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Zaeraturr. FA CE lotions. A Poem. By John Tod Seeley, Burnside, and Co. V / London .ct of the reverend writer of the poem before us ce the views , of the Evangelical Alli ance , an d ,• . ce all classes of Christians to lay aside their dif s in non-essential points, and to unite in an effort note the spread of real religion amongst mankind. he feasibility, or the reverse, of such an effort, we s critics, nothing to do. Our business is with the tion as a poem, and with the way in which the of the writer has been handled. Brown addresses himself, at the commencement work, to the administering of a castigation of what with which various sects are [I towards each other; and, in doing so, is not iring in his hits. Popery, in especial, receives no ess at his hands, and Episcopacy very little. The tg is his treatment of the latter, which certainly t seem to us very likely to conciliate matters, or about the Christian union desired : Lo! there Episcopacy struts supreme! Rapt in her antique, apostolic dream ; of state a with well feathered claws, She crows o'er all conventic. Prompt to transfix, with talon-tests, A lordly ruff encompasses her neck, lawn and luxury bedeck ; .er monstrous maw with sinecures is stuffed, Her pompous head pith crown and mitre coifed; Crane-like, she looks but little to her toes, The citrates, though on them her reverence goes A cuckoo wight she shelters 'neath her wings, :e jackdaws, and laws; hich Inz That roundelays of Rome devoutly sings, And fraudulently hatches in her nest A brood that her authority contest: Strange I that with lips of holy things which speak, Puseyites the pay of perjury should seek : Strange ! that their step-mother gi% es bed and board To those who 'gainst her whet their traitor sword!" aptist, too, his a rude hit administered in Stanza N 1 dome tic waddles o'er the ground, Which ne'er is right, till half in water drowned; Not cf the genus goose, and yet allied, A strange embodiment of humble pride; If as a duckling wetted, 't will not do, The full.grown duck must get a ducking too; As if the sign of grace forbidden were To babes, who grace confessedly may share I" e other passages, in which the writer describes the of things to arise when the union of Christians is ted, are written in a much better spirit and are in taste. The following is one of those to which we ' But let thy meditative eye alight, And one sole spot arrest thy stedfast sight; Britannia's glory and disgrace, Shouldst thou be crowned the Capital of grace, Thy teeming streets, thy squares of dusty green, (Each in itself a town and rural scene,) Thy monuments of vast masonic art, Thy river highway, and thy monied mart, Thy giant bridges, that their isthmus stretch, An i fleets that of the world the commerce fetch, Might all remain :—But Man, mysterious Man — Boundless as space, yet bounded as a span— A seed the sport of every wind that blows, And yet the tree immort'" Plaything of Time, e' Or spurned as dross, or set in diadem— Ah ! what the change that would transfigure Thee, Wert thou with Scripture's second sight to see! No more would counters, spread with rich and rare, Furnish of Vanity the gaudy fair; No more would Luxury's ignoble skill Larders and cellar, with its dainties fill, Nor helpless Art (like streams that cannot rise Above the source in which their birth-place lies' 1-er y that grows; limental uer marble, or -ours mix, And vainly strive the Beautiful to fix ; Nor Intellect her God-like powers employ, To frame a law-suit, or to mend a toy ; Nor Poe,l , her magic lantern trim. To paint a butterfly, or sketch a whim ; Nor Music of the heart each fibre thrill, With fancies—fairy harbingers of ill; Nor Eloquence, with wild rEolian note, Grandiloquent o'er straws and air-bells float ; Nor trifling Legislation condescend To vote a nuisance, or a highway mend. Oh not Were Christ king of all hearts, each rule Supreme would issue. from his rightful school, And Parliaments and Judges only meet, To seat them at His equitable feet ; And noons now spent in bars -' allowed air, 3 Jetiov And Contempla And I And e,r Or cease, or on the Kir les huml aristocrats of Lamb enthroned proclaim, ly strife who best shou'd bless his name;) - I no Babylon wert Thou! d with one ti Their tkh London ! t A nuptial N Revelation's Lord, 1 with zeal, with ecstasy adored ! " d, Nature ew esc'ptions the style is easy and flowing, zt .treated. suited to the subj VARIETIES SINGULAR COINCIDENCE.—The only persons ob dtofor the borough of Bewdley, as not entitled to their names retained in the list of voters for the .ern division of the county of Worcester, are Benja- Halfpenny, of Mainble, and William Penny, of thorn Bush, Bewdley. iTsteat. Foacts.—A poor Welsh miner, who had induced to join a riot, when under examination be magistrates at Newport, repe : ►tedly exclaimed as —" I wur never for vissikful force." Being replied—" Why, zur, I ❑ever explain himself, wur vor pysonin um !" ZATURAL ALARIJ9I.—To those who wish to rise early ing the summer months, the following plan is worth r attention :—Go into your garden in the dusk of the ing, and pick a flower in which a dumbledore has up its night's lodging, place it near your chamber previous to going to bed. Soon after sunrise, sect will commence a very loud tune on its trumpet, same time beating its wings against the glass in )uring to escape. This will soon awake you ; when out of bed, open the window, let your living "ti proceed to apparel yourself. AND FOREIGN 1 1 )1.ARKETs.—In England 27 per duty was called monopoly; but the same persons raised this cry here, called a3O per cent. duty in Tica " Free Trade." There the manufactures of natry, Nuneaton, and Birmingham, had to pay one- of their value to Uncle Sam and Brother Jonathan e shape of taxes; and he wanted to know why the ace of the wastes and prairies of Uncle Sam and dot pay a share of our taxes ate of prohibition, but he wished .s who sent their produce here pay a .:s. Sir Robert Peel wished the people , to receive the produce of other nations free .oat they might have them at a low cost. yet he cbjection to levy high taxes upon the produce of )untry,—on malt, on spirits, on salt, and on the f heaven. But Sir Robert Peel's sympathies lay rection of this country but in that of foreign -,tl in the case of timber and sugar, -sed the price to rise abroad, fit. When the duties were salt, and glass, the parties lanufacture of tl ose articles d not all go to the consu :en, and he did not ob- He thought the proper . emitting taxes was to remit those which pressed our people and not those which pressed upon fo aers, that our countrymen and not foreigners might ive the benefit.—Lord George Bentinck's Speech. KETCH Or JOHN CUNNINGHAM, THE POET.—John -ham was born in Dublin, some time in the year was the eldest of seven children. Nursed and 7.p of poverty, his father became suddenly af prize in the English lottery of £l2OO. On this nerchant, spent the whole of the sum, time among the list of bankrupts. , ne has told us. Both parents , teligion through life of their rudiments of education he of Drogheda, and had n little French, when He wai no advoc he fore sion of duty ca igner got the be in the benefi thy were our ccuntry ) their sharing in the 29, acid I in the 1 to his own home, his of authorship, and, Dublin Theatre a two or the Lass of Spirit," to hive borrowed the plot of ;n, he brough !ailed " Love Garrick is s iced, had a run of Spirit" was favour nights, and procured ling more substantial, at least the Here he became acquainted with ning his talent to lie —a step which Ritson 3 or, if not sort of the theatr, ative art, for )ented of, a And joining the company of an itine manager, crossed into England, and added the cha r of the strolling player to that of the poor poet. This - f unsettled life he must have led for some twenty to the publication of his poems. What vicis ^e he psseri through in this long career of now in sorrow, the companion of the ed in body and in mind. preserved will chew the :vv., in min, vhich he was at times reduced. Burns had it Woods, a player, who knew Cunningham well, ]ed him much. " A fat dignitary of the church," 4. " coming past Cunningham one Sunday, as rod in some stream near primanded him severely for such day. The poor poet, with that manner which was his peculiar racteristic, replieu, that he hoped God and his rever would forgive his seeming profanation of that sacred as he had no dinner to eat but what lay at the bottom never led him as far as the north, and, it is be. verence )vVevei, he -0 • le acquainted with Robert " and lively poet, at whose own brilliant flame. But Cun ghatn was modest, and his friends, happily too judi did not buoy him up with false bladders of impro- Ritson, the antiquary, who knew him well, was unequalled as a Frenchman, and gftd " I remember him," adds Ritson, the wr :hi Burns kin her characters lent in Orator Gruel." Shields, Sunderland, Dur tockton, Whitby, Scarborough, Newcastle, and oc lly, Northampton, were the fields of his exertions. e places his talent for prologues and epilogues was tly called upon, and at intervals, too, be set forth small pieces in print, such as an " Elegy on a Pile l s" (rather too much an echo of Gray), : and the :as on the Death of George 11."--Fraser ' a May. er's lawful game, lascivious shame, would pass in prais n hush th court lead on, ice the duteous tone; ut of date, wait, as the poor redeemed, race esteemed, and prayer, THE BLIND GIRL OF MANZANARES, (From a Madrid Letter Morning Paper.) The moment the Andalusian diligence stops to change horses at the Manzanares, a stead town about eighty miles from Madrid, a young woman, twenty-two years of age, blind, though not from her birth, of a vulgar counte nance, and meanly clad, addresses herself to the passen gers, and seeks to excite their charity by means of a vol ley of extemporary verses. She usually asks the travel lers for a rhyme, and they try to select the most difficult metres, and most absurd verses. She gets out of the di lemma as well as she can, sometimes with forced con structions and nonsensical stanzas, which such difficul ties necessitate, but she never stops short nor hesitates ; scarcely has the line issued from the lips of the voyager, than the copresponding rhyme is supplied by the mouth of the poor poetess. The facility of extemporaneous composition is certainly no proof of a great extent of intelligence, nor do the verses of the blind girl merit the name of poetry, yet some of them are not wanting in grace and simplicity. But the singular facility with which this woman manages the idiom, the extraordinary rapidity with which she forms the framework of her compositions, and seizes on the rhymes and metre corresponding with the given verse, are gifts, the absence of which is too often evident in the works of many of our poets in their forced or lax and fee ble stanzas. But this humble improvisatrice possesses another accomplishment far superior to that of verse making, in her perfect knowledge of Latin, its rules, its delicacies, its difficulties, and its principal authors. When a child, she sat at the door of the Latin class of the town, then presided over by a donzine of that race, now almost extinct, composed of men whom unremitting study and great experience in teaching had rendered fa miliar with the whole range of the literature of the Latin language. The blind girl listened attentively to the les sons, and engraved them on her stupendous memory. The schoolmaster was not long in perceiving her taste and capabilities, and the worthy man resolved to culti vate and bring_ to perfection this intellectual prodigy. She manifested an insatiable curiosity and a daily increas ing proficiency. The Latin tongue became the sole ob ject of her thoughts and the one great occupation of her life. Her favourite amusement was to turn into Latin whatever she thought and heard. The boys of the class, at her request, looked out the words she wanted in the dictionary, and the schoolmaster was ever ready to ex plain and elucidate such difficulties as occurred to her, and thus, by a repetition of these exercises, and the con centration of vigorous intellectual powers, not disturbed in their labour by the sense most easily attracted by ex ternal impressions, the Latin language ended by becoming the habitual medium of the blind girl's reasoning—the readiest vehicle for the expression of her thoughts. Thus, as she herself says, she thinks in Latin, " et quod tenta bat dicere (to adopt her own expression) Latinum erat." On two occasions the writer has been witness to the uncommon proficiency of this young person in this her favourite study. A traveller having asked her if she knew where Cadiz was, she replied, " Credo super His palem ;" and upon the questioner expressing a doubt of the correctness of the preposition super, as applied in the sense beyond, she answered without hesitation, " Recta dixi, nam Virgilius noster, super Agrarnantas." On an other occasion, speaking of a diligence, she explained with the greatest ease the synonyms, quadriga, vehicu lum, and curriculum. Once the human mind is opened to ideas beyond the common routine of life, it seldom happens that it is con fined within a narrow circle, and that a noble ambition is not awakened to enlarge the sphere of acquired know ledge. I have heard the blind girl exclaim with the ac cent of real passion, " 0 libri! libri! quis dabit mihi libros ?" Her poverty and the well-known dearth of the means of instruction in the interior of Spain deprive her of all those resources which might contribute to her no ble aspirations. However, not long ago' accident threw in her way a few historical works, and she has devoted herself with enthusiasm to this new branch of study. A boy of the town reads aloud to her, and thus she learns. She is in the habit of sharing with those who do her this important service the alms she collects from travellers. FORGIVENESS.—When misunderstanding and con strained intercourse arise between friends, or between members of a family, they seldom pass without a crisis, and an explanation; but these are dangerous moments of revolution, and for once that they wrench out the wound ing thorn, it happens thrice that they press it in the deeper. Ah, why do we find it so difficult freely to for give, freely to forget? We nourish our wrong ; we medi tate upon it, we desire to have some right, some recom pense, and thus warm the serpent's egg in our bosoms. Blessed are the peace makers ! Blessed are the good, who forget, who forgive, even without thinking. " I forgive !" —Mary Howitt. CATS.—There are four distinct races of cats; namely, the tabby, which includes the black cats, and which is nearest allied to the wild kinds; the tortoise-shell cat which came originally from Spain, and the males of which are buff, with stripes of a darker hue; the white and light coloured cats, which have reddish eyes and a greyish tint in their fur, and are descended from the Chartreuse breed , and the Angora cats, which are quite distinct from all others, and are known by their long fur. The tailless cats of Cornwall and the Isle of Man belong to the Chartreuse breed, and they are the ugliest of their kind, as the Angora cats are the handsomest. Cats are seldom ill, except from cold, wh;e'i generally gets well without any particular care being taken of it ; but when they have any serious disease it generally proves fatal.—Mrs. London. THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.—No stranger who visits London considers that he has seen all the " lions" if he has not caught a glimpse of the duke. In illustration of this remark, I may mention one circumstance. A lady of my acquaintance, on the morning of her intended departure from London, after a short visit, was walking with a friend in Hyde Park, near Apsley House, one morning as early as six o'clock. As they walked along, she said, " Well, I have seen everything I wanted to see in London excepting the Duke of - Wellington, and I would rather have seen him than all the rest." She uttered this remark in a loud, sprightly voice, little dreaming that any but her friend heard it. Immediately, however, a gentleman passed her, raised his hat, and smi lingly said, " Madam, I am happy to present him to you ;" and, again bowing, passed on, followed at a little dis tance, by his groom. There was no mistaking the person age who spoke. It was the duke himself ; and I need hardly say, that the lady was, in spite of her confusion, not a little gratified by the incident.—Sketches of Poets, Painters, and Politicians. _ _ THE WHITE FISHERY OF SHETLAND.—Distinguished from the herring-fishing is the white fishery. including ling, tusk, and cod. This is the trade which has chiefly engaged the attention of the Shetlanders. Yet even this they long divided with the Dutch. But towards the be ginning of the last century, and when various acts of par liament were framed, prohibiting the importing of foreign salt except in British vessels, and encouraging by bounties the exportation of fish cured at home, foreigners gradu ally left the white fishery of Shetland to its own resources. When the periodical visits of the traders from Holland, Hamburg, Lubeck, Bremen, &c., bad ceased, occasional companies of Scotch and English merchants next appeared; but the principal successors to the Dutch were the Shet land proprietors themselves. One chief motive for their engaging in the curing and exporting of ling was, to pro cure for their tenants the only means they possessed for paying their rents. But this gave rise to a new embarrass ment ; the tenants were wholly unable from their poverty to purchase boats or lines, and unless the landlords would advance a sum sufficient for the purpose, the attempt to prosecute the fishing must have proved abortive. Hence the singular tenure of holding land which has so long pre vailed in Shetland, namely, the proprietor allowing his yearly tenants to be in debt to him for the value of the boats and fishing-tackle, but requiring from them the obli gation to let him have their wet fish at a stipulated low rate. The custom of fishing tenure, however, is not uni versal. Many proprietors have abolished it, and lease their lands at an advanced price, allowing their tenants to salt their own fish, and, when ready for the market, dispose of them on their own account. In the parishes of North Yell, Fetlar, Tingwall, Sandsting, &c., most of the te nants keep up boats and lines for themslves ; giving their landlords or tacksmen their fish at the current price, about 6s. 6d. per cwt. of wet ling, and 4s. 6d. for the tusk and cod. About Scalloway most of the men have shares in the vessels, and some of them are sole owners. to Unst, the most northernly of our islands, the landowners in ge neral furnish nets, rthich they either lend out to the fish ram), or advance to them at prime cost, to be paid for proceeds of the boat within a time limited by from ti sending the herrings to market, paying the men so much per cran.—Fraser's Magazine. DESCRIPTION OF MEXlCO.—Mexico is regarded as the " stateliest city" in the New World. Its plan was laid, and the principal portio❑ of its public buildings are said to have been designed by Cortes. They bear all the im press of a superb mind. The habitual meanness of de mocratical building has no place there; the majority of the fabrics were evidently constructed by a man to whom the royal architecture of the European nations was familiar and the finest houses in the city are still inhabited by the descendants of the conqueror. The principal square is the pride of the Mexicans, and the admiration of travel lers. It has an area of twelve acres ; unluckily, this fine space, which in England would be covered with verdant turf, shrubs, and flowers, is covered with pavement. But the buildings are on a noble scale. The Cathedral fills one whole side of the square, the Palace another, and the sites of both are memorable and historical ; the Cathedral standing on the ground where once stood the great idol temple, - and the - Palace on the ground of the palace of Montezuma! The latter building is 500 feet long, and contains the public offices, besides the apartments of the President. The Cathedral is of striking Gothic architec ture, and after all the pressures and plunderings of the later period, still retains immense wealth. The high altar is covered with plates of silver, interspersed with orna ments of massive gold. This altar is enclosed with a balustrade one hundred feet long not less precious than the high altar itself. It is composed of an amalgam of gold, silver, and copper, richly flourished and figured. It is said that an offer has b een ma d e t o pur c hase it at its weight in silver,. giving h a lf a m illi on o f d o ll ars b es ide s . Of this balustrade there are not less than 300 feet. Sta tues, vases, and 1 auge candlesticks of the precious metals, meet the eye every where; and yet it is said that the still more precious portion of the treasure is hidden from the popular eye. The streets are wide, and cross each other at right angles, dividing the whole city into squares. But the Romish habit of giving the most sacred names to com mon things, is acted on in Mexico with most offensive familiarity. The names of the streets are instances of this profanation, which has existed wherever On have been the masters. Thus, the Mexican will tell you that he lives in "Jesus," or in the " Holy Ghost." In the Spanish navy the most sacred names were similarly profaned; and the Santissima Trinidada (the Most Holy Trinity) was a flag-ship in the fleet destroyed at Trafalgar. What blas phemies and brutalities must not have been mingled with this sacred name in the mouths of 'crew! THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. DISCOVERIES OF LORD ROSSE'S TELESCOPE. (From Professor " System of the Wori'd.") And now, if only for a moment, contemplate that stel lar creation in its unveiled magnificence ! Restrained no longer by the consideration of probabilities, freed from the necessity of discerning amongst its mighty forms only resemblances of those developments of power which more closely surround us, we can recognise no limit either to its stupendous extent or inconceivable variety. The nebulous spots resolved into stars, is a fact which of i•self vastly modifies our conception of the magnitude of that creation; but bow hopelessly does imagination strive to enlarge itself, that so we realize the interior gorgeousness of these distant groups ! In the masses of nebulous stars, circular or compact galaxies of all orders of glory may now be traced, leading from the splendid cluster in Her cules, as their lowest point, up through schemes of being in which sun is nearer sun, until their entire skies merge into one blaze of light and one throng of activities ;—not like ours, coldly studded with points far apart, whose mutual influences are sundered by huge abysses! But high above all stands Orion, the pre-eminent glory and wonder of the sideral universe. Considering it as so re mote, that its light cannot reach us in less than sixty thousand years, and at the same time as occupying so large an apparent portion of the heavens, how stupendous must be the extent of that nebula! It would seem almost that, if all other clusters hitherto gauged were collected and compressed into one, they would not surpass this mighty group, in which every wisp, every wrinkle, is verily a sand-heap of stars ! There are cases in which, though imagination has quailed, reason may still adven ture inquiries and prolong its speculations ; but at times we are brought to a limit across which no human faculty has the strength to penetrate, and where, as now—as if on the threshold of the very infinite—we can only bend our heads and silently adore. * * In regard of inquiries so vast, perhaps we should expect no more than an intimation of the reality of such motions. But we can go a step still onward. The solar motion, if undefined in reference to the nature of its vast curve, can yet be approximately valued, in regard of absolute amount. The question of the parallax of the fired stars, or of our power of measuring spaces sufficiently evanescent to de termine the distance of those stars from our solar sphere, is irresolvable no longer. Twice, at least, has it been distinctly answered, and by two men of no uncongenial habit of mind, over whose loss science had recently to grieve: one the illustrious Bessel, with whose fame Eu rope is filled, and my lamented countryman Thomas Henderson. Unquestionably to this latter astronomer belongs the glory of planting the first mile-stone amid the external spaces ; and—speaking in reverence, though in unison with the imperfect desires of man—it may surely be deplored that, unlike the case of the immortal German, the life of the discoverer was closed, not indeed in the beginning of his usefulness, but in the very spting-time of a fame adequate to his great deserts. The case of one of these stars, and probably the best defined, will suit us now. It is Bessel's-61 Cygni. The circumstances are briefly these : the remoteness of this star from our plane tary sphere is definitely about 670,000 times our distance from the sun ; and we have accurately determined its apparent motion through space. Its distance from the point of observation being known, that apparent angular motion can be converted into an apparent motion of so many miles: just as a traveller could tell, should a remote object appear to be in motion—if he knew the interval dividing him from it—the exact amount of its displace ment. Now, if this displacement of 61 Cygni is owing, as it is, in all likelihood, not to its proper motion, but to the translation of the sun, we m ay clearly infer, on the simple principle above stated, with what velocity we are darting through space. In Bessel's opinion, we may move in this immense orbit thrice as fast as the earth travels in its planetary ellipse ; or with a speed so swift that we might reach 61 Cygni in 41,000 years. Now, large though this period is, there is no:.: in it whatever to overwhelm our imagination. If geology is not the veriest fable, if we are not to return to the old conceptions, that the rocks of our world's crust, with their entombed crea tures, have been laid down there purposely as the most mocking of _enigmas — an enigma that seems to have a meaning and yet has none—even this great course of years is only a very brief point amid the latest changes affecting the surface of the earth. Free, then, from fear, let us rise far higher; and, assuming that Bessel's star indicates the average distance of the nearest orbs, we infer that the sun would require no more than 500,000 years to reach that extremest verge at which the eye can descry a single star ; nay, it could reach that remotest distance to which Lord Rosse's telescope can pierce, in about two hundred and fifty millions of years; and so far is even this stupendous period from sounding all the working time of nature, that many of the mountains of our earth may, through its whole duration, have been in being, rearing their peaks towards different constellations, and surviving, in their littleness and fragility, even these immense transitions! The numbers I have quoted are indeed only approximate; but, in rendering conceivable a subject so vast and vague, they have, notwithstanding their necessary inaccuracy, an important use. Under their direct announcements, the stability of our supposed universe wholly disappears. The stars that shine over us now may indeed be those that arrested the ardent gaze of the Chaldeans ; but at depths of time by no means beyond our reach, we must have passed through many arrange ments of orbs; and if, as assuredly they do, these stars move like the sun, our majestic cluster may not now in any part have been a similitude of what it was I How stupendous such ceaseless evolutions ! How overwhelm ing the thought, that what, above all things, seemed the fitting emblem of the Eternal, is thus almost visibly sub ject to transiency ; even in its most august and awful forms, only one phase of the fleeting and phantasmal! Often overpowered by the dread contemplation; beneath such majesties feeling, as in faintness, that surely I must be lone and forlorn, I turn ever with a cheering delight to that sweet home-picture of Luther's, when he speaks of the little bird that, on summer's evenings, came to his pear.tree at sunset, and sang, ever melodiously and with out one note of misgiving, because, though dread eternity was above, below, and around it, God was there also ! DEER STALKING.—The detestation of deer to sheep is so great that they will not inhabit the same ground with these animals. A remarkable instance of this antipathy was observed in the end of the last century by an old dro ver. " familiarly called " Androbhair ban," when crossing one of the great moors of Sutherland, soon after the first " head of sheep " had been turned into Lord Ray's forest. The narrator was surprised by the appearance of a large column of near a thousand deer, marching out of the country in a steady determined emigration. Disgusted by the invasion of the sheep and their dogs, they had col lected from all parts, and unable to find " clean ground," continued their course out of the country, dispersing into the most solitary glens. From these they never returned, and harassed and killed by the shepherds and farmers, their numbers became reduced to the few and scattered fugitives which lingered in a state of outlawry in remote coires, until the " commercial spirit " of England spread to the Highland hills, and it was discovered that harts and hinds could be converted into marketable stock, like other cattle. Hence deer are now " grown " for Saxon guns, as wool for Manchester looms, or beef for Smithfield shambles. The abhorrence of the deer to sheep did not result merely from the disturbance of their dogs. It is true, that, like the corollary of St. Columbus concerning cows and women, " where there are sheep there must be dogs, and where there are dogs there must be mischief." But the chief cause for which the deer shun the society of their woollen enemies is the closeness of their feeding and the foulness of their fleece. The deer is very delicate in his food, and exceedingly fastidious as to the purity of his pasture. Independent, therefore, of the abridgement of his provision by the excoriating teeth of the tree and herb exterminating " gailgeall," he cannot endure the oily ran cour of their wool, which poisons the fresh heather and sweet green shealing. Wanting these nuisances, he exhi bits an antipathy to the intercourse of black cattle, his old aboriginal brethren of the hill, whose clean coat and mo derate feeding spar the grass and leave no tint of tar and oil in the pasture. Hence the deer and the stirks may be seen herding in the same coire and reposing on the same turf. Sheep in any considerable number are an introduc tion into the highlands since the latter end of the last , century, in which it was discovered that mutton was not only a safer, but a more profitable stock than man. It is yet well remembered in Argyllshire, that the first Cheviot flock brought into that county was introduced by Mr. Campbell, of Combie, upon the farm of Balantyre, near Inverary, in the year 1771. The earliest similar coloni sation in Inverness-shire was in Morven, about the year 1777. The shepherd of these flocks, of whom the first was a certain John Todd, from the neighbourh )od of Duml:arton; the second, a Braidfoot from the border, introduced the first " wand," or " shepherd's plaid," worn in Argyll or Inverness. Similar flocks and their feeders disseminated the expulsion of the deer, and the introduction of the base "hodden-grey," which has since usurped the place of the tartans of the clans ; and at its first appearance, from the calamities by which it was ac companied, and its degraded supplantation of the national dress, was truly and significantly named, " Bratgalla," " The foreigner's rag," and "an riochd-mallaichte," "The accursed grey." This hue is to the Highlanders what black is to their neighbours ; and so detestable for its wan and ghastly appearance, that its association af forded the popular appellation for ghosts and devils; hence an apparition—a phantom—" an Riochd.'' The grey, or wan—The spectre foreboding death—" am bo dach glass," the grey earl; another of an evil genius, in the shape of a goat—" an Glastig," or " Glasdidh " " the Grey," or wan ; and, as in the south, the great ene my is named familiarly " The Black Gentlemon," so, in the Highlands, he is called " Mac an Riochd," the son of the grey. In the ideas of the old wives and children of the last century, all these personifications, except one, were as nearly as possible those of the modern " dubh gall," deer-sta:kers, in their chequered " hodde n gre y," wanting only the " Jim Crow," " ruffian, " or " crush hat "—enormities which had not then completed the mas querade of Death and Satan. It is easy to trace the ori gin of this association. The ancient Caledonian hell, like that of Scandinavia, was a frozen and glassy region, an is land named "/fruinn," far away among the " wan waters" of the northern ocean, and involved in the ever lasting ice, and snow, and fog. In this association, the appearance of the evil spirits, its inhabitants, like that of mortals in similar circumstances, was believed to be dim, wan, and cloudy shades, such as men become when seen through a frosty mist. Thus a party of modern deer stalkers, noble, well appointed, and gallant though they be, in despite of the gold Geneva watch-chains, and cost y Purdie rifles, which peep from beneath their shepherd plaids, would represent to an old " Sealgair-nambeann" the liveliest vision of the fiend and his familiars; and we have no doubt that, if " Alasdair Mac•Dhonacha-raidh," or even " Eoin-dubh-drinachin," had even met, in the grey of the morning, either Lord 0-, Sir H. G., or " The Ruffians of Aberarder," he would have fled the hill for that time, and never would have returned to it again be tween sun setting and sun rising.—[lt has pleased a wri ter of the " Cockney school " of Highlanders to convert this word into " Glaslig," which we take leave to observe is unknown in the Highlands, and did not exist before the year 1841.]—Caledonian Mercury. DALY BESTOWS A lILLMET ON BULLY DODD (From The Knight of Gwynne.) Sept. 15, 1846. PAUPERS IN BIRMINGHAM.—ta. Birmingham on Friday, Mr. George _ that in the year 1803, the population of thu 60.000, and it contained 3,019 paupers , time the population was 151,000, and the ne CoNveesioN.—On St. Bartholomew's day divine ser- pers has only increased 500. there being now 3,567—a vice was held in the church, Shoreham, as usual, when a striking instance of the industry and providence of the young lady, who had become a convert, renounced the pe- working population of the town. The population of the culiarities of the Society of Friends, and was publicly ad- parish is something less than three-fourths of the popu mitted as a member of the Church of England. lation of the borough. Two VESSELS SUNK.—On Saturday evening week, in MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT CHESTERFIELD.—A great the Humber, between Hull and Goole, two vessels, each sensation has been created in Chesterfield and the neigh laden with grain, had the misfortune to come in contact bourhood by the discovery, in a large cess-pool. of the with the sands, and were very quickly capsized. Their bones of a human body, supposed to be those of a man hatches were washed off, and their cargoes greatly damaged, named Collins, who suddenly disappeared some time ago. and it is feared both vessels and cargoes will be lost. It appears that a person employed in cleaning out the Two serious fires alarmed the inhabitants of Edinburgh cess-pool found a number of bones which he suspected not on Sunday week. One occurred at the Polton paper mill, to be those of an animal. The next day the suspicion was near Lasswade, the property of Messrs. Annandale and confirmed by the discovery of a human skull, which had Son, and destroyed property of the value of £12,000. been considerably fractured. Further search was made. The other was the warehouse of Mr. W. Boak's tannery,. and a handkerchief was found, tied as if it had been slipped Westport. Three-fourths of tt . e premises were consumed off a man 's n e ck. The handkerchief bears the initials of At the Middlesex sessions, on Tuesday, by some acci- the missing man. It is stated that some other portions of dent, the door opening into the dock was left unbolted, clothes, believed to be his, have also been found, and it is and a man named Rice, one of a batch of prisoners just presumed that the fractures found on the skull were the placed in the cell, finding egress easy and the coast clear, cause of death. Suspicion has fallen upon a man who quietly put on his hat, and passing through the court, was seen in the company of the deceased shortly before succeeded in making good his escape. he was missed, and on Friday he was commiated by e co- Lord Metcalfe expired on the sth instant, after a roner's jury on a charge of wilful murder. lengthened and most painful illness, at Rushanger House, AUULTERATION OF MILK.—A defendant was- sum- Basingstoke, where he had been staying for some time mooed on Friday, at the Palace Court, London, to show previous. A cancer, with which the noble lord was first by what means he could pay the debt for which judgment attacked in Canada, was the prelude to a tedious and had been obtained. The defendant (a milkman) denied painful illness, which has at length terminated fatally. that he ever owed the debt. Toe plaintiff bad got the case John Hilliard, against whom a coroner's jury, in Lon- to come on before he (the defendant) could arrive with his don, returned a verdict of manslaughter. for having witnesses. Plaintiff's Attorney : We are not trying that. caused the death of Thomas Parker and Sarah Jones, by What terms do you offer ?—Defendant : None. The selling poisonous berries, has, after a further examination, plaintiff has ruined me. (To the Court) : I bought my been committed for trial for wilful murder, the evidence milk of the plaintiff, but there was so much water in it being to the effect that he knew the poisonous nature of that I lost my custom, and my " walk" had to be sold. the fruit. I have paid £2300 to the plaintiff for milk which have GROWING ONE'S OWN COFFIN.—Died, on Saturday, had of him to the extent of 26,000 barn gallons, but in Mr. William Whitehead, farmer, Eleswick, aged 82. In that there were 26,000 quarts of water, besides the colour early life he planted an acorn in his garden, which grew to ing. I'll swear as an honest man, for I have seen him put be a full grown tree. A few years ago, the tree was cut it in. (Great laughter.) Plaintiff's attorney : And did down, preserved, and according to his own request, has you never put water in it ? Defendant : Very little, be been applied for his coffin, in which his remains are now cause it was so weak ; the plaintiff put in so much, that doposited. it got sour before it could be delivered. (Laughter.) EXTENSIVE ROBBERY.—EarIy on Tuesday morning. After some further discussion the learned judge ordered the premises of Mr. John Isaacs, at Chatham, High- that the defendant should attend next court day, and pro street, were broken open, and a valuable portion of goods duce his witnesses. stolen, with which the thieves got off undiscovered. The A STRUGGLE FOR MASTERY : OWNER E. Coat % booty consisted of between 70 and 80 watches, plate, and MANDER.—The Standard relates a curious and comical jewellery. The amount of the loss is estimated at between fracas that recently occurred on board one of the Royal £lOOO and £2OOO. Yacht Club vessels. The yacht was out at sea, some dis rHE RUMOURED DISSOLUTION.—At a meeting of the tance from land, when a difference of opinion took place Southwark Operative Protestant Association, on Tuesday between the Roble owner and the captain, a half-pay naval evening last, Col. Sir W. Verner said, " that he held a officer. Epithets of no very gentle or complimentary nature letter in his hand, which came almost directly (as we un- were very freely bandied between the belligerents; and at derstood) from the Premier, in which it was stated, that length the noble owner turned up all hands, and ordered before three weeks were over, the present Parliament the crew not to consider Mr. as their captain, and would be dissolved." no longer to obey his commands. On this the captain A SHIP AGROUND ON THE TUNNEL.—On Sunday went below, armed himself with a brace of pistols, re week the tide run out so low that the steam-ship Vene- turned on deck, and threatened the owner with the wea zuela, bound to Havre, deeply laden with passengers and pons, telling the crew at the same time, that he was le goods, grounded over the Thames Tunnel, where she re- gaily their registered commander, and that, unless they mained for two hours till the tide flowed. Not a brick obeyed his orders, he would treat them as mutineers. It was started, and no damage whatever was done to the is also reported that he went so far as to threaten to put works, a proof of their stability, and the pains taken in the noble owner in irons if he occasioned any further dis the construction. turbance. The captain ultimately brought the vessel into THE DISPUTED CORN DUTIES.—The Globe says the port ; but, of course, he now no longer commands her. claims of those parties who paid duty on foreign grain, It is said that this strange matter will afford scope for the under protest, in the interval that occurred between the display of talent and fun for the gentlemen of the long lapse of the old corn bill and the operation of the new, in robe, as law proceedings have already commenced. 1814, are at length about to be adjusted. Government, THE CHARGE OF FORGERY AGAINSTCAPT. RICHARD' it appears, have offered a compromise, which has been ac- sore.—On Wednesday last, the case of Capt. Richardson , cepted, and matters are now in such a position as to lead charged with altering a cheque for £lO to £5,000, in his to the hope of a final settlement in a few days. capacity of chairman to the Tenby, Worcester, and Lud- CAUTION TO RAILWAY TRAVELLERS.—A passenger low Railway Company, and thereby committing a forgery on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, who foolishly per- upon the banking house of Messrs. Coutts and Co. was sisted in standing on the top of one of the carriages, not- again brought before the lord mayor. It appeared _ e ls withstanding the admonitions of the guard, was killed on e v id ence on th e l as t occasion, that of five notes of £l,OOO Wednesday week, by his head coming in contact with the each, obtained at Messrs. Coutts's, three were subsea arch of a bridge, which crosses the line. This is a fear- quently changed for gold, at the Bank of England, and ful mode of running the risk of being decapitated, and we it was also stated by the secretary of the companaltered EXPORT OF WHEAT.—A letter appears in the Times when it was returned to him with the signatures of Mr' of Saturday, noticing the export of several cargoes of Whitmore and of Mr. Stephenson subjoined to that or wheat from Lincolnshire to France,—where wheat is Capt. Richardson. On the present occasion several wit; selling high,—and calling on the Times to prevent such nesses-were examined, whose evidence went to show that shipments, while famine is threatening us at home in one several large sums of gold had been exchanged for note s part of the empire; but surely in free trade, the farmer by Captain Richardson. Mr. T. Stephenson, a directo r must be allowed to sell in the dearest market—or where of the Tenby, Worcester, and Ludlow Railway Company' is Sir Robert and his imaginary truisms ? stated that the signature, " Thomas Stephenson," attar He RAILWAY ACCIDENT INSURANCE COMPANY. A to the cheque for £5,000, was in his hand-writing. Company under this title has issued its prospectus in had never signed any cheques in blank, nor had be ever Paris, having for its object the indemnity of persons tra- signed any cheque for £5,000; but he h a d a tt ac h e d his 4' yelling by railway who should meet with accident thereby. nature to a cheque for £lO, payable to No.ll. After some According to the terms of the prospectus, the widow or observations from Mr. Clarkson, the prisoner's couns,.e'; the Children of an insured, who should have met his death Mr. Bush, who attended for the prosecuticn, l°'" by railway accident, will be entitled to receive a life pen- a postponement of the case ;• and, after some discusson' sion according to the premium paid. the prisoner was remanded until Friday next. About 350 Conservatives and Protectionists dined to- BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT °lt gether, on Wednesday last, at Coleshill, North Warwick- SCIENCE.—On Thursday the British Association ce ni. shire, in testimony of the honourable and consistent con- menced its meetings at Southampton. The official al: duct of Mr. C. N. Newdegate, one of the members for nouncernent received from Mr. Anson, stating that Pt; that division. Among the company present were—Lord Royal Highness Prince Albert would visit the associa ti° 4 George Bentinck, M.P. Lord Brooke, M.P.,Lord New- at. the general meeting, and also all the sections, inf u l , 4o port, M.P., C. B. Adderley, Esq., M.P., R. Spooner, new spirit into the exertions of the local committee. el s Esq , M.P. C. Colville, Esq., M.P., Sir T. Biddulph, particular preparations were, however, and a host of ' other influential parties. reception, it being the expressed wish of his Royal Niger THE BIRMINGHAM MUSICAL FESTIVAL.—The total ness that his visit shall be merely in his private char 8 ! . ! receipts at the late musical festival at Birmingham were as a member. This first recognition of science by _ r e o e y ze i r tl_ £11,310. 3s. 3d. Notwithstanding all that was said of will, it is expected, give quite a new impetus to al ective. Elijah, the columns of applause previously written upon tions of the association, both at present and in pgrsp o _ f the it, and the high expectations which the well-merited fame This is not, however, the only royal recognitiond borf of the composer were all calculated to inspire, it did not present meeting, as M. Struve and M. Von Min en , esupersede the Messiah in point of attraction or real utility. will be there as scientific deputies from the Emperor of The day of the Messiah, as appears from the return of the Russia, as well as M. Oersted and M; irbrehammer froro receipts, proved the greater attraction. Copenhagen, by the express order of the King of Dew Yesterday week, three young gentlemen, named Mack- mark, M. Retzions and M. Swanberg from Stockholen ender, Gunness, and Wakelin, pupils of Mr. Rogers's deputed by the King of Sweden ; whilst the science of made for D e, boarding school, at Louth, Lincolnshire, were unfortu- Prussia will, as on several previous occasions, be repre nately drowned whilst bathing. They were in company sented by the Chevalier Bunsen, the ambassador from with their schoolfellows, forty in number, when the three that country. Other distinguished persons who are ant named, with two others, got out of their depth. Through flounced to be present are—M. Matucci, the ernin e a the exertions of Mr. Rogers, who, with two assistants, physiologist, from Modena ; M. Rose, the chemist , frra _u ain were watching their movements, two were saved, but the Berlin ; M. Schonbein, fromßasle; M. Dumas, i ru g, three others could not be rescued. Paris ; MM. Elie de Beaumont and Constant Provo 0 - The duty on the importation of foreign wheat continues the eminent French geologists—who will all be acco n, w o ,, this week at ten shillings per quarter. A considerable dated at the houses of several of the members in the t 0 the advance in the price of wheat has taken place since last The vice-nresidents—the Marquis of Winchester , on , week, chiefly in consequence of the failure of the potato Earl of Yarborough, Lord Ashburton, Sir George ST r ee crop, and of the alleged deficiency in the produce of ton, the Bishop of Oxford, and the Speaker of o of wheat; but it may be doubted whether the high rates House of Commons—have all expressed their intent ion HEAT OF AUGUST, 1846.—The temperature of the last now ruling can be maintained in the face of the supplies being present. wh ich month was five degrees higher than that of August, 1845. to be ex p ected from abr oad , and the conside rable stocks TH E DISSENT ERS AND POPERY. — Tbe mo de in. opt Of 202 commitments in the county of Bedford, 143 standing over from last year. the Edinburgh and Derby elections have been carrieeeia were for offences against the game laws. THE SUPPLY OF POTATOES TO THE LONDON MAR- shows that the real position of the Romish quest ° , to Twenty-nine violins belonging to Dr. Crampton, of KETS has been for come days past diminishing. The de- not yet understood. And especially does this aPP e3 „ e rt• Dublin, have been sold by auction for £2BO. mand is so g reat, and the supply is so scant y , that the be the case with the leadin g Dissenters, u p on whose ees, Blackberries ate selling in many of the towns in this potatoes are actually sold before they arrive in the various duct and decision the actual result will, in a great Pert county as high as fourpence a quart. markets : The prices are also i n creasing daily, and are sure, depend. They have placed the question on 5 oft The number of soldiers in receipt of pensions is above now much higher than for years past at this time of the narrow and insufficient basis, and one grounded io e ee fifty thousand. The in-door pensioners of Chelsea Hos- year. At present. small inferiors are fetching as low as They urge very warmly, that "it will be unjust to n l at he' pital are about five thousand. three shillings a cwt., but others o f a su p er i o r description English Dissenters to establish a Popish Chtire b gr• nd of Southampton, among 109 4 persons above 15 years of It has been ascertained that in one district of the town (and less diseased) are fetching from 7s. to Bs. per cwt. land." To this position both M r . Macau's)" a ose app w THE CHINESE SILVER.—Her Majesty's ship Serpent, Strutt very readily assent, and promise to OPP , e; ers age. 957 do not attend any place of worship. which arrived in En g land from China a few m o n ths since, s uch p lan. And with this promise many of the v' sse FO' The protectionists of Essex are about to give a dinner conveyed, as one of the instalments stipulated for the are satisfied. But what if the plan for establishiag_..s Of to the Duke of Richmond and Lord George Bentinck. evacuation of Canton and treat y of p eace with that co u nt ry , pert' i n Ireland shall not propose to tax the Dissent e e_', 4 to It will take place at Chelmsford, on the 25th instant. treasure in S y cee silver of the value of nearl y £500,000 ; E ng land for that p ur p ose ? Will they then be cont u•ega The remains of a body, supposed to be a man, were but on opening on e o f the boxes su pp osed to con tain that see the measure pass; Is it the wretched three-far t ! 0 e found in a midden at Chesterfield, on Wednesday week, species of b ullion to the amount of .£lOO,OOO value, it was a-piece which they might have to contribute, tha t ' go lf by a person who was removing the soil. discovered to be filled with lead. Of course, immediate the only point of interest? Do they care nothing L ott Lord Henry Bentinck has had unprecedented success conference has be en o p ened with the re p resentatives of many r eli g i o ns—true or false—the State shall est,6utite• among the red deer, his lordship having already killed her Majesty at Hong K o n g , to obtain the re q uired d if- and en d o w, so that the y are not asked to conthreiesiet sixteen stags, many of them of a great size. ference of payment. We cannot think s o meanl y of them. Our a p pre The bell-clapper of Altrincham Chapel fell on Sun- THE TAGLIONI TESTIMONIAL.—The elegant piece of is, that the plan, when it is offered to Parliament, day morning last, forcing its way through two floors of plate subscribed for by the frequenters of the Italian found to be very carefully devised? inasmuch tb the building. Opera-house, will shortly be presented to her. The neither tax the Dissenters, nor take anything fro ap e EFFECT OF RAILWAYS.—The whole of the coachyard value is 300 guineas. The piece of plate is of frosted Church. We believe that other funds will be fott__nd_bo and stabling of the celebrated Bell and Crown Inn, Hol- silver , and consists of a group of thre e m y tholo g ical ti onal, p erha p s, but not derived from taxation, .7 :di tto born, London, is being converted into dwelling-houses figures, and the figures of two animals , partly taken from will be made available. And, therefore, we anti' Mr. Fox Maule has announced, that "it is not intended the ballet of Endymion, in which Taglioni appeared in that opposition to the p l a n, whenever it shall becoraviilo at present to take any further measures for revising the the season of 1845. Diana is surveying Endymion, who cessary, must be based in opposition to Popery, as sA b ef laws relating to the militia, nor for assembling that force sleeps on a bank, behind which Cupid, crouching, watches and dangerous error; and can be successful on no ° o il for training and exercise." the goddess. She is accompanied by a fawn; the dog of ground. Hence it will be needful, in any other elee t oat On Tuesday, a man was killed at the Birkenhead end Endynaion is also introduced. which may arise, to reduce the matter to this point•,,,eig of the Chester Railway, by a train of carriages running OMNIBUS STATISTICS.—The total nnmber of omni- is, not to talk of " the injustice of taxing Dissenters eie over him. He saw them coming, and apparently lost all buses now traversing the streets of London is 1 , 490 , giv- which doctrine many candidates, like Mr. Strata , nerve. They passed over his body and head. ing employment to very nearly 4, 1 , 00 hands. The earnings readily concur—but to claim a positive pledge that I' l of At Kilmarnock, a woman last week administered a of these vehicles vat y very much, on some roads being as shall not be endowed, let the funds be derived frets e tre quantity of whiskey to her child, three years old, for the I high as £4 per day, an d on other s as low as £2 ; but tak- source they may. It is only by thus going to the ff i• purpose of making him quiet. The object was effectually ing the lowest average, we shall then find that there is the matter that any effectual security can be obtal ail lie , accomplished, for the child died in a few hours. spent in omnibus rides, in and around the metropolis, THE WILL OF LORD CARBE4Y, late of Castle e a John Smith, convicted of the late murder at the Guild. the large sum of X 2,980 per day, or £1,017,000 per annum. Ross Carbery, in Ireland, and of Laxton-hall, or jo 6 ,„ ho s' hail Coffee-house, London, has been respited during her Persons can now be conveyed as great a distance for six- tonshire, and of Belgrave-square. Middlesex, Pr Majesty's pleasure, and his sentence will be commuted to pence as would formerly cost five times the amount ; be- been proved in London upon the sentence of the f t ' hie ta ig transportation for life. sides the whole is so regulated, that there is a comfortable five Court. The personal estate in England, w -te 0, Ton Out" io THE New MISSIONARY SHIP.—II is expected that means of conveyance ready at all hours, from eight o'clock province of Canterbury, was valued at ---, e bee the launch of the missionary shin, the John Wesley, will in the morning till twelve o'clock at night, to all parts of lordship from illness, and at his advanced ,Les e ; t ee sk l _, take place at Cowes, Isle of Wight, on the 23rd or 24th the metropolis, and for miles beyond it in every direction. reached his 80th year, was unable to sign hu' uo tion of this month.— IVatchnzan. MELANCHOLY AND FATAL EVENT.—An aiccdent of title to his will, which was executed by nr° c ein be HARD CHEESE.—A late traveller in Suffolk, describing a very melancholy nature has occurred at W ent w o r t h. the very Rev. H. N ewman, M.A., DeaniorefCiol;?; the cheese made in that county, said that if a piece of it On the I st of September , Mr. Massey , Secretary to Earl lordship's presence , and at his special ctet were offered to a hungry dog, the animal would stand and Fitzwilliam, was out shooting, accompanied by one of the the presence of witnesses, on the 26th of April, le 4 foes, bark at it in wrath because he could not bite it. keepers , named Charles We st. The ke ep er, w ho was in lordship d i ed on t he 12th of Ma y followin g . The 'golf A commodious market-hall is now building in the High- advance of Mr. Massey, started a hare, pointing it out, tors are, his relict Lady Carbery, and the Rev. J• street at Wrexham, from an excellent design by Messrs. and laid down, in order that Mr. Massey might fire over ford, of Abbey Ville, Cork, and the Rev. J. Frocer,' Penson and Son. The cost of erection is estimated at his head. Not firin g immediately, however, West p re- Kelsoe, Skibbereen, Ireland. He leaves to Ladij ro £5,000, and it will doubtless prove a great convenience Bunted that the hare had escaped , and, just as he was rising berg the rents of his estates in England and lreia-st 00; and advantage to this improving locality. from the g round, Mr. Masse y fired . T he char g e hit him her life, and th en to his n e phe w, G. E. Freke, eiCiFttedcto THE HUTCHINSON FAMILY.—This interesting family on the forehead , and traversed the skull to the back of the of his late brother, P. E. Freke, who is to be perrn i era ei • have reached their native shore in safety. They sailed forehead, but none o f th e shot penetrated the bone. Im- occupy Castle Freke and Laxton-hall, and to hence in the Cambria, and, as they neared the wharf a t ree .it e l liate ass i s t ance was procured, but he continued to lin- £4OOO a year, and increased to £5OOO on marriag e e ' s ser e , East Boston, they struck up " Home , sweet home," and ger until Stinday, when death terminated his sufferings. estates are entailed on his issue. Lady Carbere P;: er elle SUPERSIITION IN ESSEX.—A correspondent states a power of disposition over £6OOO by will or °o el e sang with thrilling sweetness that touching song. William Ellis, whilst endeavouring, at Itoehampton, t o th a t a d ay or t w o since, a gathering, as it is technically and to her is left the picture of Viscountess Surilfl e ' r y s e e , separate a bull from driving a herd of cows, was tossed called, was made at Southend, for the benefit of a young plate, books, jewels, and pictures, at Ross Cari' ar eird into the air by the animal, received a woun d in the t hi g h , woman res idi ng i n the neighbouring village of Pristlewell, Castle Freke to be held as heir looms with tbe.: o , d o and a laceration of the spine, which caused death shortly also having received a coup de soliel, whilst workin g in t a t es . The plate, books, jewels, pictures, Pr i b ice, a i' r d afterwards. the fields, has since been sufier i ng under paraly s i s . O n pa i n ti ngs in England, together with the ring W te lPY, I During an affray with poachers, on Saturday night makin g inquiries as to her case, the writer given by Queen Anne to G. Evans, who was cre i r 1 , , ail week, William Setter, who was assisting the gamekeepers was g ravely informed ay a respectabl e f ema l e , th a t th e C ar b er y i n 1715, to be h e ld an d en j o y e d as he r ol ot e the merits of of Sir W. P. Carew, of Haccombe-house, Newton Abbot, current opinion was, that she was bewitched by an old with the mansion of Laxton hall. The possess et' was shot by Henry Warren, one of the poachers , and die d woman in the village. It was also further s tated that she estates to obtain the royal licence to use thev e elte, al next day. I was under the advice of a wise man , w h o h a d prom i se d to arms of Freke. Leaves to his nephews, P. cl A butcher's boy was at work in his master's shop, at make " the witch burst," or in other words, to remove IF. E. Freke, £OOOO each, from his estates in , e OO c,, 1 1 Nottingham, last week, when a flash of lightning severed the spell that very night. How the exorcism succeeded, the demise of Lad y Carber y; also le g acies of te a str a I the blade of a knife, leaving the handle and a p ortion of the writer did not hear, but it is to be feared that this to other ne p hews at the same p eriod. Immedls ; the blade in his hand. The young man stood aghast at form r of superstition is but too common.—Daily News. ties, varying from £3OO to £5OO, also to nephew this awful visitation, hut, happily, was uninjured. oeettottse ATROCITY.—There has been a poor-law the Rev. J. Stopford, an executor, a legacy of 0 05 1 1 THE TURNIP.—AII the rincipal correspondents from atrocity in the parish of St. Pancras, which Mr. Wakley gacies to his steward, head gardener, and to his e p p ria e r i e l 1 Scotl a nd, i n B e ll's Messenger of Monday, represent the has been the means of bringing to light. In the parish servants. Directs that Castle Freke shall be tin, e a til turnip as following the potatoes in its tendency to eaten- Workhouse, there have been found huddled together in family seat and residence of the inheritor of . 111 002,00 sive disease ; and that fattening stock in the north for the " the shed," or " the black h o le,"—a set of poor wretches ! who shall reside there at least four months al t o Pi a i London market will receive a severe check . wh om the managers of the parish were deliberately keep- with a suitable establishment, or he shall e%P` to be o ill C ru c KE T.—The game at cricket between eleven of the ing in half-starvation,—ending, as it now a pp ears, in some l in each year he so neglects to reside thereoot es t tie All England party and eighteen of th e Leeds district of cases in suicide Yet, even this doleful place is de- I ou t i n t h e i m p rovem ent of the estates. His i : ep ti e e e tl Y or k s hire players, which commenced at the Victoria cent to one still lower. There is a " black hole," with a I cathedral church of Ross Carbery is to be over s 0 0 0 Cricket-ground, Leeds, on Monday , terminated on W ed - little iron grating , as window, a straw mattress and coun. I coming repair, and leaves £lOOO for the iroP es tst nesday. All England were the victo rs b y 229 to 158 . terpane, and bread an d water. Into this place g irls were the churc h at Laxton. An y claimant of .nterwee P' h The Devizes Gazette says, a corr e sp ondent thus laconi. thrust for being " sauc y " to one of the under -servants. coming Pa p ist, or Roman Catholic, or call y informs us of the amusements in Marlbo rough , on How long they we re ke p t there does not ver y clearl y a p - with a Roman Catholic, their interest therek Flo Tuesday :—" We bad quite a ga la da y here to da y. Two pear, — but in ' the shed," which the coroner declared to I and determine, and g o to the next in rernain;% pone cricket matches—cooke's circus—Odd Fellows' dinner—a be worse than most gaols , one of the witnesses bad beeni such party is a Protestant. The residue is IC` Ranting Chapel opened—and two good fights." I immured for Iwo or three years same trusts as the freeholds, The Wood Pavement in Cheapside. London, has been condemned by the commissioners of sewers, but it will remain until next spring. when it will be removed and re placed with granite similar to that now putting down in Fleet-street. A' a meeting held at Edmonds stated parish was The great square volume in which the Knight used to record his notes of the neighbouring poor, lay on the table ; his chair was placed near it ; all was in readiness for his coming who was to come there no more ! As Lio nel stood in silent sorrow, surveying these objects, the shadow of a man darkened the window; he turned sud denly, and saw the tall, scarecrow figure of Fleury the madman. A large placard decorated the front of his hat, on which the words " Down with the Darcys !" were written in capital letters, and he carried in his hand a bun dle of papers, like handbills, which he shook with a me nacing air at Lionel. at the present nber ofpau- " What is this, Fleury ?" said the youth, opening the window, and at the same time snatching one of the papers from his hand. " It is the full account of the grand auction of govern ment hacks," said Fleury, with the sieg-song intonation of a street crier, " no longer needed for the service of the Crown, and to be sowld without resarve." " And who sent you here with this ?" said the young man, moderating his tone so as to avoid startling the other. " Connor Egan, Hickman's man, gave me a pint and a noggin of spirits, to cry the auction, and tould me to come up here, for maybe you'd like to hear of it ye'r selves." Lionel threw his eyes over the offensive lines, where, in coarse ribaldry names the most venerable were held up to scorn and derision. If it was some satisfaction to find that his father was linked in the ruffianly attack with men of honour ss unblemished as his own, he was not less out raged at the vindictive cowardice that had suggested this insult. " There'll be a fine sight of people there, by all ac counts," said Fleury, gravely, " for the auction bills is far and near over the country, and the Castlebar coach has one on each door." " Is popular feeling always as corrupt a thing as this!" muttered Lionel, with a bitter sneer, while at the same time the door of the room was opened, and Daly entered ; his face was marked by a severe cut on one cheek, from which the blood had flowed freely, a dark black stain, as of a blow, was on his chin, and one hand he carried enve loped in his handkerchief ; his clothes were torn besides in many places, and bora traces of a severe personal con flict. " What has happened ?" said Lionel, as he looked in alarm at the swollen and blood-stained features, " did you fall ?" " Fall ! no such thing, boy." replied Daly, sternly, " but some worthy folk in Castlebar planned a little sur prise for me this morning. They heard, it seems, that we passed through the town by daybreak, but that I was to return before noon, and so they placed some cars and turf creels in the main street opposite the inn, in such a way, that while seeming merely accident, would effectually stop a horseman from proceeding. When I arrived at the spot, I halted, and called out to the fellows to move on and let me pass : they took no heed of my words, and then I saw in a moment what was intended. I had no arms, I pur posely left my pistols behind me, for I feared something might provoke me, though not anticipating such as this. So I got down and drew this wattle from the side of a turf creel—you see it is a strong black thorn, and good stuff, too. Before I was in the saddle, the word was passed, and the whole street was full of people, and I now perceived that by the same manceuvre as they employed in front, they had also closed the rear upon me, and cut off my re treat. Now for it ! now for it r they shouted. Where's Bully Dodd ? Where's the bully ?'—l suppose you know the fellow ?" _ " The man that was transported ?" " The same ; the greatest ruffian the country was cursed with. He came at the call without coat or waistcoat, his shirt-sleeves tucked up to his shoulders, and a handker chief round his waist, ready for a fight. There was an old quarrel between us, fur it was I captured the fellow, the day after he burnt down Dawson's house. He came to wards me, the mob making way for him, with a pewter pot of porter in his hand." •` • We want you to dhrink a toast for us, Mr. Daly,' said he, with a marked courtesy and a grin that amused the fellows around him. You were always a Patriot, and won't make any objections to it.' " What is the liquor ?" said I. " • Good porter, divil a less,' cried the mob, • Mol Heavyside's best,' and so I took the vessel in my hands, and before they could say a syllable, drained it to the bot tom, for I was very thirsty with the ride, and in want of something to refresh myself.' •` ' But you didn't dhrink the toast,' said Dodd, sa vagely. " Where was the toast ? He didn't say the words,' shouted the mob. _ _ _ __ _ _ _ Off with his hat, and make him drink it,' cried out several others from a distance—they saved me one part of the trouble, for they knocked off my hat with a stone. " Here's health and long life to Hickman O'Reilly,' cried out Dodd, ' that's the toast.' " And what have Ito wish him either,' said I, while at the same time I tore open the pewter measure, and then with one strong dash of my hand, drove it down on the ruffian's head, down to the very brows. I lost no time af terwards, but striking right and left, plunged forwards: the mob fled as I followad, and by good luck, the car horses getting frightened, sprang forward also, and so I rode on with a few slight cuts a stone or two struck me, nothing more—but they'll need a plumber to rid my friend Dodd of his helmet." " And we used to call this town our own," said Lionel, bitterly. " Nothing is a man's own but his honour, sir; that base cowardice yonder believes itself honest and indepen dent, as if a single right feeling, a single good or virtuous thought could consort with habits like theirs ; but they are less base than those who instigate them. The real scoun drels are the H ickmans of this world, the men who com pensate for low birth and plebeian origin by calumniating the well-born and the noble.—What is Fleury wanting here ?" said be, as attracted by Daly's narrative, the poor fellow had drawn near to listen. " I am glad you put the pewter pot on the bully's head, he's a disgrace to the town." said Fleury, with a laugh,. and he turned away as if enjoying the downfall of an enemy. " Oh! I see," said Daly, taking up one of the papers that had fallen to the ground, " this is the first act in the drama; come along, Lionel, let us talk of matters nearer to our hearts." GENERAL MISCELLANY