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Painter, Strand. ail number for July, just published, contains more than e , aver age quantity of matter relating to contemporary ,i v erlt s• Amon gs t th ose mos t i n t eres ti n g is a paper on Fra nce and it s R evo l u ti ons ," i n th e f o rm of a review of k ernc 'ires Relatifs l'Histoire de France, pendant le 18„ a , Siecl e , in which the state of popular feeling which led to the revolution of the close of the last century, is t r i : eed in a great part to unbounded license amongst all or il !'s) which pr eva il e d d ur i ng the regency of the Duke of leans The and th e ear l y part o f the reign of Louis XV. following extract, the truth of which, since it was ritter l in 1846, has received additional confirmation by eceot events in France, conveys a striking view of the DEMOCRATIC TENDENCIES OF . THE RULE OF THE ORLEANS LY. Iti k th " " la ted with this change FAMl from the beginning, and , t 1 all the phases of that change to the present moment sole thread on which the - strange incidents of mo tiT ()Peach history can be hung together—is the house of The princes of that house are the incarnation political conduct : men not simply without 4 13 t `',lne, but a l mos t w ith ou t the affectation of it, follow that ' 4 7 exigencie s o f the hour with an obedience so willing vilaneY would seem to have no feelings of their own they could even make a merit of sacrificing ; ontr,„ n g the notions of the hour just as they arose with with-Isideration, and abandoning them as they declined re4!it regret. As public men, loose, undignified, al liareLnoble—in private, acute, affable, fascinating—they th at 'earned the habit of giving to their public conduct iyeuiPsallness of aim and shrewdness in trifles which on' be admi ss ibl e i n a c lever country magistrate intent then road bill, or on marrying his daughter to the heir of pl ed se xt estate. T o o a ble to be despicable, too unprinci of th, t , ° ,,,he respected, they have been at all times the type Soti f ;•„"tne-serving politicians of a period without settled lio b ;"s_on any subject, intent only on expedients of the th a " Fond of power—more as increasing their private isip; t heir European influence—loving the velvet and th i of the monarchy rather than the crown or sceptre, b eY ha ve b een satisfied with a use f u l rat h er th an a re ire ted authority, contented to keep up appearances voad and to prevent positive misfortune at home. As I ,•', have watched the changes of the day, so their fortunes 'e v e alw a y s d e pended upon it : th e y h ave li ve d po litically 0111 hand to mouth, and their firmest consciousness of P O Wer has ever been accompan i e d w i t h a sense o f the pos. i bility of its failure. These characteristics, by which the whole race has been distinguished, are precisely such as *oald he transmitted by family tradition from father to ten. Meanwhile, the circumstances under which they f amily been placed in power have been as similar as the d ailli lY character—at all times with a title doubtful or ,s ls Puted—opposed to the prejudices of ancient statesmen, ‘iiid depe n d en t on principles adverse to ancient interests. le Y have been, in consequence, compelled to rely for rsistance on other than the old supports or former a ' le e of the monarchy. Hence their coquetry with the 1 2 4.p a r p l e ia m i g ne to nts, their tampering with popular writers, their popular feelings and excitements ; and the con *beatilience of all this—their tendencies towards the only tp t ion which recognises the influence of either parliament, V ess, or popular excitement. Yet all these alliances have tab ol n e managed with a jealousy and bitternesswhich has pi rated the alliances themselves from becoming respec n or the use to be made of them permanent or com- W i re. To mak e a c l ever u se of each in turn when power t al,ad to t a k e a c l ever a d van tage of them when weak— iti-tlovy them just to reach that development which the erest of the moment required, and to sap by petty ahstratagems the benefits which others would derive from em — such has been at all times their policy. Hence has t i t a l sen that series of artifices and contrivances which marks r°l lgliont the fact and the paltriness of the house of Or illa:1s, formino• the leading feature in their conduct with same invariable result—a partial success at the coin- C lle ement, and utter failure in the whole at the last. th' e ellent managers of single incidents, they have proved raiselves but sorry conductors of , the entire policy of a great Co untry. Another d escr i p ti ve extract, from the same article, will f ° NiblY remind the reader of similar scenes which occurred in ~„ O wn capital during the existence of the South Sea Bubb le EFFECT OF THE FIRST INTRODUCTION CF PAPER MONEY AND JOINT-STOCK ENTERPRISES IN FRANCE. One t he old street, in the centre of old Paris, had long been ,e. chief seat of the trifling monetary transactions for which the capital had occasion thereto. The street an r i n ,f a % Paix contained about sixty houses, blackened Merit Ted with age, with narrow passages and battle tu • s that threatened to tumble down at the first oppor , A crowd of Jews and usurers inhabited the place, 'at? some times discounted government bills and paper of lue ; but their chief operations were the lending money ,o small t ra d esmen and people of the market, often mere l y °Y the hour, on the security of small wares and baskets a oroyi s i o f Rs. This vill a i n ous locality became the rendezvous the s y s t em : the old walls, accustomed to the cl i nk of a fn pence, resound e d w ith b arga i ns i nvo lving the price of fempire: the crowd became so great that the police W ere obli ge d t o b arr i cade the entrance : the most misera ble rooms let f or enormous sums ; till at last the specula ,,T;s, driven fairly ou t o f d oors, transacte d th e i r b us i ness thi' l 'chout sh e lt er i n th e m id st o f th e mos t v i o le n t s t orms or e most in ost rigorous cold. Knight- errants like their fathers the service of a different mistress—wind and ".ether became totally indifferent to the pampered no • y,„ Y, of Paris : two hundred thousand livres were paid -r,y fo r • t, a single house. The road to fortune was open 6 all the world : the nobleman chaffered beside his e -e 'llleY, the lady beside her lover, the debtor beside his s.reditor, the banker beside the beggar. Even to us the q i t , l e of excitement would appear sufficiently striking. re' 10e must it have seemed to those accustomed to the Il .' olo e of the old court, with its starched habits, uncom of"lising etiquette, detestation of theory, and contempt ex eeatinaerce ? Meanwhile, those who had occasion to r e pine the system more closely began to perceive its t i i „",enness. The Duke de Noailles, piovoked by some rh a 'sjs from Law, collected all the notes he could lay his daands On, and brought away a heap of gold from the bank. e brothers Paris, the most eminent financiers of the b ank f the o ld sc h oo l, b e g a n to collect the notes of the S4 O to a still more alarming extent, and were only o hy a forced increase in the value of the coin. prise one so ld L aw an es t a t e , f or w hi c h he demanded the r e f n . in coin. Law dared not confess his weakness by the s I ng. Some legal flaw prevented the completion of neiePurchase, and the vendor paid the money back in sh, s i , Which Law was equally afraid to refuse, lest he the k ld bring discredit on his system. To stories such as 0f • le were added a multitude of sarcasms and witticisms, so und more influence with the French nation than the o. „"dest arguments. The passion for paper began to d;e . the government early took the alarm : they or ed the commonest necessaries of life to be paid for in si o pe r they forbad any man keeping in his posses ki,llr More than 500 francs inspecie. Such decrees were tni' s easy to make than to enforce : people told the coin kin s loners that " their money was at the service of the but belonged to no one but themselves;" and the st ance fines ordered by the statutes appear in no in- Wi th e e,to have been enforced. At last, the panic began Of all the fury that might be expected from the temper no People which had been so readily excited by hope, el w irritated to the utmost by disappointment. The „ "J th at d „ . ..rushed in such numbers to exchange their paper anY were trodden to death at the gates of the bank. th e government most imprudently reduced the value of Oloi l i„ o 'bes, which were to decrease in monthly propartions, ng half their worth by the end of the year. The out ver„was terrible : the parliament interposed and the go ile,"lnent rescinded its edict; but the mischief had been Ne,already, though the edict only hastened . its crisis. th e last hope of Law was in his bank : he obtained for it t o b monopoly of the Indian commerce—the farm of the g n , a eeo—in fact, every privilege of value of which the 50eLninent could dispose. For this it engaged to pay off 100 zoo() of notes yearly. The king ga v e t o th e b a nk Ihi g n i„.° o ,ooo shares which had been allotted to him. All Riv e "as of little avail against so enormous an evil. To pi a s °'ne stability to the colonization of the Mississippi -1:44 „ ' Still connected with the bank—all the beggars and f or tiWithout profession in the lower ranks were collected 1 4 0 4 Purpose of a compulsory emigration. They were th • a waY in barns without food, and so little care taken fer.sher 1 pd alost ordinary necessities that numbers of them -"„' This served but little to lessen Law's unpopu t t h — s e ._ . ue regent gave him a guard. and made him appear 'ashi o o Pera in his own box. This was but a French t‘°o3N led " making head against the outcry. Law was Pei fisted f to fly, and the system was at an end. It had ( ( isnsed 2! four years. The individual ruin which it had etan was, perlaps, even a smaller evil than the general mo st Bement of affairs. The prices of provisions and of thelleeessaries had doubled in the interval • the wages °4l ,„ ar tizan had increased in proportion ; and, when, the l 'est () •;:er of things returned, it was no easy matter to Nbl - 4 t he equilibrium. The general corruption had 4 till enabled Most public men to profit by private ruin : many eika,l.Pa.lace was raised upon bank notes and shares in 40 lesi n 4l e ss n is siPPi ; and on or two !done of the French came unsullied from the trial. of 'Other very pleasing article is a review of a Biography bald , ive r 'Goldsmith, by John Forster, and a Life of (theGe author of the Collegians,) by his brother. uest be tl aw . article in the number, however, we conceive to le ts, " " entitled, " St rugg l e o f th e P eo pl e w ith th e i r Ru- Ilnil er wil leh is a r ev i ew o f an excellent work by Colonel Of We shall take the liberty of introducing a couple 'Not t• enti re. a I °ris ; but the article itself ought to be read ou tv A , 41,ROCS FEELING A PROTECTION TO A NATION. INohaliternporary writer has quoted the . following obseL- Th; (3f Burke in illustrating the spirit of . the day 00. - h illi sts - a g e of chivary is gone : that of sophists, glory f Q ela r i e i S eXting . hed for s ever. Never more shall we kibili' that generous loyalty to rank, and see that proud ° f the sk n, that r dignified obedience, that suboFclinat t i9n o NArtt 21feart, which kept alive, even in servitude itselft_t_l e, th e c ,u_ au exalted freedom. The unbought grace of h ot r_ . tbentueN) defence of nations, the nurse of manly se i til at 8, 18 gene. It is gon.--that sensibility of principle, irhiebe.l.lastity of honour which felt a stain like . a wound, bled courage whilst it mitigated feTocity, wh lost , ed whatever it touched, and under which vice itself Cation luoiff its evil by losing the all its grossnFss." . The 'tote ! most apt to re the times. It was ritten in _ eik e _ ba Platlon of one volution—it is descriptive of the 3 ofan : it is the lament of a high-minded man over a moral death in which the politicians and economists of this day exult, and it accounts for the degradation into " which the heretofore noble of every class are daily sinking. Honour amongst kings, faith amongst nations, are at a discount. Whilst, on the one hand, monarchs are seen to uphold their power by acts of treachery or turn craven in the hour of danger, on the other, the virtue of allegiance is trampled under foot. Where men were wont to die in defence of a principle they now purchase life, and some times infamy, by the sacrifice of all that is high and ho nourable. When the Duchess of Orleans was in the Chamber of Deputies, shaming, with her woman's cou rage, the frightened spirits of her husband's house, one cry of devotion from a loyal heart might have saved the dynasty ; but it was wanting, and this, too, in France ! But what could be expected when one of the noblest war riors she ever encountered lies pining in a prison, the victim of a solemn pledge given by a prince and broken in shameless indifference to honour by the nation in whose name it was offered ? If Louis Philippe complain of the defection of men, both high and low, sworn to allegiance, he will only find it in the true reflection of that perjured act by which Abd-el Kader became and remains the pri soner of France. FERGUS O'CONNOR AN HONESTER DEMAGOGUE THAN COBDEN. Lord John Russell has recently remarked, that the middle and lower classes are not generally desirous of a greater measure of Parliamentary Reform ! The re mark has been much canvassed. His lordship is right and he is wrong. He is right if by this greater measure he means that which Mr. Joseph Hume and his tail are desirous of obtaining for their own selfish purposes : he is wrong if by this remark he would have it to be under stood that the restless spirit which is finding a place in the thoughts and hearts of these classes every where else is unwelcome to them here. The League and its purposes, in the new career of agitation which is opened to needy adventurers, are too palpably dishonest to deceive the classes who are earnestly canvassed for support; and it is a libel upon virtue to suppose for one moment that any particle of pure patriotism enters into the composition of this disreputable confederation. The points for which the country is now to be agitated are, with a very slight difference, the very points which have long been advocated by poorer men of greater honesty and as much ability as the clique which has now adopted them ; and, whilst there is enough of political charlatanism in the missionaries of this new-born agitation to make us disgusted with their work, there is something contemptible in the way in which they are stepping forward, now that there is a chance of a treaty with Chartism, to take the fruits of the victory out, of the hands of those who have fought the battle, and whom they have ridiculed when suffering under the heat of the conflict. It is the best thing, however, that could have happened for Feargus O'Connor, as be now stands in contact with Cobden as the greater political hero and honester man of the two. The review of M. Louis Blanc's " Organization du Travail," contains also some just views on a very vital question ; and we have a very lively notice of " Pepys' Diary and Correspondence." VARIETIES. BORING FOR WATER--." If you please, sir, the man's called again for the water-rate."—Punch. A law among the Arabs permits a man to divorce any of his wives who do not make good bread. WHAT IS PATRIOTISM ?—ln the Northern Star the close of the conflict in Paris is headed, " Last glorious struggle of the patriots !" Q. What is the difference between a young lady who marries much above her station, and one who marries much below it ?—A. In the first case she gets caste in so ciety, in the latter she gets cast out of it. MORE CURIOUS THAN TRUE.—An American editor has discovered that the initial letters of the names of the late French Provisional Govern m ent—Arago , Lamartine, Ledru Rollin, Marrast, Albert, and Dupont—formed the words, "all mad !'' _ . STERLING QUALITIES.—They are not the striking, dazzling qualities in men and women that make them I happy. Good sense and solid judgment, a natural com placency of temper, a desire of obliging, and an easiness to be obliged, procure the silent, the serene happiness, to which the flattering, tumultuous, impetuous fervours of passion can never contribute. FAVOURABLE CONSTRUCTIONS.—It is but justice which we owe to others to make the most candid allowances for their apparent faults, and to put upon every action the most favourable construction. Such a temper, while it renders a man respectable and amiable in society, contributes,' perhaps, more than any other circumstance, to his private happiness.—Dugald Stewart. MILES OF WATER LlLlES.—Crossed the lake to Wat turch (Isle of Celebes) ; one field of large brilliant water lilies extended for four or five miles, presenting the lovely contrast of white flowers and fresh dark green leaves on a magnificent scale. On the leaves are found some nests of the aquatic birds with which the lake abounds, and the birds themselves ran over or swam around the flowers. Mundy' s Celebes. NORMANDY AN ENGLISH PROPERTY.—Sir Edward Coke, in his fourth institute, informs us that the Crown of England hath not lost its right of entry upon the pro vince of Normandy, maintaining that it is still competent to recover in ejectment against his Most Catholic Majesty, in due form of law ; for, saith the learned judge, " The possession of Guernsey, Jersey, Sark, and Alderney is seisin enough for all the rest." That would be a glorious lawsuit. At present, however, we can do no more than recommend the matter, as we pass by, to the serious at tention of the Foreign-office.—Rollo and his Race. RETURNED SHOP FRONTS.—We have several times had occasion to point out the insecurity often attending cor ner houses, where the whole of the lower part of the front and the returned side is left out for shop fronts ; the doorway is formed at the angle, and the whole dependance is placed on a few story posts, often injudiciously placed and insecurely based. Where such an arrangement as this is attempted in connection with old existing party walls, the danger is necessarily increased, and greater care is demanded. A construction of this kind at the corner of Pond-street, in Fulham-road, failed on Sunday last, but being fortunately observed in time, was shored up, and by means of rebuilding the basement front wall in ce ment, and a re-arrangement of the story-posts, will pro bably be saved.—The Builder. "EDWIN AND EMMA."—A monument, bearing the following inscription, has been set up lately against the west end Bowes Church, in Yorkshire, by a gentleman of the name of Dinsdale, to perpetuate the remembrance of a remarkable incident which occurred there many years ago :—" Rodger Wrightson, jun., and Martha Railton, both of Bowes, buried in one grave. He died in a fever, and upon the tolling of his passing bell she cried out, 'My heart is broke,' and in a few hours expired, purely through love." Such is the brief, touching record, con tained in the parish register of burials. It has been handed down by unvarying tradition that the grave was at the west end of the church, directly beneath the bells. The sad history of these true and faithful lovers forms the suject of Mallet's pathetic ballad, entitled " Edwin and Emma."— Darlingtom Times. STEEL PENS.—Who does not remember the time when a steel pen cost as much as a dozen quills ? Who is ignorant of the marvellous reduction that has taken place in the market value of these tiny bits of steel ? Sixpence a piece, sixpence a dozen, sixpence a gross.—thus have they come down in value. All this could not have been done but for the application of machinery. Men's hands, would never have permitted this cheapening to have gone to such an extent. And yet they are actually more men employed in the manufacture then when machinery was less used in cutting and pressing and shaping the ' pens. The machinery, in fact, has created a demand, which requires large numbers both of machines and of men to supply. Some of the steel-pen manufactories of Birmingham are very large establishments, containing ranges of highly-finished machines, and giving employ ment to large numbers of workmen. One of these manufacturers (Gillott), in his advertisements, states his yearly produce at millions of dozens ; and there is no reason to doubt that it does not reach that extraordinary pitch.—The Land we Live in. A LOVER'S PROMISE.—Mr. Buxton, afterwards Sir Fowell Buxton, during his undergraduateship at Dublin University, was engaged to Miss Hannah Gurney, an ac complished daughter of the house of Earlham. When the contract was completed, he parted from the Gurney family at Edinburgh, they to journey homewards by the eastern road, he to make his way by himself to Dublin. The last night they were together, happening to be a blowy one, Miss Hannah requested a promise that he would not take any of the shorter passages, which she supposed to be attended with additional risks, and lie pro mised accordingly, From some accident his travels were not smooth, and the term being at hand when he reached Lancashire, the temptation to embark at once was consi derable ; but, Buxton kept his word, and proceeding through Wales to Holyhead, arrived safe, though late—at Trinity College, where his appearance was a happy relief to i.is fellow-students; for the Liverpool packet in which it was supposed he must have taken his passage, had foundered in mid-channel, and, out of one hundred and nineteen persons whom he had seen embark, and many of whom had urged him to accompany them, only one es caped to tell the tale. YANKEE SPLEEN.—The New York Herald says : " Fearing the powerful Republic, its increase, its stability, and its future greatness—and knowing herself to be powerless to oppose any obstacle in its way—this wicked, atrocious, and diabolical Government (England) has em barked in a policy which would disgrace the Thugs of India. She dare not meet the Republic in the field, and there manfully and honourably dispute the spread of the principles of free government in Europe. The first shock of battle would show her nakedness and prostrate her. But she can play the assassin—she can stab her enemy in the back, as she has done on former occasions, and as she is attempting to do again ; but it will be seen with what success eventually. The policy which she has deter mined upon is to send abroad her agents for the purpose of intriguing with the people and with the Governments of the continental nations, of putting the people against the governments and the governments against the peo ple, of inciting the masses to rise for their rights and inciting the governments, when the masses have . risen, to massacre them, as has been done in Naples. There is not only every probability, but it is almost a moral certainty, that the late dreadful massacres in the city of Naples were the work of this treacher ous and mean government through the agency of its intriguers. At the present time there is no doubt that England has her agents scattered throughout all Europe, whose missions are of this character; and who, if success ful, would deluge Europe with the blood of her people, and re-establish amid carnage and desolation Monarchy in France, and stop the progress of the principles of free government from making further headway in Europe. These are the despicable and underhand means which this assassin government has resorted to, to overthrow France, not daring, as we have before stated, to measure lances with the giant republic." SECOND EDITION. Standard Office, TC7I o'clock. LATEST FROM IRELAND. Notes of Vreparationn. A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Mr. Smith O'Brien, but he left Duolinjt will be seen, for Wexfcrd on Saturday. The clubs " talk" of rescuing their leader. We shall see. The squadron under Sir Charles Napier has been ordered for service on the Irish coast, to co operate with the authorities. THE LIIERPOOL STANDARD. MORE PROCLAMATIONS. The Irish Privy Council have proclaimed the county of Kilkenny, city of Kilkenny, county of Meath, four baro nies in the county of Waterford, and thirteen baronies in the county of Cork. EXCITEMENT IN THE PROVINCES. The city of Waterford is still fearfully excited.. Strong reinforcements of military have arrived. The Lord Lieu tenant's proclamation, ending with the usual phrase " God save the Queen," has been posted over with a counter proclamation, signed T. F. Meagher, and ending " God save the People." The police, according to their instructions, tore down the latter, and in doing so re ceived every possible annoyance and obstruction. There are several smithies hard at work making pikes ; and all the young ash trees near the town have been cut down for pike-handles. The Waterford Chronicle says that the influence of such of the Roman Catholic clergy as do not sanction the clubs has been declining apace, and their admonitions are without effect. THE PIKEMEN.—Within the last few days a sturdy application was made by some persons, in the adjacent town, for a small piece of iron, and a bit of steel, to make a few pikes, to a Quaker gentleman in the iron trade. The merchant, more kind than merchants usually are, gave the poor applicants iron and steel sufficient to make two thousand pikes ! Honest quaker, that, say we. Other gentlemen in the same neighbourhood volunteered to supply handles gratis for the pikes, and now, we under stand, there are no less than 4,000 armed men ready to take the field with arms well calculated to turn the tables, and what's better, without much drilling.—Waterford Chronicle. It is said that informations have been sworn against Mr. Doheny for a seditious speech. Infantry and cavalry are daily arriving at Carlow, Kil• kenny, and other places. The 'Rhadamanthus steam fri. gate arrived at Waterford on Friday. _ The sale of pikes, guns, blunderbusses, and pistols, is still very brisk in every town in the disturbed districts. Mr. John O'Connell has issued a letter to the repealers of Cork, again advocating his moral-force doctrines. A DEAR RIDE.—An incident connected with the statue of Peter the Great at St. Petersburgh occurred a few days since. Some American sailors, who had been making rather too free with the jolly god, sallied forth on a frolic some cruise, and one of them not having the fear of the police before his eyes, climbed over the iron palisade sur rounding the statue, and, clambering up the rock, seated himself en troupe behind the Emperor. He was speedily dismounted, and, after a night's confinement, was brought before the divisional officer of police. His case was sum marily disposed of, and so heavy a fine inflicted that he naturally remonstrated. " No, nu," said the officer, "we can make no abatement ; if you will ride with great people, you must pay great people's price."—Lettersjrom Russia. QUEEN VICTORIA'S VISIT TO FRANC.—The Siecle contains a most amusing article with reference to the circumstances under which this visit was arranged. The account given by that paper is, that Queen Victoria was exceedingly anxious to spend a few days in Ireland, but to this her ministers remonstrated in the strongest manner. The Queen gave way, but with such evident ill-humour that the prime minister thought it advisable to plan some other expedition. Just then the Princess Clementine arrived at Windsor, and Queen Victoria ex pressing a wish to visit France, Clementine said, " Oh ! do come while papa is at the Chateau d'Eu." "Thus," says the Siecle, " the matter was arranged between these two illustrious ladies, sauf le consentement de ce maudit Sir Peel." The Queen, proceeds the French journal, finds ennui in her island (!) and yearns to visit our opera, our Versailles, our museums. &c.—Rollo and his Race. TROUT IN NORWAY.—Properly speaking, all fresh water trout in Norway are lacustrine, and all mrigratory. The trout of the lower lakes ascend the streams only in autumn; but the fell-trout and the tarn-trout first des cend about midsummer; then in August and September ascend again, passing through the lakes they may have traversed in their descent, up to the very highest pools of the remotest streams they can attain. While the larger trout are in the river, they monopolise the streams ; and though very small trout may be taken in the eddies and shallows, I have fished at such seasons in the Aadal river, and the Snarum, and in other streams of the inner val leys, taking many a splendid trout, but for days together not raising one under three-quarters of a pound. Where the small trout resort in the meantime I cannot tell ; but a few hours after the larger fish have passed, one or two tiny adventurers presume to peep at your fly. In a few hours more the stream swarms with them ; and then, if not satisfied with trout fishing for that season, you ad best change your quarters : in summer, journeying down the river ; in autumn, higher up the course of the waters. For though here and there a stray giant may still be taken, the little fishes know full well that the main body of the big bullies has passed ; and they, therefore, give themselves great airs, playing the most extravagant pranks, and swaggering about in pools and dark mysteri ous eddies, where no little fish should ever be seen— monsters of impertinence.—Remember, then, when fish ing in Norway, that in whatever deep and rapid stream you raise many small trout, no large fish in healthy, feeding condition, is at that time to be found. This is not the case, however, with regard to grayling. At least I have taken them of the tiniest size in the Laugen of Gudbransdale, cheek by jowl with a Salmo feral', as if, the dearest friends in life, they had determined to die together.—The Naturalist in Norway. THE OBSERVANCE OF THE SABBATH. - Our opinion is that in this country an imitation of the laxity observed, and occasionally perhaps admired, on the Continent, would end in nothing less than the final and total absorption of the Sabbath in the days of labour. If every person could indulge his own caprices on this day without any restraint except such as economical considerations might suggest, it is very clear that in a short time no place of amusement, and very few places of trade, would remain closed. Every shop would soon be opened when it was found that half the world would be likely to buy, and thus the rest of the Sabbath-day would be confined to one half of the po pulation instead of being extended to the whole. Nor would the destruction of its character stop here, for no person acquainted with our national disposition and ne cessities will conceive it probable that one class would see another making money seven days in the week instead of six without speedily experiencing a desire to imitate so lucrative a practice. When the sacred character of the day had once been obscured there would not remain be hind any influence strong eno ugh to keep a thrifty trades man from his counter for twelve hours together. A man who would observe the day as a Sabbath would retrench it as a holiday, and thus competition and imitation would at length bring all to a common level of universal profanity and continuous toil. We are not prepared to say that Mr. Hindley's bill, or indeed that any bill, can be ex pected to effect thoroughly the object desired, though they are somewhat more within the scope of direct legislation than such as were to have been compassed by the mea sure which was lost in the Lords. But the enactment will be undoubtedly serviceable, not only as a recognition of a high national duty, but also as seconding the impulse of popular opinion, which appears, by the petitions presented and by the representations made, to have set throughout the metropolis very decidedly and very creditably in favour of a stricter observance of the Sabbath than that which now prevails.— Times. PLEASURE.—PIeasure is nothing else but the intermis sion of pain the enjoying of something I am in great trouble for till I have it. 'Tis a wrong way to proportion other men's pleasures to ourselves : 'tis like a child's using a little bird—" 0 poor bird, thou shalt sleep with me," so lays it in his bosom, and stifles it with his hot breath ; the bird had rather been in cold air : yet, too, 'tis the most pleasing flattery to like what other men like. 'Tis most undoubtedly true that all men are equally given to their pleasures ; only thus, one man's pleasure lies one way, and anothers's another; pleasures are all alike, simply considered in themselves ; he that hunts or he that governs the commonwealth ; they both please themselves alike, only we commend that whereby we ourselves receive some benefit. As if a man place his delight in things that tend to the common good ; he that takes pleasure to hear sermons enjoys himself as much as he that hears plays ; and could he that loves plays endeavour to love sermons possibly he might bring himself to it as well as to any other pleasure. At first it may seem harsh and tedious, but afterwards 'twould be pleasing and delightful. So it falls out in that, which is the great pleasure of some men, tobacco; at first they could not abide it, and now they cannot be without it. Whilst you are upon earth enjoy the good things that are here, (to that end were they given,) and be not melancholy and wish yourself in hea ven. If a king should give you the keeping of a castle, with all things belonging to it, orchards, gardens, &c., and bid you use them ; withal promise you. that after twenty years to remove you to the court and make you a privy councillor. If you should neglect your castle, and refuse to eat of those fruits, and sit down and whine, and wish you were privy councillor, do you think the king would be pleased with you ? Pleasure of meat, drink, clothes, &c., are forbidden those that know not not how to use them, just as nurses cry " Pah," when they see a knife in a child's hand ; they will never: say anything to a man.—Selden's • Orittral The average annual value of the feathers exported from Ireland to England is estimated at £50,000. On Monday Mr. Thomas Gamble, plumber, of Leeds. drowned himself in the river Aire during a fit of insanity. There are about 60 Chartists for trial at the present York Assizes. They are expected to last all this week. Dr. M`Douall, the Chartist lecturer, has been commit ted for trial. _ _ In a shop in Bristol some mice have gnawed a hole in the gas pipe fully an inch long. The People's Journal and Howiit's Journal are now incorporated. FEARFUL MURDER. - At Huntingdon Assizes, last week. Charles Burton was sentenced to death for the wil ful murder of his wife and daughter. The Burnley and Colliery branches of the Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding Junction railway have been rejected by the Committee. Dr. Von Goennern has been required to find sureties to answer any charge that may be brought against him by the Mendicity Society. The early potato crop is so abundant in the Isle of Wight that the very best sorts are selling at 3d. the gallon and ls. 9d. the bushel. _ _ A great quantity of base pennies and halfpennies have been seized by the police at Glasgow. The spurious coins are composed of lead thinly coated with copper. Large quantities of peaches and apricots have been im ported into London from Belgium and Holland, during the past week. NEw Portsx CHURCHES.—A new Popish Church is about to be built at Hammersmith, in connexion with the " Convent of the Good Shepherd." NEW POPISH SEMINARY.—Ashbourn Hall, Derby shire, has recently been purchased by thd " Fathers of the Immaculate Conception," for an Ecclesiastical Semi nary and Novitiate of their order. EMIGRATION. — There are three fine ships now in the Sound under charter to the Colonial Land and Emigra tion Commissioners, for the conveyance of 'emigrants to the Australian colonies. BAKERS.—A Bill, restricted to London and ten miles round, is now before Parliament, which is to prohibit the • making of bread and working in bakehouses during cer tain hours of the night. On Monday, at Tenby, Benjamin Nash and his two sons. aged 17 and 13, with a young man named Lewis Bowen, were in the act of drawing up some lobster pots, when a sea capsized the boat, and all four perished. The Marquis of Salisbury, as Lord Lieutenant of Mid dlesex, gives a grand entertainment on the 29th inst. to the, magistracy of the county. A great many of the lead ing nobility have been invited to the conversazione. The steamer Lion, which arrived in Hull from Hamburg on Sunday, brought the largest cargo of wool ever received in the former port. This cargo consisted of 1,600 bales, the weight of which was upwards of 200 tons. On Wednesday week a fine sturgeon, which measured eight feet in length and two feet in girth, and weighed about 200th, was caught on the sands of the Severn, where it had been stranded by the ebb of the tide, at Newenham, near Gloucester. The inquest on the body of Mr. John Mulcock, fly proprietor, whose body was found in a shallow pit, near Cheltenham, and who it is believed was murdered on the night of the late Cheltenham election, has been again adjourned. MURDER OF A FATHER BY HIS DAUGHTERS.—Last week an old man, named Stubbs, living at Harrogate, was killed by his two daughters during a quarrel. The deceased was knocked down a staircase, and died soon afterwards. The accused have been committed for trial. The Ariel steamer, of 900 tons burthen, and 320 horse power, which went ashore early last month, on the Maldi Velso reef, near Leghorn, has become a total wreck, but the cargo was saved. She was worth £40,000, and only insured for £15,000. THE CHOLERA. — On Monday a letter was received by the owners of the " Marion," of Leith, dated Elsinore, stating that the master, Captain Beal, had died of cholera, on the voyage home from St. Petersburgh, and that one of the crew was labouring under the disease. At the Cardiff Assizes on Monday, before Mr. Justice Wightman, Thos. Martin and Michael Leary, two Irish men, were convicted and sentenced to be hanged for the murder of John Williams, in the parish of Swansea, on the 18th of May last. The unsettled state of the Continent has this season had the effect of directing the attention of summer tour ists to the beauties of home scenery ; and, as might na turally be expected, Wales attracts more than the usual complement of visitors. A COOL REQUEST. — In the House of Commons, on Thursday evening, Mr. Anstey presented a petition from a Mr. James Mills, of Paris, stating that he had a claim of £5,000 upon the French government for supplying pure water to the city of Paris, and praying the house to take measures to insure him redress ! On Monday, at Cardiff, Thomas Martin and Michael Leary were convicted of having, on the Bth of May, near Swansea, murdered John Williams and Jenkin Evan. They were sentenced to be hanged. The prisoners were Irish labourers, and, in the midst of a dispute respecting the rate of wages at which Irishmen would work, they stabbed two of the parties present (Williams and Evan) to the heart. _ _ _ _ INTELLECTUAL AMUSEMENT.—On Tuesday, at Marl borough-street, two fashionably dressed young men, who assumed the names of James Morley and Arthur Bradley, were charged, the first with having wrenched off a knocker from the door of 39, St. James's-street, and the last with having rung several door bells violently. Morley was fined £5, and Bradley 40s. The defendants paid the fine and left the court. The bank of. Mr. J. Matthews, of Chipping Norton, Oxon, has stopped payment, to the consternation of the inhabitants of the surrounding country, who were totally unprepared for such an event, Mr. Matthews being a man of quiet habits, and in high credit amongst his neighbours. The bank had been carried on formerly by his father, and subsequently by himself, for more than forty years. THE ARMY.—On Thursday orders were given to all officers belonging to regiments in Ireland, on leave of absence, to repair immediately to that country. Prince George of Cambridge left London by the mail train that night for Liverpool en route to Dublin, also the Marquis of Worcester, to join the 7th Hussars. THE FATHER OF THE TURF.—The well known entire horse, the Father of the Turf, got the first prize of 30 sovs. " for the best stallion for getting hunters," at the Royal Agricultural Society of England's Show, held at York last week, against twenty competitors. Mr. Grant, the owner of the Father of the Turf, refused £BOO for him at York. On Wednesday week, an Irishman entered the shop of a grocer at Ashbourne, Derbyshire, and solicited charity, declaring that he was dying of hunger; but a customer who was present doubted the truth of the beggar's asser tion, insisted on searching him, and found a fine shoulder of mutton concealed under his coat. The mrgistrates at Taunton Nave committed for trial four labourers, who were engaged in clearing away some hay from the banks of the Great Western Railway, and who placed a truck on the line which was shortly after wards traversed by a train, and an alarming collision en sued, though fortunately no one was hurt. EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—A little fishing schooner was lying at one of our wharfs last week which deserves notice. She was manned by a veteran crew, consisting of Skipper Marshall, aged 78 ; his brother, aged 79 ; another man, aged 76, and a "boy" 65. The vessel is 45 years old, and the united ages of vessel and crew number 343 years.—Salem. Register. THE CHARTIST CONVICTS.—On Thursday 20s. was paid at the gate of Tothill-fields House of Correction to release Mr. Ernest Jones for one month from oakum picking, to which he has been, in common with his fellow Chartist convicts, subjected since his incarceration, and will be in default of the payment of a weekly sum of 55., the charge made by the county for his maintenance. The Manx Liberal indulges in the following summary criticism :—" Mr. Barry Sullivan's performance of Mac beth, on Monday night, was, in our opinion, a most piti able failure. Rant, strut, stamp, stare, screech, bellow, whisper, hiss, and nothing else, from beginning to end. Lady Macbeth, Macduff, and other subordinate characters in this astonishing drama, were far beneath mediocrity, and infinitely far beneath criticism." WEST INDIA PINE APPLES AND TURTLES.—The Trinity Yacht, Captain Hounsell, has arrived in 27 days from the West Indies, consigned to Messrs. Keeling and Hunt, bringing an entire cargo, consisting of the enor mous quantity of 45,000 pineapples, a portion of the same being brought on the deck of the vessel growing in the soil in which they were originally planted, and the turtles are in troughs in the same gulf water as when taken alive, ATTEMPTED MURDER OF THREE CHILDREN BY THEIR MOTHER.—Hanna Leith, residing at 27, Carbur ton-street, Mrrylebone, was charged and remanded at the Marlborough Police-office, on Wednesday, with having , attempted to destroy her three children, aged respectiVely, ' ten years, two years, and ten months, by administering to them a quantity of sugar of lead. She was also charged with attempting to destroy herself by taking the same deadly poison. The John Bull vouches for a fact that tells very little to the credit of Mr. Macready. That somewhat over rated actor was commanded some weeks ago to read the tragedy of " Antigone " before the Court at Buckingham Palace. He refused to obey the command upon some trumpery professional punctilio : music was to be mixed up with the performance, and so, forsooth, the great man, who could mutilate Shakspere to show himself off before royalty, could not descend from the stilts of his vanity even to oblige a Queen. On the 28th ultimo, the sister of Dr. Wolff, who has resided in Paris for the last ten years with-her family, and who has been compelled to leave it in consequence of the late insurrection, arrived at the Parsonage House, at Isle Brewers, in a state of complete destitution, with her son, an engraver ; and, as the Doctor is incapable of supporting them, he has made arrangements for sending them to America at his own expense, and will furnish them with letters of introduction to his friends in the United States, in order that they may obtain land from the governiaent to cultivate. M. Thalberg gave a morning concert on Monday last, in the Concert-room of her Majesty's Theatre, and found means to avail himself of the all-powerful attraction of Jenny Lind, notwithstanding her engagement to Mr. Lumley ; an engagement. by the way, which seems to be of a singularly engrossing nature, and to preclude her from even accepting provincial engagements on her own account, after the opera season is over—as was shown by the recent refusal to accept the magnificent terms ten dered by the committee of the approaching Norwich Fes tival. On Sunday week the Parish Church of Drayton, Berks, was a scene of confusion, excitement and laughter, on ac count of the banns of marriage being forbidden. After they had been published by the officiating clergymen, a man jumped up and said, ` I forbid the banns till Sep tember two years," and was going on with his grievance, but the clergyma.i stopped him with the promise that he would hear him in the vestry. It appears that the youth • whose nuptials were thus obstracted.will not be of age till September 1850. r JENNY LlND.—Madame Solari, the well-known seconda donna of her Majesty's theatre, has recently-baen suffering under a pulmonary complaint of so serious a nature that her physicians have announced the necessity of her immediately relinquishing her profession, and re turning to her native land. When on the point of de parture, the afflicted artiste received a letter from Jenny Lind, expressing deep sympathy for her sister vocalist, and enclosing, with much• delicacy, a note for £lOO. A place of worship, recently erected at Rugby, is ad vertised as having been. "erected for the accommodation of christians of all denominations, upon the principle of the Evangelical Alliance." It is further stated that S;r Culling Eardley, Eardley, Burt.; S. M. Peto, Esq., M.P.; J. Kershaw, Esq., INT.P.;. W. B. Gurney, Esq., ad other distinguished gentlemen and Ministers connected with the Evangelical Alliance, have promised their influence and support. DEATH FROM FIGHTING.—A fatal affray took place on Sunday week, at the Mill Public House, Black Fell, near Wreckington, Northumberland, by which a man named John Burns lost his life. It appears that a party of pitmen, including the deceased and Joseph Beaney, were drinking, when a quarrel took place, which ended in a fight, during which Burns received such injuries as to cause his death in a few minutes. Beaney has been com mitted for manslaughter. NEW USE OF WASTE STEAM.—A manufacturer, who has a steam-engine, which discharges much waste steam, conceived the idea of using it to raise pine apples. The steam was introduced under the roots of the plants, and the heat and moisture united acted so powerfully that the pine apples soon ripened, while the body of the plant, be ing exposed all day to the open air, assumed a healthy and agreeable taste, which rendered the fruit far superior to those which had been ripened in hothouses. CIIARGE OF UNLAWFUL DRILLING.—At the Bradford Court-house, on Monday, Edward Harley, a chartist ora tor, was brought up for further examination on a charge of unlawful drilling, but, as the case was not made out to the satisfaction of the magistrates, the defendant was or dered to be discharged. Harley was, however, charged with a similar offence committed near Bingley, which is in another division or wapentake of the West-Riding. He was conveyed away in custody. A WIDE RANGE FOR AN ORATION.—At the examina tion of Dr. M'Douall before the magistrates, at Ashton, on Monday last (reported in another column), on the magistrates requesting Dr. M'Douall to confine his remarks to the evidence adduced against him, Mr. W. P. Roberts, solicitor, said, " when a prisoner addressed the magistrates, there was no restraint thrown upon him ; neither the law nor the constitution recognised any tram mels whatsoever, and he was at liberty to address the court on any subject from the creation of the world down to its destruction, if he could, whether it was relevant or irrelevant to the charge." A FAMILY POISONED.—On Tuesday week, the wife of a person residing at a place called Taynacurin, in South Knapdale, was about to make some soda scones ; she went to a drawer in which she kept various articles, and took therefrom what she supposed to be soda, but which turned out to be some poisonous stuff, with which she made the bread, and gave some of it to her four children, who were almost immediately taken ill; one has since died, two are now better, and one is slowly recovering.— Greenock Advertiser. AN UGLY FACT. — The amount of hard cash paid for intoxicating drinks in the metropolis alone is three mil lion sterling per annum. This sum, if spent in sewers, would afford upwards of seventeen hundred miles, at 6s. Bd. per foot run, and of ample capacity for the largest theroughfare, if the supply of water were good. If the city of London was thoroughly drained, it would require about fifty miles of sewerage. It follows, therefore, that we spend in London yearly, in intoxicating drinks, a sum which would pay for the effectual drainage of thirty-four such places as the ancient city.—Health of Towns' .31a gazine. A GOAT BATTUE.—For some time back, the Lochcar ron plantation ran the risk of total destruction from the depredations of a herd of goats, which the farmers had wantonly, and against the estate law, let loose upon them. After considerable remonstrance on the part of the game keepers, they resolved to shoot them ; and, accordingly, on Wednesday week, a dreadful massacree took place. After the first fire, the poor animals did not attempt to retreat; but the bucks ranged themselves in front, and kept the females and kids in the rear.—Ross-shire Ad vertiser. ANGLING EXTRAORDINARY.—A large fish was caught in a very singular manner on Tuesday, about a hundred yards below the Trent Bridge, Nottingham. Mr. Groves, of the Royal Oak, and Mr. George Savidge, were angling for roach, when the latter hooked a large fish, which im mediately darted away and nearly ran off the whole of his line, but, being a scientific angler, he dealt with him as delicately as possible, although there seemed but very lit tle chance of capturing so awkward a customer with such frail tackle. At length the prize was landed, and was found to be a barbel, which was hooked by the tail, and weing upwards of 10th ; he was hooked at eight o'clock, and not landed until a quarter past eleven.—Nottingham Mercury. EFFECTS OF A FALSE REPORT.—In consequence of a ridiculous report circulated in Birmingham that the guar- . dians of the poor were about to send a number of the pauper children in the asylum to Australia, a large con course of persons assembled in front of that institution on Wednesday week, and gave vent to great anger against the parish authorities. '1 hey were repeatedly assured that there was not the least foundation for such a report, but the infuriated populace would not be satisfied, and the result of this false rumour has been that nearly 100 chil dren, on the peremptory demand of their parents, have been delivered up to them by the authorities, in two days, thus considerably reducing the number of pauper children in the Birmingham Asylum, which was much over-crowded. A BRIDEGROOM STRUCK WITH LIGHTNING.—The tempest in Suffolk, on Friday, was unusually severe. At Monks Eleigh, Mr. Thomas Hagar, wheelwright, had married that day Mrs. Barnard, widow of the late Mr. Barnard, shopkeeper, of that place; and, as is usual on such occasions, they were celebrating the event with their friends. During the tempest, the greater part of the company went outside of the house to view the lightning, which was awfully grand, and in a short time Mr. Haggar was struck to the ground, apparently dead. Fortunately, such was not the case; but he had lost his sight, and for some time was quite insensible. Medical assistance was quickly at hand, and some hopes are entertained that in a few weeks his sight may return. A brother and a sister of Mr. Haggar were also stunned at the time, having received the shock, but happily were not seriously injured. SAFETY FROM LIGHTNING.—A suggestion, for the preservation of life during thunder-storms, has been made by Mr. Isham Baggs, in the course of his lectures upon the " Phenomena of Lightning," now being de livered at the Polytechnic Institution." " Those (said the lecturer) who do not mind being drenched by rain, may effectually screen themselves from the possibility of danger, when walking through a town, or city, in a thunder-storm, by holding by a lamppost—as the pipes running under ground must necesarily carry off the elec tricity, and thereby save the passer-by from destruction." He challenged any scientific man to deny the accuracy of this suggestion. RESTORATION OF STOLEN PROPERTY.—In the early part of the year 1846, Mr. Watts, builder, of Derby, proceeded to Tamworth station, for the purpose of paying his men engaged upon a contract on the Trent Valley line. In his carpet bag were fifteen £5 bank notes, together with books and papers. On alighting at Tamworth station, Mr. Watts missed his carpet bag, and immediately telegraphed the fact to Wilncote and Birmingham stations, but nothing was elicited to lead to the discovery of the missing pro perty until Sunday morning, when the Mayor of Derby received a note by post, enclosing £75. Another note was also sent to Mr. Watts, advising him to go and claim the money, and stating that the interest at 5 per cent. should be also transmitted to him. Mr. Watts has received the money. ATROCIOUS ATTEMPT.—On Thursday a villainous at tempt at assassination was made, in Greenock, on the person of Mr. John Gray, the town-clerk of the borough. The intended murderer is John Thompson, auctioneer, who professes to have some grievance against the autho rities of the town. Mr. Gray was walking along the street, when Thompson crossed right over so as to meet him, and drew from under his coat a very large-sized horse-pistol, and taking deliberate aim, at a few paces' distance, fired it at the unfortunate gentleman, A musket ball, as large as a boy's marble, with which it was charged, struck him in the right breast. Mr. Gray had walked so far forward, that it did not penetrate far, but passed along the inside of the ribs and close to them, coming nearly to the surface at the left collar bone, which it broke. Thompson is in custody. CH ARTIST DISTURBANCES AT BRADFORD.—Ever since the last disturbances in Bradford, one of the most active among the Chartists, named Jefferson, better known by the name of Wat Taylor, has been out of the way. On Saturday night week, however, the police received infor mation that he was at home, with his wife and family, in Manchester-road ; and on Sunday morning three officers proceeded into this hot-bed of chartism, for the purpose of apprehending him. After they had taken him into cus tody, a mob assembled, consisting of several hundred persons. The prisoner was rescued, and the police were obliged to run for their lives, stones, brick-bats, and all other kinds of missiles being thrown at them. The mili tary were called out, and were in readiness in expectation of a similar attack, while the police were apprehending a few of the ringleaders in the affray; but, fortunately, their services were not required. Six or seven prisoners were safely lodged in " durance vile," and by two o'clock the soldiers were ordered to their quarters. Yesterday week the prisoners were brought before the magistrates. when four men and one woman were committed to York, on a charge of rioting, and for rescuing the prisoner from the police. THE POISONING AT A PUBLIC DINNER AT NORTH AMPTON.—Edmund Franklin and Edward Randall—the former a respectable confectioner, and the latter a respect able youth in his employ —were tried at the assizes at Northampton, before Lord Chief Justice Denman, on Tu esday last, charged with the manslaughter of Win. Corn field. The death of the deceased was caused by eating a quantity of blancmange, at a dinner given at the ordina tion of the Rev. G. Nicholson, an Independent minister, at Northampton, on the 7th of June last. The blanc mange, which was made by the prisoners, contained ar senic of copper (Scheele's green), commonly called " emerald green." It was used in the ornamental part of the blancmange, of which the deceased and several other persons partook. All who ate of the dish were made very ill, and the deceased expired at five o'clock the following morning. It was distinctly proved that the prisoners were aware of the deadly nature of this colouring matter, which they had nevertheless employed in the concoction of a dish intended to be eaten ; and it seems, moreover, that they had for years eaten the " emerald green" substance in ornamenting articles of confectionary, with a knowledge of its deleterious qualities, though they had at one time, upon having this fact especially pointed out to them, dis continued the practice. They were found guilty, and each sentenced to three months' imprisonment. PAINFUL CASE.—A Dissenting print relates the fol lowing circumstances alleged to have taken place at a recent interment at Bishop's Stortfort. A woman having died in childbirth, and her infant shortly after, both bodies were placed in the same coffin. The usual service having been read in Church, the undertaker informed the Clergyman that there were two bodies in the coffin, and, on the question being put, that the child was unbaptized. Upon this the clergyman is stated to have said, " then I cannot read the service till the infant is removed ; " in consequence of which, the narrative adds, the coffin had to be re-opened, and the corpse of the infant placed in a box hastily constructed, which was deposited upon the coffin of the mother after the service had been read over it. REVOLT OF CONVICTS AT NEWGATE.-011 Wednesday it was discovered that the convicts in one of the wards in Newgate, were in a state of mutiny, and had barricaded the only entrance into the ward, and had threatened the life of any official who should attempt to enter. A large body of police was called in, and proceeded to the ward in question, and upon the door being unlocked the barricade that had been formed was forced in, and the turnkeys. with twelve men of the police and the inspector, entered. They found twelve young men, from about 18 to 25 years of age ; standing in a line against the wall with their hands behind, apparently handcuffed, but this was found not to be the case. Without a word being said the police col lared each his man, and they were taken into another ward. Nothing has transpired as to the cause of this outbreak. After they had been removed the ward was examined, when it was found that the bedsteads and other articles of furniture were destroyed, the mattresses and counterpanes rolled up, and so blended together in the barricade as to show that a determined resistance was originally intended. The whole of the glass in the window frames was broken. PAYMENT OF DEBTS OUT OF REAL ESTATE.—A bill to amend the Ist of William IV. has passed the House of Lords, and has been printed by order of the Commons. Its object is to render liable the real estate of a deceased debtor to the payment of his debts. This important pro vision is couched in the following words That the said herein recited provision in the said act shall extend, and is hereby extended, to any case in which any lands, tenements, or hereditaments of any deceased person shall, by descent, or otherwise than by devise, be vested in the heir of such person, subject to an executory devise over in favour of a person or persons not ascertained, and in any such case it shall be lawful for the court mentioned in the said recited provision to direct such heir, although an in fant, or if such heir be more than one person, then any one co-heir, although an infant, to convey the estate or interest of the deceased person, in any such lands, &c.. in such manner as the said court shall think proper, and every such conveyance shall be effectual, as if the heir or person who shall execute the same were absolutely enti tled at law or in equity to the estate or interest so to be conveyed,and, if an infant, were of full age." At Leith a party of individuals, consisting of four men and five women had been freely indulging' in intoxicating liquors throughout the whole of the night, from Saturday evening to Sunday morning, when, about five o'clock, they determined to proceed to Inchkeith by boat, though in a state of intoxication, for the purpose of spending the day. When they had got about half-a-mile from land, and near the Martello Tower, a quarrel originatedbetween two of the party, a struggle ensued, when the others in terfered. No sooner had they risen from their seats than a preponderance of weight having been thrown on one side, the boat suddenly capsized, and the whole of the party were suddenly plunged into the water. The terrific screams that rent the air attracted the attention of the crew of a boat belonging to a foreign vessel, who hastened to the rescue, and succeeded in saving two of the men, and a third saved his life by swimming to the shore. Several individuals on the quay having observed the awful catastrophe, immediately launched a boat and proceeded to the spot, but only succeeded in picking up two of the women after they were dead. The other four sank to rise no more, and thus no less than six individuals—one man, a seaman, and five women, of known abandoned character—have been suddenly launched into eternity. The event formed a topic of awful warning from most of the pulpits of the following day. THE PRIVILEGE OF A LADY PATRONEES.—At the Mansion House, on Saturday, J. Harding, job coachman, was charged with horsewhipping the Marquis of Drogheda, on the 7th inst., on his way to the Spitalfields ball, at Drury-lane Theatre. His Lordship was going to the ball in his carriage with his lady, who was one of the patro nesses, and meeting with an obstruction in Long-acre, from the carriage driven by Harding, he showed him the patronesses' ticket, which ought to cause other carriages to give place ; but as the defendant paid no attention to this, his Lordship got out of his carriage, and after speak ing to a gentleman inside that driven by the defendant, took hold of the reins in order to turn the horses, upon which the defendant lashed him severely with his whip.— Superintendent Pearse said that the patronesses were allowed to pass on showing their privilege tickets, but none of his men knew anything of the assault complained of. as they were not near at the time it happened.—Mr. Jardine said he would be very sorry to allow his servant to use a whip in the manner stated, but he mu'it confess that his Lordship acted very indiscreetly in laying hold of the reins, particularly as there was no p roo f th a t th e defendant knew anything of the pass ticket. It was very reasonable to suppose that the defendant considered no one had a right to touch the reins of his carriage, and he must dismiss the summons. A ROMANCE OF THE FOREST.—On Sunday, the down train which left the Eastern Counties Railway at a quarter to three, was unusually crowded, and a large number of persons arriving too late for tickets, entered the carriages without them, purposing to pay upon getting out. Amongst the third-class passengers a seaman attracted some atten tion by his violent gesticulations and impatience, several times declaring that the train was off the line. Upon ar riving at Forest Gate, the seaman forced his way through the hooking-office, left the main road, proceeded towards the forest, partially undressing himself as he went along. It subsequently transpired that his name was Andrew Milson, that he had escaped from his friends, who were about taking him by the branch line to Edmonton, that within the last few weeks he had returned from Bermuda, and that the death of his wife and child on the passage, had affected his mind so much that he had several times attempted selfdestruction. His father and brother hav ing traced him to Forest Gate, proceeded in search of him, and he was eventually discovered walking in the forest, near Wanstead, in a state of nudity, paving placed his clothes upon the trees. After some difficulty, he was secured, dressed, and brought to town. On reaching home it was found that he had either lost or been robbed of £26. During Monday, however, he declared that he left it in the forest, and his statement ultimately proved correct. On Tuesday his brother proceeded to the place where he had left his clothes, and after a short search found the bag amongst some furze, containing the whole amount missing.—London paper. THE SUBTERRANEAN FIRE NEA R SHEFFIELD.—SOMO account of this fire appeared in a former impression. A correspondent of the Sheffield Independent gives some further particulars. He says :—" Old people whom I have known well remembered a fire, which was burning under the Red Hill and adjacent elds, near a century since. Some of them who were living since the modern outbreak, fully believed this fire.to be nothing but a con tinuation of the former one. Be this as it may, it is certain that for about thirty years past the fire has been undermining the ground on which many of the habita tions stand. Sometimes, for the space of a year or more, various individual houses have been so dreadfully filled with black or choke damp, that it has been impossible to breathe unless the door was kept wide open. Many of the cellars have been closed for years. About twenty years since a portion of the street sank immediately after a loaded waggon had passed over the spot, exposing the hollow on which the people walked and dwelt. During one considerable period the water drawn from the prin cipal well of the village, came up, not warm merely, but positively hot. From fifteen to twenty-five years ago, both in winter and summer, as soon as the evening closed in, flames were seen to issue from various fissures in par ticular fields and gardens. A few years since, an old farm-house and outbuildings had suffered so much, by being undermined, that it was deemed advisable to take them quite down, and the materials were made use of in the building of two neat cottages. These were erected on ground where it was thought the fire had long done its worst, and where the new buildings would stand safely. Though not more than six or eight years since, the cot tages are tumbling down, one of them having been al ready prudently abandoned by its inhabitants." DESTRUCTIVETHUNDEASTORM IN LINCOLNSHIRE AND NOTTINGHAMSHIRE.—A storm which is thought to have been the most awful which has been witnessed in this part of England since May, 1802, passed near Stamford from the south-west on Friday evening; the 14th instant, but did not fall in the town. At Peterboro', the Deepings, Crowland, and onwards towards Boston and Wisbech, much damage was done in the fields. At Pinchbeck, Mr. Colvin, constable, had his crops of beans, potatoes, and garden fruit cut to pieces, and 150 squares of glass in his house destroyed : altogether his loss is to the amount of £lOO. In the Independent chapel, at the same place, 70 squares of glass were broken. In Gosberton Fen a wag gon load of hag belonging to Mr. Woodthorpe was ig nited, and with the waggon nearly wholly consumed. Three of his sons, and two horses attached to the waggon, were thrown down by a shock and stunned, but happily recovered, although it was feared the eldest son was killed, as lie lay insensible for some time. Mr. John Dods had a horse killed, near the church. In Whaplode Drove much damage was done ; and at Billingboro' many trees and much corn were prostrated. At Chesterton, and places within some distance, nearly all the farmers were visited in their fields ; the glass broken at Orton Hall is said to amount to 800 panes ; the orchards of Mr. Head, at Al walton, were stripped not only of their fruit, but of the boughs of the trees ; Mr. Watts, at the Cabin, had many windows broken, and several acres of cropping destroyed, the hail cutting off the ears of corn as if with a sey . the ; Mrs. Boor, of Sibson, had a field of barley much injured near Elton, whilst in the contiguous parish of VI ansford the storm was scarcely felt, and only a few drops of rain fell ; (Mrs. Boor's loss is said to be to the extent of £200; a house was struck by lightning and burnt down at Wel don ; at Bulwick a labourer was knocked off a load of hay and had his shoulder broken ; Mr. Yorke, of Thrapston, had a good horse killed ; on the North Road, near East Retford, some trees were shattered and fell on the road; and at South Retford, a stack of chimneys on a house s b u o a u ltr o j o u d ia o n f oy r s s tr be o c o h k , a th t e ree lig o h n tn th in e g iar l , hi o c f h A N‘i r a . s Tofhoumnuas were demolished, and other injury done. In the neigh- Moore, at Whitehall, North-brink, setting the tree on fire, and killing a ewe and a lamb which were standing close to it. A fire-ball entered the house of Mr. John Jealous, farmer, in Parson-drove, bursting through the roof, displacing the tiles, entering the attic, forcing its passage through the chambers beneath, and descending into the parlour, where it expended itself on the mantel piece, smashing the ornaments ranged for show.—A si milar freak was played off by a fire-ball in the house of Mrs. Smith, of St. Edmund's.—The storm raged with violence for several hours, and during its continuance there was a considerable fall of rain, hail, and ice.