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7Ateraturr. 'WEST SCENERY.—At the further end of this little Cuba town there seemed a grand slow! where the clustered dwellings sank, intermixed with tall, spreading, tropical plants, whose close neighbourhood to the houses qualify all commercial appearances - with the wildness and rusticity of streaming branches and the gayest greens in discriminately interweaving with gleaming walls, and paint, and white wood. Back from the town, and ascend ing widely, were small savannahs, profu , e of trees, and here and there enlivened by great plantation houses. with their constant appendages, and perhaps a tall staff, from _____.___ VARIETIES GEORGE THE THIRD'S MOTHER.—Papers were stuck up at the Royal Exchange and in Westminster-hall with these words—" No Petticoat Government—no Scotch fav,urite"—an intemperance which proceeded so lir af terwards, that as the king passed in his chair to visit his mother in an evening, the mob asked him if he was going to suck ? The Princess herself was obliged to discon tinue frequenting thc theatres, so gross and insulting were apostrophes with which she was saluted from the which floated the crimson and gold bands of the old Spa nish monarchy. Farther on, rose forest and cultivated grounds, tall, woody masses, thick as clouds, dim and blue in heir luxuriant stretches, clasping and oversweep ing blue rocks, and the whole scene beheld under all the ardour of a filming, flaring, West Indian sun, broke away into the giganqc ridges of the inland mountains, whose towering precip'ces in some places were advanced berore heights of the reach of eight thousand feet above the level of the sea. These mountains, though seen at an extraor dinary distance, shone clear blue, a colour which melted into pale mist, as it descended from the distant summits, in a sky whose light seemed the effect of half a dozen suns. —Jennings' Marine Memorandum Book. RUSSIAN GAMBLING.—TiIe Russians continue, to this day, the most inveterately abandoned to the perils of play of any people in the world. We have ourselves turned for a few brief minutes in the Kur-Seal at Ems, to watch, on our way through that thoreughfore, the frenzy of Russian daring at the game of hazard. We have seen noblemen staking, as deputies for fair Muscovite princesses, who calmly won or lest sums that would have paid and clothed every destitute creature in the duchy of Nassau. At one of these German tables, placed to catch those eho would perhaps fain have passed on their way to innocent relaxa tion, we have seen a mother seated and playing " high ;" on her knee sat her daughter, a fair child who had scarcely passed her second lustre : and this poor thing was playing too—flinging her little ventures into the abyss of chance, and awaiting with feverish anxiety and painful excitement the issue of her hazard. We have, moreover, beheld the whole Russian court, with the heir apparent to the throne tiny RINGS.—It happened once, on a journey to vi- at their head, crowding round the green carpeted table, ^ 1 and beautiful monastery of Batalha, in and losing or winning royal ransoms with the greatest - ead we were overtaken by one of equanimity : while behind the glittering crowd, so occu ident to hot climates, pied, towered the majestic figure of the emperor, looking light movements of calmly on, slve when a smile crossed his fine features as ere. Whilst taking fate, perhaps, declared itself suddenly hostile to one whose the forked lightning boldness it hart hitherto encouraged. No one could have ,` 4 oon afterwards been at Ems during tile last imperial visit there, in 1840, or gas tloatin c ; slowly without having these scenes forced upon his notice. They mg their circular form, enlar. ing were enacted in a locality so public that to be blind to *.ely, until they ultimately settled them were impossible.—Church of England Quarterly. d In a day or two af- THE ACCESSION OF GEORGE lll.—princess Amelia, ~ I observed on the as soon as she was certain of her father's death, sent an two or three inches account of it to the Prince of Wales ; but he had already c circumferences _or rings had been apprised of it. He was riding, and received a note galleries. CURIOUS ANTIPATHY r. 1i it banker, aet emltion y he perceived a kitten his flesh snail in vinegar. I once relieved xyens, by taking a kitten cut he thanked me. and declared n such an nceasion ell him whe he could in any d he could not ; ieuced no such sensations upon see but that a kitten, after he had looked gination grew to the A Book for a Rainy nit' mast Naturaa Portugal, that on ou lons thunder storms in I which bear no c parison to the s sphere in our colder atmos orn the fury of the storm struck I obse veral objects not far from us in teat form on tt ward before u ame spo There must I pearau ~erman valet-de-chimbre attendant on the late _ .save been king, with a private mark agreed upon between them, _ ,ne ges, and ithas which certified him of the event. Without surprise or .aee place in the new exile- emotion, without dropping a word that indicated what .egetation by electric rods and had happened, he said his horse was lame, and turned y I have always observed that these back to Kew. At dismounting, he said to the groom, ofter thunder storms ; and 1 " I have said this horse is lame ; and I forbid you to say ~enon, the contrary." e related. RELIGIOUS EXCITEMENT.—Large portions of Europe seem to be like a bee-hive, all stir and noise just now, noon religious questions. At no day since the time of Martin Luther and John Knox, has the public mind there been so much roused. We see this in the Pusevite move ment of England ; in the disruption of the Church of Scotland; in the expulsion of the Jesuits from France; in the convulsions of Switzerland ; and in the great Ger manic excitement headed by John Ronge. We hear mournings over this state of things, and fear expressed as to the re-ult. As well look on the bright side, and let ` , O future! A Inovernent so wide-soread— •ts for • In t never yE ter solution of the phenom than that w —Correspo ultural Gazette RATELLERS.—The following notes of blCil E the Phi, much vi- ?lp Ilia In . for its reac from Philadelphia oad. 86 New York to York to field, New ilroad, 143 York to A York to east sic star© 1 end, as Lutber's ended—in greater liberty. and John Knox's revolution There is violence—a fnrt of s madness which aent. But so it was in the times of Luther and The German spared no one ; I s little cere t hecome p.rly rcli b at, 245. B re heeded nt heeded Pop. ;and the jesty so little, that he insult; with all their faults. v of Luther and age! We f needed, thatFocietp has to ack a har to Eostoa, railr iiroad, 103. Pw and to Bost ,conl and Br rat, 317. A falo, raj .erlce r 3uffa!o to Chi D troit and J. A lbanv n.r.l to Q iEFORhIATION those c Oted for ti ass by unno be moderation ; 1 ation a It :retained all that was I award forms' pure and edifying, and Church in its early and after the first fiery To restrain coat justinls ers of 1 1514 Ex loolboy kno ny has been quiet as regards religious ques.,... have sat side by side with Pro. popular mirill is ever prone testants without a jar between them. The teen ton.—Bishop of Llandaff a late peace is now closed. Sciavonia and Germany r Dwe OE wring the same Since then Ger ons, and Ca BERATED AFRICAN with the noise and fervour of religious controversy, and if the Prussian government does not interfere, does not stop the agitation by force, Catholifism, in its existing forms, is destined to overthrow in this part of the world. Religious passions are at their height; ministers of state cannot stand still ; they must say toleration or no tolera tion; if the former, the new reformation will in all pro bability equal in its consequences the old, and the name of Rouge be as famous in history as that of Luther.— Lexington True American. Africans entertained I pleasing to observe their :et appreciation of their position gs towards them ; for the lon establishment, and the better s the coafi- with us, th 3 greater wc... and I think I may add with respect I atest faults be- that the more the Afri nore they liked them, if ADVENTURE WITH A BOA CONSTRICTOR.—Captain C—, of ner MRjesty's 84th Foot, was one of the most in- met with, entire of e obliteration of h ••• 4,1%.• %up 1,...,....... tile feelings, su pplanted as amiable kind, was an im- his time tbat could be spared from regimental duty was passed in the jungles. He was a man of vast personal strength, could undergo any degree of fatigue, in short, possessed a perfectly iron constitution. His habits, too, were anything but luxurious—a single attendant carrying a rifle of large bore, a small carpet to sleep on, a limited stock of linen, and a good supply of ammunition, accom panied the sportsman, who pursued his game by day, and at night sought shelter in some village, perfectly careless uspicious arbarism. triumph o , melanch, ad ness, wer troduction to our ncqu as to his accommodations in the way of food or lodging, his beverage being moreover the simple element, for he never carried with him supplies of any kind, trusting his commissariat aid to Providence and rural hospitality. In this manner Captain C— became well known to the na tives of the country in every direction where sport was to be obtained ; he was sufficiently acquainted w th their lan guage to make himself understood, and the kindly simpli city of his manner attached them to his person, and many of them indeed have been known to walk miles to give him early information of large game, which were his favourite objects of pursuit. Captain C— was thus quite at " home" in the Wynaud jungle and great western ghauts, where he from the ea tell him the probably brought to bag single-handed more head of large game—elephants, bisons, tigers, and the like, than any other man ever did before, or ever will again in India. When upon one of these excursions, Captain C— happened to be passing the night at a small village in the Wynaud jungle, when a ryot, who had been out very late searching for a strange bullock, came to tell him of a large cheetul, or spotted deer, which he had watched to its lair. He had shiers frnrn tha 17illarIPPS that a hturt. Cirl5llCP hilt] VIPPTI seen several times in the neighbourhood. He started ac cordingly after his game at daybreak, accompanied by the villager and a favourite dog, which rarely lcft his heels un less ordered. After proceeding about a mile through very dense jungle, and being as the villager supposed near the spot where the cheetul had lain down, Captain C— of a dtien m shes about to I his dog, and hearing a rustling in the Is off, accompanied by a whimpering noise, he turned in that direction, and saw what he at the first glance tooK for a tiger, from its colour, a mix ture of black and brown, but soon discovered what the monster really was, an enormous boa constrictor, which had seized his poor Juno, and was at the moment crush ing her to atoms in its terrible coils. The native who was with him saw what it was likewise, and immediately fled C is .apt. afterwarc, described the appearance of the rep tile, when thus coiled round his dog. as something resem- g a barrel, et- ty portion muscular and he distinct'y lertid the b ones of Vie poor animal crack in succession within its terrible embrace. At last the monster raised his bead and fixed two glaring eyes on Caotain C-. who. in another trinmorat rnirrltt nPr. chance have been fascinated by their deadly gleam, but with unerring aim he placed two balls in its forehead. The effect was not, however, as he expected, fatal, and the snake instantly uncoiling itself from its victim, came straight at Captain C-, who of course took to flight ; but so thick was the junco ' l, at fe - the animal _ gte, oun ining on, him, from the noise it made - - bushes. and therefore sought slieite;in4 — tree, re-loading his gun with all possible expedition. Whether the rep tile followed him by sight or smell, he could not judge, but Captain C was only just prepared for a second discharge, when the boa reached the tree, and instantly twisting itself round the stem would have soon seized him, but fortunately at the next shot he blew out both his eyes with a charge of B B ; yet though the snake appeared far a moment stunned, it stilt continued its eff its to reach him, until by repeated shots it was incapacitated from rising, not though till Captain C-- had com pletely emptied his powder flask, and he even then did not venture to descend, as the reptile continued coiled round the tree, occasionally by a muscular movement showing that its vital powers w ere not yet wholly extinct. At length, after some hours solitary confinement on his perch, and shouting until he was hoarse for aid, Captain C-- had the satisfaction to see a number of villagers arrive, by whom the monstrous animal was soon com pletely destroyed. Captain C had no means of ac curately measuring its length but by a piece of stick, which the natives said was a cubit:long, and he declared that it measured upwards of thirty of these, and was much thicker than one of his own thighs, which were of a make that would have well become the leatberfie-for-shames of any life guardsman ! The head of the boa was cut off by his orders, and sent to the H on. Mr. Cole, then president of Mysore, and its enormous jaws still may possibly be in existence at the Mysore Residency.—Madras United Service Gazette. A Scorriss SUNDAY IN DE Fon's TIME.—It was on a Sunday that I passed by here and stopped at the post house for refreshment, but could have nothing but an egg or two, with some wine or thick Scetts ale; it being a custom, through many parts of Scotland, to eat only an egg, if anything, for dinner, and to have a hot supper at night ; for their seeming strictness in religion will not let them do any labour, even so much as dressing a dinner for themselves or travellers, although they have fowls and other meat in their house, till night, when Sunday ii over.—De Foe's Tour. CLIMATE OF CANADA.—The views which many in England have of the climate of Canada is far from being correct. They pity us provincia!ists for being obliged to endure it; whereas the climate of this province, to people in ordinary health, is one of the best in the world. I give one small portion of evidence to establish what I have said. I never slept any where in Scotland, England, or Ire land, except in a warm bed. I never knew a traveller sleep out all night ; the people would have said he was mad ; and, most probably, would have thought only of getting a coffin ready for him in the morning, for he would have died of cold and wet. But, during my brief tour on the shores of Lake Huron, I have slept on the deck of a vessel without a covering, s; ent nights in an open boat, slept on the sand, encamped at midnight under trees, and, with the exception of a few musquito bites, awakened very much refreshed in the morning.—Simmon ds'sr Colonial. RAILWAY RESULTS.—We hear a good deal of the in exhaustible resources of John Bull, but there are few impossibilities that even lie cannot accomplish. For in stance if he could even make a silk purse out of a !sow's ear, the purse would be of no use to him in paying his calls, if it happened to be an empty one. Calls will literally tear him in pieces, and there will not be an arti cle he possesses that the great interests of locomotion will not carry away from him. A grand trunk will run away vvith:his strong box ; a junction of some kind or other will tear his coat in two ; some stupendous cuttinc , will cut away with his cash box; a tremendous tunnel will run through all he has ; and excavations on an ex• teosive scale will empty all his pocket; ; his establishment will dwindle by degrees, as he continues making efforts to pay up his calls ; his servants, one by one, will be put down as some new demand is made ; and every fresh gradient will help to send him down the hill with fearful rapidity. First, the butler will be given up as a sacrifice to some intermediate station, and gradually, footman, housemaid, servant of all work, will Le thrown in to make a splendid terminus. Plate will be melted into iron, watchers will go to make sleepers, diamonds will be con verted into coals, and silver tea-kettles into steam-boilers. Cruikshank's Table Book. VOLITION NOT SUSPENDED DURING SLEEP.—That vo lition is not suspended during sleep, is proved by many facts ; and probably the experience of every person who remembers his dreams, affords evidence that the will is as busy during sleep as when awake. But the fact is strik ingly illustrated by examples of remarkable exertion of will in the employment of intellect and genius during sleep. Tartini, a celebrated violin player, composed his famous Devil's Sonata, while he dreamed that the devil challenged him to a trial of skill on his own violin. Ca banis often during his dreams saw clearly into the bearing of political events which baffled him when awake. Con dorcet frequently left his deep and complicated calcula tions unfinished when obliged to retire to rest, and found their results unfolded in his dreams. Coleridge's account of his wild composition, Kubla Khan, is very curious. He had been reading Purchas' Pilgrimage, and fell asleep at the moment he was reading this sentence :—" Here the Khan Kubla commanded a palace to be built, and a stately garden thereunto." He continued in profound sleep about three hours, during which he had a vivid confidence that lie composed from two to three hundred lines; if, as he says, that can be called composition in which all the images rose up before him, as things with a parallel pro duction of correspo :dent expressions. On awaking he appeared to have a d stinct recollection of the whole, and proceeded to write down the wonderful lines that are pre served, when he was interrupted, and cou!d never after wards recal the rest.—Moore on the Power of the Soul over the Body. MOZART'S IRREGULARITIES. His disappointments produced in his excitable temperament almost a disgust for life ; and like many in the same circumstances, be sought relief from thought in indulgences he had not ven tured upon before. He became wild in the pursuit of pleasure; whatever changed the scene was delightful to him, and the more extravagant the better. His associ ates, and the frequent guests at his table, were recom mended by their animal spirits and capacity as boon com panions. They were stage-players and orchestral musi cians, low and unprincipled persons, whose acquaintance injured him still more in reputation than in purse. Two of these men, Schickaneder, (the director of a theatre for whom Mozart wrote the Zauberfilite) and Stadler, a clarionet-player, are known to have behaved with gross dishonesty towards the composer; and yet be forgave them, and continued their benefactor. The society of Schickaneder, a man of grotesque humour, often in diffi culties, but of exhaustible cheerfulness and good fellow ship, had attractions for Mozart, and led him into some excesses that contributed to the disorder of his health, as he was obliged to retrieve at night the hours lost in the day. A long-continued irregularity of income, also, dis posed him to make the most of any favourable moment ; and when a few rouleaus of gold brought the means of enjoyment, the champagne and tokay began to flow. This course is unhappily no novelty in the shifting life of genius, over-worked and ill-rewarded, and seeking to throw off its cares in the pursuits and excitements of vulgar existence. It is necessary to know the composer as a man of pleasure, in order to understand certain al lusions in the correspondence of his last years, when his affairs were in the most embarrassed condition, and his absence from Vienna frequently caused by the pressure of creditors He appears at this time to have experienced moments of poignant self-approach. His love of dan cing, masquerades, masked balls, &c., was so great, that he did not willingly forego an opportunity of joining any one of those assemblies, whether public or private. He dressed handsomely, and wished to make a favourable impression in society independently of his music. He was sensitive with regard to his figure, and was annoyed when he heard the Prussian ambassador had said to some one, " You must not estimate the genius of Mozart by the insignificance of his exterior." The extremity of his animal spirits may occasion surprise. He composed pan tomimes and ballets, and danced in them himself, and at the carnival balls sometimes assumed a character. He was actually incomparable in Arlequin and Pierrot. The public masquerades at Vienna, during the Carnival, were supported with all the vivacity of Italy ; the em peror occasionally mingled in them, and his example was generously followed. We are not, therefore, to measure these enjoyments by our colder northern notions. Holmes': Life of Mozart. POPERY IN 1822 AND 1845 would have done well to have regarded, stipulated for the security of the missionaries and their converts. " Again, to resume the Romish statement, ' Australia, which seemed destined to remain only the prison of En glish convicts, and which, in 1820, possessed neither altar nor priest, is now become an ecclesiastical province, with an Archbishop in Sydney, two bishops in Adelaide and Hobart Town, a metropolitan church, the noblest edifice in Australia, 25 chapels, 31 schools, and 56 priests.' Once more :—' In 1822, not a single priest was to be found in the long chain of islands stretching across the Pacific. Now Polynesia numbers three vicariats aposto lic and 50 priests.' To this briaf notice what a tale of woe and blood might be added by the persecuted objects of these missions in Tahiti ! " These facts prove, beyond question, that the aggres sions of Rome upon our own country or district are not isolated efforts, induced by local circumstances, and likely soon to be repressed, but that they are parts of a general system pursued with uniform vigour throughout the world ; and, therefore, that they must not be expected to cease, a general decline of zeal and change of pril ciples and policy shall have taken place within the Ro rnizh hierarchy itself." At a recent meeting of the Loughborough and Ashby Protestant Tract Society, the committee, in an able re port, called attention to the extraordinary increase of Popish priests and institutions in England. " Every one," says the report, " is aware that it is still progressive. But it is not so generally observed that this increase is not peculiar to our own country; and that, during the last twenty years, Rome has been rapidly ex tending her principles and her power in every part of the GENERAL MISCELLANY, Mr. Neville, M.P. for Windsor, is likely to vacate his seat by a government appointment. Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, Bart., has given £2OO to build national schools at Ruabon. Workmen are employed upon the Gosport fortifications, puting them in a state of efficient defence. . - Several Town Councils have forwarded a memorial to Government to open the ports. . _ . The Newcastle-on Tyne Chamber of Commerce have memorialized the government to open the ports. M. Delarive, a Frenchman, has succeeded in obtaining a brilliant light, for lighting shrines by means of galvanism. Upwards of 800 men are now employed in the dock yard at Deptford, and the whole of the works therein are proceeding with the utmost activity. The Marquis of Westminster's second son, Lord Gilbert Grosvenor, has entered the navy as a naval cadet, and is appointed to the St. Vincent. The stock of a farm yard, at Beeston, near Nottingham, was destroyed by fire, supposed the act of an incendiary, on Wednesday. The damage is estimated at £l,OOO. Mr. Richard Kentish, who has been unanimously elected mayor of the borough of St. Alban's, is upwards .of 87 years of age ! A young veterinary surgeon, attached to the garrison of Donal, died, a short time ago, of the glanders, caught from a horse infected with that disease. Forgeries to a considerable amount have been committed on the Merthyr Tydvil Bank, by a lady, who, in male at tire. presented false cheques at the bank. A lady travelled, in the early part of last week, from Edinburgh to Sligo, a distance of 66 miles by land and 340 by sea, in the space of twenty-five hours and a half. The poor-law commissioners have appointed G. Gran ville Pigott, Esq., late chairman of the Aylesbury Union, to be an aFsistant poor-law commissioner. An idiot at Gainsborongh, named Woodliffe, who had to be stranped to a post when left in the house, got loose during the absence of his mother, and falling into the fire, was burned to death. The Commission of Harbours of Refuge held a meet ing on Friday at Gwydyr House, Whitehall. There were present Admiral Sir Byam Martin, Sir Howard Douglas, The Marquis of Salisbury and the party at Hatfield House, Herts, killed a large number of hares and other game last week. Above 1000 head were slaughtered in one day Several members of the congregation of the Rev. W. U. Richards, successor to Mr. Oakeley, minister of Mar garet-street Chapel, have recently entered the Church of Rome. The Scourge, steam-bomb vessel, will have a galvanic apparatus fitted communicating from the paddle-boxes to the engine-room, to supersede the services of a man or boy in giving the orders from the deck to the engineers. A young man, named Showell, the son of a licensed victualler at Birmingham, is charged with killing his wife. She was found kneeling in the street, with her child in her arms, and died of a fracture in the head. A boy in London last week, concealing ignited fire works about his person on the approach of a policeman, an explosion took place, and the poor lad was so dread fully burned that death ensued. SELF DESTRUCTION.—A labourer named Thomas Dobson, 43 years of age, hung himself in a small outbuild ing in Marsh-lane, Leeds, on Tuesday last. He had been in a low condition of mind. On Thursday morning, a chimney-sweeper, of the name of Kirby, living at York, committed suicide by sus pending himself to the bed-post. He had been specu lating in shares, all of which had fallen. The discord which existed for some time between Mr. Stretton and Mr. Bunn has been recently resolved, and the former has been re-engaged at Drury-lane Theatre, for Benedict's opera will require three principal basses. POTATO CROP.—ORKNEY.—AIthough in Orkney the harvest has otherwise been very bad, the crop of potatoes is splendid. It has been suggested, that as this is the case, it would be worth while to obtain seed for next crop from this favoured quarter. Mr. Cook, who has recently been making experiments for carrying the telegraph between Dover and Calais, speaks with great confidence of his ultimate success. Ills only fear is that it may be injured by the dragging of ships. VESSEL VPSET.—oa Monday last, a vessel belonging to Messrs. Banks and Liversedge, timber-merchants, was upset in the river Ouze, at Biccall Landing, near Selby. It was with great difficulty that the captain and his man were rescued from a watery grave. A new company at York have purchased the old water works for £28,000, and intend to apply during the nest session of parliament, for a bill to enable them to pro vide the city and neighbourhood of York with a constant supply of pure water. Two miners, named George Hewitt and John Garner, lost their lives, on Saturday last, by the fall of a portion of a coal-pit now forming by the Dunkirk Canal Com pany, adjacent to Dukinfield flail, near Ashton-under- Lyne. DIRECTIONS ON NEWSPAPERS.—Newsvenders are allowed to have their names and addresses printed on the covers of newspapers, besides the written address, but in all other cases anything beyond the name and the place of abode to whom the paper is sent, subjects it to the full-weight postage. The Rev. Dr. Wade, the well-known Radical, whilst in the shop of Messrs. Nicholls, Regent-street, London, on Monday last, suddenly dropped down in a fit of apo plexy, and expired. He was in his 58th year. He was rector of a parish inWarwickshire, and had besides £2,000 a year independent property. The Gateshead Observer states that one of the council lors of that place went into his garden yesterday week and found a pair of fustian breeches hanging in one of his fruit trees, with eight shillings in one of the pockets. By what freak of nature the tree came to bear such fruit has • not been ascertained. Glasgow city theatre, lately erected on the Green by Mr. J. H. Anderson, "The Wizard of the North," was destroyed by fire on Wednesday morning last. The flames burst out after the performances of the evening, and nothing:now remains of the building and its contents but the brick walls and smouldering ruins. The origin of the fire has not been ascertained. DR. BUKCLAND. — Great objection has been raised against the promotion of this gentleman to the deanery of Westminster. Of course no one assails Dr. Buck land's personal character, either as a man of science, or as a man of probity. The single objection made to him, has been couched in a commendatory _sarcasm :—" He knows all the ologies, except THeology." A cat, belonging to Mr. Monkhouse. of Rein-house, Castle Sowerby, has brought home, within the last fort night, no less than five trout; and what is more extraor dinary they were all alive. One of them measured ten inches, and weighed upwards of half a pound. The nearest rivulet or brook from which it could obtain them is more than half a mile from the house. On Saturday last, the IN izard of the North, Mr. J. H. Anderson, lessee of the City Theatre, was placed before the Glasgow magistrates on a charge of having assaulted and beaten Mr. Leclerc', a dancer. The offence of the dancer seemed to have been, that he bad threatened to leave Mr. Anderson's company, whereupon Mr. Anderson knocked him down. The magistrates decided not proven. A boy, about seven years of age, on Saturday night last, took a lucifer match to see to get some gunpowder out of a barrel containing albs., for blasting gurposes, in the house of his father, James Rothwell, of Little Bol ton, underlooker at some mines at that place, and by some means he ignited the powder, which exploded. kil led the boy, and rendered almost valueless the house and its furniture. NOVEL WINTER RESIDENCE.—A few days since the servant at Ynyscreigog, a farm belonging to the Rev. Lewis Davies, in the upper part of Cardiganshire, went instances. to the turnip field, and a hare suddenly started as if from "In 1822, the whole establishment of the Roman under his feet. Upon examination it turned out that Church in the United Sta'es consisted of an Archbishop puss had selected a large turnip, and had carefully:seoeped of Baltimore, 8 suffragans, and 17 priests, all miserably out its inside, having taken possession of it for her winter poor, and with a scanty body of followers. Twenty-one residence.—Welshman. years after, in 1843, the provincial council assembled at The League boast that they have secured four counties, Baltimore numbered 16 bishops (to which it demanded at an expense of £300,000. it is not true that they have an immediate addition of four), and 600 priests, with a secured four counties, but grant it for argument's sake, a Romanist population of 1,500,090. To these belonged a majority in the House of Commons will at the same rate considerable number of schools, colleges, and religious cost them three millions, and supposing the thing done, communities. Canada, long reduced to the single bish- the majority would be equally divided between abolition qpric of Quebec, is now portioned out into six dioceses, ists and fixed duty men, so as to split into two minori and two 'leaflets apostolic. Newfoundland, which, in ties, each less than the present.--Standard. 1822, numbered only three priests, hes now 25 missions- EATING A RIVAL. — A gentleman of the neighbourhood ries, 37 churches, and 24 schools. If we turn to Asia, we of Plymouth had two dogs, one a very small pet, the other find its vast surface occupied by 71 bishops, and 2,736 a splendid setter. The dogs were kept in the same ken priests ; of whom seven bishops and 624 priests are in nel ; but the setter always evinced the strongest symptoms our own Indian possessions. The Jesuits have founded a of jealousy when the little dog was caressed. One day flourishing church in Calcutta. The rites of the Roman the little dog was missing, and, shortly after, the setter Church, says the Anuales, ' are celebrated with all their was seized with illness, and in the course of the night pomp in the cathedral of Meyssour (queere Mysore ?) died. On opening him the little dog, almost entire, was built by the liberality of an Indian monarch. The insuf- found in his stomach. Dog, therefore, had eaten dog.— ficient body of clergy in Madras is largely recruited by Plymouth Journal. missionaries from Ireland and Italy. By the creation of The accounts of the coroner who sat on the bodies of new sees, the religious hierarchy now embraces the whole the unfortunate persons who were killed at the recent ac peninsula of India. The Franciscans are already spread cident on the Yarmouth Suspension bridge, and who among the Himalaya mountains, and are ready to pene- charged a large sum on each inquest, have been brought trate into the kingdoms of the north as soon as the sword before a quarter sessions, and proved to be illegal, inasmuch of England shall have opened a way.' . .In China, as one inquest, when a number of persons are killed by the Roman account reports 13 bishops and 170 priests a the same cause is sufficient, and the large items have be year ago and adds that the island of Hong Kong is already come so beautifully less as to dwindle into fifty guineas. covered with religious establishments. This statement is This sum has been paid. confirmed by the English missionary in China, Mr. Smith. TYRANNY OF TRADES UNIONS. — In the hearing of ' Popery,' he writes, already is sending hither its emis- the case of an insolvent, named James Milner, table series with redoubled zeal : seven Romish priests are now blade-grinder, in the Leeds Bankruptcy Court, last week, in Hong Kong ; six priests arrived at Macao with the it appeared that he had paid £2B 108. towards a Trades fleet which brought the French Ambassador ; in the cen- Union; the item in his schedule being " For natty, or tral and north-western provinces, one Popish society contributions to a Trades Union, 114 weeks, at ss. per alone, the Institution for the Propagation of the Faith. week." The insolvent stated that he was compelled by a professes to number its ten bishops, four assistants, and firm in Sheffield to contribute this money ; and if be had 144 priests. The French, leagued with Popery, have, not done so, he could not have procured employ. The with a zeal and boldness which the Protestant power Commissioner strongly deprecated such contributions. ..----. " In the year 1822,' says her own accredited organ, (Annals de la Propagation de la Poi), ' her resources were in a great measure exhausted ; her numerous en dowments confiscated ; her religious orders, even in many Catholic countries, suppressed; her clergy impoverished and thinned [decime] by persecution ; her means of com munication with distant regions cut off; so that her few surviving missions languished in penury and neglect, and there were no means of remitting them supplies of money and men. Nay, their very existence had become un known to most of those who would otherwise have con tributed to their support.' Now,' says the same autho rity, how vast is the change! The clergy are greatly in creased in numbers and wealth. The old religious orders are revived, and, as a specimen of their zeal, we may in stance the congregation of St. Lazarus, whose missiona ries for Europe have been raised from 13 to 130. The Society of Jesus has resumed its place. (an ominous an nouncement !) and reckons a great number of priests de voted to the conversion of the heathens : many new so cieties have been formed expressly for missionary objects, such as the Kedemptionists, the Passionists, the order of the Sacred Heart of Mary, &c. New missionary col leges have been added to the old, and the old extended ; and thus the work of proselytising has been provided for by the seminaries of Lyons, of Drumeondra,near Dublin, of the Capuchins in Rome, and, above all, the famous Propasanda.' And what has been the result? The offi cial return of Romish missionaries in actual employment throughout the world (exclusively of the clergy in England and Ireland, and all countries where the Church of Rome is established), was, in the year 1834, 139 bishops, and 4,750 priests. " If this aggregate is startling, not less so are the de tails supplied by the same authority. To give only a few James Luke Hansard, Esq., whose labours in the cause of benevolence and humanity have neither been few nor far between, nor unaccompanied by much pecuniary and personal sacrifice, has just published, at a very small price, an interesting pamphlet on " Sources or Means of Appropriation, for the Human Creature's Property of Pecuniary Possessions or Increasings, now offered in lieu of the Unsound, Unreal, National P unding System.". to speak more accurately, on Monday morning daylight, as the keepers on the estates about lant SURVEYING EXTRAORDINARY.--. 011 Sunday were on the watch, they - were surprised by the s t r g_': vision of divers wandering lights. This was some. :la . and in the way of poaching, and, pouncing upon tn, truders, they found them armed, not with snickle, drag` net or air-gun, but with brass tubes, long polese, chains, the lights proceeding from divers bull's- l a ey tnhe ; terns. Each party prepared for action, the game -wa old levelling their guns, and the intruders their longoPtber, with a flag at one end and pointed with iron at _ t h e like so many foot lancers. Dire must have " ueeb better conflict; but the keepers (thinking discretion the e part of valour, and finding the number of the enerafs._ll h g b h e t io ° l l the increase) beat a retreat, and left the fields unrnolecie..... to the foe, who proved to be the surveyors for some of railway projected between Lincoln and Retford, vrF i t: Mr. Foljambe had refused permission to be surveyea u_i, day, and of which they were making a stolen survey 5 ' nigTht.—Local HE CORN paper. QUESTION.—Let any unprejudiced in i ttri et cast his eye over the forest of masts in the Thame.a; `,„ him trace the course of that river from Lontion-bridge.r_' the British Channel, and mark well what it bears 0a.,1_11 bosom ; let him contrast it with any other river in rope, ay, or in the world, and imagine, if he can, the uhe told wealth and unbounded commerce to which se lf Thames alone bears witness, and then let him ask htruna the question if, in this favoured country, commerce is e I free? If he be not satisfied, let him change the scene. let set ,h andim stand watch o n t h t e h e na s e h r o n r h e a s n o t e lf oansmtohuetyh:, oscraoikf Shore_w ters" of the Channel through a long and intricate pilo ta ge to the mouth of the Severn; let him thence to the n leo sey, and mark the tide of wealth and trade wh ich ' i a nd a n n o d t i s n uffi th c i i s en h t, ng l e et than a century, has raised Liverpool to its eminence, t now bids fair to raise a rival to Liverpool ; and, if treat metropolis the I n storehouses, the multitude of banking establishmentsd;tho a word, the whole system of British commerce, a n ,, t his princely residences of its leaders ; let him contrast au , • with the system of any other country that ever existteeuror let him bear in mind that all this arose out of a s i Y s the u protective, as well of agriculture as of commerce. an d " p go oli u s r Ine;Chhimangseeeatatibsoese p.ay..st let him ask himself if, with all this wealth, prosPeritY,a..llos trade, commerce is not free? In this country, comalelit. is free, and the measures of the League would ellsi a j e tba If the merchant is not to be restrained by laws -- " laws wisely imposed! with respect to agriculture, co ie merce, and manufactures, act in restraint of them, ho it that in this little spot we have more abundance that; ,t rest of combined Europe ? You have reached, all ne „ r a d protective system, a point of wealth, magnificence, nt_ y P m ci ne w rn e pa r rr to which rneasws in sta would nacta e. yt ra h eo a uw v attainedehmicahy leavesyet, under ny i t da h ea o r , c for0 1 0; present system, go higher, and you will go much hi g? t ha facef m re a free, , ona contend ndtthe theen these measurest h simple, atnnm n3otroughefrntehe is neanLeague ufet wonderful eew ?o f u a lc c d t a s et n l n i e l a : rcf re 1 1 1 you retain it ; and will any rational man contend, ~ln.e f ce Why, then, refuse protection to agriculture? ""' oki the y , h d e i e g s h t r t n o y f t y h o a u t r , i e splendour very n a h n a d n n f magnificencearti a o l vietraltoti scw failure nhe .or o cr f er ?ehLirocelho:kt restraint u ni dtthe a oor l fu l agtn r hhd e et g d: a mte r hee d arptce w hrt hiattenhh merchant so sronun.c eihaticorn-law rtir consternatione:srter Itat: restraint of commerce is another. Will you conten d t ht li it would not have been in favour of sound comme rce the " merchant" of the share-mark e t h a d been better re. s t a r a i c Britainthe e d e t??, aYou t Will on und will d o i l u l withncontendot da any y so. a t o h n a nt Railways i e al free advantage t d aa e gr e i e n to r on a i „.6 1 r a l s I w is n n u o ld ba h s e i s it a s t r a u l i l n . a uothe r i ject—free trade in shares has proved to be de Commerce, then, must have a sound basis. "Free tra ._: t. ` re F e re t e rad tr e a i d n e' n ' or i n n icaomwomresrtcinafl lanehettto would be only the beginning of destruction, it is true, Um Cas G tl A e ß T u T c i rc r/le A c, it would be beginning at the foundation. t would be the axe at the root of the tree, the fall of the rock beneath D GAINSBOROUGH.—Garrick, every t ; i h nl i ; his head was viewed by the painter had imperceptiw wrought a new expression of the visage ; which, On, d i a covering, the painter flew into a rage and turohleLlje canvass and painting materials behind the fire obsercl% " Who can be expected to paint a fellow that 'wears 0 1 )° ,, , hip Promethean ph'z every body's features but his own' Frazer's Magazine. stence of a - POTATOES IN THE LONDON MARKET.—There is a very visible improvement of those introduced into the markets the last few weeks. At Spitalfields, however, the great emporium for the supply of the eastern districts, the quality is the most deficient and inferior. Potatoes of thebest quality may be generally purchased at 31b. for 21d., which is not much above the usual average for this time of the year. Police-Serjeant Stubbs, who was so severely injured by the fearful accident on the Midland,Railway, on the 20th ult., died in the Leeds infirmary on Wednesday. He sustained by the accident a compound fracture of one of his legs. The inquest on the body was to sit on Monday (yesterday). Mr. Andrews, shareholder of Leeds, who was also injured by this accident, is in a condition to ex cite some alarm as to his ultimate safety. LADY YOUTH.—At Bow-street, lately, a delicate look ing youth of sixteen, named Ford, alias William Roe, and otherwise Caroline Foster, who appeared at the bar in the attire of a young lady, and sustained the character extre mely well, was carged with decamping from his master's service with a gold watch, value £7, two silver watches, value £5, and £lO in money. He was committed for trial. The prisoner had taken a shop, and laid in articles to com mence business as a milliner. THE AMAZING CARELES SNESS OF COLLIERS.—It Wa Professor Faraday, we think, who amused the British As sociation by stating, that when he was in Haswell pit, ob serving the preparations for a blast, and holding a candle in his hand, he inquired, " Where is your gunpowder ?" a collier coolly answered, " You are sitting upon it, sir 1" A still grosser act of incaution, and, unhappily, disastrous in its consequences, may now be recorded. Two pitmen, named Dickenson and Crozier, were last week decanting" some gunpowder, and one of them was smoking his pipe at the time !!! The powder exploded— the men were blown up by the blast—and they are now totally blind !—Gateshead Observer. MURDER AND ROBBERY.—A horrible transaction has occurred within a few miles of Coventry. An old and eccentric farmer, named Thomas Tranter, slept at a place called Docker's Gate. No one lived with him ; and the house having been fastened up for a couple of days, it was at length forcibly entered by the neighbours, and the farmer was found lying dead on the floor, in a pool of blood, with a large carpenter's axe wedged into the back part of his scull. The poor old man must have been chopping some wood, as a piece half cut up was found at his feet when the body was discovered. Sixpence was found in his pocket. The drawers were all forced open, and whatever money they contained was taken away. No clue has been obtained of the villains. A WEALTHY BEGGAR.—An old man named William Munro, a native of the parish of Nigg, in Rossshire, was a few days ago apprehended for begging, and sent to prison for ten days. On afterwards searching his pockets, there was found in his possession a bank dposit receipt for £6l, and also a current account with the savings-bauk for £2 175.-7 s. of which had been lodged on the day before he was apprehended. There is also some reason to believe that this is only a small part of the money belonging to him, and yet, notwithstanding this the wretched individual had not a rag to cover him, beyond an old bed-rug, which he had wrapped around his shoulders in place of a coat. He had been going about the city begging for some time past, and is considered a little weak in mind.—Edinburgh Witness. HEROIC DEFENCE AGAINST BURGLARS.—On Tues- day night, Mrs. Middleton, of Stand house, St was alarmed by a knock at her door, and on enquiry who was there, she received no answer. She then went up stairs, when the door-bell was wrung with great violence, and on looking out of the chamber window she saw two or three men standing in front of the house. From the retired situation of the house, Mrs. Middleton is in the loaded ; and, as to habit of keeping a brace of pistols always her only male domestic was on this occasion 6.,_ Sheffield, she boldly resolved to give her assailants a warm reception. She accordingly seized her pistols, and forthwith fired one of them out of the chamber• winde at one of them who were in front of the house, a short scuffle on the lawn, the men made their exit IMPORTANT STEP.—It i 3 said that steps are being taken which will bring to a plain issue a E 0 frequer tly expoiedasto the and after Fit length " Catholic" imaginary law, whereby the bishops of the Scottish episcopacy have any right to interfere, except with their voluntary flocks, or any claim upon our bishops to enforce, or any right whereby these last may venture to countenance their illegal and arbitrary pranks awl NOTICE TO INVENTORS. Office for Patents of Inventions and 11.4wistralion _ THE D pr e n ig te n d s, TR L u in c co i lFf s s e fils a ; grireivoeris s Information upon the s f eet of PROTE`i- the for INVENTIONS, eith by Letter s Patent or or Designs Act, may be h by applying personally , or t o fe - etter (prepaid) to Mr. A LEXANDER PRINCE, 8 t The damages are laid at £ll,OOO ! and Offi ce, 14, Lincoln ' s Inn Fiel4 ,. of the most eminent counsel there is usurpations. We understand that Sir Williim Dunba has brought an action for defamation against the S tish primus for the bull published by him against tl verend baronet. under the advic every prospect of Sir Wm. Dunbar's triumphant success. The object of the reverend baronet is, of course, simply to prove the illegality of such an act.—. Dublin Statesman. Messrs. Dickens, Jerrold, and Forster, and the other literary amateurs, who recently performed Ben Jonson's Every Man in his Humour. and a Good Night's Red, repeated their performances on Saturday evening, at the St. James's Theatre, for the benefit of the Sanatorium. Prince Albert. the Duke of Cambridge, and Prince George, the Duke of Devonshire, Lord Melbourne, the _ _ Dowager Countess of Essex, the Hon. Mrs.. Noiton, Baron de Rothschild, Mr. Macready, and other eminent persons were present. The acting is described as having been most perfect. The funds of the Sanatorium must have profited very greatly by the aid of this amateur company. The Sanatorium is designed to be a borne in sickness for persons of the middle class of both sexes who are absent from their families, or, who, in their own homes, have no convenient sick chamber, and no means of obtaining good nursing. FATAL ACCIDENT.—WhiIe some of the labourers were engaged in blasting the rock at Craigton, upon the line of the Scottish Central Railway, northward of Dunblane, a fatal accident occurred. The person who had s een in the act of charging a shot and setting fire to the fuzee, and was about making his escape, observed something wrong with the fuzee, and, while endeavouring to extinguish it, the charge went off, and killed him on the spot— other two workmen narrowly escaped instant death at the same time. One of them received part of the discharge upon the forehead, which carried away part of his skull, and although he appears - somewhat better, he is not con sidered out of danger ; the third lost his eyesight for some time after the accident, but is now gradually recovering,— Another accident happened to a man at the cut at Laigh hills, near Muublane by the falling in of a portion of earth upon him, whereby his leg was broken. BRISTOL DOCKS.—The subject of the purchase by the city of the Bristol docks occupied the attention of the town council, on Wednesday, for five hours. The terms were such that the council guaranteed the dock proprietors 7s. 6d. more per cent. than they have been receiving for an average of twenty-three years. The dock directors refused the terms, and the committee reported the result to the council on Wednesday. in the discussion it was admitted on all hands that the offer was exceedingly fair and liberal, some even contending that more had been TO MR. PROUT, 229, STRAND, L0N 6 ,9 14. _Doncaster, September 26th. JEt' o s Sir,—The following particulars have been handed Willi with a request that they might be forwarded to you' them permission for their publication, if you should dee m t worthy of such. J. BROOKE and Co., Doncss'er•o. " Elizabeth Brearley, residing in Duke-street, 131°;,h caster, aged between 40 and 50, was severely afflicted rof Rheumatism, and confined to her bed 'for a Per° het nearly two months, with scercely the power to 'lit of arm ; she was signally benefitted after taking two dose s A BLAIR'S GOUT AND RHEUMATIC PILLS, an d 'fter finishing two boxes was quite recovered." The above recent testimonial is a furth roof of tb e i at efficacy of this valuable medicin ais the 03 ,,, (36 s /riv remedy for Gout, Rheum sm, Sciatica, 1 - 4 ,r; sago, Tic Dolorenx, Pains in th ead and Face, 01— a , mistaken for tooth-ache, and f all Gouty and Rhea° efrectiv offered than what was the value . ; and a resolution was come to that not a farthing more should be added to the offer. The negotiation has thus, much to the regret of the citizens, closed without any successful result being obtained, but it is understood that the council will not object to accept an offer from the dock directors upon the terms proposed, follo t wi is tic tendencies. selectednaglsgoengtrlaetmifeynito whose station in society has contributed to advance .q popular medicine in public esteem :—J. R. Mandell, coroner, Doncaster ; the Rev. Dr. Blomberg ; the Mandell,, lier de la Garde ; Mr. Miskin, brewer and n 3B , lg . t v g h‘ fr p om erm a i m ss u io lt n itu to de re o f f er o A . Dartford; Mr. Richard Stone, Luton; John J• Esq., Frimley ; Mr. Inwood, Perbright •, Wm. C ° ' 1 „: 0 o, nay, Esq., Barton Stacey, near Andover Railway S"" t hiS ge ° Hants ; all of whom have received benefit by taking • f medicine, and have allowed the proprietor the prisrl publishing the same for the benefit of the afflicted. bf Sold by Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London ; a,_ 1 :1 ;; 0 0 his appointment, by Rennie, Wagstaff, Howell, PL";;I: Aspinall, Fisher, Apothecaries' Company, G. 59e, r 4 11(11 Syers, Roberts, Johnson and Son, Lathbury, Sch Smith, King, Bradford, Blake, Bird, Gerard, 118 01, Mucklow, Lloyd, Carter, and Rowland, Liverpool; 1 ,1 1 1/ and Gaskell, Manchester •, Grindley, Chester ,• U n i ted respectable Medicine Vendors throughout the 1 - 1 "" Kingdom. Price 2s. 9d. per box. NI A TI° Ask for BLAIR'S GOUT AND RHEU „,„res. PILLS, and observe the name and address of " I P - 0 0 ' Prout, 229, Strand, London," impressed upon the 00 vernment Stamp affixed to each box of the Geti Medicine. observe that the Signature of the Proprietor, Serjeant,” is written on the Government Stsol l %edi, BRJEANT'S LOTION, the only effectual 1 3 e ' - i pio kJ against Rheumatism, Rheumatic Gout, SciaLle t kisft Lumbago. Sold by the Proprietor, G. C. SgArrvara' No. 1, Lovell's-court, Paternoster-row, ne",;(citte' Temple-bar, London ; and by all Ve ors of Me"" Price per Bottle. s; The astonishing success which ha crowned the app l aud tion of this external Medicine *ti the most hopele' s ite° deplorable cases, when the un ppy sufferer bad deg ( th! cf ever gaining even the I st relief, and this a",,ilea' ablest advice and every oth r means had completclF id. most justly entitles it to the attention of the arlberistil This excellent Medicine, so universally esteem"' to attended with the least danger or inconvenience yects hundreds have experienced its happy and saints*. lot since it was first introduced. ;fic Such ar e are the properties of this invaluable Spec atistsf persons labouring under the mosedistressing Rhea° bf Rheumatic Gout, and Lumbago, and rendered there d i s . capable of assisting themselves, have been rate° AFFECTING INCIDENT IN HUMBLE LIFE.—A mar ried man, named Nathan Fowell, aged 40, was found on Saturday morning last, in a field at Northowram, in a dying state ; all efforts to save him were of no avail, and he died some hours after. It is sup osed, from a letter found in a box belonging to him, that) e died from poison, administered by himself. Fowell was a comb-brooch maker, well known in Bradford, and he disappeared from amongst his friends about Monday week Nothing was heard of him till after his death. Poverty, and it would seem from his own sad account, domestic trouble (arising from the misconduct of his wife) have latterly embittered, and ultimately shortened hia life. On his person was found a note addressed to his brother, at Keighley, and stating that in his box would be found a letter explaining the cause of his melancholy end. The letter was addressed to his wife, and written in pencil —Halifax Guardian. DOMESTIC SORROW igst many which are being daily receiv ed are the tz Testimonials v hours Ar —Very singular advertisements, , Having been informed of the su 4 rp , r P is a i t n e r Barnes, of St. Paul's Churchyard, who was so severely as Rheumatism, the intense pain causing delirium, that a% coa':gs,, pelled to be confined by a strait waistcoat to prevent ) 11 bo reA lug any violence, and whoSe case was considered entirely.ati4 co r I WO' Intlliffd - to ascertain the particulars, and being of the truth of my information, encouraged me to make a t ries, 0 00 c o tsfi sf v e ico r te4 / t r i most invaluable Medicine, entertaining little hopes of ' t- s ai t aitill ing been many years so severe a sufferer, and tried ma i n 0 0 0 0 very valuable remedies. lam very happy in being ab , apPl i Ze my testimony of the benefit I derived • after a few 'fall 0. e ver the use of my limbs are perfectly restored, and lam a' a e• a d attend my business, and, making an allowance for alriete'l lo was better in my life. To those, however severely a o f tk e , I.l° hopeless their case may have been pronounced, I bega to tf . 14 8 ", make a trial, feeling quite satisfied they will be restore to tv l Da' of their limbs, from the severe cases that nave yielded dicine. Health is a great blessing to those who can ea!tijer,',o to those who are deprived, none feels it so severe as tb e t ot 411 or mechanic, as it generally causes loss of business, poo families. I shall at all times feel it my duty to make those afflicted, to evince how grateful I am for my reste:ooAl am, Sir, yours truly. GEORGE October 20, 1844 many of them evidently written under feelings of the deepest anguish, and relating to real•life circumstances of a very painful character, appear almost daily in the second column of the first page of The Times. The fol lowing was inserted on Tuesday last : "To W. B.—My dear husband,--I call upon you and entreat you to RETURN HOME. What have I done? Why have you forsaken me? Why go and leave me, and not prepare me for the heart-rending anguish your absence is causing me to suffer ? Do you c9ll six months not long? Return to me, my dear hus band : i' is my wish to see you happy—return, and I will make you so." The following was inserted in Wednesday's Times : To T. W.—My beloved husband,--I call upon you in the name of my God, whom I have so dishonoured to return imme diately to your heart-broken wife. I humbly beseech you for your own sake as well as mine—for your employer's sake, who will be most glad to see you. There is nothing unpleasant. No one knows of this circumstance : everything would he as before ; therefore I implore of you to forgive me, and once more to return before lam no more. Refuse me not for Christ's sake. I be seech you, my beloved, communicate with me. Oh ! did you know what I feel.—C. Cottage." lIORRIBLE.—A sad tragedy took place at Dyffryd, near Oswestry, on Friday. An elderly woman named Rider, lately a pauper in the Ellesmere Union Workhouse, but lately taken to reside with her son and a sickly daughter, is the savage perpetrator. It appears that some slight altercation took place between the mother and her daughter, who is 22 years of age, in consequence of the former being prevented leaving the house. The poor victim, aware of her parent's propensities when at large, locked the door of the cottage, whereupon the wretch attacked her with the first weapon she could lay her hands on, and afterwards possessed herself of a broomhook ; she then cut and hewed away with all her might, literally scalping the powerless girl, and otherwise inflicting on her arms and body the most dreadful wounds; the poor thing all this time praying for mercy, and offering to give up the key to her brutal assailant. Nature at length gave way, the fiendish monster dragged her all but dead off spring into an adjoining apartment. The cries of the poor sufferer being at last heard, the son was fetched_home, and on going to the door saw a stream of blood running over the threshold. With assistance he succeeded in forcing the door, when such a scene presented itself as was seldom ever before witnessed. Portions of the flesh from the head, with locks of hair attached, and pools of blood, &c., covered the floor, and one instrument was found, amongst the rest, covered with gore. This was a broom handle, and appears to have been last used. On searching about the billhook was found secreted in an oven. The young woman is still living, but is not expected to last long.—Shrewsbury Journal. . leg ale ts o. Well-street, Crr , ll go o ,—I have been several weeks confined to my 1, ,,e d 0 0 : Rheumatism, not a part from my head to feet free , it ° c e„ . ';, n t 11 2, as helpless as an infant : not even a finger could ! ii i° at tena:;o l . , " unpleasant situation I was informed by my medico- , _ a il: w had applied all the usual remedies, and that I mig ht refP io in my deplorable situation. Fortunately your remedy was made known to n'e' have been to this day confined to my bed. After a cl°..s:ppeo.',4l,e" of four days, my troublesome companion began to ( 1, - a by week I was capable of walking about my room au -" week's perseverance in the use of your Medici leave London. Fearful of another attack, ! —I am, Sir, your obedient servan Was em e - to u Pl etis CTG 13 ~~ six bottl A 164' , Pi 2 ,, P e'er' 14, Belmont-place, Wandsworth-roa d. s c atte rv. feel in duty bound to acknowledge , that 'Oll ill Of o , acute pains from Sciatica, or severe Rheumatic ilffee° tr y our io ff joint, and being deprived of rest, I was persuaded W ot ,p g li roo p i brocation, and have the pleasure to say that after thre e wo icor . I was restored to my usual health ; and, although & ,ir, , 0 0 0 ' passed, I have no return of the disorder. —I ' Q ED i)Vi r yours, -- g tots' ber iv . a be r• Oxford•street; Hogarth, Great George Sold by Pendlebury, Russell-street ; T it i l l ° s l l ' Bold-street ; Coupland, Parker-street ; Garret-10070 street.; Parkinson . New Scotland-road ; Neal'. or t ; sof road ; Simpson, Scotland-road, opposite st• c o" e t ; Market ;M ck ow, Vauxhall-road Greatte, evotree Dale-street and Haymarket ; Smith, l-10c°30g7t; . s tree j t;oo,4 , Cox, Fox-street; Gillard, Richmond-row; .'t°ol-15r,ficei ton ; Walker, London-road ; Parry, _.Ch r tide; '- Wagstaff, Great George-place; Smith, W° Waxertree. ifienegro's mind on his first in his demeanour was aw' ling ; and there was on many a perfect expression of indifference, as if it were written on their foreheads th at th 3 • • I . bad left art thei amonpt them manly deportmen movem ( of religion :hief di and nail al Chris er religion charge towards n fear cedin reposed ad, no quickness to consc ther heard timid fellow Don't go all hi g him tt d went to Worm )osterity, is the 4 to encoun - t are tiles t Diet the.r, are, howeve some curious •eformation in Germ )igot Li 3 this wisdom, dis freedom from the multitu no account, therefore, of the trials and difficul has to encounter. They will only swell t fayou ing or selling indul rnoldi of Troves, wit I omit to note. It was in the 16th ce half of Europe by prea , -nue purposes. Y lid the name on under a bull of Leo ht marl ie bear n be given to )una him crying, s;" " Don't do of them to meet way to look them off, did what he thou id now, which, says The vc -" You surely will not " though I should be ils at Wo:ms as there his conduct before the ties Ronge current in dent of history will tury that Rome list £h his holy and, what is most remark church no wisdom, Nit the thirty years ple of ;sound utty. ted by th 'ere it ea❑ be waked up; that 'e done, no tor no cour say th could sit in a room from a cat ; but dir shook on his bones, Ii of the rowr his feelings to be iilsup Long sub;cq way account adding, t: at it fo or two, i size of an overpowering elephant COMBATIVENESS OF THE ROBIN.—He is bold, fear ss, and quarrelsome, arrogat:ng o . hlinself . a little spot or district, others of his violent opp blinds its Its combativeness on theseoc ngers, they r is limits of which he will allow none to intrude without offering the most as I particularly witnessed in an een two of them at Margate. They fell foul of on the Parade, the most frequented part of the uegling on the ground together at the in the air, still continu ey fell into tha harbour, it being high ricated by a boy, who took them up )ertinaciously to each other.—Note- each o town ; feet of the pa book o ) our presence, familiar Never r actio: ations, t forms of addr ie humiiiating atti• le extended hands re less frequently practised, especially 3 raged by us : a little more Ind a lit in the con ad return the white man's look, as if to I learned at length they were fellow- creatures ; and finally, the larg merry laugh, the happy c active ike a mirror, the i erect posture, n fi A condition, and indicate the recovery of that independence which is the birthright of man, be he black smiling mouth. the coarse pression of countenance, the ad rapid progress, -could re rovement in both their moral and phy OCEAN The state of A STORM IN THE INDIAN ome deg heightens the effect seems as if the very heavens were resting on the ocean, anti the thick and hides the raging elements. the weather perhaps iri produced by a hurric ttno3pher The unceasing rain dester , • d, mixing spray, driven along by the fury of the iite6ding with skies „ and waves shuts out every other sound, The noise of wi Jiown out of the bolt-ropes, and masts ,ithout being heard. ;Imagine a to multuous king on board a vessel without masts, her crew, -mist in water, working at the pumps, and the • without the means of having even a fire '--ary hours of darkness, and a faint Id sails ar c rritd away sea h up to the night elm during the len idea may be enterta' the Rodriguez atorn: . _ On the night of the 7th thunder and lightning set in, the vivid Sashes trom tune to time disclosing to the wretched crews the scene which sur ioundektheir almost foundering craft in all its fearful horror„vet even this was perhaps comparative comfort to +ha a.uce obscurity which succeeded. Around the Robin dal , of electric fluk Gray this dis of attra^ lu"" It is the s( rotating gt mendonm, cr, pyramidal he compass, and h a reef of roc ship no chance ship is always " The lutes and terrific gusts' wnicn follow ont 2r in quick succession are alone sufficient for this ; but when we take into consideration th? fierce conflict of raging waters, it is only wonderful how a vessel can live through such an encounter. In this situation ships lose their buoyancy, and like a rock, Axed resista: , ce to the waves which continually ---,. Many of the deep-loaded ships in the - , hen thus exposed, had four or five and seemed to be fast settling k abyss beneath them, with the water pening seams, and, while one sea was curling over the bows another was meeting it from the noop, and perhaps a third expending its strength oyes the beam, It was only by almost superhuman exertions at the pumps that the vessels were kept afloat. It requires no ordinary built ship to withstand the force of the waves and wind near the vortex of a hurricane, and all will do well to shun the danger in time, by not run ning too far into a position where they may soon lose the power of scudding out of danger, or lying to under com mand, as in the long and true, although mountain swell of straight gales, where a vessel rises to it with comparative eafete and regularity.—Thom's Inquiry into the Nature and Course of Storms. mast or rudder. noth burst c Rodriguez storm, feet water in the bolci a into the da' entering at their rocided 1 by the pr 3 of men This task most co f she was the v were enve n; the masts and rigging he peals of thunder, drowning ever ved the idea of the vessel exploding It is des, raised in lint of the Rind from every } seen compare ito the surf breaking on '• -uch a sea BE of the hur- In fact, it w Near the cent ine, a is not lost Lble, ev ly to 1 Worm dig I remark att►tuc and the ve_activity in t When, however THE LIVERPOOL• STANDARii. 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