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CLERKS quest, as pdges we inferior officers fille rs to this day b DIIIGE.-S the dew dirigo, beginning h "Da the Ne STATISTICS Of v Quarter , veks of The averag ling ! The part oft] -dee langtr atively, " ticularly Churches thernselvc and of all It hence P Christian! Lion o "8 f , i;oric h!, that t causidic soon after the eon- their sue- with the En to nb,erve a Thus was i nonn the mo, origine Tli . lb Hall, li unhinged b twice, in the from that of madness, an from heaven Etterature VARIETIES m of Mal ties clericu )ut of the s , or a certair ave su ISH SHIPW 'cial prayer in that n unison wi awful compen economy always exercised in doling on f the Creator. Thus the thorn and t fidelity, sagacity, equ canine species ' • sense, pnwe united in the huge form of the elepha; with his splend , cl plumage and hideous with h's 5 , ,b..r livery and match' pical clime, with its magnificent veer eases, and its loathsome reptiles—these lies, as well as that of genius, so often single tremulous hair over the gulf o' bably fragmen's of one wide law, por benevolent, but mysterious art an , :emer iven, all things are sold." Willingly o * Pay for whatever g mod or great q Still we are slow to bel merely, as it has been called, a beauti like a certain species of shell-fish, Wet , ilways stands topping aba and !uniting back on ve that genius is -w.e, which, ds pearls, or that its structure ye the rpecksands of frenzy. No ; the history of the past, we find that many of the very greatest of mind; have remain: d clear and cloudless in the whole coarse of their development. Such were those of Plato, Dante, Shalcs pere, Milton, Cervantes, Bacon, Scott, Wordsworth, SchTer, and Goethe, names which form the first row in the great g.-neral4 , llery of ages, and yet were all as free from the obscuration or eclipse of unadne6s as are the brilliant stars which compose the constellation of the pla nets from the - fogs and foul exhalations which bedim the lamp, of the street.—Hogg's Weekly Instructor. upon them ,sed, from %bove two millions-at. a out of ." Abba, service, —A writer in thit the average nem- -year are 600 half st±r- We raw every twenty y or the other, c and Chat ' and figur- ad Ethiopic The bishops is which folluwi pun .—T may sa It I have no I .efic nd Car, .nenced t many ipathv, [l-(1 in his pe ory and ,o jo' " descrihrs hi Irable taint c 3 closely at a wandered in lilt that led Perhaps ;ach tE ith the general plan, Wi Isations of the universe. 10 , 2dga Rev raitors. nei in the cane er sti gs putting fort tPrnperam•nt 9xford and Cam I in cialkne,s nous I - ov, the ' Thus, too, the ,eltind his ploi:.h ;Of as bhisted ab hypoclionthi.i." owt rs bad been Shekinab, bad :o the wild land of astray was a light after all, are oily the austere and We find a strict rose grow! in the seri characterieeing the r, and chmsine-sA t ; the peac, am; the night- song ; the tro tion, ite fell dis- sOFpended by its aridness, are pro- ions of Nothing is r unwillingly; men lahty is conferred PHILADELPHIA.—We next went by rail from New York to Philalelphia through the state of New Jersey. Large fields of maize, without the stumps of trees rising above the corn, and villas with neat flower garden, ap peared a novel! y to us after the eye had dwelt for so many hundred of miles on native forests and new clearings. The streets of Philadelphia real the finest alteli towns in cleanliness- and the beautiful avenues of various kinds of es affura aost welcome shade in summer. We were e days her and every night there was an:alarm of fire, rees afford a cr ually a false one t the - noisa of the firemen was tre- rid of the pr n came a runner wing a horn with a deep one y sound, next a long .n (for no lv-,r are employed) drawi ,nich the ponderous engine was attached with a large it at the top, ringing all the way ; next followed a mob, me with torches. others shouting loudly ; and ',:.fore ,ey were half out of hcarinz, another engine follows with like escort ; the whole affair resembling a scene in Der rieschutz or Robert le Diable, rather than an act in real It is, however, no Bham. for these young men are adv to risk their lives in extingui , hing a tire ; and as an we ware told ere was no cau )isters ur-and-tic that the youth here gnire excitement !" T _ f,ctively at Boston without turmoil.—Lytll's Trave DECISION OF A RAILWAY COMMITTHE.—I - Lak ! t tters as a 4 of a 11 overturn and the whole crowd rush el e door How pr IPgiSlatol a twinkle in the eye of f their d any of thrm av, with a refine the chairman is t I be p,r- committ , t ie - Dre.:p a trium- r burs five-and-twi r, chAe up t arid unfcr ckwold's yi, nimely, b most mai was I to the WELLING under .11: t the f ['item b& t a rise with Imo, or challenge you to leap It. Thouvli you twiy oechne to uo these bold arid hoist( L Wi umnrous sal ith all t emllorary erMatiOn 0 atighictg C' N y. VOCTiI I} af I and adderily pr.,r 11S, Whl RUeSIAN PKASANTRY Prusia are hardy, Iron articuy y habit- of p As for pers-.11, 11, v. ( d the t,e ? Not t the Ilucch!e 11 this, •tuti ird endutin old. Gm all the, very poor, of little MIT rimemt, a,nrt not e In the winter thy undergo c houses, huts, and hovels bring ill built and th,ir elothog not w,rin enough. men do not work harder than our azric qu , nti , y r woei, t but the women and gill. do, and many orotir districts throug,hout hard a- those .4 nn we a eat pres , nt yet often pr sent handswhe five= and stout f will alioost a'ways he f und, in such instsoc , diet is better. The South Stafford-hire cAlie the best of 'diet. is;,:r would a eompari,on v gon awn wit] girls in our tn , nufartories bt anv that their ,cter.stics are Otally d.ffereut of tlie Prussian peasantry are far from bein eau., malformed. or ti::klv—they are simply f, atu i e d, and meagre. Tl.i . s appea. 'ince is co pe4Fan!ry, even in cases where they re ,id e w of the toms. t” ii 00 micl rls in these towns are the b-ttrr Burt of se id more especially the dressmakers. 7 Int work hard from seven at night._ s work, of a e: quite am neaki ,e, arid nus ; but it ak, deli- vittin a nii!e sties prev..il ne word - - - doubted ; but there is no Zuch thing as "night-work" in I nista, and there are many Fesfinge nand holytlaY , 4,) besides Sundays, and FeirtagP, (feast -4 ' l when no s-rt. of work is v done; and •• after ch urc h" there is notbinz but arous.went. T he poorest serv an t s of a ll. work, or kitchen-m aids, usually dance will I can read and write well ; hare their lovers, and indeed, are very fond of writing love-letters. As for the milliner and dressmaker gir's, and girls who serve in shops, their personal appe.tr. ance, in all respects, is often of a superior kind. The diet of these classes is probably something better than that of the peasantry, anti besides, their wok being of a nature more suitable to females, they are not so constantly exposed to the weather, nor to the atmosphere of the rank tobacco of the little huts and cottages of the country.. people. Moreover, the dress of the town's women is graceful and b , coming, while that of the pea-ants is the most ungraceful and unbecoming that could well Le in vented.—Jerrold's Shilling illagazine. g to six or arting. m before I ) former aciA aN , urlll THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SALE OF SLAVES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THEOLOGY. —We find the following notice, signed by the Deputy-she riff, of a public sate, in the Savannah _Republican of March 3, 1815. After describing the plantation which was to be sold, the notice adds—" Also, at the same time and place, the following negro slaves, to wit, Charles, Peggy, Antonett, Davy, September, Maria, Jenny, and Isaac—levied on as the property of Henry T. Hall, to satisfy a mortgage fi. fa. issued out of Mclntosh Supreme Court, in favour of the board of directors of the Theolo gical Seminary of the Synod of South Carolina and Georgia v. said Henry T. Hall. Conditiona cash." MATRIMONIAL Cu tutENcY.--The enterprising colonists being generally destitute of families, Sir Edward Sandys, the treasurer, proposed to the Virginia Company to send over a freight of young women to become wives for the planters. The proposal was applauded; and ninety girls, young and uncorrupt, were sent over in the ships that ar rived this year (1620), and the year following, sixty more, handsome and well recommended to the c )mpany for their virtuous education and demeanour. The price of a wife at the first rate was "one hundred pounds of to- bacco ;" but as the number became scarce, the price was increased to "one hundred and fifty poturls ;" the value of which in money was 34. per pound. Th's debt for wives it was ordered should have the precedency of all other debts, and be first recoverable. The Rev. Mr. Weems, a Virginian writer, intimates that it would have done a man's heart good to sae the gallant young Virgini ans hastening to the water side when a vessel arrived from London, each carrying a bundle of the best tobacco under his arm, and taking back with him a beant , ful and virtu ous young wife.—Gilbert' Banking in America. A VENETIAN PICTURE DEALER'S ROGUERY.—Tra vellers should he on their gua-d against the impositions Practised by Venetian picture dialers, as even the most experienced connoisseur may easily be taken in uy Not long ago a gentleman visited a celebrated depot of paintings in this city, and, happening to fancy a particu lar picture, agreed, after some little bargaining with the dealer, to purchase it. All was settled, but the gentle man insisted on taking it home with hiin, having his gon dola at hand. " What," said the dealer, " have you any doubts of my sending you_the origival ? Put your own seal on the back, and - satisfy yourself." This was, how ever, declined by the purchaser, who, sending for his ser vant, ordered him to carry the picture downstairs in spite of the entreaties and remonstrances of the collector. On arriving at his hotel the gentleman found, after a close scrutiny, a copy neatly inserted in the frame behind the he would have sealed, had he suffered )f course he kept both, himself' to De pre the dealer, as may readi.y be imagined, never appearing to claim either.—Ainsworth's Magazine. WORKING. THE ORACLE. (From Ainsworth's Magazine.) Theophilus forcing his way through a very miscellane ous assembly, consisting chiefly of attorneys, clerks, and farmers, anxiously inquires," How are the Squabashes ?" " All right," is the reply, " Government have given their consent. Committee seem to have made up their minds. Two of them have been asleep, the chairman wri ting letters all the time. They 're as safe as the bank !" The heart of Theophilus leapt within him. Thank God, be had got out of a great mess in the case of the Squa bashes, that he was no longer a bear, but a valorous bull again ! Being relieved from anxiety upon this st ore, he rushes into room double X, where the Great North Cir cumbendibus line is under consideration. He arrives apparently in the nick of time. There is evidently a hitch. Committee look as grave as Mr. Cal craft on the day of an execution,—counsel argue and ar gue, try to puzzle them, try to frighten them, to cajole them—anything. Bystanders in a ferment. Heads peer ing forward in a huge red mass; a whole phalanx of hats elevated aloft on sticks. " A datum error ! Is it indeed a datum error ? Will it be fatal to the bill ?" " They can hardly get over it, I should think. Com mittee seem to think so." Theophilus waited for no more. " Sell 500 Great North Circumbendibus ;" he writes on a card, hands it to a jockey ready waiting on horseback, who starts off like a flash of lightning for the city. He returns to the room, snapping his fingers, and rubbing his hair all round his head like a man with a headache; "there's a one and a half operation to a certainty," he exclaims. He has hardly entered the room, however, when he per ceives that the discussion is still going on, and with some what a different complexion. Mr. Plumline, the engineer, proves that it ' _ is a surface error, and not a datum error, and after some communing the committee overrule all the apprehended fatal objections. How differently does an event affect one according to circumstances. Theophilus saw none but smiling faces around him ; very few, however, of the oth e r sor t. A gents , counsel, witnesses, all pleased—triumphant ; whilst he, poor animal of a bear, had nothing else to do but to scam per into the city and undo all he had done on the best terms be could. On jumping into a cab he had the satis• faction of seeing a man on horseback start off at full tear, who would of course anticipate him in the market. Well, by dint of bullying and bribing the cabman he gets into the city in seventeen minutes and a half, and finds himself in the little, dark, unfurnished upper apart ,. . ti tle of office by its occupant Mr. Popps "l'opps," he cried, " I have made a sad mistake ! Buy back all those Direct Circumbendibuses." " Dear me! I thought you had made some mistake. They went down thirty shillings ten minutes before your express arrived. However, I sold them, as you left. me noOption, at -" go, buy them back—close them and have done with them." Off went Popps, and in a few minutes returned. )sed them at four and four and a quarter ; sold will make hem at three ai wo-and-a-' immptlia unoying affair " and be proceeded then to other business, till Certainly ; another customer ad Led him away, and sent him again into ".the House Meantime Theophilus chewed the cud of disappoint ment in silence, watching the operations of the juvenile clerk, who with wonderful expedition made out the follow- " Sold for you. for the 15th, £ s. 300 Direct Circumbendibuses, 2 pd, 3 pm. 1650 0 200 Ditto n pm. 1000 0 2650 0 62 10 Deduct commission £2587 10 Bought for you, 200 Direct Circumbendibuses. 2i pd, 3 pm. 1200 0 300 Ditto at 4i p.m. 2025 0 £3225 0 The clerk was too genteel to draw the balance ; but Theo philus saw at a glance that it was somewhere between six hundred and seven hundred pounds for his afternoon's exertions. He began now to think affairs looked serious, and had only the Squabashes to depend upon as his sheet anchor. " Why, what's the matter with the Squabashes?" said Popps, as he came into the room, and putting down his hat walked to the fatal desk ; " they are throwing them in by cart loads. It's well you got out of yours, Mr. Smith." The little clerk, if he had touched Theophilus with the tip of his pen, might have felled him to the ground. " Squabashes ! I'm not out of them—that is, I'm in again ! For God's sake, go and see what you can ao for me. Sell six hundred of them at any price, and let me quit this infernal city." He clenched his hand, smote the fatal desk, and for the first time Theophilus seemed really dejected. His pluck hitherto had been the admiration of the whole room. LIGHT OF THE Moo perpen ,on's axis is near! any change of seasons. But what is still more re arkable, one half of the moon has no darkness at all, miler half has two weeks of light and two of darkness alternately ; the inhabitants, it any, or rue in:. half bask constantly in alternate earthshine and sunshine, while those of the latter never see the earth at all. For, n stated, the earth reflects tl: tin to the moon, in the '3e moon does t be enlightened by the_sun, and the nearer half by the earth ; and at the time of op position or full moon, one half of her will be enlightened by the sun, but the other half will be in total darkness. To the lunarians the earth seems the largest orb in the ; for it appears to them more than three times of the sun, and thirteen times greater than thd to herself, but moon does to us ex tibiting simi in a reverse order, for when the moon is full, the earth is invisible to them ; and when the moon is new, they will see the earth full. The face of the moon appears to wrmanent but to them the earth presents ve appearances ; the Pacific and Atlantic Off course of each twenty-four hours, will succ 1 surprise and conjecture tain of those gentle month at the time, hose near , those on the side opposite the earth never see it at all. The moon being but the fiftieth part of the bulk of our globe, and within 558,000 miles of us, may be brourrht by a proper telescope, which magnifies 1000 times ear as she would to the naked eye were she onl , 250 miles off. y different .ns, in the sively rivet sionally RAILWAY ne of the le have much g PECULATION.—The d remarks on of gambling in railway shares neral combination of all men of prof means for There should rty and homy sening the crisis which must shortly ensue, if this spirit of gam bling, which has now infected the whole of the Unite' Kingdom, is not checked. If it cane alliated, and in tt " It has been obs effects may b zestions `• Hurrah ! Squabashes dished 1" exclaimed a huge vul gar man, in a green short-cut coat. " Preamble not bearing them through thick and thin. They're down to par to a quarter. I make two hundred pounds!" prove( knd I, bought Theophilus, " lose near two thou- He could not stop to face Popps on his return from the " house." He resolved to see him never more. He walked deliberately from the room, with a quiet •` good- bye," which he inwardly intended to be ti final one— jumped into a cab, and drove to his mother's house in Square. How natural it is for us to run to one's mother when all the rest of the world treats us unkindly. Theophilus did so ; not with the intention of whining about his trou bles, or seeking for means to meet them. He main tained a cheertul countenance throughout the evening ; cast up his losses mentally with stoical fortitude ; the next day sold out stock to pay the amount; and almost laugh ing at his folly, resolved to economise what estate he had left, and to " work the oracle" no more. May he have fortitude to keep so good a resolution. DEATH OF THE GREAT LORD CHATHAM. The Law Review publishes some letters originally ad.. dressed to the Duke of Grafton. The following descrip tion of Lord Chatham's seizure in the House of Lords is from a letter to the Duke from Lord Camden : " I cannot help considering the little illness which pre vented your Grace from attending the House of Lords last Tuesday, to have been a piece of good fortune, as it kept you back from a scene that would have overwhelmed you with grief and melancholy, as it did me, and many others that were present : I mean Lord Chatham's fit, that seized him as he was attempting to rise and reply to the Duke of Richmond ; be fell back upon his seat, and was to all appearance in the agonies of death. This threw the wholelHouse into confusion, every person was on his legs in a moment, hurrying from one place to another, some sending for assistance, others producing salts, and others reviving spirits. Many crowding about the Earl to observe his countenance—all affected—most part really concerned ; and even those who might have felt a secret pleasure at the accident, yet pnt on the appearance o( distress, except only the Earl of M., who sat still, almost as much unmoved as the senseless body itself. Dr. Brocklesby was the first physician that came; but Dr. Addington in about an hour was brought to him. He was carried into the Prince's chamber, and laid upon the table supported by pillows. The first motion of life that appeared, was an endeavour to vomit, and after he had discharged the load from his stomach, that probably brought on the seizure, he revived fast. Mr. Strutt pre- pared an apartment for him in his house, where he was carried as soon as he could with safety be removed. He slept remarkably well, and was quite recovered yesterday, though he continued in bed. I have not heard how he is to-day, but will keep my letter open till the evening, that your Grace may be informed how he goes on ; I saw him in the Prince's chamber before he went into the House and conversed a little wick him, but such was the feeble state of his body, and indeed the distempered agitation of his mind, that I did forbode that his strength would certainly fail him before he had finished his speech. In truth he was not in a condition to go abroad ; and he was earnestly requested not to make the attempt; but your Grace knows how obstinate he is when lie is resolved He had a similar fit to this in the summer; like it in all respects, in the seizure, the retching, and the recovery ; and after that fit, as if it had been the crisis of the dis order, he recovered fast, and grew to be in better health than I had known him for many years. Pray heaven that this may be attended with no worse consequences. The Earl spoke, hut was not like himself ; his speech faltered, his sentences broken, and his mind not master of itself. Ele made shift with difficulty to declare his opinion, but was not able to enforce it by argument His words were shreds of unconnectel eloquence, and flashes of the same fire which he, Prometheus-like, had stolen from heaven, and were then returning to the place from whence they were taken. Your Grace sees even I, who am a mere prose man, am tempted to be poetical while I am dis coursing of this extraordinary man's genius. The Duke of Richmond answered him, and I cannot help giving his Grace the commendation he deserves for his candour, courtesy, and liberal treatment of his illustrious adver sary." The Editor of the Review says, the only two Earls of M. present were Lords Marchmont and Mansfield, and infers that Lord Camden must have alluded to the former, as the latter was wholly incapable of suffering such feel ings to be seen on such an occasion." It has been re marked, however, that Lord Camden would have gone out of his way to speak of a person so insignificant as Lord Marchmont. As if Lord Marchmont ranked with that select band so welt known to the writer and his corres pondence, " who might have felt a secret pleasure at the accident." Plainly the passage refers to Lord Mansfield, and to none else. The only person who sharply cheered the Duke of Richmond in his famous attack on the Chat ham opposition a month before th , s scene, was Lord Mansfield; and the last sarcasm of the dying orator on this memorable diy was pointed at Lord Mansfield."* * This may be seen in the only other existing account of the debate. Lord Chatham, just before he fell, was ridiculing the apprehension of an invasion, and recalling former apprehensions of that kind. "Ofa Sp tnish invasion, of a Urench invasion, of a Dutch invasion. many noble Lords have read in history; and some Lorca (looking keenly at Lord Mansfield) may, perhaps, remembers Scotch invasion." The speech is described in the volume of the Chatham Correspondence. CHANGE OF. DIET.—We see Mr. Forbes Mackenzie was amongst the number of guests at the Ministerial white bait din ner . W e h ope th e h on . m e m ber was pro vided with something better than his own words to eat; fir really noth ng else seems to have passed Mr. Mac kenzie's lips since he has joined the mess of Ministers.— Punch. bnom Led the 1-nt Polk, a was a he Cr( be wholly so, i light these worst feature in railway speculation was the buyin by anticipation.' I know saveral instances where have lost a large sum by this species of gambling, can call it by know me, in haste, t rders to all your corr f shares at t fferent towns, tha' they, in future, onl f those scheme w.state the pric heMarket, arid not, as n crip is in t emium per st 1 just advertir of those comp:ltnes only in embryo, Jefore the allotment of letters, and is the plan you adopt with respect t the L;ildon S course with the country ones? For when there are no quo n lirLondon, people naturally look to what is ____„ _Averpool.Bristol, &c., when they find any parti cular scheme is rising. The directors aredeluged with a host plieations from all parties—good, had, and in ant—and the former, or those who _ apply for the .3tions give It. I of bond j '? investment, generally receive r tion ; while the bad, . answer to their lette those who want shag f appl for the purpose of speculat obt-' • and mo wining them ; s, finding their concern is rising in the market, allot none to the public (however high the refer - ) but keep the shares all them _ next day at a premium."—Times. OUR MERCANTILE DIPLOMACY.—Mr. Chapman gives rally the direct ence a party may gi. it as his opinion, and the opinion it is of a very exre tbmced merchant, that we have been always overreached in our foreign mercantile diplomacy ; and we fear some instances adduced of the dexterity of our commercial ri vals, or of the re❑►issness of our own Foreign Office or Consular Depa:tments, will rather tend to confirm him ; —that from the day of the date of the Riciprocity Treaty with Prussia, of the article salt, the only bulky article which this country can export to that ally, not a single n carried there in a British ship, the reser: pound has bee _ . . won of that state, under which salt, being a royal government does not buy any imported, )t it arrive in a Prussian ship ;—that owing to restrict- 3opoly, the ing duties. British ships are driven from the Havannah whither Liverpool formerly carried on a large and profit able trade ;—that the same tonnage measurement does not even iu our own ports apply to our own and foreign ves- sels, the foreigners having the best of the discrepancy ; that there would be an almost utter impossibility of ob taining any Russian trade unless the shipowner belongs, and pays, to the Russian company; that British ships trading even to Archangel are subjected to the vexatious expense of paying to an English Church at St. Peters burgh and Moscow ;—that in Russian, Prussian, and French ports a duty is levied on the provisions and on the stores that the ship carries of necessity for her own use ; possible to . . obtain any vouchers for the port payments exacted in great sums on all British ships entering Baltic harbours; —that, for three years after they are built, Russian ships, which only live six years, by an exemption from their go vernment port duties, have pro lotto a decided advantage over ours,—all these, and an infinity more of little items of charge, of delay, and of annoyance, of which the com mittee received ample proof, do surprise us, and will be a subject of fair coxlplaint and reproach by the shipping in terest till they cease to exist ; and certainly no opportu nity which the progressive, extension of commerce, on the generally acknowledged sound principles, offers, of giving employ and increase to our mercantile navy, should be lost. The removal of the duty on coals has lately been one occasion, and advantage of it has been taken.—New Quarterly Review. LITERARY CHARACTERISTICS OF THE HOLY SCRIP TURES.—T:;ere is no more decisive mark of a great writer than this, that his thoughts are pregnant thoughts—that they germinate in the mind of the. reader, and suggest a . . multitude of ideas beyond what is written. Tried by this criterion, how plainly does the Bible stand at the head of a!! literature ! What other book has been so suggestive of thought in its readers ? What other book has furnished the seed from which so many productions of genius have sprung ? It has been noted as the highest proof of Sir Isaac Newton's divining genius, that most of the great discoveries of later philosophers are hut the developments of hints and principles thrown out of his writings. With equal truth may it be affirmed, that to the Bible belongs the glory of having originated nearly all that is sublime and pure in the literature of Christendom for the last eighteen hundred years. WI sc are the countless treatises which illustrate , he Christian doctrine; what the count less sermons and essays which enforce moral and Chris tian duties ; what the innumerable controversial works which discuss articles of faith and modes of worship and government ; what the noblest conceptions and finest images of our Christian poets and orators—what are all these but a ma's of evidence illustrative of the germinant, p olific, exhaustless quality of the thoughts and sentiments of the Bible? Nay, were all other proof wanting, the sin gular richness of Scripture-thought would be sufficiently evinced by the undiminished profit and unflagging inte rest with which pious readers peruse the sacred books from the beginning to the close of life. In numberless pa: sages, there is a fulness of meaning which repeated pe rusal fails to exhaust. There is, indeed, for the most part, a plain and obvious sense which any one may perceive ; but there is usually also a deep and recondite sense which patient examination alone can detect. There is a wine which flows at the first gentle treading of the grape; but there is also a wine, stronger and more exhilarating, which flows out only after the crush of the winepress. Most literary works will hardly bear a second reading; the best become flat and uninteresting after you have gone three or four times through them ; you have gained all their ideas —you have exhausted their beauties—you no longer delight in them. But it is not thus with the Bible. There are countless passages which you may have read hundreds of times, and which you may yet read over again to-morrow with fresh relish. As often as you peruse them with at tention, you discover something new ; and the more at tlntively you peruse them, you discover the more. "The fairest productions of human art" says Bishop Horne, " after a few perusals, like gathered flowers, wither in our hands and lose their fragrancy ; but these unfading plants of paradise become, as we are accustomed to them, still more and more beautiful; their bloom appears to be daily heightened, fresh odours are emitted, and new sweets are extracted from them. He who bath once tasted their ex cellencies, will desire to taste them yet again ; and be who tastes them oftenest, will relish them best."—Hogg's Weekly Instructor. .r. and -tids by 'n iructor GENERAL MISCELLANY. Sir Howard Douglas had an interview with Lord Stan ley, on Friday, at the Colonial Office. All marriages at Gretna-green are declared illegal from the Ist of January next. The Sycee silver just arrived from China is to be sold by public competition. Yesterday week a medical student named Murrough was gored to death by a bull in a field near Gravesend. The Privy Council has refused a charter of incorpo ration for the town of Bradford. Lord Sandon arrived in London, on Wednesday, with his family, from Belgium. The Royal children are at Osborne House under the charge of Lady Lyttleton. W. Bailie, Esq. offers for Linlithgowshire, on the con servative interest, in the place of Mr. Hope, the newly appointed governor of the Isle of Man. During the past week, a female named Carlton, resi ding in the city of York, was single, married, and a wi dow, all within the space of three days. A claim to the Scotch peerage of Lovat, which has been suspended since the execution of Lord Lovat in 1746, has been put in by the Rev. A. G. Fraser, A.M. Guernsey cider is selling at Brixham for 18s. per hog shead. cask and all. The crop of apples is unusually great in the Channel Islands. On Monday night, four seamen who had gone out in a lugger with a pilot, to a ship off the harbour of Norfolk, were drowned by the upsetting of the boat. William Spicer, a journeyman basket-maker, has been committed on the charge of the wilful murder of his wife, at Reading. Masons in Northumberland are now publicly offered £1 is. per week, while twelve months ago 15s. to Hs. was the current rate of wages. Two persons were killed and fifteen seriously injured by an explosion of hydrogen gas in the Bath pit, near Ashby de-la-Zouch, a few days siuce. A vacancy has occurred in the representation of South• work by the death of Benjamin Wood, Esq. Mr. Jere miah Plicher, late Sheriff of London, is a candidate. Live geese have become an article of import from the kingdom of Hanover into Hull. Lord William Harvey has been appointed minister ple nipotentiary from England to France during the absence on leave of Lord Cowley. Mr. Sergeant Murphy retires from Parliament next February, owing, he says himself, to excess of business, according to others to intimidation. His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge is on a visit to Sir William Massey Stanley, at the worthy ba ronet's shooting box in Inverness. Last week Mr. Cripps was returned for Cirencester, Sir C. Douglas for Warwick, and Lord Arthur Lennox for Chichester—all unopposed: A young boy, the son of Mr. Whitbread, near Bedford, was killed, last week, by a tree, which a woodman was cutting down, falling on him. Mr. and Miss Vandenhoff performed a round of their favourite characters, last week, at the Newcastle and Stafford theatres, with brilliant success. The movement now taking place in the borough cf Southwark, will be the means of raising, in that populous district, at least twenty new churches and schools. On Thursday last, at noon, a smut shock of an earth quake was felt in Crieff, Perthshire. The s oubterranean rumble continued for several seconds, and was loud in comparison with the shake felt. Yesterday week, Mr. Kenworthy, a teacher of swim ming, for a wager, jumped from Hungerford Bridge into the Thames, and swam to Blackfriars Bridge, in ten minutes. ANOTHER RISE IN THE PRICE OF BREAD.—On Fri day the bakers of the east end of the metropolis raised the price of bread of the second quality to 8d the quartern, being an advance of one half-penny in the 41b. A number of the Licensed Victuallers of about to give an undertaking to the authorities, that they will close their houses every Sunday until half-past twelve. On Friday week, as a female servant in the service of Mr Swift, at Wombwell near i3arnsley, was takiti gun from a shelf to d us t i t , i t went off and shot ' dead an other female servant standing by. g down a In one of the districts of Hackney, where a church-rate has several times been refused, the churchwardens have been allowed by the Bishop of London to raise the price of the sittings in the church, and out of the money thus obtained pay the ordinary church•rate expenditure. - The Queen has issued her Royal Letter to the Arch bishops of Canterbury and York, authorising them to promote, within their respective provinces, contributions in aid of the fund now raising in this country for the suf ferers by the late calamitous fires at Quebec. ACCIDENT AT PLAY.—On Monday George Attford, a boy shout nine years of age, residing in Silver-street, London, bad his eye forced out of its socket by an oyster shell thrown by a companion, with whom he had quarrel led respecting the division of a collection for a •• grotto." Mr. Maxwell (a Roman Catholic) has been compelled to retire from the contest of Kirkcudbrightihire. Lieut. Col. M`Dowall is the conservative candidate, and Mr. Maitland, late Solicitor-General, has been induced to come forward by the liberals. Richardson's theatre at Dartford was destroyed by fire on the night of Tuesday. The stage and all the theatri cal property, with the booth, was destroyed. The loss is estimated at £1,200. When the flames broke out the au dience had only been dismissed about ten minutes. Lord Stanley arrived in town on Friday, from his seat, Walton-on-Thames. 11 is lordship will not leave town for Knowsley Hall, Lancashire, until the return of the Earl of Aberdeen from Germany.. His lordship now superintends the business of the Foreign Office. An oak stiddy, in the smithy of Mr. William Parkin son, Nog Toe, Vt. oodplumpton, on which there has been an anvil regularly worked for the last five years, has this spring put out several strong heal* sprouts in full leaf. Although upwards of 400,000 persons have bathed in the Serpentine River since the season commenced only one person has been drowned, so active have been the officers of the Humane Society. We regret to hear that the means of the society are very stinted. THE MOORS.—The 12th of August was a miserable day for the sportsman, and but- comparatively few birds were killed on the Lancashire, Derbyshire, and York shire hills. Birds are evidently scarce, an d the late rains are no doubt the cause of it, for too much wet is as inju rious to the existence of grouse as very dry weather. ACCIDESIT TO MR. JUSTICE CRESSWELL.—OR Sa turday night week, as Mr. Justice Cresswell was pro ceeding from Appleby to Lancaster his carr-age was over thrown in descending a steep hill on the north side of Borrowbridge, but neither his lordship nor his attendants sustained any injury. MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.—James Stewart, toym crier of the Linktown of Ktrkaldy, and a person of the name of Leishman, while labouring under the influence of liquor, took a bet to swim out to and round a boat that was lying at some distance off, it being full tide. Leishman, after being out a good way, turned and Caine to the shore. Stewart was drowned. At the Petty Sessions held in Staines, Aliiidlesex, on Tuesday, a case came on in which it was tried, on the part of the parish of Hampton-, whether the inmates of Hampton Palace were liable to levies for poor rates. The Crown contested, although the rate bad been paid in February, 1839. The magistrates refused to grant a dis tress warrant, but the case stan.ls adjourned. MURDER AT LEICESTER. —An inquest was held on Tuesday on the body of Hannah Hubbard, supposed to have been murdered by her husband (William Hubbard.) Witnesses were examined, whose testimony left no doubt of the guilt of the husband. The jury accordingly re turned a verdict of " wilful murder" against Wm. Hub bard, who was forthwith committed to gaol for trial. AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS.—The wages of agricul tural labourers in Pembrokeshire hive risen to sixteen shillings and eighteen shillings per week, in consequence o the paucity of good hands. A great proportion of the able bodied men have left for the continent, where high wages and continued employment may be had on the various lines of railways. THE SUGAR TRADE.—A very minute inquiry has been instituted monk the grocers and retail dealers through out the metropolis and adjoining districts, the result of which is both curious and interesting. In the wealthier quarters the increase in the consumption of sugar varie , from ten to twenty per cent., but in the eastern parts of the tow❑ and poorer suburbs it actually ranges from thirty to sixty per cent. HOAXING A CORPORATION.—A vexatious hoax was played off upon the corporation of Colchester on the open ing of the railway. An invitation was received by the mayor, purporting to come from the directors of the Eas tern Counties Railway, and inviting the members of the council to join the expedition to Cambridge and partake of Mr. Gunter's dainties; but on a letter of acceptance be ing sent the trick was discovered. Bernard Cavanagh, the fasting man, expired on Sun day in London in his 32nd year. He had recently kept a huckster's shop, in which he bad failed. He had gone by an assumed name, and his right one did not transpire till shortly before his death. His brother, who was with him when be exhibited in Landon, was present. Deceased was of parsimonious habits, and often reduced to great extremities, but has left money in the bank. A stranger from Hereford was accosted in Bristol by a pretty-looking damsel, babited in deep mourning, who in formed him that she was much affected by his strong per sonal resemblance to a dear and beautiful young lover, whose loss she was then lamenting. Her polite address and persuasive manners won upon him, and he consented to take a st ro ll w i t h her, and to endeavour to assnage her grief. In about half an hour, she, with apparent re luctance, " tore herself away from him," and at the same time, managed to carry off his purse, containing two £lO notes and a half sovereign. TWO BROTHERS DROWN ED.-At Glssgow, On Sun day, two young men, brothers, while drunk, quarreled in the street, and one threw the other down repeatedly. When they reached the well, situated immediately beyond Donlinie's Hole, a short way westward of Allen's Pen, the elder brother threw the younger down upon the ground, and soiled his clothes, which were wiped by a little girl who chanced to be upon the spot. He then went to the brink of the river, and at the moment his bro ther George was drinking at the well. exclaimed, " Fare well, Georgie," and threw himself into the river. The elder brother at once plunged into his rescue, but fell upon bitn, and they both sunk. A ug. nfi 00 0 ° Trig Flees CHURCH .— After'raising £ rt -- - ' d de. £700,000 for churches, the Free Church of Scotian„usia termined recently to have a college, r.:l twenty indiv' esehu for instantly put down their names to,. . 1 . 1000 the purpose. Since then they have Oon,ulenced sd7os scription to build parsonages for their ministers, t_' t hat few weeks £40,000 or £50,000 has been raised fur entered nn u td r ep Jennings, r o e s de child. . the - . te d for h e behaved house l and at Killala , for causing the death of a publican ~. ch 1 " a revenue policeman, has been commit, witt therebrutality to the ti o or! was in bed, pulling her out, and rolling her ou the Alla he waifthm man, g,rHaecaactioem. the enied publican , by a tovrttaohrnes C r ane r 0 . 712 0 :, she was pregnant. This treatment made her 111, a - tber was prematurely born the next day, dead, and the 0 1 ° also died THE DUKE OF SUSSEX'S LIBRARY.—The ntle).be!,;o 7 days consumed in the disposal of this extensive colleu" tbe of books was 62, and the total amount produced bf Y ew saleouto tutors have e 9 gainedls. F o r p o w m a this rd so i f t £ w 3 il oo l b o e , le y en t h t e h the a g t oiav a_ea_t illus • trrous Prince between £15,000 and .£16,000 ; - A u ditioa not accepting their offer. The calleCtion cost t h be t t i b s ; it must be taken into consideration that a great 8 " re was made to the library by the number of books P seated to him being added to those he purchase d ' . t he ROYAL ACROSTICS.—The Queen's Speech,, ' i d of opening of the session, on the 4th January, consistehich twenty-three paragraphs, of the initial letters of wresti were the three forming the word WIT, as if he r ga3 The would appeal to the wisdom of her Witena Genol e " on paragraphs of the speech at the close of the seagen'och Tuesday last, though fewer in number, presented a f l or. , greater variety of initial letters : just sufficient , 0 ",.--as to spell the Anglo. Latin exclamation, "FY I i t° ,, gat' much as to say, away with you; you are doing l''` here. S brace. Crawford, grouse ;Hon. E'q., ll. and Fox party, i‘iau le, o f the GROUSE SnooTiNG.—The following is the rese" -•-•• fir_st clay's shooting on the principal Perthshire irle ° q : alt 2 W 00 106 b rse t h! Stt 3 li, Sir P. M. Threipland, Bart., Drum ' our Lodge , bran, 741 brace grouse and 7 hares ; Lord IVlexV r f e uz ailt Kinloch Rannoch, 68 brace ; Mr. Robertson, of T 13 ::rt; Grantully, 88 brace grouse, being half a day s s and 5 Rochallion a Lodge party, 3 guns, 77 brace grous e ' ,l, Sir W J o rm h e n s: M M ' ais K shs e ee n y z i :let,' e a o r n f n l Stanley 5 6 Vac s Dy s s e ih id i n r e e f ,r i ne en returns adr,opt aGI give wibe 2 oi n O s h O n 1 rj bracede; n t Sir grouse 3Agrouuniar,eeD, alna,pide. , e 1 CO SHOCKING ATTEMP T A T MURDER.--A frig ntiu• of attempted murder occurred on Friday week, at f l e ocl named e t d er m m a in r a ti t n e s fa c t o a m ll e y s . , Norfolk, which there is too much reason to aPP re The perpetrator is an 61 0 man about thirty years of age, is his wife's dang nb— mia' former husband. This outrage was committed atdo-4, day, in the public streets, when be knocker! her pe es and then cut her throat, and wounded her in several P and l'h the victim Ell'en Ru;tl4.doti.:-11by ; with a table kni:e ! The wretched man has subseque undergone an examination when he was remanded °ins the fate of the wom an w a s k nown . Sh e is at prese nt 00 t very precarious state. The cause of the assault Os stated. Api VAGARIES OF A HURRICANE.—A most eztrao r.• and vitlent hurricane visited Norfolk, on Saturday r oof Three or four men on the wharf were obliged t o , nr ing themselves flat on the ground, and seize the m u d s " the rings to prevent being blown aw a y by it; it lash e high river to foam; and threw up the spray twenty Yar ds u ndt —it dashed several swallows and sparrows to the g r° od and either killed or stunned them ; then it came uP pirouetted a quantity of coal-heavers' shovels je theoi and then it threw a young woman violently into a s ea, water, and wetted her to the skin. It came from te, i gh and it travelled, roaring and whirling boisterously I °s: 4 - t ea the town ; then it returned to sea, and there it com et ' other vagaries, and damaged other property. ADMISSION OF IRON INTO FRANCE DUTY Fora' The subject is now und ergo i ng th e mos t serious cons' nri. tion of the Minister of Commerce. Th e fact of Greal,beit fain and other countries now so largely e xtent:l ,ll g c tae I.avy by the erection of iron ve s sel s , h as made it be, a question of considerable interest with the Fr''"' TenchGibe' vernmeut, whether they are not placing difficultie s . i l ,;„of way of improving their own na vy by the impos" joy' heavy duties on foreign iron, as F r ance is even yet m o wn porting countiy, not producing sufficient for I he ir build' usual demands, much less any great increase for „ra, ing and other large works. The wh, question of tiqog. press of metallurgy in France, the prices of iron in 'r a d land. Belgium, &c., will be thoroughly entered i", t „, ° 'i t ted it will be shortly be decided whether ironshall ben'li be into France duty free or whether such duties shall s levied.—Mining - Journal. t 9' STATISTICS OF COMMITTEES.—During the P as t s gat sion, the Standing Orders Committee on Raibv 3 Y,," bet 39 days, and had 185 cases referred, (ordinary n u "" oi d referred, 60.) Committee of Selection sat 41 daY s '- It tes had 315 bills, (ordinary number, 180.) The Conorry on Petitions sat more days than the other two• r five railway group committees eat, which, with fiv e %ere hers in each, made a total of 225 members. There i 163 bills decided one way or the other, besides tho se "` 0 0 drawn, those unsupported, and those thrown pet os' standing orders. Taking the 163 bills only, and "P e r re' they had not been grouped, the 163 hills would ha ° rs• quired, at the reduced number of five, 815 Ine rnue ci% Of the committees 22 sat under 6 days, nine b.tween - d os, and twelve days, six between twelve and eighteen " s st three between eighteen and twenty-four clip, fi`' e sat above twenty-four ciys, and one of the committees 83 days. - - --- v ro- A BANKRUPT CORPORATIO N . —O w i ng to s j • t he tracted litigation between th e Ch ar ity T rus tees B , ll : r 'S Corporation, it appears, accor di ng t o the . .1 13 1, - ;clc, w own report, that the an c i en t b orou gh of of is in a state of Bankruptcy.. At a recent ineet'ardis the town-council, after a long and unsatisfacto r Y t ics cussion of the pending dispute between the corpo ra ! , of and the trustees of the charity funds, the que st tlien lighting and watching the town was entered upon ; " for the mayor observed,—" They had no contract n °° to e lighting the borough—there were material objections was high rate for any such purpose; indeed, the collector ~es, doubtful if he could levy one. They could notlf of land for a watch-rate ; and as for the houses, one ""• - d,- - ' them were empty." A member of the council °a or ., "There are 300 houses empty in the town. The toeFl o os "We are bankrupt. We owe £9OO and more• ko of, anxious to see the town properly lighted, but do n °l " - „, 0 . what advice to give under our present eircumst ee ' - ol It was finally resolved, that, as regarded the watching the lighting, the meeting should adjourn:for a f o rtniglA ;,01 same to be still further adjourned for six weeks as regs' the Charity Estates Chancery Bill. „,„ M!, DISAPPOINTMENT OF THE SPECULATORS FORA ha- IN CORN.—Our Contemporary, the Albion, Iv ' . of ti been for weeks indulging in doleful anticipatio ns „. 0 0, failing harvest, and a dear loaf, makes in his public a : r cel yesterday, the following admission :—" But the ° - .",,est is, alt this time, how the wheat of last year's b seems to spin out in inexhausted arid apparently haustible abundance, the markets being even n0w,,,5130 plied from it as plentifully as at any period during t" "b e en thirteen months, over which the produce of it ha s , 0 0cl now extended. At first it was confessed to be ° friben, harvest, then it grew on to be a remarkable one , an u of an extraordinary one. But the fact is, that the P e nn tilf last year's wheat crop was almost miraculous in qu a rr el' as well as quality, being in many places, as a vines/' pondent emphatically expresses it, " two crops i° (1 ;0 10 and we are credibly informed, that considerable 5 „" ;b 8 are still in the hands of such of the farmers as h° ° "p l ir good luck to be capitalists. There has been a great to ad take on this point among speculators and the corn the generally." We rejoice at the fact here referred to l t d. Aebion on the other hand seems a little disapP° ll oo o We think of the suffering agriculturist, and the. 0 of which a failing harvest and an extensive importalibioo foreign corn would inflict upon commerce ; the thinks only of their effect upon the League agitation morebY tale ;n o WI THE TRIUMPH AT SUNDERLAND.—This elec',-.nt a. proved the crowning triumph of all—the last in P ° , l o en V time, the first in point of importance. On the retir;lition of Mr. Alderman Thompson in 1843, the represen,i'' itlr' of Sunderland was contested by Lord Howick 8r bi g the present occasion tt Conservative M'iveriA opponentw ood— t h t e h b e yva f a ci e r am m nat e j o r sreiat ofof ultimately r24s2 uvood b te e e r a s i t . : o l ebt o bs ti been contested by Colonel Thompson, au agent ° iv b° Anti Corn-Law League, and Mr. George Hodso n ' o f avows his opinions to be " chiefly in accordO ce plV those of her Majesty's Ministers," but against th e s al' uooth Grant. And what is the result ? A ginr,i° been unaph for the conservative cause. Every effort pu re th e . made, which human ingenuity could devise, to s ce jese; return of Colonel Thompson—the funds of th e f th e have flowed freely into Sunderland—the agents ~e 8 ths league, from Cobden, the fugleman down to Sno°' Or itenerant lecturer, have bullied and blustered froto T l i c jote i . doubly bly votes! so ing till night ; but after all the Conservative c.a n ..ity (), has beaten his Whig-Radical opponent by a WO' - of ' as Sunderland would be highly gratifying; it ."" 0/ - years have elapsed since this same constituency ft Conservative wh U feon n r Under an place arnee recollect er such c m thh s a t a t nc li e t s , commercialth e net im up : 0 1: rctoli oen : majority of 242 in favour of the Whig Lord 1 1 ° W1c . C kis 03 0 0 0 THE INCREASE OF DEMAND FOR IRON.--41",010 useful. and, in fact, most necessary, metal for Wwa/ of man, is daily expanding its power, not only in '', lo bdt Asia, Africa. and America. Railways are bel, a ot the only advantage that will be derivtleed But th is t OW down from north to south, east to west. mercial nations as a rapid transit for passengers ,iirae.• chandise, but the benefits it will bestow in tropic s ' F bats' so subject to earthquakes,where the lives tants are constantly in jeopardy. Several very elt`'..", fir” contracts have lately been enterd into in this coun t a l,' Is' of th e i . " ..nsi l° , the erection of iron houses, or villas in the Wes t 1 7301i/ iP lands, Cuba, and the Havana, Mexico, Columbint_anl e fr Central America, Peru, and Chili, where the dres‘Tr, felt! fects of those convulsions of nature are so frequetTeical It is evident that iron will, in a few years henc e ' a ril% In re rring pear individual life and private property. one of the greatest articles of commerce fo r thfe e secai to late melancholy conflagrations at Quebec, wher e ho ilt n A the whole city was reduced to ashes, being chelo'soiSel; wood, how different would it have been had 154 Wil l % 9 11 1 , iron been the principal article in building ? IN" . a's - in the Americas, both north and south, and 001 1 live; working to bring it into general use. How many ti ls would have been saved in the numerous earthqun, 01_, have taken place the last fifty years in South. ~ ....,4 p. had they had iron dwellings instead of the wood r"we thesr ble fabrics they now possess? A change, hnw e , v ce e 'bl its glad to see, is very soon likely to take nia.. bo nse s o f erection of galvanized iron dwellings and wa r ; „Artg r o our West India colonies, Chili, and nearly si c i Tato of _ South America, contracts having been ente re oding ° the sending out of several well-constructed b that metal.—Mining Journal.