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iittr . faturr. POETRY. AN OLD MAN'S MUSINGS. (Front " Echoes of Mind," No. I.) " Last scene of all That ends this strange eventful history, In second childishness and mere ob iviun." As You Like It, I am old, I am old, my hair is grey, The strength of my manhood hath passed away. And all things around me seem strange and cold, And not as they used to be of old. The young and the gay, they care not for me; How should they ?—their hearts are full of glee ; Their hopes are blooming. and mine have faded, They know not yet what my brow bath o'er shaded. I am old, I am old; I am left alone; The joys of my youth have long since flown. Hark! there's a whisper that comes through the trees, Borne on the wings of the scented breeze; And it seems to tell of the years gone by, And of hopes that I deemed were too bright to die. It comes from the hours of my childhood now, And gently it fans my old wrinkled brow. It tells of the flowers that decked the bowers, Wherein I once spent such happy hours, When my heart rejoiced in a holy love, That resteth now in its home above. It tells of the blossoms of early youth, When all seemed fairness and beauty and truth ; And now it comes with a ruder blast, As the years of manhood are sweeping past, And the tall trees bend before the winds, As the years bow down the pride of our minds. And sternly it comes, and it scatters the leaves, As time does the hopes that our fancy weaves; And now it is sinking again to rest, As the pa , sions do in an old man's breast. The breezes are hushed, the Spirit is gone,— Gone to the realms of laughter and song. Bright spirits dwell with the young and the gay, They care not with me an old man to stay ; But they came from heaven my old heart to cheer, They have brought to my old eye a childhood's tear. The chords of my heart I thought were all broken! The Spirit hath touched them, once more have they spoken. And now there shall gleam through the shadow of years, My childhood's glad hopes, and its fleeting tears ; And fancy shall bring back my bright days again, As echo repeats the last notes of the strain. Men sort not with children—they sort not with me ; What care I for that, if a child's heart of glee Will come back again to this worn-out breast, And cheer its last days till it sink to rest, Like a play-tired child in the arms of Ills love, Who bath said, " Ye shall never see heaven above, Till humbled in spirit, and undefiled, Your hearts are as pure as this little child " C. W. M. NOTICES. Blaekwood's Magazine. The first article in this magazine for the present month is of painful interest, relating, as it does, to the sad tra gedy of Affghanistan. The writer has evidently studied the subject with great attention, and recapitulates under five distinct heads the blundering and infatuation of the leaders of the British troops in that lamentable series of conflicts in which 17,000 valuable lives were sacrificed, and the military banners of England were for a time tar nished, not, indeed, by want of prowess in those who ral lied around them, but by a want of foresight, and of that "discretion " which especially in wars with treacherous and unfeeling barbarians strong in their native fastnesses, and innured to the rigours of their own clime, is, after all, " the better part of valour." Ably, however, as the sub ject is handled, and incontestibly just as are the severe reprehensions of the writer, we question the policy of re curring to a subject, the reminiscence of which inflicts a national pang, which can result in no good that we can perceive, but, on the contrary, serve to cherish in the minds of suffering survivors a feeling of indignation and mistrust towards our rulers in the east, and (by our ad missions) gratify would-be belligerent foreigners , s,jealous of our general power and our glories , who rejoice in our discomfiture in any part of the globe, from whatever un toward circumstances it may arise. Our author himself makes a sort of apology for resuscitating a topic which by almost common consent has been consigned, not without tears, to the obliterating waters of Lithi ; and he is, we think, blameable in again harrowing it up, without sug gesting any means, except by inference, of averting the recurrence of a similar catastrophe. Why did he not, since he would recur to these appalling disasters, urge upon the government the necessity of a rigid investigation by court martial of the whole affair, so that the parties alleged to be grievously in fault might be pronounced guilty and punished accordingly, or stand acquitted of the higher offence from evidence of error in judgment. On this point we have no hesitation in stating that our home ministry have been culpably remiss, and it was the only atonement they could have made to the relatives of those whose remains were left in thousands to bleach on the wilds of Upper India.—" Etching Thoughts by the Etch ing Club" is cleverly written, exhibiting in a pleasing manner the worth and the neglect of the art. " A Love Chase, in Prose" is amusing but of moderate merit—the close especially being abrupt, and deficient in retributive justice to the swindling coterie of the village of Wimble ton. The account of the ancient canal between the Nile ILIA the Red Sea will be read with interest. The Tradi tions and Tales of Upper Lusatia are continued. The tale of the Dwarf's Will occupies the present part, and is curious, while it conveys a sound moral. The remarks on Schiller's Maid of Orleans" are tastefully written. "The Stolen Child," a tale of the back woods, wrought np fromthe particulars of an incident related in the Mis sissippi newspapers of 1825-6, contains a good description of the interior wilds of the far west. The last article is a review of the recently published Life of Lord Eldon, by Horace Twiss, and is replete with anecdote. We give some extracts in our present number. The Mysteries of Paris. Chapman and Hall, London. We have received Parts I. and 11. of "the only English edition (of this extraordinary work) authorised by M. Eugene Sue," the gifted author ; and it is got up in a manner highly creditable to the publishers, whether as regards the apparent fidelity of the translation, the beauty of the typography, or the excellence and number of the illustrations, which last are highly sketchy and effective, maintaining a vraisemblance of the several actors in the stirring drama, by which they are instantly recognised in the varied scenes, be they disguised or in their usual cos tume. Of the merits of the work as a literary produc tion, we find it difficult to speak in terms of adequate praise. The writer is evidently a man of powerful con ception, and a shrewd observer of human character, both in its sunny and in its dreariest and most revolting aspect; and, so far as we have yet perused his narrative, he has excited and sustained in us a deep interest in the fortunes and the fate of those whose portraitures he so vigorously depicts, and which are enhanced by striking contrasts of disposition and pursuit, and, above all, by rapidity of in cident. Nothing can be more charming or affecting than the innocent, confiding, sensible, and naturally-refined character of the Gonaleuse, otherwise" Fleur-de-Marie," a deserted girl thrown unprotected (at first) upon the un pitying world, and suffering numerous hardships and pri vations amongst the most abandoned and wicked of her species ;—nothing more generous, but firm and disinte rested, than that of Rodolph, " the unknown," who, by the very nobility of his nature, though by personal chas tisement in the first instance, redeems to grateful and honourable feelings the hardened, but not impenetrable or dishonest " Chourineur." The " Schoolmaster," a returned and desperate convict, who had deserted and wronged his family, and had more than once stained his hands with blood, meets, at an early part of his second career of guilt with an awful punishment—short only of an ignominious death on the scaffold—namely, the instant deprivation of sight, which denies him the power of fur ther mischief; and he is left by those lie has most injured with ample means to prolong life in penitence and player. The horrible situation in which he had previously left Rodolph to perish in the vault of " The Bleeding Heart" —a low tavern resort of the worst description, concealed in a ditch near Paris, and in which he is nearly drowned .before he is rescued—is fearfully worked up. The history of La Gonaleuse from her childhood—with the old Ogress (a returned female convict), who kept a drinking-shop, the resort of felons, thieves, assassins, and the dregs of Parisian society—is related by herself with great feeling 'and simplicity ; and " the unknown," who listens to her story, rescues her from that den of infamy, still virtuous, and in the early bloom of womanhood. We have not seen the whole work, although it has already had a great run in France, and (in a spurious English edition) in the United States ; but we conjecture that " Fleur-de-Marie" will turn out to be of noble family, and that " the lost son," in search of whom Rodolph resembles Ulysses in seeking his own, will also be restored to his parental rights. The present edition of the work is a translation, which, according to the prospectus, " repudiates every thing that can by possibility be thought offensive to the English reader, yet preserves that intense interest which has given it such universal popularity." We shall pro bably give some extracts hereafter. The Civil Engineer and Architects Journal. R. Groom bridge, London. We have received another number of this "Journal of tho Arts, Sciences, Public Works, Railways, Steam Na vigation, Mining, and Machinery," and it contains many articles important to those inthrested in the scientific and mechanical advancement of our country, with numerous diagrams and illustrations. In noticing the proceedings of the Institute of Civil Engineers, the paper of our 'townsman, Mr. John Grantham, there read in February last, on the experiments mode on a vessel called the " Li verpool Screw," fitted with Grantham's engines and Woodcroft's screw propeller, is favourably noticed, and the discussion that ensued is reported, with illustrations of various sizes and fans. Mr. Rennie, C.E., after re marking on experiments made by various parties with the screw as a propeller, said " It was, however, Mr. F, P. Smith who first rendered the screw-propeller practically useful for his perseverance, being aided by spirited capi talists, induced the building of the Archimedes steamer, the machinery of which was constructed by Messrs. G. and J. Rennie, in ' 183 9. The results obtained from that vessel were well know n , and caused the subsequent construction of the Princess Royal, the Great Northern, H.M.S.V. the Rattler, and the Dwarf, formerly the Mermaid ; also Great Britain, which last not having yet been to ,, sea, Could only be mentioned as a have already given an abstract of Mr. projected experiment." P s t paper. l we give in another column s ome extracts from tiista lented and cheap periodical. a, l, .L9ndon. Th e Library of Tr avel. Chapman and Had Part IV. of th is work has come to hand, n 1 ti nua tion of Syria an d the I : loly . Lan,d. The editor in c tor con. R. Kelly, has exerc ised a wise discretion in approuriati r. the best portions of th e information collected by the most ng celebrated travellers of ,this and other countries, and the work is illustrated by a great number of tmely executed wood-cuts, conveying accurate representations of the ci ties, scenes, and antiquities which the reader is pleasingly led to ramble through and contemplate.. The descrip tions of what the countries through which he p sses now are, are enhanced in interest by reflections on what they were in the earlier days of Christianity, and the whole is enriched by numerous anecdotes of travel, and narratives of interesting incidents and events. In the number before us we have interesting accounts of Aleppo and its envi rons—field sports of the nations—Murrah—Hamah, with its large water-wheels—journey from Beyrout southward —interesting memoir of Lady Hester Stanhope—the town of Seyde—curious account of the life and exploits in India, and success and final beggary in Syria of General Lous tanneau—Modern Tyre—Excursion to the Sea of Tiberias —Nazareth—Mount Tabor—Tiberias, with a view before and after the destructive earthquake of 1837—Safed, also i❑ ruins—the Bridge over the Jordan—Lasa—and finally, a journey from Acre to Jerusalem, including Mount Car mel, the ruins of Athlete, Western Syria, the beautiful valley of Sharon, &c. Some extracts from the last num ber of this admirable work will be found elsewhere, and we shall hereafter appropriate several interesting passages from the present part. The Polytechnic Review 071 d Magazine. London , John _ Mortimer. Vie have received the second number of the new series of this periodical, and have derived much information, as well as entert-sinment, from its perusal. An excellent ar ticle on agricultural chemistry is here concluded. The Sketches of Constantinople" are well penned, and highly interesting, and there are many other papers, re reviews, &c. We give elsewhere two extracts, and shall probably recur to the number when we have more space to spare. Echoes of Mind. By C. W. Mann and Chas. H. Hitch- ings. - London : C. Mitchell. No I. of a neat little pamphlet under this title is before us, and is exclusively occupied by poetry, the whole of which appears to its to be of an order vastly superior in taste and feeling to the usual productions of modern ver sifiers. We have no knowledge whatever of either of the authors, but it is pleasant to find two poets,—an irritable and generally jealous race,—and both probably young men, with congenial feelings, joining hand in hand in de voting their offerings at the shrine of the Muses. It has been well stated by a celebrated author that if literary men would but act together they might chasten, adorn, and even " lift the world," and though from this mere union of two we cannot anticipate so high a result, we may ven ture to predict that if these two brothers in literature pro ceed in the career they have so well begun, they will ar rive at a distinguished eminence as writers. The whole of the pieces belong to or border upon the pathetic ; and a rich vein of sympathy and amiable feeling pervades the whole. The work is prefaced by a brief and unassuming address, in which the authors state that "at irregular and indefinite intervals, the present work will be followed by others, differing in the nature of their contents. Some times we shall ofler a play—sometimes a poem, and pos sibly, at some distant peaiod, a collection of essays ;" and they intimate that their course will mainly depend on the encouragement they may receive. The little work is " affectionately dedicated to Henry Morley, Esq., their friend and fellow author, as the only tribute of esteem which they are able to offer him," and we wish them every success. There are in'all eleven pieces, of nearly equal merit—so that we have been puzzled which to select, our present space not permitting us to give more than one— which will be found in our poet's corner. Those entitled " The Child of the Night" by the same individual, and "The Night of Agony," by C. H. Hitchings, also strike us quite equal, if not superior, to "An Old Man's Musings." SELECTIONS. EFFECTS OF FREE TRADE.—Foreign competition creates a contest between the masters on the one hand, and the labourers on the other, as to who shall suffer least from the effects of the forced reduction in prices. In a small branch of trade, the masters would not reduce their profits below the average rate, for they could divert their capital and industry into other channels. The same may be said of the labourers. If both parties thus held out, the trade in question must be given up. In a large branch of trade, such as agriculture, one or other must give in. If there exists a strong competition amongst the masters, they may be made to bear the l oss , or at least part of it. But if, on the other hand, there exists much competition among the labourers, the masters may, in their turn, be able to force the loss upon the labou rers . If competition existsin both classes, they will probably both bear a por tion of the loss.—Science of Trade. FEMALES OF DAMASCUS.—The women of Damascus are esteemed the handsomest in the East ; and, though the fame of their charms has no doubt been much en hanced by the difficulty of seeing them, they sometimes, from behind their tantalizing clouds, pour forth a light that might dazzle the most discreet beholder. There is a very graceful style of coquetry in the manner in which an Eastern belle displays her arms, which are the roundest and most perfect imaginable. The fingers, covered with rings, and dyed pink under the nails, play about the folds of the drapery, as if anxious to restore it to its place, in which, somehow or another, they can never succeed, when there is a sly opportunity of disclosing the beauty it is meant to conceal. Large blue eyes are common among the Christian women, some of whom are exceedingly fair ; and there is a grace in the turban beyond all the arts of a civilized toilette.—Library of Travel. FEROCITY OF AN ELEPHANT.—It is impossible to imagine the ferocity of the elephant when he is excited to revenge. The melancholy end of Major Haddock, of the 97th regiment, was horribly illustrative of this ; he had fired his last barrel when an elephant gave chase, and Haddock made the best of his way to a small patch of jungle close by, hoping to dodge the elephant round it until it got tired of the fun, and sheered off; but before five minutes had elapsed he unfortunately ran round the very corner behind which the animal kept itself concealed, and in a moment he was laid hold of. He had no one with him but natives, who, at a pitch, are about the great est fools ever born; the consequence was, that the ele phant having crushed poor Haddock to death by kneeling on him, began to dissect him; and so cleanly was it done that scarcely two joints were left together in the body of the victim. How an animal could have thus accomplished such a task by means of that unwieldy-looking instrument it possesses in the shape of a trunk, is utterly inexplicable. —New Sporting Magazine. CANTON.—The streets are very numerous, being more than 600. Their names sound oddly to us, and have rather an ambitious air, " Dragon-street, " " Golden street, " " Flying Dragon-street" " Martial Dragon street, " " Flower-street, " " Golden Flower-street," &c., are high-sounding enough ; but some of them, it is said, have names which would hardly bear to betranslated for " ears polite. " The Rev. Mr. Bridg man states that they vary in width from two to sixteen feet, and gives it as his opinion that the general average is from six to eight feet. Mr. Dunn thinks this an over estimate by one or two feet. They are all paved with large flag-stones chiefly granite. Wheel carriages are seldom used. Those who can afford to ride are borne in sedan chairs on the shonlders of coolies, and all heavy burdens are carried by porters. The streets are generally crowded, and present a busy, bustling, animated appear ance. They all have gates at each end, which are closed at night, and guarded by a sentinel. The houses are but one story high. A few of them are of wood or stone : many, belonging to the poorer classes, of mud, and with but a single apartment ; but the largest portion of bricks. The dwellings of those in easy circumstances contain various well-furnished apartments, the walls of which are generally ornamented with carving, pictures, and various scrolls, inscribed with moral maxims from Confucius and other sages. The houses of the wealthy are often fur nished in a style of great magnificence ; and the occupants indulge in the most luxurious habits.—Chinese Olio. FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF AN AUSTRALIAN Tows.— The first sight of the town and people does not impress a European with the idea of being in a country so distant from his home : the language. the manners, and dress of the inhabitants being fo r the most part similar to his own. But there are many peculia rities that gradually display themselves, chiefly attribu table to the climate. There is a sallowness of countenance in the male, and a delicacy of feature and skin in the female, that I have not seen else where ; while you are every now and then instinctively placing your hand upon your pockets, as some suspicious looking fellow passes you. Nor is this to be wondered at, when it is remembered that every seventh man you meet in the street has left his country for his country's good ;" or is the offspring of those who have done so. There are at the same time very fine specimens of the kind to be seen ; above the average height, and with well-pro portioned frame; though it is remarked, that tall, well made men, who have been born in Australia, do not pos sess that muscular power which is found in Britain gene rally to accompany such proportions. The features are, I think, better than those of the English : the eye is ge nerally black in both sexes, the nose rather Roman than Grecian, and finely formed, and the whole expression sharp and good. On hot days, the white dress, very gene rally worn by all classes, gives a lightness and gaiety to the streets, that is very striking. Few ladies are to be seen walking in the public streets—it is not the custom ; and this, I confess, is a great drawback to the general appear ance of the place. But the truth is, prudence, as well as that first of fema le attributes, delicacy, have rendered it necessary in Sydney.—Hood's Australia. CONGUGAL INFIDELITY AMONG THE DRU SES.—If any woman makes a faux p as the whole family i s so dis graced that no other will intermarry with them, and they become utterly contemptible ; but the brother, the uncle, or, if no nearer relation exi st, the cousin, by putting her to death, wipes out the disgrace, and the family is res tored to its former position. In a case like t his the civil authority rarely or never interferes to punish the mur derer. The best illustration I can g ive of this subject, is an anecdote related to me by the deputy of a local governor :—" I was asleep, in b ed, when, in the middle of the night, I heard a rap at the door of my room Who's there,' said I ; a voice answered, Hasreddin. 1 opened the door, and in came a D ruse, bearing a sack on his shoulders. ' What brings you here at this un timely hour ?' said I. 'My sister h as had an intrigue, and I have killed her : there is her horn and other orna ments in the sack; and, as I am afraid the police will do something to me, I want your intercession. Why, here are two horns in the sack,' said I. I killed her mother too, for she knew of the intrigue . ' There is no power but in God Almighty ! If your sister were im pure, was that a reason for killing your mother? , But lie down and sleep.' In the morning I said t o him, 1 sup pose you were too uneasy to sleep." i By Allah, Oh . my uncle, (a usual phrase,) so unhappy has dishonour made me, that for a year I have not slept soun dl y until last. night." I then went with him to the governor , and said "Will you give Hasreddin the handkerchief of amnesty . The Governor said to Hasreddin, " Speak without fear." Hasreddin recounted his story, and the Governor s aid, ``La las," (no harm.) On which he kissed the Go vernor,3 s hand and went away.—Modern Syrians. SECOND EDITION. Standard-office, Ten o'clock. ARRIVAL OF THE HIBERNIA. By the arrival of the Royal North American mail steam-ship Hibernia, Capt. Ryrie, we have received New York papers to the 31st ult., being eleven days later than those brought by the Great Western. The Hibernia left Boston on the Ist jest., and arrived at Halifax at half past six, a.m. on the 3rd, and left the same evening fur Liverpool at ten a.m., and came up the river at eight o'clock this morning, having been detained at Bell Buoy from a quarter past four, and has consequently performed the passage from the latter port in less than ten days. The piratical crew of the ship Saladin, recently arrested at Halifax, were put on trial in that city before the Su preme Court, on the 18th ult. Four of them—Anderson , Travasgurs alias Johnson, George Jones, and William tlazelton—were first put on trial on the charge of piracy. One of them pleaded guilty. The jury brought in, after fifteen minutes' consultation, a verdict of guilty. On the next day the prisoners all pleaded guilty to the charge of the murder of Captain WlCenzie. Carr and Galloway were then tried for the murder of Captain Fielding. The Court charged the jury that the crimes of Fielding. who must have been the inducer to the original piracy, were no palliation of the guilt of his murderers. The jury, however, brought in a verdict of not guilty. A similar verdict was returned after the trial of the same men for the murder of Fielding's son. Carr and Galloway were acquitted, the jury being evidently strongly impressed with the fact that these two were not engaged in the mu tiny, and seeming to have concluded that all their subse quent acts were the result of force and fear.—The Court met again on Saturday, and was about to pass sentence on the four convicts, when the Attorney-General with drew the charge of piracy, retaining that of murder, to avoid the exposure of the bodies after execution.—The Chief Justice then proceeded to pass sentence. He said the four prisoners had at first pleaded not guilty to the indictment charging them with the murder of Captain M'Kenzie and others, but the circumstances having been investigated under another charge, that of piracy, they had withdrawn that plea, and the whole facts had been elicited. He recapitulated the nature of the shocking crimes and barbaraties of which they had been guilty, from the contemplation of which the mind recoiled with horror. There were eight men to be killed to accomplish the purpose of their leader, and the four prisoners asso ciated with the unhappy man, now no more, to perpetrate the crime, which could not (as stated by their counsel) have been done under fear, for it could not have succeeded without the most consummate art and great boldness. Three of their officers were destroyed, and also three of their shipmates. Guilty fear afterwards overtook them, and they hurled their seducer into the sea. His son, a helpless youth, was then similarly destroyed. The trea sure for which they perilled their peace here and their happiness hereafter had vanished from their possession, and they were there to receive sentence of death. They had hurried their victims into the presence of their Maker, but they themselves had to make their peace with God. He concluded by passing sentence of death, by hanging, in the usual form. The prisoner Johnson denied having had any share in murdering the boy, and the others also seemed hurt at the imputation. On Tues day morning, the 29th July, they were taken to the place of execution on the Common. They ascended the steps with a firm step, and appeared to be contrite. The scaffold was surrounded by the military. The coffins were beneath it, and the hearses outside, and before them, in unconsecrated ground, the graves to receive them. Hazleton and Jones handed in papers to a clergyman pre sent, confessing their guilt, and stated that they died in peace with all mankind. The executioner then adjusted the cords, the caps were drawn over their faces, and almost immediately the bolts were drawn—the platform fell, and the four unhappy men were launched into eternity. The Swede struggled a little : those of Hazleton and Jones were taken to the Catholic cemetery, and the others to the poor-house burying-ground. The Rev. Mr. O'Brien addressed the people on the occasion in the Church of the Holy Cross, and the interment closed the last scene of this dreadful tragedy, which was witnessed by thousands of spectators. No outbreaks have occurred amongst the Mormons, with the exception that an anti-Mormon, while harvesting in his wheat field, last week, was shot and wounded by some one as yet unknown. The impression seems to be that the anti-Mormons are secretly preparing to make an attack on the Mormons in their city, when they shall have procured sufficient strength. It is said that mes sengers have been sent from Nauvoo to hasten the return of the twelve Mormon Apostles, who will choose a suc cessor to Joe Smith, on their arrival at the Holy City. The wheat crops throughout the States are said to be excellent. _ _ _ An extensive conflagration took place at Brooklyn on the 25th ult., by which twenty-six houses were either wholly or partly destroyed ; the streets in which the chief injury was done was done were Tallman-street, York street, and Bridge-street.. The amount of property de stroyed is estimated at 100,000 dollars. The Court at Philadelphia was engaged on the investi gation into the late riots ; the Grand Jury wished to enter on the matter generally, but the Judge told them to con fine their attention to those matters specially committed to them, and make a presentment of some fact of an in dictable nature, and they retired with this understanding. ELECTION OF REPRICSENTATIVTS.—The conclusion of the Louisiana election in favour of the democratic party completes the house, which, according to the New York Journal of Commerce, stands 33 whigs and 27 de mocrats. The senate stands 8 whigs and 9 democrats. — State Nominations: For Governor, His Excellency Geo. N. Briggs; for Lieutenant-Governor, His Honour John Reid.—National Nominations: For President, Henry Clay, Esq. ; for Vice-President, Theodore Frelinghuysen, Esq., of New Jersey. Intelligence has been received from Havana to the 17th ult. The chief news from this quarter is the publication of the facts developed by the investigations into the origin and objects of the late conspiracy among the blacks to get possession of the island. The council, after noticing the history of the events, then proceeded to pronounce the sentence of the law. Thirteen of the principal leaders were condemned to death, and shot; among them Guigot, accused by nine persons as being the emissary and prime mover ; Gabriel de la Conception Valdes, alias Pla cido, the poet, who had 32 accusers, as being president of the principal body of conspirators, chief instigator, first agent, &c. &c.; Lopez, 14 accusers ; Pimienta, 29 ; Ber noqui, 9; Andrew J. Dodge, 15. Thirty-six were condemned to transportation, and im prisonment for ten years and under. The manifesto says —" The Attorney-General cannot have the least doubt but Mr. David Turnbull, the representative who was in this island, from Great Britain, as Consul of said nation, our friend and ally ; abusing highly and powerfully the confidence reposed in him, perhaps alone, or perhaps united with other colleagues, if he did not conceive the idea of destruction, at least he was the mover and the focus from where emanated the present plan of conspi racy, and many other projects for the desolation of this country." The West Indian steamer Tay, got on shore between Kingston and Havana, but was got off with loss of anchors and cables, and proceeded on her voyage. Accounts from Mexico have been received to the 30th June. Extensive preparations are making by Santa Anna, and its said that he meditates an attack on Texas. A law raising four millions for the campaign bad passed, and the most extravagant statements are made in the New York Sun as to his intentions. The Milo for Liverpool, put back to New Orleans on the 12th July, being too crank. NEW YORK MARKETS, JULY 31. The condition of the Cotton market is quite unsatis factory ; the sales drag heavily, and at rather drooping prices. No change in Flour, fresh Genesee 4 dols. 31 cents. to 4 dols. 374 cents ; Ohio and Michigan 4 dols. 25 cents. Very few sales of Southern, a parcel of sour sold 3 dols. 50 cents. Rye is 63 cents. buyers ; a cargo of Southern Corn sold at 48 cents., measure. Oats, 29 to 32 cents. Ashes are 4 dols. 18 cents. to 4 dols. 25 cents. for pots and 8 dols. 374 cents for pearls, both dull. The only sale of Pork which we hear of is 50 brls. of each sort at 7 dols. 60 cents. and 9 dols. 50 cents. Lard is in fair demand at 51 to 6 cents. in brls. and 6 to 64 in kegs ; 200 small kegs New York lard, very prime, sold at 84 cents. EXCHANGE AT NEW YORK.—Foreign.—There is little or nothing doing. We vote bills on Loudon 1091 to 1094 . ; Paris sf. 26+ to sf. 25. THE CorroN CROP.—The Mobile Merchants' an Planters' Prices Current, of the 20th instant, says :- " From all parts of the cotton region we continue to re ceive accounts of the most favourable character in regard to the growing crop. Throughout middle and south Alabama the prospects for an abundant yield were never more promising ; and from the fact that the present season is at least three weeks in advance of the last, we have thus some data, deemed reliably by many who have paid atten tion to the subject, upon which to fonnd an estimate of a large crop for Mobile as well as for the country." The Savannah Republican speaks equally favourably of the crop in that vicinity. It is estimated that 300,000 bags of the new crop have been destroyed by the extraordinary ank unprecedented flood that swept over a part of the Valley of the Missis sippi during the months of June and July. CHARLESTON, July 27.—Cotton. —Receipts of Upland 1202 bales ; exported 1164 bales, leaving on hand 12,218 bales. Great dullness and inactivity in the Cotton market. Sales of the week 620 bales. Our last quota tions, inferior an ordinary 54 to 6; middling to middling fair, 64 to 74 ; fair to fully fair, 74 to 8. —Long Cotton. A tolerable fair demand, 119 bales, 20 to 28c.—Rice. An active demand has prevailed, prices have advanced fully 3-16. Sales 500 bales, from 3 dols, to 3 3-16. Rough Rice has advanced to 34 dols.—Exchange. Very little doing, sterling at 84 to 81 ; sight checks on the North very scarce, in demand at 1 per cent.—Freights. The only vessel up for Liverpool engaged at 5-16 to NEW ORLEANS, July 20.—Cotton—Arrived 760 bales ; cleared for Liverpool 1455, Havre 3668, Marseilles 184, Havana 319, Galveston 100, New York 77, Baltimore 89, altogether 4892 hales, leaving on hand a stock of 33,470 bales. Demand has improved ; sales 5500 bales. In middling and good ordinary an improvement of 4 to 4. Stock on sale, 9,000 t o 10,000 b a les. Ordinary 51 to 6 1 ; middling 64 good fair 81 to 9. - - to 71 ; middling fair 74 to 1; fair 8 to 11 ; SAVANNAH, July 2G.—Cotton—Arrived 1042 bales. THE LIVERPOOL :STANbARD. Exports, 161 bales Upland to Boston, 437 to New - York. Stock o❑ hand-3399 bales Upland and 81 Sea Island — with an advance of Ad per lb, Inferior sto 51; ordinary 5% to 6 ; middling 6i to 68 ; middling fair 7 to 74; fair and fully fair 74. to A. Bice—ln active demand, without change in price. Sales 498 casks at 2i cents; 397 at 21. LIST OF PASSENGERS.—For Halifax : Mrs. Rebecca Stubler, Mr. Phineas Janney and wife. Mr. Green, Mr. Robert Bolton, Mr. H. Williams, Mackenzie, Mr. F. Charman, Miss Charman, Mrs. Cassidy, Mrs. Brown and three children, Mr. Brown, Miss Austin, Mr. Kidston, Mr. Sims.—For Liverpool: Mr. Geo. A. Hall, Mr. Joshua Dixon, Mr. Adrian Odier, Mr. Paul Julane, Mr. Klee and two children, Mr. J. Conerie and servant, Mr. H. Robbins, Mr. C. M. Hovey, Mr. Alonzo Child, Mr. C. Chamberlin, Mr. Lewis Trapman, Mr. Joseph Leonard, Mr. J. Philippe, Mr. A. Morrison, Mr. R. J. Ticulat. Mr. Jas. Higgenson, Mr. Murphy, Mr. J. W. Fuller, Mr. W. Turner, Mr. H. Gray, jun., Mr. H. H. Centre, Mr. G. Duvivier, Mr. S. N. Talbot, Mr. J. Dunn (servant), Mr. Thos. Lockhart, Mr. John Tappun and lady, Miss Tappun, Capt. J. Spear, Miss Clark, Mr. J. L. Patterson, Le Baron de Bulow, Mr. Thos. Gates, Mr. M. H. Meyer, Rev. Mr. Chalmers, Mr. —Atkinson, Mr. J. Hagan, Mr. H. Wyckoff, Mr. Richard Stubbs, Mr. J. Lanmonier, Mr. A. Thompson, Mr. 0. M. Cole man, Mr. C. Auze, Mr. F. Brun, Mr. W. B. Jarvis.— From Halifax, for Liverpool: Capt. Bowles, Mr. Thos. Fenerty, Mrs. Murray and servant, Master Hackett, Capt. Wright, Mr. Philip Toledo, Mr. W. Doherty, Mrs. Kelly, Mrs. Mignowitz, Mr. Stevenson, Mr. Cassidy ; Steerage, Mr. Wm. Durran, Private M`Goldrick, Rifle Brigade. SPARROWS, PROTECTORS TO THE FARMERS.—The Perseverant of Limoges contains a curious calculation of the damage to farmers in France, which is annually caused by sparrows. It estimates the consumption of corn of each sparrow at one gallon ; and, reckoning that there are ten millions of these birds in France, makes the total loss amount to more than nine millions of francs ; but, on the other hand, it is supposed that the insects which they de stroy would occasion a much greater loss if these birds were not in existence. As a proof of this, it is mentioned that in the Palatinate the government had ordered all the sparrows to be killed, offering a premium upon their heads ; but the ravages caused by insects when the sparrows had disappeared were so great, that premiums were offered for the importation of sparrows.—Farmers' Magazine. THE STARVING MlLLlONS.—Cheapness is an apparent boon to the very parties it is trampling under foot. The starving man fancies, that if bread were cheaper it would come within his reach, and does not perceive that it is its very cheapness that has altered his own position so la mentably. Food is almost beyond his reach; but he ought to strive to raise his own position, and not to cheapen bread; for cheapness increases the disproportion between his wages, and the price of his food. The great mass of the people, and particularly the petty shopkeepers, men who before were in trade and comparatively wealthy, but who now earn but a scanty and precarious living, clamour for cheap food, not perceiving that cheapness has caused their ruin, and that cheap food will further reduce their profits.--Science of Trade. A SOLDIER IN A PASSION.—A howitzer shell fell in our battalion, burst the instant it touched the ground, and covered us with smoke and dust. When we bad cleared our sight, we saw that four men of one section had been struck down. Three were dead, but the fourth sprang up unharmed, though the splinters of the shell had carried away his knapsack and pouch, and bent his musket. Pausing for a moment, he looked strangely on the havoc around him ; then seizing the pouch and musket of one of the slain, he ran like a madman, in total disregard of the calls of the officers, right on towards the enemy. In our front was a hostile battery of eighteen or twenty guns; having arrived within two or three hundred yards of this rather formidable opponent for a single man, he halted, levelled his musket, and fired ; then calmly loaded again, took a deliberate aim, and fired a second, and afterwards a third shot; and having thus cooled his wrath or cou rage, returned leisurely to the battalion, saying only, as he resumed his place in the ranks, "The black fiend seize upon those rascals ! " The scene, of a single infuriated individual, operating with his musket against twenty pieces of artillery, was so extravagantly ludicrous, that though our position was far from being a merry one, it was utterly impossible to refrain from laughing. I met the same man on the following day, rejoicing in the cap ture of a French knapsack, which had amply replaced the lost one, for it contained, besides some linen, a silver watch, and several five-franc pieces. Of his attack on the battery he could give no account, saying that he did not know what he was doing.—From Military Tableaux, in Fraser's Magazine. CAUSES OF THE DISASTERS IN AFFGHANISTAN.— These three ruins issued from these most culpable negli gences :-Ist, Starvation fell in one day upon the British host; and that it was which placed them at the mercy of the enemy. 2dly, The troops were inadequate to the ex tent of the defences; so that, together with starvation, loss of sleep fell upon the fighting men. 3dly, As ano ther effect from that cause, a perpetual Penelope's web was to be maintained ; for as often as detachments went out from cantonments against many of the neighbouring forts, before they could possibly have time to destroy these nests of hornets, back they were summoned to the defence of their own tares; often in broad daylight, by combined assaults of the enemy on their own ramparts, but always by the approach of night. So that all momen tary advantages became idle and useless ; none could be followed up, none could be maintained. Lucan says of Caesar, when besieged in the fortified palace of the Ptole mies at Alexandria, that often, whilst thrown on his most difficult defence, the matchless soldier became the as sailant— Obessusque gerit, tanta est constantia mentis, Offensoris opus." But what he did as a trophy of his superiority, we did by imbecile improvidence and for final ruin. Yet even these shocking neglects or oversights were not the worst. Let us'now suggest what they were. Wherefore were the can tonments placed in proximity so close to Cabool ? Let that be answered, and we shall see the early commence ment of our infatuation. Two considerations will clench the case, and then we shall leave it. Ist, The canton ments were never meant to act upon the city of Cabool : that task was thrown upon the Bala Hissar from its situa tion. And yet no trial had ever been made of the power possessed by that fortress. The private houses were known to be forts : not until rebellion commenced was it ascertained of what strength they were ; and eventually the city proved more formidable to the Bala Hissar than the Bala Hissar did to the city. Such a blunder of igno rance and miscalculation, we believe, was never heard of. But, 2dly, Even that was a trifle when compared with the capital evil—and the capital evil was this. The enemy was allowed, throughout the autumn of 1841, to accumulate ad libitum in Cabool. Retainers of the chiefs, Ghilzyes and others, gathered unwatched throughout October. Now mark what followed from our choice of cantonments. Had they been fixed fifteen or even ten miles off, the im possibility of marching daily to and from Cabool would have strangled the rebellion in its first three days. The evil which crushed ourselves, of having always at sunset to go homewards, would have been thrown on the enemy, and with as much more of ruinous effect as the distance was greater. As it never was alleged that the canton ments were meant for the overawing of Cabool, and in effect they were totally inefficient as regarded that city— it is clear that the one great advantage by which the Aff ghans accomplished our destruction, was coolly prepared for them by ourselves, without the shadow of any momen tary benefit for our own interests. Even for provisions, the event showed that we had never looked to Cabool. And there reveals itself the last feature of our perfect madness.—Blackwood's Magazine. IRISH PRIESTS OF THE LAST CENTURY.—The Ro man Catholic ecclesiastics who influenced the destinies o Ireland during the last century, have not been faithfully described. There were among them the vulgar, the rude, the illiterate, as well as the educated and accomplished ; but they were generally well adapted to the wo r k assigned to them. The coarse, the bigotted, the ignorant, had their appropriate sphere of action ; and they were trained to discharge with effect the duties of their especial voca tion. Their natural sagacity was sharpened by exercise, and guided by precepts of what might be termed tradi tionary wisdom. Above all things, they were required to be discreet; and when they had acquired the habit of prudence—which was very justly set high among their cardinal virtues—the very coarseness of their natures ren dered them more serviceable in the society in which they were appointed to live, than great abilities and much knowledge would have enabled men to be, whose tastes unfitted them for the free intercourse in which multitudes become understood and governed. But while a large number of Roman Catholic priests was thus composed, their body could not name many, who would not be out of place, and who, indeed, were rot out of place. in what might be termed the best society in Europe. Scholars and courtiers could be found t amongst them ; and there were not a few instances in which it was difficult to ima gine any but a generous reason, for their consenting to hide the high qualities which adorned them, in such a mi nistry as was assigned them in Ireland, and to turn aside from the successes that allured them elsewhere. Men Jho had attained high distinction abroad—whose habits ,nd tastes had been formed in, and for, continental socie ties—returned to the self-denying ministration assigned them in their own country, and, unless hope of a revolu tion cheered them, with no imaginable object of personal ambition. Here, certainly, was a marked distinction be tween the patronage of the actual and the would-be sove reign. The invitations of the former were such as men usually hold to be desirable—they were invitations to ac cept increase of honour and emolument, in a career which had been already chosen : the invitations of the other were often such as to involve loss of dignity, emolument, ease, comfort, and to require of those who embraced them, that they should enter into a new career, beset with dan gers and difficulties, such as were little likely to advance their personal interests, and were certain to task, to the utmost, their strength and courage. But, if there was generosity in the spirit with which they engaged in this career, the spirit with which some sustained themselves in it was of a more ignoble order. Affecting loyalty to the house of Brunswick, when, in all probability, they had pledged allegiance to, as they accepted patronage from, the rival house of Stuart ; entering, apparently, into all mea sures for ensuring peace in Ireland, whilst they secretly abetted practices designed to keep alive disaffection and disorder—they could keep the tenor of their tortuous way securely, only by constant habits of dissimulation — they could labour in the vocation assigned to them, only by inculcating, clandestinely and treacherously, upon tl th e e people of whom they took charge, princi.ples whic t da l n y . disavowed for themselves, and thus exposing 722 In as the; if it demanded a spirit of generosity to become,d•which they did, conspirators against the government under condition gers, which they themselves carefully avoided. () short appeared to live—the necessities of their azine to be sullied by the m.--Dublas Uni v ersity g con strained them to practice the . vices of conspirators, itra and LAWYMIS IN CHINA.—NO attornies are authorised . / ,'Y lavr in China; those self constituted are thus defined grid described by a Chinese classic writer :—Villainous arid perverse vagabonds, who are fond of making a stir, and who, either by fraudulent and crafty schemes, excite dis cord ; or by disorderly and illegal proceedings, intimidate and impose upon people l"—Chinese Olio. THE DOG'S-EARED BOOK.—We respect a stained, dog eared book. It is a veteran who has seen service—not a mere gilt ornament to an unread library. It has fulfilled its mission among books. The marks it bears are the scars of honourable service. It has been read, and re read ; pored over pensively or joyously. It has excited high aspirations; rendered forth golden stores of wisdom ; it has delighted, or instructed—or both. It has charmed away idle hours, or soothed sad ones; and many, per chance, have risen from its pages better and wiser men. We would not give your old, thumbed, half-worn-out tome, for the dandy, gilt and purpled volume, virgin in its unread purity. The dog's-ears show that the midnight oil has not been wasted. The more worn we find a hook in the cottage window, or on the humble reading-table, the greater is sure to be its author.—llluminated Mag. ADVICE TO AUSTRALIAN SETTLERS.—There are two descriptions of persons who are likely to do well . in this country—men with considerable funds, and those with just enough to support them until they can procure a desira ble situation as overseer of some absentee's concerns. I do not speak of labourers, mechanics, or such as Lauch lan Mackay : they will do any where in Australia; but I allude to young men in the higher grades of life. Those who arrive here with £5OO to £lOOO ought never to buy sheep : their capital is swallowed up at once by the ex penses of a new station, and they never recover the out lay. The following table, which I shall proce ed to give, will show how short a way such a sum would go in pro curing even mere necessaries, and how inadequate it is to meet the extra expenses to which a beginner is liable on his first introduction to the bush. It is not the first out lay only of an establishment that is to be considered, but the expenses of the following year. Wages—which, by the way, have not fallen as they ought to have done in these times—and casualties are annual; •and the wool will not pay these and other demands the first or even the se cond year ; and the luckless settler who has laid out all his capital at first, finds himself, before he is fairly started, involved in debt, and generally irretrievably so. I only know one case more hopeless ; and that is, where the newly-arrived settler, wishing to become at once a large holder of stock, borrows beyond his capital, to accomplish this, at ten per cent. interest. This is ruin and misery on a greater scale, but not more certain. The following table has been prepared, after very careful inquiry : .1,000 sheep may at present be got at as. each, ewes.. 1 shepherd's wages 1 hutkeeper's wages bullock-driver's wages .€250 Rations (provisions) fOr four persons, at £2O so A dray and team of bullocks 9O Two huts, and hurdles for sheep Plough, seeds, tools, mill, tarpauling, &c A horse, F, addle and bridle . . ...... Travelling in search of a station, and removing to it Wear and tear _ _ _ . __ Casualties from death of sheep and loss of bullocks Stockholder's own extra expenses, beyond rations License and tax Washing. shearing, and delivering wool first year, where c,. is _. . :he station 200 miles from Sydney Cow Paddock for horses and bullocks . 33 ,„ lO Surplus for sundries—a heavy item here, 6o . 140 £l,OOO With the most economical management, these are all re quired within the first twelve months of a settler's resi dence ; and I have omitted to particularise many minor expenses, which he will find will soon make up the £l4O allowed for sundries ; nor have I supposed him to pay his runs, nor stated his loss of interest. It must also be borne in mind that the same wages are to be paid the se cond year, with the unavoidable addition of those of a se cond shepherd : and all he has wherewith to pay these wages and to meet the storekeeper's bill, and other de mands, is the value of the wool of his one thousand sheep. Matters will probably stand thus :- 1,000 fleeces of 2ilbs., at 20d. per lb., in England; Is. 4d. in £166 13s. 4d. Sydney Wages of two shepherds £5O utkeeper Bullock-driver . . Rations for five lOO Shearing and delivering wool 35 j.icense and tax l5 .t'2so Deficit .Ess 6s. 8d In the foregoing statement, unfavourable as it may ap pear, I doubt not the settler would accuse me of having underrated his expenses and overstated his receipts • but it is an approximation to the truth. As regards mycharg ing the expenses of the shearing and delivery of wool for two years, while I take credit for only one year's value of wool, I do so because the expenses of the second year are incurred before the price of the wool of that year is re ceived. I am aware that it is even too favourable a ba lance sheet in other items—stillthe error is not great ; and I conceive the result proves that the possessor of such a sum would do well to accept bank interest (seven per cent.) for it, and look to some other investment than sheep. One grand mistake is committed by almost all young men, and by others too ; and that is the desire to commence with an immense stock at once—some seven or eight thousand sheep, whether their funds be adequate or no ; in short, to buy beyond their capital, in hope of being able, by good fortune and the chapter of accidents, to pay off their debts gradually. The phrase ' a respectable com mencement,' has deluded many ; and the ill effects of this delusion are, at this ver moment, cruelly proved by the experience of hundreds . " —Hood's Australia. THE CHEMICAL AND MECHANICAL PROCESS, AND THE SOCIAL INFLUENCES OI THE PENNY POST. —At a recent meeting at the Royal Institution, in London, the Rev. John Barlow, in lecturing on the subject said— The notion of separating, by a system of stamps, the financial department of the Post-office from the trans mission and delivery of letters, originated with Mr. C. Whiting, fourteen years since. This gentleman has been rewarded by the government for the taste and mechanical skill exhibited in the method in which he proposed to adjust his plan to the penny-rate adopted at the recom mendation of Mr. Rowland Bill. With this notice of the history of letter-stamps, Mr. Barlow entered on the manufacture of the adhesive label. These are executed by Messrs. Perkins, Bacon, and Petch, on Mr. Perkins's principle of steel engraving by transfer. The process depends on the property of iron to become hard or soft as it receives or loses a small quantity of carbon. This was demonstrated by experiment; and the description of the process was illustrated by the exhibition of bard and soft steel rollers, plates, and impressions furnished by Messrs. Perkins & Co. Mr. Barlow laid great stress on the absolute identity of every engraving, however nu merous, produced by this method. He then observed, that the engine-work on the adhesive labels is of so close a pattern that it cannot be taken of by lithography or any similar contrivance, while on the other hand, the eye is so accu stomed to slight differences between one face and another, that the most skilful imitators of a minute en graving of a human countenance (as that of the sovereign on the label) could not possibly avoid such a deviation from what he was copying as would ensure the detection of a forgery. Mr. Barlow next adverted to the qualities of the coloured inks with which the labels are printed. Though sufficiently permanent to withstand the effects of sun-light, rain, &c., they would be discharged by any fraudulent attempt made to remove the obliterating stamp, for the purpose of issuing the label a second time. The gum used for fixing these labels to letters, Mr. Barlow described as being probably derived from potato-starch, and therefore perfectly innoxious. The manufacture of the postage envelope is effected by many powerful, yet accurate machines. The paper is pervaded by coloured threads against fraud. When sent from the manufactory of Messrs. Dickinson, it is delivered to the firm of Messrs. De la Rue. It is there cut into lozenges by the engine of Mr. Wilson. One of these was exhibited, and i fsv t oii s olodnu p i ns o olg w fy e wtt r hoeir c seb o n eecniu t n r gt a gi isnntsee:adamf 1000 e with that ainn each plough. ancchh side, indew 'Thirteen : dfot rh ,thwee t r h e o pw u ceu sa ts n d five hundred lozenges for conveniencetireniseconds.patshhee of paper, fapTmsf folding el lozengeder s x 1: 11 hoge i ra b a: tes i h t t ah theilnthis time..osi tsoc p th r dph e ocr c nuee i - e-ft by an angular chisel. The envelopes are then stamped at Somerset House. The machine used for this purpose, combines the operations of printing and embossing, and was invented by the late Sir W. Congreve. Mr. C. Whit ing enabled Mr. Barlow to exhibit the whole process, by sending one of these m ß a ar c l h ot i w n h e rt s oh , ueg w nffh h bl i rr c odi which feflt d executed several stamps, slightly differing in device from that on the postage envelope. One of Mr. De la Rue's folders also attended, and showed the rapidity with which the en velopes are folded and gummed after they are stamped. The government envelopes employ at Messrs. De la Rue's thirty-nine folders on an average, and a quick band can fold 3,500 in a day. Mr. Barlow then noticed some sta tistical conclusions. One engraving on Mr. Perkins hard steel roller will afford 1,680 transfers to soft steel plates : these again will, when hardened, admit of 60,000 impres sions being pulled from each, so that one original will afford 100,800,000 impressions of labels, enough to paper one thousand apartments of 21 feet by 15, and 12 feet high, making allowance for door, two windows, chimney, pier glass, and dado. Twelve years ago, common en velopes were sold at ls. the dozen : now, the postage en velope, with its medallion, may be bought wholesale at half a farthing (exclusive of the stamp), and yet though the manufacture is peculiarly costly, it returns a small profit to the government. More than two hundred an_d . twenty millions of chargeable letters were posted in 43 Now, taking a common sized letter as an unit, this . quan tityw i th would o pave Oxford-street, st r a e e r t o , a p d av 2 e s m y e a n r td included)s of Oxford. Or, post office in London, to the entrance tomeanarrangement nited Kingdom to supposing all the letter-boxes in the egewnienrtahl large spout, the be open, and to communicate with oneit letters would keep flowing 14 in a second. Mr. ost. He touched ranks. on the social advantages of the pe.nnay afforded Post-office by money or the strength and permanence it wide ide ( t h f e r from e t r h a e g which ituences sup of home—on the motives of self-education h plied—on il e stated, the thataid a it t ministeredpresen present abp t oi ol about pills, , with hi, plasters, inquirer tgeuras imillionsaai f id t e r b t il r l truth. sterlingt hof. He asserted that nothing is too valuable or too fragile to be trusted throughtheth the tdhvea humbler n P ta o g s e t - to this cheap conveyance : birds' eggs and diamonds, are forwarded asl,l, abn ud t noticed especially Mr. Bagster sends each sheet of his Polyglot confidence. edition of the Holy Scriptures ten times through living exchange, insects, e catrse, committedan d watches, to it w some of these transmissions being to le the Post-office, learned men residing at a distance from London ; so that, under the old sys tem, the postage on ea c h vo l ume of this * amounted to £165. Mr. Barlow concluded by a short but expressive quotation from an anonymous writer, de claratory of the b manifold of the obligation s whi ch the e netits of the Penny Post, and country owes to the origina• -- or of the system."...4- • , chitcci s Journal. August 13, 1844. SPO RTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S, THURSDAY Th e 01 ,1 1 v bets laid were 7 to 1 against Bay Morons, 7 to 1 against Valerian. 10 to 1 against The Princess, and 11 to 1 aga i nst _Red Deer. A. very thin attendance. LATEST BETTING AT MANCHESTER. There was a moderately Friday Evening. ay ,Lended room, but business was decidedly at "law water mari." We shall therefore sans ceremonie give the offers, Sze,, which fell upon our ear, thus:— THE CHILLI4I'ON' STAZt4. 7 to 4 agst Sweetmeat (taken) 2 1 Mnrian Ramsay (taken, 0, race) 4 1 Yellow Boy (offered) 4 to 1 Mystery (offered) THE HOLYOAKE STAKES. 3 to 1 agst Merry Andrew (taken) THE EBOR HANDICAP. The only offers we heard were to lay 3 to 1 on the field, (Franchise we consider " first fiddle") ; 5 to 1 against Pe dometer, and 100 to 6 agst Glossy ; 25 to 1 was wanted; and also 100 to 1 upon Rowena (6 to 1 offered.) THE ST. LEGER. There was a strong desire to support Bay Momus, but our figure did not exactly suit. A bet of a pony was•laid between Ithuriel and Valerian, the former's friend having the best of the bet. The general offers agst Valerian did not exceed 6 and 61 to 1, but after the majority of the members had left 8 to 1 was laid in ponies, and out of the room in scores. Offers to take 100 to 50 about the Curl and Ithuriel, or the same on the Cure and another bar Ithuriel. 3 to 1 agst The Cure (offered, 34 wanted) 54 1 Ithuriel (nominal) 6 1 Momus (offered, 7 wanted) 8 1 Valerian (taken) 10 1 Princess (offered) 10 1 Red Deer (nominal) 12 1 Foig-a-ballagh (offered) 2 1 on The Cure agst Valerian (offered) There were several offers to lay against Milton, Infidel; Morpeth, and Lightning, but as nobody " gave mouth" in their favour, we cannot say what would have been laid. DONCASTER CUP. Offers to take 5 to 4 on Alice Hawthorn, or 100 to 10 on The Cure. THE DERBY. 4 to 1 agst Scott's lot (offered) 4 1 Day's lot (offered) 33 to 1 agst Nutbourne, and the same agst Kedger, wets laid at Horwich. PERFORMANCES OF ORLANDO.—We copy the folloW ing from the August number of the New Sporting Maga zine :—ln 1843 he started five times, and won four. The July Stakes, value clear, £580; Match at Newmarket, £250; The July Stakes, £2,600; Stake at Goodwood, £125. In 1841 he started five times, and won five. The Tuesday's Riddlesworth, £1,400; Stake at Newmarket, £300; Stake at Newmarket, £250; The Derby, £4,250; The Dinner Produce, £B5O ; total, £10,555. Orlando is not in the St. Leger. SHOOTING FOR THE ANCIENT SILVER Al. Row.- 00 Tuesday se'nnight, the annual meeting to shoot for the ancient silver arrow, called the Airyhome Arrow (which was originally shot for at Scorton, in the year 1673, and has been annually contested since that time), was held at Thirsk, when twenty-eight gentlemen assembled to com pete for the different prizes, being the greatest number ever recorded to have met for that purpose. The num bers scored were very respectable. Among the more pro minent were Mr. Peckitt (Carlton Husthwaite) 113, Mr. Muir (Edinburgh) 106, Dr. Horner (Hull) 102, Mr. Hutchons (London) 102, Rev. E. Meyrick (Walcot, Lin coln) 101, Mr. Glasgow (Edinburgh) 82, &c. The Silver Arrow and Captaincy were won by the Rev. John Hig ginson, of Thormanby, by obtaining the first hit in the gold; the same arrow also gained Mr. Higginson the Sweepstakes Cup, being the most central hit during the day. The Lieutenant's Bugle was won by Mr. H. Stew ard, of York, who had won and held it during the previous Stew year A very elegant medal for the greatest number of hits was won by Mr. Muir, of Edinburgh ; and a Sweep stakes Prize for the highest score, by Mr. Peckitt, of Carlton Husthwaite. LANCASTER LUNE-SIDE SPORTS.—These sports com menced yesterday week, and afforded much amusement. Nearly 3,000 persons were present, also a fine musical band from Sleden, near Skipton. E. G. Hornby, Esi.' and other gentlemen of Lancaster, were present. Fifty_ competitors appeared for the first wrestling match for au weights, and the sport was prime. In the final throw T. Longmire beat M. Butterfield. The money was thus di vided :—Longmire, £6 ; Butterfield, £3 ; Boardley, 159.; G. Donaldson,lss.; T. Wilson, 15s. ; S. Battersby, J• Nelson, and G. Fawcett, ss. each. Leaping for hei4ht followed, and 13 entered. Longmire won the first prize by first clearing the bar at its greatest height With out touching, but Battersby cleared the same height i second ; and the other " boys of the Lune ' wee e r 3 u an d equal, if not superior, to their compeers of Westaseesurned and Cumberland. •n Tuesday the sports werewras most by a wrestling match, 48 contending. The Play s manful, though the rain descended in tiodrroeont(sv.i. ct T N e lson, J. J. Donaldson, £2; M. Butterfield, 10s.; - • . Hindson, Busher, and Knowles, ss. each. A " jingling match followed. Sacks of sawdust were quickly thrown into the ring, which had been roped for the occasion. A. score of hardy young fellows were blindfolded , a nd S. Battersby, of Skerton, took the bell, and commence d " jingling " very merrily; helter-skelter after him went his blindfolded pursuers, and pell-mell they soon tum bled over the sacks and over one another, amidst roars of laughter. After this pastime had continued for neaelt half an hour, "White-headed Bob" made a s atcb T or h ), e :1- £4; ° ney was divided as follows :—G. Dona Battersby, and over a sack they rolled together; but. all wasit Bob"ad so averred, andseem ed removed tbandage t o ahnetheo from hisgeneralro ebelief,yes that thathe got a " glimmering" how to direct his course, the ra ney was ultimately given to Battersby. A match for beaten men was then contemplated, but the ground:wag in such a state that no further wrestling could take place. Had the weather been fine, the sports would have been equal to those of the previous day. GREAT WRESTLING MEETING AND SPORTS AT FLAN , NEAR ULVERSTONE. - The great northern wrestitheng meeting came off on Friday and Saturday week , a t foot of the hill of Flan, from which the sports derive their name. The weather on Friday was favourable, and the spectators numbered from four to five thousand. Thl wrestlers comprised the Rite of the northern ring, e n g included the champion of all rings —William Jackson, el: Kinneyside • also Mr. W. Coward, of Hawkshead, an Mr. John Atkinson,' of Russland. Mr. Jacob Robinson acted as referee. " The Trial Hunt," for three guineas' commenced the amusements; and the admirers of dog s . sported their " rhino" freely on their favourites. T he ; were dogs from all parts of Lancashire, Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Northumberland. The sport 'l s i s , excellent, and four dogs carried off the stakes, w h ' e varied from 255. to 4s. The wrestling that succeeded admirable, the men being in prime condition. Eightl:, four competitors entered their names for the princill'' prize of £5O. After six rounds, the final fall was as fol lows :-1. G. Donaldson stood, Jackson fell ; 2. Jacksl, ll stood, Donaldson fell ; 3. Jackson stood, Donaldson fell The trial between the champion and Donaldson, as nalgu, be anticipated, excited much interest. Both men show ed a great deal of " pluck" and science, especially the latter; but it requires a giant's strength, in addition to scienc e ] to overturn the Herculean frame of Jackson, who flo ore' his opponent in beautiful style. A purse was then c oc a tended for by the last 16 standers, and was won in !, b „ r fourth round by Longmire, several others receiving scow' prizes, in all £6. An excellent hurdle race (heats) " I I then run, for a sweepstakes of £2 2s. and £2O adde."' and was won by Mr. Andrews' b. m. Cumberland Lase le o i A long leap came next, and was won by HarringtOnno Keswick, who cleared a space of 16 feet; prize 10s. • the second day (Saturday), the sports commenced witt, dog-trail, which afforded much amusement. A li,g 4 , weight match succeeded, in which the contest was P" 4 culean, and G. Donaldson ;A t ho uwasrtdh hurdle race caetccoeorn.d nextTa The da m s t u eh m i or ffa g: :: :-. ;:o f Ts o to r an t t h dh i e s ers e : n is t c r st y .o6r w : a . s £l5, which was awarded as follows,' 4 c standers, 31s. 6d £ e . a 3 e c a h 3 c . s h . ; to the three next, 16s. each the next six. 10s. each , and to the next twelve I II :a horses started, and the prize was won by Mr. Atkinse ° 4 b. m. Sliding Scale, after one of th e severes t races et", witnessed. An all-weight entry, for the sum of £ 6 l i%le closed the proceedings at Flan for the present year. Id wrestling was splendid. The division of the rooneY,' — . as follows :—Donaldson (victor), £ 2 25.; Chaprnentn i ot the third and fourth, 12s. each; and the four n ei " pacque standers, 7s. each. Thus (says the Cumberland f the ,41 terminated the Flan sports, and we may venture to l i t in reference to the manly and honest exertions o ' rious persons who took part in them , that they.havel;;• if any parallels in the annals of the wrestling ring. 3 ,10 highly gra_.t i ' t - he l ou e yc throughout, e r a o ns u tas g h sei o an u eg t il:e and eveo tihneg militatingcompanyfeature elly7a sportw.ihtwhole loe scene of t v h a e d e n i m r s i o r e a n m b j uw o ta f es the two days' proceedings. ntle CUT AND PLAIN GLASS.—Those wh o are about rj, c h ase glass would do well to inspect the stock of Mr. Ward, advertised in our pap er o f to- d ay. I t con3Pr o s every variety ; and now that a reduction in the del taken place, it is offered at prices astonishingly low. Hydropathy, or the W a t er C ure, appears t o be tat 000 vast strides in England : institutions of the kind at t e r ine to be seen in almost every direction. 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