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Etteraturt. VARIETIES, Dean Swift says a woman may knit her stockings, but not her brow ; she may darn her hose, but not her eyes; curl her hair, bnt not her lips ; thread her needle, but trot the public streets. A FRIEND IN NEED.—A gentleman unaccustomed to üblic speaking, becoming embarrassed, whispered t o his friend, " Quick, give me a word ? " Upon which the other replied "Yes, yes, what word do you want ?" A SMALL PRESENT.—" I will give you my head," ex claimed a person to Montesquieu, " if every word of the story I have related is not. true." " 1 accept your offer," t. " presents of no small value strengthen saio the prey the - - .Ands of friendship, and should never be refused." A few days ago a genuine son of the " Gi m of the Sae " was informed by his landlady that in consequence of the wet harvest and the potato " disease" the loaf would be np a penny in a day or two. Arrah by St. Patrick," says he, " and what's that to me ; what care I if it were half a-crown ; sure ye know I buy all loafs in pen'orths." JACK'S CONCLUSION.—" Did you take the note, and did you see Mr. Thompson, Jack ?" " Ees, Sir." " And ' '" " Why he looked pretty well, but he's ' -, at do you mean ?" " Why, " 1 where my hat wur, and Blind ! , he axe propneL3 not cost This is o I the Unit ken shell and, as a am inclined to I I not only b, tare on tt Stephens in Blackwood . nen wt tv, drt warmly engaged h instnt7l ro bead of s Allied I fire fror be French bat whom who m a sudden ruck at made him p► Duke before only extricated hi fight him b Ringfif CHEAP LITERATURE IN AMERICA.—The Americans I are certainly a pation of readers, and it is always amusing to walk the principal streets and see what a large traffic is carried en in the cheap publications. The " Last of the Barons " or the " Smugglers"' is no sooner arrived in New Barons,' . ' than one publisher strikes off 50,000 copies at 3d. each, and a rival printer a better edition at 6d. and Is. The respective authors, however, need not reckon much on this cheap immortality ; the books are thrown by as soon as read, like their halfpenny newspapers ; in a little time, if you ask where are they, " Echo answers, Where?" There are no private libraries in America, nor are there any circulating libraries, fur it is cheaper to buy than to borrow. The London picture newspapers form an item also very considerable; and you see " Punch," " Picto rial Times," and " Illustrated London News," in the shop windows for sale as abundantly as they' are in Lon don. This is not confined to New York, but pervades the entire Union, as far as New Orleans; and whilst the boat was getting up her steam at St Louis, at the junc tion of the two mighty rivers Missouri and Mississippi, we had nearly a dozen boys on board, with great bundles under their arms, singing out, " Last Lecture of Mrs. Candle," only one halfpenny ; No. 20 of the Wandering Jew," and all Bulwer's and James's novels at ls. each! The boys drive a very lucrative trade in these amusing wares; one youth told me that he cleared ten dollars on a capital of only ten dollars.—Rambles in United Slates. SLIGHT CIRCUMSTANCES.—Sir Walter Scott, walking one day along the banks of the Yarrow, where Mungo Park was born, saw the traveller throwing stones into the water, and anxiously watching the bubbles that succeeded. Scott inquired the object of his occupation. ' I w as thinking, answered Park, • how ofte r I bad thus tried to sound the rivers in Africa, by calculating how long a time had elapsed before the bubbles rose to the surface.' It was a slight circumstance, but the traveller's safety fre quently depended upon it. In a watch the mainspring forms a small portion of the works, but it impels and go verns the whole. So it is in the machinery of human life, a slight circumstance is permitted by the Divine Ruler to derange or to alter it ; a giant falls by a pebble ; a girl at the door of an inn changes the fortune of an empire. If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, said Pascal, in his epigrammatic and brilliant manner, the condition of the world would have been different. The:Nl ahomedans have a tradition, that when their prophet concealed himself in Mount Shur, his pursuers were deceived by a spider's web which covered the mouth of the cave. Luther might have been a lawyer, bad his friend and companion escaped the thunder storm at Erfurt; Scotland had wanted her stern reformer, if the appeal of the preacher had not star , tied him in the chapel of St. Andrew's Castle ; and if Mr. Grenville bad not carried, in 1764, his memorable resolu tion as to the expediency of charging " certain stamp du ties" on the plantations in America, the western world might still have bowed to the British sceptre. Cowley might never have been a poet, if he had not found the Faerie Queen in his mother's parlour ; Opie might have perished in mute obscurity, if he haci not looked over the shoulder of his young companion. Mark Otes, while be was drawing a butterfly ; Giotto, one of the early Flo rentine painters, might have continued a' rude shepherd boy, if a sheep drawn by him upon a stone bad not at tracted the notice of Cimabue as he went that way. — Asiatic Journal. HOMAGE TO REVELATION.—The Bible is a book of facts at least as well authenticated as any in history—a book of miracles incontestably avouched—a book of poetry, pare, natural, and, elevated—a book of morals, such as human wisdom never framed for the perfection of human happiness. I will abide by the precepts, admire the beauty, revere the mysteries, and, as far as in me lies, practise the mandates of this sacred volume; and should the ridicule of earth and the blasphemy of hell assail me, I shall console myself by the contemplation of those blessed spirits, who in the same holy cause have toiled and suffered. In the "goodly fellowship of the saints," in, the " noble army of the martyrs," in the society of the great, and good, and wise of every nation—if my sinfulness ..I.ft•se.A anti my darkness illumined. at least my pretensionless admission may be excused, if I err with the luminaries I have chosen for my guides, I confess myself captivated by the loveliness of their observations. If they err, it is in a heavenly region ; if they wander, it is in - fields of light; if they aspire, it is at all events a glorious daring; and rather than sink with infidelity into the dust, I am content to cheat myself with their vision of eternity. If I err, 1 err with the disciples of philo sophy and virtue—with men who have drank deep at the Fn.•nr~in of human knowledge, but who dissolved not the ivation in the draught. I err with Ba dant of nature, fraught with all the lear and almost prescient of the future his wea here, too s, yet 100 !ss, and too philosophic not r with Milton, rising on an in theii hats, But it is while 1 w it wur on my head all the while !" LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. —Shortly will be published a new work, beautifully done up to be called " The Re treat of the Ten Thousand Directors." The motto of the work is " Sauce Qui Pen," and we hear it is to be dedi cated to the F.R.S.'s, the F.S.A.'s, and the A.S.S.'s of England If every one of the latter take s a copy, the circulation will be immense.—Punch. A HAPPY THOUGHT.—The magnificent bridge, built by the city of Mannheim, over the Necker, has just been consecrated to the public service, by a novel ceremony of inauguration, which deserves recording. A procession of eighty waggons was driven across, laden with provisions, fire wood, and turf, which were afterwards distributed gratuitously amongst the poor.-44thenceurn. ANTIQUITY OF DROLLERY.--The A heniens, with all their intellectual brilliancy, were fond of what we call "broad grins." We were lately much struck by a Greek epigram upon a man with a huge nasal organ, the humour of which is precisely in the extravagant vein of the Ame ricanisms of the present day. One proclus is said to have had such a length of nose that he never heard him self sneeze ! Who would not take this to be a flower cul led from a Kentucky newspaper.—Athenteum. A Weardale doctor was lately summoned to a cottage, at Harwood-in-Teesdale, and found a boy patient in need of his services. " Put out your tongue," said the doctor. _tared like a " gawvison." "My good boy," repeated the medical man, "let me see your tongue.': "Talk English, doctor," said the mother ; and then' turning to her son, she cried, " Hoppen thy gobblet, and push out thy lolliker I" The lad rolled out his tongue in a moment. The lad s SIMPLE MODE OF PbRIFYING WATER.—It iS 1101 11 10 that pounded alum g water. A table• spoon into a hogshead of water time) will, after a few bottom the impure particles, found to possess nearly all mess of the finest spring water. A s, may be purified by a geneot possesses tne property U. p fat of pulverized alum spri (the water stirred a: the the treshi pailful, c iful. FUNERAL NBIERICAN —The friends assemble in tnerous muster, rather than their by th rnory f undert :t of sept tify their regard to the me for hearses and mourning latbands, with all the other e out a long bill for funeral is unknown in America ; is performed with as much London, and probably does of the mos* And why sbou follies of my countrymen sense will not much ny of undertakers —Rambles great drama of a atelle that ;ht to the rkable in- of thou most r n the pursuers of 3 to take his life, le cave in which he by the flight of a w at its ent at way, the bird bed away, and would It is a striking re 3. by its flight on this —instrum life of " The False Prc f that superstition whic ks and concatena God has the manag in the hands chaos, —Christian Wit- I do not regard in the tuber, sup perature wi ,on of that led on account of 'forms me that he re izing the pot.to wet season of 4799 ; ato for the following 26s the boll of 5 cwt. I er, that the effects of this is, in the first place, said . to my certain knowledge, on purpose, with inst rot in th nd these are the he soundness of tiN potatoes The accounts of the potato icts are most favourable. I at to be this, that, like corn, )od, but a great crop, in urallv ~ , O or made so by draining ; her rich or poor, they an end to all conjec- _ ,tato crop, and afford ns facts ,le to reason and judge aright.— IE Din [LIES.- OF MARLBOROUGH Mowing up his suc- first line of of the Allied horse, and vancin d he r Newton, whos s than With men like thes ,hall I desert t se errors even for the dr r the delirious oop of those men who —Charles would erect their altar on the ruins of sac] Phillips UTILITY OF HATS heltering th A of t —Hats, besides being serviceable in serving as in- of thei are also useful for transport another. Some men have a great disinclination to stuff their pockets with articles, lest they'should thereby de stroy the neat contour of their dress ; they therefore fre quently transfer a few things from the pocket to the hat. There is again another class of persons who seem to re gard their hat as their pocket. They are, like other men, blessed with the same number of pockets, but with a sin gular perversity they cram every thing into their I ' Give them a letter, from one plac r any other newFpaper, or pa The uses to wt invariably merabl rich the hat is pu Ts mak arry samples of ' strong waters Bible use the junior members o pervert the hat from its natural and ost the owner of the hat is a divinity student, it is sure to b stuffed with moral essays and skeleton sermons; or it will w 1• L - ne ..- with fierce controversial pamphlets regarding this or the other heresy, which has set all the old women of both sexes a quaking. If it belongs to a disciple of Esculapius, it will be filled with notes—not bank notes, but notes on chemistry or botany, together with sundry strange and un earthly-looking instruments, specimens, and preparations, with probably a brown paper filled with still b" looking bones. A lawyer's hat has no sinecur generally stuffed to bursting with all sorts of lel ;lents, hornings, captions, and such like potent papers, all ready to fire off at the head of some unfortunate cal tiff. However empty the young man's head may be of law, his hat is full of it. You may know a lawyer's clerk at once by looking at his hat. It is filled with all sorts of deadly documents, which render it quite a load for the poor head. See how steadily he walks. He is top-heavy. Mark how stiff and erect he carries hie head—' Eyes front.' He dare hardly look either to the right hand or that the enemy were ; second line of French p, and assailing Over by success, and lit aer struggle, overthrew them without them back in great confusion, and almost le in that quarter. The danger was im. victorious French horse, having cleared )onents, would wheel about to the left for fear ofdis j .turbing the equilibrium of his hat ~vvelve battalions who were If it is a windy day, the unfortunate man is sorely to be attack on Ramilies. Marna°. pitied ;he seems to regard every gust of wind with per - and putting himself at the fect terror ; and no wonder, for if his hat is blown off, its .1 , himself led them on precious burden will be scattered to the four winds of - I , pnven. He therefore clenches his teeth, and claps both and of their opP k in rear the ith the the da of pry disposable sabre to his hands over his hat, and walks, or ratner runs, uo tmost expedition. The gedly forward, determined at all hazards to keep on hi. but the admirable intre- hat.—Hogo's Weekly Instructor. he English general re- THE STAGE SUPERNUMERARY.—There is not in th, gon the reserve of the whole range of dramatic character a more striking in lantry, under a dreadful stance of the weakness of theatrical human nature than to heights behind Ra- is presented by the supernumarary, whose career, from French troopers, with the last bar of the overture to the speaking of the " tag," e time of Charles H., is one continued source of feeble-minded vacillation, ab- They had well-nigh ject subservience, or abominable treachery. He is led ....ded in surrounding the away by a bit of bombast from any ranting hero who w ill up to the rescue, and he askhim if he is a man, or a Briton, or a Roman, or whe - . ed in a ... vs assailants oy ther the blood of his ancestors runs taroug II IM IeI:MUM __ ~,ie knights of old, sword in veins; and he will agree at a moment's notice to take part ,d to leap a ditch, but his horse fell in in any desperate enterprise. He will appear at one mo when mounting another horse, given went as the friend of freedom, dressed in green baize, le-camp, Captain Molesworth, Colonel i pointing with a property sword to the sky borders. and -y, who held the stirrup, had his head joining some twenty others in an oath to rid his country 'non ball. The imminent danger of of the tyrant ; but he will be found five minutes after- I, however, revived the spirit of his wards rigged out in cotton velvet as a noble in the very Nti ful severity of the cannonade had, identical tyrant's suite. He will swear allegiance to the wn into disorder ; and, reforming House of Hapsburgh at Half-past seven, and, by the time ' again returned with desperate re- the second price comes in, l' ' will be marching as one of Blackwood. - .frien , " freed who ho - ke self Iron way out, I a select party of the .. ..is or . _ (rave ta. RAILWAYS AS AN INVESTMENT. —Apart from all cur- an oath to roll the House of Hapsburgh in the dust. rency sophisms, it is obvious that no capital is sunk or. Perhaps. like a perfidious villain as he is, he will be car lost that yields a remunerative return. When a fund- rying a banner inscribed with the words, " Down with holder transfers money from the Three per Cents. to an the oppressor," on ore side, while on the other, which he estate which produces a rental of 3 per cent., he considers keeps artfully out of sight, in order to hide his treachery himself as rich as before. If, by good management, he from the audience, are emblazoned the arms of the House improves that rental to one of 6 per cent., every land- of II apsburgh, of which the alleged oppressor is the chief. s urveyor will tell him that he has doubled th e market On the field of battle the conduct of the stage supernu s— estate. or, in other words, that he has dou- I merary is contemptible in the extreme, for he either falls 1. So with the shareholder in a public down before he is hit, or takes a mean advantage of a slue of the property he has bought is go- fallen foe by striking in an attitude, with his foot resting dend ; if bought at a fair price, the on the chest of one of the vanquished enemy. Sometimes 4 per cent. upon the capital iavested ; the supernumerary gives himself up from seven until ten and no prospect of any, the to a reckless career of crime, carousing in a canvas cave, , out if, on the contrary, the or plundering pasteboard caravans, except at intervals an extent as to pay £8 where during the evening, when, perhaps, to swamp the voice of ::apital of each shareholder has conscience, he drinks half.and-half in the dressing-room Ye market value of every £lOO with his wicked accomplices. The face of the supernu 'aw it is a singular, because merary generally shows the traces of a long careerof crime of railway enterprise , and burnt cork •, nor is ther e a f ea t ure u p on w hi c h remorse a n unloo.. considering the extravab Apenditure of some of the or rouge has not committed ravages. He frequently has old companies, that there is not a line yet constructed his arms and legs bare ; but, asifheba to d o s l l a ir r u g n e k fo w r i h t im hin , which does not hold out a prospect , f rom its continually himself, his skin or fleshing is frequently increasing traffic, of ultimately paying much more than 4 and forms folds of a most extraordinary kind at the joints per cent., although there are at the present moment seve- of his knees or elbows,. Sometimes his chest is left bare, ral lines paying less than 2 per cent. We shall show this and his skin, as far as his neck, appears to be of a rich Blackwell, as an especial example, in the case of the orang e colour ; but the throat, which is cut off, as it were, Blackwell, the stock of which is more depreciated in the by a distinct line, is of a different shade altogether. Some. market than any o th er ; but t h e f o ll ow i ng p a y a dividend times, when the scene is laid in India, the supernumerary of 10 per cent.: — has his skin tied on to him, from whi ch it would seem to ' be a theatrical theory that the darkness o f co l our peculiar to - n a can to the c value of t' the dtvit vernec Capital expended ... £2,597,317 to . the negro race is owin;i, -a ae use of leggings and . 1,774,331 waistcoats of black worsted. The stage supernumerary 6,997.065 is something like the antelope in his facility of descend - . .... 1,279,9 51 ing precipices , a nd he will make his way with the greatest ----- ease among rocks that appear inaccessible. He will come 12,648,664 from the very highest mountain -pass in two or three mi- The aggregate dividend of these companies amounts to notes, and he undertakes needless difficulty by going a £1,264,866, and the value of their stock is ascertained by roundabout way and traversing the same ground several multiplying this sum by twenty-five years' purchase. times over ; though he knows that the remotest peak is. Here, then, are four companies that within a few years not a minute's walk from the footlights. Though the have increased the capital of the country to the extent of stage supernumerary is frequently a ruffian while upon £18,972,986—the difference between the former value of the scene, he is exceedingly harmless and humble directly their at o eh an d the present, which is £31,621,650. In he gets to the wing, when he is glad to creep into any considering this, however, as a part of the national capi- quiet corner to avoidibeing ordered out of the way by the tal, we should deduct from it whatever slim may have prompter, tumbled over by th e call -boy, and knocked been lost by the depreciation of inn and coach property, down with a blow from a flat by one or two of the car on the old post roads.—Westminsfer Review. penters.—Cruikshank's Table-book. Grand Junction Liverpool and Manchester London and Birmingham York and North Midland. bled his capital dividend sn when there _is no dividena, capital is of course lost i to such company suc they promise been doubled ; the ay...„._ invested has become VIC N certainly T - fOr, result 3earl of their E he great confi )f the past wise not to kr ngel's wing to heaven, and, like the bird of morn, soaring , ut of sight amid the music of his grateful piety. I err ith Locke, whose pure philosophy only taught him to -- —lsn.P warm love of fr riuineliberty never chilled into rebellion with it Author I err - w r•like spirit shot athwart the darkness to reascend to the home of its na -1 shall remain in error. Nor ken deathbec THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD TOUNG IRELAND'S CELTIC SHIRT. I GENERAL KNOWLEDGE NO SECURITY (From the Falcon Family, in Chapman and Hall's AGAINST RELIGIOUS ERROR. (From the John Bull.) Monthly Series.) I To what extent may.we consider general education as a Mac Morris now opened the parcel which had been laid sufficient protection from religious error, either in the way on the table, and the eye of Vincent wig' mmediately of removing it. er of preventing it ? This is an important caught by an object of a violent yellow colour. , subject for-inquiry at the present moment, but its corn " Curtains, 1 presume, for your state apartments." n e plete investigation would demand more space than we remarked ; " the colour is too bright, I should say.". . could assign to it, even had we the ability to conduct it in " Curtains !" growled Shane ; " they're not curtains ,' the comprehensive way we have suggested. We will, and as he spoke, he unfolded at full length one of the I I however, throw out a few general hints ; and before doing pieces receding from the table for a space of several yards, I so, shall direct the attention of our readers to the follow but Vincent, although he saw that the material was linen, , ing brief quotation from a letter on the present move and that the labour of the needle had been in requ isition, ment in Germany, which is full of serious admonition : was unable to form the remotest idea what such an e nor- „ The whole thing took Germany by surprise. Such mous enpan se of yellow stuff could be. Shane was exa an event as the pilgrimage to Treves was altogether out mining the object minutely, and with manifest anxiety, as of harmony with all previous impressions. Had any one if he bad his doubts of its answering its purpose, what- been bold enough to predict beforehand, that it could ever that purpose was. have taken place in the nineteenth century, and in en " What is it, Shane,.if it's not a curtain?" inquired his lightened educated Germany, he would have been laughed brother. to scorn, as ignorant of his age, and regarded as strangely " A shirt, to be sure ; did you never see a shirt ?" ' , insensible to the advancement of the human mind. Its " A shirt ! that a shirt ! — a yellow shirt ! Expla in. actual occurrence was a rude, unwelcome, stunning fact. " It's not yellow--it's saffron." It dispersed, at once a thousand illusions; it threw the "Saffron ! but a saffron shirt! 'What is it for?" most painful doubts over long-cherished hopes as to the "What are shirts for?—'faith, Vincent, I think we progress of society in intelligence and virtue; and it stri must be after putting you up in airnest." kingly illustrated the unchanged tendency of Rornanism " But shirts of that size and colour! You are not the to degrade, and to subjugate to itself, every faculty of the Colossus of Rhodes; a set of shirts might be made out of soul. Germany might well stand in speechless confusion one of those, and every shirt would support a commission to witness her children, after twenty-five years of general of lunacy—a yellow shirt ! who ever wore shirts of that education, in thousands and tens of thousands, on their colour?" knees before a senseless garment—itself a blasphemous " Your ancestors and mine, then, Vincent. Did you imposture—and to hear them cry out, in the noble Ger ever hear of one Harry the Eighth, and a law he made on man language, "Holy Coat 1 Pray for us." the subject of shirts ?" There are those who, looking at the events of the last " I did," replied Vincent, lowering his voice and throw few years, are seriously apprehensive that Popery, with all ing himself back resignedly in his chair, " I did ; I was its multifarious superstitions, and persecuting cruelties, dull, but now I remember all about it," and be sat mu will. ere long, once more obtain ascendancy in this coun sing in profound silence for a minute or two, twirling his try. 'When they have expressed these apprehensions, the thumbs, and gazing fixedly at his brother, while the latter answer has been " impossible—look at the extent of edn was occupied tolding up his prodigious garment, and re- cation—look at the progress of knowledge among all placing it in the parcel. Vincent then said gravely, re- classes. Popery can never again chain the mind in Eng garding Shane with a calm, steady eye, " You dont't mean , land ; the people are too enlightened." It is to be feared, to appear in public with a shirt like that on your back ?' however, that what is called general education constitutes " By this hand that was never christened, but I do I but a feeble barrier against the insidious teaching and the though !" replied the magnanimious Shane, " and wh a t' s insinuating errors of Popery. The highest literary attain more. I'll be the first man in Ireland tomount it; my ments, the most distinguished scholarship that can adorn mantle is not made, or by this hand, I'dappear to-mor- the first univers i ty i n t h e wor ld , may cons i st w i t h a de row morning in the full-dress of my forefathers." plorable deficiency of sound religious principles, or firm " Take care, Shane, that the mantle does not co n c eal ness and honesty to carry out those principles. They too much of the shirt, and take care too, that your hat may consist, too, with the glaring inconsistency of pub does not prevent the public from recognising in that fo licly promoting the cause of Popery, though declared to rest of hair over your temples, the glories of the ancient be idolatry. glybbe. You see I know something about the Celtic toi- All these anomalies may consist, we say, in one and the let."* same person. Of this we have a living proof in Sir Ro " Wait till you see it complete ; stay in town a day or bert Peel. In the absence of political character and con or two longer and I'll astound you. I'll have the yellow- duct, founded upon, and regulated by, the religious doe est shirt, the biggest mantle, and the bravest glybbe in trine and discipline of the Church of England—of which the party." the right bon. baronet is a professed member—in the ab " No, Shane," said Vincent, now speaking with ani - sence of political integrity towards those friends who mation and severity, while at the same time he rose to re- placed him in his present position—in the advocacy of he tire, " I shall not stay in Dublin, or in Ireland, to wit- terogeneous and conflicting systems of religion—of what ness the frenzy and the shame of the head of our ancient value is his scholastic pre-eminence, except as a monitory family. Again, I thank God, your son is not here to wit- beacon of the insufficiency of knowledge, apart from ness your extravagance, and be ruined by your example. sound religious principles, and salutary fear of Him by No, before you make day hideous with your gallowglass's whom Kings reign? The pages of English history, shirt, your wood-kern's cloak, and that horse-boy's rug scarcely, perhaps, record an instance more striking than on your forehead. I shall be as far from the theatre of that of our Premier, to meet this question with the an your antic tricks as wave and steam can bear me. I shall swer—" of no value at all." not remain to see white linen exploded along with corn- if we descend to those of a lower grade, but yet possess mon sense, and a country which stands more in need of ing some advantages of theological study, of what value, sage counsels and, temperate direction than any other in as a preservative from Romish errors, has education been the world, distracted and misguided by presuming boy- to the Wards, the N-wmans, and the many converts to hood and ridiculous dotage." Rornanism at Oxford? In short, the general education The shirt conta ned thirty ells of yard-wide linen, ac- which is received in our public and private schools, and in cording to Moryson The statute of Henry VIII. not our universities, forms no certain safeguard from gross only prohibited the use of the saffron dye, but restricted , religious errors, because, as too many of us now perceive the quantity of stuff to seven yards. Campion tells us and lament, it is accompanied by only a scant measure of hat in his time the Celtic gentlemen were beginning to religious instruction on the " doctrine and sacraments, and the discipline, of Christ, as this church and realm hath received the same." Hence it is that young men, entering upon the sacred and awfully responsible office of the Christian ministry, have had (if they were desirous of instructing ' the congregations committed to their charge') to begin with studying what they ought to have known from their childhood—the first principles of the Christian religion as contained in God's holy word, and as syste matically arranged and clearly defined, in the services, creeds, and articles of their church. Hence, too, the end less and conflicting varieties of dogmata and systems, within the church ; some, by their teaching and example, romanising her; others, dissenterising her; and all this, *Spencer with his barbarous English notions has left a vivid ascription of what he calls the three Scythian abuses" o the tate of glybbe, the mantle, and tl lrela❑d." saffron shirt. See THE DUBE OF WELLINGTON.--It is the moral influence of the Duke of Wcllington, and the position in the coun try which his treat services have secured for him, that render him so ;nfluential a speaker in the House of Lords. It is felt that his speeches are not merely made for a party purpose, but that they embody the experience of a life. His sincerity and the reliance you have on his sagacity and that choice of language which are es the church To the same cause, general, but defective, education may be ascribed all that we see and hear, ignorantly writ ten, or ignorantly spoken, upon the subject of edleation, both within and without the wall , : of parliament. Each has his educational nostrum; but from all the nostrums that religion is excluded, which sets before man the rela tion between him and his Creator, and which inculcates the duties resulting from that relation, as well as his aw- ful responsibility in the great day of final reckoning that, whether we view sands" in "enlightene " thousands and tens of thou ld educated Germany shipping an old garment (" holy vest" it is called by some of our semi-Popish priests in the English church), or the educated premier and statesmen of Great Britain, or the educated Wards, Newmans, Oakeleys, Wingfields, Dal gairns, et id genus omne, we have but the same melan choly proof of how little connection there is between high scholastic attainments and soundness of religious pi inci ples with the formation of a consistent, not to say honest, character. Turn we to England. and what do we behold ? Her thousands and tens of thousands prostrating themselves before the godless expediency of the day—self-bound to the ever revolving wheel of political expediency. With what strange indifference, or rather, infatuation, do they behold the foolish and fatal experiments which are b ing made—chiefly in Ireland—for Ireland is the arena of our experimentalists in the constitution of this great country. Parents and guardians, too, with the almost moral cer tainty that their sons and wards, if sent to Oxford, will have their minds perverted to Romanism by the wily ma chinations of those " who lie in wait to deceive"—the Wards at Rose Hill, the Newmans at Littlemore—with a host of minor recruiting serjeants for Dr. Wiseman and the vatican—yet send thither. But, seeing that the Bishop has the power of expelling from his diocese any unlicensed clergyman ; seeing that by the canon law he can punish any clergyman who lays aside his clerical vocation—how is it, we ask, that renegade, apostate proselytising priests are allowed to lurk in and about the University of Ox ford ? Surely the apathy of these our times may be ac counted among the most ominous signs of a coming cri sis. most sc To the supp , rters of the measure for endowing the Po pish College of Maynooth, and of that for establishing " a gigantic scheme of godless education in Ireland," who justified their support of these measures on the ground that general education would discourage Popery and pro mote Protestantism, the extract from the letter on the movement in Germany can hardly fail, we think, to read a useful lesson. YOUNG IRELAND'S NOTION OF A GRIEVANCE. (From the Falcon Family, in Chapman and Hall's Monthly Series.) Amyrald O'Harpe manner from a public speaker. He usually sits in a state Of ab straction—his arms folded, his head sunk on his breast, his legs stretched out. He seems to be asleep ; but, in a very few moments, he •shows that he has not been an in attentive observer of the debate. He suddenly stills up, advances (sometimes with faltering steps, from his ad vanced age) to the table, and without preface or-prelimi nary statement, dashes at once at the real question in dis- detects it, and the perseverance of his pursuit, are remarkable proofs of the un'mpaired vigour of his understanding. Even with all the physical feebleness which might be expected at his years, he entirely fills the House while he speaks. His utterance is very indistinct; yet by a strong effort of the will he makes himself clearly heard and understood, even though to do so he may have to repeat whole portions of :s. Not ,a point of the discourse escapes him ; most vigorous debater often finds the weakness of ment, however cleverly masked, suddenly de id exposed. Some of the short, terse, pointed :s, fall with a force on the house the more remark __ . the contrast of the matter with the manner. The speeches, as a whole, though always extremely brief in comparison with those of more elaborate debaters, strike the hearer with surprise for their sustained tone, the con sistency of their argument, and a kind of natural symme try, the necessary consequences of their being the sincere The keenness with which tected us develop Trent of strong mind and a de- . . ROTECTION. — Are you afraid of that word protection ? m you, if you are ! No doubt it has been lalously misrepresented by the cotton-monger , but it is a great word, and a wise word, if boroughly understood. It does not mean that corn shall be grown . in this country for your benefit or that of any exclusive class—were it so, protection would be wrong—but it means, that at all times there shall be maintained in the country an amount of food, rared with fself, sufficient for the sustenance of the nation, in case or some other external cause, should shut up all And this, which is in fact protection for just and wise security against famine, in which the poor and rich are equally interested—is per verted by the chimney-stalk proprietors into a positive national grievance. Why, the question lies in a nut shell. Corn will not be grown in this country, unless you give it an adequate market. Admit foreign corn, and you not only put a stop to agricultural improvement in reclaiming waste lan , by means of which production may be carried other re ources to an indefinite degree, but you also throw a vast quantity of the land at present productive out of bearing. Sup pose, then, that next year, all protection being abolished, the quantity of grain raised in the country is but equal to half the demand of the population ; foreign corn, of course, must come in to supply the dtficiency. We hall not enlarge . upon,the first argument which must occur to. every t) ^r person—the argument oeing, that in such ,r and Virus Verdaunt walked away a state of things, the foreigner, whoever he may be , -with together from the - Hall of Clamour, communing as they whom we are dealing, has it in his power to .demand and went upon the transactions of the day. Every thing was exact any price he pleases fur his corn. What say the green about Verdaunt but his hair. Amyrald i s dress (al- Cobdenites in answer to this ? Oh, then, we shall though he bad not yet assumed the full costume of ancient chat ge the foreigner a corresponding price for our cottons Ireland) exhibited the six colours, which it was the pre and our calicoes !' No gentlemen, that will not do . We rogative of the bards to wear ; being only one colour less have no doubt this idea has entered into your calculations, than the number allowed to princes, so great was the and that you hope, through a scarcity of home-grown bardic dignity in celtic times. The poet now exercised corn, to realise an augmented profit on your produce—in his rainbow privilege by wearing a coat pert, a waistcoat gu(es, pantaloons azure, cravat sable, buttons or and a short to be the only gai , ers in time of general distress, but there is a flaw in your reasoning, too palpable to be overlooked. The foreigner can do without calico, but the British nation cannot do without bread. The wants of the stomach are paramount—nothing can enter into competition with them. The German, Pole, or French man, may. for a season, wear a ragged coat, or an inferior shirt, or even dispense with the latter garment, if it so pleases him; and yet suffer comparatively nothing. But what are our population to do, if bread is not procurable except at the enormous prices which, when you abolish protection, you entitle the foreigner to charge ? Have you the heart to respond, in the only imaginable answer —it is a mere monosyllable—starve ?—Blacktcood. shirt of chastened argent. " Stonehenge told tremendously," said the Brehon. " O'Connell will be frantic," replied the Bard. " Where is he ?" said Verdaunt. " Hare-hunting, in Kerry, I presume." " Hare-hunting !—When he ought to be hunting the miscreant Saxon, and chasing the antlered Norman from the land !" " Stonehenge swill gall him to the quick(—He never had an eye for: a grievance." " Never—but what shall we have next ?—The public appetite was never so keen ;—it must be fed, or we may give up the game." " A. thought struck me last night," said Amyrald, " I sometimes fancy I any wiser dreaming than waking. Sir Thomas Browne says, he had the same peculiarity.* But to the point—you know how much the strength and splen dow of our ancestors consisted in the profusion of hair they wore in their glybbes, and moustaches, or crom- TAE THEATRES IN M Exlco.—A Mexican correspon dent of the Times, after stating that the National Thea tre in Mexico is far superior for elegance or comfort to all similar buildings in any capital town in England, says " The building, of which the theatre forms a part, con tains a cafe, hotel, restaurant, billiards, and card-rooms. It presents to the Calle Bergara a very handsome front, within which are found txo patios, or squares, with gal leries running along each, and communicating with the re ception-rooms. The patios are covered with glass, and are ornamented by a profusion of natural flowers, and a few orange trees, which have a charming effect. They form at night a kind of crush-room, through which all Mexican belles most pass to and from the boxes, and they are consequently crowded with young men pretending to taste or fashion. The boxes of the upper tiers are admi rably arranged. A slight division, in a waving line, not breast high in any part, separates one from the other, so that there is a free circulation of air through all. They are cut down in front so low that the whole person of the occupier is seen from every part of the house, and lades have not to complain, as in Paris and London, of being shut up in cases in which their heads and shoulders are only visible, and all the elegance of the general toilette concealed. A Mexican lady sits enthroned in her box, as on an elevated 'platform, presenting the whole of her graceful person and brilliant costume to the admiration of her friends. A sl,ght rail, a few inches high, conceals only her feet, and secures her from falling over into the pit; but enough is understood, especially on gala nights, to prove that a Mexican architect has been the first to discover that beautiful women, seen to full advantage, are more ornamental in an open box than silk curtains or mouldings of white and gold. The boxes being private property are furnished according to the taste of the own ers; some are very handsomely fitted up, and the form of the house is so well arranged, that from every seat not only are the performances seen and heard, but from every chair in every box the whole of the other patios are visible. Attached to each box is a retiring room, or cuarto. Be tween the acts the cuartos are filled with smoking cote ries, in which it must be owned the ladies, with their paper or straw cigarettes, are most indefatigable. As these cuartos, are in darkness visible, only one candle, or dull limp,,beinifound, it is amusing as you pass to see them suddenly lighted up with so many flashing fires like glow worms, and to hear the chatter of the performers, who contrive to talk and smoke with unceasing rapidity. The theatre is a kind of : borne for all Mexican families ; very few receive company, a n balls and parties are but of rare occurrence; so that nearly all.the people of rank pass the evenings in their boxes, not, as in Italy, to enjoy the visits of their friends, but to sit in silent and solitary dignity— alone with their glory." meals 1" " Of course—are we not reviving those heroic and hir sute ornaments for that reason ?" " Well—and you know, too, how much the growth and beauty of the hair depends upon the use of various un guents, more particularly upon the fat of mighty bears." " No doubt." _ _ "6 Now, are you acquainted with the:works of:the:illus trious geographer, Ortelius ?" " I never heard of them." " Well, Ortelius published a map and a geographical memoir of Ireland, at Antwerp, in 1572, and he states there expressly, that in no part of the earth had he seen so many bears." " What became of them ?—I intend to put that ques tion to our Saxon invaders. I shall ask the Norman ban ditti what became of them? They robbed us of our bears as they stripped us of our monuments. They saw that from the abundance of our bears'•grease, we derived the matchless vigour of our locks, and that to those locks we owed our strength in fight, and our wisdom in council. They exterminated our bears with the same deep and ma lignant policy, which they have uniformly pursued towards Ireland, and, let others pursue what course they may, I am determined to make the country resound from the centre to the sea, with the cry of—' Restore your bears.' " " But do you think it feasible to restore them?"—asked Verdaunt, with considerably simplicity. " Dull soul !" cried Amyrald—" of course I do not. No more than I think the restoration of Stonehenge, or —(to tell you the truth)—the restoration of other things feasible. A grievance capable of being redressed is no grievance." _ _ " I don't think much of your bear question," said Ver daunt, after some pause, and bursting with envy of his companion's superior fertility of invention. " What would you think of offering a reward for a fine, fresh, plausible, thumping grievance, that no human be ing in Ireland—although groaning under it for a thousand years —ever before heard, thought, or dreamed of? I don't think the bear-restoration question will be easily surpassed, but I have no objection to advertising for a better, if a better is to be found. What shall the .piize be?—a copy of my poems?" SEMPER Intm.—The Times Commissioner has proved O'Connell to be a " middle man."—We always thought him between a knave and a mountebank.—Punch. them, towie cial travelle WANTS' A SITUATION AS GAMEKEEPER. - A steady young man, who has just left his situation as a railway di rector, in.consequence of the panic causing a reduction in the provisional committee establishment. He can have a three week's character from his last line, of which he was deputy-chairman. He is up to every kind of prne, and has a good deal of experience in looking after stags for the last three months.—Punch. _ DREAMERS AND DOERS..---There is a morbid yearning after distinction, a vain thirsting after 6me which desires and does not—which sits still and dreams, without forti tude to endure the required discipline, or courage:to brave the siege. An idle longing to do some great work, must not be mistaken for true passion in that direction ; nor a Querulous fretting against what cowardice may describe as unfavourable circumktances. One man sits on the bank to wait till the stream of erents shall take a turn adapted to his wishes. "Labitur et labeter per omne volubilis tevum." For him there his_no hope. Another makes events—forges weapons out of the very obstacles that lie in his path. Stand he will not; better be struck down than lie down ; go forward he must. The indolent look up and gaze in amazement on results which they attribute to the good-luck of a rival. We should never have heard of a Ferguson or a Davy, if the one had waited for a tele scope, and the other for a labratory ? but astronomical ob servations, made with a string of beads, and experiments tried with an old French syringe for an air-pump, were beginnings pregnant with promise. Uufortunately for the lovers of indulgence, who still pine to be conspicuous, man is not like the eastern diety described by Coleridge— Who floats upon a lotus leaf; Dreams fora thousand ages' then. awaking, Creates a world—and, smiling at the bubble, Relapses into bliss. True it is, that "our little life is rounded with a sleep," but not, as some persons seem to think, at both ends of it. —British Quarterly Review, November, 1845. ENGLISH AND Swiss DW ELLINGS.—In the landscapes of other countries, the house—the habitation of man—be it farm-house or cottage—gathers, so to speak, some of the country about itself—makes itself the centre of sn , ne circle, however small. Not so in Switzerland. The hooded chalet, which even in summer speaks so plainly of winter, and stands ever prepared with its low drooping roof to shelter its eyes and ears from the snow and wind —these dot the landscape most charmingly, but yet are lost in it • they form no group, no central point in the scene. lam thinking more particularly of the chalets the Oberland. There is no path apparently between :A! and the other; the beautiful green verdure lies untrodden around them. One would say, the inhabitants found their way to them like birds to their nests. And like enough to nests they are, both in the elevation at wh ch they are sometimes perched, and in the manner of their distribu tion over the scene. However they got there, people at. all events are living in them, and the farm and the dairy are carried up into I know not what altitudes. Those beautiful little tame cattle, with their short horns, and long ears, and mouse .coloured skin, with all the agility of a goat, and all the gentleness of domesticity—you meet them feeding in places where your mule looks thoughtfully to his footing. And then follows perhaps a peasant girl in her picturesque cloak made of the undressed fur of the gOat, and her round hat of thickly plaited straw, calling after them in that high sing-song note, which forms the basis of what is called Swiss music. This cry heard in the mountains is delightful, the voice is sustained and yet varied—being varied, it can be sustained the longer—and the high note pierces far into the distance. As a real cry of the peasant it is delightful to hear; it is appropriate to the purpose and the place. But defend my ears against that imitation of it introduced by young ladies into the Swiss songs. Swiss music in an English drawing-rcom —may I escape the infliction ! but the Swiss peasant chanting across the mountain defiles—may I often again halt to listen to it !—Blackwood's Mao_ . DEATH IN THE AIR—INVISIBLE BULLETS—The at mosphere which we breathe is composed of 79 parts, by volume of nitrogen, and 21 parts of oxygen, with a pro portion of carbonic acid varying from 4 to 7 parts by volume in 10,000. Experience has incontrovertibly proved, that any considerable deviation from this, its normal or proper constitution, is incompatible with the due and healthy performance of the functions of animal life. Any sensible addition of other gases, although they may be quite inert and harmless in their nature, has invariably been found to disturb the integrity of the respiratory and the digestive processes. If such gases, also, possess per nicious and poisonous qualities, of course the injury to the vital functions must necessarily be proportionately greater. Are, then, the gases evolved from the decomposition of human bodies similar identical in their composition—with the air we breathe, or are they dissimilar; and, if dissimilar, are they harm in their nature, or deleterious ? The disgusting and smell teaches us that something in addition to offensive the usual components of the atmosphere is present. The facts which I shall adduce, elucidating their effects on the animal economy, apart from their known chemical con stitution and properties, will most clearly and incontes tibly prove, that these oases are by no means innocuous, but on the contrary, powerfully and virulently poisonous. . . The proximate principles, or the constituents of which our frame is composed, are for the most part exceedingly complex as regards their elementary composition. They are formed in the grand laboratory of nature. The most skilful chemists have never hitherto succeeded in producing them by art. They were originally generated, and their integrity is constantly preserved by a mysterious something, which we denominate the vital principle, or life When this conservative power is wanting, when lift they fall under the dominion of theimmutab!e, the general, laws governing organic matter, resolve themselves into simpler compounds, and are arranged, usually, according to their chemical affinities. The compounds generated are for the most part gaseous substances, viz., sulpheret ted, carburetted, and phosphuretted hydrogen, ammonia and its hydro-sulphuret, carbonic acid, and sometimes nitrogen and hydrogen, holding a considerable quantity of e fatty matter in suspension, or so a.peculiar vc Some of these gases when respire are known, an ...._ . repeatedly been proved, to produce disease and even deatt."—lnterment and Disinterment. PROTESTANT UNION.—But admitting that reasons like these shculd not dissuade from union, an adversary may ask what good argument is there to recommend it—what ...... hope have we to offer that union will bring us good. We should rather make history the vehicle of such instruction than assume to ourselves the office of imparting it. For the advantages of union we would refer to the history of Ulster at the close of the last century—we would refer to the success attendant on the institution of Conservative clubs in times much more recent. Evil as are the days on which we have fallen, those through whir;h our ances tors struggled were more calamitous, and that they did not perish in them was, humanly speaking, ascribable to the protection which they found in union. Menaced, as saulted, oppressed, as the loyal Protestants were in va rious parts of Ulster, where Defenders and united Irish men almost rivaled each other in atrocities of which good subjects were the victims, it was not until Protestants united for their own defence that the government to which they rendered true allegiance took thought of them. In those dreary days the loyal Protestants were few. Co religionists were against them in one form of organiza tion; Roman Catholics in another; and the government which ought to have offered them protection was negli gent or ignorant of its duty. It seemed to be a time in which the land was abandoned to the turbulent and daring, and in which the government had abdicated its functions. It was at such a time, in the most disturbed part of Ire land, the much maligned Orange Institution was formed, and for the benefits derivable from that union, we need only refer to the state of Ulster before and after its for mation. He who compares the Ulster of 1795 (in the autumn of which the first Orange lodge was instituted) and of many years preceding, with the Ulster of the last forty-eight years, dating from the period at which the Orange - affiliation was completed, Will scarcely ask what benefits may be found in union. The advantages we be lieve, are not less manifest as they were exhibited in the later Conservative associations. We need not allude to the Carlton Club. as one form in which such unions proved their efficiency, by putting out of power the ministry over which Mr. O'Connell bore sway, to replace it by another which, for want of an efficient Protestant union, seems lapsing into a state of subserviency to the same•influence and dictation. In a word, Protestant union in the last century saved Ireland, through God's blessing, from anar chy and devastation ; recently Protestant union delivered the empire from the O'Connell-Melbourne administra tion, and now, owing to the want of Protestant union, the Peel cabinet seems to show itself bent on carrying out, in its most offensive details, the policy of the government it superseded .—Dublin Magazine. RAILWAY LIABILITIES An opinion has been obtained from the Solicitor- General and Mr. Pitt Taylor on the subject of the liabi lities of persons who have made applications for shares in railways. The opinion is as follows: With respect to the first question submitted for our opinion, we are unable to say how far the prospectus which had been issued by each company may quality or affect the contract entered into between Z and the provi sional committee of each company ; but if such prospectus be legal and conformable to, and authorise the contract, Zis bound by his agreement. It is a contract to become a partner to the extent of 25 shares in a co-partnership recognised by law.—See 7. and 8 Viet. c. 110,‘Joint Stock Company Act. Many and great practical and technical difficulties; however, would surround and impede any attempt to en force the contract, either at law or in equity. At law every contracting party must be a co•plaintiff, anti who are the contracting parties, or ,promises, must in each case depend upon the prospectus and advertisements, and other matters preceding and attending the contract. In equity, too, the plaintiffs must name it, theit bill for specific per formance all the persons with whom the defendant has contracted to enter into partnership, and must turther al lege and prove that all such persons are ready and willing to become his copartners.,Many other difficulties must also arise, whichever course be adopted, and.we cannot see how either could be ullimately.euccessful. SECOND QUESTION.—The election as to forfeiture or cancellation would be in the company, and nut in Z, who would not be allowed to take advantage of his own breach of the agreement. Titian QUESTION.—It would be a good defence to any action that the names of responsible and influential per sons had been published as directors or shareholders, e hen, in fact, they were unconnected with the project, if it could be shown that Z knew of such publication, and was induced thereby to apply for shares. Whether exag gerated or untrue .statements would vitiate the contract depends upon the nature of such statements. if they were untrue to the knowledge of those who made them, and were material, and calculated to mislead, and if, moreover, the purchaser bad, either wholly or in part, been induced by them to enter into the contract, they would amount to a fraud, whereby such contract would be vitiated. FOURTH QUESTION. —We advise Z to remain quies cent, and if any legal proceedings be instituted against him, to defetid hiciaself. Dec. 16, 1845. Hope.—You will scarcely find a man in all the ranges of our creation whose bosom bounds not a t the mentio : whom it most cheats and deludes — whisper in g s of health to hope. What is hope but the solace a nd sta y of tehtLi_ _slYn to the sick Man, and of better days to the dejected the and whose fairy name of which young imaginations pour fo rth all the . poetry of their souls, w hose syllables float li ke aeria l ! music into the ear of frozen and paralyzed old age ? l, the long catalogue of human griefs, there is scarce on.e e o ..1 so crushing a pressure, that hope loses its elasticity, 12 coming unable to soar and bring down fresh and fair leaves from some far off domain, which itself creates.-- Rev. H. Melvill. the presence of muammonia in b simly add ing AMMONIA IN RAlN.—Any.—Any one may satisfy him a little self of sulphuric or riatic acid to a rain quantity p of rain-water. and by evaporating this nearly to dryness in a cle an porcelain basin. The ammonia remains in the residue , in corabin ' tion wiih the acid employed, and may be det ected either by the addition of a little chloride of platinum, o r more simply by a little powdered lime, which separates the am' t monia, and thus renders sensible its peculiar Pnag_ells, smell. The sensation perceived on moisteni n g the bauv with rain-water, so different from that produced by pnr! distilled water, and to which the term " softness" is garly :applied, is also due to the carbonate of ammonia contained in the former.—Liehig's Organic Chyntist r Y' MEDICAL FEES IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTITIOr", —There is the following entry in the household bookkor Henry II :—" To Master William de Bromtoft, 8 physician, for his attendance on Sir Piers de Gavestotii during his illness at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, two An enormous salary was paid to the phYs'el an v°l3 ) ° attended Queen Isabella (the She-Wolf of France / during her confinement at Rising Castle. In the Foe iera to is a deed securing " one hundred pounds per annum, Master Pontis de Courtrone. late physician to King Edward 11., and now to the queen-mother Isabelle: The bailiffs of Norwich are enjoined to pay him firty pounds at Easter and Michaelmas, as long as he lives, for, his great services to the queen-mother. The document is dated 1334. According to tha value of money in that day, the salary specified above was one of such extraor dinary magnitude that it must doubtless have been given as a reward for very remarkable services.—Lives of Pe' VENTILATION OF DWELLING-HOUSES. A Queens of England. pounds. co rre-, spondent of The Builder, writing on this subject, saf,ll:: —I have adopted with success, a simple plan, viz. , ha v e: at the top of each window outside, a double blind, wltl' rebate about three-quarters of an inch distant i e n th frame filled with fine perforated zinc plate, the finer guage inside, and the window-sash regulated by with holes at distances, so that it can be let down to eni degree of opening, allowing the air to pass through na il ". berless small apertures ; the inner guage being kept vrarns by the heat of the room, causes a degree of warmth to be imparted to the fresh air, and therefore no inconvenie l l arises. We know that in a tropical climate, the continue heat would be intolerable if it were not for a constant breeze blowing, so that in the finest weather the wind eh' solutely whistles through the blinds on the windward side, of the houses, and it is this incessant change of air the‘ makes it durable and even pleasant, but even then it it , not advisable to sit or stand in the draught.—The Builder, ODDITIES OF GREAT MEN.—The greatest men are fre quently affected by the most trivial circumstances, whi ch have no opparent connexion with the effects they produce. An old gentleman felt secure against the cramp when he placed his shoes, on going to bed, so that the right shoe was on the left of the left shoe, and the toe of the right next to the heel of the left. If he did not bring the right shoe round the other side in that way he was liable to the cramp. Dr. Johnson used always, in coming up Bolt a bolt Court, to put one foot upon each stone of the pave ment; if he failed, he felt certain that the day would be unlucky. Buffon, the celebrated naturalist, never wrote but in full dress. Dr. Routh, of Oxford, studied in full canonicals. An eminent living writer can never compose without his slippers on, A great German scholar writea with his braces off. A celebrated preacher of the last cen tury could never make a sermon with his garters on. Reiseg, the German critic, wrote his Commentar!es on Sophocles with a pot of porter by his side. Schlegel lee,: tured at the age of seventy-two, extempore in Latin , wi t ' his snuff-box constantly in his hand ; without it he could not get on.—Monthly Journal. STREETS OF MEXICO.—The opera is now over, but the, difficulty is to reach home, as, while we were engag ed with the Borghese, or Coccia, the rain came down in tor rents, and the streets were overflowed. During the rainy season this is no unfrequent occurrence; and as Mexico is a flat, and there is scarcely any drainage from it, the water, after a certain time, rises above the sewers, an d the whole city is underlaid some 20 or 30 inches. In the first place you have leperos, called cargadores, who, for Is. or 25., will carry you on their backs; but as these said leperos are not over delicate in their persons, contact with them is far from being convenient or desirable. In vain you pick your steps through such parts of the flagging a s he water has not reached—in vain you try by by-pats to find a snure sortie—at every corner of the street Lug flood is standing stagnant, and you have to choose be tween waiting several hours until it subsides, or of boldly plunging into the dirty pool, and walking a quarter or half a mile knee-deep in mud and filth. The rain is 811 the while coming down in torrents, and the more you hesitate as to wetting the lower extremities, the Wore bed in the upper story.—Correspondent of you are drenc ses, the Times LONDO 3AZETTE, runsDAY DEc.9 PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. Percival( and A. Carke, Birmingham, accoun* and Harrison. Leeds, sbarebrokers—H. Hickman Tranmere. Cheshire. joiner street, Holborn, publican try, appraisers —B Its potter 1 W. Croft, siOwnand Co. Ho'bect _,—Dunman and Kemp, Red Lion -W. Taunton and .1. Adams, Coven n and Lee. Leeds. stockbrokers-- nd Gildersome Yorkshire, flax-spin- nets —E. K. and T. Jeffery. Puckineton ; as far as regards T. Jeffery—T. tioltby and J. Barnes, York. horse breakers—W Pritchard, sen. and L. Williams, Cardiff, wharfingers—Jorie S a d Brown, Cardiff, bonded store merchants. DECLARATIONS OF DIVIDENDS J. C. Petrie, Bedlington, miller. J. and E. Fisher, Maghnll, wine merchants. BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED. Samuel Thomas, Cornhill, London, bullion merchants BANKRUPTS William Ockleston, Liverpool. hide-merchant, Dec. 19, Jan' 13, at 11 o'clock, at the Liverpool District Court of Bank ruptcy ; solicitors, Messrs. Allen and Simpson, Bartlett's-build ings, London; and Mr. Norris, Liverpool; official assignee Mr. Turner, Liverpool. - • Robert Watson Sheppard, Ensham, Oxfordshire, innkeeper. Charles Kendall Luce, Southampton, mercer. Henry Gamble, Grimstone, Norfolk, grocer. Thomas Ratnett. Cambridge, tailor. John Poulton, jun. Luton, Bedfordshire, straw hat.mane- facturer. Arthur Southcombe Tucker and George Muriel Bidwell, Mel combe Kegis, Dorsetshire, grocers. John Dyer Williams, Newcastle-street, Farringdon-stre et. London, blacking manufacturer. Thomas Mortimer, East Lane, Walworth, victualler. Thomas Mager, Holborn-hill, and Coventry-street, OW market, poulterer. Robert George Spedding, , , late of Queen-street, Cheaps Bush -lane, Cann on• street, zinc manufacturer. William Lewis, Barnsley, Yorkshire, tobacconist Frederick Samford. Manchester, woollendraper Charles Iles, Bristol. grocer. John Pope Stapleton, Gloucestershire, limeburner Theodore Friedlanskty, Birmingham, chandler DIVIDEND Jan. 2, J. Bryan, Brlstol, chymist CERTIFICATES To be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary on the day of meeting. Dec. 30, J. Breakenridge, Liverpool, tailor—Jan. 8, T. Hodg . son, Thornton in Lousdale, Yorkshire, brickmaker. 1,0E)1A, To be granted by the Court of Review, unless cause be sil° W7 ' to the contrary on or before Dec. 30. S Davies, Bankside, Southwark, and Wilton-road, Pint- - coal merchant. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. W. Whyte, Glasgow, cotton yarn merchant. FROM THE LONDON OAZETTH OF FRII. PA RTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. W. and S. Hague, Manchester, commission ager and W. and S. Hague. Manchester, cotton-spin regards S. Hague—G. R. Mahal and J. IL Franci and Mottram. Cheshire, stone ware potters—Bromilow..:-..as and Brown, St. Helen's, Lancashire, coal proprietors; as It . , T. regards J. Jones—J. Lightbody and Maxwell, Liv e: p oo•' Hall and Co. Haughton, Lancashire, cotton-manufactur _srds Lomnitz and Co., Manchester, merchants ; as far a s regal R. Sykes—Dowdell and Hulbert, Liverpool, cotton brokers. Phillips DECLARATIONS OF DIVIDENDS. J. C. Crespen, Eastcheap, shipping agent. J Welch, Holloway, and Chalgrave, licensed victualler . J. Harman, Lon lon and Edinburgh, common brewer. L. J. Nicolay, Woolwich, draper. J. Patt, Old Broad-street, London, silkman. I. Sony, sen. St. M..ry-axe, merchant. H. It Osborne. Truro; grocer: H. Warr, Bridport. currier. J. Dees, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Darlington, builder.r C. Scholefleld, Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, tin* chant. I. Hughe% Chelmsford Y . shoemaker. ctur er* J. Spencer, Bradford, orkshire, worsted piece-ma nufa BANKRUPTCY. ANNULLED. Henry Francis, Fleck, Cornwall, agent. Thomas Simpson, Stourbridge, livery stable -keeper. Constantine Wood, Lewisham, out of bnsiness. BANKRUPTS. Frederick Tailor, Grange-street, London. wa x-chandle r %,,,,.. Thomas Moger, Holborn-hill, . and Coventry-street, r'"" market, poulterer. Henry Harris, Leman-street, Goodman's.tleids , carver. George Watt, Old Jewry, linen factor. F R r el ed p e h ri ßt e W k e h y i w s o a r d t d h i , e w R e o e r t h h cl , a y l e o , r e k o s t h t i o r n e: rn w a e n e u l facturer. William Fay. Bath, innkeeper. Joseph Rothchild, Bristol, watchmaker. grinicS" Henry Rowbotham and Robert Johnson KenworthY, way, Cheshire, and Manchester, calico‘printers. James Butterworth;Manchester, plumber. ,— n sie. Frederick Lingard, New Elvet, Durham, teacher (a William Ellary, Kidderminster. ironfounder. DIVIDENDS. 13, 11% coileg Jan. 16, H. Rogers, Thetford, money-scrivener —Jan' e -115becti Harvey, Wandsworth, innkeeper—Jan. 2,' Meth, flour-dhaler—lan. 6, 2 G. Hardy , stet' !duo tuciroeti; wharf, ~ambeth, Peter, Cambridgeshire, grocer—Jan. 2, J. P. LPauxddton, street, Regent ' s -park, and Spring-street, draper. To be granted, unless cause he CERTIFICATES s hown to the contr ary - no t he day of meeting. Jan. 2, L. Johnston, Hammersmith and Bounslovr. ;Vile; merchant—Jan. 2, W. Hodgkinsom Weston.street, Pee t° 3 , O. slater—Jan. 5, J. Hoskins, Peckham, watchrnaker--Jelib 1.1. M. Von Dadelszen, Mincing.lane, merchant —Jan. er, 3•sel;per• Bush. —J a n KNorielt' Holloway. victualler—an. p 7, S. Smith, Gorb oldishani. grocer—Jan. 5, H. Worth, Totnes, linen. draper. Bow-street,Nicholl, ll alli licensed e 000 0 To be granted by the Court of Review, unless cause b brewer—CERTIICATES . ..., to the contrary on or before Jan. 2. „,,d v. • T. and D. Brown, Billiter-strcet, ship agents—A. •- ( 1 0_ co .. 11 0 t Manchester, auctioneer , • • • • SCORCH. SEQUESTRATIONS. J. Rennie, Kirk Aston. contractor._ . , R. j . Sharp, s w e d ° v i ctualler — T. c t e t ud Liverpool,a. s l I P e l r n — ne T. s —THI victualler --J • t u E all .e S m irk ,r Wyatt, : A Br ` . Banbury. .e r in 'i t b o A. and A. M‘PhaLl, Glasgow, merchants.