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6 Kiterature. POETRY. REFLECTIONS OF (For the Liverpool Standard.) " I have ventured. Like little wanton boys that swim on biadeers, These many summers in a sea of glory— But far beyond my depth. My high-blown pride At length broke under me, and now has left me Weary a, d old, to the mercy Of a rude world which must for ever hide me." Wolsey, in Henry VIII. It is past ! 'Twas a dream in the darkness of ni4lit 'Twas a mist of the morn in the fountain of light I had pictured a sceptre, a court. and a throne, The ruin of others, and woke to my own. But one step, and I triumphed ! My priesthood was there, To hallow the treason with incense and prayer; My law courts were open, my code was prepared ; I had thought of my palace, and chosen my guard ; My children would rise as the base of my court; The heart-throb of thousands my strength and my sport:— Bat one step !—'twas untrod : for the blast of a breath Struck Fancy's fond lie with the chillness of death, And crumbled my sceptre to dust, and my throne; And the thousands have vanished, and I—am alone. Alone ! with my heart l—ah ! how wintry the scene ! How changed from the sunshine that once might have been ! I look back on my boyhood, when bright was mine eye. When pure was my heart, and its pulses heat high ; Of the pastime I think—of the sport —yea, the prayer; Of the father that played with the locks of my hair, Of the mother that clasped to her bosom her boy, And called me her life, and her pride, and her joy, And bade me exultingly stand by the s;de Of my country, and he both its champion and pride. I compare that bright hour with the hour that is now, And I shrink—for the brand is red hot on my brow ! They are gone ! It is well ; for my manhood of life Had its pride in rebellion—the champion of strife. Yet—a traitor ! Great God ! do I dream? Can it be That men may dare fasten such title on ME? Ab, yes ! out of evil can never spring good The shout for revolt is the shout but for blood. But a traitor! What! was not my country enslaved? Was it not for her freedom this senten, e I braved ? Surely not for myself her resources I drained ; Surely not for myseif my integrity stained ; I loved her green vales—l her altars adored— Her golden-haired daughters, her sons of the sword And I called her, what always she gill be to me, " First flower of the earth, and first gem of the sea." Ah, delusions avannt I Now alone with my heart, Every mist is removed, and I'm acting no part; Bursts the truth from each pore to my agoniz'd eyes : I have ered—l am siienc'd—'tis writ in the skies. Yes, the truth it comes home—l am lonely and old, The fire in my chambers of life growing cold; The voices which urged me are silent and still, Acquaintance unfriendly, and friendship is chill ; With terror I muse on that swift.coming time, At the bar of my country to answer my crime; The trial—the witness—accuser and spy— The friends that are absent, the foes that are by— And, worse than the scaffold, the scorn that betrays The hate of the tongue that once trembled with praise. Dark spirit of Popery ! thine be the blame : Thy creed brought the tempest which darkens my name; Thy essence of works, which first bade me depend On all means or any to work out Mine end ; Thy prompt absolution, thy sinner enticed On himself to rely, and rely not on Christ,— Ensnarer of millions, whose hlood thou hast spilt, Oh, thine be the scandal—on thee be the guilt. PHILO. THE DAWN. 'Tis sweet when the twilight descends like a maiden. With star-sandall'd feet an I cloud-mantle of grey ; When the skies seem with grandeur and mystery laden, lint there's nothing so sweet as the dawn of the day. 0, if there's an hour to man's spirit appealing, An hour that can all his devotion repay, 'Tis when harmony, beauty, and grace are revealing Their charms at the dawn, the bright dawn of the day For it heam'd on the birth of Eve's fairest of daughters, It woke the first breath of the lark's matin-lay ; When the spirit of t-od moved the face of the waters, All Eden lay blest in the dawn of the day. The dawn of the day, when the old man is waking. World-weary and languid, bereft of each stay ; When he turns to a dawn, yet immortally breaking, The God-praised dawn of a heavenly day. O, if harmony, beauty, and freshness are blending. Their charms for the dawn of our care-compass'd way, What bliss must be theirs, who, through Jesus ascending, Behold with archangels the dawn of His day ! NOTICES. Claims of the Church to the Lore of her Children ; a Sermon, preached in St. James's Church, Latchford, by the Rev. James Wright, incumbent. Warrington ; Booths. This temperate discourse will commend itself to all en lightened members of our natiinal church, as affording a clear but scriptural statement of the claims which that church possesses on the sympathies and support of all her faithful adherents. The words on which the sermon is founded are, " My house is the house of prayer ;" and from these words Mr. Wright enlarges on the antiquity of the church, her apostolical character, and her protest against Rome; the character of her services, the conduct which becomes her members, and on several objections urged against her. As respects one feature in the cha racter of her services, we may make the following extract : " Is there a time when the doors of the church are thrown open for public worship, that the word of God is oc ..aaa to the people ? May no' the poor and the un learned hear, in her services, what God has to say to them ? May not the word read tell with saving effect upon their hearts ? And may we not hope of many such worshippers who frequent her courts, that their faith standeth not in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God ?' In the Psalms, in the Lessons, in the Epistle and Gospel, those who assemble in the house of God, hear him teaching in his Holy Word. And for this honour done unto God in his Word,' saith an eminent prelate of our church, ' which doubtless has brought down, and will continue to bring down, a blessing upon her from Him who has declared, "Them that honour me I will honour ;" for this honour to God's Word, and for the provision made thereby to teach the people infallibly out of it the whole counsel of God, independently of the defects, and errors, and re serves which are incident to the human teaching that they receive, we ought, I am sure, to be thankful, if we had nothing else in her public services to rejoice in or to be thankful for.' " In reply to an objection frequently raised against the church, the following is worthy of observation : " It is objected that doctrines similar to the worst doc trines of Rome have been lately taught by some of the clergy of the church. It is with unfeigned sorrow we ad mit the truth of this objection. Such doctrines have been broached, and though but partially, still to the perversion of a few enthusiastic spirits, to their wilful excision from the church, and to their union with Rome. Admitting the full force of the objection, it is yet but just towards the church, to ask, if it be fair or reasonable to judge the church by the unsound and authoritatively-condemned statements of a mere fractional part of her ministers ? They went out from no, hut they were not of us.' Are we not to judge of the church, by her Articles, her Ho milies, her Formularies ? And if these, with one consent, condemn those dangerous opinions, then does the church condemn them. We never take the opinions of a few discontented and noisy individuals for the voice of the nation, neither should we take the condemned opinions of a few erratic divines for the voice of the church. The church has not changed, though a score or two of clergy men, out of a body of sixteen thousand, have changed. Their present continuance among us, to our impatient minds, seems long ; hut what will be the brief period of this agitation, when looked hack on at the distance of fifty years, and through the records of ecclesiastical history ? A dream, when one awaketh.' The church is still, as she has been, thank God, from the beginning. ' The pillar and the ground of the truth.' " The House of God : its beauty and its claims. A sermon by the Rev. R. P. Buddicom. Liverpool. Newling. Little need be said in a town which has profited so long and so greatly as this by Mr. Buddicom's faithful minis trations in proof of the Scriptural positions maintained in this sermon, which was preached in the parish church of St. Bees, in behalf of the incorporated society for en larging, building, and rcpriring churches and chapels. The national sanctuary is here shown to be "goodly" as the house of prayer—as the house of praise—as conse crated for preaching the unsearchable riches of Christ — and as the house of sacraments. The concluding portion of the sermon is occupied with an earnest appeal to those who tread the courts of our favoured Zion to multiply her tents and tabernacles in consequence of the lamentable condition of the people, socially, civilly, and religiously. Is there not sound truth and practical wisdom in such an argument as this? " It seems as if pressure and resistance, instead of the law of love, in the sweet influences of its operation upon all Tanks of the community, were to be the only elements employed for keeping the social organization from falling to pieces—a state of things unnatural in itself, and there fore incapable of permanent continuance. Every day finds the machine loaded with heavier weight, jarred by a ruder hand. Thus, continually becoming looser and less secure in every joint and rivet, it gives day by day more painful evidence that the beneficial effects which its move ments were intended to promote, under the hallowing influences of religion, must in the end, and that not re motely, be arrested and destroyed. We may be thus keeping together (if I may change the figure) materials of the most combustible kind, which any firebrand, rashly thrown among them, may,—and at no very distant period must enkindle; and of which the explosion would spread public and private misery widely around. " What then shall we do in this mournful state of things? Shall we deem it helpless and hopeless ; and sit down to await the event in apathy, witho u t t a kin g a ny m easures to avoid, or at least to mitigate what our fears may deem inevitable. GOD forbid. Much of the evil would be re medied if we could arrest and correct the general spirit of self interest, which has wedded itself not only to the most ordinary plans and pursuits of life, but t o th e high est aspirations of science, and the mightiest discoveries of human intellect. And how shall this great purpose be advanced ! How shall every man be taught not to look exclusively upon ' his own things, but every , man also, in an equal degree, upon the th in g s of others ? Surely, by endeavouring to bring the beams of the Sun of Righteous ness into contact with the opposing mass of worldiness that would make every man the centre and circumstance of his own pursuits; by aiming thus to thaw the cold and into healthier irreligion of his nature, and to call forth healthier exercise the kindly sympathies of the rich with the sad condition of the poor ; to exhibit that fellow feel ing in zealous endeavour to relieve them ; and to excite the gratitude of the poor towards those who long and labour to befriend them." A Voice from Italy; or, the Conscientious Statement of a Converted Roman Catholic. By Chevalier Rivarolo. Reading: Thomas. This little work, according to the author's own an nouncement, is intended " to destroy the poisonous seeds of superstition—to show the usurpation of the Roman Catholic Church--to prevent the progress of idolatry— and to prove the evils originated by the doctrines of a misguided Popish priesthood." _ The author writes tem perately but nervously, and combats in an unanswerable manner several of the leading doctrines of the Church of Rome, and corroborates his positions by numerous anec• dotes, to the truth of which we presume the Chevalier has been a witness. The opening chapter we consider the best written in the book, and shows the author to be as well acquainted with the genuine doctrines of Christianity as with the Rom perversions of those doctrines. He has collected a nu giber of facts of the most extraordinary nature, to prove the impositions practised by the Popes and hierarchy of Rome to perpetuate the lying devices by which the deceived children of that apostate system are enslaved and ruined. We take the following as a specimen of the author's style, and as a graphic portraiture of the accommodating character of Popery : " The Romish religion calls itself one, but it has a sin. gular variety of forms and aspects. For the lover of forms and outward religion, it has a gorgeous ritual. To the mere man of the world it shows a pope on the throne, cardinals and bishops in palaces, and all the splendour of earthly dominion. At the same time, for the self-deny ing, ascetic, mystical, and fanatical, it has all the forms of monastic life. To him who would scourge himself into godliness, it offers a whip. For him who who would starve into spirituality, it provides the mendicant con vents of St. Francis. For the anchorite, it prepares the death-like silence of La Trappe. To the passionate young woman, it presents the raptures of St. Theresa, and the marriage of St. Catherine with the Saviour. For him who would not wish to leave the world, its luxuries, en joyments, and pleasures, it offers the house of the wealthy Jesuits. For the restless pilgrim, whose piety needs greater variety than the cell of the monk, it offers shrines, tombs, relics, and other holy places in christian lands, and above all, the holy sepulchre near Calvary. To the generous, sympathising enthusiast, it opens some frater nity or sisterhood of charity. To him who is inclined to take heaven by violence, it gives as much penance as he can desire ; and to the mass of men, who wish to recon cile the two worlds, it promises a purgatory, so far softened down by the masses of the priest and the prayer of the faithful, that its fires can be anticipated without overwhelming dread." SELECTIONS. LORD STANLEY'S ELOQUENCE.—Perhaps no quality in Lord Stanley's eloquence is more deserving of notice than its natural and spontaneous character. No parlia mentary orator ever exhibited his Saxon simplicity of style. Lord Stanley is almost the only English orator who is not classical in his illustrations and language. This home-bred and racy simplicity is the strongest characteris tic of his speeches, considered as literary composition. One can easily deduce from his mere diction, even if the fact were not otherwise known, that Shakspeare and the old divines form his favourite reading.—lreland and its Rulers since 1829. MEN AND GENTLEMEN, WOMEN AND LADIES.—The New Orleans Herald makes the following singular distinc tions among these several classes of society :—" Men are quarried from the living rock as with a thunderbolt. Gen tlemen are moulded as the potter's clay by the dainty fin gers of fashion. Women are the spontaneous growth of a warm, rich soil, where the wind blows freely, and the heart feels the visitings of God's ever-changeable weather. Ladies are the offspring of a hot-bed, the growth of a greenhouse, tended and watched, lest the winds of Heaven may visit their faces too roughly, till they are good for nothing as women, at any rate as wives or mothers. Genius is an intellectual faculty, which enables the pos sessor of it to produce with power, facility, and elegance, what another cannot effect with any degree of study or perseverance. Education may accelerate, direct in the right course, and enable genius to soar to excellence, but education can never create the faculty. Genius without instruction, without the aid of adventitious circumstances, never carried an art or a science from its rudiments to its ecme. Perfection, like confidence, is a plant of slow growth, and requires constant and careful culture, the seed being good, the soil fertile ; with that attention, the fruits will approach perfection. AUSTRALIA.—In the year 1827, 700 emigrants left Bri tain for the Australian settlements, and in that year those colonies took from us £340,000 worth of home produce. In 1836 above 3000 emigrated to the same colonies, and the exports of British and Irish produce rose to nearly £840,000 sterling ; and in 1841, the exports amounted to £1,269,356; whilst to Russia, in the latter year, the ex ports amounted to £601,175. So much for the import ance of the foreign, in comparison with the home and co lonial trade.—Fraser's Magazine for October, " New South Wales." Woor..—ln the year 1810, 167 lb. of wool was imported into Great Britain; in 1820, 99,415 lb. ; 1830, 1,967,309 lb.; 1840, 9,721,213 lb. ; 1842, 12,959,671 lb. !! a progressive increase, almost unparalleled, in the history of commer cial prosperity. The quality of this wool was originally very bad, but the climate has an extraordinary effect upon the fleece. Latterly they have been of ♦aried qualities, but all possessing an extraordinary softness, which the manufacturers here so much admire; they are known to require much less milling power that any other descrip tion of wools, and they are sought for more than any other from that peculiar quality, which is supposed to arise from the climate alone. It is asserted on good authority, that, " if the farmers in those colonies were encouraged in the cultivation of wool, the country is adequate to the growth of as much wool of the fine description as ever will be wanted by the manufacturers of England.—lbid. FATHER MATHEW, AN INCENDIARY.—The late dread ful ravages occasioned by fire in the metropolis and else where, may be accounted for by the natural spleen of that destructive element at witnessing the triumphs of its ancient rival, water, in the person of the Apostle of Tem perance. It is quite clear the excessive water drinking promoted by the reverend gentlemen during his mission amongst us diminished the supply of that fluid, when it was so imperatively required to arrest the progress of the conflagrations we allude to. 'With all his cold water, therefore, we cannot but pronounce his apostleship an in cendiary ; and we must add our deliberate •pinion, that the incendiary who keeps a country in hot water is not half so much to be reprobated as the incendiary who keeps it in cold water. DEATH OF PlTT.—Pitt died at a solitary house on Wimbleton common. Not far off, by the roadside, stood, and still stands, a small country inn, where the various parties interested in the great statesman's life were ac customed to apply for information, and co leave their horses and carriages. On the morning of the 23d January 1806, an individual having called at this inn, and not being able to obtain a satisfactory reply to his inquiries, proceeded to the house of Pitt. He knocked, but no servant appeared ; he opened the door and entered ; he found no one in attendance. He proceeded from room to room, and at length entered the sick chamber, where on a bed, in silence and perfect solitude, he found, to his un speakable surprise, the dead body of that great statesman who had so lately wielded the power of England, and influenced, if he did not control, the destinies of the world. We doubt whether any much more awful exam ple of the lot of mortality has ever been witnessed.— Edinburgh Review. THE DUCHESS OF BERRY.—The marriage of the niece of the Duchess of Orleans with the Duke of Berry was an event of great importance in the history of the former family. Lively, gay, witty, generous, and open hearted, the Duchess of Berry captivated all parties, and even gained the affection of the Republicans themselves. Few women have ever lived whose passions have betrayed them into more acts of indiscretion and 'impropriety than this unfortunate lady; and yet, few ham ever possessed such admiring and devoted followers. She had the art of making herself loved to a greater degree than almost any other woman of her time ; and to this day the name of the Duchess of Berry carries a talismanic influence with it, even in the liberal circles and saloons of Paris. That marriage then introduced more frequently the Duke of Orleans to the court, but the priest party was always op posed to him ; caused him invariably to be distrusted ; and induced Louis XVIII., and subsequently Charles X., to believe that, in him, the eldest branch had a dangerous and decided foe. It was, therefore, that the former prince refused to confer on him the title of " Royal Highnes."— Fraser's Magazine. THE BATTLE OF THE NILE.—As Nelson truly remark ed, the battle in its consequences was a conquest rather than a victory. Only two victories of modern times have had greater results, Vittoria and Waterloo. The battle of the Nile is considered by naval judges to be the most perfect in tactique, execution, and completion ever fought. The superiority of force was on the side of the French, in the proportion of one ship of 120 guns and three of eighty guns to four seventy-fours, a serious difference, cceteris paribus ; also four frigates, two brigs, and two bomb ships. Yet it may be justly said, that if England added to her naval glory and riveted her naval pre-eminence, the character of the French navy was rather heightened than lowered by its defeat, and the chivalrous spirit of several of the captains and the Admiral increased the ho nour of their victories. Henceforth our naval affairs were more intimately connected with the military move ments and continental combinations than before, and it may be said, that from this period the Commander-in- Chief of our fleet in the Mediterranean became of neces sity our chief diplomatist in that quarter of the world ; even now that command requires an officer of great naval experience, and superior abilities, with the knowledge and views of a statesman.—British and Foreign Review. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ANIMAL AND VEGETA BLE LlFE.—That animal life is a distinct substance, and not an accident or quality of the body to which it is at tached, an argument may be drawn from a comparison of it with vegetable life, in the manner i■ which both cease to exist. If a tree or plant be drawn out of the earth, or cut from its roots, it does not immediately shew any signs of decay. Its branches retain their elasticity, its leaves their verdure, and its circulation proceeds unchecked for some time after the mortal shock is given. As its juices are exhaled, its parts wither and gradually decay, till its vital powers are totally extinguished, not by any determi nate crisis, but by the continued process of death (if I may so express myself) attending them. The dissolution of animal life is sudden. Its powers often continue to the last ; and the instant of its departure is generally marked by a violent and convulsive effort, not unlike the last parting flame of a taper, to which it is often compared. This effect is sometimes produced when the body has re mained for a time in a torpid state, and apparently life less. It then revives for a moment, struggles, as if to break or to retain its hold, and is gone for ever, affording to the eye of the attentive observer a conviction, exceed ing all argument, that some real substance united to the body was at that instant forcibly wrenched and disunited from it.—Fraser's Magazine. HOSPITALITY OF FATHER 'MATHEW'S ANCESTOR. — The celebrated Mr. Mathew, mentioned in Sheridan's Life of Swift, was a gentleman of princely hospitality, and resided at Thomastown Castle. It was his whim to have his mansion fitted up as an hotel, and the guests might do as they pleased, as he seldom headed his ow❑ table, but behaved as one of the company. There were forty tied rooms—a large coffee-room, with a bar and wai ters—a detached tavern for the votarias of Bacchus. There was a daily ordinary, at which the guests might as sernble if they did not dine in private. There were two billiard-tables, fishing-tackle, guns, &c., buckhounds and harriers, and twenty choice hunters in the stables. There was also a bowling-green on the demesne ; and Swift was so delighted with the place, that instead of a fortnight be remained four months.—lreland and its Rulers since 1829. THE FULLERS' TEAZLE.—The wild teazle (Dypsacus .sylrestris) may now be seen in many of our hedges. This is a member of a very curious family of plants, and it is supposed that the fullers' teazle, so extensively used by clothiers, is only a variety of this plant. The name dip sacus is derived from dimao, to thirst, and is given on account of the upper leaves of the plant holding water. They do this to such a degree, that after a shower we have poured from the various leaves what would be a very ac ceptable supply of water to a thirsty traveller. The blos soms of the teazle are lilac-coloured, numerous, and col lected in a large conical head. The plant grows to the height of about four feet, and its large lance-shaped leaves are defended, as is the whole plant, with an abundance of prickles. The fullers' teazle is cultivated to a great extent in the West of England ; and it is the bristly scales of the flower heads that render the plant so valuable in dressing cloth. These bristles are just strong enough to raise the wool without tearing the cloth. The dressing of one piece of cloth is said to require from 1,500 to 2,000 teazles. When the common teazle is in blossom, it is a great orna ment to our hedgerows, from the delicate colour of the flowers, but soon after the blossoming is over, the recept acle becomes dry and brown, and remains long on the stalk in that condition.—Saturday Magazine. THE INDIANS AND QUEEN VICTORIA.—A deputation of chiefs and warriors from one of the tribes of Indians located on the lands at the head of Lake Superior, was in New York, en route to the Court of Queen Victoria, to lay before their royal mistress certain grievances under which their people are labouring. The following account of them is from the _New York Inquirer:—" These veri table and rugged sons of the forest, with the wives of their two principal chiefs, come fully equipped and appointed with all the paraphernalia of war. hunting, travelling wig wam, &c. The venerable patriarch at the head of the deputation is nearly 70 years of age, being the oldest war rior of his tribe; and having fought upon the frontiers during the war between Great Britain and the United States, both his warriors and himself have enjoyed the highest favour and confidence of the British government. A difference having esisted for some time between the Chippewas and the Upper Canadians, these warriors have been delegated to lay their grievances before the Queen in person. Their locality is at the head of Lake Superior, the most remote and isolated of any of the tribes of Ame rican Indians. It was a party of this tribe that accompa nied Captain Back in part of his celebrated expedition to the North Pole in search of his friend Captain Ross. Having never lived near the shore of the lake, every ob ject connected with civilisation is a matter of great curi osity to them. Their interpreter says that their astonish ment upon beholding a steam-boat for the first time was unbounded ; and that in descending the locks of the Erie Canal, they went through a variety of heathen ceremo nials to propitiate the Evil Spirit, who they firmly be lieved had an agency in causing the waters to sink or rise over hills and valleys. What their wonder will be on witnessing the scenes of a play, or the wonderful exploits of the circus riders, remains to be known. They are, certainly, objects of great interest, and in fact the only Indians from that remote region of country that have ever been among us, or that in all probability ever will visit these parts again." DESCRfPTION or ADEN.—Aden presents us with one of those phenomena which the giant " steam" is every day and everywhere achieving. Barren rocks, and a few yards of sandy shore, once tenanted only by the sea-gull and the crab, are now covered by cheerful domiciles, and animated by a small but busy and contented population, who live by unloading the fuel-ships, storing and protect ing the coal, and embarking it upon the steamers. Upon the shore of a little bay, formed by a small belt of rocks, stands a spacious and commodious building, of wood, wat tle, and dab, covered within and without by whitewash and duly matted and thatched, which serves the purposes of a hotel. Some enterprising Parsees from Bombay started and maintain this establishment, where the steam boat traveller will find an excellent and (all things consi dered) not expensive table and cellar, clean beds, white linen, and excellent attendance. Fire-wood and sweet water, being brought from a considerable distance, must necessarily be dear; but they do not constitute special items in the bill, unless you indulge in a fresh bath, when four shillings, or two rupees, are payable. Donkeys and their attendant vagabond owners are available by scores, and it is usual to hire one for a ride to the Arab town of Aden, four miles from the anchorage, and inspect the scene of many a bloody strife before our troops esta blished their present footing on the soil of the Ishmaelite. We were regaled with excellent fish, including oysters, during our stay at Aden. But, indeed, there was no de ficiency of any of the necessaries of life. Every thing that reasonable men can desire is obtained in abundance from the interior ; and, judging from the specimens of grain and vegetables daily brought in on camels' backs, there can be no doubt of the richness and fertility of the soil of Arabia. It was singular to see every Arab in and about Aden unarmed. On the opposite coast, and on the shores of the Persian Gulf—nay, from Bussorah to Con. stantinople, from Busbire to Tabreex—yon rarely meet a man without his matchlock, his kundjur, or his scimi tar, and sometimes with all three, and a lance and pistols into the bargain ; but here you would fancy that the Mos lem had ceased to war with his fellow, for if his hand be against every body, it is at Aden an empty hand ! This restriction upon the use of arms has, 1 suppose, originated with Captain Haines, the political agent, and is no doubt intended as a protection against treachery. There is not, however, much of that to be apprehended now. The peo ple are evidently more than reconciled to British autho rity, for they flock to Aden in numbers totally unknown during the government of the Sultan. From six hundred to a thousand souls inhabited the town before our conquest and occupation : at this moment there are not less than 20,000 living there !—From " Overland Trips in general, and a Trip in particular," in the Asiatic Journal. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. VARIETIES. To what colour does a flogging change a boy's com plexion ?—lt makes him yell-O. Paris is lighted every afternoon by 13,221 lamps of which 5,894 are supplied with gas, and 7,321 with oil. A. REFRACTORY BUTT.—In a dispute between Sir W. Lewes and Wilkes, the former said—" I'll be your butt no longer." " With all my heart," said Wilkes, " I never liked an empty one." If you wish to hear all the evil in people's character, wait until they get married. If 3611 are desirous of learn ing all, and more than all their good qualities, have pa tience until they be dead. ANCIENT NAME FOR TAYLOR.—Snyde, inTthe ancient Saxon language, signified to cut; snydee, a cutter, being our ancient name for a taylor, till we took the name tailleur from the French. King Louis Phillippe, being born on the 6th of October, 1773, has now entered his 71st year. His Majesty is the first of his race who has reached so advanced an age. On Friday week there was a grand fete at St. Cloud on the occasion of that anniversary. GOLD NOT A POISON.—M. Le Grand, from frequent experience of its effects in the treatment of disease by the employment of large doses of the salts of gold arrives at the conclusion that the received opinion that they are poisonous is altogether erroneous, and that it is quite as safe a remedy as iron. GARRICK'S COTEMPORARY.—There is only one person now living who performed on the same stage with Garrick —Byrne, the celebrated harlequin in his time, and father of Oscar Byrne. He is now in his eighty-second year, walks as uprightly as in his best days, and is in possession of all his faculties.—Dramalic and Musical Review. A PRETTY QUESTION.—" Why don't you get mar ried?" said a young lady the other day to a rather elderly bachelor friend. " I have bean trying for the last ten years, to find some one who woad be silly enough to have me" was the reply. " I guess you havn't been up our way" was the insinuating rejoinder. . Watercresses will grow just as well on a damp shaded border in the kitchen garden, as along the brook side, and will be ten times safer for use from such a place than in the natural way, where they are always more or less sown over with the eggs of insects, and other creatures frequent ing pools and running streams. Now is the best time to plant slips of them. DRESS OF O'CONNELL.—The following is a sketch by the Times reporter of Mr. O'Connell's appearance at the dinner after the great meeting at Mullaghmast :—" Mr. O'Connell looked something like the Great Mogul, with his curious national cap' of purple and blue velvet and gold embroidery on his he a d, gre y c oat, aldermanic gold chain, and purple velvet gown with fur trimmings." THE JESUIT COLLEGES.—This society was established by Ignatius Loyola, in 1536; they were expelled from France in 1594 ; from England in 1604 ; from Venice in 1606 ; from Paraguay in 1753 ; again from France in 1764 ; from Portugal in 1759, having made an attempt to ass ns . sinate the king ; from Bohemia and Denmark in 1766 from Spain, Genoa, and Venice, in 1 7 6 7 ; from Naples, Malta, and Parma, in 1768. The society was suppressed by the Pope, August 25, 1773; their establishment was closed in Spain, and property confiscated, in 1836, exactly three centuries after the first establishment of the order. If any one has a horror of icicles, and would never have the mild temperature of the air interrupted by the presence of a boar-frost, let him migrate with the climate Let him spend the month of January in Portugal ; Feb ruary in Madeira ; March in Spain ; April in Sicily ; May in Lapland ; June in Italy ; July in Switzerland ; August in France ; September in England ; October among the forests of America ; November in Crete and December in the islands of the Cape de Verd. By this rotarory motion, he may enjoy a delicious temperature, and revel in honeysuckles and roses all the year round. PEACE FOR WALES AND JUSTICE FOR IRELAND. From day to day astounding tales Arrive from Ireland and from Wales, Portending future slaughters. How shall we silence these great guns ? Compel O'Connell and his sons To ?red Rebecca and her daughters! MR. WEBSTER ON REPUDIATION. The following extract from a speech of Mr. Webster, at an agricultural meeting in New York, will be read with pleasure by those who are interested in the debt of Pennsylvania, to many of whom that unbquidated debt has brought beggary and ruin : " Mr. President and gentlemen,—What is the credit and character of this glorious country, to which we all belong, abroad ? We are rich ; we are powerful ; we have all the means of accomplishing whatever virtuous human desire can embrace. But what is our credit? And I am not one of those disposed to complain of or to stigmatise in any way the efforts of the states of this great union who have sought for funds abroad to carry on those enterprises and improvements which their sense of utility has projected ; on the contrary, I think that the circumstances of the times and the necessities of the case may justify, at least to a considerable extent, the engagements into which some of the states, especially the Western states, have entered abroad. Among those which have thus justifiably become involved is the state of Pennsylvania, the richest state in the union, in my judgment—perhaps I ought to except New York—but, taking her mineral, commercial, and agricultural facili ties into consideration, I don't know on the face of the earth, excepting England, a richer state than the state of Pennsylvania. (' Take off her debt,' said Governor Seward.) My friend Governor Seward says, Take off her debt.' Her debt—her debt! What can be the debt of a state like Pennsylvania, that she should not be able to pay it—that she cannot pay it, if she will but take from her pocket the money that she has in it ? Eng land's debt is ingrafted upon her very soil ; she is bound down to the very earth by it ; and it will affect England and Englishmen to the 50th generation. But the debt of Pennsylvania—the debt of Illinois—the debt of any state in this union—amounts not to a sixpence in com parison. (Cheers.) Let us be Americans; but let us avoid, as we despise, the character of an acknowledged insolvent community. (Cheers.) What importance is it what other nations say of us, or what they think of us, if they can nevertheless say, you don't pay your debts ? (Applause.) Now, gentlemen, I belong to Massachu setts; but if I belonged to a deeply indebted state, I'd work these ten fingers to their stumps—l'd hold plough, I'd drive plough, I'd do both, before it should be said of the state to which I belonged, that she did not pay her debts. (Loud cheers.) That's the true principle ; let us act upon it (cheers) ; let us go it' to its full extent. (Deafening applause.) If it costs us our comforts, let us sacrifice our comforts ; if it costs us our farms, let us mortgage our farms. But don't let it be said by the proud capitalists of England. You don't pay your debts. You republican governments don't pay your debts.' Let us say to them, We will pay them ; we will pay them to the uttermost farthing.' rhat's my firm conviction of what we ought to do. y That's my opinion, and water can't drown, fire can't burn, it out of me. (Loud ap plause.) If America owes a debt, let her pay it—let her pay it. (Deafening cheers.) What I have is ready for the sacrifice. What you have I know would be ready for the sacrifice. At any rate, and at any sacrifice, don't let it be said on the Exchanges of London or Paris, don't let it be said in any one of the proud monarchies of Europe—' America owes, and can't or won't pay.' God forbid ! (Cheers.) Let us pay—let us pay. (Long continued and loud applause.) Let us say to them, Produce your bond, and take your money, principal and interest. Add it all up, and take your money.' (Ap plause.) Let us say to them, We are not your slaves ; we are not paupers; we will not be your debtors ; we will pay ; produce your bond—here is your money—take it.' (This was followed by repeated and deafening cheers.) And until that is done, my friends, you and I cannot feel as if we could draw a free breath. I don't want to be indebted to the capitalists of Europe ; if we owe them anything, let them produce their bill. if my professional earnings are of any worth--if they are wanted—if my farm is wanted—if the conveniences of life for myself, for my wife and children, are wanted, so far as I am concerned, so far as America is concerned, come and take them. (Cheers.) That's the light ground to take, and let us take it. In the north and south, in the east and west, if there live any who are descended from the fathers of the revolution—any in whose veins runs a drop of their blood, and in whose hearts lives a particle of their proud spirit—let them rise up and say, that if we owe Europe, Europe shall be paid. (Loud cheers.) I wish to breathe the breath of an independent man. A citizen of a proud and honoured country, I abhor the idea that my daily happiness is to be marred by the consciousness that anything disgraceful hangs on the country or any part of it. Let us, gentlemen, be proud of our country ; but let us preserve for that coun try the character of a just and debt-paying nation. Let it never be said among the nations of Europe that the United States of America—the nation that had its birth in the glorious scenes of '76—the country of Washington —the example and great type of all modern republics— cannot or will not pay its debts ! " THE CONSALL ESTATE, STAFFORDSHIRE. The county of Stafford bath, from time immemorial, been famed for the preference which it possesses in in vestment, and this distinction will be especially seen by an enumeration of only a few of the leading points. Its proximity to the Potteries (from which it is removed be yond the possibility of annoyance) increases the value of the produce very considerably, because it is a never-end ing source, without reference to the capital markets which are to be found within easy distances. The Trent and Mersey Canal forms the eastern boundary, and passes through a portion of the estate. The railway, belonging to the owner of the estate, and commencing at the canal, extends through the property more than three miles, communicating with the turnpike-road leading to the pot teries, and which are seven miles off. Tus:CoALs, BELOW A VERY FINE SURFACE, AND WORKED BY A WATER LEVEL (saving the vast expense of steam), HAVE BEEN VALUED AT ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIVE THOUSAND POUNDS, will, in a very few years, approach the present value of the fee simple; and this, it should be observed, without any annoyance. The canal and railway are con nected with the coal-pits : this is probably the most en couraging feature of the property; there are already five ascertained seams, the quantity appears without end, and they are all of the best quality. The pits are contiguous to a branch of the Trent and Mersey Canal, giving great facility to the transport of coals to all parts, but more especially to Manchester, where coal is now so scarce and so much in request. There is almost a superabundance of lime, which a good agriculturist knows to be of infinite importance, inasmuch as it is the most effectual mode of dressing corn laud ; and as it regards the meadow and pasture, where they have twice undergone this essential ordeal, it will not be difficult for ever afterwards to watch its proud superiority over all its neighbours. There is, besides, and in great abundance, gravel and stone (a por tion from one of the rocks assisted in the completion of Waterloo-bridge). The soil varies in the quality ; about two-thirds are admirably suited to dairy farms, the re mainder adapted to wheat, barley, and turnips. The re sidence, in its outward form, hath very little pretensions, and the order of its architecture is certainly somewhat equivocal ; originally it was intended to add four principal rooms, and a plan is prepared to accomplish this, thus consigning to his successor the pleasure of indulging and recreating in his own peculiar taste, in contradistinction to that of a more doubtful character. The offices, both within and without, are as good as need to be desired. The pleasure-grounds and lawns are very judiciously laid out. The kitchen gardens, encompassed by lofty walls, are exceedingly productive, and the domain in front puts on a park-like appearance throughout. The distance from Buxton and Matlock is within easy reach of those who may need the beneficial influence of those waters. The estate is on the turnpike-road which leads from Birming ham, through Lichfield, Uttoxeter, Cheadle, Leek, and Macclesfield, to Manchester; and the Birmingham and Liverpool railway two hours' drive from Consall. It is tithe-free, the land-tax is redeemed, and it is extra-paro chial. The manor and manorial rights, over an estate which is fruitful in game of all descriptions, will be duly estimated. There is abundance of the besi stone, which would materially reduce the outlay of any one intending to enlarge the residence. Possession of the house and all the land in hand (about 240 acres), and the woods, may be had immediately on completing the purchase. The estate extends to 2,000 acres. The present rent is £4,000 a-year, and in seven years the coals alone will add from £lO,OOO to £20,000 a-year to the present income." DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN MANCHESTER.—On Friday last, a destructive tire occurred on the premises of Mr. Dickson, jeweller, Market-street Manchester. In about an hour from the commencement of the fire a pile of buildings, five stories high, and extending twenty-five yards down New Brown -street, with a frontage of about ten yards to Market -street, was lett a skeleton of smoul- ' dering walls. Part of the premises were unoccupied. The sufferers by the loss will be Mr. Hanley, about £200; Mr. Dickson, jeweller, whose loss we have not learnt, but who saved some of his most valuable goods; Mr. Hind, a country manufacturer, whose rooms fronted to Swan lane; Mr. Gilham, the hatter, whose loss (some of his stock being saved,) will probably not exceed £3OO or £4OO. Mr. Livesey, Church-street, who owns the buildings in which the firs commenced, and which are insured in the Manchester Office for XlOOO, (probably about the value,) and Mr. Charles Lacy, who owns the rest of the building bet who was insured in the Manchester Office for £2,800, about sufficient to cover the loss. The total loss by the fire is from £5,000 to £6,000. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—THREE LIVES LOST. — On Sunday week,Mrs. Anderson, wife of Mr. Walter An derson, farming steward to the Duke of Bedford, at Oak ley, accompanied by Mr. Thomas Inskip, formerly of Marston, Miss Inskip, his sister, and a young pupil of Mr. Anderson's, named Booker, went to Stevington church and attended morning service. The parishes of Oakley and Stevington are divided by the river Ouze which they crossed in a ferry boat kept for the accommo dation of the public. After the service the party proceeded towards Oakley, and on reaching the river they again got into the boat and ferried nearly across. The wind was very fresh, and the waves became so rough that they were unable to land ; they therefore determined upon returning to the Stevington side. Before, however, they could reach the bank again the water rushed into the boat at the stern, it went down and the unfortunate persons were thrown into the river. Before any assistance could be rendered three of them were drowned. The young man, Mr. Booker, with great difficulty succeeded in reaching the bank, and he ran for assistance. After a consider able time had elapsed the bodies were recovered and life was then extinct.—Cambridge Chronicle. LOSS OF TIT AMPHITRITE. By the arrival of her Majesty's sloop Fantome at Ports mouth on Monday last, information has been received of total loss of the British brig Amphitrite, Commander Mr. H. Wills, on the 21st of July, off the island of Lobasbere, near Monte Video. About noon on the 20th July she was close into Cape St. Mary's on the look out for a pilot, but none appearing, and there being a light easterly wind, she continued her course, and at midday on the 21st she was off the above island. The wind afterwards increased with great violence, and a heavy shower of hail and rain began to fall, and there being no pilot to be seen on the station, all her sails were shortened, and she hove to about 2 o'clock in the afternoon, with her head to the southward, the weather at that thee being very thick, and several high breakers near her. She, however, - still made way, although very little, going at the early part of the evening not more than •two knots an hour. At 8 o'clock the weather had become exceedingly misty, so much so that the ship's length could scarcely be discerned, and every precaution was adopted in order to prevent ac cident, a man being constantly at her mast head, and the lead kept going. The captain, fearing from the violence of the gale that if he anchored on the spot she would be blown away from her moorings and every soul perish, de termined on keeping her under canvas, as from her posi tion he supposed she would make the Mount by the fol lowing morning. She kept going on very steadily till about midnight, when the captain went down below for a short time, the mate being at the mast-head, when he no sooner did so than he heard a distant shock from her striking forward, though in six fathoms, aft and hind. The captain instantly rushed on deck and put the helm a-port, which she answered, and the sails were set. The heavy serf, however, that was running kept constantly beating her on the shoal, and the crew expected every moment that she would be beaten to atoms, and they all meet with a watery grave. She soon got clear, and the captain decided on running for Monte Video, although the weather was exceedingly dark. Accordingly the pumps were kept going, and the carpenters set to work to repair the ship. Unfortunately, however, she had received too great an injury, as the sea was fast flowing into the hold. Notwithstanding this the captain still kept her on the tack, and it was only at 3 o'clock on the following morn ing when the water was level with the cabin decks, that the captain and crew, 13 in number, left the ill-fated ves sel in her boats. She soon went down in deep water, and the crew - then steered for the above port, in doing which they encountered most tempestuous weather, the boat at one time being almost full of water and amidst breakers. At length, after the lapse of six hours, they succeeded in reaching Monte Video, greatly fatigued from excessive exertion and exposure to cold. At this port it appears the poor fellows were not treated by the Consul in that kind manner which their destitute case deserved. They have, however, safely arrived in England. OBSERVATIONS IN RESPECT OF THE ISLANDS OF RASAY AND RONA, IN SCOTLAND. " The islands of Rasay and Rona form part of the Wes tern Hebrides, situated in the county of Inverness, lying between the island of Skye and the mainland. Rona lies directly north of Rasay. RASAY. " Rasay measures 12 miles. The breadth is 31 miles. The island measures 15.126 acres. At the north end is the island Tigh, separated only from Rasay at flood tide. At the west side is the island of Fladda; it measures 1 mile and 2 furlongs. Rasay, including Tigh and Fladda, amounts to 15,598 acres 2 roods and 31 poles. The island is divided or let into 22 farms. Total arable in the island, at present under cultivation, 1,266 acres. The island, or a considerable portion, may almost be said to be now in its naturally wild state. The inhabitants having no lease, have had no inducement to improve their land, but there are great quantities of land of good soil capable of being easily improved, and lots of respectable yeomen ready to occupy it on lease. Many of the glens present as beau tiful and as fine a surface as can possibly be seen. The mansion-house is situated at the south end of the island; it is of modern date, and is large and commodious. A sketch is shown upon the plan. The front is all of dressed ashler, from the freestone rock on the estate at Hallaig. It is erected on the Doric order of architecture, in a chaste and beautiful style, embellished with a magnificent stone portico, opening to a spacious noble hall. A fine spring passes through the estate. In fact, the islands are cele. brated for the delicious springs which abound there in all parts. The garden is a large square area of some acres in extent. Near the house, on the beach, is one of the cele brated romantic caves in which Prince Charles was con cealed. Behind the house, and extending in a northerly direction to near Osgaie, is a very fine plantation of elm and larch, extending to 15 acres. About the church there is a plantation of Scotch fir, beech, larch, and ash, ex tending to 26 acres. At Glaim and Castle, the natural plantation extends to 310 acres. Between Balchurn and Hallaig are several very fine lochs, abounding in black trout, and the whole island abounds largely in grouse and blackcock. There is plenty of fine blue limestone ; and no doubt, if search was made, COAL WOULD ALSO BE VOUND. Duncan, the highest hill in Rasay, presents from the summit one of the grandest panoramic views of Highland scenery in Scotland. On the east side the rocks are of freestone, towering above each other, rising in ma jestic height upwards of 3,000 feet above the sea, and in parts quite inaccessible, except to the wild goats which abound on the rock, and which is known as the " Goat Rock," and from which issues a gushing stream of the purest water, providing a refreshment of the most delight ful description to the eager sportsman. In the island of Fladda there is abundance of slate. There can be no doubt that this only requires an enterprising tenant to se cure an enormous income. RONA. " Rona lies nearly directly north of Rasay. The island is four miles in length, and one mile in breadth. There is in several parts a large quantity of flow moss, that, with very little expense, could be drained and brought under cultivation. There is also in the Big Harbour plenty of shell sand, nearly equal to good lime, which might be used to great advantage upon the ground—almost none is at present used. The island measures 2,414 acres, of which there is at present 156 acres under cultivation. The Big Harbour is a very safe and deep harbour. The island abounds in grouse and game of all sorts." AwFuL VISITATION. — One of those alarming and dreadful acts of God's providence—the fall of a thunder bolt—attended with fatal effects, happened at Cooper's row, Runcorn, on Thursday night week, about ten o'clock. The row consists of fourteen cottages, standing in a field near to the entrance of the town, and the electric fluid struck one near to the centre, entering the chimney, and coming out above the mantelpiece, passed through the room-floor about a foot from the grate, and descended to the house floor hearth, around which were sitting the unfortunate occupier's wife and two children, another being in the cradle. The tenant, Thomas Moores, who is a atone-mason, with a family of six children, had re tired to bed a few minutes previously, and three of the children were also in bed in an adjoining room ; but the wife, who bad all her life been greatly afraid of thunder, was sitting up till the storm was over; and, dreadful to state, the electric fluid struck her, and instantly rendered her a frightfully mangled blazing corpse, dashing the chil dren against the opposite walls, and tearing up the flags of the floor in its downward progress. Poor Moores states that he was knocked out of bed down stairs, and on coming to his senses found his wife's clothes on fire, as well as several articles of clothing near the fire-place. The neigbours fetched a surgeon, but the poor woman was dead ; the two children and the infant in the cradle recovered. The house is literally a heap of blackened ruins. SLAVERS AND PRIZE MONEY.—The "Acorn," 16, sloop, Captain Adams, lately arrived at Devonport. Du ring the time she has been on the coast of Africa she has made no less than nineteen captures of slave-vessels, and that in the short space of two years and a half. On her going out to the coast in the year 1841 she made a good beginning, by capturing the noted slave brigantine " Ga briel," on board of which vessel they found 530 slaves. They fell in with her between Rio Janeiro and St. He lena. The Anna was the next slaver she seized, in which they found 500 slaves, in the most miserable condition. They were huddled together so close as scarcely to leave breathing room, and the miasmatic and unwholesome va pours that rose from the dens were almost overpowering. In a place called a cabin in the after part of this vessel, measuring 16 feet by 9, were no less than 219 females packed. An officer of the Acorn at first supposed it in credible that so many human beings could be squeezed into so small a space ; and it was by formally counting the number that he satisfied himself of the fact. He said it put him in mind of the celebrated black-hole of Cal cutta. In the fore part of this vessel, reaching from the mainmast to the forecastle, 300 males were confined. This part was called the gaol, and was 50 feet long by 27 broad, the height being about 3 feet 3 inches. They were in a most impure and filthy state, and were forced from the lowness of the deck to keep in a sitting position, not hav ing room to lay themselves at length. Some of the other captures of the Acorn were eqnally important, and made with no less skill and resolution. The following revolting account of this demoniacal traffic in human flesh has been recommended to the attention of General Cass and the American slavery defenders :—" The Portuguese schooner of 41 tons, the Esperanza, has been condemned by the Mixed Commission Court, and broken up for sale, agree ably to our treaty with I'ortugal. Her instructions con tain a tale of horror, requiring no varnishing to render it a romance. She was commissioned for the coast of Africa, for the Mozambique, and with a crew of ten men, and provisions for fifteen days (!) was to take in 220 slaves, or if small bales, so the slaves are termed, 250 ! and easily packed in a space of (what ? gracious God !) the hold of a vessel of 44 tons, with a height of 32 inches—ay, inches ! between the slave, or under, and upper deck. Manacles and chains were on board to the number of 900 for another cargo ; and with provisions for fifteen days was this fright ful freight—this cargo of human misery—to cross the wide Atlantic, to traverse, at a bird's flight, nearly 4,000 miles. Suppose calms, or adverse winds, or storms occurred— suppose the voyage was delayed for twenty days, to no port dare the slave-ship run ; from no vessel dare she seek for assistance; 250 human beings, without food or water, crammed into a space not high enough to sleep when lying down in one position for 20 days and nights, in a hold fetid with their own filth, without ventilation, with a putrid and foul atmosphere, on a deck 32 inches from the ceiling. Can any fiction, any romance, portray what might have been the bitter agony, the tortures of these Africans ? A slave can be purchased for 10 bars of baft, or 10 pieces of blue cloth, say 205., and will fetch at Brazil 480 dollars, or often £l2O. The immense profit renders the slave traders regardless of human life; one slave in every 10, if brought to Cuba or Brazils, yields an ample return ; and anxious as our cruizers are to check this wretched traffic, the western coast of Africa is too vast and extensive for the fleet employed to watch it." SPORTI...VG INTELLIGENCE CHESTER OCTOBER MEETING, 1843' ----- r.,. 0 )1. 1; STEWAR DS. Hon. E. M. L. MOSTYN and J. joists, ..---* --- VW RSDAY, 00'013E3 19' with 2060 The MOSTYN STAKES 15 - Ch 10 ft, 0 0f sons ea , 4 1 added. Half-a -m . ile• . ( F o ol , 0 Mr F R Price's ch f Missy, 2 yrs . • •••• ••• .(Arths r i Mr M Jones's br c British Tar, 2 yrs ...... ' t Mr Mostyn's b f by Agreeable, dam by Sam , (MarMO t Sir 3 N Y k r ' s Stanley's ch f . 1;y . .... '''' Pantaloon,' '' y - rs . . ?C .. ° A splendid race, and wo n b y I)eliffili a hes.•, * s The 2 CHESTER Speed's r C E HANDICAP ver t S o T n A , STAKES of 1 0 0/81 rs ' ab l ' '') with 40 sons added. One mile-and-a-quartgon 7 12 Mr Davies's ch f Princess of Wales •• ( I N . ;0 -; 8 6 Mr Thompson's bg 11 u dib 3 ra Y s r , ss. Yr . ° . l ' •(' `' ; ; °‘ rs i r l e °,til l i David, Pretension, Ermengardis, I ronY , B elP d w oo bl Gipsy Queen also started. A good race, a n d neck. adde d The SELLING STAKES of 5 sovs each , with 3 0 6-15 , Heats, once round and a distance.neo ti ii Mr Cooke's ch g Bedalian, 6 yrs ...... (W J ° s i f 2 v a ite . Mr Thompson's br g by Shrigley, 4 V. 0 0 ) .:• i ford,r ~, , 1 ): r ) k r c , ' .. . b . . f . .. . . Venture,.... . b . y . ......... . S . t . a . f . - (A rthei i 0 l i ti Mr Wairing's gr g Saul, aged .... ...... (Barker)t tid -ni Mr Jones's b g Tunalcain, aged ...... PPe i' ee Ow Mr J S Barry s b g Perdition .......... (M sr 00 1 A HURDLE RACE of 5 soya each, with 25 so" 01 0 Heats, the Grosvenor Course. 0 0,0 Mr Sutton's b g Defence, aged ....... . a Weft I ) ) ,0 Mr Welch's br g Kirby Lonsdale, 4 yrs.. ( o d) 0, 1 , 0 Mr Birch's bl g Slashing Harry, aged (S° lBl ' w° I/ "0 Mr Fowler's br g St. Valentine, 6 yrs 00) 1)1 -( W J Pa ws 0 0° Mr Atkinson's b m Lady of the Lake, les) al) .. (SberP i ii Os .... iii Cow e " 00 •• Mr Shepherd's br g Mudlark, 5 yrs.. t - •,,,,„ t o 9 ,101 Mr Dawbcr names b g Ewbank, 5 qrs .. ( I ,.' in - o re n ) Is - . Mr Gallimore's gr m by Japhet, 4 yrs ( 08°- th ' LATEST BETTING BETTING AT mANcilEsll3'. 00 0' el fridaY 00 ba le 'etii ti Last week's racing at Newmarket seems t ° _ e lath ed k; well our round betters. A few influentials hay..„,t040 the metropolis, to wind up the racing season;wtoP several " departures" will take place to-tu°l them. •sk he ll4 o ol On Monday and Tuesday we had some bll Pri leetscre oe pt , the eventsat once giv close at nd. These we she side, and e the latest bettings, es rfi bto it'' °l* able DaßEy iva o (eco n nkffd t oe h rrno e e pdß e ,, v a4E e t Tttv O aHo f nEl s ( uch a week as " the beAgogtooodnroom, withoutan d w6tca t aLk h t us run the odds, 3 ‘c' • te t° e y of ° 1 ...t Jr wanted) oe tn A es) n. d,o)w on the B ut ; to L e tnoe r s o a T lanm , ; d i sn g :e. er g s:l • :..i. sone; es, abet D gust' s is t i . 6 o ; 40 to 2 was yesterday laid agst Ugly Buck. Dawson (offered) Alt force. 41 to 1 agst Heseltine (offered); .600 ) T e; x nu E ans,d c t A hl m coe nicatnoriogiGohEt::::::::.in 0 . i s I ters (offered). 7 to 1 agst Blackdrop (offered, it ` B-- ' ) 11 to 1 Knight of the Whistle (takeu 11 to 1 Evenus (taken) 750 to 50 Coranna (taken) 300 to 21 Coranna (taken) 100 to 7 ---Semiseria (taken fou r times) 100 to 5 Nat (taken) Y) 100 to 6 Sister to Jessy (offered free' 100 to 5 Our Nell (taken) 100 to 4 St. Lawrence (offered) 100 to 4 Lady Sale (offered) .1 100 to 3 What (taken, then acre./ DERBY. 9 to 1 agst Ugly Buck (offered) 20 to 1 Voltri (offered, tak e 25)„„, 20 to 1 Seahorse (offered, take Jvi 40 to 1 Leander (offered) 10 101 CHESTER TRADES' CUP' 0 41 4 M 100 to 3 offered on the field. Offers Ye i e r , ; sPliste 25 to 1 agst Rattan for Criterion and Pend er 10t°, Jeffy was then backed freely at 100 s to 6, pit agst Drop ; 11 to 10 only asked between the coed choice. d er ; --,---..-............•••• dos , 61 - ett_ df , LONGEVITY OF THE HORSE•--" 4 fe„r, - gobe'h,,in departed this life a mare belonging to ''''• to es ' Or ' View Park, Bothwell—her principal daily j oe el v notice being the fact that she had COmPlelr;oto el th it dinary age of full forty years. She ca n ' Or; 1 ,0 1 _,; bertson's possession in 1818, having t h , d e ali w ;herd comparatively advanced age of fifteen Y ‘ et,'",;,_"_ . a o 40 1 :, pletes the sum total we have stated. ' ti - olrg .- 041 1 ' . named, belonged to the hardy Highland " be odor, the period of twenty-five Years ! sinc e 1 his i s del,„ Robertson's property , served . him Lou lb:di v. ~ t .-10 i. 6 plough, saddle, or gig, kirk and mel JO" ios,, - ; of faithfulness which made her known in ,, of Oro k ,' the surrounding parishes as the very Up; p ot h i e bLi delity and perfection. For a long ti m `•" o2 Bl ll' old been looked upon with interest, as an an', finite/lu longed to a race of horses that has I ° ° ,, s e rlanse w ,, e ; away, and every one was anxious to show m for be t oe"j treating her to a " hained hip " or filching id Jet,pa s butions from the corn kist. In this v O s,Y ° ol•lrost c h became howe-backed ; but remained "'lle, si' o .. s it glazie," to the very last, and in sPPet r „ - ,. -- 0 f ) 11 : 0 0_,, 0- 0- a living contradiction to the great nuolu'ihree i n $ l''' o o had passed over her head. For two or et tbt Or , nt i she had been rather a kindly-used peu l3 o ( 0 1 1 0 ‘9,'," lar labourer, but notwithstanding this ag e go- je - s , always put to any little tid of work that dea th., s o ! l i d was in harness the very week before her lot or Stir-o old Jess might have lived much longe r ! 0. 000 blabs lucky accident which hastened her dew ls her C I Or s it week the venerable animal was enjuP e g hroeg i t ;i iS5s• paddock adjoining View Park House , t tec oh hes o o e, burn meanders on its way, and havin,g, s for '' ‘ l° 0 I' oc r o s it she was unable to recover herself, .axisao°l°-tsii„o: fore her situation was discovered 1 3 " eat ' 0 00":0 0 Shea pparently recovered under the tree t ° oo o 6sits'-eh applied, but was found dead in the stsh i c e hati be ra l ot caused no doubt, either by the injuries s t ! h ol ~e s te_do, in the pool, or by the strains to which n e ,oBo o- trwe jected when drawn out of it. The old 0 4 0 00 1 4 et-, t ho l buried in View Park garden with all the " her ' do e o rb in her own akin, and with her shoes ca vit y beli o st ir have rarely heard of an instance of 10,11,,getbe 0 0 P re or: 0 0 of this animal; and her case may ra n !' W ith 0 1 t b'ib° that were this faithful assistant treatea life o igp 10 14 0 0 deration and kindliness the average. ° f bogi e :e 10 0 lengthened. In fact, this supposition p is Who 10 ei 4 0 opinion of Mr. Youatt, and all others , A O e e eer;oll on the natural history of the horse; a° ~ l ed t he w II assumed by them that we should fore' 7 - 1 frots re yell• s (l estimate of the natural age of the an an d des t n eO r t o ° I , period at which he is now worn out soin, t hs° , f ttl it ' recording instances of longevity , M r : died s", recrobin gentleman who had three horses th at e t hat siit'Alr 30, 37, and 39. Mr. Cully mentions °V, IP felpil ball in his neck at the battle of Prestou'"d ig.r t ; 00,00 was extracted at his death, in 17 58 ' t died . i ,be t frol gives an account of a barge horse 0, 8 0 4,, tb o ,,` 0 1 , year. " There cannot," says Li - 01 16 '40101 severe satire on the English nation th hor sey 00 o ' pe' the absurd practice of running our ,erioooolool three years old, and working yin_,reth„ecl„, WI before their limbs are knit or their " f a r h'id h'iOir and cruelly exacting from them services. .. o rt 0 skil t bo bilin Pithe tea ebb powers, their ages do not average a Thor o r e _ d e _ i ..I mentioned horse." The scientifice ' sa f e ly " OP r •efi • m ti t ie( Kingdom" declares that " it may ,h e a io e • r , ti- - 0.• o f more horses are consumed in Engin,' in t e- irbi° 0 0 0 t o than in any other country in the svo. - oared es d r if qeriod, excepting those that perish sn os id,. els e O r r has, with the English, been long c°„, a ugb' r eal e . 1, 4 mere profit and loss, and it has beet , 1, ": s od Pfor 1 .• P, bring the young horse early into i cor ain 03; 5 05" exhaust his strength, than to main t a i s pos e c h re period, and at a considerable expuse'„nci 0 3° „Sr, matter requires much consideration, - itecl it lie Abe t io• a ii, tion too."—Scolch paper. —The O P f 17 POPULATION OF GREAT BRITAIS;tion 0f . ,05° teresting table, exhibiting the Oy u ' t he ce".. t o."' cities and towns of Great Britain, hY ,re ' tic lii is compiled from the recently publish co f 4 P re 0 614 40 Eng. Inha stat. bited gales' kr, iez City or Town. Acres. l'louls' 2 6699 5 ,53e•'/,008 London,wDesotm.without swithinter city wallsw a l i l s E OO 2 2 .....___ .... _ . 14 3 051 7 7 : .... ' ' ' '': 7 6 35 0:4 A, 1; 0 0 , ~36 1 1 City of London .... 600 16080 " si 06 0 ' .P . 2500 and liberty .. .. 1 47 746 . /0 Southwark borough 590 13845 .. 0 67 0 0, Adding other parishes • • „•',, 8769 56 ,----n1 1 5 00 1) Total. Metropolis 44850 25 09 " ___.----- 1 015 A _— ----- , i 5823 2 ilk - ',op - 420 59 ' 24 # 9° Manchester, borough 60i0 „ t 260 _ 4 6 , Salford, borough .. 1220 10 0 o' ....„--- ,543. 1- V oio i Gl T as o g t o a w l. , city clasgow . - ---;; 0 107 :,../ , Total. Manchester 729 0 52 06 -------- t;7O 0)1 9 1 _____ ----- ~5 9 1 4 94 id , Liverpool, bor. the 1 ,-Ann 429 29 13 ' d 0 7 0 V 89 I' s A 4 Park, Sze— .... f 7 57 3 8 . 4 .7 277 7 308 9 5 1 .. 296 61 , 7 ,/' 39 16 190 Do., suburbs .... • ..a 1 4 . 2 ,, „„" • ......-----• „ o w , 3 5744 4 '''......--- 43 01 ' ~..... ------- 885 P. , 6 202 Leeds borough and Do., subur . b . s .} ... Town Birmingham, Edinburgh ci b ty or .. 18780 3612 1 ,„ A 5 1 / . 1 0 , --- ------ 613. - 1 228 98 __../ 341 9, 1 / Total. Edinburgh ......_- • ....---„...., 294 75 3 01 vi Bristol, city rA , 9 631 ,-'''' v" Do., suburbs - . n. , • _ Al 1840 927° 25 917 ••••'S.4 1 / _--- 553 9 ' „ W ir t 89 07 Total. Bristol 9870 1 ___, .------- 5 00 , od - --- ---- .0-1 in Ur Sheffield, borough . i t 2227 o r 54°' 40 0 10 0 ',40 and parish a' eS e -I of is 214 . .5 .. 0 . .31;3610286 ' 3 / 9.1 30 1 40 ..... 2 93 7,60 " °217 6 1 4 1 voi l / f3 !<o bßßyrr T ii ilhaai Britain achbieanonvysileunBsg4aoalrfepsroltapshle2l2la.oB7,osl:ye,e2:s2niearic:t : i s e a o l o e p l to Y ebp e ss o: . l tb t t s b : e t s i e . i i n ili o g e ol e : , r r o 1 0 7 . enumerated comprised conside "A t b i Or '' although somewhat less than on lation of the island. Oct . Ti ' . 'lt I( k\ 0' ..gsvdrl'' .6 Oct. 24, 1543.