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7L.tterature. POETRY. THE DYING GIRL. And thou art dying, beautiful and young When smiles cf joy should on thy lips be playing, And thou shouldst bound with sportive glee along, Where merry maids are in the meadows mating. The spring sun shineth through thy window ?ape, The pleasant breeze with balmy breath is sighing, And thou eanst hear the feathered minstrel's strain, In that still room where thou art pale and dying. Why is thy spirit summoned to the skies. Untried by years, unvisited by sorrow ? Why art thou called, ere yet thy gentle eyes Have feared to look upon the coming morrow? Thy cheek bath never paled with anxious care, Thy heart hath never throbbed with guilty sadness Even as thyself thy course was pure and fair, hallowed by love, and cheered with looks of gladness Why didst thou leave thine own immortal heaven, For earthly guests to cherish and caress thee ? Why unto us wert thou, sweet girl, given, And called away when we had learned to bless thee ? Why wert thou fashioned lovely to the sight? Why were thine eyes with tender radiance streaming ? Why didSt thou come, young being of delight, To fade like mirage on the pilgrim gleaming? Selfish and weak l—why should we wish thee here? Pass to thy home, unspotted, happy spirit; Hasten en blissful wing to that glad sphere, Where thou wilt glory evermore inherit. Mingle and dwell among the angelband ; But, oh: while stars beneath thy path are burning, Think thou at times upon our sinful land, And plead for those whose gaze is upwards turning. —Frema The Wandering Angel, and other Poems,' by John Bol twa Rogerson, 1844. NOTICES. A Voice from North Africa. By Nathan Davis. Ritchie : Edinburgh. This little work, possessing claims of peculiar interest at the present moment when the eyes of Europe are di rected to that portion of the globe of which it treats, con tains a vast deal of information respecting the religious rites, the customs and manners of the inhabitants of North Africa. Though the lamp of Christian truth shone brightly at one period of the world's history, Mahomedanism now reigns there ; Christendom forgets, and for centuries has neglected this benighted country ; and the primary object of the writer—a missionary of the Church of Scotland—is to awaken a livelier interest for its social improvement and spiritual advancement. The introductory chapter contains a brief history of the successive dynasties of the country from the victory of the Mahomedan chief Abdal lah, in 647, to the reign of the present Bey of Tunis, who succeeded to the government in 1837. The principal fea tures of the inhabitants are presented in a very interesting and authentic detail of the adventures of a deserter from the Prussian army, who, af ter en d ur i ng th e severest priva tions from his intercourse with the Arabs, amongst the various tribes of whom he spent a considerable time, em braces Mahomedanism, and is at present in the se rv i ce o f Lis highness, the B e y o f Tunis. The remainder of the work is occupied with a melancholy description of the moral and intellectual condition of the people—the present state of education—the relative position of the various sects into which the inhabitants are divided, and also af fords a mass of invaluable statistical matter, most import ant in every point of view at the present period. Mr. Davis is evidently a gentleman of considerable research, and could not have presented his work at a more accepta ble time. We give several extracts from it in other columns, which we shall continue at intervals for the in struction of our readers. Lacey's Pictorial Handbook of Liverpool The pressure upon our space, usual during the sitting of our Assize Courts, has prevented us from bestowing upon this excellent little Work anything like the notice which it merits. We now purpose endeavouring to do it and the public justice, by explaining fully its objects, and the extent to which its spirited publisher, Mr. Lacey, bas succeeded in carrying them out. From the bare an nouncement in an advertisement, the reader would ex pect to find in the publication a mere Guide Book, perhaps superior to any previous one, but still partaking of the meagre character of such works. Such however would be a very erroneous idea to be conveyed of the Work bafore us. Conveying every necessary detail for the information and guidance of strangers, and illustra ted with a number of beautifully executed engravings and maps, the literary matter embraces a much wider scope than that of the generality of works of this des cription and may be perused with interest long after the original purpose of a guidebook has been fulfilled—pe rused too by inhabitants as well as strangers in our town. Upwards of one hundred pages are occupied with a history of Liverpool, in which its early origin is traced and its growth from a fishing hamlet to its present im portant position is described, evidently with faithfulness and at the cost of no trifling amount of research on the part of the author. Many of the details of this history are highly interesting; and some of them we shall pro bably take opportunities of quoting, as new to the great majority of our readers, as they are certainly to oursel ves. In addition to this general history we have also an account of the origin, nomenclature, &c., of the princi ial streets, which embraces a number of very curious and interesting particulars and must have cost great trouble and pains in collecting. Along with these we have, under the head of " A week in Liverpool" a copious and well written description of the objects most worthy the notice of the stranger in our town—our Docks, Churches, Public Buildings, and other interesting localities--in which a vast amount of statistical matter and interesting information is conveyed in a pleasing form, accompanied with a large number of excellent illustrations. In ad dition to this, which may be called the leading portion of the Work, we have a quantity of useful matter, not only to the stranger but to the resident as well, which renders the work one which ought to be in the library of every professional person and upon the desk of every merchant. We wish it a wide circulation which it eminently de serves. SELECTIONS. CHEVALIER BUNSEN.-4 could not express my sense 'of what Bunsen is, without seeming to be exaggerating; but I think if you could hear and see him, even for one half hour, you would understand my feeling towards him. Be is a man in whom God's graces and gifts are more united than in any other person whom I ever saw. I have seen men as holy, as amiable, as able; but I never knew one who was all three in so.extraordinary a degree, and combined with a knowledge of things new and old, sacred and prafane, so rich, so accurate, so profound, that I never knew it equalled or approached by any man. —Arnold's Life. SAGACITY OF THE CAT.—Passing by the back window of a neighbour's house a short time since, I saw a favour ite Tom cat seated on a table near the window, beside a narrow-necked cream-jug containing milk; no person was in the kitchen. Be was smelling the milk, and en deavouring to reach it with his tongue, but could not ; at last he inserted one of his forepaws, and withdrew it, the fur saturated with milk ; after he had licked it clean he dipped again, and kept repeating the process as long as I remained observing him, which I did for several minutes, and then left him to his employment, for I thought he had well deserved his reward by his ingenuity.—Zoolegist. INDIAN RUBBER LIFE-BOAT.—A life-boat is now being constructed on the company's premises (thirty-four feet length of keel, and twelve breadth of beam), which, with the exception of the keel and some iron braces, will be entirely formed of India-rubber and cork planking. She will weigh but one ton and a half, an ordinary life boat weighing three tons ; and it is the opinion of all naval men and engineers who have seen her, that it will be al most impossible to sink her under ordinary circumstances, and that, when driven on a rock by the action of the waves, she will rebound like a ball, without fracture. It is also proposed to use the caoutchouc preparation for an inner lining between the guns in war vessels, to prevent the effects of splinters ; for hammock nettings and bul warks, to save the crew from canister, grape, &c. ; and for other useful though less obvious purposes.—Railway Ga zette. IRON IN SHIP-BUILDING.---A singular circumstance occurred, a short time since, which may be mentioned in corroboration of the superiority of iron compared with wooden steam-vessels :—The Pacha iron steamer, 210- horse power, belonging to the Oriental and Peninsular Steam Navigation Company, was taken into White's building slip at Cowes, to have applied to her bottom a composition for preventing the accumulation of weeds and barnacles. She was left on the slip, and considered perfectly secure ; but, after the men had left, she slipped over on the larboard side, and fell off the slip, a dis tance of nine feet—the paddle-wheel coming in violent contact with the slip piles, injuring the outer ring and lower arms; yet, strange to say, the vessel and the ma chinery were uninjured, save a bruise in one of the iron plates, which was soon brought to its proper shape again. The vessel was taken to Portsmouth, and examined by the authorities, who could discover neither twist or defect of any description, and the whole expense of repair has not exceeded £2s.—Mining Journal. QUAIT.S. — Quails are the most undaunted of the tribe to which they belong. Partridges have been known to fall down of sheer fright when forced to cross a narrow creek of the sea ; the quail, on the other hand, performs his migratory journeyings with fearless bravery. As they are courageous, so they are equally quarrelsome, especi ally during tae love season, when their contentions often terminate in mutual destruction. This disposition, from which arose the Greek adage, ' As quarrelsome as quails in a cage,' induced the ancients to fight them with each other as the moderns do game cocks; the conqueror en joying quite as much celebrity of its kind as the winner of the Derby. Indeed, it is told of Augustus that he pun ished a prefect of Egypt even with death for buying and bringing to his table one of these birds which had acquired great fame on account of its victories. Sometimes, ac cording to Daniel, these combats were performed between a quail and a man • the quail was put into a large box, and set in the middle Of a circle traced on the floor; the man struck it on the head with one finger, or plucked some feathers from it : if the quail, in deeendinc , itself, did not pass the limits of th e circle, its master won the wager; but if, in its fury, it transgre sse d the bounds, then its wor thy antagonist was declared victor. The fighting of trained quails is still fashionable in China, where heavy bets are laid o n the heads of the respective cematant The mode of conducting these battles, whi c h are often the exciting topic of a village, is to pit two highly-fed quails against each other, and to throw a few grains of seed be tween them ; the birds rush upon each other with the ut most fury, striking with their bills and heels until one of them yields. The Chinese, from a notion that the body of the quail is unusually hot, (` warm as a quail' is a French proverb), use it for warming their hands in cold weather—an application which is frequently delineated in Chinese paintings.—Chambers' Journal. DESSERTS. — Though the dessert was originally in vented in Italy, yet the usaze•was early transplanted into France. In the works of St. Gelais we find some lines, in which he sends fresh cherries to a lady on the Ist of May. How this fruit could be thus early procured with out the aid of hot-houses, is difficult to imagine. From Champier, however, who wrote about 1560, we learn that the Poitevins sent yearly forced cherries in post to Paris. The fruit was prematurely ripened by putting lime at the root of the tree, or watering the roots with warm water. La Quintinie, the head gardener of Louis XIV., boasts that he served strawberries for the dessert of his Royal master at the end of March, green peas in April, and figs in June. —Fraser's Magazine. Fortcc OF HABIT.—It is neither so easy a thing, nor so agreeable a one as men commonly expect, to dispose of leisure, when they retire from the business of the world. Their old occupations cling to them, even when they hope that they have emancipated themselves. Every one knows the story of a tallow-chandler, who having amassed a fortune, disposed of his business, and took a house in the country, not far from London, that he might enjoy himself. After a few months trial of a holiday lite, he re quested permission of his successor to come into town and assist him on meltini , days. I have heard of one who kept a retail spirit shop,' and having in like manner re tired from trade, used to employ himself by having one puncheon filled with water, and measuring it off by pints into another. I have heard also of a butcher in a small country town, who some little time after he had left off business, informed his old customers that he meant to kill a lamb once a week, just for his amusement.—The Doctor. TRIALS OF YOUNG RACE HORSES.—It is a very com mon thing to find that old horses as they improve in stoutness, diminish in speed : thus, single-handed, they are not honest tests of the merits of young ones. To have a trial which is really to be depended upon, it is requisite to start two or three young ones, with a horse four years old or upwards, who has not lost his speed, to make the running; at the same time, also, it is necessarry that the latter has recently been running in public—they are found to vary so much at different times of the year. Before it is possible to form an accurate estimate of the powers of a horse, three or four trials must be obtained, and the im portant fact established whether his speed or stoutness be the best. The rock upon which so many persons founder in trials is baying a slow old horse in the capacity of schoolmaster—one whose speed is so much reduced that, at the distance which young ones are tried, be cannot go fast enough to get them out ; in consequence of which they win their trials, and are immediately supposed to be flyers. The best horse to try young ones with, is a speedy animal who can run but a mile : if his rider have orders to make the pace as good as be can, he will stretch the necks of the tyros, and effect some measure that may be relied upon.—Sporting Review. POSITION OF THE COMMUNION-TABLE.—The station of the communion-table is worthy of consideration. Laud placed it, at Gloucester, and afterwards in every church in England, upon a raised platform at the east end of the choir. He, at all times, and his partisans of every age since, have so stoutly and vociferously pleaded for this change, " Queen Elizabeth's injunctions," and " the lau dable custom of the primitive times," that the plea has been allowed to pass current without further inquiry ; and this change has been regarded as the mere restoring of the Church order of the Reformation, which had been inter. fered with in the latter years of Elizabeth by the puritan faction. Q, se is however surprised at finding that both these pleas prove to be vain and fallacious. The queen's injunctions specify one place only in the church for the table, without any definition as to the part of the edifice, or the quarter of the heavens, and this is " where for merly the high altar stood." Nor does this direction so triumphantly settle the question, as to the east end, as it may appear to do to the modern reader. A reference to the polemics of Elizabeth's days, will show that the place of the hich alter in the church, was one of the points upon which the Protestant and Papaline parties were engaged in controversy; and that the former proved unanswera bly, from ecclesiastical antiquity, that according to the laudable custom of the primitive times, the altar stood not at the east end or the choir, but in the midst of the chan cel, the place where it originally stood at Gloucester.— Churchman's Monthly Review. DEPLORABLE STATE OF THE TUNISIANS.—The streets of Tunis are narrow, dirty, filthy, and irregular. When first I arrived there, I found my way from one place to another by observing one street to be more crooked than the other, and the ruins of one house greater than those of another. The finest buildings in the town are the for mer Bey's Gothie palace, and the house of a Mr. Gneco, a respectable Genoese merchant, and the new British Consulate. The houses of Tunis, as in all eastern coun tries, have flat roofs, and are supplied with cisterns to collect the rain water, which is by far superior to the water of Beer-el-Klab, a spring about half a mile from town. The Tunisians are, at present, poor, owing to several successive years of bad crops with which their country has been visited, and to the many extortions which their ruler practises upon them. Their condition in 1841 was so bad, that I have actually seen the poor pick up from the streets leaves of cabbages and herbs, and de vour them ; nor was it uncommon to see them pick up bones out of the rubbish, and gnaw the tittle meat that by chance may have been left on them. And, under these circumstances, a new tax (upon straw) has been brought into existence ! The Mohammedans of Tunis are very bigoted ; and though their hatred to Christians and Jews is very great, yet the fear and certainty of punishment, in case of insult, is sufficient to keep them in order : the Tunisian Jews, however, are often insulted, especially by soldiers, without receiving any redress. The Gjama As saitona, and Gjamy Sidy Ben-Aroos, are very richly en dowed, and are the principal mosques in Tunis. The Gjama called Assahab-Ettaba, built by the famous Sahab- Ettaba Josof, is a very fine edifice. He brought pillars and marble, at a great expense, from Kazareen, and other ruins which he got polished in Italy, to a d orn th e i n t er i or of this mosque, which is situated in the suburbs of Bab es-Sawekah, and is to this day called by his name. The spiritual chief is the Bash Mufti, whose influence is very great. The Tunisians are not free from that " essence of unhappiness," idleness, to which all their neighbours in the east are so much addicted. A great part of the day is generally spent in coffee-houses, where they either tell or listen to stories.—A Voice from North Africa. GAS STOVES.—The application of a method of burning carburetted hydrogen or coal gas, for the production of artificial heat for warming buildings, is an invention of rather recent date. The apparatus in which this is ef fected is very simple. A metallic ring, pierced on its up. per side with a great number of holes of very small size, is connected with a pipe communicating with the gas main, and is placed within a double drum or cylinder of iron, raised an inch or two from the floor on small legs : this double drum is so made, that there is a space between the inner and outer cylinder of about two inches—and in this space, near to the bottom, the ring pierced with holes is fixed. A stop-cock in the pipe connecting the pierced ring with the gas main shuts off the supply of gas when the stove is not in use; on opening this cock, and apply ing a light to the pierced ring, a brilliant ring of flame is immediately produced, which soon warms both the inner and the outer case of the stove by the heat generated dur ing the combustion of the carburetted hydrogen gas. The top of the drum is covered with a large open ventilator, by which the heated air that passes through the inner cylin der is allowed to escape into the room ; but the products of the combustion, having no means of escape, pass down wards from the bottom of the stove into the room. This having been found exceedingly unwholesome, a plan has been contrived by which a considerable portion of the pro ducts of the combustion are carried off by a pipe inserted between the two cylinders, which conveys away the gase ous products into the open air. A moderate-sized stove of this description burns from twelve to fifteen cubic feet of carburetted hydrogen gas per hour ; and this is con verted into two new compounds—water and carbonic acid gas. The quantity of water formed will be 2 6 cubic inches for each cubic foot of carburetted hydrogen, or about a pint to a pint and a quarter of water per hour; and from twelve to fifteen cubic feet of carbonic acid gas, and eight times that quantity of nitrogen, will be the con stant products of the combustion. and produce the most serious deterioration in the quality of the air; but when these gaseous products are carried off by a chimney, the loss sustained will be very nearly one-half the total heat which is produced by the burning of the gas.—Mining Journal. DOMESTIC SERVANTS.—The principles which should regulate the conduct of masters and mistresses towards their servants are the szme as those which should regulate the employers of labour generally. But there are some peculiar circumstances which need to be noticed in the application of these principles. That, in this case, the employers and the employed are members of one family is a circumstance which intensifies the relation. It is a sad thing for a man to pass the working part of his day with an exacting, unkind master; but still, if the work man returns at evening to a home that is his own, there is a sense of coming joy and freedom which may support him throughout the weary hours of labour. But think what it must be to share one's home with one's oppressor ; to have no recurring time when one is certain to be free from those harsh words and unjust censures which are almost more than blows—aye, even to those whose natures we are apt to fancy so hardened to rebuke. Imagine the deadness of heart that must prevail in the poor wretch who never hears the sweet words of praise or of encou ragement. Many masters of families, men living in the rapid current of the world, who are subject to a variety of impressions which, in their busy minds, are made and effaced even in the course of a single day, can with diffi culty estimate the force of unkind words upon those whose monotonous life leaves few opportunities of ef facing any unwelcome impression. There is nothing in which the aid of imagination, that handmaid of charity, may be more advantageously employed, than in consider ing the condition of domestic servants. Let a man en• deavour to realise it to himself, let him think of its narrow sphere, of its unvarying nature, and he will be careful not to throw in, unnecessarily, the trouble even of a single harsh word, which may make so large a dis turbance in the shallow current of a domestic's hopes and joys. How often, on the contrary, do you find that masters seem to have no apprehension of the feelings of those under them, no idea of any duties on their side beyond " cash payment," whereas the good old patriar chal feeling towards your household is one which the mere introduction of money wages has not by any means superseded, and which cannot, in fact, be superseded. You would bear with lenity from a child many things, for which, in a servant, you can find nothing but the harshest names. Yet how often are these poor unedu cated creatures little better than children ! You talk, too, of ingratitude from them, when, if you reflect a little, you would see that they do not understand your benefits. It is bard enough sometimes to make benefits sink into men's hearts, even when your good offices are iclalursetrated by much kindness of words and manner ; but to expect for t h t e h m a t s a e r van surelyt s smhoosutlduilarteaosonneabalpep,reescpiaete your care it is not accompanied with a manifest regard and ciallvi sympa thy.—The Claims of Labour. POWER OF THE Pool:. LAW COMMISSIONERS.—When the New Poor Law Bill was discussed in 1834, Lord Granyille Somerset uttered these remarkable words re specting it. " Aft er th e pass i ng o f t hi s Bill , I thi n k it will be impossible for any man to say what is and what is not the law for the relief of the poor." Ilis lordship said this, we conceive, in reference to those enormous powers of making " Rules, Orders, and Regulations," for every union and for every union workhouse in the kingdom, which the Bill then in progress was about to confer on the three Commissioners. Had a board or commission been constituted, as in Belgium, for the purpose of taking care that the rules laid down by the legiskture should be strictly enforced, the case would have been widely differ ent, and his lordship would not have so expressed him self. Lord Abinger (then Sir James Scarlett,) in the de bates cn the New Poor Law Bill, used similar language to that employed by Lord G. Somerset. "I must own" said he, " that the clause by which the affairs of the poor are placed in the hands of delegates or commissioners who are to exist as a sort of central board, appears to me to establish such an imperion in imperio, that I think the people of England never will consent to it." Mr. Ed ward Buller thus adverted to the extraordinary powers the New Poor Law Bill was calculated to confer. " I cannot diL , guiSe from myself that we are about to esta blish something approaching to absolute dominion—an unlimited monarchy where everything will depend upon the personal character of the parties." It were easy to multiply quotations o f thi s ki n d ; b u t o ur object in refer ring back to the debates of 1834, in reference to this ab solute and irresponsible power—power exercised by three commissioners, but neither exercised nor possessed by the three estates of the realm—is sufficiently an swered. The act of the prese n t s e ss i on can scarce ly b e said to diminish those powers ; in several respects, which if it were worth while, we could point out, it has actually increased them. —Churchman's Monthly Review. BARGEMEN AND BOATMEN.—We have been requested by a correspondent to insert the following remarks, to which we readily accede, feeling commiseration towards a class of men generally considered the most demoralized in the whole kingdom. " Having noticed that you, as well as other editors of influential newspapers, have occa sionally in strong language referred to the crimes commit ted by watermen, I have no doubt you will kindly admit the following extract from the last report of the Sabbath Society, which may tend to benefit a body of men whose moral and religious improvement has been so long and so lamentably disregarded. The above report says—' There is one point to whith we must especially direct our atten tion ; it is this: that the poor bargemen and watermen are excluded as it were from the beneficial operations of Sir Robert Peel's bill; for if it can be proved that 2,000 stationary population exist in any spot, in a neglected condition as to moral and religious culture, the Ecclesi astical Commissioners may afford pecuniary assistance towards providing a clergyman to instruct then ; b u t if it were proved that double that number of that demoralized migratory class, the watermen, usually on their voyages frequented any spot, no assistance of any kind is allowed towards supplying them with a pastor. Surely this is not right in a country like our own, which owes so much to commerce. It ought to be noticed in a proper quarter as an act of injustice towards a useful but neglected body of British subjects.' "—We shall only remark, that the case does appear hard, and no doubt the mistake in overlooking altogether such a demoralised class will in due time be rectified, by their claims to religious instruction being ef ficiently met as well as acknowledged. The Church of England ought to forget no class of the community ; and we may rest assured that the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, when they have it in their power, will not be unmindful of the spiritual wants of the most disregarded of all classes. Great Britain has derived many millions from her internal commerce, but how few hundred pounds have been ex pended on the instruction of the poor men who toil to promote its extension, and who are, as a body, little better than the heathen. The great increase of the population of this country, as 'well as the migratory habits of the boatmen, prevent the parochial clergy in general paying attention to this subject, which renders it more necessary that pastoral superintendence should be expressly pro vided for the men employed in our inland navigations.— Worcester Journal. NELSON'S MEMORABLE SIGNAL, AND HIS LIEU TENANTS.—It may not be generally known to the younger branches of the naval service, that the responsible and arduous duties of first lieutenants of our ships, which at present are invariably performed by the seniors, were, during the last war, confided to any of these officers at the discretion of the captains of their respective ships ; and the immortal Nelson himself, on the morning of the 21st of October, 1805, presented a striking instance of this discretion The Victory, within a very short time previously, had two first lieutenants, who were actually the respective seniors at the time, promoted to the rank of captain ; and the repeated changes in the person of the executive officer proving somewhat injurious to that state of discipline in which the admiral was pleased to have his ship, his lordship was determined that this duty should devolve on the junior lieutenant, because his turn for promotion would be more remote, as his lords-hip still intended, after his usual practice, to bestow promotion according to seniority. On the morning of the 21st, previous to• leading into action, Sir Thomas Hardy re quested Lord Nelson to appoint his two senior lieutenants as captains of the line-of-battle ships, the commanA of which were vacated by the departure of captains who held them to attend as witnesses at Sir Robert Calder's court martial'; but the reply of the hero• was worthy of his hopes—that he considered the officers of those ships wera fully adequate to fight them, and he-would not imply such a want of confidence in them at such a moment;. and, as to any disappointment of his own lieutenants, he trusted their anxiety would be allayed when he assured them it was his intention to make theme 1i post-captaine when the day was done. Shortly after he commanded his memorable signal to be made to the fleet, which, we' are assured by the narrator of the above, was in these words :—" England confides that every man this day wilt do his duty." This, however, offering some difficulty in communicating, from having to spell separately the word "confides," his lordship's flag lieutenant, then the senior . of the Victory, suggested that the word " expects" should be substituted, when it was acceded to, and the signal was promptly executed. It is- needless to remark, that the termination of the day prevented the illustrious hero from performing his promise with respect to his lieutenants , ; and the prediction was onl' fulfilled to the junior, wha• was doing the duty of first under the above circum— cumstances, by the admiralty making him a , post-cap tain. The three seniors were only made lieutenant, captains (or masters and commanders), according to the rank of that day. The officer, who was the senior and , flag lieutenant of this immortal chief, was made, some six years subsequent, and,. though fearfully wounded in• the action. by a grape-shot,, is now on the navy list, and was, we believe, the recipient of one of the first good,. service pensions the present admiralty had the opportunity to bestow. Had Nels , m , survived, Captain John Pasco, would now have been a flag officer.—Stasulard. THE PROCESSION AT THE BURNS' 7ESTIVAL.—The effect of the procession as seen from the platform almost baffles the power of description. The wailing of the bag— pipes and the crash of the bands were heard from the bo. tom of the deep wood-thicket behind, long before the rank& became visible. At length, among the trees that skirted the opposite banks, there was a glittering of lances, and a lifting of banners, and a dark-growing line of raen, in closest order, marching as if to battle. Gra dually it flowed on, in continuous stream, file succeeding to file without gap or intermission, until the head of the column appeared recrossing by the Old Bridge, and wind ing up the road towards the platform.; and still new ban ners rose up behind, and fresh strains of music burst forth amidst the leafy screen. And now they reached the platform : lance and flag were lowered in honour of those who stood bareheaded above, and deafening were the cheers that ushered in the arrival of the national pageant. The spectacle was most imposing, and must have con veyed to the minds of the strangers present a vivid im pression of the energy and enthusiasm so deeply implanted in the Scottish character, and always so irresistibly mani fested at the touching of a national chord. The most in teresting part of the procession by far was the array of farmers and shepherds, the flower of the west-country yeomanry, attired in the graceful plaid. Of that same breed of men, of tall and compact mould and hardy sinew, was Robert Burns; nor is it possible to imagine anything more animated than the appearance of those stalwart sons of the soil, as they lingered for a moment before the plat form, and looked with wistful eyes at the sons of the Poet, if haply they might trace in their lineaments some . resem blance to the features of him whom, from their infancy, they had learned to love. Then came the Freemasons, and King Crispin with his train, and the Archers, and much more of old Scottish device, until there seemed no end to the flowing tide of population, all keen, and joyful, and exult tnt. But the full burst of enthusiasm was re served for the close. In the rear of all appeared an enor mous thistle borne shoulder high; and no sooner was the national emblem in sight, than a universal and long con tinued cheer burst forth from the many thousands who were now congregated in the plain beyond. Alas, for that thistle ! Though Burns, as the inscription bore, llad turn'd his weeder-clips aside, And spared the symbol dear," such was not the fate of the offspring plant. Scarcely had it reached the platform, when Christopher North vio lently possessed himself of one branch, the Lord Jus tice-General seized upon anoth er , an d i n t h e tw i n kli ng of an eye it was torn into fragments, and its rough leaves and rougher flowers displayed upon manly bosoms, from which it would have been difficult to wrest them again. So closed the procession —but not the gatherinz. Deafen ing were the cheers that followed for Burns—for his Sons —for ,Professor Wilson—for Lord Eglinton ; until the last remnant of reserve gave way, and a torrent of people swept forwai d to obtain, if possible, a pressure of their hands that were gladly and gratefully held forth. De scending from the platform, we entered the meadow ground beyond, where the multitude were now assem bled. One of the bands struck up the beautiful air— " Ye banks and braes o' bonny Doon ;" and immediately the people, as if actuated by one common impulse, took up the strain, and a loftier swell of music never rose be neath the cope of he av en. We thought of the fine lines of Elliott— " To other words, while forest echoes ring, ' Ye banks and hraes o' bonny Doon,' they sing; And far below, the drover, with a start Awaking, listens to the well-known strain, Which brings Schehallion's shadow to his heart, And Scotia's loveliest vales: then sleeps again, And dreams on Loxley's banks of Dunsinane." Few could abstain from tears as the last glorious note died solemnly away into the skies. We looked down from the top of the pavilion-stairs upon the vast multitude be neath. There could not have been less than 80,000 souls collected on the ground. Of all that mighty mass, not one man had thrown discredit upon the harmony and or der of the day. Every face glowed with happiness and congratulation, as if conscious that a good work had been done, and that the nation had at length discharged the duty which she owed to one of her most gifted sons.— Blackwood's Magazine. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. PINEAPPLES.—It was in 1694 that preserved pineap ples, shipped from the French West India islands of St. Domingo and Guadeloupe, were first seen at dessert in Paris. The tree had been originally transplanted from Asia to the West Indies, where the heat of the climate preserved it from degenerating. " Although the fruit of the pine be fibrous,' says Father Dutertre, " it melts into water in the mouth, and i s so we ll-fl avoure d, that you find the taste of the peach, of the apple, of the quince, and of the muscatel, blended together." It is plain to perceive that Father Dutertre was friend, and that he possessed, in matters of the table at least, the science of analysis. The pine," says Dr. Rogues, " is impregnated with a corro sive juice, which may be extracted by steeping the root for one or two hours in sugared brandy." Lovers of pine cut it up in slices, cover it with sugar, and bathe it copiously over with sherry wine. Jellies, ices, ansl creams, are also made of this fruit; and the Italians prepare with it a li queur which is called monoja, and which is really deli cioes.—Freser's Magazine. AN AMAZON.—The most remarkable circumstance that perhaps ever occurred under a native government, was the arrival of a European lady, desiring and gaining military service under the Poonah government, by whom she was long known as " Jamal Khan," and highly reve renced. This lady was the wife of a respectable barrister in Madras. From some extraordinary combination of circumstances, or a peculiar character of mind, somewhat similar, perhaps, to that which led Lady Hester Stanhope to desire the title of Queen of Palmyra, Mrs. Hail took the command of a battalion in the Nizam's service at Hy derabad, and, finding reason to dislike her position, came to Poonah, intending to take military service under the Peishwa ; but a brahmin whom she implicitly trusted, proving unworthy of her confidence, Mrs. Hall caused him to be seized and beaten, under which punishment he bdflhii dressedhod oeee e ifi o dealurwol helmet, nrb d ne id ; etn r a e e :g a s a o : o f t ne uuf f a l li d i Ins; being thedygi feel vest, uter l wah t l h h ahelphi c o si anal aulvbmwv womangei fli nle h eoano:rersgsloti lstsfeaati her nnandonkgDdok l ee i fetaaafnnahne: doing so, stranger, handsometop; srhti sfaooaroe,csono, fashion, ongfia : nnpea p neddrsi spared, dw r :acs e i iouskoitdl courageous, dudrtuwo i . n fatl dguaansel ns c hshlolohd o i aounft n heisreA s aaet, oal i w d arwyr. pepceenaeslbersndrue; incarcerated relamf t hwsavot i n:e o peear ro n dadsres sex and courage being well calculated to excite the super stitious reverence of the native soldiery.—Mrs. Poston*. ECCENTRICITY OF SELWYN.—Like all wits, he had some strange peculiarities, and one of the oddest fancies was a taste for witnessing executions! He would go miles to see a man hanged, but to see him beheaded he would cross the seas, and submit to the greatest inconveniences and privations. His friends often made merry with this eccentric foible, and whenever a trial, or execution, or suicide of more than ordinary interest took place, never failed to give him the earliest information of it. When the first Lord Holland was on his death-bed, being told that Selwyn had come to inquire of er his health, he said—" The next time that gentleman calls, show him up. If I am alive, I shall be delighted to see him ; and if I am dead, he will be delighted to see me!" The execution of the rebel lords in 1745 afforded him a rare treat, and he witnessed their decapitation on Tower-hill with feelings of the most philanthropic satisfaction. Some ladies taunt ing him with his inhumanity in attending to see Lord Lovat's head cut off, he replied—" Why, I made amends by going to the undertaker's to see it sewn on again." When Damien was broken on the wheel, for attempting to assassinate Louis XV., Selwyn, who had journeyed to Paris for the express purpose of witnessing the entertain ment, mingled with the crowd in a plain undress and bob wig, when a French nobleman, imagining, from the deep interest which he took in the scene, that he must be a hangman, addressed him as such. " No, no," replied Selwyn, " I have not the honour to be an executioner; I am merely an amateur !" Horace Walpole, who knew him well, observes, in reference to the practice of state criminals dropping a handkerchief on the scaffold, as a signal for the executioner to strike—" George Selwyn came to town the other day to have a tooth drawn, and, true to his ruling penehant,he told the man that he would drop his handkerchief for the signal."—Bentley's Miseet. THE MOVEMENT TO POPERY.—But, startling as the Dissenters' Chapels Bill is, it falls entirely into the shade when contrasted with the proceedings of these same Cons servative ministers in the matter of Roman Catholic wrongs and Roman Catholic necessities. First, we have all the old laws which were intended to restrain, or, it' may be, to extinguish Popery in the realm, repealed at a stroke. Do we object to' this? Far from it. The penal laws had, in point of fact, repealed themselves, and there fore the formal revocation of edicts which forbade Papists to ride- horses of a greater value than £5, or to go to a greater distance than five miles from their ordinary dwell ing places, except by license r was about as harmless an inroad upon the Constitution as could well have been made. But we do object to• the manner of making it, as well ay to the avowed purposes for which it has been made. There was a great deabtoo much of the ostenta tion of Liberalism in the Chancellor's mode of announc ing the intentions of the government. We are no advo cates for - persecution, Heaven knows! Laws which in flict punishments upon men. for their religious cpinions are a disgrace to any statute-book-, and we cannot lament that these, virtually dead ae they have been for years, should be erased from that of England. But we are not willing, neither, we suspect, are the people of England, to see Popery flattered and encouraged at the expense of the Church. The Bishop of London ventured to hint, that the end of a session was not the-most convenient moment for makinggreat changes in the Constitution, and sug gested that iz. would be respectful and becoming to allow the bishops some voice in the discussion of wpoint which so deeply affected the Church.. But his lbrdship was laughed to scorn ; and, in a house where he sat alone to represent big- order, measure after measure wa s re p ea l e d, every one of which had avowedly been enacted for the purpose of upholding the Protestant Chureh r and defend ing the civil liberties of the nation, which a Popish mo narch had endeavoured to destroy. We lamented this at the moment, and we lament it still: And though we en tirely approve of the corollary which followed, namely, the facilities which have beereafforded by law to devout Roman Catholics, of endowing chapels, and otherwise providing for the growth and stability of theirs - church in this kingdom,. it , would be ridiculous to deny that, the whole measure is such as would have been resisted, twenty years ago, to the death, by the very men who are now the main promoters of it. Could the Whigs have done this ? Would they have dared, however, willing they might be, to propose it? But we have not yet done with-the proofs which the proceedings of the latesession afford—that now, and only now, has " the movement," so much spoken about of late- years, begun. The Roman Catholics, in stead of accelating with gratitude the ministen's proposal, meet it with a haughty disdain e and refuse to co-operate with him, because he has dared to mix up, in his commis sion of management, an equal number of Protestants and Papists. Non is this all. Though of the Protestant com missioners alh except one, may be Dissenters, the Papists object especially to that one ; not because he is either a Churchman or a Protestant, but because he is nominated to the office, by virtue of which he enters into the Com mission, by the Protestant Archbishop of Armagh. Of course, the gentlemen who held this language are careful not to urge the claims of their own prelates to take any part in the management of this mixed Commission. Wounded as they are by the bare proposal of placing the nominee of a Protestant bishop in a position to take a share, however minute, in the guardianship of property devoted to Roman Catholic purposes, theyecannot so far forget themselves as to require that their own bishops shall interfere with the bequests of Protestants, or, in deed, be connected in any way with a court of which the constitution is so distasteful to them.. Is it so? Very much the reverse. The Roman Cathelits demand, first, that their bishops and priests shall be recognised as such in the act of Parliament ; and next, that the Popish Com missioners shall all be bishops ; and thab to them, and to none other, power shall be committed of controlling, re gulating,, and otherwise apportioning, whatever lands or money shall come from. Popish benefactors, and be in any way applicable to Popish purposes. Has Sir Robert Peel yielded to these most audacious demands. We lament to say tit he has. Popish bishops and priests are now for mally recognised in their official characters by the legisla ture., To the Popish; members of the commission, exclu sively, the management of all Popish, bequests is entrusted ; and though, in very decency, he was obliged to hold out against the formal nomination of Popish prelates as Com missioners, a Conservative minister was neither afraid nor ashamed to insinuate that care should be taken, in the actual arrangement of the body, not to overlook the claims of their reverences. If all this be not " the move ment," we should really like to know what is. Mean while, poor old Mother Church is going sadly to the wall. She comes forward to entreat that a Welsh bishopric shall be spared, and being heartily joined by the people of the Principality, she so far prevails that, on the motion of Earl Powis, a bill is brought into the Upper House for ef fecting a very trifling change in the Church Temporalities Act. The Lords are favourable to the arrangement. The Church is gratified. It is by no means clear that the bill will not pass the Commons also. How does the Conser vative government act? 'Why, it pleads the royal prero gative ; extinguishes the hill just as the Lords are about to pass it, and then tells the bench of bishops that they have nothing to do with the laws except to obey them. In like manner, a proposal by the Bishop of Exeter to provide chaplains for the union workhouses is scouted. " The age for chaplains, both at home and abroad, has passed away. We are no enemies to the Church, far from it; but, if you suppose that we are going to expend the• public mo ney in any effort to instruct the people in the peculiar dogmas of the Church, you are very much mistaken. It is the doctrine of modern Conservatism to keep the Church down. We won't destroy her. Oh, no! But we shall do all we can to prevent her from exercising any more the supremacy which used, in former times to belong to her." At the great dinner in Glasgow, when he was elected rector of that celebrated university, Sir Robert Peel told his audience that be could worship God just as satisfactorily to himself in a Scottish kirk as in an English cathedral. We should not be surprised to hear him de claring, on the occation of his first visit to reformed May nooth, that he is as ready to be present at the sacrifice of the mass by John, archb shop of Tuam, as to receive the holy sacrament from the hands of Charles James, bishop of London. All that we have as yet been writing about is actually done; what further remains to be accomplished we are scarcely left to surmise. We quite expect to see, ere another year pass over us, an accredited minister from the Court of St. James to that of St. Peter at Rome. And in due time, after the Charitable Bequests Bill shall have accomplished its purposes, it will be no object of sur prise to us, to find two Established Churches, or, possibly, no Established Church at all, recognised in Ireland. And all will have been the work of a Conservative government ! Well, why not? Other sciences do not stand still; why should the most important of all, that of government, be kept stationary? Vive l a variet6 I Success to " the b th e e nc c h e e n s movement !" say we. But it is really very hard that not one among the ex-ministers can be found to chronicle its progress. Oh, for a Lyndhurst on the Opposition siervWathivaet caeflmupl— tteriFngraosferTivle4haeziwneo.uld make in THE COURT 6- FASHIONABLE WORLD. BAPTISM OF THE INFANT PRINCE.—On Friday, the baptism of the Infant Prince, second son of her Majesty, took place at the private chapel at Windsor Castle. The Queen Dowager, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the Duchess of Gloucester, the Prince of Prussia, the Duchess of Kent, the Duke of Wellington, Sir Robert Peel, and the cabinet ministers were present. The Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal were also present. The sponsors were the Duke of Cambridge, proxy for Prince George, the Duchess of Kent, proxy.for the Duchess of Saxe Coborg and Gotha, the Duke of Wellington, proxy for the Prince of Leiningen. The Archbishop of Canter bury officiated, the Duke of Cambridge naming his Royal Highness " Alfred Ernest Albert." A state banquet, in honour of the event was afterwards given by her Majesty. His Royal Highness was dressed in a robe and cap of Lloniton lace over rich white satin. The Queen wore a rich white satin dress trimmed with broad Honiton lace, the body and sleeves likewise trimmed with the same . Her Majesty had on her head the splendid diamond cir clet, and wore the Riband and Star of the most noble Order of the Garter. The Queen also wore, as an armlet, the motto of the Garter " Honi soit qui mal y pense," set in brilliants. Prince Albert was habited in a military uniform. HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO SCOTLAND.—Her Majesty and Prince Albert were to embark yesterday, at Woolwich, on board the royal steam yacht Victoria and Albert, Cap tain Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, commander, for Scot land. The royal yacht will proceed with her Majesty from Woolwich direct to Dundee, as it is not in contemplation that the yacht shall touch at any of the ports of the eastern coast on her passage to Scotland. It had not been decided, when the last intelligence left London, whether the royal children were to accompany her Majesty or to proceed to Osborne-house. The yacht bad been fitted up with every accommodation for the royal family and the nurses. It appears that her Majesty goes, in the first instance, on a visit to the Duke of Athol, over whose magnificent estates Prince Albert will enjoy tile sports of the field. It is said the royal squairon will proceed up the Frith of Tay and anchor off Dundee. The Scotch papers state, that a steamer has been engaged, for her Majesty's use, to con vey the royal party from Dundee to Perth. The royal visit, it is added, will be strictly private. It is anticipated that her Majesty will return from Scotland early in Octo ber, when, notwithstanding what has been stated to the contrary, there is every reason to expect that his Majesty the King of the French will come over to England to visit her.. Preparations for this visit are still being made at Cherbourg. It is said that, but for the lateness of the season, her Majesty would have proc ee d e d to St. Petersburgh, on a return visit to the Emperor of Russia. A ROYAL PINE ARYLE.—Last week a pine apple was cut, from the gardens of the Baroness Rothschild, at Gunnesbury, of the unprecedented weight of 1511b5., being 11b. heavier than the specimen exhibited at the meeting of the Horticultural Society on Tuesday. The first was sent by the Baroness as a present to her Majesty- GRAND REVIEW IN HYDE-PARK.—Thursday was a grand field-day in Hyde-park; the troops of the various regiments forming the Household Brigade being reviewed by his Royal Highness the Prince of P russ i a , his Royal Highness Prince Albert, his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, Field-Marshal his Grace the Duke of Wel lington, and a brilliant staff. We regret to bear that owing to. the alarming illness of Miss Peel, daughter of Sir Robert and Lady Peel, the right hon. baronet, who had made every arrangement to accompany her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert to Blair Athol, that he was not able to embark yesterday for Scotland, as was his intention. The Earl of Aberdeen, in the absence of Sir Robert Peel, is to ac company the Queen and her Royal consort to Scotland. The total revenues of the young Prince of Wales, the heir apparent to the British realms, amounted, in the year ending 31st of December last, to no less a sum (from the two duchies of Cornwall and Lancaster) than £73,100 and upwards. This- is a tolerable revenue for a three year-old prince. Among the items of expenditure is the Wowing :—" Payments made to his Royal Highness's use," £18,579 ; that is from Cornwall alone. The pay ments made out of the Duchy of Lancaster's revenue to her Majesty's Keeper of the Privy Purse, was, in the same year, £13,000, and the balance, after all payments, £49-11. GENERAL• MISCELLANY. Both Mr. D'lsraeli and Mr. Ferrand have subscribed :a the Duncombe testimonial; the former £lO. It is said that two crowned heads—the Kings of Bava ria and Denmark—have subscribed the teetotal pledge. In Chester Castle, on. Saturday last, a prisoner named Thomas Leech hung himself in his cell. Ten valuable horses, worth from £lOO to £l5O each,- were lost from the Queen of Scotland steam-ship, during a storm, on her last voyage from Hull to Hamburg. The quantity of the bine•pill atone lately shipped , at once for South America by one &Tannery house, in Lon don, amounted to six lona. During the whole of last , week not a single commitment' was made mit by the Birmingham magistrates —a circum— stance that has not occurred for 35 years. THE LEAGUE AT BittsToL.—The Bristol Liberal! Assgeiation, who are tools of the League, have objected to every Conservative freeman, (posseesing no other qua lification,) in number about 1900. The duty on the importation of foreign wheat last week advanced to 20s. per quarter—the maximum , amonntiat which it will, in all probability, remain for a considerable time. The body of a newly-born• infant was found last week in a vacant piece of ground in the parish of Bethnal Green, with a piece of broad tape round its neck, with which it - had been strangled. Mr: William Harvey, of Bedleston, Aberdeenshire, has given the sum of £6,500 for the purpose of founding an institution for the education of the deaf and dumb ; and another for the reclaiming cit females of 'dissolute habits, disposed to abandon their wretched mociaot life. Richard Robinson, a boy eleven years-of age, was a few days ago fined £lO, at Wandsworth, and in default of payrnent , sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment, for hav ing placed a piece of wood across the rails of the South Western Railway at Wimbledon. The Borough Compter, London, is a<:..! present wholly untenanted, except by the keeper, turnkey, and matron ; the whole of the prisoners who were in custody, upon ex ecutions for debts under £f:ls, having obtained their dis charge, under the provisions of the new insolvency act. The Perth and Dunliell; stige-coach caught fire on Wednesday from the friction of the wheals. The coach, which burned for some time unperceived, the passengers at last descending amid clouds of smoke, was rendered useless.. A selection from the Unitersity sermons of August Tholuck, D.D. professor of theology, arAd preacher in the University of Halle, has ;but appeared, translated from the German by the Lady Adeliza Manners, sister of Lord elan Manners. It is a curious fact that in some counties more labour. ers are employed under than on the surface of the earth. In Durham there are nearly , twice as many miners as la bourers employed in culti7ating the soil. The total num ber of agricultural labourers in Great. Britain of both sexes is 1,138,563. Count Leslie, of Balquhain, the representative of one of the oldest families in the county. of Aberdeen, died suddenly, yesterday sen'Jfight, at his s ea t o f Fetternear, owing., to having incautiously taken a draught of cold water when overheated with the sports of the field. His age was 24. TaE STABBING CASE AT WEA7.ERING.—We lament to state that this shocking case, of which we gave an ac— count in our last, has terminated fatally, the unfortunate object of his brother's fury having expired, after living in great agony. At a coroner's inquest a verdict of wilful murder was returned. Itovat DEMISE.—.,A few days since, died, near Beau lieu, Joseph Lee, the acknowledged monarch of that mysterious class of people the Gipsies. He was a wative of Brockenhurst, in the New Forest, and was, it is said, in his 86th year. He is reported to have died worth a great deal of money. QUOITS.—A match was played, on Wednesday, on Woodhouse Moor, , for £lO aside, between Siineon Walker, of Rastrick, and John Briggs, of Armley, the best of two games, with quoits 111bs. the pair, distance eighteen yards. . Each party has been triumphant in former contests, but this time Walker proved the victor, getting forty-seven casts to his opponents twenty-three. DEATH CAUSED EY BATHING WHILE IN A SIATE OF PERSPIRA'ZLON.—On Sunday, the 25th ult., Mr, James Thomas, of Truro, walked pretty quickly to the sea-shore, and while in a state of perspiration, plunged iato the water. He was afterwards seized with shivering, and ul timately became so ill as to require medical assistance ; on Monday morning last, he expired, in his 35th year. FIRE. AT HOPE 'MILLS, WREXHAM.--011 Saturday morning, at three o'clock, a fire broke out in Messrs. J. H. and It. C. Rawlins' paper-mills, which, in, little more than two hours, were entirely destroyed, By this unfor tunate occurrence we regret to hear that a considerable number of hands will be deprived of employment, i , nia district alre a dy muc h di s t resse d f rom th e sus p e nsion n the iron trade. The owners are, we understand, fully i FALL IN THE PRICE OF BREAD.—In consequence of the favourable accounts received from the agricultural districts of the promising and abundant state of the harvest, the price of wheat at Mark-lane has fallen last week ls. to 2s. per quarter in first quality, and 4s. to ss. per quarter on second qualities. The best Kent, Essex, Norfolk, and Suffolk wheat is 395.,t0 565. per quarter ; flour, fine, 40s. to 455. ; and seconds, 395. to 40s. per sack, in London. The bakers of the metropolis have reduced the 41b. loaf to 61d. _ to f n or ,J t o h e e l murder of his wife, at Fisher, Weston-super-Mare, in June la s t. H e died in a very repentant state. It seems almost incredi ble, but it is nevertheless true , that several applications ' penaltye n e sda o y t , . at the e T a l ; underwent . —On afflicted with the king's evil and rheum a ti sm f or permis the ext rem W e d were made to the governor of the prison b y persons sion for the band of the dead man to be ru bb e d over the parts affected, with the idea that they would be cured. It need hardly be added that the applications were refused. RATHER STRANGE.—On Friday week, a sportsman, from Kinross, discharged b o th b arrels at a covey of grouse, on the hill immediately above Ledlation, in Or well parish. The covey was dispersed, and one poor bird was observed to take the direction of an invisible wire fence, erecting within less than 300 yards from the spot, with which it came in contact when on full flight, and, strange to say, the head was at once dissevered from the body, the later being found fully three yards distant from the other,—Halifax Guardian, Sept. 10, 1844. NAUTICAL ALVENTURE.—As E. Watson Lloyd, Esq. was returning to Parkgate in the yawl Horatio, on Tues day last, on falling in with the Fairy, John Lloyd Jones, Esq., a salute was fired from the Horatio, when, unfortu nately, one of the brass cannons burst into splinters with a tremendous explosion. The sails were much cut by the fragments, but although nine persons were standing by when the gun was fired, we are happy to state that no one received the slightest injury. —Chester Courant. A distressing event took place on Monday in the neigh' bourhood of Wrexham. Four men were being lowered into the pit of the Cheshire Vron Colliery, Brymbo, nea r Wrexham, the property of Mr. Moulson, when an plO. sion of fire-damp took place. The shock was so great that the poor men were blown into the air. The body of one of them was picked up in four pieces, the other three wer e taken up quite dead. At the time twenty-eight men wer e employed in one part of the pit, several of whom a re dreadfully burnt, and are not likely to recover. SUSPECTED MURDER AT SMIDDYHAUGH.—A great sensation has been excited in this vill age an d th e nog!' bourhood by the mysterious disappearance and recent do' covert' of a woman belonging to this place. She has been missing for nearly three weeks, and no trace of her could be discovered until Thursday last, when her dead bodY was found in a field of oats, and in a state of decompos e ' tion. She has had several illegitimate children, and some circumstances connected with her course of life, c ombined with others, lead to strong suspicions a s t o th e ma nner° her death. That it has been by violence of some sort, we believe there is little doubt.—Perth Paper. EXTRAORDINARY RAILWAY PARCEL.—By the train which left Glasgow last evening at half-past six o'clock' reaching Ayr at half-past eight, a parcel a rr i ve d, consent ing of a white willow basket, with the lid c l ose ly sewed down. As there is no delivery after that h our , the basket was put along with other articles in the g o o d s office, wher e it remained all night. This mornin g th e p or t er p ro ceeded to deliver the goods, and, on going his rounds, thought be felt something stirring in the basket, and on lifting th e corner of the lid, discovered that hi s ch arge was a female child ! The case is under investigation by the authors" ties.—Ayr Advertiser, Tuesday. FOREIGN PROVISIONS.—On Wednesday a sale of proved American provisions took place in London. The first lot was 975 hams from New York, of fair averag e quality. These produced aboat 425. per cwt. ; a farther calantity of 3,025 hams from the same place sold for 3 7 s' The pork, which was a remarkably good article, not too salt, and apparently well filled, fetched 30s. Per c ifl l;' whilst 100 kegs of ox to ngues , goo d an d we ll flavoure": produced at the rate o f l s . 11d. t o 2 e , eac h . The smoke d beef, very f a i r , so ld f or 39 8. per cwt., and 150 half barrels. of family beef, apparent l y wel l fed and soun d m eat but rather too highly sa lt e d to please the majority of Engl ish eaters, found ready pu rc h asers at 40s. per cwt. ; the sail' sages fetched 9d per lb., and th e un d resse d turtle ss . P er pound. THE BANK OF ENGLAND AND THE R ATE OF INTER' EST.—The directors of the Bank o f E ng l an d h av e just taken a step which seems to have caused some astonish ment amongst those who- thought that the separation of the functions of banking and issuing would case a pres. sure on the money market and tend to raise the rate of interest : they have reduced the rate of discount on three months' bills from four to two-and-a-half per cent. To deed, we presume the directors will now proceed to em ploy the funds of the banking dep ar t men t i n precisely the same manner as thelunds of other banking establishm ents are employed, and will compete in the money market for bills, like other capitalists ; leavin g th e regu l a ti on s of the issuing department to-govern the amount of notes in cif' culation. NARROW ESCAPE Clr A CHILD BY THE SAGACITY - O r A HORSE.—On Saturday week a young child had a narroil escape for its life, and was. miraculously saved by the s* gacity cf a horse. The child happened to be playing 0 ° the street at the west end of Kirkardy, when two car t/ were passing under the charge of one man, he sitting the foremost cart, and holding the other horse by the halter, a space being between the two. The child )saving run in before the hindmost horse, and the horse observing the perilous condition of the child, refused to go forward; and, though repeatedly urged by its-less observant driver, rather than do so, and prove the death of the child, whic h would have been inevitable, he fell down on his kness and lay till a young woman, who observed the perilous position of the child, rushed out of h er mas t er ' s h ouse an d sn atched up the child before the lazy driver had left his seat in the cart, or any other person came to tits rescue. The child was carried to - its mother unhurt. —Edinburgh paper. ACCIDENT TN THE WATERLOO GALLERT.—AR acci dent occurred in the Waterloo Gallery, Windsor Castle, on Thursday last. Five massive chandeliers of omit; and of exquisite workmanship, wei g hi ng seve r a l hundEnce of pounds each, were suspended from the ceilling,at,'F ir .. 15 feet from the - Nor. These magnificent pieces °I each, niture, which, it is said, co:A from '- £2;000 to £3,000 . are considered to'be the most ri c h an d b ea utiful speci mens in this country. While one of the workmen was envaged, mounted on the top of a high flight of steps, in preparing the chandelier at the western end for lighting, the whole mass game way, and fell on the floor with a tre mendous crash, and breaking into a thousand pieces. Of the several circles of cut plate elass,-upon which were elaborately engraved the star, gar ter,. an d motto of the order of the garter, not one es caped — the whole were smashed to atoms. The man on the - steps fortuna tel y escaped. The chandelier, it is stated, -weighed, upwards of seven cwt. EXTRAORDINARI3SuICIDES.-011 Saturday week th e head gamekeeper of the Earl of Stradbroke, named Easy , committed suicide at Henham Park,it is supposed in con sequence of the annoyance be experienced from the fre qwent acts of poaching committed on his-lordship's pre serves. From the relative positions in, which the hod,' and the gun were found, it would seem that he had fixed some of the rushes across the two t r igg ers o f : hi s - p i ec e, and placed his foot upon th e en d o f t h ose rushes in suc h amanner as to enable hi m , h av i ng put the end of bar rels in his mouth, t o - fire off the gun! Tie exci tement occasioned by this s u i c id e h a d b are l y su bsided, when the neighbourhood of Henham P ar k was a gain astonished by the self-destruction o f a man named Cruxey , who h eld the position of superintendent of keepers, horses, and dogs, connected with the Earl of Stradbroke'ci establish ment on that estate. This unfortunate man shot himse lf on Sunday afternoon in his own house on the Park estate , scarcely twenty-four hauls after the death: of his-fello w servant. LORD STANLEY.---Itiwill be seen from our parliarnen tary report that Lord Stanley has accepted: the Chiltern Hundreds, and withdrawn from the Lower House of Ter - Lament. His withdrawal from the scene of histriuniPh P and from the walls which have lo ng ec h oe d TO with: his "' liant eloquence, and the enthusiastic cheers dins admit" ing and astonished hea-ers, is only preparatary: to his re moval to the House of Peers. Lord Stanley retains th e seals of the Colonial office, and his seat in- the Cabige t i, and however severely his loss may be felt in the Honse e e Commons, his entrance into the H ouse o f Pe ers must u hailed with universal satisfaction. Indeed t h e w ant o' speakers on the Government benche s i n th e Upper H 0056 , has been strongly manifested sin ce th e d ea th o f the " 1 " . mented Lord Fitzgerald, the absence of Lord 0 1 e1:1 „ - f borough, and the frequent indispo s iti on o f th e Ea st " rc Ripon .—lt will be re mem b ere d th a t L or d St an l ey ' s fathe r the present Earl of Derby, was a l so ca ll e d t o the 11°P,-,e, House, by the title of Baron Bickerstaff, duringthe time of the preceding earl; an d as th e ti t le b eca me ,e c t i , tinet on his succeeding to the Earldom, no farther a° tion was ultimately ma3e , to the House of Lords. THE GAME LAWS.—The Leeds Times states that th e suicides of Lord Stradlaroke's gamekeepers (noticed els% where) were occasioned th roug h f ear o f hi s lo r dship anger that such extensive depredations should have bi le allowed among his preser v e s as h ave l a t e l y ,thi nn ed t„ number of his pheasants, &c. There are other-reports,cyt a similar effect, sho w i ng th a t th e anx i e t y o f m i n d sch l ,ended in these unfortu na te men d es t roy i ng re .. these ,,, ' as s a was caused by their solicitude a b ou t th e game they " o f to preserve. It is not long since anothengamekeePe r ri , this same Lord Stradbroke was murdered by poaeh e ta . and, if our memory, s e r v e s us ar i g ht, severa l t ran spor tit tions beyond the se a s w e r e th e conseq the expense to `auerme. Look, th at the loss of lif e , the misery, and , e be public, that this si ng l e l an dl or d' s game may be preserves , Let it be held in mi n d th a t, d ur i ng the last ten Yearn; some 30 gamekeeper s h ave b een murdered, and as 0:15;t, poachers haneed for the murders—that in one Y e " namely 1843, 30 persons were transp or t e d, an d 4,500 co e i victed and sentenced to fine and imprisonment in Eng le n g st alone, for inf r i ngemen t s o f t h e game laws—that the,fi-eir , of prosecuting th e " cr i m i na l s, " and i n ma i nta i n i n g lly families when thrown upon the parish, amounts anti? t o to not less than £lOO,OOO sterling, not to speak oi rtr a immense cost of maintaining those who are transP e o d beyond the seas, nor of th e wrec k an d ru i n o f v irtue, re . happiness to tens of thous an d s , nor o Z-th e b ru t a l eliti os lB vengeful feelings engendered, an d th e d espera t e crini l ovi s; who are brought into existe nce an d f os t ere d by these„ateet and who shall say but th a t th e y are one o f the gr:,./ePt curses of our land, and ought, without del a y, to be ' from off our-statute-book for ever ? tes ting Wrrcitcr.AFT 1844.—N0t long since the a e the place of the dead at Phillack, near H a yl e , was ra ll a tW scene of transaclons which would' h ave bl ac kes t se w darkest ignorance of bygone age s . It appears th a nt e f ral persons afflicted with disease, and who, for I t heir: moral courage, would not submit to the directions e o lie° medical, advisers, very readily caught hold of and er r iene e every nostrum that gossips made known. E%P„ e ' t heir proving that the boasted remedies were of no ave,"P r oittl imaginations were put to the utmost stretch, in 0ru e .,1,1 be they might avoid the only method by which they co their cured. Fortunately, a blazing light shot acros s .., a teo darkened way, and their gloomy reflections were disettlvoced by its brilliancy. It was a revelation ; and they den°, c tbe, their ignoran ce , b ecause t h ey di d not sooner find o w e d cause of their malady. To believe that they were ill - 7 r son was only the work of a moment, but to discover a f is hed' who could break the spell was not so easily accotrlL t beir, Every thought an d act i on was cen t ere d i n attabataci, an d darling obj ec t. Fi na ll y , t h e i r w i s h was c onsum to v e lstu A r t a scatterer of witch spells stalked forth fro m f r auv whom they disclosed every incident of their lives e , day o'll e with uncertainty as tending to good or evil. Tdnthe aw ed as chosen, the dreaded hour of midnight fixed, an _ ow ed of the silent clod of all that once was living was Put their the place of assignation. The hour drew near. e osta ciee' tched. and their stealthy actions were closely vfa • lace asked-for fee was immediately given, and Rui,bea the was enjoined, the churchyard wall was scal ed. h ., n 3 his art, sg purpose became known by the impulse of their e The spell breaker commenced the mysteries of er art i o p ea hotly presse d char' then ing mysterious sounds and performing Mils) y Xl'f.irightettitie times rou nd _ in open and as had and he commanded them to Tema h who rim* a dd sou doors ss w. and a e wa d vi ni o nd v go e ww r s t a kepeeddne opened a , passed in succession, he brought t e pers ons was broke". be a n n y d shut at his bide ll t or Wer e wished them to their face. Thus the spel l wo od , that their cure , dissolved, and a faith given , Q e laniCt's speedily effected. 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