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titrraturt. P 0 E R. Y. " MANY HAPPY RETURNS OF THE DAY." BY ELIZA COOK. Merry words, merry words ! ye come bursting around, Telling all that affection can say ; 'Tis the music of heart chords that dwells in the sound, " Many happy returns of the day." • The red cheek of the child is more rich in its glow, And the bright eye more swift in its ray, When his mates hail his birth in their holiday mirth, And drink, " Happy returns of the day." The old man may smile while he listens, and feel He hath little time longer to stay ; Still he liketh to hear from the lips that are dear, " Many happy returns of the day." Though Misfortune is nigh, let the kind words float by, And something of Hope will spring up, That the hand of the Future may drain off the gall, And some nectar drops yet fill qur cup. If we bask in Con'ent, while another short year IS recorded with eloquent bliss, How we prize the fond wishes, all gladly sincere, That come round with the soul pledging kiss. Oh ! our place in the world will be chilly and drear, When our natal-tide passes away Without one to remember or breathe in our ear, " Many happy returns of the day." There are moments when memory cruelly brings The grim spectres cf joy back again, When sorrow malignantly sharpens her stings Till we quiver and bleed with the pain; And the spirit will groan in such moments as this, When our loudly-hailed birthday shalt fall, But among the warm greetings there's one that we miss, - And that one was the dearest of all. What would w•e not give if the grave would restore The dear form it hath wrested away, If the voice of the lost one could wish us once more, " Many happy returns of the day." There are moments when truth and devotion increase, Till they burn in the crucible breast With an increase and might that we know not the light Of our smouldering feeling possessed ; ^ And that flame will be vividly flashing out thus When we welcome returns of the time That gave some loved beings to life and to us, The sweet bells in mortality's chime. Then a garland, a bumper, a dance, and a feast, let the natal-tide come when it may, Be it autumn or spring, a gay chorus we'll sing— " Many happy returns of the day." MUSIC. Oh, Music! echo from a far, harmonious world! In our dumb bosoms, Thou, the Angel's sigh! If human speech, if quick'ned glance should fail To ease the laden bosom of its tale— If our hearts, lonesome pris'ners, pining, lie, In cell unburst, from whence they fain would fly— Oh, then 'tis thou, by whom the cheerless captives greet, By whom their distant sighs in lonely union meet! Liverpool. H. Tim:. SELECTIONS. LUTHER'S CONVENT.—We breakfasted this morning at.Erfurt, and made duteous pilgrimage to the Augustine Convent, which Luther inhabited as a monk. In the church, he said his first mass ; and it remains in the same state, with a rude old pulpit in which Luther preached, and carved wooden galleries. His cell is preserved as when he lived in it. It is like conventual cells all over the world, a small square high chamber. Here is the Bible that he first found in the library of the convent; studying which his powerful mind began to perceive the errors of the church to which he belonged. The convent is now used as an orphan house.—Mrs. Shelley 8 Rambles. X CONNOISSEURS CONCEIT REBUKED.—HUdSOU, the portrait-painter, master of Sir Joshua, was so fortunate as to obtain a fine impression cf the very rare etching by Rembrandt, called the " Coach Landscape." On occa sion of this acquisition, be gave a supper to his amateur friends, at which to display his purchase. Benjamin Wilson, his brother painter, who a good judgment this branch of art, and knew Hudsen hal very little, though affecting vela enthusiasm for it, amused himself at his expense. He etched a plate in the style of Rem brandt, and sent an impression to Paris, circulating a re port at home that there had been discovered in France a print, by Rembrandt, hitherto unknown, and apparently a companion to the ' Coach Landscape ;' that money had been offered for it for the king's collection, but that the proprietor meant to bring it to England for sale. Hud son, therefore, to anticipate his friends, hastened over to Paris, and bought the print. On his return, he collect d all his amateur friends in London to a second supper, given especially for the purpose of receiving their congra tulations, which he received accordingly. Very shortly after this, the whole of the same party, and Hudson with them, were invited to a supper at Wilson's. When all were introduced to the supper-table, every plate was found turned down, and on the guests lifting them, behold un der every one an impression of the unhappy companion of the " Coach Landscape," and under Hudson's plate lay the money that he had paid to Wilson's confederate in Paris for the purchase.—The Print Collector. THE WELL OF JACOB AND TOMB OF JOSEPH.—On our descending this hill of blessing (Dent. xi. 29), and such, I trust, we experienced it to be on this interesting occasion, we went about a mile further to see the well of Jacob, where our Lord conversed with the woman of Samaria, and declared the great truth, that " salvation is of the Jews." Of the fact that the "well was deep," and that something was required wherewith to draw up the water, we had evidence before we came to it; for our guide was greatly disappointed when, on repeated inquiry, whilst we rode along towards the well, he found we were unptovided with a long rope, &c., and proposed to go back to the town to fetch one •, ut, being pressed for time, we gave up the point, and gratified ourselves by merely seeing its surface, whilst some of our party went into a pit, and convinced themselves of its depth by throwing down a stone. There is now, I believe, no water in it; and the mouth of the well is kept closed with a large stone. There was something so striking in this scene, that it brought us back to the time of our Saviour, and we could fully realise all tlat is related in John iv. Near it is the beautiful and fertile plain of Moreb, which at once reminds one of the parcel of ground which Jacob gave to his sort Joseph, whose tomb is also near, which we visited. There are several Hebrew and Samaritan in scriptions on the same. The whole is kept very neat and in good repair by the bounty of Jews who visit this tomb of Joseph. On our return to our enceneirnent, we found all ready for starting, and, after two hours' ride, we came to Sebaste, the ancient Samaria, beautifully situated on the top of a hill, where there is a fine ruin of an ancient church, in which the Turks have a mosque. The village is poor and insignificant, but the situation very fine and commanding. I was greatly interested in this trip, which I hope to repeat, in order to make myself better acquaint ed with it, as it is only two short days' journey from Jerusalem. The situation of Nablous is very striking, having the mountains of Gerizim and Ebal one on each side.—Bishop Alexander. A NARROW ESCAPE.—A. few months ago, Roger Ed wards, a missionary, residing at Kuruman, had a narrow escape from lions near this place. He was on his way from the colony ; and after residing at Daniels Kuil, he had set out, with the intention of riding to the Kuruman in the night, having a led horse, and being accompanied by a Hottentot who rode a mare, by the side of which a foal was running. Just as he arrived at some large scat tered bushes, a sudden impression on his mind induced him to alight from his horse, saying to the llottentot that they would stop there. The Hottentot accordingly dis mounted; they took off their saddles, knee-haltered the horses, turned them loose to feed, and lay down under one of the bushes. They had not been there many mi nutes, when the mare screamed ; they listened, and a lion roared; they raised themselves upon their knees • the horses having got clear of their knee-halters, galloped past them, taking the road towards Kuruman • the mare followed as fast as she could, but her knee-halter had been too tight to allow her to release herself from it ; they were followed by four lions, at full speed ; a fifth stopped short, and gazed for some time at the travellers, as if deliberating whether to spring upon them, or to fol low the others. The moon was just setting, but it still cast sufficient light to enable them to distinguish the ter rific beast. The Hottentot in alarm, began to make a noise, but was immediately hushed by the missionary, whose knees, though kneeling, smote together, and who said, if ever he prayed in sincerity, it was then, though it was a silent prayer. He thought five minutes might elapie while they were thus situated, but remarked, that it might not be so much, as, under such circumstances. minutes necessarily seemed long. The lion at length sprang upon the path, and went after the others. The cries of the mare were heard at a distance, more and more faintly, till they ceased. The missionary and the Hot tentot agreed to listen, lest the lions should return as, in case of such an eve n t, a f ew l ow t rees n e ar them afforded a forlorn hope of escape ; but, overpowered by fatigue and fear, they fell asleep, and did not awake till dawn of day.--Backhouse's Visit to the Mauritius. POWER OF O'CONNELL TO CONTROL AGITATED IRE LAND.—It has been alleged that the power which is suffi cient to regulate the motion of the masses, will be finally able to restrain its action. This assertion discovers a complete ignorance of the physiology of revolution. The agitators will discover, if they be permitted to proceed, that in the manufacture of treason there is a division of labour ; that the men who excite the passions of a multi tude in peace are not those who guide its material energy in rebellion. Cromwell and Ireton were unheard of un til the mission of Pym and Hampden was complete. Washington was comparatively unknown when Franklin talked of passive resistance before a committee of the 11 "se of Commons. The eloquence of the Girondists preceded and prepared the way for the daggers of the Ja cobins. Tone and Sheares followed Grattan and Flood. Yet Mr. O'Connell fancies he can stop the torrent of events, destroy the connexion between cause and effect, usurp the power of the deity ; ruling events and govern ing circumstances. 'When parties are excited, the peace of soc i e ty depends on the forbearance of the violent, and the discretion of the foolish, a stone flung by a child—a blow struck by a peasant might have the same effect on the community as a spark would on a magazine of gun powder. If the potato culture be extended ;if the threat of confiscation were made the reality of robbery ; if the plunder of the landlords , the only untried m eans of the moral force system, were bein g perpetrated ;—while, in that contingency, the rights of property should be vindi cated even if an unpaid debt were made a capital felony, (for the rights of property should be asserted, at any cost to prevent the nation returning through anarchy tobar'- barism,) when the summary power of e j ectment would be followed by clearance and consolidation ; when the ques tion would be between famine and the sword ; when the peasant would have but the choice of martyring himself and his family by starvation, or resisting coercion by force ; DARE human being say there shall be no rebellion in my day, that its crimes and its cruelties, its misery and devastation shall be legacies of the dead, not gifts of the living ?—Dublin University Magazine. A FIERY-VISAGED GHOST.— Garments hung upon J. pegs in bed-rooms are often taken for ghostly figures. Sir Walter Scott relates a remark:4)le instance of this as hav ing occurred to himself; and many persons have been si milarly deceived. We have heard of a gentleman of ner vous temperament being haunted by a colossal figure robed and turbaned like a Turk, and having a fiery visage. Night after night did this gaunt apparition present itself. The visitation at length became intolerable, and the suf ferer, terrified into courage, (" For men as resolute appear With too much, as too little, fear,") resolved desperately to attack the disturber of his noctur nal slumbers. It would not do to let his impulse cool; so he jumped out of bed, rushed towards the phantom, seized it—and found the window-curtain in his grasp. The fiery face turned out to be a large brass knob, over which the upper pait of the curtain was thrown.—Ains tror Iles Magazine. O'CONNELL'S INFLUENCE AS A 1 - 2S4AGOGUE EXA MINED.—O'ConneII, it is alleged, enjoys greater influence over multitudes, greater power of swaying the masses than any man who has ever existed ; and, that even, the mob attriEnte of fickleness has been suspended towards him ; that his popularity has been as uniform as it has been great. He cannot be assimilated, it is true, to Pericles, the Gracchi, Cromwell, Washington, Mirabeau, or Grat tan—to the patriot or demagogue, to the soldier or orator of this list—to any of those prime movers or guides of na.. tions. Among a population,' that possessed the power of reasoning, or even the liberty cf caprice, his influence would not endure for a year. The one would expect ar gument, the other would demand novelty, neither of which he could supply. Had he been born amid a people of either judgment or taste ; he would have remained un known. His ignorance of political philosophy would have kept him in obscurity, where political information was diffused ; his coarseness of language would have disgusted where refinement was cultivated. The influence of Father Mathew could not exist in France, Britain, or America. In those countries the stern scepticism of knowledge has prostrated the political superstition, that places idolatrous reliance upon the regenerating power of a man, his type is to be looked for and may be found in a semi-barbarous age. Mr. O'Connell's career is supposed to be without precedent, because we seek for an example of it in civi lised periods, among refined nations. Peter the Hermit, who lived during the energetic frenzy of the eleventh cen _ _ tury, at least equalled Mr:O'Conne)l in his power of col lecting and influencing immense multitudes and even of controlling them ; until his mobs, those human tigers, tasted blood—then the influence of the spiritual Van Am burgh ceased. The unnamed Hungarian who, during the captivity of St. Louis, carried the letter of the blessed Virgin in his clenched hand, gathered, directed, and ex cited by his eloquence, crowds in many instances of more than an hundred thousand men, the movement of the Past.,rs in France, and the Jacquerie in England, during the reign of Richard 11. are examples of the aggregation of numbers and the influence of individual character, in consistent with civilisation. The history of the middle aces are full of such earnples. To sway an ignorant rab ble requires neither abilities of a high order, nor eloquence of an elevated kind; the success of an agitator depends more on the disposition of his audience than on the powers of his own mind: To flatter the prejudices of ig norance—to delude inexperience—to promise benefits, which are incapable of realisation—to excite to crime, by misleading passion —and to cause hatred, by calumniating virtue, neither demands great genius nor lofty eloquence (and who cannot but rejoice that such prostitution of in tellect is unnecessary) : sin and fluency are only required. —Dublin University Magazine. LOUIS PHILIPPE AT PARIS AFTER A LONG ABSENCE. —At the fall or Napoleon in 1814, Louis Philippe (then the wandering Duke of Orleans) was at Palermo, and on hearing of that event on the 23d of April in that year, the Duke left immediately, and on the 18th of May was in Paris, which he had not seen for more than 20 years. The Duke's first care, on his return to Paris, was to pay a stolen visit to the home of his fathers. The porters, who still continued to wear the Imperial livery, were with difficulty induced to permit a stranger, and clad also in the costume of Sicily, to penetrate the innermost apart ments of the palace; but the earnestness with which he pursued his survey left them little leisure to question him as to his objects. As he approached the grand staircase, the recollections of his boyhood, the lustre of his ancient race, the agonies of mind he had endured since he hot beheld that spot, and gratitude to that Providence which had spared him amidst such universal ruin, completely overwhelmed him, and, falling prostrate on the tesselated pavement, he imprinted a thousand kisses on the cold white marble, while tears gushing from his eyes indicated, while they relieved, the emotions with which he contend ed. The attendants of the palace looked on this scene of fervent feeling with surprise, some imagining that it was the workings of frenzy or of folly but, on being informed that it was the long-exiled and sole surviving son of Ega lit6—the Ulysses of modern ages—whom they beheld en tering the palace of his fathers after his wanderings over Europe and America, pity was superseded by admiration. On the following day Louis Philippe was presented to the King at the Palace of the Tuileries, in his Sicilian costume, not choosing to wait for a French court suit, lest his Majesty might imagine that he had not been suf ficiently diligent in appearing amongst the Royal Family. As the Duke approached, Louis XVIII. descended, and, advancing towards him, said, " Your Highness was a Lieutenant-General in the servile of your country 25 years ago, and you are still the same.!' The King had actually appointed him to this rank three days before his arrival in Paris. " Sire," replied the Duke, " I shall henceforth present myself before your Majesty in this uniform." From this period the Duke of Orleans ob. served the utmost caution in every movement. He pro bably perceived, from the policy pursued by the restored family, and the character and temper of the nation, the course which events would probably take. Upon the return of Napoleon, the Duke was active in his adherence to the Royal cause ; but he directly opposed a proposition to raise a civil war. He endeavoured to retain the sol diers in the army of the north in fidelity to the King, but the magic of the Emperor's name extinguished the faint loyalty of men who had nothing to connect them with the Bourbon family but the abstract idea of legitimacy. He resigned the command of the army to Marshal Mortier, and left France, he supposed for ever, to "bury himself," as he expressed it, "in retirement and oblivion." He returned to his former residence at Twickenham.—Life of Louis Philippe. COMPETITION IN GAS AND WATER COMPANIES.— In the evidence taken before the Commissioners of In quiry into the state of large towns and populous districts, Mr. Hawksley, Engineer of the Nottingham Water works, states an opinion which goes counter, in some degree, to common prejudices, and will strike most per sons as novel, but is, nevertheless, we are persuaded, worthy of attention. Speaking of gas-works for small towns, where the expense of an act of parliament cannot be afforded, he states that, often when such works have been commenced and are doing well, competitors step in and ruin the prospects of the original adventurers. Hence there is a reluctance to invest money in such works, with out an act protecting from competition. Being asked what is the operation of this introduction of a second company, Mr. Hawksley answers :—" Usually injurious to the interests of the proprietors and of the public. Two capitals become invested; two sources of wear and tear are created ; two managements, and two complete sets of officers must be maintained ; two causes of loss and leakage are established ; for all which the public must and do ultimately pay, as well as for the enormously expensive conflict to obtain the act of parliament, and for the rivalry and strife of several subsequent years. It may be mentioned that in some districts of London, three, four, or five companies have pipes, and are occupied in performing the service which might be quite as effectually rendered by one, and perhaps by that one, under proper supervision, at half the cost of the present supply. These companies seldom continue in active competition for long periods. Finding the competition ruinous, they coalesce openly, or enter into a private understanding, by which the public ate deprived of the benefits of the supposed competition. The charges are either increased, or remain fixed much above those at which a single company would willingly supply. It may be affirmed that the metropolis might, under proper arrangements be efficiently supplied with gas at ss. per thousand feet, instead of at the Bs. or 9s. now charged ; and yet the companies are in general ill remunerated for the capital they have invested and the risk they have encountered ; and this evil arises solely from the great amount of capital brought into the field to encourage competition, and to satisfy the complaints against a monopoly which exists only in consequence of the omission of parliament to subject single companies to a supervising authority, competent to afford an equal pro tection to the interests of the public and of such compa nies. Actually at Manchester, where there is but one gas-work (one under the management of the public), the charge for gas per 1,000 cubic feet is ss. 2d. In Liver pool, where there are two companies, the price is 6s. 2d. Yet, notwithstanding the lower price and smaller manu facture, Manchester has been enabled to apply to the im provement of the town, and in increase of assets, as much as the two 10 per cent. dividends of the Liverpool com panies—' thus showing that two companies will cost the public 20 per cent. more than one company.'" For a .further illustration of the principle, Mr. Hawksley adduces the case of the city of Glasgow, in respect to its gas-works. " That city was supplied by one company, which, as its consumption of gas and its works extended, went on reducing its charges. The quality of its gas was proved and admitted to be excellent, the price very reasonable, and the manufacturing power more than suf ficient. But its supposed prosperity excited the cupidity of another body of speculators, who, hoping that they might share the extending field of supply, made applica tion for a private act. The diminished and diminishing price was incontrovertible; but the company had refused to supply consumers during the day, on the ground that the expense of a day supply to the few consumers requir ing it, would, from the leakage of the extensive system of pipes to be kept charged for that purpose, be wholly dis proportionate to the return. This, along with other minor allegations, was thought to justify the resolution that the preamble of the bill was proved, and that a fur ther supply to the city was needed. Now, the conse quence was this,' that a further capital of £150,000, or more, has been driven into a field where it is almost en tirely superfluous. The interest of this capital must and will be charged on the public within the field where it is obtruded. By the introduction of this other company the cost of the gas will be increased or kept up at least ls. Bd. per 1,000 cubic feet, even although the consump tion of gas should increase so much as 30 per cent. This will of course constitute a permanent tax, in whatever form it may arise." The principle concerned in these cases is, we believe, fully established in political economy : further illustrations of it may be found in a paper en titled " Competition," in the eleventh volume of this j a o d u v r a n n al ta . g a n A n n a d to p t r h ac e t p ie n a b ll l y in , t w o e h a h v a e v e w n . t o e r d o n u n b d t g i a s t w s u o u p I p d l i b e d e in all instances by one company, it proper provisions Could be made to insure to the community the benefit of any improvement in the company's circumstances beyond a certain moderate rate of profit—Chambere Edinburgh Journal. Patcz OF ENGRAVINGS.—The greatest sum ever given for a print was for " The Madonna and Child" of Maso Finiguerra, the reputed inventor of engraving from me tallic plates. It was met with accidentally at Rome, by Mr. Ottley, the late curator of prints at the Museum, purchased by him for a mere trifle, sold by him to Sir Mark Sykes for seventy pounds, and bought at that emi nent collector's sale for three hundred guineas. The " hundred guilder" picture of Rembrandt's, of our Sa viour healing the Sick, comes next among the high prices. Eight impressions of the first date of this engraving are koown to exist. In 1809, one of these brouabt within a few shillings of forty guineas at Mr. Hibbert's sale. Thit ty years after, the collection of its possessor came to the hammer, and this print was knocked down to a new collector at two hundred and thirty-one pounds ' • in his hands this costly trea s ur e s till rema ins. Rembrandt's " Advocate 'tolling" fetched two hundred and twenty pounds in 1835, and his " Copoenol" found a purchaser at three hundred guineas in the same year, in Baron Ver. salk, the possessor of one of the three copies of the " Hundred Guilder" engraving, as it is called, which may be said to be in the market, the other five being locked up in national collections. But, not to multiply the instances of high-priced prints, let us see what these gems fetched in their author's life-time. Rembrandt's " Madonna and Child" obtained its soubriquet of the Hundred Guilder, because it brought just eight guineas in its artist's life time. Albert Durer was content to sell his " Adam.and Eve" for four slivers, about eighteen pence; his sixteen prints called the " Little Passion," for two shillings and threepence; and his " Life of the Madonna," his Apoca lypse," and his " Great Passion," fur just six shillings for each set of these large wood-cuts. The " Eulenspre gel," of Lucas Van Leyden, now worth its fifty pounds, was purchased by Albert Durer, at Br. ssels, for a stiver, foureence-halfpenny of our money. The height of the ab surdity of the high-priced mania was the scramble for the little sleeping dog of Rembrandt's, which he scratched in a corner of a large copper plate, and the great value of which consisted in his having worked off one'impression before he cut the engraved corner out of the larger plate; as unique, it fetched one hundred and twenty pounds.— The Print Collector. Louis PHII IPPE AS A PROFESSOR.—After the battle of Nerwinde in March 1793, in which the Austrians defeated the French, the Duke of Orleans (Louis Philippe) com manded the centre in the French army, and perceiving that his life was in danger determined to sever his con nection with republican France and set off to the fron tier. He repaired in the first instance to Mons, the Austrian head-quarters,tfo- obtain passports. There Prince Charles invited him to enter the service of the empire; but he refused to carry arms against France and, assum ing the name and appearance of an English traveller, journeyed with some risk and slender resources through Germany and Switzerland. He was almost a penniless fugitive in the Grisons, when the Duke received a letter from M. Montesquiou, offering him the situation of pro fessor at the College of Reichenau, which—such was the state of his resources—he gladly accepted, and he was ad mitted in October, 1793, in his 22nd year, under the name of M. Chabaud ; having undergone a rigid exami nation without being recognised by any one save M. Jost, the President of the College, who had been made ac quainted with his real character. Here he continued to teach geography, history, the French and English lan guages, and mathematics, for eight months, during which time he inspired the inhabitants of Richenau with so high an esteem for his virtues and abilities, that they appointed him their deputy to the Assembly of Coire. The intelli gence of his father's fate overwhelmed him with affliction, and he was compelled to seek change of scene. He once more became a wanderer, his whole property being a staff and a knapsack. He proceeded to Hamburgh, thence to Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Lapland, and the North Cape, pushing his travels to within 18 degrees of the Arctic Pole. Returning to Sweden, he revisited Den mark, and reached Hamburgh again in 1796. These countries he had not merely seen, but minutely examined, his finances not permitting him to travel in any other manner than that which alone brings a visitor into inti mate communication with the people of the country. At Hamburgh the French Directory commenced a negotia tion with the illustrious exile, in consequence of which the Duke (then of Orleans) consented to proceed to the United States, and in September, 1796, he embarked on board an American trader, and arrived at Philadelphia in October. He wds soon after joined by his two brothers, the Duke de Montpensier and the Count Beaujolais.— Life of Louis Philippe.—[We give in another extract L e e particulars of Louis Philippe's departure from America and subsequent visit to this country as a fugi tive exile.] ARE M ISSIONA RY SOCIETIES LIBERALLY SUPPORTED. —We are very apt to deceive ourselves, when we look at the £300,000 or £400,000 now raised in Great Britain for missions, and fondly hope that all this is the genuine fruit of faith and piety. Whereas the simple truth is, that a very large proportion of it is a mere levy on the respect ability' of the community, a poll-tax on a religious pro fession. A system of collection, a plan of of ganizing and canvassing the population has been set on foot of late years, which to former generations was quite unknown. Five thousand out of our:fifteen thousand clergy, are in duced to give their support to the Church Missionary So ciety, and to preach collection-sermons,form associations, &c. It would be strange, indeed, if they could not raise, on an average, each his £lo—which at once forms an aggregate of £50,000 per annum. Five thousand Wes leyan or Dissenting preachers take the same course, and raise a similar sum. But let any take a collecting plate, at the door of one of these churches or chapels, and see with what reluctance the well-dressed multitudes drop their shillings, too often from mere shame to " pass the plate," and he will say, with us, that a large proportion indeed, of the total realized, is a mere tax upon respecta bility and on a profession of religion. And, when viewed in this light, we have a right to compare it with the means which the people have at their disposal, which, as we have seen, cannot be estimated at less than two hundred mil lions per annum. A levy of £300,000 or £400,000 per annum, out of this vast income, is equal to rather less than a halfpenny in the pound! Contemplate the same fact in another point of view. A few months back, a plan was proposed for making a new railway from London to York. After being offered to the public for a short period, it was announced that the capital required would be five millions sterling, and that applications for shares must be sent in on a certain day. On that day the committee met, and were able to announce in the next day's papers that the whole of this vast sum was at once suhscribed. In fact, far more than the five millions was offered to them, and that, although this was only one among fifty new railway schemes, then courting the public attention ! On the other hand, how is a proposal for the evangelization of China greeted. So soon as it became known that that vast empire was open to the gospel, but that the Church Missionary Society was unable, from the state of its finan ces, to make even the slightest effort, an individual came forward, and setting a noble example, laid down at once the sum of £6,000 for the maintenance of a missionary in that country. The committee, thus encouraged, came before the Christian public with a special appeal. There were, among its members, many hundreds of persons who could have made a similar offering, without the sacrifice of any one of the comforts of life. Not one such has re sponded to the call. At the end of the year, the further sum subscribed for a mission to China, was little more than fifteen hundred pounds. Fifteen millions,—aye, and much more than fifteen millions have been " invested" in railways during the year, and a large propor tion of it by professing Christians :—fifteen hundred pounds is all that can be raised when the evangelization of China is the object proposed r—Churchman's Monthly Review. HORRORS OF WAR.—TARTAR CITY OF CHIN-REAN- Foo.—Frightful were the scenes witnessed by these men among the houses and enclosures of the city, as group after group of whole families lying stiffened in their blood, within their own homestead, were discovered in the streets occupied by the Tartar troops and mandarins, so nume rous and so painfully interesting in their revolting details, as to impress with deep and lasting horror all who wit nessed this happily rare example of the miseries and fero cities of war. The bodies of most of the hapless little children who had fallen sacrifices to the enthusiasm and mad despair of their parents were found lying within the houses, and usually within the chambers of the women, as if each father had a , sembled the whole of his family before consummating the dreadful massacre; but many corpses of boys were lying in the streets, amongst those of horses and soldiers, as if an alarm had spread, and they had been stabbed while they had been attempting to , escape from their ruthless parents. In a few instances these poor little sufferers were found the morning after the assault, still breathing, the tide of life ebbing slowly away, as they lay writhing in the agony of a broken spine, a mode of description so cruel that, but for the most cer tain evidence of its reality,. would not be believed. ID one of the houses the bodies of seven dead and dying per sons were found in one room, forming a group which for loathsome horror was perhaps unequalled. The house was evidently the abode of a man of some rank and con sideration, and the delicate forms and features of the sufferers denoted them as belonging to the higher order of Tartars. On the floor, essaying in vain to pat food with a spoon into the mouths of two young children ex tended on a mattress, writhing in the agonies of death, caused by the dislocation of their spines, sat an old de. crepit man, weeping bitterly as he listened to the piteous moans and convulsive breathings of the poor infants, while his eye wandered over the ghastly relics of mortality around him. On a bed, near the dying children. lay the body of a beautiful young woman, her limbs and apparel arranged as if in sleep. She was cold, and had been long dead. One arm clasped her neck, over which a silk scarf was thrown, to conceal the gash in her throat which had destroyed her life. Near her lay the corpse of a woman somewhat more advanced in years, stretched on a silk coverlet, her features distorted, and her eyes open and fixed, as if she had died by poison or strangulation. There was no wound upon the body, nor any blood upon her person or clothes. A dead child, stabbed through the neck, lay near her ; and in the narrow verandah adjoining the room were the corpses of two more women, suspended from the rafters by twisted cloths wound round their necks. They were both young—one quite a girl ; and her fea tures, in spite of the hideous distortion produced by the mode of her death, retained traces of their original beauty sufficient to show the lovely mould in which they bad been cast. From the old man, who appeared by his humble garb to have been a servant or retainer of the family thus awfully swept away, nothing could be elicited as to the mode or authors of their death—nothing but unintelligible signs of poignant distress. He was made to comprehend the object of the interring party, and at once testified the utmost satisfaction and gratitude for their humane inter position, assisting to carry the bodies down the staircase into the court; where a shallow grave having been exca vated beneath the pavement, he tenderly placed them in their sad resting-place ; and having covered them with clothes, the stone slabs were placed over their remains. The two dying children shortly afterwards breathed their last, and were interred beside the grave of their hapless relatives. The old man remained in the now silent abode of his lost chief, and was seen, no moree—Lieut. J, Ouch• terionea Chiwesa War. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. THE Motes CAREER.—Ah, how they press on ! so fierce and impatient, that they choke the passage and re tard themselves ! See, there is a wretched woman, who would extricate herself from the press—she bears a child in her arms ! a drunken smith wields his hammer beside her, and the heavy head swings close past the forehead of the infant. Oh! will they not hold down his hands for the mercy of heaven ! And see! she has seized him by the waist, and supplicates him, and he cannot wring himself away, but places his black hand upon her forehead, and crushes her down into the crowd. Where is'the child! They are borne on by a rush from behind, and I see them no more !—Dubtin University Magazine. AN IMAGINARY PHANTOM.—A young lady, known to the present writer, was terrified, one night, by seeing at the foot of her bed a tall shadow making perpetual obeisances. Though it is quite natural that beauty should be in the receipt of homage, the damsel, accustomed to adulation at other times, was alarmed by such intrusion at " the dead waist and middle of the night." Hiding her head under the bed-clothes, she summoned her.scat tered spirits, took cow sel within herself, and having reco vered her presence of mind, looked with a scrutinising eye at the phantom. There it was, still making salaams ac:- cording to the Eastern mode of adoration. -' A figure of the ether world I" thought she. " Dreadful !" How far she might have blamed her attraction for bringing such unwelcome visitants, no one can tell ; but her self posses sion had acquired strength ; and self-possession is fatal to ghosts, whether their advent be t) worship or to terrify. She arose, went to the window, and detected the " cause of the effect." Her house was on the border of a suburban by-lane, and a gas-lamp standing there hal projected into the room a shadow of an intermediate tree, whose branches swayed in the night-breeze. She took care afterwards to close the shutters.—Ainszvorth's Magazine. Louis PHILIPPE'S PREVIOUS VISIT TO ENGLAND.— Louis Philippe, whilst a royal exile (known then as Duke of Oilcans) proceeded with his brothers from the United States to the Harannah where they were well received ; but the Court of Madrid ordered the Captain-General of Cuba to send them away. Exasperated at the persecu tion of the Court of Spain, they turned their eyes to England, where they determined to seek 'an asylum. Proceeding to the Bahamas, they passed over to Halifax, where the Duke of Kent (the father. of Queen Victoria) received them in the kindest manner. His Royal High ness, however, did not feel authorized to grant the Princes a free passa g e in an English vessel of War; and they proceeded to England by the ordinary conveyance. They arrived at Falmouth in February, 1800, and having re ceived permission from the King, George 111., they pro ceeded immediately to London, and took up their resi dence at Twickenham. By placing himself in the centre of a large aristocratical society, the Duke voluntarily ex posed his manner of life and his associates to observation, which removed all suspicion as to his motives and designs, and his character daily augmented the number of his friends. Very soon after, a reconciliation took place be. tween the Orleans Princes and Louis XVIII. They were now admitted to the British Court, and the three Princes of Orleans became the lions of the fashionable society of the metropolis, till the Duke proceeded, with the permis tion of our government, to Minorca, with the view of visiting the Court of Spain ; but such was the jealousy of the Spanish Government towards his family, that he was obliged to return to Twickenham, where he lived as a private gentleman, not in seclusion or even retirement, — for he mixed in society,—but without any appearance of the eclat of a public character. His pursuits were of a literary and scientific kind ; he studied political economy, and the history, laws, and constitution of England. The death of his two brothers took place a few years after their arrival in England, and on the last of the two events grief drove Louis Philippe abroad for a change of scene. He proceeded to Sicily, and here he engaged the affec tions of the Princess Amelia, the second daughter of the King, and it would appear that the Queen of Naples made her consent to the marriage of her daughter to the Duke conditional upon the latter taking part in 'he wild expedition which was to make her second son, Leopold, Regent of Spain. The Duke of Orleans entered upon this project, and conducted himself in it with as much prudence and discretion as could be expected in such an enterprise. ARCHBISHOP LAUD AND THE JESUITS.—The exist ence of a design on the part of Laud and his clergy to re establish the Roman Catholic relig on in England, under the vain pretext of an union with Rome, is a fact unques tioned and unquestionable. It was objected against them by their Puritan opponents ; it was proclaimed with much triumph by their Papist contemporaries ; it was even avowed by themselves. Now it has been our purpose in this somewhat long investigation to show that, from the commencement of Elizabeth's reign, this very design had been cherished by the papacy ; and that the agency where by Rome hoped to accomplish it, was that of dispensed and concealed persons belenging to the order of the Je suits. It is also perfectly evident that this identity of de sign is in itself an amply sufficient ground of inculpation in the guilt of the very wicked devices which Rome had framed to compass it; to say the least, it was a charge from which Laud and his clergy were bound to clear them selves. The trial of Laud afforded them amply the means of exculpation ; means extended, in consideration of his high office, far beyond those which were usually granted to accused persons, inasmuch as he was allowed to have frequent access to his papers before their sequestration. Notwithstanding this, he failed in rebutting the charge of having afforded every possible facility to the avowed agents of the papacy in the prosecution of their designs in this country, and also in disproving the fact that he had been on terms of frequent and intimate communication with the most dangerous of them. The inference is in evitable. Laud and his clergy constituted in England, during the reigns of James and Charles, that secret agency through the medium of which the Church of Roane de signed to reduce this country to her obedience, an agency which she herself had created in the preceding reign by the dispensation of the Jesuits ! It would be easy to pro ceed with the inquiry through the subsequent periods of our history, and to show the working of the same agency in the disastrous reigns of the two sons of the hap less monarch whose terrible fate it was to have Laud for his counsellor. But our purpose having been to illustrate the designs of existing; parties from the facts of history, it is already accomplished. Laud, bishop and martyr, is one of the gods of the - modern tractarians' idolatry. They are never weary of singing his praises ; they are straining every nerve to accomplish his vast and ambitious project. To those who entertain any doubt as to the-tendency of that project, it may be useful to know that Laud was he secret agent of Rome, and to learn somewhat of the nature and character of that agency.—Churchman's Monthly Review. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. A deputation from the Provisional Committee of the Liverpool, Ormskirk , and. Preston Railway, had an inter view with Lord Dalhousie, on Friday, at the Board of Trade. The Hereford Times says, the Great Western Railway Company have " volunteered " to take a perpetual lease of the proposed Hereford and Gloucester Railway at 21 per cent., with a moiety of the surplus profits. A deputation of the North Union Railway Company, consisting of Messrs, Theo. Rathbone, H. Earle, J. C. Ewart, Wolstenholme, and R. Earle, Mr. Part, solicitor, and Mr. Chapman, secretary, had an interview with Lord Dalhousie, on Friday. The negociation between the Liverpool and Manchester and Birkenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire Junction Railway Boards is broken, off; the latter declining to bind themselves to the same rate of tolls per mile as that charged by the " great parent of railways." - The Papal government has rejected the proposition of an English company to construct a railroad between Ci ♦ita Vecchia and Home. It is only of late years that a di ligence has been allowed to ply in the Papal states ; a railroad, therefore, would seem to be a step in advance reserved for another age. Her Majesty's state carriage on the Southampton rail way is nearly completed, and it is confidently. expected that the application of the patent kamptulicon (or composi tion of cork and India rubber,) under the carpet and be tween the framework and body of the carriage will en tirely prevent the unpleasant vibration inseparable in all railway travelling. CHESTER, STOCKPORT, AND MANCHESTER RAIL WAY.—The Chester and Warrington Junction line has recently undergone a change, inasmuch as, at the request of several extensive shareholders in the Chester and Warrington Railway,an extension of the line has been determined upon to Altrincham, thus affording a direct communication with Stockport and Manchester. A collision took Once on the Croydon Railway on Fri day week, in consequence of the trains up running into a train on the same line. The shock injured several who were returning from the fair, but no fatal mischief was done. Those who required surgical assistance were im mediately conveyed to Guy's Hospital. The accident is attributable to negligence in making the proper signal. The half-yearly meeting of the Durham and Sunder land Railway Company was held on Friday last, when it appeared that the revenue for the half-year ending 31st of August last was £12,123 12s la., being a decrease on the corresponding half-year of 1843 of £5307 ss. ; the deficiency was attributed to the late pitmen's strike, from which the leading of coals, which is the principal source of revenue, was nearly suspended for several months. SOUTH EASTERN (LONDON AND DOVER RAILW AY. —We are happy to find from an official letter that Jas. Macgregor, Esq., of Liverpool, and B. Harding, Esq., have been elected into the direction to supply existing vacancies, which, in future, are to be filled up, so as to ensure general confidence. The question of the carriage of goods is to be referred to a committee, including the new directors, and the special meeting threatened by the Liverpool shareholders is withdrawn. MIDLAND RAILWAY.—On Tuesday a meeting of this company was held at Derby, when resolutions were passed authorising the directors to apply to parliament to make, lst--A railway from the Midland Railway, at Notting ham, to Newark and Lincoln. 2d—A railway from the Midland Railway, at Swinton. by Doncaster, Bawtry, and Gainsborough, to Lincoln, and thence passing near Bos ton, Spalding, and Wisbeach, to join the Eastern Coon. ties Railway at March. 3d—A railway from the Midland Railway, at Seyton, by way of Oakham and Stamford, to Peterborough. And to amalgamate the Sheffield and Ro therham Railway with the Midland Railway—the latter guaranteeing the former 6 per cent. The chairman, George H udson, Esq. announced that the traffic for the week ending the day of the meeting was £11,998, being more than £2,000 over the corresponding week last year. The di rectors were also authorised to raise an additional capital of £2,500,000, by the creation of 62,500 shares of £4O each. Such shares to be distributed as follows :-51,339 among the holders of stock in this company , being at the rate of one share for every £lOO stock ; 250 among the holders of the £2 shares,being at the rate of one share for every fifty shares; 10,911 to be reserved for landowners and parties locally interested and others. A deputation from the Birkenhead, Manchester, and Chester Junction Railway, consisting of Messrs. M. F. Brownrigg, Wm. Laird, and Joseph Mallaby, had an in terview with Lord Dalhousie at the Board of Trade. The same deputation had also an interview on the subject of the Cheshire and Shropshire Junction Railway. ST. HELEN'S, SOUTHPORT, WIGAN, RAINFORD, AND LIVERPOOL. RAILWAY.--This project is evidently put forth to upset the proposed Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston line, and is backed by the united strength of the Liverpool and Manchester and North Union Companies. The chief merit of the project before us, and it, certainly, seems to be a very sufficient one, is, that it will supp'y to Ormskirk, and other pl,ces which the Liverpool, ()rms. kirk, and Preston propose to serve, a'l the benefits that that company offer at one-fourth the cost, and, conse quently, a saving to the public, without interfering with the property of existing railways.—Railway Magazine. The adjudication of the Orleans and Bordeaux Rail row), for which three eminent capitalists contended, was decided on Wednesday in favour of Messrs. Mackenzie and Co., who tendered to lease it for 27 years 11 months ; Messrs. Rothschild offered to lease it for 32 years and 3 months; and Messrs. Drouillard for 36 years. The conditions of laying down the lines, working the lines, and the prices of transport were settled by an act of the last session. The object of the Government was to lease it to that competitor who would take it for the fewest years. The Orleans and Vierzon Railroad has been ad judged to the existing Orleans Company for a term of 40 years, the company ceding to that of Messrs. Le Conte and Company one third of the shares. Several English capitalists have, it is said, embarked in these specula. tions. Two HORSES KILLED DV A RAILWAY TRAIN.-01t; Saturday week, as a groom in the service of Mr. John To'lett, of Oxford-street, was returning home with four valuable horses from High Wycombe, riding one of them and leading the other, when, close to the bridge crossing the West London Railway, at Shepherd's-bush, the led horses were frightened by the lamps of a carriage, which suddenly turned the corner of the road, and broke away from the groom. Two of them took the direction of the railway station, which is at a short distance north of the Uxbridge road, and entering the gates of the station, ran on to the line just as a train was advancing towards them. It was then dark, and on the clerk at the station hearing a noise, and running out to see what was the matter, be found the groom on horseback on the line in the act of following the horses, which he appeared determined to do, though told that a train was approaching, and was only kept back (and his life consequently saved) by force. The clerk instantly hoisted the light to stop the train, which it did, but not before it had (though unknown at the time to the engineer, or guard, who felt no jerk) cut down two out of the three animals. On search being made for the remains of the animals, one was found in a dreadfully mu tilated state at no great distance behind the train, and the other about 200 yards further off, with his hind legs com pletely cut off. The groom was in such a state that had he not been restrained he would have committed suicide. The two horses were valued at £lOO, and the damage to the train amounted to £lO. PARIS AND ROUEN RAILWAY. - -OR Wednesday a meeting of the Liverpool proprietors in this company was held at the Clarendon-rooms. John Moss, Esq., occupied the chair. A resolution moved by Lewin Moz ley, Esq., was unanimously adopted, to the effect that the proposition to be submitted to the general meeting of proprietors to be held in Paris on the 31st instant—for the raising of capital for making a branch line to Elbeuf, and another to Louviera, and for finding material for working the Havre line with one set of officers—met with the approbation of the Liverpool shareholders. The sum of £400,000 will be required for these objects. Mr. Reid, one of the French directors, stated that the receipts of the Paris and Rouen railway for the past half year would amount to £160,000, which is considerably more than the sum received in the corresponding period of last year. He also stated that they had lowered the prices for the first 35 miles out of Paris, and the first 25 miles out of Rouen ; and yet it would be seen from their weekly re turns that their receipts had not fallen off, but, on the contrary, that they had been greatly augmented. They took 55,000 francs for goods alone last week, and in one day they received upwards of £4BO for the conveyance of goods, although their charges were at so low a rate as 10 francs a ton for 85 miles. The result of the whole was, that they had a satisfactory progressive increase in their traffic ; and that when the creation of the proposed branches should have been sanctioned, they would still have the same tale to tell—that they were going on in creasing in prosperity. Mr. Reid concluded by saying he had no doubt that a line, to start from Rouen. would be made to the southern part of Normandy. It was mentioned at the meeting, that of the 72,000 shares in the company, 40,000 were held in England, and of those, 20,000 in the district of Liverpool alone. DREADFUL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday last, as a train, principally occupied by butchers going to Shields, was proceeding to that town, on the Newcastle and Shields Railway, about two miles from the latter town, another train was seen coming in an opposite direction, but at so short a distance, owing to the curvature of the line at the place, that a collision appeared inevitable. The engine men at once reversed the engines, and then leaped off, and immediately afterwards they came into violent collision. Most of the butchers were stunned by the shock, all of them being thrown with considerable force against the partitions of the carriage. The next moment they found themselves careering away towards Shields, the car riage, to use the expression of one of the passengers, "fly ing like lightning." At once apprehensive of danger, some of the passengers began to leap from the carriage, and it was soon ascertained that the• engine was under no control. Indeed, the engineman and stoker had been left behind, after jumping off, and the engine, bounding from the collision, was running at an enormous speed along the line towards Shields, it being a gentle incline. By the time the train had reached the station, between fifteen and eighteen of the passengers had thrown themselves out, the remainder continuing in the carriage, ready to jump out when they saw a favorable opportunity. Fortunately, on reaching the station a train of four or five empty car riages was standing on the line, against which the engine drove the carriage before it with tremendous force, carry ing all forward to the back part of the station, where a strong balk of timber is placed as a stopper, over which some of the carriages were driven, whilst the whole were crushed together in one confused mass of broken frag ments. Three or four yards behind the stopper a low wall encloses this part of the station, and beyond the wall there is a coal depot, on a lower level by twenty-five or thirty feet. One of the carriages, torn from its frame and wheels, was left balancing on the top of this wall. The engine, after being " brought up," still continued to " puff and blow," urging itself through the mass of broken carriages. By this lamentable catastrophe, two men, Brown, a drover, and Burrell, a butcher, were killed, and fifteen other persons were more , or less injured. At th e inquest the jury returned a verdict of Accidental death," with a deodand of £3OO on the engine, and at the same time expressed their severe censure at the imp ropr i ety and danger of allowing passenger trains to run up and down on one line. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL': CESAREWITI >, THURSDAY. II STAKES. gto 2 agst Dawson's lot (t) 16 to 1 agst Give-him-a-name 11 —1 Dentinck's lot (t) 25 —1 Emperor (t) 6 1 Souvenir filly 125 1 Marqu se 11 1 Gllossy (taken) 25 1 Scalteen (take 30 12 1 Jamal to 1) iv— 1 Foig-a-ballagh (t) 30 —1 Mania 11 layers 13 1 Lightning (t) 30 1 Johnny / 16— 1 Vibration (t) 100 —BO on Emperor against 16 1 Una (t) Scalteen A good deal of business was done on the above race at quo tations that in several instances differed essentially from those returned on Monday. Thus Jamal. on that day second favourite. after two or three bets at 8 and g to 1, receded to 12 to 1, and left off without friends—Glossy, who on the same day was at 20 to 1, again coming strongly into favour, and closing second to the Duke of Portland's filly. Foig-a-ballagh wa-j also hacked freely in several quarters, and finished at 12 to 1 (takers). Lightning came next, a strong commission to back him having been executed at 12 and 13 to 1. The Souvenir filly was fre quently backed at 7 to 1 (no layers at the close); Vibration, at 14, 15, and 16 to I; Una, at 16 and 17 to 1 • and Give-him-a name, at 15, 16, and 17 to 1. The betting, in other respects, was devoid of interest. DERBY. 10 to I agst Mr. Greville's Alarm (taken) 20 1 Mr. Hesseltine's Fitzafien (taken) The report of Alaric's death is confirmed. The following horses have arrived at Newmarket in the course of the week :—Discord, Gaper, Naworth, Duke of Cornwall, the BI ck Gentleman, Alva, Nat, Physallis, Priscilla Tomboy, New Year's Day, Skeleton, Syntaxina, David, Julia, Aristotle, &c. Several of Richmond's, Lord G. Bentinck's, and Mr. Payne's, passed through town yesterday for the same destination. LATEST BETTING AT MANCHESTER. THE CESAREWITCH &MAK PS. FRIDAY EVSNING.—During the early part of the week consi derable sums have been invested on Glossy, Lightning, Foig-a- Ballagh, and Boarding School Miss; Jamal and the favourite also having a share of attention. On Tuesday. Lightning was freely supported at IS to 1, and the same party invested on Glossy at 12 to I ; Lightning afterwards sprang two or three points. and. left off at 12 to I. Foig-a-Ballagh opened at 26 to 1. and was backed with considerable spirit, so much so that at the close 15 to I was his figure (taken freely); ce , tainly should this nag win, it will be a most extraordinary performance for a three-year old, carrying sat in so powerful a field. Lightning and Foig-a-Ballagh were backed, coup'ed, at 7 to 1 .t'l7s ; arid Boarding School Miss obtained a few friends at 26 to 1. Wed nesday and Thursday, owing to the attractive fair at Knuts. ford, were almost blank days. The favourite was in still higher odour, finishing at 11 to 2 (taken freely) ; Jamal was a point and a li ilf worse th an ou Tuesday, closing at 10 to 1 . Glossy, Haitoe, and The Brie, had plenty of friends at the prices a nnexed, and Foig-a-Ballagh was also supported freely. The aunexed are the prices of all that were backed for any amount : Si to 1 agst Souvenir (t) 1 Jamal (t) 12 1 Glossy (t) 13 1 Lightning (t) 14 1 Haitoe (t) 16 1— Vibration (t) DaRBY.-1,7, 20 1 The Brute 25 Emperor (t) -a-name 21 1 5 6 6 __ to 11 1 _a_gst mG U i n av a req. ( uh t) : 140-7 Foig.a-Ballagh thing done. FIRES.--From Friday week to Thursday last no less than five incendiary fires took place in the ne i g hb our h oo d of Bury St. Edmunds — one taking place on the first mentioned day (Friday) at Cheveley.park, belonging to the Duke of Rutland; one at Waltham de Willows, on Saturday; another at H engrave on Wednesday after noon; and one at Whepstead on the evening of the same day. The inhabitants, generally speaking, are in a state of great alarm, and the destruction of property is immense. On Thursday a fire occurred at Woods-green Farm, Tot tenham, Middlesex, when the following premises were de stroyed Two cart-sheds, with contents and carts therein ; a granary, a small cottage, a barn, the cow houses, calf-pens, brew-house, and outbuildings, with the whole of the contents, consisting of beans, oats,.pota toes, and agricultural implements ; also a quant ity of pigeons and rabbits. Length of building destroyed, 159 feet, by 36 feet in width. Oct. 15, 1844. 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Pluckwell, Tottenham-house, Tottenham, Middlesex cured of Opthalmia. Has seen many cured by using the Snuff. Miss E. Englefield, Park-street, Windsor; cured of Nervous Headache and Deafness.-6th August 1839. Madame F. Lespis, facing the church, Parlt-street, Windsor; cured of Dimness of Sight and Headache.-9th September 1838 and 1813. Decimus Blackburn, Esq., Chertsey, Surrey; Headache, Weakness, and Dimness of Sight cured. Elizabeth Robson, 19, Bell street, Edgeware-road ; cured Of Opthalmia and Deafness. Aged 6g. James Roe, Esq., 6, Camden-terrace, Kentish-town; cured of Opthalmia and Headache.-10th November 1839. G. J. Guthrie, Esq., P.R.S. This eminent surgeon strongly recommend, Grimstone's Eye Snuff.—See J. B. Lachfieido letter. Dr. Abernethy used it, and by that able physician it was termed the Faculty's Friend and Nurses' Vade Mecum. Dr. Andrews also recommends its use as a preventive. See his reports in Nov. 1831. He states that the tenacious sympathy of the membrane, w thin the nostrils, with the nervous system, that Grimstone's Eye Snuff, when frequently taken, must be of the greatest benefit to the consul, er ; and, further, recommends its universal adoption as a preventative. Dr. Thomas of Hatfield, having witnessed many cases of cure, both of Headache and Opthalmia, has kindly given his testimony thereof. G. W. M. Reynolds, editor of Chambers's London Journal, Src., &c., relieved of excruciating pains, and can now write without spectacles.-36, Stamford-street, Black friars-road. Mr. A. Z. Massenia, aged 94, at Mr .1. Wilcockson's, Not tingham, was blind six years; recovered his sight by using Grimstone's Eye Snuff; can read without glasses. Mrs. Cole, aged 6g, cured ; left off her spectacles after using them many years; and cured of Giddiness in her head.-7, Skinner's Almshouses. Mrs. Fothergill, cured of a long-standing Itrflammation, which caused blindness. Quite cured. Aged ;I.—No. 39, Kirby-at. , Hatton-garden. Observe the Caution—W. GRIMSTONE is the sole inventor, and the only genuine is prepared ,by him. The Odoriferous Herbaceous Compound of Herbs is sold in canisters, at Bd., is 3d., 2s 4d., 4s 4d., Bs., and 15s 6d. each, by the Proprietor, W. GRIMSTONE, at No. 434, Oxford Street, Tottenham Court Road End (late of No. 39, Broad Street, Bloomsbury); and can also be obtained in all the principal towns and cities. A liberal allowance to Shippers, Owners, Captains, and all Venders of Grimstone's Eye Snuff. This celebrated Stuff is shipped to all quarters of the globe, and retains its benign qualities in every climate. All Snuffs and Cigars shipped on the shortest notice. Any quantity can be. forwarded through the General Post by sending money orders. A 2s 4d. canister, with postage, will cost 3s, and so on in like proportion. Agents—Liverpool : Pierce and Crossfield, Castle street; Ross and Nightingale, Lord-street; C. Sharpe Church-street ; W. Proctor, London-road. PHYSICIANS' & SURGEONS' PRESCRIPTIONS CAREFULLY PREPARED. MEDICINE CHESTS FITTED UP FOR SBA' GENUINE DRUGS AND CHEMICALS. T PRIESTLEY, CHEMIST, Lord-street, begs pod' el Q cularly to call the attention of his Friends and th e Public to the under-mentioned selection of Preparations THE NECTARIAN SYRUP, for producing a delicious, refreshing, and wholesome Drink. The good effects of Acidulated Beverages, during the Summer Season, are so well known in quenching thirst, rendering the skin clear and cool, and promoting general health, that it is neariy superfluous to recommend them. Of all preparations of the kind, the NECTARIAN S . " RUP is the most agreeable ; and, as possessing the above mentioned salubrious properties, is particularly recom mended. To Captains of Vessels, persons going abroad, or taking excursions of pleasure, it will be found extremely useful, being portable, and so well calculated to allay that dis tressing heat and fever which accompanies thirst. ESSENCE OF RENNET, for making delicious Curds and Whey. This wholesome preparation is engaged to keep, and obviates all the un certainty of making Whey from the Rennet Bag. PRIESTLEY'S CITRATED EFFERVESCENT MAGNESIAN APERIENT. This delightful compound is recommended in Bilious Affections, Indigestion, Gout, Heart-burn, and as a cool— ing aspirant during the autumnal season. In small doses it is of great use in abating fever, forming a very agreea ble effervescent saline draught. The citrated flavour and the carbonic acid gas evolved render it peculiarly grateful to the Stomach, and an admirable corrective when a free indulgence has impaired its energies. Prepared and sold only at 52, Lord-street, Liverpool, in bottles at 2s. 91, ant/ 4s. 6d, each. PRIESTLEY'S FLUID EXTRACT OF SARSAPARILLA. In this preparation are concentrated all the Medicinal Properties of Sarsaparilla Root. To persons, therefore, who, from various causes, would expetience great incon venience, or with whom it would be utterly impossible to prepare the Compound Decoction, the Fluid Extract, which possesses the advantagesof portability and of keeping in any climate, will be found a most desirable mode of employing this much-esteemed Medicine. The diseases in which it has proved most beneficial are those of the Skin ; such as Scorbutic Affections, Erup tive Diseases, Secondary Symptoms, &c., arising from * diseased state of the system at large. For removing Blotches, Pimples, &c., from the Face, this Medicine haS no superior. PRIESTLEY'S SEIDLITZ POWDERS, which approach nearer than anything yet discovered to the Chalybeate Waters of Germany. The style of pre paring PRIESTLEY'S SEIDLITZ POWDERS iS peculiar to . himself, and combine scientific skill with great accuracy ' and though numbers of p eo pl e unacqua i n t e d w ith b the business,. and oth ers , h ave o f l a t e years attempte d imita tions, they have i nvar i a bl y b een f oun d t o b e spurtolig compounds, neither possessing the agreeable flavour rio t the medicinal properties of the Seidlitz Waters. Sold in Boxes, •2s. each, containing twenty-four Poi!' ders, to make one dozen tumbler glasses, and in Til l Cases. VEGETABLE HAIR OIL, Is allowed to be an excellent discovery for invigorating and renovating the human Hair. It eradicates the scurf, nourishes the Hair, prevents it falling off, produces 5 most beautiful natural curl, and gives to artificial Hair $ peculiar softness of texture and luxuriant a ppearanc e ' Sold in Bottles at Is. 3d. and 3s. each. NEWLY-INVENTED CRYSTALLINE OIL. This is a limpid VEGETABLE OIL, consolidated 13/ $ peculiar process, and really is cne of the best P re paration aver made for nourishing and beautifying the bait ana keeping it in curl. ESSENTIAL SALT OF LEMONS. For taking Iron Moulds, Ink Spots, and other Stain s ou t of Linen, Muslin, Lace, &c., and for many other tts fs purposes.—Price Is. per Box. or three Boxes for 2s. 6 , b MUCH-ADMIRED ALMOND FLAVOUR- A few drops of this Flavour, added to Custards , I'l l "; dings, Cakes, Wines, Jellies, &c., communicate a 1:009 delicious taste of Almonds.—Sold in Bottles, with Direc tions, Is. 6d. and 3s. PRIESTLEY'S FURNITURE PASTE, .. For Cleaning and Polishing Furniture without lahour.ot trouble. This paste is used for cleaning and polish!oq every description of Furniture ; whatever prep a rat_t 11! " may have previously been used for that purpose , it adds high lustre to French polish. — Sold in Pots at ls. esc" or Three Pots for 2s. 6d. GENUINE METALLIC LUSTRE. This article is recommended to Housekeepers for clout otl - ing all manner of Gold and Silver Plate , Metal Teap ; Pewter Measures, Brass Fenders, Candlesticks, St% Rods, Brass Plates on Doors, Tin Covers, &c„ &c.• 01 `.. half the labour which is generally requirsd with.othe. preparations, the above lustre lefives a beautiful peksh 041 the Metal.—Sold in Squares, 6d. and