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briefly 6 ennsal THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. eurraturr. VARIETIES. By the wise tempering of work with play, and both with intellectu .1 study, and all under the mastery of religion, how ennobling becomes the life of an English artisan.— Lord John Manners. At the top of Richmond Hill, on the right hand side, is to be seen, printed on a board which is placed in the window, " Preparatory School for Boys of both sexes !" There is not an hour in the day in which a man so much likes to see his wife dressed with neatness as when she leaves hey bedroom and sits down to breakfast.—Mrs. Ellis. There bare been fifty kings, two protectors, and six queens in England ; and the regular succession to the throne has been changer' ten times since the kingdom was founded by Egbert, 1012 years ao'n. It is calculated that there are 1.660.000,000 sons in the world; of whom 153,000,000 are in Europe, 156,000,000 in Africa, 500,000.000 in Asia, 150,000.000 in America, and 7,000,000 in the islands of the Pacific. Five parts of the population are Christians, six are Mohometans, eigh teen are idolaters, and the Jews form one part. Above one hundred thousand men were employed for twenty years in erecting the great pyramid of Egypt. From a computation of M. Dupin, it appears that the steam engines of England would equal the whole product of this immense application of human labour, in lifting stone=, within the short space of eizhteen hours. A shopkeeper in Drury Lane informs the public, through the medium of an enormous placard over his door, that be has " 20,000 pair of shoes for the million." It is evi dent that nine hundred and eighty thousand of his custo mers must go without shoes to their 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.— TEXAN BARBARISM.—The ruder orders of people farther couth, for there, no more than in England, are the "ruder" orders to be considered as merely ivnonymous with the " lower" orders, have a custom, I am informed, of occasionally deciding desperate wagers cf 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 Magazine. PENCIL CEDAR.—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 fur the same purpose; it is also extensively used in America for ship-building, having the property. whets used with other wood, of preventing its rotting. There is no limit to the quantity that can he obtained of this wood if required. Its present selling price averages about sd. the superficial foot. —The Builder. WHAT BECOMES OF PINS AND POLICEMEN. — We recollect to have once seen this question propounded by some individual of an inquiring mind, of "What becomes of all the pins ?" This disappearance is certainly most remarkable. AlPchanical statistics inform us that the consumption of pins in Great Britain alone amounts to 15,000 000 daily ; and yet we never find more than one or two lying about, and even that is a chance. A lady once told us she believed they all walked off to unknown regions during the night, (there is a German popular tale respect ing the holiday of a pin, which favours the notion,) for that if she left a dozen on her toilet table on going to bed at night, she never found more than two or three there in the morning; and these were pins of delicate coneitution, or not quite right in their heads. It is certainly very strange. This same property of pins is shared in also by policemen ; one cannot tell where on earth they go to. You see them leaving the s!ation 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 flags were traps, none having been before visible—so do policemen vanish with equal celerity, in a manner which leads us to think that the fairy tales are not altogether the tremendous lies we always imagined them to be.—Albert Smith. THE HORSE-Co ARM E a.—Doubtless our readers must have heard of the extraordinary gift said to be possessed by an Irishman, named Sullivan, who exercised a power over horses that no other horse-breaker in the United Kingdom ever obtained by means of whispering. He is, therefore, better known in the spotting circles by the so briquet of " The Whisperer." It may not he known that the grandson of this extraordinary man, (George Church,) who practises the art of horse-breaking and training in Sydney, possesses the secret of charming this noble animal which gained for his grandsire so much ce lebrity. We have had frequent opportunity lately of wit nessing his performances, and can confidently vouch for his skill. He will take a wild, unbroken colt, from the bush, and in twenty-four hours make him so docile and obedient, without severe treatalent, that the animal, at command, will lie down under him, feigning death, re main until roused from the a,parent stupour in which lie has been thrown by mesmeric passes and slight manipu lation (as it appears to us) on the nervous system, by a slight 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 will 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, without danger of being pressed too hard—_ When the_ horse is relieved from the stupour into which be appears to have been thrown, be resists a repetition of the opera tion as long as he can, until, subdued by the irresistible charm of the extraordinary man, he relapses into the mesmeric state, and is then passively obedient to his will. Svclney Sentinel. THE LADY 's NTAID.—Her constitution is broken by irregular rest and irregular diet. Addicted to novels and green tea, she is not aware that her tender hypochon driacism is the result of her swallowing her dinner whole, to be in time for dressing my lady for her daily drive; and of restless nights , spent in watching for the return of my lady's carriage for the b,II. 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 strange thing that, howbeit, we all admit the difficulty of being a hero to one's vale! de chambre or an angel to one's lady's maid—every lady insists upon the maid being an angel to her lady. The mistress h:.s a right to be en deshabille at certain hours of the day. The maid never. The maid must be always presentable—always smiling. Curl-papers are warning, and a slipshod foot dismissal without a character. Whether in drawing my lady's cur tain at dead of night, or undrawing it at daybreak, she must be tir6e a qualre e - pingles, and neither look fatigued, nor restless, nor sick, nor sorry. A weary eye, a pale face, would condemn her to hear 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 lady's maid is pretty sure to be privately married to the butler or to have a weakness for the under footman. The fashionable lady's maid is shove such vulgarisms ; talks of " the circle she moves in," and goes to the Opera. The lady's maid on her preferment converts my lady's cast-off satins and ouipures into cash, end tag of her property in the funds. While the flirting lady's maid converts them to her own use; has a correspondence in verse with one of the young gentlemen at Howell and James's, which does not prevent her lending an ear to a thousand tender nothings when the country house is full of dandies, mas- tern, and me Airs. Gore. for the hunting and simting season.— GENTLEMEN TIIIEVES.—ShortIy before I left Mexico, the stage was robbed near Puebla. The rubbers all had the dress and bearing of gentlemen. When the operation of rifling the pockets and trunks of the pas-engers was finished, one of the robbers said to them—" Gentlemen, we would not have you to suppose that we are rubbers by profession ; we are gentlemen, (somos caballeros.) but we have.been unfortunate at monte, and that ha. forced upon us the necessity of thus incommoding you. for which we beg that you will pardon us." InnumerAle are the sto ries of robberies which one hears in Mexico, some of them of 001 'be case of Colonel Yanes, who w full of incidents of a ci executed a few years since, is aster deeply dramitic. I will they were told to me : Th P Swiss eet of St. Cosme. About twelve y t in) e , a carriage drove up to his got out, one in the dress of a priest— they v e o'clock in and three !it I the porter, and the door doted, when they immediately seizA arid gagged him, went into the house, and robbed and murdered the consul. The only clue for the discovery of the murderers w,.9 a metal button with a small piece of blue cloth attached to it, which was found clenched in the fingers of the murdered vnd which he had torn from the coat of one of the Suspicion at last rested upon a soldier. who was more ney than he cuu!d account for. His were se hed, and the coat from which the but .. He sas convicted, Amost confidence upon a pardon, avourite aid-de-camp of President :complice. lie was brought out to actually taken his seat on the fatal r placed around his neck, and the 'd, when he said—" Hold 1 I will 'mplices—Colonel Yanea is the __,,ended, and on searching correspondence in cipher was dis ablished his guilt in this and other he paramour of a WMII.III in Mexico robbers seen with more mor quarters ton had been torn but he relied with th as Colonel Yanes, the Santa Anns, was his a be executed, and had bench, with the. colic Lbout to b ho are m 1" 'PI. found there a was su ose of Yens whirl) fully ies. Times w coverer robber very nearly related to one whose word was law, and whose influence over her relative was known to be very great, and upon that relianeetvis placed for a pardon, at least ; but she was not disposed to trust to that, awl let her lover suffer the disgrace of conviction—she went to the judge with whom the cipher had been deposited, which fur irsisbed the evidence of the guilt of Yanes, and offered him a large bribe to give it up. lea was an honest man and an upright judge—be sternly refused the bribe, 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, and promised to destroy the paper ; but when, in confession to his priest, he disclosed his corrupt conduct, the worthy man prevailed upan him, if he had not destroyed the paper, not to do so, and he did not. Yanes, in the meant i me, was informed that this evidence would not be produced against him, and that tree prosecu tion would rest entirely upon the testimony of his accom plice. Upon the trial, with the habitual air ref command of an officer, and the habitual fear and submission of the •lnion soldier, Yanes brow beat and confu-ed his accuser :ch a degree, that he telt secure of an acquittal: At moment the fatal paper was produced, and he was condemned and executed. His not less guilty paramour still resides in the city of Mesico. — Recollections of coo) to sr this Mexico. CANNING AND Pi , EL.—Sir Robert Peel labours, as a public man, under the heavy disadvantage of the want of popular trainers, and of those personal attractions which captivate and delight 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 parties! 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 dis3dv,ntage was great, and yet notwithstanding the defi ficiency, set out in its strongest colours in contrast with the surprising brilliancy of Canning, Peel, it nay be safely advanced, was more trusted than his competitor. His manner repelled, but his conduct attracted. He was not the man for the dinner-table, but he was viewed as wise in council, safe 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 respectable and worthy people, hoftling 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 he careful bow we set the pre cedent, when we march into the territory of another power.—New Orleans Jeffersonian. TIM VARIOUS MODES OF EXECUTION EMPLOYED. — The Cavildo is a large building used for a court-house and a prison. On the first floor is the large court-room, with its ante-chambers: above are the rooms appropriated 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 wide proj:Tting 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 to circumstances. Sometimes they were shot. Some met their fate at the hands of two lancers, 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 tt,en 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 hive lived in a land blessed with peace and good government as almost beyond belief, but they are, nevertheless, truths.—Life in the Argentine Rei,ublic. 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 Riding of York shire, upon the wolds between Market Weighton and the town of Drifficld, 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 yen.s ; still the race course remains, all under turf, as modern inn)vations have not yet substituted exines 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. hut unfortunately they are selected from the greatest ruffi .ns ie the country, many of whom, exchanging the taper jockey whip for the more impressive bludgeon, batter arid tight their way through the crowd of horsemen who throng 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, he ad judged unto the swift. What renders the difficuli y the greater in this extraordinary race is the circumstance of the gateways not being removed on the occasion, and the dreadful accidents which have occurred at the awful crushings 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 Hr raid, or the Tribune, to remove the London Mansion House to Hamp stead Heath, there would 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 lerkenwelt e without any of the young misses of the family , Tieing in the slightest d egree interrupted - tit - Theft' Mini - ' avocations. AS for the everlasting and dangerous nuisance of Holborn-hill, which I have been looking at more in sorrow than in anger for these forty years, in New York it would be levelled in a week. A worthy tradesman in the city of Brooklyn, opposite New York, wanted to eon vert his two pirlour 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 -1 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 goig 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 find the following curious details in the Ailoniteur des Arts:—" There exist at Rome secret workrooms of sculpture, where the works manufactured are broken arms, beads of the gods, feet of satyrs, and broken torsi — of nobody. By means of a liquid there used, a colour 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 Association, 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 of 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, Heliogabalus, and all the An. tonines—filed, pinched, and corroded, to give the look of age. Paris may be sa'd to have hi,herto, by comparison with London, escaped this epidemy for the youthful anti quities of bronze arid marble—but she is devoured by the forgers of Middle-Age antiques. It is notorious 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 be bad 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.' u —Athenceum. Tile 'MEXICAN SOLDIERY.—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 mixed blood, partaking of the more north ern races, and of old Spain, are stronger, rather sinewy, and capable of more continued exertion: These, however, 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 places, flat upon the ground, to play at cards for reales or medins, (and dollars, if 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 fiercest hours of the day; to which, in fact, they have never been accustomed. 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 foreigners. They even fear it beforehand. A Mexican soldier who has been drunk over night wi h aquadiente, 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 so and squat down under a wall or shed. If you 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 dem 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 Highlander a claymore, or a raw-boned Irishman a good ' shillelah, and the ten soldiers would be very likely to tumble to the right and left with broken blades and broken beads. The Mexicans are by no means de ficient in courage. They have fiery soirits, arid no fear 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 most part, not good. They are valiant, but have no judg ment. They are far too excitable, and without self-go vernment. Moreover, they are very often much too young ; many of their lieutenants, and even captains, being 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 man, a good mathematician, and a fine swordsman • but of course without any a d equate experi 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 nearly 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. THE DAIRY AT BLENHEIM.—One gets a tolerable idea of the almost extravagant opulence which is here displayed, when I say, that in a large vaulted ball 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 pt 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 1844, by Dr. Carus. AWFUL. IF TRUE.—A young rascal, a mad, reckless vagabond, was drinking one day with some companions in a pot-house. His money being all spent, he cried out that if any body 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. Wl , ereupon 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, bow say you: when one has bought a horse, don't the saddle and bridle go with it ?" The people sit ting round were alarmed at these words, 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 oft with him through the ceiling, since which time nothing has been heard of the impious creature.—Michelet'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 from the British in the last war. The whole are in excellent condition, and capable of imme diate use. There has been much agitation, for the past few years. in the board of common council, ab , ,ut the lo cation of this necessary and useful public building. In comparison 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 24 hours, bring into the field an effective force of 40,000 troops ! Good ! —New York Herald. PlTT.—Pitt was tenderly attached to a Lady Eleanor Eden, and it nearly broke his heart to give her up; which he did 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 Coni,ing. THE ALPINE ECHO.—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 over. 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 trumvet. I instinctively clapped my hands to my ears in affright. It came from the distant Wetterhorn, 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 Of , THE AUTHOR OF " WEALTH OF NATlONS."—Somewhat akin to these peculiarities was his habitual absence, not only muttering in company as unconscious of their presence, but even unaware of the -wirlicr—www{h;ng--iir streets. One that knew him, which the sufferer did not, was a good deal amused to hear a poor old woman, whose stall he had overturned while he moved on with his hands 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 Kirl aid) , 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 wee!!" quoth he, they tell me that lad Adam Smith has put out a great book. lam sure it would be long 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 son e 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 opposite, and stopt ; and he was heard to go on muttering " Deil care, deil care, it's all true."—Lol d Brougham. AN AMERICAN'S NOTION OF TILE LONDON DOCKS.— 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 no light to he 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 wi-h to read the marks on the heads they use reflectors, to throw the light down upon them. These vast 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 800 or 900 per cent. I was told half the amount used is made up by smuggling 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 I People are be witched for cigars and pipes, and you will see men whiffing 'heir tobacco in the street—strange-smelling tobacco— probably adulterated, who don't look as if they knew where to ge , a dinner, or were on any terms whatever with the tailor. What a luxury ! Here is tobacco enough to make a Niagara of ju;ce, to be chatted by a nation said to he starving ! It was comfortable to get away to hoards of other luxuries, less suggestive of the ruin of human nature. AFFECTING TItAGEDY.—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 Masa was the President of the. Legislative Assembly. He had been the tutor of Rosas, and was one of the most respected personages in the state. The De 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. sas, and a suiter to Donna Clara, a lady of distinguished family. The brother of this lady, Don Juan, was also in the service of Rosas, 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 part observed. Duo Juan, accompanied by some soldiers, went to his siste.'s apartment, where Colonel Masa was visiting Donna Clare at the time. The Colonel at once yielded himself, but begged only a few moment's delay. He re. tired to a room, and wrote a few lines to his father 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 fur papers. Donna Clara, excited to madness, resisted them, till she sank pierced by a b l i nnet wound in her side. Almost at the same time that these events were occurring, the President Masi was seated alone in his council chamber signing his resignation. H e had just eiven it to his secretary, when he observed s ome men muffled in cloaks approach him. Before he could cry for help they had approached, and stabbed him to death. Rumour asserts that Rosas was one of the ass os _ sins, and the leArr of the Macsorcas another. Intelli gence of his fither's murder was brought to Colonel Mass in prison. He was exhorted at the same time to rev ea l 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, cartied to the coral, being unable to walk, and there shot. THE CHINAMAN'S TAIL: TOUCH MY TAIL, POUCH MY HONOUR.—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 are dressed and 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 appendage 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 produces 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 AMUSEMENTS.— 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 in 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 hand at dominoes, or piquette, with cards made for dolls, one would imagine, from their diminutive size. 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 faster 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 paroxysms of eloquence 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 climbings 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 Superbus when, climbins and climbing, he rose to the great gold 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 acquaintance. 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 01 man; en dowed by such communion with a knowledge whose dou ble fruit is divinest hope and meekest humility.—.Ter rold's Magazine. _ _ _ FACN,TI:2E OF THE BENCH AND THE BAR.—One day that Dunning (whose exterior graces were by no means commensurite 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 had one day in his company been wrangling for a long time upon the construction of a particidar 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, summarily 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 attainments were only equalled by the ur banity and gentleness of his nature, had by his guileness simplicity of disposition endeared him to all his profes sional brethren, amongst whom, until his elevation to the neen - nesignated by a friendly and familiar nickname. At a banquet given in celebration of his at taining the judicial dignity. upon returning thanks to the company for drinking his 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 : " If 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 order to get married, and received permission to do so in these terms :—" You may take a wife—you will hang yourself, I have no doubt you will—but if you do so, do not hang yourself in my chambers."—When 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 out 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 zaandwich," he observed : " Right, 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," interrupted 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 Wednesday, a young man was killed at Holbech. Yorkshire, by the splitting of the grindstone, at which he was workine, into a thousand pieces. Two little girls, of Dewsbury, were drowned in the river Colder last creek. They were reaching down the bank of the river for a flower, ano fell in. Mr. Alderman Challis and R. W. Kenyard, Esq. ' were elected sheriffs of London for the ensuing year, on Wed nesday last. . - The great rowing match between Newell and Clasper, far £2OO, at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, came off on Monday. Newell won easily, being 200 yards a-head of his opponent. On Sunday morning last. three of the crew of the brig Bernard Castle, for St. Petersburgb, 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 £200,000. On the 15th ins'ant, George end William Jones, sons of Mr. Henry Jones. of the Gaol, Dole , Hey, were drowned whilst ba , hing. They were 14 and 16 years of age. In the year ended the sth of January last, the number of bricks made in England and Wa!es was 1,820,115,017. and the duty paid £558.323 .2 , ;. 4d.. and in Scotland 57,321.716, and the duty £17,775 2a. 7d. A few years ago plate glass was sold at 123. per foot At that price 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 Rothes Bleacbfield, Fifeshire, was struck by lightning last we , k, and before help could be procured, it was burnt to the ground. Only a few bun dles of yarn were saved. A daily paper says that the Duke of Buccleuch has just had erected, on a farm of which his Grace is landlord, a set of cotta g es after a new style, each containing four apartments, having two stories, and designed for one family. On . Sunday week fon: young men (three brothers named Travis and another Westall) were drowned in the river Toes, near Hartlepool, by the upsetting of a yacht, which struck on a sandbank. The Travis's belonged to a re spectable timily in Durham. Mr. Anetey, the Roman Catholic barrister, of London, has given it as his opinion that the imprisonment of Mr. W. S. O'Brien was illegal, ;Ltd that he has cause of action against the Speaker and Serjeant of the House of Com mnns. ACITONISTIING EXPEDITION.—Last week, the Morn ing Herald .f Wednesday, containing a report of the de bates up to that morning, was the same evening delivered in Rotterdam in time for re-publication in the journals of that city In Birmingham, nearly £7OOO has been subscribed for establishing two sets of baths. Arrangements are in progress for laying the first stone with great eclat; and it is hoped that Prince Albert will perform tbat ceremony on his way south from Liverpool. _ A bill is before Parliament for the regulation of steam vessel.. which contains some.useful clauses. All steam ships built after the first of next January must be built in com,) L ts, be sufficiently provided with boats, and ca-ry liiht-, s as to obviate danger as far as possible. 0 Sunday. Dr. Ullathorne was consecrated at the 11,) nsn Csth .1 c Church, Coventry, by Dr. Briggs, as si.t-d by Bi4cp Wareing, of the Eastern district, and B shop Griffi 1 , , of the London district. Dr. Wiseman, pres:dent of Ossett College, preached on the occasion. The lake-district of Cumberland and Wes'morland is teemi ig with tours s, ail the inns and lodging-houses at Ambleside and Keswick being full to overflowing The floating island 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 Duke steamer, which came into colli sion with a brig some time since in the Channel, when the brig sunk. EARLY MARRIAGES.—During the examination of a bankrupt of the Jewish persuasion, in the Exeter Bank rupscy-court, the bankrupt's father said Jewish persons were married very early. He himself married at four teen. CAUTION TO Won.xmEs.—At the Westminster Police court, on Tuesday, Charles Smith, 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 Frame fair, on Tuesday week, a fight took place between two men named Williams and %Viggans, 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 com pletely demolished, while there were thirty-six gi , ls at work occupied in card making. hll 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 name 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 lodzinz.house in St. Giles's meets with great acceptance. The Duke of Suther land, the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, the Earl of Harrowby, 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 Elizabeth 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. James's Club-house, better known as Crockford'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 rest 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 against: injury to his character by the statements in the newspapers, and offering to give bills for the sums ha owes at Windsor and elsewhere: he also enclosed a letter purporting to have been written by Messrs. 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 A merica 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 been inl'ormed that the grass has been partially burnt in several fields adjoining the Midland line, owing to sparks falling upon it.—Nottingham Journal. DEATHS THROUGH EXCESSIVE. HEAT.—CAUTION TO MONVERS.—At six o'clock on Thursday evening, James Grime, who was mowing, and had 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 Intelligencer. 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 consequence of the thick coal having been got from under them some time since. The houses were inhabited, but, fortunately, no lives were lost. About half-past 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 breat_crash.Alvs_tops_nf the hetutea being fi ve or six yards elow 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. —Birmingham Gazette. _ JOSEPH ADY.—At the Central Criminal Court, on Monday, Joseph Ady was charg-d with having obtained a soverei4n from Mr. Hornsby, with intent to defraud him thereof. Mr. Ballantyne, 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, furked 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, arid 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 syrnptons 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 Penrith, miracu lously escaped destruction. The men had piled up their shovels on the one aide 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 shovela 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 Lirg , tnhbs 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 th ground only about 70 hours. The wheat crops are in the ear, and those with the barley and eats are thick on the ground, and are looking well and thriving. Turnip and po ato crops are doing well, and the hay harvest has commenced and the crops are very heavy. THE JURY LOTTERY.—A man is walking at ni!ht in a crowded thoroughfare with a pistol in his pocket ; 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 I;fe r w yards of the scene of the preceding quarrel, the same man, with the same pistol, shows one of the past•ergers 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 shooting gallery, and he accounts for having it in his hand by a desire to uncock it, to prevent mischief. Th e jury believe his story, and acquit him. Now, we do not pretend that the circumstances of this case disclose any malice; had there bees a suspicion of this, the charge, of course, should have been one of murder. But we do pretend that there was the most convincing proorof gross negligence, and of the most unpardonable ind;fference to the safety of others. The e prisoner's own st , ry convicts him. lie confesses to the fact of playing cv fire-arm in a street thronged with people. There is no need to go further than this, a n d th e case may be rested on the confession. The question then is, whether or not the shooting a man under such circumstances is a trivial matter. The law was perfectly we ll exp l a i ne d b y B aron i Rolfe n his succmine. up:—" If a person having a deadly weapon in his possession makes u•e of it in a negligent and careless manner, and death ensues in ccnsequence, the offence is mansl a u g ht er. " I s i t possible that any unpre judiced person can deny that this definition embraces the circumstances of Blewiu's case ? Is it, or is it not, negli gent and careless to be uncoAing a loaded pistol in such a place as Drury-lane, at night, in the midst of a crowd ? We do not speak of the vagary cf presenting it to the wo man who pushed against him in the first instance. That makes the case plainer; but as the prisoner did not shoot her, the jury pe r h a p s thou g ht she had nothing to do with the matter. To us. however, it appears quite . enough that be was playing with a loaded weapon at all in such a place, at such a time; for this he ought to . have been punish e d, and the jury ought to have found him guilty. With the degree of punishment they had nothing to do ; no d o ubt the judge would have duly proportioned it to the offence. In acquitting him they haseset a very a dangerou s p re . cedent, and one for which society will not be much inclined to thank them.—Times. June 30, 184 g. WATERSPOUT.—A striking and unusual phenomenon was observed at Falkirk on Wednesday last. The 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. in., a dark thunder cloud was borne slowly Wong from the west, and when its centre was seemingly immediately over the Black Loch, awater spout rather suddenly appeared when its extrem; 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 he 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 ft.cv drops of raia 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 immt diate 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 SHIPWRECK.—By the Great) Britain steamer, advices have been received, detailing the total loss of the brig Canadian, bound to Falmouth, from Cuba, and the miraculous escape of the crew after enduring the most painful sufferings. The Canadian, a vessel between 200 and 250 tons burthen. left Cienfuegos (one of the Cuba islands) in the early part of the month of March; and on April 28, while the vessel was running along out side of the reef, known as the Jardinallos, near a place called the Keys, she struck, and remained on the rock. In a few hours she obtained assistance from 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 course e and f r t e h s of the et following eei crew g day eeeremainedee su c ceeded ed by he in landing r and , e e i m n the eo e f the ship's stores on the Keys. On the thrd 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 gale increasing, and the sea run ning very high, she was quickly thrown on ber beaus ends, every wave making a complete 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 partially 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 being certainly their fate should they remain on the reef, they determined 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 STORM.—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 Nlansel, Here fordshire, by the lightning. On Sunday, the tempest was stiil more severe, and appears to have spent 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 a tree, and was struck by the lightning, which killed him. A valuable mare, belonging to A. S. Featherstonhaugh, Ese., 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 ins'antaneuusly.. On Monday, o Elates e struck ndl elt. cs:Gt er returningbi car y os flgo uof the lightning struck and fractured a large cast-iron wheel in the foundry yard of Mr. Henry Gore's machine works, 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 up, 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 nweaasrlay gtohoed entirede l o of damaged, the i 0 wbeing room partially om c eceiling g t unroofed, or n off. and A house was struck in Brinnington. At Norbury, two per sons, named Betty Shore, aged fifty-five years, and Win. wa were smashed. A boy in the service of spot by lightning. A house in Love-lane, Heaton Norris, d Shore, her son, aged wd: w lightning , was following m.o e al t jni e ootl e hwh n enianb y fiTgo e eo a ual drdt farmer, euemerrneeeadrnr,khedNei cribber e uiw aerdih o go n hbute t se h oienn o : Mr. Thomas Younge, Cowdenknowes Mains, near Gills for the purpose of cutting thistles with a sickle, was killed a gCb:r p wa o tm; :a ew° t a o eh 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 down, but shortly recovered. At Melbourne, Derbyshire, Mr. Hugh Dol man, a baker, and Mr. William Bailey, a hairdresser, 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 9f Lord Sandon, Sir H. Douglas, W. E! , twisle, Sir Philip Egerton, P. Ainsworth, J. I. Blackhurne, E. Caldwell , Sir S. Glynne, Sir R. H. Inglis, G C. Legh, J. W. Pat" ten, and J. Tollemache. The following are amonothose who voted against the bill :—Lord George Brntinck, Bowrine, J. Brotherton, R. Cobden, B. Disraeli. W. Ewart, Sir P. H. Fleetwood, T. M. Gibon, Lord ft,' o Grosvenor, George Hud son , J. J erv i s , L or d M or pe, D. O'Connell, Col. Sibthorp, Sir G. Strickland, and Tho'' Thornely. Lord F. Egerton, Capt. Gladstone, a nd COI. Bruen were amongst the pairs in favour of the bill. ANALYSIS OF THE DIVISION AYES. Protectionists Conservatives Whigs . Pairs.—Protectionists. Conservatives -- 219 13 11 -- - 24 Whigs Protectionists Conservative. --- 292 Pairs.—Protectionists Whigs ABSENT Protectionists Conservative Whigs, Vacant Tellers Speaker T s HwEouFndeOPdEfolrN ourPU PURGATORY! (From wa ( From the C or k C ons tit u ti on. ) " He he w as bruised for our iniquities ' • the chasti semen t o f o ur Peecega, was upon him, and with his stripe s we are healeer"„', l " says the prophet. "The blood o f J esus Ch s i st his ," Washe d cleanseth us from all sin" says the Ap os tl e . " Wa s 'i us from our sins in his own blood," says the same Apos tre, , " The very God of peace sanctity you wholly," prays ~tr other Apostle. "Sanctify them through thy truf P 'd prays the Lord of Apostles; but Lord and Apostle e e d, Prophet speak in vain to Rome. Th t e poor Pope heal" them not. " Another Gospel" was the Gospel which P. j held, and now that he is gone his Church is all uncerta about his state. Whether in Purgatory or out of Po r6 i, tory she is unable to decide : but if in, she is conniagich his aid with alt " the pomp and circumstance" with 1 / 11 . 0 8 she is wont to astou n d an d i mpress i h e eyes o f ignorali and credulity. In th e L on d on M orn i ng Post of Tiles we read the following : "Tug LA TE P OPE .—A c i rcu l ar i ssue d b y tuen ig• -- Rev. Dr. Griffiths, Roman Catholic Bishop of thelt i l don District, to the clergy at the var ous churches chapels throughout the metropolis and its enviroagr read from the pulpits on Sunday morning last. Aft_e2i te i luding, in terms of eulogy and gratulation to his dr i ;eo virtues, and yet to his exceeding meekness and loke t oi of spirits in the conduct of the vast and i m portant 0 4. 1 h , e s which had been entrusted to his charge during the di " years he had filled the Papal chair, it exhorted the s ' tors, with reference to the purity of soul i n di s pensri o te an immediate union with the Almi g hty, a n d to the f the possibility (according to the doctri n e a n d belief D' a isS Roman Catholic Church) of his suffering the minor bit of purgatory, to offer up their most ardent prayers, ye,. behalf and for his sp ee dy re l ease from the place f , elec t nishment, and hi s un i on w ith God. It was fur her &r e a le.. by the bishop that a solemn requiem and dirge be OP breed on Friday next at the principal metropolita n pel in Moorfields, and the whole of the Roman u,., ll "" r bort clergy in the metropolis and throughout the sum counties have been ordered to attend in their full ve olo st r bes and other costume. It is expected to be s , r eaC extraordinary and gorgeous sight : but, from the number of clergy who will attend, and the preferqu, a3ll yen to subscribers to the chapel, or. in other wort d /f ia• holders and renters of pews and the higher classes () be o f dividuals in the distribution tickets, it will probably a very exclusive nature." ut . We do riot wonder that the Bible is in no great f avo a t a church which imposes on her people a faith s° _m a id be variance with the teaching of our Saviour. One L GT,', ll t hat long perusing its pages before he met with anYt" - "", , ive resembled this. Often as disciples and arostle;, atorf r t 0 never read of their praying for deliverance from ture t ° and when they speak of departure, it is of depar at u _ d 0 place of rest and of enjoyment, not of punishme nt pain.