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Etterature. SELECTIONS. PARLIAMENTARY FURLOUGHS. — SeYeTaI members of Parliament have availed themselves of the debate on the corn laws fur the purpose of travelling. One hon gentle man, who has a taste for military adventures, has gone over to ndia, having left directions with his servant that he is to be sent tor as soon as there is the most distant prospect of a divlsinn on the third reading.—Punch. CANNING'S VIEWS OF PARLIAMENTARY REFORM AND THE TEST ACT.—The three great domestic questi ons in Mr. Canning's time, and which every year ac quired increased urgency and importance, were Parlia mentary Reform, Catholic Emancipation, and the Test Act. In 1827, Mr. Canning made use of the following declaration :—" There are two questions to which I wish to reply. I have been asked what I intend to do with the question of parliamentary r form, when it is brought forward. What do 1 intend to do with it? Why, oppose it, as I have invariably done during the whole of my par liamentary career. What do I intend to do with the test act ? Oppose it.—Bell's Life of Canning. A NEW JOHNNY GILPIN.—The Lebanon Star tells a good railroad aneorloie The other day, when the cars stopped on the way to Xenia, for a moment, a countryman /mounted the locomotive to see what he could learn. In the progress of his investigation he took hold of a crank, end, giving it a turn, with the speed of the wind off sprang the locomotive, detached from the car. while all that could be heard from the unlucky w , ght was—Slop her! Stop th 3 darn'd thing ! But, regardless of his cries, on it went, whizzing and snorting, arid was only arrested in its pro gress, at the distance of seven miles, by running off the track. No harm was done, the only inconvenience being the necessary labour and detention of getting back the truant locomotive, and the awful fright of its Johnny Gilpin rider.—New York Tribune, PINS.—By two documents in the British Museum, it appears that for many hundred years prior to the reign of Elizabeth, pins were imported into England, but the art of malcng them was afterwards learnt of the Netherland ers; and then the pinners amd needlemakers of London petitioned that the importation mieht be restrained, alle ging that £.40,000 worth were yearly brought into England. The Netherland merchants answered that the English could make go-d gross and stiff pins, but not so well the fine, used for linen and cambric, " and as yet be only half *rasters, and ought not so soon to exclude their teachers." (Lansd. MSS., vol. Ixxxiv. c. 152.) The pinners reply that they can make tine pins, and ny a new and slight in- . . vention, learnt of the strange's, two men would point more pins than one hurdred cud 'ormerly do, having only a file.—History of Protestant Refuoees in England. The Punjab, or country of "five waters," ( pun j, five; ab, waters) covering an area of 6,000 geographical square miles, lies between the Indus, the Sutlej, and the Hima laya mountains. The four streams, which rise in those mountains, intersect the country, and divide it with the Indus into four distinct doahs. The first district, lying between the Indus and the Jailum, (Hydaspes,) is 147 miles in breadth. Tee Jailum, a clear stream, from 3UO to 400 yards across, fl ws in a sandy bed, at the rate of two miles an hour. Its temperature in December was 45 degrees Fatireeh it at sunrise, and rose during the day to 51 degrees. It is the most sterile, the least cultivated, and the least populous part of the country ; it is covered with undulating bare eminences, which rise considerably toward the centre, and are inters, cred by rugged declivi ties. The waters flow in deep beds, enclosed by high steep banks, and cons -queirtly cannot be employed in irriga tion.— Von:Orlich's Travels in India. LA FONTAINE:PS DEATH-DEM—La Fontaine was very ill, and had just received the last sacraments ; he asked his old friend, Madame Conroe' (of whom Madame de evigne speaks), if it would not be quite the proper thing for him to be carried on a truck, in his shirt and bare footed, with a rope round his neck, to the gate of Notre- Dame, where he would be supposed to be making an amende honorable for all he had written and said ! " Only," be continued, "you must find some one to hold up my taper, for I should never have strength to carry it, and I should much like to employ one of those smart lac quers of our neighbour the l'resident de Nicolay." " Hold your tongue and die quietly, my good man," was all the answer he got from old Cornuel; " you have always been a greet goose." " That is very true," rep ied La Fontaine, " and it is very lucky for me, as I hope that Gird will take pity on me tin that account; mind y u tell every one that I sinned from folly arid not w'ckedness—that would sound much better ; would it not ?" " I wish you would let me alone. and die in peace !" exclaimed the other. The Chevalier de le Sahliere told Fontenelle, that La Fontarno's confessor arid all who were present, ended by laughing outfight, and the last words of the good man were these • " Je vois ben que je suis deventi plus bete que le bon Din n'est saint, et c'est heancoup dire en ye rite!"—Recollections of a French .11,rchioness. WOMAN'S DEVOTEDNESS TO Al AN.—She is happy in owing every thing .o man. That alone imparts a singular charm to every poor household. There, noshing is foreign or indifferent ; every thing boars the st a mp o f a beloved band, the seal of the heart. Alan very often little knows the privations she endures in order that, on his return, he may find his dwelling modest, yet adorned. Great is the ambition of woman for the household, clothes, and linen. This last article is new ; the linen closet, the pride of the countrywoman, was unknown to the wife of the town workman before the revolution in industry which I have mentioned. Cleanliness. purity, modesty, those graces of woman, then enchan'ed the house; the bed was surrounded with curtains; the child's cradle, dazzling with whiteness, became a paradise: the whole cut out and sewed in a few evenings. Add, moreover, a flower at the window ! What a surpriae t the hinsband, on his return, no longer knows his own borne! This taste for flowers, which has spread (• here are now several markets for them here), and this little expenditure to ornament. the interior, are they not lamentable, when these people never know whether they have any work on the morrow? Call it not expendi ture, say ra•her economy. It is a very great one, if the innocent attraction of tire wife renders this house charm ing to the husband, and can keee him there. Let us or nament, I beseech you, both the house and the wife! A few ells of print- d cotton make her another woman; see , she ja reaamerated, and become youn g aga i n .—Th e P eople, by MieLlet. FRENCH COMMERCIAL TIt.VELLERS.—A more hor rid, blustering, impertinent, forward set of cavaliers does not exist than the commis-voyageurs of France, who take the best seats at every table-d'hote, with an opinion they are equal to any prince, or clean, well-b haved man in Christendom. Tile a;rs. language, and deportment of these commercial magnifiers is samethingaiere disgusting —it is absolutely terrifying to quiet people. I heard a grey-bearded, rnou-tacired. dirty old dandy, with a crop of the true republican cot, his person hung in chains, and his dingy fingers encircled with his rings, open the most violent tirade against England, Monsieur Guizot, and every thing decent, shaking his hand, after forming his fingers into a kind of cup the colour of a cocoa nut, roll ing his eyes, and ringing his r's, till I got nervous. I ti midly asked who he was, when he had completed his re past of near upon fifteen dishes (from the potage to the shrimps). A young French gentleman who sat next me said, " lie is a bier kgnard, arid seas allurnettes a friction, or lucifer matches!" I thought he was at least some hero fresh from Africa, who had been To:rating Arabs, decore, and probably a marsmil. from his overpowering eloquence. Lucifers at a son a box must be profitable cnerchandize to maintain so splendid an ambassador. This is only a sam ple of the French bagmen ; they are a numerous and dan gerous set; they bully the inekeepets into submission to their order, make or unmake a cafe, keep up a constant outcry against every thing English, arid are not very scru pulous whether they insult you or not.—Pedeatrian Re minisencev. PITT'S DEATH.—Mr. Pitt died in the villa on Putney heath ; his corpse lay in one of the rooms for a week. " It is a singular and melancholy circumstance," says Lord Brougham, " resembliro2 the stories told of William the Conqueror's de-erted state at his decea.e, that, some one in the neighbourhood having sent a message to inquire after Mr. Pitt's state, he found the wicket open, then the door of the house, and nobody answering the bell, he walked through the rooms till he reached the bed on which the minister's body lay lifeless ; the sole tenant of the mansion, of which the do , rs, a f.-w bows betore, were darkened by crowds of suitors alike obsequious and im- portunate, the vultures whose instinct haunts the carcases only of living minis era." There never was a statesman out of whose hands power passed so suddenly and so completely. There was no decline—no transition—no twilight to soften the descent. from h's meridian glory; but darkness, like night in the tropics, set upon tom at once. Extraordinary mental exertions, embittered in the end by the falure of all his plans. had done upon him the heavy work of time in the very flower of his manhood. The battle of Austerlitz finally crushed him. He died of old age, at forty-six. No man wa-, more misunderstood on some points than Pitt. No natrihter was ever so strangely praised for the worst parts of his policy, or so slighted for the best. No man ever got credit so largely for opinions he did not hold. These curiosities of tame tare. illustrated with wonderful snccess in that famous epi taph upon him in the Guildhall, written by Mr. Canning. —Bell's Life of Canning. THE ANIMALS OF THE PLINJAUB.—AnimaI life, in a great variety of forms abounds in the country of the Sikhs. Lions, tigers, panthers, leopgrds, are found in jungles, as are wolves, lynxes, hyenas, hears, wild boars, foxes, jackals, otters, weasels, martens, •porcupines, &c. The deer tribe are numerous, from the goat to the timbre, and there is no deficiency of the hat. family ; some of the larger of which latter are, according to Von Hugel, held in sacred estimation by the most devout followers of the Sikh religion. Camels are numerous ; buffaloes and sheep are found in large herds mid flocks. The flesh of the cattle is, however, respected tv the Sikhs, who only use - the milk of the cow and the wool of the sheep, in ad dition to the skins or hides of sit neg. animal, which form an article of export. The Sikhs are extensive breeders of horses, in which they take great pride. With Runjeet Singh's admiration and love for these animals reached a passion, the knowledge of which, some years ago, induced the British go‘erninent to send him some fine specimens of the care -horse, in comparison to wh ch the finest Pan jaubee horses are but dwarf ponie-. The birds of the country are numerous and of great variety of character. Besides the common domestic toe I, the sparrow, the crow, the hawk, the magpie, the pig , on, pnd similar habi tual tenants of the farm-yard ; there are in the forests, fields, and lakes, pea-fowl and junele fowl, partridges. pheasants, quails, parrots, the vii ri-duck, the teal, snipe, curlews, herons, cranes, eagles, pelicans, vultures, falcons, nightingales, the mocking-bird, owls, &c. The rivers swarm with fish, such as mullet, carp, &c., with a great variety totally unkown even by name to the European. As in all other parts of the warm arid glowing east, rep tiles are abundant; but the number f venomous serpents happily bears no proportion to the vast tribes of innocuous snakes. The bee and the silkworm thrive in the Punjsub, and the fruits of their industry cousteute valuable articles of trade and howo consumption.—The Punjaub, bp Col. Steinbach. AN ADVENTURE IN CHINA. The following are extracts from a letter by the chief en gineer of one of the war steamers at present on the coast of China to his friends in Edinburgh : " Whampoa, Jan. 26, 1846. " The last instalment of the Chinese ransom money (2,000,000 dollars) was paid in Canton last week. The inhabitants being in a riotous state, we were ordered from Hongkong up the river to lie abreast of Canton, and I be lieve to fire into the city in case of their attempting to burn the factories. We remained there eight days, every man on board under arms, as we expected every night au attack from the populace, who seem to have the most bit ter enmity towards Europeans. The money was all paid, however, and the rioting having partially subsided, we were ordered away, at which I was just as well pleased, having got tired of my bedfellows, no other than a pair of loaded pistols and a drawn cutlass. Engineers were or dered to lie under arms, as well as every one else on board. We have since taken up our station here, which is 20 miles further down the river than Canton, and about 60 from Hongkong. The scenery in this place being most beautiful, and yesterday feeling inelined to enjoy it in a walk through the country, I took a boat and one of my apprentices with me, and, thinking I might find some game, I took my eun also. We sailed up a small creek. and, leaving the boy to take charge of the boat, I, with , he gun in my hand, walked into the country. 1 had not gone a quarter of a mile, when, on approaching a small village, the people came towards me about 30 or 40 in number. They began hooting and crying at me, which is the usual way they have of treating us barbarians' when they get a lone one unprotected ; and, as they kept press ing round me closely. I thought it useless to persevere in going forward. Therefore, turning myself round to go back to the boat, one from behind made a sudden spring. grasping in his arm both my legs under the knees, and another seizing the barrel of my gun, they dragged me to the ground. The latter kept pulling at the gun, trying to wrest it from me, all the while the muzzle pointing to his breast. The gun being at the time in full cock, I had his life completely in my power; my first thought was, ' will take it;' the second was, it Ido so, mine will cer tainly pay the penalty.' In the meantime another was striking at me with a stick, and I was compelled to relin quish my hold of the gun to defend my face with ivy arms; the fellow now in possession of the gun wielding it as if to strike me on the head with the bt.tt end. I cannot ell you how I felt, every instant expecting a death-blow. It. was very strange that at that moment the picture of the death of Captain Cook, in the volume of his voyages in my father's bookcase, came vividly before my eyes—their gestures and appearance were altogether quite as s ivage like. Before the blow came, I managed to spring to my feet, and attempted to keep them back, unarmed as I was. They then desisted, and went into the village taking with them my gun, hat, poa der-flask—in fact, all my property. I was completely fleeced, my clo.hes were torn to pieces, the pockets and their contents torn away fro n my c at. Glad I was, 1 can assure ycu, when I saw their backs turned; and, walking on towards the boat, I saw them assembling again, as if to intercept me. Now, hought I, they are going to have a shot at me—this is anoth, r or deal ; but presently the gun vv,nt off in the middle of them, and I felt relieved so far, as it is very likely some of them were hurt. The savages are quite ignorant of the the use of a gun, and one of them may have been looking into the barrel, for all 1 know to the contrary. My trou bles did not end .here; for on reaching the spot where I 1-ft the boat, I found both it and the boy gone. I saw, however, two Chinese in a boat, and promised them mo ney if they would take me across the creek. I aent into their boat, and finding my pockets two rupees, which the late rubbers had missed, 1 gave them to them ; they then wanted more, and, having me a prisoner in their boat, made motions as if they were going to search me, upon which I made an attempt to throw one of them over board. They desisted, and landed me on the other side. I know the villains only wanted a few more to help them ; they don't consider the odds in their favour, two against one European. I then walked along the banks of the river for a long distance, until I discovered another boat, the people in which I persuaded by promises to take rue to my ship. It turned cut that the boy 1 had left in the boat had been plundered by another party of everything but his shirt and trousers, and was glad to escape with his life. lie had returned to the vessel, telling the offi cers that he thought I was murdered, and they immedi ately sent an armed boat's crew in search of me. I wanted the captain to give me anther boat with armed men, and I would go and burn the vill-ge ; but he said he could not take so much upon himself. At the time of the war such a thing might have been done, and frequently was for far less cause. He tells me he will report it io the Admiral. who will most probably take notice of it throuA tie Chinese authorities. You may depend upon it the Cbine,e will pay dearly yet for the say they have been go ing on lately. S nee this occurred, I hear.) of several Europeans having been maltreated quite as ill and worse than me in this neighbourhood. Only this morning an American boat's crew was attacked by these savages, but they broke their oars into cudgels, and beat them off. Mr. S— told me that he and two missionaries sere nearly killed in the same way ; they were severely beaten with sticks, robbed, and their clothes torn to pieces."— , Scotsman. A HAPPY COMPARISON.—A distinguished divine of this city, in alluding, on Sunday last, to the magn , tic telegraph, spoke of it as "the highway of thought."— Albany Citizen (American paper). - - - ALL IN THE FAMILY.—The following matrimonial an noincement appears in a recent American paper:—Mar ried, on the 30-h ultimo, at the residence of L. 11. B. Whittaker, by the Rev. G. A. T. Whittaker. Mr. M. T. Whittaker. to Miss Sarah E. Whittaker, all of Whittaker Town, N. C. Copious STon.Y.—Sir R. H. Dicks, who fell in the last bloody battle on the banks of the Sutlej. was the son of the late Dr. Dick, of Tullimet, in Perthshire He was engaged in Egypt, the Peninsula, and at Waterloo. Cuidad R 'drier), Fort St. Michael, and other plact s knew his name. On the restoration of peace he reined to his paterna; domain of Tullimet, which continued the scene of tranquil family retirement until 1830, when, his wife dying, he again obtained an honourable command in his sovereign's service, and after years spent under a scorch ing Indian sun, he died gloriously in his country's cause. There is a romantic tale connected with Sir Robert Dick's father, which we may here detail.—Some sixty years ago and upwards the Right Hon. Ed. Burke and Mr. Dunda', afterwards Lord Melville. were on a visit to the Duke of Athol, at Dunkeld. On a hot summer day they took it into their heads to walk from Dunkeld to Blair Athol Castle, another seat of the Duke's, and distant about twenty-three miles. On their way, they happened to observe a young, peasant girl, about nineteen years of age, engaged in leading a book at a short distance from the way side. " Come," said Dundas, " let us sea what this sentimental young lady is about." Addressing her, they found that they were not far from her father's house ; and. being desirous of some refreshment, they entered it with her. While there, they made themselves known. As thep were about to leave, Mr. Dundas asked h;s young friend if he could do any thing for her. Toe young wo man requested a few words in private; and then ad dressed him ;---" Mr. Du;Alas," said she, " they tell me you are a great man, and 1 am sure you are a good man. There is a young man in this Neighbourhood, who is at tached to me; and I would willingly (miry him, but that he has no prospect of a profession, by which I and he may live. He has been studying medicine in Edinburgh. Will you assist him ?" " I will," said Mr. Duridas. The latti r took down his name ; and in a few months he was appointed assistant-surgeon to a vessel which sailed for India. Shortly after, the youthful lovers were united. In India, Mr. Dick rose to eminence—was held in high respect by our Eastern Government—and, having real ized a large fortune, returned to his own country, where he became the proprietor of Tullimet. Such was the ori gin —such the end—of Sir Robert Henry Dick ; a man whose name will live in story. so long as the remem brance of British valour and British patriotism shall en dure. CANNING'S DEATH.—About the middle of May, Lord Lansdowne, Lord Carlisle, and Mr. Tierney, were intro duced into the cabinet. Thus, notwithstanding the un precedented opposition, public and private, by which he had been systematically impeded, Mr. Canning was now at the head of the strongest government that had existed in England since the days of Pitt. Early in June he brought forward the budget, and subsequently some reso lutions founded on the corn bill. The last time he ever spoke in Parliament was on the 29th of June, when he briefly answered an important question. On the 2nd of July Parliament was prorogued. The exertions he had latterly been compelled to make, operating upon a peculi arly sensitive constitution, speedily began to display their terrible effects. The excitement of the session was over ; and there was leisure now fur the fatal struggle between disease and the noweis of life. On the 10th Mr. Canting dined with the Chancel! , r at Wimbledon, and incautiously sitting under a tree in the open air, while he was yet warm with exercise, cough: a cold which ended in rheumatism. Mr. Huskisson, whose health was also suffering, and who had been recommended to try the air of the continent, called on Mr. Canning to take leave, and found him in bed, looking very ill. Struck by the change in his looks, he observed that he (Mr. Canning) was the person who most stood in need of change and tel.:cation. Mr. Canning smiled, and replied cheerfully, " Oh! it is only the reflection of the yellow linings of the curtains !" He never saw him again—that faithful life-long friend. On the 20th, Mr. Canning removed to the Duke of Devon shire's villa, which his grace had lent to him for change of air; the same villa and the sauce room to which Fox, under circumstances painfully similar, and at the sato& age had also removed—to die. His disease—still increas ing —fluctuated from day to day ; and he was occasionally able to attend to public bu,iness. On the 25th he dined with the Marquis of Clanricarde, but complained of debi lity. and teturned early to .Chie•wick. On the 30th he paid his last visit to the King, at Windsor : his Majesty saw that he was very ill, and desired Sir William Knighton to call upon him. It was too late. Mr. Canning received some friends at dinner on the following day, retired early, and never rose again. He sufferel excruciating pain, which rent his frame so violently as to deprive him at in tervals of all mental coesciousness. On the Sunday be fore his death he requested his daughter to read prayers —his own unvarying custom, whenever he was prevented from attending church. At length his strength fell, his agonies diminished in proportion, and on the B'.ll of August. a little before four o'clock in the mortitmr, be expired in the 57th year of his age. His funeral took place at West. minster Abbey, where he was buried at the foot of Mr. Pitt's tomb, on the 16th of August. It was attended by the members of the royal family, the cabinet ministers, the foreign ambassadors. and a number of political and personal friends. The morning after his funeral the King conferred a peerage on his widow. Other no less gratify ing marks of public estimation were showered upon his memory, abroad and at home—statues. medals, and monu ments. But the most grateful of all was the profound and universal sorrow of the people. All jealousies and animosities were extinguished in the common grief.—Bell's Life of Canning. THE USES or SUFFt.RING.—The uses of suffering are manifest to every reflecting man. It is clear that what is in itself a judgment, is also a fruitful source of bles sing. It beautifies the thought, and softens the heart of him who endures it rightly, and strengthens the bond which binds men together in mutual dependence. It sets a true value on all things, and despises nothing. It teaches us to extract the good from the evil, and even brigh'ens the hope of immortality, which leads us on through all the gloom and vicissitude of human life to that glorious revelation of the kingdom for which we look. Who can tell what wondrous things are involved in the mystery of the dispensation yet to come ?—who can tell what positions and what duties their ultimate de velopment may disclose?—who can say, with how just an adaptat on to its end the suffering of every man is fitted, that he may be prepared and qualified for that which shall dev.lve upon him hereafter ? We have but little under standing of the purpose of God, if we confine it in ope ration to the sphere of this world; we have but little knowledge of our own capacities, if we limit the objects of their exercise within the narrow boundaries of the earth ; we must be ignorant of the nature of the many germs of a future and glorious fruition, which have been implanted in our being, if we suppose that all the growth of which they are susceptible must be accomplished within the period of a life below. The purpose of God, the powers of roan, the end of his being, are neither ex hausted nor fulfilled within the compass of an e,rthly ex istence. They who think so will wake up hereafter wi , h the surprise of wondering joy or bitter disappointment, accordingly as they have been faithful to the light, or have abused the gifts which they have received.—Church of England Quarterly Review. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR ROBERT PEEL AND MR. D'ISRAELI. The Daily News gives the following report of the smart scene which occurred in the House on Friday evening be tween these two honourable gentlemen, another account of which is given in our usual parliamentary summary:— In reply to Mr. S. O'Brien's questioo, Sir R. Peel an nounced, amid loud cheering, that be unhesitatingly de clined any compromise affecting the Corn Bill. A scene now ensued which imparted somewhat of pi quancy to the debate. Mr. B. DISRAELI had commenced what he promised should be a reply to Mr. Cobden. As a champion of " the country party," . Mr. Disraeli had taken exception to his opp 'rent's boast about the influence of " the people liv ing in towns." Diverging, however, from the main of his discourse, he was taking his wonted gratification by a side attack upon Sir Robert Peel, for having cheered the ut terance of ihis heresy. At first the ri g ht hon. baronet al iowed the speaker to proceed without interruption, but upon a rather superfluous iteration of the taunt, the mi nister suddenly rose, and in emphatic tone, exclaimed : " 1 totally deny it." Loud cheers followed this brief in timation. A pause ensued. " Sir," said Mr. Disraeli, with apparently suppressed emotion, " if the right hon. baronet charges me with having :aid anything false, I de cline to proceed," arid immediately resumed his seat. After a few moments, Mr. Newdegate rose, and with much solemnity inquired of Sir Robert Peel a hether his (Mr. Newdegate's) ears had deceived bin during the re cent confusion. The inquiry was answered affirmatively. Mr. Peter Borthwick rose, and having gracefully cast his .tEgis over his friend the member for Shrewsbury, the angry dispute proceeded. Major Macnamara suggested that the t'me of the house might be spared, by some other place being selected as the rendezvous for explanation. Lord George Bentinck rose to dispel, however, the belli gerent tendency of the debate. Mr. H Hinde followed the course. Sir James Graham, Mr. Miles, Mr. Stuart Wortley, Mr. Brotherton, and Mr. Corbally, cleared away whatever remained of bitterness, by bearing w.tness to Sir Robot Peel's complete innocence of Mr. Disraeli's charge. Sonie civil words inlet changed by the disputants themselves terminated to the satisfaction of the house what promised at one time to be " a very pretty quarrel." DARING ROBBERY BY A CLERK.-EXTRA- ORDINARY CONFESSION. A few days since. information was received at the I divi sion station-house, H igh-street, Kensington, that at about one o'clock that at'ernoon, a young man. named Henry Nom. an, clerk in the service of Mr. William Hoot, the builder and railway contractor, had absconded, stealing and taking with him the sum of £57, the property of Mr. Hoof. On the same evening, Mr. Hoof received the fol lowing letter from his dishonest servant. which is a curiosity as a confession of misdeeds : " Sir,-1 have to inform you I am not what I repre sented myself to you, when I came to your office, and to give you a slight history of myself, that you may under. stand that it was quite impossible that I could remain a eerk in your service. At 17 years of age I entered the Queen's service in the Customs ot Jamaica, and continued robbing them of many thousands of ptunds before I was tweirty•orie years of age. I afterwards went to the United Stwes of America. where I committed numerous crimes, not even hesitating at murder,' and finished ' , lf by robbing a pawnbroker's shop of about .£l.OOO worth of money and property. Since my return to this country, I have committed so many robberies in differen places, and so many people know my renown, that you must soon have discovered it. Circumstautais over which human beings c..in have no control have made me what I am. The principal is my having had the misfortune to have the most degraded drunken monster for a father that ever poor devil had. What I might have been, had not the Almighty made me the son of a despicable wretch, I dare not think of, or I should drive myself mad. Caesar, in his account of his Gallic war, say he took TJVATC - ifies by assault, and slew a million of men. I have committed more than 1.800 distinct robberies, and have been con cerned in five murders, besides many other atrocities, which, on a small scale, entitles me to consider myself as great as Caesar. Fortune sent him into the world, nobly born, in fortunate times to push his fortunes, and the same jade s nt me into the world the son of a low —, and that scoundrel took care that I should not have a chance of being anything higher in the social scale. Mr. —'s address is If you are lucky enough to catch him sober, he will inform you of the truth of what I tell you, or you may ascertain it by calling at the Custom house, in Thames-street. Ask to see the secretary. The greatest games er, felon, villain, murderer, and swindler in the world bids you farewell for ever. " HENRY NORMAN." The letter was addressed to " William Hoot, Esq., Madeley House. Kensington," and bore the post-mark of " Judd-street, New-road." Similar letters were also sent to Dr. Pali., at whose school at Barnes, Surrey. the de linquent was educated, and to annther gentleman, to whom he was known. It has subsequently been ascer tained that he resigned his situation in the Customs on the 31st of December, 1841, his defalcations amounting at that time to £750, and also that he was apprehended in August, 1812. on a charge of stealing a gold watcb from a house in the Haymarket, at which he was lodging, but was acquitted. THE EARL OF HARwA I( IC AND TIIE CORN LAWS. The annual meeting of the trustees of the Bedford Level was held a few days since, his Glace the Duke of Bedford in the chair. After the tran , action of some routine busi ness, it was proposed to petition the House of Lords not to sanction the measure for the repeal of the corn laws. The Earl of Hardwick, in support of the motion, ob served that there was no part of the British dominions, which, from its posi'ion, had mere tight to express a strong opinion on that all important question than this Bedford Level, inasmuch as there was no part of the country in a similar situation. The manufacturers con tended that they deri,ed their prosperity from the em ployn ent of art and science as aids to capital. That was undoulyedly true; hut he felt that they of the Bedford Level were er, titled to use the same language, for then they existed by the very same means. That great country had been broueht to its presont high state of cul tivation by the art and indos:ry of man. lie could not help feeling that the House of Lords and the i igher ranks of society were of all others the least. interested in this question ot free trade. Suppose that his noble friend on his eft (the Duke of Bedford) were to find his property reduced one-fourth in value, would it be believed that it would make any very material alteration in his comforts as a British nobleman ?—pr.iuil from his high descent, and noble from his virtues. But what was the case of other classes? Look at the condition of the artizan. Stetuld he suff-r a diminution in wages, what a serious effect would it not have—how much must it lessen the comforts of his family. There could be no doubt that the proposed alteration of the law would reduce wages; anti it was chi-fly upon this groind that he was prepared to support, in his place in the House of Lords, the present system of protection to the industry of the lend. It was impossible to estimate the extent of mischief which such a measure was calculated to inflict on the country. By a rep al of the corn law they would run the risk of throw ing that vast district out of cultivation—and they would, therefore, run the risk of increasing the price of fool io the long run, in place of eff.cting any diminution. That w a s his de iherate conviction. and it was for that reason he advocated the continuance of a moderate system of protective duties. After the moat careful examination— having viewed the subject in all i's bearings—he felt can fident that the manufacturer of Manchester would, before many years, be the man to come to parliament to ask for p oteetion for the produce of his mills. Only let the corn laws he repealed, and we shall see with what competition the British manufacturer will have to contend.. Before long, the progress of science in other countries, and the advantages given to fereieners for the purpose of render ing the British agriculturist powerless in raising food tor home consumpthn, will cause the mill-owners of Man chester to supplicate Parliament to extend them protec tion for their skill, industry, and capital. Facts would soon come forth, showing that a great pressure upon the cotton-manofaciuring interest, caused, probably, in some measure, by our sending out steam-engines to facilitate the manufacture of cotton at the very place where the raw material is grown, had been to the manufacturers a fear ful notice of the risk by competing unprotected with the advancing science of other countries. The cheap loaf was a sort of last hope to there—the y thought if they could ger what was called a cheap loaf, even for a time, they might so reduce t. e wages of lab o ur, as to enable them to hold up against the tide of competition which they bad brought to bear against themselves. There might, no doubt, be some persons connected with this tree trade movement who were acted by ulterior motives; but the immediate object was personal gain. It was not for him to predict the issue of the present movement ; hut as far as regarded the House of Lords, he was assured there was not one in dividual in that ms,inbly with whom the question would weigh for one moment as to whether a repeal of the corn law would raise or depteciate the rent of land. No; the real and single question would be this—had those laws really, and in fact, tended to cheapen food by the encou ragement given to agriculture ; or. on the other hand, would the abolition of the law have the effect of increas ing the price of food ultimately, if not immediately, by de creasing the means of agricultural industry, and transfer. ing our dependence for bread from the British farmer to a foreigner, that foreigner possibly an enemy ? 'Those were the lights in which the House of Lords would regard that great question. For his own part, it was of little moment bow it might be settled. The view he took of it was no+ connected with his own property ;, he had never taken that into consideration. and he felt quite confident that his no ble friend (the Duke of Bedford) had never allowed his individual interest to interfere with his judgment upon the subject. He believed that the House of Lords collectively world only come to a decision upon the same broad and public grounds. The members of that house would only look to the p-rrnanent interest of, and with a view to the welfare of millions. The noble lord concluded by ex pressing his determination to support the petition. Several other speeches in favour of continued protection having been delivered, the petition was agreed to. GENERAL MISCELLANY. Louis Eustaco Ude, the celebrated cook, died on Fri day week, in London, in his 78th year. By the death of Mr. Ashton, of H yde, government re ceives £150,000 towards the liquidation of the National Debt. The Marchioness of Londonderry, and other noble la dies, are getting up a Waverley ball, at Willis's rooms, London, for the benefit of 'the Irish poor. On Monday, a second explosion took place at Bilston pit, Staffordshire, through one of the hands carrying a lighted candl Two men were killed. William Thomas Figgess, a boy, nine years old, com mitted suicide in London, on Sunday, by suspending himself from the stairs i❑ his mother's house. No fewer than nineteen new ships have been added to the navy. and appear in the new list for April, as ordered to he built. Of this number, thirteen are steamers. The tailors of Carmarthen have followed the example of the weavers and painters, and have struck for an ad vance of wages. The Elgin Courier states that twenty small farmers and cotters, on the land of the Duke of Richmond, at Strath bogle, have received notice to quit at Whitsun'ide. The committee of the Bridport election petition de cided, on Saturday, against the return of Mr. B. Cochrane, and in faveur of that of Mr. Rornilly. The magistrates of Newcastle appear determined to check the dangerous practice of throwing orange peel on the flags in the streets. A female was fined, on Wednes day, for the offence. The London Commbn Council have voted an address to Louis Philippe of condolence at the horrible attempt lately made upon his life, and of congratulation at his escape. _ . IMPORT OF SPANISH FLOUR INTO HULL.—In the Humber, from Cadiz. the Marys, for Hull. Her cargo consists of Spanish wheat, beans, and flour. This is the first importation of Spanish flour into Hull. A wretched female was on Wednesday, committed to prison in London for threatening to take the life of her three children. Want seemed to have occasioned tempo rary aberration of intellect. Sir William Boothby, Receiver-General of Customs, died on Tuesday. lie was the husband of Mrs. Nisbett, the popular actress, who is now, for the second time, a . widow. Tuesday night's Gazelle announces that, from and after May 1, brown Muscovado or elayed sugars will be admit ted into the United Kingdom at the respective rates of duty of £1 Ss. and 3s. 4il. per cwt. At a funeral of a Miss 11,trey, at Marston. lately, pur suant to her will, a cart laden with bread was drawn after the hearse, and the loaves were distributed to the poor in attendanr.e. An old lady, eighty-five years of age, an inmate for many years of the Widows' Retreat Almshouses, Por desley, committed su tide a few days ago by hanging her self while in a state of intoxcat'on. GRATIFYING TESTIMONIAL.—The literary contrbu •.ors to the Morning 11,rald, at out flay in number, have presented Edward Baldwin, Esq.. the proprietor of that journal, with a candelabrum, value 380 guineas. Upwards of 7000 tins of white gravel have been shipped from this city to London, since the 15th of Septe ber last. It is taken from the beach at Long Island, and used to beautify the parks and gardens of London.—New York Paper. LONGEVITY OF PAUPERS.—There are at gresent 42 Paupers residing in Cartmel district, whose united ages amount to 3,362 years, heiog an are, age of 80 years each ! The oldest of these venerable paupers is 88 years of age, and the youngest 75.—Cumberland Pacquet. The Master of Halstead Union Workhouse, Essex, hai been dismissed for reusing medical aid to female paupers during child-birth, and ernpl,iNing midwives instead of medical practitioners. A drunken midwife has also been discharged. The itev. Mr. Williams, the young clergyman who was mulct in £lOO damages at last Caaraiarthen assizes, for the seduction of a young woman, whom he had promised to marry, has since satisfactorily fulfilled his engagement ro her, and they were married on St. David's Day. Las' week, a case of preserved meat, taken from the wreck of the Fury, which was lost in the Frozen Ocean in Captain Parry's first voyage, about tweet) years since, was opened by a gentleman at Brentwood, vt hen - it was found to be as fresh as the day it was packed, and when cooked it was excellent. A curious case has occurred at Plym ,-, uth. In conse quence of some remarks made by a relative, the body of Rebecca Wyatt has been dis . nterred, atter being three months in the grave, and an inquest having been held upon the remains, the husband, William Wyatt, has been ccmmitted to jail_for_mauslauelae_r_ Two 'young couples (the brides being sisters) presented themselves on Wednesday at St. Mary's Church, Strand, London, for the purp.se ~ f bring married, but the bro ther of one of the would be benedicts put a stop to the proceedings, by informing the officiating minister that the parties did not reside in that p-4ish. THE VALUE OF "THANK You."—A fellow, found guilty the other day before B iron Rolfe, was sentenced to ten years' transportation ; he immediately looked very saucy up to the judge, and said, "Thank you." The judge, on this, recalled him, and said he should, in con sequence of that expression, fe,l it his duty to write to the Secretary of State, and request that he may be sent to a penal settlement.—Cheltenhom Examiner. FATAL COLLISION.--The barqne Falkland, of Yar mouth, which sailed from New York on the 11th March, was accidentally run down off Beachy Head on Saturday week, by the. Martha, of Guernsey, and soon after sunk. All the crew and passengers were saved by the people on board the Martha, and landed at Brighton. One of the passengers on hoard i he Falkland and one of the crew had been wrecked four times since last August. SHOCKING MuttpEß.-A man named John Rodd, a labourer, at Skipton, has been c immitted to York Castle for the wilful murder of his own daughter, about a veiir and a half old. The father is a member of a barial club, and he would have been entitled to £2 Ns. on the death of the child. Under pretence of killing verminc, he Purchasi-d some oil of vitriol, which he poured down the throat of the child whilst she was asleep in the cradle, which caused her death. _ _ A rumour, which appears to have bsen first put forth to the public by the Morning Herold, has been pretty rife during the week, that an immediate or very early disso lution of parliament will take place. We cannot discover that there is any foundation for the rumour, further than the calculations formed of the fate of the Corn 3111, and Oa chances that it may be thrown out in the Lords. Should the latter event happen, then no doubt the coun try would be appealed to forthwith ; but otherwise, we see no probability of a dissolution before the end of the session, when from the advanced age of the present Par liament it must take place. FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT. On Tuesday evening, an accident, attended witn great destruction of property, ccurred or. the Aylesbury Branch of the London and Birmingham Railway. The train in question, atttr gt-t -brig on the Aylesbury line, and proceeding about five miles aid a half, the axletree of one of the trucks sud denly broke whole the train was being propelled at the rate of nearly thirty miles an hour, and before the steam, could be 'hut off and the engine stopped, the car.iages were thrown off the line with great violence; two of the cartiages and trucks completely turned round, and the connecting shackle of the engine snapped asunder. One first class carriage, one second class carriage, the two trucks, and the luggage van were broken into many a hundred pieces; the wheel of one truck, altbough of great substance, presented the appearance of- a hoop, not a single v. tinge of a spwke remaining. The estate of S rathfieldsaye was purchased for the pre server of his country out of a sum of money voted to him by Parliament in 1815. Not one shilling of rental has the Duke of Wellington ever expended, except on im provement of the property. He neither lays by so much a year in the funds, tor does he consider himself entitled to devote the money derived horn it to his own uses. The consequence is. that go where you may, whether far or near, you wilt nowhere see a body of tenantry better lodged, being supplied with all manner of conveniences for the pros cution of their calling, than those which call the Duke of Wellington their landlord. And though the land be not 'he best that England can produce, it is every where in the highest state of cultivation of which it is susceprihle. As a mater of course, the Duke's tenants ate exceedingly well pleased with their lot. Indeed. a more popular man than he, amongst all classes of his neighbi ors, it would be hard to find. LONDON SOCIETY FOR TEACHING THE BLIND TO READ —The sixth anniversary meeting of the ahove society was held on Friday, at the Queen's Concert Rooms, Hamner-square London. The chair was teken by the Lord Bishop of Winchester. The room was filled to overfl9wing by a most respectable audience, composed almost excluSively of ladies, who appeared to take great interest in the proceedings of the scciety. From the re port read by the secretary, it appeared that the progress of the society was highly satisfactory. The school-moms had been enlarged, and the number of pupils at present in the schools had increased to 62. Of this number 14 were adults The total number of pupils received at the society's schools since the commencement of the society had exceeded 500. The income of the society, during the past year, from all sources had been £1,876 12s. 4d The expenditure doting the same period amounted to £1,742 8. 6d. At the commencement of the meeting, the children sang in excellent style an anthem (8 , 11 Psalm), and sub-equently Mu ndelssohn's Hymn of Praise. The tight rev. chairman then called upon some of the scholars to read some portions of Scripture. The manner in which they performed their task was certainly most surprising, and bore out in some degree the truth of the assertion of one of the speakers—namely, " that the intell- cis of the blind, when cultivated, had far outstripped their brethrt n in the race ;" for warty persons possessing the sense of sight, and who had even received what might be termed a liberal e , .ueation, would find themselves immeasuably distanced by these blind children in the art of reading correctly. [The Rev, J. W. Gouring, formerly of St. Mathew's Church, in this town, delivered an interestin g address to the meet ng. The reverend gentleman, though now totally deprived of sight, is still able to officiate in the pulpit of a church to which he has been appointed, near London.] EXTRAORDINARY DEATH.—On Tuesday, Mr. Wood held an inquest at Great Beatings, upon the body of Wil liam Lewis, a boy, ag. d twelve years. Lewis had been for a considerable time in the employ of Mr. Brundley, and his duty was to fetch np the cows night and morning. On Monday afternoon, when driving home the cows, he tied the tail of one round his body, and it is supposed she became frightened, as sbe3 was seen running !past some houses dragging the poor boy upon the hard road, and kicking him at intervals most violently ; after dragging him thus upwards of 100 yards and through the river, he became disengaged, and when picked up he groaned a little, but expired on his way to his master's house, his skull having been fractured in a most shocking manner. Lewis was a very quiet harmless boy, and much respected by his master.—Bury Herald. ROMANTIC ADVENTURE.—A. few days ago the ship Young England arrived in the St. Katharine's Dock from the Cape of Good Hope, under the command of Mr. Adams, who was wrecked a few years ago on the coast of New Zealand. He was made a prisoner by the natives, who treated him with barbarous cruelty, and would have put him to death but for the intercession of a daughter of ane of the chiefs. He was tattooed all over, and com pelled to adopt the same mode of life as the natives, and accompany them in their fishing and hunting expeditions. His chief food was fish, and the flesh of the wild animals he killed. He underwent a variety of adventures, and re peatedly attempted to make his escape, but was so closely watched by the natives th it he was unable to do so until he had been among them three years, when he succeeded I in eluding their vigilance, and made his escape in a canoe. After a good deal of suffering he was picked up by a ship hound to the Cape, where he was appointed commander of the Young England. His wife, who had long given him up for lost, and had worn widow's weeds, was quite over joyed on his being restored to her, and the meeting, after so long an absence, was most affecting. ATTEMPTED MURDER IN LONDON —Fhortly after nine o'clock on Saturday night last, as a lithoraphie printer, named Blewett. was returning home from his employment, and walking down Drury-lane, a yauth. named John Braham, stepped before him and fired a pistol directly at his breast. The bullet entered the lt ft brea-t and passed out at the right side. The wounded man stated that he was wholly unconscious of who had shot him, and that he had not had the slightest quarrel with any person. Bra ham took to his heels immediately ott discharging the pistol, but he was pursued and captured in Little Queen street, singularly enough the place where the murderer Wick was also arrested. A powder-flask and a number of bullets were found on his person. He was most respect ably dressed. At Bow-street he gave his name and address, and said he was a solici or's clerk, and that it was a mere accident which had occurred. His father, who is a grocer, in a most respectable way of business, expressed no con siderable surprise at his son's conduct, and added, that it was only what had been expected, as his taste for fire arms could not be checked. The bed-room of the accused contained guns, shot, powder, bullets, and moulds. The poor man, on Sunday evening, was still alive, but was not expected to survive through the night. PUDDINGS AND PASTRY OF INDIAN CORN FLOUR. Indian Pudding: Eight table spoonsful of In dian meal scalded with boiling water or milk, and mixed with a tea cup of sugar or treacle and a small piece of butter, to which adh, when nearly cold, four eggs well beaten, making a thin batter ; put into a strong cloth, and boiled three hours.— Baked Indian Pudding: Stir into one quart of boiling milk seven or eight table spoonstul of corn meal ; when moderately warm, add sugar or treacle, a little salt and ginger, four eggs, and a lump of butter the size of an egg : currants or raisins may be added.—Hasty Pudding Indian flour stirred into boil ing milk, with a little salt, and boil -d a few minutes.— Mush: Mush is made in all respects like oattne 1 por ridge. The Indian meal is generally used for this pur pose, though snore prefer the flour. It is best when al lowed to boil slowly about twenty minutes.—Pie Crusts: Paste is much lighter and requires less butter when made of equal proportions of wheat and Indian flour.—lndian Gruel: Two or three table spoonsful of Indian flour mixed with a little cold water, and then stirred into a quart of boiling water with a little salt, and boiled fifteen or twenty minutes. EYTRAORDINARY CHARGE.—At Worcester, on Tues day, Mr. Richard Farley, of Glor•ester, was committed to trial by the magistrates, charged with having torged two documents, poisoning to be wills of William Welsh, de ceased. formerly of Crnwfield Farm, near Abergavenny, with intent to defraud William Welsh's heir-at-law of a certain estate at Ashtoo Ingham, Herefordshire. The prisoner, it appears, married Hannah Wel-h, daughter of the deceased William Welsh, and some years after the death of the latter he set up a claim to the estate of Ash ton Ingham, alleging that a will had been made by Mr. Welsh in his favour. The heir-at-law (Welsh's eldest son, who took possession of the estate on the death of his father) denied the exi,terice of any will, and challenged to the proof. Alter considerable delay the prisoner, on the 13th inst , produced the alleged will at the office of Mr Daniel, solicitor, of this city, and it being declared to be a forgery. he was taken into custody. The will was dated " this day of September," no day of the month being stated, and devised the Ashton Ingham estate to the pri soner. The watermark on one of the wills bore the date of 18-11. eleven years after the date of the document. EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURE. WITH A WOLF.—Last week, a woman living in the parish of Redmarley, in the county of Worcester, on going into an out-house, ads lin ing her cottage, obsi rved what she supposed to be a large dog lying in one corner of the building ; and thinking it to belong to sonic drover, took no further notice of it. Shortly afterwards she had occasion to leave the house, - antrthe monster—which was in reality a wolf—taking ad vantage of tier absence, went in and laid itself quietly under a table. The children, three or four in number, likewise thought it was a dog ; but the youngest, about two months old, which was lying on a low bedstead in a corner of the room, looking up and beginning to cry, the savage animal rushed towards it, when a cat belonging to the family courageously attacked the intruder. Poor puss was quickly torn limb from limb; and the wolf, tarrying her remains to the ou'side of the house, proceeded to de vour them, when the eldest chid, a cripple about eight or nine years of age, had the presence of mind to shut the door. Having eaten the whole of the cat except the hind legs, the brute strove to re-enter the house. While this was going on, two men, on their way to Ledbury fair, wishing to leave their smock frocks at the cottage, went towards the door; but finding themselves ot-posed by the wolf, they procured a pike and a pitchfork, and killed it. It was in a very poor condition; and it is reported to have been seen in the neighbouring woods for some time past, having doubtless escaped from some travelling rnena genie.— Gloucester Journal. Il ottnißLE ATROCITY.—On Sunday evening week, as two ladies, Miss Elizabeth Dovor, aged 32, and her sister Jane, of the age of 17, daughters of a very large farmer at Scarside, Westmoreland, were returning home after setting off a friend who had been to see them, they were met at a place called Knipe Scar, a lone and exten sive moor lying between the village of Hack thorpe and Bampton Grange, by four labourers on the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, named John Smith, Wm Smith, Jack Gloucester, and Gunner, who committed two of the most brutal cases of tape that perhaps ever occurred in this country. There is not a house within a mile of the spot. Without any notice the scoundrels commenced most brutal attacks upon t he ladle s, by kicking and beating them in a most barbarous manner; indeed, one of the. Smiths knocked a tooth out of the hi ad of Jane, and treir bonnets and clothes were all tattered and torn to pieces. Having done so, they threw the two defenceless sisters down on the ground near the cart track, for there is no regular road on the moor, when each of the ruffians repeatedly violated their persons. At last, however. their lust hecsme satiated, and they let Jane-go, who for some time lay in a state of great exhaustion, and, on coming rotund, managed with great difficulty to reach home, leaving her sister in the hands of the four villains. On gutting hr me she presented a most frightful spectacle. and, having told what had happened, her brother Matthew immediately mounted his horse arid pilot :pet' off in search of his sister Elizabeth, but the villains, no doubt on I ear ing the clatteruog of the horse's feet, had decamped. On coming to that part of the n oar where he expected to have found her he was disappointed in doing so. for he had gallonped too far, and on retracing his steps he at last found her Ivirie on the ground unable to get up, and pre senting a h o rrid and heart-rending sight. With great difficulty he succeeded in getting her home. about ten o'clock at night ; it was before eight o'cl ck w hen the villains first attacked them. The four villains, on leaving their victims, had tiroce der] to their lodgiri,s at Little Strick lard, where they remained some time, but early in the morning :they absconded. The police Eye cut in all directions in search of them, but they have not been ap piebendtd. The respectability of the Misses Dovor arid the enormity of the crimes have given rise to much ex citement au d execration. THE LORD MAYOR'S BANQUET.—The Lord Mayor of London gate a pond banquet to her Majesty's mintstr ra on Wednesday evening in the Egyptian Hall. There were about 2tlo ladies and gentlemen ► resent, including Sir R. Peel, Sir J Graham, Mr. W. E. Gladstone, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. S. Herbert, the Earls of Ripon, Dalhousie. and St. Germans, Vi-counts Can ning, Jocelyn, and Mahon, Lord G. Somerset, Lord Lyt tletorr, Sir G. Clerk, Sir G. Cockburn. the Attorney and Selicitor-Generals, the solicitor-General for Ireland. the Lord Advocate of Scotland. Sir Robert Peel, in replying to the toast of her Majesty's Ministers, said, '• The Lord Mayor bas justly observed that this is not tt•e place, and this is not the occasion. on which to introduce any con tr..verred trpics of public policy; but I trust I way, with out exaggeration, and without arrogance say (hear, hear) that it has been the earnest desire of her Maj•sty'a ser vants, during the period they have been honoured with her Majesty's cot fidenee, to promote to the utmost of their power the welfare and comfort of her Majesty's sub jr cts, that during the period for which we hate held power the lustre of the British arms has not been tarnished— (chef re) ; that peace at home has been preserved without any harsh exercise of authority or any undue enforcement of the law .hat peace obi - cad has been tmontained with cur the sacrifice of any British interest or thecompromise of national In nour. These things we have done, and I ►rust that they have entitled us to the approbation and confidence of the c , ty of Lodon. Sir Janes Graham re plied to the toast, " be House of Corr•mona." Sir Ro hert Peel, atter alluding to the recent attempted assassi nation, proposed the Health of the Kirg of the French, and in doing so said,-1 am confident you will, by drink ing this toast with enthusiasm, express your concurrence in my earnest prayer that it may long please Almighty God to plotrct the lite of that sovereign, for the benefit of his own country, and for the advantage of the world; that by the continuance of II at life the bonds of peace may he cemented between this country and France; and while that peace endures, at d that friend y ut•derstanding is maintained, we shah have the best guarantee for con tinued ttanquility thrcughent the world. ler the advance ment of civilization, for the t remotion of the social inter ests of all classes of people. (Ct eers ) Gentlemen, I ark you to drink—'• Health and long lite to the King of the French." The toast was drank with repeated marks of enthusiasm. April 2R, PUG. A PURCHASE AT ROME.—Lord Ward has hougutvo reggio's Magdalene, of VaHeti, for £1.500. This plan was bought as rubbish when Prince Odescalchi was clear ing his gallery. On being cleaned, the gem was brought to light. An action was then brought for the recovery of it ; and it was decided that it should be sold, and the price divided between the prince and the painter. UNPARALLELED PROFLIGACY.—On Tuesclty, in the Glasgow Police -court, a ferocious looking young scoundrel was sentenced to sixty days imprisonment for si riking and otherwise maltreating his aged father and mother. On leaving the bar, in custody of an officer, he turned round to the bench, and exclaimed, " I'll make them pay sweetly for this when I come out." MONASTIC RIGOUR—SUPPOSED DISCOVERY OF Two DEATH CELLS.—Some workmen lately, in taking down an old monastic building iii Hereford, came to a prison, in which there is reason to believe same unfortunate vic tim was immured alive. A correspondent of the Here ford Tunes gives the following interesting discovery : " In taking down the south-east corner, the workmen came to a paving•stone, which, on being removed, dint. closed to view an aperture about eighteen inches by twelve in dimensions. On further examination, by removing the walls, it appeared that it was a sort of niche, five f et siS inches high, capable of containing a human form, broad at the head, and tapering to the feet, where it was ten inches broad ; it had been plastered in the interior, on the front, back, and east side ; on the opposite it was closed uti with rough wall stone; at the bottom was another paving stone, and upon a heap of collapsed bones, a glass bottle, and an earthen part, portions of the leather and high heel of shoes, and a piece of wood, which, it has been asserted, bears the marks of having been gnawed, as if the last frenzied effort to sustain a famishing and desperate nature. The fragments of the bottle and pan—for we regret to say they were broken. and the other portions carried away —the leather and the sole, and the piece of woad referred to, are before me. Was it in refinement of cruelty that these vesse:s ate deposited at the feet, where the wretched sufferer, from the straightness of the narrow ce I, could not reach the viands they contained ? Another similar niche at the south-west cornier of the wall was subsequently revealed, built up in the same manner, but standing sides. ways to the other; at the bottom of this, too, were the mournful indications of the purpose to which it had been applied d heap of bones. If the mystery banes over the history of this spot, as to its material fabric, much more must this dark deed elude the scru:iny of o.an. That such things have been, and under the most sacred pretext, is also incontrovertible. In the notes of Sir Walter . Scott's exquisite poem of ' Marmion,' we read (note xvii.) —' It is well known that the religious persons who broke , their vows were subjected to the same rnalty as the Roman vestals in a similar case. A small niche, sums cient to inclose their bodies, was made in the masrive walls of the convent, a slender pittance of food and water was deposited in it, and the awful words vade in pact" were the signal for immuring the criminal. It is not likely that, in latter times, this punishm- , t was often resorted to; but among the ruins of the Abbey of Cold-- ingham were, some years ago, discovered the remains of a female skeleton, which, from the shape of the niche and position of the figure, seemed to be that of an immured null.' " I3trtJs, aIII Dratbs. BIR 111 S. On the 12th instant, in Devon-street, the wife of Mr. 1 1 1.. EASTON of a son. On the ta; h instant, in Windsor.street, Toxte'h-park, the wile of Mr. I). L. NUN of a daughter. On the 14th instant, at the Elms, West Derby, Mrs. G. A. HO•KINq, of a son. On the fflst instant, at Relgrave-square, London, Lady CECI LA DES VOEUX, of a daughter. Same day, the wite of L s WRENCH HEYWORTH, Esq of Oakwood, tit, shire, of a son. On the Infid in tint. at Hampton-street. Tnxteth-park, the wife of Mr. M ATTU KIN THORNtON, of twin solls. Same day, the wife of Mr. SWIFT, surgeon, Ren,haw-street, of a son. Ou the 24th instant, at Allerton, Mrs. RICHARD FRY, Of a sun. MARRIED. On the 2 , th of March, at the British Mras , y. Constantinople , by the ftcv. Samuel Bennet, D.D ' JULI tN ADOLPHUS WATSON, Esq • son of John Watson, Esq.. Ma'ta, late of Pres ton, to MARY C tTHRINE, youngest daughter of the late EDWARD sTEPH ENS. Esq.. of Liverpool Ou the 14th instant at Edinburch. Mrs. ARTHUR ANDER SON, of Charlton House, near Montrose, o i .ly daughter o f Dr. Thomas Rawlins, ft.rme ly of Woodview county Cork, to Dr. INVERARITY, of Rose-mount, near Montrose, formerly head director of the East India Medical Department. The nuptials of Miss CHOI. t , ONDELEY, daughter of the . Countess (Dowager) of KO ~NEY. with the Rev. H RIDDELL, rector of Ilarriethand. were ce ebrated on Thursday week, at ; Boxley. The fair bride was given away by her noble guardian. Li rd Braytirooke; the officiating bridesmaids bring the ladies Mary, Harriet, and Sarah Marsham, (daughters of the Earl and Countess of Rom, et ), Miss Mary Haire, and the Misses Rid-. del . . Amongst the company present on the occasion were the Earl and Countess of Romney, the Countess Dowager of Romney, the Countess Cornwa lis, Lord and Lady Braybrooke, • Lady Charlotte Marsham, Hon. K. Marsham, Lany Mary Hoare, Sir Walter B. RiAell, and Lady Francis Riddell, Mr. Henri Pitt Chalm , indeiey, &c. Alter the ceremony, the hapuy Pair proceeded to Frogrial, the seat of Viscount Sydney, (uncle to the bride) from whence they purpose making a short cod- - tinental tour. On the i 7th instant, at Pudsey Church, near Bradford, York shire. by the Rev..l. W Jenkins, E KASM DS YD, Esq., o f Cashel, to ELIZABE ril, only daughter of the Rev. P. . JE,KI NS, Neural:cot of Pudsey. On the 15th instant, at Llanforst, county of Monmouth. by the Rev A. H. Price, W. F. P Esq M D., to LUCY cond daughter of the Rev. GEORGE W. GABS* Rector of Llanwet,nArth. in the same county. Same day, at St. Peter's Church, KISTOPII ER, yo un gest son of Ihe late Sir JAM ES W A I.E R. of piton to I sail EI. LA, daughter of Mr. Cl'eltlAN HILTON, of the Park, near Orton, Westmoreland On the 19th instant, at the Parish Church. Great Puiworth. by the Rev. G. H w bb2r, vicar, Mr. GEORGE Bt.BIiI\G TON. organist, of Great Budwurth, Cheshi e, to Miss ELIZA BETH GO .DACRE. of Lower Bebington. On the ',ON instant, at St. Clemen Church, Jersey, Icy the Rev. Charles Marett, Captain HENRY FRANCIS sL %TER, of the Rc yal Arttlery, to Miss CATHERINE WALCOTT, daugh ter of the late Rev. N ILLIAM GARRETT, of the Island of Barbadoes. same day, at St. Catherine's Church, Tranmere, by the Ref' B. Arthur. Mr. JOSEPH DAVIES, of Tranmere, to Miss MARY DAVIES. of C .ppechuist. in Lhe par! h of Slicrtwick• Same day, at St Phillip's Church, by the Rev. R. L ToW OS end, Mr JOHN OWENS. to Miss JANE MO BLAND. On the 21st instant, at St. Patrick's Chapel, Toxteth-park , bi the Rev. W. Parker. Mr. THOMAS WARING, flour deale r ' Stanhope street, to Miss MARY WHARTON. :ame day, at St Peter's Catholic Chapel. Se, I. street, by the Rev. Dr. Appleton, Mr. V. J. VERBRAEKEN, merchant, to ISABELLA SHEPHERD BALE. 13$ :ame day, r.t St. John the Baptist's Ch urc h . M r . AD WALTERS, to Miss ELLEN YOUNG. both of oXteth-parl , same ay, at the Pari•-h Church. F.ccle-, be the Rev, Widia'" Ma •n, the Rev. JOHN KINGSLEY, of Bowden. to LETLIV., fifth daughter of the late W. GIBSON, Esq., merchant, of th' s town. Same day, at Trinity Church, b y h e R ev. J Jackson. JOHN DUNSTA , Esq., of Higher BtOughtm, Mtnchester, ANNE EMMA SMITH. of Green-lawn. Same day, at Glasgow, EDWARD 81. HERTON. only snn Alderman EDWARD EV %NS. of Worcester, to MARGARP' daughter of the late P. FLEMING, Esq., of Glasgow. Of Same day, by the Rev. Th o ma s B ranc k er , M . A . , Fellotd, Wadham College, Oxford, WILLIAM HILL Esq.. second son of Sir Thomas Brancker. to HELEN GRAN T " daughter of DONALD SPEW RT. Esq., of Isle of Harris Same day, in St. Bernal, 's -crescent. Ediribtigh, by Pre, ll t o Dr. Candlish, JOHN rCOIT, Esq.. merchant, c , f this WW I . IsA BELLA, daughter of the I,te ALEXANDER DUNCAN. E sl of Glenderon, Linlithgowshire D• A' On the 12nd in,tant. at St Mark's Church. by•the Rev Marshall, Mr. HENRY SoNDIFO RD, to Miss ANNE GOO' both of Chester. On the 23rd instant, at St. John's Church, Liscard, ROliF ft t l o SKIPPER, Esq., of Corpus Christi Coilege, Cambridge , a HENRIETTA MA kY, daughter of S. BARROW, Esq.. tare Bath. tO same day, at St. Patrick's Chapel, Mr. GEORGE MO., ELIZA BET r HAMER. Dra Same day. at Hornbank, - near Glasgow, by the Rev. of Robson FRANCIS A. CIA NF, Esq . of this town, eldest ,?,,$$ J:rhn Clint, Esq., to SLIZABETH, second daughter of JA -u GRAHAM, Esq., of the former place. DIED. On the 15th instant.in hissBth year. Mr. SAMUEL WE' ,G Errs late waiter at the Seacombe Huta Cheshire. Same day, at New Brighton, aged 30, ANN. wife of Mr. CUI.SH A W, architect rind surveyor. Benson-street. EG same day. in We lington-terrace hist:all year, SAO LIVERE, Esq., of Ashton-nnder-la ere. 0 1 same day at Eriinhareh, ELIZ -.BETH. third daught er the late HARRY GORDON, Esq.. of this town. ?Zee Same day. in his 67th year, JOHN ASHTON. Esq.. of ton Bank, Hyde On the ipth instant, at the residence of his son•in-la W „' lira count Camden. Portman.sq uare , L ou d on, i n his 46111 Ye!", z :cot' Earl of ERROLL. Hereditary Lord High.( (instable of 9j or land. The deceased i s succee d e d i n hi s titles by h i s o nl I.ord Kilrohrriock. b n 3rd ay, 833 05/ :ame day, MARY WINIFRED. wife of Mr. L. IL TB° . Master ma day, riner. f ambridge-st eet. same El Ifs OH, yonngest daughter of Mr. J. — lt of lower Tranmere. Cheshire. •6" g 0 • e Same nay. at Lot don. in his 81st year, General Sir hoi o. DISNEY, K.C.8., Ctloriel of the 15th Regimentot FooL been in the Army since April, 083, a period of exactly Ih Same day, in Leigh-street, aged 60, ELIZABgTI 4 , Mr. HENRY CORLEsS, watch gilder. On the loth instant, of consumption, in his 27th S ear ' SEw ELI. WALLACE BROWN, of Maryport “ OP' 5' Same day, in Field-street, a g ed 99, Mr. WILLIA.'. solic a it. sine or day, at Ashbonrn-hall. In his 65th year. Sir -ILLtg BO Same OTHY, B Bart., Receive G r eneral of Customs. t i day. Genera , Sir H. BAYI.Y. O.c Bth (King's) Regiment of Foot. Thegallar t e fficer son of Colonel Nicholas Ba ly, formerly Pof Anc le ; d Same cay, in this t own , FLORA M 'I VEK , t h e 130 0 e Ltd of WM MATTIiIE, Es q . of R amse y, I s l e o f Mar. 1 ,1, Shore day, in Washin e t ou - s t ree t, age d 28, ANN JA of Mr. JAMES MOORE. Same day, t his house, near Mountainstown. Irel l C. 1 - 01. OCR. Esq, He was clerk of th• cro wn for ve c o ; mission of oyer and ttrminer and clerk of the crown 1 7pe ( ‘ l fto o e Irish counties. The death of this gentleman will Afv e Licutena t no less than fifteen appointments, as th ere a clerk of the crown for each county. 0 it i ot• On the 2 st instant. at Wavertree, aged 'a yel l-s • o arc,",Deft M MOK RAN, e'dest son of Mr. JOHN BklsTor san e day. in his 72nd year, Yr. THOMAS TEGth vibl he Cheanside, London. Same Cay, after a painful and protracted , jtP Eef bore with Christian patience and resignation. Ked 17r EE le EY son o Mr Thomas If eerey. cotton hro.„`' F IFVMIN On the 21st instant at Tours, t e R e v. WM. 0 ,, 11 lit . Js' On the 2ii 2r. instant, at Shorevell. Isle 01 b rol° GRIMES, Esq., late comptroller of Custom. at t hl 'a l 0 54.• same day, aged 20, ALFRED BYRON TFG"' College. Oxford, youngest son of the late 111,011. dr0044 of heaps.de, London. ceotia" . On the '23rd instant, at the Pl o u g h Vau:ts, - aged 43 Mr JOSEPH BISPI-I AM. daug htef °it°. Nau e day, at Stafford. aged 24, HENRIETTA. t.- 4 late Mr. EDWARD STORY, of St. Asa ph. „i u d P rnt d:ulo' Same da: ,at Lea owe Castle. after a lone Pen - „es , stifteriug. IrIENRIETrA MARIA CHRISTIN A . Y d 361 ter r f the lion. Sir EDWARD and Lady CUS'l: . , esti , On the 24th instant, after a protracted . ""..„ a orita . ` NANCY ; wife of Mr. R. BARLOW, trunk '" gr , too. Stanley street, In this OK _,,ref• e ted Sarre day, at the residence of his mother,trs- THOMAS hULI IN, aged 3... _ nro t a" r " SOO On the 26th instant, at 23. Russell-stree R oe. , ..., • &w -iliness which she bore with exemplary tr3),,r SOPHIA, the beloved wife of Mr. JAMES S' et the Liverpool Standard office. A