. When a full complement of youthful passengers is obtained, the con ductor takes his place in front of the cart, and a real horse sets off with the whole cargo at a brisk walk. The novelty of the thing excites the attention of all the women in the neighbourhood.—Leeds Intelligencer. DISTRESSING AND FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Monday forenoon a melancholy accident occurred in Stafford-street, Wolverhampton, to Joseph Cox, a key-maker, about 37 years of age. It appears that a gun had been taken to Cox to repair, with a request that he would put a nipple upon it, as one of the nipples was broken. On Monday he commenced repairing the gun, and in order to extract the broken nipple, which had been rusted, it was necessary to put the barrel of the gun in the fire. Thinking that the barrel might be loaded, he directed his wife and another woman, who were then present in his workshop, to move out of the way ; but in turning towards them to give them this direction, he accidentally moved his body opposite to and facing the muzzle of the gun, at which moment, the barrel being heated, the gun exploded, and the discharge entered his abdomen, inflicting a wound of which he died on Tuesday. THE LATE FIRE AT NBEDINGWORTH. — The calamity which visited Needingworth, near St. Ives, on Thursday week,.and by which nearly half the village was destroyed, has produced the greatest sympathy throughout the county. It was clearly proved that a female lunatic had originated the fire. She threw a quantity of red-hot ashes close to some straw which was piled outside the wall of the cottage. It instantly ignited, and the blazes fired the roof, and the fire spread with awful rapidity. By the official lists of the losses made up by the several insurance agents, it appears that there are about ninety dwellings consumed, the residences of eighty-seven fami lies, upwards of fifty farm buildings, such as barns, gra narieS, &c., and nearly one hundred stacks of grain and other produce. tut a small •portion of this property is insured. Amongst the offices which have suffered are the following : Suffolk, £lO,OOO ; Norwich Union, £5,000; Phoenix, £5,000; and a similar amount in one or two others. A public meeting has been held to adopt prompt means to alleviate the sufferings of the many fa milies rendered hnuseless by this calamity. THE COMPLAINTS OF TRADE AT NEWCASTLE.—The Marquis of Londonderry, who works extensive collieries in Northumberland, has addressed a letter to the Times,. in which he denies that there is any just ground for the complaints made of the state of commercial affairs in the neighbourhood of Newcastle. His Lordship says in the course of his letter, "In my judgment the coal trade was never in a more healthy state; we reap not the same high prices, but those who have large coal-fields, great esta blishments, and capital embarked in the trade (which is now happily free of regulation of vend), meet with fair re munerations and are content ; and these proprietors ought not to be run down or plunged into the mass of those who (from causes unnecessary to explain) have thought fit to join in this strange and most extraordinary appeal to the Government of the day." Though his Lordship has not felt the pressure of the times personally, it exists never theless, and we are much mistaken if the noble marquis does not foresee that that pressure if allowed to continue must bring about something approaching to a monopoly of the coal trade to his own fingers. Two LIVES LOST.—A fatal occurrence happened on Tuesday morning in the river Medway, whereby two lives were lost, by the capsize of a peter-boat, in Salt-pan Reach, half-way between Chatham and Sheerness. The peter-boat was observed by the crew of the yacht Defiance, Master Thomas Thompson, running down with all sail set, and observing a squall approaching, the yacht was hove to, the crew immediately reefed the sails, and in a moment they lost sight of the peter-boat. They directly made to the spot, when they came in contact with some boards and baskets, which left no doubt in their minds that the peter-boat with the crew had sunk. It is now ascertained that the peter-boat belonged to Edward Cooper, fisherman and dredgerman, of Strood, and that he and his son were on board at the time the boat went down. They left home at 5 o'clock in the morning for the purpose of dredging for oysters, under the employ of the Queenborough Oyster Company. It is supposed that the father and son were at the time below at their break fast, and did not observe the squall approaching. Neither the boat nor the bodies have yet been found. EXPLOSION ON BOARD THE CRICKET.—The adjourned inquest was resumed on Wednesday.. The first witness called was Edw. Portwine, writer on engineering, who said, that on viewing the boat, and finding they were working the engines at a pressure of 36, he told: the engineer that it was dangerous to work boilers of that description at such a pressure.—Thomas Lloyd, Admiralty, Somerset-house, Chief Engineer, and inspector of machinery of the Navy, said he examined the machinery of the Cricket on Mon day, the 6th of September. So far as he saw, the mate rials and workmanship of the engines were good. He gave a very minute description of the boilers, with plans before and after the accident. He was of opinion that the valves must have been closed, either by accident or design, at the time of the explosion; or else open only to a very small extent, and that was the cause of the accident. — Thomas Clarke, the engineer, then volunteered his evi dence, and denied that he had given instructions for tying down the valves.. The inquiry, terminated on Friday, when the jury found a verdict of manslaughter against Henry R. Heasman, the engineer of the steamboat. They added, that they considered Thomas Clark (who, it was alleged, tied down the valves) highly culpable, and unfit to hold the situation of engineer ; and that Mr. Smith's conduct was shamefully neglectful, in not properly inves tigating the complaint against Clark. UNCLAIMED LETTERS.—A bulky return moved for in the last Parliament shews that there were lying in the Ge neral Post-office at the date of the return (a few months since) 4,201 letters containing coin, bank-notes, bills of exchange, and other property ; the coin amounting to £3lO 9s. 7d., the bank-notes to £lOlO, and the bills of exchange to £40,410. The catalogue of the " other pro perty" contains some sufficiently amusing items, from gold rings and silver spoons down to love-locks and pawn tickets. We notice amongst other items, shaving papers, ribands, waistcoats and shirts, artificial flowers, soda towders, razors, books, fish-hooks, fiddle-strings, a will, snuff-boxes, galvanic rings, medicines, bradawls, mats, scissors, nightcaps, a soldier's discharge, protests. peti tions, Greek MSS., punch, hair, pill-boxes, &c. Imme diate steps are taken to return dead letters containing pro perty as soon as found to the writers, by enclosing them to the local postmasters, or by sending notices to the wri ters. When all inquiry is. found unavailing, the letters are kept three years, to give time for application for them, after which period the property (if money) is paid into the Exchequer. Other property is sold, and the proceeds paid into the Exchequer. The number of letters containing money-orders lying in the General Post-office, London, amounted (at the date of the return) to 346, and the value to £407 12s. 80.. COMPARATIVE PROSPERITY OF MIDLAND TOWNS. — Whilst Nottingham and Leicester (the latter more espe cially) are overburthened with pauperism, in the borough of Derby there is not a single able-bodied pauper on the parish books'. In Leicester, the occupier of a house, the rental of which is £2O a year, has to pay £2 12s. 3d. per quarter poor-rates ; the poor-rates in Nottingham are nearly as heavy ; but at Derby the occupier of a £2O house has to pay only ss. 4d. per quarter, and sometimes the levies are only made twice a year ! In Leicester, twenty-three thousand of a population of sixty thousand are said to be paupers—more than one-third ! In Not tingham, although not so high, the proportion is very great : in Derby it is very small indeed. The cause of this, says the Nottingham Review, is easily accounted for ; Leicester manufactures nothing but hosiery—Nottingham little besides hosiery and lace, but in Derby the occupa tions of the people are various, the railway and railway works employing nearly 2,000 families. Leicester has 1,200 houses and shops to let ; Nottingham has a con siderable number, but in Derby there is not a shop to be obtained. Thus a considerable portion of the prosperity of Derby and the adversity of Nottingham is attributable to certain gentlemen of the latter town, who forbade the Midland Company constructing their central station within the borough,'lest it might cause a slight competi tion in the supply of coal to the inhabitants. ""' MURDER BY A GENTLEMAN OF PROPERTY. — On Tuesday information was received by Mr. William Baker, deputy-coroner for the eastern division, of the county of Middlesex, of the death of a man named Lewis Mugford, occasioned by a wound on the jugular vein, inflicted by his master, Mr. Thomas Mackintosh Davidson, a gentle man of property, residing at Clay-hill, Tottenham. The circumstances have excited a painful sensation in the neighbourhood. It appeared that Mr. Davidson, who was formerly a member of the bar, and was entitled to a large property which was in. chancery, had been for many years past suffering under mental derangement. He had resided about - eleven years at "Clay-hill, Tottenhain, which was in the occupation of a gentleman of the name of Holmes, and was under the care of the unfortunate man, Lewis Mugford. On Friday afternoon two female servants and Mugford, between one and two o'clock, were at din ner in the kitchen, when Mr. Davidson entered, and took a knife away. He was immediately followed by Mugford,, who came up with him in another room. Almost imme. diately a scuffle was heard, upon which Mrs. Holmes, who was in the parlour, proceeded to the room, where she saw Mugford struck in the throat by Mr. Davidson, with the knife. Mugford, upon receiving the wound, rushed into the kitchen, and through the yard (the blood flowing in a stream from his throat) into the road, where he fell down and died hr a few minutes. Mr. Davidson. remains in surveillance at his own residence. The sergeants sub sequently found that the unhappy maniac, who is totally unconscious of 'the act he has committed, had replaced the knife on the table from whence he had taken.it. For several previous years Mr. Davidson never showed any signs of an intention to do mischief, and was allowed the liberty of the grounds, being only watched by the domestics. - RicE,--Every family ought immediately to he in pos session of a penny pamphlet, advertised in our paper..to day, showing the various uses and easy preparation of rice as a nutritious article of daily food, and proving it to be cheaper than any other. The never -failing effects of Blair 's Gout and Rheumatic Pills in curing every description of gout and rheumatism, have secured to them a celebrity unequalled by any medi cine of past or present times. They not only give relief in a few hours, where the patient has been driven nearly to madness by the excruciating tortures of this disease, but restore to perfect health in an inconceivably short s pace of time. They are equally speedy and Certain in rheumatism, either chronic or acute, lumbugo, sciatica. pains in the head or face, and indeed for every rheumatic or gouty affection in fact, such has been the rapidity, perfect ease, and complete safety of this medicine, that it has astonished all who have taken it ; and there is scarcely a city, town, or village in the kingdom but contains many grateful evidences of its benign influence. Sold by all medicine vendors. Price 2s. 9d. per box. Observe the name " Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London," on the government stamp. Sept. 28, 1847. INCENDIARY FIRE AT TRUMPINGTON.—On Sunday night week the inhabitants of Cambridge were greatly alarmed by a report that Trumpington Hall, the seat of Colonel Pemberton, was on fire, and it being just the time tl,e people were returning from church, hundreds flocked towards Trumpington, a village only two miles distant from the town. Upon arriving there, however, it was found that it was not the hall that was on fire, but some stacks in a homestead, which stood out some distance from the house. There were upwards of thirty stacks near the spot. but, fortunately, the incendiary who fired them had mistaken the direction of the wind, and begun his work at the wrong end, so that the wind, which was very brisk at the time, blew from them, or the destruction of the whole, and half the village besides, would have been in evitable. Fortunately the supply of water was very good, and there being plenty of assistance, the flames were sub dued before much damage had been done. Three stalks of corn, however, and some haulm-stalks, were consumed. THE FIGHT BETWEEN THE BOYS.—At the Central Criminal Court, on Friday, Robert Auty, aged 8, was in dicted as principal for the manslaughter of John May Harris, another boy, and 4 men were indicted for assisting- The result of the post mortem examination showed that.the death of the deceased arose from congestion of the brain, which according to the medical testimony, might have been occasioned by the excitement of the struggle, accele rated, no doubt, by the administration of spirits and beer to so young a person. It appeared in the course of the case, that the four prisoners who were charged as acces sories, although they had no doubt excited the boys to fight, yet it seemed that before this they had amused themselves by making the boys run races against each other, and other innocent pastimes, and that all the pro ceedings were carried on on their part with good humour, and the whole circumstance, although it terminated so fa tally, appeared to be considered by them more in the light of a joke or amusement, than to be characterised by any guilty intention or object. The jury acquitted' all the prisoners. CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER.—On Monday an in quest was held at Crook, on view of the body of Robert Heseltine, whose death had taken place on the Saturday night previous, under the following circumstances. It appeared that some men, including the deceased, were drinking on the night in question, at a public-house in Crook, when a dispute arose ; a fight began between Reset tine and a person named John Graham. Graham and Heseltine began to collar• each other, and in the struggle Graham seized hold of Heseltine's neckerchief and twisted it tight until a bystander released him from the grasp, and Heseltine fell down and instantly died- Front' the evidence produced, there was no doubt that the de ceased died from strangulation and suffocation. The jury returned a verdict of " manslaughter" against Gra ham, who was forthwith committed to take his trial at the next assizes. It is a rather singular circumstance that Heseltine's widow has had three husbands : her first was killed by accident at Leasingthorne Colliery, about five years ago ; her second, Robert Hird, was killed by fighting near Bishop Auckland, about two years ago ; and a fortune-teller told her a short time before ilird's un timely death, she would have three husbands, and two out of the three would be killed by fighting.—Durham Ad vertiser. THE PRODUCE OF THE LATE HARVEST.—The bean crop is undoubtedly a failure; but although many fields that put forth an early promise of abundance have been utterly destroyed, so as not to pay for the expense of gathering the stray stalks, there are even districts where the yield of beans will approach to an average : therefore we believe it would be unsafe to estimate the bean crop much below one-half of an average crop. The oats crop may prove a full average crop, but not beyond it. The crops are light in some districts where that grain is pro duced in larger quantity than any other corn, and there fore our estimate is not quite so sanguine as that of some other persons. Of the barley crop we have already spoken ;- it is a large crop, both in increased breadth of surface, and in acreable yield. Of the quality we may hereafter speak ; but respecting quantity we have no doubt the barley crop of 1847 may fairly be taken at about one-fourth beyond an average. Concerning the wheat crop we should have preferred to say nothing without go ing into some more particular explanation than we can now give. What we call the centre of the wheat produc ing power of England, by which is meant the four most eastermost'counties, Kent to Norfolk, the counties near the metropolis, with Wiltshire, Cambridgeshire, and Lin colnshire—will not, we think, yield nearly so much as in 1844 ; but still the same counties will yield somewhat considerably above an average supply on the whole. That excess, whatever it may be will be brought up by the ex traordinary yield of outlying districts. In all mainly pas turage counties, where much wheat is also produced, such as Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Cheshire, Lancashire' Durham, and all English counties lying nort h of the two last, the'yield will be found great, and of excellent quality nearly all the wheat in these has been gathered in good condition, and will give forth far less than an average proportion of.` tail ends' or refuse corn. The wheat har vest of 1844 was a prodigious one—called in Lincolnshir e and the Fens a crop and a-half ; therefore, on comparing,. this with that, to the disadvantage of the wheat harvest o f the present year, we must remember that fact. We have no doubt of the produce of wheat in 1847 being conside!: atly above an average both in breadth and acreable yield —Bankers' Circular. A ROMAN CATHOLIC FUNERAL PROCESSION SALISBURY.—The inhabitants of this city were not thron g astonished, on Monday week, on finding that a _ rn f. who had arisen at the call of daylight earlier than tonuese_ selves had been spectators of a singular scene. Tbe,, h o f the keeper of the Rev. Henry George Coope, M.A., on e six Oxford converts, suddenly died last week. Bet w ' s— the and seven o'clock in the morning it proceeded from " King's' House," situated in the Cathedral-close, til e ,. present residence of Mr- Coope--the new church Saint Osmond being built to the east of St. Osmund's remain* which still, it is said, repose in the Lady Chapel of the Old Cathedral. The procession made almost a complete circuit of that building ; the body was borne by eight bearers, who relieved each other in succession ; it was co vered with a magnificent funeral pall, containing a huge, crimson cross on a black ground, and surrounded at IR fringes with the words of the Roman ritual in yellow olft English letters—" May the souls of the faithful, thr ou g l ! . the mercy of God, rest in peace." On the procession ,ca mourners reaching the western entrance of St. Osmond st the priest, preceded by the Thuriter, and then by the Crueiferarius and Acolytes, saluted the body with incees B , and holy water, as emblems of the " ascending prayers ot the brotherhood and of peace from God to her Christia n soul." The whole ceremony was then performed. Th e coffin was of plain oak, without a nail upon it, but sel,' mounted by a beautiful brass-inscription of Mr. Pugin s design. The procession formed again, and re-entered the Cathedral-close, under its solemn eastern arch, rec itios the Litany of Loretto to that, royal princess and queen whom the cathedral is specially dedicated, whose image'', still impressed by the dean and chapter in their seals ol office. The funeral was preceded on its return by th c Rev. Henry George Coope, who bore aloft the brazen cru cifix to the astonishment and surprise of beholders. The procession passed near to the bishop's palace, close by t he dean's residence, and in front of the dwellings of se veral of the resident canons and clergy of the cathedral. Grout soon congregated, who passed their opinions very freely 1 some wondering it had been suffered ; others declaring I, to be done to insult and deride all those connected svit'/ our established religion.—Correspondent of the Hainli shire Advertiser. ELOPEMENT OF THE BRITISH LION QUEEN.---1 11 / inquiry of rather a delicate nature travelling m touching companies, p r a e n c i e e n s t , performances of the lady who, among is known by the above designation, (hut whose real name is Mrs. King,) was instituted before the magistrates in this town on Tuesday last, when a young man named, House, of Market Lavington, (the latter portion of whose life has been passed in the employ of the•famed My Wombwell, of wild-beast notoriety,) was brought a under Superintendent Wolfe's care, charged with haviii in his possession a quantity of wearing apparel and abee; £l5O m money, belonging to Mrs. K. 's lawful lord an master. It appeared that about a month since, in coil; quence of a misunderstanding with his employer , l k- ! - 4 King relinquished his avocation and settled in private 1110 at Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; but, not to disappoint the publts of the delights pictured in the handbills, be permitted !I I better half,. at Mr. Wombwell's request,. to remain vn,f the company a short time longer, at the expiratio n which he looked forward to the domestic repose which t 1 joint exertions of himself and his wife had promise d secure. Letter after letter, couched- in the most arc tionate terms of anxiety for her return, and at the sail!, time conveying sincere respects. to Mr. House, (who 1(1_*1 one of the band,) had been posted by the attacll,ol husband ; all of which—as Mrs. K., unfortunately , C 0 ° f neither read nor write—were placed in the hands House, who answered them as his.feelings prompted " At length the engagement with the company expired , 01 no Mrs. King appeared at Newcastle. Her husb, began to grow uneasy ; and, upon inquiry, discovent; with astonishment, that the faithless Mrs. King had the establishment with his " friend" nearly a fortnignif Dismayed and bewildered, the thought suggested its 4 that the pair might contemplate a trip to America. 1,, 0 he started to Liverpool, searched the whole of r. p a ckets bound for that wide land of adventure, but - - Pa r :i King was nowhere to be found. Gloucester was n e ',, visited ; .then Chippenham ; and subsequently Devi , z e t i, where such a clue was found as to induce Mr. Kinvti l e place the facts of his situation in the possession of too' police, through whose- aid he was escorted to Lavin he r e where House has a mother and sister living. h the whole secret was soon unravelled L -wearing apPi3, (belonging to both Mr. a nd M rs . King,) and 'ill° in gold and notes, were found, and subsequentlY...acl wife herself was- comp e ll e d t o f ac e her much abil - 0 11 partner in a private house in the town, Upon thi e f parties were brought before the magistrates ; and 0 1 1 0 a great deal of theatrical display, Mr. House (nPl o r o refusal to give up the property) was handed, over _ 41 4 night's lodging in the police cell. The next m or e:v found him with his determination unaltered , aotTi`e, sanding an-offer of £2O by Mr. K. to settle the Ina k ije; A warrant of committal, however, soon turned th e th e House,. in his cell, reflected upon the , matter, accePt e 'ol £2O; and taking-with him the remainder of his pfollo Mr. K. (with his wife by his side) started in a carraigatiP a pair of mules for Chippenham, en route for the j o t° where change of climate and change of scene maY,l„st/ be hoped, efface all unpleasant recollections of the r Devizes Gazette. How seldom do we feel, perceive, or think of the 100 beginnings of disease which surround and onerate...tioricl. us in our enjoyments and intercourse with the '^ " The young disease, which must subdue at length, Grows with,our growth, and strengthens with our st!'_'lco. An improper regimen acting upon a particular kind icing stitution, late hours, both of_retiring to rest and . the morning, lay the foundation of intestinal a 5 fi r st skin diseases. To all such we would recommen" i s to l l change of system, and, secondly, as a powerful a v r a i c ia'_: for the recovery of health,that efficacious family ;_ bc . Frampton's Pill of Health, which has procured probation of persona in every station in sockety.. re irn at L fC 11 rn --.( Ito Sei lie,