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Eittraturt. POETRY. WRITTEN ON THE OCCASION OF THE SAILING OF THREE MISSIONARIES TO CHINA, BY THE SHIP DUMFRIES, FROM LIVERPOOL, ON THE 10TH Nov. 1847. The ship has left Old England's coast, to cross the stormy seas ; The sky was bright, serene the day, and gently blew the breeze. From off the deck one little band was gazing at the shore, Ere long to vanish from their sight, perhaps for evermore. The British flag, old England's pride, was streaming from the mast ; - The light breeze filled the swelling sail, the ship was driving • 'fast, While on the pier some friends remained to take a last fond view, To breathe a prayer—'twas for those men, the gallant and the true. What do they seek in distant climes, beneath those Eastern skies 7 Is wealth the object of their search—are riches what they prize? -Oh, no ! they go to freely give a wealth that ne'er decays, To make those Gentiles rich indeed, their Maker's name to praise. Or have they gone in warrior's guise, to conquer or to die— To seek dominion by the sword, and raise the victor's cry? Oh, no ! beneath that British flag they nobly seek to bring, The outcast heathen to the fold of Judah's Lion-King. They left their own dear native land, and braved the raging seas, To bear glad tidings o'er the earth, and teach the poor Chinese ; And though through peril lies their path until their labours cease, Their anchor's cast in Heaven above, in everlasting peace. ' Then speed thee well, thou gallant bark! speed onward o'er the wave ; A precious freight are they who seek their fellow-men to save ; Speed on in peace, and safely o'er the deep and trackless seas, And may prosperity attend the stout old ship Dumfries. KAOLIN. Liverpool, 13th November, 1847. VARIETIES. ALMSGIVING.--If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives. Miss Edgeworth, who is now upwards of seventy years of age, has written a tale, called " Orlandino," for " Cham bers's Library for Young People." a new serial work. An eccentric old gentleman, who had a frail memory, was in the habit of addressing a letter to himself, contain ing the matter which he wished to remember, and sending it to his house through the penny post. CORK TREE.—Upon the estate recently come into the possession of the Honourable James Stuart Wortley, is a cork tree, supposed to be the largest and healthiest of the few which are known to be growing in this country. CHARACTER.-If you lose the smoke, where will you find it ? over the fire. If you miss the water, where can you discover it ? in the depths of the valley. Tf you lose character, where can you recover the lost treasure ? no where ! never !—Poynder's Literary Extracts. DESTROYERS OF BRITISH SHIPS.—III the dockyard of Bombay is to be seen a new ship of the line entirely de , stroyed by an invisible army of white ants, which had riddled every timber to such an extent that they will scarcely hold together. What will not united and re peated efforts effect ? In one of his sermons Adam Littleton says that " every man is made of three Egos, and has three ;:gelfs in him ;I' and that this appears in the reflection of conscience upon actions of a dubious nature ; whilst one Self accuses, ano ther Self defends ; and the third Self passes judgment upon what hath been so done by the man i" ORIGIN OF THE STOCK EXCHANGE.—" Yesterday," says an old newspaper, dated July 15, 1773, " the brokers and others at New Jonathan's came to a resolution that, instead of its being called ' New Jonathan's,' it should be called ' The Stock Exchange,' which is to be wrote over the door. The brokers then collected 6d. each and chris tened the house with punch." DOOMSDAY-BOOK. — This book, in two volumes, was the tax-book of all England, except. Cumberland, West rnoreland,Durham, and Northumberland, which may have been in a volume by itself, now lost. The work was drawn out in the reign of William the Conqueror, and was seven years in completion. It contains an exact account not only of all the cities, towns, and villages, but also of families, and what every one possessed, either in land or money; and when any difference arose concerning such things, or the taxes, &c., this book cleared the point, and the Sovereign could not be defrauded : it obtained, there fore, the name of " Doomsday Book," and is now kept under two locks and keys. It may be consulted on pay mentof six shillings and eightpence, and any portion of it transcribed at fourpence a line.—Schomberg's"Elements of Me British Constitution." HERE'S THE MAN I —The Prince of Wales is, by birth. Earl of Chester and Flint, and Duke of Cornwall, but Prince of Wales by creation. He has a suitable revenue granted by Parliament for the maintenance of his dignity, and he is invested in this principality by the imposition of a cap of state and a coronet on his head : by deliver ing a verge of gold into his hand as the emblem of government : by placing a gold ring on his finger in token that he must be a husband to his country and a father to her children ; and by giving him a patent to hold the said principality to him and his heirs—kings of England. The device of his coronet, adorned with the threp ostrich feathers, is " Ich Dien," which in Welsh, signifies " Here's the man !"—the words said to have been used by King Edward when he showed the Welsh lords his eldest son, born in Wales. Others derive this motto from the Dutch, in which language " lch. Dien" signifies " I serve."—Schorr berg's " Elements of the British Constitution. THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH.—Take the lowest ground; contemplate the infinite blessing of an Established Church, when compared with dissentient denominations and Churches, in the matters of general unity and peace.— What an infinitude of sects and parties; what a multipli city of divisions and subdivisions in the same denomina tion; what ann.) , separations of fellow-worshippers; what hostile erections of antagonistic new chapels ; what painful presumings of the people against the minister ; what captive bonds of the minister to the people • what a host of disruptive and peace-destroying evils, which no man can number, are avoided by the invaluable law-pre served unity and uniformity of an Established Church ! It is true that there are internal differences, and even feuds and burnings, in our national Church. But it is a blessing not to be fully estimated, that the union of the Church with the throne still preserves the general body, and the worship, one. And we are fully satisfied, from our own experience, from a thirty years' wide concern ment with both parties, and from the testimonies of dis senters themselves, that there is more unity and peace (as well as oneness of worship), more Christian propriety and happiness in the worshippers, and more holy inde pendendence in the ministers of the Church of England, than is to be found in the whole dissentient world put together; and for this reason, because, in the national Church, all things are, by the blessing of the throne's civil aid still kept and preserved, as they were, by the holy wisdom of our fathers in the faith "set in order," at the Reformation. _ _ THE TERM " GALILEE."-At a recent lecture by Pro - fessor Willis, delivered before the Archaeological Insti tute at Ely, he stated that, " on entering that cathedral they found themselves in a porch or portico of the old En glish period, called the Galilee ; that was the name men tioned in the ancient records. A building at the western end of Durham Cathedral was also called a Galilee; and why he could not tell. Various opinions had been given by writers on ecclesiastical architecture as to to the unde derivatur of this term as applied to such porches ; but they were conflicting and unsatisfactory." Mutford Church, suffold, has a large porch attached to it resem- bling that at Ely, only of course much smaller, and also called a Galilee. The Rev' Alfred Suckling, in his " His tory of Suffolk," says—" In early ages there was always a Galilee attached to every church, in which public peni tents were stationed, and the bodies of the dead occasion ally deposited before interment. The name is supposed to have been appended to these extreme porches, because as Galilee was the part of Palestine most remote from Je rusalem, so this portion of the building was most distant from the sanctuary." On referring to Stevenson's Sup plement to Bentham's Ely," we find, " When the two Marys visited the sepulchre on the morning of the resur reection, they were told by the angels, ' He is risen from the dead, and behold He goeth before you into Galilee ; there shall ye see Him.' " The last' station where the bishop and clery terminated their procession on Easter Sunday, was called the Galilee, as denoting that Christ, after His resurrection, preceded His disciples into Galilee. It appears from Du Cange, that the term in question ap plied to the portico on the outside of the church. INFLUENCE OF CLIMATE.--The European is notmade -for the southern climates of Asia. Carrying with him, in his first adventure, his original energy of mind and frame, he is astonished to see the land tenanted by human beings who are content with mere existence. The bold climber 'of the hills,—the daring mariner,—the intelligent and de -lighted inquirer into all the wonders of earth and ocean, sees himself surrounded by men lying on sofas, living only to eat, and careless of the whole brilliant profusion which tissues the ground, or fills the forest, or variegates the shore. But the second generation inevitably feels the in fluence, and the son of the sinewy and susceptible Euro pean becomes the languid, self-satisfied, and voluptuous Oriental. In fact, the two races are totally different. The Asiatic has some noble qualities. The Creator has not altogether effaced his image in any region of human habitancy. He has fancy, keenness of conception, despe rate but unwilling bravery, scientific faculties, and a quiet delight in the richness of his own lovely islands and pyra midal mountains. But to the European alone is allotted the master quality of energy ; and by that gift lie drives the world before him. This resistless quality he perhaps owes chiefly to his sullen skies and rugged soils. Even in the East, the man of the desert, the son of the storm and the snow, has always been the conqueror of India. The Osmanli sultans were forced to raise the boldest of their battalions among the Christians of the north of Greece. And we shall yet see the Australian sweeping before him the indolence of the Birman and the Javanese. This he will owe to the sterility of his fields and the half European blasts of his more salubrious and stringent atmosphere. The maxim of Montesquieu, that " poverty always con quers wealth," solves but half the problem. The true so lution is, that the poverty of the soil compels the exer tion of a vigour, which severity of climate alone can gene rate among a people. For three hundred years the popu lation of Jutland and Denmark almost annually swept the southern shores of Europe itself. The Norman was in vincible on land. Even the great barbarian invasions, which broke down the Roman empire, were the work of nerves hardened in the forest and the desert. The same causes have made the storm-beaten Englishman lord of India. But India will never be a British colony. It will never be, like America, a land of Englishmen. The se cond generation will be Indians, while Australia will be the southern England. This is evidently the law of a Fill above max.—Blacitwood'B Magazine. DESTRUCTION OF TOADS. -- Since the opening of the atmospheric railway from Paris to St. Germain, they have found round the large cast-metal tube, chiefly in that part under the tunnel to the viaduct, an immense number of dead toads. Some chemists, being desirous to discover the cause of this mortality. have found the paint in the tube has a singular property of attracting these reptiles and poisoning them. They are, in many locali ties, a complete scourge; and the means of destroying them may not be unacceptable. This composition, or paint, is formed of forty parts of sulphate of lead, and sixty parts of glue, which is composed of forty-five parts of white creosote oil, fifteen of gum lacque, and five of caoutchouc. In the rural districts, this might be used with great advantage by agriculturists in painting their fences. AN ITALIAN VILLA is very charming for a brief spring, malarious in summer and autumn, and incommodiously furnished for every season. Comfort makes but slow pro gress abroad, and has not yet found its way into Italy at all ; neither into her dictionaries as a name, nor into her dwellings as a thing. What should we, ease-loving Eng lish, think of a house, which, lined with marbles and frescoes, carpeted with mosaics and adorned with statues, offered nothing but niches and marble curule chairs to write on and to sit in ? - Yet such is the general scheme and internal arrangement throughout most villas in Italy; for as to the prime of the house, the piano nobile, that be longs as by prescriptive right exclusively to the Caesars, being indeed only fitted for impassable marble and bronze emperors :—while the over-hospitable entertainer of these august guests is content to stow away himself and family in apartments which are frequently little better.than our offices for menials, in which his few articles of rococo fur niture, of all sorts and sizes, are crazy, cumbersome, un dusted, and ill-matched; in short, more like the promis cuous contents of some inferior broker's shoo, than the elegant ameublement we might have expected to corre spond to the profusion of objects of vertu which grace the principal show-rooms of the mansion. At home we may differ in our notions about comfort in the details, but there are certain conditions which are rightly held essen tial to its possible existence ; and if " the cold, neat par lour, and the gay, glazed bed," have their admirers, it is because cleanliness and neatness are two of them ; but in Italy we look in vain for either, and there is nothing to compensate their absence.—Blacku:ood's Magazine. ANCIENT BRITISH RULERS.—Of the mode of govern ment which prevailed among the indigenous tribes of our island, it would be idle to attempt more than a recapitu lation of the remarks extracted from the Roman writers. The kingly authority was not unknown to them, and its nature was, no doubt, similar to that of the German chiefs of tribes; deriving its origin most probably from the more ancient form of patriarchal government, which is the intermediate link in the social progress between a single family and a tribe. Thus, in all countries, the first rulers have been no more than elders, or heads of fami lies, to whom succeeded chieftains, or heads of clans, who have gradually shifted their authority from their followers, to a definite extent of territory, including, of course, its • inhabitants ; and have thus become a species of petty king, or, as the Roman writers have termed them, knights. To this class would seem to belong the sovereigns of petty states, which we have had occasion to notice. But the next stage is the union of several of their smaller states or principalities into one, and this was a stage in civil government to which the Britons never ar rived. It is true that to, meet a formidable invasion, they could combine under one chief, generally some one who was known as a military leader. Such was Cassi vellaunus, who opposed and checked the progress of the first Caesar. Such also were Cunobelin, Caractacus, and Boadicea ; but their authority naturally ceased with the emergency which gave birth to it, though the lapse of another century might, perhaps, have produced some eminent chief, who, like the Saxon Egbert in after ages, would have united the various British' tribes into one per manent kingdom. But the Romans came, and, as much by their skilful management of the native quarrels, as by the superiority of their arms, they extinguished for ever the dynasty of the aboriginal Britons.—Dr. Giles' His tory of the Ancient Britons. POWER OF THE HUMAN BYE.—" L. was staying at Chugga for a few days; and one morning he went out with his gun, accompanied by a native Christian of the name of Perswa. Whilst they were in the jungle they suddenly heard a distant shout, as of some one calling Perswa, Perswa !" Is is a tiger,' cried his follower. They immediately hastened back to the village, but found no one there but four old women, who told them that one of their people was hurt by a tiger. Mr. L. started in stantly to his rescue, and as he left the village he was joined by at least fifty men, who in their fear were hiding, but, being now encouraged by the presence of a white man, sallied forth with him. Following the direction of the cries of the poor wretch, they soon came to the spot where he stood facing a large tiger. It. seems that the man, whilst in the jungle, had suddenly caught sight of it on the point of springing upon him. With great pre sence of mind he stood perfectly still and fixed his eyes steadily upon the monstrous brute. The tiger wavered for an instant, then quailing before his eye, he slunk be hind a bush. Still the man kept his eye upon him, whilst the tiger every moment peered forth to see if that dreaded eye was withdrawn. From bush to bush the tiger moved, as if seeking to avoid the gaze, that he might spring out to seize his prey. Slowly the man turned from side to side, still facing his dreaded foe, and calling upon Perswa and the Pade Sahib to come and save him ; and this he continued till the party came up, who by their shouts forced the tiger to abandon his intended meal. iN ow this seems a strong instance of the power of " the hu man eye." "It does indeed," replied F., "I have known it exercised with equal success in another case. A young officer was walking through a jungle ; he foolishly had nothing but his pistols with him. Suddenly he heard a noise, and saw the branches shaking near him ; he crept forward on his hands and knees to see what animal was there. Presently he found himself face to face with a huge bull bison. He started to his feet, drew a pistol from his belt, and fixed his eye on that of the animal. The bison tore the turf with his teeth and horns, stamping furiously, but he dared not charge while the human eye was fixed on his. Presently the beast appeared to become uneasy, moved his enormous shaggy head from side to side, and at last slunk off to join the herd that were feed ing in the distance ; and so my friend was saved by his own presence of mind and the human eye."—Acland's Customs of India. AILSA CRAIG.—One of the most remarkable objects on the western coast of Scotland is this stupendous ocean rock, which gives the British title of marquis to the Earl of Cassilis. It stands about eight miles from the nearest point of land, and rises in a conical shape, to the height of eleven hundred feet. The whole aspect is peculiarly strik ing, and produces an effect upon the senses similarto what the stranger feels when he first gazes on the Pyramids, or the Falls of Niagara. It is, in fact, not a mere rock, but the summit of a huge mountain, elevated in abrupt and sublime grandeur above the waves, surrounded by deep water on all sides except the south-eastern, where a kind of beach is formed by the accumulated debris. In almost every feature it is the exact counterpart of the Bass, on the eastern coast, off the town of Dunbar. Both are se lected as breeding places by the solan geese, and are the habitations of countless swarms of sea-fowls. Both have a fresh-water spring near the tumult, and both afford pas turage for a small number of goats or sheep, the flesh of which acquires a peculiarly rich flavour from the salt grass, which renders it quite a dainty to the epicure, and fetches a higher price in the market. About a third of the way up, we observed an old ruin, said to have been built by Philip 11. of Spain. The story is not very credible ; but it was off this coast that Thurot's defeat" took place, and it was on the Olympic throne of Ailsa that the poet made the ocean deities sit, spectators of the fight"— " Till sinking show, the mimic thunders fall, And Elliot's genius triumphs o'er the Gaul." It is more likely that the ruin in Question is the remains of a baronial prison, erected by some of the powerful clan of the Kennedy's, who once held despotic sway over that part of Ayrshire, and when " From Wigton and the town of Ayr, Portpatrick and the Cruives o' Cree ; Nae man might think to prosper there, Unless he court wi' Kennedie." Ailsa was an excellent place in feudal times for silencing a troublesome enemy, or confining those vassals who had in curred the laird's resentment. The rock and the sea-fowl could tell no tales, and the roaring Atlantic beneath would soon close over the doomed victims precipitated from its immense cliffs. Many a dark deed has been perpetrated on Ailsa, unseen by the world, and unknown to history. Feudal vengeance could work its will far from human ha bitation, and with no witness that could or dared give ut terance to the dreadful tale. Though no longer a prison, this rock continues to be a huge marine aviary, being al most covered with myriads of birds clinging to its sides, darkening the air when on the wing, and deafening the curious spectator with their loud and discordant scream ing. We were told that thrushes have taken up their abode there, and pour out their rich melody as blithely as among the verdant groves of Kyle or Carrick, on the op posite shore.—Dublin University Magazine. THE REFORMATION. — Again, we are reminded, " that the Reformation was not the work of a few pious indivi duals only, but the act of the whole British Church, in conjunction with the State." And, important as the fact is, perhaps in no respect is it more so, than as showing the relation in which we stand to the Book of Common Prayer-. It must be a matter of much regret, that the laity, in general, know so little of the authority of the Prayer Book—that it was not only a compilation of the Clergy in Convocation, but that it was ratified by Parlia ment as the representatives of the laity ; and that thus it became a part of the law of the land, and remains so to this day. " It is the law of the Church of England to all who continue in her communion." And having ob served this, having spoken of an authority in which much of Scripture is interpreted to us, we cannot pass by the author's remarks on the common notion " that the Re formation was little else than the universal permission to exercise the unlimited right of private judgment :"—" If," he says, " this expression be meant, the liberty to worship God according to the dictates of conscience, without per secution or molestation, there cannot be a greater mistake than to suppose that this very reasonable and Christian liberty was granted at the time of the Reformation. For by whom was it then granted ? Not by Henry the Eighth, who, with equal satisfaction to himself, is said to have ' burned some of his subjects for being Protestants, and hanged others for being Catholics.' Not by the famous reformer Calvin, whose burning of Servetus is sufficiently notorious. Not by Queen Mary, the unenviable notoriety of whose name forbids the supposition. Not by her sis ter, Queen Elizabeth, who threatened members of the House of Commons with being sent to the Tower for li berty of speech, tortured and cruelly ill-treated numbers of her Roman Catholic subjects for their religion, and finally put the Queen of Scots to death, chiefly for the same cause. Not by James the First, if we may trust his significant hints as to what he would do to the Puritans if they did not conform. Not by King Charles and Arch bishop Laud, if we may trust the records of the Star Chamber. Not by Oliver Cromwell, who first preached an i l ut peaccutApn, anti then practised it himself, making it penal even to read the Liturgy of the Church of Eng land in a private house. Not in the days of Charles the Second, if we draw our inferences from the stringent se verity of enactments against Roman Catholics and Dis senters. Not by James the Second, who sent the seven bishops to the Tower for presuming to exercise their pri vate judgment, and awoke to his reason when he had lost his crown. Here is a century and a half after the Reformation, and very little trace of this liberty, either in the writings of the Reformers, or in the authorities of the realm, civil or ecclesiastical But, perhaps, it was wisely permitted by Providence that the Re formation should be a struggle. not for toleration, but for truth. In more tolerant times, though men might be more christianly disposed towards each other, their minds would not have been so determined ' earnestly to contend for the faith once delivered to the saints,' and toleration would probably have produced indifference. Whereas by a century and a half of fierce struggles and bitter contests, through the infirmity and corruption of our nature, it was at last discovered that persecution for religion is a religious crime and a political blunder,—a crime in religion, because it is not the weapon by which the truth should be defended ; and a blunder in politics, because it increases the number of bad subjects, who do not scruple publicly to profess what in private they disdain to believe ; and diminishes the number of good subjects, who are too honest to affirm with their lips what in their hearts they deny. We, however, who have lived to see universal toleration, or, a t l eas t, professed toleration, must beware lest we confound toleration with scepticism ; or lest we imagine that unfettered private judgment is the unlimited power of public abuse; for it is no very un common case to find those who are very eager for their own right clamouring down all exercise of it in others, and denying them the power of seeing, hearing, thinking, and judging for themselves."—From a Review, in " The Colonial Church Chronicle" for the present month, of a Sermon on the Reformation, by John, Bishop of Frede ricton. TIC I.4IVtIPOOL STANDARD. A CORPORATION IN A FlX.—Ruthin Corporation, on proceeding to the Town Hall to elect a Mayor for the bo rough, found themselves on the wrong side of the door, having been regularly barred out, the keys being in the safe custody of the Hon. Frederick West, at Ruthin Castle, who, it appears, has a lien on the building. BRISTOL DOCKS.—During the present session of Parlia ment an Act will be applied for, to enable the Dock Company at Bristol to lease, or convey, to the corpora tion of that city, all their rights, original or appurtenant, connected with, or incidental to, the dock property of that port. And, also, an application will be made for authority to take such measures for improving the naviga tion of the Severn, as may seem expedient. Before the passing of the Municipal Reform Act, the corporation of Kendal did not contribute a farthing to wards the expense of watching the town, and an average yearly sum of £6OO was taken from the poor-rate, under the name of constable-rate ; but the reformed corporation defrays the whole expense of the police, as its revenues, though not increased, are more economically adminis tered. The fine new East. Indiaman, Lady Ken❑m ay, beloning to the representative (an only daughter) of the late Thos. Ward, Esq., of London, was totally abandoned by her crew in the Bay of Biscay, in a sinking condition, on Wednesday week. She was commanded by Captain Enery, and her first officer was Mr. Richard Walsh. She left Bombay on the 21st of June, bound to London, laden with a cargo of £210,000., consisting of Indian silks, crapes, Cashmere shawls, gums, spices, rice, &c. The master printers and compositors of London have agreed to submit any differences that may arise between them to a tribunal of their own choosing, viz. :—That a committee of reference be appointed, consisting of twelve mister printers of not less than five years' standing, (six to be chosen by the compositors,) for the purpose of set tling any disputes relative to work which might arise ; and that if any member of the committee of reference should be a party concerned in any dispute, such person should, after a statement of his case, withdraw. A lamentable gun accident occurred in the neighbour hood of Newnham, Gloucestershire, a few days since. Mr. Bird, surgeon, of that town, went out on that day for a little sport, in company with his two sons, of the ages of eight and ten years. Being about to give some instruc tions, he placed his own gun, for a moment, in the hand of one of his little boys, when the charge immediately ex ploded into the hand of the one child, and passed into the head of his little brother, who was standing close to the muzzle, and was killed on the spot. ARRIVAL OF Two ESQIJIM AUX AT lIITLL.-011 Satur day last, the Truelove, Captain Parker, arrived at this port from Davis' Straits, with 6 fish, 85 tons of oil. She also brought over two Esquimaux, man and wife, from the western land of Davis' Straits. It is now several years since we had any of this race in this town before, and ne ver, we understand, were any brought from the western coast. Their respective ages are, the male 17, and the fe male 15, and they were married about a fortnight before they left their native shores.—Hull Packet. Seven Ash trees have sprung from the tomb of Lady Anne Grimston, in 'the churchyard of Tewin, in Hereford shire; and as it is difficult to divine how the trees, which have now attained a great size, could have forced their way through the solid masonry of the tomb, the neigh bouring peasants account for the circumstance by asserting that Lady Anne who died more than a century since, was an unbeliever in Christianity, and was wont to say that " if the sacred book was true, seven ash trees would grow out of her tomb." STOPPAGE OF WEAVING ESTABLISHMENTS.—TWO or three extensive hand-loom weaving establishments in Glasgow ceased working during last week; and, inconse quence, several thousand workmen were thrown out of employment. Other stoppages are expected soon. In Paisley it has been ascertained, on strict inquiry, that the unemployed amount to 1,699, and the number of their de pendents are roundly estimated as above 3,000. As the Scotch poor-law provides no relief for able-bodied la bourers. the augmentation of this class is exciting much local anxiety. Fever there, too, is assuming a form more than ordinarily malignant. The mortality is increasing. EXTENSIVE FORGERY OF BANK NOTES.—A gentle manly-looking man, of the name of Wm. Green, has been committed for .trial at the Bath assizes, on a charge of having, in connexion with other persons not in custody, been concerned in a wholesale forgery of £5 bank notes of the North Wilts Banking Company, purporting to be issued from the branch bank at Chippenham. To what extent the forgery has been carried, it is impossible to say at present, but nearly £l,OOO worth have been discovered; and it is suspected that a great number of the notes have been sent to London, as well as to various towns and vil lages round Bath and Bristol. STOCK EXCHANGE FRAUD.—An inquiry has been com menced before the Committee of the London Stock Ex change, relating to the receipt of an express from Paris,. which turns out to have brought fabricated intelligence. Acting upon the news so received, several of the members of the house operated, and as their bargains produced some fluctuation, they have been called upon to account for the manner in which they dealt, and to furnish the particulars of their transactions. As yet no satisfactory progress has been made in discovering the author of the fraud, but it is anticipated that the officers commissioned to follow up the business are on the right scent. ETHERISATION SUPERSEDED.—Professor Simpson, of Edinburgh, has, in the trichloride of formyle, discovered an agent which more rapidly, pleasantly, and without communicating any offensive odour to the clothes of the patient, produces entire insensibility: No inhaler or in strument of any kind is necessary. A few drops put on a handkerchief and thus applied to the mouth and nostrils produces the desired effect in a few seconds. Last week Professor Simpson brought his discovery before the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh.—[Two cases of parties operated on at the Southern Hospital, whilst under the influence of this.agent, will be found noticed in another column.' A CHANGE.—We are now enabled to state, on the best authority, the almost incredible fact that no less than seven thousand new accounts have been opened in the transfer books of the banks for stock of various kinds, but Consols chiefly, since the month of July—and this number, in addition to those inscribed in the books before. The small capitalists, or, as generally expressed, the public, have been beforehand therefore with their more aristocratic leaders of the higher order, and of the Stock Exchange and banking interests as well. They have been purchasers when greater people were sellers. They have been buying in the cheapest market, from 79i to 841, whilst others who had bought in the dearest, say at 95, have been selling in the worst market.—Daily News. The brig Rebecca, Captain Simpson, arrived in Clyde on Tuesday last, with six of the sufferers of the wreck of the ship Amity, of Liverpool, taken off by the schooner Jenny Lind. These poor men were three days and nights in the mizen chains, without food. The river bailie very kindly gave admission to two of them into the Royal In firmary, their feet being badly frost-bitten, and the men had to be conveyed in a coach. The other four have been assisted and forwarded by the Shipwrecked Mariner's Society to Liverpool. We cannot but feel thankful to the whole of the Liverpool and Glasgow Steam Packet Com panies for their kindness in assisting the good endeavours of this society, by granting all shipwrecked mariners a free passage in their steamers.—Glasgow Constitutional. NOVEL MODE OF CATCHING OWLS.—A curious cir cumstance occurred on the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway on Friday. The mail train had shortly passed the Spetchley station, travelling at the rate of about forty miles an hour, when a singular-looking bird alighted on the steam dome of the engine, and remained there as if transfixed. Fox, the engine -driver, after recovering from his astonishment, succeeded in capturing it, when it was found to be a beautiful yellow owl. It had doubtless been attracted by the brilliant brass of the dome, and, fasci nated by the glare of light and the rapidity of the train, bad been unable to resume its flight. The guard brought it with him to Birmingham perfectly uninjured.—Bir mingham Journal. CHARGE OF ARSON AT NOTTINGHAM.—On Monday last, William Harris Spicer, aged 21, was taken before the Mayor on the charga of arson. Mr. J. Howell, a bookseller, stated that the prisoner was insured in the Manchester office, and he had reason to believe had been guilty of setting fire so his premises, and prayed a remand till Friday. The magistrates acceded to the request. The case excited great interest. Spicer seems to have been little known in the town ; he was supposed to have been a single man, but about two months ago he eloped with a young lady, 17 years of age, from Manchester, and was married to her ; on obtaining her majority she will be entitled to a handsome property . Had it not been for the exertions of the police, the two houses next to that of the prisoner must have been burnt, the partitions being very defective. COPPER COINS.—The coin hawked about the City, and. called " the model penny," appears to have been mis taken by some parties for a genuine coin issued from the Mint. Such, however, is not the case. It is simply a speculation of some ingenious parties, who make a profit from their manufacture by retailing these pennies at two pence each. We believe there is no idea of adopting a coinage consisting of two metals, united like those in the model penny, where the centre represents a small silver coin surrounded by a rim of copper. It may appear al most unnecessary to notice the circumstance, but for its being publickly stated that "five-shilling pieces, with gold centres and silver rims, are about being issued" by the makers of the model penny; and it may therefore be useful to let the public know that Government have nothing whatever to do with the issue. THE EARL AND THE FARMER. — A farmer called on Earl Fitzwilliam, and complained that, in his hunting ex cursions with his hounds, he had trodden down a field of wheat so as to do it damage. The earl told him that if he would procure him an estimate of the loss he would pay it. The man informed him that he had done so already, and it was believed the damage would be £5O. The earl paid it. But, as the spring came on, the wheat which had been trodden down grew up and became the best in the field. The farmer honestly returned the £5O. " Ah," said the earl, " this is what I like. This is as it ought to be be tween man and man." After making some inquiries about his family, the earl went into another room, and re turning, gave the man a check for one hundred pounds, , saying, Take care of this, and when your eldest son is of age, present it to him, and tell him the occasion that produced it."—Leicester Mercury. - FORGERY OF BANK-NOTES.--A gentlemanly-looking man, named Wm. Theophilus Greene, who is supposed to have been passing- forged notes purporting to be the notes of the North Wilts Banking Company, in the city of Bath and the neighbourhood, to a very great extent, has been committed to the prison of Bath on three charges of passing £5 notes to tradesmen. His plan was to pur chase goods at various shops, and tender £5 notes for Wyment, obtaining the difference in gold or silver. hen taken to gaol he was searched by Mr. Pike, the governor, who found on him 15 notes for £5 each, pur porting to be of the North Wilts Bank, all of which were forgeries, and also £24 in gold and £5 in silver. He.will be tried at the next assizes. Two persons, w ho are sup posed to be his confederates, have been endeavouring to pass similarly forged notes at Devizes, but have nut yet been apprehended. • COMBAT BETWEEN A PARTRIDGE AND A COCK.—A few days ago, Mr. J. Bailey, farmer, near Brough, heard the cry of a partridge which appeared to be in dis tress. He bent his steps towards the spot from whence it pro ceeded, when to his astonishment he beheld a barn-door cock and the partridge in close and bloody combat, the former having overcome his less powerful antagonist, whose cries were utterly disregarded by him, for he con tinued picking and flapping at it with all the vengeance imaginable, until Mr. Bailey took the exhausted bird up into his hands.— Westmoreland Gazette. THE THREE CONJIMORS.—At the bottom shaft of the Dolcoath Mine (one of the deepest known), Professors Airey, Whewell, and Sedgwick were desirous to try some 'experiments where they could swing the pendulum at a great depth, and also at a considerable elevation, and had their_apparatus lowered to the bottom of the sh a ft, an d, after spending a portion of two or three days there, it was packed up in an iron bucket, or kibble, with shavings, into which a spark from a miner's candle must have fallen; for, when midway up the shaft, the shavings took fire, the rope was burned, the bucket fell to , the bottom, and the apparatus was destroyed. The miners declared that nothing could have burned the rope but the devil, and that the three professors must be magicians. The day after there was a violent storm, and the miners were over heard saying, they were quite sure it WCS owing to those men that had been underground ; and one said that it must by the little 'un, (Professor Airey), because he .seed him standing with his back against the churchyard ! Mining Journal. DEATH FROM HYDROPHOBIA.—An inquest was held yesterday week, at Sunderland, on view of the body of John Davey, sailor, aged 32 years. It appears that the deceased, on the 7th of August last, whilst his vessel (the brig Belt) was lying in Bugsby's Hole, in the Thames, administered some medicine to a dog about seven weeks old, belonging to his master, and that, whilst giving the medicine, one of the animal's teeth caught deceased's fin ger nail, and scratched it. The finger bled a little, but beyond washing the wound with brandy, no further notice was taken of it. It healed the next day, and the dog died a few hours after the medicine was given. On Tuesday morning, the 9th instant, (the vessel being then at Sun derland,) deceased was taken ill, and a surgeon attended' him : on the following morning he exhibited great fear on water or coffee being presented to him, and such other symptoms, as left no doubt on the minds of the medical gentlemen who attended him that he was labouring under hydrophobia. He lingered in great agony till the Friday following, when death terminated his sufferings. Verdict, died from hydrophobia. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY BY A SHOPWOMAN.—On Tues day, at Marylebone police-office, London, Ann Simons,. Benjamin Simons, (her father,) and Mr. Hickman, (a mer chant having chambers in Lincoln's Inn Fields, where the female prisoner visited him,) were further examined on the charge of stealing or receiving goods, worth from £2OOO to £3OOO, the property of Messrs. Marshall and Co., silkmercers, Vere-street, Oxford-street. After some corroborative evidence, the prisoners were remanded for the completion of the depositions till Wednesday, when evidence was given by Mr. Hickman's servants that the girl was in the habit of visiting their master at his cham bers in Lincoln's-inn-fields, generally arriving in a cab, and bringing with her dresses, jewellery, &c., which she deposited in drawers of which she kept the key, and that she had frequent opportunities of doing so without his knowledge. The several depositions taken at former exa minations having been read over, the prisoners were com mitted for trial.—Mr. Hickman is under bail, himself in £5OO, and two sureties in £250 each, to appear at the Sessions. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—On Thursday, as Mr. and Mrs. Campbell, of Blythswood, accompanied by a fine young boy, a son, about six years of age, and attended by a coachman and footman, were returning in a carriage and pair from a visit to Mr. Douglas, of Mains, near Milngavie, and while crossing a wooden bridge over the Forth and Clyde canal, at Temple lock, near Garscube, the horses shyed; and the carriage coming forcibly against the wooden railing of the bridge, it was broken, and car riage, horses, and the whole party precipitated into the water. In the dreadful circumstances of the moment, with the high walls of the canal upon each side, Mr. Campbell, with great presence of mind, sustained Mrs. Campbell until ropes were thrown to them, and by which they held on until rescued. With grief we have to state that their boy was drowned. The difficulty of procuring assistance may be imagined when we mention that Mr. Campbell had to support himself and his lady by the rope until the water was let out of a higher lock to raise them up to the top of the lock wall where they were immersed. The horses were drowned, and the carriage broken to pieces. Mr. and Mrs, Campbell, by some means or other, managed to get out at the carriage window, or door, but their son, who was seated beyond them, went down with the vehicle. The servants; being outside, escaped with comparative ease. The body of the boy was afterwards found.—Glasgow Paper: _ A STRANGE SToiY.—A man has been committed to take his trial at Stafford assizes, under the following cir cumstances :—He has for some time past had to contribute a certain sum towards the support of an illegitimate child. A few nights ago he met its mother, and promised that if she would destroy their offspring, ie would immediately marry her. She promised compliance, went home for the child, and returned with it to the spot where the villain awaited her, and then hastened from him in the direction of a coal-pit, which he indicated as the one where the fatal act was to be consummated. In-a few minutes she re turned to him without the child, and urged him to leave the country with her, and fulfil his promise of marriage. But he pleaded an immediate engagement, and promised if she would await his return a few minutes, he would rejoin her to fly the country with her, and make her his wife. half an hour having elapsed, the young woman left the spot, hastening to the place where she had left her infant sleeping in safety, having only seemed to fall in with the views of the miscreant in order to obtain the fulfilment of his promise. She then hastened home, and, as she was making preparations for bed, was alarmed by a loud rap ping at the door, and the appearance of two police-officers in company with her soi-disant lover, who charged the young woman with the murder of her child. The child, however, was produced safe and sound, and the miscreant, who saw that his infernal plans had been foiled, was him. self detained in custody. MR. O'CONNOR AND HIS LAND SCHEME. — We have it then, at length, admitted by Mr. O'Connor, though not until he has been fairly badgered out of the fact, that a large portion of the deficiency, amounting in eight months to no less a sum than three thousand and thirty five pounds, which exists between the amount acknowledged in the Northern Star as received from the local secreta ries, and that actually carried to their account with the treasurer, by the general secretary—is, in truth, spent in patronage and salaries, instead of being employed by him in the purchase of land. When writing on this subject, in an article in our journal of the 29th of December, 1846, the Star acknowledged to have received on account of the Land Company £176 6s. 5d., the general secre tary passed to the debit of the treasurer no more than £BO 13s. 10d. What became of the remaining £9B 12s 7d ? Now here is Mr. O'Connor's answer, in his own words, copied from the Star of the 6th instant :—" Why, Tom kins, though fool, it went to pay the expenses of fifty delegates from all parts of England, Scotland, and Wales, that assembled at Birmingham. Oh 1 Tomkins thought they came here for nothing ! Why, d—n thee, thou fool, baint they all working men, and where dos't think they get money to run about the country ?" There then is the registered fact, under Mr. O'Connor's own hand, that within a fraction of £lOO, the contribution of forty-two-acre shareholders, was spent at once in pay ment of the charges of a journey of pleasure for fifty of his retainers to Birmingham; a reward for past services, and a retaining fee for future ones.—Nottingham Mer cury. CRIMINAL COURT OF APPEAL. — Another case, illustra tive of the want of a Criminal Court of Appeal in this country, has just been made public. An attorney's clerk in Stafford, named Thomas Whalley, was, at the last spring assizes, tried on a charge of rape upon a married woman, named Rotchell. He was found guilty by the jury, and sentenced to fifteen years' transportation by the judge. The known bad character of the prosecutrix, the improbability of her story, and the fact of three witnesses distinctly swearing that at the very time the offence was alleged to have been committed, the prisoner was in his own house, surrounded by his own family, caused the ver dict of the jury and the sentence of the judge to be re garded with almost universal dissatisfaction. The prose cutrix admitted, on cross-examination, that she had, a year or two previously, been convicted of robbing her master, and had suffered six months' imprisonment for that offence. She also admitted that—though the place in which she alleged the offence to have been committed was close to the road side, and near to several houses — she raised no outcry for assistance. Farther, she admit ted that immediately after the alleged rape she went to the prisoner's house, where she saw him, and discharged a debt for which on that morning he had threatened to seize her goods. She then went on to sap, that "on leaving the prisoner's house she said to him, Mr. Whal ley, my husband has paid you a good deal of money, and now you shall pay him a good deal more.' Having made this threat, she left, and on the next morning went with her husband before a magistrate, and made the charge." The husband has since been convicted of felony, and is now in prison. The evidence of the prosecutrix was not confirmed in any material point by any witness. ST. BERS.—On the night of Saturday last, an attempt was made to destroy the beautiful inn, lately erected near to the Po-bridge, in the above village, which, as yet, is unoccupied. The miscreant, in order to effect his diabo lical purpose, collected from the various apartments of the house as well as the yard adjoining, a heap of chips and wood, which he piled together in one of the lower rooms, and set them on fire. Fortunately, however, no injury was done, except to the mantelpiece, and the floor-. ing of the room above : this is owing, no doubt, to the want of vent being given to the air, by the door being closed, in order, doubtless, to avoid detection, as well as more effectually to accomplish the fiend-like task. On Sunday night the proprietor, Mr. T. Tyson, of this town, obtained the services of the village constable, who, with one or two others took his turn to watch the premises. About ten minutes before the time arrived for resigning his post to the next watcher, the villain hurled several large stones at his (the constable's) windows, and demo lished three or four panes, besides endangering the life of his mother, an elderly woman, and a youth, who narrowly escaped being struck by a stone, which might have laid him lifeless on the floor. The frequent assaults, and acts of daring robbery, that are constantly perpetrated in this village, are most appalling. It is only a few weeks ago that a violent assault was made on an old woman ; and a young man had his pocket picked by a ruffian, in the open street, who coolly pinioned his arms and extracted his purse, containing a large sum of money. A bill,offering a reward for the apprehension of the offender, was placed in the window of the post-office, which, we are informed, was quickly removed by some one, soon after it was put up, by smashing in a pane of glass, in order the more readily to obtain it. If this state of things be allowed to continue, respectable persons will soon be afraid to reoido I in the village,--Whitekoren Herald, MELANCHOLY CATASTROPHE.—On Thursday week, Campbeltown was visited by a strong gale from the south east ; and about ten o'clo c k at night, while exceedingly dark, Messrs. Malcolm M`Millan, master of the schooner Widnes, of Liverpool, and Lachlan M'lsaac, late sheriff clerk deputy of this district, both natives of Campbeltown , when proceeding to the vessel commarded by the former , which was at the time lying alongside the pier, were un fortunately drowned. It has not been distinctly aster' tained how the accident occurred, but on the following morning, the body of Captain M`Millan was found on the opposite beach, fully a quarter of a mile distant, and later in the day that of Mr. M'lsaac, close to the quay ; final which it is inferred that Capt. M`Millan, who was powerful swimmer, had endeavoured to 'save his cony panion, and being unsuccessful, was thereafter deceived by the lights on the opposite shore, which it appears he attempted to reach, but was too much exhausted. They were both unmarried.—Edinburgh Paper. BALA.—AWFUL VISITATION.—In a case which cam° before the Judge of the County Court, held at this place, on Friday, the 12th instant, the wife of the plaintiff in the cause was a material, if not the only witness, but her evi' dente and manner of givingit having excited considerable doubt, the attorney for the defendant (Mr. Gilbertson) in discharge of his duty for his client, cross-examined the witness at some length, and finding that she could not ex plain satisfactorily the circumstances to which she had sworn, she clenched her evidence by saying with consider able warmth, " that she wished she might not leave the court alive if what she had stated was not correct." In few minutes she was taken between two neighbours to the house of her daughter residing in the town,. and early on the following morning she expired in great agony. Tho event has instilled awe in the most thoughtless of the spectators ; and it is hoped that the circumstance rag prevent the growth of perjury which in many instance had become most glaring, and proved the inaptness of the law to our Welsh mountaineers, which allows parties to give evidence in their own cases. NORTH OF ENGLAND .1;371 , 4"T STOCK BANK . ..—The directors of this bank have issued an address to the share holders, from which we learn that the first call produced £37,434 15s. 9d., and the second, £28,115 13s. lld , r together, £75,550 9s. Bd. A considerable portion of tr. second call consisted of transfers of loans previously me, by the shareholders, so th a t th e b ene fit derived from' was very limited. Between now and Christmas, engage' ments will have to be met to the amount of £15,000; about £12,000 of which are to be yet raised, by loans or otherwise. Another call is not deemed advisable in the existing circumstances of the district. "It therefore rests with the shareholders," the directors observe is' conclusion, "whether they will aid the directors in their laborious and most onerous duties, and carry out engage ments of vast magnitude and importance both to the welfare of the proprietary and the public, by com i ng for ward at once with aid to the extent named, or allow the affairs of the concern to pass into bankruptcy—a course that cannot be thought of without a fearful dread of its most ruinous consequences to every party connected with the bank." The district committees met the directors on Friday last, when resolutions were unanimously adopted, expressing the desirableness of allowing the affairs of the establishment to be wound up under the management of the directors, and calling upon the share holders to assist in carrying out this object, by making advances to the bank upon loan notes. The parties present pledged themselves to pursue the course recom mended to the sharehalders generally. DARING BURGLARY NEAR ASHBOURNE.—Onthe night of Saturday last, a most daring burglary was effected on the premises. of Mr. Brough, a respectable farmer, re siding at Alsop-in-the-Dale, about six. miles from Ash' bourne. It appears that on the night in question, the mother of Mr. Brough, who resides at Langley, and who was on a visit to her son, slept in a bed in one o f the front rooms; and her daughter, who keeps house for Mr- Brough, slept along with her, although it was not usual for her. About one or two o'clock, Miss Brough was awoke by a strange noise, as of some person closing the bedroom door, which had not been fastened. She awoke her mother, and exclaimed,—" Mother,there's some per son in the room !" She had then sufficient courage to get out of bed and go to a particular place in the room , where property to a very considerable amount was depo sited. Having satisfied herself that this was perfectly se' cure, she returned to bed, and heard little or nothing fur ther. Upon the Sunday morning, when the servant got up and had gone into the stack-yard, he found the pock' eta of Mrs. Brough lying there. He returned to the house and called his master, who, on examining the pockets, found that a purse, containing half-a-sovereign and nine shillings in silver, had been extracted ; bur the empty purse was found at some little distance. The thieves had left behind in the pockets two handkerchiefs , a pocket book with memorandums, and a pair of valuable spectacles. The burglars gained an entrance into the house by placing a ladder, which they had taken from th e stack, against the staircase window, over the front clo h r o ' At present; no clue has been found t o th e di scover y of , * guilty party.—Derby Advertiser. (1 ,nb rie, .... DISTRESSING SHIPWRECK. —The b arqu e a Captain Lash, of Gloucester, f rom Q ue b ec , has been wrecked. On the 24th October she was struck by a t r f" mendous sea, which laid the vessel on her side.- Captain Lash hesitated for a moment wh e th er to out away the mainmast, being anxious to see if th e ve ssel would right - herself without mutilation, but findi n g this to be hopeless , he gave the order to cut away ; b u t, before this could be done, a frightful wave was seen rolling towards them p and he called out to the crew to make themselves fast. The wave came on, broke over the disabled vessel, and when it passed by, it was found that the captain, two seamen, named Giles Frape, of Frampton, and Robert Collins, o f Pill, and an apprentice named Charles Lane, of Birming ham, had all been washed away, and were never more seen. Another apprentice, Thomas Berwick, had a nar row and almost miraculous escape from sharing th e b u tt fate. He was in the cabin when it filled with water' d springing through the windo w i n t o th e open sea , he saved himself by swimming, and succeeded at length in regaining the vessel. The wretched survivo r s—f our t een in numbe r —succeeded in cutting away the mas t, and the vesse l. righted. Here they remained on a water-logged wreelct lil i the middle of the ocean, latitude 49 N, lo ng . 29, expose; still to a high wind and heavy squall, for four days nu n nights, until midnight of the 28th October, when, (abseil" ing a sail in the distance, they held up firebrands as a air' nal of distress, and this attracted the attention o f the strange vessel, which proved to be the William and Marl' Captain Allen, who very humanely took the crew front the wreck, treated them with great kindness, and brough t them with him to Colchester, when c e on Th urs d a y _,_his'' they arrived in Gloucester, with the exception of . 1111 ' Bayley, the mate, who has been placed in Colchester lies' pital where we are happy to hear he is doing well. DITDDON SANDS.-We are sorry to have to place tie/ record another of those melancholy events—the loss 0 life upon Duddon Sands—which are of such frequent ee: currence upon that dangerous estuary. It appears OP Mr. W. Postlethwaite, manager of the Winna-end Slate Quarry, in Kirby, left home with a view of going to Mil' lom on business, and as the crossing of the sands we t an almost deily occurrence with him, he p r ef erre d the course to going round, though the flow of fresh water upon the sands, from the late heavy rains, was unusualli great. On the same morning a carrier from Millom at tempted to cross, but he soon discovered that the sands were•flooded to such a depth as to completely cut off all hopes of his getting to the opposite side, and he there' fore turned back before it was too late. Mr. Postleth waite, however, was less fortunate. It appears that- Mr. Postlethwaite was seen upon the sands by two fishermen named Bell, but they were at two great a distance to render any assistance, but had it been otherwise it is more than probably that their exertions would have been unavailing, owing to the depth and impetuosity with which the fresh water was rushing down to the sea. Fri ''' the sudden disappearance of M r . P os tl e th wa it e an d horse, there seems to be no doubt but both w e r e precil**, tated down one of those dangerous breaks, at a depth e c ; not less than 20 feet, caused by the flooded state of t' l 4 river. The horse presently rose, feet uppermost, an made its way to the side of the sands on which it he:: entered, and was at Backside again, Mr. Postlethwaite ' residence, within an hour after it had left, with the saddle under its belly. This circumstance gave rise to feel apprehensions, and, after the tide had receded, search was made, but in vain, until Wednesday, when the corpse of the unfortunate gentleman was discovered on the Cum" berland side of the sands, near Hot Barrow. The .un fortunate deceased was in the full vigour of life,-32 yea' 1 of age,—and connected with a family of the highest re,", spectability, long resident in Kirby Ireleth.—Cumberlaiw Pacquet. SIMPSON'S PATENT SUBMERGED PROPELLER.--° 1 ; Monday an experimental steam trip of a highly interesting character was made in a small steam boat named the Albion, of 20-horse power, to test the working of a nevi method of propelling steam boats, the i nven ti on of Nl' Simpson. The new propellers consist of wheels acting horizontally or vertically, in a case entirely underneat h Alert surrounded water. Those used in the Albion are construct_ with four plain leaves or floats, fixed on a vertical surrounded by the case. This case is a concentric circle, rendered eccentric by its po s iti on w ith re lation to 0, wheel, which it exceeds in size sufficiently to give effeeb to the centrifugal action of the water. The three problems' of the most effective method of supply, the delivery, and above all the best direction of the course of the water' appear to have been solved with great ingenuity by Of patentee. The principle of the invention may, indeed' more briefly be stated to consist in the ejectment of : column of water in a parallel line with th a t o f th e vessel'; m otion, which column acts agai ns t th e wa t er ou t s id e the vessel. The patentee's theo r y i s , th a t as th e w i ngs of 5 bird act upon the air, which is beaten back as the bir flies onward, so these two submerged columns 'act powerful water wi ngs , b eat i ng b ac k t h e d enser mass 0 water with in v i s ibl e but irresistible force. Nothi n g assuredly can be more beautiful than the noiseless an., mysterious motion of Mr. Simpson's boat. There is 9 :: entire absence of all surface swell, and the vessel steal rapidly through the water as if propelled by some magie''',l and invisible agency. The Earl of Dundonald was please' to express a high opinion of the value of the inventiolci more particularly in propelling boats upon canals 04 narrow rivers, and his Lordship further. expressed a wt'„ to see the new submerged propeller adapted to his oW',, new tubular engines and boilers. We ought to mentinii that, by a beautiful contrivance, the case is construerf, to change its position on the wheel being reversed, whe t it assumes the same form as for going a-head, and tr, wheel and case perform the same office as before with VP greatest precision. The diameter of the submerged P peller wheels of the Albion is only 24 inches, and In wheels necessary to be' used in a boat of 300 or 400_ f _tiwii burthen would not exceed *inches in diameter. *M G , one of the most extraordinary features of the insentl"„iiti the diameter of paddlewheels employed in the steam-h h e of similar tonnage being now nearly as many feet. ". t i invention is one that cannot fail to attract the attentto of the scientific world, and the general opinion was t t l i e the uninterrupted course of experiments conducted by _4 patentee with indefatigable perseverance had at len l4l perfected his invention and left nothing to be desired ensure its ancetss, Nov. 2: fIXED 7) her Maje: 6,st , t 4 nonth, a 01 4's Stati Ars, ta servE 'ft , Castle. A, TUESDi AR R tai;;Sdalt VVEDN] ARRIVED. 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SATU Ant Pt her uvEl froi SAILED, "al d, Hon Bellis ; an( - -Lucy, GI i t herleston LtiVannah— .lllld—Goo( gammanl tin Mar Stet. Haidee, `4(lastriel, Corriere Moontaii (ktober. Tobago v b oon of the to some of 'sago ST. THO: x.‘iavn d s e Ca SUN AatrtiVEl 4 ,' 4 ner, frorr ` - larence, \4 olCutta—, Zt. rie§t JOlW, e. 1. a rgarel :1• 1 lass A ' 1 ; and lei Yretierict Leo, Mai Indostri( • ts_arbarai , Oammar, Sansone, Lancaste Johanna Selma, , • October xakenbat )cf. ` martin L Luc) Ne: 3 ERntcE iq , trying to ”ore on th 4 t narge part • Sum o o c ' a% dri - ne on t he beVenp or (4 T 15 ) •t• 3o lon 14t.'46.1 @Enna! zfitlisreilanv. Mr. Oakeley is, at last, a priest in the Church of Rome. The report of a death from cholera on board a vessel at Falmouth is positively contradicted. The creditors of Messrs. Fry, Griffiths and Co., have consented tfftake 4s. in the pound by instalments. A HANDSOME DIVIDEND.—In the Bristol bankruptcy court last week, in re R. P. and S. Pratt, a dividend of five-eighths of a penny in the pound has been declared. A few days since the royal court of Guernsey sentenced a man, who had been convicted of theft, to be transported to England for a term of three years. The annual Polish ball and concert took place at the London Guildhall, on Wednesday evening. There were upwards of 2000 persons present. On Wednesday morning, a considerable fall of hail and snow took place between Ipswich and Monningtree, and also in several other parts of the eastern counties. The church of All Hallows, in London, still possesses an income, originally given to it for the purpose of buying faggots for burning heretics. A few days since a gentleman caught in the river Con way, near Llanrwst, a salmon weighing twenty-six pounds. _ _ Mr. Samuel Sinith, worsted spinner, near Halifax, a bankrupt, has been committed to York Castle for not giv ing satisfactory answers to the questions put to him. Many of the army messes are prudently economising their table expenses, and following the example of the first men of the land in diminishing their expenditure. The boy Allnutt, 11 years of age, has been fully com mitted for trial, for the murder of his grandfather at Hackney, by poison. _ . RARE PRODUCE.—A day or two ago there might have been seen growing in the garden of the Dean of Durham, without the aid of any artificial means—a fine and luxu riant crop of green peas. SIGNS OF THE TIMES.—The Gazette of Friday week contained announcements of 28 fiats of bankruptcy ; that of Tuesday last contained 44 more, and that of Friday last 24 more—altogether 96 fiats in eight days. On Saturday Mr. Benjamin Marcus, a learned Polish Jew, was baptised, and received into the Romish Church, before a large number of persons, in the chapel attached to St. Mary's College, Oscott. THRESHING BY STEAM.—This novel fact has at length been introduced in Norfolk ; and the " glowing furnace" is now at work at the barn-doors of the speculative far mers in that county. TIMBER UNDER HEARTHSTONES. — The recent fire in Drummond-street, Euston-square, when a poor lady was miserably burnt to death, has b-en ascribed to ignited cinders falling through a crack in the hearthstone. A great sensation has been caused at. Norwich by the apprehension of Mr. George Thurtell, the well-known florist, and latterly professing landscape-gardener, on sus picion of several felonies. Several of the children attending' the infant school at Bury, in Norfolk, narrowly escaped death last week, from the effects of some seeds of the laburnum tree, which they had imprudently eaten. Some thieves, on Sunday night, concealed themselves in the office of the London station of the Great Western . Railway, and carried away the safe containing £l2OO in gold and notes. The Rev. F. Oakeley, a well-known seceder from the church, was ordained a Roman Catholic priest on Sunday last, by the Rev. Dr. Wiseman, at an ordination held in the chapel of St. Edmund's College, near Ware. A London law stationer has sued the Earl of Morning ton, in the Westminster County Court, for the expense of copying some deeds, and the noble defendant has been ordered to pay the amount claimed. A man was found drowned a few days ago at Hammer smith. He was twice identified—first, as a natural son of Lieut.-General Sir Brent Spencer ; and next, as Mr. G. A. Polland, of the firm of Polland and Hopewell, army accoutrement manufacturers. Mr. George Thomas Dunn, elected Mayor of Newcas tle-upon-Tyne, has declined the honour, and paid the fine of £lOO. Sir John Simpson, elected Mayor of York, has done the same. Other gentlemen must, of course, be appointed. A subscription has been begun for the purpose of erect ing a bust or some other memorial of the late Dr. Men delssohn, in some appropriate public building in London ; and the Queen and Prince Albert have intimated their intention to contribute £5O. GLUT OF Fisu.—Billingsgate Market was on Saturday completely glutted with a supply of soles and herrings. At such a low rate were these fish sold that the dealers were retailing herrings at twenty a groat, and good-sized soles at ld. the pair. On Thursday afternoon, the conductor of one of the London and Blackwall omnibuses, being falsely accused of theft by a passenger, who had left his Macintosh cape in the omnibus, became so much excited that he burst a blood vessel, and fell dead in the street. A case of shooting, with intent to murder, occurred on Tuesday at Cawstou, about eleven miles from Norwich. A respectable farmer, named Page, was fired at by his brother-in law. The cause of quarrel was a refusal on the part of Page to lend his relative two sovereigns. A few days ago, two brothers, named White, residing at Shaston, in Dorsetshire, quarrelled, and fought for some time; during the fight one of them fell on a brick floor with such violence, that he fractured his skull and died within a few hours. The chief Rabbi (Dr. Alder) says the Jewish Chronicle, has recently established a Talmudical Society, for the purpose of maintaining the study of the Talmud. The society meets twice a week, for one hour, at the rey. doc tor's house. On Friday night, a young man, named Harkins, who had set fire to a corn-stack, near Greenock, concealed himself in a hole which he had made in a heap of bark in a tan-yard adjoining, and was found dead next morning, the superincumbent mass having fallen upon and smo thered him. The late Sir George Philips, Bart., died possessed of personal property amounting to £30,000, which, with his freeholds in the counties of Warwick, Worcester Oxford, Gloucester, Lancaster, and elsewhere, he has left to his son, Sir George Richard Philips, Bart., M.P., his sole executor. NEW ARTICLE OF FOOD.—An article having been re cently imported from Alexandria into the port of Glou cester, described as " saggins," but which is stated to be a grain called " denarii," which is used in the Levant and in Egypt for food, it is ordered by the lords of the trea sury that it shall be admitted duty free. A few days since, an infant, eleven months old, the child of a cutler living at Sheffield, was choked with a small piece of apple, which it had bitten from a larger piece that had been given to it by its mother, as a play thing, to amuse it while she was occupied with her house hold affairs. A notice has been issued from the Post-office giving the public the firivilege of writing upon newspapers sent by post, provided a penny stamp be affixed upon them. This privilege is to be confined to inscriptions on the newspa per itself, and is not to extend to the cover, which, as heretofore, must contain nothing but the address. Two persons, named Sale and M`Koy, are in custody in London, and have been remanded for an indefinite period, charged with the murder and robbery of Mr. Bellcham hers, in Wilton-street, London, on the 11th ult. The parties had been in company together, and the bolt with which the fatal wound was inflicted was traced to the possession of one of the prisoners. The Glasgow papers tells a curious story of a lady who refused to go home with her husband on the first night of their marriage. The husband went home himself, but the lady remained behind and absconded. Months passed before she was discovered in a town at some distance from Glasgow, and then she went with her husband, and the second honeymoon is not yet expired. The men on board her Majesty's ship Superb, eighty guns, lying at Malta, on the Ist instant, having persisted in expectorating on the deck, had their tobacco stopped. They thereupon broke into mutiny, and smashed all the crockery. They were soon induced to return to their duty, six or eight of the more violent having been cap tured. The prisoners will be tried by a court-martial. FIFTH OF NOVEMBER FUN.—The Mayor of Mon mouth prohibited bonfires and fire-works on the sth of November, but some wag, determined to have his diver sion, stuffed a public pump with combustibles, and set fire to it. We have heard that " lighting a pipe at the pump" is proof positive of being drunk, but it would appear that this rule is not free from exception. DREADFUL Loss OF LIFE.—A great storm ravaged the coast of Mayo on the Bth inst., when over thirty poor creatures lost their lives. Nine persons, natives of Innis turk, were drowned in an endeavour to reach home with some provisions for their starving children. Nineteen fishermen were drowned in the Sound of Achill, and five others off Achill Head the same day. The Edinburgh Review has now only a nominal con nection with Edinburgh. On the insolvency of Messrs. Constable and. Co. in 1826, it became the property of Messrs. Longman and CO. ; aad on the death in the be ginning of the present year, of Mr. Macvey Napier, the editorship was transferred to England, where it will hence forth be printed. Nov. 23, ISA