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ettcratu 1: E. N OT IC ary, 1846 a 1,1i.,1 V covrrea w Ise of ii ain F►'z nil Chi i-tlatk .1 ts to ffect y f where t very ,tort keeper Hu th presence ft tl, trali from the nvetith rested pees , efforts to b. 'WA that W e than that of Korc.r T e hest more nurnermts - nearly riv to ext. Iv prt bat. New Zea 1 fi. Waite, 2i, h was indis- awkw , .r mull' . C h ei,t ilf• I work in both ation of hear- immediate ture of the diffi r during his period alative enthusiasts pr country upon a r principle. They 3( and from the privilege of pur- ; and, in return, they 'tile it without expense ti were next parcelled the tide of emigration xvec , antl of a new Et ever, it was was rather the right ndisposed field up possession broil and dissen uth compelled the -e of procuring an arties,and e oosoble destruction of the settlers. Ac- LI an appanage of the recd upon between the culled the treaty of .-ndrrea their fealty to ider►ook to see jos- claims equitably Hobson, Captain L•hip, and entered Off fixing his ,d. In doing so, he he Company and its .e in another part of s of their own These are de ;t to Auckland. id disappointment a of Wellington were to be sheltered Ls a 1 ,ng narrow entranc It is nearly sur ; and appears to iediate neighbour- present generation n should have bee, on the part of to be found in t a collision ices. which state of Isit to Wellington allay the hostile the white and micable settle land near Poit ed persons that .erore he prosperity fiance of peace, nd policy dictated plain y as right principle, tr,,vt ried at that time, rs were then so eager for t th it e u to cultivate the A. man is coaches con over hinr months-300 dollbi either would they believe tor cultuvation at the point .nres 'tending to bring on ...sin. air' Aaiun..., oilatillarly ota whern• ti e feeling of ani- yrs that the permanent tattered out lers— was lsed to give the detachment of anxiety for a to heir,r; partly with ti pvtythe 1111 ives and and round t tor the general g he vicinity of ket with their native abi i.rd by native compe mer was interested in srparate an occasional with which inte ot tiers. Had their [. there cannot now ker lr ligtjvf exemplary firmne,s and judgment; and displayed an amount of moral courage which it would be well if some of his revilers possessed. We shall d übtless hear the re ply. of some of those parties shortly after parliament meets. In the meantime we cannot but compliment Captain Fitz-Roy upon the excellent taste displayed throughout his whole pamphlet. Some men, circumstanced like himself, would have cisplayed considerable and natural soreness, and perhaps acrimony of tone. The gallant to remark upon the captain, boa ever, has preferred laying before the public a rs of this colony—a plain unvarnished statement of the whole circumstances rave been man,ged ; of his late position in the colony, and leaving that public e been made againstto form its own judgment upon his conduct therefrom. VA RIETIES ,shing business by letting post n comm suits for d 'ed 1,172 dollars in the last nin n an a -t e atone.—American Pa- I the British Per• I hear of his Bollingbroke left on ,nabled so long published by Malt a many impedi- when asked bis opt in New Zealand scoundrel ! who spent his life in charging a pop-gun hich his remon- against Christianity, and a coward! who afra dof the re 'ort, have been Port of his own gun, left half-a-crown to a hungry Sc" man to draw the trigger after his death." be I MODERN LITERATURE. — Few men n' he rennvat of they write --npnce i' "' fidel publications t , a brother un ion of ,this Dr. Johnson y, exclai pink before The consequ, is that a great proportion of our modern literature is of the very flimsiest description —vivid sometimes, and not without sparkles of genuine din taking that humour; but so ill constructed as to preclude the possi mea.ure enables bility of its long existence. No one is entitled to reject rayon! ing, how- models, unless he has studied them and detected their our readers, we faults; but this is considered by far too tedious a process Josition of affairs for modern ingenuity. We are thus inundated with a in Fitz•ltoy en- host of clever writers, each relying upon his peculiar and jesting—for that is the humour of the time —against each other, and all of them forsaking nature, and running deplorably into caricature.—Btackwood. VINEGAR EELS.—The little eels found occasionally in vinegar are well known. Some persons suppose that they are to be found at all times in that liquid, when sought for with a microscope. This, however, is not the case. It is only vinegar that has been kept some time, and which has become bad, that gives birth to them. What is more, they will not live lone in good vinegar. This I ascertained on one occasion, when, on adding fresh vine gar to some that had been given me by a friend full of these eels, their motions from that day became more and more languid, and in a fortnight's time they were all dead. Previously to this, I had kept them several weeks in the same vinegar in which they bad been brought to me. wt... these eels are immersed in sweet oil. or proof spirits, their motions are much impeded, but vitality is not immediately destroyed.—Jenyn. TEMPERANCE IN CANA DA.—I was agreeably surprised to find at this remote post that only one soldier drank anything stronger than beer or water ; arid of course very little of the former, owing to the ex .er.se of transport, was to be had. The soldier that did drink spirits did not drink to excess. How did all this happen in a place where drunkenness had been prove. brat ? The soldiers, who were of the 82nd regiment, had been selected for the station as married men. Their young commanding offi cer patronised gardening, cricketing, boating, and every manly amusement, but permitted no gambling. He formed a school for the soldiers arid their families, and, in short, be knew bow to manage them, and to keep their minds engaged ; for they worked and played, read and reasoned; and s*ibisky, which is as cheap as dirt there, was not a temptation which they could not resist. In winter he had sleighing, snow-shoeing, and every exer cise compatible with the severe weather and the very deep snow incident to the station. 1 feel persuaded that, now government has provided such handsome garrison libra ries of choice and well-selected books for the soldiers, if a ball-alley, or racket-court, and a cricket-ground, were attached to every large barrack, there would not only be less drinking in the army, but that vice would ultimately be scorned, as it has been within the last twenty years by the officers. A hard-drinking officer will scarcely be tolerated in a regiment now, simply because excessive drinking is a low, mean vice, being the indulgence of self for unworthy motives, and beneath the character of a gen- tleman. To be brought to a court-martial for drunken ness is now as disgraceful and injurious to the reputation of an t fficer, as it was to be tried for cowardice, and, therefore, seldom occurs in the British army. The vice of Canada ia, however, drink ; and temperance societies will no: mend it. Their good is very equivocal, unless combined wi It religion, as there is only one Father Ma. thew in the world, nor is it probable there will be ano ther.—Bonnycastle's Canada and the Canadians. SIR WILLIAM FOLLETT ON MASONRY. — Tbe future Attorney-General bad been for many months called to the Bar when we again met. This was early in 1826. He then spoke calmly, but feelingly, of the professional jealousy which existed among those to whom he was now affiliated. " Players' rivalry," said he, "is a joke to it. You can have no conception of its extent or srtength, un less you yourself belonged to the prof ss on." He then reverted to past scenes and mutual friends; and in the course of conversation, I inferred, from a passing remark, that he had become a Mason. 1 asked if my conclusion was correct. "It is," was his reply : " I was initiated at Cambridge." Light bad not then beamed upon myself; and I expressed in scoffing terms my astonish ment. "In your early strug_les at the Bar," remarked he, with quiet earnestness, " you require something to reconcile you to your kind. You see so much of bitter ness, and rivalry, and jealousy, and hatred, that you are thankful to call into active agency a syrtem which creates in all its varieties kindly sympainy, e.o uta‘ atm spread benevolence, and brotherly kite." " But surely," said I, " you don't go the length of asserting that Ma sonry does all this ?" . " And more I The true Mason thinks_ oq_ewil of his brother,...and__eherialies KlaaLana. against him. The system itself annihilates parties. And as to censoriousness and calumny, most salutary and stringent is the curb which Masonic princ'ple duly carried out, applies to an unLridled tongue." " Well! well! you cannot connect it with religion : you cannot, say or do as you will, affirm of it that Masonry is a religious system." " By-and-by, you will know better," was his reply. ' Now I will only say this, that the Bible is never closed in a Mason's lodge; that Mains habitually use prayer in their lodges ; and, in point of fact, never assemble for any purpose without performing acts of religion :—I gave you credit,' continued he with a smile, " for being more thoroughly emancipated tram nursery trammels and slavish prejudice."—Stray Leaves /rom a Free-mason's Note-Book. CLIMATE AND PRODUCTIONS OF CANADA. — Canada is. as I have written two former volumes to prove, a mag nificent country. I doubt very much if Nature has created a finer country on the whole earth. The soil is generally good, as that made by the decay of forests for thousands of years upon substrata, chiefly formed of allu vium or diluvium. the deposit from waters, must be. It is, moreover, fr m Qqebec to the Falls of St. Mary, al most a flat surtace, intersected and interlaced by number less stret m'. ar.d studded with small lakes, whilst hs lit- uld have been mompr ved in their ha rktuge for women le feelit.gs by .pent, anu he detached to toral i• a river 'mi.:it aliened in the world, expanuing into ~s aso without re. enorinius f.,-s .. wat-r seas, abounding with fish. If the was, the commence- tr, vocal luxuries are absent, if its winters are lone and ex c.... to a,t his measures." cessi,e'y se , ere, %et it yields all the European fruits abun , finally unprepared with datir.y. and eve.. some of the tropical ones, owing to the event or an outbreak of richness of the 5..11 and the great heat of the summer. Inc Captain Fitz-Boy's Maize, or Indian corn. fl ',wishes, and is more wholesome know., that it remained and better than that pro,itic , -d in the warm south. The of the rebel chiefs, Heki crops of potato, that apple ..f the earth, as the French so mst•nc , s, and consider- justly term it, are equal if not superior, to those of any in , _ ai....tnott the net yes other climate ; whilst all the vegetables of the temperate ,v the manly rapacity of regions of the old world grim with greater luxuriance than Fitz- IC y, very properly in their original fields. I have successively and success -ri u:it ae, nciliatory po- fully cultivated the tomata, the melon, and the capsicum, ion at , empt coercion with in the open air, for several seasons, at Kingston and To -uffieiei,T force under his ronto, which bre not the richest or the best parts of Wes , c olony, in the event of 'tern Canada, as far as v g •tittlon is concerned. Tobacco —• grows well in the wesie.ii di-trict , and where is finer .uck'and w.s near being the wheat harvested than in wester: , t art Ala ? whilst hay, and !night have precipitated the that beauty of a lard-cape, the rich gr' en sod, the velvet e pr-otter was rescued from carpet of the ear , ii, are aiinioialo , and luxuriant. If the rt"i,,„, ~-e' th e militarylyi rear the w toentwin majesty of vegetat•or , is cal , ed to q,...stion, and intertropi cal plants brought to.. d in ceutrh-t, even the woods ri his iwn .i,r, was carried air m ff and trackless for. sts or Guiana, where the rankest of luxu- Lsnio r. , Mo , t happily, as no ve, fi eii the chief prceector riance prevails, will not Ito more than compete with the tr,t, 0. r ff. ct a peaceable ad- I glory of the ruin meal wood- o' Canada. 1 know of no untary return of the prisoner thing in this world capable of exciting emotions of wonder and adoration more direct than to travel alone through its n attack on Auckland would forests. Pines, lifting their hoary heads beyond man's there v,eie ahout seventy vision, unless he inclines his head so far backwards as to ouch wi.tild have been in , e -. 'I here was no de- be painful to his organisation, with trunks which require n tiosin might have fathoms of line to span them ; oaks of the most gigantic sii,,t w.mld have Peen form ; the immense and graceful weeping elm ; enormous e , t house, the public poplars, whose magnitude must be seen to be conceived ; , (n.ete weather-boarded lindens, equally vast ; walnut trees, of immense size ; the v have In en the first in the public docu• beautiful birch, and the wild cherry , larg e enou g h to make tables and furniture of.— Sir B. H. Bonnycastle's Canada appears to have and the Canadianx in 1 546 . r debentur e-, for the pur- H A NWELL ASYLUM. — The Hanwell Asy l u m is one of f the e I ny until he could the noblest instances of wisdom - temp ered zeal and hu- Girat Biitain. At the be- I mane skill which our age can boast of. The building and its appurtenances occupy upwards of fifty - thr ee acres ; tevenue being then esti y says. "the local govern the several patients, sometimes nearly a tho usand in nnm sal..ri--s and ordinary cur- ber, are treated according to the intensity of their afflic tion ; but in no cases is unnecessary restraint practised. nibs in nrr. ar ; there was Working upon the proverbial association of id leness and Aniline even to two-thirds vice, in all cases where practicable, employment is re ctapelii ore ; the establish w m as anihorized by the sorted to as a remedy ; and nearly all the operat ions of this - vast establishment are conducted with the utmost :h received at the close of got eroo.r• was strictly pro- order by lunatics; shops of lunatic tailors and sho emakers iritish treasury, and no loan may be seen here at work, and the bakery, the laundry, S." cicumstatices, and and other domestic o ffi ces, are worked by the same " pa tient" classes. The out-door arrangements are upon the eminent unit assistance and m Eughind, to relieve the ere- same system of non-restraint. The gardens , and shrub ... aria to keep numerous I beries are neatly kept by the inmates, and are allowed to .nine rom actually starving— enjoy their health-giving air with the most indirect star er debentures, cearing five per veillance, and various pastimes are allowed to minister to ,er t i e , xuuation of iii e tear; and as these the "mind diseased." Within doors, reading of an in .- us, d by several speculators, and teresting and attractive, though not exciting, character, is ieret..te erinvil iisel to he much ct pteciated, they were r that their nod see may not invariably fall upo n ovided ; the tables are strewn with cheap pe r i odicals, in made a erai ter. er it shoe.d he noticed ihat this paper cur- P rency wa. n t intetioea to he permanent: it was int enc e d to the hope g serve to-te...1 or c‘mt. en or a very lint ee puriod, not exceed- the mind, as it were lying fallow. Here, as in the sane ing rw .ye r- .l e ,tie win eh 't was probable that some arrange- world, outside of the Hanwell domain, society has its pets went won rt he marte i.y , tie it me 0 vernment for their with- and butts, and men are prone to sport with each other's draw I r rm. eircni..tron Ttn•se d beutures enabled the weaknesses ; but this is no new phase of huma nit y . We, .. Gover..... t t, • , a. , y on its fnucti..ns a. 'd ssVed an extremity who remember but too distinctly the clanking fetters and of 111-iiii er atm diet e-s which can h..rdly be appreciated by Pers. to in ai. ....: c. nun ..,, • , the horrifying gaze of the inmates of the old Bethlehem, - lbe rncti sl eff..ct nt these debentures was not only the have inspected Hanwell with very different feelings ; and rem,e -i . t al l artnai wit. t. but the promotio n.ot muc h industr y , as we walked, almost unattended, through crowds of " lu snuati.itt:::rra :nip uo en ei t. Instead of a complete stagnation , natics," were indeed gratifie d to find them so far sane as . ' lie i, ionic or is. t. activity and abundant employment , to be sensible of their human e treatment. From the wall Auckland and its vicinity improved rapidly, of one of their dormitories we copied the following lines : I 1• Wrllet and h The nee( -^ , • ,, Y ti, , r which the principal .holders of deben , " Behold! to • in, i y th em in th e fo l oh y. and , s speedily as pos h. t iii- e shi•it it he any deteriiir non or wine, i n d u ced No gloomy cells where sullen madness pines c n os e Ix. s , s 1,, t,u n t . gum. floc twiner, f,r copper, or other In chains ant woe, where no glad sunlight shines; flaw • ~r,,,, f., to he t•xp ,, rtea as remittances to their corre- But here kind sympathy for fallen reason reigns; spondr , t ,,, nisi , '" "I 01 I ‘ l 's• , vine hoot small vessels ; others Our rule is gentleness, not force or galling chains." improvrri tn, it I ii , .e pr perry by let%ces and better buildings. The it-t•uit , . w , c •• s t i cirou-ly hentficial." On the south side of the ga rden lies the burial- ground, wherein all patients not removed by their friends or pa- Ttii. fr,ti.. 1/' iltetS.." .PP ars to have been one of the fishes are buried ; and here sleeps the individual who Cartai , ,'- too., he , t, u. ff ••oces. . planned the asylum, and eventually became one of its in e woole of th The to pl.—slot§ 1.r ,,, in , 1 - . 1 by t h e pamphlet )0 o f the gallant officer, who . mates for a long period previous to his death — one of those is oi , , I ru m ple t- vsculualli extraordinary coincidences which belong to the category has performed ids duties Ina most critical position With of popular fatalism.—Sharpe's London Magazine. Remarks on Ne Robrrt Fitz-Ro ul , ar attern or met by t Since ever, to ter• d upc vernors Concri%e grand and comer hensivr scale and tritisb G r, rat h undertook to found a colony and to the 'boa e lent r out at very handsorn k 1 lot me set in, carrying V Dorado -On the lo,nd that the tit of a cities by the ( to sell; to recug to the ' , bite m 9. Grill (ioverntr ep in, fi,r the pu amicable set avert►ng by the nat tain b cording' v New Z, Britiblicro.n native chiefs arid Governor He Wattaligai, by which the to , n )ultiy:wililst G Britain to the a In 1843, upon the death of Ca Fitz-Ruy was appointed to the g actively upon committed asrrious (,f set' len; and jubt the colony, and P rt Niel scribed as very interior in every towns Captain Fii2 v writes !onld not exprel Port Nicho.sor seen for the first t even tr.'m prevAl ng %Ind. rocks milking it almos routaled by high hills 'el, cu , tivahle land in y. curing at But a the sett I still t•tror his z,alous bets ern the Gimpa aff.ins between them. he and coloured races; am he New Z ment Nich Is.m. It w.. quit mutual c midable C exposed to the tine of tie flan,. that I,c, pt,,thice of the laud could pa Of the bayonet. •• I'h de;tructive effects of met hostilities betwren the t ffueaua. rediteti v% natives credit tor cow to dtmitt that they Will . . rnilit.ry ment of a vi.o ent newspaper At this pef i ci the colony w the nie.l ,er - , II t nutwith , t.T.c urgent reilion+ SO ❑ p to Int. pen .(1 of and K hese c ire ranseil , e-. Captain the sr t We thihk, adopo,l Su licv tiwarris the ineonsidrrnble .nd vrry in COnanind. The po-uloo of t any is thus Ab ut the en two races. inn, hrr tfill tem A italivl the shelift., eusnorq in II e cr , u t pursuit brettirt—l) : tifii.ennei t It 1 VP 11 seen bumed Ike do A further , ff h , 1•r Ur y 0 not cart h R t tt the ~ tra rs c 1814. ckwimiii a- £24 01) , ibt ra Hb ut All rent o .l%nit-i , ts. v. e •r,rrut me DO pro• pr et of 1., re% riclUe atm Of the er•titlb4 • d men' wa- r. docr.l 0 whi Seer , tern a Stnt s. c the in , tii,tis yr, (1843); the tali, tr..n. t o.wwg a I I , e t dr•r for ry m th s con d hr n c 11Vero 111C14 it •it, n. to= le..turrs w.•re a fir, THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIERRA. LEONE (Further extracts from Mr. Shreeve's work on the above Colony, ready for the press.) FREETOWN. LIBERATED AFRICAN DEPARTMENT. — Phis depart ment is situated on the edge of the harbour, near the watering tank at King Jemmy. It consists of two large yards, with a residence for the assistant -superintendent, and good storehouses for the service of the Africans on their release from the slave-hold. One yard is for the males, the other for the females, with every convenience for cooking and other comforts. On the arrival of a slave vessel, with a cargo of these unfortuoates, the mar shal of the Mixed Commission Courts proceeds on board, and, having made his inspection, forwards his report to the Commissioners. The medical officer examines their condition, and, if no disease be on board. they are imme diately landed from the crammed and pestilential slave hold, and placed in the yard of the department. The emaciated and infirm are sorted out, arid sent to the Co lonial Hospital, at Kissey ; and in cases of contagious diseases raging on board—a very common visitation, from the fact of 300 or 400 being packed wi thin a smal l com pass—the vessel is sent to quarantine. The ar r ival of a cargo of slaves is a peculiar and affect in g si g ht. B efore their capture it is the policy of the dealers to im press them with a terror of the English , persuading them t o believe that they are the most cruel masters, and w ill exerc ise unheard-of tyranny over them s h o uld they fall into their hands; but how thoroughly is the illusion dis pelled, when one of our cruizers carries them into port, where every appliance for their comfort, crowned by free dom, proclaims them to be men and brothers! The sud denness of the change is bewildering, and these children of nature are obliged to refer to superstition for an expla nation. Some are literally stupified by the, transition, whilst others abandon themselves to the wildest enjoy ments—shouting, dancing, and singing, until the hill s induled t and shores re-echo the gratitude of their hearts for Old England's benefactions. This celebration by of freedom lasts many days, and is humanely ghe officers of the department. This department, and the treatment of the newly arrived Africans, have lately undergone a material change. Under the old arrangement, after having been a due time in the yard, the youths were located in the vOlage schools, where, receiving a certain amount of education, they were apprenticed as domestic servants, or to trades. The adults were sent to the villages, where they received an allotment for a farm, implements of agricul•ure, with provision and clothing for one year, all found ny govern ment, in which time it was supposed art , they would be able to support themselves under the guidance and ma nagement of the managers of their respective districts. This system, however, after a long trial, with every faci lity given to them, was found not to have answered, — retrogression instead of progression i &rig the result. The department is now discontinued, managers re duced, and only such retained as are necessary to govern the district, under the new arrangement. This original experiment has been succeeded by emigration to the West Indian colonies (an admirable plan of Lord Stanley). The emancipated are, as heretofore, landed at the depart ment, food and clothing supplied to th-m, and, after a preparatory period, the uncontrolled choice of emigration in large and comfortable ships provided by government, where every attention is provided for them on the pas sage, and a provision upon their landing. In case they do not wish to emigrate, they are at liberty, by associa ting with their own countrymen, to remain in the colony and follow their own desires. Emigration, however, is gladly accepted by many,—relying so fully upon British sympathy, that all destinations and propositions are faithfully trusted. Several, on the other hand, prefer entering the army, captivated by the allurements of mar tial pageantry, and in a very short time, from good Usage, become perfectly contented, and look upon the freeman of the town with an amusing sang froid and contempt, saying, "Me no freeman ;me Queenman l"—a compli ment to the Majesty of England, which probably has never reached St. James's. Many grave objections and censures have been urged against the emigration of the newly-emancipated African, and the measures of govern ment for carrying it out ; but this opposition emanates from interested parties in the colony, especially the Wes leyan missionaries, who spare neither time nor exertion to defeat the project, in their eachisive register the Watchman, nominally but not really their own, it having been established with far more liberal intentions, and for much more general purposes, than the sob.cribers are allowed to enjoy. Other opposition comes from parties in England, from a want of local knowledge an.; experi. ence, so requisite to form a correct judgment of the powers tine condition of the African upon his own soil. As to the question of the inalienable rights of freedom, there' can be no doubt; nor does emigration control it. The African at home, from nature, strengthened by habit and example, is of an indolent distn-ition ; but by a change to another country, where industry is the order of society, be readily devotes his energies to that which he sees adds to the respectability and comfort of others, and gradu ally, and often immediately, becomes a regenerated being, in which improved condition be is sustained by the encou ragement and advice of superior morality, education, and experience, to any that his most ingenious inquiries can obtain at home. In Africa such advantages are more confined, a mis sionary or a teacher here or there, being all that is afford ed; and even were they more numerous, the climate is so inimical to the exertions of the Europe; n. Whatever good may be imparted, it is comparatively moderate, nay many who have been converted to christianity, have re verted to their former habits and belief, and exercised within the very precincts of the missionary's house, their idolatrous ceremonies. There are the Ako and Ebo, and many other notions of the liberated. who have eghbraeed the false religion of the prophq, wbich b.ine more COD. - genial to their cup - mitt:ma, from aunt , Ximating more closely to their original superstitious impressions, are more easily comprehended, and consequently more readily believed than Christianity; and I am sati•fi.d, whatever their professions may be, and notwithstanding the self flattering reports of our labourers in the vineyard, that a great number of the liberated lip-christians are heart mahomedans—and no stronger argument can be possibly adduced to prove that emigration must ultimately be bene ficial, by transporting the fanatic and superstitions child of nature far from scenes, connexions, and influences which it is but reasonable to expect, must have, an almost insurmountable preponderance, and if there be any chance of overcoming this, it must be by a more general inter course with total strangers of superior minds and better customs. If Africa is to he regenerated by her own sons, it is only to be accomplished by themselves, the'r sons, and sons' sons, becoming the chief agents in the great work of salvation, both in soul and body ; one well-in formed, and true native christian, would do more towards reformation amongst his brethren, than all the missionary Doves, that ever took wing to feather their nests in the colony, can accomplish. GENERAL MISCELLANY, Government are about to settle £l,OOO a-year on the Duchess of Inverness. Last week omnibuses commencd running between the Bank, London, and Brompton for two pence. A ewe, the property of Mr. Scott, Corneockle, parish of Leeds, dropped a fine healthy lamb on Wednesday. Mr. Swinnerton, proprietor of the Macclesfield Courier, has been unanimously elected mayor of that borough. Fifty boys have been expelled from Heriot's Hospital, Edinburgh, for insubordination. George Hudson, Esq., M.P., was on a visit last week, we understand, to the Duke of Cleveland, at Raby Castle. The South-Eastern and Continental S , eam.Packet Company have put a stop to the sailing of their packets on the Lord's Day between Folkston and Boulogne. A member of the Independent congregation at Brprn yard, near Worcester, has been excommunicated by the church for " slandering his pastor." Admiral Sir Davidge Gould, G.C.8., is ap, ointed Vice-Admiral of England, in the place of Sir G. Martin, made Admiral of the Fleet. The Times says that Parliament will me't on the 19th January, only a week beyond the time to which it is pro- rogued. In the Police Court at Dundee, the ether day, it was decided that a tenant cropping his land with potatoes which were an entire failure, was not liable for rent. A correspondent of the Times, states that it intended to place the Wellington statue on a pedestal, in the area opposite the Horse Guards. Venison, imported whole from Hamburgh, was offering in Hull shambles, on Tuesday, at 6d. per lb. for the fore parts, and Is. for haunches. Owing to the recent dulness in the grain markets the bakers of Greenock have reduced the price of bread ; the 41b. fine loaf now sells at Rd., coarse 7d. On Thursday the price of potatoes fell in our market from 2s. 4d. to 2s. per peck (of two stones), with a pro spect of a further fall in the price.—Greenock Advertiser. At Southampton, on Thursday, a fire destroyed entirely the extensive range of workshops, being the coach reposi tory of Mr. Jones, extending from Above-bar-street to the Spa-road. Professor Schonbien has been experimenting with his explosive cotton in mines in Wales, and it is said with tremendous effect, one ounce of the cotton proving equal to a pound of gunpowder. WHEAT SOWlNG. —Throughout the fens of Lincoln shire, the seed wheat has been got in, and with few excep. tions in a most promising manner, there ne,er having been knnwn a finer seed-time. On Monday evening a masked ball was given at Black heath-hill, near London, in a cavern 180 feet below the surface. In this ball-room 1500 persons assembled, an d kept up their amusements with spirit until day-break. The market for iron continues firm for cargoes in Wales, extensive contracts being offered for railway companies at home and abroad ; and in the Clyde prices are equally firm for pig iron, for the opening, in December, of the great markets of the United States. A bill will be introduced in the ensuing session of par liament for placing the tidal harbours of the kingdom un der a greatly altered and uniform management, as recom mended in the repor s of the Tidal Harbours Commission. Copies of the proposed measure will be early distributed. THE LADY POACHER.—We hear that the information for poaching against the Duchess of Marlborough has been defeated on a technical point of law. The statute, not looking to a violation of its provisi ons by females, only introduces the masculine gender " he," and therefore " she," the duchess. escapes its operation. SINKING OF A SCHOONER. — On Friday morning, a large schooner that bad arrived in the Thames off Gravesend, by some accident stove a hole in her bottom, and began instantly to sink. The master and mate took to the boat and made for the shore, but the schooner and her contents sank. AN OLD FIAT.—A case is now before Mr. Commis sioner Fane's court in which the fiat is dated so far back as 1801. The bankrupts were merchants in the City.. Most of the creditors are dead, but those who survive, as well as the representatives of the deceased, now claim a dividend, which has not yet been declared. LORD ASHLEY.—The Sun of Thursday, in a sanitary article, very appositely alludes to Lord Ashley as " the Wilberforce of the present day." Several sermons have recently been preached in the Town-hall of Kelso, by a boy only ten years of age. The reason given for his thus appearing before the public is, that money may be obtained to further his education. On Monday, there were several dishes of raspberries exhibited in London, at Covent-garden Market. They were not the produce of forcing, but were natural crops, grown in the open air in a garden near Turnbam Green, being the second supply this season. In consequence of the competition existing on the river Thames, the fares of nearly all the steamers have under gone a very extensive reduction. Boats are now running bztween London and Westminster Bridge, at the extra ordinarily low fare of one halfpenny each person. AN AGED BIRD.—A magpie died on the sth of this month, which has been in the possession of Mt. James agger, of Great Chesterford, for 19 years. It was taken from the nest when young, and it would call all the neigh bours and children by their names.—Cambridge Chron. The Town Council of Sunderland have ordered a rate of one halfpenny in the pound on the property in the bo rough, to sustain the expenses connected with the forma tion of a public museum, which is placed under the direction of a committee of the council. A 11 INT FOR ASTLEY ' S — The directors of all the the atres at Berlin have resolved to substitute the explosive cotton for gunpowder, in their representations, because the cotton makes little or no smoke, which is not only annoying to the public, but has an injurious effect upon the voices of the actors. The Tablet (Roman Catholic paper) announces the conversion to Romanism of Mr. Toogood, late editor of the Cambridge and Oxford Review. The Daily News says that a jun or fellowship has become vacant at Clare Hall, Cambridge, in consequence of the secession of Mr. Thomas Caswell. REAL DISTRESS.—As a convincing proof of the dreadful state of tire trade in Kidderminster, we have only to men tion that during the last fortnight, no less than eighty-six wedding rings have been purchased, chiefly from the wives of weavers, by one jeweller residing in the Bull Ring in that town. POPERY IN BRISTOL. — For some time past, six sisters of mercy, living in a small house in Pritchard-street , St. Paul's, have exerted themselves, we are afraid, too successtully amongst the poor of this city. Encouraged, undoubtedly, by their success, they have lately removed to Harford-house, Dighton-street, where they have been trebled in number by fresh arrivals from Belgium. We hear also that the sisters of penance of St. Dominic, " whose labours embrace the whole works of mery, cor poral and spiritual." are About to settle in another por tion of this city.—Bristol Journal. YANKEE NOTIONS OF FREE TRADE WITH ENGLAND. —The New York Journal of Commerce calculate. on the United States driving the Britisbers out of their own pro vision market. It says :—" An English reerchen.. who is here buying bread stuffs, says that American flour bar rels are effecting a great revolution in the trade. The practice from time immemorial, has been to sell flour in very large and inconvenient bags, and the trade has been confined to the millers and the mealmen. But the great beauty and convenience of the American barrels has brought grocers to take up the business ; and he says that now he has orders for fifty barrels a-week from dealers who never before sold flour at all. The English cannot contradict this : for they have no free-splitting ash or other timber from which to make these beautiful barrels. So we think the repeal of the English corn laws will be something to us—ves, everything to us—a home market for the supply of 18,000,000 of barrels." Mr. Alsager, the el , y correspondent of the Times, died on Sunday from the effects of a wound in the throat in flicted by his own hand on the ith instant. At first hopes were entertained of his recovery, but inflammation set in, and he expired on the above day, after 48 hours of dread ful agony. The deceased was in good circumstances, and the cause of the act is a mystery. It is, however, remark able that it took place on the anniversary of the death tat his wife, to whom he was devotedly attached. THE LATE FORGERY IN THE POST-OFFICE. — The deputy-postmaster (Morse) of Barnet, who is accused of forgery, and for whose apprehension a reward has been offered, effected the fraud with which he is charged in the following manner :—lt was Morse's duty to receive the money from the payers, and to furnish in return a post-office order for the amount, such orders being duly advised to the post-town, or money-order stations, upon which they were respectively drawn. Thus his order became the authority for payment, and, taking advantage of such a position, he drew to the amount of £2OOO in one day, upon different offices throughout the country, making the orders payable to various imaginary persons. These orders were principally for ,£5, the highest amount for which a post-office money letter is given. He then went the rounds of the stations drawn upon, and signing the orders in the names by which they were advised, no suspicion was aroused, so that the money was paid with out hesitation. At the office in Charing-cross. nearly two hundred of these orders were duly honoured. The faci lity with which postmasters in the provinces may success fully practice these frauds under the present system, will render it imperative on the part of the post-office autho rities to adopt some arrangements by which they may henceforth be prevented. ATTEMPTED MURDER IN LONDON. On Saturday evening, a brutal attempt was made by a man named George Wilmot to murder a Mrs. Haines. residing in an alley called Paradise-terrace, in the Liverpool-road, Is lington. On the evening in question, Wilmot, who was well acquainted with Mrs. Haines and her husband, called at her house, where he found her busied in pre paring supper. and quite alone. After some conversation, Mrs. Haines turned towards the fire, when Wilmot availed himself of the opportunity to extinguish the can dle burning on the table in an iron candlestick, with which he then struck Mrs. Haines several tremendous blows on the head. A desperate struggle ensued ; bat Mrs. Haines succeeded in dragging her assailant to the door, which she opened. She then uttered loud cries of "Murder !" when Wilmot took to flight ; but be was subsequently apprehended, and brought before the magis trates at Clerkenwell Police Court. Fiom inquiries which he had previously made, there can be little doubt that he had attacked Mrs. Haines with the view of ob taining possession of the money which be had learned that she was in the habit of carrying about her person. To add to the atrocity of his crime, it appears that he is indebted to Mrs. Haines and her husband for repeated services, and that they have frequently lent him money. Mrs. Haines is now lying in a very dangerous state, and her deposition has been taken, in case her wounds should cause her death. COAL-MINE EXPLOSION AT OLDBURY, NEAR BIR MINGHAM.—On Tuesday morning, an ex o te-ion of fire damp took place in one of Mr. Parker's high-pressure pits at Round-green, New Colliery, near Oldbury, by which nineteen men were killed, one lies in a hopeless state, and several others severely injured. About half past five o'clock the first relay of the colliers went down the shaft. About half an hour after the butty, or ma nager, and his son, went down in a skip; at six, four others followed, and by seven five-and-twenty men had descended to the works. One of these was " the doggy," or person whose duty it is to prove the pit with a safety lamp before the colliers go to work, but who on this me lancholy occasion does not appear to have taken this pre caution. After the men had been at work for some short time, and had sent up four skips of coal, an explosion took place, shaking the ground to a considerable distance, and followed by the emission of smoke and flame from the shaft.. The banksman in attendance at the mouth of the pit instantly gave the alarm, and several men from the neighbouring quarry went down the shaft. With df ficulty the bodies of sixteen men were got up, the shaft being 180 yards in depth. Three were subsequently re covered alive, but died soon after they were brought to the top. Another was almost hopelessly injured, the re ma;ninir four escaped unhurt. The dead bodies presented a shocking sight, the whole b ing dreadfully scorchedand norm ; ana torogerner vac scene was one of the most ca- Last week a vessel of 120 tons, named the Albion, one of the Woodbridge traders, was run dOwn off the Essex coast, near Wotton, by the city of London steam-ship. The crew of the Albion were saved with difficulty by the steamer, except a young man, the son of the master, Mr. Smith. who sank with the vessel. On Friday, a meeting was held in Birmingham, convened by the clergy for the purpose of an immediate extension of the infant schools in that town. There are seven thousand infants there for whom no means of instruction are pro vided. The Queen Dowager has contaibuted £5O for the good work. An accident of nearly a fatal nature occurred at Stony Stratford, on Tuesday, the 3d instant. A firework maker, named Holloway, put some damp gunpowder into the oven to dry, and proceeding to work, the gunpowder was forgotten. It very soon, however, made its owner aware of its presence by exploding, and causing very great de struction; hut, fortunately, no lives were lost. SHORT TIME MEETING. — A sh ,, rt time meeting was held in favour of the ten hours' bill, in the Working Men's Hall, Keighley, on Wednesday evening last. A dense crowd attended, and hundreds were unable to obtain admission. Mr. W. B. Ferrand, M.P., Mr Oastler, and a number of other speakers, addressed the meeting, which seemed unanimous and enthusiastic in attachnitnt to the ten hours' bill. On Monday evening last, as the driver of a cart and two horses, belonging to Mr. Stone, of Winwick, was returning home, his horses were frightened by the noise of empty milk-cans in some carts which were passing on their way from Newton Railway Station to Winwick. He ran to the head of one of his horses, was thrown down, and the wheel passed over his body. He died soon after. MILITARY APPOINTMENTS. — Lieutenant-general Sir Benjamin D'Urban will, it is said, proceed to Canada as commander-in chief, in the room of the Earl of Cathcart, who held that appointment with the governor-generalship. Major-general Brotherton, formerly of the 16 , 11 Dragoons, will receive the appointment of inspector-general of caval ry, in the room of Lieutenant-general Lygon, lately pro- moted. The Morning Post revives the tale of a split in the Cabinet, arising from the dislike of Earl Grey to Lord Palmerston. The Spanish marriage is said to be the question at issue. The Post Lints that the Earl of Cla rendon is also opposed to the Secretary ofjoreign Af fairs, and adds that if rumour do not err, the question of opening the ports and of Irish policy has only been de cided upon by a division of the Council. THE WINGATE COLLIERY CLERK—The fugitive clerk who absconded from Wingate colliery, with nearly £6OO belonging to his employer, Lord Howden, and who was apprehended in Ghent, in Flanders, is said to he again at liberty. Nearly the whole of the money, with the excep tion of his " travelling expenses," and the cost of his " gentlemanly" outfit—his gold watch anal ring, wig, im perial, and moustaches —having been recovered, "it has net been considered worth while to bring him to Durham for prosecution." PENAL DP;CIPLINE OF CONVICTS.—We believe that this interesting subject is at present under the serious con sideration of the Government, with a view to relieve New South Wales from its redundant convict population. It is proposed that the transportation of males to the colonies should cease, but that the deportation of women should be carried to its fullest extent, in order to diminish the existing disproportion between the two sexes. It is also under consideration to establish a convict home colony in the Isle of Portland, where a proportion of the prisoners sentenced to t r ansportation would be submitted to a com bined moral and physical discipline, and employed in hewing and preparing stone.—Literary uozette. THE DURATION OF AI ARRIED LIFE.—The tables of lamitous description. the mean joint lifetime of males and females show, that THE HOMICIDE PARDONED.—The Home-office is pro. in this country husbands and wives mulled at the age of reeding in the course of liberating convicts, and in some 26 live, on an average, 27 years together, the widows respects with injustice to the accused themselves. At the riving rather more than 10 years (10.4) after their husbands' York Assizes in 1844 a man named Dan iel Donovan was deaths, and the widowers nearly 9 years ( 9 3 ) after their found g uilty of homicide in having killed a person during wives' 'deaths. Where the husband is 40, and the wife 30, a riot arising out of religious differences, in the streets of the mean term of marr ed life is 21 years, the widows Bradford, and was sentenced to transportation for life. living 13 years after their husbands, and the widowers 5 Ever since that time the friends of Donovan have ex_ years atter the deaths of their wives. The tables furnish erted themselves to prove an alibi,—that is, that he was ready answers to a great number of questions of this in another place at the time of the offence, and they sue kind, and others in which two lives are concerned.—Re- ceeded in interesting Lord Morpeth in the cause. Now, gistrar-General's Reports. this plea must have been established or not. It is possible, INGENIOUS SanTGGLING. — On Monday morning, a though highly improbable, that the witnesses, jury, and seizure of an extraordinary description took place a t th e judge were all mistaken, and if Lord Morpeth and Sir St. Katherine's Dock Steam Packet Wharf, by a Custom- G. Grey were satisfied upon the point, a free pardon h ou se weigher. A case of live gees e, b rou g ht over from ought at once to have been granted; if not, the pro- Harlingen in the Magnet steamer, had been landed from priety of such an excercise of the royal prerogative of the vessel, and was being examined by the officer, when mercy on their part, may be doubted. What, however, he thought the geese appeared enusually tall. He made is the course taken ? The Home Secretary has sent out a more careful scrutiny, and ascertained that a quantity a pardon provided that the man's conduct has been good of hay, forming a false bottom, had been made, on which since his transportation, and upon condition that he does the geese were standing, and on removing that, he di e . not return to Great Britain, thus perpetuating tt e seri covered beneath a quantity of very thin deal boards. tence of banishment. The alibi, then, which would of These were also removed, and a quantity of cigars, weigh- course be a complete exont r .tion, is apparently matte the ing 441b5., were exposed to view. The case, geese,-28 ground of annulling the sentence, and vet tire man is in number—and the cigars, were immediately seized. treated as a criminal !We never rem , -tuber to have read SERIOUS EFFECTS OF A " LARK."—On the. sth in- of anything so absurd and at the same time •co rni•eiiievons stant a young man about 18 years of see, wh o had been —it is as much as saying that a man 'nay he half gul y employed on the railway near Deal, for a sree dressed and half innocent—a proposition wlrch. •.u.p. re, will himself as a Guy Fawkes. This he did by stuffing a ga receive no countenance from the law- , ffic , rs of the bardine or large jacket he had on with straw, till, for ro- crown , or any lawyer in the kingdom. tundity, he resembled more a Sir John Fa lstaff' than a GRAVE CHARGES.—At the meeting of the Surrey Pro- Guy. It was in the evening when the young man was so testant Alliance, on Tuesday. Sir Dighy Macworth, who amusing himself. He had a peat many squibs about him. was in the chair, made the following astounding cornmu- Some of these got ignited, and in a moment he was Intl nicati-n :—" Mr. Gordon staled to him (the chairman) complete blaze; and as the squibs continued to go off in that the Jesuits were in the i abit of picking up young all directions about him, it was impossible for any one to men of talent, to whom they taught the art of rapid approach to render him any assistance. He now lies in a writing, and thus qualwifieithd, the they sent them for ron th cle athees re deplorable state, with no hopes of recovery.—Dover otters. Connected Morning Ch r were sixteen Roman Catholics. (A voice ; ' Yes, and the Chronicle. NEW COIN.—FIVE SOVEREIGN PIECES.—Some five editor also was a Roman Catholic.') Another paper had sovereign pieces have lately been struck by Mr. Wyon, in its service thirteen repthe orters, of whom or te d I.ad n we - re R - and though as -et but in the h ands of a few of the authori ties, they stand as portion of the coin of the realm ; - but man Catholic reporter. He (the chairman would not whether they will be called out for general use, the Go- state but those re porters did notd i id their busineinteresss very f . lieu+ i i vernm ent have not decided. This go ld p iece is considered all matters which nvolve th e ts o to be the most perfect of coins. In point of size it bears But in its behalf there was at work in those ismen a amen resemblance to a crown piece, but otherwise it is much lar agency!" The Rev. M. H. Seymour reporie I t neater in detail. The obverse disclays a renresentation of have made the folios , ing very grave charge :—" NI r her Majesty, and the reverse tie tieure of her Majesty as Merewether, a Tractarian, told me that a leading Rowan Una, guarded by the lion (standard of England), and Catholic convert in his neighbourhood had written to him holding the sceptre. It may ne well, perhaps, to inform to state, that if Mr. Merewether would privately con the public, who must for some time back have noticed the form to Rome, he might trust to his (the writer's) absence of the figure of St. George trim the new crown honour to have it concealed, and that he might continue in pieces, that such emblem has been entirely discontinued. his living as a Protestant until such time as it would A WOMAN FOUND WlLD.—About three weeks ago, a be convenient for him to make the matter public. The young woman, 22 years of age, and cf the name of Ca- name of the Roman Catholic converted gentleman is Am therine Stewart, living in Browii-see et, in the Merkinch, brose Lisle Phillips, of Grace Dieu, Leicesterslrre. I left home, and nobody knew where she had gone, until a stated to Mr. Mereweather that I should like to see the day or two ago she was discovered in the woods of Lea- letter from Mr. Phillips—the letter was brought to me, ohdin, some herds having been attracted to where she lay and in that letter those facts were stated ; and it also by her shrieking or singing. She had retied herself up in stated that thirty Protestant clergymen had privately con moss till she had made herself as round as a ball. She, formed to Rome, but holding their livings until that con had thus lived 'or seventeen days, subsisting, it is sup- venient season would arrive, when they would come for.. posed, on nothing but moss. She was taken home imme- ward to avow their change. to avow their Popish princi diately, almost reduced to a skeleton. She is recovering, plea. Now, you have the facts, and you have the riarries, but on account of the great shake such an unexampled said the reverend gentlemen, as he resumed his seat." state of existence, for so long a time, must have given the TREMENDOUS FIRE AT Gaexeszern—FOßTY Houses constitution, the progress is naturally slow. It was never CONSUMED.—ShAtIy after twelve o'clock on Friday thought she was wrong in the mind, though she was ob. morning, the town of Gravesend was the scene of an served duller than usual for some time back.—lnverness other calamit consuming no fewer than forty houses, and numerous y, other buildings. Singular to say, its lo ca. Journal. A BRITISH FRIGATE FIRED ON BY THE PORTUGUESE. lity is the same as former fires, West-street, extending —ln the intelligence given in another column, brought along the water side from near the town pier to the from Lisbon by the Marys, "The American frigate" is Rosherville-gardens. The fire was first observed from a said to have been disfeasted by the batteries of Oporto. body of smoke hovering over the premises occupied by We copied the statement as we found it; but we think Mr. Garretts, grocer, adjacent to the Pier Hotel, at the that the America, British frigate, must be meant, as she corner of West-street. The flames soon burst forth with had just been ordered by Admiral Parker to Corunna, such violence as to light up the whole town and the oppo with instructions, as she passed Oporto, to demand satis- site shore, creating a general alarm. The inmates having faction for an insult recently offered to a Mr. Noble, a been got out in safety, steps were taken to bring the cor- British merchant, and, if our memory do not deceive us, potation engines, which were soon on the spot, into ope consular agent, in that city. This would satisfactorily ration : but the defective state of the water mains enabled account for her attempt to enter , and tor the hostile the flames to extend themselves to the buildings on each reception she met 'with. The America is a raeeed 74; it side. The mayor and several of the town council arrived will be recollected that she recent l y re t urned hem ar the within a quarter of an hour after the discovery. The Pacific, and that h er captain, the Hon. John 6ordon, Wy at Tilbury Fort had previously been mustered by youngest brother of Lord Aberdeen, w as t r i e d by a court- the commanding officer of that fortress. Their efforts, martial for having quitted that without per mission however, were of little avail in stopping the confl igra. from the admiral commanding.— 13 , iionnia. tion ; for at least four honrs the wind, which was blow from TnouseND PcitiS DS SUPPOSED LOST. AND ing a violent gale, completely baffled their operations, and FOUND..—On Wednesday low 1..4., a person from one increased the magnitude of the fire to a frightful degree. of our city banks was despatched t the agency in Falkirk From the south side of W e est ce-sntre treet th the e to fire ra ged utroyp - with a parcel containing a larg e sum tit money, amounting, wards, in the di of wn, it is said, to £3hoo in notes. The man, on alighting at his ing in its course a great number of low dwelling houses in destination, found himself minus the parcel. and gave in- the various courts. These were generally tenanted by timation accordingly, to the alarm of the ags nt, who took poor fishermen, hawkers, labourers, &c., &e. No check measures to apprise the po li ce authorities here and in to the fire was effected until near seven o'clock. At ten Edinburgh by the train whic arrives at either end elmrtly o'clock, however, an immense body of fire existed in every after midnight. The Glasgow s eerintene• of etilleJ part of the ruins. The principal portion of the houses started in search on Thutsdae te the earliest morning that are erected on the sire of the fire in West-street are train ; but, on his arrival at Falkirk, the cheering news consumed, together with boil) sides of the street from was com municated that the parcel had been found in High -street to King-street. Amongst the buildings de safety in the carriage which the messenger left at Falkirk, stroyed we may mention 'he Pier Hotel, Talbot Inn, on its arrival at the Edinburgh terminus, It is likely Punch Bowl Tavern, end all the intermediate wharfs and that the man had fallen asleep, and left the parcel behind buildings. Wit resectt t o t th resulte originof, accident . suspicions The are him on the confusion of a sudden awakening.—Glaagew entertained that i h t was p nee paper. lass is estimated at nearly £30,000. Nov. 24, 0146. • ALLEGED POISONING AT SIITTON.—The adjourned ino quiry into the death of George Taylor, whose body was disinterred after being in the grave two years, to ascertain whether he had been poisoned with arsenic by Eiizabeth Smith, his housekeeper, who gave him some doses on the recommendation of Sarah Taylor, stepmother of the de ceased. was resumed at the Volunteer Inn, at Sutton upon-Trent. It appeared that the deceased died from ulceration of the stomach, which the surgeon who at tended him in his last illness said, after bearing the evi dence, was caused by doses of arsenic. No trace of ar senic was found in the stomach and viscera, which had been sent to London for analysis. The jury returneEe verdict of manslaughter against Elizabeth Smith and Sarah Taylor. A ROMANCE.--A Colonel of Dragoons is on friendll relations with a family in the neighbourhood of his quar ters. In the interchange of civilities an orderly is often employed. The order ly, being a fine-looking soldier, finds favour in the eyes of the fair daughter of the house, as he gallops up to the door each day. Stolen glances are exchanged. The young lady now herself brings down the answers to the notes, messages, &c. Little conversations ensue—the conversations lead to interviews—interviews to confessions and vows—and the confessions and vows to elopement and marriage. The Colonel is astonished- - the parents storm—and the orderly-corporal is deprived of his " stripes" for prolonged absence. Denouement The orderly appears in his real character; be is the so* of a gentleman of high respectability in England ; the young couple will be possessed of a competency—a com mission is to be procured for the soldier-husband—parents are reconciled—all parties are pleased—and true love is rewarded ! Our readers will wonder why we have been giving these extracts from the note-book of some writer of vaudeville or comedietta ; but, unless we are misin formed, the play has recently been acted in real life—the scene, Edinburgh ; and the time, October, IS46.—Edin burgh Joulkfl. _ _ _ WIOEtRNi FOR LORD PALMERSTON.—The Morning Post announces that the Russell ministry is by no means at one on the subject of Lord Palmerston's policy. Whether this be so or not, we cannot tell. But the country is already pretty unanimous against it. Mean while the clouds are thickening around the diplomatic horizon. The Northern Powers (taking advantage of the disruption of the entente cordiale between France and England) have, it is said, decreed the destruction of the neutrality of Cracow. And it is alleg"d that in this stet/ France is not an unwilling witness. Indeed the French Government has already resorted to a puerile persecutioll of the Polish journals published in Paris, with an evirtelat view to procure their suppression. It may be interesting to copy the two solemn articles of the Treaty of Vienna guaranteeing theindependence of Cracow. They are as follow :—" Article 6.—The city of Cracow, with its terri tory, is declared in perpetuity a free, independent, and strictly neutral city, under the protection of Russia, Prussia, and Austria." " Article 9.—The Courts. of . _ Bassis t Prussia, and Austria, engage to respect, and to cause% be r-apected for ever, the neutrality of the free city of Cracnw, and of its entire territory. No armed force can ever be introduced into it, under any pretence whatever." To this treaty France and England are parties, as well as the Three Northern Powers. And they, therefore, are bound to remonstrate against the guilt of its intended violation. The continental kings are playing a desperate game. But they may rest assured that a terrible retribution will follow the achievement 0 1 so infamous a breach of faith and honesty. Mr. Grantley Berkeley has written another letter of three columns in length, exposing the terms upon which he became Lord Fitzhardinge's nominee for West Glou cestershire, viz., £2OO a-year and a room in a house its town. The money does not appear to have been punctu ally paid. The letter goes at length into family matter,' and private arrangements. The Times very properly de- clined to publish - it except as an advertise - rnent; where upon Mr. B. waxes wrath, and sends a bullying letter to the editor, which the Times remarks is worth inserting. as a confession, under his own hand, of the scurrility , falsehood, and detraction,' contained in the effusion to which we refused publicity. He says, If I desired to indulge in scurrility and abuse, falsehood and detraction , judging from your remarks on my correspondence with Mr. Harman Visgar, &c., I must hire a space in your paper, but not ntherwise.' Surely he cannot think it un• reasonable that if he ' desires to indulge in scurrility, &c., he should be at least obliged to pay for it. We have ad mitted his scurrility gratis quite long enough, and he has no right to complain of his being compelled, as he says, to hire a space' for any more of the same stuff he is anxious to put forward. We acknowledge that we did not fear even our advertising columns being degraded by Mr. Grantley Berkeley's scurrility—as he confesses it to be—when we made its being paid for as an advertisement the condition of its being inserted. We fully anticipated that we should thus exclude it from our paper altogether , and our anticipations have been realised. We should per haps have spared him the humiliation of declining his let ter on the ground of its being made up of ' scurrility and abuse, falsehood and detraction;' hut as he has given this description of it, we are for once not ashamed to own that we are of the same opinion as Mr. Grantley Berkeley." SPORTING INTELLIGENCE Sir F. Gnodricke killed last week. at Claremont, Nor folk, 2458 head of game, 1000 of which were pheasants. S A LE OF LORD HOWTH'S HUNTERS. — T he follo wing hunters were sold last week at Tattersall's :—Albert,.bY Recovery, 71 1 l guineas ; Glaucus, by Glaucus, 161 cuireas; Dahlia, by New Fa-hion, 155 guineas ; Jessy, by Felt, 125 guineas ; The Abbot, by Young Sir Hercules, 60 guineas; Livernaan, b: 1, , v , ,p0n1, 50 guineas ; Oliver, by Ishmael, 33 auineas ; The Prince, by Tyrant, 32 guineas. TARLETON COURSING MEETING. This meeting came off on Wednesday and Thursday last. The follow ing are the returns of the deciding courses :—The Bank Hall Cup, for all-aged does, was won by Mr. Craven's Clarina, beating Sir T. G. Hesketh's Hope; the Taerletico; Puppy Cup was won by Mr. Smith's Smash'em, ha Mr. Banks's Fancy ; the Hesketh Cup, for all-at e 3 dogs, was won by Mr. Swift's Smuggler, beating Sir T. G. Hesketh's Herdman ; the Birthday Stakes, for puppies. was viol by Hr T. G. Hesketh's Hec'or, laaattnE Mr. Wi liams's Cambridgeshire; and the Raiford Stakes, for all aged dogs, was won by Mr. Coupe's Clara, beating Sir T. G. Hesketh's Mice Hawthorn. THE CHASE. Sir W. M. STANLEY'S HOUNDS will meet on Wed e,day), (to-morrow,) Nov. 25, at H ootou Friday, 27, at At Eleven o'clock The CHESHIRE HOUND 3 will meet on Wednesday, (to-morrow), Nov. 25, at Thursday, 26, at Saturday, 28, at Tarporlef Each day at Half-past Ten, except on Thursday, the 26th, when they will meet at Eleven. The WYNNSTAY HOUNDS will meet on W dnesday, (to-morrow), Nov. 25, at Friday, 27, at . Saturday, 28, at At Half-past Ten o'clock Pradoe Holston Gate Malpas Moor STATE OF TRADE MANCIIESTER.—The business done during the past week has hem, very limited, much less than in any similar period since the beginning of October. An attempt has been made to effect a decline in prices, by giving currency to an averment that such had already taken place ; but beycnd the fact that, since Wednesday last, there has been less done, and a feeling of dis quietilde and apprehension produced, we believe no other con -,quence has yet resulted from the effort used to break dow n tin' c n dence of manufacturers There has been only a Verl 'iii itrd demand for printing cloth this week ; prices, h o wever, have not been materially affected. Shirtings have contin ued to lie i tiu t t and steady demand, at former prices. Yarns hale ne.mi mill, and rates a shade lower have been taken to f orce Those large orders for 11 S., America, said to have been r.,., pit y the Britannia, have not yet found their way We quote to-day's cu, rency as follows ; -26.ine1 l prim c oths.o4 reeds, at 4s 4id ;62 reeds at 48 6d to 45 70). 47.1..c1i Milo, 6n reeds. at 45 Sd to ss; 72 reed ditto, at 5s 4id t) ; 36.itieh shir ings, 66 reeds, at 8s to 85 6d; 62 reeds, e" 9- ti , i s ; 0-inch G. E. India Longcloths, 66 reeds, at Ss 9 1 to 9- 311 ; and '2 reed ditto, 9s , ri to pp. ; good seconds. watef twist. N. 2''s, at B,', No. 30's at 9id. No. 40's at 12;0 per lb.; e y,ati good seconds, No. 2,'s, at Bd, No. 30's at Sid. e" No. 4 ,'s at 920 per lb The probability of a tighter money mar ket, combined with the " short time+ , movement, has had the effect of keeping speculators out of the Cotton market, which has exhibited symptoms of weakness , and holders have offered this rwaket stocks more freely. ROCHDALE —We have had no improvement in the Flannel market to-day, either as regards prices or demand. The busi ness done has been very limited, and there is very little pro s p ect of a speedy change for the better. On Weonesday last, the most extensive purchaser of Flannels in the Blackwater market (Mr. Adam Livesey, of Manchester.) died. The absence of this gentleman was always regarded as a certain ome n of a bad Market. LENDS.—The Woollen trade still continues dull in this town and district; hut there is little despondency felt by either mer chants or manufacturers. Hopes are generally entertained that we shall have a rtvival of trade on• the setting in of the new year. The demand at this period of the year is generally very slack. BRA DFORD.-Wool Market.—There has been more inquiry for Wool during the past week, which clearly indicates the diminished supply in the consumers' hands; and although there have been more 'ookers, we do not learn that any exten sive purchases have been made. The stock in the market is considerably reduc d wi hin the last two months, and the staplers find it impossible to replace their stocks with advan tage to themselves. The country dealers are by no means free to sell at present rates, their stocks being bought by them at such prices as wou'd only entail a certain loss. Prices keep firm here. Yarn Market-1 he demand for this article continn es r to be of the same slugg i sh character as re p orted for some titrie past. The spinners have met this by very great curtailmen ie in their productions, as most houses have either large quantities of machinery totally idle, or are runnin I short time. Prices ar: so ruinously low, that spinners wi l l no t accumulate stocks, an present prices are firmly maintained. Piece Market.— We Wo r e no improvement to notice to-day; a general dulness prevail& The trade is far from being remunerative , and most p art of the manufacturers are acting on the defensive. Heavy goods ere. in most request. but at such low pri c es as offer no in ducemen t to increase the supplies. Prices remain steady. HUDDERSFIELD. -Thee has been but little doing in the Cloth Hall to.day, and although there have been a good many buye rs in the town there has not been mu h doing in the warehouse s ' We do not think, however, that trade is worse, if so bad, as it was this time last year. HALIFAx —The general dulness of trade continues, and are have no change to report. Fewer merchants have been iu the hall to-day than for the last two or three Saturdays, and Oil amount of goods sold hat been far from large. The manuise' turers cannot replace the goods Ft the present prices ; aad the sales that take place are chiefly made to avoid ruinous accuran lations in stock. In Yarns there is no change worth notice , but the spinners are curtailing their production, and as they re frain from buying. the stock lot Wool in the market is dirnici,ef ing, the growers having no inducement to send further supP ll n ' LEICESTER.—The demand for goons is very dull, and caper, - ally so in the flame knit and straight.down branches; we laT, of some manufacturers having stopped part of their machineiLi Worsted is slack of sale, and the spinners have generally reducn their prices per Its. from rates current a month or six wee since. In Wool but very few transactions have taken place. ' l 4 - , terms a shade in favour of the buyer ; hut prices are remarkar; firm, considering the inactivity of the demand, the staplers ing convinced that if they were to sub , i it to lo w e r prices ..„," their stocks they would not be able to replace them at a corm' ponding reduction from the grower.