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it tNr attire. We feel that in time past we have frequently led the readers of the STANDARD too exclusively through the the turmoil of political controversy. The necessity of our position is the only apology which we shall offer. Cooped up within the space of a single sheet, and our time well nigh occupied with the labours incident to a double publication, we had little opportunity for afford ng ourselves, or our readers, the relaxation of an ex cursion into the fairy-land of song or of romance. or for the more severe, yet not less delightful, pursuits of criticism and philosophy. We are now, however, by the new arrangement of our time and space, happily emancipated from the thraldom, in which thus far we have been held. Our prison doors are open. " Fresh fields and pastures new"—grateful to the sense as the first breath of heaven to the cheek of the fever-worn convalescent—are spread before us ; and we shall, from time to time, and with no sparing hand, endeavour to gather their flowers, and present them here fresh and verdant, to those readers who will bestow a favouring eye upon our humble labours. To those of the correspondents, and especially of thefair correspondentB of the STANDARD, who have honoured us with occasional communications—to which, for the reasons given above, we have sometimes been compelled to accord less than the consideration due to them—we are enabled now to offer a more ample measure of justice than has hitherto been within our power ; and whilst we shall, on every occasion, prize originality, we shall not close these columns against extracts from any new publications which may be forwarded us for notice. We propose, in fact, making this portion of our paper a kind of miscellany—a collection of poetry and prose, criticism, and philosophy—designed to amuse and in struct those readers, whose attention is not altogether absorbed by the dry details of political or economica controversy. PHILHELLENIC DRINKING SONG. BY B. SIMMONS (From Blackwood's Magazine for July.) Come let us drink their memory, Th 'se glorious Greeks cf old— On shore and sea the Famed, the Free, 'I he Beautifif —the Bold ! The mind or mirth that lights e Bch plge, Or bowl by which we sit, Is sunfire i Weed from their age— Gems s_linter'd from their wit. Then drink we to their memory, Those glorious Greeks of yore; Cf great or true, we can but do W h t they have done before! We've had with THE GREAT KING to core — What if the s , ene he saw— The modern Xerxe —from the slope • Of rimson Quatre.bras, Was but the fruit we early won From tales of Grecian fields Such as the swords of Marathon Carved on the Median shields. Oh, honour to those chainless Greeks, We drink them one and all, Who block'd that day Oppression's way As with a brazen wall! Theirs was the marble land where, wood By love-born Taste, the Gods Themselves the 1 fe of stone endued In more d vine abodes Than blest their own Olympus bright ; Then in supreme re,ose, Afar, star-glittering, high and white Athena's shrine arose. '4.0 to the days of Pericles The votive goblet fi'l— In fane or mart we but d stort . H s grand achievements still! Fill to their Matron's memory— The Fair who knew no fear— But gave the hero's shield to be His bulwark or his bier.* We boast their dauntless blood—it fills That lion-woman's vein-. Whose praise shall perish when thy hills, JELLALABAD, are plains I That LADY'S health I who doubts she heard Of Greece, and loved to hear ? The wheat, two thousand years interr'd, Will still its harvest beant The lore of Greece—the book still bright With Plato's precious thought— The Theban's har, —the judging-right Stagyra's sophist taught— Bard, Critic, Moralist to-day Can but their spirit speak, The selfsame thoughts transfused. Away, We are not Gael but Greek. Then drink, and dream the red grape weeps Those dead but deathless lords, Whose influence in our bosom sleeps, Like music in the chords. Yet 'tis not in the chiming hour Of goblets, after all, That thoughts of old Hellenic rower Upon the heart shoulo fall. Go home—and ponder o'er the hoard When night makes silent earth The gods the Romans most adored. He worshipp'd at the hearth. Then, chink and swear by eece, that there Though Rhenish Huns may hive, In Britain we the liberty She loved will keep alive. CHORUS. And thus we drink therr memory Those glorious Greeks of of On shore and sea the Famed and Free— The Beautiful—the Bold! *".Return with me or upon it!" was the well-known in. junction of a Greek mother, as she handed her son his shield previous to the fight. t The mummy-wheat ON A PICTURE OF A VERY YOUNG NUN, NOT READING A DOCTRINAL BOOK OPEN BEFORE HER, AND NOT CONTEMPLATING A CRUCIFIX BEHINB HER. BY HARTLEY COLERIDGE. (From Tait's Magazine for July.) So young, too young, consign'd to cloistral shade, Untimely wedded—wedded—yet a maid ; And hast thou left no thought, no wish behind, No sweet employment for the wandering wind, Who would be proud to waft a sigh from thee, Sweeter than ought he steals in Araby? Thou wert immured, poor Maiden, as I guess, In the blank childhood of thy simpleness. Too young to doubt, too pure to be ashamed, Thou gave't to God what God had never claim'd ; And didst, unweeting, sign away thine all Of earthly good —a guiltless Prodigal. The large reversion of thy unborn love Was sold to purchase an estate above, Yet, by those hands upon thy bosom prest, I think, indeed, thou art not quite at rest. Yon Christ, that hangs upon the sculptured cross, Is not the JES US to redeem thy loss; Nor will that book, whate'er its page contain, Convince thee that the world is false and vain. Even now, there is a something at thy heart Would fain be off; but may not, dare not start. Yes, yes, thy face, those eyes, thy close lips prove, Thou wert created to be loved, and love. NETT' BOOKS. The Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland, illustrated by drawings, by Bartlett; the literary department by N. P. Willis, Esq. London, G. Virtue. We have received Part XXVI. of this work, which continues to be got up with the same spirit and liberality in illustration, and the same interest in the descriptive department, that characterised the earlier numbers. This part embraces some peculiarly interesting parts of Ireland— the metropolis, and rortions of its romantic environs. There are four beautiful engravings (on steel), by cele brated artists, namely, of Sackville-street, (with Nelson's monument in the centre,) taken from the bridge across the Liffey, at the south end ; Waterford, with its long elegant pile-bridge, its shipping, &c. ; Carrickfergus Castle, peering on a rock, washed by the sea ; and the Augustinian Abbey of Adare, a noble gothic ruin, still overtopped by a square embattled tower. These are all executed in the finest style of the art, and are each so beautiful that we know not which most to commend. The literary portion i written with the author's accustomed ability, and tact , conveying much pleasing information, anecdote, and historical reminiscence within a small com pass. He briefly notices the celebrity of Ireland and her universities in the early ages, and the causes of its gra dual decline ; describes the celebrated Hall of Tara ; gives an account of the nature and extent of several of the vast bogs of Ireland ; and passing from Trim to Dublin, by way of Kilock, Maynooth, Carton, and Leixlip, furnishes an animated and pleasing sketch of the metropolis, and its diversified and romantic environs—to be continued in the next number. The work would form an excellent book of reference for the tourist, and will be found equally acceptable in the parlour or the drawing-room. We quote the following passage, descriptive of Leixlip, as a specimen of the style, selected for its brevity, rather than as being a favourable specimen of the author's general powers, which are better displayed in subjects of higher Import : "The little town of Leixlip is delightfully situated near the banks of the Liffey, in a richly diversified coun try: From the bridge the view i s b eau tif u l b eyon d de scription; on either hand the r i ver i s seen f oam i ng an d fretting over its rugged bed until lost between its pictu resque banks, while on a commanding eminence the old castle of Leixlip lifts its embattled towers above the thick oak wood that surrounds it. At a short distance above the town is that romantic spot called the Salmon Leap, where the river, tumbling over a succession of rocky ledges, forms a beautiful cascade ; the precipitous banks are thickly covered with wood, and the whole scene, though not on so extensive a scale as many of the celebrated falls in Scotland and Switzerland, is excelled by few in,patural beauty. Indeed, but for the barbarous intrusion of a modern, business-like, stone-built, and slated mill, which has been erected close to the falls by some plodding trader, it would be difficult to find a place in which so many picturesque beauties are combined. The Salmon Leap is a favourite place for picnic parties of the citizens of Dublin, who make excursions to it in the sumnaer months, dining on the grassy shore, or on the broad tabular rocks which in the dry season are left bare by the fallen waters, and afford convenient platform s fur the accommodation of the gay groups assembled there, who ' Forth from the crowded city's dust and noise, Wander abroad to taste pure Nature's joys, To laugh and sport, and spend the live-long day In harmless merriment and jocund play.' " Transactions ef Me Liverpool Polytechnic Society for 1842. Liverpool : Lace and Addison. A neat pamphle t under this title has just been pub lished, and contains, besides the annual report of the council, reports and abstracts of the papers read during the last year, with brief notices of the discussions that from time to time succeeded,—the whole concluding with the able address of the president at the close. Amongst the papers area everal of a high order—all by members of the society—on chemical and mechanical philosophy and on various othersubjects—viz., ventilation, imponderables, the Alpaca wool manufacture, iron as a material for ship building, four and six-wheel locomotives, locomotive cranks, the resistance of water to bodies moving through it, the principles of harmony prevailing in the system of nature, safety valves, the consumption of smoke in fur naces, &c. Several models and works of art which had been exhibited are also here explained. The meetings are held monthly at the Royal Institution. The object of the society (as stated in the preface) is " to promote the use ful and ingenious arts in Liverpool, by securing to their inventors those advantages which, in every department of science, have been found to result from mutual encourage ment and co-operation, and from the interchange of ideas in unreserved discussion ;" and judging from the proceed ings here recorded, which evince much ability and re search, as well as from the local and corresponding list of members, including many of the most distinguished scientific and literary men in the locality and elsewhere, we cannot doubt but that the society is destined to become a high ornament and advantage to the town—calculated as it is " to drive the mind To its best use, the service of mankind." Plane Geometry. Second Book of Euclid's Elements, demonstrated by Algebraic Symbols, and applied to the Solution of Problems; the composition and construc tion of Quadratic Equations, 3rc. By W. Dunlop, Science Tutor, Dublin. Part I. of this work is before us, and is evidently the production of a practised mathematician. The author states in a brief preface :—" The process of investigating the principles here treated of, require little knowledge of algebra; the well-known results of geometry are simply compared together, and require only an acquaintance with the simple principles to resolve them to the forms ob tained." The problems are clearly defined, and to the student in geometry—a valuable branch of science in the present age—the work will, we doubt not, be found a valuable acquisition. Notes on the Marine Glue. By Alfred Jefferey, patentee. London : J. Tuelon This is a brief, but (to shipowners, shipwrights, and nautical men,) highly interesti ng accoun t o f th e various successful experiments made, both in the navy and the merchant service with the Marine Glue, discovered by Mr. Jefferey, of Limehouse, and which promises to be come of the greatest advantage for the tightening and strengthening of ships and other vessels, and consequently for the additional security of life and property afloat. The writer was one of the early producers of copper plates by galvanic action, for the sheathing of vessels, but finding that this method did not reduce the cost, and was attended by other disadvantages, " the idea occurred to him (he states) of applying soluble gums, as a protec tion to the bottoms of ships ; and he conceived that by combining elastic gum with non-elastic, and charging the whole composition with ingredients destructive both to animal and vegetable life, the object he had in view might be effectually attained ; inasmuch as such a coating would protect the timbers from the contact of water, and also prevent any adhesion or accumulation of animal or vegetable matter, and resist the attack of the ship-worm." In this he was very successful, in several experiments on blocks of wood sunk in Portsmouth har bour; and in the course of his researches he discovered the Marine Glue, possessing properties most useful and important for shipbuilding and other purposes. This substance is insoluble in, and impervious to, water; is elastic, so as to contract or expand with strains, or the vicissitudes of heat and cold ; sufficiently solid to fill up a joint and give strength ; and so adhesive as to connect the timbers firmly together. A number of experiments have already been made with it in Woolwich Dock-yard, in presence of Sir F. A. Collier, and the master ship wrights of the Queen's dock-yards in all our great naval arsenals, with a highly gratifying result. These experi ments are detailed, and it appears from them that timbers glued together with it. and after long submersion in wa ter, have withstood strains of many tons without being separated—the wood giving way, while the joint in every case remained firm. It appears, indeed, to connect tim ber as strongly, and to maintain its strength underwater as firmly, as the best common glue does in a dry state, with the additional advantage of elasticity. It is also applica ble to effectually filling up rents or fissures in blocks of wood, and to the fishing or splicing of masts, sprung yards, and other spars. Built masts are also so connected by it as to be much stronger than if of one piece, and this has been proved in the mainmast of the Eagle, 50-gun ship, of that of the Trafalgar, 120-gun ship, and others. It has also been applied in laying, the decks of the Victo ria and Albert steam-vessel, built for her Majesty and Prince Albert ; and in this respect has been proved to be greatly superior and more durable than pitch, in several vessels that Lave made long voyages. It has been found equally advantageous in tightening small craft and boats, also for dock-gates, &c. The several experiments:are at tested by nautical men, and illustrated by plates; and we strongly recommend a perusal of the pamphlet (which is extremely well written) to all interested in shipping. THE ARISTOCRACY OF ENGLAND. rFrom Blackwood's Magazine for July.) " Perhaps, however, the one capital force, operating for good upon the British aristocracy, is—the paramount reference of all accomplishments, of ambition through all its modes, and of party connexions, to the public service. This, again, which constitutes a fourth head amongst the characteristics of English society, may be viewed as both cause and effect with reference to our civil institutions. Here we regard it as a cause. It is a startling assertion to make, but we have good reason to think it true, that, in the last great war with Jacobinism, stretching through very nearly one whole quarter of a century, beyond all doubt the nobility was that order amongst us who shed their blood in the largest proportion for the common wealth. Let not the reader believe that for a moment we are capable of undervaluing the pretensions of any class, whether high or low. All furnished martyrs to that noblest of causes. And it is not possible that this should be otherwise ; because amongst us society is so exquisitely fused, so delicate are the nuances by which our ranks play out and in to each other, that no man can imagine the possibility of an arrest being communicated at any point to the free circulation of any one national feeling whatsoever. Great chasms must exist between social ranks, where it is possible for a sentiment of nationality to be sundenly frozen up as it approaches one particular class ; as a corollary from which doctrine, we have always treated with derision the scurrilous notion that our rural body of landowners, our country squires, could, by possi bility, differ essentially from the rest of us. Bred amongst us, educated amongst us, intermarrying with us indis criminately, how by any means apparent to common sense should it be possible for them to maintain an inheritance of separate ignorance, separate prejudices, or separate purposes, such as interested manufacturers and trivial satirists assume? On the same principle, it is not possible that, in questions of elementary patriotism, any palsy should check the electric movement of the national feelings through every organ of its social life—except only in the one case where its organization is imperfect. Let there be a haughty nobility, void of popular sympathies, such as the haute noblesse of Russia or Hungary is some times said to be, and it will be possible that jealousy on behalf of privileges should operate so noxiously as to place such a body in opposition to the people for the sake of what it holds separately, rather than in sympathy with the people for the sake of what both hold in common. With us, this is otherwise ; the very highest and most feudal amongst our nobles are associated by common rights, interests, and subjection to the laws, with the general body of the people. Make an exception for the right of demanding an audience from the so vereign, for the right of entree at St. James's, for the right of driving through the Horse Guards, or for Lord Kinsale's right of wearing his hat in the royal pre sence—reckon of the petty discount for privileges so purely ceremonial, and absolute nothing remains to dis tinguish the nobility. For as to the practice of entails, the legal benefit of primogeniture, Ikc., these have no more essential connexion with the nobility, than the possession of land or manorial rights. They are privileges attached to a known situation, which is open equally to e%ery man not disqualified as an alien. Consequently, we infer that, the fusion and continuity of our ranks being perfect, it is not possible to suppose, with respect to a great patriotic interest, any abrupt pause in the fluent circulation of our national sympaties. We, therefore, cannot be supposed to arrogate for the nobility any separate privilege of pa triotism. But still we venture to affirm, that, if the total numbers of our nobility and their nearest connexions were summed; and if from that sum were subtracted all offi cers, being brothers, sons, nephews, of British peers, who laid down their lives, or suffered incurable wounds in the naval or military service of their country, the proportion will be found greater than that upon the aggregate re mainder belonging to the rest of the nation. Life is the same blessing for all ranks alike. But certainly, though for all it is intrinsically the same priceless jewel, there is in the setting of this jewel something more radiantly bril liant to him who inherits a place amongst the British no bility, than to him whose prospects have been clouded originally by the doubts and fears of poverty. And, at all events, the libation of blood in the course of the last war was, we must repeat, on the part of the high aristocracy, disproportionately large. " In that proportion are those men unprincipled who speak of the English nobility as an indolent class—de tached from public employments, and taking neither share nor interest in the public service. Such representations, where they are not deliberate falsehoods, point to a fact which is not uncommon • from the limited number of o ur nobility, and consequently the rare opportunities for really studying their habits, it is easy to see that in sketches of this order, (whether libellous amongst mob orators, or serious in novels,) the pretended portrait has been founded on a vague romantic abstraction of what may be supposed peculiar to the condition of a patrician order under all po litical circumstances. Haughtiness, exclusiveness, indo lence, and luxury. compose the romantic type which the delineator figures to his mind ; and at length it becomes evident to any man, who has an experimental knowledge of this order, that probably the ancient Persian satraps, or the omrahs of Hindostan, have much more truly been operatively present to the describers than any thing anci ent or modern amongst the realities of England. A can did person, who wishes to estimate the true, and not the imaginary nobles of England, will perceive one fact through the public journals, viz., that no class takes a more active share in that sort of the public business which naturally commends itself to their support. At least one half of the deliberative meetings connected with the innu merable charitiesof London, very many of the public din ners by which such charities are promoted or commemo rated, obtain the benevolent aid of noblemen as chairn.en and presidents. Provincial asssemblies for the same pur poses, and, still more frequently, assemblies growing out of the endless political questions incident to a nation in our circumstances, receive the same influential countenance. These labours, by no means slight, added to the evening parliamentary attendance through half the year, and the morning attendance on par liamentary committees, togetl - er with the magiste rial duties of many lords-lieutenants, sufficiently at test that in this point of public duties (exercised with out fee or compensation), our nobility is the only one in Europe having almost any connexion at all with the national service, except through the army. Some of this small body are pretty constantly attached to the cabinet; others act as ambassadors, as under-secretaries, or as colonial governors. And so far are they from wishing, apparently, to limit the field for their own exertions, that the late Dukes of Manchester and Richmond sponta neously extended it, by giving the countenances of their high stations to the governments of Canada, and even of Jamaica. A marquis of ancient family has lately ac cepted the government of Madras; and gradually, as our splendid colonies expand their proportions, it is probable that many more of them will benefit at intervals, (in their charities and public works,) from the vast revenues of our leading nobles acting as their governors. Add to these the many cases of junior nobles who sit in the House of Commons; of those who keep alive the public spirit of great provinces by standing costly contested elections ; of those professionally pursuing the career of arms in the naval or land service; and then, collating all this activity with the very limited extent of our peerage taken even with their families, not the very bigotry of de mocracy will deny that the characreristic energy of our nation is faithfully reflected from its higher order." THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. the wharf—my senses were clear, though the blow had deprived me of all power to resist—and I could calculate, the little chance still left me, when once I had reached the river—when a loud yell, and a whistle was heard afar off—another, louder, followed—the fellows around me sprang to their legs, and with a muttered curse, and a cry of terror, darted off in different directions. I could hear now several pistol shots following quickly on each other, and the noise of a scuffle with swords ; in an instant it was over, and a cheer burst forth, like a cry of triumph. " Any one wounded there ?" shouted a deep manly voice, from the en d o f th e s t ree t : I en d eavoure d t o ca ll out, but my voice failed me. " Holloa there, any one wounded?" said the voice again, when a window was opened over my he a d, and a m a n held a candle out, and looked into the street. " This way, this way," said he, as he caught sight of my shadow where I lay. " Ay, I guessed they went down here," said the same voice I heard first, as he came along, followed by several others. " Well, friend, are you much hurt, any blood lost ?" " No, only stunned,' said I, " and almost well al ready." " Have you any friends here—were you quite alone ?" " Yes ; quite alone." "Of course you were—why should I ask ? That mur derous gang never dared to face two men yet. Come, are you able to walk ? Oh, you're a stout fellow, I see—come along with us. Come, Ludwig, put a hand under him, and we'll soon bring him up." When they lifted me up, the sudden motion caused a weakness so complete, that I fainted, and knew little more of their proceedings, till I found myself lying on a sofa in a large low room, where some forty persons were seated at a long table, most of them smoking from huge pipes of regular German proportions.- " Where am I?' was my question, as I looked about, and perceived that the party wore a kind of blue uniform, with fur on the collar and cuffs—and a greyhound, worked in gold, on the arm. " Why, you're safe, my good friend," said a friendly voice besid e me—" that's quite en oug h t o k now at present, isn't it? " I begin to agree with you," said I coolly—and so, turning round on my side, I closed my eyes, and fell into as pleasant asleep as ever I remember in my life. AN ADVENTURE IN PARIS. (From the Loiterings of Arthur O'Leary.) In my rambles through Paris, visiting strange and out of-the-way places, dining here, and supping there, watch ing life under every aspect 1 could behold it, I strolled one evening across the Pont Neuf into the " Isle St. Louis," that quaint old quarter with its narrow straggling streets and its tall gloomy houses, barricadoed like for tresses. The old porte where studded with nails, and barred svith•iron, and having each a small window to peer through at the stranger without, spoke of days when outrage and attack were rife, and it behoved every man to fortify his stronghold as best he could. There were now to be found the most abandoned and desperate of the whole Parisian world—the assassin, the murderer, the housebreaker, the coiner, found a re f uge i n thi s con f use d wilderness of gloomy alleys and dark dismal passages. When night falls, no lantern throws a friendly gleam along the streets—all is left in perfect darkness, save when the red light of some cabaret lamp streams across the pavement. In one of these dismal streets I found myself when night set in, and although I walked on and on, somehow I never could extricate myself, but conti nually kept moving in some narrow circle, so I guessed at least, for I never wandered far from the deep-toned bell of " Notre Dame," that went on chanting its melan choly peal through the stillness of the night air. I often stopped to listen, now it seemed before, now behind me ; the rich solemn sound floating through those cavernous streets, had something awfully impressive. The voice that called:to prayer, heard in that gloomy haunt of crime, was indeed a strange and appalling thing. At last it ceased, and all was still. For some time I was uncertain how to act, I feared to knock at a door and ask my way, the very confession of my loneliness would have been an invitation to outrage, if not to murder. No one passed me ; the streets seemed actually deserted. Fatigued with walking I sat down on a door sill and began to consider what was best to be done, when I heard the sound of heavy feet moving along towards me, the clattering of sabots on the rough pavement, and shortly after a man came up who, I could just distinguish, seemed to be a labourer. I suffered him to pass me a few paces and then called out— " Holloa, friend, can you tell me the shortest way to the Pont Neuf?" He replied by some words in a patois so strange I could make nothing of it. I repeated my question, and en deavoured, by signs, to express my wish. By this time he was standing close beside me, and I could mark, was evidently paying full attention to all I said. He looked about him once or twice, as if in search of some one, and then turning to me said in a thick guttural voice— " Halte la, I'll come ;" and with that be moved down in the direction he originally came from, and I could hear the clatter of his heavy shoes till the sounds were lost in the winding alleys. A sudden thought struck me that I had done wrong. The fellow had evidently some dark intention by his going back, and I repented bitterly having allowed him to leave me; but then what were easier for him than to lead me where he pleased had I retained him ; and so I reflected, when the noise of many voices speaking in a half-subdued ac cent came up the street. I heard the sound, too, of a great many feet ; my heart sickened as the idea of mur der, so associated with the place, flashed across me ; and I had just time to squeeze myself within the shelter of the door-way when the party came up. " Somewhere hereabouts, you said, wasn't it ?" said one in a good accent, and a deep, clear voice. " Oui da !" said the man I had spoken to, while he felt with his hands upon the walls and door-way of the oppo site house. " Holloa there," he shouted. " Be still, you fool : don't you think that he suspects something by this time ? Did the others go down the Rue des Lpups ?" " Yes, yes," said a voice close to where I stood. "Then all's safe; he can't escape that way. Strike a light, Pierre." " A tall figure, wrapped up in a cloak, produced a tin der box, and began to clink deliberately with a steel and flint. Every flash showed me some savage-looking face, where crime and famine struggled for mastery, while I could mark that many had large clubs of wood, and one or two were armed with swords. 1 drew my breath with short efforts, and was preparing myself for the struggle, in which, though I saw death before me, I resolved to sell life dearly, when a hand was passed across the pillar of the door, and rested on my leg. For a second it never stirred ; then slowly moved up to my knee, where it stopped again. My heart seemed to cease its beating ; I felt like one around whose body some snake is coiling, fold after fold, his slimy grasp. The hand was gently with drawn, and before I could recover from my surprise, I was seized by the throat and hurled out into the street. A savage laugh rang through the crowd, and a lantern, just lighted, was held up to my face, while he who spoke first called out— " You didn't dream of escaping us, Me, did you ?" at the same moment hands were thrust into my various pockets ; the few silver pieces I possessed were taken ; my watch torn off; my hat examined, and the lining of my coat ripped open, and all so speedily that I saw at once I had fallen into experienced hands. " Where do you live in Paris ?" said the speaker, still holding the light to my face, and staring fixedly at me while 1 answered. " I am a stranger and alone," said I, for the thought struck me, that in such a circumstance frankness was as good policy as any other. I came here to-night to see the cathedral, and lost my way in returning.' " But where do you live? in what quarter of Paris ?" " The Rue d' Alger ; number 12; the second story." " What effects have you there in money ?" " One English bank note for five pounds; nothing more." " Any jewels, or valuables of any kind ?" " None ; I am as poor as any man in Paris." " Does the porter know your name, in the house?" " No ; I am only known as the Englishman of number 12." " What are your hours, irregular, are they not ?" " Yes ; I often come very late." " That's all right. You speak French well. Can you write it?" " Yes ; sufficiently so for any common purpose.' "Here, then," said he, opening a larg e p oc k et -b oo k , " write an order whi c h I'll tell you to the concierge of the house. Take this pen." With a trembling hand I took the pen, and waited for ite direction.' " Is it a woman keeps the door of your hotel ?" " Yes, " said I. " Well, then, begin—Madame La Concierge, let the bearer of this note have the key of my apartment." ' As I followed with my hand the words, I could mark that one of the party was whispering in the ear of the speaker, and then moved slowly round to my back.' " Hush, what's that ?" cried the chief speaker. Be still there;' and as we listened, the rich chorus of a num ber of voices singing in parts, was heard at some little distance off. " That infernal nest of fellows must be rooted out of this, one day or other,' said the chief ; ' and if I end my days on the Place de la Greve, I'll try and do it. Bush there—be still—they're passing on,' true enough, the sound began to wax fainter, and my heart sank heavily, as I thought the last hope was leaving me suddenly a thought dashed through my mind—death in one shape is as bad as another. I'll do it—l stooped down, as if to continue my writing, and then collecting my strength for the effort, and taking a deep breath, I struck the man in front a blow with all my might, that felled him to the ground, and clearing him with a spring, bounded down the street. My old Indian teaching had done me good service here ; for white men could have caught me in an open plain, with space and sight to guide me—and I gained at every stride ; but alas, I dared not stop to listen whence the sounds proceeded, and could only dash straight forward, not knowing where it might lead me, down a steep rugged street, that grew narrower as I went, I plunged—when, horror of horrors, I heard the Seine plashing at the en' : the rapid current of the river surged against the heavy tnri,ers that defended the banks, with a sound like a death-wail. A solitary trembling light lay afar off in the river from some barge that was at anchor there. 1 fixed my eye upon it, and was preparing for a plunge, when, with a half suppressed cry, my pursuers sprung up from a low wharf I had not seen, below the quay, and stood in front of me ; in an instant they were upon me, a shower of blows fell on ;my head and shoulders—and one, armed with a des perate resolution, struck me on the forehead, and felled me on the spot. " Be quick now, be quick," said a voice I well knew— " into the river with him—the ' filets de St. Cloud' will catch him by day-break—into the river with him." They tore off my coat and shoes, and dragged roe along towards SELECTIONS. FEAR CAUSING LAUGHTER. —The motion of fear must produce a different sensation in a Chinese from what it does in other people, for, when most afraid, they in variably laugh the heartiest. Rather against the theory of Mr. Hobbes, that " the passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves by comparison with the in firmity of others, or with our own formerly."—Captain Lock's The Closing Events of the Campaign in China. It is one of the artful plans of the Tractarian school to represent the heads of the Church of England as really divided upon this subject. But this is not the case. Some of the bishops have seen more good arising out of a few of the early tracts than others have done ; but all hake con curred in this, that, as a whole, they have been injurious. Some of the bishops have thought more highly than others have done of the personal piety of some of the authors of the tracts ; but all have concurred in Warning the creation of a schism, and of a heresy, which must tend to drive the lay members of the Church, either onwards to Romish, or backwards to Protestant dissent. We have read every charge which has been delivered by the heads of our Church with regard to this heresy ; and we have no hesi tation in saying, that the condemnation under which Dr. Pusey is now suffering is one which is not merely inflicted by the University of Oxford, but is in complete harmony with all the declared opioions of our episcopal governors. —The Churchman for July. COMPETITION.—This under-selling speculation, this plan to secure a monopoly, this courting of present loss with an eye to more abundant profit in the end, however sanctioned by example and universality of practice, is part of a system radically wrong ; an effort in the struggle by which each man sells to overreach his brother; an opera tion of the principle of selfishness ; sure in its prospective action so to influence the dealer, that, calculating the pro bable loss on his merchandise, he will find, in his own bosom, a plausible plea• for expending the least possible outlay in its preparation ; and this same fact being present also to the apprehension of the party who supplies it, will affect the wages paid to the poor drudges whose manual labour brings it from the bowels of the earth, or whether at the anvil or the loom, works into form by mechanical operation. At home there is scarcely a branch of trade where the same mischievous and wrongful' plan is not occasionally pursued. We are always hearing of prodigious bargains on sale—some article offered for less than it could possibly be sold at, unless in some other article a pro fit equivalent to this:loss is to be made : and if only equiva lent, who would be at the trouble and incur the risk of such a venturous game ? We may point t o l arge establish ments, not " selling off, " but in thriving business, un dertaking to supply some small matter in very general use, at fifty or a hundred per cent. less than the very prepara tion, exclusive of the material, must cost them, if the poor creatures who fashion it are paid with any regard to common honesty or decency in the transaction. How can this be, unless purchasers, tempted by such a lure to fre quent the establishment, are enormously overcharged--in plain English, defrauded—in something else ?—Perils of the Nation. THE PROTESTANT CHURCH AT JERUSALRIH.--A snaall upper room, within the city, on the lower slopes of Sion, appropriately fitted up, and ascended by a staircase from without, is as yet the only place for the administration of our holy worship ; and that was too spacious for the little flock that assembled there, including, besides ourselves, only the architect, the bishop's family, with a portion of his household, and two missionaries. Adjoining the tem porary chapel are laid the foundations of the new Protes tant church ; for which the ground is excavated to the depth of fifty feet, through accumulated rubbish. Assu redly it will now stand, for it is not only founded on a rock, but " her foundations are upon the holy hill, and the Lord loveth the gates of Sion more than all the dwell ings of Jacob once more, " out of Sion bath God ap peared in perfect beauty." This sacred edifice is intended to contain five hundred persons. Where so many are to be found, remains yet to be seen. God will, if it be so decreed, prosper the work. As yet, the only Protestants in the " City of God" are the Consul, a very trifling number of Hebrew converts, and the Missionaries. The prayers of our liturgy are read daily at seven o'clock in the morning, in Hebrew, and in the evening in the Eng. lish language : on a Sabbath afternoon, and on other occasions, the German is used in addition. Having re ceived an invitation to attend evening service in the con fined, though comfortable, well-furnished residence of the Bishop, in a narrow street, I gladly availed myself of the privilege; and subsequently enjoyed much conversation with him. His family consists of a wife, daughters, a governess, chaplain, two or three English servants, and a medical man—a most requisite addition, the climate at certain seasons being decidedly unhealthy, the rain fall ing in spring causing fevers and ague : so severely was the architect suffering, that on the occasion of our dining at his residence he was compelled to keep his bed.— Stent's Tour. THE LIVERPOOL MERCHANT OF EIGHTY YEARS AGO.-Mr. Manesty was about three or four and forty years of age. His countenance was cold and calculating, seldom, if ever, relaxing into a smile, and almost as sel dom darkening into a frown. In stature, he, like one o f Crabbe's heroes— " Grave Jonas' kindred, Sibyl kindred's sire, Was six feet high, and look'd six inches higher;" and his massive head, somewhat (contrary to custom, he wore n ) peruke) touched with gray, and rapidly inclining to be bald, was firmly set on a pair of ample shoulders. His dress, which never varied, was of snuff-brown broad cloth, a wide-skirted coat, a deep-flapped waistcoat, and a close-fitting pair of breeches, not reaching much beyond the knee, where they were secured by a pair of small sil ver buckles. These garments were all of the same colour and material, and for more than twenty years he bad not allowed any change in their fashion, which, though an object of scorn in the eyes of the beaux and macaronies of the middle of the last century, was comfortable and commodious. No ruffles graced his wrists ;no tie or solitaire decorated his stiff cravat, rolled closely round his muscular throat; no ornament whatever was worn on any part of his person ; but all, from his well-brushed, broad-brimmed hat, to his woollen stockings of iron gray, and his shoes—blackened with whatever art, before the appearance of Day and Martin in the world, could com mand, and kept tightiy close by a pair of the darkest buckles—was scrupulously clean, stainless, and without speck. Such, too, was his repute among his brother merchants ; and when, at Exchange hours, he made his way, slowly and steadily pacing among the commercial crowd, with - ids gold-headed cane, which he carried more as an emblem of his caste than for any purpose of sup porting his brawny hand or strong-set limbs, he seemed, in more senses than one, a pillar of 'Change.—John Manesty, the Liverpool Merchant, by the late Dr. Ma ginn, from Ainsworth's Magazine. QUAKERS AFTER THE RESTORATION.—Amongst the most remarkable taverns was one kept by a Quaker in Finch-lane, and frequented almost exclusively by persons of the same fraternity. The Quakers opened their hearts, under the Restoration, to a little social intercourse, and became such excellent judges of wine, that this establish ' went to which they resorted was noted for the rare quality 'of its liquors. But the most striking attribute of the house was the dreary melancholy that pervaded it. Utterly unlike all the other taverns, this hostelrie was as still as the grave ; the visitors moved about in silence, or sat like spectres over their glasses. Hilarity was out of the ques tion ; nobody spoke, except by whispers, or in hushed voices, in a corner of the room ; discussion was prohi bited; outward signs or expressions of enjoyment there were none, except in the watering of the eyes or the mant ling colour of the cheeks ; a sad and profound gravity spread over the assembled guests ; even the drawers glided through the room with the solemn air of phantoms ; and the whole company seemed to be awaiting the visitation of the spirit to unlock their tongues and the fountains of gaiety in their brains, so plentifully supplied by their noiseless potations. A coarse writer, who was certainly no Quaker, gives a curious description of the interior. "We found all things," he observes, " as silent as the mourning attendance at a rich man's funeral; no ringing of bar-bell or bawling of drawers, but a general hush kept up through the whole family, as a warning to all tippl ers , at their entrance, no t t o ma k e a noise. * * * In the entry, we met two or three blushing saints, who had been holding forth so long over their glass, that had it not been for their flapping umbrellas, puritanical coats, and dimi nutive cravats, shaped like the rose of a parson's hat-band, I should have taken them, by their scarlet faces, to be good Christians. They passed us as upright and as stiff as so many figur's in a raree- show. * * * A d runken looking drawer, disguised in a sober garb, s h ewe d us i nto the kitchen, which we t o ld him we were desirous of being in ; several of Father Ramsay's slouching disciples sat hovering over their half-pints, like so m an y goss i ps ON er their quarterns of brandy, as if they were afraid anybody should see their."—Ainsworth's Mayahinez SECOND EDITION. In the reign of Edward --- I. the price Of a 13 11)16 ' ' ' , : 6 , 4 5 f i e d i. ° EXTRAORDINARY POWS& OF TIM many impossibilities,b ut OC s our power without limit otentrOaPer' poi The Chinese distinguish the American second the b L ) bnlheodrseahiansstinanthler.sphinhe," said lotion of second chop (that is to say , is Englishmen. " B ...unary Car" BATING HOLLOW." --P What an extra..-- . • t he r pace il not boundless, Or a a n r e d s l a 2 y b i t v ' other day , t w h i i f e t he -g h l had 10, 10, " By the ' powers, sir, and to be sure I► m able' . _ he 0 , heard, sir, that before the baste was your ProP erY l hine t o a n Irish utaalbrc,ecotcll'oonl tscbelfalell:srbi:r' is orse, yo hollow, s and I d got straight • ~ again. Lonig A gentleman engaged in taking the census of e _ e ville informs the editor of the Kentuckian that be r e r r e d across a man who is 55 years old; he had been ma c oad., three times ; by his first wife be had 11, by bis a b o, p t uragement ren, and his wife is now in a most interesting. ~..19 seeing him greatly exhausted touawralChr:d:a Tweet -three of his children bs ► and l 3 Pm!, are oy , boys I; 18th ley' ; and 6 girls are living. He married in la the s* ' homceop , and remained in a state of widowhood three years. , m anage °` KEAN a AND THE MOUNTAIN DEIV.-The Ri t nu e Q m i ti er E Scotch theatre, at which Kean was play %lie f tba wouldn't—if it was vitriol." performance, offered him some whiskey in a very shtishelarlisweinf telantakhiinsgba36cnoutsectee, ' h. 1 the real mountain - dew; that will never bull 7 _ ;1 - o E u N s m E a L t l e Z r A n ß al ET re ri la 'S tio lC oa l , H a D n lt d E l " No," said Kean, with a significant glaareea it ,ast,ah,yiTienagkd,oosatethtthnmsoar;m. etichtaeitmane;Zakbeweatys7::_rs -- n y li c i :P t bl u e; e li rfr °l3 o l l her h aerior gentry, particularly in Norfolk; arivins,,.o;eet offatherno having selected for his second con sort '. a of Jibe me H a A b N e G g E g very elevated extraction; whilst the blo u__ o f Boleynes was widely diffuse d by the interinarrlarehe numerous junior branches . There is no doubt th at i 00 " - . • queen_ chose to repress the claims of her kindr e d; be' 1 , Estrange relates of her, that when one begge e vola majesty, and pretended kindred and alliance, tbe44 a n r. F " OR. A SINGLE LlNE•'Hp°oe One u.i.:08 to k eep "Friend, grant it be so, dost think I aul 70 all my kindred? Why, that 's the w ay t° ,i al ot2 ' lain d v P ery ,in a mixed company, that he considereaf,oo. ill treated by the world, by its unjust and t lo ' es, lat e t able censures ; l adding, that he had written roan p ag es tbs throughout the whole of which were but a few sad could be said er; said to contain any h ible matt •v. repre ens pee yet for those few pages he was abused and to to a .„ The gentleman drily observed, that he put him in In' i/ eo c oo ' d i e acquaintance, a notary public,having be .__,,,,e lathed to be hanged for a forgery, lamented the esuiterraa injustice and hardness of his ' . ausmuch as 116 case, 1 port written many ' thousand ino ff ensive sheets, and was to be hanged for a single line. , IWO / BRUNELIANA.—NOW that Mr. Brunel has may be p r. recovered . from his lately criticalstate, we b mal „ r reat mated to repeat few een '"• be a of the jokes that have_sea t in society on the subject. One of these otl'i" Be J• sir utmost astonishment n o.b Hi' that so eminent a ma- , for bey, Brodie should be found willing to cut a throat ivit• sovereion ; another purported that the best t hing o Brunel could do would be to get change for tu` tra ctit and the would third that the most likely person to ~e%, like be some expert pickpocket. I shoula _ 1 !,; F ool to have one. “ a i half-severeign sticking in my throat," ;'''';epfiea bad rather that than nine shillings, oi trae -° ‘ the a person addressed. From the difficulty of cs_ e bi. half - sovereign from Mr. Brunel, one wouldialssa' to be a THE very stingy man.—Bristol Journal. •0 of HOUSE or C w oo ommoNs.—From the a w ash' King Geor g e III. to the present date, 4,60 pe sate in th VARIETIES• The parliament existing October — 5.5 g 1760 New members in the parliament of—• 1 0. , ' 1761.... 254 1774.... 206 I 1784.... 225 1768.... 222 1780.... 193 I 1790.. • • 249 I Irish members added— 100 1801 ........ • l6 6' New members in the parliament of— v v, VW- • a , 1802.... 246 1818.... 192 1831.. . • '"" , 169 u 1806.... 163 1820.... 193 1833.. • • 262 T oo.. - 1807.... 16.1 1826.... 205 1835.. • • ~1 5, 7 9 , 1812.... 246 1830.... 169 1837. •• • "" 0 6 ' The above were— Peers of Ireland lB2 Esquires, &c•• •• O - A Sons of Peers 2 1 2 3 8 21 0 4 f do. .. 7 7 824 1 • Baronets and Knights Of the above there sat in— liao aeil- 9 11 15 parliaments 1 9 parliaments 84 Total. Baronets ;144: 14 do. .. 6 8 do. .. 108 2 do . ...„, 4 693 12 do. .. 14 6 do. ... 311 Tota l " , 11 do. .. 24 I 5 do. ...396 10 do. .. 40 I 4 d 591 (:). . . e . o rlist ileliv. e otfhtehaebaobvoevheahvaevienhbeereintecdrepaeteerdagpeese.rs o f r to me e_psr, A ROYAL REQUEST.— The papers. relative d to t o dition to the Niger were on Tuesday preseor a desil to do. ... 184 1 liament. Amongst other documents willbe foor i 3 l,l 64 i tiog beenfrom D e n n infinitelyCy , a o p f t t . 1 i T e u G c a k be delightedor dated Tucker, ri v ~eriver. Fernando the : Ile : n ir sed Majesty, s o p e P c o t , p M a 1, d 7 00:07 t e o du ba d i 0 the Admiralty, giving an account of his rniss i ee ° ost, e t i l e repeated salute with which Captain Tucker h° l s o3 e o gli• but sadly disappointed with the presents--a g ° ‘‘ oi6 till chain—sent to him by the Queen of England. bydicta jesty" gave expression to this disappointrneOt the following letter to the Queen : 4 abOOd t "To QUEEN OF ENGLAND. . et,- tp " Sister,—King Denny, of Sandy Point, gilby C ap t 4 must embrace you for the things you send pl e d tbe gil e , Tucker, your war-ship Wolverene, who dn' ea sed ° pl ea asb th in i id s :o day with grand ceremony, which much P na eetq i ,tch snw K gti i oi n li g mb.,ye D enx en , n w y h w ic a h s c to o o st m l u 2 c o h dgollaidartso, s w a ti l i e cte n too eel. , ad wi ‘ tt glad to give Queen. r t° I , 6 14 " King Denny wish very much to be broth an is oil; , A s n ee d am K come for slaves ; and suppose Queen send P i - dYe - t and ebony. y e p w a i u s h l e t m t e v s li s ,nf , o e ogt r ro y Dstr g eao l n a irin d e s fo u r pp iv o o s r e y Q , g n u : t: bneoes,lewt::ll,;:yresEtor:cosgceorg.lf: plenty gold in them ; coc k e d hat w i t h gold f ba irs: sword and belt, plenty gold ; and two eas . s;_`, e. j. King Denny wishes Queen health and good 1 0 1) 0 " King Denny very glad he hear Qtle , g °t • ff his , : 41. 4 " King Denny Town, P li 3d day of Moon : ~ gin, it te , w ar , oa , • i.e., May 16, 1840." ,berd,, e ,3 o Lord John Russell, it would appear, from on ° . , e ` r ‘` 13 , 1 6"upa 1l , sister w ai s t c s o e n a t d , ra a n e " a t r f o e ::b s e o r es i consented on the part of the Queen to co' a for jesty's" nakedness with the frippery 11e,7 5ke his engaging to abolish the slave node ------- - --r------ SPORTING INTELLICEI.A7 a, ea tfi e TATTERSALL'S TIIVILSruq' ~ CO h olf The room was thinly attended, and bulorl) s ll °) D v , O f to offers of 4to 1 agst Colonel Charrities viel and 7to 1 agst Mr. Johnstone's Char les the ri 6 : the Goodwood Cup. events pi o pa f sg, t ,a h no y a - n\ e lr e d,. k e3d , MANCHESTER, FRI— .5. v . 0 . e t The Newcastle Meeting has attracted o teni abse ec of e ll ; fluential speculators ; however, during n tb Aeit :e tt i ° , ll : ol :: pencils have not been allowed to slumber' 3 ; a nct 1 , 0 0, 1 ' gagements upon the Northumberland t ;,er i t fle r y . be superfluous to dwell upon • suffice it , 5° 91 , P P 7 th t e o '; t 0.4 on the two was Laid, Y and i 7 to 4 talieo " t he to c 0 0 These b°'"stro36,lolt LIVERPOOL CV P.• ~. Ind u oo At the commencement of the wee"' forro le meeting this forenoon, we find the following of the proceedings :- 9 to I agst Naworth 200 10—Charles the Twelfth 300 9 Agreeable 200 6 Potentia 100 4 Whistle Binkie 100 4 Queen of the TYne 100 4 200 8 Knight of the MTh 100 4 Give-him - a -uarne 100 4 Thirsk 100 2 Pricr 40-3 _ nvifnanveoru.r of t he 91, to nwtoee:ldeatmhea.de. The members pres p en ° than room was complimented with a 5 0 1061 3 rwoesreT so few' tha t t o be 0 ,1 , 1 4 : to chat took place upon the events passed ; a rtl la ft. dieS jit! l ef , f 0 o f be gleaned on the Liverpool idere Newcastle. The following may be cons the latest offers : events froal 'd 5.1 There was n l c i :be — ttin l THE LIVERPOOL cur. 9 to 1 on the field. 9 1 agst Pompey 9 1 Naworth 16 1 any other THE ST. LEGEH• „.orlt, A, „ worthy ___--- ~/:to ..---------- 13%.0'0,09 THE DISSENTERS AND EDLICATONhprOP.iO Id Manchesler Guardian, afieTrcileEadvocate of t t 'i c - ie os o oe'ire and of the dissenting interests, has au s i t 'ibe 1016 number, condemnatory of the conduc t °' bill ` i t ioti 11. • of the educational clauses in the factor)? _. l ool' .0 1 ii poor,_tard the and e to xt d en am sio a n ge, o i f n e st rl e n a c a at from_ this article the following signi..cant 1 0 ,' ; 7 on o , led believe that the dissenters, - t i e l'ec°"llot' 119 A ,ationc hic l e which they have offered to the euti-- tbs t ° of 1 te r fallen • Into an error similar in character t° lois 0. 1 betting re,_ committed in 183'x; that their conduct is csulareabro i terests bill' Ii w , --Th is ot si o t/ THE A . ...-X ENDED FACTORIES vILL• ree c ? b° te d bas just been printed, does not, of cou but it O t is Educational Clauses of the former bill ; ed to s oo t t o clauses, which require every child ernPilper, 0 te, to attend school three hours a day hours and a half a, day from the Ist ° e s alu s ter ° ' tr 31st March, and require certificates of tl'i oc coP i f f o ol , 7 ith the payment of 3d. per week bY ti w ay s toPor 0 "0 01 factory to the schoolmaster, which he r ra ,, t potiu t a tO $ Pi wages, though not to a great .osvere bi 5 0. 0 0 iwe%fth of the wages. The schools eng . .,,tion oit t 01 1 ' L'lrtificates are all to be subject to vi-t i b l e Colu e boo l e e, pector of schools; and on this reoort t he s 4 O, pi , At or t ho 'AO Ccuncq . may declare the master tw -- Neatly 1 3 ' proper. In other respects the bill i 3 toc ier * before,—limiting the labour of chil dren t , y,e to 61 hours per day. otta dtov atphcei 071 to . .14 Standard-office, Half-past Eleven o'clock. LIVERPOOL TRADESMEN'S CUP. The following are the acceptances for this anxiously expected race :- 9st 2lb Mr. Holmes's b h Vulcan, 6 yrs 8 7 Lord John Fitzroy ns ch h Retriever, aged 8 4 Mr Bake ns b m Collina, 5 qrs 8 4 Lord Wilton ns ch h The Knight-of-the-Whistle, 5 yrs 8 2 Major Yarburgh's br h Heslington, 5 yrs. 8 2 Mr. G. Payne's br h Johnny, 6 yrs 8 0 Lord Howth's b h Morpeth, 5 yrs 7 13 Mr R Wardlaw's b &Moss Trooper, 4 yrs' 7 12 Lord Eglington's b f Blue Bonnet, 4 yrs 7 9 Mr J Henderson ns br c Whistle Binkie, 4 yrs 7 8 Lord Kelburne's b h Give-him-a-name, 5 yrs 7 8 Mr. Frazer ns b h Tbirsk, 5 yrs 7 8 Mr J Langshaw ns b c Eboracum, 4 yrs 7 8 Mr J M Stanley ns b h Forester, 5 yrs 7 8 Mr Meiklam's b c Aristotle, 4 yrs 7 7 Duke of Richmond's br h Mus, aged 7 5 Col. Anson ns ch m Rhodanthe, 6 years. 7 0 Mr. W. Davis's The M a j or , by Sheet Anchor, 4 years. 6 12 Mr. S. Willoughby ns ch c Vakeel, 4 years. 6 10 Mr. Merry's b c Cable, 4 years. 6 10 Mr. J. S. Leigh ns Lord G. Bentinck's br h Naworth, 6 years. 6 10 Mr. Osbaldeston's b f Sister to Alexandrina, 4 years. 6 6 Hon. E. M. LI. Mostyn's br c Lytham, 4 years. 6 6 Mr. Kennedy's gr c The Lord of the Isles, 4 years. 6 4 Lord Chesterfield's b c Tiptoe, 4 years. 6 4 Mr. Graydon's ch c Recompense, 4 years. 6 4 Sir R. Pigot's ch g by Cain, out of Miss Chester, 4 years. 6 2 Mr. Burke ns br c True Boy, 3 years. 6 0 Lord Eglington's br c Pompey, 3 years. 5 10 Duke of Richmond's Lothario, by Giovanni, out of Moggy, 3 years. 5 10 Capt. Harcourt's br c Sir Abstrupus, 3 years. REMARKABLE COINCIDENCES : QUEEN CHRISTINE. —By one of those remarkable coincidences that assume the charecter of fatalities, Valencia is identified with the two most important events in the life of Marie Christine, the Alpha and Omega of her queenly career. It was there that she landed when arriving in Spain to be married to her uncle, Ferdinand the Seventh ; and it was there, too, eleven years later, that she signed her extraordinary abdi cation previous to embarking from thence for France. The Syanish gentleman, who was on board with us, told us that on the first of these occasions the authorities of Valencia had prepared for her reception by purchasing sumptuous furniture, which was placed in a private resi dence that was set apart for her s 6 our, there being no government palace at Valencia. After the departure of the royal bride for Madrid, this rich ameublement was pur chased by our informant himself, who was then fitting up hii own house, previous to his own marriage, and could find nothing in the place to equal it in taste and splen dour. At the period of the Queen's last visit to Valencia, the authorities of the town had solicited from him The loan of the same furniture for her Majesty's use :—And it is a remarkable fact," he added, "that the toilette made by Christine for the ceremony of signing her abdicatio n was performed before the identical dressing-glass, at which, eleven years before, th e nupt i a l crown and veil had been placed upon her brow."—Mrs. Romer's The Rhone, "SURPLUS POPULATION."—The extent of territory occupied by Judah and Israel in David's days did not quite double that of the principality of Wales. The king took a census, and the returns showed the population to be about seven millions. In the peaceful, prosperous reign of Solomon they must be supposed to have in creased yet more, and so we find it, for the language employed concerning them is—" Judah and Israel were many as the sand which is by the sea shore for multitude, eating and drinking and making merry." Here, then, was a small country most densely peopled, yet rejoicing in abundance, filled with food and gladness, neither know ing nor fearing distress. To what shall we attribute it? Certainly not to a long course of prosperity, for when David commenced his reign the land was overrun by the Philistines who devoured -its increase, oppressing and slaying the people, and nearly up to the time of their numbering, internal wars had perpetually interrupted the current of national prosperity. Colonies they had none ; commerce was almost unknown to them ; they do not appear to have had manufactures sufficient for their own consumption. And yet "surplus population" would have sounded strangely in the ears of an Israelite! One of the main blessings promised to their obedience was, that there should be neither male nor female barren among them. The man who feared the Lord was told that his wife should be as the fruitful vine : children were counted without any distinction of classes as olive branches around the table—as arrows in the hand of a giant; and he was pronounced happy wno had his quiver full of them. Circumscribed as was the territory, each family being re stricted to its own lot, and prodigiously rapid as was the increase of population, the man who had ventured to talk of a " preventive check " would have stood a better chance of being stoned than eulogised.—Perils of the Nation. THE PUBLIC BUILDINGS IN C GRK. — HaIf-a-dozen of the public buildings I saw were spacious and shabby be was founded by a b o d y o f C ork merchants and tradesmen, and is belief. Adjoining reading the room, Imperial Hotel ch is an great,d allth the very Cockneyverlarge,y picture of decay. Not P a l myra — not the handsome, desolate Russell Instituti on i n G reat Coram-street—present more melancholy appea rances o f f a d ed greatness. Opposite this is another institution, called the Cork Library, where there are plenty of books, and plenty of kindness to the stranger; but the shabbiness and faded splendour c o t a f th l 1 0 1 i p c lc churches ae are commenced painful. o Th f lateere are yea three no t handsome on e of them is complete. Two want their porticos ; the other is not more than thirty feet from the ground; and, ac cording to the archit ec t ura l plan, was to rise as high as a cathedral. There is an institution, with a fair library of scientific works ; a museum, and a drawing school with a supply of casts. The place is in yet more dismal condition than the lib rary. Th e p l asters are spoiled in curably for want of a sixpenny feather brush ; the dust lies on th e wa ll s, an d no b ody seems to heed it. Two shillings a year would have repaired much of the evil it which has happe n ed t o t hi s i nst i tut i on ; and is folly to talk of inward dissensions and political differences as causing the ruin of such institutions. Kings or laws d on 't cause or cure du s t an d co b we b s ; but indolence leaves them to accumulate, and imprudence will not calculate its income, and vanity exaggerates its own powers, and the fault is l a id upon that tyrant of a sister kingdom. The whole co un t ry i s fill ed w i th such failures ; swaggering beginnings, that could not be carried through ; grand en terprises begun dashingly, and ending in shabby compro mises or downright ruin.--Irish Sketch Book. HUME ON ROYAL EXPENDITURE.—We understand that Mr. Hume is preparing a treatise on royal expendi ture, and that th e b as i s of his calculations will be on the principle of hi s l a t e astounding discovery that an annuity of £3OOO to a f ema l e o f twenty-two years of age is worth half a million of money. This conclusion was, no doubt, arrived at by th e method that would be used in solving the well-known problem--" If a bath-brick cost three halfpence, what would a sack of coals come to ? Mr. Huiiie's contemplated work will treat of the royal din ner table, and contrast its cost with the bill of fare at the Rupert-street dining-rooms. He will show that the ex pensive mode o f d o i ng things at Buckingham Palaceis not at all necessary for the royal comfort, and that the dinner of her Majesty need not come to more than ten pence, which, a ll ow i ng twopence for the lord in waiting, would bring it up to the Rupert -street average. This calculation allows only " a small plate of meat to the Queen, but it gives her Majesty " two breads ;" and for the more manly appetite of Prince Albert, Mr. Hume sets down the sum of sixteenpence, which, with twopence for gold-stick, would amount to one-and-sixpence. Mr. Hume devotes a whole chapter to the maids of honour, and the conclusion he arrives at, is, that the honour ought to be sufficient remuneration for the maids in question. In his section on the bedchamber women he enters largely on the subject of their supposed duties, and gives some interesting tables of the sues he has paid to the house maids in his own employ for the last quarter of a century. The very difficult subject of a month's wages or a month's warning, as applicable to the mistress of the robes, the comptroller of the household, and other highly -paid.. functionaries, is very nicely handled. On the whole, we can confidently recommend the book of Mr. Hume as in-. valuable to small German princes and sovereigns, to whom the art of living upon a hundred a-year would be of infinite utility. For a country like England the prac tical application of Mr. Hume's theory would be at pre sent premature. If the author's views prevail his book may become useful, unless the nation should con tract for the sovereign's keep in an hotel or boarding.. house.—punch. THE. WAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE " ROWDY JOURNAL. " —. Behind a mangy old writing table sat a figure, with the stump of a p en i n i ts mouth, and a great pair of scissors in its right band, clipping and slicing at a file of Rowdy Journals ; and it was such a laughable figure, that Martin had some difficulty in preserving his gravity, though conscious of the close observation of Colonel Diver. The individual who sat clipping and slicing as aforesaid at the Rowdy Journals, was a small young gentlernan,.of very j uven il e appearance, and un wh nseolomely pale in the fa ce ; partly, perhaps, from in te thought, but partly, there is no doubt, from the excessive . use of tobacco, which he was at that moment ile bd crop—wasuo w t. 1 had ov ach e e r e orpauei notnmb peanoldcdynk for ohr smoothed, c) : l obs a , te dhe a ent dnh,d that loftiesttr and grubbed birsbd developments dera a vr n etou k ei fpod p i n i b: n a oya i see r e—kn theto f a sn r o f v irbmr roots, 1 being chewing vigorously. He wore his shirt collar turned is brow, that none Of the poetry of his aspect might be lost, t ws h ol e lce e hw n h s; of mankind has bestoived the appellation " . snula,' and it was very much tumid up at the end, as with a lofty scorn. Upon the upper lip of this oun gentleman were t o k ens of a sandy down —so very, y , very smooth and scant, that though encouraged to the utmost ibWp P nea a aggi r sr e ua n nont t t oe l tts y (oci li.i t ots e sonsa n rog.y d ri tender n r i Ihnu a i tgl madee determining we n a t it . looked more like a recent trace of gingerbread than the fair promise of a moustache and this conjecture his in tentapfeaorWrrtietoisipsintornehdnimigntsgheelmnf . tohtaio ll tnt e hw w isit a mh s utsis - t upon his work and every time he snapped the great jaws, which gave him a very terrible appearance. Martin be Colonel Diver's con ; the hope of the family, and little future b l o o n- 3. ' 1 - I. a , t i Ina npsidr)lor it:hdgal that ifitrtiwtheearsivosewer•dyd pa J llel o da u s r as n na a it l a . : Indeed ,,smee had hethe presumedguileies:n Colonel's w im ar p c la Ll respondent, sir —Mr. Jefferson- Brick 1"--iiirenturqS Martin Chu:;.:7(eirit, No. Vi t, i 1 t o , )11 , 1 0 ,, fro t i o , i 1 11 0 01 141:, ¢~ f ar Be~ Aei