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'fowl d mallard a' times find That dt BRINGING THE CASE HOME. — We read in the Gazette de France:—" A few days ago a wag meeting a peasant, who was on his way to Bordeaux on business, said to him, ' What are you doing here ? They are about to divide all the land of the rich, and you had better go to the mayor and put down your name for your share.' The peasant set off at full gallop, and on arriving at the mayor's, said, Monsieur le Maire, as there, is to be a division of the land, I wish to have the meadow of M—, which joins my garden. Put down my name at the head of the list.' The mayor turned over some papers, and then said, You are not the first. I have an applicant who demands the meadow, and also your garden with it." My garden ! my garden !' said the peasant in a fury, I will go and get my musket ;' and he set to watching his garden day and night. There is a host of persons like this peasant;; they wish to share the property of others and keep their own." FATAL ACTION OF CHLOROFORM. — The action of chloroform inhalation on the medulla oblongato has only been unequivocally displayed in animals poisoned with it by the rapidity and feebleness of the respirations, and by its effects on the heart's actions. It is in this way that death seems to be occasioned,—namely, by producing, first, Coma ; secondly, asphyxia ; and, lastly, cessation of the heart's movements, in the same manner as occurred in the experiments of Le Gallois and Wilson Philip. In all the animals examined, the right side of the heart was gorged with venous blood—a fact quite in accordance with this explanation. The action of chloroform inhalation on the different portions of the nevous system, namely the brain, spinal chord, anil medulla oblongata, is, in many cases, subject to the control of the medical practitioner, and may each, in its turn, be made available for useful or injurious purposes. Some persons are much more easily affected by it than others ; and hence its proper adminis tration can only be fully carried out by such as are ac quainted with its physiological action. Its use by the public as a means of amusement, excitement, or stupefac faction, ought to be strictly prohibited.—Dr. H. Bennett's Edinburgh Monthly Journal. THE BUTCHERS SHOPS IN PARIS.—The butchers' shops are respectable enough ' • but there is neither the fatted ox, nor the well-fed wholesomely pastured sheep, to produce the jolly sirloin of old England, or the elegant saddle and venison-like haunch we can command in a small post-town in our favoured country. I saw some joints of mutton and veal very tidily displayed on clean white cloths in the shops; but few hooks, and par conse auence, few hanging ribs or legs to tempt healthy appe tite, and constitute one plain substantial dish. The legs of veal were invariably cut out with the tail depending from them. As for the nobly proportioned fillet or rump, aitch-bone, or brisket, conveying by turns the whole somest reminiscence of cold round and cauliflower pickles, or hot marrow, dark gravy, and carrots, suet dumplings, and other such trimmings to salted beef in its varied pre sentations, there was no spectacle of the kind. The meat is disjointed uncomfortably, grotesque shaped, and de plorably lean. The butchers have no more idea of the outline, even of a genuine steak, than they have of our doomsday book. They cut a gibbous lump from any inferior fleshy part, somewhat akin to our " clods and stickings." give it a blow or two with the chopper, and entitle it a " biftik." It contracts its bulk on being placed in a frying-pan or gridiron, by many a shifting, twisting movement, till its surface is indented, and full of little cavities, into which the infatuated cook pours oil, or butter melted into an oil, and a spoonful or two of shredded parsley ; and this " horror" is served hot, selon lei re'yles, tough as a pelican's leg, greasy as a tallow tub, sans tat, sans gravy, or Harvey sauce, sans horseradish, sans shalott or oysters, of any of those little relishing adjuncts which on our tables requite the teeth for occa tionally extra labour and the outlay of tenpence on each pound of beefsteak.—Musgrave's Parson, Pen, and Pen cil. counte cannot question. The simple fact that a single river pours down such a body of water as to drown this great flat as sures us that its channel, if rightly - -ted, would form the natural and efficient drain of t} mduc whole morass Lee is no sluggish stream, wasting its own energies through its inertness ; and were one straight and deep tideway excavated for it through the Gaorha, these marshy fens would ere long be converted into the richest downs for pasturages. But agricultural knowledge is as yet only partially esteemed in the Cork West Riding. A futile at tempt to reclaim the moor was made years since, and per haps the precedent has deterred imitators. We are not aware of the circumstances under which failure arose in this instance, but we are satisfied the fault lay rather in the projectors than in the project. We remember all that has been done of this kind in the sister island, and remem bering it, we cannot deem similar results impossible in our own. There are pecuniary aids also now proffered to our landed proprietors, in the shape of easy loans, such as did not formerly exist; and to all these works of reds- mation and imploveraeat we give a hearty t.iod speed : —.......____ . Dublin University Magazine. ,y heart is throbbing, the May. ed, weary, lay. Waiting for tlic Spring goes by with wasted warnings— Moon-lit evenings, sun-bright mornings— Summer comes, yet dark and dreary Life still ebbs away— Man is ever weary, weary, Waiting for the May ! MAY D. F. M. C cometh ! we have called her long, many a Warm invocation and song; cometh at last, and the wakening earth il'd with the joy of her innocent mirth ; cometh ! and every one welcomes the day en first will appear my bright beautiful May ! eometh, she cometh ! and Nature's sweet voice, taking her pleasantness, echoes " Rejoice !" cometh in blushes, she cometh all gty, smiling and blooming. my beautiful May ! cometh ! and soon will the bright shining sky Mi'd with her zephyrs' soft odorous sigh. She cometh, she cometh with welcomings meet, Let us haste and be ready her coming to greet I Let us swell our melodious songs far and wide, Till echo hath answered on every side ; And so we'll be ready, with harmony sweet, Her presence to welcome, her coming to greet. Thou art come, thou art come ! my beautiful May ! I see thee adorned in thy brightest array; I hear thy soft, silvery voice through the grove, Proclaiming in whispers its breathings of love : Thou art come, in thy grandest and sweetest display,— Thou art come, and thou'rt welcome , my beautiful May ! NOTICES Sketch of the History of the House of Stanley and the House of Sefton, by David Ross of the Liverpool Chronicle. London : W. S. On and Co., Paternoster- AN IRISH DEFILE.—Ceim-an-eich, i. e., The Path of the Deer, stands frowning before us, on our reaching the Macroom and Bantry high road. This remarkable pass is two miles in length, lying nearly north and south. Its breadth is barely sufficient for the roadway, which is con ducted through it with no little engineering skill. A gigantic mountain has been cleft in twain, down to its very base—not cleanly cut, as with an archangel's brand, but torn asunder, through sheer strength, as by the earth quake's strong hands. Adown the jagged edges of this deep wound in mother earth, are scattered about, in quaintest confusion, huge heaps of rock, covered with lichens and mosses of many kinds, or with fern, and ivy, and other creeping plants. In the interstices flowers the arbutus ; or an occasional yew springs up from a covert of London-pride, gemmed with drooping lusmore or fox glove. Looking upward from the narrow strip of road at the bottom of the pass, your eye follows the ragged out line of broken cliffs, that stand almost straight above you in the zenith, until it turns from them, abashed by their awful majesty. You behold, you think, the measured pattern of the roadway you stand on, cut out from the clear, bright heavens ; for so much only of the etherial canopy is visible to you. A parallel thought in the Roman poet we need not repeat. The sudden windings of the defile conceal your way of approach to it. " You look back," writes C. 0., and you cannot find how you gotin —before you, and you cannot imagine how you are to get forward. You might imagine that the spirit of the moun tains had got you into his stronghold, and that you were impounded here by everlasting enchantment." The Gou gane entrance is more striking than that on the Bantry side, for the cleft is less widely drawn and the rocks stand up steeper and more precipitous. On the other hand, the latter possesses the most striking single object at Ceim.; an.eich—a great square, castellated rock, like a barbican reared by Nature herself.—Dublin University Magazine. LOLA MONTES.—The Cornwall Gazette gives the fol lowing account of this notorious danseuse. Our contem porary first excuses himself by saying that he is no ad iy them for sixpence a piece. mirer of Lola Montes, and has no wish to claim her, even 'ear country then ?" nominally, for this country; but her unprincipled career es, my jewel," said Pat. having become matter of history, he finds a place for the AND THE NUMBER TruarEEN.—The following particulars of her early life, for the authenticity I-en is attached in a most singular of which he vouches :—" This notorious personage is the manner to the life of the King of the French. as appears daughter of a gentleman named Gilbert. She was born by the following, written in 1843 :—Louis Philippe was in India, where she remained till she was about ten years '73 ; he emigrated in 1793 ; his emigration old, when her father sent her home to a great friend of his, 1 13. He has reigned and governed for thir- Sir J. N., a gentleman of high rank in the British array, a thirteen years the Count of Paris will be who had promised to have her educated with his own of age. The king has thirteen chateaux,—Le Tuilleries, daughters; but he soon found the little Indian lady quite Le Louvre, Le Palais Royal, L'Elissee Bourbon, Neuilly, unmanageable, her temper being so exceedingly violent St. Cloud, Meudon, Versailles, Compiegne, Fontainbleau, that he was afraid to trust her with his own children. He Eu, Pau, and Le Rainey. The Civil List has a total of therefore sent her to school, from which she was soon re- Mrteen children and grandchildren. His life has been in turned to him as incorrigible. He then tried another _aes since 1830. And lastly, since his school in Bath for her, and there she remained about two seen thirteen Governments succeed each years ; and, notwithstanding her violent temper, her coin aluding his own. panions could not help being fond of her, as she had a .—The three luxuries of tra- peculiarly fascinating manner; and her wondrously bril ya_ a stout pony, a pleasant companion, and liant eyes pleaded most effectually in her favour. Her plenty of money. Three things which, whoever visits father died soon after she left India, and her mother mar- Wales, is mire to take away with him—worn-out shoes, a ried the late Major Craigie, of the East India Company's shockin g bad hat, and a delightful recollection of the service, Deputy-Adjutant - General of the Beng al arm y . gs without which no man can enjoy Upon his death, we believe Mrs. Craigie returned to Eng •ood health, good spirits, and good land, when her daughter was about fifteen. She settled '-gtthings in Wales—buttermilk, in Bath, and immediately took her daughter from school. Three things that the On her homeward voyage Mrs. Craigie became acquainted ,—travel in the dark, wait in doors with a young lieutenant of the name of James, who de may be a rainy day, and try and keep his feet voted himself entirely to her, and when she took a house - -lifications for properly pronouncing in Bath was a constant inmate ; he soon, however, found —a cold in the head, a knot in the the daughter the most attractive, and a mutual attach .usk of barley in the throat. The three ment sprang up between them, of which Mrs. Craigie was wawa a man may speak in Wales when he does quite unconscious, still believing the lieutenant devoted to ..new Welsh—that of the Chinese—that of the Chero- herself. In the summer of 1837, a few months only after Kees, and that of the Houhmyhms. The three languages she had reached England, she left Bath with her daughter f a man all over Wales without having a and the gallant lieutenant for a tour to the Lakes. But —that of the arms, that of the eyes, that at Clifton, Miss (Eliza) Gilbert and her mother had a ter "ickwood. rible quarrel, about some trifle, which, from their simi -"Ala.—La the house of the Sibe- larity of temper, was no uncommon occurrence. Unfor --Puny saw many of the exiles tunately, Miss Gilbert left the room forgetting her bag -ilad by the mild name which was on the table, and Mrs. Craigie wanting a pen ally; • cil soon after, most innocently opened it and there found .4 to • a letter from Lieutenant Janes to her daughter, saying the I that he had made every arrangement for their marriage at oetter r" some town on their route ! Poor Mrs. Craigie's eyes were ..d or bre* , thus suddenly opened, and the violence of her passion may iy served in F be more easily imagined than described ; and Miss Gilbert re-appearing at the moment encountered the storm, and, after a terrible scene, was ordered to her room. Out she rushed, and on the stairs met Mr. James, told him what had passed, and immediately they left the house together, the lady without either bonnet or shawl, and got on board a steamer just starting for Ireland, where they were mar ried, and soon after they returned to India. BRITAIN'S STABILITY.—" NO revolution," says Ma me de Stahl, " can succeed in any country, unless it is qed by a portion of the higher, and the majority of the The little work before us, although not possessing so much of novelty as its predecessor, the history of the Rouse of Russell is even more interesting to Lancashire and Cheshire readers, from the connexion of the two illustrious houses with our own immediate locality. The career of sufferings of James, seventh Earl of Stanley, and of his heroic wife Charlotte de la Tremouille, is striking episodes in history which 'plating, and which tend to .actor of the British nobility, rked in that of the far-descended in most other as executed his task with great ability 1, like those in his former publication, las appended to the sketches of the ad Sefton, are full of valuable matter. )urse we differ from him in our estimation of the present distinguished scion of the uestion greatly the propriety of in )n, as he has furnished us with, into land and the nom Ho Of former. In fact troducing a disq. work of this Character VARIETIES 4.—The Daily News, in remark _ which academic titles are con a, says it has caused the witticism that ies are falling by degreeß —Mr. Ch'" l will hang out the lid belonging to the pan Which ights ago if the person who stole it will tkt he will fetch it.—Leicester Journal. the Scotch Universit of Loughbo. a few r word wh Punch exhibits the versatile Harry as " the citizen of the world, or Lord Brougham naturalised everywhere;" the well-known lineaments being pourtrayed in three-and twenty different characters, viz., as English, French, :otch, Indian, Roman, Greek, Persian, Yankee, &c. &c. CHEAP POULTRY. — An Irish pedlar asked an itinerant he softer sex the price of a pair of fowls. Sir." "In my dear country, my darling', ' " Why don't "Cause we you remain in yot have no sixpc Louis P abalistic number thirt finished teen years ar thirteen tir he h ADS FOIL TRAVELLERS ling in Wale ee th ing in Wales- and bacon and eggs hould not do three qua Welsh language those convicted o' son or Ate are sent to reside further to the to the Ivy Sea ; and the only I another to irmations wnicn portant observation. Had the National Guard of Paris stood firm, the troops of the line would never have wa vered ; the government would not have been intimidated ; a socialist revolution would have been averted ; public credit preserved ; the savings' bank, the place of deposit of the poor—the public funds, the investment of the mid dle classes—saved from destruction. When we contem plate the dreadful monetary crisis which has been brought on in France by the revolution ; when we behold the Bank of France suspending payments, and all the chief banks of the metropolis rendered bankrupt by the shock ; when we behold wealth in ship-loads flying from its me naced shores, and destitution in crowds stalking through its crowded and idle streets, we are struck with horror, and impressed with a deeper sense of thankfulness at the good sense and patriotic spirit of the middle classes in this country, which has so quickly crushed the efforts of the seditious to involve us in similar calamities. " The un bought loyalty of men,—the cheap defence of nations," — still, thank God ! subsists amongst us. The poison of infidelity has not destroyed the moral bonds of society— the rolling-stone of revolution has not crushed the insti tutions of freedom amongst us. There are hearts to love their country —arms to defend their Queen—not less among our civil than our military defenders. The pillage of Glasgow on the first outbreak of the disturbances there, their speedy suppression by the energy of the inhabitants, has not been lost on the empire. It is not in vain that twenty thousand constables came forward to be enrolled in one day in Glasgow, and eleven thousand in Manches ter. We see what we have to expect from the seditious ; they see what they have to expect from the middle classes of society, and the whole virtuous part of the lower. With such dispositions in both, Great Britain may be exposed to local disorder or momentary alarm, but it can never be seriously endangered, or undergo that worst of horrors—a social revolution. Nor will she, with such dispositions in her people, be less prepared to assert the ancient glory of her arms, should circumstances render that alternative necessary. She has no internal reforms to make that she cannot achieve peaceably, by the means which her constitution affords. Her giant strength slum ships of war, in the noble words one of those stupendous t still- many con bets, not sleeps. of Mr. Canning ness,—how soon, upon any call of patriotism, or of ne cessity, it would assume the likeness of an animated thing, instinct with life and motion—how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage—how quickly it would put forth all its beaniy and its bravery, c o ll ec t i ts attered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder !"—how soo, I be unfurled to the br Tod's Maga country tongue, and a la. which will carr word of Welsh of the pocket THE ExILJ east. or to the .iiet with of the better daises are officers who have been guilty of fraud or breach of trust. Many of Formerly served in Eastern Siberia, and the 'xile has had the effect of assigning them a _.!nce nearer to Europe. In this condition a former Governor of Okhotsk, one of the oldest and most experienced of the inhabitants of Tobolsk; who gave deice respecting my intended journey I ,ese unfortunates, as they are called, freedom ; and, with the excep - , who are obliged to do they seem quite exempt from any lness on the part of the police. uch val ive in the town in r -ed exiles hiirch, and doubtless from sincere conviction. These - pass over from the luxury of Moscow to the -ity of Tobolsk with true manly equanimity. beards and hair grow ; and as they say they find the life of the Kosak and the peasant noAahle than they once believed. Hence it +fable, that the children, whom they bring ages with Siberian women, totally lose all arkable a change of fortune ; and that the employed in Siberia in agriculture, hunt -4i. are as little to be distinguished accord aged emu al s y let their themselves, up from mar: trace of so ri e poste rite of Tartar princes an's 7 OF THE GAORHA.—During a course Of the river Lee is broken into petty stream away through a vast moorland, and form nds of luxuriant appearance. These is anted with oak, ash, and hazel trees, and groves of small size. The water-plants I many of them worthy of botanical in se moors abounded in wild ; but now, partly from the [red with, and partly from the __ix numbers are much dinai is a well-known haunt of the 3 in per iastic sportsman some -1 and difficulty through tn.v in this wide, wild The reciamatie of this we trust, a thing stant ex gee ed in the pr allies would be en- prepared to h triumphantly combated, we Et ttraturr. POETRY SUMMER LONGINGS (From the Dubh n University Maga:ine.) Las mananas floridas De Abril y Mayo.—CALDERON Ah ! my heart Waiting for ary waiting, Waiting for pleasani rambles, Where the fragrant hawthorn brambles, With the woodbine alternating, Scent the dewy Ah t my heart is Waiting for thi Ah t my heart is sick with longing, weary waiting, , ging - to - escape from study, :he young face fair and ruddy, eind the ad charms befonging Oh ! my heart ick with longing, Ah ! my heart with sighing, !turning, as are bn ,veers that dead or dying Ah! toy heart is pained with throbbing, Throbbing for the May— Or the water-wooing willows ; Where in laughing and in sobbing ins away. _ Ah ! my heart Throbbing f Waiting sad, de THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. THE CONTENTED AND THE COMPLAINERS. (From the London Ttmee.) • _••____, How many of .. the men who paraded down Whitehall with flags emblematical of " Death or Liberty " periodi cally sell that Liberty to the highest bidder'? How many regard their vote as a thing to be sold ? Again, is it that bugbear the oppressiveness of capital ? Talk with the workmen—ask them separately what they think of the scheme of Communism—the majority will, despite Mr. Owen and M. Blanqui, reply, that the partnership scheme is a humbug, and the division of property a robbery. What is it, then ? The property qualification ? Consti tutional writers allow that the admission of some intelli gent working men into parliament is in harmony with the spirit of the Constitution, and would be beneficial to the state. This, then, is at least worth considering. But this is only one of the many things insisted on. What is that that prompts other complaints, so violent, and other de sires, so various ? _ In solving this problem we must fall back upon our every day experience. Who are the men that complain ? What are their social conditions ! Take two men, John Higgins and Jem Stubbing. Higgins works with a great contractor near town named Jones. Stubbins is tourney man to an upholsterer named Tibbs. Higgins came up from the country, having lost his father and mother. Stubbins was born in London, and never knew father or mother. ' Huggins's employer is a man who began in the same condition as himself, and has worked his way up. Stubbins's has done the same ; but there the similarity ends. Higgins's master is kind, courteous, and genial ; Stubbins's is hard, surly, and—as his men phrase it— " rayt her high." The former looke after his men, has built them cottages, which he lets at a just rent, and a school for their children ; he has also set a little savings. bank on foot, in which they deposit their earnings. His wife gives tea-parties to the women, and looks after the school. The other never took a moment's interest in his labourers, except when he wanted to canvass them for his own Radical candidate, and Mrs. Tibs—a ci-divant lady's maid—is very fine and grand. Higgins's fellow workmen are devoted to their employer; Stubbins's hate theirs. The consequences are what might be supposed. Stubbins and Co. are a dirty, discontented set; dissolute in their habits, violent in their language, and irrational in their opinions ;—Huggins's, for the most part, intelligent, in dustrious, prudent, and saving. When there is a depres sion in trade, the former strike, the latter fall back upon their earnings- When there's a row, the one class joinin the procession, the other keep the peace. On the me morable 10th, the one were at Kennington Common; the other were sworn in as special constables. When Mrs. Tibbs's bodoir caught fire, all Tibbs' men laughed at the fun ; when Mrs. Jones's conservatory was in the same predicament, all Jones's men rushed to the rescue. Jones's men are in the main content ; Tibbs's think they are per sonally injured, because they don't sit in parliament, and pay themselves for the•trouble. They hate the Throne, they hate the church, they hate the aristocracy ; but they hate with a ten times bitterer hatred the class of employ ers, whom they believe to be men without hearts, with out sympathy ; living on their labour, and thriving on their wretchedness. Jones's men hate no order of society, because the only superior order they know of they find friendly, genial, and sympathetic. Indeed, it is by means as symple and ordinary as these tnat the welfare of society is cemented. Half the griev ances of any one man, and more than half the grievances of any one class, are sentimental ones. The Higginses and the Stubbinses are each a numerous body. Were all masters as indifferent and as haughty as Tibbs, all artizans would be as dissolute and as violent as Stubbing ; but were all masters as kind and thoughtful as Jones, all mechanics would be orderly, peaceful, and well-disposed. It is not merely by legislative enactments or grand projects that poverty is conciliated and discontent appeased, but by the gentle influence of unpretending good offices, which permeates one rank after another, consolidating all into harmony unity, and mutual dependence. CHEAP DISCOUNTS. — Not long since, pending cheap discounts, I was standing in Brunswick-street, when a certain Mr. came up, and, addressing the party with whom I was conversing, said, " Please. , lend me Bs. 6d. to buy a stamp." The borrower was one who ought not to have thought of such a thing as drawing a bill, and my friend declined lending the Bs. 6d.; but in less than twenty minutes, the would-be borrower came again to me, and said, " Look here!" (taking off his hat, the crown of which was full of bank notes, hundreds of pounds, in fifties, twenties, tens, and fives,) " see what the Bs. 6d. has produced me." Such was cheap discount in Liverpool, not yet twelve months gone by ! Indeed any man, tearing a slip off his shirt lap, and scratching it with a pen into the shape of a bill, could, during the time of low discount, get what sum he pleased ! Is it any wonder, then, that cheap discounts should generate undue expansion ? Is it any wonder that commerce should be over expanded, and that panics should come, aye and will come ? On my plan, such things cannot occur, as no currency can be obtained but after full value has fir3t been paid for it ! The placing the monetary system of this great country in order is beneath (query, above) the capacity of our government; they, mighty men, are over occupied with—keeping their places—and faction. I eould amplify, but refrain !—Pamphlet by Mr. Pickering. EVERY STATION NECESSARY.—Let us never fcrget, what I hope I have already impressed upon you with some degree of success—that every station in life is necessary • that each deserves our respect ; that not the station itself, but the worthy fulfilment of its duties, does hhnour to a man ' • and that we only merit esteem in so far as we ap proach nearest to the perfect performance of the duties assigned to us in the order of things ; that therefore the scholar has reason to be, of all others, the most modest, because an aim is set before him of which he continually falls far short—because he has a most elevated ideal to reach, which commonly he approaches only at the greatest distance. There are many tendencies and powers in man, and it is. the vocation of each individual to cultivate all his powers, so far as he is able to do so. Among others is the social impulse; which offers him a new and peculiar form of cultivation—that for society—and affords an un usual facility for culture in general. There is nothing prescribed to man on this subject;—whether he shall cultivate all his faculties as a whole, unaided and by nature alone ; or mediately through society. The first is difficult, and nowise advances society ; hence, in the social state, each individual rightfully selects his own part of the com mon cultivation, leaves the rest to his fellows, and expects that they will allow him to share the benefits of their cul ture, as he permits them to participate in the advantage of his own ; and this is the origin and ground of the distinction of classes in society.—Fichte's Vocation of the Scholar. WHAT TEMPERANCE CAN Do.—ln Mrs. Hall's book on Ireland, occurs the following passage, which a person will hardly read without emotion :—We entered, one day, a cottage in the suburbs of Cork ; a young woman was knitting stockings at the door. It was as neat and com fortable as any in the most prosperous district of England. We tell her brief story in her own words, as nearly as we can recal them :—" My husband is wheelwright, and always earned his guinea a week ; he was a good work man, but the love for the drink was strong in him, and it wasn't often he brought me home more than five shillings out of his one pound one on a Saturday night, and it broke my heart to see the children too ragged to send to school, to say nothing of the starved look they had out of the little I could give them. Well, God be praised, he took the pledge, and the next Saturday he laid twenty-one shillings upon the chair you sit upon. Oh ! didn't I give thanks upon my beaded knees that night ; still I was fearful it wouldn't last, and I spent no more than the five shillings I used to, saying to myself, may be the money will be more wanted than it is now. Well, the next week he brought me the same, and the next, and the next, until eight weeks had passed ; and, glory to God ! there was no change for the bad in my husband ; and all the while he never asked me why there was nothing better for him out of his earnings ; so I felt there was no fear for him, and the ninth week, when he came home to me, I had this table bought, and these six chairs, one for my self, four for the children, and one for himselt ; and I was dressed in a new gown, and the children all had new clothes and shoes and stockings, and upon his chair I put a bran new suit, and upon his plate I put a hill and re ceipt for them all just the eight sixteen shillings, the cost that I'd saved out of his wages, not knowing what might happen, and that always went for drink. And he cried, good lady and good gentleman, be cried like a baby, but 'twas with thanks to God ; and now where's the healthier man than my husband in the whole county of Cork, or a happier wife than myself, or decenter or better fed chil dren than my own ?" THE VILLAGE OF EVERTON. What havoc the last half century has made in that once beautiful and pic turesque village ! Within a mile or so of the shore, the spectator gazed on a vast expanse of water, woodland, and mountain scenery. People who delighted in seeing farther than their neighbours, used to point out the distant hills of Cumberland and Yorkshire ; the Calf of Man they asserted to be visible, even to the spur on his heel ; and also the frowning moun tains of Flintshire and Denbighshire, which streak the horison in the west, were triumphantly referred to as a proof that the denizens of Everton were high:in the world. And they were so, literally and figuratively. A poet of no mean celebrity—one whom Sir R. Peel has deemed worthy of a pension, declared to the writer, only recently, that in the course of a long experience be had seen few sweeter places than Everton was when he resided there thirty years ago. Nay, a late popular novelist has gone even beyond this, and declared, traveller as he was, that Everton was the prettiest village in the world. The stranger will be sorely perplexed to discover such beauty in the black, begrimed, unsightly mass of buildings that now bears the name. The great democracy has trenched on the aristocratic lawn, and the stately mansion has acquired, by contiguity, a vulgar tinge. The onward progress of society is read in the rise and metamorphosis of Everton. Commerce is a sore destroyer of sylvan beauty. The merchant, from his residence on the brow of the hill, overlooking, by its commanding elevation, the entrance of a noble river, may still catch a glimpse of his incoming and out going argosies, as they are borne to and fro on the bosom of the Mersey ; but in the valley below, the ver dant meadows that formerly stretched to the water's edge, filling the air in spring with the delicious fragrance of the hawthorn, and in, summer with the not less grateful odour of new-mown hay, have given place to crowded streets, smoky factories, and the tall chimneys whose chemical exhalations have long since put to flight the poetry and beauty, the exclusiveness and splendour in which Ever ton once gloried. Viewed from that grassy vale, and more particularly towards the close of the day, the hill itself presented a strikingly attractive appearance. The numerous windows of the handsome houses that adorned its side, glittering with the rays of the setting sun, and gorgeous in their brilliancy, contrasted beautifully with the dark clumps of trees and bright patches of greensward that diversified the slope. Crowning the summit, and about the spot where the church has since been built, stood the beacon, which, though remarkable for antiquity rather more than for beauty, formed a pleasing object in 1 the landscape.—The Slave captain, THE " GAGGING ACT." Up to Saturday week, when the bill inflicting the penal ties of felony on incitements to insurrection received the royal assent, Saturday had been the regular market day for treason in Dublin ; but a magical change has been wrought amongst the Jacobin writers. The Freeman's Journal, we need scarcely say, is dumb •, indeed that paltry pedlar in sedition had become as gentle as a sucking dove two days before the passing of the act. The Nation, which had been rampant for battle last Saturday week, now coolly reasons the question, " What if we fail ?" with all the coolness of a philosopher, and has no stomach for an attack on any one but poor Johnny O'Connell. Mr. Duffy says, in a letter extending to nearly five columns, "A revolution, I know, to be inevitable. No policy and no force can avert it. * * * I love peace—l fear dis order—l hate anarchy. I believe the public opinion of Ireland to be as well disposed to peace at this hour as ever it was or ought to become. * * * All Ireland, from sea to sea, is arming to enforce our natural right to this island. Heaven send us a peaceful victory. But if not, my conscience is clear that we are able and entitled to take it. If we cannot save our country by peace lam for war." The rest of the Nation is tame and spiritless. The' fire, if not totally extinguished, seems well nigh raked out. The United Irishman did not appear on Saturday until a late hour, in consequence of the parties who printed the paper declining to continue to do so, as they had been in formed by eminent counsel that they could not do so without the risk of an indictment. For thus accounting for the delay, Mr. Mitchell says,—" We have been obliged to submit to the degradation of having our proofs revised by a lawyer, in order to satisfy the parties before this number could appear. We can only promise our readers that no lawyer's pen shall touch our writings a second time." Mr. Mitchell complains that the " censors" have ruthlessly erased all the felonious" passages in his writings, extracting, in fact, the oyster, and leaving the public nothing better than the pearly shells." A "leader" in the United Irishmam, ungraced by felony or treason, is as dull as Hamlet without the principal part. THE BREAD-FRUIT TREE.—There is at this time in the conservatory of Alfred Orrell, Esq., of The Grove, Cheadle, a fine specimen of this extraordinary plant; the tree, which is of noble dimensions, being laden with fruit of a rich and delicious flavour. After a Chartist meeting at Greenock, on Saturday week, a portion of the mob came in contact with a large body of police and specials, stationed in one of the streets to stop the way. The mob made a bold rush against the police and constables, *ho made a vigorous use of their batons, and attacked them with such violence that anum ber of very serious wounds were inflicted. " REBECCA " REDIVIVUS.—The agrarian disturbances which characterised the southern portion of the princi pality of Wales in the years 1843 and 1844 have again manifested themselves in precisely a similar manner. The new county roads board does not operate in the way it was intended to do. A new toll-house was finished on a cross road near Llandilo on the 19th ult., and during the night of the 21st ult, the toll-house was completely demo lished by the Rebeccaites, who literally left not one stone standing on another. A FAIR CONFESSION.—Our attention has been arrested by a sentence of the Economist of Saturday, a paper abun dantly infected with the current liberalism of the age, and little given to mark the superintendinc , hand of Divine Providence. The effect of present events ' on the mind of the editor, is set forth in the following words :—" The government of society has long been held up as the high est work of human genius ; we begin to doubt, since indi viduals and the multitude have alike failed, whether the task be not beyond the faculties of man." A SERIES OF ACCIDENTS.—On Monday se'nnight, as a refractory cow was being driven by Mr. Home to the house of Mr. Allen, butcher, Brettell-lane, Brierley-hill. the animal became infuriated, and attacked everything in her course. A gentleman was thrown out of his phaeton, and the pony drawing the latter tossed in the air. Her driver was subsequently thrown into a ditch, and another man was forced through a shop window, and seriously hurt. At last, after an attack upon other persons,finding it impossible to drive the cow to her destination, she was shot in the road.—Ten Towns Messenger. EASTER MONDAY.—ANOTHER BESPOICE LONDON Row I—Mr. Cochrane's second day in Landon, as the Don Quixote of the poor, was only fit to he recorded by Punch. The very genius of a row, he specially enjoined pqace ! It was a failure extraordinary,—with Easter Mr dl "he - It • Mr. Cod " 'llus- POST-OFFICE DELINQUENCY.—AR inquiry has take place during the past week, relative to a packet GS 'or b , addressed to Mr. James Boodle, solicitor, Cheltenham' Mr. Coppock, of London, the parliamentary agent for the petitioners against the return of Sir W. Jones. Mr. C 3 pock sealed the packet and posted it ; on its arrival ia d Cheltenham Mr. Boodle discovered that the i)elce t to t been opened. The parcel containing some imporairi documents relative to the pending election an inq the was set on foot, when it was .discovered that one of clerks, a partisan opposed in politics to the liberal PI; had had an hour's access to the packet by himself. e a statement of the clerk was, that he found the packet oPthe in the aunt that he took out the bundle of papers fra i ra an d envelope, ied the tape with which they were tieoi read " only the endorsements." n f the CHARTIST INTELLIGENCE . —At a meeting' fo e, Chartists, of Newcastle, held on Friday, a Mr. " a ; e icl delivered a long address, in the course of which he dc ae they had determined to agitate peaceably till the an t he classes were brought round to their views, and th 3 be gave his vote in the Convention that there shou l u the synonymous meetings held on Good Friday all over ve ., country. This observation excited roars of laa,g r ed when one of the more learned of the Chartists, is° the at such a display of ignorance, pulled the speaker bY 3ft , coat, and whispered " simultaneous meetings," an d N et Watson, on resuming his discourse, attempted to c ur, himself by repeating the substance of his last obser lit va and introducing the term spontaneous meetings. in if blundering style the Chartist delegate proceeded for nc'ig half an hour, till, at length, he concluded by Pr° l3° a resolution which he was unable to road. DEATH FROM FRIGHT.—Two mischievous boys' cif ing in Simon's-square, Nicolson-street, for the puril se sge ; amusement, seized a little fellow about eight years oto who was also resident in that locality and was kn°T. jet? them, and c:iarging him with some trifling dePrau' a ea from his aunt bound his arms with a piece of cord' Alp proceeded with him to the police-office at St. Leon s 7e Before they reached that station, however, a Pas se l :oj attracted by the distressed condition of the boy, r e , i ` s ent him from the grasp of his bullying companions, an d him away home in a very agitated state. The little,i low was put to bed, but he became rapidly worse , ' 'if, during some periods of nervous excitement cried ouo cut the cord and let him off. Every exertion was I l e a. in his behalf, but the unfortunate c hild exp i re d en nesdav f tl Afect? 4tb -ece' ultra' Iflisrellany. An abundance of ripe strawberries were exhibited in Edinburgh market last week. scionday into the bargain. st was Mr. e arane -i_ t. say ~rom .ae effects of the fright he had rt.- _,,,,d, The distress in Leeds is so grcrat that one in ten of the trated," instead of the Poor Law. There were pictures The boys, who had acted in so thoughtless a manner, wr„ population is maintained by the parish funds. of the poor—dying r—sleepin. on the stone floors I —men taken into custody and the case is at present under r ' The Earl of Yarborough has given £lOOO to found a '" • • • ' and women in separate cages—&c. The police prevented vestigation.—Edinburgh Register. _.,,, o f "Yarborough Scholarship" at the Royal Naval School, any great assemblage : Sir George Grey was "not at PROPULSION OF STEAM-VESSELS.—Mr. W. AP":0. New Cross, Lincoln. home," nor Mr. Cochrane ! for his affair was all abroad. Kingston-upon-Hull, has taken out a patent for „„ i t• The foundation-stone of the monument to celebrate the EVASION OF AN OATH.—A revolting case of sabordi. thinery for propelling vessels, consisting of a shaft, l' - ii s landing of Prince Albert, at Ramsey, in the isle of Man, nation for perjury has been disclosed in the Deemster's netted with the engine, projecting through the sick ° of was laid with some pomp on Monday.ks , Court, Isle of Man. A farmer, who had been summoned usual • this shaft carries two double ended cyan- • 5 In the Court of Chancery, on Wednesday, Lord - ,-,1;4 019 for non-payment of £47 rent, suborned two men to swearlevers, at right angles to each other. To the cra , a Brougham introduced Prince Metternich. They both sat that they had seen him pay the landlord. He had met upon the ends of the crank-levers, are attached ba r 'OO for some time beside the Lord Chancellor.uS them on Douglas quay, and took them to a public-house, rods, being . attached to pins upon cranks, or levers , t he t sl At several parish and district meetings in the metropo lis, more particularly on Easter Monday, opportunity has The witnesses sat down. and while drinking their glasses, two similar shafts, one of which is situated bei ° ,, r ,,at° the defendant took out of his pocket a piece of chalk, driving-shaft attached to the engine; the other 9 1 4. -- t he been taken to express undiminished loyalty and gratitude • with which he drew the figure of a man upon the table, s b a ti e nd hu th ri a z t un sh ta a l ft l — in t e h . e c u en p t u r n es t o h f us t e he h t u h r r iz e u e n b ta e l int a ' 0 01 1 to the active guardians of order on the 10th. and wrote the plaintiff's name across. He laid down £47, The Commissioners of Customs have decided against and the witnesses then agreed to swear that they had seen placed floats, which act as the propellers, .and are a vr i fterr the appeal made by the Due de Stackpole, and that no- bleman's splendid schooner yacht, the Gipsy Queen, has in a vertical position, whether in entering tne Sig te nrE mon c ey n p A a ß itt s o Ts plai t * N nti EDINBURGH. —The Chartist de- during their passage through, or leaving it ;or 0 . 0, 4 0 been declared forfeited to the Crown for smuggling. monstration held on the Calton Hill on Monday evening be so arranged, that during their backward ra°l e ,:tloof The Countess of Mornington, in Thursday's Times, proved a total failure. There might have been 600 or 700 they may present their edges to the direction of ni - a tll o again appeals to the public for alms :her husband, the persons on the hill; but, owing to the unfavourable wea. which may be done by means of eccentrics uP t ? i „rto ther, the meeting adjourned to the hall in Adam-square, crank arms, and forming the floats themselves., sira lw- Earl of Mornington (the " Long Tilney Wellesley Long Pole Long/ of Fitzgerald) having left her destitute. where, after the assemblage had been kept waiting a con- Venetian blinds. 9 0 siderable time for the committee, a memorial to the An old woman, named Hannah Williams, 03 119 4 The citizens of York were hoaxed on Good Friday by a public announcement that a man would ride in a bucket, Queen, praying her Majesty to dissolve the present Par. years of age, was found dead in her bed at Gloucest 1 1 ,31 liament, was ultimately adopted. Delegates were then week, in a state of the most apparent destitution •"" S ''IOE 4 drawn by three beautiful white swans, down the river Ouse. Multitudes attended, to be disappointed, .0.. after appointed to represent the Scotch Chartists in the great been living for some time past on ls a week, with On Wednesday, a prize fight for £2OO took place be- ~ National Assembly," to be held in the metropolis on from the union, and the charity of her neighbours. ori, tween James Massey, of Manchester, and Jas. Edwards, the Ist of May. her death, however, was found a hoard of money ir,o ill of Cheltenham. The locale was near Newmarket. After ATTEMPTED WADER AND ROBBERY.—O n Mond a y, ous places, amounting to £ll4 2s. 2d., including eased 53 rounds, Edwards came off victor. b etween t wo an d three o'clock, as a wa t c h man named silver and £2 in copper • and, although the Pors the The Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer decided, on B rasse tt, s i x ty-f our years of age, was on d u ty a t th e L e i t h creature had be en shivering with cold throughout '0 Saturday, that a creditor cannot split a debt, which is and Glasgow wharf, London, he was suddenly attacked by inclement weather of the winter and spring, ther e 00 above £2O, for the purpose of enabling him to recover his th ree men , w h o ca me on shore in a boat. Th ey s t ruc k found on the premi ses a l arge s t oc k o f coa l (more ore ° c ly claim by several suits, brought in the new County Courts. the poor old man on the head, as he believed with a life ton and a half in weight) the accumulation of mat'Y cs ere It is said that Mademoiselle Jenny Lind will make her preserver or some other blunt and heavy instrument, ritable gifts ; whilst, in various parts of the heu,s e ,, d ' :0 1 .: first appearance for the season, at the Italian Opera, on which soon rendered him insensible. Believing, it is pre.' found stored away the remnants of unconsumed rou. no ' e ta Thursday next, as Amina in "La Sonnamhula "—the sumed, that life was extinct, they thrust him into a cellar, dently the relics of what she had received from t, i % f ille' and fastened the door on the outside. They thentime from the workhouse, and in gifts from frie 9 ' - o uldi best of her characters. This will be the anniversary of her brilliant de'but last year. pro-ceeded to ransack the place, breaking open an iron safe, believed she was in excessive need. There were ,1 11 „,ty 9 which they rifled of its contents. The poor watchman pieces of bread, numberless pieces of bacon grown '- l ' a - c l i sst The York Courant was published for the last time on Thursday. It first appeared under that name in 1719, lies in a very precarious condition. from long keeping, bits of cheese, remnants of P u t Suc h EVASION OF THE LAW.—We have heard of many &c., some of very recent acquisition, and others o' 4 being a continuation of the York Mercury (said to be the modes of evading the law, but Thomas Turk, a man who age as to have become long since unfit for eating. „• s first newspaper established in the county). It is now to be incorporated with the York Herald. was deprived of his license to sell beer at our police-court LAMENTABRE OCCURRENCE.—Great sensation FRENCH CONTRACT FOR HORSES.—The Provisiona l last week, has adopted a plan somewhat new in theann ls created on Tuesday morning last, in the eighb°` - sotif of beer selling in Newport. Having a " good t r Tt u yh n og ' m ' o a oa o ds f of Minster yard, by the discovery n of th .e , 4). 4 Government having issued a decree that they intend to wofeMll,rast. tChoeo top i r 0 f ( t w h i e do g w ard o e f n c „ us p t l o an m t , ,, a a n t d th b e ei T ng y , ra m n o c r s eo c v a e s r t , lo p , os in ses p se a d ig o w f en a ll p y re , enter into contracts for 28,000 cavalry horses, several French contractors are at present inthe north of England, making7purehases. Turk resolved he would not retire from business so quietly which she resided. The unfortunate lady retire s et s , sir st On Monday, a fearful explosion of fire-damp took place as some people might expect ; and he now evadesthe law, about nine o'clock on Monday,being °v . ' a es" in the deep pit at Victoria Iron Works, Monmouthshire, and carries on " a roaring trade," by selling nuts at three time. On •the foil ' owin morning the servant was''' or by which five men lost their lives instantly. Two others half-pence each, and giving away a glass ofsparkling on findin her mistress's bed-room door partly or e ° ' 0 0 . . o quitted it be were seriously injured—one so much so that his recovery beer to the nut-buyer ! This system is carried on an ex- on the bed, perceived she had qui set s is despaired of. sensive scale nightly.—Monmouth Merlin, proceeding to the garden she found that the W I ,ttll ESCAPE FROM GAOL. —On Sunday morning, John At the Thames Police-office, on Monday, James Bolton longing to the well had been removed. Knowing t 1 5 1 Bryant and Edward Edwards, two prisoners in the convict was sentenced to eight days' imprisonment, for practising deceased was subject to fits of aberration, she a t 01 sito gaol, at Springfield, who were awaiting their trial at the the following novel cheat at Stepney fair. About three petted that she had destroyed herself. A person g ° TO pennyworth of coppers were placed on small pegs, which the bucket, descended, and soon found the Wk' 3 lon' ensuing assizes, effected their escape. They have not been heard of since. , were to be thrown at with a small bar, when, if all the deceased had complained very much of her head ou on" Two hours before the artillery in St. James's-park, half-pence were dislodged, the thrower, who paid a pe nn y, day, and wept bitterly. She had also said_ t9 n t r hg er t ,: de sl ol . , pocketed them. The • er, who was the proprietor, —" Youhate me, Eliza;" and on her replying ~ a , London. announced to the Cockneys the birth of a prin cess at their doors, the bells were ringing in honour of the was ready to take the chance either as a staker or a thrower, did not, why should she," the deceased motile ',pet event at Berwick-upon-Tweed—the intelligence having but always took care that he should win, in each capacity, cause all the world does."—The jury returned a 'se been received at the latter place by electric telegraph. except when he occasionally lost on purpose to give an " Temporary insanity." stri fill ' CIRCULATION OF THE BIBLE.—The following has been appearance of fairness to the game. When he tnrew STRANGE ATTACK.—Last week J. Lhoski, an Attip bag the circulation of the Scriptures through the British and himself the halfpence were- lodged lightly on the pegs, was charged, at the Marlborough Police-office , :,,, j ird° o ; Foreign Bible Society, during the last three years in the but when others threw, the lo wer half-penny was made to ing annoyed Prince Metternich, and broken so"), 1 81 '° ts a n d following large towns :—London, 126,391; Liverpool, adhere by means of some composition. at the Brunswick Hotel, in Princes-street; „teroich a ito 81,342 ; Manchester. 129,241 ; Leeds, 49,975 ; Bristol, PENURY of Louts PRILIFFE.—The Count de Neuilly manager of the hotel, said that Prince i‘s e ", had c° is 54,955.—T0ta1, 441,905 copies. . lives at Claremont in a state of almost penury, denying suite were now stopping there. The prisol e 0., Fused On Wednesday the entire of the valuable timber, prin- himself those small luxuries which had become all but to the hotel, and requested to see Baron g u l o aer o cipally oak, standing in the woods at Stowe, Foscott, necessaries from long use to a, man of his time of life.— attached to the suite of the prince. The r s hotel• e t, Thornborough, Finmore, Hillesden, Fakutt, and Ashwell, Even with the most rigid economy, however, it is said that very energetic language, and at last he left the' the stre 9 o the property of the Duke of Buckingham, was sold by his income is still insufficient-for his maintenance, and that - a minute or two some stones were thrown public auction at Buckingham. The sale produced up- i n a y ear or two, if he survives so long, he will be corn- which broke two of the windows. The Pris°" I , s b ur a r eP ) 14 wards of £22,000. pletely destitute. It can, however, scarcely be the inten- to Mr. Watson,: Do you know that You '-a- o ~.eroi c e l At the Dempster's Court, in the Isle of Man, the other tion a the French Government to sequestrate th e private in your house s D o y ou k now that Prince l ett .... r aie c e day, the judge, barristers, and litigants, were not a little property, not only of the ex-King, but of his whole family. a traitor to his country, and that he has , been ai ms fa ho &mil er 0 ,, 5, amu sed at the appearance of a new candidate for forensic The dowers of his sons' wives are said to be almost entirely before the Hun g aria n Di e t, an d d are not shol o oti, dp . honours, in the shape of a monkey, which, seated in the invested either in French funds, or in land in France, and there ? Do you know that he has not only irn_A ? "*" . l lawyers' seats and looking at the bench, chattered away w h a tever claim the nation may have upon the Royal hands, but his arms up to his armpits, in ble;aer 7 o , until rudely expelled by a servant girl, who came to look estates, it can by no process, that we are aware of, be ex- Hardwick asked the prisoner what he was? 0 1 0 1 f t , r(l r el after the runaway pet of her mistress. tended to property thus acquired.—Times. ( am a doctor of philosophy. I have received 10° 'l4l Mr. T. Campbell Foster, formerly "The Times Corn- DESECRATION AND ROBBERY.—The minister - of a the Austrian goverrment, £3O and £5O at a time' Ilo fte missioner" in Ireland, now a barrister on the Northern pretty c h urc h, w hi c h r i ses a l mos t i n th e s h a d ow o f an is £5O coming to me to which lam entitled. -1,, ‘ ''? is o , circuit, has promptly and emphatically denied that he embattled " fortress of the fen," not 100 miles from Con- wick asked the prisoner how he obtained a livi d nt s ' a w e / ever made an overture to write articles from Ireland for nigsby, was called upon by: a party of " navvies" on Sun- prisoner said he had written several workshaw.dwicislis the Northern Star, or any other newspaper than the day week, to christen a child. While engaged in his duty, contributed to the quarterly reviews. Mr . ,_, -- d him to Times. This denial has been occasioned by a statement another of these sons of clay and iron, evidently a mate the prisoner 6s. for the damage, and rehuu e SA S made in the House of Commons by Mr. F. O'Connor. of the christening party,- entered the church, and,. acting bail for his good behaviour. .., alt '7.4 One-of the clerks at the General Post Office has been on the Principle of " exchange no robbery," took the rev. MR. COG,IIIIANE'S PA U P ER D EmoN sTßAT,Tfr o i t i, _TO di sm issed for refusing to be sworn a special constable gentleman's new hat , and left in its place his own—one been impertinently and falsely stated in an Au..7 sr aseP s d during the Chartist demonstration. Of course he is, in of those bettered coverings which we see on the heads of that Sir George Gray would not interfere t? _ 1 : 0 130 Sir his own eyes, "an injured Englishman." Reasonable " Emeralders" during the harvest season—brimless, numerous procession of the inmates of -__W o ork s t u o `nsces';e4 people, however, will hold that if a man refuses to protect almost crownless, and wofully " wanting a nap." We others through the public streets to the 11. rp, sr ievsP, o . the property on which lie is employed, it would be only are told that the trick is an old one; and that the same the purpose of laying a host of child has been christened on, a former occasion at a sacri- before the Government, but the hon. hart. 0 0, tif natural to refuse him the custody of it any longer. " bastile too a n of Charles Dickens and other amateurs will shortly per- five to a worthy parish clerk of a great coat.-Stamford portnnity, in his place in the House of. Cu ra ca use ° . 0 ° ess s '' form " The Merry Wives of Windsor" and " Every Man Mercury. removing any impression that might have been ss a s $ in his Humour," in aid of the purchase and preservation ROYAL. COLLEGE OF CIIEMISTRY.—Dr. Sheridan Mus- such unfounded assertion. Mr- Cochrane; „ ha : a te / POI of Shakspere's house, and of an endowment for some pratt delivered an interesting lecture, on Wednesday peared in Trafalgar-square on Monday, and ',ions - ° ° worthy dramatist whose means may not be equal to his evening,' at the monthly meeting of the subscribers and cab with a van behind containing " Illustra, a too led_ merits, and to whom the custody of the property at Strat- students of the college, at Hanover-square, on the manu- " Bastiles" and the Poor-law, advanced /I.''' With 00 ford may be confided. facture of the carbonate of soda, sulphuric acid, and hy- 1500 peions to Whitehall. A body of Polt iv e a s ; wit , h tic le- 1 The returns of the Registrar-General record the death drochloric acid ; and in a series of successful experibients, appeared, and they fled immediately. The Aef e 4.4 of• a child, aged two years, o from inflammation of the showed how the deleterious gases evolved in the process, t van finding his progress effectually stopPadt or u sich 4 re v stomach and smaller intestines, combined with fluid black and which were so destructive of vegetation, as to have payment for his services of Mr. Cochrane , . 0 Slln t ' o g; blood in the right side and large veins of the heart, sup- caused an action for damages to have been brought against immediately satisfied, and the bearer of t`, l , ocs ed posed to he caused by mephitic vapour from a cesspool the Messrs. Muspratt, proprietors of chemical works in tions"' quietly retired. Mr. Cochrane vets- 80 4 9 5 a s s:, opened, of which the contents were carried through the Liverpool, upon that ground, might be condensed, and on in his cab, his "tail"" having b een cut u se les . , s s house." Two days elapsed between the date of the latter their unhealthy action thereby greatly diminished, if not stated, and went to the Home- o ffi c e, when' hi occurrence and the death. altogether prevented. Scattered through the rooms were petition, the hon. baronet presiding oyes-that rrhas e ;le NECESSARY EVILS.—A gentleman was constantly in many specimens of daguerreotype portraits and landscapes, not being visible to such an undesired guest. ,', d rec e , the habit of calling his servants, before their faces, " TalbotYpes, and of silver and copper electrotypes, all the affair, the only casualty b e i ng a b r oken hQ ds ot cessary evils." He quarrelled with one of them, who of which were greatly and deservedly admired. by one of the crowd, more, however, from accident ill left him in a rage, said he was sick of service, and vowed DAMAGE BY RIOTOUS OR TUMULTUOUS ASSEMBLIES. design. _ s isiiritsirs that he would never enter it again. A few days after his —Sir W. Clay's bill, for amending the law relative to re- RELICS OF A WANDERING JRIVELLEa' gen 'S„sf;s• old master meeting him in livery, said, " Poh, you are medies against the hundred in England, only contains month of December last a wandering Ps' l o ciP t n gone into service again after all." " Ah, sir, I have found two previsions. By the law, as it now stands, compen- Daniel Stewart, a native of Ireland, died at hi,s equ el' lo o 4 that masters are ' necessary evils'." sation can only be obtained against the inhabitants of a Keptie-street, Arbroath. Stewart had been i t ii b°,s° A correspondent of the Gardeners' Chronicle mentions hundred for damage done, where the offence amounts to the habit of visiting Arbroath with the two sills 9 , 0 0 , 0 06 , that a robin is now rearing her young in a sawpit, where felony ; and it is considered expedient that such inhabit-. jewellery with which he travelled - but his aPP e th sef. s ces the sawyers work every day, and could at any time lay ants should be made liable to yield compensation in like apparel, as well as his penurious habits, led I .° stil eP,', s o°, their hands on the young or the parent bird, which dis- manner to parties damnified by the acts of persons, riot-. sion that he was far from being in affluent clni 9 W o tio, plays no fear, but comes when the men are at dinner to onsly and tumultuously assembled, which may not amount After his death, his landlady, accompani e e s t 7 01 3 ,4 fe:l pick up the crumbs. A wren had followed the example, to felony. For this object, it is provided by the hill, that business and a magistrate, had his effects S, _Je d o f!_ii 1? 0 ,, % and had built her nest under the same shed ; but the in every case where any building whatever, or any part to their very great surprise, found that, inst e !,,se' e s e l :4 jealous robin would not allow the wren to lay her eggs, thereof, shall be destroyed, or shall be in any manner trumpery articles which they naturally s.l ci"4, and at last succeeded in driving her away. damaged, or where any commodities whatever therein formed his stock in trade, there was a verY la,' 6. 50ge' , a 6) ,6 shall be destroyed, taken away, or damaged by any riot- of valuable gold and silver watches, diamon d set,' o, e o On Tuesday, Mr, Thomas Steele was brought before ous or tumultuous assembly of persons, the inhabitants of and pins, not a few of the rings enamelled o" TliPi n t '„; Mr. Jardine, at Bow-street, for an attempt to commit sui the hundred shall be liable to yield full compensation in monds, besides other articles of great value. • n ts ''," it olP, tide by throwing himself over Waterloo-bridge. Mr. damages to the p erson orpersons injured. at the same time found two deposit - bank r",,, e t i roille t l `, Steele, having solemnly pledged his word not to attempt s PLAGIARISM.—The Tablct (Popish paper), in corn- sums of £2OO and £26, respectively. .No re - ~,t V,. at orw J lie em ve ff M ee r - . the crime again was dismissed, having been bound over in menting upon Lord Brougham's attempt . to become a appeared, and in the absence of any settletn,.!i; or, ,ii t 'be his own recognizance in £lOO and two sureties of £5O naturalized Frenchman, w hile he retained the privileges ceased, Mr. Robertson, the Sheriff-substu u s r ivc ° o f 1 0 0 of a British subject, says :—" One thin.. disappoints us in and Mr. Forsyth, the Procurator-Fiscal, D' Dss io!i, ail this affair : the notion is not original.' Lord Brougham broath, on Wednesday last, and took Pe ss ' e ntl, 71 I house,eacl. a L s o h r dig contribution ßrougham h t a o s a sent fund £r raising s to n o g Peels tur e ' Steele from his pecuniary difficulties. has borrowed e it from men more eccentric than himself. whole roert on behalf of the Crown. T he ° ,409 FALSE GOLD COIN OF COLUMBIA.—On Saturday, at the that Lord Brougham is asquainted with of the property . is supposed to be not less thr b y a l . ,ip P o o It 'VI knownof actarian system philosophy. Many estimable wart's wearing apparel was valued yesteras , of i s6 i, examinedw sp a i a racy Columbia. The spurious • Mansion- h o u s e , a young rnagodconcernedimitating e e tn h a ry c s o t t i hn e .e , I con gar professors of that religion have reduced to- practice an and curiously enough, as if to mark the co s his f ss. analogous theory. When they travel abroad they frequent stock in trade exhibited to the meanness °' u rn ° s si current tOOO ioo commitf othe a Ra ne c ph extensiveua h r g i e o o o f f h 1 and devout • • su the catholic churches, are very at mass, sing latter was found to be worth the enorusou ,coss o coin is a piece of yellow metal, of the size of a half vespers, and ask bishops for their blessing. They are . tli A b th ex- ser ng.— r roa Guide . ..-0 0 Oer I V sovereign, with the impression-of the arms of Columbiar str.A. T 1 f 5 ft tremely catholic. But when they return this . t A soul ry, CHILD STARVED BY ITS /1'...0T.- 0- 0 ,, of 1832, and of `• IREM, Popayan." It is believed that they never enter a catholic chapel, and speak slightingiy last, an inquest was held at Birmingha m ' son o'o' 10,000 of them, at least, have been struck off. of the mass. They change on their passage : Wheatcroft, a little boy eight years, old, t" e e d e.,s, Ca r at M. Jullien, whose name appears as a bankrupt in the catholics abroad—protestants at home. Lord Brougham -named Whestcroft, and a woman 'who P°l o rie,",,oi g ei, Gazette, owes between £9.000 and £lO,OOO, principally did but borrow their theory and apply it to civil politics— and who had been residing for some dine ' s e sr" s e ii i arising out of his connection with English op eran t Drury in our opinion the more innocent borrowing of the two." street, and whose death was alleged to a 9 It f.' ( ; 0 0,, S Lane, where his extravagance as a manager precluded the A person, describing himself as the Rev. B. C. D. F. starvation and ill-treatment by bin parent s : u spieVoP , impossibility of a profitable return. It is stated that he Fairfax, has been victimising the parishioners of Raw- from the evidence of several persons th , -t,„: er cb i 01 ° ,4! offered his creditors to put aside £1,500 per annum out of marsh, near Sheffield, where he had been officiating some been excited that the deceased and two en u eltc,sl,,r e its his professional earnings—but failing in conciliating all, months on behalf of the rector, who had been spending ' the same parents were treated with grea t , c Too r t i of if and an attempt being made while at Dublin to arrest him the winter in Ireland. He obtained the curacy by an- examination it was found that they w e Thlin e fliers; , —he determined upon going through the Gazette, and his swering an advertisement in. the Ecclesiastical Gazette, wales on their backs, and that they o'lo in ° ( WO, assets are now stated at nil. and showing ample testionials ; but having obtained tied up in the house, while their father ° ifb e t ten 0, " One of the officials" of the Sherborne workhouse, credit to a large amount, by an assumed liberality of ex- away, and left without food for two days a 5 a l'" i g.„, o t l) ., having nothing better to do, has executed the following penditure, on the time approaching for him to resign his had a large cut on his forehead, such c iclet_,, °- ii,, ice) barefaced delusion. He wrote on an egg, " Prepare ye, trust the creditors became pressing, and suddenly he was would make ; all three were perfect ,: a &DIV/ A? for the kingdom of heaven is at hand"—placed it in a missed from the parish, and has not since been heard of. father had been seen beating them with w biell I .el e ir e o hen's nest, and pretended t he bird h ad produced it. The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign 31st of March, the door of the pla ce iti bildr e° cb ,i n o f Numbers of persons believed in the prodigy, and trembled. Parts an d ot h er re li g i ous so c ieties are a l so su ff erers. B e i ng , con fi ne d was b ro k en open , an d the %ig tli e o l 0 c d , The local journal says that " several of the ministers a young, unmarried man, " tall, slender, of dark corn- The mother was also, in the habit of bet i t o r, ta il o c o actually alluded to the matter . in the pulpits." On Mon- plexion, with large expressive eyes, and jetty hair ;" being, she had been seen to put them in a L 'aleat. f lt 0 bet day, a notice was posted ' on the union gates" that the moreover, supposed to be nobly born and rich, he attracted occasion to throw a sheet over their b° sr 114 0 01 I matter was an April fool hoax. Cl ea 'he ' rd great notice from the ladies : not only so ; his zeal for the pany with another woman, named CI, in t ajog if , At Brighton Police-court, last week, a man, named church, kindness to the poor and those who did not attend match, and stick the prongs of a fn t hstO eiii t (i , " Lawton Lucas, was committed for trial for the novel trick his ministry, made him one universal favourite with the and tell her it was the devil. Now , a hid 01 4 ce, of abstracting money in the following manner :—He went villagers. The tradesmen supplied him with goods to any medical care bestowed on the de e s low. e „,ea V Of t i n t o a p a strycook's shop for a bun, for which he laid down amount, and he was surrounded wiih all the comforts and Sunday l a st. The medical evidenc* 0 - c can t ion. o a sixpence, and received sd. in change. The sixpence elegancies of life. By and bye there came down to the bad resulted from water on the brain/ so ati'°,sse / ee l was afterwards observed to be dangling over the till, and, clerical residence two persons, one of them a " page," and tinual irritation of the stomach, the r ' o d. .s i se .l ; t on examination, was found tied round with fine horse. the other a relative, whom he called " Johnny Deer," or stomach being occasioned 'by want ot t o u sa ios,' s a, 0 h a i r , t o which a long end was attached. On being taken 1 " dear," a term of endearment somewhat applicable ; turned a verdict of " Manslaughter nil ad'eaPlC' -Ito custody, three or four others, similarly prepared 1 since there are shrewd suspicions . that althoug4 in male calling herself Sarah Wheatcroft , „, hll ll3 i attire the wearer it of the ft:min:De gentler, considered George Wheatcroft wa s ''' i were fowl in ins po4eio, May 2, Itig. O , 14 ‘ ,7 l r goston ,--Carl D Par; C3A ILI 4 9n, 2v clan, G. ranhan John, 1 -Janeiro Ita ( r t .: ( L t • Pete Ant t o ,, ILE ] k,W.ant to' r tk4B,rin' (2) B e xja • F A G re • ) kf4' U' 12 • P. 14 • x r - PC 'kV • Aji 1 4›, t t 4 V t ail4 . ' • ( k ,Ay r i: 11 4 Ct,arlP6 up e for p-i ~• • • Ntary, Lvri Joh n ' Lady Kear , A nn k a i d 'Qat). r • 14.01 f,, I ;ii , 0 41 , al: hilly r C } tDrunAgpai AA R ,. v c a rland 4 eaorii Boni ti e Nr! tel`yi 't: k a pe, 44 1.1 r tt ; 5..1 kil l° SI, kdr 4 ll, tkeard riet4