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Eitcraturr. POETRY. THE VIOLET, (From Poems and Ballads of Goethe, in Blackwood's Magazine.) A violet blossom'd on the lea, Half hidden from the eye, As fair a flower as you might see; When there came triaging by A shepherd maiden fair and loung, Lightly, lightly o'er the lea; Care she knew not, and she sung Merrily ! " 0 were I but the fairest flower That blossoms on the lea; If only for one little hour, Th , t she might gather me— Clasp me in her balmy breast !" Thought the little flower. " 0 that in it I might rest But an hour !" Lack-a-day ! Up came the lass, Heeded not the vio et ; Trod it down into the grass; Though it died, 't was happy yet, " Trodden down although I lie, Yet my death is very sweet— For I cannot choose but die At her feet!" NOTICES. A_ System proposed and recommended for the Better Management and Improvement of Landed Estates in Liverpool and its Neighbourhood. An interesting pamphlet, under this title, has just issued from our local press, and we recommend it to the perusal of proprietors. It appears to us to contain some sugges tions which, if not already generally acted upon by intel ligent landlords, it might be well for them to adopt, not only for their own interests, but for those of their tenants. The author (a professional gentleman in this town) commences by recommending an accurate plan and survey of every estate not recently inspected, and a report on its condition, to be taken, so as to deter mine what leases should be given or renewed, and what alterations or improvements should be made. He next proposes that no lease should be granted for longer than seven or fourteen years of lands :already in a fair state of cultivation, or for more than twenty-one years where wastes are to be cultivated, or considerable sums to be laid out for enclosures. He urges the necessity of good draining, judicious application of manure, and a proper rotation of crops; and makes some useful remarks on the duties of the officers whom he considers it the duty of the proprietor of landed property to appoint. He also offers suggestions to those officers as to the provisions of leases, the engagements of landlords and tenants, and other simi lar subjects. He next treats on the renewal of building leases—on repairing leases—on yearly tenancies—on the care requisite in the financial department —on the neces sity of employing an experienced surveyor to make plans of the estate, superintend buildings, &c.—oil the duties of the steward—the annual reports and accounts, &c. &c. But we must refer to the work itself, which is %try neatly printed by our townsman Mr. Marples. The Star of Jacob. Edited by the Rev. Moses Margoliouth, Author of " The Fundamental Principles of Modern Judaism Investigated," and " Israel's Ordinances Examined." Under the above title, our talented and excellent towns man, now Curate of St. Augustine's, proposes to publish a monthly magazine, designed for the improvement of those of his brethren of the house of Israel, who still dwell in the faith of their fathers, and refuse to believe in the true dispensation of Christ ; the first number to be issued as soon as a sufficient number of subscribers is procured to warrant the expense of the undertaking. The nature of the magazine will be best explained by the following passage from the prospectus:— " It will contain critical expositions of prophecy, and at the same time perverted constructions corrected. It is intended to examine all the principal Jewish objections against Christianity and to refute them even on their own grounds. According to the suggestion of a prelate of our beloved church, it will also be retrospective in developing the state of the Talmudical tra ditions, as they have varied from the time at which they were censured by Christ Jesus. The inquiry will bs‘ also retrospec tively conducted back to the time when the sacred text began to be the subject of the commentator, who gradually debased its meaning by various steps, and at various times, until the Christian sera, when our Lord declared that the Scribes and Pharisees made the word of God of n , ne effect through their tradition. The different departments of Jewish literature, of which there are some most valuable, will be noticed. The ma gazine will also contain articles on the Old Testament institu tions, as they are now observed by the Jews, throughout their dispersion. Their present state and movements in all places of their captivity will also be described." Mr. Margoliouth is also preparing for the press a " Translation of the Babylonian Talmud, with a Preli minary Dissertation on the real Genius and the Nature of that extraordinary Production." The work—one of great labour and research, and which it is admitted must be of great value to the theological Christian student— will be publ'shed in separate vo!umes, at two guineas each to subscribers, as soon as a sufficient number of names are received to cover the expenses of the press. Martin Chuzzlewit. Nos. 19 and 20. London : Chap man and Hall, 186, Strand. Webb, Liverpool. In these two numbers Mr. Dickens winds up the thread of his story, and administers poetical justice to each of his characters. Mr. I'ecksniff, the hypocrite and cheat, despoiled himself of the fruits of his roguery sinks down into "a drunken, begging, squalid, letter-wri'ing man," such as may be met with by hundreds, stealing through the haunts of crime awl low dissipation in our large towns ; and Mr. Jonas Chuzzlewit concludes his murder ous career by suicide. The remainder of the personages introduced to us are made happy according to their vari ous inclinations and tastes. The author has displayed bis peculiar powers in these concluding chapters. To two of the characters in particular•—those of Tom Pinch and "little Ruth" —he has lent a charm which will make them live in our affections, as beautiful creations of the poet rather than of the novelist, when many a more laboured effort shall be forgotten. As a whole, we cannot say that Martin Chuzzlewit is , inferior to any of the previous productions of Mr. Dickens. Less striking it may be than some, and less original in conception. There is a continual freshness, however, in the style of the author which wins admiration and imparts interest even to subjects and characters which we feel that we have had presented to us before from the same pen. Upon a work published in the serial form, with an intervul of eighteen months between the first and the last number, it is difficult to form a just judgment until we have an opportunity of reperusal in its complete form, which we shall shortly have. In the rreantime we can s• fely say for ourselves that by none of Mr. Dickens' previous works we have been more interested than by this his history of the Chuzzlewit family. We observe that the work is now to be had complete, stitched in cloth or bound. Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country. London : G. W. Nickisson, 215, Regent-street. Fraser leads off this month with an article, perhaps somewhat too laudatory, upon the history and character of the Emperor Nicholas of ltusFia, by the same hand which recently furnished us with sketches of Louis Phi lippe, Prince Metternich, &c. The remaining portion of the number is made up of varied articles in prose, poetry, history, and criticism, written with the talent and taste which ordinarily distinguish the contributors to this ma gazine. In particular we have a masterly cutting-up of Mr. D'lsraeli's new work " Coningsby," and an excel lent paper entitled " Southey's Sale and Southey's Works," which contains some sound and excellent cri ticism. The political article, on " The State of Parties," is well worth perusal. If anything, it is more severe than It ought to be upon the refractory members of Sir Robert Peel's party, and less severe than, with justice, it might be upon the Premier himself. Dublin University Magazine. Dublin : William Curry, jun., and Co. ; London : W. S. Orr and Co. This magazine continues to display the excellence of spirit and interest of detail by which it has been distin guished from its commencement. The present number contains the commencement of a new tale by its talented editor, Lorrequer, entitled " The Neville's of Garrets town, a tale of 1760," from which we have borrowed largely in our " Selections." It contains, as well, some able reviews, in particular a second notice of Captain Siborne's recent excellent work " The Campaign of 1815," and a review of " Remedies for the Perils of the Nation." The remaining articles fully sustain the repu tation of their talented writers, and are full of variety and interest. The Farmer'e Magazine. London : Mark-line Express office, 24, Norfolk-street, Strand. To the agricultural reader we need not enlarge upon the general usefulness of this magazine. The present number contains some highly valuable papers, and is il lustrated by a splendid portrait of that eminent agricul turist, Philip Pusey, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., together with a plate of a short-horned heifer, bred by Mr. H. Watso n , of Walkingham, near G?.insborou g h. No practical far mer, desirous of being guided in his improvements by the experience of his brother agriculturists and by the lessons of science, should be without this excellent periodical. Song of the Zephyr. Ballad, composed anddedicated to Mrs. Morrison, by H. V. Lewis. Liverpool: published by the Composer, 11, Elizabeth-street, Pembroke-place. A very lively song has just appeared under this title, by our talented townsman Mr. H. V. Lewis, composer of " Sing not of th e P as t," an d ot h er p i eces. The a i r is light and flowing, and is likely to become an established favourite with the fair portion of the public. The words, which we believe are by a lady, and are very gracefully written, we make no apology for giving here : I come on the wing of the beautiful Spring. As she streweth our earth with flowers; And I pass through the air, with a footstep rare, To the fairest of Eden's bowers. I kiss the rose, as it sweetly blows In the earliest blush of morn ; And shake cff the dews which the night-fall strews On the blossom-bearing thorn. I come on the wing, s c. In summer's bright glow, where rivulets flow, I skim o'er the rippling stream; And float in the shade of woodland and glade. Like the thought of a fairy dream. Then wildly gay through the valleys I play, 'Mid flowers so rich and fair; And waft the perfume of their fragrant bloom, To scent the pure mountain air. I come on the wing, &c. The New Monthly Belle Assemblie. London : Joseph Rogerson, 24, Norfolk -street, Strand. The July number of this excellent and cheap periodical is full of entertaining li•erary matter, tastefully and ably selected by the fair editress, poetry and tale alternating, and both well suited fur the boudoir or the drawing- room, for the young as well as for the mature. A beautiful en graving is as usual given with the number, and the usual " Fashions" accomvany it, upon the correctness of which we do not presume to express an opinion. Tom Burke of Ours, No. 19. William Curry, jun., and Co., Dublin ; W. S. Orr and Co., Paternoster-row, London. The present number, although the incidents are no longer connected with the movements of the French army, is yet stirring and striking, as are all Mr. Lever's tales. A Scene with the Maime Guard is most graphically desc►ibed, as is the descent of Burke over the cliff at the Falaise to the vessel by which he achieved his escape from France on his return to his native land. An extract or two we may probably find room for in our next. The Illuminated Magazine. By Douglas Jerrold. Lon- don: Office:2, Crane-court. Fleet-street. The second number of the new and improved series of this splendid specimen of art of typography and illustra tion, contains some excellent articles, both in prose and poetry. Among s t the former we may particularise the "Yankee Sparking Frolic"—a racy sketch of Yankee life, which we should almost be inclined to attribute to the pen of the lively author of " Uncle Sam ;" and the " Last Hour of a Suicide"—we fear " an ower true tale." The " Adventures of a Scamp," of which we have here the first chaprers, promises to be an amusing story to some tastes. but we like not these incursions, too com mon amongst certain writers of the present day, into the haunts of roguery and crime. Our literature is already quite full enough of Newgate Calendar Biographies. Of a much better character is a sketch of the career of the wonderful boy poet Chatterton, which is ably and feel ingly written. Punch. Part 36. Office, 194, Strand. \Vise and witty by turns in its literary matter, and in imitable in its illustrations. The age would be indeed dull, aid humbug, and imposture over tuttithis land, if we had not Punch to enliven us and occasionally to flog us into honesty. We are compelled this week to postpone notices of ". The Church of England Quarterly Review," " The New Quarterly, or Home Foreign and Colonial Review," The Asiatic Journal," " Simmonds' Colonial Maga zine," &c. &c. SELECTIONS. IRISH MODE OF GETTING RID OF AN AWKWARD WITNESS.—" It is to be hoped that his last affair may last him for the remainder of his life. At his years and mine, Mrs. Mary, there's more to be thou_lit of than the laws of honour. , But indeed Lorigueville's affair was a thing of the moment; it arose out at the great trial of the Swindletraps, at the ass.zes before last. Longueville was the chief witness against them, rind Miles Swindletrap thought he might put him out of the way. The colonel used to walk early in the morning by the water side— Miles took care to meet him, and tne thing was soon set tled. A word and a blow affair. They drew—both good swordsmen—but Swindletrap was in the duel what he used to be in court. Longuevillc made two passes that should either of them have settled the matter. Suddenly he hears a fellow in the crowd (for you may be sure there's no place so lonely that a duel wont bring a multitude there,) cry out the word rabbit.' Now, just think of his quickness in such a time; he pushes next str •ight for the neck, where rabbits are sometimes killed with a stroke, and the sword goes clean through the throat and out at the back of the head—Swindleti ap was buffed. Longue ville wipes the blood off his sword—' Not bad," says he, for seventy-two,' anti walks back to breakfast." —The Ntvilles of Garretstown, in Dublin University Mag. STORY OF A MONKEY.—Some time ago a French gentleman, who was very fond of animals and o f natura l history, brought from the captain of a ship a monkey re markable for its cleverness and surprising powers of imi tation. The same gentleman had a magnificent parrot for several years, which was a great pet in the family. Poor poll evidently did not like the new - corner, and from the first regarded him.with an evil eye. The monkey, on his side, was quite ready to take up a quarrel, and exerted all his cleverness to teaze and annoy his companion; so that often it was found necessary to separate them by violent means. At length. one night, when all the household had retired to rest, they were waked up by piercing screams, as if from a person being murdered. The gentleman started up, and se'zing his gun, rushed towards the room whence the screams pro ceeded. All the house was soon stirring, each one armed with the first weapon he could lay his hands on ; and ac companied by this escort, the master of the house opened the door, and there beheld the monkey with a large kitchen-knife in one band, with which the cook had killed some chickens the day before, and holding the unfortunate parot in the other. He had killed the poor bird in the same way that he had seen the chickens killed the day before. The cook had missed the knife immediately after using it; so it was supposed the monkey had hidden it till a convenient moment should arrive for exeent;ng his plan of vengeance.—Burns' Magazine for the Young. LABOURS OF A LORD CHANCELLOR.—The following is an extract from a letter wr tten by the late Lord Eldon, just published in a life of the venerable chancellor : After all, Mary, I think I am wonderful, considering how much h,ve gone through ; for mine has been no easy life. I will tell you what once happened to me. I was ill with the gout ; it was in my feet, so I was carried into my carriage, and from it I was carried into my court. There I remained all the day, arid delivered an arduous judgment. In the evening I was carried straight from my court to the House of Lords : there I sat until two o'clock in the morning, when some of the Lords came and whispered to me that I was expected to speak. I told them I really could not, I was ill, and I could not stand ; but they still urged, and at last I hobbled, in some way or other, with their assistance, to the place from which I usually addressed the House. It was an important ques tion: I forgot my gout, and spoke for two hours (on the peace of Amiens.) Well, the House broke up, I was carried home, and at six in the morning I prepared to go to bed. My poor left leg had just got in, when I recol lected I had important papers to look over, and that I had not had time to examine them ; so I pulled my poor left leg out of bed, put on my clothes, and went to my study. I did examine thepapers ; they related to the Recorder's Report, which had to be heard that day ; I was again car ried into court, where I bad to deliver another arduous judgment, again went to the house of Lords, and it was not till the middle of the second night that I got into bed. These are hard trials to a man's constitution." FEMALE WORKERS IN COTTON-MILLS.—The great majority, probably nine•tenths, of all the workers in cot ton-mills or printfie ds, are females. We have heard much of the profligacy and licentiousness which pervade such establishments; but though that may be too true in some cases, it is far from being universal, or even gene ral ; and there are numerous instances of female virtue being as jealously guarded and effectually preserved in such establishments, * as in the most secluded rural dis tricts. The real evils—and they follow universally from such employment of the j uven il e f ema l es i n great num b ers in lborious but lucrative employment —are the emanci pation of the . young from parental control, the temptati on held out to idleness in the parents from the possibility of living on their children, and the disqualifying the girls for performing all the domestic duties of wives and mo thers in after life. The evils are real, general, and of ruinous consequence. When children—from the age of nine rr ten in some establishments, of thir een and four teen in all—are able to earn wages varying from 3s. fid. to 6s. a week, they soon become in practice independent of parental control. The strongest of all securities for filial obedience—a sense of dependence—is destroyed. The children assert the right of self-government, because they bear the burden of self-maintenance. Nature, in the or dinary case, has effectually provided against this prema ture and fatal emancipation of the young, by the pro tracted period of weakness during childhood and adoles cence, which precludes the possibility of serious labour being undertaken before the age when a certain degree of mental firmness has been acquired. But the steam-en gine, amidst its other m arve l s , h as en ti re l y d es t ro y e d, within the sphere of its influence, this happy and neces sary exemption of infancy from labour. Steam is the moving power; it exerts the strength ; the human ma chine is required only to lift a web periodically, or damp a roller, or twirl a film round the finger, to which the bands of infancy are as adequate as those of mature age. Hence the general employment of children, and especially girls, in such employments. They are equally serviceable as men or women, and they are more docile, cheaper, and less given to strikes. But as these children earn their own subsistence, they soon become rebellious to parental authority, and exercise the freedom of middle life as soon as they feel its passions, and before they have acquired its self-control.— Causes of the Increase of Crime, in Black wood's Magazine. LORD ELDON'S FULFILMENT OF A PROMISE.—ItI 1783 when Mr. Scott, afterwards Lord Eldon, first be came a candidate for the borough of Weobly, he was re ceived and lodged in the house of Mr. Bridge, the vicar, who, having a daughter then a young child, took a jocular promise from him, that if be should ever become Chan cellor, and the little girl's husband should be a clergy man, the Chancellor would give that clergyman a living. Now comes the sequel, partly related by Lord Eldon himself to his niece (Mrs. Foster.) " Years rolled on— I came into office : when one morning I was told a young lady wished to speak to me; and I said that young ladies must be attended to, so they must show her up. And up came a very pretty young lady, and she curtsied and simpered, and said she thought I could not recollect her. I answered I certainly did not, but perhaps she could recall herself to my memory; so she asked if I remem bered the clergyman at Weobly, and his little girl to whom I had made a promise. ' O h, yes !' I said, Ido and 1 suppose you are the little girl?' She curtsied and. said Yes." And I suppose you are married to a clergy man ?" No,' she said, and she blushed, lam only going to be married to one, if you, my lord, will give him. , a living.' Well, I told her to come back in a few days and I made inquiries to ascertain from the bishop of the diocese that the gentleman she was going to be married to was a respectable clergyman of the Church of England ; and then I looked at my list, and found I actually had a living vacant that I could give him. So when the young lady came back I told her she might return home and get married as fast as she liked, for her intended husband should be presented to a living, and I would send the papers as soon as they could be made out. ' Oh, no ! she exclaimed, and ag a i n s h e s i mpere d, an d bl us hed, and I m ofopdnidd o a l y ew . aIE I m i nas y gmi g l du o na r sey. d edd , let 1 eou ( f add t a k u e aosl t rhl h d .: e Eh m t oalodd b ko a n e tt ee m mp y a s bp e ae l c f rk . s ' her wa se e es e l f oad • ; uthtge:3 a ' THE LIVERPOOL. STANDARI). PORTUGAL.—There are few things more remarkable in diplomatic history than the long connexion of Portugal with England. It arose natnrally from the commerce of the two nations—Portugal, already the most adventurous of nations, and England growing in commercial enter prise. The advantages were mutual. In the year 136 i, se have a Portuguese treaty stipulating for protection to the Portuguese traders in England. In 1382, a royal or der of Richard 11. permits the Portuguese ambassador to bring his bagga ge i n t o E ng l an d f ree o f d uty — per h aps one of th earliest instances which marked the progress of ci vilisation, and which has since been generally adopted throughout all civilised nations. A decree of Henry IV., in 1405, exonerates the Portuguese resident in England, and their shits, from heing made responsible for the debts contracted by their ambassadors. In 1656 the important privilege was conceded to the English in Portugal, of be ing exempted from the native jurisdiction, and being tried by a judge appointed by England. This, in our days, might be an inadmissible privilege ; but two centuries ago, in the disturbed condition of the Portuguese laws and general society, it might have been necessary for the sim ple protection of the strangers.—Blacktvood's Magazine. A DINNER WITH THE RAJAH OF BHURTPORE.—The Rajah of Bhurtpore gave an entertainment to the European residents of Agra, while we were there. He had some large tents pitched near the fort, handsomely carpeted, and hung with a most singular collection of handsome glass lustres, gilt chandeliers, tin candlesticks, valuable paintings, and twopenny prints, mixed together in most heterogeneous confusion. He evidently thought them all very fine and well matched. We sat down, in number about two hundred, to a dinner in the European style, which was really exceedingly well got up, excepting that there was the same mixture of the best and commonest description of articles as was exhibited in the adornment of the tents. Sore of the plates and dishes were of the richest china, while others were of the meanest blue crockery, and handsome ivory mounted table cutlery were mixed up with the vilest black-handled imitation of knives and forks I ever saw. In the centre of the table was an immense nie, to ascertain the contents of which much curiosity prevailed. At last it was cut open by some one near, when out flew about twenty little birds, which bad been concealed under this mountain of paste. The rajah seemed much tickled at the -'urprise depicted in the coun tenances of those around, and laughed till his fat sides shook again. It was, however, no effort of the obese po tentate's own invention; hardly any native entertainment ever taking place without some dish of the kind. There was plenty of wine of all sorts, champazne corks were flying in every direction, and altogether the banquet was on the most liberal scale.—Greenzvood's Campaign in Afghanistan. CRIME IN THE MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS.—The great source of demoralization, destitution, and crime in the manufacturing districts arises from the sudden con gregation of human beings in such fearful multitudes to gether, that all the usual alleviations of human suffering, modes of providing for human indigence, entirely fail. We wonder at the rapid increase of crime in the menu ! facturing districts, forgetting that a squalid mass of two or three hundred thousand human beings are constantly precipitated to the bottom of society in a few counties, in such circumstances of destitution that recklessness and crime arise naturally, it may almost be said unavoidably, amongst them. And it is in the midst of such gigantic causes of evil—of causes arising from the extraordinary and unparalleled influx of mankind into the manufactur ing districts during the last forty years, which can bear a comparison to nothing but the collection of the host with hicb Napoleon invaded Russia, or Timour and Genghis Khan desolated Asia—that we are gravely told that it is to be arrested by education and moral training; by infant schools and shortened hours of labour; by multiplication of ministers and solitary irnp-isonment ! All these are very good things • each in its way is calcul a ted to d o a certain amount Of good ; and their united action upon the whole will doubtless, in process of time, produce some impression upon the aspect of society, even in the densely peopled manufacturing districts. As to their producing any immediate effect, or in any sensible degree arresting the prodigious amount of misery, destitution, and crime which pervades them, you might as well have tried, by the schoolmaster, to arrest the horrors of the Moscow retreat. —Causes of the Increase of Crime, in Blackwood's itlaq. MANNERS IN IRELAND IN 1760.—There was some thing very impressive in the manner in which the aristo cracy of that day presented themselves upon occasions of pomp and ceremony among the people. Favourite actors were not more attentive to costume, nor were theatrical processions arranged more carefully than the " exits and entrances" of the gentlemen of Munster, when they as sembled at the assizes. The town was their stage—the whole public their auditory ; and they dressed and deco rated with an anxiety not less than professional, to pro duce effect. Nor was this ostentation impolitic. By the high bearing of the gentry, a sense of their superiority was impressed upon the people • and passions were frequently overawed and kept in che c k by a stately carriage, which, had they broken out in popular violence, would have been will very great difficulty resisted. The times, too, de manded, on the part of every gentleman, a train attendant, on which he could place reliance for needful defence, no less than for purposes of show. He lived surrounded by a population where law was had in little esteem. Its lie tors, the constabulary of the time, were not well qualified to add to the majesty of its terrors—to grace its pumps, or to enforce its ordinances. The military, narrowly limited in numbers, and widely dispersed, could do little more than retain the towns, and occasionally make demonstra tions of strength, to overawe a turbulent district. Every landed proprietor was thus taught to feel that he must find protection in his stout heart and practised arm, and in the services of his faithful retainers. Thus each gentle- man, according to his property and degree, had a train more or less numerous, constituting, whatever he chose to ca 1 it, what was substantially his body-guard. The sys tem or fashion might be described as general throughout the country. The gentleman had his followers—the poor man of influence had his faction. All had something to look to for protection, different from, and often opposed to, the laws which all professed to live under.—The Ne villes of Garretslown, in Dublin University Magazine. TOM PINCH IN HIS HAPPY RETIREMENT.—What sounds are these that fall so grandly on the ear! What darkened room is this ! And that mild figure seated at an organ, who is he ? Ab Tom, dear Tom, old friend ! Thy head is prematurely grey, though Time has passed between thee and our old association, Tom. But in those sounds with which it is thy wont to bear the twilight com pany, the music of thy heart speaks out: the story of thy life relates itself. Tny life is tranquil, calm, and happy, Tom. In the soft strain which ever and again comes stealing hack upon the ear, the memory of thine old love may find a voice perhaps; but it is a pleasant, softened, whispering memory, l i ke that in which we sometimes hold the dead, and does not pain or grieve thee, God be thanked ! Touch the notes lightly, Tom, as lightly as thou wilt, but never will thine hand fall half so lightly on that Instrument as on the head of thine old tyrant brought down very, very low; and never w• 11 it make as hollow a response to any touch of thine, as he does always. For a drunken, begging, squalid-letter-writing man, called Pecksniff, with a shrewish datighTe-, haunts thee, Tom; and when he makes appeals to the for cash, reminds thee that he built thy fortunes better than his own ; and when he spends it, entertains the ale-house company, will tales of thine ingratitude and his munificence towards thee once upon a time; and then he Miens his elbows worn in holes, and puts his soleless shoes up, on a bench, and begs his auditors look there; while thou art comfortably housed and clothed. All known to thee, and } et all borne with, Tom ! So. with a smile upon thy face, thou passest gen tly to another measure; to a quicker and more joyful one; and little feet are used to dance about thee at the sound; and bright young eyes to glance up into thine. And there is one sight creature, Tom—her child ; not Ruth's —whom thine eyes follow in the romp and dance : who, wondering sometimes to see thee look so thoughtful, runs to climb up on thy knee, and put her cheek to thine : who loves thee, Tom, above the test, if that can be : and falling sick once, chose thee for her nurse: and never knew impatience, Tom, when Thou wert by her side. Thou glidest now, into a graver air : an air devoted to old friends and byegone times; and in thy lingering touch upon the keys, and the rich swelling of the mellow har mony, they rise befere thee. The spirit of that old man dead, who delighted to anticipate thy wants, and never ceased to honour thee, is there, among the rest : repeat ing, with a face composed and calm, the words he said to thee upon his bed, and blessing thee! And coming from a garden, Tom : bestrewn with flowers by children'a bands : thy sister little Ruth, as light of foot and heart as in old days, sits down beside thee. From the Present, and the Past, with which she is so tenderly entwined in all thy thoughts, thy strain soars onward to the Future. As it resounds within thee and without, thy kindling face looks on ber with a Love and Trust, that knows it cannot die. The noble music, rolling round her in a cloud of melody, shuts out the grosser prospect of an earthly part ing, and uplifts her, Tom, to Heaven !—Martin Chuz zlewit. AN IRISH SHERIFF IN 1760.—" You must know, sir," said the old gentleman, Mr. Chamberlain, to the stranger who afforded him a convenient opportunity of relating his knowledge, " You must know that one of the Maras was foster brother to Mr. Prittyman of Gayville, and had be side the strongest faction in the country. The petition was ready to be sent up to Dublin Castle, and all the pri soners had to do was to get a long day from the time of the sentence. Well, it was dark in the evening when the jury came in with the verdict. You could not see a fea ture in any man's face. But there was not much thought about the thing for awhile. Every one knew the fellows must be brought in gu Ity. The judge, Judge Crofton, put on the black cap, and Sir Thomas Brazier, the sheriff, standing at his side—he passed sentence of death, and Mara says, firm enough, though his voice was not quite stout, ' A long day, my lord.'—Not a word for a while from the judge. He made Sir Thomas Brazier sit at his side on the bench. You never saw in your life anything like the court-house. A kind of unknown terror seemed to be creeping in the dimness through people's hearts, and the place was so silent that the whispering of the judge and the sheriff, although the meaning of their words could not be made out, could be heard—we all heard it through the whole court. At last the judge speaks up, and speaks to the prisoners. They were to be taken from the dock to the prison, where their bolts were to be stricken off, and they were to be taken thence without a pause to the place of execution, where they were to die. Oh ! sir, death is dreadful enough in its mildest form— hut such a form as that. If there was terror in the si lence of the court, what was it to the shout of horror when this terrible sentence was given. But Brazier was ready for every thing. He had sixty liverymen that year; he had all the constables, such as they were, of the county. They took off the men from the dock, in a faint, and be fore an hour they were dead. To be sure they were des perate villains, highwaymen, and murderers : and this I must say, the gang they commanded has disappeared from the country ; but all wont do for Brazier. if he was to live as long as his grandfather, who followed the hounds when he was eighty-six years of age, and lived to an hun dred, that one night would never be forgotten or forgiven to him.—The Nevilles of Garretetown, in Dublin Uni versity Magazine. THE CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE LIFE OF DON JOSEPH OF PORTUGAL —OH the night of the 3d o f Sep , telpher, 1758, as the king was returning to his palace at night in a cabriolet, attended only by his valet, two men on horseback, armed with blunderbusses, rode up to the carriage, and levelled their weapons at the monarch. One of them missed fire, the other failed of its effect. The royal postilion, in alarm, rushed forward, when two men, similarly waiting in the road, galloped after the carriage, and both fired their blunderbusses into it behind. The cabriolet was riddled with slugs, and the king was wounded in several places. By an extraordinary presence of mind, Don Joseph, instead of ordering the postilion to gallop onward, directed him instantly to turn back, and, to avoid alarming the palace, carry him direct to the house of . the court surgeon. B y th i s fortunate order, he escaped the other groups of the conspirators, who were stationed further on the road, and by whose repeated discharges he would probably have fallen. The public alarm and indig nation on the knowledge of this desperate atrocity was un bounded. There seemed to be but one man in the king dom who preserved hiz composure, and that one was Pombal. Exhibiting scarcely even the natural perturbs.: tion at an event which had threatened almost a national convulsion, he suffered the whole to become a matter of doubt, and a ll owe d t h e king ' s retirement from the public eye to be c ons id ered as merely the effect of accident. The public desp a t c h o f Mr. Hay, the British envoy at Lisbo n . alludes to it, c hi e fl y as assi g ning a reason for the delay of a court morning —the order for this etiquette, on the death of the Spanish queen, no' having been put in execution. The envoy mentions that it had been impeded by the king's illness,—" it being the custom of the court to put on gala 'when any of the royal family are blooded. When I went to court to enquire slier his majesty's health, I was the re i n f ormed that the king, on Sunday night the 3d Instant, passing through a gallery to go to the queen's apartment, had the misfortune to fall and bruise his right arm; he had b een bl ooded eight different times; and, as his majesty is a f a t b u lk y man, to prevent any humours fixing there, his phy s i c i ans h are advised that he should not use his arm, but abstain from business for some time. In consequence, the queen was declared regent during Don Joseph's illness." This was the public version of the event. B u t appen d e d to the despatch was a post script, in cypher. stating the rsality of the transaction. Pombal's sagacity, and his self-control, perhaps a still rarer quality among the possessors of power, were exhi bited in the strongest light on this occa , ion. For three months not a single s'ep appeared to be taken to punish, or even to detect the assassins. The subject WAS allowed to die away ; when, on the 9th of December. all Portugal was startled by a royal decree, declaring the crime, and offering rewards for the seizure of the assassins. Some days afterwards Lisbon heard, with astonishment. an or der for the arrest of the Duke of Aveira, one of the first nobles, and master of the royal household ; the arrest of the whole family of the Marquis of Tavora, himself, his two sons, his four brothers, and his two sons-in-law. Other nobles were also seized ; and the Jesuits were for bidden to be seen out of their houses. The three months of Pombal's apparent inaction had been incessantly em ployed in researches into the plot. Extreme caution was evidently necessary, where the criminals were among the highest officials and nobles, seconded by the restless and formidable machinations of the Jesuits. When his proofs were complete, he crushed the conspirators at a single grasp. His singular inactivity had disarmed them ; and nothing but the most consummate composure could have prevented their flying from justice. On the 12th of Ja nuary, 1759, they were found guilty; and on the 13th they were put to death, to the number of nine, with the Marchioness of Tavora, in the square of Belem. The scaffold and the bodies were burned, and the ashes thrown into the sea. Those were melancholy acts; the works of melancholy times. But as no human crime can be so fa tal to the security of a state as regicide, no imputation can fall on the memory of a great minister, compelled to exercise justice in its severity, for the protection of all or ders of the kingdom. In our more enlightened period, we must rejoice that those dreadful displays of judicial power have passed away, and that laws are capable of being art_ ministered without the tortures, or the waste of life. which agonise the feelings of society. Yet, while blood for blood continued to be the code; while the sole prevention of crime was sought for in the the security of judgment; and while even the zeal of justice against guilt was measured by the terrible intensitrof the punishment —we must charge the horror of such sweeping executions to the ignorance of the age, much more than to the vengeance o power.—Blackwocd'g Magazine. GENERAL MISCELLANY. Steam-tugs, with screw propellers, have been success. fully introduced cn the Union Canal from Glasgow. At the present time passengers are actullly being con veyed from Newcastle to London, by steam boat, at the rate of two shillings per head. The clear profit of the late ball given for the benefit of the Polish refugees, after payment of all expenses, ex ceeded £l,OOO. Mr. t-igh, a gentleman of fortune in Herefordshire, has joined the Church of Rome, and removed his son from one of our leadirg public schools to Oscott. _ - Two extensive fires occured in London, on Friday night. One of them destro‘ed the premises called Grange-house, Grange-road, and the other .consumed the house and stock of a pawnbroker in Whitechapel. POST-OFFICE COMMITTEE:'--The secret committee ap pointed to inquire into the regulations of the Post-office met on Friday morning at twelve o'clock. Sir James Graham was in attendance. There is at present in the possession of a greengrocer, named Robinson, residing at Windsor Bridge, Manchester, a white mare-pony, which has attained the remarkable age of forty-nine years. In the case of tobacco smuggling invested at the Man sion -house, London, last week, it was stated that 20,0001b5. had been lately cleared out of the Custom-house in Dutch cheeses. CHESTER CHEESE FAIR.—At this fair, on Thursday, the supply was 150 tons. As is usual at th's advanced period, the demand was very brisk, at an advance on the last fair of 7s. per cwt. Prices ruled generally 555. to 655. CURTOUS.—During a thunder-storm, at London, on Monday evening, the l'ghtning struck the clock of St. Clement's Church. in the Strand, and sent the minute hand, which was at ten minutes past six o'clock, back five minutes, when the clock stopped. GREAT FOOT RACE.—On Monday last the great foot race, for £5O a-side, between William Jackson. the "American Deer," and Thomas Maxfield, the " North Star," was run at Peckham, and terminated in favour of the former, who beat his opponent with the greatest ease. The Pope is abort to canonise the late Princess Bor ghese, the daughter of the Earl of Shrewsbury, who died four years ago. She cannot, however, be recognised as a saint until half a century has elapsed from the time of her death. COOPERS' STAVES.—Mr. Gladstone, in the House of Commons, on Tuesday, said that after obtaining the fullest information on the subject, it was not the inten tion of her Majesty's government to propose any reduc. tion of duty on coopers' staves during the present session. THE PRIZE GLEES.—The King of Hanover having offered a premium of 30 guineas for the best glee, and 20 guineas for the second best, the adjudication took place on Tuesday, at a meeting of the Catch Club, when Mr. T. Cooke and Mr. J. B. Sale were the successful candi dates, of whom there were five. ARCHERY.—Above 100 gentlemen, members of various a•chery societies in England and Scotland, have entered their names as competitors at the Grand National Archery Meeting which is to take place at York, on the Ist of August nest. Prizes to the amount of about £l5O will be shot for, at a distance of sixty, eighty, and one hundred yards. THE BERTHDDIJ ESTATE, LLANWRST.--Last week this fine estate was sold in lots by the celebrated George Robins. The rental was estimated at £l7OO per annum ; and the price realised was upwards of 70,000 guineas, ex ceeding on the average forty-two years' purchase. I' is stated that another large estate, of the value of £150,000, will speedily fall under the same hammer. In the case of Lane v. Ironmonger, tried in the Court of Queen's Bench, the other day, the jury refused to make the defendant responsible for an extravagant milliner's bill incurred by his wife, whom the plaintiff had supplied with ten new bonnet., of which nine had been afterwards altered, and with forty-three pairs of gloves in seven months. OPENING LETTERS AT THE POST-OFFICE.—The Morning Herald says :—We do not see why we should disguise a truth openly confessed within this fortnight, in the most august presence in the country, that all Mr. •O'Connell's letters were opened and read by his Whig friends at the very time when they held office by favour of him and his tail." BOAT DESTROYED BY A WhALE.—Last week a boat belonging to Orkney, engaged in the herring fishing at the Lewis, while proceeding to sea for the prosecution of the fishing, was struck by an immense whale, and so much shattered, that she almost immediately sunk. The crew clung to the mast an oars, and were taken up by another boat.—John 0' G r ad Journal. DREADFUL DEATH.—On Sabbath last, as a coach was proceeding towards the village of Green end, a boy, about twelve years of age, leaped up on the back, and by the force of the spring he made, his head got jammed between the hind wheel and the body of the coach. The coachman was quite unconscious of the accident, and had proceeded about 500 yards from the place, when he was called to by some persons on the road. On the boy being taken down, he was found to be quite dead. —G lasgow Na lional. WINDOW DUTIES.—A correspondence has lately taken place between the Metropolitan Improvement Society and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on a proposed modifi cation of the window duties, for the purpose of insuring a better mode of ventilating the houses of the metropolis, the result of which is, that Mr. Pressley, of the Stamp and Taxes Office, has been authorised to explain distinctly, that every aperture admitting light, however made, and through whatever material, whether in a cellar, water closet, &c., of a house, is liable to the window duties ; but if holes are made for the purposes of ventilation only, and not for giving light, then they are not liable to the charge. LAMENTABLE IGNORANCE.—A singular circumstance arising ou t o f a man ' s i gnorance o f any difference between theoand recently Old held b New Testament, ivtarnier. nt,Hoigcgcst7 where ated on aceoroner's inquest, of the jurors summoned was of the Hebrew pursuasion. Jews are, of course, always sworn upon the Bible, and the coroner ordered a man to go for a copy of the Old Testa ment After some delay the man returned, and it was stated amid the laughter of the. Court, that he bad been looking for a literally Old Testament , n amel y , a co py of the Scriptur es , published some time ago, and one which, from its ragged and worn appearance, afforded proof that it was an old one. — Landon paper. A LARGE CHIMNEY,—There has just b:Tn completed a chimney of unusual height and magnitude in Manches ter, et the works of Messrs. Sterling and Beckion, Loner Morley-street. The base of the chimney is 21 feet, its form octagonal, and its hekht 76 yards, or 228 fret. The number of bricks used in its conatruction are said to be nearly half a nullion ; and its probable cost aid exceed £l2OO. Tweety-one persons dined in its caracious well on Saturday evening last, at the cost of the spirited pro prietors. 140,000 bricks were consumed in ra sing the foundation to the level of the greund. BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, JULY s.—We have still a very heavy sugar market, and purchases continue to be made for immediate wants only. The transactions since our last report are something under 600 casks Wert India, chiefly strong pan qualities and good bright grocery de scriptions; but for the lower kinds—of which the suptly on show principally consists—there is scarcely any de mand. Prices are much the same as last week, although in some instances the turn has again been rather in favour of the purchaser. No sales are reported in IVlauritat , , and the transactions in Bengals are unimportant. Rum is in fair demand at the former value. Gazetted average price of Sugar, July 2, is 34s lid, per cwt. CHESHIRE AGRICULTURAL PROTECTIVE SOCIETY.— The divisional committee for South Cheshire assembled at the Royal Hotel, in Crewe, on Friday week. In the unavoidable absence of the noble chain, an, Lord Corn bermere, Randle Wilbraham, Junr., Esq., was called upon to preside. Rep its from various district cammit tees were presented and discussed, and other business was transacted. It was also agreed to recommend to the general committee, that a grant be made to the Agricul tural Protection Society established in London ; and that a petition to parliament be prepared, praying for a revi sion of the import duties on cheese and other dairy pro duce, with a view of securing to the firmer a more adequate protection against foreign competition. The committee adjourned till Wednesday, August 21. ATTEMPTED MURDER.—Ori Thursdry atternoon Mr. Samuel Johnson arrited at ho me , i n Redeross-street, Southwark, to dinner from Billingsgate-market, at which place he is a salesman, when he found his wife inebriated, and no dinner provided for him or h's family. He re monstrated with her for her conduct, and was about to leave the house, when his wife, in a state of frenzy, seized a table-knife, and stabbed him in the back of the head, just below the scalp. He was taken to Guy's Hospital, a here it was ascerta'ned that the knife had entered with great force between the nape of the neck aid the skull bone, against which it had struck, and that. little hopes were entertained of the man's recovering. The wife was taken into custody. LONDON Doexs.—The half-yearly meeting of the London Dock Company was held on Monday. The Dock returns dwing the half-year ending the 31st May last were £173,888 Bs. 5d., including the profit on the sale of London Dock stock hsld by the company; the nett revenue from the business transactions during the halayear being £160.169 ls. id. Important improve ments had been effected in the warehousing and other departments, especially in the West Qua), where four separate warehouses - were available. Owing to the in creased operations of the company, the directors were enabled to recommend a further augmentation in the di vidend, viz., to £2 ss. per cent., for the half-year, and which would still leave a balance in favour of the company of £420. ROASTING A BAILIFF.—It was asserted in the courtat Dudley, some few weeks back, by one of an ill-used fra ternity, that "it was quite a common thing for bailiffs to be ripped up and stuck !" The gangs of ruffians that frequently appear before the Courts, both et Stourbridge and Dudley, upon similar charges, would make it appear less of a joke than at the time we were inclined to treat it. On Wednesday last, Bennett, the deputy-beadle of the Court of Request, charged Joseph Mills, Martha Heath cot, and others, with attempting to put him on the fire, at a house called the " Little Pig," kept by Mr. Watts. It appeared that Bennett went to serve a process upon one of the prisoners, when he was attacked by the whole of the parties then before the bench, with others who had not been apprehended. It was clearly proved that the officer had been in danger of burning. The prisoners were fined 10s. and costs, or one month's imprisonment; they were locked up in default of payment.—Worcestee paper. INDOMITABLE PERSEVERANCE.—SOIDe two or three years ago it was stated that Mr. Fitzgerald, the o vner of extensive property at Pendleton, near Manchester, had, at an immense outlay, sunk two coal-pits at the extra ordinary depth of 425 yards, and at which depth he had what is termed in the north " won the mine ; ' a mine of seven feet in thickness, besides having passed through three or four other considerable beds of coal at an easier depth. It was also subsequently stated, that all the im mense outlay was rendered useless by a sudden and over powering irruption of water, which even the cast-iron tubbing, with which the pits were lined, could not with stand, and that the mine, in consequence, was so com pletely inundated that to work it was impossible, and that the works therefore for the moment had to be abandoned. Mr. Fitzgerald, however, is not the man whose purposes are to thwarted by trifles, nor even by difficulties, that to most men would appear insurmountable. He has de termined to use three steam-engines of, in all, 450 horse power. These are in preparation, and will be set to work with all possible celerity. DIALOGUE ON DIVORCE.—At a certain board of guar dians, in Glamorganshire, the following dialogue took place between one of the guardians and a pauper named John Williams, better known by the sohriquet of Will Bright, one: of the class on whom the usual test" of the house had been ' , sorted to in vain .—Guardian—" Well, John, the board are of opinion that yourself and family have been sufficiently long in the horse. and that you ought t., go and seek employment." Pauper—" I am very willing to work, and with the permission of the board will leave on Guardian—" Accompanied by your wife and family." Pauper, looking seriowdy— " I have got no wife." Guardian—" No wife!" Pauper —" No wife: it is true I once had a wife and children, but"—Guardian (i n t errup ti ng ) —" I s s h e not your wife who stands by your side ?" Pauper, surveying the woman—" She was my wife, certainly ; but when we came into the Union we were then separated by law." It is needless to add, that the board did not altogether coin cide with this Bright, though perhaps not very novel, interpretation of the New Poor Law.— Welshman. THE AFFGHAN MASSACRE.—A handsome tablet has been erected in Alverstoke Church, near Gosport, to the memory of the officers and soldiers of the 44th Regiment who fell in the Affghan war, over ‘hi h hang the colours of that ill-fated regiment. The following is the inscrip tion : " Sacred to the memory of Colonel T. Mackrell, A.D.C. to Her Majesty; Major W. B. Scott, Captain T. swaine, Captain R. B. M'Crea, Captain F. R. Leighton, Captain T. Robinson, Captain F. C. Colli 5, Lieutenant W. H. Dodgin, Lieutenant W. G. White, Lieutenant W. G. Wade, Lieutenant H. Cadett, Lieu tenant S. Swinton, Lieutenant F. J. C. Fortye. Lieutenant A. W. Gray. Paymaster T. Bourke, Lieutenant and Qu rtermaster R. B. Halah in, Surgeon J. Harcourt, Assistant-surgeons W. Balfour arid W. Primrose, and 645 r on•cornman ing officers and soldiers of the 44th Regiment, who fell upon the field of battle in the disastrous Affghan war of 1841 and 1812. They sank witl• arms in their hands, unconquered. hut overpowered by the united horrors of climate, treachery. and barbarous war fare; their colours, saved by Captain J. Souter, one of the few survivors, hang above this stone, which is erected to their me mory by the Officers of the 44th Regiment. —June, 1844. " And if Thy people Israel be put to the worse before the enemy, because they have sinned against Thee; and shall re turn and confe s Thy name, and pray and make supplication before Thee in this house; then hear Thou from the Heavens, and forgive the sins of Thy people Israel.'-6th chap er of the second book of Chronicles, 24th and 25th verses." A SHARP Alen A FLAT.—Our horse fair last Monday was not very prolific in acts of swindling; or if it were but few of them have been brought to light. One little case, however, has reached our ears, which we record for the warning of the credulous portion of the public. As the tale goes, a respectably dressed man, with a tidy looking nag for sale, accosted a farmer of this neighbour hood in the fair on Monday, and after some preliminary confab told our unsuspecting rustic that he had been offered a reasonable price for his horse by a dealer; but he could not accept it, because he was the son of a clergy man, and had made his papa a faithful promise to have no transaction in the way of buying or selling with any mere horse-dealer. A man standing near was pointed out as the dealer referred to, and this clergyman's son said the offer made for his horse was £4O. Now, he was very anxious to get rid of the animal, and generously offered to give his conscience the go-by, and put a couple of so vere,gns into the farmer's pocket at the same time, by selling him for £3B the nag which he might immediately dispose of for £4O. The farmer seized the bait and struck the bargain at once ; but not having any cash in his pocket, he walked with the conscientious clergyman's son up to Messrs. Foster's bank, and there drew a cheque for the money, which he handed over to the stranger, in exchange for his £4O horse. Thus far all seemed fair and above board ; but on returning to the fair for the purpose of pocketing his commission of £2, the farmer looked in vain for the dealer : he and his friend were missing. This excited suspicion, and now for the first time the horse was examined : like some other cattle, he was all outside show, and his blemishes, skilfully concealed, were found to be so numerous, that £5 was his utmost value !—Cam bridge Chronicle. THE COLLIERS' STRIKE.—The pitmen's strike has now continued upwards of three months, and is yet without any certain indication of its speedily terminating. The coal owners are unanimously determined to resist the unrea sonable demands of their late workmen, and, at a delegate meeting held in this town, on Wednesday, it was resolved_ unanimouslylonger," in n t that he r ai t n h the hopest str ike h e a s t h o t nh the d be coal-owners ao w maintained" we rs wo length give way. The owners are using great exertions supply the places of their late workmen, by lh i nridreds of other parties from a distance, and severa The de luded have been imported into the district . hardships, " turn-outs" are suffering the greatest_ d the neighbouring and the pawnbrokers' shops in this an or two towns are daily resorted to. At one we have seen several broking establishments in this town, neighbouring collie 'ye from the cart loads of furniture arrive from affray took place would l l d i t little ries in the course of the d s T on, - o d hfotuhsee n r e no a rf r alß C ep a nn s i t l.a l ic e me E i.n de . G n n r r e b a ° e e r d n t r u w aw e n e e in t e isi n g ,. a ue a d for the apprehension of several pit it appears, were issued d to a party of rural policemen, who proceeded effected re ainn search. They they were concealedte oft he menin a a t o m o w o nnfr e e dw a rl aceertrcteeooahfauvwmuatipsrrnoetgabgdhnesae.rty. hwemo • The n charged with riot and assault, and these warrants o The police having discovered the re treat of the rioters, in d e of the parties ch su a p rg e e rin , te p n r d o e e n e t ed t e h d en thi e t n h d e e r gain loft, andae access s o s n t being e the h n eg loloft, summoned santidleipntool id surrender r t ee h rc e ee y iavremd perempto rily several rtahl av in ou a re b d od t y severe blows on the head from an adze and an iron lever cutlasses, rushed forward, and a desperate conflict ensued. Greenwell, who wielded the crow bar with furious energy, was overpowered after he had received five dangerous wounds about the abdomen and chest, and the whole gang were ultimately captured, after wounds and bruises had been plentifully distributed on both sides.—Newcastle Journal. July 9, igiL THE LATE STEAM SHIP MANCHESTER.—By the Hamburg, Captain Brown, .re learn that the engines of the Manchester had been found upon the Ressen sand. about tour miles north of the entrance of the Elbe, and al - out one mile south of the entrance of the Elder; they' were in two fathoms .water at low water. pn Sunday week the body of a lady was picked up, he'? linen was marked M.A.S. or H.A.S. Nine waggon loads of bale goods was picked up on the sands between the wreck and Holstean, and had been landed at Cuxhaven, where they were advertised for sale. Further accounts from Cuxha ven state that large quantities of the cargo of the Man chester'continue to be found. ACCIDENT ON THE THAMES.—On Sunday week two young men were in a boat on the Thames, near Westmin ster-bridge, when the Thunder,. a river steamer, ran into them at the top of her speed. One of them was whirled round by the paddle-wheel and was seen no more. lie must have been dreadfully mangled, as parts of his gar ments adhered to the wheel. The other passed under the paddles, and was immediately after picked up in a state of insensibility, about one hundred yards astern of the Thunder, which passed over the boat with such force as to cut the handle of a mop in two as if it had been done by a hatchet. He lingered in great agony until next morning, when he expired. HORRIBLE DEATH.--In the village of Ensham, Ox fordshire last week, a wild young fellow slightly stabbed two men in a drunken quarrel, for which he was put in the cage; he begged he might not be locked up alone, and offeted money to any one who would sit up with him, but in vain ; they locked him in, end had not left him in long when they found the cage was on fire. It was some time before the constable who had the key could be found, and when the door was at last opened, the flames rushed forth to such a degree that they could not get the poor wretch out till water bad been thrown in to extinguish them. The maa was then dragged out quite insensible, though not de d, and dreadfully scorched. Dr. Hitchinet from Oxford, arrived just in time to see him expire. THE MURDER AND SUICIDE AT WORCESTER.—The miserable man, Jabez Hooper who, the w ee k b e f ore l as t, at Worcester, to o k away the life of his nephew, and then attempted self-deAructinn, died on Saturday week from * the effects of the wound in his throat. He had not exhi bited any symptoms of insanity, but appeared anxious to know the result of the inquest on his nephew. It seems • that Jabez Hooper formerly kept a draper's shop at Ab berley, and is respectably connected ; but about twelve months ago removed to Worcester, and has been living at his brother's, in Pheasant -street, in that city. There • does not appear to have been the slightest ill-will subsist ing between him and his brother's family: on the contrary, as was stated by the mother of the ill-fated deceased on the inquest, he was rather fond of her children, and they were equally as fond of him. SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE.--On Sunday, a Free Church congregation in our neighbourhood was not a little surprised, during divine service, by the appearance of a pigeon in the church. The innocent intruder came in at one of the open windows, and after flying round the church, made fir the pulpit, and alighted on the clergyman's right arm, who being somewhat annoyed with his freedom, made a slight motion with his head, whereupon his antediluvian friend again made the circuit of the church, and perched upon his left arm ; but being again removed from this po sition, the bird rested on the Bible. Forced to remove from the sacred volume he seated himself upon the rev. gentleman's head. Being again driven from his high es tate, he could find no resting place, till the c:lurch officer, after several fruitless attempts, succeeded in securing him. This circumstance has put the superstitious in the parish to their wit's end, in corning to a just conclusion for the appearance of this emblem of peace. What is not a little - remarkable, the bird was a wood pigeon.—Rossshire Ad vertiser. STRANGE CASE.—A very singular action-at-law is going on at Leicester, it is said at the suggestion of Mr. Muggeride. A master stockinger, named Cummins, hav ing charged high rent, is now sued by one of his journey men for all the frame rent be has paid for the last six years, the commissioner having given it as his opinion that frame rent cannot be legally stopped without a special written agreement. It is a matter of great interest to this &strict, as it involves a question as to the value of stock ing frames which certainly cost more than £600,000. The commissioner has been noticed going to Tamworth and London, apparently to confer with ministers; and, there fore, it is but fair to supp , se that this action, which has for its tendency the abolition of frarze rent, has the coun tenance of the Cabinet. Should this take place, one house in Nottingham will lose an income of more than £2,000 per annum. To us the action appears more than absurd, as it has been the castoff' of the trade to pay frame rent for more than a century and a half. The holders of frames (not being hosiers) are extremely numerous, and the abolition of frame rent would reduce many of them to penury. It is suspected by many enlightened workmen to be a free-trade snare.—Aoltingharn Journal. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTE RSALL'S—TH URSDAY. THE GOODWOOD STAKES. 10 to 1 agst Lnrd Bentinck's Croton Oil. 12 to 1 „ The Duke of Richmond's Red Deer. 16 to 1 „ Mr. Wreford's Franchise —taken. 17 to 1 Colonel Peel's Canton. 18 to 1 „ The Duke of Richmond's The Courier—tkn. 18 to 1 „ Mr. Meiklarn's The Best of Three. 18 to 1 „ Mr. Irwin's Ihe Pride of Kildare. 18 to 1 „ Mr. Johnstone's The Era. 18 to 1 ~ Mr. Shelley's Lucy Banks. 20 to 1 „ Colonel Anson's Parthian—taken. 20 to 1 ~ Lord Exeter's Elegance filly. 20 to 1 „ Sir S. Spry's Subduer. Franchise was backed to win a good stake at various prices, commencing at 19 to 1, and finishing at 16 to 1. The betting in other respects, although it embraced an extensive list of favourites, had nothing in the shape of novelty to recommend it beyond the advance of Croton Oil to 10 to 1. GOODWOOD CUP. 6 to 4 asst Mr. Salvin's Alice Hawthorn—taken. 9to 1 „ Mr. Bell's The Squire—taken. 20 to 1 „ Lord Verulam's Robert de Gorham—taken. ST. LEGER. 4 to 1 agst Mr. Williimson's The Cure—taken. 7to 1 „ Lotd qanley's Ithuria—taken. Bto 1 ~ Colonel Anson's The Princess —taken. Bto 1 „ Mr. J. Day's Ugly Buck—taken. 11 to 1 ~ Mr. J. Scott's Bay Momus—token. 12 to 1 „ Tne Duke of Richmond's Red Deer—taken. 20 to 1 „ Mr. H. Robinson's Morpeth—taken. 25 to 1 „ Mr. Irwin's Poig-a-Ballgah—taken. The Cure was backed, for two or three hundred pounds, at 4 to 1 ; Ithuriel freely at 18 to 1, and in some instances at a point less ; the Princess at 8 to 1 ; and Bay Momus at 10 and 11 to 1 : the investments much heavier than We have noticed since the Derby. DERBY, 1845. 5000 to 100 agst Mr.fierbert's Bloodstone—afterwards off. 3000 to 50 „ Mr. Ferguson's Clear-the-Way. MAN C H ESTE R.—FRIDAY. Scarcely a dozen bets, independent of those enumerated, have been laid in the subscription-room since Tuesday. Those principally invested upon were :—Aristotle, at 16 to 1, Mickey Free, at 33, and afterwards at 25 to 1, Everton, at 33 to 1, and the British Tar, several times, at 50 to I, for the Liverpool Cup ; and 13 to 1 agst Croton Oil, 20 to 1 oast Canton, aod 25 to 1 agst Poussin, fur Goodwood Stakes, yesterday. The follo w i ng i s a ll that need be said of the business to day:— THE LIVERPOOL TRADESMEN'S CUP. 12 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam's Ari,torle. 14 to 1 „ Colonel Cradock's Pagan—offered. 16 to 1 „ Mr. Jacques's British Yeoman. 20 to 1 „ Mr. Cuthbert's Queen of the Tyne—offered. 25 to 1 „ Mr. E. J. Irwin's Mickey Free—offers to take 25 to 1 „ Colonel Anson's Arundo. 25 to 1 „ Mr. Cook's Trueboy. 25 to 1 „ Lord Eglington's Pompey—offered. 25 to 1 „ Mr. Johnstone's The Era—offered. 33 to 1 „ Mr. Speed's Everton—offered. 50 to 1 „ Mr. Jones's British Tar—offered. 000nwoon STARES. 10 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinck's Croton Oil. 12 to 1 „ Duke of Richmond's Red Deer. 16 to 1 „ Duke of Richmond's The Currier. 16 to 1 „ Colonel Peel's Canton—taken. 18 to 1 ~ Mr. Meiklam's The Best of Three. 20 to 1 ~ Mr. Forth's Lucy Banks. 20 to 1 „ Mr. Meiklam's Poussin. GOODWOOD CUP. 6 to 4 agst Mr. Salvia's Alice Hawthorn--taken. 9to 1 „ Mr. Bell's The Squire—offered. ST. LSGER. 1 agst Mr. Salvin's The Cure. 1 „ Lord Stanley's lthuriel—offered. 1 „ Mr. John Day's Ugly Buck. 1 „ Duke of Richmond's Red Deer. 4 to 6 to 8 to 10 to THE RUNNING Itaiv CASE.— The noblemen an d gen tlemen of the Jockey Club, several proprietors of race horses, and others interested in the honour and prosperity of the turf, intend to present Lord George Bentinck with a piece of plate, to mark thew sense of the i mmense ser vice ahnedhdaes rendered featingthetaotttehme p r t a a ci t n f g ra c u o d m e M xp u o ni sed y in the lee t r ial in the Court of Exchequer. Th e subscript i o n is coo oofile0; ford and the University of Cambridge was commenced on Thursday, and continued on Friday, but the weather Will so wet that it w as f ound impossible to play it out, and was, therefore, given up by the Cambridge, who, of course, were the vanquished party, seeing that their op ponents had headed them by 27 runs on the first innings- CRICKET. —Some important alterations have been made by the Marylebone Club with the law of cricket, especially with reference to the " wide balls,;' which are in future W tell the sa me as " no b alls. " The rules relat i ve t o wide balls are as follow :—"lf the bowler toss the ball over the striker's h ea d, or b ow l i t so w id e t h at i t s h a ll be ou t of distance to be played at, the umpire, (even though p . e attempt to hit it) shall adjudge one run to the parti e s receiving the innings, eith e r w ith or w ithout an aPPFr e from them, and sh a ll be p u t d own t o th e score of viT , , balls. 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