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C F t 'i.' Ft POETRY. DEATH SCENE. .` 0 Day ! he cannot die, When thou so lair art shining ! 0 Sun, in such a glorious sky, So tranquil:y declining. He cannot leave thee now. While fresh west winds are blowingf And all around thy youthrol brow Thy cheerful light is glowing ! " Edwar.l, awake, awake — Thy goiden evening gleams Warm arid bright on Arderi's lake— Arouse thee trcm thy dreams! " Bes'cle thee, on my knee, My dearest ! I pray That thou to cross the eternal sea, Wenldst yet one hour delay. `, I hear its billows roar— I see them foaming high ; But no glimpse of a further shore Has blest my straining eye. " Believe not what they urge Of Eden isles beyond ! Turn back, from that tempestuous surge, To thy own native land. " It is not death, but pain That struggles in thy breast; Nay, rally, Ndward, rouse again— I cannot let thee rest ! " One long look, that sore reproved me For the wce I could not hear — One mute look of suffering moved me To repeut my useless prayer ; " And, with sudden shock, the heaving Of distraction pass.cd away ; Not a sign of further grieving Stirred my soul that awful day. " Paled, at length, the sweet sun setting ; Sunk to peace the twilight breeze Summer dews, fell s',lt'y wetting Glen, and glo de, and silent trees. " Then his eyes began to weary. Weighed beneath a mortal sleep ; And their orbs grew bt.angely dreary, Clouded even as they would weep. " But they wept not—but they changed not— Never moved, and never closed : Troubled still, and still they ranged not — Wandered not, nor yet reposed " So I kflew that he was dying— Stooped, and raised his languid head ; Felt no breath, and heard no sighing— So I knew that he was dead." Ellis's Poems. NOTICES. Sharpe's London Magazine. London : T. B. Sharpe and Co., 15, Skinner-street, Snow-hill.—We have before its the half-yearly volume of this interesting miscellany, which certainly increases in merit as it progresses. For miscellaneous reading it is certainly one of the cheapest and best works extant. The illustrations are of a very high character, and would a few years ago have been deemed worthy of admiration in a work of ten times the price. The volume, a noble royal octavo 'of upwards of four hundred pages, is charged a very low figure indeed. Dublin University Magazine. Dublin : James M'Gla shan, 21, D'Oilier-s•reet.—The present number is first-. rate, in talent and interest. The first article, Evenings with our Younger Poets," is evidently the work of a man of highly poetic feeling, a poet, although, perhaps, " wanting the faculty of verse." Some of his prose poetry is very beautiful, and his selec'ions from the poetry under notice full of fine discrimination. " The Shannon, chapter x," is as good as any of its predecessors ; and that is saying much in its behalf. " Our Portrait Gal lery" contains an excellent sketch of Sir Henry Pottin ger's career, with an etching. Mr. Carleton's " Black Prophet" is continued with increasing interest ; and the other articles are above the average standard of periodical literature. Fraser's Magazine. London : G. W. Nickisson, 215, Regent-street.—Fraser this month contains some inte resting papers, although nothing of a very striking cha racter.—The first chapter of a new tale, entitled " The Rector's Daughter," promises to be very interesting; and " Contemporary Orators," Mr. Wakley and Dr. Bowring being the parties sketched, is done in a more than usual masterly style. Blackwood's Magazine. October.—lt is refreshing in the present number to meet again the fine dashing pen of Christopher North himself, which has recently been want ing in this magazine. He is on a congenial subject, more over, baying put on his sporting jacket to review St. John's wild sports and the natural history of the High lands. The number contains more than its usual quan tity of matter interesting to the general reader. Amongst the contents of this class we notice a review of " Hoche laga, or England in the New World," by Eliot War burton ; a " New Sentimental Journey," and " The Conde's Daughter." " Elinor Travis" is concluded 'very much to cur satisfaction. The characters of the' tale and the incidents are too extravagant. " Poems, by Elizabeth B. Barrett," are marked with great originality of style and beauty of thought and conception. As a whole Blackwood is more than usually good. The Fortunes of Torlogh O'Brien, No. VII.: NUGlashen. D'Olier-strcet, Dublin, continues its stirring interest. The characters of Tyrconnell and Myles Garrett are strongly drawn. and their joint villainy is the prominent subject of the present number. The Church of England Quarterly Review, Oct., London : W. E. Painter, Strand. This excellent Re view has just come to hand and contains some valuable articles, the first, in particular, a Review of Anderson's Annals of the Bible, will be read with great interest. We must, however, devote some further time to a careful perusal and notice of the who!e number. VARIETIES. An American has taken out a patent for a bee-hive, with doors. This bee-hive is to be combined with a hen roost in such a manner that the weight of the fowls when settling to roost will close the doors at night, and the removal of that weight when leaving in the morning will open them. .Music.—ln opposition to all who denounce music as the pastime and the profession of the frivolous and sen sual, I must declare that its influences will never be rightly felt, nor its practice, whether executive or creative, be carried out to the perfection of which it is capable, so Jong as it is treated as a mere aimless amusement, discon nected from every other utterance of poetical imagination. —.Henry F. Choi ley. IN'VESTIGATION.—A. drunken sailor, in riding through the streets recently, found himself seized with an irre sistible propensity to pitch forward, much to his annoy ance and to the complete sacrifice of all horsemanship. Not being able to recover his centre of gravity, and far from suspecting that the cause was in any way connected with himself, be swore that the fore-lees of his steed must be shorter than the hind, and actually stopped and measured them.—lllontreal Herald. Ma. DOMBEY'S ONE IlY2A.—The earth was made for Dombey and Son to trade in, and the sun and moon were made to giva them light. Rivers and seas were formed to float their ships ; rainbows gave them promise of fair weather ; winds blew for or against their enterprises ; stars and planets circled in their orbits, to preserve invio late a system of which they were the centre. Common abbreviations took new meanings in their eyes, and had sole reference to them. A. D. had no concern with anno Domini, but stood for anno Dombei—and Son.—Dombey and Son. On the death of Washington, Napoleon issued the fol lowing order of the day to his soldiers :—" Washington is dead I This great man fought against tyranny: he established the liberty of his country. His memory will always be dear to the French people, as it will be to all free men of the two worlds ; and especially to French soldiers, who, like him and the American soldiers, have combated for liberty and equality." Washington died possessed of many slaves, and soon after he became Presi dent, he entered into a long correspondence with Sir Isaac Head, Garter-King•cf-Arms, in this country, on the subject of his ancestry. So much for " liberty and equality." ENGLAND AND FREEDOM.—In 1772 a negro, named Somerset, was arrested in London by a man who claimed him as a runaway slave. Mr. Granville Sharp brought the case before the Lord Mayor; and by the Lord Mayor's orders Somerset was discharged from the Poultry Compter, where he had been imprisoned. The master, however, in defiance of the Lord Mayor, seized the slave and tore him away from Mr. Sharp. An action was brought against the master for assault, and the case being tried, it was finally referred to the Twelve Judges, who, after solemn argument, decided that as soon as a slave sets foot on English territory, he becomes free " Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free. They touch our country, and their fetters fall." CHEAPNESS OF AMERICAN TRAVELLING.—TraveIIing in America is just as cheap as stopping at home, As the people are all more or less anti-renters, they live in board ing-houses; and as soon as they leave the expense ceases, and they begin boarding in a steamboat instead of on the shore. For instance, the steamers at Buffalo, the best of them go twice a-day to Chigago, 1,050 miles up the lakes, for £1 125.; and three meals—good substantial meals — and an excllent roomy cabin to yourself to sleep in, be sides a splendid saloon and promenade. This is less than one halfpenny per mile board and lodging included. And as the voyage occupies five days, the total expense is about 6s. 6d. per day in a steamer—more like a ship 'of the line than our steamers. The railroad fare is one penny per mile, first class.—Rubio's Rambles. THE Moos.—The following is the appearance of the moon as seen in the great telescope of Lord Rosse, and described by the Rev. Dr. Scoresby, of Bradford :—" It appeared like a globe of molten silver, and every object of the extent of a hundred yards was quite visible. Edi fices, therefore, of the size of York Minster, or even of the ruins of Whitby Abbey, might be easily perceived if they bad existed. But there was no appearance of any thing of that nature; neither was there any indication of the existence of water or of an atmosphere. There was a vast number of extinct volcanoes, several miles in breadth ; through one of them there was a line in continuance of one, about one hundred and fifty miles in length, which ran in a straight direction like a railway. The general ap pearance, however, was like one vast ruin of nature ; and ma ny of the pieces of the rock, driven out of the volca noes, appeared to be laid at various distances." The doctor says he expects it will soon be possible to daguer reotype the image of the moon upon the speculum— which cannot be done at present, as the moon is not sta tionary ; but the earl contemplates a piece of mechanism to move the telescope to a certain distance, with a motion corresponding to the motion of the moon.—Athenceum. SUNDAY IN PARlS.—English people generally think that in Paris the people attend church in the morning, and amuse themselves in the afternoon. No such thing. Almost every place of business is open from morning till night, and workmen pass along the streets to their various occupations. Mechanics are employed as on any other day. Every place of amusement is thrown open—thea tres, ball-rooms, gaming-houses. No Englishman can discern the signs of the Sabbath, unless it is that the signs of amusement are more visible than on other days. Here is a Sabbath, good Christian people ! Heaven pre serve us from the like ! THE AGE WE LIVE IN.—We live in an atmosphere of matter of fact, the gloom and dreariness of which we sel dom allow to be dispelled by the genial warmth of the imagination. Everything is grounded upon calculation, and that of ti.e lowest kind. Every step in our progress, every move in the journey of life, is made with utilitarian views alone—with the prospect only of temporal gain or loss. We plod our weary way along, not like pilgrims and sojourners in a world of trial, but like denizens of a country which is to be ours for ever, beyond which there is no hope. We rise up betimes in the morning, and late at night do we take our rest; and upon what are our waking thoughts and our last reflections employed but grin —mean and selfish gain ? The " age of chivalry is gone," and the " poetry of life has fled." Everything around us is hard, and dry, and calculating ; thus even our works of imagination partake of this strongly marked character of the present period, and exhibits its results in striking colours. Intellectual triumphs rather than appeals to the feelings or the imagination are sought after, and their pages more frequently display sparkling wit, pointed irony, and clever sarcasm, the feats of intellectual skill, than attempts to lay bare the recesses of the human heart, and to analyse those mighty secrets which it contains.— New Quarterly Review. A LEGEND OF THE SHANNON.—Of course mystic and manifold are the legends of this part of the river, nor is this old ruin without its share of such traditional.; lore. We were told one, not a little romantic. One of its he reditary chieftains bad an only daughter, beautiful, as all such young ladies generally are. Many a doughty knight and prince came to the castle, bent on martial exploits— rather, perhaps, on errands of love and courtesy. Papa, at length, began to suspect something, and being very fond of his daughter, made one of the conditions for se curing her hand, that the inheritor of her castle should, fully caparisoned and mounted on a charger, precipitate himself from the top of the rock on which the castle is situated I This arrangement, it may be conceived, dis couraged more than one aspirant, and cooled down pretty considerably the ardour of our youthful lovers. There lay the beautiful and winding Shannon, and on each side those rich messuages and lands for him who should first attempt the deed. Love, which has many traits in com mon with other things in the world, is also blind and in constant ! the little imp laughed and giggled, and was on the point of seizing the extinguisher to place it on his flickering flame, when one intrepid and passionate lover, of not very noble blood, armed to the teeth, dashed down the perilous descent, coming safely to the ground, and winning his lovely prize.—Dublin University Magazine. LORD ELLENBOROUGH AND THE BENCH.—The same honest inflexibility of purpose, which would not brook suspicion, marked the conduct of the Chief Justice, in the trial of a horse cause, to which a certain privy councillor was party. The right honourable baronet took his seat as of right on the bench, and ventured in the course of the trial to whisper a remark to his lordship. "If you again address me, Sir William," was the grave rebuke, not delivered in a whisper, " I shall place you in custody of the Marshal." The spirit of the man of rank died within him before the stern voice of the judicial dictator, and he shortly stole away from the side cushions of the bench. The instant submission paid by all ranks to the authority of a chief who ruled the court and its precincts with despotic sway, " cuncta superczlio nigventis, ' is said to have been once exhibited in a very ludicrous manner. A storm of wind and rain had driven a regiment of West minster Volunteers to seek for shelter in the hall, when his attention was attracted by the clatter of musketry. " What is the cause of that interruption ?" vehemently demanded Lord Ellenborough. "My Laid, it is a volun teer regiment exorcising, your Ludship." " Exor cising ! we will see who is best at that. Go, sir, and inform the regiment, that if it depart not instantly I shall commit it to the custody of the tipstaff." The battalion filed off, we are assured, at the first report, with unmili tary speed.—Lives of the Judges. AN EVENING IN BOHEMIA.—Reader, should you ever visit Prague, forget not to go to the Sophein Intel ; there twice or thrice in a week plays the Palombini band. This little island has really a magical appearance on a fine au tumn evening, when, at the cool hours, numbers of wells dressed, cheerful people sit in the open air, under the lit tle grove of pollard chestnuts, and rega l e themselves and their friends with ices, coffee, chocolate, &c. ; the most substantial suppers may also be had. As the evening draws in, lamps and chandeliers, suspended from the trees, add a beauty to the scene, and it assumes the most friendly and social aspect. Should you prefer it, you can saunter round the little island, adorned with well-kept paths and beds of flowers; or on the edge of it, close to the water, guarded by a row of trees, growing on the brink, you may choose a resting-place. Through the stems and branches, some of them dipping into the water, brightly gleams the Moldau, quivering in the sun's de clining rays, end the eye then, finding an opening, may look out afar, and watch the changing hues and softening blue of land and water in the distance, while the heart muses on futurity. Meanwhile are hoard, played with the greatest precision and beauty, the finest overtures and sparkling polkas—these last not the dull imitation fashion has lately produced, but the true children of the soil, com bining so strangely sadness and mirth—Sehnsucht and Heiterkeit—that one knows not which predominates. I should be inclined to say the former, for I never listened to these tunes without feeling triste. They are singular productions; there is so much expression of feeling in them, they wind into the recesses of the heart as the chang ing passages return again avid again, and one could sit ar7d ' listen for ever.—Fracer's Magazine. HABITS OF THE llErtoN.—The heron is a noble and picturesque-looking bird, as she sails quietly through the air with outstretched wings and slow flight ; but nothing is more ridiculous and undignified than her appearance as she vainly chases the jackdaw or hooded crow who is car rying off her egg, and darting rapidly round the angles and corners of the rocks. Now and then every heron raises head and looks on the alert as the peregrine falcon, with rapid and direct flight, passes their crowded dominion ; but intent on his own nest, built on the rock, some little way further on, the hawk takes no notice of his long legged neighbours, who soon settle down again in their at titudes of rest. The kestrel-hawk frequents the same part of the river, and lives in amity with the wood-pigeons that breed in every cluster of ivy which clings to the rocks. Even that bold and fearless enemy of all the pigeon race, the sparrowhawk, frequently has her nest within a few yards of the wood-pigeon ; and you see these birds (at all other seasons such deadly enemies) passing each other in their way to and fro from their respective nests in perfect peace and amity. It has seemed to me that the sparrow hawk and wood-pigeon during the breeding season fre quently enter into a mutual compact against the crows and jackdaws, who are constantly on the look-out for the eggs of all other birds. Tile hawk appears to depend on the vigilance of the wood-pigeo❑ to warn him of the approach of these marauders; and then the brave little warrior sal lies out, and is not satisfied till he has driven the crow to a safe distance from the nests of himself and his more peace dole ally. At least in no other way can I account for these two birds so very frequently breeding not only in the same range of rock, but within two or three yards of each other.—Wild Sports and Nat. Hist. of the Highland?. DEFENSIVE POSITION OF CANADA.—When, in 1812, we came to loggerheads with our Yankee cousins, and they walked into Canada, expecting, as they now would, to walk over it, they soon found that they were to take very little by their motion. The whole number of British troops then in the colony was under two thousand four hundred men. Upper Canada was comparatively a wil derness, occupied by a few scattered labourers, difficult to organise into militia, and including no class out of which officers could he made. Yet, even with this slender oppo sition, how did the invaders fare ? Where were the glo rious results so confidently anticipated ? Let the defeat at Christler's farm, the rout and heavy loss at Qileens town, the surrender of General hall with his whole army and the territory o Michigan, reply to the question. And to-day how do matters stand ? " Within the last twenty years, several entire Scottish clans, under their chiefs— M'Nabs, Glengarys, and others, worthy of their warlike ancestors—have migrated hither. Hardy and faithful men from the stern hills of Ulster, and fiery hut kind-hearted peasants from the south of Ireland, with sturdy honest yeomen from Yorkshire and Cumberland, have fixed their homes in the Canadian forests. These immigrants, with out losing their love and reverence for the crown and laws of their native country, have become attached to their adopted land, where their stake is now fixed,and are ready to defend their properties and their government against foreign invasion or domestic treason.' The militia, com posed in a great part of the excellent materials just enu merated, is the nominal strength of 140,000 men. Of these a fourth might take the field, without their absence se- riously impeding the commerce and industry of the coun try. The Canadian arsenals are well supplied, and nearly eight thousand regular troops occupy the various garri sons. Quebec, with its strong fortifications and imposing citadel, may bid defiance to any force that could be brought against it from the States; important works have been erected upon the island of Montreal; Kingston and its adjacent forts would require a large army and correspond ing naval force to subdue it ; Toronto would give the in vaders some trouble. Defensive works exist along the frontier of Lower Canada. In no way has the security of the colonies been neglected, or the possibility of a war overlooked. But there is yet one measure whose adoption the author of " Hochelaga" strongly urges, whose utility is obvious, and we trust in due time to see carried out. This is the construction of a railroad, connecting the whole of British America; commencing at Halifax, and extend ing, by Quebec, Montreal, Kingston, and Toronto, to Amherstburg and the far west. The essential portion of the line is that from Halifax to Quebec, by which, when the St. Lawrence is closed by ice, troops might be for warded in a couple of days to the latter city. In the spring of 1847, we are told, the canals will be completed which are to open the great lakes to our fleets. For sum mer time that may suffice. But the five months' winter must not be overlooked. And apart from the military view of the case, the benefit of such a railway would be enormous. It will strengthen the intimacy between this splendid colony and the seat of government : the emigrant from home, and the produce from the west, will then pass through British waters and over British territories only, without enriching the coffers of a foreign state. The Ame ricans, with their great mercantile astuteness, are making every effort to divert the trade of Canada into their chan nels, and to make us in every way dependent on them for our communications. The drawback-bill, by which the custom-duties on foreign goods are refunded on their pass ing into our provinces, has already been attended with great success in obtaining for them a portion of our carry ing trade, especially during the winter, when our great highway of the St. Lawrence is closed.—Blackwood. THE LIVERPOOL gtANDAItn. A PROOF THAT A MAN CAN BE HIS OWN GRAND FATHER.—There was a widow and her daughter-in-law, and a roan and his son. The widow married the son, and the daughter the old gentleman. Th.; widow was there fore mother to her husband's father, and, consequently, grandmother to her own husband. They had a son, to whom she was great grandmother ; now, as the son of a great grandmother must be either a grandfather or great uncle, this boy was one or the other. He was his own grandfather! This was the case with a boy at school at Norwich.—Hood's Magazine. TEA.—The chemical constituents of tea are—volatile oil, tannic acid, and theine ; the other constituents are those commonly found in the ►eaves of vegetables. The tea owes its smell, and part of its effects to its volatile oil. The tannic acid blackens the salts of iron, as the tannic acid of oak. The theine is the most remarkable constituent. Peligot has lately discovered in tea a larger quantity of theme, besides some caseine, both of which are azotised substances. The use of carbonate of soda is advantageous in the preparation of tea, as it is in that of coffee; it in creases the power of drawing the extract out of the leaves, makes the infusion stronger, and gives it a better taste. In the ashes of tea the author found oxide of iron and ar gilla, and draws from this circumstance the conclusion, that the shrub grows and thrives on ferruginous and ar gillaceous soils, which are also in other respects favourable to the formation of ammonia, and of the azotised caseine and theine. In using tea, most persons only consume those parts which are to be extracted by water, particu larly the etherial oil, the tannate of theine, gum, and most of the soluble salts. But the tea is not exhausted by a single infusion in boiling water; at least one-third of the soluble constituents remain in the leaves, with the greatest part of the caseine. Carbonate of soda dissolves the caseine, and therefore materially increases the strength of the beverage. The theine is composed of eight atoms of carbon, four atoms of nitrogen, ten atoms of hydrogen, and two atoms of oxygen. In those countries where tea is generally taken (as England and Holland), diseases of relaxation and emmollition prevail, particularly among the female sex. Tea considerably increases the sensibility of the whole nervous system, and relaxes the digestive canal; but it certainly possesses some nutritive power, in conse quence of containing two azotised substances—theine and caseine. The increased secretion of urea and bile, subse quent to its use, shows its medicinal effect. The Chinese use the tea leaves as an emetic. Fresh tea acts, according to Percival, like opium and henbane on the nerves, and like foxglove on the function of the heart and arteries. Those men who are engaged in unpacking tea are very liable to become paralytic; the exhalations of tea produce headache, giddiness, &c. Vessels of porcelain are the best for extracting the constituents of tea; and tin boxes should always be used for Preserving it.—Chambers's Journal. HONG KONG AS A PLACE OF TRADE.—We have taken some pains to make ourselves acquainted with the capabilities of Hong Kong, and with the circumstances connected with its being chosen as a British settlement. It is situated in the neighbourhood of an immense trade, and has a magnificent harbour. These two facts are in disputable, and every body can appreciate their impor tance. Mr. Davison, in a work of much interest, lately published, entitled " Trade and Travel in the Far East," and who was for twelve months at Hong-Kong, says that " as a depot for goods intended for the Chinese mar ket, I conceive the situation of Hong Kong to be unri valled." As a decisive proof of the eligibility of Hong Kong as a place of trade in the eyes of the Chinese them. selves, he mentions that some of them have paid immense sums for ground on which to build stores there. In re gard to climate, there can be no doubt that it has proved unfavourable, but this disadvantage is shared by Chusan, the only other place named as suitable for our settlement, and probably by any locality along the coast which could be thought of for such a purpose. Much of the unhealthi ness of all these places seems referable to temporary and super ficial causes—to paludal miasma, exhal,rtions from deserted rice grounds, as well as from naturally swampy spots in the ravin: s, and from the brushwoods growing and rotting there. This we gather from the important work of Dr. Wilson, inspector of our naval hospitals and fleets in China, lately published, and entitled " Medical Notes on China." The writer holds (p. 164) that acci cental circumstances have helped to fix on the climate of Hong Kong, at the commencement of its colonial history, a much worse character than it will be found to deserve. One main ground arises from his remark, that there ap pear to be in China great periodic physical movements— times of exacerbation of disease, with long intervals of remission ; and that the accumulation of the causes of endemic being now discharged, a period of comparative immunity will follow. It may thus be that our first ap pearance in China synchronized with a cycle of disease, and that attention being directed to the removal of excit ing causes, the climate will not be found permanently un favourable to Europeans. There appears to be no reason to blame the government for selecting Hong Kong as the site of our English colony, and none, certainly,for reflect. ing on our envoy in regard to that transaction. The choice rested between this place and Chusan. It will be remembered what an outcry there then was against the latter place, on the ground of its unhealthiness. It ought also to be known that Hong Kong was selected by Mr. Eliot, the predecessor of Sir Henry Pottinger, and that the latter found many costly public works erected and in progress there, and large sums of money expended both publicly and privately on the island. In this state of af fairs, Sir Henry Pottinger referred the choice of the place for our settlement to the ministers at home, stating the comparative advantages of the two places under conside ration, Chusan and Hong Kong, and on what was, we believe, a just estimate of their merits, the government decided for Hong Kong.—Dublin University Magazine. THE BADGER..—Notwithstanding the persecutions and indignities that he is unjustly doomed to suffer, I maintain that he is fa: more respectable in his habits than we gene rally consider bim to be. " Dirty as a badger," " stink ing as a badger," are two sayings often repeated, but quite inapplicable to him. As far as we can learn of the domestic economy of this animal when in a state of na ture, he is remarkable for his cleanliness--his extensive burrows are always kept perfectly clean, and free from all offensive smell; no filth is ever found about his abode; every thing likely to oflend his olfactory nerves is carefully removed. I, once, in the north of Scotland, fell in with a perfect corny of badgers; they had taken up their abode in an unfrequented range of wooded rocks, and appeared to have been little interrupted in their possession of them. The footpaths to and from their numerous holes were bea ten quite hard ; and what is remarkable and worthy of note, they had different small pits dug at a certain distance from their abodes, which were evidently used as recepta cles for all offensive filth ; every other part of their colony was perfectly clean. A solitary badger's hole, which 1 once had dug out, during the winter season, presented a curious picture of his domestic and military arrangements ; a hard and long job it was for two men to achieve, the pas sage here and there turned in a sharp angle round some projecting corners of rock, which he evidently makes use of when attacked, as points of defence, making a stand at any of these angles, where a dog could not scratch to en large the aperture, and fighting from behini his stone but tress. After tracing out a long winding passage, the workmen came to two branches in the hole, each leading to good-sized chambers ; in one of these was stored a con siderable quantity of dried grass, rolled up into balls as large as a man's fist, and evidently intended as food ; in the other chamber there was a bed of soft grass and leaves —the sole inhabitant was a peculiarly large old dog-bad ger. Besides coarse grasses, their food consists of various roots ; amongst others, I have frequently found about their hole the bulb of the common wild blue hyacinth. Fruit of all kinds and esculent vegetables form his repast, and I fear that he must plead guilty to devouring any small animal that may come in his way, alive or dead ; though, not being adapted for the chase, or even for any very skilful strategy of ear, I do not suppose that he can do much in catching an unwounded bird or beast. Eggs are his delight, and a partridge's nest with seventeen or eighteen eggs must afford him a fine meal, particularly if he can surprise and kill the hen-bird also; snails and worms which he finds above ground during his nocturnal rambles, are likewise included in his bill of fare. I was one summer evening walking home from fi hing in Loch Ness, and having occasion to fasten up some part of my tackle, and also expectin g to meet my keeper, I sat down on the shore of the loch. 1 remained some time, enjoying the lovely prospect : the perfectly clear and unruffled loch lay before me, reflecting the northern shore in its quiet water. The opposite banks consisted, in some parts, of bright green sward, sloping to the water's edge, and studded with some of the most beautiful birch-trees in Scotland ; several of the trees spreading out like the oak, and with their rag ged and ancient looking bark resembling the cork-tree of Spain—others drooping and weeping over the edge of the water in the most lady-like and elegant manner. Parts of the loch were edged in by old lichen-covered rocks; while farther on a magnificent scar of red stone rose perpendi cularly from the water's edge to a very great height. So clearly was every object on the opposite shore reflected in the lake below, that it was difficult, nay impossible, to distinguish where the water ended and the land commenced —the shadow from the reality. The sun was already set, but its rays still illuminated the sky. It is said that from the sublime to the ridiculous there is but one step ;—and I was just then startled from my reverie by a kind of grunt close to me, and the apparition of a small waddling grey animal, who was busily employed in hunting about the grass and stones at the edge of the loch ; presently ano ther, and another, appeared in a little grassy glade which ran down to the water's edge, till at last I saw seven of them busily at work within a few yards of me, ail coming from one direction. It at first struck me that they were some farmer's pigs taking a distant ramble, but I shortly saw that they were badgers, come from their fastnesses ra ther earlier than usual, tempted by the quiet evening, and and by a heavy summer shower that was just over, and which had brought out an infinity of large black snails and ap petiteworm s . , on A s w cwhathe dressedbadgers in grey fe a e n d d i ng sittingw with on a greyh good rock, they did not see me, but waddled about, sometimes close to me ; only now and then as they crossed my track they showed a slight uneasiness, smelling the ground, and grunting gently. Presently a very large one, which I took to be the mother of the rest, stood motionless for a mo ment listening with great attention, and then giving aloud grunt, which seemed perfectly understood by the others, she scuttled away, followed by the whole lot. I was soon joined by my attendant, whose approach they had heard long before my less acute ears gave me warning of his coming. In trapping other vermin in these woods, w e constantly caught badgers—sometimes several were found in the traps ; I always regretted this, as my keeper was most unwilling to spare their lives, and I fancy seldom did so. His arguments were tolerably cogent, I must confess, When I tried to persuade him that they were quite harm less, he answered me by asking, " Then why, sir, have they got such teeth, if they don't live, like a dog or fox, on flesh ?—and why do they get caught so often in traps baited by rabbits ?" I could not but admit that they bad most carnivorous-looking teeth, and well adapted to act on the offensive as well as defensive, or to crunch the bones of any young hare, rabbit, or pheasant that came in their way."—Wild Sports and Natural History of the Highlands. SEPULCHRAL MONUMENTS. (From a paper read before the Archceological Society, of Sussex, by Edwin Keet, Esq.) The consideration of the various modes of sepulture, and the forms and ceremonies of different nations used in the interment of the dead, is a subject, if not the most Pleasing, yet replete with interest to the Antiquary and lover of the history of past events. " After life's fitful fever, we sleep well ;" and Shakspere says " our little life is rounded with a sleep." Volumes have been written upon marriage ceremonies, funeral processions, and the modes of interment of the dead by different nations. I shall, in this brief paper, enumerate a few of the most striking impressive modes of sepulture, beginning with the Cromlech, Cairn, and the Barrow, as most peculiar to the islands of Britain. The Cromlech, of Stonehenge, on Salisbury Plain, Kit's Coty House, in Kent; those in Cornwall, Wales, in Ireland, Scotland, and many parts of the Continent, are probably the most ancient modes of sepulture of which we possess any relics. A variety of opinions are, however, indulged in regarding their origin bnd end. One affirms they are altars from Druidical sa crifices; another avows they are sepulchral monuments, where the once mighty now repose in death. A third as serts that they are, more particularly that at Stonehenge, immovable observatories for astronomical observations. These conflicting opinions, like those entertained upon the uses of the Round Towers, will probably never be fixed satisfactorily to all parties ; and if we consider how vague and uncertain many of our conjectures are upon the ancient Etruscans, their monuments, sepulchral caves, and Cyclopean walls, I know not why our gigantic Crom lech may not be part of their history, power, and majestic skill, now passed away for so many ages. The Cairn is more open to satisfactory elucidation than the Cromlech : these abound more in Scotland, Wales, and Ireland than in England. Some of these vast heaps, these monumen tal piles, upon which the passing traveller casts his solitary stone in token of respect for the dead, had one flat slab upon their apex, upon which sometimes fires were kindled as beacons ; at others, sacrifices offered to the manes of the deceased. Warlike instruments, ornaments of the dress, urns containing bones and ashes, have been fre quently discovered on Cairns, as well as in the vicinity of Cromlechs. And when Messrs. Rolfe, Roach, Smith, Fairholt, and myself, explored in the Isle of Thanet, some Saxon graves, which had been cut into by the Can terbury and Ramsgate branch of the South-Eastern and Dover Railway, we came across a small Cairn of great antiquity. Around the head of the horse, the antlers of the deer, and many other bones, fragments of many urns, &c., were placed a vast number of huge boulder stones of flint, in a circular form, enclosing the urns, fragments of which had the Romish potters' names upon them, mixed up with the bones of the animals which bad probably been immolated upon this rude shrine. Up to the present time, the Scottish Highlander repeats the'old proverb in token of respect, " I will add a stone to your Cairn ;" but the Welshman says, when he imprecates, "May the stone of your cairn lay heavy on your head." Some au thors have supposed Cairns to have been rude temples or mounds for religious worship and sacrifice, as well as for monumental tombs. Barrows were used by the ancient Greeks. Homer alludes to those erected as tributes of affection to the memory of departed heroes!! Herodotus describes the barrow of Croesus, King of Ly dia, as a vast mound of earth raised on a lofty basement of many huge stones. This grand monumental barrow was 200 feet high, and three-quarters of a mile in circum ference. Many smaller ones were in its vicinity ; some ornamented with the figures of animals, and others with pillars with inscriptions. Mr. Jefferson discovered some very large ones in America, with multitudes of human bones. Stackhouse, from his extensive observations, thought barrows in England and Scotland were admirably adapted, from their situation and eminence, for direct and speedy communication, without impediment or interrup tion. This favours the opinion of their being also used as beacons, with materials kept ready on their tops for ignition. Sir Walter Scott vividly describes the firing of these beacons from hill to hill. The Egyptians, Greeks, and early Christians buried their dead in catacombs. Those in Egypt, near Thebes, have a prodigious number of entrances, and a countless number of catacombs. When I was in Egypt I witnessed the blasting by gun powder of many Greek and early Christian catacombs ; this idle destruction was for the purpose of procuring masses of stone to finish the fortifications of Alexandria. These explosions laid bare a most beautiful Greek sarco phagus, which was got out with slight damage; and my son took a sketch of it—the figures were male and female gracefully reposing under the palm tree, with heads of Apollo and other deities. The catacombs, without the walls of Rome, by the kindness of Mr. Gibson, the sculp tor, I have also explored. I was under ground with a party of ladies and gentlemen nearly two hours, the en trance being so small that only one person could proceed at a time. We soon found, as we advanced, long streets or passages full of catacombs, the bones completely turned into earth, literally, when we touched them, to dust ; these streets of catacombs we supposed to have extended more than a mile.and-a-half, indeed they appeared like a small city of refuge for the early Christians, where the living and dead alike escaped persecution and destruction by the tyrants of Rome. The subjects of tombs is full of interest. The Persian tomb is a circular building, open at the top, about sixty feet diameter, within this is a well of eighteen or twenty feet diameter ; around this well the earth is piled up 25 feet in height. There are three par titions in the Persian tomb—one each for men, women, and children, the bodies are left to feed the vultures, af terwards the bones are collected and thrown into the well by the friends of the deceased. Subterranean passages leading to the well allow of the occasional removal of the bones to prevent its filling. The ancient sepulchres of Russia and Siberia are per fect tumuli of great height—they are encompassed with a high wall of large stones placed in an erect position. The +cmbs of the Turks and Moors are generally of a simple form, except the shiek or priest's tomb, which is a hum ble imitation of the Caliph's tomb; the city of Caliph's tombs, near Grand Cairo, are objects of great majesty and interest. I climbed a tower of one of these magnificent tombs, and the prospect was quite enchanting, the whole city of Cairo, Boulac, the Pyramids, the hills were all be fore me in vast perspective. No traveller should cross the desert on the overland route to India without seeing the Caliph's tombs, but they are generally so hurried off from Alexandria on their overland route to India, that they get but a passing glimpse of the obelisk of Cleopa tra, and Pompey's majestic pillar, with its nearly defaced Greek inscription. At Anchiale was once seen this in scription upon the tomb of Sardanapalus, which king, with his luxuriant magnificence, called forth the genius of our Byron,—" Sardinapalus built Anchiale and Tarens in one day ; go, traveller, eat, drink, and be merry, the rest is nothing." The catacombs of Syracuse are full of recesses and chambers, with a flat circular roof and opening to admit light at the top. In Malta they are cut out of the rock in galleries ; and in Syria and Palestine massive.stone doors, moving on pivots, close in the dead. Various also are the opinions of the learned regarding the Pyramids of Egypt. It is certain that they have contained sarcophagi. Herodotus thought the form emblematical of human life, certai❑ it is the pyramidal shape is best calculated for length of duration ; some have thought them to be erected for astronomical purposes, while some French philoso phers have been of of opinion they are mere standards of measure. Denon favoured the latter opinion, while Vol ney thought the ancient Egyptians acquainted with elec tricity, and that as Egypt suffered from drought, and as immense masses of vapours pass from the Mediterranean to the mountains of * Abyssinia, these gigantic artificial mountains might interrupt their passage, and cause rain to descend upon the parched plains. The conjecture might in some degree receive sanction from the immense figure of the Sphinx, which not being a commemorative monument, more connected with the rites of sepulture, was probably intended to denote the two signs of the Zo diac, the Virgin and the Lion, through which the Sun passes during the innundation of the Nile. But among all the various modes of sepulture I have witnessed abroad, perhaps next to the almost unimpaired grandeur of the Egyptian Pyramids and catacombs should be considered the Etruscan sepulchres hewn out of a rock, which are seen only by torch light, outside the walls of Voltera. Here, in this rock, closed in by a single slab of stone at the narrow entrance, with a pillar of the natural rock left standing in the centre, you see three tiers of sar cophagi, composed of alabaster, marble, and stone, all with rudely carved, but bold figures of the deceased, de scribing his profession, or her loving, amiable and water , nal quality. The poet is gracefully reclining, with his el bow leaning on a pile of books; the lawyer and senator pleading, with divers other alegorical and illustrative de signs. In these rich, but externally unnoticeable and humble burial eaves, the Etruscans' last historical monu ments escaped the ravages of the haughty Romans, who little knew, as they strode over the subjugated soil of their more humble predecesEors, the monumental trea sures that were tranquilly reposing beneath their warlike and world conquering tread. It is something to have been at the top of that—the loftiest pyramid—to have gazed from the top of St. Peter's upon the vast Campagna where the tombs of Crecilia, Metellu of Plautus, the Eo ratii and Curatii, and a number of other vast sepulchral monuments, stand in their lovely grandeur, like giant skeletons of a departed world ; but you cannot gaze on the tomb of Nero, the pyramidal monument to Caius Cestius so near the strangers' burial ground, where Shelly and Keats, with so many other noble English, take their last rest in a foreign soil, without feelings of awe and hu mility, and how little our modes of perpetuating a recol lection of the venerated dead, compared with these, ap pear in our churches and churchyards. It is a subject of congratulation that the custom of interment in Christian churches, which began in the fourth century, by deposit ing the clergy there, is now falling, happily, into disue tude ; and it is a consummation devoutly to be wished, that our churchyards may, like that remarkable and pic turesque one of Dartford, in Kent, be made yet more beautiful and solemn, by planting cypress and other trees, laying out walks, fixing seats, erecting monuments, like those of Pere le chaise, Kensal Green, St. James's at Li verpool, and the new cemetery at Gravesend, and many others. This is by far the preferable mode, than that our deceased friends should lie incold obstruction and to rot within the walls of populated cathedrals and churches, a most unhealthy mingling of the quick with the dead. Never shall I forget the impression felt at visiting the grand sublime cemetery, without the walls of Belogna, the Campo Santa at Pisa, and the last resting place of Smol lett in the interesing necropolis at Leghorn—requiescant in pace. EPIGRAM. The following epigram in Latin and English was corn - posed by the Rev. Charles Wordsworth, M.A.., Warden of Trinity College, Perthshire, on the occasion of laying the foundation stone of the chapel by Sir John Gladstone Mactus honore novo, proprio cngnomine hetus Fun darnenta domOs Virque Lapis que jacit. Quem Lretus lapis ipse jacit, lapis auspice lmtus Stet, stet, in ae tern= mactus honore novo. In honours new for high deserts arrayed , Gladstone, auspicious name, this basement laid. Glad stone, laid here by Gladstone's bounteous hand, Still blest with honours new, for ever—ever stand EXTRACTS FROM MR. DICKENS'S WORK, "DOMBEY AND SON." INTRODUCTION TO THE FIRM. Dorabey satin the corner of the d;kenedl room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his constitution were analogous to that of a muffin, and it was essential to toast him brown while he was very new. Dombey was about eight-and-forty years of age. Son about eight-and-forty minutes. Dombey was rather bald, rather red, and though a handsome well-made m,,n, too stern and pompous in appearance to be prepossessing. Son was very bald, and very red, and though (of course) an undeniable fine infant, somewhat crushed and spotty in his general effect, as yet. On the brow of Dombey, Time and his brother Care had set some marks, as on a tree that was to come down in good time—remorseless twin they are for striding through their human forests, notching as they go—while the countenance of Son was crossed and recrossed with a thousand little creases, which the same deceitful Time would take delight in smoothing out and wearing away with the flat part of his scythe, as a preparation of the surface for his deeper operations. Dombey, exulting in the long-looked for event, jingled and jingled the heavy watch-chain that depended from below his trim blue coat, whereof the buttons sparkled phosphorescently in the feeble rays of the distant fire. Son with his little fists curled up and clenched, seemed, in his feeble way, to be squaring at existence for having come upon him so unexpectedly. " The house will once again, Mrs. Dombey," said Mr. Dombey, •' be not only in name but in fact Dombey and Son ; Dom-bey and Son !" PROFESSIONAL QUACKERY. Doctor Parker Peps, one of the Court Physicians, and a man of immense reputation for assisting at the increase of great families, was walking up and down the drawing room with his hands behind him, to the unspeakable ad miration of the family surgeon, who had regularly puffed the case for the last six weeks among all his patients, friends, and acquaintances, as one to which he was in hourly expectation day and night of being summoned, in conjunction with Doctor Parker Peps. " Well, Sir," said Doctor Parker Peps, in a round, deep, sonorous voice, muffled for the occasion, like the knocker ; " do you find that your dear lady is at all roused by your visit ?" " Stimulated, as it were ?" said the family practitioner, faintly, bowing at the same time to the Doctor, as much as to say, " Excuse my putting in a word, but this is a valuable connexion." Mr. Dombey was quite discomfited by the question. He had thought so little of the patient, that he was not in a condition to answer it. He said that it would be a sa tisfaction to him if Doctor Parker Peps would walk up stairs again. "Good ! We must not disguise from you, sir," said Doctor Parker Peps, " that there is a want of power in Her Grace the Duchess—l beg your pardon ; I confound names ; I should say in your amiable lady. That there is a certain degree of languor, and a general absence of elas ticity, which we would rather--not—" " See," interposed the family practitioner, with another inclination of the head. _ _ _ " Quite so," said Doctor Parker Peps, " which we would rather not see. It would appear that the system of Lady Cankaby—excuse me : I should say of Mrs. Dom bey : I confuse the names of cases—" " So very numerous," murmured the family practitioner —" can't be expected I'm sure—quite wonderful if other wise—Doctor Parker Peps's West End practice—" " Thank you," said the Doctor, " quite so. It would appear, I was observing, that the system of our patient has sustained a shock, from which it can only hope to rally by a great and strong—" " And vigorous," murmured the family p"actitioner. " Quite so," assented the Doctor—" and vigorous ef fort. Mr. Pilkins, here, who from his position of medical adviser in this family—no one better qualified to fill that position, I am sure." " Oh!" murmured the family practitioner. from Sir Hubert Stanley ! " You are good enough," returned Doctor Parker Peps, "to say so. Mr. Pilkins, who, from his position, is best acquainted with the patient's constitution, in its normal state (an acquaintance very valuable to us in forming our opinions on these occasions), is of opinion with me, that nature must be called upon to make a vigorous effort in this instance; and that, if our interesting friend the Countess of Dombey—l beg your pardon; Mrs. Dombey —should not be—" " Praise Able," - ;aid the family practitioner. "To make that effort successfully," said Doctor Parker Peps, " then a crisis might arise, which we should both sincerely deplore." With that, they stood for a few seconds looking at the ground. Then, on the motion—made in dumb show—of Doctor Parker Peps, they went up stairs ; the family practitioner opening the room door for that distinguished professional, and following him out with most obsequious politeness. MR. WAKLEY'S PERSEVERANCE AND STYLE OF SPEAKING. (From Fraser's Magazine.) An amusing instance of Mr. Wakley's determined per severance occurred on the last day but one of the session which has just closed. All the public business had been disposed of; the paper containing the notices of the pro ceedings for the day was, with one exception, a blank ; and but few members were present in the house. Among them were the Home Secretary and his underlings, and a few members notorious for their approval of the Poor law. Sir George Grey was observed, every now and then, to turn an anxious eye to the green door, evidently hoping that some one would or would not make his appearance. The explanation was found in the notice-paper. The one exception to the general blank consisted of a notice by Mr. 'Wakley that he would bring before the house the case of the Haydock Lodge Lunatic Asylum. This was the shadow that darkened their fair prospect of a holiday. But Mr. Wakley might be persuaded or cajoled into giv ing way, or he might not come; and so the threatened exposure, which the government had reason to dread, might not be made. At length in came Mr. Wakley, who strode up to his seat with an awful air of determination. Now the play began. First some personal friend of the hon. member, and supporter of the Poor-law, began talk ing to him in a friendly way, urging how inconvenient it would be thus, at the very last gasp of the session, to bring forward a long series of charges. But Mr. Wakley only shook his head and knit his brows, folding his arms with a sly smile, as much as to say, No, it won't do. This shot having missed, Sir George Grey went across to the immovable tribune, and, with the blandest air of aris tocratic condescension, put to him how extremely outrc: would be his threatened proceeding; that there was scarcely a house to listen to him ; that the country would overlook the case ; that the doors of the Home-office would be open to him ; that every justice should be done, and so on : but it was of no avail. Even Sir James Gra dam could not have succeeded. Then how much less Sir George Grey ! The honourable member was still obdu rate. Another scheme was then tried. A message came down from the House of Lords, demanding a conference. It was the Home Secretary's duty to name the members. When the list was read, it was observable that the Speaker pronounced the name of Mr. Wakley with peculiar em phasis and unction ; for he, too, would not have been sorry had the honourable member relented. One by one the members went up to the Lords, Sir George Grey himself at their head ; but Mr. Wakley, who seemed irate at what he supposed a manoeuvre to defeat his object, flatly refused to stir. He was afraid lest in his absence some scheme should be devised to defeat him. Folding his arms, he stretched himself at full length on his seat, saying, in reply to calls on him to go, " No, no, I shall lose my chance !" And there he remained obdurate, alike to the tetchy remonstrances of the Home Secretary and the earnest pleading of his friends. Constituted as the House of Commons is, it required no ordinary amount of moral courage thus to persist in the discharge of a troublesome and self-imposed duty. At last he rose and made a speech of several hours' duration, full of extraor dinary details, and his reward came in due time when the newspaper reports appeared, and it was found that he had given a last kick to the Poor-law Commission. A man with such perseverance in a cause where the credit is often in inverse ratio to the trouble, must succeed, and deserves to do so. Mr. Wakley's style of speaking is the most simple and unaffected. He has been too busily engaged in the hard work of life to have had much time to bestow on oratory. He has the appearance of a provincial, and has also the accent of one; the associations thus excited still further negative the idea of polish or preparation. You might fancy, but for the knowledge of passing events, not less than of subjects of higher order, which his speeches dis play, that be was some country farmer suddenly smitten with a passion for speech-making. The structure of his speeches is quite inartfficial, and the language usually the most simple and colloquial of every-day life. It is plain, even homely, without being inelegant ; a manliness of sentiment and a quiet self-possession in the speaker, im part a kind of dignity to the most ordinary expressions. Mr. Wakley does not so much make speeches, as deliver the thoughts which burden his mind on any given subject, with frankness and sincerity. Even hard words do not come offensively from him, such is his good-humour and the amenity of his disposition. He constantly displays great shrewdness of perception, unmasking the motives of opponents with a masterly power, and, at the same time, with an avoidance of coarse imputation. Yet be can be sarcastic when he chooses ; but his sarcasm is more in the hint conveyed, and in the knowing look of face and tone of voice, than in any positively cutti ng ex pressions. He handles the scalpel with delicacy and skill, never cutting deeper than is absolutely necessary. Some of his " points" have, from time to time, told remarkably well ; such, for instance, as that in which he described the Whig ministry as being made of " squ eeza bl e " ma terials- That one expression contributed considerably towards gaining for him the position he holds in the esti mation of the House of Commons. Upon the whole, Mr. Wakley contrasts favourably with his colleague in the representation of Finsbury. At first sight he is not so captivating or prepossessing as Mr. Duncombe, but he has more sterling stuff in him, and is, in all probability, more to be depended upon. Appear ances are against him ; they are in Mr. Duncombe's fa vour. The latter has a careless, thoughtless,—nay, if one may be allowed the term,—an innocent expression of countenance : the former has a peculiar habit of contract ing the eye-brows ; and a keen and restless eye and peer ing expres s i on se t you at fi rst on your guar d as against a scheming, designing man, not overburdened with scruples or with the milk of human kindness. But the longer Duncombe speaks, the less strong is the prestige in his favour, the more suspicious you grow that he is careless of everything except personal display and producing an effect. Mr. Wakley, on the other hand, wins on you as he proceeds. The frown relaxes ; the face, welch had been too pale for an earnest man, recovers its colour, and a good-humour or an evident sincerity propitiate favour and confidence. As has already been said, Mr. Wakley Oct. 6, 1846. rather takes up questions for their own sake, Mr. Dun combe for his own. With the latter it is all holiday work and fun : Chartism is a capital stake to gamble with. True, he sometimes sails rather close to the wind, but there is pleasure in the risk : it is like yachting in rough weather; the excitement balances the danger. But with Mr. Wakley, grievance -hunting is a very serious business. It is the occupation of his life. As his time is very valu able, be might do better with it than bestow it on the public; yet he works away harder than ever. Be cer tainly makes greater sacrifices than Mr. Duncombe, if he does not win quite as muc h e ph emera l app l ause , or obtain it quite as easily. It may be urged that his patri otism is all prospective ; at least, however, he pays down a heavy deposit. Upon the whole, too, be has done much good, if, in the course of his career, he has also caused some evil. The errors of the Lancrt, and the occasional violences of an enterprising demagogue determined to rise in the world, may be forgiven in the man who has done so much to unmask the minor tyrannies which oppress the pauper population of this country. A SCENE AT A GOVERNOR'S BALL. A nice tale is told how a member of the legislature of Washington showed himself to be quite au fait in high life in the great republic. We say nothing about the richness of the scene generally, a most graphic account of which is, I - owever, given in the New York Spirit of th Times. The following is a goad extract:— " Hark ! the clatter of knives and forks is interrupted by the cry of ' Waiter ! eb ! here, here boy—you feller— give us some of that ere pudding.' Dis here, sar, am not pudding—it am de werrr, werry best of cream,' replied the sable attendant. ' Well, niver mind,' said the gentleman, just give some of it ;' whereupon helping himself to a plate full, and not finding a small spoon bandy, or thinking it would take too much time, he put a tablespoon in requisition to facilitate despatch. The first spoonful was enough. Twisting and turning the cream from one side of his mouth to the other, yet still finding the cold undiminished, he resolved to try the dernier resort of ejecting it on the carpet. ' Look here,' exclaimed he to the waiter, ' just place this on the stove and get it warm, it is too d—d cold ! You'll get all my teeth aching like the devil, and I should not wonder if I had a swelled face—a pretty condition that would be to speak on the Oregon question, to morrow.' Why, sar, dat am ice cream ! ' Put it on the stove and get it warm, I tell you.' No sooner said than done ; the plate was put on the stove, which was heated as they well know how to do it when the quicksilver on the thermometer indicates its neighbourhootho zero, and there left by the astonished black. After some minutes had elapsed, sambo was summoned to fetch that ere plate.' Why that aint what 1 gave you,' saluted the ears of the confounded waiter. ' Yes, sar, that um de cream,' replied he, as well as his bewildered faculties would let him. ' You be darned !—I gave you pudding, I did'nt give you cream nor custard. Where's that ar plate I gave you lust ?' ' Dat am the very identical plate as you had the honor of handing me in the first place. sar,' replied poor sambo ' You git along, you son of darkness;' but so uncon trolable was the laughter, that no satisfactory explanation was given the worthy member from o—." SPORTING I NTELLIGENCI. CHESTER AUTUMN MEETING. THURSDAY. There was a tolerably numerous company. The first race was the II ooton Stake, which was won by Mr. Tem pest nas Lucy, beating perpetual Motion and British Tar. Won easy. The Grand Stand Stake was won by Mr. Mostyn's f by Lanercost—L'Hirondelle beating c by D'Egville and Cha peau Rouge. Won by half a length. The Saracen's Head Handicap was won by Mr. W. Scott's Driffield, beating Psalmsinzer, Laura, and two others. Won by two lengths. The Selling Stake was won by Mr. Flintoff's The Rhine, beating Els others. Heats. Won easy. FRIDAY. The Mostyn Stake was won by Mr. T. Dawson's c by D'Egville, beating Sharston and Lanercost. Won easy. The Chester Handicap Stake was won by Mr. W. Smith's Master Downes, beating Romance, Spithead, Patriot, The Prince, Erin-go-bragh, c by Touchstone— Laura, and Factory Girl. Factory Girl took the lead, with all the horses well up. Master Downes came up at the Castle turn, and won cleverly by a length. Spithead was beat about the same distance by the second. The Helter Skelter Handicap was won by Mr. Meik lam's c by Touchstone, beating Fair Rosamond, British Tar, Factory Girl, Lady Sarah, Alice, and Juvenal. Heats. Won cleverly. NEWMARKET FIRST OCTOBER MEETING. TUESDAY. For the Buckenham Stakes Col. Peel's King of Naples received forfeit. The Hopeful Stakes was won by Col. Peel's Isis, beat- ne Vice-onsul and five others. Won by a lengthi. The Grand Duke Michael Stakes was won by Colonel Anson's lago, beating Sir Tatton Sykes by a length. Match.—Auricula beat Leopard. WEDNESDAY. The Handicap SweeP;t;ieVOl2o cove each was won by Mr. Pemberton's Best Bower, beating Skeleton and African. Won by two lengths. Match—.£29l3. h ft—Lord Ordford's Blackie beat Sir J. Hawley's Humdrum. Won easy by a length. The Plate of £5O was won by Mr. Pemberton's Best Bower, beating Alcunt Callan, Beaumont, Glory, and Nutleaf. Won by a length. The St. Leger Stakes was won by Lord E. Russell's Sting, beating Footstool, Joy, and Tugnet. A good race. Won by half a length. THURSDAY. The Town Plate was won by Col. Synge's Mount Cal an, beating Humdrum and Radulphus. Won by half a .ength.. Match, 100 sovs., was won by Mr. Mostyn's Vice Con sul, beating Black Cat by a neck. Match, 200 sovs., 50 feet, was won by the Duke of Bedford's Paragon. beating Missed Stays. The Rutland Stake was won by Mr. Moystyn's, beat ing Docrine, f. by Hctman Platoff, and Palma. Won easy by a length. A sweepstake of 5 sovs. each was won by Mr. Ford's The Attorney, beating Caen, Deer Chase, and Marble Maid. Won easy. The Queen's Plate was won by Mr. Moore's Wolf Dog, beating Bravissimo, Little Vulgar Boy, and Ohio. Won by a length. It is a " singular coincidence" that Holmes has ridden the third horse for four great races this year, viz. :—B.ro cardo for the Derby and St. Leger, and Conspiracy for the Oaks and Great Yorkshire. THE ST. LEGER.—The value of these stakes, won by Mr. Scott's Sir Tatton Sykes, is £3,475. It is ealcu ated the owner won a further sum of £4,000 in bets. STATIONS OF THE BRITISH ARMY. ON Ting IsT OCTOBER. (From Colburn's Unite (Where two places are mentio] which the Depot of the Service Magazine.) ned, the last-named is that at Regiment is stationed.] Ist Life Guards—Windsor. 40th—Canterbury. 2nd Ditto—Regent's Park. 41st—M ullingar. Royal ll.Guards—Hyde Park 42d—Malta ; Isle of Wight.- - Ist Dragn Gds.—Birmingham. Reserve batt., Malta 2d—Dublin. 43d—Dover. 3d—Piershili. 44th—Belfast. 4th—Nottingham. 45 th—C a p e of Good bcat.ta, h H ma o m. p v. e i , d l e . o W sth—York. 46th— Ca n Reserve aca; 6th—Norwich. 7th—C. G. flope,Xianiedositioign.e. 48th—Jamaica; Dublin. Ist Dragoons— n 2d—Dublin 49th—Galway. 3d—Bengal; Maidstone 50th—Bengal; Chatham. 4th—Dublin. *slst—Van D.Land ; §ChatharO• %Rh—Longford. 52d—Quebec; Brecon. 7th Hussars—Dublin. 53d—Bengal ; Chatham. Sth—Caliir. 54th—Gibraltar; Kinsale. 9th Lancers—Bengal ; Maidst. 55th—Cork." 10th Hussars—Bombay. 56th—Bury, (Lancashire.) 11th Hussars—Coventry. 57th—Ch atham. 1 12th Lancers— Hounslow. 58th—N.S.Wales ; Chatham. 13th Lt. D'goons—Newbridge. 59th—Linvricli. 14th—Bombay; Maidstone. 60th (Ist batt.)—Bombay ; Chat' 15th Hussars—Madras; M'ston (2d batt.)—Canada ; ChathaM' 16th Lancers—Bengal ,*Maidst 61st—Bengal; Chatham. 17th Lancers—Dundalk. 62d—Bengal ; Chatham. Grenadier Guards, (Ist batt.) 63d—Madras ; Chatham. Winchester. 64th—Dublin. (2d batt.)—St. John's Wood 65th—N.S.Wales ; Chathammore. (3d batt.)—Tower. 66th—Gibraltar ; TeMP Coldstream Guards, (Ist batt.) 67th - Cork. St. George's Bar 68th—Dublin. (2d batt.)—Portman-st. Ball 69th—Manchester. Scotch FusileerGrds—(istbatt) 70th—Ternplernore Wellington Barr. 71st—Barbadoes ; I. of Wight. (2d batt)—Windsor. Reserve batt., Canada. Ist Foot (Ist batt.)—Trinidad ; 72d—Gibraltar • Nenagh. I Newbri ge. 73d—Monte Video—B Uttevant (2d batt.)—Edinburgh. 74th—Aberdeen. 2d Foot—Gcsport. . 75th—Athlone. 3 d — Portsmouth. 76th—Fort George, N.B. 4th—Madras ; Chatham. 77th—Halifax ; Fermoy. le sth—Devon port. 78th—Bombay ; Chatham. 6th—Cape Good Hope. 79th—Gibraltar; Castlebar. 7th—St. Vincent; Newry. 80th—Bengal; Chatham Bth—Bombay, Chatham. 81st—Canada ; Jersey. 9th—Bengal; Chatham. 82d—Canada; Spike Island 10th—Bengal ; Chatham. 83d—Dublin. 11th—N. S. Wales, Chatham. 84th—Madras; Chatham. 12th—Mauritius ; Isle Wight. 85th—Buttevant Reserve batt., Mauritius 86th—Bombay ; Chatham. 13th—Portsmouth. 87th—Newport. S. W. 14th—Halifax, N.S; Plymouth. 88th—Malta; Ballinaslce. 15th—Ceylon ; Waterford. 89th—Halifax, N.S. ; Hull. ~. 16th—Gibraltar; Birr. 90th—CapeGcodHope ;ChestS 17th —Bombay; Chatham. glst—Cape ofGoodHope; Lorg . 18th—China ;t Chatham. R eserve batt., C. G.l lO P e. Igth-13arbadoes ; Boyle. . 92d—Enniskillen. 20th—Bermuda ; Isle of Wight 93d—Canada; Naas. Reserve batt., Bermuda g4th—Aden ; Chatham 21st—Madras; Chatham. 95th—Ceylon; Tralee. 22d—Bombay; Chatham. dif 96th—N.S.Wales ; Chathara• 23d—Antigua ; Isle of Wight. 97th—Corfu ' • Isle of Wight',„, Reserve batt., Canada Reserve batt., CephaloM • 24th—Bengal ; Chatham. 98th—China ; Chatham. 25th—Madras; Chatham.tha ni. 99th—N. S. Wales; Cha r , 26th—Dublin. Rifle B (lstb.)—Corfn ; **SlM.fv, 27th—Cape2298 29th—Bengal ; hh-- BBeonmgba G al y , ; H; Chatham.ope ; Chatham.G u Guernsey as e y (2d batt.)—Hal i f a x , N . S ~ Ilia e S Ist Vi ß ' e . s l e . " Re e gt ba . 30 th—Neweastle.on-Tyne. 2nd—Nassau. _tt iam Ha ai li c faX at . B, l4 i . • SC 3 lst—Bengal ;* Chatham. 3d—Demerara, Sierra Leon e, 32d—Bengal ; Chatham. Ceylon Rifles—Ceylon. 33d—N. Brunswick ; Mullingar Cape Mounted Rifiemen•—`" 34th—Corfu ; Clonmel of Good Hope. „As, 35th—Mauritius; Charles Fort. R. Canada Rifle Reg.—Ca/370 36th— We edon. Royal Newfoundland Ve te 37th—Chatham a Com panies—NewfoUllr eta , 38th—Jamaica; Londonderry. Royal Malta Fencibles , t n .. 39th—Bengal; Chatham. St. Helena Regt.—St. Ile" *Ordered home. tOrdered to India' o ll, !Under orders for New South Wales. §Under orders for Ben I. - I Part on passage home. ¶Ordered to Hong KoDg! ** Under orders for Cape Good Hope.