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POETRY (Prom Tennyson :-, be Rfttraturr. Rh. b Rilig out t Ring in red Sha Bes Whi Attf Gra VARII A nel ob de F. gro once g built r the con the rema land 4, E 20, Peru Islands 3 two are of A 18 Irish, 4 Italian s have r which grow In I which It was by the Mino tinued to the of its dange the who' the brea times tt regain other to rE tance of t' visit to the Meal inforl at an it ye esp disgt At ac a high Tian of F to Eng , he go timate I had r one of his lic inst I contribut I am not naturally now dispose tion how far this system would bet all ma' y profit e ques- Insplanted and engrafted on our poll I. did not state that the univers ancßlis excellence of what I presented to my mind some mortifying points of contrast with what we have hitherto effected at home. Before I leave Boston, let me add one observation on a lighter topic. I lodged at the Tremont Hotel, which was admi rably conducted, like very many of those imposing estab- y, bllt It be uncandid of the instruction, ell unc own observation, POPERY laity. ill off, bu d ben ance 1 5, Sat nks all p from a lishments in the chief cities of the union. Here I lear that one is apt to receive false impressions at first. I w struck with the clean, orderly, agile appearance of tb "The Americans beat us hollow in waiters." I found that of the 1 21 Irish. On inquir I could not help wishing that a large number of the Irish rs for a little while.—Earl of might co Carlisle's Examiner that in Si nee to LOrd pbell's assertion rcely tell whether he is " I think Lord Campbell labours 1.30 , me lb I horrified br tion the ger ;ake; you wil INING IN 31 ; heard a t r ee O'CoN a man, hat.l am really mar- lIIS ne ted no and her three maiden believe imagir: Thn they the fiel ! it was only the t Out darted the gentleman from t led J., and there, in the the mud—for there had t NlCl3.—One afternoon J. told se, the shouts studio, an( ge adjoining fiel a heavy t upon him, it tore d, it dragged him ip again, and careering round id dog, Else wild beasts. J. dog could not .nri *Art a inn. ;once of (deed, his frigid determination is remar g anecdote rer a in the cc ; and ti g one of those me asiA , which had a s but a o I am obnoxi e pretence to cu I prom one of the hex tection scribable indiena ooked quietly on and smiled. Wha 11 murder. Bu ; and a ye ossibly injure hirr th their frightful that of wounds, ful. These fierce iry as security against r( em; ti are two at have noticed nothing very ferocious abou this mode of training dogs is not at all un ch the trade I should think not particularl Dickens's " Household Words." DUEL WITH D'ESTERRE.— thr.Ay called fear; Let those er that he most as then the afire of ted an un- [o accompanied C) a distant portion ht coverinz of snow. a per& party. and I shall not Treland at a lered it a duty gainst such unprovoked Nosy, remember what I say s having forc Lily on the —The bla, 3 irnmen is the fla n .the young of the DTI of t I Wild Fowl in a le I foun, e a single door in scarlet with only one i came i lo side light members of the Council, want to to do I While 10 per annum of tithes yen was ready in her ' do So Sir Georze Grey towed, and then c ary roon am not, my antagonis, me int Don placed on the t may have is conflict." ground at, ving a case of pis- hen they chose_ after a given nself by n king a lily to his Roman Cath- liewhat theatric- his bosom They fired D'Rsterre "Curran and his headed gu 11 (larus haunts. nrds, as well as !arca a delicacy, a rye of this £5O to :1 a rent of from a., 11 )f the gUileiy at Scoulton, in Lubbock, who says that " the breed occupies a great are indeed in myriads ;offer them to Om the fact 0,000 eggs. 300. Parts destruction of grubs e late Right Rev.W (I Man, gave the follow s daughter, n Buckina- 'rived. There )ors were I passed on from one artments, ed into a very beautiftil picture nk nearly one hundred and fifty feet ng was divided re and aisles of we found ti 11 plate ent orders, cut e soft light thus isehold, decorated illery when I arrived, and I had pictures b any one el rs of State, and rrive, and th the ceremo hom, you know:l 5 belonging to the senger came to say led the way ; I fol.- of the closet is a very en seated ho read the oath ing that I would When I :rated owed in her own returned to tl where the 3 other Queen in an Catholic, us Father was my inner t The pal I think tols, wi 3 regret ith d ire D'E 1 diso Contemporaries." f Scott winter it freq .cially near the turn of spring it days, v the Rev. I Game Bird; BISHOP DOINC unt of t Innrin, until I was cnndu gallery, I should tl 1 on my left stoo to me, vv Prince 9 George Grey, .fter him, engag , giance and fealt happily for us not end to I,P• attired t -POP NI his t RY W( ch h T s to send female Loyola i on "all Cathol creed—servants f the lowest deer named s the houses of Pl service of it the f we obt r, has of ana to late of St. B " Belgrav I Miss t, I return to t I *as % , your obedient " Holy Father,—For three weeks I've bee and have, at last, turned t nd eight. I began my pn suppressed men to t children of fold of the Poy s hearts or maid to the nomeni in the bosoms to carry out t fliesubjoint (for the present we cannot disc le paper c ware, Day of St. Ti —I entered my Fr it seivice on a Protestant good fruits of that holy book are liven rival of ri Street, St. Sago's Eve. h tt the children give w ght 'em, a Paternoiter and an Ave. .cial Drayer for Father Ignatius. blessed by Fatber Maloney, and in the fulness of I time, is r Holy Fathe an hardly " ANGELICA." thorn the ignorance " Walworth, St. Pan's Day. " Holy Father,—ln obedience to your commands, and as a dutiful daughter of the Pope, I have now lived six weeks with the Jenkinsons, ironmongers, as plain cook and maid of all work. I found them stubborn heretics, only fit for the Cardi. o deal with—but at last have hopes. Last Sunday but one oose, which I singed with a copy of his Holiness's has done precious work. Besides this, I've had it-lights of Mr. and Mrs. Jenkinson blessed, and 've only got through a pound and a half, I can see _ 1-..,.. ant Arad Moir all the n though ti hearts, and that they alieady begin to soften " On Wednesday last, I let the big dog, at the last moment, run away with a heretic shoulder of mutton, that the darkened creatures might make their dinner upon some blessed herrings. I shall do some such pious fraud every Wednesday and Friday. " Hoping for your prayers, I remain your devoted daughter, " TERESA." " P.9.—The butcher's man has only got half through the holy Dens, and has already been twice to st, Darnabas," liound. - They con what I've Raja apiece, with a t it was an a e numbers on some of nong the inland ores of the coast usual inlaz. whole (am THE LIVIRPOOL STANDARD. which latter been in low s pirits in conse, ►STEAM TO CANADA.—Steps are being taken to estab lish a line of steamers between Montreal and Cfiasgow. The plan is to construct three iron steamers of 1600 tons measurement, capable each of carrying 6000 barrels of flour, or an equivalent amount of freight, with accommo dations for 75 first-class and 75 second-class passengers. The steamers are to cost abcut £30,000 each. A gardener named Roberts, who was shooting rabbits in company with his brother and some other persons, at Exwick, Devonshire. lasr week, asked his brother to hand a gun to him from the other side of a thicket. His bro ther handed him the gun, after uncocking it, bat the cock was caught by a branch, and the gun went off, shooting Roberts dead on the spot. CIRCUMSTANCES ALTER CASES.—A French newspaper has an article headed " Civilization Britannique, ' in which the treatment of the poor workhouse girl, Jane Wilbred, by Mr. and Mrs. Sloane, was presented to our lively neighbours as a fair specimen of the household arrangements prevalent in England. Unfortunately it turns out that Mrs. Sloane, formerly Mademoiselle Devaux, is a Frenchwoman. EXTENSIVE FIRE AT CUMNOR, BERKS.—On Tuesday a fire, supposed to be the act of some dastardly incendiary, broke out on Lower Whitley Farm, in the parish of Cumnor, the property of Lord Abingdon, occupied by Mr. Haines, and consumed three large wheat ricks, a hay rick, a stack of straw, a barn with its contents, about thirty quarters of beans, and another barn filled with wheat straw. Mr. Haines is fully insured. HUNTING ON THE RAILWAY.—Last week, a stag turned out by Baron Rothschild, followed by about 30 couples of hounds, jumped on to the railway near Ched dington, and dashed along the cutting in the direction of Tring, at a time when both the up and down mails were due. The hounds were called off the line prior to either of the trains coming up. The stag, however, was unfor tunately cut to pieces. —Bucks Chronicle. THE TOWN COUNCIL OF BUCKINGHAM AND THE MARQUIS OF CHANDOS.—The year has commenced in this town with a troubled horizon—the town council and the Marquis of Chandos have got into a disagreeable affair, that has set the place in agitation ; the former being locked out of the Town-hall, the latter denying that the corporation is of matter of right entitled to the use of it without paying quit rent. The dispute is expected to wax warm, and call for legal aid.—Banbury Guardian. The contractors for the " Palace of Industry," the last new name for the Exhibition of 1851, have been allowed a month extra to complete their work, in consequence of additions made in gallery space, to the extent of nearly one mile in length, by twenty-four feet in width, and two large spaces, with clumps of trees, which it was at first proposed should not be included within the building, and which were to be occupied by the second and third class refreshment spaces, have now been brought within the limits of the edifice. MADNESS AND BAN KRUPTCY.—On Saturday, Mr. Hamber, the messenger to the Court of Bankruptcy, re ported to the court that a bankrupt, named Ephraim Godbolt, had died raving mad that morning. Ephraim and George Godbolt were builders and carpenters, at 14 and 15, College-walk, Chelsea, and on Thursday last were made bankrupts, for a debt due to Mr. Joseph Lambert, merchant, Pimlico Wharf. Notices of adjudication were served upon the bankrupts on Friday evening. The bank rupt, Ephraim Godbojt, had previously laboured under ill-h ealth; and the fact of having been made a bankrupt produced such a shock upon the nervous system, that he expired in a state of raving madness on Saturday morn ing.—Morning Chronicle. EFFECTS OF FREE TRADE MEASURES.—At the quar terly meeting of the Bristol Town-council, held on Wed nesday, it was resolved that an inquiry should be made into the duties and emoluments of the office of " corn meter" in that city. It appeared that owing to the removal of the restrictions on the importation of foreign corn, and more especially from the freeing of the port of Bristol from the monopoly which had so long injured it, this office, which in 1833 only brought in to the holder £l3 a year, last year in net proceeds produced £471, the real amount collected being £942; but half of this was paid to the parties employed in measuring the corn. The sum charged is Is. per 100 bushels on foreign importations, showing an enormous increase in the shipping trade of the port in this particular branch of commerce. - A CURIOSITY.—The ship William and Ann, ofLondon, 388 tons, which cleared at St. John's, N. 8., on-the 30th of November, for Grimsby, is quite a curiosity in her way, being upwards of ninety-one years old. She was built on the river Thames in 1759, and was employed for upwards of half a century as a bomb ship in the British navy. She carried out General Wolfe to Quebec, and was employed in that part of the world during the troubles that followed. At the taking of Copenhagen she was also present, as well as at the siege of Gibraltar, where her mainmast was shot away. After the taking of the fort, her mainmast was replaced by the venerable flag staff of the fortress, which had stood proof against so many shots. She was repaired at Leith some years since, and has been employed nearly forty years in the Greenland whale fishery. The present master states that her timbers are quite sound even yet. ANOWEER DARING BURGLARY NEAR FRIMLEY.—On Thursday morning, about three o'clock, the mansion of the Misses Farncombe, called Downland House, near Uckfield, Sussex, was broken into by seven armed men, whose faces were disguised with nightcaps and crape. The fellows secured the ladies and their servants in one of the upper rooms, and whilst some of them kept guard the others proceeded to ransack the premises. They re mained in the house nearly two hours, regaling them selves with ham, cheese, bread, wine, and porter, when they took their departure, vetting clear off with their booty, consisting of silver plate, value £2OO ; two gold watches, a quantity of costly jewellery, gold snuff boxes, tee. ; one £lO and seventeen £5 Bank of England notes; and about £5O in gold and silver. A reward of £5O is offered for the discovery of the robbers. This daring burglary was committed at no great distance from Frirn ley, where the Rev. Mr. Holiest was so recently murdered. The Times, in taking farewell of the old year, calls it a year of funerals, and cannot omit the opportunity of pass ing a glance at the many great names living and,flourish ing a twelvemonth since. and now added to history ; " We have already alluded to Sir Robert Peel, Louis and President Taylor. We must add the Duke of Cambridge; the Emperor of China, our antagonist in the opium war ; the American statesman, Calhoun ; the Prussian Minister, Count Brandenburg ; the Queen of the Belgians-;- the Duke of Palmella ; the Vice-Chancellor of England, the Recorder of London, the Chief Justice Doherty, Wordsworth, Jeffrey, and Bowles ; Miss Jane Porter ; Wyatt, the sculptor ; Sir Martin A. Shee ; Fraser Tytler, the historian ; the elder Brunel •, James Smith, the agriculturist ' • Neander, the Germ an th eo l og i an ; poor Waghorn, of the Overland Route; and many other names, respectable in this age, and venerable, perhaps, in the ages to come." FIGHT BETWEEN A HAWK AND PARTRIDGES.—A few days since as a tenant of Mr. Biagdon's, of Donning ton, was engaged in one of his grounds he disturbed a brace of partridges, one of which, after a short flight, alighted under the hedge-row in the same field, and the other topping the fence for a moment disappeared, when a hawk almost as instantaneously was s eti to poise and drop over the same spot where the first bird had fallen. A fight immediately ensued, which had scarcely com menced when the other bird came to the rescue, and with e boldly took sides against their powerful enemy, after a few rounds of hard fighting, actually retreated a couple of yards, when again returning he re newed the contest, but seeing he was watched, a second time made a more distant retreat. One of the partridges then took wing, the remaining bird - being picked up quite dead, with a deep wound on its breast, an inch in length he moment The hawk tor _ was again seen to hover over the battle field, but missing its prey.finally decamped.— Gloucester Chronicle. MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.-^A' public ball was on Tuesday night given at Cramond. and conspicuous among the brilliant throng was the lady of Mr. Alexander Cadell, of Cramond ironworks. Shortly after midnight Mrs. Ca dell, accompanied by two maids, with two of the children, proceeded homewards ; and, in order to, shorten the dis tance she had to traverse, took a by-path passing along the brink of a mill-lade, falling into the river Almond. The night was dark, and the water was, from the previous rains, considerably swollen. Mrs. Cadell was walking briskly along the side of the lade, when, in the impene trable darkness, she suddenly, stumbled, and was in an instant precipitated into the stream. One of the servants was close at her heels, and , Mrs. Cadell, in her first strug gles in the water, managed to get hold of the foot of the child, with which the girl was accompanied ; but the lat- !eated oul ,er reach The girl shrieked for assistance, but no one was near, and the unfortunate lady was allowed to struggle helplessly is the turgid stream, till she was carried far beyond the reach of all human aid.—Caledonian Mercury. ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE.-011 Monday last William Henry Marshall, a butler out of place, mada-an unsuccessful attempt to murder his wife, at Brighton, and immediately afterwards cut his throat with a ra'zor ' us ing his death almost inst an t aneous ly. Th e deceased had uence of being out of a situa- tion, and his . vrife had been under apprehensions that _he would destroy himself. At three o'clock on Monday morning the deceased came home almost in a state of nu dity ; and upon knocking at the door, he said, in reply to a question why he returned in such a state, " To kill you," and suiting the action to the word, he seized:her by the shoulders, and then grasped her throat. Nearly naked as she was, she rushedinto the street, followed by her hus band, who caught her in the middle of the road. They there struggled together till she fell, and he upon her. She raised a cry of " Police," and a lodger that of " Mur der and thieves,"' and the wife then effected her escape. As she ran off she saw a razor in his hand, and he having raised himself, again fell. She then returned to him, and found the blood gushing from a large gash in his throat, and a razor lying beside him. He died very soon after wards. At the inquest held on the body, the jury returned a verdict of " temporary insanity." Those who contemplate on the multitude of railroads— the intensity of steam power—the improvements in the mechanical, manufacturing, and agricultural knowledge of our countrymen, may truly exclaim, This • an Age of Wanders. But it is not in the ensive affairs only that society is rapidly advaue . , the art of medicine puts in its claim for a share i educing the general ameliora tion. Diseases wh . , only a few years ago were most alarming, are n subdued, or rendered easy of cure—the small-pox I Hated by the philosophy of a Jenner, and the g not feared, seeing there is a speedy remedy in Blair's Gout and Rheumatic Pills. HOLLOWAY'S PILLS. AN INFALLIBLE CURE FOR FE MALE COMPLAINTS.—Women at different periods of life are subject to conlo ints which require a Reculiar_medi eine to remove, and it is now an establisl that there is none SD suitable as Holloway's, their purifying qualities render them invalu o the maiden, the mo ther, and the middle ag , ey are searching, cleansing, and yet invigoratin that females of all ages may take them with pqrf safety ; and it is truly astonfshing to find the b t that is derived by taking a few doses,' which s ily move every species of irregularity in the system, and establish health on a firm basis. Omen'llanv. The number of iron furnaces in blast, In Scotland, Last month was 165, against 114 in December, 1849. Primroses were last w ee k ga th ere d i n a hedge-row, at Richmond, North Yorkshire. Sir Richard Bulkeley has been appointed Lord-Lieu tenant of the county of Carnarvon. Duke of Newcastle remains without the slightest hope of recovery. Eler Majesty has granted pensions of £lOO a.year each to Mrs. Belzoni, the aged widow of the:celebrated travel ler, and to Mr. Poole, author of Paul Pry. On Thursday, Dr. Milroy, Dr. Gavin, and Dr. Laid law started for the West Indies, having volunteered for " cholera service." The increase in the number of ships arrived at Bristol last year is more than 60 per cent. over that of 1847, and of tonnage about 35 per cent. The Marquess of Bute's Trustees have made a reduction of twenty per cent. to the Glamorganshire tenantry of the Bute estate. FOREIGN BRICKS .—The American ship Argonaut, which has lately arrived from China with a cargo of tea, had also on board the large number of 35,000 bricks. An elderly lady. Mrs. Donaldson, residing in Nile street, Bishop-Wearrnouth, had her arm broken last week by accidentally treading upon a piece of orange peel. About £3OO have been collected in pence from the working people in Macclesfield towards the formation of a public park. ry Some Labuan coals have been brought to England from Singapore, are to be t at Woolwich, in order ' use may be known. that their exact value for steamers The guardians of the West of London Union haVe.of ' a reward of £2O for the apprehension of Mrs. fered Sloane The proprietor of the Star and Garter, at Richmond, has given a positive contradiction to the report that that T., peror of Russia during the Exhibition A monster church organ is to be shown at the Exhibi on, containing 80 stops, end valued at many thousand The space allowed for musical instruments is 400 feet The splendid Rotton Park estate, near Birmingham, for a long period the property of the Noels, of Worcester.. shire, has just been purchased by Mr. Gillott, the steel pen maker, for £95,000. Among the things for the Exhibition in London is a very magnificent bookcase in carved wood, intended as a present from the Emperor of Austria to the Queen. It is the work of an artist named Leistler, and is very beautiful. A new daily London newspaper, to be called The Pro teatant , has been announced, the publication of which is expected to commence shortly before the assembling of parliament. Some stabling, cow-houses, and poultry stores, at Wandsworth, belonging to Mr. Bell, the new M.P. for St. Alban's, were destroyed by an incendiary fire on Thursday morning At the Warwic in the gaol of C s, on Thursday, a turnkey, )und guilty of aiding a pri soner to escape, and sentenced to fourteen years' trans portation. - The other day the Duke and Duchess of Northumber land, driving at a smart pace into Berwick•on-Tweed, were solicited by a wedding touter for the job of making them man and wife. The total number of applications to Parliament for the ensuing session for all classes of bills amounts to 216, about one-half for railways, and the other half for miscel- Three vagiibonds were on Thursday committed for trial from the Southwark police-court, for the unheard-of offence of having broken into the Bermondsey workhouse and plundered the store-root lie average price of wheat for last week has fallen to 38s. 10d. per quarter. Immense importations of grain A 13 • . and flour continue to pour in upon us from abroad, and there seems to be little prospect of relief to the hard-used home grower. At Berwick, sixty nine " meadows," the old rents of which amounted to £432 193. 6d., are now let at sums amounting to £334 155., being a difference of £9B 4s. 6d., or a reduction of 23 per cent. per annum ; and this near a large and populous town. A bridge near Penrith: on the Lancaster and Carlisle Hallway, was almost carried away on Thursday by the floods. A luggage train fell into the river with the bridge, but the engineer and stoker escaped, and there were no other persons on the train. Two foreigners have been living for the last few months in Sheffield, in good style. They have obtained large -•.• quantitie tradesme s of goods, under false pretences, from various :We since The Cape of Good Hope mail screw steam-ship Pro pontis, Captain Glover, will leave London on Friday, with cargo, and Plymouth on the 15th instant, with mails and passengers, for Cape Town and Sierra Leone. She will be the second departure on the service. The Rev. P. Oakeley makes an appeal to the readers of the Tablet, in its last number, for help "towards mak ing up a little sum for the bare maintenance of a person, who, by the prospect of downright destitution, is tempted to renounce the faith." The bullion in both departments of the Bank of Enz.. land had decreased from £15,359,376 to £14,963,681, being a difference of £395.695. The paper in actual cir culation had increased from £19,715,187 to £19,825,001, being a difference of £' 395,695 A little boy of the name of Robson, while playing with a bow and arrow, at North Shields, on Monday week, put out one of the eyes of a companion of the name of Reay, by hitting him with an arrow, which ha k a nail at the end of it. A young lad was detected, on Wc acks, in a village in Cambr geshire ; and it now appears that, through their wantonness, this young rascal and another young fellow were the authors of several One of the Holywell-street publishers, in London, is said to be making the coin of the realm a medium for his side, and on the other an invite rchase " No. 1" of a certain penn 3ublication The Sheffield papers contain an account of the capture of Mr. John Hyde, of Norfolk-street, Sheffield, estate agent, collector, &c., who absconded early last week, leaving his wife an d family behind him. When caught, in the city of Glasgow, he had in his possession £3OO. The American ship Roman. of 774 tons burden, has ar rived in the London Docks from Canton, with an entire cargo consisting of nearly 10,00 u packages of tea, con signed to order, which is admissible by virtue of the re laxed laws of navigation. The receipt of ;letter from the President of the United States precludes a hope which had been entertained that London would, during the coming Exhibition, be gratified by the presence of the executive head of the gr'eat Republic. At Westminster Police -court, on Wednesday, a person case was c s a specimen o .ds of justice Liered from the hec Polyanthuse ;equently way in which komanists- can def their pretended scruples. berry and violet, have been biurhood of LiskeO-rd the en nd w 9 l- flowers may also be seen in bloom in 'many gardens there G'ornwal A. Scotch six oars ai ). It Sar Dunure er mentions that a s 3 the corp t in whict son of a of am lately drifted ashore eft Ca een be md, named W Clarrad mixing poison in take round. Th being perceived in thi The Adelaide, of I as stranc the father and son lion in a small boat, and not e keepe a Wren, is in custody at Souti r the fair. Millbroo of by was.intrusted to I by a change ristol, from Uardiff to St. Vin Beach, near Corunna, during a ricane on the 19th .D r, and became a total wreck but his wife, child, one pas nger, and thirteen men (the crew) were unfortunatel drowned At a meeting n London la: Mr. C company win( exhibited a sa wan, M. P, hich it was ma, )m wheat but the duty on the raw material was )n that which cost 2: CICERO'S OPERAS.—A correspondent of the A thenceum notices a droll mistake in the catalogue of a sale of books at Barn Elms, in Surrey, understood to be those of the *-Char llor Sha . dwell, to which the last 20 lots issia leather, is a fine copy of the •orks (Opera) of Cicero! As the coach, which runs between Newcastls,and B approac mornin the public-ho Scotswood on r, in pullinz up, . brut . . . reins, and, losing control over the horses, one of the ani mals came violently in contact with a tree, and was killed on the spot. The driver and two passengers, as well as the coach The trustees of the late Colonel Ct , in terms of his bequest. pay. s of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dumfri ►:cape, of Girgenti aro no Lg over to theinfir:. Been, and Inverness, the EsC(l from his estate charities would rec It was ex- Lye £2,000 pected that each of th and, thomth the whsle of the estate has not yet been dis posed of, £l,BOO has already been allotted to each. A man who was brought up at the Clerkenwell police court, London, last week, was found to have in his pos session a sack containing 27 fresh cat skins, many of which, from their wet appearance, must have been strip ped from cats yet alive ' • but as it was impossible to bring any direct proof that he had skinned the animals while alive, he was discharged unpunished. On Wednesday the wife of a tradesman was brought before the magistrate at Worship-street, London, on the charge of compounding a felony. A girl had stolen some brushes, and, rather than prosecute her, defendant had accepted 2s. 6d. as payment for the stolen property. It appearing that she had been actuated by kindness, she was ordered to refund the money, and discharged. THE DAMASCUS CALUMNY.—A tombstone having been lately erected to the memory of Father Thomas, of Damascus, with an inscription to the effect " that he hnd been murdered by the Jews," Sir Moses Mentefiore re paired to Paris on Monday last, in order to urge upon the government the injustice of perpetuating a calumny which has been theoretically and practically refuted.—Jewish Chronicle. Mrs. Ann Wheeles, aged 34, the wife of a man in the employ of Messrs. Nicoll, Regent-street, London, was so frightened, the day before Christmas-day, by finding a dead black cat at the bottom of a hamper which she opened in the expectancy of a present, that delirium en sued, and she died in 76 hours afterwards of inflammation of the arachnoide membrane of the brain. She was enciente at the time. a gentleman residi k which he s preve JEW PROMOTERS OF CRIME.—On Friday, James Thos. Newland, Henry Hart, and Lewis Levy, were brought up for further examination at Guildhall, London, charged, the former with robbing his employer, Mr. Wellington Williams, wholesale warehouseman in Gutter-lane, Cheap side, of a quantity of goods, and the latter, who are mem bers of the Jewish fraternity, Hart with having received the property, knowing it to have been stolen, and Levy with being an accomplice of Hart's, having been fou n d i n his company. The lad w a s coax ed over by a Jew whom he had met in the street to rob his master; and to dispose of the goods in conjunction with him. The mass of the details of the system pursued came out also from the con fession of the boy. On the present occasion, the pledging of the goods, which consisted for the most part of collars, 1111 children's dresses, and articles of millinery, by Newland, was deposed to by numerous pawnbrokers ; the principal part of the evidence, however, related to the identification, by an obstinate Irish woman, of Newland, as being a party who had met Hart at a public-house, with a bag, which she ultimately Disposed to. Some conflicting evidence was then given as to Levy having been in company with, the other prisoners in a public-house, several witnesses swear ing that he was elsewhere on that occasion. Levy was discharged, and the other prisoners were remanded. THE STREETS OF LONDON IN 1851.—As the time for the Industrial Exhibition approaches, London will become thronged with strangers. The Croat from the banks of the Drave and the Unna, fierce and exclusive in his re ligious sentiments ; the Fleming from Brabant, and the Walloon from Luxembourg and Hainault, practically to lerant at home but acutely sensiti ve t o assau l ts upon their creed ; die Prussian from Wesphalia and the Rhenish provinces, where bigotry abounds, but proselytism and controversy are prohibited ; the Austrian from a hundred regions, where Protestantism is barely permitted, stripped of all outward signs of vitality ; the Italian, the Spaniard, and the Gaul, inflamed with zeal and confident of spiritual power—men from every climate and from all roints of the compass, who have never visited us before, and who know us only by the reputation of our freedom, of our conquests by sea and land, and our world-wide pos sessions upon which the sun never sets, will crowd our streets by day and night, filling our theatres and exhibi tions, our bazaars and!rnanufactories, and establishing in our thoroughfares for many months an open congress of all the civilised nations of the earth. Already upwards of twenty thousand berths have been taken in the American passenger vessels, and such is the expected pressure from the United States that arrangements are said to have been made for running a packet daily from New York. —Bent ley's Miscellany. SINGULAR MONOMANIA.-At a Court held by Sheriff Russell, at Wick, on the 13th ultimo, it was found that the Rev. J. S. Douglas, Royal Bounty Missionary at Auchrenny to the Established Church, was a monomaniac, and dangerous to the lieges. From the evidence led, it appears that the rev. gentleman has given a large share of his attention to the investigation of mesmerism, and the new discovery—electro-biology, on which an American gentleman, Dr. Darling, has of late been lecturing in Glasgow and Edinburgh. Reason ultimately gave way in the case of Mr. Douglas, who gave out that he had discovered " the ultimate principle of matter,"—the secret by which the ancient magi performed their wonders. He dreaded the mesmeric influence of some unknown party, believing that, should they meet, the one or the other must perish. It was this fear which brought mat ters to a crisis. He believed that he should, by his or her voice, recognise the person whose mesmeric influence would be fatal should they meet; and to destroy the party he provided himself with pistols, on pretence of in vestigating the subject of acoustics by means of their reports. He applied to the authorities for protection from this imaginary enemy, and stated to a Medical gentleman that he believed he would be safe if rolled up in a web of silk, because silk would intercept the electric - or magnetic current. The Sheriff granted warrant to lodge him in an asylum, failing caution by his friends for his safe custody.—Edinburgh paper. A GHOST STORY.--One day lately an old lady, at Southwick paid a visit to her nephew, whom she had not seen for a long time. He, of course, was extremely glad to see her, and insisted on her supping all night. The house consists of a front and back kitchen upon the ground floor, with a corresponding number of rooms above. The nephew and his family slept above, and to accommodate his aunt, who had been used to sleep where there was a fire, the_old lady slept down stairs. 1. pony occupied the back kitchen as a stable, from which there was communication by a door; The old lady having made up the fire, and performed her devotions, lay down to rest. Just as she was about to fall asleep, the fire then burning very dull, she was startled by a terrible apparition, which walked across the floor, very slowly, towards the fire. Not being able to see distinctly, her agitation may be better imagined than described. Terror completely paralyzed her, and as she described afterwards, she had not power to speak. The Ghost, however, feeling the fire very comforts •le, lay down before it ;.but in doing so, his hind parts came in contact with the bedstock. The sudden shock caused the old lady to find her tongue, when she cried out, " 0 Lord, have mercy upon me, have mercy upon me !" which she continued to repeat so loud, that her nephew heard her up stairs, when he came down and discovered that the terrible ghost was none other than poor old Dobbin, who, being cold in his stable, had for ced open the door, and laid himself down near the fire in the old lady's bedroom.—Shields Gazette. WESLEYAN RE-UNION.—On Friday evening last, says the Doncaster Gazette, the Wesleyan methodists of Great Horton held a festival in their school-room on behalf of the circuit funds. During the evening a variety of noises and knockings were kept up by those who were prohibited admission into the building, and much excitement pre vailed. The doors were barricaded and stoutly guarded by several volunteers and a policeman in addition. Mr. Thomas Myers, a trustee of the building, and one of the expelled, demanded liberty of entrance, but no more favour was shown to him than the rest;: they were all de terminedly repulsed. At last the opposition retired, and during the interval of quiet, the collection (amounting, with the profits of the tea, to £36) was made. It was now about eight o'clock, and the congregation were singing in triumphant tones—" Lift up your heads ye heavenly gates," when an awful crash was heard, and a thick plank like a battering ram impinged upon the outer door. In another moment it was through the panels, and amongst the screams of women, and the furious ejacula tions of men, the hostile parties were face to face in the place of the assembly. In loud tones Mr. Walker ordered Jennings (the relieving officer) to put down the names of all who were implicated in forcing the door, whilst he himself soon after drove off rapidly in a cab to Bradford. sending back therein four additional policemen. Beyond, however, a few incidents of a personal character nothing further of public interest occurred. Mr. Myers has ap plied for a summons against Mr. W. Robertshaw for assault; and on the other hand it is reported that the conference party intend t) indict Mr. Myers and his friends for riotous conduct. CULTURE Om'. FLAX.—Before quitting the subject of flax culture at Patrington, it may be well to advert to one or two points which are sometimes overlooked by the advocates .for its extension in England, An article, of which the wages of labour in the first stage of its manufacture form fully 60 per cent. of the whole value, must I dependent for profit on the scale of wages. The difference of that- scale between most parts of Ireland and the East Riding of Yorkshire is not less than 150 per cent., and with such a difference the manu facturer in this district cannot afford to pay the farmer for the ra Other article naterial so remunerative a price as in Ireland. ricultural, produce here are of con than in Ireland, and that .rably.more %lee per acre offered by the rnanufaetu , nsion of flax culture, a er is not, when compared with the value of other crops. suncientiy tempting. _ acknowledged by all who have tried it to be an exhai ing crop ; yet that of itself i. , not a good objection to its en ture, though it is an excellent reason for a farmer de clining, to grow it unless he can obtain such a price as will __lpensate him for the usual expenses of culti fion,-but will also enable him to restore to the soil that not only cc fertility which the flax crop has removed difference of wages gives the Irish manufacturer so great an advantage over the manufacturer in the East Riding, the extension of flax culture here is not likely to be very rapid. But there are other eotnties in England whose soil is equally well adapted for the growth of flax, and where the establishment of flax works would be a great boon to the unemployed labourers. In many, parts of Essex and Suffolk, for instance, where labourer& witees So long certain seasons heavily burdened for the support of the unemployed labourer, the soil is well adapted to the cul ture of flax. And it is very obvious that a lower range of prices for corn- will make this crop and'• others of a similar character, more worthy of the farmer's attention. uarter than Ts. much better paid with find it to his interest EQUITARL to gross ZS an acre .een 40! wheat at 60s. per but if the future and 505., Le may st minute and extensive investigations have been carried on during a long period, in order to ascertain from statistical data the relative degree of risk incident to lives at different ages, and, under different conditions and circumstances, nd Life. Assurance has thus been elevated into an exact Je;, still little or nothing has been hitherto attempted towards rendering the same service to the kindred busi ness of Insuring property against the risks of fire. In the latter, every description of property has, for the pur- • pose of Insurance, been classified under three categories,, the first including all property the risk of which from fire is defined to be ordinary that under the second is similarly defined as hazardous, and that under the third doubly hazardous. Now as the risks incident to similar kinds of property cannot, under different circumstances, be the same, it is impossible that these definitions, and the clas sification which is founded upon them, can invariably prove correct ; and, even if they should. the Fire Offices have as yet collected no data, from which the relative rates of premium which should be required for them, can be correctly estimated. Hence the premiums as maned to each class must of necessity be mere guess k, by which, though the aggregate premiums of all the classes may be found to satisfy the aggregate risks, there is no certainty that each class pays only or fairly for its own. The natural inference from such a loose system is that they do not, and that to one, if not to two of them, much injustice must unavoidably be done. The Equitable Fire Office intend to apply a remedy (and the only one we are aware of) to this very unsatisfactory state of things. It intends to make an annual investigation into each class of risk, and return to each class one half of what may be found to have been the net excess of the premiums be yond the risk to have been actually incurred; and these periodical returns will supply the data for determiningwhat that risk is on the average, and the true premium equitably payable for it. No process can be more correct for the important object in view; and we trust that the public will warmly support the Equitable Fire Office in carrying it through, as it - is their own interest to do so, and be cause it will eventually lead to a reform in Life Assurance by other offices also. Jan. 7,1851. CORRESPONDENCE. LORD JOHN MANNERS. ! TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, SlR,—From the letter of a very respectable gentleman in the last week's STANDARD, it would appear that a paragraph which has been going the round of the papers, in which " Dr. Pusey, Mr. Keble, Lord J. Manners, and other Tractarians," are represented as the leaders of " the London Union," has excited some uneasiness in the minds of his lordship's friends in this town. This is perfectly natural : for it must be acknowledged that such a paragraph is but little calculated to advance his cause, if his friends have it in contemplation to bring him for ward again, when a vacancy may occur, as a candidate for the representation of Liverpool. It can hardly be doubted that the great body of the Protestants of this town fully participate in the conviction so strongly enter tained, and so clearly expressed, by their fellow-Protes tants in other places, that—whatever may have been the operation of other concurring circumstances, tending to the same result—in the rise and progress of the Tracta rian system, by which so many of the clergy and laity have been led to abjure their Protestant principles, and to embrace Popery, the Pope has found his greatest en couragement, and his most powerful stimulus to the recent aggression, which has roused into vitality and energy those Protestant feelings and principles, which it was, probably, hoped and thought had been effectually lulled by Tractarian opiates. It is well known that the society referred to was insti tuted for the purpose of promoting and strengthening the Tractarian cause ; and it may be well for Liverpool Pro testants to give full weight to the fact, that Lord John's reply to the inquiries of his alarmed and anxious friends, instead of exonerating him from the imputation of being associated with Dr. Pusey and Mr. Keble, as a•" leader in that society, obviously implies an admission of its truth. It merely states that he was not present at a par ticular meeting : it acknowledges• that he is still a mem ber of the society. Lord John Manners writes and speaks with more cau tion and reserve than he was accustomed to do before he was led (principally, be it remembered, by the Tractarian party in this town) to aspire to the representation of Li verpool. But the fact that he was, and is still, associated with Dr. Pusey and Mr. Keble ; the fact that his name has been found united with those of the Puseys, the Kebles, the Gladstones, the Coleridges, and other Trac tarian leaders, in protests, addresses, and various docu ments, which have from time to time issued from the Tractarian camp ; and other facts, which might be ad duced, afford no very ambiguous indication as to the channel in which his sentiments and sympathies flow. The Protestants of Liverpool, after all that they have lately said and done, will not receive as their representa tive any one in whom they cannot confide, as alike op posed to the Popery (the more dangerous Popery) within the citadel of our Church, and the open Popery without. I am, sir, your obedient servant, BEWARE ! December 28th, 1850 [We have referred to the subject of this letter (the writer of which is a gentleman of the highest respecta bility) in an article elsewhere.—En. L.S.] THE AMERICAN LINE OF NEW YORK STEAMERS. TO THE EDITOR OP THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR,—We hand herewith a copy of a letter which we have addressed to the Manchester Guardian, you will oblige us by admitting it into your columns/--Yours,.&c., BROWN, SHIPLEY, & CO. Liverpool, Jan. 1, 1851 TO THE EDITORR OF THE MANCH/STER GUARDIAN. Gentlemen,—We notice in your / paper of this day some remarks on the United States mail steamers, wherein you say " that the P ac ifi c h a d be withdrawn from servi ce for the present, in o r d er th a she may undergo ext ens i ve repairs," and then y ou p ro ed to comment on this un favourable state of matted. We do not blame you for being misled by the Liierpool Albion; but, knowing your character fov justice; and your desire at all times to state what is correct, w 4 beg to inform you th a t th ere is not one word of truth n the statement. It has been seen thit the•lower cabins in these steamers take up unnecessary pace,.that might be more profitably , employed by ,not er arrangement of the state-rooms, and it has been d ermined that these alterations are to be made in ail th boats. The Pacific if the first boat in which the change is making, and t is is the sole reason of her being with- drawn from th 4 station for the present. She requires no repairs, either ( in her hull or machinery. The boilers are not being renewed ; nor, as far as we have heard, has there been the slightest ground for the statement that they require repairs that need detain her in port a day. We think it • more necessary to call your attention to this, as it is intended to withdraw each boat from the line, in rotation, for the same alterations. Your obedient servants, (Signed) BROWN, SHIPLEY, & Co. Liverpool, Ist January, 1851.. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR,—Mr. H. Hornby is reported to have said in Wed nesday's debate, in the council, that " He looked upon a great deal of the alarm which had been excited on the subject of the powder magazines as being very greatly exaggerated, and he also considered that the alarm had been promoted and got up by parties who had done it, in the - first-instance, from interested motives." As I have lived in the vicinity of the magazines, and had someexperiencerelating to them, and feelthe question, locally, and as regards Liverpool, and the life and welfare of her teeming population, to be one of unutterable moment, I am bold to obtrude my name, with your consent, into Your valuable columns. Does Mr. Hornby mean that people ought not to be alarmed at the presence of 14,000 barrels of gunpowder close to their doors, or, that they are not alarmed but only misrepresented as being so ? I cannot determine what his words mean. But whatever sense be taken. Mr. H. stated, very unwittingly ; I am sure, what is untrue and to some parties unjust. With respect to the alarm •, on all sides I have been long in the habit of hearing from friends and neighbours expressions of the greatest apprehension; only last week I l sh e ca a nd r o n bo e le c , l e an t n h tdu a t r ont c eh h de i r l t d so r w e t h n o iusll would lie, u d b j b e e eb e t y, n apn t a a dr k e e nn n tos from obs te a ma b at boarding . sons will be deterred from settling here, and many driven from this locality, if the magazines remain where they are. When I had the honour of a seat in council I urged earnest attention to the subject, but unsuccessfully. That is now five or six years ago. Two gentlemen, having con siderable property in the parish, were in council at the time„but would not support my attempts, and remained resisted but silent throughout th e di scuss i on , so f ar were they from permitting person a l i n t eres t s t o sway th e i r pu bli c con d uct . a l m ha p v e e rs s u a a id de m d y th efforts-failed, l why vigorously so ° and by -interested parties. Knowing the weight generally very justly attached to Mr. Hornby's opinions, I desi re t o accatninvoelty tell, show that, in this instance, he is not entitled to exercise and authority. The danger:is terrific, and hum alarm cannot go beyond it. Agitation cannot be lent. tarn, sir, too via Respectfully, Egremont, Jan., 64 1851. T. T. CLAZEBROOK STOCK OF COTTON IN LIVERPOOL, DEC. 3l; American Brazil ..... Egyptian , West India 261,234 68,613 32,182 91,947 454,879 These figures exhibit a discrepancy from the estimated stork of about 80,000 bales—there being that number more in stock. tha❑ was anticipated. A similar error, it will be remembered, occurred last year. AiLEGED z, SEDUCTION AND DESERTION BY A ROMISIX STUDENT.—On Wednesday, a young country girl, of considerable personal attractions, presented a letter to Mr. Hardwick, at Marlborough-street. The letter, which was from herself, implored his protection and assistance in procuring her some situation, as she was unable to earn a livelihood by honest means, having been induced, on the 15tha November, to leave the house of her father, Mr. Simons, late a clerk at the Derby Railway Station, with Mr. L. L. de la Pessez, a young Spani ord, under the promise of marriage, whichhe never fulfilled, but left her, after they had resided together three days in London since which time she had supported herself with the few shillings she had, and by the sale of her clothes. She had written to her father, but had received no answer. It appeared from her statement, in answer to Mr. Hardwick, that Pessez was in the Roman Catholic College at Derby, kept by an Irish Roman Catholic Priest, named Sing.— Mr. Hardwick at first thought of sending the young woman to the House of Charity in Rose-street, for a short time, but at ber request, consented to give her the means of sending her to Derby, where she had relations living. The applicant expressed herself very grateful, and left the court in charge of an officer, to make the requi site arrangements. EXTRAORDINARY FRACAS.—An opening dinner at the Kingsbridge public rooms took place, says the Plymouth Journal, on. Thursday last. A curious scene closed a good dinner, good speeches, and singing. At twelve o'clock, the chairman proposed as a finale that the National An them should be sung by the company, upstanding and uncovered ; four of the party refused to stand up, after being politely requested to do so by the chairman and others. There were immediately loud cries of "stand up ;" two of the parties refusing to do so, left the room ; the two remaining who refused to comply wit h the wishes of the company were Mr. Bignell, who supplied the din , ner, and a young man named Prowse, who attended the dinner as the Kingsbridge correspondent of the Exeter Gazette, to report the proceedings. The re was a cry of " Turn them out." The confusion which arose at this moment baffles description. Prowse was seized, dragged out of the room, over the steps, and was sent headforemost into the street. The parties who assisted in this loyal act now returned to the room, and the National Anthem commenced. Mr. Amiens Bigneli ,in defiance, still kept his bat on. " Hats off !" was no a. the cry, and several attempts were made by parties to take it off. Mr. Big nell, held it with both hands till a youthful son of Escu lapius aimed a smart blow at it, which knocked it in two parts. Mr. Bignell still held the remaining portion to his head until it was forcibly taken from him and torn to atoms. The National Anthem was then sung, and the party broke up. In the scuffling several coats were torn, watch guards broken, &c., and the whole affair will shortly be heard of more at length at the IC.ingsbridge County , Court.