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Earrature. POETRY. CREATOR-WORSHIP. (From " Way-side Verses," by W.. 1. Brock.) Go wait upon creation's sire, Whom lauding angels own, Whose love should all our hearts inspire ; To praise each lip intone ! The robings of His glory shine Where'er His works are found, And goodness beams like smiles divine Athwart the dark profound. Go wait on Him whose potent hand Seasons in order brings, Who scatters over all the land All good and glorious things; He sloped the hills, He decked the fields, He bent the ambient sides, And still His band abundance yields Where springs of blessings rise. Go wait on Him before whose feet All animation swells, Big with expression to repeat His praise o'er hills and dells : Shall these, the meaner things of earth, Their high laudations raise, While man, who owns a nobler birth, Scarce breathes his Maker's praise? Go wait on Him who welcomes thee; With expectation how; The palace of His love is free— " Constrain" His presence now. The prayer of faith ne'er pleads in vain: Its accents scarcely rise, Ere comes from heaven the golden chain Laden with rich supplies. Go wait on Him with ardent soul, Earnest the gem to find; Go where the purer waters roll, Unsealed for human kind. There plunge by faith and rise forgiven, The soothing influence feel, And gain the choicest gem of heaven, Bearing the Spirit's seal. Go wait on Him where falls the dew Of heaven, by love distilled, 'Where flowers grow up of beauteous hue, With balmy fragrance filled. Within the temple's hallowed shade, Or when in secret bowed,. The soul may find the promised aid Under His presence cloud. Go wait on Him and humbly plead, Beneath the living vine, His sacrifice, till all you need Upon your spirit shine; The clusters of that vine, if pressed By faith and prayer, impart A thousand sweets to hearts distressed, And heal their every smart. NOTICES. Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. Edited by Currer Bell. In three volumes. London : Smith, Elder, and Co., Cornhill. This is one of the most striking works which has for many years past come under our observation. It is full of originality of remark and character, and of vivid and occasionally powerful description. The writer has evi dently studied well the human heart, although she (or be) evidently prefeis the delineation of those phases of it, wfiich least frequently come under the notice of an ordi nary observer. A quaint little being, as Jane Eyre describes herself to be, it would seem to have been her lot to come in contact with oddities like herself; and she holds them up for our examination ; turns them, as it *were, inside out; dissects their most secret and eccentric thoughts and feelings, with the gusto with which an anatomist examines some deviation from the ordinary laws of nature in the corporeal subject, or a geologist contemplates some novel formation of the earth's strata, which wars against, or more than ever decisively confirms his previously conceived theories. Jane Eyre is the orphan daughter of a clergyman ; and is consigned at an early age to the protection of an aunt. the widow of her mother's brother, in whose family, and by whose ill natured children, she is ill-treated and rgarded as an incumbrance. Ultimately she is sent to a charity school, the presiding genius of which is a certain Mr. Brocklehurst, a neighbouring clergyman ; and here, for the consideration of £l5 a-year paid by her aunt, she receives a tolerable education, at the cost of having to submit to a short supply of food, and clothing little removed from that of a pauper. The character of Mr. Brocklehurst—a gentleman of the Squeer's class, but with more hypocrisy in his disposition,—is most racily sketched ; and a more amiable character, that of Miss Temple, a superior teacher in the estahlishrnent, is very pleasingly described. The fate of one of the poor neglected children—Mary Burns—for whom such establishments as Lowood House appear to be especially designed, is thus beautifully told. Helen has been one of those inmates to whom Jane yre has especially attached herself ; and has been for some months sinking gradually in consumption : " One evening in the beginning of June, I had stayed out very late with Mary Ann in the wood ; we had, as usual, separated ourselves from the others, and had wan dered far; so far that we lost our way, and had to ask it at a lonely cottage, where a man and woman lived, who looked after a herd of half-wild swine that fed on the mast in the wood. When we got back, it was after moon-rise : a pony, which we knew to be the surgeon's, was standing at the garden-door. Mary Ann remarked that she sup posed some one must be very ill, as Mr. Bates had been sent for at that time of the evening. She went into the house ; I stayed behind a few minutes to plant in my gar den a handful of roots which I had dug up in the forest, and which I feared would wither if I left them till morn ing. This done, I lingered yet a little longer; the flow ers' smelt so sweet as the dew fell; it was such a pleasant evening, so serene, so warm ; the still glowing west pro mised so fairly another fine day on the morrow ; the moon rose with such majesty in the grave east. I was noting these things and enjoying them as a child might, when it entered my mind, as it had never done before : " How sad to be lying now on a sick-bed, and to be in danger of dying ! This world is pleasant—it would be dreary to be called from it, and to have to go who knows where ?' • " And then my mind makes its first earnest effort to comprehend what had been infused in it concerning hea ven and hell • and for the first time it recoiled, baffled ; and for the first time, glancing behind, on each side, and before it, it saw all round an unfathomed gulf; it felt the one point where it stood—the present ; all the rest was formless cloud and vacant deep ; and it shuddered at the thought of tottering, and plunging amid that chaos. While pondering this new idea, I heard the front door open ; Mr. Bates came out, and with him was a nurse. After she had seen him mount his horse and depart, she was about to close the door, but I ran up to her. " How is Helen Burns ?' " ' Very poorly,' was the answer.' " Is it her Mr. Bates has been to see ?' " Yes.' " And what does he say about her ?' " He says she'll not be here long.' " This phrase, uttered in my hearing yesterday, would have only conveyed the notion that she was about to be removed to Northumberland, to her own home. I should not have suspected that it meant she was dying ; but I knew instantly now : it opened clear on my comprehension that Helen Burns was numbering her last days in this 'world, and that she was going to be taken to the region of spirits. I experiewed a shock of horror, then a strong thrill of grief; then a desire—a necessity to see her ; and I asked in what room she lay. " She is in Miss Temple's room,' said the nurse. " May Igo up and speak to her ?' " Oh, no, child ! It is not likely ; and now it is time for you to come ; you'll catch the fever if you stop out when the dew is falling.' " The nurse closed the front door ; I went in by the side entrance which led to the school-room ; I was just in time ; it was nine o'clock, and Miss Miller was calling the pupils to go to bed. It might be two hours later, probably near eleven, when I, not having been able to fall asleep, and deeming, from the perfect silence of the dormitory, that my com panions were all wrapt in profound repose—rose softly, put on my frock over my night-dress, and, without shoes, crept from the apartment, and set off in quest of Miss Temple's room. It was quite at the other end of the house; but I knew my way; and the light of the un clouded summer moon, entering here and there at passage windows, enabled me to find it without difficulty. An odour of camphor and burnt vinegar warned me when I came near the fever room ; and I passed its door quickly, fearful lest the nurse who sat up all night should hear me. I dreaded being discovered and sent back ; for I must see Helen,:—l must embrace her before she died,—l must give her one last kiss, exchange with her one last word. "Having descended a staircase, traversed a . portion of the house below, and succeeding in opening and shutting, without noise, two doors, I reached another flight of steps ; these I mounted, and then, just opposite to me, Miss Temple's room. A light shone through the key hole, and from under the door : a profound silence per vaded the vicinity. Coming near, 1 found the door slightly ajar : probably to admit some fresh air into the close abode of sickness. Indisposed to hesitate, and full of impatient impulses—soul and senses quivering with keen throes—l put it back and looked in. My eye sought Helen, and feared to find death. " Close by Miss Temple's bed, and half covered with its white curtains, there stood a little crib. I saw the outline of a form under the clothes, but the face was hid by the hangings ; the nurse I had spoken to in the garden sat in an easy chair, asleep ; an unsnuffed candle burnt dimly on the table. Miss Temple was not to be seen. I knew afterwards that she had been called to a delirious pa tient in the fever-room. I advanced; then paused by the crib side ; my hand was on the curtain, but I preferred speaking before I withdrew it. I still recoiled at the dread of seeing a corpse. " Helen !' I whispered softly ; 'are you awake ?' " She stirred, herself put back the curtain, and I saw her face, pale, w asted, but quite composed : sh e l oo k e d so little changed that my fear was instantly dissipated. " Can it be you, Jane ? she asked, in her own gentle voice. " Oh !' I thought, she is not going to die ; they are mistaken : she could not speak and look so calmly if she were.' " I got on to her crib and kissed her : her forehead was cold, and her cheek both cold and thin, and so were her hand and wrist ; but she smiled as of old. Why are you come here, Jane ? It is past eleven o'clock : I heard it strike some minutes since.' " I came to see you, Helen : I heard you were very ill, and I could not sleep till I had spoken to you.' " You came to bid me good-bye, then : you are just in time probably.' _ " Are you going somewhere, Helen ? Are you going home ?' " Yes; to my long home—to my last home.' " No, no, Helen :' I stopped distressed. While I tried to devour my tears, a fit of coughing seized Helen ; it did not, however wake the nurse : when it was over, she lay some minutes exhausted ; then she whispered : " Jane your little feet are bare ; lie down and cover yourself with my quilt.' " I did so : she put her arm over me, and I nestled close to her. After a long silence she resumed, still whispering : " lam very happy, Jane ; and when you hear that I am dead you must be sure and not grieve ; there is noth ing to grieve about. We all must die one day, and the illness which is removing me is not painful; it is gentle and gradual ; my mind is at rest. I have no one to regret me much: 1 have only a father ; and he is lately married, and will not miss me. By dying young I shall escape great sufferings. I had not qualities or talents to make my way very well in the world : 1 should have been con tinually at fault.' " " But where are you going to, Helen ? Can you see ? Do you know ?' " I believe ' • I have faith : l am go i ng t o G o d.' " Where is God ? What is God ?' _ . " My Maker and yours ; who will never destroy what He created. I rely implicitly on His power, and confide wholly in His goodness : I count the hours till that eventful one arrives which shall restore me to Him, reveal Him to me.' " You are sure, then, Helen, that there is such a place as lleaven ; and that our souls can get to it when we die?' " lam sure there is a future state; I believe God is good : I can resign my immortal part to Him without any misgiving. God is my father; God is my friend : I love Him; I believe He loves me.' " And shall I see you again, Helen, when I die ?' " ',You will come to the same region of happiness ; be received by the same mighty, universal Parent, no doubt, dear Jane.' " Again I questioned ; but this time only in thought. Where is that region ? Does it exist ?' And I clasped my arms closer round Helen : she seemed dearer to me than ever ; I felt as'if I could not let her go ; I lay with my face hidden on her neck. Presently she said in the sweezest tone : " How comfortable lam ! That last fit of coughing has tired me a little ; I feel as if I could sleep : but don't leave me, Jane; I like to have you near me.' " I'll stay with you, dear Helen : no one shall take me away.' " ' Are von warm, darling ?' " Yes.' " Good night, Jane.' " ' Good night, Helen.' " She kissed me, and I her; and we both soon slum bered. " When I awoke it was day : an unusual movement roused me; I looked up ; I was in somebody's arms; the nurse held me ; she was carrying me through the passage back to the dormitory. I was not reprimanded for leav ing my bed; people had something else to think about : no explanation was afforded then to my many questions; but a day or two afterwards I learned that Miss Temple, on returning to her own room at dawn, had found me laid in the little crib; my face against Helen Burns's shoul der, my arms round her neck. I was asleep, and Helen was—dead. " Her grave is in Brocklcbridge churchyard : for fifteen years after her death it was only covered by a grassy mound ; but now a grey marble tablet marks the spot, in scribed with her name, and the word Resurgam. For eight years Jane E.yre remained in this establish ment, during the last two as a Teacher ; after which she succeeds in procuring an engagement with a Mr. Roches ter, as a governess to a little girl, the daughter of an opera, dancer, with whom he has been acquainted. The cha racter of this gentleman is one of the most powerful sketches in the work ; and the gradual unfolding of the character of the heroine herself is not surpassed in any autobiography with which we are acquainted. We shall not attempt to anticipate the reader's interest by following any further the incidents of her history. We can assure them however, that, having once taken up the Volumes, they will not be disposed to lay them down again un finished; and that it will be their own fault if they do not derive from their perusal a moral and an encourage ment to persevere in well doing. The closing chapters are especially fine ; and we should give an extract or two from them, were it not that by so doing we should enable the indolent reader, who looks only in such works for the gratification of curiosity, to skip to the conclusion. VARIETIES. Nero, the Roman emperor, gave 6,000 sestercia. a sum equal to £50,000 sterling, for two drinking cups made of glass. Truly and beautifully has it been said, that the veil which covers futurity has been woven by the hand of mercy. There is a family in Box, Herts, consisting of father, mother, son, and daughter, whose united ages are only 33 years. The age of the father is 17 ; that of the mother 15 ; and the children, who are twins, a few weeks. BRlGHTON.—Brighton is abbreviated from Brighthelm stone, or " the holy stone" of the Britons, so named by the Saxon invaders, who found the Cromlech on the Church-hill, which is now removed, but which the writer well remembers to have seen when a boy at school there. In some of the English schools in Wales, when a scho lar is heard speaking Welsh, he is punished by being obliged to carry about with him a wooden pin, until he is lucky enough to catch one of his companions committing the same offence, when he joyfully transfers the detested pin to the fresh culprit. A DRUNKEN DOG.—At Malmeshury, there is a dog belonging to a brewer that becomes intoxicated regularly every Monday. During six days of the week it is his oc cupation to lick the droppings from the various taps on the premises ; on the Sunday he is tied up, and gets com pletely sobered. _ _ A NAIVE ADMISSION.—A case was heard on Friday at Halifax, in which two women appeared as plaintiff and defendant. The latter handed to the Bench a written "character," testifying to her peaceable •disposition, &c. The plaintiff innocently remarked—" I had a character once, but I lost it some time ago." To CLEAN HAIR BRUSHES.—As hot water and soap very soon soften the hairs, and rubbing completes their destruction, use soda—having an affinity for grease, it cleans the brush with a little friction. Do not set them near the fire nor in the sun to dry, but after shaking them well, set them on the point of the handle in a shady place. ONE OF THE "SWEETS" OF THE GENTLE ART.— Angling for twelve or fourteen hours, alone, without one bite, though perpetually tantalised with bobs ; or when you have hooked a fine large jack, seeing him take French leave at the moment when you are courteously showing him his nearest way to the bank.—Beresfords Miseries of Human Life. A WORD TO DUELISTS.—There is more true courage and generosity in bearing and forgiving an injury for the love of virtue, than in requiting if for another ; because the thing is much more difficult. Bulls and bears have courage enough, but it is a brutish courage, whereas Ours should be such as should become reasonable creatures and Christians.—Gasten, Marquis de Renty. SCHOOLS THE SEMINARIES OF THE STATE.—I have ever observed it, says Ben Jonson, to have been the office of a wise patriot, among the greatest affairs of the state, to take care of the commonwealth of learning. For schools, they are the seminaries of state ; and nothing is worthier the study of a statesman, than that part of the republic which we call the advancement of letters. THE DULCE AND THE UTILE.—When Sir John Carr was in Glasgow, about the year 1807, he was asked by the magistrates to give his advice concerning the inscription to be placed on Nelson's monum.ent, then just com pleted. The travelling knight recommended this brief record—" Glasgow to Nelson." " True,'- said one of the bailies, " and as there is the town of Nelson near us, we might add, ' Glasgow to Nelson, IX MILES,' so that the column might serve both for a mile-stone and a monu ment." THE MATTER SETTLED FOR EVER.—We are too glad to acknowledge an error. We have taken many liberties lately with Louis-Philippe. The following vindication, however, of his character must be more than sufficient re paration to his injured majesty. It comes from the lips of no less an authority than Mr. Broughton, the police ma gistrate. The sceptical reader is referred to the Morning Chronicle. " Louis -Philippe is one of the best men that ever lived, and would not wrong any one of a farthing." We hope Europe is convinced.—Punch. The object of the sanatory movement may be summed up in a few words ( says Fraser's Magazine) :—A sewer in every street of every town and village ; a drain for every house ; a constant and unlimited supply of good water to every family ; pure air at any cost ; the application of the refuse of towns to the purposes of agriculture ; and, lastly, to secure these blessings, the removal of every im pediment, physical and moral, and the destruction or re construction of every form of local administration which does not work well towards these righteous ends. BRITISH PATOIS.—In some parts of this kingdom, Glamorganshire among the rest, the word calf is pro nounced cave—a gentleman in search of the picturesque in that country, lately asked a rustic to lead him to a cave which he was desirous of exploring. The unsophisticated thaw-bacon, after sundry windings and climbings, brought him to a fine calf, and no explanations whatever could give him a clearer idea of the nature of the object of which the geologist was in search. The gentleman then went away, but not without sundry looks of contempt from his guide, who most probably thought himself the wiser of the two. AN ENGLISH LADY MISSIONARY IN CHINA.—MISS Alderney, of Essex, has devoted her time and fortune to the conversion of the Chinese. When I visited Chusan I sought an interview with this highly accomplished lady, and found her living entirely among the Chinese, in a. respectable family, with several Chinese ladies and a few children as her companions. Twice a week she receives all the poor, afflicted, and diseased, to whom she fur nishes medicine and comforts. She is now permanently settled in Ningpo. A committee of English ladies ought to be formed to second the efforts of this " Ministering Angel," for such she appeared to the Chinese.—Mont gomery Martin's China. CHEATING JOHN CHINAMAN.—In the regulation of port-dues considerable alteration has been made within the last few years, but the old system had an inevitable tendency to encourage smuggling, on account of the large amount of duties which pressed more heavily upon small ships than upon larger ones, the amount not being pro portioned to the size of the vessel : the consequence of this was, that a most iniquitous system was carried on, which for some time puzzled the Chinese authorities con siderably. The plan was this : a large vessel first went up the river, paid her port dues, and discharged her cargo ; which being cleared, another vessel came alongside during the night, transferred her cargo into the larger one, and hauled off again before daylight •, on the following day this was again discharged into the boats as part of the original cargo, and so on to the extent of fourteen or fif teen vessels, who thus cheated the Government. the duty being levied, not upon the quantity of goods, but upon the ship itself; which was thus made to contain about 8,000 tons, much to the astonizhlueut of the Chinese.— Hutton's D'i've Year; in the East. I A MATRIMONIAL ADVERTISER.—A story was told me, with an assurance that it was literally true, of a gentle man who, being in want of a wife, advertised for one, and, at the place and time appointed, was met by a lady. Their stations in life entitled them to be so called, and the gen tleman, as well as the lady, was in earnest. He, however, unluckily seemed to be of the same opinion as King Pedro was with regard to his wl:e, Queen Mary of Arragon, that she was not so handsmie as she might be good, so the meeting ended in their mutual disappointment. Ccelebs advertised a second time, appointing a different square for the place of meeting, and varying the words of the advertisement. He met the same lady—they recog nised each other—could not choose but smile at the recog nition, and, perhaps, neither of them could choose but sigh. You will anticipate the event. The persevering bachelor tried his lot a third time in the newspapers, and at the third place of appointment, he met the equally per severing spinster. At this meeting neither could help laughing. They began to converse in good humour, and the conversation became so agreeable on both sides, and the circumstances appeared so remarkable, that this third interview led to a marriage, and the marriage proved a happy one.—The Doctor, by Southey. FEMALE SOLDIERS.—After this procession, which con sisted altogether of about eight thousand women, well armed and clothed, had passed, the king asked me to go and see what his women-soldiers were about to perform. I was accordingly conducted to a large space of broken ground, where fourteen days had been occupied in erect ing three immense prickly piles of green brush. These three clumps or piles, of a sort of strong briar or thorn, armed with the most dangerous prickles, were placed in line, occupying four hundred yards, leaving only a narrow passage between them, sufficient merely to distinguish each clump appointed to each regiment. These piles were about seventy feet wide and eight feet high. Upon ex amining them I could not persuade myself that any human being, without boots or shoes, would under any circumstances attempt to pass over so dangerous a collec tion of the most efficiently armed plants I had ever seen. Behind these piles already mentioned were yards or large pens, at the distance of three hundred yards, fenced with ples seven feet high, thickly matted together with strong reeds. Enclosed therein were several hundred slaves be longing to the king. It may be well to state that this affair was entirely got up to illustrate an attack upon a town, and the capture of prisoners, who of course, are made slaves. After waiting a short time, the Apadomey soldiers made their appearance at about two hundred yards from or in front of the first pile, where they halted with shouldered arms. In a few seconds the word for attack was given, and a rush was male towards the pile with a speed beyond conception ; and in less than one minuts the whole body had passed over this immense pile, and had taken the supposed ts.wn. Each of the other piles was passed with equal rapidity, at intervals of twenty minutes ; after which we again returned to our former station in the market place. Here we found his Majesty waiting for us. He anxiously inquired how I was pleased with the performance of his female soldiers, and asked if I thought the same number of Englishwomen would per form the same. I, of course, answered no : we had no female soldiers in England, but we had females who had, individually and voluntarily, equally distingushed them selves. * * * I may be permitted to make a few re marks on the army of women. It is certainly a surprising sight in an uncivilised country. I had, it is true, often heard of the king's female soldiers in England, but now I have seen them, all well armed, and generally fine strong healthy women, and doubtless capable of enduring great fatigue. They seem to use the long Danish musket with as much ease as one of our grenadiers does his fire lock ; not of course with the same quicknesditas they are not trained to any particular exercise, but on receiving the word, make an attack lihe a pack hounds with great swiftness. Of course, they would be useless against dis ciplined troops, if at all approaching to the same numbers; still, their appearance is more martial than the generality of the men, and, if undertaking a campaign, I should pre fer the females to the male soldiers of this country. From all I have seen of frica, I believe the king of Dahomey possesses an army superior to any sovereign west of the Great Desert.—Duncan's Travels in Western. Africa. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. enteral illtsailanv. Friday's Gazette contained no fewer than twenty-eight bankruptcies. Eighi packages of potatoes, the produce of South Ame rica, have just been landed in London from Lima. Mr. Henry Scott, trainer of Ascot Heath, was found dead in his sitting-room, on Tuesday morning last. Mr. Alderman Walker, proprietor of the Gloucester Journal, was, on Tuesday last, elected Mayor of that city for the third time. Mrs. Huskisson has presented the marble statue of her late husband, by Gibson, to the Committee of Lloyds. It will be placed in the vestibule of the new rooms. Baths for the use of the public have been recently erected in West Bromwich, by the munificence of the Earl of Dartmouth. Mr. G. H. Moore has sold Wolfdog to Prince Lichten stein for 1000 guineas ; the Prince has also purchased Lord Chesterfield's Cherry. . _ Mary Ann Hunt, the convict, has been reprieved ; to what punishment her sentence will be commuted will not be made known to her till after the birth of her infant. The Rob Roy is expected to arrive in Hull from St. Petersburgh to-day, with specie to the amount of £300,000. _ _ The collection for the relief of the Irish, in St. Andrew's Church, Wakefield, in obedience to the queen's letter, amounted to 41d. Chicory is now grown extensively in the neighbourhood of York, and in some parts of the North and East Riding of Yorkshire. A singular hare, of which the head and shoulders are white, while one eye is brown and the other white, was lately taken at Sandbeck, near Doncaster. By a fire at Durham, on Tuesday, goods to the value of £4,000, the property of Mr. O'Neal, -cabinet-maker; were destroyed. The magistrates at Birstall have fined a Mr. Harptman £l,OOO for having several hundred weight of gunpowder stored in his possession. The mortal remains of the late Archbishop of York were removed on Friday from Bishopthorpe Palace, near York, to the family burying-place at Stanton Harcourt,. Oxfordshire. A society has been established at Edinburgh called the Sabbath Alliance, one of the principal objects of which is to take steps to oppose and prevent the running of railway trains and other public conveyances on the Lord's day. The Earl of Dalhousie, the newly-appointed Governor- General of India, left Portsmouth on board her Majesty's steam-frigate Sidon, for Alexandria, en route overland to the seat of his government, on Thursday. The Times of last week has an advertisement for a lost dog, which " readily answers when spoken to in German." We have heard of dog-latin, but this is the first of dog- German. NEW MAYORS.—London Alderman Trooper; Chester, Dr. Jones ; Warrington, W. Beamont ; Wigan, John Lord ; Preston, T. Birchall ; Manchester, Elkanah Armi tage. _ _ _ Oranges and lemons are now being imported in such quantities from Sicily and elsewhere as must have the effect of bringing them into general consimption at a very early period of the season. A surgical operation was successfully performed while the patient was under the influence of ether, upon one of the sons of the Right Hon. W. Y. Peel, by Mr. Hodg son, assisted by Sir Benjamin Brodie and Mr. Boddington. The corporations of Worcester, Gloucester, and other places have appointed committees to act in conjunction with the medical gentlemen in the immediate removal of all nuisances, and the promotion of ventilation and clean liness, as precautions aguinst the approach of cholera. SIGNS OF THE TlMES.—Under the head of ‘` Barter," two advertisements appear in the Birmingham Herald of Thursday last, the one offering leasehold premises in ex change for a ten-horse steam engine, and the other '• piano -fortes for nails, ironmongery, or carpets." CHARGE OF MATRICIDE.—A young man of gentle manly appearance, named William Sheridan, is in cus tody in London, upon suspicion of having caused the death of his mother, Mrs. Frances Sheridan, the widow of a captain in the army, residing in Mare-street, Hack ney, by administering to her some poisonous drug. NEW SHERIFFS.—Henry Brooke, Esq., of Grange, is the sheriff elect for Cheshire; G. L. Fox, Esq., for York shire ; Sir R. Barden for Derbysaire ; J. D. Maclean, Esq., for Cumberland ; Sir W. Eden for Durham ; Sir H. D. Goring for Anglesea ; S. York, Esq., for Denbighshire and Sir W. H. Clerke for Flintshire. Our Scottish neighbours seems quite unequal to the completion of the Scott monument in their capital- Twenty-four figures are still wanting to the execution of its design. One more effort, is, however, :to be made for raising £2,000, the remaining sum required—another Waverley Ball being projected for that purpose. A most curious accident, resulting from gross careless ness, took place on Saturday, at the works of the Dowlais Iron Company, at Gellifaelog, near Merthyr, by the ex plosion of a quantity of gunpowder, whereby two unfor tunate persons lost their lives, and many others (it is reported 1I) were shockingly burned and injured. FATAL ACCIDENT AT A BONFIRE.—On Friday week, some boys made a bonfire at Bedminster, near Bath, and a child three years old, named Alfred Lane, went to them when they, in a mischievous prank, kicked about the burning fuel, by which Lane's clothes caught fire and he was so burnt that he died soon after. A monument to the late General Sir J. Jones, father of the new member of parliament for Cheltenham, has just been erected in St. Paul's Cathedral. It is a work of very superior merit, from the studio of Behnes, and comme morates the achievements of this gallant officer during the Peninsular war. FOOLHARDINESS.—A seaman was last week charged before the district justices, for leaping out of a carriage of the Glasgow train whilst in motion Dear the Greenock Station. The penalty was mitigated to 15s, but Mr. Drummond, the presiding justice, intimated his intention, in all future cases of the kind, to inflict the full penalty of £5. Mr. Grantley Berkeley seems fated never to get out of hot water. In his present trouble he is threatened with legal proceedings, in the shape of a criminal information, at the instance of Mr. Fonblanque, of the Examiner, whom Grantley is charged with libelling in his speech lately delivered at Wickwar. Meetings have been held of the creditors of all the prin cipal firms which have suspended during the present pres sure. It appears that out of 20 firms there is an aggre gate of liabilities of £4,598,284, which would give an average of £229,414 for each firm. The average dividend furnished by the above eatimates may be stated to be about 13s. 6d. in the pound. ADVANCE OF POPERY.-It seems that the Romanists are about to have a great " demonstration" in London at the height of 6' the season," on the opening of St. George's Cathedral." Two Cardinals are to assist at the ceremonies, and tickets of admission, like Jenny Lind's, are selling at a premium of five guineas. About the same period, and to give still further eclat, a great secession is (so runs the report) to take place from the Church of England. A Vegetarian Society has been founded at Ramsgate, by a gathering of vegetarians from many parts of the kingdom. Its object is to promote the use of a farina ceous and fruit diet, in preference to the use of flesh. At the head of the society is Joseph Brotherton, Esq., M.P., who stated that he had abstained from eating animal food for the last thirty-eight years, during which he had enjoyed excellent health. _ _ _ MONEY COMING.—On Monday the Giraffe steamer, from Rotterdam, brought upwards of £lO,OOO in gold. The Hamburgh steamer, on Tuesday, brought £30,000 in gold. On Wednesday, the Wilberforce steamer, from St. Petersburgh, brought from £90,000 to £lOO,OOO in gold. On Thursday about £170,000 in gold was received, of 'which £70,000 was from Paris. There was also a further arrival of £ll,OOO from Rotterdam. On Saturday, the John Bull arrived at Hamburgh with £lOO,OOO in gold. On Thursday two brothers, of the names of George and Laban Bowles, aged respectively 17 and 14 years, went to dredge in the river at Broom-hill, Essex, when, it is sup posed, they lost themselves in the fog, and had "walked about until they were gradually overwhelmed, as they were found drowned next day. 'Their cries were heard from the shore for three hours, but the stupid people who heard them did not call out, or the deceased might have known which way to turn and have been saved. A Goon EXAMPLE.—At the late municipal election at Worcester, Mr. Padmore, on being unanimously chosen sheriff, stated that 29 years ago he came to Worcester an entire stranger, without more than a dozentounds in his pocket ; but his circumstances and orospects had since altered, and by perseverance and indefatigable industry, combined with the kindness, assiduity, and industry of others, he now stood amongst them as the sheriff of one of the neatest cities in the kingdom. DEATH FROM SWALLOWING A PLUM-STONE.-- Last week, a young man of the name of Edward Rippon, work ing at the Middle Dock South Shields, was seized with inflamation of the bowels, which resisted all medical means, and caused his death in a few days. There being some peculiar features about the case, a post mortem ex amination was held, when it was discovered that a plum stone had lodged in the small intestines, and produced the disease. He had dined off a pudding made with plums some two or three days before. The joint committees of the master glove manufacturers, the Chamber of Commerce, Town Council, and the Board of Guardians, at Worcester, have resolved, with a view of reviving the glove trade, to establish a school, with salaried mistresses, for the instruction of girls in the various branches of sewing. A room has been hired for the accommodation of females who wish to receive in struction in the trade, and premiums are to be awarded to those whd produce the best work. Four mistresses will be appointed to superintend the establishment, which post is open to competition by the most skilful workwomen. THE METROPOLIS.—A. court of Common Council was held on Wednesday last week. A representation from the Commissioners of Sewers was agreed to after some discussion. Although the commissioners hail made most extensive sewers throughout the city, they complained that it was impossible to get either landlords or tenants to make drains from the houses. Five hundred miserable dwellings had been cleansed. The New River Company had been prevailed upon by the board to give a liberal supply of water ; but the landlords shirked the duty of providing cisterns or water-buts. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—On Monday in last week, as George, the son of Mr. Alexander Bacon, of Edensor, was descending from a corn stack belonging to Mr. Bur goine, of Dunbar House, Edensor, having first thrown down the fork, which fell with the prongs upward, and immediately gliding down the side of the st, - ,ck after it, h • fell upon the prongs, which entered his groin, and the weight of his body forced them into his bowels. The fork was withdrawn with great difficulty, and the poor lad re mained in a state of the greatest agony until Wednesday, when death put an end to his suffering.—Derby Mercury. IRISH IMMIGRATION.—In consequence of the alarm ing influx- of Irish vagrants into this city, the Board of Guardians have authorised a rigid system of labour to be enforced on all who are admitted for temporary shelter in the Union Workhouse, the effect of which has already been a very salutary check to this kind of vagrancy, the number of applicants being thereby reduced nearly one half. The rule carried into operation is to compel the vagrants received into the house for the night, to do four hour's work, for the benefit they derive in food and lodging.—Bath Chronicle. TALE OF A SHIRT.—A " navvy " was apprehended at Lincoln the other day on the charge of stealing from a poor man a shirt, but the owner refused to prosecute. It appeared that the two parties were in a public-house to gether the other day, when one offered to the other a shirt which he had to sell. After the regular beating down of price, the shirt was bought for one shilling, and the seller left the room. Shortly afterwards- the purchaser disco vered that he had purchased his own shirt, which the pre tended owner had cleverly abstracted from his bundle, and had sold to him. A QUEER SPEAKER TO REPORT.—At the Lord Mayor's civic dinner in London, on Tuesday last, among other toasts given, was that of " The health of the Due de Broglie, the French Ambassador, and other Foreign Ministers," to which the Due de Broglie took upon him self to reply, and we observe it is stated in a report of the proceedings that on his Excellency resuming his seat, the reporter had not been able to take any notes of his obser vations, in consequence of a violent discussion having been kept up, as to whether he was speaking in French or English : which we should understand to mean, that he was neither speaking the one nor the other. MURDER AND SUICIDE.—The following are the facts of a horrid attempt at murder and suicide which was com mitted at Reading on Friday :—A man of the name of Hercey, a smith, residing in East-street, in this town,. from jealousy, struck his wife on tho head several times, and dreadfully fractured her skull, so much so that there are no hopes of her recovery. He then cut his own throat and died. About two months ago he was taken before the magistrates for ill-treating his wife, and was bound over to keep the peace. For the last four days he had not been to work, having been about home watching his wife, and no doubt premeditating the dreadful deed. "JUST LIKE MY MONSTER."—A curious circumstance occurred at the Adelphi Theatre, London, on Friday evening, during the performance of " The Green Bushes." When Madame Celeste, who was performing in the cha racter of Miami, the Indian girl, shoots the English husband by whom she has been deserteil, a woman started up in the pit and exclaimed in a loud voice, " Serve him right !--it's just like my monster !" This explosion of insulted womanhood, produced by the " cunning of the scene" and Madame Celeste's powerful acting, was fol lowed by a shout of laughter from all parts of the house, proving that art frequently possesses more influence over our feelings than nature herself. SUSPECTED POISONING NEAR TIVERTON.—Ann Fisher has been committed for trial at the next assizes, on sus picion of having poisoned her husband, Richard Fisher, a farm labourer residing at the village of Morchard ; and Mary Hodge, her sister-in-law, and Thomas Leach, have also been committed on suspicion of having been con cerned in his death. It was ascertained beyond all doubt that he died from the effects of arsenic. He was 71 years of age, and his wife 32, and at the time of his death they had not been married three months. He had, it ap peared, only two or three days previous to his death, re proved her for some liberties which she allowed to the prisoner Leach. She had purchased, it was proved, half an-ounce of arsenic " to poison rats," in the beginning of August. CONJUGAL DIFFERENCE.—A painful case of this kind in high life has for some time attracted public attention at Moreton Court, in this county, and it was intended to have brought the matter under cognizance of the magis trates on Saturday. It was a curious sight to see the lady, who is highly connected in Wales, and of fine per son, entering the hall leaning on the arm of her h usband , against whom she was to exhibit articles of the peace. The matter, however was arranged, but the lady has wholly left her husband. Whether the affair will be brought before another court is, we are told, under con sideration. There are five children living, who remain i T o h n e s ir ar n e am fro e L A a i n n ca sw s e h r i t r h e, , a a n n d d t a h re e e la x d c y ee ,e di m n eal namethy . with the father at Moreton. Th e h us b an d an d connex is g a l maiden was Hanmer.—Hereford Journal. IRRIGATION OF LAND.—From the overflowing of the river Thames, 100 acres of 'the Drayton meadows are on a dead level, and, therefore, are annually overflowed similar to the land on the banks of the Nile, which was noticed by a correspondent a few weeks ago. The above named meadows have been drained four feet deep. and the overflowing is not prevented, as it is found to be a great benefit ; for the moment the water falls, the super fluous moisture passes off' with great rapidity, and all the matter suspended in the overflow is left in the giound, which acts as the best of manures. The water that descends into the drains becomes so pure and transparent that it is perfectly fit for drinking : and the passing of the water this depth is also the means of obtaining a higher 'temperature of the surface soil, which is a benefit of the greatest importance. INCENDIARISM.—AIfred Marsh, the young man who has been in custody since Saturday week, on a chaage of wilfully and maliciously setting fire to the dwelling-house of Mr. Bailey, a commercial traveller, residing in Swan place, Swan-street, Old Kent-road, was again placed at the bar of the Lambeth Police-court, on Wednesday. The prisoner, who is respectably connected, w as i n cus tody in June last, on a charge of firing a loaded pistol at Miss Louisa Ralph, the step-daughter of Mr. Bailey, a young woman to whom he was violently attached, and to whom be was a short time before about to get privately married. The parents of Miss Ralph having discovered the object of the young couple at once frustrated it, and this led to a bad feeling between the prisoner and Mr. and Mrs. Bailey, and, on Tuesday fortnight, during their absence from home, their house wat set on fire. The pri soner was seen in the neighbourhood. After some corro borative evidence had been given, the prisoner was again remanded. MURDER IN CARDlFF.—Considerable excitement has been occasioned in Cardiff during the week by the perpe tration of a bru,al outrage, which has resulted in the death of an unoffending individual. It appears that a young man of the name of 'William Morrison, accom panied by his wife and family, came to the above town a short time ago •, being reduced in circumstances, the par ties took up their quarters in Whitmore-lane, a locality not of the best repute. Here Morrison employed himself by manufacturing various articles of small value, which his wife disposed of in the Cardiff market. On Saturdaj be had been so engaged until night, when he sat down with his wife to tea. During the meal a "row" was heard in the street, and Mrs. Morgan, the wife of the man that kept the house, opened the door to see what was the mat ter. She had no sooner done so than three women rushed upon her, pulled her to the ground and otherwise ill-used her. Morrison went to the rescue of his landlady, and was in the act of stooping to raise her from the floor, when two men named Alexander Thomas and John Griffith, better known as "Alec the Devil" and " Swansea Jack," set upon him, and he received a violent kick in the abdo men, from which he almost immediately died. The men were taken into custody, and have been commmitted on a 1 charge of " Wilful Bitkriler." DEODORIZING EXPERIMENTS.-Mr. Ellerman, in a letter to the Times, guar d s aga i ns t any misapprehension as to the extent of the relief afforded by his process. "It is intended to render foetal and other matter inodorous, not only for immediate removal, but to provide a continu ous relief in every house or place now exposed to the in jurious effluvia caused by accumulations of filth, which are calculated to predispose the human constitution to fall a sacrifice to the dreadful scourge which threatens to invade our shores. My deodorizing fluid may be, as you state, usefully employed as an adjunct for sanitary mea sures," but I neve, presumed to say that it could be safely substituted for them,' nor do I offer it to the pub lic asp universal panacea, as others have done, but simply to deodorize night-soil, &c., promptly and cautiously, at a cheap rate, and at the same to confer a great boon on the agriculturists of this country." A Men BILL OF FARE.-At the Lord Mayor of Lon don's dinner on Tuesday, the following was the general bill of fare :—" 250 tureens of real turtle, containing five pints each, 200 bottles of sherbet, 6 dishes of fish, 30 en trées, 4 boiled turkeys and oysters, 60 roast pullets, 60 dishes of fowls, 46 dishes of capons, 6 dishes of Captain White's Selim's true India curries, 50 French pies, 60 pi geon pies, 53 hams, ornamented, 43 tongues, 2 quarters of house lamb, 2 barons of beef, 3 rounds of beef, 2 stewed rumps of beef, 13 sirloins, rumps, and ribs of beef, 6 dishes of asparagus, 80 dishes of m as h e d and other potatoes, 44 dishes of shell fish, 4 dishes of prawns, 140 jellies, 50 blancmanges, 40 dishes of t ar t s , creamed, 40 dishes of almond pastry, 30 dishes of orange and other tourtes, 20 Chantilly baskets, 60 dishes of mince pies, and 56 salads. The Removes.-80 roast turkeys, 6 leverets, 80 pheasants, 24 geese, 40 dishes of partridges, 15 dishes of wild fowl, and 2 peafowls. Dessert.-100 pine -apples, from 21b. to 31b. each, 200 dishes of hothouse grapes, 250 cream scie, 50 dishes of apples, 100 dishes of pears, 60 ornamented Savoy cakes, 75 plates of Walnuts, 80 dishes of dried fruits and preserves, 50 dishes of preserved ginger, 60 dishes of rout cakes and chips, and 46 dishes of brandy cherries. DEATH OF MENDELSSOHN.—lntelligence of the pre mature and unlooked-for death of Dr. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy has been received. He expired at Leipsic, on Tuesday, after a short illness, which brought on paralysis of the brain. The triumphant reception which he had met with in London last spring, and the mag nificent productions which were then heard under the directing influence of his genius, will never be forgotten by those who witnessed them. Never had the great musician of our time appeared to be more full of life, energy and creative power. But upon his return to Germany in the beginning of May, these brilliant recol lections were damped by the death of a favourite sister, who had just fallen a victim to the same form of cerebral disease. Dr. Mendelssohn retired to interlachem in Switzerland, for the summer months, where, although he had shaken off the fatigues of the London season, this family affliction seemed to have given him some fore b )(ling of his own impending fate. He returned to his duties at Leipsic, but very few weeks elapsed before his imperishable labours were terminated for ever. He had not yet completed his 39th year, having been born on the 3d of February, 1809. His sacred oratorios of " St. Paul" and " Elijah" have stamped him as a master. EPIDEMIC DISEASES.—A city breathing an atmosphere perfectly pure may not be exempt from every epidemic; but observation has shown that such irruptions are infre quent. and fatal to few persons of strength or stamina. Internal sanatory arrangements, and not quarantine or sanatory lines, are the safeguards of nations. A salubrious city in an epidemic—like a city built of stone in a con flagration—is exposed to danger and injury, but not to the same extent as the present cities of Europe, which are left without any adequate regulations for the health and se curity of their inhabitants. The great historical epidemics have diminished in intensity; and there appears to be no reason why they should not be ultimately suppressed, with the advances of the population among which they take their rise. Their origin is obscure, but influenza appears generally to become first epidemic in Russia—cholera in India. It is in India that the source of the latter disease must be attacked. If the health of India becomes sound, Europe might be safe, and hear no more of the epidemic which is now traversing Russia. The attention of the Indian authorities has for some time been directed to the subject. The other nations of Europe are beginning to take an interest in public sanatory improvements ; and any plans found to succeed in England will, no doubt, be car ried out as speedily as possible in all parts of her Majesty's dominions ; for the vast population that owns her sway is intimately united. Asiatic cholera has taught us that the lives of thousands in England may depend on the condi tion of the Pariahs of Jessore.—Report of the Registrar- General. ROMISH CHAPELS IN ENGLAND.—A correspondent of the Protestant Magazine has addressed the following letter on this subject to that journal :—" It has often.been matter of surprise from whence the money could be de rived to build the number of Romish chapels and monas teries now established in England, which in 1846 had in creased to 622 chapels and eight monasteries, with 818 priests ; whereas, in 1792, it is stated that there were only 32 chapels. The mystery is now explained. It appears from works published under Romish authority, that whereas about twenty years ago, there was subscribed to the Catholic Association at Lyons, only £9OO ; in the year 1844, there was subscribed about £161,000. Of this sum. in the year 1823, there was not a farthing expended in England ; in 1825, there were £6O expended ; in 1833, about £9BO ; but in 1844, this sum had increased to £40,865 ! This money was expended in building chapels, monasteries, &c., and otherwise promoting the spread of the Romish religion. Thus we see that the Church of Rome is now employing her wealth to corrupt the minds of our people, and to bring this country again under her galling and Antichristian yoke." This is well enough in the present case. Papists are praying for the conversion of England, and we will do them the justice to say that they live their prayers. Such devout liberality is some what alarming, however, to the friends of truth. And as wise men will take counsel even from an enemy, on certain ()Cessions, we would urgOliat the zeal of Papists in per verting should stimulate Protestants to new zeal in defence of their Scriptural Protestantism, and for the protection of those exposed to Popish craft and sophistry. CORN, &c.—Some returns ordered in March by the House of Commons, relating to the import, export, and consumption of corn, grain, meal, and flour, in the year ending the sth of January 1847, have been printed. From the sth of January, 1846, to the passing of the act 9th and 10th Victoria, chap. 22, the total quantity of wheat (foreign and colonial) admitted to home consumption in the united kingdom was 23,843 quarters and 5 bushels, and the duty paid, £8,338 16s. sd. Under the act mentioned, the quan titity had been, to the sth of January last, 1,975,104 quar ters and 5 bushels; and the duty paid, £395,102 3s. Id., making the total quantity in the year admitted to home consumption 1,995,948 quarters and 2 bushels, and the whole duty £403,440 19s. 6d. The annual average price of wheat was 545. Bd. a quarter. Of wheat and wheat flour, imported in the year into Great Britain, the quantity was 2,670,064 quarters ; from Ireland, 393,462 quarters ; and from other parts, 2,276,602 quarters. The quantity exported was 333,516 quarters ; 192,471 to Ireland, and 141,045 to other parts. The quantities of corn, meal, and flour of Irish growth imported into Great Britain from Ireland in the year ended the sth of January last were 1,826,132 quarters. It appears that in the week ending the 3rd of January, 1846, the average price of wheat was 555. Id, per quarter. The duty was at the average of 575. 6d. The rate of duty was 15s. a quarter on foreign, and 2s. a quarter on British colonial; and in the week ending the 2nd of January last, the average price of wheat was 645. 4d. a quarter. The duty was regulated at 60s. 9d. a quarter, whilst the rate of duty on foreign wheat was 45., and on British colonial Is. a quarter. THE APPOINTMENT OP ROMISH BISHOPS. IN EN GLAND.—Commenting on the above subject, the Britan nia says :—" And my lords the Protestant bishops—what are they doing ? Of course, their duty. Of course they are about to assemble at Lambeth, draw up a solemn appeal to the throne, reminding it of th e once-honoured 1688 ; another appeal to the 15,000 clergy of England, to the 2000 of Ireland, and to every man who believes in a God, and does not believe him to be represented by a wafer, or a stock or a stone, to join them heart and hand in averting calamity from their country. Of course their lordships intend a public appeal to their brother peers to rally round the constitution, and to act in conformity with those oaths which have pronounced the Church of Rome to be " superstitious and idolatrous.' They must have demanded of the Cabinet that Parliament shall be sum moned without delay, to examine• into the right of the foreigner, and, of all foreigners, the Bishop of Rome, to confer dignities by British titles on his adherents within the territory of our sovereign lady the Queen :' and, finally, hsve appealed to the throne, stating the principles on which a German elector was called to the head of the leading empire of the world. We must hope that their right reverend lordships have done all this, and have not been content with reading the Roman rescript, and dis missing the subject. We, however fairly acknowledge that we have not yet heard a syllable on the subject; but this silence by no means diminishes our anxiety to know whether the three archbishops and thirty-seven bishops of the United kingdom of England and - Ireland have done anything, or intend to do anything at all." ATROCIOUS OUTRAGE ON " PRINCE ALBERT. "— At the Thames Police-office, on Thursday, John Costello was charged with destroying a wax image, value 10s., the property of Henrique Meyer. The prosecutor stated that he keeps an exhibition of wax figures in St. George's-street, Ratcliffe-highway, amongst which were two beautifully executed images" of the Queen and Prince Albert. On the previous evening, amongst the visitors was the prisoner, who appeared to be very dissatisfied with his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and, after pulling his Royal Highness's nose, with sun dry other freaks before he could be prevented, he broke his Royal Highness all to pieces. The prisoner, 'in de fence, said he considered himself the aggrieved party. That feller, said he, pointing to the prosecutor, kept calling out, " Walk up, ladies and gentlemen, here's the Queen and Prince Albert all alive." (Laughter.) Well, hT y i o hm u i n r khso wI worship ay liut u ha p er e I ai g t o t reesi,guhantnsyd were.shtieffp oolindoriscohuoadupt, laughter.)— le r Price. Well, if he was alive he didn't make na answer what somever, which I thought very ongenteel—(renewed Ist or oeh th odea l ds k lhr sa : st houyhof t ope o uua naahu,t thought nh o i imdt s te expectedtat yl s_beb H eebi t ts e aus it. bt s s t lewd a oem r ea sw e u stared with iila m word his ak e laughter)—especially after I had forked out the tin, e o expecting to have g a lad w t o o r d se o e r yo t u w — o twipituhstyhoeurQfiusete.n.l might o gh l t jgursetatasbig welley e h s, av an e l and they looked a kind of glossy like, as if and I gives him a tolerable rap in the w s pofy h a a o e oc y usue s i tsdi was l aowyn b hhee d an m n r s drunk — ( roars n g n ffe h s k eamr t ak - -yona, something, You don't r t Yi l e aa Q rnd u li e em e y n ; and Prince Albert alive?--Prisoner (with an air of comic gravity): I did then, and when I fust spoke to Prince Halbert, I puts my hand on him as tender as if he was an infant (loud laughter). Mr. Yardley : Well, you treated his Royal Highness very unceremoniously; you must pay 10s. damage. The prisoner was ultimately fined ss. for being drunk. Nor. Id; 1447. THE SHARPERS AT BOW4STREET.—At Bow-.street Po lice-office on Thursday week, Barr, Ralfe, and Brewer, ' three of the sharpers who fleeced Mr. Kerie, the West Indian, of £1,450, were brought up for re-examination. Willi ban Dobson Lewis, " gambler by profession," de tailed how Mr. Kerrie bad been robbed. When Barr had lured him from Cremorne-gardens to a cigar shop in Lit tle Russell-street, and the other rogues had introduced themselves ; the prosecutor was induced to play at cards, Barr to be his partner. The cards had been so arranged that Mr. Eerie - was made to feel confidant he should win the game; some of the men offered to bet against him; he hesitated, becmise he thought it was not proper to take them at a disadvantage ; but at last he wagered six to one, Barr also betting with him ; the sharpers won the game, and thirty pounds from their victim. Barr was Quite disconsolate, for, through Mr. *Eerie's over confi dence, he had betted on the cards. The gentleman con soled him, had further meetings, at which he always lost, the unfortunate Barr participating in his ill-luck. Barr thus completely gained the other's confidence and soon knew all about his affairs. The pillaging of the "flat " went on swimmingly till th e ru l e o f " honour amongst thieves " was infringed, and then Lewis informed against his associates. The prisoners were remanded again for a week. NOVEL DIVERSION.—The Puke of Devonshire and a distinguished party were recently on a short visit to Teln plenewsam, the seat of Meynell Ingram, Esq. Among the entertainments of the occasion. was what we shall take upon ourselves to term " egg and ladle race." It is thus —A number of wooden ladles are procured for behoof of the ingenious and distinguished nobleman. These have each an egg deposited in the bowl. Every fair competitor then takes a ladle, and being ranged side by side, with arm and ladle outstretched, waiting for the signal. The distance is measured, say 100 yards, and the condition is that the winner must arrive first at the goal without drop ping.her egg. On the interesting occasion referred to, a very spirited contest took place. The exact number of fair runners the report does not name ; but when the sig nal was given, off started the high-bred and lovely dames, pu3hing each her ladle and egg as far before her neigh bour as possible. Miss I—m took the lead and kept it nobly till within a few yards of the winning post, when she dropped her egg, and suffered Miss W—t to win the prize. The remainder were not placed by the judge, although it is said some placed themselves, and were at waslea behin d. fstothrmeiarlllyenpgrtehsented, in the e t e t h h a e peofa conclusion, very the diamond ring, which the happy vict or suspended from her neck by a massive gold chain. Th e ladle was, of course, suspended in—the kitchen.—Leeds m ercur y. REVERSE OF FORTUNE.—O n T uesday, a m idd le -aged man, of highly-respectable appearance, name d J o hn Ber wick Whitby, and w h o was f ormer l y one of the l arges t woollen manufacturers in B ra df or d, Y or k s hi re , was charged at the Thames police-office, with stealing alb. of wool, the property of the St. Katherine Do c k Company. It appeared that the prisone r h a d b een reduced from a state of comparative opulence to one o f th e grea t e st an d mos t ne cessitous indigence. He had become bankrupt, his mills and other buildings were sold off, and he came to London with the wreck of his fortune, to commence afresh ; but ill-fortune still pursued him, and he lost about £1,600 by a recent woollen transaction, which completely ruined him. Under these circumstances, being well known in the woollen trade, he picked up a scanty livelihood by oc casionally purchasing wool for different individuals, and in this capacity was constantly in and out of the wool warehouse of the St.. Katherine Docks. Mr. Broadway. the deputy storekeeper of the warehouse, observed the prisoner put.some small quantities of wool in his pocket. The prisoner having been taken and searched, 201 b. of wool was taken from him. John Mumford, the superin tendent of the St. Katherine's Dock police, said he had reason to believe it was extreme destitution that had led the prisoner to act as he had done. A number of highly respectable gentlemen attended, and spoke of the pri soner's previous character in the highest terms. They considered him the victim of misfortune. Mr. Yardley underth e rotheemb sanction of f u r fe rg committed the p r i soner to take his trial for the felony. BORNEO CHUR CH . M ISSIONARY INSTITUTION. — Oa of Tuesdaythis society, c g i e e t n y e , r general stmant:hengd of Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London, for the purpose of founding a clerical institution, church, and mission school-house in Borneo,.was held at their cham bers, Waterloo-place. Letters were read from the Arch bishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London, cot firm ing the appointment of the Rev. S. F. Montgomery, M.A., and other clergymen as missionaries to Borneo. It was. stated that a meeting of the committee had been held a few days previously, at which Mr Brooke had attended. Mr. Brooke, it appeared, hed described at considerable length the present state of Sarawak, the preparations he had made for leaving Borneo for the reception of the missionaries, and his views as to their future career. From this account it appeared that the fixed Malay population of the town of Sarawak amounted to nearly 10,000, be sides the Dyaks, who inhabit the neighbourhood, and a considerable number of Chinese. Everything seemed most favourable ; but Mr. Brooke insisted much upon the necessity of quiet and cautious conduct on the part of missionaries, so as to conciliate the sympathies of the natives without offending their prejudicies. With due precaution he considered the extension of Christianity amongst the Dyaks would eventually be rapid, and that a foundation might be laid at Sarawak for the future con version of the natives throughout the whole Indian Archipelago. The Earl of Ellesmere was elected presi dent of the committee. MELANCHOLY CASUALTY AT SEA.-We have to re cord a very painful calamity, involving the loss of a vessel and the greater portion of her crew, which happened in the Bristol Channel a few nights since. We are informed that the crew of the Fanny of Chepstow, Wheeler master, bound from Milford to Gloucester, while off Crow Point, near the former place, on Tuesday, observed a p" . " quantity of cork floating a b ou t over a l arge extent or da _ a ; tance, and on steering in th e di rec ti on o f i t, fellow was build'e discovered on which a man was lashed. The p9or ere was immediately picked up, and gruel a nd spirits w 0 , I romptly administered to recover him. The humanity Captain Wheeler having been successful, the poor fawn related a most pitiable story. He was, he stated, Ovate of the brigantine Dedden, of London, bound from Faro to, Liverpool, laden with a cargo of cor k ; an d the vessel during the heavy gale which prevailed at the end of last week had become full of water. The crew were at the pumps for several days, during which the vessel forged towards the land, till on Monday night last, when the hull, no longer able to withstand the shocks of the cargo which had got loose in the hold, began to break up. The crew,, in this extremity, lashed themselves to bundlts of cork, and then committed themselves to the winds and, waves. The captain had his wife on b oar d w ith hi m , and probably preferring to meet death from w hi c h sh e had no escape, with her, remained on board the sinking ship, which eventually foundered in the middle of the night, about ten miles west of St. Ann's Light. The mate added that for several hours the crew, who were five in number, floated so close together as to be able to converse andtheer each other up against the worst. A sharp look-out waS, therefore, kept from the deck of the Fanny, and in about half an hour after the mate had been rescued Capt. Wheeler had the gratification of descrying another man floating half a mile to the eastward, and bearing down, succeeded in saving him. This poor fellow was also very much ex hausted, and singularly enough was bleeding from two wounds in the feet, resembling the bite of the su c ki n g fish; but he is unconscious of the manner in which they were caused, as he says benumbed with cold, and worn out by toil, anxiety, and exposure, he fell into that stu pour which precedes death. Captain Wheeler, with com mendable humanity, remained on the ground all day, tacking about amongst the floating cork, in the hope of saving the remainder of the crew.; but he saw nothing of them. From inquiries which have been since made, how ever, it is almost certain that the poor fellows have per ished. Their two shipmates who have been thus wonder fully snatched from sharing their watery grave, were al' most naked. One of the men belongs to Portsmouth, the other to Liverpool, and the captain and his wife to North Yarmouth.—Gloucester Chronicle. DARING ATTACK ON DR. BOWRING, M.P., AND HIS BROTHER.—The two highwaymen who attacked Dr. Bowring and his brother, on Thursday week, in Glamor ganshire, and plundered them of £lOOO in gold, notes, and silver, have been apprehended. They are both Irish, and their names are Richard Mahoney and John Lloyd, desperate-looking fellows, who had been employed at the ,Llinvi iron-works, of which Mr. C. Bowring is the resi dent director. Immediately on the daring attack being made known in the neighbourhood, all grades turned out to scour the mountains for the ruffians. Of the large amount stolen nearly all has been recovered; £662 15s I0c1• was found on the prisoners, and notes to the extent of £l7O were subsequently discovered in the Cwne Nulty wyn Wood. Mr. C. Bowring was in the habit of dravP ing money of the bank every Thursday for the workmen's wages, and it appears that the prisoners made the most deliberate preparations for the robbery, as they had pur chased the pistols on the previous Monday, at the shop_of Mr. Moses, in Swansea. They were brought before Vie' count Adair, and a full bench of magistrates, for examina tion, at Bridgend, on the 2nd instant. The Messrs' Bowring were the principal witnesses, and fully identified them. Mr. C. Bowring said he had procured the money at Bridgend Bank for wages. He placed it in a bag in the boot of the gig, in which also rode his brother Dr. 13. When they got about half way to Bowrington, they sam' the two men approaching them. " When (continued the witness) they came close to us they separated, one on each side of the gig, and when they got about a yard or two, from our persons, they each presented a h o l s t er p i s t o l al us. The prisoners are the two men lam certain . Lloyd said, " your money or your lif e ." Mahony repeated the words. Lloyd then held the pistol to my breast; i 6 was cocked, and his finger was on the trigger. He after' wards said, " Mr. B owr i ng, I want your money, not yos life." I replied, " I can't resist, I'll give you the mono'''. and I stooped down to reach the bag. Both pistols- were presented the whole time. I opened the boot, a nd the strap of the bag hung out, and Lloyd pulled the bag oat' I ought to m en ti on th a t w h en I s t oo p e d Ll o yd sale' " Give me the two, bags." T used to carry the money il l two bags, but on the present occasion, I had it in one' : After Lloyd got the bag he went on for a couple of yards' and then turned round and shot the horse in the gig l i r the head. It dropped dead. The prisoners then made 0 through a field on the west side towards Margam, carry ing the bag together. I immediately went to a fal7 i house near at hand and made known the robbery, a. O " borrowed a horse and galloped to Bridgend and gave in - formation. A number of our workmen and neighboar.! went across the mountains during the evening in purl ol: of the prisoners." They were both apprehended late th° same night, and were identified.—Dr. Bowring, 10j corroborated this testimony, adding that the coolness 4 v.; the robbers was wonderful. Before they got the bag. Pi pulled out his own purse to give to them, but they ton e no notice of it. He expressed his sincere thanks to t.'l inhabitants of all grades for the assist a nce they rendered in pursuing and apprehending the prisoners. The art of each was proved, and the evidence being complete r M s magistrates committed both_the prisoners for trail pt v" ensuing assizes., V Ofs. A 13 Tj 0 7, - 44 ol e ), ve ry , at is NV Rae Watt The.arg, t hift 160, Al ft j 4 2rle New SA )11S_ (leip