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And they 1 T For rn-ny sc By the tides Who oft in t and sot e borne 'es and crowded marts Their ruins still remain But scorched b , sen track nt hearts re and stained with tears And has the world the gathered lore of centuries he past, NOTICES Look to the End. By Mrs. Ellis, 2 vols. London Fisher, Son and Co The name of Mrs. Ellis ranks deservedly higb, and is too well known to make it necessary for us, in noticing the present work, to do more than describe its aim and tendency and the degree of success with which these are worked out. In the preface to the book the authoress states, that during a journey to Rome and Naples, and a residence of some months at the former place, her mind was often forcibly impressed wiai the conviction that a deep sense of the beautiful, as it is displayed both in na has more to do with our enjoyments than is apoosed by those who, in England, occupy the 'ife. With this idea in her mind Mrs. Ellis task of bringing before her readers the .ifis sense of the beautiful gradually developing itself in the mind of a young English lady of the mercan tile class, during a tour upon the continent in search of health, until at length it becomes a passion influencing all her actions and thocghts, and threatens to destroy that equipoise of the moral and intellectual being without which no real happiness can be enjoyed. The check to this dangerous feature of such a love of the beautiful in nature or art, which would otherwise assume the form of intense selfishness, she shows to be a corresponding or collateral love of what is morally as well as physically beautiful. hire and art generally s busy walks sets her,eif to t` effect of • This design is very cleverly wrought out by Mrs. Ellis ; and throughout the instructive and entertaining descrip tions with which the volumes are filled we still see in the background, discl , sing itself link by link, the moral which it is ber intention to convey. The incidents of the story itself are not many or of great interest. Several of the Characters, however, are excellently drawn, and inde pendently of the objects for which they are introduced to us, are fine studies. The character of Eva herself—the heroine, if we may so term her, of the work—necessarily an unfounded, or rather an unfinished, one until the close of the story. is beautifully traced step by step, shade by shade throughout its growth from th.t of the simple affec tionate girl, full of impulse and sentiment to the perfect woman to which she arrives at last. Mowbray, too, is an attractive and interesting person, and Sir Charles Leigh is well sketched. The female characters, however, are the best specimen's of Mrs. Ellis's powers, and in individual king which she is most at home. Her Margaret Burnice is an inimitable specimen of the ornament and treasure of a household. Her training of the Bennets to the endu rance of their straitened circumstances, and of Eva to the sacrifice of fortune to pay off her father's debts, is well ?mann ged and as well described We trust we shall meet Mrs. Ellis again in the same walk of literature. Her Women of England and Wives and Daughters have become standard works of training and education ; and in the volumes before us she has proved her ability to combine romantic interest with those Moral le s sons which ber works ever aim to convey. We may add that the present work is beautifully printed, with line clear type and excellent paper The Infla ence Nations of Aristocracies on the Revolutions of s S. Macintire. London : Fisher, By Ja Son, and Co. This is a singular work of great pretension, not unsup ported by considerable talent, but conveying what we con ceive to be very unsound views of politics and political economy, and drawing very erroneous conclusions from correct historical premises. The reader may draw from its pages a great mass of valuable information, mingled, however, with partizan views and distorted conclusions. The work is beautifully got up; and to those who can coincide with the writer's opinions will, no doubt, be very acceptable. The " Effects" and Adventures of Roby Rattler, Gent. London : Saunders, Otley and Co. have from time to time noticed this work, whilst al title of the " Li efore us, however, h better able to form iracter of a tale, pos t has no claim, and it has evi nplation of the author to put areer of Mr. Rattler having been exhibition, not only them very whim- publishing in numbers under its origin; verpool Policeman." It comes now ' as a complete work, and we are n a judgm 'ming a it of Er .stained in dently not been in the c forth ench claim, the used as a kind of frame, of that gent sical and accu sketches of cha Companions so of several episodes, ores of himself and his iiry forcibly told,—some n intimate knowledge of too forcibly the kind of gled with S i ♦ation. 7 and B drels bow e characters shes of sarea asters f Mr ch they paint, min I hurnoious Obser ;inson, Mr. Floss cies of scoun- wife, thrilling will be read For the it Lions of the work where nore refined and virtuous doubt that Raby Rattler tint it has 111u4r.ted S. P. Flet o may be ;disposed to perusal of occasional me may mention J. It is royal octavo ley and Clar good taste a arm. nsman, Mr in one volume And do infinite credit to the kmanship of that celebrated SELECTIONS Parliament t repor declares calumny the last I Punch. s been circulated me a pe A gentleman, who rt to be a shameful a piece . Peter)- out of He asst tt the income tax would be rouble an Irish member.— chiefly by the my care MACBETH AND MESMEDJSM.-Tt is thumbs that the fluid esca rom the mesmeriser, and is : a fact which int )ne of the black arts ptac- .te hes in 2acb en 7ophort Table Book en they each ex- h the Thane of '0 PAR Glamis ADISE.—In Harry , [Me O'Donohgue.: A F,enchman on of Trois ) a mourant irolnised to be answer was all It is too late, he ' a bit of it; give ,' With that he folded —` I<l v dear Peter (St. r devil. who has slipped , s. Apparently he was ' settle it all for the CE Dc RANG. To St. Put that in his mouth.' in a great Au better. Youi Peter, at the J said Maurice, ••••- • —•-- - THE CURE AS BAD AS THE COMPLAINT. — The univer sal inquiry is, where can all .he base coin that is about London have come from? Surely it is not in consequence of a dividend lu , ing been paid on the Pennsylvanian bonds last week ?—Punch. co in munic to tielieve that o tised by tt claimed— eiere no do Cruickshank' , A PRI EST Lorrequer's GOD ( rrouuds ght hair, THE PREMIER AND PROTESTANTISM.-Our ConBerva live prime minister first betrayed the Protestants who had trusted his cause in their hands, in 1829. He suffered the proper and natural penalty for that betrayal, by beinE cast out of office in the following year, and sent to spend the best ten years of his life, from his 45th to his 55th year, in the ch!lly region of the opposition benches. Men na `urally imagined that adversity must have had a salutary Tee' - - taught the tolly of atte- - " conci- and that, -,empting to ate" a band of sworn enemies,—he would be true, for le rest of his life, to that amount of Protestantism which istitution They supposed, d have had discern Ls still left in the British ( iat as a mere statesman he wou noughto see, that without the support of the Pro- testan!s of the empire, he could never attain power, or preserve it when attained. All the-e natural and justifia ble calculations, however, were based upon a mistaken view of Sir Robert Peel's real character. In that charac ter, two ingredients are predominant,—Liberalism, or tantism and Popery : nor can he bring himself to believe, that he committed any error in 1829. He rather seems to suppose, that the people of England. by again rallying round him, hive evinced their regret for their desertion of him in 1830 ;—totally impervious to the truth, that the real hope of the people was, that he, not they, had repented of the error of 1829.—Churchman's Monthly Review. CITY OF SIOUT.—This city stands about a mile and a half from the river, in one of the richest parts of the val ley. At the season of inundation, when the Nile rolls down in all its majesty, the whole intermediate country ;s overflowed ;and boats of the largestsize,steet ing their course over the waste of waters by the projecting tops of the palm-trees, come to anchor under the walls. A high causeway, bordered by palms and sycamores, crosses the plain from the river to the city, a comparatively unknown and unnoticed, but stupendous work, which for more than 3000 years has resisted the headlong current of the Nile at its highest, and now stands, like the pyramids, not so striking, but an equally enduring, and perhaps more really wonderful, monument of Egyptian labour. A short dis tance before reaching the city, on the right, are the hand some palace and gardens of Ibrahim Pasha. A stream winds through the plain, crossed by a stone bridge, and over this is the entrance-gate of the city. The governor's palace, the most imposing and best structure 1 had seen since the citadel at Cairo, standing first within the walls, seen.ed like a warder at the door. Siout has streets wider and cleaner than are commonly those of Egyptian towns, and it contains many fine squares, bazaars, factories, and mosques. In the centre is beheld a public bath, remark able for its beauty. It was constructed at the expense of the Defterdar Bey, and the granite columns which adorn its interi 3r were brought from Dendera. The profits of this bath go to maintain a mosque, also constructed by the Defterdar, and standing contiguous to it.—Library of Travel. THE NEW GRANT TO MAYNOOTH.—HOW can Pro tostant senators vote public money to Roman Catholics ? How endow the priests of an anti-Christian surTerstitioTi? Their hands have in other days been sta , ned with the hest blood of Europe ; they rolled the Vaudois down their rocks, spiked their young children, and devastated their mountain homes ; they missacred Coligny, with thou : sands of the noblest, bravest men that France ever nur tured ; they were guilty of the blood of Huss and Jerome; they murdered Cobham, and ruled the grave of Wick liffe; they filled the Low Countries with shulghter. By their inqu'sition they expelled the Gospel from Spain and Italy, to plant ungodliness and scepticism in its room. Proscribing all independent thought, they incarcerated the intellect of Europe, made war upon literature, for bade science, discountenanced education, and rednced the faculties of men to dwarfish insignificance. They have deprived the common people of the word of God, and, profiting by the spiritual blindness which their tyranny inflicts on their slaves, have substituted other mediators for Christ, deified a wafer, and taught men to bow down before dolls and pictures. Their bells and candles, their incense and Latin recitation, their mut terings and genuflections, their legendary tales of saihts, their impracticable bigotry and enormous pretens , ons, their compelled celibacy and their demoralizing confes sional, have disgusted all men of sense, and have driven more than halt the educated portion of Roman Catholic communities into avowed or secret irreligion. Scarcely less than the court and the Jacobins were they guilty of the excesses of the French revolution. For if the court maintained intolerable abuses till it, was too late to repent, they were supported by the great body of the priests ; if the people were ferocious, it was because the priests had kept them in ignorance; and if the Jacobins were the furious enemies of all religion, it was because priestly irreligion and hypocrisy had made them so. All this it is impossible for us to forget; and as the Homan religion remains essentially what it ever was, and therefore to a great extent inspires its priesthood from age to age with the same dispositions, the love of our country, the spirit of liberty, and the sense of religion, compel us to protest against their encouragement.—Baptist Noel. EFFECTS OF COMPETITION.-111 ancient works, such as binges, locks, bolts, rivets, railings, or screens, the greatest ingenuity to produce beauty, in addition to skill to render the work sound and fit for its purpose is appa rent. You see that the man was an artist as well as a smith, that he understood the material on which he was working, and knew how an effect was to be obtained by it. The beauty of the foliage in some works of the sixteenth century formed out of thin iron plates, simply twisted up by a tool, is marvellous. Trai ery was produced by plates differently pie ced, laid one over the other, without any attempt at disguise, and flat bars were rivetted together, and made ornamental by the very rivets. These men, as we said before, were artists as well as smiths : one of them indeed, Quentin Matsys, shows himself so to the world in another material ; but his reputation as the worker of the iron screen of King Edward the Fourth's tomb in St. George's Chapel. at Windsor, is as great as it is for his well-known picture of " the Misers," at Windsor Castle. That extraordinary piece of ironwork is now under repair at Messrs. Bramah's, and must be considered one of the finest specimens in the country, presenting panelling and tracery, crockets, finials, and minute ornaments, wrought in the most perfect and artistic manner. inquiring of one of the firm whether he would be able to produce a similar work, his reply was, " Certainly ; but not by contract, or under limitation of time ;" and these, there is no doubt, are the great 'bars against the improvement of our own mechanics and artisans. The master cannot afford to de velop a man's ability ; what he is obliged to seek for is, the greatest quantity of work in the smallest space of time : excellent work won't do ; work that will pass is all that he can hope to give. And the result, as might have been ex pected, is a lamentable decline in many of the construc tive arts.—The Builder. CONSEQUENCES OF THE INCREASED GRANT TO MAY NOOTH.-It is well known that the idea of connecting the Irish priesthood with the government has been long a fa vourite one with many statesmen. Especially has it shown itself among the class termed "liberal conservatives," to which, we apprehend. the rresent prime minister may be supposed to belong. Lord Francis Egerton, more than a dozen years since, offered such a proposition to parlia ment ; and the present Irish chancellor, Sir Edward Sug den, has repea edgy advocated the principle. Now if, as the Record lately remarked, such a plan be still cherished in high quarters, what more adroit or prudent plan could be devised, than first to test the public mind, by offering a proposition for the better endowment of Maynooth. By the reception given to this, the framers of it might be ena bled to ascertain with some degree of accuracy, the amount of popular feeling on the side of Protestantism which still exists. If the ,augmented grant to Maynooth were to pass with only trivial opposition, its propounders might safely reckon on success in asking, on a future day, for a grant to the Romish church in Ireland itself. This is the only safe and practical way of viewing the matter. The fact is beyond dispute,—that several of our leading statesmen are in favour of taking the Irish priests into the pay of the state; and hale been deterred from proposing such a scheme. merely by an apprehension of popular op posiiion. Let their fears on this held be quieted, and we shall have such a proposition laid before parliament before another twelvemonth has elapsed. The only reasonable and proper moment, then, for making a stand, is, NOW. The real, vital question, is now before the country. Up to this time, all that has taken place has been, the annual vote of a few thousands, annually protested against, and passed mainly under the impression that " the tail h of the nation was pledged to it." But in Sir Robert Peril's pre sent scheme, all this is thrown aside, and the state is to come boldly forward, to take Maynooth into its own hands, and to engage even to keep the building in repair, as a na tional establishment. Thus, the Unbitten will be effec tually passed,—the connexion between the state and the Romish church will be publicly owned and cemented ; and the future and larger steps will be merely a carrying out of the great principle now adopted. Hence, all who dread the idea of an union with Rome,—all who would contend earnestly against making the hi-h priests the stipendia ries of the st .te, ought to begin their opposition now. Let Maynooth be once deliherat , ly adopted, and opposi tion to the wider applteation of the same principle will come too late I—Churchman's Monthly Review. THE REVOLUTION OF 1688.—Although the change of government in 1688 is usually called " the revolution," and although it cc•rvainly was a most decisive overthrow so far as the reigning f,irnilv was concerned, yet it was by no means a revolution in the sense in which we now un- derstand the word. It made no change in the basis of power in the state, though it altered the dynasty which sat on the throne, and for seventy years fixed the reign of power in the hands of the whig party, who had been most instrumental in placing William and Mary on it. But 'tructure of - unchanged ; or ra- the st, pvernment remainen ther, it was changed only to be rendered more t•table and powerful. We owe to the revolution many of our greatest blessings; but not the least of these has been the removal of the causes of wealine•.s which had so often before, in English history, proved fatal to he throne. It gave us a national debt, a standing army, and a stable foreign po licy. The sum annually raised by kNAli,im in taxes, in five years after he obtained the throne, was triple what had been so much the snhj,ct of complaint in the time of Charles I.; but the r-ff,-ct of this was to give us a firm go vernment and t.teady policy. De Witt had said. in the that the changes of English pol"cy hml now become so fre that no man could rely on any system being conti. onether. The continental in terests and connexions of William, and subszquently of the Hanover family, gave us a durable system of foreign policy, and imprinted, for an hundred and forty years, that steadiness in our colt ells, without which neither in dividuals nor nations ever attained either lasting fame or greatness. Nor was it the least blessing consequent upon such a ,:hange of external policy, and of the wars which it necessarily induced, that it gave government the lasting support of a standing army, and thus prevented that ru inous prostration of the executive before the burst of po pular passion, which had so often induced the most dread ful disorders in English history. After 1688, the stand ing army, though inconsiderable compared with what it has since become, was always respectable, and adequate, as the result of the rebellions in 1715 and 1745 demon- TOWN EDITION. LONDON MARK-LANE CORN EXCHANGE At this day's and the stands well cleared Rye, old . New Barley, Grinding Maltinx Chevalier Malt, Suffolk and Norfolk Brown A similar im Kingston and Ware hevalier Oats, Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, feed, Potatoe Youghall and Cork, black Cork, white Scotch, feed Beans, tick. :. Pigeons Pease. Grey .N 1 aple White Boilers Flour, town made Suffolk Stockton and Norfolk TATTERSALL'S. 32 0 31 0 - - 36 0 Last Night, Six o'clock. CHESTER CIIP.-12 to 1 agst Semiseria, 12 to 1 agst Era, 12 to 1 agst Obscurity, 13 to 1 agst Cataract, 25 to 1 agst St. Lawrence, 25 to 1 agst Strathspey, 28 to 1 agst Celeste, 33 to 1 agst Trueboy, 40 to 1 agst Fitz-Allan, 66 to 1 agst Portrait, 66 to 1 agst Foig-a-ballagh, 66 to 1 agst Cour sellor. THE DERBY.-10 to 1 agst Alarm, 15 to 1 agst Has (taken), 16 to 1 agst Cobweb colt, 16 to 1 agst Kedger, 16 to 1 agst Clear-the-Way (taken), 20 to 1 agst Pam. 25 to 1 agst Newsmonger, 25 to 1 agst Miss Whip colt, 30 to 1 agst Ironmaster (all in), 30 to 1 agst Mentor, 30 to 1 agst Pantasa, 33 to 1 agst Weatherbit, 40 to 1 agst Annandale, 40 to 1 agst Old England, 50 to 1 agst Young Eclipse. THE ROYAL AMPHITH FATRE.—The performances last week, prior to the close during passion week, were highly interesting, and drew good audiences, especially on the bent fit nights. On Thursday the audience, in addition to a series of excellent stage and ring performances by the whole strength of the company, were highly gratified by the extraordinary equestrian fetes of Mr. Edward Hickin, from another establishment. This gentleman was prin cipal horseman to the late Mr. Ducrow, and the only equestrian ever permitted by that unrivalled master of the art to appear in his peculiar and unequalled dct. of horse manship. Mr. Hickin appeated as the Sprite in a mag nificent fairy scene of equestrianism, entitled " The Evening Star," and exhibited such powers of agility and mastery in the difficult and somewhat dangerous science, as at once astonished and delighted all who witnessed them. This gentleman would in himself be a great acqui sition to any equestrian theatre. The other pieces were most creditably performed throughout. Great prepara tions are being made for novelties of a striking and " sporting" character for next week. GENERAL MISCELLANY, The report that Sir E. Knatchbull was to be raised to the peerage is denied. Mr. W. H. Carpenter has been appointed keeper of the prints &c., at the British Museum. Mr. Wombwell's famous elephant, " Chuney," died on Tuesday. He cost £BOO, nineteen years ago. The political friends and admirers of the late Lord Hol land have subscribed £5.000 for a monument to his me mory, to be placed in Westminster Abbey. The Great Western Steam-ship Company have resolved to raise an additional sum for the completion of the Great Britain. On Friday week a box, containing two bars of gold. value £1,600. was stolen from the luggage train station of the Dover railroad at the Bricklayers' Arms. The London meeting to petition against the grant to Mavnooth will be held to-day, J. P. Plumptre, Esq., M.P., in the chair. The House of Commons will ajourn fox the Easter ho lidays on '1 hursday next, the 20th instant, until Monday, the 31st. A return to the nonce of Lords shows that the balances due by Mr. Abbott, the official assignee, at the time of his default, amounted to £82,196. A flock of eighty sheep were drowned in a large pit at Uldale, Cumberland, last week. They were frightened by a dog. and, to escape from their pursuer, went on the ice, which, giving way, they were all drowned. On the 9 , h instant three persons were drowned in at tempting, in a small boat, to board the Alert steamer, then on her passage down the river from Calstock to De vonport market. EFFECTS OF STEEPLE CHASING.—On Thursday week Lieut. Tyi,te, of the 4th Dr agoon Guards, died from in juries received by a fall, NNhilst engaged in a steeple chase near Kilkenny. The entire cost of the new Houses of Pdrliment will not, it is said, greatly increase the estimate. The whole amount is expected to be £928,213. Both houses will be ready for occupation by the session of 1847. Joseph Lind, a substantial farmer at Cockfield, Dur ham, being liable, by a change of owners, to expulsion from his farm, on which he had expended considerable sums, w , thout compensation, committed suicide by hang ing a few days since. _ _ Thomas Winter, ticket-clerk on the Stockton and Dar lington Railway, committed suicide the other day by shooting himself through the head. On the door was ' Farewdl ; I must away to heaven THE LIVERPOOL 8TAN1)4(1) wrated, to . the defence of g ov er nment against the most se- At the Chelmsford assizes on Wednesday, Miss Rich r;ous domestic dangers. Tint of itself was an incalcula- ardson, the daughter of a gentleman residing at Brent ble blessing, and cheaply purchas-d by the national debt wood, indicted for stealing some silk, the property of a and all the bloodshed of our f wars. I lad Charles tradesman at that place, and whose trial had been twice I. possessed five thousand guards, he would at once have postponed on account of illness, did not surrender, and crushed the great rebellion; and the wotul oppression of the recognizances were entreated. the long parliament, which, during the eleven years that it In consequence of the decease of Lord Wynford and Sir sat, extorted tighty millions, equal to two hundred mil- J. Gurney, pensioos to the amount of nearly £7,000 a-year lions at this time, from an itnpoveri.hed and bleeding na- rev er t t o t h e pu bli c, Lord Wynford having received a tion, would have been prevented.—Rackwoo'l. pension of £3,500 a-year as late Chief Justice of the Com mon Plea., and Sir J. Gurney had just been panted £3,250 a•year as a retired Baron of the Exchequer. A sermon was preached on Sunday week, at the Chap 31 of the Scottish Hospital. London, to a congregation of deaf and dumb peopl e . I t was ren d ere d i nte lli g ibl e t o MARKETS OF YESTERIMY. them by a Mr. Banks, a gentleman who is conversant with the modes of signs used by the deaf and dumb, in terpreting every word as it was uttered by the preacher, wheat, and the rapidity of his motions in effecting this was truly astonishing. rrovefnent took At a meeting of proprietors of the Bristol Steam Nevi place in the price of free foreign. with a much better demand. gation Company, held at their office on the Quay, on All descriptions of barley were i n bett e r reques t, and our ve- Monday. a report was read, by which it a pp eare d that the %nous curie , rcy well supported original stock of £135,000, notwithstanding the heavy CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. losses formerly incurred, had been all re-invested with Wheat, Essex and Kent. s. d. S. d- Red White Norfolk and Lincoln, red as o— 43 0 of a balance in hand of £4OOO odd. White.. lIYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS.—The hydrographic sur- Irish, red White from Lenbighshire to Cumberland, including the naviga tion of Chester, Liverpool, Fleetwood, Morecombe Bay, Peel Harbour, the Dudden, Ravengiass, Whitehaven, Harrington, and Nlaryport, having been completed by C immander Denham, R.N.. F.R.S.. this officer is pre paring to proceed and complete the charts of the western coast of Africa. The members of Government belonging to the upper branch of the legislature, however strong their heads may be, exhibit the weakness of their bodies by not appearing in the House of Lords: Lord Wharncliffe is sick—Earl of Haddington ill—Earl of Ripon very bad—Lord Stan ley on crutches—all at home. The Duke is always in his place—and though one sentiment of universal sympathy fur his attenuated appearance pervades all classes, he is ever ready at his post, and always fit for duty. There is nothing in the history of farming so extraordi nary as the consumption of " guano," which is steadily and rapidly increasing, in spite of all the frauds and tricks that have tended to bring it into disrepute. Our readers ' will, we think, be surprised when we state—as we do upon the best authority—that the great houses of Gibbs, Myers, and Bright, have actually sold 18,000 tons of Peruvian guano within the last five weeks ; and that there will be in this country, ready for delivery, in the course of a month or six weeks, at least 200,000 tons of Peruvian and African guano !—Gardeaers' Chronicle. SUGAR Dungs.—When Sir Robert Peel announced his intention of reducing the sugar duties, he stated that SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET. the consumer would be benefitted to the extent of lid. The Beasts were dis osed of at from 10s. to £l9 ; per pound. He surely must have meant that this reduc - Sheep, 295. to 375. per head. From our own grazing counties tion of price might be expected in the course of time, say the arr'vals of Beasts fresh up to-day were seaSOnabl exten- next year, when we should be in the receipt of large sup sive. The rimest Scots and homebreds mostly found purcha- plies to meet the increased demand, for the reduction of sers at lest week's ()notations. or from 3s 1. d to 4s. per 51bs., duty pt °posed by him is not quite five farthings per pound. but the value of all other breeds was with difficulty supported The importers have already obtained an advance of 4s. to in fact, in some instances towards the cl se of the market, a slight abatement was submitted to by the salesmen for such ss. per cwt. from the lowest point of the market, so that qualities, without effecting a clearance. The Lamb trade was when the reduced duty comes into operation the consu inactive. and we cannot give prices with any degree of accu- mere will nest be able for a considerable time to buy sugar racy. Upwards of 4,000 of the Sheep were out of their wool, more than a halfpenny per pound cheaper.—Correapond- With Calves we were scantily supplied; yet the Veal trade ent of Daily Paper. was inactive at previous figures. Prime small Porkers sold steadily ; other kinds of Pigs slowly, at last week's quotations. DIFFERENTIAL DUTIES.—If we were to write a li fer Sibs. to sink the offal. brary, we could not better answer Mr. Cobden's absurd s. d. s. d.' s. d. a. d, proposition, that differential duties always cause a rise Inferior Beasts.... 2 6 2 8 Second quality do. 3 6 3 8 in price, exactly to the amount of the duty levied, than it Second quality do. 2 In— 3 4 Coarse do. 3 10— 4 3 was answered by Sir Robert Peel. We will, therefore, Prime large Oxen. 3 6 3 B,SouthdownWethers4 4 4 6 repeat the premier's answer, changing merely the mate- Prime Scots, &c... 3 10— 4 m Do. out of the wool -- Coarse Calve5.... 3 5 4 8 Large 11. gs ' Small do. Suckling do. each.;B 0-30 filQr. old Pigs, each 16 0-20 0 sell his printed cottons thirty per cent., or nearly four- Inferior Sheep SUPPLY AT MA REFL. repealed ? If Mr. Cobden says no, where is his argu- Beasts, 3,'36 Sheep, 2!,840.... Calves, 64 .... Pigs, 320 meat ? If he says yes, he must be making a good thing of his trade, inasmuch as he has by his own confession a LONDON SHARE MARKET. clear profit of thirty per cent. from the differential duty, The Share market has been a good de a l ag it a t e d w ith t ran s- plus all other profits.—Stendard. actions for the adjustmer t of the account ; but prices. upon the CROWDED STATE OF THE HULL Doc KS.—The weather whole. have vari d less th• n was expected. The most marked during the last few days has been almost hourly of the fluctuation is in the shares of the Sou h Eastern Railway, wh ch most changeable description. The state of the barometer, were last done at 45, Eastern Counti s at 22i. Cambri , ge and Lincoln 61, Direct Northern 4/, London and York 3i. Birming- but still more of the wind, upon which more than any ham and Gloucester 133, Brist 1 and Exeter ci . Caledonian oil, thing the breaking-up of the ice in the Elbe will depend, Churnet Valley 7, Edinburgh and Glasgow 62, Great Southern is becoming a subject of intense interest, and well it may and Western (Ireland) 12, Great North of England 189. Brighton when it is considered that bale goods, estimated at from 654, South Western 79, Midland 139, Manchester and Leeds £1,000.000 to £2,000.000 in value, are now in this port, 144, North British 174, Rugby 4, Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton the greater part of which are under contract for delivery and Dudley 54, South Wales 64, Trent Valley 161 ex new, grea t continential fairs which commence in Easter Boulogne and Amiens 114, Toulouse and Cette 21. Great Nor- at the thorn of France 6, Orleans and Vierzon ;8. Orleans and Hour- I week. For Hamburgh alone we have five of the largest deaux 10, Paris and Rouen 44k. Paris and Strasbu. gtl2t. I eta-8 of steamers and upwards of 20 sailing vessels loaded, and the sheds on the dock sides contain sufficient goods to load 10 more sailing vessels. The cargo of one of the steamers is estimated at £6o,ooo.—Hull Herald. A CHILD POISONED BY ITS FATHER.—A short time ago a husbandman residing at Bradninch, near Exeter, lost his wife in childbed. Ott the day of the wife's funeral the infant during the performance of the ceremony was left in the care of its father, who ban been indisposed, and was receiving sick-pay from his club, being confined to his bed. He had previou-ly provided himself with a bot tle of spirits of hertshorn, unknown to his nurse, by sending a casual visitor for it during her absence. He took the child into bed with him, whil-t the funeral of his wife was going on, and administered the bottle of harts horn to it, hiding the bottle in a crevice of the floor. The female relative, on returning from the funeral, found it foaming at the mouth, and it died shortly afterwards. The father has been committed for wilful murder. Amidst the various projects suggested for the benefit of the rural population, we hail with satisfaction the an nouncement from the Zoological Society of London, of the intention of the council to encourage an exhibition of domestic poultry at the Gardens in Regent's Park, in the course of the ensuing summer. The little attention at present paid to the rearing of poultry in England is too plainly shown by the fact that wore than two hundred and fifty millions of eggs were imported from the Continent in 1841.2, and 3; and, moreover, that in the two latter years duty was paid on the importation of live and dead poultry to the value of £600,000! Surely this ought to stimulate us to he stirring, and if possible to promote the rearing of poultry, one of the modes of doing which may be anticivated to be the improvements of their breeds. — Gardeners' Chronicle ALLEGED ATTEMPT TO SHOOT PRINCE ALBERT.— The Times of Friday, in a paragraph headed, " The al leged attempt to shoot Prince Albert " states that when the prince left the palace on horseback on Thursdi, a man who was standing on the pathway, presented a pistol at his royal highness. There appeared- to be no attempt made to discharge it, and the action was unobserved both by the Prince and his Equerry, but Colonel Knight, of 29, St. James's-place, and a Mr. Arnold, were on the apt at the time, and having noticed what passed nceified the same to Sir Edward Bowater. The man who had the pistol walked on towards Buckingham Palace, as d d a man who was with him. He could not be found when the police went in search of him. The opinion of those acquainted with the fact is, that even supposing that a man did present a real pistol at the prince, it was done without any evil motive. THE CROOME CASES,—At the Worcester assizes, last week, Francis Dinghy, Samuel Turvey, Joseph Turvey, Thomas Hooper, John Cook, Joseph Tandy, George Brant. Thomas Collins, William Cosnett, and William Bromfield, who have been long known as poachers, were triee for having, on the 19th of December last, at Severn stoke, murdered Thomas Staite. The deceased was a gamekeeper at Croorne, and he met his death in conse quence of an attack on himself and party from the above gang when he was watching in the fields. The jury found all the prisoners guilty of manslaughter. The Lord Chief Baron sentenced Dingley. Joseph Turvey, Samuel Tur vey, and Joseph Dandy, the principals in the affray, to transportation for life; Hooper, Collins, and Brumfield, far ten years; George Brant, in consideration of his youth, to seven years transportation; and Cosne- t and Collins, on account of their previous good character, to two years' hard labour in the House of Correction. A ROYAL MINER.—Our readers will doubtless learn with interest the fact, that there is now employed at the Mount Savage Iron• Works, near Cumb,rland (U.S.), as a common workman, a son of one of the English Royal Dukes, if not of the late King l—wh - r, after having served as a naval c fficer, and been in the employ of the govern ment as an engineer of public works, ws.:, through some unfortunate occurrence, obliged to take refuge in America, some years since, under an assirmtd name:: he has married a respectable lady of Alltghany, and has a large family. The accuracy of this statement is pl reed beyond doubt, by the individual having been recently recognised by a gentleman who was his classmate at Eton, where he is said to have been known as the young Count de la Zonch. IA hat the circumstances may be which occa sioned his proceeding to the United States incognito, we have not heard, hut it is there believed to be some offence given to the Duke of Cumberland.— !dining Journal. MIN ISTERIAL PROSPECTS. —As yet all has gone " merry as a marriage bell" with Sir Robert Peel ; but, nevertheless, a storm is brewing which may probably wreck his government. The His-enters in all parts of England and Scotland are in arras against the proposed increase to the Maynooth College. The Globe of Wed nesday sounds the tocsin, and calls upon those who deem the tenets of the Church of Rome unscriptural, and, written, in ~. or hell." consequently, idolatrous, to resist the payment of the proposed grant out of the taxes of the country. Lord Sarah Freeman, the woman charged with the frightful John Russell has Sir Robert Peel at his merc y upon this atrocities at Shapwick, and now in the gaol of Taunton , questi on . H e can as sure l y d e f eat hi m now as he lid in is not li,ely to live until the approaching assizes, a series 1835, upon the appropriation of the Irish church revenu s of epileptic fits having led to the expectation of her disso- to secular purposes. Lord John has but to adopt this lotion. course, and he must succeed—viz., when the grant is first Mrs. Elizabeth Farmer, an elegantly-attired widow, proposed, to laud Sir Robert Peel to the highest for his residing in Brunswiek•place, City-road, was charged on moral courage in proposing the increased grant, contrary, Saturday week, at Worship-street Police-court, with as it is Known to be. to the feelings of the majority of the having stolen a piece of salted beef from a shop at Hox- government supporters. A division taking place upon ton, and committed for trial. She is a lady of property. the simple question of the increase of the grant, it will At Chelmsford, on Friday, Thomas Crush and Thomas most probab:y be carried by a large majority. But if the Bartick were convicted of poachirg on the property of amount is proposed to be provided for out of the consoli- Lord Petre. When discovered, Crush made a desperate dated fund, as of course it will be. then should Lord resistance, and attempted to shoot one of the keepers. He John, following the line taken by the Glabe, say that was sentenced to ten years' transportation, and Bartick to other resources are open to the minister besides taxing nine months' imprisonment and hard labour. the people of England, and divide upon the question, " At Dumfries there is an institution for the reception of Aye or No," whether the grant is to be levied off the fund—all the Tories and all the Dissenters insane persons, where the treatment differs materially from who o . bje we c ni t ii , ogu o sg n . principle, to the propagation of Popish that usually pursued. The inmates are admitted to balls, doctrines, at the expense of a Protestant state, would, of soirees, &c , and they are even called upon to exercise b l oey largein e' cours their faculties occasionally in literary compositions, which I oppose the government ; and if to these be added - .ord John Russell, Lord Palmerston, and the place are published in a new periodical work. An unfortunate creature named Mary Ann Thompson was found at her lodgings, in Hopkins-street, London, inh th , r t m o a p jo u r s i h ty t tg e a m ins f t ro t m he t c h o e v ir er s n to m o. e ls nyn a u t : d t that is all Lord John and the place loving Whigs ca'e a such a wretched state of destitution that on being remove d .farthing about. to the workhouse she expired. A coroner's jury, who in vestigated the circumstances, declare by their verdict that Four wild swa ns o f grea t s i ze w ere shot at the mouth of she died from want of the, necessaries of life. the Tees last week. 30 0- 34 0 35 0 - •37 0 88 0 33 0-35 0 36 0— 00 0 58 0 s 6 0 60 0 - 00 0 64 0 - t's 0 22 0-23 0 23 0-24 0 23 0-22 0 21 0-23 0 22 0-23 0 34 0-36 0 38 0-39 0 34 0-36 0 35 0-36 0 33 0 - 35 0 36 0 - 38 0 42 0-00 0 :13 0-35 0 33 0-35 0 FOREIGN GRAIN AND FLOUR IN BOND Wheat, Dantzic.. Hamburg _ . Oats, new Feed Flour, American Baltic .... 20 0- 24 0 17 0 - 18 0 15 II - 17 0 24 0 - 29 0 28 0-32 0 19 0 -- ---- 18 0 - - ' WATEF, IN THE METROPOLIS.—The quantity of water raised by the eight great metropolitan companies in 1833, appears to have been equal to 357,288,807 imperial bar rels ; the number of houses and buildiegs supplied 191,066 ; and the average daily supply above 35,000,000 of gallons, or 183 gallons served to each person on the average. It is conveyed to all parts of the town by main pipes, out of which diverge smaller pipes called service pipes, for the supply each of a certain number of houses, into the cis terns of which it is c nveyed from the service pipes by smaller leaden pipes. By alternately opening and closing the communications between the main pipes and the ser vice pipes in their whole series, the water is delivered in equal quantity to the remotest as to the nearest habita tions ; end each main is penetrated at short distances by fire-plugs of two inches in diameter. BANK OF ENGLAND.—The half-yearly general meeting was held on Thursday. Mr. Cotton, the governor, on taking the chair, said that the Court of Directors having considered the Bank's accounts, they were of opinion that a dividend at the rate of 32 per cent. out of interests and profits might be made, after deducting 7d. in the pound for the income tax. The Court of Proprietors was aware that an altetation had been made in making up the ac counts. They were now balanced to the 28th February, and they would leave an increase in the rest of £9,727. The Governor moved a resolution that a dividend be de clared ; and in reply to a question he remarked, that £lOO,OOO more would have been shown had the dividend been taken under the old system. In reply to a question, the Governor stated, that the true rest, after the dividend was paid, would be £3,079,025 7s. 9d. CLEVER MANCEUVRE OF A SCOTCH LASSIE.—Last week, a young couple, who had been enjoying a walk to the westward of the town of Dundee, called on their re turn at a respectable public-house, when the young man ordered "a glass of spirits and water." While he was in the act of pouring out the whiskey, the girl in turning towards a large m'rror in the room, observed him throw some powder into her tumbler ; and, on resuming her seat, (being at the same time suspicious of his conduct,) she effected a clever exchange of the tumblers, and the gallant youth unsuspectingly drank off the dose which was meant for the other party. The couple immediately afterwards left the house and proceeded to the Magdalen yard, where the young gentleman was seized with sudden illness, and dropped down asleep on the green. He was with much difficulty conveyed home in a state of insensi bility, and is but slowly recovering. IMPORTANT POST-OFFICE NOTICE.—The following no tice was issued on Tuesday, by command of the Postmas ter-General :—" The Postmaster-General having con cluded an arrangement with the government of the United States for the conveyance through its territory of the cor respondence of Great Britain and Canada, the mails to and from Canada will, in future, be landed and embarked at Boston instead of at Halifax, as at present, and will be conveyed between Boston and Montreal in charge of a British officer appo'nted by the Postmaster-General. All letters and newspapers, therefore, addressed to Canada will be forwarded from this date by way of Boston, unless specially directed to be sent by some other route. No additional postage will be charged upon letters to and from Canada in consequence of the transit rate which is to be paid to the United States' post-office ; but a charge of one-halfpenny will be levied on the delivery of each newspaper, whether in the United Kingdom or in Canada. WILLIAM AUSTIN.—This person, whose name must be familiar in the recollection of all who have had any ac quaintance with the history of the parliamentary proceed ing in the case of the late Queen Caroline, or the eventful life of that unhappy Princess, arrived in London last week from Milan, where he has been residing for several years, for the most part in a state of fatuity, the inmate of a lunatic asylum. We understand he has been re moved to this country through the intervention of the British Government, under an authority from the Lord Chancellor. in whose care his person and some consider able property, left to him by the late Queen, have been placed by certain proceedings on the part of his relations. He was conveyed hither from Milan under the charge of a medical and two other attendants ; and immediately on his arrival was visited by two London physicians, who, after an interview with him of some duration at the hotel where he stopped, signed the necessary certificate for his detention in a private asylum, where he now remains. Austin is a very good-looking man, apparently about 40 years of age, and though, beyond doubt, mentally en feebled, has no betrayal of such imbecility in the expres sion of his face. He has been in his present unfortunate condition since the year 1830, and for a great part of that time he has maintained an immovable taciturnity. No ingenuity has beet. able to extract a syllable from him. He answers no questions nor asks any —enters into no conversation—and even during the whole journey from Milan to London be never spoke a word to his attendants, or any one else. Neither could the medical gentleman who waited upon him here induce him to reply to any of their inquiries ; and no doubt this fact of itself formed no inconsiderable ingredient in the judgment at which they arrived. The unhappy man is extremely docile, has no disposition to violence, and readily understands and obeys any signs made to him.—Morning Post.—[The unfortu nate gentleman was adopted when a child by the late Queen Caroline, and to him she bequeathed a portion of her property.] THE CONSTRUCTION OF STEAM-BOATS.—At the In stitution of Civil Engineers on Tuesday, the discussion was renewed upon the relative merits of the screw and paddle-wheels as methods of propulsion. It was stated that the Napoleon screw•steamer, in the French Post office service, made, on an average, quicker voyages than any of the paddle-wheel steamers of the same power on the station ; that in smooth water the latter vessels would make some way, but in rough weather the former was de cidedly superior. The same result had been noticed with the Archimedes. When steaming down the river she was frequently passed by merchant steamers, but by the time she had arrived at Dungeness, if there was any sea up, she had regained her place, and was a-head of the paddle wheel steamers. It was thought, however, that with the feathering paddles, invented by M. Cave, and equal power, the Napoleon would have done quite as good work as with the screw. The peculiarities of the steaming qualities of the Rattler, in spite of her bad build, were fully described. It appeared that in heavy weather, when sailing and steam ing, that when it was thought that she was dragging her screw through the water, the dynamometer showed a very effective exertion of power, and that the slip was extremely small. That when the Royal yacht was obliged to shorten sail, because of losing speed by the heeling over of the paddles, the Rattler was enabled to use all her canvas and engine power together, and to gain way in the same pro portion as the other vessels lost it, '1 he general impres sion appeared to be that the experiments were very satis factory, and that if the Rattler had been a well•formed ship. and the power on board had been greater, the re sults would have been much better. A good adaptation of the screw was mentioned in the two schooners, the Margaret and Senator, built by Messrs. Pim, at Hull, and trading between that port and London. They were tine schooners of 242 tons burden, fully rigged, but having near the stern, two engines, each of 14-horse power, con nected by wheel work with a screw-propeller. The result of a trial between the Shannon and the Senator, the latter being a regular paddle-wheel steamer of good power, was, that in the voyage between Dublin and London, the Se nator arrived in London only ten hours after the Sian non, having consumed only 18 tons of coal, while the Shannon had used 90 tons ; proving that for mercantile purposes, where extreme speed was not essential, but that punctuality was desiralne, the screw propeller adapted to sailing vessels, was calculated to be of essential service. A curious letter was read from Lady Bentham, proving, by extracts from documents, that half a century ago, the late Sir Samuel Bentham, to whom was entrested the building of several men-ot• war, was the originator of the introduction of " water-tight bulkheads," dividing ves sels into compartments for preventing accidents from leaks, and alter for stiffening them. Sir Samuel was aware of the plan having been used by the ancients, and also that the Chinese use the plan now. He also invented the wrought-iron water tanks and the metal casks for storing the powder, both being fitted to the shape of the ship THE BRITISH NAVY.—There are now in. commission at the ports, and ready and fitting for sea service. nine sale of the line and two 50-gun frigates. Of the line-of battle ships, four are three-deckers of 120 guns each — viz., the Trafalgar. 120. Captain G. Martin, at Sheerness, with the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir J. C. White, com mander In chief at the Note; the St. Vincent, 120. Capt. Rowley, at Portstrn-ut h. with he flag of Admiral Sir C. Rowley, commander in chief there ; the Hibernia, 120, Captain Richards, Cdl., fitting at Portsmouth for the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir W. Parker, appoiiitel COM wander in chief of the \led tterranean ; and the Cal,clo nia. 120,. Captain Milne, at Devenport, with the flag of Admtral Sir David Milne, the commander in chief there. The ottP'r five aretwo-deekedships, the Rodney, . _ Captain Collier, .8., fitting at Portsmouth ; the Albion, 90, Captain N. Lockyer, C. 8., at Devenport ; the Ca nopus, 84, Captain F. More.hy. C. 8., fitting at Devon port; the Superb, 80, Captain Corry, fitting at De,ort port ; and the Vanguard, 80, Captain. Willes, also fitting at Devonport The two 50-gun frigates are the Vindic tive, Caotain M. Seymour, flail - 14 at Portsmouth for the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir F. Austen, appointed to the command in chief of the North American and West In dian station; and the Eagle, 50, Captain Martin, C. 8., likewise at Portsmouth, to carry the flag of Rear-Admiral Inglefield. C.B , two days since appointed commander in chief of the Brazils station. Thus we have at this time what, perhaps, has not been seen for many years. sea-. going shits of six flag officers—two admirals, three vice admirals, and a tear admiral; and when the ships r,re manned with the full complements assigned to them they will have collectively above 7,000 men. In addition to these admirals, who have sea-going ships to carry their flags, we have three rear-admirals who have their flaps fly ing—one at Cork, Rear-Admiral Sir Hugh Pigot ; one at Pottsmouth, Rear-Admiral Parker; and one at Devon port, Rear Admiral Sir S. Pyrn ; making altogether nine flag officers in active service at the home ports. Besides those nine sail of the line, we have tour other line-of battle shits on foreign service—the Formidable, 84, Capt. Rich with the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir E. Owen, in the ditereanean; Coiling wood, 80, Captain Smart, with the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir F. G. Seymour, in the Pacific; the Illustrious, 72, Captain Erskine, with the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir C. Adam, in the West Indies; and the Agincourt, 72, Captain Bruce ' with the flag of Rear-Admir a l Si r T. C oc h rane , i n the East Indies; and five 50-gun frigates—the Winchester, Captain Eden, with the flag of Rear-Admiral the Hon. J. Percy, at the Cape; the Dublin, 50, Captain Tucker, with the flag of Rear- Admiral Thomas, and the America, 50, Captain the Hon. J. Gordon, in the Pacific • the Alfred, 50, Commodore Purvis, at the Brazils; and the Warspite, 50, Captain P Wallis, in the Mediterranean—their complements amounting to above 5,200. Thus we have at present in commission thirteen sail of the line, four of them three deckers. And seven 50-gun frigates, whose united com plements will amount to 12,000 men. The Melampus, 42, frigate, at Devenport, for a long time ready for cave, missionto ala s will port, and which ship we believe has never been will hoist the pendant in a few days. Mar. iB, I Ris Mr. Matzini, the Italian exile, whose charge against thei government of Opening his l..trers, has again given rise td the frequent debates on postoffice espionage has published a further letter, in which he re-affirms "That the twenty one Italian exiles have been allured to Calabria by dark, snake-like proceedings of the Austrian and Neapolitan governments, and that those governments were enabled to do so by their attention having been awakened to the subject by the secret communications extracted from WI correspondence by the British government." STATISTICS OF THE IRON TRADE.—Few, excepting those who are connected with this important branch of the manufactures of this country, either as maTmfacturera or extensive dealers, are aware of the progressive and rapid improvement that has taken p 1 ice in it within s very limited period. Commencing with Midsummer, 1843, a period when the prices were lower than they were ever known to be, we shall take August of that ye a r, a nd Staffordshire bars as a scale to measure by. On the cur rent price of August there was an advance declared on the Ist of September of 20 per cent., and this advance wall maintained, with scarcely any interruption, till Ist April, 1844, when a further advance (calculated in the lowest price) of 10 per cent. was advised. In the beginning of May of the same year a farther rise, equal to 10 per cent. on the price of August, 1843, was declared—and this lasted till October, when, by some misunderstanding among the manufacturers, a reduction took place. It was uncalled for and of very short duration. The August price of 1844 wag very shortly resumed, and in the beginning of January of the present year a farther advance, equal to 10 per cent• on the lowest price, was announced. On the 31st of January circulars were sent out, advising another advance of 10 per cent. On the 22d of February a farther advance took place of 20 per cent., and on the Ist of the present month another advance is intimated of 20 per cent. oil the lowest price. So that, putting these together, the rise in the price of this article is exactly 100 per cent., or, ill other words, the Price is doubled since August, 1843. The other descriptions of iron made in that district have undergone similar changes. In South Wales, the advance on bar iron within the same limited time is full more, and in Scotland the rise has been from 100 to 110 per cent. within the same period. We know of no branch of out manufactures that has so prospered, nor one that hag better prospects still in view; and, considering its maV" nitude, the capital embarked in it, and the vast populatiog depending upon it for their support, it must be a subject of gratulation to all that it is in such a prosperous state.-" Scotsman. THE MURDER AT SALT-HILL.—The trial of Johd Tawell, for the murder of Sarah Hart, commenced od Wednesday, at Aylesbury. Mr. Sergeant Bytes stated the case for the prosecution. Several witnesses were ex. , amined. who proved that the prisoner was at the h o use 01 the deceased, on the evening of the Ist of January, a fevn minutes before she was found dead. Other witnesses proved his apprehension next day in London. The sir' geon who attended the deceased proved the presence of prussic acid in the stomach of the deceased. The sub' sequent evidence was substantially the same as that Rived on the inquest, with the exception of a long and minutes examination of the medical men respecting the contents of the stomach, and the presence of prussic acid, and its properties as a poison. The prisoner was ably defended by Mr. Kelly. who shed tears more than once in his ad dress to the jury. The points most in favour of the pd. , soner were, that although he had overdrawn his accounts his credit with the bank was not impaired, and that he had been in the habit for many months of purchasing prussic acid at the same shop in London, for a disease under which he laboured—varicose veins. A number of witnesses were called. who gave the prisoner an excellent, and at the conclusion of the second day, the court ad journed to Friday, when, after the judge's sumn.ing up, the jury after about halt an hour's consultation returned a verdict of guilty, a sentence which the prisoner heard with remarkable firmness. His lordship then sentenced him to death. 'Notwithstanding the calm demeanour of the unhappy criminal throughout the trial, and even while sentence was being passed upon him, his strength became exhausted when he descended the ladder which leads front the dock to the gaol-yard. He fell upon the ground in a fit, but he was immediately raised by the gaolers who were conducting him to his cell, and he recovered in w minutes. His spirits, which, during the time he vivo in prison previous to his trial, were unusually good, have now sunk to the lowest possible ebb. Up to a late hole of the evening he continued to pace his car, and cry' " Oh dear, oh dear, what w ill b ecome o f my poor wife and my children ! " Dinner was served to him at bit usual hour for eating, but he declined to partake of it. Later in the evening he ate some beef-steak. Whether in seriousness or otherwise, his conduct had hitherto given evidence of a feeling of certainty that he must be acquitted. He not only invited the person who daily served him with his meals to visit him at his house, but anticipating that his trial would terminate on Thursdal night, he actually had a carriage in readiness to con vey' him to his home. His son, by the unfortunate woman Hart, was in court during the trial. He is a very fine lad, about five years of age. When the verdict of guiltf, was pronounced by the forem an o f th e j ur y, a murmur or applause was heard in court, but it was at once and serf properly suppressed. THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. (From the Athtnceum.) The electric telegraph now on the South Western Rail way is the most important yet erected in this country, it; many respects. First of all, it is to perform the twilit functions of an electric telegraph for the railway, commu nicating orders and messages along the line according to the instructions of the directors and managers. Next, it is to serve the important use of communicating between the Admiralty and the naval establishment at Portsmouth. For this purpose, we believe, the coannunication will ter minate in the Admiralty at Whitehall, at this end of the line, and in the apartments of the officer in command, at. Portsmouth. We believe that a similar communication will soon be effected with the arsenal at Plymouth. The South Wales line may also carry the telegraph to Milfordr• another of our dock-yards. and thus it will take pace that orders will, at any instant of time, with the quickness of thought be transmitted to the great naval stations of the country from headquarters, and from each to any of the others, or information be returned from them to head- . quarters, with greater speed than they could formerly be carried from the great room of the Admiralty to the se cretary in the adjoining apartment. The energy which', in case of emergency, this would i n f use i nto every pa rt o f the service, must be of incalculable service-to the country; For all practical purposes, the dockyards and arsenals 0 1 our navy may then be considered as transported from their present remote situations into the very board-root ° of the Admiralty, at Whitehall. This is the second use of the telegraph of the South Western Railway : the third is to throw open to the public this means of communica tion at the o ffi ce of the railway co m p any , on t h e paymen t of a very small fee. When the use of this shall have be come general, you will make appointments for converse tion with your friends, not by taking a journey of 80 O f 90 miles to London, Southampto n . or P or t smout h, he" ,, by each party attending at the hour of aseignation at the respective telegraph-offices in the town where they reside. You will then enter the office, take a chair, and ask th e telegraph" How do you do, Thompson ? " At that aloe merit the telegraph will say, " How do you do, Thon'r son ? " to your seated friend at the other end in rort s : mouth. He will then, of course, reply, through 00 speaker of the telegraph at your own end, " I thank P e t ; Smith ; I hope your gout gives you less t rou bl e this fin e morning." These preliminaries over, m ore i m portan t e matters may be erne ed on and discussed, w ith ou t dirrent, until the quarter of an hour you have pa id for ' A expired, and you have to give way to y our success or arl u i his amiable friend. This is not a hypothetical case, h u o , was, maths mutandig, the commencement of our O r first int , rview (parlance rather) through the South Wes tern Telegraph. An important point is establishd by thi s t e legraph' ' , which had not form er ly b een decided. It was donhtf e r how far weather might i n t er f ere w ith th e transmission e the electric current. The sleets, thaws, and fogs that hav e intervened sinc e it was erecte d h ave g i ven ample oftPht;„t. trinity to judge of thi s e ff ec t. I t i s f oun d i n f i ne west"b"/ the power of the current is not sensibly impaired e ven. . a produced is nearly as stron g a t t h e f urt h er en d as transmission through 88•. miles ; that is, th e i n dicati o `i et 00, 4 from which the signal is transmitted— t h e di m i n ution u poem- being not above 5 or 10 per cent. in fine acath i er, Mr. Wheatstone has empl o y e d a b eaut if u l title V:°t„is metric apparatus for cl the purpose o f d e t ec ti ng this ,",,,I"p ence. It is an ingenious modification of the usual aPP:; ratus for the deco m p os i t i on o f water , ren d ere d In u s t more delicate. By thi s i t appears t h a t the Writhe' amount of loss thr o u g h t w i ce 88. or 176 m il es , is "' er a, e cost circumstances 50 per cent. By using Ow o at therefore, of double the intensity required in the °lto favourable circumstances, he finds it easy to insure 4,, perfect. working of the apparatus, even in the most u° vourable condition. lie e The wires which communicate fr om one en d o f the UO O film tube, the other are no longer cl ose d up i n a concea led tube, but are con s picuous to th e t rave ll ers i n na' • 0V ,:long, the line. All a lo ng th e ra ili ng there are o prig o pots, erected at equal intervals, which rise higher t ea t! he top of the carriages, and a l ong the to-pact these Pn' ii ee continuous wires are carried in a manner similar in aPP e ep rl ance to an ordinary wire fence. Thus. tall is visible'par accessible, so that if d e f ects s h on ld ar i se t h ey are at ° O r detected and easily temedied. The wires depend by Sou celain eyelets from the pasts for the purpose of instil', ,itb and are protected f rom corros i on b y b e i ng covere d free zinc. These ar t a ngements are now so pract i ca lly Pe r as to leave little more to he desired. je foe! Two method s are use d to commun i ca t e t h e worc.. c ier, one end to the o th er . 1 p one p l an t h ere are two employed in the work; these wires are independe t 00 0 each other, and give the signals by affectit g each tba needle. Two needl es serve t o g i ve a ll t h e letters 0 f alphabet. ble By the combination of single oscillations with °raft; and triple o sc ill at i ons , either singly to the right o r l e ei you get all the characters of the alphabet from a couP t ; s o , needles. And you do so by the motion only of two 0 0 dies by the two hands of the operator, which do not rendoa to leave the instrument for an instant. This may h e . e asrt nearly, it riot es rapidly, as common speaking—ce r '' more rapidly than vocal spelling of the words. , 0 0 0 ' A second method is by an exquisite little cotnh' l3 oo 4 The letters o f th e a lphabet are all engrave d r ound 'At?, lar wheel. To s pe aK you only turn eac h l e tter rottP soo l a fixed point, an d the same letter i s s h own th r ough! oi l hole to the reader at the other end. This method !O r a t/ ingenious —to the inexperienced it seems the ess l ti e , simpler ; any one by very slight instruction can th t, e be confidentially to his friend at the othir end. Istit i grs e , presence of a third party. The South Western t ea l l b 6 is not yet open to the public, but we hope it soon l e r th Our readers will be glad to learn, that the author!oyf ae% invention are among the few who reap the reward t entific research in a pecuniary form. Governmelo we believe, £l5OO a year for this telegraph, wh l e ,jite been erected for its use by the proprietors of the and the inventors of the telegraph conjointly.