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Eagraturr. N OTICE The Mountain Minstrel, By Edward M'Coll London Smith This volume contains many beautifully and correctly written pieces and songs—several, however, are capable of much improvement. We perceive in the composition much originality of mind, depth of feeling, and, occasion ally, elegance of expression. The book deserves to occupy no mean place among our literary productions. The following poem we select, not by any means as the best, but because none.of our readers would thank us for a lengthy poetic piece. O why am I sad when I leave my own Cot? Why the green ferny dell not in absence forgot Fair scenes, where first bashful the love-song I wove, Why seem ye still fairer the farther I rove? Why are friendship's fond accents, unheeded before, Now thought on with rapture, a thousand times o'er? 'Midst nature's fair grandeurs half mournful wky roam? Let him answer who wanders from friendship and Home Tjiough bind be the strangerthe city though Cie— Tliough Art's thousand triumphs to charm me'combins— Tl%ugh rich be the banquet. and high be the cheer, Why still am I joyless ?—My home is not here. 'Tis there smile the faces most lovely to me, There nature's wild graces unrivall'd I see; From an Eden afar I, with transports, would come To the Glen of my birth—to my sweet Highland Home! Bradshaw's General Railway Directory, Shareholder's Guide, Manual, and Altnanack for 1850, London, W. J. Adams, 59, Fleet-street; Manchester, Bradshaw and Blacklock, 47, Bro wn -street, The excellent work before us contains • and of infor mation of the most valuable descr* • on, especially to those interested as owners, or othe •ise, in railway stock. In addition to an almanack, it . ntains a carefully com piled manual, " shewing the . :e and progress and present position of the railways of e United Kingdom, including those established in Brit'. possessions and dependencies abroad; also of such .reign railways as have been most known in this coun •," by Mr. John Edwards, secretary to the Mancheste •took Exchange, the data brought up to the 15th De • ber last. The Directory furnishes the localities of t. head offices of each company, the names of the direc •rs, secretaries, &c„ in short, everything re quired in . ch a book of reference. An excellent map of the rail •ays of the United Kingdom is prefixed, and the work neatly got up in cloth boards, gilt letters. The price is the very reasonable one of half-a-crown. VARIETIES, PATMos.—Patmoa is a small, rocky isle, with not a tree visible upon it, like most of the islands we have seen. There is little cultivation, although a considerable hamlet is seen clustering on the hill-side, while a castel lated building crowns the summit. It is said that the inhabitants are supported almost entirely by the proceeds of the sponge fisheries along its rocky shores.—Expedi tion to the Jordan. RECORDS OF A HEAD DRESS.—At the ball at Notting.. ham, in honour of Lord Howe's victory of the Ist of June, 1794, amid the glare of diamonds, pearls, and other jewels, ostrich feathers and flowers, Mrs. Muster's head dress was, with admirable taste, a simple wreath formed from a branch of natural oak; three acorns from this chaste and apposite appendage were, after breakfast the following morning, planted in presence of the company, by the Countess Howe, on the lawn at Colwick—all the acorns grew, were " tenderly cared for," and are now handsome trees.—Biography of "Jack Musters," in Sporting Rev. BYGONE WINTERS.—The following is an extract from the Newcastle Chronicle of January 29, 1780 : On Monday, a funeral passed over the ice at Cocksgreen, on the river Wear, to Washington church. It appears by chronological tables that England has been visited by long and severe frosts in the years 1638, 1661, 1684, 1708, 1716, 1739, 1771, 1774, 1776. The Gateshead Observer adds, that in the year 220 Great Britain endured a five months' frost; in 250 the Thames was frozen nine weeks ; in 291, most of our rivers were frozen six weeks; in 359, Scotland had fourteen weeks of frost ; in 508, the rivers of Britain were frozen up above two months ; in 695, the Thames frozen six weeks, and booths built on the ice ; in 760, a frost began which endured from October 1 to February 26 ; in 827, a nine weeks' frost; in 859 and 860 the Adriatic and Mediterranean were frozen over • in 908, most of the English rivers frost-bound. In 1716 a fair was held on the Thames, and again in 1814. In the latter year the Tyne was frozen to the depth of twenty inches. The frosts of 1739 and 1780, recorded by the Newcastle Chronicle in its youth, endured—the former 103 days, and the latter 84. A BLACK PRINCE IN AMERICA.—Boyer had been making a lengthened stay in Paris, where he had been received as a gentleman and a man of education. He had been a frequent guest at the Tuilleries, and had been received on familiar terms at the houses of the foreign ministers. But why recapitulate where he had been, and what description of reception he had met with ? He was received as a gentleman—what more can I say ?—and enjoyed himself in the best society of Paris. An unlucky fancy, however, seized upon Boyer, which was no other than to vary the pleasant monotony of his life by visiting the United States. The idea was no sooner conceived than acted on, and he and his sable suite took passage across the Atlantic, and in due time arrived at New York. In common with every one else who visits this country, he repaired to the " City of Hotels," the Astor House. When, lo ! to his astonishment and dismay, he found thr doors of the establishment closed against him and his ! They did not take in Niggers The poor prince next tried to gain admittance to two other hotels, with equally ill success. There was no home in the free (1) city for the black man 1 At last, a despised liquor shop was pointed out to him, whose owner earned a wretched live lihood by affording nightly shelter to these condemned specimens of the human race ; and there the man who was, in civilized Europe, a prince, and, what is afar more distinguished title—a gentleman —was glad to lay his head. At the theatre, similar slights and indignities were offered to him, and the next day, indignant and disgusted at the manner in which he had been treated, Boyer and his suite took their departure, and shaking from off his feet the dust of the great republican city, declared that he must go elsewhere, if he hoped to find freedom, for that there it was not.—Mrs. Houstoun's I Travels in the West. GOD IN PROVIDENCE.—The same God, we also learn, who is revealed in the Bible, is felt in providence, and heard and seen in history. The shortest text and the longest chapter. the most precious promise and the most startling theatening, in the Bible, are alike inspired by God. So in the history of the world, the minutest inci dent and the most momentous revolution—the sparrows' flight and the angel's worship, are alike under the cog nizance, subject to the control, and associated with the ultimate purposes of God. All the action of Providence, notwithstanding its apparent antagonism, is really the continuous carrying out of the plans, predictions, and purposes of God. God pronounced the character of the future, and promotes what he has predicted without ceas ing. The little flock, the church of Christ, we see has outlived all trials and survived all shocks, and has given evidence at every stage of its history and development that the gates of hell shall never prevail against it. The church may be in danger, the chapel may be deserted, the ministers of both may become apostate, but the everlast ing Gospel survives—makes the tomb of all the platform on which it concentrates its force, that it may rise and soar with the speed and splendour of an angel's wing. Christ remains the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever. His church shares in his glory. Let us always distin guish between the truth of Christ and the smoke that dar kens it, or the apostacy that overlays it—the one goes, the other abides. The inexperienced eye, seeing the drift resting on the mountain side, concludes that it is part of the mountain itself; and when the wind sweeps the drift away, the unpractised spectator is apt to imagine that part of the mountain is gone—but it is not so ; it still stands to attract from the clouds that sweep over it the blessings which they bear, and to send them down its sides to re fresh and moisten the drooping heath-bell, and to form streams which gladden, as they go, a thousand valleys, and sweep onward to the main. Thus superstitions, and apostasies, and errors. and controversies rage within and without, and all around the sides of the mountain of the Lord's house, and dart their lightnings and emit their thunders, but they do not make or unmake the mountain; its glorious summit rises high above the tumult, and burns with perpetual sunshine, and all night long is visited by troops of stars. Heaven and earth may pass away ; the grass may wither, and the flower may fade; but the word of the Lord endureth for ever : and this is the word which by the Gospel is preached unto you.—Cumming. AN AMBASSADOR'S TREATMENT AND REVENGE. Oliver St. John, when Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, was despatched to Holland, as ambassador, against his will :—" Ascham, another parliamentary ambassador, had lately been assinated by the Royalists at Madrid ; and St. John, dreading a similar fate, presented a petition that he might be excused, alleging his important judicial duties at home, his infirm health, and the insalubrity of the climate ; but his timidity was derided, and upon a division his petition was dismissed by a large majority. He was allowed -£lO,OOO to pay his expenses, and 40 attendants to protect him. Accordingly, he made the public entry into the Hague with a retinue and parade becoming the rep resentative of a powerful nation ; but the populace saluted him with groans and hisses, and the Royalists were not only resolved to insult him on every occasion, but to offer violence to his person. Edward, a son of the Queen of Bohemia, publicly called him a rogue and a dog; and the Duke of York, with the Princess Henrietta on his arm, meeting him by accident near a turnstile at Verhout, there was a struggle which should pass first ; upon which the prince snatched th e am b assa d or ' s hat off his hea d , an d threw it in his face, saying, ` Learn, parricide ! to respect the brother of your king.' The ambassador replited—` I regard neither you nor the p erson o f w h om you spea k b ut as a race of fugitives.' Sw or d s were drawn, and it was enfl.y 4y the interference of the spectators that fighting was P/evented. Afterwardsl ther e was an attempt made to break into St. John s house by ruffians who had a rope with them, with which they meant to st rang l e hi m. O n various pretences the States General refused to grant any redress, and put off from time to time the matters that were to be negociated. St. John returned home abruptly, vowing vengeance, and he was not a man to let his re sentment pass off in empty words. He delivered to the parliament an inflamed account of the manner in which the English nation had been wronged in his person. Next he pointed out a plan in which ample punishment might be inflicted on the offending parties. Hitherto the Dutch had been the great carriers for the English as well as other European nations ; and he proposed an ordinance to enact ' that no goods, th e p ro d uce of Asia, Afr i ca, or America should be imported into this country in ships which were not the property of English subjects ; and that no goods, the produce or manufacture of any part of Europe, should be imported unless in English ships, or ships of the country where such goods were pro d uced or manufactured.' The ordinance was quickly passed, and was confirmed by an act of parliament on the Restora tion."—Campbell's Lives qf the Chief Justices. PROFESSOR SEDGWICK AT SCARBOROUGH.—lllustra tive of Professor Sedgwick's humour for a joke, a story is told, that when once on a visit to Scarborough, where he had an engagement to dine, he stopped by the way side, and perching himself on a heap of stones, as is his wont, pulled out his geological hanimer, and began hammering away in fine style. While thus engaged, a lady drove up in a four-wheel chaise. Interested, apparently, in his labour, and mistaking him for a stone-breaker—for the professor is riot very particular in the matter of dress when on geological excursions—the lady, after asking a few questions as to whether he could earn his living by his occupation, how many children he had, and if he had brought them up to stone-breaking, to all of which the professor replied with befitting thankfulness and humi lity. gave him a shilling and drove off. On his arrival at Scarborough, whom should he meet at the table of his friend but the lady in question ! The lady did not recog nise him in his more civilised attire, but expressed her conviction that she had seen his face before. " Oh, yes, ma'am," replied Professor Sedgwick, " don't you remem ber speaking to a man on the road, asking him how many children he had, and giving him a shilling ! " Here it is," continued he, pulling the coin out of his pocket, " and l'll keep it for your sake." So saying, the lively professor whipped the shilling into his pocket again, and very soon charmed the lady and 4.fie company with his extraordinary conversational powers. THE LITERATURE OF INSANITY. —We particularly direct the attention of our readers (says the London Evan gelical Magazine) to the essays in the Journal of Psycho logical Medicine, by Dr. Winslow, on the practicability of curing some of the more formidable kinds of mental derangement by the exhibition of morphine; but, as Dr. Winslow observes, the medicine requires to be adminis tered perseveringly, until the system is brought completely under its sedative influence. Dr. Winslow maintains that insanity is more susceptible of cure than is generally ad mitted, and that if grappled with in its early stages, before the brain becomes organically affected, it may be cured as easily as rheumatism, or any other bodily disease. How gratifying must this announcement be to those whose friends and relatives are suffering from this terrible cala mity ! Dr. Winslow has great faith in the efficacy of medicine in the treatment of the disorders of the mind. He considers that too much reliance is placed on moral remedies ; and without wishing to undervalue in the slightest degree the importance of a strict observance of moral treatment, he considers that, as insanity is in every case associated with derangement of the physical organs, if a permanent cure is to be effected, it must be by acting on the deranged manifestations of the mind through the material organs with which it is associated, and whose impairment is the cause of the insanity. He thinks we might with as much reason attempt to cure a bilious attack by moral means alone, as to think of re-establish ing mental health by an exclusive adoption of remedies moral in their character." NAPOLEON, CATALANI, AND JENNY LlND.—Among the hearers of Madame Catalani at the French Opera House, was the Empeor Napoleon, who, although desti tute of any taste for music, wished to fix the admired cantatrice in his capital, partly by an ambitious desire to see himself surrounded by great artists, and partly with the view of diverting the thoughts of the Parisians from graver and more dangerous topics. Accordingly he com manded her attendance at the Tuileries. The poor wo man had never been brought before into contact with this virtuoso of war, who at that time filled all Eupore with the fame of his fioriture ; she trembled from head to foot on entering his presence. " Where are you going, Madame ?" inquired the master, with his abrupt tone and imperial voice. "To London, Sire,"—" You must remain in Paris, where you shall be well paid, and where your talents will be better appreciated. You shall have a hundred thousand francs a-year, and two month's vaca tion : that is settled. Adieu, Madame !" And the canta trice retired more dead than alive, without having dared to inform her bruske interrogator that it was impossible for her to break an engagement which she had formed with the English Ambassador at Portugal. If Napoleon had been acquainted with this circumstance, he would undoubtedly have laid an embargo on the fair singer, whom he would have considered a rich capture from his enemies. Madame Catalani was none the less obliged to make her escape from France without a passport. She embarked secretly at Morlaix, on board a vessel which had been sent for the exchange of prisoners, and to whose captain she paid £l5O for his services. This interview with the Emperor Napoleon made so deep an impression on Madame Catalani, that she was wont to speak of it as the most trying moment of her life. A few days before her death, while she was sitting in her saloon, without any presentiment of her approaching end, she received a visit from an unknown lady, who declined giving her name to the servant. Upon being ushered into her presence, the stranger bowed before her with a graceful yet lowly reverence, saying, " I ant come to offer my homage to the most celebrated cantratrice of our time, as well as to the most noble of women: bless me, madame, I am Jenny Lind !" Madame Catalani, moved even to tears, pressed the Swedish nightingale to her heart. After a prolonged interview they parted, each to pursue her own appointed path,—the one to close her eyes, with unex pected haste, upon earth, with all its shifting hopes and fears,—the other to enjoy fresh triumphs, the more pure and happy, as they are the the fruit not only of her be witching talent, but also that of excellence which wins for her in every place the heartfelt homage of esteem and love.— Weekly paper. THE HOUSE FLY.—A fly on the wing is no less curious an object than one on foot ; yet, when do we trouble our heads about it, except as a thing which troubles us ? The most obvious wonder of its flight is its variety of direc tion, most usually forwards, with its back upwards like a bird, but on occasions backwards, with its back down wards, as when starting from the window and alighting on the ceiling. Marvellous velocity is another of its characteristics. By fair comparison of sizes, what is the swiftness of a race-horse clearing his mile a minute to the the speed of the fly cutting through her third of the same distance in the same time ? And what the speed of our steaming giants, the grand puffers of the age, compared with the swiftness of our tiny puffers ; of whom a mon ster train, scenting their game afar, may even follow partridges and pheasants on the wings of steam in their last flight as friendly offerings. But, however, with their game the flies themselves would be most in " keeping" on the atmospheric line, a principal agent in their flight, as well as in that of other insects, being the air. This enters from the breathing organs of their bodies in the nerves and muscles of their wings, from which arrange ment their velocity depends, not alone on muscular power, but also on the state of the atmosphere. How does a fly buz ? is another question more easily asked than answered. " With its wings, to be sure," hastily replies one of our readers. " With its wings as they vibrate upon the air," responds another, with a smile, half of contempt, half of complacency, at his own more than common measure ment of natural philosophy. But how, then, let us ask, can the great dragon-fly, and other similar broad- pinioned, rapid flying insects, cut through the air with silent swift ness, while others go on buzzing when not upon the wing at all ? Rennie, who has already put this posing query himself ascribes the sound partially to air, but to air as it plays on the " edges of their wings at their origin, as with an molian harp sttring," or to the friction of some inter nal organ on the root of the wings nervures. Lastly, how does the fly feed ? the busy, curious, thirsty fly, that " drinks with me," but does not " drink as I," his sole instrument for eating or drinking being his trunk or suck, the narrow pipe by means of which, when let down upon his dainties, he is enabled to imbibe as much as suits his capacity. This trunk might seem an instrument conveni ent enough when inserted into a saucer or syrup, or applied to the broken surface of an over-ripe blackberry, but we often see our sipper of sweets quite as busy on a solid lump of sugar, which we shall find on close inspec tion growing " small by degrees," under his attack. How, without grinders, does he accomplish the consump tion of such crystal condiment ? A magnifier will solve the difficulty, and show how the fly dissolves his rock, Hannibal fashion, by a diluent, a salivery fluid passing down through the same pipe, which returns the sugar melted into syrup.—Episodes of Insect Life. ANOTHER EFFORT TO FIND SIR JOHN FRANKLIN. Whatever depends upon human zeal and ingenuity has now been attempted in order to convey assistance to the missing expedition to the Arctic Seas. The Admiralty, acting in obedience to the general wish, has a second tine despatched the Enterprise and Investigator in quest of Sir John Franklin and his companions. This time these exploring ships will take another direction, and from a westerly point enter the inhospitable region in which Sir John Franklin may yet be expecting the assis tance of his countrymen. In the sailing orders directed from the Admiralty to Captain Collinson his path has been chalked out for him until the first of August, when, according to calculation, he will have past through Behring's Straits, and struck the ice. A brief recapitu lation of the precautions taken may serve to show that nothing has been neglected to secure a favourable result. The orders given to Captain Collinson are to the effect that he shall take the command of the Enterprise and consider the Investigator under his orders. The ships are furnished with provisions for three years as well as with a quantity of extra stores, and have been fortified in every respect against the dangers and inclemencies of the Arctic seas. Captain Collinson is to proceed to Cape Virgins, where he will find a steamer in waiting to tow him through the Straits of Magellan and the Wellington Channel, and so on to Valparaiso. From this port the two ships are to proceed to the Sandwich Islands, where they will receive despatches from home, and meanwhile, if possible, effect a junction with the Herald and Plover. In case he should join company with these vessels, Cap tain Collinson is directed to add Commander Moore and the Plover to his expedition, and make all despatch so as to reach Behring's Straits in July and actually strike the ice by the first of August. Once arrived at the ice, for three years Captain Collin son is left to himself, subject only to some general direc tions as to winter quarters. For three years he will be sedulously engaged in despatching parties of men in such directions as may seem the most likely to produce favour able results. The expedition of Sir James Ross was un fortunate from the premature and unwonted severity with which the bad weather set in ; and the westerly course, by way of Melville's Island, into the heart of the Arctic region was hopelessly blocked up. So with regard to the more recent advance of the boats of the Herald and Plo ver, steering east, which reached the mouth of the Mac enzie Rive r . It i s scarce l y poss ibl e t h at Si r J ohn Frank lin and his party, if their ships be lost, as seems probable, should have arrived so far west. Thus, by an unfortu nate conjunction of circumst ances , th e researc h es o f t h e parties on either side have just stopped at those points where they were likely to become most useful. With regard to the boat expedition from the Herald and Plover, it may fairly be supposed that, had our missing country men been able at all to strike the northern coast of Ame rica, they would rather have made for the interior than have directed their steps along the shores in an easterly direction. The distance was too great, the impractica- THE LIVER.POOL STANDAR& bility of finding means to eke out -their own failing stores too absolute, the risk of not meeting an expedition which probably might be sent to their relief, toa awful for Sir John Franklin to take upon himself the responsibility of such a step. It is possible that our colintrymen may have been imprisoned in the ice in the endeavour to pass westerly from Bathurst and Melville Island, and may still be there; it is possible that they may have struck some still more northerly land not known to previous Arctic navigators. Either of these suppositions would tally with what we know of their position when last heard of, and with the reports we have received of the great accumula tions of ice in those high latitudes during the last three years. It is possible that Sir John Franklin may have been hopelessly involved in the ice in one or other of these directions, and that he may be still lying where his course was stopped. But when we take into account the enterprising character and the Arctic experience of that officer, we cannot think that if life be yet spared to him and to his companions he would be contented to wait inactive until relief should reach him. The natural di rection he would take would be either for the whaling ships by Barrow's Straits or for the northern coast of America, in order to rcach one of the settlements of the Hudson's Bay Company. As we understand the matter, the reason why the Enterprise and Investigator are now despatched by way of Behring's instead of Barrow's Straits does not depend upon any expectation of picking up the lost party near the point where Captain Collinson is directed to enter upon his operations, but is contained in the first para graph of the Admiralty instructions :—" Whereas the efforts that have been made for the last two years to re lieve the Erebus and Terror have failed, and all access to the Parry Islands has been prevented by the accumula tion of ice in the upper part of Barrow's Straits ; and whereas it is possible that the same severity of weather may not prevail at the same time iirfioth the eastern and western entrances to the Arctic Sea. we have deter mined," &c. Common sense wonld have dictated the propriety of following on Sir John Franklin's track, as Sir James Ross recently endeavoured to do, had it been within the bounds of possibility to accomplish the task. It is only through despair of carrying such a purpose into effect that Captain Collinson has been despatched to reach, by a more circuitous route, the spot where Sir John Franklin must be if he be in the Arctic Seas at all, and yet alive. We yield to none in our strong and earnest symyathy for Sir John Franklin and his companions, yet we can not but feel that the effort to be now made by Captain Collinson is a LAST effort. By Barrow's Straits it is im possible to get through the ice. Tus HULL SAVINGS EANIC.—The Hull papers state that the assets of this bank are sufficient to pay all its depositors in full, and leave above £2OOO in hand, and that notwithstanding this favourable state of affairs, there have been defalcations by a late secretary of the bank of nearly £3600 from the funds of the bank. DEATH IN A PUGILISTIC ENCOUNTER.—A fight took place last week at Sevenhampton, near Cheltenham, when a man named Cook was killed by a blow from a com panion named Franklin, the father of the latter urging his son to the fray. Both the Franklins, and a third man, named Fletcher, leave been committed under a verdict of manslaughter. POACHING AFFRAY.—On the night of the 29th ult., a desperate struggle took place between poachers and game-watchers, in Blenheim-park. The Duke of Marl borough's gamekeepers ultimately secured two of the poachers, and on the 30th Samuel and Joseph Still, the poachers, were committed to Oxford gaol for trial at the ensuing assizes. The unfortunate lady Mrs. (C. 8.) Leigh, of Wickham place, died on Tuesday, from the injuries which she received from a cow on the 18th ult. There bad been no hope of her from the first, and but for her great physical energy she could not have survived so lung. The decea sed lady was, as we stated on Tuesday, a sister qf Sir John Tyssen Tyrell, of Boreham-house, M.P, for North Essex. AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATH.—At the late audit of the Right Hon. Lord Newborough, at Clynog, Mr. John Thomas, of Brynaura, aged 82, having gone there to pay his rent, as he was sitting at dinner, and immediately upon his commencing to eat, was attacked with a severe fit of coughing, whereby a blood vessel was ruptured, and ho became a corpse in about ten minutes. He was re markably hale and robust of his age. PUBLIC NOTICE.—An experimental message balloon, as suggested by Mr. Geo. Shepherd, C.E., for communi cating information with Sir John Franklin in the Arctic Regions, will be dispatched from London in the course of a few days. Tho messages will be printed on coloured paper, many thousands of which will be circulated, stating that the persons finding them are requested to forward them to the Admiralty, stating when and where found. On Tuesday week, the son of a farmer at St. Just, in Penwith, Cornwall, went into the bullock shed, and stuck his candle against the wall while he went to fetch some straw from an adjaining barn. The candle fell down and ignited the litter, which immediately burst into flames ; and so rapidly did the fire spread, that both the outbuild ings and the farm-house itself were consumed, and six bullocks were burned to death. On Tuesday week, a boy named Wilkinson, who was employed in a mill at Bradford, was amusing himself by climbing up the side of a pan or boiler containing hot water for warming the dinners of the workpeople. His companions warned him of his danger, but he took no heed of the warning, and almost immediately afterwards he fell into the water, which scalded him so dreadfully that he died in the Bradford Infirmary on the followin g . day. On Tuesday a meeting was held in Birmingham, under the auspices of Lord Lyttelton, Mr. Adderley, M.P., and other gentlemen who have taken part in the promotion of the " Canterbury Settlement" in New Zealand ; the object was to afford information as to the principles and details of the plan on which the colonisation of this set tlement is proposed to be conducted. Mr. Felix Wake field attended to answer inquiries, and the Hon. Fred. Gough presided. Lord Lyttelton gave a general sketch of the project. On Thursday sen'night, his Grace the Duke of Cleve land was walking in the park adjoining the Castle, and had with him a little dog, which put up a rabbit and im mediately started in pursuit. The keepers were exercis ing the fox-hounds at the same time, and they having come in contact w;th the dog and rabbit, also joined in the chase, and afterwards continued in pursuit of the deer in the park. The hounds could not be called off until three or four of the deer had been killed, and several wounded. The hounds have not been hunting for the last few weeks. At the Mansion-house, en Monday, Alderman Hum phery decided, in the case of a Camberwell omnibus, that the conductor was bound to admit into his vehicle any person demanding to go his road, supposing there was room. It appeared that the conductor wished to reserve seats, it being a wet day, for regular customers returning home the whole distance, for which they would have to pay 6d. The complainant in this instance was only desi rous of travelling as far as Walworth, a 3d. ride. The right being laid down, a nominal fine only was inflicted. CHESHIRE CHEESE.—We are informed upon undoubted authority, that so much does her Majesty prefer Cheshire Cheese to all other, that it is daily and almost exclusively used at the royal table : two large cheeses being supplied weekly for the consumption of the Household. It has also become fashionable at the luncheons of the aristo cracy. This is very encouraging to our farmers, who are also relieved from further apprehension of American com petition, by learning that the close packing of cheeses for the voyage across the Atlantic, not only deteriorates their flavour, but renders them decidedly unwholesome. On Saturday the cutter of H.M.S. Stromboli, Capt. Lord A. Beauclerk, was proceeding from the vessel in Plymouth Sound to the harbour, and when, at about ten minutes past two o'clock, she was coming in under a press of - canvass, between St. Nicholas Island and the main, the weather being rather boisterous, with a strong north-easterly wind, a large quantity of water was ship ped at the lee bow, and the cutter immediately sank. The crew, consisting of thirteen persons, were all immer sed, and a midshipman and three sailors drowned before assistance could be obtained. AN ACCIDENTAL SURGICAL OPERATION.—AS Charles Moseley, Esq., vice-chairman of the Ely Union, was driving through Littleport on Wednesday last, his horse fell, which threw him out of his gig and put his shoulder out ; for some time he remained in great agony. Dr. Murief was sent for, but, fortunately, his skill was not required, as in taking off Mr. Moseley's coat the joint was accidentally put right by the arm bone being turned into the socket of the shoulder bone, Mr. Moseley provi dentially escaping any serious injury.— Cambridge Chroni cle. SHIPPING DISASTERS.—The Archimedes, Havre to Pernambuco, is supposed to have been wrecked and all hands lost, in Conception Bay, on the Bth January. The Devonshire, London to New York, was wrecked off the North Foreland, on Thursday night, and is discharging; the passengers are landed. The barque Tasmanian, for New South Wales, was seen 100 miles off land, with loss of main and mizen mast. The Mahomed Shah, London to Fort Phillip, was spoken on the 6th September, with loss of fore, main, and mizen topmasts. Eight seamen had been washed overboard, and several severely injured. ESCAPE OF PRISONERS.—Four convicts, under sentence in the gaol at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, on Tuesday availed themselves of a ladder and ropes which had been intro duced by some workmen into the prison-yard to effect certain repairs, and thereby succeeded in sealing the lofty wall by which the prison is surrounded and got clear off. Information was given to the police, and in the course of the day three of them were apprehended and brought back to gaol, but the fourth has hitherto eluded detection. One of the captured prisoners; of the name of Dunn, was tried on a charge of murdering a child, and acquitted on the ground of insanity. A BELL-RINGING MOUSE.-A rather singular performer has for some time past made his appearance in the Bay Horse Inn (Mr. Taylors's), in Stranraer, in the shape of a mouse. 'For the last three months it has, night after night, diverted itself by ringing one of the bells in the house. At first the inmates were much alarmed by the troublesome and unknown intruder, but on setting a watch, it was discovered to be a mouse, who regularly comes out of a hole, over which the wire of one of the bells passes, and by means of its teeth or feet, or both, rings the bell as lustily as any of the usual visitors.—Free Press. At a late meeting of the Royal Institution, in London, Mr. Grove showed a cage containing two small birds placed under a large bell glass, containing an atmosphere of hydrogen and oxygen, mixed in the proportions that constitute water. The carbonic acid formed by the res piration of the birds was absorbed by lime-water, and fresh supplies of oxygen and hydrogen were given by the decomposition of water by a voltaic battery. No incon venience appeared to be experienced by the birds in consequence of the novel atmosphere in which they were placed, and in which they continued during the period of the discourse. . A MIDNIGHT VISITANT.—An old maiden lady, who had spent her nights in peace and days in quietness for many years, was awakened one night this week by an un usual noise in her bedchamber. On asking, " Who's there ?" she was astounded by receiving for answer, " Gi'e me back my bantam cock !" The old lady retained her coolness, and asked the intruder's meaning. An expla nation ensued, when it appeared her visitant had lost a bantam, and that he had dreamed it was in her house. After some trouble she prevailed on him to leave the tenement quietly by the same way that he entered, namely, by the window.—Montrose Review. At Bow-street, on Saturday, a boy, named William Harris was committed for stealing half a sovereign from a public-house by the following contrivance :—The pri soner possessed himself of two sticks, resembling a fishing-rod when jointed, and, watching his opportunity, he united the rods, and, placing a piece of tin covered with tar in a slit at the point of a stick, proceeded to fish up some money which had been placed upon the mantel piece by the landlord. He had succeeded in netting half a sovereign, but while conveying half-a-crown to his pouch the coin fell upon the floor behind the counter. aroused the barman, and led to the prisoner's detection. NOVEL MARRIAGE.—On Sunday week an unusual occurrence took place in the parish church of Rothes, which created considerable excitement among the con gregation. An old pensioner, of the name of John M'Kimmie, having wooed and won the heart of a fair damsel, applied to the minister to join them in the bonds of matrimony ; but the request not having been so readily complied with as , tticigatei t the old veteran, determined not to brook any ay, atteThed, along with his would-be better half, at the parish church on Sunday last, and at the conclusion of the services, and just as the minister was about to pronounce the benediction. they both stood up in their seats, and audibly declared themselves man and wife before the congregation. A scene of this de scription is of rare occurrence in Scotland.—North of Scotland Gazette. JENNY LIND'S RECEIPTS. — From a statement made in the Newcastle District Court of Bankruptcy, on Thurs day, in re Mr. Charles States, a bankrupt, formerly of the Royal Hotel, that Mr. Knowles and Mr. Lumley netted £906 13s. 4d. by the visit of Jenny Lind to that town. The agreement entered into with Mr. States was that these parties should receive the first £6OO f r o m th e re ceipts, and two-thirds of the residue, Mr. States under taking, out of his one-third, to pay a part of th e b an d, and all the printing, advertising, rent of theatre, &c. The receipts for tickets were £1,060, and £49 was raised in addition by Mr. States from the sale, at a premium, of tickets he had taken at his own risk. Mr. States's share thus amounted to £251 6s. Bd., and it is needless to tiav the printers' bills and other expenses are being discharged in the Court of Bankruptcy. EXTENSIVE graTZm OF FORGERY.—Au extensive eye tem of forgery has bee]: committed on the bank of Messrs. W. H. Lambten, and Co., Newcastle. The delinquent is only 20 years of age, respectably connected, and was a clerk in the firm of Messrs. Griffith and Crichton, solici tors. It appears from what has transpired that for months he has careered in a course of proflgacy and folly truly astonishing, and that during that period he has squandered between .£4OO and £5OO which he had drawn at the bank by means of forged cheques, besides embezzl ing upwards of £5O, the monies of his masters. Such a case of reckless conduct, especially in one so young, has seldom been known. He has been committed for the assizes.—Newcastle Courant. The Berkshire Chronicle gives an account of a young man, at a town within an hour's ride of Reading, playing Romeo so far to the life that, on the death of a young lady, whose parents had declined his addresses, he ap pears to have doubted her decease, and at midnight to have proceeded to the church, and, having forced open the door, after two hours of unceasing, labour, forced open the entrance of the vault, and entered. By means of a light he discovered the coffin that contained the re mains his departed, which be opened, and then he was satisfied that he had laboured under a delusion. He then returned home. Thenext morning the persons connected with the church were horrified by finding the sacred edi fice had been desecrated and the abode of the dead viola ted. The affair is said to be under judicial investigation. EXTRAORDINARY TAMENESS OF A ROBIN.—On the 14th ultimo, whilst Mr. Isaac Hodgson, sexton at Crosth waite Church, Keswick, was digging a grave, a robin red breast perched itself close to the scene of his labours, and every spadeful of soil thrown out was carefully scruti nised by the bird, which greedily devoured all the worms with which it chanced to meet, nor seemed in the least alarmed as each succeeding spadeful was thrown to the surface. What is still more remarkable, the little warbler was again in attendance at the funeral in the evening, and whilst the operation of filling up the grave was going on, it watched with evident anxiety for food, the removal of each succeeding portion of the soil; and on three diffe rent occasions came so near the sexton that he too& the, bird up, and, perching it on one of his fingers, sought t worms for it, which it ate from his hand with an appa rent consciousness of its safety.—Kendal Mercury. SINGULAR DEATH OF A HORSE.—The following singu lar circumstance is said to have taken place in Largs last week. The horse which came by so strange an end was rough-shod for the frost on the evening of the event, and afterwards taken to the stable, and suppered and foddered for the night. The owner had not long gone to bed, when hearing a loud noise in the stable, he immediately rose to ascertain the cause. Upon opening the stable door, his horse made at him ; but happily he escaped by making a speedy retreat. The animal then hurried along Main-street; and on coming to the saddler's shop, he leaped through the window. The terrified saddler struck the horse with a weapon, and thus drove him back. The animal then ran furiously along Bath-street towards the shore, whither he was traced by his footsteps and a track of blood. It was u_lknown what had become of him until Saturday, when his dead carcass was washed ashore by the tide.—Kilmarnock Journal. THE SALE AT COULSTONE FARM.—Few stock sales that have occurred of late years, in this county, have at tracted more general attention than the sale of Mr. Tone- than Grant's - short-horned cattle, which took place on Friday last. As many as 600 persons were present, among whom were many of the first breeders of stock in the West of England ; but, notwithstanding this immense concourse, the sale generally bore evident marks of the depressed state of the times—the prices realized in many instances (the noted character of the animals considered) being little more than two-thirds of those which they would have fetched two or three years ago. As a proof of this, we may mention that the highest price obtained for Mr. Grant's beautiful heifers was £36 a head, his handsome pure-bred bulls (with pedigrees as long as a nobleman's) realizing even a lower figure than this ! In deed, there can be no doubt that Mr. Grant, by being compelled to cispose of his stock at the present time, will, upon his cattle alone, sacrifice at least £soo.—De vizes Gazette. A POLITICAL RELIC.—We have seen a curious copper medal which was recently found in the railway cutting, at Tackley. It is rather larger than a half-crown, but thin ner, and a considerable portion of the edge is corroded and decayed, so that the whole of the legend is not visible. On one side is a gentleman in the dress of the time of George I. or 11., and with him a certain " old gentle man," whose immediate domain is not mentionable to " ears polite" ; the latter, pitchfork in hand, is leading the former by a halter, which is round his neck ; and the inscription is, "I am come for Sir Robert." The carica ture, no doubt, refers to Sir Robert Walpole, who was prime minister in the reign of George 11., and who, about 1743, introduced the first really effective excise laws. On the reverse of the medal are the figures of Sir Robert Walpole and Admiral Vernon, pOlitical opponents, with a ship in the distance, and a suspended crown above. This probably has reference to the taking of Porto Bello. The legend on this side is not to be deciphered, excepting the word " Vernon."—Banbury _Guardian. LAUNCH OF THE ASIA.—The Asia, a magnificent steamer, was launched on Thursday afternoon from the building-yard here of Messrs. Robert Steele & Co. She was named by Miss Hill, daughter of Dr. Hill, of this town, and slid majestically into her native element amid the booming of cannon and the hearty cheers of the as sembled multitude; the adjoining slips, quays, &c., were crowded with spectators. The Asia is 265 feet in length, 37 in breadth, depth of hold 27 feet, and measures 2,226 tons x.m., being 400 tons larger than those last built for the owners ; she is 17 feet longer and 4 wider. In her construction every application of skill and science has been combined that should contribute to her strength and speed. She is the property of the British and North American Steam Navigation Company, and is to be com manded by Captain Judkins, so well-known and popular in the trade. She is to proceed to Glasgow in a few days to receive her engines at Mr. Napier's establishment, and we have no doubt that when furnished she will sustain and increase the illustrious and world-wide character already so well earned by her eminent builders and en gineers, and support against all comers the fame of the enterprising company by whom she is owned. Greenock Advertiser. HIGH TIDES.—We have noticed in another paragraph the damage done to property by the high tide which rose in the Thames on Tuesday. The rise has been extraor dinary also along the eastern coast—at Ipswich two feet one inch higher than the prognosticated high spring tides of last month, at Boston higher than for the last sixteen years • the Humber dock gates showed a depth of twenty nine feet seven inches, and other places in similar pro portion,without, however,doingany damage in comparison of what has resulted at London. At Sunderland, the morning tide was two feet higher than any of the high tides in December last—a rise attributable here, as along the coast, to its being full moon, and a north westerly breeze. The water broke into the new docks erecting at Sunderland, and will cause a delay in opening the docks of about a month, and it will cost about £l2OO to pump the water out. The tide rose in the Medway to an extra ordinary height, and for more than an hour previous to the time of high water the river in many parts overflowed its banks, and by the weight of water broke down the land-walls by which it is usually kept within its limits. The various wharfs in the neighbourhood were flooded, and in the High-street of Stroud a boat plied for the conveyance of passengers, many houses being inundated to the depth of several feet. WRECK AND Loss OF LIFE.—SUNDERLAND.—On Tuesday last, about noon, the sea, which had previously been smooth, and the wind continuing calm, became sud denly agitated by a succession of heavy waves. A schooner towing to sea had just cleared the pier heads when she was struck by a breaker; the towline broke and she was driven on the south sands. The crew took to the rigging and were safely hauled on shore with ropes. Two ballast barges, which had gone to sea early in the morning, were then seen making for the harbour. One barge coming within the line of breakers was dashed on to the glacis which forms the breakwater of the south pier —part of the crew leaped on to the masonry of the glacis and were dragged on to the pier • one man being left on board ropes were thrown but failed to reach him ; a sailor rush ing down to heave a rope was washed over amongst the loose stones of the breakwater. Two men instantly sprang on to the glacis to render assistance, when a sea swept them over. Mr. Coulson Douglass, master of the brig Thomas Baker, and another man, hastened to the glacis with ropes; scarcely had they reached it when they also were knocked over. Ropes and life buoys were thrown, and one man was got out. For a short period Mr. Douglass and two others held on by the ropes, but at this critical moment an immense billow rolled in, and carried them into the surf: they were lost. The fifth man was washed up on the sands, and has recovered. The barge also, the cause of this melancholy accident, drove on the sands, and the man, to save whom three brave men lost their lives, was saved. HIGH TIDE IN THE THAMES.—On Tuesday the tide rose so extraordinarily high as to overflow the walls of the river and inundate the various thoroughfares along either shore. So unexpected was the high tide, that no one had made any preparation to preserve their property, and the consequence was that damage to a great amount was done. The tide on the previous day was lower than it has been known to be for some considerable time past, whilst that of Tuesday rose two feet one inch higher than it did in October, 1844, when so much property was de stroyed. In Lambeth, and the two adjoining parishes, property worth many thousand pounds was destroyed. In the neighbourhood of the Commercial, Belvidere, and York roads, a vast deal of damage was done. The whole of College-street was under water about four feet, and the residents were obliged to be taken to and from their residences by means of horses and carts. So deep did the water rise in the Commercial-road that boats were em ployed during the day in conveying people along. Along Vauxhall, the Lammas lands at Fulham and Battersea, the open country presented broad sheets of water, in many places being several feet deep. At Bankside, Ber mondsey, and Rotherithe a vast amount of damage has been done. The tide completely overflowed the Temple Gardens, and the various piers both up and down the river have sustained considerable damage. Had the tide risen so high in the night time a fearful destruction of life must have followed. It was, however, at the water side, amongst the miserable dwellings of the fishermen, and in Lower North-street, that the most pitiable scenes presented themselves, the water, in some hastances, literally reaching to the ceiling ; and man and wife, children and pigs, seeking refuge in the upper part of the houses. The fires at the gas-house were extin guished, and the town of Wandsworth was in total dark ness all Tuesday night. The poor people whose houses were invaded by the tide were supplied by the parochial authorities of Wandsworth with coals and other neces saries. At Putney, the tide covered the terrace, and the opposite side of the river, the grounds of the Bishop of London were all under water, as were those of Willow bank, the late residence of Mr. Delafield. On the Essex side of the Thames, the fishing villages and marsh land were swamped, as well as a large portion of the inland country, where the effect of a high tide was least expected. cErntral I+, 115rtilaim. The Medway, West Indian steamer, brought £1,860,000 dollars of gold and silver. The new building of the Durham Mechanics Institute was publicly opened last Friday evening. The London Common Council has refused to subscribe to the female emigration scheme. So tame did field hares become during the severe frost, in Lincolnshire, that boys readily beat them down in thorn hedges with long sticks, and took great numbers. Lord Winchilsea has offered to Lord Fitzwilliam four or five farms, free of rent, if he will only engage to cul tivate them. Twelve cows have died on a farm in Glamorganshire from eating the bulbs of waterwort, which, in cleaning a ditch, had been thrown into a field. An old man named Askew perished by fire in an attic in Southwark, on Saturday, which he had caused himseif by smoking in bed. On Sunday, two blackbirds and a redwing were seen in Leicester Market-place, wither they had probably re sorted in consequence of the severity of the weather. THE APPROACH OF SPRlNG.—Primroses have begun to appear in the hedges near Taunton, and on Thursday a tortoise-shell butterfly was seen. A man, named Roberts, was accidentally shot dead at Ruthin, on the 11th instant, by a gun, which went off unexpectedly in the hands of a friend. At Carlisle, last week, a simple pair, who eight weeks ago were married at Gretna Green, applied to the magis trates to " separate them." THE DODGE OF NICHOLAS. — WhiIst the Emperor of Russia's dodge is To Bear in one sense, it is evidently to be For Baring in another. The Exeter Gazette states that " change" is so scarce that halfpence for a sixpence can hardly ever be obtained without trouble, and that it is quite a task to get silver fora sovereign. A beautiful barque, of 504 tons burthen, named the Oliver Cromwell, intended for the East India trade, was launched from the building yard of Messrs. T. Young and Son, South Shields, on Tuesday. EXECIITION.—On Thursday, Mrs. Hamilton was exe cuted at Glasgow for murder. The wretched woman was led to the drop in a half unconscious state, two turnkeys assisting her. About 20,000 persons were present. The widow of Dr. Chalmers died on Tuesday last, having survived her distinguished husband about two Seven daughters, two of whom are married, sur- Dr. Chalmers never had any sons. A boy at Barford, was shooting birds on Friday last, when he shot a young woman, aged 19, who incautiously stood in the way as he pointed the gun. She received the charge in her face, and lived only three hours afterwards. The Stamford Mercury notes that, on Tuesday, num bers of happy urchins were seen skating and playing on Salding river, on large floating sheets of ice, which were being carried seaward by the current. Oti - Monday the bakers - throughout the metropolis reduced the price of the 41b. loaf id. Best bread is now charged 7d. the loaf, second quality sid ; weighed on delivery. Some, however, in the populous districts only charge sd. A Jewish rabbi, named Bazaleel Herbestmann, has been baptised at Edinburgh, and is said to have been converted to Christianity by means of a tract placed in his hands by a brother Jew. The Doncaster Gas Company has consented to reduce the price of gas to 4s. 2d. Cannot the Liverpool Com pany be induced to make a similar reduction, whilst so many other towns are doing so ? The Hon. Miss Campbell, eldest daughter of Lord Campbell, is shortly to be united in marriage with the Rev. William White, Minister of the Episcopal Chapel at Jed b urgh. The Hon. Member for Sunderland, George Hudson, Esq., appeared in the House of Commons on Thursday evening in his old place, and was accosted in the ordinary way by members in all parts of the House. It was understood that the High Level Bridge across the Tyne would be opened, for passengers and general traffic, yesterday ; the approaches having been put into a proper state for that purpose. Mr. Bartlett, a solicitor, was on Saturday fined 20s. for having refused to.produce and show his "ticket" to the guard (in charge of the train in which he was trav elling), when required to do so. The gamekeeper at Forcett-hall, near Barnard Castle, shot, a few days ago, on the fishpond in the park, a wild swan, measuring from tip to tip of wings seven feet, and weighing twenty-one pounds. The Countess of Arundel and Surrey, wife of the eldest son of the Duke of Norfolk, was received into the Roman Catholic Church, on Sunday week, at the " Oratory," in King William-street, Strand. The Standard, in giving publicity to a curious docu ment, circulated through the agency of the Poor Law Commission, among Free Traders, comments severely upon so barefaced an attempt to " cook" official evidence against Protection. _ _ - The iron steam-ship Queen, arrived at Southampton on Friday morning, from Oporto, with 110 oxen, and she is to run regularly between Southampton and Oporto, in the cattle trade, as there is expected to be a consider able demand for oxen from Portugal. Two schoolmasters, the one in a town at the entrance of the Tees, and the other in a town at the entrance of the Tyne, have just completed their fiftieth year in " teaching the young idea how to shoot," and are still in le mastership of selmols numerously attended The bullion in both departments of the Bank of Eng land had last week decreased from £16,816,330 to £16,781,201, being a difference of £32,129. The paper in actual circulation had increased from £20,513,864 to £20,877,134, being a difference of £363,271. It appears by a statement published in the Morning Chronicle, that the average number of houseless poor in the metropolis in each year for the last fourteen years, was 8794. The number from Essex in 1847 was 1034; in 1848, 567 ; in 1849, 392. The elder Brethren of the Trinity ITouse have expressed their opinion of the public services of the late Sir John Barrow by the presentation of £lOO, towards the fund for erecting the intended sea mark on Hoad Hill, near Ulver stone. Accounts from Boulogne, state that on Saturday the ship Palermo, Captain Campbell, bound from Canton to London, was entirely wrecked off the coast near Dane, five leagues from Boulogne. The crew, consisting of eighteen persons, and three passengers, were saved. An Aberdeen paper states, that the funds subscribed for a testimonial to his Grace the Duke of Richmond are, with his Grace's consent, to be applied to the foundation of annuities for widows of decayed farmers, under the management of trustees, and a committee, free of ex pense. The Inverness Courier gives the history of a pair of bagpipes which have been played in that town during the Christmas holydays. They were made about a hundred years ago for the Duke of Gordon, and have been since in 32 military engagements in Canada, Egypt, and the Continent. Last week a poor woman was found on the moors near Elgin, frozen and lifeless, only a few hundred yards from a house. The bag with meal, and a pail containing gro ceries, &c., were lying near her. The deceased was the only nurse of an eged and bed-rid father, and has left two orphan children. The parishioners of St. Nicholas, Great Yarmouth, have purchased the house hitherto let by the corporation at a nominal rental to the minister ; and have presented it, with a sufficient sum to put it in necessary repair, to the Rev. George Hills, (late of Leeds,) and his successors, in perpetuo. A correspondent of the Times relates that, while tra velling near Andover, he observed a magpie engaged in attacking a redwing, which he rescued from its assailant, and then discovered that its eyes had already been pecked out, so that it would soon have furnished a dinner to the magpie if the latter had not been deprived of its prey. It appears that in the counties of Northumberland and Durham, there are no less than thirty-five furnaces for the manufacture of iron. Of these fifteen are out of blast, but as the prospects of the iron trade are decidedly improving, it is expected they will be in active operation ere loig, THE - COPLESTON TESTIMONIAL.—The list of subscrip tions for the Copleston testimonial amounts to nearly £B5O. Sir Benjamin Hall, M.P., has refused to subscribe because the late Bishop of Llandaff appointed many clergymen to Welsh livings who were unacquainted with the language. Feb. 5 , 90 Feb, 5 , COST OF OF PRODUCING CORN ADO, fp ] wh Th en e by Mess 245. 11d. The weight, as reported to "Vied tid,krtb,..._4llll.laA eigdhiedstnporticiempoofrcto27,oioon DqiuitzarteiciaViesteato:, 41,1cti,Est.ty, 3 s. 6d. per quarter; add the shilling dutY, e g c!o; 5' 4 , 0 ,4,, f ,p,n , Pal that wheat delivered in London for 295. 6a. 0 heic l ula igho British . farmer cultivate his fields successfalli itiOlie,'S,ll-lse---Pl.llrwer" give the following as the present pi:ices of l'Il lea ,;6:, ligi;' l Ple...., k second, 225. 6d. to 245. 2d.; third and inferior, bet , k gi••Pa re u r wdill, was larger, the prices were—for the better (Ig l 4 I, ''' 4, R0 e .4,, sreßtsralAbeiAfrnoetqurgpurtaGeiasnrtrashigtial zeeal t r,t o sq.zmaa. t iaa h . wrie e Fiteee l isd a rri bis. : st t etala circular Anigneduvteeaecilbijo try:;:mr:o6emssw.:Gt oe r sl o s .tst 1: 41 oeae:i e:::::410: , , , i8e1(, in: _aairi Iwo :,ai ITrtiaial alls ni:e( w w tqp ( o w ur a h l h a s 2c e r i e al c ts t e ho ? , r s wh.p i. l9s. 9d. to 21s. ; and inferior, 18 3 . to 0 yge l' i f b - The ordinary freight some years ago %4 lf, m a a Y r-' taking it at the old rate, the best whe a t isGtialoalfawlelit°l3:3°'(/17;aza:I?),:ci ..,.,, ti 1,, ~.. delivered with the duty' paid,inwLeoandon, ! 1 2.. t i 1. , , ,,5A" it l l; , il3 d i ei , - 1 the British farmer, we repeat, carry on his 0,,P.. -- 4 11, 'he live, with wheat at such a price as this ? la tic hi I.r/ S I Mr. Mackay, who travelled in America tiol il Itib' n Blackwood request the increduhius to take a° e 3 ,la is; ° ' w co h r i n ch gr F o r w e i e nF rr i a n d t e h r e s Mwiiislsiossoitppbievadlilsepyo,sfecirmatoalosiiij ri,71,18i, in 194 6 ' 7 ' . 1 16 e o ' ' j° I " p T r h o e cu f r o e l d low fr i o n m g e a sti g m ent e le ,: a w n ri i t n es :ria..;:inlagctoknall:;.: le:hc::a: cost of raising wheat for the first time, from Prs l h i Ik e h lti practical farmer in the west, and at the time a i"" " Congress for a western constituency i--- ax, frorri 'ailed Isoy, L e , for ke,:race P ert ! 'ffß ii i, 'feats t. s 'w art, Es ettnit h, sailed ° Youtt 0 ,17, ?; Olana, ea " For ploughing an acre of sod Seed 1 i 1, 11 14 . 4 1 1 0 'row n 1 0 rier t 4 1 Alb e i h ---- IP 4l e O 7 . Aki I Total exense ............ ~A,7 kt t Here, then, we have seven dollars, bout '4w f It o rot or a 1 . 0 0 1 4 ,131. 0 vering the whole expense of producing ali ae , at i i ,,,,LN in portions of the valley ; and this is the CO s 'l o i ktl the prairie can be cultivated for the first time. o d Ll', quent years it is diminished ; as, after the 5 dolit, i t Z li t turned•up, the land can be ploughed for q° per' r .SAI I ! acre. This reduces the aggregate cost to 2 °' i ; preps itl'idti The average yield of good prairie land, w I L e t , O m /3 11 : 4 ; tilled, is about thirty-five bushels per acre ; ', „ bliK, 4,',!40 generally farmed, it yields an average of th'r` f i c it i •1 411 `i t t This gives the cost of production at very ne,,, e h ' o .r, lit„ hil i l. first year, and at 10d. in subsequent years. ''' s bel,,i 4 ° 0 14; can is somewhat smaller than the English h e 0, ' making ample allowance for this difference, 1-„,,, A a , may be assumed as the cost ofproducing a ' he t '4f ' „, f r i q i ri wheat in most portions of the Mississipi rail,' w ith i )a ) Zat, land is prairie land." We say again, is ' h et Of I%O r cY• prices as these against him in his own toar"; a o r 4 8 ,th,g1 , supposition s f i farmer of is absurd.E landn AnwillAnd it t e ableis justly s to tl y e 0 . o n b te i etp ti 4 f , l l .ettl t; elit 4 argue in the teeth of these facts that existing 41K , b!zif, si: di' et is nothing more than an accidental and teroP° r o port e tt. zaj, tion, and that prices must rise again under th e , u pt ls : qtßz of the existing law, " is little short of a frait,`!„ blit I 'o, farmer, since it has the tendency to make 11 ' 1' Viol . h. la, the real danger of his position." r e i.,:'!;, 4 I 5' 44 HOUSE OF LORDS.—THE DIVIS -° fli " / '3. N 11. tA,. ic4 ,, rowi c Sowing seed. Harvesting . Threshing... ,fr Abbot 0,. t, 1 Call ; I.. d _an. 9F tv p ot kv P 44 .'ha„ 4 11 ah 31 4 , 'et II ri t, 4, Zelgh , Itltetria trt, if t att i l l 'iq 4 ( The following i s a li s t o f th e Mi nor ity in t he ' ~ Lords on the Amendment to the Address: -- 13 . 0 " P r ; 10 01; , rtil DUKES. EARLS. EARLS. CiA r ivi 10, Beaufort Erne Warwick e l 10, ''' Buckingham Ezmont Winchilsea Deed 4 0 Cleveland Glengall Wilton Hardwicke Combermere 1;0 5 ' 0 ,4 th o t t i m M o a n nc tr h o e s s e ter Huntingdon VISCOUNTS. E r o:l4 ;1:;t 4r 4 11 Richmond Kinnoull Exmouth sort l '4l itt. MA RQUISSES. Lonsdale Gage . pol Y o: 5 , Drogheda Lucan Her ga'' Downshire Mountcashel Lorton Re d Ely Nelson ' Strangford g 0110,,, 1 Salisbury Orkney St. Vincent s il lto' EARLS. Pomf re t BISHOP. mid ) : q Bandon Rotten Rochester Cardigan Sandwich BARONS. Chesterfield Sheffield Abinger Darnley Stanhope Boston Desart Stradbroke Castlemaine Enniskillen Talbot Clinton Eglinton Verulam Colchester ~~ T RURSI Ten' k PAIRS Lord Crofton Earl Shannon Earl Lauderdale Lord Clonbrock Lord Farnham Marquis of Ailesbury Marquis of Exeter Earl Digby Earl Somers Lord St. John Marquis of Car Duke of Athol Lord Belhaven Lord Churchill Earl Leitrim fi DELE Duke oaalidesHi c ol3oa f fe wnn ß i o ede s dri abf: Bro 'and I h, q~' h n• cl etch_Jani -, :rg0... - I u, fi .....'er. fr, DUKES PROXIES EARLS. Brownlow Buckingham shire EARLS, Marlborough Newcastle Longford Malmesbury Mansfield Munster Ranfurly Seafield Selkirk Taukerville VISCOUNT. Doneraile MARQUISES, Ailsa Caledon Cathcart Gr tlas . g e fiatd, Waterford Westmeath Delowarr Eldon Guildford Leuen & Mel ville EARLS, gwerwik siceo- Abingdon Beverley Raw,.Ali se r e um St 4,71_4 sel weekly OA -to WATER UNDER LONDON.—At the weer,' r . ,i ,z ,_-1 the Civil Engineers' Institution, on Tuesd Bl , i ' f 0 t4l3' Cubitt, president, in the chair, the discuss' e r - ‘'P j i newed on the Rev. Mr. Clutterbuck's paper Iti' Alterations and Depressions in the Chalk ":,,1 under London." It was contended, that the ,sv upper districts of the chalk, accumulated in 0 Ow l tr increasing with the distance from the river, A of se fell off, in a correspondin g ratio, duri:ig• its pen , haustion, which usually t oo k pl ace betwe,n ,ei, 0° :! ii;, , ,„ November of each year. 'I his alternation of l e 'Z9 ' P e 1a., 4 t ' in the upper districts exceeded fifty feet in Woo l r Oki height, would be represented by a line froal,,A k i ?q,t vent, rising at an angle to the highest point sal - i d p4"' infiltrated water. This had been proved by e c 'i it , ei`;' servation on wells, at given periods, througbe e a r 1 1i:, 4 4:, att d :ch i p s aa t ott r ws i i c ofe t urw ; rnea a eot l e.t l re t b h aFe e praod s b p mils r ec i t n hho g aefr s szee f en, o dat r in m rferd i ol n oym g teh t xae h :s e aphu r oa i sfs v tti e itni r ino , gn p its ri ;e f ttbocediv o o: t,l4 • l lt t4l . l( `,,i): ,:rt.tt of the reduction of the level would gradually f. , until it was exactly balanced by that of the suPP de p . li i pt itt lT would naturally produce a gradually extending 00 (1 , ~Ittt p , of the water in the strata for some distance o r ° il A IN', ';, it was shown to have been the effect produced' at ZA4,11 , N ing from the experimental well, in Bushey k e- til# Oit t • l tfil August and September, 1840. It was urged t , ',, 0 1, i1 0 :. , k question to be determined was, whether a suPPlrt, ' , I L I :. for London, could be obtained from the deep 0 10 C• 6 ' It, the sand or chalk, Sections and diagrams we re s io t i lt ply s to shew, by the for mer , th a t th e suppose d I ' 3 01, VI I ,S, London, was not as had been shewn by geolog be r 4 tt t lrt o 't, by the latter, that from July, 1837, to Deelf o r7 Iti t ,,:Q*P• there had been a gradual depression of fully i'd lS . Nt . `,. , , the water of the sand-springs under London ; 9 ,0 1 ,'' ltiaq sequence of this serious action, several of the liil,tli:P'ti become tidal in some localities, and the w'a' OS; dered saline. A 4 ,11 ,1at DESTRUCTION OF THE BORNEAN IPIRATO• pa , , ,Itlf , meeting called by the Aborigines Protection ° o r PZY,' I li Societies, was held at the London Tavern, h l) o ° ol) L i t,,, tt i t "t,tr, ii a Wednesday evening, Mr. Joseph Sturge in t" khe ' gikejt, consider the awful sacrifice of human life on ," ii L l, k ,!lelal Borneo," last July. A letter from Mr. GA'S Itli j ili q 'la sing sympathy in the objects of the meeting 4 ,01,41 1 , 1 11 tr after which the Chairman opened the proceed irl 4o . t P4,: among other things, on the authority of a Li ve ,i s m iNtoi tleman, that English vessels were never 0- ,, e jr )ti t SN pirates in those seas, except such as were eng i el ' a tlii - It ll lt' t illegal traffic in opium. —The Rev. H. Richards c Nekt! the meeting to the same purport, reviewing t be b ble It P t ' il ° t , il`'l'r,' lt and career of Sir J. Brooke.—The Rev. C. CT t be „' I t Y,', 4 ;thi, a resolution embodying th e con d emna ti o n at p i L ort ° •ol occcurrence, which had been expressed by t i, k t ,: i tt o ?. l ti speakers; and a disse n ti ng m i n i s t er secon ded' et ,' 9 04, •• ~A;vi i t tatst s linh t ilii a eeiedp g ms e wcwtoeaa o antrs f sect, rhm t naa h aseren e yvnht: p te:s r , oee o afrxi c itvt e aptih e avrce d eciensk i , c n sgehbe g ddae s bgi , eribgtemy:nda, Mr.n,pt chairman, tabot Aaron eetshae: ni Smith' eoeheced t ttea as c oi ttretbri s 0 , , , ,10, 1.71,1 ::1) rti ti , ( He (Mr. Smith) had navigated those seas for tl' o py t I t, a a t n ta o c c ic u e l d ar a d t e r nmil h l e ig e,6 l4 , 1 It Wi, l' i ' ll fleet of 20 prahus, with 100 men in each, w. i, jef,4 4 4 , o from Sourabaya to China, on the 30th of APr i l i o nor l li les t :lori, described their formidable strength and aPPbree ); Ita p, 4e means of which they maintained an action 0 , t el k # T" , 4404 4 , and only desisted when they had lost 10 0 I fi g iii kc h t liZtkit the action, the pirates hoisted a British en ° f PA of Ayr'" they could only have gained by the massacre "die ti KtZ„ttL,' whom it belonged. Mr. Smith also alludedj. e o gaPVl TiOi 4 7 declaration made by European residents in 01 o eltl'A ..444, 1 ( favour of Governor Brook's conduct, and ce t listiri Nb,\!tt assuring the meeting, on his own knowledge , to OA 4 .701: t gallant and humane set of men than our offic e nti tt s o t k .,:li i ,tit t , in those seas never existed.—Mr. G. ThornPs. ots li d!i i'fit t l to answer Mr. Smith by insinuating that h' s' OA b 41 ,,i the danger in which he was placed, must i i ,.% 04 tri 0. 4 1 1 ,NA, him wanting in courage; which induced tti,, oei -Nyii.„, 4,,, rise again, and refer, in defence of his coursp;tsi f Ai . I t stti:t lit;Y,l4/ 1 1.1 t , monials which he had received from iner e t ioar b k It 1 11 1 1 :, 1Z,4 1 1 L ( 1,e, j captains, and the Mutual Indemnity Assoeit 0 e i tfi blt,t:itt,„4,.'"rio, conduct in those seas.—Mr. Thompson tP t e i s ol: 1 4 i t 4c) 4 ZrOqi ii /ier i , that when Captain Smith met the Dyaks_„ B l,tiefi , /, Ii I NII„ t "O e ilv t - k a, 1 account, he would have to ask himself, '' I 'v '''',„•ll? iO/ Jo Il ly / cltt 4 ItiD'"i' portion of the decalogue, `Thou shalt not A l bo g 4 ttil , a th 11,4 4 44 3 C 41 resolution, and a petition to parliament ef a t ci 11 47 1)1 47 1 ,/4,11, 1 ,12ti l substance, were carried without opposition• 5 .. , Z?, 1 •11:44 4 ,hi11 t i,i ( NEWS FOR EDITORS AND COMPOSI T° • S I ' l '4f . ., (11 , 0 1'4 ,, 01 t t t c : y t4 ', , _ ( respondent of the New York Tribune, writing rili J. 04 Iti;N' N/Nt, . ''' Gold Regions, says :—" T find here our frie. to b l , i ' i illoe R• fr o , Giles, fornerly of The Tribune, comfortably e' 0, 1 , , it: i .li t te k V h l t io ttb. ." I editor and publisher of the Placer 7'inle s ' e li h;, 1 40:5, 4)!Io n paper, which you have probably received beft3 r o ie bti,ltit t ,.:.irtili e 4 l in from , SlOOO to $2OOO weekly, in jobs a t i i ,rhe,, l ; Ktt,4 l i ;ll,T i a,Zttl ee : 1( The compositors—Mr. Powors formerlV 0 ' i' ee ell C N 1 241,;.,t1 --- , ir a i ii office, and Mr. Kurtz, once a fellow appren t ' life; l f l t t ,j,',P 4 ,7 l ,rtfillAtztvi d West-Chester. Pa.—are paid $l5 per apps ,Y . ; o e . 2 , 1 N'tt h _!it - Thk,.„ , 2 , Grey and W. M. Bevins, also of The Tr"' , to or7 ;fe t tittr, 14 1 e 4 - i4l , r compositors, are here. The latter has a 1 - 0 ,110 17 i °1 110,,!1,4 1 t14: 1 serves up the finest salmon chowder, steweu je gi 4,10tt-Zl,ii,, loth'. elk steak and roast venison I have ever tasted' 000.40) NilltilfeiN,Zljahlpool Um° VINCULA FEREMUS ?—To classV e ,o_,P o tri oy_l,l 4 ,tt 4 et - 4 4 a head disorders the most incongruous and e ° al r 4 IN (:4", 41 1." , Vqfp to disturb the timid and the nervous 19Y l a , c t t°,ol leDi t l itoi*"tio, , ,, " lull the really afflicted with false hopes — a i , o rtl, , ..1 cw Qt, i h kt th''Gwet all by promises the most extravagant and at' te' o lri a ` t t,ht 4 1 .'2,4 No d the chief characteristic of the medical " /ido l 0, t o P kittqthe t : 4,l tr present day, so it forms one of the . ost to th c s o i 14 , , 1144,,,t!t14 nn of contemplation that can pr •• - i t itself ,!• c i t o pili t,,AV'ty r te 4 ,..,fr orn e t those who scan over the ai • tisements w'-' 1 Ata t ii clll, l l l l-4\.;e o i. - W columns of the newsy:: •rs of our tinr: or a t 9 t p, i e tc .4 ol , b r i ot i , , 5 many medicines obtr • ng themselves uPo u at leo' o 9 t hi4tti k4 q2 i ltis r t 'f l -- it is some relief iowever, to find ane . n 4. 0 0,1•• kt.t i Ilia r ic)," No I\ g ross I- A i t• ey -tit l (‘ 1 %, 1 (while its pro. etor avoids those , w e . 0 40 Shat li e ali i o w that, with i . very few exceptions, disit dist i o lAN', olli'Di 3,/,°, a t is sane , ed and employed by theml ) ,a 004 tst i k1e,..,.. 8 1 :ie, practitioners, as well as the most eminent i d 1 r • • Co il E N • tt o , tu tu individuals of the age, who have n son o uo lo ''",' 94 favour and confidence the Compou An,t l ,„ ) Mr. Cockle, the gentleman above alluded Pv' t i v at• 5 .(1 . left )tt sen hen or ) 1)..! and V~ ~ ~_~Dlie !dw ay, c i;t4.)lhP aai gb e ,t on tn . file an Roo imp' f) *,,l4nson •-si, Y. 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