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Earrature. POETRY. THE OLD SEAMAN• (From the Keepsake for 1545.) You ask me why mine eyes are bent So darkly on the sea, While others watch the azure hills That lengthen on the lee? The azure hills—they soothe the sight That falls along the foam; And those may hail their nearin; height, Who there have hope or home. Eut I a loveless path have trod — A beaconLss career; My hope bath long been all with God, And all my home is—here. The deep by day, the heaven by night, . . Roll onward, - swift and dark • Nor leave my soul the dove's delight, Of olive-b - ranch or ark. For more than gale, or golf, or sand, Pv.; proved that there may be Worse treachery on the steadfast land Than variable sea. A danger worse than bay or beach, A falsehood more unkind— The treachery of a governed speech, And an ungoverned mind. The treachery of the deadly mart, X\ here human souls are snd ; The treachery o; the hollow heart, That crumbles as we hold. Those holy hies and quiet lakes— Ah ! wherefore should I find This weary fever-fit, that shakes Their image in my mind. The memory of a streamlet's din Through meadows daisy-drest— Another might be glad therein, But yet 1 cannot rest. I cannot rest unless it be Beneath the churchyard yew ; But God, I thinl:, hath yet for me More earthly work to do. And, therefore, with a quiet will, I breathe the Ocean air, And bless the voice that calls me still, To wander and to bear. Let others seek their native sod, Who there have hearts to cheer ; My soul hath long been given to God, And all my home is—here. NOTICES. Saint James's, or the C,,urt of Queen Anne. By Wm. Harrison Ainsworth, Esq. 3 vols. London : John Mortimer, Adelaide-street, Trafalgar-square. Of the works of this eminent novelist we infinitely pre fer those in which the writer brings his vast stores of antiquarian research to illustrate pa:ticular localities fa mous in the history of our country. These works may be said to constitute an entirely new style of romance, peculiar to Mr. Ainsworth, in which the relation of some contemporary history, or fiction blended with history, is made the means of conveying, in a more agreeable form than that of mere antiquarian dissertation, facts connected with and a description of buildings end places interesting to his readers, which otherwise would remain a sealed book to the majority of them, and be accessible to future ages only through the musty records of the state paper office, or some similar uninviting source of information, if they did not entirely disappear as the perishing objects, which alone bind them to memory, arc swept from ken by the hand of time and decay, or the march of modern improve ment. Amongst this class may be ranked "The Tower of London," probably the best descriptive work of its kind in any language, and one which must have re quired from the writer the most minute and careful per sonal investigation of the locality described. " Old Saint Paul's" is another of the same class, but of more thrilling interest, arising, perhaps, mainly from the more striking period to which it carries us back, viz., that of the plague and the great fire in London. " Guy Fawkes" partakes also of this peculiar feature of Mr. Ainsworth's recent works ; but it carries us over a greater field, and is espe cially interesting to us as rescuing from oblivion a number of the most interesting personages and localities of ancient Lancashire. We may add to these his striking romance of " Windsor Castle." The novel before us has apparently been a portion of a design to open up the history and antiquities of another of our royal palaces—Saint James's. In this, however, if indeed it was seriously attempted, he does not appear to have been as successfulin finding material of interest as in some of his former works. But if Saint James's has furnished little ground for the display of antiquarian lore, it has supplied tile scene for a history of the court in trigues and court life of one of the most distinguished reigns in British history, which the pen of the novelist has hitherto scarcely visited at all. The literary annals of that age of illustrious writers—the memoirs of the orna ments and, alas ! the disgrace of that reign—of Addison, Steele, St. John, Prior, and the rest—have been again and again recorded ; the characters of its statesmen—of Oxford and Bolingbroke, Marlborough and Godolphin, with the ambitious favourite and tyrant of royalty, his duchess, are upon the page of history. But the character and habits of the Sovereign herself, and her amiable — although trifUng—cmsort, Prince George of Denmark, are little known. They have been cast into the shade by the brilliancy of the military achievements and of the literature of the period in which they flourished. The period of Anne's reign at welch Mr. Ainsworth introduces us to her court, is the year 1702, when the Duke of Marlborough was at the zenith of his fame, as a soldier and a statesman, (characters which some envious detracters of the greatest man in modern days have told us are not compatible with each ether,) and when his haughty duchess bad succeeded in establishing air almost dominion over, and at the same time arousing the impla cable resentment of, her Sovereign, and a determination on her part of throwing off the yoke imposed upon her. The introduction to the palace of a young lady of the bedchamber, Abigail Hill, a relative of the duchess arid of her artful rival, Mr. Harley, afterwards Earl of Oxford, is made the means of precipitating that event which ulti mately led, as the reader of history knows, of driving in exile from his native land, whose name with his own he had immortalized in Europe, the greatest general of his age. The various intrigues by which this end was at length attained are vividly described, and the characters -mingling in them, the state of parties, and the loose mo rals of the time, which contributed to their success, form a picture, or rather a series of pictures, well worthy of study. 'With these, the historical details of his story, the doings and characters of several inferior actors are skil fully wrought up. We have the trial of the celebrated Dr. Sacheverell, and the high church riots which were the result. The French adventurer, the Marquis de Guis card, with his valet, Bimbelot, and his bravo, Sauvageon, afford us happy specimens of the kind of instruments with which the court of Louis intrigued for the restoration of the exiled Chevalier de St. George, then holding his court at Saint Gerrnains. The story of the loves of Mrs. Plumpton and Mrs. Tipping, for the Duke of Marlbo rough's favourite and valorous serjeaat, is a gem in its way, and throws a pleasant relief upon the more serious incidents of the work, whilst the character of Proddy, the Queen's coachman, is inimitable. When we have said that it deserves to be ranked in the same scale of funni ness and drollery with that of the valorous dwarf Zit , described in his -1 ` Tower of London," we have bestowed upon it ample commendation. The work is illustrated, with his usual excellence, by the inimitable George Cruickshank, who appears, in his portraiture of the various characters introduced, to have caught, and keenly relished, the spirit of the author. We cannot resist extracting the closing incident of the work : .0n the evening of Tuesday, the 27th Ju1y.1714, Oxford received a sudden and peremptory intimation from the Queen to resign the staff into her hands without a mo ment's delay ; upon which, though it was getting late, he immediately repaired to the palace. Ushered into the queen's presence, be found Lady Ma sham and Bolingbroke with her, and their triumphant looks increased his ill-dissembled rage and mortification. Anne looked ill and suffering. She had only just reco vered from a severe inflammatory fever, attended with gout and ague, and had still dangerous symptoms about her. Her figure was enlarged and loose, her brow lower ing, her features swollen and cadaverous, and her eyes heavy and injected with blood. She scarcely made an effort to maintain her dignity, but had the air of a confined invalid. On the.table near her stood a draught prescribed for her by her physician, Sir Richard Blackmore, of which she occasionally sipped. Moved neither by the evident indisposition of the queen, nor by any feelings of gratitude or respect, Oxford ad vanced quickly towards her, and eyeing his opponents with a look of defiance, said, in an insolent tone, and with a slight inclination of the head—" Your majesty has commanded me to bring the staff. I here deliver it to you." And as he spoke he placed it with some violence on the table. My lord!" exclaimed Anne, " this rudeness!" " Lord Oxford has thrown off the mask," said Boling broke. " Your majesty sees him in his true colours." " It shall not be my fault, Bolingbroke," replied Ox ford, bitterly, "if her majesty—ay, and the whole nation —does not see you in your true colours—and they are black enough. And you, too, madam," he added to Lady Masham, "the world shall know what arts you have used." " If I have practised any arts, my Lord Oxford, they have been of your teaching," rejoined Lady Masham. " You forget the instructions you gave me respecting the Duchess of Marlborough." " No, viper ! I do not," cried Oxford, his rage becom ing ungovernable. "I do not forget that I found you a bedchamber-woman ; I do not forget that I used you as an instrument to gain the queen's favour—a mere instru ment—nothing more ; I do not forget that 1 made you what you are ; nor will I rest till I have left you as low as I found you." "My lord I—my lord !" cried Anne. " This attack is most unmanly. I pray you to withdraw, if you cannot control yourself." Your pardon, if I venture to disobey you, madam," replied Oxford. " Having been sent for, I shall take leave to stay until I have unmasked your treacherous favourites. So good an oprortunity may not spee dil y occur , an d I shall not lose it. " But I do not wish :to hear the exposure, my lord," said Anne. " I pray your majesty, let him speak," interposed Bo lingbroke, haughtily. " Take care of your bead, B o lingbroke," cried Oxford ; " though her majesty may sanction your correspondence with the courts of St. Germain, her parliament will not." " Your majesty can now judge of his baseness and ma lignity," said Bolingbrolce, with cold contempt, know ing how he himself has duped yo ur ro y al brother." " I know it—l know it," replied Anne; " and !know how he has duped me, too. But no more of this, if you love me, Bolingbroke." " Oh that your majesty would exert your spirit for one moment," said Lady Masham," and drive him from your presence with the contempt he deserves." " If your majesty will only authorise me, it shall be done," said Bolingbroke. " Peace ! peace ! my lord, I implore of you," said Anne. " You all seem to disregard me." " Your majesty perceives the esteem in which you are held by your friends I" said Oxford, sarcastically. " You are all alke," cried the queen, faintly. " What crime am I charged with ?" demanded Oxford, addressing himself to the queen. " I will tell you," replied Bolingbroke. " I charge you with double-dealing, with chicanery, with treachery, with falsehood to the queen, to me, and to the whole cabinet. I charge you with holding out hopes, on the one hand, to the Elector of Hanover, and to Prince James, on the ether. I charge you with caballing with Marlborough— with appropriating the public monies—" " These charges must be substantiated—must be an swered, my lord," interrupted Oxford, approaching him, and touching his sword. " They shall be substantiated, my lord," replied Bo lingbroke, haughtily and contemptuously. " Bolingbroke, you are a villain—a dastardly villain!" cried Oxford, losing all patience, and striking him in the face with his glove. " Ha !" exclaimed Bolingbroke, transported with fury, and partly drawing his sword. `• My lord !" exclaimed the queen, rising with dignity, " I command you to forbear. This scene will kill me— oh !" And she sank back exhausted. " Your pardon, gracious madam," cried Bolingbroke, running up to her, and falling on his knees. " I have in deed forgotten myself." " Oh! my head! my head !" cried Anne, pressing her hand to her temples. " My senses are deserting me." " You have much to answer for, Bolingbroke,' whis pered Lady Masham ; " she will not survive this shock." " It was not my fault, but his," replied Bolingbroke, pointing to Oxford, who stood sullenly aloof in the mid dle of the room. _ _ _ _ "Let Sir Richard Blackmore and Dr. Mead be sum moned instantly," gasped the queen ; " and bid the Duke of Shrewsbury and the lord chancellor instantly attend me—they are in the palace. The post of treasurer must be filled without delay. Lose not a moment." And Lady Masham ran out to give the necessary instruc tions to the usher. " Shrewsbury and the chancellor—what can she want with them ?" muttered Bolingbroke, with a look of dismay. Oxford, who had hea-d the order, and instantly divined what it portended, softly approached him, and touched his arm. . _ --- " You have lost the stake you have been playing for," he said, with a look of triumphant malice. "I am now content." Ere Bolingbroke could reply, Lady Masham returned with Sir Richard Biackmnre, who chanced to be in the ante-room, and who instantly flew to the queen, over whose countenance a fearful change had come. " Your majesty must be taken instantly to bed," said Blackmore. " Not till I have seen the Dukes of Shrewsbury and Ormond," replied the queen, faintly. " Where are they ?" i will go and bring them instantly," replied Black more ; " not a moment is to be lost." And as he was about to rush out of the room, Boling broke stopped him, and hastily asked, " Is there danger ?" "Imminent danger !" replied Blackmore. " The case is desperate. The queen cannot survive three days." And he hurried away. " Then all is lost !" cried Bolingbroke, striking his forehead. And looking up, he saw Harley watching him with a malignant smile. " Lady Masham was assiduous in her attentions to her royal mistress; but the latter became momentarily worse. and continued to inquire anxiously for the Duke of Shrewsbury. " Has your majesty no commands for Lord Boling broke ?" inquired Lady Masham. " None whatever," replied the queen, firmly. At this juncture, Sir Richard Blackmore returned with the Duke of Shrewsbury, the lord chance.lor, and some other attendants. " Ah! you are come, my lords," cried Anne, greatly relieved. " I feared you would be too late. Sir Richard will have told yoo of my danger—nay, it is vain to hide it from me. My lords, the office of treasurer is at this moment vacant; and if anything should happen to me, the safety of the kingdom may be endangered. My lord of Shrewsbury, you are already lord chamberlain and lord-lieutenant of Ireland ; I have another post for you. Take this staff," she added, giving him the treasurer's wand, which lay upon the table, " and use it for the good of my people." "As the duke knelt to kiss her hand, he felt it grow cold in his touch. Anne bad fainted, and was instantly removed by htx attendants. " So," cried Oxford, " if the queen's fears are realized, Lady Masharn's reign is over; while your fate, Boling broke, is sealed. You have to choose between exile and the block." " If I fly, you must fly with me ; " cried Bolingbroke. " No, I shall wait, replied Oxford; " I have nothing to fear." " So end the hopes of these ambitious men !" observed the Duke of Shrewsbury to the chancellor ; " the queen has found they were not to be trusted. Her people's welfare influenced the last exercise of the power of GOOD QUEEN ANNE." The Nature and Treatment of D- - afness, and Diseases of the Ear; and the Treatment of the Deaf and Dumb. By Wm. Dutton, Surgeon. Illustrated with Frontis piece of Instruments. Churchill, Soho. 1844. Bvo. This is a neatly-got-out work of 118 pages. The style is correct arid simple, disburthen2d of that tedious quo tation everlastingly from authorities often no longer such, though paraded like men of straw, to be knocked down cleverly by the author. Both legal and medical lore are so burthened with precedents and references, that the task of selection constitutes one of the most difficult of literary labours nowadays. However, in this particular, we congratulate the members of physic in their rapidly attaining this selecting tact ; whilst their twin brother, the law, is still busied collecting cases and precedents — ever and anon working their hbyrinthical way from misty folds into the broad glare of truth and justice. Law dare not yet enunciate a proposition of right in the abstract, apart from some decision on a case in point by the Lord Chancellor Woolsack it is a cripple still leaning on the crutches provided for it by its foster parent, the middle ages ;—whilst medicine has dared to be free. Its fetters of traditional error and wrong-directed judgment broken, it can discuss a question on its simple merits alone, com prehend it in all its relations to other questions, and state a fact or a principle in nature without deference to any authority, human or canonised ; and appeal to no tribunal, even on writ of error, but simply leaving it to be test d by the mirror of truth itself held up in everyihurnan breast --can go on from the station of experiment to that of sound Baconian induction, and thence to the terminus, where truth, arrived at, is to be put in practice—and then, like the last function of animated being, transmit the possession of such power to others, and close its la bours in the didactics of the schoolmaster, happy in the attainment of a portion of valuable truth, and rejoicing in the self-satisfaction of philanthropic effort of doing good. Law is at present stopping at the halfway station of harm's tvay, if Irish Courts of Queen's Bench and .English law lords are to be taken in evidence. Let her alone a bit : she is bruised herself with the awkward handling of her own weapon; self-interest will be ballast enough, we trust, to right her, and bring her on safely at last to the terminus of Good-end, close by the village of Good-Will. In contrast with the useless tediousness of law, how pleasant to take up a book without much pretension, written in earnest simplicity, unsophisticated in its state ments, and whose pleasant purport is to amend some of the ills, or soothe some of the trials, to which our won drously-compounded being is obnoxious! And amongst these infirmities, that of deafness occupies no insignificant corner in Pandora's box ; and if the modesty of the pre sent production, along with its scientific claims, adds but an hour's instructive reading to the devoted student of the divine art, or is the means, directly or indirectly, of procuring benefit to any " who having ears cannot hear," so that even one chord of nature's ever-varying and all musical sounds, or one dulcet cadence of the human voice, shall be caught up by the ear beforetime deaf as the adder (though the adder is not deaf), yet will it have accomplished more good than many an act of parliament! SELECTIONS. USEFUL INVENTION.—An individual has discovered a process by which wood can be so impregnated with iron as very much to increase its hardness. He is preparing a considerable quantity of wood in this manner, which, with the sanction of the Poor Law Commissioners, he intends to convert into boards of guardians.—Punch. EDITORIAL DUTY IN CONTROVERSY.—It is no part of u journalist's duty, as some persons seem to suppose, to publish all that can be said on both sides of a contro versy. His duty is to give only what in his best judg ment he thinks likely to prove of public advantage. Let teas that bear the stamp of hypocrisy and falsehood on the face of them he commits to the flames at once. No appeals to his sense of justice should ever induce him to lend his columns to the propagation of error.—Britan nia. ENGLISH SEAMANSHIP IN A STORM. — During the recent storm at Boulogne, a vessel appeared in a situation to excite the greatest alarm. However, the opinion of the crowd decided at once upon the vessel and the com mander. "No other vessel but the Princess Maude, no other captain but Captain Monger, would dare to face Boulogne Bay to-d y." The conjecture was correct ;it was the Princess Maude and the gallant commander named. It was long doubted whether the great steam power of the vessel could win the offing necessary to give her a free sweep in between the lig hthouse and the bar. '' She will do it "—" It is impossibe," ran from mouth to month in anxious whispers. Having secured his offing, Captain Monger brought his vessel about : and, to the amazement of the timid and unskilful, spread abroa d d ex tent of canvas, under the tremendous g ale, bearing own upon the moutf the harbour with a raidityperfectly terrific. As the vessel passed the lighthoupse almost every heart sunk under the impression that nothing could check or divert her direct progress to the sands. A stifl moan was heard through the crowd, when, as if by magic:ed, the sails dropped instantly, the vessel change d her course ' full 93 degrees, and then shot up the harbour at the rate . of at least 15 miles an hour. The enthusiasm of the . spectators found expression in a loud cheer, which was again and again repeated. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. A CAPITAL MASH.—A n+wv sauce is advertised under the title of Sir Robert Peel's Sauce. It has been concoc . ed, we believe, from his promises that the income-tax should not last longer than three years.—Punch. THE VOLUNTARY SYSTEM.—" I do believe, on my soul, if religion was altogether left to the voluntary in this world, it would die a natural death ; not that men wouldn t support it, but because it would be sapported under false pretences. Truth can't long be upheld by falsehood. Hy pocrisy would change its features, and intolerance its name ; and religion would soon degenerate into a cold, intriguing, unprincipled, merciless superstition, that's a fact."—Sam Slick. The NON-RESIDENT RESIDENT.—" I remember a case in the Exchequer—upon a motion for a new trial, I think. A clergyman, with a small or no family, lived in a large roomy parsonage house. An attorney in the parish , who had a large family, lived in a house so small as to be inconvenient for that family. The attorney proposed to the clergyman to change houses, and the attorney to pay the clergyman a yearly rent of several pounds in conside ration of his residence in the larger and mare valuable house. The year expired, and the attorney not offering to pay the rent, the clergyman applied to him for it; upon which the attorney insisted that this was a most unreason able demand, as he had brought an action against the clergyman for eleven penalties, I think of ten pounds each, for non-residence in the parsonage house, the law then not deeming a clergyman's residence, though in the parish, legal residence, if he did not live in the parsonage house. I remember Baron Eyre said it was the most abominable and impudent transaction that he ever remembered, but that the clergyman could•have no relief."—Life of Eldon. AN ACCOMPLISHED YOUNG LADY,—Her edication 15 slicked off complete ; a mantymaker gets he r up well, and she is sent back to home with the Tower stamp on her, " edicated at a bbardin'-school." She astonishes the natives round about where the old folks live, and makes 'em stare agin, she is so improved. She plays beautiful on the piano two pieces, they were crack pieces, lamed onder the eye and ear of the master ; but there is a secret nobody knows but he—she can't play nothin else. She sings two or three songs, the last lesson larnt to school, and the last she will ever lam. She has two or three beautiful drawtn's ; but there is a secret here too—the master finished 'em, and she can't do another. She speaks French beautiful ; but it's fortunate she ain't in France now, so that secret is safe. She is a very agree able gal, and talks very pleasantly, for she has seen the world. She was to London for a few weeks ; she saw the last play, and knows a great deal about the theatre. She has been to the Opera once, and has seen Celeste, and Fanny Estler, and heard Lablacheend Grisi, and is a, judge of dancin and singin.' She saw the Queen a horse back in the park, and is a judge of ridin' ; and was at a party of Lady Syllabub's, and knows London. This var nish last a whole year. the two new pieces wear out, and the songs get old, and the drawin, s everybody has seed, and the London millinery wants renewin', and the Queen has another Princess, and there is another singer at the Opera, and all is gone but the credit, " she was edicated at a boardin'-school."—Sam Slick in England. Porrsu RAPACITY—Thomas Eastwood, Esq., of Brindle Lodge, near Preston, a highly respectable Roman Catholic in a letter to the London Times refers to the disgraceful case, at Turin, in our last, and says " I am. Sir, a Roman Catholic, and I say it with grief and shame that .I have beheld a parent set against a child, a wife 'against a husband, a brother against a brother, an uncle against a niece, and for no other cause than that by such e,trangement the priest might more securely carry off the property which he coveted. We have, as lamin a situa ation to prove, in this country, many " unscrupulous agents" of the Roman Catholic church ; and the great misfortune is, that the infatuation is so great in the laity, that when facts are placed before them showing the wick edness of certain priests, they will not believe them, and this holds out an inducement to crime. To say a word against the anointed of the Lord,' is by many Catholics looked upon as a mortal sin, and the crafty •` unscrupu lous agents" take advantage of this in the furtherance of their ends. The confessional is a means used by these unscrupulous agents' to perfect their designs, yet your hear them from their pulpits harangue on its inviolability. If we may judge from the conduct of the Vicar Apostolic of Lancashire, neither the profanation of the confessional by a priest nor the dete,table crime of perjury is deserving of his attention or reprobation. I have said enough to waken Roman Catholics who, like myself, venerate their religion to serious reflection ; perhaps, more than enough to rouse a host of bigoted and priest-ridden would-be saints to point their shafts at me. But, being girt with truth, I have nothing to fear." GRADES OF SOCIETY IN SYDNEY.—The distinctions in society here remind me of the " dock-yard people," described by Dickens, that keen and kindly satirist of modern follies. Thus government officers don't know merchants ; merchants with " stores " don't know other merchants who keep " shops ;" and the shopkeepers have , I doubt not, a little code of their own, prescribing the distances to be observed between drapers and haber dashers butchers and pastry cooks. The gener al cha racter of ' the invitations to the entertainments at Govern ment House Eas caused much discussion and animadver sion ; the citizens who drive chariots not liking to be mingled in company with their tradespeople who only keep gigs. But all this pride of munity, were not in its tendency so mischievous, could only provoke a smile. English customs and fashions are carefully fol • lowed, and frequently out done by the more wealthy and (if I may be allowed the phrese, in speaking of com moners) aristocratic of the colonists. Tneir extravagant mode of living, combined with the mania for speculation has greatly contributed to the late and still existing em barrassments of the colony. Many of these houses are elegant villas, with rooms of noble dimensions, expert sively furnished with almost every luxury to be found in a gentleman's residence in England, and environed by beautiful gardens where every description of fruit, both European and tropical, is cultivated. The numerous servants, too, are a great and universal expense. The smaller houses of merchants, and various profes,ional and official men, have much the style of those in suburban streets in England, standing alone or in pairs, all pro tected from the sun by verandas from six to twelve feet wide, with pretty gardens in front, often fenced by high hedges of gay geraniums. Several of these villa streets are very pretty, and a most refreshing contrast to the dust, dirt, noise, and closeness of the lower part of the town, which is, from the climate and other causes, some shades more unpleasant than any place I ever was in be- , fore.—Mrs. Meredith's New South Wales, A RIOT IN.LIVERPOOL IN ANCIENT TIME.—Mem : ye 4th day of September, 1573, a grevious contention and discord sprang betwyxt these two, Barrtley and Sydnam, and Sunday morning next after, being sth Septembir, Roger Sydnam, levet'nent of the Blue Coats about five of the clock, at his uprising, walking and coming forth of Roger Jarnieson's house ' , his host with three or four of his soldiers, and the said Captain Barrtley coming with more company of his motley coats, drew their swords, and set upon the said levet'nent, and forced him and his men for safeguard of their lives to take unto the house and houses over against the ragious persecution of the said Birrtley therein by the good p'vise and fortuneshifts of the wife of the same house, the said Sydnam and his men, all but one, were conveyed into an high top chamber, by the ladder, and so they drawn up•to them in the said Lott, and so escaped death, as it pleased God; but that one soldier which was stayed in the house was to all much s.vinged and beaten, kneeling upon his knees, bareheaded, calling and crying most woefully for mercy and pardon of : upon this the said Captain Barrtley caused that soldier, blew-coat by name, to be set in the stocks at the High Cross of this town of Lyverpoole, and caused a cantill of a chyatboard nayled to his—and there was watched with a dozen tall hint - nen of this town. Roger Sydnam, poor gentleman, was in cover all the whiles aft. It is long to repeat, and more to rehearse, the riots tumult and disorder of the said Captain Barrtley and Motley Coats, and over tedious to write of the spoils of both Motjies and Blue Coats, as well abroad in the country hitherto adjoining, as within this town. Truth is, there Was such surrection stirred up by the said Captain Barrt ley as was never seed in the town and this country, for to be short, Mr. Major and all the town suddenly, as pleased God Almighty, were ready upon the heath of this town, every man with their best weapons, so as by good chance everp householder being at home, Sunday morning, eager as lions, made show almost even like the number of the said captains, and all their soldiers, so as the captain and all their men being arrayed, and there upon the said heath the said Captain Barrtley and all his gentlemen moved, Mr. Maior, and came up to the town in friendship and amity ; and after all this done, the captains and their soldiers were more gentler to deal with, all whiles they abode within this town.—LacT's Pictorial Liverpool. THE NATIONAL SOCIETY.—A long correspondence has recently taken place between the Rev. T. Egerton, rector of Dunningham, in Yorkshire, and Lord Wham cliffe, relative to the animadversions made by his lordship on an assertion of the rev, gentleman, that "whilst an annual grant of £750 had beast made by the Privy Coun cil in the summer of last year to the British and Foreign School Society, in aid of their normal school, an annual grant had been refused to the memorial of the committee of the dioceses of York and Ripon, for the support of their training institutions; and, moreover that no annual grant had been given by the Privy Council to any training institutions connected with the Church." Lord Wham cliffe complained that by this assertion the rev. gentleman had made a false and injurious impress:on against the Committee of Council for Education; for the fact was that a vote of an annual sum of £l,OOO for the mainte nance of the normal schools under the direction of the National Society, and therefore of the Church, was voted by the committee precisely at the same time as that £750 to the British and Foreign School Society for their nor mal schools. To this Mr. Egerton replied that no such gift as an ,annual sum of £lOOO had been obtained by the National Society, because the conditions on which it was offered, would nut be declared by the committee of Council previous to its acceptance, and the society would not come to any resolution respecting the offer until those conditions were made known. Lord Wham cliffe rejoined, that up to the receipt of Mr. Egerton's letter he never had had the least notion that any difficulty existed on tire part of the National Society to accept the grant, and that he had always taken it for granted that the National Society had aeceptcd it. He expressed his conviction that there had been no intention upon the part of the Committee of Council to impose any conditions to which the National Society could object ; and added that a very few words of open and friendly communication with the Committee of Council would have led at once to the dissipation of all doubts on the part of the National Society. Under such circumstances, Lord Wharnchffe declared that he must refuse to retract one word he had said upon the subject, and that he must persist in saying that Mr. Egerton ought to have been more cautious of making any imputations upon apublic body, and of creating unfounded impressions as to the animus with which that body performed the duties intrusted to it. Against this declaration Mr. Egerton once more protested, but considered it useless to prolong a correspondence on which neither party would admit that be was to blame. ANECDOTE OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.—The first and noblest character of the present age to be men tioned in common wi.l. Eton scenes and Eton men, must be the Duke of Wellington. Wellington was an Eton boy, and, if tradition may be credited, a daring and ad venturous one. He seems to have been a lad not given to much study and painful research i to books. Nature having already placed an original stamp upon him, and presented him with the highly favoured signet of her own right hand. He who is now familiarly called the " Iron Duke," might well have been in the earlier stages of life yclept the Iron Boy. Instances of the Duke's hardiness, or rather of young Welleslev's hardiness (as he then simply was) are on record; and among them it is related, that when all the good burgomasters and thrifty trades men of Windsor and Eton had retired to rest, :young Wellesley, on the commencement of a cold winter's night, would be proceeding up old icy Father Thames, in a lonely skiff, to the vicinity of Maidenhead Bridge, and there, wrapt in a single blanket, and watching with single gun, he would be ready by daybreak to get a shot at the wild ducks, or other wild fowl, which were accustomed to congregate under shelter of the eyots, and other har bours of refuge on the Thames. . Every one to his taste," a fashionable dandy will exclaim : but young Wellesley was no man of fashion, and his tastes were all of the dar ing and grand. When we consider the stratagem neces sary at a school like Eton to achieve what Wellesley did'; perhaps the squeezing through a small window, and tra versing frozen roofs of houses ; the obtaining clandestinely the gun, and the skiff, and ammunition, with the convey ance of his blanket, and the needful prog ; and then the difficulty of an undiscovered return, loaded with booty ; let us think of these things, and then acknowledge in the very boy something that prognosticated the wonderful and unexampled career of the European Duke. The poet Wordsworth, another Wellington in his way, has written truly, that " the child is father of the man." Young Wellesley seems to have been liked in his generation at Eton, because his feats were admired by the whole school, and very few could dare to be his companions in many perilous and persevering endeavours in pursuit of a fa vourite object or pastime.—Bentley's Miscellany. THE SOCIALIST SYSTEMS AND FREE SOCIETY CON TRASTED.—Nothing is more charming to the imagination than the first general idea of some new community, where all men are to be happy, every body active, benevolent, reasonable. But the moment we leave this general idea, enter upon particulars, and set about the arrangements necessary for this universally comfortable state of things, there is nothing in the world more tedious and oppressive. Proposals for new political institutions are sufficiently wearisome; but proposals for earthly elysiums, which are to embrace the whole circle of human affairs, become in supportably dull. It is child's play, played with heavy granite boulders. No ' • if we were capable of being seduced for a moment into the belief of some golden age of equality, where a parental government, presiding over all, should secure the peace and prosperity of all, we should need no other argument to recover us from the delusion than sim ply to read on, and learn how this parental government intends to accomplish its purpose. When we find that, in order to be relieved from domestic cares, we are to have no home al all; that our parental government, in order to provide for pur children, begins by taking them away from us; when we picture to ourselves the sort of wooden me lancholy figures we must become, (something like the large painted dolls in a Dutch garden, stuck here and there with out choice or locomotion of their own,) we speedily lose all inclination to enter upon this discipline of happiness. We quit with haste this enchanted garden, which turns out to be an enormous piece of clockwork, and embrace with re newed content the old state of personal freedom, albeit at tended with many personal inconveniences. Whilst read ing of Utopian schemes, the idea has very vividly occurred to us : suppose that some such society as this, where land and wives, money and children, are all in common, had been for a long time in existence, and that some clever Utopian had caught an inkling of the old system so fami liar to us, and had made the discovery that it would be possible, without dissolving society, to have a wife of one's own, a house of one's own, land and children of one's own. Imagine, after an age of drowsy clockwork existence, one of these philosophers starting the idea of a free society, of a social organization based upon individual rights and in dividual effort—where property should not only be pos sessed, but really enjoyed—where men should for the first time stretch their limbs, and strain their faculties, and strive, and emulate, and endure, and encounter difficul ties, and have friendships. What a commotion there would be ! How would the younger sort, rebelling against the old rotten machine in which they had been incarce rated, form themselves into emigrating bands, and start forth to try upon some new soil their great experiment of a free life ! How would they welcome toil in all its seve rity—how willingly practise abstinence, and suffer priva tion, f, r the sake of the bold rights which these would pur chase!—how willingly take upon themselves the responsi bility of their own fate to enjoy a fortune of their own shaping ! Hope herself would start from the earth where she had been so long buried, and waving her rekindled torch, lead on to the old race of life !—Blackwood. MODERN JERUSALEM GRAPHICALLY DE*CRIRED.7— We ascended a mountain ridge, strewed over with enor mous grey rocks, piled one on another as if by human hands. Here and there a few stunted vines, yellow with the colour of autumn, crept along the soil in a few places cleared in the wilderness. Fig-trees, with their tops wi thered or shivered by the blasts, often edged the vines,. and cast their black fruit on the grey rock. On our right, the desert of St. John, where formerly " the voice was heard crying in the wilderness," sunk like an abyss in the midst of five or six black mountains, through the openings of which, the sea of Egypt, overspread with a dark cloud, could still be discerned. On the left, and near the eye, was an old tower, placed on the top of a projecting eminence ; other ruins, apparently of an ancient aquaduct, descended from that tower, overgrown with verdure, now in the sear leaf ; that tower is Modin, the stronghold and tomb of the last heroes of sacred story,. the Maccabees. We left behind us the ruins, resplendent with the first rays of the morning—rays, not blended as in Europe in a confused and vague illumination, 'but dart ing like arrows of fire tinted with various colours, issuing from a dazzling centre, and diverging over the whole heavens as they expand. Some were of blue, slightly sil vered, others of pure white, some of tender rose-hue,. melting into grey; many of burning fire, like the corus cations of a flaming conflagration. All were distinct, yet all united in one harmonious whole, forming a resplendent arch in the heavens, encircling, and issuing from a centre of fire. In proportion as the day advanced, the brilliant light of these separate rays was gradually dimmed—or rather, they were blended together, and composed the co lourlesslight ofday. Teen the moon, which stillshoneover head, " paled her ineffectual fire," and melted away in the general illumination of the heavens. After having ae cended a second ridge, more lofty and naked than the former, the horizon suddenly opens to the right, and pre sents a view of all the country which extends between the last summits of Judea and the mountains of Arabia. It was already flooded with the increasing light of the morn ing ; but beyond the piles of grey rock which lay in the foreground, nothing was distinctly visible but a dazzling space, like a vast sea, intersperced with a few islands of shade, which stood forth in the brilliant surface. On the shores of that imaginary ocean, a little to the left, and about a league distant, the sun shone with uncommon brilliancy on a massy tower, a lofty minaret, and some edifices, which crowned the summit of a low hill of which you could not see the bottom. Soon the points of other minarets, a few loopholed walls, and the dark summits of several domes, which successively came into view, and fringed the descending slope of the hill, announced a city. It was Jerusalem, and every one of the party, without addressing a word to the guides or to each other, enjoyed in silence the entrancing spectacle. We rested our horses to contemplate that mysterious and dazzling apparition ; hut when we moved on, it was soon snatched from our view ; for as we descended the hill, and plunged into the deep and profound valley which lay at its feet, we lost sight of the holy city, and were sumunded only by the solitude and desolation of the desert.—Lanzaetine's 7 ravels. PAISLEY IN 1800 AND 1841.—From 1790 to 1800 nearly one half of Paisley was built by weavers from savings of their ordinary wages. Every house had its garden ; and every weaver being his own master, could work it when he pleased. Many were excellent florists, many possessed a tolerable library, and all were politicians, so that about the period of the French Revolution, Mr. Pitt expressed more fear of the unrestricted political discussions of the Paisley weavers, than 10,000 armed men. Had Paisley been then what Paisley is now, crowded with half-in formed Radicals and Infidels, his fears would have been justified ; but truth and honest dealing could fear nothing from a community constituted as Paisley then was ; and never, perhaps, in the liitory of the world, was there a more convincing proof of the folly of being afraid of a universal and thorough education, especially when im pregnated with the Religion of the Bible, than in the state of Paisley at that period. At the period alluded to, every man, woman, and child, above eight or nine yea• a of age, could read thc Bible ; and many could write and cast accounts • and not a few of the weaver's sons went throgh a regular course at the grammar-school. To have had a distant relative unable to read, or one sent to prison, would have been felt as equally disgraceful. The inha bitants were so universally regular in their attendance upon church, and strict afterwards in keeping in-doors, that it is recollected, at the end of the last century, or the commencement of the present, that not a hying crea ture, save two or three privileged blackguards, were ever seen walking the streets after Divine service ; or if any chanced to appear. an errand for the doctor was supposed to be the probable cause. In 1818-19, during the Radical period, there were found full three thousand, Paisley-born and Paisley-bred, who could not read ; and the decline of intelligence has been followed by the decline of that tem perance, prudence and economy, which are the cardinal virtues of the working-classes, by which alone they can elevate their condition, or preserve themselves from sink ing into the most abject poverty. The Paisley weaver of forty years ago married early, because he foresaw that he could, in decency, support a family, and even save some thing for sickness, or age, or the fluctuations of hid trade. The Paisley weaver lad, in 1842, marries equally early on a pittance that scarcely supports himself ; because he has neither judgment to reflect on the misery which he is en tailing on himself and others, nor moral principle to feel the solemn obligations of the state into which he is enter ing. Those who have no consideration concerning the things of this life, are not likely to have any forethought regarding the life to come ; and just in proportion as the modern Paisley weaver is without religion. does he despise it. All clergy are necessarily hypocrites, as all kings and magistrates, in their estimation, tyrants. Uni tarianism, Infidelity, or reckless profanity, too generally abound • and the popular cry is against all the Church Establishments, ' however much demanded by the poverty and irreligion of our own town ; and against all distinc tions of ranks. Thus, measuring themselves by them selves, they would reduce society to their own level. Paisley thus furnishes an affecting illustration of the de claration of holy writ, "'That righteousness exalteth a city ; but sin is the ruin of any people."—North Briti:h Review. TOWN EDITION. LONDON NEWS OF YESTERDAY. MARK-LANE CORN EXCHANGE. During the pint week rather an extensive supply of Eng'ish Wheat came to hand from Lincolnshire, but from Essex and Kent the receipts of that article of grain were only to a mode rate extent. Of other kinds of grain the arrivals were by no means large. Fresh up the supplies of Wheat coastwise, as well as by land carriage and sample, were only moderate, yet we had rather an extensive show of parcels of both red and white, ow ing to which the demand for all kinds cf Wheat of home pro duce was in a very sluggish stag. However, the finest quali ties were mostly disposed of at fully last week's quotations, but all other kinds were a mere drag at barely late rates. The ge neral condition of the samples was inferior. The imports of foreign Wheat have been small, and we had very few samples here to-day. Generally speaking, holders were firm. The finest qualities commanded a fair inquiry, at very full prices. in other kinds next to nothing was doing. A few speculative sales took place in bonde d Barley; but other Corn, under lock, was almost nominal in value. The show of Barley was tolerably extensive. Fine parcels so dat a decline of Is. ; other kinds Is. to 2s. per qr., and a large portion remained over for Wednesday. The Malt trade was very dull, and, in some instances, the rates were somewhat easier. The show of Oats was good, while all descriptions met a slow in quiry, at barely last week's quotations. In Beans very little was doing, at an abatement of is. per quarter. Gray and Ma ple Peas were Is. per quarter cheaper, Flour, and all other ar ticles, were very dull. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. Wheat, Essex and Kent. Red White Norfolk and Lincoln, red White Irish, red White s. d. s. d 40 0 59 0 46 0- 56 0 38 0 46 0 42 0 50 0 30 0-34 0 35 0— 36 0 27 0-32 0 • 35 0 39 0 • 38 0-40 0 • 58 0-62 0 ▪ s 6 0-60 0 • 63 0 64 0 61 o 66 o • 22 0 23 0 • 24 0 25 0 21 0-22 0 22 0 —23 0 23 0 24 0 36 0-37 0 38 0— 42 0 36 0 —37 0 36 0 —4O 0 36 0 38 0 38 0 43 0 40 0 45 0 33 0 35 0 33 0-35 0 Rye, old New Barley, Grinding Malting Chevalier Malt, Suffolk and Norfolk Brown Kingston and Ware . Chevalier Oats, Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, feed Potatoe Youghall and Cork, black Cork, white Scotch, feed Beans, tick Pigeons: Pease, Grey Maple White Boilers Flour, town made Suffolk Stockton and Norfolk FOREIGN GRAIN AND FLOUR IN BOND. Wheat,Dantzie... Hamburg 32 0 - 36 0 Barley .. Oats, new .. Feed 30 0 - - 27 0 - 29 0 17 0 - 18 0 15 11 - 17 0 N 0 - 29 0 . .. . - 32 0 21 0 - - 20 0 - - Peas Flour, American Waldo SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET. Compared with that exhibited on many previous Monday's, the supply of Beasts on sale was but moderate, while its gene ral quality was very interior. The Beef trade this morning was active, at an advance in the currencies obtained on this day se'nnight of quite 2d. per 81bs. ; the best Scots, &c. readily pro ducing 4s 2d per Sibs.. and at which improvement a clearance was effected without difficulty. During the week the imports of live stock at Hull have amounted to 96 Beasts and 40 Sheep; in London 72 Oxen and Cows, exclu sive of 40 Sheep. To-day we had only five Beasts and 20 Sheep of fering from Holland. The whole found buyers at a trifle more money. The arrival of Beasts from Lincolnshire, I.eicestershire, and Northamptonshire amounted to about 1,400 Short Horns. From Norfolk, Sussex, Essex, and Cambridgeshire, 300 Scots, &c. from the Western and Midland Counties, 600 Devons, Herefords, Bunts, Irish Beasts, &c ; from other parts of England, NO of va rious breeds, and from Scotland 200 Horned and Polled Scots. The supply of Sheep was only moderate, hut quite equal to meet the wants of tile buyers.- Prime old Downs commanded a steady inquiry, at an advance in the quotations of 2d. per Sibs., the highest figure being 4S. 2d. ; but in the value of other qua lities no var]ation was noticed. The Veal trade was extremely inactive. There was a steady business doing in the primest Pigs, but other qualities were a mere drug. Per Bibs. to sink the offal. s. d. s. d., s. d. s. d. Inferior Beasts.... 2 6 2 E:Second quality do. 3 4 3 8 Second quality do. 2 10— 3 2'Coarse do. 3 8— 3 10 Prime large Oxen. 3 4 3 SlSoutlidownWethers 4 4 2 Prime Seote,. &c... 3 10— 4 2 Do. out of the wool Coarse Calves .... 3 C— 3 bi Large gs Small do. ...... 3 8— 4 tiStnall Porkers Suckling do. each.; 8 0-30 1 , ;(4r. old Pigs, each 16 0—."0 0 Inferior Sheep.... 3 0— 3 21Lambs SUPPLY AT MARKET. Beasts, 3,330 Sheep, 27,210.... Calves, 51.... Pigs, 450. DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.—Perhaps one of the most ar- Lcting suicidal tragedies that has happened in the metro polis for many years occurred yesterday at a very early hour, a' tce dwelling of a Mr. Duckett, an accountant. No. 9, Haven-row, Mile •end, viz „the self destruction of Charles Win. Duckett, aged 21, son, and Elizabeth Wil hams, aged 22, lovers, from the effects of prussic acid. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY.—During Sunday last a robbery took place at the bank of Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co., St. Clement's-lane, and notes and gold to the amount of £40,000 were stolen. It appears that the money was deposited in the iron safe ; and, as usual, a clerk was ap pointed to watch ouer its safety during the day, and ano ther clerk to perform the like duty during the night. One of the partners remaining at home on Sunday, the day clerk asked permission to go out for a few hours, which was granted. At the accustomed hour in the evening the other clerk came, and remained during the night ; but when business was resumed yesterday, and the iron safe opened with the ordinary key, it was found entirely empty; and yet no force whatever had been used to rid the chest of its valuable contents. Of course, all is conjecture upon the subject. Notes to the amount of £35,000 have been stopped at the Bank. GENERAL MISCELLANY. Mr. Scott has contradicted the report of his intention to resign the representation of Walsall. The ship Isabella, of Leith, was wrecked on Fluider's Island, Bass's Straits, on the 22nd June. Crew saved. The hands at Stockport have returned to work, at an advance of five per cent. on their wages. The Glasgow Herald mentions a lame beggar, horribly distorted, who maintained bis father, mother, brothers, and sisters in idleness. His r e cei p ts averaged lOs. a day. EARL OF Di BART. — The consistory court have granted the prayer of this eccentric nobleman for a restitution of conjugal rights. On Friday evening six sheep, which had strayed upon the Hull and Selby Railway, were run over by the mail train, and killed upon the spot. On Sunday week K. H. Hoppner, Esq. many years since a judge in Bengal, and lately resident in Bath, com mitted suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. On the 7th instant, a boat was upset in Kirkwall Bay, Scotland, and nine persons who were in it met a watery grave. The borough fund of the City of York is enriched £3OO by the refusal of the three members of the Council first elected to serve the office of Mayor. - - On Saturday week, and again on Monday night week,. an extra Gazette was published, consisting together of fifty-six sheets, containing almost exclusively notices con cerning railway and other private bills. Mr. Locke, the eminent engineer, has received from the King of the French a magnificent diamond ring, for his attention to his Majesty on the South-Western Rail way. There are now residing near Hubbertstone, Pembroke shire, a brother and sister. Henry and Margaret Banner, of the respective ages of 97 and 101, the latter of whom can read well , ithout the use of glasses. THE MINISTRY AND THE EAST INDIA COALIPANY A London contemporary announces that ministers medi tate a complete change in the Government of India, by introducing a measure next session tantimou-it to the ex tinction of political power of the Court of Directors. FIRES IN LONDON.—No fewer than 800 fires have oc curred in the present year in London, but they have not been of so extensive a character as In former years. The number of lives lost, however, we regret to say. much greater than the average. No FOG IN WALES.—A Welshman has almost as little idea of a fog as a Japanese or torrid-zone man has of ice. While London has been enveloped in fog we have had a clear blue sky, a bright sun, and weather such as would convert the coldest utilitarian into a worshipper of naeure, amidst the scenery' of South Wales.—Welshman. MORTALITY IN LONDON.—The total number of deaths in the metropolis during the week ending last Saturday was 1,072, showing a considerable increase of mortality probably caused by the unseasonable state of the last ten days. The weekly average for the last five years has been 9 , 16. IMPORTS.—The steamer from Rotterdam has this week brought 100 quarters of garden beans for seed, 910 bushels of onions, with several sheep, swan geese and wild ducks. Considerable imports of French apples have also been made this week, principally from Ostend and Dunkirk. — Hull Packet. On Monday week the sloop Ranger, of about 80 tons burden, belonging to Goole, and laden with potatoes. came in contact with a collier brig in the river, below Graves. end. The sloop sunk almost imediately, and carried with her the master, who perished. The rest of the crew were saved. On the 11th inst. two men, carriers, were returning from I'ocklington to Leeds, with three carts laden with passengers, when they commenced racing, and one of the carts, with seventeen persons in, was overturned, and two women, one of them the wife of the driver, were inquest aeftAfeoruttiahl killed. The men have been committed to York castle on a charge of manslaughter. lt few hours, eprivationstshtteohilesr pulverisedsp waternrboo y-t which ad it g c e c, willuw endured. water.t OCCURRENCE. — On l a l , b EI IcE. 0 n MondayApoTwater,spossesses s. an inquest was held at Camberwell, on the body of Mr. Mason, for merly a merchant in very good , ircurostances who died solely from want, which he chose rather to endure ' than go into the workhouse. His daughter appeared at the heart-rendin g b de l etl detail ofn° f t ut t . sapgptieeuiu S nrrrmtre r i : efr d a o P l alsfri;tptEprtukihtrihneilklao:lttwenii sprinkled Into that OF a ; o hogshead PURIFYINGongdshd ea d alum o W f precipitating pailful co nt a i t n o in t g he four bottomgallo gallons, s h , e m ilD ay pu b r e e particles,purified r i fie b y so a possess nearly all the freshness and clearness of the finest spring water. A single teaspoonful. Beans Nov. 26, 1814. THE:FRUITS OF THE EARTH. — Fine strawberries, ot perfect growth and flavor, were gathered on Monday week, in East-street, and ripe raspberries appear in various grounds in this vicinity. Potatoes of the best quality are selling in this town and neighbourhood from 3s. to 3s. 6d per bag of eight score (1601bs.)— Taunton Courier. the INSANITY AMONG QUAKERS. — It appears from number of inmates in the Retreat of years, that, com pared with the total number of Friends in England and Scotland, the proportion of insane is somewhat less than 3 in 1,000. This is a much larger portion than prevails among the rest of the community. THE SUGAR DUTIES.—We cannot learn that any free labour sugar whatever has been entered since the new law came into operation on the 10th instant ; but if there has been any, it has been quite insignificant in quantity, and its effects have been much more than counteracted by the news of the destruction of the sugar in Cuba in the recent hurricane. INSTINCT OF RATS.—An old man named Turner, living on Cotton's Common, while gripping last week in a piece of land in Bardelph parish, cut into a rat's cave, where he discovered two pecks and a half of beans carefully packed up. They had been carried, no:doubt, one by one, and boared up for the winter. He took his prize home for his pig. —Stamford Mercury. A short time ago, some thieves tied the handle of the shop-door of Mr. Stevenson, pawnbroker, College-stree t, Bristol, and then deliberately dashed in a pane of the window, and grasped 28 gold wedding rings. Mr. S. wit ceased the felony, and succeeded in snatching two gold watches which hung near the rings from their reach • but being unable to get the door open for some tim e, escaped escaped with their booty. SUICIDE FROM DISAPPOINTED AFFECTION.—An in quest was held at Bronapton on the body of a soldier o f the 11th Regiment, who had shot himself while on duty in his sentry-box, in Chatham Dockyard. The mother of a girl whom the deceased had desired to marry stated that on the morning he committed the dreadful deed she had told him it was no use his seeking her daughter, for that the was about to be married to another man. The deceased; she said, shed tears. She told him it was of no use his fretting—she thought nothing about hiene THE BRAIN.—At the inquest held on Monday week upon a person who survived for three doe s a dreadful in jury of the brain, Mr. Wakley said that a short time ago a man was struck on - the head with a pickaxe, and that although his brains escaped from the wound and be smeared his hand, he was able to run without assisstance to the London Hospital. Upon arriving at the Hospital he was asked how he felt, when he replied that he was m uch better since he lost his brains. Mr. Wakley fur ther said that it was almost incredible how long persons surviDveidssiennjtuerrielsatoeflythiensburraeind in a London fire-office, and . A had the misfortune to be burnt out. In the policy of in surance was a clause, that the minister and churchwar dens of the parish shall certify or declare that the fire has happened by a simple accident. Being a Dissenter, and opposed to church rates, and because the minister really does not know whether the fire took place by accident or design, the minister and churchwardens refuse to make the declaration. Counsel have been consulted upon this clause, and it is said to be fatal to the goodness of the • claim. FATAL ACCIDENT AT KINGSTON RUSSELL.—A most distressing accident happened at Kingston Russell on Friday, the Bth inst. Mr. and Mrs. J. Homer, of Mar tinstown, had been spending that day with a party of friends and relations, at the house of Mr. Sansom, at Kingston Russell. On departing about 11 at night in their four-wheel carriage, the night being dark, shortly after leaving the house, the horse went too near the bank, and the vehicle was overturned, the splashing-beard strik ing Mrs. Homer's chest, and, melancholy to relate, in few moments she breathed her last. Mr. Homer escaped uninjured. The deceased lady was in the prime of life, and has left a family of young children.—Sherboree Journal. MURDER.—On Tuesday, night last, a very shocking murder was committed at Yarmouth, Norfolk upon the body of Harriet Candler, a poor widow woman, who kept a small chandler's shop there, last Saturday, the deceased had received £l5O as a portion of her husband's mother and uncle's property, and having no present use for it, she bad probably told her neighbours that she should put it under her bed till her son came home. This seems to have excited the cupidity of the murderer, for early on Tuesday night, the door of her room was found open, and she herself lying down by the side of the till, literally deluged in blood, her scull having five wounds upon R- A knife, covered with blood, lay by her, but the surgeon thought the fatal wound had been inflicted by re" cheese cutter," used in her trade. The money was gone from under the bed, and also the till money. COSTLY VIOLINS.—A sale has been concluded at Cre naorne House, Chelsea, of a variety of articles made use` of at t e different public entertainments offered there by the Baron de Berenger. Among the lots offered were twee violins, one made by Maximilian Zacher, in the year 1752, and the other by Jacobus Stainer, in 1650. The auc tioneer stated that there were many instances of violins by these unrivalled masters producing considerable sums. and he alluded to the singular terms of sale of one to• Count Trantrnansdorf, Master of the Horse to Charles VI., who, after paying down a large sum of money, agreed to pay a certain number of dollars till his death, which, with other gifts, amounted to between 8000 and 9000 dol lars, or about £6OO. The same violin is now in the pos session of an eminent musician.- The Stainer violin was sold for 55 guineas, the first offer being 25 guineas. The Zaf her violin was knocked down for 30 guineas. THE PLEASURES OF HANGING.—At an inquest on the body of a person who had committed suicide the other day, Mr. Wakley, the coroner, observed it was extraor dinary how pleasing the effects of banging were. That was apparent from the fact, that of all the persons who committed suicide by hanging, the majority were found either in a sitting posture or with their feet or knees touching the ground. In one instance a young lady, who was watched by two females, one at either side of her bed, strangled herself with the strings of her night-dress,with ont their knowledge. On another occasion a man hung himself while stretched upon his face, with his nose al most touching the ground. A short time since he held an inquest at Balls Pond upon a man who having hung himself up,. the cord broke before he was dead, and be survived the attempt thirty-five hours. He stated that he had enjoyed the most pleasing sensations while sus pended. Persons who committed suicide by hanging went off in a sleep and died without pain. He didor n speak of malefactors hanged at the Old Bailey, whose necks were broken, but of those a ho, like the deceased , hung themselves without subjecting their bodies to a jerk. In the latter case neither was the neck broken nor was the windpipe closed, but a congestion of the brain ensued , which caused death. SINGULAR INCIDENT.—Between two and three MOTO' S ago we announced that an infant female chil d bad been found covered up in a basket amongst the goods at the railway station at Ayr. It was ascertained that the par eel had been handed in to the booking-office at Glasgow on the preceding day—hart been carried down on th e goods truck, and locked up all night in one of the out houQes at the station, when the attention of the Pottes was only directed to it by some faint cries issuing frfeln the basket, while they were turning over an d arrang' t bales and boxes for delivery. That the life of one young and tender—for the infant was believed to be en t a fortnight old — could have been sus tained under su e% trying circumstances is not a little remark able ; but t" forsaken " wee lassie" was immediately put to a nurse ; she has thriven apace, and is now a healthy an d interest ing chill. For long the authorities were in search of the mother who could send h r child on such a perilous ney, and we learn that, within these last few days, they have succeeded in tracing her out, and apprehending her. She was brought to Glasgow from her father's residence; who is a respectable small farmer in the neighbourlitioa of Ayr ; and has since been com mitted for trial. IV child is illegitimate, of cours e, and the girl, we bel ver ie states that her irgention was to send it to her father Ayr. —Glasgow Herald'. NEW BOILER.—At the British Association, Mr. Fah' bairn described a newly invented boiler, which seemed, tOl posse ss many excellent qualities for the economy and the prevention of smoke. The boiler was of a yeti s i m ple construction, of the cylindrical form, and contai ne f two internal flues, about 2 feet 6 inches diameter exte e ,r; ing the whole length of the boiler. Each flue cont "- separate furnace, which, surrounded in every direction bir water, formed ready absorbents for the radiant beat , as passed off from the fire. On this plan the gassee. fro both fires were carried forward through the whole leng`a of the flues to the opposite end, where they unite, ' l 9 where a new and additional process of combustion take _t place. From the description tnus given, it would apP e l, that the operations of the double flues were usef ul in eet fecting the ignition of the gasses as they came i n conts: f b respectively from each furnace. The original intentioa 01't the double flues and fires was not to lessen the sm oke, to enlarge the steam span, and prevent what is techniea7 called priming in the boiler ; it, however, exhibited pe c k, liar properties, and by a simple process of firin g the Irueet naces alternately, the whole phenomena of nearly pere . , 0 combustion is accomplished. To effect these objectalt;), o nly necessary to charge the furnaces alternately e'leas. half hour, and it will be found that during the time ,4 fire is replenished with fuel, the other is making gas' 8,0 the currents from the clear burning fire passing off 0 7 e a higher temperature than the carbonaceous matter evoivito in the newly charged furnace, the prod ucts are i g nited v ice moment they come in contact, and the nuisance o f sea by these simple means prevented. fp RECEIPT STAMPS.—IMPORTANT SUGGESTION• I E the city article of the London Times of Thurs day, is remarked that " the subject of the stamp on receiPin, one which engages some attention among the trading 0 . terest, and a suggestion has been made by an intell,g`tbe member of that interest, following the principle nreeee universal penny postage, to tax all receipts for surnsale'nee £5 at ld. only, and make it compulsory to give sta receipts in all cases, which he thinks woul d produ. eseot revenue of £1,000,000, while the tax yields at the P to time a sum less than £200,000." The writer oses goes the say that the respectable party alluded to prop ths';_re, paper to be used shall be issued, stamped , as beretotaeper by the Government, which is to print on the same se. a form of receipt ; besides which , he wou ld allow a eeer knowledgments of the receit of money written on lf s t i ra which bears the Post-offices tamp, as evidence of Pe ni s, through the Post-office, to be considered legal reea.!evt, All other paper to be used as invoices, accourits-ealli.e. &c., to be found by persons requiring it, and to beoP.es, sented for stamping at the Stam p -office. He prePe'eof also, that all banker's ch ecks should have the Pre'del stamp attached to them , which will make them i;!se, vouchers, instead of being the means cornmonly,i.a.. as they now are, of evadin g the tax altogether. the be, culation of the amount to be raised is admitted ,?1,16; startling, but it is added that it appears at least pn" s '_. and the plan would induce better habits of busine e_oe taking vouchers for all payments, a practice which e tv ei .:t prevent litigation and disputes. It would also Pre ! eel , / country bankers from evading the provisions of th e 1 0, Bank Act, which is of daily occurrence in various waY