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We came t so rest" had such a dr buy me a little laiii verish, dreamy rn7a j in --- di -;- ci I b, or anything to assu guide and Bostoniai Many tim zth to r ken rei the Sic watch, my when he When the mu noothing down my limb a departing patient, e and taunt me for ~.yi, when the first half to all a Etteraturt. ,i TRIP ) THE ITALY AND EGYPT REET, ESQ . the t SKETCHES OF what a blessed ct sunny Italy. St - ,er than I to my 1 this co. little Aimbing 1 fabul a from it, and T tans, the invin t posse: .ng corn, win in c edicina'l roots, and s of the citi i from ti 3f torture, in the criminals were a roasted India He for his s ill and 6t the tc he was then roa that he fell by t Theocritus Gamins, and 1m for le bore away the p country Gero, Aiero, and and rulers. Agc as priftc( son of a commo ral, and pirate, ti lvandll both in S rebel soldiers, who cut then relieved:Corfu, burnt 111 L.✓v , This A Loos to Etruscan nd there inz no s I me fr n a Latiga, paJ a journ ble, rn3 01 , ound to .3 who finc and hew 'whose brusque i ordered It so to be ; get seats to Catar brought to the door down to th with the e; Et goatskin mo to the hack, ba '' cannot b nv car cu - red must be and, Off we set walking. The guide kept with his Yankee companion, from a quarter of a mile to half a mile a-head. Thus in misery I travelled—no halt, no refreshment—until two in the afternoon when weary, fevered, exhausted, we sat down to nothing but cold meat, bread, and wine ; and, after one hour's repose, onward was the word. Again we traversed, up hill, down dale, through half-cultivated and barren fields ; one dried-up river, with glaring, hot, huge smooth white stones, we crossed eleven times : this hot, pebbly bed in the winter contains a rapid, foaming stream, his river, ca A a miserable village. I was f the night, that I begged, um ; to protect himse z on the v yep was unnatural and fe- No coffee in the morning— k or tea, ng thirst ; they were both, o my calls, to my distress. at wells of water covered )wn steep declivities, with On the unfeeling brutes • a little delay, or help to And thus was I compelled, _ to follow the Sicilian and man into the city of Girgenti, to a beggarly pub- Never shall I forget their barbarous conduct : '-ht have got something by my death—my ies ; but nothing can little hare-lipped Bosto- ay purse, my clot' er ca - me and whined over me, as Mrs. Gamp might those of then did that American come whole of my journey, heard of .ante was costing me my slave-captains, the callous hearts of traders in human blood ; but that cold-blooded, hare-lipped little man, or demon of Boston, would have out-lago'd them all. I pray God his fellow-townsmen may see this relation of his conduct, and that it may pre vent his recommittal of such atrocious cruelty as he dis played to me in that memorable crossing on horseback from Palermo to Girgenti, by the longest and most diffi- Oh ! I have cult route, in After three ..,„....ueMent to my little room, attended only by an old Sicilian guide, who nursed me as if I had been his brother--(he was the good Samaritan after my Bostonian Pharisee had left me, with threatenings of re venge for fancied grievances and imaginary insults ; the little malevolent cur barking at the dying lion was gone for ever, and I breathed more freely)—l was led out and helped to dress by my old white-haired Sicilian guide. I ,wled down to the Consul, who, with his lady, shewed ,rest kindness. He invited me to spend an evening, ..en better, at his beautiful mansion, which I accepted ; he also recommended me to a very kind, excellent man, a Mr. Williams, who got me medicine, paid every attention in his power, and, as he was coming to Palermo, we joined n a Intiga together as fellow-travellers. How happy, how grateful to God was I when I met with this good man ; so lo kind, so considerate, and he was only -intendent of a sulphur mine, and Rat • • truly humane, eneineer and su kins was an American gentleman. It was in very deed Hyperion to a satyr. Daily I gained strength, and often looking from Mr. Williams, apartment, situated on the highest part of the lofty Girgenti, I inhaled the life-giving breeze from the glittering sea, looked at the ruined tem ples that studded the plain leading down to the sea through his telescope, and was soon, by Mr. Williams' attention and kindness, able to walk down personally to inspect and thoroughly examine those vast relics of ancient tombs, temples, and altars. The modern town of Gir genti contains 15,000 inhabitants, and but one street fit for carriages to pass. There are but few antiquities in the town : a Latin inscription of the time of the Antonines— part of the old Roman wall, now built upon, once part of Tnnitpr. In the cathedral down in the val- out of a sarcophagus, the basso-relievos A which are still beautiful. There is also in this cathe dral an Etruscan vase of rare size and beauty ; also two antique gold paterm. Near the monastery of San Nicolo is part of the palace of a Roman praetor. It is a most lovely stroll down the mountain upon which Girgenti stands, amongst wild fig and almond trees, into the vast plain, like another but more fruitful Compagna of Rome, and to have your fevered brow fanned by the sea-breeze, as you examine, gaze upon, and measure the spoils yet left by all-destroying time. Here is the tomb of Thero ! s a tont mad of Concord 1 that Olvmi _so of Castor and Pollux, Id the vast one to t, t itan Jove ! with its gigantic on the ,s. Large columns only remain -beautiful temple of Juno Lucina ; that of Her huge and fragmentary. Out of these , flourishes on the decayed archi v flits forth, and wild birds scream. "q ; the wind rustles among the -tt columns, once supporting nrshi ners. How frail do Sublimely you 01 lofty temples, crowded with wok Jpl all the works of mortal man appear ! how lasting, t rue , sublime, and beautiful the works of God ! Talk of a!iti guides left by mortal men, why they are in comparison but things of yesterday. The sun , moon, stars, Toun tains, oceans, rocks—these are the only true antiques ! The eternal yesterday, to-day, and for ever, sweep away all other frail memorials of monarchs, cities, temples, tombs and altars : great names indeed are nonentiti e s. " Pyramids, arches, and obelisks, are but the irregularities of vain glory and wild enormity of ancient magnanimity. 'Tis all one to lie in St. Nicholas' church-yard as in the sands of Egypt—to be content with six feet anywhere as if covered by the moles of Hadrian. The Egyptian mum mies whic h Cambyses hath spared, avarice now consumeth. Mummy is become merchandise, Mizraim cures wounds, and Pharoah is sold for balsams. Darkness and light di vide the course of time. Oblivion shares with memory." NOTICES. The History of the Hundred of Wirral, with a Sketch of the City and County of Chester, compiled from the earliest authentic records. By William Williams Mor timer. London: Whittaker and Co. Birkenhead: Law Pinkney. Chester: George Pritchard and Edward Had it ever b, lil previc rtant por sed in the tion of the ----- ity of Chester, which is com i it does, th, .chthe locality ustained during the to be regarded as a valuabl,. Hitherto, however, no su notieeq_ very brief, of Wirral b f topogra al literature ;oryhis existed, the only county Ir. Ormerod —having been pu for fifty guineas, a ;er size with a for twee .- very lin from th aNi almost shut a the county, in whose lib: works are almost eni county, northern portion of Wirral, at tt from obscuri en, not having emerged portion of history, or o: in its I tory o: to the hi of the few hamlets led excited little or no cation of the powers team to the propul- in the year 1 imparted im- ilirken- certainty of continuous in- lington to Liscard became a les and their fami- , ..tiu neat houses for their ac .. oegan to diversify the hitherto neglected country in the interior of the peninsula. The project of forming a handsome town at Birkenhead was first enter tained in 1824, by the late Wm. Laird, Esq., and a por tion of Hamilton-square was erected, and the streets im mediately adjacent were laid out. The same gentleman nd admiration and directed his attention to the capabilities of Wallasey Pool; and in 1827 the entire property was purchased b' L• • f lies in the summer m iodians, and Cre -all by island, contain- trees, tobacco, cotton, But the Greeks built le, grand, and sublime from - ( I got the supr the tyrant a new mode a bull : the wretched 11, a fire kindled un- death, and t r dying throat, caused a re- 1. Tippoo Saib had a D punish English sol ger I have seen in the bull was n t victim ; and Ovid it, and that But Cicero states of the A Sicily— Archime : the learned, often La art from the mother 7sius. were remarkable rant of all Si- ,hief, soldier, centurion, Carthaginians, ,d to fly his camp by hii lonian fleet, and of 'enti, I was most an r ancient Greek and Irify on the page of his- several days to go ania, our Bostonian lermo to Girgenti. I less of Doctor Barlow, shness, want of sleep, Le prescription, and mildly cross the island without go he looked at the Bostonian him as not very compa anger. Still, however, fate le or two vain attempts to diligence, the horses were elry. Upon coming slowly 'as mounted upon the best d comfortably pad- e lashing our liiggag( ted, and the wretched left for me, or none. What KI," says the proverb. iey ! The heat was ex y wretched horse con merest shade better than the Liver into dock remain in its corny century, and eel have called for any gi The rapid progress, however, which it has made during the last ten years, have again changed the or historian face of things; and the thousands, now congregated along the whole eastern shore of the Hundred, must feel a na tural interest to learn the past condition of the soil upon which they have located themselves, the names, titles, and conditions of its old families, the history of the frag . ments of antiquity—of the monuments of the industry and power of the generations which have gone before them, and which the hand of modern improvement is fast sweep- I to trace the process by which the solitary ing swat: waste 3 a and the barren strand have been subdued and con- verted into the busy resorts of commerce or the luxurious With them we hail the ap- We know of no man homes of n rn wealtt of the present volume more capat Mortimer of producing a work of exercise of great industry and re among: ith an extensive acquaintance county families, from whose old records so t upon the pa3t is to be de- o throwlig .ecent progress of the Hun- Las witn, ;sed the heir details quorum pars magna fui." We give a brief description of the much calculate( rived dred, and especially of Bir whole proceedings; an he may say with Enea must, 'how - ever, proceed to g arrangement of the work Th; opening chapter, from page 1 to rage 50, is occu pied with a brief sketch of the history of England, from the earliest ages of which we have record, to the division of the soil amongst the Norman followers of the Conqueror ; and although the author apologizes for the length of this chapter, yet such length has been plainly rendered neces sary to enable the reader to comprehend thoroughly the position of the country at the period from which the prin cipal families in the hundred date their titles. The re trospect is also interesting from the fact that Chester, its capital, was a city of note both in the time of the Romans, and as having been in the time of the Saxons the capital of the kingdom of Mercia, and its chief defence for many centuries, both before and after tile conquest, against the hostile incursions of the Welsh. The second chapter, pages 51 to 134, a most interesting one, is devoted to a history of the city of Chester, from its early obscurity to the time of the Romans, by whom it was used as a place of great resort and strength, and an important and flourishing port, and subsequently through the Saxon era up to the present day, when it has almost ceased to merit that title. We have in this chapter de tailed the share taken by its citizens in the various rebel lions and wars of the Saxon monarchs, in their resistance to the Normans, in the civil wars of the Roses and, later, the sufferings of the city from its loyal adherence to the royalist cause, from which time its prominence ceased, as we do not find that the citizens interfered in the attempt to re-introduce the Stuart dynasty, after its expulsion from the throne by the Prince of Orange. The ecclesi astic history connected with Chester is also luminously traced. _ _ _ _ s 135 to 170 are occupied with a general criptive tate of fts climate, roads, cultivation, &c., together with a very interesting inquiry into the probable condition of the estuaries of the Dee and Mersey in early periods. Pages 171 to 304 contain sufficient notices of various parishes and places in the hundred. with the antiquities to be found in them ; and page 304 commences a history of " Claughton and ancient Birkenhead," which is traced from the Norman conquest to the present day, and necessarily occupies a considerable Cory and present condition of the now important town of Birkenhead, together with every particular connected with its general and financial affairs, form one of the most important features of the work. We have al ready spoken of the peculiar fitness of Mr. Mortimer for this part of his task ; and only feel bound to say here that he has executed it with great judgment and fairness. It may appear singular to a reader of this notice, not con versant with the affairs of the locality, that we should use the latter word in speaking of such a publication. The initiated, however, will understand us well ; and for those who are not so it will be sufficient to explain that this portion relates to the proceedings of, and has been written amongst, a community which unfortunately is greatly 0 , divided at present, and yet that it cannot be said to have any leaning of praise or dispraise towards either. The work concludes with a most interesting appendix, con taining extracts from some of the authorities who have been consulted. It is also interspersed throughout with valuable notes ; and contains a map of the hundred and several illustrations._ _ _ _ We congratulate Mr. Mortimer upon the manner in which he has executed his arduous task, and trust that his work will meet the extensive sale which it deserves. The Drawing Room Magazine for September and Octo ber. London : Houlston, and Stoneman, and Bogue. This monthly publication, in addition to devoting a considerable portion of its columns to articles of choice literat-Te, affords much information interesting, and we may almost say in the present day, indispensable, to ladies, on the subject of fancy needle work. Each part contains a number of beautifully executed coloured drawings of ornamental and useful articles,. which are accompanied with ample directions for their manufacture. In the number for October are given engravings of a knitted shell mat, crochet cheese doyley, neck tic in Grecian netting, and crochet couch or chair cushion. The design of the cover of the magazine is the most chaste and delicately beautiful one we have ever seen. Hoyo's Weekly Instructor con able a 4- sins much that is valu h a beautifully and is enriched wit engraved portrait of Professor William Allen, whos was very prominently identified with the cause of slavery abolition, and of whom a well written biography is given in the pages of the number before us. Where so much is excellent we are slow to find fault, but we think the style and sentiments of the articles entitled " Reminiscences of a tour to England," by the Rev. G. Gilfillan, are not, on the whole, creditable to that gentleman, though portions of them may be impartial and graffic. The half-yearly volume of Sharpe's London 1 offers an extraordinary mass of excellent matter, as in structive as interesting, and is embellished with six large exquisitely fine engravings. An attempt to enumerate the contents of this volume is utterly vain, but they are not the less valuable in kind, notwithstanding. The new editor promises in the preface of this volume to render his pages still more attractive by " introducing a higher and purer style of writing than has hitherto been observable in the pages, and to make perceptible in the tales and stories a deeper and more elevated tone of feeling." He also announces his intention of giving more frequent no tices and reviews of new publications. klagazine Religion and Poetry Nisbet and Co, London This work consists of a considerable number of selec tions from the poetical works of the Rev. R. Montgomery, who, as our readers well know, has devoted his genius and talents to the service of Christianity, and done all in his power to cement the alliance of poetry and religion. The compiler has classified the extracts under their appropriate heads, and seems to have culled the most interesting passages from the author's poems. A very effective and elaborately written criticism, on the poetry of the rev. gentleman, is given in the volume in the shape of an in troductory essay. The writer of it is Archer Gurney, the author of " King Charles the First," &c. The critic's opinion will no doubt be read with some degree of inter est, since, as he well observes, " there are few subjects on which more conflicting opinions have been expressed than the degree of merit attributable to Mr. Montgomery's poetical works." VARIETIES Liverpool has become one of the first, if not the first, corn ports in Europe. THE TONGUE.—By examining the tongue of their patient, physicians discover the diseases of the body ; and philosophers, the diseases of the mind.—Poynder. INGATESTONE, ESSEX. —This word, in Saxon, signifies " The One God's stone," having been anciently so called by our Saxon invaders, who found there the Christian cross erected in opposition to the many false gods of their , idolatry. ' g year nversio s being abandoned, the locality seemed fated to nsignificance for another half ly would not for some time to come from the antiquarian on of p 1, fruit to be t called Gir CONTINENT, Sterne bore ma valetudinarian El, foggy island, to a years cliniate is hea- al to delicate con- th and hap wo years in my time way angular form called road form the Then the im the lowertu of the Hued] head from t Then I Car- Mar fertile :rand from favourite resort for ou northern and hitherto neglected i, facing the port of Liverpool. time commenced its onward _ prog THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. CONTINUED ADVERSITIES.—AS hot-mettled horses require severer discipline than those of the ordinary class, so the strong corruptions of some individuals render more powerful remedies essential in their management ; and it will accordingly be found, that they themselves are among the first to justify the wisdom of the divine procedure by acknowledging, with gratitude, in their better moments, the absolute necessity of such a course of treatment.— Poynder's Literary Extracts. Morning Post) occurred in a from London :—Teacher—` What The following (says the school not 100 mile xech is the word egg ?" Boy (hesitating) —"Noun, " What is its gender?" Boy (perplexed) .acher--" Is it masculine, femi 'looking sharp)—" Can't say, sir, •" Well, then, my lad, can Boy (quickly)—" Oh, yes, it is the " Teacher— " Can't tell, sir." tine, or neute till it's hatch. you tell me the ca. 1." Teacher— " DIVINE LIGHT ESSENTIAL TO SPIRITUAL DISCERN MENT.-Dr. Taylor, of Norwich, once said to me—' Sir, I have collated every word in the Hebrew Scriptures seventeen times ; and it is very strange if the doctrine of atonement, which you hold, should not have been found by me.' lam not surprised at this : I once went to light my candle with the extinguisher on it : now prejudices from education, learning, Ste., often form an extinguisher. fact It is not enough that you bring the candle—you must fact the extinguisher."—Poynde sted " Atm ARY CONTRACTIONS AND CORRUPTIONS OF NAMES.—The proper pronunciation of the name of Chol mondeley, not having been known to an applicant who enquired whether Lord Chol-mond-e-ley was within ?' he is said to have been answered—' No ! but some of his pe-o-ple are.' Thus, it is supposed that if a stranger were to enquire for Carshalton, sa spelt, none of its inha bitants would, very readily, answer him ; and, when the writer was the pen-and-ink of the Commissioners of Cha rities, he tried, in vain, to write the residence of a witness, who said he lived ' at Whitcheter,' and upon that the parish clergyman, who was present, smiled, and said, he means Wood-t SOMETHING NEW FOR THE LADIES,—The introduc tion of gas into private houses has been taken advantage of by the ladies ; who, under protest against the glare,and daziling uncomfortableness of such bright lights, deliber ately spread parasols in an evening soiree, and (incidental advantage) converse under and behind the same very agreeably. A pink parasol, judiciously held between a lady's face and a gas-burner, throws a tender roseate hue over the complexion, and can be dexterously manoeuvred, of course, to curtail any annoying perspective, or furnish glances in effective monopoly to the privileged. The arts do not seem to have fallen behind the sciences in the march STRANGE :CORRUPTIONS. — CarshaIton is pronounced "Casehlrton." Such arbitrary contractions and corrup tions of names are very common in England, thus:— "Theobald's-road" is Tibbald's-row; "Rotherhithe" is, according to the people, Redriffe; and "Cirencester" is Cissiter ; Liquorpond-street is familiarly known as " Lick-a-pin-street," and everybody knows that " Sim meryax" is the vulgar tongue for St. Mary Axe. The old signs of our inns have been equally popularised ; as, for instance, in the case of "the Bag-o'-nails," which was once the Bacchanals. The "Cat-an'-Wheel," olim, the Catherine Wheel, in allusion to the saint and the martyr dom. "The Goat and Compasses" was once God Encom passeth us: and "the Bull and Mouth"- is modern reading for the Boulogne Mouth—a sign made popular when the mouth or port of Boulogne first fell into the hands of the conquering Harry of England. LIVERPOOL AS IT WAS WHEN AN IRISH TOWN. — The latter half of the eighteenth century exhibited the rapid spread of commerce, and the spread of the town and its institutions to accommodate this commerce. New ex change and other commercial buildings were founded ; new churches were built ; a newspaper was started ; and a coach ran from Liverpool to London in four days. A Mr. Derrirk, writing in 1760, thus speaks of Liverpool in . his day :—"'There are here three good inns. For ten pence, a man dines elegantly at an ordinary, consst'ng of ten or a dozen dishes. Indeed, it must be said that, both in Cheshire and Lancashire, they have plenty of the best and most luxurious food at a very cheap rate. The great increase of their commerce is owing to the spirit and in defatigable industry of their inhabitants, the majority, of whom are either native Irish or of Irish descent —a fresh proof that the Hibernians thrive best when transplanted. The merchants are hospitable, nay, friendly to strangers, even to those of whom they have the least knowledge : their tables are plentifully furnished, and their viands are well served."—The Land we Live In. LORD ROSSE'S LEVIATHAN TELESCOPE.—To the frame of this vast instrument is fixed a large cubical wooden box, about eight feet wide, in which there is a door, through which two men go in to remove, or to replace, the cover of the mirror. To this box is fastened the tube, which is made of deal staves, and hooped like a huge cask. It is about 40 feet long, and 8 feet diameter in the mid dle. The Dean of Ely walked through the tube with an umbrella up ! Dr. Scoresby, who has viewed the moon through this huge telescope, states that every object on the moon's surface, 100 feet high, may be distinctly seen. There are craters of extinct volcanoes, rocks, and num berless masses of stones : but there are no signs of habi tations—no vestiges of architectural remains—to show that the moon is, or ever was, inhabited by a race of mortals similar to ourselves. It presents no appearance which can lead to the supposition that it contains any thing like the green fields and lovely verdure of this beautiful world of ours. There is no water visible ; not a sea, or a river, or even the measure of .a reservoir for supplying town or factory ; all , seems desolate.— Sharpe's London Magazine. ATTENDANCE AT CHURCH ON A WEEKDAY.—That distinguished Christian philosopher, Robt. Boyle, amongst other pious acts, thou must know, founded lectures in this church of St. Mary-le-Bow, for the defence of natural and revealed religion. They are eight in number, to be preached on as many Mondays in the year ; and they are delivered on the first Monday in each month from January to May, and from September to November. This was the first of the autumnal course; and, wilt thou credit it; there was but a congregation of some four of us to hear it ! 0 tempora, 0 mores ! A Boyle lecture in the parish church of St. Mary-le-Bow, Cheapside, in the midst of one of the densest crowds of this densely crowded Chris tian city of ours—a lecture in defence of the Christian re ligion in a city where, above almost all other cities of Christendom, the Christian religion most needs to be de fended. if only against the abuses of it by those profess edly Christian citizens themselves—and there can only be found four persons to listen to it, out of probably some four hundred thousand who live and move within sound of the church bells ! Independently of the sermon, or lec ture, there was the morning_ prayer. But even this rare opportunity of enjoying the privilege of public worship on a week-day morn was slighted by the hordes of Christian men, and churchmen—or people calling themselves such, at least—who were swarming in all directions around this open sanctuary ! Can the church be in a healthy state — can her clergy be exerting themselves as they ought to do —where such contempt for sacred things prevails ? Im possible !—Oxford and Cambridge Review. POWER OF ENGLAND. — It is a suggestive fact that Eng land did not become a colonising and commercial nation until Protestantism was established, and the Bible trans lated for dissemination in distant lands. A maritime and mercantile nation appears to have been specially chosen by the Supreme Disposer of Events for this hallowed pur pose. The English language is now more extensively spo ken than any other in the world, and in due time will most probably be the medium of communication among all na tions • the British sovereignty is more widely spread than that of any known empire ; the richest plains, the loftiest mountains, the largest rivers, the most capacious lakes, the best-placed islands, the securest havens, and the strongest fortresses, are all within the dominions of your Majesty ; the commerce and wea lth of this empire have no parallel in ancient or modern reco rd ; enterprise, skill, and capital, have brought the most distant regions of the earth, by steam navigation, within constant, speedy, and certain communication : and the blessings of civil and re ligious liberty—of political and moral freedom—are firmly established throughout an empire on which the sun never sets. Such have been the glorious results of the princi ples established and inculcated by the regal predecessor of your Majesty, Queen Elizabeth ; their operating effects were manifest in the foundation of colonies—id the exten sion of commerce—and in the dissemination of a pure Christianity, to which colonies and commerce have largely contributed. Yet the British empire is but in the infancy of its power, and we have scarcely commenced the moral and spiritual duties for which dominion has been granted. —Montgomery Martin's China. THE MEMBER FOR LINCOLN. — Once for all, let it be observed, that however much one may be tempted to laugh from time to time at Colonel Sibthorp, he is not to be regarded, as many persons who see him for the first time are inclined to regard him, as a person simply ridi culous. There is a method even in what seems to be on his part sheer folly. It is impossible to avoid laughing at his grotesque figure and attitudes, or at his simulated gravity, when assailed on all sides by the merriment of his audience ; nor is it without an admixture of that pity which is not the most flattering to a man's amour propre, that one sees the imploring yet half-despairing glances he casts from time to time from under his shaggy eyebrows, up towards the gallery appropriated to the press. But these oddities are constantly redeemed by the sound sense and forcible, if rather rude, truth of his observations. Nor should we forget that Colonel Sibthorp has done something. He is one of the few "private" members of the House of Commons (" private", that is to say, as distinguished from the leaders or direct servitors of party) who have defeated a government. We need hardly re mind the reader that we refer to that memorable motion of the gallant colonel, the result of which was the reduc tion of the proposed vote to Prince Albert of £50,000 a year to £30,000. This was a great triumph for Colonel Sibthorp—the grand event of his life. It was at a time when the Whigs, if not still in the plenitude of the power they purchased by the Reform Bill, were, nevertheless, the dominant party in the House of Commons. In spite of strenuous efforts they were defeated ; and their annoy ance was the more acute, because the disgrace came from a quarter where it involved ridicule also. It was then that Colonel Sibthorp was a study. Not Sir Robert Peel himself, when the government was within his grasp, could be more confident of success, or more proudly con scious of his position. His bearing, his air of grandeur and self-importance, were the very sublime of the mock heroic. To see him one would have supposed that, anti cipating the result, lie already contemplated a mission from Windsor or Buckingham Palace, with her Majesty's commands to form a new ministry. But the best part of the affair consisted in the patronising airs he assumed towards the Conservative leaders. Translated, they said, as plainly as gestures could speak, " You, Sir Robert and Lord Stanley, the great Conservative statesmen of the age, have been striving in vain for years to get a majority of the house ; but I, Colonel Sibthorp, who never have held, and never would hold. a government office, have but to come forward, and I succeed, even with the com bined influence of the ministers and the Queen' since name against me !" Much of the license of speec corded to Colonel Sibthorp is to be traced to this success 1 —Fraser. NUTRIMENT IN COFFEE.---M. Rayen, from elaborate experiment, shows that coffee slightly roasted is that which contains the maximum of aroma, weight, and nu trition. He declares coffee to be very nutritious, as it contains a large quantity of azote : three times as much nutriment as tea; and more than twice the nourishment of soup (bouillon). Chicory contains only half the nu triment of coffee. M. Rayen has also succeeded in ob taining from coffee an extract in the form of a white crys talline substance, capable of giving a deep green colour to 5,000 times its weight of water or spirit. A REMARKABLE INCIDENT.—The late Chamberlain of London (Mr. Clark) told the narrator that he well re membered in 1746 (his father then residing in the Mino ries) seeing the glittering of the executioner's axe in the sun as it fell upon Mr. Radcliffe's neck. He was the .brother of Lord Derwentwater, who had been beheaded before (in the Rebellion of 1715). Mr. Radcliffe had himself been convicted of treason, together with his bro ther, and had then effected his escape; but finding exile intolerable, and making his appearance so many years after, in the vain expectation that he should escape de tection, it became very difficult to identify his person ; which probably would never have been done, had not the barber, who had formerly shaved him in the Tower (as many as thirty-one years before) positively sworn to his person !—Poynder's Literary Extracts-. TREATMENT OF BLIND CHILDREN. — Every day, and almost every how-, reminds the blind child of its priva tion ; and its discipline is so severe, that almost any de gree of indulgence in the parent would be excusable, if it were not clearly the first duty to consider the ultimate welfare of the child. It is natural to the sighing mother to watch over its safety with a nervous anxiety, to go before it to clear its way, to have it always at her knee, and to make everybody and everything give way to it. But she must remember that her child is not destitute, and for ever helpless, because it has one sense less than other people. it has the wide world of the other four senses to live in, and a vaster mental and moral world than it will ever learn fully to use : and she must let it try what it can make of its possessions. She will find that it learns like others that fire burns and that bruises are disagreeable, and that it can save itself from burnt 'd bruises - -f t h and any. ay using its senses of tout nearing. She will encourage it in the cheerful work of shifting for it self, and doing, as far as possible, what other people do. The wise and benevolent Dr. Howe tells us of the chil dren who come to the Blind School at Boston, that for the first two or three days they are timid and forlorn — having been accustomed to too much care from their mo thers, who will not let them cross the floor without being sure that there is nothing in the way. But they presently THE LIFE OF thrsTEßs.--Oysters lead, on the whale, ' as is known, a tolerably quiet life ; but even they cannot get through this world, it appears, without their troubles. Now they are attacked by a kind of star-fish that lies watching till they open their shell to take in fresh water, and then darts in its long tough arms, kills them, and consumes them in a fresher state than they have ever yet been enjoyed by any epicure; now their sorrows proceed from within, in the shape of a small worm that destroys them ; and sometimes, according to the testimony of the people of Sylt, they are attacked successfully by a bird called thence an oyster-fisher, who disturbs their tran quillity whenever he can find an opportunity of introdu cing h's long sharp beak. When this may be, however, does not seem very clear. There are also various diseases by which they are occasionally attacked; but those who time comfortably enough, for thirty or forty, Or even up to a hundred years, unless fate has allotted them the more honourable destiny of being dredged up, packed into barrels, and sent off - to Copenhagen, Berlin, Ham burg, or St. Petersburg, where their merits are duly ap- preaated.—People' .9 Journal. FATE OF ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE BANK.—Mr. Michael Godfrey, to whose exertions, with those of Wm. Paterson, may be traced the successful establishment of the Bank, met with a somewhat singular fate in 1695. Previously to this year, the allied armies had retreated before the wisdom of Louis and the bravery of his soldiers. The funds supplied by the new corporation changed the scene • but the transmission of specie was difficult and full ofhazard, and Mr. Godfrey left his peaceful habita tion to visit Namur, then vigorously besieged by the Eng lish monarch. The Deputy Governor, willing to flatter the King, anxious to forward his mission, or possibly imagining the vicinity of. the Sovereign to be the safest place he could choose, ventured into- the trenches. "As you are no adventurer in the trade of war, Mr. Godfrey," said William, " I think you should not expose yourself to the hazard of it." ," Not being more exposed than your Majesty(' was the courtly reply, " should I be excusable if I showed more concern ?" " Yes !" returned William, " I am in my duty, and therefore have a more reasonable claim to preservation." A cannon-bail at this moment answered the " reasonable claim to preservation," by kill ing Mr. Godfrey, with several officers near the king, and it requires no great stretch of imagination tn• fancy a sa turnine smile passing over the countenance of the mo narch, as he beheld the fate of the citizen who had payed so heavy a penalty for playing the courtier in the trenches of Namur. Tradition states that Mr. Godfrey's remains, which were buried in the churchyard of St Christopher le Stocks, were disinterred to ment of that prosperous est room for th felt so deep an interest, and in the service of which he may be said to have fallen.--History of the Bank of England. THE OXFORD COLLEGES AT THE LATE ELECTION.— Mr. Round's stronghold was St. Edmund Hall. Forty one- members of convocation from that society recorded their votes in his favour, while four only were found to uphold' his adversary. Next to Edmund Hall, he was most successful at New College, where the votes were more than two to one on his side. After New College, Jesus was his best friend, giving him a majority of about seven to four. Worcester voted for him in the ratio of about three to two •, Magdalen Hall, Wadham, and Mag dalen College, in that of five to four. Even, however, where he had a preponderance of votes, it was seldom that the foundations were at all decidedly in his favour. At Jesus, where the balance in his favour was the great est, while nine Fellows, with the Principal, took his side, six voted for his adversary. At Worcester, where he had the votes of eight Fellows with the Provost, again six are found opposing him. At New College the balance of Fellows was but nine to eight in his favour ; at Magdalen it was actually against him, fourteen Fellows voting for Mr. Gladstone, while Mr. Round had but eleven on his side. Wadham abstained as much as:possible from pro nouncing an opinion. According to the official returns, it would appear that only four Fellows out, of fifteen recorded their votes, and of these one declined to pronounce be tween the rival candidates. Of the other three, two voted in Mr. Gladatone's favour ; one only, with the Warden, took the side of Mr. Round. Thus it would seem that there is not a collfige in Oxford which can be said, so far as its governing hotly is concerned, strongly to prefer Mr. Ronnd's to Mr. Gladstoners -principles. A few second rate (not to say third-rate) colleges, and one or two halls, do, so far as the members not on the foundation are con cerned, strongly sympathize with Mr. Round and Pro tism. A considerable number of the most respec- whole body of voters, the governing portion favouring, by a larger or a smaller majority, Mr. Gladstone and church principles. The leading colleges are with Mr. Gladstone decidedly. His great strength lies in Christ Church, Exeter, and Oriel. To the two former colleges his elec tion must be considered as owing. Had they been evenly divided, and the other , colleges voted as they did, Mr. Round would have been returned by a majority of thirty four votes.—Oxford BOview: run, c , uuClf way boldly, anct ,wing, and play as merrily as any other children. That school is a little world of people with four senses—not so happy a one as if they had five, but a very good one, ne vertheless ; sufficiently busy safe, and cheerful for those who use heartily such powers as they have.—Miss Mar tineau in the People's Journal. MR. MINTZ, M.P. FOR BIRMIVGIIAM.—Looking at the exterior of Mr. Muntz, one would be far, indeed, from believing that he is so sensible a man as, his vagaries of dress set aside, he really is. Of all the oddities in Parlia ment, he is the one who especially goes out of his way to make himself an object for laughter; by flying in the face of all ordinary custom as to dress and manners. How he could have at first brought himself to adopt the semi-bar barous costume he wears, it is almost impossible for any man of ordinary habits of mind to conceive ; but he cer tainly has persisted in it with a steadfastness, and has de fied public opinion with a bravery, worthy of a better cause. Mr. Muntz is naturally a man-of herculean pro portions : he has a large head, largehody, large limbs. But he is also what is called a " heavy' , man, especially in his gait. He has, however, a handsome countenance, and a well-formed person ; and, with a very slight attention to the choice of his dress, he would be universally regarded as a very - fine and striking exception to the usual forms of humanity in these days of degeneracy- and effeminacy, when men seem to think that they approach the nearer to the highest standard of gentility the more they adopt the habits and manners of women. Rubens would have glo ried in Mr. Muntz for a model. Forget his outre dress, and you might think you had before you some magnificent old feudal baron, with nobility and command in every look and gesture. But the Mr. Muntz whom you see in the House. of Commons, or whom you meet in the street, stalking along with the strides of a Seven-league-Boots,— like an ogre, with club in hand, seeking his breakfast,—is a very different person. His face is almost covered with an enormous mass of dark hair ; his coat large and loose, might fit a giant ; and his trousers are two sacks, joined at the hither end. At each long stride he disposes of nearly a yard of ground, and he bears in his hand, where with he strikes the ground, as if with a paving-rammer, something between a stick and the trunk of a tree, —a sort of gigantic club, or shillelagh, the like of which, for size, you would not find in Tipperary. Surely it is Tee-fi-fo-fum come out for his morning walk ! Or, fancy a Cossack dropped in London, and straying into the Minories, fitting himself out at Moses and Son's, hap-hazard, with the largest clothes he could find ! Lately, Mr. Muntz visited a continental capital, famous for the enormous beards of its male inhabitants, where the hair, in fact, is gaining such an ascendancy, is encroaching so, on the nobler fea tures of the face, that, ere long, it will leave but the eyes ungarnished, so that a man will literally look like an owl in a bush. Well, here, one would have thought, Mr. Muntz might have expected to be at home—to pass unno ticed, among.the hirsute monsters who abound. But, no. What was the fact ? You heard him spoken of only as " the Englishman with the beard !" This was the sole name by which he was known. And the most singular part of the matter-is, that this propensity for outre dress appears to run in the family. Occasionally, you may see in London, and often in Birmingham, three living things, walking abreast in the street, that make you think invo luntarily of a certain establishment in the Regent's Park. They belong to no order known to naturalists, yet are evi dently of the same species. The largest of the three is as we have described him. There is then a second, with not quite such a large club, and not quite such loose dress, not quite so elephantine a stride ; and on the other side, there is a third, a young specimen of the species, not fully deve loped, but rapidly approaching , the hirsute state. They naturally excite great interest in the passers-by, who, at first somewhat alarmed by this fierce looking trio, soon become reassured when they discover that they are singu larly mild in their habits, and that there is an orderly effect produced by their striding simultaneously, and rap ping their clubs on the ground in exact- time. This at once removes all idea of wildness or ferocity, and wholly dissipates fear.—Fraser's Magazine for October. BURIALS IN THE EARLY AGES OF CHRISTIANITY. — Christianity has the great merit of having discovered the poesy of the grave. From the outset it abhorred the Pa gan custom of burning the dead, and faithful to its Jewish origin, and mindful of Christ's burial, it renewed the old Roman custom of interring the departed. This was the origin of the catacombs. The early Christians loved to be deposited with, or near the Martyrs, and grounds for bu rial capable of receiving a large number of the dead were wholly wanting. The population of Rome, Naples, Alex andria, and Syracuse was so great, that there was scarcely room enough for the living. To find , new receptacles for the dead became an urgent necessity. It is true, that digging into the bowels of the earth for the purpose of entombing the bodies of the dead was no new operation. Egypt and Etruria had in their time set the example. The one idea of immortality, led to similar results in different creeds. The early Christians found their cities of the dead already prepared for them. Paris, in our own time, stands upon a soil which' is hollowed throughout. The limestone upon which Paris standswas taken from beneath to supply the wants of the builders. Rome, in like man ner, has a second and subterraneous town of vast extent, with its streets and squares in endless number. Nor it is without its inhabitants. In this town did Christians seek refuge from Pagan persecution ' and here did they likewise inter their dead. The caves and passages were not dug by Christian hands, but were discovered already made. They date from the last century of the republic, when the clay upon which Rome stands was required by the mania then raging for extensive and magnificent structures. The Christians took possession of the hollows and enlarged them ; the work was by no means difficult, for the clay was soft and plastic. It was after the time of Constantine that the catacombs came into more general use. Martyrs_ were more revered subsequently to the reign of this Em peror than before it, for martyrdom became less easy of achievement. The chief martyrs had found a resting-place in the catacombs. Churches rose above their remains, from which secret and sacred doors led into the City of the Dead, the cemetery of the saints. It was at the pe riod to which we refer that the regularly-formed spacious catacombs were first fashioned—a fact established by the date of the coffins, all of which belong to a time later than that of the Emperor Constantine. The wealthier mem bers of the community constructed small chapels in the catacombs for the reception of the bodies of their relations and friends. These chapels are for the most part situated at the crossing of passages or at the end of them, in which latter case the chapels forms the termination of one parti-, cular passage. They are most important as indices to the development of art. Besides the curious character and beauty of the architecture, they afford specimens of the most ancient grave paintings that we know of. Their walls and ceilings are covered with a thin crust of gypsum, upon which the colours were laid. Not unfrequently we find ornaments of stucco and marble. Altars and stone seats, too, are found in these chapels. An astonishing number of skeletons have been discovered in the passages by which the chapels are connected : it was not the cus tom, as now, to bury the dead beneath the floor and to cover the grave with a stone slab. The bodies were placed in niches of from three to six feet in length. Sometimes four and six together, one above the other. The corse of a departed brother was thrust into one of these niches ; a lamp and some tool, explanatory of the trade he had fol lowed in life, were placed beside him, and then the aper ture was walled up, and lastly covered with a thin marble slab, bearing an inscription and the particulars of the life and death of the departed. Church service was frequently performed in the catacombs, yet not in the days of perse cution. It was after Constantine that these tombs were used for such a purpose. On Sabbath days they were open to the public and were much visited. Devotion, love for departed relatives, and mere curiosity, carried vast numbers to these silent halls. Saint Jerome tells us of his having often explored them with his comrades whilst he was still a student in Rome ; and he lived some three hundred and fifty years after the death of Christ. The catacombs were but badly lighted at first, light being ad mitted by a few apertures only in the roofs of the chapels. At a later period, great care was taken to prevent visitors losing their way amidst the labyrinth of passages. The guardianship of the catacombs was confided to a certain body of the clergy, who went under the name offossores, or gravediggers. It was their office to inspect the cha pels and passages, to point out the places where new pas sages might be formed, and to portion out and sell the spots in which burials might take place. The water in the wells of the catacombs was subsequently found to possess the virtue of healing to a marvellous degree. Nay, even the use of the drinking-cups found in the catacombs was sufficient to cure several diseases,—Blackwood's Mag. RAILWAY AFFAIRS, Owing to the delay in perfecting the post-office ar rangements, the Trent Valley Line will not be available for postal matters until the middle of November, if then. Mr. G. Woodhouse, the chief agent of the Chester and Holyhead Contractors, has been presented with a service of plate, to commemorate the completion of the works. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE AND CARLISLE.—An inter mediate dividend has beon declared for the half-year end ing the 30th of June last, of £3 per whole share, and in proportion for the quarter shares, such dividend to be paid free from income tax, on and after the 22nd instant. LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER, AND NEWCASTLE JUNC TION RAILWAY.—At a meeting of t areholders in this company, hela at mancnester, GU Ermay, a Mill inutee was appointed, to consult with the directors as to the propriety of staying proceedings for the present. At Redcar, on Saturday, at the railway terminus, the goods' office, at a cost of net less than £2OOO, was rapidly approaching completion, when it was visited by fire, and in less than an hour the interior of the building was nearly all destroyed. GREAT WESTERN.—The express trains of this company are now provided with an officer, called a travelling porter, whose business it is to ride on the tender, and keep a constant look-out ; and on an accident to any of the car riages, a signal from the guard, or any other sufficient cause, he is to communicate with the driver, and stop the train. It is also his duty to see that the carriages forming the train are in every respect fit for travelling. The arrival platform at the Euston-square station,.. which is upwards of 900 feet long, and will be covered throughout, will now admit of several trains coming in and despatching their passengers without the least delay. The departure platform is also to be covered. The cliff"— culties experienced in starting the trains will be effectually surmounted by the employment of a second booking office and a second departure platform. From official • returns it appears that the amount of traffic for the last week, on upwards of 3,152 miles of railway, was £202,320, thus accounted for :—£107,204 for the conveyance of passengers only, £49,021 for the carriage of goods, and a remainder of £46,095 for pas sengers and 'goods together, not respectively apportioned ; being an increase of £29,314 ever the corresponding week of last year , ... when the mileage was about 2 , 525 . THE " nAIL"• AND THE AGRICULTURAL INTEREST. — On Tuesday, seventeen trucks, containing between five and six hundred sheep, and about a dozen oxen, passed through Lancaster to Manchester by rail, from Sedbergh, in Yorkshire, being about the weekly average consign ment from that quarter. Before the Lancaster and Car lisle Railway was opened, the same number of sheep and cattle did not find their way to Manchester from Sedbergh in a twelvemonth.—Lancaster Guardian. A CHILD BURNED TO DEATH ON A RAlLROAD.—Yes terday week a child, named Ann Williams, met her death in a singular manner on the Dock Branch Line of the BriStol and Gloucester Railway. Some burning coke had fallen on the line ; the child ran to look at it, when its clothes caught fire, and it was burned to death. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death, accompanying it with a recommendation to the company to the effect that no engine should be used on the branch without an ash box attached to it. In a letter to the Morning Chronicle, Mr. W. F. Spackman rebukes the " practical" men connected with railways for not helping themselves at the present juncture —"Do the shareholders in railway companies want to limit, restrict, or suspend the calls ? Nothing is easier. The law gives to the shareholders in all companies formed since 1845 the power to call extraordinary meetings, and to controul and regulate the acts of the directors. If, then, the shareholders in any particular company are con vinced of their folly—if they are unable to pay the calls, or carry out the works—let them meet and apply the remedy : but let them cease to complain of a burden which their own supineness only renders intolerable." EAST LANCASHIRE RAILWAY.--An extraordinary meeting was held at Bury, on Wednesday, Mr. J. Grundy in the chair, to borrow £232,000, under the provisions of their various acts. The report stated, that although calls have been made upon the shareholders to a large extent, up to the present time the total number of calls in arrear (exclusive of the call now in course of payment) does not exceed £26,000, and that the capital already raised, and authorised by the existing acts, will, it is anticipated, be sufficient to complete the whole of the undertaking, as authorised by parliament. Another call would probably not be made till November, or the end of the year. The resolution was carried. THE NEXT DIVIDENDS.—A correspondent has analysed the receipts of twenty-nine railways, for the week ending September 25, present year, as compared with the cor responding week of 1846, the result of which shows that there is, so far, no prospect of a diminishe d dividend. He has shown' that the increase of receipts is about pro portioned to the increase of mileage in the week selected ; but he has also shown that this week is under the average of the weeks elapsed since the closing of the last half year's accounts. That, of course, was to be expected, as the takings and the excess differences decrerse as the year advances. However, if the additional workings be one more economically in propori ion to the excess of distance, as we presume they will be, it will tend to raise the profits. —Herapath. EFFECT OF RAILWAYS ON TURNPIKES.—On Thurs day a general meeting of the trustees of the Surrey and Sussex roads was held at the Sessions-house, Newington, for the purpose of letting the tolls arising from the gates and bars at Newington, Camberwell, Kennington, Vaux hall, Kingston, Croydon, East Grinstead, &c., which were put up at the sum of £32,350, for which they were let on the previous year. Much interest was excited on this oc casion, as, in consequence of the extension of the line of the South Western Railway from the Nine Elms to York road, which will cause a loss of revenue of about £6OOO per annum, it was thought that a reduction would be pro posed to that amount. The tolls were put up, but there was no offer for them, and it was stated, in the course of the sale, that during the last four weeks there had been a falling off of £lOO per week in consequence of the. rail ways south of the Thames, Oct. 12, ISt?. IRISH COMPENSATION CASE.- - -A mud cabin having been purchased to make way for the works of the Neve l branch, the tenants at will made a claim of £2O for their interest. On the claim coming before the magistrates , last week, evidence was given that the fee simple of the cabin was worth £B, but .£i would amply compensate the parties (who were only tenants at will) for any trouble they might be put to. The magistrates awarded the claimants XS for their interest, thus giving them an amount equal to the value of the freehold. Some of the Irish companies are suffering fearful extortions in this waY. AMBERGATE RAILWAY.—We mentioned last week that something was on the tapis, and we can no* say that de putations from this company and the Great Northern met yesterday, and, we believe, came to 2od under * the Am- I be a hose whi most expensive and of bad gradients, going to places already served by other railways. By this means the capital would be reduced from £2O per share to about £8 per share, and no call made for a very considerable time. The Great Northern- to take the line on lease on advantageous terms, a guarantee in perpetuity, with the option of taking Great Northern shares at par when , that line is opened from London to York. GLIMPSES THROUGH THE PRESENT GLOOM.—TiIe more general good to be .expected from the universal weakness that seems to have disabled the railway body, is one that we had almost ceased to-hope for while its powers' continued in full vigour. The debility, we trust, may act —Herapath as depletion sometimes will on the human subject—bring it, namely to a cooler state, and subdue the quarrelsometendencies, and over-swelling ambitimf which have been distracting it of late years, and which; indeed, are one cause of its present diseased state. It may, at least, be expected that we shall have a pause in the'career of rivalry and strife between neighbours, to which many of the bur dens they now find it hard enough to bear are solely due. That which might have qugTested by wise reflection and reasonable views '-lbed• from the will surely b We may strict lessons of adversity. to be spared the annoyance of seeing Parliament, for the next session at least, converted into an arena for the members of the railway body to • worry each other in. If they have not been taught by hard experience to repent of this plfgnadty , they will, at all events, one may presume, be compelled , by mere want of power, to keep the peace awhile: If n ot, the country will most certainly " bind them over." The motion going on in all quarters against the outlay' of rat way capital already pledged—inconsiderate as it is in mall' respects, and in its sweeping design especially—may-haVe this proportion of good amidst a great deal of error, that it will insure a strict eye being kept upon the rash engage- anxiety now expressed and felt may insure a hearing, too, to certain truths as to the wasteful manner in which " competition " in railway making has been invoked, which have been vainly urged by sensible persons, while the mischief was being applauded by men claiming the. title of statesmen. The public will now perhaps consent to be taught that it is not in any way for the interest of the country to spend three millions in making two rival' lines for a traffic that could be amply served by one at' the cost of one half the money. And it will be proper to point out how much of the outlay, now so loudly com plained of, has been promoted solely by the determina tion of the public, of Parliament and of the Government to hear no reason on this point, but to follow, through thick and thin, the formula and watchwords of certain would-be philosophers. The times are apt for reading some lesson on this head,—not that anything new remains to be said, but because what has formerly been said and disregarded may now be listened to, in the presence of the events that illustrate its truth but too clearly.—Bail way Chronicle. RAILWAY RECEIPTS: week; The following are the receipts of railways for t11:4 4 returns at is to say, up to the date to which the res e made:— oath ar Dublin and Kinistown Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Edinburgh and Glasgow Eastern Counties and N. Eastern East Lancashire Eastern Union and Ipswich and, Bury 0 0 0 1126 1 0 2447 13 11 1045 9'll ;erot.26 1 1199 5 0 ;ow - and Greenock 21 121 )6 14 1 2135 15 6 Southern and Western Great Western Lancashire and Yorkshire Lancaster and Carlisle Loudon and.North-Western London and Blackwall London & Brighton, South Coast London and South-Western Manchester and Leeds, &c Manchester, Sheffield, and Lin colnshire 184 0 1 102 19 11 11665 7 0 10212 4 4 0 1 8 8' 6 4 Maryport and Carlisle Midland, Bristol, and Birmin, ham 258'23 16 11 Midland Great Western (Ireland) Newcastle and Carlisle Newcastle, Berwick, and North Shields Norfolk 2446 15 11 North British.... Paris and Rouen Rouen and Havre. 2046 18 11 2724 6 11 900 0 , 0 0 32 22 0 42 Slirewsb - nry and Chester South-Eastern and Branches South Devon Taff Vale Ulster Whitehaven Junction Ydrk, Newcastle, and Berwic York and North Midland, &I ' 683 2 12049 11 7 Is ' 1736 18 7 2 1724 19 0 oss 13 11 2 220 14 1 2 12040 0 0 COURT AND FASHION. Her Majesty, Prince Albert, and the Court arrive d at, Windsor Castle on Tuesday evening, after an absence 01 four months. The inhabitants thronged the long wall i , ll the park, and greeted her Majesty with . a most enthesi" astic welcome after so long an absence. It is stated that the court, after a sojourn at the castle of not more than three weeks or a month, will proceed Osborne for a short period, returning to Windsor to seen the Christmas holydays. It is also stated that her Majesty will probably Pg shortly a brief visit to Claremont, to enable the Prince Consort to enjoy a few days' shooting over the wel l ' stocked preserves of the King of the Belgians. The Earl of Auckland arrived at the Admiralty on Sa' turday from Knowsley. The Earl of Ellesmere and the Bridgewater Trustees have commenced the re-building of Bridgewater House o n a splendid scale. The noble Earl and Countess. and the Ladies Egerton, have left Worsley Hall for Harrowgate• The Earl and Countess of Wilton closed their visit to the Duke of Wellington, at Walmer Castle, on Thursday- The Countess proceeded to Brighton to join her youth ful family, and the noble Earl came to town. The Queen Dowager, accompanied by the gr a i ir a l Duchess Ida and the Prince and Princess of Saxe W e Ss. left Marlborough ILouse on Saturday morning ib r u , r a. port, where her Majesty embarked that afternoon on uua the Howe (man-of-war), for Madeira. THE REPORTED MARRIAGE OF THE DUNE AND gISS BURDETT COUTTS.—IF is DOW stated, upon the authority of an inmate of the Palace, that the idea of the marriage of the " Hero of a Hundred Fights " to Miss Burdet t Coutts originated in the domestic circle of royalty. 11 T, great Duke, having received a royal command to dine Witr 'the Queen, the conversation, amongst other topics, inci dentally turned upon the rich heiress, in the course of which her Majesty, struck by a sudden thought, jocularlY, suggested that Miss Burdett Coutts imd•the Duke of WY" lington would make a good match. This singular notion caused a hearty laugh, and is the real foundation of th e reports relative to the anticipated marriage of these Wel' known personages.—A correspondent of the Augsburg Gazette gives a rather more plausible origin to the ru mour. He says that Sir Robert Inglis, who stayed there a few days, flatly contradicted the report of the approach ing marriage. The whole rumour, said he, originated In mere joke. Miss Burdett having called upon the Daft with a large sum of money for the erection of Churches in the colonies, the Duke praised her generous liberality , adding, playfully, " You deserve to be a Duchess," t o which the Marquis of Douro, who was present, remarked; " You see, Miss Burdett, my, father makes you an offer. LAW INTELLIGENCE witt il The judges, clerks, and other officers connected the county courts are henceforth to be paid by salarice instead of fees—the amount of which, in each case. i 9 tv be fixed by an order of her Majesty in Council. This ig a highly necessary alteration, if, coupling with u, the scale of fees to suitors be also reduced, among who. we have as yet heard but one complaint as to the exorbl tancy of the demands. It is necessary not only to r ender justice speedy and safe, but also cheap. ATTORNEYS ' PRIVILEGE IN THE NEW COUNT Y COURTS.—The first decision on this point is reported la the Law Times of Saturday. It was given in the cog' Thompson v. Harding, heard at Solihull, Warwickshir e ? before John Barker, Esq., barrister-at-law, in the absence, of Mr. Trotter. The decision was, that an attorney sue' in the County Court is entitled to his privilege of being sued in the superior court of which he is a member. honour, after referring to the 67th section of the new County Courts Act, decided notwithstanding the languag e of that section, the privilege of attorneys was not therebi taken away, nor could it be taken away by any act o Parliament, unless attorneys were therein mentioned by clear and express words. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. -*- CHESTER RACES. On Thursday the Mostyn Stakes were won by Th Spaniard, beating Vale Royal, Wiseacre, and Free Trader a Free Handicap of 10 sovs. by Ellerdate, beating The Sailor and Brown Fly; the. Saracen's Head Handicap 1 " Hector, beating Christopher and four others ; and the Selling Stakes by the Rhine, beating Vesture and th ree others. On Friday. the Leviathan Stakes were won bY, Swallow, beating Sagacity, Philosopher, and Delor ain the Grand Staud Stakes by Ribaldry, beating Jest an five others ; and the Chester Handicap Stakes by Master Downes, beating Romance and three others. LYTHAM COURSING MEETING.—The first coursios meeting for the season took place at Lytham on Wedn! q :. day and Thursday last. The following is the return • . Derby Cup for Puppies won by Mr. A. Graham's E dudi tion ; Mr. Jebb's Tarina running up. The Clifton C 1 , 1 ,g; won by Mr. Eden's Euterpe ; M. Garvin's Gla dia ' running up. 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