The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-12-28 00:00:00

_. __ THE LIVERPOOL DASTANRD / TUESDAY / DECYNIBEE, 28, 1852. A SONG FOR CHRISTMAS. PUNCH'S ALMANACK FOR 1853. THE CANTERBURY SETTLEMENT, CHESHIRE AND WALES. ' IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. AP- NEW ZEALAND. - _ - - Oh ! the merry Christmas tide, HOUSE OF LORDS-THURSDAY, DEC. 23. MAXIMS FOR YOUNG LADIES CURL-PAPERS. ______.„,...,..._ ROBBERY AT NEW FERRY.-The house of Mr. Peter With its long and festive nights, When, the blazing, grate beside, The young gentleman who won't dance till after supper A letter from an experienced colonist at Lyttelton, in the Smith, of New Ferry. Cheshire, was entered by thieves ~ tl We renew our old delights ; doesn't deserve to have any. on Christmas night, during the absence of the family, and Tne Stamp Duties on Patents for Inventions Bill was o Canterbury Settlement, New Zealand, to a friend of high • property to a considerable amount was stolen. read a third time and passed. When 'mid friends of early hours, The hand that can make a pie is a continual feast to the Smiles our wrinkled brows illume, husband that marries it. standing, gives an interesting description of that colony. EFFECTS of OPIUM.-A farmer at Llanddarog in Wales, MINISTERIAL ARRANGEMENTS. And we feel, there still are /lowers Between Life and Death there is frequently but the It is dated 7th June, and we subjoin some extracts from it. who swallowed nearly an ounce of laudanum, and who The Earl of DERBY.-In consequence of a communi- e Time has not robbed of their bloom ! thinness of a shoe.had been asleep in a hay-loft from its effects for thirty- cation I have this morning received from the noble earl a "As to the general condition and prosperity. The Links have fallen from the chain The heart of a Flirt settles no more tenaciously on a who has been intrusted by her Majesty with the duty o f v usual year of stagnation and depression new settlements eight hours, has been restored to consciousness by medical forming an Administration, requesting me to move the Of our sou!-unite.) band i- gentleman's affections than a button does on one of his Kindred spirits ! that remain must not think to escape from has I think, arrived ; but, aid , a dj ournmen t of th e Ho u se till next Monday, by whi c h I shirts, for, in fact, it is no sooner on than it's off again. Heart to heart, and hand to hand, comparing old things with new, has, such as you JESUS COLLEGE. OXFORD.-William Joseph Edwards, time he gives me reason to believe that his arrangements a Twine more closely than before Dreams are the novels we read when we're fast asleep. and I knew it, and Canterbury,at a corresponding period, second son of the Rev. W. Edwards, vicar of Llangollen, will be completed, I beg leave to move that this House, t Life had lost the summer prime, Eyes are the Electric Telegraph of the heart , that will t h ere i s rea ll y no cause f or f ear i ng t h a t t h ere w ill accrue w h o ga i ne d t h e P ow i s Scholarship last July, has' been at its rising, adjourn till Monday next. And give honour, as of yore, send a message any distance in a language only known to great losses to capitalists, or much suffering among the e l ec t e d sc h o l ar of thi s C o ll ege on th e N or th W a l es Th e i r l or d s hi ps th en a dj ourne d till Mond a y. c To the merry Christmas-time. the two souls who correspond. lower classes. Wages maintain a high rate (4s. 6d.) while foundation. The blossoms of the holly There are ladies who look upon a ball-room as nothing the demand for labour in the country (and not so much CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.-Traffic for the a In our halls and chambers glow, better than an omnibus, that doesn't go off properly unless HOUSE OF COMMONS-THURSDAY, DEC. 23. 1 in towns) is a most favourable sign * to an old settler- While sanctioneth sweet folly it's as full as it can hold. week ended the 19th December :-Railway : Passengers, r pregnant with good omen for the future, and of a speedy Our pale guest-the mistletoe ; parcels, &c., £lBl5 4e. ld. ; goods, £1,067 Bs. 11d. Several petitions were presented. r And around the wassail-howl MOOT POINTS. emerging from temporary depression. Steam-boats : £l9l 133. Od.-Total 3,074 6s. 6d.- DUBLIN HARBOUR . Float the strains of wit and mirth ; 1. Whether a police-van may be accepted as a legal "The best test, I think, I can take of the depression I ncrease compare d w i t h the corresponding week of last Mr. VANCE asked the Secretary for the Treasury 1 Oh ! many many seasons roll conveyance ? being of a milder character than usual is this-that, al- £63o 13s. ld. whether a memorial from the Chamber of Commerce, Ere their lustre fades from earth ! 2 . Wh et h er a re ti re d i nn k eeper can resume hi s avoca - though the consumption of spirits has greatly decreased, year, y , CONGREGATIONAL TEA-PARTY AT CLAUGHTON.-On Dublin, bad been received at the Treasury, complaining ,' All untouched by heathen change, tion without rendering himself liable to be considered a whenever a vessel arrives her cargo sells off most rapidly, of the undue restriction upon the foreign trade of Dublin Wednesday last a congregational tea-party was held in the • • • ' N Long may Christmas rites remain ; Republican ? and the fixed and ad valorem duties on necessaries showarising from the exaction of import duties upon all vessels , In renewing which, we range 3. Whether the ancient Hebrews were not invariably about the same average monthly total for the four last school-room, Claughton, when appropriate addresses were from foreign ports entering the river of Dublin, for the s ' Childhood's flower-paths o'er again, tried by Jewry ? months that they did in previous ones, going back to about delivered to a large assemblage by the Rev. Dr. Blakeney, construction of Kingstosvn harbour, whether such vessels ' And, oh minstrels of our isle ! Mr. P. F. Curry, the Rev. J. Blakeney, Mr. Henry 4. Whether public vocalists who sing out of time can June last year. There is but little grumbling either Welcome merry Christmas-time, had availed themselves of the refuge of Kingstown har- Denson. and other gentlemen. With the sunshine of a smile, bt legally arrested for uttering false notes ? against government, or, what is in a measure a branch of bour or not, while coasters or vessels hound to any port i And the music of a rhyme ! W. G. 5. Whether, by the Registration Act, you are required the government, against the association ;at least so far as THE FLOODS IN NORTH WALES.-The floods in Wales other than Dublin were not liable to any duty, even i to register a berth under Government ? regards the acts of the association's employe's in the colony. have been more general and extensively destructive than though such vessels had been saved by the refuge of ( 6. Whether a blind man can be held liable for a bill Where no discontent exists, primclfacie there is no suffer- was at first anticipated. The result in one locality, at Kingstown ; and whether any decision had been come to 1 LITERATURE. payable at sight ? ing, and all may be presumed to be well and busily engaged. least, has been fatal, while the accounts from all the sur- respecting such memorial. Mr. G. A. HAMILTON replied, 1 - PRIZE PROBLEMS. (BY OUR OWN COCKER.) More runs continue to be taken up each week, and would rounding districts afford numerous instances of narrow that the memorial had been with the Treasury for a con- 4 Boors FOR REVIEW, &c.-Books, New Prints, Music, &c., 1. If three feet make a yard, how many "hands" would be, doubtless, each day, did not the gold fields interfere escapes, of disastrous losses, and devastations of property. siderable time ; that it bad been found necessary to refer intended for review, may be left at Mr. C. Mitchell's, Red- you take to make a garden. with the arrival of stock as fast as settlers would wish to EMIGRANTS' CHURCH AT BIRKENHEAD. -We are it to the Customs and some other departments ; and that 1 lion-court, Fleet-street, London, addressed "to the Editor 2. If sixty seconds make one minute, will any number purchase. There is a very considerable amount of real glad to learn that the Lord Bishop of Chester has licensed recently it had been referred to the Board of Trade, from of the LivEßpooL STANDARD," when they will be forwarded suffice to make one gigantic? I property of all descriptions now accumulated, and it must a room in the Birkenhead Dock Warehouses, which has which a report had been received. That report, with the and receive attention. 3. Reduce that very vulgar fraction of London, the City, be returning more or less of interest already. b een fitt e d up as a t emporary c h ape l f or th e use o f em i- o th er repor t s an d th e memor i a l o f th e Ch am b er o f Com to its lowest possible value. "In fact, all things considered-the validity of titles to grants, for the performance of Divine service, on the re- merce, was under the consideration of the Chancellor of 4. Calculate the altitude of Louis Napoleon's impu- land, the facility of getting on to it at once , admirable presentation of the Rev. J. W. Welsh, emigrant minister. the Exchequer, with the view of its being determined Katie Stewart. London : Blackwoods. deuce. surveys, superior to any in New Zealand, an unlimited DERBY HOUSE Rome FERRY.-It will afford great whether any measure should be introduced on the This " true story" originally appeared in Black- 5. Given-his proper fare: you are to find, if you can, tract of country covered (without the expenditure of an gratification to the friends of Mr. Crafter, who some THE ADJOURNMENT. wood's Magazine, and we have on several previous the cabby who's contented with it. hour's labour by man) with abundant pasture, the prac- years since carried on the above well-known and extensive The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said,-I believe, su_bject. occasions given it a favourable notice. It now ap- tical knowledge imported by older settlers, who have es establishment, and who became embarrassed in his cir- Sir, it will be for the convenience of the public service tablished themselves in all directions among the new onesthat I should move that the House at its rising do adjourn pears in more appropriate form, being comprised in PASSING STRANGE.-A Lady passing a bonnet-shop (who are thus relieved of the necessity of " purchasing cumstances a few months since,. to learn that he has dis a single volume, which, like all the publications of without stopping. experience" through heavy losses), the proximty of other • charged the whole of his liabilities in full, and is now residing at a smaller inn in the vicinity of his late hotel. until to-morrow . at 2 o'clock. The motion was agreed to, and the House adjourned, Messrs. Blackwood, is perfect of its kind. The THE FIRST LAW OF GRAVITY.-Never to laugh at settlements, capable of supplying most of the wants of at a quarter to 5 o'clock, until 2 o'clock on Friday. story is told in a bewitching kind of Scotticism, your own jokes. new comers-Canterbury has enjoyed from the first ad- TESTIMONIAL TO A CLERGYMAN.-A few days ago the Rev. Dr. Baylee presented the Rev. L. R. Ellis, curate of vantages which virtually throw it forward at leaat a couple FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24. which adds point to the dialogue, without being MEMORANDUM FOR MINE-PROPRIETORS.-In build-of its real if I may -. k. Barnsley, Yorkshire, at the Church Institute in this The Speaker took the chair at two o'clock. unintelligible to southron readers. The characters ing a column you commence with the base, but to sink a of Zaiarhaeln advance sheep i n ti c t e he district amount, age atthi s s o m sp o e m a ent, to town, on behalf of the congregation and Sunday school The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said it would be of the heroine and the other accessories of the story shaft you should first lay down your capital. some 50,000, representing productive capital of not less teachers of the Welsh established Church, with Matthew convenient for the public service to move that the House, are described with a pleasing simplicity, the attrac- 1 GARDENING FOR MANCHESTER.-YOU must get in than £50,000, which will nearly double itself next year. Henry's Commentary in 6 vols., a purse of gold, robes, on its rising, adjourn till Monday, at 2 o'clock. your cotton crop before you can begin with your spinnage. and an appropriate address in a gilt frame, for his exec- Colonel SIBTHORP thought it his duty to make a few tiveness of which is irresistible. Indeed we do not The importation of sheep last year was 14,000, cattle 600, envy the mind that could not be pleased with such MERCANTILE MARINE.-Captains of merchant-ships horses 410, valued at £25,000. lions as a district visitor, while a student of St. Aidan's observations on the present state of affairs; he highly a tale as Katie Stewart. Its will never be well informed even if they become readers, "The crop of potatoes for last year is considered to be College. eulogised the government of Lord Derby, and lamented publication is most so long as they are skippers. more than is required for the population. Mutton and REPRESENTATION OF CHESTER.-We learn from the that they had not had a fair trial. Their opponents, he opportune as a Christmas present or New Year's considered, were black sheep, and would soon show FALLACY OF NATURALISTS.-It is not true, whatever beef are at 7d. per pound. The wheat crop has been Chester Courant thatthe Hon. W.O. Stanley;was in Chester Gift. may have been asserted, that whales are produced by the small, a good deal of flour is therefore imported ; but pro- on Saturday week, congratulating the mayor and others of themselves in their true colours (a laugh). -- ------- - -- - ----- sea lashing the shore. bably if the potato was more generally used, particularly his principal supporters on the defeatof ministers. Political After a few observations from Sir R. Isoeis relative to by the lower classes, at morning as well as evening for gossips say that he was feeling his way for re-election, in the search for Sir John Franklin, VARIETIES. A NICE QUESTION FOR THE STAMP OFFICE.-Sup- meals, the population would, within a very little, have the event of any junior appointment in the new adwinis- The House adjourned at ten minutes past two. _ - posing duty to have been paid on a horse, is there any • • • enough to subsist itself with. tration falling to his share. Mr. Stanley may however No new writs were moved for. LAUGH at no man for his pug nose-you never can tell drawback if the animal jibs ? " The great scheme propounded by the association, and rely upon it he will never be re-elected for Chester without what may turn up. 'WARNING TO YOUNG LADIES.-DO not too soon pro- the expectations they formed, and led others to form in an opposition. A TALL YOLTH is a lad, but an implement used in nounce your lover a duck, lest you should afterwards dis - England, it is well known here are not likely of realise- I NFANTICIDE AT SANDBACH.-Sarah Steele, late of MUSIC T AND THE DRAMA. building is a ladder. cover him to be a goose. tion. Too much was attempted in the hope of a support Alsagar, a servant in husbandry, was charged yesterday A TRADESMAN in the south advertises that he has BETTING BY LADIES.-Ladies should never bet ; for far exceeding what, had they had colonial experience, week before the magistrates at Sandbach with the murder JULLIEN'S CONCERT.-M. Jullien will give the first of 6 ' always a large supply of leeches on his hands." though it may turn a man into a Better, it invariably they ought to have expected from men comfortably Inds- of her new born male illegitimate child, on the sth inst., his farewell concerts previous to his departure for America makes a woman worse. pendent at home. The college, church endowments, by throwing it into a pit. It seems that she had been on Friday night next, at the Philharmonic Hall. The " WELL, JOHN, I am going east; what shall I tell your deans, prebendaries, bishops, clergy a discrOion,.a . t £2OO folks?" " Oh, nothing • only if they say anything about A GOOD CHALK HEAD.-A youth with a turn for - strongly suspected of the crime by her mistress, Mrs. programme is an effective one, and we trust that his whiskers, just tell them I've got some." figures had five eggs to boil, and being told to give them a-year, with gees , parsonages, and sundry other illusions, Barker, and was sent home to her father's, when she reception among us, before quitting our shores for those have all for the present faded into thin air. Yet much three minutes each, boiled them a quarter-of-an-hour confessed, and told where the body was to be found. She of the new world, will be such as will give him a prestige MRS. HARRIS says she has the most obedient children of promise had been done, and with very small means. was fully committed for trial to Chester, on the capital of the success awaiti his skill and talent on the oth e r altogether. ng in the world. All they want is to have their own way. , Mr. Godley has surprisingly well turned to account an charge. side the Atlantic. "Don't cross them," she says, " and they won't cross AD V IC E TO P OPULARITY - HUNTERS. - If the trade of annual local income utterly insignificant in comparison to nobody." philanthropy should tail at home, the friend of his specie the end to be gained, and, by directing his attention very MARRIAGE OF LADY OCTAVIA GROSVENOR.-It is PHILHARMONIC CONCERT.-The eighth of this season's had better go to the Diggings. e• r ported that the nuptials of this lady,the eldest unmarried concerts took place on Tuesday evening last, when the MR. PARTINGTON says the only way to prevent steam- earnestly to the subject of education and religion, Jdi daughter of the Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster, only novelty produced was Herr Nabicla whose perform boat explosions is to make the engineers "bile their water PREDICTION FOR ,jui,y,-A foreign ruler bows to cir- cloudy devoting to them a share of the sums that another with Sir Michael Shaw Stewart, Bart., will take place at antes on the trombone have been pronounced won d er f u l, ashore. In her opinion all the bustin' is caused by cumstances , and if he bows too low , his cro w n may fall off. would , perhaps , have spent entirely on what are called St. George's Church, Hanover-square, this day (Tuesday). and who, on this occasion, fully sustained his previous "cooking the steam" on board. A revolution spirit is stirred abroad by some spoons. But in too restricted a sense, " public works," has, I feel con there are spoons also of King's Pattern and by these a fident securely laid the foundation of a higher moral cha- the 28th instant. Sir Michael Robert Shaw Stewart, reputation. His tones are soft and exceedingly distinct, THE SUSCEPTIBILITIES or FOREIGNERS.-Orders legitimist stir _ ' ' ' ' • may be attempted. Let diplomatists look ratter for the population of Canterbury, than Lave been given by the Lord Chamberlain, that the Battle• • to the River Plate. other settlements in the Australian seas. It is very gra. of Waterloo is never to be performed again at Astley's, for and is seventeenth in direct succession from Robert the his shake being remarkable for the perfection and clear fear of wounding the susceptibilities of foreigners. HISTORICAL.-King John was crowned four times-on tifying that so early there should be within reasonable Third, King of Scotland. The Baronetcy was created by ness of its tone, every note being produced with the the principle, perhaps-that four crowns make a sovereign.walking distance of each settler (squatters of course ex- INTELLIGENCE EXTRA.-The officer who arrested the man's attention has been prometed ; the man who was THE custom of eating goose on Michaelmas Day has David, and in the second part a sort of " pot pourri," ordained clergyman, in fact, that none of the ministrations BARTHOMLEY.-The beautiful old parish Church here hurt by a burst of applause is recovering ; and the indiyi- puzzled the sage, nor has any light been thrown on it by of his church can be wanting to any who desire to benefit was re-opened for public worship on Sunday last, the 19th including airs from Lucia, Frank Abt's " Parting," &c. dual who was injured by the accidental discharge of his the onions. by them in a time of need and distress ; while at Christ- instant, after considerable restoration. The Bishop of He was well received by the audience. Mrs. Ne w to n , duty is still very low. , A HINT Fon. THE BALL-ROOM.-However familiar you c h urc h an d L y tt e lt on th e serv i ces are performed as orderly Chester preached in the afternoon. The ladies of the Miss Eyles , a nd Mr. Lockerb y were s everally deservedly AT A RECENT SALE, the auctioneer, while expatiating ' may be with your partner, never approach her as an old and are as well attended (indeed better) than in most parish are co-operating with the Rector's daughters (the encored. on the merits of a telescope, poetically observed, " How acquaintance. Your doing so would be an offence no lady English country towns with the same number of inhabit. Rev. E. Duncombe) to raise a fund for an ornamental east THEATRE ROYAL.-The performances at this theatre often has the widow's heart leaped for joy when she has I could forgive. ants. About eighty children here, and one hundred at window in the projected new chancel, and also for the have been admirably adapted to the holiday season ;-the observed her husband, at a distance, brought near to her 1 WIDE AWAKE.-A good lady at Peckham refused to Christchurch, regularly attend the schools. I consider new windows in the south aisle. They were designed pantomime especially-" Three Legs, King of Man ;or by such an instrument as this !" i let her daughter dance with a young Cambridge man, be. that the affording a regular course of instruction to such under very limited order as to cost, by Frank Howard, Harlequin Lord Stanlie, and the Eagle and Child," which WHEN ROBESPIERRE had been guillotined at Paris, a 1 cause she understood he' was a Bachelor of Arts. numbers, commencing from the first month or two (I be- Esq., for Messrs. Pilkington, of St. Helen's glass works, is as splendid in all its scenery and dresses, and as skilful Garcon in the French army thus expressed the dread he GREAT NAUTICAL DISCOVERY.-No one can be alone lieve) after the arrival of the first body of settlers, is a and Messrs. Pilkington finding it impossible to execute the in all its tricks and transformations as was that produced had entertained of that tyrant. "As often as the name of !in a ship-there is always the Companion Ladder. service rendered to the colony, than which none could be whole satisfactorily for the amount, most liberally gave the last year, and is likely to prove as popular. Owing, how- Robespierre was mentioned to me, I used to take off my M , ISSIONARY PERILS.-There are some natives that more important, or in a higher degree creditable to the deficiency. ever, to the late hour at which the entertainment con last, in order to see if my head was in it." association and its agent ; nor, by comparison, reflecting A FEMALE HOUSEBREAKER.-For some weeks past eluded, we are unable to give any detailed notice of the 1 wont believe a word of the sermon, but will swallow the more discreditably on the Government as regards the old numerous burglaries have been committed in the neigh- " merry conceits" which have been so admirably dished RAPID BUILDING.-" How rapidly they build houses ' preacher. settlements of New Zealand, where no educational plan of bou r hood of Newton, Cheshire, but no clue could be up for us till next week. now," said Cornelius to an old acquaintance, as he pointed ' A FAST MAN is like a glass of champagne-directly he a general character has to this day been carried out. found to the perpetrators. Yesterday morning week, PARK THE ATRE.-This tasteful theatre attracted to a neat two story house ; " they commenced that build- 1 begins to settle he gets flat. " Unlike what you knew Auckland, Wellington, and ho w ever, lights were observed by Mrs. Tetlow, in the a large attendance last evening, the chief attraction being ing only last week, and they are already " putting in the ! LEGAL.-A Writ of Execution may be tested on the New Plymouth-places cramped up within a dozen or chamber of her son's house, at an hour when she knew the amusing pantomime produced under the direction of lights.' " Yes," rejoined his friend, next week they I will put in the liver."-Canadian Mail. 1 day it is issued ; but it is regularly de-tested on the day fifteen miles' range-' the plains' are covered with scat- that the proper occupants were from home. Search was Mr. Boleno-the celebrated clown-entitled " Legende when it is put in force. tered settlers from the sea to the mountains, a distance of accor di ng ly m ade, a n d a woman name d M ar y H ump h re y s o f ye F ayre M a yd e o f T ox t e th an d o f L everpo l e , it s T rus ti e " The candles you sold me last were very bad," said 1 fifty miles east and west, and from their north extreme wa s found concealed in the coal hole, while a quantity of Squire." Respecting the admirable way in which this has A PARADOX.-As , . _OX - - is ugly as a witch is a proverbial saying • • • Suett to a tallow-chandler. " Indeed, sir, lam sorry for 1 ' (30 miles north of Lyttelton) to the river Cholmondeley bed linen, and other articles, lay in various parts of the been placed before the audience, we must reserve our yet the Lancashire witches are the finest women in re that."Eng. " Yes, sir, do you know they burnt to the middle(Rakaia), about 25 or 30 south, or over some 3,000 square house, ready for removal. Tbe burglar had with her a marks till our next. ' d lan, whilst it is not the fact that the smartest men are to and would then burn no longer." " Good gracious, you miles. This, of course, does not include those outside the crowbar and other housebreaking implements. She was be found in the county of Bucks. RETIREMENT OF MR. BARTLEY.-Another histrionic surprise me ; what sir, did they go out ?" " No, sir, no, , Canterbury Block, who straggle away as far north as Kai- promptly taken into custody, and has since been corn they burnt shorter." 41. star has fallen from the dramatic firmament. On Satur. kora, 80 or 90 miles north of Lyttelton. Of these 300 witted for trial at Chester assizes. day Mr. Bartley, the veteran Falstaff' of the stage, bade SHEEP IN BOOTS.-As the late continued rain, and ' THE Pore's LEGACY. - I ' m not goin' to grudge it to square miles, one-fifth or m0re( 550,000 acres) is occupied ACCIDENT ON THE SHREWSBURY AND CHESTER RAIL- a final adieu, at the Prince's Theatre, to the footlights, consequently wet pastures, may be productive of great the blessedest potintate on airth ; but, my song, that was by sbeepowners at this moment. At the stations a num. WAY.-On Wednesday last, the afternoon train from and left behind him-nothing but a name. - loss of sheep to farmers, from foot-rot, it may be of use no foolish Christmas-box, in the shape of a legacy-that her of the gentlemen settlers themselves reside, besides Sh rews b ury a t 3.20 f or Ch es t er , ran i n t o a t ra i n o f coa l to su gg est some kind of boots for the sheep, cast in gutta £50,000 they say the late Lord Shrewsbury left to the which they receive, either as amateur learners, working and lime-trucks, coming out of the mineral branch of the percha, which could be confined by an elastic band or tin ' Pope. Notwithstandin his ,I -g a uge , I'm thiultio' " Pio" and learning without receiving or giving remuneration, or Shrewsbury and Chester Railway, at the Wheat-sheaf TABULAR ALMANACK FOR 1553. at the top. The boots must be made at least as high as did'nt say " No-no" to that bequest, and bedad, 'tis aas bona fide stockmen, many young men, gentlemen's Junction, near Wrexham. Fortunately the engine -driver the second joint, to prevent the water getting into them.- step-mother would blame him ! I'll be bound, beteune sons. with little or no means. saw the the danger, and, by shutting off the steam and apply- Gardener's Chronicle. ourselves, that be has his own poor relations-not to "The safety of this harbour may be called in question ine the reak, the force of the collision was much broken, The use of the subjoined Tabular View of the Months, mintion havin' to send, far and near, for frogs of a shu- some .. day in your . presence. Not . less than '. ls 000 tons of - Weeks, and Days for the Year 1853, will be at once ap- CURE OF SNAKE BITES.-Three boys were recently ' none oft he passengers at all injured, and only the pas payrior flavor, whenever he enthertains the Frinch shipping entered it fast year without a pilot (coasters not bitten in the hand by a copper-head snake, near Liberty, senger engine -driver very slightly bruised. Several of the marshals, besides dhrenchin"em with wine-the real bees' included), the majority of them strangers and without parent ; for instance, the 12th of January falls on a Va, (U. S.) Their hands in a few minutes commenced trucks of lime and coal were knocked off the line on both wing-and providin"em the means o' risen a fog about charts. Two vessels of about 200 tons were wrecked in swelling, when a physician dosed them with liquor until the up and down rails, but a strong body of the corn- Wednesday, hence the table not only presents in the that they drifted from , em of deliket-scinted tobaccy-smoke !-Terry Driscoll. it last winter, but it is remarkable ' pany's servants being quickly on the spot, the obstruction they were drunk, and they shortly recovered. A negro in their berths with an off-shore wind blowing down the vertical line under that head the date of every Wednes the same vicinity was bitten by a copper-head, and in the GALLANTRY OF FRENCH SAILORS.-Mr.Scott, English was removed, and the passenger-train proceeded, after day in that and succeeding months, but also, at one harbour from S.W. They were not anchored in the fair course of half an-hour he drank a quart of whiskey, and consul at Bordeaux, has written a letter, in which he way, nor in the proper holding ground. The ' fetch' forir a delay of about an hour and a half. glance, in other columns, the figures corresponding recovered from the effects of the bite. speaks in terms of the highest commendation of the SEAMEN'S CASE.-Ten sailors, of the names of Thos. a sea to get up is only three-and-a-half miles. No acci- THE PUFF INDIRECT.-The ingenuity of a woman, and captain of the French schooner, the Josephine, of Bay. dent has yet happened to any vessel with a gale blowing Clarke, William Cooper, John Smith, William Jackson, with every day throughout the Year. that woman a Yankee, could alone have struck out an I onne, for having, a few days ago, in spite of a tempestuous right in from the N.E. The harbours on the north side Dennis Lilley, William Robinson, Thomas Haw, P. A. - 4 ' avenue" to notoriety like the following, taken from an sea, sent his boat to the schooner Richard and Ann, of of the peninsula are all safe to make, as you have good Stewart, R. Jones, and Patrick Hutchinson, were brought 1 i. ' ' • e:s e advertisement in the New York Tribune :-" If the lady Plymouth, which was dismasted, and in great distress in soundings 10 and 14 miles out (a rare thing upon New before Mr. John Jackson, at Birkenhead, on Friday last, e ea ea 7 e ' 1 'a a: es in the fourth avenue stage, on last Friday, who was eating the Gulf of Gascony, and for having thereby saved the five Zealand coasts, except at the north) gradually shoaling in charged with refusing to proceed to sea in the Mary Caro. - 0I a e a n 43 1 s'.! '-' _ells 'a e s, 4 _g • -0 -c ...--- r. 03 s. I 0:1 -a a package of Mrs. Jervis's Cold Candy, and expressed persons who composed the crew. The Richard and Ann shore. line, having signed articles to sail in her. The Mary Ca. e c `sis) - e e , 7 E ' so e se .. aas a c a e e = a herself to a friend as being benefited by its use, will had been tossing about for ten days, and three days before oTo make up for the want of wood, coal of a better roline was then lying off the Sloyne, bound for Mobile. ..e. -_.9, a -,... ,= ' l .- - cc 1 7.: 4E. ~... ~, ..., 4 ra E -2, L. . . tr , --.."-. address a note to Mr. R. K., Broadway Post-office, she the Frenchmen went to her relief a foreign ship, belong- quality than any I have yet seen in New Zealand, except- Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co., are her ' agents. The ten I will hear of something to her advantage." ing, it is supposed, to some foreign port, passed close to men in custody form not quite half of the crew, and about - - ing only the Waikato coal, has been found in an accessi her without offering any assistance, and, to prevent herself 1 2 INTERESTING DISCOVERY.-A beautifully-executed ble spot, and is now being worked on trial. Limestone, nine o'clock on the preceding morning, when the vessel Jan. ~ 1 July. from being known, covered the name of her stern. was about to sail out of the river, they refused to proceed 231 4 5 i 8 3,456 i 7 8 9 fresco has been discovered in Exeter Cathedral. It de- of course, is in contiguity with it. The discovery is one picts our Saviour as risen from the tomb, holding a tro- ' GIRLS AT PLAY.-There is hardly another sight so of vast importance to such an immense district bare of in her, alleging that she made water fast, and that it would 9 10111 12 13 1 14 15 , 10 11 12 13114 1516 ; 16 17 18'19 20'21 22 1 17 18 19 20'21 22123 zier in his left hand, and in the act of giving the benedic- ' pretty as that of a company of young girls, almost women forest, and when population becomes tolerably dense, it be dangerous to proceed to sea in such a vessel. The tion with the right. Altogether about fourteen figures grown, at play, and so giving themselves up to their airy will bring an immense accession to the wealth of the set- captain admitted that when in dock she made 2 feet 11 23 24'25 1 26 27 28 29 24 25 26 27:28 29 30 are visible, comprehending the principal persons men- impulse, that their tip-toes barely touch the ground. tlement. Evidently this coal, from the geology of the inches of water in 26 hours, but that she could he freed 30 31 31 tioned in the sacred narrative, while the city of Jerusalem Girls are incomparably wilder and more effervescent than plain, as far as lam acquainted with it, is to be found at by the pumps in 15 minutes, and that no danger was in- - is the chief object in the background. Below this are boys, mo r e u n t amea bl e , an d r e ga rdl ess o f ru l e or li m it, a greater or less depth all along the lower hills, at the base curred by going out in h er. Mr. Cooke, superintendent Feb. 123 4 5 Aug. 6 7, 8 910 11 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 910'11 12 13 evidently the remains of another mural painting. with an ever-shifting variety breaking continually into new of the mountain chain. of pilots, who had examined the vessel, went into details 13 14115 16 17 18 19 el 14 15 16 1s IS 19 20 WEALTHY AMERICAN.-The Boston Mail says the modesof fun, yet withan harmonious propriety through all. " I will only say in conclusion that this is the first set- as to the construction of the ship, with a view to prove 20 21'22 23 24 25 26 21 22 23,24'25 26 27 yearly income of Eben Francis, a rich citizen of Boston, Their steps, their voices, appear free as the wind, but keep tlement I have been resident in in New Zealand which I that no danger need be apprehended to those sailing in would buy twelve hundred farms. His income, six per consonance with a strain of music inaudible to us. Young have ever felt unhesitatingly satisfied to recommend as fit her. Mr. Jackson contended that a vessel making water 27 28 28 29 30 1 31 - cent on the entire wealth, would amount, daily, to more men and boys, on the other hand, play, according to recog- for a man to risk (shall I say risk ?) his capital in, or for in . dock was no proof that she was not seaworthy, and told 1 11 2 3 4 5 'Sept. ) 21 3 than the wages of two hundred hard working men. His nised law, old traditionary games, permitting no caprices a woman of refined tastes and educated mind to come to tpe men he should commit them if they persisted in re- Mar. 6 7! 8 910 11 12 4 5 6 7 8 910 with the hope of speedily being surrounded . by more . of fusing to proceed to sea. The latter accepted the alter income would buy a bottle of schneider or a pair of boots of fancy, but with scope enough for the outbreak ofl3 14:15 16 17 18 19 11 12 13 14 15 16 1 17 every three minutes. Every breath, the old man is worth savage instincts-for, young or old, in play or in earnest, elegance and comfort, and friends befitting her station, native, and were committed to prison for thirty days. 20 21122 2321 25 26 la 19 20121 22 23 1 24 another ninepence. His enormous capital commands the man is prone to be a brute. than in the same space of time she could expect in any other settlement in New Zealand. And a weighty con- I toil of one thousand labourers and mechanics yearly, to HEALTH ASSURANCE.-An Indian paper tells a good HORTICULTURE. sideration in regard to females influences my opinion. It I - pay the interest. story of a thin, cadaverous-looking chap, a German, April 1 2 Oct. 1 is that the chance, at all times possible in the north, of a SHAKSPERE'S NAME.-In the council-book of the about fifty years old, who poked his nose into the office of war with Maories-fruits of the labour of half a life being -_-_..... 34,56 7 8 9 2345 6 7 8 ccrporation of Stratford, the name of the poet's father a Health Insurance Company, and held with. the agent the in one night swept clean away, and a whole family ruined OPERATIONS FOR THE WEEK. 16 11112 13 14 15 16 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 occurs 166 times, under fourteen different modes of ortho- following amusing colloquy :-" Ish te man in vot insures -is here as one to tens of thousands. In no other part of Stove, Conservatory, Greenhouse, &c.-The plants in 17 18,49 20 21 22 23 16 17118 19 20 21 22 graphy, viz.:- de peeples helts ?" The agent politely answered, " I at-• • • New Zealand would I have wished, with all the delight a these departments have suffered much during the long 24 25'26 27 28 29 30 23 24125 26 27 28 29 tend to that business, sir." "Veil, I vents my belts in- .30 11 1 Shackesper ...... 4 8 Shakspeyr ...... 17 shared ; you la' >" " Different ' vot sc arge . prices," answered a'ater's society would bring me, to have them join me." season of wet gloomy weather we . have lately had, and Shackespere .... 3 9 Shakyspere - - - 2 the agent, " from three to ten dollars a-year ; pay ten 3 Shacksper ...... 4 10 Shakysper ...... 4 dollars a-year, and you get ten dollars a week in case of THE RETIRING LORD CHANCELLOR. - Thepractical knowledge has been essential to the welfare of May 12314 5 6 7 Nov. ~. 1 2 3 4 5 8 910 11 12 13 14 6 i 8 910 11,12 4 Shackspere sickness." " ` b elly" said mynheer, " I vents ten dollars portance of the following provision in one of the new 15 16 17118 19 20 211 13 14 15 16 17 IS 19 5 Shakespere ..... . 13 12 Shaxper ........ The&c., well carried on, have alone preserved our conserve- i vort." agent inquired his state of health. "Veil, I Chancery acts (15 and 16 Victoria, cap. 80) will be felt 22 23 24'25 26 27 28' 20 21V22 23124 25,26 6 Shaksper . Shakspere - tent evils, mildew and the various fungoid nuisances of 29 30 31 27 28'29 30 1 hours a toy, unt de doctor says he cant do noting more cellor :-Section 60. " Whereas it has frequentl y the arden. Judicious arrangement of the few plants in MODERN PHRASES. - An American paper says :-" We goot fo r m e." "If th a t' s th e s t a t e of y our h ea lth," re - h a pp ene d th a t a fte r cases have been f u lly h ear d by th e g flower is all that can now be suggested. June 1 2 3 4 Dec. 1 2 3 are, indeed, a happy, elegant, moral, transcendent people• turned the agent, "we can't insure it. We only insure Lord Chancellor in the Court of Chancery, and are 5 6 7 8 910 11 4 5 6 7 8 910 We have no masters, they are all principals; no shopmen, persons who are in good health." At this mynheer standing for judgment, the Lord Chancellor has delivered 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 11 12 13,14 1511617 Flower Gardens.-Avoid any work except mere cleaning they are assistants ;no s h o p s , t h ey are a ll establishments; bristled up in great anger. " You must tink I'm a fool ; up the great seal without being able, by reason of other from dead leaves, & c., while the Soil is sodden with wet. no servants, they are all 'helps ;' no gaolers, they are all vot you tink I come to pay you ten dollars for inshure urgent public business, to deliver judgment therein, and Nothing will be gained by working now ; but great evil 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 18 19 1 20 21 22,23 24 26 27 28 29 30 25 26'27 28 29'30'31 governors ; nobody is flogged in bridewell, he merely re- my belts ven Ivos cell ."' much inconvenience and expense to the parties has been would most likely be the result of trampling the wet ceives the correction of the house ; nobody is unable to pay thereby occasioned ; in remedy thereof, be it enacted that ground. Look well to the frames, give plenty of air, and - CHURCH SPIRES.-Much of the beauty of Gothic his debts, he is only unable to meet his engagements ; no- in every case it shall be lawful for the person who has so wherever mildew makes its appearance, dust the plants CONVICTION FOR MURDER.-At the High Court of churches depends upon the proportion of spire to tower ; 11 with " flower of sulphur. ' body is angry, he is only excited ; nobody is cross, he is delivered up the great seal, within six weeks after he shall we- _ s • Justiciary, Edinburgh, on Thursday, a pensioner named but the extreme difference existing in this respect between only nervous ; lastly, nobody is drunk, the very utmost different buildings, leads me to suspect that no law has have delivered up the same, to give to the registrar of the Kitchen Garden.-Opportunities may be taken for George Christie, belonging to Aberdeen, was charged with you can assert is, the,: he has taken his wine.' " been observed in the adjustment of any. A law, however, said court a written judgment therein, signed by him, and Pruning and nailing fruit trees, but this is best done in the murder of an aged widow, named Ross, and her grand. TN ENGLAND. every man's cottage is held to be his th ere certa i n ly a ,,,s h e . let „ s discover_ if we can. w e et a decree or order, as the case may require, shall be dry weather. child, a boy of about five years of age, at Sunnybank, IN ENGLAND, every man's cottage is held to be his castle, which he is authorised to defend even against the assault of the King ; but it may be doubted whether the same privilege extends to Ireland. "My client," said an Irish advocate, pleading before Lord Norbury, in an action of trespass, " is a poor man—he lives in a hovel—and this miserable dwelling is in a forlorn and dilapidated state ; but still, thank God ! the labourer's cottage, however ruinous its plight, is his sanctuary and his castle. Yes — the winds may enter it, and the rain may enter it, but the King cannot enter it." " What ! not the raining King ?" asked the joke-loving judge. A FEW PROVERBS BY MR. BRIFFLESS. Half guinea earned is nothing saved.—Misfortunes seldom come alone. (I see three of my creditors through my keyhole.) —Experience makes those fools, my creditors, too wise.— Pay as you go, but if you can't pay it is no use going.—lf it is right to make a virtue of necessity, my necessities should load me with virtues.—Possession is nine points out of ten, and self-possession is the other.—Fortune knocks once at every man's door, but misfortune is knock ing at mine with a bill in its hand all day long.—Custom is said to be second nature ; but my custom is the cause of nothing but ill-nature on the part of my tradesmen. CHURCH SPIRES.—Much of the beauty of Gothic churches depends upon the proportion of spire to tower ; but the extreme difference existing i❑ this respect between different buildings, leads me to suspect that no law has been observed in the adjustment of any. A law, however, there certainly must be : let us discover, if we can, what it is. It has ever been my impression that a spire cannot be the mere crowning or finish of a tower, but the principal feature in the composition. I believe that the introduction of a spire degrades the tower to the rank of a pedestal, and that the latter must therefore in form and size be adapted to a new office, viz., that of supporting, elevat ting, and giving dignity to the spire, which, being com plete in itself, calls for the tower as a basement : in other words, it must be an imperfect tower, i. e. a tower which, divested of its spire, would be seen to be incomplete, that must be asssciated with the spire. Certain lam that a spire on a complete tower, a tower perfect in its fully-de veloped proportions, that would satisfy the eye as a tower, can never appear anything, but an incumbrance to it, a thing to mar its beauty. To give the spire that effect of grandeur of which it is capable, it must be made the chief feature in the group, and be placed on a tower merely to raise it above the roofs of the church.—Correspondent of the Builder. CHILDREN AND THEIR INFLUENCE.—Nearer to glory they stand than we, in this world and the next. It was a gentle and not unholy fancy that made the Portuguese artist, Siquiera, in one of his sweet pictures, form of millions of infant faces the flood of heaven; dividing it thus from the vault beneath, with its groups of the damned and lost. For how many women has this image been realised ! How many have been saved from despair and sin by the voice and smile of those unconscious little ones ? The woman who is a mother dwells in the immediate presence of guardian angels. She will bear on for her children's sake. She will toil for them—die for them— live for them—which is sometimes harder still. The neg lected, miserable, maltreated wife has still one bright spot in her home ; in that darkness a watchlight burns—she has her children's love—she will strive for her children. The woman tempted by passion has still one safeguard stronger than all with which you would surround her — she will not leave her children. The angry and out raged woman sees in their tiny features a pleading more eloquent than words ; her wrath against her husband melts in the sunshine of their eyes. Idiots are they who, in family quarrels, seek to punish the mother, by parting her from her offspring ; for in that blasphemy against nature they do violence to God's own decrees, and lift away from her heart the consecrated instruments of His power. The fact that there are careless and unnatural mothers does not destroy the argument. So there are m en who are murderers—children who are monsters. Nature makes exceptions to all her great unswerving rules ; but rules they will remain to the end of time. And among them none more general, more mighty, more un failing, than the mother for her child. THE RETIRING LORD CHANCELLOR.— The in portance of the following provision in one of the new Chancery acts (15 and 16 Victoria, cap. 80) will be felt on the retirement of Lord St. Leonards as Lord Chan cellor :—Section 60. " Whereas it has frequently happened that after cases have been fully heard by the Lord Chancellor in the Court of Chancery, and are standing for judgment, the Lord Chancellor has delivered up the great seal without being able, by reason of other urgent public business, to deliver judgment therein, and much inconvenience and expense to the parties has been thereby occasioned ; in remedy thereof, be it enacted that in every case it shall be lawful for the person who has so delivered up the great seal, within six weeks after he shall have delivered up the same, to give to the registrar of the said court a written judgment therein, signed by him, and a decree or order, as the case may require, shall be drawn up in pursuance of such judgment, and every such decree or order shall have the same force and effect as if the judgment in pursuance whereof it is drawn up had been given in open court the day before he shall have so delivered up the great seal." THE LATE REV. GEORGE B. SANDFORD, M.A.—On the 9th instant, the Rev. George Benjamin Sandford, M.A., vicar of Church Minshull, near Middlewich, breathed his last at Southport, in consequence of an attack of erratic gout which flew to the brain. He was for many years a faithful parish priest, and was greatly beloved by his parishioners and by all others who knew him. He was an occasional contributor to the volumes of the Historic Society, one of which contains an important paper of his, giving an account of his own parish. It was printed as a specimen of the valuable contributions which the local clergy might make, from time to time, from the materials within their own reach. At the last meeting of the society, a valuable book of Mr. Sandford's was exhibited, consisting of an alphabetical arrangement of all his parochial registers during a period of nearly three hundred rears. Mr. Sandford was the author of several works on theology and general literature, the last of which was produced during the present year,—" An attempt to illustrate the chronology of the Old Testament by a reference to the year of Jubilee." DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—Mr. John Gwynne, of the Boughton Arms, Peterchurch, died on Saturday, at the Seven Stars Inn, Cleonger, from injuries received on the previous Thursday. The deceased had left the Dog Inn, Blackmarston, about midnight on Wednesday, and had not gone further than Newton-bridge, when either the horse he was riding threw him out of the saddle, or he slipped down, and, his feet being:held in the stirrups, he was in this manner dragged for a distance of three miles to the Bowling-green turnpike, where he was found lying in the road at a quarter to five o'clock on Thursday morning by a man who was going to work. The horse was standing near to him, with stirrup-leather and iron from the " off" side hanging over the saddle on the "near" side. The man took hold of his shoulder and spoke to him, but he made no answer ; he was taken to the Seven Stars and undressed, when a dreadful wound was found on his right shoulder, caused by the friction, and he died on Saturday. Deceased was a widower, aged 48 years, and has left two children.—Hereford Journal. CONVICT] Justiciary, George Chri the murder child, a boy Kitty brews) He was sent Edinburgh, on Thursday, a pensioner named istie, belonging to Aberdeen, was charged with of an aged widow, named Ross, and her grand of about five years of age, at Sunnybank, ter, near Aberdeen, on the 4th of October last. tenced to be executed on 13th January. CHRISTA! don on Girl festivities of MASCULINE AND FEMININE.—There are certain nouns with whi c h no ti ons o f s t reng th, v i gour , an d th e like qualities, are more particularly connected ; and these are the neuter substantives which are figuratively rendered masculine. On the other hand, b eau ty, am i a bility, an d so forth, are held to invest wor d s w i t h a f em i n i ne charac ter. Thus the sunis said to be masculine, and the moon feminine. But for our own part, and our view is confirmed by the discoveries of astronomy , w e believe that the sun is called masculine from his supporti ng an d sustaining the moon, and finding her the wherewithal t o s hi ne away as she does of a night when all quiet people are in bed ; and from his being obliged to keep such a family of stars be sides. The moon, we think, is accounted feminine be cause she is thus maintained and kept up in her splendour, like a fine lady, by her husband, the sun. Furthermore, the moon is continually changing ; on which account alone she might be referred to the feminine gender. 'lhe earth is feminine, tricked out as she is with gems and flowers. Cities and towns are likewise feminine, because there are as many windings, turnings, and little odd cor- tiers in them as there are in the femt i le mind. A ship s feminine, inasmuch as she is blown about by every wind. Virtue is feminine by courtesy. Fortune and misfortune, like mother and (laughter, are both feminine. The church is feminine because she is married to the State ; or mar ried to the State because she is feminine—we do not know which. Time is masculine, because he is so trifled with by the ladies.—Comic English Grammar. 'AS FlRES.—Several fires took place in Lon istmas day, causing a sad interruption to the f the season. Amongst the sufferers were the following :—Mr. Maybury, hairTdresser, 52, 'Wapping High-street ; Mr. C. Holmes, dairyman, 185, Union street, Southwark ; Mr. R. Stain, tinman, 6, Britannia row, Islington ; Mr. R. Parritt, draper, 120, Great Suffolk-street, Borough ; the Ragged School, No. 138 arch, under the South-Eastern Railway, Bermondsey ; Mr. C. Case, cab-proprietor, Old-street, St. Luke's; and Mr. W. Berry, 48. Old Baily. A MODERN ROMANCE.—A short distance from Reading resides a respectable family, one member of which is an accomplished and pretty daughter. About three weeks ago the mother and daughter came to Reading on busi ness, and put up at one of the hotels, at which was re siding a gentleman who had recently left the army. The gentleman, by his agreeable deportment, made a favour impression on the daughter, and she became enamoured of this Lothario. This coming to the parents' ears, they waited upon the gentleman, and asked him his intentions. Ile said at once that he was about to depart for Australia —that lie was not in a position to marry—in fact, that he could scarcely keep himself. Her parents kept her in close confinement until she promised to banish all thoughts of him, and she was released on making this promise. The morning after she was liberated she attired herself in a suit of her brother's clothes, and put a gown over them. She left the house on pretence of having a walk, but at once made her way to Reading, took off the gown and bonnet, and threw them over a hedge into a field. In this disguise she went to the hotel and asked for the gen tleman, and presented a note, which ran thus :—" Dear G—, you will find me in the street, dressed in man's attire, walking up and down. Do come. Ever yours, B—." The ex-military gentleman said there was no answer, on being told which the young lady said, " Oh, but it is imperative ; I must have one !" The deception was then discovered. She has since bitterly r epented her folly, and the hero is now on his way to Australia.— Berkshire Chronicle. MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF A YOUNG LADY. On Tuesday, information was received of the mysterious disappearance of a young lady, of high connexions, who resided near Eaton-square, London. She went out for a walk on Thursday, the 16th inst., and took the omnibus at the end of Sloane-street, Chelsea, and although every exertion has been made to trace the fugitive, no tidings have been heard of her. The follow. ing is the description of her i--Initials on linen are " K. I. Q." about 18 years of age, but looks older ; dressed in a coarse straw bonnet, lined and trimmed with blue, edged with black velvet, with a wreath of pink daisies ; sage-coloured merino dress, black cloth-paletot, with brown parasol ; high .heeled black kid hoots ; gold ring, with green stone, which she wore on her right hand. She had with her also a brown paper parcel, containing a plaid silk dress. Her height is about 5 feet 4 inches, dark hair, pale complexion. SIR GAMMER VANS.—The following piece of nonsense went the rounds of the United States newspapers about 21 years ago. It was intended to burlesque Mr. Van Buren's letter resigning the office of Secretary of State, which his political opponents denounced as rather obscure and in. comprehensible Dear Sir,—The great moving spring of atheistical principles, predicated and promulgated by the influence of Popish superstition, could not be more gratified than Jeptlia was when he was commander, under the influence of the Providence of the mail-packet coming in contact with belles lett res . Th a t c l ass o f persons w h o are never intrusted with anything should be careful what use they make of it, for it is a well-known fact that the heterogeneous matter, compounding with a sour stomach, renders the garment unfit for use ; therefore, buff vests are fittest for the rising generation, especially when damp ness does not conspire to prevent horticulture from springing up amidst the 'vapours of enthusiasm, which could not have inspired genius with Junitts's Letters, although might have had e hand iu inlnziog Gibbs the pirate." APPLICATION OF A CURIOUS PHYSIOLOGICAL DISCO VERY.-It has long been known to physiologists that certain colouring matters, if administered to animals along with their food, possessed the property of entering into the system and tinging the bones. In this way the bones of swine have been tinged purple by madder, and instances are on record of other animals being similarly affected. No attempt, however, was made to turn this beautiful discovery to account until lately, when Mons. Roulin speculated on what might be the consequences of administering coloured articles of food to silkworms just before they began spinning their cocoons. His first ex periments were conducted with indigo, which he mixed in certain proportions with the mulberry leaves, serving the worms for food. The result of this treatment was suc cessful ; he obtained blue cocoons. Prosecuting still fur ther his experiments, he sought a red colouring matter capable of being eaten by the silkworms without injury resulting. He had some difficulty to find such a colour ing matter at first, but eventually alighted on the .13?fino nia cliica. Small portions of this plant having been added to the mulberry leaves, the silkworms consumed the mixture, and produced red-coloured silk. In this man ner the experimenter, who is still prosecuting his re searches, bores to obtain silk as secreted by the worm of many other colours.—Morning Chronicle. FOREIGN MISCELLANY. ACCOUNTS FROM PALERMO, of the 33th ult., state that the eruption of Mount Etna had entirely ceased, the crater only emitting a faint light or flame from time to time. THE BAVARIAN GOVERNMENT has ordered that 1,1 every parish a public magazine of corn shall he establish ed at the cost of the parish, for the purpose of making Pr o ' vision against dearth. FREEDOM OF OPINION IN ROME. Accounts from Rome of the 14th instant state that the French ha d arrested 21 young men for ridiculing the new emperor on the occasion of the proclamation of the empire. The consulta di stata is still sitting. be LADIES SLEEVES.—A German physician is said to about to publish a scientific condemnation of the prese nt loose sleeves worn by ladies. He asserts that they pro mote rheumatism and all kinds of complaints, and recory mends a return to the long and close sleeves of a former period. SENOR MARTINEZ DE LA. RosA, a nephew of the late Spanish ambassador at Rome, and an attaches of t he Spanish legation in that capital, was mortally wounde d while fencin4 with a friend, a short time since. T he , button slipped off his adversary's foil, which penetrat eu his lungs. and inflicted a fatal wound. NEW ZEALAND LITERATURE.—" Robinson Crusoe,': in the Maori language, by Mr. Kemp, has been publishes under the direction of government. It consists of demy octavo pages, and is pictorially illustrated, 11 '," 1 number of copies printed is 1000, and it is intended to se" the work at a price which sill cover its cost.—New Zea land Gazette. INDIAN SUTTEE.—Letters from Bhooj mention that a Suttee had lately taken plane in the immediate neighbour' hood of that station. It is said that some English office r pulled the woman off the pile, and that she was willing ° be saved, but the attendant Brahmins dragged her ba ck : and on her attempting a second time to escape, dashed her brains out. As AMERICAN SWINDLER.—There has recently beep arrested near St. Louis, United States, a man callini himself Houghton, who had a short time before victimi ze some wealthy citizens of Bloomington, Illinois, out of about 5'50,000, under the pretence that he was a wealthy gentleman from Leeds, England, and was about to estab' lish a bank there under the new banking law of the stare' A large portion of the property has been recovered. had pursued his business in many places, with much 5 1 °' and address, for some time. THE MADIAI.—The Corriere Mercantile of Genoa, ef the 16th instant, quotes the following, dated Florence, I Pe 13th :—" The wife of Madiai, who is confined at Volter ra for proselytism, has been tick for some days. It is 5 11 that the Archduchesses, feeling for her deplorable cow''' tion, have tried to influence her to re-enter the Catholic Church, in the hone of obtaining her pardon. It is be lieved that she rejected their offers. A perouisition made in the house cf Stefano Fiorelli, editor of t " e. journal Esperanza, by eight gendarmes and an officer' After a search, which lasted about seven hours, the Be v darmes withdrew without finding anything." A HIGH BRIDGE.—On the Buffalo and New York City Railroad, which is 423 miles long, with a continuous tr a c k of six-feet gauge, there is a singular piece of carpe ntry, °, the shape of what is known as the " High-bridge," fle r°s ,,. the Genesee river, at Portage, Wyoming county, , e h York. This bridge is 800 feet long, and 234 feet h' 4 ,, from the bed of the river to the rail. The masonry in t ' river is 30 feet high ; the trestles, 190 feet ; and the trus,s,; 14 feet. It contains 1,692,000 feet B.AI. timber ; 1 0 S , " t 1 lbs. iron in bolts, &c. ; and 9,200 cubic yards cen 3el' , masonry. It was commenced Ist July, 1851, and O D I , pleted—so as to be crossed with an engine—August 11. 1852. It is estimated that one of the trestles, or ba t " will sustain a weight of 3,109 tons in addition to its ow 3 weight and that of the truss above it. nC ABD-EL-KADER.—Letters from Marseilles anus „ne the arrival of Abd-el-Kader in the evening of the I,lt .'' From an early hour of the morning of the 15th a e (3l le derable crowd collected round the entrance of the Bit e ' d l'Empereur, where the emir took up his quarters ; a l3 r , police agents had to be stationed to keep the passage e le %- Abd-el-Kader received the visits of many Algerian Ar a i :, who were on their way from the pilgrim ag e to 3le e c, The pilgrims long waited for the hour of seeing the They prostrated themselves in respectful silence at 0 feet, and appeared to treasure up the wo r ds that fell f r f h e his lips. As all, however, could not be introduced to : be holy man, a deputation was chosen to convey to hial.„,` esteem and the prayers of his countrymen. The , -D;le was to have left Marseilles on the 16th, on board Labrador. ^Ei REPORTED RE-ESTABLISHMENT OF GAMIYG-1 1 ' - : 4 y" P IN PARIS. — The Paris correspondent of a daily paper it —" Ever since the advent of Louis Napoleon to pew er ito has been rumoured from time to time that he intenot e of re-establish lotteries and gambling-houses in Paris. h e r late the report has been renewed ; but I must own t;r-of in the present state of public opinion on the sliti.J e ', o3 • gambling, I did not attach much credit to it. A elf c L e so stance has just happened, which, if correct, wen l "; - fea to show that there is some ground for the report. P .- c , Ol . days ago, M. Mires, the proprietor of the Pays and, t he stitutionnel, is said to have called a meeting m tha t editors of those papers, and announced to rhe a % tecl lotteries were to he re-established, and that he ell ) 1 5 to them to support institutions of that class, as benefic ial humanity, morality, and civilisation." INGENUITY OF FRENCH THIEVES.—A thief re. - „pritlY satered one of the fashionable ready-made linen shl s for Paris, and asked to see sundry articles for his w ue ,.';,e , whom, he said, ho was preparing a pleasant se r P'" be " But," said he to the attending damsel, " 1 wish r° ,:be sure of a correct fit. My wife is about your height ;will has, like you, a fine figure—the carriage of a queen: o r you be so obliging, since my wife has just your s' ze "2'' very near it, to try on this chemise over your clres'o,"o, She complied, and the thief, pretending to draw it 1 ' O ber attached it, by means of a large carpet pin, to a cs clothes. He then ordered a dozen like it at five f,r a e lf each. The shop girl, well satisfied, attempted to ta,L' e th es the chemise, but finding that, as she raised it, her e' ° ,, o o, also came up with it, she ran into an adjoining e a, when the thief made off with all he could lay hands aP d o' THE SARDINE FISHERIES.—On the coasts of Pr"- are which are upwards of sixty leagues in extent, ther e of taken annually, on an average, 576,000,000 sardinegite which one-half are sold fresh, the other preserved' a berf sums received for the sale is 3,585,000 f. The "- 0 0 employs about 160 vessels, and 3500 men and boys' fi e b shore the preparation, conveyance, and sale of th e wo• give occupation to 4500 persons, of whom 2500 ar e , B re" men ; and in the interior of the country 4400 ners ° f aei g occupied in the sale. The making and repairing ° :or g ' employ, during the winter, 3000 families, or 9000 Pe r i, 0 1 ; of whom one-half are f ema l es . Th e fi s hi ng lasts , ° e end average 210 days, from the be g in n i ng o f April to of October. The sardines then disappe ar , a nd the "i•bel men are unable to explain what becomes of them' 1,, i l l only leave when they have obtained their full gro at r ana April sardines again appear, but they are young e i , e smaller than those which abandoned the coast at of the preceding season. f A ROBBER'S DEVICE.—The criminal tribunal ;we t ' lin, tried, a few days ago, a married couple named:' other for stealing a considerable quantity of plate ar' a beal e articles of value. The case was curious, f r om the 5 '00 3 ; which the accused concocted to avert suspicion from e dgf The woman was cook in a wealthy family, and a fter when her master and mistress retu r ned home , " o f t' short absence, they found her lying on the fl' )° ,, r , o f if dining-room, bound hand and foot, and in a sta te sensibility, caused by the administration of el" ° ," te All the drawers and closets were opened, and the P,l 3 s ois t a : other valuable things were taken away. Medica l vete j ance was procured for the woman, and she soon red:lndere( She then stated that she had been hound and. re „coaf senseless by thieves ; but the police, f rom exanaM'a t hey the premises, doubted the truth of the story , s r) l e dg e j pressed her:with question s , un til a t l as t s h e ackna",. ba that it was hOn Tier husband, who, with her c ni"l3-eci ad perpetrated the robbery, and bound her, and hrested ministered the chloroform. The husband was 9r e ra° e f and he made the like admission. The tribunal calf vest , the man to three and the woman to two and a 135' imprisonment. ela t e s e' NAnnow ESCAPE.—The indipendance Be/9,e nrt hlt the following story :—" An extraordinary acelu,%.sw;h9 just happened on the Northern Railway, at Mat'` l ;l 4 ,;,' 4 n.qir Herrin, to J. B. Dencv, a bombardier of `";ee Artillery. He was on furlough, and had g one t° to ce,: friends at Trith St. Leger. He stayed at Anzi 3 brate Saint Barbe, with some miners, and left , ql t t ePil - e toxicated. His way lay across the railroad, ' but ;hat going over it, he turned up the line, not knowing, t he was about, and finished by lying down between (10;;I: and going fast asleep. The train from Anzin the line at its usual hour, arid the engine and tett.," n )ger', k i, all the carriages pessed over him, yet, without i r;eng l i t j a - e him. It was nearly dark as this happened, ' but dat ~- e r driver had caught a glimpse of Dency, and left vc° r ni irriv,;e next station that a body was lying on the line. of railway servants set . cut with lanterns and W ieP it ;l3 drunken man extended on the grourd and still E d o p although the engine had inflicted a . scalp wou ineta',;l head and broken two of his fingers. He w 9 ' aroused, when he declared he remembered 9° l - o pro l " what had passed, and was greatly astonished on how narrowly he had escaped a terrible danger. e :P- of DISCOVERIES IN CHINA.—The return of io from Pekin, after a sojourn of three years at t".y e 0' 01. 13 15 that city, has created a sensation in the sciea,l of d g. Ile is about to lay before the public a re e v ' t p 3 ter 6b 'tlic journey, which took but fifteen days from St. `; c tiag,ber He has collected a vast deal of inf or mation re 9 P; t has ae r d o i s s s co o l f . e ir v at i e d r e i t o ic r es of of C c h i i l i r l i a s , tia a l n ii d ty granite, 11 P the . 0 ; is graven, in Chinese characters, an outline 5 rel s oo and sufferings of Our Saviour, with proPh eci d c 0°,0 04 to the general resurrection of mankind an d to 19 ; destruction of the globe. This cross is suPOseli3l ht' to the second century after Christ. M. 11larec — os 10 05 110 1 0 1 brought the agate of C cup Terns-Khan,_ w 01 0 e for sacrifice in the great temple. It is of In ns " 0 ° - 0 01 ' beauty, both of design and execution, cut fron ) cit e the I , e s f stone, measuring about thirty-seven inc— rso o o ference, and carved with mysterious eta ble hed course of the sun. The surface is highly P0" 5 ,,,ter 5 jje s ' a coarse gray colour, upon which the Ch w a r ,, which it is graven stand out distinctly.the9o - the sacred apes bending forward into 01 1.0 are wonderfully beautiful in execution, and :1 000.00 / thing of the kind produced in modern times' discovered, f a at, 4 J BRISTOL AND EETER RA ILIVAIr• --) rre -fi serious and alarming accident, which Wu Br it°,, r ol Yatton and Cleveland Junction branch of the Exeter Railway, owing to the negligence of ~l e e ng .e.o o,, whose business it was to turn the points, "sir, the mid-day train, instead of rcaching h,,%g rh" getting to the station, ran on the short slu t o rt s eti fhe the engine-house. It knocked down the sullitter ev eri s shed, to esdtroyed both the gat , :s, and, indeecl,„4 lrt shed pieces. The bricks and m ortar ,n o u e j direction, and the engineer was seriously iniarger'footir of the falling bricks. Several of the Pa-had at 0145 received contusions and bruises—one lady J e t knocked out, and a gentleman had his forel ea eng ° . 'fbe d co' by the rim of a fellow-passenger's hat. ecxotn;ipciaeeedlyfboruraiecdri,nsitdleierabbreicpkesritiondd. mortar, an