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tatraturr. POETRY. LINES ON VENICE BY MISS F ANNY KEMBLE From the high lattice now her dark array are gleaming; n Night's dark brow rs beaming. ith depart ems its motion o'er yon blue co I she's treading, Now o'er the blue lag-une Light barks are dancing qeaih her veil spreading, And 'nearh the silver moon Swift oars are glancing. deep Strains from the mandolin sk on the ripp , earns sleep Echo replies between la the g To mirth and laughter. O'er the wave seen afar. emerald e crown, Gleam like a fallen star, NOTICES China; Political, Commercial, and Social. By R. Montgomery Martin. Part I. London : James Madden, 8. Leadenhall-street. One of the most singular problems in the history of the human race is contained in the condition of the vast empire of China. Four hundred millions of population, or nearly half the entire population of the globe, are there covgregated under one SoCereign, whose dominions ex tend over about 35 degrees of latitude, and about 65 de grees of longitude, with a coast washed by the Pacific two thousand miles in length ; yet the state of that popu lation, their laws and habits, and even the form of the greater portion of the country they inhabit, are compara tively unknown to the remainder of mankind. Their capital cities a European is not permitted to visit ; their arts, their manufactures, their religion, we have for gene rations been compelled to form our opinions of upon vague guesses; and of the habits and character of the aaass of the people we know nothing at all. They have hedged thamselves round with barriers against the curi osity and the cupidity of the rest of their species, and, as well, against the intrusion of any other lights of civiliza tion than have been self-kindled, or have been handed down through centuries of exclusiveness. This state of things, however, is not destined to be per petual. Commerce, the great pioneer of civilization and rational liberty. has set its restless eye upon China, with a keen perception of its importance. Four hundred mil lions of people yet to be introduced into communication with the rest of mankind ! What a prospect for the ma nufacturer, the shipowner, and the merchant, is here I But there is still a higher and a holier prospect. Four hundred millions of active and intelligent human beings have to be brought within the pale of Christianity. Wary stepping, too, it will require to enable us to succeed in realizing either of these objects. The Chinese character, so far as we know of it at present, is sensitively afraid of dictation or rude interference with established habits. We may persuade, but we cannot coerce theta into their new position in the human family ; and to do this we mast first study their habits, their prejudices, and their tempers. To assist us the author of the work before us — and an abler man for the task than Mr. Montgomery Martin could not have been found—has devoted bra pen, and the experience and information derived from his late employment as her Maj-sty's treasurer for the colonial, consular, and diplomatic services in China, and as a mem ber of the legislative council at Hong Kong. The part (No. 1) now published treats of the topography, popula tion, productions, government, revenue, and banking system of China; and aff , rds us a fund of valuable in formation with respect to this extraordinary people. The second proposes to give their early history and their in tercourse with foreign nations, with some directions as to the line of policy to be pursued towards them. The third will treat of the regulations upon which their internal, coasting, and foreign traffic is conducted, with separate notices of the tea trade and the opium traffic ; and the fourth will describe the consular ports of Canton, Amoy, Foochoo, Ningpo, and Shanghai, and the stations of Hong Kong, Chilean, Macao, and Kiackta, with some general observations and an appendix of official documents. The present number contains an excellent map of the country. Iran Diamonds. By John Smith. London : Chapman and Hall, 186, Strand. This is a beautifully got up little work, and will fornishfood for amusement in many a circle. The author has displayed considerable ingenuity in the endeavour to prove his theory with respect to the source of Irish blundering and bulls, although we are fearful that he has not altogether succeeded in establishing the fact that his notions are very different to those of other people upon the subject. Many of the specimens of wit and humour introduced we recognise as very old friends ; but they are welcome nevertheless. In the illustrations Phiz has surpassed himself. By-the-bye, we may be accused of a bull for saying so ; but, really, reading Mr. Smith's collection is rather catching. The Three Wives; or Woman Morally and Religiously Superior to Man. By John Reid Mills. Liverpool : Edward Howell, Park-lane : Manchester, Henry Whitmore. The proposition sought to be proved in the three tales which compose the volume before us, is by most men acknowledged—perhaps too readily, for it is by no means consistent with our views of the human character, or of the designs of the Creator. We cannot admit it as a ge neral principle that woman is " morally and religiously superior to man," although many circumstances conspire for the preservation of her character from the contami skating, influences with which men are surrounded ii ; and it is certain that, as an s t teilfro - r goon, she possefteg hdtan tages which men do not. The importance of due atten tion—increased attention—being paid to the education of woman, which appears to be what the writer has in view, is quite clear. To woman is confided the task of model ling the character, in early youth, of their own sex and ours. A talented mother has rarely a stupid child—a pious mother an irreligious child. Some of the greatest ornaments of our literature have traced their distinction Lessons in childhood of rightminded mothers, and -, ent in manhood of virtuous and talented tales with which Mr. Reid has fur , very ably written, and convey much valu e sentiment and instruction. to the encourage !s. The t nished us are VARIETIES. PORTUGAL AND HER STREET.—lnsolvency has long been associated with the name of Portugal, from the Court of the former being situated in the street of the latter. Now that the Portuguese are in a sate of bankruptcy, the location of the Insolvent Court in Portugal-street appears singularly appropriate.—Punch. CANINE SAGACITY. — Tbe Progress of Arras relates the following additional instances of the wonderful instinct of the canine race :—About two months ago a person em barked for Africa, taking with him a sporting dog, given to him by an inhabitant of Arras. But on Thursday week the animal, who had jumped from the packet at Toulon, made his way home again, where he arrived the same day. The dog was seen travelling back through St. Omer, where he was well known. POLK AND COBDEN.—In swagger, ignorance, and self confidence, these worthies much resemble each other. Nor are they dissimilar i❑ their fates. Substitute the name of Cobden for Polk in the following extract from the Morning Chronicle, (whig paper,) and the remarks would as well fit the fugitive from Manchester, as him who still holds his ground at Washington. The Manchester de mocrats have found to their cost that the path Cobden chalked out for them is the road to ruin :—" Retribution seldom follows so very close on the heels of wrong-doing as it has in the case of the Polk policy of annexation and war. Retribution is usually too long dated for the pur poses of moral impression and effect. It too frequently falls on the wrong men, and visits the children instead of the fathers. Or it comes due at the wrong time—when the mischief has been done and forgotten, and the rela tionship of cause and effect is scarcely visible to the naked eye. In the New World, however, everything grows fast, and history is ready with her lessons before the sea son for edification has passed away. Mr. Polk's Nemesis has been wonderfully quick with him. One of the greatest of modern profieients in the art of rising' in democracies seems destined to afford the world one of its best exam ples of the law of moral and political gravitation. H e has loved popularity and votes not wisely but too well, and his popularity and votes desert him just when he is work ing hardest to propitiate them. More than any other United States President, he has courted, flattered, and pampered the passions of the democracy—and the demo cracy, by way of return, are cruelly ungrateful and vehe mently angry. One does like to see justice strike in this way, while the icon is hot. Mr. Polk's disastrous and unrenewed Presidentship will be a salutary warning to public men in America—pointing, as it so happily does, the valuable moral, that democracies have no gratitude for men who pander to their passions, and unscrupulously flatter their delusions, and meanly sacrifice the higher aims and duties of statesmanship to the coarsest interest of party." CHINESE LOVE OF TRADING.—It is truly observed, in an official report to the British government in 1837, that, the Jews perhaps excepted, no nation is so much in• Iluenced by the love of gain ; and at the same time, so utterly regardless about the means to attain this end. The more wealthy classes absorb their very existence in trade. Commerce is the invariable topic of conversation, the most important pursuit. the highest object of pleasure, and the goal of all their wishes. Trade is the first and last word in which all unanimously join, whilst the energies mind and body are consumed in following up this bent. is not here confined to one class of men, but to all ranks and ages. Scarcely can a boy lisp, when he begins to sell a few cakes, or a little sugar-cane. The poorest try to gain a subsistence, if it be only to dispose of a few rags. There is nothing in all nature which a Chinaman might not turn to advantage, and trade in. All recesses are ransacked to find a few trifles which may be sold to advantage, and he would rather procure a pittance in this way, than receive the money without displaying his inven tive genius. The Chinese may justly be termed the ped lars of the world ; wherever you go, there seem to be more sellers than buyers. Nothing can exceed their affa bility if they think you are going to purchase anything from them : they will refuse no money if they can be ever so little gainers; they are therefore quite the reverse of the Japanese, who are rough, disobliging, and positive ; and when they ask a price, will not abate their demand. Rut the Chinese turn every thing to advantage that offers, ndertake the most difficult things for the least hope The Chinese maxim is, that he who buys is for did the seller consent to it ; upon this principle, they think they have a right to ask the greatest price. The dealer does not deceive, say they ; it is the buyer who de ceives himself. The buyer is under no compulsion ; and *he profit which the merchant gets is the fruit of his in- Istry.—Montgovnery Martin's Wheat .. Ors. 210 1108 Barley Qrs. i 385 Malt Qrs. i 105 802 Oats Qrs. 1t96 213 Rye Qrs. Beans Qrs. 75 2600 Pease Qrs. 8 1653 ShelledßarleyQrs. Indian Corn. Qrs. Oatmeal .. Loads i 280 Flour. .... Sacks , 394 Ditto Brls 1 133 18916 1595 907 2gog EXPORTS. —Foreign. Wheat.— qrs. ; Barley,— qrs.; Pease, qrs. ; Oats, qrs. ; Indian Corn. qrs.; Oatmeal, sacks ; Flour. brls. —lreland Wheat. 783 qrs. ; Bar. ley, 739 qrs.; Beans, 872 qrs ; Rye, 8 qrs. ; Indian Corn, 6287 qrs. ; Oatmeal. 113 sks; Flour, 150 sks 6525 brls. Coastwise. Wheat, 1074 qrs. ; Barley, qrs.; Malt, qrs.; Oats, 235 qrs.; Beans, 444 qrs.; Pease, 79 qrs. ; Oatmeal, sacks;; Indian Corn. qrs. ; Flour, 1033 sacks 2898 brls. Average prices of Grain, for the week ending Dec. 12.1546. Wheat 603. 3d. I Barley 434. ld.l Oats 265. 5d.. I ttye42s. 11 d beans:. 45a. Od. IPease.. 483. 7d Aggregate average of the six weeks Wheat 60s. 4d Barley 435. sd. I Oats.. 265. sd. I Rye 425. Bd. Beans..4ss.lld. I Pease.. ags. Id. Duty on Foreign Produeethis week . Wheat 4s 0d Barley 25 od Oats .. . Is 6d Rye.. 2s Oct Beans 2s Oa I Pease.. 2s fid I Ind. Corn Os OctOd Flom B2s4id Duty on British Colonial. Wheat.. Is. od. I Barley.. Is.ud. Oats, I. od. Rye... Is. od; Beans.. Is. od. Pease.. Is. od. I Flour. 4iri. cwt. Liverpool Averages, week ending Dec 13, 1846. Wheat, 179•? qrs., price 590. 4d; Barley, .i 9 qrs., price 395. 4d. Oats, 375 qrs., price 2gs. 6d. ; Rye, qrs., price Os. Od. Beans, 70 qrs.. 525. 1 d. ; Pease, Os., price Os. Od. Duties paid in Liverpool, week ending Dec. 17. Foreign.—Wheat, 7081 qrs. ; Barley, -- qrs. ; Malt, qrs ; Oats, qrs ; Rye, qrs. ; Beans, 1563 qrs. ; Pease, qrs. ; Indian Corn, 5147 qrs. ; Oatmeal. loads ; Flour, 2767 barrels. Colonial.—Wheat,27 qrs.; Barley, qrs.; Pease, 130 qrs.— Oatmeal, 164 cwt ; Flour, 797 brls. THE Bust IDLERS.—Besides the procrastinating and perfunctory class, those are " slothful in business" who do no business at all. And there are such persons— agreeable, self-complacent, plausible persons—who really fancy that they have done a great deal because they have in , ended to do so much. Their life is made np of good purposes, splendid projects, and heroic resolutions. They ►ive in the region which the poet has described : A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye, And , f gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer's sky. They have performed so many journeys, and made so many discoveries, and won so many laurels in this aerial clime, that life is over, and they find their real work is not begun. Like the dreamer who is getting great sums of money in his sleep, and who, when - he awakes, opens 6is till or his pocketbook, almost expecting to find it full, the day-dreamer, the projector awaking up at the close of life, can hardly believe that after his distinct and glorious visions, he is leaving the world . no wiser, mankind no richer, and his own home no happier for all the golden prospects wbich have flitted through his busy brain. What a blessed world it were, bow happy and how rich, if all the idlers were working, if all the workers were awake, and if all the projectors were practical men !—Life in Eurnest. TILE ORATORY OF M. TRIERS.—M. Thiers has often reminded me of a beardless woman, well informed and witty—not standing, but seated at the tribune, who chatted upon a thousand subjects, jumping from one to another with the most graceful levity, and without allow ing the labour of her understanding to appear upon her lips, which are ever in motion. He is more elastic than a spring of the finest steel—he bends and unbends—he rises and falls with the subject—he will roll himself spirally round al:Pout - a question tr.rui its base Lo its summit—lie mounts, descends, remounts, hangs in the branches, hides himself in the thickest foliage, appears, disappears, and passes a thousand times in and out with the pretty agility of a squirrel—he would extract money even from a stone —where others glean, he leaps. He extends his plumage and shows, by turns, every hue of purple, gold, and azure. He does not speak, he coos—he does not c-o, he lisps— he does not lisp, he warbles—and he is so dazzling both to the eye and to the ear, that one does not know which to admire most, his plumage or his song. He will give you a speech of three hours' length on architecture, poetry, law, navigation, or war, and yet he is neither a poet, an architect, a lawyer, a mariner, or a soldier—all he will re quire is an evening's preparation. If he describes a bat tle, he astonishes the oldest generals. If he speaks of walls, roofs, stone, and mortar, you would actually believe him to be a mason or an architect. He will dispute with Gay-Lussac on questions of chemistry, and teach Arago how to direct his telescope at Venus or Jupiter. The fine arts, canals, roads, finances, commerce, history, the press, politics, anecdotes of the streets, theatres, war, literature, religion, municipalities, morality, amusements, great things, middling things, little things—what does it matter to him, he is ready at He is so, because in fact he is prepared upon nothing. He does not speak like other ora tors, because he speaks like people of the world. Other orators prepare themselves more or less, but he impro vises ; other orators perorate, but he chats ; and who can be on their guard against a man who chats like you or me ? What did I say ? infinitely better than you, or than me, or than any one else.- I have one fault, however, to find with M. Thiers. It is, that sometimes he cannot restrain his laughter when he is descending from the tribune. Now, a good comedian never laughs at the farce which he plays. On this point, M. Thiers has something to learn. If M. Thiers spoke slower, he would be less listened to ; but his volubility is such, that the house cannot go before him, or even follow him. Once started, he proceeds at full gal lop, from the morning to the evening. If the Almighty had foreseen that the day would come on which he would create a Thiers, be would undoubtedly have made the earth turn on its axis in forty-eight hours instead of twenty-tour.--Dublin University Mavazine. DANIEL DONE OVER.—The accounts from Rome mention among other reforms set on foot by the new Pope, that his Holiness has, by a decree, prohibited " Mendicity and Vagabondism." Othello's occupation's gone " I poor Dan 1 RELIGION OP THE CHINESE.—it is difficult to convey a distinct idea of the religion of the Chinese. The higher masses are Deists ; and I heard their learned men express an utter disbelief of a future state. In order that we may be the better enabled to see the prospects which pure Christianity would have in China, the following explana tion of the Confucian and other systems is given ; for which I am indebted to Drs. Medhurst, Gutzlaff, Bridge man, and others. While in China, I was favoured by Dr. Gu zlaff's translating my " Analysis of the Bible" into Chinese, which I caused to be printed ; it is now exten sively circulating throughout China, and said to be pro ducing a good effect. The Confucian system of religion, if religion it can be called, for it has little or nothing to do with theology, is merely a scheme of ethics and politics, from which things spiritual and divine are carefully ex cluded. In the works of Confucius there are some allu sions to Heaven as the presiding power of nature; and to Fate as the determiner of all things; but he does not ap pear to attribute originality to one, or rationality to the other. " Life and death are decreed by fate; ►fiches and poverty rest with Heaven." The Book of Odes speaks of the Imperial Supreme as " majestic in his descending and surveying the inhabitants of the world, and promoting their tranquillity ;" who is to be worshipped and served with abstinence and purification ; while he views the af fairs of men, and rewards or punishes them according to their deeds. The principle of order, which regulates the universe," is called the soul of the world. The heavens and earth, together with all animate and inanimate things, are, according to them, but one principle ; which is as universally diffuzed throughout nature, as water through the ocean. Their description of the creation of the world is as follows. " Before heaven and earth were divided, there existed one universal chaos; when the two energies of nature were gradually distinguished, and the yin and yang, i. e., the male and female principles, established. Then the purer influence established, and became the expansive heavens ; while the grosser particles descended, and constituted the subjacent earth. From the combi nation of these two, all things were produced ; and thus heaven is the father, and earth the mother, of nature." Hwoenantze, an ancient author of China, whose works are in great esteem, writes thus :—" Heaven was form less—a chaos ; and tee whole mass nothing but confusion. Order was produced in the pure ether ; out of the pure ether the universe came forth ; the universe produced the air. When the pure male principle, yang, had been dilu ted, it formed the heavens. The heavy parts coagulated and formed the earth. The fine particles cnited very soon, but the thick and heavy went on slowly ; therefore the heavens came into existence first, and the earth after wards. From the subtile essence of heaven and earth, the dual principles, yang and yin, were formed ; the joint operation of yang and yin produced the four seasons ; putting forth their generative power, gave birth to all the products of the earth. The warm air of yang pro duced fire, and the finest parts of fire formed the sun. The cold air of the yin, being condensed, produced water ; and the finest parts of the watery substance formed the moon."—Montgornery Martins'a " China." SECOND EDITION. Standard-office, Two o'clock -- . LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE.-THIS DAY. The state of the weather has undergone a complete change since Friday, the frost entirely disappearing with a shift of wind to the east ward ; this has brought up a large accession of supply, the bulk of which consists of Wheat, Indian Corn, and Flour from the United States; with comparatively moderate arrivals of Barley, Beans, and Pease from other foreign countries, and of Flour from British American colonies ; the imports from Ireland and coastw se are trifling, whilst the exports in both directions continue large. There has been a moderate demand for Wheat at this morning's market, at prices not so high as on Friday last, trit ld. to N. advance on Tuesday. Flour fully as dear as this day week, but 6d. lower than Friday, both free and in bond. A slight advance in other articles, with the exception of Indian Corn, which was 2s. to 3s. cheaper, there being a large supply. ARRIVALS OF CORN From the 15th to the 41st November,inclusive AND 'TOTAL LAND. ; WISN. , '..--- --- 1 COLONIS EVROPE THE LIVERPOOL STANIMRD. DICKENS' NEW CHRISTMAS WORK. As this work, entitled The Battle of Life, has not yet reached the hands of the public generally, the following epitome and extracts may be interesting The Battle of Life is a tale of very simple construction, and very unpretending in the characters that figure in it. These are a Doctor Jeddler and his two daughters, Grace and Marion ;—a ward named Alfred Heathfield, in love with Marion, and beloved by her ; two lawyers (partners) called Snitchey and Craggs ; and two domestic servants of the Jeddlers named John Britain and Clemency New- come, who afterwards get married, and keep an inn of the sign of the " Nutmeg-grater and Thimble." As the latter taro personages are really the principal in the hook, and as their portraiture is the most characteristic of the . . author's best manner, a specimen of their courtship may be advantageously introduced here : " There'll be another job for Snitcbey and Crags, I suppose," he observed, puffing slowly at his pipe. " More witnessing for you and me, perhaps, Clemrny. !" " Lor I" replied his fair companion, with her favourite twist of her favourite joints, " I wish it was me, Britain." " Wish what was you ?" " A going to be married," said Clemency. Benjamin took his pipe out of his mouth and laughed heartily. " Yes ; you're a likely subject for that !" he said, " Poor Clem." Clemency, for her part, laughed as . _ heartily as he, and seemed as much amused by the idea. " Yes," she assented, " I'm a likely subject for that ; ain't t?" " You'll never be married, you know," said Britain, resuming his pipe. " Don't you think I shall though ?" said Clemency, in perfect Rood faith. Mr. Britain shook his head, " Not a chance of it !" :oulithin11!"" -- tntid Clemency. " Well ! I suppose you mean to marry, Britain, one of these days; don't you?" A question so abrupt, upon a subject so momentous, required consideration. After blowing out a great cloud of smoke, and looking at it with his head now on this side and now on that, as if it were actually the question, and he were surveying it in various aspects, Mr. Britain re. plied that he wasn't altogether clear about it, but—ye•es— he thought he might come to that at last. " I wish her joy, whoever she may be," cried Clemency. " But she wouldn't have led quite such a joyful life as she will lead, and wouldn't have had quite such a sociable sort of husband as she will have," said Clemency, spreading herself half over the table, and staring retrospectively at the candle, " If it hadn't been for—not that I want to do it, for it was accidental, I am sure—if it hadn't been for me ; now, would she, Britain ?" "'Certtiinly not," returned Mr. Britain, by this time in that high state of appreciation of his pipe, when a man can open his mouth for a very little way for speaking pur poses ; and sitting luxuriously immovable in his chair, can afford to turn only his eyes towards a companion, and that very passively and gravely. " Oh, I'm greatly be holden to you, you know, Clem." " Lor ! how nice that is to think of I " said Clemency ; at the same time bringing her thoughts as well as her sight to bear upon the candle-grease, and becoming ab. ruptly reminiscent of its healing qualities as a balsam, she anointed her left elbow with a plentiful application of that remedy. " You know I've made a good many investigations of one sort or other in my time," pursued Mr. Britain, with the profundity of a sage; "having been always of an inquir ing turn of mind ; and I've read a good many books about the general Rights of things and Wrongs of things. for I went into the literary line myself when I began life." " Did you though ?" cried the admiring Clemency. " Yes," said Mr. Britain; " I was hid for the best part of two years behind a book-stall, ready to fly out if any. body pocketed a volume; and after, I was light-porter to a stay and mantua maker, in which capacity I was em ployed to carry about in oilskin baskets nothing but de ceptions—which soured my spirits, and disturbed my con fidence in human nature; and after that, I heard a world of discussions in this house, which fret my spirits; and my opinion after all is, that, as a safe and corn. ortable sweetener of the same, and as a pleasant guide through life, there's nothing like a nutmeg-grater." Clemency was about to offer a suggestion, but be stop ped her by anticipating it. " Com-bined," he added gravely, " with a thimble." " Do as you wold, you know, and cetrer !" observed Clemency, folding her arms comfortably in her delight at this avowal, and patting her elbows. " Such a short cut, ain't it ?" _ _ " I'm not sure," said Mr. Britain, " that it's what would be considered good philosophy. I have my doubts about that ; but it wears well, and saves a quantity of snarling, which the genuine article don't always." " See, how you used to go at once, yourself, you know !" said Clemency. "Ah !" said Mr. Britain. " But the molt extaor dinary thing, Clemency, is that rshould live to be brought round through you. That's the strange part of it. Through you! Why, I suppose you haven't so much as half au idea in your head." . _ Clemency, without taking the least offence, shook it, and laughed, and hugged herself, and said—" No, she didn't suppose she had." " I'm pretty sure of it," said Mr. Britain. " Oh ! I dare say you're right," said Mr. Clemency. " I don't pretend to none. I don't want any." Benjamin took his pipe from his lips, and laughed till the tears ran down his face. " What a natural you are, Clemmy !" he said, shaking his !bead, with an infinite relish of the joke, and wiping his eyes. Clemency, with out the slightest inclination to di-pute it, did the like, and laughed as heartily as he. " But I can't help liking you," said Mr. Britain ; "you're a regular good creature in your way; so shake hands, Clem. Whatever happens I'll always take notice of you, and be a friend to you." • V skin r taut elpmPnrir- ‘. Wells that 'a very good of you." " Yes, yes •," said Mr. Britain, giving her his pipe to knock the ashes out of, " I'll stand by you." It should have been premised perhaps that these cha racters have been expressly drawn for stage representation in the persons of Mr. and Mrs. Keeley, at the Lyceum, where a dramatic version of the piece is to be produced on Monday night, by Albert Smith. The work has been altogether written with a view to stage purposes, and hence the primary cause, probably, of the many deficiences the discriminating reader will immediately perceive in it. The moral of the Batik of Life is intended to be con veyed in the struggle Marion endures in giving up her be trothed husband to Grace, her sister, and marrying a reclaimed spendthrift named Michael Warden, at the end of six years, for whom she has no particular affection, nor has Alfred for Grace. The motive to this conduct is very imperfectly developed, and the incidents clumsily worked out. But in the course of the narrative various opportu nities occur for the exhibition of those peculiar touches that have procured Mr. Dickens so many admirers among light readers. The specimen already given is about one of the best of its kind the volume affords, but another in an opposite style is subjoined :-- •" It was agreeable to see the graceful figures of the blooming sisters, twined together, lingering among the trees, conversing thus, with earnestness opposed to light ness, yet with love responding tenderly to love. And it was very curious indeed to see the younger sister's eyes suffused with tears ; and something fervently and deeply felt, breaking through the wilfulne , s of what she said, and striving with it painfully. The difference between them with respect of age could not exceed four years at most ; but Grace, as often happens in such cases, when no mother watches over both (the Doctor's wife was dead), seemed, in her gentle care of her young sister, and in the steadi ness of her devotion to her, older than she was, and more removed, in course of nature, from all competition with her, or participation, otherwise than through her sympa thy and true affection, in her wayward fancies, than their ages seemed to warrant. Great character of mother, that, even in this shadow and faint reflection of it, purifies the heart, and raises the exalted nature nearer to the angels! " The doctor's reflections, as he looked after them, and heard the purport of their discourse, were limited, at first, to certain merry meditations on the folly of all loves and likings, and the idle impositions practised on themselves by young people, who believed, for the moment, that there could be anything serious in such bubbles, and were always undeceived ; always! " But the home -adorning, self-denying qualities of Grace, and her sweet temper, so gentle and retiring, yet including so much constancy and bravery of spirit, seemed all expressed to him in the contrast between her quiet household figure and that of his younger and more beau tiful child ; and he was sorry for her sake—sorry for them both—that life should be such a very incredulous business as it was. " The doctor never dreamed of enquiring whether his children, or either of them helped in any way to make the scheme a serious one. But then he was a Philosopher. " A kind and generous man by nature, he had stumbled, by chance, over that common Philosopher's stone (much more easily discovered than the object of the alchemist's researches), which sometimes trips up kind and generous men, and has the fatal property of turning gold to dross, and every precious thing to poor account." All the circumstances take place in the neighbourhood of a retired village, about a hundred years ago, and are assumed to have extended over nine years. The volume is beautifully illustrated, but is not likely to sustain the waning fame of Boz, and will assuredly provoke much hostile criticism from most of those who do not belong to his coterie. -..4p..-- " TRY."--" There was once upon a time a good little dwarf named Try, who was so powerful that he overcame everything he attempted ; and yet he was so small and ill-favoured, that people laughed when they were told of his wondrous powers. But the tiny man was so kind at heart, and loved so much to serve his unfortunate and desponding brethren, that he would go and beg of t h ose who knew him better to intercede for him, so th a t h e might be allowed to help them out of their troubles; and when once he had made them happy by his noble deeds, they no longer despised him or drove him from them with sneers, but loved him as their truest friend. Yet the only return this good dwarf sought for all his services was, that when they heard of any one who wanted a help• ing hand, they woad say a good word in his favour, and recommend them to Trty.' "—The Good Genius that Turned Everything into Gold. SCIENCE versus HYMEN.—The Lancaster and Carlisle Railway is now opened throughout, and as it con stitutes the rcute to the far-famed Gretna, if the electric telegraph should be adopted by the directers on that line, elopements would become almost impracticable. What an enemy science is to romance and love ! And what a shame that young ladies who are kind enough to go a hundred miles out of their way to make a man happy, should, like mere mice, be thus snared and caught by wires! To establish the telegraph in the south may be all well enough, but to carry it to Carlisle—the last stage to Gretna—the very vestibule to bliss—is an encroach ment which ought never to be permitted. It would be directing the Galvanic battery of science against the rarest temple Hyroen has. It would destroy the little romance of life which still lingers in a manufacturing age, and would take away all the piquancy of love's adventure. Dec. 22, 1840. Nine hundred geese, several weighing 151bs. each, 200 THE LADY Paysages/sm.—Several operations have re turkeys, and 50 ducks, altogether six tons weight, were centlY been undertaken to blow up this vessel, which has forwarded on Monday and Tuesday last from Spalding long obstructed the navigation of the Tyne. On Wednes- Eleven thousand barrels of oats were exported from for the London Christmas market. Every day this week day the operations were most successful. The main deck Limerick last week to England and Scotland. quantities of poultry , almost as large, have been sent to of the vessel was raised three feet nearer the surface of It is said that Government have determined to shorten the metropolis. the water than before the discharges were applied, so the term of the soldier's enlistment to ten years. NOVEL SPORTING.—A few days since two gentlemen amply was their action directed under the bilge of the Dr. List, the celebrated economist, has committed sui- were near the Meikle Rock, between Avoch and Fort- vessel. The massive iron knees were divided by the force ride, by shooting himself with a pocket pistol. rose, Rossshire, with a Newfoundland dog. Seeing a fish of the explosions as if by a knife, and the mainmast has During twenty-four hours, on Thursday, no less than in the water, they fired at and wounded it. The dog set been recovered with the exception of three or four feet at twelve fires occurred in various parts of the metropolis. off in pursuit, and the contest was keenly kept up, the the bottom. The divers have been engaged during the Lord Ashley, it is stated, declines coming forward to fish and dog diving in every direction; but the fish was week in fishing up the wreck, large portions of which contest the representation of the city of Bath at the gene- captured at last, and dragged ashore. It proved to be a have been brought to the surface. Ihe destruction of the ral election. fox shark, and measured five feet in length. vessel has been most complete. The story of Lord Tweedale's marriage being null and " GUN Tow" APPLIED TO BLASTING.—A gentleman, MR. NEWMAN.—A correspondent of the Daily News, void, from a previous contract entered into with another who has been a manufacturer of gunpowder in the west of writing from Rome, under date Dec. sth, says—" I have lady in Scotland, is a fabrication. Scotland for the last twenty years, has been successful in noticed the melaticholy death of Colonel Bryan's daugh- W. S. Dugdale, Esq., M.P., has generously returned several experiments with gun tow and gun sawdust, for ter. The solemn dirge and requiem which was held yes half the amount of mats to his tenants occupying garden blasting purposes. A perfectly satisfactory Hie! was terday in the church of Irish Franciscans, St. Isidoro, land, in consequence of the failure in the potato crops. made, on Tuesday, at the Lady Mill Qu irry, in the pre was attended by several hundred British visitors, besides A pension of £lOO a-year has been offered by the go- settee of Professor Penny and a number of other scientific the young lady's kinsfolk, o! the princely houses of Do vermeent to Father Mathew ! !!—" The force of humbug gentlemen. One of the experiments was with a bore of ria, Pamphili. and Borghese. Towards the termination of can no further go." 3 feet 4 inches, and 21 diameter, charged with 11 ozs tow the sorrowful ceremonial. at a pause in the liturgy, there Triennial stakes on the turf are beginning to spread, and cotton, mixed (41bs. of gunpowder would be required), arose in the body of the church a person in ecclesiastical and in a few years will be found in the programme of and which brought down about 13 or 15 tons in weight— costume, of pensive and careworn aspect, who, standing every respectable meeting in the kingdom. the effect is represented as "splendid." near the coffin, addressed himself to speak His voice was A Cantab has admitted, in a letter to The Times, that MESMERISM APPLIED TO TOOTH DRAWING.—We low at first, so that few heard till it gradually filled the his charge against a proctor, of arresting a young lady, witnessed, the other day, the extraction of a tooth from a church, and it was understood to be a simple recital of the was only founded on a general rumour to that effect. young woman, who underwent the operation while in the unostentatious virtues of the deceased ; but soon came Mr. Carman, son of the late Mr. Cannan, official mesmeric sleep. The tooth, which was a large one, and words of more impressive import, and a whisper went assignee, is appointed to fill the same berth in the place its lower part quite fresh, did not yield till after a wrench, round that the unexpected speaker on the occasion was the of the late Mr. Alsager. which would have caused most intense agony to any Rev. Mr. Newman, late of Oxford. To the thousands Flixton-hall. Suffolk, the seat of Robert Shafto Adair, waking subject. The girl's countenance, however, did who have perused his printed sermons delivered in Angli was on Saturday night destroyed by fire, occasioned by not undergo the slightest change, and no indication of can pulpits it would be difficult to convey a notion of his the overbeating of a flue The damage is estimated at sensibility was given. She slept on after the operation manner on the present occasion, it being the first time that £30.000, and a part only was insured. was concluded, and when awakened in a few minutes, did he delivered himself of an extemporaneous unpremeditated The Duke of Richmond has signified his wish to have not seem to be for for some time aware that the tooth had discourse." the money subscribed tor his testimonial, used as the been extracted.—Northern Warder. THE FROST IN LONDON.—The river on Thursday. foundation of an institution for the relief of farmers re- SUICIDE OF MAJOR R. F. EAMES —On Wednesday, above bridge, presented a singular appearance, owing to duced by adverse circumstances. Major Richard Fairfax Eames, late of the 47th foot, the immense pieces of ice that were drifted up with the A WARNING.—Sir Edward Buiwer Lytton's new no- Madras army, shot himself through the heart, at an hotel tide. This has proved exceedingly disastrous to per vel, " Lucretia; or, the Children of Night," is generally in London, where he had been staying. He had retired sons who obtain their living at the water aide. The pronounced to be a disgrace to the writer, and a shame to from the service, having been an invalid on account of an frost has been so intense that it has been found necessary us all. affection of the brain. A letter to a friend was found in to keep fires in all the fire stations, to prevent the works Herrings caught at Brighton in the morning are sold in his bed-room, commencing—" From insinuations and of the engines from freezing. After passing Vauxhall the Midland Counties in the afternoon! at the rate of inuendos thrown out at various times that I have sacri- bridge there was no clear water to be seen, and the steam from twenty to tweuty.five for a shilling, or at a reduction ficed my honour and reputation in some way or the other, boats had to make their way as best they could through of 200 per cent. why I know not. I find this world no longer worth living the masses of ice, which are not yet very dangerous op- A report has been circulated that it is the intention of in, and throw off the mortal and become an immortal." ponents, by reason of their want of substance. At Chelsea Government, in the next session of Parliament, to abolish A public meeting was held on Tuesday evening, at the several of the piers became blocked in, together with the the window tax, and raise the property tax to five per Princess's Concert-room, Oxford-street, for the purpose boats lying alongside ; and in the latter part of the after cent., leaving the income tax untouched. of " investigating the frightful case of death from srarva- noon the Citizen .boats were unable to perform their Lord John Russell has announced that he cannot, of tion of Louisa Mordannt, from cruel neglect of the Board downward trips. Battersea-bridge had very few of its his own act, continue the pension granted to the now de- of Guardians, and also to take into consideration the dis- arches open to navigation, and the few craft that ventured ceased widow of Mr. Hood to the children. An applica- gusting rules of uncleanliness in Marylebone workhouse." through could with difficulty reach Wandsworth. This tion must be made to Parliament. The chair was taken by Benjamin B. Cabbell, Esq., M.P., place, with the Fulham marshes and osier beds, has always PRICE OF CORN.—The prices of wheat and other kinds who denounced the present pOOO law system in the most been a favourite resort in severe weather for wild fowl, • of grain advanced at all the leading markets last week. indignant terms ; and all the speakers spoke in the and since Sunday last a very large number have been seen Wheat rose from 4s. to ss. per quarter at Wakefield mar- severest language of the heartlessness of the guardians. in the neighbourhood. Many wild geese, ducks, and sea ket on Friday. i Strong resolutions were unanimously passed, and the gulls have been shot by parties from boats, and on Tues. On Saturday morning week, about one o ' c l oc k, the poor-law bitterly reltrobated by all the speakers. day no less than three brace of wild ducks were shot in United Secession Church, Pellockshaws, was discovered LIGHTNING.—On Sunday morning ae k, about eight less than two hours. to be on fire, and was entirely consumed. We understand o'clock, Polminnick Cottage, near Penzance, was con- EFFECT OF SHOT UPON IRON STEAMERS.--A pars the church was insured with the Sun Fire Insurance Co. siderably injured by lightning. The electric fluid first g raph, on the e ff ec t s o f shot upon our war steamers , has for £BOO. struck the chimney-stacks, which were completely de- gone the round of the papers, stating that the splinters Notwithstanding the high prices of provisions gene- stroyed, and, descending the chimney, demolished the ;eon war tll view, refu we to en th te o r ng in h tour t o the rally, yet poultry and game is now selling in London at mantle-pier . It was then attracted by the bell-wire, of wood, vessels.th that low,the a on lors fi w , from shot on iron ships are so much larger than those unusually low prices. Pheasants are being sold at 4 s. a along which it ran from room to room, destroying every b brace ; hares at Is. 6d. each ; geese at 3 s. each ; and impediment to its course—the ceilings, skirtings, floor, story apocryphal, "from its most vain and impotent con fowls at 3a. a couple. paper, &c., being considerably injured, and no fewer than elu s i ons " f o r w e k n o w some thi ng o f B r iti s h t ars , an d A. military board having recently been appointed by the fifty-four panes of glass, with portions of the window- that but few, very few of them, would be determined or Commander-in-Chief, to consider the present allowances frames, were forced out, the fragments having been hurled deterred by the probability of personal danger in their of fuel to the army, and the issues having been considered to a great ctistance. choice of a ship. The result of our inquiries tends to con insufficient, the War-office has ordered that the present BRUTAL EXHIBITION.—Tire Leeds intelligencer says, firm our opini, ns. We are told, that on the experiments quantity of fuel shall be increased one third. that a fight for the honour of championship of the light recently made at Woolwich, of the effect of shot on iron, Two brothers, Frenchmen, master and mate of a St. weights, and for the sum of £4OO, was decided on Toes- a gentleman remarked to Sir G. Cockburn that he thought Maio vessel, have perished in the Tvne by suffocation, in day, in a field on this side of Norwich. The combatants consequence of having placed a pan of lighted coals in the were the renowned Johnny Walker, and a newer aspirant, the iron splintered. Sir George treated the matter lightly, saying, that in the first action he was in, splinters (rot's cabin where they slept; the only ventilation being a bro named Simmonds. The men have been for some time in the first shot fired knocked down nine men. Now, we ken pane of glass. active training, and considerable sums were pending the believe, that if Sir George had been of opinion that splin- Zirac TRADE —The smelting and manufacture of zinc result. Contrary to expectation, the fi g ht was of very ters from iron exceeded, or were more dangerous than is becoming an important trade in Belgium. During the short duration, as ii, the fourteenth round, and in thirty- those from wood, he would have freely and openly de last ten years the progress made in this branch of mane- one minutes, Sirnmonds, losing his temper, fastened his Glared it; besides, we remember that the same cry waS facture has been extraordinary. The borders of the river teeth into the shou , der of Walker, by which act he was raised against the use of teak timber when it was intro- Meuse produce large quantities of the ore.— The Builder. immediately declared the loser, amidst the execrations of duced in the royal navy. The Cornwallis frigate was the AN EARLY LAMB —On Tuesday, the 17th instant, a the assembled multitude. first frigate built of teak. In 1808, she was : commanded ewe, belonging to Sir George Musgrave , Bart., of Eden - THE BARNARD CASTLE MURDERS.—The trial of by th e p resen t Ad mira l P e ll ew , an d h e an d the present hall, weaned a fine lamb on the snow, and the mother and George Barker, John Breckon, and Thomas Routledge Admiral Troubridge recollect, we have no doubt, the talk her offspring are doing well. Several more are daily ex- Raine, charged with the murder of Joseph Yates and Ca- about danger from splinters from teak-built ships of war. pected.—Carlisle paper. therine Raine, at Startforth, in A ug u s t, 1845, commenced Messrs. Ditchburn and Mare very fairly offer to set the Professor Schonbein communicated to the Academie at York, on Monday morning, and extended over Tues- question at rest : they say they will permit one of their des Sciences, on the 23d November, that his gun cotton day and Wednesday. They were accused of throwing the iron ships to be filled with paper figures, the size of men, is not prepared by the same process as the explosive cot- two deceased over the bridge into the river Tees. The to be fired at with shot as often as may be agreed on. ton which has hitherto been experimented with so gene- two charges were taken separately, the prisoners being The splinters from iron, and their effect, would, by this ;ER'S CONSECRATION FOR rally. first tried for the murder of Yates, and on the evening of means, he fairly teeted, and the question decided.—Nau- At Blackburn, on Monday night, a fine lioness, which Wednesday the jury returned a verdict of acquittal. The ENT.—The time, place, and mTanlinEerSonf Mr. has been in Mr. Wombwell's possession, we believe, for other charge was not 'messed, the evidence being ihe same s °n: c Av o asrE n Td s m ecration to the cause oi the factory children some years, gave birth to three fine cubs, two of which, a eo s r i d n in th o e y f r o e r e m o e rd r , c d a . se, and a verdict of not guilty was ac iTnielsAlrsiletEaSite.hirvia'us defined by that gentleman in his speech at the with their mother, are " doing as well as can be ex pected." .. . Short Ti me Meeting—" He had been forty- Morgan,Mr Charles Wye Williams, of Liverpool, and Mr. For some time past a gang of swindlers have been car rying on in London a system of fraud by offering to dis- we yaeda heardrs nvmogf the e a manu facturing f he d istric t , i a n n d the although w est secretary of the General Association of Steam Wakefield Sh • Ship-owners, had an interview with the Earl of Clasen - count bills, and to advance money in other ways. Cir culars have been frequently sent to country tradesmen, don, on Thursday, at the o ffi ce of the Board of Trade, in fih ln eve d b ies, and had been s u fferingse nthu o sti t c in the black s cause of their who have been duped in many instances. In their pros emancipation, he had never given himself the trouble to reference to the Steam Navigation Act. pectuses, they have given various names and addresses, and WEST INDIA PINEAPPLES.—The attempt made to have been pretended to be actuated by the highest mo know that there was a factory slave in England. And import pineapples from the West Indies throughout the tives, with a desire to act secretly—for the advantage of year has every proepect of being realised, and a parcel by their customers. Persons aho have been cheated, or on how was he converted ? It so happened that he was one night . a visitor at the house of Mr. John Wood, of Bowl the Tay brings this tropical fruit in time for use in whom attempts have been made, have applied to the city mg Hall, Bradford. He was the largest manufacturer of England at Christmas. magis•rates ; and shoals of letters have been received worsted in the world, and . be said—' Mr. Oastler, I won- On Monday night a daring burglary was attempted in from the country respecting the proceedings of the gang ; der that, with all your philanthropy and zeal for the e . Mr. Bailey's premises, Norwich. The burglars being de- but as yet they have kept clear of the meshes of the law , cipation of the Blacks, you never turn your atten,tiomparintoo tected by Mr. Bailey's sons, an affray ensued, and one of AN UNEXPECTED DISCOVERY.—About a week Or ten the men was shot, but not killed. He was conveyed to the the factories.' Why, what is there to do there ? days ago, an aged woman, who, during a long widowhood not . you know . ?" " No, I know nothing about the fac hospital on the same night, where he now lies in a tees - had kept a very small public-house nearly opposite the nous state. military barracks here, took ill and died. She lived tories—what is the matter?' .' Why, the system we carry ten minutes t i e s s , on here at Bradford hldro is the most a wful that can be imagined S ,some on l y Eve years of . age, in every Sum. ROBBERIES.—The London papers contain se- rather penuriously, hut this was generally believed to be veral reports of robberies at bakers' shops, by individuals in consequence of her poverty—being apparently at all :r h i o o n r u ß r s c r . adfo l r n d n roy from six in the morning till seven in the e m eent - altavrin on o ty wn thi m rty - ill r s min;t iv et e in an apparent state of destitution. On Tuesday a simi- times aornewbat seraitened insircumstarices. .A__ter death tar, practice was ttauptra by twv mcia Wily vlbltctt th y atop her deposltories and coffers were of course inspected by , "g - ' g . f° th r e d m inn te e of Mr. Squires, confectioner, of High-street, each taking her relations, when, we believe, to the surprise of every .wl2l a loaf. They were handed into the charge of the police. one of them—at all events to her neighbours—her wealth, more, but that is all. There are mills where they work The following announcement appeared among the mar - chiefly in bank notes, but partly in silver, was found to 14 hours a day.l eaid, 'lt is impossible. Human na riages in the papers last week :—" On the 2 nd of August amount to no less a sum than £9lo.—Perth Constitu- tore can never . .he, endure it. " Well, but ' said ' they last, at the British Ambassy, Paris, by the late Bishop tional. do endure it.' No time was allowed for play or religious Luscombe, Dr. Lardner, to Mary, only daughter of Col. Considerable apprehension exists amongst the relatives instruction. At four o'clock the next morning, as Mr: Spicer, late of the 12th Lancers; the marriage having been an d connexions of the seamen engaged in the expedition Oastler was g oin g off he was informed by the servant th a t previously solemnized in the United States ." of the Erebus and Terror, which sailed from the Tnames in Mr. Wood requested an interview with him. I went. To MAKE STRONG TEA.—It is not generally known June last year, under the command of Sir John Franklin O astler, into the bedroom. Mr. Wood, continued Mr. that the way to make good tea is, first to pour in tire boil- and C apta i n C roz i er , an d many anx i ous app li ca ti ons h a v e sitting up in the bed , had a small table by his beds id e. ing hot water into the pot, and then to put in the tea , not lately been made to the Admiralty on the subject. No Two wax candles were burning, and between them w as mixing it at all. The reason is obvious, for the hottest tidings have been received since last December, when p laced God's holy word. He was reading it. '0 my water is on the top, where the steam rises, then the tea is from information obtained from Esquimaux, and conveyed friend,' said he, ' before you go, I want you to give use better infused, and the flavour drawn out more properly. to the Danish settlements in Greenland, opposite Discoe your solemn pledge teat you will endeavour to get these The demolition of the ornamental colonnade forming I s l an d, and thence overland, the expedition was preparing p oor factor y children emanci p ated. Their condition is se the front of the south wing of Buckingham Palace was to winter in Gilbert's Sound. The last whaler for the heavy on my mind that I cannot rest, and every word , commenced on Saturday ; from which point the new wing season has returned without bringing any intelligence. lead in this sacred book is like an arrow to my so i v begins. The excavations for both wings fronting St. and from all accounts this, their second winter in the ice, There was a picture of a penitent millowner. I did gi v e James's Park are complete, and the foundations are al- has set in at the north with great severity. [The Lite- h i m m y ' . hand and did ' him from • promise that moment to ready laid. rary Gazette says that all fears on the subject are ground- endeavour to emancipate the factory slave." A dinner was given to Captain Pechell, M.P., by the less.] DISSATISFACTION AMONG ELECTORS.—The anxiety guardians of Brighton, on Monday, at the Old Ship, by SNOW STORM.—On Friday week, a heavy fall of snow and restlessneis which has shown itself of late on the sub way of testimonial for his exertions in opposing the efforts commenced in all parts of the United Kingdom, and ject of the dreaded establishment of the Romish Church of the Poor Law Commissioners to control the parochial continued, more or less, for the next three or four days. in Ireland is evidently increasing. Very recently there ' affairs of Brighton, and his opposition to the New Poor Northward of York, the snow was regularly from one to has been a correspondence on these points between Sir Law in general. two feet thick on Sunday, and as there was a brisk wind, John Duckworth and some of his constituents at Exeter: An Irish labourer, named Owen Murray, died in Lon- much of the snow was drifted to the depth of from four a letter to the electors of East Worcestershire, by the Rev don on Monday last, from suffocation, produced from in- to ten feet in the northern part of the county of Durham, R. B. Hone, of Hales Owen ; and a discussion between flammation of the larynx, superinduced by a piece of bone in Northumberland, and Westmoreland. Not only the Mr. Walker and some of the electors of Reading. Sir John which he had swallowed, His life might have been saved common highways, but also the railways, were rendered Duckworth, with a tenacity which many would show had he consented to the performance of an operation for impassable on Sunday and Monday; but large forces of under like circumstances, rejected the idea of "pledging the extraction of the bone. men having been got to clear the rails, not much detention himself." All be would say vas, that he bad been born SACRILEGE.—During the night of Friday se'nnight the has since taken place. In many parts between Carlisle and bred a Protestant, and hoped ever to remain one ; and parish church at Frampton Cotterell, Gloucestershire, was and Edinburgh the snow lies to the depth of eight or nine with this answer his constituents were forced to content broken into, and a quantity of black cloth, the hanging feet, and the moors of Westmoreland and Cumberland themselves as they could. The Reading case differs s of the pulpit, and other articles, were stolen therefrom. are quite impassable. The fall has also been very heavy little in point of form, but not much in point of substance- A reward of £lO has been offered for the apprehension of in Wales. As the snow was accompanied by a severe frost, Mr. Walter, being one of the principal landowners of the the offenders. the weather was truly winterly—forming, indeed, one of the neighbourhood, has been invited to stand for that town. A rencontre took place between the gamekeepers and o ld f as hioned, seasonable (not to say poetical) introduc- But immediately the Protestant pledge interferes with h i s watchers of the Marquis of Anglesey, and Josiah Spode , ti ons to Christmas which many of the present generation prospects, and he loudly complains of it. He urges, w ith Esq., of Armitage Hall, near Rugeley, and a determined h av e scarcely before experienced. great earnestness , the impropriety and injust i c e of the gang of poachers, from twelve to fifteen in number, in a demand forms THE M ERRY WIVES OP GLASGOW.—A short time ago pledging system, and plainly avows that the _ ar. preserve on the Armitage Hall estate, on Monday night a serious obstacle to his becoming a candidate. Yet M b the wife of a grocer in the vicinity of the High-streete lite. After a desperate conflict, in which one of the .Walter himself, like Sir J. Duckworth , uses language attention gen tl eman named Mr. came the object of to a keepers was severely wounded, and a poacher shot throug h . which, fairly interpreted , implies all that the Protestants At length he began to think he had made the de- . the thigh, five of the offenders were secured. " I wouldwillingly pledge myself require. He says, wou On Tuesday morning a daring robbery was committed heart of the fair dame, and he sired impression upon the the maintenance of all the great fundamental principles of Proposed and obtained her consent to name an even i ng at Messrs. Cox, Savory and Co.'s, 54, Cornhill. It ap- the British Constitution." `V V hat does any one require p w r hen they should meet finally to adjust matters for their pears that the shopman, according to custom, opened the beyond Cais ? Beyond this, we departure to a distance. The night accordingly arrived, mean, when fairly inter shortly before eight, and then locking up the door, the couple met, and every thing seemed propitious for the ' preted. The British Constitution contains, among its went to breakfast. It was during his absence that thieves contrived to enter the shop, and swept off trays , . enterprise. It was considered prudent, however, to post- that fundamental principles, an Established Church, and . containing no less than 149 gold and silver watches, of I pone leaving the city till a later hour, and in the meantime British rou st church protesting against Rome. The Co the value of nearly £lOOO. it was resolved to have something comfortable. The effect tution excludes a Romanist from the throne and from the The anticipated contest for the representation of East to of the gentleman's potations was to consign him the office of Lord Chancellor. It forbids any intercourse be t the Governmentof En gland and the court of Rome ween e Worcestershire, it is understood, will not take place. A arms of . Morpheus, when the treacherous Delilah, prev i - What do we want . then from Sir John Duckworth, M r ' conference between the supporters of Captain Rushout ously prepared for action, cut off one of his whiskers, and dh rice t ° and of Mr. J. H. H. Foley was held at Worcester on comp letely one side of his head, rubbed his leered with most . ..Walter, or any other candidate, but a hearty a ere this protest ? Only let men honestly declare that the! , face a strong solution of nitrate of silver, and then Saturday, when it was arranged that no opposition should- adopt and concur in the declarations of the Church ce p like a be offered to Captain Rushout on this occasion, and that , made her esca e. Next day, Mr. appeale d e England concerning the Papacy and the Romish system , i hl d vil '' but the cause of the vronderous change be at the next election none shall be given to the return of - l.le e , • and they cannot, without the greatest possible inceo: Mr. Foley. ginning to be gossipped about in the locality, he has dis- sistency, proceed to establish and endow this Antichristu o ' appeared.—Glasgow Argus. A boy, named James Lawrence, aged fifteen, has been system by votes in Parliament.—Record. DEATH ' N ALLEGED FROM STARVATION.—GROSS E• committed to Hertford gaol, for shooting another boy, GLECT OF RELIEVING OFFICERS.—On Friday, an in- A HOAX rer LoterioN.—A repetition of the not Wl_ named George Tomlin. It seems that the prisoner was held in !lullthe body of Bryan Verey, brilliant p ractical joke originated by Theodore Hook, as quest was on keeping birds en a farm at Hoo, near Lord Deere's park, outh. The Russ coroner, in opening the case, said that the stupidly played off last week upon a stationer named ~ when Lawrence said he would shoot his companion. Tom ycause of the death was yet unknown to him ; but should sell, of Nos. 79 and 80, Aldergate - street . Precisely al lin ran away frightened, and the prisoner then fired at i rby the evidence that any one was to blame, the five o'clock on Wednesday evening last, seven hairdreses him : the gun was charged with peas, some of which pe- j ury t appea r would, by an expression days. so far into his back as to cause his death in three eonsiderable moral hifluence. The jury, on viewing the persons, each carrying a wig. Upon inquiring their lett' days. body were horror-struck at the fearful spectacle presented siness, Mr. Russell was informed that they had been or' NOVEL IMPORTATION.—There is now a regular supp ly of rabbits imported twice a week from Ostend, in which to them. Deceased lived in a narrow dirty passage , at dered to attend at that hour , to dress the family ' s hair ; the poulterers of the metropolis are do in g a brisk trade. the further end of which he and his sister occupied a lower Before sufficient time had elapsed to tell the parties tbs; The prices vary from 60. to B d. per lb . The y are in ge- room. The apartment is but six feet by nine. The small , they had been hoaxed , in stepped a butcher's man, wit h r neral much larger, but inferior in flavou r to o ur rabbits. window admitted both the w i nd an d the rain. The body tray filled with legs of pork , and sundry other j oints ° pout- The extent of the trade may be suppos ed b y one . i lay on a miserable straw m attress on sa me chairs , and was meat ; the man had no sooner placed his t ra y on the cOO % terer in Holborn importing 50 dozen we ekl y . The nom- attenuated and shrivelled to an almost inconceivable deter, than a fish-monger brought in a stock of 'fish, soel her of geese, ducks, and wild water fowl im p or t ed is dail y gree, and covered in places with ulcerated sores. The two wine merchants followed, each having a couple : whole form suggested the ide a of a skeleton barely covered hampers of wine on their backs. Mr. Russell having e' a late Sir Wet kia w Wynn, on his com in g of a ge , in I , i on the increase. A GOOD DINNER.—At an entertainmen t gi v en by the with skin. The jury returned the following ver di c t : — plained to the people that he knew nothing whatever f_ 70. The jury have no doubt that death has been occasioned ' the affair , and that the orders must have been given b 9 ,by the disease which the boy Brian Verey was labouring some evil-minded persons, in came a gentleman who eat 15,000 people tined inWynnstay park. Among the items , t under. But it is also their opinion that his death has nounced himself as a corn extractor, and who stated tiro consumed we: e _ ', 'rallocks, 50 large hogs, 60 calves, 80 by the gross neglect of the r e li ev i ng h e had been hired to attend at five o'clock, to opera been accelera t e d sheep, 18 lambs, ;.,'' aareeys,t 0 quarts of shrimps, 80 bar- ol‘• officer of the Sculcoates Union." I upon Mr. Russell's corns. A number of pastryco. _, eels of pickled oysters, 166 barns, 18,000 eggs, 150 gallons InoN.—The English iron market has been rather ani- were the next who entered the shop, each bringing an 1 0 ( of milk , 80 quarts of cream, 70 hogsheads of ale, and 120 mated during the week, owing to the Great Northern mense number of custards; tarts, jellies, &a., but judge e dozen of wine, besides bread, cheese, vegetables, spices, Railway Company having closed for about 45,000 tons of the surprise of every one in the place when the next ail:, &c., e &c., in abundance. rails, out of 75,000 tons, for which they advertised. The vat was announced. It consisted of five beautiful ca'., DEATH FROM STARVATION.—An inquest was held on contracts were taken by two eminent Welsh houses, at a riages, each drawn by two horses, the coachman and foot., Monday in Melton Mowbray, on the body of a man un price equal to £9 12s. to £9 15s. at the works in Wales. man elegantly attired in livery. The crowd, when ° i f , known. It appeared that on Sunday morning last, two It is rorted the directors of the company were willing carriages drew up was very great, and it required the o , e „ men, named Bilson and Bakewell, went into a hovel about body of a mile from Melton, when they observed the dead to hav e closed for the remaining 30.000 tons at the above vices of the police to keep a space for the duped tree', rates. In Staffordshire and Welsh pig-iron a very good men to pass to and fro. Whilst the tradesmen were collo a man lying behind a board in one corner of h o vel, the ere, business has been done during the week, at full prices ; doling each other, as a finale to the whole, in came ( I l e quite stiff and cold. From the evidence of Mr.rt id died fromg and owing to the large orders now in the market for rail- chimney sweeps, who stated that they had been ordereese surgeon, it appeared that the poor man had — Lei starvation, a few hours before his body was found. -wa chairs, there is no doubt an extensive demand will attend with all possible expedition to extinguish ti e , takeplace l b oth f W 1 h an d Sta ff ordshire pigs. Russell's chimney, which they understood had taken °' , ere ongor e s center Journal. an Scotch pi g -iro n has been in g oo d demand, and several It took Mr. Russell nearly the whole of the night to e, As a proof of the intensity of the frost we have a littl e sales made during the week, at prices varying swer many fact to record, which is in itself a very curious circum a garden, to according 745., to numbers. Swedish iron and steel The following night (Thursday), five piano forte tuti` o l stance. On Monday week, two gentlemen in . at the foot of Stramongate observed a blackbird fluttering are firm at quotations. English copper and tin remain waited upon the same gentleman, and stated that they b „ ' found unaltered. Banca and Straits are in fair request at quo- been hired to tune Mr. Russell's instruments. A., 05 10 on the branch of a tree, and on approaching it theyranch that the poor creature was fast attached to the . .byEnglish lead firm. S lt for spring delivery riage and pair were also brought, as the coachman said' r Cations.Rations.rm. pe .er th e the frost, and they . were without not able to liberate i tbeen has sold £l9, and the aof £l9 12s. 6d. has I take the family to the theatre. A. great number of 0 0 , at on p d they were been paid. As the navigation is now closed, and our stock tradesmen were served out in a similar manner, an d e breaking off the twig. it was sometime before b 2000 tons, there is no doubt higher prices fortunately the police have not been able as yet to 0 reducedto a out enabled to restore its warmth so that it could avail itself _ will be realised .— Mining Journal. out the guilty parties.—Daily News. of its timely rescue.—Kendal Mercury. Oentral liftioullanp. Dec. SAILED.-! rara—Nereid nah—Themis Isabel, Griffil Lady Bassi Minerva. I instant Alarm. Tai instant. Concercao Provident' MILFORD. Liverpo(l, t 1 got off awl p erly vale. at, past 3 p.m. ( off by the I crew, six , eei got on hoarc berti ude. is 'lever' sunk ber most-hr , Liverpool l 3 from neing i SLIGO, D bound for L stunt, was likely to be Limena. I ChiMhOraZO W'—Francis 11—William ARRIVED, Ist instant, SAIL', D. Oporto --- M array hence at Ali Auror-i, 13 hence et IA G-orgian: from Oporti Peggy. B instant. _ Caledonia the 216 t to k off th sey. M ern a derelict, c Oxnard, I IdiWades, C leans. Stephen Russell ; al The St. P ton 29 h u overboard. QUKBEC. for Liverpo gale of w.O off immedie .aved. Th was ;ismas Will procee DARDAN. Liverpool f Pole. .:ard i part of her re -loading. NEWP oft' York for Sandy Koc H 0 [NH S. is totally vi Peggy, E November. Widow. Wallace; I Cove. Fenella NEW Yo this port o sprung a il 66, leaked gale blew much of hl BOSTON Keys loth pool, put t and part t IVI ATA !J2 vannah 1 in safety.- harbour yl was assist to the anc LimA ( England ing part o PADSTO nia to Li , place to-d Do tic ashore ne filled 'via and floats ALMER •rnros , al etas 25th MONTR rence (re only disci are expec or eight I want of both iron ;tent, wit of which ARRIV, Snow, Knight, s John's, I SA I LEI Al nr the.- --M au Alicante liavanna Runny port. 1., and at P port. H.M.S Janeiro, Antela and was Hero, at Rio Ji Chant packet S nambucc Gipsy, Decemb Teunc Letitia Cleme Georg wrecked The autl Elizab chi river proceeds J3ALLi Donegal island of wreck. B MST with lot, instant, mained heavy se ARRI% —Watet ningsbe New 0 Stoddat loot, M< Willie Sir H. Sparta Cleme Cathe Roths Corne Gome leaky. THOR pool, gr cargo w ST 3( experier hours, e her and was got PICTO P. E. Is' heavy g Crew sa MIRA •erpool, demned ARRI' from N Brander Kelly, fi natic, B from St Island — Gibson, Panther Thompi Hotting York -1 rora, Hi —Huro —Katie Easter t Idartio, Oporto. love, 0 SAW Fatin and fro Sheff Nov., York fc a Maki pumps exhaus Niag in lat. St. Jag laid up Soph Quebec stores this poi and toc Cathi Jeun Kirg Lam Trev Gezil voet. Hibb source, A nto Decem Farr Gan; Octobe from lielezu