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VTR FALLEN LEAVES. - - VVE stand among the fallen leaves, Young children at our play, And laugh to see the yellow things Go rustling on their war; Right merrily we hunt them down— The autumn winds and we— Nor pause to gaze where snow-drifts lie, Or sunbeams gild tLe tree; With dancing feet we leap along Where wither'd boughs are strewn, Nor past nor future checks one song— The present is our own. We stand among the fallen leaves In youth's enchanting spring, When Hope (who wearies at the last) First spreads her eagle wing ; We tread with steps of conscious strength Beneath the leafless trees, And the colour kindles on our cheek As blows the winter breeze. While gazing towards the cold grey sky, Clouded with snow and rain, We wish the old year all pass'd by, . _ And the young spring come again. We stand among the fallen leaves In manhood's haughty prime, When first our parting hearts begin To love " the olden time ;" And as we gaze we sigh to think How many years have pass'd since 'neath those cold and faded trees Our footsteps wnnder'd last; And old companions —now perchance Estrang'd, forgot, or dead— Come round ns, as those autumn leaves Are crnsh'd beneath onr tread. We stand among the fallen leaves In our own autumn day, And, tottering on, with feeble steps Pursue our cheerless way. We look not back—too long ago Bath all we loved been lost ; Nor forward—for we may not live To see our new hope cross'd ; But on we go; the sun's faint beam A feeble warmth imparts; Childhood, without its joy, returns— The present fills our hearts. MRS. Nonrox. REVIEWS OF BOOKS. lfilfon's Poetical Workg. With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes. By the Rev. Geo. Gilfillan. Edinburgh : James Nichol. This very handsome library edition of the poetical works of Milton constitutes the two first volumes of a series, which, under the name of the 4 ` Library Edition of the British Poets," has now .3.eacheethe publication of its fifth volume ; the third and fourth being devoted to the poetical works of Thomson and George Herbert. The plan of the publication is by yearly subscription, a mode embraced by the publishers of several very impor tant and valuable classes of works, which, from their success, appear to have answered the expec tations of both the public and the publishers ; and 'so far as mere appearances can be taken as indi cative, there seems no ground for doubting that the present will be as successful as any one series of its predecessors. If we might " hint a fault," without either "hesitating" or implying " dislike," it would be done by expressing our inability to amderstand why, in Thomson's poetical works, all his dramatic compositions are left out. Are we to understand by this that the rev. and erudite editor considers the dramatic muses as illegitimate sisters of Calliope, and unworthy of her high companion ship ? Our present business, however, is more immediately with the series as it exists than with speculations as to what it might have been. In point of typographical beauty and correctness, it wall bear a favourable comparison with most of the iworks at present issuing from the press : it is cora- Trehensive in its design, that design is ably worked out, and th e cost of the works is asolutely a trifle in reality, and much more trifling still when com pared with the beauty and accuracy of the edition. The above remarks apply to the series generally, is() far as it has been published. We must now attend with more minuteness to the claims of the two volumes whose titles stand at the head of this motive. The first is opened by a brief but nervous biographical memoir of Milton from the pen of 11r. Gilfillan. In the rapid sketch of Milton's character and po s iti on g i ven i n this memoir, differentparti es will concur in varying degrees ; the political as well as theological partialities of .31r. Gilfillan having lent their willing aid to colour • the portrait. His general estimate of the poet's intellect will meet with a much wider circle of sympathising admirers. The author of the "Bards of the Bible," Mr. Gallon, is well blown as an ambitious writer, and not a few regard him as an original thinker. The short biographical sketch awe are now considering will go far in justification of the opinions of each of these classes. As a favourable specimen of his descriptive aptitude, we extract the following PERSONAL PORTRAIT OP MILTON. He wished, besides, to visit Italy for the sake of its music, and desig ned to form a collection of it whilst th ere . Havin g obtained directions as to his travels from Sir Henry Wotton, to whom he had communicated his pur pose, he set out in 1638, attended by a single servant. We remember few finer subjects for contemplation or picture than that of Milton in the prime of his life—with youth and manhood mingling. on his brow—with his long auburn Hair —with his beautiful Grecian face—with l a mild ma jestic enthusiasm glowing in his eves—with cheek tenderly lashed by exercise and country air — with a form erect and 'buoyant with hope—with a body and soul pure and un contaminated —and bearing, like one of the ancient gods, musical instrument in his hand, leaving the Horton solitude upon his travels to the lands of romance and poetry. How different from the spectacle presented nearly two centuries afterwards, of Byron, soured, satiated, old in passion and misery, although younger than Milton in 3'ears, setting out on his journey in search of oblivion ! l'he one seemed a monstrous mixture of Apollo the beau tiful, and Vulcan the vicious and lame; the other the very god of poesy himself, as when he kept the Rocks o f -Admetus, or tuned his lute— " Sole sitting on the shores of old romance." Of the peculiar taste which could load so elabo - -rate and ably delineated a picture with the adjunct which we have marked in italics, it cannot be too mulch to say, its uncalled-for fidelity mars the - lea* without enhancing the truthfulness of the 'delineation. " What would offend the e, In a good picture, the painter casts ye discreetly Into shade." The matrimonial infelicities of Milton are -touched by Mr. Gilfillan with inoffensive generality and pleasing delicacy ; while his controversial spirit is glanced at without elaborate admiration. The opening of the second volume is devoted to a " critical estimate of the genius and poetical works" of Milton, and here the bold speculative spirit of the editor stands out in full, and, it must be admitted, interestine, relief. With un h esitating eye he glanc es into and through the opinions of the early critical commentators on Milton's poetry, and with little ceremony, although in no rude manner, he disposes of their leading fallacies, while with equal candour and readiness he concurs in several points of their opinions. An agreeable ispechnen, if it deserve no higher name, of his style of deduction, will be found in the annexed ESTIMATE OF MILTON'S INTELLECTUAL BEARING. The consecration of Milton's mind, too, sprang greatly -from the large whol eness of his being. It is into frag lnentary minds, especially into minds where there is some treat deficiency, some gap as hopeless as it is wide,—into minds deficient, like Hume's, in imagination, or like Itousseau's, in common sense, or like Voltaire's in rever *nee, or like Shelley's, in balance, that fiendish doubts as to the Divine origin and purpose of the universe are apt to insinuate themselves. Le Sage speaks of one Diable Itoiteux, but in reality all the fiends are lame ; and it is Parti9 because they are so that they are fiends. In pro- Portion to the general power of a mind is ever its intense Perception of any vital deficiency in itself ; and ridepception often leads, not to humility, but to that p and .r.discontent which are the soul of irreligion or Atheism. - "lose, on the other hand, who approach to entireness of nintellect, present in their soul a rounded mirror calculated 0 reflect fully, not only literat ure an d nature, but that *Near, yet far off, ever present and never visible, One, who Vth immensity, —and such a soul was Milton's. Some ries troubled, but never turbid ; sometimes shadowed, nt never sullen n; sometimes cold, but never frozen ; some times heated, but never glaring—the broad lake of his Father and gives back he awful countenance of his Father and God. It is marvellous how thoroughly in Milton the " Conse •cration" and the " Poet's Dream" are attempered and eeconciled. His d reams are a l ways holy dreams, as though maven ere sl W umbering with hi s own ange l s i n the vales of , or at the foot of the "Flaming whose top Brightness had M made ount invisible. and vTel hishis fancy is al wa y s un d er severe restra i nt, and m u t en ,, geraUS at times does dance, it i s a measure d wed hill. dance, like that o f th e serap hi m around the n %L. His use of the Pagan Mythology has often So r th e feted to him as inconsistent with his reverence introdupese lief and the Book of God. But he never ca Ptives, ntejleathen gods except as tributaries and teserved his poet fall down before Jehovah ; he has e i mages o r s I x 'etrY as in a vast museum, not a temple, 11l on the the fallen deities, with the word "idols" Interest. cu ric'sitY or poeti c not of belief or reverence, but of Havin g t ak e while even irlenll) much space with extracts— rather by thei,,, e ' s _in.g so we have felt hampered littleesrty than by their copiousness— we have left "'" We must theref ore °on? to indulge i n commen t . ourse eres *ins. a general app ro bsaatt!sfYlon of the lves with xp wit in which Mr. Gilfillan has discharged the important task committed to his care ; the execution of which, if continued as it has been begun, will deservedly add to his reputation, while it will also confer a valuable boon on the reading portion of society. The sagacity and enterprise of the publisher in originating and so creditably caruing through this extensive undertaking are also >deserving of high praise and liberal encouragement. Hogg's Instructor. Edinburgh : James Hogg. The number for November opens with a clever, though rather cynical article on Sheridan, under the title of " Modern British Orators." It is from the pen of the Rev. George Gilfillan, and bears in tuitive evidence of his mode of thinking, tinctured also with his marked predilection for antithetic writing. This is strongly evidenced by the following ESTIMATE OP SiIERIDAN'S OHARA CTEE. Sheridan came forth originally under the most un favourable auspices. He was the son of a ranting, strolling manager---half elocutionist, half player—the most un fortunate of hybrids, whose memory now lives entirely through Boswell, and through the gifted race who have sprung from him. Youn g Sheridan had no patrimony — not a shilling, indeed, all his life that he could call his own. He had a very imperfect education ; although this, indeed, was partly his own fault, for his master was Parr. But he was forced, at the age of 18, through his father's embarrassments, to quit school for ever; and then, with nothing but his wits, and without money i credit,learning, character, paternal prestige, or moral - training, he was flung a very orphan upon the world, to battle with or to trick it as he best could. He had not the heroism or per severance to try the first : he determined on the latter ; and, like Napoleon in his campaign of 1814—who gained victories without an army, and made manoeuvres supply the lack of men—Sheridan for forty-six years lived upon stratagem, cajolery, cleverness, and impudence. His life resembled French cookery, by the skill of which a nettle or two, a bone or two, sometimes supply materials for splendid dinners, and are made to feed large and hungry companies. So Sheridan, without a sixpence, contrived to spend thousands ; without much original wit, passed for the first comic writer of his century ; without any political science, managed to embroil all the parties in the country ; without an atom of imagination, got the credit of being a genius • with no conversational power, became celebrated as a talker ; and with only the faculty of simu lating sympathy, was rated, as an orator, above Fox, Pitt, and Burke. Most dexterous of charlatans, most magnificent of mimics, certainly Sheridan wert thou! In all-sided similation, thou didst stand unrivalled and alone ! Thou wouldst have volunteered to do (and could 4 have in a measure done) anything: construe a Greek play, without a word of Greek ; give a Latin oration, or quote Lucretius, without having ever advanced farther than the rudiments ; preach a sermon on any subject at an hour's notice; solve any problem in "'Euclid," or in " Newton's Fluxions," without having ever crossed the Pons Asinorum ; plead a complicated cause, as that of Hastings, "without a bag" (trusting to thy power of " abusing Ned Law, ridiculing Plumer's long orations, making the court laugh, and pleasing the women !"); and support both sides of any question according to whim, and without understanding either ;—such, or similar, feats were easy to thee, un ballasted as thou wert by an atom of conscience, and filled as thy sails were by the breath of boundless assurance and the unmeasured spirit of wine ! What a pity that this world had been anything else than a jest and a gala-day, then thou hadst completely filled thy sphere, and gained laurels inferior only to those of Momus, or of Bacchus, as he returned from the conquest of India ! But, alas !it is a " serious thing to live, as well as to die," and men will sometimes say of laughter, "it is mad," and of mirth, " what doth it profit ?" The above estimate of poor Sheridan is greatly overcharged with gall ; his genius, it must be and will readily be admitted, was not of the towering and impressive character which stamps its own features on the age, or which gives a peculiar turn to men's thoughts. Still he was a man of great and readily applicable talent ; of wonderful versa tility, and boundless resource. The feeling of over severity displayed throughout the article appears even to have weighed upon the writer's own sense of justice, and he endeavours to atone for it in the following strictures upon SHERIDAN'S DEA.TII AND FrNERAL. Perhaps our tone toward Sheridan in the previous re marks may appear rather harsh. And when we remember his melancholy end, we are tempted to think so ourselves. "Pocr fellow ! be had many things to wound him; It was a trying moment that which found him Standing a!one upon his desolate hearth, When all his household gods lay shiver'd round him." It was a very sad tragedy that of Saville Row. There was to be seen the man on whose lips senators and vast multitudes had hung, whose jests had shaken Old Drury from top to bottom, till it was one mass of loosened laughter, lying in bed, broken in constitution and in heart, deriving his chief consolation and strength from the potion which had degraded and ruined him ; deserted by his noble friends, ministered to indeed by his wife, whose early love, much tried and long cooled, had revived in its original strength for this hour of darkness and distress, but with no hope on earth, and with but a cold and dim prospect beyond the grave ; surrounded by duns, and with difficulty saved from being carried in his blankets to a sponging -house—behold, the end of the admired, fiat tered, overrated, underrated, spoiled, and murdered 1 Sheridan! And yet, in six days, what spectacle is it that we see darkening the streets of London ? It is a funeral, and certainly it must be a royal personage whom they are bearing to the grave, for royal dukes and belted earls, and lord bishops, and celebrated statesmen, and wits, and orators, are crowding there. No! it is the funeral of that very same shivering, starving, wretch—of the wreck that was once Sheridan ! Besides the article referred to, there are other contributions possessed of varying degrees of merit; and two or three sweet pieces of poetry. The Treatises of M. T. Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B.A. London: Henry G. Bohn. These treatises, which constitute a volume of Bohn's Classical Library, consist of the well-known essay on the Nature of the Gods ; those on Divi nation ; on Fate ; on the Republic ; on the Laws ; and on Standing for the Consulship. They are translated more with an eye to fidelity than to the elegancies of classical English, yet the fire and energy of the Roman orator are well sustained and represented ; a task, the due execution of which indicates scholarship of no mean order, combined with innate talent of rare quality. Most of the treatises have been already rendered familiar to the English reader through the medium of trans lations ; but there is one novelty in the volume, and that is a letter on " Standing for the Consul ship." This is a matter coming so close to the popular movements relative to elections at the present day, that it will be read with much interest by all to whom election arrangements are objects of importance. From the following extract it will be seen that the art of making the worse appear the better reason, and of pressing into the service every adventitious aid to render a candidate popu lar, and, through that popularity, successful, was known to, and practised and reduced to system with a nicety and depth of study, by the ancient Romans, from which the Coppocks and other electioneering agents of the present day might take a useful lesson. It may be called— THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER. THE DREAM OF A BAGPIPE.—The Earl of Aberdeen, at the late Privy Council, looked very much pressed and flattened. It is said that, for some weeks past, the noble Earl has suffered a nightly dream, in which he believes himself turned to a bagpipe, with the '.Emperor of Russia, horned and tailed, playing upon him. LOCAL KNOWLEDGE.—"I shay —my man," hiccuped an elevated civic dignitary of Edinburgh, as he emerged from the head of the Fleshmarket Close, and observing the illuminated dial of the Tron Church, addressed a sour milk-man who had just dismounted from his cart; " I shay, can yon tell me if that is the sun or the moon ?" " A couldna say, sir," was the reply, "I dinna belang to this pairt." - MUSICAL WAITEES.—In some parts of Norway, but very generally in Sweden, occasionally servants have to perform a duty which would astonish the ladies whose suburban feats in this country are helped through with the aid of the green grocer, or by a man from the con fectioner's. It is expected of a waiter, not only that he should be able to announce names in a sonorous voice, to hand dishes rapidly, to change plates quickly, to help wine adroitly, to be staid and respectable in his own con duct in the kitchen ; but that he should be a good musician ! When the dishes have been cleared away and the cloth has been removed, after he has been handing about the delicacies of the season, the coffee, and in summer the ices, he again appears, music in hand, to perform on the piano-forte. The Norsk and Swedish amateurs deem it beneath the dignity of the high art music to which they aspire, to perform mere terpsichorean tunes. Dance music is therefore delegated to waiters. — Household Words. PROMOTIONS IN YAM/BELA/M.—A singular exemplifi cation of the facilities afforded to " a rising man" in the Transatlantic republic is the history of the newly-elected Governor of Tenessee, as told by the Boston Courier:— " Andrew Johnson, who has just been elected Governor of Tenessee, is an extraordinary man. At two years of age, Mr. Johnson was an inmate of an almshouse. On marry ing, just after he came of age, he emigrated to Eastern Tenessee, trudging, bare-footed, it is said, with his faithful helpmate by his side, and his pack on his back. Assiduous labour at a tailor's trade placed him in ten years in com fortable circumstances, for his position in that region ; and in that time, by dint of hard study during his leisure moments, he had come to be actually a man of considerable general information. Being a good talker on the stump, he was sent consecutively, for a term of two years, to both branches of the legislature. From thence he was trans ferred to the House of Representatives of the United States, where he served six years, and is now governor of Tennessee." QUAINT TITLES Q OLD BOOKS.—We might amuse the reader by citing a few of the quaint and alliterative titles of some of the books of these times. Taking the following for instance :—" A Footpath to Felicitie," " Guide to Godlinesse," " Swarme of Bees," " Plante of Pleasure and Grove of Graces,"-1686. These were most rife in the days of Cromwell. There were many bordering closely on the ludicrous, such as the one styled, "A Pair of Bellows to blow off the Dust cast upon John Fry ;" and a Quaker, whose outward man the powers thought proper to imprison, published " A Sigh of Sorrow for the Sinners of Zion, breathed out of a hole in the Wall of an Earthen Vessel, known among men by the name of Samuel Fish." We might multiply the numbers ad libitum ; but must content ouselves with adding one or two more. "A Reaping Hook well tempered for the stubborn Ears of the coming Crop, or Biscuits baked in the oven of Charity, carefully conserved for the Chickens of the Church, the Sparrows of the Spirit, and the Sweet Swallows of Salvation?' To another we have the follow ing copious description :—" Seven Sobs of a Sorrowful Soul for Sin, or the Seven Penitential Psalms of the Princely Prophet David, whereunto also are annexed William Humuis's handful of Honeysuckles, and divers Godly and pithy Ditties, now newly augmented."—Salad for the Solitary, by an Epicure. A MODEL MAY IN RELATION TO LONGEVITY.—Let me now be permitted to delineate the portrait of a man des tined to long life. He has a proper and well-proportioned stature, without, however, being too tall. He is rather of the middle size, and somewhat thick-set. His complexion is not too florid: at any rate, too much ruddiness in youth is seldom a sign of longevity. His hair approaches rather to the fair than the black; his skin is strong but not rough. His head is not too big; he has large veins at the extremities, and his shoulders are rather round than flat. His neck is not too long; his abdomen does not pro ject ; and his hands are large, but not too deeply cleft. His foot is rather thick than long ! and his legs are firm and round. He has also a broad arched chest ; a strong voice, and the faculty of retaining his breath for a long time without difficulty. In general, there is a complete harmony in all his parts. His senses are good, but not too delicate ; his pulse is slow and regular. His stomach is excellent, his appetite good, and his digestion easy. The joys of the table are to him of importance; they tune his mind to serenity, and his soul partakes in the pleasure which they communicate. He does not eat merely for the sake of eating ; but each meal is an hour of daily festivity ; a kind of delight attended with this advantage, in regard to others, that it does not make him poorer, but richer. He eats slowly, and has not too much thirst. Too great thirst is always a sign of rapid self-consumption. In general, he is serene, loquacious, active, susceptible of joy, love, and hope ; but insensible to the impressions of hatred, anger, and avarice. His passions never become too violent or destructive. If he ever gives way to anger, he ex periences rather a useful glow of warmth, an artificial and gentle fever without an overflowing of the bile. He is fond also of employment, particularly calm meditation and agreeable speculations, is an optimist, a friend to nature and domestic felicity, has no thirst after honours or riches, and banishes all thoughts of to-morrow.—Hisfe land's Art of Prolonging Life. ABEENETRY AND AN IRISH PATIENT.—It was on his first going through- the wards after a visit to Bath, that, passing up between the rows of beds, with an immense crowd of pupils after him—myself among the rest—the apparition of a poor Irishman, with the scantiest shirt I ever saw, jumping out of bed, and literally throwing him self on his knees at Abernethy's feet, presenteeitself. For some moments everybody was bewildered ; but the poor fellow, with his country's eloquence, poured out such a torrent of thanks, prayers, and blessings, and made such pantomimic displays of his leg, that we were not left long in dodbt. " That's the leg, yer honnor ! Glory be to God ! Yer honnor's the boy to do it ! May the heavens be your bed ! Long life to your honnor ! To the divole with the spalpeens that said your honnor would cut it off!" &c. The man had come into the hospital about three months before, with diseased ankle, and it had been at once condemned to amputation. Something, however, induced Abernethy to try what rest and constitutional treatment would do for it, and with the happiest result. With some difficulty the patient got into bed, and Aber nethy took the opportunity of giving us a clinical lecture about diseases and their constitutional treatment. And now commenced the fun. Every sentence Abernethy uttered, Pat confirmed. " Thrue, yer honnor, divole a lie in it. His honnor's the grate dochter entirely." While at the slightest allusion to his case, off went the bed clothes, and up went the leg, as if he were taking aim at the ceiling with it. " That's it, by gorra! and a better leg than the villan's that wanted to cut it off." This was soon after I went to London, and I was struck with Abernethy's manner. In the midst of the laughter, stooping down to the patient, he said with much earnest ness, lam glad your leg is doing well; but never kneel except to your maker."—Macilwain's Memoirs of Abernethy. ADVERTISING.-11 is either advertising or being ruined. We have said it before. Many of our readers will think this a bold and unwarranted assertion. It is neither the one nor the other, for it is founded on the experience of many men of business. Of many examples we quote but one. Mr. Bennett keeps a large shop of clocks and watches in Cheapside. His watches and clocks are among the best in London ; they have an old-established reputation, and they deserve it. But their reputation is not owing to their excellency alone : it required many years of adver tising—years of continual and expensive advertising—to inculcate this great fact on the obtuse, bewildered, and deluded Londoners. Thanks to Mr. Bennett's perseve rence they are at :length convinced. And when a few years ago the reputation of the firm had spread through out the length and breadth of the land, it struck Mr. Bennett that now was the time to put a stop to this expen sive process of advertising. "In future," said that gen tleman, " I mean to take the full interest from my capital instead of paying part of it to the printers." And he set at once about it. In the year in which Mr. Bennett took this bold resolution the firm spent a few thousand pounds less than usual in advertisements. But the consequences made themselves felt ; and as month followed month, they became still more disagreeably perceptible. Mr. Bennett understood that in London virtue is its own re ward, provided it keeps a trumpeter ; and as Mr. Bennett was not an obstinate theorist, he had again recourse to the printing press. He advertises to this very day, and to a greater extent, if possible, than formerly. In proof whereof we quote his advertisement in the catalogue of the great exhibition, on which occasion he paid £9OO (say a nine hundred pounds sterling,) for the insertion of his on the back of the wrapper. Of course his watches were quite as good during the period he did not advertise ; but the public was about to forget him. Adver tising is an indispensable item in the expenditure of a London trader.—Saunterings in and about London. How TO SUCCEED IN AUSTRALIA.—This desideratum is amusingly taught by a practical correspondent, who writes from Melbourne. "There is," he says, " a vast amount of distress among the gentlemanly, no capital, no hard-work people—people who will not go on the roads and earn ten shillings a-day, because they have never done it, and it's below them ' • but if a man comes here without a capital he must work or starve ; and the work that is wanted is hand not head work. Ido anything to pick up a shilling—carry a box, help to dig the foundation of a house—and what I have lately made some money at has been duck-shooting. The way I set about it is this :—I start off in the afternoon for one of the numerous lagoons, situate from five to ten miles off, and take with me on my back, besides my gun, a blanket hookpot, pannakin, tea and sugar, bread, &c. On my road I often get stuck in a bog or lost in the bush, but, nil desperandum, on I go, and at length reach my destination. At sunset I take my station in some thick reeds —perhaps up to my hips in mud and water, and there await the evening flight of the ducks, teal, black swans, Ste. At last, bang ! bang ! goes old Joe Manton • and splash, splash, t um b le the ducks i nto the lake. Then for an hour it's load and fire, and then gather together the dying and the dead. I now try and find out a soft place under some friendly gum-tree, light a fire, and make a cup of tea (when on board ship I thought I should became a solid lump of plum-duff ;' now I really believe I shall be converted into a huge tea-pot, for I drink tea by the quart, not the cup), roll myself in my blanket, and off to sleep. Up again in the morning before the sun, take my place in the rushes, see the duck s turn out to wash their faces, and give them a hearty salute; after which pack up and away to Melbourne, call at the clubs and hotels, and sell my ducks ; and if I fail there, it's ' Duck, 0, wild duck ! Widgeon or wildfowl !' in the streets ; and f f s or teal—a good night's work ro or ud man won't do this, because, pays at 18s. a pair for faith, i hk::; best np2e. osv o eN f .r a l aod, oita;;; sucho t eu r h 5 psatiiirpi kind 7: pa in ir En gland, and it's so low to sell ducks, and therefore he starves, and nobody pities him, and he either turns shepherd in the bush, or works his way home as a ship .steward. For the working-man this country is the finest in the world, and he is sure of a fortune if he does not take to nobblers.' Drunkenness is the very curse of the country. T ry• s must now turn in, and finish this another time. I have to be up at sunrise to fish, and fishing pays 20s. a dozen, large and small; so good night," THE DUTIES OP A CANDIDATE. The standing for offices is divided into diligence of two kinds ; one of which must depend on the zeal of your friends, the other on the inclinations of the people. The zeal of your friends must be gained by kindness and ser vices done by you, by length of friendship, by the affa bility and pleasantness of your own nature. But the name of friends is one used more extensively in a canvass for offices than in any other occasion in life ; for now, every one who shows you any goodwill whatever, every one who is civil to you, or who comes to your house, must be ranked in the number of your friends. But still it is the most advantageous thing of all to be beloved by and agreeable to those who are our friends from any more honourable cause, such as relationship, affinity, or com panionship, or any other connexion. In the next place, you must labour diligently to make every one, in propor tion as he is familiar and intimate with yon, love you, and wish your honour to be advanced as much as possible ; then all those of your tribe, your neighbours, your clients, your freedmen, and, lastly, even your slaves ; for nearly all the conversation with reference to a man's forensic fame emanates from persons connected with his house. Then you must make friends of every sort,—friends for show, men illustrious from their rank and reputation, who, even if they are not very effective as voters or can vassers, nevertheless add some dignity to the candidate,-- and magistrates, for the purpose of obtaining your rights, among whom, the consuls especially, and next to them the tribunes of the people, are men of preeminent influ ence in bringing over the centuries to your interests. Those who have ever gained the votes of a tribe or of a century through your influence, or who hope to do so, or who have ever received, or who expect to receive, any kindness from you, conciliate and make sure of by every means in your power. For, for many years, ambitious men have been labouring vigorously, with all their zeal and energy, to obtain the objects of their ambition from the men of their own tribe. And do you take pains with these men, by all imaginable means, to cause them to be eager in your cause with all their hearts and all their in clinations. And if men were only grateful, then all these things ought to be ready done to your hand, as, in fact, I trust that they are. For the last two years you have laid under obligations four companies of citizens, who may be of the greatest influence in aiding you in the object of your ambition ,• those, namely, of Marcus Fun dnnius, of Quintus Galbus, of Caius Cornelius, and of Caius Orcininus. And I know what these companies, when they brought their consent to you, promised you and assured you of most positively, for I was present. Wherefore you must take care that, on this occasion, you exact of them a requital for your services, by continually reminding them, by asking them, by renewing yo ur kindnesses, by cultivating their goodwill; so as to let them understand that they will never have any other op portunity of showing their gratitude. And, indeed, these men will be excited to zeal in your behalf, both by hopes of your services in future, and by a recollection of your recent exertions in their cause. And altogether, since your canvass is abundantly fortified by that kind of friendship which you have gained by your defence of causes, take care that, of all those men who are under obligations to you, each man may have his part carefully marked out and allotted to him. And as you have never been troublesome to any one of them in any matter, take care that they understand that you have reserved the requital of all those obligations which you {kink that you are entitled to demand at their hands, to the present time. The whole of this treatise is of an equally prac tical and minutely painstaking description, n will be found well worth the attention of gentlemen seeking to obtain the " sweet voices" of the multi tude; and to their agents and active partizans it will be invaluable. Blanche the Huguenot. A Tale, By William Anderson. London : N. Cooke. In this tale, which is intended to display the cruelties and persecutions to which the children of the Reformation were subjected in France, towards the close of the seventeenth century ; and to give illustration of the meekness and firmness with which, in defiance of persecution and death, they maintained their hold upon the lights of truth, the author has ample scope for his genius. The tale is a simple one, and is confined chiefly to the experiences of one family ; .out of which, however, the general history of the period, and the conscien tious, yet heroic struggles of the Reformers are amply manifested. As a work of fiction it is highly creditable to the talents of its author ; and it is peculiarly suited to the spirit of the present times, m which the strife for mastery on the part of Popery and its unscrupulous adherents appears on the eve of being revived. In an appendix to the volume, which is very tastefully got up in all re spects, the Protestant reader will find a mine of interesting and comforting wealth, in the form of an abridgment of the life of Claude Brousson, a Huguenot leader and preacher, who was executed for his faith, at Montpellier, towards the close of 1698. In that memoir the reader will find many curious and animating instances of calm fortitude and unswerving resolution "to fight the good fight." Truth is proverbially -said to be stranger than fiction, here we find it, at least, quite as in teresting. The narrative is brief and stirring— simple, yet telling and encouraging. VARIETIES. TIM MAN who " fell into raptures" with a pretty girl, was got out with considerable difficulty. MOCK TURTLE.—Calling a husband "my dear" in public, and "you brute" in private.—Diogenes. Ix ILLINOIS there is a man named Barrow, who has changed his politics so often, that he has gained the sou briquet of wheel-Barrow. " MOTHER," said a Spartan boy, going to battle, " my sword is too short." "Add a step to it," was the reply of the heroic woman. _ _ _ Or sixty-three "housemaids" who advertised in the Times lately for situations, no less than forty make it a condition that "a footman is kept." MATRIMONY is like rum punch. Man is the rum, sharp and violent : woman, the sugar, sweet and dissolv ing : love, the boiling water, which grows in time quite cold. A YANKEE has invented a machine for extracting the lies from quack advertisements. Some of them are never seen after entering the machine, as only the truth comes out. Two MEN were conversing about the M-humour of their wives. "Ah !" said one, with a sorrowful expres sion, " mine is a Tartar !" " Well," replied the other, " mine is worse than that—mine is the Cream of tartar A WATERING-PLACE is a harbour of refuge, that we, poor weak vessels, after having been tossed about for nine months in the year, are obliged, during the other three, to put into for repairs. "WON'T You SING me a song, sir ?" said a lady to her lover, as they were alone one. evening. The lover soon commenced the popular air, "I won't go home till morn ing," and sure enough he didn't. NOT FAR OUT.—A cynical old Cockney of our ac quaintance says he considers the moustache movement to be only a new way the young fellows have got into of giving themselves 'airs.—Punch. HUSBANDS AND WIVES (Gigantic wife, with a Lilli putian husband under her arm,. applies at the police sta tion).—Policeman : "Now, mum ! What's the matter ?" Injured female : "If you please, mister I want to give my wretch of a 'usband in charge. He's always a knock ing of me down and a stampin' on me !" A GREAT CALF.—Sir William Bond being at a parish meeting, made some proposals which were objected to by a farmer. Highly enraged, " Sir," said he to the farmer, " do you know that I have been at two universities, and at two colleges at each university ? " Well, Sir," said the farmer, what of that ? I had a calf that sucked two cows, and the observation I made was, the more he sucked the greater calf he grew." POETS in France get splendid perquisites in the shape of presents. Beranger receives every week more sugar, more coffee, more pots of jelly, than would stock a grocer's shop ; he gets the rarest fruits and the best game ; casks of wine and cases of brandy arrive at his house daily, " whilst," says the Paris correspondent of the Literary Gazette, "more nightcaps and more socks are knitted for him than a regiment of soldiers could wear out in a year." AFRICAN IDEA OF TUE USES OF A PORTRAIT.—When Mr. Bickersteth was at Bassio, having his wife's portrait with him, he showed it to a chief and his attendants. He was much amused by their observations on it when they knew that it represented his wife. " She lives there !" cried the chief. He can say 'itis my wife,'—she no trouble him—white man clever —it is as good as if he have her with him." HIIXILITY.-Sir Benjamin Brodie says, that "humility leads to the highest distinction, because it leads to self improvement." He adds—and the advice cannot be too often repeated—" Study your own characters ; endeavour to learn and supply your own deficiencies ; never assume to yourselves qualities which you do not possess ; combine all this with energy and activity, and you cannot predicate of yourselves, nor can others predicate of you, at what point you may arrive at last." A REASON FOR NARROW WALICS.—The environs of Tours furnish the most agreeable walks. Innumerable little paths lead in every direction through the fields and among the knolls and copses. These walks are, however, very unsociable, for they are only wide enough for one. But this was explained to me, by a French demoiselle, to be, " because," said she, " if monsieur, who is behind, says a gallant thing, we may either hear or not as we please ; and in case we blush, nobody sees it." I confessed that that reasoning was irresistible.—lnglis. COTTON BEDS.—A very important discovery has been made at New York, by which an elasticity hitherto un known has been imparted to cotton, that seems likely to create an immense demand for it in a new direction. We speak particularly of cotton mattresses and beds. Cotton costs from six to ten cents a pound; feathers from 40 to 60. The purity of cotton, and its freedom from offensive odour, connected with the immense gain in the cost, promise to work a complete revolution in this department of domestic life. A company has been organised for the manufacture of cotton beds, and they are now being in troduced under the title of felt mattresses. ON A LATE OCCASION, Louis Napoleon—who, we know, has no particular penchant for tranquillity in either him self or the nation—rose and joined some gentlemen; and the Empress, also rising, walked to a group of ladies. This breach of etiquette excited the displeasure of her lord, who, leading her to a mirror, asked her the not very original riddle, " Why is the Empress unlike this mirror ?" Not receiving a reply, he added, " Because the mirror reflects, and the Empress does not." I suppose this very courteous speech provoked the retort courteous in the lady ; for when, in their promenade, they came opposite one another, she asked her husband what difference existed between the mirror and himself ? After cogitating for tome time, he confessed his inability to reply, and'stie enlightened him by observing that " the mirror was polished and the Em peror was not of 4,ondon paper. LITERARY TOWN Cotrif LLORS. —IR the meeting for the election of mayor and aldermen in Bradford, when voting for alderman each member of the council had to deliver a voting paper to the mayor containing the names, re sidences, and businesses of the gentlemen for whom he voted. This was evidently a task to some gentlemen not easily performed. The Mayor frequently remarked in a jocose manner upon their numerous orthographical errors, as well as their illegible style of penmanship. The follow ing is a specimen, extracted from the voting paper of a councillor, whose name is the opposite of wrong : Thos. Baymount lora plat Leed road Sugeon" (the name should have been Thomas Beaumont, Laura Place, Leeds-road, surgeon.) Several votes had to be rejected owing to mis spelling, &c., and the Mayor observed how necessary it was that those gentlemen aspiring to the dignity of councillor should make themselves a little acquainted with Johnson's Dictionary.—Manchester Courier. How THE " RAPPINGS" ARE PRODITCED.—Parker's Journal, a work of great talent and infinite humour, pub lished the following mode of accounting for these raps, furnished by one scientific gentleman :—" The only true and legitimate manner of accounting for the taps is the physiological effects of the membraneous system. The obtuseness of the abdominal indication causes the cartila genous compressor to coagulate into the diaphragm, and depresses the duodendum into the flandango. Now, if the taps were caused by the rogation of the electricity from the extremities, the tympanum would also dissolve into spiritual rinctum, and the olfactory would foment and become identical with the pigmentum. Now this is not the case. In order to produce taps the spiritual rotundum must be elevated down to the spiritual spero. But, as I said before, the inferior ligaments must not subtend over thedignitorium sufficiently to disorganize the " stericletum." —Alfred Bunn's Old England and New England. A FREE FIGHT.—The following is a description of a free fight in Western Virginia, as related by one of the eye-witnesses thereof. Premising that there was but one blow struck, in answer to an interrogatory as to who was hit, the narrator replies :—" I reckon he was from low down on Guyan, somewhar. Jes as they war jawin, a chap rode up on a claybank hoss—l reckon he was Mes singer stock, a scrowgin anemil, a little blind o' both eyes —a peert-looking chap enough—au' when he got fernent the place, says he, Is this a free fight ?' an' they told him it war. Well,' says he, Bitting off an' hitching his ole claybank to a swinging limb, count me in !' He hadn't more'n got it out, afore some one fetched him a lick, an' he drapt. He riz dreckly with some defichulty, and ses he, Is this a free fight ?' an' they told him it war. ' Well,' ses he, unhitchin' his hoss, and puttin' his left leg over the back leather, count me out !' an' then he marveled."—New York Tribune. A DOCK-YARD DISCOVERY.—Not very long ago a per son well known for his large and accurate knowledge of the sources of English history, found himself by accident in one of our great dock-yards. In one part of the yard he noticed some preparations for a bonfire, and, with the instinct of an antiquary, when old papers are in peril, be ran off to the scene. " What are these bundles ?" he inquired of the ready minister of destruction. "Nothing but rubbish" said the man. The very tie of the parcels told the antiquary that they were letters, and of old date. " Where do they come from ?" he asks. " Oh, they have been lying here no one knows how long ; we want the room, and we are going to burn them out of our way." The antiquary took up a bundle of the doomed papers, opened the first letter, and found that it was the original despatch announcing to the government, with all its details, one of the most important events in the reign of Charles 11. Commanding the dockyard men not to set fire to the pile until superior orders should arrive, the antiquary posted to London, repaired to the Admiralty, stated the fact, and saved the papers. When carefully examined, they proved to be as interesting a series of state documents as any in our national libraries..—Atheaolos. ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. SEACOMBE FERRY. TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Sxn,—l have before me a circular, dated Ist February, 1853, addressed to me as a contractor, from Mr. J. Penny, who says he is for the proprietor of the above ferry, wherein he observes that much inconvenience has been experienced by all persons using the ferry, but that he hopes very shortly to make such arrangements as will secure its effi cient working. Now I would first ask my neighbours when this short time is to commence, for, setting aside the numerous delays and difficulties experienced by us since the date of that circular, I will just mention, that the five o'clock boat from Seacombe, on Friday, did not land her passengers at the Landing-stage at Liverpool until about five minutes to six o'clock, and the half-past five boat from Liverpool did not laud her passengers at Seacombe until after six o'clock; and you know, as well as I, that delays of this kind are very frequent, and the fact is the two boats now employed to carry Her Majesty's lieges across the river are inefficient for the purpose, and not only so, but one or other is very frequently taken off for repairs. How far Mr. Penny may have been prevented by circumstances to secure the efficient working of the ferry, I know not ; but that the inhabitants should be so neglected, and conse quently suffer, by such mismanagement of some one, ells for the immediate interference of all those whose property is deteriorated by at least IS per cent. ; and last, though not least, of those parents who have sons in offices in Liverpool, who are not able to be punctual to their business in town. I, therefore, would advise that three or four active men come forward and call a meeting of the inhabi tants, to devise upon the best method of extricating our selves from this abominable system, as at present carried ou ; and that a stroll. , remonstrance be sent to the depart ment of government immediately concerned, praying that a strict inquiry may be instituted into the abuses carried on with the working of the ferry, and that the outrage on the public feeling of this district, so long perpetrated, meet with its deserved censure.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, AN OLD RESIDENT. Seacombe, November 28, 1853. • THE REV. E. GIRDLESTONE AND THE AGENT OF THE . NATIONAL SOCIETY. Deane Vicarage, Nov. 24, 1853. TIIE Rev. E. Girdlestone presents his compliments to the Editor of the Liverpool Standard, and requests the favour of his inserting the subjoined correspondence. Deane Vicarage, Boltou-le-Moors, October 27th, 1853. Sln,—ln a second printed letter addressed by you to Mr. Pollock, a copy of which you have not had the courtesy to send to me, though you have made free use of my name in it, I find the following statements : At p. 10, " That one speaker, Mr. Girdlestone, should have denounced as Romish mummers' the whole con gregation worshipping at St. Mark's Chapel, and, by im plication, many hundred others in the land." I myself, some weeks ago, furnished you, at your own request, with a corrected report of my speech at Liverpool, to which you refer in the above words. • Will you be kind enough to point out to me the exact words in that report on which the above charge is founded ? At p. 5 of the same letter, I find the following state ment :—" I need not trouble my readers with more de tails, but I have authority for saying that, during the past ten years, from £40,000 to £50,000 per annum has been the average amount received and expended by the Na tional Society, and this quite independent of trust-money and Government grants.' In a note at the bottom of the same page, I find you state. the " general fund for 1852 to have been £8,782 16s. Od. ; and for 1853, £12,577 13s. 6d." Will you be kind enough to refer me to the page, in any one of the published annual reports of the Society, which I have searched in vain, in which authority for the first of the above statements can be found ? And will you likewise be kind enough to reconcile your second statement in the note above referred to with the annual report of the So ciety for 1853, in Appendix No. 3 of which I find the fol lowing item :—" To nett amount of subscriptions and donations to the 12th of May, £8.235 2s. 10d." In your letter to Mr. Pollock, you dispute only two of the facts stated by me. With reference to the first, namely, the &ming of the students, you adduce no evi dence to disprove it. I need, therefore, merely say, that my informant, a beneficed clergyman well known all over England, himself witnessed that example of levity on the part of the students, immediately after Sunday morning service. With respect to the cricket, I beg leave to refer the Principal of St. Mark's—who, you say, denies the charge—to my authority, namely, p. 8 of a pamphlet, " Romanising Character of National School Society. Nisbet and Co. 1851," which has had a wide circula tion, and has never, to my knowledge, been answered.-- Your obedient servant, E GIRDLEsToNs. F. S. Warren, Esq. Durham, 29th October, 1853. REV. Sin,—My.friend in Liverpool, who has managed the publishing of my letters to ➢ir. Pollock, ought to have sent a copy to you a fortnight ago. There has been an oversight on his part, for which I am sorry. I dis claim any the slightest intention of discourtesy towards you. I have written to London for the book you name as published by Nisbet. When I have seen it, and also had time to make one or two more inquiries in detail on the point of income, I will have the pleasure of fully answering your note.—Your obedient servant, Rev. E. Girdlestone. FIIEDCK. S. WAMBER. National Society's Office, Sanctuary, Westminster, Nov. 18th, 1853. REV. SlR,—Having succeeded in obtaining a copy of the pamphlet, headed " Romanizing Character," and also having had an opportunity of going through the old reports of the Society, I am able to answer your letter of the 27th of last month. Firstly,—You ask me to refer you to the words in your speech at Liverpool, on which I ground my charge against you of having denounced as "Romish mummers" the congregation worshipping at St. Mark's Collegiate Chapel. I find at page 19 of the authorised report, which contains your speech, the following words spoken by you : " These Romish mummeries of music were carried on through the whole service." Now, the service at St. Mark's is essentially congregational, and I see no dif ference between telling a number of persons that they habitually take part in " Romish mummeries," and that they are Romish mummers." Secondly,—You ask my authority—in contradiction to the oft-repeated statement of yourself and others that the income of the Society stopped at £9,ooo—for saying that the average income had, for the last 10 or 15 years, been £4.0,000 to £50,000. I make good my statement, by saying that the Society has received, in round figures, on account of, annually, General Fund £lO,OOO Queen's Letter Fund, £27,000 triennially, or Special Fund, £130,000 to £150,000, say Welsh Education Fund, £lO,OOO in donations or 1,000 Ditto, Annual Income 2,000 St. Mark's, Whiteland's, and Battersea Colleges, about £30,000, or - 3,000 Westminster Training School, £20,000, 0r......... 2,000 E 40,000 The Society has also, from time to time, received various sums to devote to special objects; I give one instance— Bethnall-Green School Fund. 1 think, at least, I have shown that £9,000, the fighre which constantly appears in the report of your speeches, is a very unfair representa tion of the Society's actual income. Your next question has reference to the amount of the general fund in 1832-3. It is a simple sum in arithmetic. If you will be good enough to take the balance-sheet, deduct from the sum total the government grants and trust-money funds, you will find the balance as I gave it, £12,577 13s. 2d. I now approach a painful and distasteful task—your two charges against St. Mark's. First,—As to the alleged " basing" of the students. Most certainly I cannot take upon myself to deny, for there is no way of disproving it, that some one out of 70 or 80 young men, gathered from all parts of the country, may have, on some occasion, during the Sunday, imitated the cry of the sheep which feed in a neighbouring meadow. But are you serious in bringing this forward against an educational establishment, and founding on it a grave charge of breach of the Fourth Commandment ? When asked a year ago for proof of the insinuations against this College contained in your memorial, why did you not lay bare this astounding fact ; or why, when with Mr. Colquhoun you had an interview with the Primate and the Bishop of London, did you then ignore this dreadful story, and reserve it for a platform speech at Liverpool ? ' But your charge of "cricket-playing" is of a different description, for a game of that kind could not be played without the knowledge and sanction of the authorities. The principal says, " Your well-known fact is simply and merely a falsehood. " Upon which you refer him and me to page 8 of a certain pamphlet ; that pamphlet is now before me. Will it be credited, that neither at page 8, or at all in the book, is even the slightest mention made of the game of cricket. I will not add a word of comment. But of the miserable pamphlet itself, printed, as I was told the other day by Nisbet, at the office of the Record, I will say this : a sadder exhibition of perverted facts and pitiful inuendoes could not have been made. A spirit of levity, when speaking of holy things and places, so gross as to - degenerate into blasphemy, pervades the whole. The anonymous writer dares to go into the presence of Almighty God, to pretend to join in worshipping Him, and then goes home, with notes taken on the spot, to turn what he has seen and heard into burlesque. And to such a polluted source does the Vicar of Deane go for "well known facts" on which to build his attacks on the National Society. I should scarcely know how to restrain my language, were comment necessary, within the bounds which charity requires.—l remain, Rev. Sir, your obedient servant, FILBDERIC S. WARBRIf. Rev. E. Girdlestone. P.S.—As you have appealed to the Liverpool newspaper, I reserve to myself the right to publish this. Deane Vicarage, Nov. 21, 1853. Srn,—l received on November 19th your reply to my letter of October 27th. I decline to take any notice, as being irrelevant to the matter in hand, of any expression of opinion concerning myself or others contained in that letter. But the ingenuity with which you still continue to disguise facts and mutilate quotations must be exposed. Firstly,— There is the widest possible difference between denouncing practices and persons. In the words which you have quoted from my speech, it is true, I denounced mummeries; but I called no man " a mummer." Much less did I denounce as Romish mummers " the whole con gregation worshipping at St. Mark's Chapel, and by implication many hundred others in the land." By no perversion of language, however ingenious, can such a charge be founded on my words. Secondly,—My second request to you was, to "refer me to the page in any one of the published annual reports of the Society, in which authority" for your statistics could be found. You have not referred me to any report, but to an ipse dixit of your own, which is of no authority whatever. Granting, however, for the sake of argument, that your saying is of authority, there is nothing in it, after all, which contradicts my owu statement and that of my friends, namely, that the income of the National fociety, derived from donations and annual subscriptions, is, in round numbers, not more than X 9,000. The various tUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1853. items which make up your sum of £40,000, and afterwards of £12,577 13s. 2d., are all of a special character, and form no part of the general fund referred to by us as arising from donations and annual subscriptions. This, by your own showing, is, for the last year, less than £9,000, viz., £8,782 16s. 6d. And if any additional proof were required of the want of confidence of 'the country at large in the National Society, it will be found at p. 28 of the 1853 re port, where the sum collected under the Queen's Letter, from the audit of 1852 to the audit of 1853, is set down as £10,764 9s. 7d. What prospect is there of this sum ever being made up to anything like the average of former Queen's Letters' funds, which you state at £27,000 ? T/eirdly,—l did not confine the charge of batting to " some one of 70 or 80 young men" as you misrepresent me. My words were, "these masters in training." Thus, your whole argument, being founded on a misquotation of my words, falls to the ground. You enquire why I did not include this charge in the memorial. I reply, simply because I knew nothing about it till the spring of this year ; otherwise I should certainly not have neglected that opportunity of calling the attention of the authori ties to this instance of indecent levity on the part of the students immediately after coming out of the House of God. With regard to " cricket," I will leave to others more versed than I am in such matters to decide, whether cricket may not fairly be presumed to be included in the description, "leap frog, and other similar pastimes," which, though you carefully keep them out of view, are the words made use of at p. 8 of the book to which I referred you. Let alone cricket, however, if you please. Leap frog on a Sunday is quite enough for my purpose. I am sending the whole of this correspondence to the press ; and the more you circulate this last letter of yours, in company with mine to you—for common fairness, of course, requires this—the greater will be the obligation under which you will lay both me and my cause. I could not myself have written a stronger confirmation than is afforded in your letter of the correctness of all my state ments. Your obedient servant, F. S. Warren, Esq. E. GIRDLESTONE. ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE. PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS. Rev. A. E. Aldridge,M.A., to the Incumbency of the district Clivelry of W orton, in the Parish of Potterne. Wiltshire. Rev. G. Alston, A.A., to the Rectory of gtudiaVil,..iiear Swanage, Dorset. Rev. W. R. Barnes, Vicar of Probus, to a Prebendal Stall in Exeter Cathedral. Rev. H. N. Barton (on his own petition), to the Rectory of St. Ervan, Cornwall. Rev. F. Coy, M.A., to the Curacy of Woburn, Bedfordshire. Rev. J. Davidson. M.A., to the Curacy of ‘V hitby, Yorkshi re. Rev. A. W. Edwards, M.A., Curate of St. Mary's Cathedral, Limerick, to be Domestic Chaplain to the Bishop of Derry. Rev. J. Fox, M.A., tate Incumbent of Kirby Bellars, to the Incumbency of Scraptoft, near Leicester. Rev. E. H. Gifford, Head-Master of Birmingham School, to an Honorary Canonry in Worcester Cathedral. Rev. J. C. Gregory, to the Perpetual Curacy of Laithkirk, near Barnard Castle. (Not, as stated last week, to the Incum bency of Barnard Castle.) Rev. E. Gunner, to the Curacy of Batheaston-cum-Catherine, in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Rev. G. Hales, it.C.L., to the Perpetual Curacy of Birch, in the parish of Middleton; near Manchester. Rev. C. R. Hay, M.A., late Curate of Thundridge, near Ware, Hens, to the Vicarage of that parish. Rev. J. Holden, to the Curacy of Holmfirth, near Hud dersfield. Rev. M. H. Hole, M.A., Senior Assistant-Master of Ken sington School, to the ltead•Mastership of Alford Grammar School, Lincolnshire. Rev...l. Husband, M.A., to the Rectory of Seattyn, near Oswestry. Rev. R. Male, M.A., to the Vicarare of Rathmel, Yorkshire. Rev. F. Norse, M.A., to the Incumbency of St. Mary's Church, Shrewsbury. Rev. J. Nunn, M.A., to the Rectoryof Thorndon, near Eye, Suffolk. Rev. G. A. S. Powell, 8.A., Registrar of the Archdeaconry of Wells, to the Incumbency of South Bnrcombe, near Salisbury. Rev. S. Rashleigh, 8.A., to the Vicarage of St. Wenn, Cornwall. Rev. W. L. Rolleston, M.A., Vicar of Great Dalby, to the Incumbency of Kirby Sellars, near Melton Mowbray. Rev. C. Taylor, M.A., to the Vicarage of Barnby-in-th e- Willows, Notts. Rev. H. temple, M.A., to the Rectory of Thornton, near Buckingham. Rev. J. Thorp, M.A., late Head Master of the Diocesan Training School, Suinmertown, Oxford, to the Chaplaincy of the Oxford County Gao►. Rev. C. M. Turner, M.A., to the Vicarage of Horndon-on the- Hill, near Romford, Essex. Rev. P. A. L. Wood, to be a Surrogate for the Diocese of Salisbury. DIOCESE OF CHESTER. PREFERMIINT. — The Rev. Richard Heighway Kirby has been licensed to the perpetual curse/ of Haverthwaite, in the county of Lancaster, void by the cession of the Rev. W. H. Hugall. Patron, the incumbent of Colton. CIIRA.DLE. — The piece of land added to the churchyard of Cheadle was consecrated by the Bishop of Chester, for interments, on Wednesday last, the 23rd instant. UPTON.—The ground surrounding the new church now in course of erection in the township of Upton, in the parish of St. Mary-on-the-Hill, Chester, and intended as a churchyard or cemetery, has been licensed by the Bishop of Chester for interments, until consecration, to meet the wants of the parishioners in that neighbourhood, it having been duly conveyed and enclosed. A CHURCH RATE of 6d. in the £1 was carried Last week for East and West Ham, Plaistow, and Stratford, Essex, on a poll, by a majority of 571 to 464. STEWART MAJORIBANKS. ESQ., of Bushey-grove, has liberally subscribed £lOOO towards the erection of a new church, in lieu of the old church, in the parish of Bushey, Herts. Kirkman Hodgson, Esq., of Sparrow's Herne, Bushey, has likewise subscribed £6OO. THE DEAN AND CHAPTER of Durham have arranged to give £5,000 out of the purchase-money for their pro perty at Jarrow Slake, required by . the York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway Company for the dock at Jarrow Slake, for the purpose of building and endowing a church, &e., near the intended dock. COLONIAL Bisitors.—On Wednesday the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Cape Town resigned his see, in order that the diocese might be divided into three bishoprics, Cape Town, Natal, and Graham's Town. The Rev. Dr. Colenso and the Rev. Dr. Armstrong will be consecrated to-morrow to the sees of Natal and Graham's Town, in the parish church, Lambeth, Surrey. THE REV. Du. H. B. WI LSON, rector of the united parishes of St. Mary Aldermary and St. Thomas the Apostle,london, died on Monday last week, in the 80th year of his age. In a letter recently addressed to his parishioners, Dr. Wilson ex pressed a hope that he might die in the reading-desk or at the communion table, and that he might be buried in the church without being taken home; adding, that a London incumbent, whom lie had for years esteemed as a friend, had promised to read the Burial service over him. APPOINTMENTS VACANT.—The rectory of Mount Bures, Essex, value £4OO a year. The rectory of Epperston, n ear Sonthwell, value 2320 a-year ; patrons, Hulme Trust ees. The wardenship of St. Thornas'sTheologicalCollege,Colombe, value £4OO a year ; patrons, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. The Professorship of English Literature and Modern History in King's College, London ; patrons, the Council. The office of vice-principal in the Worcester Diocesan Training College for Masters, at Saltley, near Birmingham, value £l5O a-year ; vacant at Christmas. The Rev. C. Sparkes has resigned the Incum bency of St. Mary's, Prince's-road, Lambeth. EPISCOPAL CENSURE.—One of the curates of a popu lous parish in Dublin having, it is believed without due consideration of the subject, affixed his signature to the protest against the appointment of Bishop Gobat, has had his license withdrawn by the Archbishop of Dublin. This mark of ecclesiastical censure has caused great regret to the friends and parishioners of the rev. gentleman, for a more efficient or zealous clergyman could not be pointed to within the whole range of the diocess, and it is to be hoped that some explanation will be afforded, which may induce his Metropolitan to reconsider his decision in the matter. It is reported that the correspondence which has passed between his Grace and the offending curate will be shortly laid before the public. The whole affair has cre ated considerable interest in Dublin. PROPOSED ERECTION OP AN ENGLISH CHURCH IN PARlS.—Several meetings have been lately held in Paris of lay members of the united church of Great Britain and Ireland resident in Paris, with the object of obtaining the 1 erection of a church in some measure commensurate with the requirements of the English resorting there in such numbers, and creditable to the British nation. The amount of church accommodation provided in two small chapels and a room at the embassy is utterly inadequate to the very large number attached to her communion who are at all times resident in and passing through the me tropolis of France, so that many hundreds are every Sun day prevented from joining in public worship who would otherwise attend. Both the small chapels above alluded to are private property, and unconsecrated ; and while the English constantly resident number 10,000, and the English visitors are seldom fewer than 10,000 more, and i sometimes reach 20,000, the accommodation n such chapels, and in the room in which divine service is performed at the embassy, does not exceed 2,000, a considerable portion of which is occupied by American residents, who are very numerous, and have no place of worship whatever in Paris.. The promoters of the work wish to obtain from govern ment a contribution equal to about one-third of the outlay required to erect a church capable of accommodating not fewer than 1,500 people, 500 of the sittings to remain for ever free; and on condition ' that this assistance is given, the church is to be solely the property of the crown. ST. Savioun's, LEEDS.—The annual commemoration commenced on the eve of the festival of SS. Simon and. Jude, and continued throughout the oc t ave . H o ly com munion was celebrated daily at 7 30, matins at 11, with a sermon, evensong at 7 30, also with a sermon. On the Sun day within the octave, and on both the festivals, that of SS. Simon and Jude, and that of All Laints, there was a second celebration of the holy communion after morning service. Amongst those who were present were the Rev. Cecil Wray. Liverpool ; Rev. G. F. S. Perry, Tottington, Lancashire ; Rev. Parker, Rochdale ; Rev. James Col lins, Wilinslow, Cheshire, &c. At the morning services the attendance was comparatively scanty, almost the whole population of the parish being poor, and engaged in the work of the factories ; but the evening services ,were attended by large and most attentive congregations. The most striking feature about the services of St. Sa viour's is the hearty way in which the whole of the people join in them. They are all choral, and the entire body of the congregation join in the chants and responses in a manner most striking and beautiful. It realises the idea of united worship, and was remarked by many strangers present as the most congregational service they had ever been present at. The singing of the Litany on the Sun day, when, of course, there was the largest congregation, reminded us forcibly of St. Ambrose's description of the united prayers of the Christians of his day, that it re sembled the roar of the sea. At St. Saviour's, without any organ, without any paid choir, with only a few boys of the parish, taken out of the school, a most effective and congregational service is performed, and the people are deeply attached to it.—Leeds Intelligences.. THE ST. JAMES'S CHRONICLE relates the following cir cumstances occurring at the city church Oxford, on Sunday week, when th e R ev. H. Pritchard,' 8.D., Fellow of Corpus Christi College, and late Junior Proctor, preached morning and evening :—" In the evening the church was crowded, and the heat was so great that to wards the close of his sermon, the preacher fainted, and fell back on the pulpit seat. This circumstance created quite a sensation among the congregation, but after a lapse of a few minutes, and with the aid of a little cold water and a smelling-bottle, the reverend gentleman re vived, and was enabled to finish his discourse. It is a singular circumstance that the subject of the sermon was the frailty and decaying nature of the earthly tabernacle , or human body, contrasted with that which the soul won'd enjoy when emancipated from its present mean and mouldering tenement—the text being taken from the Ist verse of the sth chapter of the 2d Epistle to the Co rinthians ' For we know that, if our earthly house of th is tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, 33 house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.' The discourse was of a solemn, impressive. and eloque nt ch racter; and it was while the preacher was dilating 1 . 4 touching terms on the inherent weakness of the human, frame, and its carrying within itself the very elements 01 decay, that his voice faltered, his countenance bean?! pallid in the extreme, and he sank exhausted in th e p ulP3 ' It was at first feared that the service would have been brought to an abrupt conclusion, and a painful feeling VI excited throughout the congregation ; but that subsidea when, after a short interval, the preacher rallied, and WM enabled to conclude, with undiminished power, on e of the ablest discourses that has ever been delivered fromw e city pulpit." IRELAND. • THE QUEEN has commissioned Mr. M. Angell IDLY° t° paint a picture for her (a small one) of the interior of the Great Exhibition. • THE RECENT OUTRAGE IN ARMAGH appears to have caused great consternation, and it is apprehende d that p_ event is but the first indication of the renew al of the terrible crimes which disgraced a portion of the northern provinces some two years since. a pe- THE CRY. — Great difficulty is Do" rienced in procuring men to enter the constabularki_. lieu of those who resigned for the purpose of enaigratT i t y In a circuit of six miles round 'Tam, two young 'fl ea . ° to could be found who were eligible. Such is th e staLue_„A which scanty pay and extensive emigration hav e red our force, to obtain a situation in the ranks of which, 'h. merly, interest and solicitation were absolutely incl ls P e sable.—Galway Vindicator. rsdiqr LIBEL.—In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Thu„, a criminal information was filed against the pral!r ie ,rrpr , Dr the Dublin Weekly Telegraph, at the snit .`" or O'Connor. The libel imputed generally, that Dr. O'Coroa„. was an impostor, and that he had no right to PI! 1-.;.-41)3 1 t o the end of his name. Dr. O'Connor denied t— h t affidavit, uuse an uf d cu als mm o denied that all tha e t ged he in w t he admitted he did go there occasionally to see raen l " - ,e . nor , SANITARY STATE OF DUBLIN.—EndertYOUr3 a r e of made, on a large scale, to improve the saDita l la r ," t ob tashealsibeni: Dublin. A society is about being formed, whesei:—„hable ject will be an attempt to raise a fund sufficient I ".;i ce of them to purchase ground and houses in the Lih e '; l „ l ". gs, Dublin, and to erect a square or streets of model do'e having regard to the comfort and necessities of theta li braries t is also their intention to provide sche°,,o - and reading-rooms, a dispensary, medical sa e:" in tendence, &c. We understand that a committee is course of formation.—. Dublin Evening Post. ertY t g a hb e THE MURDERER KIRWAN.—The leasehold pr e P wa s of this individual, which was forfeited to the Cr own, to set up for auction and sold on Tuesday. He see tre e have been very well to do in the world, as from this s ° "ie alone he had close on £3OO a-year, realised £4,505. Kirwan's personal effects were diriat ,of some time ago, and then public exposition showea.,. o.d(hu a Nt he possessed the accomplishment of thieving to his other qualifications. Several gentlemen Wile knee him, to their suprise, recognised books and other raa , by belonging to them, which Kirwan had approPri 3 r, r of inserting his own name, or in other ways. A gam of borrowed paintings were also found to have the Dai ll ae the original 'artist erased, and that of Kirwan, wha, w ; mere dauber, substituted. The wardrobe and to , l; paratus, &c., of the convict were purchased, it is it an emissary of Madame Tussaud. „ EXTRAORDINARY SCENE.—A MAD BULLOCA- the which at the.:: Thursday last a bullock, which was being driven fr ela ar, Cattle Market in Dublin, made its escape from th e dro -0 and proceeded at a furious rate along several streets ; t the corner of Christ-church-place it rushed at a serg le of police, who drew his truncheon in defence , butd be weapon was entirely useless for such a purpose, the would have paid dearly for his temerity had n et f a animal's attention been attracted by the red coat cibi, soldier, after whom it dashed at a furious rate. 11 L e r pursuit it attacked and overturned a horse and haer.,dl car, severely injuring the horse. It next attack ed t. upset two apple-stalls, whose owners it seriously hurk the constable, having procured a heavy bar of iron, straw the bullock on the had with it with such force as brokeve, bar, but the blow only further infuriated the brute. o we versing several streets, with a continuance of the r, rage, it was shot in the chest, and fell; but again r ec La ing, it clashed off, and was again shot by a Paa!,,, e of which, however, did not arrest its career, in the CO which the excited animal received four more s hots ' by , various parts of its body. Ultimately it was disa blet er the blow of a hedge-bill, and was slaughtered by a b ilw. who was passing at the moment. aittin SINGULAR INSURANCE CASE.—DUringthe after'- of last Trinity term, a singular case a n County Assurance Company came on in the Court of and mon Pleas, Dublin. The plaintiff was a Miss Devereol, lior the action was brought for £1,500, the amount of a PcA. l5 . on her mother's life ; that lady having died a fe W against the Londal e after the insurance was effected. The defence vvasfaie, may be guessed, grounded' on concealment by the P t he tiff of the state of her mother's life, which was °ll other side denied, it being sworn that the decßa-o`tif, died suddenly from causes independent. of a Previconl illness, of which the agent of the ins urance lain - pang had full notice. It also appearecl '4', another tiff had had a policy almost completed with and County company, when the agent for the u,adolot the establishment stepped in and interfered to get tiff's patronage for his own Tiloyers. Under theseuct cumstarces the jury at once found for the Pla i P tiff '- b for a motion for a new trial has been in course of diseu ss li , a t the Last few days. To this the court has now acted the same time ordering that, as there was some in i, / c l a ld they 5 " tion against the solvency of the companY, that the p. lodge £1,500 in court. re' lirsnorris.m.—Mr. David Ross, of Bladensburgh,hl ceived, through the Post-office, a Rcckite notice 0 ' cc alarming character, followed up with threats of venget a i ke in language of a like strain with all such documents.. 417 g letter was delivered on Friday last; that gentlenmn,„"ese, at the time in Dublin, it was forwarded to his city awrdept and subsequently placed in the hands of the res; magistrate. The notice was also directed agains t I* + f;elf A. Pollard, justice of the peace. The police theae.ti engaged in seeking to effect the discovery of g7ir parties. The Hon. Mrs. Ross, the lady of the fortner rws tleman, caused a notice to be posted, which ran as fol l . o ° tile In the absence of my husband I copy and post p, ‘ ,,,ed, disgrace of this parish, a letter which I received atm aP':), 0 01 that the respectable people of this village may knolc they have among them, and purify themselves from me,n ee of dare not sign their own name or meet publicly in the la oe day. I say, moreover, that should my husband's health i r e , r e, it necessary for hint to change climate this winter, 1 wilo main here to fill his place, in order that a cowardly Oin k ': e ery, dare not say to any honest man "Be of us," should etdpe• thine to disgrace this parish by such discreditable P" tions as the letter I now subjoin. Carrighawn, Nov. IG, 1853. A tO The following is the threatening notice refer.-- ;11 . Aly friend Mr. Ross i write to intorm you that I w.` !pee' you a visit some of th , ..se nights you may be prepareu I:;cipteS . H. M. Ross, of BladensbtO us for it is not your Police that will save your life this frie a you may also inform Mr. Pollard of the affair from Yo lf if tS , Newry. MOLLY MAG I, d A The letter was headed by a rude represent atinli coffin, with these words, " This is your coffin. HORTICULTURE. - t iVl3l,4tCli ALTERNATE wet and frosty weather, like a t µ, has prevailed during the last week, is one of tbe eat i l er evils the gardener has to contend with—dry frosty of double the intensity we usually experience in "Deat,: . : mate would be much less injurious. Unless fir e w ill Pv sapoppillieded. with he great judgment, j b l e id in gi g n m en a t int in ai an ned y ge at e l i r l 4 33l: d i t e e fa ae` -Pe—A rature during the winter, will not be so much gr eca' by external weather, as the conservatory a nu r dieg t/cP • house, where artificial heat is only applied see,, e l ar, circumstances. When fire heat is recaured , le' I ,,iec d plied by day, taking care to let sufficient be rete it ( foe. keep off frost at night, and on bright days giceeserpre firing and open the sashes to expel damp : if th ilea ts, cautions are not attended to, such plants a 5.,, ,; of be herbaceous epacrises, and other ashard-wooded pclants, and co tit ones, calceolarias, inerarias. '7 1 410 destroyed by the damp. In the open ground i ec.' l g. , Ike. rig routine operations of pruning, digging . , so l i e e d. TRUFFLES.—The cultivation of the trawee'ojaplis:ei„ deemed an imposibility, has at length been rdaine this' The discovery was made at Macon, where Mi d, has , o e s, proprietress of a chateau in the neighbourbe`"idtraulti-- autumn, succeeded in producing a large nu"; bs e li c spa in her garden. All the conditions under ivil'ioolo2„., feet vation of this product must be prosecuted 01.e . e A ra 7 •5 - enai nothing more is required than to inirr e „)tura l :foilY , them I y experiment. The Macon Horlgl i e .51 0 `;; a 1 says :—Like other cryptogamic plants e',:f a spe cs cfra- 3 . truffles are parasites, requiring humus Of elleS ti f g v iigt 11.4 . lmneeaucvseeshrs necessary o e mixed rewithem area s ana bed satisfiedea d rg i o l f l o that,h- e a o r s l c a racter. For example, a sub-stratum • s oil, if this l tian e-dun,to the c b of culture were seriously studied, the Preul o f the otrrudiAfflneNirywrivovulegDdeotbauebniastesE.e_aysßyELaattldvraphroßrfiootasaribc._lfee:etba rye som e near bushes bearing double yellow roses, both e rl di oo th e and also in the vicinity of this village (L 3re gwe et. ---A county of Ladak). The leaf is a briar, very jto PROTECTrNG PITS, - FRAMES, • A.m.. ventures of a Lady in Tartary. or so effectual and inexpensive as a Pret ee h : v iegs, frames, &c., as glass crates stuffed tares 00-0„., sm —isrothia ti g p its, placed all round these structures ; they :eat tiO' 1 1, ductors, and when packed together have a . p,_ sh olat' a pearance. Trellis shutters also, stuffed when laid over the lights _ are very efficient liv`' d we are tele frost. As mats are scarce and dear, an to have a sharp winter, the above methodbow, ad plants, &c., might become very general wit na d .tage, as it has three essential qualities-- 113 ',..`,.d it bility, cheapness, and simplicity to recomm end Gardener's Chronicle. Not' A e of - a j j A ROYAL FAMILY. — T here is in the co tingham an extensive trib e of gipsies, head d i ,,_ . Y 0 w iecn ot Boswell, who is styled the Gi p s y Kin g , a dist a ffn,eln; lire o `, he is said to have lineally inherited from le r ce ancestors. Four of the tribe—viz., Elijah and Mb ~` o f. j oiall his sons—got "into trouble" last week on account, b e fore': little matter of meum and tuum , an d were brougo..vchaege_ the Retford bench of ma g istrates on Saturday, 0 0 _'_", b e irg; of felony, which ended in Elijah and t wo of his s 7 iiej , 4 s ent to the treadmill for a month, and the other s mat ri comm itted for trial. The Gipsy King has been. family, three times, and the following enumeration of is supplied from his own archives :-1. Ellza, be, I,bieves ell the ling in Mansfield forest ; 2. Henrietta , born . i n T r esw,' dale-lane, near Osberton ;3. Alfred, born AOg: Back-lane ;4. Walter, born on Kneesall - g reer aleY laide, born in a lane b e t ween Langwith and Pi ;a d, Henry, born in a lane near West Stockwitli ; ' horn under Firbeck-park-side ; 8. Adam, born o .ll \ Joe! : Breck; 9. William, born in Gamsto n Wood ;.!',ord ;11. born in Layard's Leap, between New ark and Slew us, kode' rD Magri Elijah, born near Sturton High-house ; 12. Bole Gut in a lane near Langford ; 13 . Riley , born near _rec. post; 14. Alice, born in a lane near MatterseY