The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-09-14 00:00:00

(From Pc Oh yes, all t Around, ber Round us as Above t And wh looks fort ight o'c And in Wande bath giv less tongue cai Vainly had beauty rol. Had we no mindi to love the sc wildly, bloor, nhia traoda hi &RIETIES NOTIONS 0 turned to this country from a foreign tour i asked how he liked the ruins of Pompeii h out of r n) Obsert —The Salem (A i is the r gives ainder, the following :—A divi result, end, of a transaction divided amongst ti holders—hence the word divide ends, • An apot inally carried his medicine about in jars—he vv. Tier—and from thence came the word A-pot-he- urplus, the rem, pot cal carrie: -Two Dutchmen living opposite s been in the habit of ELICITING AN IDEA each other, who had for many ye smoking by their door-sides forth in the following dialogu zth broke What sort of we don't know wi nettled 1 tink i you fink it will be, Well, I tink so —The reporter of the Philadel abstract of Gen. Carey's " The speaker -fields of The _other, acqu 4NSCENDENTALISII phia North American, giving temperance speech on Tuesday _ ided to the glories of the several batt , xico ; and, unwilling to detract the least from them, I they were like the meteor's track through the perish of this noble effort deur as *le had tv itself being ing sky in comparisor Sons of 'emperance, the cin JOHH KNOB —The house ii now occupied by 1 got Next ,g in gr I, Eter ne below, the other up stairs of Km day, as I was curious to see' as Much as possible of this notable house, I got shaved up stairs, and they charged me twopence. How is this ?" said I, " your neighbour below charged me only a penny yesterday." "0 ho said he, " but this is the very room to preach on' on to the folks in the street. said I, " this being the case, I think myself it is worth penny." He said Queen Mary told her courtier that sill was more afraid of the prayers of John Knox thar army of 10,000 men ! She was a deep, diso politic woman. On one occasion, liav;- that JOhn Knox used " " Well." matter to manage with John, sh the sofa, holdinv 1 difficdi r got the best of the bargain, for John afterwards remarked to one of his friends, " What a pity the de'il should hae his abode in sic a piece of bonny painted clay."—Grant Thorburn. She rai THOMAS CARLYLE AND DR CEIALMERS.—WC were fortunate enough, when recently in England, to track his course in more places than one. We heard of him in the parlour of the author of " Sartus Resartus," whom he had, uninvited, unexpected, but not unwelcome, visited. They had met twenty years before, and had parted mutually estranged, if not disgusted. They met recently, and parted after some l mutually delighted. We can fa that of two rivers—one I Lny—ti other still gloomy —the o intercourse, I D: ncy their meeting, like rapid,• clear, and and profound—both le a loud vet irreomlar thunder psalm," the Other a wilder, lower, and More mystic melody. Two spirits more earnest—two more in essential points at one and two—more influential over the rising minds of the age—did not breathe. They met— they interchanged thoights, like the shields of Diomede and Glaucus—they parted, to meet no more on earth, for the one was bound for eternity, and had only time to look in and make his peace with a kindred spirit, ere he went his way. We need not to remind our readers that Dr Chalmers had, in an article on " Morell's Philosophy," taken occasion to pass a glowing panegyric on Thomas Carlyle, and that this suitably paved the way for their last meeting.—George Giljtin in Tait's Magazine. A TERRIBLE VISION.—Sir Walter Scott's advice to those " who would see fair Melrose aright" may be very )bcable to ruined abbeys, but we should decline to 3. to those not yet touched by " decay's fallow it in regi Eitrrature. POETRY GOD IS LOVI waters $ for My ( can rest evervwl for ?" " For vermicelli, your Majesty—for very fine ver micelli paste !" " Charming," said the King, laughing heartily, " paste ! I must tell you something about it. These are Chi”- - ' which my sister the Queen se birds - nest , nt me I of the costs a c Netherlands lucat (ten shillir a s a present. Every nest Miserable waste, to give so people have crotchets and onetimes. You are right ; The poor have not even ."—Memoirs of the Pri f Prussia, by Mrs. Richard- as well 'e Life of Lbuisa, Q tneral 1i i~~tllaitn. IThe income of the Corporation of London is ze405,320 lowed to ch.ange irding to the A chef whirh is le_ has caug 251 qrs. t a mouse, e a canary, though in - a low key A. bust of the y i in the elnirch lat Aldborm On Satur the Derbvs vernor of sound. Henry H himself deal ce where he was born .ower of viously asked another boy to - Low fell among t, Esq., has been elected deputy go- England. :ount of the loss of the Mastiff is contradicted D the last accounts, was safe and s, a boy only fourteen years old, has shot He had pre- bserves the Birminghamfournal, " seems what has become of Lord Brougham. He id now he is no where to have an id 'lt has been on Bishop of Wort( Lord Chancellor of England, Lord Cottenham, visit to his Right Reverend brother, the r, at the Episcopal Palace, Hartleburv. Jenny Lind will leave England for llamburgh, en route for Berlin, at the beginning of October. She will spend the winter in the bosom of her family at Stockholm. Duke and Duchess of Norfolk have sent £3O to the )n subscription for the purchase of treasurer Shakspear Since the act was passed which allows letters of any weight to go by post, a leg of mutton, and a basket of grapes, have gone through the Darlington Post-office ! The sentence of death passed on John Connor, a seaman on board the Victory, for striking a midshipman, has been commuted to two years' imprisonment There were no fewer than twenty flu , Tuesday's Gazette. In Friday's Gazette then bankrupts in last re fifteer. vs that on Friday a I •ge quantity by the 'lgt i bakers were cons quently compelled to lower their -prices Last week, an Irishman was detected, in a field near Huddersfield, stealing potatoes. He first pulled up the plant, cleared it of the tubers, and then planted the stem - The Inverness Courier says that at the end of the Highland sports at Ardverikie, on Thursday week, Prince Albert amused himself by " putting the stone," and ac quitted himself with much dexterity. A respectable farmer of Somersetshire brow horses to Bristol fair on Wednesday, which he ght some sold for his pocket before he quitted the fair. A match at cricket was played at Sheffield between ele ven of All England and eighteen of Sheffield wh en th e _ _ latter won with 17 wickets to go down. Lord Milton and the Hon. C. Fitzwilliam were among the Sheffield players. A man in attempting to ford the sands at 111o;eca . :mbe Bay on Sunday week, below the regular place where the guide attends, was surrounded by the tide, and before as sistance could be sent to him -he was drowned. Captain Henry Mangles Denham, R.N., F.R.S., having been appointed by the Admiralty to inspect arid report upon the lighting and buoying of the Firth of Tay, has proceeded to Dundee for that purpose. _ The Morning Chronicle states that the mansion of a noble duke is in the possession of bailiffs for the satisfac tion of debts. His Grace the Duke of Buckingham is supposed to be alluded to. SUNDAY CRICKETING.—On Sunday week, a boy named Charles Morse, aged 13, met his death by a blow from a cricket ball, while playing with two other boys at Stan well, Middlesex. ACCIDENT AT THE PEEBLES HITSTINGS.— One of the gentlemen who fell at the Peebles hustings has died in consequence of his injuries, and it is said the con tractor is to be tried at the ensuing Jedburgh Circuit. Mr. Constable, publisher, of Edinburgh, has given the large sum of £lO,OOO for the manuscripts left by the late Chalmer Amongst them is a commentary on the s far as the book of Jeremiah At the Leeds District Court of Bankruptcy, last week, Mr. Joseph Garner, spinner and manufacturer, of Brad ford, on appearing to pass his final examination, stated his good debts to amount to £4 is. Sd. and his bad debts to £2OOO. Mr. Massey, of Altrincham, found, last week, a chicken coming chirping from the horse midden. An egg is sup- posed to lave been id there by some .en, and to have The chicken is been hatched by the heat of the manure alive and doing well. A NOVEL PAUPER.—In the stomach of a cod caught at Kishorn, the other day, was found part of one of the go vernment meal bags, containing an order attached to 141 b. of meal. The inspector was a good deal nonplussed at such a claim.—Rossshire Advertiser. The Kendal Mercury says that last week a shepherd's dog furiously attacked a locomotive engine which was proceeding along the Furness Railway, and was so maimed by the wheels of its steam enemy that its owner was com pelled to kill it. BRISTOL.—A few days since, no fewer than 25 vessels THE LIVERPOOL §tAkDAiti). MARRIAGE OF JENNY LIND.---The " Swedish Nightin gale" has, it is reported, taken unto herself a mate. The envied man is said to be a banker, of Stockholm, an Eng lishman, and related by marriage to a gentleman in whom are united the characteristics of a London banker and a Grecian historian. The ceremony took place, we are told, at Manchester.—Daily News. _ _ _ As an instance of the extreme drought o may be mentioned that the Tay, which pours more wate into the sea than any river in Scotland, is just the season, it tained that the deCeased NV - as Mr. G. Burnett, an exten sive merchant of Newcastle, and a member of the well known firm of Locke. Blackett, and Co. He possesse( 1w lower than it ever was knosin to be before. Only al inch of rain has fallen in the vicinity of it: July. Most of its smaller tributaries are dry power cannot be got oftener than an hour or two in a the proverbial equanimity of the jolly millers has been somewhat disturbed. postage on foreign letters by means of sta completed. One shilling - will one the present, and the pogt-othr be only those in some of ti- stamp mps, are nearly y be issued for 11 them will entitled to STRANGE PATENTS.—Among the latest list of patents is to be found one of a very curious nature, and thus de scribed :—"An invention for making paper for the build ing of houses, bridges, ships, boats, and all sorts of wheel dom, until further arran stamps will be about the size of the penny postage stamps carriages, sedan c :,ables, anc t!relyof paper, or wood and iron covered with . . the same list, there is mentioned a patent for "roasting a great number of joints of meat, fowls, &c., horizontally and vertically—`on a mathematical principle.'" ELOPEMENT.—A handsome young lady, aged twenty, the daughter of a wealthy gentleman residing at Acton, near London, eloped on Friday, it is supposed with a Mr. , ialtar; Malta, lonian Islands, Honduras, United States, Bermuda, Halifax,-Newfoundland, Panama, Chili, Peru, Venezuela, western coast of America, Prussia, Belgium, Holland, Java, New South Wales, and New Zealand. WHAT SEASONING CAN DO.—ln the county court held Hart, aged about thirty-five, the proprietor and driver of a stage coach, by which the fair one frequently proceeded for the price of a quantity of beef which he had to town The lady was see the gentleman, and it is said that they were married in London, but where they had gone to spend their honey moon is not known. RELUCTANCE OF THE IRISH POOR TO BE REMOVED. —On Monday, three Irishmen, two of them brothers, who had become chargeable to the township of Leeds, were committed to prison, the p Leeds Court-house, for refusing name pay any higher price t for the meat of which they le one he had charged Raines ex 3ressed the utmost disgust at the defendan his whole fraternity. They deserved to be prosecuted for poisoning the public. The cause excited much mirth amongst the spectators, excepting those who had reple niql.,lChair nnArthe vEri+h flu-kr] nF thn A rAa 0 sign in order that they might be sent to their settlements in Ireland. They had been in England only a few months, 'he question was as butcher hat star :e the meat in ques- Ile beast, had heen tion was it and yet they preferred confinement in piis, turning to their native land. EATING BANK OF ENGLAND NOTES.—TWO privates of the Royal Marines, just paid off at Woolwich, for a trifling wager commenced eating several £5 Bank of England notes, with " bread, cheese, and onions," but were stopped by some of their more sensible comrades. Fortunately the numbers of the notes remained unmu tilated. The Prometheus and the Phoenix have just been paid off, and the seamen have been playing similar absurd tricks. Alost of the sailors have received nearly £lOO each. THE MIRFIELD MURDERS.—It is said that a young girl, whose parents have hitherto prevented her giving evidence, can give so triple murder. She says That she saw the crockman M'Cabe, who was admitted Queen's evidence at the recent trial, come out of the house by a back door on the day the atrocious deed was committed, and that she after wards saw the nephew of the deceased, Wraith, enter the garden, go round and look through the window, and sub sequently leave the premises for assistance. STEAM TO AUSTRALIA.—Sir George Larpent, Bart., as Chairman of the Committee for extending Steam Com munication between Australia, India, and England, has re ceived information from Sydney, by the last mail, thatthe Legislative Council of New South Wales has voted £5OO per month out of the colonial revenues towards carrying out this great object, thus incontestably proving the anxiety of the southern colonies on the subject, which is not surprising, as they are the only portion of the empire excluded from the benefit of steam intercourse with Eng land. Two CHILDREN FOUND MURDERED.—On Sunday morning, about six o'clock, the police-constable on duty on Walworth-common, discovered a wicker basket hidden in a ditch on the common, and on opening it found the body of a female infant, about fourteen days old, wrapped in a blue cotton handkerchief, death having been caused by a bandage tied over the mouth. About the same hour the same morning some boys bathing in the Regent's canal at Mile-end, found the body of a male infant, about three weeks old, that had been strangled with a piece of cord and then thrown into the water. . SINGULAR DEATII.—A labourer, named Gibb, aged 53, came to his death in a strange manner, on Sunday week, at East Grimstead, Sussex. He had been drinking a day or two before, and from the position in which he was discovered in the morning, when he was found quite dead, it appears that he had endeavoured to find the gate, which opened into a little court in front of his cot tage, but without success ; by some means his head drop ped over the pailings, and became fixed between two upright pieces, and from this situation he was unable to extricate himself. THE LOTHIANS.—Harvest in the Lothians mar be said tp be finished. There is, indeed, grain still uncut in the higher grounds, but in extent it is comparatively trivial; and the general account of the yield is highly favourable. Wheat is truly an abundant crop, and fine in quality. Most of it has been secured in the barn yard without a drop of rain. Barley is also an excellent crop, and finer quality has not been grown in this part of the island for many years ; and even oats turn out in many instances much better than was at one time anticipated. Beans and peas stook well, and promise a good return. The greater portion of this crop is yet in the field.—Scotsman. THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN INSTITUTE. -- At a meeting of the shareholders on Monday last, the accounts of this unsuccessful concern were audited, when it ap peared that there remained a mall balance (between £2OO and £300) due to the shareholders, after meeting all liabilities. But the spirited and indefatigable secre tary, Mr. Buckingham, has, in the course of the five years during which the institute existed, relinquished or expended from his own private resources the sum of £1350, besides having given his services without salary or remuneration, beyond the occupation of apartments on the society's premises. A testimonial is to be presented MELANCHOLY SUICIDE.—As some reapers were about ErrictomarisTAitt Pox CHASE AT BATH.—On Friday, to commence reaping in a corn field near Scotswood, the inhabitants of Bath-street were surprised by the ap about five miles from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, they dis- pearance of a fox running at full speed through the covered the body of a man lying near the hedge, at one neighbourhood, el corner of the field, covered with blooc dreadfully cut, the instrument of death tightly grasped in the right hand. It in the Cl Ind to have enm -beer bottl ,or the varmint, he was f in the bar amongst the which he made some havoc stand that the animal escaped from the pre] Knott, of the Abbey Green.—Balh Herald. „.. OMNAMB •A singular Ci with rernarkabl Ttsriloutli,on Fr and with of somnambulism y morning had attempt to break into the house , bed, he missed his brother, and o at the end of the room altogether removed ceeding to the yard they found the young ma ground, cold and senseless, and the window sha atoms. The width of the aperture through whic but On rising from hi' to the ground did not exceed 16 inch, high iron pa. attendance immediately On pro- e wall were disco nd discovered -o; ,I. y a STY T slight bruise ABOMINABLE OUTRAGE Yorkshire, The charth or the purpose and others. I —On Saturday a meeting ke parish church of Wakefie of agreeing to a churc property in the parish, when a scene of disgraceful outrage o..3curred. Mr. Barratt, gardener, who is a conservative, againstwas collared, thrust the window, and several voices begged that he might be thrown out, cursing and swearing going on at the same time, and the Vicar being chased about the place. An old man falling over some stones, was trampled upon by the anti-churchmen, and was only rescued by the efforts of a humane individual. The Vicar was fortunate enough to escape, but Mr. Barratt was pushed down the steps, and had one of his legs much hurt dj with the name of murd and had the meanness to expect country editors to circu late...their absurd false, and unscriptural tracts gratuitously. HORSE V. STEAM.—A few daysago a rather humourous incident occurred on the Newcastle and Berwick Railway, by which the comparative powers of the horse and the locomotive engine were fairly tested. As the engine No. 137 was coming to Newcastle, and when near Chatbill (a part of the line on which Mr. M'Kay, the contractors, are still employed), a spirited horse belonging to Messrs. M'Kay, when from fright or frolic, suddenly set off at full speed in front of the engine, which wa'S going at the rate of 30 miles an hour. The driver of the engine, being fearful of the consequences, eased the engine, and en deavoured, by frequent shrill whistles, to drive the animal off the line, but in vain ; for a full mile or more the horse held on his way with unabating speed. At length the engine coming rather close upon him, the animal darted on to the parallel line, and, as if determined not to be beaten, still proceeded, and rushed once more in front of the engine' At this point the horse had run nearly three miles, and the driver, finding himself de layed, resolved to pass his opponent at all risks, and, in creasing the speed of the engine, soon came close upon his quarters, when the animal bounded aside, and kicked up its heels as the train passed, to the great amusement of the driver, stoker, and several of the passengers. The entire distance which the horse ran with the train was about four miles.—Berwick Warder The Sheriff-substitute of cated to the Lord Mayor bodies of two gentlemen, N re has commu finding of the r, of 49, Fen- church-street,London, and William Henry Whitburn, brewer, of Esher, Surrey, who had been found dead by the roadside, two miles from' Kinlochbeg. There was.not the slightest sign of struggling, or of violence, and their ap pearance gave the impression that, having sat down to rest, they became benumbed with the cold, and expired. Both were dressed as if travellers, each with a small whisky pocket flask, quite empty, lying near them. A waterproof cape was lying about 400 yards from them, as if the wind had blown it. there. The. night was very stormy—very much so—wind and rain in great abundance, probably the most stormy night we have had this year. A medical cer tificate expressed the opinion that death was caused by ex haustion and cold, from the deceased having fallen asleep on the mountain on that boisterous night. The two gen tlemen were strangers to each other, and had journeyed together accidentally. Bash had left his home for the pur pose of enjoying a pleasure excursion through the romantic scenery of Scotland, and they had been seen on the pre ceding night laughing with a milk girl, at no great distance from the spot on which their corpses were found. Mr. Stericker had written home on the 31st of August, to in form his friends that he felt perfect happiness in the en joyment of the most romantic country in the world. _ THE NAVIGATION LAWS.—We aro glad to find an ad vocate for the maintenance of the much-reviled Navigation Laws, in a quarter where we little expected such Anti- Free-Trade opinions, Douglas Jerrold's Magazine. The passage to which we allude occurs in a notice of, Com mander Smith's Treatise on the "Navigation Laws," and runs thus :—"The author of this pamphlet has brought Sept. 14,184 A. t k m t CUMBERLAND.- .Thanks to a wise and gracious Proti. dence, we have been favoured with one of the most abun dantly glorious harvests that ever adorned the smiling plainings heard in any part of verywhere the grain crops con s few ,und, I this agricultural district preceding the late infection drawing to a close: the! on the_ whole, to be as healthy nd sweet as in any year lie grain harvest is fast ire only patches left here and e graitt under by no means (ac was at one time prognosticated) been a late one, and nearly half a century has elapsed since the labours of the htsbandman hair° been so abundantly rewarded.— DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.—On Thursday, a fire b: midnight at Cottenham, the place so celebrate • The fire ses and. homestaits, which were stored with grain of all sorts. To' give an idea of the extent of the fire it may be as well tcr observe that the village of Cottenham is one mile in length r and the fire extended full one-third of that distance. Wes understood the damage done amounts to between £15,000 and £20,000, but most of it is ins ure d i n th e N orw i c h T • • The following Lange Fire-offices, d :-12 dwelling n, hay, &c., and ingular fact, that vatt, which with ame village about the old farmhouse, belongir. Lweiny ago, was again proof against the devouring element, although, as it were, nearly in the midst of it. This house, which is a very large one, stood as a barrier between the dames and the produce of nearly 1,000 acres, which must inevitably have been destroyed if the house , 1 • -This ed pa- ze patrona, Lords of the Admiralty' ana , board, is of such importance in all cases where submarine foundations are to-be formed, that every body interested in scientific pursuits, and the success of those who have devoted their talents and labours to Useful improvements, will be desirous of knowing something of the principle and manner of the invention. It is simply the application of the pneumatic process to the sinking of tubular iron piles. A hollow iron pile is placed upon then surface through which it is required to be sunk ; by means , of an air-pump it is rendered a vacuum. This being'ef— ,_ 4. nom tne nottom, and as they rush in the pile descends by its own weight into the cavity left by their ascent. The sand, shingle, soil, and water are then discharged from the pile by an apparatus for pumping ; a fresh vacuum is formed, and the pile sinks further and further. A'series of these piles are sunk, which may be filled with chalk, wood, or concrete, as the case may be, and tied together by bolts and nuts and some similar contrivance, and the foundation of a sea wall; or the foundation of a lighthouse, pier, or breakwater, effectually formed. The process has been tried in the Goodwin Sands, and has been found to answer admirably. The rapidity with which the piles are sunk is very surprising. More is done in an hour by the air-pump and a hollow iron tube than can be performed in a day, or even in a week, by the common method of driving a wooden pile with the weight called the " mon key." The invention is eqtfally applicable to foundations for railways and bridges, and; indeed, in all places where wooden piles are required. MURDER NEAR DONCASTER.—OR Saturday evening, a most cold-blooded murder was committed at the Don Pottery, at Mexborough, between Doncaster and the Swinton station, on the North• Midland Railway. The unfortunate victim is a man named Caleb Barker, wha was in the employ of Mr. Barker, the proprietor of the Don Pottery, as warehouseman. The circumstances under which the unfortunate man has met his death are very mysterious. On Saturday night, the deceased went from —a. which is very near the pottery, to a public house- When he left home Mrs. Simpson, at Swint;ri he asked his wife for a shilling, which she gave him, and during the time he was at the public house he drank two pints of ale. He left the public house between half-past nine and ten o'clock in the evening, and was not seen again by any of his friends until hewas discovered (lying partly on the footpath with his head in a ditch) by a fellow-workman named Gower. This man was going from Swinton in the directionof the deceased's house when he found him in that condition ; he lifted up deceased, and, finding him insensible,•Gower called to two other men who were fol lowing him, and, with their assistance, the deceased was taken to his own home, which is within a 100 yards of the place where he was found. On searching the spot a great quantity of blood was found. where the deceased's head had lain, and a little way off his hat and a pitcher, in which he was carrying home some ale from the public house, were found. Medical aid was procured as soon as Barker was taken home, he being alive; but quite insensi ble, and everything was done to save his life, but he died the following morning about five o'clock. At present the whole affair is enveloped in mystery; Information has been sent to the Secretary of State,: in the hope that a reward will be offered. LORD DIINDONALD'S WAR MACHINES.—In a pub lished letter to the elective Peers of Scotland, the Earl of Dundonald better known as Lord Cechrane, thus speaks of his own inventions :—" This is, however, an important question, only inferior to the national benefits to be de rived from restoring to the naval service the rewards of valour and exertion, namely, the preventing the funds that might and ought to be applied to improve the naval de partment from being diverted to comp ara ti ve l y useless purposes, underlhe mistaken impression, that in war our coasts and commerce, can be protected by forts and ports of refuge; I assert, my lords, after the most deliberate professional consideration, that ( Lawler Luau any miler colour. Ine juage inquired now it could in any way be made palatable, and the answer he received was, " Oh, its seasoning that does it."—Local CONSUMPTION of SUGAR.—There has been an aston ishing increase in the consumption of sugar during the last four years ; the consumption in each of the years was as follows— 1844 1845 1846 -1847 CAA' fs 4,037,921 4,879,780 Year ending Aug. 7. 4,723,474 5,980,684 ugars were ceding year,and of about 100,000 tons when compared with the year 1844, the last year of the old duties. This is an in creased consumption of not less than 50 per cent. In 1844, the duty on British plantation sugar was 245. and 5 per cent. per cwt., ; and that on for6ign sugar, 635. and 5 per cent.; and the total revenue yielded by the article was £5,087,830. In the year ending August 5, 1847, the duty oe British plantation sugar was 14s. per cwt. ' - and that on foreign, of various kinds, 21s. 245. 6d., and (on refined) 285.; and the revenue, £4,707,770. Thus, the loss from a series of reductions of duty, by which revenue of the amount of upwards of £2,000,000 was sacrificed, is now not more than £335,692, or less than the fifth part of the original sacrifice ! SWALLOWING HALF-CROWNS.—At the Worship-street police-office, London, on Monday, C. Thompson, alias Townley, was charged with having in his possession a large quantity of counterfeit coin, and aiso with assaulting a serjeant of police, who took him into custody. On Sa turday evening, as Seijeant Brannan, of the G. division, was reconnoitering in plain clothes, with a constable, in the neighbourhood of Old-street, he saw the prisoner, in the company of two other men, whom he at once recog nised as notorious " smashers." On observing that they were watched, the whole of them made off, but the ser geant overtook and seized the prisoner, who drew from his pocket a handful of half-crown pieces, which the ser geant endeavoured to wrest from him, when he was grap pled by the prisoner and flung heavily on the pavement. The prisoner then commenced swallowing the counterfeit coin, four of which he had got rid of, and had transferred the last two to his, mouth, when the sergeant struck him a sharp blow under the jaw, which compelled him to drop them into the road. With the assistance of the other offi cer, the prisoner was then handcuffed and conveyed to the station-house, when, upon being searched, nine other spurious half-crawns and five-shilling pieces were found in his possession. —The prisoner was remanded for the at tendance of the Mint authorities. • DRAINAGE OF LAND.—The first and grand object in the pursuit of agriculture is the efficient drainage of the land, which had for years been to a great extent neg lected, and is but yet beginning to be duly appreciated. Mr. Simon Hutchinson, of Manthorpe Lodge, Grantham, IT done the country great service by the publication of his experiences in the art in a pamphlet entitled " Prac tical Instructions on the Drainage of Land," has already reached a fourth edition. The author recommended air drains, in addition to the usual parallel drains—a system then new to the public ; and experience has fully proved the accuracy of his deductions. The experiment has been tried on a large scale, at Marnham, this year, and has fully succeeded, the air-drained portion of a large field of turnips, having produced a finer crop of turnips than the other portions of the land, from, it appears the draught of air constantly passing underground, and es caping by the outlets, added to a " steamy evaporation," frequently visible, arising from the drains. He has con sequently arrived at the conclusion, " that drains two feet deep, with air-drains to facilitate evaporation, &c., are equal to drains two feet six inches deep, without such auxiliaries. The plan is simple and cheap, and we re commend Mr. Hutchinson's little, but valuable work, to all practical agriculturists. or two 26th ult. A party of boys crossing the Palace Green about half-past nine in the evening of that day startled by one of their companions, who declared he a man walking to and fro on the top of the lantern tower. He was deceived by the reflection of a part of the battlement, and, having at length become persuaded of this, the happy thought struck one of the party to turn their companion's alarm into a practical joke. The con spirators forthwith proceeded to the house of one of the cathedral functionaries, who lives in a remote part of the town, and in his company sought one of the vergers, with whom they proceeded to the Cathedral. Here a council was held to determine what was next to be done. All the newly-arrived were persuaded they saw what their worst fears had anticipated—one bent either on self-destruction or on destroying the church. After various opinions, it was at length determined to scale the tower, notwith standing its three hundred and odd steps and stairs— gloomy, winding, and steep. On arriving at what is milled the Cat's Bridge, a noise was heard as of some one moving. All believed that they were in the presence of the mysterious stranger, and were not a little anxious as to the way he might receive their untimely intrusion However, it turned out to be a " Boding owl, that to the . _ ght complains," which they had disturbed. After having recovered from the effects of this unwelcome contretemps, our heroes prosecuted their journey with renewed vigour, and at length reached the top, when, not without sundry palpita tions, the door was opened, and they found—that they had been gulled.—Durham Advertiser. NAPOLEON ON CHRISTIANITY. — The following state ment i s said to have been made to General Bertrand by Napoleon Buonaparte, when on his death-bed. It stands opposed to Gibbon's weak and futile attempt to account for the progress of Christianity from secondary causes : I know men, and I'll tell you that Jesus was not a man. xistent mystery, and it proceeded in. There is in it a deep peculiarity of character, which has produced a succession of doc trines and maxims till then unknown. Jesus borrowed nothing from human knowledge ; neither was he a philo sopher, for his proofs were miracles, and his disciples from the very first adored him. In fact, science and philosophy are powerless to salvation, and the sole object of Jesus in coming into the world was to unveil the mys teries of heaven and the laws of mind. Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and 1, have founded empires ; . but on what have we rested the creations of our genius ? Upon force. Only Jesus has fou nd e d an empire upon, love ; and, at this moment, millions of men would die for him. It was not a day, nor a battle, that won the victory over the world for the christian religion. No ; it was a long war, a fight of three_ centuries, begun by tire His religion is a set from a mind not hu Apostles, and continued by their successors and the christian•genrations that followed. In that war, all the kings and powers of the earth were on one side ; and on the other side I see no army, but a mysterious force, and and a few men scattered here and there through all parts of the world, and who had no rallying point, but their faith in the mysteries of the cross. I die before my time, and my body will be put into the ground to become the food of worms. Such is the fate of the great Napoleon ! What an abyss between my deep wretchedness and Christ's eternal kingdom, proclaimed, loved, adored, and spreadin g through the world. Was that dying ? Was it not rather to live ?" With these words Napoleon ceased ; but General Bertrand making no reply, he added, " If you do not know that Jesus Christ is God, I have been wrong in 3U Genera drownec kNECDOTES OF T 1 A the King arrived at this port in one day, from foreign parts. This is a very unusual number, and it was caused chiefly by several arrivals of vessels with grain, and other articles of food, both from Europe and America. THE RIBBON TRADE.—A document, declaring the de termination of the ribbon manufacturers of Coventry not to depart from the imperial standard measure of thirty six inches to the yard, has been signed by all the principal ribbon-manufacturers in Coventry. On Thursday last, Mary Johnson, a maid-servant in the employ of Mrs. Ellis, at Harrogate, went to an old brick-pond for the purpose of fetching water for some domestic use, when she accidentally slipped in and was It is understood that a commission to inquire into the special means requisite for the sanitary improvement of the metropolis is about to be issued, consisting of Lord R. Grosvenor, Mr. Chadwick, Dr. S. Smith, Professor Owen, F.R.S., and Mr. L. Jones. WINDOW DUTY.—We believe it is now pretty certain that from the 6th of April next, when the current taxes year ends, the window duty will either be entirely repealed or the present number (eight) now chargeable altered. — Sun. _ On Monday night, a carrier, residing at Bath, dropped a spark from a candle in a drawer, containing £3OO in bank notes. He shut the drawer without perceiving the mis chief, and on opening it the next morning, found all the notes destroyed. , _ _ _ _ The Edznburgh Courant says that such was the vio lence of the waves at Bell Rock, on the night of Saturday the 21st ult. that, at the lighthouse mussels were thrown up from the bed of the sea into the windows of the sleep ing apartments of the lighthouse-keepers, a height of no less than seventy feet. LITERARY INSTITUTIONS.—Two of the largest of these establishments in the metropolis, the Western Literary Institution, Leicester-square, and the Eastern, in the Hackney-road, have been broken up during the past week, and their extensive libraries, museums, and collections of philosophical apparatus, are to be sold by auction. On Saturday, the occupants of upwards of fifty houses in Wheeler- street , Patmin-street , Bell- alley , and Garthing - street, Spitalfields, received noticq to quit their premises forthwith, the ground they occupy being required for the extension of the Eastern Counties Railway to Guildford street, Brunswick-square, London. CHEAP TRAVELLING. — The Irish reapers are returning home from this neighbourhood ; all go by railway in large bodies ; from Lincoln to Liverpool they are carried. in the cattle carriages for 6s. a-head. Independent of the saving of time, this is a less sum than it would cost each for food and refreshment in walking from Lincoln to Liverpool.— lercurl/ Stamfort The Times. of Monday has a sharp att on Lord Mountcashel, who had talked about the Irish landlords not paying their debt contracted with England,—because they " could not do it ;" the thunderer stating that such an example would lead to the denial of the na• tional debt ; and endanger all the hereditary broad acres of the aristocracy : an argument held up in terrorem. Mary Ann Hunt, convicted at the Central Criminal Court, of the murder of the poor old lady, Mrs. Stowell, with whom she lodged in Marylebone, has made a full confession of her guilt, of which, indeed, there could be no doubt. She is enciente, and will not be delivered for four months, till which time the sentence must remain in abeyance Her Majesty having been in formed that John Maclean, of Inverness, known was as " the Highland Historian," was in great distress, and at the advanced age of one hundred peon and eight months, sent the centenarian a cheek for £lO, in a letter written by Colonel Anson. On receiving the amount the High land patriarch was overwhelmed with joy and astonish ment. MUNIFICI A monster banquet, at which 700 journeymen carpenters partook of a substantial dinner and its accompaniments, took place on Tuesday last, in the large room of Cremorne uardens, London, to celebrate the compact just entered en the master builders in London and the ,urneymen or operatives, by which tho ed from labour at four o'clock on and enabled to enjol ailed " The Nation ,f all Reformers," s e for promoting acting " the real ment," is now neetin - g, for talk on Wednesday. Thompson v he chair, and amongst the onel Thompson, Mr. Miall, Dr. Epps, co: I. Vincen ) QUEEN. OF PRUSSIA.—Th life, was the Gen. von Kockeritz ; he was consequently a daily guest at the Royal table, and treated as a member of the family. The Queen had remarked for some time past that the good old man retired earlier than formerly, and sooner than was agreeable to the King, who liked to moved the dinner was re son, but the King he likes ; s society for some time aft__ ' The Queen asked the re,..,.. . said, " Let the brave old man _ after dinner he prefe rs repose i n p r i va t e however, with her restless activity, so 4 reason of his early departure. It had ry to the good old soldier, from long habi his pipe immediately after dinner, and he ret re, to indulge this (to him) physical neces f n ii nw inz day, when he was as usual excl lon found I become hasten full of merriment,placed to light it, in the bands Ind old friend, to-day yen 1-filled pir ickeritz, A lad, aged sixteen, employed at the London-I King cast T avern , was committed for trial at the Southwark Police feCtiOnate approbation at the Queen, saying, court, on Mo n d a y, for having attempted to fire a loaded sa, you have done that admirably." The pistol at another youth in the same employment, to whom faithful subject accepted the permission to smoke his he had taken a dislike. The mother of.the culprit said her accustomed pipe with gratitude, and he ever after conti- son had " got romantic notions into his head," by attend nued to avail himself of this privilege.—The Royal table ing a minor theatre, where he often witnessed combats, was served like that of any private gentleman ; no article and that he tried to emulate the deeds of the stage heroes. of expensive luxury appeared, because the Sovereign cared MORE PERVERSIONS TO ROME.-It is rumoured that little for the pleasures of the table ;it was, therefore, the Rev. S. S. Wilson, F.A.S., late pastor of the Inde something uncommon for the King to ask a guest who pendent congregation in this town, has joined the Roman was sitting at the table one day, "Howdo You find the Cath olic Church.—Hants Telegraph. The Rev. J. Bell, soup ? The gues t r eplied, I find it now as I always a minist er of the Presbyterian Church, and of tho late do wh en I have the honour of dining here—very good." Rev. Mr. Irving's views, has been received into the "Do you not fi n d any thi ng remarkable in it ? No (Romish) Church. Mr , and Miss Richards, of Soutla, Sour M a j es t y ," " What do you taLe those webs of thretitt ampton ? hue 3144 been fmivgd.—Tablet, saying, is. You mu your pipe with u to him, for which £7OO have been contributed,. satisfac tory as a compliment, but inadequate as a recompense. SAGACITY OF THE CROW.-A few days ago., the atten tion of several persons was excited at St. Ives by the un usual noise made by a crow which had built her nest and hatched her young in the chimney of an uninhabited house near the Wesleyan Chapel, in that town. On ex amination, it appeared that a cat had discovered the young birds, and was trying to dislodge them • but every time puss put her head into the chimney the crow pounced upon her hinder parts, and then flew off to a neighbouring chimney. The crow perceiving that she was unable singly to put the enemy to flight, flew to the tower of a church, and brought seven others, which proceeded to assail the cat in the way before described, until she was so severely wounded as to be obliged to retreat, minus pretty much of her fur, and bleeding profusely.— West Briton. It is stated in the St. James' Chronicle, the Church and State Gazette, and several other papers, that the authoress of " Oxford to Rome" is a Miss Harris, of Wallingford, sister to Dr. Harris, author of " Mammon" and other prize essays, and now theological tutor of Lady Hunting don's college at Cheshunt, Herts. She is stated to have been formerly a member of Mr. Oakley's congregation ; and the latter gentleman is accused of having drawn up her recantation, which was addressed to the Guardian, and appeared in a late number. A correspondent of the above papers, under the initials " 11. W. L.," states that he has proofs that the act on the part of,the lady was com pulsory, and that, if necessary, he is ready to give his name. This he ought to have done at first—and till he does, his statement is worth only so much waste paper — although appearances may warrant his conclusions. A gentleman, a few days since, was. bitten by a viper, in Derbyshire. He recovered with difficulty. He mis took the viper for the harmless snake. The viper, when the skin has been recently sloughed, is frequently, as in the case above related, mistaken for the common snake, infallible, namely, there is one distinguishing mark wh ic h is namely, that the harmless reptile has invariably a broad, wd t h e r i e l- a d e t , fianne i y n el l t o h w e o ‘ r i poerrant this e i; co i a lo uwraendti wanting. g Theroun a t t t h e e r named reptile is seldom seen more than eighteen or twenty inches long, while the common snake will attain the length of four or even five feet, and is of a beautifully tapering form throughout. It may be added that the viper is most commonly met with in elevated and dry situations, while the snake generally chooses low marshy ground near the water. - BEES.—Mr. George Sanderson,. of Richmond, who is a bee fancier, took a hive last week, which was placed in a garden about 200 yards from his house. In order to preserve his bees a fumigation from dried fungus was used, which threw the whole of the inhabitants of the hive into a state of insensibility, and when in that state the hive, which weighed-nearly six stones, was removed, and a new one was plhced• over them. The bees when. restored to animation, finding their treasure gone, took flight in search of it :, they were seen to visit many places in the neighbourhood, and at last, to the great surprise of their owner, the whole swarm entered his shop. They were supplied during the night with part of their lost treasure, and in the morning, being found bound together, they were placed in their new habitation, and now seem content to settle there. A MAN WORRIED BY A BEAR.—On Friday week, a man, named Rawson, was attending a tea-garden at New town, near Carlisle, where a North American bear was kept chained to a tree in an unenclosed space. Rawson held out some crumbs of bread to the bear, which it took quietly from, his hand. He then offered his hand without bread, when, the bear, with both its fore-paws, suddenly seized him by the arm, and dragged him within its circle, throwing him down, and instantly commencing to worry him. An old man courageously seized the infuriated animal by the collar, and Mrs. Cowen (Mr. C. I ,utterer. cceeded from home) got hold' of its chain ; but both tl proved ineffectual to relieve the unfortunate Two men speedily arrived with pitch-forks, and in forcing off the bear, and dragging the man from within its reach. It made no attempt to turn upon its assailants, Rawson was found to be dreadfully lacerated. He lin gered until Monday morning. The bear was immediately shot. EDUCATION WITHOUT RELIGION.—There _is one as- Lt the present time, to y Duke de Praslin the 1 pect presentea which Englishmen ou b unnoticed. We have IL, possible evidence of the dL gion. The mournfully inte.,— which have been published by the French govern ge I show that here lies the foundation of her domestic di - - " Ala. NOVEL MODE OF SWINDLING.—Perhaps one of the most singular cases of swindling ever heard of was perpe trated at Birmingham a day or two ago. A fellow, calling himself M. Halbert, took apartments at Mrs. Anderson's in New street, in that town, a short time since ; having fairly installed himself, he paid a visit to Mr. Perkins, a jeweller, in Caroline-street, and after representing himself as the agent of a Hamburg house, Made selections of jewels to the value of £4O ; Mr. Perkins himself shortly afterwards conveyed the jewels to his customer's apart ments, and after a little chat, Halbert begged the jeweller to make out a duplicate invoice of the goods, at the same time he deposited the jewels in a closet within the apart ment in which they were sitting ; after this he begged that Mr. Perkins would stay and take a glass of wine with him, and he left the wine in order to procure it not re turning within a reasonable time, the jeweller rang the bell, and made inquiry after his host ; the answer was that he had left the house some time. This gave. rise to suspicions which were soon discovered to be too well grounded; the closet which Halbert had deposited the jewels had also a door which opened from without the apartment in which- they had been sitting ; of this cir cumstance the swindler had taken advantage. After leaving the room, be-by this means possessed himself of the jewels and quietly decamped. He has not since been heard of. DEATH FROM STARVATION AT NOTTINGIHAM.—On Tuesday last an inquest, which disclosed circumstances of a very distressing. nature, was held by the coroner, Mr. Brown. Harriet Atkins, aged 52 (the deceased), the wife of James Atkins, of Coalpit-lane, had been separated from her husband' six years, five of which had been passed in the union-workhouse. During the last 11 months she had lived with, Charlotte Sims, wife of William Sims, coachmaker, Brook-street, where she tried to got her liv ing by sewing, but latterly she had not anything at all to do. She had ls. 6d. a-week and a quartern loaf from the parish, which is all she had to livaupon for the last two months. She paid Is. 6d. a week, for a furnished room, so that thc.quartern loaf constituted her whole support. She has been confined to her bed three weeks. No ap plication was made to the parish.for extra relief; and on her husband being asked to do something for her, he said, " he could not do anything, bubwhen she died he would bury her." Last week she bought a half.quartern loaf for 2Ld., a halfpennyworth of butter, a halfpennyworth of tea, &halfpennyworth of sugar, a halfpennyworth of rai sins, and a penny farthingworth of tobacco, towards which Mrs. Sims gave her halfpenny. This was all she had during the week. She objected to go into the workhouse. Mr. Hugoe, surgeon to the union, went to see her on Saturday ; he found her in a dying. state ; and in about, an hour after she fell out of bed. On Mrs. Sims going up. stairs she found her on the-floor, quite dead. Verdict,— " Died for the want of the common necessaries of life!' COMMERCIAL FAILURES, &c.—The London Times gives, amongst the recent failures, that of Sanders, We therill and Co., of Stockton-on-Tees. The liabilities of the firm are stated to be between £20,000 and £40,000. — The default of Thomas Burnill and Co., previously re ported, did not apply,to their general transactions, but to certain acceptances of foreign draughts, which, it is stated, are covered by securities. The ordinary obligations of the firm will, it is stated., continue to be duly met.—On the opening of business in the Corn Market, London, on Wednesday, the failure of an old and respectable firm (Richard Harris and Son) was reported; but it was after wards ascertained - that arrangements made would enable them to meet all their obligations.—The failure of D. and A. Denny, corn-merchants, of Glasgow, was also an nounced. The liabilities are about £lOO,OOO, and the assets will not realize more than 6s. 9d. in the pound. A heavy portion• of the loss will fall on the Scotch banks, and London discount houses.—Oczle and and Co., steam. mill proprietors, of Venice, have failed, • with liabilities to the amount of £30,000, and A. and C. Custo, of G whose liabilit are £Bo,ooo.—The Bank of England re government remittance on Wednesday, from s, of £60,000, and a further sum of :P9- .30,000 is ex —On Saturday week the public in Glasgow were d by a rumour of the failure of the highly respect e firm of Gemmell, Brothers and Co,, and of William Gemmell and Co., of Canton and Hong d Thom Doz. 0 cause of the failure was the non-arrival of China mail ; but it is hoped that ultimately the loss of - Valparaiso and Lim a branch of the same a not affected by the firmly insists on all measures that tend to uphold the ma ritime ascendancy of Great Britain; and, in support of his general views, he cites the authority of Mr. Huskisson, where that statesman remarked, 'Whenever the interests of commerce and navigation cannot be reconciled, the in terests of commerce ought to give way, and those of navi gation to have the preference.' Commander Smith has not approached this subject without preparation: he has consulted the evidence given before the Committee of the House of Commons, and quoted from the testimony of those who are favourable to a repeal of our Navigation Laws; certainly the abolitionists, so far as the extracts give us a notion of their ideas, are little above the mental standard of pedlars and bagmen; they appear to dwell on nothing but monied cheapness, and that in the spirit of very minor huckstering. For instance, they think a penny a pound, for freight of wool, stowing included, is too high a figure for conveying the article fifteen thousand miles ; how much would be•reduced to the consumer if they suc ceeded in taking off the eighth of a penny ? However, the subject of the Navigation Laws cannot be discussed in this department of our journal; but those interested in it will not find an hour mis-spent in looking over the facts and arguments of Commander Smith." AN INTELLIGENT ELECTOR.—At the late election for the northern division of this county, an old man present ed himself at No. 2 polling-booth, Dunchurch, Warwick shire, to record his vote. Returning Officer : For whom do you poll ? Elector : For myself. (Laughter.) Re turning Officer : You do not understand me, my man ; I ask you for whom you vote ? Elector : Well, I tell'ee for myself. (Increased laughter.) The returning officer endeavoured in vain to explain the meaning of the ques tion. The " free and independent" elector still-persisted that he came to vote for himself; and Mr. Over, who attended as scrutineer on the part of the Hon. W. H. Leigh, insisted that the vote should be recorded as stated. This put the returning officer to a nonplus. He looked in vain for a column to enter a vote given in so honest a spirits The act made no provision for such an emergency as a candidate presenting himself upon " free and inde pendent principles " at the polling-booth, and the officer was, consequently, about to reject th e vo t e , w h en a soli citor who attended as the representative of Messrs. New degate and Spooner suggested that the names of the re ,• . inect . ' ' ..ve candidates shoidd be called over, and then leave it,to the elector to decide for whom he would record his vote. The returning officer accordingly proceeded to act upon his suggestion, but he had no sooner called over the names of Messrs. Newdegate and Spooner, than the old man, raising his stick, cried out with considerable energy, " Them are the men as I've come to vote for ; why didn't ye tell me their names afore, and not give me all this bother ? " After which he retired amidst the renewed laughter of the spectators, the vote being recorded for Newdegate and. Spooner, in opposition to an objection made by Mr. Over, who contended that it ought to have been recorded as first given. —Warwick paper. ESCAPE OE FOUR PRISONERS FROM MONMOUTH GAOL. —On Wednesday morni.ng . a desperate attempt was made by four prisoners to escape from Monmouth gaol. The names of the prisoners were Mayow, Albert, Hayes, and Murphy. The three first, named were convicted at the late Monmouth assizes of extensive burglaries at Valg, and were sentenced to long periods of transPortation. Murphy was also under sentence of transportation. He had been convicted of a burglary with violence, and sen tence of death was recorded against him, which was, how ever, commuted ranspor would appear to have been the ringleader. in the matter. He had broken. one of the legs from, the iron bedstead on which he slept, with which he worked out the panel of the door of his cell. In order to prevent the light from ap pearing through the aperture which he had made, he hung his bedcloths in front of it. He then wrenched off the locks from the doors of the other prisoners' cells, and se, with se T of education with, sting letters of the I _ ilure of the liome house, and will continue their busi ess as formerly. The Glasgow Courier also states that rumour had obtained of another eminent house having they secreted themselves in a vacant cell, and awaited the appearance of the turnkeys , At'about a quarter to six o'clock a turnkey. named Alnass. wb duty it was to in- spect the prisoners in the morning, - having obtained the keys from the governor (Mr. Barrett), entered the cell of a prisoner. He had scarcely unlocked the door when Mayo rushed from his hiding place, and struck him a deadly blow on the side of the head, which knocked him, senseless and bleeding, to the ground. Mayow then sr cured the keys, and locked Alpass in with the pris, telling the latt to the other. prisoner to finish him _ -vim .a 4LI Lll anti struck .—On Friday, the failure of Messrs. T. Usborne him several violent blows, from which he bled profusely. .‘. bon and of Messrs. Hastie and Hutchinson was an- They then unlocked the outer door, and escaped. They longer' flounced. The liabilities of the former firm are under threw the keys away, and ran towards Backliolt-wood. •to ~* £lOO,OOO, and the assets will nearly pay 20s. in the pound. By this time the first turnkey who was attacked had suffi n c .c of ' The suspension is mused by the stoppage of Lesley, Alex- ciently recovered to alarm the governor, and help was d , know- ander and Co. The liabilities of Messrs. Hastie and sent for into the town. A large body of the inhabitants ledge of the fact, and she records that "his want of firm H n i c hi nson are suppose d to b e a b ou t £50,000. The sallied forth and scoured th e country in the direction the principles of morality and religion, an d his idleness of h ouse has only b een i n t h e corn tra d e a b ou t e i g hteen prisoners were seep to take. Th e y were a ll ta k en b e f ore mind, have caused him to succumb to sensual passions." months, the senior partner having previously realized a 10 o'clock, and a g ain s a f ely lodged in the gaol. On the It is this, we are persuaded, and this only which is mak. l good fortune as a Scotch factor. It is now said that the road to the g aol the y c onfessed to the parties who secured ing French society a reproach to itself and a byworo, firm of Lesley, Alexander and Co., who at first were them that it was their intention to rob several houses in amongst nations. A n d i n th e a b sence o f a ny general 'or stated to be able to pay 20 s• in the pound, and then Bs., the neighbourhood. The injuries which the turnkeys national inculcation o f th e pr i nc i p l es o f religion, good will not now pay even a third of the latter sum. Th e h ave receive d aro very great, but they are sufficiently well ma r ie et ina a t t tei th . e government must ever be a difficulty, and often qD impos., ent i re c i rcums t ances connec t e d w ith this failure form a , t g o ao a l tt a e t n a ti li t v o ar t i h y ei h r oi d ir u , t t ie o s. ma Lb ei n vaigriiest; into os t sibility.—HalLfax Gyarclian, tlibject of most unfavourable comment, He then gave the signal whom he had rel following hira, escaped to the tohoy n. Here they again waited until the tun the door. They were armed with the i, with DI from X, fort, and ultimately of her dreadful death. exclaims in one of her impassioned letters. written Lux of five years ago, " Alas ! why are you no l- ?' And though this question would appear to imply rather declension from religious feeling than an original war' it ; she seems afterwards to have awaked to a true ' d, and 500,000 enable the navy to annihilate every ship of war in the parts of Europe or elsewhere. I repeat, that the most effectual means of defence is to deprive an enemy of the power of aggression. Your lordships may perhaps hear from sceptical persons, or may yourselves suspect, that my opinions are visionary ; but mylords the secret plans which I presented to his Royal. Highness the Prince Regent, in 1811, have again been folly investigated, and, after six months' deliberation, were officially reported on in January last; thus, I fearlessly assert, that these plans can set at nought, not only all ordinary modes of defence, but the novel means of destruction preparing in foreign countries for use, both on shore and afloat, namely,, the projecting horizontally 'shells, carcasses, and incendiary missiles, to blowup or burn our ships of war—to which means a recent device has been added, as yet essayed only. on the brute creation, placed in vessels, fired at experi mentally, to prove its destructive power. As an officer,. I gratuitously gave my secret war plans to my Sovereign and country; my plans of defence, as a substitute for forts and ports of refuge in war, I um desirous, in my character as an amateur engineer, to render useful, if I can obtain at tention and dispassionate consideration." _ THE PRASLI - N MURDER.—We should not have trans ferred to our columns—even had the great length of the , papers not interposed a barrier—the volumincui docu ments on this history with which the daily journals have been crowded. They, especially the letters of the unfor., tunate Duchess de Praslin, overflow with inflated theory, mischievous sentimentalism, and that exaggerated and romantic tone of feeling and expression by which French novels and plays are too generally pervaded, and which, we grieve to say, have been, to an alarming extent, intro duced into the " ligbt literature" of our own country, both by the cheap issues of translations of some of the most demOralisin& of the French works of-fiction, and the original productions of English authors imbued with the same spirit, and seeking popularity by the same ^Rns. The tendency of many widely-circulated works ich we could name, and of many of s most success— ful dramatic pieces,.is to familiarise with crime;, to break down the land-marks which separate truth from error-- vise from virtue ; 7 —and to invest the foulest criminals with attributes of interest, which, in the imaginative and ill regulated mental and moral condition of the mass of novel-readers and play -goers, exalt culprits i heroes and heroines, who are rather to be sympathised with for their misfortunes than condemned and denounced for their wickedness. The Praslin papers are decidedly, in, our judgment, of this character; and, therefore, although . we have felt ourselves laid under a necessity, as chroniclers of passing occurrences, to insert more than we could have, desired on the revolting subject, we have felt it both a . duty and a privilege to exclude from our columns a large. share of details published by our contemporaries. We hope that now the case will be suffered to fall into oblivion, except in so far as the lessons which it is fitted to incul cate, respecting the depth to which human depravity, unrestrained by heavenly grace, may sink, and the im portance of striving to elevate the moral and religious state of so-called Christian society, throughout Europe generally, and especially. in France, may be remembered, for salutary and practical purposes.— Watchman. A MISREPRESENTATION CORRECTED. —At a recent protestant meeting in. Norwich, one of the principal sPeak ers was the Rev.. J-. E: Gladstone (long connected with this town), and the chief object the reverend gentleman had in rising, was to expose the extraordinary misrepre sentation to which a former speech of his had been sub jected. Hear the rev, gentleman speak for himself ;— He could not sit down without call fr. Binden had said relative to th ress ; and he could tell him that -unless what he was goit - to what ,en of the Le sat there 0 the matter — h papers next week lem all to cut the throats would st, in one of the Ni Binden) had urged t: aan it would. app that he of tl Now he erotestant Association in ti Vorfolk Chronicle that he yen by w 1 such I the publishers of the paper ; and he had one of the editors, who next week did used the word sword .ould give a k the gentlemen of the Press, fully, to tlie last time he addressed the room. It appeared in the Lrged the protestants to put through oceans of blood. He took id, of calling upon interview with ,n explana7 tion ; but it was after a fashion, and not such a one as it ought to have been. And he would say, to carry out the proof, that what that gentleman (Mr. Binden) said would be misrepresented ; and that was one thing which, as protestants, they had to fear—misrepresentation. What he (Mr. Gladstone) said was this, that if protestants did not awake ; if they did not rise up, to a sense of the dan gers which threatened them, and boldly meet them, that in a short time to come—in their lives, and in the lives of their children—for the defence of their principles and the retention of their privileges, they would have to go them selves—not send their enemies, but to go themselves, as their forefathers did before them, "through oceans of blood." His protestant friends would see that it only needed Au tripaious deyice to roglie that read tb.e ethe way." iy upon cionlausi • eamilliw August,' ba Et "sh Rc Den 15 1(11 Aler hick sack Dan Ricl tilus —Jo Pete —EI AR `'Por Her a Scot s gir Ea t 'Cita Orj, 4 10 , at s wi tu t , Por i Peters