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DEA THE Beautiful shado 'Why should we mourn that t Life would have brou. And sizhs and tenr . Thy beauty La Unchanged t Death has but touched, not C Why for thin HIL D e lost to emit bad years passe Time to the living sorrow brings, and A Stamps the fair fea th deep lines of thought Tears blot the leaves of vont]: chanted pal :ht Harsh are the lessons by Experience to But thou has ;-.1 all; eternal light Suns thy pure heart in realms of endless bliss;, IGrief cannot pain thee in those mansions bright; Oh I blessed change to Heaven, from sphere like this. Beautiful shadow, thou art passed away, ?co care have we for thee—thou'rt God's alone We think not of thy robe of earth—its clay Could not with immortality have shone; We see thee in the morning —hear thy voice, Prattling with love, and know that love will last; And, in the evening, in our prayers rejoice That safely through this vale of tears thou'st past, REVIEWS OF BOOKS. 272 e Protestant Magazine for August. Lond( Wertheim and Mackintosh. This zealous and well-directed periodical ci limes with unabated rigour to do battle in '1 Protestant cause. No instance is lost sight of its vigilant conductors, in which the errors, t] cruelties, and the crimes of Popery can be laid ba: lefore the public eye. Such ceaseless scrutin and such frequent expos erect much iiity to a sense of their duty and thc, awakening the 'anger Vie Organon, or Logical Treatises, of Aristotle Translated by 0. F. Owen, M.A. Vol. II London 11. G. Bohn. The volume now before us is the sec ccmcluding one, of Mr. Owen's very learned trans lation of Aristotle's logic. It is in all respects an erudite and scholarly production ; the acute and recondite mental fornaulm of the metaphysician being faithfully rendered, while, by the aid of copious notes, they are well illustrated and ex plained. The original work has been too long an acknowledged standard to require eulogium at our hands ; in the present instance, therefore, our remarks can apply only to the labours of the editor. Shese latter evince patient and deep study—very considerable mental resources—and no lack of logi cal acumen. To the metaphysical student, this -edition of Aristotle's Logical Treatises will be wel come, and, in an eminent degree, useful. Whe Universal Library, Parts 17 and 18, con taining Goldsmith's Citizen of the World, and . 71 fichelet'S Life of Luther. London : Ingram, Cooke and Co. In general plan, the Universal Library deserves ligh commendation, proposing, as it does, to supply accurate reprints of the standard English authors ; and also English translations of the best French and German works, together with speci mens of American writers of note. This edition of these works has now reached its eighteenth part, and has redeemed, so far, the promises held ,out at its commencement. The parts already published embrace in a complete form, besides -ether favourite essays, poems, and treatises, the i s etical works of 31ilton, the Lay of the Last tl Istrel, and the Lady of the Lake, by Scott, lason's Essay on Taste, a well-selected collection of voyages and travels, including those of Stephens, Anson, and Kcempfer, and now the two works whose names stand at the head of this notice. The Universal Library is published in octavo, is hand somely printed i n d ou bl e co l umns, is tastefully embellished, and is issued at so cheap a rate as to bring it readily within the purchasing means of all Basses. The Flowers of History, collected by Matthew of Westminster. Translated from the original, by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London : H. G. Bohn. The quaintly written Chronicles of the renowned Matthew of Westminster, published as part of the Antiquarian Library, in a handsome form and at so cheap a rate as to bring them within reach of purchase by historical students of even limited means, is a literary boon of no inconsiderable mag -saitucle. It is perfectly true indeed, that these chronicles are so deeply tinctured with the mys tical prejudices of the time tic. which they were svritten, as to be very unsafe guides to historical truth, taken by themselves : nevertheless, they contain a reasonably fair catalogue of events, and Even the prejudices by which the narratives are beset, and with which they are intermixed, consti tute so thoroughly a reflex of the Popish mind, svhen untramelled by the fear of exposure, and =awed by the certainty of opposition, that even the absurdity of his averments becomes interest ing, and aids in the expiscation of truth ; while his unbounded credulity, combined with the pre supposed approbation of his readers, is an edifying instance of how far a man may impose upon him self while endeavouring to dissipate the scruples of others. As might be expected, the erudite chroni cler is implicit in his reliance upon the infallibility of Mother Church, and is eloquent, after his own fashion, _in enforcing the value of her miracles. Some of our readers may be inclined to smile as they read the following incident, which was found available (at least, so says our chronicler) to the temporal aggrandisement of the Church : GRITNTIIRAN'S DREAM The same year - (686):Ville - Gruntiii-in, King of the Franks, being weary with hunting, was sleeping in his armour-bearer's lap, near a stream of water, the armour bearer saw a little animal issue out of the King's mouth. And as it wished to cross the stream and could not do so, the armour-bearer placed his sword across the water, and iso made it a path to go and return. And when it came lack into the King's mouth, he awoke and said that he I, d dreamed that he was passing over an iron bridge, and taid that he had seen great treasures under a certain mountain. And when he went to the mountain, in ac- Cordance with the faith he placed in his dream, he did find Feat treasures there ; and when he had acquired them he appropriated them to the uses of the Church. Here we see that, for the benefit of the Church of Which the venerable Matthew was no doubt a 'istinguished ornament, King Grunthran had a dream, in some degree akin to the renowned Irish echo, which, on being asked a question, instead of repeating it as ordinary ill-bred and common-place echoes would do, returns to the astonished in lerrogator an answer in the affirmative or negative, according to the condition of its temper for the time being, So th e King's dream is partly an imagination and partly a matter of very question ale fact. If the historical veracity of the garrulous Benedictine is open to animadversion in relation to the above incident, however, what shall we make of the following case of the REDEMPTION OF THE EMPEROR TR.AJA.N. A.D. 605. Which is the second year of the reign of I : locus, the blessed Gregory departed from this life to the lord. This blessed man, while still alive, was once walk ant; through the forum of Trajan, the Emperor, which he tad himself adorned with beautiful edifices; and recollect ' aiudrn , A-t of his with whi t ' ) -, h , led a wir' .g -- -me, ne had consoi, ..uon as a reward for this great humanity of the Emperor, he 'rent in haste to the church of the holy Apostle Peter, and there it is related that he wept a long time for th e unbelief and error of th a t mos t merciful Emperor, till, on the next night, he received an answer that he had been heard on behalf of Trajan, on condition of never again praying for any other Pagan. And we are to believe that - thus the soul of Trajan was delivered from the torments of hell. In fact, the same fire of Gehenna, if it is able equally to detain many prisoners, at the same time is able, ky the mercy of God, to avoid inflicting on all of them equal punishment. For souls in Gehenna feel torture ac vording to the degree of their guilt. These and such as these, then, it would appear are what are called monkish legends, many of which are, by authority of the Romish Church, field forth as of, or nearly of equal authority with the Holy Scriptures. Instances, equally absurd with those narrated above, might easily be multi )lied relative to the wonder-working powers of many of the canonized Romanists, both out of this and other works, but we do not feel inclined to trace the subject further for the present. We however, be doing an injustice to the l 'alue of the volume before us (which is the first of a series of two) did we permit it to be suppo se d at nothing more important than the quotations H` ‘ ',,._have made are to be found within its pages. c;g3S. important facts are narrated in these i mu Ves, generally in a style of exaggerated tis l?n, or of unnecessary detraction, yet still in'vestij rat enunciation affording a clue to truthful 27 11 c 2:)° a( 1 :Family Abroad. By Charles Lever. Amon the London : Chapman and Hall. twelfth serials for the present month, the numbe r of Lever's "Dodd Family Abroad" is distin gu i sh _ y eu b the pungency and telling caus ticity of its sarcasm, coupled with a naiveti and - breadth of humour which meets with few instances of rivalry. The nu mber , opens with an incidental "galbehind the curtain, while a great matrimo ;jai drama is 1 ) 6 the Dodd family, c by the members of the object of which is an attempt t o inveigle a German baron into a marriage with xisg Nall fie ' The plot, on the part of the mesentation and uently, we dare .esumed I render ire is t 1 luscious humou but the followir ill be gel phic, quaint, and )e considered no ritten by L rank with the very best of literature which has yet ) thoroughly explains itself as o we )ductia only one of the best but as entitled to tali to require neither pro shall offer no further observatic with bespeaking our readers' attention to nor intr but content ot the letter of BETTY COBB TO MRS. SHUSAN O'SHEA, PRIEST'S HOUSE BRI7FI DEAR MRS. SHUSAN,—I for the last week, but couldn' tion I was in, for sn: barrin' the evi cam here two weeks gone, on a vi man tha' Eatin' ar I'll nev of wat Romar Nigh again !" Who knows, Miss," says I 11 I ever see Dods- you didn't, and so many there that's fond of you." " I don't believe it," says she, sharp. " I don't believe there's one cares a bit about me !" )u'll write t k of I one ? he grey cloak with the blue limn', and the Bayver bonnet wore last winter two years, they'd be useful to me here, Lnd you could tell the neighbours that it was new clothes you were sending me for my weddin'. Be sure ye tell me how Sam Healey bears it. Tell him for me, with my regards, that I hope he won't take to drink, and desthroy his constitution. You can write to me still as before, to your attached and true friend, BETTY COBB. VARIETIES. DESPERATE.—It was stated in Syracuse, the other day, that one of the candidates for office had employed a man for three days up in the cemetery, copying names off the tombstones for his petition. IF a speculator misses his aim, everybody cries out he's a fool," and sometimes, " he's a rogue." If hi succeeds, they besiege his door and demand his daughter we I in marriage. IS WEDLOCK woman's rights" wor arriage—what is it ?" Miss Lucy Stone, of Boston 1, having put the question Irish echo in the Boston Pc Wouldn't you like to I ROMAN ARCH.--A covery of an archc to conduct a sprin se of Jer es that ti as well kw Goo]) rou TIIE EYES.—To give brilliancy to the eyes ; shut them early at night and open them early in the morning ; let the mind be constantly intent . on the acqul. sition of human knowledge, or on the exercise of benevo. lent feelings. This will scarcely ever fail to impart to the eyes an iniell - A WITNESS examined ti bribery commission, said t !ection, t weather being hot, f for something to drin wrote bet U'Murran (the landlord) giye these me one pint of ale each, for which I will be responsible :' th one was afterwards altered into a four.—(Loud laughter. VOLTAIRE AND Piuoif had been to pass some time at a country seat. One day Piron wrote on Voltaire's apart ment, ` Rogue." As soon as Voltaire saw it, he pro ceeded at once to Piron's, who said to him—" What chance procures me the pleasure of seeing you ?" "Sir, (answered Voltaire,) I saw your name over my door, and I have come to return the visit." A LITERAL JOKER.—The Bishop of Oxford having sent round to the churchwardens in his diocese a circular of inquiries, among which was :—" Does your officiating clergyman preach the gospel, and is his conversation and carriage consistent therewith ?" the churchwarden near Wallingford replied :—" He preaches the gospel, but does not keep a carriage."—Aylesbury News. BOYS AND GIRLS.—The first thing a boy does after he is weaned is to straddle the banisters and ride down stairs. The first thing a girl sets her heart on is a doll and a set of diminutive cups and saucers. The girls are given to neatness, and hate soiled garments of all kinds ; boys, on the contrary, set a high value on dirt, and are never so happy as when sailing a log ship, with a brown paper sail, in a mud puddle. AFFECTION FOR STOCK-DOVES.--I quoted his (Words worth's) own beautiful address to the stock-dove. He said once, in a wood, Mrs. Wordsworth and a lady were walk ing, when the stock-dove was cooing. A farmer's wife coming by said to herself, " Oh, I do like stock-doves." Mrs. Wordsworth, in all her enthusiasm for Wordsworth's poetry, took the old woman to her heart ; " But," con tinued the old woman, "some like them in a pie; for my part, there's nothing like 'em stewed in onions.".—Hay don's Memoirs. A GRADUATED REVOLUTION.—When Napoleon escaped from Elba and returned to France,the Moniteurannounced the event as follows :—First announcement " March, 1816. The monster has escaped from the place of his banishment ; he has run away from Elba." Second.— " The Corsican dragon (l'Oger) has landed at Cape Juan." Third.—" The tiger has shewn himself at Gap. The troops are advancing on all sides to arrest his progress. He will conclude his miserable adventure by becoming a wanderer 1 among the mountains; he cannot possibly escape." Fourth.—" The monster has really advanced as far as Grenoble—we know not to what treachery to ascribe it." Fifth.—" The Tyrant is actually at Lyons. Fear and terror seized all at his appearance. Sixth.—" The usurper has ventured to approach the capital to within sixty hours' march." Seventh.—" Bonaparte is advancing by forced marches—but it is impossible he can reach Paris." Eighth.—" Napoleon will arrive under the walls of Paris 1 to-morrow." Ninth.—" The Emperor Napoleon is at Fontainebleau." Tenth.—" Yesterday evening his ma jesty the Emperor made his public entry, and arrived at the Tuileries—nothing can exceed the universal joy !" IRISHMEN v. " NIGGERS."—A New York farmer, tra velling " down south," met a peasant, with whom he entered into the following dialogue " Are you a farmer?" " Yes, what are you ?" "lam a farmer, too." "Be ye— to New York ?" Yes ; how much land have you got ?" " A hundred and twenty-five acres ; how miich - have you ?" " Just about the same. What's your land worth here ?" " Some on't, what we call swamp-land, kinder low and wet like, ye know, that's worth five dollars an acre; and, mainly, it's worth, a dollar-and-a-half or two dollars, that's takin' a common trac' of upland. What's yours ?" " A hundred and fifty to two hundred." "Dollars !" " Yes." " Good Lord ! yer might as well buy niggers at mist. _Do you work any niggers?" "No." " gay be they don't have - niggers, that is slaves, to New York." " No, we do not. It's against the law." " Yes, I heerd 'twas someplace. How do yer get yer work done?" " I hire Irishmen." "Do they V7orli good ?" " Yes, a great deal better than negroes, I think, and don't cost nearly so much." " What do yer have to give ?" " I pay them eight or nine dollars a month, and board them ; don't clothe them, or anything more." " Why, Lord ! yer can't get any kind of a good nigger for less 'n twelve dollar a month." " And board them ?" " Yes, and clothe, and blank, and shoe 'em !"—Travelling in South Carolina. GIPSIES IN THE UNITED STATES.—It has been gene rally supposed that gipsies were unknown in the United States until their recent advent into New Jersey and Virginia; but a correspondent of the Philadelphia Ga zette, of Bangor, writes that they have been k nown i n New Hampshire, Maine, and Massachusets for nearly one hundred years. According to tradition, they were brought from England to Portsmouth, N.H., by a gentleman, who endeavoured to train them as household servants. He failed in the attempt, and his gipsies afterwards betook themselves to the barren and inhospitable plains of the new town of Barrington, some twenty miles northwest from Portsmouth, where they and their descendants have resided in hovels, issuing forth, from time to time, among the people of New Hampshire, and the borders of Massa chusets and Maine, disposing of baskets and other articles of manufactures, telling fortunes, &c. They are to-day but little in advance, in point of civilization and the de cencies of life, of those who have, within a year or two, emigrated to Maryland, New Jersey, &c., though their blood is less unmixed with that of the Yankees. All efforts to reclaim them from their wandering life have proved futile ; hence they are permitted to follow the bent of their inclinations, without let or hindrance, unless they commit some heinous offence.—American paper. RUSSIAN TROOPS.—I was present on several occasions when their regiment of lancers, eight battalions of infantry, and a park of artillery were brigaded. They went admir ably through that most difficult of all manoeuvres, advanc ing in line ; but they were all old soldiers ; their cavalry horses were lean, large, and' heavy-looking brutes. The lancers made a poor show ; the artillery better, but wretchedly slow ; the infantry pleased me very much, until they commenced their light drill, when I could hardly believe my eyes. No one seemed to be aware of the first principles of skirmishing, from the general down to the private, for battalion after battalion was allowed to go on in the same way without a single remark ; the two ranks of each file made no attempt to cover each other in advancing and retiring ; in fact, they generally moved together; they fired, and stood to be fired at, instead of discharging their shot when they were about to move; and then they halted to load, and that anywhere. Our Rifle Brigade would make short work of such skirmishers ; every one of them would be picked off as soon as they extended. The Russian troops are not nearly so well clothed as those of the regular Turkish army ; their heavy green coats are so much more cumbersome than the light jacket ; their cross-belts are longer and not so well put on, the pouch being thus apt to rattle when they are at double time ; and the helmets, though better for defence, are clumsy and much more fatiguing to wear than the fez. I saw the barracks of a Russian regiment, too. Such a den of filth I never saw ; an offensive odour of melted tallow candles, used as sauce for sour black bread, in the absence of their much loved train oil; and damp straw strewn about for the miserable-looking, cowed, half-famished warriors to sleep upon.—Skene's Frontier Lands of the Christian and Turk. AGED MINISTERS.—Your minister is "superannuated," is he ? Well, call a parish meeting, and vote him a dis mission; hint that his usefulness is gone ; that he is given to repetition ; that he puts his hearers to sleep. Turn him adrift like a blind horse, or a lame house-dog. Never mind that he has grown grey in your thankless service— that he has smiled on your infants at the baptismal font, given them lovingly away in marriage to their hearts' chosen ; and wept with you when death's shadow darkened your doors. Never mind that he has laid aside his pen, and listened many a time and oft, with courteous grace, to your tedious, prosy conversations, when his moments were like gold dust ; never mind that he has patiently and uncomplainingly accepted at your hands, the smallest pittance that would sustain life, because "the Master" whispered in his ear " tarry here till I come." Never mind that the wife of his youth, whom he won from a home of luxury, is broken down with privation and fatigue, and your thousand unnecessary demands on her strength, patience, and time. Never mind that his children, at an early age, were exiled from the parsonage roof, because there was not " bread enough and to spare," in their father's house. Never mind that his library consists only of a Bible and a concordance, and a dictionary : and that to the luxury of a religious newspaper he has been long years s a p stra ed nge b r y . m N an e y ve a r m min eeb d an t i ha e his in eur w c a i r t llr es o ; be ne w ve o r ul m d in b d e that he has " risen early and sat up late," and tilled the ground with weary limb 3, for earthly "manna," while hi s glorious intellect lay in fetters for you ! Never mind all that—call a parish meeting and vote him " superannuated." Don't spare him the starting tear of sensibility, or the flush of wounded pride, by delicately offering to settle a colleague, that your aged pastor may rest on his staff in grateful, grey-haired independence. No ! turn the old patriarch out; give him time to go to the moss-grown church-yard, and say farewell to his unconscious dead, and then—give " the right hand of fellowship" to some beard less, pedantic, noisy college boy, who will save your sexton the trouble of pounding the pulpit cushions ; and who will tell you and the Almighty, in his prayers, all the Political MO 9f the weeks—Fanny Fern. meaning to write to you by reason of the e,onft it feel it, seeit and had nobody to my wickec o the father of the It's a Alary Anne ut of every corm musheroons, for they tries the human stomich with every ingradiant they can think of ! But the great favourite of all is potatoes, tiled hard, sliced and pickled the sam cow-comers ! A bowl of that, Mrs. SI salad Towle out of sy as the lone dinner s a-fire I couldn't run ! i't dist themselves about anything for a matter of two hours. And, indeed, I must make the remark that " manials" isn't as badly treated anywhere in the whole 'Versal Globe as in Ireland, and if it wasn't that I hear the people is runnin' away o' themselves, I'd write a letter to the Papers about it ! 'Tis exactly like Pigs you are, no better ; pota toes and butter-milk all the year round ! deny it if you can. Could you offer a Pig less wages than four pound a year ! I must say, too, Shusan, that eatin' one's fill molly-fies ther nature, and subdues ther hasty dispositions in a won derful way ; I know it myself; and that after a strong supper now I can bear more from the Mistress than I used at home, only giving a sigh now and then out of the full ness of my heart. But it's not them things I wanted to tell you, but of the state of my infections I Don't be angry with me, Mrs. Shusan. I don't forget the iligant lessons you gave me long ago, about thrusting the men ; I know well how thrue every word you said is. They're base, and wicked, and deceatful ! Flatterin' us when we're young and beautiful, and gibin' and jeerin' when we're ould as yourself ! But what's the use of fiting agin the will of Providence ? Sure, if he intended us to have better husbands it's not them craytures he'd have left ns to ! My sentiments is these, Shusy : 'Tis a way of chas tezin' us is marriage ! The throubles and tumults we have with a man are our crosses, and it's only cowardly to avoid them. Meet your feat, say I, whatever it be, whe ther it be a Man or the Measles ! don't be afraid ! I'm Shure and sartain it's nothing but fear makes young girls go and be Nuns ; they're afraid, and no wonder, of the wickedness of the world ! but somehow, Shusan, like everything else in this life, one gets used to it ! I know it well, there's many a thing I see now, without minding, that long ago I dared not look at ! " Live and learn" they say, and there's nothing so thrue ! and talking of that, you'd be shocked to see how Mary Anne goes on wid the young Baron. She, that would scarce let poor Doctor Belton spake to her alone. We meet them walkin' in the lonesomest places together ; and Taddy and I never goes into the far part of the wood without seeing them ! And that's not all of it, my dear, but she must get the Mistress to give me a lecture about going off myself with a man. " Doesn't your daughter do it, Ma'am," say s I. "Is all the wickedness of this world," says I, " to be kept for one's betters ?" . . --; `iioyou call marriage wickedness P" says she. " Sometimes it is, Ma'am," says I, with a look she under stood well. "You're a Hussy," next Saturday." ~ says she ; " and I'll give you Nvarnin' "I'll take it now," says I, "Ma'am, for I'm going to better myself." If ye saw her face, Shusy, as I said this ! She knows in her heart that she couldn't get on at all without me. Not a word of a furrin lingo can she say ; and I'm obleeged to traduce her meanin' to all the other servants ! And, indeed, that's the way I become such an iligant linguist; and it's no differ to me now between talkie' French and Jarman—l make them just the same ! I wasn't in my room when Mary Anne was after me. "Ain't you a fool, Betty ?" says she, puttin' a hand on nlYVayb shoulder. Maybe am, Miss," says I; " but there's others fools as well as me !" "But I mean," says she, "isn't it silly to fall out with Mamma—that was always so good, and so kind, and so fond of you ?" ' I saw at once, Shusy, how the wind was, and so I just went on, folding up my collars and settling my things without a word. " I'm sure," says she, " you couldn't leave her in a far away country like this !" " The dearest friends must part, Miss," says I. " Not to speak of your own desolate and deserted comb " says she. " There's them that won't lave me dissolute and discon soled, Miss," says I. And with that, Shusy, I told her that Taddy Hetzler had made me honourable proposials. "But you'd not think of Taddy," says she. " He's only a Herd," says she. ` l tre must take what we can get, Miss," says I, be thankful, in this life." _ And she blushed red up to the eyes, Sbusy for she knew well what I meant by that ? " But a nice girl, and urty girl like you, Betty," says she, "sleudering ' me, " isn t it throwing yourself away ; sure, ye have only to wait a little to make an illigant match here on the Continent. Don't be precipitouous," says she, "but see the effect you'll snake with that beau tiful pink gownd ;" and here, Shusan, she gave me all as one as a bran new silk of the Mistress's, with five flounces, and lace trimming down the front ! It's what th e y ca ll glassy silk, and shines like it ! "I'm wa Miss," says I, "that as I took th e Mis tress's I'm obleeged to refuse you." s rn orr ii;' " Nonsense, betty," says she, " I'll arrange all that." " But my feelins, Miss, my feelins." "Well, I'll even engage to smooth these," says she, laughing. And so, Shusy, I had to laugh too ; for my nature is always to be easy and complyiant ; and when anybody means well to me, they can do what they plaze with me. It's a weak part in my character, but I can't help it. " I'm not able to be selfish, Miss Mary Anne," says I. "No, Betty, that youare not," says she, pattingmy cheek. But for all that, Shusy, I'm not going to give up Taddy till I know why—tho' I didn't say so to her. So I just put up the pink gownd in my drawer, and went up and told the Mistress I'd stay ; but begged she wouldn't try my nerves that way another time, for my constitution wouldn't bear repated shocks ! I saw she was burstin' to say something, but darn't, Shusy, and she tore a lace cuff to tatters while I was talkin'. Well, well, there's no denyin' it any how; manials has many troubles, but they can give a great deal of annoyance and misery, if they set about it right ! You'd like to hear about Taddy, and I'll be candid and own that he isn't what would be called handsome in Ire land, though here he is reckoned a fine-looking Man ! He is six feet four and a half, without shoes, a little bent in - the shoulders, has long red hair, and sore eyes ; that cums from the snow, for he's out in all weathers—after the pigs. You're surprised at that, and well you may ; for instead of keeping the craytures in a house as we do, and giving them all the filth we can find to eat them out wild into the woods, to eat b hey turns nd acorns, and chestnuts; and the beasts grow so wicked, that it's not safe for a stranger to go near them ; and even the man that guides them is a " swine-fearer." Taddv is one of these ;and when he's dressed in a goat-skin Coat and cap, leather gaiters buttoned on his legs, and reachin' to the hips, and a long pole, with an iron hook and a hatchet at the end of it, and a naked knife, two feet long, at his side, you'd think the pigs would be more likely to be afraid of him ! Indeed, the first time I saw him come into the kitchen, with a great hairy dog they call a fang hound at his heels, I sehreeched out with frite, for I thought them—God forgive me !—the ugliest pare I ever set eyes on. To be sure, the green shade he wore over his eyes, and the beard that grew down to his breast, did n 't improve him; but I've trimmed him up since that; and it's only a slight squint, and two teeth that sticks out at the side of his mouth, that I can't remedy at all ! Paddy Byrne spends his time mockin' him, and makin' pictures of him on the servants' hall with a bit . of charcoal. It well becomes a dirty little spalpeen like him to make fun of a man four times his size. His notion of manly beauty is four foot eight, short legs, long breeches and gaiters, with a waistcoat over the hips, and a Jim Crow ! A Monkey is graceful compared to it ! Taddy is not much given to talkin', but he has told me that he has been on the estate, " with the pigs," he calls it, since he was eight years old; and, as he said another time, that "he was nine and twenty years a herd ;" you can put the two together, an d it ma k es him out thirty three or thirty-four years of age. He never had any father or mother, which is a great advantage, and, as he remarks, " it's the same to him if there came another flood and drowned all the world to-morrow !" Our plans is, to live here till we can go and take a bit of land for ourselves, and as Taddy has saved something, and has very g . 00 , d idais about hi s own a d vantage, I trus t , with the Blessm of the Virgin, that we'll do very well. This that I tell you now, Shusan, is all in confidence, because to the neighbours, and to Sam Healey, you can say that I am going to be married to a rich farmer that has more pigs—and that's throe—than ye'd see in Ballin,a sloe Fair. What distresses me most of all is, I can't make out what religion he's of, if he has any at all ! I try him very hard about penance and 'carnal punishments, but all he says is, " When we're married I'll know all about that." As the Mistress writ all about Mary Anne's marriage to Mrs. Gallagher, at the House, I don't say anything about it ; but he's an ugly crayture, Shusan, dear, and there's a hang-dog, treach'i•ous look about him, I wonder any young girl could like. The servants, too, knows more of him than they lets on, but, by rayson of their furrin language, there's no coming at it. Between ourselves, she doesn't take •to4he marriage at all ! for I seen her twice cryin' her•room over,some ould letters, but she bundled them up in elle.eeenzte, and tried W sumption in a manner no life with i heir d THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, RD sro: of a warrior, and Emperor, in order, ;ea, which he took r it place he attacked alliance with the church, the faith of which he had recent]: embraced, he demanded the daughter of the Greek Empero are often discovered great distance by that Singular appearance on the :on, which the Dutch seamen have termed stratum of lucid whiteness, occasioned glare of light reflected obliquely from the against the opposite atmosphere. This which looks always brightest in clear to the experienced navigator, twenty ,nd the limit of direct vision, not only even the quality of the ice. The surface Of the i shining streal weather, indicat or thirty miles lo the extent and blink from pt that which is occasi ice appears or a pure N d by snow-fields has some ti The Polar Seas SINGULAR COINCIDENCES.—We frequently see a para. .aph in the papers headed " Singular Coincidences," filch upon perusal fails as oftpTi .c aams ctS val,Gu as iwi, TA) mrnisn us wan the most remote connection of subject. In order, there fore, that our readers may judge of what we consider a coincidence, we beg to present them with the following : —The occupant of a house happening to have stepped out just two minutes before the tax-collector called for the rates.—A tailor having a large bill to meet on the very day that he requests payment of your small account.— A friend, of whom you wish to borrow £5, happening, strangely enough, to be in want' of the same sum himself. —A female hailing a Chelsea omnibus when she actually wants to go there.—And a relative in the country, whom you propose sojourning with next week, being unable to accommodate you, owing to an expected visit from an old maiden aunt at the very same period.—Diogenes. A FEw Comnamiarrs.—As I was proceeding towards the police-office, I met, under the piazza opposite the cathedral, a lady, whose face immediately made me forget my errand. She was so fair and beautiful, I took her to be a daughter of the North, and could not resist the temptation to speak to her. So, stepping forward, and taking off my hat in the politest manner imaginable, I inquired, in English, the way to the police-office. " Non capisco, Signore," was her reply. I then apologised for addressing her in a foreign language, but said—" I have mistaken you for an Englishwoman, you are so extremely beautiful." "And are th e English women so extremely beautiful ?" inquired she. " You may judge," said I, " since they are like you." "I suppose they flatter a great deal in England," observed she with a smile, "and you have probably learned the art there." " Nay, it is in your country that one learns to flatter; if, indeed, it be flattering to speak the truth." "This is not my country," replied she, " I would it were !" " Then you are a French. woman ?" She shook her head. " A Swiss ?" The same dumb sign of negation. My curiosity was now excited. " I trust you will pardon me, said I, but really I am curious to know what country has had the happiness to give birth to you." "I am an Austrian," she replied. "Is it possible ?" was my involunt ar y exclamation. "If you are surprised at that," said she, " you will be still more surprised when I add that my feelings are all Italian." This little dialogue took place in front of a shop, out of which an officer soon came flourishing a new whip which he had just been purchasing. He looked at me with something like a scowl, and, saying a few words to her in German, from the tone of which I could not doubt she was his wife, walked off with her, though not before she turned round and bowed to me twice.—" There and Back Again," by A. 1. St. John. AMITEIRDIRNTS OF THE TuRICISII WOMICIP.—NearIy all Turkish women sally out every Friday to take the air, away from the town, on the banks of the Bosphorus, or to some of the places where water and shade may be found. The wealthy go in carts without springs, of un wieldy and primitive construction, six or seven heaped together, and sometimes their husbands lead the oxen or horses to the chosen spot, and then go away, leaving the women perfectly free to enjoy themselves as they please. The most popular amusements are the singing and music of the gipsy women, who repair thither for the purpose— music which is amorously languid, and singing which is detestably indecent. A lunch is generally brought out, and, when this is despatched, smoking and drinking commence—drinking not of sherbet, but of good brandy, or other strong liquors, which soon induce a boisterous gaiety, so that the sultanas, whom we often imagine as pining imprisoned, may be seen rolling in convulsions of inextinguishable laughter on the turf,,or huddled up in a still more advanced stage of intoxication, like bundles of rags. Their Montenegrin servants, who are the privileged beholders of these scenes, are often compelled to haul them into their carts, in which they are jolted back to the harem. Those who are not too far gone frequently pull up passing through the Christian quarter, at the doors of taverns, to got more drink , and a file of a hundred carts may often be seen stopping in one street, all full of women, some made bold and chattering by their excess, others hanging sleepily about and murmuring to be taken - home. There is a walk planted with elm trees, not far from the city, where only women are admitted. Two or three thousand assemble there at a time, and, sitting upon a verdant slope, enjoy the indescribable pantomime of a comedy, which some infathous Jews, hired for the pur pose, perform on the limits of the forbidden ground for their amusement. Europeans, of course, cannot enter the. walk itself; but they may see the crowds collected at a distance, and hear the shrill applause which every act' more than usually beastly of the mountebanks creates in the female crow d. On these occasions it would scarcely be possible for a stranger to recognise eastern life from th descriptions he is accustomed to read.—Bayle St. John. PORTRAIT OF THE CZAR.—He affects to imitate Napo leon in some things, and certainly as regards his inter ference, and personal direction of, everything, he is not behind his prototype. His cabinet is a plain room, and completely that of a man of business ; he is never out of uniform, and never lays aside his cocked hat and flowing white panche, excepting he. leaves the capital, when he wears a little foraging cap. With the noblest and most commanding form, he is of Herculean mould, and of an iron constitution, regardless alike of bodily and mental fatigue; controlling and inspecting every department and establishment himself, he seems possessed of the power of übiquity. Perfectly unattended, he is dashing through the streets in a two-horse droshky, or walking through crowded thoroughfares, visiting the dockyards, barracks, hospitals, and other government establishments. He ar rives when least expected, and the consequence is, there is no negligence or in a tt en ti on; b u t precision, military precision, and uniformity prevail throughout. The very passengers in the ' streets, and particularly the military, who form a large portion of the crowd, must be on the qui vice to salute the monarch as he passes, and this, with the military, is a matter requiring some dexterity. At Tsarkoe Selo, I had the fortune to meet the Emperor in a retired garden, en neglige ; I say fortune, because, demigod as he is, it is unusual to see him in mortal guise, undistinguished by the trappings of royalty, and the proud bearing and theatrical deportment habitual to him. I went at his side without recognising him in his loose ment was. surtout and travelling-cap, strolling 'alonginContempi; fion ; and it was not till our eyes met, that I felt his pre sence—yes, felt is the only applicable form fnr impossible to Vvithstand his eagle glance without an inde finable sensation of awe.—Thompson's Life in Russia. SANITARY VIEW Or TILE BEARD AND MOUSTACHE.— They protect the opening of the mouth, and filter the air for a man working in smoke or dust of any kind ; they also act as a respirator, and prevent the inhalation into the lungs of air that is too frosty. Mr. Chadwick, years ago, was led to the discussion of this subject, by observing how in the case of some blacksmiths who wore beards and moustachios, the hair about the mouth was discoloured by the iron dust that had been caught on its way into the mouth and lungs. The same observer has also pointed out and applied to his argument the fact that travellers wait, if necessary, until their moustachios have grown before they brave the sandy air of deserts. He con ceives, therefore, that the absence of moustachios and beard must involve a serious loss to labourers in dusty trades, such as millers and masons ; to men employed in grinding steel and iron, and to travellers on dusty roads. Men who retain the hair about the mouth are also, he says, much less liable to decay, or achings of the teeth. To this list we would add, also, that apart from the inces sant dust flying in town streets, and inseparable from town life, there is the smoke to be considered. Both dust and smoke dO get into the lungs, and only in a small degree it is possible for " them to be decomposed and removed by processes of life. The air passages of a Man chester man, or of a resident in the City of London, if opened after death, are found to be more or less coloured by the dirt that has been breathed. Perhaps it does not matter much ; but surely we had better not make dust holes or chininey funnels of our lungs. Beyond a certain point this introduction of mechanical impurity into the delicate air passages does cause a morbid irritation, marked disease, and premature death. We had better keep our lungs clean altogether, and for that reason men working in cities would find it always worth while to retain the air filter supplied to them by nature for the purpose—the moustache, and beard around the mouth. Surely enough has been here said to make it evident that the Englishman who, at the end of his days, has spent about an entire year of his life in scraping off his beard has worried himself to no purpose, has submitted to a painful, vexatious, and not merely useless, but actually unwholesome custom. He has disfigured himself systematically throughout life, accepted his share of unnecessary tic-doloreux, and toothache, coughs and colds, has swallowed dust and inhaled smoke and fog out of complaisance to the social prejudice which happens just now to prevail. We all abominate the razor while we use it, and would gladly lay it down. Now, if we see clearly.—and I thi n k the fact is very clear—that the use of it 113 a great blunder, and if we are no longer such a slovenly people as to be fraid that, if we kept our beards, we should not wash, or comb them, or trim them in a decent way, why can we not put aside our morning plague, and irritate our skin no more as we now do.— DiCkeid .Elpusehold Words. in marriage, which was accordingly granted, t being no at all reluctant to gain the friendship of so great a prince. Upon the arrival of the princess at Cherson, Vladimir was baptised under the name of Basil. Having restored the con quered city Cherson. to the Greeks, he departed into his own country, taking with him a few priests for the purpose of instructing his Pagan subjects, before whom the Russian idols were destroyed, and they saw without a murmur the broken fragments of Perune, their thunder god, floating down the waters of the Dnei per. Churches were erected ; at the dedication of the first edifice,Vladimir himself was present, and implored the divine mercy on the building, asking the Almighty " to hear the prayers of the good Russians." A change of religion was followed by an entire change in the conduct of Vladimir, ferocity gave place to mildness, and he established for the purpose of instructing youth in the duties of the new —The fields faith. Thus Vladimir endeavoured to p ropagate t h e Ch r i s , • • - Russia church at Constantinople, some of the patriarchs bein, sians. In the year 1240, the destruction of the city of Kieff, by the Mongols, caused the removal of their see to Vladimir, from whence it was transferred to Moscow. Isidore, for giving in his adhesion to the council of Florence (1434), was first imprisoned and then banished by his indignant countrymen In 1467, Paul 11. hoped to gain over the Greek chur ' , ringing about the marriage of John Vasi but s , ss of the Greek 1 wich with Sophia, entered Russia, showed herself orthodox, although trained in the doctrines of the Florentine council. From the circum stance of the marriage of Sophia, the heiress of the Greek Emperor, with the Russian, John Vasilovicb, the arms of the Greek Emperors, the two-headed eagle, were assumed by the Russian Czar. The Russian bishops appointed their own bishops, after the capture of Constantinople by the Turks, till the time of Theodo ,. e. In the year 1588, Jeremiah 11., of Con stantinople,having been deprived of his office for defending the rights of his church, fled into Russia ; and, at his request, the Czar madehim theßussian patriarch. Job, after him, succeeded to the patriarchal throne, as an independent patriarch. It was ordained that the Russian should rank among the patri archates as the fifth and last. The Czar not being satisfied with this arrangement, it was finally settled that Moscow should take precedence of Jerusalem and of Antioch, yielding only to Constantinople as to the "(ecumenical patriarch," and to Alexandria as the " cecumenical judge." The Musco vite patriarchs were ten in number; the most famous of whom were Philaret and Nikon—Philaret was noted for the correction of errors which bad crept into the Russian Tre buik or office book—Nikon ascended the throne A.D. 1653, and was Philaret's third successor, and, like him, also de voted much of his time to the correction of the Sclavonic ver sion of scripture. The Czar had been accustomed to treat the patriarchal office, up to the time of Adrian, with great reverence. On the death of Adrian a successor was about being elected, when Peter the Great entered the assembly and stopped their proceedings by exclaiming, "I am your Patriarch." Thus (lid the Czar, Peter, arrogate to himself the title of head of the Greek Church in Russia. The first "holy Synod" met in Moscow, and afterwards in St. Peters burgh, but all the members of the said Synod were under the control and will of the Emperor. The inhabitants of the Asiatic province Iberia or Georgia Is now subject to the Russian Synod. The province just alluded to was converted from Paganism to Christianity by the means of a captive Christian woman in the 4th century, by name Nunia. A Bishop resides at Tiflis, a city of Iberia, who has the chief control and direction of spiritual affairs, but subject to the ' sanction of the Synod at St. Petersburgh. There is also another sect, called the Montenegrists, well worthy of notice, and who have been of late formidable enemies to the Turks, for whom, as well as for Rome, they have a mortal antipathy and hatred. They are a bold race of mountaineers, hardy, and able to bear much fatigue. They inhabit the mountainous district of Albania, and comprise about 60,000 inhabitants. The growing strength of Russia and the decrease of the power and influence of Turkey is evident; the lustre of the crescent is fading gradually in the horizon to give place to the cross. The Mussulman and the Turk trample upon those spots where the religion of Christ first shone forth, and where the pious early Christians uttered forth their prayers and sung their hymns of praise to Him—the mightiest of the mightiest, who ruleth all events—who Plants His footsteps on the sea, And rides upon the storm." Gathering clouds now obscure the horizon of the East. Men whose minds are thoughtful look forward to something which is.now shadowed but faintly forth, but which time alone will unravel. The following table will show the numbers and extent of he Greek Church:— In Russia In Turkey In the Kingdom of Greece with Montenegro In the Austrian Dominions In the Patriarchate of Alexandria In the Patriarchate of Antioch, including the Antocephalous metropolitanate of Cyprus In the Patriarchate of Jerusalem 50,000,000 12,000,000 800,000 2,800,000 5,000 Sum total Birkenhead, August 13, 1553 150,000 15,000 65,770,000 G. B. H. THE FISH DINNER (FROM TICE PRESS.) NOTHING is more remarkable in this age of progress than the rapidity with which improvements are made in the most recent inventions. The miracles of ether were almost instantaneously cut out by chloroform ; and the last im provements in the electric telegraph, by which answers are received before messages are sent, will always remain a proud evidence of the inventive genius of the 19th cen tury. One of the most remarkable instances of this new power was afforded in the acceptance by the Emperor of Russia of the propositions of Vienna before they had reached St. Petersburg. We are enabled this morning to furnish our readers with a similar example of expeditious information on a subject of domestic interest,—viz., the Fish Dinner with which her Majesty's ministers celebrate the close of the session, at the Trafalgar Hotel, Greenwich, this afternoon. As this festivity is a species of saturnalia, much depends upon the happy levity of the chairman, who is, in fact, the soul of the entertainment. The choice unanimously fell on the Right Hon. Edward Strutt, who completely ful filled all the expectations of his friends. He•was a source of unceasing amusement. He was never heard to snore except between the courses : and, generally speaking, his talking in his sleep was highly diverting. In this reign of frolic the usual order of the toasts was reversed, and the chairman began by giving "La Pre mil,re and the Ladies." Lord Aberdeen acknowledged the toast, and said that he had been called an old woman ; but old women were made of very durable materials, as he trusted his govern- Lord John Russell spoke to the toast of "the Channel Fleet," of which he said he was, as formerly, quite pre pared to take the command. " Success to the Coalition" was responded to in a speech of grave humour by Sir James Grah am , w h o , hay- tug in ins tune proxessea every shade of political opinion, deemed himself a judge of the subject. He said the go vernment had been formed on the " enormous sacrifice" principle, and that many,of its members had sold them selves, as is usual under those circumstances,,at half-price. (Loud cheering from Lord Lansdowne, Lord John Russell, Lord Palmerston, Lord Granville, Lord Canning, Mr. Herbert, and others. Mr. Gladstone spoke very playfully on the state of the Exchequer Bills, and talked of probably ending his career by being called to the Upper House, and founding a new order of nobility, as Lord Discount Gladstone; but Mr. Bernal Osborne interrupting him with some improper jokes about conversions, the right hon. gentleman looked as if he were afraid of losing his temper, and somewhat abruptly terminated. Tlie toast of " The Whips" was very much applauded. Mr. Hayter gave a sketch of some " loose conversations" he had held during the session with some loose fish—who, however, were all caught—which was very funny. He boasted of having some bait which was more attractive than even whitebait. He spoke handsomely of his sub ordinates, which was earnestly and vociferously cheered by Mr. G. Berkeley. Lord MulgTave, however, on the contrary, was suffused with blushes. - . - Sir Itilliam Molesworth was requested to speak to the toast of " Radical Reform." Unfortunately the right hon. baronet took the matter gravely, and was dividing the subject into various sections, before his audience found out he was not joking. There were then loud cries of " DiOide !" and " Bar !" but the right hon. gentleman being used to these accompaniments, went on quite un disturbed. _ , The Duke of Newcastle delivered an eulogium on the House of Lords, which he pronounced to be an assembly of gentlemen, where you were never counted out when you were speaking—as he invariably was in the House of Commons. At the end of his speech he qualified his declaration that the lords were gentlemen, and said that he confined the description to the government side of the house. Capt. Bernal Osborne was called upon to return thanks for the House of Commons, and as the gallant officer had prepared himself for the occasion, by reading several of Foote's farces, and the whole of " Joe Miller," a great effort was expected ; but whether it were the heat of the weather, the lateness of the hour, an indigestion of water souchy, or a surfeit of champagne, or, as was more gene rally believed, the jealousy of Mr. Lowe, who continually interrupted him, the gallant captain broke down, and seemed much discomfited. Seeing this, and remembering Captain Bernal's faithful services, some few years ago, in getting up the Hungary debate at the end of the session, which gave Lord Palmerston an opportunity of calling Lord Aberdeen, amid the plaudits of Lord John Russell, "a piece of antiquated imbecility," the noble viscount came to the rescue with a happy diversion, and, the toast of their " Next merry meeting," introduced into his speech several happy recitations from the New Whig Guide. which made everybody laugh amazingly. The Solicitor-General then gave " The Corteervative Club," aml the party broke up. y add bouring village the weather wh, air kold and I suppose whar you is air kolder we aw Deer I is well and mutther has'gott the his Terricks and bruther Tom has gott the huppin Koff and Sister Susin has gott a Baby and I hoap these fu lines will find you in the same condition rite sune your aphecshunate Kussin." _ A STOICAL PROBLEM.—There was a famous problem among the Stoics, which ran thus When a man says ' I lie,' does he lie, or does he not P If he lie, he speaks the truth; if he speaks the truth he lies." Many were the profound works written on this wonderful problem. Chrysippus favoured the world with no less than six ; and Philetus studied himself to death in his vain attempt to solve it. CHINESE SAYINGS.—Some of the ordinary expressions of the Chinese are sarcastic enough. A blustering harm less fellow they call " a paper tiger." When a man values himself overmuch they compare him to a "rat falling into a scale and weighing itself." Overdoing a thing they call a hunchback making a bow." A spendthrift they compare to a rocket which goes off at once. Those who expend their charity on remote objects, but neglect their family, are said "to hang their lantern on a pole, which is seen afar, but gives no light below." THE Poles SEA nd other collections of floating ice 11,1 GENERAL COMMERCIAL TO INIA.Nr PACT iinery of general goes like clod n the hands strike. -work, but this is is a large sy t—and who 1 s not seen its effect lirsting out of the sun from behind a ) thinks he has no frier Peez, of Wiesbaden, 'c use of cart sked a friend of admitte ie repl brief sig h to suit the ( tn better than my practice. YOUNG LADY of extraordinary intellectual I the following letter to her cousin capacity ORR SIR,—As my last 1 I proceed a peculiar that one Vladimi n of per I the new fait religi LDVERTISER IL CORRESPOND. CHURCH someth and, thou, f a roma 'OOL STANDARI of the progr Lion of t sion of by the force of with the Greek in the car DAY, AUGUS .ted liabil fission, whose is position .for the house to On the gments 1 Liverpc pow brc any, camp BOUVERIE obtained 1( Scotland. Several oth( bills were advanced a stage whole question, however, ...- he had beer ak i t session , .e.! 7d.) BJJ f tile LerS 0. wenty-five years• le order for the restullP ii r e - 'iestion of Selec Lscnarged. TTING iforsEs.—The Betting Houses Bill u n l some debate on the third reading, and passed "e to bring i n a bill boundaries of burglS, Lt half-past two o'clock URSDAY, AUGU ours 11. for e e for an assemb a rg in o t f ed' the venty members present, among a d. lesworth and Mr. Strutt, two of the 44. is five minutes after five minutes elaYi;ke 0:111.1. 4114 in the conversation of the i' vb ,,t xchanging questions as t ° ‘, ie Speaker should not a 72 8 . 1 the it on t of twelve chair, the only Fl!, past ten, howev Al ten o'clock, t I were Sir W iefy becar ke the ch that the e with the pt lures of the day, , after all - - vessels et lots : and no , -- 1 ,4 usugli:ir. of the ( membE ned the house rs were present, moving ti refer fo the which r ;ond reading of gloomy anticipations w EXCIIEQUER. Leties Bill, th ook the tc t tfi e, h of be Metropolitan . 4 0 _ _ Bill, the Copy hold, e pt Continuance Bill, and the L una ti cs ' C are an d Trer,4, l 3e, Bill (with an amendment) we r e severally read a thin` - nd passed. 3lO Acts Conti' for the third reading of the Crown Ste' ,vas discharged. nsequences of I The Militia P 1 I The hou tallied by some of their lordships as to Li., —. _,, Bill passed through committee. the repeal of the navigation laws. I ns t ea d o f th e fat— adjourned at a quarte r t o t we l ve o'clock' •, results which were predicted, the mercantile navy of this FRIDAY, AUGUST 12. Pr e ' country had flourished beyond all precedent, and continued The house met at four o'clock.—Petitions were .og, to do so down to the present time. In 1849, the last year sented by Mr. T. B. HORSFALL, in favour of leg''' of previous to the repeal of the navigation laws, the tonnage marriage with a deceased wife's sister, from the tole, of British shipping entered inwards and outwards was Liverpool, signed by the mayor, 6 ex-may magislo 8,152,000 ; in 1852 it was 8,727,000. In 1849 the tonnage of -- 31 clergymen, 37 aldermen and councillors, 31 dissen tee nets , vessels was 121,000; in 1852 it was 170,000. In 1849 ministers, 130 physicians and surgeons, 63 barristers ty the men employed amounted to 237,000 ;in 1852 to 243,000. attorneys, 275 bankers and merchants, and others t°, e d So far, therefore, from receiving injurythe shipping interest number of 5,659 ; and from the town of Stockport , slv; n d had derived the greatest advantages from the change. by 4 dissenting ministers, 5 surgeons, 1 attorneY: Her Majesty's Government had introduced various mea- others to the number of 181. sures for the relief of the shipping interest, the nature of . which he briefly explained to the house, and concluded by _LAND IN AUSTRALIA.—In answer to a questiOn;:e; PEEL said, that undoubtedly every practicable andl;tioll moving that the Pilotage Bill be read a second time.— facility ought to be given to emigrants for the acelre The Earl of HARDWICRE regretted that these important _of land in Australia. At present the price of lancet iiiir. bills should have been brought before them at so late a was, on the average, above £1 an acre, fixed by act.; the period of the session, when it was almost hopeless to secure liament, but communications were proceeding w" IS a discussion upon their merits. It was, no doubt, right Australian Legislatures, with a view to enable .- and proper that those who had suffered by the legislation of that house should receive such relief as could be given legislatures themselves to fix the future price of land' old GRICITLTURAL STATISTICS.—Mr. CARDWE° 0104 them ; and it was clearly their duty to alleviate the evils such an experiment had been begun under the ab ject of which the shipping interest had complained. With I R O to lay before parliament some of the re t urns w hich ha regard to the Pilota ge Bill, h e f e lt hi mse lf called upon to favourable auspices in Scotland, and h e was now represent to their lord s hip s th e ser i ous i n j ury that i t would collected there. for t tbt inflict on the port of Liverpool. The Mersey was exceed- c, oECONDARY PUNISHMENTS.—On the order ',f r e e . ingly difficult to navigate, from the shifting nature of the reading of the Transportation Bill, Mr. KEATING a ."' c iple sand in the river, and no one but a pilot resident on the to the novel and, as he considered, objectionable Inr i d iir spot, and well acquainted with the locality, could be aware of granting to convicts tickets of leave, which WO _ O O. of the changes that took place or the variations created in troduce, he said, in the country a new class of Pe',,bii , the channel. The bill, by permitting all vessels to be who, although quasi freemen, capable of contractinf ink navigated by their own masters, who were ignorant of the gations, would be yet in the anomalous position of s u e c ere . peculiarities of the river, would endanger the stranding of numerous vessels ; and therefore he hoped, if the bill was liable to have their liberty abridged at the will of 3 ter bael tare of State.—Lord PALMERSTON said this In at .t WO not modified in other respects, that Liverpool would be ived most deliberate consideration, and would: 0. 1 . It exempted from its operation.—The Earl of HARROWDY thought, be attended with considerable advan.tnaierion., objected to the great powers given by the bill to the Board was believed that, after a period of preliminarY 1 3 1 ; o e el of Trade, and pointed out the evil that would result from meet and employment upon public works, fhe.. c i - g os. overruling the local authorities in the licensing and em- obtaining a ticket of leave would tend to works, ployment of pilots. He also represented the injurious tion and good conduct in order to merit this' 11,: i " e 7.:t for effect which the bill would have on the navigation of the Imprisonment and forced labour would be sur:;', o f the Mersey.—The bill was then read a second time. eon 'A <de the purpose of example, and, as far as the MERCHANT SHIPPING BILL. public went, the proposed system afforded a s ' ddi b i t s i l l iL' ` Vet 01 On the order of the day being read for going into com- guards. The liability of the party to hav, e ._ b e cast hag mittee on this bill,LordCoLcrrEsTrrnmlained of thel3th leave recalled in case of misconduct, a nd W clause, which repealed the provision tithe 12th of Victoria upon the prison or public works, would restricting the number of foreign seamen in British ships, of self-control.—After a short discussion 1 . 11 .' and expressed his alarm at the serious consequences to which read a third time and passed. • moving it might lead, both as regarded the maritime strength of the ELECTORAL IMPURITV.-31r. WALPOLE, in tioo country and the national security.—After a few words the second reading of the Corrupt Practices from the Earl of Waldegrave, the Earl of HARDWICKE Bill, said he did not intend topress the measure tl; ob'ect should be und er said, that her Majesty's late Government had contemplated session ; lie wished merely that . its j CO a measure which would have enabled the mercantile ma- s t oo d, w hi c h was declared in the title—namely, to e rine to compete freely with all the world, and to man their solidate and amend the laws relating tO bribery, treatii' c ' teaclh,‘ billhabwl36 ships without restriction. In such a measure as that he and intimidation at elections. Yap was perfectly prepared to agree, b u t h e h a d never con t em- The house then went into committee on the A to plated for a moment including the coasting trade in that tion Extension Bill, the clauses of which were agr.e's" o f provision. If the principles of free trade were to be car- after discussion. The orders for the second reading lied out in this manner, the result would be that we should the Petty Sessions (Ireland) Bill and the Summery.7'is, r e very soon be obliged to keep up a standing navy.—The Earl diction (Ireland) Bill were discharged. Other bill'_ . ,, r ter of ELLENnortorran sha re d in all the apprehensions which read a second time, and the house adjourned at a Wl' had been expressed as to the effect of the unlimited ad- past nine o'clock. mission of foreign seamen into the coasting trade. He , - SATURDAY, AUGUST 13. solemnly assured their lordships that he had viewed no The House met at noon. " measure within his memory with suc h deep apprehe nsion The Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) Bill was rea'oll, as the present bill.—The bill then passed through corn- third time and passed, as was also the Militia Pay • mittee.—Lord COLCUESTER moved the omission of clause and Vaccination Extension Bill. 31.—The committee divided; the numbers were : For the PASSENGERS clause, 18 ; against it, 5 • majority 13.—The remaining clauses were then agreed. to.—The Government of India Act AlllendMen t Bill,ACT.—ln I. IPI r . committeeF .PE E stated on t t h h e a t P i a t s s s °g i l d was to correct some anomalies in the existing system' ty Bill was read a third time and passed.—Several other bills were advanced a stage, and th e i r l or d s hi ps a dj ourne d at to facilitate the emigration of labourers from China Tv tile West Indies, giving the Government a control os:s, iii two o'clock. transport of Chinese from other than British P°r China. 5 LAND TAX —The CHANCELLOR of the Exc.-- : Qr .! o moved for leave to bring in a bill to supply an OlUiif an act of this session respecting the redemption N lca ila land tax, and to enact that the po wer of re d e mption L -1 o d be limited to persons having an interest in the lan d ,' ad that, when effected, the tax should merge absolutelYli l idi cease to exist.—Leave was given to bring in the bill , ' j ot', was brought in accordingly, read a first and second , ad passed through committee, and read a third tune passed. After some ml business, the House adjourued st /4 ast one, IRELAND THE Conn ELECTION.—The writ for the Cork el m ,' has arrived in that city, and it is understood the I lo° tion will take place this day (Tuesday). cool!, CLITHEROE ELECTION. Mr. Le Gendre a candidate for the representat o f / he vacancy occasioned by the 1111 Mr. Starkie is a conservative. OF EDUCATION.--The Lord ght Hon. John Hatchell, az field have been appointld tiv 'ucation.—Evening Post. londay the convicts BrIE ClitherOe,to supply ing of ➢Tr. Aspinall. NATIONAL BOAR] of Limerick, the 11 Commissioner Long EXECUTIONS front of the o'd ajo 1 32 : oi the extreme sentence of t lonaghan. After hanging we given over to their fr MURDER IN I a, a weav )f selling his loon own, late th Fie • was foie .--On Monday, Sainael, state of • nakednE been cut, and sons were found HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TUESDAY HARWICH ELECTION PETITION.— formed the house that it w as no t i AUGUST 2. further with the petition. The South Sea and other Annuities, Provision for Pay ment, &c., Bill, was read a third time, and passed. TRANSPORTATION OP CRIMINALS.—The house went into committee upon the Transportation Bill PALMERSTOIF gave an exposition of ti vernment upon the subject of seam The question, he observed, was one of The object of punishment was to make it a penalty to offender, and an example to others, without shocking feelings of the community, and at the same time to corn bine reformation with punishment. Hithl had enabled us to make transportation I , when Lori s of the go. reme difficulty one of our secondary punishments ; but having now failed—the feelings of the cok against being brought into contact with our crimir___, a great event having changed the condition of our Aust lian colonies—the system must be altered. to which the government were led was t ceasing to transport offenders to the colonies, except a small number to Western Australia ; and the bill proposed to empower the courts to alter the sentences. It was pro posed that, after a certain period of preliminary imprison ment, the offender should be capable of receiving a ticket of leave in this country, liable to be revoked. He thought that, with regard to a great portion of those who were sentenced to transportation, reformation was by no means a hopeless object, and every effort would be made to accomplish it. When those persons who had conditional tickets-of-leave were to be released. 11 arose, where were they to employed F He had would be found ( sts revolting and how wi Lson to belie upon the public works, apar able wages, from which occu might slide into the of try. The charge for I would be borne by th gm Is of honest onal accomm porting criminal but, as :r be inct ;t result )f trans )d then be a vety considerable annual savi whole system must be considered _ a _ mental; but he believed that this was the best mode could be devised to meet the great change to which he had referred.—Sir J. PABINGTON and °the,. pressed their opinions upon the general question, clauses of the bill were then discussed and agreed to Plasm , / DISCIPLINE.—On bringing un the Committee of Supply, and, on the the Government prisons in Great Brim., —Mr. LUCAS observed, that two different systems of prison discipline, in respect to the religious instruction of the prisoners, prevailed in the prisons of Great Britain and Ireland respectively ; that in Ireland, as in the colonies, there had been a system of perfect religious equality, which did not exist in the English prisons ; and it was an important question, as transportation was about to be abo lished, whether th e same system was to be i n troduced into the prisons of Great Britain as was actually enforced in Ire land.—Lord PALMERSTON said, that upon the entrance of a prisoner into prison, he should be called upon to state his religious persuasion, and it ought to be known by him, when he made that declaration, that nothing in respect to his treatment in gaol depended upon his declaring himself of one persuasion or another, and that he would 3- equal means of religious instruction by a der- - his own creed. As far as the concerned, he had taken steps to carr. views expressed by Mr. Lucas—namely, and Dissenters, as well as prisoners belo. Church, should have religious instruction from cle4„ of their own persuasion, this being one of the ingredx of the improved system of prison discipline. The Metropolitan Sewers Acts Continuance Bill, and many other bills were advanced a stage. Tnn LONDON CABMEN.—On the third reading of the Hackney Carriage Duties Bill a clause was inserted, the object of which was to prevent the withdrawal of carriages for two days in one week without just cause or previous vote of £407,000 ;overnment prisons were sat Romanists TIER APPROPRIATION BILL.—Mr. WILSON brought up the Consolidated Fund Bill, which being an indication of the approaching termination of this prolonged and arduous session, was hailed with cheers. The house adjourned at one o'clock. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10. TRIBUNALS OF CONMERCE.—MT. HORSFALL.preSertted petitions from the Chamber of Commerce and the Guar dian Society of Liverpool, and others representing the London Society for Promoting the Amendment of the Law, the London Society for Promoting the Establish ment of Tribunals of Commerce, and the Bristol, Brad ford, Blackburn, Stoke-upon-Trent, Worcester, and other societies, in favour of the establishment of tribunals of commerce. _ _ LIMITED Lresumr.—ln answer to a question, Mr. CARDWELL said, that at present joint-stock companies in corporate had not limited liability, but there was power in special cases for the Queen in Council t 9 grant charters hen to proposed by Derby on th but to pc mittee.-2 Severa Acts C Amend fter som, HURSDAY ArGITS' LYMENA Bells, left his home for the rio BallSmaena, and was seep 1:1,1,,tie, evening, in a state of into the t morning, a t four o'clock,. perches from the railway statio3.sjg brutally murdered, his throat 113 pe t ody otherwise maltreated. TY- cit' the same time, under suspicio n ',e Lan adjoining field, and they e t wir were nearly naked, and u--"" —There is now, it IS le Royal visit taking pIaCC4OO-,_, , upon the 2 9th of tll 6 lO 0. 4 ,, ' w in proceed, to Holyheadjt ing y, the 27th, and spend tt. u '„ aday on board th e 11 0Y gi YOl Pill efore break of d a y, the Fah ;stowri, where it is expect e *OO l hour in the f orenoon . ger ; r0 .-‘01i; , state entry inte the Irish 4je .ce to the Viceregal Lodge , sc g her sojourn in Ireland. o:d ip, ol . ;EDUCTION : SINGULAR COMP assizes, on Saturday week, an ii " e ` a( lfor` :led, in which Miles Burke, of ••beel4 f Clo" i I', and George Lynch, Esq., O- a gir• • The subject of the action t 601)4 :s 'of age, with whom the defendant eciorj, after having promised her marriage. An action to, 7 1 wat tion was instituted prior to the last assizes, butro'iniesi withdrawn at the instance of the defendant, wh o P ole P. r 'i to marry the girl. He broke his promise ; hence., ~c oo t sent action. The unhappy father gave the lc. seta c evidence :—Mary Burke is my eldest daughter., oop time after she had disappeared I heard she loth with the defendant. Went to his house on t l ', e ,hat last November. Met him there. Asked h im he t become of my daughter, or if he intended to 1 11 :::" ot o' 4 He asked what fortune she had. I said I would as her any. He then said I might take her hone , ole' father would not allow him to marry. I th en ,onse bat her. He said she was gone. I searched the . I ,.! een cant could not find her. I then discovered she had be 0 ; veyed away to his uncle's Followed her there , l c d ' ao ght`ii, door locked, and was refused admittance. MY j Ol e ,' saw me from a window, and called for helP . . utte d af l k threatened to go for the police, when I was adn. htn .o .o vit got my daughter away. The record wa s d the last assizes, at the instance of his fath er ali on the terms of their being married iminediat,elYor:lir and 'he paying all costs incurred. Cross-examToff g offered to marry her if I got the costs string be , -. 1 , 11 would not now consent, as I do not think it iv°`,`.` co , for my daughter to marry him. The Chief Jusi2 l3o th e charged the jury, who retired for a short tin l 4 o, an d o or returned a verdict for the plaintiff, damages Mary eice costs, provided the defendant did not marry' no t ree within one month. His lordship said he coulwitheat such a verdict, as they s h ou ld return on e _ re tire condition or reservation. They were about ta I ,_ w i 1 ; des 'j reconsider it, when, in a consultation on the pn i ftli , ; verdict was allowed to stand for £lO O t: 01 : 4 . 1 , 8 pia a n et. with a consent that if the defendant mid daughter within one month it was not o be to. ! to stand, and if the plaintiff's daugh ter „ter refus Act • the defendant within that time, then the vu-- changed into one for the defendant. Her ill leave for I arrive at an el will then mak ACTION tit the Galw :eduction was 't seventeen ye 16, 1853.