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tittrature. POETRY AN EVENING REVERIE, (For the Liverpool Standard.) ander'd o'er a field by Spring's fair hand mbroider'd rich ; a day of loveliness Departing ;-so serene, the wearied heart e to languish for its rest, nor sigh dise. The sounds of life 1---were dying; all bright things .anishing away; the growing peace 11'd like balm upon my spirit's wounds, Inflicted in life's conflict, battling long. Sweet thoughts awoke, ting'd with that halcyon bliss; Weak earthly thoughts—till broke in dreams of heaven lay's sinking orb, man, Foiother para The city's 'hurt I saw t Virtue's fig Of whom His SKETCH. INotry, fading to the tomb, _rth was not worthy :—perfected alk with heaven, abov9 the sphere of sense; his race of charity; _Tip now falls the shroud of death ; His look benign, that love and pity sway'd, That beam'd the awful majesty of worth, Is vanishing from time ;—yet long 't will rise ring accents sound name and deeds His blest ca: To Friendship's sin In Friendship's ear his ashes, gild his tomb, ea fixed in Memory's shrine, r. Sudden a voice gush'd forth, bird of night's melodious song. iagie seem'd not of the earth, Nature's harmony:—it breath'd 2ail'd that huinan SAML. lIUGGIN TES OF A TRIP TO THE CONTINEN'I ITALY, AND EGYPT. No. IX (Written for Me Liverpool Stanci Since the printing of my Bth chapter. I have seen Dickens's Pictures from Italy. Many of these are bril liant, dazzling, and poetical portraitures : others are very bad ; and, to justify my humble protest, I need only state his description of a French postilion's driving : by the tedious repetition of the words " Crick-crack" thirty times in thirteen lines—his very derogatory compari )ry to a Guy Fawkes Slovember—; place, when the venerable fathe pronounces the assembled in the vast thought he resembled area of St. Pi Mr. hicl nd, as if these were not instances , _lag, when he looked over the -tins of the Amphitheatre of Verona, what was his 'e idea—his noble comparison—his sublime associa- Why, gentle reader, that it very much resembled the inside of a straw hat ! This I thought much worse than his prototype and predecessor Smollet; who, strut ting forth from the Coliseum, the more vast Amphithea - of Vepasian at Rome, said, after all, it was only a But these are only the crusts for ^ , -entric men of true kenius will A bad t ztly glari hu_qe cockpit" live as long as our art of printing and the use of ouilan gunge exists. In these vastly inferior sketches of travel, I only hope, if put into a portable form, they may some day amuse, if not instruct, a fellow-voyager; and in, this one circumstance the reader may confide, that facts only will be recorded, to the best of my knowledge, ability, 4 L ' . I fear I have been too discursive—have ...way too much by my ever-to-be-remembered -sit—to Rome—this chapter must wind up the subject, perhaps rather abruptly, or I may never reach the end of )elief been led my journey. Many of my friends have said, " Is it the climate or the diet that gives our countrymen so much content in Italy ?" Ike exec e ling purit y of the air is certainly one great cause of peace and content, and the diet, with light wines, abundance of fruit vegetation, &c., another. A very long -ter might be written upon the artists' studios at John Gibson's lovely statues and groups, Mac life-like busts, and his masterly Ulysses, with his dog's recognition ; Hogan's struggle and life contrasted with many who have .Aito obscurity, and the dark shadows of an early e ! There are fewer English than French painters .; Velati, the boar painter, :is a rare and gifted artist : o hear him describe his hunting, being wounded by and killing the wild boars, in the mountains and woof's near Rome, before painting their portraits, is very interesting, at one time seizing by the hind leg one of these tuskan, bristling, brutes, while he despatches him, during his -vied transit, being dragged down into and through the 1-I, n Landseer of Italy. Tmoff had just Roine—, ddnald's g friend, the Velati ,d a most lovely group, in clay, of Hagar looking shing boy ; and Thorwalsden's giant ---„ ielding to the great destroyer of all Ifings, : Time, when I many times walked through his Itudios. It is delightful to see how much better, more re fined, kind, and polite the artists are to, and treat each other than they do in London and Liverpool. One tion is so much greater jealous hate, the the proud, super too much in our coteries of art, is anything but credit -ur artists. Poetry, Sculpture, Architecture, and g, sublime in their various walks, should induce .heir votaries and followers to soar above the passions that degrade the less gifted classes of mankind. True it is we are the creatures of circumstances, in England gold is, god of a vast majority of its inhabitants. We her the climate, the purity of the air, a. nor of the sky, *the mild, balmy, 7onducive to than all the stimulating ,pon he ,t reason of this is, the corn! broad. Certainly t A home than a Tn, the mall valry and de :h6013 Paintin which i ) profusely indulged in by have we the solemn temples, _, sparkling fountains, monastic ruins, by hundreds of thousands that meet your , hand in Italy, the very statues, the groups ulpture—the finest works of Greece and Rome must tend to soften, elevate, and calm the )f men. The freedom of access to all these things, their churches, altars, paintings, music, open every day in and arde le (If Brit the year to the prinee and tl _ cost of what you please to give for it is voluntary contri that forms the great revenue of the Church of _ , inliko the law officers, enforcing tithes from the shopkeepers of London, regardless of their means or finan cings must all be taken into con inor details, that affect mind and :e, anc tuation For the last four or five months in this island we have Id, cutting, severe, damp weather. What a world __!rence during these months at Egypt, Malta, Sicily, and Italy ! and as now write, just entering the fourth month of the year, we have cold foggy weather, with a Lne penetrating the hazy atmosphere with hours out of the twenty-four, say_ from gleam of su difficulty, fi eleven until three.. Is it any wonder then that colds, ca tarrhs, asthma, and influenza prevail, things unknown in ehappy climes ? Yes, it is of vast importance to and mind, climate ! There a little charcoal serves nr culinary purposes, otherwise you would seldom I a fire. Here you must have a sea-coal fire e months out of the twelve ; and how can the o pounds per ton, the price this winter in nty wages, with bread and potatoes urely the aristocracy must poor pay t London, f of their suierflux to the suffering people, and ust," or a crisis may arrive., Carnival at Rome : Dickens's Still, however, there are points scrintion can adequately not describe 'tl Paint. Just fancy a long carriage, open, and wagon-like, with four wheels, entwined and covered with laurels and evergreens, a pair of horses richly caparisoned, the coach man and three or four gentlemen most richly and fantas tically masked ; grouped in the centre ; seven lovely girls dressed in crimson gowns, black velvet spencers, velvet Spanish hats and feathers, each a black masque only co vering partly the forehead and eyes, each with an elegant basket of flowers, which, made into pretty little fragrant bouquets, they gracefully cast around to merry and happy receivers, as that chariot, with hundreds of others, and amid thousands of people, rolled on slowly down the crowded Corso—it seemed like the revival of ft blic business vc then don ling but singing, drinking, playing, treat inn. servants sitting with their masters a ,flowed ; ri equal—nay, the slaves ased, and to rally their Perfect i i old man withiour w we now delineate Tin , lans built a temple to Saturn, god of the seasons : at Saturnalian festivals they, contrary to their usual eus , sacrificed bare-headed. The horse-races during the rival are too well known to require a word from me. ;ver saw the fierce strength of man exhibited so power. horses, ht hand : the rearing of the Horses and punishm he puffin ; faked arm th their brawny, m Vernet represents.' While I wa and restless hpfnrn gta idea upon, he got up suffering more from si In additi on t o th e sp ik e d b e ll s th a t swim is parts of their bodies, these poor D 1 a.s t er s to small spots of their skin with gold leat, a perfect refinement of cruelt only one that I ever observed anionn could at ail justify Dick?'--' ' r and ruffianly—that they express how ready they would be to hail a r Lnd gladiatorial sanguinary combats a of the b Anaphith, qOTICES very [e. has just pro us pamphlet, bearing the above led from the pen of the Rev. John ul judi lucation 1 ter of attention of Warehorne, Kent. The subject of peculiarly within the province of the ; and,, at the present moment, the are really interested in the welfare of Iv industrial classes, seems to be our raptuiy ....J...., earnestly fixed upon this great question. Nor can we wonder that it should be so. In a country and in an age like ours, of high civilization and progressive science, when the value of mere brute labour is every year being depreciated, the only lever by which the industrial classes can be raised to a more favourable position in society is by the lever of education. Without education, those classes, constituting as they do _so vast a proportion of ' our whole population, must gradually sink lower and lower, until they become little Letter than so many beasts of burden, " hewers of wood and drawers of water," as hopelessly doomed from youth to old age to one unvary ing round of toilsome drudgery, and a s completely ex cluded from all possibility of amelioration in their social condition, as the manacled felon of Norfolk Island. The stupid booby, staring in amazement as the rushing train is hurried past by the irresistible power of steam, is only a fair illustration of the way in which the efforts of the ignorant labourer are outstripped by mechanical force scientifically applied ; and unless h is willing hands and sinewy limbs be aided and directed by the improved in telligence of an educated mind, the labourer's exertions to earn his daily bread will every year be less availing. We cannot wonder, therefore, that the philanthropist should have his attention especially attracted by educa tion. it is the great question of the day. It is folly to talk about feeding and clothing the people, and then educating them. It is madness to attempt to stem the torrent of increasing crime by building prisons and mul tiplying penal statutes. Educate the people, and they will be all the better able to clothe and feed themselves ; whilst statistical returns abundantly prove the close con nection existing betwixt ignorance and vice. We hail Mr. Dufton's pamphlet as a most well-timed production, calculated to render invaluable servi - ,.e to this important cause. It is the successful endeavour of a man of clear and comprehensive intellect to grbpple with a really diffi cult subject. In supporting his own views, he exhibits a rare degree of talent, combined with moderation ; and the measures which he suggests are alike indicative of sound judgment and of much practical experience. We will attempt a brief outline of this clever pamphlet. Mr. Dufton begins with shewing that the question at issue is not betwixt education and. non-education, but betwixt a good education and depraved knowledge. We have not to enquire shall we, or shall we not, educate the people ; but shall we educate the rising generation to be useful members of society, or allow them to be trained and in- :e," says Mr. •Dufton, " vice opens schools as well as virtue ; crime has rewards for the zealous, and punishments for the refractory, quite as efficacious as those at the disposal of rectitude. Let this great truth be once thoroughly apprehended ;—let it once be understood that we have not to choose between education and non-education, for the simple reason that non-education is an utter impos sibility ;—let it be not only known but felt, that our choice is confined to education or mis-education—that 1 we have to decide between possible good and positive evil —and nine-tenths of the controversies which have been raised on the subject will be dismissed as sheer imperti nences." Our author next describes some of the lamen table consequences flowing from that depraved knowledge commonly called ignorance, and by indisputable facts establishes the necessity of national education. This may be considered the first part of Mr. Dufton's pamphlet. In the second part he enters upon delicate ground, namely, the insufficiency and inadequacy of all existing educational systems to meet the exigencies of the case. This undoubtedly is delicate ground. But Mr. Dutton writes in a kindly and conciliatory spirit. He is in earnest, and expresses his opinions strongly and with candour. Yet the tone and temper of his pages are far from being offensive. He may convince : he cannot an noy : and our prejudices are not roused even when our prepossessions are opposed. With the utmost imparti ality he lays bare the imperfections of the National So ciety on the one hand ; and on the other he adduces the testimony of Dr. Vaughan to demonstrate the inability of dissent to supply the universally-admitted deficiency. In short, voluntaryism, whether it be the voluntaryism of the National Society, or of the British and Foreign Schools, whether it be the voluntaryism of the established church or of dissent, he holds to be utterly inadequate to provide an enlarged system of national education co extensive with the national wants. He therefore invokes the assistance and interference of the state. " For the same reasons," says he, " that state intervention is ne cessary in the dispensing •f national charity, in establish ing national security, and in enforcing general rights, we hold that state intervention is necessary in national edu cation, not to supersede but to aid individual and volun tary exertion. The strongest advocate of poor-laws never recommended the destruction of asylums, hospitals, and infirmaries ; the firmest supporter of a police force would not advise us to dispense with bolts, bars, watch dogs, and watchmen ; the greatest admirer of law will not withhold his praise from private arbitration ; and in the same way the advocates of state intervention would not recommend a single individual to withhold his sub scription or contribution from the erection and mainte nance of schools." And again : "We invoke the assist ance of the state because it can alone interfere efficiently and beneficially—it alone can escape the imputation of mixed and unworthy motives. We trust the cause of national education to the state, because the state is the nation." In the remaining part of his pamphlet, Mr. Dufton brings forward the 7.letails of the measure which he submits for the adoption of the state. For these de tails we must refer our readers to the pamphlet itself, merely observing that the proposed plan is at once simple and comprehensive, practicable and efficient. Many other subjects, to which we have not space for alluding, are admirably discussed in these pages; such as the fal lacy of the cuckoo cry, " Will you separate religion from education ? " and the paramount importance of giving such an education as shall have a direct bearing on the future career of the pupil. In conclusion, we beg to recommend this pamphlet most cordially to all who feel an interest in this important question, whatever their peculiar views mey be ; and to tender our warmest thanks to Mr. Dufton for his labours in this great cause. Canada as it is ; or, the Emigrant's Friend and Guide to Upper Canada. By the Rev. G. W. Warr. Painter, 1 most valuable work emigrant to Canada should leave without author, who is now incumbent at St. Savi The rev 5, in thi town, was formerly the minister of St. Jude's church Oakeville, Canada West. During his four years dence in that colony, Mr. Warr evidently became inti mately acquainted with the manners, customs, climate, and professions of the country, and he has published the result of his experience in this unpretending but useful little book. The author gives every information that can possibly be required by intending emigrants, from the time of their departure to long after their settlement in - r%f ' that country. -,se evidently is of opinion, that emigration from England will benefit this country, whilst it will also be of great advantage to that important colony. We give an extract from the work elsewhere. VARIETIES. A NEGRO LECTURE ON THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.— " Look a hea, Jack, what you call dem ar ?" " Dem ar I is pintin' to." " What! (scratching his head) dem ar posts, wid de wires ?" " Yes, de same identical." " You see -m are horizontal wires ? Well, de posts support de -s ?" " Gosh, I takes you, niggar. But what de wires , T , fault wires ?" said the offer, completely it, but suddenly lighting up with intelligence, ; to keep de post up." for a mome " de wires . - FRENCH COMPLIMENT TO ENGLISH BRAVERY.—The loss of Ciudad Rodrigo was a stunning blow to the French. They could not understand it at all. Herrasti and his Spaniards had held out the place a month against Ney and Massena, with thirty or forty thousand veterans, and that in fine weather, great advantage to the iys, and in the depth of winter, Wellington re enty/thousand men, and opposed by a The contrast was great, and quite in- French. "On the 16th," wrote Mar r, " the English batteries opened their tance. On the 19th the place was taken and fell into the power of the enemy. There is ng so incomprehensible in this event, that I allow myself no observation. lam not provided with the re quisite information." No testimony could be mo plimentary to the brave captors of Rodrigo duced it, with tw explicable to t mont to Berthier )m- Blackwood. , LYCIA AND ITS ANTIQUITIES. — In all parts of the country are found, in great abundance, the mingled ruins of cities, palaces, theatres, temples, many of them of vast extent, and in a state of high preservation. And side by side, in the same locality, are seen the architectural re presentatives of different eras, and of different races— bearing testimony, as distinctly as does the pen of the historian, to the progress of conquest and of events in lays. In this relic, may be discovered traces of 1 when the Lycians were a free and independent ges of Persian taste and art. r, or lonic column, or theatre here, is found a lai antine buildings. liar of Parian marble, e On on Les, start, t thus recit and his ig •emams rantly finished, in live Cyclopean pies and Christian church le of the Turkish mosqu a step may conduct you from a Grecian heatre into the ancient tombs excwjated in the rod 11 cemetery, strewed into architeetnral of every kind and every age, " strai turban-headed tombstones, inscribed of the k Inscriptions, also, both in the Lycian ges, will be found in abundance, and Jr the exe: Magazine. .cise of cis sic erudition We can e afew of the a the reader must take on pri Id dates for obvious re to premise that the case A. 8., of M.—The charge for tuition i lot the am extra the win The master 1 with a woman to ast twice brought d on both Oc le is utterly oils paid t tine in ig Pin- misprint in the key. U. 13., of IN : — Is twelve and sixpence per quarter, with The master a fair scholar, at Glasgow for the Scottish Church ; nowever, terribly dissipated, his convivial powers being highly appreciated at all the public houses in the neighbourhood, where his songs and stories arc rewarded by an abundant supply of - When visited f misled b' aches arithmetic by the aid of recently detected by one ot . his pu Payment of extras for fi having been liquor.. on one occasion, it was found that he had just . given his boys a holiday, and was about to take them to witness a cock ' • - 'lle neighbourhood. The father of two of his pu pils was remonstrated with for sending his sons to one so notoriously dissipated ; he said that C.B. was too good a fellow for him to quarrel with, and that lie was glad to have an opportunity of putting a job in his way.—Na tional Education, by the Rev. J. Dufton. tight ii THE LIVERPOOt STANDARD. DAY-DREAMING.—You may say what you please, but it does the mind good to think of nothing at times ; to let the impressions of passing events glide through the soul, and titillate the imagination, but to " leave no trace be hind." Oh yes ! this fairy dancing on the sands of life's dull shore, is very pleasant occupation for a summer morn, and eke a summer eve. It is poetical, to say the least of it ; and day-dreams may sometimes prove not less agreeable than those mysterious scenes of night, when the soul quits her corporeal shackles, and roams in pure fancy through the world of thought, seeing sights of beauty, and scenes of paradisaical splendour, which the dull organs of bodily vision can never attain unto. Why ! the hap piest portion of my life is that which I have passed in the land of dreams : one third of my existence has been spent there—and I have friends, and well-known faces, and peaceful valleys, and bright streams, and strains of ethe real music, which are still and ever vivid in my waking mind, but at night call me to themselves, and wrap me in a state of enjoyment which certainly this poor weak body of mine never could be capable of experiencing. I have positively new, altogether new and unheard-of ideas—l do not mean irrational ones, nor those phantasmagoric combinations that haunt the diseased brains of some wretched mortals—but reasonable, possible, natural ideas of form and substance, which I am persuaded have their types in some corner or other of the universe, and which it may perhaps be hereafter my too happy destiny to wit ness, and to dwell amongst for ever and for aye.— Blackwood's Magazine. TAKE THE CENTRE HOUSE.—She advised me, if ever I took a house in a terrace a little way out of town, to be very careful that it was the centre one—at least if I had any regard for my reputation. For I must be well aware that a story never lost by telling ' • and, consequently, if I lived in the middle of a row of houses, it was very clear that the tales which might be circulated against me would only have half the distance to travel on either side of me, and therefore could not be half as bad, by the time they got down to the bottom of the terrace, as the tales that might be circulated against the wretched individuals who had the misfortune to live at the two ends of it ; so that I should be certain to have twice as good a character in the neighbourhood as they had. For instance, she informed me of a lamentable case which had actually occurred while she was there. The servant at No. I told the servant at No. 2 that her master expected his old friends the Baileys to pay him a visit shortly •, and No. 2 told No. 3 that No. 1 expected to have the Baileys in the house every day ; and No. 3 told No. 4 that it was all up with No. 1, for they couldn't keep the bailiffs out ; whereupon 4 told 5 that the officers were after No. 1, and that it was as much as he could do to prevent himself being taken into execu tion, and that it was near killing his poor dear wife ; and No. 32, who confident) ;ured the last house, that the Bow-street officers had taken up the ;entlem who lived at No. 1, for killing his poor dear wife with ar senic, and that it was confidently hoped and expected that he would he executed at Horsemonger-lane gaol, as the facts of the case were very clear against him. All which, Mrs. Toosypegs said, proved, very clearly, that servants were a " bad lot," and that there was no trusting 'ern with anything, but what they must go wasting their time gos siping and putting it about all over the neighbourhood. Though, for her own part, she always made it a rule to shut her ears against all scandal.—Greatest Plague in Life. VEGETATION IN CANADA.—Vegetation in Canada is exceedingly rapid; no sooner does the cold mantle of winter disappear beneath the gladdening rays of an un clouded sun than the grass starts into existence, the trees put forth their leaves, and the blossoms spring into light ; the beautiful birds return ; and, although they are for the most part mutes, yet their plumage is so gorgeous, and their feathers so delicately tinted, that one forgets that they are songless whilst gazing upon their splendid attire. Some idea of the excessive rapidity with which nature conducts her wonder-working operations may be gathered from the fact, that in forty-eight hours' time from the sowing of a field it is seen perfectly green and beautiful. The fruits of Canada are delicious. Melons in all their variety and richness grow without the least trouble to the planters ; so that it is quite common, in passing through many of the clearings, to see large beds of the choicest kind advancing to perfection ; whilst in other districts, Niagara for instance, there are whole orchards of peach trees bearing the mosti tempting descriptions of that most excellent fruit. Plums, apples, and pears in endless variety, and almost unlimited quantity, grow in the colony. Gooseberries and strawberries do not arrive at the size or perfection of those propagated in Europe ; the wild field strawberry is, however, a substitute for its more highly cultivated companion. In consequence of fruit being so exceedingly prolific, the natives and settlers in Canada make vast quantities of preserves, and this will sufficient ly account for the fact that, in the poorest houses and worst inns in the country, the visitor is sure to meet with sweet-meats of all kinds. They generally make four meals per diem ; and at every meal they introduce pre serves in some one shape or another. So general is the rage for such things, and so great the abundance of fruit, that some of the poorest people apply and obtain leave from the more respectable inhabitants, &c., to enter their gardens and gather currants for manufacturing preserves. To the uninitiated reader this may appear very gross ex travagance ; but it is to be remembered that the greater part of such delicacies are formed from the mapal sugar. This is maintained in the following manner :—Early in spring, when the sap begins to flow, the people go into the woods and tap the mapal tree. The weather must be cold enough to freeze at night, so that the wound may be healed, and warm enough in the day-time to cause the re newal of the effusion : thus, having placed their troughs under each tree having a tap, they empty the contents which have run during the day into large boilers, and re duce them to molasses during the night ; it is made exactly as our foreign sugars are, Very large quantities by the Indians and settl and no do were it entered into with a proper spirit of enterprise, and with the necessary apparatus for its speedy and better ma nufacture, large sums of money would be thereby realised. Unfortunately the spring is so short, and the necessary preparations for sowing spring crops so urgent, that very extensive sugar bushes or maple plantations are suffered to remain altogether untouched by the owners of the soil. —Canada as it is, by the Rev. G. W. Warr. JERUSALEM BY MOONLIGHT.—The broad moon lingers on the summit of Mount Olives, but its beam has long left the Garden of Gethsemane and the tomb of Absalom, the waters of Kedron, and the dark abyss of the vale of Jehoshaphat. Full falls its splendour, however, on the opposite city, vivid and defined in its silver blaze. A lofty wall, with turrets and towers and frequent gates, undu lates with the unequal ground which it covers, as it encir cles the lost capital of Jehovah. It is a city of hills, far more famous than those of Rome ; for all Europe has heard of Sion and of Calvary, while the Arab and the Assyrian, and the tribes and nations beyond, are as ignorant of the Capitolian and Aventine Mounts as they are of the Mal vern or the Chiltern Hills. The broad steep of Sion, crowned with the tower of David ; nearer still, Mount Moriah, with the gorgeous temple of the God 6f Abraham, built, alas ! by the child of Hagar, and not by Sarah's chosen one ; close to its cedars and its cypresses, its lofty spires and airy arches, the moonlight falls upon Bethesda's pool ; further on, entered by the gate of St. Stephen, the eye, though 'tis the noon of night, traces with ease the Street of Grief, a long winding ascent to a vast cupolaed pile that now covers Calvary, called the Street of Grief, because there the most illustrious of the human, as well as of the Hebrew race, the descendant of King David, and the divine Son of the most favoured of women, twice sank under that burden of suffering and shame which is now throughout all Christendom the emblem of triumph and of honour ; passing over groups and masses of houses built of stone, with terraced roofs or surmounted with small domes, we reach the hill of Salem, where Melchi salek built his mystic citadel ; and still remains the hill of Scopas, where Titus gazed upon Jerusalem on the eve of his final assault. Titus destroyed the temple. The religion of Judeea has in turn subverted the fanes which raised to his father and himself in their imperial ca nd the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob is before every altar in Rome. Jerusalem by moonlight ! dissolubh fine spectacle, apart from all its in- associations of awe and beauty. The mitigat ing hour softens the austerity of a mountain landscape magnificent in outline, however harsh and severe in de- tail"; and, while it blimity, removes much avage sternne A. fortified cit ige and unrivalled minded by ravines, 3g, throq preading hills, ky glens, the moon has sunk bunt of OEN he darker .Inne doubly bright over y • The all pervading stillness is broken by a breeze, that seems to I have travelled over the plain of Sharon from the sea. It The wails among the tombs, and sighs among the cypress groves. The palm-tree trembles as it passes, as if it were a spirit of woe. Is it the breeze that has travelled over the plain of Sharon from the sea ? Or is it , the haunting voice of prophets mourning over the city that they could not save? Their spirits surely would linger _ on the land fate Omnipotence had shed human tears l Ount ! Who can but believe that, at th were merchants and mariners among mankind ; but what were those passing phantoms to them ? John the son of Thomas lived and died as Thomas the father of John had lived and died from generation to generation. The first news of the American war reached it in the firing of the Woolwich guns for peace ; and the original tidings of the French Revolution, in similar rejoicings for the Battle of Waterloo. " 0 happy ye,.the happiest of our kind, Who leave alike life's woes and joys behind ! " says the philosophic Cowley ; and with Cowley I perfectly agree.—But Erith is this scene of philosophy no more. It has now shared the march of mind : it has become al most a watering-place ; it has a library, a promenade, lodgings for gouty gentlemen, a conventicle, several vi gorous politicians, three doctors, and, most fatal of all, four steam-boat arrivals every day. Solitude has fled, and meditation is no more.—But, to my story. In that lonely house lived for several years, in the beginning of the century, a singular character, of whom nothing more was known than that he had come from some distant place of abode ; that he never received a letter ; and that he never hunted, shot, or fished with the squiredom of the county. He was of large form, loud voice, had a sullen look, and no trust in her Majesty's ministers for the time being. At length, on some occasion of peculiar public excitement, the recluse had gone to Gravesend, where, tempted by the impulse of the moment, he had broken through his reserve, dashed out into a diatribe of singular fierceness, but of remarkable power, accused. England of all kinds of oppression to all kinds of coun tries, and finished his speech by a recapitulation of all the wishes, wants, woes, and wrongs, as he called them, of Ireland, " First flower of the west, and first gem of the ocean." Within the next twelve hours, a pair of Bow-street offi cers were seen galloping into the village in a post-chaise and four. They brought a warrant from the Secretary of State to arrest the Irish orator, as a leader of the late Rebellion, returned from transportation on his own au thority. He was captured, and conveyed to the Tower. And this was the last intelligence of the patriot ; except that he appealed to the government against all repetition of his Australian voyage, and swore that he preferred the speedier performance of the law to the operations on the Coal-mine river. A remarkable tempest, which broke all the windows, and threw down half the chimneys of the city, a few weeks after, was supposed by the imaginative to be connected with his disappearance. At all events, he was heard of no more.—" Lays and Legends of the Thames," in Blackwood. OrntraT Aitken, of Aberdeen, has taken out a patent for the acture of iron coaches. On Wednesday, a little girl was killed at Clifton, by a stone thrown from a rock during the process of blasting. On Monday, at the Crookhalllronirorks, near Shotfey bridge six persons were killed by the bursting of a boiler. Mr:Newman, says the Tablet, has been entrusted by the Pope with the task of revising the English translation of the Vulgate. _ _ The Macedonia, once a British frigate, but captured by the United States in 1812, is now on her way from Ame rica to Cork, laden with bread stuffs. The number of sailing vessels wrecked during the year 1846, amounted to 537, and the tonnage thereof to 91,899 tons. A farmer, in Dumfries, has lost several sheep lately by their swallowing horse leeches, which ate through the vital organs. ___.. . . . More than thirty thousand negroes in Africa and the West Indies have subscribed towards the statue of their bene factor, Sir T. F. Buxton. BURYING GROUND.—It is said that there are in Paris four hundred acres of burying ground for less than one million of inhabiiants, while in London there are but one hundred for two millions. • In Aberdeen, the streets are swept every day, at an annual cost of £1,400, and the refuse brings in £2,000 a year. In Perth, the scavenging costs £1,300, and the manure sells for £1,730. A large meeting of the inhabitants of Wakefield was held on Wednesday, and a memorial to the Queen was adopted to obtain a charter of incorporation for the bo rough. _ _ _ _ Brandeston-hall, in Suffolk, a fine Elizabethan struc ture, the seat of Mr. Austin, Q.C., was totally destroyed by fire, on Thursday. The loss is estimated at upwards of £20,000. The mansion was not insured. Mr. Alfred. Smee, who has all along attributed the po tato disease to the aphis vastator, lately placed some of those insects- on a healthy plant, which they destroyed with symptoms precisely similar to those which affected the crop last year all over Europe. Lord John Russell on Friday announced, amid general expressions of satisfaction, that £5OO, and a medal, were proposed to be granted by Government to Bernadino Camp, the Spanish captain, who saved the survivors of the unfortunate passengers and crew of the Tweed. DEATH OF MRS. DISRAELI.—On Tuesday information was received in town of the demise of this lady, the wife of J. Disraeli, Esq., the celebrated author of " The Curi osities of Literature," and mother of the present member of parliament. She was in her sixty-fifth year. Mr. Edmund Garbett, for many years a solicitor at Wellington, Shropshire, and well known to the profession in Birmingham and elsewhere, was last week committed on a charge of forgery, in placing the name of another person to an acceptance. EXTRAORDINARY El RTH .-The Wife of William Squires, carpenter and joiner, Buckinghamshire, Kingsland, was safely delivered on Sunday, the 18th inst., of three chil dren—viz., three boys, who, with the mother, are doing well. A woman died in London, last week, from exhaustion, her foot slipped, and enware, of which a fragment , vered a small blood-vessel. attending to her household affairs she fell upon some earl' . entered her back and Mr. Dunn, the barrister, who fell desperately in love with Miss Coutts' fortune, and is now a prisoner in the Queen's Bench, sent a long, formal, and written com plaint to the Southwark magistrates, on Monday, against a cobbler, who, having soled a pair of shoes for him, re fuses to deliver them without pre-payment of 4s. 6d. ! WARNING TO SURGEONS An Aberdeen paper reports the death of Dr. Fidders, of Belhelvie, from the effects of a puncture he received in one of his fingers, while making a post-mortem examination. The virus spread rapidly through the system ; and, notwithstanding the best medical aid was promptly administered, he died in great torture. Arrangements are being made by the Postmaster-Gene ral, for causing all letters to be marked with the dated stamp of every office through which they pass. Hitherto they have been posted and dated whence they have been delivered. The new arrangement will facilitate the detec tion of the particular office at which any delay or error in the transmission of correspondence takes place. SHOCKING DEPRAVITY.—One day last week at Hor field, a poor wretch of afellow, to show his contempt for I_l the Bible, roasted it before a tire as he woula a Joint, of meat, and basted it with beer. In the evening of the same day he was drowned,—whether by accident or not we do not know, but it is believed he committed suicide. —Bristol Journal. Throughout the whole agricultural districts of Scot land, the accounts of the seed time, and the promisinv state of the young wheat are more than usually favour able. In Lanarkshire the oats are all in the ground under favourable circumstances. In Roxburghshire the accounts of the seed time are equally favourable. In East Lothian all the young crops are looking well. In Ayrs►ure tann ing produce is declining in price generally. PALACE COURT, WESTMINSTER.--ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY PER CENT. PER ANNUM I—Among the parties summoned was a government clerk, at £lO a year, who had borrowed £5 at 30s. a quarter interest ! An ap plication for commitment was made, but the court de clined to commit at the instance of the plaintiff, who had taken such large interest. The clerk admitted that his rent was more than his salary ? The Duke of Bedford has intimated his intention of giving, out of his own priva former gift of £lO,OOO, the sum of £3,000, s by the Commissioners of Woods and Foy parish of Saint Paul, Covent-garden, as th( its contribution towards the formation of th from Leicester-square to King-street, Covent-garden It is understood that this great improvement will be forth with commenced. 1 requi EMIGRATION FROM THE POTTERIES.— irteen &raffles from different A. few days since )f the Petteries, numbering about sixty persons, took ti ` . amilies go uni departure for ter the auspices, 01 the Potters' Emigration Society, but the destinatiOn of all Columbia County, United States, where the society urchased a tract of land. The emigrants are pot backwoods of the new world they are to obtain-a livelihood as agriculturists have _ ters, but in tl The llaLiton estate wa tion at Birmingham, by Mr on the 13th inst., sold by auc •. Tisdale. The principal part 2083 acres, including the man- of the estate, contain s of detached The - tiniber, valued at £lO,OOO, and 2 laud valued at £9622, are to be paid for in addition to the purchase land, wil letached E MURDER AT DERBY.—DEATH OF MRS. We very much regret to say that Mrs. _ Os- )Ezci e, who was so neck had healed up, but she was troubled with a most Vi olent cough, which, no doubt, hastened her end. The murderer cut her fingers so bad, that mortification of one of them took place, and she had it cut off about a month ago; an operation which she bore with great fortitude. FATAL ACCIDENT TO LIEUT. HENRY.-011 Thursday, as Lieutenant Henry, of the Royal Marine Artillery, with two brother officers, Lieuts. Budd and Adair, were driving along King's-terrace, Southsea, Hants, in a dog-cart, in turning a corner into Wish-street, the carriage touched the kerb, ran upon one wheel, and turned completely over, the wheels uppermost, and the horse on its back. Mr. Henry was heavily thrown, and fractured the back of his head, besides receiving internal injury, from the effects of which The deceased was a very promising young officer. Messrs. Jennens and Bettridge, of Birmingham, have just completed a splendid suit of papier macho boudoir furniture for the young Queen of Spain. The suite con sists of eighteen reclining chairs, a sofa, the largest ever Made in this material, sofa-table, light ornamented tables, ennvnrcatinn Astirs_ and ottomans. The shape of each article is exceedingly elegant, and their several uses are not sacrificed to, but enhanced by the beauties of form. The ornaments are chiefly of burnished gold and mother of pearl, in the ornate style of Louis the Fourteenth. Groups of birds, fountains, and festoons, are disposed with excellent effect; and the light and delicate tracery of gold forms an elegant fringe to the gorgeous pictures, one of which is a view of Windsor Castle. the preci IRISH IMMIGRATION INTO LONDON.—The importation of Irish paupers, so much complained of in Liverpool and Glasgow, begins to wear a threatening aspect in London. On Sunday, the Prussian Eagle, from Cork, and the Li merick, from Dublin, landed 1,200 Irish paupers at Alder man's-stairs, Lower East Smithfield. The new-corners-- who were in the most wretched state of distress—were forthwith distributed over the eastern part of the m etropolis. The same vessels landed 1,200 Irish paupers on Sunday week. A MAN SHOT BY A PIG.—On Monday morning week, about seven o'clock, the eldest son (about twenty-three years of age) of Mr. Amos, farmer, near the Cuckoo, in Spalding, left a gun heavily loaded standing in a corner of the barn. During his absence, which could scarcely ex ceed ten minutes, several pigs entered, 'and whilst they were being driven out, one of them knocked down the gun, which immediately exploded, and the unfortunate individual alluded to being not more than four feet from the muzzle, the whole of the charge entered a little below the calf of his right leg, which was dreadfully lacerated. AN INSOLVENT BARONET.—Sir Henry Chudleigh Ox enden, Bart., an insolvent, appeared from the Queen's prison, on. his application to be discharged. From the schedule it appeared that the debts were in the aggregate £90,620; of which £29,563 were without consideration, and £3OOO more than once entered. The consideration debts from 1830 were £57,799. The insolvency was attri buted to heavy law expenses, anu to the failure of carry ing out an agreement with the South Western Railway Company. The court having appointed Mr. Kingsford assignee, the insolvent was ordered to be discharged. THE CONSTABULARY FORCE IN ENGLAND AND WALES. On Friday, members of the House of Commons were put in possession of a return of the constabulary force in Eng land and Wales, for each city, town, or borough, with the wages paid to the officers, &c. It contains no account of the rural constabulary force, and so far is defective. The following summary of the total number of officers and men, consequently, must be takenwith large allowances : In the metiopolifin and city of London poliCe forces, In constabulary forces in municipal boroughs . . In ditto in towns not municipal Boroughs Total officers and men 10008 Superannuation funds have been established in ten boroughs ; in 201 the return under this head is nil. SIMPLE DIVISION, OR A NOVEL MODE OF ARRIVING AT A VERDICT.—At the recent Maidstone assizes, an ac tion was brought by Mr. Gardener, of the Globe Tavern, Mile End Road, near Bow, against the Directors of the North Woolwich Railway Company, for trespass. The damages were laid at £lOOO, and the defendants had paid £75 into court. Some dispute arose among the jury as to t of damages to which the plaintiff was entitled, when one of the jury suggested that each of them should write on a slip of paper the sum they conceived equivalent for that purpose. The suggestion was acted upon, the aggregate amount of the whole ascertained, and pivided by 12, which gave £137 damages. This verdict was actually given in and recorded. THE WESI:EY:ANS AND THE GOVERNMENT EDUCATION SCHEME.—The United (Wesleyan) Committees of Privi leges and Education have made the following declaration with reference to the Government Education Scheme : "That on the whole subject, surrounded as it is with many difficulties, these Committees, after long, deliberate, and prayerful consideration, have come to the almost unanimous resolution, to advise the Wesleyan Societies and Congregations, under present circumstances, not to offer any further Connexional opposition, or to take any further Connexional action, in reference to the Govern ment Measure of Education, as these Committees under stand it to be now explained, and intended to be ulti mately proposed to the House of Commons." THE ROMAN CATHOLIC INSTITUTE AND THE EDU CATION SCHEME.—At a meeting of the Catholic Institute held on Wednesday, at which the Earl of Shrewsbury presided, and at which there was a large attendance of bishops and clergy, the following resolution was- unani mously agreed to :—" That this meeting, deeply impressed with the outrage offered to the rights of conscience by the declaration of her Majesty's present government—' that Catholics are to be excluded from a participation in the grant of £1,000,000 to be voted by parliament for all other religious communions,'—call upon all classes of their fellow Catholics to unite in one cry of indignant reprobation at this insulting exception from a public grant, paid out of a public fund, under the administration of a ministry who have appropriated to themselves the title of ' Liberal,' but whose shrinking policy, at the cry of a bigoted sect, has countenanced the worst features of religious intolerance." THE LATE THOMAS BALDWIN, ESQ. — This gentleman died suddenly at Birmingham, in the month of January, 1845, possessed of personal property amounting to £200,000. He died intestate and a bachelor. A consi derable number of his relatives reside in this county, among whom are John Taylor, Esq., of Moreton Hall, near Padiham ; Mr. Thomas Robinson, draper, Burnley ; and Mr. Edmund Robinson, manager of the Burnley Gas Works, The first-named gentlemen drew £9OOO in behalf of his aged mother, who was a first cousin ; and the two latter in their own right, as relatives in the like degree, have each received the same sum. Mr. Richard Fort,. of Waterloo Plaee, Accrington, has received £lB,ooo—one moiety in behalf of his mother, and the other in right of his wife. Mr. , William Robinson, of Padiham, has also received £9,000. The money was paid on Saturday week, at the Queen's Hotel, Piccadilly, Manchester. We un derstand that this is only a first instalment, and that a further dividend will be paid in a short time. The legacy duty on each share amounted to £450. EXPLOSION OF A POWDER-MILL.—A terrific explosion, attended by the complete demolition of some extensive powder-mills, took place at the gunpowder manufactory of Messrs. Wakefield and Bainbridge, at the village of Sedgwick, near Kendal, on Monday night last. Near the mansion of Mr. John Wakefield; mayor of Kendal, were ling the raw materia. 3f wood. Closely ad was what was called the preparing mill, built of stone, to which was attached the composition-house. From some unknown cause an explosion occurred, by which the entire of these six erections were completely demolished, leaving only here and there a vestige of the walls standing. Happily no life was lost. After the explosion a mass of burning timber was scattered about, and at one time the flames from a quantity of ignited saltpetre were very alarm ing, but by the assistance of the Kendal fire engines were finally extinguished. INCITING A MAYOR TO FIGHT A DUEL.—Last week, in the Bail Court, Mr. Sergeant Talfourd moved for a rule to show cause why a criminal information should not be filed against Mr. Charles Ricketts, Mr. Chamberlain, and another gentleman for having incited F. T. Elgie, Esq., the Mayor of Worcester, to a breach of the peace by fighting a duel. Mr. Elgie and Mr. Chamberlain are both solicitors, and a difference arose respecting th e tax ing of a bill oicosts for a railway company. The former having declined to answer the letters of the latter, Mr. in the navy, to wait upon Mr. Elgie, to name the time Chamberlain, deputed Mr. Tangier, his friend, an officer and place of meeting. The mayor very properly declined the appeal to weapons of a deadly nature, preferring one to law and reason, and the matter was therefore brought before this court.—As nothing, however, had occurred since the 24th of March, Mr. Justice Coleridge hoped the matter would go no further. If anything unpleasant did take place, of course a second application could be made. —The subject was then dropped CRIMINAL OFFENDERS IN SCOTLAND parliamentary papers, presented in the course o week, was one of a voluminous character, containing amongst the in Scotland. The offences are divided into six classes, from the higher to the lower grades of crime. The infe rence to he drawn from these statements confirms the view likely to be taken by the House of Commons—that crime is mainly owing to the want of education. The chief punishment (murders or heinous offences being rare) is imprisonment, varying from twelve months to less than six. In transportation the term seems to be usually seven During the twelve months (1846) only three were There I I, consequently, not been one in: • stance of the execution of the capital punishment ; and there does not appear to have been any commutation either of transportation or of imprisonment, nor one free pardon. The return was made by the Lord Advocate, and was received with peculiar interest. NARROW ESCAPE.—On Wednesday last a carriage and pair. containing three ladies, was waiting at the railway station at Rugby, whilst the coachman went to make in quiries after some luggage. During his absence the horses, alarmed at the noise. of the numerous engines that are constantly passing backwards and iorwurcw aL tins paint, turned round and started off at a rapid rate towards the town. A man engaged in mending the road, alarmed at the approach of the carriage, removed his barrow, but dared not attempt to stop the horses ; a young man, how ever, who lines at the Crown, seeing the dangerous post- Lion in which the ladies were placed7gallantly ran towards the horses, and succeeded in obtaining possession of the reins, and also in checking „ the progress Of the_ spirited . . ut injury, as the road along which the hors'i it all times thronzed with tarn of dif- zo, to show the estima conduct of the young April V, Mit PRICE or GAIL—In the House of Commons on Thurs day, Mr. Hume Moved for " a statement of every gas company established by act of parliament in the united kingdom, stating the several acts of parliament under which established ; the rates per 1,000 feet at which each company or corporation has supplied gas in each year since 1820 ; or, if later established, in each year from the year the company commenced to supply gas, and the price of the best coals in each year for the same period : also, stating the amount of fixed capital of each gas company, and the rate per cent. of each dividend to the share holders or proprietors on their shares in each year during that time.' The motion was agreed to. SUICIDE OF SIR HENRY IVD BSTER.—A most painful sensation pervaded the vicinity of Grosvenor-square, on Monday, in consequence of a rumour that Sir H. Web ster, Bart., residing at No. 31, Upper Brook-street, had committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. Upon making inquiry into the truth of the rumour, it was found to be too true. The unfortunate gentleman, it ap pears, has for some time past been in a desponding state of mind, but no fears were for a moment entertained that he would take his own life. On Monday morning he rose at his usual hour and took breakfast, and expressed his intention of going out to walk. He was left by himself to dress, and shortly after a heavy fall was heard in his room. The servant immediately proceeded to his apart ments, and found him lying upon the floor with a wound in the throat. Medical assistance was promptly obtained, and the wound in the throat dressed, but at twelve o'clock at night the unfortunate gentleman expired from exhaus tion, consequent upon loss of blood. NATIONAL SIN THE CAUSE OF NATIONAL JUDGEMENT. —The Rev. W. Gillmor, perpetual curate of Illingworth, near Halifax, has just published an admirable sermon with this title ;it was preached on the fast day. It ought to be extensively circulated, for the observations are no less true than seasonable. There is much that we should like to reprint, but the following remarks are too pointed to be omitted. "In the year 1829, the passing of that sui cidal act, the Popish Relief Bill took place. And what were the consequences of this heavy blow against the Church of Christ in the British isles ? Was the introduc tion of an idolatrous religion to occupy a position in_the temple of the state, side by side with that of the true Ca tholic faith, punished as heretofore as a national crime ? Yes, beloved. There was an immediate withdrawal of the bounties of Providence. From that hapless period, when idolaters were admitted into both houses of parliament, until the year 1834, the United Kingdom underwent a succession of unfavourable harvests. Agricultural distress extensively prevailed. Commercial transactions, .during the same interval, were in a most depressed condition. Conflagrations in the rural districts were of almost nightly occurrence. Serious riots took place in several populous places. In short, violence and tumult and popular excite ment prevailed in the following year to so alarming an extent throughout our land, that, by the advice of the cabinet of the day, really believing that mischief and bloodshed might, in consequence, ensue, the King's visit to a London festival was obliged to be postponed • and one of our principal cities was we ll n i gh destroyed. 'And, at length, that fearful, mysterious and most appalling pes tilence, Cholera, whose advances no barrier could impede, was sent upon us, sweeping away, in its devastating course, whole masses of the population in every quarter which it visited. Persons, as I have known, were frequently seized with this dreadful complaint in the streets, and died, and were buried, in the course of a few hours. And so wide was its range, that the cry of death was heard in almost every parish throughout our land ; and, in . some quarters, hundreds upon hundreds were, within the space of six or . eight weeks, consigned to one common grave." On Monday, a general conference of delegates from the various metropolitan parishes, Brighton, and o th er pro vincial towns, took place at the Court House Marylebone, with reference to the Health of Towns Bill, the Rector of Marylebone, (Dr. Spry,) in the chair. The meeting hav ing been addressed by the chairman, Mr. Daniel, of Marylebone, Mr. Davis, of St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, Mr. Dempstor, of Brighton, and others, resolutions were adopted, condemning the government scheme as a politi cal bill, under pretence of being a sanatory enactment, and as a scheme utterly destructive of the functions of local boards. It was then resolved forthwith to send copies of the resolutions to every parish and paving and cleaning district in the metropolis, as also to provincial cities and towns, with a view to obtain their opinion upon them; and a vote of thanks having been awarded to the reverend chairman, the conference separated. BLUE TEA.—Why shouldwe not have blue, or red, or yellow tea, as well as black and green ? An assortment of coloured teas would be rather an elegant improvement of the tea-table, especially if there were an array of variega ted tea-pots to correspond. " Purple, if you please." " / always drink yellow." " Indeed—l'm told it is bad for digestion, and that the most wholesome tea is sky blue—which matches, too, with our best London milk." Are our readers aware that there is no reason why rain bow teas should not be manufactured ? A Select Parlia mentary Committee is now sitting to inquire into our commercial relations with China, Sir George Larpent, the chairman of the East India Association, stated in his evidence, that " the whole of the supply of tea for the Eu ropean market was a manufactured article. There was not a pound of tea which came to this country from China. which did not undergo a colouring process. Tea which we called green here was coloured green, and might as well be coloured yellow or blue. (Laughter.) The tea underwent that manufacture with the view to adapt it to the market in this country, and the process might to sone! extent alter the essential quality of the tea."—John Rut' IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF Gas, for the general purposes of artificial illumination,. of lif e , having now b ecome one o f th e rea l nece ssaries any improvements in its quality, or greater economy ill its production, must be of the greatest importance to society at large. We are led to these remarks by having before us the prospectus of a new ~ n s en/lin:lnv I-apr [mai ai iras:Liiiit, Yen- formed for the introduction to Manure ?üblic utility of a new, cheap, and efficient manufacturing gas front sources hitherto unproductive—for a more efficient mode of - warming and cooling apartments—for a new system of ventilation—for a new preparation of animal charcoal of superior quality—which, having been employed on various chemico-economical operations, will form a highly-superior manure to any now in general use. The most novel fea ture in the formation of this company is, the privilege to, be granted to the customer of changing the present mode of lighting at so much per 1,000 feet, to " such an illu minative power, at so much per quarter, to be estimated, by the size of the room to b e lighted, by every 100 cubic feet of space, which will be accomplished at one-third the present charge.' The prospectus states, that from the value of the remains in the retorts, and their improve ments in the manufacture, a superior illuminative gas can be produced by them at 4s. per 1,000 feet. These advan tages are obtained from the use of one-fourth bones to three-fourths of coal ; and the substances obtained from this system are—grain black for the sugar-refiner ; flako black for the japanner, currier, &c.; ivory black ; coke from the coke-ovens and retorts; limpid naptha ; the earth, used in the manufacture of porcelain ; carbonaceous manure ; and a large volume of rich gas, at the rate of 7,000 feet for every ton of bones calcined. The patentee of this new, and apparently economic and elegant system, is a gentleman who was many years a pupil of Dalton, the celebrated originator of the theory of atomic che mistry, and also of Berzelius ; a nd has founded his system on true chemical principles, and on the law of 1 bodies, as laid down by Davy, Sir J. Leslie, and other urinous eminent men and, when carried out, will, no doubt► Mama great support from its purity and economy-1 6 being, as stated by the patentee, free from those exhala tions so injurious to paintings and decorations. The, capital is to be £750,000, in 75,000 shares, at Xlo:each. THE HUMAN TEETH.—This beautiful organ not only forms the main point in our personal appea - rance, but is also chiefly the instrument to cause perfect articulation, so as to give a distinct sound and utterance to our vocal ex pressions ; it is the masticating apparatus, or grinding mill, for our food and nourishment, and without . the func tions of it we should be most miserably situated respect to preparing our food p__ er and f ec t v , i g h o e u a r l t ; I h u r f e o for n n d u i t c r a i t e i a o t n i o o n f . A youthp clear and audible delivery of speech — the cause of an even i s s to t m he ac s and gradual digestion — necessary to our health,—and last, not least, one of the most prominent and striking features in the beauty of the human countenance ; for no matter whom, be the figure ever so graceful, the body all syrn mptry, the cheeks tinted like the rose, the eyes sparkling set of teeth means of a with intellectual lustre, the hair in locks nig' Old r or rave )aster neck of emale beauty— -, row 01 shrink with repugnance, and pity the being v moments before we were gazing on with de- I vet, convinced and aware of the absolute ne! is not the uir_ arced of .Israel assemble to gi heir mystic city ? upon the.battlernents might be counted heroes irink from no rivalry'with the brigl t of other lands ; but the lawgive whose law teacher, wt n Is a proven in an es havt islators, the greatest of admi- Lers—what race, ex- Europe ;—the greatest of nistrators, and the greatest tinct or living, can produce Li.— --- The last light is extingnished in the village of Bethany The wailing breeze has become a moaning wind ; a white film spreads over the purple sky; the -' s are veiled,.the stars are hid ; all become 4- ers of Kedron and the valley of Jeho, minarets of the mosque of Omar i Bethes of Stephen, ti and the heights of Scopas, can Alone in the increasing darkn !pulchre is a beacon s as dark as the wal shaphat. The to' no longer glitter t cored sorrow, the hill of Salem be discerned. ) lots , while the very 1 THE LONE HOUSE AND MYSTERIOUS INHABITANT. — On passing- the little village of Erith, once one of the prettiest rustic spots in Kent, where the parson and the surgeon formed the heads of the community, and its only intelligence of the living world depended on the casual arrival of a boat from the Margate Hoy in search of fresh , a , eggs for the voyage, a small house was pointea out to me, embosomed in a dell, which would have completely suited the solitary tastes of a poet weary of the world. Fifty ears ago, a weekly newspaper was the only remembrancer arson or doctor of the world which they had left, and that one only sent by the member for the county when he thought it desirable to awake the general 'grati tude on the approach of a general election. The Thames certainly might remind the village population that there escaped wi ferent dc town n which they held the coura man, by whose, intervention their lives were most probe bly saved, presented him with the munificent sum of 6d npeauer or In ___e riuusc vi ,Anitiuvila llt4o 1.11 •-•••• new table of fees to be charged on all private bills of which the operation is to be immediate. £5 is to be paid on the deposit of the petition, or any other document, in the private bill office ; and £6 for every day occupied by the examiners into compliance with the standing orders. As to proceedings in the house, £5 is"to be paid on the pre sentation of the petition, and £l5 for each of the following stages, these fees to be increased according to the money to be raised or expended under the authority of the bill, a scale. By this scale, 0 whic h.is gra - PlOO.OO. the um be fees are to be doubled; if the sum is half, and less than two millions, the fe, plied by ten, with a proportionate 1.11,!;77,f, must be multi crease for ever million beyon_ _ appear before any committee by counsel, without counsel £6 is to be charged. OppO ive mil 10 ; and if pay £1 the deposit of every memorial complaining of non-compliance with the standing orders ; £2 on the pre sentation of every petition to the house ; £3 for every day on which the examiners inquire into the memorial com plaining of non-compliance with the standing orders; £5 if they appear by counsel before any committee, and £3 if they appear without. The general fees it is unnecessary to specify here. The fees to be taken by the short-hand writer remain unaltered ; and any bill for the particular interest of any person or persons, whether brought in upon petition, motion, or report from a committee, or brought from the lords, is to be deemed a private bill within the meaning of this table of fees; A thOse' indispensable auxiliarie many individual , of both sexes are guilty in regard to this most important and beautifully constructed organ ; particularly when al" have it greatly in their own power, with a little attention s!xrprisi what more regular teeth, thus avoiding disease and a trap' of unpleasant attendant consequences? Scarcely is there a house containing a number of inmates where either ne; immoderate use of animal fooc or frequent res to quack medicines, most of them containing great abull t dance of calomel, has not caused to most of them, if n9 d all, despoliation in the mouth, gums, or teeth ; feti d breath, or spungy gums, whi c h, w hen tou c hed, begin t o bleed, if not to emit matter ; the teeth loose in th!l:i loaded with offe ~ showing their soc' d l, , every time the mouth is operle v ? Individuals, perhaps. 3 '. Inly in their persons, to be tn 7 this may be remedi..' 1, by applying to a skilful d en ® e and comfort to tf) (See advertiseille not totally lost, most of them decayed 1-1 ack rottennes What an unpardonable neglect every e+' r respect ci s in their moue ill in a short time give ea, 9e Loude on the Teeth. lAZ ORS ) RAZOR STROP —lt is one of the gre/.'' , pelled to shave 1 t 1 ;1 1 -ntly keen tit razor the edge of which is not sumci..... ," tender skin of the operator. In a thousand fo at draw his face, exhibiting in every movem. a sens,e„; pain—excruciating pain—that makes ev: byestannit shudder. He clenches his teeth, and in attemPts it remove from his tender cheek the wit—, air. The atterille is in vain , and he declares the razo • be one of t ll ° -0 described Pindar—" made to s• , and not to o°o4 Thus it is often that the inno , 'nt temperer o f gee 0 ( convicted of what duly belon , to an itinerant venclel'of strops. Nothing is worse , 'procure than a g ood I . j oe , strop; but there is one ertised that we know to et i, sess every requisite. It - Saunders's four-sided As a , f. 13 can strop. It has bee. nvented many years, and f. 'l t to successful in Atneric... that Mr. Saunders came with "teit; England about twe years ago.. It has stood o° o o9 ever since, and h s now located in the Strand, otii L° ll , where those wl •.suffer the torture of thick beards n6fert do well to ca or on his agent here ; for we a re sou 1,9,1( that if they were in general use, wo should not bear the ill-tempered complaints of ill. -tempered steel, ARR ton, fr lett; a from dence, SA II sey, Murdo Isah lUth the slo of Lon Southe searneT the slo( plied t: which Pann this po Heln this pp Bella rara -ttl Dart, Leon King Desp Meta Veloi Orioi FALA of and 1 rived it on the, eight h sehooni from Si sank in their In WI SAIL: leans— Constai Lisbon- Fellows Groom, mc white s' drown, the Artl The at sea ^, landed Gilhei Good H Argil] Elizat linttb s Mary, Lance and Job Alecto Isabel Lima, Mar Ch. Qniz, Geor'a PE Aloulma prevent pected ti saved. ARRII from Ma SAILE ICWvi; To Icewfour Garro, A Art, and Tiaves, /*Taira: Debors Uranic 18th Mal P. J. I for Alexc Corfrii 'Zante March. Blarne Marga: having b R"illiai with loss Emilie. 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