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bath an Eittrature. VARI ay be softened by a degree of heat not exceed- F melted lead, and may be afterwards moulded quired shape. mare th - an ti to have paid more attention to iodern English, for Mr. Layard states hick he found in the ruins of Nineveh, _ to system of sewerage, and connected with a main sewer. ished with a core DUTY AND GLORY.—The Duke of Wellington, being asked if he had seen a French criticism on the fourteen vo replied in the -negative, and in- Vhat do the French say of them ? " He was -eviewer remarked the word glory did not 't duty frequently did. lumes of his Despatches LITER Y DISCOVE ]Sir. F. Devon has found an Ament of the letters belonging to Edward, the first Prince of Wales; which, from its antiquity of above its interesting contents, with its historical les being the only record of that nature in existence, is decidedly the most important discovery of !nturies, gs. besiC rn times and would amply repay any one who 'Am . dertook i Tun LAST AND BEST.—A correspondent of the New York Spirit of the Times has the following :—A chap, walking out, came across " Old Mose," sitting in the Well, Mosel' says he, " what ou - ioing there ? " " Fiffin." "What ?" ina ! well, what's the reason you can't " Oh, nuffin but wums for broiling sun, fishing pearan differel it's in your mouth the sava a the World ar " Fiffin.' talk ? wl s.—The spiders, so disgusting in ap _ other countries, are here of quite a and are the most beautiful of the insect They have a skin of a shell-like texture, furnished in some long, in others short, in numerous ; but are found of this nly in thick woods and shaded places. Their BODNESIE SPIDE t nature with curious pro, Nome few descrip colours are of every hue, brilliant and metallic as the feathers of the humming bird ; but are, unlike the bright solours of the beetle, totally dependent on the life of the insect which they beautify ; so that it is impossible to preserve tli NECESSI Low's Sarawak You at FOLKS OF SPEAKING PLAINLY TO LANCASHIRE .e sadly troubled with a cough," we old woman whom we visited. She was about our meaning, when a daughter rplained to her in a more vernacular Sys as yaw're fearfully haggled wi' a haust." familiar word among the lower orders. ' -1 a vigorous old man to us the other 4 eniable, and spits uncommon." 'member erm in the writings of any nglish authors : it is probably a derivative Again, in ordinary discourse with the poor, avoid all flights of metaphor. We heard of ..,rgyman not long ago being suddenly pulled n in his soarings of fancy :—" I fear, my friend," he 343 bedside he had :men sum - ~cress you in the language that ..,sed to King Hezekiah, ' Set thine house in ler for thou shalt die, and not live.' " " Well," was it a's reply, as he rose languidly on his elbow, and tte L with his finger, " I think it's o' reet, but for a s is out behint that cupboard."—Fraser's Map. :NrAILD OF INDUSTRY. — The fool that promises him access without endeavours, or despairs at the sight '.ies, is always disappointed ; but, on the con indefatigable succeeds even beyond his once said lently in doubt up, and e idiom This 1 " I hz There is not a more certain sign of a craven spirit than to have the edge of one's activity soon turned by opposition ; as, on the contrary, there is no disputing his fortitude who contends with obstacles, and never gives over the pursuit till he has reached the end a .4- You must, moreover, make industry a part arly as possible. Be as serviceable u can to your employer upon all occasions ; if pos --^MmAndsunderstand a nod, a I', to whc must mid )vvn ex f your character as e sible, anticipate hi do rather more than is required of you than Dur duty. He merits little that performs just mld be ea-acted ; but we learn to love him who sure in his business, and seems obliged by ids. If you should ever be enjoined by those to do those offices which you may think be tation, undertake them cheerfully, nor betray it the imposition. To dispute a mas idutiful and unmannerly, and to obey 3 or resentment argues you obey only through fear; whereby you have both the pain and the service, and lose the merit of it too.—Advice to Clerks. WILD ELEPHANTS IN CETLON•—WiId elephants are numerous in the island, and the mischief they do to the vlant' takes a neath your ter's will therefore, v fields is very great. Continual war igainst them in every possible way ; ng - which their race is so far from becoming increment is said to be from six red head. They overrun all the 1 render them almost uninhabit mar was introduced to the sport of ler the auspices of the celebrated has probably slaughtered a greater ulk of flesh than any man living, who is not a butcher y profession. How many elephants he has killed with is own hand cannot be exactly computed, for he left off iundasd to eight Illind 3ortlrern mountains, an, ephant keeping account eight years ago, after the number had reached thirteen hundred duly told. He has, of course, had many desperate adventures. Once he was knocked down by an elephant, trampled under foot, and tossed about like a ball by the trunk of the infuriated animal. At last, he was flung into a deep hole, and to this circum- injuries he received were such as would have cured most men for ever of a taste for such sport. All his ribs on the right, were smashed, his right arm was broken, and lie shoulder dislocated.- Westminster Review. THE BRAZIL NUT TREE.—The one of all these most attractive was that which produces the Brazil nut, called in the country castanhas. Botanically it is the Bertha'. .letia excelsa. This tree was upwards of 100 ft. in height, and between two and three in diameter. From the 'branches were depending the fruits, large as cocoa nuts. The shell of these is nearly half an inch in thickness, and contains the triangular nuts so nicely packed that, once removed, no skill can replace them. It is no easy matter to break this tough covering, requiring some instrument and the exercise of considerable strength ; yet we were assured by an intelligent friend at the Barra of the Rio Negro, that tLe guaribas, or howling monkeys, are in the habit of breaking them by striking them upon stones or the limbs of iron-like trees. This friend related an amu sing incident of which he had been witness, where the monkey, forgetful of everything else, pounding down the ut, With 'night and main, in a fever of excitement, struck it with tremendous force upon the tip of his tail. Down dropped the nut and away flew the monkey, bounding and howling fearfully. How long the victim was laid up by his lame tail, our friend was unable to inform us ; but we thought one thing certain, that mon keys had changed since Goldsmith's day, inasmuch as at that time, as we are informed, the tip of a monkey's tail 1 -r o reinote from the centre of circulation as to be des- tut() of feeling. When the castanha-nuts are fresh they ich resemble in taste the cocoa-nut, and the white easily expressed, is no bad substitute for milk in This soon becomes , rancid and at length turns _ to oil. The nuts are exported largely from Para, and are said to form a very important ingredient in the manufac ture of sperm candles.—Voyage up the Amazon. THE PHYSICIAN AND THE SOLDIER-THE BATTLE FIELD AND THE FIELD OF DEATH. — Heat and moisture, as I have already informed you, are the absolute essentials in producing putrefaction, and consequently the two grand agents in eliminating the poisonous gases and animal com pounds of which I have endeavoured to give you a short but I hope effective history. Now, the two agents, moisture and heat, more especially the latter,. exist in Scinde in an unmitigated and irremediable form. Little rain, it is true, falls in Scinde, but the sudden irruption of torrents of water from the upper country, washing the already upturned grave-yard earth, the half exposed bodies, and filling deep and extensive excavations from which earth had been taken for building purposes, not only carried with it what it met with in its course, but constituted literally a solution of dead bodies. These pools of human corruption remained some time after the subsidence of the surface water, gave out their fluid ma terial to the thirsty and fissured earth in every direction, whilst the sun, operating on the surface of these stagnant reservoirs, at a temperature ranging from 120 to 130 de grees, produced the most deadly exhalations. Hence it is that an error in judgment is so disastrous in result ; hence it is that the lion in the field, the unyielding in battle, must take counsel from the votaries of science, the conservators of health;_ hence it is that Englishmen who have rushed upon visible danger ° , Who hav - e braved the bullet and the bayonet, who have sternly defied the iron shower or breasted the murderous grape and canister ; who have made in far distant lands the name of their country at once great and terrible, have perished miserably ; have fallen in the prime of their days, victims to a lamentable ignorance, or an utterly mistaken policy,— _ _ ifrin Grave-yards EMIT IN HIS NATIVE FOREST A. native who Ming at my wig, and who had accompanied us all )oPed suddenly, and, pointing with his finger, said, !" About' a mile distance across the prairie were those birds quietly feeding. The dogs were imme called together, fresh vigour seemed to animate the tv; and we proceeded to give chase in high 'mes shot with the rifle, but the them is by hunting them with a to. cowe near enougl and listens with ati he. wall leis urel almost to your stirrup, by ,his to be repeatedly tried with to whistle, the emu lifts up its Lion ; soon, delighted with the n the direction from 'which -it g., he pauses, seems and finally walks round andr . ()mid you in cir ally lesse n i ng , un til h e approac h es w ith in a few his confidence is not repaid with a bullet, he ;ratifying his curiosity by a rood stare. nuietly alb away through his native woods. Ctnus are frequently ,eared by the natives, who, taking care to stand stockstill le moment the creature lifts up its head, manare to no- within a few yards of them while feeding. Though may have his hand raised in the act of throwing he remains lixed in that attitude while the emu of him. Perceiving only an object without rd takes him for a tree, and continues to a victim, like other innocent things, to a ;th the headmost g caught hold of the extended flapper of one of the birds, id..arrested its progress ; the others coming up, soon ulled him to the ground, and by the time we reached the lot, he was dead. The feathers from the tail were dis- United among the party, and placed in our caps ; awl ►e legs being cut off, the rest of the bird was abandoned. oe lees alone afford any meat, which is by no means a and resembles coars-e bee l ie liii./i TiVin ~~~- PERIODICAL LITERATURE : ITS PERIL, AND EXAC TIONS.—" What's the news ?" So said the Athenian gossip in the days of yhueydkles ; and so he still said in the days of St. Paul. In England we do not now use precisely the same form of words ; we say, " Have you seen to-day's paper ?" The occupation of the gossip is indeed gone. The verbal newsmonger is no more. The coffee-house and the barter's shop are sought as places for eating and drinking, and shaving, rather than as repositories of the last new bit of scandal, or the last new terrible rumour. No future Horace Walpole will chronicle the fleeting events of the political world, from sources of information exclusively his own. The little phrase, " Have you seen to-day's paper ?" indicates a revolution in our modes of thought and vehicles of in formation, as remarkable as the marvellous change in the means of locomotion, which is now being rapidly con summated. Observe, too, that we do not say, " Have you read ?" We must gather our information, as we per form our journeys, at race-horse speed. If the news is not to be caught up by a glance, it will be unheeded. A few minutes must suffice for the perusal or examination of a quantity of matter equal to that of an octavo volume. The morning's newspaper is actually stale by the evening. The toil of hundreds begins to lose its value by noon day. That vast result of intellectual labour and compli cated machinery, which is one of the wonders of the age, must be enjoyed over the breakfast-table, or during the first two or three hours spent in the counting-house, or its flavour will grow vapid, and stimulate the taste no more.—Rambler. INSANITY CAUSED BY OPIUM EATlNG.—Amongst the lower class of women who apply for entrance at the ex pected period of accouchement into parochial infirmaries, a large proportion of them are addicted to the daily use of ardent spirits ; and, from some inquiries which I have instituted during the last three years, I have found that the habitual consumption of opium amongst the same class is to a far greater extent than is generally supposed by the public. I have been surprised at discovering how universal the practice has become, and to what an extent in some cases this drug is taken by them with impunity, or rather, without immediate fatal effects. It is not at all an uncommon circumstance in the infirmary for the head nurse to discover under the pillows of the patients a phial of laudanum or a box of opium pills, secretly put there for daily use; and several young girls even have stated, on being questioned, that independently of the use of spi rituous liquors, they are in the habit of purchasing daily their pennyworth. or more, of laudanum as a dram, and that there are favourite druggists' shops, at which they get better measure than elsewhere. It might naturally be expected that at the period of labour, with the removal of such accustomed stimulus, and its usual consequences, we should find cases of puerperamania much more frequent in this class, but the tabular statement does not bear out the fact. I may be allowed, however, to state, that in the eighteen years, during which period I have had to sign the certificates of all those who are received as insane into the infirmary, previously to their being transmitted to the various lunatic asylums in the county, I have frequently of late been struck with the increase in number of cases of general insanity, which is certainly disproportionate to the annual increase of population ; the habitual use of opium amongst this class may perhaps explain the fact.— Dr. Winslow 's Journal of Psychological Medicine. NEWSPAPERS contain everything, and are found every where; the only difficulty is to read them. The threads of newspaper correspondence enclose the whole globe in a net-work of espionage. Nothing can happen that is not sure to get into a newspaper while it isliappening, and sometimes before it has happened. It is no idle bluster to say that the eyes of Europe are on you. The eyes of Europe are the newspapers of Europe ; and these same eyes are on every man, woman, and child, whose lives are of the slightest interest outside their own circles. It has been beautifully said of flowers, that they start up in the most unexpected places, where there is hardly a handful of soil, and even where there is none, striking their ten der yet vigorous roots into the crevices of the naked rock. The same thing may be said of newspapers. They seem to be sown, like certain seeds, by the caprice of the winds. Wherever there is a sentiment of a dozen people, you may look out for a newspaper. The first necessity of a new population is a newspaper. It inverts sometimes the vul gar principle of political economy, which will insist that the demand produces the supply ; for it happens with newspapers, every now and then, that the supply produces the demand. The newspaper of a little colony often comes into existence before the readers ; some far-sighted spe culator being always in advance with an article of con sumption which he knows well enough will become indis pensable by and by. Even New Zealand, while it is yet undergoing the early stages of an excruciating experiment had a newspaper, and Hong Kong, where the fatality of the climate might be supposed to deter any sensible man from risking more than a month's subscription, has its Gazette. Indeed, we are not quite sure that a newspaper is not a sort of social instinct. People get up newspapers where there is nobody to read them but themselves. Pas sengers on a long voyage, who have no news to tell, ex cept that which they get from each other, and nobody to tell it to when they get it, frequently amuse themselves by playing at newspapers. This is more remarkable than the most out-of-the-way birth of flowers. A harebell on a rock is not half so surprising as a newspaper on board ship.—Fraser's Magazine. A BRIDAL VISIT IN CHINA.—In Vie evening of the same day, we were invited by Hok-ha, one of our neigh bours, to pay a wedding visit to his bride. to whom he was married on the preceding evening. He was a youth of about twenty-one years of age, apparently a sincere in quirer after Christian truth, and a constant attendant on the means of grace, both at the chanel watt at Mr. Pohl. man's family devotions. tits father Med eleven years ago, and he was now an assistant to his uncle, a rope maker. The latter, on whom he was in a great measure dependent, had frequently shown his displeasure at Hok ha's continual absence at the missionary services; and on one occasion Hok-ha had to take refuge for more than a week in the house of one of the missionaries, from the harsh severity of his relative. He showed much grati tude, and was evidently attached to the missionaries. He was in an interesting state of mind, and lived in the daily habit of prayer. Seven years ago, his widowed mother purchased for him a wife, who had lived in the family ever since, and was now sixteen years old. His mother commanded her son to celebrate the nuptials, ' though he would himself have preferred waiting for years, till his prospects were brighter, and he became more independent of his uncle. But as the old lady was anxious to establish the family, Ilok-ha being her only son, her commands were peremptory, and obedient sub missiOn to her authoritative will became his only alterna tive. Under the circumstances of the bride being already an inmate of the family, there was no marriage procession to conduct her to the house of her husband ; and there had been only the usual feast and nuptial ceremonies on the preceding evening. We were ushered by the bride groom up two or three flights of steps into his humble apartment, where we took our seats on a couch opposite a table covered with the remains of a feast. By the side of this table the bride stood, having her eyes cast toward the ground, and wrapt up in strict efforts to preserve propriety —custom not permitting a bride to speak to a visitor till after three days, nor to go out, except to the house of her parents, till after thirty days. She was a very pretty, in teresting girl, with a profusion of artificial flowers forming a tiara on her head, and with a handsome bright red bridal robe, her face being covered with pearl-dust, rather beyond the limits of European taste. At her husband's suggestion, she handed to us a plate of sweetmeats from a drawer, of which we partook by way of compliment. She continued to stand during the whole of our visit. A glass mirror lay on a table close by, into which she directed an occasional glance, to assure her mind of her strict preset - vation of appearances. Although my companion once or twice addressed her, she strictly preserved silence. She appeared, however, sometimes to experience difficulty in suppressing a simpering laugh, and to be in great danger of breaking through her affected seriousness. Hok-ha seemed greatly pleased with his bride.—Rev. G. Smith's Consular Cities of China. • Is CONSUMPTION CURABLE ?—Dr. Deshon, in his recent work entitled " Consumption, its Prevention and Cure," gives the following instance of the recovery of a patient, who was in a stage of the disease so far advanced that medicinal appliances were required, but still only as aids to the system of cold effusion and exercise :—" I was lately requested to attend a young lady, aged sixteen, who was represented to be in an incurable state of phthi sis, so ill that it was said my attendance was required merely to alleviate her distressed and painful condition, as a cure was out of the question : in fact, to soften, as far as medicinal means might allow, the way to the grave. I found my patient in bed, in a igh state of irritative fever, pulse 130, tongue red and thickly coated with a yellowish fur ; abdominal and pectoral pains, with urgent diarrhcea, amounting on some days to a dozen evacua tions, and distressing cough. Percussion elicited sounds much duller than natural, and auscultation, coarse bron chial respiration, with mucous riles. The history of this young lady had been as follows :—Four or five years pre viously she had contracted a pleurisy, since which time her health had been undermined, at one time pectoral, at anot ier abdominal symptoms, with hectic fever, predomi nating. Numerous were the physicians at home and abroad consulted, and various the remedies employed. Bleeding, blistering, medicated baths, cod-liver oil, &c., &c., had all been tried in turn, but to no avail. She had travelled largely over the continent, and had spent the last winter in Italy, where the physicians having given her over, it was determined that she should proceed to England. My impression was, that tubercular depositiop, to some extent, had taken place in the structure of the intestines ; that congestion at least, highly favouring de osit,ris present in the lungs, and that, unless opposed by judicious means, universal invasion would ensue. The indications, in this case, were first to control local inflam mation, which existed in the intestinal tube even to ulce ration, as shown by the character and frequency of the dejection, the pain, &c., and then to improve the condi tion of the blood, and to promote its circulation. A generous diet, without stimulants, was at first di rec t e d, which, commencing with the white meats, ultimately gave place to the red and more fibrinous ; nor was light and bitter ale, after a while, interdicted, although spa ringly used at first. But, in proportion as horse and otber exercise could be so could stimulants be endured This youpg lad s constantly in the .air. in"a little time was succeeded by cold affiision - , and sub.. sequently by open sea bathing, was resorted to. With regard to medicines, the following treatment was pur sued :—The urgency of the diarrhaa was at first met by a cretaceous mixture with opium, and counter-irritation. made with an iodine ointment. Hydrocyanic acid given with - ;,-..dinp of potassium, in a carbonate of . potass an intestinal irritability, inksion., proved effectual in subduing the iiTitability; and enabled me to improve the constitution 'by quinine and iron. Chloride of sodium, with carbonate of, soda, was now administered, beginning with small doses, gradually increased. She is now free from cough, diarrhoea, pain,, or irritative fever ; her pulse is natural, touigue (lean, appetite good, and exertions regular. She has . g aincd flesh and a healthy colour; point wortiq e4pecial.mmtiort.us retards the clAloride• THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. vee2=l:l*..l:•l; A DROLL Armen°Te.—Etna, notwithstanding its pe riodical destructive eruptions, is a real blessing to Sicily ; and I am almost inclined to think the people would gladly reconcile themselves to the occasional annihilation of the villages by its fires, rather than be deprived of its snows. Ices and lemonades supersede entirely the Howqaa and all other infusions of the tea plant. The ices are occasionally made to represent different species of fruits, and often bear a very close resemblance to nature. Brydon has told a ludicrous anecdote of a naval officer of the old school, who was completely taken in by the deception. He was din ing with a large party; at the house of a gentleman no less distinguished for the elegance of his table than for the strict formality observed at it. After dinner, the ices were produced in the shape of various fruits and sweetmeats. One of the servants handed what appeared to be a fine large peach to the captain, who, unacquainted with deceit of any kind, never doubted it being real. Cutting it through the centre, in a moment one-half of it was in his mouth. At first he looked grave, and blew out his cheeks to give it more room ; but the violence of the cold soon brought the tears into his eyes, and he began to tumble it from One side of his mouth to the other; at last, unable to hold out any longer, he spat it upon the plate, exclaim ing, " A painted snowball, by jingo l"—Recollections of Malta and Sicily. ADVICE TO CLERRS.—Economy and prudence in his pecuniary affairs are not however the only duties neces sary to enforce on the young clerk, nor is it the only means in his power to promote his welfare in after life. He must feel that his future position depends chiefly, if not entirely, on his own exertions in early life. He must not confine himself to the strict letter of his duty, but readily avail himself of every opportunity of exertion for the benefit of his employers, resting satisfied that the day of his reward will arrive. If he has a leisure half-hour he should employ it by investigating, as far as practicable, all matters connected with the business of the establish. ment in which he is engaged ; in making himself ac quainted with the duties of others, in order that, should occasion require, he may be prepared to perform those duties; and if at any time it should occur to him that an improvement in the method of conducting any portion of the business of the establishment may be effected, he should not be backward in suggesting such improvement to his principal, and, if needful, offer his services in car rying it out. His pride should be to court, rather than shun, responsibility. In short, he must make it his busi ness to obtain a high character for integrity, zeal, indus try, and perseverance ; to prove himself deserving of a position superior to that which he at present holds. This will either insure his promotion by his present employers, or enable him to apply for and obtain a higher appoint. ment elsewhere when opportunity offers.—Advice to Clerks and Hints to Employers. SISTER AND BROTHER.—Madame Schopenhauer de scribes at great length a scene of almost unexampled magnificence which she witnessed at Versailles. It is as a large picture, which we are unable fully to describe or lack time to copy ; but there is a portion of it that is a picture in itself, as our readers will say who peruse the following :—" A smiling little boy was sitting in a child's carriage on the great terrace close to the palace ; and a slim, pale, little girl, of about eight years of age, walked by his side holding his hand, and looking with merry eyes on the gay world around her. That boy was the most innocent sacrifice of the time—it was the dauphin ; the delicate little nymph was his sister, afterwards Duchess of Angouleme, one of the most unfortunate of her family." That poor boy ! Torn from the comforts and refinements of the condition in which he was born, he was given up to the keeping —no, not the keeping, hut the cruelty—of persons of the lowest class : he was maintained in dark ness, filth and hunger : he was taught to utter the obsce nity which he happily did not comprehend : he was savagely beaten if he bore his ills in silence, as one who was sullen : and he was still savagely beaten if he ven tured to sigh audibly, as one who was rebellious. That poor boy ! The heroic child endured a thousand horrid deaths—his murdered parents but one : disease daily devoured him, and compelled dirt and squalor sharpened the pangs of disease—hunger lacerated him—obscurity terrified him, though from the breast of the little martyr it could hardly ring a groan ; and obscure blasphemy belched imprecations and taunts, more cruel than daggers, into the dungeon which was rendered as like unto hell as heartless, human demons could make it. Such was his pas sage to the brink of the grave, into which the son of a race of kings fell in such foul and hideous condition that loath someness itself would turn sick to contemplate; and all this inflicted by men, by Frenchmen, on a defenceless and a guiltless child ! Again, we say, that poor boy ! Heaven and earth, things animate and inanimate, yet cry aloud for vengeance on France for that most unnatural of all unnatural murders ; but vengeance is the Lord's and in His own good time it will exact national expiation for a national infamy. And where is that bright little sister who, in the era of earthly greatness, walked by his side, and held his delicate hand, and " looked with merry eyes on the gay world around her ? " Go some autumn eve to the Prater at Vienna—go when the leaves are falling and unkind winds are blowing ; or to the Hradschin at Prague, when storms howl over that deserted throne of by-gone kings—go searchingly about when gloom is in the sky, and on the earth, and in the soul, but never when sun shine and gladness are abroad, and you shall haply see an aged woman moving purposelessly about as one on whom something like insanity has gently descended ; but, if you have time to mark her well without offending respect, you will see that she feels the iron that is in her own soul. Those aged eyes still weep for parents mur. dered And a brother slain ; and as that venerable woman passes on, you may perceive, directed as her thoughts are to heaven and forgiveness of her enemies, that she still hoe Fianna nts.i 164+....w.0wr0w100 .f &Lo 4151., g 0 ots and that among them she remembers that the throne of her dead husband is usurped by the son of one of the mur derers of her father ! Into such a time-and-sorrow stricken woman has developed that glad little girl who, once in her life, and but once, " looked with merry eyes on the gay world around her."—Church of England Quarterly Review. T'3`9z.~r.Q¢n'-"-"~-'-'ate Inimitable in all he does ; his tricks are infinite, his per formances are innumerable. His figure is adapted for the purpose—small, compact, and muscular, with a /ghtness that is truly surprising. His dress is capital, and banging loose to his limbs, it in no way impedes their action. To describe all he does would be endless, and might extend from this time till the Easter holidays; and as that time is approaching, we will only give a general idea of them. His feat on the bottles is nothing less than wonderful, and must be seen to be credited : it is beyond description. He has also a humorous manner, which keeps the per formances alive, and wins for him the favour of his audi ence. He is a kind of spoiled child among his brother performers, putting all sorts of affronts on them, which are taken in good part. Auriol is also a very first-rate equestrian. and we are disposed to consider the somersets which he turns backwards—the contrary way to the mo tion of the horse—as the most astonishing feat ever at tained in the equestrian art. YOUNG AURIOL is also clever, and is following close after the steps of the elder. enteral fftigrellanv. Vast numbers of wild ducks and geese have made their appearance in the marshes on the banks of the Trent. George Hudson, Esq., is to lay the foundation stone of the new docks at Sunderland. On Wednesday,. Mr. Staniforth, solicitor, of Sheffield, expired at his office in a fit of apoplexy. Mr. Thomas Dunemnbe, by the death of his father, comes in for £200,000; and pays off debts to the amount of £BO,OOO, by insurances. So great is the difficulty of transport in Russia, that the Russian corn we have been eating this year (1847) is not the crop of last year, but of 1845. A renter's share in Drury-lane Theatre, formerly worth £5OO, was on Thursday knocked down at the Auction Mart in London for £7O. The widow of the late Dr. Parr, the celebrated scholar, died at Kenilworth on the 13th inst., at the advanced age of eighty-two. Afine nosegay, composed of wallflowers and auriculas, all grown in the open air, was gathered last week at Hud dersfield. The Roman Catholic clergy of Newcastle have memo rialised the Pope to allow the bishops to be elected by the ecclesiastics. It is said that chloroform has been successfully used for opening oysters, as a little of it applied to their shells causes them gradually to open. A fiat in bankruptcy has been issued against Messrs. Batson and Son, of Dudley, in the iron trade. The ob ligations are only £lO,OOO. One of the Swiss Jesuits who have been expelled from Friburg, arrived on Stonyhurst on Monday, and two others are expected at the same establishment. At the Hereford Guildhall, lr.st week, the magistrates decided that bushes were agricultural produce, within the meaning of the act, and therefore exempt.from toll. The inhabitants of Nottingham, Leicester, and other towns, are about to hold public meetings, and petition parliament in favour of a national poor-rate. The export list of sherries from Cadiz during the year 1847 is stated at 31,602 butts, showing a decrease of 1,094 butts as compared with 1846. At a meeting of the Free Presbytery of Edinburgh, Dr. Candlish intimated his final determination to resign his connexion with the College as Professor of Theology, and to confine himself to his ministry. LONDON TIME.—In Bristol, and several other places, some of the public clocks are provided with two minute hands, for the purpose of distinguishing the local from the railway or London time. Defalcations to the extent of £4OOO, or some other considerable amount, are said to have taken place at the Glasgow Post-office, and an official inquiry is at present being instituted. Considerable numbers of weavers in Barnard Castle are still out of employment. An effort is being made to get up a subscription for the purpose of affording them tem porary relief. The insolvent court has refused to re-hear the case of Mr. Alderman Johnson, whose bank failed some time ago, and who was refused his certificate. None of the creditors opposed the last application. On Thursday a public meeting, convened by the Mayor, was held in Leeds, when resolutions were passed deprecating any increase in the army. The court house, in which the meeting was held, was crowded. The total quantity of sherry wine exported from Spain during the past year, was 31,602 butts, showing a de crease of 1,094 butts, as compared with the exports in 1846. On Tuesday, a fire broke out in the cabin of the Viceroy steamer, trading between Dublin and Glasgow, by which the beautiful furniture and fittings were destroyed. The goods in the after hold will be much damaged. A NOVEL REMEDY FOR THE TOOTHACHE.—SeveraI parties, on being troubled with the toothache, have filled the open cavity with Gutta Percha, which they first melted. They state that the remedy is a most effectual one. Elizabeth White, a pauper, whose settlement is at Exeter, committed an assault on Alderman Sidney, M.P., on Ludgate-hill, on Wednesday, in order, as she declared, that she might be sent to prison in preference to a work house. A strange story, copied from the Bath Journal, has been going the round of the papers of a professional gen tleman having, in consequence of his wife dreaming it, found' £l6O sewed up in an old deceased Irdy's stays. to whose effects he has lately been called upon to administer. Thet,Wascho..... ;f r . which originally appeared in a Bath paper, that some Wesleyan ministers, near Bridgewater, have become Puseyites. As we hinted in copying the paragraph, " there is not a word of truth in the whole paragraph. , ' NIGHT POACHING.—IMPORTANT ORDER.—We learn that her Majesty's Secretary of State has issued a circular to county magistrates, ordering that persons committed for night poaching should.be tried at the assizes, and not at the sessions. Among the bankrupts who have lately appeared in the London bankruptcy court is a licensed victualler, named Drew, who has been six times bankrupt in eleven years, and on five occasions has not paid a farthing in the pound. It is a fact that there.have been already opened at the Bankruptcy Court, in Paul-street, one-half as many fiats in bankruptcy, during the first fourteen days of the pre sent month of January, as during the whole of the year 1844.—Exeter paper. Charles Gage, one of the sufferers by the fall of the buildings at the Euston-square Station, died on Sunday in the University College Hospital. This makes the second death amongst the wounded. The others are doing well. The cottage of a quarryman on the Edinburgh and Northern Railway, at Lochgelly, in which were several barrels of gunpowders, was blown up last week. The accident was occasioned by three children, who were left alone in the cottage, and, strange to say, they all escaped with life. THE ST. KATHARINE'S DocKs.—The earnings last year were larger than any year since the opening of the docks. The increase of trade over 1846 amounted to 724 vessels. 190,857 tons. The dividend was therefore not reduced, as had been anticipated. It will be 2 per cent. for the half-year. FEVER IN LONDON.—The unusual prevalence of fever. In London is shown by the fact that during the last thir teen weeks it has been fatal to 1208 persons ; whereas in the early part of last year, and generally in former years, only about one-third of this number died of it during the same length of time. THE NEW AMERICAN STEAM-PACKETS. — On Tuesday the America, one of the new line of steam-packets, having received her engines, left Napier's wharf, Glasgow, and the Niagara, belonging to the same line, immediately took her place. The America has spacious accommoda tion, and is beautifully fitted up. The largest wine cask that has ever entered the port of London has been landed in the St. Katherine's Docks, by a vessel which has arrived from Cadiz. This immense cask is supposed to contain about 500 gallons of sherry ; but the customs officers at the docks were somewhat puzzled to gauge it, as the rules in daily use are not cal culated for such large vessels. Among the domestic inventions of the day is a " Baby Jumper, or Infant Gymnasium, by means of• which in fants of three months old may exercise and.amase them selves. This must indeed be a useful " matrimonial basket" to mothers whose attention is incessantly re quired to the care of a family or the necessity of gaining a livelihood. MITIGATION OF SENTENCE.—Mr. Bethuel Hutchings, who was convicted in 18-16, on a charge of, embeazling public money, the value of one penny, (he then. being postmaster of Bude Haven) and was sentenced to seven years' transportation, has recently received a free pard.n from the Crown, and has returned to Bode amid the con-. gratulations of all his friends.—Corntrall Gazette. BATH.—An awful instance of sudden death occurred in this city on Thursday night. A gentleman named Spen cer, a surgeon, residing at Castle Coombe, near Chippen ham, was going along Dorchester-street from the Railway Station, where he had just arrived by the train, when he was observed to stagger, and, before assistance could be rendered, fell upon the pavement. Mr. Spencer was about 44 years of age, and has left a wife and family. A few days since, a woman applied to the deputy coroner of Middlesex for his advice how to act, as the corpse of one of her female relatives had been seized for debt, and the keepers refused to deliver it to the friends who had assembled to bury it. The deputy-coroner counselled her to apply to the magistrates, or to leave the body in the hands of the creditors, who would thus be compelled to defray the expenses of its burial. When completed, the Westminster Palace clock will be the most powerful one in the empire. According to the specification in eertain Parliamentary papers which have been published, it is to " strike the hours on a bell from quarters on - s about 30 eight to ten tons, and if practicable, chime t ........7 -1 eigta yetis, ana snow the time up-- -- feet in diameter." With the exception of a skeleton dial at Alz.lines the above dime n sions surpass those of any other clock-face in Europe. The Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce has petitioned, with one dissenting voice, against the . game .laws. that it did not fall within the scope of the chamber, as it was not connected with commerce and manufactures. Air.-Cowan, M.P. maintained that as game destroyed crops, it was quite legitimate in the chamiber to entertain what limited the supply of human food, and this vie w was adopted by the meeting. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE With a never-ceasing change and an endless variety, the resources of M. Dejean's superb troop continue to receive that attention from the public patronagewhich they richly deserve. No expense is spared to gratify his pa trons : fresh engagements are made with any talent which commands attention, without reference to country ; in fact, this gentleman seems determined to have concen trated the entire talent of Europe—we had almost said the world. Such enterprise has its due reward in respec table and crowded audiences. _ M. LOISSET has a fine manly figure, with a length of limb in which are combined great strength and activity. There is also much symmetry of proportion in his form. The costume in which he appears in the "Roman Games" is the best to show him to advantage. His skill as an equestrian is also displayed in this act by the manage ment of six horses. The various changes in the position of the steeds are very admirably managed, bestriding three .horses at. a time. It requires considerable power to accomplish this feat. His agility is shown in his perfor mance on two horses, by leaping through hoops and per forming many feats with a smaller one in his hand, wind ing it round his person, at the same time turning himself sharply round. The costume in which he appears in this act is elegant and tasteful. But his masterpiceeof strength is shown in the act entitled " Pukiana," in conjunction with M. Nief and young Loisset, all dressed in the Ro man style. He forms a pillar of strength, bestriding two horses, and supporting M. Nief on his shoulders, with one foot on his extended arm. Young Loisset is then added to the group, and mounts on the shoulders of M. Nief; and thus the horses travel round the circle. This is a truly astonishing feat, and Loisset must be a power ful man to accomplish it. He smiles over the exertion as if it were no labour to him. What a fine sight to See men trained to this perfection of strength ! With the towering Grecian helmet, spear, and shield, the figure of M. Loisset would be that of he Trojan hero, Hector ; and we should much like to see him in this costume. MADLLE, CAROLINE exhibits in a style of horseman ship sitting in the saddle. She is a fine-looking woman, with a beautiful figure, which she carries with much no bleness. She sits on the horse as if she were, centaur like, a part of the animal itself. Whether the steed rears, plunges, capers, wheels suddenly round, leaps bars, gal 16ps, or suddenly stops—there she sits as if it were pas time to her. Nay, such is her skill, that when you think the horse, from his wildness of action, must surely throw her, you see her smile, and are relieved from the anxiety by finding that it is the most consummate skill of the rider. Her costume, as she appears on " Jupiter," is the most superb and lady-like picture of the kind we ever saw put ,of a picture :—a long flowing black velvet robe, splendidty edged with gold circles, inlaid with variegated colours; hanging sleeves, lined with crimson silk; her arms, neck, and head bare ; her hair' elegantly braided with a gold band. " Jupiter " is a beautiful creature — white, with a very intelligent head. The rich scarlet and gold saddle finely contrasts, as a piece of colour, with the dress of the rider. Ifis action is extraordinary, stag-like, plunging forward, and striking out with his hind legs in fearful style. " Russe "is the most noble animal of the stud—a light grey, with dark touches in the mane, tail and eharger in k of a aegs; a charger in figure, ana now net__ a war horse. With a wildness of action, he paws the earth with his fore feet. Her dress on this animal is a splendid mixture of scarlet and gold, Russian costume. " Juno," another of the steeds she rides, is a mare of a light bay colour, with dark mane, tail, and legs. Her dress, a dark crimson velvet riding habit, black hat with white stream ers, of the time of one of the Louis. Her style of riding anything of the kind we ever beheld. She sits the horse, with a dignity worthy Less majes of a queen. MADLLE. MATHILDE is another splendid rider, and trust come in for her share of the above praise. She shows equal skill, is a fearless rider, and has a beautiful figure and carriage. When she appears in the Indian costume, in the " Four Quarters of the World," she dis- Vier costume is the modern French Amazone riding habit and hat. She offers a fine example to. our lady eques trians. How we should like to see her in Hyde Park ! " Norfolk," the horse she rides, has a neat head and a fine eye, and is of a chesnut colour ; a pink rose on his temple, and saddle-cloth of white with pink border. He . . displays capital action, and of a graceful character. MADILLE. FANNY STANLEY.--.—This young lady, who we believe is the only English female equestrian attached to the company, has scarcely, excited the marked applause, which has greeted Palmyre Anato and others, yet never theless is most degeminr and clever. Perhans one reason of this may be that the - act in which she chiefly appears the scarf-dance—depends more upon graceful than upon dashing riding. To our taste, and to that of many, it is much more feminine, and therefore pleasing. Madlle. Stanley is an accomplished dancer ; and her feat a riding upon the tips of her toes, in opera fashion, and at full speed, is oue which displays great training and power. Upon all occasions there is great spirit and daring, as well as grace, in her performances. Ai. 111,11kicol, is et rare (vttow—the v10.w4 of all eloToAs, ! A t Ott THE STRIKE IN SOUTH STAFEaRDSHIRE. — The strikes in this district is now assuming a more unfavourable ap pearance. The men are being acted upon by those who really do not consult their interests,—who know little of the necessity which has given rise to the proposed reduc tion. House after house is going into the Gazette throughout the district, and yet the cry is " No surren, der; the old wawa."' On Thursday, a large meeting of miners was L. when it was decided to cetttilllW the POST-OFnCE OVERCHARGE.--At the Rugby County Court on Wednesday last, a plaint *as preferred by Mr. Wratislaw, solicitor, against the Postamster-General for the recovery of the sum of 2d. overcharge on a Bohemian (foreign) letter, and for the recovery of the value of another newspaper detained by the General Post.—For the defence the Despencer case, viz., that the money had not reached the hands of the Postmaster-General, was relied upon. and the plaintiff was non-suited. The Staffordshire mining district, which, six months ago, presented a scene of busy and profitable industry unequalled in any other part of England, wears just now a changed and cheerless aspect. There are altogether 137 blast furnaces in the district. Of these 58 are out of blast, and 79 in, and so lately as since December 38 of the 58 named as blown out, have been stopped, in conse quence of the present distressed state of trade. The num ber of furnaces in blast in the depressed state of trade in June, 1843, was 72, and out of blast 69—total, 141. BURNING ot , A LOCK- UP. — On Sunday morning, the lock-up at Gravesend was burnt, and a drunkard, named Thomas Budge, who was confined in it, was burnt to death. It is not known how the fire originated, as Budge had no combustibles about him. On Friday evening, a poor destitute woman, who subsisted by selling lucifers about the streets, w a s a ll owe d a n i g ht's lodging in the refuge. It is thought that a match may have dropped from her amongst the straw, and the poor fellow rustling about may have fired it. THE MOTHER WANTED.—A poor old woman applied at the Camberwell Police-court, on Monday, for advice. She said she kept a school for little children. Wishing to increase her limited means, she put into her window a paper announcing that she nursed children by the day, and on Monday last, a well-dressed female, unknown to her, brought a babe about a month old, and requested her to take charge of it for a few hours, while she assisted in removing from her lodgings, and she had not since re turned. The child was sent to the workhouse. EXTENgIVE FRAUDS IN GOLD' BARS.—On Saturday morning a respectable-looking young man, by trade a jeweller, was brought before the sitting magistrate at the Public-office, Birmingham, charged with fraudulently cutting off the assay marks affixed to bars of pure gold, and affixing them to a'spurious metal which he had sold as genuine to Messrs. Alston and Co., the eminent refi ners and bullion-merchants of that town. The frauds committed by the prisoner, already detected, are said to amount to upwards of £1,500. The prisoner was re manded. THE DISAPPOINTED ARTIST.—On Saturday Mr. Wak ley held an inquest at Chelsea, on the body of Mr. Joseph William Brett, aged 34 years, (the son of the Rev. Joseph Brett, a clergyman of the Church of England,) who com mitted suicide by cutting his throat. The deceased had competed for the prizes for the cartoons to embellish the new Houses of Parliament, choosing for his subject, " King Richard pardoningthe soldier who had shot at him," but hike the large majority of his brother artists, was unsuccessful. This affected his health, and induced the dreadful act. PROCESSION TO " SNIG'S-END."—On Monday a rather novel turn-out was witnessed in Cheltenham, when a pro cession of members of the Land-scheme, men and wo men settlers, preceded by a band of music and followed by the " movables," took place to Snig's-end. There were in the whole procession, three waggons and , eight carts, drawn by altogether thirty horses ; the latter were all noble-looking animals, and we could not help con trasting their plump and corny appearance with the look of squalid and shivering wretchedness of the 20 or 30 women and children huddled together in an open cart. — Mr. Feargus O'Connor did not attend as was expected. — Hereford Journal. A JUVENILE DUEL.—On Friday morning last a con course of boys were gathered together near Pitville Circus, and, by their violent gestures, appeared to be quarrelling. Soon after one of the party, by name Cooke, left the group and ran a distance of about fifteen yards, when, turning round, he fired a pistol' at a boy named Hughes. The latter seemed determined to have satisfaction, and proceeded a little distance along the road, apparently with the intention of performing a similar manoeuvre. When the two youths were about twenty yards apart, Hughes turned round and fired a pistol at Cooke, who received some of the shots in his shoulder and thigh. They were arrested.—Cheltenham Chronicle. _ _ _ FREE TRADE PaosPaarry . .—The Bradford Observer says—" Many persons, having large families, and, with only one or two exceptions, woolcombers, have applied to us for advice : they uniformly express great anxiety to be assisted out, being fully satisfied that their chance of bettering.themselves here is utterly hopeless, while they are sanguine of doing so in the United States or the colonies, To the objection that an emigrant's life is one of hardship and suffering, there was but one reply. "We can't be worse off, master, than we are now." If such is the hapless condition of the poor, what is that of the rate payer ? Last year, in the township of Bradford, two rates were laid, amounting to 3s. 6d., the last being laid in October. Already, a new rate, number one for the year 1848 . , has been laid ; it is a 3s. rate : and how many more will be wanted before the close of the year it would take a wise man to'say." PAPER FROM STRAW.—We are persuaded that if a comparison were carefully made between our free and en slaved manufactures, it would be found that the de terring nature of the excise grasp—like that of Bruin the bear in the show—tends wonderfully to keep all inquiries and experiments at a safe distance from the possibility of an embrace. One of these imported inventions—destined to exercise a great revolution, if we mistake not, upon the manufacture of paper in Europe, and which already ex— cites much interest among the trade in Great Britain—is blab o£ 41.0 %%m of et 4,... Am. 4.--samicrial- M..- Wright, a native of the United States, obtained a patent in this country for this process in 1843, and we believe has disposed of a patent he acquired at the same t me in France, for a great sum, to a large company in Normandy, who are now fitting up very extensive works for the manu facture of straw paper on boards.—Edinburgh Chronicle. MELANCHOLY SUICIDE OF SIR JOHN MILDMAY, BART.—it is our painful duty to record the death of Sir John liildmay, Bart., which took place. by his own hands at an early hour on Monday morning, at his residence, 6 Halldn-terrace, Belgrave-square. It appeared that the deceased gentleman occupied the upper part of the house, his establishment consisting of two male and two female servants. For several days past his valet had noticed that he appeared depressed in spirits, but on the previous day be appeared somewhat better. He retired to rest between eleven and twelve o'clock, and nothing more was heard or seen of him until shortly before five o'clock on Monday morning, when his valet was awoke by a deadened report of fire-arms, and on entering the room he discovered his, master lying on the carpet. His head was shattered .to , atoms ; a double-barrelled holster pistol, which had been recently discharged, was lying close to his right hand, and had evidently been discharged in the mouth. LIVE STOCK IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.TrOTII that invaluable work, " M`Queen's Statistics of the British Empire," we learn the enormous value of the live stock in the kingdom. It appears that there are 2,250,000 horses, of total value of £67,000,000, of which more than 1,500,000 are used in agriculture, and that their value is £45,000,000. The number of black cattle in the king dom is about 14,000,000 to 15,000,000, of the value of £216,000,000 ; the number of sheep 50,000,000, whose value is estimated at £67,000,000 ; and the extent of capital invested in swine is still more extraordinary, when into account. reflect how little it is thought upon or ta k e n account. The number of pigs of all ages, breeding and rearing, is calculated to be upwards of 18,000,000, which, taking one-third at £2 each, and the remainder at 10s. each, gives a value of £11,870,000, as the capital invested in pigs alone, making the total amount of capital invested in the above species of agricultural stock, £:346,270,000. THE DOCTOR CAUGHT NAPPING. -- A young lady, su f_ fering from toothache, went into a surgeon's shop a few days ago to have a tooth extracted on the painless prin ciple. Having inhaled a small quantity of the substance, dropped on a handkerchief, she immediately became in sensible; the tooth was extracted without the slightest feeling, and she went away shortly afterwards, highly sa tisfied at having so easily got rid of what had caused her so much suffering. After she was gone the surgeon and a gentleman, who happened to be present during the ope ration, were remarking what a pleasant flavour the chlo roform had. The former at the time had the handker chief in his hand, and but for the presence of his friend he would have fallen to the ground ; as it was, he had to assist him to a chair, where, in spite of all his endeavours, by shaking and pulling him, he remained unconscious for fully ten minutes, to 'the no small astonishment of the gentleman. The doctor himself, on consciousness re turning, was as much surprised as was his friend at what had occurred.—North British Mail. HOURS OF LABOUR IN FACTORIES.—A London containsnews taelitreae.report b cl a i of Essex magistrates, m a a v :i r s y tra i t m er o rt nn t ue e s a ray , week, heard on an information preferred by Mr. Bury, the factory inspector, against Messrs. Brown and Moy, silk manu facturers, at Colchester, for having employed a female for more than twelve hours in a day ' the fact being, that she really worked only two hours and a half, namely, from six in the evening to half-past eight. It was contended„ however, in support of the information, that, inasmuch as Messrs. Brown and Moy had fixed up in their mill a notice- to that effect that the hours of labour there were to terminate at six o'clock, they could not work any female or young person later than that hour without raising the legal presumption that such female or young person_ Had been employed from the usual time of commencing work in the morning. As the party in question had worked till half-past eight, the legal presumption was, that she had worked thirteen hours and a-half. The magistrates sustained this view of . the case, and fined Messrs._ Brown and Moy—there being twenty-three other informations of a similar character--in penalties amounting, with costs, to £76 9s. 6d. CRIME IN ENGLAND, IRELAND, AND SCOTLAND. — On reference to " Parke's Statistics of Crime•in England, Scotland,, and Ireland,"` it would appear that in the latter country the amount of crime is the greatest. Ireland, with three times the population of Scotland, has six and a half tines the number of commitments; and England, with more than double the population of Ireland, has only an increase of 4000 over the latter country, proving that the, actual amount of crime of a serious nature in Ireland is twice as great as that in Great Britain ; and, strange to say, in those districts where crime is the greatest in England the largest proportion is committed by Irishmen or. Irishwomen. These statements are also borne out by an eminent barrister, who has gone the northern circuit for nearly a quarter of a century. On attending at the various police-offices in the metropolis ant: at the various petty sessions in the suburbs—viz. Kensington, ham. mersmith, Edmonton, Ilford, Stratford, &c. (the two latter including the parish of West Ham)—the greatest proportion of offenders will be found to consist of Irish, or those born of Irish parents. The total number of capital crimes in Ireland are committed by natives ; while in Great Britain official documents prove that fully one half of the capital offences are committed by the Irish. These are startling truisms, and we advert to them without wishing to raise any invidious feeling of distinction between this 1;10 aister kingclom,—Ne/miford I Chronicle, Jan. 25, 1848. MYSTERIOUS MURDER.—We hate this week to record the murder under very mysterious ciecumstances, of a respectable farmer of this neighbourhood,: Mr.. Walsing ham Hazell, of Dundry. It appears that Mr. Hazell was missed by his family on Monday last, and no tidings could be obtained of him till Thursday, when his dead body was found in a well, considerably bruised about the head and body. The circumstances under which the disco Very of the body was made are not the least singular and Mys terious connected with the affair. Two men of the village of Dundry, named Henry Gover and Benjamin Payton, dreamed that the body of the missing man was in a cer tain well ; their dream they told to a man named Stokes - , and he informed some men who were thrashing in the de, ceased's barn. The well i n Quest i on was then searched r mid the body was found in it, as we have already stated. A man named John Hall deposed to finding by accident a bludgeon, with which, there can be no doubt, the murder was committed. He had also found, in a most unaccount able place, an umbrella, which the deceased had when he left home on Monday. Two nephews of the deceased are in custodyupon suspicion. —Bristol Toarnal. LOVE AND SUICIDE IN , WESTMINSTER.—On Wednes day, Miss Harriet Leet, aged 21, lately residing with her mother, at 28, Rochester -street, Westminster, committed suicide by poison, under the following deplorable circum stances. It appears that the deceased, who was a young girl of considerable personal attractions, had, for a period of three years, been corresponding with a man, named WlCay, to whom she was greatly attached. About two years ago, in consequence of some little misunderstand ing between the deceased and her lover, she grew des pondent, and attempted self-destruction by poison. On recovering, the deceased still continued the correspond ence, and evinced the deepest marks of affection, fre quently avowing to her friends that she should never be happy until she became united to her love. Latterly, however, the deceased bad become exceedingly depressed in spirits, and would wander about in the most disconso late manner, notwithstanding the kindness of her - frientle.. On Monday evening she retired to rest at the usual hour, and next morning she went out, and having purchased some oxalic acid, she returned and swallowed off a large dose of it. A surgeon was called in, but all-efforts to restore animation were fruitless. EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF BIGAMY.-AD extraordi nary case of bigamy was investigated on Saturday at the , Cheltenham police court. A richly dressed woman who has lately introduced herself into fashionable circles in that town under the name of Lady Ada Alice Wyattville, was placed in the dock, charged with bigamy. From the evi dence produced against her, it appears that she was mar ried on the Bth of November, 1838, at Kensington church, wider the name of Octavia Sarah Moore de Bellevue, (at which time she described herself as the daughter of Lucius Moore de Bellevue, Marshal of France,) to Mr. Henry Wyatt, architect, son of Mr. Matthias Coles Wyatt, the celebrated sculptor. Subsequent to the marriage the par ties went to reside at Boulogne-sur-mer; but they sepa rated after a short residence there. It further appeared, that in• May last the prisoner was charged with bigamy at the Marlborough -street Police-court, London, by inter• marrying^ with another person, from which charge she escaped. The offence now charged against her is, that she contracted marriage, a few months since, in the name of Lady Ada Alice Wyattville, with another gentleman, a civil engineer, her first husband, Henry Wyatt, being alive at the time. The prisoner was fully committed for trial at the next Gloucester assizes. A WOMAN SHOT.—A most deliberate act of homicide was committed at the Cavalry Barracks of Leeds, on Friday. About seven o'clock, a married man, named William Garrett, a private in the 57th Regiment, was in his room at the barracks, with his wife, private Michael Stokes, sergeant Keenan, and private Dooley or Doolan, of the same regiment, and, without angry words or the slightest observation, Michael Stokes got his musket from the rack in which it was usually kept, and took it for a moment or two to a table as if he was about to clean it. He, however, suddenly turned round, put the piece to his shoulder, pulled the trigger, and shot Mrs. Garrett. She fell to the ground mortally wounded, the bullet from the musket having entered the abdomen and passed out at her back. Mr. Jackson, the regimental surgeon, was immediately called in attendance upon the poor woman, but she expired in about an hour and a half afterwards. Stokes, who had fired the musket, was instantly taken into custody, and given up to the civil authorities. There is not any known, or even supposed, cause for the perpe tration of this fatal act. The prisoner is a young man, a native of Ireland. It is stated that after he was taken into custody, he acknowledged that he had premeditated the deed for two months, and that he loaded his musket about - two hours before he fired it. On Saturday, at the coroner's inquest, a verdict of " wilful murder " was re turned against Stokes. None of the witnesses could give any reason for the committal of the fearful act, snd the prisoner said no one should ever know but the priest. EMIGRATION.—In 1846, which was a year of larger emigration than any that preceded it, amounted to 129,851. But in the first three quarters of the last year the emigration extended to no less than 240,732 persons, almost the whole of them being Irish emigrants to North' Atnerica. The component parts are thus stated :—From Liverpool, 114,301; from other English ports, 22,094 ; total from England, 136,395 ; from Scotland, 8,155 ; from Ireland, 95,911: grand total, 240,461. Those who em barked from Liverpool were almost entirely Irish ; and there can be no doubt that the Irish helped to swell the tide from other ports of Great Britain, especially in the west of Scotland. It is scarcely necessary to observe, that history records no single transportation at all to com pare with this. The migrations of classical antiquity were only the slow oozings of infant tribes from one thinly ‘ll.l.4ll,t. leafy asauther rather less peopled, or rather more fertile. In actual figures, the irruptions from the North into Southern Europe were never at one time more immense. When Columbus crossed the ocean with his little band, and even a century afterwards, when a few straggling English adventurers were making vain attempts to found a settlement on the shore of Virginia, they little imagined that after a lapse of only seven generations a quarter of a million British subjects would in one year, not only cross the ocean, but find new homes in those so recently inhospitable wilds. Such an event is a landmark of history. It shows the magnitude of the powers which surround and the enlargesundus,a r t e ld seurees ef ourthe mind time. both as to the neces sities DEATFI ' 0; M. DISRAELI, SEN.—The Ti mes of Fri day announces the death of Mr. Isaac Disraeli, father-of Mr. B. Disraeli, the member for Buckinghamshire, and well known as the author of the Curiosities of Literature, and other valuable and popular works, chiefly on subjects connected with the history of literature. Mr. Disraeli; who was born at Enfield, Middlesex, in the year 1766, was . the only child of Benjamin Disraeli, a Venetian merchant long settled in England. He was partly educated at Am sterdam and Leyland, and after he had visited Paris, in 1786, he returned to England, in the expectation that his friends would desire him to engage in commercial pursuits. They appear, however, to have consulted his wishes, and. • he was placed in such pecuniary circumstances as enabled him to_indulge hi s t aste for literature. One of the ear liest wdiks whichlre published was the Curiosities of Li terature, which appeared when its author was in his twen ty-fourth year ; and it was followed by the Quarrels of Authors, the Calamities of Authors, the Illustrations of •• the Literary Character, the Commentaries on the Life and Reign of Charles 1., and the Amenities of Literature, be sides several novels which he published anonymously, and some contributions to the Quarterly Review. It is re-. markable that he composed the Amenities of Literature after he had become blind, in the year 1839 ; and it is be lieved that, if.his sight bad not perished, he would have written a life of Pope, a theme for which his friends sup-. posed him to bepeculiarly qualified. The decease of , Mr... in nisraeli Buckinghamshire, tookplace at a h n is d co h u e nt h r a y s se l a e t it B o r n a e d °a daughter e House,ud three sons, the eldest of whom is the present member for • Buckinghamshire. The annual meeting of the Provident Clerks' Mutual , Benefit Association was held on Monday last, at the• London Tavern, Mr. R. H. Jones in the chiar. It ap peared from the report of the committee read on this oc casion, that the state of the society had been one of gradual progression from its formation down to the. present day. During the last year, although one of heavy commercial pressure and epidemic disease, the number of policies effected was 417 for an amount of £84,740, con trasted with 374 for £69,200, in the preceding year. The rate of mortality had been anprecedently small, up to ther end of-1846 five deaths only had occurred, making claims. to the amount of £6OO, and this, too, in the face of the Registrar-General's heavy retu rns ; while, during the last year, the amount paid was only one per cent, on, the amount assured. The first division of profits would take place in 1848, the necessary documents being at present in the hands of the actuary. . Deputations had been sent from the society to the great provincial towns, a.“l , mt rp b o e o n i e , fi m ci a a n l c e h ff e e bs c et t , s vri h ,sa a itn d do re fu s ti u hr l me t,e id d negp f h ram mati t om he na : n e vhyadiliasnidto joineds. In tbee who, previous to t been a sh w e a e r t e itefaptpheeareexdisttheantcethoe f fu tl n i d e ed so p ci r e o t p y. ertyßiyladthe balanceinereased to £10,500, independent of the guarantee fund - the amount of income from premiums and interest on, 'stock being about £6,800. The report concluded with re commending the four out-going managers for re-election. The question that the report be adopted was put and unanimously adopted. A remuneration of 1:300 to the managers for their labours during the last year was also put and unanimously agreed to. JuvENles DEPAVITY.—At the Lambeth Police-court, on Tuesday. Joseph Parnell, a little fellow whose head did not reach the top of the bar of the felon's dock, was charged with stealing eight sovereigns belonging to his parents and Sarah Walker, a middle-aged female, was also charged with receiving a part of the money, knowing it to hove been stolen ; and further, with unlawfully har!, - bouring the child. From the statement of the mother of; i u t n a ti p l p t e h ar e appeared that on the sth instant her son absconded,. the youth ful dahbaod; w t p h i 408 :e ne g r re w at h e i s e t h ca v :e s , taking with him eight sovereigns, which herself and hus, corroborated by himself ? , saved, and did not return: Y before. From questions she had put to the• boy she elicited that on the day he took the money , he belonging to the female prisoner, and accom— panied him home, and from that time until the day before she harboured him at her house. It also appeared, that in order to disguise the boy, and prevent the police, who had been made acquainted with the robbery, from know ing him, the female prisoner had caused the long curly looks of the boy to be shorn off, and, further, purchased a suit of coarse slop clothes, and a sou'-wester, so as to make his disguise 'perfect, but on finding that all his money was gone she turned him out and desired him to go about his business. The poor woman, who seemed almost broken-hearted, said she had eleven other children„ six of whom were younger than the prisoner ' that she worked hard at ironing from morning till night, that he,x, husband had also been obliged to work hard to support their large family, yet the fruits of many years' labour, and that which they accumulated by sixpences and shil lings at a time, was now gone. • The only defence set up by the female prisoner was, that her boy had brought her fellow-prisoner home, when the latter said that he had got no father or mother, and that the money was his o wn, The prisentv weke Mar:B(44l'