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Kittraturr. POETRY. AN OLD MAN'S MUSINGS. (From " Echoes of Mind," No. I.) " Last scene of all That ends this strange eventful history, In second childishness and mere oh ivion." As You Like It. I am old, I am old, my hair is grey, The strength. of my manhood hath passed away. And all things around me seem strange and cold, And not as they used to be of old. The young and the gay, they care not for me; How should they?—their hearts are full of glee; Their hopes are blooming, and mine have faded, They know not yet what my brow hath o'crshaded. I am old, I am old; I am left alone; The joys of my youth have long since flown. Park! there's a whisper that comes through the trees, Borne on the wings of the scented breeze; And it seems to tell of the years gone by, And of hopes that I deemed were too bright to die. It comes from the hours of my childhood now, And gently it fans my old wrinkled brow. It tells of the flowers that decked the bowers, Wherein I once spent such happy hours, When my heart rejoiced in a holy love, That resteth now in its home above. It tells of the blossoms of early youth, When all seemed fairnes and beauty and truth ; And now it ccmes with a ruder blast, As the years of manhood are sweeping past, And the tall trees bend before the winds, As the years bow down the pride of our minds. And sternly it comes, and it scatters the leaves, As time does the holies that our fancy weaves; And now it is sinking again to rest, As the pa,_sions do in an old man's breast. The breezes are hushed, the Spirit is gone,— Gone to the realms of laughter and song. Bright spirits dwell with the young and the gay, They care not with me an old man to stay ; But they came from heaven my old heart to cheer, They have brought to my Wd eye a childhood's tear. The chords of my heart I thought were all broken t The Spirit bath touched them, once more have they spoken. And now there shall gleam through the shadow of years, My childhood's glad hopes, and its fleeting tears ; And fancy shall bring back my bright days again. As echo repeats the last notes of the strain. Men sort not with children—they sort not with me; 'What care I fcr that, if a child's heart of glee Will come back again to this worn-out breast, And cheer its last days till it sink to rest, Like a play-tired child in the arms of His love, Who bath said, "Ye shall never see heaven above, Till humbled in spirit, and undefiled, Your hearts are as pure as this little child." C. W. M. NOTICES. Blackwood's Magazine. The first article in this magazine for the present month is of painful interest, relating, as it does, to the sad tra gedy of Affghanistan. The writer has evidently studied the subject with great attention, and recapitulates under five distinct heads the blundering and infatuation of the leaders of the British troops in that lamentable series of conflicts in which 17,000 valuable lives were sacrificed, and the military banners of England were for a time tar nished, not, indeed, by want of prowess in those who ral lied around them, but by a want of foresight, and of that "discretion'' which especially in wars with treacherous and unfeeling barbarians strong in their native fastnesses, and innured to the rigours of their own clime, is, after all, " the better part of valour." Ably, however, as the sub ject is handled, and incontestibly just as are the severe reprehensions of the writer, we question the policy of re curring to a subject, the reminiscence of which inflicts a national pang, which can result in no good that we can perceive, but, on the contrary, serve to cherish in the minds of suffering survivors a feeling of indignation and mistrust towards our rulers in the east, and (by our ad missions) gratify would-be belligerent foreigners, jealous of our general power and our glories, who rejoice in our discomfiture in any part of the globe, from whatever un toward circumstances it may arise. Our author himself makes a sort of apology for resuscitating a topic which by almost common consent has been consigned, not without tears, to the obliterating waters of Lithi ; and he is, we think, blameable in again harrowing it up, without sug gesting any means, except by inference, of averting the recurrence of a similar catastrophe. Why did he not, since he would recur to these appalling disasters, urge upon the government the necessity of a rigid investigation by court martial of the whole affair, so that the parties alleged to be grievously in fault might be pronounced guilty and punished accordingly, or stand acquitted of the higher offence from evidence of error in judgment. On this point we have no hesitation in stating that our home ministry have been culpably remiss, and it was the only atonement they could have made to the relatives of those whose remains were left in thousands to bleach on the wilds of Upper India.—" Etching Thoughts by the Etch ing Club" is cleverly written, exhibiting id a pleasing manner the worth and the neglect of the art. "A Love Chase, in Prose" is amusing hut of moderate merit—the close especially being abrupt, and deficient in retributive justice to the swindling coterie of the village of Wimble- , ton. The account of the ancient canal between the Nile and the Red Sea will be read with interest. The Tradi tions and Tales of Upper Lusatia are continued. The tale of the Dwarf's Will occupies the present part, and is curious, while it conveys a sound moral. The remarks on Schiller's Maid of •Orleans" are tastefully written. " The Stolen Child," a tale of the back woods, wrought up from the particulars of an incident related in the Mis sissippi newspapers of 1825-6, contains a good description of the interior wilds of the far west. The last article is a review of the recently published Life of Lord Eldon, by Horace Twiss, and is replete with anecdote. We give some extracts in our present number. The Mysteries of Paris. Chapman and Hall, London. We have received Parts I. and 11. of "the only English edition (of this extraordinary work) authorised by M. Eugene Sue," the gifted author; and it is got up in a manner highly creditable to the publishers, whether as regards the apparent fidelity of the translation, the beauty of the typography, or the excellence and number of the illustrations, which last are highly sketchy and effective, maintaining a vraisemblance of the several actors in the stirring drama, by which they are instantly recognised in the varied scenes, he they disguised or in their usual cos tume. Of the merits of the work as a literary produc tion, we find it difficult to speak in terms of adequate praise. The writer is evidently a man of powerful con ception, and a shrewd observer of human character, both in its sunny and in its dreariest and most revolting aspect; and, so far as we have yet perused his narrative, he has excited and sustained in us a deep interest in the fortunes and the fate of those whose portraitures he so vigorously depicts, and which are enhanced by striking contrasts of disposition and pursuit, and, above all, by rapidity of in cident. Nothing can be more charming or affecting than the innocent, confiding, sensible, and naturally-refined character of the Gonaleuse, otherwise" Fleur-de-Marie," a deserted girl thrown unprotected (at first) upon the un pitying world, and suffering numerous hardships and pri vations amongst the most abandoned and wicked of her species ;—nothing more generous, but firm and disinte rested, than that of Rodolph, " the unknown," who, by the very nobility of his nature, though by personal chas tisement in the first instance, redeems to grateful and honourable feelings the hardened, but not impenetrable or dishonest " Chourineur," The " Schoolmaster," a returned and desperate convict, who had deserted and wronged his family, and had more tha n once stained his hands with blood, meek, at an early part of his second career of guilt with an awful punishment—short only of an ignominious death on the scaffold—namely, the instant deprivation of sight, which denies him the power of fur ther mischief; and he is left by those he has most injured with ample means to prolong life in penitence and prayer. The horrible situation in which he had previously left Rodolph to perish in the vault of " The Bleeding Heart" —a low tavern resort of the worst description, concealed in a ditch near Paris, and in which he is nearly drowned before he isrescued—is fearfully worked up. The history of La Gonaleuse from her childhood—with the old Ogress (a returned female convict), who kept a drinking-shop, the resort of felons, thieves, assassins, and the dregs of Parisian society—is related by herself with great feeling and simplicity ; and " the unknown," who listens to her story, rescues her from that den of infamy, still virtuous, and in the early bloom of womanhood. We have not seen the whole work, although it has already had a great run in France, and (in a spurious English edition) in the United States ; but we conjecture that " Fleur-de-Marie" will turn out to he of noble family, and that " the lost son," in search of whom Rodolph resembles Ulysses in seeking his own, will also be restored to his parental rights. The present edition of the work is a translation, which, according to the prospectus, " repudiates every thing that can by possibility be thought offensive to the English reader, yet preserves that intense interest which has given it such universal popularity." We shall pro bably give some extracts hereafter. The Civil Engineer and Architects Journal. R. Groom bridge, Lo n d on . We have received another number of this "Journal of tho Arts, Sciences, Public Works, Railways, Steam Na vigation, Mining, and Machinery," and it contains many articles important to those inthrested in the scientific and mechanical advancement of our country, with numero us diagrams and illustrations. In noticing the proceedin gs of the Institute of Civil Engineers, the paper of our townsman, Mr. John Grantham, there read in February last, on the experiments made on a vessel called the " Li verpool Screw," fitted with Grantham's engines and Woodcroft's screw propeller, is favourably noticed, and the discussion that ensued is reported, with illustrations of various sizes and fans. Mr. Rennie, C.E., after re marking on experiments made by various parties with the screwas a Propeller, said " It was, however, Mr. F, P. who first rendered the screw-propeller practically useful; for his perseverance, . ' talists,being aided by spirited capi induocefdwthhieehbuilding of the Archimedes steamer, the machinery . a T n h d e ca r u e s s e u d lt s was constructed by Messrs. G. and J. Rennie, in 1839 obtained from that vessel . were well known, , the reat the subsequent construction of the Princess Royal Northern, H.M.S.V. the Rattler, and the Dwa rf, f o rmerly the Mermaid; also Great Britain, which last not havingprojected eleptemei been to_ sea, could only be mentioned as a a, have already given an abstract of Mr. Grantham's We give in another column some extracts from tti a s per ta lented and cheap periodical. The Library of Travel. Chapman and flan London. Part IV. of this work has come to hand, Mall, c tinuation cf Syria and the Holy Land. The editor, MT R. Kelly, has exercised a wise discretion in appropriating . the best portions of the information collected by the most clebrated travelles of this and other countries, and the work is illustrated r by a great n umber of finely executed wood-cuts, conveying accurate repreSentations of the ci ties, scenes, and antiquities which the reader is pleasingly led to ramble through and contemplate. The descrip tions of what the countries through which he p sses now are, are enhanced in interest by reflections on what they were in the earlier days of Christianity, and the whole is enriched by numerous anecdotes of travel, and narratives of interesting incidents and events. In the number before us we have interesting accounts of Aleppo and its envi rons—field sports of the nations—Murrah—Hamah, with its large water-wheels—journey from Beyrout southward —interesting memoir of Lady Hester Stanhope—the town of Seyde—curious account of the life and exploits in India, and success and final beggary in Syria of General Loi!s tanneau—Modern Tyre—Excursion to the Sea of Tiberias —Nazareth—Mount Tabor—Tiberias, with a view before and after the destructive earthquake of 1837—Safed, also in ruins—the Bridge over the Jordan—Lasa—and finally, a journey from Acre to Jerusalem, including Mount Car mel, the ruins of Athlete, Western Syria, the beautiful valley of Sharon, &c. Some extracts from the last num ber of this admirable work will be found elsewhere, and we shall hereafter appropriate several interesting passages from the present part. The Polytechnic Review and Magazine. London , John - - Mortimer. We have received the second number of the new series of this periodical, and have derived much information, as well as entertainment, from its perusal. An excellent ar ticle on agricultural chemistry is here concluded. The " Sketches of Constantinople" are well penned, and highly interesting, and there are many other papers, re reviews, &c. We give elsewhere two extracts, and shall probably recur to the number when we have more space to spare. Echoes of Mind. By C. ;'.Mann and• Chas. H. Hitch ings. London : C. Mitchell. No I. of a neat little pamphlet under this title is before us, and is exclusively occupied by poetry, the whole of which appears to us to be of an order vastly superior in taste and feeling to the usual productions of modern ver. sifiers. We have no knowledge whatever of either of the authors, but it is pleasant to find two poets,—an irritable and generally jealous race,—and both probably young men, with congenial feelings, joining hand in hand in de voting their offerings at the shrine of the Muses. It has been well stated by a celebrated author that if literary men ' would but act together they might chasten, adorn, and even " lift the world," and though from this mere union of two we cannot anticipate so high a result, we may ven ture to predict that if these two brothers in literature pro ceed in the career they have so well begun, they will ar rive at a distinguished eminence as writers. The whole of the pieces belong to or border upon the pathetic ; and a rich vein of sympathy and amiable feeling pervades the whole. The work is prefaced by a brief and unassuming address, in which the authors state that "at irregular and indefinite intervals, the present work will be followed by others, differing in the nature of their contents. Some times we shall offer a play—sometimes a poem, and pos sibly, at some distant peaiod, a collection of essays ;" and they intimate that their course will mainly depend on the encouragement they may receive. The little work is " affectionately dedicated to Henry Morley, Esq., their friend and fellow author, as the only tribute of esteem which they are able to offer him," and we wish them every success. There are in all eleven pieces, of nearly equal merit—so that we have been puzzled which to select, our present space not permitting us to give more than one — which will be found in our poet's corner. Those entitled " The Child of the Night " by the same individual, and "The Night of Agony," by C. H. Hitch ings, also strike us quite equal, if not superior, to "An Old Man's Musings." SELECTIONS. EFFECTS OF FREE TRADE. —Foreign competition creates a contest between the masters on the one hand, and the labourers on the other, as to who shall suffer least from the effects of the forced reduction in prices. In a small branch of trade, the masters would not reduce their profits below the average rate, for they could divert their capital and industry into other channels. The same may be said of the labourers. If both parties thus held out, the trade in question must be given up. In a large branch of trade, such as agriculture, one or other must give in. If there exists a strong competition amongst the masters, they may be made to bear the loss, or at least part of it. But if, on the other hand, there exists much competition among the labourers, the masters may, in their turn, be able to force the loss upon the labourers. If competition exists in both classes, they will probably both bear a por tion of the loss.—Science of Trade. FEMALES OF DAMASCUS.—The women of Damascus are esteemed the handsomest in the East ; and, though the fame of their charms has no doubt been much en hanced by the difficulty of seeing them, they sometimes, from behind their tantalizing clouds, pour forth a light that might dazzle the most discreet beholder. There is a very graceful style of coquetry in the manner in which an Eastern belle displays her arms, which are the roundest and most perfect imaginable. The fingers, covered with rings, and dyed pink under the nails, play about the folds of the drapery, as if anxious to restore it to its place, in which, somehow or another, they.can never succeed, when there is a sly opportunity of dis.losing the beauty it is meant to conceal. Large blue eyes are common among the Christian women, some of whom are exceedingly fair ; and there is a grace in the turban beyond all the arts of a civilized toilette.—Library of Travel. FEROCITY OF AN EI.EPIIANT.—It is impossible to imagine the ferocity of the elephant when he is excited to revenge. The melancholy end of Major Haddock, of the 97th regiment, was horribly illustrative of this ; he had fired his last barrel when an elephant gave chase, and Haddock made the best of his way to a small patch of jungle close by, hoping to dodge the elephant round it until it got tired of the fun, and sheered off; but before five minutes had elapsed he unfortunately ran round the very corner behind which the animal kept itself concealed, and in a moment he was laid hold of. He had no one with him but natives, who, at a pitch, are about the great est fools ever born ; the consequence was, that the ele phant having crushed poor Haddock to death by kneeling on him, began to dissect him; and so cleanly was it clone that scarcely two joints were left together in the body of the victim. How an animal could have thus accomplished such a task by means of that unwieldy-looking instrument it possesses in the shape of a trunk, is utterly inexplicable. —New Sporting Magazine. CANTON. — The streets are very numerous, being more than 600. Their names sound oddly to us, and have rather an ambitious air, " Dragon-street, " " Golden street, " " Flying Dragon-street " " Martial Dragon street, " " Flower-street, " " Golden Flower-street," &c., are high-sounding enough ; but some of them, it is said, have names which would hardly bear to betranslated for " ears polite. " The Rev. Mr. Bridg man states that they vary in width from two to sixteen feet, and gives it as his opinion that the general average is from six to eight feet. Mr. Dunn thinks this an over estimate by one or two feet. They are all paved with large flag-stones chiefly granite. Wheel carriages are seldom used. Those who can afford to ride are borne in sedan chairs on the shonlders of coolies, and all heavy burdens are carried by porters. The streets are generally crowded. and present a busy, bustling, animated appear ance. They all have gates at each end, which are closed at night, and guarded by a sentinel. The houses are but one story high. A few of them are of wood or „gone : m bTui a ,t n e yb a d , Nivn e eg l l o ri n n g ag i ps n a g rot tro theapartment to s; e butpoorerin the lehaces easy largests se , o m circumstances portionud , n o a fe 7 h bricks n w t a i with . various well-furnished apartments, the walls of which are generally ornamented with carving, pictures. and various scrolls, inscribed with moral maxims from Confucius and other sages. The houses of the wealthy are often fur nished in a style of great magnificence ; and the occupants indule in the most luxurious habits.—Chinese Olio. FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF AN AUSTRALIAN TOWN.— The first sight of the town and people does not impress a European with the idea of being in a country so distant from his home : the language. the manners, and dress of the inhabitants being for the most part similar to his own. But there are many peculiarities that gradually display themselves, chiefly attributable to the climate. There is a sallowness of countenance in the male, and a delicacy of feature and skin in the female, that I have not seen else where ; while you are every now and then instinctively placing your hand upon your pockets, as some suspicious looking fellow passes you. Nor is this to be wondered at, when it is remembered that every seventh man you meet in the street has " left his country for his country's good ;" or is the offspring of those who have done so. There are at the same time very fine specimens of the kind to be seen ; above the average height, and with well-pro portioned frame; though it is remarked, that tall, well made men, who have been born in Australia, do not pos sess that muscular power which is found in Britain gene rally to accompany such proportions. The features are, I think, better than those of the English : the eye is ge nerally black in both sexes, the nose rather Roman than Grecian, and finely formed, and the whole expression sharp and good. On hot days, the white dress, very gene rally worn by all classes, gives a lightness and gaiety to the streets, that is very striking. Few ladies are to be seen walking in the public streets—it is not the custom ; and this, I confess, is a great drawback to the general appear ance of the place. But the truth is, prudence, as well as that first of female attributes, delicacy, have rendered it necessary in Sydney.—Hood's Australia. CONGUGAL INFIDELITY AMONG THE DRUSES.—If any woman makes a faux pas the whole family is so dis graced that no other will intermarry with them, and they become utterly contemptible ; but the brother, the uncle, or, if no nearer relation exist, the cousin, by putting her to death, wipes out the disgrace, and the family is res tored to its former position. In a case like this the civil authority rarely or never interferes to punish the mur derer. The best illustration I can give of this subject, is an anecdote related to me by th e deputy of a local governor :—" I was asleep, in bed , when, in the middle of the night, I heard a rap 'at the door of m y room ; Who's there,' said I ; a voice answered, Hasreddin.' 1 opened the door, and in came a Druse,.bearing a sack on his shoulders. • What brings you here at this un timely hour ?' said I. My sister has had an intrigue, and I have killed her : there is her horn and other orna ments in the sack ; and, as I am afraid the police will do something to me, I want your intercession. Why, here are two horns in the sack,' said I. ' I killed her mother too, for she knew of the intrigue.' There is no power but in God Almighty ! If your sister were im pure, was that a reason for killing y ou r mother? But lie down and sleep.' In the morning I said to him, 1 sup pose you were too uneasy to sleep." By Allah, Oh ! my uncle, (a usual phrase,) so unhappy has dishonour made me, that for a year I have not slept soundly until last night." I then went with him to the governor, and said Will you give Hasreddin the handkerchief of amnesty ?" The Governor sa id t o H asre ddi n , " Speak without fear." Hasreddin recounted hi s s t or y, an d the Governor said , " La Ba s ," Go vernor's hand an d went (no harm.) a lp y . n — w 2 u h o i c d h e r h n e s k y i r s i s a e n d s .the THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SPARROWS, PROTECTORS TO THE FARMERS.—The Perseverant of Limoges contains a curious calculation of the damage to farmers in France, which is annually caused by sparrows. It estimates the consumption of corn of each sparrow at one gallon ; and, reckoning that there are ten millions of these birds in France, makes the total loss amount to more than nine millions of francs ; but, on the other hand, it is supposed that the insects which they de stroy would occasion a much greater loss if these birds were not in existence. As a proof of this, it is mentioned that in the Palatinate the government had ordered all the sparrows to be killed, offering a premium upon their heads ; but the ravages caused by insects when the sparrows had disappeared were so great, that premiums were offered for the importation of sparrows.—Farmers' Magazine. THE STARVING MlLLlONS.—Cheapness is an apparent boon to the very parties it is trampling under foot. The starving man fancies, that if bread were cheaper it would come within his reach, and does not perceive that it is its very cheapness that has altered his own position so la mentably. Food is almost beyond his reach; but he ought to strive to raise his own position, and not to cheapen bread ; for cheapness increases the disproportion between his wages, and the price of his food. The great mass of the people, and particularly the petty shopkeepers, men who before were in trade and comparatively wealthy, but who now earn but a scanty and precarious living, clamour for cheap food, not perceiving that cheapness has caused their ruin, and that cheap food will further reduce their profits.—Science of Trade. A SOLDIER IN A PASSION.—A howitzer shell fell in our battalion, burst the instant it touched the ground, and covered us with smoke and dust. When we had cleared our sight, we saw that four men of one section had been struck down. Three were dead, but the fourth sprang up unharmed, though the splicters of the shell had carried away his knapsack and pouch, and bent his musket. Pausing for a moment, he looked strangely on the havoc around him ; then seizing the pouch and musket of one of the slain, he ran like a madman, in total disregard of the calls of the officers, right on towards the enemy. In our front was a hostile battery of eighteen or twenty guns; having arrived within two or three hundred yards of this rather formidable opponent for a single man, he halted, levelled his musket, and fired; then calmly loaded again, took a deliberate aim, and fired a second, and afterwards a third shot; and having thus cooled his wrath or cou rage, returned leisurely to the battalion, saying only, as he resumed his place in the ranks, " The black fiend seize upon those rascals I" The scene, of a single infuriated individual, operating with his musket against twenty pieces of artillery, was so extravagantly ludicrous, that though our position was far from being a merry one, it was utterly impossible to refrain from laughing. I met the same man on the following day, rejoicing in the cap ture of a French knapsack, which had amply replaced the lost one, for it contained, besides some linen, a silver watch, and several five-franc pieces. Of his attack on the battery he could give no account, saying that he did not know what he was doing.—From Military Tableaux, in Fraser's Magazine. FORTIFICATIONS OF CONSTANTINOPLE.—The walls of Constantinople are tripled on the landward side, having a ditch between each ; and from the numerous fragments of granite and marble columns, many of them bearing in scriptions, everywhere mingled with the masonry, it is evident the fortifications were built of the remnants of the ancient capital. They appear in some spots to be very ruinous, and in many places are thickly overgrown with ivy. Frowning over these, towards the sea, are the Seven Towers, a formidable state prison, which may be con sidered as the Bastile of the East. These clusters of forts were originally five in number, and at first erected by the immediate successors of Constantine, to strengthen the fortifications at one angle of the wall which sur rounded the city, but Theodosius had erected an arch flanked by two towers, to celebrate his victory over Maxi mus. The structure has since borne the name of the Seven Towers. Each tower is about 200 feet high, and of vast solidity, as the ruins of one of the most ancient, which fell in 1768, sufficiently testify. The malls which inclose them are double, and enormously thick, being built of immense blocks of solid stone; and, until the invention of gunpowder. were justly deemed impregna ble. This once redoubtable fortress is, however, rapidly falling to decay, and a slender garrison are now its only occupants. If we are to believe the old traditions, al though many of them evidently pure exaggerations, the interior of these towers have been the scene of the most revolting barbarities. An aperture is entitled " the well of blood," which is said often to have overflowed with human gore ; and a little court is pointed out within the precincts of the building, which is believed frequently to have contained a pyramid of human heads, so high that, standing on its summit, one might look over the walls, and behold the expanse of the sea of Marmora.—Poly technic Review. CAUSES OF THE DISASTERS IN AFFGHANISTAN.— These three ruins issued from these most culpable negli gences :-Ist, Starvation fell in one day upon the British host ; and that it was which placed them at the mercy of the enemy. 2dly, The troops were inadequate to the ex tent of the defences; so that, together with starvation, loss of sleep fell upon the fighting men. 3dly, As ano ther effect from that cause, a perpetual Penelope's web was to be maintained ; for as often as detachments went out from cantonments against many of the neighbouring forts, before they could possibly have time to destroy these nests of hornets, back they were summoned to the defence of their own Tares; often in broad daylight, by combined assaults of the enemy on their own ramparts, but always by the approach of night. So that all momen tary advantages became idle and useless ; none could be followed up, none could be maintained. Lucan says of Caesar, when besieged in the fortified palace of the Ptole mies at Alexandria, that often, whilst thrown on his most difficult defence, the matchless soldier became the as sailant— " Obessusque gerit, tanta est constantia mentis, Offensoris opus." But what he did as a trophy of his superiority, we did by imbecile improvidence and for final ruin. Yet even these shocking neglects or oversights were not the worst. Let us now suggest what they were. Wherefore were the can tonments placed in proximity so close to Cabool ? Let that be answered, and we shall see the early commence ment of our infatuation. Two considerations will clench the case, and then we shall leave it. Ist, The canton ments were never meant to act upon the city of Cabool : that task was thrown upon the Bala Hissar from its situa tion. And yet no trial had ever been made of the power possessed by that fortress. The private houses were known to be forts : not until rebellion commenced was it ascertained of what strength they were •, and eventually the city proved mo"e formidable to the Bala Hissar than the Bala Hissar did to the city. Such a blunder of igno rance and miscalculation, we believe, was never heard of. But, 2dly, Even that was a trifle when compared with the capital evil—and the capital evil was this. The enemy was allowed, throughout the autumn of 1841, to accumulate ad libitum in Cabool. Retainers of the chiefs, Ghilzyes and others, gathered unwatched throughout October. Now mark what followed from our choice of cantonments. Had they been fixed fifteen or even ten miles off, the im possibility of marching daily to and from Cabool would have strangled the rebellion in its first three days. The evil which crushed ourselves, of having always at sunset to go homewards, would have been thrown on the enemy, and with as much more of ruinous effect as the distance was greater. As it never was alleged that the canton ments were meant for the overawing of Cabool, and in effect they were totally inefficient as regarded that city— it is clear that the one great advantage by which the Aff ghans accomplished our destruction, was coolly prepared for them by ourselves, without the shadow of any momen tary benefit for our own interests. Even for provisions, the event showed that we had never looked to Cabool. And there reveals itself the last feature of our perfect madness.—Blackwood's Magazine. IRISH PRIESTS OF THE LAST CENTURY.—The Ro man Catholic ecclesiastics who influenced the destinies of Ireland during the last century, have not been faithfully described. There were among them the vulgar, the rude, the illiterate, as well as the educated and accomplished ; but they were generally well adapted to the work assigned to them. The coarse, the bigotted, the ignorant, had their appropriate sphere of action ; and they were trained to discharge with effect the duties of their especial voca tion. Their natural sagacity was sharpened by exercise, and guided by precepts of what might be termed tradi tionary wisdom. Above all things, they were required to be discreet; and when they had acquired the habit of their high na among ture their cardinal ren dered them more serviceable in the society in which the y virtues—the very very coa ju rs s e t n ly es s s e o t f were appointed to live, than great abilities and much knowledge would have enabled men to be, whose tastes unfitted them for the free intercourse in which multitudes become understood and governed. But while a large number of Roman Catholic priests was thus composed, their body could not name many, who would not be out of place, and who, indeed, were not out of place, in what might be termed the best society in Europe. Scholars and courtiers could be found amongst them ; and there were not a few instances in which it was difficult to ima gine any but a generous reason, for their consenting to hide the high qualities which adorned them, in such a mi nistry as was assigned them in Ireland, and to turn aside from the successes that allured them elsewhere. Men who had attained high distinction abroad—whose habits and tastes bad been formed in, and for, continental socie ties—returned to the self-denying ministration assigned them in their own country, and, unless hope of a revolu tion cheered them, with no imaginable object of personal ambition. Here, certainly, was a marked distinction be tween the patronage of the actual and the would'-be sove reign. The invitations Of the former were such as men usually hold to be desirable—they were invitations to ac cei t increase of honour and emolument, in a career which had been already chosen: the invitations of the other were often such as to involve loss of dignity, emolument, ease, comfort, and to require of those who embraced them, that they should enter into a new career, beset with dan gers and difficulties, such as were little likely to advance their personal interests, and were certain to task, to the utmost, their strength and courage. But, if there was generosity in the spirit with which they engaged in this career, the spirit with which some sustained themselves in it was of a more ignoble order. Affecting loyalty to the house of Brunswick, when, in all probability, they had pledged allegiance to, as they accepted patronage from, the rival house of Stuart ; entering, apparently, into all mea sures for ensuring peace in Ireland, whilst they secretly abetted practices designed to keep alive disaffection and disorder—they could keep the tenor of their tortuous way securely, only by constant habits of dissimulation — they could labour in the vocation assigned to them, only by inculcating, clandestinely and treacherously, upon the people of whom they took charge, principles which they disavowed for themselves, and thus exposing them to dan gers, which they themselves carefully avoided. In short, if it demanded a spirit of generosity to become, as they did, conspirators against the government under which they appeared to live —the necessities of their condition con strained them to practice the vices of conspirators, and to be sullied by them.—Dublin University Magazine. TEMPLE Or THE SUN, PALMYRA.—The Temple of the Sun, which singularly enough faces the west, stands in the centre of an immense court nearly seven hundred feet square, which is now entirely filled with the noisy houses of the Arab Palmyrenes. The Temple itself, now sadly dilapidated, was surrounded by a peristyle of fluted Corin thian columns with bronze capitals, all of which have dis appeared, most pitiably exposing the naked surface of the stone to which they were attached. The great gate is the most beautiful 1 ever saw, next to the matchless one at Baalbec. The devices are very beautiful, consisting of branches of palm, bunches of grapes. flowers, fruits and garlands ; bat the design is superior to the execution ; they are not cut deep enough, and the stone, moreover, has suffered much from exposure. A smaller door, that of the Temple itself, introduced us into a mosque, which fills up a great part of the interior ; we saw a very curious ancient ceiling in one of the side apartments. Proceed ing through other modern structures, we reached a gate, or doorway, ornamented with double fluted pillars, of no very chaste design, the ceiling displayed a Zodiac, and on the soffit of the architrave is the winged vulture soaring among the stars, an interesting proof, of which I observed similar instances at Baalbec and in the tombs of Palmyra, of the affinity of the Egyptian and Grecian sun-worship. Library of Travel. EFFECT OF ENFORCEMENT OF TEMPERANCE ON A RUSSIAN ESTATE.—The following was told us by Count had turned his attention to political economy with a prac- Ifjotrtlyeea betterr s prac tical view inherited a small estate, upon which were loca ted 300 peasants, the most disorderly, the most wretched imaginable. No revenue had been derived from the land the ; property, it than h w sacghi s sda a Hes bne d eody he dead d a lossn d commenced yieldedt o th e his proprietors nothing. reform Upon by closing oc i nl t s wi sur veyingnas — a a yhfaaHol l itmel l erteoelmh t ptdn h sla ' t laboure. severely, el At yos, orderedeasanocdtohhndedi daily notny his st ifcol ea b ani tsede wasdwt r o a a drained, n t o e o d st 0, rescued paetni per formed s from this barren condition, and produced corn enough to ai e sm n ht t ,oen: r ws e eea m yfw u o remuneration st oe theramt t h i ae o tdi n eren w f ad o noe r tamst outlayi hse s trei-ctpucr oronomeffd, a arht n nt d ds. dutgmsoteuhfvaffieeyercxsyi vouch for its truth. A gentleman who eaet e ed a di whdom n e gi hn a d smeate b oaih w a inflnanma r e e sto e he flogged all those who neglected to put their huts in good order ; he then made the same reforms as regarded their clothing, and flogged all those who were in rags. He proeeeded even to domestic economy, insisted that the bread should be properly made, that each man should have enough to eat, and flogged all those who had not an ample store of corn in their granary. By these means he became the proprietor of one of the most productive es tates and the happiest peasantry in the country; and, what is more to the point, be was one of the most popular landlords. The gin-shops remained closed, the girls danced, the men sung, no more flogging was necessary; and few can blame him for taking such means to open his people's eyes to their own interests.—Fraser's Mag. INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION.—A person about to be edu cated for industrial purposes should, therefore, be first thoroughly grounded in the general sciences, and in ele mentary mathematics. All this can be done with far less expenditure of time, of trouble, and of money, than is usu ally incurred with the Greek and Latin, for which, in in dustrial pursuits, there is seldom the slightest use. Thus grounded in general education, he should pass to his spe cial branch, according as he is to be a chemist, a maker of machines, a worker in metals, or of other trade. Of all the objects used in his peculiar occupation he should ac quire the most minute knowledge ; their properties and composition; their adulterations; where they are found; how they are obtained ; what can be substituted for them ; how they can be made. All these are things on which may depend, at each step of his future progress, whether he follows a losing trade, or whether he be eminently successful. To this general education should be ad ded the experience of the workshop. The simplest operation in the arts requires a degree of manipula tive skill that no books, no words, can give. The most perfect theoretical acquaintance with the construc tion of machines and the nature of various materials used, would not enable a man to do good work. But if the man has obtained the manual skill by working prac tice, there is no doubt but that the knowledge of the tools he is using, and of the materials he worked upon, will enable him to do it better than he otherwise could. The practical education of the artisan in the place of actual working is, therefore, of all the most important, and re quires most time. The ultimate object of the previous discipline in science is to enable him fully to avail himself of the opportunities of improvement in his art which the workshop continually affords.—Bane's Industrial Re sources of Ireland. ELEPHANT HUNTING IN CEYLON.—The D—s hav ing arrived at Trincomalee, it was agreed at mess that an elephant party should be made up in the course of the week, for the purpose of showing some of the officers of the ship some elephant shooting. The day came, and half a dozen fellows—two of them being crack elephant shots of the island—sallied forth after the animals, which are to be found in all directions in the neighbourhood. Of all the people in the world to go out elephant shooting with, naval officers are the very worst, from a reckless sort of feeling what danger they incur or bring on those with them, as long as they get a " pop" at the animal they are pitted against : " Jack " goesinto the field deter mined to blaze away until he has not a shot left in the locker; and, in the present instance, this circumstance nearly cost a gallant post-captain a life that had far better have been lost on his own quarter deck. The beaters having given notice that an elephant was in the patch of jungle opposite. away hurried the party to see who would get first shot, in spite of all the sober remonstrances of the old stagers, who knew they must look out for squalls. The firing soon commenced, and as soon as the smoke of the guns had cleared off, a scene presented itself that brought our heroes to their senses, and gave them a vivid picture of the " crack sport of Ceylon ;', trumpeting, yell ing, and screeching from pain caused by her wounds, the elephant had dashed from her cover, had seized hold of the first person that came in her way with her trunk (which was Captain G—) and was rushing round the plain with him held high in the air, and apparently only looking out for a convenient place where she could kneel on him, and crush him to death. What was to be done ? To have fired with any chance of slaying the animal would have been doubly dangerous to G—, as he was in such a position that he covered the mortal part of the elephant's head. It was a horrible scene to those that viewed it ; what it was to the sufferer be alone can tell, and be is still alive and able to tell the story. The elephant at last hav ing got into a corner, far from the others, pulled up, and began to lower G— to the ground. A scream from the jungle from which the elephant had first emerged brought every one to " attention," in expectation of having an at tack made on his own life; in a moment after, a little calf (a young elephant) showed itself on the plain, and, quick as thought, a bullet was lodged behind its shoulder, where it is not mortal. Another ball followed. The little animal began to cry and screech, and the feelings of the mother, so true to nature, even in the brute, caused the old ele phant to leave her victim on the instant, and to rush to the aid of her offspring ! This lucky thought of the old hand saved the life of G—. The elephant returned to its calf, licked its wounds, and the next moment was shot dead by the same hand that had so well executed what a brain—never at fault in danger—had so happily devised. G— was still lying senseless when he was reached by the rest of the party, and a couple of hands having been sent back to the fort for a surgeon and palanquin, he was removed to the barracks, where he was found to have sus tained only the damage of two broken ribs, which rest and the doctor soon put to rights, and in a short time he was again able to take command of the D—.—New Sport ing Magazine. ABSURD ALARM THAT RUSSIA CAN OVERRUN INDIA. —Ever since we have harboured the Czar's rebels in England, there has been a craze possessing our newspa per press, that Russia was, or might be, brewing evil against India. We can all see the absurdity of such reve ries when exemplified by our quicksilver neighbour France, bouncing for ever in her dreams about insults meditated from the perfidious England ; but we are blind to the image which this Prench mirror reflects of our own atti tude towards Russia. One hundred and fifty years ago, the incubus which lay heavy on the slumbers of England was the Pope; of whom Swift remarked, that constantly his holiness was seen incoa. under one disguise or other, drinking at gin-shops in Wapping, and clearly proved to be spying out the nakedness of the land. In our days the Pope has vanished to the rear of the English phantasma oria, and now lies amongst the nekuon arnenena karena. But not, therefore, is England without her pet nightmare ; and that nightmare is now the Czar, who doubtless has his own reasons lately for examining the ground about Windsor and Ascot Heath—fine ground far the Preoba sinsky dragoons. How often in this journal have we been obliged to draw upon these blockheads, and disperse them sword in hand I How, gentlemen, (we have said to them in substance,) if you must play the fool as alarmists, can you find no likelier towers for menacing Calcutta with thunder storms than those of arctic St. Petersburg ; be tween which cities lies an interspace equal to both tropics ? We remember, as applicable to this case, a striking taunt reported by Dampier, that when one bucanier, on the west coast of Peru, was sailing away from the oppression of another to some East Indian port, with a weak crew in a crazy vessel, the ruffian from whom he fled told him at parting, that, by the time he saw green fields again, the boys in his vessel would be greyheaded. And we suspect that the Russian drummer-boys, by the time they reach the Khyber pass, will all have become field-marshals, see ing that, after three years' marching, they have not yet reached Khiva. But were the distance, the snows, the famine, and thirst nothing, is the bloodshed nothing ? Russia is a colossus, and Bokhara, Khiva, Kokan, &c., are dwarfs. But the finger of a colossus may be no match for the horny heels of a dwarf. The Emperor Tiberius could fracture a boy's skull with a talitrum, (or fillip of his middle finger;) but it is not every middle finger that can do that ; and a close kick from a khan of Toorkistan might leave an uglier scar than a fillip at arm's length from the Czar. Assuredly his imperial majesty would be stopped at many toll-bars before he would stable his horses in an Affghan caravansary ; and would have more sorts of boxes than diamond snuff-boxes to give and take in approaching the Hindoo Koosh. But suppose him there, and actually sitting astride of the old Koosh in boots and spurs, what next? In our opinion the best thing he could do, in case he desired to sleep for the next three months, would be to stay where he was ; for should he come down stairs into Affghanistan, we English can by this time give some ac count of the shocking roads and bad entertainment for man and horse, all the way to the Indus. Little to choose between the Khyber Pass or the Bolan : more kicks per haps on the first, but worse dinners on the other. And then, finally, about the costs, the reckoning, the " little account" which will be presented for payment on the b anks r of the Indus. Us it cost forty thousand camels, which I n dus, say thirty wish to plant a still larger army on th e I _ years sterling, cou f l o d t n e o p t o b r e t r o e f p o l e a c t e t d i m a t e . a n y ß p u r t i c t e h , e a c n z d a n rr wehmillions couldthou, s a n n o d t e a x n p d e e w t o t u o l d e e h ff a e v r e h s y i x le t s i f camels from Mecca to ney, and by the total generation, o "—Blackwood. " Samarcand, by Oxus—Temir s throne. smtehsaeoutrhlreenegth times of them a mrcoh., LAWYERS IN CHINA.—No attornies are authorised by law in China; those self constituted are thus defined and described by a Chinese classic writer :—Villainous and perverse vagabonds, who are fond of making a stir, and who, either by fraudulent and crafty schemes, excite dis cord ; or by disorderly and illegal proceedings, intimidate and impose upon people !"—Chinese Olio. THE DOG'S-EARED BOOK.—We respect a stained, dog eared book. It is a veteran who has seen service—not a mere gilt ornament to an unread library. It has fulfilled its mission among books. The marks it bears are the scars of honourable service. It has been read, and re read ; pored over pensively or joyously. It has excited high aspirations; rendered forth golden stores of wisdom ; it has delighted, or instructed—or both. It has charmed away idle hours, or soothed sad ones ; and many, per chance, have risen from its pages better and wiser men. We would not give your old, thumbed, half-worn-out tome, for the dandy, gilt and purpled volume, virgin in its unread purity. The dog's-ears show that the midnight oil has not been wasted. The more worn we find a hook in the cottage window, or on the humble reading-table, the greater is sure to be its author.—llluminated Mag. ADVICE TO AUSTRALIAN SETTLERS.—There are two descriptions of persons who are likely to do well in this country—men with considerable funds, and those with just enough to support them until they can procure a desira ble situation as overseer of some absentee's concerns. I do not speak of labourers, mechanics, or such as Lauch lan Mackay : they will do any where in Australia; but I allude to young men in the higher grades of life. Those who arrive here with £5OO to £lOOO ought never to buy sheep : their capital is swallowed up at once by the ex penses of a new station, arid they never recover the out lay. The following table, which I shall proce ed to give, will show how short a way such a sum would go in pro curing even mere necessaries, and how inadequate it is to meet the extra expenses to which a beginner is liable on his first introduction to the bush. It is not the first out lay only of an establishment that is to be considered, but the expenses of the following year. Wages—which, by the way, have not fallen as they ought to have done in these times—and casualties are annual; and the wool will not pay these and other demands the first or even the se coud year ; and the luckless settler who has laid out all his capital at first, finds himself, before he is fairly started, involved in debt, and generally irretrievably so. I only know one case more hopeless ; and that is, where the newly-arrived settler, wishing to become at once a large holder of stock, borrows beyond his capital, to accomplish this, at ten per cent. interest. This is ruin and misery on a greater scale, but not more certain. The following table has been prepared, after very careful inquiry : 1,000 sheep may at present be got at ss. each, ewes £251 1 shepherd's wages 25 1 hutieeper's wages. 1 bullockAriver'swages Rations (provisions) for four persons, at £2O BO A dray and team of bullocks 9) Two Buts, and hurdles for sheep Plough, seeds, tools, mill, tarpauling, &c A horse, saddle and bridle. Travelling in search of a station, and removing to it. 6O Wear and tear Casualties from death of sheep and loss of bullocks ... lO Stockholder's own extra expenses, beyond rations 3O License and tax l5 Washing, shearing, and delivering wool first year, where the station is 200 miles from Sydney 35 Cow, Paddock for horses and bullocks Surplus for sundries—a heavy item here . 140 £l,OOO With the most economical management, these are all re quired within the first twelve months of a settler's resi dence ; and I have omitted to particularise many minor expenses, which he will find will soon make up the £l4O allowed for sundries ; nor have I supposed him to pay his runs, nor stated his loss of interest. It must also be borne in mind that the same wages are to be paid the se cond year, with the unavoidable addition of those of a se cond shepherd : and all he has wherewith to pay these wages and to meet the storekeeper's bill, and other de mands, is the value of the wool of his one thousand sheep. Matters will probably stand thus :- 1,000 fleeces of 2ilbs., at 20d. per lb., in England; is. 4d. in .e 166 13s. 4d. Sydney Wages of two shepherds £so liutkeeper Bullock-driver Rations for five lOO Shearing and delivering wool 35 License and tax l5 £250 Deficit .4'83 fis. Sd. In the foregoing statement, unfavourable as it may ap pear, I doubt not the settler would accuse me of having underrated his expenses and overstated his receipts ; but it is an approximation to the truth. As regards my charg ing the expenses of the shearing and delivery of wool for two years, while I take credit for only one year's value of wool, I do so because the expenses of the second year are incurred before the price of the wool of that year is re ceived. I am aware that it is even too favourable a ba lance sheet in other items—stillthe error is not great ; and I conceive the result proves that the possessor of such a sum would do well to accept bank interest (seven per cent.) for it, and look to some other investment than sheep. One grand mistake is committed by almost all young men, and by others too ; and that is the desire to commence with an immense stock at once—some seven or eight thousand sheep, whether their funds be adequate or no ; in short, to buy beyond their capital, in hope of being able, by good fortune and the chapter of accidents, to pay off their debts gradually. The phrase a respectable com mencement,' has deluded many ; and the ill effects of this delusion are, at this very moment, cruelly proved by the experience of hundreds.”—Hood'e Australia. THE CHEMICAL AND MECHANICAL PROCESS, AND THE SOCIAL INFLUENCES 01 THE PENNY POST. —At a recent meeting at the Royal Institution, in London, the Rev. John Barlow, in lecturing on the subject said — The notion of separating, by a system of stamps, the financial department of the Post-office from the trans mission and delivery of letters, originated with Mr. C. Whiting, fourteen years since. This gentleman has been rewarded by the government for the taste and mechanical skill exhibited in the method in which he proposed to adjust his plan to the penny-rate adopted at the recom mendation of Mr. Rowland Hill. With this notice of the history of letter-stamps, Mr. Barlow entered on the manufacture of the adhesive label. These are executed by Messrs. Perkins, Bacon, and Petch, on Mr. Perkins's principle of steel engraving by transfer. The process depends on the property of iron to become hard or soft as it receives or loses a small quantity of carbon. This was demonstrated by experiment; and the description of the process was illustrated by the exhibition of hard and soft steel rollers, plates, and impressions furnished by Messrs. Perkins & Co. Mr. Barlow laid great stress on, the absolute identity of every engraving, however nu merous, produced by this method. He then observed, that the engine-work on the adhesive labels is of so close a pattern that it cannot be taken of by lithography or any similar contrivance, while on the other band, the eye is so accustomed to slight differences between one face and another, that the most skilful imitators of a minute en graving of a human countenance (as that of the sovereign on the label) could not possibly avoid such a deviation from what he was copying as would ensure the detection of a forgery. Mr. Barlow next adverted to the qualities of the coloured inks with which the labels are printed. Though sufficiently permanent to withstand the effects of sun-light, rain, &c., they would be discharged by any fraudulent attempt made to remove the obliterating stamp, for the purpose of issuing the label a second time. The gum used for fixing these labels to letters, Mr. Barlow described as being probably derived from potato-starch, and therefore perfectly innoxious. The manufacture of the postage envelope is effected by many powerful, yet accurate machines. The paper is pervaded by coloured threads against fraud. When sent from the manufactory of Messrs. Dickinson, it is delivered to the firm of Messrs. De la Rue. It is there cut into lozenges by the engine of Mr. Wilson. One of these was exhibited, and its power contrasted with that of the old bookbinder's plough. Thirteen thousand five hundred lozenges for folding were cut in a few seconds. To exhibit the preci sion of this engine, 1000 strips of paper, each 1-80th of an inch in width, were cut in the same short time. Pre viously to being stamped, each lozenge has a notch cut in each side, for the convenience of folding : this is done by an angular chisel. The envelopes are then stamped at Somerset House. The machine used for this purpose, combines the operations of printing and embossing, and was invented by the late Sir W. Congreve. Mr. C. Whit ing enabled Mr. Barlow to exhibit the whole process, by sending one of these machines, which executed several stamps, slightly differing in device from that on the postage envelope. One of Mr. De la Rue's folders also attended, and showed the rapidity with which the en velopes are folded and gummed after they are stamped. The government envelopes employ at Messrs. De la Rue's thirty-nine folders on an average, and a quick hand can fold 3,500 in a day. Mr. Barlow then noticed some sta tistical conclusions. One engraving on Mr. Perkins hard steel roller will afford 1,680 transfers to soft steel plates : these again will, when hardened, admit of 60,000 impres sions being polled from each, so that one original will afford 100,800,000 impressions of labels, enough to paper one thousand apartments of 24 feet by 15, and 12 feet high, making allowance for door, two windows, chimney, pier glass, and dado. Twelve years ago, common en velopes were sold at ls. the dozen : now, the postage en velope, with its medallion, may be bought wholesale at half a farthing (exclusive of the stamp), and yet though the manufacture is peculiarly costly, it return ed s ..r a e lm an all profit to the government. More than two ho Now, taking a common sized letter as a is quan tityn unit, this would pave a road 25 yards wide (the average width e with Oxford-street, pavement included ) f r om the general post office in London, to the of Oxford. Or, supposing all the letter-boxes in the entrance p9sted_ twenty millions of chargeable letters were 1843. entr i t t a ff h o e r d ed inquirertoh after truth. a te with one large spout, the it at the mean rate letters would keep flowing through . of 14 in a second. Mr. Barlow then briefly noticed some ot United e Kingdom t o be open, and to communicate the social advantages o f the penny post. He touched on of home—on the mot ives of self-education which i t sup d t He stated, tha t at p resent about five millions sterling ar e forwarded thro u g h the Post-office h -Y money or ders, and notic ed the advanta g e of t his arrangement the plie s e o n n g t t h h e a n a i d d permanence i t mi nist ere d to to all, but espec iall y the humbler ranks. He assert e d th a t nothing is too valuable or too fragile t to be influences s trusted ru to this cheap conveyance : birds eggs diamonds, living d • amonds living insects, and watches, pills, plaistere , and bills of exchange, are committed to it with equal confidence. Mr. Bagster sends each sheet of his P the Holy Scriptures ten times througholyglot edition of the Post-office, some of these transmissions being to at a distance from Lond on ;so learned men residing that, under th e o ld sys tem, the postage on eac h volume of this work w o uld have amounted to £165. Mr. Barlow concluded by a short but expressive quotation from an anonymous writer, de claratory of the manifold benefits of the Penny Post, and of the obligations which the country 0 the owes t origina tor of the system."—A • rchzteces Journal. August 13, 1844. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S, THURSDAY. The only bets laid were 7 to 1 against Bay Momus, 71 to 1 against Valerian, 10 to 1 against The Princess, and 11 to 1 against Red Deer. A very thin attendance. LATEST BETTING AT MANCHESTER. Friday Evening. There was a moderately attended room, but business was decidedly at " low water mark." We shall therefore sans ceremonie give the offers, &c., which fell upon our ear, thus : THE CHILLINGTON STAKES. 7 to 4 agst Sweetmeat (taken) 2 1 Mnrian Ramsay (taken, a race) 4 1 Yellow Boy (offered) 4 to 1 Mystery (offered) THE HOLYOAKE STAKES. 3 to 1 agst Merry Andrew (taken) THE EBOIt HANDICAP. The only offers we heard were to lay 3 to 1 on the field, (Franchise we consider " first fiddle") ; sto 1 against Pe dometer, and 100 to 6 agst Glossy ; 25 to 1 was wanted; and also 100 to 1 upon Rowena (6 to 1 offered.) THE ST. LEGER. There was a strong desire to support Bay Momus, but our figure did not exactly suit. A bet of a pony was laid between Ithuriel and Valerian, the former's friend having the best of the bet. The general offers agst Valerian did not exceed 6 and 61 to 1, but after the majority of the members had left 8 to 1 was laid in ponies, and out of the room in scores. Offers to take 100 to 50 about the Cure and Ithuriel, or the same on the Cure and another bar Ithuriel. 3 to 1 agst The Cure (offered, 31 wanted) 51 1 Ithuriel (nominal) 6 1 Momus (offered, 7 wanted) 8 1 Valerian (taken) 10 1 Princess (offered) 10 1 Red Deer (nominal) 12 1 Foie-a.ballagh (offered) 2 1 on The Cure agst Valerian (offered) There were several offers to lay against Milton, Infidel, Morpeth, and Lightning, but as nobody " gave mouth" in their favour, we cannot say what would have been laid. DONCASTER CUP. Offers to take 5 to 4 on Alice Hawthorn, or 100 to 10 on The Cure. THE DERBY. 4 to 1 agst Scott's lot (offered) 4 1 Day's lot (offered) 33 to 1 agst Nutbourne, and the same agst Kedger, were laid at Horwich. PERFORMANCES OF ORLANDO.—We copy tee follovr ing from the August number of the New Sporting Maga zine :—ln 1843 he started five times, and won four. The July Stakes, value clear, £580; Match at Newmarket, £250 ; The July Stakes, £2,600 Stake at Goodwood, £125. In 1844 he started five times, and won five. The Tuesday's Riddlesworth, £1,400; Stake at Newmarket, £300; Stake at Newmarket, £250; The Derby, £4,250; The Dinner Produce, £B5O ; total, £10,555. Orlando is not in the St. Leger. SHOOTING FOR THE ANCIENT SILVER ARROW.—On Tuesday se'nnight, the annual meeting to shoot for the ancient silver arrow, called the Airyhome Arrow (which was originally shot for at Scorton, in the year 1673, and has been annually contested since that time), was held at Thirsk, when twenty-eight gentlemen assembled to com pete for the different prizes, being the greatest number ever recorded to have met for that purpose. The num bers scored were very respectable. Among the more pro minent were Mr. Peckitt (Carlton Husthwaite) 113, Mr• Muir (lidinburgh) 106, Dr. Horner (Hull) 102, Mr. Hutchons (London) 102, Rev. E. Meyrick (Walcot, Lin coln) 101, Mr. Glasgow (Edinburgh) 82, &c. The Silver Arrow and Captaincy were won by the Rev. John Hig ginson, of Thormanby, by obtaining the first hit in the gold; the same arrow also gained Mr. Higginson the Sweepstakes Cup, being the most central hit during the day. The Lieutenant's Bugle was won by Mr. H. Stew ard, of York, who had won and held it during the previous year. A very elegant medal for the greatest number of hits was won by Mr. Muir, of Edinburgh ; and a Sweep stakes Prize for the highest score, by Mr. Peckitt, of Carlton Husthwaite. LANCASTER LUNE-SIDE SPORTS.—These sports com menced yesterday week, and afforded much amusement. Nearly 3,000 persons were present, also a fine musical band from Sleden, near Skipton. E. G. Hornby, Esq. , and other gentlemen of Lancaster, were present. Fifty' competitors appeared for the first wrestling match for all weights, and the sport was prime. In the final throw T. Longmire beat M. Butterfield. The money was thus di vided : —Longmire, £6 ; Butterfield, £3 ; Boardley, 1 56 .,.; G. Donaldson, 15s. ; T. Wilson, 15s. ; S. Battersby, J• Nelson, and G. Fawcett, ss. each. Leaping for height followed, and 13 entered. Longmire won the first prize by first clearing the bar at its greatest height without touching, but Battersby cleared the same height for the second ; and the other " boys of the Lune " were quill equal, if not superior, to their compeers of West ed b an y d a C w u r m es b tl e i r o l g an m d a . tch o , n 4B T c u o e n sd te a n y di t n h g e . sports The p were w r m The mo manful, though the rain descended in torren ts. . (victor), £4 ; ney was divided as follows :—G. Donaldson J. Donaldson, £2; M. Butterfield, 10s.; J. Nelson, J. Hindson, Busher, and Knowles, ss. each. A "jingli n g match followed. Sacks of sawdust were quickly thrown into the ring, which had been roped for the occasion. A score of hardy young fellows were blindfolded, and S. Battersby, of Skerton, took the bell, and commenced " jingling" very merrily; helter-skelter after him went his blinWolded pursuers, and pell-mell they soon tort. bled over the sacks and over one another, amidst roars-of.' laughter. After this pastime had continued f o r n early half an hour, "White-headed Bob" made a s atch at Battersby, and over a sack they rolled together; but , srum it was averred, and seemed to lie the general belief, th at " Bob" had so removed the bandage from his eyes t hat he got a " glimmering" how to direct his course, the mo ney wes ultimately given to Battersby. A match for beaten men was then contemplated, but the ground: was pl a y in such a state that no further wrestling could take place. Had the weather been fine, the sports would have been equal to those of the previous day. GREAT WRESTLING MEETING AND SPORTS AT FLAW , NEAR ULVERSTONE. The great northern wrestling meeting came off on Friday and Saturday week, at the foot of the hill of Flan, from which the sports derive their name. The weather on Friday was favourable, an d the spectators numbered from four to five thousand. The wrestlers comprised the elite of the northern ring, and, included the champion of all rings —William Jackson , 0 ; Kinneyside • also Mr. W. Coward, of Hawkshead, an d Mr. John Atkinson, of Russland. Mr. Jacob Robinson acted as referee. " The Trial Hunt," for three guineas► commenced the amusements; and the admirers of dogs sported their " rhino" freely on their favourites. Thera were dogs from all parts of Lancashire, Cumberlan d ' Westmoreland, and Northumberland. The sport we e excellent, and four dogs carried off the stakes, which varied from 255. to 4s. The wrestling that succeeded Wee admirable, the men being in prime condition. Ei g hty"; four competitors entered their names for the principa l prize of £5O. After six rounds, the final fall was as fol' lows :-1. G. Donaldson stood, Jackson fell ; 2. Jackson stood, Donaldson fell ; 3. Jackson stood, Donaldson fell' The trial between the champion and Donaldson, as might be anticipated, excited much interest. Both men shove l ' a great deal of " pluck" and science, especially the latter; but it requires a giant's strength, in addition to science; to overturn the Herculean frame of Jackson, who floore d his opponent in beautiful style. A purse was then con' tended for by the last 16 standers, and was won in th e fourth round by Longmire, several others receiving mallet prizes, in all £6. An excellent hurdle race (heats) wi e then run, for a sweepstakes of £2 2s. and £2O added' and was won by Mr. Andrews' b. m. Cumberland Lassie', A long leap came next, and was won by Harrington 0` Keswick, who cleared a space of 16 feet ; prize 10s. On the second day (Saturday), the sports commenced with dog-trail, which afforded much amusement. A. ligh t ' weight match succeeded, in which the contest was tie r " c thoh u ote l re this nexts entry started, sieydtrx. d G Donaldson G. andois. x 5 ha ec, each and nhN,d was a ast osw victor. awardedothne b n next lxxiltore.s twelvesum follows nw g ss i o give for To the victor, £3 3s. ; to the secon d an d third It standers, 31s. 6d. each ; to th e th ree next, 16s. eac h; Pi • standers, ss. 6d. each. A h ur dl e race next came off; el nS b. m. Sliding Scale, after one o f the sev y erest races el e witnessed. An all-weight entry, for the sum of £6 I ,„n e '; closed the proceedings at Flan for the present year. 11 g 1 5 wrestling was splendid. The division of the money • as follows :—Donaldson (victor), £2 2s. ; Chapman , rl,,;; the third and fourth, 12s. each; and the four n e x t et ) , standers, 7s. each. Thus (says the Cumberland PaCq " rious persons who took part in the m, that the y have 4 t o e r t m e f i e n r a e t n e d c e t thoe the Flan m s o p o o l y r td a s , o d a n hon w e e st may t ir io en ns tu o r f e t t h o e s it a t r i if any parallels in the annals of the wrestling ring. s i r port e w of a s t h a d e i m r i r e a n b j l o e y t m h e r o n u t s g h e o a u c t h , a e t v t d e n t i h n e g c h o i ghplymanygr a l et fi f t without even so much as a single militating feature ie. whole of the two days' proceedings. t a e p r e r c o u f re t , o Ward, Hyd r a o d p v a e t r h t y i advertised in i t n he o u \ r va p CUT AND PLAIN GLASS.—Those who are about to W il l, chase glass would do well to inspect the stock of 31r i.,0 every variety ; and now that a reduction ha the duty - taken place, it is offered at prices astonishingly low. tati" vast strides in England : institutions uf the kind are • c ige to be seen in almost every direction. 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