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Eittrature. NOTICES NES AND SERTA d were not a delightful " Day in ely little examined by rotation an article " the title of which Jerusal. " Basing a the last of which we .eem destined to fill in elish his- page of ,nstrates the inutility of .1 evil. " Sam Slick" voluutar has anot Outlines of her railway I `• Si: s of matter, w of a new hist Georg( isplays great research in which much of the harm of novelty at the same time it denudes it of much History of the Captivity of Napoleon In " Ben Nevis sit to the romant and glens of Scotland ancho the Bullfighter Le illustrative of Spani: =lensed translation of a + id manners. by M. TI hile Gautier, the feitilletonist. )hysical paper, entitled " Reid The Dublin. 'ty Magazine Contains many articles of interest, with, of course, a good sprinkling of nationality. Air. Carleton has the happy knack of throwing off, with a practised hand, sketches of the past peculiarly fitted to the passing events of the pre sent time; his " Irish Election in the time of the For- rent t, tion the conclusion of in the mountains of Arca troduced to a classic company o and their hoary-headed cap mountain tain., Go find ;ed in transatlantic of America and its Realiti a diges of much value Natural H of Bores. By Angus B. Reach The author of thi performance of a tas' muting a• succession THE AIAGA London : D. Bogue die hal_ is talented trite succeeded in the ;k of no mea • r culty—that of trans ;of bores • o a pleasing source of en- . - tertamment. As the con nation of a series, though not by the same author is little production lacks none of the piquancy of it redecessors :we like it better than The illu rations are numerous and effective : ho figure in most of our theatres are gether it is a cheap shilling's-worth, the gossiping gents hit off to the life. Alto Hoyg's Weekly Instructor, _Part XXIX. Edinburgh 41 a11...G0 before spoken highly o is periodical, as inch interesting a instructive matter. ed for all classes it is calculated to find its )ok-shelf of t humblest cottager, whose wledge can ly be gratified by the perusal ve ich are supplied at a price corn- This part is accompanied ith thetvfneans. ph of M. Chalmers 'CHES OF A TRIP TO THE CONTINENT, ITALY, AND EGYPT. BY EDWI No. XIN Men for the Liverpool Standard.) Naples for Sicily., I visited the Palace a extraordinary viaduct in its vicinity. a brief description of these magnificent struc hich no stranger should leave Naples without visiting, I will just give a hint to travellers upon the subject of companionship, and personal danger from taking up with strangers that may casually be met wits en route. My lift years-and-a-half's voyage :—first, by the unfeeling cru elty of my Bostonian hare-lipped little demon, a very fit companion for Fenimore Cooper's travelling voyager, the Ogre ;—secondly, by a Creole, woolly headed, dark souled arid complexioned, fell-like satyr ;—thirdly, by an Arab, who was afterwards bastinadoed for insulting the Consul at -Alexandria. But even these were rare exceptions to the very many agreeable companions, English, Irish, and Scotch, I had the pleasure to travel, associate, and since correspond with. When we visited the tomb of Virgil, surrounded by wild fig-trees and roses, where we saw a cowled monk with a face like Dante, and listened to the rumbling of carriages through the grotto of Posileppo, like to the roaring of a distant sea,—even here, amidst these sublime associations, my Yankee chum grudged a penny to the cicerone 1 Many persons might here ob serve, Why travel with so very disagreeable a person ? My reply is, I have as great a horror as ever Alexander Selkirk had of being, living, and travelling alone ; and as we were bound from Rome, vial Naples, to Sicily, companionship with any creature that spoke one's native tongue was better than going with nothing heard or spo- Before leavin as in danger three time during my two- cab from Naples to Cteserta, thirteen miles, together. Eleven of these miles were traversed through a beautiful country, and during the two hours my Bostonian friend only favoured me with a monosyllable of two letters— " No." Still I consoled myself with the thought, that Quakers were taciturn ; that he was an original character, a subject like the " last man", worthy of study ; so I ejaculated, " Patience, 0 my soul !" The approach to the Palace Cmserta slightly resembles that to Hampton Court Palace, near Richmond; but its colossal lions, four horses, three huge marble figures, and lofty gates, are.very superior to any of our palaces, except „c - . 3:_t marble staff 3111 a vast hall, are very superb, and, I should think, unequalled in the world. Over the vast landing-place, a lofty, magnificent dome is supported by five octagonal groups of fluted marble Co rinthian pillars. The saloons and apartments extending round the vast quadrangle are far superior to those of Versailles. Gigantic frescoed figure _ .dorn the walls and ceilings with exquisite designs of fauns, birds, animals of every tribe; most beautiful ceilings, decorated by Fias chetti with designs of the chace, buntings, fishing, shoot- el,gant imitations of the chambers at Herculaneum and Pompeii. The large mirrors, marble figures of Jupiter, Juno, Mars, Venus, Apollo, &c., were exquisite. The harmony peryading the whole design, the chapel so gor geously decorated, the library in the Etruscan style, the aeatre, the ,R./1114,11AG uV MOM,. VlllO F01../04.,,, Ul/1.1 tit LLLLL IS ay.. - hundreds of rooms, a wonder of the world of art. One large saloon, decorated profusely with gold, and elegant, various-coloured marbles, exhibiting rich emblematical figures of Justice and Force, was well worthy admiration; nor were the grounds, the gardens, the preserves of phea . :o Regina, as we mained long on deck, to watch the fading Vesuvius and the luminous sparklings and flashings from our paddle wheels. A poor little wearied martin took shelter among the rigging, and attracted much attention by fluttering round the steamer all the next day, until near the island, when it flew away like Apollyon, in the Pilgrim's Pro gress, and we saw it no more. Comfortable night's rest, we were deck by 8 a.m.. '• the pictures by Mengs, should not be passed too slightly over. But all this splendour, this magnificence, this one the chief among five palaces in the Neapolitan dominions, where, it is truly said, the King has five palaces, with thousands of gorgeous apartments, at the same time that two hundred thousand of his subjects have not a blanket to cover them at night But the ignorance of the people creates the tyranny and luxury of the monarch. In a villaze near this superb palace, the women work as brick- We Proceeded from this luxuriant abode of royalt3 rough a palt irprised me v down, N ruinous t him. (From Hogg's Weekly d we have eaten nothing it impulse of the mome thin and pale, anti her garments astreless eye brightened that his overcoat was buttor " It is too much trouble,' wind is very cu titute:it The gi tatteri The man 1 was to go c Her face was maids his pocket, in e saw the act, and her ,ad forgot " and thi are usually 11 take care of yOu knocked at the door of richly cu word, and die* her But a tear i)oe3y, and id the in- g form the next c T, soon thing. She ares that reception , through whose more wretched by ed aqueduct ! We T LIE LIV ERPOOL STANDARD. . .- • . _ .. .. ck, to watch the fading Vesuvius and 4 BORES. A GALLOP OVER THE ARCADIAN MOUNTAINS. THE ;hugs and flashings from our paddle- (From the Dublin University Magazine.) le wearied martin took shelter among (From the Natural History of " Bores," by Angus B. ~ Xanthi," said Spiro, speaking for the first time in a The Court is still at I ttracted much attention by fluttering Reach.) low, smothered voice. Wight, where the Grand 11 the next day, until near the island, FEMININE BORES—THE BLUE. "I am here, quite alive," said the poor little bride, staying on a visit to Her ] like Apollyon, in the Pilgrim's Pro- Miss Lucretia Lutestring—well known in the literary who was half bewildered with terror. on Wednesday included no more. After a dreamy, but not un- circles—is a " wild, impulsive, gushing thing" (see her " Xanthi mou! we must escape ;if we stay here till Brunow, the Ea r l a nd Co rest, we were all promenading the " Ode on Maidenhood ") of forty an d s ome odd y ears . morn i ng we s h a ll certa i n l y per i s h." ston, Lord Jocelyn, &c. ,odly, cheerful company. What much Her mission on earth is to " strike the lyre of poesy"—a " Oh, Spiro, thrice beloved ! they may kill me, but I THE QUEEN'S VISIT T e brilliant transparency of the water ; destiny which she fulfils by covering sheets of highly- will not see you die ;" and the young wife threw her poor Prince Consort intend to sr tunny species, three or four fathoms scented paper with multitudinous stanzas, traced in light weak arms around him, as though she could have de- Albert yacht, at an early our steamer, although going at ten blue ink by the gossamer touches of a crow-quill. Miss fended him. their excursion to Scotian( wonderful velocity and apparent ease. Lucretia Lutestring is something of a fine woman run to " Better to try to escape than wait to be murdered to- jesty will sail round the L ...- o .—._____. seed. She gives her friends to understand that her in- morrow. Listen, Xanthi," continued the young man, coast. She is expected to RICH MERCHANT. tellect devours her. She is the very focus of consuming unclasping her clinging arms from his neck, "do you have been made for pilotim MRS. JANE WEAV ER . passion, and a species of rendezvous and house-of-call hear that ?" across Caern arvon B ar , 1 for blighted hopes and quenched aspirations. Miss Xanthi listened, and heard on the opposite side of the Her Majesty will thus ap; rogg's Weekly Instructor.) Lutestring also states that she is " the Sappho of this well a sound like that of a horse champing his bit, and of Liverpool. Her Maje, northern clime," and has repeatedly affirmed in heroic, pawing the ground from time to time. Isle of Man on Sunday n , ;ht, and the streets were nearly de- elegiac, Spenserian, and other stanzas, that her blood is " That is Effendi, who is there in his stable," said Spiro; gress from the Menai Stra specially as it was snowing fast. A not blood, but " lava "—a physiological fact, which in- for by this title the villagers spoke of the Aga's favourite stoners of harbours was h vever, might have been seen wrapped duces us to breathe the sincere hope that the burning horse; " and look, here is the garden-gate close at hand, Gill, of the mail steamer urging his way against the tempest, torrent may never escape in any species of cutaneous half open—nothing could be so easy as to slip in gently, as pilot on the occasion. him lamps. Suddenly, as he passed a eruption. Miss Lucretia Lutestring, being by profession and bring him out here." ception of her •Majesty ai ,he figure of a girl started up before a poetess, is much given to contemplating the flies on the "To bring him out here ?" echoed Xanthi, wonderingly. that Earl Grey will be a N ceiling, rolling her eyes so that her friends dread that " Yes," to bring him out, and mount him, and dash Queen during her Majestl d she, "If it's only a penny—mother they may one day roll out of their sockets, and likewise through the midst of these infidel murderers, and perhaps fers extremely from sickne eaten nothing to day." to hitting herself desperate slaps on the forehead—all of be saved after all, light of my eyes !" to be excused, but as ther which her husband stifled-b. placing his hand on her 14 " she murmured, in a " But they would all pursue us more suppressed tone. " Well, they would all pursue us ; but have you never seen with what wings Effendi flies over the plain when the Aga rides him ? We shall be mounted before he or his people find out, they are all so occupied with the Bey's The young peasant already made a movement to put his project into execution, for it seemed to the bold-spirited Mainote not altogether impracticable, to ride at such a pace towards the mountains as should enable them to reach their shelter in safety ; but Xanthi clung to his arm— " Oh, stay, Spira mou! Think what the Aga will say when he finds we have stolen his horse !" " Sevseka !" (little fool) said her husband, half laugh ing, " and where shall we be to care for his anger ?" " True ! but then there is always the Panagia! oh, my husband, what will she think of us if we steal ?" " Now, Xanthi," said Spiro, angrily ; " I put it to you. When the Panagia has to judge between a vile, unbeliev ing lurk, and a good Christianos, which of the two is she likely to favour ?" Xanthi bowed her head in silence, for this seemed very conclusive; besides, no Greek wife ever dreams of oppos ing her husband's authority, and Spiro, rising with deter mination, though stealthily, said firmly— ment I appear. Ido not say it is not a terrible risk, but anything is better than to wait in this hole to be slaughtered." He left her side as he spoke, and, shivering with dread, she watched him by the light of the rising moon as he crept along beneath the shade of the wall, and disappeared within the garden of the Aga. He had rightly calculated that the noise and confusion, caused by the presence of the illustrious visitor, would enable him to accomplish his bold theft unperceived, and in a few minutes he returned, leading out the beautiful animal, ready bridled, as the Turkish horses always are, day and night. Xanthi in stantly stole through the brushwood, and stood by his side ; but when they prepared to mount, Effendi began to show his mistrust of their proceedings, by various capenngs and boundings, quite sufficiently noisy to at tract the attention of the soldiers on the opposite side of the tower ; Spiro instantly threw his arm round the neck of the grceful Arabian, and began to whisper in his ear —that strange and unaccountable method by which all who are acquainted with the secret can tame at once the most fiery horse in eastern countries ! It produced its effect instantaneously. Effendi stood quiet as a lamb, and Spiro vaulted lightly on his back ; he then held out his hand to Xanthi, who showed her Mainote blood in the flashing eye and glowing cheek, which proved how completely her womanish fears had given way before the excitement of the moment ; placing her little foot on that of her husband, with one bound she sprung up behind him, and sat firm as a rock, grasping him round the waist. Effendi tossed his head at the unwonted burden, and showed no disposition to move. Stooping down, Spiro suddenly seized his ear between his teeth, and bit it with considerable violence. At once stung with the pain, the horse bounded into the air, then reared right up, and remained stiff and almost erect, till the young man re leased his hold, when instantly, with glaring eye and dilated nostril, giving one shake to his glossy mane, the magnificent Arab fairly took the bit between his teeth, and wildly darted from the spot, shooting over the plain with an arrow-like swiftness, which altogether took away the breath of the riders. They made no attempt to guide him, having quite enough to do to keep their seats, and he began by carrying them right thrmigh the midst of the soldiers, like a very flash of lightning, trampling some under foot, and bounding over the heads of the others. The amazement of the Turks may be conceived, when this flying vision suddenly passed before their eyes —scarce seen before it was far away, careering on with incredible speed. Those whose horses were at band mounted in the vain attempt at pursuit. In an instant the air was filled with the flashing of the musketry, and the balls were raining round the young lovers, as, cling ing to each other on the back of the winged steed, they sped on and on through the darkness. The tremendous pace at which they were going utterly bewildered them ; all things seemed to whirl round with them ; they could discern nothing clearly ; the stars appeared to rush madly over their heads; the rocks and the trees fled past them like visions. Soon the voices of their pursuers died ut terly away, and the shot ceased to drop around them. They were in the mountains now—the wild, lone moun tains ; but the child of the desert, drunk( with the fresh his mad Career, seemed now to redouble his speed, if it were possible, and flew like a shot up the steep hill-side, while his feet struck a train of fire behind him ! They had no power to avert his reckless course, even had they wished it, nor even to moderate his terrible ardour. On, Mazeppa-like, they race, panting, breathless on the wings of the wind, over stones and brushwood, and through the wild ravine. The landscape reels around them—the cliffs and the crags whirl past—the trees of the forest seem to melt into air; now they dash through a torrent, blind with the foam ; now they rise over a towering rock ; now plunge into a cleft in the wild, dark mountain ! Once Spiro would have cried out in horror, had he had time or breath, for he saw that they were approaching a terrible precipice, caused by a deep rent in the cliff, that gaped gloomy and wide, with a great river raging beneath, but the desert-born paused but one moment on the brink of the abyss, and gathered his feet together like a cat about to leap on his prey, then, with one bound, he sprung over the terrible gulf, and dashed on through the forest of pine beyond. It seemed to the palpitating. gasping riders, as though their flight lasted for hours, and so in truth it did; but they could take no account of time, thus darting through - the air, and when at last Spiro succeeded in abating the speed of the horse, and, finally, arresting him altogether, they found themselves in the very heart of the most savage mountains of Arcadia, where, perhaps, never foot of man had trodden before. THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO THE CLYDE, &c (From the Constitutional.) y to-day to be enabled to confirm the state- highest c money to soma in lond said sox: u are really des- s of the poor or you: it fined windows a rosy light streamed out across the storm. A servant obsequiously gave him entrance. At the sound of his footstep the parlour door was hastily opened, and a beautiful girl, apparently about seventeen, sprang into his arms, and kissed him on each cheek, and then began to assist him in removing his over• stay so late at i her c laggy, can the supper to be served. It was just such a one as an epicure might de light in, just the supper for a traveller on a night like that a give some supper he bell, and order( said the daughter when it was finished, " I hope in good humour, for I have a favour to ask of threw her arms round his neck, and looked. \at winning smile and those beau " I wish to give a ball on my my eighteenth birthday. It will cost, oh ! a but you are a kind; good papa, and I know you have been successful, or you would not have been at your lawyer's." . _ you are UP into his face with ti tiful dark eyes of hers. birthday sight of money " Yes, my darting," he said, fondly kissing her cotton speculation has turned out well. I sold all of the article this afternoon, received the money, and took ! do, do, papa. Blit you will give me this ball— won't you YOu little t ingly ; an took out a id the Ind in his ther, but he spoke smil- s not enough you must have another, I suppose. But ut it any mor urffire clear, but the snow was a foot veep on the level, and here and there lay in huge drifts, blocking up the doorways. At ten o'clock, the rich mer thant was on his way to his counting-room. He turned wn the same street up which he bad come the preced- A crowd had gathered round the open cellar door of a ruined tenement. The merchant paused to in quire what was the matter. " A woman, sir, has been found dead below there," said one of the speculators. " She starved to death, it is said, and they have sent for the coroner. Her daughter has just come back. after being out all night. I believe be was bP- ,e next ing evening ld a pang went through ng. That's her moanin , iihe merchant ; petitioner the night before. He pushed through he crowd and descended the cellar steps. • A girl cowered over an emaciated corpse that lay on a heap of straw, in one corner of the damp apartment. It was the same girl he had feared it would prove. The merchant was horror struck. "My poor child !" he said, laying his hand on her and he put a denying you last night ! Here, take this bill into her Land. The girl looked up and gazed vacantly at him she put back the proffered money. "It will do nogood now," she said, " mother is dead," and she burst into hysteric tears ; and the merchant, at that moment, would have given half his fortune to have recalled her to life. The lesson thus learned he never forgot. - The merchant personally saw that a decent burial was provided for the mother, and afterwards took the daughter into his house, pectable station in life 2d, on her ith a proper dowry. He lived to Oren lisp their gratitu LETTING LAND IN IRELAND. — The Farrells were an ancient family, originally wealthy ; but somehow the estate, though retaining its full amount of acreage, was becoming, as men said, more a nominal than a real pro perty. It was well eaten into by all sorts of claimants ; and though its ring fence, as was the boast of the owner, remained unbroken, yet it rather resembled a curiously preserved old cheese, with a nest of mortgagee mice for ever preying upon its entrails. The land was let and sub let to the extent of three or four removes between the owner and the occupier ; and the rent having to be filtered ponges, flowed into - the landlord's through so many originally set forth. But this was the custom of the coun try : it saved trouble and obliged friends. The squire let the land to his Triend the squireen, over a bottle of claret ; the squireen let it again to his friend the attorney, over a jug of punch ; the lawyer let it to Tim Mahoney, or Jack Lynch, or Pat Murphy ; who finally retailed it out in small patches to the actual holders ; who again divided their portions with their sons ' when they married and settled. Was there ever such a system 'as this in any other country ? In Ireland, however, it is the case with . - DR. CnaLmEtts.—A hundred pens have already leaped into a hundred inkbottles to celebrate the mighty Chris tian apostle and champion ; let one be taken up to set forth the man as he was, morally and intellectually. His nature was so rich and so thoroughly noble, as to carry everything before it, even where there was no strong thy wi loving him. The peculiarity of character in which lay his power of attaching the hearts, and commanding the wills, of other men, was independent of his particular specula tive opinions. if he had never adopted those convictions upon the subject of religion which inspired all the latter part of his career, but had continued to hold to the end :h which he began it, his faculties ILIIISLIL •••• exercise, and he would probably have made much less noise, and exerted a much less extensive influence, in the world. But he would not have been less the delight of a narrower circle, nor would he have wielded an ascendancy less marked over the few'than he has done over the many. His ardent temperament, however, - would certainly have driven him into the positive and the practical in some other direction; for his soul was as little fitted to find either sustenance or rest - in the region of mere negation Fraser's kBITS OF 'THE' PELICAN A. dozen or more are jng wing over the sea, the long neck , so that the beak seems to protrude breast. Suddenly, a little ruffling of the water eir attention ; and, with wings half closed, down flying on hc soul drinking in the mysteries of nature' yearning towards the ab nately and eternally true Miss Lutestring takes poetic views of ev actedly beautiful, is very angry at An railroads, and dec taken the romance out of the country—as if romance lay in rutty roads, broad-wheel wagons, and the capes of coachmen's coats. The world as it at present unhappily exists, she declares, is unworthy of the presence of a soul glowing with poetic fire. She would, an she could, frame it anew, and the folloiing would be some of her mate rials—her chaos. Take of silvery tones,—fleeting spirits,—airy voices, —moonlight sleeping on banks, —butterflies' wings,- -mermaids,—sylphs,—moonlit glades,—fairy-like music,—whispering willows, —purling fountains, —nod ding ,forests,—elfin revelry,—clustering flowers,—and heaven knows how many similar ingredients—mix them well up together, and garnish with longing hopes,— truthful aspirations,—glowing vows,—and beating hearts. The result will be a universe warranted correct, ideal, and fairy-like. echoes, Miss Lucretia Lutestring is therefore a woman of mind —a creature whose soul soars above this dull globe, and its mouldy, dusty, cobwebby, and ignolale doings. In a her own The " Thing of beauty" always has her hair in papers, and a hole in the heel of her stockings. Although aerial and elfin in her nature, she has been known to dine on beefsteaks, and sup on toasted cheese. It is a popular error to suppose that she drinks nothing but dew out of an acorn. The nearest approach she ever made to it was drinking " mountain dew" out of a dram glass. Miss Lutestring has little in common with the " strong minded woman," already satisfactorily disposed of. In some points, however, they coincide—as in utter and dense ignorance of those thousand homely duties and sweet usehold ministerings, which make the hearth the altar, and the homestead the temple, of that glorious divinity—Domestic Love ! Miss Lucretia Lutestring SHE CANNOT Write an of Or a sonne Or a song oft; he fairies. Nor go to market, Or a chaunt of the mermaids, Or a hymn to liberty, Or stanzas on a portrait, Or lines on my uncle's birthday, Or occasional verses, Or stanzas for music, Or an epic poem, Nor work a pair of slippers, Nor prattle loving nonsense, Nor make the hearth tidy, Nor dandle a baby, Nor carve a joint, Nor, alas! catch a husband. Great—poetic—soaring—creative—then, as Miss Lu cretia Lutestring's spirit may_ be, it wants those magic . . graces which convert woman's weakness into woman's strength. In her own sphere—by the hearth, in the home, she is naught. She may be clever, but, like many other clever people, she is—one of the " Bores." ON PHILOPROGENITIVE BOREISM In most of the domiciles of her Majesty's subjects there is a nursery. We have now to do with those domestic states in which the nursery governs the parlour, in which the little masters and misses exercise unrelenting tyranny over the mister and missus ; and in which all visi tors and strangers are forced to do homage to the juvenile oligarchy of the lollipop and the go-cart, " _ _ If yoti pay a foretiodn's visit to' one of these formidable habdatiors, - your rat-ta-tat from without will be respond ed to by a loud series of screams from within. You enter —there is a perfect inundation of babies about the house. The nursery has overflowed, and its contents are sprawl ing on staircase and lobby. The parlour will be found littered with toys. Johnny and Sukey will be seated on the rug, fighting for the last morsel of Gibraltar rock. for Ned will be cryinc , in the corner, where he has been de- posited, wit a foo: s cap, on accoun htiness. Sa- rah Jane, and Alick, (the twins,) will be howling out, in the true infant-school recitative, a lesson from the works of the immortal lyric poet, Watts, beginning— while mamma, in morning gown and curl papers, will be dressing Petsey, rocking Baby Bib's cradle, teaching Sa rah Jane and Alick, scolding Ned, and screaming to Johnny and Sukey to hold their tongues, all in a breath. The call—a very short one —over, the unhappy visitor is dismissed; his mind improved by the reception of the fol. lowing important truths :—to wit, Ist.—That Charles is to have the first prize it the se- isle Grammar class Thursday. 3rd.—That Polly had her ears bored last week, and is to begin the piano next quarter. 4th.—That Peter is a bad boy, has broken three squares of glass, and won't take his physic._ th.-:That Sarah Jane aild - Alick (the twins) can read words of two syllables, and have thirteen hymns by [wart, each 6th.—That Johnny and Sukey go out every day with Susan in the park ;• but although the season is so warm, they have not yet left off flannel. -That Ned is such a cross child, you can't think. -That Petsey suffers so much, poor darling, from 7th Bth teething 9th.—And that baby Bib was vaccinated on Saturday, when it was the opinion of the doctor that he was, with out exception, the finest child he ever saw—•and the image of his father. A dinner party at a house of this class is not to be lightly ventured. It will be a mercy if you have not the whole of the infantry, rank and file, perched on little chairs, with little knives and forks—screaming, now for beef, anon for pudding—making grabs at the dishes with their little soft greasy paws ; and being ultimately remo- duct, and re-introduced up - on promises of amendment— all through dinner time. If the Bore of Philoprogenitive ness has not gone to such an awful length as this, still you will assuredly be deluged by the juvenile flood the mo ment the cloth is withdrawn. Then comes the grand ex hibition of the children, considered as works of art. First choly rite performed, the elder olive branches will crate attention. Peter, Alick, Johnny, and Ned will drink to the healths of the company individually, and seriatim, in half glasses of port. Thus— Please, Mr. Brown, your good health. Peter. }Please, Mr. Jones, your good health. Please, Mr. Smith, your good health, &c., and so on by the other juveniles in turn. A little scholastic fete is next grovided for the delecta- tion of the guests. " You'll be astonished says the was the Spanish Armada defeated ? Answer, very promptly—" By John of Gaunt." Dismissal of Peter with disgrace to bed. " Ah, but," says papa, there's Johnny now—that child's aptitude for arithmetic is really a very curiou thine. Jol JOhnny is instantly rewarded with another half-glass of wine. Examination resumed. " And if 1 buy - a herring and a half," &c., Si owed Queen, accompanied by Prince Albert, will honour the Clyde with a visit in a very few days. Some time since Mr. James Burns (of the firm of G. and J. Burns), was officially requested to furnish information regarding the west coast, and Mr. Burns accordingly furnished to head quarters a sketch of the various localities which were wor thy of a visit from the Sovereign. Soon after Mr. David Hutcheson, of the above firm (the same gentleman who lately accompanied the Grand Duke Constantine of Russia in his aquatic tour), proceeded to London, and thence, )rogress i upon_ special invitation, to Osborne House, to give further shall now lay before the reader On the 13th instant, her Majesty will leave Osborne House in one of the Royal yachts, accompanied by the Royal squadron. The fleet will, of course, come round by the Land's End, and will only sail during the daytime, s always anchoring at night the Queen remaining on he presen arrangement (anc Majesty will visit the Frith of Clyde, and may be expected there upon Tuesday, the 17th cuarent. The Royal squadron will then sail to Greenock ; and her Majesty would be most desirous to go to Dumbarton, and sail up Lochlornond, were it not for the risk of bustle and con fusion amongst the steamers and other vessels in so nar- THE COURT. The Court is still at Osborne House, in the Isle of Wight, where the Grand Duke Constantine, of Russia, is staying on a visit to Her Majesty. The royal dinner party on Wednesday included the Grand Duke, the Baron de "f Wilton. Lord Palmer- ston, LOrd Jocelyn, &c. THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO SCOTLAND.—The Queen and Prince Consort intend to sail from Cowes in the Victoria and it yacht ^t - at an early hour on Thursday morning, on ,heir excursion to Scotland. It is understood that her Ma jesty will sail round the Land's End and along the Welsh She is expected to visit Milford, and arrangements been made fOr piloting the vessels of the royal squadron across Caernarvon Bar, and through the Menai Straits. Her Majesty will thus approach within s a few hours' sail _ Liverpool. ,Majesty is expected also to visit the Isle of Man on Sunday next the 15th instant, on her pro gress from the Menai Straits. A meeting of the commis sioners of harbours was held on Wednesday, and Captain Gill, of the mail steamer Tynwald, was appointed to act as pilot on the occasion. Other arrangements for the re ception of her •Majesty are in progress. It is understood that Earl Grey will be a very reluctant attendant upon the Queen during her Majesty's voyage. The noble lord suf fers extremely from sickness, when at sea, and prayed hard to be excused, but as there was no - other Secretary of State at liberty to attend the Sovereign during her Majesty's ab sence from .the seat of Government, his Lordship has no alternative but to submit quietly to his hard fate Orntrat - -.0.-- Within two days last week, no fewer than five persons were found drowned in the Thames. The Bank of England, on Thursday, raised the mini mum rate of discount to 52 per cent. On Tuesday a fashionably-dressed female threw herself from a steamer into the Thames, and was drowned. In the window of an inn near St. Martin's-court, Lon don, is an announcement of " The celebrated Jenny Lind cordial from the original receipt, 24. a glass." Prince Albert has contributed . £250 Co the fund which it is proposed to raise for the purchase of Shakspeare's house. Mr. Augustus Stafford O'Brien, M.P., has obtained the Queen's permission to bear in future the name of Mr. Augustus Stafford only. Nuts are said to be Unusually plentiful this year; and in some places the trees are literally covered with clusters,— In the Frencl]i Chamber of Peers on Monday, M. Guizot went so far as to quote " Tom Jones," to show what strange doings may take place at an English election. ham, in consequence of children playing with lucifer matches in an outhouse, The price of bread has again been reduced in London. The 41b. loaf, finest quality, is selling at 7d, to Bd. ; household, 51d to 64d. The announcement of the death of the Hon. and Rev. G. Spencer, which appeared in several of the papers, and was copied into the STANDARD last week, is erroneous. The Gazette of Tuesday notices the appointment of Lord John Russell, Sir C. Wood, Bart., Viscount Ebring ton, W. G. Craig, Esq., H. Rich, Esq., and R. M. Bel lew, Esq., as Lords of the Treasury. The late Duke of Northumberland's personal and funded property within the province of Canterbury alone, has been valued at £160,000, and the executors have paid to the Stamp-office the duty of £2,100 on the probate.. • On Wednesday, a Court of Directors was held at the East India House„ when the Earl of Dalhousie was ap pointed Governoi.-General of India, and Major-General Sir Henry Pottinger, Bart., G.C.8., Governor of Madras. IMPORTATION OF LOBSTERS.—A vessel has arrived at Gravesend, with an entire cargo of Lobsters, from Bergen, in Norway, and has also brought three horses, an unusual article of import from that country. An explosion of gas took place in a vessel lying in the Bute Docks, at Cardiff, on Sunday week, originating in the spontaneous ignition of coals in the hold. The deck of the vessel was much injured. _ _ PRICE OF WHEAT.—Such is the prospect of an abun dant harvest, that this week a farmer, in the neighbour hood of Clevedon, offered to sell 400 bushels of wheat at 7s. per bushel.—Bristol Journal. The Duke of Wellington visited the Bosjesmans at the Egyptian Hall on Tuesday, and was highly pleased at the antics of these singular people of the bush, the gipsies (as they may be termed) of South Africa. SIR HARRY SMITH.—A correspondent who signs him self in the Times " One who is in earnest," offers to give £lOOO if a subscription be raised for a substantial testi monial to this gallant officer—the Hero of Alliwal. The season for grouse shooting commences on Thursday next, with every prospect of affording excellent sport. Numerous parties of gentlemen are daily passing through this town on their way to the Highlands. Yesterday evening week some men in the employ of Mr. Quihampton, of Little Totham, Essex, after lighting their pipes, it is believed, dropped some lucifer matches, which, being trodden upon, ignited the corn, and ten sheaves were burnt to ashes. SUDDEN DEATH.—As Mr. J. Pilcher, of Crabble, was returning from the polling booth at Charlton, after giving his vote at the Dover election, he was seen to stagger in crossing a field, and instantly fell and expired.—Canter bury Journal of Saturday. On Friday a boy, who resides at Roxby, in Kent, placed in his mouth a small stone, which, while he was running with great speed, slipped into his windpipe, where it still remains ; and it is feared the accident will prove fatal. The Rev. Whitworth Russell, nephew of the Premier, and one of the visiting inspectors of Milbank Prison, ;p 4 onclinframe of mind for several days previously The Dimes of Friday has a low , article On the Navigation Laws, the evident tendency of which is to show that con siderable modification may be made in them without in jury to our commercial marine. We hope, however, that our contemporary's anticipations will not prove correct. Lord Farnham has given every tenant who has paid the one-half of the rent due last November a receipt for the full amount. Since the famine first set in, this excellent nobleman has never been a day absent from Farnham, where his whole time has been employed in alleviating the distregs of the people. STATISTICS OF COMMITTALS.—From a parliamentary document printed within the last few days it appears that in the two years ending on the 31st of December, 1844, the committals on criminal charges numbered 56,133, and in the two subsequent years 49,410 ; thus showing a differ ence in the two years of 6,723 committals. At Newcastle 'assizes, on Friday week, Daniel M'Allum was tried for the manslaughter of a little boy, by causing him to drink a quantity of ardent spirit. As it appeared, however, that no evil intent could be proved against the man,—hei had given the boy a bottle of spirits, and told him to drink as much as he liked,—the judge stopped the case, and a verdict of acquittal was given. _ _ UNHEALTHFUL CALLINGS SWORD MAKING.—Mr. Morin has stated at the AcademS , of Sciences :—Amongst the numerous professions which shorten the duration of human life, that of the knife-grinder is one of the most murderous. In the sword manufactories of France, almost all the workmen die before the ages of forty or forty-five. Soldiers, it seems, are not all that fall by the sword. Miss Charlotte Haskell, a single lady of forty, was burnt to death on Sunday morning, at Salisbury, in her bedroom. Her father discovered the room in flames, with the door locked, when he went up to see what made her so long in preparing tor church. When the door was opened she was quite dead, and the whole room in flames. The cause of the fire is a mystery, but the young lady laboured at times under an aberration of intellect. EFFECTS OF DRUNKENNESS.—On Tuesday, a man aged 57 years, dressed in black and of a very respectable exterior, died in Lambeth workhouse from the effects of state of intoxication, and removed to the police station, and thence to the workhouse, where an immense quantity of spirits was drawn from him by the stomach pump. He died, however, without recovering from the stupor. On Tuesday week, just as the steamer Cardiff Castle was about to * sail from Glasgow, the boiler burst, and two of the passengers were seriously, if not dangerously scalded. The event caused, of course, the greatest consternation a woman, a German, named Rudolph, in the excitement of the moment, threw two, if not three, children—either her own or under her care—into the water ; but all were saved. IN THE NAVY A return published by lag. 10, ISI7. ASTONISHING FEATS.-Mr. R. Costes, the pedestrian, went through some most extraordinary feats at the New Market, Carmarthen, on Wednesday. He leaped over 100 hurdles, ten yeards apart, in 1i minutes and 20 seconds ; and picked up 50 eggs, one yard apart, with his mouth ; threw a side summerset with each egg in his mouth, and carried them singly to a basket without breaking any, in less than sixteen minutes. It will be fresh in the memory of our readers, that on the representation of a clergyman in Skye, Sir R. Peel, on the 29th of June, 1846, recommended to the Queen to 3w a pens: )n of £5O per annum on each of the two surviving - sisters of the late Sir John M'Caskill. As a further proof of the benevolence of our beloved Sove reign, her Majesty has ordered Lord John Russell to offer the amiable ladies in question an additional pension of £5O a year; so that the Misses M'Caskill will forthwith enjoy an annual pension of £lOO each. Apv.-4 THE CARLISLE POISONING CASE. — Sentence of death was passed upon John Thompson, at the Carlisle assizes, on Thursday, by the Lord Chief Baron, for the wilful murder of his wife, by administering poison. The prisoner has confessed his crime, though he loudly protested his innocence to the judge, and after the removal to the cell. He admits that the inferential against him was quite correct, and that he did administer the poison in order to get rid of one whom he had solemnly pledged himself to love and cherish. He says his mind is much relieved by this disburthenment ; and there is now no doubt that he will die a penitent. His execution is certain. RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—About one o'clock on Monday morning, the engine driver of the London mail train, a little out of.Carlisle, on the Lancaster and Carlisle Rail way, saw something lying on the line, when he let off the steam, and shouted out at the highest pitch of his voice, but the train passed over the substance. On the train stopping and the firemen and others returning, they found a man lying with one of his feet nearly crushed off. They put him into one of the carriages, and conveyed him to Penrith, where he was recognised to be John Sparks, who has been a gauger on the line since its commencement.. Faint hopes are entertained of his recovery. He was in a state of intoxication, and had laid down on the line and fallen asleep. MURDER AT GREENHITHE.—A man named Dawes, Et contractor on the London and Rochester railroad was riding to Dartford from Greenhithe on Saturday week, when, at a short distance from the latter place, his horse took fright at a man who was lying in a state of intoxica tion on the road. Angry words ensued betwen Dawes and the drunken man, which ended in the former dismounti as and commencing a brutal attack on the p oor fellow's head with the handle of his whip. After a very few blows (some say two or three) it was found the man was a corpse_ Dawes again mounted _ his horse and galloped away, but . r - was quickly followed by a mounted coa s t- guar d officer who was passing, and overtook him at Galley-hill, where he was taken into custody, and lodged in the lock-up at Dartford. DEATH OF CAPTAIN GEORGE MACLEAN. Captain Maclean, the husband of the late lamented L.E.L., closed his life at Cape Coast, in Africa, on the 22nd of May. " He was (says the Daily News) another of those useful and valuable men who unostentatiously and resolutely . serve their country in comparatively subordinate situa tions, but whose abilities, judgment, and decision would qualify them for the most distinguished posts." After serving in the Waterloo campaign, Captain Maclean wag draughted, after the peace, into the Royal African corps_ From his first entrance into that force, he appears to have devoted himself to the study of African life, habits, and customs, and he rendered signal services in retrieving the disastrous consequences of the Ashantee war, which at one time threatened our ancient forts on the Gold Coast. THE NATIONAL DEFENCES.-At Lewes election, 7 3fr. Hudson said that it was necessary to defend our coasts ; and communications had lately taken place on that subject between the Duke of Wellington and the government. Louis Philippe, the monarch of France, was now in a very infirm state of health. Immediately on his death a war was very likely to ensue between us and France. He therefore considered it necessary that the coast should be defended ; and the Duke of Wellington had represented to government that the coast ought to be defended with a line of armed steamers. The government had declined to ac cede to the proposition ; and the consequence was that his Grace had resigned the office of Lord Warden of the cinque ports, and now only held the office for six months, at the request of government. _ HEAVY FAILURE. - A heavy failure—the liabilities being rumoured to be between £200,000 and £3oo,ooo—was this morning announced on the Corn-Exchange. The firm is that of Messrs. Charles Douglas and Son, and the imme diate cause of the disaster has been the suspension of a house at Stockton-on-Tees (Sampson, Langdale and Co,), who were indebted to them to the extent of about £20,000. The general losses of the firm are attributed to injudicious advances, and not to direct speculation ; but it is feared that the accounts will prove very unfavourable, and that many similar parties, especially among the Irish houses, will be pulled down. About £lOO,OOO are alleged to be the liabilities of the parties at Stockton, with regard to whom it has been asserted that a rise of ss. in the corn market would enable them to pay 20s. in the pound.--. Times, of Saturday. RARE - COLLECTION OF BEES.—Mr. G. Whitworth, butcher of Carlton, near Worksop, on the 26th of June last, took 45 pounds of clear honey from one box;. and, on the 6th instant, 48 pounds more from a second box, in a collectoral hive, on Nutt's principle ; and it is sup posed by competent judges that there are 50 pounds weight of honey in a box and glass still remaining in the same hive. Mr. W. is well known to be a skilful adept in the management of bees, and has an extensive and va in-hie collection of hives. There arc a great number of spiral hives, judiciously arranged, in his extensive garden. It is really a pleasing and interesting sight to see the bees most industriously engaged in prosecuting their wonted task. All the spiral and collectoral hives are furnished with bell-glasses ; and of course the bees are at any time to be seen busily employed.—Nottingham Journal. FROST, WILLIAMS, AND JONES.—A letter has been received from Hobart Town, by a party in Monmouth, from which we have been favoured with the following ex tract, and whence it will be seen that they have uncon trolled liberty in Van Deiman's Land :—" I . saw the Chartists, Frost, Jones, and Williams, not long since. Williams is at New Norfolk, in good health, but unhappy ; wants to get to England ; he talked of opening a shop, if he does not hear favourable news soon from home. Jones is in partnership with a watchmaker name Dushame, a Frenchman, at Launceston, far better off then he ever was in England ; I saw him a few weeks since extrava gantly dressed. I believe Frost is living at Bagdad, some miles from here, with Greach and his wife. She keeps a very respectable boarding school there in the name of Mrs. Foster. They have all very great indulgences." FAILURES IN THE CORN TRADE.—The immediate result of the present aspect of affairs is the commence ment of some important failures this morning in the corn trade. One house, with very large involvements has stopped payment in Mark Lane ; and another is announced from Leeds, which it is stated will seriously affect a good many others engaged in the trade. In fact, confidence is so completely destroyed in Mark Lane that business has been at a dead stand still all the morning. It is useless to attempt to name prices ; for under the impression that large amounts of stock will be thrown upon the market without reserve, purchases are not made upon any terms. The forward contracts are, as may be supposed, decidedly' the worst, and the foreign houses from whom purchases have been made in anticipation, will be large sufferers. — Standard. DISGRACEFUL PROCEEDINGS. —Some riotous proceed ings took place at Taunton during the election, and on the Sunday after (Sund a y wee k) , an unusual number attended the church, men who hardly ever went before, others who regularly attended other places of worship. The curate read prayers, the Rev. Dr. Cottle (whose vote had given offence), mounted the pulpit to preach, a fellow was sta tioned at the door to give the signal, which he did by holding up his hat ; immediately 200 men, followed by a large number of " true blue women" (one fellow walking down the long aisle with his hat on) desecrated the and shuffling their feet, and milking heavy to make more noise. The singing was nearly drowned by the disturb- ance. He feelingly alluded to it, as he commenced his sermon, as being supported by a friend above who could sustain him under such a lamentable exhibition of peal malice as the congregation had just witnessed. On Sun day evening a similar scene occurred with the " smaller fry." a few men and maid servants emulating the exam- ple of their betters, nut it was not of sufficient importance to hinder the doctor preaching a most eloquent and pressive sermon EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF FRAUD. — Police-court, on Tuesday, Mr. George Ross At Guildhall the manag er erson before_ arches. It is from seventy to eighty yards in the top I found, by calculation, it was six eighty paces over this elegant structure Rome, although light, elegant, vas nd unique, was, nc withstanding,infeiior in simplicity and sublimity to the Pont du Garde I have endeavoured to describe in my first chapter, when visiting Avignon and Nismes. The f that fabric, like Stonehenge, is is imitation of the ancient Ro rable and honourable stride in massive impressl% . The Newton viaduc mall in comparison. N the march of scenery of ever-prolific Italy I experienced many kinc Durant and family at the Ei sant Chiaijo indeed you never could, but here, escape . the ever-ra_ ,nother amorous city and music every even •elief, _and the pause of the band the ever-rest But the stea ere responded to by the sublimer ss and beating sea of the far-famed bav rked on Saturday fine, fair We emt lovely morning ere parting with ands'aluii hearted Italians were kissii side of each other's cheeks. with their long, wavir4, Aural, and grand ! Wo- nd tears, like sun- a fine boat EPARATION ! boats, with men em: poles and nets, were fishing for oysters; a 11 was rolling yet from the late gale ; everything ly-defined and picturesque. Never had 'I so pleasant and delightfUl a twenty-one hours' propulsion as that from Naples to Palermo, and never should the travel ler allow this trip to Sicilia to escape him. We passed near to Ischia and Caprwa, and another volcanic island of tuffa and lava, all their rugged pointed rocks and jutting promontories so clearly visible as to size and form. Soon weak sex descended tv their cabins Wow and 1 11- emerges to the surface with a loft, - a snap or two is made, the huge pouch is seen for a nded; then collapses as before; and heavily moment c with his fellows. It is worthy of observation that the pelican invariably performs a somerset under the surface ; tor descending• as he always does, diagonally; not perpen dicularly; the head emerges looking in the opposite di rection to that in which it was looking before. When the morning appetite is sated, they sit calmly on the heavinr surface•, looking much like a miniature fleet. In the evening as I have stated, we see them pursuing their Standing at the door of Blue- laborious course to repose fields, which, from a slight elevation, commands a wide prospect-of the beautiful bay, I have often watched in the evening, while the sun, sinking among his gilded piles and peaks of cloud on the horizon sea, leaves the air refresh- I balmy, while the dying sea breeze scarcely ingly cool an _ straggling flocks of pelicans, from a dozen to forty or fifty, passing slowly.along over the shore. On such occasions they manifest a decided tendency to form long, continuous strings like ducks. When the flocks are beating for fish, or sailing round and round on the watch,.there is such arrangement, but all circle in confusion equal to that of the planets of the Ptolemaic system. Yet at any time of the day, in taking a lengthened flight, whether shifting their locality or slowly sweeping over the sea, they usually take a lineal order. In flying thus in lines, I have been The flight is performed by alternate iutervals of heavy flappings, and sailing on outstretched motionless wings ; and the resumption or suspension of one or the other state is regulated by the leading bird of the line. For example, the first begins to flap • in an instant the second begins, then the thi r d, the n ihe fourth, and so on, with perfect regularity of succession, and neither ceases till the first does, and then only each one in its own turn. That this does not depend o; the period of each motion being con stant is shown by the fact that the duration of either state is very varying and arbitrary. If a bird be following the same course near at hand, but not within the line, he does not regard the succession at all, but governs his own mo tion. The pelican, on alighting on the water to swim, brings his feet, which before had been stretched cut be hind, into a standing position, and, as it were, slides along the surface for . several yards befo re h e sw i ms .— G os se's Birds of Jama i ca, . m . the direction of amma. Annie's piano -forte proficiency forms a great card for that estimable lady ; but it is not until after a long consultation between the mamma and prodigy and a prolonged hunt under the in that the performance 'corn- rtrument fo: mences 'ay ' pieces You are then treated to the novelty of the " Hunt a remarkable The evening's amusements are occasionally diversified by some recitations by Charles, including speech from Douglas, which appears to beg " My name is Norval-on-the-Grampian- Polly's forte happily does not lie in the piano ; but the dear r proposes a grand exhibition of juve Annie, dear, do try and find that sw of a church, with birds flying and the ml —you know—which Polly did this morn. 'eet Hal -leaf of Vr. Blair under the piano, or in ,omewhere or other. You natural, too—the birl man with his pipe, and the somewhere s poem .8 with ti rumma her thumb in her Mouth. As bed-time arrives, each younger bi goes round, wishes each visitor good r. him or her, as the case may h howeer, be( This is the Crowning outra how often h dulti, that one little e .cooking t thinly f the family ]9IStS u' :cessful experiments have been recently r Lce on the etheri . zation of t ake their honey whilst they are in t the neeessiti , of destroying their lives. HAPPINESS OF WATL—A letter from Vera Cruz " The shells from our mortars, bursting in every tion, scattered death and destruction within the city , it is fair to presume thcit the round shot from our batteries had an equally ham eject I". Royal yacht, too, draws a good deal more water than is always to be found at the mouth of the Leven. It is not certain, therefore, that the Queen will come further up than Greenock. Her Majesty will pay a visit to Brodick and Lamlash, in the Island of Arran—then proceeding to the Kyles of Bute and up Lochfine to Invarary, and back to Locligilnhead, where the Sovereign will land and pass Megrs. G. and J. Burns, while the royal yacht will pro ceed round the Mull of Cantire to Point Crinan, from ence her Majesty and the Royal squadron will sail to lona and Staffa, and thence by Lismore, Loch Linnhe, and Loch Eli, to Fort-William. Here the Royal car riages will be in waiting to convey the Queen, Prince Albert, and the attending Lords and Ladies to Ardverikie, on the side of Loch Laggan, the ultimate destination of the Royal party. The road from Fort-William to Ard verikie is an excellent one, and is only aboilt thirty miles in extent. Wherever the Queen may be upon Sunday, the 15th current, the Royal squadron will remain at anchor, as a mark of respect for the day, and as an example to her , (.1 the Majesty's subjects. . _ As Our readers may at once perceive, there are hun dreds of convenient spots on the Clyde which will com mand splendid views of the royal squadron as it moves up the Firth, amidst the joyful demonstrations of a loyal people. Amongst these, the view from the Clough I and along the coast downward ten the squadron corn in sight and as it sails along, will be very grand; there can no one be disappointed in having a good view, as at He - burgh, Dtmoon, Largs, and indeed all along,it will be ne. At Arran, too, as well as at Inverary, and ,ilphead, where her Alajesty must land to proceed by Crinan Canal, the view will be most satisfactory. is the Queen is known to like quietness and decorum trust that such rules and regulations will be a thoss in authority, as may ensure correct► in every Majesty may have good We. sincerely hope that he weather, in order to have a favourable view of the roman, tic scenery of our native land, and that she may enjoy the best health and spirits while making the tour, is our sin cere and heartfelt wish. Since the above was written we have been informed that the Provost of Dumbarton has received a communica tion. stating that her Majesty may be expected to land there on her route to LochLomond. number of corporal punishments Inflicted in her Alajesty'E navy amounted last year t0'1,077, total number of lashes 32,366 ; in 1845, to 1,079, total number of lashes, 33,511 and in 1844, to 1,411, total number of lashes, 42,352 The highest number of lashes inflicted during the above trennial period varied from 41 to 72, and the lowest from 3 to 6. Ann Millner, at Lincoln, on Friday last, is incorrect. The unfortunate woman hung herself in her cell a few hours before the appointed time. An inquest was held on the body on the following day, and a verdict of ,felo•de se was returned. The error arose through the officials at the gaol allowing a report to be circulated that Millner had been privately executed within the walls of the prison. EXECUTIONS ON CAPITAL CONVICTIONS.—By an offi ciadocument, printed by order •of the House of Com mons, it is shown that in five years to 1826 there were 5,286 persons convicted on capital charges, and 307 were executed; in the next five years, 7,077 persons were con victed and 304 executed ; in the next. 3,877, out of which 175 were executed ; in the next, 767, out of which 41 were executed ; and in the five years ending 1846 the convictions were 616, and the executions ao. GE ACCIDENT.—Mr. Wilson, of Lang and their son, a young man of 24 were returning on Wednesday, from the palace of th Bishop of Rochester, when the horses took fright ; at sharp turn the carriage was upset and shattered to pie ce Young Mr. Wilson wa s killed on th e s pot; his moth INct.iasssitoankeonfup the b i n sensible, rain having suffered a dangerow' ;and the elder Mr. "' severely bruised on the head and face. - man and footman were hurt. JOSEPH An IN A NEW FATAL CART ford Grove, his wife CHARACTER DOW trying a new sp ec i es o f annoyance. H e is right and left, to re s p ec t a bl e l a di es, c i rcu l ars of v,,nhd the following i s a copy :—" Madam, —Y our iss personageej husband is embarked in an undertaking rendered illegal by various acts of parliament, subjecting him, yourself, and children to severe liabilities and insults. He may be dragged from his house any time of the day or night, to be confined in a felons' cell. The police may_ ente_ r. your apartment, take possession of your money ewels, an 1 paraphernalia, and leave you to the tender mercies of the law. On receipt of 20s, I will point oat the disease anti the remedy." 1,311 J. • 1..141.1 I.G, 111. VUt /MIM I% ...- from certain i ndividuals, by pretending that there was a sum of £220,000 divisible amongst those who could show their affinity to Charles Barber, who died in Calcutta in —"" there being, in fact. ugust such fund for division , it was alleged, no nere nad, it appeared, been Is contended by the soli had already been divided efence it was contended than some such property, but it w citor for the prosecution t- 'or the cl ycoa 0,6 • •,..•• there was a fund of £70,000 yet untouched, and which the executors had not recovered. A solicitor at Brighton said there were between 200 and 300 poor people in Sus sex who were aroused by the advertisement of the society, and held meetingb wa s applied to, inquired into the mattes mind there was no money to divide But as soon as the purport of to hear him out, and thp— £2oo to £3OO to obf-' twenty of the ,erea 1 ) subscriptions. He m satisfied his owo . ide and made his report -as known they refused 'd in subscribing from About of the society abiding by his c ants only seceded from'ihe rest, . The case was adjourned. kND FATAL OCCURRENCE.--1!t we take from the Carniai:" ader will call to mind a si ,pened near Aylstone-h l P' add on Mrednesday last, lci .ay of John Evan s P t the following root the evidence of ba eared that on Tuesdaf, beans ; her father ae yard • about 1 01 ,, when about eight nt field, she saw hint 0 , 1, :anding on his legs, h; fast to the post by 1 , 1 " e d of the post having g°'4 :erchief, which he alwal e 3f being afflicted with t'f vas under his neckerge tching the ground. is supposed by eu4et i f he was in the liab4 d in the post, and bertii.; to himself, and was Arangleci. the ttecoaseu w 4s suo j ec t t o fit s , was a s °' Do steady man, and there was no ma son to suppose that committed swicicie," - ". i under tg at th ate of t EXTRAORDI perusing t then Joni' ..ged - 54 extraordinary circumst she was the time an hour aft€ nine yards off from t back towarc between his ne wore very loose - deceased w vowing to climb over the gate, wl doing, his neckerchief got fasten , so weak he was unable to emtrico.