The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-12-07 00:00:00

Eittraturt. VARIETIES. To do what God would have us to do, and to intend to -do it—this is the whole duty of man. Live not so much upon the comforts of God as upon the God of comforts.—Mason. The late Bishop of Norwich, Dr. Bathurst, was the youngest of 00y-six brothers and sisters. A KING'S SPEECH.—George 111., after opening the Session of Parliament, asked the Chancellor—" Did deliver the speech well 1" " Very well, sir," was Lord 111don's answer. "I am glad of it (replied the king) for there was nothing in it."—Pounder's Literary Extracts. BREAD AND MILK FOR CHILDREN.—Never allow milk to boil—it loses most of its nutritious quality by so doing. „Place it in the oven, or warm it in a raucepan—the former is best. Let it be lukewarm. The bread may be soaked in a basin by a little hot water, with a plate over to steam it previous to pouring the milk in.—Dr. Hodgkin. BENEFIT OF CLERGY.—The following notice appears at the doors of the Temple Church:—" Divine service will commence on Monday morning at 9 o'clock, and continue until further notice." It strikes us that there must be a mistake in the above notice somewhere. Com ment would be ridiculous.—Punch. THE Too BLucs.—Accounts from Vera Cruz state, -that four companies of Massachusetts Volunteers have been put under arrest for refusing to wear a blue uniform like the Regulars. The poor fellows may have felt, in their peculiar position, that they looked regularly blue without that. A HINT.--A King of Persia sent to a tribe of Be douins, the caliph Mustapha, a very celebrated physician, who inquired on his arrival how they lived. "We never eat till we are hungry, and then not to repletion," was the answer. " I may retire then," said the doctor," I Lave no business here." SHOOTING.—To be let, the exclusive right of shooting over the whole county of Tipperary for the present season. The game is exceedingly abundant, consisting chiefly of overseers, landlords, bailiffs, cess-collectors, process bervers, government pay-clerks, and occasionally a few women and children.—Applications to be made to Arch deacon Laffan.—No Saxon need apply.—Punch. EFFECT OF FRENCH NOVELS.-Dr. Campbell re marks that " Recent events in France have shown that French novels have all but dissolved the bonds of French society ; and Professor Potter, of the United States has proved that there, too, the French novels, with which that `country is deluged, are the seeds of robbery, incen diarism, piracy, and midnight assassination.' Now, these self-same novels are filling England, and menacing it with the ruin of all that was once its glory, and is still its hope." A SINGULAR STORY.—Lord Dalmeny, son of the Earl of Rosebery, married, about eight years ago, a widow, at Bath, for her beauty. They went abroad ; she sickened, and on her death-bed requested that she might be interred in some particular churchyard either in Suffolk or Sussex, I forget which. The body was embalmed, but, at the custom-house in the port where it was landed, the officer suspected smuggling, and insisted on opening it. They recognised the features of the wife of their own clergyman; who, having been married to him against her own inclina tions, had eloped. Both husbands followed the body to the grave. The grand-father of Dr. Smith, of r< orwich, knew the lord.—The Doctor, by Southey. TO MAKE HENS LAY PERPETUALLY.—Hens will lay eggs perpetually, if treated in the following manner : Keep no roosters ; give the hens fresh meat, chopped up like saussage-meat, once a day, a very small portion—say half an ounce a day—to each hen, during the winter, or from the time insects disappear in the fall till they appear again in spring. Never allow any eggs to remain in the nest, for what is called nest-eggs. If no nest eggs are left in the nest, the hens will not cease laying after the pro duction of twelve or fifteen eggs, as they always do when roosters and nest eggs are allowed, but continue laying perpetually. The only reason why hens do not lay in winter as freely as in summer, is the want of animal food, which they get in summer in abundance, in the shape of insects. . ABOUT KEEPING EGGS.--I k new a very experienced and attentive housekeeper, who had a long shelf with some 20 or 30 dozen holes into which she put her eggs, buying them when they were cheap, and turned them upside down every other day. By this means she kept them during the winter fit for the breakfast table as well as for the cook. There is another equally good. Place a hoop on the floor of a room, and within the circumference of the hoop place a quantity of eggs ; every other day draw the hoop gently backwards and forwards, and the eggs remain fresh as above. A third way, one practised in my house, is to line the bottom of a drawer with longitudinal partitions loosely papered, and every other day pull the drawer out a few times somewhat gently, as well as just running the hand over them once a week, and the eggs remain fresh as before. A fourth way—a wholesale way— would be to pack a quantity in a small tub, and turn the tub upside down every other day. The eggs may be bought as early as August, and last year, I am informed, there was not one bad egg.—Agricultural Gazette. HOWWANT OF CONFIDENCE PROD UCES INSUFFICIENCY OP THE CIRCULATING MEDIUM.—A low rate of circula tion is by no means incompatible with a healthy state of trade. But then, experience equally teaches us, that the low rate must be left to adjust itself. Expansion is not, as is commonly supposed, an inevitable sign - of prosperity. On the contrary, it is too commonly a token of want of commercial confidence, and an indisposition to receive that far larger but uncalculated species of currency, by means of which the great transactions of the country are carried on, and to which the whole coinage and bank paper of the realm bears a mere fractional proportion —we mean the commercial bills of exchange. The ordinary currency of the country, the bank paper and all the gold which could possibly be imported, even were it all thrown into circula tion, would be utterly insufficient to supply the place of that commercial paper which has for its basis nothing more than mutual confidence and credit ; but then that paper must be realisable as it becomes due, and it is for that purpose that a large proportion of the ordinary cur rency is required. Whenever a want of confidence is ge nerated in the country, the merchant and manufacturer are immediately compelled to have recourse to the bank in order to have their bills discounted. The facility of these discounts, of course, depends upon the amount of money in circulation, and also very much upon the rapi dity of its return in the shape of deposits or otherwise. A banker cannot, any more than a private person, discount without having money, and where no money is procurable, the ultimate result must be a stoppage. And so it is, as we know full well from the result of the last two months, during which we have witnessed the unparalleled spectacle of houses suspending payment, and exhibiting at the same time a large excess of assets beyond all their liabilities. Want of confidence, therefore, however brought about, is the great evil against which, in this country, we ought es pecially to guard, since it seems almost apparent that, when it occurs, human ingenuity is not able to provide a re med y.—Blackwood's Magazine. JUDAISM AND THE LEGISLATURE.—We are told that to exclude Jews from parliament is intolerant. What, however, is intolerance ? Etymologically it means, " non-endurance." Do we not endure the presence of Jews ? Are they not indulged and protected in the exer cise of their religion ? Do they not, in fact, by the prin cipal argument that they advance, their wealth, acknow ledge that they enjoy in equal measure with the most fa voured amongst us all the blessings of the most unbounded toleration ? We hear some whiffiers,—creatures who look only to the places men take in what is called " good so ciety," complaining in terms like these :—" Is it not a shame that Nathan this, or Lionel that, who has so much money—a house so gorgeously furnished, such splendid equipages, and such a magnificent demesne—cannot, poor fellow, have a seat in parliament, or its appendant social rank, all because the British constitution is so intolerant." But, stop gentle whiffler, we say—Where did Nathan or Lionel gain that wealth—the means of purchasing all those fine things that so dazzle your imagination and fever your tender sympathies ? He (lid not derive it from ancestors, that is clear ; he did not win it as the re ward of public services, that is equally clear. He must have accumulated his wealth by honest or dishonest in dustry under this very constitution which you call intol erant, and, what is more, under the same intolerant constitution he enjoys in perfect freedom all the plea sures that wealth can buy, except the pleasure of go verning a Christian people—a people from whom he and his fathers have voluntarily separated themselves by impassable barriers—a people with whom they will not worship in commcn, marry, or even eat. If, however, every one excluded from the House of Com mons has reason to complain of the constitution as in tolerant, what is to be said of the exclusion of the clergy ; of the exclusion of the inferior civil offi cers of the Government ; of the exclusion of pen.. sioners who have earned their pensions by real civil services ; of the exclusion of all men in England and Ire land who are not possessed of real property to the amount of £3OO per annum ; of the number of Christian foreigners domesticated amongst us ? These, numbering one hun dred fold or one thousand fold the number of Jews in the United Kingdom, are all excluded from the House of Commons on special grounds, and we hear no complaints of the exclusion ; yet it would be difficult to show that the special grounds upon which the servants of God's Word, the servants and pensioners of the Crown, the less wealthy classes of Christians, and domesticated foreign Christians, are excluded, are by one-tenth as strong as the special gounds for the exclusion of Jews. Why, for example, the Christian lawyer or physician who has not realised £3OO a year is not as fit a legislator for a generally Christian people, as a Jew, though "rich beyond the dream of ava rice. "—London Standard, MONUMENT TO SOUTHEY. A monument to the memory of the deceased poet has 'been lately erected by his friends in Crosthwaite Church, Keswick. The poet is represented in a recumbent position. The following inscription, by Wordsworth, is engraved on the lower part of the monument : Sacred to the memory of GREAT SOUTHEY, •WHOSII MORTAIREMAINS ARE INTERRED IN THE • ADJOINING CHURCHYARD. HE WAS BORN AT BRISTOL, AUGUST XII., M.DCC.LXXIv,, AND DIED, AFTER A RESIDENCE OF NEARLY XI.. YEARS, AT GRETA HALL, IN THIS PARISH, MARCH XXI., at.ccc.xLiti. "Ye vales and hills, whose beauty hither drew The poet's steps, and fixed him here, on you %His eyes have closed ! and ye, loved books, no more - Shall Southey feed upon your precious lore; TO works that ne'er shall forfeit their renown Adding immortal labours of his own. Whether he traced historic truth with zeal For the State's guidance or the Church's weal, Or fancy, disciplined by studious art, Informed his pen, or wisdom of the heart, Or judgments sanctioned in the patriot's mind, By reverence for the rights of all mankind. Wide were his aims, yet in no human breast Could private feelings find a holier nest. His joys, his griefs, have vanished like a cloud From 81addaw's top; but he to heaven has vowed Through a life long and pure; and Christian faith cultn'd in his soul the fear of change and death. ' THE BORNEO MISSION. In the Indian Ocean is situated an island of remarkable beauty, five times the size of Great Britain, and the lar gest in the known world except New Holland. It is called Borneo, (the name also of the capital), and is inhabited chiefly by two races of men, the Malays and the Dyaks. Many years ago a young Englishman, Mr. Brooke, of Widcombe-crescent, Bath, was inflamed, like Muugo Park, with the desire of visiting distant countries, and chance, or rather, the Providence of God, ulti ma t e ly di rected his course to this vast, and, to Europeans, unex plored region. Without any aid from Government that gentleman, about nine years ago, arrived at Borneo in his own yacht, armed with only six guns, and with but four European sailors. Such, however, is the moral progress that he has made, that he returns to E ng l an d w ith th e native honour of Rajah of Sarawak, a town containing a population of ten thousand inhabitants, and with the title, at the hands of his Sovereign, of her Majesty's Commis sioner for the Island of Borneo. The pirates of the Sooloo sea, we may add, have been punished and dispersed, and all things being favourable, Mr. Brooke wishes to sig nalise his return to the land of his adoption by the crown..! ing mercy of the introduction of the Gospel. In this' work he is encouraged and supported by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, and many of the clergy and laity. Mr. M'Dougal and two other gentlemen had undertaken the important and arduous work of mis sionaries, but one of them, whose heart was in the work, has been suddenly called away to a still brighter country, and scenes of unfading enjoyment. Still the effort goes on. Perhaps the following particulars of the interesting re gion, which may prove valuable as a point to which to direct the stream of emigration, may not be uninteresting: Borneo, discovered by the Portuguese in 1521, lies between the latitude 4.10 S., and 7 N., and 109.15 to 119. 25 W. longitude, being in its extreme length 775 miles, and in breadth 650, comprising a surface of 360,000 square miles. Its capital, Borneo, is close upon the coast of the Chinese sea, and the houses are built upon piles driven into the swamps, the place being inundated at high water. Trade is carried on by means of boats and wherries. Al though the country is at the equator of the globe, the air is not so excessively hot as might be expected, being fre quently refreshed with showers and cool breezes. the ther mometer varying from 82 to 94 of Farenheit. In the mon soon, from April to September, the wind is westerly, and the rains are constant and heavy, attended with violent storms of thunder and lightning. The rainy season con tinues for eight months, and during that time all the flat I country, froM ten to twenty miles from the coast, is over flowed, and the air rendered very unhealthy. For this reason the inhabitants build their houses on floats, which they make fast to trees. They have but one floor, with partitions made with canes ; and the roofs are covered with palmeetto-leaves, the eaves of which reach within four or five feet of the bottom. Some of their houses are built upon pillars, a sufficient height from the surface not to be deluged. The countries on the coast are inhabited by a mixture of Malays, Javanese, and Macassars. It seems to be here where Nature has united the chain of animated creation, and placed the ourang-outang as the connecting link between the articulating, modulating, and assigning, and instinctive; or, in other words, between the biped and the quadruped race of animals. On one side of the ourang-outang, which seems to be a native of the son of Borneo, the apes, monkeys, bears, goats, deer, horses, buffaloes, and other horned cattle, tigers, and the elephant ; whilst on the other side is a class of beings with apparently no other claim to the character of man but that of the power of articulation ; and yet, amidst this unsocial and unappreciating race of beings, Nature seems to have bestowed in lavish profusion all her most delectable gifts ; with iron, tin, and various other metals for purposes of utility, gold, diamonds, and various other precious gems for ornament, abound. It is here that the salangane, a species of swallow, constructs its edible nest, which is exchanged, to gratify the luxu rious palates of the Chinese, at a rate double its weight in silver. In the vegetable kingdom, in addition to rice and maize for substantial subsistence, the sensations of taste and smell are here to be gratified in the highest pos sible degree. Cassia, cinnamon, frankincense, and myrrh, are indigenous productions of the country. The laurtts camphoratus yields an endless abundance of its fragrant and inflammable substance; whilst agaric, musk, aloes, and various other substances and plants, are dispersed over the country in endless profusion, to aid the social and domestic economy of man, and to serve as alterna tives in case of accident or disease. On the other hand, the pernicious and poisonous class of plants and reptiles are also common, and the natives appear equally adept at applying them in revenge against their enemies, as in the application of alternatives to avoid their consequences. Thus, whilst the soil of Borneo appears susceptible, by social arrangements and due cultivation, to subsist, in a high degree of comfort and enjoyment, a fourth of the whole population of the globe, the total number of inha bitants are supposed not to exceed 3,000,000, divided into numerous petty sovereignties. The English East India Company formed some settlements upon the coast towards the close of the 17th century ; but, in 1706, the Dutch, in the heyday of their valour, drove the English entirely from the country, and for more than a century were the only European nation that maintained any direct inter course with the island ; and their grovelling policy has ever been to preclude the world from all knowledge of the position, people, condition, and resources of the coun tries with which they trade, as it is possible for them to do so. During the war, subsequently to the peace of Amiens, in 1802, when in their turn the Dutch were driven from all their positionsln Asia, the English again established themselves on the coast of Borneo. There are several fine harbours and roadsteads round the coast ; the principal is Bandarmassing, at the mouth of Banjar ; Sambar, at the south-west point; Sambas, on the west coast ; Borneo, at the north-west ; and Passir, at the south-east. THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND IN SPAIN. In Spain, as most of our readers are aware, there was, until within a very recent period, nothing in the remotest de gree resembling toleration for any religious worship what ever, excepting that of the established church of the country. This was the state of things, from the days of Isabella and Ximenez until the commencement of the late series of resolutions, when religion may be said to have undergone as complete a change as every thing else. In the numerous treaties between the British and Spa nish governments, no stipulation has ever been made for securing to British subjects the exercise of their own reli gion on Spanish territory, not even at the conclusion of the late war in the Peninsula, when British arms had re placed the reigning family on the throne. Far different in this respect was the conduct of Cromwell : when in formed that the Portuguese refused to allow the English merchants at Oporto to assea,ble for Protestant worship, his reply was, " We will send a few stout frigates to cruise on the coast." We are as far as possible from desiring to see our faith propagated at the edge of the sword or the mouth of the cannon, but still we think it might fairly have been demanded, in return for the signal services conferred by this country on the Spanish government, that British subjects, who may be resident in Spain, should be allowed the exercise of their religion, without at any rate greater restrictions than those imposed by the Austrian, Sardinian, Neapolitan, or Papal governments. Yet, this was so far from being insisted on as a general concession (we do not believe it was even asked as a favor), that to this day no chaplain is appointed to the embassy at Madrid, and until within the last ten or twelve years no Englishman dying in Spain was allowed to receive even what we may call decent burial : at the places on the coast they were buried, usually at night, in the sand, as near as possible to the edge of the water. This, however, is no longer the case ; at Cadiz and Malaga land has been purchased and appropriated, with the consent of the au thorities, as a cemetery for the English. Both of these have been consecrated ; that at the latter place is a beau tiful piece of ground close to the town, laid out with much taste and at considerable expense by the late and present consuls, and kept in the neatest possible order. The ce remony of consecration, which took place last year, was quite public ; it was attended by all the English, amount ing to a considerable number, including the workmen at a large iron-foundry and their families ; and there were also a good many Spaniards present, who all remained unco vered during the performance of the service, and showed all possible respect. Still, this is nearly all that has yet been actually accomplished : there is not as yet a single English clergyman established in any part of Spain, though there would be no longer any difficulty experienced from the civil or ecclesiastical authorities, excepting, of course, some restrictions similar to those enforced in Italy , and Portugal, as to the external appearance of the cha pels, and on one or two comparatively important points. The Bishop has, however, we understand, a prospect of being enabled shortly to provide funds sufficient, with the assistance which he hopes to obtain from government under the Consular Act, to maintain chaplains at a few of the more important places, such as Barcelona, Alicante, Malaga, Cadiz, and Seville, at all of which the number of English residents is considerable. These, er at any rate some one of them, might visit from time to time the smaller and more scattered communities, administer the sacraments among them, and keel) alive amongst our countrymen some feeling of religion and of attachment to their own church, until a more permanent and adequate provision could be made for their spiritual welfare. The English themselves have, in almost all cases, expressed their anxiety to have a clergyman settled amongst them, and their willingness to contribute, as far as their means will allow, to his support. At the same time, as a consi derable portion of them are either workmen in the iron and other works along the coast, or employed in the mines in the interior, they are. of course. comparatively poor; and they are, besides, scattered often at considerable dis tances from each other, so that much cannot be expected from their unaided exertions. The largest number in any one place we believe to be in Seville, where, in addition to several highly respectable families of merchants and others, there is a large pottery established on the opposite side of the river, in what was formerly a Carthusian con vent, in which several English workmen are employed. The proprietor of this, though a Roman Catholic, has set apart a portion of the churchyard of the convent as a burial-ground for his countrymen, and has also expressed his willingness.to contribute to the support of an English clergyman, and to give up either the old chapel or some other part of the.building for the performance of the ser vice of the Church of England; provided the consent of the Dean can be obtained, which is not likely, it is said, to be refused. To the establishment of clergymen where there are British subjects residing, and to their ministra trations, whether public or private, amongst their own people, provided they abstained from proselytism, little or no obstacle would, as we before observed, be opposed by the authorities ; nor, we are convinced, would popular feeling create any greater difficulty. The present state of Spain; ecclesiastical and religious, makes it, if possible, more important than ever that our countrymen living there should no longer be debarred from the profession and exercise of their religion, nor compelled to appear, what but too many of those around them really are, utterly indifferent to, and indeed devoid of all, religion whatever.—Colonial Church Chronicle. DOMESTIC LIFE OF JACKSON KEMPER, D.D., BISHOP OF MISSOURI AND INDIANA. (From the Calendar, published at Hereford, Connecticut. U.S.) From Waukeshaw it is twelve miles to the residence of Bishop Kemper. Most of the way is through oak open ings, by which, in the west, they mean country covered with oak trees in clumps, and without underwood, pre senting the appearance of a natural park. Here they stretched on, mile after mile, far as the eye can reach, so that we could imagine ourselves in the middle of one of the beautiful parks of England. They present, indeed, precisely the same appearance. At last, through an open ing among the hills, we begin to catch distant glimpses of lakes, from which we knew that our journey was drawing to an end. About three o'clock we reached a tavern, surrounded by a cluster of a dozen houses, the beginning of a town to be called Delafield, where we were directed to take a side road into the forest, with the information that the second house was Bishop Kemper's. A mile further brought us to the gate, and in a moment the Bishop, attended by the Rev. James Lloyd Breck, head of the Nashotah Mission, came forth from the house to receive us. Would my readers like a description of the episcopal palace, or do those who are living amid the luxury of the east desire to know how a missionary bishop lives in the far west ? We might tell them to imagine a clearing of a few acres in the depth of a mighty forest, and then on the verge of the woods a small cottage-like building, which, as you stand in front of it, presents the appearance of a single story, with but three windows and a door. It was the first building erected by a settler, from whom the bishop purchased the land for a farm for his son, and then, at the expense of a few hundred dollars, he endea voured to make the house habitable. For probably eight months of the year he is travelling incessantly over his wide-spread diocese, "in perils by land, and in perils by water,"—now, under the burning son, crossing a prairie two hundred miles in length, without a sign of habitation —now in districts where roads there are none, following the deep-worn lnoian trail through the otherwise path less forests—and now, on some of the rivers of the west, trusting himself to the frail canoe—always, unwearied in labour, " seeking for Christ's sheep th a t are disp e r se d abroad," far from the sound of church-going bells, that he may win them to the true fold. I was told by a lay ' man of the diocese, that the bishop would land at Mil waukie, after a two months' tour of duty in Indiana, and without even taking time to go home, set out at once for the more distant west, to confirm the scattered churches in lowa. Were he to hear that five persons desire confir mation at a thousand miles' distance, he would set off in three hours. When a visstation is finished, and he is able to return for a short time to his family, this is his home. Without a room large enough to contain his library—with his books and papers often most inconveniently packed away in boxes—exposed to difficulties which would horrify our dwellers at the east, he cheerfully furnishes to his fellow labourers an example of primitive simplicity and self-de nial—sharing their hardest toils, and showing himself everywhere, the first missionary of the diocese. His own private means, and his missionary salary, are devoted un sparingly to this cause. In making these statements, I trust I am not passing the bounds which delicacy would prescribe, for I am only writing what I everywhere heard through the diocese. Neither is it to honour the indivi dual that it is done. His record is on high, and t'aere will he receive his reward. But it is well that our bre thren at the east shouln know how it fares with those who are labouring beyond the Great Lakes, and while they too often give to this cause with stinted avarice, let them compare their self-denial with that endured by those who are here breaking up the fallow ground, and striving to sow the seed where a few years will see a scattered popu lation expand into a great nation. We might add that the bishop shows not only the sim plicity, but also the open hospitality, of early times, where the hearty welcome placed us at once at ease, while the taste and refinement which his accomplished daughter has imparted to her home, made us forget that we were 1,500 miles from the capital of the empire state, in the far west, with its primeval trees rustling around us. VULGAR DISCOURSE.—A correspondent of the Here ford Times says,—" One among the innumerable evils prevalent in man is low conversation ; it makes one's heart tremble as it were, to bear it upon times. Where the public more frequently hear it is among that low set of men who frequently stroll about our streets. But is it only with these we hear it ? Alas, no ! Even a great number of those we suppose to be respectable moral men, are in the habit of employing it when assembled together at public-houses, workshops, offices, and such like places. Let me say a few words to you who are in the habit of conversing in a low, unbecoming manner. Is it not dis gracing the very name of man to apply it to you filthy tongued. You scarcely mention the worthy and meek name of woman' without profaning it, and disgusting one with your filthy comments! and you scarcely mention the blessed name of the Almighty (He who could destroy you in the twinkling of an eye) without blaspheming it ! It is through ' low conversation' you bring upon yourselves disgrace ; you get the name of being blackguards,' and many other abominable names. Will nothing shame you ? What name will express fully your great wickedness ? If some name from the depths of hell, written by Satan him self, was engraven on your foreheads in large black let ters, it could but express your fiendish wickedness. MEN, BE MEN ! do not disgrace the name. Remember what the Scripture says—' The tongue is a fire, a world of ini quity : it defileth the whole body.' " SUPERSTITION.—Mr. Wordsworth had taken the All foxden House, near Stowey, for one year, (during the minority of the heir,) and the reason why he was refused a continuance, by the ignorant man who had the letting of it, arose, as Mr. Coleridge informed me, from a whim sical cause,or rather a series of causes. The wiseacres of the village had, it seemed, made Mr. W. the subject of their serious conversation. One said that "he had seen him wander about by night, and look rather strangely at the moon ! and then he roamed over the hills like a part ridge." Another said "he had heard him mutter, as he walked, in some outlandish brogue that nobody could un derstand !" Another said, " It's useless to talk, Thomas, I think he is what people call a wise man'" (a conjuror!) Another said,. " You are very wrong ; I know what he is. We have all met him, tramping away toward the sea. Would any man in his senses take all that trouble to look at a parcel of water ! I think he carries on a snug business in the smuggling line, and in these journeys is on the look-out for some wet cargo !" Another very significantly said, "I know that he has got a private still in the cellar, for I once passed his house, at a little better than a hun dred yards distance, and I could smell the spirits, as plain as an ashen fagot at Christmas !" Another said, How ever that was, he is surely a desperd French Jacobin, for he is so silent and dark that nobody ever heard him say one word about politics !" And thus these ignoramuses drove from their village a greater ornament than will ever again be found amongst them."—Cottle's Reminiscences of S. T. Coleridge and R. Southey. STATIONS OF THE BRITISH ARMY, ON THE IST DECEMBER, 1847. (From Colburn'a Unite [Where two places are mentio which the dep6t of the Ist Life Guards—Regent's Prk 24 Ditto—Hyde Park Royal H. Guards—Windsor Ist Drag.Guards—Birmingham 2d—Newbridge 3d—Piershill 4th—Nottingham sth—York 6th—Dundalk 7th—C. Good Hope, Maidstonel Ist Dragoons—caw r 2d—Athlone 3d—Bengal, Maidstone 4th—Dublin sth -6th—Newbridge 7th Hussars—Dublin Bth—Baliincollig 9th Lancers—Bengal, Maidstn. 10th Hussars—Bombay, Maid stone 11th Hussars—Coventry 12th Lancers—Hounslow 13th Lt. Dragoons—Longford 14th—Bengal, Maidstone 15th Hussars—Madras, Maid stone 16th Lancers—Brighton 17th—Dublin • Grenadier Guards— (lst batt.) Windsor (24 batt.) St. George's. Bar. (3d batt.) Portman-st. Bar. Coldstream Guards — (Ist batt.) Chichester (2d batt.) Wellington Bar. Scotch Fusileer Guards — (Ist batt.) The 'rower (2d batt.) St. John's Wood Ist Foot — (Ist batt.)—Antigua, Paisley (2d batt.)—Bury 2d—Athlone 3d—Dublin 4th—Madras, Chatham sth—Mauritius 6th—Cape G. Hope 7th—Barbadoes, Dublin Bth—Bombay, Chatham 9th—Winchester 10th—Bengal, Chatham llth—N. S. Wales, Chatham 12th—Mauritius, Isle of Wight; Reserve batt., Mauritius 13th—Birr • 14th—Plymouth 15th—Ceylon, Chester 16th—Corfu, 'Youghal 17th—Dover 18th—China, Chatham 19th—St. Vincent, Castlebar 20th—Canada, Isle of Wight; Reserve batt., Canada 21st—Madras, Chatham 22d—Bombay, Chatham 23d—Halifax, Isle of Wight ; Reserve hatt., Canada 24th—Bengal, Chatham • 25th—Madras, Chatham 26th—Buttevant 27th—Cape G. Hope, Fort G. 28th—Bombay,. Chatham • 29th—Bengal, Chatham 30th—Newcastle-on-Tyne 31st—Manchester 32d—Bengal, Chatham 33d—N. Brunswick, Stirling C. 34th—Corfu, Waterford 35th—Mauritius, Jersey •d Service Magazine.) fined ? the last-named is that at regiment is stationed.] 36th—(1st batt.) Corfu. (2d batt.) Cephalonia 37th—Ceylon, Chatham 38th—Jamaica, Boyle 39th—Canterbury. 40th—Galway 41st—Limerick 426—Bermuda, Isle of Wight ; Reserve batt., Bermuda. 43d—Newport 44th—Newry45th—Cape. Hope, I.of Wight; Res. batt., Cape G. Hope 46th—Halifax, Guernsey 47th—Clonmel 48th—Enniskillen 49th—Dublin 50th—Bengal, Chatham 51st—Madras, Chatham 52d—Portsmouth 53d—Bengal, Chatham 54th—Malta, Kinsale 55th—Templemore 56th—(lst batt.) Gibraltar (2d batt.) Isle Wight 57th—Hull 58th—N. S. Wales, Chatham 59th—Templemore 60th—(1st bt.) Bombay, Chatm. (2d bt.) Gosport 61st—Bengal, Chatham 62d—Winchester 63d—Chatham 64th—Limerick 65th—N. S. Wales, Chatham 66th—Gibraltar, Cork 67th—Cork 68th—Mullingar 69th—Malta 70th—Fermoy 71st—Glasgow Reserve batt., Canada 72d—Gibraltar Ch a rles Fort 73d—Cape G. Hope, Birr 74th—Belfast 75th-Dublin 76th—Edinburgh 77th—Canada--1 enagh 78th—Bombay, Chatham 79th—Gibraltar, Boyle 80th—Bengal, Chatham st-Devonport 82d—Halifax, N. S., Brecon 83d—Kilkenny 84th—Madras, Chatham 85th —Dublin 86th—Bombay, Chatham 87th—Weedon 88th—Barbadoes—Tralee 89th—A shton-under - Lyne 90th—Cape G. Hope, Sheerness 91st—Cape of Good Hope, Isla of Wiglit Reserve batt., Cape of G. Hope 92d—Dublin 93d—Canada, Aberdeen 94th—Madras, Chatham 95th—China, Naas 96th—N. S.Wales, Chatham 97th—Malta, Isle of Wight Reserve batt, Malta. 98th—Bengal, Chatham 99th—N. S. Wales, Chatham Rifle Brigade— (lst batt.) Cape of G. H ope, Bristol (2d batt.) Canada, Isle of Wight I Reserve batt., Quebec. COLONIAL CORPS. • Ist West India Regiment—Jamaica 2d Ditto—Nassau • 3d Ditto—Demerara, Sierra Leone, &c. Ceylon Rifle Regiment—Ceylon & China Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment—Canada Cape Mounted Riflemen—Cape of Good Hope Royal Newfoundland Veteran Couapany—Newfoundland Royal Malta Fenciblea—Malta - St, Helm Regiment—St. Helena POLITICAL MISCELLANY. o. W. Y. Peel, Esq., has resigned the representation of Tamworth, in consequence of the death of his wife and the illness of one of his sons. In the House of Commons, on Friday, Lord John Rus sell confessed that " the advantages of free trade, like those of every other measure, had been greatly exag gerated." The petition against Mr. Grantley Berkely's election for West Gloucestershire for want of qualification was pre sented on Monday " amidst audible marks of disapproba tion from both sides of the house." SUNDERLAND.—Mr. Barclay is expected to retire from the representation. Sir Hedworth Williamson and W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., are candidates. They are both Whigs, but the former is an advocate of the navigation laws, and being likely in consequence to gain the Conservative votes is almost sure of being returned. IRISH ARMS BILL.—The following Lancashire m em bers voted on Monday night. in favour of the first reading of Sir G. Grey's bill for the more effectual suppression of crime and outrage in Ireland :—E. Cardwell, Sir Thomas Birch, Dr. Bowring, J. Brotherton, J. Duncuft, J. W. Fox, T. M. Gibson, C. P. Grenfell, T. Greene, G. Greenall, J. Heywood, Col. Lindsay, J. W. Patten, J. Pilkington, and R. A. Thicknesse.—Against it: W. S. Crawford only.—Absent : Sir G. Strickland, J. Hornby, J. Bolling, S. Gregson, W. Brown, R. Walker and John Bright. IRELAND.—In the year just ended, as compared with the corresponding period of last year, Irish murders have increased in the ratio of about three to two, the numbers being— 1846. 1847. Murders . Attempts to shoot Robberies of arms Firing houses .. 381 868 Yet, on this state of facts, Sir George Grey only asks for an Arms Bill. The Lord-Lieutenant may proclaim a district and disarm it. 1813 AND 1837.—The following contrast by Prof. Alison needs no comment :—ln 1813, the population of Great Britain was about 13,000,000 ; it is now nearly 20,000,000. The income tax in that year produced £15,000,000 at ten per cent. ; now, at less than three per cent. it produces about £5,500,000 ; in other words, at ten per cent. it would produce about £19,000,000. It is not going too far to affirm, that both the accun.ulated capital of the empire, and the annual increment to that capital, is now double what it was at the close of the war. But during the war, which lasted twenty years, an addition of nearly £600,000,000 was made to the national debt, being at the rate, on an average, of 30,000,000 a-year borrowed by Government. In the three last years of the war, 1813, 1814, and 1815, the sums borrowed by the State amounted to the enormous sum of £154,910,982, being at the rate of above £50,000,000 a-year. Yet so far were these copious drafts from exhausting the capital of the country. at the close of a struggle of twenty years' duration, that the loan for 1814 was borrowed at £4 Ils. ld., being a lower rate than that paid at the commencement of the war. NOw if thirteen millions of men, with little more than two-thirds of the present taxable income, could then produce this immense annual surplus to lend to Govern ment at the close of twenty years of war, is it extravagant to suppose that twenty millions of men, with double the capital, could now be strained, if the currency of the country was equal to its wants by producing £33,000,000 annually for railway undertakings, after thirty years of unbroken peace ? TUE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SUNDAY LABOUR AT THE POST-OFFICES. With the co-operation of Lord Ashley, Lord Welder grave, and others, a movement is now going on to induce the Government to consider the question, and to search whether any practical difficulty remains, or whether any serious evil can be apprehended, from an entire observance of the Sabbath in all the post-offices throughout the king dom. A few years ago, owing to the comparative slowness of communication, such a measure was perhaps impracti cable, but it is contended that with the electric telegraph and the rapidity of railway locomotion, all labour on the Sabbath may be easily avoided. The case has been illus trated as respects Liverpool : " A few years back, the mail leaving London for Liver pool on Saturday evening, with important commercial correspondence, and being expected in Liverpool on the Monday morning (the journey by mail occupying 26 hours), it would have been a hopeless task to try to per suade men of business to consent to the suspension of the passage of that mail during the whole of Sunday, and thereby to have delayed its arrival in Liverpool until the Tuesday morning. And there is no doubt that it was a consciousness of the utter hopelessness of such an attempt which deterred even the warmest friends of Sabbath ob servance from - so much as whispering such a desire. But now the case is entirely altered. The mail for Liverpool which leaves London on Saturday night reaches Birming ham at midnight. If there safely housed, and allowed to rent all Sunday (as thousands of letters do now rest in the London Post Office) it would proceed at one o'clock on Monday morning, and would reach Liverpool at five o'clock, answering every reasonable purpose. At present, it reaches Liverpool on Sunday morning, and there finds the town divided in wishes and opinions. Some, irreligi ously inclined, wish to have their newspapers and letters. But a great number of the inhabitants of Liverpool do not desire such a delivery. A short time back more than 7000 of the letter-receivers of the town united in an earnest application to the Postmaster-General to stop the Sunday delivery. This application was not complied with but they were informed that those who wished to have their letters delivered on Monday, instead of Sunday, might so have them. The consequence now is, a double round for the letter-carriers, who have to deliver some of the letters on the Sunday, and the rest on the Monday." Derby and Bath are co-operating with London for the attainment of the object referred to, and on Friday Lord Ashley and a deputation from the latter city had an inter view with the Postmaster-General, for the purpose of presenting a memorial, signed by nearly 7000 persons, praying that the Bath post-office, and its several branches, might henceforth be closed on the Lord's-day. enteral ifitatilanv. An extensive movement is going on in London for the purpose of obtaining further reductions in the price of gas. John Clasper, a younger brother of Henry Clasper, was unfortunately drowned in the Tyne on Monday, A charter of incorporation is to be granted to Wolver hampton. England pays annually to Holland, Belgium, and Hol stein, £700,000 for butter. The French government has made a present of books to the British House of Commons. _ _ Oranges and lemons are likely to be exceedingly plen tiful this year, and to come into consumption at an un usually early period. On Saturday notices were given of application to Parliament :for the establishment of public abattoirs for the metropolis. The collonade of the Regent-street Quadrant is about to be removed, it having been found a hindrance to business and a harbour to bad characters. Such is the demand for military stores, in consequence of the coast/defences, that the Royal Arsenel at Woolwich now employs more men than it did in 1814. Mr. Charles J. Humble, late sharebroker at Sunder land, and who fled after committing several forgeries, has been captured at a village about 20 miles from Leghorn. THE NEW GOVERNOR OF MALTA.—The Right Hon. M. O'Ferrall, his family, suite, and servants, in number thirteen persons, embarked at Portsmouth on Tuesday. At Glasgow, Dr. Thompson, physician to the fever hos pital, and Mr. Reid, a lieutenant of police, have died of fever. The Countess of Eglinton's property, derived through her former husband, Mr. Cockerill, is said to have been involved in the late failure of the house of Cockerill. The " Gospel Elm" at Stratford-on-Avon was sold by auction last week for £22 /3s. The trunk was found to be perfectly sound, and the wood was beautifully marked. Fish are very abundant on the Devon and Cornwall coasts, the sea being so swarmed with them, that many have been caught on the beach as the waves receded. The influenza is so prevalent at Edinburgh that almost all the seminaries, including the High School and new academy, have been closed, in consequence of the non attendance of the pupils. At the coroner's inquest on the body of Mr. Thomas Lunt—who, as we stated last week, was found drowned in the canal—there was no evidence as to how he got into the water. The influenza is raging to a great extent in London. At some of the public schools more than one-half of the boys are laid up with the malady, and many houses of business are much impeded by the shortness of hands. At a recent charity meeting, Dr. Wiseman's health was proposed significantly, as " he who had done so much good at St. Mary's, Oscott, and had carried the tenets of our holy religion into St. Mary's, Oxford." The Council of the Royal College of Surgeons of Eng land have just purchased the extensive premises of Mr. Alderman Copeland,M.P., adjoining their institution, for the sum of £16,000. Miss Kathleen Fitzwilliam, a daughter of the celebrated actress, Mrs, Fitzwilliam, made a very successful debut at the Lyceum Theatre, London, on Wednesday evening last. SHAKSPERE'S HOUSE.—It is now definitely settled that Shakspere's house, and the Shakspere premises ad joining, will, as soon as the purchase money is subscribed, be transferred by the committees to her Majesty's Com missioners of Woods and Forests. The Earl of Eglinton contradicts, in the most explicit terms, the report which appeared in several of our con temporaries, to the effect that his lordship had become bankrupt, had given up the whole of his property to his creditors, and been placed on an allowance of £5OO a year. Alderman Wood has resigned his aldermanic gown, " feeling that his pecuniary circumstances will not allow him to maintain the rank usually expected of a London alderman." Mr. Wood has been declared a bankrupt in connection with the project known as the Talacre Coal and Iron Company. VIRTUE REWARDED !—A gentleman (?) residing in the vicinity of Forest Gate, West Ham, in passing through Stradford a few days since, dropped his pocket-book, con taining checks and bank-notes to a considerable amount. A lad about 14 years of age seeing the occurrence, ran after the owner to inform him, and presented him with the pocket-book and its contents. As a reward for his honesty the lad received 2d !—Chelmsford Chronicle. THE LAND.—The members of the " Land and Labour Bank Scheme," in this borough, have voted £2O, to ena ble Feargus O'Connor, Esq., M.P., to prosocute the pro prietors of the Manchester Examiner. It was stated by the chairman of the meeting, " that the Examiner, or any other newspaper, which opposed Mr. O'Connor's pro ceedings, would be put down by the power of the Land Society !"—Local Paper. THE YOUNG WHEATS.—The greater part of the grain about Gainsborough and on the Trent side is sown, and a considerable portion above ground, and appears to oe in a healthy and flourishing condition ; a little too forward, perhaps, for the mild weather we have had ; but the pres ent frost may check its progress.—Nottinghoin Journal. HUDDERSFIELD CHURCHYARD.—An eye-witness states that he recently attended. a funeral at the parish-church of Huddersfield, when he was astonished to find that, in order to dig the grave in which the corpse had to be in terred, no fewer than seven coffins had been cut through to effect the purpose. FATAL PRIZE FIGHT.—On Saturday, information_ was received by the, Metropolitan police, that William Ste phens, a Birmingham prize fighter, had absconded from that town, charged with the manslaughter of an individ ual called the " Manchester Pet," with whom he fought a pitched battle on Tuesday week, and who has since died of the injuries received. RAPID MAKE OF IRON.—Such is the celerity of manu facturing iron in this part of the country, that instances have occurred in which the calcined ore has been con verted into rails, and actually delivered in Liverpool, within two days. Bar and sheet iron can, of course, be manufactured with similar rapidity.— Wolverhampton Chronicle. Three Arctic Expeditions are in preparation to go in search of Sir John Franklin and his party. One will be despatched in a few days to Behring's Straits, for which service the Plover brig is under a process of fitting at Sheerness. A second, under the command of Sir John Ross, will sail in the spring, to Baffin's Bay ; and the third, an overland expedition, is to leave England in March, for Canada, under command of Sir John Richardson. A woman residing at Netherton, near Dudley, by trade a nailor, quarrelled with her daughter in the work-shop on Tuesday, and, horrible to relate, in her passion, ran a piece of red hot iron, which it appears she was working into nails at the time, right through the body of her daughter, the iron literally coming out (to use our in formant's words) at the back bone. The unfortunate girl died in a few minutes, and the unnatural mother was ap prehended. The following flowers were in bloom in the open air on the 30th November last, at Veutnor, in the Isle of Wight :—Heliotropes, primroses, laurustinuses, fuschias, marigolds, periwinkler, passionflowers, stocks, wallflowers, dahlias, roses, petunias, hy dranges, lavender, Canterbury bell, pentstemons, carnations, senecios, myrtle, valerian scarlet geraniums, mignonette, snapdragons, pansies. ver benas, jasimine, chrysanthemums, and nesturtiums ; twenty-eight in all. _ An old man, named Joseph Cobley, aged seventy years, who, with his wife, kept a disreputable house in Moore street, Worcester, was left by his wife on Saturday night in a state of inebriation in an arm chair. On waking, it appears that he took a candle and went down into the cellar, and drained to the last drop a bottle of gin. In staggering about in extreme drunkenness it is supposed that he struck his head and fell down, when the candle set a light to his clothes, and he was burnt to death. At the May Session of the Central Criminal Court, Mr. Garhett, attorney, of Wellington, Shropshire, was con victed of forgery, in having, by his own confession, signed an acceptance to a bill on the part of a defendant for whom he appeared as a witness, without his authority. A point of law, however, as to the admissibility of his own evi dence, Lord Denman having threatened him with a com mittal if he did not say who wrote the signature, was re served. and it having just been decided in the prisoner's favour, he was released. CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAnn.—At the Central Criminal Court, London, on Wednesday, Henry Gardner, Thomas Holiday, Joseph Seager, and James Loup, were indicted, with Herman Cusell, not in custody, for unlawfully con spiring together to defraud tradesmen of their property, and in other counts they were charged with obtaining goods by false pretences. The jury returned a verdict of guilty of conspiracy against Gardner, Holiday, and Sea ger, and acquited Loup, The prisoners were sentenced— Gardner and Holiday to be imprisoned in Newgate for 18 months, and Seager for nine months. THE FACTORIES AT GLASGOW.—The following state ment of mill working and stopped, &c. may be relied on as correct. In the power-loom weaving department only four mills are working full time, 36 are working from four to cight hours per day, and not less than 16 are en tirely closed. 2,200 power-loom weavers, and 200 dies sers and tenters, are at present on the unemployed list. In the cotton-spinning department two mills are stopped, four are on full time, while all the others—a very large number in Glasgow and neighbourhood, and employing numerous hands—are working short time. Glasgow Argus. A NEW LIGHT.—Mr. Isham Baggs, has just obtained a patent for a new apparatus for burning the vapour of naptha, spirits of wine, or other suitable liquid. It consists of an upright cylindrical vessel. or lamp, in the interior of which is a small tube, or pipe, reaching to nearly the top of the vessel, and projecting from it at about one-third downwards—a quantity of naptha, or other spirit is placed in a suitable receiver at a proper height to keep up the necessary pressure. A peculiar apparatus is employed for first lighting the vapour, after which the flame is regulated by a rack and pinion, and the evolution of the vapour is kept up by the heat imparted to the vessel by the flame. In the case of matricide at Hackney, the coroner, in summing up, connected the prisoner with the celebrated Sheridan family—a connection repudiated by Mr. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, in a letter to the Times newspaper.— The coroner in reply says that a daughter of the deceased swore at the inquest that she was the granddaughter of the celebrated Sheridan, which is not likely to be true, as the following facts will demonstrate :—R. Brinsley Sheri dan was twice married. By his second marriage, with the Dean of Winchester's daughter, he had an only son, who died a bachelor. By his first marriage, with the celebrated Miss Linley, he had likewise an only son, who died in 1816, at the Cape of Good Hope, and whose surviving children are the present member for Shaftesbury, Lady Seymour, Lady Dufferin, and the Hon. Mrs. Norton. THE ANEMONE.—The history of the anemone is curious. It was brought to France in the early part of the 18th cen tury, we believe from Persia. The kind first introduced was the semi-double, or seed-bearing variety. The gentle man who brought it to Paris was exceedingly jealous of his flowers, and no entreaty could prevail on him to part with one of them. They were at last procured by a trick. A person to whom he was showing his parterre let fall his cloak, as if accidentally, on the anemone bed, then in seed ; and hastily gathering it up with an apology for his awkwardness, some of the seed, as was intended, stuck to the velvet, which a servant, who was in- the secret, hastily picked off and concealed. The seed thus obtained was sown, grew; and by the liberality of the ingenious plun derer, the flower soon became common in Paris and in Europe. ROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP Olr WESTMINSTER. — We are enabled to inform our readers that Dr. Walsh, lately announced Popish Archbishop of Westminster, &c. has written two letters—one to the Propaganda, and the other to the Pope—declining, in consequence of old age and total inability, the office above named, and suggest ing Dr. Wiseman as the most suitable man for that office. On Sunday, private intelligence arrived in London, to the effect that Dr. Wiseman should be kept in London as suggested, and that Dr. Walsh should be created either Bishop of Birmingham or of Nottingham—which, it is lie will o reolt Walsh h England a short time before a s t urv pr i e v s e en t t so ill pthyaetitilit either confirming the creation . i e sh l' Al e chbishOp of Westminster, vnoo& C eff fi l ert Christmas.—Church decided.doubtful bull h enw reaDtCootshhrmP. whether State Gazette. DISTRESSING ACCIDENT.—EIGHT MEN DROWNED.— Monday morning the 22nd being mild, several of the Lybster fishing boats proceeded to sea, and had been some time at their lines, when a gale came on, raising a heavy surge, and rendering the condition of the unhappy fishermen one of great peril. They immediately left their lines and set sail for the shore, with all despatch. One ran for Whaligoo, and the crew were most miraculously saved, by being hauled ashore with a rope, the boat being driven to pieces, and the line and materials totally lost. The others were landed with safety, with the exception of one crew, consisting of eight active fellows, all of whom, we deeply regret to say, have perished beneath the billows. The direct cause of this melancholy calamity, no one knows ; whether the boat was swamped while hanging on the lines ; or was struck by a sea when running for the land. Thus have six widows and twenty children been cast upon the world; in addition to not a few who greatly depended upon the labours of the unforunate fishermen. — John 0' Groat Journal. STEEPLE-.CLIMBING.—If steeple-chasing is proverbially a dangerous sort of occupation, surely steeple-climbing is not less so. Such, we think, must have been the convic tion in the minds of those who were spectators last Friday of the daring deed- performed by the individual who has acquired the cognomen of " Steeple Jack," in ascending the steeple of St. John's Church. Perth, for the purpose of taking down the vane. Having finished hia job upon St. Paul's a few days ago, Jack made preparations for ascending the more elevated steeple of St. John's, the summit of which he reached about three o'clock on Friday afternoon. The steeple part of the church above the square tower is sheathed with lead, into which he drove large nails at intervals, and by climbing from one set of these to another, he managed to gain the top, where he comported himself with the utmost sang froid ; but the spectacle was anything but a pleasant one. Strange to say, during this perilous undertaking the reckless fellow was more than three parts drunk, and when he descended to the bartizan, after fastening his tackle at the top of the steeple, he threatened to throw a young lad over.—Scotch Paper. CONTINUANCE OF PEACE.—There is rather a remark able article in the Morning Chronicle on the subject of our preparations (?) should we find ourselves suddenly en tangled in war. We may admit there is no probability — there is no appearance of the approaching advent of a calamity so terrible. But, while every State in Europe— France We think toifii\oleltlhineg warningt Wellington, de liveredw especially—is fully prepared to embark in a war , we have made, as yet, no defensive preparation whatever. nerves We can only refer to the subject just now for the purpose o f i t hrintroducingteheroouar through t o o p opinion er orsf ea the o o . f every man that rea d s i t. The opinion of the noble Duke is said to have been given in a letter now in circulation among a very few, and almost by stealth. His theme is the condition of this country as regards invasion, and his statements may make the stoutest heart tremble. He enters into every detail—he names, el i isv ee n v ul e tno of our means of defence. years, from personal observation, the most likely places f or de barkation—he proves the ease w ith w hi c h i t m i g h t b e very few and very distant regulars- 7 from 9,000 to 10,000 al one ava il a bl e at h ome —li tt l e artil ipnliasntesros f . artil lery, no arms in s t ore. He says, with infinite pathos, " I m tf three eNle hfa-eve ht dna r y o a - e n hw— n t I el v emd my nnso tt tle lity di is a sPi eti avi ayyandli vedinh f re_ o o nour u o sin the ; God c grant seetlie consequencesefeHnoceowfthericwhorldhsapvreoioneevdaisn to sub de m m it a t n e d d means, the most moderate, and with them he undertakes to secure us. His terms are 150,000 militia, and some 10,000 or 12,000 additional soldiera of the lines Dec. 7, 1g47. RETRACTATION OF POPERY.—On Sunday last one of the officers of the 43rd regiment of foot, now stationed ill Newport barracks, renounced the Roman C a tholi c rellgios at St. Paul's church in that town, and was baptized by dos Rev. Henry Wybrow, and received ito the Protestant church with much solemnity, in the presenceof an immense number of persons.—Bristol Journal. NARROW ESCAPE OF AN UNDERWHIP OF MR. DIM' LEY'S HOUNDS.—On Tuesday, Mr. Lumley's hounds met at Stainton village, and having tried Edlington Wood, s fox broke cover, and proceeded direct to Conishro' Chff- Reynard, nothing daunted, dashed down the valley, crossed the river, and was closely followed. The streams however, offered a more serious impediment to "the field,' and the boat at Sprotborough was obliged to be b r ought into requisition to ferry the red coats over. Mr. Lumley, another gentleman, and the first whip, were the first who were safely landed. Lord Galway, the second whip, and a third party were the next to take to the boat, but they were less successful, for when in the middle of the stream the second whip's horse became restive, and suddenly plunged into the water, taking the man along with him, who held pertinaciously by the bridle. The plunging of the horse and the force of the stream soon carried the man beyond the reach of the parties in the boat. and he must have perished had it not fortunately nappened' that a vessel was passing st the time, from whence an oar' was thrown out, by which the whip held on until succour was afforded. The horse was got out some hundred yards lower down the stream. The accident placed the field somewhat at fault, and Reynard was suffered to escape is the confusion which prevailed.—.Doncaster Gazette. A CRUEL HOAX.—Last week, the following sliver-, tisement appeared in a morning contemporary—" Wanted , by a widow lady, residing in the country, a young female to attend oft her. She must be of respectable parents- One who has never left her friends will be preferred- Apply on Monday next, between eleven and two o'clock , at Miss Openheim's, Clarence-place, West-street, Tot tenham." In consequence of the advertisement, crowds of young ladies hastened, on Monday last, at the ap pointed time, to the address given. Two omnibuses left , the Flower Pot, Bishopsgate-street, filled with candidates for the vacancy, and as early as one o'clock seventy-tWO ladies, many of them respectably connected, arrived at Miss Openheim's residence, who was perfectly astounded at their presence and numbers. In vain she protested het ignorance of the advertisement, and repudiated all know ledge of its artless author. Many with tears lamented th. imposition and unnecessary trouble and expense imposed upon them ; while others, believing Miss Openheim to be the author of the advertisement, applied very harsh lan guage to her. Besides personal applications, heaps of letters arrived by post from parties applying for the:situa tion. To a late hour on Mondan night, Miss Openheim's house was besieged with anxious candidates for the situ ation. A FEMALE DUELLIST.—A young lady, who had been slandered by an officer (neither naval nor military, but yet in her majesty's service), sent him a challenge, pur porting to come from a gentleman of her acquaintance. The place of meeting was to be a secluded spot on the banks of a running stream, which empties itself into the Tyne within a mile or two •of Gateshead. The tittle tattling gossip repaired to the rendezvous• in trepidatio* —afraid to encounter his antagonist, yet still more afraid to stay away—for he was threatened with extermination if he failed to appear. On his arrival he fbund the fire; eating avenger of injured innocence already on the ground —" his soul in arms, and eager for the fray." No time was to be lost, therefore ; so the queen's servant whira pered out a retraction and an apology. But ah ! the champion of his fair victim was deaf as an•adder :—th• libeller ate his words in vain. The foe advanced : the officer retreated. Forward—backward :—forward—hack ward. Another step—and splash went our hero into the treacherous steam ! The lady's knight, unappeased 10 his ducking, stooped down, and rolled hi m over an d over in the water. The wretched , ight, knowing him not, yet dimly fancying that the face was not altogether strange to him, was infected with a horrible notion that he. had fallen into unearthly hands ; but had he heard the silver,' laugh of his tormentor, as the events of the duel were narrated in the neighbouring village, he would'have dis covered that the slandered lady was her own avenger !---• Gateshead Observer. KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL, PORTUGAL -STREET, LIN" COLN'S INN -FIELDS.—At a recent meeting of the coin' mittee of management, held at the board-room of the above valuable charity, a return was made of the number of patients received since the commencement of' the pre sent year. From this statement, it appears the number of individuals who participated in the benefit of the out door treatment amounted to between 15,000 and 16,000► while during the same period the resident patients num bered 1121—being a very considerable excess over- an/ year since the establishment of the institution. The num ber of out-recipients registered last year somea hat oc" ceeded 16,000, and the in-patients 1200, the majority of whom proceeded from the immediate neighbourhood of the hospital ; a considerable number, however, emanated from the adjoining parishes and the provincial' districts. It is worthy of remark that, by far the greater portion were admitted without the usually required letters of recom mendation, those who happen to be provided with then merely having the preference—if at the time there is an/ upon the subject. The report of the secretary, John Lyon, Esq., states that every bed in the hospital is occu pied, and constant urgent applications are compelled to ba deferred, for the want of the requisite accommodation - Tnis certainly evidences the alarming increase of SiClClieSf and disease in the metropolis, as also does ass I.mit-ropor. of the registrar-general, from which it appears that the deaths in London during the week exceeded 1600, being an increase of nearly 60 per cent. The services of such charities as King's College Hospital is therefore the more required, and it is to be hoped that the benevolent will put their shoulder to the wheel to enable its Airectors; not only to continue, but to augment its numerous blessings- THE INFLUENZA IN LONDON.—In London, and iI3 neighbourhood, influenza extensively prevails. It has been stated that several hundred boys, in the St. PAul'e and Christ Church Schools, are on the sick list, and Mer chant Tailors' School has been prematurely closed for the Christmas holidays, in consequence of the illness of 5 large proportion of the pupils. The business of some of the public offices has also been impeded from the clerks being affected with the disorder, and in the busiest de partment of the public service—thepost-offioe-140 clerks are reported to be absent last week. In manufactories and wholesale houses, much inconvenience has been felt from the same cause. The booksellers of Paternoster row have had some difficulty in getting through the busi ness of " Magazine Day," from the absenoe of a large number of their assistants. It has proved extensively fatal. The returns of the register-general of deaths, &C., for the week ending November 27; shows a great increase of mortality in the metropolis in comparison to that of the corresponding season, which has averaged 1,046 for the last five years. But there died in London and its vicinity during the past week no fewer than 1,677 individuals, or 631—about 60 per cent.—above the average. The table showing the causes of death exhibits the greatest increase of casualties from bronchitis and pneumonia, disease.; closely allied to what is properly termed influenza. It le rumoured that deaths have occurred in Greenwich Hos pital during the last fortnight at the rate of 20 per diem , out of a total number of about 2000 pensioners. Yester-, day, the registrar of births and deaths for the district of St. Martin's-in-the-fields, received notice of the death Of a woman and her five children, in Bedfordbury, Covent Garden, who have fallen victims to the prevailing disease- Daily News, SERIOUS FAILURE.—It is with sincere regret we have to announce the failure of the large and respectable house of Boydell and Company, of the Oak Farm Iron Worrh near Dudley. This establishment has long and deservedly held a first-rate name in South Staffordshire. The ori-• ginal firm consisted of Lord Lyttleton, the Right lion; W. E. Gladstone, M.P., Sir S. Glyn, Bart., and others (1 ' high standing ; and, on their dissolving partnership, the works were taken by Mr. Roper, a gentleman of large landed property, associated with' Mr. Boydell. The old company took a mortgage on the property for £120,00 0 ' and a further one for £30,000, to cover debts which thq had guaranteed. These mortgages cover debts of Boyd& and Company to about £60,000; the uncovered debts amount to about £36,000. Mr. Boydell must feel- his position most acutely. He was highly and deserved g respected as a master, neighbour, and friend, and NV' meet with the sympathy of all who know him. The establishment, of which he was managing director, wag deservedly and extensively known for the superior finish of its work ; and the numerous patents of Mr.,Ll o ydel, prove him a man of no mean inventive genius. For ste e l articles the house was particularly famous. It is to be hoped measures may be adopted which will allow of till works being proceeded with, as their entire stoppage will throw out of employment 1500 hands. Nothing can,moro fully show the feeling of the men towards their employer s than the fact of their offering to work a month gratis, is would be of any assistance. We may also call to mil , ' the unanimity which prevailed here on the national sub scription for the Irish, when all—from the boys to 01 6 foremen, and clerks—consented to give a portion of their earnings to that fund. The assets available are said tfr amount to £30,000. The creditors, at a meeting, hail proposed that the old company should have possession 0 ' the entire works, and guarantee the creditors 20s. in the pound. CURIOUS HISTORY.—On Thursday. week Eleanor Moon of Penrith, was committed to the gaol, at Carlisle, to talc° her trial at the sessions for stealing ' a linen shirt, the pro' p er ty of Robert Sewell t of Sandgate-bottom, P enrith , , There i s something curio us and romantic in the life 0 ` this female. It appears that, about two years ago, she attended a friend's wedding as bridesmaid, at which wed ding she became acqua i nte d w i th a young man, a to stranger to her. Shortly afterwards he visited her at bef, mother's hous e , w h ere s h e li ved eomforta b ly, earning he,' subsistance a s a d ressma k er. P reten di ng to b e a v ery steady fellow, with a small annuity, he persuaded tb mother to let him lodge with her. He, however, nes l ,l paid anything for his accommodation, hut promised tur liquidation when his annuity became due. At length. tlsg old woman died, and the young woman and the lodger gg; married. The latter soon showed that he was an iei t , fellow, and that his story about the annuity was false. 1 4 a short time he sold all they had by auction, and, wit the proceeds of the sale, they went to Sunderland, which place they soon got through all their money, subsisted for a time on pawning articles of clothil Being hungered out of Sunderland, they preceeded Penrith. Here the secret came out. His wife founds her astonishment, that he had two wives living at Penrith' and that his real name was Joseph Mark, a poor weave ; The disappointment was great, Poor Eleanor was redu from comfortable circumstances to those of misery and e; Mark and all his three wives agreed to live together in 0 1 , 1 A small cottage, of two rooms, and in this way they eontin to „' to reside for some weeks, when a difference took pin, ; and the two illegal wives drove away f r om the house '5 legal or first married w if e . Sh e l e ft th e town. ga l :. now having been reduced to two wives, he and they' tinned to live together in a peace a ble and q uiet mann e d till seven weeks ago, when the heroine, who is the sub) 04 of this romance in real life, was driven from the hoOe her seducer by the second wife, AR Mart] and I from Bitch Rend Fair leaky. 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