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THE DEAD =C UZL D beautiful shadow of a spirit gone, Why should we mourn that thou-are lost to earth ? Life would have brought thee cares, had years passed on, And sighs and tears subdued thy stainless mirth Thy beauty has not f Unchanged thy features, as in dreamless s _ Death has but touched, not crushed, thee with his pow Why for thine absence, loved one, should we weep ? iweet flower, Time to the living sorrow brings, and Age Stamps the fair features with deep lines of thought, - Tears blot the leaves of youth's enchanted page, Harsh are the lessons by Expel:,_ But thou has 'scaped them all ; eternal light SUDS thy pure heart in realms of endless bliss; Crief cannot pain thee in those - mansions bright ; Oh! blessed change to Heaven, from sphere like this Beautiful shadow, thou art passed away, , nce taught No care have we for thee—thou'rt God's alone; We think not of thy robe of earth—its clay Could not with immortality have shone; We see thee in the morning —hear thy voice, Prattling with love, and*know that love will last; And, in the evening, in our prayers rejoice That safely through this vale of tears thou'st past REVIEWS DE BOOKS. - Ole Protestant Magazine for August. London : Wertheim and Mackintosh. 'This zealous and well-directed periodical con tinues with unabated vigour to do battle in the 3rotestant cause. No instance is lost sight of by its -vigilant conductors, in *ilia the errors, the -cruelties, and the crimes of Popery can be laid bare before the public eye. Such ceaseless scrutiny, and such frequent exposures of the iniquities, must 'effect much in awakening the Protestant commu tity to a sense of their duty and their danger. Tice Organon, or Logical Treatises, of Aristotle Translated by 0. F. Owen, M.A. Vol. II - London: G. -Bohn. The volume now before us is the second and concluding one, of Mr. Owen's very learned trans lation of Aristotle's logic. It is in all respects an erudite and scholarly production_; the acute and recondite mental formula of the metaphysician I)eing faithfully rendered, wiule, by the aid of copious notes, they are well illustrated and ex plained. The original work has been too long an samowledged standard to require eulogium at lour hands ; in the present instance, therefore, our -remarks can apply only to the labours•nf the editor. these latter evi nce pa ti ent and deep study—very considerable mental resources—and no lack of logi cal acumen. To the metaphysical stadent, this sedition of Aristotle's Logical Treatises•will be wel come, and, in an eminent degree, usefiiL 27te Universal Library, Parts 17 and 18, con taining Goldsmith's Citizen of the World, and Life of Luther. London-: Ingram, Cooke and Co. higeneial ;lan, the Universal Library deserves high commendation, proposing, as it noes, to supply accurate reprints of the standard English authors ; and also English translations of the best ,drench and German works, together with speci miens of American writers of note. This edition 43f these works has now reached its eighteenth Wart, and has redeemed, so far, the promises lteld out . at its co mmencemen t . Th e par t s a l rea d y published embrace in a complete form, besides ether favourite essays, poems, and treatises, the • •tical works of Milton, the Lay of the Last 0 *nstrel, and the Lady of the Lake, by Scott, Alison's Essay on Taste, a well-selected collection la voyages and travels, including those of Stephens, Anson, and Kcempfer, and now the two works whose names stand at the head of this notice. The rniversal Library is published in octavo, is hand zomely printed in double columns, is tastefully embellished, and is issued at so cheap a rate as to bring it readily within the purchasing means of all Masses. ,271 e Flowers of History, collected by Matthew of Westminster. _ Translated from the original, by C. D. Yonge, London : H. G. Bohn. The quaintly written Chronicles of the renowned Natthew of Westminster, published as part of the antiquarian Library, in a handsome form and at SO cheap a rate as to bring them within reach of vurchase by , historical students of even li m it e d means, is a literary boon of no inconsiderable mag nitude. It is perfectly true indeed, that these chronicles are so deeply tinctured with the mys 'Lica prejudices of the time In which they were written, as to be very unsafe guides to historical truth, taken by themselves : nevertheless, they icontain a reasonably fair catalogue of events, and "oven the prejudices by whi c h th e narra ti ves are beset, and with which they are intermixed, consti tute so thoroughly a reflex of the Popish mind, when untramelled by the fear of exposure, and =awed by the certainty o f o pp os iti on , th a t even the absurdity of his averments becomes interest ing, and aids in the expiscation of truth ; while his unbounded credulity, combined with the pre supposed approbation of his readers, is an edifying instance of how far a man may impose upon him self while endeavouring to dissipate the scruples of others. As might be expected, the erudite chroni cler is implicit in his reliance upon the infallibility of Mother Church, and is eloquent, after his own fashion, in enforcing the value of her miracles. Some of our readers may be inclined to smile as they read the following incident, which was found available (at least, so says our chronicler) to the temporal aggrandisement of the Church GETTNTHBAN'S DREA3L The same year (688), while Grunthran, King of the Franks, being weary with hunting, was sleeping in his armour-bearer's lap, near a stream of water, the armour bearer saw a little animal issue out of the King's mouth. And as it wished to cross the stream and could not do so, the armour-bearer placed his sword across the water, and so made it a path to go and return. And when it came back into the King's mouth, he awoke and said that he bad dreamed that he was passing over an iron bridge, and -said that he had seen great treasures under a certain mountain. And when he went to the mountain, in ac lcordance with the faith he placed in his dream, he did find great treasures there ; and when he had acquired them he affropriated them to the uses of the Church. Here we see that, for the benefit of the Church or - which the venerable Matthew was no doubt a aistinguished ornament, King Grunthran had a dream, in some d egree a ki n t o th e ren o wn ed Irish echo, Which, on being asked a question, instead of re p e ating it as ordinary ill-bred and common-place echoes w ou l d do, returns to the astonished in terrogator an answer in the affirmative or negative, according t o th e condition of i ts temper for the time . being. S o the King ' s dream i s partly an imagination and partly a matter of very question able fact. If th e historical veracity of the garrulous Benedictine is open to animadversion in relation to the above incident, however, what shall eve make of the following case of the REDEMPTION OP TiE EMPETWE TTIAJAN. A.D. 605. Which is the second year of the reign of Phocus, the blessed Gregory departed from this life to the lord. This blessed man, while still alive, was once walk ing Through the foram of Trajan, the Emperor, which he had himself adorned with beautiful edifices, and recollect ing a judgment of his with which he had consoled a widow, US a reward for this great humanity of the Emperor, he Ivent in haste to the church of the holy Apostle Peter, and there it is related that he wept a long time for the =belief and error of that most merciful Emperor, till, on the next night, he received an answer that he had been heard on behalf of Trajan, on condition of never again praying for any other Pagan. And we are to believe that thus the soul of Trajan was delivered from the torments of hell. In fact, the same fire of Gehenna, if it is able equally to detain many prisoners, at the same time is able, by the mercy of God, to avoid inflicting on all of them equal punishment. For souls in Gehenna feel torture ac cording to the degree of their guilt. These and such as these, then, it would appear are what are called monkish legends, many of which are, by authority of the Romish Church, held forth as of, or nearly of equal authority with the Holy Scriptures. Instances, equally absurd with those narrated above, might easily be multi plied relative to the wonder-working powers of /many of the canonized Romanists, both out of this and other works, but we do not feel inclined to trace the subject further for the present. We should, however, be doing an injustice -to the - value of the volume before us (which is the first 1 2,1 a series of two) did we permit it to be suppo s ed t hat nothing more important than the quotations we have made are to be found within its pages. - :',,t,a 11 37 important facts are narrated in these laudation- c les, generally in a style of exaggerated t,,, e , or of unnecessary detraction, yet still s , l ; 7 .v _it'r enunciation affording a clue to truthful 2'4 /J o " , ration. d Family Abroad. By Charles Lever. Amman. London Chapman and Hall. twelfth the serials for the present month, the n umber of Lever's " Dodd Family Abroad" is distinguishedioity of its by the _pungency and telling caus breadth o f i i s arcasm, coupled with a naiveti and of rivalry. Our which meets with few instances glimpse bo, ; n.number opens with an incidental d ramai - 7,"; Jae curtain, while a great matrimo the Dodd fain ir s l . concocted by the members of iale object of which is an attempt t o inveigle a G e 3/a3 . 7 Ann .. baron into a marriage with Lue plot, 911 the part or the ms of the machinery of nd assumption in-a n are say, met with in aner not nfreq - uently, w int here also,.a! .eal life numerous instances in real life se of " diamondrut diamond," The intended biter is regularly •bitten I baron is no baron at all ; and, of course :he speculating Dodds are upset in the execution )f their own. scheme, reflecting very harshly, ho ;ver, upon the object of their des is, because he proved a more direct impostor than they en deavoured to render themselves.. The narrative of this misadventure is told with all the. racy vivacity and luscious humour for which Lever's stories are remarkable.; .but the following letter• will be gene _ rally -admitted as peculiarly graphic, quaint, and sly, and probably will by many be -considered not only one of the best things written by Lever, but as entitled to take rank with the very best specimens of this class of literature which has yet been penned. .It so thoroughly explains itself as to require.neither preface nor introduction, so we shall offer no farther observation, but content our selves with ;bespeaking our readers' attention to the letter of BETTY COBB :TO MSS, SIIUSAN O'fillEA, PRIEST'S ROUSE, BRIJFF Who knows I ever see Dods- ltit would bea 1 you didn't, and so many there that's fond of you." " I don't believe it," says she, _Sharp. " I don't believe Who does ? says I, mockin; can•ye tell me even one ?' " Sure there's Miss Davis," , says I, " and the Kellys, and there's Miss Kitty 'Doolan, and ould Molly, not to spake of Dr. Bel-" " There, do not speak of him," says she, getting red ; " the very names of the people make me shudder. I hope I'll never see one of them." Now, Shusan., dear, I told you all that's in my mind, and hope you'll write to me the same. If you could send me the grey cloak with the , blualinin', and the Bayver bonnet I wore last winter two years, they'd be useful to me here, and you could tell the neighbours that it was new clothes veddin'. Be sure ye tell me rev. him for me, with my won't - take to drink, and desthrov you were sending me for nil, how Sam Healey bears it regards, that I hope his constitution You can write to me still as before, to your attached and true friend, BETTY COBB. iRTETIES DEsrrnint.—lt was stated-in Syracuse, the other day, that one of the candidates for office had employed a man for three days up in the •cemetery, copying names off the tombstones for his petition. IF a speculator misses 'his aim, everybody cries out, "he's a fool," and sometimes, "he's a rogue." If he succeeds, they besiege his door and demand his daughter in marriage. WHAT is WEDLOCK ?—Miss Lucy Stone, of Boston, " woman's rights" woman, having put the question— Marriage—what is it ?" an Irish echo in Wouldn't you like to know ?" `on Pos in quirt bIE 110311 N Ancic.—A recent discovery of an arched tunnel under the pool of Solomon, used to conduct a spring of water for the use of Jerusalem, proves that the true Roman arch, with a perfect key-stone, was well known to the architects in the reign of Ring Solomon. GOOD FOB, THE EYES.—To give brilliancy to the eyes, shut them early at night and ,open them early in the morning ; let the mind be constantly intent on the acqui sition of human knowledge, or on the exercise of benevo lent feelings. This will scarcely ever fail to impart to the eyes an intelligent and amiable expression. A WITNESS examined the other day before the Hull bribery commission, said that during the election, the weather being hot, fifteen men on his side applied to him for something to drink. "I sent for a list of them, and wrote below--` Al'Murran (the landlord) give these men one pint of ale each, for which I will be responsible :' the one was afterwards altered into a four.—(Loud laughter.) VOLTAIRE AND PIRON had been to pass some time at a country seat. One day Piron wrote on Voltaire's apart ment, " Rogue." As soon as Voltaire saw it, he pro ceeded at once to Piron's, who said to What chance procures me the pleasure of seeing you ?" "Sir, (answered Voltaire,) I saw your name over my door, and I have come to return the visit." A LITERAL JOKER.—The Bishop of Oxford having sent round to the churchwardens in his diocese a circular of inquiries, among which was :--" Does your officiating clergyman preach the gospel, and is his conversation and carriage consistent therewith ?" the churchwarden near Wallingford replied :—" He preaches the gospel, but does not keep a carriage."—Aylesbury News, BOYS AND GiuLs.—The first thing a boy does after he is weaned is to straddle the banisters and ride down stairs. The first thing a girl sets her heart on is a doll and a set of diminutive cups and saucers. The girls are given to neatness, and hate soiled garments of all kinds ; boys, on the contrary, set a high value on dirt, and are never so happy as when sailing a log ship, with a brown paper sail, in a mud puddle. AFFECTION FOR STOCK-DOVES.—I quoted his (Words worth's) own beautiful address to the stock-dove. He said once, in a wood, Mrs. Wordsworth and a lady were walk ing, when the stock-dove was cooing. A farmer's wife coming by said to herself, " Oh, I do like stock-doves." Mrs. Wordsworth, in all her enthusiasm for Wordsworth's poetry, took the old woman to her heart ; " But," con tinued the old woman, " some like them in a pie ; for my part, there's nothing like 'em stewed in onions."—Hay don's Memoirs. A GRADUATED REVOLUTION. — When Napoleon escaped from Elba and returned to France,the Moniteurannounced the event as follows :—First announcement " March, 1815. The monster has escaped from the place of his banishment ; he has run away from Elba." Second.— " The Corsican dragon (l'Oger) has landed at Cape Juan." Third.—" The tiger has shewn himself at Gap. The troops are advancing on all sides to arrest his progress. He will conclude his miserable adventure by becoming a wanderer among the mountains ; he cannot possibly escape." Fourth.—" The monster has really advanced as far as Grenoble—we know not to what treachery to ascribe it." Fifth.—" The Tyrant is actually at Lyons. Fear and terror seized all at his appearance. Sixth.—" The usurper has ventured to approach the capital to within sixty hours' march." Seventh.—" Bonaparte is advancing by forced marches—but it is impossible he can reach Paris." Eighth.—" Napoleon will arrive under the walls of Paris to-morrow." Ninth.—" The Emperor Napoleon is .at Fontainebleau." Tenth.—" Yesterday evening his ma jesty the Emperor made his public entry, and arrived at the Tuileries—nothing can exceed the universal joy !" IRISHMEN v. " NIGGERS."—A New York farmer, tra velling " down south," met a peasant, with whom he entered into the following dialogue " Are you a farmer?" " Yes, what are you ?" "lam a • farmer, too." "Be ye— to New York ?" " Yes ; how much land have you got ?" " A hundred and twenty-five acres ; how much have you ?" " Just about the same. What's your land worth here ?" " Some on't, what we call swamp-land, kinder low and wet like, ye know, that's worth five dollars an acre; and, mainly, it's worth a dollar-and-a-half or two dollars, that's takin' a common trac' of upland. What's yours ?" " A hundred and fifty to two hundred." " Dollars !" " Yes." " Good Lord ! yer might as well buy niggers at onst. Do you work any niggers ?" "No." " May be they don't have niggers, that is slaves, to New York." " No, we do not. It's against the law." " Yes, I heerd 'twas, some place. How do yer get yer work done?" " I hire Irishmen." "Do they work good ?" " Yes, a great deal better than negroes, I think, and don't cost nearly so much." " What do yer have to give ?" " I pay them eight or nine dollars a month, and board them ; don't clothe them, or anything more." " Why, Lord ! yer can't get any kind of a good nigger for less 'n twelve dollar a month." " And board them ?" " Yes, and clothe, and blank, and shoe 'em !"—Travelling in South Carolina. GIPSIES IN THE UNITED STATES.—It has been gene rally supposed that gipsies were unknown in the United States until their recent advent into New Jergey and Virginia; but a correspondent of the Philadelphia Ga zette, of Bangor, writes that they have been known in New Hampshire, Maine, and ➢iassachusets for nearly one hundred years. According to tradition, they were brought from England to Portsmouth, N.H., by a gentleman, who endeavoured to train them as household servants. He failed in the attempt, and his gipsies afterwards betook themselves to the barren and inhospitable plains of the new town of Barrington, some twenty miles northwest from Portsmouth, where they and their descendants have resided in hovels, issuing forth, from time to time, among the people of New Hampshire, and the borders of Massa chusets and Maine, disposing of baskets and other articles of manufactures, telling fortunes, &c. They are to-day but little in advance, in point of civilization and the de cencies of life, of those who have, within a year or two, emigrated to Maryland, New Jersey, &c., though their blood is less unmixed with that of the Yankees. All efforts to reclaim them from their wandering life have proved futile ; hence they are permitted to follow the bent of their inclinations, without let or hindrance, unless they commit some heinous offence. American paper. RUSSIAN TRoors.—l was present on several occasions when their regiment of lancers, eight battalions of infantry, and a park of artillery were brigaded. They went admir ably through that most difficult of all manoeuvres, advanc ing in line ; but they were all old soldiers ; their cavalry horses were lean, large, and heavy-looking brutes. The lancers made a poor show ; the artillery better, but wretchedly slow ; the infantry pleased me very much, until they commenced their light drill, when I could hardly believe my eyes. No one seemed to be aware of the first principles of skirmishing, from the general down to the private, for battalion after battalion was allowed to go on in the same way without a single remark ; the two ranks of each file made no attempt to cover each other in advancing and retiring ; in fact, they generally moved together; they fired, and stood to be fired at, instead of discharging their shot when they were about to move ; and then they halted to load, and that anywhere. Our Rifle Brigade would make short work of such skirmishers ; every one of them would be picked off as ,soon as they extended. The Russian troops are not nearly so well clothed as those of the regular Turkish army ; their heavy green coats are so much more cumbersome than the light jacket ; their cross-belts are longer and not so well put on, the pouch being thus apt to rattle when they are at double time ; and the helmets, though better for defence, are clumsy and much more fatiguing to wear than the fez. I saw the barracks of a Russian regiment, too. Such a den of filth I never saw ; an offensive odour of melted tallow candles, used as sauce for sour black bread, in the absence of their much loved train oil ; and damp straw strewn about for the miserable-looking, cowed, half-famished warriors to sleep upon.—Skene's Frontier Lands of the Christian and Turk. AGED MiNisrEns.—Your minister is " superannuated," is he ? Well, call a parish meeting, and vote him a dis mission ; hint that his usefulness is gone ; that he is given to repetition ; that he puts his hearers to sleep. 'Turn him adrift like a blind horse, or a lame house-dog. Never mind that he has grown grey in your thankless service— that he has smiled on your infants at the baptismal font, given them lovingly away in marriage to their hearts' chosen ; and wept with you when death's shadow darkened your doors. Never mind that he has laid aside his pen, and listened many a time and oft, with courteous grace, to your tedious, prosy conversations, when his moments were like gold dust ; never mind that he has patiently and uncomplainingly accepted at your hands, the smallest pittance that would sustain life, because "the Master" whispered in his ear " tarry here till I come." Never mind that the wife of his youth, whom he won from a home of luxury, is broken down with privation and fatigue, and your thousand unnecessary demands on her strength, patience, and time. Never mind that his children, at an early age, were exiled from the parsonage roof, because there was not " bread enough and to spare," in their father's house. Never mind that his library consists only of a Bible and a concordance, and a dictionary : and that to the luxury of a religious newspaper he has been long years a stranger. Never mind that his wardrobe would be spurned by many a mechanic in our cities ; never mind that he has " risen early and sat up late," and tilled the ground with weary limbs, for earthly " manna," while his glorious intellect lay in fetters for you ! Never mind all that—call a parish meeting and vote him " superannuated?' Don't spare him the starting tear of sensibility, or the flush of wounded pride, by delicately offering to settle a colleague, that your aged pastor may rest on his staff in grateful, grey-haired independence. No ! turn the old Patriarch out; give him time to go to the moss-grown ehurch-yand, and say farewell to his unconscious dead, and. then—give •` s l t 4 he right hand of fellowship" to some beard less, Pedantic, noisy college boy, who will save your sexton the trouble,of pounding the pulpit cushions ; and who will you and Uie Almigitty, in his prayers, all the POlitiCai WU of tho wake—Fanny Fern. IMPORTANT TO MANIIPACTURERS.—The machinery of a cotton-mill in general goes like clock-work, but this is not the case when the hands strike. A WORD SPOKEN PLEASANTLY is a large spot of sun shine on the sad heart—and who has not seen its effects ? A smile is like the bursting out of the sun from behind a cloud to him who thinks he has no friend in the world. WARTIL—Dr. Peez, of Wiesbaden, confirms the state ment made by several German practitioners, of the rapid curative agency which attends the internal use of carbo nate of magnesia in cases of warts. A LEGAL Jon E.—" Well, George," asked a friend of a young lawyer, who had been " admitted" about a year, how do you like your new profession ?" The reply was accompanied by a brief sigh to suit the occasion—" My profession is much better than my practice." A YOUNG LADY of extraordinary intellectual capacity recently addressed the following letter to her cousin, in a neighbouring village :—" Deer Kussin, the weather wha we is air kold and I suppose whar you is air kolder we awl is well and mutther has gott the his Terricks and bruther Tom has gott the huppin Koff and Sister Susin has gott a Baby and I hoap these fu lines will find you in the same condition rite sune your aphecshunate Kussin." A STOICAL PRoßLEm.—There was a famous problem among the Stoics, which ran thus :—" When a man says ' I lie,' does he.lie, or does he not ? If he lie, he speaks the truth ; if he speaks the truth he lies." Many were the profound works written on this wonderful problem. Chrysippus favoured the world with no less than six ; and Philetus studied himself to death in his vain attempt to solve it. CHINESE SAYINGS.—Some of the ordinary expressions of the Chinese are sarcastic enough. A blustering harm less fellow they call " a paper tiger." When a man values himself overmuch they compare him to a "rat falling into a scale and weighing itself." Overdoing a thing they call "a hunchback making a bow." A spendthrift they compare to a rocket which goes off at once. Those who expend their charity on remote objects, but neglect their family, are said "to hang their lantern on a pole, which is seen afar, but gives no light below." TIIE ICE-BLINK IN THE POLAR SEAS.—The fields, and other collections of floating ice, are often discovered at a great distance by that singular appearance on the verge of the horizon, which the Dutch seamen have termed ice-blink. It is a stratum of lucid whiteness, occasioned evidently by the glare of light reflected obliquely from the surface of the ice against the opposite atmosphere. This shining streak, which looks always brightest in clear weather, indicates, to the experienced navigator, twenty or thirty miles beyond the limit of direct vision, not only the extent and figure but even the quality of the ice. The blink from packs of ice appears of a pure white, while that which is occasioned by snow-fields has some tinge of yellow.—The Polar Seas. SINGULAR COINCIDENCES.—We frequently see a para graph in the papers headed " Singular Coincidences," which upon perusal fails as often as not to furnish us with the most remote connection of subject. In order, there fore, that our readers may judge of what we consider a coincidence, we beg to present them with the following : —The occupant of a house happening to have stepped out just two minutes before the tax-collector called for the rates.—A tailor having a large bill to meet on the very day that he requests payment of your small account.— A friend, of whom you wish to borrow £5, happening, strangely enough, to be in want of the same sum himself. —A female hailing a Chelsea omhibus when she actually wants to go there.—And a relative in the country, whom you propose sojourning with next week, being unable to accommodate you, owing to an expected visit from an old maiden aunt at the very same period.—Diogenes. A FEW ComPrimmers.—As I was proceeding towards the police-office, I met, under the piazza opposite the cathedral, a lady, whose face immediately made me forget my errand. She was so fair and beautiful, I took her to be a daughter of the North, and could not resist the temptation to speak to her. So, stepping forward, and taking off my hat in the politest manner imaginable, I inquired, in English, the way to the police-office. " Non capisco, Signore," was her reply. I then apologised for addressing her in a foreign language, but said—" I have mistaken you for an Englishwoman, you are so extremely beautiful." "And are the English women so extremely beautiful ?" inquired she. • " You may judge," said I, " since they are like you." " I suppose they flatter a great deal in England," observed she with a smile, "and you have probably learned the art there." " Nay, it is in your country that one learns to flatter; if, indeed, it be flattering to speak the truth." " This is not my country," replied she, " I would it were I" " Then you are a French woman ?" She shook her head. " A Swiss ?" The same dumb sign of negation. My curiosity was now excited. " I trust you will pardon me, said I, but really lam curious to know what country has had the happiness to give birth to you." " I am an Austria n ," s h e replied. "Is it possible ?" was my involuntary exclamation. "If you are surprised at that," said she, " you will be still more surprised when I add that my feelings are all Italian." This little dialogue took place in front of a shop, out of which an officer soon came flourishing a new whip which he had just been purchasing. He looked at me with something like a scowl, and, saying a few words to her in German, from the tone of which I could not doubt she was his wife, walked off with her, though not before she turned round and bowed to me t w ice .— " There and Back Again," by A. J. St. John. AMUSEMENTS OP THE Tunitisu WOMElT. — Nearly all Turkish women sally out every Friday to take the air, away from the town, on the banks of the Bosph orus , or to some of the places! where water and shade may be found. The wealthy go in • carts& without springs, of un wieldy and primitive construction, six or seven heaped together, and sometimes their husbands lead the oxen or horses to the chosen spot, and then go away, leaving the women perfectly free to enjoy themselves as they please. The most popular amusements are the singing and music of the gipsy women, who repair thither for the pm-pose— music which is amorously languid, and singing which is detestably indecent. A lunch is generally brought out, and, when this is despatched, smoking and drinking commence—drinking not of sherbet, but of good brandy, or other strong liquors, which soon induce a boisterous gaiety, so that the sultanas, whom we often imagine as pining imprisoned, may be seen rolling in convulsions of inextinguishable laughter on the turf, or huddled up in a still more advanced stage of intoxication, like bundles of rags. Their Montenegrin servants, who are the privileged beholders of these scenes, are often compelled to haul them into their carts, in which they are jolted back to the harem. Those who are not too far gone frequently pull up passing through the Christian quarter, at the doors of taverns, to got more drink, and a file of a hundred carts may often be seen stopping in one street, all full of women, some made bold and chattering by their excess, others hanging sleepily about and murmuring to be taken home. There is a walk planted with elm trees, not far from the city, where only women are admitted. Two or three thousand assemble there at a time, and, sitting upon a verdant slope, enjoy the indescribable pantomime of a come dy, which some infamous Jews, hired for the pur pose, perform on the limits of the forbidden ground for their amusement. Europeans, of course, cannot enter the walk itself, but they may see the crowds collected at a distance, and hear the shrill applause which every act more than usually beastly of the mountebanks creates in the female crowd. On these occasions it would scarcely be possible for a stranger to recognise eastern life from th descriptions he is accustomed to read.—Bayle St. John. PORTRAIT OP TIIE Crag.—He affects to imitate Napo leon in some things, and certainly as regards his inter ference, and personal direction of, everything, he is not behind his prototype. His cabinet is a plain room, and completely that of a nun of business ; he is never out of uniform, and never lays aside his cocked hat and flowing white panche, excepting he leaves the capital, when he commanding form, he is of Herculean mould, and of an cap. With the noblest and most fatigue ; controlling and inspecting every department and i 'v e v r s o m t n a rs mis co a n h s li ni t t i e tl t n u e t ti hi o fo n: i regardless alike of bodily and mental self,g'he seems possessed of the power of übiquity. Perfectly. unattended, he is dashing through the streets in a two-horse - droshky, or walking through crowded thoroughfares, v i s iti ng the dockyards, barracks, hospitals, and othe r government establishments. H e ar rives when least e x p ec t ed, and the consequence is, there is no negligence or inattention ; but precision, military precision, and uniformity prevail throughout. The very passengers in the streets, and particularly the military, who form a large portion of the crowd, must be on the qui vive to salute the monarah as he passes, and this, with the military, is a 'natter requiring some dexterity. At Tsarkoe Selo, I had the fortune to meet the Emperor in a retired garden, en neglige ; I say fortune, because, demigod as he is, it is unusual to see him in mortal guise, undistinguished by the trappings of royalty, and the proud bearing and„ theatriaal deportment habitual to him. I went at his side without recognising him in his loose surtout and travelliag-cap, strolling along in contempla tion ; and it was not till our eyes met that I felt his pre sence--yes' felt is the, only applicable term ; for it is impossible to withstand his eagle glance without an inde finable sensation of awe.—Thompson's Life in Russia. SANITARY VIEW OF man BEARD AND MOUSTA.CTIE.— They protect the opening cf the mouth, and filter the air for a man working in smcke or dust of any kind; they also act as a respirator, aid prevent the inhalation into the lungs of air that is too frosty. Mr. Chadwick, years ago, was led to the discussim of this subject, by observing how in the case of some bhrksmiths who wore beards and moustachios, the hair abou; the mouth was discoloured by the iron dust that had been caught on its way into the mouth and lungs. The sane observer has also pointed out and applied to his argument the fact that travellers wait, if necessary, until their moustachios have grown before they brave the sandy air of deserts. He con ceives, therefore, that the absence of moustachios and beard must involve a serious loss to labourers in dusty trades, such as Tram and masons; to men employed in grinding steel and km., and to travellers on dusty roads. Men who retain the. lair about the mouth are also, he says, much less liable to decay, or the teeth. To this list we would add, also, that apartfrom the inces sant dust flying in own streets, and inseparable from town life, there is thn smoke to be considered. Both dust and smoke do get into the lungs, and only in a small degree it is possible for them to be decomposed and removed by processel of life. The air passages of a Man chester man, or of aresident in the City of London, if opened after death, ate found to be more or less coloured by the dirt that has leen breathed. Perhaps it does not matter much ; but swely we had better not make dust holes or chimney funnels of our lungs. Beyond a certain point this introductioi of mechanical impurity into the delicate air passages does cause a morbid irritation, marked disease, and prematurt death. We had better keep our lungs clean altogether and for that reason men working in cities would find it always worth while to retain the air filter supplied to that by nature for the purpose—the moustache, and bears around the mouth. Surely enough has been here said to nake it evident that the Englishman who, at the end of liii days, has spent about an entire year of his life in scrapingoff his beard has worried himself to no purpose, has submtted to a painful, vexatious, and not merely useless, but actually unwholesome custom. He has disfigured himself systematically throughout life, accepted his share of unnecessary tic-doloreux, and toothache, coughs and colds, has swallowed dust and inhaled smoke and fog out of complahanc.e to the social prejudice which happens just now to irevall. We all abominate the razor while we use it, and vould gladly lay it down. Istow, if we see clearly—and I think the fact is very clear—that the use of it is a great blunder ' and if we are no lon ger such a slovenly peopD as to be afraid that, if we kept our beards, we should net wash, or comb them, or trim them in a decent way, why can we not put aside our morning Plague, and irritate CUT skin no more tw we now do.-- Pic#4l NPUIChOki Word:. meaningto _write to you DEAR M. SuusAN,—l st week, but couldn't by reason of the_conflaiTa- tion I was in,L; sure any poor . girl might feel it, seeing that I was far away among furrmers, and had nobody to advise, barrin' the evil counsels of my wicked heart. We cam here two ,weeks gone, on a visit to the father of the Mary Anne nmg man that's great g big ould place, likethe Jail at Limerick, on with little windows,. and a Hite of stairs out of every conic in it. And th.e.furnishing isn't a bit newer. It's a bit of rag here and a rag there, an ould cabbinet, a hard sofia, and maybe four , vcooden chairs that would take a ladder to get into ! Eatin' and.drinkin' likewise the same. Biled nd ste( cow-comers, slice Evens preserve Ile, with rasberry jam and musheroons, for they tries the human stomich with every ingradiant they can think of ! But the great favourite of all is a salad made out of potatoes, biled hard, sliced and pickled the same way as the cow-comers ! A bowl of that, Mrs. Shusan, after a long dinner, makes you feel as full as a tick, and if the House Then a dish of roas. verybody sits n to coffee, and doesn't distress themselves about anything for a matter of two hours. And, indeed, I must make the remark that " manias" isn't as badly treated:anywhere in the whole 'Versal Globe as in Ireland, and if it wasn't that I hear the people is runnin' away o' themselves, I'd write a letter to the Papers about it ! 'Tis exactly like Pigs you are, no better ; pota toes and butter-milk all the year round I deny it if you can. Could you offer a Pig less wages than four pound a year ! I =lst say, too, Shusan, that eatin' one's fill molly-fies ther nature, and subdues tiler hasty dispositions in a won derful way ; I know it myself; and that after a strong supper now I can bear more from the Mistress than I used at home, only giving a sigh now and then out of the full ness of my heart. But it's not them things I wanted to tell you, but of the state of my infections ! Don't be angry with me, Mrs. Shusan. I don't forget the iligant lessons you gave me long ago, about thrusting the men ; I know well how thrue every word you said is. They're base, and wicked, an d deceatful ! Flatterin' us when we're young and beautiful, and gibin' and jeerin' when we're ould as yourself ! But what's the use of fiting agin the will of Providence ? Sure, if he intended us to have better husbands it's not them craytures he'd have left us to ! My sentiments is these, Shusy : 'Tis a way of chas tezin' us is marriage ! The throubles and tumults we have with a man are our crosses, and it's only cowardly to avoid them. Meet your feat, say I, whatever it be, whe ther it be a Man or the Measles ! don't be afraid ! I'm shure and sartain it's nothing but fear makes young girls go and be Nuns ; they're afraid, and no wonder, of the wickedness of the world ! but somehow , Shusan, like everything else in this life, one gets used it ! I know it well, there's many a thing .I see now, without minding, that long ago I dared not look at ! " Live and learn" they say, and there's nothing so thrue ! and talking of that, you'd be shocked to see how Mary Anne goes on wid the young Baron. She, that would scarce let poor Doctor Belton spoke to her alone. We meet them walkin' in the lonesomest places together; and Toddy and I never goes into the far part of the wood without seeing them ! And that's not all of it, my dear, but she must get the Mistress to give me a lecture about going off myself with a man. " Doesn't your daughter do it, Ma'am," says I. "Is all the wickedness of this world," says I, " to be kept for one's betters ?" "Do you call marriage wickedness ?" says she. " Sometimes it is, Ma'am," says I, with a look she under stood well. " You're a Hussy," says she ; "and I'll give you warnin' next Saturday." "I'll take it now," says I, " Ma'am, for I'm goin g t o better myself." If ye saw her face, Shusy, as I said this ! She knows in her heart that she couldn't get on at all without me. Not a word of a furrin lingo can she say ; and I'm obleeged to traduce her meanin' to all the other sarvants ! And, indeed, that's the way I become such an iligant linguist ; and it's no differ to me now between talkin' French and Jarman—l make them just the same ! I wasn't in my room when Mary Anne wa.s after me. " Ain't you a 'fool, Betty ?" say; she, puttin' a hand on my shoulder. Maybe I axn, Miss," says I; "but there's others fools as well as me !" " But I mean," says she, " isn't it silly to fall out with Mamma—that was always so good, and so kind, and so fond of you ?" I saw at once, Shusy, how the wind was, and so I just went on, folding up my collars and settling my things without a word. " I'm sure," says she, " you couldn't leave her in a far away country like this 1" " The dea;est friends must part, Miss," says I. " Not to speak of your own desolate and deserted condi tion," says she. "There's them thafwon't lave me dissolute and discon soled, Miss," says I. And with that, Shusy, I told her that Taddy Hetzler had made me honourable proposials. " But you'd not think of Taddy," says she. " He's only a Herd," says she. " We must take what we can get, Miss," says I, " and be thankful, in this life." And she blushed red up to the eyes, Shusy ; for she knew well what I meant by that? " But a nice girl, and a purty girl like you, Betty," says she, "sleudering" me, " isn t it throwing yourself away ; sure, ye have only to wait a little to make an illigant match here on the Continent. Don't be precipitonous," says she, "but see the effect you'll make with that beau tiful pink gownd ;" and here, Shusan, she gave me all as one as a bran new silk of the Mistress's, with five flounces, and lace trimmins down the front ! It's what they call glassy silk, and shines like it ! "I'm sorry, Miss," says I, "that a s I t oo k th e Mi s - I'm obleeged to refuse you." tress's warnin', ty " Nonsense, Bet," says she, " arrange all that." " But my feelins, Miss, my feelins." " Well, I'll even engage to smooth these," says she, laughing. And so, Shusy, I had to laugh too; for my nature is pla ho z l e pit. with ~ always to be easy a nd com p l y iant ; and when anybody means well to me, theycad but I can'towhattheyme. notlt' s a a b w le eak to bpearsteinlfish, my character,Miss Mary Anne," says I. "No, Betty, that you are not," says she, pattingmy cheek. But for all that, Shusy, I'm not going to give up Toddy till I know why—tho' I didn't say so to her. So I just put up the pink gownd in my drawer, and went up and told the Mistress I'd stay ; but beggedor m she ytit oowould n't nsiti t Z my nerves that way a n other time, f wouldn't bear repated shocks ! I saw s h e was b urs ti n ' to say something, but darn't, Shusy, and she tore a lace cuff to tatters while I was talkin'. Well, well, there's no denyin' it any how ; manials has many troubles, but they can give a great deal of annoyance and misery, if they set about it right ! You'd like to hear about Taddy, and I'll be candid and own that he isn't what would be called handsome in Ire land, though here he is reckoned a fine-looking man ! He is six feet four and a half, without shoes, a little bent in:the shoulders, has long red hair, and sore eyes ; that aims from the snow, for .he's out in all weathers—after the pigs. You're surprised at that, and well you may ; for instead of keeping the craytures in a house as we do, and giving them all the filth we can find to eat, they turns them out wild into the woods, to eat beech-nuts, and acorns, and chestnuts ; and the beasts grow so wicked, that it's not safe for a stranger to go near them ; and even the man that guides them is a " swine-fearer." Taddy is one of these ; and when he's dressed in a goat-skin coat and cap, leather gaiters buttoned on his legs, and reachin' to the hips, and a long pole, with an iron hook and a hatchet at the end of it, and a naked knife, two feet long, at his side, you'd think the pigs would be more likely to be afraid of him ! Indeed, the first time I saw him come into the kitchen, with a great hairy dog they call a fang hound at his heels, I schreeched out with frite, for I thought them—God forgive me !—the ugliest pare I ever set eyes on. To be sure, the green shade he wore over his eyes, and the beard that grew down to his breast, didn't improve him; but I've trimmed him up since that; and it's only a slight squint, and two teeth that sticks out at the side of his mouth, that I e can't remedy at all ! Paddy Byrne spends his tim mockin' him, and makin' pictures of him on the servants' hall with a bit of charcoal. It well becomes a dirty little spalpeen like him to make fun of a man four times his size. His notion of manly beauty is four foot eight, short legs, long breeches and gaiters, with a waistcoat over the hips, and a Jim Crow ! A Monkey is graceful compared to it ! Toddy is not much given to talkin', but he has told me that he has been on the estate, " with the pigs," he ca lls it, since he was eight years old; and, as he said another time, that "he was nine and twenty years a herd ;" you can put the two together, and it makes him out thirty three or thirty-four years of age. He never had any father or mother, which is a great advantage, and, as he remarks, " it's the same to him if there came another flood and drowned all the world to-morrow!" _ _ . Our plans is, to live here till we can go and take a bit of land for ourselves, and as Taddy has saved something, and has very good idais about his own advantage, I trust, with the Blessin' of the Virgin, that we'll do very well. This that I tell you now, Shusan, is all in confidence, because to the neighbours, and to Sam Healey, you can say that I am going to be married to a rich farmer that has more pigs—and that's thrue—than ye'd see in Ballina sloe Fair. What distresses me most of all is, I can't make out what religion he's of, if he has any at all ! I try him very hard about penance and lama punishments, but all he says is, " When we're married I'll know all about that." As the Mistress writ all about Mary Anne's marriage to M rs . Gallagher, at the House, I don't say anything about it; but he's an ugly crayture, Shusan, dear, and there's a hang-dog, treach'rous look about him, I wonder any young girl could like. The servants, too, knows more of him than they lets on, but, by rayson of their furrin language, there's no coming at it. Between ourselves, she doesn't take to the marriage sit all ! for I seen her twieetryjn' in her room over some ould letters, but she bundled them up whiz eke A= use, and hied W laugh. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER. 0R1G1.21 TO THE I.L CORRESPONDENCE. • GREEK CHURCH, HE LIVERPOOI INDAILD As my last letter contained som. which the Greek church made in the vast kingdom of Russia, thing of the progress I proceed as briefly as possible with a continuation of this peculiarly interesting subject, and show bow the whole of that once barbarous nation embraced the Ch "Vladimir, as I have before observed, was, for those dart inn religion a man of penetration and ability ; and, though lie embraced the new faith, still being of a romantic turn of mind and of a chivalrous na to go in quest his new religion in the capacity of a warrior, and win it at the point of his sword. The first place he attacked was Cherson, on the Black Sea, which h on of by the force of and, being desirous to ally himself with the Greek Emperor, in order, as may be supposed, to strengthen his alliance with the church, the faith of which he had recently embraced, he demanded the daughter of the Greek Emperor in marriage, which was accordingly granted, they being not at all reluctant to gain the friendship of so great a prince. Upon the arrival of the princess at Cherson, Vladimir was baptised under the name of Basil. Having restored the con quered city Cherson, to the Greeks, he departed into his own country, taking with him a few priests for the purpose of instructing his Pagan subjects, before whom the Russian idols were destroyed, and they saw without a murmur the broken fragments of Perune, their thunder god, floating down the waters of theDneiper. Churches were erected; at the dedication of the first edifice. Vladimir himself was present, and implored the divine mercy on the building, asking the Almighty " to hear the prayers of the good Russians." A change of religion was followed by an entire change in the conduct of Vladimir, ferocity gave place to mildness, and he established schools for the purpose of instructing youth in the duties of the new faith. Thus Vladimir endeavoured to propagate the Chris tian religion in the extensive empire of Russia. For six cen- ent of a ;overnm turies the Russian church was under the church at Constantinople, some of the patriarchs being Rus sians. In the year 1240, the destruction of the city of Kieff, by the Mongols, caused the removal of their see to Vladimir, from whence it was transferred to Moscow. Isidore, for giving in his adhesion to the council of Florence (1434), was first imprisoned and then banished by his indignant countrymen. In 1467, Paul 11. hoped to gain over the Greek church by bringing about the marriage of John Vasilovich with Sophia, the heiress of the Greek Emperor; but she, as soon as she entered Russia, showed herself orthodox, although trained in the doctrines of the Florentine council. From the circum stance of the marriage of Sophia, the heiress of the Greek Emperor, with the Russian, John Vasilovich, the arms of the Greek Emperors, the two-headed eagle, were assumed by the Russian Czar. The Russian bishops appointed their own bishops, after the capture of Constantinople by the Turks, till the time of Theodo-e. In the year 1588, Jeremiah 11., of Con stantinople,having been deprived of his office for defending the rights of his church, fled into Russia; and, at his request, the Czar made him the Russian patriarch. Job, after him, succeeded to the patriarchal throne, as an independent patriarch. It was ordained that the Russian should rank among the patri archates as the fifth and last. The Czar not being satisfied with this arrangement, it was finally settled that Moscow should take precedence of Jerusalem and of Antioch, yielding only to Constantinople as to the "oecumenical patriarch," and to Alexandria as the " cecumenical judge." The Musco vite patriarchs were ten in number; the most famous of whom were Philaret and Nikon—Philaret was noted for the correction of errors which had crept into the Russian Tre buik or office book—Nikon ascended the throne A.D. 1653, and was Philaret's third successor, and, like him, also de voted much of his time to the correction of the Sclavonic ver sion of scripture. The Czar had been accustomed to treat the patriarchal office, up to the time of Adrian, with great reverence. On the death of Adrian a successor was about being elected, when Peter the Great entered the assembly and stopped their proceedings by exclaiming, "I am your Patriarch." Thus did the Czar, Peter, arrogate to himself the title of head of the Greek Church in Russia. The first "holy Synod" met in Moscow, and afterwards in St. Peters burgh, but all the members of the said Synod were under the control and will of the Emperor. The inhabitants of the Asiatic province Iberia or Georgia is now subject to the Russian Synod. The province just alluded to was converted from Paganism to Christianity by the means of a captive Christian woman in the 4th century, by name Nunia. A Bishop resides at Tiflis, a city of Iberia, who has the chief control and direction of spiritual affairs, but subject to the sanction of the Synod at St. Peteraburgh. There is also another sect, called the Montenegrists, well worthy of notice, and who have been of late formidable enemies to the Turks, for whom, as well as for Rome, they have a mortal antipathy and hatred. They are a bold race of mountaineers, hardy, and able to bear mach fatigue. They inhabit the mountainous district of Albania, and comprise about 60.000 inhabitants. The growing strength of Russia and the decreise of the power and influence of Turkey is evident; the lustre of the crescent is fading gradually in the horizon to give place to the cross. The Mussulman and the Turk trample upon those spots where the religion of Christ first shone forth, and where the pions mill) , Christians uttered forth their prayers and sung their hymns of praise to Slim—the mightiest of the mightiest, ..who ruleth all events—who "Plants His niotateps on the sea, And rides upon the storm." Gathering clouds now obscure the horizon of the East. Men whose minds are thoughtful look forward to something which is now shadowed but faintly forth, but which time alone will unravel. The following table will show the numbers and extent of the Greek Church:— In Russia 50,000,000 In Turkey 12,000,000 In the Kingdom of Greece with Montenegro 800,900 In the Austrian Dominions In the Patriarchate of Alexandria In the Patriarchate of Antioch, including the Antocephalous Inetropolitanate of Cyprus 150,C00 In the Patriarchate of Jerusalem 15,000 Sum total Birkenhead, August 13, 1853 65,770,000 G. B. H. THE FISH DINNER (FROM THE PRESS.) NOTIMPG is more remarkable in this age of progress than the rapidity with which improvements are made in the most recent inventions. The miracles of ether were almost instantaneously cut out by chloroform ; and the last im provements in the electric telegraph, by which answers are received before messages are sent, will always remain a proud evidence of the inventive genius of the 19th cen tury. One of the most remarkable instances of this new power was afforded in the acceptance by the Emperor of Russia of the propositions of Vienna before they had reached St. Petersburg. We are enabled this morning to furnish our readers with a similar example of expeditious information on a subject of domestic interest,—viz., the Fish Dinner with which her Majesty's ministers celebrate the close of the session, at the Trafalgar Hotel, Greenwich, this afternoon. As this festivity is a species of saturnalia, much depends upon the happy levity of the chairman, who is, in fact, the soul of the entertainment. The choice unanimously fell on the Right Hon. Edward Strutt, who completely ful filled all the expectations of his friends. He was a source of unceasing amusement. He was never heard to snore except between the courses ; and, generally speaking, his talking in his sleep was highly diverting. In this reign of frolic the usual order of the toasts was reversed, and the chairman began by giving "La Pre mire and the Ladies." Lord Aberdeen acknowledged the toast, and said that he had been called an old woman ; but old women were made of very durable materials, as he trusted his govern ment was. Lord John Russell spoke to the toast of " the Channel Fleet," of which he said he was, as formerly, quite pre pared to take the command. " Success to the Coalition" was responded to in a speech of grave humour by Sir James Graham, who, hav ing in his time professed every shade of political opinion, deemed himself a judge of the subject. He said the go vernment had been formed on the " enormous sacrifice" principle, and that many of its members had sold them selves, as is usual under those circumstances, at half-price. (Loud cheering from Lord Lansdowne, Lord John Russell, Lord Palmerston, Lord Granville, Lord Canning, Mr. Herbert, and others. Mr. Gladstone spoke very playfully on the state of the Exchequer Bills, and talked of probably ending his career by being called to the Upper House, and founding a new order of nobility, as Lord Discount Gladstone ; but Mr. Bernal Osborne interrupting him with some improper jokes about conversions, the right hon. gentleman looked as if he were afraid of losing his temper, and somewhat abruptly terminated. The toast of " The Whips" was very much applauded. Mr. Hayter gave a sketch of some " loose conversations" he had held during the session with some loose fish—who, however, were all caught—which was very funny. He boasted of having some bait which was more attractive than even whitebait. He spoke handsomely of his sub ordinates, which was earnestly and vociferously cheered by Mr. G. Berkeley. Lord Mulgrave, however, on the contrary, was suffused with blushes. _ _ Sir William IVrolesworth was requested to speak to the toast of " Radical Reform." Unfortunately the right hon. baronet took the matter gravely, and was dividing the subject into various sections, before his audience found out he was not joking. There were then loud cries of " Divide !" and Bar !" but the right hon. gentleman being used to these accompaniments, Went on quite un disturbed. _ _ The Duke of Newcastle delivered an enloginm on the House of Lords, which he pronouncedlo be an assembly of gentlemen, where you were never counted out when you were speaking—as he invariably was in the House of Commons. At the end -of his speech he qualified his declaration that the lords were gentlemen, and said that he confined the description to the government side of the house. Capt. Bernal Osborne was called upon to return thanks for the House of Commons, and as the gallant officer had prepared himself for the occasion, by reading several of Foote's farces, and the whole of " Joe Miller," a great effort was expected ; but whether it were the heat of the weather, the lateness of the hour, an indigestion of water souchy, or a surfeit Of champagne, or, as was more gene rally believed, the jealousy of Mr. Lowe, who continually interrupted him, the gallant captain broke down, and seemed much discomfited. Seeing this, and remembering Captain Bernal's faithful services, some few years ago, in getting up the Hungary debate at the end of the session, which gave Lord Palmerston an opportunity of calling Lord Aberdeen, amid the plaudits of Lord John Russell, " a piece of antiquated imbecility," the noble viscount came to the rescue with a happy diversion, and, the toast of their "Next merry meeting," introduced into his speech several happy recitations from the New Whi g Guide, which made everybody laugh amazingly. The Solicitor-General then gave " Tke Conservative ClpOr and the party brplie up. USE ( IRlsn I NIALmEssuRN spoke of M Compensatic the Consol third time an minutes after PILOTAGE A. AND TP_E.RIAL PARLI LORDS and Sout :nt Cot Bill, a Lculttuists Napier Bill, it by on the subject, and the propos the house was to reject the Tenants ( but to permit the two other bills to / —After some discussion, th second time, on the understanding tl be proceeded with this session. Several bills were forwarded'a stag adjourned at half-past ten o'clock. Newcasth Tenants from t THURSDAY, AUGUST 11 The Naval Coast Volunteers Bill, the innuities (Ireland) Acts Continuance (Ireland) Bill, t Amendment Bill, and several privet heir FRIDAY, AuGus. —The Earl of ALB: Egli vessels escaping h com: lls were-read t they were not to to take pilots might be inser would not permit hill to do anything me the answers which he had already given. ' of the Government was an honourable peau unwilling to say anything which might im was dischar Bill, I t Le the peace- able solution of the present crisis PILOTAGE BILL.—Lord STAN moving the second reading of this bill, took occasion to refer to the gloomy anticipations which had been enter tained by some of their lordships as to the consequences of the repeal of the navigation laws. Instead of the fatal results which were predicted, the n _ _ kiderley, in country, had flourished beyond all pre< to do so down to the present time. previous to the repeal of the navigation 1 of British shipping entered inwards ai 8,152,000; in 1852 it was 8,727,000. In 1849 tl new vessels was 121,000; in 1852 it was 170,0 849, the last ye he tonnage and outwards was the men employed amounted to 237,000 ; in So far, therefore, from receiving injury the s In 1849 2,13,000. • interest had derived the greatest advantages fromthe change Her Majesty's Government had introduced Lolequestion, howeve I Chancell emission, whose report he nau to expect would be ready in, bject early next session, Ira .1 for the ePhtohuse question SOLIDAT second time Id meantime li FUND (£10,634,087 2s. 7d•) BILL On the third reading of the ores ells - - 11, Mr. J. WILSON took t stance rendered in )y . the Commissioners 02- " to acknowledgments Leknowledgments likeivLse; xa. I mrmony, comp. as labours of the last twenty-five years. CRIES QUESTION.—The order for the resuraPt ged. House R on the question of referring, Liberty Bill to a Select Contettee -The Betting Houses Bill nli d fr h iP third roadinon find tossed Mr. BOTIVERIE obtained leave to bring in a i t 5 amend the law relating to the boundaries of burg Scotland. Several other bills were advanced a stage, and house adjourned at half-past two o'clock. . THURSDAY, AUGUST 11. for t he At ten o'clock, night, the hour appointed, o e, first time in its history, for an assembling of the M bou , there were about twenty members present, among W were Sir W. 3,lolesworth and Mr. Strutt, 't w o of the A - `—ration. As five minutes after five m i nu tes elaPr' -4-;11 not appearing, sor- - " • ahnasv anxiefy became manifest in the conversation of them ‘v e; t hers present, who were exchanging que s tions as 1° ' n t was to be done in case the Speaker should not arri s ' e • e all, though on that event on the stroke of t we lve, t a t Speaker not having taken the chair, the only aPlf l e o u , n seen for the members, Who had 21 "' the ntil the ordinary hour of meeting n.„3 )uld have i lad arrived ; but the mo te the chair until five mill g it expedient to wait until "a hon e illy made, so that the exe r ti on t o combine ' lig ht amount of business with th e pl easures o f th e day n not be frustrated by there being, after all, "no how d , The Speaker then reckoned the house, as usual ~Z. finding that forty members were prese n t, t oo k the e" tee Leed that the s .ntleman did no XCHEC on the motia The Friendly Societies Bill, the Metropolitan Se fl Acts Continuance Bill, the Copyhold, &c., Comrais s e ° o Continuance Bill, and the Lunatics' Care and Treat-lae, Bill (with an amendment) were severally read a third d. J3il! der for the third reading of the Crown Stu-' was discharged. The Militia Pay Bill passed through committee. The house adjourned at a quarter to twelve o'clock FRIDAY. AUGUST 12 The house met at four o'clock.—Petitions were . P 1 1; Anted by Mr. T. B. HORSFALL, in f avour of legab s ' il d marriage with a deceased wife's sister, from the tov l L, Liverpool, signed by the mayor, 6 es-mayors,ll mag,istraT; 31 clergymen, 37 aldermen and councillors, 31 dissen ministers, 130 physicians and surgeons, 63 barristers the attorneys, 275 bankers and merchants, and others to wej number of 5,659 ; and from the town of Stockport, sig:, ( l by 4 dissenting ministers, 5 surgeons, 1 attorney , the nature of others to the number of 181. LAND IN AUSTRALIA.—In answer to a question PEEL said, that undoubtedly every practicable and Pr.°s facility ought to be given to emigrants for the acquisl'ire of land in Australia. At present the price of land r be was, on the average, above £1 an acre, fixed by act of par liameut, but communications were proceeding with aye Australian Legislatures, with a view to enable tP" legislatures themselves to fix the future price of land' 'a AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS.—Mr. CARDWELL 'lt such an experiment had been begun under the P . favourable auspices in Scotland, and he was now ens b ee o to lay before parliament some of the returns which had' ) collected there. SECONDARY PUNISHMENTS.--011 the order for the 'Ol3 reading of the Transportation Bill, Mr. KEATING ad.V el :, 6 le to the novel and, as he considered, objectionable Iola", I v of granting to convicts tickets of leave, which woul d troduce, he said, in the country a new class of Pe r l,h , who, although quasi freemen, capable of contracting. °. • •of be' n° gations, would be yet in the anomalous position re . liable to have their liberty abridged at the will of a Se c 4 1 this tary of State.—Lord PALMERSTON sal,. matt` o yss received most deliberate consideration, and would, It thought, be attended with considerable advantage: on . was believed that, after a period of preliminary it a P ris e of ment and employment upon public works, the obtaining a ticket of leave would tend to prodlre r 1 e u tion and good conduct in order to merit this ardent for Imprisonment and forced labour would be silffl i T o the the purpose of example, and, as far as the sec?- 1 :I''•' safe public went, the proposed system afforded adth,P°lt'icket of guards. The liability of the party to have his ost leave recalled in case of misconduct, and r 111•. bi. upon the prison or public works, would W e t h e bill waS of self-control.—After a short discussion read a third time and passed. in moVing U ELECTORAL IMPRITY. - Mr. WALPOL7, Bill, ti-D" , seco said nd he readin did reading measurefri th t e en C d orru to p p t r P es ra s e t t h ic e esa tElectio,ls session ; he wished merely that its object should be under stood, which was declared in the title—namely, to COr solidate and amend the laws relating to bribery, treating' and intimidation at elections. The house then went into committee on the Vaccing; tion Extension Bill, the clauses of which were agree d t o f fter discussion. The orders for the second reading : 5 , tty Sessions (Ireland) Bill and the Summary J l . ll " re 1 (Ireland) Bill were discharged. Other billa er second time, and the house adjourned at a qu'-' Ist nine o'clock. sures for the relief of the shipping interes which he briefly explained to the house moving that the Pilotage Bill b and concluded by cad a second time The Earl of HARDWICKR regretted that these important bills should have been brought before them at so late a period of the session, when it was almost hopeless to secure a discussion upon their merits. It was, no doubt, right and proper that those who had suffered by the legislation of that house should receive such relief as could be given them ; and it was clearly their duty to alleviate the evils of which the shipping interest had complained. With regard to the Pilotage Bill, he felt himself called upon to represent to their lordships the serious injury that it would inflict on the port of Liverpool. The Mersey was exceed ingly difficult to navigate, from the shifting nature of the sand in the river, and no one but a pilot resident on the spot, and well acquainted with the locality, could be aware of the changes that took place or the variations created in the channel. The bill, by permitting all vessels to be navigated by their own masters, who were ignorant of the peculiarities of the river, would endanger the stranding of numerous vessels ; and therefore he hoped, if the bill was not modified in other respects, that Liverpool would be exempted from its operation.—The Earl of HARROWBY objected to the great powers given by the bill to the Board of Trade, and pointed out the evil that would result from overruling the local authorities in the licensing and em ployment of pilots. He also represented the injurious effect which the bill would have on the navigation of the Mersey.—The bill was then read a second time. MERCHANT SHIPPING BILL. On the order of the day being read for going into com mittee on this bill, Lord COLCHESTER complained of the 13th clause, which repealed the provision of the 12th of Victoria restricting the number of foreign seamen in British ships, and expressed his alarm at the serious consequences to which it might lead, both as regarded the maritime strength of the country and the national security.—After a few words from the Earl of Waldegrave, the Earl of HARDWICKE said, that her Majesty's late Government had contemplated a measure which would have enabled the mercantile ma rine to compete freely with all the world, and to man their ships without restriction. In such a measure as that he was perfectly prepared to agree, but he had never contem plated for a moment including the coasting trade in that provision. If the principles of free trade were to be car ried out in this manner, the result would be that we should very soon be obliged to iNep up a, standing navy.—The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH shared in all the apprehensions which had been expressed as to the effect of the nnlimited ad mission of foreign seamen into the ...coasting trade. He solemnly assured their lordships that he had viewed no measure within his memory with such deep apprehension as the present bill.—The bill then passed through com mittee.—Lord COLCHESTEM moved the omission of clause 31.—The committee divided ; the numbers were : For the clause, 18; against it, 5 ; majority 13.—The remaining clauses were then agreed to.—The Government of India Bill was read a third time and passed.—Several other bills were advanced a stage, and their lordships adjourned at two o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-TUESDAY, AUGUST HARWICH ELECTION PETITION.—The SPEAKER in formed the house that it was not intended to proceed further with the petition. The. South Sea and other Annuities, Provision for Pay ment, &c., Bill, was read a third time, and passed. TRANSPORTATION OF CRIMINALS.—The house went into committee upon the Transportation Bill, when Lord PALMERSTON gave an exposition of the views of the go vernment upon the subject of secondary punishments. The question, he observed, was one of extreme difficulty. The object of punishment was to make it a penalty to the offender, and an example to others, without shocking the feelings of the community, and at the same time to com bine reformation with punishment. Hitherto our colonies had enabled us to make transportation beyond the seas one of our secondary punishments ; but this resource having now failed—the feelings of the colonists revolting against being brought into contact with our criminals, and a great event having changed the condition of our Austra lian colonies—the system must be altered. The first result to which the government were led was the necessity of ceasing to transport offenders to the colonies, except a small number to Western Australia ; and the bill proposed to empower the courts to alter the sentences. It was pro posed that, after a certain period of preliminary imprison ment, the offender should be capable of receiving a ticket of leave in this country, liable to be revoked. He thought that, with regard to a great portion of those who were sentenced to transportation, reformation was by no means a hopeless object, and every effort would be made to accomplish it: When thos( xrsons who tickets-of-leave were to be released, the arose, where were they to go, and how w empl - ged ?_ He had every reason to beheN would be found of giving all these perso.._ upon the public works, apart from the convicts, able wages, from which occupation, without a stigma, tht, might slide into the ordinary avocations of honest indus try. The charge for providing additional accommodation would be borne by the public ; but, as the cost of trans porting criminals would no longer be incurred, there would be a very considerable annual saving of expenditure. The whole system must be consideired in a great degree experi mental ; but he believed that this was the best mode that could be devised to meet the great change to which he had referred.—Sir J. PA KINGTON and other members ex pressed their opinions upon the general question, and tile clauses of the bill were then discussed and agreed to. employment PRISON DISCIPLINE.—On bringing up the report 0: the Committee of Supply, and, on the vote of £407,000 foi the Government prisons in Great Britain and Ireland —Mr. LUCAS observed, that two different svqt.m. prison discipline, in respect to the religious instruction of the prisoners, prevailed- in the prisons of Great Britain and Ireland respectively ; that in Ireland, as in the colonies, there had been a system of perfect religious equalitY, which did not exist in the English prisons ; and it was an important question, as transportation was about to be abo lished, whether the s ame system was to be introduced into the prisons of Great Britain as was actually enforced in Ire land.—Lord PALMERSTON said, that upon the entrance of a prisoner into prison, he should be called upon to state his religious persuasion, and it ought to be known by him, when he made that declaration, that nothing in respect t o his treatment i n gao l d epen d e d upon his declaring himself of one persuasion or another, and that he would have equal means of religious instruction by a clergyman of his own creed. As far as the government prisons were concerned, he had taken steps to carry into effect the views expressed by Mr. Lucas—namely, that Romanists and Dissenters, as well as prisoners belonging to the Church, should have religious instruction from clergymen of their own persuasion, this being one of the ingredients of the improved system of prison discipline. The Metropolitan Sewers Acts Continuance Bill, and many other bills were advanced a stage. TILE LONDON CABMEN.—On the third reading of the Hackney Carriage Duties Bill a clause was inserted, the object of which was to prevent the withdrawal of carriages for two days in one week without just cause or previous notice. TIM APPROPRIATION BILL.—Mr. WILSON brought up the Consolidated Fund Bill, which being an indication of the approaching termination of this prolonged and arduous session, was hailed with cheers. The house adjourned at one o'clock. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10. TRIBUNALS OP CONMERCE.-Mr. HORSPALL presented petitions from the Chamber of Commerce and the Guar dian Society of Liverpool, and others representing the London Society for Promoting the Amendment of the Law, the London Society for Promoting the Establish ment of Tribunals of Commerce, and the Bristol, Brad ford, Blackburn, Stoke-upon-Trent, Worcester, and other societies, in favour of the establishment of tribunals of commerce. _ LIMITED LIABILITY.—In answer to a question, Mr. CARDWELL said, that at present joint-stock companies in corporate had not limited liability, but there was power in opeeial cases for the Queen in Council to grout charters SATURDAY, AUGUST 13. The House met at noon. The Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) Bill Was red 11 Third time and passed, as was also the Militia Pay and Vaccination Extension Bill. PASSENGERS ACT.—In committee on the PassOlt Act Amendment Bill, Mr. F. PEEL stated that its oltli was to correct some anomalies in the existing system' ' t i l e to facilitate the emigration of labourers from China to the West Indies, giving the Government a control over ifl sport of Chinese from other than British Pc ig' LAND TAX —The CNANCELLON of the Exco9„ moved for leave to bring in a bill to supply an omisl.'tbe an act of this session respecting the redemption c„, 1 13 land tax, and to enact that the power of redemption r o d be limited to persons having an interest in the land , that, when effected, the tax should merge absolutely, biell cease to exist.—Leave was given to bring in the bill, 51 1 ,,, a e, was brought in accordingly, read a first and second `"01 passed through committee, and read a third tinle passed. After some minor business, the House adjourned at 1331 f past one. IRELAND ♦ 1; THE CORK ELEcTioN.—The writ for the Cork ele c t o . is arrived in that city, and it is understood the 1 1013/ tion will take place this day (Tuesday). ho CLITHEROE ELECTION. —Mr. Le Gendre Starkie, jun., is a candidate for the representab° e pt• Clitheroe, to supply the vacancy occasioned by the 1111 ' ing of Mr. Aspinall. Mr. Starkie is a conservative. .boo NATIONAL BOARD OF EDUCATION.—The Lord P A ' - )11 , of Limerick, the Right Hon. John Hatchell, 31140" Commissioner LODErfield have been appointed - s of National 'Education.—Evening Post. 5 9 londay the convicts Brien, i~ EXECUTIONS lerwent extreme sentence of the aghan. After hanging the given over to their fries bodies w( MURDER IN BALLYMENA.—On Monday, Saville 9e son, a weaver, from ICells, left his home for the Pu r t iot of selling his loom in Ballymena, and was seen + OP own, late the same evening, in a state of intos lo `tpe Te was found next morning, at four o'clock, 0 0 utrim-road, a few perches from the railway station , to of nakedness, b r utally murdered, his throat 110 e t. ‘n cut, and his body otherwise maltreated. Two , f e ir —ere found, at the same time, under suspicio n : lying in an adjoining field, and they SC ,e eif ire nearly naked, and upo iltrim- !sons were marks THE QUEEN'S VI! is now, it is fre etc a the a i a bt -On .any He d r o m nb a t j e o st f y t l h r e in ßo pr 3:al cee v c i i si t t o tak Hol i y n h g eo 7: ; indicated—namely, upon the 29th of 0 0 ,1 on of Saturday, the 27 th, and spend "'", ' S following Sunday on board the Royal break of day, the 1, where it is expecte d gal in ,the forenoon. ifer entry inte the Irish rue u he Viceregal Lodge, wile,- q E - DUCTIO i N : °lll l in NG l 7L l l an ß d e 030- ° ;.; nl j 11 3 ACTION FOR S At the Galway assizes, on Saturday week, an c ifort" seduction was tried, in which Miles Burke, of K ea beel i was the plaintiff, and George Lynch, Esq., of C 10 : 5 0r1 . 1 the defendant. The subject of the action wa s ' 4 .. e lor seventeen years of age, with whom the defen dull " se due . after having promised her marriage. An action for 0,0 tion was instituted prior to the last assizes, but it withdrawn at the instance of the defendant, IN :11° f! rr to marry the girl. He broke his promise ; hence t- 01l cog sent action. The unhappy father gave the sop evidence :—Mary Burke is my eldest daughter% time after she had disappeared I heard she hati!,`,l,o? with the defendant. Went to his house on ther4o last November. Met him there. Asked hilu " Lay b ef ; become of my daughter, or if he intended to 1 0 He asked what fortune she had. I said I would Iw o 01 her any. He then said I might take her home , 01e', father would not allow him to marry. I then de:l' l ,e t o her. He said she was gone. I searched the h could not find her. I then discovered she had d fo r veyed away to his uncle's Followed her there, P 3 c i' a w e bte; door locked, and was refused admittance. 111 ,Y r th, e j saw me from a window, and called for ;fled 't threatened to go for the police, when I was atun,forilt got my daughter away. The record was witbw i rje the last assizes, at the instance of his father and t i e,rte,r; on the terms of their being married i m medi r at e , 3 o: Pi and he paying all costs incurred. Cross-an. off. Jo offered to marry her if I got the costs stru..td be would not now consent, as I do not think it 0. ° 11 .',, ee brie a for my daughter to marry him. The Chief Jus' l be a ti" charged the jury, who retired for a short tirac, o t a e od returned a verdict for the plaintiff, damages . 1 1 ‘f e ryre costs, provided the defendant did not marry e t rec e o within one month. His lordship said he could of 3 e such a verdict, as they should retur ono Lcl' re tire 3 ; 1 , 0 condition or reservation. They were alou t 1 " both si cl ,Ao es 'tift; reconsider it, when, in a consultation - be p , r t uro verdict was allowed to stand for £lOO for t with a consent that if the defendant married thej1000; daughter within one month it was not t0 . !,,i to . 9 „ r ii) to stand, and if the plaintiff's daughter rye to the defendant within that time, then th e Per t h &waged into one for the defendant. will leave for Kir arrive at an early will then make a and proceed then main durix AY, A, -- (4USI 16, 1553•