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SPRING IS COMING, Spring is coming—Spring is coming! With her snnshine and her shower; Heaven is ringing with the singing Of the birds in brake and bower; Buds are filling. leaves are swelling, Flowers on field, and bloom on tree; O'er the earth. and air, and ocean, Nature holds her jubilee. Soft then stealing, comes a feeling O'er my bosom tenderly; Sweet I ponder, as I wander, For my musings are of Thee. Sprint is coming —Spring is coming! With her mornings fresh and light; With her noon of chequered glory. Sky of blue and clouds of white. tfalls, when the light falls bespangled sky, While the splendour, pale and tender, Of the young moon gleams on high. Still at morn, at noon, and even, ireyn From the s. Spring is full of joy for me, For I ponder. as I wander . And rr nn►s are of Thee Still on Thee my thoughts nre dwelling, Whatsoe'er thv mime mr v he ; Beatttiful 'vonil words telling, Is thy r Morninz's hreakintr. finds thee waking, Wanderir7 in the breeze's fiioht ; Noontide's elory mantles o'er Thee In a sho Daylistht the senre nntn me htly on Thee ni; ng of th.e day. Thee, 1 .k and in the linnet 's hesrt to fill Thee I sing lin University Mayne e* Thee SPRING LITERATURE --......r,,1p.-..-...--- BOOKS Pon REVIEW. &e intended for review, m2v be lion-court, Fleet-street, Lor of the 1.1 VE R STA NDA ti and receive attention. 800 KS REM! ventur n Central A Descriptive GE —The Botanic Garden and Frui.i,t ere, Part The Best Storv-Teller 31 and Edinburzh The Home Industry, Part r al, Pa Temperance Chronicle Magazin Mavizi r theroe, No. 4 , —Homcelpathy in 1851 w Music r March Polka.—Annie Lauf L'A mo ~ r et La F Co.— Cocks's M hool All phy. By A F.G.S. Blackwood and Sons IL A S sical Geo Keith Jo Those of cal pursuits i and Sons quire o t Mr. Keith Jo New Reokm, prints, Mnsie, &e Mitchel —Sc.nes and Ad !chool Atlas or General ane f ysica Geo! lite Companion U-Honrs with th^ Rest Authors.— Pictor Sl , akspere, Parts -Chambers The Country Horse, No. 4 le, P rt 32.—The Home Companion, Part 4 —P. otestant Ma —Mervyn ( Quadrille. London : D'Almaine au,l 2d Descriptive Geogra Johnston, F.R.S.E., F.R.G.S )nr readers who take an interest in zeograph neral literature stun, tF Geographer in ordinary to her Majesty in Scotland earn E works of " Nation thousand two book brings befor Geography n here it is a beautifu rally from SCE the sehoc him under a series of paper to ry print''l Blons specimens son has is followed in interest are add standing; and publici access to a! The Cher and interes gentleman whose name was connected with two reat imnorta few years ago. One was the 1 Atlas if not, the best. is one of tb, was the " Phy‘ical the late Dr, .rvations. The minished forms i for about ti The iti riecesso iiffieult to over-estimat series of isolated fact! which details flow natn ,cation is partieu- of an entirely new hook Instead of mring and able worn r 1 superior plate paper, and is Lireat Exhibition of lost on Mr. Johnoo The les- The same plan al Atlas facts of as to the under- to give them hot Er. but a little time eApecially the latter, The Clergy List for 1852. Lond : C. Co r the present year contains some new g features A. Est of prison chaplains is given, which is approximately correct, and which Immo. nizes with the The chaplains cl navy chaplains, previously g unions should also be given. In addition to the clergy of the colonial dioceses, and of the Scottish Episcopal Church, those of the Irish Church are given this year, taken from Thom's Irish Almanack. These last are given in a separate alphabetical I:st ; and the colonial clen of Scotland, but of which five are essays political artic 1852. The 1 the Ca ted in the e, for March books a and one is a r, on the Reform measure, of it is ohs The sketches from !ed in our last number; and though none of the others are uninteresting, we have been most taken with the paper on Miss Mitford's " Recollections," from which we quote the following incident FORCE OF FLATTERY Last Saturday I happened to he sitting on a fallen tree somewhat weary. my little damsel working as usual at ne other end, and Fanchon balancing himself on the trunk between us; the curls of her brown coat—she is entirely brown— urninz into e sunshine played upon them through the leaves. In this manner Were we [Hs- - posed, when a gipsy, with a pair of light baskets in her hand, came and offered them for sale. She was a middle aged woman, who, in spite of her wandering life—perhaps because of that hardy out-of-door life—had retained much of her early beauty : the flashing eyes, the pearly teeth, the ruddy cheeks, the fine erect figure. It happened that, not wanting them, my companion had rejected these identical baskets when brought to our door in the morn ing. She told me so, and I quietly declined them. My friend the gipsy apparently gave the matter up, and, alaiming me as an old acquaintance, began to inquire after my health, and fell into the pleasantest strain of conversation possible; spoke of my father, who, she said, had been kind to her and to her tribe, (no doubt she said truly ; he was kind to everybody, and had a liking for the wandering race,) spoke of her children at the zipsy school in Dorsetshire ' • of the excellent Mr. Cr a bbe, th e f r i en d o f her people, at Southampton ; then she began stroking Fanchon, (who actually, to my astonishment, permitted the liberty ; in general she suffers no one to touch her that is not gentleman or lady ;) Fanchon she stroked, and Of r LUSO. Me near utu (10A, lived iy 1114 1,41 tA,1.2c4 rose-tree, she talked ; then, to leave no one unpropitiated, she threw out a word of pleasing augury, a sart of gratui tous fortune-telling, to the hemmer of flounces; then she attacked me again with old recollections, trusting, with singular knowledge of human nature, to the power of the future upon the young, and of the past upon the old—to me she spoke of happy memories, and to my companion of happiness to come ; and so—h ow; could I help it ?—I bought the baskets. In an able review of Mr. Prinsep and M. Hue's works on Tibet, Tartary, and Mongolia, we are presented with the subjoined description of DRESS AND MANNERS IN TIBET, The people of Tibet are of the great Mongolian family, and exhibit its characters in a very marked degree ;—plat ter face, with prominent cheek-boneq, button-hole eyes and upright eyelids, squashed nose, wide mouth, retiring chin, scant beard, coarse black hair, deeply-marked and weather-beaten countenances; naturally of a pale-brown colour, but tanned to any depth of copper, not without a ruddy tint at times; of a considerable variety of stature. The English traveller, who, in traversing the steep val ley-sides of the Himalaya, comes for the first time on a party of Tibetans driving south war d their flock of sheep and goats—each little quadruped, like a ca me l f rom 'Atli put, laden with some twenty pounds of salt or borax—is struck at once with the idea that he has stumbled on a group of Esquimaux out of Parry's voyages. Th ese quaint, good-humoured people frequent the fairs of the British hill territory, to exchange their salt for wheat and barley ; and sometimes they get so far from home as to astonish, with unwonted apparition, the evening prome_ naders at Simla or Mussooree. Dark woollen cloths is the standard material of dress, formed into a wide frock, trousers, and leggings, the last replaced in the wealthy by boots of Russia, or other costly leather. Over all is worn A Capacious mantle of cloth, sometimes lined with fur. From a red girdle depend various purses, containing the wooden teacup inseparable from a Tibetan, flint and steel, and other odds and ends. Gay broad-brimmed hats are in vogue at Lhassa, but are rarer in the west. The women dress much like the men, and plait the hair in narrow tresses hanging on the shoulders. On the top of the head the Ladakh women wear a flat lappet of cloth or leather, descending in a peak bellied, stuck over with beads of it dioceses, !ike those leral alphabeti- multaneously Amon Ireland." from the late Mr Petivel turquoise, amber, and cornelian ; and the back hair is ga thered in a queue, which is lengthened by tassels of co loured worsted intermixed with. shells, bells, and coins, until it nearly touches the ground. Though not veiled, like the Moslem women, with muslin or calico, their charms are subjected to a much more efficacious disguise. Before leaving'home, every respectable woman at Lhassa plasters her faee with a black sticky varnish like raspberry jam, which gives her an aspect scarcely human. The practice is said at Lhassa to have been introduced some centuries ago, in order to check the immorality which was then rampant in the city. But it appears to be widely diffused, and •is probably ancient. Rubruquis refers to something like it in the thirteenth century. Grueher and Dorville, who travelled through Tibet and Nepaul in 1661, say, " The women of these kingdoms are so hideous that they are liker demons than human creatures ; for through some sup rstition, instead of water they always use a stinking oil to wash with ; and with this they are so fetid and so bedaubed that they might he taken for hate ful hobgoblins." But tastes diffex, and the same unguent which the missionaries represent as intended to render the women hideously unattractive, or at least a modifica tion of it in fashion at Ladakh, Moorcroft appears to think is adopted as a cosmetic. From all the fathers could learn, the black varnish has not altogether reformed Ti betan morals. The strange. repulsive custom of polyan dry, or the marriage of one woman to several brothers, is diffused over the greater part of Tibet, though it is cot mentioned by Huc as existing in Lhassa. It is not con fined to the lower ranks. but is frequent also in opulent families. Turner mentions one instance in the neigh bourhood of Teshoo Loombo, where five brothers were living together very happily under the same connubial compact. Moorcroft speaks of three meals a-day as the practice of Ladakh, but this extraordinary symptom of civilisation does not seem to he general. In Eastern Ti bet, re g ul ar mea ls are not in vogue; the members of a family do not. assemble to dine together, hut " eat when they're hungry, drink when they're dry." We remem ber to have beard a graphic description of the Tibetan cuisine from a humorous shikaree. or native Nimrod, of nur Himalayan provinces. " The Bhoteea folk," he said, " have a detestable way of eating. They take a large cooking-pot full of water, and put in it meat, bread, rice. what not, and set it on the ire, where it is always a simmering. When hungry, they go and fish out a cup ful of whatever comes uppermost, perhaps six or seven times a day. Strangers are served in the same way. If a man gets hold of a hone, be picks it, wipes his hands on his dress, and chucks it back into the .pot; so with all crumbs and scraps, back they go into the pot, and thus the never ending. still beginning, mess stews on." Of all the quaint modes of salutation among men, that in fashion at Lhassa is surely the quaintest and most elabo rate ; and we can fancy that it affords room for all the Etraces.of a Tibetan Chesterfield It consists of uncover- ing the head, sticking out the tongue, and scratching the right ear ! and these three operations are performed si- The Dublin University Magazine. There are ten articles in the current number of the University Magazine, of which the following may be taken as a fair analysis. Three are essays on books, the " Celto-Scythic Progresses," founded on the Bardic of the Invasions of Ireland ; the " Birds of W. Thompson's Natural History of the Country ; and the " Administration of Scinde," from Sir William Napier's History. There is one oriainal story called the " Last Life in the Lease," and a continuation, viz., the " fleirs of Randolph Abbey." There is a paper of Travels in Greece; a Translation from the Irish ; a series of poetical effusions on the Season of , s, treating of Lord Pal- THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 1852. THE CHURCH IN THE COLONIES. • LECTURE AT THE COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION. On Friday evening last, the third of the present series of lectures at the Collegiate Institution was delivered by the Rev, G. W. WARR, Incumbent of St. Saviour's. The subject selected was " The Church in the Colonies." The Rev. J. Howsoer, Principal of the Institution, presided. The Rev. LECTURER observed, that there were linea tions of such public or personal interest, that merely to pronounce their names would be sufficient to secure for them impartial and undisturbed attention. If, however, the scene of the subject sketched should be beyond the range of our immediate vision, and apart from our indi vidual interest, then the difficulty of exciting and retain ing calm reflection became the greater. He was obliged to confess that the question before them was neither within the lines of national or, in the majority of cases, individual importance. And yet he was not discouraged, for he felt cheered by the consciousness that his hearers were both patriots and Christians. The Church and nation of England had claims upon their gratitude and affection ; and he would at once appeal to the presence of both to obtain for him the attention which his subject would require. It was the intention of the lecturer to place the Church in the Colonies before the meeting under three aspects :-Ist. That the importance of our colonial empire was not greater to the State than to the Church ; 2nd. That there were peculiar reasons for planting and perpetuating the Church of England in the colonies ; 3rd. That for the last century and a half the Church had made large and successful efforts to fulfil this her high and heavenly mission. The importance of our colonial territory was described by its vast extent (8,106,000 square miles, or one-seventh part of the globe) and by its population, amounting to one-sixth of the human race. The ships of Great Britain were found floating in every sea, and could anchor in every port. Her wishes or wants, if but prpnounced in any earthly language, had an immediate response. Her laws were administered to countless sections of the human family ; her uniform was proudly worn by some of almost every . tribe; whilst the very name of her arms commanded, if not the fear, at least the respect of all the nations of the earth. This colonial greatness, it was contended, was a gift from God, It was in perfect accordance with His divine government to bring such mighty things to pass by the smallest and weakest instrumentality. To give to our colonists anything like a fair or adequate representa'- tion of England's greatnevs, involved the planting of her Church amongst them. How could the heathen under stand the real source of our benevolence and worth, unless by the history of our Christianity ? We owe all to the grace and mercy of God. The solemnity of coronation the supremacy of Holy Scripture—the presence in Par- . liament of the Bishops—the opening of every sitting of the Legislature with prayer,—all these services and cere monies stood as part of our polity ; and to give our remote fellow-subjects any adequate conception of our greatness, such facts must have a prominent position in our history. It would be worse than inconsistent in us to withhold from our millions abroad the Church and system which we professed to venerate and support at home. Then, again, for the sake of the Church herself, it appeared of vital importance that she should occupy the position so manifestly appointed for her in the wisdom of Divine Providence. Had she hesitated, when upon the borders of the Land of Promise, to go in possess it, who wouhi have pitied her, if she had met with a disho noured tomb in the dreary wilderness? The objections of those who gave such a pieference to works of piety at home, that they excluded from their b 'nevolence all claims from abroad, were fully met. No doubt the abandonment of our colonies would be a saving of our taxes; but the end would be the dismemberment and destruction of our empire, nor less so the ruin of our Church. The objection, however, came with a bad grace if made by men who were indebted to the colonies of England for their commercial prosperity and increasing wealth. It was fully admitted that " Charity should begin at home," but it was held as anti-Christian that Charity should stay at home. There was a speaking spe cialty about our colonies; and whilst the lecturer would not consent to the Gospel being withheld from any por tion of the earth's surface, he was free to confess that, to his own understanding, the destitute members of our Church, and next to them the hundred and fifty millions of heathen subjects. had a first claim upon our efforts. The second portion of the lecture embraced a reference to the commission of the Church to go out. and evan4elise all nations—to the manifest preparation for that holy en terprise in the doctrines and arrangements of the Book of Common Prayer. It was stated that the office of baptism, for those of riper years, was intended for missionary pur poses. The Church should he fully planted in the colonies. How could it he manifest to all men diligently reading Holy Scripture, that there had been other orders in the Church from earliest times, and yet but two of them represented in the remote section of the family of the Church ? How could sponsors `• take care that this child be brought to the Bishop to be confirmed by him," if thousands of miles separated them from the possibility of fulfilling their promise. The lecturer quoted lengthened extracts from the earliest and latest history of the Church in the colo nies, as well as from the sister Church i n th e U n it e d S ta t es of Amcricl, and the steady increase in the number of bishops and clergy was not only gratifying but marvellous. To the venerable Society for the Propagation of the Gos pel, the Colonial Church was indebted, not only for her exertion but her growth. He thought the best answer he could give to those who called in question the evangelical character of this society, was the report of its proceedings. The great effort of the institution was to plant and to per petuate time Church in the Colonies. The anel , ty knew nothing of party men or party questions, and could not be withdrawn from her intentions by the falseness of statements made by enemies, or the cold supineness too often manifested in the indifference of those who ought to be her friends. In close and happy union with the Bible Society and the Church Missionary Society, she would continue her labours, until every colony of the British empire had received the priceless blessing of the English Church. ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. • Letters addressed to the Editor should be accompanied by the real name and address of the writer, not for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith ; this is indispensably requisite in any statement of facts. The Editor wishes it to he understood that he does not hold himself responsible for the opinions or statements of his correspondents. THE CHURCH CATHOLIC To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD, DEAR Ste,—l have sent a copy of the enclosed to the Editor of the Citizen, but as I think it extremely probable that it will not suit his purpose to let it appear in print, I shall feel obliged if you insert it in your next.—Yours, very truly, St. John's, Ist March. W. F. TAYLOR. To the EDITOR of the CITIZEN. Sfll, — Having observed in your paper some strictures on a letter which I addressed to the Rev. Mr. Noble, in which you intimate that a Roman Catholic priest could not be expected to enter into controversy with me, being only a layman in his estimation, I beg to say that this is a most convenient excuse for the champions of a bad and defenceless cause. It is mani fest that, according to this, the Romish priests cannot enter into controversy with any one, except he be among themselves (and then what becomes of the boasted unity of the church 7); all else being but laymen in their eyes. It was not thus our blessed Lord and His Apostles acted when they held daily controve-sies with the Jews and Gentiles, all of whom were laymen as far as Christian ordination was concerned—yea, not even baptized laymen. Nor is it thus the Roman Catholic priests themselves act whenever they are rash enough to hope there is any probability of being successful ; witness the discussions between Gregg and Maguire of Dublin, and between Blakeney and Naghten at Worksop. The cause must indeed be bad which thus shrinks from inves tigation, as it is evident that impartial men will be ready to suspect that the real ground of their silence is a conviction of their inability to defend their church in fair and open discussion. The clergy of the Catholic Church e , tablished in this king dom are accredited ministers of that Church, which is thus, to a cartain extent, identified with them. There is, the , efore, no reasonable ground why the Roman Catholic priests should not try to maintain the Pope's church against them ; but it cannot be reasonably expected that the Catholic clergy of the English Church should attend to the epistolary effusions of unautho rized lay individuals, with whom their church is in no wise identified ; in whose defeat the Church of England would gain no credit, and the Church of Rome would suffer no damage. 0— , If any laymen of the Roniish Church desire information upon controversial subjects, I shall be happy to give him an interview in my own house or vestry; and if he come accom panied by a priest, he will not be the less welcome; or he can attend some of my Bible or controversial classes, where I have no doubt he will get the desired information ; but I cannot descend to enter into public controversy with any but a public man, or one who is Yollgi z an i rtilk rh"" V.VTALOR. Liverpool, Ist March, 1852. THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD, Stn,—Our opponents are already at their old game; they think they have discovered the embers of division amongst us. and they are endeavouring to fan them into a flame. I hope their exertions will be unavailing. I trust we have profited enough by the result of the last borough election, not to repeat its follies. Two new candidates will be forthcoming at the proper time. " Let bygones be bygones," and every man zealously strive to do all he can to secure their election. Here is the work before us: Whies, Romanists, Peelites, and Radicals, areall merging minor differences to oppose us; and unless we do the same, we had better abandon the struggle altogether. This, as 1 said before. however, I do not fear; we shall be united J Let every Protestant join the ward committees, and become a canvasser; in conversation, let us los e n o o pp or t un it y to impress on our friends the necessity for vigorous and cordial co operation to stem the inroads of Popery, and to preserve unsullied and uninjured the priceless treasure of a free and open Bible! Do this, and all will be safe. It is all nonsense to say that the Protestants of Liverpool cannot return more trustworthy representatives than the present members for Liverpool. They have the power in their own hands to return whom they please, provided foolish jealousies and unnatural suspicions do not blind their judgments and split up their strength. AN ELECTOR. THE TOMB OF HENRY V. AND THE CORONATION THRONE IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY.—The helmet, shield, and saddle of Henry V. says Professor Donaldson, are still attached to the pillars above his tomb. Dusty, dirty, torn and distorted, these memorials of Cresy and Agincourt seem only worthy (apart from their mighty traditions) of an old metal shop. The throne on which our present august Sovereign was crowned, as also most of her pre decessors, shares the same neglect, and has alike been de spoiled of its finials, its crockets and carvings. A . thin coating of plaster shows where the painter's art once shone in all its glory. The other is of doubtful origin, and patched up in a bastard taste with panels of Italian de sign. Proh pudor 1-7 he HORTICULTURE. WE cannot help thinking that our Liverpool gardeners are much to blame in not paying more attention to the culture of the hollyhock, which is now so great a favourite in other parts of the kingdom. There is hardly :any flower in cultivation for out-of-door decoration, which so well repays a little care; and the ease with which fine new varieties may be raised cannot be equalled. We 'can never forget a long avenue of these noble flowers which we saw last season, raised by an amateur, withoat any other care than merely saving the seed of those varieties which skewed signs of improvement. By attending to this, and sowing every year, this gentleman had raised enough to form a complete fence on each side of a walk nearly 100 yards in length. They were all semi-double or double, the flowers thickly placed, and the colours clear, brilliant, and varied. The hollyhock is not a flower for every garden ; its qualities as an ornamental plant should be well understood before it is employed for decorative purposes, nor is it a flower which can be placed with effect in the midst of verbenas and other gorgeous bedding plants, its legitimate place being the shrubbery border, where, backed by dark masses of twergreens, its noble spikes of gaudy-coloured flowers form a fine relief. It may also be employed on lawns, where it can be viewed from a distance, and for this purpose should be planted in groups of ten or a dozen plants each, and the brighter and more striking the colour the better. The only attention hollyhocks require, after being once planted out, is to supply each with a good stake, securely fixed, and attend from time to time to the bandages, lest they should be broken by the wind. It is the want of attending to these trifles which has driven this fine flower from small zar dens, where two or three broken-down hollyhocks are sufficient to disfigure the whole garden. S,-I,eral of the eminent nurserymen of the midland and southern counties have lately paid considerable attention to the hollyhock, and some magnificent varieties have been raised by them. Messrs. Paul and Son, Lane and Sons, Chater, Rivers, Barron, Bircham, Parsons, Bragg, and others, have been particularly successful. The following list of first-rate varieties, from the Gardener's and Farmer's Journal, may be useful to those of our readers who admire the flower:-" Attraction (Barron). Aurantia (Rivers), Comet (Chafer), Coccinea (Barron), Charles Tur ner (Black), Enchantress (Chater), Flower of the Day (Bragg), King of Roses (Bragg), Lilacina (Bragg), Model. of Perfection (Barron), Magnum Bonum (Barron), Meteor (Bircham), Fireball (Bircham), Purpurea Elegans (Gilmer), Perfection (Bragg), Rosea Grandiflora (Barron). Rosea Alba (Chater), Pulchella (Chater), Obscura (Chater), Queen (Barron), Mr. C. Baron (Chater), Sulphurea Perfecta (Rivers), Spectabilis (Chater), Satisfaction (Bragg), Lady Braybrook (Chater), Watford Surprise (Long), White Perfection (Cheer), Walden Gem (Chater), Queen of Lilacs (Bragg); these, taking variety of colours, are the very best out ; there are also some new ones of a fine character, we believe to be let out this season, that have been exhibited by Bircham, Parsons, and other raisers. The Scotch varieties are also getting very first-rate, a list of them will appear shortly." NEW AND RARE PLANTS Echinocactus rhodopthalmus, supposed to be a distinct species from Mexico, but now ascertained to be only a small-flowered variety which has been named elliptLus from the elliptical form of its prickly stem. The flowers are about two inches in diameter, of a bright rosy lilac colour, and very handsome. Arancaria columnaris, the pillared arancaria, a noble coniferous tree from New Caledonia, it is the same which led the savans of Captain Cook's expedition into the error of supposing these trees were piles of basaltic columns, hence its specific name. It is now growing at Kew, hav ing been lately received.—Curtiss' Mag. • Olearia gunniana.—Mr. Guon's oljaria, a very pretty shrubby composite plant having white flowers. It bears our winters very well if trained to a wall. Bifrenaria hadwenii.—Mr. Hatlwen's bifrenaria, a very pretty orchid, named after our respected townsman, Mr. Isaac liadvven, sen., of Edge-lane, who was the first to introduce it to this country from Rio de Janeiro. Echi'.ocactus longihamatus.—The long-hooked echino cactus, another beautiful specimen of this fine order of plants which rarely meets with the attention it deserves. The plant is nearly globular in shape, with high waved ridges, and each node crowned with a tuft of spines, one of which is very much larger than the rest, this largest one hanging downward and curving into a hook. Campanula vidalii.—Mr. Vidal's hell-flower, a beautiful white bell-flower from the Azores ; it is subshrubby and the flowers are as white as the Canterbury bell, but neater in shape and hanging more gracefully. NOTICES OF NEW WORKS AND PERIODICALS Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew-garden Miscel lany.--We hardly know what the botanical world would do without this useful book. We have found its papers upon economic botany most interestine, and in the num ber before us is an article upon the camphor tree of Sumatra, a point on which our information has been hitherto deficient; some further information is also given respecting the' wt f • - lies the rice-.- oan. net' turnis,,, .-pr,per of the Chinese. A very beautiful and curious new fern called Deparia Moorii is figured. Sowerby's English Botany of this month completes another volume; it comprises the Geraniums and Mallows. No botanist should be without this useful work. Drops of Water, by Agnes Catlow.—This is another of the series of popular scientific works which has already added so much to the reputation of the publishers, Messrs. Reeve and Benham. In this little book, illustrated with plates scarcely inferior to those of the world-known Ehren berg, we have the wonders of the microscope revealed in the history of a drop of water. Miss Catlow's pleasing works on botany, &c., are all well known, and we can assure our readers that in this little history of infusorial animals and plants of a drop of water she has added much to her well deserved reputation. The style in which the book is got up renders it worthy of companionship with the choicest ornaments of the library table, whilst its price will put it in the reach of the owner of the humblest bookshelf. MISCELLANEA Victoria Regia.—With a temperature of 80 to 82 degrees, and in the short time of four weeks, thirty to forty seeds from the Victoria Regia germinated in the Royal Garden at Herrenhausen, Hanover. The seeds were put into the water in the middle of Oct•npr last year, and by the 7th of December the young plants had made their fifth leaf.—Allgemeine Garten-Zeitung. We understand that Mr. Ewing is having one of his glass walls erected at Bodorgan. In a short time, there fore, we shall doubtless have an opportunity of seeing the structures themselves, and also of testing their practical value—of their beauty there can be no doubt. Stadmannia Australis.—A large example of this worthy member of the Sanindacaee family flowered for the first time in the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, in the month of June, 1851. It was planted in the border of a Ercenhouse, where it made rapid growth, and attained the height of about thirty feet. The flowers appeared twenty four feet above the surface of the soil, in small panriicles of not much appearance. A red-haired, silky foliage, and an elegant shape, are the chief merits of this beauti. ful plant, and when placed singly in a conservatory the effect produced by it is very good. List of New and Choi; e Gladioli.—The number of seedling varieties raised from Gladiolus cardinalis, ramo sus, floribundas and Gandavensis is very extensive, and nearly all of a gay and showy nature. A collection of them possesses great interest and beauty, if grown with moderate success. The following is a list of new varie ties:— 1. " Christianus."—Raised from seed in Holland, is one of the best of medium size, and having a panicle well furnished with flowers, whose petals are of a bright rose, spotted with purple and white. 2. " Bernard de Rennes."—A very desirable variety, raised by Mr. Truffant, nurseryman at Versailles ; of medium size, and flowering freely ; the petals are of a bright vermilion colour, spotted with lake and white. 3. " Eugenie Bourdier."—Size medium, very elegant ; petals of a pure white, spotted with lake. 4. " General Jacquerninot."—Raised by M. Souchet, sen., in Fontainebleau. Petals of a vermilion carmine, spotted with white, violet, and carmine; a first•rate variety. 5. Madame Bertin."—Raised by M. Truffaut, a good bloomer, with salmon- colound flowers, spotted with white, having a violet tint, and edged with lake. 6. " Professor Decaisne."—This variety is superb, vigorous, and flowers freely. The flowe r s are l arge , an d of a bright scarlet colour, somewhat velvety, with white spots, which are shaded with lake, and edged with car mine. " Torrlinni " A arnftll hill- :rat, abet ? , salmon-coloured petals, edged with carmine and spotted with violet; it is a very desirable variety. 8. " Mario Duval."—A charming variety, of small size, with white flowers, and lilac spots ; the petals are spreading, and tinged with pale blue.—Gardener's Jour nal. How to Make Old Pear Trees Fruitful.—A corre spondent of the Gardener? Chronicle communicates a useful receipt for revivifying old pear trees. The old cankered spurs are to be cut off with a sharp chisel, and the trees painted with spirits of tar, (taking care not to touch the buds.) The cost of the tar is two shillings per gallon, and it effectually kills vermin. Trees thus treated, though previously cankered and fruitless, soon make strong young shoots all over. OPERATIONS FOR THE WEEK Conservatory, Greenhouse, drc.—lf previous direc tions have been attended to, the conservatory should now be gay with camellias, hyacinths, Chinese primulas and other spring flowering plants. Crocuses, scillas, and other hardy bulbs with good management might also be made available for decoration in this house, if properly managed. Every person loves these spring flowers, and beautiful as they appear, we believe the protection of a frame during the winter, and plunging the pots in the conservatory borders when they are about to bloom, would much more fully develops their qualifications. In the Plower Garden much may be forwarded in the way of digging over the beds, gradually removing cover ings from half hardy shrubs, parting herbaceous peren nials and other routine work. Kitchen Garden.—Here active work is commencing; the potato crop must be got in, peas and beans require suc cessional sowings, reddish, lettuce, early turnip, carrot, and parsnip seeds require sowing. Give plenty of air to cauliflowers in frames. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. " M. Seaton," Wavertree.--Your cineraria marked No. 1, is a fair specimen, but there are better ones in cultivation. " L. and S."—You will perceive that we have already adopted yOur suggestion, arid both ourselves and readers will he indebted to you for any future lists of new varieties. THE RE-ELECTIONS. DROITWICII.-Sir John Pakington, the new Colat „ Seel etary, was o n Th urs d a y re - e l ecte d as mem ber tor t borough. COLCHESTER.—Lord John Manners was on "Inu re-utected to s e rve i n P ar li ament f or t hi s anc i er .t boro ub o CHICHESTER.—Lord H enry L ennox, one of taiwot t he Lo ds of the Treasury, was on Th urs d ay re-e l ec te-f citit Of Chichester; Without opposition. •• MIDHURST.—Mr. S. H. Walpole, Secretary 0 f a for the Home D e p ar t m tit, was on F r ia a y re-elec t e d member for this borouli. DonsET.--Tuesday (this day) is appointed for t ria litt• urination of a kni g ht t o represen t thi s county in g merit in the roo m o f M r . G eorge B sn k es, w ho 11 00 8. cepted the (Ace of her MajeQty's Judge-Advocat e ' d i sk ral. The hon. gen tl eman o ff ers hi mse lf f or re -elec and it, is thought that he will not be opposed. gr s BucKs.—The election is fixed for Friday next. Disraeli will probably he returned 'without Oppo.9itlO'lest, LINCOLN.—The election is fixed for Thursdafm Mr. Christopher will be returned without oppo sitiol b e ABINGDON.—Sir F. Th es i ger , h er Majesty's Att°ro,o° General, was re-el ec t e d f or th e b oroug h o f Abingd° Friday, without opposition. BUCKINGHAM.—The M a rquis o f Chandos Wag e elected, on Friday, without opposition, member ,° borough of Buckingham. WENtocii.—On Wednesday, the. Hon. Genrg e r i c) ller Weld Forester, who has acce pt e d the office of Co n io' of her Majesty's Househ o ld. un d er L o rd D e rby' .„,s A n ( to& istration, was re-el ec t e d f or th e b oroug h of I've" without opposition. f the STAMFORD.—The nomination and re-election °or Right Hon. J. C. He rr i es f or th e b oroug h o f Sta took place on Saturday. t he A s t LANCASHIRE (SOUTH.)—It is understood 5J Hon. Colonel Lindsay is to be invited to offer Wi se candidate for the southern division of this cou nty,. .g (0! husx ELECTIONS.—The re - e l ec ti on o f L or d 1 ",;001 1 ,' the county Kildar e is exc iti ng great i nterest. The AO nation is to take place on S a t ur d ay next , an d the.P!'ott on Tuesday and W e d nes d a y. Th e const i tuenc y 06 50 to 2.774. The Duke of Leinster promises to supPl i e.stet O'Conor Henchy, in case of his becoming a e nll ,,(jsre hut that is still uncertain. Several gentlemen o f property, connected with " the turf,". have, '''' s beio promised him their support, political consideratio o f th e entirely forgotten. Mr. Bateson's election ° „ . 001 /1 county of Londonderry is certain, as th ere i s to be a f;!, position.—ln Enni s kill en th ere are on ly 153 e lcete r ,?;so, Mr. Whiteside, whos e ma j or ity was 17 l ast tiroe.i r i nc ell' to have a more for m id a bl e opponent now, i n Mr. , r tar Scully, Q,C., a support er o f Tetiant-right. --1" ve lington, Colonel Dunne's return is certain.—Ther e tsko' real opposition in the University ; the nomination place to-day. Spring ; and two political artic Tiersto Clarendon res MISS SELLON & THE SISTERS OF MERCY A pamphlet on this st,hjeet has just been issued by the James Spurreli, M.A., vicar of Great Selford, Cambridgeshire, containinz an exposure of the practices current among the Sisters of Mercy. The information has been obtained through a lady who has lately seceded, at Miss ire is open to the Sellon herself. at tl- Exeter, has prorr suspicion of exaggeration e suggestion of the Bishop of sed a full statement It appears tlipt 849. a young lady who was desirous to make herself the visitation of the poor, opened a correspond ence with Miss Sellon, "ye Mother Superior" of the sisters at Devonport ; the only important feature in which was the practical admission of the latter, that the young lady was at liberty to act without her mother's knowledge in things not positively forbidden ! She afterwards went Sisters of Charity, resolved to become one of them ; and in subsequent correspondence with Miss Sellon, there seems to be not a syllable of advice to the contrary njoined to be firm ! At length she resolved, after the expiration of a year, to join Miss &lion ; and, on the 'ening of her introduction to the "Orphans' Home," as somewhat surprised to see Miss Sellon, at the con- elusion of one of the services in the oratory, give her nediction to each sister separately, and sign her with the I of the cross! Her surprise was not at the facts witnessing them there. The author declares that there is a distinct attempt, on the part of certain parties within h, to introduce practices and observances tend ing to assimilate it to the Church of Rome. He adds, "the Romanisers are now working, through a system most insidiously contrived, designed to entrap the unwary, and lead them ignorantly forward, till they have made them in reality, if not in name, Romanists." The fol lowing details corroborate these views : the Churc On the evening of the day of Miss -'s introduction into " The Orphan's Home," she was conducted to the Oratory at the Canonical hour of Compline, when the flowers, the pictures, the lights, the low desks, and the dark kneeling figures of the Nun-like Sisters, and the solemn benediction of each Sister by the Superior at the conclusion of the service, and the signing them with the . . , and zreatly surprised her, not at ail expecting to witness anything of the kind where she then was. The reader will be astonished to learn that this profes. sedly Protestant Sisterhood is nothing less than an orga nized convent.. The Community, as a whole, comprehends one General Order, styled " The Order of the Holy Com munion." which is subdivided into " The Order of the Sacred Heart.;" " The Order of the Holy Ghost ;" and a third Order, the name of which was unknown to Miss -, hut the Sisters of which were usually called " The Black Sisters." There were also what were called " Serving Sisters," who were received into the Community by the same Ad. mission Service, nni who consequently were under the Each Order has a distinct badge. All, upon first coming into the institution, are called " Novices ;" and when any seem to thz• Mother Superior to show a decided vocation for " The Religious Life," she receives them into the Community privately; gives them the designation of " Children ;" and attaches them to one of the three Orders, by investing them with the badge of that Order, which, henceforth, is worn secretly under the dress ; and each looks forward, at a future time, to be admitted a " Sister" of the order whose badge she wears. The Order of " The Sacred Heart" has for its badge a gilt triangle, from which is suspended a heart, pierced with an arrow. The Order of •' The Holy Ghost" has for its badge a like triangle, with a cross pendant, and a dove engraven upon it. The third Order has also a triangle, with, however, a crucifix suspended from it. On every triangle the word " Sanctus" is engraven on each of the sides. The Order of " The Sacred Heart" was a contemplative Order. The only Sister who ever belonged to it never spoke, except with the Mother, or by her direction or permission —never came into the recreation-room, and tnrougnout rue whole of Llie day was engaged in prayer and meditation, and in painting and illuminating services for the Superior, or in such other works as she might give har to do. - The Order of " The Holy Ghost," of which Miss believes herself to have been the first Sister, was to have had its members living either in the Institution, or in the world. They were called " Grey Sisters," nominally be longing to their parents, and under their authority, but in reality bound as closely as either of the other Orders to the Superior by the great Rule of the Society, which will hereafter be explained, called " 7he Rule of Holy Obedience." They were to wear a peculiar dress, in tended, it was said, by its coarseness, to protest against the luxuriousness of the world : and thir dress was to be held sacred. The " Grey Sisters," whilst with their families, were to receive all directions as to what they were to do, and how they were to conduct themselves, from the Lady Superior —were to render an account to her of all that happened around, within, and without them ; in sbort, were to return home, when they do, with rules, which, if kept to th e l e tt er , wou ld, i n all probabi lity, cause their parents to send them away; if kept in the spirit, would necessarily produce the greatest dissi mulation and falsehood ; an appearance of submission to parental authority being kept up, whilst they would be acting in real submission to the " Spiritual Mother." The third Order was entirely under the controul of the Superior, all admitted into it having their parents' consent. The " Children," if they returned to their parents, to be placed in much the same position as the " Grey , Sisters," both being under promise of obedience; only that the " Child's" promise being secret, and the name of " Sister" not being given to her, she is less connected with the Society in the eyes of ber parents and the world. There is a form for the admission of sisters into the order, and the practices of confession and penance are common. An attempt has been made to establish similar societies in Bristol, Gosport, and elsewhere ; and the young ladies penetrate in disguise into some of the poorest and worst dens of :our great towns, and occasionally with a basket, as pedlars, in order to insinuate good counsel where it is greatly required. If it were possible for a few weak women—many of them girls with good resolutions, but with principles unformed, and no experience in temp tation—to reform the masses of vice and Rrelligacy in our great towns, it would be a glorious work ; but they•may do worse than fail. They cannot raise the tone of +intelli gence and morality. but they may sustain serious injury themselves. The idea of ladies of education and refine: ment going•to settle down in a equalid•court, performing the most. menial offices for themselves, and who cannot .close either their eyes or ears to the contaminations still surrounding them, is enough to appal parents and friends at all events. :It is pleasant to see good intentions, although so many of them go to pave a certain warm region; but we think that the following extract will serve to cool the enthusiasm of those who would wish to go and do likewise : ' 'That the reader may have a correct idea of the employ ments of these -sisters devoted to religion, it may he stated that, having all the menial work to do for them selves, it was no.uncommon thing for these young ladies, brought up in all the refinements of a polite life. to be carrying at. half-past five o'clock in the morning a large dust-barrel to the top of the court, a feat requiring almost , their utmost strength. A little later in the day, the same sisters were engaged in sweeping out the house, cleaning the grates, making the•fire. pumping the water, and other of the occupations of domestic servants. One would have occasionally to carry-the dinner to the bakehouse, or to fetch beer from the public-house,—duties strangely enough intermingled with " Prime," "Terse," " Seat," " Nones," &c., visiting the noor, and common prayer twice a day at the cathedral. Nor was this all : often had they to take letters to .the post. at half-past nine, and parcels to the railway station later ; once a sister was sent on the latter errand at midnight ! ! After having been ahsi-nt some time from Bristol, Miss Sellon returned and brought with her two novices, on whom the sight of the mean little house in the court at once produced a very painful effect. One of them was just recovering from a severe fever; and Miss Sell:m see ing that she could not safely be left at Bristol, decided to send her hack to Devonport by the mail train that same night. The other being seen to her bed by Miss - and the novice, who was to return to Devonport, they then left her to go to Miss Sellon's rooms, as they had been directed, locking her in the house alone. Between ten and eleven o'clock Miss Sellon dismissed them to return to the house in the court, to wait. there till it was time to proceed to the railway station. On arriving at the house and entering the kitchen, they were startled at finding the window open. Miss - rushed up stairs and found the novice's bed empty. Remembering the excited state in, which she had been, the fearful thought immediately occurred to her, that she might have destroyed herself; and the river was just by. Greatly alarmed, Miss - hastened again to the room of the mother superior, when bo h of them went to the house of the clergyman of the parish to seek his aid. The police were at once set to, search for the missing novice ; the river w a s immediately dragged, and, at length, the object of their anxiety was discovered in a tavern, having been met with in the streets, almost in a state of delirium, by a woman who had taken her there, in the hope that a reward would be offered for finding her. HISTORIC SOCIETY OF LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE On Thursday evening last, the fifth meeting of this society for the present session was held in the Board room of the Collegiate Institution, P. R. M'Quie, Etq., in the chair. The certificates of three new members were read, and the following were duly elected—The Rev. John Shepherd Birley, of Halliwell Hall, Bolton ; David Howe Lambert, of Liverpool ; and James Sykes, of Poulton-le-Fylde and Liverpool. The following donations were laid upon the table— Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries No. 22, from the society ; Reports of the Board of-Health, respecting Berwick.on Tweed, Birmingham, Carlisle, Dover, Mor petit. Poulton-cum-Seacombe, Rusholme, Dorchester, and Fordington, by Robert Rawlinson, Eq. ; Wvatt's Copy of the Map of Manchester, A.D. 800, by P. R. M'Quie, Esq. ; Randle Holme's Academy of Amorie, printed at Chester, 1688, by Dr. Kendrick, of Warring ton ; lithograph of the ancient Runic Cross of Lancaster, now in the Natural History Museum of Manchester. by the Rev. J. F. Lee, of Lancaster ; Prospectuses and An nouncements of Joint Stock Companies, suggested in Liverpool in 1836 (of 102 schemes 80 prospectuses were collected), by J. W. Whitehead, Esq. Mr. Mayer, the honorary curator, sent for exhibition six stone celts, some of them of peculiar shape, and which had evidently been sharpened after use ; four bronze eelts ; part of a sword blade ; a spear head, with wood in it ; and a palstab, found in the county of Antrim., Ireland. Dr. Hume exhibited two Australian bags, one from New Zea land, made of the native flax, and the other as used by the " leubras," or native women of New South Wales, of the fibres of the stringy bark tree. Mr. Rimmer exhi bited three tracings from drawings by Geo. Ornerod, Esq., viz., Srnithell's Hall, drawn in 1810, Interior of ditto, and Hale House, 1820. The society agreed to unite in any invitation that might be presented to the British Association for the Advance ment of Science, to meet in Liverpool in 1853. A letter was read from M. De Perthes, of Abbeville, Chevalier of the Orders of Malta and of the Legion of Honour, acknowledging the announcement of his election as an honorary member, and submitting a donation of the whole of his own works. Some ancient MSS. having been forwarded for exhibi tion by Major-General the Hon. Sir Edward Cust, K.C.H., Vice• President, some extracts from them were read. One consisted of " Deposicons of Witnesses taken within the King's Mats, Court of Exchequer, within his Highness Castle of Chester, the vijth dave of Maye, Anno Regni Regis Jacobi, Anglite. &e., quint et Scotie, xl°., 1607. Upon the ple and behalf of Gilbert Wrmeston defte against John Wrmeston Complt." The following extract from the testimony of one of the witnesses shows the nature of the whole—" Henrie Watte of Moreton within the Countye of Chester husbandman aged threescore yeares and upwards, sworne and examd. Saieth heknoweth the p.tyes And bath knowne them for the space of thirtve veares nowe laste paste and above And did also knowe William Wrmeston in this interr named and that the said defte is eldest sonne and next heire to the said William Wrmeston. The said William in his lief tyme and at the tyme of his death was taken and reputed to be lawfully seized in his demeasnes of fee, of and in the mes suaze and certeyne howses and buildings gardein and yord to the same belonginge, scituate in Moreton nowe in the plts occupacon, and alsO of and in one close or p.cell of land in Moreton aforesaid, called the West-car-hey * * And verilye thinketh that the said cottage is builded upon the deftes owne landes or upon the waste lands of More ton aforesaid, hut whether the defies father did fynd tymber to build the same he knoweth not. * * * He saieth there was heretofore a survey taken and made by Henrye Connve John Robts and Myles ffells officers for Henrye the late Earle of derbye of the landes in the Interr menconed And there weare prsent at the survey with deponent William Bennett and Richard Roberts with others whose names he certeinly rembreth not. And that theis p.cells of land hereafter named viz the Lytle kyllonde, the twoe hullondes in the Gorstefield, the dovehowse lande, the Smyrelontle, the hadlande at the head, the hullonde in the oulde field, the hullondein the Hawthorne, the wayebutt, the Wyldtnarelonde, the borde meadowe, the pyke by the rake, and the hulland by the rake. ** * Also saieth that the said complt hath used and taken one Cowe grasse in the Township of Moreton aforesaid, as Tennt thereof to the defte And that the right hor. Wil liam Earle of derby is Chief lord or owner of the Inheri tance of the said Moore And that the said defte hash the said cowe grasse as apprtennte and belonging to his Inhe ritance in Moreton aforesaid. and prmitteth the complt to use the same And that the defte doth putt owe Cowe Jesse in the said Moore. * * * And further saieth that the defte is a Charterer within the said Townshippe of Moreton. And that there are divrs other Charterers within the said Townshipe that have comon of pasture or grasse for kyne or cattle in the said Moore by reason of their Inheritance in Moreton aforesaid." Other witnesses were William Martin, of Sanghaull Massye, yeoman ; Thomas Fabon, of Moreton, husbandman ; Henrie Smith, husbandman ; Arthure Wrmeston ; and Henrie Irbie, of Moreton, husbandmen. The first paper for the evening was by William Williams Mortimer, Esq., of Chapter, on the Norman Earls of r.Amater, lii t,untlntlatluts of a paper read by min in a tor mer session. An important part of the MSS. had been sent to London in order to procure additions and correc tions ; and as it had not been returned, the whole was not read. The second paper was an account of a Lancashire charm against witchcraft and evil spirits, by John Har land, Esq. The original filled the whole of a small paper about seven inches long by six broad. It was found near Clitheroe in 1825, and was supaosed by the late Rev. Richard Garnett, of the British Museum, who translated it, to be then about thirty or forty years old. It con tained a magic square, the seal of St. Michael, the sun, its intelligence, spirit, &c. There were fourteen lines of writing in a sort of mongrel Greek character, mixed up with short-hand characters. The upper part was written in red ink, and the lower in black. In the fourth line is quoted Matt. xvii. 20, somewhat incorrectly from the Latin text ; and then the Lord's Prayer is given, the cypher characters spelling Latin words. _ _ One of the Secritaries - mentioned that he had seen the card of an astrologer, who resides in Liverpool, and Mr. Bennett immediately produced two from persons who also reside in Liverpool. One offers a chart of the heavens for any given time at the moderate price of 2s. 6d., and promises information on the following varied subjects : " Ist, as relates to the probable duration of life ; 2nd, dis position of the mind, temper, &c. ; 3rd, matrimony, the time when, description of the husband or wife, and pro bable number of issue ; 4th travelling or going abroad, to what quarter of the world would be most advisable as to property ; sth, relative to honours, the most suitable employment, trade or profession, for a child or other individual to follow'; 6th, shall a widow or widower (if ever) marry again, also a description of the inbended ; 7th, the state and condition of an absent ship at sea, and whether her voyage will be safe and profitable; Bth, if debts or lent money will be recovered; 9th, if an absent party inquired after be dead or alive ; 10th, shall a native obtain the situation or employment sought after, and when ; 11th, letters long expected; when may they arrive, and what has been the cause of delay." The other is entitled " Christian Astrology !" THE BOARD OF TRADE RETURNS' b Of' The returns for the month ending the sth of i r e,. -r yest,' compared with the corresponding month of 185 ", g tioa: show an increase in the declared value.of our exP r. ",ll. l of £3,911. In cotton and silk manufactures th er n the - been a falling off, but those of linen and wool are favourable side, and next to these haberdashery ag l ij o s sents the largest augmentation. In the export" weal' machinery, notwithstanding the strike of the eng„ t jetf' there has also been an in crea s e , but. hardwares , e" and metals, have all experienced a dimieution• sa d The declared value of British and Irish produ ce d" manufactures exported from the united kine.P n ; 11/ in the month ended the sth Fenruary, a 0 8 0 • the corresponding period o f th e preceding Y etl i• amount was £4,817,870, a n d i n th e lik e p eriod £4,069,431. There is a considerable increase in the impori a l watches and clocks in the month en d e d the 5 1 (real compared with the like period of 1851, as appea r qb th; the official returns just issued. In the last fl l t y O ki value of the watches enter e d an d c h arge d with Ti c £8,879, and in the like period of 1851 £6,6 29 '., tb; value of clocks entered and charged with duir month ended the sth ult. was £7.078, while in t he month of the preceding year £5,218. f t e° There has been an increase i n th e quantitY d f c l entered for home consumpti on i n th e month en tP sth ult. compared with the corresponding mon th iti,t ll9 preceding year, as also in the like period of 18 50 ' . w eing month ended the sth February. 1850, the (1 4, 3 k g entered was 4 , 216,280ih. ; in the month enene, b " in ty„, of February, 1851, 4,619,8571 b. ; and 4,943, 594 ' ' O Ol month ended the sth February last. The imP,22llr in the months mentioned were, respectively, 4,68 O tt 8,097,4211 b., and 5,66,221 b. tha t i " The accounts relating to navigation show f ! tb month, 1,423 ships, of 361,498 tonnage, cmployeds, o foreign trade of the united kin g do m entered inw 3r 1 0 t 1,619 ships, of 390 631 tonnage cleared outwards'. en teteo coasting trade, 8,690 vessels, of 887 . 153 t o nnage' o car e inwards, and 10,511 ships, of 927,758 tonnage' outwards. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS, deo o s No less than fi ve D evonpor t t ra desmen "stopp e rs • ment" last week. Th e y are a ll free- traders, an d c . the most noisy and c l amorous p o litician in the totie9hiet2; Somebody says th a t p o liteness is like an si r ' c o od ° there may be nothin g i n it, but it eases our jol ts (re' fully. iliC h An excellent antidote to any bad effects N ov quently result from a dinner of which pork 1) 39 , t part, is to eat a little lump of sugar. dice to .o i In the year ending January l a st th e ne t pr` 1 3.9.0" Excise from duty on railways was £287,331 f f ily from stage carriages £217,052 2 s . Sid. e l • The Edinburgh Witness has the following News —The parish minis er of Tongland has pu btish n bo m o n k r ep , titled ` Thoughts on the Present Scarcity I House o a f n c o o ffiz m i a o l n d s o , c i u t m a p e p n e t ars just th p a r t i n ted last year rotr e eo r itie ° l 0 ; From perannuation allowances by the Excise WO o f £147,798 16s. std. reig ij oei There were only two clocks in England in t" e est, p a h: o6oo o Edward 1., both of foreign manufacture. One soother in an old tower in Westminster Hall, and th e 0 , Canterbury Cathedral. There is now living in St. Peter's, Isle of Than t to d o then of ten children, whose united ages arn° eP itefl l4 years. Also one male and four females whose n e A i amount to 428 years. , e tbo Dr. Pretty appears to have found a very sg e rr ue fre of arresting the hiccup. It is sufficient to sq niece„,j, wrist, preferably that of the right hand, wit h t l;rb f 7lo string, or with the forefinger and thumb of the °„ 0 10 0 The poet Moore was buried on Wedges"%';d o tr church-yard of Bromham, a village on the , r ; latea Devizes to Chippenh am . w h ere t wo o f his el" also interred. Orders have been issued f or pu tti ng the teliegeoe4oe the various coast- guar d s t at i ons on th e sont ° 9 England in an efficient state, as well as Coo foto Essex and Norfolk coast s , and from the Sou th tb , to Sheerness. • ove r OP The first great suspension tube for the bridge rips 13 1 Wye has been tested by eleven hundred tons v., he tached to it, and its capability fully demonstra',,/jD the first week in April one of the lines of rails it opened for traffic. e le / One of the Electric Telegraph Companies is th 900 States has been sued for sending an inaccurate r ro 1 1 1 0 0/ i. e. substituting unintentionally " 60" for " s '; to r" ment was given against the Company, who ha" 9 , , the cost of the message, 3 dols. 50c. an d the cost olgdel Some workmen employed in making arrangee; Co 6 ;0 1 the supply of water to the summit of Durnbartioy to, recently discovered a large pit, containing ne er f oen„ bones, which are supposed to be the remains ° ,. s ier g ler A in the defence of the castle during some aneien" da yS'`,l The Edinburgh Courant relates that a few 1 an old woman named Anderson, while visiting °bill of Methilhill, had her finger wounded by ti l f cockatoo. The wound at first se e med likely A " „ 400 39 , inflammation subsequently set i n , an d she die" et' its afterwards. the eS Lawson, a master sweep, has been robbing f r ett e d' by cutting out pieces of looking-glass fr° re , a s t',jo o i Kensington Palace, to which he had free seas' the P OO of pointed sweep. He carried off seven pieces 9 an , .f He has been convicted at the Middlesex sessioll ' , 'at e `o i to prison for six months. vo l t r On Tuesday, as Mr. Frederick Fry, scen e " 02 jet „of) the Colosseum, London, was painting a s Orr u ttetU Cyclorama, he stepped back, after the mann e d ' .0 , 3 ,v to regard his work, and fell from the scaffol of eLIPI &cf. Ilia oh 01 was nopeleaaly ir a his collar-bone broken. of . 00t i o , On Saturday week, Mr. Berkeley Bloxson 3 „ ° Tv sb near Cheltenham, was returning home 'Z4 1 1,0. 1/ 0 ducks, and on reaching the rear of his dwe r ": o h' a trj ped, as it is supposed, to draw the charge ; I ‘;.be t i ler While in the act the piece exploded, non : „" s tsnr" lodged in Mr. Bloxsome's heart, causing ba death. • 0 o On Thursday telegraphic commun ication s 10 S 1 tO 0 l o h w ofa e Asc e week dmb oee Exeter,rpe nlbtuowenr between web aell t etoe l nnoeagnwew. accidentplacebestrung 1 occurred at 11811— PlIa", e V . " ' _ ,rr i k Monday. In a cott age on th e es t a t e of Ler usiOrhe several of the children of the f am ily were a re , of t n it selves during the absence of thei r p ar ents, D o a n ties went up to the spot where a loaded g little ole placed, and bringing it forth, shot a poor li ed j , about four years old dead upon the spot. h ot five l l t The Church and State Gazette relates, tha t it R—, of Bath, was engaging a butler, sel '0„ 31 : 1 0,10 1 neas per annum was the salary required• f a ' it 'd?' the gentleman's remark, " that is the pay , 6- 0 The butler calmly replied, "It is so, Sir It ot a , sorry for the gentlemen ; but I really eat in 10, Y t ell an injustice on their account." Ditlelot . 1 0 A few days ago three of the inmates of th° diS *e) , natic Asylum escaped ; but one has since bef h 0 g o l f / fa") secreted in the remains of a straw stack , ".0 41 found he was nearly dead from cold and r i ' o l% He had been in his hiding-place for five o i _r e pie" 9 had distinctly heard the conversation of •'• 90, v ir about their work, and the orders given. n o al t h gooi A girl, fourteen years old, named Isabella;red was of a very passionate disposition, quarrel_ ll 4 0! of titer girl at Penrith, a few days since, T o bro9 dropped down dead, while' attempting to..,,°orte s eer nent. The surgeon who . made the Post -- 001V gots nation of her body, stated that she had die passion, and the jury returned a verdict to PP"