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ii.arraturr. POETRY. MAY YOU DIE AMONG YOUR KINDRED, • BY MRS. ABDY. (From the Church of Englan4 Magaz:ne.) - - "How mach is expressed by the form of oriental benediction ' May you die among your kindred :' "—GREENWOOD. "May you die among your kindred;" may you rest your part. ing gaze On the loved familiar faces of your young and happy days : May the voices whose kind greeting to your infancy was dear Pour lovingly, while life declines, their music in your ear. 4 ' May you die among your kindred ;" may the friends you love the b(st, List to your fainting accents, and receive your last request, Read your unuttered wishes on your changeful features dwell, And mingled sighs of sorrow with your faltering faint farewell, " May you die among your kindred;" may your peaceful grave be made In the quiet, cool recesses of the churchyard's hallowed shade; There may your loved ones wander at the silent close of day, Fair buds and fragrant blossoms on the verdant turf to lay. 'Tis a tender benediction; yet methinks it lacks the power To cast a true serenity o'er life's last solemn hour. Ye whom I love, I may not thus love's Christian tart fulfil; List, while I ask for you a boon more dear, more precious sti So may you die that, though afar from all your cherished ties, Though strangers hear your dying words and close your dying eyes, Ye shall nc.t know desertion, since your Saviour shall be near, To fill your fainting spirit with the " love that casts out fear," So may you die, so willingly submit your soul to God, That evermore your kindred, as they tread the path you trod, May picture your existence on a far-off heavenly shore, And speak of you as one not "lost," but only " gone before So may you die that, when your death to pious friends is known Each shall devoutly, meekly wish such lot may be their own : Not heeding if you died in want, in exile, or in pain, But feeling that you died in faith, and thus " to die is gain." St. John's Rectory, Southwark. COMFORT. (BY ELIZABETH B. BARTLETT.) " Speak low to me, my Saviour—low and sweet From out the halle ujahs, sweet and low, Lest I should fear and fall, and miss thee so Who art not miss'd by any that entreat. Speak to me as to Mary at thy feet— And if no precious gums my hands bestow, Let my tears drop I:ke amber, while I go In reach of thy divio est voice complete In humanest affection—thus, in sooth To lose the sense of losing ! As a child, Whose song bird seeks the wood for evermore, Is sung to in its stead by mother's mouth' Till, sinking on her breast, love-reconciled He sleeps the faster that he wept before." NOTICES. Blackwood's Magazine. The number for the present month is replete with arti. cies of deep interest to the reader of the sound and argu. mentative, as well as to those who delight in the literary • and amusing. On the mortifying issue of the Irish State trials there is a clever and learned paper, showing that both in reason and in common law the traversers ought not to have escaped the punishment due to their offences ; but the writer imputes no unworthy motives to those few members of the House of Lords who so hastily pro nounced the opinions of the judges who were called to ad vise them to be " cl , arly erroneous." "My College Friend" is a light and pleasing exposition of College life —yet to be concluded. " The Tombless Man," a poetical drama, by Delta, has all the vigour and depth of mind so often exhibited by that writer. It is an extraordinary picture which he draws, of a succession of visions of sepulchral desolation and horror, with occasional touches of the sublime, but ending in an escapement of the sole narrator, _ _ To sights and sounds familiar—to the birds Singing alone—and the btight vale beneath, With cottages and trees—and the blue sky— And the glad waters murmuring to the sun." An exposition of socialism, under the head " French So cialists," is, we think, a masterly view of all those utopian and debasing systems of communities in common. The " Memoirs of a Statesman" are continued, with unabated powers of description and knowledge of character—in cluding the dreadful siege of Valenciennes, during the French revolutionary wars. There is a long review of recently published " Poems, by Elizabeth Barrett," with numerous extracts. Some of the pieces are certainly very beautiful ; but we think the reviewer has shown a degree of partiality to others which their merits scarcely warrant. We admit the lady to have great poetical powers. but scarcely fewer faults, especially in diction, which last she may be the less inclined to amend, when they are treated with reproval so delicate. The review of " Lamartine's Travels" will be read with much gratifica tion. The extracts are extremely beautiful and graphic, and a tone of generous feeling and moral reflections per vade the whole. We furnished some extracts from this number of Blackwood in our last publicatiofi, and others will be found in the literary page of our present sheet. Dublin University Magazine. Curry, Dublin. The present number of this magazine fully sustains its usual high standard of merit. Amongst the articles of a purely literary character, " Glimpses in the Mountains— No. 2," is a beautiful piece of poetical extravagance, and well worthy of perusal. The most important article in the number, however, is the article headed " The National System of Education and the Established Church," in which we have placed before us the present critical posi tion of the education question in Ireland. We have given elsewhere some extracts from this article which will show the spirit in which it is written ; and we recommend its attentive perusal to all who are interested in the important question of which it treats. The Illuminated Magazine. London : No. 2, Crane court,. Fleet-street. The present number commences the fourth volume, and is under a new editorship, Mr. Douglas Jerrold having retired from his position as editor. We certainly cannot discern, so far, any falling off either in literary matter or illustrations. On the contrsry, some new contributors have been added, and several valuable articles from their pen grace this month's publication. The poetical contents are especially excellent. Fraser's Magazine. London : G. W. Nickisson, 215, Regent-street. Fraser this month contains a number of more than usually lively articles, amongst which we may particularise " A fine day at Stratford-upon-Avon," "The Smiths," and the conclusion of " The State Murder." The paper entitled " Hints on the Modern Governess System" con tains some excellent and just strictures upon the unwor thy treatment to which that useful and deserving class of females are subjected, and should be read in every family of which the governess is a member. The Medical Times. No. 263-266. Carpae, Essex street, London. 4to. A weekly medical journal. This periodical of medical science was wanted in the profession of the healing art, or it could not have risen so rapidly into favour as it appears to have done, even though its talent in editorial and original matter be great, which, as far as we can presume to judge of such matters, is most undoubtedly the case. Of course we are not competent to discuss the full merits of a periodical on departmental science—this must long ago have been judged by those who are• capable of estimating its deserts ; and also its demerits, if there be any—prominent ones they can hardly be, though, when tested by " subtler fires" than ours, some caput mortuum of rubbish way be detected in its containing vessel—very possibly. The articles seem to be lull of interesting and new matter; its reports of distin guished medical bodies—its valuable groups of cases—its record of series of lectures by some of the most eminent physicians and surgeons—its bibliographical and gossip corners—its reviews—its leading articles, temperate yet energetic—all must render it a publication worthy of large support, we should infer, by the republic of medicine. We venture no more ; but close with an extract from its leader of October 12, which has reference to present times, and present things, and the present place, which must be gratifying to the medical practitioners of our town, as alluding to an aggregate meeting they held to memorialize Sir J. Graham on his new bill of medical reform :—" The most important meetings we have had, appear to have been those of Gloucester, Worcester, Leeds, Norwich, Birmingham, and Liverpool, some of the largest towns in the empire. In Birmingham and Liverpool, the very proper precaution was adopted of discussing in committee the clauses of;the bill seriatim, before pronouncing on them an opinion in public meeting. Our readers are acquainted with the result : the report of the Liverpool meeting, this day published, shows how entirely the opinions we so early expressed on this mea sure, are the opinions of some of the most enlightened practitioners in the empire. We own to a strong hope that a short time will reveal the profession acting in a si milarly cautious manner, speaking in a similarly judicious way, and equally unanimous in giving the bill a general support, while enforcing on it the great improvements that are on all hands admitted as essential." W e are glad to find that our respected townsmen have won for themselves such a highly creditable position —to have dis cussed temperately, and therefore wisely, legislational measures touching directly their own professional inter ests, argues a state of most respectable mental, and, above ail, moral attainments; and in so doing, we repeat, and that advisedly, when their own rights are to them con cerned, in the first place, and the public health, in the next, renders them an example to our senators themselves, whose principles often swerve before the brazen face of expediency, or become too frequently obedient to that ventriloquist, self-interest, whose projected voice in the distance often spoils all. Punch. —Part 40. Continues to pour ford?, his inexhaustible wit and drol lery, and, in his own felicitous style, to convey many a useful moral lesson. The loss of this periodical would be an event to call for a national mourning. Chambers' Edinburgh Journat.— P art 10. The new series of this popular publicatio n is very ma ch superior in the value and variety of its literary contents to those which have p rece ded it. We observe in it c ontri b u ! Cons from several popular writers, amongst whom we m ay mention Miss Camilla Toulmin, who has presented us with a very beautif u l t a l e o f " Th e Neglected Child." The Abboteord Edition of Waverley.—No. 67. =The number just issued con c l u d es " Th e Fortunes of Nigel," and commences " Peveril of the Peak." The illustrations, type, and getting up of the work, continue quite equal to those of f ormer num b ers, and, indeed, are even superior in merit. SELECTIONS. THE LORD CHANCELL OR , SHEIL, AN D HUME.--• Everybody must re mem b er the " sweltering venom" with • which Mr. Shell, Mr. " Success-to-fox-glove " Shell, PROTESTANTISM V. POPERY.—It is the unceasing aim some time ago revived against our excellent Lord Chan of the Romish sect to represent the church of England as cellor the oft-refuted falsehood with respect to the im a schismatical body, and thus to brand it with contempt, e , Puled alien speech. Will it be believed that what Mr. as having no existence previous to the reformation. Th of S hell , fact is notorious, however, that long before tbe . arrival with a " rhetorical artifice," attributed to the Chancellor as applied to the Roman Catholics of Ireland, a legate from Rome, or Augustine ever set his foot on I was actually applied by a co-joint of the " tail "—no less English ground, Christianity had been preached and ed pert;e -' a person than the veritable Joseph Hume—to the Protes fessed in Britain. Whether the gospel was that preacher] it h tants of that country ? On referring to the debate on the by St. Paul himself, or not, it is indisputable n 314 w ti a le s previous to the close of the second century. I King's spe ec h i n 1 8 3 3, as reported in a generally-recog bishops of London, York, a n d Li nco ln, were present at Pised journal o f th e proceedings, we find Joseph thus --" the council of A r l es . Th e counc il s o f Sardica, A. D.347, unbosomi ng himself: Why, I would ask, is it that and of Ariminum, A.D. 359, were likewise attended by Catholics a r e care f u ll y excluded from the list of twenty- British pr e l a t es .—Ch urc h o f E ng l an d Magazine. six stipendia r y mag i strates recently appo i nted b y L or d A, ? STAFFORDSHIRE EARTHENWARE..—If we compare frongleseym such in situations lreland , an Why are they carefully excluded d twentp the common e ar th enware o f E ng l an d w ith th a t o f the pointed to th em ?" (S evera l members— " Hear, hear ! y-six FOREIGNERS a ') French and G ermans, or o f any ot h er nat i on, i t appears o Yes, I contend that they are foreigners—they are not only excellent in quality, but also highly ornamental sons foreign in their habits and religion to the bulk of the per und unsurpassably beautiful. The common French and people. I say, then, that foreigners were appointed to German earthenware is comparatively ugly, coarse, and these offices." Mr. Shell heard this. The man who misshapen. On the other hand, English porcelain, par- thus dared to malign the loyal Protestant population of ticularly those articles in which beauty and elegance are Ireland was a Scotchman—yet, foreigner as he was, an the main paints aimed at, are far behind those of the con- Irish member—the Kilkenny joint of " the tail ," an ex- 1 tinent. I believe there is something characteristic of the conservative, and then radical! Verily, the'` rhetorica English in this. In articles of ordinary use, the English artificers" who calumniate Lord Lyndhurst had better seem better than we to know how to combine excellence look at home. At this time, however, the poor " tail " of quality w ith outward elegance and beauty, whereas in had scarcely a home to look to.—Herald. those articles in which grace and beauty alone are to be kept in view, th e E ng li s h are never equa ll y successful. WHAT IS T HE C HURCH DOING ?—T rac t ar i an i sm h as Their tools, their f urn it ure , th e i r mac hi nes, t h e i r knives seen its zenith. It was t rue t h at a f ew h a d gone ov er t o and scissors, th e i r b rea d, th e i r j o i n t s o f meat, are not only Rome. Let R ome h ave h er own . W e cou ld a ff or d h er excellent, vigorous, an d nu t r i t i ous , b ut a l so b eautifully a few traito rs f rom th e camp. H e on l y praye d th a t, lik e formed, and not t o b e a t a ll surpasse d ; whereas, their the sincere-mi n d e d Sibth orp , th ey m i g ht di scover th e i r pictures, their sculpture s , th e i r pas ti es , an d t h e i r ca k es, error. He was h a ppy t o say th a t h e k new severa l clergy and, in short, everyt hi ng i n w hi c h f ancy takes precedence men who bad held T rac t ar i an o pi n i ons , w h o h a d w holly of usefulness, are f ar b e hi n d ours i n excellence. Look, renounced them, and now preached sound Evangelical not merely at th e eart h enware o f t h e F renc h , b ut at their doctrine. The Church of E ng l an d, th oug h t rou bled, was tools and th e i r i mp l ements o f gar d en i ng and agriculture. not perplexed ; alth oug h persecu t e d, s h e was not f orsa k en . They are all st r iki ng l y ru d e an d li tt l e su i te d to t h e purposes If Rome had built fif t y mass -h ouses w i t hi n t h e l as t t en they are inte n d e d f or . E ven t h e common b read i n France years, the Church of E ng l an d h a d b u il t 60 0 new c h urc h es. is inferior t o th a t use d i n E ng l and. On the other h an d , lf Rome h a d b u ilt t wenty or th i rty schools and colleges, how much lofti er fli g ht s o f f ancy are di sp l aye d b y the the Church of E ng l an d h a d b u il t an d opened between 300 French in wo r k s o f ar t.—Kh o l' s E ng l an d . and 400 daily sc h oo l s . R ome h a d applied for aid to build CHARACTER OF LORD ELL ENBOROUGH .—L or d Ellen one or two scho o l s; th e M et h o di sts two schools; the Bri- borough poss esse d many qua li t i es w hi c h , h a d they not tish and Forei gn S c h oo l S oc i ety some thirty or forty; b u t the Church of E ng l an d h a d app li e d an d received grants been neutralized or v iti a t e d, wou ld h ave earne d f or him for 500 new school s . Th is did not l oo k as if the Church much admiration a s a s t a t esman an d muc h a ff ect i on as a of England was heartless in the cause of education. He man. He had abilities of no common order, great quick- wished, however, for no amalgamated system of educa ness of perception, extraordinary ardour of tempera- tion. The Church of England was strong enough to ment, unquestionable courage, amd indefatigible industry. stand by herself, and as it was a glorious English Queen The moral sense was not very strong —as the appropria- who nursed and cherished the Reformation, in a compa tion of Sindb amply testifies ;• but he was capable of acts ratively weak state, so he hoped it would be a British of justice and moderation and sometimes exhibited in his Queen under whose fostering care and protecting hand conduct the gederosity Of a great mind. His impulses the Church would be rescued in the time of her peril. Of were often kindly, often noble • and his errors were sel- this her Majesty had given some pledge when she went to dom the growth of mean and corrupt motives. There worship in a church which had been branded as Samaria. was nothing inherently low in his nature; but he was —Speech of the Rev. Flugh Stowell. subject to very strong prejudices, which he had not always th e magnan i m i ty to res i st, and wh i ch therefore INVENTION OF GUNP OWDER .—D a t ens h as se l ected sometimes caused him t o comm it mean an d unwort h y many passages from G ree k an d L a ti n aut h ors, favourable actions. As in his policy, so i n hi s persona l b ear i ng, h e to the opinio n th a t gunpow d er was known to the ancients. was impulsive and un c e r t a i n . Wi t h s t rong pre dil ect i ons He mentions the att em pt o f S a l moneus to imitate thun der, of the B ra h m i ns to clothe same thing; b u t hi s mos t and strong antipathie s , w hi c h some ti mes a lt ernated towards the same individu a l, h e was by t urns cour t eous remarkable quotati on i s f rom t h e lif e o f Apollonius Tya and uncourteous, a tt rac ti ve an d repu l s i ve , now pro d uc- arena, writte n by Phil ostratus ; showing that Alexander ing imp ress i ons o f d eep grat i tu d e, now o f i nera di ca b le dis- was prevented e x t en di ng hi s conquests in India, because like. Thou g h h e o f ten s h owe d great ki n dli ness an d con of the use of gunpow d er, b y a people called Oxydracae. descension towards individuals, he at other ti mes b e t raye d The passage to whi c h we h ave alluded is so curious, that an utter dis r e gar d f or th e i r f ee li ngs ; an d h es it ate d ne i ther, we make no apol og y f or g i v i ng it. " These truly wise as the whim led him to he made many enemies and many to caress nor to strike those beneath men (the Oxydra cw ) d we ll b etween the rivers Hypharis him. In thi s mann e r and Ganges ; their coun t ry Al exan d er never entered, de friends, and th e diff erent j u d gments w hi c h h ave b een pas- terred not by fear of th e i n h a bit ants, b ut as I suppose by sed upon him by diff erent part i es can never a ff or d matter religious motives, for had he passed th e H yp h ar i s, he for surpri se . Th ere i s genera ll y i n t h e pu b l i c treatment might doubtless have made himself mas t er o f a l l the of an individ ua l a j us t compensat i on i n t h e end ; his country round them ; but thei r c iti es h e never could have virtues are e xaggerate d b y one party, hi s v i ces b y another, taken, though he had led a th ousan d as b rave as Achilles, and the und ue en th us i asm of h i s f r i en d s i s b alanced by the • or three thousand such as Ajax, to the assault; for they undue bitterness of his enemies. Thus has it been with come not out to the field to fight those who attack them, Lord Ellenboro ug h.—C u l culta Rev i ew. but these holy men , b e l ove d b y t h e go d s, overthrew - their PRESENT F EELING O F A P ORTION OF THE IRISH enemies with tempe s t s an d th un d er b o l ts s h ot from their walls. It is said that the Egyptian Hercules and Bacchus, CLERGY ON THE EDUCATION QUESTION.—The time, when they overran India, invaded this people also, and, they say, has come, when the friends of Scriptural educe- having prepared warlike engines, attempted to conquer tion in Ireland, and especially the clergy, should look se- them ; they in the mean time made no show of resistance, ;lonely at the aspect which the education question has at appearing perfectly quiet and secure, but upon the enemy's present assumed, with a view to such arrangements as may, near approach they were repulsed with storms of if the possible, prevent the scheme which has been adopted nine and thunderbolts hurled upon them from above ." by the government from operating most extensive evil. Polytechnic Review. That they have appeared, hitherto, in an attitude of hosti lity to it, wa s on ly, it i s a d m i t t e d, t h e i r b oun d en d uty. As EFFECTS OF SC RIPTURAL E DUCATION IN IRELAND. long as th ere was a poss ibili ty, b y pretext and reclansa- When the scheme of S cr ipt ura l e d ucat i on was decided on, tion, of effecting any modifi ca ti ons i n t h at system, by about six or seven an d t wenty years ago, confident predic tions were hazarded of it s cer t a i n and speedy failure. The which its anti-Scriptural ch arac t er m i g ht b e c h anged, so long they were called upon t o use th e i r b est exert i ons, that Roman Catholi cs , it was sa id , wou l d not read the Bible— such modification of it should b e p rocure d . Th ose espe- would not accept sec u l ar i ns t ruct i on, on condition of re ceiling Scriptu ra l also. Notwithstanding the discourage ciallv, who occupied th e respons ibl e pos i t i on of an este m blislied clergy, were i m p era ti ve l y requ i re d to use " al lent of such,insin ua ti ons , t h e system was tried—and was faithful diligence" in admo n i s hi ng th e ru l ers o f t h e coup- found to prove suc cess f u l, t o t h e utmost extent to which try, respecting the e v il s w hi c h m i g h t reasona b ly be appre- the parsimony of p u bli c grants, ma d e for its support, ad _ heeded from an ed uca ti ona l system b ase d upon latitudi- spitted of its being carr i e d ou t . I t i s unnecessary, and narian views. But h av i ng f ai l e d to move " the powers would be tediou s , t o repeat th e arguments by which this truth has been un answera bl y prove d—b ut there is one form that be" into the abandon men t o f th e i r pern i c i ous scheme, true wisdom would seem t o i n di cate, t h at t h e next best of the argum en t w hi c h h as not yet received the notice it thing would be, to ex t rac t as muc h goo d as possi b le out of merits, and to w hi c h we b eg t h e reader ' s attention. The inevitable evil. For th e d angers w i t h wh i c h the Irish experiment of Sc r ipt ura l e d ucat i on was a trial whether, education sche me i s pregnant t h ey are not responsible. and how far, th e I r i s h peop l e could be influenced to re- They have duly f orewarne d our ru l ers o f what may be ceive the Bibl e . I t was proposed first in the form of a looked for as it s na t ura l f ru i ts. T his they have done, not- test, whethe r th e i r h ost ili ty to Scripture was such, as that withstanding th e s t ernes t di scountenance awaited them as they would not ac ce pt o f secu l ar education, if accompanied individuals, f or th e i r s i ng l e - m i n d e d ness and fidelty to their by Scriptural; it gave, at the same ti me , t o t h e peop l e at great master. Agai ns t th e i r so l emn a d mon i tions the wis- large, an opportunity o f showing what th e y th oug h t, (whe dorn of this world h as p reva il e d. A s sp i r i tual advisers, the; favourably, or oth erw i se ,) o f t h e propriety of making they have been set asid e — re li g i ous truth h as b een deli children acquainted w ith G o d' s wor d . T he result was very - berately sacrificed to politi ca l ex p e di ency — an d any further remarkable. Bef ore th e en d o f t hi rteen years, exclusive contest with the govern men t or th e l eg i s l ature, in such a of the Sunday sc h oo l s , amount i ng to considerably more matter, would only be a b oo tl ess waste o f strength, and than a thousa n d— per h aps, to n i neteen hundred, in whichtwo hundred th ousan d c hild ren were instructed, there were loss of time, from w hi c h, un til a c h ange h as b een operated upon the national mi n d, no goo d resu l t i s lik ely to follow. found one thou san d e i g h t h undred and twenty-seven The clergy, therefo re , are no t b oun d to continue such a schools, under so c i e ti es , i n w hi c h S cr i pture was read—and contest; on the contrary, it seems th e i r b oun d en duty to of daily scho o l s , no t un d er soc i eties, four thousand one hundred and seventy-nin e were avowe dl y S criptural. We avail themselves of such f ac iliti es as th e nat i onal system may afford say avowedly, because a l arge proport i on of schools bad for carrying o u t b e tt er v i ews, t h an could be, without their agency r e a li ze d— an d f or secur i ng to the declined sending an answe r t o th e query w hi ch demanded children of their o wn commun i on a soun d S criptural edu- If Scripture wer e rea d i n th em. It is not, perhaps, too cation.—Dublin Unive rs ity M agaz i ne. much to say, that n ear ly t wo t h ousan d of these schools should be added to the amount of the Scriptural. But, EMIGRATION OF THE FOURGOUTH TARTARS INTO further, Scripture was read in 2,667 schools, under Roman CHINA.—The nation of the Fourgouths, one of the Catholic masters—and was read in many schools under the branches of that Tchong-kar, separated itself from the roofs of Roman Catholic chapels, and under the govern throne at the time when the most cruel wars desolated all went of their priests. Such was the result, when the state the country of the Eleuths ; they removed themselves demanded of Ireland that the education of the people from their native places, and by degrees advanced to those should be Scriptural. In the year ]Bl2, there were in Ire lands which are under the domination of the Russians, land six hundred schools, no doubt all Protestant, in which and obtained from them permission to fix their dwellings Scripture was read—the attenticn of the people at large in the districts watered by the Etchil- There have they was aroused to the question which the state propounded ; dwelt more than 70 years, in a profound ignorance of all and in about thirteen years after the experiment was in that was passing in the neighbourhood of the empire- stituted, the judgment of the people was expressed in the The ill treatment which the princes of the Fourgouths existence of more than eleven thousand schools in which formerly received from Tchoung-kar obliged the m to for- the Bible was read. Within that period, surely, secular sake their country to seek a living in a distant land under schools had not increased in number—nay, notwithstand. a foreign government. The ill treatment which the af- ing the great increase in the population, they appear to terwards received from the Russians, have equally cow- have diminished ; while Scriptural schools, to which so pelltd them to abandon their recent abodes, to relieve fierce and effective an opposition was anticipated, had ea sed some from a yoke which they found more burden- welcomed by all classes and communions, and had increased some from day to day ; they determined to return to their more than tbirteen-fold. Such was the issue which a ancient territories to live in peace under the dominion of Whig government regarded as a failure—let Abe cona our great emperor. The favours of his majesty extend pared with that which a Tory government exalt and en even to the most distant regions ; he treats foreign na- dow, as a great success.—Dublin University Magazine. tions with the same goodness that be evinces towards the Chinese themselves who are his own subjects. The Four- FORMAT) ON OF RAIN.—The opinion of Professor Ste veiny and' Mr. ' Bowall is, that each goutbs come of their own accord to be able to live under •• - rising through the air carries with it its portion of electric our laws ; he did not reject them ; he received them even with pleasure and all the marks of the tenderest affection. fluid according to its expanded surface; that if it remains within the el ec t r i ca l a t tract i on of the earth, the vapour is When they arrived on our f ront i ers ( to the number of condensed, and f orms dew ; but, if it r i ses b eyond the many hundred thousand, althou g h th e extreme fatigue, e hunger, thirst, and all the other miseri es i nsepara bl e from electrical attracti o n o f th e eart h , and is there condensed, the elect r i c ity, b e i ng i nsu l ated, forms an atmosphere a long and painful journey had caused the d ea th o f as many more) they were reduced to the last stage of suffer, roun d each particle of vapour, and on t h e removal (by ing; they were in want of all things ; the empero r f ur - any cause) of th e e l ectr i c i ty, i ncluding the vaporous par nished them with all things. He had prepared for them titles, the repul s i on i s removed, and they then attract was more rain and le ss thunder at Belfa s t th an i n Lon dwellings suitable to their mode of life ; he distributed each other, and fo rm ra i n . H aving observed that there among them victuals to feed and clothes to c o ver th em ; don, I was led to exami ne i nto t h e cause of the peculi he gave them oxen, s he e p, an d u t ens il s t o p l ace t h em- selves in a condition to rear fl oc k s , an d t o t ill t h e groun d arity, and especially on account o f the electric fluid being abundant in the atmosph ere at t h e latter than at the and this entirely at hi s own expense , w hi c h amounted to former place, and found the a b ove h ypothesis to agree, an enormous sum, with ou t count i ng t h e money which most perf he liberally gave to ever y c hi e f o f a f am i ly, to put him of Belfast perfectly with the peculiariti es o f t h e neighbourhood which is surrounded by hill s . Th e highest of in the w a y o f wor ki ng a f terwar d s for his own livelihood, and to pro v id e su b s ti nence f or h i s wife and children.— these is to the north of the t ow n, an d one o f t h em, named Chinese Olio. Devis, twelve miles fro m it, i s near l y 400 f eet above the BURLEIGH HOUSE.—Burl e i g h H ouse , near Stamford level of the sea. Wh enever any m i st or cloud descends , upon the top of this mountain, it is a sure sign of rain; Lincolnshire, the seat of the Marquis of Exeter, to which and I have never observed it rain without some previous the Queen pays her next visit, is a magnificent Gothic indication of the kind, which frequently takes place for pile, remarkable for grandeur and for various interesting hours before the rain comes on. The cause of this ap associations. The founder of the family was the famous peers to be, that Devis, which is conical, acts as a con- Cecil, the cautious and wise minister of Elizabeth. Here ductor to draw the electric fluid from the cloud. that a are collected some of the richest paintings of the ancient portion of the clouds descends with it, and, as the fluid is masters, including the famous Salvator Mundi by Carlo drawn off, the watery particles in the atmosphere unite Dolce, which Sir Walter Scott said was "worth a king's and descend as rain. On the 6th of May last, I had the ransom," and for which six thousand guineas were of- good fortune to observe a remarkable instance of the fered. It is a small enamel-like picture, of transparent drawing off the electric fluid from the clouds by this purity and brilliancy of colouring. The groves and park mountain. The weather, in the early part of the day, of Burleigh are worthy the splendid mansion, and were was clear and warm. Between 1 and 2 p.m. clouds admired by by Dryden, who translated the seventh book of thered ; they became gradually more dense and were the Aneid in this patrician and hospitable residence. strongly charged with electric fluid. When ' I first ob- Hazlitt has related a story of Burleigh House more touch- served them, they were moving from Devis to the west ; ing and romantic than any fiction. The late Earl of Exe- but the wind, along the surface of the ground, was mov ter bad been divorced from his first wife, a woman of ing in the opposite direction, namely, towards that rnoun fashion, and of somewhat more gaiety of manner than tain. This was before the clouds presented any signs of ' lords who love their ladies like.' He determined to seek a strong electric charge ; after they assumed this appear out a second wife in a humbler sphere of life, and that it anee, a slight shower fell, and the clouds and wind at the should be one who, having no knowledge of his rank, surface reversed their direction, the clouds moving from should love him for hi mse lf alone. For this purpose he Devis, and the wind at the surface towards it. When went and settled incognito (under the name of Jones) at this shower ceased, the clouds became stationary, and the tureent, an one oborscure two village in msel Shropshire ei . H bou m r e hood, b ade or- wind at th e sur f ace o f t h e ground ceased, the smoke from to das in the ngh veut the factory chimneys, which had moved in the direction they were too knowing to be taken in by him. His man- of the surface wind, rising perpendicularly. At this juncture a peal of thunder ensued, and a heavy shower ners were not boorish, his mode of life was retired, it was odd how be got his livelihood, and at last be began to be fell; the clouds then remained stationary, and the wind taken for a highwayman. In this dilemma, he turned to began to blow at right angles to its former direction. It Miss Moggins, the e ld es t d aug ht er o f a small farmer, at then gradually veered round until it blew direct towards whose ho use h e l o d ge d . M iss H ogg i ns, it would seem, Devis, and the clouds began to move to the same point. there was In four minutes the shower became very heavy, but in a had not been used to romp with the clowns ; something in the manners of their q u iet but eccentric short time the weather cleared up,. I was so situated that guest that she liked. A s h e f oun d th a t h e h a d inspired I could not see Devis during the time of this pbenome her with that kind of re gar d w hi c h h e w i s h e d for, he made non, but at 6 p.m. it was repeated, when I was able to honourable proposal s t o h er , an d, at th e en d of some attend particularly too t, and watch t are mountain. At a months, they were marri e d, w ith ou t hi m l e tti n g her know quarter-past six the cluds had gathered again, and were who he was. They set off i n a post- c h a i s e from her fa- much charged with the electric fluid. After the occur ther's house, and travelled homew ar d s across the country- rence of similar movements to those mentioned above, In this manner they arrived a t St am f or d, and passed the clouds became stationary, the wind moving from De through the town without stoppi ng , till th e y came to the vis, the clouds overhanging the mountains became denser entrance to Burleigh Park, whi c h i s on th e outside of it. and denser, but they appeared to be kept by some influ- The gates flew open, the chaise entered, and drove up the ence from touching it, assuming the form of a mould in long avenue of trees that leads up to the front of this flue which the mountains had been cast. After they had re old mansion. As they drew nearer to it, and she seemed mained s t a ti onary some time the wind still bl ow i ng f rom a littl e surpr i sed where they were going, he said, ' Well, Devis, some f ragments of them began gradually to de wy dear, this is Burleigh House; it is the home I have scend to the top of that mountain, a peal of thunder promised to bring you to, and y ou are th e C ountess o f scarcely perceptible ensued, ands body of cloud, sufficient Exeter l' It is said the shock of this discovery was too to cover the summit, descended with rapidity and rested much for this young creature, and that she never reco- upon it, whilst the other clouds began to ascend. Within vered it. It was a sensation worth dying for. The world two minutes after the thunder and descent of the cloud we live in was worth making, had it only been for this. Ye upon Devis, a very heavy rain came on, accompanied by thousand and one tales of the Arabian Nights' Entert a i n - v i olent gusts of wand. At 8 p. s m. o the meets ! hide your diminish e d b ea d s ! I never wish to have and the clouds reposed in streak w rain had ceased, white and black, on been a lord but when I think o f thi s story. " lines from north-east to south-west.—Polytechnicßeview. MENTAL EXERCISE.—The great means by which the mental, moral, and physical powers are to be improved is by exercise. This has been well set forth in a modern work on education, with an extract from which, and an earnest prayer for the divine blessing on your labours, I shall close these rema ks :—" The law of exercise is of universal application. It is a fundamental law of nature, that all the capacities of man are enlarged and strength ened by being used. From the energies of a muscle up to the highest faculty, intellectual or moral, repeated exer cise of the function increases its intensity. Inseparable from the very idea of exercising the faculties,andof course from the practice o f th a t exerc i se , i s th e requisition of ex ercising each faculty upon th e o bj ec t s w hi c h nature points out as related to it. Muscular strength is to be gained by familiarizing the muscles with the resistance of exter nal forces, and by the habit of conquering mechanical difficulties, varied to exercise all the muscles, which amount to several hundreds in the human frame. The senses are improved by long and particular training, ap plying each to its object—sight, by habitual looking at distant or minute objects; hearing, by accurate practice in the perception of sounds; taste, in the discriminating use of the palate. In the same manner, the observing fa culties are rendered acute and diversified by the constant practice of observation of details in existing objects, their qualities, and of passing events. The same law extends to the moral world. For the exercise of justice, the child must be made aware of his own and his neighbour's right, and be habituated practically to respect them in all con tingencies. For the exercise of benevolence, the habit of repressing the selfish feelings, and of actually doing good, kind, compassionate, and generous things, not by fits, but as a steady unvarying principle of action, will be found indispensable."—Miss Mayo. LORD ELDON'S DESPATCH OF BUSINESS.—Through the only 10 years of Lord Hardwicke's Chancellorship whereof we have any exact records, the annual average of the matters despatched in the Court of Chancery was 4,220 ; while through the first ten years of the present century, the annual average of the matters despatched was 6,081, being an excess of almost one-half. And this in crease of business and of despatch in Lord Eldon's time was a progressive one. The last three of the 10 before mentioned years of Lord Hardwicke give an average of 4,230, or 14 beyond the average of the seven years by which they were preceded; but the last three of the before -mentioned years of Lord Eldon's give an average of 6,948, being 1,238 beyond the average of the seven years preceding them, and 2,718 beyond the average of the last three of the 10 recorded years of Lord Hard wicke. Again, comparing the years 1752 3-4 with the years 1819, 1820.1, we find the result of the tables as between Lord Hardwicke and Lord Eldon to be, that— Lord Hardwicke despatched business equal to 2,390 heavy matters ; and that Lord Eldon, in a like space, despatched business equal to 2,598 like matters, being an excess of 209 in Lord Eldon's favour. And, further, Mr. Twiss proceeds,—lt results, that Lord Eldon not only despatched in the Court of Chancery, during his three years, an amount of 2,598 heavy matters, being 208 more than were despatched in the same length of time by Lord Hard wicke, but moreover that Lord Edon effected this in only 455 days—or, if 61 days be deducted as before for politi cal and other duties, only 394 days—while his predecessor, in clearing the smaller amount of 2,390 like matters in the Court of Chancery, consumed 508 days —or, 61 days being equally deducted, as in Lord Eldon's time, 447 days —and Lord Eldon's real superiority, therefore, when cal culated, as it ought to be, with reference to the number of days actually available for the Court of Chancery in the course of each respective period of three years, is not merely to the amount of 208 heavy matters beyond Lord Hardwicke, but at the rate of 348 such matters, which would be a superiority in Lord Eldon's favour of about 14 percent.—Life of Lord Eldon. WRONGS OF THE LABOURING CLASSES.—An extra ordinary degree of public attention is at present drawn to the state of the labouring classes. The whole press of the country, in every phase of political opinion, joins in proclaiming their wrones and the necessity for some re medies. "It were needless," says the Morning Chroni cle, " to adduce examples of the pressing nature of these evils. Bishops furnish them in their charges ; country gentlemen quote them in their speeches ; city orators cite them at their public meetings ; newspapers give them at full length from day to day. Such a state of things can not go on. Commerce is prosperous ; trade is thriving; the revenue flourishes ; yet look at the condition of our labouring people." What a throng of deeds of cruelty and injustice has even the last ten days produced ! In the metropolis, and in our great towns, we see, almost every day, coroners' inquests on men and women, either dying of want, or committing suicide out of mere despe ration. At this instant, in the wealthy parish of Mary lebone, such an investigation is going on. Meanwhile, our slopsellers persist in giving their,fivefarthings for the work of a shirt, and sixpence for embroidering a shawl with eighty flowers ! And if we turn to the country, what meets us there ? In one county, we find a poor fellow who had brought up thirteen children, and inhabited one cottage for twenty years, sent to gaol, under a sentence which almost amounts to perpetual imprisonment, because found with a hare, In the next county, we see another man quietly sentenced to three months' hard labour, for being found with a gun ; though whether he was intend ing to shoot crows or rabbits, no one could tell ! In a third case, a poor man was sentenced to ten years' trans portation, having confessed, that, when almost starved, he was tempted by a neighbour to assist in stealing a sheep. Now we are not arguing for impunity in such cases as these. No offence ought to pass without notice. But whatwe press upon our readers' attention is this,— that here are three men, in the adjoining counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, and Oxford,—all tempted into crime by want and wretchedness, and all instantly punished with rigour, though in each case it was a first offence, and though in each case the cost of maintaining them and their families, at the public cost, in prisons and workhouses, would inevitably amount to a far larger sum than would have rendered them all happy and comfortable in honest industry. But, in truth, the manner in which the game-laws are now carried out, looks like infatuation. Sir Harry Verney declared, a few days back, at a meeting of the magistrates of Buckinghamshire, his conviction, that the game of that county consumed one-fourth of the produce of the soil. And a correspondent of the Globe declares, that " a few weeks back the principal occupier in an adjoining parish declared to me that the game cost the occupiers of the parish more than the poor did, and they were numerous." In fact, if we were to take the average consumption of the fruits of the earth by the game at less than half what Sir Harry Verney estimates it at, it would still be true, of the whole kingdom, that the landed proprietors actually bestow more upon their hares and partridges, than they do upon their poor !—Church man's Monthly Review. A MINIMUM OF WAGES.—We often observe, in this country, an inclination man if es t e d t o regulate bylaw the rate of wages, not with the view of instituting any such naturally equitable partition, but of establishing a mini mum below which life cannot be comfortably supported. These reasoners proceed, it will at once be admitted, not on the rights of man, but on the claims of humanity. To such a project there is but one objection ; itwill assuredly fail of its humane intention. his presumed that the com petition amongst the workmen to obtain employment has so far advanced, that these cease to obtain a sufficient re muneration for their labour. The thousand men whom a great capitalist employs, are inadequately paid. The le gislature requires that they should be paid more liberally. But the amount which the capitalist has to expend in wages is limited. The same amount which sustained a thou sand men, can, under the new scale of remuneration, sus tain only nine hundred. The nine hundred are better fed, but there is one hundred without any food whatever. Our well-intentioned humanity looks round aghast at the. con fusion she is making. Suppose, it may be said, that a law of this description should be passed at so fortunate a con juncture, that it should not interfere with the existing re lations between the capitalist and the workman, but have for its object to arrest the tendency which wages have to fall; suppose that the legislature, satisfied with the exist ing state of things, should pronounce it a punishable of fence to offer or accept a lower rate of remuneration, would not such a law be wise? The answer is obvious. If there is a tendency at any time in wages to fall, it is because there is a tendency in population to increase, or in capital to diminish ; circumstances, both of them, which it is not in the power of criminal jurisprudence to grapple with.— Blackwood's Magazine. EASTERN WIVES.—The daughter of a king of Persia having conceived an aversion towards her father's vizir, said one day to her mother, " If I could destroy that vizir, 1 would do it with pleasure, for he is a man whose inaus picious presence disturbs me." "Be composed, my dear child," said her mother, • I will manage the matter." Having said this, she wrote a letter, in the king's name, to the wife of the vizir, to the following effect . " Kill your husband, for I have an affection for you, and wish that you should be mine ; but as you have an, attachment to your husband, who is my vizir, it would be rather a disgraceful thing if I were to tear you from his arms, and make you my wife whilst he is alive." When the vizir's spouse read this letter, ambitious thoughts took posses sion of her heart, and she became intent upon finding some stratagem to rid herself of the obstacle. One night her husband being in a state of inebriation, she seized the happy occasion, killed him without compunction, and sent his head to the king by the hands of a young damsel. " Whose head is this !" inquired the king with great anx iety. "It is the head of your vizir," replied the damsel ; " his wife has sent it ; you know why." The king insti tuted inquiries into the matter, and discovering the truth, took off the heads of the vizar's wife, his own wife, his daughter, and the young damsel. He then summoned the principal officers of his army, and said to them : " I want you all to give me your wives ;" but they unanimously refused. "We will surrender to you our property, nay, sacrifice our lives for you," said they, but we cannot part with our dear wives." After this, the king went secretly to the wives of those officers, and said to each of them apart, " I wish to make you my wife, if you can contrive to get rid of your husband." That very night, each of the ladies, by some stratagem, succeeded in cutting off the head of her husband, and in the morning, the king saw his generals' heads in his possession, sent by their wives. He was horror-struck at the spectacle. " What !" ex claimed he, " I asked these men to give nee their wives, and with one accord they refused; yet when I propose to their wives to commit a barbarous act of infidelity, they all consent, and kill their husbands!" His majesty, after this ejaculation, ordered all the expectant widows to be put to death without mercy.—New Asiatic Journal. LORD ELDON'S SUCCESSORS.—The Chancery Com mission recommended in 1826 a great variety of alterati ons in the practice of the court ; but early in 1827, before there had been time to make the necessary measures for effecting them, Lord Eldon quitted the Court of Chan cery. Lord Chancellor Lyndhurst, in 1828, put forth a series of orders, which accomplished some of the objects recommended by the commission, and the great combina tion of faculties which he brought into the administration of the great seal, induced an expectation that, if any hu man strength could accomplish it, Lord Lyndhurst would be able to overcome the arrears, of his court. But those arrears continuing to accumulate, he was constrained, in 1829, to propose a measure for the constitution of an ad ditional judge. It was renewed in 1830, but strenuously combated by the Whigs, who still maintained the notion that the work was not too much for those already ap pointed to perform it : and the demise of the Crown having brought the sessions prematurely to a close, the measure did not ripen into law during that Chancellorship. Lord Brougham next grasped the seals. He had been the most formidable of Lord Eldon's assailants. But, observed Lord Langdale in the House of Lords, on the 13th of June, 1836, when he himself (Lord Brougham) became possessed of the great seal, at first he was so far from supposing that the appointment of a new judge was necessary, that he seems to have thought the Court stronger than enough, and he actually expressed his opi nion that by the changes he was to bring about he should be able to dispense with the office of Vice-Chancellor. This was in February, 1831. In July, 1833, further ex perience had so far altered his lordship's views, that he laid on the table of the house a bill, entitled, An Act 'for appointing a Chief Judge in Chancery, and for esta blishing a Court of App ea l i n Chancery.' Yet the busi ness had not become greater since the time of Lord El don ; on the contrary, the number of bills filed on the three preceding years, 1830, 1831, 1832, had been only 6,510; whereas during three years 1819, 1820, 1821, which for the reasons before-mentioned have been selected as the tests of Lord Eldon's judicature, the number of bills filed was 6,654; and in the years 1821, 1822, 1823, the last of which was the period when the war upon Lord Eldon was at its hottest, the number was 6,988. It was, therefore, under a pressure rather diminished than in creased since Lord Eldon's time, that Lord Brougham, the great impugner of Lord Eldon, found himself com pelled in 1833 to 1834 to ca ll u p on he Legislature for ad• ditional aid. Now, however, the criticisms of lawyers may differ upon the judicial merits of Lord Brougham, merits which probably will be more highly estimated here after than political causes have suffered them to be in his own generation—arit enim fulgore suo—none will deny him to be unsurpassed in vigour and in speed. And yet, with all that speed, and with all that vigour, he was una ble to accomplish that feat, which, in the time of Lord Eldon, he had conceived to be so easy, and which he had rated Lord Eldon so roundly for failing to achieve. The sanction of Parliament having been withheld from Lord Brougham's measure, Lord Cottenham, the succeeding Chancellor, though justly held in high estimation as an equity judge, found it as little practicable as any of his predecessors, to keep down the business of his court without additional assistance. And thus, year after year, the evil continued and grew, until at length a bill for the creation of two additional judges was introduced by that party in politics who, during Lord Eldon's time and un der an equal or greater pressure of business in the court, had ever protested against any such increase as being useless and profligate.—Lord Eldon's Life. POPISH PERSECUTIONS.—The claim of infallibility, the grand principle of Romanism, has led the church profess ing its tenets to the belief that heretics (all, that is, who differ from her unscriptural doctrines) ought to he cut off from the church, delivered over, as they term it, to the secular arm, and put to death. Ido not speak of indivi dual Romanists—some assert that they do not hold with this persecuting spirit—but I affirm, that to this very day the cutting out of heretics is authorised by the decrees of the council of Trent, which contain the standard doc trines of popery. If the church of Rome had the power, and if the present age of religious toleration did not pre vent open persecutions, we might yet hear of such deeds of cruelty as stain the history of the middle ages. We have the clearest proof that Romanisrn is the same as ever, in that it is seen to show itself in acts of persecu tion and treachery, even new, as far as it may. It is very observable that, whether popery has been in an oppressed or dominant condition, the same spirit has actuated her. If heretics are to be destroyed in the palmy days of po pery, the reign of Queen Mary, the flames of Smithfield are to soar up to heaven in the open light of day. If he retics are to be destroyed in the days of the first James then is there the secret plot instead of the open persecu tion ; then, instead of the stake and the faggot, there is the calm and stealthy deliberation of conspirators, and the deed of darkness which, unless providentially frustrated, would have tent suddenly into the presence of the judge of quick and dead the king, the princes, and the nobles of our land. Yes, the same persecuting spirit of popery which in the thirteenth century (for I will not go further back) spoke to the brave Albigenses by the lips of Simon de Montfort, " Return to the Catholic faith, or ascend that pile and die!" which, in the beginning of the fifteenth century, excited Henry IV. to " pass the kw for the burning of heretics, which (says Blackstone) was the dis grace of our statute-book for two and a half centuries ;" which` in the sixteenth century, condemned Crammer and Ridley and Latimer to the flames; and which (such are its tender mercies) has consigned many to the stake after they bad recanted and returned to their apostate church — it is the same persecuting spirit which, in our own day, excites the Irish peasant (taught by his priest that by any means he may advance the welfare of the church) to per petrate the deed of bloodshed; and which would, if it might—which may God, of his infinite mercy, forbid!— destroy the Protestant religion in that unhappy country. Let us think with deep and fervent gratitude, and at the same time with serious self-examination, of our present privileges. And here it should be observed that on the fifth of November we praise and bless God, not only for the deliverance of the king and nobles from the deep laid plot of the Romanists, but also for the " arrival of King William 111. as on this day, for the deliverance of our church and nation." We may well render thanksgivings to our God for the happy results of the revolution in 1688. For, however men may differ as to the question whether, in any case, the succession to the throne should be altered, and although some may be of opinion that James If. might have been induced to have ceased from his favour ing the interests of the Romanists had less summary mea sures been adopted, still we must all praise and bless the goodness and the wisdom of God, who, " from the seem ing," y ea , perc h ance t h e real evil of these political con flicts " educed good," for, assuredly, our religion and o u r liberties were preserved y the accession of a Protestant king to the throne. Let us heartily, then, unite in the prayer that we m a y h ave " a sp i r i t o f fervent zeal for our holy religion, which the Lord has so wonderfully rescued and established, a blessing to us and our posterity." Let us be truly grateful for our present religious privileges, privileges not granted to our forefathers in those dark days of which our subject has led me to speak ; permission to read the bible, the services of our church conducted in our own language, and the doctrine of salvation through a Saviour's merits rescued from the " wood, hay, and stub ble" of Popery. Let us never suppose that the mere name of Protestant, and a loud condemnation of the errors of the become Romanist, true will Christians.—Church b r be li o a f n any s...l c benefit h u rcA of to Englandour soul s, May, unless we SHIPWRECKS AND LOSS OF LIFE. (From the Dublin Evening Mail.) The late storm has been extremely disastrous on the Irish coast, chiefly between Dublin and Drogheda. The brig Shannon, of Whitelsaven, struck on a reef of sharp pointed rocks, about two miles north of Balbriggan. Four of the men took to the boat, and though it was swamped the men were drifted ashore alive. Five men remained on board the vessel, which was at length c3psized by the vio lence of the waves, and the men for a few minutes were seen clinging to the keel—the next wave swept three of them away, and they were drowned ; a fourth caught hold of a spar, and was saved. The fifth held on to the keel, but when reached the vital spark had fled. A large brig, name unknown, laden with wheat, sup posed to be from Wexford, an d b ound to Liverpool, was totally to. at Clogherabont, and all hands supposed to be lost, as there was no account of any of them. Another wreck took place at Annagasson, near the same place. Name of the vessel unknown. She was dashed into pieces. A large vessel, about 700 tons burthen, named the Rose, of Belfast, Montgomery, master, was driven violently on shore at Skerries, but most fortunately the crew, consisting of fourteen men and one woman, a passenger, were all got off safely from the wreck. She was timber laden, and left Quebec this day five weeks. She was bound for Belfast. A large quantity of timber, and other things belonging to ships, were picked up be tween Balbriggan and Drogheda; the figure head of a ship and a piece of board with the name " Fairy Queen" was found at Balbriggan. Several small craft were more or less injured at Baldoyle, Malahide, and along the coast. A large vessel, supposed to be an Indiaman—but all inquiry proved unsuccessful to ascertain anything about her —was seen in a wrecked condition off Ireland's I Eye. _ At Kingstown Harbour, a timber-vessel, the William and Isabella, of Sunderland, was dismasted close to the quay, against which the surge of the waves drove her with violence: beyond her was a coal-vessel, which had completely settled down, her masts standing above water. At the entrance of the inner harbour lay the Kingston, of Liverpool, bound to Africa, which, had put in for shelter at the commencement of the storm; she was secured by a hawser to the far side of the harbour, and by a cable to the quay, and bad every appearance of riding out the storm in safety, when a cry was heard that another vessel was dragging her anchors ; this proved to be the Capri corn, of Liverpool, a West Indian vessel, from San Do mingo, with a valuable cargo of rum and sugars on board. She had been anchored at a distance of about 400 yards ahead of the Kingston ; it was about ten minutes to three o'clock when she began to drag her anchor ; it was fully half-past three before she reached the devoted Kingston. As soon as it was perceived that the collision was inevita ble, directions were given to cut away the cable of this g ve h sse it ls twoerealatter vessel, and to get her round, so that theke might be less resistance ; before this manoeuvre could be accom plished the stern of the Capricorn had dashed against the t t h h o e u bows of the Kingston, the head of which went crashing and grinding right through the bulwarks of the former ; at every gust of wind this scene of dtstruction was re peated, the enormous bowsprit of the Kingston spring liantgh.anldt was s rt n in o g w from ev con tinue in this regard to each other, both would be speedily dashed to atoms. The crew on board the Capricorn had I i n x g t e t e i t n p h g t. i 1 this n w theao away done nothing ; it was reported they had been ill, and were Kiagraetmanai;netad allon unable to move. The greater part of the crew of the cut away, the masts iden i t ts th s a ea t t' we a r s e remainder m i t n na g ei s n t r o di e n g rg l i e on a fg p t e tho d e tc o hr n ee w b w o gi a no r dt d wo , an a r n sdh d . o c r o e W m , W na h ii e tl hs n t c t e hd d eo c ei As who, soon with h t hgererai rigging foolhardiness,ing w as snapped across and tumbled over on the appearance one fell right on the man who remained on board, but he with much presence of mind contrived to n give a leap away, and his arm only was caught. We be lieve it was only bruised, not broken. At eleven o'clock on Saturday night b o o n a e rd m . an A , an alarm of l fire was given on board the Kingston. An prevailed that there was a great o n I . 3tin A it n t opinion gen d e e r r ald: board, and this naturally had the' effect of gunpowder on board, and this naturally had the effect of preventing the necessary exertions to extinguish the fire. p The conse quence was, that the de • element h d ; it' devouring got a- ea burned during the entire night, and on Sunday the vessel appeared completely consumed to the water's edge. The Capricorn, which lay near, had the side next the fire con siderably injured—the burning mast and rigging of the Nov. !2, 18-li, Kingston fell across her deck, set fire to everything with which it came in contact, and were it not for the tip assistance afforded, she would, no doubt, h av e sbar fate of the other. Opi n i on i s contradictory as regardP be ig, origin of the fire ; however, the prevailing that some persons contrived to get on board with disho% intentions, and that having made rather too free rum, of which there was a large quantity in the vesr, the fire took place by accident. This idea is strengthen by the fact that a boy, in a deep state of inebriation , ; found concealed between the rocks were the brig laY. Kingston was the property of Charles Horsfall and lo. t 1; of Liverpool, but we have not been able to ascertaint vessel or cargo were insured. that In addition to the above, we have ascertained 6 "The Success," from Demerara to Dublin, with sa l rdif experienced a heavy sea and violent gale on Sat, u , evening, at five o'clock. She had her main top-sau tha t reef fore-sail blown away, and the consequence was' te r she was thrown on her beams, and was filling with when assistance was afforded ; she was brought into la:t g ', bour without sustaining any additional injury. A f la b r er portion of the cargo is much damaged, and,Part ground tier of sugar was wholly washed away. s At Bally brack, midway between Killiney and Bra.l , „ s seaman's hat was picked up, in the lining of which ma; was written—" John Trant, Liverpool, Septembe r 1 "" 16th, 1843, three." supposition it In the river some vessels were injured by dashing eltbcr _.‘ against each other or th e quay walls. Amongst those7o the Autumn, of H arr i ng t on, w hi ch had her bowsprit▪ :1' jibboom carried away, an d h er b u l k- h ead damaged. . other coal-vessel h a d h er b u l war k s stove in, and her ( .1; sails torn to pieces. S evera l flats —more commonly • of as the Ballast Board boats—were sunk at either saw the river and opposite Ringsend, and a great many broken against the walls. A number of row boats, be longing to private pe rsons , met w i t h the like ac cident' and some that w ere moore d o ff t h e i sland at the ?MPb Bull were carried away altogether. COST OF MAINTAINING THE ROYAL FAMIL Y ' er) We have freque n tly ( says t h e Bi rmingham Adeeria,„ felt it our duty to correct a misunderstandinz which vl" generally prevails, especially among the working class: as to the expe nse o f t h e maintenance of the[l o y a l Fail and every time we h ave d one it, have received the tha of some or other of our subscribers for recalling att en ;: tion to that which, though we had mentioned it before►. too readily lost sight of. I n d ee d, among the motives disloyalty, which demagogues and the mis-leaders oft people urge, few, if any, have a more telling effect 0 4 those which bear upon " th e vas t sums o f money AP's' the people have to pay for the maintenance of the 1 0 . 1 , Family." We deem this, the re f ore , a fitti ng opper t u ultP when the Queen of England is brought with unusual Pr?: minenee before her subjects, AGAIN to correct a mist i l into which s o many f a ll , espec i ally as we have late confinement—" the remark being mad e a t th e ti me o f her Majesty ' s confinement—" there is another young one for us to w° tain." The hereditary revenues of the royal house,• arising from the crown lands, were, as we have more than oso intimated, given up by George the Third to the country. on condition of a suitable provision being always madell the country for the Members of the Royal Farsiti George the Third, it i s we ll k nown, h a d not a very sts family, and it might be consequently thought had Ina u a good bargain ; b u t h ow stan d t h e facts and figures the case? The averyge annual amount received by Govern ment from the Crown Lands, and are applied to public purposes for seventy years, from 1760 to 1830, was The average of the annual payments to the Sove reign and Royal Family Leaving a balance annually of So that, in point of fact, leaving the INTEREST of tig savings out vof the questio n , th e country saves ne ar , " £400,000 a-yea r , by " KEEPING,' as it is called, 4 ' Royal Family. Let us, however, see what this matter comes to, wi le ! interest is taken i n t o account; f or we cannot bor ro" money off other parties without i n t eres t ; an d t hi s is $ light in which we have never c 'early viewed it before. When last year Sir R. Inglis brought this subject bet fore the House o f C ommons, i t was shown that up to thas time the government had received £17,000,000 more froni the crown lands than it had paid to the royal family. l b ; interest upon £47,000,000 a t th ree per cent. would corn" annually to about £1,410,000. Let us then draw another table to illustrate this matter. Annual interest upon the balance due to the crown in 1843 £1,410,000 Average annual payment to the royal family 940,335 Annual balance. ...... The interest then alone of the money received by the country and applied to public purposes, beyond the amount paid to the royal family from the time that George the Third gave up his hereditary revenues to 1843, not only pays all the expenses of the royal family, but leaves an annual balance of £469,665 ! Let us then illustrate the matter by yet another table. The country receives an nually, on an average, From the crown lands From the interest of the sum already saved, after making all annual payments to the royal family 469,665 Making an annual balance of. £1,804,971 ....,... CONVERTS TO POPERY. (From the Record.) The intelligence of the Rev. Mr. Penny's conversion to Popery is confirmed, and we now state it as a fact that Mr. Newman has written to the Rev. Isaac Williams (the competitor with Mr. Garbett for the Chair of Poetry) an nouncing that it is impossible for him to continue in so fallen a Church as that of England. Mr. Williams, we understand, wishes this to be known ; and he has, in con sequence, broken off all connexion with Mr. Newman, and the Romish section of the party. We are now, in all probability, on the verge of a con siderable secession from our venerable Establishment. The fact, we believe to be that Mr. Newman would have gone over to Rome a year ago, could he have carried Dr. Pusey with him. But Dr. Pusey was not ready, and his secession, without Dr. Pusey, would have had compara tively little effect. From the intelligence we have re ' ceived, we think it probable that about thirty Masters of Arts, in Oxford, will accompany Mr. Newman, if Dr. Pusey secedes also; and we have heard it computed. by those well qualified to form a just opinion of the case, tha t in Oxford, Cambridge, and over the country at large: there will be, in all, about 100 of the Tractarians, who Will secede to their appropriate place within the bosom 0 ' Rome, if Mr. Newman is accompanied by Dr. Pusey. Such a consummation is most devoutly to be wished , as it regards the highest interests of our Church. nig perilous matter has too long lain at her very vitals, an d the extent of the evil arising from its continuance there' it were impossible adequately to estimate. And besides this, the secession will afford a new proof of the just isstle of those principles which, amidst much contempt and obloquy, we have been pointing at for many successive years, and will, we trust, also introduce a more whole some fear in regard t o th em t h roughout the Church and the country. Even as it regards the unhappy men who apostatise it is to be desired. For in error, as in other things, it is better to be honest than dishonest,—to act in conformity with specified or understood obligations, than in opposition to them. [Since the above was in type, a letter has been sent t° The Times, from Mr. Williams, denying that Mr. Nov" man has written to him.—Mr. G. Tickell, of Balliol Col lege, who recently apostatised to popery whilst travelling in Belgium, has written to The Times also, and says' " Now that I h ave t h e bl essing of being a Catholic, the result is perfe c t p eace o f m i nd and restored health ; an d my heartfelt wish is, that the many dear friends I have in England may one day share the same blessings I now enjoy." Al as ! a l as ! for poor fallen human nature t hat men can thus be lead astray.] SUICIDE OF MR. AND MRS. BARKER, AT KILMARNOCK. These unfortu na t e persons were o ld i nhabitants o f Bir mingham. Mr. Joseph Barker was 61 years of age, his wife was somewhat younger. They resided, previous s' leaving Bi rm i ng h am, at N o. 54, Vi ttor i a - street. Mr. Barker was b orn a t P res t on , i n L ancas hi re, f rom w ine' town he married for his second wife the partner of his ro mantic hee e esa state sirm, abutfor rdne m dihgoi e nns l a : mno Malta,sc s h c o ah l t y axn st exit. abno d, Amatoert; Heeh several ear h ol abi from that parts rt r nh e i s an i tg d ot e fi o d rnft he i m n eh oi l 4 ssfec n ry r Conti-- tnue Hisnn e t 8 , 0 nbwleeyi were ecgh atireversed.ld on a e s t o i n m , e oliniB r mostextensively vfih rosstewife me memory died or y e ob n ne g ag e d in bust' dote, also died when 21 years of ze. SiX yea rs appeared to entered the service of Mr. Samuel KemPson,-floor-cloth manufacturer, Constitution- hill where be remained as chief clerk and traveller until May last, when he entered into partnership with Mr. James Archer, who bad also been with Mr. .Kempson, and the firm was opened in Summer-lane, as James Archer and Co., table-cloth ma nufacturers. In the arrangements there was nothing to disturb the equanimity of his proverbially even temper: ago he He appeared on excellent terms with all around him ; and . w hen, two months ago, he left home, as be alleged to his partner, on a visit to Manchester, there was nothing to indicate the fearful resolve to which subsequent circum stances lead us to suppose he had made up his mind. On leaving their house they told the servant girl they b w a e c r k e going i n eieight see or a n relation ine d aya a . t a When distance,he partedan d bo should a f r r d o m a smhbirpe.. Archer he shook hands heartily, saying, " God bless you, Archer;" and it was observed by Mr. Archer that he mysteryhabits discharged every tradesman's bill against the firm. It on him when he left away f t o u u rn n e d d that he had,aud seemed previoua atffoechtiead.depalrttuwraes, called d wa a r n d d s was supposed that lie had about £4O . . rY em p ba oi r n ra t ss o m f embarrassment, and an th d e w re e have not,Birm a i a n Birmingham. mcan a l a n eer a ta p i n ee , pecuniary languages; and i ann g d il e u f en k t i l n y dl t y he di l sp ta o l a ia it n io , n F , r e e r n e c a h ti , n a g n r d eg G ar e d rm an a d n self-destruction. dre. with strau n rc o kt eisatisfactorysolutionost ge n tl e t m o a t n h l e y love in those with whom he associated in business and iii private life. Mrs. Barker washigahlwyoametromopflimahuecdh, andamia bility safa proficientya The hoiuon n a ge n g d d a o n l f is d a n d u m a N e t n V v is a l uityttesyCei relic, f ei found c fandrmanner,iendtupon in 1 , M 1 r r .. K B e a m rk p e s r o nw,sas employ an old: an o d f m th a e n i: he knife was a present frorq The description of the knife led to the identity of theut" happy deceased. On seeing the London papers, MP Archer sent his foreman over to Kilmarnock, to identiff the parties. Captain Mc. Arthur, formerly commande r of has been Royal, Liverpool and Glasgow stea mer, o been appointed harbour master at Fleetwood. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.