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Eatraturr. .Y- NOTICE. By Henry Wadsworth &c. Liverpool: London : David The Seaside and the Fireside . Longfellow, Author of " Hyperioh, John Walker, 7, Clayton-square BOR ue This neatly-got-up little publication contains many beautiful poems, which, however, are most of them occa sional, and none of them of the length or pretension of his Hyperion or Evangeline. The whole, however, are full of the freshness and originality which characterize all Mr. Longfellow's writings ; and every lover of real poetry will thank the enterprising publisher for the addition thus made to its stores. One of the most striking pieces is a translation, "The Blind Girl," from the Gaston of Jasnial, y well be ranked as the 'owing, as con- a modern French writer, who Burns of his country. We qu taining some strikingly origins THE LIGHTH( icky ledge runs far into And on outer point, some miles away, The Lighthouse lifts its massive masonry, A pillar of fire by night, of cloud by day. math, that ri subsides - te white lip and trem. of the face, And as the evening darkens,'lo ! how bright Through the deep purple of the twilight air, Beams forth the sudden radiance of its light, With strange, unearthly splendour in its glare ! Not one alone pcean's verge, Starts into life a dim, !st less surge, Like the great giant, Cl Upon the brink of the )pher, it stands tempestuous wave, ar out amot he night-o'ertaken maxi erticka and sands, And the great ships sail outward and return, _ Bending and bowing o'er the billowy swells, And ev joyful, as they They wive their silent wel me forth from the d s rind farewells s, and their sails, o blaze, And eager faces, as the light unveil Gaze at the tower, and vanish wt The mariner remembers On his first voyage, he saw it fade and sink , And, when returning from adventures wild, tie saw it rise again o'er ocean's brink. they gaze 'len a din. edfast, serene, immovable the same Year after year, through all the silent night urns on for evermore that quenchless name, Shines on that inextinguishable light s the ocean to its bosom clasp th the kiss of peace ; o, t in their , hake it like a fleece e storm e rain, The sea-bird wheel _ Of wings and win A new Prc .theus, chained upon the rock, Still grasping in his hand the fire of Jove, does not hear the cry, nor herd the shock, But hails the mariner with words of love. " Sail on !" it says, " sail on, ye stately ships I And with your floating bridge the ocean span Be mine to guard, this light from all eclipse, Be yours to bring man nearer unto man!" The following verses, in a different style, are even more beautiful; and the depth of feeling which they breathe has evidently been poured direct from the heart of the writer, and prompted by bitter experience of bereavement: RESIGNATION There is no flock, hov, matched and tended There is no firesi, But has one vacant chair ! The air is full of farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead; The heart of Rachel for her children crying, Will not be comforted 1 Let us be patient ! These severe afflictions But oftentimes celestial benedictio Assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly throu c ,_..... Amid these earthly damps, What seem to us but sad. fur gh the mists and vapours ; hiay be heaven's distant I There is no Death ! What seems so is transition This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the Life El Whose portal we call Death, She is not dead,—the child of our affection, — put gone unto that school Where she no longer And Christ himself doth rule is our poor protection, In that great cloister's stillness and seclusion, By guardian angels led, Safe from temptation sin's pollution, She lives, whom we call dead Day after day, we think what she is doing __ In those bright realms of air; Year after yea - r, her tender sti Behold her grown more fair .ps pursuing, Thus do we walk with her, and keep unbroken The bond which nature gives Thinking that our reinetribr Nay reach her where sl ,ough unspoken, Not as a child shall we again behold her For when with raptures wild _ _ " ' In our embra But a fair maiden, in her Father's mansion, Clothed with celestial grace ; And beautiful with all the soul's expansion Shall we behold her face. And though at times, impetuous with emotion And anguish long suppressed, heart ilea'v4 moanir like the ocean, That cannot be at rest,— We will be patient, and assuage the feeling We may not wholly stay : By silence sanctifying, not concealin The grief that must have way. The work is well got up, uniformly with Mr. Walker's previous publications of Mr. Longfellow's works, and is a creditable specimen of typography. Believe and Be Sure. By the Rev. W. M. Falloon. Liverpool: Newling. This is the title of the address of the devoted and esteemed incumbent of St. John's Church to his nume rous congregation, at the beginning of the year 1850. The rev. gentleman delivers his sentiments with his usual Scriptural faithfulness, and no one can peruse the appeals without deep impressions of their fitness and fidelity. They are written with all due solemnity, hut are conveyed in language of affection, and intense desire for the present welfare and future salvation of all his readers. If the reverend gentleman would permit it, the Tract Society would do well to reprint the address, at a cheaper rate, for general circulation. Scenes of the Civil War in Hungary in 1848 and 1849, Londor The graphic scenes depicted in this interesting volume are narrated in a series of letters written by an Austrian officer in the army of the Ban of Croatia, and depict his personal adventures during his encounters with the in surgent Hungarians in the ever-memorable disturbances during the years referred to. The letters contain abun dant illustrations of the character and sentiments of the Magyar race ; and though the author nowhere disguis,'s his partiality for the royalist cause, he yet warmly admires his opponents en tbusiasticpatriotism. Theincidents detared in the writer's letters are romantic in the extreme, and the reader acquires much information respecting both parties, about whom we have so little definite knowledge. The state of our fellow-Protestants in Hungary is full of inte rest, and they well deserve the interposition of the British government. The doctrines of Huss are embraced by all the magnates, anti two-thirds of the population. The English reader will scarcely believe, that even now, in the middle of this nineteenth century, the institution of Bible societies is forbidden, and that the Bible in the Hunga rian language is liable to confiscation. The author has evidently had the best means of mak hig himself acquainted with the manners, customs, and way of thinking of the Hungarians, whilst the volume is rendered highly interesting by the political and military views which it opens. The following . extracts are replete with lively interest MILITARY SPIRIT, &C., OF THE CROATIAN WOMEN. a What enthusiasm, what zeal for the Emperor and the in 'dependence of Croatia t I have myself seen, in districts of the Ottochan regiment, wives and maidens take up the musket, and repair to the chain of posts on the Turkish boundary, that all the men might be able to take the field : and such an eight days' duty at these frontier posts is no trifle, and requires not a little firmness. Old, half invalided, frontier subalterns, in • capacitated from taking the field, were the commandants ; young, many of them handsome, females composed their troops. By my faith, I should have no objection to be the commander of such a corps of Ottochan females myself! " They are almost all pretty—nay, even handsome ; tall, elegant figures, yet plump; small feet, oval faces, long dark hair, hanging, braided into two tresses, far down the back ; rather dark complexion, it is true, but at the same time dark, animated eyes, red lips, exquisitely beautiful teeth ; and brisk and lively withal in manner and gesture. This, you see, ac counts for the wish to command such a corps of Amazons. At any late, it does one good to behold again friendly female faces, instead of seeing, as of late in Italy, tongues almost always stretched out at us. This was really done, shortly before the outbreak of the revolution, by a lady of very high rank, who met me in her carriage, and whom 1 politely saluted, because I had been several times in companies with her. Be sides, the costume of the female sex here is very handsome and ornamental. The sleeves of the chemise are neatly worked with a variety of arabesques, andevery sem is braided w ith gay cording, and the stockings are generally coloured. A Croatian woman, in her Sunday dress, looks just like a fe male peasant on the stage. " And these women frequently astonish by their courage and ortitude. We had wives of frontier soldiers with us in Pes clriera, and on the march through Hungary, who equalled the men in the endurance of fatigue, and displayed undaunted courage in battle. In Hungary, we had with us a young Croa tian, the daughter of an old Seressan, who was as daring a rider as the beet hussar, and more than once fearlessly joined the men in the charge. An Hungarian faro/ gave her, in an action, a cut on the right cheek, which she returned with a severe blow on the taut, seized the bridle of his horse, and took him prisoner. This horse, a gray stallion, she ever after wards rode, and refused to sell, though I offered her forty ducats for him." TRAOIC SCENE ENACTED BY THE MAGYARS ON NEW YEAR'S DAY, 1849. "When, in the autumn of last year, we were about to break iv from Croatia, and the w hole frontier w as striving to furnish the Emperor with as many combatants as possible, the pen• sioned German widow of a captain, whose husband had fallen many years ago in fight with predatory Bosnians, brought her only eon, a fresh, lively, stout lad, of scarcely sixteen, who had from childhood been carefully exercised in arms. He was gladly received ns a cadet in the hussars, learned the duty in a short time, and behaved on all occasions extremely well. " I began to be very fond of the ingenuous, spirited youth. On the march back through Hungary, before Vienna, and also at Moor, he had fought gallantly, borne all fatigues with the unconcern of youth, and his promotion to officer must soon have followed. He would perhaps have acquired a brilliant position in the army, for he had all the qualities for it. "On New-year's day, he rode forward on patrol. with three hussars, while the rest of us awaited their return by a great watch-fire. They had been so long absent, that I began to be uneasy. At length, one of the hussars came at full speed towards us, bleeding, and with a wild look. While yet in the saddle, he informed me that they had proceened rather too far, when a band of savage honvMs suddenly rushed upon them from all sides, and surrounded them. He himself had suc ceeded in fighting his way through, but the cadet and the two other hussars were taken prisoners. "Conducted by this hussar, we proceeded with all the speed we could over grour d intersected by woods and br,'hes, in pur suit of the honvad, to take the prisoners from them. On com ing to a small clearance, what an appalling spectacle met our view! Stripped stark naked, mangled with innumerable wounds, there lay the bodies of the two hussars; but the cadet, also completely stripped, was bound to a tree, after the mon sters had with their hand-bills, which all of them carry, chop. ped off both his hands at the wrist. In this condition, he was left to bleed to death slowly; but the intense frost had con ed the blood, and he was still alive and perfectly sensible when we came to him. "It was truly appalling to see The poor boy, who strove with manly fortitude to conquer his pains, and only broke out now and then into a slight moan, which penetrated so much the deeper into our hearts. We cautiously unbound him, and laid him upon a bed formed of our cloaks—this was all that we could do for him at the moment. " With faint voice, frequently interrupted, he related to me that the honvods had first cut down the two hussars, and then required him to give them information concerning our position and force. When he refused to comply, they stripped him to his shirt, they beat him severely with sti-•ks, then chopped off his hands, and tied him to the tree, and at last went off laugh ing and singing. "It was now heartrending to hear him how earnestly he im plored me to shoot him, and put an end to his misery. " What should I live for without hands, if it were possible that I could recover?" said he. " Shoot me dead, I beg of you; kill meat once. "Compliance with this request was as unnecessary as it was impossible. Death, the deliverer, was fast approaching. His breath already became weaker, his eyes glazed; it was evident that in a few moments his spirit would be summoned away; when he rallied once more, and asked me, while kneeling be side his bed, in a tolerably loud voi - e, which could be heard by part of the hussars who stood around, "I am dying like a brave soldier for the Emperor —am I not ?' " When with entire conviction I assured him of this, he was evidently rejoiced, and said, Write to my mother that I have fallen like a brave soldier for the Emperor ; this will comfort her in her sorrow; and send her a lock of my hair.' Here his voice sunk to a faint whisper, and he was a corpse," RUEL NECESSITY OF FIGHTING AGAINST FORMER FRIENDS AND COMRADES, "What has of late frequently rendered fighting extremely unpleasant to me has been, that I so often found myself op posed to hussars of the regiment to which I formerly belonged, and that I have been repeatedly obliged to battle with them in good earnest. Thus, I was once nearly a day skim skiing with a troop of cavalry, chiefly composed of hussars of the squad ron to which for years I had formerly belonged. "A corporal of my company, whom I had myself clothed and trained, now commanded as officer; and it cannot be denied that he did his business cleverly. I myself shot through the head, with my pistol, an old hussar, who had known me when still a cadet, and from whom I gained much practical know ledge. He dropped from his horse immediately. He had fired at me twice, and his balls had passed through my cloak and through the flourishing tail of my horse. With another hussar, who had long been my private servant, I was engaged in a longer single combat with the sword. Both cut away stoutly, but at last separated without either having done the other much harm. "Comrades of other days, with whom I had emptied so many a bottle, with whom I had played or chatted so many an hoar with whom 1 bad bad so many a wild noctural ride, when re turning from the convivial hr allicit iistant villages—these were now rravei Ils of Gallician ma " One of their hussars, with whom I had formerly been well acquainted, once called out to me in Hungarian, in the midst of an action : "Formerly you were my brave officer, and I was attached to you! now yon are the enemy of my country, and I'll shoot you.' At the same moment he fired his pistol at me, and gallopped off: the ball whizzing past my head.' " VARII In April, 1814, Mr. Southey, in writing to Mr. Cottle says, that Coleridge had been in the habit of taking c laudanum "from two quarts a week to a pint a-day." The Prince of Canino, in his" Systems Ornithologiaa,' speaks of the existence of 7,000 species of birds, bein 2000 more than were known when Geoffrey St. Hilaire twelve years ago, published his work. A DERIVATION. As the loveliest lasses have ever found out No beau can resist them who tries— Irresistible peoof might be given, no doubt, That " beauties" mein simply beau-ties. GEOGRAPHY.—The local American papers state that a teacher in Virginia, giving lessons in geography, asked a boy, " What state do we live in ?" The urchin hit the fact when he drawled out, " A state of sin and misery." " I'll take two children, if I can have them cheat)," said a tall yankee, on entering an oyster cellar in New York, the other day. "Two children ! What two child- Why, I ain't got any myself, and your sign reads. .milies supplied,' don't it ? I want you to supply me." USE OF A MOUSTACHE.—The editor of the Medical Times, referring to the moustachas of medical students, assures a correspondent that "moustaches have their uses ; and amongst the most important, they are considered to point out the idlest, the vainest, and most self-conceited, if rot, probably, the most dissolute in the class. They are beacons to warn others." THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE.—" We are at peace with all the world, and we seek to maintain our cherished rela tions of amity with the rest of mankind ?" " Ail the world, and " the rest of mankind ?" Why, this is a legi timate Irish bull of the best kind, and must have been ap proved by the Cabinet for the purpose of catching the Irish votes.—New York Herald. AGES OF LAW LORDS AND PRELATES IN 1850. Lord Plunket, 86; Lyndhurst, 78; Brougham, 72; Den man, 71 ; Campbell, 71 ; Cottineham, 69; Langdale, 67; the Bishop of Durham, 80 ; Exeter, 73 ; Canterbury, 70 ; Peterborough, 70 ; Bath and Wells, 68 ; Lincoln, 67 ; Gloucester, 67 ; Worcester, 67 ; Carlisle, 66 ; Ro chester, 66 ; London, 64 ; York, 62 ; Winchester, GO ; St. A.aph, 60 ; Ripon, 56 ; Chester, 56 ; St. Davids, 53; Salisbury. 49 ; Oxford, 45. CHESSMEN FORMED LIKE DRAUGHTS. — AIways some thing new in these progressive times. Here, for the con venience of playing chess in steamboats or railway car riages, we have the pieces embossed on a flat substance, and moved as in draughts. At first it would appear as if they were not so clearly recognisable as when carved in wood, bone, or ivory; but the eye soon becomes accustomed to the change (the two colours being preserved). and the enure is not liable to the instability' and tumbling about of the usual forms, if tried in such situations.—Literary Gazette. How IRELAND WAS PROGRESSING BEFORE 1846. — We La ely made a tour of the West after an absence of twelve years. What have we seen—what was :.he impres sion made upon us in passing through districts with which we have been long familiar ? this—that until the late potato failure and consequent famine, there must have been immense agricultural improvement going for ward even in Connaught; for although we passed over miles of country without meeting the face of a human being, and seldom that of a four-footed beast, and though we came, in some places, hot upon the smoking ruins of a recently unroofed village, with the late rriserable in mates huddled together and burrowing for shelter among the crushed rafters of their cabins ; and although there were large tracts of land untilled and untenanted—still, with the traces of cultivation far beyond what we remem bered in former times, passing under our eyes; with im proved drainage—in many places rendering the former swamp a meadow—with the dark natcl'es of green crops creeping up the sides of the valleys—with the turnip and the parsnip surrounding the cottage, where, alone, the potato had a footing previously ; and, with large tracts- of bog reclaimed wherever there was an improving and, con sequently, a wise and humane as well as thriving land lord—we could not but feel that the appearance of the country, generally, had improved since 1837.—Dublin f niversity Mag. VICISSITUDES IN THE LIVES OF LORD CHIEF JUS TICES.—CURIOUS ANECDOTE OF CHIEF JUSTICE HOLT. The pages of Lord Campbell's recently-issued '• Lives of the Chief Justices," disclose less of political and more of the social life than the " Lives of the Chancellors" pre sented, and the vicissitudes which occur are more startling. Thus we are rather scandalised on reading of one chief justice (Tresilian) being hung, and another (Hankford)° causing himself to be shot by an ingenious stratagem, so that he might avoid the consequences of a verdict of felts de se. But the manners of the times are still more strongly contrasted with our own, by the circumstance that two chief justices in embryo—Popham and Holt— were highwaymen in their youths. Holt did not practise this singular profession long ; but when he was going the circuit as chief justice, many years after, he recognised a man, convicted capitally before him, as one of his own ac complices in a robbery; and having visited him in gaol, and inquired after the rest of the gang, he received this answer—" Ah ! my lord, they art all hanged but myself and your lordship." To this anecdote Lord Campbell appends the following explanatory and consolatory note " Hanging was not formerly considered so very disgrace ful and melancholy an occurrence as it is now. When I first came to London I frequented the famous Cider-cellar in Maiden-lane, where I met Professor Porson, Matthew Raine, the Master of the Charter-house, and other men of celebrity. Among these was George Nichol, the King's bookseller, who, in answer to some reflections on the so ciety who sometimes came there, answered, with an air of conscious dignity, I have known the Cider-cellar these forty years, and during that time only two men have been hung out of it.' " CHINESE IN CALIFORNIA.—We are so fortunate as to be located in a section of the town where large numbers of Chinese have pitched their tents, and we have noticed with much interest the character and habits of these peo ple. From early morn until late in the evening those men are engaged in their occupation of house builders, of which a great many have been exported from China; and the quietness and order, cheerfulness and temperance, which is observable in their habits, is noticed by every one. Search the city through, and you will not find an idle Chinaman, and their cleanliness exceeds that of any other people we ever saw. The buildings brought from China are generally 20 feet square, one story in height, and 12 feet from the floor to the ceiling. The timbers are round, and many of them very crooked. We have noticed in several instances the erection of China buildings of double the size described above; but we suppose that in such cases two separate frames are erected together, thus forming a single building. The first movement after rais ing the frame is to attach the windows, which consists of a frame and blinds without sash. The blind is so con structed as to close itself by its own weight—the slat be ing of double width outside. The timber is very uniform in size, and about six or eight inches in diameter. The boards are well seasoned, and resemble American cedar, The price of a Chinese building such as we have described, including the erection, is 3500 dols. The building, how ever, consists of simply the frame and covering. They are brought from Hong Kong.—Pacific News. he wild winds lif .nd hold it up, an The startled waves leap over it; t Smites with all the scourges of t 'id steadily against its solid form Press the great shoulders of the hurricane ith the din THE LIVERPOOL STAND/tilt AFFECTING DEATH SCENE.-SINGULAR FATE OF A COUNTESS. (From " Scenes of the Civil War in Hungary.") It was nearly dark when, with my troop, some of whom were killed, others severely wounded, I reached the main body. Scarcely had we unsaddled, and, tired to death, I was about to stretch myself by the watch-fire, fed with the ruins of houses which had been pulled down, when an infantry soldier, appointed to hospital duty, came to inform me that an officer of the insurgents, dangerously wounded and taken prisoner, having heard my name, wished to speak to me. In spite of weariness, I immediately followed my guide to the hurdle-shed, which was fitted up' for an hospital. Dismal was the appearance of this dark, low place, scantily lighted by the hand-lanterns of the surgeons and attend ants, who, with their blood-striped sleeves tucked up high, and with aprons equally bloody, were busily engaged. The wounded lay close to one another upon dirty straw, which in places was quite wet and slippery from the blood upon it. Loud and gentle sighs, moans, groans, gnashing of teeth, mingled at times with curses, in the Bohemian, Polish, Hungarian, German, and Croatian languages. I was obliged to rally my courage, lest I should be scared back. In the furthest corner of the long building, on a bed of straw, lay the wounded prisoner, who wished to speak to me. How was I shocked, when the light of the attend ant's lantern fell upon his face, and I recognised Count St- ! On our march through Croatia to Vienna, I had passed two days at his mansion ; had seen him in the society of two charming women—his wife and his sister—in the full enjoyment of happiness ; and now, in what state was I doomed to find him ! St—, a Magyar to the inmost fibre of his heart, had indeed then told me that he should take up arms for Kossuth ; but thus to meet him again I was not at all prepared. Kneeling by the side of my pale friend, whose noble countenance bore the evident impress of speedy death, I grasped his cold hand, and asked him in what way I could be serviceable to him. " Thank you for coming," he replied in a voice scarcely audible, and this effort mani festly caused him great pain ; " I heard that you were here, and I sent for you. lam dying ; my chest is shat tered. When lam dead, take the pocket-book out of my uniform, and send it to my wife, who lives at K—; it contains my will and other papers." Here he made a long pause, during which I strove to cheer him. " Don't talk thus—'tis of no use—we part as friends— I have fought for my country—you are faithful to your I pressed his hand in silence. " Where is your sister Helene ?" I at length asked. " With the army," he answered—" she is fighting for Hungary." It was now a considerable time before St- could utter a word. He moaned gently; and a regimental sur geon, who came to us, significantly made the sign of the cross with his finger. At length, afte'r a full hour, he suddenly raised himself and said, " So—now 'tis all over--salute Marie (the name of his wife)—Marie!" and with that he stretched himself out, his eye-strings broke, and his spirit fled. With tears in my eyes, I took, in obedience to my friend's last injunction, from the breast-pocket of his uniform, his pocket-book, which was so steeped in blood, that the writings in it had become almost illegible ; cut off several locks of his fine black hair and of the curling moustaches, which had always been his pride; and took the rings from his fingers ; to send as speedily and safely as possible to the unfortunate widow. The chief surgeon promised me that St— should be decently buried and alone ; and so I had done what I could had been one of my most intimate friends in the army. For years together, as cadets and officers, we had been almost inseparable. I had always wished to spend a few months on leave of absence upon his fine , states in Hungary ; and now I had buried him as my A f - ew days afterwards, my heart was doomed to suffer another severe wound I set out, with my two attendants, on my return to the watch-fire, the tall flame of which flared up cheerfully before us ; when, the moon shining tolerably bright, we perceived a human figure lying at the foot of a tree. We went nearer—it was 'a woman, dressed as a man, in the costume of an Hungarian magnate ; the long hair which fell over her shoulders betrayed her sex. My Seressans turned her round ; and by the pale moonbeams I recognised Helene, the lovely sister of my friend St—. Inexpressible anguish thrilled me at that moment, and I !- - -h throwing myself upon the corpse. Forcibly mustering my spirits, I ordered my men to carry the body to the fire. There we examined it more closely, and with extreme anxiety I sought to ascertain whether there was any hope left of reviving her. Vain hope ! it was several hours since her spirit had departed ; the ball of one of our riflemen bad gone through her heart. From the small red wound the blood was still oozing in single drops, which I carefully caught in my handkerchief, to be preserved as a relic. My only consolation was that the deceased could not have suffered long ; that she must have expired the very moment she was struck. Those pure, noble, still won drous beautiful features—on her brow dwelt peace and composure, and the lips almost smiled. There she lay as if in a tranqnil slumber; and yet those eyes were never more to open—those lips never more to utter noble senti ments, or words of kindness. was welt ni My hussars were visibly affected, and thought it a pity that one so young and so beautiful should die so early. Many of them, who had been with me on our first march through Hungary, for two days together at St-'s mansion, instantly recognised Helene, and doubly la mented her death, because she had shown such kindness to them. We thawed by a 4 -1" - t f f- tire the ground no. ar from a maple tree, and were employed nearly the whole night in diping a large deep grave with our hand-bills and swords. By the time the first rays of dawn appeared, we had finished ; an hussar. who could do carpent,r's work, having mean while made a simple cross out of the stems of two young white maples. The corpse, in full uniform in the kolpock, with plume of glistening heron's feathers on the head ; the light Turkish sabre by her side ; was then wrapped carefully in a clean, large blanket, which we had with us, and so deposited in the grave, which we filled up again with earth. Then, regardless of caution, I had a full salute with pistols fired over the grave. I have preserved a small gold ring and a lock of her hair for a memorial. When nr melancholy business was finished, we moved off after the enemy, who retreated rather hastily_ The tempestuous feelings that filled my heart T am not able to describe. Helene had, as I subsequently learned, served as aide-de-camp to her maternal uncle, who com manded a considerable ➢lagyar corps, and was shot, while acting in that capacity, by our soldiers in the above mentioned action. LABOUR AND THE. POOR.—Strange and sad, indeed, are the pictures which these Metropolitan letters exhibit, drawn from God's own storehouse of Fact,—stranger, sadder, terribler than all fiction. Look at the Spital fields weavers, " formerly the only botanists in the me tropolis," possessing, within the memory of living man, an Entomological Society, a Horticultural Society, and a Mathematical Society, all maintained by the operatives,— bringing forth a Dollond,. a Simpson, and an Edwards ; and then, in the course of this very half-century, seeing their wages cut away from them year after year, falling from 14s. 6(1. (average) in 1824 to 7s. in 1849; till the second or third-rate weavers are found living twenty three persons in a house, tasting sometimes animal food once a-month, while they produce maroon-coloured vel vets " for ladies to wear and adorn them, and make them selves handsome." Look at the three thousand labour ers scuffling every morning at the London Dock-gates for a single day's hire of half-a-crown, and if failing of ad mission still waiting in the yards by the day long, on the chance of earning 4d. an hour if wanted for some stray ship,—the average earnings of the whole class not exceed ing ss. a-week throughout the year; whilst an easterly wind will throw 7000 out of employ, or with their de pendents, 20,000 ! Look at the slop-work tailors, the men receiving 3s. 6d, for the coats they made at ss. Id. two years ago,—sometimes eating, drinking, sleeping, working in one room, as many. as ever the room will con tain ; the women earning at the best from 4s. 6d. to, ss. per week, let them sit from eight in the morning till ten at night, and paying out of that Is. 6d. for trimmings and 6d. candles every week, so that altogether they earn about 3s. in the six days,—hopeless creatures, that never knew a rise, but continual reductions !" Look ab the shirt-maker, making shirts for 2s. a dozen that were 3s. 6d. eight years ago; her usual time of work "from five in the morning till nine at night, winter and summer ;" when there is a press of business getting up often at two or three in the morning, and, "carrying on" till the-even ing of the following day, merely lying in her clothes to take a nap of five or ten minutes, for " the agitation of mind never lets one lie longer ;" and for all this toil earning on an average 2s. 101 d. per week, or 2s. clear, after deducting cotton and candle,—a hopeless creature, too, "that never knew them to raise the prices '.."" Look at the waistcoat-maker—her earnings average from 3s. to 4s. a-week. out of which, all deductions made, she has about ls. lOid. to live upon ;—she, too, one who has found " prices continually going down," and " never knew an advance," and yet knows persons " who get even lower prices than she does; oh, yes, a great deal lower !" Fraser's llapazine. DR. CHALMERS AND THE FORCE OF IMAGINATION.— It was about this time that coffee began to be generally introduced. Ir.stead of adopting the new beverage, Mr. Chalmers invented one of his own—an infusion of burnt rye—which he not only used constantly himself, but urged upon all his guests, strenuously affirming its equality with the best Mocha coffee. Upon one occasion, at Kilmany, Mr. Duncan, who had got no great relish for his friend's beverage, so stoutly denied this position, that Mr. Chal mers declared that the next time he came to Dundee, he would subject the matter, in Mr. Dunean's own presence, to an experimenturn crud*, and triumphantly vindicate his own invention. The time for the experiment soon arrived. Mr. Chalmers appeared in Dundee, bringing with him a quantity of rye coffee, as he called it, of his best manufacture. The trial between it and its rival was made at Dr. Ramsay's, to whose sister the performance of the important experiment had been committed. It was agreed that a select company of connoisseurs should assemble; that Miss Ramsay should furnish each, first with a cup of her best Mocha coffee, and then with a cup of " the genuine Kilmany ;" that each guest should an. nounce his opinion, and that by the verdict of the majo rity the question of their respective merit should be deci ded. In the meantime, however, before the trial com menced, Miss Ramsay received certain private instruc. tions, upon which she acted. In due time the company assembled. The coffee, being handed round, met with general approbation. The second cup was next presented : by one after another an adverse verdict was pronounced, till it came at last to Mr. Duncan, who emphatically ex claimed, " Much inferior,—very much inferior !" Mr. Chalmers burst into laughter as he replied, " It's your own Mocha coffee ; the second cup is just the same arti cle as the first." The supremacy of the imagination over the senses which he had thus tested upon Mr. Duncan and the. coffee connoisseurs of Dundee, Mr. Chalmers used also to illustrate by an incident which occurred in the house of his granduncle, Dr. Chalmers, the minister of Kilconquhar. A party of ministers had met at the manse, where a number of them were to remain all night, and among the rest Mr. Gray, against whom some slight pique, on account of areal or assumed literary superiority, was entertained. The question as to the relative power of the imagination and the senses was raised, and the ar gument rose high, Mr. Gray alone taking the side of the senses, and all the others the side of the imagination. The combatants parted for the night ; Mr. Gray, by re tiring first, giving his adversaries the opportunity of con cocting the trick by which they made his own act contra dict his argument. It was the custom at that time to wear wigs, which were given to a servant at night to be powdered for the next day. When Mr. Gray, with his freshly-powdered wig, came down next morning to the breakfast-room, he found it unoccupied. It was not long till one of his brethren joined him, who, on approaching, gave very distinct, but not very agreeable indications that a most offensive odour was issuing from the wig. Trying his own senses, Mr. Gray could detect nothing amiss, and laughed at his friend for his folly. Now, however, a se cond friend came in, who declared, immediately on en tering, that there was a strong smell of brimstone in the room, and traced it at once and unhesitatingly to the wig. The laugh subsided, but still, after a second trial, Mr. Gray could find dothing amiss. But a third friend came in, and a fourth, and a fifth, all fixing the alleged offence upon, the wig, till his own senses overcome at last, and the victory given to his adversaries, Mr. Gray flung the harmless wig indignantly away, exclaiming, " Why, the fellow has put brimstone on the wig."—Hanna's Memoirs of Dr. Chalmers. encral 0155rtilanp, The list of subscriptions to Mr. Sidney Herbert's Emi gration Fund already amounts to £ll,OOO. The West Indian steamer Avon brought £244,540 specie on freight. - The Post-Master General has issued an order that after the 13th instant every postoffice in England shall, after ten o'clock on Sunday mornings, be closed for the day. The Chimney in which damaged tobacco is burned in the London Docks is known by the name of " Queen's pipe•" The East India Company has contributed the sum of .£3OO towards Mr. Sidney Herbert's fund for the promo tion of female emigration. It appears that during the ensuing quarter, ending April 5, the sum of 0302,961 will be appropriated to the purchase of stock for the reduction of the national debt. A correspondent of a morning paper calls attention to the case of Madame Belzoni, who is living in very reduced circumstances. She is the widow of the celebrated tra veller, and accompanied him to Egypt. During the snow storm of Friday night (week) a middle aged woman, named Mary Jamieson, servant to Mrs. Wright, of Careston, while on her way home from Bre chin, perished amongst the snow, on the turnpike-road. On Friday week a poor woman was delivered of a child in the open street at Hull. She had been some time knocking at the door of the workhouse, but could get no admission, on account of the deafness of the porter. On Tuesday eveninga respectable looking young woman, about 18 years of age, committed suicide by jumping from Blackfriars-bridge. The drags were immediately got from the adjoining pier, but the body was not discovered. A correspondent of the Exeter Gazette states that " a few years since the font belonging to the parish church of Milton Dameral, Devon, was removed to a farm-yard to meat pigs in !" The friends of Viscount Seaham will be gratified to learn that his lordship's sad accident has not interfered with his general health. The inflammatory action in the vessels of the eye is subsiding. On the 2nd instant, a respectable tradesman of Oxford, named Hounslow was skating, when he accidentally fell, and alighted on a aimblet which he carried in his pocket for fastening on his skates. The instillment was driven into his back, and he died of the injuries on Wednesday. ANOTHER GAMEKEEPER SHOT. — On Saturday, William Thorpe, gamekeeper to the Rev. F. Snarpe, of Tibshelf. Derbyshire, was shot dead by a party of poachers on game preserves belonging to the above rev. gentleman. Six men are in custody. PERVERT.—The Rev. Alfred Drayman, late curate of St. John the Baptist's, Wasperton, whose license was lately withdrawn by the Bishop of Worcester, on account of the Popish doctrines inculcated in his sermons, has gone over to the Church of Rome. The directors of the Scorch banks have just issued a notice to their depositors, that henceforth the interest allowed to them will be calculated on the minimum balance at their credit in each calendar month, instead of on the daily balance. During the first four days, three thousand of Dr. Chal mers' " Life" were sold—so extraordinary has been the curiosity to know the particulars of Chaltneys' life. We are not aware that Sir Walter Scott's Biography, by Lock hart, had such a run. The trial of Andrew Forest, charged with the murder of Joseph Herbert, gamekeeper, at Gilbertfield Castle, parish of Cambuslang, took place on Saturday, in the High Court of Justiciary, Edinburgh, and resulted in a verdict of " not proven." Margaret Lidgate has been sent to gaol for thirty days at Edinburgh, and ordered to find bail, for mischievously calling at the houses of medical men, and stating that their professional s erv i ces were requ i re d by persons whose names she gave at the time. On Tueicinv, Bridget Tamevey, a pauper in the War wick Union Workhouse, was committed, on the verdict of • uvrtnier s iiiquesc, for toe wilful murder 01 her child, an infant two days' old, by giving it a quantity of sul phate of copper, commonly called bluestone, or blue v triol. The sale of the Queen Dowager's stud took place on Monday, and fetched good prices. There were forty-two horses, the majority of which were nearly seventeen► hands high. The carriages were sold on Tuesday. and one of the state vehicles was bought for exhibition for 100 guineas. - NEW HOSPITAL YOR BRISTOL.—The liberal and muni ficent offer of £5,000 towards the erection of a new gene ral hospital at Bristol, made some short time since, has been nobly responded to by a gentleman noted for his " alms deeds r " by a further donation of £l,OOO for the proposed object. CHLOROFORM.—Dr.Webster, at a meeting of the West minster Medical Society, related the case of a lady who became insane, and continued for some months, from the administration of chloroform in her confinement; only only one drachm of the medicine, sprinkled on a handker chief, was used. It did not procure immunity from pain. One of those rare birds, named by Bewick the great ash-coloured shrike-murdering pie, or great butcher bird, was last week shot by a youth named Whitfield, on the west side of the town of Keswick. It is a remarkably fine specimen, and has been presented to Mr. Selby, of TwizEl House, the celebrated ornithologist. SPOT ON TIIE SUN.—An immense spot, plainly visible to the naked eye, was seen yesterday week upon the face of the sun. It is situated a little above tl.e centre of the disk. As such a sight is not very common, and may pro bably remain visible for a few days longer, perhaps some of our readers may be glad to verity it with their own eyes. MADAME SONTAG.—Wo regret to state that this dis tinguished artiste has not recovered from the effects of the cold she received by being exposed for some hours to the inclemency of the weather, in Scotland, about a fortnight ago. In consequence of her illness concerts at York and other towns have been postponed.. She is at present, we believe, in York. The magistrates of Buckinghamshire have resolved not to entertain a memorial of the Rev. Mr. Cox, late chap lain of the county gaol of Aylesbury, who was recently compelled to retire from the office in consequence of re fus'ng to divulge the particulars of the contession made by the quaker Tawell. The rev. gentleman wished for au annuity. On Saturday week a fire broke out on board of the Ganges, a fine Indianian, upwards of 1,000 tons burden, lying in a dry dock at Blackwall. The fire originated from igniting, on the lower decks,a quantity of sulphur and damp straw for the purpose of getting rid of a num ber of beetles and other insects. The damage is said to exceed £/,C130 On Monday last, as a woman who.subsisted by begging was proceeding from Upton to Gloucester, she was seized with the pains of labour and delivered of a mail child in the public road. Assistance was presently procured, and the woman and child were, after some delay, removed to an inn, but the child died from want of attention and exposure to the cold. On Wednesday week a married female named Hamilton, at Glasgow, who was slightly the worse for liquor, was. endeavouring to swallow a mouthful of black pudding.. The food, however, stuck in her throat, and the poor woman, notwithstanding the assistance which was imme diately rendered to her, expired in the course o f a f ew minutes after enduring all the agonies of suffocation. A GENTLEMAN DROWNED.—Peter Fell, Esq., of Bal connel and Birkhill, was drowned in the South Esk, on Taursday evening, while crossing that river in his gig, by the Careston Ford. The empty gig, with the horse attached, was accidentally seen in the river next day, a shortway down, and led to the discovery of the melan choly catastrophe.—Glasgow Mail. On Sunday, the first building erected in England, in connexion with the Greek Church, was consecrated with unusual ceremony. The edifice is situated in London wall, opposite All-Hallows Church, and is designed for the accommodation of the Greek merchants resident in Lon don, and has been erected at a cost of nearly £lO,OOO. The interior is richly ornamented, and in general appear ance is not unlike the chapels of the Roman Catholic body At a meeting of the vestry of St. Martin's parish, London, on Friday, a resolution was brought forward by one of the guardians, that an addition of id. in the pound be made to the rate proposed, for the purpose of promot inp emigration. The chairman declined to put the motion as the meeting was called for a specific purpose, but there seemed a strong opinion in favour of the motion among the guardians. A V FACT FUR NATURALISTS.—Mr. Bentley, of Ply mouth Grove, has now in his possession a robin redbreast, which has been reared in a cage. The little warbler seems happy in its home, and as soon as the lamp is lighted in the evening be sings most sweetly until the family retire for the night; in addition to which he inva riably " tunes up" during the time the family are at breakfast and dinner. On Monday morning, the wife of a labourer living at Chelmsford, Essex, who had been in a desponding state of mind for some time, heard that her husband's wages had been reduced, and fearing that she should come to want, she, in her husband's absence, nearly severed the head from the body of her infant child, only five weeks old,' with a razor, and immediately after told a person next door that she had killed her child. Jan, 15,1! THE EFFECT OF STEAM ttrtlf ICE.—Last week, at Woolwich, six blocks of ice, 2 indica thick, and a yard square, were placed one above the other, making a thick ness altogether of about 14 inches. A hose an Inch and a half in diameter was fixed on the boiler In the yard, and a jet of steam issued therefrom of 501bs. pressure to the square inch. This formidable jet, on being applied to the ice, cut the whole through the centre in fiftv , five sreonds. DEPARTURE OF THE ARCTIC DISCOVERY SHIPS,— On Thursday the expedition left Woolwich. The Enter prise and the Investigator slipped from their moorings about nine o'clock. The scene was a most imposing one. The ships proceeded to Greenhithe, to have their com passes adjusted, and on Friday a clerk from London will pay them in advance. On Saturday morning they will leave Greenhithe, and be towed to Devonport, where their final orders will await them. On Monday, at the Central Criminal Court, London, just as a prosecutor, who had been violently assaulted by a prisoner, was retiring from the witness box, after giving evidence against the latter, he fell and almost instantly expired ; the excitement had been too much for him in his weak state, brought on by the violence of the priso ner. The recorder directed the prisoner to be detained to answer any charge that may be preferred against him in consequence of the death of the unfortunate prosecutor. STABBING BY A BOY.—On Saturday, two lads, named Smith and White, in the employment of Mr. Robinson, cigar manufacturer, Cross-lane, St. Dunstan's-hill, Lon don, quarrelled and grappled with each other. After a short struggle White said, " If you don't let me go I will stab you," and immediately fulfilled his threat, by stabbing Smith in the abdomen with a knife, which he took up from a bench. The wounded lad now lies in St. Thomas's Hospital, and White is in custody. REFUSAL OF THE BURIAL SERVICE.—A woman who had deserted her husband, and, while living in open adul tery, had made a profession of infidelity, and indulged in habitual drunkenness, having recently died in the diocese of Oxford, the case was referred to the bishop by the authorities of the parish, and the result was a refusal of the service: and within two or three days after, in the same town, an unhappy female, who had drowned herself, and been promuncedfelo de se by the coroner's jury, was buried at midnight without service. DISTRESSING ACCIDENT.—On Thursday, Mr. H. Smith, a keeper to the Right Hon. Lord Sudeley, left his home with a gun in his hand. Several hours passed away, and, in consequence of Mr. Smith failing to return, search was made for him, and he was found just adjoining Greet-grove, quite dead, his heart being pierced with a bullet. It was conjectured that the unfortunate man was getting over a fence, when his gun caught in something and exploded, the charge lodging in his breast.—Chel tenham Journal. ATTEMPTED MURDER. —On Tuesday night, in the neighbourhood of Drury-lane, London, two tailors, one of them deaf and dumb, had been engaged at work, and from some unknown cause, Keeling, the dumb man, exhibited feelings of anger towards the other, whose name is Levy. A scuffle ensued, when Keeling took a painter's putty knife, and aimed it at Levy's throat. The knife entered the right side of the jugular vein, and caused a frightful gash. Keeling was secured, and the wounded man was conveyed to King's College Hospital in a very precarious state. COUNTY EXPENDITURE.—On Wednesday week a meeting was held at the Stafford Arms Inn, in Wakefield, of deputations from the following poor law unions :—Hud dersfield, Halifax, Wakefield, and Rotherham, to arrange for holding a meeting at Normanton, in the course of a short time, of deputations from all the unions in the rid- g ; to which meeting the riding and borough members are also to be invited, to consider the best means of sup porting a bill to be brought in during the next session, for the purpose of establishing county financial boards for the management of the county rates. MARRIAGE AND DEATH.—On Christmas Day, a young man named Caleb Webb, of Drayton, Dorsetshire, aged 22 years, was married to a respectable young woman at the parish church at Newington, by the Rev. Mr. Cotes, and afterwards spent the day at the house of the On from their cage could " drive a co le same evening he complained of being unwell, and his mother obtained some medicine for him ; he, however, still continued to get worse until the following Friday, when Mr. Byass, the surgeon, was called in, but without effect, for the same evening death terminated his exist ence to the great grief of his young wife and friends. NORTH 0; ENGLAND JOINT STOCK .131;K:—ilTS un fortunate concern is attracting towards itself a large share of public attention. In our last number we recorded the death of a highly respectable tradesman of this borough, whose death had been accelerated, according to the testi mony of one of the medical witnesses examined at the in quest, by the continued prosecutions he had experienced from the official managers of the North of England Joint Stock Bank, of which the deceased was an unfortunate shareholder. Our present number contains the report of a case that came before the District Bankruptcy Court, on Wednesday last, and the statement made by Mr. Chater, the solicitor, on behalf of the bankrupt, who, from a situ ation of affluence and comfort, had been reduced to penury and the Gazette, by the same ill-starred connexion, will supply material for reflection and comment to the whole community.—Newcastle Journal. MORE SAVINGS BANK DEFALCATIONS.—On Saturday last, Mr. Thomas Smurwaite, wine and spirit merch an t, who has for many years ac t e d as clerk to the Savings Bank, was charged before Robert Tindall, ESO.. mayor of Scarborough, and other borough magistrates, with having embezzled money belonging to the depositors, between the years 1838 and 1850, to the amount of £l,OOO. Mr. Smurwaite was remanded in custody. Mr. Henry Strat ton, clerk to Mr. Jones, solicitor, who is secretary to ti e Aylesbury Savings Bank, has, with his wife and family, absconded to America, having taken some of the money belonging to the bank—how much is not known, but pro bably not more than £lOO or £2OO. It is stated that he left nronerty NO w;'' ' „Mc.. . Cu, ins defalcations, which extend ako to the funds of some building societies fcr which he was secretary. Mr. Stratton was one of the proprietors of the Bucks Chronicle. DARING ROBBERY OF UPWARDS OF £2ooo.—lnforma tion has been received by the police of an extensive rob bery of cash and notes at the house of Mr. John Webb, carcase butcher, No. 7, Market-street, Newport Market, London. It appears that Mr. Webb, who is a single man, lets the whole of the house out to lodgers, except a bedroom on the first floor, in which is an iron safe, in which be is generally in the habit of keeping a large amount of cash. About half-past seven on Thursday evening, he went to his sale shop, a few doors away, and returned in about half an hour, when, tt his great asto nishment, he found that the lock of the door had been picked, and the iron safe, weighing 11 cwt., had been carried away, a sack and a small niece of candle being- left , e-- ---- ---s --", of age are, we understan., in its stead - . In the safe was deposited £63 in silver, and fitted for respectable service, in the asylum S which he had just before placed there, besides gold, notes, ham. and bills of exchange, to the amoun t o f b e t ween £2OOO EETRAOT DINARY CASE.—A singular occurren t and £3OOO. place on Friday on the Eastern Counties Railall', BANK OF ENGLAND.—The return of the movement gentlemen were travelling in a second-class car rise,',, b of the bank for the wee k en di ng th e s t h J anuary, g i ves at one of the intermediate stations between Coil the following changes compared with the week ending and London, a well-dressed lady about 26, with a n t 29th ultimo :—ln the department of issue, the notes in apparently about two months old, stepped in. Sl' e t ' circulation had increased £29,165, which had been she had been travelling in a first-class carriage, bo produced by an increase in the gold coin or bullion of taken ill she did not like remaining alone. 0 04 £29,165, the silver bullion remaining unaltered. On _the gentlemen proved to beam . debit sid- . if .-' `Raking,i , ..— B- - d-- ' —. a surgeon. ft' olue o banking department, the lest bat, increased £16,037, the public deposits, had decreased £238,078, the private deposits had increased £371,163, and the seven-day and other post bills had increased £63 218. 'Ping t' tow " the liabi" £38:830,6P" neighbourhood of Bury St. Edutunds, who intima t profession, inquired the nature of the lady's ills e i replied by attributi ng it c hi e fl y t o th e " f at i gue o ling and weak ness ," w hi c h was b orne out by t h e 011 -,a,,... ,af(i. ae total oi __..ities ..,a. ~uni• and palid state of the countenance. Of course%. On the credit - side, the Government Securities had attention was paid to the invalid and her child by t f .," increased £24,801, the other securities had increased vellers—who little suspected the stratagem their 1 7„ £212,962, the notes had d ecrease d £575, an d the gold interesting, but deceptive, companion was about , :: 1 and silver coin had decreased £24,848, which equalised upon them—the lady several times exnressing af t , the account. The bullion in both d e p ar t men t s o f the she might let fall the baby, which had been nur sed !'_: ii bank had increased from £17,016,163 to £17,020,480, the gentlemen, and ag ed n o on the seat. Up on env, being a difference of £4,317. The paper in actual circu- the terminus she begged to have the child taken 0 0° .i ' „ti Felon had increased from £19,248,711 to £19,341,669, was done by M r . —, while she went off the P",,ii being a difference of £92.,958. . in quest of a servant ; she expected to meet lier A NEW TITLE FOR MAJESTY.—One forenoon, last carriage. During this time the other gentleman., jii autumn, as her Majesty, some hundreds of miles from her of Liverpool, was engaged with his luggage ; the 'T e ti Life Guards, was taking a solitary walk along a public no more to be s?en, and pursuit proved useless. Ts a o road in the vicinity t ot Balmoral, she met a countrywoman sternation of the gentlemen at being thus burden' p li carrying a basket of eggs, with whom she en t ere d i n t o eas i ly b e imagined. Ultimately the child was tak econversation. In reply to one of the questi ons p u t t o h er . f r i en d' s, whose wife discovered about its little P. the basket carrier said she w a s goii.g with eggs to the l e tt er , conta i n i ng two £ lO Bank of England Of e M place—a name given to Balm ora l by th e Hi g hl an d ers t o quest i ng t h at the child might receive every care, ' 3l i distinguish it from every other place in the world. "Do pressing an assurance that it would, if the posesse!A you get a good price for your eggs ?" i nqu i re d h er Ma- cou ld k now t h e anguish and circumstances of its ow: 011 esty. " Sometimes," replied the wo man , "but we a ye an d t h at if a certa i n advertisement were inserted l s? f get the best price when the Q ueen comes ." O n thi s l er Times, with the address of those who had charge Majesty off ere d t o p urc h ase t h e contents o f the basket, all would ultimately be made right. The child was e and tendered a golden sovereign in exchange. " I cannot sively dressed. break it, my teddy," said the woman, meaning that she THE lthinnEn OF A CHILD BY ITS MOTO' . had not the requisite amount of small coin to make up for the Central Criminal Court, on Thursday, Sarah the difference in value between the eggs and the shining 36, described as a spinster, was indicted f o r the piece of gold. "Oh, never m i n d," rep li e d th e Q ueen, murder of Lewis Drake, the indictment, in the first ~ if you cannot break it y ou mus t k eep i t w h o l e. T a k e counts, charging the cause of death to have been bI your eggs to the place, and t e ll th e peop l e t h at t h e Q ueen and forcing a handkerchief tightly round the ne, ~" has paid for them." The honest woman started back with deceased, and thereby choking and suffocating his': uplifted hands, and with joy and surprise pictured on her prisoner seemed dreadfully depressed, and hardlY: face, exclaimed, "Is th a t y our a i n se t', M rs. Alb ert ? Is stand. A chair was placed in the dock for her'' that your ain sel' ?" ii which she sank al mos t mechanically, and sher' lll o I THE SCHISM AMONG THE WESLEYANS.—AIarmed by with her head upon her breast almost during lh e ol) the progress of discontent in the "Connexion," the of the trial. The circumstances of the c a se a re ..,, i ministers who adhere to the decision o f th e C on f erence the minds of most readers. Jane Johnson, the •- have put forth a declaration, publish e d i n th e W a t c h man, ness, stated the manner in which the. c hild y(011',,1;,01 ! which has received the signatur e s o f upwar d s of 1000 to her in 1848, soon after its birth, and left in her f'i,,t, ministers. The principal points of th e d ec l arat i on are t h e how a debt of considerable amount was incurrea; following :—" They pronounce suc h an ag i tat i on as that maintenance, and how, on the 27th of November, f, set on foot by the expelled mi n i s t ers a l toget h er oppose d took him to Mr. Huth ' s, where the prisoner lived : 4 1 1 to the spirit of our holy religion, an& to the unequivocal vice, and left him with his mother. This witness r; dictates of the words of God, as unmet h o di st i ca l as i t i s that the prisoner ' s conduct to the child had be . e ti % unchristian, and revolutio nar y. O n t h ese grounds they formly affectionate, and th a t s h e b ad seemed 'noir; deeply deplore the agitation, decidedly protest against it, distress at not being able to pay the money r e n et, and affectionately warn all towards whetn they sustain the The fellow-servants of the prisoner proved the 10 ,5! 1 pastoral relation to take heed that they give it no counte- which the box containing the body of the child' 'S ; nance. As regards the objects sought to be obtained, the out of the house, and the persons (relations Of , t ,i fO i declaration adverts, in the first place, to those Organic soner) who received it at South Leverton depos' I A Changes which are demanded." In opposition to them condition when it arrived there. Mr. Collier, `` i ior ti the following statement is put forth :—" By the Deed of fended the prisoner, contended that the prisoner. o f f Declaration enrolled in Chancery, the full validity of which herself—by the proceeding of Mrs. Johnson, i' l ,o l ' has been acknowledged by the hi g hest courts in the land, the child at the house in Harley-street, in the.",,,1 Mr. Wesley has so fixed the constitution of the Confer- stated—liable to be discharged from her situat" ) ;p l i, ence that it must always consist, as he declares it had having the prospect of ruin before her eyes—this C A ' always heretof ore cons i s t e d,' o f th e m i n i s t ers o f th e C on - s t ance, acting upon a frame weakened and red u ,te, nexion. On this f oun d a ti on , th a t the Conference shall illness and poverty, the effect had been to cauFe. tr e, consist of ministers alone, does Methodism, as a syst em p orary phrenzy, and that while in that state she dot/ acknowledged by law, completely rest. On this condition th e i n f ant. The jury retired, and were absent s f 'i t is the whole am oun t o f chapel property held. D e p ar t ure ; quarter of an hour, when they re t urne d a verdict 1 from this would throw all into inextricable confusi on . It guilty," on the ground of temporary insanity. Ac re" is not in the power of the Conference, therefo re , t o a l ter Boner, who fainted on hearing the verdict, was OP this its exclusively ministerial character. Were the Con- be detained during her Majesty's pleasure. 4 . 6 rerence to cease to be what the deed of declaration de. DISEASES OF THE CHEST, OLD COUGHS, C01 ,9- 0 ' , 6 scribes, all its rights to the sole use of the chapels, for • ..STHMAS, PERMANENT&T CURE BY HOLI.' ° I" 0 ; the purpose of preserving them to the connexion would PILLS.—This fine medicine is un' ersally ackns ,04 at once absolutely cease. The admission of lay delegates, to be a most certain remedy f asthmatic cos i g e r ci',l therefore, is legally impracticable." The ministers fur. obtstinate coughs, and colds r, indeed, any si: - ,te o ther declare their firm adhesion to "the great principles of the chest whatever. P a ts nts suffering from e 1 ; 0 1 4 ' involved in the explanatory declaration of 1835,—namely, that to the Conference alone belongs the determination of these afflictions should brie immediate recourse ' d'' loway's Pills; a few do will will eive great reliefs l' i l l the conditions on which ministerial recognition and fra ternity are to be accorded ; and that, for the pre per ex- continued for a time/permanently effect a cure' be', ercise and discharge of this important function, it must are equally efficacioui for that insidious disease, .be', ercise possess the right, which it has exercised from the very , fluenza, the cure offwhich is greatly assisted by s OP Holloway's Oinrnt being well rubbed into the beginning, of personal examination,• whenever it shall and chest every Light and morning.. be called for by the circumstances of the case." PG li A POLICEMAN D ROWNED WHILE I N rv- u -• v ai k . 1 5 OFFENDER.—ShortIy bef ore t we l ve o ' c l oc k on "' . evening week, Archibald M'Donald, a police .. . 4 . - ------______ longing to the Edinburgh establishment, wasSril drowned in the water of Leith, immediately nv. D AT E RO bury distillery. It appeared that the unforte l : Niv_ along with a brother constable, was endearouria% s , have this the water of Leith by a dam dyke, in pursuit 13 , fi : e , e 2 r int th b accused of assault, when his foot slipped on t' e ,,,lging and e 4 able of which the dyke had become encrusted, and be, ; ''lne o f deep pool below. His body was not recovered v i i, t he alders , e b oci, ... hours afterwards. uo WILD FOWL.—It is remarkable that a great, cr „ ar ntea d. rat of strange wild fowl, some aqustic and some rlis broth -cea se er have visited this neighbourhood than has been "'.ie or ~.rePre a great number o f y ears p ast . Th e osprey °r,sleif 7G ' H arbor eagle is one of th e s e rar iti es . W e lik ew i se sawi: '°r tile s ,. day a specime n o f th e goose genus o f an unasn! t cagin e th. " lc ' tion ; a pair of th ese bi r d s were not i ce d in '', to wn 4 thai about Beeston an d Clift on , an d were muc h an u "l e .,id"ell ' d be nut for several days by the sportsmen in the vicinitt;,pii,- enee, Walto we saw, the last of the unfortunate pair, was li° , ' l ' l aY to o back of Clifton-hall. Almost all the birds to ' Last y . til t in g. have made allusion are understood to be natit, e ittl e ~ - . 4 be e- northern latitudes. Their presence here, there'' 4 ,"°tice o f imply that the winter has set in in those reg'"" caged oh t , '' f„ nlera i. Las 1 unusual severity.—Notts Mercury. THE LAND OF WIDOWS.—There 44. O f el( Bridgend a tenement entirely oocupied by wid°"' ; " and I N husbandless ladies number seven, some having i ' l lionsei, r , , land some not, and so strange are they in their .. °,° oral ' .. °1 ties that they would almost worry a man if be, 7,e t eaVara ; !mil turing to approach the precincts of their donli cP r e B olel o , ° 1 St, far as we hear, the house is a sort of widow n uaae , Ills servic e servic e so far is their antipathy to the masculine gender °a Li s ' W as tl that if one of themselves were dying, the r est so te e w retere b and pay the rent of her apartments until they _Of' Sunie e ,, r ' ° ,_° , Iti to succeed the defunct. They are to hold Ant', t flo so‘" h e gs Monday in a manner becoming their curious wa) , ,t i .rtel ied a l arm engaged engaged a widow cook, widow waiting-maid, wid,', 1 „ 1 aeigl ik t° vat ral superintendent, and widow what not; and 87,Vtied ti ,' o lll s , - guests are widows. What a congregation of yi d k i nl y e rited' r endez . supper party will present.—Perth Paper. HOUSEBREAKERS TAKEN IN THE FACT.- - ' l ,';. li T eni :d e N ' kitl:trih, Rent en e r 4 ( o'clock on Thursday morning, the watchman sta r ''.e",e te o ".„' they, Hutcheson-street, Glasgow, having conceived, , lt l'iph i !,4 sb,lllt ti picious circumstances, that parties had obtainee w r i„',, 4 tt , I ,Keei) ( the cellar communicating with the premises of - 3 ', ~to . „"`",?sssr ; .% Mr. Rodie, tea merchants there, procured the ass'', , h'', , vhim7 Mit 1 several of his comrades, and had the place effect u :44 '3 , e i " °how rounded. The owners of the property were Eil. () ) ,' he ,Uleo i l. who of what was gOing forward, and the key got whir"; '6, 1 7 41 d 1,,, - ,l i son the door leading down to thesunk flat. On ',I the ."'uiv b t i I t i 1 search below, the propriety of the precautions,: di,, sto tdit ass f,,,, been so judiciously taken was made apparent, '' foji 4 'tkf ti t' ls 'tha vering the cellar door leading to the shop in 4 . IN .Ya , I th e y ', l lis r ri forced open, as well as a hole made in a brick] fell , 14 48 ., ee s ,.; wall which stooa in the way. Still farther insw, e , eaw.to t I ° the cellar the watchmen found more marks of what o (l 4 ;, ; "'llebi n ' ll sinet t . had been at work, a hole through the roof fet", i '' e t i; the 4 1 Prot e , flooring of the premises above having been urn t 'i th` tit iao, "cate , trate& The thieves themselves were also seeure-Aiekek ciII: his place, after an ineffectual attempt to secrete the,, te::, ll 44,',.. ° 'nrnit They proved to be three well-known and most n' wC. yr and housebreakers.—Erlinburgh Courant. Pit le h 6 r' i w hit A LAWYER IN A TRAP.—On New Year's Eve s :em Y i c 4 cli s ,, a `' tiro, tor from the banks of the Wear, accompanied bY, 6 , l e r: , vii t r'ition came over to Newcastle on business, and they ''' th " tlie t Pt losi vantage of the High Level Bridge on their rei t/ i i e 4 Jo hf i c rlrin g s affording a short cut to the Gateshead Station. 1 t ts , e iat tt i "'Q . = at riving on our shore, they found the gate inhoseit''' to ' so land f red against their entrance into the town. '` l l ' 11 °I tL e ,IY ell haste the worse speed," muttered the pair, r e ,, tri tt - t ' r tate f their steps to Newcastle : and they were more i" b t„,„'..iLiver impressed with the force of the adage when. r e , ,e ofq,,,"°.e he. the Castle-Barth, they saw their retreat cut off V 5 t,,,-ibeh r I gate. The lawyer had committed both himself ail., , ass t tuber f into prison. To make the matter worse, night : I ; 1 :'.:1 1 ,, e survi ing in, and there seemed every prospect that t'''' I N `. water wait tEe advent of another year before they wood tr, le ' treat . pretty predicament for a I "''' - i'. Fleet( itvibiktttNHETl went :" and he was not i nc li ne d to subunit to it• I professional instinct, he looked about him W il d l tnp t , the commitment, and spyine a bole at the heigb t .%l 'tll4 ' 0 the or four yards, he clambered up with all the Iteti' l 'j. 4 :,N,ad In ipr rising lawyer, and, followed by his friend, esor ft aeil is t !cl , F el the aviary. —Gateshead Observer. , ~,te, aut, t i , t 4 fO r , 5 DEPLORABLE IGNORANCE.—At the London 1 ' I I 'lle e'ret court, on ocheTursday, a boy, named George 1111 .,. ‘ L N 1 , e bil a i d e . appeared about fourteen years old, was r,",ilt, ar . , r , f ,,Tlt °," a i box, and a Testament was banded to him. Li`p,„ - ,ulte,„ - "arac quite astonished upon taking bold of the book. Itt: t s h t e a r p ett, P n ag he e: man Humphery—Well, do you know what,Y,A, 4. wh a ce r recil about ? Do you know what an oath is ? Bo ti 4 rd p !'s, al Alderman Humpl.ery—Do you know what a Te' - ' f kiO 4 e i r Pee, is ? Boy—No. Alderman Humhery—Can Y °ll 4 , Boy—No. Alderman Humphery — Da you eslitt4tl,. ' - ..,,, _ mut your prayers ? Boy—No; never. Alderm - an fe ' r4 etl . :\.-I —Do you know what prayers are ? Boy—No• e ' l 4 t he man Humphery—Do you know who God is ? 13°.;1' i tt (? . , b utt s , C Alderman Humphery—Do you know what the 6 , l o r ,,llls ert rers Boy—No ; I've heard of the devil, but T don't lo'° ;;;the I°ll , Alderman Humphery—What do you know, tnY F'' ; 041 Y, th e low ? Boy—l knows how to sweep the crossiog; The p r e tty man Humphery—And that's all. Boy—That 41 4 pr e t °, n sweeps the crossing. The Alderman said that i t fil •eE "'a ble experience experience he had never ma with anything !o k . i l!no w _ l l la pioranie ignorance of the poo r un f or t unate ci" Iti4-Plirgolna witness-box. He, of course, could not take the e O O l teeop os ",se of a creature who knew nothing whatever of th e NI th e tion to tell the truth. k Di a Stea rn Hi e s, • tit b e' PROTECTION OF YOUNG FEMALEs.—The rie s ,lrt the London Society for the Protection of Young, f oek t s.l , „, l l' lll 4 while convinced of the necessity of supnret , :l titl e 4 44 Cts at houses where juvenile prostitution is encouraged, 1 1 , 4 0 re ° the ions to save from ruin as large a number aa—po g qi • the children discovered in su c h hous e s_ aq t f ollo w s tender a2e who apply to the society for protecti tberesent just issued a most forcible appeal to the public, 0 ettnit are sure will be duly res 3o nd e d t o by a ll t h ose ~ o f Pr o at heart the preservation of f ema l e p ur ity. The „r• ro;, 4 tt k ; r t'es t for assistance to enable them. with reference to th r tN r , c ite, ft )/ objects, to incre se the numbe• of inmates in 1I";, bv,`, 4l .ls e v izor lum at Tottenham from 70 ro 100. "To regartb4 het)h,, "epel the appeal, "the thousands of young females Fu r ;i, fiv e k i 44 (ts 4 , 10, course of sin, who might by timely aid be resell cl ; destruction, is a duty devolving on all who value., 14 0 4 ,37 3. 1 ens' the hicl N pil it r tayesr;olusupsmi a r , i p t bl l l a it l eant p ioo r o n s ms p o e for ri er t y nc , ad nma admission o t n h ad e amr n ei t a tb t e i e o di n n al igo l i ` ,ISi es tia r i funds. Shall the young creatures continue in s ii • l 44 14 1 , 4 Y t shall the committee be assisted by liberal contriboa 'lose I rescue from ruin those who are asking day after 4 11 1 ; i lig admission. Seventy )oung females under OOP 4)1,1,n0t t, 10 14 1 7t 4 i ; a co 4 1' tl ce iktl k " 2 t . o . t . b I thi t qn a I ers s , tl tllilv e l' be o 4t 11 P an ht'N th 40 41 k 'of e 4tid. N • , and oq at R , i t] twee ( 7 t Z Q erp - o ; t ll la, e z i ;Nt i l t ti ai 4,4 ciu i l. gi ',o77' 4 tt a a e e t od: