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SELECTIONS. A MAN OF ONE IDEA.—Some ten years ago, Robert Owen was taken by a party of friends to see the tragedy of " Macbeth ;" and when it was over, he was asked his opinion of the piece. "It is very sad," replied the phi lanthropist, " to see individuals placed in such injurious circumstances. In our new syst, in, there will be nothing of this kind, except to show what a shocking state the old society was in.—New Quarterly Review. HINT TO SCOLDING Wives.—" And I dare say you have scolded your wife very often, Newman," said I, once. Old Newman looked down, and the wife took up the reply. " Never to signify—and if he has I deserved it." "And, I dare say, if the truth were told, you have scolded him quite as often." " Nay," said the old wo man, with a beauty of kindness which all the poetry in the world cannot excel, " how can a wife scold her good man who has been working for her and her l'ttle ones all the day ? It may be for a man to be peevish, for it is he who bears the crosses of the world ; but who should make him forget them but his wife ? And she had best for her own sake—for nobody can scold much wl.en the scolding is all on one side.—Bulwer's Student. Ma. CANNING'S ORATORY.—As an orator Canning stood beyond rivalry, and almost beyond comparison. * * It is scarcely an exaggeration to affirm, that in his single person were united all the highest gifts of elo quence which nature had distributed among the most eminent of his Parliamentary competitors. A lucid, close, and forcible logic, effective alike for the establishment of truth and the exposure of absurdity, hypocrisy, and pre tension,—an elevated tone of declamation, appealing not so much to passion, as to what was noblest in thought and sentiment,—a stream of imagery and quotation, rich, various, and yet never overflowing the main subject—a light `artillery of wit,' so disciplined, that not a shot of it flashed without telling upon the issue of the conflict— an unfailing, yet constantly diversified harmony of period, and a magical command of those lightning words and phrases, which burn themselves, at once and for ever, into the hearer's mind—these, and all these in their per fection, were among the powers of that eloquence which death had thus suddenly hushed.—Life of Lord Eldon. THE CHILDREN OF THE IRISH PEASANTRY.—It wil t be seen from what I have said that nothing could be more extreme than the poverty of the Irish peasantry. And yet, notwithstanding all the hardships through which they have to pass on their journey through life, I never saw a set of finer-looking children than those you meet with in the poorer districts of the country. They far surpass, in the comeliness of their little countenances, the children of this country. 1 saw hundreds of them whom, from the, regularity of their features and the symmetry of their forms, I thought perfect pictures. It is true, that as they advance in years, they lose the singular beauty which cha racterises them in early life ; but this is solely to be as cribed to their hard destiny, which compels them to be constantly employed in the hardest outdoor labour with out half the requisite amount of food. It is only surpris ing that the Irish peasantry can exist at all on their limited supplies of food, considering the great amount of labour they have to go through. Englishmen would perish in masses were they compelled to perform, for one short month, the same amount of hard work, without more than one or two scanty meals a day, and those meals consisting solely of potatoes.—lmpressions of Ireland and Me Irish. LONDON IN DANGER.—NearIy the whole of London rests on a clay bed; this clay has great absorbing powers, is strong, and possesses its cohesive property only so long as it retains a sufficiency of moisture ; remove this, it shrinks, cracks in innumerable directions, and becomes dangerous to heavy masses of bricks and mortar super imposed upon it. It is from this cause that so many foundations of new buildings sink or partially give way almost as soon as the superstructure is raised, drainage taking place after the work is completed, instead of proper attention having been paid to it beforehand. There can be no doubt that if the lower beds on which London rests were drained as proposed, by Artesian wells, a vast deal of mischief would arise from the general or local contrac tion of clay beds, occasioned by the lower as well as the subsoil drainage ; and the cavernous chalk, deprived of its support, would in many places fall in, and occasion a cor responding depression of the surface. Were the subsoil and strata beneath, on which vast masses of buildings are disposed, thoroughly drained by all the appliances of art, much good might result, and greater stability be insured to the super-imposed masses • but, when a city lik e Lon don rests on a bed of clay, the tenacity and strength of which depend upon its retaining a certain degree of moisture, we ought to pause ere we give way to plans which in the end, in consequence of there being an ex haustible (not inexhaustible) supply of water, would recoil upon the projectors, and lay the seeds of great destruction of pro ; erty.— The Builder. ANECDOTE OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.—The first and noblest character of the present age to be men tioned in common with Eton scenes and Eton men, must be the Duke of Wellington. Wellington was an Eton boy, and, if tradition may be credited, a daring and ad venturous one. He seems to have been a lad not given to much study and painful research i to books. Nature having already placed an original stamp upon him, and presented him with the highly favoured signet of her own right band. He who is now familiarly called the " Iron Duke," might well have been in the earlier stages of life yclept the Iron Boy. Instances of the Duke's hardiness, or rather of young Wellesley's hardiness (as he then simply was) are on record ; and among them it is related, that when all the good burgomasters and thrifty trades men of Windsor and Eton had retired to rest, young Wellesley, on the commencement of a c o ld winter's night, would be proceeding up old icy Faliper Thames, in a lonely skiff, to the vicinity of Maidenhead Bridge, and there, wrapt in a single blanket, and watching with single gun, he would be ready by daybreak to get a shot at the wild ducks, or other wild fowl, which were accustomed to congregate under shelter of the eyots, and other har bours of refuge on the Thames. •` Every one to his taste," a fashionable dandy will exclaim : but young Wellesley was no man of fashion, and his tastes were all of the dar ing and grand. When we consider the stratagem neces sary at a school like Eton to achieve what Wellesley did ; perhaps the squeezing through a small window, and tra versing frozen roofs of houses ; the obtaining clandestinely the gun, and the skiff, and ammunition, with the convey ance of his blanket, and the needful prog ; and then the difficulty of an undiscovered return, loaded with booty ; let us think of these things, and then acknowledge in the very boy something that prognosticated the wonderful and unexampled career of the European Duke. The poet Wordsworth, another Wellington in his way, has written truly, that " the child is father of the man," Young Wellesley seems to have been liked in his generation at Eton, because his feats were admired by the whole school, and very few could dare to he his companions in many perilous and persevering endeavours in pursuit of a fa vourite objet_ or pastime.—Bentley's Miscellany. MODERN JERUSALEM GRAPHICALLY DESCRIBED.— We ascended a mountain ridge, strewed over with enor mous grey rocks, piled one on another as if by human hands. Here and there a few stunted vines, yellow with the colour of autumn, crept along the soil in a few places cleared in the wilderness. Fig-trees, with their tops wi• thered or shivered by the blasts, often edged the vines, and cast their black fruit on the grey rock. On our right, the desert of St. John, where formerly " the voice was heard crying in the wilderness," sunk like an abyss in the midst of five or six black mountains, through the openings of which, the sea of Egypt, overspread with a dark cloud, could still he discerned. On the left, and near the eye, was an old tower, placed on the top of a projecting eminence •, other ruins, apparently of an ancient aquaduct, descended from that tower, overgrown with verdure, now in the sear leaf ; that tower is Modin, the stronghold and tomb of the last heroes of sacred story, the Maccabees. We left behind us the ruins, resplendent with the first rays of the morning —rays, not blended as in Europe in a confused and vague illumination, but dart ing like arrows of fire tinted with various colours, issuing from a dazzling centre, and diverging over the whole heavens as they expand. Some were of blue, slightly sil vered, others of pure white, some of tender rose hue, melting into grey; many of burning fire, like the corus cations of a flaming conflagration. All were distinct, yet all united in one harmonious whole, forming a resplendent arch in the heavens, encircling, and issuing from a centre of fire. In proportion as the day advanced, the brilliant light of these separate rays was gradually dimmed—or rather, they were blended together, and composed the co lourless light ofday. Then the moon, which still shoneover head, " paled her ineffectual fire," and melted away in the general illumination of the heavens. After having as cended a second ridge, more lofty and naked than the former, the horizon suddenly opens to the right, and pre sents a view of all the country which extends between the last summits of Judea and the mountains of Arabia. It was already flooded with the increasing light of the morn ing ; but beyond the piles of grey rock which lay in the foreground, nothing was distinctly visible but a dazzling space, like a vast sea, intersperced with a few islands of shade, which stood forth in the brilliant surface. On the shores of that imaginary ocean, a little to the left, and about a leagwe distant, the sun shone with uncommon brilliancy on a massy tower, a lofty minaret, and some edifices, which crowned the summit of a low hill of which you could not see the bottom. Soon the points of other r minarets, a few loophol e d walls, and the dark summits of several domes, which successively came into view, and fringed the descending slope of the hill, announced a city. It was Jerusalem, and every one of the party, without addressing a word to the guides or to each other, enjoyed in silence the entrancing spectacle. We restedourhorses; to contemplate that mysterious and dazzling appariti on hut when we moved on, it was soon snatched from our view; for as we descended the hill, and plunged into the deep and profound valley which lay at its feet, we lost sight of the holy city, and were surrounded only by the solitude and desolation of the desert.—Lamarline's E vets. A FIRST NOCTURNAL REVERIk AT SEA.—I walked for an h our on t h e d ec k of the vessel alone, and immersed alternately in sad or consoling reflections. I repeated in my heart all the prayers which I learned in infancy from my mother : the verses, the fragments from the Psalms, which I had so often heard her repeat to herself, when walking in the evening in the garden of Melly. I expe rienced a melancholy pleasure in thus scattering them, in my turn, to the waves, to the winds, to that ear which is ever open to every real movement of the heart, though not yet uttered by the lips. The prayer which we have heard repeated by one we have loved, and who is no more, is doubly sacred. Who among us wculd not prefer a few words of prayer taught us by our mother, to the most eloquent supplication composed by ourselves? Thence it is that whatever religious creed we may adopt at the age of reason, the christian prayer will be ever the prayer of the human race. I prayed, in the prayer of the church for the evening at sea; also for that dear being, who never thought of danger to accompany her husband, and that lovely child, who played at the moment on the poop with the goat which was to give it milk on board, and with the little kids which licked her snow-white hands, and sported with her long and fair ringlets.—Lnmarline's Travels. SOMETHING QUEER.—Every age has its panics. At one time the Turk, then the Emperor, then the Pope, then despotism, then the Radicals, have occupied the attention of all who had something to lose and leisure to be alarmed. A few years back the cry was, that every article of food was adulterated ; and nobody could be sure it was bread he was eating, unless he had sown, reaped, thrashed, ground, sifted, kneaded, baked, and sliced the material with his own hands, or, as a second best course, by the hands of a confidential servant inte rested in his preservation. The cholera frightened us all once •, comets now and then ; the new tariff spread consi derable consternation in some quarters ; mad dogs are always and everywhere terrible ; the slow westward pro gress of white ants, and the occasional visit of a real ori ental locust, have in their turn considerably affected the more cautious and provident part of mankind. But what do our readers suppose is the last new bugbear ? A very terrible one, to judge from the universal horror it has excited. All parties, and almost all classes, both sexes and all ages, agree in the most dreadful apprehensions. The most alarming circumstance of the new enemy is, that it has been amongst us from time immemorial, and is impossible to be quite eradicated. The baneful cha racter of its operations has only just now been discovered. Reader—prepare your nerves. The new.enemy of man kind is Charity.—London Times. LORD ELDON'S POLITICAL SUPREMACY.—This was, in some respects, yet more remarkable than his supremacy in the law. The prizes of political life have in general been won by some or other of the arts or forces of Par liamentary warfare, particularly as waged in the House of Commons—by nervous declamation, by argumentative vehemence, by formidable sarcasm, by captivating style Of none of these was Lord Eldon a master; vet all, and more than all, the influence usually earned b . ) , them for their possessors, became his without th it aid, and even without his own original purpose. For his early plans of life were wholly professional. He entered Parliament unpledged to any political party ; and when be decided to join Mr. Pitt. and even when he successively undertook the offices of Attorney and Solicitor-General, it was with a view to no ultimate distinctions but those of the law. The unusual responsibilities which, by the events then pass ing in Europe, were cast upon the law officers of his time, obliged him indeed to address himself to divers matters of state ; but, on arriving at the Chief Justice ship of the Common Pleas, he gladly quitted the sphere of politics, and only returned to it when called by George M. to enter the Cabinet as Chancellor, under circum stances of somewhat peculiar and personal relation to the King. From that time, of course, he was mixed in the chief affairs of Government; and he then made it early evident, that if he wanted some of the popular talents by which political distinction is commonly attained, he was stronger in all the higher qualities by which it is best pre served. These qualities—prudence, knowledge, temper, consistency, firmness, and, above all, judgment—made ample compensation for his deficiency in imagination and in the forces and graces of style. Perhaps it is hardly a paradox to say, that in the stations he was eventually called to fulfil, his want of imagination was one of his advantages; for the judgment, the highest of the intel lectual powers and in public affairs worth all the rest, was thus left to exercise, undivided and undisturbed, it s em pire in his mind and its influence in the councils of his sovereign.—Life of Lord Eldon. PAISLEY IN 1800 AND 1841.—From 1790 to 1800 nearly one half of Pais!ey was built by weavers from savings of their ordinary wages. Every house had its garden ; and every weaver being his own master, could work it when be pleased. Many were excellent florists, many possessed a tolerable library, and all were politicians, so that about the period of the French Revolution, Mr. Pitt expressed more fear of the unrestricted political discussions of the Paisley weavers, than 10,000 armed men. Had Paisley been then what Paisley is now, crowded with half-in formed Radicals and Infidels, his fears would have been justified ; but truth and honest dealing could fear nothing from a community constituted as Paisley then was ; and never, perhaps, in the history of the world, was there a more convincing proof of the folly of being afraid of a universal and thorough education, especially when im pregnated with the Religion of the Bible, than in the state of Paisley at that period. At the period alluded to, every man, woman, and child, above eight or nine years of age, could read the Bible ; and many could write and cast accounts; and net a few of the weaver's sons went throgh a regular course at the grammar-school. To have had a distant relative unable to read, or one sent to prison, would have been felt as equally disgraceful. The inha bitants were so universally regular in their attendance upon church, and strict afterwards in keeping in -doors, that it is recollected, at the end of the last century, or the commencement of the present, that not a living crea ture, save two or three privileged blackguards, were ever seen walking the streets after Divine service ; or if any chanced to appear, an errand for the doctor was supposed to be the probable cause. In 1818-19, during the Radical period, there were found full three thousand, Paisley-born and Paisley-bred, who could not read ; and the decline of intelligence has been followed by the decline of that tem perance, prudence and economy, which are the cardinal virtues of the working-classes, by which alone they can elevate their condition, or preserve themselves from sink ing into the most abject poverty. The Paisley weaver of forty years ago married early, because he foresaw that he could, in decency, support a family, and even save some thing for sickness, or age, or the fluctuations of his tra3e. The Paisley weaver lad, in 1842, marries equally early on a pittance that scarcely supports himself ; because he has neither judgment to reflect on the misery which he is en tailing on himself and others, nor moral principle to feel the solemn obligations of the state into which he is enter ing. Those who have no consideration concerning the things of this life, are not likely to have any forethought regarding the life to come ; and just in proportion as the modern Paisley weaver is without religion, does he despise it. All clergy are necessarily hypocrites, as all kings and magistrates, in their estimation, tyrants. Uni tarianism, Infidelity, or reckless profanity, too generally abound ; and the popular cry is against all the Church Establishments, however much demanded by the poverty and irreligion of our own town ; and against all distinc tions of ranks. Thus, measuring themselves by them selves, they would reduce society to their own level. Paisley thus furnishes an affecting illustration of the de claration of holy writ, " That righteousness exalteth a city ; but sin is the ruin of any people."—North British Review. ADVANCING CIVILIZATION, AND COMPARATIVELY INADEQUATE ELEVATION OF NATIONAL TASTE AND PURSUITS.—We are perpetually speaking of the march of intellect, the vast spread of intelligence, the advancing civilization of the world ; and in some respects our boasts are well founded. Certainly, in one particular, society has made a mighty step in advance. The abolition of domestic slavery has emancipated the millions who for merly toiled in bondage; the art of printing has multiplied an hundredfold the reading and thinking world. Our op portunities, therefore, have been prodigiously enlarged ; our means of elevation are tenfold what they were in an cient times. But has our elevation itself kept pace with these enlarged means ? Has the increased direction of the popular mind to lofty and spiritual objects, the more complete subjugation of sense, the enlarged perception of the useful and the beautiful, been in pronortion to the ex tended facilities given to the great body of the people ? Alas ! the fact is just the reverse. Balbec was a mere station in the desert, without territory, harbour, or sub jects—maintained solely by the commerce of the East with Europe which flowed through its walls. Yet Balbec raised, in less than a century, a more glorious pile of structures devoted to religious and lofty objects, than London, Paris, and St. Petersburg united can now boast. The Decapolis was a small and remote district of Pales- tine, nut larger in proportion to the Roman than Moray shire is in proportion to the British empire; yet it con tained, as its name indicates, and as the remains still attest, ten cities, the least considerable of which, Gebora, contains, as Buckingham tells us in his " Travels beyond the Jordan," the ruins of more sumptuous edifices than any city in the British islands, London itself not excepted, can now boast. It was the same all over the East, and in all the southern provinces of the Roman empire. Whence has arisen this astonishing disproportion between the great things done by the citizens in ancient and in modern times, when in the latter the means of enlarged cultivation have been so immeasurably extended ? It is in vain to say, it is because we have more social and domestic hap piness, and our wealth is devoted to these objects, not external embellishment. Social and domestic happiness are in the direct, not in the inverse ratio of general re finement and the spread of intellectual intelligence. The domestic duties are better nourished in the temple than in the ginshop : the admirers of sculpture will make better fathers and husbands than the lovers of whisky. Is it that we want funds for such undertakings ? Why, London is richer than ever Rome was; the commerce of the world, not of the eastern caravans, flows through its bosom. The sums annually squandered in Manchester and Glas gow on intoxicating liquors, would soon make them rival the eternal structures of Tadmor and Palmyra. Is it that the great bulk of our people are unavoidably chained by their character and climate to gross and degrading enjoy ments ? Is it that the spreading of knowledge, intelli gence, and free institutions, only confirms the sway of sensual gratification, and that a pure and spiritual religion tends only to strengthen the fetters of passion and selfish ness ? Is it that the inherent depravity of the human heart appears the more clearly as man is emancipated from the fetters of authority ? Must we go back to early ages for noble and elevated motives of action : is the spread of freedom but another word for the extension of brutality ? God forbid that so melancholy a doctrine should have any foundation in human nature ! We mention the facts, and leave it to future ages to discover their solution : content ing ourselves with pointing out to our self-applauding countrymen how much they have to do before they attain the level of their advantages, or justify the boundless blessings which Providence has bestowed upon them.— .Blackwood'a Magazine. ORIGIN OF THE LIVERPOOL BLUE-COAT SCHOOL. — This institution was established in 1709, through the exer tions of Mr. Bryan Blundell, and the Rev. Robt. Stythe, one of the rectors of Liverpool, who, in their address to the public, said, " whereas many poor persons are desirous of having their children taught, but are not able to afford them a Christian and useful education ; and there being children whose parents are dead, and have no friends to take care of them, must inevitably come to beggary and ruin, both of body and soul, if not provided by the care of some charitable and well-disposed people." It was at first a charity school, costing £35, (the corporation having given a plot of laud whereon to erect it at the south-west corner of St. Peter's church-yard,) in which forty boys and ten girls were received. The expenses were defrayed by subscription, and by a portion of the sacrament money. The Rev. Mr. Stythe, who was appointed the treasurer at the commencement of the charity, having died, Mr. Bryan Blundell was induced, in 1714, to assume that office. Having observed that the children prefited little by the instruction they received, in consequence of their inter course with their parents, and the want of restraint during play hours, Mr. Blundell determined upon wholly main taining his protegees, and therefore drew up a memorial, explaining his views, which being handed about exten sively, obtained from the public the sum of £2,000, (to which Mr. Blundell contributed £750, being, as he sta ted, a tenth of what he was worth,) and the ancient part of the present institution was erected, the first stone being laid on the 7th of May, 1716.—Lacey's Pictorial L'pool. MILITARY BLUNDERS.—Besides what iS due to the comfort, 1 a , piness, and proper training of the tt oops, we must bear in mind that the conduct of subordinate offi cers will frequently exercise a very serious influence on the most important events. " Colonel Napier tells us, says a recent military writer, " that the error of a staff officer made Colonel Colburn attack a French redoubt in the Pyrenees, which caused the lives of 200 men of the 52d Regiment to be needlessly sacrificed." In the same volume we find the Duke of Wellington informing the historian that many of his manoeuvres were injured at Waterloo by generals " whose only fault was dullness. How many men have fallen in consequence of the blun ders of these gallant dunces, it is of course not easy to say. At Marengo, the mistake of a commander of a patrole caused Gen. Nimph's brigade of cavalry, more than 2,000 strong, and which might have changed the fate of the day, to be detached towards Acqui, at the very moment when action was about to commence. In the campaign of 1805, the credulity of Prince Auersperg and the want of decision of a Major of Artillery enabled the French to obtain possession of the bridge of Vienna ; a misfortune that occasioned the needless slaughter of Hollabrun, and ultimately, as many think, to the dis aster of Austerletz. In 1806 again, it was the incompre hensible folly of Colonel Massenbach, who, as he tells us himself, did not know the east from the west, that led to the surrender of Prince Hohenlohe's army at Prenzlaw. These are but a few instances of the hundreds I could give, showing the terrible consequences that may result to nations and armies from the incapacity of officers even of inferior rank. It is in the detail of actions, into which history cannot enter, that the most fatal and fre tment results of military inability are to be found.— Sabertash, in Fraser's Magazine. A BATTLE WITH RATTLESNAKES.—RattIesnakes are proverbially abundant upon all these prairies ; and, as there is seldom to be found either stick or stone with which to kilt them, one hears almost a constant popping of rifles or pistols, among the vanguard, to clear the route of these disagreeable occupants, lest they should bite our animals. As we were toiling up through the sandy hil locks which border the southern banks of the Arkansas, the day being excessively warm, we came upon a perfect den of these reptiles. I will not say thousands—though this, perhaps, was nearer the truth—but hundreds, at least, were coiled or crawling in every direction. They were no sooner discovered than we were upon them with guns and pistols, determined to let none of them escape. In the midst of this amusing scramble among the snakes, a wild mustang colt, which had, somehow or other be. come separated from its dam, came bolting among our relay of loose stock, to add to the confusion. One of our mules evidently impressed with the impertinence of the intruder, sprang forward and attacked it, with the ap parent intention of executing summary chastisement; while another mule, with more benignity of temper than its irascible compeer, engaged most lustily in defence of the unfortunate little mustang. As the contest was car ried on among the waggons, the teamsters soon became very uproarious, so that the whole, with the snake fracas, made up a capital scene of confusion. When the mule skirmish would have ended, if no one had interfered, is a question which remained undetermined ; for some of our company, in view of the consequences that might result from the contest, rather inhumanly took sides with the assailing mule ; and soon after they entered the lists, a rifle ball relieved the poor colt from its earthly embarrass ments and the company from further domestic disturban ces. Peace once more restored, we soon got under weigh, and that evening pitched our camp opposite the celebrated " Caches"—a place where some of the earliest adven turers had been compelled to conceal their merchandise. Journal of a Santa Fe Trader. SLEEPING AT INNS.—Bedshave vast attractions; beds, to wit, of down and roses. But we are not told who has slumbered there the night before. In fact, we never ask the question. Mine hostess assures us, that they have been well aired; but she does not mean that they have been aired by the noonday's healthy sunbeams. She gives you to understand, by saying that the bed has been well-aired, that, in fact, it has constantly been slept upon by a successon of travellers, of whose health, or the want of it, not the slightest mention is ever made. The last occupier may have been one, whose " Form was fresher than the morning rose, When the dew wets its leaves ;" " The softest blush that nature spreads, Gave colour to her cheek ;" or, on the contrary, the bed might have been occupied by a rough-skinned, pimpled victim to turtle soup and cura coa. He bad been nearly a month, at Harrogate, without benefit, and was on his way on the continent, with his medical adviser, to try what the spas of Germany would do for him. A person, on whose veracity I could depe n d, and who seemed to have scrutinised the general state of dormitories with a considerable degree of attention, once told me' that he had not passed a single hour in bed for 14 years. He said he was his own master in that respect, and could suit himself as he thought fir. He added, that his aversion to enter a strange bed was extreme. He did not know who had been there before him, or what impu rities might be lurking in the region of the feather bed, or whether it bad been aired by Phoebus or Bacchus ; and that the possibility of getting into a damp bed acted upon his nerves more terribly than did the operation of Sir Robert Peel's income tax. " And how did you manage," said I, " without a bed ?" " Uncommonly well," said he. " My apprenticeship," continued he, "to the hard floor only cost me a fortnight, and after that all went right." He then informed me, that the advantages which he had acquired by abandoning the bed for ever were incalculable. He said that so long as there was a current of fresh air in the place where he laid him down to rest, he was ex cellently accommodated for a fair spell of sleep. Tra velling had no longer any nocturnal terrors for him. Whilst others were anxious about the paraphernalia of their bedrooms, and peevish when things were not to their liking, he stood smiling on, pitying their distresses, and happy with the thought that he could stow himself away for the night in a moment, free from bad bugs, bad breaths, and bad bedding. " And you will never more sleep in a bed ?" said I. " Never," said he, with a smile of contentment on his face. " Nature has accommoda ted herself to me, and I to nature. What more can I wish ? He ceased on saying this. I entered fully into his feelings ; and ere I retired to rest, I thought if we had more of fortitude and less of self love, things would go better with us, both night and day, than they do at pre sent.— Waterton's Essays on Natural History. HORRORS OF AMERICAN SLAVERY.—Numbers of the poor slaves in America come to an untimely end by a se ries of acts of barbarity inflicted upon them at different times, which, though they do not kill them immediately, yet undermine the constitution by degrees, so that they do not live out half their days. It i s not the mere whip. ping while at their labour in the field which destroys them, but the repeated punishments and sometimes tor tures they are made to endure, at the caprice of an over seer, when their labour is over in the day. Frequently they are made to wear chains, and to work in them for weeks together, which occasions them to suffer by exco riations of the skin and flesh. Iron collars are frequently fastened to their necks, which, while they give them pain, for the same reason hinder them from sleep, on account of their long-projecting prongs. They are often put with their feet in the stocks, and left there all night, (and this for days and weeks together,) where they suffer again, and where sleep is again impossible, and yet they are made to rise as early in the morning to their work as the rest of the gang, though then unfit for labour. That dradful instrument, the thumb-screw, is also at times ap plied to them. It is screwed down tight till it produces great pain, sometimes forcing the blood out of the ends of the thumbs. The overseer then takes away the key, and no one can relieve their sufferings, even though they faint with the pain, till the same key is brought to unlock it. The damp and loathsome dungeon is another source of punishment, in which the victim may lie for months, and even years, for so Judge Stroud says, if the owner wills it. These instruments 'ben of torture, which are more or less used, together with hard and forced work of fifteen hours per day, produce a slow and lingering death, which is as much murder as if the victim had been killed outright. The same judge confirms a part of this account. " His," says he, (the slave's,) " life is ordinarily passed in inces sant toil. He is awaked from his slumbers at the call of his master often before dawn ; he continues his heartless labour with but slight intermission for rest and food till night has closed around him. Hard worked and scantily fed his bodily energies are exhausted." The same worthy judge says also, " The master may at his discretion inflict any punishment upon the person of his slave." Again, " where," says he, p. 40, " the life of a slave is thus feebly protected, his limbs, as might be expected, share no better fate." I quote again from the act of 1740 of South Caro lina. "In case any person should wilfully cut out the tongue, put out the eyes, castrate or cruelly scald, burn, or deprive any slave of any limb or member, or shall in flict any other cruel punishment, other than whipping with a horse-whip, cow-skin, switch, or small stick, or by put ting irons on, or confining or imprisoning such slave, every such person shall for any such offence forfeit the sum of one hundred pounds current money." " This section has," continued the judge, " as far as I have been able to learn, been suffered to disgrace the statute-book from the year 1740 to the present hour. Among all the mutations which Christianity has effected within the last century, she has not been able to conquer the spirit which dictated this abominable law. To say nothing of the trifling pe nalty for mutilation, what idea of humanity must a people entertain, who by direct legislation sanction the beating, without limit, of a fellow-creature with a horse-whip or cow•skin, and the infliction of any torture which the in genuity and malignity of man may invent, in the applica tion of irons to the human body, and the perpetual incar ceration, if the master so will, of the unfortunate slave in a dungeon keep, however loathsome ?"—Clarkson's Letter. Etteraturr. POETRY. ADVICE TO BEAUTY. Sweet lady have you seen, When the Iris arch is thrown O'er valley—and o'er hill, Like a rich, enamelled zone; How majestic —yet how calm, Is the beauty of its Like a paradise of flowers, • Or an Angel—in his might? Then, lady, strive to he, In thylife's young go den hours, Au Iris sheddh g hope around Earth's serpent-wreathed bowers; Let virtue be thy guide, Walk thou firm in wisdom's light, A*.d though woman's he thy strength, Thou shalt wield an angel's might. T. J. OUSSLEY THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. CORRESPONDENCE. SHIP-BUILDING. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SlR,—Having in my last shown the importance of the centre of gravity, with the responsibility attached to ship builders, in the correct or incorrect placement of its cen tre; if c meet, its influence for good is diffused throughout every part of the vessel, and the reverse if incorrectly placed, the truth of which must be proved by its forming a close compact with the centre of displacement. To this union theorists of the present day have made a bold stand, by declaring that rather than submit to its laws they will overturn the course of nature, and from it produce a new system of shipbuilding, that shall overturn every objec tion. The theory on which they have attempted to esta blish their hypothesis is by affirming that at one-third of the vessel's length from forward, is the best position for dead flat. On this principle many ships have been built, both in the government and merchant's yards, and with each it has proved a failure. Disappbinted in their hopes, and baffled in their expectations, yet being wedded to their false principles, recourse has been had to filling out the lower after water lines, whereby the centre of gravity falls the aft side of the vessel's half-length, and the displace ment again shows a failure ; and to add to their consterna tion, those ships not only load by the head, but labour greatly in a sea, and steer with difficulty. When about to give up their airy phantom, an expedient presented itself, that of giving their ship's upright stems, thereby enabling them to add from six to twelve feet length of keel forward (keeping the head of the stem as before). Through this artifice the centres of gravity and displacement are brought into closer connexion ; from this extension of the keel, the centre of the lower water lines (which proved their greatest obstacle) is now brought nearer the half-length of the vessel. Having by this subterfuge delivered them selves from a dilemma, those men. without giving the real cause for such a novelty, not only take credit for the dis covery, but strangely enforce the expediency of upright stems, without showing one benefit accruing therefrom : all experienced shipbuilders well know that the form of the stem of a vessel is regulated by the fair termination of the bow. Feeling the importance, and with it the neces sity of again stating, that on the commencement and ter mination of the bow, as a first principle, in the construc tion of all vessels, depends, not only their sailing qualities, with the correct placement of their cargoes, but that which is of greater importance, the safety of the ship, and with it the lives of the crew, I proceed to give a mechanical method for finding the centre of gravity of each water line, likewise of the whole structure. Having constructed your vessel on paper, on a quarter scale, run off on each water line in the half-breadth plan the thickness of the plank of the bottom, prepare yourself with a dry piece of American fir board, which plane up to the thickness of the space between the water lines, as shown in the sheer plan; cut as many pieces from it as there are water lines, of the length, from the fore part of the rabbet of the stem to the after part of the rabbet of the stern post, their breadth the half-breadth of the drawing. Observe, the lower piece must taper agreeably to the vessel's set by the stern ; this piece must fill up, in the sheer plan, all the space from the lower edge of the rabbet of the keel, round to the fore part of the rabbet of the stem, and after part of the rabbet of the stern post, up to the height of the first water line : in like manner prepare each following piece. When complete, place them together on the sheer plan, and see that they fill up the whole space, from the rabbet of the keel to the load water line, taking care that the edge that forms the middle line is straight and square, that when placed together they may all form one fair surface ; next place each piece separately on their respective water lines in the sheer plan, and mark on the upper surface all the stations fore and aft, which square across; race the line of dead flat down the edge of each piece, as a guide to keep them well in place, when applied to each other. Commence with the lower piece, by setting thereon the balf-breadth of the water line on each station, taking it from the line of the plank of the bottom ; through those spots run in the curve of the lower water line, with a sharp firmer; trim into this line very correct, and rough away the part below to the rabbet, on which edge guage in the half-siding of the keel, stem, and stern-post. In like manner set off the half-breadth of the second piece, apply ing the lower piece to the under part, marking it round with a pencil, whereby you have the upper and lower edge of the second piece. By nicely trimming round the upper edge, you prepare it for the lower edge of the third piece, which continue till each separate part is prepared ; then with a few brads fasten them all together (so as to sepa rate them without injury to the edges); clean them off very exact and fair ; when performed separate them, and apply each piece to its respective half-breadth, from the middle line of the half-breadth plan of the drawing, to prove them ; if well, again secure them together, and fas ten thereto the half-siding of the keel, stem and stern-post, and again separate the block, with a pin applied at each edge of the lower piece, at the line of dead flat, when sup ported thereby, and the plane of the surface shows hori zontal ; or if the after part should drop a little, occasioned by the set by the stern, you may then consider the lower water line as well, and the centre of gravity at dead flat ; but should the fore body preponderate, in that case the fore body is too full, and the drawing on that line must be taken in. Fix the pins in the second piece six inches the aft side of dead flat; if the plane rest horizontal that water line is well, but if either end drop, the line on that part must be taken in ; from which proceed, by applying the pins to each separate piece, increasing six inches aft on each water line, (so that the centre of gravity of the upper water line, for a slip of 260 tons measurement, with one foot set by the stern, may be two feet the aft side of dead flat,) and as either end preponderates, alter the line. Observe, it may require to fill out the lean parts, instead of reducing the full; to this great attention must be paid; as such the alteration must first be made on the drawing, and the lines fared in the body and half-breadth plans. Should any of the lines require filling out, and the model prove slack, glue on a slip at the middle line, and again set off the half-breadth, till it correspond with the drawing. To find the main centre of gravity, the drawing having five water lines, place the two upper pieces in one scale, and the three lower ones in the other. It is probable their weight may be equal ; if so, the main centre of gravity will be on the third water line, and one foot the aft side of dead flat. Should the two upper pieces be the greatest weight, in that case the main centre of gravity would be a little above and aft the third water line ; if the three lower pieces are the heaviest, the main centre of gravity will fall a little below the third line, and a little forward ; in either case it is of little moment. This method of finding the centre of gravity, if performed correctly, will prove equal with the nicest calculations. Having thus produced the model, in my next shall be shown from it how to get the exact displacement of the ship at any line of immersion. Be pleased in your next to correct the following errors, which appear in your paper of the sth instant :—for the " stern in the main direction," &c., read stem ; for " the deepest part of the ship," read dryest ; for " being one third from the stern," read stem ; for " let them be equal, move," &c., read, " let them be equal as to weight, move, am, sir, &c., Pembroke Dock, 11th Nov. 1844. JOHN COCK. LOCAL AND PROVINCIAL NEWS. John Talbot Clifton and Mr. Tr, y3ure Redmayne have been appointed Deputy-Lieutenants of this county. Sir W. M.. Stanley, Bart., is the sheriff elect for Cheshire for the ensuing year. Friday's Gazette contains an official notification of the appointment of Mr. J. W. White as consul at this port for the United States. The British and North American royal mail steam-ship Caledonia, Captain Lott, sails hence for Halifax and Boston this day. INDECENT ASSAULT.—A beer-house keeper, named T. Richardson, was fined 40s. and costs, on Friday, for an indecent assault upon Mrs. Ann Wood, wife of Mr. Wood, lace manufacturer, Renshaw-street. AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATH.—Yesterday week, a little before seven o'clock, a decently-dressed man, bearing a basket containing tumbler glasses, fell down in London road, and immediately expired. EMBEZZLEMENT.—On Thursday, at the Police-court, John Fisher, a person in the employ of Mr. Cotterell, ginger-beer manufacturer, was committed for trial for embezzling £5 7s. and several other sums, the property of his master. NUISANCE. — On Saturday a number of poor persons, residing in the lowest purlieus of the town, were fined in the sum of 9s. Cd. each for allowing offensive matter to run from the yards and other places in which they were keeping pigs. WHIG Couricrm.ons.—We have had in the council for some time, a vulgar person rejoicing in a short jacket, but the last election has turned up another respectable Whig, who rejoices not only in a short jacket, but also a short pipe when he parades the streets ;—Bury Herald. IMPORTANT TO CAPITALISTS.—It will be seen, by an advertisement elsewhere, that Mr. Williams, House Agent, of Ranelagh-street, has an immense lot of valuable property, consisting of houses and shops, situated in some of the best localities in Liverpool, to be let, sold, and otherwise disposed of. GUANO.—The arrivals of the week are 2,400 tons, by four vessels. £5 10s. has been accepted for a quantity on the spot, and at that price there are sellers of cargoes to arrive from this period to the end of the year. For deli very first three months £5 15s. to £6 : at the latter price the delivery is guaranteed. Peruvian £lO to £lO 10s. THE OBSCENE CASE.—On Friday, Thomas Bailey, bookseller, of Manchester-street, was discharged from custody, on finding bail, himself in £l5O, and two sure ties in £75 each, to answer any indictment that might be preferred against him at the sessions for exposing obscene books for sale. The sureties were Thomas Taylor and Robert Evans. INQUEST.-011 Wednesday, an investigation took place at the Monk's Ferry Hotel, relative to the death of Margaret Harrison, who was lately disintered at Wood church. The inquiry occupied a considerable time, and a verdict of manslaughter was eventually returned against a person named Port, a druggist, who, it appeared in evi dences had prescribed for the deceased previously to her death. CANARY SHOW.—The annual bird show took place on the 11th instant, at Mr. Matthew Walker's, Lamb and Flag, Great Howard-street, when the following prizes were awarded :—Yellow Plain Heads : First, Mr. M. Walker, silver cup ; second, Mr. J. Robinson ; third, Mr. Jacobs ; fourth, Mr. Swingwood ; fifth, Mr. Oaks ; sixth, Mr. Latham ; seventh, Mr. John Owens ; eighth, Mr. Jacobs.—Buff Plain Heads : First, Mr. J. Robin son ; second, Mr. Oaks; third, Mr. Jacobs ; fourth, Mr. Rogers; fifth, Mr. Uriah Hughes; sixth, Mr. T. Rim mer ; seventh, Mr. Oaks ; eighth, Mr. Rogers. Alter• wards the members and supporters of the club sat down to an excellent dinner, and spent the evening in convi viality and harmony. FATAL ACCIDENT AT BIRKENHEAD.—On Tuesday last, as two men, John Roberts and Thomas Marginson, were hoisting a large stone at a new building in Tranrnere, it fell down upon them, killed Roberts on the spot, and so injured the other that he expired on Thursday. At the inquests on Wednesday and Friday, verdicts of " ac cidental death" were returned. THE MATHEW FUND.—On Wednesday night, a meet ing for the purpose of raising a sum of money necessary to relieve Father Matthew from his present difficulties, was held at the Nelson Assembly Rooms. Mr. Lawrence Heyworth in the chair. Several other gentlemen were present, but the meeting was poorly attended. At the close of the proceedings upwards of £73 was subscribed. A provisional committee was appointed, Mr. Lawrence Heyworth being nominated as treasurer. Hum. Docss.—Our Dock Trustees held a meet ing on Monday last, for the purpose of receiving con tracts for the construction of the Railway Dock and En trance. There were fourteen tenders sent in. The suc cessful parties were Messrs. Bowers and Murray, of Liverpool, who have been engaged during the last seven teen years in contracts upon most of the docks con structed in that flourishing port within that period, and are now at work upon the Albert Dock.—Hull Herald. THE COUNTY VOTERS IN LANCASHIRE.—Fron3 the following figures it will be seen that the number of county voters in this division of Lancashire exhibits a consider able increase.—Southern Division : Number of voters this year, 21,940 ; last year, 18,666 ; increase, 3,274.—1 n North Lancashire the increase is but trifling : Number of voters this year, 10,507 ; last year, 10,337; increase 170. The register for North Lancashire is now completed, but that for the southern division will be about ten days or a fortnight. OLD CHURCH CHARITY SCHOOLS.—On Sunday his worship the Mayor walked in procession from the Town hall to St. Nicholas's Church, where he attended divine service in the forenoon. His worship was accompanied by the Rev. Rector Campbell, the Town Clerk, and a number of gentlemen of the town, and was preceded by the officials of the Corporation. A sermon was preached on the occasion by the Rev. Thos. Macgill, one of the curates, in aid of the Old Church Charity Schools. The collection amounted to £37 Bs., £lO of which were con tributed by the Mayor. CHINESE GRANITE.—At the meeting of the Highway Board, on Thursday last, an offer was made to sell the commissioners a Quantity of Chinese granite at 6s. per square yard, being about half the price generally paid. The granite is of very superior quality, and is of lighter colour than that found in this country. The specimen sent to the commissioners has been nicely squared by the Celestials, and it appears to have formed a portion of some building—whether of " the great wall of China" we cannot say. The commissioners, we believe, would be glad to receive any quantity of this material. INQuEsr.—An inquest was held on Friday, before the borough coroner, on view of the body of a man unknown. James Doyle, a labourer, said that on Thursday morning he observed something black at the works at the Duke's Dock, from which the tide had retired, and found it to be the body of a man. A police-officer had it taken to the dead-house. The dress was a blue or black frock coat, blue trousers, silk waistcoat. boots, but no stockings, a cotton shirt, and a white front. The body appeared to have been a considerable time in the water. The jury, under the circumstances, returned a verdict of " Found drowned." ATTEMPTED SEDUCTION.—On Saturday a young man, who gave his name John Hampson, was brought before Mr. Rushton, on a charge of having attempted to force a respectable female into a house of ill-fame in a street off Williamson-square. Officer 35 stated that as he was go ing his rounds the night before, he was attracted to the street in question by the loud shrieks of a female, and that on reaching the spot, he discovered the prisoner in the act of endeavouring to force the girl into a brothel. The only defence the prisoner had to offer nos, that he had been very much intoxicated. Mr. Rushton ordered him to be fined 40s. and costs, or to be imprisoned four days. SUDDEN EXTINCTION OF GAS-LIGHTS.—On Sunday evening week, the congregation of the Church of St. John John the Evangelist, in Elope-street, were much startled, at the conclusion of the service, by the sudden extinction of the whole of the lights in the church, together with those in the lamps in the street. On inquiry, it was fonnd that this sudden withdrawal of light was occasioned by the insufficient supply of water to the gas meters. The most serious consequences might have resulted had any confusion taken place ; and it would be well if the gas meters in public buildings were examined periodically by the gas companies or other competent persons, in order that the repetition of so great an annoyance might be prevented for the future. DEATH FROM EXTERNAL VIOLENCE.—On Tuesday evening week, James Fogg, a carter, residing in Essex street, went home late in the evening; his wife got up to let him in, and observed that his face was covered with blood ; he also complained of a pain in his side, and of having been beaten by three men, but did not say who they were, or how the injury to his person had occurred. A surgeon was called in on Thursday, and the deceased told him he had been kicked by a horse. He continued to grow worse until Saturday week, when he died. After a post mortem examination of the body, the surgeon gave it as his opinion that death had resulted from inflammation and pleurisy, the result of external violence; the rest of the body was in a healthy state. FIRE ON BOARD SHIT.—On Friday afternoon, a fire was discovered under the deck of the schooner Mary, of Belfast, the property of Mr. Tate, of that town, and then lying in the Sloyne. The fire had originated in the cabin, and communicated to the hold. She was immediately run on shore near the Potteries, and word being passed to the fire station, Mr. Hewitt, the superintendent, was speedily at the spot with several engines. The hose was got on board, and the deck being cut up, in about an hour and a half the flames were extinguished. The vessel is about 150 tons burthen, and was bound to Beyrout and Alexan dria with a general cargo. His worship the mayor was present, and rendered efficient service by his judicious directions. The damage was considerable, but we have not learned the amount. ANOTHER COLLISION.—Another very serious collision occurred in the Channel, on Thursday night, which, we regret to say, has been attended with loss of life, and the destruction of a ship. It appears that the Firefly schoo ner, belonging to Messrs. George Maxwell and Co., left this port on Wednesday, for Africa, (being in the palm oil trade,) and she had arrived between Point Lynas and the Skerries, when she came in contact with the Bri tannia steamer, from Dublin. The collision took place at midnight. The Firefly was so much injured, that she sunk immediately afterwards; but there was time to save the whole of the crew, who refused to leave the sinking vessel. The collision was altogether acccidental, and arose from the dark and thick weather prevailing at the time. The Britannia is one of the regular traders be tween this port and Dublin, and belongs to the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company. GRAVE OFFENCE.—On Wednesday last, Jane Hughes and Ann Rose were brought up, the charge being, as ap peared from the books, that one of them was "talking to a man in Camden-street." Mr. Rushton wisked to know by what authority the officers had proceeded, when they stated that an order was on the books to that effect, and the inspector had told them to do so. Mr. Rushton ordered the books to be sent for, and after inspecting them, observed that they (the officers) had mistaken the order ; it merely gave them the power to stop any female who was annoying an inhabitant, and require her to give her name, so that she might be pressed for a penalty ; the parties must be guilty of riotous and disorderly conduct to justify an arrest. The prisoners bad been improperly charged, but it had arisen from a misunderstanding. He would, however, give instructions, so that the force would be able to avoid such mistakes for the future. The pri soners were immediately discharged. INCORPORATION OF ST. HELENS.—Two meetings have been held, at St. Helens, within the last fortnight to con sider the propriety of applying to Parliament in the next session for an act for vesting in commissioners the powers of paving, lighting, watching, cleansing, and otherwise improving the town, and for establishing a market. At the last meeting, which was the adjourned one, an amend ment that " it was inexpedient at the present time to apply to parliament for the proposed bill," was carried by a very large majority. Nearly one half of the second meeting was composed of ratepayers from the neighbouring town ship of Sutton who object to be taxed to support the pro posed measure, and the landowners of that township, and also of Eccleston are opposed to the scheme, and the Marquis of Salisbury, and the Liverpool and Manches ter Railway do not approve of it. The promoters, how ever, it is said, intend to apply to parliament and leave those who are hostile to the measure to oppose it in com mittee. ROBBERY OF A GENTLEMAN IN CASTLE-STREET. — On Saturday a smart-looking young fellow, rather fashion ably attired, who gave his name William Johnson, was brought up on a charge of having, about half an hour be fore, picked the pocket of Mr. John Sutliff Stow of the sum of £25, in Bank of England notes. Mr. Stow said that he was a leather factor, and that he resided at West parade, Bristol-road, Birmingham. Between twelve and one o'clock on that day (Saturday) he was in the act of walking along Castle-street, and, just as he was crossing the top of Brunswick-street, he felt something touch one of his heels. He immediately felt his pocket, missed his order-book, and observed the prisoner and another young fellow walking from him. Suspecting that they were the thieves, he overtook the prisoner in Union-court, but he was too late to grasp his companion. After some difficulty the prisoner was searched, and the order-book was found in the pocket of his coat. It contained one £lO and three £5 Bank of England notes, which he (Mr. Stow) had just received at the Bank of Liverpool. The prisoner was committed for trial. THE NUPTIALS OF SAMUEL SANDBACH, ESQ., JUN. AND MISS MAXWELL CELEBRATED UPON THE FAMILY'S ESTATES IN NORTH WALES. — The 13th of November, 1844, will long be recollected by the inhabitants of the sequestered village of Llangerniew and peaceful vale of Elwy as a day of general rejoicing and honest mirth. The " doings of the day" commenced with a hunt, by the kind permission of H. R. Sandbach, Esq., which afforded the, tenantry, workmen, and well-wishers excellent sport. As night spread its shades over the romantic glen, a general illumination of the village, neighbourhood, and the school, which is chiefly supported by the liberality of the Sandbach family, commenced, and four large bonfires were lighted : three upon elevated positions, so as to be seen from an immense distance, and another in the centre of the village, at which a fat sheep was roasted, and afterwards distributed among the poor, amidst the hearty cheers of the multi tude, firing, and the " merry sound of the village bell." Afterwards the well-wishers met at the Stag Inn, and Robert Anwyl, Esq., of Bodgonwcb, was called to take the chair, and Mr. T. Rogers to act as vice-president. Appropriate toasts were drank with honours—speeches were delivered, and the company separated at an early hour, highly gratified with the proceedings of the day. Nov. 19, 1844. Wednesday, GROSS As i‘ s i A r U s. LT sh n e a- ph A er H d, u a s f u e r a n le HISo in N SO of health that she had to be assisted in and out of the_ Police-court, preferred a complaint against her husband, a shoemaker, in St. Anne's -street, of his having, over a a long period, ' grossly assaulted and abused her, and par" ticularly for striking her, on Tuesday week, while she vir in bed, and afterwards repeating his cruelties on the PI" day following, when he knocked her down, injuring her severely against a fender, and afterwards turned her ottt delicate rjF g of doors. The complainant required a separate mainte nance. The defendant said he would allow her ss. a week' and take the children. Mr. Rushton did not consider this sufficient ; and as the defendant was disinclined to pay more, he (Mr. R.) strongly remarked on his cowardly and unfeeling conduct; ordered him to pay a fine of 11 ' also to for the assault, or be imprisoned two months, and find two sureties, himself in £4O, and two others in Air' each ; adding, that if the female became chargeable to th e parish, he would run the risk of being sent to the Hous of Correction. The defendant was taken into custody. a SELECT VESTRY.—At the meeting on TuesdaY, M r * fat: • the Ford expressed hi s comp li ance w i t h t h e req uest that should continue a m em b er o f th e b oa rd. During be previous week there had been an increase of fever palie t n7; twenty-five having been admitted into the hospital, " e t, there are fifty-four patients remainimr; and in the _19 . 1 1 thalmic ward, there is an increase of three cases. With these exceptions, the house is in a satisfactory s tate.. t I; answer to a question from M r . B remner (who asked I consequence of something that had been said out of doom' ) the Vestry-clerk said that that gentleman's gratificalln! was a good one. Th e following is the comparative state" ment of in-door poor fo r th e past week, viz. in the house, 1,745; cost per head, Is. 104 d.• and money, £l6l. 15s. 64d. Same time last year, 1,791, Par is. 71d. per head, an d £143 . 13 s. Old . Of ou t-door Pa u relieved during the past fortnight, the number of cases _: 6,794, at an expense of £749. 3 s. 10d .; b e i ng 194 OF and £l7. Is. 4d. in mo ne y l ess th an l as t yea r. Mr* o f M. Davies was ele c t e d h onorary surgeon i n the room __ Mr. Byerley, resi g n e d, an d M r . J ames J o hnson f ur " elected surgeon to th e I n d us t r i a l S c h oo l. Mr. Ar t .t ir Henderson gave notice of a mo ti on a t th e ne xt lnee"7 o for an increase of £lOO per annum to the secret:al salary. ELECTION OF DOCK COMMITTEE-MAN.—On Tueder the dock ratepayers were ca ll e d u p on t o e l ec t a in...„,..„ 013 h er wofho vacated his committeethedockseaton being in theroomof electedto th Mr. C. S. Town S. Middon os V r g m ai a n n be E e v n an e s lec w t a e s d parompeomsebderboyf Mr. the Ripley, a b: d o.. l ] cil for Exchange Ward, but who, as our readers are aw are .: one of the representatives of the council there. Mr• h A a l s d e a A se' conded by Mr. Bellany. Mr. George Green was ' proPnyr - h ,,, by Mr. Ashley, and seconded by Mr. Thos. Bold. AL voting only continued for thr ee hours, and at the ein:: the numbers were—for Mr. Eva ns , 315 ; for Mr. Gre a a 167. Mr. Duncan Gibb then applied to the Mayor (ol' ud y presided over the proceedings) to have the poll adjoaea until the following morning, upon th e groun d that, at half-past two o'clock that day, it was currently rumnuf: on 'Change that Mr. Green had resigned, and thal_Agim— rumour had the effect of preventing many of his frie4D— from coming forward to vote in his favour. He said there was precedent for the application, and that, on the oc as. sion to which he alluded, the poll had been adjourned bl the presiding magistrate. Mr. Ripley declined to join in the application, and the Mayor said that on the occael ari e alluded to, both parties concurred in the adjournine l l but he was advised by - the Town-Clerk that he could no legally adjourn the electi on , an d h e t h ere f ore declare d Mr. Evans duly elected. FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED.—After the ball at 131 r: kenhead, on the occasion of laying the first stone of " 1 2 new docks, there was a general scramble for the lin ts ! bonnets, cloaks, and great-coats. It seems that the waiters had helped themselves rather too freely to chaff' pagne, and, feeling their incapacity to fulfil their dutieei '. had gone home at an early ho ur , t o s l eep o ff th e ftone ac) Moet. The consequence was, th a t w h en the ball ", over, as the waiters had taken th e ti c k e t s w ith therm 7. became a very difficult matter to distribute the garmen ts to those who came with their duplicates to redeem th em In the utter despair of a strict distribution, the vik° l6 articles left in pledge were brought out, and thrown in 2 heap into the middle of the room. E ver y p er son fell and helped himself. Gentlemen got four-and-nines fo real beavers, and many a lawyer, who came with a ches; terfield, was obliged to walk home in a wrap-rascal. ° a . t gentleman was compelled to put on a Dunstable bolo% and plaid shawl, and, when he got home, was refused a_ mittance by his own wife. But the mo s t melancholy c a t ; was that of an old lady, who, at day-b rea k, bad to v01k.., her hotel in a dirty macintosh a n d an o ld oilskin our/ wester. The company must have f e lt t o a ticket. twa t " property has its rights, it has its losses, toe' _ taken to an evening party. The in qu i r i es a fter hats, clogs, boas, and tippets, have been very numerous ever since. Punch. BIRKENHEAD POLICE -COURT, THURSDAY.--The ma gistrates present were J. W. Harden, J. D. Case; J '," . Shaw, Esquires, and the Rev. R. M. Fielding. plaint was preferred by Horatio Bilston, a gamekeeper, against four men, Bellis, Preston, Evans, and Dawson!. for running hares in a plantation at Ireby, on Sunday last Bilston apprehended them, but they were rescued byua party of navigators. They were afterwards brough t I by warrant. They were each fined 40s. and costs.— complaint was made by George Argent against four men, Cross, Jones, Davis, and another Jones, for a violent assault upon him at the back of the Railway , Inn, whil e he was in charge of some goods belonging to Mr. Evans, auctioneer, their object being to interfere with the p h p th e e rt n y om . p a l 'h ai e n defendants d a a s nt not s in denied a at a t the o fc mind harge , t alleging b e dro o upon. The whole four were bound over in their o wn re cognizances to keep the peace.—Captain Williams, the Government inspector of prisons, represented to the magistrates that there was a want of proper accommoda tion in the lock• ups, and that prisoners were detained for some days at an illegal charge of Is. a day for mainte nance, given to the keeper, who ought to have a fixed salary. He added that he was bound to report the ca se to the Home Secretary. The magistrates said that if a n y of their officers were in fault, they should be dismis sed; that they should take care that proper accommoda tions should be provided, with beds, &c. ; that it was in con epentdeade templation to erect a suitable bridewell, &c. ; a nd that they would hereafter communicate with Capt. Williams, at the Home-office. SALES OF MAHOGANY, &C.—Messrs. Chaloner and Fleming's salts, on Thursday and Friday last, were well and respectably attended, and most of the woods brought f n o a r r w go ar p d er we w re il c ii l a e m ar , ed nn o n ff ai . consisting of cabinet wood, was sold at 63d. to 110., or Sid• per foot average ; the cargo per Hope, (except 20,000 feet,) small-sized, plain wood, was sold at 6d. to Bd., or P foot average ; and the cargo per Caleb Angas, consisting of a mixture of the above descriptions, with a precKT: derance of cabinet wood, at sd. to 121 d., or 7d.11-161au per foot average. Thus the only bay wood in first han g _ H ondurasmahogany, the is comprised in the above 20,000 feet per Hope, ally aiT I ., sized. Of St. Domingo, the city cargo, per Sarah, of dery good quality and size, was sold at from 91d. to 108. 6d• Pa foot; one lot of 37,000 feet, averaging 201 d. per foot; the another of 9.000 feet, averaging 17d. per foot, a nd au captain's 2,700 feet, 12d. per foot, constituting," average for the cargo of 19d. 11-16ths per foo'• tar remainder of the cargo per °orlon, from Port-au-olio, consisting of 34,000 feet, was sold at from Bd. to 3 % per foot, or ls. ld. 13-32 per foot average. 43 logs , ~ye a tom small and inferior, per Rochdale, were sold at 6d• ~t a d and 114 logs, per Alexander, with some better quality to to size, but still of an inferior description, at from Pe or 70. per foot average. Of Cuba, 331 lona to Elizabeth, very fresh and large-sized, were sold at (r4- ,,ty, Is. 10d. per foot, or 91d. per foot average! eo s . .",:ego well-sized, good quality 63,800 feet. Thus the above sales leave no St. D°7- , ,,, - 10, mahogany in first bands, and only one cargo from % - v et now landing, ex Syra. Of Havana cedar, 144 log°,; g e. Elizabeth, were sold at sd. to 7d., or sid. per foot ave . ., r 7 o d The 39 logs, per Rival, were not sold. 609 lanen e spars, per Elizabeth, tolerably fresh, but not very I nd: were sold at 4s. each. There was no pencil cedar Fi s h, By private sale 13 tons of Rio rose woo d, ex Flying toe were disposed of, at £l9 to £26, or £22 14s sd. pe r n ot average; but the Bahia, per Cora, was not offered, having been landed in time. S l ,, OPENING OF THE SCHOOLS IN CONNEXION MICHAEL'S CHURCH, TOXTETH PARK.—The op e . 13 0 of these schools, which has been already reported as ea hl ing taken place on Wednesday, was followed by app t he from the pulpit in aid of the building fund, made in,„ o . church of that district on Sunday last, both in the n 3 :010 ing and the afternoon, when, under the more favon' ea y state of the weather, and a zealous disposition very g ap' rally entertained in behalf of the undertaking , Ot t o , peal in both cases was responded to by a verY n ". 8 0, rous congregation, and in a manner truly C Wl' The sermon in the morning was preached by th e froln hristi William Hesketh, M.A. incumbent of the c hurch' L ad Psalm cxxii. v. 9. " Because of the house of the,,b the our God, I will seek to do thee good ;" after urp"" The e v f S oo e a rl r n la y e d ) ce b h tr a a i o c n wn h d ,asNosmlm. equally a d . s , eucniurraatoti gratifying, o i :f consisting gsK: sermon in the afternoon was preached by the Rev,' johat m 11th chapter, 15th, 16th, and 17th verses; after ego i• ados i df s fe . o:l B 73 d o3i . wn isi w ont a esg s r. foo o r il l 0 1 c y t :3 e us d in, , o kdh • nca h thbg e b ri total in the day of £B6 18s. 6d. A very powerful %cigar choir was introduced into the church for the 1,7 - 13/V through the kindness and instrumentality of Niro " he . corn kett, of the Three Sixes Cottage, and a member of i' - ' 9 i e eot gregation,under whose skilful superintendence the se a „_ j a y our beautiful Liturgy was rendered more than USD ~ 41 h, t pressive by the addition of what is usually termed hteour "Judg e rvic and the selection of two appropriate " me 0 Lord, my God, according to thy g. 1'; rrees of t 13,1 ness," and " Ascribe unto the Lord, OYe '-' nd d „ o ver. people, ascribe unto the Lord ss•orship an r then° d the an Both the services were from Dr. Clarke, an from Mozart and Travers. weather a t° To THE LADIES.—The results of inclement ,;e0 frequently subversive of comfort and attraction to r a 'd by causing a naturally delicate skin to become c rol l .g s h red, and frequently accompanied by chaps and their Pt' These innovations are successfully opposed in on their completion _,O gress, and thoroughly eradicated RoWLOP - the use of that inestimable production " once KALYDOR." This truly happy discovery . at on a all smarting irritability of the skin ; and imparts.t becomes liancv of tint to the complexion, to which unfailing conservator. —See advt. ka E —His fate furnishes a reraa NAPOLEON BONAPART • SS, a ° able instance of the instability of human greatness, u _ e a there is no doubt his dislike to medicine remotely ? dissolution la ; for rather than take some sun is his early remedy he allowed disease to gain the ascendancy orcs: constitution, and death was the result. Thus it s persons cannot be too watchful of their state of hes',.e. and being always provided with a safe and efficienthme e.,0 eine, such as Frampton's Pill of Health—enjoy greatest blessings of this world, health and long la c See advt. :theme,