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iLtteraturr POETRY. MAY YOU DIE AMONG YOUR KINDRED. BY MRS. ABDY. (From the Church of England Magazine.) " How much is expressed by the form of oriental benediction, ' May you die among your kindred :' "—GREENWOOD. "May you die among your kindred;" may you rest your part ing gaze On the loved familiar faces of your young and happy days : May the voices whose kind greeting to your infancy was dear Pour loving!y, while life declines, their music In your ear. • "May you die among your kindred;" may the friends you love the b st, List to your fainting accents, and receive your last request, Read your unuttered wishes on your changeful features dwell, And mingled sighs of sorrow with your faltering faint farewell, "May you die among your kindred ;" may your peaceful grave be made In the quiet, cool recesses of the churchyard's hallowed shade; There may your loved ones wander at the silent close of day, Fair buds and fragrant blossoms on the verdant turf to lay. 'Tis a tender benediction ; yet methinks it lacks the power To cast a true serenity o'er life's last solemn hour. Ye whom I love, I may not thus love's Christian Tart fulfil; List, while I ask for you a boots more dear, more precious still. So may you die that, though afar from all your cherished ties, Though strangers hear your dying words and close your dying • eyes, Ye shall net know desertion, since your Saviour shall he near, 'To fill your fainting spirit with the " love that casts out fear," So may you die, so willingly submit your soul to God, That evermore your kindred, as they tread the path you trod, May picture your existence on a far off heavenly shore, And speak of you as one not " lost," but oniy " gone before." So may yon die that, when your death to pious friends is known, Each shall devoutly, meekly wish such lot may he their own : Not heeding if you died in want, in exile, or in pain, But feeling that you died in faith, and thus " t. die is gain." St. John's Rectory, Southwark. COMFORT. (BY ELIZABETH B. BARRETT.) " Speak low to me, my Saviour—low and sweet From out the halle ujshs, sweet and low, st I should fear and fall, and miss thee so Who art not miss'd by any that entreat. Speak to me as to Mary at thy feet— And if no precious gums my - hands bestow, Let my tears drop lice amber, while I go In reach of thy divinest voice complete In humanest affection—thus, in sooth To lose the sense of losing ! As a child, Whose song bird seeks the wood for evermore, Is sung to in its stead by mother's mouth' Till, sinking on her bi - east, love-reconciled He sleeps the faster that he wept before." NOTICES. Blackwood's Magazine. The number for the present month is replete with arti cles of deep interest to the reader of the sound and argu mentative, as well as to those who delight in the literary and amusing. On the mortifying issue of the Irish State trials there is a clever and learned paper, showing that both in reason and in common law the traversers ought not to have escaped the punishment due to their offences ; but the writer imputes no unworthy motives to those few members of the House of Lords who so hastily pro nounced the opinions of the judges who were called to ad vise them to be " elf arly erroneous." "My College Friend" is a light and pleasing exposition of College life —yet to be concluded. " The Tombless Man," a poetical drama, by Delta, has all the vigour and depth of mind so often exhibited by that writer. It is an extraordinary picture which he draws, of a succession of visions of sepulchral desolation and horror, with occasional touches of the sublime, but ending in an escapement of the sole narrator, To sights and sounds familiar—to the birds Singing alone—and the bright vale beneath, With cottages and trees—and the blue sky— And the glad waters murmuring to the sun." An exposition of socialism, under the head " French So cialists," is, we think, a masterly view of all those utopian and debasing systems of communities in common. The " Memoirs of a Statesman" are continued, with unabated powers of description and knowledge of character—in cluding the dreadful siege of Valenciennes, during the French revolutionary wars. There is a long review of recently published " Poems, by Elizabeth Barrett," with numerous extracts. Some of the pieces are certainly very beautiful; but we think the reviewer has shown a degree of partiality to others which their merits scarcely warrant. We admit the lady to have great poetical powers. but scarcely fewer faults, especially in diction, which last she may be the less inclined to amend, when they are treated with reproval so delicate. The review of " Lamartine's Travels" wilt be read with much gratifica tion. The extracts are extremely beautiful and graphic, and a tone of generous feeling and moral reflections per vade the whole. We furnished some extracts from this number of Blackwood in our last publication, and others will be found in the literary page of our present sheet• Dublin University Magazine. Curry, Dublin. The present number of this magazine fully sustains its usual high standard of merit. Amongst the articles of a purely literary character, Glimpses in the Mountains -2," is a beautiful piece of poetical extrPvagance, and well worthy of perusal. The most important article in the number, however, is the article headed " The National System of Education and the Established Church," in which we have placed before us the present critical posi tion of the education question in Ireland. We have given elsewhere some extracts from this article which will show the spirit in which it is written; and we recommend its attentive perusal to all who are interested in the important question of which it treats. The Muminaled Magazine. London : No. 2, Crane- court, Fleet-street. The present number commences the fourth volume, and is under a new editorship, Mr. Douglas Jerrold having retired from his position as editor. We certainly cannot discern, so far, any falling off either in literary matter or illustrations. On the contrary, some new contributors have been added, and several valuable articles from their pen grace this month's publication. The poetical contents are especially excellent. Fraser's Magazine. _London: G. W. Nickisson, 215, Regent -street. Fraser this month contains a number of more than usually lively articles, amongst which we may particularise " A fine day at Stratford-upon-Avon," " The Smiths," and the conclusion of "The State Murder." The paper entitled " Hints on the Modern Governess System" con tains some excellent and just strictures upon the unwor thy treatment to which that useful and deserving class of females are subjected, and should be read in every family of which the governess is a member. The Medical Times. No. 263-266. Carpae, Essex street, London. 4to. A weekly medical journal. This periodical of medical science was wanted in the profession of the healing art, or it could not have risen so rapidly into favour as it appears to have done, even though its talent in editorial and original matter be great, which, as far as we can presume to judge of such matters, is most undoubtedly the case. Of course we are not competent to discuss the full merits of a periodical on departmental science—this must long ago have been judged by those who are capable of estimating its deserts ; and also its demerits, if there be any—prominent ones they can hardly be, though, when tested by " subtler fires" than ours, some caput mortuum of rubbish may be detected in its containing vessel—very possibly. The articles seem to be full of interesting and new matter; its reports of distin guished medical bodies—its valuable groups of cases—its record of series of lectures by some of the most eminent physicians and surgeons—its bibliographical and gossip corners—its reviews—its leading articles, temperate yet energetic—all must render it a publication worthy of large support, we should infer, by the republic of medicine. , We venture n o more ; b u t c l ose w i t h an extract from its I leader of October 12, which has reference to present times, and present things, and the present place, which must be gratifying to the medical practitioners of our town, as alluding to an aggregate meeting they held to memorialize Sir J. Graham on his new bill of medical reform :—" The most important meetings we have had, appear to have been those of Gloucester, Worcester, Leeds, Norwich, Birmingham, and Liverpool, some of the largest towns in the empire. In Birmingham and Liverpool, the very proper precaution was adopted of discussing in committee the clauses of :the bill seriatim, before pronouncing on them an opinion in public meeting. 'Our readers are acquainted with the result : the report of the Liverpool meeting, this day published, shows how entirely the opinions we so early expressed on this mea sure, are the opinions of some of the most enlightened practitioners in the empire. We own to a strong hope that a short time will reveal the profession acting in a si milarly cautious manner, speaking i n a s i m il ar l y j u di c i ous way, and equally unanimous in givin g th e bill a genera l support, while enforcing on it the great improvements that are on all hands admitted as essential." We are glad to find that our respected townsmen have won for themselves such a highly creditable position—to have dis cussed temperately, and therefore w i se l y, legislational measures touching directly their own professional inter ests, argues a state of most respectable mental, and, above all, moral attainments; and in so doing, we repeat, and that advisedly, when their own rights are to them con cerned, in the first place, and the public health, in the next, renders them an example to our senators themselves, whose principles often swerve before the brazen face of expediency, or become too frequently obedient to that ventriloquist, self-interest, whose projected voice in the distance often spoils all. Punch.—Part 40. Continues to pour forth his inexhaustible wit and drol lery, and, in his own felicitous style, to convey many a useful moral lesson. The loss of this periodical would be an event to call for a national mourning. Chambers' Edinburgh Journal.—Part 10. The new series of this popular publication is very much superior in the value and variety of its literary contents to those which have preceded it. We observe in it contribu tions from several popular writers, amongst whom we may mention Miss Camilla Toulmin, who has presented us with a very beautiful tale of " The Neglected Child." The Abbotsford Edition of Waver ley.—N o . 67. The number just issued concludes "The Fortunes of Nigel," and commences " Peveril of the Peak." The illustrations, type, and getting up of the work, continue quite equal to those of former numbers, and, indeed, are even superior in merit. SECOND EDITION. Standard-office, Eleven o'clock. ANOTHER DREADFUL COLLISION. Sinking of the Brig Blundell, off 1:le Magazines. It is with exceeding sorrow that we have again to record one of those casualties which have of late been of but too frequent occurrence, and which it would almost appear no human aid can avert. Tile Blundell, a fine brig, bound to Trinidad, started from this port on Saturday—and on putting back came in contact with the American ship Feronia and sunk almost immediately. The following particulars communicated by the captain, Mr. Townsend, of the Blundell, will, we doubt not, be found interest ing. The brig Blundell sailed from Liverpool for Trinidad on Saturday, at half-ebb, with wind about N.N.W. At midnight the pilot left her, the N.W. Light-ship bearing at the time S. by W. Stood on for two hours, and then stood towards the light. At two o'clock tacked ship, and stood four hours heading W. and W. S. At 8 o'clock made the Great Orroshead ; wind light. About 8 o'clock on Sunday night a breeze sprung up from the northward and westward, which freshened till midnight, when a sudden gust carried away the jibboom. The hands were at the time reefing the tuaintor sail. At four o'clock made Lynas 'Wit, broad on the lee bow, distance about 8 miles. Wore ship, and at half-past eight o'clock, the sea running tremendously nigh, and the ship labouring and straining dreadfully, carried away the foretopmaststay and foretopmast, which, with all the gear, hooked the foreyard, and split the fore sail to pieces. To save the vessel, the wreck was immediately cut away, when it was found necessary to keep the pumps constantly going. Stood on till twelve o'clock, heading N.E., the wind still blowing tremendously in heavy gusts, when they spoke the fishing-boat Eliza and Betsey, which stopped by them. Ai ten o'clock passed the Rock Light ; saw a ship to the eastward, (the American ship Feronia,) and a collision took place before there was time to clear her. The brig had a light up, and a watch was, we learn, on the deck of the Feronia. The Feronia's bowsprit hooked the main mast of the brig, and her cutwater struck her just abaft the main rigging with such a tremendous crash that it carried away a great portion of her side. At half-past ten the brig was cleared from the ship, and almost imme diately went down, head foremost, in 91- fathoms at low water. At this time the vessel was drifting bodily to leeward. Abont four o'clock a man came on board as pilot, the N.W. Light-ship bearing about S., distant about twenty miles. Got the ship to wear at 8 a.m., and ran her through the Victoria Channel. The Feronia was inward bound from Quebec, and was anchored off the Magazines. The hands had barely time to save themselves. The Blundell belonged to Messrs. Barton, Irlam, and Higginson, and is, we learn, fully in sured in the Marine Insurance-office. The John and Mary, of Dublin, from Quebec for Li verpool, out 57 days, was spoken on the 24th ult., with 4 feet 10 inches of water in her hold, making 2 feet 6 inches of water per hour. The roaster feared she would not get home.—The Eliza and Ann, reported yesterday at Cove of Cork, picked up the crew of the John and Mary on the 28th. The England, from Liverpool. for Ichaboe, at Cork— having beeu in contact with e wreck and stove her bow. The Raw, from Ichaboe, for orders at Falmouth ; left about 400 sail of vessels at Ichahoe. BEAUMARIS, Nov. 11.—Put in, Sisters, "Smith, from Liverpool to Penzance, with jibboom and foremast gone, and sails split; and the Margaret, Hughes, from Dublin to Liverpool, with part of her bulwarks washed away. A flat went down at her anchors in Conway Bay ; par ticulars not known. The Oriental. steamer, from Alexandria, arrived at the Motherbank, Cowes, Nov. Nth. REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—This body held their weekly meeting as usual. A long letter was read from Daniel, in which he says be will make his reappearance at their meetings on the 25th, and in the meantime the " Repeal cause is to be forwarded as if this interlude (Federalism) had not occurred." The rent for the week, including £5OO from New York, was upwards of £BOO. TETE LORD CHANCELLOR, SHEIL, AND HUME.— Everybody must remember the " swel ering venom" with which Mr. Shell, Mr. " Success-to•fox-glove " Sheil, some time ago revived against our excellent Lord Chan cellor the oft-refuted falsehood with respect to the im puted alien speech. Will it be believed that what Mr. Sheil, with a " rhetorical artifice," attributed to the Chancellor as applied to the Roman Catholics of Ireland, was actually applied by a co-joint of the " tail "—no less a person than the vetitable Joseph Hume—to the Protes tants of that country ? On referring to the debate on the King's spee c h i n 183 3, as reported in a generally-recog nised journal of the proceedings, we find Joseph thus unbosoming himself:—" Why, I would ask, is it that Catholics are carefully excluded from the list of twenty six stipendiary magistrates recently appointed . by Lord Anglesey, in Ireland ? Why are they carefully excluded from suc:i situations, and twenty-six FOREIGNERS ap pointed to th em ?" (S everal members— " Hear, hear !') " Yes, I contend that they are foreigners—they are per sons foreign in their hal,its and religion to the bulk of the people. I say, then, that foreigners were appointed to these offices." Mr. Shell heard this. The man who thus dared to malign the loyal Protestant population of Ireland was a Scotchman—yet, foreigner as he was, an Irish member—the Kilkenny joint of " the tail ;" au ex conservative, and then radical! Verily, the " rhetorical artificers" who calumniate Lord Lyndhurst bad better look at home. At this time, however, the poor " tail" had scarcely a home to look to.—Herald. WHAT IS THE CHURCH DOING ?—TESCtariatliSnl has seen its zenith. It was true that a few had gone over to Rome. Let Rome have her own. We could afford her a few traitors from the camp. He only prayed that, like the sincere-minded Sibthorp, they might discover their error. He was happy to say that he knew several clergy men who had held Tractarian opinions, who had wholly renounced them, and now preached sound Evangelical doctrine. The Church of England, though troubled, was not perplexed ; although persecuted, she was not forsaken. If Rome had built fifty mass•houses within the last ten years, the Church of England had built 600 new churches. If Rome had built twenty or thirty schools and colleges, the Church of England had built and opened between 300 and 400 daily schools. Rome had applied for aid to build one or two schools; the Methodists two schools • the Bri tish and Foreign S c h oo l S oc i e t y some thi rty or forty; but the Church of England had applied and received grants for 500 new schools. This did not look as if the Church of England was heartless in the cause of education. He wished, however, for no amalgamated system of educa tion. The Church of England was strong enough to stand by herself, and as it was a glorious English Queen who nursed and cherished the Reformation, in a compa ratively weak state, so he hoped it would be a British Queen under whose fostering care and protecting hand the Church would be rescued in the time of her peril. Of this her Majesty had given some pledge when she went to worship in a church which had been branded as Samaria. —Speech of the Rev. Hugh Stowell. INVENTION OF GUNPOWDER.—Datens has selected many passages from Greek and Latin authors, favourable to the opinion that gunpowder was known to the ancients. He mentions the attempt of Salmoneus to imitate thun der, of the Brahmins to do the same thing; but his most remarkable quotation is from the life of Apollonius Tya nteus, written by Philostratus ; showing that Alexander was prevented extending his conquests in India, because of the use of gunpowder, by a people called Oxydracee. The passage to which we have alluded is so curious, that we make no apology for giving it. " These truly wise men (the Oxydracce) dwell between the rivers Hypharis and Ganges ; their country Alexander never entered, de terred not by fear of the inhabitants, but as I suppose by religious motives, for had he passed the Hypharis, he might doubtless have made himself master of all the country round them ; but their cities he never could have taken, though he had led a thousand as brave as Achilles, or three thousand such as Ajax, to the assault; for they come not out to the field to fight those who attack them, but these holy men, beloved by the gods, overthrew their enemies with tempests and thunderbolts shot from their walls. It is said that the Egyptian Hercules and Bacchus, when they overran India, invaded this people also, and, having prepared warlike engines, attempted to conquer them ; they in the mean time made no show of resistance, appearing perfectly quiet and secure, but upon the enemy's near approach they were repulsed with storms of light ning and thunderbolts hurled upon them from above."— Polytechnic Review. EFFECTS OF SCRIPTURAL EDUCATION IN IRELAND. When the scheme of Scriptural education was decided on, about six or seven and twenty years ago, confident predic tions were hazarded of its certain and speedy failure. The Roman Catholics, it was said, would not read the Bible— would not accept secular instruction, on condition of re ceiving Scriptural also. Notwithstanding the discourage ment of such insinuations, the system was tried—and was found to prove successful, to the utmost extent to which the parsimony of public grants, made for its support, ad mitted of its being carried out. It is unnecessary, and would be tedious, to repeat the arguments by which this truth has been unanswerably proved—but there is one form of the argument which has not yet received the notice it merits, and to which we beg the reader's attention. The experiment of Scriptural education was a trial whether, and how far, the Irish people could be influenced to re ceive the Bible. It was proposed first in the form of a test, whether their hostility to Scripture was such, as that they would not accept of secular education, if accompanied by Scriptural; it gave, at the same time, to th e p eop l e a t large, an oppo r t uni ty o f showing what they thought, (whe ther favourably, or otherwise,) of the propriety of making children acquainted with God's word. The result xas very remarkable, Before the end of thirteen years, exclusive of the Sunday schools, amounting to considerably more than a thousand—perhaps, to nineteen hundred, in which two hundred thousand children were instructed, there were found one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven schools, under societies, in which Scripture was read—and of daily schools, not under societies, four thousand one hundred and seventy-nine were avowedly Scriptural. We say avowedly, because a large proportion of schools hid declined sending an answer to the query which demanded if Scripture were read in them. It is not, perhaps, too much to say, that nearly two thousand of these schools should be added to the amount of the Scriptural. But, further, Scripture was read in 2,667 schools, under Roman Catholic masters— an d was rea d i n many schoals under the roofs of Roman Catholic chapels, and under the govern ment of their priests. Such was the result, when the state demanded of Ireland that the education of the people should be Scriptural. In the year 1812, there were in Ire land six hundred schools, no doubt all Protestant, in which Scripture was read—the attention of the people at large was aroused to the question which the state propounded ; and in about thirteen years after the experiment was in stituted, the judgment of the people was expressed in the existence of wore than eleven thousand schools in which the Bible was read. Within that period, surely, secular schools had not increased in number—nay, notwithstand ing the great increase in the population, they appear to have diminished ; while Scriptural schools, to which so fierce and effective an opposition was anticipated, had been welcomed by all classes and communions, and had increased more than thirteen-fold. Such was the issue which a Whig government regarded as a failure—let :t be com pared with that which a Tory government exalt and en dow, as a great success.—Dublin University Magazine. FORMATION OF RAIN.—The opinion of Professor Ste velly and Mr. Bowall is, that each particle of vapour rising through the air carries with it its portion of electric fluid according to its expanded surface; that if it remains within the electrical attraction of the earth, the vapour is condensed, and forms dew; but, if it rises beyond the electrical attraction of the earth, and is there condensed, the electricity, being insulated, forms an atmosphere round each particle of vapour, and on the removal (by any cause) of the electricity, including the vaporous par ticles, the repulsion is remo'ed, and they then attract each other, and form rain. Having observed that there was more rain and less thunder at Belfast than in Lon don, I was led to examine into the cause of the peculi arity, and especially on account of the electric fluid being less abundant in the atmosphere at the latter than at the former place, and found the above hypothesis to agree most perfectly with the peculiarities of the neighbourhood of Belfast, which is surrounded by hills. The highest of these is to the north of the town, and one of them, named Devis, twelve miles from it, is nearly 400 feet above the level of the sea. Whenever any mist or cloud descends upon the top of this mountain, it is a sure sign of rain ; r and I have never observed it rain without some previous indication of the kind, which frequently takes place for hours before the rain comes on. The cause of this ap paers to be, that Devis, which is conical, acts as a con ductor to draw the electric fluid from the cloud, that a portion of the clouds descends with it, and, as the fluid is drawn off, the watery particles in the atmosphere unite and descend as rain. On the 6th of May last, I had the good fortune to observe a remarkable instance of the drawing off the electric fluid from the clouds by this mountain. The weather, in the early part of the day, was clear and warm. Between 1 and 2 p.m. clouds ga thered ; they became gradually more dense, and were strongly charged with electric flud. When I first ob served them, they were moving from Devis to the west ; but the wind, along the surface of the ground, was mov ing in the opposite direction, namely, towards that moun tain. This was before the clouds presented any signs of a strong electric charge; after they assumed this appear ance, a slight shower fell, and the clouds and wind at the surface reversed their direction, the clouds moving from Devis, and the wind at the surface towards it. When this shower ceased, the clouds became stationary, and the wind at the surface of the ground ceased, the smoke from the factory chimneys, which had moved in the direction of the surface wind, rising perpendicularly. At this juncture a peal of thunder ensued, and a heavy shower fell; the clouds then remained stationary, and the wind began to blow at right angles to its former direction. It then gradually veered round until it blew direct towards Devis, and the clouds began to move to the same point. In four minutes the shower became very heavy, but in a short time the weather cleared up. I was so situated that I could not see .Devis during the fnie of this phenome non, but at 6 p.m. it was repeated, when I was able to attend particularly to it, and watch that mountain. At a quarter-past six the clouds had gathered again, and were much charged with the electric fluid. After the occur rence of similar movements to those mentioned above, the clouds became stationary, the wind moving from De vis, the clouds overhanging the mountains became denser and denser, but they appeared to be kept by some influ ence from touching it, assuming the form of a mould in which the mountains had been cast. After they had re mained stationary some time, the wind still blowing from Devis, some fragments of them began gradually to de scend to the top of that mountain, a peal of thunder scarcely perceptible ensued, and a body of c'oud, sufficient to cover the summit, descended with rapidity and rested upon it, whilst the other clouds began to ascend. Within two minutes after the thunder and descent of the cloud upon Devis, a very heavy rain came on, accompanied by violent gusts of wind. At 8 p.m. the rain had ceased, and the clouds reposed in streaks of white and black, on lines from north-east to south-west.-41olytechnicReview. SELECTIONS. STAFFORDSHIRE EARTHENWARE.—if we compare the common earthenware of England with that of the French and Germans, or of any other nation, it appears not only excellent in quality, but also highly ornamental urid unsurpassably beautiful. The common French and German earthenware is comparatively ugly, coarse, and misshapen. On the other hand, English porcelain, par ticularly those articles in which beauty and elegance are the main paints aimed at, are far behind those of the con tinent. I believe there is something characteristic of the English in this. In articles of ordinary use, the English seem better than we to know how to combine excellence of quality with outward elegance and beauty, whereas in those articles in which grace and beauty alone are to be kept in view, the English are never equally successful. Their tools, their furniture, their machines, their knives and scissors, their bread, their joints of meat, are not only excellent, vigorous, and nutritious, but also beautifully formed, and not to be at all surpassed ; whereas, their pictures, their sculptures, their pasties, and their cakes, and, in short, everything in which fancy takes precedence of usefulness, are far behind ours in excellence. Look, not merely at the earthenware of the French, but at their tools and their implements of gardening and agriculture. They are all strikingly rude and little suited to thepurposes they are intended for. Even the common bread in France is inferior to that used in England. On the other hand, how much loftier flights of fancy are displayed by the French in works of art.—Ktnol's England. CHARACTER OF LORD ELLENDOROUGH.—Lord Ellen borough possessed many qualities which, had they not been neutralized or vitiated, would have earned for him much admiration as a statesman and much affection as a man. He had abilities of no common order, great quick ness of perception, extraordinary ardour of tempera ment, unquestionable courage, amd indefatigible industry. The moral sense was not very strong—as the appropria tion of Sindh amply testifies ; but he was capable of acts of justice and moderation, and sometimes exhibited in his conduct the gederosity of a great mind. His impulses were often kindly, often noble ; and his errors were sel dom the growth of mean and corrupt motives. There was nothing inherently low in his nature; but he was subject to very strong prejudices, which be had not always the magnanimity to resist, and which therefore sometimes caused him to commit mean and unworthy actions. As in his policy, so in his personal bearing, he was impulsive and uncertain. With strong predilections and strong antipathies, which sometimes alternated towards the same individual, he. , was by turns courteous and uncourteous, attractive and repulsive, now produc ing impressions of deep gratitude, now of ineradicable dis like. Though he often showed great kindliness and con descension towards individuals, he at other times betrayed an utter disregard for theirf eelings ; and hesitated neither, as the whim led him, to caress nor to strike those beneath him. In this manner he made many enemies and many friends, and the different judgments which have been pas sed upon him by different parties can never afford matter for surprise. There is generally in the public treatment of an individual a just compensation in the end; his virtues are exaggerated by one party, his vices by another, and the undue enthusiasm of his friends is balanced by the undue bitterness of his enemies. Thus has it been with Lord Ellenborough.—Calculta Review. BURLEIGH HOUSE.—Burleigh House, near Stamford, Lincolnshire, the seat of the Marquis of Exeter, to which the Queen pays her next visit, is a magnificent Gothic pile, remarkable for grandeur and for various interesting associations. The founder of the family was the famous Cecil, the cautious and wise minister of Elizabeth. Here are collected some of the richest paintings of the ancient masters, including the famous Salvetor Mundi by Carla Dolce, which Sir Walter Scott said was " worth a king's ransom," and for which six thousand guineas were of fered. It is a small enamel-like picture, of transparent purity and brilliancy of colouring. The groves and park of Burleigh are worthy the splendid mansion, and were admired by Dryden, who translated the seventh book of the .tEneid in this patrician and hospitable residence.• flazlitt has related a story of Burleigh House more touch ing and romantic than any fiction. The late Earl of Exe ter had been divorced from his first wife, a woman of fashion, and of somewhat more gaiety of manner than, ` lords who love their ladies like.' He determined to seek out a second wife in a humbler sphere of life, and that it should be one who, having no knowledge of his rank, should love him for himself alone. For this purpose he went and settled incognito (under the name of Jones) at Hodnet, an obscure village in Shropshire. He made over tures to one or two damsels in the neighbourhood, but they were too knowing to be taken in by him. His man ners were not boorish, his mode of life was retired, it was odd how he got his livelihood, and at last he began to be taken for a highwayman. In this dilemma, lie turned to Miss Moggins, the eldest daughter of a small farmer, at whose house he lodged. Miss Hoggins, it would seem, had not been used to romp with the clowns ; there was something in the manners of their quiet but eccen'ric guest that she liked. As he found that be had inspired her with that kind of regard which he wished for, he made honourable proposals to her, and, at the end of some months, they were married, without him letting her know who he was. They set off in a post-chaise from her fa ther's house, and travelled homewards across the country. In tbis manner they arrived at Stamford, and passed through the town without stopping, till they came to the entrance to Burleigh Park, which is on the outside of it. The gates flew open, the chaise entered, and drove up the long avenue of trees that leads up to the front of this fine old mansion. As they drew nearer to it, and she seemed a little surprised where they were going, he said, ` Well, my dear, this is Burleigh House; it is the home I have promised to bring you to, and you are the Countess of Exeter I' It is said the shock of this discovery was too much for this young creature, and that she never reco vered it. It was a sensation worth dying for. The world we live in was worth making, had it only been for this. Ye been a . thous an d rnnet and one t a l es o f th e A ra bi an Ni ghts ' Entertain !lohritel, e b ut your whendiminished think loiefatdhsis! story."r wish to have THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. A MINIMUM OF WAGES.—We often observe, in this country, an inclination manifested t o regulate bylaw the rate of wages, not with the view of instituting any such naturally equitable partition, but of establishing a mini mum below which life cannot be comfortably supported. These reasoners proceed, it will at once be admitted, not on the rights of man, but on the claims of humanity. To such a project there is but ore objection; it will assuredly fail of its humane intention. It is presumed that the com petition amongst the workmen to obtain employment has so far advanced, that these cease to obtain a sufficient re muneration for their labour. The thousand men whom a great capitalist employs, are inadequately paid. The le gislature requires that they should be paid more liberally. But the amount which the capitalist has to expend in wages is limited. The same amount which sustained a thou sanJ men, can, under the new scale of remuner a ti on , sus tain o n ly n i ne hundred. The nine hundred are better fed, but there is one hundred without any food whatever. Our well-intentioned humanity looks round aghast at the con fusion she is making. Suppose, it may be said, that a law of this description should be passed at so fortunate a con juncture, that it should not interfere with the existing re lations between the capitalist and the workman, but have for its object to arrest the tendency which wages have to fall; suppose that the legislature, satisfied with the exist ing state of things, should pronounce it a punishable of fence to offer or accept a lower rate of remuneration, would not such a law be wise? The answer is obvious. If there is a tendency at any time in wages to fall, it is because there is a tendency in population to increase, or in capital to diminish ; circumstances, both of them, which it is not in the power of criminal jurisprudence to grapple with. Blackwood's Magazine. EASTERN WIVES.—The daughter of a king of Persia having conceived an aversion towards her father's vizir, said one day to her mother, " if I could destroy that vizir, 1 would do it with pleasure, for he is a man whose inaus picious presence disturbs me." "Be composed, my dear child," said her mother, I will manage the matter." Having said this, she wrote a letter, in the king's name, to the wife of the vizir, to the following effect . " Kill your husband, for I have an affection for you, and wish that you should be mine ; but as you have an attachment to your husband, who is my vizir, it would be rather a disgraceful thing if I were to tear you from his arms, and make you my wife whilst he is alive." When the vizir's spouse read this letter, ambitious thoughts took posses sion of her heart, and she became intent upon finding some stratagem to rid herself of the obstacle. One night her husband being in a state of inebriation, she seized the happy occasion, killed him without compunction, and sent. his head to the king by the hands of a young damsel. " Whose head is this !" inquired the king with great anx iety. "It is the head of your vizir," replied the damsel ; " his wife has sent it; you know why." The king insti tuted inquiries into the matter, and discovering the truth, took off the heads of the vizar's wife, his own wife, his daughter, and the young damsel. He then summoned the principal officers of his army, and said to them : " I want you all to give me your wives ;" but they unanimously refused. "We will surrender to you our property, nay, sacrifice our lives for you," said they, but we cannot part with our dear wives." After this, the king went secretly to the wives of those officers, and said to each of them apart, " I wish to make you my wife, if you can contrive to get rid of your husband." That very night, each of the ladies, by some stratagem, succeeded in cutting ofrthe head of her husband, and in the morning, the king saw his generals' heads in his possession, sent by their wives. He was horror-struck at the spectacle. " What!" ex claimed he, " I asked these men to give me their wives, and with one accord they refused ; yet when I propose to their wives to commit a barbarous act of infidelity, they all consent, and kill their husbands !" His majesty, after this ejaculation, ordered all the expectant widows to be put to death without mercy.—New Asiatic Journal. LORD ELDON'S SUCCESSORS.—The Chancery Com mission recommended in 1826 a great variety of alterati ons in the practice of the court ; but early in 1827, before there had been time to make the necessary measures for effecting them, Lord Eldon quitted the Court of Chan cery. Lord Chancellor Lyndhurst, in 1828, put forth a series of orders, which accomplished some of the objects recommended by the commission, and the great combina tion of faculties which he brought into the administration of the great seal, induced an expectation that, if any hu man strength could accomplish it, Lord Lyndhurst would be able to overcome the arrears, of his court. But those arrears continuing to accumulate, he was constrained, in 1829, to propose a measure for the constitution of an ad ditional judge. It was renewed in 1830, but strenuously combated by the Whigs, who still maintained the notion that the work was not too much for those already ap pointed to perform it : and the demise of the Crown having brought the sessions prematurely to a close, the measure did not ripen into law during that Chancellorship. Lord Brougham next grasped the seals. He had be en the most formidable of Lord Eldon's assailants. But, observed Lord Langdale in the House of Lords, on the 13th of June, 1836, when he himself (Lord Brougham) became possessed of the great seal, at first be was so far from supposing that the appointment of a new judge was necessary, that he seems to have thought the Court stronger than enough, and he actually expressed his opi nion that by the changes he was to bring about he should be able to dispense with the office of Vice-Chancellor. This was in February, 1831. In July, 1833, further ex perience had so far altered his lordship's views, that he laid on the table of the house a bill, entitled, &An Act for appointing a Chief Judge in Chancery, and for esta blishing a Court of Appeal in Chancery.' Yet the busi ness had not become greater since the time of Lord El don ; on the contrary, the number of bills filed on the three preceding years, 1830, 1831, 1832, had been only 6.510; whereas during three years 1819, 1820, 1821, which for the reasons before-mentioned have been selected as the tests of Lord Eldon's judicature, the number of bills filed was 6,654 ; and in the years 1821, 1822, 1823, the last of which was the period when the war upon Lord Eldon was at its hottest, the number was 6,988. It was, therefore, under a pressure rather diminished than in creased since Lord Eldon's time, that Lord Brougham, the great impugner of Lord Eldon, found himself com pelled in 1833 to 1834 to call upon the Legislature for ad. ditional aid. Now, however, the criticisms of lawyers may differ upon the judicial merits of Lord Brougham, merits which probably will be more highly estimated here after than political causes have suffered them to be in his own generation—writ enim fulgore suo—none will deny him to be unsurpassed in vigour and in speed. And yet, with all that speed, and with all that vigour, he was una ble to accomplish that feat, which, in the time of Lord Eldon, he had conceived to be so easy, and which he had rated Lord Eldon so roundly for failing to achieve. The sanction of Parliament having been withheld from Lord Brougham's measure, Lord Cottenham, the succeeding Chancellor, though justly held in high estimation as an equity judge, found it as little practicable as any of his predecessors, to keep down the business of his court without additional assistance. And thus, year after year, the evil continued and grew, until at length a bill for the creation of two additional judges was introduced by that party in politics who, during Lord Eldon's time and un der an equal or greater pressure of business in the court, had ever protested against any such increase as being useless and profligate. —Lord Eldon's Life. POPISH PERSECUTIONS.—The claim of infallibility, the grand principle of Romanism, has led the church profess ing its tenets to the belief that heretics (all, that is, who differ from her unscrietural doctrines) ought to be cut off from the church, delivered over, as they term it, to the secular arm, and put to death. Ido not speak of indivi dual Romanists—some assert that they do not hold with this persecuting spirit—but I affirm, that to this very day the cutting out of heretics is authorised by the decrees of the council of Trent, which contain the standard doc trines of popery. If the church of Rome had the power, and if the present age of religious toleration did not pre vent open persecutions, we might yet hear of such deeds of cruelty as stain the history of the middle ages. We have the clearest proof that Romanism is the same as ever, in that it is seen to show itself in acts of persecu tion and treachery, even now, as far as it may. It is very observable that, whether popery has been in an oppressed or dominant condition, the same spirit has actuated her. If heretics are to be destroyed in the palmy days of po pery, the reign of Queen Mary. the flames of Smithfield are to soar up to heaven in the open light of day. If he retics are to be destroyed in the days of the first James then is there the secret plot instead of the open persecu •tion ; then, instead of the stake and the faggot, there is the calm and stealthy deliberation of conspirators, and the deed of darkness which, unless providentially frustrated, would have sent suddenly into the presence of the judge of quick and dead the king, the princes, and the nobles of our land. Yes, the same persecuting spirit of popery which in the thirteenth century (for I will not go further back) spoke to the brave Albigenses by the lips of Simon de Montfort, " Return to the Catholic faith, or ascend that pile and die!" which, in the beginnine of the fifteenth century, excited Henry IV. to "pass the law for the burning of heretics, which (says Blackstone) was the dis grace of our statute-book for two and a half centuries ;" which' in the sixteenth century, condemned Cranmer and Ridley and Latimer to the flames ; and which (such are its tender mercies) has consigned many to the stake after they had recanted and returned to their apostate church— it is the same persecuting spirit which, in our own day, excites the Irish peasant (taught by his priest that by any means he may advance the welfare of the church) to per petrate the deed of bloodshed; and which would, if it might—which may God, of his infinite mercy, forbid! — destroy the Protestant religion in that unhappy country. Let us think with deep and fervent gratitude, and at the same time with serious self-examination, of our present privileges. And here it should be observed that on the fifth of November we praise and bless God, not only for the deliverance of the king and nobles from the deep laid plot of the Romanis.ts, but also for the " arrival of King William 111. as on this day, for the deliverance of our church and nation."' We may well render thanksgivings to our God for the happy results of the revolution in 1688. For, however men may differ as to the question whether, in any case, the succession to the throne should be altered, and although some may be of opinion that James might have been induced to have ceased from his favour ing the interests of the Romanists had less summary mea sures been adopted, still we must all praise and bless the goodness and the wisdom of God, who, "from the seem ing," yea, perchance the real evil of these political con flicts " educed good," for, assuredly, our religion and our liberties were preserved by the accession of a Protestant king to the throne. Let us heartily, then, unite in the prayer that we may have " a spirit of fer vent zeal for our holy religion, which the Lord has so wonderfully rescued and established, a blessing to us and our posterity." Let us be truly grateful for our present religious privileges, privileges not granted to our forefathers in those dark days of which our subject has led me to speak ; permission to read the bible, the services of our church conducted in our own language, and the doctrine of salvation through a Saviour's merits rescued from the " wood, hay, and stub ble" of Popery. Let us never suppose that the mere name of Protestant, and a loud condemnation of the errors of the Romanist, will be of any benefit to our souls, unless we become true Cbristians.—Church of England Mag. MENTAL EXERCISE.—The great means by which the mental, moral, and physical powers are to be improved is by exercise. This has been well set forth in a modern work on education, with an extract from which, and an earnest prayer for the divine blessing on your labours, I shall close these reale , ks :—" The law of exerc i se is of universal application. It is a fundamental law of nature, that all the capacities of man are enlarged and strength ened by being used. From the energies of a muscle up to the highest faculty, intellectual or moral, repeated exer cise of the function increases its intensity. Inseparable from the very idea of exercising the faculties, and of course from the practice of that exercise, is the requisition of ex ercising each faculty upon the objects which nature points out as related to it. Muscular strength is to be gained by femiliarizing the muscles with the resistance of exter nal forces, and by the habit of conquering mechanical difficulties, varied to exercise all the muscles, which amount to several hundreds in the human frame. The senses are improved by long and particular training, ap plying each to its object—sight, by h a bitual looki ng a t distant or minute objects; hearing, by accurate practice in the perception of sounds; taste, in the discriminating use of the palate. In the same manner, the observing fa culties are rendered acute and diversified by the constant practice of observation of details in existing objects, their qualities, and of passing events. The same law extends to the moral world. For the exercise of justice, the child must be made aware of his own and his neighbour's right, and be habituated practically to respect them in all con tingencies. For the exercise of benevolence, the habit of repressing the selfish feelings, and of actually doing good, kind, compassionate, and generous things, not by fits, hut as a steady unvarying principle of action, will be found indispensable."—Miss Mayo. LORD ELDON'S DESPATCH OF BUSINESS.—Through the only 10 years of Lord Hardwicke's Chancellorship whereof we have any exact records, the annual average of the matters despatched in the Court of Chancery was 4,220 ; while through the first ten years of the present century, the annual average of the matters despatched was 6,081, being an excess of almost one-half. And this in crease of business and of despatch in Lord Eldon's time was a progressive one. The last three of the 10 before mentioned years of Lord Hardwicke give an average of 4,230, or 14 beyond the average of the seven years by which they were preceded; but the last three of the before-mentioned years of Lord Eldon's give an average of 6,948, being 1.238 beyond the average of the seven years preceding them, and 2,718 beyond the average of the last three of the 10 recorded years of Lord Hard wicke. Again, comparing the years 1752 3-4 with the years 1819, 1820-1, we find the result of the tables as between Lord Hardwicke and Lord Eldon to be, that — Lord Hardwicke despatched business equal to 2,390 heavy matters; and that Lord Eldon, in a like space, despatched business equal to 2,598 like matters, being an excess of 209 in Lord Eldon's favour. And, further, Mr. Twiss proceeds,—lt results, that Lord Eldon not only despatched in the Court of Chancery, during his three years, an amount of 2,598 heavy matters, being 208 more than were despatched in the same length of time by Lord Hard wieke, but moreover that Lord Edon effected this in only 455 days—or, if 61 days be deducted as before for politi cal and other duties, only 394 days—while his predecessor, in clearing the smaller amount of 2,390 like matters in the Court of Chancery, consumed 508 days—or, 61 days being equally deducted, as in Lord Eldon's time, 447 days —and Lord Eldon's real superiority, therefore, when cal culated, as it ought to be, with reference to the number of days actually available for the Court of Chancery in the course of each respective period of three years, is not merely to the amount of 208 heavy matters beyond Lord Hardwicke, but at the rate of 348 such matters, which would be a superiority in Lord Eldon's favour of about 14 per cent.—Lffe of Lord Eldon. WRONGS OF THE LABOURING CLASSES.—An extra ordinary degree of public attention is at present drawn to the state of the labouring classes. The whole press of the country, in every phase of political opinion, joins in proclaiming their wrongs and the necessity for some re medies. "It were needless," says the Morning Chroni cle, " to adduce examples of the pressing nature of these evils. Bishops furnish them in their charges ; country gentlemen quote them in their speeches ; city orators cite them at their public meetings; newspapers give them at full length from day to day. Such a state of things can not go on. Commerce is prosperous ; trade is thriving; the revenue flourishes ; yet look at the condition of our labouring people." What a throng of deeds of cruelty and injustice has even the last ten drays produced ! In the metropolis, and in our great towns, we see, almost every day, coroners' inquests on men and women, either dying of want, or committing suicide out of mere despe ration. At this instant, in the wealthy parish of Mary lebone, such an investigation is going on. Meanwhile, our slopsellers persist in giving their five farthings for the work of a shirt, and sixpence for embroidering a shawl with eighty flowers ! And if we turn to the country, what meets us there ? In one county, we find a poor fellow who had brought up thirteen children, and inhabited one cottage for twenty years, sent to gaol, under a sentence which almost amounts to perpetualimprisonment, because found with a hare, In the next county, we see another man quietly sentenced to three months' hard labour, for being found with a gun ; though whether he was intend ing to shoot crows or rabbits, no one could tell ! In a third case, a poor man was sentenced to ten years' trans portation, having confessed, that, when almost starved, he was tempted by a neighbour to assist in stealing a sheep. Now we are not arguin g for impunity i n suc h cases as these. No offence ought to pass without notice. But what we press upon our readers' attention, is this, — that here are three men, in the adjoining counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, and Oxrord,—all tempted into crime by want and wretchedness, and all instantly punished with rigour, though in each case it was a first offence, and though in each case the cost of maintaining them and their families, at the public cost, in prisons and workhouses, would inevitably amount to a far larger sum than would have rendered them all happy and comfortable in honest industry. But, in truth, the manner in which the game-laws are now carried out, looks like infatuation. Sir Harry Verney declared, a few days back, at a meeting of the magistrates of Buckinghamshire, his conviction, that the game of that county consumed one-fourth of the produce of the soil. And a correspondent of the Globe declares, that " a few weeks back the principal occupier in an adjoining parish declared to me that the game cost the occupiers of the parish more than the poor did, and they were numerous." In fact, if we were to take the average consumption of the fruits of the earth by the game at less than half what Sir Harry Verner estimates it at, it would still be true, of the whole kingdom, that the landed proprietors actually b es t ow more upon their hares and partridges, than they do upon their poor !—Church. man's Monthly Review. SHIPWRECKS AND LOSS OF LIFE. (From the Dub'in Evening Mail.) The late storm has been extremely disastrous on the Irish coast, chiefly between Dublin and Drogheda. The brig Shannon, of Whitebaven, struck on a reef of sharp pointed rocks, about two miles north of Balbriggan. Four of the men took to the boat, and though it was swamped the men were drifted ashore alive. Five men remained on board the vessel, which was at length capsized by the vio lence of the waves, and the men for a few minutes were seen clinging to the keel—the next wave swept three of them away, and they were drowned ; a fourth caught hold of a spar, and was saved. The fifth held on to the keel, but when reached the vital spark had fled. A large blig, name unknown, laden with wheat, sup posed to be from Wexford, and bound to Liverpool, was totally wrecked, at Clogherabont, and all hands supposed to be lost, as there was no account of any of them. Another wreck took place at Annagasson, near the same place. Name of the vessel unknown. She was dashed into pieces. A large vessel, about 700 tons burthen, named the Rose, of Belfast, Montgomery, master, was driven violently c-n shore at Skerries, but most fortunately the crew, consisting of fourteen men and one woman, a passenger, were all got off safely from the wreck. She was timber laden, and left Quebec this day five weeks. She was bound for Belfast. A large quantity of timber, and other things belonging to ships, were picked up be tween Balbriggan and DroghecL.; the figure head of a ship and a piece of board with the name " Fairy Queen" was found at Balbriggan. Several small craft were more or less injured at Baldoyle, Malahide, and along the coast. A large vessel, supposed to be an Indiaman—but all inquiry proved unsuccessful to ascertain anything about her—was seen in a wrecked condition off Ireland's Eye. At Kingstown Harbour, a timber-vessel, the William and Isabella, of Sunderland, was dismasted close to the quay, against which the surge of the waves drove her with violence: beyond her was a coal-vessel, which had completely settled down, her masts standing above water. At the entrance of the inner harbour lay the Kingston, of Liverpool, bound to Africa, which had put in for shelter at the commencement of the storm; she was secured by a hawser to the far side of the harbour, and by a cable to the quay, and bad every appearance of riding out the storm in safety., when a c ry was heard that another vessel was dragging her anchors ; this proved to be the Capri corn, of Liverpool, a West Indian vessel, from San Do mingo, with a valuable cargo of rum and sugars on board. She had been anchored at a distance of about 400 yards ahead of the Kingston; it was about ten minutes to three 'o'clock when she began to drag her anchor; it was fully half-past three before she reached the devoted Kingston. As soon as it was p erce i ve d th a t t h e co lli s i on was inevita ble, directions were g i ven t o cu t awa y the cable of this latter vessel, and to get her round, so that there might be less resistance ; before this manoeuvre could be accom plished the stern of the Capricorn had dashed against the bows of the Kingston, the head of which went crashing and grinding right through the bulwarks of the former ; at every gust of wind this scene of destruction was re. peated, the enormous bowsprit of the Kingston spring ing and starting from its seat, as though it were a lath. It was now evident that were the vessels to con tinue in this regard to each other, both would be speedily dashed to atoms. The crew on board the Capricorn had contrived or t o nm n t unable to move. The greater part of the crew of the done nothing ; it was reported they had been ill, and were Kingston leaped on board, and commenced cutting away the masts at the rigging to the windward. Whilst doing this the remainder of the crew got on shore, with the exception of We on one man, who, with great foolhardiness, remained on r o v f e d fi to re to all bb snappedoo Aa a rrt board, :. i be eleven eti s r hoo s es "scowl and clock dkh a stoomnt tumbled lho dp riggingSaturdayre oversen wconenai night of mind o u ni t aKni away, nioda appearance one fell right on the man who remained' give a leap away, and his arm only was caught. be lieve it was only bruised, not broken. was given on board the Kingston. An opinion generally p re vailed that there was a g rea t quantity of gut powder on board, and this naturally h a d the effect of P rev i entin the fire. necessary 'exertions t o ext i nguish the Theg conse quence was, that the devouring element burned during the en ti re n i ght, andogot a-head ;it on Sunday the vessel appeared completely consumed to the water's edge. The Capricorn, which lay near, had the side next the fire con siderably injured—the burning mast and rigging of the Nov. 1,2, 1841. Kingston fell across her deck, set fire to everything with which it came in contact, and were it not for the timely assistance afforded, she would, no doubt, have shared the fate of the other. Opinion is contradictory as regards the origin of the fire ; however, the prevailing supposition is! that some persons contrived to get on board with dishones t intentions, and that having made rather too free with rum, of which there was a large quantity in the vess el ' the fire took place by accident. This idea is strengthen ed by the fact that a boy, in a deep state of inebriation , wee found concealed between the rocks were the brig lay. T he Kingston was the property of Charles Horsfall and Sons' of Liverpool, but we have not been able to ascertain if the T ln he a s d u d e i e ti e o s n s, 4o fro th m e D ab e o m v e e r , vessel or cargo were insured. that at, sugar , experienced a heavy sea and violent gale on Saturday reef fore-sail blown away, and the consequence evening, at five o'clock. She had her main top-soil ae t she was thrown on her beams, and was filling with wat er to hat' when assistance was afforded ; she was brought in ar w a e to ha D ve ub a l s i c n e , r w ta i i t n h ed s hour without sustaining any additional injury. A large portion of the cargo is much damaged, and part of be t ground tier of sugar was wholly washed away. At Bally brack, midway between Killiney and Brill" , $ seaman's hat was picked up, in the lining of which there was written—" John Trant, Liverpool, September toe 16:b, 1843, three." In the river some vessels were injured by dashing eith er aS against each other or the quay walls. Amongst those et , the Autumn, of Harrington, which had her bowsprit an jihboom carried away, and her bulk-head damaged. A u ' other coal-vessel had her bulwarks stove in, and her tOr sails torn to pieces. Several flats—more commonly kW/ as the Ballast Board boats—were sunk at either side the river and opposite Ringsend, and a great many cote was, ths broken against the walls. A number of row boats,_ of' longing to privat e p ersons, met with the like acc id e nt' and some that were moored off the island at the No rth Bull were carried away altogether. COST OF MAINTAINING THE ROYAL FAMILY W have frequentlyutt correct a In d d (says the sun er ßirmingham 3taninz Advi is:y generally ?, feltiteo prevails, especially among the working classe s as to the expense of the maintenance of the Royal FaO lll V and every time we have done it, have received the than of some or other of our subscribers for recalling att er !: tion to that which, though we had mentioned it before,. l ; too readily l os t s i g ht o f. Indeed, among the rnotivesl disloyalty, whi c h d emagogues and the mis-leaders of ", '- people urge, few, if any , h ave a more telling effect than those which bea r u p on " t h e vast sums of money Boyd the people have to p a y f or t h e maintenance of the 10.7- Family." We deem this, therefore, a fitting opportunity when the Queen of En g l an d is brought with unusual Pr °- minenee before ber subjects, AGAIN to correct a mistakago into which so many fall, especi a lly as we h ave } e the remark being made at the time of her Majesty's lat e confinement—" there is another young one for us to main' tain." The hereditary revenues of the royal house, arising from the crown lands, were, as we have more than one intimated, given up by George the Third to the countrfi on condition of a suitable provision being always made bf the country for the Members of the Royal Famil y'a George the Third, it i s we ll k nown, h a d not a very 03; family, and it might b e consequent l y t h ought had no"; a good bargain ; but h ow stan d t h e facts and figure s ° the case? The averyge annual amount received by Govern ment from the Crown Lands, and are applied to public purposes for seventy years, from 1760 to 1830, was £1,335 ,96 The average of the annual payments to the Sove reign and Royal Family .. Leaving a balance annually of .. So that, in point - of fact, leaving the INTEREST of the savings out of the question, the country saves near' , £400,000 a-year, by KEEPING,' as it is called, the Royal Family. Let us, however, see what this matter comes to, wil e° interest is taken into account; for we cannot borroW money off other parties without interest ; and this ie light in which we have never clearly viewed it before. When last year Sir R. Inglis brought this subject be fore the House of Commons, it was shown that up to the time the government had received £47,000,000 more fora , the crown lands than it had paid to the royal family. The interest upon £17,000,000 at three per cent. would coons annually to about £1,410,000. Let us then draw another table to illustrate this matter. Annual interest upon the balance due to the crown in 1843.. Average annual p a y men t t o th e roya l family 94 0,3." Annual balance The interest then alone of the money received by the country and applied to public purposes, beyond the amount paid to the royal family from the time that. George the Third gave up his hereditary revenues to 1843, not only pays all the expenses of the royal family, but leaves an annual balance of £469,665 ! Let us then illustrate the matter by yet another table. The country receives an nually, on an average, From the crown 1and 5...... From the interest of the sum already saved, after 665 making all annu a l p a y men t s to t h e roya l fam il y 469,66 5 Making an annual balance of CONVERTS TO POPERY. (From the Record.) The intelligence of the Rev. Mr. Penny's conversion to Popery is confirmed, end we now state it as a fact that Mr. Newman has written to the Rev. Isaac Williams (the competitor with Mr.'Garbett for the Chair of Poetry) an nouncing that it is impossible for him to continue in so fallen a Church as that of England. Mr. Williams, we understand, wishes this to be known ; and he has, in con sequence, broken off all connexion with Mr. Newman, and the Romish section of the party. We are now, in all probability, on the verge of a con siderable secession from our venerable Establishment. The fact, we believe to be that Mr. Newman would have gone over to Rome a year ago, could he have carried Dr. Pusey with him. But Dr. Pusey was not ready, and his secession, without Dr. Posey, would have had compara tively little effect. From the intelligence we have re ceived, we think it probable that about thirty Masters of Arts, in Oxford, will accompany Mr. Newman, if Dr. Pusey secedes also; and we have heard it computed. hi those well qualified to form a just opinion of the case, that in Oxford, Cambridge, and over the country at large: there will be, in all, about 100 of the Tractarians, who wilt secede to their appropriate place within the bosom of Rome, if Mr. Newman is accompanied by Dr. Pusey. Such a consummation is most devoutly to be wished, as it regards the highest interests of our. Church. This perilous matter has too long lain at her very vitals, and the extent of the evil arising from its continuance there, it were impossible adequately to estimate. And besides this, the secession will afford a new proof of the just issu? of those principles whi c h, am id st muc h contempt an obloquy, we have been pointing at for many successive years, and will, we trust, also introduce a more whole some fear in regard to them throughout the Church and the country. Even as it regards the unhappy men who apostatise it is to be desired. For in error, as in other things, it is bette r t o b e h onest t h an dishonest,—to act in conformity with specified or understood obligations, thao in opposition to them. [Since the above was in type, a letter has been sent to The Times, from Mr. Williams, denying that Mr. No" man has written to him.—Mr. G. Tickell, of Balliol Col lege, who recently apostatised to popery whilst travelling in Belgium, has written to The Times also, and sayS" " Now that I have the blessing of being a Catholic, thl result is perfect peace of mi n d an d restore d h ea l t h ; a n my heartfelt wish is, that the many dear friends I have ' ll England may one day share the same blessings I ni enjoy." Alas ! alas for poor fallen hu man na t u re that men can thus be lead astray.] SUICIDE OF MR. AND MRS. BARKER, AT KILMARNOCK. These unfortunate persons were old inhabitants of Bir: mingbam. Mr. Joseph Barker was 61 years of age, 111 t ' wife was som ew h a t younger. T hey resided, prev i ou s ° leaving Birmingham, at No. 54, Vittoria-street. A. l c: Man chester, bei London, at don one, Malta,time m Barker was bo rn a t P reston, i n Lancashire, from which town he married f or hi s secon d w if e th e partner o f his ro mantic but melanch o ly ex it. H e h a d res id e d in o an st d ex se te v n er si a v l ely parts of engaged in thecbounstii: ness as a foreign merchant. At the bu rn i ng o f Mosco w he estimated his loss at £500,000; from that time his,f°.." tunes 'ere reversed. His first wife died on board a ' WV. His only child, a son, on whose memory be appeared t° dote, also died when 21 years of age. Six ye a rs ago h e entered the service of Mr. Samuel Kernpson, floor-clot h manufacturer, Constitution•hill, where he remaine d as chief clerk and traveller until M ay l a , t, when into partnership with Mr. James Archer,who bad also been with Mr. Kempson, and a, 0 ened in the firm w P Summer-lat a ble-cloth ne, as James Archer and Co , ma nufacturers. In the arrangements there was nothing to disturb the equanimity of his proverbially even temper. He appeared on excellent terms with all around him ; and when, two months ago, he left home, as he alleged to his partner, on a visit to Manchester, there was nothing to indicate the fearful resolve to which subsequent circum stances lead us to suppose he had made up his mind. _ On leaving their house they told the servant girl they were going to see a relation at a distance, and should be back in eight or nine days. When he parted from Mr. Archer he shook hands heartily, saying, " God bless you, he entered Archer;" and it was observed by Mr. Archer that he turned away and seemed affected. It was afterwards found that he had, previous to his departure, called silt! discharged e ve ry t ra d esman 's bill against the firm. i 2 was supposed that he had about £4O on him when be left Birmingham. I n a p ecun i a ry point of view ther e was not, as we can ascertain, any embarrassment , and we hay . met with no satisfactory solution to the myste r y of their self.destruction. Mr. Barker was of most gentlemanly habits and man ners, n l o e v r e s , i n s p t e h a o k s i e n g with fluently s,,h whom m the he languages; and of kindly dispositi o n. creating regard and French, and German . private life. Mrs. Barker wman of much amia bility and suavity of manner, highlyaccomplished, and a Italian, in business and in proficient in music. The gold watch found u p on Mr . Barker w as an old ' fashioned family relic, and the knife was a present from a young and esteemed friend, in Mr. Kempson's emplor• The description of the knife led to the identity of the un happy deceased. On seeing the London papers, Mr. Archer sent his foreman over to Kilmarnock, to identify the parties. Captain Mc. Arthur, formerly commander of the Princess Royal. Liverpool and Glasgow steamer, hal been appointed harbour master at Fleetwood. t`..