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'.2'Lltefattift. NOTICES. The Low RPriew and Quarterly Journal of British and Foreign Jurivrudenee. London : Owen Richards, 19-1, Vlt et-street. This is the first number of a publication which appears to us to be excellent in its design ; • and calculated to be of extensive usefuln ' .s not only to the profession but to the public at large. The articles are ably written, and e3l - a number of highly interesting subjects, amongst "which we may mention one on the Joint Stock Companies 'Re,:ulation Acts, ono on Legal Education, and an article .styled " Recent Regulations in Conveyancing Forms." The sketch of the career of Baron Abinaer is well -written, and sines ju‘tiee ; and no more, to the eminent lawyer in question. This publication should be extensively circulated. Fisher's Colonial Maga:ine. London : Fisher, Son, and • Co., New•gate-street. *Contains several highly interesting articles, amongst which the beet are those on " Indian Emigration" a nd - " The Systsq'n of Colonial Crown Land Granting." The proprietors deserve infinite credit with every friend of colonial interests for the liberality and pains with which they provide them with information, and advocate theii• and the country's best interests. Chambrrs's E linburgh Journal. New Seriei. This publ cAion, of which the numbers for November are before us, supports the character of its predeCessors. New Sporting Magazine. London : Office, 24, Norfelk street, Strand ; R. Ackerman, 191, Regent-street. An excellent number, full of information upon sporting matters and amusing matter for the general reader. The two engravings are quite gems. The New Monthly Belle 4ssemble. 24, Norfolk-street, London. Contains its usual interesting variety of light literature, poetry, &c., with the fashions of the season; and a beau tifully executed frontispiece. Abbotsford Edition of Waverley ; Part t 9. Robert -Cadet!, Edinburgh ; Houston and Stoneman, London. The present !ut continues the novel of Peveral of the Peak, and contains in the frontispiece a he3htifol steel en griving of W. „Leitch, of Peak Castle, 13.7rhyshire. The wood illustrations are of a high order of merit, and the type, paper, and general getting up of the number, fully maintain the standard of those previously published. The Dublin University Magazine. Dublin : Curry and Co.; London : W, Orr and Co„ Contains some articles of a very high order of excel. lence, amongst which we notic e p ar ti cu l ar ly one on t h e En2lish and Irish Universities, from which some extracts will be found bel , w ; an examination of the lectures of Father Cooper, wilt! se fallacies and dishonesty are well ex posed, and a critical notice of Eugene Sue's writings—the latter beautifully written, and containing sentiments of great truth and justice. Mr. Lever's story, the Nevilles of Garretstown, is continued. and increases in interest. By the bye, se are happy to observe that this admired writer is about to reenter the field of authorship with a new serial tale, to appear monthly, with the magazines. The Medical Times. _ Carpae, London. Through the politeness of the editor, the second part has been sent to us for our notice. Its technical objects, as being medicine, and the elaborate discussion of the various subjects relative thereto, will not he apt to com mend themselves anywise to the general reader, except to the curious in such matters. In the eyes of the regu lar professionals, its ability of conduct and valuable mine of current notices of scientific discoveries, as well as its temperate articles, are now, we belteve and hear, largely appreciated, and our pnblic opinion in physic cannot have great weight in adding to the reputation of its pages. But the convenient readable shape (being brought out in 4to, like the Athenceum, and in close columns) makes it attractive in garb. The editor is anxious to add a new fact to ophio ogy, which ere this will have been revised, no doubt. We consider it like a phrenological organ hatched since Spnrzheim could affix his imprimatis, voted by the lesser lights as "unestablished." In the article of Saturday, 30th November. it says, "As the boa con strictor sounds his rattle," &c., " so does Brodie pub licly apprise us of danger by a confidential communica tion." Only imagine the boa and the crotalus horridus contending like children for the rat'le— " Pleased with a rattle, Tickled with a straw." The Mysteries of Paris. London : Chapman and Hall. We have received Part VI. of the " only English edi tion authorised by M. Eugene Sue," of this extraordinary work. The story is continued not only with unabated but with increasmg interest. The characters, including the good and the vicious. are vividly drawn, and the reader is , held in delightful anticipation and suspense of the denoue ment of the mystery that hangs about them, and which shall reward the one, and shall deal retributive punish ment to the other. The author is evidently gifted with strong powers of imagination ; and it is hiS highest merit that in drawing from the resources of fiction, so natural are his portraitures that we feel convinced that such things -may be, and that he has wrought up a narrative of proba tions, sufferings, virtues, and crimes. that are stamped with the ernisemblance of real Parisian and French life. There are humorous illustrations interspened throughout the work, designed by French artists, with so much taste, boldness of outline, and keeping, that the several charac ters, in varied situations and guises, are throughout readi ly recogt:ised. This translation, we should add, has been carefully revised by the author, and all that can possibly be deemed unacceptable to the most, delicate English reader has been-rejected, while the intense interest which has given the work such universal popularity in Europe and America is preserved. The typographical depart ment is, moreover, accomplished in the clearest and best style of the art. The Library of Travel. Chapman and Hall, London. Part VIII. of this truly interesting, and, in many points, useful work, has just appeared, and in the judicious selec tions and condensations from the writings of distinguished travellers, British as well as foreign, fully bears out all that was anaounced in the prospectus, in reality " fusing together their multifarious narratives, carefully preserving thy general spirit of the originals, and at the same time re jecting their many repetitions and superfluities, and using, as well as they may be able, a wholesome discretion, to the exclusion of whatever seems trivial, false in substance or in colouring, or otherwise objectionable." The present number is in continuation of " Egypt and Nubia,' and is by J. A. St. John, Esq., the celebrated autilor of works on Egypt and Greece. There is a tearful and painfully interesting account of the massacre of the Memlocks ; an excursion to the pyramids, with a full description of those extraordinary and stupendous rnruuments of antiquity, together with a narrative of a perilous adventure in explo ring the interior chambers of one of them. The celebrated Sphinx is also described, with accompanying illustrations. A journey across the desert to Fayoum is also graphically portrayed, followed by a visit to the vast ,nd wonderful (because artificial) lake, or rather sea, of Moeris. We have elsewhere quoted a few passages from this number. The Polytechnic Review. Mortimer, London. The number of this literary and scientific work for the present month is, on the whole, one of the most interes - ing we have yet perused of the series, though we venture to suggest that more variety could be imparted, were the several articles on proximate topics scattered over several numbers, in place of occupying so many pages of one publication. We have here, for instance, a -communication on the Parlby and Congreve Rockets, by Majlr Parlby himself; another (in continuation) nn projectile Weapons of War and Explosive Com pounds, and another on Concus-ion Shells—all good in themselves, but to the gtn , ral reader presenting a degree of sameness of subject that renders each less inviting. The recent experiments, however, of Captain Warner, and his high assumption of the destructibility and range of his marine projectile, and the exorbitance of his de mand from the government for bis secret, if they will pur chase it—have excited so much public attention to explo sions, that our objection will, perhaps, n-it begenerallvsub scribed to. In Dr. Scoffe.rns paper (the second enume rated) there is a sketch of the history of gunpowder, with an elaborate exposition of its manufacture—from saltpetre, sulphur, and charcoal—the purifying of these several in gredients, their admixture, &c., to the operation of " graining," and finally to glazing. Tables are also given of the exact composition of gunpowder—miners, fine shooting, and common shooting ponder. There is an ar ticle on railway improvements, comprising an account of Kollman's Patent Locomotive Engine, in which a great desideratum appears to be attaaud in ascending inclines, and passing along curves with ease and safety. The sug gestions for a new Safety Lamp, in lieu of Davy's, (not always to be depended on,) will be read with interest by Those connected with mining operations. An article on the drama, by James Hime, M.A., evinces much taste and talent in dramatic literature.. Amongst the reviews, :there is a paper explanatory of the monster telescope, erected by the Earl of Rosse, explaining the ingenious -manner in which his lordship accomplished the successful -casting and polishing of his speculum=the largest in the world. By this instrument he has been e na bl e d t o see ap pearances in the moon, which were before invisible. A notice is also given of an apparatus (with diagrams) of a self-registering wind and rain guage. The present nurn "-her concludes the volume for the half-year. We give a few extracts elsewhere. SELECTIONS. MOUNT VEsuvros.—The crater is a vast circular pit, with nearly perpendicular walls, about two miles in cir cumference and 200 feet deep. Its bottom consists of waves of black lava or scoriae, and in the centre of it rises a cone of scori m to the height of 150 or 200 feet. This cone has two openings on its summit, from which a con tinual emission of white vapour takes place ' • and about once in five minu t es there is an explosion Jeard far within the mountain, and which is followed in a few seconds by the ejection of a vast quantity of fumes and fragments of melted lava, which, by daylight, have the colour of blood, but after sunset, are of a dazzling w hi te heat, while the vapour is brilliantly illuminated so as to appear like flame. Lava escapes in abundance from the base of the cone, and flows beneath the hardened crust which forms the floor Of the crater. Occasionally, however, it melts its _way through, and flows in a broad stream over the surface, which in its turn becomes hardened by cooling, an d a fresh eruption takes place elsewhere. In this manner the whole crater will eventually be filled up, and when this occurs, an eruption on a great scale may be expected.— Polytechnic Review and Magazine. PRECEPT AND EXAMPLE.-11001301 1 , the author of "The Seasons," wrote in bed his beautiful rhapsody on early rising, commencing, " Falsely luxurious ! will not man awake ?" GEORGE FREDERICK COOKS.—His passion for strong drink was so great, that when he was without money, or means of raising it, he has been known to go to a pawn broker's, where he was in the habit of applying, and to say, " I want five guineas; bat I have nothing to pledge but myself—give me the money, they'll be sure to redeem me when they want me." And having sent word to the thea tre of his situation, he has frequently been found seated on the pawnbroker's counter with a duplicate pinned to his button-bole.—Aingworth't Magazine. FORCE OF GuepownEß.—Tha enormous force of in flamed gunpowder is known to depend on the evolution of various gases, the volume of which, when cooled. it i• easy enough to determine ; but at the moment of their formation they are vastly dilated by heat, so that their ac tual effective volume and pressure cannot be justly ascer tained. It has been pretty correctly ascertained that a cubic inch of gunpowder is converted by ignition into 250 cubic inches of permanent gases, which. according to Dr. Dutton, are increased in volume eight times at the time of their formation by the expansive influence of heat. Assu ming these data to be true, confined and ignited powdter will exeq. at least, 'a force of 20001bs. on every square inch !—Polytechnic Review and Magazine. LORD ASHLEY—CHARACTERISTIC ANECDOTE.—In Lord Ashby I always found a r•-ady will to mmtribute heart and soul, as though he really loved it, to the welfare of others. The last time he ever came to Eton (at least, I think so), h ►ravelled inside the coach, and I was mi the outside, behind. There was a poor woman sitting near me, who was evidently far gone in a decline, and had ' set out from London for the purer air of Henly-on- Thames. It came on to rain heavily, and in such a man ner as to augur continuance. We changed horses at an inn, and the poor woman moaned piteously, for the doctor had told her, that any fresh cold would he fatal. During the silence of the coach stopping, Lord Ashley heard her. ' on which he got out, and came round the coach, and quickly asked me what was the matter. I told him briefly, and it ended in the noble lord giving up his place inside, to the poor woman, and himself taking a seat amid the pouring rig& on the outside. While we were standing in the passallll6f the inn, just after the woman had got in side, amid a profusion of blessings on Lord A s hl e y, h e said to me, " Well, this is somewhat unpleasant, for I have no great coat with me" but immediately sprang for ward, as though the deed of kindness was sufficient com pensation for a g , od docking. The guard, however, lent • his lordship an old rough coat, which was in reserve for night-work, and in this Lard Ashley enveloped himself, and arrived safely at the Crown Inn, at Slough, then kent by one Mrs. Harell. On arriving there, Mr. Maitland, who owned a mansion at Henley-on-Thames, wanted an inside place; hilt Lord Ashley quickly went to the coach office, and paid for the poor woman's inside seat as far as Henley.—Bentley's Miscellany. VIEW FROM THE TOP OF THE GREAT PYRAMID OF FOYPT.—It was now about mid-day, and the sun, quite free from clouds. smote upon the Pyramid with great ve hemence ; so that, what with the warmth produced by the labour of the ascent and the ardour of its rays, we expe rienced a heat resembling that of an oven. The air was clear, and our view unimpeded on all sides. To the south, scattered in irregular groups, were the Pyramids of Sakkarah, Abousir, and Dashnur. glittering in the sun, like enormous tents; and appearing from their numb er , and the confusion of their arrangernent,f.to extend to an unknown distance into the desert. On the west was the wilderness of Libya. stretching away to the edge of the horizon; arid, undulating, boundless, apparently desti tute of the very principle of vegetation, an eternal prey to the sand-storm and the whirl-wind. A flock of gazelles or a troop of Bedouins scouring across the plain, would have relieved its monotony; but neither the one nor the b other appeared. In the foreground the sand of various colours, yellow, dusky brown, and grey, swelled into hil locks which looked like the nuclei of new pyramids. To the north and the east the landscape presented a perfect contrast to this savage scenery : night and day are not more different ; and if the contests of Tyrhon and Osiris represented symbolically the struggles between the desert and the river—the one to nourish. the other to destroy— the gods were still there, drawn up in battle array riga net each other ; though the evil demon, alas ! had evidently long prevailed, and was daily curtailing the empire of his adversary. All, however, that remains of the valley of the Nile is luxuriantly covered with verdure and beauty; ' corn-fields. green meadows, woods of various growth and foliage, scattered villages, a thousand shining sheets of water, and, above all, the broad glittering stream of the Nile spreading fertility on all sides like a god. Beyond this were the white buildings of Cairo, Babb lien, and Rho dab, hacked by the leng lofty range of the Gebel Mokat tam, reflecting the bright warm rays of the mid-day sun. —L./Ovary of Travel. PRINCIPLES OF THE JESUITS.—For a stake of suffi cient magnitude there is no rt•asqn to doubt that the prin ciples of the Jesuit Society would impel them to the em ployment of any or all of these criminal instruments. The fumtimental rule ofAtie society, implicit obedience, and the governing rule eircoeduct for its directors, the justifi cation of the means by the end, necessarily imply as much. In these two principles lie the germs of all possible evil; tor it is the duty of the Jesu-t to execute every command of his superior, and it is the duty of the superior to effect uate the good of the church by every available means— honest, if he can ; if not, by the needful means, be they what they may. In times of peace, and among well !Ten- lated communities, the aims of the society require no ac tual crime. Activity in instilling high church principles into the minds of the youthful gentry, regularity in trans mitting written accounts of their proceedings to their su periors, and the prosecution of a small intriguing litera ture, are, in that phase, their chief, indeed their only vo cations ; many of them, accomplished and good-natured men, remainii.g unconscious of the fearful extent to which their obligations have committed them, and taught with a laudable prudence to laugh at the idea of their obedience being ever tested, beyond a clever apology for he last bull, or a white lie at the most, in coutradictitigrstne in convenient scandal. But in times of revolution or social excitement, when decisive blows have to be struck, ene mies discredited or silenced, and powerful individuals won over or set aside, then scandals must be disseminated with the speed of the wind, fanatical passions be raised to their highest pitch, impeachments be sustained by the needful evidence, riots be fomented, and, in the necessi ties of a great crisis, assassinations themselves be perpe trated, without hesitation, - without remorse, without shame, but rather as so many acts of honourable duty, piously done for the glory of God, and the good of the Catholic Church. Christendom, which has given birth to such a system, and suffers its continuance, reproaches Hindooism for its Thugee with hut a bad grace.—Dublin University Magazine. TRAVELLING " DAWK."—It is a delightful thing to travel dawk. 1 suspect that people in England know as little of the manner in which we get over the ground in that fashion as they do of other matters Asiatic. We are supposed to wander over wide and desolate plains, upon extensive elephants. attended by a gentleman in front, who drives a species of boat-hook into the animal's head, and a gentleman behind, who screens us from the piercing rays of the sun with an ample umbrella. borne folks, who have very general ideas of Oriental life, place us on the backs of camels, and suppose us to make one of a pa triarchal cavalcade ; while others, of more brilliant ima ginations, take it for granted that we start by the mail, '• all on springs, like a corps de ballet," fall fast asleep at Calcutta and wake at Delhi. Few ever heard of The Dawk, or can cohceive it possible that distances of a thou sand miles are accomplished in little boxes borne on the shoulders of four sable fellow-creatures. Yet such is the most common mode of transit, and, to my plain thinking, it is the most agreeable and independent method of getti ng over ground known to the civilised world—always except ing the luxury of your own carriage, fast post horses, and reads as level and smooth as a bowling green. It is true the bones acne aft , r a long dawk trip in a manner to con vey a lively idea of rheumatism ; you can never sleep more than two hours at a stretch, because you are disturbed by the appeals of the relay bearers, who want buxis at every stage—the oil-fed flambeaux of your torch-bearers are flashed under your very nose the whole night through—, and your ears regaled incessantly with the buzzing, hum ming, chanting, of your bearers—but sill the dawk is a delightful species of carriage. We have not yet arrived at that point of civilization when travelling can be rendered absolutely comfortable under any circumstances. 'rake the railroad ! You see but little on your journey. arid a pebble may whisk you to eternity before you can say Jack Robinson. The mail ! You are pent up for hours with a curious, forbidding old woman, via-a via, afflicted with an obstinate cough and a yelping lap-dog; on your right is an invalid attorney, who must have both windows up, and the fourth of the partie carr6e has impregnated his garments with cigar -smoke; the guard allows you but little time to bolt a few slices_of indurated, time-honoured hem, and a cup of boiling r hot tea, and there is every chance of a de tention, on the most desolate part of the road, from a lbst linchpin or a broken coach-pole. Their for the travelling o' horseback, as is our wont in Persia and Asiatic Turkey, it is wed enough for the ride, but you are exposed to all weathers, subjected to long halts, or relays of unknown brutes. A quiet camel ? Sea-sickness without the com fort of a steward and a swingcot. A ship I—according to Sam Johnson, imprisonment, with the chance of being drowned." A boat on the Nile, the Ganges, the Eu phrates? Confinement, sand-banks, contrary winds, and tedium vita. Locomotion —barring the carriage and post horses aforesaid—is monstrously an ioying iu the best form : but as it is not given to mortals to transport them selves without auxiliary aid, and as every spot on the fair earth is worth visiting, commend me to the Indian Dawk. You are your own master; your pidankeen is at once y o ur arm-chair by day and your b d by night; your dressing table, your kitchen, your library, are all compactly stowed before you. Your patient bearers stop when it pleaseth you, and where it pleaseth you. Here you feast your eyes upon a magnificent landscape, in which silvery rivers rush through luxuriant jungles, and lofty mountains, covered with rich foliage, invite you to add to the wealth of your portfolio; there you are arrested by the picturesque re mains of some antique temple, the half-effaced inscriptions on whose mural adornments excite your curiosity and perplex your learning. Now you descend from your pa. lankeen to sniff the morning air, and catch from tle wild cry of the partridge, the carol of the lark, and the crow o . f the jungle cock, (he pleasant infection of exhilarated spi rits—and anon you are reclining on your portable couch, carried, in imagination, by an agreeable novel, to the land of the loved West, until the subdued pace of your porteurs apprizes .you that you are reaching one of the comfortable little bungalows or asylums for travellers where attentive domestics supply you with a bath arid a breakfast, and you stretch your limbs preparatory to another stage. I have tried every description of locomotion, the 1200 ton steamer, the 1500 ton Indiaman, the Leith smack, the barque, the brig, the buggalah, the canoe, the elephant, the camel, t e horse, the mule, the donkey, the rail-train, the mail, post-coaches, post-chaises, the diligence. the !minibus, the eil- walgon, the vetturino, the gig, the kad- Java (or pannier), the sledgi., the—all, in short, excepting the ostrich and the balloon ; and the dawk still stands A 1 in my register of their respective virtues and recom mendations. The feeling b orn i n 1820 ex i s t s i n all its original force in 1844.—Asiatic Journal. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. DISSENTERS' BAPTISM.—A conference of Bishops • took place et Easter, 1712, at Lambeth Palace, on the validity of Dissenters' baptism ; and•they all agreed that It was valid ; four days 'afterwards ' in consequence of that conference, th e A rc hbi s h op of Canterbury drew up the following declaration :—Forasmuch as sundry persons have of late, by th e i r preac hi ng, wr i t i ng, an d discourses, pessessed the minds of many peopl with doubts as to the validity of their baptism, to their great trouble and dis quiet, we, the Bishops and Archbishops whose names are underwritten, have thought it incumbent on us to declare nor opinions, in conformity with the judgment and prac tice of the Cetholic Church, and of the Church of England • in particular, that such•persons as have been already bap tised with water, and iii tee names of Ihe Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, ought not to be baptised again. And to prevent any such rash practice in our respective dioceses, we do require our several clergy that they presume not 'to baptise. any • adult person whatever without giving us timely notice."—Life of Archbishop Sharp. FALSE DISPARAGEMENT OF THE ENGLISH. — One of the most ludicrous evidences of the rage that has prevailed in England during the last and existing centuries for every thing foreign, without reference to any actual standard of value, is the notion, not yet extinct among us, that we are not a musical people I Our old ecclesias tical music is of ti , e very first order, yet-we are not a mu sical people ! The glee we altogeiher invented, and the beautful madrigal we carried to a higher pitch than any other country, yet we are not a musical people! Scarcely two centuries ago, part singing was held an indispensable accomplishment in every lieeral scheme of English edu cation ; and "at a social meeting, when the madrigal books were laid uson the table, everybody was expected to take a share in the har m ony ; and any one who declined, on the score of inability, was looked upon with some con tempt, as rude and lox bred ;" but for all that we are not a musical people! Music, of old, marked every step in our devotional worship, accompanied every kind of sport and festival, was carried round to the humblest door by the itinerant minstrels, and floated from the very watch-towers of our baronial and civic castles, where the waits or wa'chmen made the long night musical with their pipings —and vet, sapient Englishmen will have it, we are not a musical people. It is true, the unhappy decadence so visible in all that relates to the welfare and happiness of the poor, preva is also, or rather till recently did pre vail, in regard to our na ional music. But the e,cep:ions might have told us that it was not oeing to any unfitness of the English mind.—llluminated Magazine. THE PRINCE OF PEACE V. THE DUKE OF WELLING TON.—I heard a curious account of the condition of the Soto de Boma, the estate of the Duke of Wellington. It is well known this estate was selected by him out of tbree royal domains, which were. offered to his choice by the first Cortes, as a reward for his great services in the war of independasce. This grant was confirmed by the abso lute king, and never I believe attempted to be interfered with during the successive changes which have taken, place, until quite recently, when, of all persons living, which, by the by, he was not generally supposed to be until his reappearance on the stage in the guise of a chan cery suitor, but the Prince of Peace ! This personage has brought whet is equivalent to an action of ejectment against the duke, and retains the estate as his property by a former grant of the royal possessor. I understand that the Audiencia, or supreme tribunal of Granada, has more than once decided in his favour, but an appeal being laid at Madrid, the suvrior court declared itself incompetent to enter on the question, and so it rests. I heard that the title of only the house and a small tract of land adjoining it is effected by this curious claim, and not the greater part of the property. The person alluded to is living at Madrid quite retired, and, it is said, in great poverty, which may readily be believed; but he finds money suffi cient to carry on the process, and fee not only the bar and solicitors, but the judges also, who must be raid, if you are to credit the. Spanish accounts of the mode of admi nistering justice iu their courts, though it may be hoped not universally nor to the extent they state.—Captain Widdrington. SINGULAR ANECDOTES OF A RAVEN.—The first ar pearance of Jim Crow was in the street, where he was th.cl try the leg to a stick, while a pack of inhuman boys were gathering stones to pelt him to death, when Mrs. W., the landlady, kindly interposed and saved the devoted victim. He rapidly tamed, and in a'few days exhibited both intel licence and amusement to his protectors. Upon the landlord, from first sight, he appeared to have centred his affections—and the ardour of the poor bird's attachment almost exceeds belief. lie watched for his master in the morning, followed him through the day, was always at his elbow when he dined, and if he afterwards in the evening joined a jovial party—as landlords are wont to do—Jim Crow was sure to be upon his shoulder, or on the table, if permitted to make one of the " Inert ie company." If any person pretended to beat the host the rook attacked him furiously—and, as if lie knew that a razor was a lethal in strument, and the carotid in dangerous contiguity, before the barber dare commence operations, Jim Crow had to b 3 secured in another room, to secure; the shaver from maltreatment. It might be imagined that the poor rook could reason. The communication over the Tweed, be tween Spittal and Berwick, is kept up by diminutive steamers which cross the river repeatedly within the hour. If his favourite were missing, Jim Crow would fly down to the pier and sscertain it the lost one was on board; and in that event, the rook would cross the river, and no matter where his owner went, he would be found flying by his side, or settled on his shoulder. Of course this' personal attendance was occasienally to be dispensed with—but it required no little ingenuity, by turning a corner, or getting down an entry, to enable his master to blink his too faithful friend and con,panion. if he suc ceeded, th, bird would fly up and down the street, look enviously around—and if he Could l op on his lost propric t,r, his joy would he unbounded, and lest another sepa ration should occur, he would stick to him for the re mainder of the day close as his own sh , dow. If, how ever, Mr. W. managed to get off—a feat not always to be effected—after a sharp search Jim Crow would wing his way across the Tweed, return home, and there anxiously await a reunion with his lost protector. I said that the rook was fond of convivial meetings ; and there he was an active auxiliary. Were there a dozen persons at the table, Jim would hop regularly round, receive the scores from the guests respectively, pouch the money beneath his tongue, return to his master, insert the black and horny bill into the clenched hand of mine host, and honestly deposit there every coin he had collected. A still more curious anecdote of the bird remains ; and, upon my life ! it goes far beyond my philosophy. The first movement in the morning in the landlord's chamber, the first cough or creak of the shoe which announced that his master was afoot—was hailed by this singular bird with loud and exulting cawings. The landlord was a wag—his marriage bed bast riot been blessed by a family, and open ing the room door he would remonstrate with his noisy favorite—" What the diel are ye at, mon? Hauld ye'r tongue or ye'll waukel the bairns !" In a moment the loud and clamorous caw was changed to one so piano and subdued that had Rubini been hi , preceptor, Jim Crow's descending scale could not base been more rapid or more euphonious.— Wanderings in the Highlands. POETRY. THE OTHER DAY. (From Fraser's Magazine for December.) Upon the meadows spread below Full softly fall the flakes of snow, Yet choke they up the way That lately wound along the scene 'Mid fields of gold and swards of green, Ay, but the other day. The sun bath shrunk into the south, And every bird hath shut its mouth, And broken off its la) ; And yet with sultry Ueult.s the air, And yet with songs the woodlands fair, Were full the other day, All things are here but for a while, The frown must vauisn, fade the smile, E'en beauty must decay. And wFo upon that wrinkled face The lily and the rose can trace We saw the other day? But form and beauty, too, might die, And fire forsake the aged eye; Could any mortal say, My heart is still as warm and light, As full of hopes and famis bright, As 't was the other day ? Repose mankind can never know, They change as on the seasons flow, Until they pass away ; And whilst we live there 's not an hour That sees not fall sorne cherished flower That bloomed the other day.: The mother sadly bends her head Upon the breast that lately fed . A child with glances gay ; See how her eyes now v ainly seek The softly dimpled rosy cheek She kissed the other day ! But wander through all scenes of life. Through scenes of peace and scenes of strife, Consult the whole arri y! Seek amidst every rank of men, For one who would not fly again Back to the other day. Lovers regret their early sighs, Regret the maiden's downcast eyes, When first she said them nay; All quaff too soon, al would regain The feelings they esteem'd a pain, And quench'd the other day. Children alone look forward still, They pant to climb life's rugged Oh . in the valley stay; Stay in the balmy land awhile ' Where heaven, anal earth, and all things smile Now as the other day They listen not, but onward throng,— Farewell to innocence ere long,— Enjoy then whilst you may ! Those radiant brows ere long will lower, Ere long you will regret the hour You scoru'd the other day ! But if in joy, and if in woe, Along these twilight plains below, You follow virtue's ray, Less bitter pangs may ring your breast, When rise amidst your hours of rest Dreams of the other day ! ADVICE TO BEAUTY. Sweet lady have you seen. When the Iris arch is thrown O'er valley—and o'er hill, Like a rich, enamelled zone; How majestic—yet how calm, Is the beauty of its Like a paradise of flowers, Or an Angel—in his might ? Then, lady, strive to he, In thy lite's young go den hours, An Iris sheddi. g hope around Earth's serpent- wreathed bowers ; Let virtue be thy euide, Walk thou firm in wisdom's light, And though woman's be thy strength, Thou shalt wield an angel's might. T. J. Ovelwr. ANECDOTE Ma' THOMAS CAMPBELL.—On one occasion, Professor (afterwards Sir Daniel) Sandford attempted to take precedence of the Lord Rector at a dinner party, but was defeated and somewhat humbled by the quickness of a lady standing at Campbell's side. " Bless me ! I was not dreaming of any precedence," said Campbell; "but is it not strange that Mr. Sandford should be so vain as to think that his being a bishop's son, and a professor should give him any rank, Why, it merely means the sun of a dissenting clergyman and a respectable school master." An anecdote was current at this time of a dig nifiel functionary of the University—a man of pomp and form. He sneeringly said they would not know where to address the official announcement ; so obscure, it might be interred, did he consider the man whose poetic fame was bounded only by the liu.its of : civilization. A gentl , - man present promptly answered, " You lave only to ad dress it to the author of the Cteasures of Hope,' and put it into the post-office.—llletropolitun Magazine. MR. CANNING'S ORATORY.—As an orator Canning stood beyond rivalry, and almost beyond comparison. * * It is scarcely an exaggeration to affirm, that in his single person were united all the highest gifts of elo quence which nature had distributed among the most eminent of his Parliamentary competitors. A lucid, close, and furciule logic,. effective alik-e for the establishment of truth and the exposure of absurdity, hypocrisy, and pre tension,—an elevated tone of declatnatioa, appealing not so much to passion, as to what was noblest in thought and sentiment,—a stream of imagery and quotation, Tich, vatious, and yet never overflowing the main subject—a light ' artillery of wit,' so disciplined, that not a shot of it flashed without telling upon the issue of the conflict — au unfailing, yec constantly diversified hat mony of period, and a magical command of those lightning words and plitases, which burn themselves, at once and for ever, into the hearer's mind—these, and all these in their per fection, were among the powers of that eloquence which death had thus suddenly hushed.—Life of Lord Eldon. TOWN EDITION. LONDON MARKETS OF YESTERDAY. MARK-LANE CORN EXCHANGE. The frost still continues; and t' .e weather is intensely cold; - with every a:,pearan , e of the navigation being stopped to the interior. The coivition of the English Wheat being greatly im proved, the trade was brisk at an improvement of Is. per qr. on best samples, and fully as goo for other oescriptions. Free foreign maintains late rat. s, with a moderate sale. The best descriptions of Malting Barley have recovered the de. pressiou that existed during the week, but secondary descriptions are still difficult of sale and Is. cheaper. We have no additional arrivals of Oats from Ireland since last m rket day; but the supplies of foreign' are liberal, rind a few additnnial cargoes have got fresh op this morning. The coun try demand has greatly abated. Sales made to-day were only to a limited extent ; but last Monday's prices were fully sup ported. Beans and Malt Is. lower. Peas unaltered. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. Wheat, Essex and Rent. s. d. s. d. Red 4O 0 59 0 White 46 0 56 0 Norfolk and Lincoln, red 9B 0 46 0 White . Irish, led White Rye, old 30 0— 34 0 New Barley, Grinding s6 0 —3l 0 Malting Chevalier 3B 0— 40 0 Malt, Suffolk and Norfolk 5B 0 1 , 2 0 Brown 56 o 60 o Kingst ,- n and Ware Chevalier Oats, Yorkshire end Lincolnshire, feed •22 0 23 0 Pr.tatoe Youghall and Cork, Hack Cork. white Scotch, feed Beans, tick 35 0 37 0 Pigeons' Pease, Grey Maple s6 0 40 0 White Boilers Flour, town made Suffolk * , 3 0 35 0 Stockton and Norfolk. 33 0 35 0 FOREIGN GRAIN AND FLOUR IN BOND. Wheat, Dan tztc.. Hamburg Barley Oats, new .. 32 0 —36 0 .. 30 0 27 o—ng 0 • 17 0 18 0 .. 15 0 17 0 • 24 0— 2g .. 28 0-32 0 .. 51 0 • . 20 0 Feed Beans Peas Floor, American Baltic YESTERDAY'S LONDON SHARE MARKET. Some of the railway shares have been in considerable demand at advanced rates. South Western were sold at 87. but have since reacted to 84,.and Brighton to So. but last done at 493. Bristol and Gloncester were last quoted 38, Birmingham and Gloucester !-.6, Eastern Counties l 3i, Great Western 147, Halves 881, Hull and Selby 67, Liverpool and Manchester 2f3, Bir mingham 221. London and York 4. Midland Counties 1081, Northern and Easterns72, Newcastle Junction 601, South Eastern 38, Trent Valley 8, York and North Midland 1011, Boulogne and Amiens 5, Orleans and Vierzon 102, Orleans and Bordeaux 61, Paris and Rouen 89g. SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET. As tiie great Christmas market will be held on Monday next. no little curiosity was manifested by Graziers and butchers to ascertain the quality of the stock exhib ted tor sale to-day. From the numerous attendance of butchers, and the near ap proach of Chri , troas, we were led to expect an improved de mand ; but such was not the case ; still, however, the nrirnest Reefwaa In good request. at fully last viee 's quotations, viz., from 4s. to 4s. 4d. per 81bs. ; but in all other kids exceedingly little was doing. Foreign Beasts found purchasers at fromjld to £l9, and the Sheep from 395. to 445, per head. We d that the foreign Beasts are still in good lavour amongst the butchers, while the Sheep are somewhat eagerly sought after. The bullock droves from our northern grazing districts consisted of about 1,890 short horns. From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambrid4e shire, we received 3:0. Scots, kcc. ; from the Western and Mid land Counties, fOO Iterefords, Runts. Devons. &c. - from other parts of England, 700 of various breeds; from icotland. 200 horned and polled Scots, and from Ireland, via Liverpool, 4 , Beasts—the iem index of the supply being derived from the neighb nrhood of the met , opolis. The supply of Sheep was somewhat on the increase, and of fair averag quality. Prime old Downs we e in good request at full prices ; but all other kinds were with difficulty disposed of at late rates. In. Calves exceedingly little was doing, at previous currencies. We had on offer 14 t Pigs, by sea, from Ireland. All descriptions of Pork were heavy, yet prices were supported. Per Sibs. to sink the offal. a. d. s. d.l a. d. s. d. Inferior Beasts.... 2 r— 2 in Second quality do 3 4 3 6 Second quality do. 3. 0— 3 6 Coarse do. 3 , 8— 3 10 Prime lar,,e Oxen. 3 8— 4 olSouthdownWethers 4 1— 4 2 Prime Scots, &c... 4 2 4 4 Do. out of the wool— Coarse Calves .... 3 0— 3 el Large II gs Small do. Suckling do. each.lB. 0-32 Qr. old Pigs, each 16 o—vo 0 Inferior Sheep 2 8— 3 0 Lambs SUPPLX AT MARKET. Beasts44,l2o....Sheer, 30,140.... Calves, ... Pigs, 413, GENERAL MISCELLANY. The Queen has granted the widow of Colonel Stoddart £l5O per annum. The Barking fishermen have returned to-work with one or two of their grievances redressed. There are five Jews on the list for high sherif f s of counties in England this term. A fire broke out in the steeple of Sudbury Church on Wednesday w eek , but was speedily extinguished. The Duke of Norfolk is about to present fifty acres of land to the people of Sin ffield for public pleasure grounds. The poet Campbell's pension of £lB4 a year has been bestowed upon Mr. Patrick Fraser Tytler. Only four lives were lost by the explosion at Cwm Avon Colliery near Bristol. It is expected that the new Manchester Theatre, which is to cost £23,000, will be opened in March next. The Northern Star, Feargus O'Connor's paper, has removed from Leeds to London—a sign of the decay of Chartism. The Rev. Dr. Adler has been elected Chief Rabbi. He obtained 121 votes; Dr. Hirchfield 13; and Rabbi Birch 2. Lord Ashley has written to the Short-time Association, saying that it is his intention to bring the subject of the ten boors bill before the House early in the session. COMMERCIAL CURIOSITY.—A gentlemen near Ayles bury has in his possession a Bank of England note for sixpence, issued in the year 1700. Rict,ard Dadd, the parricide, having been removed to a Lunatic Asylum, by order of the Secretary of State, will not be tried fur the murder of his father. The Leeds magistrates have decided, by orders of the law officers of the crown, that all officers on horseback, in uniform, or otherwise, are nut liable to p,ty toll for turnpikes or bridges. The current late of discount on first-class bills by the joint stock banks and large discount houses in London is 2i per ccnt., just to cut in below the terms of the Bank of England. UNCUT OATS.--In the parishes of Eckington and Whitwell, in the ccunty of Derby, there are many fields of cats yet uncut, which would require three weeks of good harvest weather to fit them for the reapers. Mr. David Irwin, for upwards of forty years editor of the Norfolk Chronicle, and Mr. R. M. Bacon, editor of the Norwich Mercury, both died suddenly a few days ego. The London Gazftle of Tuesday night contains a trea sury warrant, fixing generally at fourpence, the tate on all East India and colonial letters, of not more than half an ounce weight. In the Court of Queen's Bench, Jenkin Jones has been sentenced to a year's imprisonment, for undertaking to procure Charles Bolson a place in the office of the Poor Law Commissioners fur the sum of £l5O. A young ruffian, at Leicester, last week, in the hope of getting possession of a sum of money coming to him on the death of his mother, attempted to poison her, and in doing so had nearly poisoned the whole family. Chess players will be glad to hear that the celebrated player, M. Kieseritzkij. will visit Londcn early in the year. ' A match of 21 games is arranged to b played by him and Mr. Staunton, at the St. George's Club. The Cambridge Advertiser mentions the recent case of a young woman, who, being frightened by a companion who appeared suddenly before her in a hideous mask, fell into fits, became a lunatip, and died in a few days. Four persons were killed at the Beaufort iron works, by a mass orearth eight yards above their hr-ads falling upon them, and crushing every bone in their bodies. Two of the party were girls of 18 years of age, and the other two young men of 18 and 21. On Tuesday, at her Majesty's dock yard, Woolwich, a scaffolding gave way, and killed one man, and very seri ously injured several others. Five casual paupers in the Eton Union Workhouse have been committed for trial on a charge of attempting to set fire to the building. An explosion took place at Seghill colliery, near New castle, on Sunday evening, by which two of the workmen lost their lives. A most brutal scene was exhibited in the streets of the Cathedral city of Durham, on Tuesday last, when a roan in a state of intoxication, named Steilia, was attempted to be dragged to prison at " a cart's tail." On Wednesday evening last, an incendiary fire took nla^e at Watton, Hertford, on a farm occupied by Mr. Ic'mpton, and belonging to Mr. Abel Smith, M.P. The damage is estimated at £2OOO On Tuesday week a female lunatic leaped from a car riage on the Edinburgh and Glasgow railway, while the train was in motion. She miraculously sustained no injury. On Thursday, at York, Mr. Justice Coleridge, in most affecting terms, se n ten ce d a y oung man , name d Potter, to death, for having set fire to a neighbouring house whilst the inmates were asleep at night. ANOTHen ATTORNEY TRANSPORTED.—Thos. Field, alias John Easterfield, has been transported for seven years, at the Central Criminal C..iurt, for having obtained two half-crowns and a sixpence from a party, under false pretences. At the Central Criminal Court, on Monday, a fellow named Ward was indicted for extorting money from Mr. Mieville, a member of the Stock Exchange, by threatening to charge him with the commission of an abominable offence. The scoundrel was sentenced to be transported for life. BRIEF FELICITY.—In a rural districtilit tely, a boy and girl, aged, respectively, nineteen and sixteen, were married on Wednesday, spent all the money they had (fifteen shillings), on Thursday and Friday, went to the union .workhowe on Saturday, and were then passed to their respective parishes. SINGULAR ACCIDENT.—On Thursday last, as the bead groom to Earl Bathurst, was standing in the stables, patting one of his Lordsh p's horses, the animal suddenly snapped - at his hand, and bit one of his thuras.corn plctrly cif above the nail. The animal must have swal lowed the precious morsel, as it could not be found. A Rica VAGRANT.—Mary Jones, with her son, a lad about 10 years of age, have been committed to Carmar then gaol for vagrancy. On her person was found the sum of £6 Is. 10d. in cash, and promissory notes from the Giamorganshire Bank, and from several tradesmen, to the amount of upwards of £3OO, PRIZE FIGHT.—On Tuesday a pugilistic contest for £lOO, took place between Maley, of London, and Mer ryman, belonging to Nottingham, about half way be tween London and Nottingham. The fight commenced in good earnest, and continued for about one hour and a half, when night made its appearance, and it was found that darknest:must stop the affair. TFIE MURDER. OF AN ORANGEMAN.—On Thursday at York, John M'Cann: 29, was indicted for the wilful murder of Benjamin Gott. at Bradford, on Whit-Monday. the 27th of May. There was another count in the indict meot charging the prisoner with the manslaughter of the said Benjamin Gott. Before the case had proceeded far, Mr, Wilkins said he could not resist the minor charge, and the jury found a verdict of manslaughter. A BRIDEGROOM SHOT ON His WAY TO CHURCH.— On the 22d wtimo, as Jawes Cockburn was on his way to the cl.ureh at the village of Presson, near Kendal, where the bride and her party were waiting for him, a man, named Johnston, a " hind" to the bride r fired at him from a wood, and wounded him, it is feared fatally. Johnston was instigated by dissppointtnent. He has been com mitted. TIIE COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The first examination for the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons took place on Tuesday and Thursday last, when out. of 30 can didates' the following had the honour conterred on them : —Mr. Ward, Huntingdon; Mr. Rix, St.- Neots; Mr. Sodon, jun., Bath; Mr. Boil, Arundel; Mr. Cotton, Lyme ; Mr. Cheeseman, Sheffield ; Mr. Rumsey, Glo, center; Mr. Ellison, Chester; Messrs. Roberts, Smith. and Barrow, of• London, with three others. - ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION.—On the 22d ultimo, a farm ser'aut named Cockburn, residing near Dunse, in Scotland r was fired at while on his way to be married, and in company with another man. He received about WO slugs and shot in his back, and is not expected to•survive. A man named Johnston, who lived servent with Jean Rankin, to•whom Cockburn was to be married, has. been committed' for trial, he having shortly before borrowed a gun. and having enteitaiaed a bad feeling to the injured man. CONDITION OF THE LLBODRING CLASSES.—Tvrenty cottages are in progress of erect:on by the society for the improvement of the condition of the labouring classes, on the estate of Lord Caithorpe, within a few perches of the Clerkenwell Police-court: They will be inhabited each by one labourer's family. They will be fitted up with the greatest regard, to the comfort and clea:.liness of the occu pants, and will cost £3,0i:0. The main i.bject the so , ciety has in view by the erection of these 20, is that they may serve as a•model for such buildings to the aristocracy who may visit the metropolis.—Globe. ACORNS.—Curiosity has been rife in Godalming daring the last :our weLks,to account f.n. the very exte..sive de mand which bas taken place for acorns. One individual, it is said. has been commissioned to buy_ up no less than 2000 bushels, at ls. per bushel, and so great is the com petition for the article, that pig keepers are quite unable' to keep pace with. the rise in price. Some suppose that they are wanted as a substitute for hark in tanning lea ther, while others, no less wise, hint that they are wanted for the adulteration of coffee. They are all sent off as qn:ck as purchased, to London, there to be made usevf.— Sussex Express. ALLEGED TUEFT BY A LADY OF RANK.—Mrs. Tyr vvhitt, the lady of fortune, who was charged with stealing a microscope on. the Bth of September, at the Soho Bazaar, London, worth half a crown, was tried at the Middlesex Sessions, on Thursday, and acquitted. A number of persons of rank and title were called to speak to charac ter. The jury were absent two hours and a half. The prisoner, who w supported by her husband, was most deeply affected,.and said, in a treble voice, " Gentlemen, you have acquitted me. I thank you ; and I here declare my most solemn innocence of the false charge that has been brought against me. She then sank tiown over come by her feaings, and was carried from the court. STRANG& DISCOVERY . OF A MURDER.—About five years ago, a packman was known to have entered a cot tage in the village or palish of Kirkcolme, and was never afterwards seen or heard of. Shortly afterwards the nehinbours remarked that the occupant of the house was much better off in worldly circumstances than, before, and therefore could not help regarding him as. having dealt the packmsu foul play, but nothing ever transpired that coulo positively justay the suspicion. The,man died, it is said, about twelve months ago, and the occurrence ceased to, be talked shout, if it was not entirely forgotten, until 1 st week, when some men, while making altera tions about the cottage, came upon the remains of a man buried underneath. Of their identity with the packman, the people entertained no doubt. EXTELAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE.—A short time ago, a fine strong pig, about a year old, was missed from the farm of the Rev. T. Cater, at Wath Wood. The other day, on removing a large quantity of straw, the pro duce of a wheat stack which had been thrashed out for seed, the poor animal was found at the bottom, still alive, having been bo►ied under the straw for a period of seven weeks all but two days : , The straw, it appears, as it was thrashed, was carried from the barn, and thrown over the wall of the full-yard. The pig, it would appear, had been underneath the wall, and no doubt, liking the warmth of the straw, had laid under it until it had ,o tar accumu lated that it was unable to get out. The poor animal had eaten a large hole into the earth, ati,d apparently ha.i subsisted on no other food than what the ground afforded. Doncaster Monicle. EXVTRAORDINARY OCCURRENCE.—In our obituary will be found the death of G. Durant, Esq., of Tong Castle, and we here mention a rather singular circum stance that took place on the occasion. In the tear 1820 Mr. Durant took legal proceedings against his first wife, and in consequence of the jury having decided in his favour, he meted a monument an an eminence on his estate at Tong Knowl, , t9 commemorate the event. The monument was a conspicuous object from the road from Sniffnall to Wolverhampton, and resembled a church tower. Immediately on his death being known to his family, two of his sons, accompanied by twenty-nine labourers, went to the place, and commenced excavating round it to the depth of six feet, after which they made a hole in it, and placed fifty pounds of ,unpowder, in a cask, and twenty pout:ds in another package, under she monument, and at three o'csock on the morning of the oth ultimo, a fuse was fixed to it, and sA file to, and in a few minutes the monument was laid flat on the ground, without any accident. The eldest son, and heir to the estate, died some years ago, and on his deathbed lie requested the younger branches of the family that, as soon as their father was dead. they would cause the mo nument to be blown up, that it might cease to exist with the founder, that the memory of the scandalous cause for which it was erected and he might perish together.— Shrewsbury Journal. TURN-OUT OF COAL-MINERS. —Very great excitement prevails at present amongst , tie colliers in the district of Wigan. Meetings are holding every week, in various pirts of the districts, at which resolutions are always adopted unanimously, to the effect that their labour is not sufficiently rewarded, and that it is desirable to join the union, and collect funds to enable them to stand a strike in the event of its beilig necessary. Mr. W. P. Roberta, solicitor, from Newport. commonly called the "Mi ners ' Attorney General," has taken offices in Manchester, with a view, it is said, of being on the spot to give such legal advice as may seem necessary. Delegate meetings have :Jso been held in various places, but their proceedings, as far as the press is concerned, are kept private. Matters now seem to be fist arriving at a climax. On Saturday last the workmen in every pt in this county, and Che shire, except the St. Helen a distract, sent i n to t h e i r masters a written applicat i o n d e manding an advance of twopence upon each shiltine they now earn. Should their demand be refused the resat will, of course, be a general strike. On Monday several meetings were held, and, as far as it was possible to ascertain, there was not a coal mine at work in the whole district. Two of the most im portant of these meetings were those held at a place called Bardsley. between Oldham and Ashton, and the other in the village of Lammerhead-green, about two miles from this place. At Lammerhead green a delegate meeting was alao held, at which delegates were present from every coal-pit in the two counties, except those in the neigh bourhood of St. Helen's. The public meeting at Lam% merhead-greeu was attended by about 3000 persons. Dec. 10, 1814. RATHER GREEN.—At Manchester, last week, a young man, being determined to ascertain for himself whetheT, the sensations of persons hanging are " most pleasingt j as Mr. Wakley says they are, made the expe; imeat, and had a most narrow escape from being suffocated in eat' nest. SHOCKING DEATH.—Last week, two women bad aa: casion to go up Llangattock mountain (Breconshire)• and one of them took her little girl with her, who unfortui nate!) , got separated from her mother, and , o n aaentill of the density of the fog, the night passed without or trace of her being discovered. On the following morn' ing she was found, in a sitting posture, quite dead.. THE LATE BANK ROBBERY.—In conseqnence of IPtter addr e s s ed to the b an ki ng -house of Messrs. Rog and Co. by th e i r so li c it or , M r . H o bler, suggesting a mod e t cancell:ng all the Bank of England notes which 10/ 6 recently been stolen from that firm, and thus rendering the property taken valueless to the robbers and their CO: federates, some of the parties of the banking-house had an interview with th e S ecre t a ry of State upon al; plan proposed by Mr. Hobler, and the matter is o ° o under consi , lerw ion v;i , ll Sir James Graham. If s° ' 7, are quite s.ure the public will be glad to know that a . once the most adroit masters in the art of thieving ba" met with their match. THE MURDER AT DOVER.—Jam s Clark, Wm. Clark, and William Smith, were indicted at the Maidstone assizes for the murder of a policeman. The facts, " id ' vi 6 published at the time, will be in the recollection of out readers. On the Sth of September, the Prisoners at i . n s number of idle disorderly persons had been drinkil „ 1 " . gether. when the deceased in the execution of his a n ": r interfered, and in d ing so received a tremendous blo with a stick, which felled him to the earth. It t as f t : Clark who ii•flicted the blow. The p r i s o e er " "nd deceased was on the ground, jumped upon his body' 8- 00 exclaimed, " There, you —; you've got it c You are good." These facts were proved in e v idence. but tile rs was an absence of any distinct proof that the Pris °n ,r e be were actually present when the blow was WraCk• a jury acquitted the prisoners, after a consultation a t. hours. MISS MARTINEAU ON MESMERISM• In the Al henceum Miss Martineau continues her lett?' upon mesmerism. The present portion of this comel; cation is devoted to the case of a you ng g i r l, w ho owd under the mesmeric influence, had visions, and' predicte events in an extraordinary manner. Miss M a rtinel gives this girl a high character, and seems to t hink O f quite different, flour the truthfulness and corrsistenetZ e her statements, from the usual run of sonambuks. first occasion of her being mesmerised was white suffe.i.ringe severe pain in the head and inflamation of the eye. 1 4 mesmerist was Miss Martineau's maid, who, it will " remembered; operated on the lady hers. lf, and it i , lated that after being mesmerised, the pain and infiqnf e lion ceased, and the general health of the patient i 5 proved so wonderfully as to attract very general net °. While in this state of trance, the patient described tl disease of her eye as structural; which will preven t being entirely removed. It seems that when awoke freela this trance, the girl had no knowledge of whet she b t :j said, except on one occasion, and then she said she L been dreaming of what she had heard in church regat° l 7,. the nature and destiny of men. This girl had the pos'r, of telling when she would awake from her sleep, which a common power with those under mesmeric influen ce. We pass from Miss Martinean's introduction to this ease to the pectaFar circumstances attending it. She sass " It soon became evident that one of her stronges.; powers was the discernment of disease, its condition sw remedies. She cleared up her own case first, pr escrib h ief fir herself very fluently. It was curious to see, cll awaking, the defetence and obedience with which s he re 4 ceived from us the prescriptions with which she hers e l had just furnih-4J us. They succeeded ; and so did se. mi!ar efforts on my behalf. I cannot here detail the wo lf ' derful accuracy with which she related, without ant PI: sible knowledge of my life ten and twenty years ego, t' w circumstances of the origin and progress of my illshealtbe of the unavailing use of medical treatment for five Se'n arid the operation of mesmerismanon it of late. 0 Ride fact will serve our purpose better. Soria a!t-r ~11: was first mesmerised, I was undergoing my final severs ance from opiates—a serious matter to one who had de' pended so long and so desperately upon them. As I hal said, I got through the day pretty well ; but the Iti, ht i ; were intolerAle, trom pain and nervous irritations, 0.111 e.. mads it impossib le such nights I-believe my mesmerist'sfortituda arid my own would have ' given way together, and v°, (s should have brousht the laudanum bottle to light , g 3lll but for the bright idea, ' Let us ask J r She said at one: what my sufferings had been, and declared that I ` heel's sleep more and more by degrees, if I took—what was a d. contrary to her own ordinary ideas of what was right an i f rational ideas of right as to mine—ale at dinner, and a wine glass of brandy in water at night. I refused the prescription till reminded—' Remember,. she has never be n wrong.' I obeyed ; the fact being keit secret be tweenknow- us two, in order to try, every evening, J.'s ledge and opinion. She always spoke and advised. in a confident familiarity with incidents known only to sr; t" and carried me steadily through the struggle. r lost o In!, tr miseries, and recovei e til l , d my sleep, night by night , the end of the week,.l was quite well, without stonlinr, d i. sedative. Nothing can be more remote from J:s ur the nary knowledge and thought than the - structure of „.- human body, and the remedies for disease;. a n d though was well aware bow common the exercise-of this kind of insi.ht is in sonambutes—how it is used abroad as art auxiliary to medical treatment — l was not less surprised by the restainesA and peremptoriness with which a person in J.'s position, declared, and gave directions about things which she is wholly ignorant of an hour - after, and was, dining the whole of her life before." Wr relate the statements given by Miss Martineau as, briefly as possible without giving an opinion as to- their corrector ss. The ahove certainly is very curious, and not less so. is the circumstance she relates of children under mesmeric influence haying the power to discourse about the Scriptures without having any previous knowledge , them, if only mesmerised by a clergyman!' The patio' stet d in the tout se of a sleep, that the light she saw wag beyond whnt was seen on earth, that it was produced ht the three powers of the soul, the mind, and the vital powers of the body. She then stated that the mind' dieai the body died, but the soul lived. being self-existentr an ' independent of either. Being asked the relation of the soul to God after this statement. the patient was- Owe what perplexed-, but.said it was by him reunited to some what body, at the same time expressiag a strong mesm , ric tit belief in this truth. This point is fortunately, we OW': carried no further, the mesmerist, at the critical mom ea t '' changing the ideas of his patient, a faculty on his Par t; which to us is about the most wonderful in the vrin, process. Miss Martineau herself relates that the girl been talking about the day of judgment--a fact which tiff, easily account for all her dreams- and perplexities, r ode' ; pendent of mesmerism or anything else. Several e t '' a wonderful revelations of this patient are relate/ but 0 have given enough to show that Miss Martineau is doli n g,' which some of our readers will no doubt consider to n " new characteristic of the lady. ------------ 'BETTS'S. PATENT BRANDY.—We understard tha te -- th adoption of the Patent Metallic Capsules, by. the Messr s. Betts, cf . Smi•hfield-bars, London, as a means of P I T, teeing their Paten. Brandy, when bottled; has b" en a fte tended with the most perfect success. Public. confider, has been, thereby, universally established, in the pur l '' healthful! es:, and general superiority of tlis nati , e fir" ,, : duction; irrespective of the enormous saving in price , a; c mowed with the only article that can fairly-rival best Cognac. NAPOLEON BCONAPART,E. — His fate furnishes a r e : markahle instance of the instability of human greatuea'' and there is ma doubt that his dislike to- me di c i ne re motelf caused his early dissolution •, for rather than take son ° simple remedy he allowed disease to gain the asc endanci t n , wee his constitution, an d d eat h was t h e retai l t . Thus i f is that persons cannot be t oo wa t c hf u l o f t h e i r state "c health, and being always pro v id e d w ith a sa f e a nd effie , ,e4 medicine, such as F ram pt on ' s Pill o f fleall—enjoY„ ',„" two greatest bles s in gs of thi s wor ld, h ea lth an d Jong —See advt. INJURY FROM Smotot.—TheClay, in Ws 11 2, port on the sattatory condition of Preston, says that the,rt; are only two instances in which the smoke generated t o the factories in that town is consumed; and he calculate.„ that if the proprietors of all the factories of the town w to adopt the practice of consuming their smoke, a sa c o l in the washing of clothing would take place at the rat e li . Id. per head per week. which would amount to .£`2o B D o ear week, or £10,450 4e. per year. But the saving in i a Borough of L-eds, reckoning it only a halfpenny per be li e upon the population, would amount to £312 Ns. ro week, and £16.250 per year, or a sum nearly equal tot , ' now paid annually for borough rates. The TEETH have ever been considered as forming ° ,. 11 ,„ ° of the most pleasing ornaments of the human coon :is nance. and their preservation demands our utmost cu e and attention. Indeed , if th ere b e any l oss that In i g particularly affects the countenance than another , 9 1 , , that of the Teeth ; w hi c h th e D ent i s t, h owever ingen' a 'ial mu , t ever v a i n ly h o p e sa ti s f ac t or ily t o rep l ace by at tifico contrivance. The DECAY of the TEETH and G ij 'be arises from various causes •, hut, principally, it tre o tll attributed to early neglect, ill. health, or the use of Igo Powders containing mineral substances and d e letello acids, which give tempos whiteness to the Teeth , W ei. they corrode the enatne To this fact, indeed, IS P ri h n iCh pally to be attributed t e lone Botanical Research , W'' ver r was happily termina A by the most felicitous dis ci ; t o ever given to the world for the PRESERVATION ZIYS TEETH, GUMS, And BREATH. •viz.—RONVLA a r ea ODONTO, or PEARL DENTRIFICE. P re ltell from Oriental Herbs with unusual care, and tran'tn, l , i. to this country fet great expence, ROWLAND'S 0n° 1 % ... n - ti' no less distin 'u fished for its powerfully dotal, and p rifying virtues, in immediately ar re l :, t ir6 eerie* or d ay in the Teeth, than for its s timti t ' ile ir efficacious, t i f) % properties i fixing them (when loose) firmly in , ,to / sockets, an in giving a healthy redness and firtnne c s ose the Gums. Its corrective properties are in P 3 r" .....0 most pleasingly displayed in respect to the Bn which it imparts a sweetness and fragrance not , - , 1 f r it. gratifying to is possessor. 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