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Etteraturr. POETRY. MAY YOU DIE AMONG YOUR KINDRED, DV MRS. ADDY. (From the Church of England Magazine.) " Flow much is expressed by tile form of oriental benediction May you die among your kindred :' "—GREENWOOD. "May you die among your kindred;" may you 'rest your part. ing gaze On the loved familiar faces of your young and happy days : May the voices whose kind greeting to your infancy was dear Pour loving'y, while lire declines, their tousle in your ear. "May you die among your I:indred," may the friends you love the b st, List to you: fainting accents, and receive your last request. Read your miutlered ~Ishes on your changeful features dwell, And mingled sighs of sorrow with your festering faint farz•.well, "May you die among your kindred;" may your peaceful grave be made In the quiet, cool recesscF, of the churchyard's hallowed shade; There may our lov,d ones wo.ridc , r at the silent close of day, Fair buds a::d fragrant blossoms on the verdant ttuf to lay. 'Tis a tender benediction ; yet methinks it lacks the power To cast a true serenity o'er life's last solemn hour. Ye whom I love. I may not thus love's Christian ! art fulfil ; List, while I ask for you a boon more dear, more precious sti So may you die that, though afar from all your cherished ties, Thougn strangers hear your dying words and close your dyiN eyes, Ye shall nt - t know desertion. since your Saviour shall be near, To fill your fainting spirit with the .• love that casts out fear," So may you die. so willingly submit your soul to God, That evermore your kindred, as they tread the path you trod, Way picture your existence on a far-of; heavenly shore, And speak of you as one not " lost," but only " gone before. - - So may yon die that, when your death to pious friends is known Each shall devoutly, meekly wish such lot may he their own : Not heeding if you died in want, in exile, or in pain, Rut feeling that you died in faith, and thus " die is gain." St. John's Rectory, Southwark. COMFORT. On , ELIZABETH B. BARRETT.) " Speak low to me, my Saviour—low and sweet From out the halle ujahs, sweet and low, Lest I should fear and tall, and miss thee so Who art not miss'd by any that entreat. Speak to me as to Mary at thy feet— And if no precious gums my hands bestow, Let my tears drop I,ke amber, while I go In reach of thy divinest voice complete In humanest affection—thus, in south To lose the sense of losing ! As a child, Whose song bird seeks the wood for evermore, Is sung to hi its stead by mother's mouth' Till, sinking on her breast, love-reconciled He sleeps the faster that he wept before." NOTICES. BTckw•ood's Magazine. The number for the present month is replete with arti cles of deep interest to the reader of the sound and argu mentative, as well as to those who delight in the literary and amusing. On the mortifying issue of the Irish State trials there is a clever and learned paper, showing that both in reason and in commo❑ law the traversers ought not to have escaped the punishment due to their offences ; 'but the writer imputes no unworthy motives to those few members of the House of Lords who SD hastily pro nounced the opinions of the judges who were called to ad vise them to be " clearly erroneous." "My College Friend" is a light and pleasing exposition of College life —yet to be concluded. " The Tombless Man," a poetical drama, by Delta, has all the vigour and depth of mind so often exhibited by that writer. It is an extraordinary picture which he draws, of a succession of visions of sepulchral desolation and horror, with occasional touches of the sublime, but ending in an escapement of the sole narrator,'_ • To sights and sounds familiar—to the birds S:nging alone—and the bright vale beneath, With cottages and trees—and the blue sky— And the glad waters murmuring to the sun." An exposition of socialism, under the head " French So cialists," is, we think, a masterly view of all those utopian and debasing syttems of communities in common. The " Memoirs of a Statesman" are continued, with unabated powers of description and knowledge of character—in cluding the dreadful siege of Valenciennes, during the French revolutionary wars. There is a long review of recently published " Poems, by Elizabeth Barrett," with numerous extracts. Some of the pieces are certainly very beautiful; but we think the reviewer has shown a degree of partiality to others which their merits scarcely warrant. We admit the lady to have great poetical powers. but scarcely fewer faults, especially in diction, which last she may be the less inclined to amend, when they are treated with reproval so delicate. The review of " Lirnartine's Travels' will be read with much gratifica tion. The extracts are extremely beautiful and graphic, and a tone of generous feeling and moral reflections per vade the whole. We fnrnihed some extracts from this number of Blackwood in our last publication, and other - 4 will be found in the literary page of our present sheet. Dublin University Magazine. Curry, Dublin. The present number of this magazine fully sustains its usual high standard of merit. Amongst the articles of a purely literary character, Glimpses in the Mountains—, No. 2," is a beautiful piece of poetical extravagance, and well worthy of perusal. The most important article in the number, however, is the article headed " The National System of Education and the Established Church," in which we have placed before us the present critical posi tion of the education question in Ireland. We have given elsewhere some extracts from this article which will show the spirit in which it is written ; and we recommend its attentive perusal to all who are interested in the important question of which it treats. The Illuminated Magazine. London : No. 2, Crane court, Fleet street. The present number commences the fourth volume, and is under a new editorship, Mr. Douslas Jerrold having retired from his position as editor. We certainly cannot discern, so far, any falling off either in literary matter or illustrations. On the contrary, some new contributors have been added, and several valuable articles from their pen grace this month's publication. The poetical contents are especially excellent. Fraser's Magazine. London : G. W. Nickisson, 215, Regent-street. Fraser this month contains a number of more than usually lively articles, amongst which we may particularise " A fine day at Stratford-upon-Avon," "The Stnitbs," and the conclusion of "The State Murder." The paper entitled " Hints on the Modern Governess System" con tains some excellent and just strictures upon the unwor thy treatment to which that useful and deserving class of females are subjected, and should be read in every family of which the governess is a member. The Medical Times. No. 263-266. Carpae, Essex street, London. alto. A weekly medical journal. This periodical of medical science was wanted in the profession of the healing art, or it c ou ld not h ave risen so rapidly into favour as appears to have done, even though its talent in editorial and original matter be great, which, as far as we can presume to judge of such matters, is most undoubtedly the case. Of course we are not competent to discuss the full merits of a periodical on departmental science—this must long ago have been judged by those who are capable of estimating its deserts; and also its demerits, if there be any—prominent ones they can hardly be, though, when tes'ed by " subtler fires" than ours, some caput mortuutn of rubbish may be detected in its • containing vessel—very possibly. The articles seem to be full of interesting and new matter; its reports of distin guished medical bodies—its valuable groups of cases—its record of series of lectures by some of the most eminent physicians and surgeons—its bibliographical and gossip corners—its reviews—its leading articles, temperate yet energetic—all must render it a publication worthy of large support, we should infer, by the republic of medicine. We venture no more; but close with an extract from its leader of October 12, which has reference to present times, and present things, and the present place, which must be gratifying to the medical practitioners of our town, as alluding to an aggregate meeting they held to memorialize Sir J. Graham on his new bill of medical reform :—" The most important meetings we have had, appear to have been those of Gloucester, Worcester, Leeds, Norwich, Birmingham. and Liverpool, some of the largest towns in the empire. In Birmingham and Liverpool, the very proper precaution was adopted of discussing in committee the clauses of :the bill seriatim, before pronouncing on them an opinion in public meeting. Our readers are acquainted with the result : the report of the Liverpool meeting, this day published, shows how entirely the opinions we so early expressed on this mea sure, art the opinions of some of the most enlightened practitioners in the empire. We own to a strong hope that a short time will reveal the profession acting in a si milarly cautious manner, speaking in a similarly judicious way, and equally unanimous in giving the bill a general support, while enforcing on it the great improvements that are on all hands admitted as essential." We are glad to find that our respected townsmen have won for themselves such a highly creditable position—to have dis cussed temperately, and therefore wisely, legislational measures touching directly their own professional inter ests, argues a state of most respectable mental, and, above, all, moral attainments; and in so doing, we repeat, and that advisedly, when their own rights are to them con cerned, in the first place, and the public health, in the next, renders them an example to our senators themselves, whose principles often swerve before the brazen face of expediency, or become too frequently obedient to that ventriloquist, self-interest, whose projected voice in the distance often spoils all. Punch.—Part 40. Continue s to Pour forth his inexhaustible wit and drol lery, and, i n hi s 0 The felicitous styl e , t o convey many a useful moral lesson 7 loss of this periodical would be an event to call for a n o • tlonal mourning. Chambers' Edinturph Jour 1 The new series of this popular publication .—Part 10. is very much superior in the value and variety o f i tsl ilVt contribu those which have preceded it. We observ e cont ents to tions from several popular writers, amongst whom mention Miss Camilla Toulmin, who has w pr o e m s 7e,may with a very beautiful tale of " The Neglected Child." us SECOND EDITION. Standard-office, Eleven o'clock. ANOTHER DREADFUL COLLISION. -- Sinking of the Brig Blundell, off the Magazines. It is with exceeding sorrow that we have again to record one of those casualties which have of late been of but too frequent occurrence, and which it would almost appear no human aid can avert. The Blundell, a fine brig, bound to Trinidad, started from this port on Saturday—and on putting back came in contact with the American ship Ferouia and sunk almost immediately. The following particulars communicated by the captain, Mr. Townsend, of the Blundell, will, we doubt not, be found interest ing. The brig Blundell sailed from Liverpool for Trinidad on Saturday, at half-ebb, with wind about N.N.W. At midnight the pilot left her, the N.W. Light-ship bearing at the time S. by W. Stood on for two hours, and then stood towards the light. At two o'clock tacked ship, arid stood four hours heading W. and W. S. At 8 o'clock made the Great Ormsbead ; wind light. About 8 o'clock on Sunday night a breeze sprung up from the northward and westward, which freshened till midnight, when a sudden gust carried away the jibboom. The hands were at the time r ee fi ng t h e maiutor sail. At four o'clock made Lynas light, broad on the lee bow, distance about 8 miles. Wore ship, and at half-past eight o'clock, the sea running tremendously high, and the ship labouring and straining dreadfully, carried away the foretopmaststay and foretopmast, which, with all the gear, hooked the foreyard, and split the fore sail to pieces. To save the vessel, the wreck was immediately cut away, when it was found necessary to keep the pumps constantly going. Stood on till twelve o'clock, heading N.E., the wind still blowing tremendously in heavy gusts, when they spoke the fishing-boat Eliza and Betsey, which stopped by them. At ten o'clock passed the Rock Light ; saw a ship to the eastward, (the American ship Feronia,) and a collision took place before there was time to clear her. The brig had a light up, and a watch was, we learn, on the deck of the Feronia. The Feronia's bowsprit hooked the main mast of the brig, and her cutwater struck her just abaft the main rigging with such a tremendous crash that it carried away a great portion of her side. At half-past ten the brig was cleared from the ship, and almost imme diately went down, head foremost, in 91 fathoms at low water. At this time the vessel was drifting bodily to leeward. About four o'clock a man came on board as pilot, the N.W. Light-ship bearing about S., distant about twenty miles. Got the ship to wear at 8 a.m., and ran her through the Victoria Channel. The Feronia was inward bound from Quebec, and was anchored off the Magazines. The hands had barely time to save themselves. The Blundell belonged to Messrs. Barton, Irlam, and Higeinson, and is, we learn, fully in sured in the Marine Insurance-office. The John and Mary, of Dublin, from Quebec for Li verpool, out 57 days, was spoken on the 24th ult., with 4 feet 10 inches of water in her hold, making 2 fet.t 6 inches of water per hour. The master feared she would not get home.—The Eliza and Ann, reported yesterday at Cove of Cork-, picked up the crew of the John and Mary on the 28th. The England, from Liverpool. for Ichaboe, at Cork— haring been in contact with a wreck and stove her bow. The Raw, from Ichaboe, for orders at Falmouth ; left about 400 sail of vessels at Ichaboe. BEAUMARIS, Nov. 11.—Put in, Sisters, Smith, from Liverpool to Penzance, with jibboom and foremast gone, and sails split; and the Margaret, Hughes, from Dublin to Liverpool, with part of her bulwarks washed away. A flat went down at her anchors in Conway Bay ; par ticulars not known. The Oriental, steamer, from Alexandria, arrived at the Motherbank, Cowes, Nov. 10th. REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—This body held their weekly meeting as usual. A long letter was read from Daniel, in which he says he will make his reappearance at their meetings on the 25th, and in the meantime the " Repeal cause is to be fo►warded as if this interlude (Federalism) had not occurred." The rent for the week, including £5OO from New York, was upwards of £BOO. THIRD EDITION. THE LORD CHANCELLOR, SHEIL, AND MIME...-. Everybody must rerneulher the " eWel eiing venom" sesth which Mr. Sheil, Mr. " Success-to- fox•glove " Sheil, some time ago revived against our excellent Lord Chan cellor the oft-refuted falsehood with respect to the im puted alien speech. 'Will it be believed that what Mr. Sheil, with a " rhetorical artifice," attributed to the Chancellor as applied to the. Roman Catholics of Ireland, was actually applied by a co-joint of the " tail "—no less a person than the veritable Joseph Hume—to the Protes. tants of that country ? O❑ referring to the debate on the King's speech in 1833, as reported in a generally-recog. nised journal of the proceedings, we find Joseph thus unbosoming himself :=" Why, I would ask, is it that Catholics are carefully excluded from the list of twenty. six stipendiary magistrates recently appointed by Lord Anglesey, in lreland ? Why are they carefully excluded from such situations, arid twenty-six FOREIGNERS at:_ pointed to them ?" (Several members—" Hear, hear !") " Yes, I contend that they are foreigners—they are per sons foreign in their habits and religion to the hulk of the people. I say, then, that foreigners were appointed to these offices." Mr. Sheil heard +this. The man who thus dared to malign the loyal Protesiant population of Ireland was a Scotchtnan—yet, ,foreigner as he was, an Irish member —the Kilkenny joint of " the tail;" an ex conservative, and then radical! Verily, the " rhetorical artificers" who calumniate Lord Lyndhurst had better look at home•. At this time, however, the poor " tail" had scarcely a home to look to.—Herald. WHAT IS THE CHURCH DOING ?—Tractarianisrn has seen its zenith. It was true that a few had gone over to Rome. Let Rome have her own. We could afford her a few traitors from the camp. He only prayed that, like the sincere-minded Sibthorp, they might discover their error. He was happy to say that he knew several clergy men who had held Tractarian opinions, who had wholly renounced them, and now preached sound Evangelical doctrine. The Church of England, though troubled, was not perplexed ; although persecuted, she was not forsaken. If Rome had built fifty mass-houses within the last ten years, the Church of England had built 600 new churches. If Rome had built twenty or thirty schools and colleges, the Church of England had built and opened between 300 and 400 daily schools. Rome had applied for aid to build one or two schools ; the Methodists two schools ; the Bri tish and Foreign School Society son thirty or forty; but the Church of England had applied and received grants for 500 new schools. This did not look as if the Church of England was heartless in the cause of education. He wished, however, for no amalgamated system of educa tion. The Church of England was strong enough to stand by herself, and as it was a glorious English Queen who nursed and cherished the Reformation, in a compa ratively weak state, so he hoped it would be a British Queen under whose fostering care and protecting hand the Church would be rescued in the time of her peril. Of this her Majesty had given some pledge when she went to worship in a church which bad been branded as Samaria. —Speech of the .Rev. flugh Stowell. INVENTION OF GUNPOWDER.—Datens has selected many passages from Greek and Latin authors, favourable to the opinion that gunpowder was known to the ancients. He mentions the attempt of Salmoneus to imitate thun der, of the Brahmins to do the same thing; but his most remarkable quotation is from the life of Apollonius Tya riceus. written by Philostratus ; showing that Alexander was prevented extending his conquests in India, because of the use of gunpowder ; by a people called Oxydracm. The passage to which we have alluded is so curious, that we make no apology for giving it. " These truly wise men (the Oxydracee) dwell between the rivers Hypharis and Ganges ; their country Alexander never entered, de terred not by fear of the inhabitants, but as I suppose by religious motives, for had he passed the Hypharis, he might doubtless have made himself master of all the country round them ; but their cities he never could have taken, though he had led a thousand as brave as Achilles, or three thousand such as Ajax, to the assault; for they come not out to the field to fight those who attack them, but these holy men, beloved by the gods, overthrew their enemies with tempests and thunderbolts shot from their walls. It is said that the Egyptian Hercules and Bacchus, when they overran India, invaded this people also, and, having prepared warlike engines, attempted to conquer them ; they in the mean time made no show of resistance, appearing perfectly quiet and secure, but upon the enemy's near approach they were repulsei with storms of light ning and thunderbolts hurled upon them from above."— Polytechnic Review. EFFECTS OF SCRIPTURAL EDUCATION IN IRELAND. When the scheme of Scriptural education was decided on, about six or seven and twenty years ago, confident predic tions were hazarded of its certain and speedy failure. The Roman Catholics, it was said, would not read the Bible— would not accept secular instruction, on condition of re ceiving Scriptural also. Notwithstanding the discourage ment of such insinuations, the system was tried—and was found to prove successful, to the utmost extent to which the parsimony of public grants, made for its support, ad mitted of its being carried out. It is unnecessary, and would be tedious, to repeat the arguments by which this truth has been unanswerably proved—but there is one form of the aqui:dent which has not yet received the notice it merits, and to which we beg the reader's attention. The experiment of Scriptural education was a trial whether, and how far, the Irish people could be influenced to re ceive the Bible. It was proposed first in the form of a test, whether their hostility to Scripture was such, as that they would not accept of secular education, if accompanied by Scriptural; it gave, at the same time, to the people at large, an opporturety of showing what they thought, (whe ther favourably, or otherwise,) of the propriety of making children acquainted with God's word. The result was very remarkable, Before the end of thirteen years, exclusive of the Sunday schools, amounting to considerably more than a thousand—perhaps, to nineteen hundred, in which ' two hundred thousand children were instructed, there were found one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven schools, under societies, in which Scripture was read—and of daily schools, not under societies, four thousand one. hundred and seventy-nine were avowedly Scriptural. We say avowedly, because a large proportion of schools bad declined sending an answer to the query which demanded if Scripture were read in them. It is not, perhaps, too much to say, that nearly two thousand of these schools should be added to the amount of the Scriptural. But, further, Scripture was read in 2,667 schools, under Roman Catholic roasters—and was read in many schools under the roofs of Roman Catholic chapels, and under the govern ment of their priests. Such was the result, when the state demanded of Ireland that the education of the people should be Scriptural. In the year ]Bl2, there were in Ire , land six hundred schools, no doubt all Protestant, in which j Scripture was read—the attention of the people at large was aroused to the question which the state propounded ; and in about thirteen years after the experiment was in stituted, the judgment of the people was expressed in the existence of wore than eleven thousand schools in which the Bible was read. Within that period, surely, secular schools had not increased in number—nay, notwithstand ing the great increase in the population, they appear .to have diminished ; while Scriptural schools, to which so fierce and effective an opposition was anticipated, had been welcomed by all classes and communions, and had increased more than thirteen-fold. Such was the issue which a Whig government regarded as a failure—let .t be com pared with that which a Tory government exalt and en dow, as a great success.—Dublin University Magazine. FORMATION OF RAIN. — The opinion of Professor Ste velly and Mr. Bovsall is, that each particle of vapour rising through the air carries with it its portion of electric fluid according to its expanded surface ; that if it remains within the electrical attraction of the earth, the vapour is condensed, and forms dew ; but, if it rises beyond the electrical attraction of the earth, and is there condensed, the electricity, being insulated, forms an atmosphere round each particle of vapour, and on the removal (by any cause) of the electricity, including the vaporous par ticles, the repulsion is removed, and they then attract each other, and form rain. Having observed that there was more rain and less thunder at Belfast than in Lon don, I was led to examine into the cause of the peculi arity, and especially on account of the electric fluid being less abundant in the atmosphere at the latter than at the former place, and found the above hypothesis to agree most perfectly with the peculiarities of the neighbourhood of Belfast, which is surrounded by hills. The highest of these is to the north of the town, and one of them, named Devis, twelve miles from it, is nearly 400 feet above the level of the sea. Whenever any mist or cloud descends upon the top of this mountain, it is a sure sign of rain and I have never observed it rain without some previous indication of the kind, which frequently takes place fur hours before the rain comes on. The cause of this ap peers to be, that Devis, which is conical, acts as a con ductor to draw the electric fluid from the cloud, that a portion of the clouds descends with it, and, as the fluid is drawn off, the watery particles in the atmosphere unite and descend as rain. On the 6th of May last, I had the good fortune to observe a remarkable instance of the drawing off the electric fluid from the clouds by this mountain. The weather, in the early part of the day, has clear and warm. Between 1 and 2 p.m. clouds ga thered ; they became gradually more dense, and were strongly charged with electric fluid. When I first ob served them, they were moving from Devis to the west ; but the wind, along the surface of the ground, was mov ing in the opposite direction, namely, towards that moun tain. This was before the clouds presented any signs of a strong electric charge • after they assumed this appear ance, a slight shower fell, and the clouds and wind at the surface reversed their direction, the clouds moving from Devis, and the wind at the surface towards it. When this shower ceased, the clouds became stationary, and the wind at the surface of the ground ceased, the smoke from the factory chimneys, which had moved in the direction of the surface wind, rising perpendicularly. At this juncture a pea! of thunder ensued, and a heavy shower fell; the clouds then remained stationary, and the wind began to blow at right angles to its former direction. It then gradually veered round until it blew direct towards Devis, and the clouds began to move to the same point. In four minutes the shower became very heavy, but in a short time the weather cleared up. I was so situated that I could not see .Devis during the time of this phenome non, but at 6 p.m. it was repeated, when I was able to attend particularly to it, and watch that mountain. At a quarter-past six the clouds had gathered again, and were much charged with the electric fluid. After the occur rence of similar movements to those mentioned above, the clouds became stationary, the wind moving from De vis, the clouds overhanging the mountains became denser and denser, but they appeared to be kept by some influ ence from touching it, assuming the form of a mould in which the mountains had been cast. After they had re mained stationary some time, the wind still blowing from Devis, some fragments of them began gradually to de scend to the top of that mountain, a peal of thunder scarcely perceptible ensued, and a body of c'oud, sufficient to cover the summit, descended with rapidity and rested upon it, whilst the other clouds began to ascend. Within two minutes after the thunder and descent of the cloud upon Devis, a very heavy rain cameeen, accompanied by violent gusts of wind. " At 8 p m. the rain had ceased, and the clouds reposed in streaks of white and black, on lines from north-east to south-west.—Polytechnicßeview. A MINIMUM OF WAGES.—We often observe, in this country, an inclination manifested to regulate by law the rate of wages, not with the view of instituting. any such naturally equitable partition, but of establishing a mini mum below which life cannot be comfortably supported. These reasoners proceed, it will at once be admitted, not on the rights of man, hut on the claims of humanity. To such a project there is but one objection ; it will assuredly fail of its humane intention. It is presumed that the com e petition amongst the workmen to obtain employment has so far advanced, that these cease to obtain a sufficient re muneration for their labour. The thousand men whom a great capitalist employs, are inadequately paid. The le gislature requires that they should be paid more liberally. But the amount which the capitalist has to expend in wages is limited. The same amount which sustained a thou sanJ men, can, under the new scal e o f remunera ti on, sus tain only n i ne hundred. The nine hundred are better fed, but there is one hundred without any food whatever. Our well-intentioned humanity looks round aghast at the con fusion she is making. Suppose, it may be said, that a law of this description should be passed at so fortunate a con juncture, that it should not interfere with the existing re lations between the capitalist and the workman, but have for its object to arrest the tendency which wages have to fall; suppose that the legislature, satisfied with the exist ing state of things, should pronounce it a punishable of fence to offer or accept a lower rate of remuneration, would not such a law be wise? The answer is obvious. If there is a tendency at any time in wages to fall, it is because there is a tendency in population to increase, or in capital to diminish ; circumstances, both of them, which it is not in the power of criminal jurisprudence to grapple with.— Bleckwood's Magazine. EASTERN Wives.--The daughter of a king of Persia having conceived an aversion towards her father's vizir, said one day to her mother, " if I could destroy that vizir, 1 would do it with pleasure, for he is a man whose inaus picious presence disturbs me." "Be composed, my dear child," said her mother, I will manage the matter." Having said this, she wrote a letter, in the king's name, to the wife of the vizir, to the following effect . " Kill your husband, for I have an affection for you, and wish that you should be mine ; but as you have an attachment to your husband, who is my vizir, it would be rather a disgraceful thing if I were to tear you from his arms, and make you my wife whilst he is alive." When the vizir's spouse read this letter, ambitious thoughts took posses sion of her heart, and she became intent upon finding some stratagem to rid herself of the obstacle. One night her husband being in a state of inebriation, she seized the happy occasion, killed him without compunction, and sent his head to the king by the hands of a young damsel, " Whose head is this !" inquired the king with great anx iety. "It is the head of your vizir," replied the damsel ; "his wife has sent it; you know why." The king insti tuted inquiries into the matter, and discovering the truth, took off the heads of the vizar's wife, his own wife, his daughter, and the young damsel. He then summoned the principal officers of his army, and said to them : " I want you all to give me your wives ;" but they unanimously refused. "We will surrender to you our property, nay, sacrifice our lives for you," said they, but we cannot part with our dear wives." After this, the king went secretly to the wives of those officers, and said to each of them apart, " I wish to make you my wife, if you can contrive to get rid of ycur husband." That very night, each of the ladies, by some stratagem, succeeded in cutting off the head of her husband, and in the morning, the king saw his generals' heads in his possession, sent by their wives. He was horror-struck at the spectacle. " What!" ex claimed he, " I asked these men to give me their wives, and with one accord they refused ; yet when I propose to their wives to commit a barbarous act of infidelity, they all consent, and kill their husbands!" His majesty, after this ejaculation, ordered all the expectant widows to be put to death without mercy.—New Asiatic Journal. LORD ELDON'S SUCCESSORS.—The Chancery Com mission recommended in 1826 a great variety of alterati ons in the practice of the court ; but early in 1827, before there had been time to make the necessary measures for effecting them, Lord Eldon quitt e d th e C our t o f Chan cery. Lord Chancellor Lyndhurst, in 1828, put forth a series of orders, which accomplished some of the objects recommended by the commission, and the great combina tion of faculties which he brought into the administration of the great seal, induced an expectation that, if any hu man strength could accomplish it, Lord Lyndhurst would be able to overcome the arrears, of his court. But those arrears continuing to accumulate, he was constrained, i n 1829, to propose a measure f or the constitution of an ad ditional judge. It was renewed in 1830, but strenuously combated by the Whigs, who still maintained the notion that the work was not too much for those already ap pointed to perform it : and the demise of the Crown having brought the sessions prematurely to a close, the measure did not ripen into law during that Chancellorship. Lord Brougham next grasped the seals. He had been the most formid a bl e o f Lord Eldon's assailants. But, observed Lord Langdale in the House of Lords, on the 13th of June, 1836, when he himself (Lord Brougham) became possessed of the great seal, at first be was so far from supposing that the appointment of a new judge was necessary, that he seems to have thought the Court stronger than enough, and he actually expressed his opi nion that by the changes he was to bring about he should be able to dispense with the office of Vice-Chancellor. This was in February, 1831. In July, 1833, further ex perience had so far altered his lordship's views, that he laid on the table of the house a bill, entitled, 'An Act for appointing a Chief Judge in Chancery, and for esta blishing a Court of Appeal in Chancery.' Yet the busi ness had not become greater since the time of Lord El don ; on the contrary, the number of bills filed on the three preceding years, 1830, 1831, 1832, had been only 6.510; whereas during three years 1819, 1820, 1821, which for the reasons before-mentioned have been selected as the tests of Lord Eldon's judicature, the number of bills filed was 6,654 ; and in the years 1821, 1822, 1823, the last of which was the period when the war upon Lord Eldon was at its hottest, the number was 6,988. It was, therefore, under a pressure rather diminished than in creased since Lord Ehlon's time, that Lord Brougham, the great impugner of Lord Eldon, found himself com pelled in 1833 t o 1834 t o ca ll upon the Legislature for ad ditional aTd. Now, however, the criticisms of lawyers may differ upon the judicial merits of Lord Brougham, merits which probably will be more highly estimated here after than political causes have suffered them to be in his own generation—uric cnim fulgore suo—none will deny him to be unsurpassed in vigour and in speed. And yet, with all that speed, and with all that vigour, he was una ble to accomplish that feat, which, in the time of Lord Eldon, he had conceived to be so easy, and which he had rated Lord Eldon so roundly for failing to achieve. The sanction of Parliament having been withheld from Lord Brougham's measure, Lord Cottenham, the succeeding Chancellor, though justly held in high estimation as en equity judge, found it as little practicable as any of his predecessors, to keep down the business of his court without additional assistance. And thus, year after year, the evil continued and grew, until at length a bill for the creation of two additional judges was introduced by that party in politics who, during Lord-Eldon's time and un der an equal or greater pressure of business in the court. had ever protested agai ns t any suc h i ncrease as being useless and profligate.—Lord Eldon's Life. POPISH PERSECUTIONS.—The claim of infallibility, the grand principle of Romanism, has led the church profess ing its tenets to the belief that heretics (all, that is, who differ from her unscrietural doctrines) ought to he cut off from the church, delivered over, as they term it, to the secular arm, and put to death. Ido not speak of indivi dual Romanists—some assert that they do not hold with this persecuting spirit—but I affirm, that to this very day the cutting out of heretics is authorised by the decrees of the council of Trent, which contain the standard doc trines of popery. If the church of Rome had the power, and if the present age of religious toleration did not pre vent open persecutions, we might yet hear of such deeds of cruelty as stain the history of the middle ages. We have the clearest proof that Romanisra is the same as ever, in that it is seen to show itself in acts of persecu tion and treachery, even now, as far as it may. It is very observable that, whether popery has been in an oppressed or dominant condition, the same spirit has actuated her. If heretics are to be destroyed in the palmy days of po pery, the reign of Queen Mary, the flames of Smithfield are to soar up to heaven in the open light of day. If he retics are to be destroyed in the days of the first James then is there the secret plot instead of the open persecu tion ; then, instead of the stake and the faggot, there is the calm and stealthy deliberation of conspiral ors, and the deed of darkness which, unless providentially frustrated, would have sent suddenly into the presence of the judge of quick and dead the king, the princes, and the nobles of our land. Yes, the same persecuting spirit of popery which in the thirteenth century (for I will not go further hack) spieke to the brave Albigenses by the lips of Simon de Montfort, " lieturn to the Catholic faith, or ascend that pile and die!" which, in the beginning of the fifteenth century, excited Henry IV. to " pass the law for the burning of heretics, which (says Blackstone) was the dis grace of our statute-book for two and a half centuries;" which' in the sixteenth century, condemned Cranmer and Ridley and Latimer to the flames ; and which (such are its tender mercies) has consigned many to the stake after they had recanted and returned to their apostate church— it is the same persecuting spirit which, in our own day, excites Cle Irish peasant (taught by his priest that by any means he may advance the welfare of the church) to per petrate the deed of bloodshed; and which would, if it might—which may God, of his infinite mercy, forbid!— destroy the Protestant religion in that unhappy country. Let us think with deg) and fervent gratitude, rind at the same time with serious self-examination, of our present privileges. And here it should be observed that on the fifth of November we praise and bless God, not only for the deliverance of the king and nobles from the deep laid plot of the Romanists, but also for the " arrival of King William 111. as on this day, for the deliverance of our church and nation." We may well render thanksgivings to our God for the happy results of the revolution in 1688. For, however men may differ as to the question whether, in any case, the succession to the throne should be altered, and although some may be of opinion that James 11. might have been induced to have ceased from his favour ing the interests of the Romanists bad less summary mea sures been adopted, still we must all praise and bless the goodness and the wisdom of God, who, " from the seem ing," yea, perchance the real evil of these political con flicts " educed good," for, assuredly, our religion and our liberties were preserved by the accession of a Protestant king to the throne. Let us heartily, than, unite in the prayer that we may have "a spirit of fet vent zeal for our holy religion, which the Lord has so wonderfully rescued and established, so blessing to us and our posterity." Let us be truly grateful for our present religious privileges, privileges not granted to our forefathers in those dark days of which our subject has led me to speak; permission to read the bible, the services of our church conducted in our own language, and the doctrine of salvation through a Saviour's merits rescued from the " wood, hay, and stub ble" of Popery. Let us never suppose that the mere name of Protestant and a loud condemnation of the errors of the Romanist, will be of any benefit to our souls, unless we become true Christians.—Church of England Mag. MENTAL EXERCISE.—The great means by which the mental, moral, and physical powers are to Ise improved is by exercise. This has been well set forth in a modern work on education, with an extract from which, and an earnest prayer for the divine blessing , cn your labours, I shall close these rema ks :—" The l aw o f exercise is of universal application. It is a fundamental law of nature, that all the capacities of man are enlarged and strength ened by being used. From the energies Of a muscle up to the highest faculty, intellectual or moral, repeated exer cise of the function increases its intensity. Inseparable from the very idea of exercising the faculties,and of course from the practice of that exercise, is the requisition of ex ercising each faculty upon the objects which nature points out as related to it. Muscular strength is to be gained by familiarizing the muscles with the resistance of eater nal forces, and by the habit of conquering mechanical difficulties, varied to exercise all the muscles, which amount to several hundreds in the human frame. The senses are improved by long and particular training, ap plying each to its object—sight, by habitual looking at distant or minute objects ; hearing, by accurate practice in the perception of sounds ; taste, in the discriminating use of the palate. In the same manner. the observing fa culties are rendered acute and diversified by the constant practice of observation of details in existing objects, their qualities, end of passing events. The same law extends to the moral world. For the exercise of justice, the child must be made aware of his own and his neighbour's right, and be habituated practically to respect them in all con tingencies. For the exercise of benevolence, the habit of repressing the selfish feelings, and of actually doing good, kind, compassionate, and generous things, not by fits, hut as a steady unvarying principle of action, will be found indispensable."—Miss Mayo. LORD ELDON'S DESPATCH OF BUSINESS.—Through the only 10 years of Lord Hardwicke's Chancellorship whereof we have any exact records, the annual average of the matters despatched in the Court of Chancery was 4,220 ; while through the first ten years of the present century, the annual average of the matters despatched was 6,081, being an excess of almost one-half. And this in crease of business and of despatch in Lord Eldon's time was a progressive one. The last three of the 10 before mentioned years of Lord Hardwicke give an average of 4,230, or 14 beyond the average of the seven years by which they were preceded; but the last three of the before -mentioned years of Lord Eldon's give an average of 6,948, being 1,238 beyond the average of the seven years preceding them, and 2,718 beyond the average of the lett three of the 10 recorded years of Lord Hard wicke. Again, comparing the years 1752 3-4 with the years 1819, 1820.1, we find the result of the tables as between Lord Hardwicke and Lord Eldon to be, that— Lord Hard wicke despatched business equal() 2,390 heavy matters ; and that Lord Eldon, in a like space, despatched business equal to 2,598 like matters, being an excess of 209 in Lord Ekton's favour. And, further, Mr. Twiss proceeds,—lt results, that Lord Eldon not only despatched in the Court of Chancery, during his three years, an amount of 2,598 heavy matters, being 208 more than were despatched in the same length of time by Lord Hard wicke, but moreover that Lord E:don effected this in only 455 days—or, if 61 days be deducted as before for politi cal and other duties, only 394 days—while his predecessor, in clearing the smaller amount of 2,390 like matters in the Court of Chancery, consumed 508 days—or, 61 days being equally deducted, as in Lord Eldon's time, 447 days —and Lord Eldon's real superiority, therefore, when cal culated, as it ought to be, with reference to the number of days actually available for the Court of Chancery in the course of each respective period of three years, is not merely to the amount of 208 heavy matters beyond Lord Hardwicke, but at the rate of 348 such matters, which would be a superiority in Lord Eldon's favour of about 14 per cent.—Lfe of Lord Eldon. WRONGS OF THE LABOURING CLASSES.—An extra ordinary degree of public attention is at present drawn to the state of the labouring classes. The whole press of the country, in every phase of political opinion, joins in proclaiming their wrongs and the necessity for some re medies. "It were needless," says the Morning Chroni cle, " to adduce examples of the pressing nature of these evils. Bishops furnish them in their charges ; country gentlemen quote them in their speeches ; city orators cite them at their public meetings; newspapers give them at full length from day to day. Such a state of things can not go on. Commerce is prosperous ; trade is thriving; the revenue flourishes ; yet look at the condition of our labouring people." What a throng of deeds of cruelty and injustice has even the last ten days produced! In the metropolis, and in our great towns, we see, almost every day, coroners' inquests on men and women, either dying of want, or committing suicide out of mere despe ration. At this instant, in the wealthy parish of Mary lebone, such an investigation is going on. Meanwhile, our slopsellers persist in giving theirfireforthings for the work of a shirt, and sixpence for embroidering a shawl with eighty flowers ! And if we turn to the country, what meets us there ? In one county, we find a poor fellow who had brought up thirteen children, and inhabited one cottage for twenty years, sent to gaol, under a sentence which almost amounts to perpetual imprisonment, because found with a hare, In the next county, we see another man quietly sentenced to three months' hard labour, for being found with a gun; though whether he was intend ing to shoot crows or rabbits, no one could tell ! In a third case, a poor man was sentenced to ten years' trans portation, having confessed, that, when almost starved, he was tempted by a neighbour to assist in stealing a sheep. Now we are not arguing for impunity in such cases as these. No offence ought to pass without notice. But what we press upon our readers' attention is this. — that here are three men, in the adjoining counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, and Oxford,—all tempted into crime by want and wretchedness, and all instantly punished with rigour, though in each case it was a first offence, and though in each case the cost of maintaining them and their families, at the public cost, in prisons and workhouses, would inevitably - amount to a far larger sum than would have rendered them all happy and,comfortable in honest industry. But, in truth, the manner in which the game-laws are now carried out, looks like infatuation. Sir Harry Verney declared, a few days back, at a meeting of the magistrates of Buckinghamshire, his conviction, that the game of that county consumed one-fourth of the produce of the soil. And a correspondent of the Globe declares, that " a few weeks back the principal occupier in an adjoining parish declared to me that the game cost the occupiers of the parish more than the poor did, and they were numerous." In fact, if we were to take the average consumption of the fruits of the earth by the game at less than half what Sir Harry Verney estimates it at, it would still be true, of the whole kingdom, that the landed proprietors actually bestow more upon their hares and partridges, than they do upon their poor !—Church man's Monthly Review. SHIPWRECKS AND LOSS OF LIFE. (From the Dublin Evening Mail.) The late storm has been extremely disastrous on the Irish coast, chiefly between Dublin and Drogheda. The brig Shannon, of Whitehaven, struck on a reef of sharp. pointed rocks, about two miles north of Balbriggan. Four of the men took to the boat, and though it was swamped the men were drifted ashore alive. Five men remained on board the vessel, which was at length c tpsized by the vio lence of the waves, and the men for a few minutes were seen clinging to the keel—the next wave swept three of them away, and they were drowned ; a fourth caught hold of a spar, and was saved. The fifth held on to the keel, but when reached the vital spark had fled. A large brig, name unknown, laden with wheat, sup posed to be from Wexford, and bound to Liverpool, was totally wrecked, at Clogherabont, and all hands supposed to be lost, es there was no account of any of them. Another wreck took place at Annagasson, near the same place. Name of the vessel unknown. She was dashed into pieces. A large vessel, about 700 tons burthen, named the Rose, of Belfast, Montgomery, master, was driven violently on shore at Skerries, but most fortunately the crew, consisting of fourteen men and one woman, a passenger, were all got oft' safely from the wreck. She was timber laden, and left Quebec this day five weeks. She was bound for Belfast. A lare quantity of timber, and other things belonging to ships, were picked up be tween Balbriggan and Drogheda: ; the figure head of a ship and a piece of board with the name " Fairy Queen" was found at Balbriggan. Several small craft were more or less injured at Baldoyle,- Malahide, and along the coast. A large vessel, supposed to be an Indiamari—but all inquiry proved unsucce , sful to ascertain anything about her—was seen in a wrecked conditio❑ off Ireland's Eye. At Kingstown Harbour, a timber-vessel, the William and Isabella, of Sunderland, was disrrasted close to the quay, against which the surge of the waves drove her with violence: beyond her was a coal-vessel,•which had completely settled down, her masts standing above water. At the entrance of the inner harbour laythe Kingston, of Liverpool, bound to Africa, which hail put in for shelter at the commencement of the storm ; she was secured by a hawser to the far side of the harbour, and by a cable to the quay, end had every appearance of riding out the storm in safety, when a cry was heard that another vessel was dragging her anchors ; this proved to be the Capri corn, of Liverpool, a West Indian vessel, from San Do mingo, with a valuable cargo of rum and sugars on board. She had been anchored at a distance of about 400 yards ahead of the Kinaston; it was about ten hainutes•to three o'clock when shjbegan to drag her anchor ; it was fully half-past three before she reached the devoted Kingston. As soon as it was perceived that the collision was inevita ble, directions were given to cut away the cable of this though u v g e h sse it ls to were o on a . lesslatter re s vessel, istanc e ; and b t e o fo g re e t this lier round, wao oe manoeuvre that e o could o there id b e m a i ! h oo t ni b e_ plished the stern o f th e C a p r icorn had dashed against the bows of the Ki ngs t on , the head of which went crashi ng and grinding ri g ht thr o ugh the bulwarks of the former; at every gust of wind this scene of destruction was re peated, the enormous bowsprit of the Kingston spring liontgh.anldt was sta nowrting from itst n e tinue in this regard to each other , both would be sp ee dil y dashed to atoms. The crew on board the Capri corn h a d done nothing ; it was reported they had been ill, an d were unable to move. The greater part of the c rew o f the Kingston leaped on board , and com menced cutting away that seat ,were as at the rigging to the windward. Whilst doing this the remainder of the crew got on shore, with the exception of one man, who, with great foolhardiness, remained on bruised, r d Kingston. not broken. A opinion generally board. As soon as the rigging was cu t away, the masts snapped across and tumbled over on th e Ki ngston ; to all a pp e arance one tell right on th e man who remained on board, but he with much prese nce o f mind contrived to give a leap away, and his arm o n l y was might. We be lieveAt eleven o'clock on S a t ur d ay night an alarm of fire w prevailed that there w as a great quantity An v of gunpowder on board, and this naturally h a d the effect of preventing the as g i i t ve w n as on or b il o y a necessary exertions t o ext i nguish the fire. The conse quence was, that the devouring element got a-head ;it burned during the entire night, and on Sunday the vessel appeared completely consumed to the water's edge. The Capricorn, which lay near, had the side next the fire con siderably injured—the burning mast and rigging of the • Nov. Kingston fell across be deck, set fire to everything. which it came in contact, find were it not for the smell assistance afforded, she would, no doubt, have shared t?. fate of the other. Opinion is contradictory as regards t?_: origin of the fire ; however, the prevailing supposition is, that some persons contrived to get on board with disbar: intentions, and that having made rather too free co,: rum, of which there was a large quantity in the vessel. the fire took place by accident. This idea is strengthetril by the fact th a t a b o y, i n a d ee p s t a te of inebriation, 46 found concealed between the rocks were the brig lay. Kingston was the property of Charles Horsfalt and S . T ln be a s d o d e i e ti e o s i s i ~t , o f rot h ol e j ap e o m ve er , of Liverpool, bin we have not been able to ascertain LI" vessel or cargo were insured. experienced a heavy sea and violent gale on Saturday evening, at five o'clock. She had her main top-Pa a i3 5 ,; reef fore-sail blown away, and the couseqnence gas , at e she was thrown on her beams, and was filling with W ill , when assistance was afforded ; she was brought into 0 0 bour without sustaining any additional injury. A la h r et portion of the cargo is much damaged, and part of ground tier of sugar was wholly washed away. At Bally brack, midway between Killiner and Brat'', seaman's hat was picked up, in the lining OT whicullpirb; jo a i g th a be i osmt coil-vessel each e a carried d h e a r hy, o a. d r y t , h h ae e nrd q b u lul a el y wr walls. arks ar w a e to la D ve ub a l s i e n e , rt4n h edsat e bsr,t, r was written—" John Trant, Liverpool, SePtemu 16:h, 1843, three." • t her In the river some vessels were injured by dashing ° sof f as t as h i e lts A hte u orn t ß u a na toi n a , spt o ie f ßee H osa. arringto n , which had her bowsprit; her te l f; re sunk at either - ore the river rdSevbeoraatlsfl_awtse—more comrntoliedrykind: and opposite Ringsend, and a great m a " ° be' broken against the walls. A number of row boats, longing to private persons, met with the like ne%;:th and some that were moored off the island at the Bull were carried away altogether. bulk-headstove Amongst i daal a a n i r d e t h d s e COST OF MAINTAINING THE ROYAL FAMILY We have frequently ( sa y s th e Bi rm i ng h am A d v edi v s e e f r ; felt it oar duty to correct a misunder,tandini, generally prevails, especially among the working c is as to the expense of the maintenance of the lioyal Flo o k i and every time we have done it, have received the th4 en , too readily lost'sight of. Indeed, among the of some or other of our subscribers for recalling " if tion to that which, though we had mentioned it before , to motive, s tko disloyalty, which demagogues and the mis-leaders m o o people urge, few, if any, have a more telling effect ` l ,ich those which bear upon " the vast sums of mo ney :",,41 the people have to pay for the maintenance of the Family." We deem this, therefore, a fitting o Po tttlu ro• when the Queen of England is brought with unusaa!P ko minenee before her subjects, AGAIN to correct a nil i ! t e g ar a into which so many fall, especially as we hav e i j dote the remark being made at the time of her Majesty .„ taro." confinement—" there i s ano th er young one f or u s to tea l " eg The hereditary re venues o f t h e roya l h ouse , ar'' from the crown l an d s , were, as we have more O,' 1), i4O s4 l , intimated, g i ven up b y G eorge the Third to the coo d , ; by on condition of a suit a bl e prov i s i on b e i ng always ma the country for the Members of the R o yal Fat s !! George the Third, it is well known, had not a verY s "; c io family, and it might be consequently thought ha d p 1 pl* a good bargain ; but how stand the facts and figm— the case? The averyge annual amount received by Gavern ment from the Crown Lands, and are applied to public purposes for seventy years, from :306 1760 to 1830, was.. The average of the annual payments to the Sove reign and Roy a l F am ily 9 -1,97 Leaving a balan ce annua ll y o f . . savings out of the question, the country ,saves ne t he £400,000 a-year, by " KEEPING,' as it is c alled , Royal Family. Let us, however, see what this matter comes to, w lie : interest is taken into account; for we cannot b 0(.. . - s , money off other parties without interest ; and this light in which we have never clearly viewed it b e fore. be , When last year Sir R. Inglis brought this subje ct t bat fore the House of Commons, it was shown that uP t° o ns time the governme n t h a d received £47,000,000 caore ft o the crown lands than it had paid to the royal family' i re interest upon £47,000,000 at three per cent. would c ? he r annually to about £1,410,000. Let us then draw an °l table to illustrate this matter. Annual interest upon the balance due to the 000 crown in 1843 Average annu a l p a y men t t o th e royal family.. 94 0 ' 335 £469. 6: ' Annual bal a n c e.. tlie The interest th en alone of the money received by country and applied to public purposes, beyond the er" t ;r i e paid to the royal family from the time that George ', Third gave up his hereditary revenues to 1843, not ositiY_ pays all the expenses of the royal family, but lea 5 annual e matter h y balance ye ta another h .C e 4 r 6 9 tab1e. ,665 ! The e t us country then nually, on an average, x 1 ,335,306 From the crown lands From the interest of the sum already saved, after making all annual payments to thp royal family 469,6 65 £1,804, 971 illustratereeeivevse leaves as Making an annual balance of: CONVERTS TO POPERY. (From Me Record.) The intelligence Of the Rev. Mr. Penny's conversion to Popery is confirmed, and we now state it as a tact that Mr. Newman has written to the Rev. Isaac Williams (the competitor with Mr. Garbett for the Chair of Poetry) an nouncing that it is impossible for him to continue in so fallen a Church as that of England. Mr. Williams, we understand, wishes this to be known ; and he has, in con; sequence, broken off all connexion with Mr. Newman, ao° the Romish section-of the party. We are now, in all probability, on the verge of a coo' siderable secession from our venerable Establishmen t ' The fact, we believe to be that Mr. Newman would have gone over to Rome a year ago, could he have carried ir ) ! . ; Pusey with him. But D r . P use y was no t rea dy, and his secession, without Dr. Posey, would have had compare" tively little effect. From the intelligence we have re: ceived, we think it probable that about thirty Masters of Arts, in Oxford, will accompany Mr. Newman, 1 1 kr; Pusey secedes also; and we have heard it compu ted. q those well qualifi e d t o f orm a j ust op i n i on of t h e cas e, , in Oxford, Cambridge, and over the country at tan there will be, i n a ll, a b out 100 o f t h e T ractarians, who sviof ' secede to th e i r appropr i ate place within the b oso m Rome, if Mr. Newman is accompanied by Dr. Pusek d , Such a consum ma ti on i s most d evout l y to be wis„,u'his as it regard s th e hi g h es t i nterests of our Church. i"d perilous matter has too long lain at her very vitals, of. the extent of the e v il ar i s i ng f rom i ts cont i nuance thF d r e l it were impo ss ibl e a d equate l y to estimate. An d beside s this, the seces s i on w ill a ff or d a new proof of the just :6icl of those pri n cipl es w hi c h, am id st much contemP":•ce obloquy, we ha ve b een po i nt i ng at f or many suc ce , l e . years, and will, we trust, also introduce a more tl some fear in regard t o th em th roug h out t h e Ch u rch o a ,ba the country. E ven as it regar d s the unhappy men „,her apostatise it is to be de s i re d. F or i n error, as in int things, it is better to be honest than dishonest, —t° a ;b3a conformity with specified or under s to o d o bli ga tions, in opposition to them. „t to [Since the above was i n typ e , a l e tt er h as been seze The Times, from M r . Willi ams , d eny i ng that Mr' `bol• man has written to him,—Mr. G. Ticket], of Bailin' ili a lege, who recently ap os t a ti se d to popery whilst tra vel in Belgium, has written to The Times also, and sa s l be " Now that I have the bl ess i ng o f b e i ng a Cathelic'ana result is perfect peace of mind and restored health;is my,heartfelt wish i s , th at t h e many dear friends I hacolV t ri e England may one d ay s h are the same blessings that enjoy." Al as ! a l as ! f or poor fallen human natur e men can thus be lead astray.] SUICIDE OF MR. AND MRS. BARKER, 111 KILMARNTak. wife Theseunfortunate saom ew h at persons youn er . were Th e o y l d resided, inhabitants pre v o io f 3 51h ir • r s . neti n eohe l a. w i sef n vssni g t ane l sh l : a : amßf. foreign London, rrme l I.i married ig l nn r g . Joseph mfoaAertnir ach, wuose ihle i ty s aa a mn :s et e s.a. c N isn o ttd o . n Ae d xst n m e a n n t mantic but beingb ut atm eolnaenctliimo Barker was born at Preston, in Lancashire, from wi',,.. elt s wiev 4 t eine, ,fi rseeaihad pule t y t arpr o nreea r ti nss i tn a igtg i o: e s egf t odre r tf e cin: icita.hocAi butt. . una.o, irviii. 1 i:: t h o e n e e s s ti sc m .e a r t e ed re h ve is rs lo ed ss . at fi o r , s o t oO wi ; donly child, a son, on L appeared to ote, also died when 21 years of mor.s S , iv . ars ago he entered the service of Mr. S age. '' n7floor-cloth manufacturer, Constitution amuel Kernel rema i n ed a! -hill, where n wl n he entered chief clerk and tra •l ‘e ler until May ' att. le bad also into partnership with M Archer , wh° ' • been with Mr. Kempson,l r. James was opened a Su and the firm ma table-cloth Summer-lane, as James and Co., Archer nufacturers no It disturb • In the arranements there was t per. the equanimity of his proverbially even ern ins He a d ' PPeared. on excellent terms with all around him; when, two months ago he left home, as he alleged to i! . partner, on a visit to' Manchester, there was nothing to ro' indicate the fearful resolve to which subsequent circa stances lead us to suppose he had made up his mind. then' On.leavino• their house they told the servant girl.,. were going a see a relation at a distance, and shound..,". back in eight or nine days. When he Archer he shook hands heartily, saying , Archer ;" and it was observed by Mr." God bless ) ;`, mfeefrdoiraedt li te t btoimaredialisof4:. turned away and seemed affected. It was aftertya f d found that he had, previous to his departure, called ol c discharged every tradesman's bill against the firme- ,_,, was supposed that he had about £4O on him when 11 I ! .. `" s ' Birmingham. In a pecuniary point of view theree.w_v'e not, as we can ascertain, any embarrassment, and w heir partedArehe Arches h m a t A , or l_i i ne A rs i , r ' met with no satisfactory solution to the mystery of tp c self-destruction. languages; and of kindly disposition, creating regard a; love in those with whom he associated in business and..., aenrleyn French, and d a and enrirtalaini private life. Mrs. Barker was a woman of much awl; bilitv and suavity of manner, highly accomplished, and speaking ßar ker fluently wa s o most Italian, gentlem proficient in music. The gold watch found upon Mr. Barker was an olcl7. n,' fashioned family relic, and the knife was a present iro a young and esteemed ' friend, in Mr. Kempson's employ' The description of the knife led to the identity of the 0 ° - happy deceased. On seeing the London papers, M.; ; Archer sent his foreman over to Kilmarnock, to ideatifr the parties. - - f the Captain Mc. Arthur, formerly commander of hag Princess Royal. Liverpool and Glasgow steamer , been appointed harbour master at Fleetwood. The Abbotsford Edition of Waverley.—No. 67. The number just issued concludes "The Fortunes of Nigel," and commences " Peveril of the Peak." The illustrations, type, and getting up of the work, continue quite equal to those of former numbers, cud, indeed, are even superior in merit. Standard-office, Two o'clock. LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE. Tuts DAY. Upon a change of wind this day or two, a very large influx of vessels which had been detained by the late easterly gales, have arrived bere ; those Grain laden, how ever, bear but a small proportion of the whole, and though several are not yet reported, the supplies fresh in for to. day fall much short of the number anticipated, as will appear on reference to the statement below. The Wheat trade this morning has been firm, but by no means lively; a moderate business only having been transacted, at the rates of this day week. These remarks are applicable to all kinds, both New and Old. Sack Hour upon a slow gradual demand is the turn cheaper, but we had no change to note in the value of either States or Canadian. Of Bonded sour States Flour about 4,000 brls. changed hands since this day week, at I4s. 6d. to 15s. Of Barley, Malt, Beans, and Pease, occasional sales have been made, at little variation from the currency of Tuesday last. _ _ Oats, although in some request, were the turn cheaper, and new Oatmeal, though higher in the course of the week, has declined about 3d. per 2401b5. below the terms of this day se'night. In Old Oatmeal no alteration, seve ral sales having been made at our last quotations. ARRIVALS OF CORN, From the sth to the 1 Wheat .. Ors. Barley Qrs. Malt. Qts. Oats Rye Beans Qrs. Pease Qrs. ShelledßarleyQis. Indian Corn. Qrs. Rapeseed Qrs. Oatmeal Loads Flour. Sacks Ditto IRE- I LAND, 1617 5500 7514 th Novembee, 1844, inclusive. COAST ' WISE. COLO- 1 , 0- 1111 AL. REIGN, 4110 TOTAL. 1691 2224 1543 351 5630 759 4110 Into Ituucm a, Inland ani Coastwise,--Wheat, qrs.; Oats, qrs.; Oatmeal. loads; F!our, sacks. EXPORTS.—Foreign. Wheat, —qrs.; Barley,— qrs. ; Pease, qrs. ; Oats, qrs.; Indian Cora, qrs.; Oatmeal, loads ; Flour, 419 bils.—lteland. Wheat, 10 qrs. ; Bar ley, qrs. ; Beans, qrs ; Rye, qrs.; Indian Corn, qrs.; Oatmeal, Ids; Flour, sks, 86 bits.— —Coa , tavise. Wheat, 805 qrs. ; Barley, qrs.; Malt, qrs.; Oats, 17 qrs. ; Beans, 12 qrs. ; Pease, 29 qrs. ; Oatmeal, 15 loads ; Indian Corn, 18 qrs.; Flour, 275 sacks 640 brls. Average prices of Grain, for the week ending Nov. 2, 1444. Wheat 465. Od. I Barley 355. 7d. I Oais.. 215. 2d. 1 Rye 375. 3d. Beans.. 365. Bd. 1 Pease.. 355. Id. Aggregate average of the six weeks. Wheat 46s id I Baley 34s 4d I Oats 20s. Bd. Rye.. 37s 10d Beans.. 365. gd. l Pease.. 335. lid. Duty on Foregn Produce this week. Wheat2as nd I Barley 4s Od I Oats .. . 6s Od Rye.. 5s 6d Beans 6s 6d I Pease.. gs 6d Ind. Corn os Od Fiou • 125 O Duty on Canadian Wheat., Is. Od. I Barley.. IRye.. Os 6d Beans Os. 6d I Pease Is. od. I Ind. Corn Os. Od. I Flour.. Os 74d - Duty on other Br; "sh Colonial. Wheat.. ss. Od. I Barley.. cs. 6d. Oats, 2,. Od. I Rye • Beans.. Os. 6d. I Pease.. Is. td. I Flour. Zs. Oil. Liverpool Averages, week ending Lth Nov., 1844. Wheat, 2316 qrs., price 445. 2d.; Barley, 117 qrs., price 329. 9c1.; Oats, 902 qrs., price 19s. Id. ; Rye, 48 qrs., price 38s. led.; Berns, 27 qrs., 41s. 3d.; Pease, 16 qrs.. 30s. 6d. (s. 6d. Duties paid in Liverpool, for week endng 7th November, 1844. —Foreign—Wheat, 533 qrs.; Barley, —; Oats, 227; I3eans, • Pease, ; Indian Corn, —; Fl our , 1 b arre l .— Colonial Wl:eat, qrs.; Flour, 240 barrels. SELECTIONS. CHARACTER OF LORD ELLENBOROUGn.--Lord Ellen borough possessed many qualities which, had they not been neutralized or vitiated, would have earned for him much admiration as a statesman and much affection as a man. He had abilities of no common order, great quick ness of perception, extraordinary ardour o f tempera ment, unquestionable courage, amd indefatigible industry. The moral sense was not very strong —as the appropria tion of Sindh amply testifies ; but he was capable of acts of justice and moderation, and sometimes exhibited in his conduct the gederosity of a great mind. His impulses were often kindly, often noble ; and his errors were sel dom the growth of mean and corrupt motives. There was nothing inherently low in his nature; but he was subject to very strong prejudices, which be had not always the magnanimity to resist, and which therefore sometimes caused him to commit mean and unworthy actions. As in his policy, so in his personal bearing, lie was impulsive and uncertain. With strong predilections and strong antipathies, which sometimes alternated towards the same individual, he was by turns courteous and uncourteous, attractive and repulsive, now produc ing impressions of deep gratitude, now of ineradicable dis like. Though he often showed great kindliness and con descension towards individuals, he at other times betrayed an utter disregard for theirf eelings ; and hesitated neither, as the whim led him, to caress nor to strike those beneath him. In this manner he made many enemies and many friends, and the different judgments which have been pas sed upon him by different parties can never afford matter for surpri se . Th ere i s generally in the public treatment of virtaun individu a l a j n , t compensation in the end; his and thse undue exaggerated by one p ar t y , hi s v i ces b y anot h er, undue bittedrunees%llo"; l l l , s i i s as e n n o m f ie h s is . fr T ie h n u d s s h is a b s a i la t n h ce e d en by viith Lord Ellenb o rouoh.—Cal cut the ta Review. THE LIVERFOOL STANDAiIii. (1; r or A t , th, A, 1141:.