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42•MINIMIliMS MM.. Eittrature. And the dread SilE Calamity may del Say wl Can Hop Vain Bea The Lyre's And all that POETRY SONNET, Upon our track, beatifying Life's nectar-goblets pass Mid Music's witchery ; st not Grief's pal Thou see The vain Feb. 18th, 1847 the night, afoundest cell ;teal, a t of the pr mndations Lai TO A MAN BORN BLIND AND DEAF A keeps thy Heart front blight —Daylight's mirth,— nor caust thou hear SAIL. HUGGINS ne shil gions periodical, under this ing,) will, it is announced, rch. The primary objects ts, "to assert and vindicate rnd pure scriptural religion ; and to he workings of a party within the striving, with too much hools, and the or itself, instruments the design has fallen into iiios fiber, it appears to able and zealous It is a 'Ong extract from an article entitled " Hopes of Rome, Revelations from Oxford," principally an able re- Mr. N - ewman's 90th number of the Tracts for the re but room for a few quotations, which ,ewhere. will be found V ARIETIES GLASS-STAINING.-The deep ruby red is conferred by gold, the bright yellow by, silver or antimony, deep orange by iron, green by iron or copper, blue by cobalt, purple by manganese, and the various shades of colour by the judicious admixture of those metallic preparations lass, the same as with ea, .ced by adding ordinary pig- .d colours will never fade Builder treous relics of Egyptian art LNTED A CooK.—Cook did not wait till it had been I how much of the sickness at sea was caused respec bv bad ships, dirty water, rotten provisions, the tion and of lemon juice. He procured, t/ that he believed was requisite The experiment, though not as applied to any one cause, was ye a physiological problem, but If the general measures for the want of vE great diffie he health of tl did not sol an experimentum cr successful it saved the men's 1 no doubt ie Hoy sful as the similar measures intro and crowned in Cook by the award mety in the last century. He who raises 1 -tion of this many-citied kingdom of health, will confer a greater —Report of the Regis- People will, perhaps, urge as "for the improvement of the the necessary inter- But is our respect Tied so far as to en- security ? The rights of the ited by the rights of society. Idustrions poph to the natural service than Cook on the count trar-General. A STRANGE A an objection to our plans condition of the houses of ference with th for the rights of property to 1 danger the public health gropriet Why d houses rigorou %Iso exist for the speculator who lets his workman and indigent ? We impose nditions on the sale of commodities ; we con -hunt hesitation. meat of bad (nudity. mitrid ated liquors, and b scate tl „ below the legal weight ; things, but we punish trange contradiction do the those infectious holes dangerous as the use of and we not o their owners propriqo 'hich is —not only remain unpunished, aliar protection, and a sort of are exempt from the greater osed upon other proprietors. If we forbid the why do we allow a poison in the necessarily nic, 8.,;( to famish by slim ilesome habitations in which they at Ducpßiaux on the Mortality of Brussels How THE ROMANS SET TO WORK TO itIIILD A CITY. —" Great circumspection was used in the choice of a site for a city, and one of the methods adopted previous to the forming of an encampment even, was the institution of re ligious rites, when the livers of the victims sacrificed were were found diseased, others t, in order to prove whether me tes proved healthy, it was con- and soil were salubrious. When built, the next object was the best the ex le area between them ; the streets winds injurious to comfort, and all 'ere well considered. Their pub- ablished in convenient quarters, and le adequate to bear the weight placed 'ere established which prevented in which would interfere with . These were the first and very man in Rome had a cistern, Upon them dividuals fror d the whole was under the con- d and management of proper officers." With the ex )tion of the discharge of the refuse into the Tiber, this ward aresy, Egg., before the Health of Towns' Com- WALTER SCOTT vivid imagination, it is not to b of this were, to 1 much in it Lady Cori complemen ins with ND HIS GRANDMOTHER.-With his ad strong passionfor the marvellous, s undreamed of In Ir. Barham him ,dence to the ex- at some people strive to ilment. He loved, as it and leave an un- Le wildest vagaries of fancy. Un hose enjoyment of " her murders" ver lost his relish for a " good ghost ed him more than to listen to one ," properly fitted with the regular kites, and locale, attested by " liv- ses of u mished reputation, " and hedged in )1T circumstantial evidence of the most incon- tr avertible natu e ; one, in short, of those logical cul de sacs , which afford no exit, but by unceremoniously kick ing down the opposing barrier. It was Sir Walter Scott, we believe, who was thus driven to extricate himself from a similar dilemma, when, on being asked " how he ac counted" for some strange tale he had related, on no less than th andmother, he was forced to reply, after some deliberation, " Aiblins my grandmither was an awfu' leear."—Memoir of the Rev. R. H. Barham (, Thomas Ingoldsby"), in the third se- 8 of the IngadBby Leger British .1 ng work called " The Lost ion of the deaf and dumb mgth. The author of the tor of the Pictorial Bible, nic itself is Dr. Kitto, edit having been deaf from the ze of twelve years, de- n society. Amongst the pas- It will surprise many tails his own experience. _ sages quoted are the following : readers to know that few persons speak in my presence concerning whose voice I do not receive a very distinct impression. That is, I form an idea of that person's Voice which it becomes to my mind as distinct from the of others as, I suppose, one voice is distinct from to those who can hear rri- hus impression t conveyed is produced from a cursory, but probably v .ccurate observation of the person's general physical con stitution compared with the action of his mouth and the play of his muscles in the act of speaking. I form a similar idea concerning the laugh of one person as dis tinguished from that of another ; and when I have seen a person laugh, the idea concerning his voice becomes in my mind a completed and unalterable fact. The impression thus realised would seem to be generally correct. I have sometimes tested it, by describing to another the voices of arsons with whom we were both acquainted ; and I have sown an instance in which the impression described by me has not been declared to be remarkably accurate. This faculty must be based upon experiences acquired during the days of my hearing, and cannot be realised by the born deaf, seeing that it is impossible for them to have any idea of sounds produced by the action of the vocal organs, and still less of the peculiarities by which one voice is distinguished from another." THE THEOLOGY OF ROME,—What, we ask, is the theology of Rome, stripped of its accidents and unimport ----;a. Is it not this ?—SALVATION BY MEANS OF EFFECTUAL BY PRI STS, W}lo ARE essence of Romanism SUBSTANCE, THE ESSENCE OF ibsolute Ref FONT by means of the Pri( OXFORD TEACH IN( ~,, e neration at the -pardon for sin at the .LTAR, by means of bread and wine transformed to Di vine Humanity, by the magic of a Priest—Ws is the es sential faith of ROME—this is the faith of. ORFORD, ex pounded, without reproof, in the earliest Tracts for the ^mow passionately affirmed and persevering) lit. by hundred- Times, ar )f the younger Clergy, and diffused through the land by incredible activity in every depart ment of literature. If it be so, and who will venture to deny it ?—may not Rome well hope exultingly in the thought of fully subjugating England to her authority ? That there are many who hold these essential doctrines of Rome, who have not the remotest idea of joining that community, is perfectly true ; they have fine distinctions between the essential doctrines of Rome and some of the popular opinions and practices in Catholic countries. They enlarge, too, on the undue authority usurped by the Bishop of Rome; they enlarge, too, as might a Turk or a Jew, on the duty of remaining in the Church in which they were born, and plead the duty of enforcing Catholic doctrine and Catholic practices within the Church. Thus w e find Dr. Hook, venturing to tell his Bishop, that though he fully admits " the extreme of High Church doctrine and practice is Popery ; he will at the same time maintain that this is no reason why that doctrine and practice should be renounced." The audacity rather than the logic of this declaration might be admired, and Rome would see little to depress her hopes in the excuses of those who would be Romanists outside of Rome, and so be preparing the unsuspecting people to receive " all Roman doctrine ;" thus accomplishing that which ten thousand of Rome's acutest agents would fail in attempt ing.— Oxford Magazine. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. STOCK OF FOOD CONDUCT OF MAN TO WOMAN. —Who, whether among the graver or less grave, is just to woman ? There may be moments when the beloved tells us, and tells us truly, that we are dearer to her than life. Is not this enough ? Is it not above all merit ? Yea, if even the ardour of her enthusiasm subsides, if her love ever loses, later in the day, the spirit and vivacity of its early dawnL if between the sigh and the blush an interval is percepti ble—if the arm mistakes the chair for the shoulder—what an outcry is there—what a proclamation of her injustice and her inconstancy—what an alternation of shrinking and sparing at the coldness of her heart ! Do we ask within if our own has retained all its ancient loyalty, all its own warmth, and all that was poured into it ? Often the true lover has little of true love compared with what he has undeservedly received and unreasonably exacted. But let it also be remembered, that marriage is the metem t turns them into different psychosis of :women have been mistaken which at first is provokes w ithout its att and prosperi if duties For good temper ; the little tractively provoking, at last ess ; negligence of order fifties, long endured, often danger of following' the example Savage Lando; Waltir HOPES OF THE ROMANISTS OF SUBDUING ENGLAND TO THE ROMAN SEE.—Never since Pope Sixtus V. blessed the " Invincible" Spanish Armada, and, in the name of Heaven, denounced certain ruin on heretical England, has Rome entertained such high hopes of subduing this coun try to the obedience of the Roman See as at the present time. The instrumentality by which this great object is now sought to be gained, is, indeed, as different as is the sixteenth from the nineteenth century. Spain is decrenit. and intallible artillery cannot now the Infallible Chprch. Apostolic Rome may not now " PrOve her doctrine orthodox, By Apostolic blows and k • Art and persuasion take the place of force ; and. „Smith field fires, and inquisition dungeons, are things nevernamed sentative of the Roman Catholic Church in this our -en lightened age. Rome`has more than a show of reason for her lofty hope of subjugating England ; and it must be matter of surprise that some acute and thoughtful mind, of the first order of intellect, has not ere this, shown how many elements of Romanism, mostly latent, some active, exist amongst us, apart from the peculiar agency of Rome, but all capable of being made available for Romish objects. It may be, and we fear it is so, that the e face, and that the man who should proclaim unpleasant truths, would receive no thanks, however valuable were the verities he proclaimed. —Oxibrd Magazine. dangers and difficulties fall iii tl THE BOHEMIAN PEASANTRY.—The third night of our journey we stopped at the little village of Stecken, and the next morning, after three hours' walk over the ridgy heights, reached the old Moravian city of Iglau, built on a hill. It happened to be Corpus Christi day, and the peasants of the neighbourhood were hastening there in their gayest dresses. The young women wore a crimson scarf around the head, with long fringed and embroidered ends hanging over the shoulders, or falling in one smooth ld from 4- " ^f T' 'hey were attired in sleeves and skirts of one back of tne head. black velvet vests, with full white some gay colour, which were short enough to show to vantage their red stockings and polished shoe-buckles. Many of them were not deficient in personal beauty— there was a gypsylike wildness in their eyes that, com bined with their rich hair and graceful costume, reminded me of the Italian maidens. The towns, too, with their open squares and arched passages, have quite a southern look; but the damp, gloomy weather was enough to dis pel any illusion of this kind. In the neighbourhood of Iglau, and, in fact, throughout the whole of Bohemia, we %w some of the strangest teams that could well be ima- I thought the Frankfort milkwomen, with their s and hearselike carts, were comical objects enough but they bear no comparison with thes Dogs—for economy's sake, perhaps— ply the place of oxen or horses, and it is thing to see three large mastiffs abreast, harnessed to a iohemian turn generally sup- country ca ad a cow together are some- times met with, and one man, going to the festival of Ig lau, had his wife and children in a little waggon, drawn by a dog and donkey. These two, however, did not work well together ; the dog would bite his lazy companion, and the man's time was constantly empioyed in whipping him off the donkey, and in whipping the donkey away from the side of the road. Once I saw a waggon drawn by a dog, with a woman pushing behind, while a man, doubtless her lord and master, sat comfortably within, smoking his pipe with the greatest complacency ! The very climax of all was a woman and a dog harnessed together, taking a load of country produce to market ! I hope, for the honour of the country, it was not emblematic of the woman's condi tion there. But as we saw hundreds of them breaking stones along the road, and occupied at other laborious and not less menial labour, there is too much reason to fear that it is so.—Views a-foot ; or, Europe seen with Knap sack and Staff DIRECT TAXATION not afford to pay any direct taxes the extent sown •We are always told Ireland can- What, then, comes of its £12,000,000 of rental? Scotland, with little more than a third of that land rent, pays it and the assessed taxes besides, without either complaint or difficulty. But it is said the landlords are so eat up with mortgages, that they have not a fourth part of their nominal incomes left to live upon. That is a good reason for only making them pay, as under the income tax they would, on the free balance, deductis debitis. But, in the name of Heaven, why should the bondholders pay nothing ? If they sit at home at ease in Dublin, Cork, or. Belfast, and quietly en joy £9,000,000 out of the £12,000,000 of Irish rental, why cannot they as well pay the income tax as their brethren bute more to the common necessities of the State than the whole land and industry of Scotland put together. So vast are the natural resources which Providence has hpstnwed on the fickle and mi.:mirk/1 nennle and those enjoyed by the hardy and industiimis Scotch moun taineers. On what conceivable ground of justice or reason can this most monstrous and invidious exemption in fa vour of Ireland from income and assessed taxes be de fended ? Is it that Ireland with its 12.000.000 acres, and 5,000, it that 8,300,000 persons now in Ireland, cannot pay even what 2,900,000 now pay in Scotland ? Is it that Ireland is so singularly peaceable and loyal, and gives so little nxiety and disquiet to the rest of the empire, that it must led for its admirable and dutiful conduct by an exemption from all direct taxation to govern ment ? Is it that the troops required to be kept in it are so few, and in Scotland so numerous, that the country may he liberated from taxation, while the latter is subjected to it in full extent ? Is it that industry in towns in Ireland is so great, and manufacturing skill so transcendant, that it is entitled to be liberated from direct taxation in consider- be rewa absolute ation of the vast amount of its indirect custom-house du ties, in comparison of which those of London, yielding £12,000,000 ; of Liverpool, yielding £4,500,000 a-year ; or Glasgow and the Clyde Harbours, yielding £1,200,000 ; and Leith, yielding £589,000, are as nothing ? Or is it that thii extraordinary exemption is the reward of tumult, dissatisfaction, and treason ; of turbulent demagogues and iests, and an indolent people ; of active and in nbination for the purposes of evil, and total in res of good ? And is it that .egeneration of government by the ability to combine for pt the first fruit. lietorm Bill, that it can raise a revenue only from the loyal and pacific and industrious part of the empire, and must proclaim relief from all taxation as the reward of tu mult, disorder, murder, monster meetings, and treason ? We leave it to the advocates of the present system of go vernment, or those who established it, to answer these Blackwood. questions A PLE AND LEARNED ClTY. — Smyrna has no earthly right to the title of a Turkish city, except the ac cident of its happening to be in Turkey. You may go half over the place and meet not a single Turk, except those wonderful fellows, tht, porters, whose Herculean powers have been so _often_noticed ; or perhaps friend Hassan, the chief of the police, making a - progress, with some couple of grim attendants. In fact, in the motley of its soci_ty, if any one colour prevail, it is that of France ; for amongst all decent people her language is spoken, and in all reunions of pretension her colonists are the more numerous body. The Greeks, to be sure, are in great plenty, but they occupy'chiefly the lower grade. And as it so happens that the Sisters of Charity have here an es 'blishment, and maintain, with much ability and dili - a female school, the only one in the place—and ..czarists are equally sedulous in their province, it seems not unlikely that Smyrna will become entirely French in spirit, so far as the upper classes are concerned. At present the mixture only savours strongly of the Gallic ingredient; and a most agreeable mixture it makes, af fording the blended essences of many nations. Few who have seen much of that society can entertain its reflection without pleasure ; and all are wise to make the most of its image, as the wide world affords no twin establishment. Coming from many parts of Europe, the colonists have, by the influence of climate and association, been blended into a general at the 1 similation of character, yet retaining the one or two salient points of nationality. Their plysiogno! mild influences of - lonia; aid It would be vain to seek in their native countries such beautiful spe. cimens of French and Italian women (I except Englishwo men) as are to be found in this birth-place ci poetry. It is a city of wonderful linguists, for the necessities of inter course demand at least three, and in many. cases four lan guages : Greek with the servants, Italian with the shop _ _ peepers, and French among the polished. Many of them possess'more than this number, and truly, wonderful it is to see them turn from one guest to another in their pleasant assemblies, and to each address the tongue of his proper country. The causes that loosened tho vowels and softened the utterance of the old Greek in lonia, have dipped in honey the tongues of the modern Levantines ; and what ever they are speaking it is always mellifluously. It is no less true that the old grace of these shores revives in the persons of the ladies, and gives a Lydian softness to all that they do. Whether you mark the Armenian ma tron, languid from her siesta, seeking the breeze at her lattice ; or the more active Frank maiden at the hour of her evening promenade, you are ever struck wigi the idea of grace and. poetry. But chiefly it is pleasant to mark them when the unruffled sea and cloudless moon invite them to wander on the marina, and embark on the waters —when the hot sun has persecuted the day, and evening first allowed to breathe freely. There is the bay alive with boats, and resonant of music and laughter, and the shore alive with gay promenaders. There are certain seasons when it might be presumed that the Smyrnists divorce night from sleep ; for often have I listened to the cheerful sound till long past midnight, and still has some passing boat brought music to contribute to my dreams. Or, take your hat, and wander forth at evening to the banks of Meles, where Homer sang—whose waters have washed the feet of the epic father, and say whether Ho. roer's self would not acknowledge ;hese groups as worthy of the soil.—Blackwood's Mapzine, Liverpool Manchester Leeds Birmingham If we turn to barley, oats, beans, quantity may be stated in the following tabh • None, or scarcely any, except l for seed Barley. I Oat but th COMPARATIVE MORTALITY BY SICKNESS. (From the Topic.) mortality " in the towns specified. Premature deaths annually 3,200 2,130 1,007 1,013 100 , of mountain and . vfaste, has ,s fewer of I houses, town halls, and other specious cla In the Agricultural Gazette of Saturday last, there is a very important tabular document. It is a st.,t - :.'rnent of the estimated amount, as compared with other years, of corn and other food now remaining in the hands of the farmers. Being an abstract of ninety-four separate re turns obtained from practical farmers, in thirty-six Eng lish, Scotch, and Welsh counties, it must be presumed to represent the truth as far as it can be represented by es timates. • The prospect is any thing but gratifying. It shows not only that farmers hold less than usual of any description of food, but that the stock of some is well nigh exhausted, and that the quantity of wheat in their hands is compara tively small. The editor of the Agricultural Gazelle, by whom the returns in question were abstracted, infers that the stock of wheat is probably one-fifth or one-sixth less 'lan usual, and that appearances are against an early har . vest ; that there is very little more barley in the country than will suffice for seed ; that the stocks of oats, beans, and peas are unusually short ; and that if there are enough potatoes for seed, it is only because no one desires to plant the usual quantity. We 'nave carefully gone through the ninety-four state ments, and we find that in WHEAT twenty-two persons only speak of an average quantity on hand, four of an un usual quantity, and sixty-eight of much diminished stock. Yet it is of wheat that the most faiourable account is and peas the It must be confessed that this is a serious state of things ; and what adds to their unfavourable appearance is, the very general announcement that turnips are rotting fast, or are actually gone. It, however, appears on the other hand, that hay is unus ua lly plentiful. The editor of the Agricultural Gazette attaches very considerable importance to the returns from which the con clusions have been drawn. They were prepared by practical men, each well known as such in his own district, and, in most cases, the questions submitted to them were made the subject of consultation with neighbours equally well-in formed. I In Yorkshire, the Wheat crop is described as less than )ther roots failing fast: hay DI usual continued frost renders opinion as to the present appearance worthless." In Lancashire, wheat and oats are said to be average crops ; potatoes are described as near the average ; of tur nips and other roots few are remaining ; the present ap pearance of the crops is said to be backward and badly. In Cheshire, the wheat is described as being two-thirds of the usual average ; of b ar l e y, littl e , if any , is on hand ; of oats, two-thirds • of beans, none ; of peas, none ; o f potatoes, " there will , probably be plenty of seed here." Of young wheat there is a full average sown ; b u t " i t h as looked badly - of late." TAR AND From these statements it may' e concluded that cannon and balls are comparatively, harmless things, and frighten more people than they hurt, and that military danger, and its inferential prowess, have been prodigiously over rated. A comparison of the registers of mortality will convince us that a hero, placed in the trenches of a be leaguered fortress, where he is exposed for weeks to a continued shower of cannon shot, or placed on a field of 1-fie before the h” -- d most reso7 ~re ..,ravest ant. _ ..ate of his enemies, has a much better chance of life, and runs less risk of premature death, than if he worked in some undrained street, and slept in a crowded room in Bristol or Liver ao uncommon pool. The chance of life was at the Siege of Flushing.. 420 to'l Shopkeeping Liver- Siege of Antwerp.. 68 to 1 pool l7 to 1 Siege of Badajos .. 54 to 1 Weaving Manchester 17 to 1 Battle of Waterloo 30 to 1 Sawmaking Sheffield 14 to 1 The account of the loss of life in the "trade of war " and in " peaceful trade " may be stated thus. Assuming a fair average mortality to be 1 in 50, then in places where this is exceeded, it follows the excess might have been diminished or saved. It is now thirty-one years since the battle of Waterloo was won, and between that time and this there have been the following numbers of pre vpntimp d oath a n, 0. ~. cc _1 Total in 31 years. 99,200 66,030 31,217 31,403 ur in tour towns, during thirty-one years, 227,850 human beings have been destroyed whose lives might have been preserved to their families and the public—a carnage equal to that of one hundred and three baffles, each as bloody as that fought at Waterloo. The " g ame of war, played by princes," has been a subject of vituperation from Nim rod to Bonaparte, but princes and conquerors have not, on the whole, been the most heartless or most desperate gam blers; their battles have a cessation, and they end in peace. The real, remorseless, wholesale slaughterers and destroyers of mankind, whose deadly work goes on from year to year and for ever, are men who shiver at the sight of a naked sword, and shut their eyes when an unloaded musket is pointed towards them ; who walk about with pens behind' their ears and their hands in their pockets, and ninct ilaue in filo :Than], _ • pestilential streets that intervene between their villas and their counting-houses, and instinctively cross the road to avoid contact with their contagious-looking townsmen unconcernedly look on thousands of their neighbours at tacked by disease, disabled from labour, consigned to the workhouse, or prostrated by death, and deposited by fifties and hundreds in revolting dead-pits ; while in feast _ xchanges, court )-trap uudertak- enormous amount, which should be held sacred, and ap plied to promote improvements that would alleviate and prevent the havock and destruction made on the lives and health of their indigent fellow-citizens—those citizens by whose toil and skill the public wealth has been created. Orntrai W. B. Ferrand, Esq., has beep► appointed a. Deputy- Lieutenant for Yorkshire. The House of Assembly in Nova Scotia have contri buted £lOOO towards the relief of Ireland and Scotland. subscriptions in Guernsey for the Irish , amount to £2,000 A Chinese junk is stated to be on her voyage toLondon for exhibition as a curiosity. The late Mr. Byng's estate has been valued for probate duty at £400,000. It is most singular that nothing has yet been heard of the Rev. H. W. Starr, who is supposed to have perished in some of the defiles of Snowdon. The Mayor of Leeds has forwarded an invitation to Count de Montemolin to visit Leeds on his contemplated tour through the provinces. The report about the Emperor of Russia having pro hibited the exportation of corn is a Mark Lane fabrica tion. A very large quantity of cocoa nuts have been imported into Sunderland, which are selling at the law price of threepence each. The wages of the ship carpenters at Sunderland 'lave been raised from twenty-four to twenty-seven, shillings a week Dr Adler, the chief Rabbi of the Hebrews, has been recently introduced to her Majesty. He is about to insti tute schools connected with the various congregations of Jews in Great Britain. _ _ _ St. VALENTINE'S-DAY. - The grand total of letters and newspapers, passing through the Post-office on Sa turday, last stands as follows :—Letters, 422,000 ; news- papers, 145,000. . The Brummegem twelve shilling guns, says the Tippe rary Free Preto, are doing serious havoc through the country. New accounts are daily read of. the last explo sion. It present, in Great_ Britain, there is one in 1,585 of the population deaf and dumb, and one in I,ooo . blinci, that is, the ratio of the blind to the deaf is about that of 8 to 5, and this, be it remembered, when the advantages of vaccination are very widely diffused and understood. On Tuesday last, a serious riot occurred at Leicester, between the police and the civilians, in consequence of the interference of the former, by order of the magistrates, with certain sports and diversions practised by a long es tablished custem on Shrove Tuesday. The wonderful patriarCh of English tenors, Braham,,is now in London, and is rusticating for a time, after giving •400 concerts in thirty-seven weeks, two each day, and tra velling every morning by railroad, post-stages, &c. He is in excellent health, strength, and voice. The upper part of an immense dust heap gave way on Tuesday, at Camden Town, and overwhelmed a number of persons who were sitting at its base. Some escaped, others were taken out insensible, and recovered, and one was taken out dead. V • M.O .1.1101. , a& 'LP 1.3111, • A young woman at Bradford, troubled with epileptic fits, has swallowed, on the prescription of a quack, a human skull, powdered and mixed with treacle, in occasional doses, as a remedy for her disease ! A belief in the effi. cacy of powdered human skull for fits was formerly. very COIIIIIIOII, vv GLASS COFFINS.—A patent has just been taken out by Mr. Parkes, of Peckham, Surrey, for making coffins of glass by a mould, or of thick plates of china joined toge ther by a durable cement, or of wooden cases lined with plates of glass, united by a mixture of fused glass and borax. THE WHEAT . DUTIES.—The amount of duty paid on foreign wheat from the sth July, 1846, to 19th January, 1847, was £72,059 on wheat, and 460,929 on wheat flour, making a gross sum total of £132,988. Of these duties £114,964 were received on foreign wheat and wheat flour, and £18,024 on British colonial wheat and wheat flour. Alexandre Dumas, the French feuilletonistey usually sells his writings by the line, at prices varying from seven pence to a shilling. He is said to have been once offered half-a-crown a line for a navel, but to have refused the offer on the ground that the man who made it could never intend to pay him, as the sale of the work could never replace so great an outlay. WITCHCRAFT.—At Yarmouth police-court, last week, a Mrs. Leggett applied for protection against her sister, who had assaulted and threatened her, because the de fendant suspected that complainant had bewitched her husband, who was never well, though no one could tell what ailed him. 'The magistrate endeavoured in vain to convince the defendant that her sister was not a witch, SIGNS OF FAMINE.—The granaries in and about Stock ton and Yarm are so loaded with the " staff of life," that many of them are in danger of breaking down, and on Wednesday last the waggons and carts containing grain and pulse of all descriptions were so numerous in Stock ton that the streets were literally blocked up with them. DREADFUL ACCIDENT.-011 Tuesday last, nine per sons left Bideford in the omnibus for Torrington, most of them for the purpose of attending the market at the latter place. On passing the quay at Bideford, the horse took fright, and plunged into the sea, when, dreadful to relate, eight out of the nine were drowned, the tide being up at the time. The driver of the vehicle was saved. • CHINESE SUGAR. — The Sheba from China, was hauled into the St. Katherine Dock on Thursday, with a cargo of 600 tons of sugar, the growth of the celestial empire. It is of a remarkably fine quality, and quite white. It is packed in bags, each containing 61bs. This is the third .ch has arrived in the port of London ARRIVAL OF JAVA SUGARS.—Two cargoes of Java sugar, belonging to the Dutch government, have arrived off the coast ; and one, consisting of 450 tons, had already ,ondon, at 335. afloat. The other cargo still remains unsold, though an offer of 545. has been made for it, duty paid. This offer was refused, and the rate of 33s afloat, was damanded, which is somewhat higher than 54s duty-paid, as the landing charges and interest upon the duty must be added. been so. Ecia/cs FOR DRAINAGE.—The following were among the applications for loans under the new drainage act, which appeared in the London Gazette, of Tuesday last ; Thomas• Clifton, Esq., for lands in the parish of Lytham, £25,000 ; the Earl of Derby, for land in St. Michael's, £B,OOO ; do. for Huyton, Prescot, Ormskirk, &c., £13,000; do. for Prestwich, Bury, &c., £10,000;: Peter Ainsworth, Esq., M.P., for land in Bolton and Deane, £lO,OOO. A CORPORATION INTERLUDE.--The fondness of cor porate functionaries for good feeding, generally, has pas sed into a proverb. The Leeds corporation illustrate the characteristic in a way peculiarly their own, for we are informed by the Leeds papers, that the council of that town, during a meeting last week, " adjourned for twenty minutes, and partook of the hospitality of the mayor, who had kindly provided turtle soup and sherry, ad libitmn." They returned from the feast to discuss the state of the Leeds burial ground. Food rioting has temporarily revived in the north. Shipping grain was, as before, the exciting cause, and again the women figured as leading instigators. At Beau ly the rioters twice deforced and assaulted the authorities, Fort George soon restored order. Five men and one wo man were also carried off to Inverness jail. At Bailin traid. the mob_ nrinrinalhr fPmalpq_ ftimpri hark alp crrain . . . _ . carts and loosed the offending vessel from her moorings, but again the bayonet prevailed. Wick and Thurso have also had outbreaks, and it is feared that there the civil arm will require assistance. On Tuesday evening, a respectable man applied at the Lambeth police-court, for the magistrate's advice and as sistance to obtain possession of his son, a lad 15 years of age, who had been seduced from home by the widow of a distinguished officer, recently deceased. She was 60. The first intimation the parents received of an improper inti macy, was by the lad giving up an excellent situation in a merchant's office. The lady had made him rich presents, and his parents had discovered that they were going off to Guernsey, to be married. Mr. Elliott, the magistrate, said the only course was, to get the lad away, give him a good flogging, and keep him at home. DREADFUL SHIPWRECK.—NINE LIVES LOST.—A large brig, laden with iron, was wrecked on Sunday, at twelve o'clock, mid-day, on the Nass Sands, and we are sorry to say,that nine lives were lost,•one man only saving himself by swimming. Five bodies are already picked up. It is a melancholy fact, to relate, that the wretched crew were seen for some hours in the rigging, no assistance being at hand to save them, and a great sea breaking over them all the time. The brig, no doubt, will settle' down in the sand and be entirely lost. There was a very thick fog in the channel, and hence this deplorable disaster.—Bristol Gazette. Fifty paupers, (men, women, and children,) belo ng i ng to St. Saviour's Union Workhouse, London, were brought up, on Tuesday, at the Southwark Police-office, on a charge of riot and breaking windows. Mr. Cottingham, the sitting magistrate, said that it was no use committing them, for he well knew they acted disorderly in order that `hey might be sent to prison. He should therefore dis- Some time after, they were again brought up on a similar charge. Finding that leniency failed, the worthy magistrate tried the other recourse, and committed them to Britton Gaol for twenty-one days. At this sen tence the unfortunate wretches seemed rejoiced. miss them than £lO,OOO, in Bank of England notes, was on Tuesday, about one o'clock, effected in the vicinity of the Royal Exchange. A clerk in the service of Strahan, Paul, and Bates, bankers in the Strand, had been collecting in the course of the morning at several of the city banks, and the last place he called at was Deacon's bank, in,Birchin lane. On leaving, he carelessly deposited his leather case, containing the abo've amount in notes, in his coat-pocket, without a chain or any security being attached to it. It was raining at the time, and, during the confusion that existed in that crowded neighbourhood, some of the ex pert swell mob gentry managed to extract the case, and got clear off. A reward of £5OO is offered for the restitu tion of the notes. ABUNDANCE OF CORN IN THE NORTH OF ENGLAND. —Letters from Northumberland, Durham, and parts of Westmoreland and Cumberland, advise that never were corn stacks so abundant, and that even stocks of old corn (1845) were yet on hand, waiting the highest prices to be obtained, the limit of which was supposed not to be then attained. The banks had been liberal in their ad van( upon improving prices, fore, were enabled to hold, and, if accommodation were continued, would !re disposed to hold. Such are also the accounts received from private but accredited sources in Lincolnshire, and these are the principal corn-growing counties of England, where the farmers sir. -- well d —4 the ban'--- _mug, hers are ready to assist ono occa sion. It may be expected, therefore, that corn will be brought more freely to market now that the bankers will become rather anxious to recall their advances. Messrs. Osier, of London, have just completed umag nificent candelabrum for Ibrahim Pasha. This extraor dinary piece of glasswork consists of 500 pieces, is seven teen feet in height, and weighs a ton. From a base richly decorated springs' a. shaft Composed of triangular prism.s. Upon this shaft, at twelve feet six inches from the ground, is placed .a large dish, from which spring the branches, twenty-four in number,' each provided with a bell-shade and decorated with a. solid star. The dish is likewise de corated with six pendants two feet long. The work.about the base is on the inner side of the glass, and the conse quence is that the' smooth side being outwards, the dust is not easily collected, and cleaning is effected without trouble. The whole is intended to represent the form of a Palmyra tree. It is not the least interesting fart, con nected with this beautiful work of art, that its construc tion has alone been rendered possible by the abolition of the laws requiring the superintendence of the excise. PROTESTANTISM AND POPERY ATINOTTINGHAM., Tuesday last the Protestants of Nottingham held .a great meeting in the Mechanics' Hall, which was crowded in every part by above 1,500 persons. The Rev.. J. W. Brooks, the worthy vicar of St. Mary's, took the chair. The Rev. Dr. Cumming, the Rev. R. Blakeney, and others, addressed the audience at length, and amid much enthusiasm.. A counter meeting was got up in.the Ex change Rooms to receive the Rev. Dr. Wilson,the Roman Catholic bishop. The audience amounted to about 200. It' was a strange scene. Mr. Wakefield, a well known Socinian, and one of the corporation, took the chair ; and Mr. Cripps, the mayor a dissenter and leading member of the Independent Chapel, under the ministry of 'the Rev. Mr. Gilbart, was seated between the Popish bishop and a Popish priest, as one of the chief patrons of the pro- Popery festival. While this is going on, these same liberal Socinians and Independents have refused these rooms on any terms to the Reformation Society of Not tingham.—Herald.. SURVEYING EXPEDITION TO THE COAST OF AFRICA. — Arrangements are in progress for fitting out the Minx and Teazer steam-vessels, of 100 horses power each, and light draught of water, and two other steam-vessels,. the Rifle man and Sharpshooter, of 200 horses' power each, one of each .class built of wood, and the others of iron, and all fitted with screw "^ - q- for r ..'?peiters, -ne purpose of proceeding -lie Bight of Bei m, on the west coast ofAfrica, to sur vey.the extensive Lagoon at the mouths of the Niger.or Nun river, as it is named by the natives of that part of the coast. The Lagoon is a fresh-water lake, extending from Cape St. Paul, to Cape Formosa, separated from the sea by a narrow beach through its whale, extent, in some places the land being scarcely half a rnila broad, and in no part exceeding two, miles. The Lagos, the Benin, the Foseado, the Esclamo, the. Rio Rannis; Nos. 1,2, 3,4, 5, and 6, the Rio Dodo, the Formosa and the Rio Nun or Niger, all rivers or mouths of the-Niger, some of them nearly two miles broad where they enter the Lake Lagoon, supply this large inland reservoir with, fresh water ; and the smaller steam-vessels, the Minx and Teazer, are in tended to explore the banks of the recently-discovered branches of the rivers entering t/w lake, and proceed as far inland upon them as will be found practicable. UNWII.LINGNESS OF HIGBLAND LABOURERS Ta WORK.—From what we hear from various quarters, the Highland Destitution Committee will require to exercise a very, strict vigilance, and to be firm to sternness, if they are to prevent the money with which they have been,en trusted for the relief of helplessness and want, being,con verted into an encouragement,to idleness and dishonesty. There is no doubt whatever that a large number of the Highland labourers employed on railways in the Lowlands have returned, and are returning homeward, attracted by the hope of being able to live there without working. For instance, on one contract on the Edinburgh and Northern, near Kirkcaldy, 90 Highland labourers have gone home since the end of October, and of these about 50 left during December and January. The manager re monstrated with them repeatedly, and almost invariably got the same answer—that they would now get " plenty of porridge" at home for nothing. About forty have also left another contract in the same district, avowedly on the same inducements. A short time ago, a contractor on the same line, suffering from want of hands, niade a tour through parts of Inverness and Argyle, offering employ ment to 300 men, at wages varying from 2s. 4d. to 35., a day ; and after making every exertion, could only obtain between thirty and forty.--Scotsman. Boz's LAST Wonx.—lt must be a matter of surprise to the public generally to perceive how varied are the opinions expressed by the leading newspapers, with re spect to Mr. Dickens's last publication. It may well be imagined that some adverse criticisms upon the works of this and other celebrated authors may proceed from per sonal feelings or educational prejudices. These, however, could account for but a few. The majority, as we have the best medical authority for stating, may be ascribed to irritability of temper, generally arising from a deranged state of the liver and other viscera, and which could easily be remedied by the occasional use of Frampton's Pill of Health, whip is gentle in its operation and unfailing in its effect, • FOREIGN SILVER.—The Antonio, of London, arrived at Newhaven, on Tuesday, with a cargo of silver from Callao, stated to be in value near £BO,OOO. It was, on Thursday, removed to Lewes, in three railway vans, each drawn by four horses, and was thence despatched to Lon don by railway. " BANK SNEAKS."—AN OLD HAND.—On Saturday last, two men were brought before the Lord Mayor of London, at the Mansion House, under the following cir cumstances :—They had been observed to go into several banking houses in succession, mix amongst the customers at the counter, and come out again w ith ou t d o i ng any business. As they were known to the police as members of the " swell mob," they were apprehended, in order to ascertain whether any person had been robbed. It was stated by the police that their plan was, for one of them to go into banking houses and wat c h i n hat pocket parties deposited their money, and an accomplice waiting in the neighbourhood ready to act on the information thus ob tained. On the examination of the prisoners, one pro duced a cheque for £4 ss. which was genuine, and said he had gone into the banking house to get it cashed ; and it was stated by the officers, that thieves were in the habit of getting these genuine cheques as blinds, so that, in the event of suspicion, they might produce the m , an d th en it might be supposed to be a mere mistake their entering the wrong bank. The evidence against them not being strong enough to warrant their detention, they were dis charged. Shortly after, a member of the committee of bankers called at the justice room, and said that a gentle man had been robbed of £lO,OOO after leaving one of the first banking houses in the city. MATAIMONIAL COARECTION.—The Times of Friday says, " It is our duty to acknowledge a compliment we have just received, and to impart to our readers a fact of some interest concerning a historical fact which has al ready caused some excitement, and bids fair to. occasion a little more. In a recent copy of our journal we alluded, in speaking of the conquest, of Scinde, to the brazen whip with which Nusser Khan was wont, according to certain legends, to chastise his offending wives, and we hinted our suspicions that fact had as large a share as fable in. the materials of this edifying narrative. To extinguish our doubts and confirm our faith, Major-General Napier had not only the politeness to inform us that the ' identical' whip was in his possession but he was good enough to despatch it across the channel for our inspection, and a gentleman yesterday did us the honour to call upon us, at the Gene ral's request, with the veritable Scindian scarifier in all its unnatural proportions. We regret extremely that our unpictorial character debars us from conveying to our readers so vivid an ideaof this effective machine as could be given by some weekly cotemporaries ; but we can readily enter into the unwillingness of a lady to share the flight of a husband, who included such implements among the necessaries of his household. To princes about to marry, we hope the story will furnish a arning as ser- viceable as any in that immense stock of instructive ex amples supplied by the nuptials of last autumn.." INTREPID CONDUCT OF - A YOUTH.—On Friday morn ing, between twelve and one o'clock, an express was re ceived at the London engine stations of the outbreak of a most destructive fire in the town of Old Brentford, in the premises of Mr. Grover, a boot and shoemaker. A youth named George Best, in the service of Mr. O'Hara, butcher, first discovered the , fire, and, owing: to his intrepid con duct,. was the instrument of saving five lives from a hor rible death. He succeeded, with the aid of a.poleaxe used for killing bullocks, in breaking open the door, when he ascended the staircase, and made for 'Mr. Grover's bed room, but the smoke had obtained such power over the inmates, that they were perfectly unconscious of what was going on, and, in the course of a very few minutes longer .they must have been burnt to death,. Best having laid hold of Mr. Grover's leg, shook•him violently, and took up a couple of his children in his arms and ran down the stairs with them. Having placed them ih safe custody, he returned and saved 'Mrs. Grover and her hus band, and a thiftl child was saved in a similar way. Not feel- ing then satisfied that all were saved, he returned into the burning premises for the third time, and inspected every room not on fire, and being convinced that all theinmates had already been got out, he was about to run down stairs to escape himself, when a large sheet of flame overtook him, on the staircase and completely knocked him down, but having recovered himself he opened one of the back windows and leaped into the back yard. When •picked up he was quite insensible, and such a powerful effect had the smoke upon him that the blood issued from his mouth and nose, and it was some time before the youth could be restored. REPORTS OF THE FACTORY INSPECTORS. — These re ports, for the half-year ending the 31st of October, 1846, have just been published. The several inspectors point out some difficulties which attend the enforcing of the law, especially that which is appli ca bl e t o pr i nt wor k s , and that which is intended to secure the factory workers. from injury by machinery. Little is said in any of the reports about the time worked in factories during the past half-year. Testimony ) however, is borne to the beneficial operation of those clauses of the last passed Factory Act, which regulate the employment of children and young. persons. The depression of trade which more or less prevailed throughout all the manufacturing districts during the period over which the reports extend is ad verted to ; and though such depression had " removed all inducement to work more than 12 hours a-day," the occupiers of three cloth-dressing mills in Mr. Saunders' district had been convicted of working young persons ;in the night. Mr. Saunders dwells a good deal on the edu cation of the factory workers, and includes in this report extracts from an able , paper by Mr. R. Baker of Leeds, " On the educational state of his district," from which we may probably make extracts next week. Mr. Saunders strongly urges the importance of granting pecu niary aid to the public schools in: his district, or s as• he says, "the absolute necessity of doing so, if the train ing and instruction factory children are to receive in these " There has been," says Mr. Sunders ' " a considerable increase in the number of public schools opened for the use of factory children during the last three years - . I have but little to add to what I stated in 1843 in respect to them. Their efficiency depends much on the zeal and discretion exercised by the authority to whom the super intendence of the school is entrrusted. The general state and condition of many are improved. Well-trained and efficient teachers are more justly-appreciated, and greater exertions therefore made for the purpose of obtaining their services ; but. the want of funds continues to operate very prejudicially in this most important particular." ECONOMICAL AND NUTRITIOUS SOUPS.—M. Soyer, the cook of the Reform Club, has lately paid attention to the production, at the cheapest rate, Of nutritious soups for the poor. He strongly recommends the two following receipts to the attention of the public. For Soup No. 1 : Put one ounce of dripping into a saucepan holding two gallons of water,:-with a quarter.of a pound of a leg of beef without bones, cut into square pieces about half an inch, and two middling-sized onions, peeled and sliced. Set the saucepan over a fire, and stir the contents round for a few minutes, until fried lightly, browii. Add the peeling of two turnips, green leaves or.tops of celery, and of two leeks, cut into small pieces. Then add half a pound of common flour, and half a pound of pearl barley, mixing all well together. Add two gallons of water, three ounces of salt, and soquarter of an ounce of brown sugar, and allow all to simmer gently for three hours. The cost of the Soup No. 1 will be as follows : Quarter of a pound of leg of beef at 4 d . p er lb .. ld Two ounces of dripping fat, at.4d. per lb. OZ Two onions and other vegetables Half a pound,of flour, seconds, at lid. per lb. 0 f a a t n 3d. per lb. 1 ounce of brown su gar , Three f e ea ouncespoun d o of f at 4d. per-lb. Fuel Two gallons of water .. For Soup No. 2 proceed .as receipt No. 1 explains. (as regards the fat, meat, onions, and the other vegetables), but add one quart of water upon the whole, which youlet boil twenty minutes, stirring now and then to prevent burning ;,,or else, if convenient, set it by the side of the fire, and add one pound of maize ;. mix well together, and fill the stew-pan with six quarts of water ; season as above, let it simmer one hour, skim lightly, and it is then ready for use. One hundred gallons of this soup wilt cost under 41. FUNERAL OF THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND. — T he remains of this much lamented nobleman were removed tile on Friday from the splendid baronial residence P th e e reV fitt stminster Abb• u v - o ic ui lc t C i as n tl .w e, e Northumberland,e for T in h t e erm fq e o n e t r i a n i precisely hearse drawn at bnyyme six o h ' clock, and b Pr or ss be im ing l c e o ft ny t e ll y e ed C9 m st a lel :ear h h a t is te il n o d ni e d o r b o y o the h t e eo l late tenants ouke the s i l i T o o r u t s h e ern old part esta o b f lis t h h m e. e c n o t• un and t: of .Northumberland. It arrived at the Gateshead Station of., the York and Newcastle Railway shortly after fire o'.clock in the afternoon where a special train, was 'in readiness to proceed with:" it to Northumberland,Howe, Charing Cross, London, where it will remain till,Tuesday (to -day), and, then be deposited with august ceremony in the family vaulty which, is situate, in that part of the ancient and venerable building known as the Chapel of St. Nicholas. The arrangements were on a scale, and in a style of a lendour, suitable to the exalted., rank of the illustrious deceased. The body was inclosed within a mahogany shell of exquisite workmanship, and French polished, the inside being lined with pure white silk, pad ded and ringed with rich silk fringe and lace of the same colour, and the shroud was of the same rich material. The shell was inclosed in a leaden coffin, and both placed in an outer, coffin of oak, covered with rich crimson Genoa silk velvet, and ornamented in a magnificent style, the deceased's armorial bearings being emblazoned thereon in gold. At the sides and ends of the outer coffin, which. was divided into compartments by rows of nails, plated in gold, were eight massive handles,.each surmounted by a ducal, coronet, and on the top were the ducal coronet with the star and badge of the Order of the Garter, and other heraldic achievements. The weight of the coffin it. and body was estimated at about eleven hundred vfeig There were upwards of three hundred of his Gracetsoten entry on foot, and about six, hundred mounted ac company,iationturn the procession. p o r n o t c . es A sio t n F . andole of other th e places popu the shops were closed, and th;} bells of the churches rang muffled peals. elt N on ear l t r il p e et w h h , o e n . E -z- y O on n th Fri w d h a n y se, A nn Fv ig E h viN an o i A e N qu n ee F t A w T- as kL was found drowned in ditch in Green-lane, Bla c kl an d s, held at m C s ain A e ll Berkshire. He appeared to be about la years of age, of pleasing countenance , and wa s dr e s sed as a sailor boy. In the absence of other evidence, a, verdict of " Found drowned " was returned. After the inquest, the coroner received a communication from the Rev. J. S. M. Kyrie, rector of Yatesbury, stating that further evidence on the case could be given, and a further investigation in conse quence took, place. It then appeared that the reverend gentleman named had, while driving in his gig to Chip penhain on the 25th ultimo, observed the deceased on the road, travelling in pain flour sore feet, but not begging ; that he conversed with him ; that he said his name was George Beale, and his age 14 that he was going to London, and that his parenta lived at Chichestar.place, peb. 23, igti. Gray's Inn. He further stated that his father had been in good circumstances, but had become so reduced as tt be obliged to send him; to sea five months ago, and tho the ship had left him at Exmouth. The worthy dergi' man gave him a shilling, at which the poor boy burst into tears of gratitude ; but the kindness of.the former did 0 0 : end here, as, seeing the youth so foot-sore and distressed he gave him a note to his housekeeper at Yatesbury , desiring her to clothe and keep and feed the bearer until his return. He told the boy at parting that he would inquire into his story, and if he found it to be true, Ile would procure him a situation, or otherwise provide for , him. The gentleman did inquire, and found the father, " lodging on the third floor over a carpenter's shop, send in a state of extreme destitution, although he had for' merly not only been the owner of the house, but hs.,.° built a large portion of the street in whi c h it s t oo d. 1 18 said that his son George was naturally of a good disposv tion, but that he had sent him to sea to keep him from the contamination of bad company. I told him of MI intentions towards his son, for which he expressed much gratitude. I returned to,Chippenham early on SaturcK morning, and then learnt to m y ex t reme surprise sou' regret that the poor boy had been found dead." Thl poor boy was seen or his mad to Yatesbury, but missed his way, and after a variety of sufferings over two dals and nights (during . which he was kindly treated by several parties), his suffering affected his mind, and he was folio° as stated. 'the kind-hearted rector undertook at his ooli expense to inter the body in I huchurchyard at Yatesbury' PROGRESS OF IRISH DESTITUTION. The Slip Champion of the Bth instant states the har° rowing fact that in the district of Rang-barrow alone no fewer than forty dead bodies were kept waiting for the coroner. The Galway Mercury also relates a number of instances of death from starvation, and,. as regards one of them, says—" The cruelty of the policy sanctioned by Lord John Russell is found in the melancholy truth, that on Thursday morning last a miserable being was found i° the streets of Tuam, with her infant closely wrapped to her bosom ; but, alas ! that infant had fallen a victim t° the fell destroyer which now, in every direction, traverseo the land." The accounts from Dingle are to the effect that deaths and starvation are increasing there, want carrying °L I ' many, and dysentery, the effect of want, also doing it' work. The Kerry Examiner says on the subject-"" "Persons are to be seen a t a ll ti mes going aFeat" vint) plates in their hands, collecting money to pay for cotans. There is not in this world a more wretched or more desti tute locality than this. The starving people go into the finale fields and re-dig them ; this they do in the - open day, for the chance of finding an old and rotten potato and I can assure you they labour hard at this work." The Mayo Constitution details the deaths of msnf from disease and hunger during the previous week: Of 6 place called Breffny it is said—" In this village there is' not a family that does not appear likely to fall victims to famine." In all, the names of twenty-four poor creature who have perished from want in that locality are given' . and twelve more deaths had just been rep or ted. The mortality in the Cork workhouse, owing to its condition' (says the Examiner), had increased 36 over the previon° week, the deaths last week being 164. The county Mayo appears- destined to occupy a black page in the history of the famine which is desolarmg Ire land. The following details are contained in one publics' tion of the Mayo Constitution "ln the neighbourhood of Newport, on Sunday mornini last, a poor man, named Mulloy, was found on the road side. His emaciated frame betokened that his death vla S the result of want. He was a native of Burrishoale. On Friday last a poor man died at Deradda, near Newport, 0 ` actual hunger; leaving a family to follow in rapid susses' sion. On Saturday, a poor man was also found expiring, from exhaustion a t Ro o skee n , an d notwithstanding relic' being brought, the poor man died, food having c om e ton late ! In the neighbourhood of Breaffy, near this town; the following deaths have occurred from starvation on disease :—Michael M'Enally, of Roeman, on the 12th; Peter Swords, of Derrinacrisham, on the 12th . ; his wife on the 12th ; James Gavan, of Ballyshawn, on the Sth; his wife on the 10th. All these cases proceeded from dys entery and exhaustion. On Sunday, th e 7 t h inst., Mr' Atkinson, coroner, held an inquest on the body of Patrici‘ Maughan ' at Coonanarrow. The deceased " h as -left ° family, who are in the moot indigent state-. The jury's vet: diet was—' Death by starvation.' In this village there 1 ' not a family that do not appear likely to fall victims to famine. On the same day, on the body of James Brisliol" at Kilcrimmin. The deceased -- • -..hhe _ was put on , the . pui?' works a few days previous to his death, and was:hasten/ on Saturday evening to the office of the pay-clerk,. 1 30 being very weak from want of - food ) he fell on the wag' and waS found dead next morning. Verdict—' Death 1 1 starvation.' On Monday, the - Bth, on the body of Dv Howley, at Saltfield. The deceased was em pl o yed on the public works, and was found lying on the road, where 1 ° had fallen, by a person passing by ; when removed`to. thr, nearest habitation he died shortly after. Verdict - - - -' Deat h by starvation.' On the same day, on the body of Sheridan, at Cloonta. The deceased had been in, a gr' state of destitution, and going from one .village to anothe r he fell into a small rivulet which he attempted to cros!r and from his debility was unable to extricate Verdict—' Death by drowning, but - attributed to stint% tion.' This coroner st a t es th a t th ere were 1 2 inquests reported in his district, but which from indisP' sition he has been unable to attend. During. the 1 0- week, Mr. O'Grady, coroner,. held inquests on the follow'. big perso ns : —A nn Philbi n, P att Hannon, Francis G°1„• non, Jordan Morrisro e , A nne Teatum Patrick -C , ar e , f '; Thomas Costello, C ons t ant i ne Muller,' John Mil- 1 1-"G Bridget Mulloy. In each of these ases the CV S. returned was — Death from Aarvation.' " The Coroner for the Baronies of Costello and Gallen' (Co. Mayo,) has addressed Times, in which he thus pictu present attending his office : " The duties of coroner in ordinary times are painful b 1 the scenes presented ; but those now to be endured rend if the office, to say the least of it, no sinecure, possessed, .0 he be, of human feelings. In-this sir, lam SUM you Wij agree, when I say, that I have beheld the mother 0 0 child both dead in the same bed, the latter emb rac ed, es te in death, in the arms of the former,—whe n Lsay that _ find a mother dead in the perch o r recess o f a corn- X1 with her still living child three years old lying,ou her JO t body, exposed to the cold aD d i nc l emency o f t h e n i g ht i 8 such a place of refuge, —when- I see the nursing infant a!, on' the mother's breast, from. exhaustion of its soar' (the- mother, with ten in the f a mily, li v i ng on wate r ' cresses for four days previous, as her only means of 1. 7 ; port), when I see two children, of six and , seven Ye old, both dead together, and.the mother expiring and ing the fallowing day,—when. I see a man in rude hea', 4 not 50 years old, struggliwito-walk the day before, thrar t e dead for four days on the high road (I should say prill e y road), unremoved, being astranger, under the incleine li A, of-the weather. But, sir, these death scenes, heartreln ing as they may appear, are of no -consequence coinFia' o f to the still surviving moving skeletons of the families of the departed, falling off front debility from-the effects hunger, aggravated, if , vassible, by their natural feell1:11, of grief and heartb rea k a t th e l oss o f th e l eparte d w e "' her of their family." The Cork Examiner p u bli s h es a ser i es o f coraniu nica' tions descriptive of the destitute condition, of several calities- in that county, includimg Mitchel's-town, Kante r , Doneraile, and Ahabollogue. The state of the latte e ;, which is only nine miles.from Cork, is frightful. were no. less than nine deaths from starvation on Monulo and an average of three each day during the week. 1 one town-land, containing 800 souls, it is added, 700 • .iitor of the the awful distress ati starving. There are not 100 acres of land in the county of?` - e• prepared for seed, nor is there any appearance o f a cil a „ ";iot ' Drumod, a small district in Leitrim ' , containing tel t quite 6000 inhabitants, eighteen persons have died days. On the inquest on one of them it appear ed , ;: t , o f for two months p rece di ng h e h a d b e en frequently eiSof and-forty hours without eating zwyoing but seawe cabbage stalks. A poor woman, say s a correspondeat . the Boyle Gazette s . has just fallen avictim from the sin 4o g deplorable dearth, of provis ions, and, it was wretched behold an infant of a few months' old dragging at „a$ were held h ot e h ld er On Monday on the buc li ,, e •df its EVen Dublin has, o f ulherin ltejrocehaasnyteadno.df Inquests , (husband, and•wife,) who w e te former on Saturday, the latter on Sunday. The o i er o "Very few people," cal gentlemen (Doctors Leeson and Brady) said t 4 , 1 ! c 0 , was no disease, and ascribed the deaths to destitilet . l said they, " die of absolute hi' f oll but wanting fire, clothes, and haying only a veil 9 „ . al° quantity of food and other comforts,, life, of course, 'sr gradually drop away." Are The Rev. M. T. Moriarty, writing from Dingle, ; or in a lett er d a t e d February 13th, that that parish co a :1 1 to three thous an d souls, and that, from December 2; ) ' 0 , 0 4 41 , February Ist one hundred and five persons have P r 01 11 ' into eternity from the one fell cause—starvatiew. since then the work a death has progressed frightf7oo The London papers have published a private lette'•elll Commander Caffin, of the steam sloop Scourge,. ' 0 '91 ,1 now em ployed on the Southern coast of Ireland. l i g officer : says that his vessel was lately ordered to dis c e atc, a cargo of meal, &c., at Schull, and that he co nseet i l i became intimately acquainted. with the horrible na, ise fi ge u v which the inhabitants of that neihbourhood are 1 , ',%0 1 ,,' Three-fourths of, the men of then illage had waste d to.skeletons from the effects of hunger ; and their s tr `' was wholly gone. When these unhappy men we' - e . ployed in unloading the sacks of meal, the greatest' sc e tif; fulness was needful, in order to prevent them *Ode', loining small, quantities of the contents. As Com One Caffin wished to see with his own eyes the extent t 0 :1,0! the famine really prevailed, Dr. Trail, the rector of P c f Commanderitsotahufesardwescrdibeedgr.ebeywithall itsixo .c4offirns drove him. through the parish ; and the result i g drive e s gVO e pl sprung up, consequent upon the wretchedness ; itt fl e ing of limbs and b o d y, and diarrhoea, upon the lol: nourishment, are eve r y w h ere to b e found. Dr!„-,,0' parish is 21 miles in extent, containing about MO' i0 1 ` ) ,, , with not more than half a dozen gentlemen in th e o lO o o of it. lie drove me about five or six miles ; but d menced our visits before leaving the village, au he house that 1 en t ere d was there' ~ not to be found 0 , , I ' o 4 or dying." The most heart-rending details follcl o cly the horrible wretchedness painted in the letter is o tel or i can only be likened to the frightful particulars I : . e o )os. t etl, the old chroniclers, who have transmitted tons t", wa; e l l of some of the famines by which Europe w as } l ed' during the middle ages. After describing what IT er (i ii " saw saw in the cottages which he visited, Commal'''id O il to adds :—" I could tell you also of that which I CO f onejoi for the truth of, but which I did not see mYse. e l c ' e aae,', lc bodies half eaten by rats—of two dogs last `" bou)„0 , , being shot by Mr. O'Callaghan, whilst tearing a 5111 pieces—of his mother-in-law stopping a poor WP"; re asking her what she had on her back, and, be l ff o tlie'd''' that it was her son, tellin g her that she would sm tt . but the poor emaciated woman said it was cleaa and she was going to dig a hole in the churebY' c e. • These are things which are of everyday °colorer' 38th is fro m I L c from i s ' llowen from G m kinson Livi r King 4 418 " 4 ", at ,Sena roly l Berso n Mati The o n Shor ST. 11 Cape of ,Cape, N here frc Tom lon. 9, 2d Jani this poi this por villa fo beund from Ft, from th Blot ( W, by t ant(ind: rt Ja va, t) , ia,! ai Cezia 43, 1 og g 0f . 4 11 1 4 -hick, Set'.wh i ,„ h`• Put se ° ,l l l* 4ta r E ° o, ' l 4l - owsprt a-rgorth. in at. gj PARIS ton for Was pas: foremast P°rtl , ;;; , n1(1 four seh oo st eamer vourable. schooner , 'or N ew !e 9th aft er uoi after re eel Sow na It eP ,_ n i 1 Yo r k Dubli If b2a;rl rakear " esrellt tt e a e O cu llri a et api 'gleb ( _ ork. 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