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W.tteraturr. POETRY. SPRING BY G. I,INN_EUS BANKS, Author of " Blossoms of Poesy " " Occasional Rambles," " Spring Gatherings," 6.c. Written for the Liverpool Standard The Spring. the Spring is come again— The young, the fair, the sunny Spring; The flowers are hasteniug to the plain. The bird returns on joyous wing. Creation spreads her Kende arms, Where'er appears th' enlivening ray. And wins f. om beauty's peerless charms A semblance of eternal day. Up. up, and watch th' awak'ning sun Emerging from rn di,tant sky; Already is his race begun, And paths of glory ('pen lie. , . Ile comes to cheer the mourning carth. To wake the soil and clothe the trees. And give the voice of music bi,th, In sounds responsive to the breeze. Now childhood. with its laughing eyes. Seeks out once more the healthful fields. And, like an unc - Aged captive. flies To taste the swe..ts which freedom yie On every Lill, in every grace, Some note of gladness meets the ear, Which breathes of universal love, And tells the j .ytul Spring is here. Kind Heaven ! whose ever-gracious hand Dcth all the works of nature span, Again thou visites' the land Wi'h Wessings (or the heart of man. We own the boundless mercies giv'n. And lift our thoughts on prayerful wing To Him, who reins sulyemt , in beav'n, The author of the gentle Spring. FROM A LITTLE BOY TO HIS MAMMA, ON HIS BIRTH-DAY. Written for the Liverpool Standard) mamma, I'm twelve months old, And shall I pass it by In silence and indifference cold, And not my genius try ? No, though 'tis plain I cannot write, To teli you what I'll be. My dear papa will this indite— Accept it as from me. Mamma. I owe my life to thee. And with it all my joys; To you. main A prince of You often prai my smiling eye, , . . , You often wish your friends were nigh, To hear what they would say; You often look cn me with feat, When I begin to walk ; You often call me *. little dear," When I begin to talk; Ton look to heav'n—yo❑ clasp your son— You breathe a mother's pray'r, That your own darling little one May one day dwell up there. Although, as yet, my walking days Are partly in perspective. And, dear mamma, my talkie You know are still delectiv Although I dcn't uite understand rig days .av'n for me If you and my own dear papa Vl, , ill tel me all these th.r4s, How children, when they die, live far Beyond this world on s into— Not wings by mortals understood, But such as angels wear 1101. e but good In Paradi And happy children arc If you wil tea, .11 ii.e how to live, That when I go alic My Father will a welc Through J esu's dying love If all these things, mamma, you'll try To make me comprehend, And dear papa will to 1 me why To heav'n such prayers you send, My heart, my to My every ,:ue, my eye, my ear, slia It show That in the path of holy fear Your little boy will go. I'll pray that each succeeding year. AS time May find me more and still more dear, Your darling, FREDERICK JOHN, SELECTIONS. SCENE IN AN INDIAN WIGWAM. (From " The Enchaiited .Rock a C'omanche Legend,' by Percy B SI. John It was a girl—a young girl—scarcely past childhood herself, too youthful, it would have appeared for her holy office • but with the burthen c oo es ever t h e power to b ear it; and to a mother, receiving in her arms the great gift of God, the guardianship and ministration of an immortal being, comes ever, to young or old, those gushing feelings of devotion, tenderness, and love, which hang in fragrant perfume round tlic name of mother. - The Indian girl—or rather the mixed-blood—for lowa was English on the father's side—sat upon a heap of skins, engaged in the act of suckling her beloved infant. It was a- boy of some six months old, strong, healthful, and sturdy. But half -asleep, its tiny hand rested on its mo ther's bosom, as if clinging to her for support, one of its eyes stealthily, as it were, cast up towards the only coon tenance it could yet recognise. A Emile of mingled fond ness, tenderness, and pity rested on the mother's sweet face; a smile never illumining the human visage save on this very occasion ; a smile peculiar in its gentle adoration of the being to whom the donor has given life. 'Tis like no other, —trembling anxiety, devoted fondness, tender ness, a liquid moisture in the eyes,—all combine to ren der it one of those nameless things, felt but not actual, understood but incapable of being explained. The infant at length woke up, laughing in its mother's face, who, with a delight almost childish, raised it up, held it out at arm's length, talked to it as if it fully com prehended all she said, and, delighted at the young crea ture's innocent and angelic expressions of enjoyment, laughed in concert, and was as truly happy in the child's entire abandonment and joyousness as the little being it self. Now sbe pressed it to her bosom, the infant clutch ing in very wantonness at her hair, her face, and neck, and laughing outright ; then she raised it up, wondering and sedate at its elevated position, and then, jumping up, -danced merrily round the tent, her world in her arms, pure, innocent, lovely, and happy. The ways of God are inscrutable ; and he who judges of his deeds in haste will assuredly repent in gnawing anguish of heart ; but who that sees such gleesome happiness, such pure and soothing joy, can fail to shudder when he thinks that a breath, a taint in the air, the most trifling derange ment of the golden mechanism of life, may change the pic ture to woe unutterable, to wailing and gnashing of teeth ? Not in the deepest gloom of Hades is grief more sad than this. Then let us not spurn the thought of that future where we may hope to meet the lost upon earth, in un dying realms, the abode of the Eternal. lowa dreamed not of the future, she was happy; and as she pressed her infant to her bosom, and thought of its absent and gallant father, her heart swelled with joy, with pride, with love. Pres-ntly a distant hum of voices reached her ear. and then the hurrying past of women and children, the bark ing of the trusty watch-dogs, the stately passing to and fro of the warriors, informed her that the war-party had returned, or at all events a portion of it. The happy girl's cheek blanched. In her joyous delight she had forgot the dangers which the babe's father was incurring. In the merrisome glee called forth by motherly pride and love, she had failed to recollect that her husband was out upon the bloody path, where some are sure to fall, and none can say who. Still the girl stirred not, moved not, but, momentarily forgetful of the child's innocent prattle, listened with charmed ears and pale cheek for the next sound which she should detect. The Lepan who owned her for a wife, be ing jealous of her beauty and attractions, had strictly for bidden her leaving her tent, except when absolutely neces sary, and the youthful squaw knew no feeling more po werful than obedience to him who ruled her heart. Still she fondled the infant, but now without a smile. But ten minutes ago and its rosy and ruddy cheeks reflected the glow of her smiles, and now care and anxiety rested on her fair and lovely brow. 'A quarter of an hour passed —a quarter of an hour of intense anxiety, and then footsteps approached, and her husband entered the tent, but not alone. A beautiful but stern Indian girl accompanied him, and the Lepan scarcely glanced at his wife or child in his anxiety to point out the accommodation which Keetsea was to expect within his wigwam. Eeetses haughtily accepted a seat, glancing curiously and not without interest at the picture before her. And lowa ? Not a sound escaped her lips, not a breath whispered her intense and acute feelings, though a palor of deathlike nature rested on her cheeks, and the babe lay forgotten on her knee for the first time. The lighthearted girl was no more ; a woman, full of doubt and care, filled her place. A faint cry from the child restored her con sciousness, and then, as if reproaching herself for her ne glect, she pressed the infant more closely to her bosom, for now indeed it was all the world to her. She saw her fate at a glance. Custom sanctioned polygamy, and her husband had every right to follow custom ; but the dream of her youth was over : lowa saw with bitter grief, only to be likened to that which bubbles to the heart when the cold sod falls on the inanimate form of a cherished child, that her husband's love had passed from her. ANECDOTE OF A LADY OF BORNEO.—The following little adventure was told me during my stay at Sarawak, by Dr. Trencher, who had lately joined Mr. Brooke, his former medical attendant having returned to. England. It appears that Dr. Treacher received a message by a con fidential slave, that one of the ladies of Macota's harem desired an interview, appointing a secluded spot in the jungle as the rendezvous. The doctor, being aware of his own good looks, fancied he had made a conquest ; and, having got himself up as showily as he could, was there at the appointed time. He described the poor girl as both young and pretty, but with a dignified and determined look, which at once c•mvinced him that she was moved to take so dangerous a step by some deeper feeling than that of a mere fancy for his person. She complained of the ill-treatment she had received from Macota, and the mi serable life she lad ; and avowed that her firm resolve was to destroy (not herself, gentle creature! but) him; for which purpose she wanted a s ma ll port i on of arsenic. It was a disappointment that he could not comply wish her request; so they parted, he full of pity and love for her, and she, in all probability, full of contempt for a man who felt 'for her wrongs, but would not aid in the very simple means she had proposed for redressing tbern.—Captain Kepp.l's Bornco. THE SABBATH IN ALGIERS.—Friday is their sabbath, but yet on that day there is but little difference in their devotion from that of other days, excepting that the hat teb, or priest, who is above the imonm, officiates on the sabbath, at one of the clock, for about the space of an hour. After which he mounts a pair of stairs (six or se ven) with a staff in his hand, and there makes a sort of short sermon, about a quarter of an hour, or little more. At the time of worship, the gates of the city (Algiers) are shut, and many shut their shop-windows during service. and even after candle-light ; and some that are more zea lous will not open their windows all the afternoon. In the morning the women flock out in thousands, to visit the sepulchres of their deceased relatives. weeping over their graves, and petitioning to them ; and when t bey have done they'll carefully weed and cleanse them from atroyl and dirt. When the men go to mosque, they slip off their shoes at the door, and slap one sole against the other, and so go in barefoot, and lay their shoes before them, kneel ing down and bringing their back parts on their heels, as for a resting-place. It is a shame, indeed, to Christians, to take a view of the zeal of those poor blind 'Mahomme tans ; for if they are so strict in their false worship, it must needs he a reprimand to us who are so remiss in the true. And I pray God, Christians may take the hint, and learn thereby to bless the goodness of God, who bath con tinued his gospel to them, while such a vast part of the globe is devoted to a vile and debauched imposter."— captivity and Adventures of Joseph Pills. SOUTH LANCASHIRE ONCE A LAKE.—OR a clear day, a person standing on the highest part of Barton Moss, can perceive that the valley watered by the rivers Irwell and Mersey is completely encircled by an amphitheatre of hills, except at the point where the united waters of those two rivers discharge themselves into the estuary of the Mersey at Runcorn Gap. The opening through which they flaw into that arm of the sea is not more than two or three miles in width, and if it was closed up, the greater part of South Lancashire and of the northern part of Cheshire would be turn , d into a vast lake, bounded by the Yorkshire and Derhyshiro hills on the east, by the high lands, which extend from this great chain across De !mere Forest, and as far as Halton Castle on the south, by a corresponding range of which Rivington Pike and Haigh and Billinge Hills are the most conspicuous objects on the north, and by the range of high land crossed by the two inclined planes on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, on the west. This latter range is continued by way of Pex Hill, and the other high grounds to within a couple of miles of Runcorn Gap, and the Cheshire hills. At some very remote period, the waters flowing from the high grounds which surrounded this valley, and which are now carried off by the channels of the Irwell and the Mersey, and the Sankey Brook, were probably thus col lected in a lake in this great natural basin. It was at this time, probably, that the vast deposits of marl, rich in lime and beds of sand and gravel, the latter containing stones altogether d . fferent from the rea sand stone rock of South Lancashire, were deposited oe the great Lancashire plain. Here they are still found in every direction, altering the natural features of the country, and entirely changing the constitution of the soil. It is only at few spots that the red sand stone rises to the surface of the ground, whilst the coal stra•a in which the northern part of the district is so rich, are nearly all buried at great depths below thick beds cf clay.—Times. A NEW YORK AUCTION.—I strolled into one of the auction •rooms of New York ; I had been in them before, but not to stop long—l stopped half an hour to-day. These sales are for goods by wholesal and certainly if any Eng lish merchant could have seen the rapidity with which his goods were knocked down, at the most arbitrary prices, esire to send 'urther consignments woollen cloths were selling when I went in, and during my stay. lam no great judge of them, but I should be in clined to say. from what I could judge, that all were sold at a loss and some at a great loss. A nice super fine broad cloth, t: e colour "invisible green", as it is called, was knocked off in about a minute or a minute and a half, at 22 dollars per yard, and would net about 6s. 9d, to the ex porter, as this price, of course, must pay all duties and charges. Other things (woollen) went in proportion, varyinz from l to 23 dollars per yard. They are seldom more than a minute in knocking a lot ; and I tics- sales are always understood to be bond fide, i.e. there is no buying in again. There were ten or a dozen who seemed to have come rs buyers, and as many more lookers on. It is im possible to describe in writing the quick volubility of the auctioneer; tut the language is something like this :—'A fine piece of superfine broad cloth, gentlemen, invisible green ; who will make a bid for this cloth ? A beautiful cloth, gentlemen. I want a bid—a bid—a bid—a bid—a bid—a bid—a bid. What shall I say, gentlemen, what shall I say ? One dollar and a half is bid, gentlemen— one and a half—one and a half—one and a half—only one and a half, gentlemen—going, going, going at one and a half—one dollar sixty cents, one s . xty, one sixty, one six ty, one seventy, one seventy-five, one seven-eighths, one seven-eighths," &c., and so he goes on until, in double quick time, down it conies at twodollars perhaps . . - goods which are not so expensive, the lots are put up in eight or ten pieces, or quarter or half cases, &c. This auction system is much reprobated by the respectable merchants of New York. The British consigner, however, must always remember that if he wants to sell his goods immediately the auction room is the only place for that purpose, and he must take his chance accordingly, for if once offtred at auction his goods are not to be withdrawn. —Memoir of B. Braidley, Esa. RAILWAYS AND NOT FREE TRADE THE CAUSE OF FUTURE PROSPLR/Ty.—Sir Robert Peel has selected a period for making, the grand experiment, when, under the existing commercial duties and arrangements, great pros perity must have tervaded the country under all ordinlry circumstances. £11,492,000 of deposi's on English rail ways alone (independent of Scotch and Irish), were paid into the Bank of England on Friday last ; that is the first deposit of 10 per cent. on a capital sum of £114,920,000 proposed to be expended in railways in England, indepen dent if the present large expenditure, in the cours- of the next three or four years. When to this sum there is ad- ded the capital proposed to be expended during the like period in Irelind arid Scotland, not yet ascertained, a ca pital sum of probably one hundred and fifty millions ster bog is set forth to be expended, on the manufactures, and on the labours of the country, within the above period. That the projectors of these railways are serious in their intentions to proceed with them is proved by the payment of the deposit of ten per cent. Notwithstanding, there can be little doubt that a certain considerable portion of 'hem will fail for the current year. Still, however, there is presented an expenditure of the capital of the country in the construction of those railways, which cannot fail to maintain in our manufactures generally, and in the market for labour, an activity and power which will give to the country, especially as measured by the financeQ, an ap pearance of the highest prosperity. Supposing Sir Itot:t. Peel's measure to pass (which there is little doubt it will do), this prosperity will no doubt be attribut e d t o th e free admission of corn ; while it will rest on the temporary ex penditure of the capital instead of the income of the coun try ; which extraordinary expenditure will, as during the war, deiriand an extent of labour, and draw on our mines and manufactures to an extent which inevitably pr duces, ceteris paribus, the highest apparent national prosperity. The reaction will come, as it did after the war. This ex penditure, altogether on home objects, is unquestionably far more solid and advantageous for the country than that of the war. But a reaction will eventually follow, and the prostration will be great in proportion to the height of the previous fever and excitement. But this will be in other days. Sir 'Robert Peel has to do with the present. And the railway peculiarity of the age affords him a strength of position which he has no doubt well measured, and of which he is largely availing himself in the gigantic change which he is accomplishing in the position of this great em pire. —Record. CHINESE STROLLING DOCTORS. While passing through the Market-place of Macao, I heard one of the quack rhetoricana addressing a circle of bystanders upon the proprieties of a mode of treatment he was just going to adopt in the case of an old min, who was squatted close by his side. It appeared as if, a few seconds before my arrival, a bargain had been con cluded between them nearly in these terms of recipro city 1 will impart to you,' quoth the doctor, ' the full benefit of my professional skill, and you shall give me all the money you have got about you ;' for immediately upon the close of the harangue the old man proceeded, with cheerful haste, to empty his money-bag into the lap of the young iEscula t ius, who, affecting to be disappointed, ac cused his patient of concealing some of his tseen, or cash. amidst the folds of his garment; hut as the common man in summer is very thinly clad, a shake or two of his doub let satisfied the lookers on that. all the personal effects had been fairly delivered up. The old man then retired, but soon after came back with a basin of water, and placed it at the feet of the doctor, who then took out a paper, and made him swallow a small quantity of whitish powder, without the aid of honey, treacle, or any other agreeable menstruum. The effect of this powder was supp , aid to be that of rendering the patent incapable of feeling any pain which might attend the operation to be performed. He then drew some needles from a paper with an air of grave preparation, and after rubbing some of the aforesaid powder upon his own thigh, stuck one of the needles into it as if it had been a sort of pincushion. The next step in the process was a selection of a few seeds from a paper parcel, putting them into his mouth, and giving the rem nant to the patient, as a pledge of his generosity. While the seeds were undergoing the process of mastication by themselves, he took a pair of wooden cylinders, and after holding a lighted roll of paper within them, clapped them upon the breast of the old man. After they had remained a few minutes upon the spot, they were removed, and left behind them two raised ara4m, or bumps, which the doc tor, after• sipping a little water, rubbed by the seeds, by this time well reduced by maceration and grinding. He next pricked the bumps with the needle which had been all the while sticking in his own flesh. To extract the blood, he applied his mouth, and drew with such violence that the old man began to heave a sigh, and the crowd to respond by a look of anxiety. All the while he pressed his hands upon the neighbourhood of the spot, as if he wished to make the blood flow in that direction. After the cere mony of washing the mouth, he applied a pitch plaster be tween the dream, and proceeded to treat the back after the same sort. Here was a sample of much ado about nothing ;' when to have made one or two incisions with his knife, and then applied one of these cylinders, or cup- ping vesels over them, with a roll of lighted paper within it, would have caused a gush of blood, and rendered the poor old fellow a real service. The art of cupping is very ancient, and was perhaps long ago known to the Chinese, though I have not yet found any mention of it in their hooks. I was told by a Chinaman that, when young, he was visited by a native practitioner, who assured his fa ther, that unless something of a serious kind were done, the disease then afficting him would endanger his life. The father intimated that the physician might use his discre tion ; upon which he cupped the sick son very freely, an d a speedy restoration to health was the result. But, in this instance, the quack either mistook the proper method, or invented one of his own, which, while it would appear more ostentatious, should effect the least possible amount Of good.— Chinese as They are. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. IMPORTS INTO THE UNITED KINGDOM. A document has just issued from the statistical depart. ment of the Board of Trade, giving an account, amongst other things, of the principal articles or foreign and colo nial merchandise imported into the kingdom during the year ending January 5, 1846, as compared with the two preceding years ; together with the quantities entered for home consumption. We quote the leading items, omit ting the returns for the intermediate year : Entered for home Imported. Consumption. 1841. 1846. 1141. 1846. Cocoa ....lbs. 3,795,531 4,917,907 2,5;1,'91 2 589.984 Coffee. 38,942,469 5..,363.369 3.,434.422 34,318,595 Eggs Gloves .. pairs 1,882,228 2.196,1.•5 1,fr39,847 2,153,091 Silk, raw.. lbs. 3,476 313 4,351,626 3,649.747 Free. Silks, Ind... pos. 44'1,314 752,070 98,T90 177.962 Rum.. gal. 3,729,7L4 4 807.513 2,103,910 2.469,549 sugar .... cwts. 5,02',519 5.811.281 4,e57,921 4,8844.606 Tea lbs. 46,612,737 51.037,930 40,304,407 44,163,135 Wine gal. 6,807,453 8 451,523 6,287,003 6,986 845 Wool, Cott' cwts 6,4110,653 6,412,176 5,231.452 Free. Wool, shps lbs. 49,243,093 76.828,152 48,646, 1 63 Free. And the imports for the years 1844 and 1845 were as follows : Oxen and Bulls Cows .... Sheep Swine Butter Chee,e Currants Firs 18n,g65 cwt.. 212,206 cwt.. 285.116 cwt.. 53.314 cwt... 317,173 chests . 1.9,720 lbs... 3,090,328 lbs... , 210,11" 258.246 309,799 36,065 Lemons and Oranges Nutmegs Pepper . Tallow . 3 7 3 , 3 7 G 121397 3,210,415 1,93,826 40.991 342.gis 797,490 Colonial Deals. Battens, &c Of Foreign Colonial Timber 1,085,312 cwt... 30,194 loads. 321.439 loads, 551,994 loads, Of leo' eign Untanned Hides Mahogany Tin 2x2..0 loads 537.886 cwt.. 25,622 cwt.. 12,085 cwt.. 4:4,648 cwt.. k 92,081 719.482 38.60) 25.383 319.99! Palm Oil Saltpetre and Nitre Silk Handkerchiefs Undressed Skins, Goat Ditto Lamb 349,87 u cwt.. 662,801 pieces ♦65,924 752070 353,5 i 6 1,937,3 n 256,715 pieces ,a59,i34 pieces The principal exports were as follows : Cotton Manufactures Ditto Yarn at' 6, 54,000. 7.19: 1 .971. 1,745.519 2,81)3,2 894,829. 1546. e 10.172,564 6,962,6 6 2,194,523 3,v62,11 6 1,051,303 Hardwares and Cutler: Linen Manufactures.. Yarn METALS, •'l2 : Iron and Steel.... Copper and Brass 2.590.833. 7,44,238 213,746 C67.9t.2 413.652. 3,535,481 1,7u2,345 218.gti 764,424 40,507 Silk Manufactures Sugar. Refined Wool. Sheep or Lambs Woollen Yarn ..... 42i1,940, ;42,888, 555,432 1,067.4)56 Wooden Manufactures, 6,79 ,232 7,674,67 f. The figures represent the declared value of the snicks : and the total value of all the articles included i❑ the re turn was, in 1814, £44,812,020; and in 1846, £51,471,050: increase, £6 659,030. _ Then, with regard to tonnage, we are presented with the following results:— vonmcm, Inwards Outwards, 1844. 3,925,422. 3.753.369 1845. 5,023,588 4,3,9,197 COASTWISE 1844. 18,822,176, 1846. 12,485,851 GENERAL MISCELLANI. Spain intends to prohibit English cottons. Last night, a vote of thanks was to be moved in both the houses of Lords and Commons, to the officers and men engaged in the late conflicts in India. Mr. Thomas Baxter, of Birmingham, maltster, corn. milted suicide on Wednesday by drowning himself in the water butt. SPLENDID DONATION.—The treasurer of the London Strangers' Society has just received £lOOO from some anon mous Samaritan. The lite flood has damaged the Bristol Dock Company's works and the banks of the river to the extent of £BOOO or £lO,OOO. On Monday, the house of Mr. Graves, butcher, Con duit-street, Chelmsford, fell in and killed Mr Graves and his infant son ; his wife and seven children escaped. Several of the rioters on the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway have been tried at Carlisle assizes, and sentenced to various terms of imprisonment. The Anti Corn-law League organs announce that the subscriptions towards the Quarter of a Million Fund amount to £lBO,OOO. _ _ _ On Wednesday, fifty-three square yards of land, in Market -street, Manchester, were sold by suction at £5O 6s. VA. per square yard, a price wholly unprecedented in that or almost any rrher town. At Andover, on Monday, Elizabeth Tarrant, the wife of a respectable farmer, was committed for trial on a charge of stealing a wedding-ring from the shop of a jew eller in that town. John Potter, the convict missionary, who recently ac cused himself of having escaped from Van Diernan's Land before the term of banishment had expired, has re ceived a free pardon. On Friday, at the Newcastle Assizes, Ralph Juicey was sentenced to death for the murder of his father by poison, at Cockle Park, near Morpeth. A true bill has been re turned against , he old man's daughter as an accessory. At the petty sessions held at Bilston last week, six men were fined 2s. Gd. each for " caging," that is, apprehend ine two police-officers and a watchman, and keeping them in prison for au hour ! A letter from a Winchester correspondent states that the farmers have experienced serious loss among the lambs, which is extiaordinary for this mild weather, which was considered so favourable for the lambing season. On Saturday, Wicks wos sentenced to death without ano hope of mercy, for the murder of his master, James Bostock, in Drury-lane, London, on Monday fortnight. The prisoner, before being removed, publicly thanked his counsel. The Directors of the East India Company have pre sented Mr. Waghorn with the sum of £3OO, in consider ation of the expenses which he has incurred in the estab lishment of steam communication between Great Britain and India. A man named John Stone, was found guilty, at the Central Criminal Court Sessions, on Thursday last, on a charge of setting a dwelling-house on fire, with intent to defraud the Uniun Insurance Company, and he was sen tenced to be transported for twenty years. A tire broke out on Sunday week in the premises of M essrs. Grant and Baldwin, sugar-bakers, St. George's in the East. The property consumed is estimated at £20,000. The proprietors are said to be insured for £l6 000. The next meeting of the Evangelical Alliance is an nounced to be held in Birmingham in April next. The great meeting, at which representatives are expected to be present from all the Evangelical Churches throughout the world, will be convened in London in August next. Father Mathew has published a letter in the public journals, which speaks in the strongest terms of the ex cellent quality and pleasant taste of the Indian corn im ported by government to supply the want of food caused by the destruction of the potato crops. INCREASE OF THE ARMY.—It appears by a circular from the Ho.-Fe Guards, that four men per troop are to be added to 17 regiments of the line; 400 rank and file to each of 8 regiments of infantry at home ; and 200 rank and file to each of 27 other regiments of infantry: SUICIDES.—On Saturday last, Mr. Joseph Vaughan, clerk to a respectable sharebroker, Manchester, commit ted suicide by taking a large quantity of laudanum. On Friday, Mr. Anthony Hamer, chief clerk to Mr. Baron Alderson, conom'tted suicide by shooting himself at his house, Camden Town. His head was blown to pieces. `• RAGGED SCHOOLS."—It is intended to extend the schools established in London for the education of ragged and dirty children found wandering in the streets. Above twenty of these places are now established, and there is an average attendance of nearly 2000 children of both sexes, end 200 teachers. CHESTER CHEESE FAIR.---AI this fair on Wednesday about 200 tons were piled for sale, consisting chiefly of late makes, and large sized comn,on inferior daries. The sale was tattler slack—at prices running about 50s to 60s—being a depression of 2s to 3s. per cwt. One or two fine fla voured lull sized daries brought GOs and 665. CHESTER CATTLE FAIR.—At our usual horn and hoof fair, held at this season, the show of tat stock was larger than usual, and in equal demand ; best averaged 6d. and sink ; second best a shade lower. The supply of sheep was limited, and sold at 7id. and sink. Store cattle scarce, and sold at high prices, averaging from £9 to £l2 per head. There was an excellent show of horses, which realised high prices. EXECUTIONS.—According to a Parliamentary docu ment, it appears that in London, in the years 1825-6-7, the number of pf•rsons executed was 53 ; in the next tri ennial period 52 ; in the next 12 ; in the next none ; next 3 ; next 4 ; and the last 5 ; so that in the last nine years only 12 persons have been executed in London. In 1813. as many as 120 persons were executed in England and Wales, whilst in 1833 only 33 executions took place. THE FERRERS Famit,y.—The youthful defendant in the late extraordinary "breach of promise" case, is the great grand n'phew of the Earl Ferrers, executed in 1760. for the murder of his steward, and who, on that oc casion, put in a plea of lunacy, and argued it himself! " It was a strange contradiction," says H orace Walpole, " to see a mar. trying by his own sense to prove himself out of his senses." Mr. Joseph Ads' has ensnared the Rev. Canon Rogers, of Penrose, near Heist° e, into the loss of a sovereign. In a letter to the Lord Mayor, Mr. Rogers says that he believed that Mr. Ady's services might be useful in tra cing out funded property which belonged to his fa ther. He received in return for his X 1 some useless warnings and advice about the railway liabilities of cler gymen. . CURIOUS COMBAT.—On Monday, a greyhound belong ing to Mr. J. White, Ystlysgoed, was out with a lad nau.ed John Jacob, when they encountered a large male fox ; a desperately ferocious conflict ensued between the greyhound and the fox, which continued until the latter was compelled to retreat for shelter into a bush of briars. Reynard was, however, quickly beaten from his quart , .rs by the lad ; and as he started to the field he was boldly attacked by his a<sailant, who gave him no quarter until he yielded up his life.—Hereford Poper. A LEGAL WITTICISM.—In the course of Sir Thomas Wilde's arCnment on Monday, at the bar of the House of Lords, in Wood s appeal case, the learned Counsel had occasion to refer to a case in Vie books in which a rat is stated to have mutilated a will. Lord Brougham—" The rat is a surprising animal ; but I was not before aware that it ever practised as a conveyancer. I knew it to be fond of shifting uses." "It is," interposed be Lord Chancellor, " fonder of corn ." " Doubtless," rejoined Lord Brougham ; " it is verra fond of corn." In the House of Lords, on Tuesday, Lord Brougham presented a petition trom Mrs. Wortham, whose daugh ter, a girl of fourteen, made a runaway match two years ago with a Mr. Burton Newenhaen, now confined in the Queen's Bench. A child has been born since the mar riage. The petition therefore prayed that their lordships would dissolve the marriage without disaffirming it. ESCAPE OF A Fox.—The following occurrence, which happened some time ago in the neighbourhood of Imber. Wilts, is perhaps as singular as the annals of hunting can record :—A fox, being hard run, took shelter under the covering of a well, and by the endeavours used to extri cate him thence, was precipitated to the bottom, a depth of 100 feet. The bucket was let down, he laid hold of it, and was drawn up some way, when he fell again. The bucket being let down a second time, he secured his situ ation in it, and was drawn up safe; after which he was turned off, and fairly beat the hounds. A CHANGE FOR THE BETTER.—SiDCe the late expose' of the doings in the Andover po,ir-house, a much more liberal diet has been adopted. This, with the discontinu ance of the horrid occupation of bone crushing, under the nose of the operator, has obtained such high favour with the poor, that the Union-house is now crammed to over flowing. It is stated that the instates enjoy themselves so highly that offers of 9s. per week and constant employ, to able-bodied men, have been rejected, and no invitation to quit will be effective unless the weekly remuneration beat least 12s.— Wilts Independent. DREADFUL EXPLOSION.—Loss OF ELEVEN LIVES.— A melancholy catastrophe occurred on the South Eastern Line, Dover, on Tuesday. Upwards of twenty labourers took refuge, at dinner time, from the heavy rain, in a cave on the Shakspeare Cliffe, and were smoking their p , pes, when one of them carelessly threw down a piece of lighted paper, which fell upon some gunpowder, and caused a terific explosion. Eleven persons were killed, and some of the survivors are in a dreadful state of suffer ing. The labourers had previously been warned against going into the place where the explosion occurred. PREPARATIONS FOR WAR.—In consequence of the present unsettled state of our relations with the United States. orders have been transmitted to the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich to be in readiness to furnish a powerful ar mament, consisting of various pieces of ordnance, of dif ferent calibres, gun-carriages, ammunition, &c., for the various ships of war and steam-vessels at present sta tiory d on the coasts and rivers of Canada, and the lakes that form the boundaries between that colony and the United States. More than 300 pieces of ordnance, with the necessary ammunition, will have to be got ready for this purpose. The inhabitants of a house in the neighbourhood of Noblehouse, Peehleshire, have been recently attacked with a kind of malaria, which not only seized upon all the inmates, but upon all who came eter to reside on the premises. One man has removed three several times, and. invariably on his return, he was attacked. Several end nent medical men of Edinburgh Lave been consulted on the subject, but as yet they have not succeeded in tracing the cause of the disease, except that it may be an epide mic in the house itself.—[The case seems to be analogous to the tragic one which has recently occurred at West Derby ] WESLEYAN MISSIONS.—From the accounts of the Wesleyan Missionary Society for 1815, which have just been made up, the results are highly gratifying. The incmrie has exceeded that of any former year, being £112,823. This has enabled the society to defray the expenditure of 1845 (.£104,366) ; to pay the balances on the old debt and on the expenditure of 1843 and 1844 (4,775); and also the balance of the extraordinary expen diture on the Gold Coast and Ashantee missions The society, therefore, commences its operations for 1846 free from debt, and with the cheering hope that the income of the year will meet the expenditure. _ _ CURIOUS tROSECUTION.—OR Friday, a little girl, aged eleven years, named Ann Hassack, pleaded guilty, at the Central Criminal Court, to stealing a shilling, the proper ty of her mistress, named Carter. The Recorder snpeared much surprised at steing so young a child at the bar upon so trifling a charge, and inquired into the circumstances; when he was informed that the mother was in the habit of calling occasionally on Mrs. Carter to see how her child got on, and on the previous Saturday, Mrs. Carter said, '• Oh! your girl is in Newgate on a charge of felono." It further appeared that the money had been carelessly left on the piahofotte. The Recorder sentenced the little girl to one tour's imprisonment in Newgate. . . . - . The Fine Arts Commissioners have made their fifth re port. in which they recommend that the six arched com partments in the House of Lords be decorated with freseopaintings. The artists recommended are Duce, A.R.A., Charles West Cope, A.R.A.. John Callcott Horsley, John Rogers Herbert, A.R.A., Joseph Severn, and John Tenniel, jun., who have distinguished them selves as designers or frescopainters in one or more of the various exhibitions that have taken place with reference to the decoration of the palace at Westminster. The commissioners also recommend that the premiums for oil paintings amounting to 1:3,000, be postponed until June, 1847. Attached to the report is an appendix on subjects for stained glass windows in the House of Lords. CURIOUS ANIMALS —Last week there arrived from Havre, for the Surrey Gardens, several fine specimens of animals and birds. Amongst them is what the keeper called the Ricoro deer, as large as the rein-deer of the n - rth. The hair on the body, which is nearly two feet eight inches long, is nearly black, whilst the face is white, like that of the sheep, with bright intelligent eyes. There is one large lioness, with three baboons, each five feet high. The most attractive object among them all is ano ther animal of the baboon species,the first of the class. it is said, which has ever been introduced into this country. It is called by the keerer the Manchian baboon. stands seven feet high, and is said to be possessed of herculean strength. It is very peculiarly marked with a great variety of colours. There is one large specimen of the grey eagle, a black eagle, measuring eight feet from wing to wing at the tips; besides several stuffed specimens of the same genus. - PERILOUS LEAP AND ESCAPE OF A PRISONER.—AI Coventry, on Thursday. a wan charged with committing a felony. in custody of a police-constable, entered a second class carriage on the London and Birmingham line. The constable naturally considered his prisoner pretty secure in a train going al the rate of twenty-five miles an hour, and perhaps did not pay much attention to his movements. Not very lone after the train started, the prisoner, ob serving the officer's attention otherwise occupied, formed the determination ro make his escape, and in a moment threw open the door regardless of consequences, and leaped on the bank. To the astonishment of the pas sengers. who expected to see him killed on the spot, as the train was proceeding at a rapid rate, the man got up, apparently unhurt. and made off across the fields as fast as he was aide. The train was stopped as soon as pos sible; but the man escaped, and is still at large.—Bir mingham Journal. I{lOT AT DERB r.—For years back it has been the an nual custom with the working people at Derby to play at football on Shrove Tuesday. This year, however, the mayor and magistrates came to the determination to pro hibit the game, and placards were posted about the town to that effect. Apprehending, however, that the game would be played, in defiance of the law. they sent for two troops of the 4th Dragoon Guards, and swore in several hundreds of special constables. It was as was expected : numbers of the mob d:d attempt to play ; and on the po licemen interfering, stones, &c., begin to fly about. His worship the mayor was struck on the shoulder with a brickbat, and knocked down. Such being the state of affairs, the riot act was read, after which the military were ordered to disperse the crowd. 311's was effected very speedily, and the rioters were driven out of the town. They, however, were not disappointed of their game, for they played several rounds in the fields. IMPORTANT INVENTION.-At the conversazione of the Marquis of Northampton, which was honoured by the presence of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, on Satur day last, his lordship introduced to the notice of his Royal Highness, Mr. Rettie, C.E., well known as the original inventor of the day and night railway signals, and also the new signals of distress for the saving of ships and their crews, and the admirable signals tor steering so as to prevent collision of steamers and sailing vessels, which were explained by the inventor to his Royal Highness. The inventor alto explained to his Royal Highness his new tidal harbour lamp, which has just been laid before the Rnyal Commission on Tidal Harbours. The lights now in use, as the inventor stated, are irregular and un certain of being understood, some ports using small. and others large lights, of a brigLt colour, or green or red, as their fancy and caprice suggest; while this new lamp will be uniform in colour, and so peculiar that it will be known over all the world. It will tell the captains, at all hours of the night, the actual depth of water ; and the regulat ing power being the tide itself, it cannot err or mislead. The importance of this invention received the general ap probation of the assembly. THE LATE SIR ROBERT HENRY SALE, G.C.B.—This much lamented officer was tne second son of the late Colonel Sale, for many years an active officer cif the East India Company, by the daughter of Henry Brine. Esq., of Buckden. Huntingdonshire. He was born in 1782, and married in 1869 the daughter of the late George Meyrick, Esq. Si; Robert entered the army as ensign in the 36th foot in 1795, being then but thirteen years of age. His commissions are thus dated :—Lieutenant, April 12, 1797; Captain, March 23, 1806: Major, December 30, 1813 ; Lieutenant-Colonel, June 2, 1825; Colonel, June 28, 1838; Colonel-in-chief of the 13th or Prince Albert's Regiment of Light Infantry, December 15, 1843. He served at the battle of Mo!erelly, and siege and storm of Seringaparam, in 1799: for the latter he received a silver medal. Was present throughout the campaign in the Ur gand country in 1801 ; served at the storming of the Tra vancore lines in 1809, at the capture of the Mauritius in 1816, and of Rangoon in 1824 ; particularly distinguished himself at the storming of the stockades near Kemmenline, and in conducting the operations of the sth. Bth, and 15th of December, 1824. Commanded a brigade at the reduc tion of Bassiere, &c., in 1825 ; was nomi na t e d a C.B f or hi s conduct at Prolue and Malouri in 1825.6. In October, 1838, was appointed to the command of the first Bengal brigade of the army of the Indus, which formed the ad vance in the campaign in Affghanistan ; commanded the storming party at Ghuznee, under the late Lord Keane. on the 23rd of July, when he was severely wounded. Shortly afterwards he was nominated a K.C.11., and re. ceived the rank of major-general in Affghanistan; he was also presented with the second class medal of the order of the Dooranee Empire He commanded the force sent to subdue the Kohistan country in September, 1840, and after numerous stormings and captures, compelled Dost Mahommed Khan to surrender himself to the care of Sir William M'Naughten ; for these distinguished services he receeived the first class order of the Dooranee Empire. In 1842 he defended Jellalabad under very disadvantageous circumstances. and was nominated a G.C.B for his ser vices on the occasion. He also received the thanks of Parliament for his skill, intrepidity, and perseverance dis played in the military operations in Affghanistan. He possessed three medals, namely, for Ghuznee, Cabool, and Jellalabad. He closed his career in the arms of vic tory, after neatly fifty-two years' service, and at the ad vanced age of 63. The 13th foot, which Sir Robert Corn. Manded, returned to this country a few months since. The Times says that it has the best authority for stating that Mr. (late Lieut.) Hawkey, with his seconds, will sur render to take their trials at Winchester assizes, which commenced yesterday (Monday), for the murder of Mr. Seton, in the memorably fatal duel at Gosport. On Monday morning as a gentleman was crossing Hyde Park he observed on the grass a brown paper parcel, upon opening which it was found to contain the dead bodies of two newly-born female infants. By medical testimony it has been ascertained that one of them was still-born, and the other might have expired in the birth, but no clue to the motaer has been obtained. FORGERY.—Gn Friday, at the Central Criminal Court, London, Edward Bryant Garey, aged 51, who for many years had practised as a solicitor in Chancery-lane, and was much respected in his profession, was transported for twenty years for forging a certain instrument, pur porting to be an office copy of a certificate of the Ac. countant-General of the Court of Chancery for the sum of £2,596 17s. EXTRAORDINARILY LARGE SALMON.—William Hen derson, Esq., [of Durham,] one of the Edenmouth Fish ing Club, killed, on Friday last, a splendid fish of 30 lbs. weight. He hooked him on the " cauld slap," and the fish immediately took down the rapid : a severe sturggle here took place, which ended in the fish coming up into the dub. where after running out the whole line several times, Mr. H. succeed -d in landing him. He proved to be a remarkably abort thick fish. This is the largest fish which has been caught in the Tweed for many years past. —Kelso Mail. A CROP AT LAST.—NEVER GIVE UP. —WE had brought to our office yesterday, a twig of an old apple tree, of a late sort, with tour apples on it, and it furnishes a remarkable proof of suspended fertility ; for it was taken from an old apple tree in the garden of Mr. Peter Cort, bleacher, at Turton, near Bolton, and before the twig was broken off there were 34 apples on the tree, and a fort. night ago, it displayed no fewer thin 137 apples. The singular circumstance in the case is, that although Mr. Cort has had the tree for thirty years, and has had it thrice removed, it has never before borne fruit. Mr. Cort, however, persevered, and, after thirty years' sterility, has seen the old tree bearing a very satisfactory crop of fruit. The apples are hard and ureen, tolerably sweet, but with something of the crab in them. The tree is a standard, and is thirty yards from any wall.—Man. Guar. WORCESTER EPISCOPAL FLOATING CHAPEL.—Lady Ford, of Conway House, has sent a grant of bibles, tes taments, and suitable tracts for the use of the watermen frequenting this place of worship. It is gratifying to find that some of this long neglected class are becoming read ers of the Holy Scriptures, and have purchased copies out of their hard earnings. A waterman's widow, some tie e ago, applied to a clergyman interested in this class, requesting the gift of a bible for one of her children, and offering to purchase another copy for a similar purpose. Upon inquiry it was found that the poor woman had pre viously bought six copies ; having been left a widow, with eight children, she was anxious to proviie each of them with a book she highly prized herself. She received the two copies as a gift, and the poor widow returned home full of gratitude that now she had obtained for all her children a bible, "to be the lamp of their feet, and the light of their path."— Worcester Journal. COOLNESS AND BRAVERY OF LADY SALE. The captain of the Conway sloop of war gives a characteristic instance of this lady's courage whilst on board that vessel, which was totally wrecked off the Cape of Good Elope, in October, 180, and had it not been for an almost miraculous lull of the sea, all hands (passengers and crew) would have been lost. "The harbour-master's boat, and one from the Conway sloop of war, were sent to our rescue; but such was the awful state of the sea that they were unable to render us any assistance; the master of the C, nway, while in the act of cheering the me❑ and urging them to pull to our assistance, was washed overboard and last. We, when the sea lulled, escaped in our own jolly boat, with the loss. howe,er, of seven of the crew. While the rest of the women and the children were being placed in the boat, Lady (then Mrs.) Sale was below, selecting the important papers belonging to her husband from the unimportant, and placing them on her person for security, and when urged by her husband to come on deck, replied, ' I'm coming, my dear, presently,' and during the whole of the time we were in this awful position behaved in the most cool and courageous manner." CORR ASPONDENCE THE VICAR OF LEEDS TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, SlR,—Allow me to correct a misstatement into which your correspondent X. Y. Z. has fallen, respecting Dr . Hook and the vicarage of Leeds. I was at the time of his election resident in that town, and was well acquainted with the circumstances of the case. Two of the trustees, one of whom was Mr.eßeckett, the present member for Leeds, went over to Ccventry, without giving him any intimation of their intention ; and going on Sunday to his church, heard one of his usual parochial ser mons. Soon after their return, Dr. Hook was elected, and preached his first sermon in the town, on the morn jag when he " read himself in." His sermon was pub lished in the local newspapers, and was made the subject of lengthened criticism by the liberal paper—the Leeds Mercury. Your correspondent has therefore been en tirely misinformed, if he has been told that Dr. Hook preached there before his election; and is equally incor rect as to his statement, that he canvassed amongst the Trustees, from none of whom did he ask for a single vote. When put in nomination, he told them that, if elected, he should not decline the appointment, but he should take no steps to secure it for himself —I am, sir, &c. ONE WHO IS PERSONALLY ACQUAINTED WITH THE VICAR OF LEEDS. I enclose you any name and address, which you are at liberty to use if you think it desirable. [Our correspondent will remember that X Y Z made several statements of his own knowledge, but with re ference to whit is denied in the preceding letter, X Y Z merely stated that he believed it would be ascertained, on inquiry, that Dr. Hook had preached at the parish church of Leeds, and canvassed, prior to his appoint ment to the vicarage. We know he had good grounds for that belief, though, at the same time, we have no reason now to doubt the truth of the observations made in the above letter.] UNIVERSITY INTELL;GENCE. CAMBRIDGE, FEB. 23.—At a congregation held this day the following degrees were conferred :—Bachelor of Divi nity—Rev. G. Brown, St. Johns. illasfers of Arts—G. J. llandferd, Corpus Christi ; F. C. Penrose, Magdalene. Bachelors of Arts—R. G. Chalk, Trinity ; J. .1 . W. Probyn, St. John's. Matriculation—F. T. Rowell, pensioner, Emanual. THE C_URT 4- FASHIONABLE WORLD, tier Majesty and the Prince Consort left town early on Frdav, via the South Western Railway, for the Isle of Wight, and were expected to arrive at Osborne House before noon. lit r Majesty held her first drawing room for the season on Thursday, at St. James's Palace. It was most nume rously and very brilliantly attended. Mohun Lal is on a visit at Combermere Abbey, Che shire, on the invitation of Viscount Combermere. _ _ Tuesday was the Ur h-day of the Duke of Cambridge, who completed his i d year.. The Gazelle of Tuesday announces that the Court will go into mourning from Friday the 27th instant, to Friday the 6th of March, for his late Royal Highness the Arch. duke of Modena. A letter from Paris of the 18th says :—" There can be no longer any doubt of the intended visit of Queen Vic toria. Apartments have been prepared for her at the Tuileries and at Neuilly. It is said that towards the end of May, or early in June, the Duke and Duchess de Ne mours will go to London, and will accompany the Queen to France." Lord and Lady Fitzroy Somerset are plunged into the deepest grief by the melancholy information received from India of the death of Major Arthur W. Fitzroy Somerset (of the Grenadi-r Guards), their eldest son, who was mi litary secretary to his Excellency Sir Henry Hardingc, the Governor-General. The gallant deceased was horn May 6, 1516, and entered the Grenadier Guards in 1832. Sir John Littler, who was engaged in the late battle of Moodkee, in India, is the eldest son of Thomas Littler, Esq., by Diana his wife, daughter of John Hunter, Esq., a director of the East India Company, and represents a family of considerable antiquity iu Cheshire, where, in the Vale Royal, his ancestors were settled hi the time of Edward I. Sir John Littler was born Jan. 6, 1783, and married, June 25, 1827, Helen ()lymph, only daughter of Captain Henry Stewart, son of John Stewart, Esq., claimant of the earldom of Orkney. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NORTH OF ENGLAND STEEPLE CHASES. THURSDAY, FEB. 26. The Sweepstakes of 10 sous. each were won by Mr. T. Hutchinson's Snipe, beating ten others, after a severe struggle. Mr. J. Mewburn's Clementina earn. in second. The Sweepstakes of 7 soya. each were won by about half a length, after a most beautiful race, by Mr. J. Ferguson's Infant, beating six others. SOUTHPORT OPEN COURSING MEETING, FRID y, FEB. 27 The Scarishrick Cup was won by Mr. King's Blos soms; Mr.Bake's Virginius ran up. _ _ The Southport Cup was won by Mr. King's Miss Sa rah ; Mr. Graham's Dean Swift ran up. The Consolation Stakes were won by Mr. King's The Baron; Mr. Matthews' Primrose ran up. The Barton Stakes were won by Mr. Standish's Shuf fler ; Mr. Littler's Smoker ran up. The Waterloo Coursing Meeting will take place to-day and Thursday. The Liverpool Steeple Chase will take place to-morrow, over the usual line of country at Aintree. The Hooton Park Grand Steeple Chase is fixed for Friday next, and consists of a Sweepstakes of 220 soya., half ft., with £lOO added by Sir W. M. Stanley, Bart., for horses of all denominations. The race is to be run over three miles of fair hunting country, within ten miles of Hooton Park. Caunwall, on Thursday, over Mitcham Common, per formed his m a t c h, to run ten miles within the hour, which he did with ease in 59 minutes 10 seconds. A LADY JOCKEY.-At the great steeple chase in Gallia (La Croix de Berny), on the 19th April, a second Mrs. Thornhill, it is expected, will jump into the pigskin, and contest the break-neck for 30,000 francs. " The lioness" has hitherto had her roarings listened to with deference ; what will be the result when she enounces in unmention ables March 3, 1848• NEWS FOR POLITICIANS. It is said that Mr. W. E. Gladstone is to be invited to stand for Wigan. Sir James Graham in'ends to introduce a bill for the purpose of amend;ng the New Building Act. On Friday the Magma of Worcester, a strong erntee tionist, was elected for East Gloucestershire without op position. At a meeting at Leicester on Monday, Col. Thompson was invited to stand for the borough at the next elections He assented. The Times states that Sig. Robert Peel has not bee° cupped once this session, an'that his health is better theft it has been for some time. Captain Vyse, a strict protectionist, was 'an WednesdaY returned without opposition for South Northamptonsh ire ' in the room of Mr. Cartwright, retired. Most of the French papers think that the example a t free-trade set by Sir Robert Peel will have no effect , either in Germany or France. LORD KENT ON.—We are glad to learn that our hide' fatigable neighbour, Lord Kenyon, has expressed bis in' tention of supporting the constitutional rights of the eke' tors of Cheshire against the attacks of the Anti-corn ratil f League, by every means in his power. Lord Ashley will commence immediately, in Lanes' shire, a tour through the manufacturing districts, with view to explain, to the friends of a ten hours bill, the r e „ sition of this questionlat the present time, and to advt . ' what course to pursue. His lordship will be at Preston this evening. BRIDPORT.—Mr. Baillie Cochrane, having edg been re; minded by his constituents that he had solemnly plell himself in 18-14 to vacate his seat in case of his chant?! his political opinions, has stated in answer that he b a quite forgotten the circumstance, but that he would once resign, and present himself again as a candidate. . A meeting was held in Oldham on Tuesday night ' II promote the return of Mr. Brown and Mr. Villiers fo r South Lancashire. One of the speakers stated that ill Lancashire, since the last contested election, near). £300,000 had been expended by free traders, in put' chasing freehold qualiications. n At FREE TRADE.—Ecery thing is now " Free Trade. the cobler's stall, the blacksmith's hovel, the wheelwright: shop, and the tavern, in every village, nothing is talse about but Free Trade. In the town, the news-room, t ile d barber's " saloon," the bakehouse, the manglehouse. 01 at every other gossip shop the only subject is Free Van e ' The corn law must be taken off, arid to show how se ll ; guine many are on this subject, a learned schoolrnast e " the other day, observed that the Corn-laws would show' be taken off sugar! ! COMFORTABLE POSITION OF MEMBERS OF PABLO' mENT.—It appears that Mr. Miles, one of the m ember' for Bristol, has actually given offence to several c onsereel lives of that city by opposing the free-trade measures ° f the government ! A petition in favour of these measure: was signed by 18,000 persons, including tories, whiga, radicals—hence many of the first-named consider ths't Mr. Miles is thwarting their views. Taken, then, in 001 ., 1- junction with what is going on in other parts of the ki d dom, the Bristolian system of ethics amounts to this T a man keeps his principles, he does wrong ; if he pe r " with them, he does wrong aboo! THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.—At a meeting of th e Town C, uncil of Glasgow, on Thursday week, the folio*" ins very characteristic and laconic letter was read fret ° the Dake " London, Feb.llo, 1846. Field Marshal O i l Duke of Wellington presents his compliments to the 1 . 4 0 Provost of Glasgow. He has r ecei ve d hi s l e tt er and pe a' tine cr closed. It is not the p ract i ce , nor qu it e c onsiste n t with the orders of the House of Lords, to receive Petitionl in favour of or against measures not on the table o f the House. The measure to which the enc'osed Petition re: laces is not in the possession of either H owe of Parliamet; It has been stated in some detail, in a speech by one Ogr e hon. member, but no vote has been taken upon it, and 0 ,, House of Lords can have no cognisance of it, even throat u the votes of the other House 01 Parliament. Under the se circumstances the Duke returns the Petition sent to hir.: and he recommends that it should cot be sent up till t h e time at which it can be presented to the H ou se of Lot us with egul irity." PROSPECTS OF THE PROTECTIONISTS.—Mr. Georg e F nch, the newly elected member for Rutlandshi re. wound up an eicquent speech on Thursday night wip the following impassioned appeal :—" The result of the dive . lion on this question was we ll k n ow n ; Mi n i s ters wo u l d have a nominal majority arid a band fide minority, ( I % ea n i hear,) because those who misrepresented the judgmen t their constituents would by the country he deducted tror a the one side and added to the other. (Cheers from t u " protection benches.) They (the protectionists) would re; ore from the division with unbroken ranks and undaunted hearts, and prepared to renew the battle on the first or portuniry. They would appeal, not only to their coast" °( tuents, but to the country. They kn ew the majority the population were with th em ( c h eers an d eounte r ; cheers) ; they believed the majority of those constituen were with them ; they trusted soon to have the nation 0"il l them. In the next parliament there would be 300 P u si protectionists. The cause of protection was not lost. "`„ was a cause still dear to the British nation, because Rot; in unison with British habits, and consonant to 13rit,il l interests. They (the protectionists) were strong in Pr' l ciple, strong in consistency; and they would support t e a t cause, and defend it, so long as they had a voice to u tt ! an arm to raise, or a shit to discharge. (Loud cheer' from ;he protection benches.) SOUTH NOTTINGHAM ELEC TIO N.—F rom the time the vacancy in the southern division of Nottingham becstnA known, active exertions were used by L or d Lincoln sT: Mr. Hildyard to ensure the success of their respective a vourites. The noble lord repeatedly addr e ssed large the c se o m ur b s l e ar f s ac in tio d , i i ffere N n i t r. pa ti rt i s id o y f , t r l d ie was of s d o e m fe e n d d a ) . n y ,gz !Lent, owing •to his-uncle's d•ath ; b u t hi s calls' ;;,, warmly espoused by the fa rmers generally. Thenn°3ll; tion took place on Saturday. Th e E ar l of Lincoln th e , boldly avowed the reasons that had wrought on him change of opinion. That chan g e was not of a sud den, captious, or capricious nature; lie had long been con: vinced that the present corn-laws could not exist Me l " years, but had been unwilling to make a premature 8 b 1; neuncement as to any alteration of his views. The n° earl then entered into an elaborate defence of the gover; ment measure, which, he said, would have rather a. l bio vourable effect upon agriculture than otherwise. i f ' tr i question were settled, the institutions of the ent ln h• would be strengthened and not weakened by it. l „ '„ij were defeated, it would be a blow from which be sh ° ' • never altogether recover. Mr. Heldyard followed ittis pointed speech. He co ns idered th e governmen t meekeir re fraught with evil, especially to the agriculturist. I" to ability to comoete with the untaxed foreigner remaine,"4 be prOved. The show of hands was i n f avou r of ' Lincoln. The poll commenced on Tuesday, and ", b 0 eluded on Wednesday. Mr. Hildyard obtained at i l et t close of the poll a majority of 691. Th e num ber en",.o in:: all was 2765. The enthusiasm an d d e li g ht of t o 'i farmers vented itself in mutual c ongra t u l a ti ons end h 1° , 0 5 cheering. Without funds or l ega l ass i stance 00 '''„,bo overcome confessedly the mos t p ower f u l can didate - t ho could possibly have been brou g ht i n t o th e field by free trade party. _ FIRE-PROOF STORES.—On Wednesday last an i l l ; resting experiment took place at Messr s . Milner's, t°'• o g the capabilities of their fire-proof stoves. The follooos, is Mr. Whitty's opinion as to the result of the experiMe which was highly satisfactory :—We have no hesitati°Por saying that Mr. Milner has conferred a great and by tant benefit on the commercial and professional wort opf the perfection to which he has brought these safes. experience we have witnessed many a heart -tending s et o t by the loss of papers by fi re. The adoption of the P a te, safe obviates all this. for no fire in counting-houses , b a tCO offices, or dwellings, would produce the intense be B te ot which they were exposed on Wednesday, and the P o p one preserved its contents unscathed ; — even whoa s p at dent burst it open, the £lOO note we had put it ea rn " c oy safe. The two boxes, taken from the fire, with the' r ber. tents, may now be seen at the Journal office, and o so , also may be seen specimens of Milner's safes, boxeS;roo' THE DREADNOUGHT HOSPITAL-SHIP AND 0f MAS HOSPITAL AGAIN OUTDONE IN THE C C 4 . 1 %, - WoUNDS AND ULCERS BY HOLLOWAY'S Off:A7str AND PILLS.—John Newington, a living in " —l g bff court, Dover, was a patient on bawd the Dreadn'olfors and again at St. Thomas' Hospital, for some ve -ks 'oo% very bad ulcerated leg of l ong stan di ng , w ith o ut obta,: Ass the least relief at either f th e a b ove i ns tit u tions, b" sat cured immediately after war d s b y H o ll owa y's t'i" s s led Ointment. The truth o f thi s statemen t can be od e at by Mt. G. Ashmore, the very respectable cheMist' Dover. Pr e. Among the many discoveries that characterise the ,f sent age, nothing has contributed so mu ch to the euToots, and ease of the community, nor conferred soe h glr, upon suffering humanity, as t hat important discoli g i,r,' never-failing never-failing remedy for gout and rheumatism , . io Gout and Rheumatic Pills. Thousands would observation of an elderly female, as made to Mr. rio' the' agent at Thirsk " that she would rather be % fo ie. butter to her bread and sugar to h er tea, than Jell Pills." This important medicine i s sold by all ca 'ype ° vendors. Price 2s. 9d. per box. Observe the 05001' "Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London," on th e S° ment stamp. DENTITION.—There is perhaps no part of the, boos t' , frame which so amply exemplifies the wisdom an ° , o f ti k of the Creator than the structure and arrangernen`.begv Teeth ; for while among the animal races, some " l on fe ; endowed with teeth which all o w them to live o nli n gratfb getable diet ; others being furnished with an ap edrd . calculated only for animal food; man is Proc i r e bial; Teeth, which renders him carnivorous, and ens bt e it ; live either on animal or vegetable substances, seelobe`; may be most conducive to his well-being. T h , e „ o t pa t d lishment, care, and preservation of these imP° r :, - , o t t ti bg of the human economy are objects highly itylo r ' - „,,05 0 0 1 among the various preparations offered for the Po „ " ODONTO," invented by the Messrs. Rovti'7 o g e g , Hatton-garden, stands unrivalled as a DENTal li obi lli r p m be , CELLING ALL OTHERS, in its capability o f -- see-„eis purifying, and preserving the Teeth and Gums. nol etPl i ts VIGILS.—There, under another name, are s 'i v al,t'be called Eves. They are both days preceding a fes t ;bila: this difference, that a vigil is an eve with fastingt,,,ceau, s o simple eve has no fast. And in looking at the:',. vigi l ' we shall see that where the eve occurs withoo " re cea e lr e : is owing to the presence of sonic other holy day St• as in itself a feast ; as in the case of the feast ota 's, 1 " - phen, it has no vigil, because the feast of Ch ri or mediately precedes it. , ri cieta g lisss ST. VALENTINE'S DAY.—Mr. Donee, a Ilt def ts r o , the highest authority on subjects of this kind, , ,,f' o f Feu g e the observation of St. Valentine's-day, the 1 41 .' 1 0 o f 'ipe ptio whic h ary, is nothing more than a monkish corn] a AO Ch b°lll V ;2 111 01 416 wish custom, on the feast of Lupercal, ar ° oll o n u a t m b e y s o th f e y m ou . ng T w he om pa e a n te w r e a r o e f p t u h t e einatrolyand d substituted the names of saints for tbose of troop fOl ae be conjectures that St. Valentine's-day was ci fica tioof new feast. The Lup erca l was a feast of P"' letnnised in the middle of the month of Febraa 'lth Al;c D Cae ni amd ila Will to do to tutu Flyir 4t. mic 114 1 / 4 : 1 11 44: 41 fo e, L o tio n , S i I °4 _e s Wl 4, baf A R pia 1114 1 ht1 'At, %Val r ~tiv'ecti ockkor g o r top ° .elif ou to r o ►Ale o h to)? Ni l 4 col 4 pi es, 4 1 l' Z i t l 4 ° „ 4l ll C a '' )a,.! ? 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