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Feb. 8, 1848. Etterature. VARIETIES. The Rabbini teach that "he who goes to bed in a ng er yeas the devil for a bedfellow." Louts PHILIPPE'S RECOLLECTIONS OF HIS EARLY D AYS. —After the council the king proceeds over the Tuileries and Louvre, for he likes to visit the ateliers of of Painters, &c. If he enter into conversation with an ar tist whose manners and discourse please him, he tells the Painter how he sighs on remembering the times when he walked from one end of Paris to another with an umbrella nnder his arm. " Ah, my good sir," he will say, " when I was Duke of Orleans, I could carry my old umbrella as a walking-stick from one end of Paris to the other,—go out with a pai r o f strong old shoes, which had got the shape and for m o f my feet, and gave me ample room and verge enough ! In such guise and gear I could stare in at all the print and book-shops, look over the stalls, which of was a great delight and pleasure to me ; but, being King the French, I cannot do that now. The other day ..lnY peopl e ' wanted to prevent a worthy man and a dis tinguished magistrate the entree to me, because he carried a i d ri t o e l i d umbrell a an d was somewhat dirt-bespattered ; but my people' that those who carried umbrellas, and whose shoes, hose, and trowsers, were somewhat Marked with la bone de Paris, were the happiest people after all. Voila le fait, mon bon Monsieur."—Fraser. `SUPERSTIT IOUS VENERATION O F THE B ORNESE F O R MR. BROOKE. —They each bring a portion of the padi seed they intend to sow next season, and, with the neck laces of the women, which are given t o hi m f or th a t pur pose, and which, having been dipped into a mixture pre viously prepared, are by him shaken over the little basins toWinch contain the seed, by which process he is supposed , render them verve. Otr whom fro en th e i r distance he ca p nnot roducti visit, send d er own to shim for a all pie ce o f white cloth, and a little gold and silver, which sae they bury i n the earth of their farms, to attain the wash result. On his entering a village, the women also the aaadobathe his feet, first with water, and then with vtadll ftohristilvve again f 'Ming cocoa -nut, and afterwards with water far Pre ens ater which has touched his person, is purpose of being distributed on their twin.oeiaog suPposed to render an abundant harvest cer- Y 0 served that they of ri ce lle °c easien, having remarked that the crops diatel of the Sandarn tribe were thin, the chief imme ,hoad never been visitedcould not be otherwise, as they by the rajah. and he begged of me try and induce Mr, Brooke to visit them, to remove the ?uses which had rendered their crop a small one.— LOW 8 Sarawak. II"' ENGLAND PROTECTS THE PORTUGUESE.—In fortugal the queen continues, with marvellous consis tencY, to break faith with her people. All the results ex pected from the late intervention in her behalf are want ,ll:lg. The court is accumulating political sins with rapi ultY and boldness. It is almost certain that the Cabrals Will be firmly maintained in power, notwithstanding their "Popularity with the Portuguese people ; and that every l'llarantee of constitutional liberty in Portugalwillb n e Iv , i thdrawn. Th e only fact worth noticing is, that he ‘ l ` 4 „ : e queen opened the Cortes in person on the 2d ins w tant, t he British minister absented himself. The ships of the British l squadron were not dressed,. nor were the usual iSalates fireon the occasion. Thus it alws is with n „gin& Her anxiety to preserve peace is so a n y otorious, E that unprincipled politicians take advantage of her prudence to ~,..steal all the advantages they might nave gained by war. we intervene in Portugal to put down the Constitutional Party upon the condition that their rights shall be re sPeeted. No sooner are they disarmed, than those rights are violated, and we, in our almost prudish horror of war, !Ild ourselves paralysed, and we cannot take active steps .. ,„viedicate our insulted honour. We are powerful in ;',l"Psel, but powerless to protect those who accept our - " v ice. When shall we cease to oscillate between two Principles ? When shall we resolve either boldly to in ervene or firmly to abstain ? Lord Palmerston, at the Pmill resent moment, stands in an absurd position, because he not adopt one or the other of these two courses of ac hon. In G reece h e i n t erme ddl es ; i n Sw i tzerland, with a p uritanical affectation, he forbids intervention. Is it not natural, when the French see such opposite principles acted upon at the same time by the same man, that they Should charge him, throughout his policy, with no higher motive than an undiscriminating hostility to France ? Preser's Magazine. SEDITIOUS LITERATURE IN IRELAND.—TO those who know this country well, nothing seems more astonishing than the ignorance of its actual condition evinced by our rulers. They seem utterly unconscious of the materials of sedition that are accumulating around us, or of the badof the sanguinary enthusiast s o f R epeal to st i r up °ad blood, and to keep alive national discord. We some time since called our readers' attention to a series of pub lications, entitled " The National Library for Ireland," a nd great was the astonishment and indignation excited by the evidences these afforded of a systematic design to anize the for a general insurrection. We have !lad occasion t o o wade through much of the seditious writ !l'g which preceded the outbreak of Ninety-eight, and we 4.liherately aver, that it was loyalty itself, in comparis . on With the effusions which now pass unpunished, and which re circulating through the length and the breadth of the t n• In these, as our readers may have seen, every sea e',.ta..ent which should animate a good subject is outraged— ti;a."Y Principle which should guide and actuate an honest gi a n ee l e an ; d a Christian, is set at nought. The oath of gle an u n i; s e s cafed at in open . and wicked mockery and scorn ; the pm ? e a ri s i n g against the English government, when the traitors —e t °Alia' to it, is enjoined as a solemn duty ; or i n t h e °f Ninety-eight, who perished on the scaffold, Martyrs-. field, are deplored as patriots, and exalted ars overt], , the introduction of - w French force, to aid in logisecPwing the English authority, is advocated and. en , ; as sassination is openly recommended—there . is Pra' s lll ,, a lne ,ing the matter. Michael Reynolds is loudly hold s 4 , becaus e he offered to assassinate Thomas Rey . - ae celebrated informer; and Samuel Neilson is e ,l v --Or censu re d, because, When an opportunity preTent p'Oself, he did not stab through the heart ! All this, in andtications levelled to the capacity of the lowest vulgar, am circulating not by tens, but by hundreds of thousands, parchl the influence of which is not confined to the actual te Xasers, immensely numerous as they are, but extends a l , '' l b those who flock together to hear them read, as they eve I' tho roughlvdrilled and disciplined incendiaries, in I'4! m unty-town and village in Ireland ! Thus it is that eu n Tn is fashioned into primers, and sedition converted ''P° ol3 -meat for the elevcfs in the new schools of nor. the etditiiori zi le agitation. The writers of them are no common men. in s powers beyond those of most ordinary traders ; and evidently could write so as not to offend not to B Le Of a higher class of readers, if their object was Wh c ,,,; tb r aake an impression on the lowest classes, upon for the in th e ---ceo r ough and the bloody work must chiefly devo i l i n gives a „ Ing revolutionary contest. This it w Peen early significancy to these political 1" tracts dislo tulle s , n " by means of which the most rancorous treasYaltY has found a tone, and the foulest forms of Dublin I).ave becomebe " hodlehold words" in Ireland.— cu u , p ni i ag often surprisedELIGIOIIS LITERATURE WANTED.—It has d . us that many of those who are zealous and to bestosincere w efforts t en. efforts to evangelise society, never seem evil, a Passing thought on this growing and fatal an evil which may not improperly be called the "root rleaa thousand of others." It is nothing uncommon toe ,sr those whose high office it is to watch over the mo rals religion of societ whose duty it is to exemplify autittheir lives and conversations the principles of Christi na., say, when this subject is talked of, Oh !we have tiLreeligious magazines ; we are aware of the moral pes ne, but what can we do ? If people choose, they t .,7 l Ye Plenty of good reading in these. We have provided ~1S remedy for the evil, and we can do no more." This partl true . ow n Y Religious magazines are excellent in their p a ,.,..waY and in their own place. But, pray, who are the ireleS who read them Do they consist of that class of ty who repair weekly to the periodical shops to prof ;their hebdomadal supply of mental provision ? In 4aq i nstances this may be the case, but there is less to t e ar from th ose who are thus to a certain extent fortified 4,,a re ligious panoply, and th e i r m i n d s somew h at i m b ue d 1...,"" the Christian principles which these magazines con than from that class who never see a religious peri odical, and who, until brought under the influence of ~'llristianity by other means, will never take such a pub 4,cation in their hands, or, if they do will go no farther • th an the title-page, and throw it aside. Unfortunately, 00 , all denominational magazines, from their very nature, ra nst partake more or l ess o f a party character, frequently enter into keen controversy, and give vent to a sectarian i B Pirit. M any o f those at present in circulation are excel . l ent i their own sphe re ; per h aps t h e pu b l i c were never at an4revious time better supplied with reading of the kind which they contain, but they are rarely read beyond ' the circle for which they are especially written. Though teeny of their articles may be catholic in their nature, yet t he magazine as a whole is not, and is in consequence necessa r ily circumscribed in its circ u l a ti on . Wh a t i s w anted at the present time is the encouragement of a • Che ap literature which will provide information on secu lar subject s , o f a popu l ar, useful, entertaining, and, it may e, of an amusing character, but which will not shrink f rom an avowal of the broad principles of Christianity on „" Proper occasions, and which, while it contains nothing sectarian or which would offend the most fastidious party ;all, will be of such a nature as will render it welcome ;ad useful to all. It may be said that literature of an a l n . n si,ng and entertaining kind is sufficiently abundant along ; this is no doubt true, but the great evil is, that, ah "g with that which amuses and entertains, there is an oo rPal liag amount of what is decidedly worthless, irreli 11s, and vicious, and nothing of a solid and beneficial d !ed, such as will comfort the soul amidst the throes of 1 1 ;: a lving nature and direct its flight to a better land.— gg'S W eekly Instructor [a periodical such as recom -lended]. (taint NFLUENCE OF ASSOClATlONS.—Associations are . .,;; t Y the poetry of life. They are the silver link by i t en one thing carries over its sweetness, and one period enslacredness, to another. They are at once our cheapest iii lif choicest joys ; throw them the simplest pleasure . 10 0 ,,,e.and, like the waters of that mysterious mineral th e l, tey'll enfold it in a web of crystal. They are Ple a : de s of all our virtues, strewing a thousand little Th e ures over the dullest surface ' of domestic drudgery. ti es the pleaders for all that is generous and humane, ca n e:leg and restraining in matters which seem too their Pls, and religion too solemn. Those who feel not he, t e n tillence, or want not their help, must be very ss and depraved, or, what is rarer, very, very . happy. tile. for all this, delightful, precious, and humanising as have 7 a re, who has not known the time when associations tt been very much in the way,-when we have felt i l . l : etn to be like old servants—very dear, but very great of not too Who has not experienced the inconvenience not b et b eing able to stir hand or foot for fear of them—of tu re, 1 2g allowed to banish an awkward piece of furni above ;I? Pull down an ivy -grown, smoky chimney, or, D a n_ ~au, to cut down a tree, without being twitched and 41 ,21"1 more violently than we should like to confess, and ydien we had got our own way in spite of them, being heartily Miserable for it afterwards ?—Fraser. ~. 8, 18-~ ~~ ?NCE. • ere severally D lugs. day for oecuPY i q All the cellars 133' information f, a , : • Wil son , slupPlv demanding fr, „ i f?' £1 for getting I' ARY.-Mr. efore Mr. Rus--, coking fellovr g' it o j hat Mr. Herl°, e s, losses, from to amount of it; ings and sixpeoL:A to be imprison' s.—On Frida9 before Mr. 10 1 . 9 " police, for havia Nor at hours 1 ° d e f en d ants , Job, larence Dock, sv t '" men in his hoe morning. ild lose his licesg king beings w ed . e i h case it appea,r, r the express P lr ; ;e i I applied for reT e 4 ey were reman d In the meantuTs:e to go up to Select Vestry 15 5 of the b a d sY t e if of the day, " t, e in court, and th be nded over to I t , ats should be " ;he officers of 1 1 16 0 appeared at t'j whom they 1 1, 8 he most part we bs are made upon . t. ce repeating adl' i do se nothing to 0 es came before th :th it appeared tl'° 'able them to P 3 ' cl that this was °`", the money adval l ,; ly irrecoverable 1 " sued distress wa r ; moceedings take" uesday, an Iv- ?,d before the 0 , 9, 1 , cellar undernea th was not deni ed ' r the defenda nt'o classic name t door to Curta°: )ars and no ~ he added,' that 0 nicest in Live,r; Do you mean Averpool ?" T stated, and to e d A neighbourho e e person, a nd it he lived therr, 1 laughter.) • salubrious nel.„," of without eseel e, want of vend fferin from "`" own." A polic e bout three and I , stench from vvll l c s l iforced the w' .l the pigs. for the past wee respective returns 1847. Amount. .e s. O 0 O 0 O 0 524 0 O 0 O 0 73 0 6G9 0 790 0 654 0 410 0 3188 0 681 0 10020 0 870 0 1120 0 716 0 1756 0 945 0 isca ICOOB 0 106 0 8005 0 1117 0 0 0 103 0 33504 0 696 0 6073 0 6269 0 2047 0 501 ' 0 17737 0 604 0 00 1717 0 1524' 0 1714 0 5742 0 2272' 0 0 0 468 0 6439 0 671 0 1747 0 549 0 153 0 788 0 10119 G C,lOl 0 et has been of a 1 ,,1 ices from Indisy 3 , 0- 4, have both coa'fof a. • The deman d rosiness general l Ydie the advance JO er s and manufacta,ive are inclined to week, but is bl, D e se in theprice af tpe id. per lb. over the moment, ( 1,5 06 lion, that being A luently, result being to evident, that te",e "!e in prices. Td as f the world; 0, 0 ,.,Jef, ctory state. ' , l e e !otton can onlY:or mills in the 1 0 '00 Tonal misery filet{ quite imposs, o to, in the absetic,.v o y eir mills, whilst is they might b e e 1 if nue to do so„ 1 of Altho ug h tlieY As, they will n o ' ni tt the same quiet si`e-re t, if an ything, l' l o 4 he spring trade , et" s. There is n o P e not heavy. n . g is of a slik o r ice to meet the , L' io e he growers' haute ! ruary, when thtio, a material retitle eo into the consuir l „, to arras now conli ° ,o , on is to actual eV' spinners ra ther_ 40 4 e, than effecting 'Ol still inquired fire fe sy. Pieces : 'OM America b°;,./ iney acting as af:01 1 , 1 cl the s hippinVni, • be hardly so 11"0,11 ~ houses are note 00 of the day Jul' e j ; :have have been di s r fi i or`,, s past. In the 1 ,hi t the past moot' 0, for some years... f or e cement of one (Pro easily account f ° de. na o 'e was a numer, - ,,,A e market on DlypeP,,, d. There has 1). '„00,,' ies of finished g,",eell'g ; as on this daY:ifol l i flannels and ',0 5 , 4 s past. Ther e . c o fully as higli Pr' to, # sve trade, both o ,c, 5 e cotton brane"vere ver branch still of t irevails marl 11 any exception s 4 o, 4 lerable constert4o6"o discharge their " o , li i , c if factory O a tll,',g but has Sante oil., !s we hear of n o pill' e li - . ourse rinnonr lefsoo nig that such AP if P e , A n other rturi°„ L t ii4 that certain of the- yarn,,,e !d for more L° 1/€' veers must hal- A °urn/a. , r. for quarter-aaY, De he belief that , te r,s o 4 if iron will of °' e cks Uri band ari l , fe red iron rancho,' and tendencY ; ely, a farther f/e5300 e creditors of ' of , held in this t°4ot for the VaY" - ertiser, 16 4 ° %.111" • 34 114 0 52 0 5'11! 1 7 3 ' 501 12 95 i# 570 .2 '96 62 39 33 1 1 63 733 THE CROPPY'S FINGERS—A TALE OF WHITE BOYISM IN IRELAND. (From the Dublin University Magazine.) I was one of a party of six, during these fearful scenes, at the hospitable table of Mr. Hugh Norton, a Doneraile gentleman, who resided within two miles of the town of that name. Mr. Norton was a county magistrate—an efficient but humane one. He sought at all times to draw the line of demarcation between the agent and the tool, in the outrages he was required to investigate. He was aware of the many ignorant peasants who were entrapped into this evil combination, and held there by the thraldom of fear ; and he laboured zealously so to protect even the weakest and meanest, that none might say he had joined the conspiracy, save of his own free will. But while he pitied the victim, he was uncompromising in his hostility to the fomentor of disturbance. With clear-headed dis cretion, with untiring vigilance, he tracked out the leader, and punished him •, and his knowledge was so extensive and varied, that the guilty in every locality were arrested almost on the instant of their breaking the law, and oftbn eyen prior to the commission of their offence. By the loyal and peaceable he was regarded as a very pillar of their support • and more than once the Executive had written to thank him for his exertions. But, on the other hand, the dislike of the rebellious rose almost to fiendish malignity. Letters reached him in various modes, and sometimes by the post itself, declaring to him that is doom was sealed ; and more than one attempt made on his life, which was repelled only by his own calm heroism, proved the intensity of the Whiteboys' hatred to this firm administrator of the law. Norton was a brave, but not a rash man. Disdaining to leave his house for threatening's sake, he removed the female members of his family to the city of Cork, and having strengthened his mansion so that it might stand a siege, and garrisoned it with some of his tenantry on whom he could rely, he determined to defy his intended assassins. His friends, in admiration of his heroism, seldom left him without their protection likewise ; and his official character bringing him much into contact with the military, he either dined at the Doneraile mess con tinually, or had the officers for his own guests at home. The dinner party of which I am speaking was of this kind, being modified by out-of-door events. Unblesssd with female society, we sat down but half-a-dozen in number, and of them, four were " men of war." The room itself showed tokens of the times. The shutters were sheeted with iron, so as to be ball-proof ; the side-table had pistols and daggers laid among the rich array of plate ; the guests, moreover, had come armed to the teeth, and in this very guise sat down to the cheer laid before them. The dinrer was plain and good, and the wines excel lent ; but good things themselves must come to a close, and the bringing in of coffee afforded a welcome con clusion. Young Harry Melsop, one of the military men, proposed an adjournment to the porch, for the enjoyment of cigars, and hummed some fragmentary verses to the moon, which he declared was looking graciously from heaven upon us. We agreed ; and mine host, who averred that he alone was acquainted with the mysteries of the bars and locks of the hall-door, proceeded, in anticipation of our going out, to make a free passage for us. W e heard him removing bolt after bolt, and shooting back manifold locks, until at last he stepped through the entrance, and trode the gravel outside. Just then came a thundering explosion, and a yell of pain from the far dis tance; and as we tumultuously arose, with no other ex pectation than that of finding our murdered friend's re mains, his cheersome voice greeted us— "No harm done. The gun burst, I think, with the villain." An unfeigned thanksgiving burst from every lip. "On my coming outside," Mr. Norton continued, " the whole lawn looked so peaceful in the moonlight, that I half forgot the danger of exposing myself unpro tected. Something, I thought, soon after stirred in the midst of the clump of trees yonder; but the underwood is so thick that I could not tell whether it was not an animal grazing. I stood, however, marking the place intently, and in a few seconds a man disguised with a veil of crape emerged from the thicket, looked at me, hesitated, and then presented his piece and fired. I could have shot him before he pulled his trigger, and actually had him covered ; but his aim was so wild and unsteady, that I knew he must miss me ; and, unless 1 greatly err, the unfortunate wretch has had his own punishment. Heard you not his agonising sreams ? A very few seconds brought the whole party into the shrubbery, which we subjected to a close scrutiny. In the place pointed out by Mr. Norton, we found traces of the assassin's hiding. The grass was trampled on, and the bushes had been set aside so as to form a kind of re cess ; and there were found, further on, more evident tokens. We picked up the shattered stock of a blunder buss, and fragments of its lock and barrel; a track of gore led on to a stone fence, over which the fellow had fled, but the stains suddenly ceased on the other side. As we were engaged in this exploration, the smart trot of cavalry was heard; a passing patrol filed into the avenue, and the officers, and attending magistrate, instantly joined our small body. They warmly congratulated Norton on..his escape, adding that the flash had been seen by them from the top of Scargannon hill, an d th a t th e y h a d pushed on to give assistance as speedily as possible. A scouring of all the contiguous fields was recommended, as in some of them the wounded Rockite was in -all probability hiding ; and a search to be made at the same time of the suspected houses in the neighbourhood, whither he might have betaken himself for shelter. Melsop was the last lingerer in the grove. He seemed to quit it with reluctance, and once or twice called the party back, on the plea that we had not sufficiently ex amined all its retirements. At last he expressed himself satisfied that there was no corner where _further evi,1e,,,00 of the criminal might - 10M - er for. He was lightly stepping forward from the trees, when-he in that instant found he trode on something that slipped with his feet. He stooped, and among the long meadow-grass found—a portion of a man's left hand ! Begrimed with gunpowder, and blood, and clay, where the first two fingers and thumb of a human hand, connected merely by a long strip of skin. His exclamation drew us all around him ; and once more we paused, and deliberated on ulterior proceedings. And here (for I am narrating a true story) the providence of the Lord in heaven, that we see so constantly displayed in the detection of every Cain, was abundantly manifested. Mr. Norton gazed for a while on the gastly relics ; and then a gleam of discovery crossed his features. He washed the mutilated fragments in a pool of rain-water, formed where carts had been crossing, and holding them up in the silvery light of the moon, exclaimed— " They are his : they are Hickey's fingers ! " He bade us examine them carefully. They were portions of a hand of huge dimensions, and were remarkable for the bushy patches of red hair growing on the back of the large middle finger especially. The hand itself must have received extensive, if not fatal, injury ; and from our knowledge that it was the left hand, we had important help towards detection of the criminal. Norton's counte nance fell again. He seemed struggling with intense mental feeling. Doubt or hesitation there was none; but there was manifested an incredulity—an unwillingness to believe that which his eyesight proclaimed a fact. " They are Hickey's," again he repeated, with almost mechanical precision, "set if his they be, then is there no faith in human nature." Hickey was his steward, his valued and trusted humble friend. He had often entreated his master to be on his guard : and had proved his fidelity by several times re vealing plots of which he had obtained knowledge. He had lived with him more than twenty years, and during that whole period had devoted himself exclusively to his interests ; and now that it should have been he who had made this murderous attempt, seemed incredible. There was no reason in the range of possibility for his doing so. No ; it could not have been he. But the fingers were in his grasp ; and the red clumps of hair on them asserted it was none else. That very day Hickey had given in to his master a pay sheet of the labourers, in which were some items disputed by them. In explaining the accounts, and justifying his entries, he had held the sheet for nearly half-an-hour in his left hand; and his master's eye, in traversing the columns, casually rested on this fist of an Esau, attracted by its hirsute furnishing. And the wisdom of God, in so directing him, seemed now apparent ; for a fragment of that same hand was before him palpably—that hand which had been raised to shed his blood. "We must away to my steward's house," at length said Mr. Norton ; . if the assassin is to be found he is there. At all events, I shall acquit myself of this harrow ing suspicion," The men moved in silence, and at the foot of a narrow boreen, or bridle-path, broke into single files. We reached the house, and surrounded it. Our knocking for a time seemed fruitless, and we had commenced breaking-in the door, when a woman's voice was heard from within, questioning us as to who we were, Open th. doer," 41inndereII - 2Tir' • M - 7 - - T tren flure— your master." The fastenings were undone, and the woman, who was no other than Hickey's wife, dropping a curtsey, apolo gised fbr the delay. She averred that her husband and herself had been asleep, and that they were "afraid of the Whiteboys to open the door. But that now, shure, all was right, and his honour was welcome to his own house." " I must go in and see Hickey," interrupted Mr. Nor ton ; " so light a candle, and show me the way to your room. The candle was got, after a protracted delay, but had to be lighted at a neighbouring house, as the fire had dwindled down into ashes at Hickey s. Taking Melsop and myself with him, and bidding the rest to be on the alert, Norton ascended the narrow stairs, to the upper chamber. We advanced to the bed, in which lay Hickey, apparently asleep. " He's waried after the labours of the day, your honour," exclaimed the woman who had followed us, " and tis a cruel case to brake his rest ; but ye know best, I'm sure." " Silence, woman. Hallo ! Hickey, awaken !!' The steward turned on his side, yawned, and seemed puzzled with our presence. But his master straightway said— " Come, Hickep, stretch out your hand." He obeyed, but gave his right hand. " I want the other ; you cannot hide it." It had not escaped us from the commencement, that all this while the apparent slumberer had studiously thrown into the shadow his left side, and now when he exposed it, the reason was evident—his left arm was an unsightly heap of bandages. " Why, what has happened to you ? You were quite well at the office to-day," said Mr. Norton. " After that, sir," replied Hickey, " I went down to the limestone quarry to see how the men were gettin on, and not minding myself, a rock fell on my hand and crushed it ; and when I came home I took to the bed, as I felt weak with the loss of blood." The fellow's countenance contradicted each word of the statement. There was guilt in every line, and shame, and sorrow; and there was sorrow also in his master's voice, as he indignantly looked upon the mutilated hand, saying— " You have lost some of your fingers —see, I have found them for you." * * * * * * * * THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. I was present at Hickey's execution, which followed six weeks after. There was no doubt about his guilt, nor did he himself question the justice of his sentence. His master supplicated that his life should be spared ; but under the circumstances of the country, it was impossible that his prayer could be granted, although he proffered it in per son at the castle of Dublin. The unhappy culprit was hanged in a field, on the opposite side of the road from that where he committed his crime ; as it was con sidered that cases of peculiar atrocity should be avenged in their own immediate neighbourhood. There a scaffold was erected ; and so apprehensive were the authorities of an attempt to rescue the prisoner, that two full regiments were drawn up around the gallows. He died firmly, and with penitence, asserting his happiness in the ill-success of his attempted deed of blood. With his dying breath he warned the bystanders against the secret system, which had brought himself to that disgraceful end. He loved his master, he said, and would have died for him ; but having, through cowardice, permitted himself to be initi. ated into the agrarian league, he had taken their oath of fellowship and obedience. When it bad been decided that Mr. Norton should be assassinated, the lot to shoot him had, either justly or unjustly, fallen to him, and accor dingly he had made the attempt. But he declared that the only drop of sweetness in his cup was the reflection on the failure of his enterprise. He was innocent in act, though not in intention, and so far was reconciled to his doom. The scene of the outrage is by the side of one of the chief entrances to Doneraile ; and the passing tourist is yet pointed out a wide-spread lawn of meadow-land over hanging the Awbeg, which is now known among the peasantry by no other name than that of The Croppy's Fingers. THE FISHERMAN'S BOY. (From Hogg's Weekly Instructor.) On the south bank of the river Esk, at its confluence with the German Ocean, and immediately opposite to the picturesque and thriving town of Montrose, stands the fishing village of Ferryden. Some seventy years ago. there dwelt in one of its little huts a young fisherman and his wife, remarkable alike for their sober and industrious habits and indomitable spirit of perseverance. They be gan the world with no capital, and roughed its thorny path with few friends ; but, as their cares multiplied, new fields were opened up for the employment of their industrial skill, and new sources were successfully culti- vated, under circumstances of the most remarkable and encouraging kind. In those days, few of the fishermen on the east coast of Scotland would venture beyond what was technically called " the rock fit,"—in other words, the seashore, — for fishing ; but our hero of the oar, in the present case, was ill at ease under such limitation. He had frequently met with a number of Dutch fishermen, who used to take shelter with their " busses," or fishing craft, in the har bour of Stonehaven, and from these he learned that, about ten or fifteen miles off, lay the " Dutch " as well as the " Dogger Bank,"—a mountain in the deep, stretching from the Orkney Islands to the harbour, where there was an abundant supply of all kinds of fish, from the tiny sprat to the bottle-nosed whale. Animated by a strong desire to explore this mine, and having now saved a few pounds, the reward of industry and economy, a half decked boat was purchased, rigged out after the smack fashion, and fitted with all the appointments of the deep sea fishery. In this enterprise he was joined by a few more daring spirits, and, taking with him one of his boys, set out on the evening of a fine summer day to try the adventure. The effort succeeded. Fish of a larger size, of greater variety, and finer quality, were thenceforth landed in Ferryden, and the market returns in money and provisions (fish being then sold by barter) were of the most profitable character. But he was not satisfied with the results of this experiment. The risks were great, and the returns, though good, not equivalent to the tear and wear of the service. By accident, the attention of the young fisherman was called to the cod and ling fisheries on the banks of Newfoundland, and he felt a strong de sire to draw something from the treasures of that wintry deep. This project necessarily involved considerable ad ditional expense. But " where there 's a will there 's a way," and so it was in the present case ; for, in a few months, a fine sloop was got ready, an experienced crew of fishers engaged, and, in less than six months from the time the project was formed, the most sanguine expecta tions of its promoters were realised. By and by, our fisherman became a sailor, and the sailor became an owner, until he both owned and commanded, in the coasting trade, one of the smartest and tidiest little craft that sailed from the port of Montrose. In all these adventures, the boy Joseph was engaged. He toiled with his father at the oar of the fishing-boat and the helm of his sailing vessel. He was a willing boy, and inherited all the spirit and perseverance of his pa rents. But it was not the wish of his parents that Joseph should continue at the sea, and, having now removed from Ferryden to Montrose, he was sent to school, to learn at least the elements of a common education. While at school, Joseph discovered a remarkable genius for the mathematics, an aptitude for languages, and was always characterised by an indomitable spirit of perseve rance and self-will. Near to the residence of his parents, who lived in a plain but substantial and comfortably fur nished old-fashioned house in Murray-street, a worthy burgess carried on business under the sign of the " pestle and mortar," to whom Joseph was apprenticed as a drug gist, somewhat, we understand, against his will. While engaged in the faithful discharge of the duties and the drudgery of this apprenticeship, he conceived the idea of becoming some day or other a great man ; and then it was that he gave himself up to study, choosing for his sanctum the attic room of his father's house, and for his motto " Derseverance" F.rly hn tnitc,l nt hio books, and, in a few years, was one of the best informed and most devoted disciples of Esculapius of which the north of Scotland could boast, Availing himself of the advantages which the medical school of Edinburgh afforded, he spent some time in that city qualifying for the degree of " surgeon," and having at length obtained his diploma, the patronage of a gentle man in the country, of great influence in high quarters, was promised in his behalf. Time passed on, and Joseph had to realise the truth that " hope deferred maketh the heart sick ;" but, at last, throwing himself entirely on his own resources, he pushed his way forward, and got an appointment, or rather a footing, in the medical staff of the East India Company. When in India, Joseph's ta lents as a linguist soon attracted observation, and, in the course of a few years, he found the office of " interpreter" far more lucrative, and much more safe and comfortable, than that of administering medicine or splicing broken bones. From one thing to another, in his intercourse with the merchant-princes of the East, he plodded up wards and onwards, now making a trading visit to Eng land and anon returning to Bombay, until he gained a handsome competency, on which, at the close of the war, he retired from the active commerce of desultory life. But Joseph could not live in the quiet seclusion of his family. His temperament would not let him rest, and, having an earnest desire to benefit society, he sought a field wherein he could bring his talents and experience to bear in furtherance of the common good. Sincerely deploring the corruption which he saw prevalent in the administration of public affairs, he seized a favourable opportunity of presenting himself to a Scotch constitu ency, and was returned as their representative in parlia ment. For twenty-nine years has the fisherman's boy enjoyed this honourable position, and he now sits in St. Stephen's, as he did at first and for many years, the re presentative of Montrose, his native town. Such is a brief outline of the rise, progress, and present position of JOSEPH HUME. [ @nun! lirlfsrellanv. There.are no fewer than 12,000 unewployod operatives in Glasgow. Lord Falkland has been appointed Governor of Bar badoes. The report of the death of E. W. Pendarves is contra dicted. On Thursday night the printing-office of the Ipswich Express was accidentally burnt to the ground. A respectable but eccentric maiden lady at Hereford has left £5,000 towards paying off the national debt. The brig Endeavour, of Maldon, has been wrecked off Scotland. The crew, consisting of six, werp all lost. Mr. Macdonald, of Newcastle, has set up a steam engine to manufacture candy and comfits ! The increase in the customs at the port of Bristol in the last year was £90,000 on that of the preceding year. Owing to the breaking up of the ice on the Clyde, nearly the whole length of the new quay above Glasgow Bridge was washed away on Thursday. The brig Phoenix, from Bahia for Greenock, was wrecked off Cove on Friday. The vessel, cargo, and crew are all reported as lost. By the recent deaths, rapidly succeeding each other, of Generals 'Maitland, Vincent, and Maclane, the com mander-in-chief has three regiments at his disposal. It is a remarkable circumstance, that, at the present time, the price of oranges is little more than the price of potatoes. A prisoner in Coldbath Fields House of Correction has lost his life by swallowing two shillings, in order to hide them. There was another discussion in the case of the late Rajah of Sattara, at the India House, on Wednesday. The motion for further inquiry was negatived by 63 to 26. The London common council has appointed a commit tee to consider the propriety of petitioning for the aboli tion of grand juries in criminal cases. The farming premises of Mr. Edwards at Spittle, near Abergavenny have been destroyed by fire, and nine horses (each worth £4O), were burnt to death. The Patriot says that Mr. Todhunter, the senior wrangler of Cambridge, is she son of a Dissenting minister, and is understood to be himself a Dissenter. Some baskets of early hothouse potatoes have been im ported into Glasgow from France, and have been offered for sale at the rate of 2s. a basket. The sentence of death passed on Michael M`Cabe, as being an accomplice in the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Wraith and their servant at Mirfield, has been commuted into one of transportation for life. At Leeds, a few days ago, the assistant of a druggist sold a quantity of morphia to a female, instead of worm powders, and two children of the woman were killed in consequence of taking it. CHILDREN BURNT TO DEATH.—On Tuesday, four in quests were held at the London Hospital on the bodies of children who had died in the above institution from in- juries they hadreceived by their clothes catching fire. On the 17th December a burglary was committed near Bradford by four men who so seriously injured the old man who occupied the house, that he died on Sunday week. PRICE OF WHEAT. — The average price of wheat for each of the last six years has been as follows :-1842, 575. 3d. ; 1843, 50s. Id. ; 1844, 51s. 3d. ; 1845. 50s. 10d.; 1846, 545. ld. ; 1847, 695. 9d. Mr. Edwin Landseer, the painter, is said to have rea lized £7OOO for his " Stag at Bay" and three other works. The copyright of the " Stag" brought him £BOO in addi tion, with a share of the profits. At the Marylebone (London) Police-court, on Monday, a man was fined 10s., or fourteen days imprisonment, for riding a greater distance on the North Western Railway than that for which fare had been paid. The foundation-stone of the new docks at Sunderland was laid, on Friday, by George Hudson, Esq., M.P. for the borough, amidst extraordinary rejoicings in the town. The Duke of Cleveland, the Countess of Essex, and Sir Hedworth Williamsonwere amongst the company present. A few days since, two men imprudently descended into a large ale vat, in a brewery at Bow, near London, and about an hour afterwards, when their absence was re- marked, they were found dead in the vat, where they had been stifled by carbonic acid gas. At a public meeting . held in the Town-hall, Birming ham, on Friday, a petition against any increase of army or navy—against any enrolment of the militia—and against any addition to the present coast fortifications, was una- nirnously adopted. On Thursday four foreigners were found guilty of for gery on the Imperial Bank of Russia. One was sen tenced to eighteen months' imprisonment, another to transportation for ten years, and the sentences, on the others were deferred. _ _ THE INUNDATED COAL MINES.—The progress of pumping is going on satisfactorily, and many of the pro- prietors are making preparations to commence working their upper mines. At the Patricroft Colliery they have reduced the water to within about two yards of the ' four feet mine." An obelisk, sixty-four feet high, has been erected as a monument to Newton, by the Rev. Charles Tumor, in the park of Stoke Rochford, Lincolnshire, near the ham let of Woolsthorpe, where the philosopher was born, and in the parish where he learned the rudiments of education at a small day school. The inquest on the bodies of the two men who were killed some weeks ago by the fall of a building at the Euston-square station, was brought to a close on Thurs day; when the jury returned a verdict of Accidental Death, accompanied with the expression of their opinion that due caution had not been i-- 1 "- 4, a j d latel g Yu aor a ;r y e. • e ave the particulars of the murder of an ille gitimate child at Bath, by its mother, a respectable young woman, named Strickland, who, having delivered herself, threw her offspring out of a window, thereby causing its death. She has since been committed to prison, charged with wilful murder. It is rumoured that the child was the offspring of a son of a nobleman at present staying at Bath. A tall young man hired a horse and phaeton, on Wed nesday, at Mr. Tucker's livery stable, London. Mr. T.'s servant accompanied the man, who drove down the Essex road instead of the direction mentioned, and on reaching Upton-lane, Rumford, sent the latter across the road up on a trumped-up message, and then made off with the horse and phaeton with all possible speed, and has not since been heard of. The Lord Mayor of London has declined to allow a procession of twenty thousand persons, connected with British shipping, through the city of London to Bucking ham Palace, for the purpose of petitioning the Queen not to consent o the repeal of our Navigation Laws, but in pursuance of his lordship's recommendation, the memo rialists will proceed from Shadwell to Westminster in a large steamer. The windows of Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith's banking house, and of Messrs. Mullens, Marshall, and Co., in Lombard-street, London, have been wilfully smashed during the last few days by women, who commit this outrage for the purpose of being committed to prison, the damage done amounting at least at £3O. The object the offenders have is, we are sorry to say, in this inclement weather to gain imprisonment. Slebech new church, Pembrokeshire, was consecrated on Thursday last by the Bishop of St. David's, in the pre sence of a very numerous assembly of the clergy and gentry of the neighbourhood. The Baron de Rutzen has expended £lO,OOO in the.erection of this church, in addi tion to the amount raised by the parish, and it may be considered to be one of the finest edifices in the princi pality. THE NORTH BRITISH MAIL.—A meeting of the credi tors of Mr. Alexander Allen, proprietor of the North British Mail, (a journal recently established in Edin burgh,) and also an iron master and director of the Ayr shire Iron Company, took place on Monday, at Glasgow. The liabilities of the bankrupt were estimated at £BO,OOO, and the assets at £12,000. The loss upon the newspaper, &c. was estimated at £51,000 ; upon iron, £6400 ; bad debts, £21,300. On the night of Sunday week, great alarm was excited at Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, by a cry of " Fire," and the appearance, at some distance, of a strong red light, which appeared to proceed from a building in flames. The firemen were instantly aroused, and horses were har nessed to the engine, which was on the point of starting for the scene of the supposed conflagration, when it was discovered that the apparent flames were caused by the light of a brilliant aurora borealis. Among the patents which have lately been obtained, is one for a vapour engine, which is said instantaneously to extinguish flame. The attention of the inventor of this engine was drawn to the subject by observing that the vapour which was emitted from a volcano during an eruntion extinguished flume as soon ,as it came into con tact with it, and he was induced to examine the chemical composition of this vapour, with such success, that he ultimately devised his novel fire engine. MURDER BY A YOUNG LADY.—On Friday an inquest was concluded at Widcombe-hill, Bath, upon the body of a newly-born female child, the offspring of Miss Julia Stickland, the daughter of Mr. Stickland, formerly land lord of the New Inn, but now living retired in Church street, in the neighbourhood. The mother admitted that the infant was her's, and that she had thrown it out of the window, but that it never moved. A verdict of wil ful murder has been returned against her. A verdict of wilful murder has been returned against Mary Howells, and James Price, her servant, for poison ing William Howells, husband of the former. The de ceased was an elderly man, and a farmer in the parish of Llanellen, Monmouthshire. Evidence was given of an improper connexion between the widow and servant, that Howells died suddenly in the night, after much sickness, and partaking of apple dumplings sugared by the widow, who had bought a pennyworth of arsenic the same day. _Various expressions of the prisoners also added to the overwhelming proof of their undoubted guilt. DEPLORABLE ACCIDENT.—A melancholy occiwrence took place on Wednesday off Cullercoats, on tha coast of Northumberland. A vessel having been observed in the offing, making for Shields harbour, a party of seven pilots put off from Cullercoats to board her. The sea was rough, and the weather squally, when the boat unfortunately capsized, and all hands perished. Five of the party were related to each other. The accident was witnessed from the vessel, but the boat was at such a distance, and such was the state of the weather, that no assistance could be rendered. DEATH ON THE ICE.—A nephew of the Rev. R. Drum mond, of Peering vicarage, about 15 years of age, who was spending his holidays with his uncle, had. been sliding upon a pond in the garden, on Friday, and after luncheon went down to it again. But not long after the gardener observed that the ice was broken in the middle of the pond, and a cap was floating on the surface of the water. He immediately gave an alarm, when the body of Mr. Drummond's nephew, who had been absent only about half an hour, was found. Deceased was the only son of Capt. A. A. Drummond, now in India, and was the only male heir in the Drummond family. His grandfather, under whose care he was placed, and by whom, he was seat to school in England, resides in Scotland. , -13ri$101 Journal. MISSIONARY ESTABLISHMENT. The Colonial Church Chronicle (a very valuable pub lication) for February, contains a very interesting article, with special reference to Western India, on the necessity which an experienced Missionary finds of obtaining some retired spot where his disciples may, in quietness and peace, become strengthened before meeting the opposition and temptations with which their heathen countrymen will besiege them. The writer says : " A great defect in our present system of missionary operations is a want of centralization. Converts are made by twos and threes, in widely scattered provinces, and are often left without guidance. A chaplain, or a zealous officer, gains a servant or a poor neighbour, who, after instructions of Christianity, is baptized. Leading, as Europeans are compelled to do, migratory lives, the poor convert soon finds himself separated from his teacher ; and whilst he is but a babe in Christ, he is left to wrestle by himself with such temptations as the strong can scarcely overcome. Who, then, does not see that it be comes a religious duty to provide a situation where the dispersed of Israel may be gathered together, and brought from the cities of heathenism to worship the Lord in His _holy temple ? Far would we be from holding nut to them . any mercenary motives ; on the contrary, we would im press upon them, that if they would not work, neither should they eat. In their scattered positions they have strong inducements to idleness; the sluggard soon learns that his conversion renders him an object of interest, and gives him an irresistible claim for support upon charitable Europeans. But provide him a home where he must do his duty in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call him, and where a reasonable amount of labour will daily be demanded of him ; you then lead him to those earnest exertions which are indispensable in the formation of a Christian character, and offer him a means and a motive for escaping from beggary and shame. We see then the importance of not only providing an asylum for orphans, but also of fixing it in the centre of a colony comnosed of native Christians of all ages. " The superintendence of such an establishment, so far from diverting a Missionary from his main object of direct and public preaching, will enable him to follow it more effectually. During the monsoon, and the unhealthy sea son which follows, he will be compelled to remain station ary, and his time cannot be better occupied than in watch ing its progress, and regulating its management. When he commences his tour he will resign his charge into the hands of a European, or Indo-Briton, who will act as bailiff, and at the same time see that the duties of the institution are carried on with diligence. " Both the men and boys of the colony should be en gaged in agricultural and mechanical employments. A European system of farming is not, it is true. adapted for India, but yet, by judicious management, considerable improvements might be introduced into the native method, and new crops be cultivated, which would yield a profit able return." The trades which are proposed to be followed as being most lucrative, in the Decan and Western India are, cart-making, oil-making, and weaving coarse cloths. Many suitable situations are, it is said, to be found in the fine climate of the Decan ; and the institution, for which the only officers required at the commencement would be the Missionary and his Bailiff, would be the Missionary's head-quarters—his house, chapel, school room, and workshops for learning and practising trades and the homestead of his farm, together with the habita tions of his flock. It is proposed that no person. capable of earning his own bread should be maintained otherwise than by his own labour, and no art or manufacture should be followed, unless with a view to its proving fairly re munerative. At the Lambeth Police-court, on Wednesday, William Jones, an engine -driver, and Lewis Fleming, a fireman in the service of the South-Western Railway Company, who have been in custody since the 15th of last month, on a charge of having caused the death of David Markland, were placed in the dock before Mr. Elliott, for final exa mination. They were finally committed to take their trial at the next Kingston. Assizes for " manslaughter." IDLENESS AND MlSERY.—Within the last week a pro fligate mechanic was found, in the day-time•, in bed, in a court in Gray's Inn-lane, London, while his children were wandering in the streets, in a temperature of twenty-two, to pick up halfpence for his and their support. But this is only the ordinary part of the case. In a police-office it was proved, that the elder child, a girl of thirteen, in or der to excite the compassion of the passers-by, kept driv ing a large pin into the lower part of the body of a poor little infant which she carried in her arms ! The cries of the child at last led to an exposure; and the worthless parent was sent to the treadmill, and the children to the workhouse. _ _ The result of the American strattwem adopted by the Messrs. Blackwood in furtherance of the cause of British copywright abroad, has fully answered expectations. The negotiation which has been pending since the appearance of the October number of the Scotch Magazine has ter minated in an equitable arrangement. The reprint, established on a legitimate basis and with a character for honesty, is to continue; an early copy being furnished to Messrs. Scott, the reformed pirates, to enable them to bring out the periodical to New York about the time of its appearance in Edinburgh and London. The proper consideration of course passes. The hint will not be lost on either side of the Atlantic. How TO CATCH PIGEONS.—A. boy in Perth, who had lost a favourite pigeon by its abscondin g from his dove cot, happened to observe it with some others upon the street. He immediately got hold of a pretty sizeable stone, about which he fastened the end of a piece of small cord, three yards long, and to the other end a common horse bean. He went as near to the pigeons as he could with his apparatus without making them fly off, laid it down on the street, and scattering some mouldy crumbs of bread around the bean, retired. The pigeons were immediately at the crumbs, and one of them, and it happened to be the boy's, observing the bean, made a gobble at it and swallowed it. The boy made a rush, his favourite essayed to fly, but he was as safe as a trout on a hook. The bean, though down, would not come up, and not being able to carry off the stone, the prisoner was soon secured by the boy, who cut the cord close to the bill, and carried him off in triumph. . _ THE DOUBLE MURDER.—At the Central Criminal Court, on Friday, Hannah Parker, aged - 38i - described as a widow, was indicted for the murder of Amina Blake. There was also a second indictment against the prisoner, charging her with the murder of Robert Henry Blake. The following is a brief account of the admission made by the prisoner to several policemen before and after she was taken into custody, all of whom swore that she was cautioned not to make any statement tending to criminate _ _ herself. After this caution she said she had been living with the father of the children she had murdered ; that Blake (the father) on the 30th of December left her, stating that he was going to the theatre; that she after wards ascertained that he had taken a " dolly" with him, and out of revenge, for she loved the ground on which he walked, she admitted murdering the children. Several witnesses stated that after the prisoner had been taken into custody, she exclaimed—" Oh, my God, my God, I did it to have revenge on the father of the children. It was done through vindictiveness to Blake. I loved him and the ground on which he walked. He knew it, but he deceived me. I was not drunk. I knew well what I was about when I committed the act." The jury returned a verdict of guilty ; whereupon his Lordship immediately. passed upon her sentence of death, intimating that she could not possibly expect any mitigation of punishment in this world. A ROMAN CATHOLIC FUNERAL.—Last Saturday, about ten o'clock, a.m., a corpse was interred in the garden of the large house in Dighton-street,now occupied by the Sisters of Mercy. The deceased expired on the preceding Thursday, and, we believe, was one of the six females who reside there. Four of the females who occupy the house wear black habits, and two are habited in white ; it would seem that the deceased was one of the latter. The grave was dug immediately beneath the eastern wall of the garden. At the interment the female habited in white first entered the garden, supported on either side by one of those wearing black habits ; two boys in white surplices bearing censors succeeded, followed by two priests in sur- plices and hoods, and wearing the Jesuit's' cap ; then came the corpse borne by four men, and covered with a black pall having a white cross in the centre. The body was followed by the remaining two females habited in black, and about two hundred girls, all of whom, we be lieve, are educated on the premises, each bearing in her hand a small lighted lamp. The coffin was not made in the usual shape, but was simply an oblong chest. After it had been deposited in the grave, and the funeral ser vice read, one of the priests took a censor that had been swung by the boys as the corpse was depositing, and waved it over the grave. The remainder of the service was read, and the whole of the attendants retired. We have heard that the premises were recently purchased by a lady at Bath..—Bristol Mirror. MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.—On Wednesday evening,while the brig Ellangowan, from Hartlepool, was entering the river, she was observed by two fishermen, Robert Gall, and John Lorimer, residing in Broughty Ferry, who manned a boat for the purpose of rendering her assistance into Dundee. By the time they got their boat in a sail in condition the brig was ahead of them, and more can ere they n hoisted ; T l ..i.M r cnfaßt l iTsPeAllit file Voliceii submerged in the water. On rising to the surface, they fortunately caught hold of a net which was attached to the boat, and to which were affixed several bladders, for the purpose of floating it. By this means both individuals were enabled to work themselves to the side of the boat, keel upwards. High tide was about seven o'clock, and by this time it was better than an hour turned, so that they were drifting rapidly down to the sea. They cried till they were hoarse, but knew not whether their voices were heard amidst the uproar of the waves around them. Most fortunately, the faint hope which they indulged in was not in vain. A few people, who were out at the time on the beach at Broughty Ferry, thought they heard cries of distress far out at sea ; they listened, and the same sound was repeated. The news spread among the sea men and fishermen, and Captain James, Alexander Gall, James Lorimer, and some others, immediately manned four boats, and went in search, following at considerable distances from each other the direction of the cries. For a time the search was unsuccessful ; but one of the boats at last distinctly heard the cries, and ultimately obtained sight of the men, when they were instantly taken into it, but in so exhausted a condition that they could scarcely recognise their deliverers.—Dundee Advertiser. FATAL APPLICATION OF CHLOROFORM.—An inquest was held on Tuesday, at Winlaton, near Newcastle-upon- Tyne, on the body of Hannah Greener, a girl 15 years of age, who died on Friday under the influence of chloroform, administered in order to allay sensibility while undergoing a painful surgical operation (removal of a toe nail.) The case excited great interest. About a tea-spoonful of chloroform was administered in a table-cloth. When the operation was going on she gave a jerk. Mr. Meggison, the surgeon who operated, states Her eyes were closed, and I opened them, and they remained open. Her mouth was open, and her lips and face blanched. When I opened her eyes they were congested. I called for water when 1 saw her face blanched, and I dashed some of it in her face. It had no effect. I then gave her some brandy, a little of which she swallowed with diffi culty. I then laid her down on the floor, and attempted to bleed her in the arm and jugular vein, but only ob tained about a spoonful. She was dead, I believe, at the time I attempted to bleed her. The time could not be more than three minutes from her first inhaling the chloroform till her death. Sir John Fife, an eminent surgeon at Newcastle, expressed at the inquest a strong opinion of the chloroform, and stated that he had applied it successfully in many cases : he attributed the fatal effect of the chloroform in the present instance to pecu liarity in the constitution of the patient. Another sur geon said the chloroform was more dangerous than ether, and thought it was safer in larger operations than. smaller; the young woman had inhaled ether at New castle Infirmary last October, when she had another toe nail taken off. Verdict of the jury :—" We are unani mously of opinion that the deceased, Hannah Greener, died from congestion of the lungs, from the effect of chloroform, and that no blame can be attached to Mr. Meggison, surgeon, or to his assistant, Mr. Lloyd." DELIBERATE MURDER OF A SOLDIER.—Shortly before five o'clock on Friday afternoon, a soldier of the Foot Guards__was deliberately shot in_Bird-cage-walk. St. James s-park. The deceased, whose name was Dueler, was about 21 years of age, entered the Coldstream Guards about three years since. The female, it appears, is a na tive of France, of the name of Annettee Mayers, about 26 years of age, and said to possess great personal attractions, and was living as a kind of upper servant at 40, Albion street, Hyde-park. She and the deceased were on inti mate terms. Within the last week or two another female had made her appearance at the Wellington Barracks, who, it is stated, was deceased's wife. This by some means came to her knowledge. At four o'clock on Friday afternoon, Ducker went with his company (the sth) to drill, and they were kept on parade about half an hour. While• they were performing the evolutions, Mayers was observed to be looking through the railings, and as the men were dismissed from parade, she went to the gate of the barracks, and was soon joined by the deceased. They were observed to laugh with each other, and to walk to gether as far as the Queen-square gate, when the female suddenly dropped behind, and taking a large horse pistol out of her pocket, discharged the contents at the head of the unfortunate soldier, who, without uttering a groan, fell on his face a corpse. Two policemen, named Paul and Richards, both off duty, witnessed the occurrence. Paul immediately secured the prisoner. The bullets had entered immediately under the left ear, through the right eye, shattering the head in a most frightful manner. Paul, on taking hold of her, said, " You have shot the soldier." She replied, " I did it ; I intended to do it." On being conveyed to the station-house in Gardener's-lane, she was searched by the matron, but previously banded to the in spector the pistol, pouch, and three letters. On being placed in a cell, the prisoner inquired whether Ducker was dead. She was informed that he was, whereupon she declared that she did not care how soon she was dead her self. While the charge was being entered, she appeared to be labouring under intense mental excitement. On her removal to the cell, in which she is constantly watched by an officer, she became more composed, and spoke oc casionally to him. On Saturday, the prisoner was com mitted by the magistrates to Newgate for trial. She pur chased the pistol herself, stating that she wanted it to kill a savage Newfoundland dog. A long letter from the pri soner to the deceased was read. It upbraided him with coldness, and attention to another young woman, who could supply him with more money because she earned it easily, though she (the prisoner) had given him a consi. derable sum since Christmas. The prisoner was tolerably composed throughout the examination, ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. As the period is now necessarily drawing to a close—a few weeks only having to elapse—when the engagements of M. Dejean and his unrivalled equestrian corps and stud of horses will be required in the metropolis of our country, we have earnestly to recommend to those of our readers, and the public generally, who have not yet visited the Amphitheatre, to hasten and judge for themselves. They may rest assured that they will experience a treat, now within their reach, which may never again occur. Allez les voir. We will now proceed to notice those artistes and horses of the stud which are remarkable for their superior intelligence and performances. Mors. A. FRANCONI. — The horses seem to have re ceived their education under this gentleman's able tuition, and most admirably have they progressed under so con summate a master of his art,. In addition to the more pleasing accomplishments of dancing, waltzing, quad rilling, and all manner of elegancies more particularly ap pertaining to the four-footed animal, and extraordinary feats, he seems not to have neglected their AB C. They understand all he says to them ; at least there can be no doubt of their being proficient in th e F renc h l anguage . "Allez," "montez, ' "arr*ez," "frappez," or "assez," are no sooner uttered, than as instantly obeyed. We perceive also a distinction of character in the horses, the same as in the human race. Some are remarkable for their superior beauty of form and elegant limbs, a noble carriage of head and general action ; others, for grace and elegant movement, while some retain a natural wildness of manner. Franconi shows the hand of a master in the management of the whip, which he uses more as an inti midation to the animals than as a weapon. A very slight motion of the wrist, without much perceptible movement in the arm, produces a startling crack, which makes all tremble again, and the horses dare but obey the mandate. He also appears to have much suavity of manner, united to the firmness of a commander. We have to particu larly admire his polite attention and kindness shown to the ladies, that never-failing characteristic of the perfect gentleman. But now for those noble animals of the crea tion—the horses. ATAR GULL.—The trumpet sounds, a crack of the whip succeeds, and on comes the steed, rearing and striking out with his forefeet in fearful and grand style. He is a beautiful little creature, highly bred, and a skin of the darkest and most glossy black. With a simple and elegant style of crimson bridle and other light ornamental gear, and a plume on his head, hla Indien. He is at liberty, obeys the word of command, and proves the high perfec tion to which a horse may be trained. His performances are most extraordinary : he turns round on one leg—the same with the legs crossed; marches round the circle to the music; mounts on a small table, and turns round; gets on the table with his hind legs only, and - in this posi tion works himself round the circle. His concluding feat is suprising. Mounting the edge of the circle with his forefeet, he runs round in this manner. A truly wonder ful exhibition. GODOLFIN is another extraordinary animal, with great intelligence. He is white, with a slight dapple of grey, and something of the Arabian in form. He brings a nap kin • lays down at command ; s it s on hi s hi n d quarters at table; rings the bell, and supper is brought to him by Auriol, the clown. Finding that the bell brings him such good cheer, he keeps it up in good style, and the clown busy at work supplying him. He also takes up a can with his mouth, drinking out of it at the same time. When he finds he can obtain no more, he gets up, pursues the Clown, and makes his exit. M. CHARLES SIEGRIST is a juggler on horseback. It is common to witness feats of this kind on terra firma; but to see them achieved when the horse is " under weigh," to use a nautical phrase, is of a very novel nature. The difficuty is so great, that the wonder is, how it can be done; and when we find it often takes him two or three attempts before he can accomplish his end, we must take into consideration the motion of the animal, and then it appears wonderful. He has a good figure, and looks well in the extremely picturesque dress in which he appears— the modern Greek costume—which is very excellent and correct. Throwing up apples, and catching them on the point of a knife, is one of the most difficult performances. His feats with two balls and one cup, and two cups and . one ball, are very excellent. He then places a band on his head, at back and front, with a cup attached, throws up a ball to a considerable height, and cups it. His per formances with the three sticks, leaping over banners at the same time, are very extraordinary. At full speed, he concludes his performance by keeping up three large balls with great spirit. M. HENRI is another juggler a Mend, and is remarka bly clever; throwing up bottles, and catching them on the back of his hand and on his head. His concluding per formance is wonderful. With a plate in his mouth, held by the edge, on the other edge is balanced a kind of wooden chandelier, with a dish at top. At one time, he balances no less than five dishes on his head and shoul ders, all spinning, and the horse galloping round the circle all the time ! What next ? THE BAND.—That most essential and highly pleasing adjunct to the performances, which seems to animate the very horses by its inspiriting strain. The eye and the ear may be considered as rivals, when action, in the absence of speech, is the character of an exhibition. When the eye is fully occupied, we are often insensible to the beau tiful harmony of sounds which are presented to the ear : the organ of vision being the superior one of the two. The band consists of about thirty performers, and is most admirable, with a just mixture of wind a nd string instru menton, partaking, as it should do, more of the military in character. It is under the clever conductorship of M. Hamet,. chef d '?! . .55 e .1 1 . 1 14,411 a r tnailoritagiAlg'Vgit by his judicious selections. Each performance has its true character and style of music, and is varied during the time, and often of the most fascinating description. There is one continued change of the most charming airs, and we find ourselves constantly bumming what we have heard. H. M. THE JEWS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SlR,—Those who are bent on destroying the Christian character of our legislature, and to disavow their holy religion in the highest assembly in the land, tell us that the country generally is in favour of this shameless pro position. Why ? Because it does not assume a peti tionary attitude. Is not this a reproach upon those whose position enables them to lead and convey the sentiments of the people ? Has not every clergyman an opportunity of sending a well-filled petition from his church ? I fear it is too late to seek to influence the Commons : let the House of Lords, then, without delay, be besieged. The responsibility of the clergy is great. Why is not a meet ing celled to concert operations ?—Yours, CHRISTIAN. [Our correspondent's expostulation should be attended to. Why is it not ?—Eo. L. S.] The rectory house at Clutton, near Bristol, the residence of the Rev. J. B. Johnstone, was broken into on Tuesday. The villains ransacked the whole of the lower part of the house, throwing everything into the greatest confusion, and appropriating any little box or desk which they could not at once open. At length they discovered a large iron chest.weighing several hundreds weight. This, as well as the other boxes, they did not stay to examine on the pre mises, but carried away to an old quarry in the neigh bourhood, known by the name of Stoneacre. Here they set to work to open the chest, and empty its contents on the ground, when, lo ! instead of plate and valuables they found they had merely taken the trouble to carry away the parish registers ! These were all found on search being made, in the course of the morning, together with the fragments of the small boxes taken away and broken open. Some few articles are missed, but none of any great value. How CHILDREN LIVE.—A clergyman of St. George's, East (the worst parish in London), relates the following circumstance :—He happened one day, recently, to enter a little shop in his district, in the early part of the morn ing. A little child, a poor, wan, half-starved thing, came in with a little mug, and asked for a farthing's worth of dried pease, which were duly supplied to her. He asked the shopkeeper what the child wanted with those pease ? " Why, sir," said the man, "they are for her breakfast." " What do you mean the clergyman asked. ." Why, sir, that child's parents are probably at the public-house, or they may be gone out to work, And they find that the cheapest sort of breakfast, or substitute for a'breakfast, which they can give that child, is just a farthing's-worth of pease. Those pease she will take home, and put a little water over them. They will then be set by the fire, if there is any, or by a neighbour's tire, and, after a while, +her win soften, and swell, and thnl she will get a sort of breakfast ; and, in all probability, that is all the food she will have till the parents return home in the afternoon. But, so far is this from being a singular case, it is becom ing quite a practice with parents who go out to work, or to beg, or to idle. I often sell to such children, in this one shop, as many as forty of these farthing's-worth of pease, in the course of a single morning.• That is, I have forty little customers, like that girl, in the course of an hour or two !" _ _ ACCOMMODATION FOR PAUPERS.—At the Worship street (London) Police-office, on Thursday, two miserable looking men, who had at one time been respectable tradesmen in the city, applied to the magistrates. One of them said that he had been reduced unexpectedly to the utmost destitution, and had applied to the overseer for relief, who gave him a piece of dry bread for himself and children, and an order for a night's lodgings, with. which he and his children were taken down a gateway into a kind of long shed, apart from the workhouse, where about 40 other outcasts were admitted, and lay huddled together in a row upon the ground, with nothing but some straw to serve for a bed. The place, which was extremely wretched, had two sky-lights in the roof, but so many of the panes were broken that the wind ancl.rain poured down upon them throughout the night, and they were almost paralyzed with the cold an d d am p , which produced in him arsevere attack of rheumatism arid had so affected his hearing that i t was only with great difficulty that he had been able to hear and understand an ythi ng since. The place, too , was so i nfested with rats that they were unceasingly annoyed by them until the next morn ing. He had lived 40 years in the parish, and his former master would employ him again, but his deafness and r heumatism prevented him working. Three of this man's c hildren were shivering on the floor round the fire of the outer office, and the eldest, a boy about 11 or 12 years of age, who was resting his body on the coal-scuttle, mani festly very ill, and whose naked skin was visible in several places through his scanty clothing, the father stated that he was afraid he should not have him alive in the morn ing.—The other man gave a similar account, but added that thinking it prudent to save his bread till the morning, lest he should not get any more, he placed it in his hat, and on awaking found that it had been devoured by the rats, who had also carried off the handkerchief in which it had been wrapped, and which he had some difficuity in extricating from the hole down which it had been carried. The magistrates gave each of them 55., and sent a message to the overseer.