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sant at Kittrature. POETRY a the moon from on high And the sta T o'er meadow and plain )gale's soft melting strain. As she sin gs to the it fleeting hour But soon all is change strength and its n the form lls to man how Tho' delightful thro' life, --••••••.----. CARDINAL DE RETZ, THE COURTIER'S PLOT BY P TER POPJOY, ESCI Done from the French CHAPTER 111 atiou during the journey THE Sudden ico, but Brother," said `we li h fortu edit at court said the young man, sadly, Eabien At 1( to dis exelaeiati( " Read rted on the rother," "7 ran so dear to rr rant akaa I,lgl Ic Mon Mo n an aff pie ignorant c st of t ed ; the fierce sound of the storm, rsuades Fabien to accompany him ,parition of the Baron de Croissi at a time new that the state was overthrown by in ch he took an active part, greatly surprised istonishment increased when he remarked at had taken place in the manners of his During the rare occasions on which he rother, he had found him cold and eases, but on this occasion he was ctionate ; formerly, Albert, . . riseif only as:his master, now he approached him l and friend. On the first evening of his arrival Baron, giving Fabien this name for e at a period when it is not per- young and brave man, such as you are, to country with no other occupatio❑ than kill lz cabbages. You must adopt a course of you. I promised the late M. de noured father, that I would take care e moment has arrived when I can ow come to seek you, to take and if you will follow my advice you will not se overtures as the Baron of your f fulfil my promis you to P I am not constituted to struggle in this shining world of which you speak. I do not desire to know anything of it. _ . A—from what I have seen of it de Cross as too positive a man to accept a re m-s, and he attributed it, perhaps, gross ignorance; but it was in vain sources of his subtle and active brother. It was in form of command to that of en all his efforts with a respectful Baron appeared struck with a nacy of h aniong;t his tatAets he drew hat I have not the at I reckoned, it only remains for me , smilina, her person of your acquaintance will lis," at the sail- '.bien, who, recognising the hand lontglat, could not resist a sudden - - - - paper with a trembling hand : it con- it brother, and come to Paris " Elizabeth." said the ks of me, ed with emotion Mcntzlat. nenced their jourr heat of t s Paris sun was . As t even to day wore on it grew Is the close the fiery travellers so fiercely as to make The clouds of dust thrown up to the road dant bou discomfort. The Baron side, under an elm, s, and afforded a con- fitably pass the time in convey and rn " it doubt cted air, "and to coma e advance towards Pari: heart cas at Crossi , some great urney. Rea but I cannot surmount it Shall I not e Baron, " since these misera- and thus co' :pie old counsellor and his clerk, on his way might we not pro- pg a little - on your affairs replied Fabien, with somewhat :ace, I declare to you the the more do I feel my ❑t knowing why. The good people a presentment, and that. without fortune will attend us at the end of Sir, I blush in avowing to you such end what should you cr ?" asked he, in a dry here to aid you with my experi- Really this appears a jesting air, so that 'ct you from peni offended at it, " when you will see _ _ person whose image ought to give your ideas a complexion more gracious. Come, come, Fabien, I I ha . ve lived f istances of the enced at Croix zlat. You are Ar fram you, 1 know very well all the charming romance that you have si with the amiable shepherdess of ignorant, perhaps, brother, that I ,ogether alone at the old Mansion ; t there were near you people who, in secret, gave I watcfied at a distar who was r Liis amour was not replied Fabien, blushing, " who Do not endeavour to deny the baron courteously : " the rapidity to depart, after having read that e most certain proof, if I had not )ur passion from Mdlle. 3lontglat wal of spoken of those happy r tell me—Of Have you seen 11 me all you know - of one e me believe at I have already told you r her duty retains her the Queen ; and it is only from a re- and 1 h occasion to approach her. eklv attracted her attention to make her of an important mis- ided to ien, with asto- you intended employing t moment, but can you tell you—l who am but a aim- n. to reveal to you the enter prize in which you are called upon to take part; let it suffice you to know that, if in spite of the dangers which preser themselves, you will worthily play your part, hila he ,n him. Excus and brilliant fortune the Baron furtiv •ly scan ed the face, as if assure himself of !hese vague assurances produced a appeared The lar 3 reflect a few miuutes. trot)," replied he timidly, father say that at court and brilliant .ortune by tily, " What say you ,y enterprize in which . :bi,t? Do you forget so .nission you owe me? Upon what ridiculous thoughts, to say ss your mind to make you thus sus ,r my wish to do you a kindness. If Croissi, there is yet time to retrace can return to bury yourself in the ob mansion house. I shall trouble you sir, and I shall report to Madlle. Elizabeth de at how little trust she can place in her lover. words the Baron sharply struck his horse and is as if he expected in his wounded dig_ ,s brother would seriously separate from him. But n far from taking this step spurred after him and , Excuse roe Albert if I aconsiderate speech, I am not et and 1I do n n can return to bu of the old mansion house a it onwar said in a tone full of c have offended you by o employ which those can c perhaps wi country lifi s that delicate expression about court, and I speak rudeness of one accustomed only to a Do not then, I pray you, do not interpret so i which I would not wish you to apply so in- I distrust you my brother ! and why . should Have you not always been a friend to me—a rother—a second father? Let us quit this painful con versation," continued he with evident regret. "To prove to you how far the suspicions you reproach me with, are from my thoughts, I declare to you that I am ready to obey you in all that depends upon me in bring ing to a successful conclusion the enterprise you speak of. From the moment that Elizabeth—the Countess de yontglat, I should say—or you have thou g ht m e w o r thy to I do so hll a part in it, it cannot but be glorious and honourable, and as for quitting you my brother, I will n ev e r d o so until you cast me from you. The Physiognomy of the Baron gradually assumed its previous calm expression. " That never will happen my dear Fabien" said he vehemently, `• henceforward we must live always united in heart and will. But I agree, t to this foolish difference, as painful to let us never rever zou as to me At the same time they pursued their way and progres sed side by side absorbed in the various reflections which the little altercation had awakened in their minds. Fa bien, in spite of the reconciliation which had followed it, was sadder than before, while Albert seemed more ex- "Brother," said the younger De Croissi, after a very long-intqr.val of silence, " I would not revoke the promise . that rh4ve made you ; permit me, nevertheless, to put a .'question—one only—This enterprise in which a place is f ~`already designed to me, is it connected with a political . . . g I P' of Madlle. d party, such for example, as that of M. the Prince de Conde, whose colours you bear, and one of whose gentle men you are ? The Baron examined his brother with an air of penetra tion, as if to observe what degree of importance he at tached to this demand. " Have you then, Fabien," said he, tranquilly, strong a repugnance to serve the greatest general of our time—a prince whose history will some day be celebrated by noble deeds ?" " No one admires more than myself the military quali ties of the Prince de Conde ; but I greatly fear if the re ports which are spread in our peaceable country places, are not false, the eclat of so many brilliant deeds are tar nished by that mad love of faction which the Prince now exhibits. The Baron could not suppress a gesture of satisfaction. " Is that your opinion of Monseigneur de Cond6, Fabien ?" asked he, smiling : " well, brother, take courage, it will not be for the profit of a faction, although it be for the first prince of the blood, your devotedness will be em employed ; and, to assure you, I will tell you myself, al though I place a guard upon certain appearances, I have abandoned his cause." " What, Monsieur le Baron, can it be possible?" " Let us say no more about it,►► interrupted the Baron, in a laconic tone ; " you will know the truth when you arrive in Paris. But in the meantime you must promise me one thing, Fabien ; it is that whatever you may see me do, or hear me say, you will not be surprised, either at my actions, or my words ; that which appears mysterious at one time will be sufficiently explained in the next; and I hope that my motives will not appear blameable to you. Give me, then, your word as a gentleman, that you will abstain from all sorrowing reflections for me ; and that you will implicitly follow my advice without asking me for any explanation until the moment when I think it my duty to render you an account of my conduct towards you.,► Fabien hesitated : but his deference for his brother was so great, and his suspicions had been so little awakened of his projects, that be at once determined to abandon him self completely to whatever was required of him. " I will promise you, on my word, as a gentleman, that I will not weary you with useless questions," said he, with much simplicity. " It is well, brother," replied the Baron ; " this obe dience does credit to us both. If you obey me, I can promise you as a recompence that which will be to you most desirable—the hand of Mademoiselle de Mont- glat." The younger De Croissi was greatly moved by this speech, and in his transport of joy he was almost leaping from his saddle. " Can it be possible," cried he? " Oh, my brother! to obtain such a reward I would brave a thousand dan gers. But think you that Elizabeth would consent? " I am sure of it," replied the Baron, with vivacity ; "and she will soon give you assurance of it herself. Be devoted and faithful in that which awaits you, and the Queen-Regent shall sign your contract of marriage with her maid of honour." " My brother—my brother !" exclaimed Fabien, almost beside himself, " I will obey you even at the peril of my life." Albert cast upon him a look of triumph - - " This is as I would see you," replied he, " and you are aptly disposed for the proposition which will soon be made to you. We are now sure of understanding each other, Fabien ; and believe me, that your hopes will not be blighted." At this moment, at a turn of the road, the travellers perceived Paris in the distance. Although the metropolis did not occupy then that vast extent it now does, Fabien could not control an exclamation of surprise at the sight of that confused throng of towers, steeples, and palaces which appeared dressed nut in such a fantastic manner in a transparent cloud. The Baron enjoyed for a moment his innocent surprise, when, approaching' near him, he said, in a firm voice, stretching his arms towards the horizon, " See you that immense city, brother? Well, in some days perhaps you may occupy it entirely ; and by your means she will again be placed under the legitimate dominion which she now unhappily-you are called for great events-" Fabien regarded him with dumb surprise ; but the Baron, as if he feared he had said too much, turned his head and spurred his horse onward, which hitherto had proceeded leisurely along during this conversation. The younger De Croissi imitated his example, and both were enveloped in clouds of dust raised by their horses' feet. (To be continued.) some oversight an error occu mencement of this story, which might as well I although the reader would at once have detected it a typogcaph cal error. In the first line, fc. " seventeenth" century noticed. s evidently nineteenth" read TRAINING OF A DANSEUSE The following extract from La 3fonde Musical may give the uninitiated some notion of what the corps de ballet have to undergo during the course of their preliminary preparation : _ "It follows that the profession of a danseuse' is ge nerally adopted by the children of the low and indigent ; it is true that the greater part of the nymphs of the opera first see the day in the porter's 'loge.' I draw no infer- ence from this, but merely register a fact. Ah, sir, if you did but know how much courage, patience, resignation, and unremitting labour a poor girl must command—if you did but know what excruciating tortures she must submit to, and how many involuntary tears she must stifle—even to become a mediocre' dancer, you would at once be moved with terror and compassion. " Scarcely was I seven years old when I was lesoatched to the class of M. Barrez. Oftentimes I was sent early in the morning, with nothing in my stomach but an equi vocal cup of coffee, without socks to my feet or a shawl over my shoulders. I oftentimes arrived shivering and half-famished ; then commenced the daily torture, of which, however exact my description might be, I should fail in giving you a just idea. Banished from our code, torture has taken refuge in the class for dancing. " Every morning my feet were imprisoned in a groove box, heel agaiust heel, and knees turned outwardly ; my martyred feet accustomed themselves naturally, at last, to fall in a parallel line. This is what is called ' .ye burner " After half-an-hour at the groove, I was subjected to another variety of torture. " This time I was obliged to rest my foot on bar, which I was obliged to hold in a horizontal lire with the hand opposite the foot I was exercising. This they term se casser. " After the labours were over, you imagine, perhaps, that I enjoyed the charms of repose ; repose for me, in deed ! as if a dancer knew what repose was ! We were like the wandering Jew, to whom the Barres and the Coulons were perpetually crying out, ' dance, dance.' After these tourners and cassers, we were obliged, in order to escape from professional reprimand or maternal correc rection, to study assiduously, les fetes, les balances, les roads de jambes, les fouelles, les cabrioles, les pirouettes sur le condepied, les rants de basques, les pas de bourrees, and, finally, the entrechals guartre a six eta nuit. Such, sir, are the agreeable elements of which the art of dancing is composed, and do not believe that this rude fatigue lasts only for a time; it is to last and to be renewed without intermission. On this condition only can the dancer pre serve her souplesse and her legrete. A week of repose must be redeemed by two months of redoubled incessant toil, The dancer realises the fable of Sysiphus and his rock. " I have seen Mademoiselle Taglioni, after two hours' lesson which her father had just given her, f a ll exhausted sponged, and resuscitated, totally unconscious of her si tuation. The agility and marvellous bounds of the even ing were insured only at a price like this. " Now, the example of la Taglioni is strictly followed by the other opera dancers. There are some, even, who by nature having greater difficulties to surmount, martyr ize themselves with a barbarity yet more ferocious. Na thalie Fitzjames was an example of this; she invented a new method, de se tourner, el se casser, at one and the same time. " Perhaps you are aware that the art of dancing is di vided into branches—en Ballonne and en Tacquete. The Ballonne is the school of Taglioni ; it is lightness com bined with grace--the dance which seems to delight and float on the river. " The Tacquete is vivacity and rapidity ; 'tis the little sparkling steps and measures on the point of the feet; in a word, it is what FannS, Bias was, and what Fanny Elss- " You are aware that a similar profession cannot be exercised with impunity. From the multitude of simu lated dangers the dancer accustoms herself to real ones, as the soldier in war times accustoms himself to pillage. Now she is suspended to lines of wire, now she is seated on pasteboard clouds, she disappears through traps, she ascencri through chimneys, she makes her exit by the win dow. In the first act of the new ballet, "La Peri," there is so dangerous a leap that I consider Carlotta Grisi risks her life every time she executes it ; the mal-adresse of a moment in shifting the trap-door, and Carlotta would dash her brains out against the plank. There is a certain Englishman who never misses a performance of the ballet ; he is persuaded that it will prove fatal to Carlotta, and would not for the world be absent on that night. This is the same Englishman who followed Van Amborgh for three years, ever believing that the moment would arrive when the wild beasts would sup on their master." A FLEET MARRIAGE Lady C. was a beautiful woman, but Lady C. was an extravagant woman. She was still single, though rather past extreme youth. Like most pretty females, she had looked too high, had estimated her loveliness too dearly, but now she refused to believe she was not as charming as ever. So no wonder she remained unmarried. Lady C. had about five thousand pounds in the world. She owed about forty thousand pounds; so, with all her wit and beauty, she got into the Fleet, and was likely to re main there. Now, in the time I speak of, every lady had her head dressed by a barber ; and the barber in the Fleet was the handsomest barber in the city of London. Pat Philan was a great admirer of the fair sex ; and where's the won der ? Sure Pat was an Irishman. It was one very fine morning, when Philan was dressing her captivating head, that her ladyship took it into her mind to talk to him ; and Pat was well pleased, for Lady C.'s teeth were the whitest, and her smile the brightest, in all the world. " So you're not married, Pat ?" says he. " Divil on inch I your honour's ladyship," says he. " And wouldn't ye like to be married ?" again asks she. " Would a duck swim ?" " Is there any one you'd prefer ?" " May be, madam," says he, " you niver heard of Kathleen O'Reilly, down beyant Doneraile ? Her father is cousin to O'Donaghew, who's own steward to Mr. Murphy, the under-agent to my Lord Kingstown, and—" " Hush !" says she ; sure I don't want to know who she is. But would she have you if you asked her ?" THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. " Ah, thin, I'd only wish I'd be after thrying that same." " And why don't you ?" " Sure, I'm too poor." And Philan heaved a prodi gious sigh. " Would you like to be rich ?" " Does a dog bark ?" " If I make you rich, will you do as I tell ye r " Mille murthers ! your honour ; don't be tantalizing a poor boy." " Indeed I'm not," said Lady C. "So listen. How would you like to marry me ?" " Ah, thin, my lady, I believe the King of Russia him self would be proud to de that same, lave alone a poor divil like Pat Philan." " Well, Philan, if you'll marry me to-morrow, I'll give you one thousand pounds." " Oh ! whilabaloo! whilabaloo! sure I'm mad, or en chanted by the good people," roared Pat, dancing round the room. " But there are conditions," says Lady C. "After the first day of our nuptials you must never see me again, nor claim me for your wife." " I don't like that," says Pat, for he had been ogling her ladyship most desperately. " But remember Kathleen O'Reilly. With the money I'll give you, you may go and marry her." " That true," says he, " but, thin, the bigamy ?" " I never appear against you," says her ladyship. " Only remember, you must take your oath never to call me your wife after to-morrow, and never to go telling all the story." " Divil a word I'll ivir say " " Well, then," says she," there's ten pounds. Goand buy a license, and leave the rest to me • and then she ex plained to him where he was to go, and where he was to come, and all that. The next day Pat was true to his appointment, and found two gentlemen already with her ladyship. " Have you got the license?" says she. " Here it is, my lady," says he, and he gave it her. She handed it to one of the gentlemen, who viewed it at tentively. Then, calling in her two servants, she turned to the gentleman who was reading. " Perform the ceremony," says she. And sure enough, in ten minutes, Pat Philan was the husband, the legal husband, of the lovely Lady C. "That will do," says she to her new husband, as he gave her a hearty kiss, " that will do. Now, Sir, give me my marriage certificate." The old gentleman did so, and bowing respectfully to the five-pound note she gave him, he retired with his clerk ; for, sure enough, I had forgot to tell you that he was a parson. " Go and bring me the warden," says her ladyship to one of her servants. " Yes, my lady," says she ; and presently the warden appeared. " Will you be good enough," says Lady C., in a voice that would call a bird off a tree, " will you be good enough to send and fetch me a hackney coach ? I wish to leave this prison immediately." _ _ . " Your ladyship forgets," replied he, " that you must pay forty thousand pounds before I can let you go. " I am a married woman ; you can detain my husband, but not me." And she smiled at Philan, who began ra ther to dislike the appearance of things. " Pardon me, my lady, it is well known you are single. " I tell you I am married." " Where's your husband ?" _ _ " There, Sir," and she pointed to the astonished bar ber : " there he stands. Here is my marriage certificate, which you can peruse at your leisure. My servants yonder were witnesses of the ceremony. Now detain me, Sir, one instant, at your peril." The warden was dumb-foundered, and no wonder. Poor Philan would have spoken, but neither party would let him. The lawyer below was consulted. The result was evident. In half an hour Lady C. was free, and Pat Philan, her legitimate husband, a prisoner for debt to the amount of forty thousand pounds. Well, Sir, for some time Pat thought he was in a dream, and the creditors thought they were still worse. The fol lowing day they held a meeting, and finding how they had been tricked, swore they'd detain poor at for ever. But as thep well knew that he had nothing, and wouldn't feel much shame in going through the Insolvent Court, they made the best of a bad bargain, and let him out. Well, you must know, about a week after this, Paddy Philan was sitting by his little fire, and thinking over the wonderful things he had seen, when, as sure as death, the postman brought him a letter, (the first he had ever re ceived,) which he took over to a friend of his, one Ryan, a fruit-seller, because, you see, he was no great hand at reading writing, to decipher for him. It ran thus:— "Go to Doneraile, marry Kathleen O'Reilly. The in stant the knot is tied I'll fulfil my promise of making you comfortable for life. But, as you value your life and liberty, never breathe a syllable of what has passed. Re member yon are in my power if you tell the story. The money will be paid to you directly you inclose me your marriage certificate. I send you fifty pounds for present expenses." Oh ! happy Paddy ! didn't he get drunk that same night, and didn't he start the next day for Cork, and didn't he marry Kathleen, and touch a thousand pounds. By the powers he did. And, what is more, he took a cot tage, which perhaps you know, not a hundred miles from Bruffin, in the county of Limerick ; and i'faix, he forgot his first wife clean and entirely, and never told any one but myself, under a promise of secrecy, the story of his " Fleet Marriage." So remember, as it's a secret, don't tell it to any one you see.—Bentley's Miscellany. SELECTIONS. A NIGHT WITH FATHER MATHEW.—On the 6th of November Father Mathew gave a sumptuous entertain ment to a select party of friends. The waters were of the most recherche description—the old bottled Niagara was in fine condition, as were also the Danube and Valga ; but In respect to aroma and flavour, the eau de Tamise was pronounced incomparable, although a bottle of Seine was on the table. The merry party kept it up until a late hour.—Punch. THE KING OF HANOVER AND THE DUKE OF CAM BRIDGE AT KEW.—lt was a fine spectacle I witnessed a few months since, when those same survivors strolled on the village green at Kew; fine, noble, manly, erect men, though three score years and ten had been seen by each of them ; and it was right pleasant to behold their truly princely, and yet considerate and kind attention to all who surrounded them. When the King of Hanover ar rived at Kew, a small deputation of the inhabitants waited upon his majesty, to learn his royal pleasure with regard to the reception of a few individuals to congratulate him, on the part of the rest, on his happy return to the scenes of his boyhood and his earliest remembrances. " Depu tation !" cried the king, " deputation ! I don't want a deputation only. I want to see them all,—tell them all to come and see me. I should like to try my memory, and see how many I recollect."—Fraser's Magazine. TREATMENT OF A HINDOO DEITY.—Lord Comber mere brought a Brahmin ox from India and presented it to her Majesty. The " natural viciousness of the sacred animal" rendered its confinement necessary. It was vi sited by the Queen and Prince Albert, and, as the news paper account states, "greatly admired for its beautiful symmetry and immense size." Flaying been so admired, it was forthwith sentenced to execution. It is to be hoped that her Majesty's millions of Hindoo subjects will not learn the fate of their deity. After it was killed it was, says the report, beautifully dressed for the inspection of Prince Albert and the royal visitors at the castle—dressed not by the cook but by the butcher. The Hindoo deity weighed 130 stone ; its heart 101bs. The hump of the deity was by her Majesty's command cured and salted for the royal table. The skin of the deity is to be tanned and used as a hearth-rug. The horns of the deity are to be polished. What would the Hindoos think of all this if by chance they should hear it? And what a reverse of for tune was that of this ox ? Worshipped in one part of the world, imprisoned in another ; its bump eaten by the Queen of its worshippers, its skin made her hearth-rug, its horns stuck up in a hall. This, should it be known, will be a set-off to the gates of Somnauth, and give the Mahometans the laugh against the Hindoos. REPUBLICAN AMUSEMENTS.—At the Hotel de Ville, Danton entered the hall with several of the insurgents ; and the crowd, unwilling to waste time, began to fire at the little statues and insignia of the French kings, which ornamented this old building. When this amusement palled—the French are easily ennuied—they formed cir cles, and danced the Carmagnole. Rum and brandy, largely introduced among them, gave them animation after their night's watching, and they were fit for any atrocity. But the beating of drums, and a rush to the balconies of the Hotel de - Ville, told us that something of importance was at hand ; and, in the midst of a group of municipal officers, Pction, the mayor of Paris, arrived. No man in France wore a milder visage, or hid a blacker heart under it. He was received with shouts, and after a show of re sistance, just sufficient to confirm his character for hypo crisy, suffered himself to be led to the front of the grand balcony, bowing as the man of the people. Another fol lowed, a prodigious patriot, who had been placed at the head of the National Guard for his popular sycophancy, but who, on being called on by the mob to swear " death to the King," and hesitating, felt the penalty of being un prepared to go all lengths on the spot. I saw his throat cut, and his body flung from the balcony.—" Marston ; or the Memoirs qi a Statesman," in Blackwood's Maga zine. CAUSE OF IRELAND'S DISTRESS.—The canker of Ire land lies deep, and is wide-spread. It is to be found in the wretched, starving, and uneducated condition of a peasantry, over whom Popery has obtained a direful as cendancy. The immediate and pressing danger results from the power of a hierarchy, which is at once the curse of Ireland, and the source of danger to Great Britain. We are now as a nation suffering the righteous penalty of the neglect with which the moral state of Ireland was regarded for generations and ages. Had England done her duty, Popery would not now be enabled to intrench itself in Ire land, and nurture hatred to the Protestant under the name of Saxon. The Irish landlords have been especially guilty, Occupied in former generations with their own selfish pro jects for augmenting their rents, and squeezing out of the people the highest rent that could be obtained; intent upon solving the problem how the greatest amount of money could be obtained from the occupiers of the soil, when reduced to the lowest point of privation compatible with human existence, the Protestants were driven from their estates, and a lower class were introduced, consist ing entirely of Papists, accustomed to abject submission to their priests. Of late years a better prospect has b e _ gun to dawn. There is a greater number of landlords anxious to elevate the condition of their tenants, and to extend to them not only the comforts of life but the Privi leges of religious instruction. Hence the redoubled efforts of the Papacy to maintain their hold ; hence the fierceness of the struggle now going on, a struggle of which the is sues are in the hands of God, but which, we humbly trust, may yet terminate in the subjugation of an Antichristian superstition, and the restoration of that pure Christianity, from access to the knowledge of which Ireland has been so long cruelly debarred.—Record. THE ISTHMUS OF PANAMA.—" When the Spanish discoverers first overcame the range of mountains which divide the western from the Atlantic shores of South Ame rica," said a distinguished statesman, (Lord Grenville,) " they stood fixed in silent admiration, gazing on the vast expanse of the Southern ocean which lay stretched before them in boundless prospect. They adored—even those hardened and sanguinary adventurers adored—the gra cious providence of Heaven, which, after a lapse of so many centuries, had opened to mankind so wonderful a field of untried and unimagined enterprise." The very same point of land where, in 1515, the Spaniards first be held the Pacific, is the spot formed by nature for the realization of those advantages which their cautious po licy caused them to overlook. The Creator seems to have intended it for general use—as the highway of nations ; and yet, after a period of more than three centuries, scarcely has the solitude which envelopes this interesting strip of land been broken.—" Commercial Intercourse between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans," in Blackwood' Magazine. " ANTIQUITY" IN PLEA FOR LATE HOURS OF BUM NESS.—The system of late hours has been spoken of as one recommended only by " its antiquity." I find, how ever, that it is a modern innovation, and thus its only prop is taken away, and it must topple down. Our grand fathers were wiser ; they had their shops in the city, and resided in the suburbs; at four o'clock they retired to their homes and families, leaving their shops sometimes in the charge of a mere lad, who, about five or six, shut up for the night. Those, however, who dealt in valuable articles, closed them before they left them to join their fa milies at dinner. Yet these men grew rich, and the public voice was never raised to express dissatisfaction at the plan. People were clothed and fed then as well as now, and nobody complained. If it be said, the population is now larger, and the public wants increased, the answer is, the manufactures have increased in a fourfold ratio to the public wants; the shops are more than proportionately numerous ; the supply exceeds the demand : hence the spirit of competition, wkich leads men to adopt the most expensive devices to outshine their neighbours, and to entice purchasers to their . houses. Away, th en , w ith th e pretext that the system of late hours has been adopted, and is persevered in, only in respect for public conve nience.—Glance at the present System of Business among Shopkeepers, by Edward Flower. THE WRONGS OF WOMEN.—You have rather puzzled me, Eusebius, by giving me so wide a field of enquiry— woman's wrongs; of what kind—of ancient or modern times—general or particular ? You should have arranged your objects. It is you that are going to write this " Fa mily Library," not I. For my own part, I should have been contented in walking into the next village, an unex pected guest, to the houses of rich and poor—do you think you would have wanted materials ? But forewarned is forearmed—and few will " tell the secrets of their prison house," if you take them with a purpose. On your ac count, in this matter, I have written to six ladies of my acquaintance, three married and three single. Two of the married have replied that they have nothing to complain of—not a wrong. The third bids me ask her husband. So I put her down as ambiguous—perhaps she wishes to give him a hint through me ; I am wise, and shall bold my tongue. Of the unmarried, one says she has received no wrong, but fears she may have inflicted some—another, that as she is going to to be married on Monday, she can not conceive a wrong, and cannot possibly reply till after the honeymoon. The third rep ies, that it is very wrong in me to ask her. But st a y a momen t—h ere i s a quarrel going on—two women and a man—we may pick up some thing. " Rat thee, Jahn," says a stout jade, with her arm out and her fist almost in Jahn's face, " I wish I were a man—l'd gie it to thee !" She evidently thinks it a wrong that she was born a woman—and upon my word, by that brawny arm, and those masculine features, there does appear to have been a mistake in it.—Blackwood. " CHURCH PRINCIPLES."—This t erm as too often used, i s a mere cant expression —an undefined inappropri ate phrase, comprising an extensive sliding scale of doc trine and discipline, of which the private opinion of the person who speaks is the regulating medium. So that in fact ' Ctairch Principles' in the lips of most persons, mean nothing more than " My principles on Church mat ters !' And the phrase is generally hurled at some other person whose views are supposed to be lower down the scale than those of the former. The expression forms a substitution for the now old-fashioned word orthodox, which in its day bore much the same indefinite import. Are there then, it may be asked, no sound Church Prin ciples '—in other words, no scriptural principles on which the doctrines and discipline of the Christian Church are founded ? Undoubtedly there are ! And they are exhib ited not in an isolated canon, or neglected rubric, much less in the writings of the third and fourth centuries, but in the general sense and system expounded in the Thirty nine Articles, the Creeds, and Liturgy of our beloved Church! Here are my' Church Principles!' and I would no others ! And in these I look in vain for the unmea sured condemnation of unepiscopal Churches; for the necessity of Apostolic descent to enable a minister to make a valid sacrament ; for those exaggerated and self important dogmas, which appear now to be adopted even by some otherwise enlightened and pious evangelists ! For such persons I especially tremble ; believing that ex travagantly High Church notions cannot long be held by any faithful man without casting over his ministry a cold mist, which chills every statement of Gospel truth—and confuses the mind of his people. Church Principles.' as generally understood, have little a ffi n it y t o G ospe l principles; they are as Saul's armour to David, an en cumberance rather than a defence; and simple Gospel truth, as the shepherd boy's sling and stone, often proves more powerful even against the Giant Schism itself than all the boasted and elaborate armoury of Church counsels, degrees, injunctions, and traditions "—Rev. F. Close. THE DUCHESS OF BERRY AND HENRY IV., THE DUKE OF BORDEAUX.—But what was the situation of the Duchess of Berry? Why did she not rush from the pa lace of St. Cloud, and, taking the young Duke of Bor deaux in her hand, present him to the troops and the people, and exclaim, " Behold your King ?" Did she want nerve and courage for such an undertaking ! Cer tainly not! Her romantic:history in La Vend6e, where she performed such prodigies of valour, would at once give the lie to such a supposition, could it even for a mo ment have been indulged. There were two reasons, or ra ther three, why such a line of conduct was not pursued by Madame la Duchesse. The first was, that she lacked at that critical moment energetic and decided advisers. Se cond, King Charles X. would scarcely allow the young Duke of Bordeaux to leave ide. And third, the Duchess of Berry was very i rately informed as to the real state of affairs both before and after the fatal or dinances of her father and monarch. The Count de Me nars had undoubtedly informed the duchess as to the state of Paris up to Tuesday evening, and on Wednesday morning she communicated to Charles X. all her uneaai ness and anxiety. The monarch was imperturbable, and assured the duchess that there was no reason for any ap prehension respecting the result. Even the arrival of a young artist at the palace charged to take the portrait of the king, and who gave a graphic and fearful account of the scenes he had witnessed, did not move that prince, who, after having listened with attention to the recital, said, " Ce n'est rien, tout cela finira ce soir ; ce n'est presque rien. Tenez, mon cher, ce que von: avez de mieux afaire c'est de commencer anon portrait." And then Charles X. sat down before the artist, and his fea tures did not evince the slightest change. Not so the painter : he could not proceed. The king perceived it. " Eh bien !" said the monarch, with unruffled composure, "ce sera pour la semaine prochaine." When the artist withdrew, the Duchess of Berry gave herself up to an agony of grief, and Charles X. and the Duke d'Angou ieme both sought to console her. That was the moment in which she stood in need of wise, firm, and courageous advisers. But there were none who stepped forward ; and She cause of her son was lost. I know very well that there are some persons, still accurately informed with re gard to the events of 1830, who maintain that had the Duchess of Berry acted as I have suggested she should have done, she would have been made a prisoner, and that her son would have been shot. I do not believe this. The moment for such a line of conduct as that I have described, would have been on the Thursday after noon, as soon as the forces of the king had retired to the Bois de Boulogne, and when the Duke de Ragusa repaired to St. Cloud. The whole city was at that time in a state of indescribable apprehension. No government had been organised ; the fear of a bombardment was very general ; new barricades had been every where thrown up ; it was not believed by any one that the conflict had terminated ; the heights of Montmartre were looked to with the most fearful anticipations. The Hotel de Ville was the spot to which report after report was brought of the arrival of fresh troops from distant garrisons, and of the determina tion of Charles X. to bombard Paris the next day ; and these reports soon became known to the whole popula tion. That, then, was the moment when, if the heroic Duchess of Berry had appeared, without escort, without soldiers or guards, in the midst of the people, and had exclaimed, " Charles X. and the Duke d'Angouleme have abdicated ; the ordinances of Sunday last are withdrawn ; the Chambers are to meet immediately; Casimir Perier is prime minister; and now, BOHOLD YOUR KING — Henry V. !" I feel not the smallest doubt that her mis sion would have been crowned with abundant success, and that all other hopes and combinations would have been at once abandoned. I admit that to have met the populace, to have faced the yet 'vengeful and but partially avenged Parisians, would have required much nerve, vigour, and presence and strength of mind. But it is precisely be cause the Duchess of Berry was one of a million, and be cause her maternal love and energy were of the first order, that therefore I advert to this subject. No real great effort was made for the son of the duchess, until it was " too late :" and he was neither to be seen nor heard of at a moment when all was critical and important. It is not impossible that the duke himself may be visiting England when these pages shall appear, and that they may come ender his notice. To him I say, " Prince , your cause was neglected when there was time to save it . Itis now too late."—Fraser's Magazine. Tnit BANK OF ENGLAND.—In consequence of the numerous complaints that have been made by the mer chants in the city and the public at the employes of the Bank issuing sovereigns and half-sovereigns that are found to be light in weight according to the Royal proclamation Her Majesty dated the 2d day of October last, orders have been given to the clerks by the Governors of this na tional establishment that no gold shall be issued unless it has been previously weighed, and is according to the stand ard currency of the realm. To meet the demand that will be made for the new sovereigns when the law comes into operation on the Ist of January next, a very large amount of the new gold coinage has been sent from the royal mint on account of the Bank t o supply the emer gency that is likely to take place, as the quantity of light gold now in circulation exceeds considerably that of last year. and Government is determined to have it called in. Henceforth all light sovereigns presented at the Bank will only be received according to weight, and will be de faced so as to prevent the possibility of their being re used. GENERAL MISCELLANY. The new organ for Chester Cathedral, which arrived on Monday last, per railway, is said to weigh six tons. The total sum realized for the orphan family of the late Mr. Elton, who was drowned in the Pegasus, is £2380. It is said that the Hon. Mrs. Norton, daughter of the celebrated Brinsley Sheridan, is about to emigrate to America. Seven persons were burned to death in a farm house, which took fire on Wednesday, in the village of Millery, Gloucestershire. N. C. Brown, Esq. has been appointed to the collect orship of customs at Beaumaris, vice William Hughes, Esq. retiring. The Lord Mayor of York has ordered the police of that city to apprehend all boys or others guilty of whistling in the streets ! According to Murphy's weather almanack for 1844, the coldest day in the year will be the 7th of January, and the hottest will be the 2d of August. A Mr. Swinburn of Ardee, has contrived a table fitted with a peculiar description of vice. which will enable shoe makers to work with great facility in a standing position. The Chester town council have sanctioned the line pro posed by Mr. Stephenson for the Chester and Holyhead railway, in preference to that recommended by Mr. Walker. The Lords of the Treasury, on the recommendation of the Board of Customs, have raised Glasgow from being a second-class p ort to a first-class. Raby Castle, the magnificent baronial seat of the Duke of Cleveland, in Durham, is about to be enlarged and otherwise improved by Mr. Burn, architect, of Edin burgh. On Monday information was received in town of the destruction by fire of Rowcleas, the mansion of Lord Nugent, near Exeter, on the morning of Thursday last. The damage is stated to be at least £3,000. Two or three buiding yards in Sunderland, which have been unoccupied since 1840, have been taken for the pur poses of ship-building, which will shortly be in full oper ation there. These signs of reviving trade, however small, are gratifying. PLEASANT PROSPECT FOR MR. O'CONN'ELL.—Fear gus O'Conner, in his Northern Star of Saturday, in a letter addressed to Mr. O'Connell, tells the great Agitator that either repeal will be carried, or his head laid on the block by the Ist of April next. A Sunday or two ago, during the asking or publication of banns, at the Collegiate Church, Manchester, the con gregation were not a little astonished at the forbidding of two of the intendem marriages. The non-age of the par; ties (ladies) was alleged as the cause. The appointment of the Chief-Judgeship of Welling ton, New Zealand, has been conferred upon Mr. H. S. Chapman, of the Inner Temple, who has sailed in com pany with the new Governor, Captain Fitzroy, late Mem ber for Durham. THE LATE FATAL DUEL.—The trial of Lieut. Munro and Lieut. Grant was on Saturday postponed until the next session of the central criminal court, in consequence of the former gentleman being confined to his bed with typhus fever. The Northampton Herald, of Saturday, reports a speech delivered, on Tuesday last, by Earl Spencer, at a dinner given by the Mayor of Northampton, in which the noble earl explicitly avowed himself an advocate for a total repeal of the Corn-laws. INHUMAN CoNnucT.—A young woman, named Ann M'Cormick, the mother of three illegitimate children, was brought up at the Manchester Police-court on Friday, on a charge of attempting to murder her infant child five months old, by administering poison. She was committed for trial at the assizes. A Goon LEAP.-011 Friday last, during a trial in some fields near the Terminus of the Great Western Railway, the steepje-chase horse Pilot cleared a space of 30 feet 10 inches, in a leap over a brook, with a high bank and rail on one side of it, carrying a groom of 12 stone, be sides the side, &c. A Goon ROUND FAMILY.—An old woman, named Susy Haigh, who lived at Sones, in Sowerby, died on the 16th instant in the 88th year of her age, having lived to see the fifth generation of her family, which numbered, exclusive of herself, 170. She had nine children, 48 grandchildren, 111 great grandchildren, and two great great grandchildren.—Halifax Guardian. CHESTER CATTLE FAIR.—At the November fair, on Thursday, the show of all kinds of stock was deficient, and business was extremely slack. Calving heifers were somewhat enquired after, and were worth from £8 to £ll each. Some inferior Irish beef was shown, which sold at about .51d. per lb. and sink. Fat pigs were worth 3d. per lb. Very few sheep were shown. CFIESTER CHEESE FAIR.-At the fair, on Wednesday last, upwards of 300 tons were piled for sale, and about a third of which went back unsold. The sale was very flat, and at reduction of 3s. to ss. per cwt. from the last fair. Prices ruled generally from 455. to 60s. The increasing yearly importations of American cheese seriously affects the English cheese trade. MOST REMARKABLE COINCIDENCE.-At the summing up of the poll books at the late election at Salisbury, it was ascertained that from the three wards into which the borough is divided, Mr. Campbell received from each ex actly 106 votes, the whole amount of his poll being 318. Perhaps a similar kind of coincidence is not to be, nor never will be found in electioneering annals. On Tuesday last Mary Ann Lacy, a young and fashion ably dressed female, wife of a respectable tradesman, was brought up at the Marlborough-street Police-office, Lon don, and committed for trial at the Central Criminal Court, for having stolen a piece of silk handkerchiefs, while pretending to make some purchases at the shop of a silk mercer. ThE WHITE QUAKERS.—A deputation from this body has just visited London. They have been extensively engaged in placarding the walls and boards at the west end of town during the last week with some of their fanatical effusions, denouncing vengeance on all but the favoured few. Their appearance in their singular garb excites much curiosity. No less than three fires, to a more or less serious ex tent, occurred in the course of last week in Manchester. In one case property to the amount of upwards of £lOOO was destroyed ; and in the other cases, had it not been for the timely arrival of the fire-brigade, the destruction of property must have been enormous. ATTEMPT TO BREAK INTO KNUTSFORD GAOL.—On Monday night, a most daring attempt was made to gain entrance to the treasurer's room, in Knutsfoi d House of Correction. At the adjourned sessions it is usual to pay all accounts belonging to the county, and, no doubt, the burglars were acquainted with the fact, naturally expect ing that .there must be a large sum of money deposited there. TIIR TEA TRADE, Nov. 27.—The market has been heavy again since our last, and public sales being pressed, are not quite supported. The consumption goes on steadily nevertheless ; but it is the expectation of very full supplies that keep down prices. The stocks at the out ports are much larger than at this time last year. Last week the deliveries were 470,781 b. EXTENSIVE FAILURE AT FORFAR.—It is our painful duty to announce the failure, on Thursday week, of one of our most extensive manufacturers, in consequence of which hundreds of our townsmen have been thrown out of work, with little prospect of receiving other than partial employment for some time. The other manu facturers in town deserve great praise for the exertions they have made to meet the present emergency ; but it is impossible that nearly 600 weavers can be employed until preparations are made to receive them, which will require time. The bankrupt's debts, it is said, amount to up wards of £27,000.-Illontrose Review. SUICIDE BY A CHILD.—On Friday last the neighbour hood of Ketley-town was thrown into great consternation from the following distressing circumstance :—lt appears that a little girl, daughter of James Colley, was sent by her mother to get some coal from one of the pits, and being gone longer than usual, she was met by her brother, who told her that she would catch it when she got home. The child, it seems, dreaded the thought of going home, which she did not like, because her mother, she said, was not kind to her. She threw away her bonnet and pinafore, con trived to creep to the edge of a pit, and threw herself into it. The pit was 200 yards deep. When her body was got out it was in an emaciated state.—Shropshire Journal. ATTEMPTED ROBBERY AND INCENDIARISM AT MAN• CRESTER.—On Tuesday evening last some desperate thief or thieves obtained access to a warehouse belonging to Messrs. Lea, Birch, and Co., Barton's-buildings, Man chester-street, and, having forced open several drawers, in which, however, they did not find any booty, they set fire to a quantity of cotton twist and departed. The fire must have been discovered immediately after the villains had decamped, for it had not extended beyond the twist ; though, as the flames were raging beneath a wooden door, the whole premises were in imminent danger. The ware house had been secured by the persons belonging to it only forty minutes before the fire was discovered. The flames were quickly subdued, and but little damage was done. The police are actively engaged in the investiga tion of the affair. ARTESIAN WELL.—The Artesian well at the Royal Hospital, Haslar, sunk by Mr. T. Docwra, manager of the large Artesian well now in progress for supplying Southampton with water, has resulted in producing a most abundant supply of water, which has been analysed by order of the board of admiralty, and is found to be of the purest and softest quality. What is most surprising is, that the water rises through 125 feet of shingle and running sand, which is full of salt water, being affected by the tides. The trouble and difficulty in stopping the salt water out has been entirely overcome. The quantity of water that Mr. Docwra guaranteed to obtain was 12,960 gallons per day ; but the actual quantity obtained from the spring, 156 feet deep, was 59,328 gallons per day. This quantity can be pumped every day without reducing the water in the well more than about forty feet from the surface.—Hampshire Independent, PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM COMPANY.— The annual meeting of this company was held on Tuesday last. The profit and loss account showed a balance in favour of the company . of £75,300 13s. 11d. to the 30th of September last. From this sum was deducted £14,955 13s. 6d. for the amount of the March dividend of 34 per cent., leaving a disposable sum of £60,345 Os. sd. The usual dividend of 34 per cent, was declared for the six months ending on the 30th of September, and the remain ing undivided profits, amounting to £44,845 Os. 5d., were carried to the reserved fund. The proposal of the com pany to carry the Indian mails is,according to the report, now under the consideration of the government and the East India Company ; but in the event of not obtaining the mail contract, the directors state there is little hope of a regular monthly communication between Calcutta and Suez, as the passengers' intercourse would not be suf ficiently remunerating during the monsoon season. Dec. 5, 1543. ivre.e...; ori: 1' DENT. —CT ------ Monday last, STRANGE Ac c I went to cut ivy I,..ivss for a goat belonginga to t 6 Lion Inn, Loo, using a large pig-killing knife' facing climbing a garden-wall, a stone gave way, and in - 1 is to the ground with the knife grasped perpendicular/las his hand, his head came on the point, which Pier er c ad. chin, and passed into his mouth, inflicting a large w e _ Aa l gao D l ls la c t ra el n y n s e en lN t G to A h D is znr He bled very much, but having received prompt sow it / he is now in a fair way of recovery.—Cornteall fleY Gazelle. Pe nn s} sois kno w do e ~ had a proposal to make which he believed would b hear their mutual benefit. The creditor called on bin, to o it being so chargeable to you has ti i sth.ea very rp l ye h nh a sae v d e otf b h been ge f t od h ro i n lmi k ae i r n t g aon , ' hd ' es2ahsi here, rcete,hnaet and d f former , e p r u , ' I t n o: 0. jo t; creditor A t d o e b lettorhiimn Penns• lc t be per week. ''' —for heaven knows what it may cost you in the 0 0 therefore what I would propose is this —you shall leti the out of gaol, and allow me one dollar a week, anLlhiri 25 cents go towards dischargingthe d bt --Pe . "'" e . Chronicle. 1 ,ergoi lP A FISH RUN AWAY WITH A VESSEL'S .1. , • -- t tile (From a Barbados paper.)—On the 22d of Ange s st ber brig Rowena was lying in Laguyra Roads, thew e „hoal perfectly calm ; I discovered the vessel moviidhe among the shipping. I could not conceive what 04 0 , the matter. I gave orders to heave in and see if ° Ass 1 chor was gone, but it was not; but to rarY 013 10 given me great uneas,sod; found a tremendous monster entangled fast to the / rope, and moving the anchor slowly along the bottorntio then had the fish towed on shore. It was of a fis ba ae, shape, something like a devil fish, but very curious° c r o is being wider than it was long, and having two tuskseo, on each side of the mouth, arid a very small tail it i l .e l" ts e portion to the fish, and exactly like a bat's tail. y r%i o aS can be seen on board the brig Rowena. The &O P- tail of the fish were as follows :—Length from end of t i be 0 to the end of the tusks, 18 feet ; from wing to ~,,r 14 ;.••• feet ; the mouth 4 feet wide ; and its weight 3, 5 ""' C. S. Dill. THE BANK OF ENGLAND.—The following • Int s issued on Friday :—" The Governor and ComPa n Y ° b e tli- Bank of England do hereby give notice, that, iota of ence to her Majesty's proclamation, dated the i ` - u arf October last, they will, from and after the Ist 0J 81 . 3 _ 0• next, cut, break, and deface such gold coin below te.e.o gal current weight as may from time to time be tendered to them. And further, that in pursuance of direct:lvry, from the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Ithe 11 they will, up to the abovementioned period, VIZ 113. of January, continue to receive on account of the 1 co io ment, at the price of £3 17s. 100. per ounce, ge l ' d 1 " below the legal current weight. Bank of Englan I 30, 1843." • k 39 S - INGULAR DEATH.—On Friday evening wee t wit h thew Clift, aged 17, son of a builder, of Stroud , tr e in the his death by falling into his father's limekiln, eih„,i le h - fact act of supplying it with fresh stone and coals. !l er to of his not returning home in the evening led his ta t o porr suspect that some accident had occurred to him, an fo od examining the kiln on the following morning, he„,,, t iog the half-consined remains of his son lying on W i t' s ", 0 011 fuel. So completely had the fire done its work, ° at ar', a portion of the body remained, the legs, arms , an pored to had disappeared, the bone alone being left to tell thee urre j ancholy tale. The accident, in all probabilitY, oc e ov er the kiln. The fate of this poor fellow offersiinfooei from the inhaling of carbonic acid gas while stoopiag.„to. tary warning to persons imprudently venturing i nt i t hoag ations where deleterious gasses are being evolved no) taking proper precautions to insure their s afety. -" Chro 4 icle. tral jury wholeadt hnoeduyb harmlesst t o i found be C e° ., cl THE MURDFRER OP HIS C / n ..-.At t tc he ed some pther t is i 0 locnhe prisoner alrdgwohaibsmys struck r t ut r ch i striking that Criminal Court, on Friday, Edward Dwyer, hawker's;seth 25, who, it will be remembered, put his child t? " t "the counter of a spirit shop, was tried. It was sall'oear hard names, while he on the contrary, fondled 1 . ts legs , g s e h v e ei trsa t treated head violently b it rh'l his w ife ' ag a 1 ns that he, in a state of excitement, seized the child by 1... and struck its head against the counter, and killed tii , 8 0 that he subsequently said he had fulfilled his r i l' a ngea• might hei tsth g hs a o leaotno t iph O kt irysii looking chogoenTupe person, rses l eg d olpunrwi ß i; sat, asoyshi prisoner, ae e eodd y r ; remwe n asiu d lrscsiri do s daeg e t ipr e rtp:ber i rf , in Iyaho t usi h e intT r at o bbte a r oe: Mr. Wilkins, on behalf of the prisoner, labouren ,t e qu iet strong excitation at the time, and recommenne,. on the mercy. Lord Denman passed sentence of, death ford prisoner, and said that the recommendation t° w here given by the jury would be forwarded to the CrolVo, it would, probably, be favourably considered . , e itY of SALISBURY ELECTION.—The election for tue - 0 0, Salisbury, terminated in the defeat of the Leag t l e iderrn,g date by a majority of 37,—a large majority', " i l er po' the smallness of the constituency, the total nu° • tetbs led amounting to only 517. Did we choose to imlte sio g, conduct of the Leaguers in reference to other cc ° A . mp h. ~ we should vaunt this result as a glorious to° ca lled l' radical succeeded a radical in London, and they . rt ll' a great victory. Another radical succeeded anothesioilst cal in Kendal, and that was a great victory too. A is hat9; But conservatives have no need of paltry victory has been gained by the conservatives in I,_ as noisy, clamorous boastings, to make their streng tn ot ion t.,, i) greater than it is ; and therefore we have no in t% g al represent the issue of this contest as being whe t lb of t he , it is not. It adds nothing to the former stre t t C „t it ''' ministerial party in the House of Commons. 1 ,00 !.. nevertheless inflicted a most damaging bloW 1 it PI Manchester agitators. It has shown them , al l i m ore ° shown the country at large, that they have ra ° ace° llv big talk than of real power. And what have the'', p oet. plished ? What impression have their lectures, than, the ins, and money—(if it be true that a portioinoivea for; £lOO,OOO now raising in Manchester was en I P e i e cto o " this patriotic purpose)—made upon the Salisburt,r. Dow Why, positively fewer votes were received by ..)Lerai beg verie than were recorded for Mr. Brodie, the ~1 1g 4 j, vib e " didate at the general election in 1841. In t ere the gross poll was less than on the Pr ese b 01,1 sion, Mr. Brodie polled 293 votes, the" pass' than Mr. Bouverie. At the first election after sior; of the reform bill, when the gross poll was_ s3 . l ,: e rie U P ° die polled 392 votes,-122 more than Mr. I °°` - a gross poll of 587. v ins ts b nce l, EXTRAORDINARY SAGACITY.—Of the me n d b oblis - : a of canine sagacity which have been known e ''' . ' in -9 , t he bf if - any, of them can equal, we are sure none or . 0 t o i surpass the following, which we had narraterla.thoon Robert Murray, shepherd to Mr. Samuel l'AtarT6 Path of Condie, near Dunning, in Perthshire. p st ter had purchased for his master four score of ' be „ e arro,h. last Falkirk Tryst, but having occasion to st e f it v of t e r day, and confident in the faithfulness and sag,s__'„,', to ~g collie, which was a female, he committed the otry e o f s ho e % care, with orders to drive them home, a dista% e the to I , 3 ' e 17 miles. The poor bitch, when a few miles on toe,. sop, petit dropped two whelps ; but, faithful to he r „,,, allO'afoit drove the sheep on a mile or two further-AT,. ca rve bet them to stop, returned for her pups, which s"T es ving„ o ve about two miles in advance of the sheet , . •" - s tid u' jo, pups, the collie again returned for the sheeye.a to _,„, them onwards a few miles. This she contn,urfigebagi alternately carrying her own young ones a nd 01 ' , n er f t t he of the flock, till she reached home. The ti er ed u ! f ed acting on this occasion was afterwards ga,:d obs' r t 0 0 shepherd from various individuals, wh o l ' i ; anii ° ad these extraordinary proceedings of the dul l " honletore the road. However, when collie reached h er ups 0 delivered her charge, it was found that the tw ° p P e or I le' diately to a rabbit brae in the vicinity , dead. In this extremity, the instinct of ,t, h , e w eot il die earth two young rabbits, which she was, if possible. yet more remarkable. °l e out ;oars deap n o d s t itre ga sow on e gitipial e, t hen .:b s he i° straw in a barn, and continued to suckle letfr slowniso be h u enrt: master, mentioned,aste thatw l i i lo m f o a n r s a ht s iei esmederavtyarnefttousnroniilngugcw,k the / Y s b o u l a ° hi c e e: sack above them and smothered them' t 4r ,t in i ,"„ale l : markable narrative, the bitch set off to wher e o t 13 on the road from home.—Caledonian itleref,4ol;ary c ase der u" rest, „4 mistaken identity occurred last week, un ~e1:01 Th om, MISTAKEN IDENTITY.—A most extr]nr"ll, f°ist; circumstances :—A carpenter, named Cletme rk s t A to ora at Stonehouse, being engaged on some ° c hest lyer oe cross farm, for accommodation bad taken at Pen Te d n? thither. Having occasion to leave the ..1°" he 10° bis r e " for a few days in the early part of last wnsio on a tbe a his tool-chest and left it there, to be os,e,"Ne fe u e jl arri e surfing his work • going thither on Fo"hi e tool Saae . chest had been 'broken, and some of I" ado to away. On returning home he gave inforif„,nced!werit3B ders, the constable, who immediately eon'i t c ies i3O c T rie sdal for the tools, and he soon found tha t °r oe S e e . s tree r ' the description had been purc hased in .. S l. OO ll; preceding by Mrs. Penery, a brm' e a;y; a° 00 0 Of t ~. Clemmens identified the tools on M °l 'fietterl' toolS we : day, Saunders, Clernmens, and Mr. ~e 0 the nartief broker, aged 19, who was in the shoe s l ' e if theßowe eP' bought, proceeded to Pennycross , to, se Mr. ( his to en ,' selling the goods could be identifieaLnesty °'„boureC„ pressed the greatest confidence in the whereP his '''. at the but directed the parties to the field loo king ..,,rtl On s th e r the were engaged in digging potatoes. _id wa ~ o is ; 4 men, Penery pointed out one, who he '-t th e n ' l3 with t'' of whom he said his mother had bougicil to g oail• man protested innocence, but consente,eme the r oa n 1 constable. That day he was charged, i', o olVir s • p olo. traces at Stonehouse with the theft, an'. ~, was ° e .t.a O P ' and her son unhesitatingly score that a an a on the of whom the stolen property was boo trial. cbotro dence then adduced he was committed rne i n to o u t tb: diately after the committal, Mr. Row e emistalre.esea, he_A and stated that there must be soc ee he felt sa ti n ste t _s c ' identity, for the man now committed, time Ise We tot eee' to have sold the tools ; and, under th e el tt a o f th e o i te• not left his farm on the day and at the " e 61.0 10 asal l i he offered to become security for tb u PI 1310t1Ihr I'6lool On Thursday Mr. Rowe, being in --Y being el a t th on a charge of stealing fowls, also frotnimr` In edrat e leie t re Guildhall, went into the court, when Ittween the F , to the him that there was a resemblance be e . ,„ op iai l o o c ot 0 , two men (Tepper and Cumbes) were thetnny,sres,sioro_, man and Cumbes. He at once stat a u'' we pt to t , ; ,g tl , t magistrates' clerk, and Inspector Pry_ wit h atet o ; o,. Oa Tepper and Cumbes, and charged them d id htltigt tools, when Tepper at once said a'. third P arW etini be ; whither they were accompanied by _, en d e d. __war% he named, and who has since been aPF a re n u , were beat go% that Cumbes sold the articles near and Tepper, with Mr. Rowe's ,„ , P _outb, jr 0 „,eirr, brought up before the beach at rtYw the perso sell ns „to the i sere Penery and her son identified Cumberre tot ) " - ..messe 9 0 0 the tools, and stated that they we The w d e a to whom they bad before theysworn. had n' ° d . the i ' s much distressed at the naiatake ._ ol ,itte ; 1,1 b ~ victim of this awkward identity s tands G. but is bailed airefrft position being sent off to Exeter ea _ st praiseooo o master, Mr. Rowe, to whons the e n r tu the case. f the interest which he has shown i Times. ttlibeaStonebouse- who.: B an \ \ 4 t/ q i 4