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iLarraturr. VARIETIES tempering f work with play, and both with . „ 1 stud♦, and all under the mastery of religion, becm - nes the life of an English artisan.— . Mr Tohtz Manne, window top of Richmond Hill, on the right hand side, een, primed on a board which is placed in the " Preparato r y S c h oo l f or B oys o f b o th sexes !" Ls not an hour in the day in which a man so much ee his wife dressed with neatness as when she r bedroom and sits down to breakfast.—Mrs. There have been fifty kings, two protectors, and six queens in England ; and the regular succession to the throne has been change 3 ten times since the kingdom was founded by Egberr, 1012 years 9 2 n. _ . It is calculated that there are 1,660.000,000 snols in the world; of whom 153.000,000 are in Enr0pe,.156,000,000 in Africa, 590.000 000 in Asa, 159,000.000 in America, and 7,000,000 ill the i,lands of the Pacific. Five parts of Chri,tians, six are Mohometans, eigh and the Jews form one r art. _ _ _ of this we one hundred thousand men were employed for years in trectinz the great pyramid of Egypt. a computation of M. Dupin, it appears that the :ngines of Erwlind would equal the whole product immense application of human labaur, in lifting within a fort 4•oace of ei4hteen hours. per in Drury Lane informs the puhlic, through the medium of an enor.ous placard over his door, that be has " 20,000 pair of shoes fur the million." It is evi dent that nine hund ed and eighty thouF,and of his custo mers must go without shoes to the'r feet, for if he supplies the million out of his stock of 20,000. Cocker will tell him there must be the deficiency to which we have alluded.— Pez , ch. TEXAN A shop BATUIARISM.—The ruder orders of people r south, for there, no more than i❑ England, are the rders to he considered as mere►y synonymous 'ruder" with the " lower rders, have a custom, I t; m informed, of occasionally Cecirling desperate wagers of battle by hooking themselves together by the bands they wear, and thus fighting with the knife. since neither can get away, until one falls or both are killed. —Colonial Maaazlne PENCIL CED %It Nearly all the railway sleepers in America are made of this wood, as it never rots, and it hardens by exposure to wet. It is now being introduced into some of the railways in the north of England fir the same purpose; it is also extensively used in America for ship-building, hikvine the property, whe❑ used with other wood, of prever•ing its rotting. There is no limit to the quantity that can he obtained of this wood if required. Its ce averages about sd. the superficial foot. present selling —The Builder 3AT BECOMES OF PINS AND POLICEMEN. — We to have once seen this quPstinn propounded by . 3tral of an inquiring mind, of " What becomes ~ pins?" This disappearance is certainly most ,able. 111 rthanical statistics inform us that the Jmptinn of pins in Great Britain alone amounts to 50 000 daily ; and vet we never find more than one or lying about, a nd even that is a chance. A lady once - she believed they all walked off to unknown regions night, (there is a German popular tale respect ing the holiday of a pin, which favours the notion,) for that if she left a doz9n on her toilet table on going to bed " night, she never fund more than two or three there in rooming ; and these were pins of delicate cons'itution, quite right in their heads. It is certainly very This same property of pins is shared in also by poli , ,emen ; one cannot tell where on earth they go to. You see them leaving the station hou-es in long files, and then strangely disappearing into nothingness, like the long spiral procession which progresses so rapidly to no where, when you twirl a corkscrew against your finger. .And herein do policemen differ strangely from the street vagabonds they ought to look after; for whilst, on the occasion of a row, or a railway omnibus stopping, cad scamps seem to rise up out of the pavement as though the lags were traps, none having been before visible—so do policemen vanish with equal celerity, in a manner which leads us to think th ,t. the fairy tales are not altogether the tremendous lies we always imagined them to be.—Albert recollec to tok during t strange. -13 , ,uhtless our readers must heard of the extr.ordi , ary gift said to he possessed Irishman, mn. d Suilivin, who exercised a power iorses that no ather horse-breaker in the United iom ever obtained by means of whispering. He is, pore, better known in the sporting circles by the so et of " The Whisperer." It may nc, , t he known the grandson of this extraordinary man, (George ch,) who practises the art of horse-breaking and TIIE UORSE•CHARMETL training in SOney, possesses the secret of charming this itioble animal which gained for his grandsire so much ce lebrity. We have had frequent opportnnity lately of wit. messing his performances, and can confidently vouch for his skill. He will take a wild, unbroken colt, from the bush, and in twenty-four bouts m:tke him so docile and obedient, without severe treatment, that the animal, at command, will 1 down under him, feigning death, re main until roused from the a..parent stupour in which he has been thrown by mesmeric passes and slight manipu lation (as it appears to us) on the nervous system, by a alight touch of a rattan. The animal will then lick the face of the operator, put his tongue in his mouth, and whisper in his ear at a signal. Church wilt then lie down on the broad of his back. and place the animal's fore-foot on the pit of his stomach, also his hind-foot in his teeth, tut danger of being pressed too hard. When the is relieved from the stupour into which be appears se been thrown, he resists a repetition of the opera as long as he can, until, subdued by the irresistible ordinary man, he relapses into the st►esmeric state, and is then passively obedient to his will. the ex u Sentinel. THE LADY irregular s MAID.—Her constitution is broken by Addicted to novels and ,t and irr green tea, she is not aware that her tender bvpochon. driacism is the result of her swallowing her dinner whole. to be in time for dressing my la i ty for her daily drive; and of restless nights, spent in watching for the return of my lady's carriage for the ball. On the contrary, she admits that she is a poor weak-spirited creature ; but swears, like Cassio, " that she had it from her mother." It is a .range thing that, howbeit, we all admit the difficulty of a hero to one's valet de ehambre or an angel to one's 'id—every lady insists upon the maid being an The mistress has a right to be en At certain hours of the day. The maid never. , st be always , presentable—alwayssmiling: o her lady Curl-pap without a have I as the and a slipshod foot dismissal tiler in drawing my lady's cur- wing it at daybreak, she and neither look fatigued, ry. A weary eye, a pale r that " her health was not equal to her situation." For with the exception of an inquisitor of Spain, there are few things more cruel than a fine lady. Having laid it down as an axiom that a lady's maid is simply her lady's shadow, it is almost un necessary to add, that there are as many varieties of ladies' maids as of roses and geraniums; serious ladies' maids, fashionable ladies' maids, ladies' maids on their prefer ment, flirting ladies' maids, and so forth. The serious ure to be privately married to the kness for the under footman. The maid is above such vulgarisms; talks of oyes iu," and goes to the Opera. The s maid on her preferment converts my lady's cast-off nd auipures into cash, and talks of her property in While the flirting lady's maid cunveris them correspondence 'in verse with one n at How"ll and Jr.mes's, which mding an ear to a thousand tender try house is full of dandies, mas hunting and shooting season.— satin the f to hi of ti e young gentle "tailings when the cc and men, for t Mrs. Gore the stage vi the GENTLCNIEN THIEVES.—ShortIy before I left Wile°, s roobed near Puebla. The robbers all had ss and bearing of gentlemen. When the operation -^ve's and trunks of the pai.engers was , bbers said to them—" Gentlemen, I suppose that we are rubbers by 'en, (somos caballeros.) but we 'ate, and that ha: forced upon 'moding you, for which we we would ns! b , in Mexico, some of them .itic character. The case of :xecu'ed a few years since, is aracter deeply dramatT. I will they were told to me : 'f he Swiss a street of St. Cosme. About twelve le o'clock in the daytime, a carriage drove up to his and three men got out, one in the dress of a priest -re admiqed by the porter, and the door closed, , y immediately seized arid gagged (din, went into ^ , l robbed and murdered the consul. The discovery of the murderers Arms a metal a small piece of blue cloth attached to it, was found clenched in the fingers of the murdered d which he had torn from the coat of one of the Suspicion at last rested upon a soldier, who was 're money than he cud account for. His -arched, and the coat from which the but- He aas convicted, ,st confidence upon a pardon, trite aid-de-camp of President He was brought out to _,,y taken his seat on the fatal laced around his neck, and the r.hen he .aid—" Hold I will who are my complices—Colonel Yanes is the V' The execution was suspended, and on searching use of Yam's, a correspondence in cipher was dis which fully established his guilt in this and other Yanes was the naramonr of a woman in Mexico dents of a c fly sketch ther :be for the bastion v'•` 3en torn was fo lied with the u a Colonel Y about to be turn i there early related to one whose word wai law, and whose over her relative was known to be very great, and upon that reliance was placed for a pardon, at least ; but she was not disposed to bust to that, and let her lover aufftr the disgrace of conviction—she went to the ju&e infl - uer whom the cipher had been deposited, which fur nished the evidence of the guilt of Yanes, and offered him a large bribe to give it up. Hz was . an honest man and an upright j u d ge —h e s ' ern l y re f use d the britie, and firmly resisted the menaces of this powerful woman. In a day or two he died suddenly, as all supposed, of poison. A successor was appointed of principles less stern, who ac cepted.the bribe, an d prom i se d to d estroy t h e paper ; b ut when, in confession to his priest, he disclosed his corrupt :ond.uct, the worthy man prevailed upon him, if he had tot destroyed the paper, not to do so, and he did not. 'arses, in the meantime, was informed that this evidence 'ould not be produced against him, and that t' e prosecu m would rest entirely upon the testimony of his accom. ice. Upon the trial, with the hab:tuat air of command an o ffi cer, and t he habitual rear and submission of the moron soldier, Yanes browbeat and ronfu-ed his accuser such a degree, that he felt secure of an acquittal. At moment the fatal paper was produced, and he was demned and executed. His not less guilty paramour aides in the city of Mexico.—Recollections of Mexico. still s CANNING AND P , EL.—Sir Robert Peel labours, as a public man, under the heavy disadvantage of the want of popular man-,ere, and of those personal attractions which captivate and del , ght the mind, and often carry the posses sor of them far beyond his real deserts in the estimation of mankind. Canning was as rich in the possession of these natural and acquired graces as Peel is deficient in them ; and it is a deficiency which no human power can supply. At the time to which this attack recalls our re collections, how rich the intellectual feast of one of Can ning's pries! How dull and ponderous one of Peel's. Both men, it is to be presumed, were equally solicitous to attract and charm their guests. The one could not but do it : the other could not had it been to save his life. The disadvantage was great, and yet notwithstanding the defi ficiency, set out in its strongest colours in contrast with the surprising brilliancy of Canning, Peel, it may be safely advanced, was more trusted than his competitor. Ills manner repelled, but la's conduct attracted. He was not the man for the dinner-table, but he was viewed as wise in council, sale in the senate, and competent accordingly to stand at the helm of the national affairs.—Lon. Paper. FREE PEOPLE OF COLOUR.—We hear that a numerous body of free coloured men of this city propose to offer their services as soldiers. Many of our coloured inhabitants are re,,pectable and worthy people, holding considerable property and are sincerely attached to the country; and the patriotism that dictates the proposition is worthy of all praise. It occurs to us, however, that it is entirely in admissible. General Jackson accepted their services in 1814, to repel invasion, and they proved themselves worthy of the trust. If the city was in danger, they might properly share in its defence. Even our slaves might with propriety be employed. But the present campaign will consist of offensive operations. We shall not only force the enemy across the Rio Grande, but, in all probability, push our arms into the very heart of Mexico. In wars of invasion we cannot employ men of colour. If we set such a precedent, we shall have no right to protest against the employment of a similar force against us should we become involved in a war with Great Britain. It is distinctly understood that if ever the English land a regiment of blacks in this country, we can grant no quarter to prisoners. It will be a war of extermination, marked with blood at every step. And we must be careful how we set the pre cedent, when we march into the territory of another power.—New Orleans Jeffersonian. THE VARIOUS MODES OF EXECUTION EMPLOYED. — The Cavildo is a large bu Iding used for a courthouse and a prison. On the first floor is the large court-room, with its ante-chambers: above are the rooms appro dated to prisoners of state of the better or higher classes, and be neath are the cells of those who are placed in solitary con finement. At the front of the building is a wile prej -cting porch, supported by pillars, and adjoining is the coral or yard, where prisoners condemned to death are executed. The manner in which the victims were put to death varied according to the propensity of the condemning power, and according ►o circumstances. Sometimes they were shot. Some met their fate at the hands of two lane , - rs, who, placed on either side of the prisoner, would at a signal plunge their glittering weapons in his body. Others, again, fell by the most barbarous practice of drawing a blade across the throat. All these modes of execution I have been compelled to witness, and in no case did the victim know his sentence until the moment before his death, and then only by the preparation made when he is to be shot. In the other cases the first intimation of his fate is the touch of the steel. These things will seem to those who have lived in a land blessed with peace and good government as almost beyond belief, but they are, nevertheless, truths.—Life in the Argentine _Republic. THE OLDEST RACE-COURSE IN - ENGLAND.--The race-course which is supposed to be the oldest in Eng land, and to which still belongs a fund (the annual sum being only about £13,) and which is regularly run for—is situated about the centre of the East Hiding of York shire, upon the wolds between Market Weighton and the town of Dr'ffield, and is known by the name of " Kiplin Cotes." The country has been enclosed in that part of the world within the last twenty-five years ; still the race course remains, all under turf, as modern innovations have not yet substituted stones and gravel in lieu of the fine old velvet turf, of which the " bridle road'' through the wolds is to th a day composed. The entries for this ancient plate are exceedingly select. but unfortunately they are selected from the greatest ruffians in the country, many of whom, exchanging the taper jockey whip for the more impressive bludgeon, batter arid fight their way through the crowd of horsemen who throne the course, and by their more vociferous exertions arid expertness at j )stling contrive to prove to the competitors that the race at issue shall not, in this instance at least, be ad judged unto the swift. What renders the difficulty the greater in this extraordinary race.is the circumstance of the gateways not being removed on the occas'on, and the dreadful accidents which have occurred at the awful crusbings which take place have in more than one instance ended in the death of one of the competitors for the prize.. RAISING AND REMOVING HOUSES.—One need not walk through many streets in New York without wit nessing in one of them a removal or lifting up of a house; this is almost peculiar to American mechanics, and I was never tired of looking at it. The parties have contributed very much to the straightness and uniformity of the streets, and so perfectly at home are they at it, that if an advertisement were put in the Sun, the H.rald, or the Tribune, to remove the London Mansion House to Hamp stead death, there world be several offers for the job. As for the North side of Middle-row, they would think no thing of removing it bodily at once to the model prison at Clerkenwell, without any of the young misses of the family being in the slightest degree interrupted in their usual avocations. As for the everlasting and daneerous nuisance of Holborn-hill, which I have been looking at more in sorrow than in anger for these forty years, In Drew York it would he levelled in a week. A worthy tradesman in the city of Brooklyn, opposite New York, wanted to con vert his two p irinur windows into a shop-front; "No. no," said the builder, " don't throw away your parlour, I will lift the house up, and build you a much better, lof tier, and more spacious shop where the parlour now stands." The screws and timber were accordingly brought, and I saw the two-story brick house go up slowly and im perceptibly, whilst the daughters were looking out of the window, as if nothing was goi , l on more than usual. I watched the alteration every time I crossed the ferry to Brooklyn, and in the course of two or three weeks the tradesman was occupying his new and handsome store, as the shops are called.—Rambles in the United Slates. We fins the following curious details in the Moniteur des Arts:—" There exist at Rome secret workrooms of sculpture, where the works manufactured are broken bead - -f the gods, feet of sa► d b iken 1- arms, _ -s o ,eet or ,yrs, and bro ors: — of nobody. By means of a liquid there used, a colbur of the finest antiquity is communicated to the marble. Sc it tered about the country are goat-herds, who feed their flocks in the vicinity of ruins, and look out for foreigners. To these they speak incidentally of the treasures found by digging a few feet deep in such neighbourhoods. The English, in particular, are the victims of such mystifica tion; and freely yield their money o the shepherds, who are agents to the General Artificial Ruin Anociation, and know well where to apply the pick-axe. They are careful, however, to spend much time and labour in fruit less search, before they come finally upon the treasure — for which the foreigner willingly pays. England is full of these antiquities or six months' age. Nor do the amateur numismatists leave Rome with empty hands; for in that city are daily coined, without fear of the law, the money of Caesar, Hadrian, Titus, Heliogahalus, and all the An• tonines—filed, pinched, and corroded, to give the look of age. Paris may be sa i d to have hitherto, by comparison with London, escaped this epidemy for the youthful anti quities of bronze and marble—but she is devolved by the forgers of Middle-Age antiques. It is not. , rious with what skill and impudence certain cabinet-makers manu facture chairs, tables, and footstools of the fifteenth cen tury, and .how readily they find dupes. A young anti quarian showed lately, with great pride, to an artist, a friend of his. a very fine article of Gothic furniture. which he had just bought at great cost. 'lt is very fine,' said his friend, after examination, and it will last you long— for it is quite new.' ”—Athenceum. 7 AE MEXICAN SOLD IE RY.—The Mexican soldier is of the middle stature, or below it, small-boned, slightly built, graceful, with a smooth, glossy skin, scarcely any muscle, no visible sinews, and of extremely light weight. He can be agile for a short time, but is constitutionally indolent. This is the Mexican Indian from the interior. The soldiers of mixf d blood, P artakin g of the more nom h• ern races, and of old Spain, are stronger, rat' er sinewy, and capable of more continued exertion. These. hnwever, comprise only a minority of the Mexican army. The Mexicans are capable of no physical efforts or endurance. Their constitutions are almost wholly without stamina : and from their habit of getting into the shade whenever they can, during the day, taking a nap at noon, or lying about under walls, or in shady pkces, flat upon the ground. to play at cards for reales or medios. (aid daars. it they have any,) they are so enervated that the climate during the sickly season is very apt to affect numbers of them, if much exposed during the fiermst hours of the day ; to which, in 'act, they have n,ver been tvenstomed. They very frequently take the yellow fever, and di , of the vomit° negro, particularly at Vera Cruz, Tampico, and Alverado, as well as the temeritous foreltiet s. The? even fear it beforehand. A Mexican soldivr who has been drunk over night wi h aguodiente, and has a sick-headache next morning, will ask permission of his serjeant to leave the ranks during parade or guard duty, as he is very un well, and will go and squat down under a wall or shed. If yen ask him what is the matter, he shakes his head with a melancholy, much injured, but resigned air, and answers: " Calentura, Senor —calentura." I will answer for. it that any moderately strong English grenadier—not a re. gular boxer, but who can only "hit straight."—would knock down ten or a dozen Mexican soldiers, equally un armed; one after the other, as fast as they presented them selves. Put a sword into their hands, and give a stout HiAlander a claymore, or a raw-boned lii,hman a good shillelah, and the ten soldiers would be very likely to tumble to the right and left with broken blades and broken heads. The Mexicans are by no means de ficient in courage. They have fiery stints, and no tear of cold steel. They are "always ready to die." I have even heard them in hours of danger, use that very ex pression. What they want is physical force ; the power to justify their feelings. The Mexican officers are, for the roos t part, not good. They are valiant, but have nn judg ment. They are far too excitable, and without se:f-go. yernment. Moreover, they are very often ouch too young • many of their lieutenants, and even ca pt a i ns , b e i ng mere boys. I was once acquainted in Vera Cruz, with the Mexican colonel of artillery who was not two-and twenty. He was a very well informed, high spirited, amiable young maw, a good mathematician, an d a fi ne swordsman • but of course without any adequate exneri ence for such a post. The Mexican cavalry is admirable— in respect of horsemanship. The artillery is good in all respects. In the recent battles (as well as in former wars) they seldom failed to throw their halls and shells directly into the works of the fortress attacked ; and before General Vego's little fort was taken, his guns destroyed near!) , one third of the assailants; but when the strong-armed men ' got close in among the Mexican ranks, it was all over in a minute. rs are warning Wt aracter, tan at dead of night, or undra rust be tiree a quatre e'pingles, nor, restless, nor sick, nor sor face, would condemn her to het THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. THE DAIRY AT BLENHEII!.I.—One gets a tolerable idea of ►he almost extravagant opulence which is here displayed, when say, that in a large vaulted hall for pre serving milk, cream, and butter, a splendid fountain had been erected, to throw up the clearest spring water, which falls down along several basins, growing gradually larger, until it comes to a large basin at the bottom, which is so arranged as to have upon its brink vessels and pans for containing the cream and butter, which thus, in the warmest weather, are kept at the degree of coolness, so necessary to these useful kinds of food. In any other place, this fountain would be used to ornament the en trance avenue, while here it merely serves to cool a dairy. —.Enoland in 18-14, by Dr. Carus. AWFUL IF TRUE.—A young rascal, a mad, reckless vagabond, was drinking one day with some companions in a pet-house. His money being all spent, he cried out that if any both , would treat him to a can of good wine, he would sell him his soul for it. Shortly after, there came into the room a man who began drinking with the scape-grace I speak of, and by and by asked him if he was really willing to sell his soul. The fellow daringly ans wered that he was. Whereupon the new corner provided him with as much drink as he liked for the rest of the day. Towards evening, when the young man was quite drunk, the stranger said to the rest of the company : " Gentlemen, how say you: when one has bought a horse, don't the saddle and bridle go with it ?" The people sit ting rotted were alarmed at these wor•ls, and for a while made no answer. However, the stranger pausing for a reply, they said, " Yes, the saddle and bridle go with it ;' whereupon the devil, for it was he, clutched hold of the miserable young man he had bought, and flew off with him through the ceiling, since which time nothing has been heard of the impious creature.—Michele€'s Life of Luther. _ - AN ARSENAL OF NEW YORK.--A visit to this depart. ment would prove interesting to the tourist or citizen, at this crisis in particular, when our capabilities for defence in case of a hostile attack demand the attention of every patriot and citizen. This building, which is situated in Centre-street, contains the enormous amount of 50,000 stand of arms. together with 500 pieces of ordnance of different calibre. The trophy room contains several field pieces which were taken trona the British in the last war. The whole are in excellent condition, and capable ,f imme diate use. There has been much agitation, for the past few years. in the board of common council, about the lo cation of this necessary and useful public building. In compa►ison to its size, the vast quantity of arms con tained in it, and arranged with extreme neatness and re gularity, would astonish any person in viewing the out ward dimensions of the building. The erection of a suit able building for the safety and protection of our military stores, will doubtless soon excite the attention of the au thorities. We learn that New York could, in 21 hours. bring into the field an effective force of 40,000 troops ! Good I—New York Herald. PlTT.—Pitt was teneerly attached to a Lady Eleanor Eden. and it nearly broke his heart to give her up ; which he (lid from a conviction that the demands made upon his time by public affairs, were incompatible with the atten tions due to such a woman. She is said to have been of a lofty style of beauty ; quite dazzling from the grandeur of her forehead. Lord Malmesbury tells us that there was a report that he was going to be married to her—his at tachment had so far betrayed itself in society. He was gracious in all companies to women, and possessed an in stinctive taste in matters of costume—he was himself so plain and careless. Wraxall speaks of his " inclination" for one of the Duke of Richmond's daughters; and Lady Hester Stanhope says there was a young lady he admired so much that he drank out of her shoe. Then he was fond of round games with young people, and used to play at speculation with the eagerness of a child. His private intercourse was full of little humanities, which nobody dreams of who regards him only as a statue mounted on a pedestal, with some hard state-paper rolled up and clutched in his hand. His manner was partly constitutional, and had something to do with the integrity of his mind, which did not deal in professions. All travellers in the highest regions of the Alps have observed that it is the property of the purest snow to be the coldest.—Bell's Life of CanNing. THE ALPINE Edw.—The keeper of the chatelet had a small mortar, which he fired off at our request. Ten distinct echoes came back. From deep and awful silences these innumerable peaks seemed aroused into sudden and almost angry life. Report after report, like the rapid dis charge of a whole park of artillery, thundered through the clear air. At length the echoes one by one, sank slowly away, and I thought all was offer. Fainter and fainter they grew, till nothing but a low rumbling sound was heard in the distance, when suddenly, without warning or pre paration, there was a report like the blast of the last trumpet. I instinctively clapped my hands to my ears in affrieht. It came from the distant Wetrerhorn, and rolled, and rattled, and stormed through the mountains, till it seemed as if every peak were loosened from its base, and all were falling and crushing together. It was absolutely terrific. Its fearful echo had scarcely died away before the avalanches which the sudden jar had loosened began to fall. Eight fell in almost as many minutes. The thun der of one blended with the thunder of another, till one continuous roar passed along the mountains, The tumult ceased as suddenly as it commenced, and the deep and awful silence that followed was painful; and my imagina tion painted those falling masses of snow and ice as half conscious monsters, crushed to death in the deep ravine. The Alps and the Rhine. PECULIARITIES OY THE 'AUTHOR OF " WEALTH OF NATIONS."-Sounewhat akin to these peculiarities was his habitual absence, not only muttering in company as unconsc'ous of their presence, but even unaware of the obstructions be might encounter while walking in the streets. One that knew him, which the sufferer did not, was a good deal amused to hear a poor old woman, whose nartiiriind whiln_hallXlo.ll.l. an with hie Mantle behind his back and his head in the air, exclaiming in some anger, " doating brute !" Another was amused at the remark of an old gardener, near Kiri.ald), who only knew him by having answered his questions, somewhat incoherently put in his walks, when the " Wealth of Na tions" appeared, and he found who was its author : " Weel a weel !" quoth he, they tell me that lad Adam Smith has put out a great book. lam sure it would be lortg before I would thing of doing a thing of the kind." It is related by old people at Edinburgh, that while he moved through the Fishmarket in his accustomed atti tude, and as if wholly unconscious of his own existence or that of others, a female of the trade exclaimed, taking him for an idiot broken loose, ` • Heigh, sirs ! to let the like of him be about! And yet he's well enough put on" (dressed). It was often so, too, in society. Once dur ing dinner at Dalkeith, he broke out in a long lecture on some Political matters of the day, and was bestowing a va riety of severe epithets on a statesman, when he suddenly perceived his nearest relative sitting opposi►e, and stopt ; and he was heard to go on muttering " Deil care, deil care, it's all true."—Lord Brougham. AN AMERICAN'S NOTION OF THE LONDON Docxs.— We find the follow ng in an American paper called the Chronotype :—" We next proceeded to the London docks, which are much larger, enclosing about twenty acres of water. This, also, is surrounded by immense warehouses. We went into the cellar of one of them. It is devoted to sherry wine, and covers five acres. We were furnished with lights, as if descending into a mine. There, into those intermediate grim archways, are piled up thousands of mouldy pipes filled with the great brain-stealer. I forget the number of pipes, but in another cellar which we visited, of equal extent, we were told there were 37,000 hogsheads of rum. Into the latter repository of infernal spirits they allow vo light to be carried. There is a range of windows on one side, and the light comes dimly gleaming over the long tiers of hogsheads, and when they wirla to read the marks on the heads they use reflectors, to throw the light down upon them. These east vaults, both for wine and rum, are traversed by railways for removing the ponderous puncheons and hogsheads. In the wine vaults we saw cer tain vats for mixing old and new wines to produce the requisite quality and flavour, which contained 10,000 gal lons a-piece. We were also astonished at the size of the tobacco warehouse, which covers four or five acres. To bacco is enormously taxed ; on some kinds to the extent of 960 or 900 per cent. I was told half the amount used is made up by hmugeling and adulteration (though what stuff vile enough to adulterate tobacco with, they can get is past my comprehension), and what vast, yea, sublime quantities are here of the genuine weed l People are be witched for cigars and pipes, and you will see men whiffing their tobacco in the street—strange-smelling tobacco— probably adulterated, who don't look as if - they knew where to get a dinner, or were on any terms whatever with the tailor. What a luxury! Here is tobacco enough to mak , a Niagara of juice, to be chewed by a nation said to be starving ! It was comfortable to get away to hoards of other luxuries, less suggestive of, the ruin of human nature. AFFECTING TRAGEDY.--In Colonel King's" Twenty five years in the Argentine Republic." a brief but affect• ing history is given of the destruction of the Masa family. Don MaAR was the President of the Legislative Assembly. He had been the tutor of Roses, and was one of the most respected personages in the state. The Eve. tator conceived a suspicion of him and commanded his resignation. Don Masa at first declined, alleging his de sire to see the sufferings of the people first relieved. But afterwards he complied, and the day for his retirement was named. His son was a colonel in the service of Ro. sac., and a salter to Donna Clara, a lady of distinguished family. The brother of this lady, Don Juan, was also in the service of Rosa., holding a commission as lieutenant. This young officer received an order to assist in arresting Colonel !Masa. To overcome his reluctance he was in- formed that his own father was under arrest, and would surely suffer were any hesitation on his pa;t Don Juan, accompanied by some soldiers, went to his si-te,'s apartment, where Colonel Masa was visiting Donna Clara at the time. The Colonel at once yielded himself, but begged only a few moment's delay, Il e re _ tired to a room, and wrote a few lines to his fattier to warn him of his danger. Don Juan stood guard at the door, but the soldiers became impatient, and the young lieutenant was attacked. Colonel Masa was in an instant beside his Friend, but two volleys of musketry brought them both to the ground. Grievously wounded as they were, they were thrown into a cart. and conveyed to pri son. Don Juan survived but a few hours. While hi s sister Donna Clara, and her mother were waiting in ter ror in their dwelling, it was invaded by a body of soldiers who came to search for papers. Donna Clara, excited t o madness, resisted them, till she sank pierced by a b , yon et wound in her side. Almost at the same time that these events were occurring, the President Masa was seated alone in his council chamber signing his resignation. Lie had just given it to his secretary, when he observed som e men muffled in cloaks approach him. Before he could cry for help they had approached, and stabbed him to death. Rumour asserts that llosas was one of the assas sins, and the leader of the Massnreaa another. Intelli gence of his father's murder was brought to Colonel Masa in prison. He was exhorted at the same timr. to reveal plots which had no existence, and to give up accomplices he never had. The young officer indignantly rejected these overtures. The agents of Rosas reported they could elicit no information from the prisoner. An order for his execution was instantly given, and that same night he was taken from his bed, carried to the coral, being unable to walk, and there shot. THE CHINAMAN'S TAIL: TOUCUP MY TAIL, TOUCH Ml lIONOUR.—A Chinaman's love for his tail is prover bial, and it is truly amusing to see the pains and trouble they take concerning it. Most of them aro dressed aid plaited with singular neatness and care, and are of such a length that they sweep the ground when walking. Those, however, who are not sufficiently fortunate as naturally to possess a very handsome app mdage borrow a portion from their barbers; and should it get disengaged from his head, the owner has to bear the same ridicule as an unfortunate dandy does, who in Europe, by ill luck, should chance to lose his wig. The front portion of the head is very care fully shaved, for which purpose they make use of a curious and very peculiar description of razor, resembling in mi niature a butcher's chopper. This love of their tails p roduces a very easy method of restoring order, or re straining personal violence, when any cause of dissension or dispute may arise among them. The peons or govern ment police, catching some half dozen of the crowd by these heady ornaments, deliver them over to one of their force, who with a drawn sword, holds them in check, threatening, upon the slightest unruly movement, to razor their honourable appendages. FRENCH Am USEMENTS.—Nothing illustrates a nation's peculiarities so effectually as a correct insight into the way in which they severally amuse themselves. All men make out an invoice pretty much alike, and the common enemy regulates office hours; but when a man, or twenty, have each a day, or an hour or two, with means for the occasion at their disposal without dictation, the natural bias of the mind is shown in the freedom thus allowed it for action. I have watched for anything like a reading room, or institute for the mechanic or his class, in the va rious towns iu which I have resided in France. I see groups of hundreds sipping black coffee—and, by the way, brandy too, in anything but petits verres—playing a mo notonous, stupid band at dominoes, or piquette, with cards made for dolls, one would imagine, from their diminutive siz I hear an immense chatter on all occasions : there are three fellows under my window, called labourers. whose tongues rattle on every subject a great deal fa:)ter than their spades. I have watched these fellows narrowly for several days, and would not give half-a-crown a-day for the three : they lean on thei • pickaxes and shovels every third minute to have a " jaw,' shaking their hands in their paroxyms of rioquence as if it was a quarrel. in stead of the usual yearning to talk instead of work. I see a vast flourishing of hats, loathsome salutations among the men, and hear a great scraping of fiddles in the various salles for dancing: but no otter-hunt, cricket match, or any out-door amusement whatever.—Sylvanus. No SOLITUDE IN NATURE.—And so, reader, let us breathe awhile in this green solitude—if, indeed, it be a solitude. For who shall count the little eye-like flowers peeping at us from hedges—looking up from the sward in our face, openly as loving innocence ? A solitude ! What a world of grasses do we tread upon, a world so crowded and humming with insect citizens! If only one turn of the peg we would let down our pride—of all the heart strings the bass and grumbling one—we might compare many of these children, fathers, and grandfathers of a day, with the two-legged kings of creation, the biped majes ties of three-score years and ten. We might watch their little runnings to and from their hoards; their pain ful climbing to the very needle point of some tall blade of grass; watch them and smile, even as the angels, at their pleasant leisure, watch and smile at you, Grubbings, when you go to the bank and add to your sweet salvation there, the balance ; smile, as at poor Superhus when, climbing and climbing, he rose to the great told stick, and kept it twenty years—to angelic computation just twenty throb bings of a fevered heart. Surely there is not an insect that we might not couple with an acquaintance. Here, in this little trim sobriety, is our quaker friend, Placens ; and here, in this butterfly, tipsy with its first day's wings, is Polly, foolish Polly, who cannot consent to see the world, unless she sees it in her finest clothes. And so, looking at a piece of turf, no bigger than a lark's footstool, we may people it with friends and world acquaintanc-. Is this solitude ? The earth has no place of solitude. Not a rood of the wilderness that is not thronged and eloquent with crowds and voices communing with the spirit ot man; en dowed by such communion with a knowledge whose dou ble fruit is divinest hope and meekest humility.—Ter rold's Magazine. FACKTUE OF THE BENCH AND THE BAR.—One day that Dunning (whose exterior graces were by no means cornmensur,te with his personal vanity), had been cross examining a young woman at considerable length upon the age of a person with whom she professed herself well acquainted, he asked her, " How old now do you take me to be ?" and was considerably dumbfounded by her promptly replying, to the universal laughter of a crowded court, " From your appearance sixty, from your question sixteen ?"—Sir William Grant was notorious for the re serve and taciturnity under the disguise of which he pos sessed the richest stores of hoarded legel knowledge. Men of great learning and research bad one day in his company been wrangling for a long time upon the construction of a particular act of parliament, and, unable to agree among themselves, referred the matter to Sir William Grant, who had not yet said a word, but upon being appealed to, soma arily terminated the discussion by the following cute remark : " The statute in question has been repealed."— Of a late celebrated chief-justice it is related, that of the physicians who surrounded his death-bed, he with dry humour took leave in these terms, " Gentlemen, you are discharged," the words with which from the bench a judge is accustomed to dismiss a jury.—The late Justice whose profound attaintnents were only equalled by the ur banity and gentleness of his nature, had by his guileness simplicity of dispo,.ition endeared him to all his profes sional brethren, amongst whom, until his elevation to the bench, he had been designated by a friendly and familiar nickname. At a banquet given in celebration of his at taining the judicial dignity, upon returning thanks to the h;e health. the new Judge expressed a modest hope that "in court at least, they would thence forth no longer call him Joey.—Upon another occasion, sitting in banco, Judge interrupted the interminably long speech of a Q C. upon a very dry subject, with the following sly inuendo : " It you think you will put me to sleep like my three learned brethren beside me you are mistaken."—A former clerk of Justice had com mitted suicide in his master's chambers. A successor to that office had applied for a short leave of absence in ordei to get married, and received permission to do so in these terms:—" You may take a wife—you will bang yourself, I have no doubt you will—but if you do so, do not hang yourself in my chambers."—Wht n disencumbered of the toils and trappings of office, Judge— loves to pursue the country recreations with the independence of a private gentleman. Being one day nut partridge shooting, and seeking shelter from a passing shower in the tap room of a little country inn, he was recognised by an attorney, and accosted by his title of "my lord." " lam not my lord here, you," was the brief reply.—The eminent —, who as all the world knows was the son of the earl of S—, was walking in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields with a witty chief commissioner; " I must step into Green's Hotel and get a sandwich," he observed "It ght i right," re joined his companion, " one good turn deserves another." —A barrister was speaking to Sir with much com placency of a lately-purchased estate, and in his newly awakened taste for agricultural pursuits, dilated at some length upon his farm and pigs. " Stick to the fee farm and guinea pigs." in terrupted the other."—Dolman's Mag. GENERAL MISCELLANY. The Hull corporation have, very properly, provided for the public a cheap tepid bath. Ibrahim Pacha, it is said, will remain in England until the 20th July . On Wedne.dly, a young man was killed at Holbeeh. Yorkshire, by the splitting of the grindstone, at which he was workinr, into a thousand pieces. Two lb tie girls, of Dewsbury, were drowned in the river Colder last week. They were reaching down the bank of the river for a flower, ano fell in. 111 r. Alderman Challis and R. W. Kenyard, Esq. ' were elected sheriffs of London for the ensuing year, on Wed nesday last, The great rowing match botween Newell and Clasper, for £2OO, at Newcastle-noon-Tyne, came off on Monday. Newell won easily, brine 200 yards ahead of his opponent. On Sunday morning last, three of the crew of the brig Bernard Castle. far St. PeterQhtira, were drowned, in Leith roads, by the upsetting of a boat. On Wednesday, the steam-ship Victory arrived at the St. Katharine steam-packet wharf, from St. Petersburg, with specie amounting to £200,0(10. On the 15th ins ant, George and William Jones, sons of Mr. Henry Jones. of the Gaol, Doisrelley, were drowned whilst bathing. They were 14 and 16 years of age. In the year ended the sth of .Linuary last, the number of bricks made in Pneland and Waies was 1,820,415.017. and the duty paid £558 323 2-. 4 1.. and in Scotland 57,321.716, and the duty £17,775 7d. A few years ago plate glass was sold at 123. per foot At that prim the demand was 5,000 feet per week. It is now sold at 6s. per foot, and the demand per week is 40.000 feet. The dry-house of Ilothes Bleschfield. Fifeshire, was struck by lightning last we-k, awl before help could be procured, it w;:s burnt to the ground. Only a few bun dles-of yarn were saved. A drily paper says that the Duke of Buccleuch has just had erected, on a farm of which his Grace is landlord, a set of cottages after a new style, each containing four apartments, having two stories, and designed for one On Sunday week fon:- yonng men (three brothers named Travis and another Westall) were drowned in the river Tees, near Hartlepool, by the upsetting cif a yacht, which struck on a sandb , nk. The Travis's belonged to a re spretable f4mily in Durham. Mr. A nstey, the li °man Catholic barrister, of London, has given it as his opinion that the imprisonment of Mr. W. S. O'Brien was illegal, a.td that he has cause of action against the Speaker and Serjeant of the House of Com mons. ASTONNFITNO EXPEDITION. —Last week, the Morn ing Herald of Wedoes lay, enn'aining a report of the de bates up to that rimming, was the same evening deliv?red in Rotterdam in time for re-publicrion in the journals of that city ! In Birmirgham, nearly £7OOO has been subscribed for establishing two sets of baths. A•rangetnents are in progress for laying the first stone with great eclat; and it is hoped that Prince Albert will perform that ceremony on his way south from Liverpool. A bill is before Parliament for the regulation of steam vessd,', which contains some useful clauses. All steam ships built after the first of next January must be built in com . tits, be sufficiently provided with boats, and 1 , ,y es to obviate *danger as far as possible. t tit Siinday Dr. Ullathorne was consecrated at the R man Cath I c Church, Coventry, by Dr. Briggs, as si red by p Wareing, of the Pastern district, and B , hop Griffi t., of the London district. Dr. Wiseman, pr. ;Oen. of Osse't Collage, preached on the occasion. The lake-disttict of Cumberland and Westmorland is teemilg with tour's s, all the inns and lodging-houses at Ambleside and K->ssick being full to °vet flowing The floating Wand on Derwentwater, which was last seen in 1842, now appears again above the surface to a consider able extent, and forms a very attractive object to visitors. The Privy Council have confirmed the decision of the Admiralty Court, which awarded £18,050 against the owners of the Iron Dake steamer, which cone into colli sion with a brig some time since in the Channel, when the brig sunk. EARLY MAaatAGEs.—Durinrr, the examination of a bankrupt of the Jewish persuasion, in the Exeter Bank ruptcy-court, the bankrupt's father said Jewish persons were married very early. Be himself married at four teen. CAUTION TO WORKMEN.—At the Westminster Police court, on Tuesday, Charles S,lith, a journeyman farrier, was committed to the House of Correction for one month, for having left the employment of Mr. Gillingham, a ve terinary surgeon at Chelsea, without notice, and going to work elsewhere. IBRAHIM PACHA.—His highness returned from Belfast to Liverpool on Tuesday, and reached London on Wed nesday, via Birmingham, and the same evening he paid a visit to the Reform Club, where was present Sir Charles Napier, whom his highness recognised as an old acquaint ance, and greeted very cordially. _ _ . At the Frome fair, on Tuesday week, a fight took place between two men named Williams and Wiggans, which was wound up by Williams stabbing his opponent in the neck. The jugular vein was cut through. Death, of course, immediately ensued. Williams has been com mitted for trial. FEARFUL CALAMITY.—On Thursday, a building at Robert-Town was struck with lightning, and almost coin pletely demolished, while there were thirty-six gig Is at work occupied in card making. All of them were more or less scorched by the electric fluid, and the lives of several are considered in great danger.—Leeds paper. Mr. Samuel Butler, chemist, aged 23, residing at 4, Cheapside, London, put a period to his existence on Sa turday morning last, by swallowing prussic acid. A morbid depression of spirits had been for some time super induced in consequence of apprehensions he entertained he should not be united to the object of his affections. A bridle bit, under the appropriate rittne of "The Iron Duke," has been invented. Its peculiarity consists chiefly in its not being placed in the horse's mouth, and with it a lady, or even a child, can manage any horse. It does not injure the mouth at all, and is very highly spoken of. The plan for building a model lod4ing•house in St. Giles's meets with great acceptance. The Duke of Suther land. the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, the Earl of Harrowhy, the Earl of Cadogan, the Countess of Pem broke, the Marquis Cholmondeley, and Lord Teign mouth have sent donations. At the Central Criminal Court, on Monday, William Manfield was convicted of having thrown Elinbe' h Pul len, with whom he cohabited, out of the window into the street, with intent to murder her. It will be remembered that the poor woman, wishing to screen her brutal para mour, said that she threw herself out of the window. The prisoner was sentenced to transportation for life. SALE OF CROCKFORD'S.—On Tuesday. the St. .Limes's Club-house, better known as Crockfurd's, was sold by auction by Messrs. Christie and Manson, by order of the executors of Mr. Crockford, for the sum of £2,900. It was held on lease, of which 32 years were unexpired, sub ject to a yearly rent of £l4OO. It was said at the sale that the decorations alone of the building cost the late pro prietor £l4OO. . _ The financier Wyndham has written to the Times, ex claiming aga'nir. injury to his character by the statements in the newspapers, and offering to give bills for the sums he owes at Windsor and elsewhere: he also enclosed a letter purporting to have been written by Nlessrs. Hey wood, the Liverpool bankers, informing Mr. Wyndham that he is "at liberty to check to the extent of £3900," on the security of an uncle. On inquiry the Times found his letter to be fictitious. A FIELD ON FIRE.—The conflagration of the Prairies in America is of frequent occurrence • it is but seldom we hear of such an accident in England. On Wednesday, one of the Lammas fields was observed to be in a state of ignition, (there was fortunately no hay in the field,) and the flame spread with the rapidity of wild fire in every direction ; but after scorching the ground to the extent of above an acre, it went out of itself. Some hundreds of persons assembled to witness the novel sight. We have ben informed that the grass has been partially burnt in several fields adjoining the Midland line, owing to sparks falling upon R.—Nottingham Journal. DEATHS THROUGH lEXCESSIVE HEAT.—CAUTION TO MOWERS.—At six o'clock on Thursday evening, James Grime, who was mowing, and bad been the greatest part of the day without his shirt, in a meadow, near Bury, was taken suddenly ill, and removed to a. public•house near, where he was immediately attended by a surgeon, but he died the same night. He was a very sober, steady man, 45 years of age.—At seven o'clock the same evening, another man, named William Whittaker, a native of Dar wen, was mowing, and had been all day in a field at Tot tington, was taken ill, and removed to a relation's house, where medical assistance was rendered, but he died the same evening, at eight o'clock. He was GO years of age, and has left a wife and six children.—Leeds Intellipencer. DISAPPEARANCE OF THREE HOUSES.—A. very ex traordinary circumstance took place yesterday se'nnight, at Hateley Heath, West Bromwich—the total" and imme. diate disappearance of -three houses, in c , esequence of the thick coal having been got from under therci some time since. The houses were inhabited, but, fortunately, no lives were lost. About half-pagt eight o'clock. the middle of one of the houses suddenly fell in ; an alarm was given, and as soon as the people could get out, the whole of the buildings immediately sank down with a great crash, the tops of the houses bring five or six yards below the level of the surface, covered with the earth which•had fallen in around them. The unfortunate occu pants of the houses have lost the whole of their property. —Birminiham Gazette. JOSEPH ADY.—At the Central Criminal Court, on Monday, Joseph Ady was charged with having obtained a sovereign from Mr. Hornsby, with intent to defraud him thereof. Mr. Ballantvne, on behalf of the prisoner, said that the indictment must fall to the ground. as at the bot tom of every receipt were the words, " if no benefit is derived by the parties from the information, the money shall be returned if applied for." The prosecutor had not applied for the money, therefore the charge of fraud had not been proved. The Common Serjeant concurred in the same view of the case, and he directed the jury to acquit the prisoner. After he was liberated, Joseph came back and claimed the " deliverance" of his money held by the officer. The Common Serjeant said in cases of this sort it was usual to give the money to the prosecutor. He (Ady) might bring his action (laughter). THUNDER STORMS.—On Monday evening week there was another partial thunder storm in Cumberland and Westmoreland. The flashes of lightning were rapid, forked and vivid, and the peals of thunder remarkably loud, and near at hand. A very heavy rain began to fall about eight o'clock in the evening, and continued to do so during the whole of Monday night. and all the day on Tuesday, and the greater part of Wednesday. The storms on Thursday and Friday week did a great deal of damage, and we add the following further particulars to those we published in our last :—A poor woman belonging to Pen rith, named Mary Boak, who was on the road home from Carlisle with a cart load of coals, was struck down at the village of Carleton, near Carlisle, and was taken up in a senseless state. It was thought that she was dead, and had been struck by the electric fluid. In a short time, however, she showed symptons of animation, and has come so far round as to say that she was not injured by the lightning, but that she fell from the oppressive effects of a sunbeam stroke. This woman is likely to recover. In the mansion and gardens of Mr. E. W. Hasell, Dale main, upwards of 350 panes of glass were smashed ; and in the woods adjoining, some scores of large timber trees were shivered to pieces. At various other places windows were broken and trees splintered. A number of railway labourers on the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, who had sheltered themselves from the storm, under the bridge which crosses the Keswick-road, near Pcorith, miracu lously escaped destruction. The men had piled up their shovels on the one side of the arch, whilst they stood on the other side. The flashes of lightning were so rapid and powerful, and being attracted by the metal, the shovels were made to fly and move about in all directions, and had the men not instantly made their escape there can be no doubt that many of them would have been killed. The present continued rain has made a most wonderful im provement to the crops of every description, and the rapid progress of growth is the most surprising ever known. Mr. Joseph Fenton, of the Ling-tutas farm, near Pen rith, sowed a field of turnips on Wednesday, and on the Friday morning the turnips had sprung up, and were vi sible along the stetches, having been in the ground only about 70 hours. The wheat crops era in the ear, and those with the barley and oats are thick on the ground, and are looking well and thriving. Turnip and potato crops are doing well, and the hay harvest has commenced and the crops ere very heavy. THE JURY LOTTERY.—A man is walking at ni ht in a crowded thonsughfare with a pistol in his p cket ; a wo man pushes him accidentally, whereupon some words ensue ; the man forthwith produces the pistol, and threatens to shoot the woman; she, on her side, threatens to give him in charge, and he runs away. Immediately afterwards, within a few yards of the scene of the preceding quarrel, the same man, with the same pistol, shows one of the passengers in the street, who dies of the wound. He is put upon his trial for manslaugh•er, and his defence is, that the pistol went off by accident. He explains the •possession of the weapon by saying that he was going to a i shooting gallery, and he accounts for having it i n hi s hand by a desire to uncock it, to prevent mischief. The e i story, reu m a i s t ta d n a c c fr acquit him. this case Now , we do not malice; had there been a suspicion of this, the c h arge , o f course, should have been one of murder. But we d o jpurreyte believe tehvaet his s e pretend that there was the most convincing proof of gross negligence, and of the most pr u i n so p n a e rd l i s m , a ,w hi n e i s cad r ff y er c e i n n Z: ic others. t to ti l :t r h o h e e nge 6 d ietwlitfh people. playing with a loaded to ts need to go further than this, and the case may be rested n t h safety Arml n o c f oanf ests confesses on the confession. The question then is, whether or not the shooting a roan under sta3h circumstances is a trivial There is no matter. The law was p er f ec 'l v well expla i ne d b y B aron i Rolfe n his summing up :—" If a I erson having a deadly weapon in his possession makes u-e of it in a negligent and careless manner, and death ensues in cr.m.equence. the offence is ma ns l aug ht er. " I s i t poss ib le t h a t any unpre _ Jodiced person can deny that this definition embraces the circumstances of Blewitt's case? Is it. or is it not, negli gent and carel ess to b e uncoAing a loaded pistol in such a plan as Drury-lane, at night, in the midst of a crowd ? We do not speak of the vagary of presenti ng it to the wo man who pushed aga i ns t him in the first instance. That makes the case plainer; but as the prisoner did not shoot her, the jury perhaps thought she had nothing to do with the matter. To us. however, it appears qu ite enough that he Was playing with a loaded weapon at all in such a place, at such a time; for this he ought to have been pu n i s h e d, and the jury ought to have found him guilty. With the degree of punishment they had nothing to do ; no doubt the judge would have duly proportioned it to the offence. In acquitting him they hate set a very a dangerous pi-- cedent, and one for which society will not be much inclined to thank them.— Times. Protectionists Const.rvative Whigs. Vacant Tellers Speaker THE POPE IN PURGATORY! ( From the Cork C.nstitution.) " He was wounded for our tran , gressions, be 1°11 : bruised for our iciquities ; the ch as ti semen t o f o ur Pee , : c , was upon him, and with his stripe s we are healed":""; says the prophet. "The blood of Jesus Ch , ist . his S o n A cleanseth us from all sin" says the Apostle. " Was l l us from our sins in his own blood," says the same ApoSti, "The very God of peace sanctity you wholly," prays apt other Apostle. "Sanctify them through thy trtamj prays the Lord of Apostles but Lord and Apostle aed them n a P b r o o u p h t n e ho t ts F . aov N tt N al 4 : l ee : r e t tsG h og e uoi r sinPo i eem :l ;e: l" w a Ca r T g si 9 1u: tehruie;PhylGi°irr' alls out u e nit which of h P ri cte : heria g t held, and n P s e t o:sv: k e A t: tot y she is unable to decide : but if in, she is coming, A3 his aid with all " the p omp an d c i rcumstance " with v"-ca she is wont to a s t our d an d i mpress !he eyes of ignorall and credulity. I n t h e L on d on Morning Post of T a e we read the following : preht "Tog LATE POPE.—A issued by the Rev. Dr. Griffiths, Roman Catholic Bishop of the V o l don District , to the clergy at the various churches gad chapels throughout the metropoli s a nd it s environs, T read from the pulpits on Sunday morning last. :After eel holing, in terms of eulogy and gratulation to his exalts virtues, and yet to his exceedi ng mee k ness an d low , ' de s of spirits in the conduct of the vast and important d i ej ee p which had been entrusted to hi s c h arge d ur i ng 4 " acti years he had filled the P a p a l c h a i r , i t xhorted the h a le to tors, with reference to th e pur i ty o f sou l indisperisambare an immediate union with the AlmiAty, and to th e f the nossibilitv (accordi ng to th e d octr i ne an d b e lief ° i ri s Roman Catholic Ch urc h) o f hi s Avferiny the minor ebi in of purgatory, t o o ff er up their , 2st ardent prayers bt o behalf and fo r hi s spee d y release from the place fP a nishment, and his union with God. It was furtheraß ee iv by the bishop th a t a solemn equiern and diree• Ow grated on Friday next at the pripdpal metroolitan.,_ooo pet in Mnorfields, and the whole of the Roman ttebatt clergy in the metropolis and throughout the s abot i e riCS / counties have been ordered to attend in their full e_ most r bes and other costume. It is expected to be: gr eat extraordinary arid gorgeous sight : bur, from tbf„ ce gi' number of ele , gy who will attend, and the prefelc,,", , the ven to subscribers to the chapel, or, in other w s 9nh o fjp-, holders and renters of pews and the higher cl is r; ,, b e of dividuals in the distribution tickets, it will probab ly with a very exclusive nature." favOUr st We do not wonder that the Bible is in no afar anyuch a church which imposes on her people h u ld t; variance with the teaching of our Saviour. One. _ long perusing its pages before be met with ty!Ytu . : r u a l,, resembled this. Often as disciples and at'est i n s f ral itOtt never read of their praying for deliverance from ru,L e to and pi c place of f en re t s h t e a y nd s ant of puntsuvom pain. p o e f a e k n o jo f y d m e le m a r t t , ure, it is of . d . _pa.rnti..and 0, June 30, 1846. WATERSPOUT.—It striking and unusual phenomenon was observed at Falkirk on Wednesday last. Tne day had been unusually warm, perhaps the hottest of the season— the thermometer standing at 78 in the shade, and a suffo cating sultriness gave the heavens quite a tropical charac ter. Towards six o'clock, p. m , a dark ti!under cloud was borne slowly along from the west, and when its centre was seemingly immediately over the Black Loch, a water spout rather suddenly appeared when its extreme end was hidden behind the Callendar Wood. It was perfectly de fined, increasing in density and depth of colour towards its lower extremity, and appeared to be columnar; but, from the distance, we cauld not remark any spiral motion. After remaining stationary for nearly a minute, it became more transparent, as if it had discharged itself, and gra dually was absorbed upwards into the cloud. Numerous spectators witnessed this most interesting and sublime meteorological exhibition, and seemed impressed with its grandeur. We forgot to say the wind was from various districts as in a thunder storm ; and a few drops of rain fell as the spout was drawn into the cloud. The copper sky against which it was seen was shaded as if by a shower, and it is singular that the space it had occupied remained for a considerable time of a whitish hue, caused by the void it had left in the showery vapour. We have since learned that the spout discharged itself, or broke, as the country people, term it, at Crossroads, a rising ground about a mile west from Avonbridg An immense body of water deluged the immediate spot, and for about a mile round there was a heavy rain, but beyond not a drop fell. The rivulets all round were flooded, and the river Avon assumed, for a short time, all the appearance of a spate.— Stirling Journal. DREADFUL SIIIPWRECK.—BV the Great' Britain steamer, adyices have been received, detailing the total loss of the brig Canadian, bound to Falmouth, froni Cuba, and the miraculous escape of the crew after enduring the most painful sufferings. The Canadian, a vessel between 200 and 25 tons bur hen, left Cienfuegos cone of the Cuba islinds) in the early part of the month of March; and on April 28, while the vessel wa= running al mg out side of the red, known as the Jardinallos, near a place called the Keys, she struck, and remained on the rock. In a few hours she obtained assistance f•om a passing vessel, which brought to and remained with her till the following day. The captain of the Canadian then left, for the purpose of obtaining a steamer at Kaymar, to tow his disabled vessel off, considering there was a pro bability of removing her with but little injury. The mate and rest of the crew remained by her, and in the course of the following day succeeded in landing some of the ship's stores on the Keys. On the third day, how ever, a frightful gale of wind sprang up, and cut .off all communication with the shore, the first sea sweeping away the boats. The guile increasing, and the sea run ning very high, she was quickly thrown on her beam ends, every wave making a comph-te breach over her. The poor fellows flew up the rigging, the only refuge left, taking with them an axe to cut away the rigging, should the masts give way and go overboard. In this perilous situation they remained nearly two entire days, the brig partielly going to pieces from under them, and without the slightest sustenance. Several vessels, perceiving their awful condition, bore down towards them, but in consequence of the dangerous character of the reef, and the enormous surf bounding on it, the least aid from them appeared impracticable. Death h ,- ng certainly their h. fate should they rem a i n o n th e ree f, tty he-n; on taking to the last resource, the sea, believing it would carry them in the direction of a vessel which was brought to. They one by one dropped off the reef, and were safely picked up by a boat that was put off to their assistance, although, as may be readily imagined, in a very exhausted condition. In the succeeding night they lost sight of the wreck. which, with the cargo, is said to be insured for X 12,000. THE THUNDER STORXL.—We give in another column particulars of various disasters occasioned by the late storm. The following are further distressing details. On Friday week, six cows were killed at Mantel, Here fordshire, by the lightning. On Sunday, the tempest was still more severe, and appears to have anent its fury at Peterchurch. The house of the Rev. B. Armitage was struck by masses of ice which fell during the storm. Almost every square of glass on the side of the storm, which appeared to come from the eas', was demolished, and the damage cannot be less than from £25 to £3O. The torrents of rain ripped up the public road and the ground to the depth of some feet. and carrying a mass of timber and stone in their career, two sheep and a horse were killed by the concussion. A few days ago, George Brown, servant to Captain Underwood, of Castle-hill, Derbyshire, took shelter from a thunder storm under tree, and was struck by the lightning, which killed him. A valuable mare, belonging to A. S. Fere herstonbaught Esq., of Hopton Court, was struck by lightning on Sun day. at Westwood Park, under a large oak tree, and ap peared to have been killed instantat eausly. On Monday, the lightning struck and fractured a large east-iron wheel in the foundry yard of Mr. Henry Gore's machine works. n off. house per- Lever-street, Manchester. In a garden on Stockport Moor, a poplar tree was shattered to fragments, and some of the pieces were thrown full forty yards from the spot. Higher np, in Offerton-lane, a house was struck by the 1 ghtning. It split the front door cheek, and, after de scribing some strange devices in a back room, to the great terror of two women, it made its exit through the ceiling• and thence out at the roof of the house, The building was a good deal damaged, being partially unroofed, and hHeartyouse was s e entire struck i o n f roomthelowe ce i li n g Brinnington. At N sons, named Betty Shore, aged fifty-live years. and WM. Shore, her son, aged nineteen years, were killed on the spot by lightning. A house in Love-lane, Heaton Norris t was struck by lightning, and about a hundred weight of slates ou the roof were smashed. A boy in the service of Mr. Thomas Younge, Cowdenknowes Mains, near Glas gow, whil,t returning from the field where he bad been for the purpose of cutting thistles with a sickle, was killed by the electric fluid. Mr. John Tort, farmer, Muirhouse. Cramond, Glasgow, was following it horse and cribber in a potato field on his farm, when the lightning struck the horse and killed it, and broke the swingle tree, of the cribber. Mr. Tod was also knocked dow .1, but shortly recovered. At Melbourne. Derbyshire, Mr. H ugh Dol man, a baker, and Mr. William Bailey, a hsitdressert were struck dead by the lightning. THE COERCION BILL. Amongst those who voted in favour of the second reading of this bill on Thursday, we find the names of Lord Sandon, Sir H. Douglas, W. &Awlsle, Sir Philip Egerton, P. Ainsworth, J. 1. Blackhurne. E. Ca.dwell , Sir S. Glynne, Sir R. H. Inglis, G C. Legh, J. W. Pi ten, and J. Tollemache. The following are amnnist those who voted against the bill :—Lord George B-ntindk, Bowring, J. Brotherton, ,R. Cobden, B. Di,ragli, Ewart, Sir P. H. Fleetwood, T. M. Gibson, Lord A.! Grosvenor, George Hudson, J. Jer v i s , L or d Morpet°, D. O'Connell, Cot. Sibthotp, Sir G. Strickland, and ThoS• Thornely. Lord F. Egerton, Capt. Gladstone, and Bruen were amongst the pairs in favour of the bill. ANALYSIS OF THE DIVISION, AYES. Protectionists Conservatives Whigs . ..... Pairs.—Protectionists. Conservatives Whigs. Protectionists Conservative. -- 292 Pairs.- , Protectionists . Whigs ABS ENl'