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f.teratt!rr. POETRY. THE MOTHER'S GRAVE. From the Dublin University Magazine.) mother, thew has left it now, with , its yellow ght yon glad hill's verdant brow, Where happy children sp, rt and laugh, with vrhoui we used tr *kneelir wert borne e driven from our home, mother, the home we lov'd co wander, h s in it dwell, sad, comfortless; and la mother. when you went away our happiness was gone T, mother. for still we call it ours. e gardet all. and saw our own brigh hadow of the bllze all—ah! so like other daps• eam'd anon a little child with kne:t 16vt at her mother's knee, beside our old arm-chair ; e gazed on her we wept. for there at close of day s ours to kneel around thee, while our lips were taught to We thought up , n that timo, mother, and on thy dyin 7 bed. When we so.bins nelt around it, ere thy stainless spirit fled, When you tola us you must part us now, for God had wili'd it Be who can dry the orphan's tear and calm the orphan's woe, No glad hearth hnve we now mother. to kneel at eventide, No n atron's ere 'earns over us in t• nderfiess and pi id ; But daily at this spot we meet. our Mite• tears to blend, And pour out all the grief.traught heart before t::e orphan's friend. her, so quiet in the earth. Reckless of blooming summer time and of the cheerful hearth; But we shalt foll,w after—ah, you told us we should go And meet—oh. j y !—to part no inure, nor shed one tear of woe ere we by thy aid We're kneeling round thy grave. mother. the sun has left it now, It beams on happy children as they ,part on yon lull's brow; Thrre's none to mock the tears A hich flaw so copious from each And mingle on th's lonely sod, 'neath which you silent tie. —By Sarah Parker , O'CONNELL'S LAST WHEEL. After Moues.—" Farewell! 'cut whenever." &c Farewell ! hot when cones the diFennsolAte hour That hurls down the Whigs irtim thoir eqmetett power, When you try r•rt e a.in the poor .tpalpeens to do, 'Remember the Weld who'll he even with y o u. Torn Steele and the paid ones his threhts may di dais ; - - muy even be Repeal, when yr.o try it once more. you'll look blue ht that your Land has his eye upon you At the thong And still in When 3 ou'y that day when all rightly has voile, places tor Daniel, for Maurice, and Jo!, You'll feel a slight shudder your nerves imssing through Should ycu meet the descendant of Brian Soru. Let F.te do her worst there's a feeling. of joy In the thought that you wilr • of go seatheress, my boy ; The Wires can't for ever their places retain, And we'll Lee how you'll maw - ge to dupe us Ft, ain. The 'Britannia NOTICES. London Medical Directory for 1846. Churchill, Loudon Thi4 is a highly uceful work for the medical worn. It contains nt:t only the !throes and addresses of the ohysi ciat's and surgeon. of the metropolis, but their •' qualifi .. cation, official appointments, honprary distinctiona, and literary productions." Such mn-t, therefore, be a desi deratuui for every provincial medical practitioner, whose ready and appionriate reference to metropolitan consult. to will be taclitated by this mat , uil. The medical re es of the London assuiance offices—public medical , of the colleges in the interests of service—laps, & medicine—societies. &c., are all introduced, and corrected up to press. One vint of contatrable utility to the public springs nut of thi4 registerinz of the pro !cation. It is often a question when you can find a me 4ical man " at home "—their hours for heinz consulted varying so much in the metropolis and in the provinces. An attempt, therefote, to establish uniformity in consult ation hours amongst the grades is very desirable; and an investig*t on into present facts in referei ce to it I cluced the editor to suggest the following hours, as aye aging the greatest convenience for all parties, and which and have beer. for same time past, largely alre44ly adopted in London, V z Practitioners, to remain at home till I General Practitioners, till 10, a.m. Special Practitioners, from 10 tiii 3. Visiting Appointments to revolve round these periods If tbisor any other uniform plan could be carded out in the provinces, it would obi ugly facilitate the despatch of business, which is the wor.hip. in a secular point. of the present day. Next year it is their intention to sug gest the outl:nts of a code of medical etiquette, so much wanted. The Medical Times bas, in its late numbers, kept up i.s reputation, and has improved in ii' style. It takes a very I ber.l and proper view of the Imrata quwatio of medic al politics. The con tributions are from the first author:firs. and nothing of stamp receives insertion, we understand. but what is paid for, and which, therefore, must have merit in - winning the editorial tee precious to committal before the public. VARIETIES. Nntnre has wisely- furnished us arttb - rentre,vrts Ipqr bin cne tongue ; a most useful lesson, if rightly att,tuied to. A pea son c...s accused of having a loose charterer ; wish it to-re loose," " l'dsuon shake it (.ff." ' There is nothing by which I have through li►e more profited than by the just obi( rvations, the good (minion, and the sincere and senile eneouragetnent of amiable and senible —Sir Samuel Romilly, TIGFIC LACING reed doctor referring to rght ng, avers that it is 'a üblic benefit, inasmuch as it bills PII the 'polish girls, and leaves the wise ones to grow up to be women. THE LONGEST DAY.—" Mn, when will the longest iys be here?" " Why, my dear, when they are *co I. , ng at we cannot go shfipping in the evening." `' Well, ey WI! be LONG THEN, I shall be tired." " This is the warmest weather I ever knew," observed Lord Langdale to Lord Lyndhurst; " it is enough to di.y ta/ve anything." '• Yes," said the Chancellor, injunction without any argument." .Diner: Now, wailer, what's to pay ?—Wai.er : Let me see, sir; what have you had, sir ?—Diner : Three ti-h. Waiter : Only brought too two, I think, sir.—Diner : No, I had two mackatel, and one smelt. ' even au Pr.w CIVILITY. - " Have you not ini.taken the pew, sir ?" blandly said a Sunday Chesterfield to a stranger, as be entered it. " I beg pardon," replied the intruder, go out, " I fear 1 have : I took it for a otitis- rising to .:..../, tf RAILWAY DEFINITIONS.—Q. What do you. mean by A. A train wl,o•e engine explodes.— i line, and throws the carriages n "uv-trei e engine gets uff ti over.— P u nch A FARMER'S NOTION OP THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. —A worthy old farmer, who resides near the bne of the York and Midland Railway, having been told a few days ago, that a communication had been made , from York in two or thri minutes, s :id, " Bla me how t'felier rides'upon them there w ries enewr !" !own ca PROPER PRIDE.—In a fairy tale by the Danish author Auntersen, the.e is a leather ball of so aristocratical a character, that when proposals are made to her by a peg top, because they happen to have been companions in the same drawer, she indignantly asks him whether he is aware that her " father and mother wore morocco slip pers," and that she has " cork in her body." A. WOULD-BF. WIDOW. A physician, going down Regent-street with a triend, said to him, " Let us avoid that pretty little woman you see on the left; she knows me again, and casts upon me looks of indignation. 1 attended her husband, and—" " I understand— pon had the misfortune to ' despatch him." "On contrary," replied the doctor, " 1 neither she nor her lover has ever forgiven in( saved ' Ilio); and AN UNHAPPY EDlTOR.—Nearly bereft of all patienre with the atrocious scribbling of certain of his correspon dents, the editor of the Manx Liberal hoists a flag of distress of " births, teßrriii write inteilieihlV ; „prat to the senders of noticrs , and dea'hs,” he implores them to for " " our education was In a touching says he, somewhat neglected in the wafter of Egyptian hierogly phics. Neither hlve we an over and above clear know ledge of the language of birds, as conveyed by the graphic mode of dipping their feet in ink and then making them walk over a g h ee► of ahite paper." ORIGIN OF THE WORD `. II UNIBUG."—It is not gene- rally known that this woid, at present so much, in ♦ogue, is of Scottish orgin. There was in olden time a race, now extinct, called Bogue or bag, of that Ilk, in Ber wickshire. A daughtt r of this family married a son of Hume or Home, also of that Ilk. In process of time, by -default of male issue, the Bogue property devolved on m.e Geordie Home or Hume. who was popularly styled Hume or H me o' the B•>g. This worthy was somewhat l! dined to the marvellous, and had 'a vast int.lintitiOn . t "exalt hims'lf, his wife; Ittnily,.brother, and his ancestot on both sides. His tales, however, did not pass current and at last. when any one made any very extr staten3ent in the Mearns, the hearers would siting up their shoulders and style it " just - a Hum the Bog." This was soon shortened into Humbug, and in a few years the word spread like wildfire over the whole kingdato.— Sedieritan. DOG BREA KING.—A lady had a favourite large fat pet spaniel: this dog a ould not have been prevented jumpvg on any chair he liked, but he took a fancy to a very splen . : did one, covered with very beautifully worke d , Fat; n : he could not be kept out of this, if left tor a moment in the room by him-elt : he was off in a moment if be •Beard any one coming, but on their leaving, up he was again. This chair was generally covered with a 'white net. I under took to cure him of this, promising not to beat him. took away the satin cushion, and under the w seen : up my gentleman was in a moment, but down he was much quicker, and set up a yelping that I knew woull bring his mistress down in a minute. " Poor Lover !" said I. " I think another lesson w it about do for you so I gave him a toss on his side on my newly in• vented patent an , i-comfortable cushion : he bolted off, out of the room, nearly knocking down his mi.tresa at the door, who then flew after him into the garden. 1 made my escape, having first taken the preciution to de sire the servant to tell his thistr. with my comp! mews, not to sit on Rover's chair. She passed my nons• the next day. and shook her finger at me, showed me Rover's bead at the carriage window. He would not even lo(.k Ht , the anti.comfortable chair again.—Slabie Talk and Table Talk. • SINGULAR CURE FOR BIBULOUS PROPENSITIES. (From Sharpe'' London MogazinP.) Once upon a time. there dwelt in one of the little streets which run down to the bottom of the Mane, a c.,13h1 r named Hans Fuchs, or as we should say, Jack Pox. lie was a good-hearted merry little fellow, a favourite with every one, and so good a workman that he must have thriven had it not been for one unfortunate failing which threatened to be his ruin. Hans was a great deal too fond of good beer, and many a customer he lost and many a pair of boots he spaed in convequence. In vain did his mot her scold and his wife entreat, Hans could not get over this weakness. One night the little cobbler wa• returning from a tre mendous jollification ; it was his Saint's festival, and he thought he was in honour bound to be merry oo that day; not that he was thoroughly drunk, for, as he kept reps st ing to himself, it was impossible it should be so, since he was perfectly aware that he was anything but sober. How ever he staggered along, with some difficulty keeping out of the river, till to came to the bridge. The moon was shilling brightly, and the old statue of the Emperor stood out in strong relief against the dark houses on the o . her side. Somehow the idea struck Hans that he would go and have a look at the figure bet', :re finally returning home. Accordingly he walked over to the centre of the bridge, and leaning against the parapet, stor.d gazing intently at the statue. He was quite alone, anti might have rfAsnained there a few minutes, when the cathedral clock solemnly struck the hour of twelve. Scarcely had the last stroke died away in the air, when. to the cobbler's aston , shment, the stone Emperor nodded, as if beckoning to him ; he could not believe his eyes; but the motinn•was distinctly re- peated. Hans, however, could not lease the friendly wall which supported him : there were more rea-ins than one for this. What was his horror when the statue, gradu ally swayed itself to and fro, at lengta descended trim its pedestal, and triov , d across the bridge to where he stood paralysed with terror._ " Who art thou, fellow ?" asked the figure in a hollow voice, which cuplied the cobbler's blood. " A poor cobbler, Hans Fuchs, please your Majesty," was the tremulous reply. " Art thou a native of Frankfurt?" • " Yes." " And a good Catholic?" " Yes." " Good. Bear up our train and follow me." So say ing, the statue turned, and made as it it would proceed to wards the city. Hans hardly knew how to act, stone was a thing which scarcely ren A train carved out of wred to he borne up ; on the other haod, the comm , nds of a root., speaking statue were not to be despised. So, stooping down, he took hold of the train arid tillowed the Empe ror; the stiffness of this arlic:e of dress lacing at 'vast this advantage, that Ham, by leaning against it, made a shift to pr , ceed cruel more steadily than he could other- wise have done. They 'crossed the bridge, and entered t'.e city. the cobbler wondering all the tine what had be. come of the o%n-watch. not one of wi om was to be seen : the streets, too. were quit , de s erted,—there was not even a light in any one window. Thus they passed silence and solitude till they stood beside tile S along 4,1h00f that huge. gloomy building erected on the site of the °lir Carlovingian Palace. Here they stopped, and the statue spoke again. '• Mortal." it said, "know that here lies a n-iebty trea sure, bound ❑nder a tremendous spell, which I alone can loose. The counter s,ell can be taught only to one who meets me alone at midnight on the bridge, and who must he a ',wive of this town, a good Catholic. and free from faint of drunkenness. Thou art all these three ?'' Now, had this question been put to honest Ilans on the bridge. be would at once have confessed the st.ire he knew himself to be in. and been glad to have got t-ff so cheap, but he had not urAl courage enon:li, to ssy nothing of the Dutch ar joie, and his walk had timiliarised tom with the statue; he,iiles. the treasure—sl ould he give 'bat no tor a pardonable fib? Thoughts of Floekhrimer and Johan nisberg, i. stead of washy beer, pasted through his mind, and he answered at once,- - " wohl " " Good, then," replied the statue. " Repeat the verses after me— When the nig' t bird shriel eth dread, Arid the gray, s give up their dead.". But the adtiv Lola! et unite which Hans now felt had one evil e ff ct.—so long as Le say in extremity of t rrnr. he was comp natively sober; bat his so'n.i.-ty fled with his tear, and he. now could scarcely mute' rout with a hiccup— " When the dead bird.—what is i ? Donnerwett e r !" " Wieteit, thou ait (intuit!" cried the statue h•deous fr an. ". Not drunk, your .11sjesty ; only jIlly," replied Hans •_ • with a )1e man swerer the Emperor; and, raising his heavy stone seen tre, he struck the et bider such a stunning blow on the head, that he reeled and fell senseless to the ground. As he awoke from his insensibility he felt a sensaion of in tense pain in the head—ten thousand lights danced around —and a rou.:h voice called out— " lkoz tau-end, the drunken sehehn has fallen against the 1c: I.h-stone and cut his head open." He was lying on t -e bridge. opposite the old statue, which sto,d grim and motionless. Around him were some of the city guard, who took him to the watchhouse, where his head was hound tip Next morning Hans went home to his wife, a sadder L but a wiser man ; tor, from that day, he never was inroxi -- cated again. Drink, he said, had hren the cause of his losing the spit- bound treastoe, and that was an injury wh ch must t art the best of friends. trans' wife said no• thing ; bu , in her own mind, she thought he had got afar greater treseure, for he hail go, —sober. So 'here, is my story of the statue on the bridge of Frankto,t ; mat I dare swear ii is as genuine a legend as THE COUNTRY SAFFIR WITH RUSSELL THAN WITH PEEL.-11 ell. tne new ministry hay- been installed. We have Lord J. Ruse l and the Whigs, sopportrd by O'Connell and the Roinish factions, again occupying the the chief places in administration ; while the materials of an effective opposivon hare, as yet, to be gathered to gether. and no min k,ows in whom to put trust or con fidence for the nisinteriance of the views and principles according to which the country might be wisely governed, and we might he saved from the further inroads of revo lution. Many fondly entertain the hope, that Lord John, as he is an older, so he is a wiser and abetter man than he was when he was las' compelled to relinquish power. He bears amongst his friends the character of a man of generosity wit' honour; and, contrasted with the unprin cipled minister whom he succeeds rather than supplants, there is all air of respectability, and even of chivalry about him, which raises him far above the unbearable and un- English baseness of deserting his colours and betraying his hiends. Lord John may seek to moderate the more fiery and violent of bis own partizans; or, should the cur- rent prove too strong for hitn, he may relintoisb the helm to other hands ; but to the principles to which he has pledged himself he will never prove false ; and his par! y may confidently rely upon bin for trinkly and boldly carrying out their views, or promptly arid honestly sur rendering his trust, should his supporters press him be.: yond whet 11 , - . judgi s to be the limits of a sound discretion. We cannot I the urhettl d institution+ of the country are far safrr in hands, than they were in those of Sir Rubert Peel. Tne conatt•utwonal party are now fairly warned of their danger. they know what they may hope, and what they Nut so when the late tmnistry were in power, may fear, pirit of assatiation has been nurtured in Ireland. un- til it has attain( d its present enormous magnitude, when it defies the ordinary powers of the law ; and by whose direct rod ostentatious patronage and enc•wragernent to Seell.g. within a short stage. of the ascendancy at Which it aiuis. When this shall have bred attained. then, indeed. we say to the Protestant coninrunities of all denominations, " Let them which be in J udea flee unto the mountains." But we trust that a rally may yet b made, by which a calamity so signal, and a curse so bequeathed to his successors the completion of his Irish pokey; and the outline of that policy which he sketched, left scarcely any [Ling to be desired by Mr. O'Connell and the Popish and Radical party. Possibly he only de. sired to phee Lord John in a difficulty, by this premature disclosure of views which the new minister might fiinl himself hard set to realize. lie knew that his Iri,h mew. sures, both in act and in prospect, constituted the rock upon which he himself had foundered ; and he kindly and c onsiderately directed lus succeitoir upon it, proffering the aid of his experience and ability to enable him to ride over it with safety. , We know riot whether the new pre mier will read the passage—" faa est ab ho.te doceri," as signifying, the advice which your enemy gives you, do not take; or whether he. may or may not think it to be tirected by hiS counsel than Warned by .his counsel. But this we know, that we prefer fighting the battle for our Protestunt in-titutions ogai),st Lord John. rather than with Sir Robert Peel ; we apprehend Lisa from the ho.ti lity of the one, against which we are on our guard, than from the friends.hip of the other, by which a false , ecurity might be produced : and if we are only Gus to ourselves. and take every fisting means to inform our countrymen of the perils which beset our most valuable establishments our most glorious privileees, we may yet find a happy de liverance from open enemies. as well as from hollow friends.—Publin Voiversily Magazine. OUR ARISTOCRACY ONE.IIDTHDF RANK AND TALENT. —Fortunately,.the aristocracy of this country are in no danger of decay. In this respect they are unlike the aristocracy• of almost every other cowry in Europe. Though they may be in some of their private and social relations exclusive—and in this they but exercise the natural privilege of every man to choose his own society —they are not politically an exclusive body. In other countries the gulf between the aristocracy and the people is much wider t Ilan it is in England. They have distinct privileges, distinct associations, distinct pursuits, and although there rosy be more personal affability and free dom in their public intercourse with the people, they do not so essentially mix themselves up in their affairs as they do in England. Here not a single movement takes place, political or charitable, of any significance, that has not some nobleman or member of a patrician house at its head, or taking an active part in its support. In all places and in all circumstances they identify themselves with the people, anal, as they con s tit ute themselves their friends, they naturally become their leaders. But their leader ship is not the result of their rank alone. It i s a popular idea that people of the middle class run after a lord to lend the sanction of his name to their undertak ings merely because be is a lord. John Bull, according tot hese thit.ke*, is an inveterate tuft-hunte r , and no good will be done for the country till he is taught to believe that so far from any intellectual influence being associated with the possession of a coronet, on the contrary, the peerage is but a collection of incapa' les, to put trust or confidence in whom is to weer a badge of poltieal sla very. A more false notion could not be instilled into the national mind. In the cases of some few members of the royal family, it is no doubt true that their support or te,tronage is asked without reerence to any personal fit. ness or association with the particular objects which are sought to be obtained. But this is a part of the official homage paid to royalty, and it is because the people are known to be loyal, and to set a high value on the support of the throne or its immediate connexions, that those il lustriceis personages are so much sought after. But we altogether deny that when the active support of particular members of the peerage or the aristocracy is sought for, it is in the spirit of tuft-hunting ; that when members of the mercantile or the general middle classes have some benevolent or national object in view, and seek the aid of those who occupy the first rank in society. it is merely because they are peers. We deny that the Lord Ashleys or Le rd Robert Grosvenors, the Lord Kenyans or the Broughams and the Morpeths, are assocta'ed in such undertakings for any other reason than that they are deemed the most fit, by their ta!ents and information, and moral and intellectual worth, for their position. We are almost ashamed to find ourselves engaged in enfor cing a position which must appear so natural and true, but that the contrary is so often said and written, and has in.ensibly produced an effect on thq unreasoning portion of the public. A pride of class hr l' been by this means generated among the middle and lower orders of the state, and a conceit that they are by far more firtd for the task of government than those n whose culture such pains have been bestowed, who have been trained to statesmanship and legislation, and on whom the noblest moral and religious considerations act, inducing them to Abandon that retirement and indolent enjirytnent of life which the law guarantees them as the hold-re of iiide. Pendent property, and which the nobles of other countries too °len greedily seize up, n, in total obliviousness of their duties to their fellow countrymen. The aristocracy of these three kingdoins are, we rnaintein, with one or two brilliant exceptions of men who have sprung from the people, the real leaders of public opinion in this country. They are so, not on account of their rank but of their talents. They are not the effete and inactive class, useless and not mere ornamental, which they are represented to be, but are deep thinkers, earnest, reli ,ioes-mitided men; their principles deeply engrafted in their minds; and their general knowledge improved by a practical experience of mankind in general. not oft e n enjoyed by the cla.ses below them, who have less leisure, and look at life from a more confined point of view; and sith frolics and powers as highly cultivated and as readily brought to ,bear pract'cally on Dunne affairs as those of the most active and energetic of the bourgeois Wiih the latter. such qualifications are almost the exception to the rule; with the former, they are nearly univer.al.—Fraser's Magazine. MERE LITERATURE NOT ENOUGH FOR A MAN. — The literary marl ie impatient of b-iiig set apart. lie feels that monks and troubadours, though in a similar position, were brought into more healthy connection with man arid nature than he who is supposed to lank at them merely to a rite them down. Sb he rebels; an] Sir Walter Scott was prouder of being a good slier ff and farmer, than of his reputatioe as the Great Unknown. Byron piqued himself on hi. skill of shooting and swimming. Sir 11. Davy and Schlegel would be admired as dandies, and Goethe, who had received an order from a puhlisl , er " for a dozen more dramas in the same style as Go. tz von Ber linchingen," and ;helth (in sadder Booth) he had already Faust in his head asking to be written out. thought it no 1.-gractition to become Premier in the little duchy of We'mar.—The Dial. WAR ADVENTURE IN THE MARQUESAS.—Toornova was commander-in-chief. I was TO remain by him where. ever we moved, and Nlate's nephew was also to be with us, as he wou!d not leave me. The wind increased con siderably, and swept up our valley and it) the face of the enemy. Tt,ere %as a vast quantity of thudl cane growing `rout the brea.t.works, a good way into the enemy's coun ty, wt• formed good for te .11101. though 11 cover .11'111 to ad vdnee through, was dangerous in other tespects. Our whole tribe %ere now at their posts—the men in front, the women and children at some distance in the rear, singing From the rock we could s e the reeds away as U,11,111 rn, anc here and eeou'epop up. Ar it a shot 'ass sure to be fi , ed by our uarly. By-and-by the cr , ver appeared to be in motion, and frill of men. We now got down off the rock, and went to the centre of the defence with about three hur, died men. I raw bundles of dry grass scattered all along inside the defences, in case they were hard set ti tire the cover. This evening was peculiarly favourable for a pur t,o•e of the kind, and I suggested to Toomova to do so at once, and hunt them out of it; but he said no, it would retard their ruching on them in a body, but if they came too strong. I should then see fire. The enemy came crawling through the reeds. and were endeavouring to muster up for a rush, when a rattle film our nitit.kets made them lie down .gain. In number they evidently made the expected rush. and numbers actuallv got in on us. when there ensued a terrific rotatebt with clubs, spears, and n.u-ket. buts, the women yelling all the time ; others suf•ceeded thme who got in, and it now was evident that it required the bold. united effort of the whole tribe to _ . save themselves. Every man fought, and had to fight ; no rvan dare for his life he idle.; it he did not act on the off nstve, he was obliged to defend himself. This hand to band business gradually ceased ; then the mus kets. spears, and slings began again, and as there were plenty r f rocks, trees, and long canes all round, each man sought concealmept to save his person, occasionAly only appearing to fire and advance. or retreat to another shel. ter; in fact, this part of the fight was what is commonly called " dodge and fire." Night was fast approaching ; the di•tance we- all gloom ; the battle ground, which ex tended for about two miles (for there was constant shift ing of position), was partially illumined by the dry grass and canes taking fine here and there, from the falling of the ignited gun wadding.. Tnert, vu,s al.o a full moon at the tine, so that we bad very Lair light to see each other raid ev, ry man to tie a pirce of white cl , ,th about his neck. Tills made all our'A known to each other at any fair di.tance. It was a very judicious plan, considering that night was on. Tnis tribe of ours were better shots than any I •1,.. nad seen at the .arquesas. hey were also eey quick at watching the cover; and equally qu•ck %nth . _ . aim. We gained well and fast on the enemy. hunted them from reek ro rock, arid from tree to tree, mail (with the aid of the blazd from the, fires) we could see their brown and well-oded bodies fl,ing post and over what had been defences in the forenoon, but were now ruins, with many passes through it. We had new only an occasional shot after any of the natives who had kept t ► our cover too long, and were trying to escape, but coulu not. if they missed the shot, they were sure of the spear or chin. Tue rime now arrived for Too nova's fitnel revenge. The binidles of dry grass along the entire line was ignited, and thrown into the dried cane-brake; the fresh breeze as s'sted, and carried the blaze onwards ; and very soon there was two miles wide of roaring fire in smart chase of the retreating enemy. It was a terrific sight —a sad sight; scores of wretches must be scorched alive; they could not clear the canes or grass in time to save them-elves. The hills on either side of the pass were too steep to clamber up. In fact, they were in a bed of fire, from which there was no escape. Tue ►ushing and crackling noise of the lotion: , flame as it swept away front us—the wiki and tri umphant shouts of our people—their mad-looking dance, Piot (tor every nosh and plot of ground arotoni us was km fire), gave the wh ,, l , - scene a downright picture of hell.— Dr. Coulter's Adventures in the Pacific. POPERY AS A POLITICAL. AND AS A RELIGIOUS SYS TEM.—The Rocnish system. as a eel:. institure. is ri he peop appears in a hundred unmistakeable instances. The better and purer faith—the faith more in accordance with scrip- tural truth—is daily evidencing its power to engage the minds and win the heat ts of those who are led to tiistin zui,h between its rituals and a reasonable service. Sudh is the indifference with which the more wealthy of the ltom.n Catholic community regard their Church, that they have no-ver het been led AO !ar to tax themselves as to make a suitable provision for the maintenance and the education of their clergy. Left to itseil, the system mus t. fall to the around, from sheer iii:;ifferetic , - on the part of its nominal sunporters ; who would very soon console themselves fir its loss, by commingling with the Protest. ant r:ommun►ty ►n any of the various denominations under which it exists, or becoming incorporated with the Estah linht d Church. But if almost defunct as a religion, what is it as a political system ? IA it not the great bond of union by which the masses ate held rogethe , . and ani mated by the spirit and directed according to the purpose's o f (h ose whose end and aim is a repeal of the legi , litive union? The coming of Christ wat never regarded by the their deliverance from the Romans, than the rtilargecnent of the borders of the Rothi , h Church in Ireland, by the more ardent repealers, as the ius•rurneht which is best capable of working the deliverance of their country from the tyranny of the Saxon rule. And what has been Sir Robert Peet's policv,—bis favourite mistruin for ihe tran qulization of Ireland? augne-nt this power, in the hope ot changing its nature, and takont it. into an alliance with the British governmen , , by which it night be ren dered, not a stimulus to, but a cult, upon, the rebellious tendencies ot the people. We believe a more unfounded expectation never was entertained. h e believe that every addition made to this power ( more especially when it pro• ceeds from conce=sious to violence), will but iuerease the turbulence vi hteh it was intended' to allay, and aug - ment our dangers. We believe that the Rotnish priesthood are irrevocably pledged to courses from which, by the miser able truckling policy which would play their interests: personal or, professional, against their passions and their principles, they net er ran he divtrt, d. Talk of the en dowment of nlynoi , th ! '1 he brit is carefully nibbled off, but the hook is rejected• They will take good care that shall be " lather of the man ;" and whatever e wls, in spirit and in prineinle, in the day s of its poverty, such and no other it will combine when in creased wealth enables it to enlarge its numbers, and " the boy " that inwitut when the luxury and effluence of its proie,s o rs fi o n ff d e i r . - stronger inducements to the Aspiring sons of our peasant pooulation to be admitted wi , hin it. walls. No one i s ab-urd enough to suppose, that a d . fferen t class viduals will become candid Ates for the uffi..e of Ron n i,h priests, because of the higher star lard of living to W hi ch that body, in their educational progress, may now bedome be dispensed with. and the Runtish Church would be sup. plied cv:th clergy as the Establithed Church is suppli e d, by individuals•educated at their own expense, and for e h.,se preparation for 'holy orders a large outlay is made. either by themselves or their parents It remains, there. fore, that no policy of our rulers can exercise soy ben,fi_ cial influence upon the character end the spirit of the Chutch of Rome in Ireland. Upon that character and spirit we have freely offered our opinion; but we must add, that we think it Positively respec able in compari,on with the despicable and unprincipled course of policy wh.ch was adopted towards it by our la►e rulers; a poli cy , whiten those it was intended to cajole. or c mei!' +te, esti mated at its real value ; and which, so far from s►lencing the clamours it was expected to allay, if it only be consip•- tently carried out, must lead to the separation of Great Britain and Ireland.—Dublin University Magazine. THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND THE GREAT BARRIER AGAINST RoME.-Of all the different Protestant uou.es, there is none but our Church. and the Churches in com munion with her. that can make a permanent and power ful resistance against Popery, because she alone, with her sister Churches, takes her stand upon the original consti tution and the ancient faith of the Church Catholic; she about. opposes to the corruptions and usurpations of Po pery, a complete system of pure, primitive, apostolic Christianity. This the Romish Church knows right well; and, therefore, it is, that she concentrates her efforts more and more upon this favourite object of her ambitious hopes—the overthrow of the Church, and the subjugation of the State of England. The Protestant communions of the continent give her little uneasiness, they are so divided among themselves ; and each one within itself so void of fixed principles, of either doctrine or discipline, that they can never present any compact front of opposition to the aggressions of the Papacy. They would fall an easy prey to the machinations of the Church of Rome, if once that church could succeed in sweeping away from the face of Christendom our church, whose very existence, founded as it is on the primitive and apostolic constitution of the Church of Christ, is a standing testimony against the Papal usurpation ; even as her learning, her pure worship, and her orthodox faith, is a standing witness against the ignorance, the abominable superstitions, and soul-destroy ing errors of the Church of Rome.—Dr. Biber's Speech at the National Club. THE CITY OF CHESTER.—At the Conquest, the whole of Cheshire (with the exception of the Bish-ip's property) was granted to a near relation of the Conqueror, Hugh of Avranche, commonly called Hugh Lupus, on account of his favourite device of a wolfe's head. Cheshire then became a county palatine, with courts peculiar to itself ; so that any offence against " the sword of Chester" was visited with as severe penalties as a similar offence against the crown at Westminster. Hugh resided in the castle at Chester, where be held his courts and parliaments, in which sat the superiors of the religious houses of the country, together with his eight great sub-infeudatoties. The succeeding earls maintained the same state down to the reign of Henry 111., when the earldom of Chester was se zed and united to the crown ; the large tenures created by the Conqueror having, for the most part, re verted to the crown by forfeiture or martiage. The an ci: nt earls of Chester had the power of granting privilege or sanctuary to criminals, a power which is venerally supposed to have been exercised by the church alone. Our space will not allow us to do more than select a few historical events, of which Chester has been the scene. It was in this city that the Welsh, in 1300, acknowledged the sovereignty of the English, the homage of the free holders being received by the infant Prince of Wales, Ed ward of Carnarvon. In the year 1506 Chet.ter was afflicted with that remarkable disease, the sweating sick ness, which citified tiff ninety-one householders in three daps; and a few Nears afterwards a pestilence made such ravages, that the streets of the city were overgrown with grass. In 1558 oc .urred in Chester an event trifling in itself, hut of the greatest importance to the Pret- scants of those days. Dr. Henry Cole, Dean of St. Paul's, is said to have been e, trusted with the commission issued by Mary to empower the Lord Deputy of Ireland to prose cute those who refused to observe the ceremonies of the Roman Catholic religion. The doctor, on his way to Ireland, stopped at Chester, and having put up at the Blue Posts Inn, in Bridge-street, was visited by the mayor, to whom he communicated the business in which he was engaged ; opening his cloak bag, be took out a leathern box, observing. with exul►ation. " I e had that whim] which would lash the heretics of Ireland." The ho•tess, Mrs. Elizabeth Mottetshed, overheard this by accident, and having a brother in Ireland, who was a Protes'ant, she' became al.irmed for his safety, and took the opportunity, while the doctor was attending the mayor down stairs, to open the leathern box tak" and 1 --- - ' - out the commission, .rave in its place a pack of cards with tbe knave of clubs placed the upp , rmost. Ihe dean arrived in Ireland on the 17th De cember, 1558. Bring introduced to the Dfputy Lord Fitzwaller and the Privy Council, he explained tle natnre of his embassy at more length, and then presented the box, containing, as he thought, the main i-sion ; his I , rdship to ok it, and having opened it, behe d. with con siderable surprise, the park of cards with the knave on the top. The doctor was thunderstruck ; and in much c, , nfusion affirmed that he certainly had a commission, and that some artful person oust have made the ex. change. " Then, said his lord,hip, " you have nothing to do but to return to Londr,n and get it renewed ; mean while. we'll shuffle the cards " The doctor was obliged to follow this unwelcome advice, although in such a disa greeable season of the year ; but before he could reach Ireland a second tim-, the queen died, and her sangui nary commission became useless. The woman, whose presence of mind and dexterity had thus providentially in terprsed, was rewarded by Elizabeth with a pen-ion of forty rounds a-year. During the civil war in the reign of Charles 1., Chester stood several s .iges, which la•ted about three years. The inhabitants who had sided with the king endured great privations ; but, at last, when the seige was converted into a blockade, they surrendered on honourable terms to the parliamentary army, on the 3d February, 1645. A century afterwards. (1745,) Chester was fortified against the Pretender. In the reign of William 111. Chester was one of the six cities permitted to issue a silver coinage.—Sharpe's .london Magazine. PROROGATION OP PARLIAMENT.—It 1$ DOW the ge nera! opinion that Parliament wilt be prorogued on Tues day, the 25th instant, or Thursday, the 27th, but of course the precise day,cannot at present be known.— Stant:bird. On Wednesday and Thursday the drawing sketches, &c., of the late Mr. B. R. Haydon were sold by auction. The Duke of Wellington purchased a portrait of his charger, and the auctioneer bought in the large picture of Alfred and the Brir)sh Jury for £2OO, it was under stood, for Sir Robert Peel. The other articles sold fur rather small sums. THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—The communicati between Portsmouth and London, by the electric tele graph, is stopped for the present, the lightning having taken such effect upon the aires as to preclude the possi bility of working the telegraph. The dial in the Gosport terminus is rendered useless by the electric fluid having passed into it, and deranged all the machinery. A BOY ON FIRE IN THE STREET.—On Thursday afternoon, a boy named Edward Rose was carrying a jar of vitriol through Holborn, slang by a strap over his shoulder, when he struck it against a lamp-post, and broke it ; the liquid poured down his back, burnt his clothes, and injured the flesh. A quantity of water (lime would have been better, had it been at hand), was thrown over him. He is considered in a dangerous state. On Monday morning, the Lord Mayor of the City of London, while waiting at the Blackwell Railway termi nus, Fenchurch-street, was robbed of a told watch and three gold seals, of the value of at lea-t 60 guineas. Ills lordship, we understand, is much chagrined at his loss, not so much for its pecuniary value, as from the fact that the watch was the very last which had been finished by a much-esteemed deceased friend. COMMITTAL OF A SHAREBROKER AT HUDDERSFIELD FOR EMBEZZLEMENT.—On Friday last Mr. George North, a sharebroktr, at Huddersfield, was committed for trial for embezzling a sum of money entrumed to him for the payment of the price of thirty-five We,t Yorkshire Railway shares, purchased by him, as broker, from Messrs. W. Moore and Co., in who.e office he had previously been as clerk and cashier. Bail was admitted for his appear ance. Mr. Chandler, a celebrated grower of camellia Jaroni cas, in the Wandsworth-road, London, died on Sunday lest from the effects of grief at the great loss of property he sustained by the storm of the preceding day ; and on Monday, his son, a fine young man, in partnership whit his father, Pas found to be raving mad. It is supposed that the mind of the unfortunate gentleman was affected by the sudden death of his father, and the circumstances attendant thereon. At a quarter-past eleven, on Sunday night we k, an alarming occurrence happened in Middle-row, Holborn• bars, London. Two houses, 22 and 23, almost suddenly fell in with a loud crash. Happily, just before, a police constable was passing, and. hearing the noise of the break ing of window panes. looked towards the houses, and saw them tottering and bulging. Ile warned the passers-by of the impending danger, and, a hilt sod. ing, the inmates of the houses, to the number of 10 or 12, rushed out and escaped. SINGULAR FATAL FALL FROM A WINDOW —On Wednesday Mr. Bedford held an inquest at +he Black Horse, Bedfordbury, on the body of Emma Redman, whose parents reside at No. 10. L.-ingley-cnurt. Long- On the evening of Sun , lay Ltst deceased's starer, aged nine years, was carrying her down the third flight of stairs, when the newly-na led shoes she wore, ea'ehir g in one of the steps, caned her to •tumble on to tt , e landing place, and the child which she held was plehed through the lower part of a window, opening to the stai , case, iut the back yard, from a height of 40 fret. Verdict, "Ac cidental death." NARROW ESCAPE FROM DROWNING OF THE EARL OF LEICESTER AND F. A wri.tot, ESQ.—A very melan choly ai.cidi , nt happened on Wednesday night, b tween e ight and nine o'clock. on Ho!khan, Sands. The Earl of Leicester. accompanied by F. Astley, E-q., were amns tog themselves at dratightsea, when the tide, which was flow ing fast, surrounded them before they were awa•e of it. The Earl and Mr. Astley, both being able swimmers, ma naged to reach the shore in safety, although much ex hausied—having endeavoured to save a young m•tn (ser vant to Mr. Astley) who was with them, tut unfortu nately wi hut surcess. SERIOUS AFFRAY AT SUNDER!. AN D.-A serious affray took place in this town, on yure.daynight last. tion for its results. It war originated by three drunken soldiers, who, being arrested by a pnlic mur in their dis orderly conduct, commenled severely beating him. Tne in,,b 1,4 i-tiered, and took part wilt' the aggressors; and, atter a scene of general disorder, peace was only at length secured, by the military being driven into barrack by a picket of men with fixed bayonets. The policeman was, et one time, looked upon as dead, and is will in a very precarious state, from the brutal injuries which he has sustained. A recent trait of gend feeling among a class little un derstood, and often harshly condemned, deserves. we think, passing record at our hands. The clergyman of Kirton had a portion of his glehe this year in *heat. When nearly ripe, a body of labourers working on a neighbouring farm sent him Vis message:—" We see. sir, that your corn is nearly ready, and we are glad to see it looks sell ; hut we don't hear who is to cut it. Now we should like to cut it; and, if you'll give us leave, we we will some down some evening. after hours, and when the day's work is done, and reap it for you." Assent was readily given ; and on two evenings—" after houis"—a band of ten or twelve labourers, true to their word, came down to the glebe, set to work with a will, and very speedily put the crop in sheaf. infrich Journal. CONTINENTAL PRODUCE. —The fullowiitg supplies of cattle, provisions, and fruit from the cottinent took place on one <lay in the early part of last week :—The steam ship Princess Rush from Hamburg, brought casks of butter, 4 hampers and 32 baskets of cucumbers, 14 sieves of plums and 16 oxen ; the steamship Ocean. from Rotterdam, 2,880 cheeses, 57 baskets of yea , t, 199 bas kets of entrants, 24 baskets of apricots, 77 baskets Cf plums, 56 baskets of pears. 1 2 baskets of cucumbers, 974 ba•.kers or various kinds of fruits. 26 casks of pickb-s. and 206 sheep, with other articles. the produce re Hoil ti : the Rapid, from Harlingen.- 552 casks of batter. 100 cheeses, 73 cows, 124 sheep, 3 bulls, 4 calves, 8 packages of poultry, end 234 bags of oats; the Wilberforce. from Antwerp, )8 baskets of fruit; the stertril-sh;p Loch Ity.in. from Harlingen, specially des►t tehed for the pin pose. 76 cows, a quantity of you t►y. 61 lambs, and 178 sheep ; the sail rig packet Jonj. Char le•, from Rushing. 198 sheep ; and the Cite of London, from Rotterdam, 25 904 cheeses. 266 sheep, 53 oxen and cows, 53 lambs, 23 calves. 42 casks of butter, and 301 baskets of fruit, the whole the produce of Holland. .THE YORKSHIRE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY: AN NUAL MEETING AT WAKEFIELD.—TheInth. annual meeting or the Yorkshire Agrieulturel Seciety, was held at Wakefield, during the past week. Though an excellent meeting in many respeets, it has not been FO brilliant as on former occasions. Tim entries of stock is the ordinary cla=ses have been as large as in any previous year, but there is a falling off •n the extra stock, as com pared with last year. Tce number of eompany, however, that has a tended the show has been very large, especially on Thursday. when the town of Wakefield seemed to have all the animation of a parliamentary election. The pat i.-11 church bells rang merrily during the nay, and up to noon the arrival of visitors was constant and numerous. Mon day and Tuesday were devoted to the trial 01 implements, and Wednesday and Thursday to discussions, the exhibi tion, and other more special nhjeets of the society A public breakfast took place at the Strafford Arms Hotel, at ten for half-past nine o'clock, on Wednesday mim ing. The party numbered about eighty of the leading agriculturists in the county, Lord Wenlock, president of 030 society, occuoing the chair. SUICIDE OF AN ANTI-PREDESTINARIAN.—An in quet.t was h4l on Saturday week, at the West London Union Workhouse, West-stret t, Smitl 6- Id. before Mr. .1 Payne, the deputy coroner, on the body of George Clayton, aged 62, a butcher. According. to the evidence of tt e w'tnesses, the deceaaed was very fond of metanhy ... t. lea' or philosophical argument. and not long ago, while engaged in a eantroverAy of th;s kiwi. one of Cie eom pany2?rgned in support of the doctrine of • 1 predestina- with the principle of " free will." The'disen‘sion grow ing warm, and the deceased becoming excite►l, he pulled out his butcher's kni►'e a d st,labed himself in the side, in order to gain his point that a m in was a " tree agent." He had been for a 1-.), g time past living with a woman of had character, the wife of his n' phew, and on Saturday week stabbed himself in the same place as b v fore. in consequence. as he said. of the woman rnbb him of his goods and running away He remained locked up it. his room until Tuesday without Ilia food. and was then taken to the worichou•e, where he died on Thurs day. Verdict. temporary insunity.—Daily News. PRICE OF BREAD AND FLOUR.—A provincial paper (the Lincidn Standard) contains the following :—lf flour is to remain at its present price, the repeal of the corn.lass will have no effect upon the price of bread, anti of course cannot in that respect be stir benefit to the working classes. While the price of wheat has fallen 2s. per quarter. floor has only fal'en 4 , 1 I,er stone The profit on a quarter of wheat may be easels? estimated :- 1 qr. of red wheat for good seconds flour (36 s. d. stone), present price 2 4 0 Ground into 28 stone of flour, selling at 2s. per 2 16 0 18 stone of aborts, bran, &c , at is. per stone average 0 8 0 3 4 0 Leaving 20s. profit to the miller on 1 quarter of wheat ! This does not include extra weight for potatoes, salt, water, been meal, bones, plaster of Paris, Diachylon plasters, and other ingredients which are often found in the bread when made up. 1 . THE LATESToRm--At Corwen, about eleven miles from Llangollen,. the t e mpest, which has been so general •$. anc ;entlanil. broke with fearful violence about tour o'clock on Monday afternoon last, continuing till about ten o'cl,.ck on Tuesday morn ipg. The rain fell in torrents, and cataracts of water rushed from the neighbouring mountain, bearing down mud, earth, and stones wiib such terrible violence as to THE LIVERPOOL STAMiAiiii. GENERAL MISCELLANY The cattle of Prince Albert have been attacked by dis ease, and his royal h'ghness has, within the last few weeks, lost twenty or thirty valuable oxen an•t cows. , Isaac Wareing Harris. a dissenting preacher at Bangor, has been committed for trial for having stolen a purcel containing a Bible and three sovereign-. A Severn salmon was ext,ibited last week in Glone-ster weighing 41Ibs. It is the largest salmon ever taken from . _ the Severn. • Toe total amount of annual salaries 'received by the members of the whig government is somewhere about £130.000. A pretty agreeable result of parry warfare. A surgeon has recently been appointed to attend the Carnarvon Union WOrkhouse, which has accommodation for 2uo inmates, at the munificent wages of £lO annually. A dog was recently found in a cavity in a well, at Oyu. ho, NorthamptonAire, where it had remained for four weeks, with nothing but watt rto sustain life. The High Sheriffs of the, three Adjoining counties of Somerset, Gloucestershire, and Moomoutb, are retired att rneys. GUAVA —A vessel just arrived in the West India Do,:ks from Patagonia, with a cargo of guano, had on board, in addition to 400 tons of that article, four tons weight of crystalised guano. . . The Mrs Lockhart, who has become a Papi?.t is rot the sistt r-in-law or relative of the Editor of the Quarterly, but .a widow of a Chichester clergyman of the Puseyite School. It it rumoured that Mr. Payne has declined the pnr e'.a•e of Lord George Bentinck's horses, and that Mr. Ford is likely to become the owner of them. The number is stwed to be one hundred and seventy. We are happy in having to ware that her Majesty has commanded the name of Mr. Wilderspin, the founder of in'ant schools, to be placed on the list of pensioners fur a n of £lOO. Diming the season. the gamekeeper at Duff. House has slot upwards of 2,90 ra‘lbits, which, by order of the E4rl of Fite, were distril tar! among the poor and work ing classes in Banff and to neighbourhood. A TIDY HIT. Mr. S. Burgess, a w 11-known crick eter in' B dft 'dshire, in a match at Dunsiabie Downs, a f,w days since, from one hit made fifteen runs. The ball required six men to throw it in. It is now confidently believed that in a very brief space of time the perpe'r.tor of the brutal murder of a police man at Dagenham, will be arrested. Jealousy and re v e n v . , not phind , r, it is quite evident, actuate(' the mur d-rer.—Essex Herald. R am.% INS OF ANTIQUITY.-!t number of coifing, and a Roman altar have b , en di•covereJ on taking down a portion of the church of St. Dennis. Wohnente, 'York. a few du% s ago. The altar is supposed to Le 1300 or 1400 yeArs old. It is stated that one of Lord Pembroke's principal te nants in Wilt-hire has advertised all his stock fcr sale; and that Borne other fanners in the neighbourhood are meditating a similar withdrawal from agriculture before it is 'nn Thirty .nine gentlemen have been gr:v!tted as ensigns of corm-ts in Vie army during the preceding month, thirty of whom have pnreia.ed their eotuniissimis c k vsryihg in price from £450 to £841) each, t,nd au.ouriting in the ag gregate to the sum of £14,530. - t• a wedding, nn Thum bile being rung to c , 3ratc week, one of the bells of St. Michael's Church. Bath, fell from its hinges, and had it riot hung between two rafters, it would have crushed the organ, and probably killed three or four persons. DEPARTIORR OF MR. LOUDEN FOR TFIE CONTINENT. —Mr. R Cr,hden M. P., arid Mrs. Cobden, arrived at the Bedford Hotel on Wednesday night, and the next morning sailed from the pier fur Dieppe, On a continental tour. A j urneyman ennper, aced 53. named Robert' Keste van, dird at Sheffield a few days ago. of lork.jaw, which had re:tilted from bia haring accidentally given himself a blow with a hammer on his left thumb, about three weeks before his ueath. The Morning Herald of Friday states that, at a meet ing of Conservative peers, held at Lord Stanley's house, it was unatiimonsly resnlved t ot to proceed to a division on the Sittar Duties Bill, but to express dick sentiments on the subj-c r t. . T.im Thumb, the othisr day, visited Stamford. where was shown him a suit i.f Daniel . Lambert's c:othes, with which the GenerAl was highly delighted ; he passed through one of 'he sleeves of the cout, and, got into one of the stockingq, in which he had as much room as a man would have in a sack It is said that an act of parliament has recently passed for the formation of Docks at the mouth of the Thames, adjacent to Canvey Island, arid about - 26 miles from Lon don, to consist of 200 acres ; and that it is the intention of the promoters to call them "The Cobden Free Trade Docks.' A COMPETITOR WITH EIRRENHEAD.—About three years ago, there wt re more than one hundred houses to let Gri!itsby, ho -k and railway works have in since be new _ _ been going on, all chose houses have been let, and about fi , ry•seven !Raises have been erected within the past year. • D ck " WO° sian threaten destruction to everything that lay in the course of the current. Th e v ill age was comp ' e t.ly i nun dated, and huge blocks of stone and masses of cart I were depo " Pirkw'ck rapers" and Mrs. Trollope's sited in the fields, gardens, and roads, so as to impede the a s b have recently • been translated into Passage of the trails, destroy the crops, and level the a i eriocieal publication " B,hliotelca dlya shrubs and fruit trees. The force of the , torrerts which ruts erica." In the same " Biblioteka" have appeared tram, hereon of several of Shakspere's rushed from the hills was so great as to tear up the soil, plays, said to be very and deep watercourses we re rum's through several fields cr • , :taN',. xeruted, and of some .others of the principal and gardens. Some of the houses were seriously injured. works of our literature. One man was killed, and several narrowly escaped de- Toe sob rription towards" The Elizabeth Fly Refuge," struction. The inhabitants were ten ified at the mighty e, a bkoilytewdabsy struck light.- for aff,r,ling temporary fond and shelter f or destitut e fe- rush of the waters u p on their village, which threatened to males on their discharge from the metropolit a n g a o's. now destroy the whole of their smaller buildings. Several amounts to near £5,000. it mnoest the subser ptions lives have been lost in various parts of the country. In within the last few days are their Mvjesties the King and thenort A h t Queen of Denmark £5O, and an anonymous donation of Wing. £2OJ, from an individual signing A. U. C. by a flash, and killed. on theajtot.. t E v 7se o r r d t e h n r , ee i e l) e F r i/ o r ' : I s o T h il a s v n e j y bee n Aug. 11, IRid. MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.—We regret to state that according to the table of mortality issued yes terday by the registrar of birhs and deaths, the number of deaths still c , mtinues very much greater than the weekly average either of the last five years or of the last five summers The total number of deaths within the bills of mortality in the week ending on Saturday last was 1,086. the average of the last five slimmers, ordinarily the moat healthy season, being i nly 898, and that of the last five years, including the more unhealthy seasons of spring and autumn, amounting to only 9'B. The total excess of deaths above the summer average is therefore 188. THE LATE FLOGGING CASE AT HO!JNSLOW BAB- A tcirs.—The jury summoned to investigate the cause of the death of the unfortunate soldier who recently died at Hounslow barracks, after having received 150 lashes, for an assault upon his Srrgeant, have delivered the folkwing verdict—" The jury say that private John" White died from the effects of a cruel and severe:flcigging, which he received on the 15 h of June, 1846, at the Cavalry Bar racks, Heston. That the said flogging wa.infl cted under a sentence passed upon him by a di-trict court-martial, composed of officers of the 7th Hussars, and that said. cour -martial was authorised by law to pass that sentence upon him. That the flogging was inflcted upon the back and neck, and that James Lnwe Warren, the surgeon, and Colonel Whyte, the commanding officer of the sail regiment, were present at the fl igging by which the death of White was caused, and in returning their ver..ict the jury cannot refrain from expressing their horror and dis gust at the existence of any law among the statutes of this realm which permits the revolting punishment of flogging the British soldier; and the jury implore every man in this king:tom to j hand and heart in praying the legis lature for the abolition of every law, order, or regulation, which permits this disgraceful Punishment, which they consider as a slur upon the humanity and fair name of this country." THE SUPPOSED MURDER AT NEWCASTLF, The mystery attending the death of Nit. Richard Lowthin, who, it will be remembered. was found drowned in the river 'Fyne, near the High Crane, at Newcastle. wears to be in progress of being removed. Fr-m infirnaatioe obtained by the police-officers in the course of their in quiries, they were induced to apprehend a wothan of im moral character, named Ann Macartnry, and a young man named George Thoburn, who have been brought op before the magistrates at the police-court, and re manded for further exam;nat.on. Tnoburn has since [bath. a •oluntary statement. from alhich it appears. that on the night of Fr day. the 21th ult.. the body of the de cent., d basing , been found on the following day, the de ceased, who was intoxicated. wes in the company of Ma. money, Thoburn. and others, wandering about from place to place, and drinking at various puhlio-houses; and, that, while in the open shed upon the quay, the party robbed the deceased of his watch and money, and rhea made off. Wnether they contented themselves with this, or afterw; rds threw or pushed the unfortunate man over the quay into the river, is yet a mystery. The police have found the deceased's watch at a pawnbroker's. where it had been pledged by Thohurn, and they are actively en gaged in traeing the other implicated parties. At the ad journed inquest, which was held on Monday evening list, no additional evidence was adduced, the cornn , r deeming it proper to adjourn the proceedings for another week, to allow the polic.. further time to investigate the matter. PARCELS' CHARGES BY RAILWAY. — On Saturday week, a meeting ut beoksellers and wholesale stationers in London was held at the London Tavern, to adopt a petition to Government again- , the following clause in !he Bristol and Birmingham and Midland Consnlidation Bill, and to prevent tne insertion of similar clauses in railway bill+ for the future :—" That it shall not be lawful to in elude in one packet several parcels of varione sorts, and intendel for vericus individuele, but that it shall be law ful tor the Midlarid Railway Company to chnree a separ ate sum for each such parcel, although urenv are included in one packet." The Right Hononrebte the Mayor pre sided. His lordship having taken the chair, the intended oelition was reed. It set forth that the retail hooksel lerS in the provinces have frequently to carte to their wholesale correspondents in London for various small ar ticles arid hooks which their customers require, and that it has always been the habit to pack these together. Trott it fee never been objected to by any carrier by land or water before the introduction of railways. That in 1844 the Great Western Company applied for such a clause as the one complained of, and for permission to in' flict a penalty, but that it was subsequently withdrawn, and that a similar one, introduced by the London and York, in 1815. was also withdrawn. The petition con cluded by stating that, in the event of the clause being permitted, the expenses of carriage would he greater than the profits on the goods. The petition was adopted end numerously signed, and Lord John Russell was requested to present it and supper its prayer. DISCOVERY OF TWO M ORDERERS AT BARNARD CAS' TLE, DURHAM.—An extraordinary sensation has beta produced, in consequence of the disclosure of the murder of two persons, whose deaths until now remained veiled iu mysiery. The facts are as follows:—in the early part of August, in last year, a )(meg man named Yates, a tale lor, and a girl with whom he was acquainted, of the neon of Raine, were missed, and no tidings'could 'be heard 01 either of them until a fortnight atter, when. the body 0 l Yates was found on the brink of the river Tees ; and few days after the inquest, the body of the young woman was found in the river also, but several miles further down. 'some few weeks ago there were some rumour afloat charging upon three young teen the murders 0 these persons named, but these soon subsided, not it Mou e statements to a rut r a l g a e y . n morning tned t i h u rs rn t . w h a m scan Te woman eh police clfit er as lay a charge of murder upo n th ree young men, the n Barkerdßrerteonh,idltinn,e, jn ~ and Barker. a g ainst the un ker. It aepeare torturer,. l Yates, who h a d i n f ormed ag bon upo n tho stati ct of a coat, a filch w as missing p r om a hnu-e in the neighbourhood, where he h a d b een act i ng as un d e r bniliff; and thq the three accused persomsonertit g Yates red sweetheart, on thenver batik. near the dwelling of the woman Humphreys. Barker and Breacon got up an altercation with the deceased , struck him severtly, and then threw h m it , to the raver, at that time much flooded. The girl Raine screamed and threatened to tell ; and, persisting in her threat, she was also thrown into the raver. The gill Fl mow, ys was induced by fear to swear secrecy ; hut on Monday week was driven by the state of her mind to confebs, Rainer one of those charged with having committed the crime , has not yet been secured. The other two, whose names are Breacon and Barker, are in r moody. and 11. e countf maeietrittes residing in the neighbourhood .of BisboP Auckland, are now making the fullest inquiries into OW remarkable and paint,l case. DESTRUCTIVE FLOOD TN WALES.—One of the most dreadful floods that has ever occurred in Wales took place on Thu , sday week, at Tatsern, and in the n eigh-. bourhoed of Abcrayron. Cardiganshire. At about twelve o'clock at noon, the long-peat up mountain torrents broke their bounds, and lashing themselves into fury 85 they descended into the valleys, b-came at length resist less in their force. The Tivy burst is banks, arid flooded the highway leading from Lampeter to Aberv.twith for many miles. doing immense damage to the roads, in some parts of which gaps 10 feet in width were caused by the e %cited torrent. But the hea:ieet visits ion of this Irene pestuous deluge took place at Talsarn. The river here, which had previously been comparatively tranquil. ani is at no time of any great width or depth, ruse at about 1 4 o'clock like a vast well, and, dashing onward in its head' long course, swept away no lose than 25 houses in the, village, with all th-ir eontents. But the most awful pan of the tale remains to be told. Not only property be ' came the prey of the remorseless destroyer, but even li fe did not escape. Dr. Rog rs, of A berme rig, a gentletinla of property and highly respected in the neighbourhood (being also a c iurity magistrate). was proceeding along the highway leading from Trlsaru to Abery-twith,acconi" pettier' by his servant. both being on horseback. Sad. s d f rt e oa r in : , l thus' t y ebx: both ti v ie a ni s e, t ut. ,:oatined suddensw beingsep t across andd iuq p a ralys in ghd er r u p oad n e ed s . sw we re r l el in an ts ffn 4a s n atch ed h4 l. at escape. and suffocating and destroying its victims. The T ' oitanta o. ..alsarn, already hor ro r- s t r i c k en at the calamity that had befallen thrms , lves,(.toed all theft sympathies aroused anew when the dead bodies of Dr? - It igers and his unfortunate servant were whirl.4l througe. their village by the infuriated stream. The lifeless Car' cases of the hott•es following their riders' remains con," pleted the dismal realities of this awful scene. After the violence of the storm had in some measure abated, the deva-tation that was perceivable wa► truly lameoteble• Numbers of fam lies had bten rendered howeless, and, ill consequence of the lose of their furniture, utterly ruined► while the swollen and mangled body of Dr. Rogers bore melancholy evidence of the fatality of the event. Withia the memory of man no such flood has ever occurred ill the Va'e of Ayrnn. DEATH OF DWARKANAUTH TAGORE.—We regret (0 Scale 'hat this distinguished personage expired on .41.111. ': day last, at his residence in Albemarle-sirtet. at the age of 51 years. His demise had, from hi- a disease of the liver, been expected. His claim of WA d&-cent from one of the five Brahmins who, several reninrieil barertkh,rveiii were unable to perform , ,ited 13ettgaltocelebrate rites which their inferiot b rated in the books of the religion and laws at pre,ent be lieved in by the Hindoos. It has, therefore, never bees doubted that Dwarkanau'h Tagore was a noble of the highest rank in his country. Trie claim that this personage has on the present generation is for bi° unbounded philanthropy. No reference to creed stayed ( his purse in the cause of charity--in the adviincement 0 education—in the promotion of colleges, whether for na: tire or Christian, and his name will ne proudly as*ticiate o 'with all the noble inqitutions fluurishing in Calcutta' Ile lived just long enough to reap the fruits of his tri' umphant energy, in witnessing the briliiant success of hi, two native (Hindoo) students in the University of Lon.- don, who last week passed through the Ctill , ee of Sorr aeons. They were sent to this country and iholly wined at his sole riper*. No public un , tertaking 0"; ever broached in Indi a w ith ou t Dwarkatioutb Tagnr.: beit,g a largo contributor—no rnercant‘le establ.blircen' ever required aid in money or counsel in their trariss.," Lions that he did not come forward. Civilians and milr tart men can attest his generosity—strangers can testa to his unbounded hospitality—and artists of Europe raa well be proud that some of the noblest statuary of Gib son, paintings of the old and modern masters, are place" in his galleries and add to the beauties of his garden P lace. The taste and munificence of the benevolent Hinc l e t are spoken of f ar an d w id e . T ru ly ma y it be said of h" — that such faults as he had were of his comitry's ptq 1 dices, hut his. virtues were h;s own. in the word., o f cero—" Tu . fraier, In pater, 1u amieus, b on us ell Its wre priuceps." His count, y has sustained a 10°1 10 58 which in some generations may tT retrieved ; but i n A the opinion of those who know India it is consider e d doubtful if there ever be " his like again." It is said Ol e the landed property of he. late Iliboo is next in exto l ! i f the dominions of the Reid of 13urdaar , ear and pays n eur i, r , ten lacs of revenue to the East India Company Y ', It is said that his remains will not, as was at heft sat', posed, be embalmed and sent to India, but will be dcl' sited in the cemetery at Kensall-green.