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i)_tteraturt. POETRY. THE PATHS OF LIFE. (Written for the Liverpool Standard.) There winds a smooth and flowery road, Through 1, e'.• extensive vale; And footsteps numberless have trod That passage thromrh the dale; Pleasant the path and passing fail, The vassal and the kin,: are there Where countess thousands stray; Fanned by the breeze that pleasure brings, And lulled by gentle murmurings, They track that awful way ! I hear a voice in warning tone Spe,k in each sinner's ear Oh ! leave this path ere yet have flown Life's precious moments here. You gaze upon those towers afar, That glisten like the morning star, Flashing in rosy light; This road will never leave you there, Know, that it lingers but to where It sinks in endless night. And deep those piercing accents sound, Ali ! heeded but by few, Culled are the flowers t at bloom around, Sipped is the crystal dew ; But now that awful brink appears, The preeipice in silence rears Its crest above the gloom. Mi lions of souls repentant now Are hurried o'er i s rugged brow, Dashed to their dreadful doom. Oh ! man, there is another way By righteous footsteps trod, Where eoly men, in ancient day, Have hastened to their God; There it the sorrowing drop descends, A beam of sympathy attends, To wipe away the tear; And hovering n that narrow way, There shines a light, a heavenly ray, '1 hose wanderers to cheer. And here are seen no empty joys, Uneniered is the bower, Untasted i 3 t.e cup , a hich cloys, The folly of an hour. Faith, hope, and luveillume the track, Truth casts the bight reflection back, Upon the wavering mind, Here meek-eyed pity finds a home, And bids ,he weeping m urner come, And leave his woes behind. And now this better way is passed, Life's journey soon is o'er, Eternal splendour bursts at last, From Heaven's transcendant shore. Angels of light are ushering now, With joyful wing arid beaming brow, The saved before the throue. Then dawns the d,iy of endless bliss, To view each work of loveliness, In bhundle s worlds unknown. Woodside, July, 1844. W. J. L. AERIAL PHENOMENON, Subsequently ascertained to be the Comet (of 1843). We have been favoured with some cleverly-written and interesting " Obsess atioss" on the comet of last year, as seen " off the Island of Timor, at the south-eastern en trance to the Indian Archipelago, on board the ship Ty rer, Captain R mmer, on her passage from Bombay to China, by John A. Murray, passenger," together with an illus trative drawing of the appearance of the comet on the 10th of Ma: eh ; and we should gladly have inserted the whole, did our available space allow. We, however, give a few extracts which may be acceptable to the astrono mical portion of our readers, and also subjoin some very neat verses by the same author, appended to the account. " On the 2d March (1813). at sunset, about half-past six o'clock, our ship being 150 miles to the westward of Sandalwood Island, steeriug E. by S. in lat. 10.5 S., long. 116.45 E., we observed, a little above the western horizon, a long luminous streak resembling a silver thread, with a slight inclination towards the south at the upper end. Moon three days old. Weather clear, calm, and sultry." On the sth and 6 - ,h the same streak was seen, at the same time, and had increased in lustre. On the latter day the idea suggested itself to those on board that it was a cornet. Two sl'g'it shocks or tremors passed through the ship, the first at s •vets o'clock p.m., the se cond at midnight. The writer, under date of the 7th, says :—" This evening the appearance of the ' illustrious stranger' in the clear open sky was truly magnificent. Unmarred in its stately proportions by any intervening cloud, it app ared to have attained the maximum of its size and brilliancy. Tne streak was of a grayish white ness, with a slight slit or division at its upper end. The star or body of the comet was distinctly visible, and of a clear vivid lustre. It was just visible at half-past 6 p.m., reached its greatest brilliancy at about 7 o'clock, and gra dually decreased until it set at past 8. At 5 o'clock p.m. another tremor passed through the ship." The various extraordinary appearances are detailed from this time until the object disappeared on the 2d of April, when the weather changed " from calm and sultry to cold and squally." O❑ the 27th of the previous month, the ship spoke a Portuguese vessel, belonging to Fort Con cordia, Copang Bay, Timor ; and her captain confirmed the identity of the comet. He had first seen it at Timor, precisely at the same time; stated that its former visit occurred at the beginning of the 16th century ; and attri buted the calms and intense heat of the month before to its influence. ADDRESS TO 1,4 k, COMET OF 1843. Written on board the ship Tyrer, off Timor Island, Mar, I 0,1843. We heard not of thy coming from the prophet, sage, or seer; No voice to herald thine approach fell on our careless ear : For we wo e oce tii-wanderers by the isles of rich perfume, Where aloe, myrrh. a:.cl cassia groves in •pity verdure bloom. The 01 :ur-laden zephyrs. as they skimmed along the deep, Were lulling with their lullaby the infant waves asleep; The golden Slll/ declining s ,ught the chambers of his rest, His glory cransoning the clouds and w ters of the west; The queenly moon uprising left her couch Within the sea, And the multitude of stars began to gem the canopy ; When, sudde❑ from mysterious realms, exceeding far the ken The wisdom of the Highest gave into the sons of men, Thou didst thy mighty term ur fold, outstretching vast and high, A beauty and a terror in the clear and cl udless sky. Awhile we did behold thee with undeparting gaze, And our spirits in their inmost depths were silent with amaze ; We hailed thee not, strinee visitant, with shouting or with song, But, omen-like, thy tearful name was whispered along ; The mariners their legends wild wi h solemn caden , e t Id, Of deeds of havoc done by th e in the ages past of old How the living strains of water were parched up by thee, How the billows far recoiling fled from thine intensity; How the land of corn and oil and wine a desert hard became, Consumed beneath the searching breath of thy remorseless flame; What tempests in the heavens above, with pestilence on earth, And shaking of the nations, all attended at thy birth. But tel us whe. eforc now thou dust approach Our borders near? To gild our In: lerrene with tripe, or darken it with tear? Both mercy travel with thee on thine ever glorious path ? Or dust thou hover over us a messes er of wrath ? Ar thou that oriental star that lit the Magi's road, To where the yonng child Jesus and h s mother made abo•'e? Mast thou, before us. heard on high the final trump, t sound ? The armies of the heavenly King, al marshalling aroun I. The judgment of our world and of her fallen sons to see, We oft have 1 card her burning shall thy chea.ltul province be. But 'tis an ins:ant only that we view with pale affright Thine ever-dazing Vita revo:ve on axle purely bright; For well 'tis known to sof earth that though to thee lie given An orbit stretching far heyond the visual verge of heaven, Yet still thou art ftr evermore beneath the stri t c ntroul Of Him who dolh create, elance, and sustenance the whole. Omniscience aryl Cmtlipotenci , thy furthest flight can tra e, Aril bid thee, wild erratic one'. know thy appointed place. J. A. M. SELECTIONS. CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE.—I have beard some very extraordinary cases of murder tried. I remember. in one where I was counsel, for a long time the evidence did not appear to touch the prisoner at all, and be looked about with the most perfect unconcern, seemine to think himself quite safe. At last the surgeon was called, who stated deceased had been kilted by a shot, a gun-shot, in the head, and he produced the matted hair and stuff cut from and taken out of Vie wound. It was all hardened with blood. A basin o' warm water was brought into court, and, as the blood was gradually softened, a piece of printed paper appeared—the wadding of the gun, which proved to be half of a ballad. The other half ind been found in ►he man's pocket when he was taken. He was hang,ll.—Lord E don's Note Book. ANTIQUITIES OF DAMASCUS. — Damascus possesses fewer authentic antiquities than might be expected in one of the earliest cities nientioned in the Bible : the most an cient remains are some of the lower portions of the walls, built with square stones, and in 'ome instances of blocks, of which the in ight exceeds the breadth. Some of the blocks measure from six to eight or ten feet, by fun., six, or eight. They are united without cement; and many have Arabic and Saracenic inscriptions on them. This style of building is one belonging to a very ancient period. The castle, like every place of strength in this country, bas been destroyed, r e b u ilt, an d a lt er ed at various pe riods. The oldest part, near the foundation is formed of stones of a very great size; and th e b roa d ditch which surrounds it is built in the rustic masonry of the Romans. Its extent is considerable. Erected before the invention of gunpowder, it could offer but little resistance to artil lery ; but, being consti ucted with large diamond-cut stones, and including eleven bastions within its circuit, some of them mounted with cannon, and all supplied with a guard, it is still capable of overawing the factious inha bitants of the town.—Library of Travel. Lour) ELDON AS A BOY.—Lord Eldon, late in life, told his niece, Mrs. Foster, that " no boy was ever so much thrashed as he was," and to Lady Eldon's nephew he once said :—" Mr. Surtees, when your father and I were boys, and that is now a long time ago, I remember our stealing down the Side, and along the Sand-Hill, and creeping into"e " sho p , where we blew out the candles. We crept along the counter, then popped our heads up, out went the candles. and away ay went we. We escaped detec tion " anoth er m occasion e Lord Eldon said to Mrs. Forster :—" I re m myather coming to my bedside 1 me of f having to accuse Harry and robbed v an orchard ; some one had come to complain. full Now, my coat was lying by my bed with its po cketsbed-clouth ofapples, and I had bid some more under the when mo I heard . my father on the stars, and I was at that s' from those I had eaten ;myeenttlsLertinhg intolerable torture au d ac ity to deny the . fact. We were twice flogged for it. e I remember do not know how it was, but we always considered rob bing an orchard as en honourable exploit. once being carried before a magistrate for robbing an the fox, ' a s we called t. There were orchard —`boxing I three of us, flowet Johnson, another boy, and myself. The magistrate acted upon what I think was rather curious law ; for he fined our fathers each 305.. for our offence. We did not care for that, but they did . ; so my father flogged me, then sent a message to Moises, and Moises flu'eged me amine We were very good bcrs, very good indeed ; we never did anything worse than a robbery. —Life of Lord Eldon. MORAL COURAGE Os' THE: EMPEROR ON RussiA. — The moral and physical courage of the emperor has be<ll frequently displayed. At the period of the cho!era, whei, the ignorant and infatuated people were mason ring tie medical men because they could not stop the ravages o! that fearful disease, the emperor in person appeared amongst there, showed his nodding ratlines, end eon,- mended them to kneel with him on the earth and ask the pardon of heaven for such enormities. lie was obeyed : he offered up an extemporaneous and eloquent raver, and the carnage ceased. His moral courage on all t7yiag occasions has not been less marvellous, and although tried by great events and fearful complicat ons he has ever held high his head, preserved a cairn and dignified mind, and kept in abeyance all passions opposed to the triumph of reason. Nicholas writes decidedly the best hand of all the Russian emperors. It is call'graphically irreproach able, and as he begins with an arc •itig stroke of the pen his name st olds as beneath a roof. The emperor passes the greater part of his days in the oven ail, at reviews or in rapid journeys. Hence his late vis.t to Eneland was by no means rapid in his eyes, nor wearis:one to hi. frame. During summer the shade of his military hat thaws across his forehead an oblique line, which marks the action of the sun upon the skin. The figure of the empress, when less oppressed by suffering, was very elegant. There was an indefinable grace about her whole person. Her mein, far from being haughty, was expressive of habitual resigna tion. One of her daughters, the Grand Duchess of Olga, is the most beautiful woman in the whole emoire—verhaps in the world. The imperial fancily is one of the happiest upon earth, for their views, tastes , occupations , de s i r eS , are all similar, and none are not in harmony with virtue and religion.— Fraser. DAMASCENE BARBERS.—Among the shopkeepers we must not forget the barbers, those dear old friends with whom the Arabian Nights hare put us on so cordial a footing of intimacy. With that ease and suavity for which their fraternity is renowned all the world over, they invite the passers by to enter and submit their heads and faces to their beautifying fingers. Their shops are always full of customers. They are long nate ow rooms, with benches on cavil s'de, on which a dozen Turks may some times be seen squatting in a line, with th• it bare head., already shaved, poked out in the most patient manner. I to be kneaded between the hands of the barber , who rolls them about as if they were balls, quite unconnected with the shoulders they belong to. The bathers of Damascus are celebrated for taste and skill it, all the myst , ries of the toilette, including the art of imparting to the beard and mustachios that dark glossy hue so anxiously and universally coveted. The important affair of arranging the turban is their daily business, and the becoming variety displayed in the disposition of the tcrbans worn by the gallants of the city, does infinite honour to these ( meritorious artists. It is pleasant to know that such men continue to enjoy a due share of consideration in the • East, and that their talents often raise them to affluence. When Mr. Carne's party wished to hire a seperate resi dence in Damascus, they were recommended to a barber who had become a sort of capitalist, and was possessed of some houses. The old gentleman, extremely well dre-sed, with a goodly length of beard, was always found seated at his ease, smoking or chatting with some of his friends. He wished the Englishman to take a luxurious apartment of his, situated on a terraced roof : it was profusely gilded ; the cushions of the deewan were as white as snow ; and it commanded a superb view of the mountains. But the barber's wife was by far the more zealous part of hi-nself, and protested with loud clamour, that infidels should never sully ti e purity and beauty of her deefflan, and after a warm dispute the good man was forced reluc tantly to give way.—The Library of Tavel. AN ENTHUSIASTIC NATURALIST. — One of my first movements in Nashville was a walk to the College to see Professor Troot, who is a great enthusiast in geology. It is to be mentioned, to the honour of the State of Tennes see, that it has been one of the first American States to patronise science, by allowing him 500 dollars a•year as geologist to the state, in addition to his at pOintment at the College as Professor of Chemistry and Natural His tory, to which a salary of 1,000 do:tars a-year is attached; so that the worthy professor is thus enabled to enjoy all the comforts of life and to make himself perfectly happy as the distributor of these sums; for, like all philosophic enthusiasts, he places no value on money, and willingly gives any of the country people 20 dollars to bring him a live rattle-snake, or anything new or curious in natural history. Everything of the serpent kind he has a peculiar fancy for, and has always a number of them that he has tamed in his pockets or under his waistcoat. To 101 l back in his rocking-chair, to talk about geology, and pat the head of a large snake, when twining itself about his neck, is to him supreme felicity. Every year in the vacation he makes an excursion to the hills •, and I was told that upon one of these occasions, being taken up by the stage-coach. which had several members of Congress in it going to Washington, the learned doctor took his seat on the top, with a large basket, the lid of which was not over and above well secured. Near to this basket sat a baptist preacher, on his way to a great public immersion. His reverence, awakening from a reverie he had fallen into, beheld, to his unutterable horror, two rattle-snakes raise their fearful heads, and immediately precipitated himself upon the driver, who, almost knocked off his seat, no sooner became apprized of the character of his ophidian outside passengers, than he jumped upon the ground with the reins in his hands, and was followed instanter by the preacher. The insides, as soon as they learned what was I going on, immediately became outsides, and nobody was left but he doctor and his rattle-snakes on the top. But the doctor, not entering into the general alarm, quietly placed his great coat over the basket and tied it down with his handkerchief, which when he had done, he said, " Gentlemen, only don't let dese poor dings pite you, and dey won't hoort you."—Feat herstoahaug h's Excursions through the Slave Slates. SINGULAR NAVAL OPERATION.—The line of piles which had been driven in across the river was not less than 20 feet wide, or rather it was a double line, tilled up be tween the two with large sunken junks laden with stones. Great labour and perseverance were required to get up sufficient of these piles to clear a passage broad enough air the steamer to pass. This was only accomplished after tour hours' hard work, in which, oddly enough, the Chi- nese peasantry bore an active part, voluntarily coring forward to assist, and even venturing to come on hoard the steamer itself. This was undoubtedly one of the good results of not having inflicted any injury upon the country people or inhabitants of the villages through which the little expedition had passed. Inquiry has often been made wt at method was adopted in order to open a passage through obstacles such as I have described. It may, therefore be here remarked, that several moles were at different times resorted to, according to circumstances. Where the stakes were not driven in very firmly, it was easy, by f 'stetting a hawser round the top of then), and making it fast to the steamer, to back her out, and pull them one by one away; but, as this was a tedious process, a hawser wos sometimes fastened r mild ten or a dozen of them in a Inv across the river, and carried from one to the other. but fastened to each of them in such a way as to leave about a few fathoms of slack rope between each pair. The end of the hawser was made fast to the steamer with a tolerable length of line out, and she was then packed at full speed. The momentum thus acquired was s , on sufficient to drag the first pile away with a jerk ; and 111;s one being already fastened to the next, as before de scrib-d, with a fathom or two of slack line between them, the force of the steamer, which still continued to back r astern,was r.,ceedig sufficient oteoejerk backwards thatone h,, awayt steamer also an d pulledtt i us them all away one after another, still remaining fastened together by the hawser; but the power of the jerk was only applied to one at a time. In cases where the wakes were driven in to some depth, or where the bed of the river was tenacious, it was necessary to pull them fairly I nut perpenclicolatly, by lull tackle led up to the mast head. The piles were gradually loosened a little, by being pulled to and fro; for which purpose chain slings were passed round the head of the pile, and a hawser bcing then matte fast, were laid aft along the deck ; thus, by being pulled in various directions, sometimes one way and some titnts another; the pile was at length drawn fa!rly out, something like drawing a tooth. T.' e bows of the steamer were run nea; ly (lase up to the piles during this operation, and she was steadied by a hawser run out from the quarter t a the b inks of the river.— Voyageof the Nemesis. WASHING DAY AT TH6 PALACE. — We are indrb'ed to a lady for the following original anecdote of King William IV. :—A great deal has lately been said of the retentive n emory of the Emperor of Russia, but his late majesty William the Fourth was not far behind him in this re spect. When he was a young man, serving on board H.M.S. Pegasus, he was for some tme on the North American station ; and at one time while lying in the har bour of St. John's, Newfoundland, he gave a ball on board, to the stile of the town, which gave general satis faction to those who were fortunate enough to receive in vitations. One gentleman, wbo had been particularly de lighted at the novelty of the scene, on leaving the ship thanked the prince for the honour paid to hint and his fa mily, and said he would be happy to see him at his house,- at any time that he found himself disengaged on shore. Accordingly, Prince William Henry, as he was then c a lled, determined to avail himself of the invitation, and a few days afterwards presented himself at the door of his worthy friend, by whom he was most graciously received, and hospitably entertained. The lady of the house not making her appearance, the prince most politely inquired for her health, and hoped he was to have the pleasure of seeing her. Mr. H-- replied she was quite well ; but he must ask his royal highness to excuse her, as it was washing day at Apple-tree Lane. The prince, hearing that a business which appeared to be of such importance was going on, rose to take leave, and, while doing so, told Mr. ll if he should at any time visit Loudon, he hoped he would find him out and call on him, telling him he had only to send in hire card, and he would be most happy to see him. It was not for many years after that Mr. 11— visited England; but when he did, he re membered the invitation of the prince(at this time William the Fourth) ; so one fine morning he hired a cab, and drove off to the palace, but was very much disappointed to find that " cabs" were not admitted within the palace gates—he was obliged to get out and go in on foot ; b u t what was his indignation when he found he could gain no admittance to his majesty ! He remained expostulating for some time with the servants, telling them that he was specially invited by the king to call upon iiim, and that he was a personal friend of his majesty. The servants at length consented to take in his card, which, on its being presented to his majesty, be immediately remembered the name and address. and desired the attendants to show him in, and received him with that frank and easy manner for which he was at all times distinguished, which the simple hearted man taking advantage of, he ventured to express a hope that her majesty was well, and that he should have the honour of paying his respects to her. His majesty, in stantly recollecting the circumstances attending his call at Apple-tree Lane, replied with much acuteness, that he was happy to inform Mr. H— that her majesty was quite well, but he must ask Mr. H---- to excuse her making her appearance that morn' " a l as washing d w a a y s t a ak t e t n by hep t a l l t a e c u e ns ' ophistica n t e e It is mg,S " needless r o a n s o to f Terraa d Nova, t o t v h a e (tint very soon backed himself out f rom t h e presence of' who veryroy alty.—Greenock Advertiser. SECOND EDITION. Standard-office, Ten o'clock. HOUSE LORDS.--Last Night. BIRKENIIEAD DOCK BILL. LORD STRADBROKE moved the third reading of the Bi'kenhead D ,ck Bill, when the Marquis of SALISBURY moved that the suopressed clause, agreed upon with the Shipowners' Association, be inserted. He commented warmly upon the conduct of the party who signed the agreement, as detailed in our first edition, on behalf of the promoters of the bill. Lord BROUGHAM and MONTEAGLE defended the party. Lord Wtex Low . snpuoited the Marquis of Salisbury. Ultimately the amendment \v.-is wi hdrawn and the bill passed, there being a manifest disposition in the House to support the Committee in their report. REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—At the meeting yesterday the chair was filed by the newly elected repeal member for Limerick, Mr. James Kelly. The rent was expected not to be much under £2,000. BIRTH OF A FRENCH PRINCE.—OR Friday the Duche,s de Nemours Ras safely delivered of a son, to whom the King of the French has given the name of Duke d'Alencon. THE BIBLE IN CHINESE —China has been opened by recent events, not only to commercial speculations but to missionary enterprise, and tbere appears to be quite as much ardour in the religious world to send the mes sage of ditine truth among its millions, as there is in the manufacturing and commercial world to supply them with c,lcoes and woollens. In our native land, the London and Church Missionary Societies have made new and successful effor.s to raise funds for this specific object. and it is rumoured that the weekly collections made in London by order of the bishop are intended for :the planting of English episc ,pacy in that soil. America has long taken a very prominent share in missionary labours on the outskirts of that hitherto sealed country. The Baptist and Congregational denominations have for some time past had missions in China, and we learn that the facilities now afforded fur the residence of missionaries on the eastern coast, have served to kindle the zeal of the Presbyterian churches, an 1 that they are about to establish an extensive mission in that country.—Captain Pidding's Chinese Olio. IGHTLV SERVED.—Reay and I (Lord Eldon) went up from Oxford to London together, we dined at March's Maidenhead-bridge, and upon the window Reay observed that a person of Chipping Norton, %hose name I now for get, had written that he dined there on a leg of mutton, upon a day and year mentioned in what was written. When we got to the Somerset coffee-house Reay sent him a letter, stating, that as he had thought it impottatit to inform the public that he had dined at Maidenhead-bridge, and upon a leg of mutton, he must expect that some of the public would inquire how the mutton had agreed with him ; and he therefore took the liberty of sending such an inquiry, from Ws friend Tom Comical. Next day he sent him a double: letter, hoping that, as probably he had po tatoes with his mutton, they had not disagreed with him. Two days afterwards he sent a treble letter, representing, that as his friend Tom Comical had received no answer to his inquiry how the mutton and potatoes had agreed with him, he had probably made a mistake, and should have inquired how the mutton and French beans, or some other vegetab'es, had agreed with him, and assured him that he should repeat his kind and anxious inquiries every day till his answer acme. We were soon afterwards obliged to return to college, and, stopping at March's, we found that the pane had been taken out of the window and anew one put in its place. Whilst we were looking at the window, old March came in, and, observiog us, he said, 'Ay, ay, one of you must be the gentleman that sent the person that has been here from Chipping Norton so many letters. Poor man ! he came all the way from Chipping Norton, 20 odd miles the other side of Oxford, and insisted upon steing the pane of glass, the leg of mutton, and all the re-t, taken out of the window, and a new pane of glass put in, before he would eat a morsel.'—Life of Lord Eldon. Tl-R LIVERPOOL STANDARD. GENERAL MISCELLANY. There are seventy prisoners for trial at the York assizes. Of these five are charged with murder. Of the round number of barristers attending the Pres ton sessions, seven were fast asleep in court at the same time, the other day. A lady residing at Stamford, received last week through the Post-office, a gooseberry pie, sent to her from a friend at Cambridge.—Sianv e ord Mercury. Passengers are being conveyed by the splendid steamer on the line from Hull to Hamburg for 55., the charge for the saloons being only 10s. _ The Wesleyan conference commences its sittings at Birmingham on the 31st instant. The Rev. Dr. Bunting is expected to preside. The will of the poet, Mr. Thomas Campbell, was proved on Saturday. by the executors, Dr. Beittie and Mr. Moxon. The personal property i 4 sworn under £2OOO. The will and a codicil are dated 1842. An arri‘ al of 2,000 pine appl, s from the Bahamas is a new feature in the fruit trade, the sale of Owe broutzlit over last season having encouraged the importation by the merchattti.—London paper. A coal vein at Beaufort iron works, Abergavenny, recently ignited, and is now on fire to the extent of three miles! Many fatal accidents have already been the con- sequence. THE FISHERIES. —Large quantities of mackerel con tinue to be brought in daily. They have been sold aA low as Bs. per 100, and retailed in the street 10 A nd 12 a shilling. Last Friday morning upwards of 50,000 were landed.—Brlghton Paper. On Tuesday last, during the sale ofthe surplus proper' y of the Northern and Eastern Hallway Company, Mr. Ralph, a gentleman of fortune, entered the room, and was proceeding to a seat, when he tell down and expit ed. Toe lip ther sale was immediately postpi.ned. Mr. John Grove, a large landowner in the neighbour hood of Ayle.bury, last week sent his tenant-tatmers their half- early receipts, at the same time telling them not to trouble themselves in sending the money, but to keep it in their pockets. At a meeting of " the soap trade" of Glasgow and Paisley, last week, it was unanimously agreed to advance the price of soap to the follow►ng rates per cwr. :—White, 53.. ; pale, 485.; second, or bright, 465.; yellow, 42s. — Edinburgh Paper. It is said thit a new use has been discovered in the ar ticle guano, which /as never antieipat'-d. Hitherto it has been merely looked upon as applicable t' agricultural purposes, but now the rumour g. , es Ibbt it may be em ployed in the manufacture of a certain colour. Works for a new harbour at Aberdeen have been con tracted for by Messrs. Oldham, builders and rai'way contractors, of Cheltenham. The sum is £99,660. When completed, the new harbour will be one of the most com modious in the kingdom. A d'scovery was made at Buckingham Palace on Thurs day morning, that a man employed in the upholstery de partment of the Lord Chamberlain's office had commit ted suicide in one of the store-rooms'. The deceased was of regular and sober habits, and the cause which led to the sad catastrophe was unknown. GREAT DEPRECIATION.—The ingenious Model of Venice, recen ly exhibited at Pall-mall, and very poorly s p a a i t d r o 3 z e h t i l a , v w e . a o s e s c o u l i d , o d e W v e e r t a l I n e a s r d t r i t s y. ts by fourteena ueti on. y ea r I is s t in produc ng it. at en expense of nearly £2,000; but it was now sold to Mr. Tyler, of the Surrey Zoological Gardens, for thirty-one guineas! THE IRON TRADE.—As an instance of the increasing briskness of the above trade, we may mention that the shipping agent at Newport of a large establishment on the Hilts, in one day last week received, by post, advices of charter parties for cargoes to be shipped amlunting to 3,000 tons of railway iron. The rails are chiefly for South Carolina.— Worcester Paper. On Wednesday morning an unusual number of letters and newspapers arrived at the General Post-office by the ordinary ma is from Egypt, Greece, India, the lonian Islands, ace., vid Southampton. There were 52 boxes of letters, containing together upwards of 12,000 single packers, and five bags of newspapers, most of which were iu perfect files. DIVORCES.—The total number of divorce acts passed by the legislature in the years 1840, 1841, 1842, and 1843, amounted to 27 ; making an average of nearly seven per annum. The total amount of fees was, in 1840, £605; in 1811, £4OB ; in 1842, £768 ; and in 1843, £589 ; making altogether, £2370. The average expense of each divorce act amounted to £l7 16s. 10th The House of Lords have decided against the claims of Sir Augustus d'Este, in the Sussex peerage case. They have decided that the marriage between the late Duke of Sussex and Lady Augusta M urray, however valid in every thing essential to a marriage as such, is against the pro. visions of the Royal Marriage Act, and is therefore not considered a marriage by the English law. ASSIZE Towrls.—By a recent return it appears that there are 66 assize towns in England, 34 in Ireland, and only nine in Scotland ; total, 109. Of these towns in England, seven of them are in the Home. Circuit; eight in the Midland; seven in the Norfolk ; seven in the Northern ; nine in the Oxford; nine in the Western ; seven in the North Wales and Chester ; and seven in the South Wales Circuit. GLAMORGANSIIIRE ASSIZES commenced at Cardiff on Monday last, before Baron Rolfe. At these assizes, Ann Williams and John Rees were sentenced to transportation for life for attempting to administer poison to Thomas Vaughan and Mary his wife. It appeared that the female prisoner (an illegitimate child of Mrs. Vaughan before her marriage,) was about being married to the other prisoner, and expected, by causing the death of the Vaughans, to come into possession of their property. BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, JULY 12.—We have expe rienced rather more inquiry for sugars this week, and although the transactions do not exceed 400 hhds. West India, still there is evidently a better feeling respecting this article, with an impression prevalent that prices have reached the lowest point. In Bengals and Mauritius there has been rather more business doing at steady prices. Rum is in fair demand at the former value. Gazetted average price of Sugar, July 9. is 335. Bd. per cwt. MURDER.- On Friday a sheriff-officer, named George Murdoch, went, in the course of his duty, to leave an ar restment of wages against a man in the dve-works at Govan, when, as is said, he was roughly use d. On the following day, however, he proceeded to lift the sum which had been so arrested, when, according to our Informa tion, the work-people threw the officer down into a vat, and struck and stoned him, in consequence of which he died on Sunday morning.—Glasgow paper. EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE. — Mr. Jeffreys, a farmer residing at Great Bartford, on the 20th ult., while his. neighbours were sowing barley, cut and carted a quantity of the same grain. The barley in question was the produce of a field that had been severely injured by the hail-storm of last year, and the occupier had had it ploughed up for the purpose of sowing it with wheat, but observing a good deal of grain growing, he allowed it to stand, and the result has been that he has obtained an ex cellent crop.—Bristol Journal. CONVICTION FOR ATTEMPTING TO COMMIT SUICIDE. —At Lewes Quarter Ses-ions, on Wednesday, James Simmonds, of Maresfield, shoemaker, aged 75, was in dicted for unlawfully attempting to hang himself by the neck to a tree. He pleaded guilty. A. Mrs. Hartfield ran . to the spot and cut him down. He was black in the face, and insensible for an hour. The Earl of t hichester (oligirman) a, , ked the prisoner if he was sensible of the enormity of his offence ! The prisoner replied that he was. His lordship sentenced him to six months' impri sonment. AN "ARTFUL DODGE."—In the Exeter Court of Bankruptcy last week the bankrupt under examination, an attorney, named Drake, lately in extensive practice at Barnstaple, stated that it had been his practice to carry in his pocketbook a blank cheque-book of each of the local banks ; and the reason he assigned for this practice was, that sometimes people would say, " Dear me, it I had my cheque-book I'd pay you." "Oh ! you would, would you ?" "Yes, certainly;" whereupon he was down upon them with a blank cheque, and the transaction was closed. RIVER WEAVER.—The yearly survey of the River Weaver took place on the 26th and 27th tilt., and the an nual meeting was held on Thursday 1 ist, at Northwich. Egerton Leigh, Esq. of Jodrell Hall, retired from the Trust, and his son, Egerton Leigh, jun. Esq. of High Leigh, was elected in his stead. This %ear's tonnage pi o duced £38,308 ; miscellanies, £425. The expenditure : general repairs, £7204 18s. 74d. ; incidents, £3629 15s. 2d.; Weston new entrance, £4529 Os. Old. ; Winnington new lock, £3444 14s. Bd. ; new churches, £2302 13s. 3d. — Total, £21,114 Is. 9d. CURIOUS LOCALITY FOR A NEST.—A small steamer, the Clarence, lies at At,nan Waterfoot, and plies between it and Port Carlisle, in the way of tugging vessels. A pair of swallows built their nest last year under the sponsons of one of the paddle-wheels, not more than three fret above the water, and succeeded in bringing forth their young. There they are this summer again. During neap tides the Clarence plies every other day, and often every day. When she leaves the Waterfoot, the birds leave her, ana keep on the Scotch side; and then when she returns, and is nearing Annan, the swallows invariably meet her, and accompany her to her berth. GRAND CHRISTENING AT BLENHEIM PALACE.—The infant Earl of Sunderland, the first horn of the Marquis and Marchioness of Blandford, was baptised at the palace chapel, Blenteim, last week. The Marchioness of Lon donderry presented the child at the font, who was named George Charles, the names of his paternal and maternal grandfatheus. Besides the sponsors, there were also pre sent the Duchess of Marlborough and Lady Louisa Spen cer Churchill, Lady Caroline Stewart, Lord A. Churchill, and Lord Seaham. The font, richly embossed silver gilt, was presented by the Marquis of Londonderry to the in fant earl, his first grandson. DISGRACEFUL ASSAULTS ON FEMALES.—On Thurs day, a man named William White was brought before Mr. Maude, at the Borough Court, Manchester, charged with an indecent assault on a lady named Cartwright, in Great Ancoats-street. It appeared that the prisoner had twice knocked her down without the least provocaton, and that he and another man (not in custody) had atarked a number of other females, lifting their clothes, throwing them down, and assaulting those who came to their as sistance. The prisoner was fined £7 10s. for the two as saults proved, and, in default, to be committed to hard labour for two months. FATAL ACCIDENTIN A STONE-YARDINMANCHESTER. —On Tuesday last, while an - tan named r was engaged in Mr. Routledge's stone-yard, Trafford-street, Albion street, in turning a large block of stone, by means of crab and chain, on a temporary railway, the stone went down on its side with greater force than was expected, forcing out of his hand the handle of the windlass, which struck him violently, so that he fell amongst some other large stones, had his skull fractured, and died instantly. The machinery was stated to he good, and had deceased held the windlass handle with both hands, he might have saved himself. On the inquest the jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death." Foust LIVES LOST.—On Monday last very great ex citement was created in the neighbourhood of Beaufirt, by a report that a great many miners had been carried out of the " old coal " mines in a state of stiff cation, caused by the noxious effluvia emitted by the subterra nean fire still burning in the jvorkings, in spite of the efforts made to drown and smother it; but its further progress has by these means been considerably checked. On inquiry it was found that the whole had been reco vered, with the exception of four individuals, who had been so long exposed to the deadly influence of the gas, as to preclude all hopes of saving them .--Hereford paper. THE BOILER EXPLOSION AT BOLTON.—The following was the verdict returned at the inquest. "We are unani mously of opinion that the death of James Swift, Bridget Hart, and James M`Donald, was caused by the explosion of the steam boiler at Mr. Brook's mill ; that the said boiler exploded from the pressure of the st-arn tieing too great; and that George Branscome has caused the explo sion. We are also of opinion that due care has not b-en used in the general superintendence of the steam engines and boilers." George Branscome was therefore com mitted to take his trial for manslaughter. A subscrip , ion was entered into by the jury for the relief of the families of the deceased, arid the sum of £8 10s. was handed to the coroner as the commencement of a subscription for that purpose. The boy Jones (the intere4lng chimney-sweep, who so ingeniously contrived to secrete himself in the private apartments of the queen at Buckioglia'n Palace), now a first-class boy on board H. M. S. Warspire, when between Tunis and Al;,icrs, was last month rt served, late at night, from a watery gra,e lay the life buoy. The slip's crew are of opinion that if it hal been a rough night Jones would not have gone overboard at all ; they think that he jumped overboard, fur no other purpose than io see the lite- 4, uoy ligr t huriOng, and this is in some measure con firmed by the fact of his bawling out when fallin4 "man °veil) .ard," and again, when immersed, " let go the life-buoy Tits: 1 3 /nose, Box —On Sunday week, three drunken soldir is, 't'ent nu Nhat they denominated " a lark," stopped a eat) to I iverte 01-roatl, Mattel ester, insiated on the oitv.-1 turoing out the individuals who were inside and car them to the barracks, declaring their colonel had eivtn orders that they should ride home %hen intoxi cated. The cabman remonstrated, the soldiers were violent, and 'be police gathered at the spot. Suddenly one 0 , he gen , lemen inside put his hand out of toe will (l,w, an ordered the policemen to take charge of the soldiers till he sent a piquet for them. It was no other than the colonel himself. The coast: rnation of the drunken soldiers may be conceived. PUBLIC WALKS IN WARRINGTON.—II is currently rumoured in the town of Wariiewon, that arrangements are being made, by which the fields in front of Bank Hall, the seat of John Wilson Patten, Esq.. M.P. , for North Lancashire, are to he converted into a p u bli c plea sure vound, for the use of the inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood. It is sail that Mr. Patten has con sented to give Xl.OOO towards the object, and that about an equal sum is to be advanced out of the government fund available for the purpose, the remaining part of the purchase money to be raised by private subscription. The name of Mr. Beaumont, whose liberality on other occasions is well known to the town and neighbourhood, is intimately connected with the scheme. HORRIBLE ACCIDENT.—A most heart rending and fatal accident happened on Monday to a lime-burner em ployed at the Southwick lime-kilns, near Sunderland. The poor man, whose name was Bell, went on to the top of one of the kilns when it was burning. When stand ing on the stones, about the centre of the kiln, the burn ing mass beneath him suddenly gave way, and lie sunk up to the shoulders in the " furnatice of fire". In this po sition he remained for a short time in the greatest agony, till his limbs and body were so burned as to cause his death. A rope having been fastened round the upper part of his body, he was with difficulty dragged out, when his mangled remains presented a mo-t horrible spectacle—appalling even to contemplate. The unfor tunate man has left a widow and large family to mourn his truly melancholy death.—Drrrham Advertiser. BIRMINGHAM ELECTION.—On Friday he nomination for the representation of Birmingham, vacant by the death of Joshua Scholefield, Esq., took place. There were three candidates—Richard Spooner, Esq., on the con servative interest; Mr. Win. Scholefield, son of the de ceased; and Mr. Sturge, the " Complete Suffrage" ad vocate. It is known that Mr. Sturge has already been twice a candidate for that town ; and conservatism has been so much on the increase there that the liberals well knew Mr. Spooner (whose minority at the contest of 1811 was a very small one) would have gained an easy victory over him. The son of the deceased was therefore hurried into the field with something like indecent haste, in the hope of gaining over some of Joseph's friends. The whole of the three gentlemen were proposed, and the show of hands were in favour of Mr. Sturge. On Saturday the voting took place, and the state of the poll ing each hour we give in a leading article, where the voting in this and previous years is compared. Our readers will scarcely give credit to the revolting fact which we now disclose, and which merits the strong est condemnation. Frequently since the establishment of the low rates of postage it has been found that letter bags, on being opened at the Post-office, emitted a stench scarcely endurable, but as nothing appeared on the face of the letters or parcels to account for this strangeamr; cumstance, the cause remained unknown unti l withinadfe we days back. The discovery took place in this y h po ay st e ed po in si a ti c v o e u a n u t t r h y o t r o i t w y n f , o a r d s ( t i a re ti 6 n a g ed t t h o e a fa s c ut t rhg : 7 o the envelopes of which, on its arrival ata uantity of blood office, having been almost destroyed by es evident! and found to t s-nhtoicokninogf fact,the having oozed out, it was carefully e forwarded an body, y contain a portion of a hum. . Ge ne w i P n e a c o l e n p t dowos was 5 . , authorities was immediately called and we understand that measures have since been adopted i t h o e the at for the purpose of dissect() pu blic feeling, and s o g ross an abuse of the facilities of commun i ca tion afforded by the post-uffice.—Observer. to preven t any recurren ce of so di-gusting an outrage on p THE POET BURNS.—It is intended to have a grand fes tival to honour of the poet Burns. It will be one of unu- sual brilliancy, and will be patronised by la-ge numbers or the Scottish nobility and gentry, Who have already sig. trfied their intention of being present to pay their tribute „ . of respect to the memory of Scotland's greatest poet. Ap plication having beer► made to Lord Eglington to preside on the occasion, the noble lord replied that nothing would afford him greater pleasure than to comply with the re quest, so that now complete arrangements have been made. and the festival will take place in Ayrshire on Thursday, August 1. Two days aftet war& the Highland and Agricultural Society's Grand Show, at Glasgow, will take place, so that both places may be easily visited. ACCIDENT TO THE HON. MISS BOYLF..—The Hon. Miss Caroline Boyle, niece to the Earl of Cork, and maid or honour to the Queen Dowager, had a miraculous escape from drooning last week, at Allarston, the noble earl's seat near Frome. It appears that Miss Boyle was on a pleasure excursion on the lake, and when pushing off amongst some willows she lust her foot;tig, and fell from the boat where the water was 16 feet deep. Miss Boyle clung to the boughs. Miss Warburton, her com panion', threw her the end of an oar from the shore. Miss Mary Boyle, who had been waiting the arrival of tl,e boat, at the further end of the lake, alone unmoored anoth,,r boat, and, assisted by iliss Warburton, succeeded in dragging in the half-lifeless lady just as her strength was giving way and her hands were relaxing their - - DEPARTURE OF BARBER AND FLETCHER. — The Agin court, convict-ship, with Barber and Fietcher on beard, and upwards of three hundred other convicts. left Wool wich, for Norfolk Island, on Monday morning 1 tst, at six o'clock. It will be recollectei that two declara:ions of Barber's innocence have been made and signed by Fletcher. Barber himself wrote, just before the vessel sailrd, a letter declaratory of his Innocence, which was published in the San. On Thursday last a document, signed by William Sanders, another of the convicts, who is on board the Lord Auckland, under sentence of trans- portation for seven years, was received by Barber's ait.)rney, and transmitted to Sir James Graham. It avers solemnly that Barber is completely innocent of any guilty knowledge whatever of the transactions. and that he received no ;ore than the usual pofebsio nal reniuner- ation. A STRANGE FANCY.—The following ludicrous circum-_ stance took phce, in Falkirk, last week. The parents of a child, about s'rt years of age, on ordering him to bed. were not a little nonplused by his answering, " I'm, no Gaon to my bed the night, for I dreamed the ' screen that I was to sit on a stick arid sleep like a hen." Persuasions and threats were all in vain. on a stick he would be; and, willing to gratify what appeared to be a momentary no tion, the parents. in want of a proper bauk, proposed that the back of a ch lir bh , uld serve for his roost during the night. No sooner said than done, the child denuded him self of his clothes, hung them on the chair back, mounted his roost, and, in a few minutes, to the surprise of all, was fast asleep. He was allowed to remain thus for some time, and, on being awaket ed, it was only by working on his fears that he was ultimately induced to relinquish the Lank for a more comfortable nest.—Edinburgh Post. BREACH OF PROMISE.—At the Yarmouth Quarter Sessions last week one of the cases (Spillings v. Morley) was a writ of inquiry to asess damages for breach of Promise of marriage. Plaintiff's counsel stated that Miss Spillings was a highly respectable person, her father being a proprietor of fishing boats, and defendant being also an owner of fishing boats, and a person of pro perty. The case excited much laughter, as, in answer to the recorder, it appeared, that the plaintiff's father was a shrimpman at Gorleston, and the defendant a shrimpman also, being possessed of a tourteenth part of two shrimp-boat. The plaintiff's sister was called to prove that the plait tiff took the loss of a husband much to heart, but failed in doing so ; she said her sister was pretty middling, for she had no doubt that she would marry some one else. as she had taken it " pretty tidily." The recorder. in summing up to the jury, made some very strong remarks on such a case being brought into court, and told the jury it was a case for the very smallest damages. Verdict—damages one farthing; which has the effect of plunging the defendant in about £l5 costs. EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—Mary Dillon, a very young and heautiful Irish girl, splendidly attired, and wearing a profusion of valuable jewelry, was placed before the magis trate, Marlborough-street, on Tuesday list. Police-con stable John Cox stated that he found the defendant sitting on the step of a door near St. James's Church. Her head was leaning on her knees, and at first he con cluded that she was sleeping, but on a closer inspection he found that she was in a state of complete stupour. He therefore conveyed her to the station-house, but two hours elapsed before she was restored to a state of con sciousness. She afterwards intimated by signs to the inspector that she was deaf and dumb, and ultimately wrme her name and her address at Fulham, on a slate; but she dec fined giving any further information respecting herself. Sergeant Burnett, said that a twelvemonth ago she was living in a style of great splendour in Piccadilly, under the protection of a nobleman. It also appeared that, about twelve months ago, she was found insensible in the street, and was locked up in a station-house for the night. on the supposition that she was drunk. and from that time she became deaf and dumb. Mr. Maltby hu manely directed Burnett to see her home to her friends. THE INDIGO SALES.—The quarterly sale of Indigo commenced on Tuesday. The quantity declared, includ ing 999 chests of goods left over from former sales, amounted to 15.146 chests. The qualities of the Bengal are in the proporion of two-thirds good and middling. and one-third fine and ordinary, being in the whole 11,587 chests. The attendance from the continent vv::s more numerous than usual, and very fair also from the manu facturing districts. The bidding soon became spirited at from 3d. to 6tl. per lb. lower titan the April sale prices for Bengal; 2d. and 3d. for Madras and Karnali, and about the Am il prices for Onde; 875 chests passed the sale, and of which 51 were withdrawn, and only 25 chests bought in by the exposers. At the Indigo sale on Wed nesday, 1,085 chests were gone Urania), making a total of 1,950 chests, of which 52 have been withdrawn, and 118 boulht in. Prices rul d much the same as on Tues day, excepting fir the better 4. alities, which were rather lower. At the sale on Thursd , y 802 chests were gone through at the prey'ous day's prices, making a total to this time of 3,859 chests, of which 195 have been with drawn, 192 bought in, and 3,485 sold. The sales were to be resumed again yLsttrday, and continue about a fort - - - HORST?. FAIR TR' c .—A t the,t Eeq o I C , t h wo e fo st cl e u r i7,. f se a ls if it t ot li e, s w e .a r s v a s t e i n t m t b a y n hi o s f n lo t w e , b r s t h o ei t i h d e I ra n i c r e price? being about £lO fur one, and £l5 for the other. While looking out for a customer, a stranger came up to him wit! said, " Oh, yol have two horses to sel, I sup pose ; what's the price?" Toe servant man informed him, upon which the stranger replied that he had a very good carriage horse to dispusP of, for which he had just been bidden £3). but for certain reasons he did nut wish to transact business with the bidder. lie offered, however, to make an excha-ge with the servant min, and give him £2 for his tronhle. Having stepped aside, anwhe.r fell ov then came up, and asked if he was goiag to exchange his bor::es for the one belonging to the man who had just left him ; and tellii , g him also that if such were the case he would give him £3O for the horse. In the cmirse of a very short time the exchange was made, and the three pro ce,oled to the Shan public-house to close the sale for the single horse. Alter they had conversed a snort time, the sharper suldenly recollected that lie had not a rece'pt stain in his pocket. and requested the servant man to go out and fetch one. H e accordingly did so, but. it is al most needle,s to say that when he returned the three rogues were gone, leaving a poor old hack behind them hardly worth a groat. SHOCKING DEATH OF A CHIMNEY SWEEP.—An in quest was held on Friday 1 ist, before the coroner of Herts, on the body of a‘child of tender age named James Dyce, who was suffocated in one of the kitchen flues at Goldings, the sent of Lord Reay, near Hertford. It ap peared that the father of the deceased had been cmp'oyed to clean the flues by the machine; but having experienced some difficulty in freeing one of the flues from the soot, made the child go in to clean the soot from the ledges. After the boy had been up some minutes he called out to It's father that he could ascend no ltizher. The father told him to go up to the top, and he would limsel go up the great kitchen chimney and bring him down. The poor little fellow then found that he could neither ascend nor descend, and his piteous cries induced the servants to send for abt ieklayer. A breach was made in the wall, at the spot whence the sounds proceeded, but upwards of four hours elapsed before the flue was discovered. The child was then quite dead. The child had got into a shaft, not intended for a flue, having no outlet, and to which no fireplace was attached. It was presumed that he had slipped into the aperture, and was suffocated in the soot. The coroner told the father that he was at first disposed to treat it as a case of manslaughter, and undoubtedly had the child been compelled to enter the flue by threats it would have amounted to that offence. The father had, however, rendered himself liable to a fine of £lO for an infringement of the act of parliament; a punishment wholly inadequate to the offence. The jury returned a verdict of Accidental Death. ATTEMPTED MURDER IN A SHOOTING GALLERY.-- On Saturday week, a respectable-looking young man. aged 22, who gave his name as the Hon. William ll ,l o _l 6 . Touchet, was charged, at the Bow-street Police- la i r gh with shooting Thomas Smith, a gunsmith. at 28 are d that Holborn, with intent to murder him. -:•„ le g r t he latter to of Mr. Smith's shop, where, after the prisoner had gone into a shooting a u a , s „i ii l .; had two shots, shoot with him at the target, n a r ; i a i i d, and, while Mr. he, without saying a word, I:l o et lh e is b l a i c f k e, wounded him in the -dwowith his back towards Id t hat he was shot in the back, him, Smi t h h he fi as r e i d oa t d h i e n loins. Mr. Smith whatexclaim be had done it for, but no answer and asked prisoner prisoner was taken into custody by a was given. The p th o a k t en he tr Smith on purpose, as he wished to be whom he said be was i le a l p police-officer, to m ul i y g , ht an b d e repeated hanged, and bathda nad hanged. had neigdn. qt. i sultt heiVi l lived h repeated to another party, adding that ed in lodgings by himself in Weymouth . Thismosity to Mr. Smith. tionshe bore no aro , T ford, the sitting lurim h st e e°a-in N i 'yas single, had enough by Mr. Twyford, magistrate, prisoner should be made respecting him, and, as it o f money, and had not been ill or had fever, but, for a variety of reasons, was very unhappy. It was directed street, Portl a n d - sgt pisto lreet; another thatt saidthtt that e a h t a t d he do w n i e tn i e t ss i e n s o h r a d d e r s was certified that Mr. Smith was not out of danger, he was remanded for a week. The prisoner, it was soon afterwards found, is a younger brother of the present Lord Audley. In the afternoon, Lord Audley, accom panied by the constable who apprehended the prisoner, arrived at the court, evidently much affected at the ac count he had received of his brother's conduct. He en tered into a long conversation with Mr. Twyford on the bench, the part►culars of which did not transpire. Mr. Smith is still in considerable danger, and MI. Touchet has been further r, mantled until the unfortunate gentle man is able to appear. July 16. 1841. ...METHOD OF CURING OBSTINATE tioasFA —A few days nao, as a cwt.r prceeedm4 on toe York road, n,-ar Doncaster, with a load of stows. his horse made 8 sudden and refused, even alter a n,ost unmerciful whipping, to poreed. A gentleman t , ll the h infurated caner he must not beat him any more. " Wat I do ?" sail the man " my h irse has stood here upwards of at, hour ; shall I stand lure all day ? ' "Ohno ; the horse must go. but you must not heat him any more. was obtained, secured to the horse's tail, and then Get me a rope twice as long as the horse." The rope pi ssed between the legs forwards, after which a slight pull W as given. The animal was frightened, and showed strong symptoms of kicking, but the pulling was continue d. Suddenly he started forward, and went off without anY more heating. The gentleman s lie had seen the stole method tried, with a similar effect. on tie most refraCtori asses ever bred. If this fact is disputed by those who have obstinate horses or asses, let them try the experiment. • DISAPPOINTED LOVE AND REV ENGE.—In the course of the past week the imprisonment of a young, handsome , and accompl.shed lady of 21 years of age, took place un der the following circuorsiances, and that on the steps of the house of one of the h ghest law officers of the crow*. This well born and highly educated foung woman has, for three years, exercised her musical talents for the purpose of aiding in the means of supporting her mother and sis ters, whose fortunes were lost by their father's unsuccess ful speculations. A music seller from time to time sup plied her with music for her professional uses, but always sent much more than wa; desired. The personal charms and talent of the lady had attracted the usic seller's no tice, and he avowed himself, to her great a-tonishment , her admirer ; his suit was calmly rej , cted, tile lady being engaged to an offi , er of rank. On hearing this, the music seller demanded instant payment. of his money, accomPs nying it with a writ. Exp.ts , ulaiion was used. the unne cessary part of 'he music sent without orders offered to be returned, and the remainder paid Ex. During this cor res,iondence the scion was continued, judgment obtained , execution against the person issued ; and the young taken from the steps of one of the high-st law officers of the crown, where she was about to attend her pupils, and carrisd to a stiong'ng house in Chancery-lane, and before the affair could be settled three days elapsed.— Times. The new chant-•r of the Bank of England will be in full operation in the course of a sew weeks from the present time. The part of the bi'l which most engages the atten tion in moortary circles is, taat.inore han seven mil lions of Bank of England n rtes are to be cancelled on or before so early a tine as the 10th d.y of October; for, thoult notes are to be allowed to be issued in the propor tion of two-thirds to the amount of bullion, the amount so issued may be very insufficient to counteract the with drawal of so immense a sum on the securities, as many' circumstances may occur to diminish extensively before that time the present amount of bullion in the bank. The dependence on the amount of bullion for all Batik of Eng land notes Ind the small and entirely insufficient amount of £1 .000,000. with the additional restraints on the provincial bankers from issuing notes for the sun Po rt of the trade of the country, and filling up the chasm in the circulation, is viewed by many parties s full of un certainty in its operation, for the present excessive amount of bullion appears to have been relied upon as ca pable of permanency, or that permanently £10.000,0 00 can be retained, the sum aimed at by Sir Robett Peel, al th,ugh the public witnessed, in 1836, the withdrawal of bullion so rapidly, and in defiance of all the exertions of the directors, that only about one million of sovereigns remained in the Bank. It is not duu' - tod that the effect of such a dependence must produce great irregularities in the price of commodities, when the bullion may vary in amount from £16,000,000 to £1,000,000, and no perSol l perceives any nowerin bir Robert Peel to keep the amount stationary at £10,000,000, as he has promi-ed the HOW of Commons within the last few days.—Midland counties Herald. THE NAVY.—A discussion was last week excited in the House of Commons by the Prince de Joinville's fire brand pamphlet, addressed the other day to the wa , ..party in France. Sir Charles Napier, Lord Mitito, and Mr- Shiel, roundly rated the government for maintaining an inadequate naval force. This on the part of the whigs is pa,sing strange and not a little impudent. The complaint against the whig government in 1839, was, that they bad no vessels in reserve ; and that the dock-yards were in such a decayed and inefficient state that no addition to the force afloat could be made in any reasonable time. Now, however, it would appear "27 sail of the line are actually ready for service. and independently of these 21 sail of the line, of which six are three-deckers, and three, of 92 guts , complete for commissioning, without the si t ; of a shipwright, and irrespective of the frigates and smaller vessels, altogether 50 sail, we have in two of our ports no less than three 3-deckers, one 84, three 78's, an d five 72's, 13 sail of the line, four 50-gun frigates, ten 44'0 , three 26's, and a dozen sloops of war, which would only require docking., to be coppered, and small repairs, to be ready for sea." The complaint against the whigs Wss not only that the aessels afloat were only half mantle(' and badly " found," and that there was no adequate pro vision for a reinforcement in an emergency, but it was alleged against them, and proved too, that in no sing le department were the dock-yards in an efficient state. The staff of artificers had become incompetent through reduction or the appl . cation of a pinching economy, which occasioned able workmen to abandon their employment. The store departments were reduced to such a state, that at one time there was not sufficient timber and materials on hand to build and fit out one ship. With regard tO the number of ships in commission at the present time, compared with the number in 1841, the close of mist ule, we find that, although at peace, we have more 50-gun ships, and more of each of the other classes of frigates , whilst we have nearly 20 more steam-vessels of a superior class. As, however, the comparison in the House of Commons. on Monday, was chiefly between the British and French forces, we may state that all the French line of battle ships now in existence amount to but twenty. - - WRIT ov ERROR. — On Tuesday morning Mr. Kelly resumed his address, which lasted till four o'clock. He concluded by saying that their lordships would not per mit the provisions of an important act of pat lianient, un der which the jurors were chosen, who were to try a man' it might be. for his life, to he violated, but they would re" qu . re it to he strictly complied with. He submitted to their lordships upon this ground, as upon all the oth er grounds mentioned in the course of the argument, that the defendants not having had that to which every British subject was entitled, in every trial. civil or criminal—tha t en a sr da express conversing d h disaonppro; is. not having had a fair trial by law —were entitled to el dor the benefit of the error upon the record, and to sulP mit to their lordship , that this judgment oueht to be re versed. Those were the grounds upon whch they sub mitted that this judgment was erroneous ; and they sub mitted, with all confidence, to their lordships, that upon all, or some of them, the judgment must be reversed. (This closed the case for the traversers.) After a short consultation httween their lordships, they adjourned-uii• til six o'clock.—At a few minutes past six o'clock, the were judges having taken their seats, counsel and agents again called in.—The Attorney-General, on the Pa rt the crown, addressed the court, and spoke up to the hour at which the 'r lordships adjourned till Tuesday. ". 9 Tu-sday moroing the Attorney-General continued 1)16 arguments, and concluded at two o'clock, by maintaini n g that the judgment was correct and legal. The AttotneYi General for Ireland (Mr. T. B. C. Smith) followed, a n i , spoke until a quarter-past five. An ajournment too. place till half-past six, when the counsel for the plaintiff i t ' s Sir T. Wilde, Mr. M. D. Hill, and Mr. Kelly, we heard in reply. The latter had not closed a' a cluarter• past &even, when their lordships adjourned to Wednesdl morning, when Mr. Fitzroy Kelly rtsurried his argamen ' and concluded his address at a quarter before three o'clockt by stating that his clients felt sit isfied that flvir lordship s decision would be founded on justice. The Attorne 9 : General said, he believed the Crown had the right of 4 final reply, but he would not press it on this occasion; D wished, h wever, that it should not be drawn into a Pr e ' cadent. The Lord Chancellor then said, that in conjell e c i Von with his learned and noble friends. he had prepar e s certain questions for the opinion of the Queen's jedg; which his lordship handed to the Lord Chief Je 9 ", 6 Tindal. Lord Ciiief Justice Tindal, on the part of t' l d judges, asked time to consider the questions. The 'L or i' Chancellor: "M ost certainly, you must he allowed 9 ; 8 reasonable time to consider your decision." Tue Wl— ' immediately afterwards adjiairned. APPALLING MURDER, AND ATTEMPTED &Trove''' . A tragical occurrent 3 took place in Saltord on Sandal night last,—the murder of a female by a man, with wh ° , o 4 she had been on the point of marriage, and the attemPL•'_, a h n tei d yaec ; : f om N apann tw yi i n ch g . h C e h r e o s n hi t r b e t , i self-destruction of the murderer. The name of the tw o , fortunate victim was Alice Nolan, about thirty years.... ; age, who supported herself by working as a reeler. _b_!)__ was, we believe, a native of St. Helens. The e a loan perpetrator of the horrid deed is Thom a lternately 33Stew ioowe cl about 29 or 30 years of age, and has navigator, or exert. the occupations of a carter It appears, but for some time 1:. Ilit , a be and the deceased spent a greater vator. He is stated to that on Sunday nether , l in the house of a person named. part of the day t left between nine and ten o'clock at night' Shepherd, and apparently lodgings. The previous • L night at the es° way to ber bation at the steps which Stew had taken in pubiisbil 4 , the banns of marriage, and to say that he must wait he te same subject. About ten o'clock the deceased was e st ; by a young woman named Mary Barlow coming _l r " L o - Brigg's-street, into Rockliffe-street, and the young onn,o noticed that she staggered, and had her hand placed 0 1 - „0 her throat. She walked a few yards farther and then A against a door, when her throat was discovered to be e a, in a shocking manner, the bloodfl ' from the W0 u .... /) t owing An alarm was given, and several persons ran to the s te p to render assistance, but she died in about ten alin" w hil without being able to speak. The young woma b ut * first saw the deceased perceived no one near her ; an e , very short time elapsed before all doubt as to the. P A ,`, l i• trator of the murder was dispelled, by the attemPte u i r o. cide of Stew, the man who had accompanied her_ ' de- Shepherd's house. It appears that after cutting Woof ceased's throat, he returned back to the house wher e , his had spent the day ; and, on arriving at the door, 11 . : Is iii own throat, but not so as to occasion death. Surglc7a to yw ttaeh"shremayhas sePl:i werear d e d tho i was procured as soon as possible, and he was conve/1,0. the Royal Infirmary, where he now lies in a very ; d ell rious state, the chances of his recovery being . extr dated doubtful. We understand that his windpipe is coral' .d e 4 , cut through, but the large blood vessel was not chw_ l bo tt• He has never been able to speak since, and at first '. no d nately refused to take food, though he afterwards elfr the in that respect. A razor was found near the door of the house where he cut his throat, and the razor In‘o*f been identified as one which he borrowed on ° bior afternoon, under pretence that he wanted to e bave_ r d e r ; self. He was not intoxicated at the time of the I . l Tt. O. and, from the facts which have so far come toll,v_lsoftP_ motive can be assigned for the commission of the a t r_ r , ri ltg, bti:un see: a t n i s d e 0 deceasednn friendly s Sunday n d a acts above described, except the refusal of the deer;0000 marry him. A verdict of wilful murder was against him at the coroner's inquest.