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THE EXILE POETRY AT CULLODEN 4 Minstrelsy.) ,t on the waters, there was darkness on the d up the Moray Firth sufferer on the rack most deeps were ie stunning thunder eerie:; at the whee .st was hid in still they bore upon 1 them, 'essel tlley could n they landed on the shore Wait here for me the sun has lett the sca ianly vigour, though his lips were ashen white, re early furrows, in his eyes a clouded light; thal and hasty, through thy• blinding mi-t so sure iimselt by dawning on a wide and lonesome muir, .es and undulations, barren both of house and twas Culloden where he stood n it well aforetime—not, as now, so drear and stir with battle's horror,—reeling with destruction's riot peacefully uriconscions I and exiled Was unmann'd to see its ca mness, weeping weal.l,* as a child ; And a thought arose of madness, and his han was on his sword— But he crush'd the coward impulse, and he spake the bitter word ; here, 0 sons of Scotland—ye who perish'd for your king! sty wreaths bet, re me I can see your tartans swing— slogan, comrades, who to Saxon never knelt; ye, with the fortunes of the Celt ! Oh I that fhad died among " There he rode, our princely warrior, and his features wore the deep foreboding as the First one of his name ; y as his sunset, though no Scot his life betray'd ; in bloody glory, than go down in shame and shad, Better plunge " Stormy hills, did ye pro`ert him, that o'erlook Culloden's plain Dabbled with the heather hlo , soms red as life-drops of the slain Did ye hide your hunted children from the vengeance of the foe; Did ye rally back the flying for one last despah inc. blow ? No! the kingdom is the Saxon's, and the humbled clans obey, And our bones must rot in exile who disdain usurper's sway. He is sunk in wine's oblivion for whom Highland blood wir shed. Whom the wretched cateran Olen- ..ed, with a price upon hi Beaten down like hounds by scourging, crouching from their Master's sight And I tread my native mountains, as a robber, in the night; Spite of tempest, spite of danger, hosti e man and hostile sea, Gory field of sa,, Culloden, I have come to gaze on thee I" So he pluck',l a tuft of heather that was blooming at hi, foot, That was nourish'd by dead kinsmen, and their bones were at its roots ; With a sigh to took the blossom, and he strode unto the strand, Where his Danish crew awa ted with a motley .her band; Brief the parley, swift his sailing with the tide, and ne'er again Saw the Moray Firth the stranger or the schooner of the Dane. NOTICES. THE MAGAZINES AND PERIODICALS Blackwo9d's Magazine.—Ttiis periodical for the pre sent month is rich in interesting matter. Amongst the best papers are—" New Scottish Plays and Poems" ; " The Death of Tumulacarregue," by Li Put.-Col. How den; and " The Last Recollections of Napoleon." We may, however, be committing injustice by making a se lection where all is excellent. The Fortunes of Turlogh O'Brien increases in inte at. We gave a r•tirring extract in our last. The Dublin University Magazine for this month con tains some excellent articles. Of " Irish Rivers—the Shaunln," we have three more chapters, full of beauty of description, and most tantalising to the lover of fine scenery and antiquarian reliques. Carleton's " Black Prophet " is thus far equal to any of his p-ist tales; and we have also some excellent poetry and criticism. In our last publication we extracted largely from this fa vourite periodical. The Knight of Gwynne, by Lever, in this number sbews us this fine specimen of an " old Irish gentleman" submitting gracefully to his fallen fortunes. We scarcely know, however, whether to give the palm to the Knight or to his friend Mr. Bagenal Daly. It is a treat, in these days of namby-pambyism and its opposite, downright Vandalism, to meet with sketches such as these, which Make us proud of our fellow -countrymen, even amidst palpable evidences of their failings and weaknesses. VARIETIES. " If I am not home from the party to-night at ten o'clock," said a husband to his better and bigger half, " don't wait for me." " That I won't," repl'ed the lady significantly, " I won't wait, but I'll come for you." The gentleman returned at ten o'clock precisely. We learn our virtues from the hos-sin friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real form from a friend ; he is a mirror on which_the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness ONE OF ERSKINE' s PUNS : —He fired off a double bar- intering his friend Mr. May/ern, at Rams gate. The latter observed that his ph% sician bad ordered him not to bathe. " Oh, then." said Erskine, "you are Malurn prohibition." "My wife, however," resumed the other, " does bathe." " Oh, then," said Erskine, perfectly delighted, " she is Mahon in ae." USEFUL RECIPES.-To take Stains out of Ivory : —Make a light paste of sal-volatile, preparceirotrattaireere oil; rub on the ivory with leather ; afterwards put a little more on. and leave it to dry, then brush it off.—To Clean Mother of Pearl :—Wash it in whitin 4 and water; soap destroys the brilliancy —To Clean Japanned or Papier Machle Artic'es : —Warm water should never be used, as it is apt to crack the varnish. Olive oil applied with the hand will speedily remove slight scratches. A PATTERN FOR WIVES.—The spider has been shame fully abused. He is tbe most wonderful little body for industry, domesticity, cleanliness, and economy. Look at him! How contentedly he keeps at borne, always to be found in the middle of his humble circle! How indefati gably he carries every thing before him, running, inces aantly, from one corner to another, spinning night and day, almost wearing himself to a thread, with the proud endeavour of making both ends meet. Pretty spinster, how I reverence thee! —Almanack of the Month. A short time ago a shipowner, in getting away a vessel, had considerable trouble with one of his men, who had got rather top-heavy on his advance wages. After the vessel had accomplished her voyage, on settling with the crew. it Came to this man's turn for settlement. " What name?" asked the merchant. " Cain,sir," was the reply. "What !" rejoined the merchant, "are you the man who slew his brother?" "No, sir," was the ready and witty reply of Jack. giving his trousers a hithch, with a knowing wink, " I am the man that was stewed." re when c As Goon AS IF IT WERE .rEsoP.—The Nantucket Islander says the following story was told by a reformed inebriate as an apology for much of the folly of drunkards : . . —" A mouse running about a brewery, happening to run into a vat of beer, was in imminent danger of drowning, and appealed to a cat to help him out. 'I he cat replied, 'lt is a foolish request, for as soon as I get you out I shall eat you.' The mouse replied, that fate would be better than to be drowned in beer. The cat lifted him out, but the fume of the beer caused puss to sneeze, and the mouse took refuge in his hole. The cat called on the mouse to come out—' You sir, did you not promise me that I should eat you?' Ah,' replied the mouse, ' but you know I was in liquor at the tin,e." THE SABBATH —The keeping of one day in seven holy, as a relaxation and refreshment, as well as for public worship, is of admirable service to the state, considered merely as a civil institution. It humanises, by the help of society and conversation, the manners of the lower classes, which would otherwise degenerate into a sordid ferocity, and savage selfishness of spirit : it enables the industrious workman to pursue his occupation in the en suing week with health and cheerfulness ; it imprints on the minds of the people that sense of their duty to God so necessary to make them good citizens, but yet which uld be worn out and defaced by an unremitting conti ance of labour, without any state d time for calling them Maker.—. Blackstone. to the wore Me Do w understand the use of the They were ev iiiontly never cbey promise to become ex late warm weather we ob on their hind legs drinking like to have their water like he fountain." There is no gar•Equ served se v out of the 1 dogs standing sin. The dogs ;er• beer, doubt t preventives against )y, ugly as they are, we only em in the metropolis. Notices tten up, directing the canine species to Tra- ropliobia, and we 1 there were more of V 1,1 1 falgar-square, with directions, to avoid confusion, that " they are to sit down with their beads towards Pall mall, and to take up with their tails on a line with the lion's at the top of Northumberland liouse."—Punch. A WELSH .JUDGE.—Mr. Mitford was also appointed a judge for three of the counties in South Wales, and made the circuit for a year or so to deliver empty gaols, and dispose of such stray cases as could be caught. These Welsh judges had sufficient leisure to be great sticklers for their dignity, of which Edgeworth gives an amusing example :—" My grandfather, the Welsh judge, travelling over the sands at Beaumaris, as he was going circuit, was overtaken by the night and by the tide : his coach waz set fast in a quirkstand ; the water soon rose into the coach, and his registrar and some other attendants crept out of the windows and climbed to the, roof. The judge let the ' d with becoming gravity re eaties of his attendants, I 1 if you can quote any precedent -box.' "—Townsend's ry lips, for a jud Lives of 2 'ye Eminent J ...I,,ALING A COIN.---" I was one day sauntering," said friend C--, " by the tomb of Cecilia Metella, when a peasant came up with a handful of very dirty.lookirtg coins, so firmly encrusted with mortar, that it seemed ab surd to attempt its removal. Having nothing particular to do, and liking the wild quiet of the spot, I gave some haiocchi' to the man ; and taking my seat on a bit of the old aqueduct, 1 opened my penknife and began to scrape away. At first I saw the trace of a letter; and digging round it, lat length disinterred a large M—a Homan M! It was probably Maximin, or his son Maximus, that I then had under my thumb •, but it rnighl be a Marinas, in which case it was a valuable coin; so I wrought on with renewed vigour, and presently an L was in the field. A better prospect this than the last ; for if it turned out to be an LEmilianns, I should have made a good morning's work of it—and it was so! Little by little, line by line, grain by grain, I opened the field, till C. Julius ./Ernilia nug, Pontiff: Max: in a full epigraphe, shone forth with t h e imperial head in full relief, all in the bright emerald patina. I have seen several l Ernilianuaes, but none like penny."—Bla c k woo d' s Meg. that; and it cost me only a MRS. TODGERS AND HER FIGHTING SON.—There was a lady, living at Heidelberg, a kind of Mrs. Todgers, who kept a lodging and eating house, and had a table d'hote, where many of the students used to dine. Her cookery, which at first was tolerably good, by degrees be gan to degenerate, and at last grew so intolerable, that al though her dinners were the cheapest in the city, her cus tomers, one by one, deserted her, and at length she was formally put under the ban by the chore who used to fre quent her establishment. But the Frau Heximar fortu nately posses , ed a strapping son, who haprened to be a . _ remarkably good swordsman, and he very significantly gave several members of the chore to understand, that unless they returned to his mother's banquets, he would be under the disagreeable necessity of taking compulsory measures. This threat had the desired effect ; for a few cf the junior members who had not had time to become very cunning of fence, grew frightened—they returned. The cook, anxious to retrieve her credit, put forth all her skill; a favourable report was brought back to the kneipe, and Madame Hexirnar's table was as much crowded as ever.—Dublin University Magazine. THE MOON IN LORD Ross E's TELESCOPE.—With re spect to the moon, every object on its surface of the height of one hundred feet was now distinctly to be seen ; and, he had no doubt, that under very favourable circumstances it would be so with objects sixty feet in height. On its surface were craters of extinct volcanoes, rocks, and masses of stones almost innumerable. He had no doubt whatever that if such a building as he was then in were upon the surface of the moon, it would be rendered dis tinctly visible by these instruments. But there were no signs of habitations such as ours—no vestiges of architec tural remains to show that the moon is or ever was in habited by a race of mortals similar to ourselves. It pre sented no appearances which could lead to the supposition that it con . ained anythin g like the green fields and lovely verdure of this beautiful world of ours. There was no water visible—not a sea or a river, or even the measure of a reservoir for supplying town or factory ; all seemed desolate. Hence would arise the reflection in the mind of the Christian philosopher—Why had this devastation been ? It might be further inquired—Was it a lost world ? Had it suffered for its transgression? Analogy might sug gest the question. Had it met the fate which Scripture has told us was reserved for our world? It was obvious that all this was mysterious conjecture.—Dr. Scoresby's Lecture on Astronomy. ZUMALACARREGUI possessed great courage, but be made no show of it. It would have been more brilliant if be had had more vanity ; and the exposure of his person was always subservient to some object of utility. He had a comprehensive view of the military movements, but he never forgot the peculiar nature of his warfare ; and he never ambitiously allowed himself to be carried away by plans or manoeuvres beyond the exigencies of his posit - ion - . As an administrator in forming reserves, in procuring sup plies, in discovering resources, in bringing raw b ttralions to a state of rough efficiency in the shorteBt possible time, he was unriralled ; yet his mind was not cramped by de tail, and when he descended to minute matters, it was be cause they were really important. H e was severe and in flexible, even taciturn and morose; yet he was extremely loved by his troops. At the time that he was comman der-in-chief, commissary-general and treasurer, and that all the sums of money, raised or sent, passed through his hands without a check or a receipt, there never was a breath raised against the purity of his moral character. These certainly are the elements out of which great gene ral. are made; and it is not irrational to think that, under o►her circumstances, the same man, this Navarre's , . guer rillero, far superior as such to the brave but improvident Mina, or the active but dull Jauregui, might have ex panded into a European hero, and have left a less perish able name.— Blackwood's Magazine. THE COD FISHERY IN NEW BRUNSWICK.—The cod fish caught and cored on the shores of Gaspe are gene rally of small size, but are much liked in foreign markets, from their being well preserved. This arises from the fish being caught near . the shore, and being split and salted while perfectly fresh and firm. The process of cleaning the fi,h is carried on in a very neat and expedi tious manner. The boats, as soon as they rel urn from the fishing bank, run alongside a stage, which is built over the water, on which they are thrown out. The first twin who handles the fish cuts the throat with a single stroke of his knife; then he slides it along a sort of table to another, who whips off the head, and drops it, with the entrails, through a hole in the table into the water be neath, retaining only the liver, which is thrown into a tierce to make oil. The next man splits the fish, and takes out the bone ; and on the manner in which these ope rations are performed, in a great measure depends the quality of fish for market. When split, the fish are car ried to a large covered building, where, after being well washed, they are rubbed with salt, and placed in little flat piles on the floor to drain ; after being sufficiently struck with salt, tbey are carried to the shingle beach to dry, or, where there is no beach, are spread on long nar row wicker frames, or stages set up for the purpose. The labour of spreading ani, turning the fish is incessant and severe: they require to be frequently turned to prevent their being scorched by the sun, or salt. burnt. The per son who turns does so in a systematic manner, with his right and le t hand alternately, so that no one fish in thousands may be missed. After the fish are sufficiently cured, they are collected and laid in small circles, with the tails outwards; these circles are continually built upon, each row being larger than the one below it, until the pile is about three feet high, when the circles begin to diminish, so as to form a conical roof; this is covered with birch-bark, and stones are laid upon it. The piles are thus rendered impervious to the heaviest rains, and in this position the fish are left to season before being packed for exaortation.—Echoes from the Backwoods, RUSSIAN CIVILISATION..--" Peter the Great," says Mackintosh, " did not civilize Russia : that undertaking was beyond his genius, great as it was; he only gave the tempted what was altogether impracticable. No one man can at once civilize a nation : he can only pot it in the way of civilization. To complete the fabric must be the work of continued effort and sustained industry during many successive generations. That Peter failed in rendering his people on a level with the other nations of Europe in refinement and industry, is no reproach to him. It was impossible to do so in less tban several centuries. The real particular in which he erred was, that he departed from the national spirit, that he tore up the national in stitutions, violated in numerous instances the strongest national feelings. He clothed his court and capital in European dress • but men do not put off old feelings with the costume of their fathers. Peter's civilisation extended no further than the surface. He succeeded in inducingan extraordinary degree of discipline in his army, and the ap. pearance of considerable refinement among his courtiers. But it is easier to remodel an army than change a nation ; and the celebrated boa-mot of Diderot, that the Russians were " rotten before they were ripe," is but a happy ex pression, indicating how much easier it is to introduce the vices than the virtues of civilisation among an unlettered people. To this day the civilisation of Russia has never descended below the higher ranks; and the efforts of the real patriotic czars who have since wielded the Muscovite sceptre, Alexander and Nicholas, have been mainly di rected to get out of the fictitious career into which Peter turned the people, and revive with the old institutions the true spirit and inherent aspirations of the nation. The immense success with which their efforts have been at tended, and the gradual, though still slow descent of civi lization and improvement through the great body of the people, prove the wisdom of the principles on which they have proceeded. Possibly Russia is yet destined to afford another illustration of the truth of Montesquieu's maxim, that no nation ever yet rose to durable greatness but through institutions in harmony with its spirit. And in charity let us hope that the words of Peter on his death bed have been realised :—" I trust that, in respect of the good I have striven to do my people, God will pardon my _ . . . . sins. 7, —Blackwood's Magazine. THE FAMILY OF BACH, THE COMPOSER.—in the Bach family, musical instinct was hereditary. Through six generations it would be difficult to find two members of it who did not make music the business of their lives. A baker of H ungary was the patriarch of this fertile tribe, the luxuriant stem whence sprung so many wonderful shoots. At the commencement of th. sixteenth century, disturbed by the religious wars, Veit Bach abandoned Presburgh, carrying with him all he could save out of his small fortune, and reached 'Thuringia, hoping to fii.d there an asylum and protection. He settled at Wechmar, a small village at no great distance from Gotha, where he resumed, at the same time, his profession and his long_ neglected musical studies. Rey any he took his lute into his mill, cud accompanied on it the sacred melodies which be sang, in the midst of the noise of the millstones and wheels. Veit Bach sowed in the souls of his two sons the seeds of harmony, which they transmitted to their children in such a degree, that there soon resulted thence a musical family in possession of the most impor tant posts in almost all the provinces or Thuringia Baths were not all nom of Certainly t nius ; yet, each generation, two may at least be found who distin guished themselves. The members of the Bach family always preserved a tender attachment for one another ; as they could not all dwell together, and yet wished to maintain their frank and loyal friendship, they instituted the custom of meeting once a year in an appointed spot. When, later, the family had grown more numerous, and was dispersed out of Thuringia into Upper Saxony, France, and Italy. this annual meeting subsisted never theless. The place of rendezvous was generally Urfurt, Eisenbach, or Arnstadt. According to the habit of that period of sanctifying all things by religious practices, di rectly after the first embrace., they sang a chorus, It was at first a grand and majestic chant, a thanksgiving to God who permitted them to find one another happy and in good health ; and the music then became sad and slow, and all knelt down to pray for their deceased relatives; then all arose, and the chorus ended by a hymn, in which the fathers called down all the blessings of Heaven on the heads of their children. No stranger was admitted to gaze on this first effusion of love, and the peolle of the inn, who, attracted by the noise, came to listen at the door, could not hear without emotion the harmonious concert of so many voices of the same family ; for in the same way that the Bachs resembled one another in vigour of body and in features, so their voices, without being perfectly sim;lar, had amongst them resemblances which were striking, especiall when hearing the weak and shrill voice of the child rising up with that of its father, which sustained it in harmony, as the sparrow sustains in the air its little ones whose feathers are beginning to grow. Af ter this pious beginning they sat down to table, and sup ped joyously. At the end of the repast, music recom menced—only hymns gave way to national songs, for these men first remembered they were Christians, then Germans—after God their native land. These choruses set the whole town in commotion; the passers-by col lected in groups round the house. The officious inn keeper introduced, with an air of protection, those who sent their incomes most assiduously in his house, and left the others waiting in vain at the door. It has been said that the Bacha had improvised at these meetings se veral airs which have since become popular. We think that they merely varied them, as the primitive ideas of these rat lo lies are to be found in a s olection printed at Nienna inls42.—Freeer's Magazine. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SUDDEN DEATH OF LORD CHIEF JUSTICE TINDAL. it is with feelings of the most unmitigated regret we have to announce the melancholy fact of the sudden de mise of that excellent and universally-csteemed lawyer, Sir Nicholas Conyngham Tindal, Knt., many years Lord Chief Jus'ice of the Common Pleas, which event took place at Folkstone, on Tuesday night, at half-past seven o'clock, in the presence of his son, Captain Tindal, seve ral members of his family, and his medical attendant, Dr. Pennington. _ . By this event the new Whig government have had placed at their disposal an important piece of_ patronage ; and Sir Thomas Wilde has, on the very eve of his seeking to be re-elected for the borough of Worc;!stt!r, been placed in the vacant Chief-Jusiiceship. The following particu lars of the career of the deceased may interest our readers : Sir Nicholas Conyngham Tindal was in the 70th year of his age, having been born in 1776. It is also generally supposed that he was a native of Buckint. , hanishire; but of this there can be no doubt, that he is descended from an old Essex family, and that his father, Robert Tindal, who was a solicitor, resided for many years, if not the whole of his life, at Chelmsford, in Essex. Alter the usual course of school education, he entered at Trinity College, Cam bridge, in the year 1795, and within four years of that pe riod—in 1799—he took the degree of A.B , and that of A.M. in 1802. In the former year he was eighth wran gler and senior Chancellor's - nedal-list. In the month of October, 1801, he was elected a fellow of his college, and held the fellowship for eight years. Immediately after taking his master's degree, he became a student of Lin- coln's-inn, by which society he was eventually called to the bar. His connexion wii h Lincoln's-inn probably gave rise to the common error that he nad been a Chancery barrister ; but, on the contrary, his practice was limited to the common law courts. Shortly after his admission to Lincoln's-inn, he entered upon practice with very consi derable success as a special pleader, and Lord Brougham was among the number of his pupils. There can be no question that a young law student could hardly have cho sen a safer guide, for a man more thoroughly learned than Mr. Tindal even then was, in every department of the law, could scarcely be found within the range of the profession ; and he was especially celebrated for what is called " black letter learning." His high re putation brought him so many clients that at a very early age he thought it safe to go to the bar, and accord ingly we find that he was called in Trinity Term, 1809. In the same year he married the youngest daughter of the late Captain Thomas Symonds, R.N., and, of course, re signed his fellowship. A numerous family were the issue of this marriage. but the wife of Sir Nicholas died many years ago. In the Court of King's Bench, and on the Northern Circuit, every year brought Mr. Tindal addi tional reputation as a lawyer, but very little fame as an advocate. He was never at a loss for a case; he could always expound a principle; he could give the history of any statute, and with great perspicuity set forth its pro visions; he could argue any point, however apparently hopeless, and impeach the validity of any legal document. however apparently sound ; but a knavish witness could elude his examination, and an apathetic jury were never warmed by his eloquence : yet he had what the profession calls a " capital business ;" and a large income rewarded his learning, his industry, and his high reasoning faculties. The natural process by which lawyers seek advancement in their profession is to get into parliament. Mr. Tindal, however, enjoyed a distinguished opportunity of appearing before one house of parliament long before his election as a member of the other. A bill of pains and penalt'es was preferred against the Queen and George IV., aml in one of the most extraordinary proceedii gs that our history records Mr. Tindal was called upon to bear his part. He, conjointly with several others, was counsel for the Queen. How far his astuteness and knowledge ren dered him an efficient assistant to Her Majesty's Attorney- General was a matter not very apparent at that period. That he was capable of giving valuable hints to his more showy brethren, Lords Brougham and Denman, there can be no doubt; but his oratory was not of the order to neutralize the dazzling ingenuity of Copley, or to cope with the wily manoeuvres of a cloud of Italian witnesses. Hence, though he enjoyed the honour of bring a Queen's advocate, he obtained with the public little additional re putation from his share in this extraordinary inquiry. We now follow him to the House of Commons, to which as ,emhly, in the year 1824, he was returned by the Wigton district of burghs; and here also we can say but little for h's qualifications as a public speaker. His manner was cold, dry, and unimpressive; his political and historical knowledge displayed itself to small advantage ; it bore upon few questions, and not even upon tho'e with much power One would have expected that his talents and learning as a lawyer must have often entitled him to enlighten the House on legal difficulties, yet he had not a popular mode of discussing even questions of law. Nevertheless, a better man for the office of Solicitor-General could not be found amongst the Tory lawyers in the month of Septembe•. 1846, when Sir C. Wetherell became Attorney-General, in consequence of the elevation of Sir John Copley, after wards Lord Lyndhurst, to the Nlaste , ship of the Rolls. At that time Mr. Tindal became Sir Nicholas, but he still 'emained without any very material increase of profes sional fame, nor was he called upon during the tenure of office to assist in any important prosecution on behalf of the Crown. Sir J. Copley, who had represented the University of Cambridge, became Lord Chancellor in the year 1827, during the Canning Administration ; thereupon a vacancy occurred in the represetvation of that constitu ency, and Sir Nicholas Tindal solicited its suffrages. Mr. William John Bankes, though also a Tory, went down to Cambridge to oppose him ; the result of the polling was 479 for Sir Nicholas Tindal, and 378 for Mr. Bankes. He had been chosen for Harwich at the general election in 1826, but of course readily withdrew from th3thorour-b --ra carry - tine - nonour representing ' - his atom mater. Eventually, however, he became perfectly satisfied with two years' possession of this much envied distinction. Gout, irritability, and Sir Thomas Wilde, combined their united virulence to drive poor Lord Wynford almost b;,- side himself. The chief seat in the Common Pleas there fore became vacant, and a prize within the grasp of the Solicitor-General. Sir Robert Peel represented Oxford, Sir Nicholas Tindal, Cambridge; the one was leading Minister in the lower house, and the other second law officer of the Crown ; the one proposed Catholic emanci pation, the other supported it; the one retained his place in the Cabinet and lost his seat for Oxford ; the member for Cambridge gave up his seat for that university, but obtained a seat upon the bench ; and in the month of June, 1829, became Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, which position he occupied during the long period of 17 years; although, under the 6th of George IV., cap. 83, he might, at the end of 15 years, have claimed exoneration from the toils of that high station. Death, however, has at length deprived him of its honours and relieved him of its labours. Ibrahim Pasha has offered to place a steam boat at the disposal of Mr. Cobden, to convey him up the Nile, should Mr. Cobden determine to winter in Thebes. Mr. Bright has ria intention of spending some months in visit ing the United States. THE FIRE AT NEWFOUNDLAND. — The losses sustained by the principal London assurance offices, particularly the Phoenix, London, Imperial, Royal Exchange, and Sun, by the recent fearful conflagration at Newfoundland, exceed, it is stated, £loo,ooo.—Morning Post. A vessel called the Friden, which has arrived in the London Docks from Odessa, in addition to a cargn of Russian tallow, had 1,250 bomb-shells on board. The importation of so singular an artic:e of warfare is some what remarkable. The fhods in Perthshire last week did considerable damage. The rivers were much swollen; bridges, cattle, and timber were carried away, and the roads broken up. In Atholl the damage done is estimated at several thou sand pounds. The late Mr. Chubb, the celebrated lock and key ma ufacturer, who di d on the 18th of May, has left persona to the amount of £16,000. Of the ten thou- propert ;and locks made by this most ingenious inventor, there are not two to be found that will take the same key. On Wednesday and Thursday nearly 4000 children, connected with the Birmingham Sunday School Union, enjoyed a ple isure trip from Birmingham to Cheltenham, under the guidance of their teachers. The charge was 6d. each for the children. It is in contemplation to reduce the postage to India, to afford greater accommodation to passengers, to shorten the quarantine at Marseilles, and not to stop at Malta ; the passage at Alexandria and Marseilles is to be effected in seven or eight days. THE InoN TRADE.—At a meeting of the iron masters, adjourned from Wolverhampton, held in Birmingham, on Thursday evening, it was understood that the prices of last quarter-day—namely £3O per ton for bar iron, £l2 for hoop, and from £4 10s. to £4 15s. for pig iron were to he maintained. GREENLAND SEAL FISIIING.—The Mary, Captain Dring, arrived at Aberdeen from the Greenland seal fishing on Monday, with 1,000 seals, about 12 tuns of oil, and gives account of twenty two other vessels being at the fishery, between April 28th and June 7th, with upwards of 25,000 seals. _ _ _ On Tuesday, Mr. Norris, gamekeeper of Lord Ward, in Staffordshire, was deliberately shot by an under-keeper named Hull, who had been blamed by the former for taking dogs into the preserves. Hull immediately gave himself op and confessed the crime. The victim lies in a hopeless state. AN EXTRAORDINARY CHARACTER.—Mr. William Mansfield, of Bainton, Bucks, farmer, died on Saturday week, in the 82d year of his age; and it is believed was worth at the time of his death from £lO,OOO to £50,000, but the whole of his personal expenses have not exceeded £5O per year. In accordance with his wish, he was taken to the grave in one of his own waggons. In consequence of an impostor who is going abou► Ross-shire predicting a horrible storm, with a dreadful loss of life, which, he says, will take place at Wick, during the ensuing fishing season, none of the Ross-shire fishermen can be induced, " for love or money," to proceed towards Wick, and they are all consequently going southward. AN OPPORTUNE REQUEST.—During the discussion at the Monmouthshire Sessions on the proposed new Luna tic Asylum, eighteen gentlemen were speaking at one time, and Mr. W. A. Williams at the same period politely intimated to the reporters " the ne2essity of taking a cor rect account of the proceedings, and hoped they would do so." A Portuguese slave dealer, named Gil Thomas Dos Santos, on the occasion , sf a mutiny of slaves on board his ship lately, threw down a quantity of unslacked lime on the turbulent negroes, and then closed the hatches on them. This "capital plan of quieting savages," as he hoastingly termed it, had the desired effect, though it was attended with the loss of a few slaves. _ On the 26'h ult. the commodore c , mmanding the expe- dr/lei-oat squadron made a signal for a boat from each ship, and a memorandum was issued to the captains, greeting them to inform their officers that a gertleman who had communicated to the Tinos newspaper certain accounts of the last cruize had been removed from the service, by order of the Admiralty; such proceeding being contrary to an article of the printed instructions. The next annual Conference of the Wesleyan Ministry will be holden in Bristol, on Wednesday, the 29th inst., on which day the business of the assembly will commence by appointing a President and Secretary. It is reported that the Rev. Thomas Jackson, D D , Theological Tutor of the Southern branch of the Wesleyan Institution at Richmond, Surrey, will be elected to the office of Pre sident. EXTRAORDINARY LEAP OF A CAT.—A short time since, while a cat, belonging to a person residing in Salter gate, Chesterfield, was sitting in an open window three stories high, puss observed a sparrow flying into its nest, u ,der the eaves of the roof. The mouser suddenly made a spring from the window, caught the bird, dropped upon her legs on the pavement of the street uninjured, and im mediately ran off with the prize.—Derby Mercury. On Friday week, a pan, employed in the manufacture of salt at Droltwich salt-works, burst with such terrific force, that one-half of it was driven through the wall of the building; and a horse and cart standing near were precipitated into the river Salwarpe. Two men loading the cart, and also the driver, were dreadfully scalded, and one of the former, named James Carter, subsequently died. In the vicinity of Wrexham a gentleman has annually, on his natal day, for several years, been in the habit of walking the boundaries of his native parish ; and, on Wednesday week, (the completion of his sixtieth ear passing en route through 27 townships. 7 parishes, 3 counties, 3 hundreds, 2 provinces, 2 dioceses, and a part of England and Wales. NEW CURRY-POWDER JOKE.—Perhaps the following joke may have sprung up simultaneously, in a thousand shapes, in a thousand quarters, but we warrant it as ori ginal in the case of the party from whom it came to us. Mr. B. C. being told that the Duke of Norfolk was made Master of the Horse, in the new ministry, observed at once, " I do not know whether his grace knows much of horses, but he will, at all events, understand how to curry them." AFFECTING ACCIDENT.—On Sunday week John White labourer, aged 15, was looking down a new pit sinking in the neighbourhood of Armby Moor Side, near Leeds, about 20 yards deep, and whilst thus engaged his hat flew off. In stretching forward to catch it his foot slipped, and he fell into the pit. A man named Stevenson, who saw , ' the accident, having got assistance, descended the pit. which being unfortunately filled at the time with "black damp," be was suffocated. CLAIMING A HUSBAND.—At Brighton, the other day. a young woman named Denning claimed Captain Mercer, a half-pay naval officer, sixty years of age, for her hus band. She asserted that be had married her on the Ist of October, and annoying him by her intrusions, the case was brought before the magistrates, when the captain was able satisfactorily to prove an alibi, and the counsel for the girl admitted that she must have been mistaken as to his identity. We direct the attention of our readers to an advertise ment in another column, announcing the publication of the fourth volume of Messrs. Oliver and Boyd's cheap edition of D'Aubigne's History of the Reformation. This edition possess a merit peculiar to itself, and is highly deserving public attention. It has been carefully revised by the author, who himself in the pref re declares it to be " the only faithful expression of his thoughts in the English language." The Times printing-office was honoured on Monday last by a visit from Ibrahim Paella. His highness arrived at about four o'clock, and minutely inspected the various departments. His highness manifested extreme intelli gence and a ready appreciation of the ingenious and pow erful machinery by which The Times is printed. and was particularly struck at the emir. me rapidity of the process, upwards of a hundred copies in a minute being struck off. After spending nearly an hour in Printing-house-square, his highness departed expressing extreme satisfaction at all he had seen. A REMARKABLE CHARACTER. — On the 30th of June died, at the age of 88 years, Ikl r. John Cheetham, of Hole bottom, Conyston, farmer and weaver. He had used the same set of looms for nearly eighry years, to such a degree as to impress the lathe with the marks of the constant ap plication of the arm to one particular part of it. He was remarkable for being the father of s'x sons and seven daughters, and grandfather and great grandfather to the large number of 148 individuals. He was interred on Sunday hat at Holy Trinity Chapel. Shaw, and the funeral was attended by a procession of 107 relatives and others. IGNITION BY TM , : HEAT OF TILE SUN.—On Sunday morning last, about 10 or 11 o'clock, a tarp:iuline was lying spread abroad in a meadow at Willsley, in the occupation of Mr. John Wt ston, in readiness for covering a hay-rick should it be wanted, when it was observed to have caught fire, from the heat of the sun, in several pl.accs. Incredible as this may appear, it 's a fact. The rpt , tiline is rendered utterly useless, being huint nearly . . all over. It was thrown into a pond, and the fire thus put out. It is supposed the ignition was caused by something in the oil with which the tarpauline had been dressed.—Moidstone Jou , nal. SIMPLE FILTERING VESSEL.—On a small scale, an efficient filtering vessel may be formed of a common gar den-pot, well burnt, and with holes in the bottom; the lower part to be filled with round pebbles, then some smaller pebbles, then some coarse sand, and finally a stratum of pounded charcoal, three or four inches thick; the use, in large filters of broken shells interspersed be tween the gravel and sand, is a great improvement, inas much as the fragments being flat overlap each other, and counteract the tendency of the sand to settle amongst the gravel, thus preserving a free percolation through the lower strata. DEPLORABLE CONDITION OF LODGING-HOUSES.—At an inquest in Bolton, last week, on the body of an infant, the mother, in the course of her statement as to the cause of the child's death (convulsions), said there were three beds in the room where she slept, two of them being occu pied by men, and she, in the absence of her busband, sleeping in the same room. The coroner seemed some what startled on hearing this, and no less so, when Mr. Finnegan. the police officer, assured him it was a mere trifle, for he knew one lodging-house in which there were fourteen beds in one room ! men and women sleeping in them as circumstances might justify. FALL us b AlN.—Tbe following is stated in The Build r to he tl e annual fall of lain at different places in Great Britain ai.d elsewhere : _ _ Inches. Bombay Calcutta Inches. Liverpool 34-119 Chatsworth 27.664 Edinburgh 24-5 London.. Glasgow .• • . Paris Petersburg l7-5 Uleaborg .... Vera C: it Plymouth Lancaster Rome ... 39.714 Dover 37-52 Dumfries 36.919 Manchester 36-140 NOVEL QUALIFICATION FOR A SCHOOLMASTER. — The Guardians of the Bedminster Union adverdse in the Bristol Gazette of Wednesday, for an instructor of youth, and state that preference will be given, not to a person ac customed to tuition, but to a tailor! The successful can didate for the office must, it seem, know how to turn his cane into a yard ; be equally learned in breeches and books ; able to mend pens and pinafores ; rectify rents in grammar and garments ; and patch up, at the same time, coats and copybooks. That the tutor tailor may never be out at elbows, the guardians proffer him, as a reward for the manifold services above-meutioned, the munificent sum of £2O a-year. SUSPECTED MURDER IN SUNDERLAND.—On Sunday morning last, the body of a young woman named Cather ine HiAmarsh, was found near the tunnel on the Lambton coal railway. She had left her home on an errand about twelve o'clock on Saturday night. How she had got in such a lonely place as that in which she was discovered, is unknown ; but it is supposed, from a variety of,eircum stances which have been ascertained, that she had been drawn there by a worthless seducer, who, after destroy ing her virtue, had, to escape detection and punishment, thrown her over the bank and destroyed her life. The most diligent inquiries are being made into the affair. She was alive when found, but unable to speak, and died the same afternoon. The inquest terminated on Saturday with a verdict of " Wilful murder against some person or persons unknown." LONGEVITY EXTRAORDINARY.—There is now residing in the parish of Beguildy, adjoining to the borough of Knuckles, Radnorshire, a person of the name of William Matthews, whose lengthened age seldom finds a parallel. He is now in his 118th year, and retains the full power of his natural faculties, being competent to recount, with the most scrupulous exactness, tran , actions which otherwise the long space of a century would have buried in oblivion. His bodily strength, considering his many years, is almost incredible. He walks at the rate of three miles an hour, and commonly performs journies of 20 miles in the day. He is strongly tinctured with the enthusiasm and folly of the times of the junior days—a strong and prtjudiced belief in wizardism and witchcraft.— Hereford Journal. PRENCH ()PINION OF ENGLISH ARTISTS.—Le 01),er valeur Francais says ;—" The death of Robert Haydon is naturally drawing attention to the precarious position of artists in England. Isolated, for the most part, one from the other, neglected by a public, who, in general, can but little judge of or appreciate their efforts, aban doned to themselves by a government which does not pro tect or encourage the ornamental arts. the English artists have no other exercise for their talent than the patronage of some great lords, patronage but often slight, and which almost always, does injury to the art which it re due's to its own level. Those who, use Robert liaydon, despise to bend their pencil to the caprices of fashion, and aspire to the more sublime flights of fancy, may termi nate, as he did, their hard career in misery, despair, and sometimes even by suicide." A CHINESE WITNESS.—In a divorce case in the House of LOI ds on Friday, a female Chinese, whose name is Kowhan, was called in, and Lord Brougham desired the interpreter to tell her " that now she had been sworn," (this was done the day before with the formality of breaking the saucer,) " if she does not speak the truth, her gods will punish her." The interpreter then made her ac quainted with the Noble and Learned Lord's remark. — Lord Brougham : now ask her " who are her gods ?" In reply she said, through the interpreter, that the chef was Buddha —Lord Brougham : tell her that Buddha will punish her most severely if she does not speak the truth ; and that she will also be punished in this world if she ooes not speak the truth. This being explained, she replied in Chinese. e• I will speak the truth." The inquiry into the origin of the incendiary fires at Soham has resulted in the apprehension of Cornelius Har vey, a man of independent property, and his nephew, James Harvey. a grocer and draper. The premises of the younger Harvey were burned, the charge preferred against them was, the ignition of the house at Mr. Peachy, with a view to consume that of the younger prisoner. The stook and premises of young Harvey were, it is alleged, over-insured, and he was indebted to his uncle £3OO. The prisoners wt re examined before the magistrates, and it appeared that, although nearly :he whole of the younger prisoner's stork was saved, he had claimed from the office for its total loss. Such evidence was adduced as warranted the remanding the p.isoners, and they were conveyed to the county gaol at Cambridge. The Heroine, 6, Commander Edmunds, arrived at As cension in 13 days from the Bight of Benin, with tidings of the Flying Fish, 12, having, aft r a long chase, run a Spanish slave felucca ashore; and that on Lieutenant Robins (who was in command of her) proceeding to board her, the boat in which he was, capsized, and unhappily, he and four of the crew were drlw ned in the surf Simpson, midshipman, together with another man, suc ceeded in reaching the shore, but were knocked down by some of the slaves whose release from bondage they were endeavouring to effect, and Mr. Simpson had one of his fingers cut off by them for the purpose of obtaining a ring which he wore. The Wasp, 16, commander S. H. Usher, had taken three slavers, one a schooner, atter a hard fight, in which 13 men of the schooner were killed. The prizes were taken to St. Helena by Lieutenant Elliott, of the AN EXPENSIVE PAUPER.—About a week since a fe male pauper, named Piecraft, died in our union-house, at the advanced age of 97. There are some very singular circumstances in connexion with this old lady's history. She was found in the churchwarden's garden, and as no clue could be obtained of her parents, she was taken to the workhouse, and she has remained, with the exception of three months, an inmate of the parish workhouse from the day of her birth to the day of her death. This three months of independence was, however, a very eventful - M e Wife fc7 l.l We 'l l;;; l' h A e W v as . :l;;;n l ;74; i n that description of furlough known as " French leave " when he won her affections, which he was very soon glad to rid himself of. She then returned to the workhouse, where she lived until her decease. She has cost this parish something like £9oo.—Local paper. FLIGHT OF CARRIER PIGEONS.—About one hundred persons assembled near the Humber Dock gates, on Sa turday morning, at seven o'clock, to witness the ascent, from the deck of the Monarch steam-ship, of eighty-seven choice carrier pigeons, selected by the members of a society of amateur pigeon fanciers at Antwerp, and sent over in the above vessel, in the care of a trustworthy keeper, in order to decide a bet or bets made concerning them. Every bird bore on one of its wings its own pecu liar mark. They arrived here, on Thursday, in four hampers, and all appeared in excellent condition. They rose simuttane.usly and almost perpendicularly into the air, and immediately took a course south-eastward. They were expected to reach Antwerp, distant 200 miles, at half-past two o'clock that afternoon. If so, they would travel, under a blazing hot sun, at the rate of about 33 miles an hour. The steamer left this port for Antwerp in the evening.—Hill Herald. MURDER IN NOTTINGHAMSHIRE.—OH Saturday night week, a carrier, named Robinson, was murdered on the road be wecn Nottingham and Mansfield. He :vas ac companied by a man named Shepherd, whom he requested to drive his waggon for a short time while he stopped at a public-house. Shepherd did so; but arrived at Mans field without having been overtaken by Robinson, and immediately communicated the fact to the latter's family, when a search was instituted, and deceased's body was found at a short distance from the road with several wounds upon the head and trunk. Some money was found in his pockets, but it is supposed that he must hare been possessed of a larger sum when murdered. No clue has been found by which the murderers can be traced ; though at the inquest, spots of blood had been found on Shepherd's jacket and smockfrock, a circum stance for which he accounted by saying that he had fought a fellow-servant on Thursday. He entered into recogni zances to apnea' when called upon, and the inquiry was then adjourned. A REAL Du EL.—A. contemporary thus describes what he calls " an affair of honour," and which he st ars came off near this city last week Some altercation took place between two gentlemen at Plymouth, on Monday, the 15th of June. - The rumour which has reached our ears is to this effect :—That over a glass of wine some al lusion was made by one of the parties, which was taken as a personal affront, and resented on the instant by a glass of wine being thrown in the face of the offender. This led to a hostile message, and it was arranged that a meeting should take place at Exeter on the succeeding (last) Tues day. .Accordingly, the parties met, each attended by his friend. Being placed on the ground, the first fire was de ci3ed by a toss, and won by the party giving the offence, who had previously offered to apologise. The party who had thrown the wine having received his opponent's fi.e, discharged his pistol into the air. The business was ulti mately amicably settled at a dinner wh:ch followed this ting any names." [No doubt the murder will out.]— Woolmer's Exeter Gazette. MURDER AT KIN ETON, WARWICKSHIRE.—An atro cious murder has been committed near Kineton, a market town half.way between Banbury and Stratford-upon- Avon. The deceased, William Chater, was a blacksmith and machine-makeilrving at a village called Combrooke, and doing well in - Me world, being possessed of about a dozen cottages, all tenanted. He is represented, how ever, to have been a man of very quarrelsome and litigious disposition, often engaged in disputes before the local magistrates with his workmen and others, some of whom have been known to threaten him, and it has been con jectured that to some such cause his death may be attri buted. It appears that on Wednesday se'nnight he went to the town of Kineton, about two miles from which he resided, and that he left in the evening for the purpose of returning, being somewhat in liquor. About midnight, however, his body was found by the roadside, with seve ral desperate wounds on his head, and the traces of a hard struggle about the spot where he lay. An inquest has been held, and the jury have found a verdict of " Wilful murder against some person or persons un known." EAST INDIA TRADE.—From the statements just pub lished by the London East India and China Association of the outward and inward tonnage to and from India, for the first six months of this year, as compared with the tonnagecorrespondinga s increasedperiod 90 0f , 1 1 8 5 4 t 5 0 , n w s e being find n tthhat differencethe outwardbe _ tween entries lB4,3 from 7lton s in 1815 London an in 18 d2o3.34Bswer etons6 04,2 1846. against 149,291 tons in 1846; from Li verpoo l, 57,586 tons n le outward s, in 1845, against 60,219 tons in 1846; and from all the other ports, 32 5C9 tons in 1845, against 33,876 in 1846. The inward tonnage has increased this year 6 952 tons, being the difference between 202.032 tons in 1815, and 208.984 tons in 1846. Of these amounts London absorbs nearly three-fourths, her entries inwards in 1815 amount ing to 147,663 tons, against 148,926 tons in 1846; the entries in Liverpool were 47,417 tons in 1845. and 50,338 tons in 1846; and in all the other ports were 6,952 tons in 1845, against 9,720 tons in 1846. The following are the ports and places comprised in the returns : namely, Calcutta, Madras, Bombay, China, Ceylon, Singapore, Penang, Phillipine Nands, Siam, Java, Sumatra, Arabia, New South Wales, New Zealand, Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and the South Seas. July 14, 1846. THE DUKE IN A WHIG CABINET.—II is said that the very queer position of the Duke of Wellington, as mem ber of the Whig administration, is attributable to a be nevolent wish, on the part of her Majesty, not to interfere with the private hobbies of her distinguished subject. Out of office, the Duke would be unable to complete the admirable series of letters, of which so many are now in the hands of autograph hunters, stating that "the Duke of Wellington is Commander-in-Chief of the Army. The Duke makes it a point never to interfere in matters over which he has no control." Besides, deprived of the office of Commander-in Chief, or of office altogether, and the stereotyped excuse for non-interference, who can say what knotty points the well known sagacity of the con queror of Napoleon might have been called upon to solve. PRESENTATION OF A PRINTING MACHINE.—OH Monday last, the ceremony of presenting ;, stean, printing press to Mr. Joseph Barker, a well-known Unitarian lecturer, took place at New Wortley. The press was valued at £4OO, and had been raised by the subscriptions of those who admired the principles which he advocated in the several periodical publications which he had issued, from a hand press, which had been given to him by his religious friends some years ago. The sheet for the first impression of the new press was laid on by Dr. Bowring, M.P., and was taken off by Dr. Bateman, of the Excise Office, London, in the presence of a large number of friends; after which about 200 ladies and gentlemen sat down to luncheon, under the presidency of Dr. F. R. Lees, a teetotal lecturer. In the evening of the same day, about 500 persons, of both sexes, took tea together, in the saloon of the Music-hall, in Leeds, at which Dr. Bow ring, M.P., Dr. Bateman, and other gentlemen attended. A PRETENDER EXPOSED.—A most extraordinary scene occurred on Thursday evening at the City of Lon don Literary and Scientific Institution. A gentleman (Mr. O'G,) who styled himself " B.A. M.D.' was en gaged by the managers to deliver two lectures on the " Use and Study of History." He delivered the first of these lectures on Wednesday the 24th ult., and as many of the members discovered " a marvellous coincidence between that and the introductory lectures of Mr. Mc Cullagh on the same subject, two of the committee, with the secretary of the institution were induced to bring down Mr. McCullagh's work last evening, to ascertain the correctness of their surmises. They then found that the lecture he was delivering was a literal transcript from one contained in the work before mentioned. At its con clusion he was charged by the secretary with the servile plagiarism he had endeavoured to impose on the mem bers, This be faintly denied. and immediately made his exit, pursued by forty or fifty of his audience, till be was of lost in the recommended precincts b y til e committee of s He: B e had a been Hall, al w h h e i r g e h h l y e had delivered the same lecture some time previously. The officers of the institution can verify these facts. MURDER OF A POLICEMAN.—George Clarke, one of the metropolitan police, a division of which has lately been extended into the royal districts of Ess x, was mur dered on the morning of Tuesday we: while on his beat —a desolute and unfrequented road near Dagenham. He was met by the inspector at one o'clock that morning, but was reported absent at three, and his continued dis appearance excited considerable alarm. Search was made, and late on Friday evening his body was found ly ing in a ditch about a quarter of a mile from the road, in a potato field, where be could have no business except in the pursuit of some person. A policeman's staff was first found, and then his cutlass sticking in the hedge. His throat was cut in several places, and there was a deep cut at the back of his neck, extending t, the spine. The forefinger of his left hand was also cut through. The struggle with the deceased must have been of a desperate nature, the corn being trodden down ten or twelve yards round where the body lay, and wl en it was disc )vered a large quantity of wheat was found grasped in the right hand. The deceased had not been robbed, and his money and watch were safe. He is said to have been a quiet and inoffensive man, and had not lung been in the neighbour hoed. An inquest was held upon the body on Saturday afternoon, when such evidence was offered as is expected to lead to the apprehension of the murderers, but the par ticulars are not published lest the ends of justice might be frustrated. It is supposed that he aas mistaken for another officer, who had made himself obnoxious, by his vigilance, to the low characters of the neighbourhood. On Saturday, another of the officers of the same division was killed as he was returning on horseback from Fairlop fair. THE WAGES OF AGITATION.—WiIIiam Wilberforce began life as a country gentleman, with an income of £12,000 a year. He toilrd through more than thirty sears of Parliamentary strife, payi, ll largely, year by year, the expenses of his warfare with sl avery; and died at last, having just witnessed the triumph of the cause to which he had sacrificed his life and fortune, and having just sold his last acre! An offer was made to him, at the close of his career, to purchase for him, by a private sub scription, a new estate, as the gift of the grateful British .13( ople. The offer was thankfully but firmly declined; though he who refused it had to take shelter under the roof of his son's parsonage. John Howard spent his life and fortune in endeavouring to improve the condition of the most degraded portion uf Europe's denizens—the inhabitants of prisons. John Owen gave up the best portion of his days in forming and establishing upon a broad foundation of society, whose benefits will extend unto—yea, through—" age of ages"—the British and Foreign Bible Society. Josiah Pratt spent his life and bis strength in rearing an institution which has caused, and will cause to a far greater extent, " the wilderness to blossom as the rose," and the heathen to " stretch forth their hands unto God"—the highly successful Church Missionary Society. Michael Thomas Saddler en gaged, as a life's work, in the cause of the oppressed en deavouring to obtain, and in some degree did obtain, a relaxation antl e in of the e) s sl E a v i i ii s . l , : e ih s n y:s a L t s e i. t i n: l o e f n a_ t n o d L i l were ground down ; and to turn to the E4shas on whoa and " Honest John Fieldett," are carrying on, con amore, that work of true b.nevolence. These all toiled, or are toiling, without fee or reward of a pecuniary character and without expectation of any r e t urn f or th e i r l a b ours, beyond that glorious and indestructible satisfaction which must inevitably result from doing good. How different is it with the agitation of the Lt•azuers! They have toiled for the benefit of their own class—the millocrats and moneyed capitalists —a class who are able to pay largely for success ; and now, as a specimen of the wages of agitation, Mr. George Wilson is to receive, as a "testi monial," ten thousand pounds, and Mr. Richard Cobden one hundred thousand ! !—Herald. GENERAL MISCELLANY. Mr. Waghorn is in Vienna milting arrangements for the conveyance of the Indian Mail by Trieste. The Penny Magazine has closed its career, after an ex istence of fourteen years. _ The amount of the Cobden testimonial has now reached upwards of £33,000. English coal is to be had in every part of the civilised world ; there are derilts ac Rio Janeiro, at Odessa, at Archangel, and at Constantinople. The Town Council of Oxford have appointed a com mittee to provide suitable public bathing places free of charge The preservation of ancient footpaths for the enjoyment of the public is as akening general attention in the cities of the South and West of England. _ _ _ SIR ROBERT PEEL IN LEEDS.—On Sunday week Mr. Abraham Peel, of Sheepscar, Leeds, had an infant son baptised at the parish church, " Sir Robert." A pupil of the veterinary school of Alfort died a few days ago, after three weeks' intense suffering, from having in dissection caught the glanders from a horse. A watchmaker of Cardiff is said to have invented a self-acting ball, that will run on a level, and keep in mo tion tor an indefinite number of (say 1,000) years. Barnard Gregory, formerly of the Satirist newspaper, has taken the Newcastle Theatre.—North British Adver tiser. At the West Kent quarter sessions three young men and two womt-it were tried for robbing the dead body of Wicks, the fratricide, but escaped, owing to au error in the indictment. QUACK A DVERTISEMENTS.--The Gazette Alledi'cale de Tho, is states that Morrison expended, between the years 1830 and 1814, the enormous sum of £lOB,OOO sterling in advertising his nostrum. A mine of antimony has been discovered in New Cum nock (Sco►land). It is the only one of the kind in Bri tain, and contains a great mixture of arsenic and cop- VALUE OF LAND.—The Ford Abbey estate, consisting of about 1.200 acres, with the park, situate in the Vale of the Axe, Dorsetsbire, was last week sold by auction for £52,000. During the hearing of a case at the Mansion-house, t Lord Mayor of London stated that in France the extr ordinary system had been adopted of sending over w this country any lunatics found about the streets. At an inquest held last week, at Leicester, on two infants poisoned by overdoses of "Godfrey's ( ordial," the coroner threatened in the next case of the kind to direct the jury to return a verdict of manslaughter. The western coast of Africa can grow cotton enough for all the world. In America the average crop is 4001bs. per acre ; white experience has proved that in Africa 8001bs. and even 1000ibs. per acre may easily be produced. At a recent auction for sheep, held in Nottinghamshire, and attended by agriculturists from every part of the kingdom, forty-two guineas was bid for a sheep, and yet this did not effect the purchase. COLLISIONS AT SEA.— It appears from an official docu ment just presented to Parliament, that there were last year 454 collisions of vessels at sea. and in the present year, to the 12th of May last, the number was 150. EFFECTS OF A NI RRDEROUS ATTACK ON MR. LUDLOW BRUGES' KEEPERS AT SANDRIDGE.—Pointing, th e assistant, died about two months since ; and Bell has become insane, and the inmate of an asylum, supposed to arise from blows he had on the head. ___ OFFICE OF PROMPTER ABOLISH ED.—We suppose that after this date we shall hear no more of per,ons being " prompted" at public meetings or upon the stage. The manager of the Swansea theatre now describes that funct ionary as "Repetifeur." SNOW ON :1' KIDDAW.-011 Tuesday week, notwith standing the excessive heat which had been experienced at Keswick for some weeks past, the summit of Skiddaw was densely covered with snow or hail, and retained its wintry garb for several hours. SHIPS-OF-WAR NOW BUILDING.—It appears, from the official list published by the admiralty, that there ate now building in the various dockyards, 27 ships of the line, 18 frigates, 18 sloops and brigs, six steam gus►d. ships, 12 steam frigates, eight steam sloops, and 13 steam gun-vessels. - LAW INTELLIGENCE, The assizes commenced at York on Friday. The London Gazette of Tuesday announces the ap pointmentt e n l a n n e t o f n o s r e t ci b u e e n c c o e u n o t f y i p ll a n la e t s i s ne m o r f L j a u n s c t c s e t e r e Coleridge w ill of T. J, K now l es , E, q., as a Deputy Lieu not be able to take the Midland circuit, and Mr. Serjeant Gasflee has been appointed to take his place. WINCHESTER, JULY G.—Notice his been given that Captain Hawkey will surrender to take his trial at these assizes, for killing in a duel Lieutenant Seaton, at Stoke Bay, Gosport, about 14 months ago.—Globe. The late Chief Justice of the Common Pleas was to have pronounced judgment in the case of the crown jewels of Hanover on Monday, a case that has now been several years pending, and that probably his death will postpone the arrangement of for an indifinite time. TESTIMONIAL TO MR. COBDEN A public meeting was held in the Cotton Sales-room of the Exchange, on Thursday, for the purpose of promoting subscriptions to the testimonial to be presented to Mr. Cobden. The attendance included representatives from many of the first firms of the town. W. BROWN, Esq., the candidate for South Lancashire, was called to the chair. Having stated the objects of the meeting, and eulogised the character of Mr. C o bd en, h e said it might appear that Mr. Bright, Mr. Villier s , an d Mr. Wilson, should have been included in the testimo nial ; but the committee at Manchester had deemed it ad visable (although the others were highly deserving) to make it more worthy of his acceptance, by confining it to Mr. Cobden alone. Mr. Cobden had devoted a large por tion of the most valuable portion of his life to accomplish that great and mighty measure, from which they might expect unbounded benefit to flow. Had he shewn less zeal or devotion in the cause, in all probability the coun try would not now have been in the position of setting a glorious example to the world of freedom ontrade (ap plause). He ought to state the fact that the public, all of whom were more or less indebted, were not called upon "r. Cobden by of all par- )wards the testimc my particular party or sect, but to contr • • that ties; and it was gratifying to see at Mancheste r the first subscriptions placed upon the list were £5OO from each of two houses which had not contributed to the free trade movement ; and he trusted that there would be handsome subscriptions in Liverpool, even from parties who could not conscientiously connect themselves with the League. Mr. Cobden had made pecuniary sacrifices to the amount of £50,000, and he should not be a sufferer for having conferred a public benefit. (Applause.) THOS. TRORNELY, Esq. M.P., said it afforded him the highest satisfaction to meet so many of the friends of free trade in Liverpool, on the occasion of the termination of their labours for the repeal of the Corn-laws. After stat ing that Mr. Cobden deserved the gratitude of the nation, he highly commended the long and persevering exertions of Mr. Villiers, his distinguished colleague, who from. 1825 had appropriated to himself the question of the Corn laws, and brought forward in the House of Commons sit annual motion for their repeal or consideration, and pushed it forward under, in many instances, the greatest discouragements and apathy. He highly eulogised Mr. Cobden, who, he said, was candid and courteous—a man, indeed, of the most benevolent and generous disrosition as noted for his liberality in private life as in public; and most sincerely did he (Mr. T.) rejoice at the objects of the present meeting. lie moved—" That this meeting, fully concurring in the opinion that :he distinguished ser vices of Richard Cobden, Esq., M.P., in connection with the cause of free-trade, entitle him to a nation's gratitude, hereby pledges itself to the earnest support of that na tional testimonial which has been already commenced, as a fitting tribute to the untiring self-sacrifice, and the un rivalled wisdom with which that great man has conducted the struggle for commercial independence. J. C. EWART, Esq., seconded the motion. He trusted the testimonial would be made worthy alike of those who gave and of the distinguished individual who re cc ived it. The resolution was carried unanimously. Mr. J. MAXWELL moved the appointment of a com mittee for receiving subscriptions, &c., which was se conded by Mr. J. MATHER, and agreed to. Subscriptions amounting to £2,200 were then entered into in the room ; £3,050 had been already subscribed at Manchester by Liverpool gentlemen, and there is no doubt that the bum will yet be considerably increased.