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type of the first man, Adam. He exhibits with much power and with wise discrimination the various striking coincidences wherein the thins prefigured answer to the things prefiguring them, and loses no opportunity of press ing on the readers attention how eminently the whole are calculated to confirm our faith, enlarge our hopes, and enliven our aff.ctions. We perceive that a second volume will be ready in a few months, to obtain which, we are persuaded, a perusal of the pages before us will beget a very general desire. SECOND EDITION. VARIETIES. THE CHILTERN HUNDREDS.—There is a certain por- tion of the high land of Buckinghamshire known by the name of Chiltern Hills. Formerly these hills abounded in timber, especially beech, and afforded shelter to nu merous banditti— •' Under the shady greenwood tree We merry archers ioam —To put down these banditti, and to protect the inhabi tants of the neighbouring parts front their depredations, an officer was appointed under the Crown, called " the Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds." As it is an office under the Crown, any member accepting it, ipso facto va cates his seat in Parliament. A PRIMI' WE POST OFFICE.—A party that had landed from the Ad/gator found a box upon the island, which an insciption upon a board erected above it designated as the ' Post-office.' Several letters were found therein, ad dressed to the masters of some of the ships that were ex pected to pass throughout the strait by those who had preceded them ; and a book, in which the names of the various ships had been entered, was carefully deposited in one corner. From this it appeared that the Essington had passed,ahout a fortnight before UR, having spent some time in trading among the Murray and Darnley Islands. Sae had gone on to Port Essington to land the frame of a church intended for the use of the settlement which form ed part of her cargo. We also learned that the William, another vessel that had been fitted nut to trade with the islands, had been wrecked on Cockburn Reef.—Tropical Australia. WATER IN NEW YonK.—The Croton River is brought to the city of New York by an aqueduct 40 miles in length. It is received into two reservoirs, one capable of contain ing 150 millions of imperial gallons, and the other 21 mil lions, at the height of 115 feet above tide. '1 here are 150 miles of mains, four miles of which are three feet in dia meter. The water is kept at high pressure in all the streets, at all times, so that it is always on, and the inha bitants have a constant supply night and day. When the New York report was printed, only a short time bad elapsed since the opening of the works; hut even then. 6000 houses and manufactories, out of 30,000, had taken the water, at an average rent of 14 dollars, which, of course, would decrease as the number of consumers aug mented. All who cannot pay for water are supplied by 'public fountains and hydrants, of which there were 600; and the number has now greatly increa-ed. "It is im possible to say bow much water is supplied per annum, as the hydrants and fountains are in constant use," and " the water is used for purposes." Fires are Lhiefly extinguished by a hose attached to fire plugs in the mains, the water being thrown up by the head pressure; and since the Croton water was introduced, the losses by fire have diminished one-halt, and insurance premiums have fallen 25 per cent. Philadelphia is supplied on similar principles.—Heallh of Towns'.Advocate. CHAT MOSS.—Within a couple of hundred yards of this fertile valley, but separated from it by a ridge of manly bills, commences the great waste known by the names of Barton Moss, Chat Moss, and Astley Mo-s, of which from two to three thousand acres, or perhaps about one third of the whole, arc situated in the township of Barton. This moss, or bog, as it would be called in Ireland, is,in many places from twenty to thirty feet in depth, and though the , genius arid enterprise of Geolge Stepbenson have bridged it over by a railway, for a length of upwaras of four miles, it is still so wet in many parts as not to he transferable by foot passengers without great danger. The readers of ro mances will remember that this moss is the scene of a tragic adventure in Ainsworth's history of Guy Fawkes, where the officers of justice are swallowed up and lost in pursuing the heroine of the story. At the present day, houses, gardens, and woods stand upon the scene of this supposed adventure; but we know from Camden's Bri tanna that a few years before—that is, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth,—this great moss burst, and discharged enormous masses of mud and water into the Irwell, kil ing 'he fish, and in its course overspreading many acres of fertile land. There is no historical document from which it is possible to ascertain precisely the point where this catastrophe occurred, but from the directisn of the land and the course of the streams, it is most probable that it occurred near the point at which Ainsworth supposes the above-mentivaed catastrophe. to have happened—that is, at the hollow which crosses the Manchester Road, on the Baystrone form, where a thin coat of dry moss is still to be found within 150 yards of the river.— Times. A VISIT FROM AN ALLIGATOR.—One of the men em ployed, while steeping in a hammock suspended between two trees, was disturbed during the night by something dragging away the blanket that covered him, and on look ing over the side of the hammock he discovered, to his intense horror, that the intruder was a large alligator. His shouts alarmed the animal, which retreated in great haste into the sea. The man's story was t»t at first cre dited by those who came to his assistance, but in the morning, sure enough, the blanket was found on the beach half immersed in water. and the animal itself was shot a few nights afterwards, the ball striking the forehead above the eye, and splintering off a portion of the skull, thus exposing the brain. tie did not die, however, until after a violent struggle of many minutes, during which he lashed the sea around him into a foam. Some of the men returned the compliment lie was supposed to have in tended for their companion, by eating a considerable por tion of his remains. From the knowledge that we subse quently gained concerning these animals, I very much doubt whither the one in question really intended mis chief. Tree natives, whose encampments are generally close to the beach, ate never carried off ; and the alli gator is such a cowerdly animal that it very rarely ven tures to molest them even in the water, which may be considered as its proper element. Certainly, upon one occasion, a woman and seven children were attacked by an alligator as they were leisurely swimming towards the shore from a vessel in the roads. It came up behind them unperceived, and endeavoured to seize the woman with one of its.claws, but it soon desisted, and the entire party succeeded in escaping to the shore. I bad been alarmed—as was the case, I believe, with all the people in the settlement—by their screams, arid arrived on the beach as they were landing. The woman was terribly scratched upon her shoulder, but the gra west sufferer ap peared to be a poor little girl about eight years of age who stood upon the beach the very picture of paralyzed terror. Tropical Australia. UN HANDSOME CONDUCT.—Many years ago a counsel, yet living, I believe, and enjoying a pension granted on his retirement from a high office, to which he war subse quently elevated, was a celebrated leader on the circuit. it happened at one of the assizes, a cause of ejectment, if I remember rightly, was set down for trial, and the plaintiff's attorney, anxious to secure his assistance, not only sent a special retainer, but a brief with a satisfactory fee, at least three weeks be'ore the circuit commenced, and conse quently, while the learned gentleman' was in town. He had thus an opportunity, of which he availed himself, to study the plaintiff's case. On his arrival at the .assize town one of the defendant's attorneys called at his lodgings with a brief for the latter, when he was apprized by the clerk of the pre-engagement. I should mention, that this attorney with his partners formed an influential firm, hav ing a superior business, and being "good" and constant clients of Mr.—, while the solicitor on the other side was nearer the reverse in all respects. Blaming the clerk fur not writing to them in the first instance (though there was no general retainer) to learn in what cases they re quired his master, the attorney immediately had an inter view with the lsttsr, in which be urged the necessity of last adoning the first, and undertaking the second case. There is no doubt his arguments were c r vincing, for, at a ]ate hour of the evening, the plaintifl's attorney was in formed, that by neglect of the clerk, a pi for retainer (which had no existence) by the defendant, had be -n overlooked, and consequently that Mr. P—could not be his counsel. His brief and fees were therefore returned. another coun sel was engaged within a few hours of the trial, and the ill-used plaintiff lost that verdict of which he felt himself secure, probably more by the knowledge which his adver sary's advocate had obtained of both sides of the question than the merits of the case, while the clerk was obliged to endure all the obloquy. His master, however, avoided offending a " good" client, who might otherwise have been "good" no longer, and, this object being attained, it mat tered not who suffered. I most add, by the by, that none but a senior could have achieved this exploit without ser ious consequences.—Hood's Magazine. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Etteraturr. NOTICES. The ManlesPd Oneness of the Church of Christ, with some Reasons for not jai>ting the pr liosed 'Evangelical Alliance; a Sermon preached by toe Rev. Hugh M'Neile. Third Edition, with a Preface and Appendix not in former editions. Ilatchards, London; Lace and Addison, Liverpool. The call s s peedily made. for a third edition of this val. o nabie tlise..tirse proves that Es contents have brei duly appreciated by tea pubic. The reverend author has given in this a lui .n more than double the quantity of matter in those previously issued. In the preface t' this edition, Mr. M'Nele enters at length into a variety of arguments to scow that the proposed Evangelical Alli ance, from recent eahibiii ns of ita promoters spirit, as well as from its avowed rittc . ples of action, is "a rash exvetiment, the very terms of whose proposal contained the seeds of its own inevitable failure." At the outset, the reverend gentleman states his per suasion that Vie Alliance contaiited a snare for the un suspecting evangelical clergy of the Church of England," and, with fits usual ham-sty, gives the following as his reasons fnr entertaining, the opinion:— " The idea was, that being grieved by the disastrous spread of Tractari tnisin in our own Church, and hopeless of. any rest amendment by anthority—nay, rather, dis gusted by the fact that authority, while softly disapprov ing of excess, was substantially nourishing and cherishing, and of course propagating, the fatal heresy—we would be found ripe and ready for a recoil, and captivated he a prospect of true Christian union. on a basis which made light—or rather invited us to make light—of all secondary e c cle s iastical considerations; that sonic among us, in the loving4indness and open generosity of our hearts, would join such an alliance witeout a serious thought about any ulterior consequences; some, with a strong conviction that, in so doing, they were io no way whatever compro mising their standing or their principles as members ofa national Episcopal Church ; and it was felt that there were many, beth clergy and laity, who, to use the lan guage of one of the many pamphlets of last year; rather than see their country deluged by. superstition, and a con tinuance of the shameful scenes which have been lately enacted, wool.l consent that all connexion between Church and State, however hitherto held deer,• very dear to their hearts—should be at once and for ever cut off.' " That such views and expectations existed, and in the quarter f.orn whence the or'ginal invitation to the Alli ance conference emanated, is not a matter of mere con. jecture. The writer was put into possession of it as a matter of fact, in the meet emphat it., because the most un suspecting manner passible, by a distinguished foreigner— himself an ardent and conscienti ins opponent of the con nexion between Church and State—who paid us a visit last summer. Immediately previous to his visit to Liver pool, he had been in communication for some time with some of the most active, talented, and influential mem bers of the Scoteh secession ; and one of his primary oh ' jests of inquiry, on coming here, was the character and probable time of our eporoachiug 'secession in England. He was evidently surmised by the tone in which all thought of arty and) secession was dialiaimed, and even resented. lle possessed too much Christianfe,img, and gentlemanlike courtesy, to press the subject; but the im pression was made ; and by the convener's invitation to the Coral rence two months afterwards, the impression was revived." It is no marvel that such reasoning end such honest avowals as these should have occasioned considera ble feelino amongst the admirers of the alliance, and that feeling has been manifested already. It will be seen, from a letter in another column, that Mr. Mc. Neile, in reply to a communisation from a highly respectable gen 'denim in this town, has had an opportunity afforded of explaining himself on the point adverted to in the pre ceding statements. The followins is a powerful. and to a steadfast friend of the Established Church we deem an unanswerable, argu meut agsOinst the basis of the Alliance:-- " Toe ca , e would be essentially different, if the pro posed Alliance were really and bond fide a great Protes tant Cenfoleration, with the avowed abject of guarding the Protestant Laws of England against any further Rome ward alterations ; and not only so, but of recovering the lerotestant ground which has been lost in our statute book. If Churchmen and Dissenters could join in one body for this national object ; without on either side, taking or wishing to take advantage of the occasianjor driving for . ward any ecclesiastical or denominational objects ; the union would be intea Bible, andas I think, Most laWfut and- right. Such a confederacy was anticipat e d i n t h e Ariti-Maynooth canference : and had it been bond fide such, the result might have been very different to the na tion. Soon, however, it becJmc too apparent that it was not such. • The question is, can such a Confederation be • formed? can the provisional cartiMittees of the Alliance, when they meet in London, assume this strictly and ex clusively national aspect, in defence of our national Pro testannsni ? . " My conviction is, thahthey cannot; and my reason for se thinking is; that our national Protestantism as it is, and es it. was, gives precedence in many things to the Es tablished Church. Of course to aim at maintaining it as it is, or recovering it as it was, would be to aim at giving permanence to that precedence. This is what multitudes 'of Dissenters cannot (to. They do not think it lawful, or right, or Christian. English Protestantism, as by law es tablished, lies hitherto contained something, whiCh neither Accords with their taste er their principles; and if they enter into a Protestant Confederacy, a part of their ob ject must be to get rid of that soniething. But that something is a national Church. This seems to be for gotten by those who speak of the dangers which threaten • our Church ; and then-refer to a union with Dissenters, as any refuge from, or strength under, those daggers." In the appendix we find a large body of scripture truth adduced support of the following "conelti-ions." " First, aga'rist the extravagaut expectations held out of corivertieg the world ; and, secondly, against the applica tion to pry sent efforts. however combined, of the Lord's prayer, in the seventeenth chapter of St. John." The argu ments on these subjects are too continuous to enable us to extract with satisfaction any portion. We may obser re • that the evidence is derived chiefly, though by no means exc lu s ively, from the parables of our Lord. We cannot refrain, however, from reprinting the following eloquent and justly deserved tribute which Mr. M'Neile advances 'to toe attachment of the evangelical clergy to our vene rable establishment : "Secession ! Let Tract arians secede, condemned as they are by the scriptural standards of the Church : and in • proportion as they learn to add to their heresy, bonesiy ; they will secede. Let those secede who re. quire subscription to our Articles, and then encourage, by promoting, the violators—or the eiders and abet tars of the violators—of these Articles. The Church, as such, disowns them, while she groans under their partial mis rule. Let Aritinomians secede, who reject as their rule that holy law which the Church reiterates as the mind of Him who in Christ Jesus is love. Let Anti-Episcopalians. secede, and accidental Episcopalians. who can recognise nothing more sacred titan human management in the or ders of the Christian ministry. Let the votaries of a world that lieth in wickedness secede, the frequenters of its re velries of gaiety and its purlieus of sensuality ; condemned as they are by their baptismal vow to " renounce the pumps and vanhies of this wicked world, and all the sin ful lusts of the flesh." Let Formalists secede, who not content with the spiritual worship of the Church, desire to revive the altars and postures, the dresses and decora tions of cce:iiceval corruption. But who are they who cannot secede? Who are they whose sentiments and lan guage are most cordially and constantly in harmony with the standards of the Church ? Who are they who cite con amore tic words of the Reformers?. who delight in, and as far as circomstances admit, imitate the deeds of the 'Reformers ? Who are they, who-declane it to be the duty of the civil Ruler to know the good from the evil, the truth from the falsehood, and " to rule." as well as live, e " in the fear of God?'' Who Ere they, who maintain the authority of the Ruler, whether civil or ecclesiastical, as based upon the Bible, and limited by the Bible? Who are they, who urge, by both example and precept, that se paration fron the world to which the Church pledges all her children ? Who are they, in a word, who are living samples of Church of Etiglandism, so that in leaving that Chatch, they would be, as it were, leaving themselves ? The truly enlightened and impartial observer, will at once reply—the Evangelical portion of the English Church." BONN'S STANDARD LIBRARY. London : lien! y 13. Bohn. no , coe's Life of Leo the Trnih. 2 Vols. Robert Hales 3Thcelianr °us Works. Sehlegers Philos9phy of History. Mr. Bonn has so far fulfiled every engagement announ ced in the prospec:us of his Standard Library. Our read ers will at once perceive that the works—not limited to any partleular class of literature—are of a deservedly esta blished character, with a view of presenting which to the educated public the series was undertaken. They are ac curately printed in a new and elegant form, and every work is edited pr tran , lated by competent scholars, and is illustrated with portraits, engravings, &c. The series is published monthly, in volumes nf about 500 pages each, which are hAndsomely bound, and will be an invaluable adjunct to any library. Of course it is too late to say anything as to the intrinsic merits of the works themselves. but the mariner in uhieli the typographical and all the other departments of their publication have been executed merits every praise, and will, no doubt, meet its reward by a very exten,ive sale, which we are persuaded must be very great indeed, to remunerate the publisher for his large outlay. Lecture: on the princ►pal types of the Old Testament. Vol. 1. By the Rev. J. Jones, incumbent of St. An drew's Church. liatchard and Son, London. We some time since received the first volume of this work on a deeply important branch of divine truth, and ought to have noticed it earlier. The reverend author in these discourses h , ..s brought together a vast mass of scrip tural evidence in his interpretation of the typical portions of Holy Writ, and has evinced his usual desire to make the whole, of practical utility to every Christian reader. Mr. Jones tightly of serves, that in too many instances " the types have been so minutely interpreted, or rather misinterpreted, in particulars of the meat trifling nature, as ofttimes to destroy their erancleur and sublimity;" and thi . led to a very general disregard of their proper use and application. 1 hey are nevertheless " shadows of good things to come," and cannot be too highly prized as recti fiers of any false interpretation of new testament doctrines. H av ing been " made according to the pattern shown to Moses in the mount" (that pattern being the everlasting Gospel), the typical illustrations become of paramount value; because we have just reason to suspect the correct ness of that exposition of divine truth which does not dovetail with the Mosaic institutions, of which the gospel was at once the antitype and pattern. After a beautifully clear definition of the characteristics said scriptural method of interpreting the types, our au thor adopts no artificial arrangement of his subjects, but takes them exactly in the order in which they are pre sented to us in the Word of God, commencing with the Standard-office, Eleven o'clock. To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD, SIR,—My correspondent, in your columns of to-day, said, in his letter to me, " I would be sorry to have this letter published, and rely on your not doing so." In his letter to you. he refers to his letter to me, and says, " of which I retained no copy." On this you licve a note, " We subsequently obtained a copy." Of whom cou'd a copy be obtained, but from me? Arid yet my correspondent relied on me not to publish his let ter ! This places me in a position in which I must not remain. I pore my correspondent his own letter, and you must have obtained it from or through him. When he wrote to you to say he had not retained a copy, and, at the same time, sent you the letter for publication, he should have added that, at his request, I had returned to Lim the ori ginal. I think he should not have suppressed his name, but under existing circumstances 1 will not publish it. I am, Sir, yours faithfully, HUGH .11'NEILE. 171 h March. 1846. [We certainly received the letter to which Mr. M`Neile alludes from the gentleman who wrote it, and who, being wishful for its publication if his name were suppressed, informed us that he had requested Mr. M'Neite to return the original, which he handed to us for insertion in the Standard. This circumstance ought to have been ex plained by our correspondent in the course of his letter to us.] CANNING'S BoYnooD.—The childhood of George Canning was passed under the inauspicious guardianship of Mr. Reddish (his mother's second husband), whose disorderly habits excluded the possibility of moral or in tellectual training. The profligacy of his life communi cated its reckless tone to his household, and even the ma terial wants of his family were frequently neglected to feed his excesses elsewhere. Yet amidst all these unpropitious circumstances, the talents of the child attracted notice; and Moody, the actor, who had constant opportunites of seeing him, became strongly interested in his behalf. Moody was a blunt, honest man, of rough hearing, but of the kindliest disposition ; and foreseeing that the buy's ruin would be the inevitable consequence of the associa tions by which he was surrounded, he resolved to bring the ma:ter at once under the notice of his uncle, Mr. Stratford Canning. The step was a hold one ; for there had been no previous intercourse between the families, al though the boy was seven or eight years old. But it suc ceeded. Moody drew an indignant picture of the boy's situation ; declared that he was on the high road to the " gallows," (that was the word ;) dwelt upon the extraor dinary promise be displayed; and warmly predicted, that if proper means were taken for bringing him forward in the world, he would one day become a great man. Mr. Stratford Canning was at first extremely unwilling► to in terfere ; and it was not until the negotiation was taken up by other branches of the family, owing to honest Moody's perseverance, that he ultimately c insented to take charge of his nephew, upon condition that the intercourse with his mother's connexions should be strictly abridged.— Bell's Life of Cannino. GAMBLING IN TUE EAST.—Cock-fighting is carried on to a great extent here ( Btncoolen), and is indulged in by the natives, high and low. On market.days vast numbers of natives may be seen wending their way to the cock-pit at tached to each market or bazaar, with one of the cele brated Malay game cocks under their arms. At the pit, some hundreds of these birds may be seen in the hands of the fanciers, who weigh and examine them thoroughly be fore betting on them. As soon as the bets are arranged, the two birds first on the list are brought into the centre of the pit, armed by their owners with a fearful spur about four inches long, of the shape of a scythe, and as sharp as a razor. The combat seldom lasts a minute; the first charge generally rendering one, and frequently both the combatants, hors de combat, by inflicting upon them mor tal wounds. Then begins the most disgusting part of the scene. The owner of each bird takes him up, blows into his mouth and eyes, and uses every exertion to make the poor tortured victim give the la.it peck to his adversary. Failing this last peck, the battle is drawn. Bets are usu ally paid, particularly in the country, in geld dust, which is weighed ont in small ivory steelyards kept for the pur pose The Dutch. with-their usu it policy, derive a reve nue from every cock-pit within their boundary here. For my own part, I am not inclined to blame them, and think our revenue at all the three Straits' settlements might be materially increased, and the scamps of those places kept in better order, by having every gambling-house in them registered and subjected to a tax. To put a stop to gamb ling, in any Asiatic town, is beyond the power of man ; and the attempt to do so only drives the s:amester to the secret haunts where he may indulge his propensity, and where, I fear, too often he becomes a witness of, if not a participator in, deeds of blind. As a grand jur-r in Sin gapore, I hive had evidence enough of this —Davidson's Trade and Travel in the Far East THE POLICY TO BE PURSUED IN INDIA.—The most eminent statesmen who have learnt the it lessons in Eng land, and those who have gained their experience in India, have uniformly concurred in the opinion that extension of territory was not only undesirable, but hurtful. Those to whom the local government of our Eastern empire was intrusted have had every motive to preserve peace and to avoid war. Nevertheless, they have almost all engaged in war, and those who ha re avoided doing so have con fessedly left it as an inheritance to their successors : and let us add to this strong fact that the different Presidents of the Board of Control, the very institution of which was associated with the object of preventing the pu'suit of schemes of aggrandizement and the extension of domi nion, have almost in every instance concurred in the wis dom and necessity of those measures of the local admini stration which have been attended with such results. This forces us to a conclusion that all the Engtsh states men which this observation includes have either been in their turns tainted with the culpable ambition of which the Indian Governors are accused, or that their fuller in formation obliged them to give the sanction of their ap probation to such wars, from being satisfied that they were just and expedient. There may be some cases where it is possible to prove that the temperament or the judge. meet of indeviduAs has precipitated a contest ; but, on the other hand, it is clear that the most moderate have been compelled to the same course, and that the orders of superiors and the enactments of law have not only failed in the end proposed, that of averting the growth of our power, but have actually caused it to be more rapid than it otherwise would have been. These are the deductions which must be drawn from the events that have occurred ; but the law which forbade conquest and interference is now a dead letter. We are the acknowledged lords of India, and there exists not a sovereign prince or a chief in that vast country, with whom we have no ties that imply friendship and protection on our part, and dependance or allegiance on the o' her.—Memoirs of Marquis Wellesley. AN ITALIAN SCENE.—There lies Genoa, in beautiful confusion, with its many churches pointing up into the sunny sky; and down below me, just where the roofs be gin a solitary convent parapet, fashioned like a gallery, with an iron across the end, where sometimes, early In the morning, I have seen a little group of dark-veiled nuns gliding sorrowfully to and fro, and stopping now and then to peep down upon the waking world in which they have no part. Old Monte Faccio, brightest of hills in good weather, but sulkiest when storms are coming on, is here, upon the left. The fort, within the walls (the good king built it to command the town, and beat the houses of the Genoese about their ears. in case they should be discon tented), ctanmandS that heght upon the right. The. broad sea lies beyond ;—in front there ; and that line of coast, beginning by the light-house, and tapering away, a mere speck in the roar distance, is that beautiful coast that leads to Nice. The garden near at band, among the roofs and houses, all red with roses and fresh with little fountains. is the Acqua Sola—a public promenade, where the military band plays Oily, and the white veils ClUster thick, and the Genoese nobility ride round, and round. and round, in state-clothes and ciaches at least, if not in absolute wisdom. Within a stone's throw, as it seems, the audience of the day-theatre sit, their faces turned this way. But as the stage is hidden, it is very odd, without a knowledge of the cause, to see their faces change so sud denly from earnestness to laughter ; and odder still to hear the rounds upon rounds of applause, rattling in the evening air, to which the curtain falls. But, being Sun day night, they act their best and most attractive play. And now the sun is going down in such magnificent array of red, and green, and golden light, as neither pen nor pencil could depict ; and to the ringing of the vesper bells, darkness sets in at once, without a tonight. Then l'ghts begin to shine in Genoa, and on the country road; and the revolving lantern out at sea there, flashing for an in stant on this palace front and portico, illuminates it as if there were a bright moon bursting from behind a cloud, then merges it into deep obscurity. And this, so far as know, is the only reason why the Genoese avoid it after dark, and think it haunted. My memory will haunt it many nights in time to come, but nothing worse, I will engage.—Dickenx's Travelling Letters. THE INFLUENCES OF,THE ENGLISH FLAG.—Previous to the occupation of Port Essington, every English vessel that had resorted to the islands lying between Timor and New Guinea had been a• tacked, and, when successfully, the crew massacred ; so that tl:e names of many of the larger islands were associated with outrages committed on our countrymen. The Essington, the first vessel sent out to the islands, was only saved by an accidental occur rence; but no sooner had it become known that the Bri tish possessed a settlement in the neighbourhood (and this occurred within an exceedingly short space of time), than these aggressions suddenly and totally ceased ; and al though 'he number of vessels resorting to these islands is far greater than it had ever previously been, no single act of hostility was ever again committed. Indeed 1 speak advisedly when 1 say that small vessels may now traverse the adjacent seas with greater safety than they can coast the islanchof Java, the oldest established of the European colonies in the Indian Archipelago. 'I he western coasts of New Guinea were never visited by our merchant ships far purposes of trade previous to our establishment in these seas ; but an intercourse has now been opened which bids fair to become a thriving and profitable branch of commerce. The Timor Laut group, again, the nearest to Port Essington of the islands of the Indian Archipelago, was so notorious previous to our arrival, that even the native traders of the Eastern Islands dared not visit it. Vessel after vessel, whether English, Dutch, Chinese, or Macassar, was cut off and plundered ; but the spirit of peace has now extended itself to this important group, and it has became a favourit e resort for traders; an inter course having been established with ports, especially in the southern part of Timor Laut, which were never before frequented. When it is taken into consideration that our manut:ctures form the bulk of the cargoes of all vessels resorting to these remote parts, whether European, Chi rese, or Indian, the circumstances here detailed become interesting. The commerce of these Eastern Islands is little regarded by the mercantile community of this coon. try, simply because its details are not known. The mei., chant loses sight of his goods after they reach Singapore, for even his consignee in that emporium of the further East has only a vague notion of what becomes of a large portion of them. He knows that they are carried away to the eastward by hundreds of small craft, which return, in the course of Lime, laden with valuable produce, but of the particular countries from which it comes he does not often know even the name.—Enterprise in Tropical Aus tralia. E CUSTOMS AND MORALS OF THE SlKHS.—Gooroo Govind banished all distinctions of caste amongst his fol lowers; he granted to the converted (whatever might be Cher belief) equal privileges; and, to cause greater unifor mity, he ordered a peculiarity of clothing and manners. Every one of his disciples was obliged to serve as a sol dier, to carry some kinu of weapon, wear blue garments, and let their hair and beard grow. The Sikhs despise to bacco, because it renders them impute ; and, like the Ilindoos, they hold the bull as holy. But by this spirit of moderation and patience are the Gooroos. their present priests, and the Ak a li s , f ana ti ca l f a kirs, no longer inspired, for the Musselmen can only quietly and secretly conduct thei▪ r religious worship. The Akalis acknowledge 00 su perior ; they only endure their princes, whom they abuse at their pleasure, whose life they would, without any re spect, attempt, if he interfered with any of their projects. They are usually armed with a round iron weapon, which is carried either at the poi n t of the flawing turban, or at thei▪ r side. It consi s t s o f fl a t i ron r i ng s, from eight to fourteen inches in diameter, whose outer edge is exceed ingly sharp, and which they are so skilled in whirling round their finger or a stick, and then darting it at the ob ject aimed at, as to unfailingly sever the bead from the trunk. Sever a l of th ese Ak a li s f orm a peculiar troop in the army of the Maharajah. The Grauth, the Bible of the Sikhs, which con t a i ns th e i r comman dments, is the . sole object of their reverence; iu nearly every village it is to be found placed on a table in a spacious chamber, to which all have access, and where it is u.nal for individuals to enter and read aloud. Altogether their divine worship is characterised by simplicity. At evening they commonly offer up a short prayer, whereupon► they practise exer cises, having reference to their warlike life; grasping their swords violently with both hands, they peritien their Gooroo for victory and the propagation of their f►ith. The wives of the chiefs live in close seclusion, but the few who have been seen by Europeans are of extraordi nary beauty ; they wear high conical caps, richly embroi dered in gold, and ornamented with pr,.eions stones and perils; they also wear trousers, a short tunic open in front, and a shawl lightly thrown over the shoulders and bosom. Morality and chastity ate neither observed by them nor expected from them : it is not unusual for one woman to belong to several brolters. Thus it has of, en happened that the soldiers of Generals Ventura and Allard have requested leave of absence, on the plea that their brothers wives were solitary, and that fraternal duty compelled them ti keep them company until their brothers' return.— Translated from the " Briefe aus Morgenland." GEORGE CANNING'S FIRST POLITICAL fIIAS.-At Eton he first discovered a political bias. The boy was an ardent Whig. His noble poem on " The Slavery of Greece," in one of thsearly numbers of the " Microcosm," shows that he inherited his father's principles, which he knew how to set off with a higher grace. But he gave a more practical proof of his opinions on the occasion of a contested eleCtion for Windsor, when he threw himself boldly upon the popular tumult in opposition to the court nominee. There was ill mistake here. Students who are visited in their dreams by visions of Marathon and Tiler nopy!re, must not be held too strictly responsible for their classical enthusiasm, if it lean (as it always does !) towards the side of public liberty ; but here is a question of the day, between might and right—into which forms such struggles, at that time, but too plainly resolved themselves. And the young politician, with the whole Collected force of his mind, was found battling on the side of the people; speaking, buzzaing, swelling the shout and chorus of the weaker party, which, being the weaker, is Benerally the first chosen of generous and heroic natures. ut how could it be othervtise ? His education had all along been superintended by his uncle, one of the most zealous liberals of the day. His Eton, and alerwards his Oxford vacations, were passed either at his uncle's, or at Mr. Crewe's, or Mr. Legh's, of Cheshire, or amongst the Sheridansall of the same colour. What politics was he likely to hear in such , circles ?—or where could they have been so temptinely presented to his imagination ? His progress, too. was watched with daily interest by Fox, wto calculated upon attaching him to the Whigs ; and he was already looked upon with such conVence as their legitimate property, that Sheridan absolutely announced his coming in the House of Commons.—Bell's Life of Canning. GENERAL MISCELLANY. The new screw for tl.e Great Britain steam-ship weighs seven tons. The English dwarf, Tom Thumb, is to ride Carter's Mammoth horse at Ast ey's. A s) lendid service of elate Ills been rresented to Mr. Githart, the first manag.er of the first joint•stock bank in London. 'I he East India Company have granted £lOO a-year to Master Charles Nott, until he attains the age of 18, for his education. KEEPING A FEROCIOUS DOG.—In a case at Lincoln, a person was fined £25 for keeping a ferocious dog, which attacked and bit the plaintiff, a journeyman smith. At Iluotingdon assizes, on Friday, Eliza Mayeock, a stout surly-looking girl of twenty-one, was convicted of maliciously setting fire to three stacks of corn, hay, &c. Amateur playing seems to be the fashion. It is ex t-nding itself to railway engineers, who have resolved to have a performance at the Theatre Royal, Newcastle. The carpenters and joiners of Leeds have given notice of their intention to strike on the Gth April, unless their wages are advanced 2s. per week. On Thursday a youth aged 17, at Bulmer, Yorkshire, was struck by lightning and instantaneously killed. His face, neck, and body were much scorched. Five men have been committed for trial at Maidstone for a murderous attack on a policeman. They wounded him` so severely that he died shortly afterwards. Birmingham and the populous towns adjacent have been for the last four months constantly and plentifully supplied with good potatoes. FATAL PRIZE FIGHT.—On Wednesday, a prize fight came off at lilyth, between two men named Reily and Ch=ghorn, which proved fatal to the former. By a Treasury Order, bottled strong beer may now be exported .on drawback, in cases containing two dozen quart or two dozen pint bottles, provided the quatiti:y ex ported at any one time be not less than thirty-six gallons. There are building at this time onahe banks of the river Wear 83 ships, and 14 more laying in the river fitting out. and for sale; making a total of 97, many of which are of large burden. Captain Reynolds, Mr. Hunt, a surgeon, and Cornelius Saix, Frenchman, have been committed for trial, at Can terbury, charged with robbing Joseph Hogg of £45, after easing him of about £250 at unlimited 100. The home consumption of foreign spirits in 1814 was 3,237,4 A, and in 1845, 3.544,000 imperial gallons, show ing an increase last year over the previous year of 306,544 gallons. _ The committee appointed to inquire into the present condilion of the Nottingham lace makers, state, " Three hundred men are out of work, three hundred women and fire hundred children want bread." The sum of £15,000 ha' been bequeathed to the Phre nological Society of Edit burgh. by the late Dr. Robert son, of Paris, who died in 1810, and who had taken a wartri interest in the subject for nearly thirty years. Mr. Twyford, for many years a magistrate at the Chief Police-Court, in Bow-street, has resigned his office, and lite.reaignution has been accepted. Mr. Henry, of the Lambeth Police-cnurt, has . been appointed to succeed him. AVROctous ASSAULT.—At Oxford, James Stevens, 48, was sentenced to transportation for life, for a criminal assault on his own daughter, aged 10 years. There was another agai❑st the scoundrel, for a like offence upon an elder daughter, which was not tried. The nett income of the Property and Income Tax, as appears by a Parliamentary paper, published on Friday, was, in the year ending the 5:11 April, 1844, in Great Bri , ain £5,372 7536. 12s. 61d. ; and in the year ending 'the sth April last £5,303.521. IGs. INCREDIBLE CRIME.—AI Durham, on Saturday, V;olet Crawford, for pouring boiling hot water into her husband's ear whilst asleep, whereby he continued in great danger for above a month, was sentenced to be confined in gaol for two years ; three weeks solitary. On Saturday, in • Islington, London, a lady named James, hung herself in her bed room. The cause as signed is that her husband refused to pay for liquors which she was in the habit of getting daily, in revenge for which she destroyed herself. There have been terrible floods in Cumberland, and Westmorland. The rivers Eden, Eamont, Lowther, Peteril, and other streams have overflowed their banks, in consequence of the late heavy rains, and committed great destruction, washing away houses, cattle, &c., and flooding all the country through w hich they flow. DISTURBANCES AT CAMBRIDGE.—For several nights, at the early part of last week, disturbances took place be tween the townsmen and the gownsmen, so that it was unsafe for the latter to walk the streets after dusk. Se veral serious injuries were sustained on both sides, and special constables have been sworn in to keep the peace. Tns: EVANGELICAL ALLI.NCE.—At a meeting a few days since of the heads of the Free Church of Scotland, the majority of the speakers expressed themselves strongly against the alliance, and those who were favourable to it engaged not to do anything to commit the Free Church as a body. AMUSING PRECAUTION.—On Wednesday week, two old ladies travelling from Exeter to London took care, much to the amusement of their fellow-travellers, to sup ply themselves with lanterns, bought expressly for the purpose, the candles of which were duly lighted on their approach to the var:ous tunnels. The house of an elderly lady, residing in London, wl o lived in a wretched state of misery and filth, has been re cently searched, and found to contain in gold, notes, and other property, upwards of £6,000. A commission of lunacy found the old lady of unsound mind ; her lunacy took the form of accumulation. On Tuesday week, a laundry.mlid, named Sarah Ro berts, in the house of Lord Mostyn, at Pengwern, was found at the pump in the yard, burnt to death. It is sup posed that. when her clothes caught fire, she ran to the pump to extinguish the flames, in which, unfortunately, she did not 'succeed. THE HOP TRADE.—The annual hop dinner took place on Wednesday. The sweepstakes for the last year was won by Mr. Brigland. The betting for the present year was in favour of from £160,000 to £1 70.000. In the sweep stakes the numbers ranged from £75,000 to £235,000. — Maidstone Journal. EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE.—At a meeting of the Lon don div i sion of the provisional committee, held on Tues day, upwards of sixty 'ministers and laymen of the esta blished church, and the Wesleyan, congregational, and other evangelical churches, were admitted as members or corresponding members,—in the number, his Grace the Duke of Manchester. SUICIDE.—On Monday morning, a gentleman, named Lamb, a Lyndon merchant. who had been in Lodgings on the King's-road for rather more than a week, cut his throat with a razor, and died instantly. It appears that the unfortunate gentleman, who had been in a low des ponding way, left his wife in bed, and retired to an ante room to commit the act of self-destruction. Great alarm was occasioned among the congregation of the Scotch Church, Birmingham, on Sunday morning weak, in consequence of the floor sinking several inches. The children screamed, and the utmost terror pervaded sill in the body of the dispel, but it has since appeared that there was no real danger. The minister found it ne cessary to dismiss the congregation at once. The Marquis of Downshire has subscribed £1,200 to the funds of a new Fever II ospital, which has been erected it Hillsborough, chiefly at the cost of the Downshire fa mily. The noble Marquis has also promised a liberal annual subscript'on to the corporation, constituted by the Act of George 111., for establishing fever hospitals in Ireland. INVOLUNTARY TRIP.—A small boat was picked up off than one day last week, having some boys on board. They bad been amusing themselves with the boar at Stonehavert, and drifted out to sea. After tossing upon the waves f r a considerable time, without food and with out oars, until they were nearly exhausted, they were for tunately observed and rescued.—Montrose Review. on his way home, hearing a boy crying cigars , BUYING ONE'S OWN. — A small shopkeeper at Bristol, penny,"" three a made a bar gain f ora lot, provided on trying them they suited him. Ile bought a pennyworth, and went for a light ; but on his return missed the vendor. On reaching home, he discovered that three boxes of cigars had been stolen from his own window ; and his mortification was heightened on finding that, instead of a penny, he had given half-a-crown to the thief for three "real Havanners." THE OYSTER FISHERY.—The Jersey oyster fishery is now proceeding joyously, and immense quantities of this highly-prized species of shell-fish are dispatched weekly to London. Early last week nearly 200 boats left the har bour of Gorey on fishing cruises, and fully half that num ber had returned by the end of the week heavily laden. — The charge to the merchants is only 4s. a tub, which is considerably less than the usual price at this season. — Jersey Times. We learn from the Plymouth Herald, that amputation at the hip joint has been successfully performed on a man at the South Devon Hospital. "The arterial compressor was employ. .d on the occasion, and the operation was per formed on the plan recommended in the memoir on the subject, recently published, in a minute and a half, whilst the late Sir A. Cooper, the boldest operator perhaps of of his day, took thirty-five inutes, and afterwards con sidered it the haealest day's work almost that he or his patient had ever undergone." POTATOES.—We learn from several correspondents that in their respective localities, the stocks of potatoes on hand are still considerable, considering the period of the year. From Doncaster, a communication states—" It is a significant fact, thatat our market on Saturday last, there was a more abundant supply of good sound pota toes, both for seed and consumption, than has been seen here for years. They were selling at very moderate prices." In Leeds there is a good supply, and prices are falling.—Leeds paper. FATAL. ACCIDENT FROM FIRE ARMS.—On Thursday, William Robinsor, blacksmith, Alnwick, on cleaning his gun, took the barrel out of the stock, drew the shot and part of the powder. He then put the barrel into his mouth, and blew to ascertain if all the powder was out, when it is supposed some of the grains had been blown out of the touch-hole, and ignited at the candle, firing the remainder in the barrel, by which the inside of his mouth and the skull were much shattered; he died about four o'clock the next morning. —Newcastle Guardian. LARGE WATER-WHEEL.—At the Field Mill, near Mansfield, a new water-wheel has been erected by Mr. Kirkland. for the Duke of Portland, for the use of his tenants, Messrs. Richard Greenbalgh and Sons. The work reflects great credit on the engineer. The wheel measures 40 feet in diameter, and is ll feet broad ; and the weieht of metal used in its construction was about 70 tons. The water is laid on at two levels, conducted in lirge iron pipes, and the power is computed to be equal to that of fifty horses. It drives the whole of the m achinery of that extensise factory. MURDER.—At the assizes at Aylesbury, on Thursday week, before Mr. Baron Alderson, a man, named Francis Fleet, a. farm servant, was found guilty of murder, in having caused the death of Ann Ray, at Dunton, Oxford• shire, by administering to her two crrachtns of corrosive sublimate. It appeared that the prisoner administered the poison for the purpose of causing abortion,. the de ceased being pregnant to him. The jury recommended the prisoner to mercy. The learned judge sentenced him to be banged. A reprieve has since been received for the isoner. The army estimates 14itl before Parliament show us that an increlse is to be made to our land forces of 8,06 u men, exclusive of those employed in the East Indies. The to tal amount of money asked for is .£6,082.901, beirman in cretbe of £103,629 over la-t vesr. An additional 1,000 in men is added to the force in India. The number of men in England, on the Ist of January last, was 29,568; Ire land, 19,631; in our colonies, 37.170; and in India, 26,505 ; making, with recruiting parties, a gland total of 113,577 ; and as the establishment is now to be 123,100 men, we consequently require 2.523 men to be recrui , ed for, beside the supply requisite to make up for the recent ss in India. RAPIDIry IN EQUIPPING A LINE-OR-BATTLE SHIP. One of the greatest achievements in nautical affairs of late years is that which has been per‘ormed by the mew of her majesty's ship Rodney in the rigging and perfecting for sea a line-of-battle ship in the almost incredible space of little more than 48 hours. The Bellerophon, 78, on Mon day last, was a mere hull, without. spars, stores, or arma ment ; and on Wednesday, at mid-day, she was all ataunt, and left harbour for Spithead, a perfect man-of-war, ready for sea. This is certainly a triumph of the skill and energy of British officers and British seamen . His royal highness Prince Albert embarked from Osborne-house in the Fairy steam yacht, and proceeded to Spithead to view the Be lerophon. It would appear that ere long the Atlantic Ocean will be traversed by steamers so as to make the communication at least weekly. A contr,ct has beer, entered into by the Government of the United States with the Ocean Steam Navigation Company, chattered in New York, for the esta blishment of a line of steam ships, to run between New York and Europe. A vessel is to take her departure twice in each month, for Cowes and Bremen. The Govern ment is to pay 400.000 this. per annum for the conveyance of the mail,&c. The vessels are to be not less than 1400 tons burthen, and they are to make their voyages with speed, not less than that of the British and North Ameri can line. The arrangements for building are in active pro gress, and it is expected that the first will be ready to start on the Ist of January, 1847. THE PROSPECT OF THE NEXT CROP OF POTATOES.— " We wish we could say to our readers—there is not so much cause for alarm concerning the next potato crop, and the anticipations of its pending ruin are unfounded. On the contrary, every new fact which comes to light renders the danger more apparent, and we must repeat our warning that there is no certainty that any English or Irish potatoes will be fit for seed. That some will prove good is very probable ; we do not in the least doubt that many persons will have sound crops ; but in the present state of our knowledge it is quite impossible to say who, because sound sets cannot be distinguished from un sound ones, and therefore the cultic !lion of the pa nto is literally reduced to a 'rime. of chance."—Gard,ners' Chronicle. CURIOUS DEATH —On Monday week, a boy, aced 12, who had been in the habit of visiting a quack doctor, _named Jones, at Bilston, for .the purpose of advice, on one of his visits . asked Jones to give him a small syringe, which Jones accordingly did. The boy, on his way home, put the syringe into a pool of water, and afterwards in jected the water down his throat. He also used his teeth for the purpose of unwrapping the worsted which was fastened round the syringe. Soon afterwards his mouth became it,flamed, and he went to Jones for advice. Jones told him that he could do nothing for him, nor could any one else. The boy lingered a few weeks, and then died from mortification of the mouth and throat. It appears that the syringe had been used for medical purposes, and it is believed that some part of the matter remaining upon it produced the mortification. Professor Johnston, at the adjourned monthly meeting I of the Agricultural Association. I.2Jinburch, list week, in reference to the assertion of Professor Lindley, " that diseased sets of potatoes will produce diseased crops," stated that that was an opinion which he considered stronger than the circumstances warranted. He pro ceeded to show that the opinion of Professor Lindley was founded upon potatoes which had been forced, and which gloved unsound like the sets. But the circumstances of potatoes grown in the hot atmosphere and fermenting soil of a forcing-house were widely different from those subjected to the open air. As to seed, Professor John ston said that the variety of potatoes called "cups," if sound, although from a diseased district, would be less likely to fail than sound buffs, flit reds, or lumpers, brought from a district in which no di: ease had hitherto appeared. THE DEATH OF " PUBLIEOLA."—This oracle of the seditious and the infidel, who is less well-known to public fame or infamy by his real name of " David Williams." is, as we learn from the public papers, dead. His peri odical preparations of social and religious poison appeared weekly in one of the Sunday journals, and were eagerly read by the agricultural and manufacturing population. The responsibility incurred is awful to contemplate. The character of the man who so recklessly incurred it may be learned from a single circumstance. He had been for merly in a Government office (we believe in an Audit office) : but for some offence, which we will not stop to particularise, he was compelled to resign his situation. He soon after became a public writer under the above de signation. On being asked by a friend how he was getting on, the astounding reply was—" Excellently ! Blas phemy sells so well !" Such are the republican and athe istical teachers of millions !—Church and Slale Gazelle. CHILD MURDER..—Margaret Stoker, aged 23, a sim ple-looking country girl, was tried before Mr. Just!ce Patteson, at the Durham Assizes, yesterday week. on en indictment charging her with the wilful murder of her fe male bastard child, aged 14 months, at Pittington Hall Garth, in November last, by drowning it. The prisoner was defended by Mr. Serjeant Wilkins, who attempted to prove that she was not conscious, at the time of her putting the child to death, that she was doing a wicked and an immoral act. It seemed that she was in a good deal of distress, owing to the father of the child having neglected to pay towards its maintenance, her step-mother having turned her out, and the overseers of the poor hav ing refused to give her relief. The jury, after a short consultation, returned a verdict of Guilty, with the strongest recommendation to mercy. His lordship pas= bed sentence of death. The t risnner was then removed from the bar, shrieking violently. DISSENSIONS AMONG THEJews.--A "disruption," aays a new religious paper called the Balance," has taken place among the Jews of London, which promises to be -productive of momentous results. It appears that for some time past a feeling has been growing up among the more enlightened and liberal of the English Jews that very great reform ought to be made in the ritual of the synagogue, and that they are not bound to abide by the interpretations given by the rabbis, but are at liberty to put their own construction on difficult passages. As a necessary consequence they repudiate the authority of the Talmud, and resolve to acknowledge no other standard of truth than the law and the prophets. The result has been, that great division, have occurred among the Jew jab congregations in the metropolis. A number of the seceders have opened a new synagogue for themselves in Burton-street. where they steadily meet for worship. Mr. Goldswid, and several of the most influential persons be longing to the Jewish persuasion, have joined the new sect." . _ _ The approaching Birmingham Triennial Musical Festi val, which is fixed to take place in the last wet k of Aug nAt next, is already beginning to excite the attention of the musical public, as one of the most prominent points of intertst of the present year. Her most gracious Ma jesty has bt en pleased to place herself a t th e h ea d o f t h e list of patrons, which is also honoured with the names of his Royal Highness Prince Albert and Her Majesty the Queen Dowager. We understand that the committee are indefatigable in making engagements and arrangements worthy of the occasion, and, amongst others, that they have confided the vrformances to the immedia'e direc torship of Dr. F. Meudelsshon Bartholdy and M. Mos cheles—musicians, whose learning and rare tact as con ductors are good earnest that the determination to have the best music performed in the best possible manner, will be firmly carried out. A new work by Dr. F. Mendels sohn Baitholdy will form one of the leading features on the occasion ; and we trust to be able, ere long, to an nounce such a selection, both of music and executive ta lent, as will mark the forthcoming meeting as one of the most successful that has yet taken place. March 17, fga TROOPS FOR INDIA.—The Duke of Wellington hos expressed it as his opinion that, in justice to regiments of the line, the Cu trds ought not to remain entirely free from foreign service particularly as their field tactics were acknowledged to be so superior. The battallions in ques tion have sinee c , ived intimation that they will not be placed on the India:. batta just yet. The destination of the 24th Foot has been altered from New South Wales to India. The 47th (Lanc , s l ,ire) bead-quarters at Chester will replace the 24th at Cork. FAT - AL BOILER ExPLostoN.—On Wednesday night? the boiler at Brook's Foundry, Halifax, exploded with terrific effect. The pre m ise s were i n th e occupati.in of Mr. BettielL Hanson, who, it appears, being dissatisfied with the speed of the nigine, found fault with a boy em ployed there, for not ;keeping up the steam sufficiently, and fired up himself, using some very strong expressions. He had just retired from the fire-place to speak to the book-keeper, Mr. John Tayler, when the explosion took place. Ti.e boiler was a circular or cylindrical one, with flat ends, 9 feet ling and 3't. gin. in diameter. The end next the fire-place was forced completely out, and broken in two at the rivets; half of it was projected to a distance of 28 feet; the other half had not been fouad. It is supposed that the half first mentioned had struck Mr. Hanson and Mr. Taylor. The latter was dead when found, his bead smashed to pieces, his thigh broken, and the bone protruding through his clothes. Mr. Hanson was alive when fuund ; he was much disfigured, having been extensively scalded by steam or hot water; and be only lived twenty minutes. POPISH APPROVAL OF, AND INVITATION TO, Da. Pusr , Y.—ln tt;e , aay of testimony to the imperative ne nessity of auricular confession as a remedy for national corruptions Dr. l'usey's sermon is full of value. " Every where around (he truly says) our crowded cities, our mines, our manufactories, are one wide desolation, often. except on the suspension of punishment, the types of hell." (P. 65.) Again : he has no doubt that, " humanly speak ing, in most cases, early confession would, by the blessing of God, hare saved (hardened sinners) from their sin and misery." (Preface. p. siii.) Let Dr. Pusey read the fate of his own well-intentioned but utterly chimerical schemes in a married clergy, in a secularised hierarchy, la a pampered Establishment—let him candidly admit the real cause of the disease, thcugh it make out against his cause—let him attack the evil at its root, not ..ontent him self with lopping off the decayed branches. This he can not do where he is; but he knows where h e ma y do it. Why will he linger among the children and sit solitary, to whom nature hits given the spirit of a hero, arid the strength of a giant ? Why waste his time in building card-houses, and his breath in intl ding bubbles, who so plainly is n - narked vitt for a great work in an evil time?--' Tubb t (Roman Catholic paper). LONDON GAZET7E.-TUESDAY, MARCH 10. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED W. F. and R. Brand. Wigan, Lancashire, linen and woollen drapers—J. B. Robeit?. and E. Chzetham, Sheffield, stockbro kers—haw brothers, Leeds. machine rnakers—Higg anti Boy ke:t. Liverpool, slaters—J. Travis and Co.. Coupe and Leech, Ltrica , hire, woollen printers—J. Hopwood and Co., Barnsleir Yorkshire, coal master.—G. Grim'ey and W. I. irkby, Notting' ham. hoot manof cturers—Perry and Latew,rd, Wolv:,rhaulP ton, citi.ch builders—T. :Aleph ird and 'l'. Pye, Snelton, neat Nottingham, lace makers—Donaldson and Dixon, Mark-lane. DFCLARATIONS OF DIVIDENDS. J. Mann. Warwick. grocer C. Ca ter. Saddin ton, Leicestershire, miller. G. Last, Birmingham, general merchant. J. Tom!in and W. Man, St. Michael's-alley, Cornhill, mer chants. J. Wartraby. Adam's-court, Old Broad-street, and Lee, mat Lewisham. shiphroker. T. P. Lucas, Long Buckby and Leamington Priors, coach proprietor. J. Thorn, New Brentford and Treat Ealing. paper hanger. G. Thomson and J. Forbes, Crutched friars, corn tactors. G. and W. Neel, Termyn-street. boot makers. B. Todhunter, mincing -lane, drysalter. B. B. Cross, New t% co stock, Oxfordshire, glover. G. Chapman, Pullin's-place, Islington, cowkeeper. G. Maywood, Luton, Bedfordshire, bricklayer. J. B. Hucklee, Kidderminster, mercer. T. It. Creigh, Newca-tle-upon•Tyne, cartwright. BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED. Joseph Col:inson, Allerton and Bradford, Yorkshire, wonted spinner. BANKRUPTS. William Dale. Liverpool, bricklayer, March 20. April /7.. at the Liverw,ol District Court of Bankruptcy. l 4 olicitor, Mr. Jones, Liverpool; official assignee, Mr. Tur..er, 1 iverpool. Richard Foulkes, Nortlinp, FlintstAre, catt , e salesman, March 20, April 14, at the Liverpool District Court of Bankruptcy. So- Fcitor, Mr. Almond, Liverpool; cfficial assignee, Mr. Morglu l . Liverpool. harks Goldsmith, Bristol. saddler. Thomas Harding, Lichfield, schoolmaster. Anthony Nichol, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, shipbroker. John Rayner. Stanning ey, Yorkshire, cloth manufacturer. John Blundell. Wigan, pawnbroker. William Frederick Brew:ger, late of Bath, chymist. William John Menden, Salmon's-lane, Limehouse, tailor. Samuel Pritchett and Joseph Peckover Oridge, Charlbury , Oxfordshire. glove ma ufacturers. Edward Morgtin, Lissou-street, St. tilarylebone, coach builder. Joseph Sewell, Great Dunmow, Essex, grocer. William Jamei Harris, High-street, Southwark, tailor. William Harding, Edwards-street, Portman square, and else where, turner. • DIVIDENDS. March 2n. J. Kent, Stowrnarket. Suff. .Ik. beer brewer—March 21, G. Graham, T. Adams, and M. B. Macfarlane, CheapsPe. ca:ico printers—March 31, J. Batchelor, Bath, butcher—A. ril 4,' W. Newton, Bath, coal merchant—April 2, G. Brooke. noniron. Devonshire, banker—Aprq 3, A. and F. Atkinson, Newcastle upon-Tyne, colour manufacture• P. CERTIFICATES To be granted, un!ess cause he shown to the contrary on • the day of meeting. On March 31 J. Warre n , G eorge -street, Hanover-square. sur ge , dentist—April 3; E. Et eeter, Bristol, builder—April 3, 1 '- ,„„. gard, New Ew e t, D u: h am. teacher of music- April 2. • .7 . Fpence, Newcestl,-tipon-Tyne, woollen•draper- April 2 3-c, , Denbigh. Bractiord,• Yorkshire, wool merchant—nPri i Vi• 'reel Platt, Sh.ffie d and Don aster, printer—; prd 3, T. C. 'V and G. Homan, :Manchester, merchants —April 7 . F . Vi 12(;clidale, c,tton manufacturer—Ap• it 1; J2rielse - y, Manchei ter, joiner —April 1, T. Findley, Manchester, plasterer. CERTIFICATES To be granted by the Court of Review, unless cause be shown to the contrary on or before March 31. J. M' Lean, Sun street, Bishopsgate.street- without, statuary • —J Brown, liornsey.rdad, builder—G. Hind, Bishop's Wei tham, Hampshire, draper—E. :Smith. Southwell, Nottingham shire, innkeeper—J. Gainer, Stonehquse, Gloucestershire, dyer • SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. J. M'Leod, Glasgow, canwright. FROM THE LONDON GAZIITTR OF FRIDAY. PA KTNEKSIIIPS DISSOLVED. W. Parkinson and 3. Lord, Liverpool, cotton brokerS- - T. Bromfield and J. Overton, Liverpool, tobacco manufacturers -- W. Dawson awl J. !Loft n, Bolton le-Moors, Lancashire. reed ' - makers—lt. Lawton and T. Walker. Rochdal e , L ancas hi re. car d makes—W. F. Ferguson, G. Oswald, H. Seal, and G. Oli ver , 111.:dachester. • DECLA RATIONS OF DIVIDENDS. D. Selden and W. Hynde, Liverpool, merchants, Wednesday' 25th arch, or any subsequent Wednesday, at the office of Mr• Morgan. Liverpool. D. L. Walker, R chdale, woolle i manufactnrers. B. Thornily, 13roadbottom, Cheshire, grocer. J. Marlar.d.jun., Todmordeu, Lancashire, roller maker. BANK ItUPTS. Jose h Scholetleld, Cheapside. cutler. Miles Griffith and Philip Pearson, New Bond-street, tailor& Thomas Hubert, Hunge',ord.market, Strand, corn merchan t ' Joseph Ellis West and Henry Tennant, Leed:, stock broker David Broadhead and Au g u s t us J o h n H aler°, Lee d s , stoc brokers. Aaron Shipton a^ d Joseph Wise Jenkins, Painswick, Gloa cestershire. cl. filers. Thomas Sutton, jun., Atherstone, Warwicksi ire, draper. illiam Hardin;, tuck port, Cheshire, cotton manutacturet• DIVIDENDS, April 6, T. L. Ev;11 and T. Dowglass, Vigo.st , cot. Rege n t street. London, cLith manutacturers—Apr.l 7, D. Frocsclllea and S. Price. Dover-street, Piccadilly. ta•lors—April 7. E. Lcrn an and T. K. Buy ,o, Upper 'I harnes.street. London, wharfinge r , 6 ,,; April 7, R. M'Entire. Paternoster row, London, agent—Aprilcornroistvr 3, B. Marshall, high Holborn, London, melter—April 3. J. Evans. High-street, Shoreditch, chee - 1 monger—April g, H. J. Andrew Plymouth, apothecary — AN ori. 4. S. South. • pittlegate, L•nco nahire, malster—April 6, J. 'ins, Salford, Lancashire, common brewer—April 7,J. gale, Manchest,r, innkeeper. CERTIFICATES To be grated, unless cause be shown to the contrary 00 t he day of meeting. April 6, W. Ward, Manchester, auctioneer—April 3, J. Red'tier, Rougham, Norfolk, victualler—April 3, E. Wool,ey an d d, Hare, Bristol, drapers—April 3, F. Dixon, Long-lane. B erin n . R. soy, Pin Tier —April 3 , J. ClearY , Church-road. De Bea u V t 9, square. builder —April 6, .1 Brown, Liverpool, joiner—AP.,...e.. J. Sykes, Doncaster. hosier—April 4. T. INA, jun., Stourbn .. ..l.; builder—April a. C. Barb r, Denham springs, Lancashire , ea l i r. proiter—Ap, il 3, W. Senior, She ffi eld, hosier—April 3, ,L Br°? 0 :. Uooderstone. Norfolk, miller—April 3, C. D. Wilson, sav ing s place, Mile-end, London, builder—April 3, T. K. Bryan, u 195 Thames street, London, villa' fingers. SOLVENT PETITIONER. S. W. Orri'ge, East street, 3ed Lion-square, London. tCOTCFI SEQUESTRATIO S. Robert Stevensen, musl.n manufacturer, Glasgow Joh Robertson, iron merchant. Glasgow James Fleming. bo ,t and shoe maker % Dumfries RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. (From I lie Railway Magazine of Salurday•l__-- ~,,st , Passer]. Cor.Wk• .' ,..;f. NAME. I gets. Money. —..--. ------, 6 Arbroath and Forfar Birmingham and Gloucester.. -- 54 Chester and Birkenhead .... I 557 434 A Dnblin and Drogheda ' 37187 Cni 523 9 Dublin and K 8336 ' 6:tl ingstown ........„.. ..,m• • 618 4 Dundee ai,d Arbroath Durham and Sunderland Edinburgh and Glasgow Eastern Counties.... Glasgow and Ayr 1;800 1952 1 544 li Glasgow and Greenock 14!92 807 7 1 7 -- Grand Junction* — ...- Gra% escnd and Rochester 6184 153 -- Great North of England Great Western Hull and Selby.. ' -- 5 Ilartlepool Dock and Rail. Liverpool and Manchester London ana Birmingham — 33456 27012 984 London 'and Blackwall 43264 712 69 51 London and Brighton London and Croydon 1490 1196 SU , ...... London and Greenwich — ....... g London and Southwestern Manchester. Bolton, and Bury 937 87 4 f Manchester and Birmingham. 3967 3279 Manchester and Leeds and i Hull Associated Midland Counties ~ Newcastle and Darlington Newcastle and Carlisle . 2 05 27 y 6 Newcastle and North Shields 19411 40 3 Norfolk i o North Union — —12 i " '7 6 Parrs and Orleans 4. 41 42 I a Paris and Rouen 17276 5897 119 ..- Preston and Wyre Sheffield and Manchester • 1656 f 3 t 37 p 5 South Eastern .... ..... 13544 5159 , n 1 A Taff Vale .. Ulster — 581 if Yarmouth and NOrwich York and North Midland__ , 14637 459 3 * See London and Birmingham- 4 9 4 1 6 6 11 1 0 2 0 51 0 Port AR lilli SA' , chu Lane Anti; Thy Uzell An n ARRI Gra mi , 'No w y C alcutl and Liabun; (>1 7ti i %!, e n FbGU In , 4 'eve t SN Mo ri With Ural. 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